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France, The UN And Algeria

TO subject today promotes more cmotionalium than the so-called "liberation of onslaved colonial torri. Tories:" and 10 subject offers such splendid am- munition for the pro- paganda guna of the Communiats and national extremists. Both it can

be expected will be exploited

to the full during the UN debate started.

p!! Algeria now

Algeria is a particularly pulut

able subject for the rabid anti-colonialists and the ten- dentious propagandists be- cause it in so easy for thom to cloud and distort funda- mental Ingues; to ignoro important distinctions. France, they argue, given independence Tunisia and Morocco, where- foro no valid reasons exist! for withholding it from Algoria

has

to

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with rain.

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BRITAIN GETTING FIRST ROCKET REGIMENT

From HUGH PONDS London, Feb. 5. Britain's first "Rocket

Regiment"

boing formed. It will be arm- ad with American-mado "Corporal" ground-to- ground missiles, American Instructors 200 ready to begin training

It.

1.

The unit the 47th Guided Weapons Rogt" (Fiold) Royal Artillery-should be up to strength next month. It is being based in Hampshire.

It will be armed with ten rockets, ton launchon, and bo serviced and fired by about 530 mon.

But there's not one com- pleto rocket in Britain yot. Most parts for soveral mfasilos havo been delivered but some vital places of mechanism aro still awaited. Defence Minister Duncan Sandys asked the Ameri- can Defence Secretary

about this on his visit to Washington. Ho was promised a speed-up in the delivery of 100 "Corporals" on order.

A

Regi-

More "Corporat

ments" are planned,

Chapman Pincher writes that British scientish

SANDYS REPORTS TO PM

Agreement In Washington Talks HK REBUFF

'BIG 3 TO MEET

BEFORE EASTER'

From DEREK MARKS

London, Feb. 5. The British Cabinet will discuss the proposed defence cuts and planned tie-up with Europe to-

Forgotten, or disclaimed, is day.

the fact that while Tunisia) and Morocco were

French

empire,

Mr Duncan Sandys, the Defence Minister, yesterday gave the Prime Minister a private account of his talks in Washington.

protectorates by treaty and as such were part of the French colonial

It is clear the Government's policies are acceptable Algeria was from the first to the United States administration. This has resulted absorbed and became part of in these main heads of agreement being reached: metropolitan France. This

18 the key to France's refusal to recognise the

right of the United Nations to interfere in the task of resolving the problem of Algeria.

JUSTIFICATION

for

French attitude is

the

not

easy to deny, more especially as enlightened efforts have

of the North African terri-

★There

will be a meeting between President Eisen-

HK MAN'S hower, Mr Macmillan and the

APPEAL FAILS

been made to give the people

Without calling

Crown,

tory more political and social for the

London, Feb. 4.

on counsel the Judicial

French Premier M. Guy Mollet before Easter,

Britain will press on with plans for the closest poll- tical, économie and defence le- up with Europe.

moves will be made Flist in Paris on February 12. The Council of Ministers of

the QEEC

chairman is Mr Peter Thomeycroft will discus the plan to form a free trade

customs union.

equality and economic Committee of the Privy Coun-area linked to the six natiera

ROCKET AID

*This union

Govt Turns Down Move On Embargo

London, Feb. 4.

The British Government turned down a proposal in the House of Commons to- day that it should try to secure the rescinding of the United Nations Assembly's resolution of May 18, 1951, restricting the export of certain goods to China,

Mr Ian Mikardo, Labour, in urging this, said the re- solution was passed "to meet aggression in Korea.” Mr Ian Harvey, Foreign Under-Secretary,

replied: "The Government do not consider the present to be ал appropriate time for taking steps to secure the rescinding of

the resoin- (lon."--Reuter.

The Duke's

ADC Quits

stability. There is much cll today refused a petition for truth in the French com- sptelal leave to appeal brought plaint that these endeavours by Wong Kwan-fai, 27, who have been frustrated on the was sentenced to death in the Hongkong Supreme Court last

is composed of

London, Feb. 4. one hand by the struggle for October for the murder of a France, Gormany, Italy, Belgium,-} The Duke of Edinburgh's power between the Algerian 24-year-old woman named Bit Holland and Luxembourg.

| aide - de - camp, 35-year-old Nationalist Movement, the Kwal-ying. Algerian Liberation Front

Algerian and the

Com- munist Party, and on the

His appeal in Hongkong was dismissed in November.

