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Armistice Violations

RAILWAY SABOTAGE ATTEMPT Warning To

To Join Or Not Lines Unbolted In Yorkshire: Sand Ballast Found On Track

To Join?

HE troubles in Jordan,

Twhich though qulescent

now can be expected to become manifest again in

POLICE

the New Year, show in a LAUNCH

melancholy way how the Internal dissensions in the Middle East expore the whole region to danger, and

may, if not overcome, frustrate efforts to build up security,

The countries which have formed the Baghdad alliance

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aguinat

INQUIRY

London, Dec. 28.

Police today began an

defensive alliance investigation into a "de- very evidentliberate" sabotage at- threat Invited Jordan totempt against the na- become a member. It had been apparent they would tionalised British

Rail-

do so ever since their re- ways, plagued by cent Baghdad conference month-long series of Jordan, In vlew

IN crashes and accidents in

of

national interest, strategie

position, and relations with which 24 people have

especially been killed and seemed

Iraq,

were

more

likely to be attracted by the than 180 injured. iden which led to this new

Saboteurs

blamed alliance.

for cutting the main Brad- What bas happened is

forces interested in main. ford to Skipton

that

line at

taining the present divisions Charleston, Yorkshire and instability have seized | terday.

rails

yes-

the opportunity to set iu A trackwalker found a heap mution operationa which of ballast and on the meinline exude

thick mist of at one point and lengths of un-

at another. The bolts were mirsing and police said "It was a deliberate attempt to enbotage the line."

suspicion, misconception, bolted and misrepresentation.

THE master card which the

enemies of the pact operated was Israel,

Discovery of the break averted what could

have been another

They tragic accident. Police said the have spread with great care|person or persions responsible the rumour that Jordan is "must have had considerable being asked to moderate its technical knowledge."

altitude towards Israel, The

TWO NEW INCIDENTS

rumour WAR completely

false because the issue of

Two

other Incidents wero

Israel was irrelevant to the reported on the railway yester negotiations. Nevertheless day.

An express train trying to it effect upon the populace was sufficient to create riots labour uphill through a dark and anti-government demon- tunnel slid backward yesterday while the smoke-blinded en- strations.

gineer thought it was moving forward. It plied up on the hillside and four coaches were derslied.

ber

the

Public opinion in Jordan has still to be persuaded that if Bha Joina the Baghdad siliance, it will in no way "I thought I was moving for- engine Herbert compromise

position. ward," said

Hayes. "I was as surprised as On the contrary, the coal.

I came when the passengers try would become militarily.

into daylight and saw the train stronger and would po sess

was sliding backwards." powerful and reliablé altes.

Wheels of the overloaded Iraq, which Israel considers engine lost their grip on one of its most inveterate) wei underground rails and the antagonists, was one of the whole train skidded downhill In founder members of the rocking ride that ended when alliance. It would certainly four rear cars jumped

tracks. not allow the alliance to be

All aboard escaped serious used for purpose of which

injury

but the derailed couches Jordan could disapprove.

were badly crushed. If the people of Jordan at next.

hord "If I hadn't braked munth's parliamentary elec. would have been a real pile-up." tions reject the alliance, it said the engineer.

Raliway will sudden those who are

officials reported particularly in the alliance's that several passengers were

economic potenilallies, At the Baghdad conference it

"shaken"

the

it

n

A London-bound train was delayed three hours when was made clear that the pace schedule mix-up left a signal VIA to be as much RI box unmanned at Southport, economic

association

be- Lancashire.

tween governments AS +1 political or military one. THE aim is to start in the Middle East an economic effort comparable with that

The Minister

for

REPORT TO EDEN

Transport Mr Harold Watkinson called for a full-scale inquiry into

the railways operations Cl

the

מס

of the Colombo Plan in Saturday After three train South Asia, The form crashes within 36 hours, would be different, since the Later he reported. personally Middle East, unlike South to Prime Minister Sir Anthony Asia, is not short of capital. Eden.

of resources

After The Crash At Luton

Telescoped and

shattered

اله the

coaches after crash at Lulon station, Bedfordshire last Thurs-

to

day. There was one fatality and 50 people were injured after the London Derby express ran into the back of the London to Leicester train which

in Luton was standing station.

