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Prelate's Power

A SETTLEMENT of the

Cyprus questions is ap parently as far off ns ever. The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, has again! rejected. Archbishop Ma- karios offer of bilateral} talks on the grounds that there are other parties to the dispute which Is an obvious reference

large Turkiah minority onį the inland.

The Archbishop is well aware

of the power he wields, not! only over the Greek Cy-↓ priota, but also over the immense following he has in Greece Iteclf, The spectacular welcome given to him in Athens following his release from exile is sufficient evidence of his Influence.

He us It in

his power to bring peace to the island, or to allow use- less fighting to be resumed.

He also has the ability to brenk governments in or to destroy or Greece confirm the anti-Communist ulliance in the Eastern Mediterranean. With this knowledge to back him the Archbishop remains adn- mant in his demanda.

YET

at the same time he atill refuses to condemn

terrorism in Cyprus and disassociate himself

Enosis. In one way it is a pity that he is not allowed to return to the island and seo for himself the changea that have taken place during his exile.

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NOW EXPORTS TO CHINA MAY DOUBLE The Big

London, May 80.

Britain may soon double its exports to Com- munist China as a result of the Government decision to relax restrictions on trade with Peking, an official spokesman Indicated tonight. British exports to China were valued at about £10 million Inst year..

Business men predicted that at a later date Britain may export four times the current amount to China.

The figure for exports passing through Hong- kong warehouses may be still higher, they said.

The Government spokesman said Britain does not expect American reprisals under, the "Battle Act" which suspends US aid to countries violating strategic goods embargoes..

Britain receives American afd a year.

$30-40 million worth of

The British decision does not mean a serious rift with the United States, authoritative British sources Anid. The United States showed "considerable under- standing" for the British position but could not meet

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Britain all the way because of American "domestle

· politića) difficulties," they said.

Britain hoped to export tractors and other farm machines to China and expect China to buy British factory equipment, heavy trucks and metal products. Business men said the Government decision meant a big step forward for Britain in the race for the Chinese market.-France-Presse.

HK Reaction: See Back Page

EMBARGO DOES NOT STOP PEKING BUYING STRATEGIC GOODS FROM AMERICA

HOW US EXPORTS GET TO CHINA

Japan, Thailand

Alleged

To Be Involved

By BERTRAM JONES

Tokyo, May 31

American exports including heavy machinery vital to China's vast industriali- sation programme are getting through to the Chinese via Japan and Thailand in

TORIES

AGAIN

DROP VOTES

London, May 30. The Conservativo Party received a fresh setback in two parlia mentary by elections polled in London today.

AL Hornsey,

industrial rc.

Con-

spite of Washington's ban on trade with idential suburbs on the capital's Poking.

This information reached me tonight.

The way around American security restrictions ingenious and expensive.

nort-eastern fringe, the

servative's previous majority of 12,726 was slashed by about

is three-quarters to 3,131. The Kovernment party's share of the fofal poll fcil by nearly seven percent,

It would be too costly for any-papers ceclliying they are buy- one but a Government that ing for Japan. Quite legally cannot att what it wants any other was and is ready to pay heavy make-offs to its agents

they get an export licence. And when the machinery is unloaded in Yokohama or Kobe back goes the verification demanded by export controis

In Cyprus he would see that the mood of the people fe ' different, No

can question their reaction

An executive of a big and re- against Eoka, their

Washington's pro- putable Import-export comparty found relief at the freedom with contacts well in the know of daily life which has revealed the teal to developed since terrorism Here is how it is done,

China needy say a machine was suspended, and their

tool of high performance thu desire for lasting peace. great precision and decides that an American machine 19 the

me,

At the same time the Arch-best. It makes its requirements bishop seems to ignore the known to one of the mary fact that tension between Japanese trading houses doing dolny Turkey and Greece has been business with the United States. steadily rising and attitudes Then off to Japan's Ministry on both sides have hardened, of International Trade and 011 application As a result of his release Industry goes Turkey has declared it will from this firm for an import not now consider

the licence. Radcliffe Constitution

and

Convincing reasons for want- that the only alternative to ing to bring in such a machine

British Bovereignty over the island la partition.

hom America are given: new it, it is n processes demand

being speelaliced line

not yet

REECE has already re- bulit in Japan,

jected a Nato offer of mediation and this can only be construed as another

П

So a licence is issued, bollars are arranged.

way of asserting that the the future of the island is mutter for discusalon be. tween the British and Greek governments.

