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Britain & France

IT

Is quite evident, despite the formal phraseology of the Deln! communiquej insued at the conclusion of their discussions, that Af. Mollet und Sir Anthony Eden did much more during the last two days than rench agreement on Anglo-French | tactics to be employed in next week's Security Council. debale on the Suez Canal dispute. Thu: indications! are they have inaugurated

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No. 36552

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Established 1845

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1956.

MAIL

KEAY GETS TWO

Corruption Charge Upheld

FOUR MEN NOT GUILTY

OF CONSPIRACY

William Murray Keay, 54, Superintendent of Mines, was found not guilty of conspiracy, but guilty of corruptly receiv- phase of relations isg $25,000 and was sentenced to two years' gaol by Judge

W. T. Charles at the Victoria District Court this morning.

The first three accused in the mines conspiracy trial were acquitted of conspiring to enable Keay to receive the

between the two countries. Two highly important deci

sions were reached: to co- ordinato policies relating to! the Middle East, and to co-

opernte in Africa. The bribe and discharged.

implementation is given to: the desires expressed earlier this year that Traditional Anglo

They were William Allan Hogarth, 52, chartered accountant and Director of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd; Henry Charles Patterson, 45, Director of H. C. Patterson and Co.; and John Patterson Whitefield, should be brought to a 54, Superintendent of Lights, Marine Department.

- French rivalries

and the entente cordiale made a live and diplomatis instrument.

Price: 20, Cents

RELAX IN

INDAKS

„THE FAMOUS COMPANY EN ACTION TROUSERS

Whiteaways

YEARS World's Fastest

That Surprise Trip To Russia-

Why

Did Tito Go?

London, Sept. 27.

Plane Crashes

Washington, Sept. 27.

The Soviet Communist Party Secretary Mr. Nikita Khrushchev and President Tito of Yugoslavia arrived in Sebas-plane crashed today two topol on the Black Sea tonight, it was reported by Moscow Radio

In passing sentence, Judge Charles commented that corruption was far too prevalent in the Colony. He said such occasions as this pained Khrushchev dew

For over 40 years the Muddle him considerably.

East has been the scene of fierce

political rivalry.

powers

between Britain and France, C Now for the first time thi century the two seemed decided to join hancls for the defence of their common Ia{*ar*rÈ* in this vital area. THE communique niso sug- gests that M. Mollet and Sir Anthony Eden moved towards a closer identity of

views

CHARGES EXPLAINED

The 8 started on August 20 was intended as the reward and lasted until September 18. alleged. when His Honour reserved bas judgment. It attracted consider

Going To Rest'

The official MATKY Tanjug

Aung

to the Black

Sanism.

was

to

The world's fastest experimental rocket

minutes after it was re- leased from the belly of its B-50 mother plane, the Air Force an-

Stalin's werk. A retur Stalinism wowick jeopardisc recent progress in Easnounced. European countries, notably Poland.

In that case the issue would be big enough for Yugoslavs to be willing to run the risk of forging United States economic forgoing

ald. Observers regarded Freal- dent

nt Tito's unscheduled flight to Russia is bound to

The pilot, Captain Milburn G. Apt, 32, was killed.

His wife and two daughters, aged two and five, live on the tir base.

7

in- the

Ho was on a routine doctrination night when accident occurred, the spokesman

favourable impression among said.

Tho's hurried inisston ainnzed | Ford o whether *he clock Yugoslav Communists and ob- should be put back towards xrvers in the West.

The mission to Russia WHA Inside the Soviet Union itself, not disclosed untii six hours these two currents could be per- after Marshal Tito and Mr sonified in the figures of Mr oil from a Khrushchev and the Vice- Belgrade military airport in Premier, Mr Molotov, It Mr Khrushchev's private plane, | stated.

If certain reports from the Soviet Union were to be belleved that the pro-Stalinist group was Yugoslav news | U.coming stronger sgáln, Preal-

the X-2, The plane, named Americans 2aid Marshal dent Tito might well wish to do | Deparment.

President He had put the Tito and Mr. Khrushchev were all he could to help the Khrush

Tito was already crashed it the north-east corner Sca lo chey current.

believed to have discussed this of the Edwards Air Force base Department of Mining in Hong

Stalin and all he stood for is issue of the future of Com-reservation. kong on its feet. It was mainly

There was no indication of the † hated by Yugoslav lenders, who munism with Mr Khrushchev The pilot's body was found that the Mining tr Keay

real purpose of the hurried trip { think of their expulsion from during the latter's eight day In the cockpit of the aircraft. Department had been earning

in official circles

com inform in 1949 In Belgrade, the

Couse of the crash. private vitit to Yougoslavia.