Krushchev Calls, Niazov Goes

TOP COMMUNIST IS LIBERATED'

Moscow, Dec. 28.

a

A change in the top Communist leadership of the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan was made soon after visit to the Republic by Sovlet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Communist Party, chief, Nikita Krushchev, it was revealed today.

Emergency

mobilised

services were

for

rescue

He

were

work. Several

passengers

trapped in the Leicester train-Reuterphoto.

British Ship

Batters Way

Through Ice

London, Dec. 28.

The British Antarctic expedi- tion ship Theron battered its way through ice to within 1,000 miles of a destination on the frozen continent today.

.

Amino Niazov, First Secretary The new Party leader, of the Uzbekistan Central Com-Mukhetdinov has long filed top mittee since 1960, has been posts in the Republic of Uzbekis

ton.-France-Presse. "liberated from his functions."

Nuritdin is replaced by Mudkhetdinov, until now Pre- mier of the Republic, The new Premier is Zabir Zamalov, pre- viously

secretary of the

party.

third

The reshume in Uzbekistan, which borders on Afghanistan, was revealed In the December 23 issue of the "Pravda Yos- toka", received in Moscow to- day. The shake-up Look effect on December 22, shortly after Bulganin and Krushchev passed through Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on their way back to Moscow after their Asian tour,

COMPLETE SURPRISE

was given,

December

The announcement

Russians May

Return To Canberra

★ LONDON-And The Hydrogen Bomb BRITAIN TO SCRAP

ATOM-PROOF

FORTRESS PROJECT

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

London, Dec. 28.

Egypt And Israel

Jerusalem, Dec, 28. Both Israel and Egypt are still violating the Israel, Egyptian armistice agree ment by maintaining forces in areas not permitted under the agreement, Gen- eral E. L. M. Burns, chief Truce Supervisor, sald In a communique issued tonight. General Burns said in the communique that Egypt had "not yet formulated its final

the

prom

An underground network of "atom-proof" position" regarding fortresses and tunnels built below London to house posals of Mr Dag Hammarskjold, the Cabinet and key people in war, has been written General, for

demilitarised zone.

off as useless.

United Ntalons Secretary

the El

Auja

Egypt considered negotiations The shelters, which cost millions, couldn't withstand to be still open, the communique the blast of the latest type of Russian H-bomb exploding said. on or near the ground.

When they were planned five years ago the experts could not foresee weapons with power much greater than half Д million

tons of TNT-23 times the power of the Hiro- shima bomb.

The latest Russian weapon, has the power of several millions of tons of TNT and bombo with the force of 50 million tons are considered possible.

Home Office experts advised that the people responsible for directing the nation would have to be sent at least ten any miles out of London In emergency.

issued

CONDITIONS fortresses might be given in the event of attack.

General

Burns

the The main fortress, dug out communique on his return from below Whitehall with the Gaza whore he had been con- entrance near Downing Street,ferring with Lieutenant-Colonel another tunnet Salo Gohar, Director of the fortress a short distance be- Palestine Department of the hind Westminster Abbey, Egyptian War Ministry. Tunnels for "vital communien-, Tho communique sald, that Hong stretch out from both Erypt and Israel had put

links

with

under the Thames forward tortresses

conditions for the Indo Southwark where there acceptance of the Hammarskjold is a big underground civil proposals.

But defence headquarters.

The main fortresses

They are reconsidering a

reduced

the which

سم

role

yesterday an Ireli.

Immel accepted are fitted spokesman said

with special air-conditioning unconditionally Mr Hammarsk- machinery and have their own jold's plan--Reuter. electric generating systems. They are equipped to enable hundreds ce people to live be- low ground for many days.----| London Express Service,

★ WASHINGTON-And The Atom Bomb NEW ORDER TO INDUSTRY

Washington, Dec. Immediate changes in production strategy to counter the threat of devastation at the outset of a general atomic war were ordered today by the United States Air Force.

