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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Not So Cock-Sure THE

THE National People's Con-

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gress which concluded in Peking a week. ago pro- duced, apart from Mr Chou En-Ini's self-assured review of foreign affairs, Kome interesting and significant speeches dealing with the hume front. They threw new Right On what ін happening in China, and they contained some rather surprising admissions. One example was provided

by the Chairman of

the National Economic Commis- sion who bluntly declared that last year's attack on "conservative and rightist tendencies" had betrayed the government into kinds of ill-conceived econo- mic policies. The govern. ment hud "overlooked netual conditions" in work- ing out plans, Thas there was little co-ordination be tween production plans aussi the available supplies raw materials. This was but one of several confessiona which startled the delegates. The Minister for Education had his complaint to make. He was alarmed at the way in which school children wore being withdrawn from primary and middle schools and put to work ort the Jand. To him this repre- Bonted an unforeseen, but not the less regrettable re- ault of the speeding up of the collectivisation of agriculture last year. The effect has been to induce parenta to call back their children from school and set

uf

them to work on the collec-

tive farm.

CLEARLY this

has been

能 shock to the Com-

munist leaders. It ta

all the moore disturbing

to them because their pro-

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VISCOUNT'S PROPELLER BURSTS AT 18,000 FEET. WOMAN KILLED IN FREAK PLANE

ACCIDENT

Montreal, July 9.

The propeller of a Viscount turboprop airliner "disintegrated" in mid-air and a flying splinter struck unother engine, stopping It, and then sliced through the caħla killing one passenger and injuring five others.

The Aircraft was flying

18.000 feet over Michigan at the time.

The Trans-Canada Air- lines plano landed safely at Windsor, Ontario, on two port engines 10 later,

minutes

A married couple and their child were among those injured.

was

The dead woman

identified да Mrs Robert Lippert, wife of Dr Robert Lippert of Rochester, Minne sota.

Trans-Canada Airlines headquarters said the plane carried 31 pas- sengers.

A spokesman said a pro- peller of the no. 1 engine -the outside engine on the star-

MANY FEARED TRAPPED

ON

QUAKE ISLE

General's

DEATH TOLL MAY Mercy Plea BE MORE THAN 50

Athens, July 9.

Rejected

VREECE rushed emergency aid by sea and air Firing Squad Likely

GR

to the islands of the Aegean where an earth- quake, volcanic eruption and tidal waves today

killed at least 35 people and left scores homeless.

It was feared the cas alty list might be higher as many people

aru

Saigon, July 9.

Rebel General Ba Cut's appeals for reprieve were twice rejected today and death before a firing squad

'Dear Bulganin' believed trapped in allen appeared imminent.

gramme of industrialisation Eden Sends

requires

Д

very

large

literate population. All re cent propaganda has been about the number of schools which were being establish. ed. Now the schools are being made to go short of pupils because of a clash of policies.

Even in the held of culture

there came complaints and

Reply To

Red Letter

London, July 9.

Sir Anthony Eden today

contem- ganin, the

criticisms, together with the old Marshal Nikolai Bul

admission by the Minister

of Culture that

centred around the picturesque volcanic island of Santorini.

France-Presse reports at least 50 were known to be dead.

All Greek navy lighter vessela have suited for Santorini, obout 100 miles south-east of Athens, the

and a rescue party led by Minister of Public Works, Mr George Rallis, and including doctors and nurses, was en route aboard the steamship Aegeon.

COMPLETELY RAZED

Grock and United States air

Soviet Prime free planes have gone to the porary Communist litera- Minister, he thought in- istands from Athens.

and Reope themes were among its main sufficient by itself to characteristics, Intriguing-velop

internationał

com.

Telephone communications ture was very dull. Limited dividual disarmament by with the islands wers

monotonous nations "helpful" but not pletely disrupted by the earth- de quake early today, but, accord- ing to Reuter, official reports Con-

said that so far 35 people were known dead on Santorini, In- cluding 10 in the village of lao.

northern tip on the island's Ten injured have been counted

far.

ly the Minister saw thefidence and security. possibility of improvement

Sir Anthony was replying to a letter he received from Marshal Bulganin last month.

leader

in a return to past custom,

with more study of

ditional arts forms.

