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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Crisis Looming? WHEN M. Mollet returned
from Moscow earlier this week he knew that the price of continued Com munist support for his Government in the National Assembly was an “adequate solution" to the Algerian problem. His Russian hosts, fairly perhaps, might have denled any breach of their pledge of non-interference i in the Internal affairs of other countries since they
were
apenking for the I
French Communist Party
whleh, in the Assembly, in
one leg of the tripod Kup porting the Mollet Govern- ! ment.
Up to
How the
have
Communie! deputies
show a in exemplary patience approving the Mollet policy which its at beating the rebels to their knees before for political negotiations reforms begin. Patience is the price the Communists
for the hope of Day popular front, Now Mendes-France writing on the wall-the Communists are exploiting his own view of the need i for simultaneous talks with Algerian moderates-and to Avoid appearing to follow! them later over their ex- pected disavowal of the Mollet policy, he has made the first move.
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TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN
Troops Ambushed In Nicosia: One Dead
BOMB ATTEMPT AT MEETING
Nicosia, May 23.
Extremists ambushed a security patrol and killed one British soldier in a sharp exchange of fire in the Paphos district tonight.
The patrol, travelling in a military vehicle, was fired on by extremists in well- hidden positions. The patrol returned the fire. One of the British soldiers was shot dead.
pressed hunt Treps
extremists in the area. The soldier was the 33rd mem
her of the security forces to ite since the Cypriot exire- miste began their
15
M.
the
of violence. Eather,
pounced on youth
ESSENTIALLY it is a move
to keep his political record unsullied by any Communist entanglements. Credit the erstwhile Mr France with prescience-but it would be unfair to him to suggest that he sees so farther than
possible
Communist
Q
fu
campaign
planting the home-made bomb And alerted the police. Plain- Į
the boy clothesmen shoved roughly into a jeep and drove him off.
Mr
who
Clemens told Iccal shop- and residents. Керага had been herdded into the Women's well-guarded "Old Market". that no one had volunteered information on Monday's bombinga
"Some of you must have scen these barbarians," he said. "Some of you were on bal-
egging conies
illegal on But no one demonstrations.
IT- has come forward with formation"
qulek-moving pollee Grock Cypriot attempted to he bomb an open-air public -
tle The inquiry quiry meeting. was into Monday's bombings. A British soldier died in the violence an Monday.
A Scolding
10
and and the fact
bitterly that complained few had helped the wounded. "Very few of you offered any
ald
wounded dying
men British Cypriot despite that there WOTD numerous Shrill pollee whistles and the
doctors and druggists in the crack
gunshot Inter- of a
vicinity. the rupted evidence before
Commissioner. Nicosia Martin
Mr Clemens, meus
scolding was Cypriots for their failure
soldier and 12 help a dying other persons wounded in the bombings here two day: AKU.
was reported
that a Greek otted the youth shopkeeper
Mr
Cle
to
switch of tactics. M.-Mollet, Now They Fear
at
the moment, In chaperoned by a useful! number of conscientious Conservative deputies to make his left-wing associn- tions in parliament appear a little more respectable to the world outside. second leg of the tripod on the right, which really cares not a jot for the Socialists,
in expected to
This
remove itself just us soon as the Communists abandon hope of a popular front. This would leave, M. Mollet with just one feg-his own centre blue-on which to attempt a precarious balan- eing act. M. Mendes-Fran apparently does not care for his chances of surviving. Parily then, his manoeuvre is to protest against policy, and he thus remains con- sistent in the attitude he adopted over Tumiala and Morocco; partly, he hus nently avoided a Communist snare, and he has nino freed himself to work for a more decisive role in the next Government than the minis. try without portfolio with which he has been so ham- pered in the present one.
A$
S for M. Mendes-France's Algerian policy ho believes that fighting without
+
-For Harding
London, May 23. The British authorities fear that Cypriot terrorists might make an attempt to
the Assassinate
Cyprus Governor, Sir John Hard- visit to Ing, during his London in two weeks, in- formed sources said today. A Greek merchant of Crele has put a price of £30,000
Harding's after head
the British Government had offered a reward of £10,000 for the capture of a man suspected of being the chief of the Cypriot "EOKA" terrorist organisation.