น

Tho

In

D

PUTS

BRITAIN

IN

A SPOT

London, Feb. 4. The French News Agency correspondent in Manchester sald today It was almost certain the initiative for the recent talks between the British Cotton Industry Mission and Hongkong and Indian industrialists came from the British Govern- ment.

The correspondent sald It was known the British Government had hoped it would be possible to avold putting special controls

tariffs on cheap Common wealth textilo impon's

or

will supply ideas for TOW weapons white American engineers de- sign and mass produce them.

That is the main point of the economy proposals which Mr Sandys put to the Prime Minister in their private talk on Monday.

It means there will be no big cute in the govern- mant's guided miesito research stations. The cuts will fall mainly on industrial firms which have been developing anti-aircraft missiles at, an annual cost of up to £6 million a project.— London Express Service.

TO BE VICE C.I.G.S.

STRATTON

New C.B.F. Appointed

A new appointment for His Excellency Lt General W. H. Stratton, Commander, British Forces, has been announced. In September this year he will become Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff at the War Office.

General Stratton is expected to leave the Colony In Juna or early July and will be relieved by Major General E. M. Basty. CB, CBE, (late Infantry) who Forces with the rank of Lieut will be Commander British General.

was

Major General Baslyan, 53, formerly vice Adjutant General at the War Office,

General Stratton was educated signed into the Royal Engineers at Dulwich College and commis-

on January 30, 1924. In August 1941, he

tem- was promoted porary Brigadier,

8TH ARMY

In March 1944 he joined 8th Army and from September 10 June 1045 commanded 169 infantry Brigade of 50 Infantry He quoted informed sources Division. On June 90, 1945 he us saying that attempts by the was promoted Major General cotton misdon to induce Hong- with the appointment of Chief

India to kong

impose of Staff British Troops, Austela. voluntary, restrictions of experts He was appointed Commander of cotton goods did not appear of the British Army Staff and to have been successtub,

Military Member of the British "If this is so there is Joint Services Mission

reason

ta

to believe, the only in January

D

British Government will be

Before taking up his appe placed in a difficult pori-ment

appoint. Hongkong ho was ton", the correspondent General Officer Commanding 42 added.

(Lanes) Infantry Division (TA) and North West District,

NATURAL HESITANCY

There was also reason to be- lleve

WITH MOUNTBATTEN

General Bastyan was

com-

Mr Sandys will have talks Michael Parker, has resign- with the French Defence ed from his post, it was an

from the that apart Militer M. Bourges Manourynounced tonight.

natural hesitancy of India and missioned in 1923. From Captain Mr Mervyn Griffith Jones, foron tresh deployment of man-

Parker other by hostile Arab pro-wong, said that he was alleged to power and firepower in Europe. separation from his wife a few

obtained

Hongkong, the British project in 1935 he rose to the rank of kgal

for association with a free Lieutenant Colonel in 1941 and paganda.

have stabbed the woman, with whom he had lived

time, for

Western European days after his wife complained trade zone in Europe, which was acting Major-General in 1944.

He served in Palestine in announced after the decision to husband's Unjon countries-In this of her But another factor-and it is

frequent

pend the cotton mission, COMTI-

1938-39 and in Africa, an important one-is the in a market place on June 20 Britain joins

and Italy the six of the absences from home.

the South-Cast Asla Command 1950.

The accused's own evi-

Parker, who is at present plicated matters still further. barrier of religion.

meet The deuce was that he loved the customs union-wil

aboard the Royal yacht, Briton-

The cotton mission is to issue in World War II. rising tide of

Lendon on February 20. Islamic

woman and that evening they

Among his previous appoint- consciousness, white inter had been to a restaurant where tefouer set-up and new political

They are to discuss a

nia, Jus accompanied the Duke an official report shortly. of Edinburgh,

The husband of the

Manchester

Major-General in Guardian ments were national in

administration is! he had drunk the major part of

of опе вепле

Elizabeth II, in all his said today reports from Hong-charge of Queen which will envisage links In two large bottles of beer. strongly nationa}

Royal tours since 1952.

kong said that representatives allied land forces, Southeast a similar post another, And although, This made him drunk and he European Cabinet and Parlia

birth, An Australian

of the textile industry there had Asia. He held by

with the British Army of the there many Muslim knew litle more of what hap-ment,

the last refused to undertake a restric is clear the price Britain is Parker served during Algerians who appreciate pened.

wor in the Australian Navy, tion of their exports of made-up Rhine and 1940-50 he was Counsel complained that the to pay for American aid on

the lines Chief of Staff, Eastern Com- transferring to the Royal Navy goods to Britain on existing relationship trial judge misdirected the Jury guided missiles and rockels is

the by In 1948 and serving alongside suggested

cotton mand, as to the onus of proof required speeding of her tie-up with the Duke of Edinburgh. mission. wish to see it too radically in respect of the accused's de- Europe-London Express Ser-France-Presse. changed, there is a consider tence of drunkenness. -Reuter,

are

the with France

not and do

able element which will not

be reconciled to accepting| absorption. They aro not prepared to listen to any- thing less than complete independence.

