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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1956.
63 Rebels Killed In Fierce
Algerian Battle
LEGIONNAIRES DRIVEN OUT
OF FOXHOLES BY
ACCURATE MORTAR FIRE
Algiers, July 16.
French Foreign Legionnaires, driven from their fox- holes by pinpoint mortar fire, fought hand to hand with rebels in Algeria's biggest battle this month, the French authorities revealed today.
Rumanian
Leader Very Ill
Tandon, July 10
Dr Peru Ganza. Prenez beat of the Grand National Assembly of Rumile, was in a "serious" condition txlay agrording tu the Rumanian Agerpress,
news
Dr Groza, who had been suf- fering from heart trouble for EKASTIL werks. developed haemorrhage of the lungs,
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A medical bulletin
tortuy wald: "In the past few clays clsturbances of cardine methylifes have ineresised owing to Insuf-
circulation," fetent blood agency reported-Reufer,
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and
Sixty-three rebels and an “appreciable" number of Legionnaires were killed, the authorities said.
by
The Jetvis, wearing kluiki uniforms arıd supported machinegun and mortar fire, ut- tacked at dawn yesterday.
cd
The Legionnaires entrenched themselves 70% the slops the 3,000-foot Fillnoussene Peak
the in
Comer
of
northwest Algeria, about 90 miles south- west of Orun.
Plane Crashed
Helicopters rushed reinforce- ments in the battleflcid.
A
French
Üghter Jane
| crashes during the battle, kill-
ing the pilot
The rebals (lex) with the approach of darkness, leaving 63 dead on the battlefield and murtar, a rub-machine gun otel about 50 lighter weapor
The French did not reveal their own casunity figures,
but that announced
yesterday's deralment near train
Diskra, about 100 miles south of here, killed nine of the woops guard. Ing the train and injured 14.
Rebels used mines for the irst time Er the Algerian up- rising to blast the train off the trucks.
Station Fired
In another altack on Algorian tallwaye, extremists set fire to- day to a station at badjfrat, Moroccan mine miles from the frontier.
Omeials
Joxlay
announced The 25 outlaws were killed and 1,300 suspects arrested in Lite Clean-up Inst week
thus in
Valley, wheat-growing Medica about 30 miles south of Algiers. - United Press.
and Mohammed Ali
Inster-
Inlay posing
Long Beach then win to Halversal national shule to be greeted by actor Jeff Chandler
Stun
Min.
Among the Universe contestants inet at the sladlar wrt Fred
Malone. Dorothy
O'Hara and
Hovey.
host
For Peking
Karachi, July 18. 1.kistan Premier Mohammed Me Mucov, Al will leave on an official visit
Mauty
China on October 8, the 10-year-old Tam Foreign Ministry announced t-
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The Premier at dinner was
hns already untor Jose Ferrer, who speaks | twice postponed his plann half a dozen languages Orchid visit to Poking, first in May be
crisis girls and cause of a political
In corsages for all the chaperones were
hown here Pakistan and then in June when
he fell France-Presse. from inwall-Reuter
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SLOW COACHES
London, July 16, London's most modern bus la only a few miles an hour faster from end to end of itw route, and barely faster in the city oeintre, than the old horre buses which disappeared from the capital's streets 1911.
This was slated today by Sir Jol Elliott, chair- man of the London Trans. port Board, at a lanchron hero.
"I am so exasperated at the way in which London's buses are held up due to our streets being choked with parked vehicles that I am sorely tempted to pu! a few horse busen back on as a protest," he added.
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Auld Lang Syne Wasteful Competition
Alleged Among US Armed Services
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd, links arms with Boris Alexandrov, the tender (on his right) and other members of the Soviet Army Ensemble for the singing of "Auld Lang Syne," at the Mansion House. The Ensemble, consisting of eight girls and
200 Red Army men, la appearing at the Empress Hall, Reuterphoto.
SUBWAY JAM
AFTER
FIRE
New York, July 16.
One of the worst subway jams in history hit New York City today when some 500,000 rush-hour commuters were forced to seek alternate routes to lower Manhattan.
The
normal poules were flooded and knocked out by
Production
In China Should Be Up
a
London, July 16. The London Economist this wook forecasts in leading article that gross industrial production in China this year should be
originally envisaged 1957 though the targets will not be hit in all branches.
tons of water used in flatlin ADENAUER, "slightly greater than was
one of the city's worst fires in o qufurter of a century,
The 28-hour bloze gutted the 94-year-old John Wanamaker Department Broadway,
Store
once
tto
lower palatial
structure now in the process of being torn down do make way
for an apartment building.
Knocked Out
Manhattan under the
NEHRU APPEAL
The influential London week
"Nevertheles ly writes,
the planners have decided to speed up the tempo of Industrialisa- tion. Not long ago, the Chinese were cautiously estimating that they would need about 50 years become an industrialised
to
Socialist state,
"Now they expect to produce by 1902 not less than 17 mli- lion tons of steel, as much as Brilain or Western Germany
was producing two years ngo, or the Soviet Union on the ove
Washington, July 16.