If Greece could be prevailed

upon to reconsider the offer

possibly the most

useful

thing would be to

distin.

gulah between the different

parts Nate could play in

Then it is up to the agents in United States. They produce

Chinese Seamen Still 'Out'

Tokyo, May 30,

A 8,246-ion British tanker in Yokohama port.

that it has actually arrived,

'Names Obliterated

But it never goes into use. When it is delivered to a go- between firm and the Japanese authorities and the inspection Is over, off comes every trace of its American origin. The makers' names and serial number are aled off. Japanese markings are substituted.

For it anything should go wrong with the plans America must never find out,

At East Ham North, in Lon.

don's cast and, Labour, de- fending the seat against three opponents, slightly increased its majority. There, Conservatives share of the total votes cast dropped by over 11 percent compared with the 1050 general, slection from 40.9 percent to

20.4 percent.

THE RESULTS

The Homsey result, declared tonight, was:

After a discreet time the stuffed is repacked in Japanese crales and consigned to Hongkong. There, my informant said, other agents take over and arrange a passage north to China,

Elaborate steps are taken to cloak the true ownership of the go-betweeno.

Often they are splinter com- panics of bigger and respectable

Lady Carmang, · Conservative. 24,169 voles.

Labour 21,038 Mie Lyn Monstyn, voles

Conservative majority votes

31

The East Hum result, declar

ton-ght, was:

Mr R. E. Prentice, Labour-12,348 Be J. 1. 8. Bangay, Conservative

vules.

-0,567 votes.

Mt Edward Martell, People's League 2,730 voles.

Labour MP's Plea On SHOCKING

HK Cotton Exports

London, May 30,

The Labour 'party' ta tó attempt to raise in the House of Commons next week the question of mounting cheap ection imports from India, Pakistan and Hongkong, it was learned today,

Mr Wilfred Andrew Barke, Vice-Chairman of the Labour Parly and Member for Barnley, Lancashire, today tablod a ques- tion to this effect to the President of the Board of Trade,

The question seks Sir David Eccles "in view of the failure of the cotton industry's delegation to the Far East what steps he now proposts to take to stem the flood of cheap goods into this country from India, Pakistan and Hongkong."

It is down for a reply on Monday but there is no guarantee that it will be reached, Krater,

Now China

China Plans

Highest Railway In The World

Paris, May 30. Communist China will construct the highest

railroad in the world between Lanchow in Ching- hai Province, and Lhasa capital of Tibet, the New China News Agency said today.

The agency said that the railroad, on which prospect- ing work has already been begun, will be at an average altitude of more than 4,000' feet.

OXYGEN MASKS-

special Prospectors for the railroad would wear clothes to protect them from the cold, and would wear oxygen masks for research work in the Kunlun mountains at an altitude of more than 5,000 feet, and the Tungle mountain chain which reaches an altitude of about 7,000 feet.

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Work on the railroad, which would be about 800 miles long, would be undertaken with the aid of topographical Mr W. 11. Chilitoper, Indepen- maps made on the basis of aerial reconnaissance, the

dent, Labour--ESE VOLES.

Labour majority 5,079 votes.

Labour fought its campaign

against the Government on the

Issues

KITAN

of high living costs and a now rent bill which when passed into law shortly decontrol rents and tenure of and eventually 800,000 houses affect the rents of millions more. -Reuter.

Crisis In Laos

agency said.-France-Presse.

WOMAN KILLS RUSSIAN

·

WITH FIVE BULLETS

Washington, May 30.

