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Commonwealth Unity

TR Emmanuel . Sbinwell's warning In the House of Commons that Britain must tighten her links with the 'Commonwealth is timoly, although his vision that the entire family of nationa might beconis satellites of! the United States

what exaggerated.

aume- There

is, however, some truth in his contention that the Commonwealth countries

are leaning more and more on American Snance,

A Conservative Member, Mr Bernard Braine, also seen a weakening of tles, expeclakj ly economic ones and refers to the Soviet Union tenm conducting resources

Rur'.

veys in Indla, contending that Britain should bu doing the job,

ELH

Both warnings, coming

they do on the eve of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, should give those states. men food for thought in their deliberations and it is hoped that after they have | compared nutes

the latest Soviet strategy they will find time to consider the entire structure of the Commonwealth and its

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HONDURAN NICARAGUAN DISPUTE:

"TOTAL

Washington, May 5, The foreign ministers of Guatemala, Costa Rica and El Salvador have made a joint offer to mediate in the Hon- duran-Nicaraguan bor- der dispute, it was disclosed here today.

Headquarters of the Or- Ameri- ganisation of can States said the offer was sent to the Honduran and Nicara- guan governments from Guatemala City on May 4 and a copy was received by OAS Council chairman Fer- nando Lobo today.

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WAR"

The OAS said the cables 1. Expresses the sorrow Guatemalan, of the Costa Rican and El Salvadoran

govern - ments over the con- flict that has broken out between Honduras and Nicaragua,

Calls

on the two countries to cease hos- tilities.

2.

3.

Pledges strict дец trality.

4. Declares that the three Central Ameri- can Republes will close their frontiers to the traffic of arms to Honduras and Nicara. gus.

5.

DANGER WARNING

Offers the three gov- ernments', good offices for mediation if it can prove useful in

any way.

Meanwhile,

President Luis Somoza conferred urgently with an in- vestigation commission from the Organisation of American States (OAS) which is 'sook. ing to end the shoot- ing in the Honduras- Nicaragua border 'dis- pute.

Somoza last night SC-

cused Honduras of breaking the truce îm posed by the OAS and warned "any new ag-

gression", would mean "total war",

Both sides were reported moving up men and artillery in the dis- puted border area.

President Somoza sound- ed his "total war" warning after Hon- duran Air Force planes bombed two Nicaraguan border villages yesterday. A military communique said Mocoron and Loimus were attacked. It said Nicaraguan planes challenged the raiders.

In Tegucigalpa, Gen. Ro- que Rodriguez, Chief of Operations of the Honduran Army and a member of the three- man junta. that con- trols that country, said the planes returned safely to their bases after destroying Ni- caraguan "military ob- jectives.!! Ho said Honduran bombers re- turned with

bullet holes in the fuselage" but none was brought down.

Somoza telephoned Ri- cardo Arias, Chair- man of the OAS fact. finding mission, to

ITALIAN CABINÈT CRISIS SHE SAID NO

Wire-Tapping

Scandal

ARREST OF

POLICE

SOME thirty years ago there INSPECTOR

WAM a

common' link be

tween all the members →→

the Crown: now there are republics

within

has been

Berne, May 5. Swiss Federal police inspec- the tor Max Ulrich Commonwealth who do not arrested on suspicion of having owe allegiance to the information obtained by tap- Sovereign. Thus the ping the wires of the Egyptian closely knit dominion-colony Embassy, it was officially an- family has fallen into nounced today. oblivion and is now, in a rather untidy form.

But despite the partial break ing away from the tra ditional union there still remains an association that binds the respective nations together. Prior

A communique was issued by Dr Hana Walder, special in- vestigating magistrate into the capionage scandal and the recent suicide of Federal Attorney and security chief Rene Dubois.

the

investigation following Ulrich's

The announcement said

to the rest

on May 2 "had already was shown

results which most the seriously implicate" him.

Dubois committed suicide on

second world war it defence which heid Commonwealth intact, when

the Royal Navy policed the March 23, after coming under world's oceans. The scene!

suspicion of leaking information retivities of Algerian

has changed with modern, on the strategy adapting itself to nationalists in Switzerinne and the use of nuclear weapons the Egyptian Embassy and the once-essential member of the French Embassy defence bastions such as in the Swiss capital.

