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RELAX IN

DAKS

THEN KAMRANE CONFULLY IN ACTION TRAUBURN

Whiteaways

HK SOCCER TEAMS BAN UNION BID

Reds At Variance SINGAPORE PAPER REPORTS

THE

HE current manoeuvres of | the Communist parties of Western Europe provide a fascinating study. They follow on the ngosining reappraisal" necessitated by the Khrushchev attack on the memory and reputation. of Stalin. That has left drop Scars. But the Russian leaders and their Western colleagues seem i have reached agreement on

MALAYA ACTION

IT MAY BE TRUE'

The Football Association of Malaya has barred Hongkong teams from touring the Federation,

Senate Cuts

New Arms Aid

a formals which they hope according to reports in "The Straits Times" today. To Yugoslavia

will serve its purpose, It is contained la a resolution of the British Party which declared that "an the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union continues the work of Marxial analysis of all

An official of the Hongkong Football Associa- tion said this morning he had heard nothing offi- cially of a ban but there may be some truth in the report.

01

NO

in

Bria

He said: "The South Chira | secret ban on Hongkong teams the Important questions, and Eastern teams recently ap has been in force for a year, involved

Kol woon in

Motor reassessing plied to the Football Associations The questions involved in the of Hongkong arul Malaya forteum, he said, had only been

play past period

Malayan further permission to visit Mafunyn, but allowed to

because have recelynu no provincial centres be thrown light will

fur we some issues which are still truly

The Footbull As "slipped in the back door." from The not fully clarified."

Suplation of Malaya, so there

The KMB had been upon- comrades must

vored by councillor of the content themselves with that.

Malayan Association,

Editior Fold, Sporty

and other councillors allowed it to enter the sponsor would not lose face.

This explained, he said, why neither the Easter

South

may EVITORIALE,

bu

in the some Luth We thunkt

very Virverested to get confirmation of other this bun in writing so

that it The re- ribe put before the cominiitre Intions between Russian for their comments, Communist Party and their¦ ̧

There

however, are.

issure troubling

30

The Sport Elitor of the

Western counterparts. Mos Singapore puper claims that the

cow, it is clear, has decreed

that the

current strategy must be the intermittently tamillar one of the "United Front," There is, once more, to be an attempt to persunde the Socialist Parties to co-

with the Operate

Com- munists, under the slogan of "working-class unity." THAT in itself presents no

MACMILLAN

SPRINGS

A SURPRISE

dimeulties. The West

London, July 24. European Communist par-

Ex- The Chancellor of the ties have always been wil- chequer, Mr Harold Macmillan, |

ing

with today held wsurprise conference Co-operate Social Democrata—or even at the

Britain's Treasury on with "bourgeois" parties financial situation with some 30

leading bankers and financiers,

The Chancellor was believed to have appealed to the bankers to cul

down still further bank credit,

It was the first time on record that such meeting had been held at the Treasury.

In addition to the heads of Britain's bunks, representatives

Athletic sile

the nor China sice had played Federation.

Commenting

in the

on the report, Hongkong officials safe that li was probably put of a COITUS-

ball

pondence or the result of રા correspondenog with the Foot- Association of Moluya about the Inauguration of inter-port fixture.

an

The Malayao Association had written Joel your lo asi for terms for a visit by a Malayan FA team to play in the Colony. Hongkong had offered the usual terms given to visiting inter- por: trams, which

were "treo accommodation and entertain-- nent in the Colony.

SUCCESTION REFUSED

when that sulted the pur- pose of the Soviet govern- ment; equally willing, at a word from Moscow, to at- tack them as the worst of counter-revolutionaries. One after another the leaders of the chief Western Com- munist parties have been called to Moscow for "cun- of foreign banks, with branches Hongkong team

sultations" on the new line which they were to take. But

one

it is evident from the sequel that they all made point. if there was to be the slightest chance

of

success for their attempte

4

The Malayan Association re- plied suggesting a Malayan team should visit Hongkong on the terms suggested, but asked that

Washington, July 24.

The Senate today decided that none of the new foreign aid fund just voted could be spent

on military nid to Yugoslavia though planes and other arms now in the "pipe- lines" could go through.

The Senate which today

$4.110.820.000 voted

in foreign

funds, had ald

two At- carlier rejected tempta by Benator William Knowland, the Republican jeader of California to end all military aid to Yugo

layla He

3

then introduced

which how amendment would permit shipments of Bome $100 million worth: of planes and other arins now in the "pipelines"

10

but Yugoslavia would deny the use of any of the new money in the present' bill for providing

o

arm.

