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THE CHINA MAIL. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1957.

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U.S. MOVE TO RESTART AID WILL REDS IN INDIA FLOW TO ISRAEL 60.000 79 Rebels TRY TO GRAB

Talks In & Tel Aviv Reported

Washington

Washington, Mar, 20. The United States has begun consultations with Israel with a view to re-. suming economic assist- ance, American officials said today. They said the talks got under way at the begin- ning of this week in Washington and Tel Aviv and that they were ex- pected to last about two weeks before existing aid programmes were resumed.

These

to israel

were

programmes suspended after Israel in- vnded Egypt on October 29. The United States of thul time:

Held up a pending $25 million grant to israel for the 1967 financial year period which ends June

30.

travel by American citizens to Israel, thus

TONS OF TINNED MEAT GO BAD

London, Mar. 20.

denying to that country MORE than 60,000

★ Set aside plans for send-★ Clamped down on

ing an Export-Import Bank mission to Israel in response to an application for a $75 million loan for internal water develop- ment.

Suspended negotiations for sale of $80 million worth of surplus agricul- tural commodities for Israeli currency, the pro- reeds to be loaned to Israel for development projects.

★ Withdrew its economic

considerable revenues from tourism,

To start with, the talks in Washington were being carried on between Meir Sherman, Economic Minis. ter of the Israeli Embasay, and L. Wade Lathram, a Middle East economic ex- pert in the State Depart ment.

tona of canned ment, stockpiled by the Ministry o f Agriculture and Food, have been found un- suitable. The meat has been stored too long, and the fina have rusted.

They were in 200 depota, and deterioration was discovered It was believed that the when rationing ended in 1954.

It was then proposed to put negotiations will be taken

them in 50 better dry-stores, A. higher level Since then it has taken a pro- the fessional firm with a large staff

Mr two years to test samples.

More stocks are deteriorating, and future wastage is estimated at 8,000 tons a year.

to, pro.

an in

ald mission from Israel. This meant suspension of the technical co-operation ("Point - four") gramme in that country, which was using a little more than $1 million an- nually, as well as the $25 million-a-year economic development gramme.

nid pro-

to next week, when Israel Ambassador Abba Eban returns Washington from interrupted vacation Florida. After that, the talks were expected to be carried to a conclusion by technical experts of both aldes-United Press,

Mrs Meir

'Suggestions Made'

Flies Home:

New York, Mar. 20.

The Israeli Foreign Minister, Mrs Golda Meir, left for home to- night for discussions with the Prime Minister, Mr David Ben-Gurion,

Discrepancies

This is stated in a report by the Auditor-General, Sir Frank Tribe, on the accounts of several Government Departments 1955-0.

fur

He calls constant attention to diecrepancice between riginal estimates and amounts ultimate- ly spent,

Killed:

Claim By BRITISH ESTATES?

French

Alglers, Mar. 20. French troops killed 79 rebels in the past 24 hours

New Delhi, Mar, 20.

WILL the Communists of Kerala State, who have won a majority in the current provincial elections, nationalise British-owned tea, coffee, cashew and other plantations?

The party which won 59 seats in the 126- In a sudden flare-up of fight-member Assembly was tonight assured of the sup- Ing throughout Algeria, port of five of the six independents elected."

military authorities report-

ed today.

Losses among

French troops were not reported, but officials said civilians slain by rebels in- cluded, two Europeans and three Moslems.

The

near the

armed

engagements yesterday were henviest the Tunisian border in east and the Moroccan border to the west.

Fighting has been heaviest in these two regions since Algerian | rebels frequently concentrate near the border of the two neighbouring Mosiem states, both of which support the cause of Algerian Independence,

30 SHOT

In the region near the rug- making centre of Tebessa close to the Tunisian frontier. French infantrymen

down 30 rebeln, look-six prisoner

and seized arms and ammunition,

shot

south of Oran end of Algeria, combat patrol

He quotes orders, in November 1950 100 alrfumes were ordered I: L estimated £28,875 each.