All along

the

was

visible

trn-

In this, the Soviet Jing there notified Sir Anthony Eden

11 wenkering Russia's intention lo cut

of

30

of

The panic-stricken population

1

of Santorini, driven from their earthquake and

An

Exocution usually rejection

follows within

of clemency 48 hours but this is the custom, not the law.

Dinh

Today, Premier Ngo Diem rejected Ba Cul's appeal against military court'e sen-

tence.

A few hours later the court of Vielnom's cassation - South highest appeal court — rejected his appeal of a civil sentence.- United Press.

Singapore Kidnappers

board side of the plane -"disintegrated".

the no. 3 Part struck

engine next 10 it. causing the engine to catch fire, and then crashed into the fuse- Inge.

BACK TO

WORK

Ike Calls

Congress Leaders

The fire was quickly ex- The pro- tinguished.

peller part tore into one side of the cabin and out the other so quickly that at least one passenger sald he did not see it.-United Press.

MP Asks

Govt To

Hurry Up

Between

Relations Hongkong & China

London, July 9.

A Labour Member of Parliament, Mr Fenner Brockway, asked the Foreign Secretary in the House of

DAKS

EN ACTION TRON KURS

Whiteaways

PRELATE BACKS NO-HANGING

BILL IN LORDS

London, July 9. TWO leading Church-

men came out in favour of abolishing the death penalty in Britain when the House of Lords debated the issue today.

The Lorde were debating a bill' already passed by the House of Commons seeking to end hang- Ing for murder.

Dr

Arch- Arthur

Ramsey bishop of York, Canterbury in recond to the

Archbishop

the

Church

hierarchy,

Mortimer,

and

of England

Dr Robert

Birhop of Exeter,

both said they would vote for the bill at the end of the two-

day debate tomorrow,

Dr

one should

that

sold Ramsey not ignore the possibility even the worst type of human nature could be changed

to "before a man passen

hla eternal account."

Growing. Unease

Dr Mortimer who said ha had become an abolitionist in the last, four or five years, felt there was a "growing uncaso the public conscience whether

of the the imposition

death penalty in certain murder cases was just."

He felt if there were degrees of murder a great deal of this uneasiness would be removed,

Lord, Webb-Johnson, one of the world's most distinguished. surgeons, surprised his fellow

by saying he had wit

Commons today what replyed two murders,

the British Government had given

DR RAMSEY

conclude that the dènth' pên was the great deterrent

to China's proposal He told a pocked, silent house Abolition, if, followed

sair a man some colonial territories, might that it should have official that Irong he

Elaughter his wife and then well lead to at least, a recrud- relations with the Govern kick her face it, He was a'

-dr-personal and family ment of Hongkong."

"beast" and "deserved to be vendettas," he said. destroyed, he said.

Mr Selwyn Lloyd replied he had nothing to add to a previous statement on June & (when he said the matter was being con sidered),

could

Saw Man Stabbed

Lord Milverton has served in the colonial service in the Pacide, the West Indies and Africa. He was Governor of murder The other

at Nigeria WEA

from 1943 to 1947—–—– ntar the Gulf of Tampico,

Reuter, Mexico, where leaning over a ship's rail, he saw one man in the the docks stab another.

not

Victims Identified

The

Mr Brockway asked if the Foreign Secretary. hasten things up.

Would it not be for benefit of both Honglong and Lord Webb-Johnson favoured China and for peace in Asia if retaining the death penalty for

Nicosia, July D. this matter was settled?" he suitable câseg but not for

British woman erstood.

others.

killed In the 10-ritonth-old Mr Lloyd replied: "I think

Early in the debate the Lord Cyprus terrorist campaign, was what has to be thought about Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, said identified today as Mrs

Government Was

wiło still KoberTY,

Customs Collector, unequivocally penalty for murder.