A woman employee of the "Voice of America" pro- paganda organisation confessed today to shooting dead a 40-year-old Russian colleague in her apartment because ho tried to annoy her, the police said.

coneerTY! backed by separate capital and do disguised through complicated paper work that the association is impossible to trace. But there is a risc And that is why the commission must bi high. Clover rues are used to trick the Hongkong authorities. Incoming cargoes there destined for onward passage for China oro falsely described in the con- signment notes. Well-known

wn In Tokyo

London, May 30. finding a basis of settle-randed

Premier Prince Souvana ment of the island's internal near Tokyo, since Tuesday be Tire la proof that one ship- Phourne of Laos resigned today problema and at the same cause of a strike by 37 Chinese ment of machinery from Japan over dissatisfaction with his time providing territorial anamen, missed a sultable Lide-arranged by a Chinese and handling of the integration of a translator with the organdan Sunday. guarantees for Turkey.

woman, again tonight when a number shown on the papers as "ventila- Communist Pathet Laos rebellion, was found early today in of seainen refused to board the tion equipment” was found to units into his country, Radio le apartment of the

Misa Edith Louise Hough, with Self-determination is out of

ship,

for diesel Peking reported.

five bullet-holes in his body. the question as it would Japanese port authorities said engineż

The Premier lost a vote of My information is that there mean complete annexation the strike began when captain

confidence on his policy of Abdushell from Georgia in of the island by Greece, S. King of the tanker, 'ka a flow of American goods to ultimately leading to open Assarious (Anglo-Saxon Petro-China via Bangkok-the Thai negotiations with the northern the Soviet Union, had been conflict

Turkey leum Company of London) capital-which makes the trade rebels although the National married less than 16 days. His and Greece thus destroying unlabod one of the scarnen for through Japan look insignificant. Assembly approved the joint bride told the police that ho Integrating the had gone to the apartment to Chiefly drugs and compact pack agreements Nato In

Eastern attempting to bring a .the

Police said ' convey his condolences to Miss groups-United Press, aboard.

highly specialised” pro- ages Mediterranean.

Immigration authorities said ducts which Wasington cer- were in tainly does not intend Peking to The choice between peaceful the striking seamen

passes allowing have. It is so well-known progress and conflict within possession of

remain ashore until Tokyo that it is astonishing if it Nato Itself lies with the them to

midnight on Friday.

is a secret from the Americans. Archbishop and it is to be

They sald if the seamen did London Express Service. hoped that he will show not return to chuty by then they statesmanship, in bringing would be retained as Megal im an end to the deadlock, | migrants--Reuler.

between

woman

In Your Saturday Mail

Tomorrow the China Mail will introduce its new dally serial for motoring enthusiasts: Stirling Mosa by Barry Morse;

And Crowning Glory -the great concluding chapter of Britain's ascent of Everest by Bryan Adams.

Among, the many other features will be:

H-Bomb Penney Chapman Pincher; de What Bomber Harris says about the Bomb Gamery. H-Bomb Balderdash,

....

Viscount Cherwell.

be superchargers

Queen To Fly. In A Comet

The

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London, May-30. Queen will make her first flight in a re-designed version of Britain's 111-Fated Comet jet airliner on Tuesday, it was announced today.

The Queen and Prince Phlip: will fly in a Comet II from the RAF Station at Markham, Nor folk, to visit • RAF DEkter Fifeshire-United

base

Donald Press.

The War Crimes Cair against Spelde - Lord Russell,

Via Suez Tankers

London, May 30, The first lankowe to reach And then there will be intelligence report by Sefton Dolmer: Britain via the Buez Canal show, builucas,: fihoa, records, books, cartoons, pazin. for women inco It was reopened arrived and children, not forgetting. The Work In Pictures and Hotsida | soday from the Paralan Gull, Pictorial and the radh tipe - all, in the China MAIL.

United From

The Russian, Zurag Abdushell, Hough, whose father died on Miss Hough was described as Abdushell's "itted girl friend." They apparently had a violent quarrel over the telephone last night Police said Abdusheli to the apartment later came where the quarrel was resumed Shot In Head and climaxed by the slaying,

Miles Hough readily admitted the shooting and quoted her as saying that after she shot Abdusheil overal ilmes, the "shot him in the head again to put him out of hin misery!" because sho couldn't bear to see him suffer, Abderhell was employed in the Georgia section of the Voice of America There he wrote and announced broadcasts beamed to Georgia in the 'Soviet Union- France-Presse mat United Press.

