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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
The Suez Canal
Dispute
E part which Russin in-
CHINA
No. 36508
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RELAX IN
DAKS
EN ACTION TIROUSERS
Whiteaways
South American City Devastated: $20 Million Damage
HUGE EXPLOSION KILLS 800
Ttends eventually to play SEVEN DYNAMITE TRUCKS 247 Million
j
the Suez Canal dramo
becomen A subject of in- ereuslug Importance to the principal protagonists, Little doubt need be enter tained thut the Soviets mean to have a big way in the future of the canal. The ICLANIAZE Ambassador has now held four meetings with Col Nasser in five days. and they certainly weren't for the purpose of slin- cussing each other's health. It can be accepted that the Hae taken so far by the Soviet press rellerts the official viewpoint and from This 10 is plain that Russia, whether or not she attends a the London conference, will to doe Course officially endorse Nasser's nationati- sation net; will also oppose any move to denationaline the Suez Canal Company. and will probably not prepared to support auy- thing more than a general agreement that will improse on Egypt the duty of keep- ing the canal open at 1! times In international shipping.
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If Russia should adopt this
position it will certainly not be agreeable to Britain and Fraser, who have
the
emphatically declared that in their opinion a waterway of the importance to world which the Suez Canal possesses, cannot become a national
Posses aj o a. operated purely in national
interests and with its avail; ability to international shipping dependent on the whims of a single govern
ment.
THIS will be the muin
right A
BLOW UP AT NIGHT
SABOTAGE SUSPECTED
Cali, Aug. 7.
Between 800 and 1,000 people were killed early this morning when seven ammunition trucks carrying 1,025 cases of dynamite blew up in a densely populated part of Cali, third largest city of Colombia.
More than 2,000 people were injured and first estimates of the damage were $20 million. United Press said that eight city blocks were destroyed.
Sabotage is suspected and President Rojas Pinilla vowed the Government would not rest “until the material and intellectual culprits of this treacherous and criminal conspiracy are severely and justly punished”.
'No Big Stick' Says Wilson
U.S. BACKS TALKS
TO SETTLE CANAL DISPUTE
Washington, Aug. 7.
The Secretary of Defence, Mr Charles Wilson, said today the United States intended to exhaust all possible means of discussion in the Suez Canal dispute "rather than waving the big stick and threatening."
"My Dultra is making a great Hory to hazkile this (the Suez Canal crisis) and { won't come micht on 0313 part of it." Mr
ment roiler thun waving the big slick and threatening," Mr Wilson said.
Mr Wilson was asked whether the Suez crisis would affect the
States military Unist
gromne
He replk. "We can't flip up and down because of a relatively
tall thing
Gallons More Water!
RE-
247 OF
THE COLONY'S SERVOIRS GAINED MILLION GALLONS WATER IN THE 24 HOURS TO 8 A.M. TODAY,
The total storage was then 3,037 milion gallons.
Consumption yesterday amounted bo 33 million gallons and the intake from streams and catchment areas was 280 million gallons.
st
Hainfall registered by the Water Authority at Tytam buildings destroyed was 1.62 inches, at Aberdeer. Among were an Army and Police bar-1.53 inches, at Pokfulam 1.19 racks, a railway
1.01 inches terminus, 20 Inches und small hotels,
several guest Shing Mun In the Louise's, pharmaceutical labor- alories, the head office of Gen-, Territories. eral Motors and the Ford Motor Company. the
Liquor
[
Monopoly factories
shops.
Sevarat
made
arresta already,
|| France-Presse.
1
Government!
meny and repair
and
have according
SENSATIONAL CLAIM BY SHIPPING LINE
“Andrea Dorea Veered · Across Stockholm's Course”
New York, Aug. 7. The Swedish-American Line charged today that the Andrea Doria veered directly across the course of the Stockholm on a moonlit sea and was entirely to blame for the collision.