Wes not revenue for the Colony in the

London

Western other

immediately, known Inst few yen and

capitals. mainly due to Keay that most of the Ullent mining in the Colony had been checked, The

prosent Mining Ordinanes and Regula- Lions were neinly Keay's work. The accused had served in. bath Work Wars, continued Mr "Gitting. He Joined

War 1 while still under

in World World War 11 he was called up In age.

in 1938 in the Scorchlight Re- giment as Captain. In 1939 he was Chief Petty Omen in the

d. I am satisfied beyond doubt that the sum was re- This morning, the Court was fui ceived with the intention of +f spectators.

able noble interest throughout.

Hogarth, Patterson and White-accepting it as the reward

alleged.

#eld

D.

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were represented by Mr the question of On

L. Wright, instructed by Mr European unity, and that C. Stewart, of Stewart and Co. the British Prime Minister | Mr Victor Gittins defended Key, is prepared to go further instructed by Mr H. Caine, than his originul pledge to Julinsun. Stokes and Master, keep Important

The Crown military

was represented the by Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr, Acting forces permanently on continent in order to "bring Rea, Crown Counsel. They were Satteltor General, and Mr Dermot Britain Into Europe

by

Mr T. Kavanagh, peacetime." Significantly, in Assistant Superintendent a reference to the need for Police (Anti-Corruption). strengthening political, mili- The reading of the judgment

by and tury

economic co- Judge Charles lasted half on the hour. He explained the charges. operation between

The four accused are charged, nations of Western Europe,|

in effect, with having conspired the statesmen agreed to

together between January study the new forms which this co-operation might take But the dominating subject of the Paris discussions was the Suez Canal crisis, and here the communique was made interesting by virtue of what it failed to men- tion, rather than what it Bald. Strikingly absent was

reference to French agreement on what action the two nations in-

T

ally

Anglo

tend to take if UN delibera-

HERE A small

1.

1956 and June 5, 1938 to en- able the fourth accused to 10- ecive a bribe of $25,000 for him exercising his ofetal functions | in the Superintendent of Mines in favour of the Bohespie Syn- dicate in connection

with the granting and transfer of mining licence and A prospecting licence.

Reasons For Verdict

The fourth accused is also

Heavy Punishment

In mitigation Mr Giltins sald, "The consEQUENTIB of the con- viction of Keay constitute heavy punishment irrespective of any sentence your Honour may impose."

He said that Keay had put in a lot of good work in the Mines

FLOODS

DESTROY

10,000 HOMES

Calcutta, Sept. 27.

the river Damodar rose in feat

فری

was

But there was speculation It might have to do with:

Elsenhower's Presiden! forthcoming decision on October 16 whether in continue American aid 10 Yugoslavia. Tito needs It, or I substitute for it.

Growing reports of new

differences between Soviet Communism end Margaal Tito's Policies. Criticism has

Royal Navy in combined opera- been voléed on both sides since

fions and in 1943 he vas com- missioned ከ Engineering Lieutenant and served in major lund ng caft, and in 1944 he took part in D Day landings Notiundy, Ky alo tok part naje landings in the Middle Eat and For East.

'Abused Trust'

As he sentenced Keay, Judge Charles salch "Such occasione as this pain me indeed. You have Six deaths and the been found guilty of a charge destruction of 10,000 huts of corruption. I have taken into by floods, caused by heavy account that corruption is far

too prevalent in the

lent in the Colony, su rain, were reported today prevalent that there is a special charged with having corruptly from Burdwan, a great rice branch of the police established tions on the dispute are received

Jure 4. 1950 the producing area in West to deal with it. I have taken abortivo.

Gurn of $20,000 as a reward for | Bengal.

into account that the offence is difficult to detect and I also chance him, as Superintendent of Mines, indeed of any settlement showing favour to the Bohesplein 24 hours, the report said, and

A record 12 inches of rain fell take into account that you held emerging from the Security Syng

Syndicate in relation to the

position of trust and you abused that trust. I fake into and granting and issue of licences to near Idlipur. Council. Russin

account that it was rol small Yugoslavia are certain to transfer of the same licences to the cyrxente as the subsequent

sum of money, but quite a big veto any proposals coming the Mountain Lead Mining Co, from

the Big Three Lic delegates, who will in turn

The Judge then went into the vote against the Egyptian evidence and his "complaint." Nor does the gave the following verdict: Heavy damage to crops in the On the first charge 1 find all | Nadlu and Jaman diatriels was probability that the issue will then be taken before four accused each not guilty, reported, and rall communication the

is that between parts of West Bengal General Assembly My reason for doing co evoke much confidence that

satisfied beyond and North Bengal was disrupted, a formula ncceptable to the reasonable doubt that the first-United Press. disputants will be ham-three accused conspired together

as alleged.

mered out. If auch be the

I

AM Not

reasons and

On the second charge 1 and

case, Britain and France fourth accused guilty. My rea- will certainly reserve the sons for doing so are that:

The six deaths occurred when a flood-weakened house collapsed sm. and the huts were destroyed in various refugee colonies, the ra- ports said.