A REBUFF

STASSEN MAN

OPTS FOR

NIXON

by Mr Herber.

Ban H-Bomb TO SPREAD

Plea By Adenauer

New York, July 24 The West German Chan-

cellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer,

said in an interview publish- ed here today that all the

should strive powers

abolish

to

nuclear weapons,

under controls.

After that, the reduction

ed

in

CAR

STRIKE

Birmingham, July 24.

Union leaders today ordered dockers, mechanics, lorry drivers, and bargees to support

a strike of more than 20,000 car workers which threatens to close down the giant British Motor Corporation.

The unions

and northern

given

Essex,

were

elec-

Washington, July 24. It was announced today that the Governor of Mas

took this step who went to work this morning sachusetts, Mr Christian Herter, would nominate Mr conventional weapons consider- during a day of mounting ten- had since joined in the stoppage.

In which striko

The Ford Company, subsidiary sion

piclcets necessary would follow ca- Richard Nixon as President | tirely of liseif, he added in the fought to prevent non-strikers of the American firm, was also

ከቡ entering the factories and to involved in the dispute, Eisenhower's running mate, interview with Newsweek

About 4,000 Ford employees good leaving. Polleo in- stop gazine.

Dagenham, Yesterday Mr Harold Stassen, In the interview he was ask- Krvened several times.

notices dismissal the

adviser cn Presidential

on the ed his views

As the strike spread export suggested

the live from Thursday because one disarmament,

he reduction in Nalo forces, announced

enrs begun to pile up at

of the BMC factories affected would campaign to have Me He replied: "You must add docks throughout England.

by the strike supplies it with at Nixon dropped na Vice Pre-to this question the concurrent Most dockers Liverpool,

the under-bodies of its Consul, Bristol Ridential candidate and replaced proposal to Increase strength In London, Southampton,

smaller Zephyr and Zodiac models. This fills me inuclear

severl of the weapons, пис with much солсега.

.if the

refused ports

HOUR'S STOPPAGE Morris The Republican

and Austin National | main weight in future is placed | handle

Hall, My Lecard Chakman,

the nuclear un

cars and spare parts from will be announced that Mr Herterinendous danger

Corporation's 'factories. would nominate Mr Nixon at volved - that their use

♫1 the

In Republican convention

STANDSTILL PREDICTED immediately provoke August,

Workers in hundreds of car firms were also ordered by the 250,000-member

Amalgamated Engineering Union to stop werk on all accessories (or the Cor- poration.

Unicn Mr Bob Openshaw, President, said he was confident that all Corporation production lines would be at a standstill by the week's end.

He said Mr Herter telephoned him this morning that he would conalder it a "privilege" to put the Vice-President's name in the

nomination. to

The amendment was ap- proved by 50 to 42 on a roll-call vote.

President Kisenhower had rent a personal message to

the Senate today urgibE

of the rejection

Senator Knowland's earlier amend- nent,--Reuter,

Russian Aid

For Aswan

Visit Malaya Dam Unlikely

for inter-port fixtures DA the

In Britain, including Americansame terms. Presse. bunks, wero present.-France-

Tattooed

to form united fronts, they! Man

musl

appear to

be.

"national" parties, deciding

neir own polleies.

Thus the British, French and Italian parties have begun

to lay stress

on

their

Man Wants Protection

A accret society

national character-probably today

Bingapore, July 24.

member asked Singapore detec-

man, claiming ho was "respectable," spontaneous. now

ho

at the behest, certainly with tives for a note to protect him the consent of Khrushchev. from arrest. The unanimity is too com- The plete to be

rald Such disciplined operations could not get rid of the symbols have been familiar since the tattooed on him when he was a birth of the Communist member of the Illegal mobs, International and

days, he sudd, be of its had visited

but tultoo shops member Communist parties. found gangsters queung up Though the Comintern hna walling to Bet their murks disappeared, the discipline erased.

remains.

For direc

They were frighten:d of s time, however, there is "Operatie Dagger" the Siga- trouble. These declara-pore police drugnet whose aim tions of Independence may in to stamp out the gangs. have boen arranged.

Police then raided Inloo but shop; and arrested ten society they have been suspiciously suspects.--Reuter. enthusiastic. There ure

signs

that the Western

Communists themselves are

Ghost Village

taking them seriously even To Be Restored

though nobody else may.