FRANCE'S dilemma is BR

appreclable one. Her offers of a rational settlement, based

full social

It

vice.

new

Europe's 'Six' Make Big Progress

Brussels, Feb. 4.

equality, a stronger volee In the political affairs of the,

The six Foreign Ministers of France, West Germany, territory, and an improved and more efficient adminis- Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg today tration, while acceptable made big progress towards completion of the common to many Algerians, are market and atom energy pool treaties they have been shouted down by the ex negotiating for over a year. tremists and rendered

.

'Mystery Man' Is Still A Mystery

Moscow, Feb. 4.

First Deputy

Premier Lazar

It added, "Both India and Hongkong may consider that if ["they" eurialled their exports to the British market some other overseas supplier would secure the business thus leave

and Lancashire no better off than before."-France-Presse.

Kaganovich completed a two- Killed In Clash

week tour of Siberia yesterday and returned to Moscow, it was learned today. He left Moscow on Jan. 21.

SINGAPORE CHANGE

Singapore, Feb. 4. Major-General R. G. Colling= wood will take over as General ofter Commanding Singapore Base District next month from Major-General D. D. C. Tulloch, It was officially announced today.

General Collingwood is at pre- sent military

the adviser to

which

employ, tee,

servicemen in Britain.

of national

General Tulloch, who was born in Hongkong, has been Commander of the Singapore. Base District since April, 1954.-—---

Colombo, Feb. 4, One person

was killed and four others seriously injured in on Independence Day clash In Trincomalee in the castern plo- vince today, according to re-France-Presse.

ports reaching here, tonight, --

A published report in Now Yort said yesterday that Kaga- novich was near death after an assassination attempt.

There was considerable | Reuter, speculation about the identity of the man, who was treated by

blood ailments-United Press.

Impracticable of implemen- The Chairman of the Con- | maining polnis of disagree | a | West German specialist on tation by acts of rebellion ference, M. Paul-Henri Spaak, ment. and terrorism.

the

Shepherds Shoot

UN Talks

the Belgian Foreign Minister, Herr Heinrich von Brentano,

New York, Feb. 4. announced confidently tonight: due to return to Bonn. by train In is deliberations on

We expect to sign the treaties tonight, mid: "We have made

Mr Dag Hammarskjold, United Algerian

Nations Secretary-General, con- problem, the by March 10, probably in Rome."

Two of the three major out Government is determined to do excellent progres and my

Damascus, Syria, Feb. 4, ferred for two and

a quarter United Nations political

standing problems were settled its most to find a satisfactory exchanged fire in the demill-Ebar, Israeli permanent delegate. Arab and Israell shepherds hours tonight with Mr Abha committee will need to today, except for detalls. examine carefully all the

colution for all concerned tis tarized zorro yesterday, a Syrlan about Israell withdrawal from factors before it reaches. These were the treatment to regards the association between military spokesman sold.

other Egypt and any decision to recommend be reserved for the agricultural Africa and Europe."-Reuter. United Press.

Heuter. interference by the world Industry of each country in the organisation. Moreover the common market

and conditions of the

and the level common

UN must search its own tar they would adopt toward's ability to necomplish what nations cutside the common France has so far failed to market. do-restore pence to the

territory.

Political and polemical ex-

ploitation of the situation

NEXT MEETING

The sill unresolved problem

by the Communist bloc and is that of the association with

'the' self-Interested Arab the common

six

market of the French and, Belgian territories! states is inevitable during in Africa. the United Nations debato, but this will not bo This will be dealt with nt Aumalent to justify UN the next meeting of the

Foreign Ministers to be held in Intervention, France entitled to obtain from the Parle on February 17.

Two days later there is to be United Nations sanction to a meeting of the Premiers pursue the task of settling the six nations whose task. It the Algerian problem. will be to iron out any, re.

of

-

matters.