Swit

atrevalt

NR

In mountains at the western

French another slew 20 insurgents.

the

tolal By August 1953 ordered by the Ministry ot Supply was 492. Estimated cost of each had risen to £43,000,

In February 1955, when the cost had risen to £1,000 it was discovered that 30 aircraft al-

ready delivered were not it for squadron service. she

She said she would meet Mr Middle East between our two that the

Unel troops were in She sald Ben-Gurion shortly

there. after her

„governments," she said, so far control arrival in Tel-Aviv on Friday. ELS concerna navigation of the hoped Mr Hammarskjold got full Mrs Metr sakd she had no Stralf of Tiran and the Gulf of details on the matter and would plans to mert French officials | Aqaba and the Suez Canal, are revent them when he returned during her stopover in Paris,

tar

United to UN, headquarters. Nations responsibilty in Guza" Asked what was the most she felt Israel could hope for from the conferences JI Calro between the U.N. Secretary

MORE TALKS

Of her visit to the United States, she said there would be

"further consultations" between

xo

JLS

Up £240

The design was altered. Final cost of 129 Hynisie aircraft will Mrs Meir was asked whether be some £40,000,000-more than Ince navigation for Israeli ships £300,000 each, Of these 28 are was not one of the assumptions | subject to operational umila-

government when it tions. of her agreed to withdrawal from

Mr Abba Eban and U.S. State General, Mr Dag Hammarsk- Gaza and the Sinai peninsula. Department oficials

and President Nasser of Egypt, she said:

Middle East situation.

the Jold

The Israeli Government has made certain

Suggestions TUS implementation of our joint ob- jectives in the Middle East," she fold newsmen before departing. that these sugges- "We know ting are being seriously con- by the US State De- Bidered partment

and our Ambassador and his colleagues will be in further consultations." IDENTITY

VIEWS CLASH

"The must we can hope for is pence, It has been our thought for a long time that it is ex- tremely important and vital that the state of belligerency claimed by Egym should be done away with. We think this in the desire and wish of the UN. and wo think this is basic problem of the Middle East."

She said this did not neces- sarily mean the signing of a peace treaty, though she did not rule out this possibility.

She said she had nehloved the principal purpose of her trip in her talk with Mr Dulles in Washington on Monday. She said this was to discover whether the motives and objectives of of opinion between her country the Jerusalem and Washington and the United States as re- governments were "identical.”

gards the U.N.

She said there was a difference

in the

forces "I believe that there is an Gaza strip. She said Iørsel did identity of objecüves in the not agree with the United States

A British Crossword Puzzle.

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ACROSS

1 Fills with padding (0).

4 Preacnts (6),

Opening (8).

B Rage (6).

Special optitude (0).

11 Mere lad perhaps but

(7).

18 Content (9).

15 Endured (0).

19 Puces (8).

10 Livens (8).

20 Crest (6).

Avaricious (8).

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1 Begin to make a movement

of surprise (8).

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3 Speak imperfectly (7).

4. Lubricant (6).

pre-

6 Sweet-smelling (8).

10 Hung around (8).

6 Frightened (0).

12 Thawing (7)

19 Church festival (6).

14 Insecure (8),

10 Condillon (5),

17 In need of cleaning (B),

An order for light cars placed ΟΙ in 1950 at a tendered price

£306 cach is also reported. Two **This was not only an 48+

said sumption," she answered. "All years later the contractor the powers that supported free the vehicle had been redesign- noted. The cost went up to £806 for Israel have

Several for materials alone.

Eventually changed their views,

there was an in- of the powers made that clear

over the original соли the time. The President of Crease at

of more than the United States made it clear tract prico

£2,500,000, or 45 pc. that that was his position,"

passage

United Press,

AMERICA TO TELL ATOM-SUB SECRETS

London, Mar. 20.

The remaining 29 rebels killed during the day in smaller actions scattered across the territory.

Meanwhile, French para- troopers in Algeria seized eight Moslem nationalists 'charged by the Army with committing "A number" of individual attacks against civilians in that city. United Press.

Farouk's First Wife

France Plans Stronger Pacific Fleet

Sydney, Mar. 20.