When the vote is taken to morrow the Lords. sidered likely Commons on

"clearly and

in

of

G. T.

Nicacia's

Both she and her husband were shot and killed by Cypriot gunmen who ambushed their car yesterday as they drove ta the the beach-United Pres.

Gettysburg, July 9. The White House an- very carefully is whether this the

proposal would improve our re- nounced today that Pre-lations with the Chinese People's favour of retaining the death sident Eisenhower would Republic or otherwise."Reuter. fay

The Benefit meet Congressional lead- ers tomorrow for the first time since his opera-

Were Jovial tion.

Singapore, July 9. Kidnap victim Ng Quee Gam, Chinese millionaire told newspapermen today his cap- tors were a Jovial lot,

Our London correspondent re- ports that in an interview with

Mr Fenner Brockway after que issue.

on time, be said there would be "no shadow of a doubt of

The White House Press Secre the benefit deriving to Hong- Lary, Mr James Hagerty, sald the President would meet them kong which served as a very

convenient outlet for trade. at a newly established office at Gettysburg College, a little more He thought that governmental exchange of than four miles away from his cognition and

recognition would have assisted The rubber magnate who was

farm,

Republican Senate and House trade as well as being a means abducted from outside his home

for political contact which after returning from a mahjong of Representatives leaders were

said asked to see the President. Be- might be of great importance

generally. members of the garg wished fore his illness, he held once Mr Brockway asked a similar week meetings with Congres- him well when they let him go | weel

question towards the end of May told him to make more sional lenders.

the proposal was first Mr Hagerty said Mr Elsen- when

The burden of his com→ But at other times they (hower

ower would discuss the Ad-made.

pro- plaint today was the slowness legislative knocked him on the head and ministration's

with the Congressional of the Government in coming to abused him.

gram.me

any decision. leaders. He gave no details.

Tho

nouncement marked a new advance in Mr Eisen- hower's post-operation work zchedule.

money.

of the old self-satisfaction.| armed forces by 1,200,000 and homes by the Even "dogmatism" was asked Britpin to follow theby the eruption of the island's condemned, The suggestion Soviet example by reducing its volcano which followed H.sersion inte at night, was made that a kinder view strength.

crowded the shores pleading to should now

be taken to the mainland. be taken

Sir Anthony Eden's reply, | be

A United States Information and philosophy. With aplomb the which was drafted in consulta-

Mr Theodor chief propaganda official of tion with Britain's 14 Altuntic Service official,

Jeckell, who flew over the the Communist Party's Cen- Fact allies, was handed over in

island this afternoon In Moscow today. tral Committee declared it

American Air Force plane, re- was "erroneous" to put class Our Reductions ported: TRO main town of labels upon various sciences

Santorini was completely razed, and to say nome were pro This is what he said:

as well as the township on the lotarian and some bourgeois. "Thank you for your message

northern tip. All the people are the YET among

several of June 6 on the subject of dis- massed on the fields." ravisiona of policy and I said in the House of Commons As you have noted, creed advocated at the on

May 17 that we welcome National People'a Congress your Government's

nono

armament.

by

10,000 A-BOMBS

the

When the gangsters asked for ransom they fold him: "We have kidnapped many rich people but no one has darbd resist us. We know you have big houses and big cars whic we poor chaps are starving. How much money can you pay us?"--Reuter.

Airmen Safe

This will be the first time ha has used a business office, rather than a hospital room or his home for official talks since he Army. mitered Walter Reed Hospital on June 8.-Router.

Ceiling Collapses

are con- to oppose the controversial

Ex-Governor's View

Lord Milverton, A former Governor in several British colonial territories, who sald ho

more death had signed

caro warrants than he would to remember, was against the biu.

His experience throughout the world had lod him to

Rebels Kill Seven

Algiers, July D. Soven French soldiers were diled and 11 wounded, today · whenInsurgents ambushed

supply column near Palestro, south of Algiers,

The convoy was returning from supplying forces engaged In a large operation in the nearby mountains-Reuter.