One effect is that Moscow haa

Singapore, July 24,

This suggestion Was refused

fixtures

London, July 24.

war."

weapons, a

tro-

-

will

world

Dr Adenauer said his Govem- ment was preparing a note on Garman reunification to be sent to the Big Four powers,

"Whether this will result in now discussions remains to be

he Been,"

"But added. believe the question of reuni fication is so closely connected to that of disarmament that one cannot expect it to be resolveri to 13- armament"-Reuter,

Mr Hadi added that Mr Herter

Nixon and Ma

the discussed malter today and Mr Nixon authorised him to say he was "very pleased" at the develop-rst, but concomitant ment.

'Yes, I Knew'

Mr Stassen, who touched off a furore in the Republican Party by his move to "dump Nix" in Exyour of Mr Herter, said he innow Mr Hail asked Mr Herter a week ago to nominate the Vice-President.

Children Left In The Cold

Lusaka, July 24.

The strike is strengthening in spite of reports of men drift- "120 ing In to work," he said. will be so complete within a few days that it won't be any use anybody trying to work in any case,"

As the strike enveloped ports

***

Watkinson, Trans port Minister, was also called to the meeting.

WORK THEN STRIKE

Ford workers protested against the sacking's by stopping work for an hour toury.

the Tomorrw, lenders of

the BMC unions involved in strike méct in Birmingham to the decido how to mako dec

For though the stoppage solid, strike is hamstringing exports and Allied trades it is seen in a defeat for some quarters 08 the unions who have failed to out the Corporation's bring entire stuff-Router.

NO INCREASE IN TAXATION

The

Paris, July 24. Finance Minister, M. Paul Ramadier, gave in to his crilles to save the Government today and agreed to finance the Algerian campaign with

loan instead of higher patriotic income taxes.

Following a Goverment de- mand for a confidence vole on part of #s programme, M, Ilamadier agreed to drop his plans for a second ten per cent

A territory-wide strike of and allied trades, Sir Anthony African

bus drivers left Edin's Cabinet received a hundreds of children stranded port on the situation from Mr on the way to school today on Ian Macloed, Labour Minister. Mr Stassen said, he hoped Mr Nixon would be equally willing one of the cokiest days of the Mr Harold to nominate Mr Herber

If a winter.

But within an hour Europeans political "reappraisal of the

had turned out to man the pituntion showed that the Mas-

The drivers struck over Luses. be sachusetts Governor would

The Corporation claimed today what they felt was the wrongful | a "stronger" candidate, a3

dismissal of a member of their that more than 23,000 at is Stassen claims he would be.

union-United Press.

43,000 workers-1,000 more than increase in income "I understand they have

yesterday-reported for work at year.

French

commentators and their factories,

of all shades had Lender of 15 unions. who rowspapers

the strike in called

protest predicted a likely deftat for Cabinet dismissal of 6,000 Premier Guy Mollet's against the redundant workers disputed the if the Socialst veteran continued

Onc

strike official to insist on higher income tax: figurs,

-United Press. that hundreds of men

Mr

Rasda Intends to stay out of talked to each other along that Eden Meets Red MPs

Egypt's Aswah Dam projbot if West does likewise, Soviet diplomats said today,

line," Mr Slassen told poctors,

with

re

in Hongkong because fixture sta were congested, but their letter added that when etreum-the stances permitted, they hoped to reopen the correspondence and But Moscow belleves the Mr Nixon said he had friked Mr Herter by telephone would welcome the possibility Anglo-American decision not to of Inter-vor

he knew nothing of any withinance construction was design- but Malaya.

ed to extract political conditions "mutua!" agreement as referred from the

to by Mr Stassen. Cairo Government lo ensure a Western hold on it.

"These

considerations are be- steck lleved be behind the cryptile the Soviet Furcian romarks

Dmitri Shepilov, to Minister, Mr

A further problem for the Hongkong FA team Ly that "away" fixtures already absort Ave

in the scRESIND week-ends und involve travelling

Singapore and Maltys, and the that Rusia did not consider the

abcence Asw! amateur

necessary leave of trom werk of the players.

The Sports Editor of the to Strifts Tinca according to Reuice said the reason for the

+4

Dem an "acute problgin,

Alplomats made The Soviet

it clear the Russia did not plan nish into the project and would prefer to keep out of it altogether "if possible.

to.

They Deel It is too gigantle, too coelly, and would have

spread over too long a

conflict went back to 1954 when Malayu planned n tour o! Hongkong and Hongkong be refused & guarantee, but offered a percentage of the gate. The tour did not come ofl.