The petition
in
for of
were
at
the was
sl
hard "The Stockholm went
astern, but t given by either line regarding right and full the circumstances of the cvi- WILS impossible to avoid cul-
Usion." sion on July 25 off Nantucket light In which the Andren The petition said the Stock-
radar Doren sink with a loss of life | holm's
Wes "operating
Lime perfectly" at the
of the 61 62.
The line med a petition collision, proper lookouts New US District Court asking
the heimsman whe posted, exoneration unt Imitation
the wheel and the watch officer Rability
was on the
bridge plotting the It sald 11 would jpter sue the Andrea Doria's course, It said Palian Line, owners
the the the Stockhous of
first sow Andrea Doria, for damages and Italian ner's image on radar Jasses,
when it was 10 miles away,
The petition charged that the properly manned or equipped, that those In charge wire "careless, in- Inattentivo to
TOO MUCH
been OF DIANA
The area where the explosion occurred is a giant smouldering Ciater and one
reporter
-
SHOWED!
Hollywood, Aug. 7.
phoning a story to his New York MIS Diana Dory, Britain's flee sad it looks as if a bock-gift to Hollywood, had to rt buster had dropped."
biti
when
the
make a scene in her first Amori- can Alm
because today
**Bou Barracks Destroyed
much of Diana" showed,
Thibionde actress came to the United Prasa said the seven set in a pink cocktail dress with Army trucks were part of low cloavage convoy of 20 carrying dynamite, diretor, Mr Hol Kanter, saw cartridges and other explosives "rushes" of the one in the from the part of Buenaventura projection ΓΟΥΤ
later he ex- to the capital, Bogota,
will never KOL claimed: "Thot
Tvo thuch of Thirteen passed through Call by the censors.
Diana shews. and continued their journey to
The
Alm "I scone, the Drivers of styen other married a woman" being made Brgutu.
by RKO studios. 14114 rezione decided to spend Cali.
after modifications In Miss Dors' ROW!).
the night at
Anglo-French line of argu- Speaking at a crowded press ment at the Landon con- conferene M: Wilson declined ference, and it is, in fact, to be drawn by reporters press- the crux of the
for details saď what dispute. in hin Justification of Nusser's military action the United States artion 171 arbitrarily might take in the event of war nationalising The
canal in the Middle East rompany may or may not be debated. "The neutrals "appear to think that it is
They parked their trucks near irrelevant and even Traq, wikon and
*RELATIVELY SMALL'
hazard," "Occupational
was barracks and it is an Army Britain's closest ally in the
It he say he hoped that
that 500 soldiers and Miss Dors' coursment - Reuter. Arab world, has expressed it table did break out in the
Chalksged on the use of the believed phrase ' relatively
there were polecnen sircping email thing." the view that it considers arc it would be lost friction | Me Wilkon said he did not wish killed immediately when
the Egypt has
to and not something that would he maidoiss the seriousness of explosion destroyed the building. nationalise the company. Involve the East and the West." | the situation.
Most othe victims were The canal itself is such an
working people who lived in the important
tion endinelghbourhood
who had if is an international highway, was always the powsibility that
Mr Wilson
stayed up late in cafes celebrat- Farich "That adds to any war which the dificulties.
ing on the eve of the anniver- It is not like a night Gronk 07141 might Focal row between iwo smail sary of the Battle of Boynca-a jet: riorate into a bigger
national holiday. countries, or even a civil war. "But we haven't got to war Mr Wilson refused comment as well as the legality of the yet." Mr Wilson added.
whether the United States net must surely occupy the It was probably much easier
planned ไอ send additional minds and attention of thej to work ut problems over marines to the Mediterranean. participants In the con- conference table than to stop a Asked how the United States ference.
» war bare it had started, he said, food 10 macet дву possible
"I am sure that the purpose outbreak of violence country which sub-of our country is to exhaust all! Middle East, he replied: scribes to un act such as posible means of discussing the have JA powerful that perpetrated by Nasser, problem to reach u mir setic- organisation, "Reuter, cannot boast of very high
Nevertheless it is difficult to Imagine how the Londoti conference can avoid dis- cussing the act of nation- ufisation. Is. after all. the cause of the crisis which
has arisen and the propriety
ANY
WAR DANGER
There
wur.
