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BRITAIN'S NEW CYPRUS PLAN
Self-Government
With Safeguards
DEFENCE, SECURITY
CONTROLS
London, Feb. 10.
Britain has completed new compromise proposals offering its Mediterranean island Colony of Cyprus immediate self-government subject to summer) should cause aurprise, for although security safe-guards, informed sources said today. Hongkong has been merci-
The new plan will be dispatched fully free of shark tragedies in recent years, week-end to Governor General Sir John Harding sharks and barracuda have for the resumption of negotiations with Cypriot
increasing Nationalist In
leader Archbishop Makarios, the sources said.
uround
Dur
been seen quantities shores, The precaution therefore is a wine one and should be welcomed by all Hwimmers. Shark bells should also be installed. The Director of Urban Ser-
vices would be
consider for
wine other safeguards
to
the beaches. First, could not officinis be
over
the
The proposals fall short of the demands raised by the fiery church leader in his latest discussions with Gen. Harding in Nicosia last week.
But they were understood to offer a compromise formula which holds out a wide
measure of immediate self-government to the strategic island.
The
Gen. Harding Bitain, the sources said,
forwarded Makarios's em- prepared to give Cyprus self-
latest demands to powered to close benches | government on the basis of an London last week, asking for to bathing when the red agreed constitution,
new instructions,
They
were arrival flag goon up. There were Britain would hand over all delayed to await some particularly
back from Washington of the glaring departments to Cypriot minis-
Anthony cases of downright foolishers who would be responsible Prime Minister, Sir
assembly, but
Eden, and the Foreign Secretary. ness two summers ago when to legislative
Mr Selwyn Lloyd. swimmers ignored
the red
enough to say that Ja Governor. their own business. Inevit
relan foreign affairs, flag and subsequently had ve
overall publis security which to be rescued.
not would bo
Alio
would
contrad of and defence
reserved to
the
It
uspects of Internal ably someone does go in to security may be subsequently rescue them at the risk of kanalerred 10 Cygarhor d-
his own life. And this ministration when order has should be stopped.
wech fully restored to the Islandi
ANOTHER point: at
the
Colony's two most popular "ocean beaches"-Shek O and Big Wave-something
more
AL
for
CUARANTEES
Moreover, the British plan in- Įsists that full and adequate guarantees be provided for the Turkish minority of the island. Nearly one-dth of the island's population is of Turkish origin.
Whether Makarkos wiii acepl
HD
scheme
the
The Cabinet was understood to have now given its approval to the new compromise formula
also has which
Prime Minister's blessings.
Supreme consideration in Bri- tain's plans is to safeguard
the strategic base in Cyprus, which
being
into the developed Corve centre of Britain's Mi- east defence atratogy-United Press
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P. 4: The Royal Visit to
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million-pound
P. 5: The
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Sholtiqua.
the
5. W. by Gun-running Mediterranean.
by David Divine.
for P. 8: FamoELS
serice treason, our new
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trials
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P. 8: The world has done me a world of good, by Daniel Farso11. English- Women have changed, by Murich White.
P. 13: Les Armour writes
on Franco today.
P. 16 & 17: Local and overscan sports review3.
AID FOR EGYPT
London, Feb. 10.
The Moscow radio announced tonight that Russia has reached agreement with Egypt for granting Soviet aid in "carrying out work in the peaceful use of atomic energy."
The broadcast said negotiations between Soviet officials and a delegation from Cairo "ended a few days ago in Moscow."
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out of
الازرار
said
ment
They discussed "the gaming, Soviet Union Egyptian scientists by the Soviet Union of scientific and spedalists to improve their
the and technical assistance for the qualifications,”
broadcast creation of a nuclear physics labomiory in Cairo and the
"Furthermore," the announce carrying
"tho work in the
Soviet continued, peaceful use of atomic energy Union will supply to Egypt
accordance
with
the equipment and instruments for which
been carrying out geological explora- reached, the Soviet Union will tion work. send experts to Egypt for con- sultations regarding the design- in and building of the afore- mentioned laboratory, will sup ply the requisite equipment and Instrumenda and will also admit
the
scientific appropriate research establishments of the
ID
Read This & Be Glad You're In Hongkong
to a
Faria, Feb. 10.
The third day of France's current cold spell killed four persons, wrecked havoc with the Riviera flower harvest and brought trains in some areas practically standstill. It froze cargo boats solid into the canals, grounded aircraft and sent exhausted sea-gulls flying far into the Pyrenees for shelter.
hourly Thermometers plunged lower in Sarreguemines, with a tumprature of 39 degrees (ven- freezing! point tigrade) below
as the lowest recorded,
The cold ways felt most keenly on the Riviera, which at is time of the
usually year is basking in mid spring owl-
shine.