QUEEN'S

right to independent action. a. I am satisfied, beyond SURGEON

Negotiations based

Di

dosirable solution to

iL

the

reasonable doubt that the

KILLED

cepted principles in the fourth accused, while dlapute, but requires Superintendent of Mines, more tha71 one party to received the sum of $25,000, negotinte and at this b. I am not satisfied on

London, Sept, 27. moment Col Nasser is in the balance of probabilitles

Sir William Gillint, sur- no mood to reach a that the sum was not paid nogotiated

geon and gynaecologist to on with the intention of Her Majesty the Queen, was #greement terms even approximating boing received as the reward killed tonight in a car acci those onunciated in the

alleged. Dulles plan. Moreover, it is

dent. doubtful whether

c. I am satisfied beyond the United Nations will be able doubt that the sum was re- ceived in the belief that it to make him do so.

THAT WAR IN INDIA

Russell Spurr reports on a war which Mr Nehru does not want the world to know about --- you can read all about it, in tomorrow's big feature-packed China Mall-·

This report, which tells you how Indian troops are flighting against rumõte hill tribesmen who burn villages and take scalps,

He was 72.

birth

Sir, Willem was present at the of both Princo Charles and Princess Anne,

Ho WIKS alone in his car when it collided with a truck in Chertsey, Hunty, about 20 miles

outh-west of London.

Sir William also attended

Duchess of Kent whi, the pres sent Duke was born in 1935,- United PaceS.

in only one of the highlights of tomorrow's work-and feature Bomb Explodes,

action

Here are some others;

Donald Edgar begins a two-part flashback proßir of Baron, the photographer, toho died,recently;

Seven hurt

r

Is Separation, good or bad? Elleen Axerojė: jalks to four

Nicola, Sept. 27," couples whose marriages have lasted more than 30, years; in bomb wounded ovo Krishna Menon, the shan who loves to falje: 'what will be soldier when it exploded in

"On the other hand in your Cavour are the matters which your Counsxi Very properly rought to my notice and I will nád thi: They have caused me to modify my views on what would

be the appropriate punishment in this case,"

the Iwo Communist parties last June pledged co-operation 20 during Marshal Tito's irip to Moscow.

TENCKU SAYS

Terrorists

A Beaten

Force

Sense Of Urgency

The transfer of the The Soviet Union

Mr

ITS RECORDS

talks to Lt. Col. Frank Bycrest flow presumably the plane 1,900 miles an hour indicated tho two men found int Summer. Captaio Ivan them too complicated to settle Kinchelof later flow the X-2 to matters directly among them- an altitudo of 128,000 feut,

and selves,

Khrushchev Neither performance figure has would now be able to include been offlctally confirmed. in them his associates,

The rocket-propelled plane President Tito, who was alone

was designed to investigate the his talks with Mr Khrush-

"thermal barri so-called chev in Yugoslavia, now had That refer to the ENGTITIOLIB with him Vice President heat generated on the skin of a Aleksander Rankovic, for long high-speed plane by air fric-

in

in charge of internal and police affairs, and Djuro Pucar, head of the Communist Party of Bornia.

Aid For Tito

tion,United Press.

'Give Up Penang And Malacca'

the

Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 27. The Malayan Communist

A sense of urgency was len! A joint stand on the Suez | Party was a beaten force

to the talks by the fact that crists. Yugoslavia, though seeking "face-saving" sur- President Tito consented to fly. plodged to neutrality, has a seat render terms, the Chiefa form of travel he dislikes and Kuala Lumpur Sept. 28. in the United Nations Security

Mail Maluya's triplo alliance Council whore the Suez Minister of Malaya, Tengku normally avoids.China

Special.

government, in a memorandum clafemate is now boing debate. | Abdul Rahman, said today.

published today, recommended Some internal crisis in He was referring to a Peking

that Britain should code her Itussta might, have Radio broadcast which quoted

rights over

exitlements of brought on Mr Khrushchev's the Malayan Communist Party

Bonn, Sept. 27.