The new polley, approved by the Defence department, reverɓ09 the old idea of building up wür Industries after the starf of hostiles.

that

It gives top priority to selected

sircraft and missiles would be used to deliver coun- ter atomic blows and to defend }

a

States from the United nuclear assault. The new polley was dictated by technical advances and shift- ing init

international, political and requiring power changes in national strategy" and "a new approach to industrial plan- ning for a national emergency, a. apokesman said.-Reuter,

military "tradical

our

Engine Fell Off In Mid Air

Romo, Dec. 28. New York bound American D.C. 7-8 airliner with 48 people aboard, limped back to Clampino airport tonight after one of its four engines had fallen off in mid-air and another had broken down.

Canberra, Dec. 28. Diplomatic relations be tween Russia, and Austra- lla, broken off after Vladmir Petrov revealed the extent No explanation for the change of Soviet espionage in Aus- A came as a complete surprise as tralia, will probably be re- bere had been no indication of newed in June, it was re-

On ported today. impending

change.

"Pravda 20, the

Reliable sources said the Itus- Vostoka" was

dvin stans already have put out prominence to Niazov, as First "cautious feciers about renewed Secretary of the Party, in a relations" and officials here report on an agricultural con huve indicated privately that ference attended by Bulgarin they favour the idea, and Krushchev,

A scheduled auction of the There is no confirmation that "The cable said the Theron Niazov is actually in degrace, property of the Soviet Embalay

New York. here was postponed indenitely was making "rapid progress" He

--not Was

criticlsed by

without explanation some time He reported that one of the through ice as it neared Antare-Krushchev in his speech at the

engines had dropped off Lica.

Tashkent conference. On the ago. Sir

while the plane was flying other hand, the usual reassuring is formula of being "called to other

over Lombardy in northern dutics" was not used.

Italy on its way to Brussels.

Expetion headquarters said it received a cable from the Theron saying it had covered of the 10,000-mile 9,000 miles journey it began here six weeks ago.

con-

سران

Edmund Hilary,

of Mount Everest, queror aboard the vesseli as an abou He is to lead a New Zealand expedition to link up with a British expedition across. the

1950. Antarctic in

It has thus great natural One person was killed and 30 advantages. It is the injured in the three crashes, all marriage

the huge of which occurred when server, natural

of the stationary trains were rammed Middle East to the most up- in the rear by moving trains.

Earlier this month, crashes to-date technical skill of the and accidents took the lives of West which the Baghdad 23 people-United Press. alliance is intended to bring about.

Even more than most othor

region,

countries of the Jordan might benefit from It hna

the economic net,

a very large territory, and

a rather small population, can expect rapidly to nchlove economic develop- ment,

'Spies' To Be Executed

Paris, Deo. 28. Two members of an alleged But the country British spy ring la Poland were needs experts; it needs yesterday sentenced to death by science; and it needs to a Warsaw military tribunal, the bring these in under Polish PAP agency announced system by which its national tonight.

means.

Interests and Independence Five other members of the are fully protected. The ring, including three women, Baghdad alliance offers the received long prison sentences.

The "British 'spics" were sald Lo have passed to Britain a Recent events, it is hoped, may quantity of Information relating provo to have been only a to Polish national defence. They passing phase. They are an had worked under the leader- effort by the foreus which ship of a man whose name was Miller, and who thrive..on division, and con-given as Jah fusion. The threat from was described as head of the servico in pionago the Communist powers is Eritich very plain. Nevertheless, the spirit of, négation need

not always prevail. The

Poland.

Ho

onder Theron at Montevideo.

-United Press,

Bomb Unearthed

WOOL TRADE PROSPECTS

Australian officials were said to be tempted by the prospect of a renewal of the wool trade

The captain, A. D. Reedy, guided the airliner down 10 three a porfect landing hours after taking off for

Death Of Malaria with Russia, which was broken During his perilous flight back

Expert

off at

the time of the diplomatic rupture.

Soviel participation in the 1958 Olympios in Melbourne was said to be another factor in- fluencing the probable resump- tion of relations.