From Nice
W
to Menion on the
Aix
Legion were com-
substantial than aluminium catamarans are needed to patrol the waters. A craft that is light and fast, easily launched in
the limitations of the latest rough surf and muuned by
British
Was considered
London, Feb, 10. 11 crew ut four or Ave
A car in which Queen Eliza- would be preferable. These dubiful by some observers here.
The Nationalist leader was beth, the Queen Mother
and Italian border, the boats should be used
ountry reported to
to have demanded
Princess Margaret were travel nuaaled last
Inches of shark watching and Jife week that
at under the projected ling was involved In a slight
The Laty Apine village snow. saving. The catamaran is self-government
the collision with a three-ton lorry
in tre breil too slow and cumbersome Cypriots should have control of in Southeast London today.
pletely inaccessible, and an icy and quite useless if the the
police and internal security, The collision occurred on wind bent the withered mumosa lifeguard has to abandon it
Moreover, Makarlos was said Brixton Hill, one of the main trees, normally bursting with to make a rescue.
have insisted that the Cypriot roads leading into London from Buffy yellow blossom,
the southeast. The offside wing: Crews will be needed for the Government be controlled by the Greek majority which
of the royal car wes slightly craft suggested. And we would in
effect deprive the bent, but the royal car Was feel that an association of
Turketh minority of the night delayed for only four minutes. young men should be form of
volo.
No опе WDS burt in the ed and trained by expert- Britain has given fimm assur- collision-Reuter, enced lifesavers specificallynnees to Turkey that, whatever for
week-end the outcome of the negotiations, voluntary beach duties in the summer the fate of the Turkish minorly months.
will be safeguarded, It is partly pro-
for this reason that vided with good craft,
hesitates to hand over the police distinctive!
to Makarios. Austro- Han lifesavers there is no
If they are
special tent,
costumes-08 are
to
The Cyprus Turks are holding out for an equal share in any reason why the iden should form of parliamentary govern)-
ment on the island,
not be very popular,
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VISIT TO PLANTS "The negotiations between the ไมย partics took plac In a of mutual understanding spirit irid friendship. During lustr stay in the USSR, the members of the Egyptian delegation visit- ed the Psysloo-wchnical Insti- tute of the Ukranian Academ of Sciences, the thermo- USSR technical institute of the
the Academy of Sciences,
atomic-electric power station of the USSR Academy of Sciences certain uther scientific establishments.
and
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SOVIET AIR CHIEF'S
BOAST
We Hold Trump Card In Cold War
T KOWIDON
7,000 Demonstrate, Fifty
Are Arrested
Algiers, Feb. 10. Fifty people were reported to have been arrested today in Algiers when 7,000 Frenchmen, led by the mayors of Algerian towna, wearing their tricolour
sashes, forced police cordonis and demonstrated in front of the city war memorial.
Among those arrested were member of, the Algerian As- the sembly and the Mayor of town of Kolea.
庭
After the police had cleared the square in front of the wor memorial, a force of 1,000 db- inonstrators clashed with the police in an adjoining street.
M. Colaveri, Prefect of Algiers, was greeted with shouts of "Guy Mollet to the gallows" when he tried to calm the
the crowd.
The
who
fists.
police used their truncheons to ropel the demonstrators with their fought back Above the heads of the crowd an umbrella wielded by the point, could be seen descending at regular intervals on the kepla of the policemen,
Inspector Assaulted
One
demonstrator
caught hold of a police inspector, rip-
off his decorations and
London, Feb. 10. A Soviet Air Marshal today boasted that Ruasin "could have" conquered Europe in ped 1945 and warned the West threw his cap on the ground. A Poujadist member of the that the Soviet Union now French Parliament, standing be heard shout- the nuclear "In the Moscow State Order holds
trump nearby, could
ing his approval. of Lenin University named after card in the cold war.
A policeman lost his revolver Lomonosov, the members of the
Air Marshal M. Skripko said
during the clashes, but another that "the Soviet Army delegation studied questions of the training of cadres of special could have occupied the whole revolver was captured from the
demonstrators. physicists The Egyptian dele-of Europe" after the last war.
He made the statement in gallon left for home today,"
The agement was disclosed unusual letter to a British Air and Radio Moscow a Russian-language broad-Marshal cast beamed to home liteners broadcast it. in Russia.
He said that nuclear weapons can no longer be considered a "trump card deterrent in the the West hande of
to *prevent Soviet aggression,
That is now in the hands of other Powers too, Incuding the
Union. which Is Soviet posstasion of atomie, hydrogen, and all other types of weapons," he said.
in
This was the first announce ment of formal agreement for
Soviet atoule ald to a non- Communist nation.