"I don't think the FAM will find many to agree with it," thre Sports Editor commented,

"HASTY ACTION”

"Now the question arises of what would happen if the Hong- kung Football Association de- cided to ben all Federation players from visiling Hongkong. The Malayan Chinese would ako

taken alarm, with the result The shuttered ghost village of suffer. Pravda has issued a sharp Trus in central Molaos, clearud "The Malayan Chinese Foot- warning to the comrades in five years ago when authorities ball Association makes regular Hongkong for the unmistakable terms. The said it helped the murderers of visits to

the High Commissioner, Sir annual cup fixture and other paper declares: "One must Henry Gurney, will soon live matches ant a

bun would remember that among again

acrics. So the Jeopardise the people who are insufficiently The State War Executive to-FAM by what I consider hasty mature politically and "ex- day told 200 former villagers of and ill-advised action eessively credulous, there plans to let them go back when deeper into the mire. may be some who would fall the village is again it for habita- It FLOW hus # similar for the spurious talk about tion.

the

national Communism, and More than 800 villagers living In for tho

that contention

neighbouring town of International links between Sempalit have asked to go back

to their old homes--Reuter.

- Communist parties have

become superfluous. Only

goc's

difference with the Indonesians

with the result no Indonesian

perlod.

Russia's Elstance projects SU far have been on a com- puratively Arail scale. United Press,

Flood Death Toll

of

Taheran. July 24. About 250 deaths and over $14,000,000 damages have resulted from the floods which the Iranian central vaged plateau for four days it was reported today-France-Presse.

of

He said the conversation wre "conducted for the purpose having (Mr. Herter) nominate mo. I sald I'd be delighted and honoured if he would willing to do .so."-United

Press.

HERTER'S LIFE

THREATENED

Boston, July. 24.

The office of Mr Chris- tian Herter said today a telephone threat had been mado against his life.

متعلم

An extra state police guurd was assigned to the executive suite,

The

threat came lexa than 24 hours after The Mr Presidential Harold Stansen moved to oust Vice President Richard Nixon as sident Eisenhower's ning male in favour of Mr Herter. ——United Press.

Pre- runt

be

FORTNIGHT'S FLOOD-LIFT

SAVED 2,000 SHEEP

teams are: to - be Mlowed to visit And Their Fleece Worth £10,000

the Federation,"

The Sports Editor said if the Press and publie knew what had been going on they would have

hopeless blunderers who Frenchman Shot been able to prevent it.

cannot soo the wood for the

trees can possibly forget

their international

letarian solidarity."

pro-

Algiers, Juty. 24.

Rebel gunmen shot and killed

a French soldier in the centre

of Algiers today in the third

The position la thus ercated brazen attack in two days in the

that the Westorn Com-dify.

munist parties are atressing! The soldier was a member of the national character of on Army unit panding down a

*Sydney, July 24. A one-man rescue operation has saved 2,000 sheep coated with £A10,000 worth of wool from a watery grave.

Carnegie Hall To Be Sold

New York, July 24.

of the United States' most famous murical landmarks, le being sold to a corporation headed by Mc Louls Glickman, it was announced todo

their Communiem. The boulevard when gunmen opened Cornegie Hall, one Soviet Communist Party, up from behind a wall with through its official organ, automatic pistola They cluded dénounces such talk as pursult in a black car.

Yesterday rebels used sub- "spurious." It may mark the beginning of a far more machineguns cry alice

sts Army truck at the gates of difficult Inter-party situation the elly. They killed two than that caused by the Frenchmen and wounded three, attack on Stalin.

-United Press.

The hall built in 1891, máy ba furnal Into, a hotel on ollos building.

The sheep had been marooned since March on, the small pro- perty of ex-stryicoman grazier, P. R. Auld, at the juncture of the flood-swollen. · Bogan and Barwen rivers,

It will continue to house the Using - two small fibreglass Philharmonic Symphony boats, Mr Auld moved the Society of New York for at animals over the flood waters to Joust three years under the dry land. The entire job, just terms of purchase.

completed, took two, weeks,

currents proventext his Under the terms Mr Glickman using a mi to speed the toak. agreed that the Society could Mr Auk. an Army veteran, purchase, the property from bought his farm-under a Govern- his görporation of any time | mcot¦ remettioment schema Jost | within the 'next four monina, yonga: This is to bonħla fiest

*-United Profes

wool clip.

p.--Unked Pros

London, July 24. Sir Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister, this afternoon received members of the Soviet Parla mentary delegation-Reuter.

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