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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1957.

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TALKS ON PHONE TAPPING AUSTRALIA-JAPAN

Macmillan Agrees To Meet Opposition Leaders Over Uproar

London, June 25.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, today agreed to meet Opposition leaders to talk over "certain aspects” of the government's power to tap private telephone lines.

Mr Macmillan announced this in a written reply to questions in the House of Commons.

The press and Members of Parliament have been up in arms over police tapping of a London lawyer's telephone conversation with the self- styled "King of the Underworld", Billy Hill.

AIRFIELD

NOT FOR

RENT ·

Jeddah, June 25. Saudi Arabia today off cially denied a Cairo news paper report that King Saud and Jordanian King Hussein had agrees to rent Jordan's Maraq airfield and perhaps the Port of Aqaba to United States forces.

The report, which appeared on Sunday in the independent Egyptian newspaper Al Shal sald Hussein and Saul had agreed to rent Mafraq hal dis- cussed renting Aqaba, and said in return the United States Bonual would pay Jortlan subsidy.

Tho lawyer, Patrick Marrinan, has been called before the Bar Council for questioning on his activities, later this week. The Council, which polices lawyers activities in Britain, has copies of transcripts of the tapped calls.

Faces Barrage

Mr Macmillan faced a barrage of queries on wire- tapping in the House today but time run out during the question period before they came up for an oral answer. A Conservative, Mr John Langford Holt, asked for the appointment of a committee of privy councillors (con- stitutional advisers to the Queen) to advise Secretaries of State, in the exercise of their powers to authorise the Lapping of private telephone lines in cases involving na- tional security and the detection of serious crime,

In a written reply, Mr Macmillan said he had agreed to meet the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party "to talk over certain aspects of the govern- ment's power to tap private telephone lines in cases in- volving national security and the detection of serious crime".

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Refuses To Say

Mr R. A. Butler, the Home Secretary, today refused

to say whether the telephone lines of British members of Parliament had been tapped during the past five

A statement issued by the Saudi Directorate of Press and Broadcasting today declared years,

Syrian

"some Egyptian and Dapers have been prinung fabricated news about Saudi

Arabla which could not manate but from purely Arab rources from enemies of Arabs who are

the alming at rupturing

Nu- tional Front and sprending doubts and differences between sister Arab States,"

The statement added, The Directorate assures the false hood of this report and beseeches Arab papers to be more careful with such implications. Lest Arab public opinion become the

Mr Marcus Lipton, a Labour member, asked in the House of Commons today in how many cases the tele- phone lines of members of Parliament had been tapped during the past five years.

Mr Butler, in a written reply, said: "It has always been the practice, in the public interest, not to disclose either the number of warrants issued authorising the recording of telephone conversations, or whether a war- rant has been issued in any particular case or in relation to any particular class of persons,

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"I should not he justified in making any departure victim of lies and deceptions." from this accepted practice."-China Mail Special and

-United Press.

United Press.

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SUHRAWARDY MEETS EL SAID

London, June 25, Former Premier Nuri el Said of Iraq had lunch with } the Pakistani Prime. Minis- ter, Hussein Suhrawardy, today and informally ex- changed views with him on the Middle East situation.

KEEP IT CLEAN, LADIES

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The world's most famong maliing ship the "Cutty Sark" Tea Clipper — is back to her originat splendɗi ... na she was wien constructed in 1809, she is now in a permanent berth — in a dock at Greenwich and her restoration cost is estimated at about 250,000 to include the establishment of a number of bursaries to aid young men train and quality as officers in the Merchant Navy. The setting up of the vessel as a Museum Greenwich has been organised by the Cutty Sark Preservation Soolely- the Buseum was officially opened by IIM The Queen yesterday, Photo Shows charwomen at work →→ cleaning up the decks of the restored "Cutty Bark" in readloom for her Inauguration by

HM The Queen,-Keystone Photo.

FRENCH AGREE TO SUSPENSION

London, June 25.

France would agree to limíted suspension of nuclear tests

providing present nuclear powers stop producing fissionable material for military purposes, French delegate Jules Moch said at a meeting here today of the United Nations disarmament subcommittee.

AMERICAN

CAPITAL

WANTED

New York, June 25.

Moch said a halt in prodțe. tion of fissionable material for military uso would end the nuclear armaments race. Не was replying to Soviet delegate, Valerian Zorin, who had just rejected the link between suspension of nuclear testy and a halt in nuclear weapons produr- tion.