Rich Gold BOOTH'S

Find

:)

Limoges, July 0. Gold has been discovered in France and it may be the richest veln in Europe, minero- logists said today.

announce- The Ministry of the Interior was more surprising ment that you intend to reduce said the carthquake hit than the statement made by the size of the Soviet armed

entire south Aegean area and Vice-Premier Kuo Mo-jo, forces.

had its opicentre in Santorini. generally accepted na the "We, for our part, have al-

It endd the energy developed

tho culture chief of the Peking ready made substantial reduc-

hypocentre of the

Tokyo, July 9. Three point below the

U.S. Air Force pilots

Naples, July 9. regime, that, while it was tions in our armed forces over tremer-the

Nine people. Including four carthquake who bailed out of their Sabre- desirable intellectuals should the last three years. We had, surface where

havo beon jets over southern Japan after children," were killed today study Marxism-Leninism, of course, previously made still develops "may

reductions greater

stormy weather when the ceiling of » Naples Chamberandi the equat to about 10,000 ordinary manning into this study should no longer Second World War.

atomic bombs."Router and have been rescued, Lho Air House rave wny.-France- be compulsory.

"My own feeling is that France-Pressc.

Force announced.— United Press, Presse, · It is inviting to вес in unilateral reductions of this

those strange departures kind are helpful, do from cock-sured Communist think, however, that they are,

after;

not

dogmatiam a repudiation of international

of themselves, sufficient แ

the traditional Sovlet line of security are to

thought. Yet this would ba wish.

a dangerous conclusion to

reach. Communist China Ja

at

tho

confidence and

develop as wo

an

JEWS KILLED IN CAR AMBUSH

The gold was discovered in the Cruere Department of Cen- tral France, in the township of

The Chamborand ore tains 40 grammes to the tom, while that of the rich Johannes- burg: mines generally sons between Boven and eight grammes France-PressC.

MOTOR MEN TO STRIKE

to

Tel Aviv, July 9. 1 three miles from the Jordan, Jordanians opened heavy ma- | chins gun fro on the Irzeell Two Israells were killed armistice lines. To promote such roundence and

An Israeli spokesman said eatticment of Hamat Rachel on опе was seriously ›soven, men armed with rica the other side. of the truce not likely to become less it is essential that disarmament wounded in a serious now opored fire on the car. Tracks lines. An Israeli. spokesman

should take place under fan

London, July Bi Communist, and it has to be international agreement which Bare-up of attacks on Israell show that the attackers word said that no settlers were hit. noted that for each remark provides for effective

There have been altogether

The 40,000 eruplayter of the control roads near the Jordan and my shoes, ho sald, vi

United Nations observers will eight Incidents reported from British Motor Corporation tes Congress which and inspection and for adequate Egyptian borders, Israell begin ats investigation tomorrow the Jordan-Isracil armistice, night threatened to come out on showed doubt or uncertain measures. for protection against officiala reported tonight. 'at the scene of the attack, lines during the past five days,' strike If Die 0,000 men recently ty, there were ten others surprise attack.

A new attack on Larsell high-four of the taking place with scked by the Corporation be full of the old dogma..

The now wave of stacks was

cans of ·alump ́in the indus- considered to be the most scri-way traffic was reported tonight. In the last 48 hours

Yesterday and, today attack | tey | worn | nos, reinstated or of domestic policy the püring the pastrien. years since the sesaults by.Egypt. | An Israeli Army spokesman súla Chinese leaders appear for the moment to be a little the Western powers have made at "suicide Commandos lust A Police patrol car on the Wadi on highway traffic have resulted compenanted,

Tiberias

to Tel Aviv, win fired and one soldier being wounded. Aurin Morris less confident. They face persistent efforts to bring about March on the roads of the Negev Are highway running from in twa civilians being killed The Corporation includes

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farmel has demanded on groups. p. The driver grave problems on the home part, tho British Government Two Irwells were killed whom ar their vent was waciously urgent meeting of the Israeli. The lump in the British

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