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WARS OF

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1957.

THE FUTURE

BABY BOOM IN Belief They Could Be Limited 'Rankest Kind Of Wishful Thinking'

US DUE TO PROSPERITY

Washington, May 12.

The Population Reference Bureau, Inc., warned today that the time had come to re- examine the idea that "more babies mean more business."

The Burcau said that P.K. Whelpton, director of the Scripps Foundation for Research in population problemi, believed that the most desirablę US popula- tion should be about 100,000,000 in terms of "per capita economic welfare".

SURCHARGE ON FREIGHT REDUCED

The

Then, nollug that 38 non bables were born in the US be-} tween 1948 and 1950, tho Bureau raid the US population before long would be twice that nun

Jn

London, May, 13.

outward

Continental Kingdom and Shipping Conference New Zealand. members of which servo -India, Pakistan

Colombo announced to day that existing sur

and a half charge of 17 per cent on freight will be

The Bureau's bulletin, second of three on work population, deal with the part of some Western industrial nationa the world's growing population. The Western Industrial nations report are Unitedded in the

Western Europe, Casada, the |United States, Austrajla

Auc

Postponement and The Burau, a private ro

seasth group. baby boom in the United States

per cent

reduced to ten from today (Monday).

attribu.ed the

Washington, May 12,

General Alfred Gruenther, former Nato commander, said today that to believe any future war could be limited in size would be "the rankost kind of wishful thinking."

VERDICTS

EXPECTED

In a televisión interview he said that "theoretically” it was possible to wage a limited war with small atomic weapons. But in reality such a war would probably be- come a big one.

Greater Firepower

At the same time, General Gruenther, who is now President of the American Red Cross, defended the in-

IN TRIALS creasing emphasis being placed on the greater firepower

Amman, May 12. Military courts here will probably give their verdicts tomorrow after secret trials; today of three men variously charged with creating disturbances and causing unrest,

paganda was

stemming from wider use of atomic and nuclear weapons, He said he believed Russia would eventually "give" to some extent in negotiations with the West provided the United States and its allies maintained the strongest military force practical. But he said this would never happen if the West showed weakness,

Foot Soldiers

Questioned about manpower reductions which have ccompanied the introduction of nuclear weapons General Gruenther said the p=

requirements for munning a 450- mile front in Europe had been reduced by two-thirds since 1944.

A charge against a fourth man

spreading Communist

rejected because to progavity, Leponement of the offence occurred before the and war years, and also post-month. The court recommended marriages during the depression proclamation of martial law last ponement of having bobles that he he tried before a civil

during those years.

court.

yesterday

In Western Europe, a strong Security forces The reduced rate which re-upward trend in birth rates arrested eight people on charges mains subject to iteration with reached a peak in 1910 or 1947. of inclling people to demonstrate. out notice will apply to ship- France, Norway, the Nether-They will be tried before mili- ments whether already on boardlands, Finland and Sweden re-tary courts.

or not by all vessels loading Incored a more than 50 per cent Industrial perts today.

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A similar Murcharge C being applied in the homeward trades from India and Pakistan to the United Kingdom and continent.

Other shipping conferences including the Red Sea and For East recently announced redue tions in surcharges introduced at the time of the Suez crisis.

A similar cut was announced in Liverpool today by the Bres confiftuling the Burma Con- tinental Conference.-Revier.

Indonesians Are Born Technicians

mercase, the report said. Aus- Iría. England and Wales, Den- mark, Switzerland and Ireland corded a 20 to 50 per cent in

crease,

But birth rates have since declined in almost every coun- try of Northern and Western Europe, the Bureau continued.

arided:

Birth Rates

CURFEW LIFTED Security forces searching for also carried out Communists ralds in Hebron. All primary and secondary schools will re- open ca Tuesday, but teachers and students have been warned of serious penulties if there is

disturb attempt 10

the

kitty

peace.

