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A Way Out

THE Suez Canal situation

Tuts to have taken a

distinctly more favourable. turn with the Big Three agreement to call an inter-1 national conference. The

object IN primarily to restore international control kort when Colonel Nasser,

CHINA*

No. 36508

CANAL:

International Conference

the Egyptian President, FORCEFUL ACTION”

nationalised the Canal com- pany, a week ago. But the incidental merit of the Intenti Big Three proposal is that? it offers Colonel Nasser two; Delets- peaceful and n face-saving sution to the cul-de-se into which he hi

blindly driven his country.

TO BE SUSPENDED

London, Aug. 1.

The Big Three agreed tonight to

The esteemed Colonel is surely summon an international conference on whistling to keep his courage the future of the Suez Canal---with Russia up when he promises to

fight to the last drop of attending.

blood and points to the The United States accepted this Anglo- French proposal in return for assurances there would be no "forceful action" at present.

breadth of the Arab empirej as the perimeter of reaist anes to British imperial ipz." But it is to hoped That Britain and France do not have to resort, to arms to enforer inter-

national control: in short that Colonel Nasser ap pronchies the Western over- tures more sensibly and less

emotionally.

ONE is tempted to assert

The compromise agreement was hammered out in a full day of meetings between Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Prime Minister Sir An- thony Eden and the British and French Foreign

Ministers.

But Britain reserved the right to use force “in that there should be jittle the last resort” if Egypt attempts to restrict traffic dispute with the principle through the canal, authoritative sources said. thal the canal be kept as 8671 International waterway Americus SAUCES sand the under wider control but, f Big Thriv Forg Mari fact, it is the very basis of reached swift agreement on the the dispute. An attempt st step to “urbernationalises should therefore be made to the vital waterway after Dulles Egypt not arrived with an urgent message Impress aprati

and from President Eisenhower simply

British ther

Observers believed €11 Frenel views, but those of

Britain an message persuaded a far wider circle of nations France

against readying sw.E which depend upon a free military moves against Egypt

British and

and French canal as their trade lifeline

previously had

Feft 330 with Western Europe. This could best be done at an doubt that forceful action was intended and that Britain was International ennference-****

ready to

to go it alone if necessary. and, in this respect, even

The Big Three sessions went If Egypt refused to attend, Tonight with Dulles,

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It would probably still be French Foreign Minister Chris- useful to present the viewrtian Pineau and Hellish Foreign of the world for Colonel Secretary Selwyn Lloyd con- Nasser's consideration. Per-centrating on the details of the haps, in time, A broader joint agreement, impression of

spread objection

the wide- Two Revisions

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scheme would register in: Dulles substantially accepted his mind. Friendly powers; the Anglo-French action could also point out profitable line of bargain- Ing and honourable retreat in which the chances of Salvaging sume tangible concession from the West appear good.

is to get an in- 1. Russla vitation, even though stu

Imoert Never unk the Suez Canal. London and Paris wanted the international con- ference limited

major LLECTA

2. Britain agreed to give the forthcoming International conference a full chance to tackle the canal's future be-

fore ordering any military

action.

For example, Mr Dulles is ru

ported to be in favour of re-examination of US aid if DA the for

Aswan President Naser is willing to necept an international

Egypt also would be invited, hourd to assure free tran- sit in the vand. Meanwhile though President Gamat Axtel Nasser Indicutest ighting there are reports that the

speech at Alexatura, Egypt, net annual income from that he was in no mood to sub- the canal would be only mit to internationalisation, About £11 million--not The source gave no indeation £100 million as first claimed whether the United States Itself

attend the by Colonel Nasser. If the intended Aswan Dam is therefore a seriously contemplated pro

wise to ject he would be think about a new financial offer from America.

JUST how the canal can be

ference.

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the is a major user of canal todoy but not one of the tu the original signatories treaty protecting the canal.

May Keep Apart Internationalised and whe-

speculation the ther this would entail United States would keep apart denationalisation only a from the conference because own obvious interests conference | Ks representative could decide. But this is n the Panama Canal, nettle that hns Lu be The conference invitation grasped-since the problem probably would include all the would have occurred any signatories of the 1886 Constan- way in 1088 when the lease tinople was due to expire under the guarantees free passage through canal, Informed Sources terms of the Constantinople the Convention, The conference should find that the Sucz

said.

agreement

which

The signatories of that agree- in too valuable a waterwayment were Britain, the Nether- to be controlled by just arts, Spain,

one nation.

France Italy

Russk, Turkey which signed

for Egypt and the Austro-

But if Egypt should refuse to Hungarian Empiro,

nee reason and standa flrm

It was not known immediatk-

Egypt Expels Two British

Pressmen

Cairo. Aug. 1.

The Egypilan Ministry of the Interior tonight ordered the expulsion of two cor- respondents of British news papers.

They are Mr Sefton Deimer, chief foreign affairs reporter of the Daily Ex- and Mr Nureddin Abdel Hady, resident Cairo correspondent of the News Chronicle, Mr Hady writes

the under

byline "Ray Hardy."