A
on
al-
There are nearly 40,000 Cypriots in London-more than there are In Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, Yard has Scotland ready placed extra guards around Prime Minister, Sir Eden. the Anthony principal members of his Government, and the Duke of Edinburgh, following that several reporta terrorists have arrived in Britain from Сургик-
France-Prcase.
Tragic Death
negotiations with moderate Of John B.
Moslema
is A polley
of
abandonment. The Com-
munist doputies are at the
moment harping on the same chord and are probably
Sainsbury
London, May 23.
of
wondering now whether John B. Sainsbury, 85- their duet would appeal to year-old chairman
"
a France, rather tired of multi-million dollar British discordant choirs. Ad-food store chain, fell to his
and the Communists har-
mittedly M. Mendes-France death today from a fourth monise well on the Rif Song floor window of a London
but beyond that their re- clinic.
pertoire is very limited.
His pyjama-clad body nar-
Is the aspiring Mr France rowly missed
Hikely to be tempted? A new
persons waiting
nt a bus stop. He was killed Instantly.
"Some are doctors who rush to me for curfew passes to visit the sick."
The crowd shuffled uneasily as
an interpreter translated. British soldiers and plainclothes
men mingled with the silent crowd during MY Clemens" 45-minute speech.
Give No Aid
كن
Four young British soldiers told.
the Commissioner how, their compudes lay bleeding. the street shulters rolled down- in their faces and bystandera
A
fed inlo alleyways or peered fearfully from windows.
druggist came forward to describe how he rushed out to help n
wounded soldier and sent his young
platout to
help another who subsequently died.
"My
came back assistant covered with blood," he said. He then charged that the assis- tant was arrested yesterday and put in prison. He pointed to a pininelothesman leaning against a pillar in the mark- place.
"That man in the shirt told him,
follow me."
At this point, police whistles and the sound of a shot inter- rupted his evidence as poilce discovered the bomb thrower, Hall the audience rushed to see what was happening.
The
Scribbling Ban
0
She Arrives Today
Miss Martine Carol, popular and talented French film star, now on a visit to the Far East, is seen above. Miss Carol is due to arrive in Hongkong this evening by air from Singapore where she has been the toast of the town. France-Presse Photo.
Parachute Record
Į
of
Rio de Janeiro, May 23. French woman parachutist Colette Duval today set a new- world free jumping record here in leaping from a height 12,000 metres (about 39,400 feet) and opening her parachute at a height of 250 metres (about B10 feet)....
Mr Clemens continued the in- quiry after the bomb thrower WIS Laken away, but ad- journed it when druggist began a political speech.
government today barned anti-British wall scribbling and announced registration of all Cypriots, to help root out underground extremists.
The free jump. without An order
signed by the parachute lasted four minutes
Boconda, Governor, Str John Harding, and 35 made it legal for anyone to Mademoiselle Daval, who is scrawl slogane en walls I well known in France de
failed in a bid to also requires owners of pro- mannequin, party to remove such slogans be elected to the French No- immediately. To matter who tional Assembly last January paints them.-United Press. France-Prezić,
.
"I JUST CAN'T AFFORD TO
LIVE THERE”
RELAX IN
DAKS
THEN HAMENS CONITORT EN ACTIOON "TILAI BERA,
Whiteaways
IT WASN'T MEANT TO BE
QUOTED
Truman And That
"Squirrel-Headed General" Quip
:
But They'll Get There Just The Same
Reservists Hold Up
Train's Journey
Parls; May 23. Young reservista Bred Naples, May 23. pistols and threw a grenade Former President Harry S. Truman said to- when they swarmed out of troop train in a Dijon day he was sorry about the "very embarrassing a situation" created by published reports of his suburb today in a demon. stration against being sent statement that "some squirrel-headed general" to fight in Algeria. ordered the invasion at Salerno in 1943.
He reiterated a dental issued carlier by his secretary, Eugene Bailey, that he had ever made such a statement.
"I would make no 'comment Truman told news- that," men. "I'd been listening to the conversation of several people who had been there, I am sorry about it but it's a very embarras→ sing situation and I hope you'll
it
up."