The military governor of the Northern District today ordered the lifting of the curfew in the Irla

area. The curfew

"By 1055, bleth rates had dropped between 15 and 30 per cent from their nestwar highs in the Netherlands, England and Ammati ly expected to bo lifted Wales, Dermark, Sweden, ext week. France, Norway and Austria. They had dropped considerably In most other areas of Northern and Western Europe. Now they

The Cabinet at a meeting 10- night discussed the sacking of number of civil servants who 11:0 had failed to return to the offers after May 7 or who had lovels of The 1935-39 period. been members of political par- France and Norway are two tics,

are near or even

below

But he added that nuclear and atomic weapons could never entirely supplant foot soldiers-Reuter.

AMETHYST BRONZE BADGE FOR KERANS

Counts, May 12,

Anna Neagic, the British film star, today presented Com- mander John Kerans with the brotize badge of the frigate Amethyst, in which

made a 140-milla dash down the Yangise River 1 1945, ramlar the gauntlet of Communist Chiness batteries.

The ceremony took place an

Che

quarterdeck of the 10,000-ton British cruiser Birmingham, anchored off Cannes, where "Yangise Incident," the picture of this epic of British Bes- manship and courage, will be shown at the Interns- tional Flim Festival might

10-

Kerans took charge of the Amethyst for

exceptions. There, birth rates The Cabinet has the authority have declined rather sharply to sack any civil servant found from their postwar highs; 1955 to be a member of a political

Commander rates were still nearly 25 per party or has political affiliations, Singapore, May 12, Mr H. C. Himter. i United cent higher than the rates of China Mall Special, States Professor of Mechanical | 1935-39,"

Singapore Engineering, sald

the Southern Europe today Indonesians were "Born | Bulletin reported genersi technicians.*

downward trend through the postwar decade, which was most striking in Italy.

Mr Hunter who has been in Indonesia for two and a half years un loan from the TuskeJec Institute, Alabama, was speak to

when he new reporters through on the way back to his Djakorta headquarters,

He had been attending the International Industries Fair in Japan-Router.

In

DI

By 1955, Haly's birth rate was only 18,1-lower than the birth rates in # number Northern and Western European countries including France; and was almost seven points lower than the United States Tale,”-United Press.

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Jingle (b),

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16 Nigh (4)

16 Leave out (4).

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22 Couple (4),

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three grim

months after

her plate and 54 of her new were killed by Chinese nrullery while DI thetr way to take supplies to the 'British

Embassy in Nan- king, where he was masin- tant Naval Attache,

Now 42, Commander Kersns Bew to the French Riviera this weekend to attend the film's first showing abroad, But it was a complete mux- prise for him to reotive the badge of the Amethyst an anchor with eagle's wings- which is being broken up at Plymouth,

"I am deeply honoured, but I really don't know how I man going to carry this heavy thing back home to Little Hampton," he told reporters---tutor.

BUDGET SITUATION Poplar Hill

HANDLED

'VERY POORLY'

Hot Springs, Va., May 12.

Still At Suez

Cairo, May 12. Twenty-thre ships "passed through tre Suez Canal today.

They included a vessel char- the Dutch Govern- ment-ho 0,283-40n Hetskerk Her tolls were

Several of the nation's leading tered by business men criticised President Eisen- from Dairen. hower sharply today for his handling of paid in cuilders. the Federal Budget for fiscal 1958.

Members of the top level Business Advisory Council to the Commerce Department said the President handled the budget situation "very poorly." The B.A.C., composed of nearly 100 leading businessmen, is holding its annual meeting

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Schoolboys With

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Schoolboys With Colombia Returns Protruding Ears To Normal Under

New Regime

Slow At Sums

Paris, May 12. Schoolboys may be slow

at me if they have pro- truding ears, a report on backward' chlidren by a privato sobooča vrganisation, the Centre for Standar Teaching, myK

The cenice reports that fests have shown some boys with protipding cars felt a complex which hindered the natural development of their intelligence,

Treatment

pinning

the cars back until the earT grow normally and special study courses beginning with simple sums rectified the handicap,

The centre also reported that a course of breathing exercises had removed. the mental singnation felt by "dull" boys. ---- Chinn Mail Special

Bogota, May 11. Students and workers today called off the strikes that helped force ex-President Rojas Pinilla from office as Colombia returned to normal under a new civilian-military regime.