11
+
Funerals
Held
GENERAL'S HOUSE
SEARCHED
Saigon, Aug. 7.
South Vietnam Security Police Inday sealed the private real- Meanwhile donations of food, dence of General Nguyen Thanh clothing, pharmaceuticals and Phuong. former Commander of blood plasma have
been the Cao Dal religious sect's army, Amony the it was officially announced to- arriving in Chill. in the contributions
night. vaccines, are "WC
servans and other medical sup
Police communique sald military pics flown into
Colombia from
Police searched the General's house following the arrest of The United States.
several individuals involved from the recent theft of numerous are private motor curs in the city
recently.
standards of political morali-i AMERICA DRAWS LINE
ty and Integrity. It is the A
ultimate in specious pleading
to compare Nasser's nation- Another Washington re- nilsation of an international part said the Secretary of company with Britain's State, Mr
Foster Dulles, nationalising of some of her)
industries and was reported to have said waterways. Britain's nation- today that if Egypt carried
Doctors und nurses principal cities and towns ulso being flown Into the stricken city,
part of the vessels flying Panamanian flag.
The Peruvian ambassador, Mr Fernando Berckmeyer, told re- porters that Mr Dulles though! it was certain the London con- alising was done with the out a military occupation of terence would tako place. will of the people, and the Suez Canal Installations, France-Presse,
domestic
the same will approved France and Britain would
a certain amount of de- feel they had the right to nationalising when u new resort to force. government went into power. Noaser's action is that of ธ dictator-unilateral and without warning or good
reason.
Mr Dulles is said to have told ambasstors of 20 Latin American countries in Washing- ton that in such an eventuality. the United Nations Security What Nassor has done cannot Council could be asked to in- afrily be dismissed as a fait tervene in order to prevent accompli or shrugged off as crmed conflict In the Sucz being of no importance. Canal zone, Egypt's right to nationalise Mr Dulles called the ambas- her own domestic enterprisessadors to the State Department will not be disputed. But today to brief them on the the Suez Canal and the com- .ctpal crisis.
His which keeps it in
remarks to the envoys pany' operation is not a domestic were reported to the Press by Panamanian Ambassador, enterprise and the countries the
Vallarino, who id Mr which attend the London Mr J. conference will have to face Dulles discussed the possibility up to that point of view of a failure of the London con- whether they like it or not, ference on the Suez which is to
begin on August 15. What the conference. will
Mr Vallarino said that general- produce is difficult to forely speaking the Latin American cant. It may well be negn nations approved United States tive no far us reaching any efforts to avoid an armed -definite.
that niet over the Suez, agreement
con-
the
They found within cral's compounds allegedly
in
the Gen- three CATS, digging Rescue woricers are
counterfelt with in the ruins for wounded people
licence plates and of "doubtful believed trapped in the rubble.
Collective funeral services origin," and several firearms in- and machine have started in Caicedo Plaza, cluding mortars the principal square of Call guns, the communique sold.— United Press and France-Presse, Reuter.
JOINT ANGLO-FRENCH COMMAND LIKELY
French Defence Ministry Spokesman's Disclosure
":
years back that it
Paris, Aug. 7. 1 The spokesman replied: "There, because a crime has been com- A French Defence Minis. is no reason In diplomacy why a mitied some
mistake, once made, should go should be allowed to go on being try spokesman said today on being repeated for ever." committed with impunity and
indefinitely." that Britain and France would certainly set up a jolut command in the event of operations in the Middle East.
in
French General Staff officers are at present in London close liaison with their British 'collergues, he added...
He was replying to questions about: French press reports. that the setting up of a joint Anglo- French, Supreme Command was being studied.