Penang and Malacca, trip in WO attempt to enlist as seeking further negotiations

The West German Bundestag It recommended that Malaya Marshal Tin as witness that 10 end

Malaya's eight-year-old today approved 1 much- promised Independence by the new post-Stalin policy

in Jungle war. paying off.

citicised treaty giving a 240- Britain by August 31, 1957 1 Speaking at to prens con-mille mark (about 20 mil-possible

should be called ference, he said: "I am very

interest-free credit Fundamental Issues

to Malaysia with encouraged by the message over

nationality and that Malay Peking Radio. the Communists

am convinced

The treaty was approved by should be

the official are a besten

236 votes to 80 votes with 14) national language and cb tentions, -Reuter.

the of all religion,-Reuter. REAL PINCH

"They are feeling a real pinch and have to appeal to the out- side world to finish the way by providing them with better au-

ender terms."

John Eurie, China Mall special correspondent in Brgrade, said fundamental issues affecting the future course of Communis, de- velopmen, were sein in usualy well informed circles her motivading the surprise flight of Marshal To to the Soviet Union with Mr Khrushchev,

as

force.

would

ask

Though nothing has been dis- Ife said any surrender must closed about the nature of his be unconditional. coming talks there, It was be

"It w

would be a good thing

China Heved the problem had to

be Communist faced whether Communism in them to lay down their arms— the Soviet Union and Eastern that would be the only inter- Europe should continue to de-vention I would accept

The Chief Minister said he velop along a mere 1beralised

was prepared to see representa- tives of the Malayan Communist tell them that terrorists party to could have a subsistence allow

of $100 a month for 12 months if they agreed to return to China,

Canal Users Assn: A Problem For Eden

London, Sept. 27.

A straight-faced Briton has told the Manchester Guardian that he and some friends are planning to ser up a Canal User's Associa- tion on rustic Engli waterway to protest Government's nationalising of British canals,

the

Britain nationalized Ita canals along with its roll- roads in 1948,

But the reader, Mr E. W. Piking- ton, sald he only got the idea of selling up a Kennet and Avon Canat User's Át- socialion "recently."

+

The Kennet and Avon Canal runs between the Thames at Reading and the River Avon south of Strat- ford. Once a major com- mercial waterway it 18 11010 sued only by occa- Fional motor cruisers And by fishermen,

"As'a user of the Kennet and Avon I was deeply shocked when some time ago the Government of this country nationalised, the canal without first› making my permkaston or even consulting me," Pilkington wrote to the Guardian.— United Press,,

BURMA TRAIN AMBUSHED

ance

"I would recommend 'pocket money to get them away and I would send them back to China as soon as all of them laid down their arms."-Router.

Nixon's View

Of Red China In UN

Louisville, Sept. 27.

Vice President Richard Nixon sald today I would be "morally disastrous" to admit Communist China to the United Nations and the Eisenhower administration remained firm in its opposi tion.

He also said the question

the Communist Chinese invasion of northern Burma was a "mat- tor that should

to the Rangoon, Sept. 27/ out, and most of them ware United Nations Burmose rebels minbushed wounded by that time, the Mr Nixon bold a University passenger train in Markdalay on reports said, the rebels then Louisville audience: Tuesday night killing the fire looted the train and hauled off made it clear that aggression mun and capturing 10 wounded the polled guards. police guards reports reaching liter eclored. They were arrason against the united here today said.

The passengers were not Nations and in the same-sense 'cantociant. Wayne's Koop comp

were trusion his impact on the Suez crisis, by: Les Armour. Ar here today, The explosion

The train....was mined and harmed. About 200, rebels

United against There are all your regular" favourites as well including Jane followed "clown on the banning the engine 'deralled. Roberta ölm reviews, three pages of local and overseas plotures, of) Poku, doperibad

geti concher.

| ambush 'in four days... Earlier, a woua, arst have to lay the And special redlinna for women, children and sportuen here xtreme red as the explosions wrecked, the passen attack. It was the second rail {are cartoons,"comle" strips,"book" reviews, train, folatry is all in

The police fald off attackors rall joepe was bombed and the matter Tonight, a Beltishoffeer MERE

The before in the United Key Saturday Mall,

intil

their ammunition, gave i driver killed.---United Press, @4 Nat

sited Press.

shot dakcha United, Pres

Three.] reportedly 'tock, parties, the statesUNDENE VINDEN GES

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a

common

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Prisoners Seize Airliner At Gun-point, Force Landing

Buenos Aires, Hept, 27. A stoup of 51 Bolivian political

prisonern commandecred Bolivian airliner Today and forced the pilot at matt-point to land in Argentine territory, where they asked for saylum. The prisoners, chiefly members

the of

apposition Socialist

Party, were arrested at Sants Lhx in Bolivig in the wake of anti-Government · rtota last Saturday,

NO PEEKINGI

NO GUESSINGI.

The prisoners were being flown in a regular airliner from Santa Crus to Papas where three of them pulled gums and

Land forced the plot to Balts, about 800 miles north- west of here,

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