Erlier this month, a similar with pact
Agroed Yugoslavia-United Press.
wis
Quash Conviction
an
in
an
1100ps tonight were sent to forestall a meeting scheduled by the Committee of Public Safety,
by organisation created French war veterans and their sympathisera to prevent the "liquidation" of Algeria. People seriving for the meeting found the doors locked and troops on guard outside France-Presso.
Rat Kills 6 Cows
Paris, Feb. 10." "
University of Alabama Appeal To Queen published in the Soviet news- village of Saint Jean Sixt in
New York, Feb. 10.
president, Dr O. C. Carmi- chael, said today that Negro student Autherine Lucy will
OPEN LETTER
A rat killed six bows while Skripko's remarks were made to British In an "open letter"
they were drinking of a water- Air Marshal Sir John Slessoring trough in the tiny French
paper New
Times. They were Upper Savoy today,
The rat got caught between a London, Feb. 10. broadcast by Radio Moscow and
fuse box and a water here.
pipe Queen Elizabeth Is to be monitores Air Marshal cri- supplying the trough
The
caused a quash the conviction be readmitted to the univer- asked to sity if and when the Federal of Sergeant Frederick Emmett- ticised Slessor for "advocating short circuit and electrocuted
Germany last year atomic war" In a recent speech the cows.France-Presse courts order it, and that Dunne in
for the murder of Sergeant at Dusseldorf Germany. full protection will be ac-Reginald Watters. corded her.
Mr George Coleman, solicitor acting for Emanett-Dunne, said to the yesterday the petition He Queen would be presented
in
He said at a news conference At Marseilles, where morning
that the issue now is "in the temperatures of 12 degrees
discretion of the court." below freezing point broke a 50 implied that the university will March, the grounds for socking year record, ships were hours
the it could not yet be disclosed, late,
crawling
no move to admit into barbour make against biting
flurries Negro student until the court he said. snow
acts, Four large ships due in during the
SOLDIERS BRAWL the morning, among them
WITH CIVILIANS
Ville Dalger and the Villo Doran had still not appeared at their anchorage tonight.
"This invitation to the Wes- torn natiours to commit collec- tive suicide is as fantastic as it is foolish," Skripko told Slessor.
United Press.
Churchill Back
London, Feb. 10. Sir Winston Churchill arrived
sir Sergeant Emmett-Dunne
after was here tonight by If she is rendmitted, Dr Car-sentenced to death for murder-mechanical defects in two other whose airlinera had delayed his fight michael said, and "regular offing Sergeant Watters,
The from Nice by more than two cers of the university charged widow he had married.
was later com- hours-Reuter. with maintaining order appear death sentence
muted to fe imprisonment.--- Brazzaville, Feb. 10,
to be insufficient, I have every was killed One person
and
reason to believe that local and China Moll Special three others wounded today
State authorities will provide when some 500 African soldiers at over 80 miles an hour, piling protection to all members of the
along the railway university and civilians clashed in the tracks near Saint Raphack on Belgian Congo town of Leopold the Riviera-it lay more
needed." than ville.
two feet atop. Show ploughs The brawl occurred when as were sent out to push entire African garrison rushed through.
to the aid of a comrade who
An
snow-taden ley,
wind howled down the Rhone valley
up Snow
4 way
had been hit by a civilian Trains between Paris and the driven trucks. It took the police south were between two and 45 minutes to restore order, three hours late, and many
community,
if
Dr Carmichael also said that disciplinary action will bo takcia
students against
"who arc known to have engaged in acts
SMALL FIRE IN HOTEL ROOM
A fire broke out in Room No.
405 Gloucester Bulking, fourth
of violence" during the recent floor shortly before o'clock
morning. Damage disorders over the admission of this
The soldiers, mainly members planes were grounded until Mias Lucy, the university's first caused to a
of the Azanded tribe, regarded midday, when
runways were
the accident as an ill omen be-sufficiently cleared to enable causo several tribesmen have them to take off. There were died recently, one of them by serious delays at Orly and murder ---France-Premo.
Bourget-France-Presse.
TO INDIA
NOW
Lo
Negro student.
room.
was
emall sofa in the
"No university can operate i The Bro wes put out by of the hotel staf It allows offenders against Inw members and order to go unpunished," before the arrival of the fire ko said—United Press.
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Ex-Governor Dies In Barber Shop
London, Feb, 10. Sir Charles Dundas, former Governor of the Bahamas and ef Uganda, died today in a London barber shop. He was 71. Sir Charles governed the Bahamas from 1987 to 1040, and Uganda from 1940 to 1944.-- United Press.
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