The French Navy will strengthen its Pacifio fleet with a squadron of fast Hight warships, it was an- nounced today.

French Navy Minister, M. Paul Anxion- nar, said the new ships, equipped with anti- submarine and

The

anti-

aircraft armament, would be based permanently at

New Caledonia, the 2,000-

The first

ton sloops now being bullt

French

And it is reported that for the limo in India, the party: will form a ministry of a dif- ferent political complexion from the central

state and other governments.

The Congress Party has won

42 seats,

the

nine and the

Praja-Socialists

Muslim

Lenguo eight, lehving two, stafa to be Allied.

Crisis In West Pakistan

the President Suspends

Political observers say Communists

may try to make the state a showpiece for co- munism.

Conflicting

The Communist

Constitution

Karachi, Mar. 21. The President of Pakistan, Iskander

Major General programme

in Kerala, according to the Mirza, early today took over election manifesto, includes the the Government of West nationalisation British-owned Pakistan province following

tea, coffee, cashew and other plantations and of foreign capi- fal in other Industries such as colr.

Mr A. K. Gopalan, leader of the Communists in the House of the People of the Central Parlia ment, who was elected from Kerala, sald on Sunday this

would be carried out. shipyards should reach Australia next Jan- unry, he said.

M. Anxionnas made his anmunocmcat on file way to Tokyo after a two-day Inspection of the French base at New Caledonia- United Press,

BRITISH EXPORTS GO UP

sudden crisis in the provin cal assembly.

Karachi declared that the

An official statement issued in

Pre

eldent had "In exercise of the Powers" conferred by the Con- stitution assumed "all functions of the Government of the Pro- vince,"

אהוב,

Tito DRUHOUNICONënt without warning in the early hours of the morning after the West Pakistan provincial

as-

But Mr M. N. Govindan Nair, one of the Kerala's Communist loaders, said at a Delhi press conference on the same day the party would act in accordance with 1bo Indian constitution sembly had adjourned last night and he was not not sure that with the tate of Doctor Khan nationalisation, was within the Sahib's Republican Party Gov- competence

of State govern-ernment hanging in the balance. ments,

Opposition was claiming

Other features of the Com-a majority in the House after munist manifesto include a de- a number of Republicans had mand for an immediate 25 per crossed the floor of the House cent increase in all workers' | during the day, basic minimum wages

Finance Problem

Censure Motion

The Leader of the Opposition, The ruling Congress Party's Sardar Bahadur Khan (Muslim high command is already con- League) had tried to move B sidering the problem of how the censure motion against the Gov- Central Government can work ement but the speaker did with the Communist Gover-not allow a voto,"

ment in Kerala, Fined £81

Cairo, Mar. 20. Ex - Queen Farida of Egypt, first wife of King Farouk, has appealed against a fine of EE81 im-

London, Mar. 20. The

British Board of Trade announced today that the commodity pattern of

The crisis has arisen over the The British imports in February

usually well-informed

Opposition's demand that West commentator of the Polcision be divided was much closer to normal political

into six than in any month since last said this week that since Kerala the Central Government formed

Hindustan Times pro-Congress

provinces agala na it was before October, the beginning of had to lean heavily on the Cen- them into one unit. the Suez crisis.

trat Govermint for Gnance,

The Opposition says the one Imports last month

toteiledny wild scheme of national unit has falled es

sation would not obviously

working be £320,800,000 - £50 million launched by the Communists

proposition.

Lust night Dr Khan Sahib, Wants Friends posed on her by a tribunat sterling below the January level without counting on the West Pakistan Chief Minister, financial resources needed for said he would not hesitate to meeting the obligations of com- advise the Provincial Governor pensation laid down in the con- to dissolve the House and order stitution.

new elections, but he added he "The Congress government at did not think this would become

will not abuse its necessary. political power with a view to crushing non-Congress govern- ments," he said, "but such State governments cannot ex- pect to get generous doles,

"The centre will perhaps let the Communists overreach them selves before it thinks of inter- vening in the affairs of Kerala,”

Reuter,

In West- But He's Also Critical

dealing with a treasury claim of E£6,720 against her, it was learned today.