SHADOWED

to

D

Malta, Aden and Cyprus have fallen into the back- ground of a past age. In other worda their

An earlier communique by im the Federal Justice and Police portance is diminishing and Department had said that Ulrich, with it goed their eventual who was repeatedly questioned elimination from Common-1 on the subject, had emphatically wealth strategy,

denied having leaked tay con fidential information.

THAT there is still

But Co-

it

was

learned

trom

HONGKONG MAN

COLLAPSES

AT AIRPORT

Tokyo, May 0. Anthony Seto of 3 Col- Joxe Hoad, Hongkong, collapsed late last night an he was boarding a plane here for a flight to the Colony.

Airport offelals said that Beto, who was accompanied by his wife, "apparently sufferet a heart attack."

The Hongkong couple, formerly of San Francisco, returning to Hong-

after attending

conference

were

Koious

Tokyo.

The stricken

trian wak being treated at the airport hospital. His wife was his side--United Prom, ·

at

Blackwoods Not On Lappa Is. Say Farmers

Macao, May 6.

Social Democrats

Abandon Coalition Govt

Rome, May 5.

Italy's Social Democrats decided to pull out of the government today, plunging Premier Antonio Segni's Coalition into crisis.

The sudden about-face by Deputy Premier and Social Democrat, leader Giuseppe Saragat made Segni's downfalt inevitable. It also was expected to cut down Foreign Minister · Gaetano Martino, who has guided Italy's pro-Western policy for nearly three-years Nor

Saragat announced his decision Nixon's visit to Italy. The to quit the; government at Foreign

D

Ministry suppressed speciti meeting of his supporters it on grounds that views on the in the Social Democrat Party this Mideast which Gronchi ex- morning. The recommendation pressed conflicted with official was expected to get full backing Italian policy-United Press, from a party directorate meeting

on Thursday.

The Social Democrat'a with-

Princess

Rejects

drawal from the Coultion west DEATH OF Marriage

to

meant

that Premier Segni would auto- matically resign his Cabinet. Coming on top of the Republican withdrawal early this year, it put the Coalition in a minority.

Segni's Une-up was expected be replaced by another A thorough canvassing

would again which Coalition of the whole waterfront of include

the Social Democrats Macao, from Ilha Verde to and Liberals, But Segni end the southern tip of the Martino would be out, Barra Fortress, including interviews with the sampan folk plying between Lappa Island and Macro, gave no evidence that the American, his Donald Blackwood,

About-Face

The Saragat decision was an about-face. Only a few weeks of party Secretary Matteo Mat- ago he accepted the resignation teotti because Matteott! wanted

NOTED SCIENTIST

Proposal

von

of

(LAX IN

DAKS Whiteaways

IN ACTION TRAWEEKH

HONGKONG

warn that another ab- tack on Nicaraguan territory would mean war.

"Should this happen, the good offices of the committee would be unnecessary,” Sómoza told Arias by long- distance telephone in Tegucigalpa last night.

Somoza later told

.03

porters that unless the OAS Mission membera "put an end to things quickly they might as woll

back to RO Washington."—United

Press.

KOWLOON

AUSTRIA'S NEW PRESIDENT

Vienna, May G Austrian Vice-Chancellor Adolf Schner 'was elected President of the Austrian Republic in general elec- tions held today, it was officially announced. Schaer

is a Socialist.

Schaer received

2,259,976 votes, whlio his opponent, Wolf- gong Deck, candidate of the Populist and Liberal parties, received 2,160,561 votes. The votes

of the Vienna workers' districts were decisive in bring- ing victory to Schaer, head of the Austrian Socialist Party.

The 67-your-old new Prest- dent, who has been a member of Parliament and Vice-Chancellor Nickolsburg of artisors.

Dalai Lama Taken October, 1945, was born in

To China

Reign Of Terror In

Tibet

Lahore, May 5.

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The Pakistan newspaper Civil

A family of

TWICE IMPRISONED

A militant Socialist from the age of 10, he obtained a doc. torate of law and political science from the University of Vienna, and then served as B lieutenant

world In the e war, He was a parliamentary official in the first Austrian Re public and served as

legal nd

viser to the Socialist Party. He was imprisoned in 1934 by Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss and again in 1988 by the Nazis. After the liberation of Vienna

and Military Casette today by Soviet troops in 1943, Schper quoted Tibetan refugees reach-reorganised

如 Austrian.....

ing the Kashmir border sa say: Socialist Party and later became ing the Dalai Lama, spiritual its President, leader of Tibet, had been taken from

Lhasa to China for "medical treatment.”