The grenade exploded harm-* lessly on open ground near the one was hurt the allied forces had chosen a railway and no point which has high hills over- by the pistol shots, which were
as an in-fired into the air. looking its besches
The 24-coach troop train, vuston skie.
start-stop began some squirrel-headed which general," Truman replied in on journey to Marseilles at Mour- melon, cast of Paris, yesterday, off-hand manner.
remark left Dijon after 20 minutes only
by
both
The "squirrel-head"
the to be held up again, briefly near was reported United Press and the Associated Beaune by reservists operating
which have American the emergency brakes, Press,
following Correspondents
FOUR DELAYS do not want to embarrass Truman.
this statement Truman's anybody, especially the people
the train, cartying So for who are with me and reporting
afternoon, in effect, placed the on me. I never scold anybody disputed remark. In the context about 1,000 reservists has been when things
don't go straight, of an unstudied and off-the-cuff held up four times by the young In the course of a soldiers pulling the communica- though I wish you would clear quip made it up"
general conversation with refion cord, disconnecting
at a sidewalk cafe carriage couplings, and On a visit to Salerno yester-porters day,
Truman was asked why United Press.
LIM MAY SUCCEED
MARSHALL
Singapore, May 24.
Vernon Bartlett, political commentator of the Straits Times, said today, Mr. David Marshall, Chief Minister of Singapore, might resign in favour of his Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr Lim Yew-hock. Mr Lim, who returned to Singapore yesterday, was Mr Marshall's chief lieutenant at the unsuccessful London talks on the Colony's independence,
Liner
the
dis perding into nearby bars.
When the train arrived today at a a station on the eastern out- skurts of
reservists
pulled cord and station and
but
communication
on
bars.
the
Police stood by,
not intervene, and the men got back into the train in. response to appeals from the local army Commander.
The pistol shots were fired and the grenade thrown as the roservists made their way back. to the train.
DISCONNECTED
Before, continuing the journey railway ofcials disconnected the Fautomatic brake from the cam-
munication: corch but, at» Croix- Se.righty, near Beaune, the train "When Mr stopped again, Bartlett wrote:
how' tired discovers Marshall
Someone had operated the
people Goes havo become ut his emergency brakes by hand.
England Has Seen The Last Aground
Of Me Says Noel
Paris, May 23.
The British actor, Noel Coward, said today that he expected some sort of hullabaloo about his
re-
fusal to set foot in Eng- land again, "because I am, me",
Mr Coward refused to leave the
French liner Liberte when she was in Southampton last week because he faces a £25,000 tax payment if he sets foot in England this year. His detion touched CIT hue and cry in the British press,
Mr Coward fold the United Press in his auito at one of Paris' plush hotels, "Ono just can't afford to live in England
these days.
"I am lucky because I carry my around in my head factory
and can write anywhere.
"I have a place in England with
a 149-acre garden and five
NOEL COWARD
"My dear chap, it's just not
worth
Coward
hullabaloo,
but that is only to be expected because I am
me.
"Plenty of people would do the came thing and one would never hear a word about it.
reasona "But my
are very simple and I'm perfectly open about them. If an industrialist is ill, he goes on drawing his dividends. But if I am sick, am finished, and I don't get anything.
"So I just decided I had to start putting some money away for my old age and made, the de- cision to live in the Colonics, but of course to retain = my. British nationality.” Speaking in the throaty
volco
which made him famous, Mr Coward wild ho would spend another week in
Paris and
then go on to the Riviera, back, to New York, and then, to his new house in Bermuda.
Melbourne, May 24 The 28,790-ton British in Onsova has run aground in Fort Phillip Bay, about 30 miles south of boto, with 450
passengers aboard.
The Orsova, the world's first mustless liner, was bound for Sydney from London. -
Efforts are to be made high tido at, nood today reflost her.
The Orsova, owned
at to
by the Orient Line, cost £8,000,000 sterling and made her maiden voyage in the spring of 1954. She carries a crew of 042.
The
Orient Lines freight manager in Melbourne said the her ran aground on a sandbank about two o'clock this morning.