Ex-Queen Farida, Madame Safinaz Zoulder, was fined for falling to appear he fore the tribunal. In her ap- peal, she declared that the tribunal was not competent and claimed special jurisdictio,

tho Middle

-while exporta rose to £278,- 200,000-over

£17 -million sterling люте than In Jaramry,

Last

manth oll imports Increased, being_beavier from East, especially Kuwait, in addition to the extra the centre supplies from tho Western hemisphere.

The announcement said: "The latest

ore welcome evidence

that availability of shipping has not continued to in any case she was met deprers the level of exports."

The monthly value of exports Ject to taxation by virtue of her in the last four months, £271 position as Queen. The sums which the treasury claimed from million, was six and a half per cent more than in the corres». her were for exponata incurred

ponding period a year ago. Primerom 1939 to 1948.

London, Mar. 20. Rumonia wishes "to im Britain and the United prove relations with Great States are to discuss next Britain, the United States

other Imonth procedures for an ex- and

Western coun- change of information on tries," according to her

re-elected nuclear propulsion of sub-newly marines.

Minister, Mr Chivu Stoica, Mr Thomas Galbraith, Civil quoted by the official news Lord to the Admiralty, told the agency Agerpresse today. House of Commons this today

It said that in a comprehen- asked whether he had received technical information sive report on home and foreign from the United policy to Parliament yesterday requested Stotes about the nuclear he said Rumania "considers that this objective can be reached on powered submarine Nautilus.

Mr Eric Fletcher, sold this the basis of equality of rights,

mutual advantage, question was of

aud Tibn- Interference in each other's in- portance, both offensive, and asked whether termal affairs."

when

strategie

defensive and

ng a

The ex-Queen declared that

The Tribunal

will give its

ruling on the cage on March 30.

--France-Presse.

Ike Will Hear Trade Protest

-

London, Mar. 20. The limitations on trade with China by non-Communist the Admiralty was satisfied

He went on to attack Pres!- tions is likely to be raised in with the

the orrangements made dent Eisenhower's Middle East the discussions between with the United States for an doctrine

Prime Minister, Mr Harold Mac- military pro exchange of technical Informa- game aimed at the seizure of millan, and President Eisen- tion.

Middle East oil and other re-hower, at Bermuda, the House Mr Galbraith replied that the soureca, and said the European of Commons was told today by discussions on procedures were Common Market and Euratom Mr David Ormsby-Gore, Minis-

European peoples.”—Itouter, -Reuter

to tako

place next month.-glang "constitute a danger to the ter of State for Foreign Affairs.

China Mail Special.

SOVIET TRADE WITH FREE WORLD DOUBLED SINCE 1953

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modā.in, :lla › yaport

were immagi

BRUTA thicknes

More Ships

British exports of ships and boaty have been outstanding in the last 12 months, the Board -of Trade also announced.

In the four months ending in February, they amounted to monthly average of £8,300,000,

Japan Sends Condolences To Philippines

The Provision

Then, later, President Mirza suspended the constitution and took over the Goverment of the 310,230-square mile province.

West Pakistan comprises the former provinces of "Baluchistan, North-west Frontier, Punjab, Sind, Khalpur and Bahawalpur.

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Article 193 of the Constitution— under which the Vesiidae aded-- (in part): "II the President on receipt

· ́renojā froes” the Govenor of a province is satisfed that a situation Jisa urtsen in which the Government of the province cannot be waryjnd on in socordanos Will the provisions of the "Cimeti- tution, the Prezident _may_by proclamation sarana to himself, all or any of the functions of the Government of the province..?

Several prominent members of

provincial Muslim League opposition were members of the Muslim League Central Goverment which brought the deep one-unit administration Into be

Tokyo, Mar. 20. Japanese Emperor · Hirokito compared with 24,700,000 in sent a telegram of ongoletten the corresponding period a year to the Philippines on the late

ogo,

Ships and boats thus account-President Ramon ed for nearly three quarters of

death

Magsmyssy's | the present

the total increase in engineering The Japanseso Diot passed a exports, which, at £105 million

resolution expressing

'Scheme Failed"

a month, were nearly 5's permpathy and condolence sting in West Pakistan cent more than a year carlier.