Ho la the third Austrian Pre- sident since 1940, succeeding The report said "the refugees Theodor The

Koerner, also a reported Tibet had been under Socialist, who died last January martial law for the last two 4, in office France-Presse,

weeks

They said a reign of terror had been let loose throughout the country and there had been clashes between the Dalai Lamb's followers and! the Chinese army of occupation

Thousands Killed

"The Chinese army was taking extreme measures to suppress the Lama's supporters, thousands of whom were reported to have been killed.

Just Pals Together

Kuala Lumpur, May 5. Two labourers charged with disorderly conduct wrote to the magistrate: "We have long been friends together we drunk "Refugees along the Azad- gether, Kashmir border have confirmed arrested together, got admitted fought together, get

· a

that the Dalat Lamala palace to hospin her, discharged

aver by the

together,

has been taken Chinese army and turned into trate at your feet for mercy in an armed cang.

Voroshilov Leaves

"We could and no conceivable reason whatsoever for fight between us,

A

"We together sat down hours to think of any reason, and we could not find any,

"All that we know is that wo jointly drank in merry friend- ship. When we came to "con- London, May 5, sciousness we found ourselves The Soviet President Morahal | in Voroshilov, left Pelding by air know."

hospital. That is all Wo this evening for Indonesia, Mos- The magistrate discharged cow Radio said tonight-Reuter, them with a caution-Reuter.

operation between the mem-reliable sources that the Inspec- Korean wife and eight-to quit the Coalition and Sara-Louis, had been in 111 ber nations in the matter for had been shadowed by mem-month-old child, have gone Eat did not, of defence was evident laat bers of the Basel canteral poli- to the Chinese island. wock when the naval chiefs tical police and had been re-

now we pros.

our desperate effort to and an They further disclosed that avenue into your humane beart Stockholm, May 5. the Lama, who was earlier te from where you would youch- St. Louis, Miss,, May 5. Count Cart-Reinhold

ported to be under arrest in safe to look with pity. Ramen, Master-of Dr Joseph W. Kennedy. Household, said in

the Royal Tibet, had been removed to one of four scientists who statement today that Mr Robin

pressChina where, according to the

Chinese authorities, be was discovered the element Douglas-Home, a London ad- undergoing medical treatment," plutonium, essential in mak-vertising agent, had asked for Router. ing atom bombs, died today Princess Margareths of Sweden.

hand in marriage the

of cancer. He was 40. Ils sult had been refused,

Dr Kennedy, chairman of Princess Margaretha, 22, the Department of Chemistry granddaughter of King Gustav at Washington University in St VI of Sweden, Mr Douglas- health Home, 25, is nephew of the Eart

of Home, leader of the Conser since last autumn, Political sources said Chris-

In 1955 the Atomic Energy vatives in the House of Lords, itari Democrat Segni

and Commission

awarded $400,000 Princess

first Liberal Martino were the

Margaretha tims of a vendetta inside

Dr Kennedy, Dr Arthur C. went to England in 1952 when, the Wahl, Dr Glenn T. Christian Democrat Party,

Seaborg at the age of 17, she studied and Dr Emillo Segre in return | English. Reliably reported to beor all rights to plutonium

the Segri-Martino separation

HOSPITAL JOB processty they team werO Christian Democrat

Sho returned to London In A pre-dawn check on farmers Party Secretary Amintore Fan-

developed.

September, 1959, to "polish up coming into Macao this morning fand

was director of her Engilsh," Dr Kennedy atto Italian President the chemistry divisions of the with the farm-products showed] Glovanni Gronchi,

While in

In the capital she took that they

atomic bomb project at Losup have not

Alamos, New Mexico. During floral therapy department of a voluntary job in the occups- seen such a foreigner, his wife

the second world war he re-

London or child.

hospital. him with "immobility." They civilian can receive from the home of his uncle, playwright

opponents charged ceived the US Army Medal of

Mr Douglas-Home is spending Merit, the highest award the week-end at the country held that his leadership WAS not sufficiently dynamic,

military,Reuter.

William Douglas-Home.

seen entering

of staff met in London to house of a French diplomat.

peatedly

discuss their varied prob-[

lems, but with divergent political policies there would

thon remains to hold Commonwealth

gethor?