Mr Hady is undersioud lo lave been put on a plant for Germany where ปล German-born wife and iwo daughters ure.

Four Egyptian policemen

Delmer called on Mr

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his hotel this afternoon to "check his visa."

Then they drove him j

a polier van to the airport to be put on a plane for London,

A spokesman of the Egyptian Information de- partment alleged that the έγετα correspondenia had oabled military information which was regarded hero breach of Egyptian 13 A

security.

The correspondents were Also alleged to have asked such Egyptians to obtain Information for them,

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Early Morning Blaze Destroys Over 80 Squatter Huts

This picture taken by a staff photographer shows this morning's fire raging in the Tai Hang squatter

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HOMELESS TAI HANG

Over 80 squatter huts were destroyed when an carly morning fire today raged through a section of the Tai Hang squatter village, rendering an estimated 450 homeless.

The fire started at: 6.15 am., was brought under control within half-an-hour and completely extinguished by 7.50 a.m.

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Fire lighters,

well ALS

£15 As the fumes spread across

Scouts,

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village,

were squatlers unite and the Auxiliary Flezovnurated from their huts and SLI VICE,

quick- | divided into groups at the hot- Several carly thej tem of the road. Phe workers from the village who left their homes Brigade Omeer, Mr W. J. Gor-] had alrendy man.

Police units were super-before the outbreak of the Are. vised by Aistant Commi-tonn | rushest back In an effort R. V. F. Turner.

salvage some of their belong- Apart from minor scratches ings. They were not allowed and bruises suffered by The to go back to their homes, aquatters in their escape-biel. casinitles were reported.

Starting about 250 feet uphill on the eastern corner of the swept their village, the fines

way to the west, devouring the maich-box huts in quick surces- sion,

Fire men, manning five fre appliances, drenched neigh- bounty huis in an effort to "break" the path of the darties.

smoke

Hundreds of residents in the Tai Hăng and neighbouring arts eimbed onto their reals to view the flames which sometimes shot to height of 20 feet. The

tower of thick, back could be seen for miles round.

Tufe at est was disrupted as fire hoses threaded the road and hillside. Cars were later allowed to proceed,

WE WILL DEFEND CANAL

WITH OUR BLOOD

-NASSER Alexandria, Aug. 1. President. Gamal Abdel Nasser, addressing Egyptian university youths here tonight said, "Egypt will defend the Suez Canal with her blood."

President Nusser said "im on its decision it should by whether both present day perialism and imperialists had also be warned of the con- |Austria and Hungary, now Com- been unmasked, sequences. The Suez Canal munist, would be invited.

"We do not allow piracy ond ean be turned into a back-

would be The conference

usurpers to dominate us or even Western callot passibly within 10 days of approach us. We know how to water is for as shipping ia concerned. a month from today,

repel pirates," Informed BOUNCES said the American companies have discussed boycotting it and Three Powers have not specifi- there are influential voices cally decided what to do if Egypt Also in Britain being raised to should decline to attend.

undecided was the decision on

make greater use of air which country should call the ways, adapt tanker designs conference,United Press. for travel via the Cape and

stretch new oll pipelines

across the desert from Iraq to Turkey. There is oveň talk about bullding an

Train Disaster

Rio de Janeiro, Aug.:1: Over ten passengers

The President sald Arab na- tionalism had strongly cn- trenched itself. stronger, from the Persian Gulf bo the Auantic Ocean.'

right and

and

righteousness the other supporting usurpa-

to

The fire is belleved to have

been started by an ever-turn

slove

side to safely.

Boy Has Toy

Admits Triple Murder

Chicago, Aug. 1. Lawrence Neumann, "grudge" killer captured carly in a West side man- hunt, today admitted the iriple sinying

three persons in North sido Jaza spot on Jane

Neumann, 28, made his confession in the Central he Detective Bureau where Was taken after being found crouching, under....s rear porch stairway during "shoot to kill" manhunt. Neumaini was nought for murders of Мах

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Epstein, 54, Lois Gatca, 28, and John Keller, 49. For almost eight weeks he eluded capture, but wan taken into custody fow hours after lo was first spotted.—United Press.

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REVOLT IS QUELLED

Tegucigalpa, Honduras,

Aug. 1.

Thumbs Down By Shareholders

SIR BERNARD LOSES

HIS FIGHT

London, Aug. 1.

Sir Bernard Docker, 59-year-old industrialist, today lost his fight to have shareholders of the giant Birmingham Small Arms Company reinstate him as their chairman..

An overflow meeting at a luxury hotel voted down resolutions which would have restored him to control of the £25 million sterling combine, and endorsed the directors' action in dismissing him from the post.