Rojas propaganda organ, the newspaper Diario Official, suspended publication. Sources said the closure was ordered by the five-man junta which succeeded Rojas on Friday when he fled to Bermuda en route to exile in Spain.

(Rojas, in an Interview in could have roule as clean ns Bermúdo, denied that he had mine," he said). been a dictator

and said he

Barcelona, the former could have perpetuated himself Conservative Party President,

In

l power "through. Bloodshed." | Laureena Gomez, who -WWB Rather than do that, he said, ousted by Rojus 1 1953, he resigned,

acitnowledged that he had been CHI wish all Colombiana invited to end his own exile i rotaz his homeland. He said he had not yet decided whether to do so,

Prince Bernhard In Rome

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and lis doughter Princess Beatrix, have been visiting Rome. Here they are pictured following a visli to a flower show-Express Photo.

Editorial Problems

To Be Discussed

At Meeting

By FRASER WIGHTON

Amsterdam, May 12. About 200 newspaper and news agency edi- countries would resume using torial chiefs and correspondents from many of the future.

the very near world's leading countries meet here on Tuesday

for a three-day study of editorial problems. A British cargo ship scheduled to pass through the Candy of the International Press Institute

They are delegates to the sixth annual meeting She is the do no.

the first world 7,127-1on Poplar Hill which ar body to concern itself exclusively with the editorial rived at Suez yesterday. Hem

did not

Bervica.

Founded by editors themselves Editare ni representatives of

Eisenhower, They said

asy hall the spread of communism. tolls have been paid in Collar problems of newspaper production and news agency chief executive, should havè cut i But, he warned, large amounts the record pearc-time budge of U.S. private capital cannot be Skiensfjord, 6,923 tonu, Hong

The British cargo ship of $71,800,000,000 to the bone invested abroad until this gov- before submitting it to Congress, ernment and foreign countries kong Navigation Company, six years ago, it has no Unka trade unions and management

arrived in

at Port Said from with governments. Its member- who have been' kwvited to this Rotterdam and was going on to ship Includes about 850 editori-| session will consider how best Basma tomorrow. She also paid | in-chief of 500 newspapers and continuity of ngalnat excessive her toll in dollars-Router,

newspaper produc- news agencies representing 37|tion can be ensured," countries of the non-Communist The discussion will focus world from the United States particularly on pressures that and Britain to Western Europe, arise from strikes and restric- tives practices by trade atrocio- tions and cartels.

"It is extremely bad policy to grant businessmen, incentive throw the budget to Congress the form of lower taxeS for possible cuts."

one of the guarantees

influential member of the los

B. A. C. said.

or

A spokesman for the H. A. C. Noting that U.S. businessmien said he doesn't belleve Congress invested $20,400,000,000 abroad

Damascus, May 12.

will make much of an actual in the last fisent year, fairless An outbreak of polio was RC-

dent in the spending budget for said they "cannot be experted / ported here today and Houdth/apan, India and Pakistan,

next year.

Dist

PRESSURES

Main business of the opening "pressures within the press.”

to do much more unitas our Ministry officials said alx casca Nevertheless, he added, Con- country and other countries had been reported in gress will make the cut look work out better climates for in- around Damascus United day will be a discussion on good enough to permit it to vote vestment."---United Press,

Preas o slight tax cut this session or

early next year.

ADVANTAGEOUS

"A small tax cut would'

politieally advantageous," saki

be he

He mentioned the possi- 'bility of a tax cut amounting to

about $10 for each taxpayer.

Deputy

Donald A.

Delenco Secretary Senator

told the Quareles

free

Council last night

tho

world has adequate power to- day to deter Ituslo from start- ing global war, But he said he was loss certain of the future.

the father "It is

greni [dechallogical changes which we (eunnat doarly foresen but which we are sure will take place that creato the- uncertainty in our future position vis-a-vis Commmint block."