Trevor Gardner, former US Air Force re- search chief, has charged that wasteful competi- tion among the US Armed Services may let Russia win the race to develop a 1,500-mile ballistics missile.
He also said Russia may have In his testimony Gardner sald developed tanker planes that there were no plans laid for new would enable the Reds to de- planes in 1083 or 1054, A lluer atomic or hydrogen bombs project for development of n to the US "heartland" now. new modern bomber was pot
nside, ho reported Assistant He said development of im- Air Force Secretary for Research proved aircraft fuels also was and Development last February | neglected.--United Proud.
Gardner
quit
करा
because he didn't think the
administration
Was
devoting
enough money fund cffort to that fold
Made Public
His testimony before the Senate Alt power Sub commiticuY, giver last month and subjected to Defence Department censor- ship, was made publie today.
Gardner said Russia already muny have a missile with rango of 700
or 800 miles
America's ourront longest-rango
'Mahatma's Daughter Dead'
Johannesburg, July 16.
The newspaper. Opinion, which was found.
Indian
ed by Mahatma Ghandi
baillaties missile is the Red- in 1903, today announced stone, which bus a 200-mile the death in Johannesburg range.
Hospital of Miss Schlesin,
He said there is no question known AS "Mahatma's In his mind the Russians are daughter", who ahead of tho
United States in
was
developing a 1.500-mile balll-Ghandi's secretary when stles missile. This is the so- he was in South Africa. called intermediate range balil- stles missile (IRBM), red liko a shell and capable or raining atomic destruction on distant inrgota
almoet Incredible spoeda.
Miss Schlesin, who first came into contact with Ghandi when he begin practising Inwyce, later became an ardent follower, of the Hindu leader and his private secretary.
his
"If the management structure doesn't slow it down we might In
autobiography, got one about the same Hine Muhotma Ghana "davoted an they do," Garchar solc "But eutiro chapter to describing his can't do it by buck-secretary's character and per- shotting"
By this he presumably meant scattering the effort to develop the IRBM among varlova mili- tary branches, rather than con- centrating it in one. He said the Army, Navy and Air Force are carrying on about 15 20 ballistic projects which compete with one another for
source engineers and equipment.
In One Jump
Gardner said he believes the United States is ahead of Russia on the intercontinental ballistics mizdilo (IBM), sometimes called the "ultimate weapon" because presumably can strike targets $,000 miles away without worn-
sonality.
When
Ghandi "left
South
Africa, Mie Schlesh returned to the university to complete work for bør degree.
Afterwards the devoted the
major part of her lifa to educat- on in South Africa-France- ing the non-European popula
Presse.
E. German Protest To France
defence.
He attributed this to the Unsent a note decision to develop the IBM in "one jump" rather than "step
step with the methodical Ger man approach" as the Russians apparently have.
Bonn, July 16. Indian Premier Jawa- harlal Nehru and Chan London, July 16.
cellor Konrad Adenauer Conservative mem.
appealed jointly today ber, Mr Julian Ridsdale,
for an easing of cold war asked in the House
The cascading water knocked | tensions and
world Commons today what was out sections of the interboro | disarmament agreement.
done to strengthen rapid being
transit System. which In a joint corrunamique issued the economic side of the funks Grand Central terminal at the end of a four-day official Southeast Asia Treaty with the Wall Street financial visit by the Indian Premier to
of the war. By 1967, the outing and with no presently known West Germany they called for Organisation.
district,
put should be raised to 32 mil- und the Brookly respect for national Indepen- lion tons. Manhattan transit system, which aon
dence and sovereignty, territorial tinks Brooklyn with lower integrity and non-intervention
TREMENDOUS CHANGE East In the Internal affairs of other
states"
The Economist odds, "If they Nohru had "ex-ary fulled these estimates wil They said The biggest tie-up was at prossed his sympathy" for Ger- spell a tremendous change in
But Chinese economy. Grand Central Station in mid-man reunification offœts.
China,
muscics they made
with Manhattan where thou- | *** town
flexed, seems to be striving possible mediation by Nohru on sands of commuters arriving this issue between Washington stubbornly toward the goal of suburban areas fan out and Moscow. Nehru told a news industrialisation. It would be on Saturday easy to draw up list of the by the addition of an official through the subway network to
conference here who would be conecmed with their jobs.
that he would not do 30.
pitfalls on this road. economic affairs.
The communique announced "The Congress itself has pro- were West Germany's readiness to vided Д mass of information keep give technical help in aiding about difficulties and short-
India's second five-year econo- comings. The collectivisation mic plan,
drive is not over, yet und despite the recent triumphant reports, grumblings may still be heard in the countryside,
Mr A.D. Doddy- Parker. Foreign Under-Secretary, replied that the SEATO committee of economic experts charged with River. this and related questions were holding their third meeting in Bangkok early in September,
Ho added that the interstar- tional staff of the treaty Cứ
ganisation had been strengthened fron
SATISFACTION
Nearly 100 policemen sent to the station to order and lend assistance.