The meeting climaxed one of Bernerd Decker as a director The mo:1 spectacular struggles went down 240 votes to 60. for compuny controi which Britain has seen.

the two months since reelors voted him out on the grounds that he was too auto- cratic and too fond of personal Bernard Docker Jablietty, Sir has spent about £6,000 sterling in television appearances to up- peal for shareholders support at today's special meeting,

In this he has had the sup- port of his wife, Lady Norah living bocker. whose luxury

the frown: Is won

of BSA directors

Sir Bernard Docker, at whos? request the meeting was helä, made alone speech in which ho defended his policies and described

ns "quite fantastic" "sheer

the and charges that he hnd been extravagant and autocratic,

He admitted that he and his wife had obtained much publi- city, but said they valued it as publlelty for Daimler cars, cho of the many products of the BSA combine.

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There were several references breakfast when they heard!

WIFE'S APPEAL

his and other speeches to shouls of "Fire". Gathering

She was Army forces loyal to the

with him today but specially-built Daimlers, includ- what belongings they could.

gold-plated model, they scrambled down the hill- Chief of State, Julio Lozano,harhelders in the ballroom of ing

the Grosvenor Hotel did not which Sir Bernard Docker sid today crushed a revolution respond in sufflelent numbers ky had brought the company in- ary movement organised by her appeal to them to back her valuable publicity. They cost

husband. the political Opposition.

£50,000 sterling. "I have always wanted to help

Mr Sangster, who disclosed my hus- Fighting in the centre of this all of you, especially

that Sir Bernd Docker's re- capital lasted nearly nine hours bond," she said before voting on muneration in 1954-50 totalled *There was Eri

that undetermined the resolutions began.

sterling, sald number of dead and wounded. "It is nice for a husband and

Opposition clements, both wife to love each other so much during the year ending in May, 1956, "not one Daimler motor civilian and military, Fald to that they can work together,'

to the United was sold Several resoluilons

were put cer support the exiled Liberal Party

States," Leader Ramon Villeda Morales, to the meeting and all had the

Sir Bernard Docker in a brief stormed the Important barracks same resulta turndown for Slr and endorse-

Fiatement after the moeling saich of the San Francisco Regiment, Bernard Docker

ment for his successor, Mr John he would accept the decision of shareholders "without 5. Sangster

One motion to reappoint Sir question." Ching Mall Special.

Revolver Confiscated

Singapore, Aug. 1. A nine-year-old British schoolboy,

Elloti, Christopher burst into tears on his arrival In Singapore today when cus- toms officers impounded his 10y revolver.

acrest

the

the rebels enter the

the from strtet United States Embassy.

Unverified reports said some units of the San Francisco Re- giment sided with and helped them barracks shortly after midnight,

Othca

rebel groups spread throughout the city in an effort to gain control,

Loyal forces surrounded the barracks and exchanged heavy Christopher flew in from Lon-fire with the rebels untli about don to spend a holiday with his nine this morning,

when the rebels surrendered, - United parents In Malaya.

Press. 1

Customs officers said the re volver was too realistic and "11) it were mislaid and fell into the wrong hands it could be just as effective as a genuine

revolver."

Lay

He pleaded tearfully with customs officers; for his revolver.

"Nobody fold bring my revolver · ih, Chris- topher told his father, Major B. W. T. Ellott, who met him "We

will preserve our free-at the airport-Reuter. dom and Independence, and protect the Canal and freedom

tion.

of navigation,"-Reuter.

and grew Air Patrols Over

"Today the Arabs represent a strong group, which will march forward," he declared,

Canal Zone

me I couldn't Butler's Promise

To Commons

Body Preserved In Glacier

London, Aug. 1.

Mr R. A. Butler, leader of the House of Commons, assured the House today that Parliament would be recalled from its holiday recess should the inter- national situation require It.. Blon, Switzerland, Aug. 1. He told the House that he The body

Gorman would take It upon himself to of a

Parliament it; youth who vanished in the recall Port Sald, Aug, 1. Swiss Alps on August 27, 1888, 1. The International situs- President Nanser guld the Suez

It. British-made Egyptian Vam had both found perfectly pre- tion requires Canal had returned to its right-piro jet fighters carried out served at the foot of Waleshorn 2. If Icadery

the opposition asic for it. dawn-Ull-dunk, patrols over the Glacier, it was learned today. Canal Zone today while two

Through hotel bill fund in 3. If an important number of Egyptian frigates were reported it purse, the body was identified members of Parliament call for nt Part Said,, gateway to the nethub of Georga. Winkler, of it.

Munich, who was aged 10 when 4. If Cthes, "19: reservists Shipping moved through the the disappeared while on an were called up. The House is Lalpino, holiday. -- China - Mall due to go into holiday" rótoss

Special

were ful oWDCTS,

this and 30 injured

We shall defend the Canal alternate canal, Colonel killed Nasser needs to be assured morning when a goods train to the last drop of our blood,"

crashed into the rear of......n he told the students; that the West will not

passenger train at Barra do Then he added: "March for Suez Canal. capitulato to his arrogant piral Junction on Brazil's ceti- ward and don't look back. dictatorship -- no matter tral railway 60 milice northwest. The world is divided into two | Canal: without what the cost,

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