Violated Convention
an... Egyptian was asked lay today why Erilain was so con cerred about the free
pesange of-Imgbll-bound ships, through the Suez Canal whors, aha ; and
Carrier Sails For 'Med'
Devonport, Aug. 7. The 13,180-ton - airerafi carrier,
Ocean, with hundreds of troops on board mainly runners- sailed
tonight, for Blediterranea...
Bhe the third. carrier to leave. Joer that, ares in theless, three days,,:
the
The other two are, the Therues, which took para- troopers, and the Bulwark, (which carried an Bir group" FaMenter, an
Egypt will he obliged to ac- Ho, said that his country · re- A Foreign Office spokesman copt and honour. If such gretted that it had not been in be the case a dangerous vited to the London conference Journalist at a press conference altuation could be created, despite the fact that 3,000,000 tons. of shipping new, the especially If, as a Syrian Panamanian flags report has it, Russia and He sald Mc Dulles had point Egypt are about to conclude ed out that the, United States France had done nothing about Later, to a 'milar question, be
treaty of mutual aid.ʻship ownerz - owned the majok, the restrictions for some yours, Fopliede,
An Indian journalist asiced; "Do you consider that Egypt has violated the international conventions" The spokesman replied: "Yes, sir."
West's Attitude Several questions were put to tho spokesmancy about how the majorly rule would be applied to the 24-power, * conference in London, and whether it only i minonty of nationa*voted the majority decision would be con- sidered valid. M
."
To these questions the spokes- mon/replied: that the rules of procedure governing, the confere ence would be decided ; by; the participants themselves.
**The rule in free democracies is decision by majority,” he said. (Could, an back page, Col. 3):
Detailed Account
detailed The petition gave a account of the 20 minutes pre-
Andrea Doria was not
etding the collision ofT Nan-competent and
tuckel and in what had pre-
their duties," and that
were taken
to avoid the rollision,
viously been described as thick adequate measures
However, 15-0 polition aid visibility was "good" and the Andrea Doria could be sech
It
BOMBS GO
OFF
IN CYPRUS
Nicoda. Aug. 7. A series of bomb explosions was reported tonight from several parts of Cyprus follow- ing the official announcement tbal three
terrorists will be
hanged on Thunday
No casualties were reported
in any of the blasts and in only one was damage serious.
The-
in
A time bomb which exploded in 弱 contractor's yard next to "Woefully Operated"
generating equipment at a Royal Akrouri Air Force station at said the Andrea Doria's caused damage officially from the Stockholm's bridge at a distance of two miles.
rudur equipment was "woefully scribed as "extrusive."
Political ΨΟΣ According to the
prisoners hold Stockholmt
petition, the maintained and operated" and no
Andrea proper lookout was maintained: Cypriot detention camps decided and Doria were in position to pass The Italian liner was travelling today to ·H4-hour bungen and excessive strike from dawn tomorrow in safely port side to port and the at "immoderate Stockholm. turned starbourd to speed and i falled to sound protest against the decision to give even
start
out the executions three Cypriot terrorists. Reuter and France-Presso.
greater passing dis-signals as required under interes
national rule, it added.
The Assistant General Manager of the Italian Line, Sr Permigoiti, said he would have no statement until he had seen all papers in relation to the court action.~~ United Press.
tance.
The Andrea Dorin was show- ing her white masthead lights
dls "su us to pass at a safe tance," it said.
Suddenly It Veered
"The Andrea Dorle, however, out her red suddenly closed light, showed her green light, and veered sharply to her own Jest or port al undiminisherl speed, turning across the bow
of the Stockholm," the petition charged.
Nine Die in Crash
Vienna, Aug. 7. Nine poople were killed and 19 seriously injured when two trains collided near the town of
in Prerov Czechoslovakia to- day.United Press.
Border Incident
of
Jerusalem, Aug., 7. An Isnell military spokesman said today settlers working in the fields in the Belan valley
fired were
frome
tho on Jordanian side of the border to- day.
The Israelis returned the fre
withdrew without and casualties.---Router.
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