·RUSSIA 'WELL AHEAD"-

"OF US ON INTERMEDIATE MISSILE

Washington, May 12. with a range greater than that Stuart Symington of Germany's V-2 of the

said Second World (Democra1-Missouri)

Wer would "well today Rumla Was

come "considerably later", then ahead" of the United States in

the publie had been led to believe. intermediate daycloping an

and that if rango" relailo would be "many years" be foro the US had |ma oparp- | tional missdio that could unvel more than 200 miles. Senator Bymnington,- questioned in a televizion interview; mid ho believed the American public

was "vary much mis-

The V-2, ho mặt, had a range

of 134-200 miles. Both the Army and the Air Force currently are tealing development models of miselles denighed to travel about 1,500 Intion the range designated as intermediate. But Senator SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acrom: 1 Prison, 4 Scope, 7: Appeur, Small, 10 Tone, 13 Testate, 10 Olare, 10 Oven, 17

Symington id the Soviets informed" Benjamin F. Fairless, former Epco, 19 Amuse, 20 Dismiss, 21 Erve, 23 Dawit, 24 Casino, 25

haubetaritial food in per... docting much weapon.. Vero, 20 Alones. Down: 1 Prattled, 2 Impinges, 3 Opal, head of U.B. Biéel, urged bus.

missilo prógrey, *- 'ta, - brósden Comatose, Pol-it-o, 9 Toems, 11 Elements, 12 Trash, 19 Aver- | nemmen

their Hamid development of quo mild, that in the race for an alon, 14 Envelops, 10 Pirate, 22 Pact,

doreign drivexirmonts and · kundig

upwatkrat, sugarmale entaile intercontinental missileswijk-

tho

on the nation's

a range of 5,000 milce-Russia and the United States prob-

ably were "about even” He said.it would be "a good the yente" before

many United States bad an arsenal of minites capable of span ning Intercontinental taneca..

dis-

On Wednexiny the conference will discuss the use and misuse of photographs in newspapers to illustrate the news.

SHORTCOMINGS

On foreiges study shortcomings in the Dow

Thursday editors and wiil optrespondents

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Thousands of workers who walked off the job in a popular opposition movement planned to. retum to work tomorrow on urders from the National Asso- ciation of Industrialists,

Students,

vanguard!

who were in the

the revolt, were expected to return toɑnorrÓW DE Tucsony to the classrooms they deserted 1 a protest against Rojos.

Buckled Down

The new 13-man Cabinet buckled down to work under the ruling military junto, The five civilians and three milltary men

already sworn In 10 Cabinet Ministries Assumed Deir functions.

The remaining five civilian mem→ bers of the Cabinet were 'to tako aver their jobs tomorrow, com- union" pleting the "national government merging major poll- tical Parties and the military in- to one regime,

The ten civilians in the Cabinet were equally divided between the two leading Parties -Conservative and Liberal, — United Press,

LIBYA PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR

NATIONALISTS

Tripoli, May 13, The Libyan Premier, Mustafa Ber Halim, tonight pledged financial, political ond moral support to the Algerian nation- alists fighting French rule,

He was speaking at a special -session of the Libyan Parliament In honour at the visiting Tunisian Premier, Habib Bour gulba.

"The independence of North African countries is mortgaged by the liberation of Algeria. Those countries will remain threatened by imperialism until Algeria becomes independent," he declared.

two

DO

Earlier

the toxlay, Premiers met to discuss economic and cultural AFTEC= ment between their two cou- trica

M. Bourguiba arrived horo yesterday on a five day omela), visit. He is accompanied by several Ministers-Reuter.

of newn between Asia and the Eau de Cologne

West. This discussion will be a prelude to the Institute's Asian Conference to be held in Cavion at the end of the year.

The conferenco will open ons Tuesday with an address by Dr Oscar Pollak, Editor-in-Chief of the Viennens Arbeiter Zelumg, who is Chairman of the Execu-

of..

tive Board of the Institute; the

Prince Beinhard

A former Secretary of the Alz Netheripods wil be gurbet sponker Force, Senator Symington at a luncheon on Tuesday and Bald that in productions of that evening the Dutch Govern- combat aircraft, Russin leads ment will give a reception. In the United States in all fields honour of the delegates in the except medium rangd, jut Hall of Knights at The Hague. bombers and possibly

all-

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