"club"

A CLOSE FRIEND

the

No

sampan women admitted taking any foreigner to Lappa Island lately. An old woman said: "We would not even dare to provide transportation for enemies of any stranger to that locality".

heard or “Immobility”

ing through would spread fast,

not be a universni call to The diplomat said to have arms in the event of a been a close friend of Dubols, future world war. What was identified in the Swiss press this AS Marcel Mercier, a former

French intelligence officer hold to-

ing the rank of a colonel;

Mr Bhinwell and Mr Braine Dr Walder In connection with Among these questioned by

The village outside of Macao's answered the question: it the alleged lenks was Associated barrier hos 1,500 inhabitants, is simply 4 matter of Press correspondent for Swit- they said, and any rumours or economics, and although for zerland, Michael Goldsmith, a news of any new arrivals pass- the moment economic ties British subject. will hold the Commonwealth When he refused to reveal the they added-France-Presse. together, in the long run sources of a news dispatch sterling will eventually be- led to his agency disclosing como convertible and that a secret investigation Into then trade discrimination an alleged case of espionage was will also become incompattoned for 24 hours for contempt being conducted, he was impri- with the General of court,-United Press, Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. This era, freely anticipated a year or so age, has possibly been delayed once more because of tho Suez crisis but eventually it must arrive and weaken the common ties of the Commonwealth.

ible

GRENADE KILLS

OLD

WOMAN

Constantine, May 5.

An 80-year-old woman

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He is expected back at the luxury: Berkley Hotel in London tomorrow where he plays the

1. Failure to reinforce Italy's Bomb Attack On plan in the cocistall bar during

status in the NATO allinn.co. Charges against Martino cul-

mated with his performance

Police Chief

Members

of

"the evening-Router.

the outlawed Film Star Weds

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at the meeting of NATO's Coun cil of Ministera in Bonn His

London, May 5, opponents were miffed that Italy was not elected to the "working Irish Republican Army, made group which is to study Euro- bomb attack today against a Calro, May 5,

pean security and German re-

Hollywood, May 5. The Egyptian newspaper Al unification.

The Christian De

launch carrying Northerland Film star Shelley Wintera Massan indicated that the mocrat organ Il Popolo attacked and

Ireland's polico

Sland chief

actor Anthony Francioca Egyptian authorities would soon Martino on this issue,

Richard

Pim.

who is heading an were married last night at Car- move to **Egyptianine" foreign 2. President Gronchi, long anti-IRA campaign, the police son City, Nevada, it was dis shipping companies in Egypt, time political rival of Martino, announced. The police said the closed here today.

The paper said a hill, on the was still smarting over the bomb exploded in the launch's

The marriage the third reorganisation of the status of Foreign Ministry's refusal to hold off Strangford Lough in for Miss Winters and the second foreign shipping companies, and transmit a message he prepared Northern Ireland, but no one for Franclcsit. He currently is

"EgypticnimSITAT". Was their

would for US President Eisenhower. wwa hurt. Sir Richard's wife on location in Carson City for The economic benefits now killed, and 61 persons were sent soon be submitted to the EP The message was drafted as a was on board,

the Alm "Obocasion," which outweigh the political value to hospital today as a result of tian State Cound before being reply to the message Elsenhower The launch was damaged brutalans Anna Magnani, United of the family of nations and of a grenade attack in Constan- published officially France sont to Gronght on the occasion was able to return to port, the Press. the future of the precarioustine's central vegetable market. association will therefore The wonan, Madame depend on practical factors Halimi, died of stomach wounds such as Britain's ability to in a hospital several hours after WAS. thrown into supply both the finance and tochnical skill for Common-

market... the crowded

Twelve Europeans, Including

Cairo radio wild tonight thal wealth development. Fall 10 women, and eight Moslems A strike of truck drivers and fused to withdraw Its Incentive Company is the only sugar pro would visit Amman, capital of Bydney, May 6. Bingar. Refiding Company: rør The Colonial Sugar Refining King Squa of Saudi Arabia to realise and implement a were Injured in the grenade londiers today threatened to halt bonde wystem:: The drivers went ducer in the state. The com- Jordan, is the latter half of long-range programme could blast itself, while the others mugor production in New South profit-sharing ostoach. They party warned its rolnery would May, Tho well soo a further weaken wore injured in the panic whichWales, a 2011 here be claimed the bonus system for close on Wedicineday-tanless the Kinga visit to Jordan would ing of the world's "third | followed the explosion. ---France- The workers struck because speedy deliveries wat became car wirko sa wattled before then be made after an officisi vilt

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