Reuter & China and Special: today's plenary session.

The Diet also approved the appointment of Liberal. Do- mocratic Party member Hitoshi Saud Wants Ashida to attend the Philippines During the current budget

national funeral service

debato Muslim Leagio members Japanese special envoy supported by the left-wing

national party have been claim ing that the one-unit scheme has

working propoal. claimod The old 165 should be

be resume.

Oil Company In Arabia

Reuter.

AS

SOUTH KOREAN NAVY UNITS ON TOUR

Seoul, Mar. 20. The South Korea Navy head-

tion

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Khan Sahib's party in the vincial - Ameribjy Is-composed of old Muslim League men who crossed the floor when the Khan, Sahlby's Party gained a majorly of one in the Assembly In May fast year-Router,

On Tour

London, Mar. 20. Saudi Arabia has naked Washington, Mar, 20. foreign trade of Afghanistan,, very fair impression" of the the American petroleum Soviet group trade agree. | Egypt, Finland, Hongkong, Ice industry. ments with the free world land, Iran, Turkey and Yugo- published today, enormous scope group "Aramco” to establisti slavia was now with the bloc, for expansion was possible. fiscal beadquarters In the have nearly doabled since the report said.

cost country and thus virtually 1953, according to a private It added that the Soviet reserves-"virtually unlimhod become a rational company, quarters announced, today a research organisation's re- growth in industrial output was resources","

trigates will all from Chinhae port now being considered at the rate of 8 per cent a year varied but were generally above informed sources said today. feet of three Kotian Navy

ngainst 4

Saud Ardbla per cent for the the British average in thick-

also asked naval baso on April 23 on a six- by the US, Senate Foreign United States, and the Sovietness.Conditions

beemed

to Aramco for 385 millon in lax cruise to the Southeast Asten week godwill: neid training Relations Committee.

growth, "could be larger than 6 DE

grens provid

#copa

for

arrears accumulated before 1955. | C

Santiago, Chile, Mar. 20. per cont-Router.

mechanisation particularly at

The Chilean Foreigy Minister, headquarters said the Sener Osvaldo sunt Morie, les the coal face.

The director-general of a}}

will take abpart 180 The mom led by De W. wells and mines, Abdallah Hete thes | production member Tariki, has obicially stated that graduating naval cadete from here by air tonight for Tokyo on of the National Coal Board, despite – the "afty-ntly! profil. Naval academy, or an orien an official visit visited the Soviet Union in 1980 thering agreement between Lalion tour The Brillit / chutent; nifanion at the invitation of the Govern | Bad Ambid and Aramco, to the Alumalabo Incastry rene tok budur: the outa anang Saud Ambla, la nobelying less and the fleet which towellent as poopylesh govlet techniques suschion Mall than 60. a cent of the prolife mons More than 10 per cent of the four week and tobloedt, at Special.

The_report_muld that by late 1980 the Soviet group had ex-

$1,400,000,000 at 2 to 2% per

WEDNESDAY'S Across: Age ended 30-year credits totalling

'@ Calt" (love), 10 Spectre, 11 Ante, 12 Epic, 14 Sausage,

17. Aster, 19 Alont, 22 Laments, 20 Aged, 27 Rest, 28 Kestrel, cent interest, and: Boylet group 20. Xaw 30 plan, 21 Amuliste, 32. Tled," "Downt & Graupu, technicians were training na- Elfnow, 4. Pesta, & Ropont, 6 Pleks, 7 Sprig, 42 Enel, 18 Ibnco, 15 | Uives of 14 countries in mining hogy, 18. Kynd, in Glass, so Lalant, di Nesla, Ră Absum, 24 and petroleum enterprises, Extol, 20 Sellp

Coal Mission®Report

page Londons, Mar. 31.

the sources said, rance-Free Bakoka

at For-

Manila

He is traveling by way of the United States and will aleg Visit Inklin, Jordan, Turkey, West Germany, tarac), France