Cars In Head-on Crash At 125mph

· Lyons, May 30, Two motor rheing drivers were killed today when they

collided head-on at about. 125 miles an hour on's highway outside Sainte Kilombe in a Grand. Pric 13.06.

They was M-year-old⋅ Picto Catial at Thaly", and a Portuguone driver, named Barreto, They were both driving_Ferrari car, „The "socīderis -- Dociered, when

Carini "lost: control of his· rote on the "Red Boure'" › bread, orsabed over inn kawi - bastiör, marasing the tyra --Iansa of, the highway, and

* went straight into morreia's

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Ferrari, which was travel- Ung in the opposito dires- tian,

The two oSTS WOTD EDrahéd to picots and debris ; was thrown high Infp the air. Ne spectators were injur- ef, but the two-drivers ukra · Rolled Laknočilately, The know was won by Who- and Inn (PATIKE Telite three more Jaques, in itha janews three pinoda, Pappade The dracht of: Curial and Baretto Follows w26his b fortnight of the MELO Miglin

It Was Homer

Paria May 30. Soviet Heliente, expter has doclared that the controversial problem of the existence. of Greek eple poty Homer, sup- poged author of the "Illad" and

"Odysey can be consider

ed solved, the Tam nows agency reported today. Homer did write both, he said: evidence had been, found in Greece and on thờ T

ALGERIA

MASSACRE

.

Algien, May 31.

Bang Will Be Today

BRITAL

London, May 31. þRITAIN will explode ita second, hydrogen bomb in the Pacific today, accord- ing to the Daily Mail.

The newspaper's nir cor respondent, T. F. Thompson, sald the explosion, which ho described as Britain's Arst real hydrogen bomb weapon," would take place about noon soveral hundred miles from Christmas Island.

The first British H-explosion on May 15 was, by comparison, "Christmas cracker," the cor- respondent said. "It WD A device to see if the theoretical calculations.of our atomic scien- tists were correct,

'Several Others'?

dies, this is it."

The correspondent said the bomb would be dropped tror about 10 miles from a Valiant jet bomber,

He said that today's explosion would be the key one in Britain's present ecries of tests, although there might be several other tests-China Mail Special.

At least 275 people were massacred and their bodies mutilated yester- "Though there may be further day in the Algorian village | explosions in Britain's H-bomb of Molouza, in a reprisal roid by robels of tho National Liberation Front,

·The rebel raiders slaughtered | all the men and youths in the village, before the eyes of the women and children. After the raiders loft, the womon flod with their children to the protection of the army. The attack was said to be due to the rivalry between the National Liberation Front and a rival robal group, the National Algorien movement. Franco-Presse.

Painter Prodigy

Paris, May 30.

A child prodigy, has been dis- covered in Dairen. He is a five- year-old painter, Aung Hsiao Yen, and has produced 800 pictures In the last year, the New China. news agency reported.-France- Presse,

Yellow Rain Falls In Singapore

La

Singapore, May 30. "yellow raÏD” falling in a Singapore suburb. Mysterious some residents have told re- porters they believe the rain which falls in yellow-speckled droplets is the result of radio- active fallout from Britain's Christmas Island

hydrogen |

bomb tert.

day to have

one

reported that his car, which

was left in the open night, was found the next.

the paintwork spolted down to the steel. A friend who parked his our its the same place found shuliar spots on his car.

An authority at the Hongkong University said the marks could have been estand... – by the formation of nitric acid. This acid, he said, would "hayu resulted front the thunder and Datining which occurred during the night, ใค

Ile said that the marks could not have been assed by radioactive rain as it would not show in the form of DOTTOSION.

The yellow rain has stained people's clothes and the roof. tope of eaTS. Profesor R. A. Robinson, of the University of Malaya's Chemistry department, asked residents to collect the rain for him to analys, ~~ Reuter.

In Hongkong last week, a' re- sident Mr Roger. Renfrow

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