- London, Dec, 28. Sir Malcolm Watson, a great makaria expert, died at his home in Surrey today, aged 82.

The diplomatle break occurred who the man Known Bologna, Dec. 28,

13

after Petrov, a secret” · police All nearby buildings including supervised the work of reclaim- Colonel who was serving as chief spy in Australia, an army hospital were evacuated ing Singapore and most of the Russia's today while bomb disposal ex- Malayan plantation areas from "coas freedom here two years

Sir perts dismantled'a. 550 lbs bomb malaria,

Malcolm

first ago and disclosed the workings: interested in the of the Soviet spy apparatus to which had Jain unsuspected on became

here since

mesario problem in 1003 Australian security officials. the bed of a canal

United Press. Franco-Presse. the war-Reuter.

CHINA FREES BRITISH MOUNTAINEERS

The

Paris, Dec. 28. Communist New Chinn an- News Agency, tonight nounced the release of Awa Briush mountaineers and a Nepalese, arrested

to Clampino on two engines the captain kept the Italian air control constantly in- formed of his progress. He was given a horo's welcome

Princess Dies Of Burns

Bagdad, Dec. 28, Princess Jallah, munt of King Feisal of Iraq, died here today arted 28.

She was the youngest daughter of the late. King All of Hedjaz now part of Saudi Arabia and a sister of Crown Prince Andr Abdullah, former repeat of Ireq. Princess Tallinks - died - narsa point near Tingkelpu moun- } The now of their aITOSŤ

rouched the outade world on result of severe burns tain pass were released and

November 22, hearty monan ceived whos Lighting a berosene eent out of China on Decem- ber 11, after admitting their after the event. Their arrest | sloven fault

was not mentioned by Chinoge source until today.

and

S. Wignal J. Harrop (British) and De-The British Government made momor Natayan at Suwan (Nopalare),"

by the "They WOTO Chinese Communists for ecoss- ing the border from Nepal into Tibet...

The three climbers were mem- bers of a Welsh expedition to the Huralayas.

The Communist agency

Bald

they entered Chinese territory on October 24,7 Mount TAP

efforta through diplomailo channels at Peking

and Katmandu to securo, their ro».

Sidney Wignal, 31, John Harrop. The expedition, por

28, and their: Nopalise Kalabin

the second trin This was the

The New China News Agency "British

spier" in the last five announcement from Lhasa Seven other trials. of and Two Brillsh, and A people of Jordani will have pies and terroristasulted

Nepalese who had been des their opportunity of making in heavy penalties during tained by Chinese border de an, anightened decision in September and October

fence units for illegal, entry into the Chinese territory at a=27) merunt,

the

Year:

Trance

officer Demomor Nursyan Buwar were, be a recol moncs for the Wor lion at the tim

the Welsh Alpine

the

By Pally Post

The Government announced. that, there would be three days of national mourning starting tomorrow-Bloubor,

Warm Day In Paris

París, Doc. 28. § lang today, Badoyed, their December "day in 36

Cartiitride. (58.0

which for the date

after bringing the big plané safely down.

The aircraft, belonging to' Pan - American Airways, carried 42 passengers and a crew of six. An inquiry into the mishap | was started immediately.- France-Presse.

NOT AMONG TOP TEN.

Marilyn Monroe

Surprise

Hollywood Dec. 28. James Stewart headed

the United States cinema box office list-'this year:

with 'Girso

Kelly second and Marilyn Monroe a surprise absentee from the Top Ten, according to the Motion Picture · Herald's murvey published tonight.

John Wayne, last year's Leading moneysvinner, took place. followed by Holden, Gary Brando,

Willan

Cooper, Marion

Martin

and

Lewis,

Humphrey Beguri, Jans "Allyson and

Marilyn last year,

Clark Gable, Monroe, Afth

had only one Aim released this : year,

The Seven Year Itch",

winner of

Grace Kelly, the academy award

thin

year for the best notress, made her first appearance In the list,

In a separate survey of cinema box Canadian ofloen she won first place,

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