He said there were rain squalls in the area at the time ---- Reuter,
Surrey Village Just Saved
gardeners, and I think the "I knew when I made this de He said: "Bermuda is a lovely From Destruction
last year. I spent only two or three weekerzās tiere,
cision that the cheaper prese would' raise some sort of
pface, No taxes at all," United Press
TRANS-SHIPPED GOODS Grenade
ILLEGALLY TO HK
Washington, May 23,
Injures 14
Homwbury St Maty,
Surrey, May 23. „Brilish troops and a shifting wind stopped a raging forest fire? just feet short of this picture| postcard vilinge today,
Troope
ware" rumbed in to support firemen battling the fire that roared and crackled through the Surrey Downs, a favourite beauty spot left under-dry by A wall of fre two miles Britain's current drought.
hila toward picturesque na "Little
wide swept doyra a cluster thq
erratic and emotional leader- Again the reservists jumped grace- | down on to the track, and ship, he may withdraw
for three the con- tive train stopped to continue fully
in Switquaniers of an hour, valescence he began
Incidents Borring new `zerland.
the "Despite his loyalty to the train is expected early tomorrow where the chief minister,
Me Lim Yow-to reach Morsellies,
will embark for hock could
scarcely refuse the reservista Governor's invitation to be- Algeria-Reuter.
Chief Minister In his
come place.
"Assured of the support
the Liberal
of
Socialists since Billy Rose To Wed
they said in London that
they
were satisfied with Mr Lennox-
New York,, May 25. The Broadway producer, Billy
Boyd's offer he may resume Rose, and the blonde showgirl,
Offices
the Colonial promise over and then fight new elections on loence today but declined to the basis of the new constitu- disclose their wedding plans. --- tion."--Reuter.
United Press.
the with
Joyce Matthews, who once reach a com- Blushed her wrists in his apart Internal security meat, obtained 0 marriage
YPHOON MAP
with revised codes in force as from
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1st April,
|, 1956
$40
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UNMOUNTED
Penang, May 28. tripod and worse still a Sangbury had been a patient two-legged coalition with at a London clinic since March
The Bureau of Foreign Commerce of the Com- Fourteen Chinese, seven the Communists, would have after he was taken it while merce Department announced today that Florent M. L. of them women, were in only one Inevitable ending returning from a South Ameri- Schrijvers, an exporter-importer of Antwerp, Belgium, jured when a home-made the subjugation of the can vacation in the liner Arger has been denied all United States export privileges grenade exploded in front weaker by the stronger. A tina Star.
Switzerland". shop here tonight. Mendes-France seeks not The chain of food stores and for two years of alleged" unlawful; trans-shipment of of 4 Chinese new vendor's villages known.
More than 100 fren
100 frement with only his own political salva supermarkets he headed included US-origin boric acid to Hongkong,
The chief at Perang their equipment fought frantical
depart tion, but also the triumph 250 stores in London and the
criminal investigation that the that the material, was for use in provinces. He was the son of
ly to control the blaze, Scorer'of The Bureau is th of the Republic. He can do the founder of the business, John denial order became exfective on Belglum and would not be diament Mr B. H. Harri, said villagers boat at the fire along neither with the asics James Sainsbury-Unked From May 21 but provides that US pound of an apron from tonight he believed the end munists. His first task is
was thrown by Communist * cxport privileges shall be without advance approval
to, Behrijvers after the Bureau.
terrorists.. to look for as many "logs" SANDYS IN KIEV restored
200 Boldiers wore rubed from condition that' na possible, to wangle the
Mostow, May 23.7 three menihe on biggest and most secura
*The British Minister of he commit no attien violon taid that it relled on those protinos told the police poorly barracion to join the
durance and granted de the shortly before the explosion here pusted to within 15 South China Morning Post Ltd. coalition of all whong
Housing and Local Government, of US export controls,
Fence, bub that after Schrijvers kw two cyclists, dressed fire primary task will be self. Me Duncan Sandys, and him wiện, The Bureau” charged i that recorded the boric acid at white shirts and black trousers, foot of the first boumar, of the villege before the wind, atified extinction on completion of who are desviait to the Soviet Schrijver is outine in ruppon. an now constitution designed Union, arrived in Kiev today, DE BEL, Suport flotton) PD to abolish the horror of Tass, the Soviet news agency, Kion, utamoted by jjkvar political tripods forever, reported Router.
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