BAG SNATCHER CAUGHT AFTER

- EXCITING NATHAN ROAD CHASE

Capt. J. C. II. Babine of the Green Howards captured thief yesterday after · an exciting 20-minute chase down Nathan Road, and Kimberley Road, up the staircase of two fals and a tumble down stairs, The victim of the there was an American visitor, Miss Margarðs Grade, who had in her handbag $350 and a plane ticket to the USA an well as her passport ami other papers.

-

Near the Princess Theatre in the late afternoon, a Chinese and stubbed her · handbag made off with. 15. Capt. Sabine who was walking nearby with his wife, rave. chsat

The man fumbled down, but - picked himself up and shot www.another block of He went up

flats, but this time he was cornered on the top flight by Capt. Babine,"

After thearling ; another attempt to break away by the man who pretended to. pick up his shon, ' Capt, Sabine funded him over to the, Police and helped them to recover the stolen pro- *perty.

The man darted into a side' street and ran up a flight of states to deposit his loot. „Just as ho’was Ieaving, Capt.lu,

Sabine caught up with him and 'the two had a fumle at the top of the rlairs,

NEW NATO CHIEF

Osio, Feb. 4. Vice Admiral Arthur Reid Pedder, Royal Navy, has been appointed Nato Commander of naval forces in Northern Europe, the Defence Ministry announced today,

He will succoed Vico-Admiral Gladstone, Nato headquarters in Oslo in Gerald Vaughan R.N., who will be leaving the

June-Beufer,

Crown Prince In US

Ho

will confer

on

Washington, Feb. 4, Crown Prince Abdul Illah of Iraq arrived today for talks with American leaders and saidh bo plans to meet with King Saud of Saudi Arabia. President Middle East doctrine, the

·A· Damascus.· ́cable, anys the | Arab States will meet to decide on a concerted aitlinie to Pre- sident Eisenhower's Mid

Middlo, Easi polky if the Sensio : approves the policy without amendment, nocording to the Byrian Prime Minister," "M" Babel · EU Amali United Press är Router,

Baby Dies After Rat Attack

A

Kiri

Paris, Feb. 4. six-month-old baby

who Was attacked while saleep by a giant rat has died in hospital after a nine-day fight by doctom

to save her life.

The rat attacked the baby, Ellane Bruneau, and then turned on her three- year-old sister Chantal who is still in hospital,

Police

sald their war völeran father had tried repeatedly, to find alterna- Live accommodation to the one room shim · where ha

his wife lives with

and their four daughters.--- China Mail Special.

Safe Safe

Klang. Feb. 4. Police reported today that thieves apparently worked un dawn trying to crack a zate containing $123,000 in JUNI amusement park óffee here,

They failed and left with $3 from an office drawer-Reuter,

Giant TV Tower Collapses

Four Men Killed

Nashville, Feb. 4.

The new 1,200-foot tower of a local television station. "collapsed like an accordion” today, hurling four workers to death in the crashing wreckage.

A

An hour after the accident, the bodies of the four men were recovered.

"I heard a splintering noise,"

sald Lee Ramsey, who lives few blocks from the scene. T foolond out and the tower start- ed coming down, breaking into other pieces as it came down

Ho colimated that it look about ten seconds for the total

700 FT. FALL

collapso.

Thousands of spectators headed for the site of the accident, clogging rush-hour traffic... Witnesses anid the four men were more than, two-thirds of the

way up the towen when it fell, dropping them about 700 feet,

The tower had not yet gone Into use. The station was uning another, smaller tower until the now structure was completed.- United Press.

STOP PRESS

AIR DRAMA

One of the two, engines of

DO-3 Air Laos plano caught fire: shority after the aircraft had left Hongkong for. Vientiane at 10.21., this Morning

The ... ploj succeeded in putting out the flames with "an extinguisher attached to the engine and then, re- turned with six passengers aboard, to Hongkong.

In a very low „ celling of' 200 feet, and with only, ozio engine functioning, the plišé made a fine and safe landing,

Two Ships Abandoned

Two

Off Nova Scotia

Halifax. Feb. 4. vessels one, a coɔatal vessel which viruck an ice- berg and the other, a fauker loaded with oli on fire-were abandoned off Nova Scotla

today. The tanker, the Maid of Le Havre, reported it was on fire of Cape Sable Light, Nova Scols, and its crew had been ordered to shore a half mile BWAY.

For extra pleasure

and satisfaction

A small French coastal vessel, the 302-ton Petit Bras D'or, struck an fetberg while en route to the island of St. Pierre off the Newfoundland Coast from Sydney, Nova Scotia,

The yeast tried to make for Loulabours, Nova Scotia, after the collision, but began to sink and Ite 10-man crew had to tako to

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