Mr Ridsdale said this answer would give greater satisfaction The crowd became so con- to all those people who believed gested during the height of the that it was it the economic rush hour
military collapsed
rother than In the sphere that action could best be forced to block of entrances. taken in that area.
Mr Dodds-Parker assured him that that point was very much in the Foreign Secretary's mind.
that
Mr Kenneth Younger, Labour, asked for an SATRANCE nothing would be done to harm the Colombo Plan (for aid to South and Southeast Asia).
Mr Dodds-Parker replied the Government would certainly continue to give full support to the Colombo Pian.-Reutor.
China-Made
Radios For Singapore
Singapore, July 16. Several Singapore importers have placed orders for China- made wireless sota, the frut shipment of which is expected to arrivo shortly, according to protu nuports,
The reports mid China-made razilon were also being exported | to Thailand and other South-
east Asian countries,
out that it was the Pointing first time. China was exporting raklos, the reports, added that they were likely to be much cheaper
Wcboers than other radion.
that six and
persons
police
were
Badly Undermined
mention
of
Its
IMPROVE LOT
VISITED HAMBURG
The communique was issued as Nehru visited Hamburg and was awarded an honorary doc- To- torate by the university.
"The accumulation fund is af morrow he files to Paris for a the morey of the vagaries of
one-day visit before meeting nature. Something will also
with
Yugoslav President Junio have to be done to improve the Transil authority officials Tilo and Egypt's President lot of the 18 million workers sald the two lines may be out | Gamal Abdel Nasser at Brioni and officials. It is admitted that of
service for at least two on the Yugoslav Adriatic coast. [while production in the first weeks,
The communique said Nehru three years of the plan rose by and Adenauer discussed "all 42 per cent, nominal wages One station, almost under the political questions of common increased by less than 15 per site of the fire, was badly un-interest,"
cent
and real wages by only dermined and the steel supports It continued "both govern-seven per cent. were reported in danger of ment chiefs strengthened their "If in spite of all this, back- collapsing
bellef in democracy based on ward China succeeds within a the foundation of personal decadio in setting up a steel Police reported 10 casualties freedom and legality of
gover
Industry execeding the present thus far as a result of the sub-ment and declared with satis- British and German levels of way jam. One woman suffered a faction that their talks showed output, Pelding will have drawn heart attack and 16 other per- similarity in their basic nims a long way ahead in one lap of none collapsed from the heat whichs are directed towards Ita race with India, on the crowded platform minintenance and promotion of watched by millions ip Acia.”....
place."---United Pres.
United Press,
Warning Device
Prevent Mid-Air
Washington, July 18. op warning, keyloo to TXPERTS are trying to dove-
provent air collalóne such as the reqöpt | Grand Canyons disaster, a pressciential adviser reports. · But so far "nogo of thom have reached the point where they would be of real practión] use)" he said.
1
Mr EdwardFook Curtis, tha Prouident's special oskartoni in change of slanning for, tho coming Jét, age, made the statoniant
The reports quoted in dealer caying that a divo-valve · AC Toshinët radio net would · cost only 8400-about one-third)/nt the cont of a Western-MARE>< factumcell ‹ rudiò at the 'aamat:1ypoj with
Haroldi
France-Presse.
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raco
Sought To
Disasters
At the same time, the Commerce Secretary, Mr Sinclair. Weeks, discounted a damană by the Airline Pilots' Amociation that the Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration, which now only inforces adregulations be given independent status and mado responsible for air safety.
more likely to blame the pilots than its regulations, Asked about the proposal and the charge; Mr Weeks said: "I don't think that la so ond don't think the record will
that prove
it is po...my Lure isn't judgment is any conflict Mr Ostertata maked Mr Curtis
whether
any sir safety device, such as a collision qlarm, had been
colitveloped to avoid `nir
The pilots group- sodā: the Civil Aeronautics Boned, which now ‚¦han this absignaient, acted as
Curtis replied bóta judge and" fuicy" fi” thất
that a "fremendous amount of work was going into the it celablished safety" zaglila-problem, buta na practical
we fod bem, found yet, --United. ProOOK,
of
the the
Berlin, July 16.
the East Dr Lothar Bolz,
has Gorman Foreign Minister,
to M. Christian Pineau, the French Foreign Minister, protesting about the introduction of conscription in West Germany, a reliable East Berlin source sold today.
The note was delivered to French headquarters in West Berlin for transmission to Paris because the governments have no diplomatic relations,
The
Gardner, who since his re- sigmation has repeatedly assalled the Defence Department for lask of speed on missiles and long range-bombers, also cast doubt
claims on some military Russians
carmat
source added that Dr bomb American continent now for Jack Bolz, who flew to Moscow today
sufficiently
with an East German Govern long-range bombers.
ment delegallon, had drawn the L that
turboprop attention of the French Govern bomber which they showed us a ment to the alleged increase of year ago tast May in quantity is war danger resulting from con- in fact a tanker, that tanker, scription in West Germany and combined with their jet swept the rising strength of “German wing large bomber, offers us o militarigis.” different kind of threat then we The French authorities here now believe possible against our declined to comment on the
| report,............Router. heartland," he said,
Sandor
Sander
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