MUST END

HURRICANE HEADING FOR TEXAS

Authoritative French quarters Although it is said that he has |

Mr Nobusuke Kishi, the sold the nuclear arms race must

New Orleans, June 25. come here for a "imedical check-Japanese Prime Minister, be ended and this would not be up", well-informed sources be

possible the present nuclear

The year's first hur- iloved el Said would take the tonight urged that controls powers, the United States, the ricane lumbered through opportunity to cement further on trade with Communist Soviet Union and Britain, con- the Gulf of Mexico in the Iraq'e solidarity with the West-China "be made reasonable tinue to manufacture nuclear direction of the Louisiana ern powers."!

and practical”

weapons after the tesw Tnd Texas consts today suspended. El Sold resigned on June 8 and helped

He also appealed for United | his hand-picked States

Western powers agree that with winds of 75 miles an

disarmament successor, Senator All Jawdat, Japan's industries and a far comprise;

capital investment in first-clip

should hour. to form a new Cabinet to con- chance" fer. Japanese products tinue his home and foreign on the American market. policies, On June 19, Premier Jawant's Cabinet was formally |Installed by a Royal Decree,

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TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD.Acres: 3 Apes, Trips, Türt, §. Brus, 10 Penalve, 12.P.O.-M.P. 18 Oriel, 18 Idől, 19 Astir, 21 Laden, 22 Amps, 23 Sprov, 20 Play, 20 Red-dots, 30 Ario, 81 Tier-32 Demen, 33 Need. Down 2 Green, 2 Epis bgt, & Plus 5. BICP(W.) 6. Trim, 9 Evli, 11 s-13 Date. Fore(pour), 18 Lamed, 17 Clan, 10, 1dẹn, 30 Spikker, 22 Zrnkę 24 Frido, 25 Swep, 27 Rüli, 20 YEFILN.

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The US Weather Bureau here sold at noon (1700 GMT) that 1. Reductions in

man-hurricane Audrey was born In power, weapons and mill-a boiling tropical disturbarica in Addressing the Far East-tary spending.

the Gulf of Campeche off Mexico.

2 Suspension of nuclear tests coupled with a halt production of nuclear

America Colinell of Commerce and Industry and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of New York at

dinner in the in Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Mr, Kishi i wenpens. Shortly after the departure of paid tribute to "American Canadian Prime technical know-how, which has Sald, the

John Diefenbaker, contributed greatly to the in- called on Premier, Suhrawanly provement of

Industrial to have a "really chat. Mr efficiencies." Diefenbaker spent an hour with Premier Subrawiskdy dibeusaing "many. subjects of mulual Interest,"

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US Navy Hurricane hunter pilots tracked the new storm in

Dow 4 dae that Jacksonville, Florida.

out

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together with other Western CHANGE COURSE

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The disturbarice was moving In a northwesterly, airdotion ht

-3. An international control The hurricane swirled into

system.

the southwcat Gulf of Mexico France attaches spécial Im-about 380 milca southeast of portice to reducing conven- Brownsville, Texas, žonal wenpora and is studying

members of the subcommittee a "One of the imperativo needs plan set up "supervised Suhmwardy met matbers of fourth of

the Life afternoon in keeping John afloat is opties of surplus weapons about 12 miles an hour.

capital. Althigh about

one in nations

which sign 植 the groto nilionat disarmament tronty.

For the gust, 12 hours Audrey the Anglo-Pakistani Parliament-postuet is turned over to capital

has been almost stationary, the aty group in the House of Com accumulation, the dobicete da get up during the first phase of an indication that a hurricane These stockpiles would be weather Bureau reported, often mand is so great that this supply manpower reduction and would gathering strength or pre- Earlier in the day, Mr Sufi- of funds is far too inadequate,

then to toată over by an inter- rwardly and the New Zealand Minister of External Affairs made in the base sector of our Melvy investments must be

economy wEGÉS na transporta-

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in audience by the queen at clon and power, as I have in- Buckingham Palace,

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local control body-Prime Paring to change course... Prcase.

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TRADE AGREEMENT CAUSES CONCERN

London, June 25.

The Australian High Commissioner, Sir Eric Korrison, was told by a United Kingdom textile Industry deputation here today, that great concern was felt at the possibility of Australia granting "most favoured-nation treatment" to Japan in respect of quotas and tariffs on textiles,

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The deputatlon expressed, consider the safeguardi сопост at the proposed new United Kingdom exports to tha Australia-Japan

trude agrec Australian market.

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Sir Erie Harrison promised to Spokesmen for the deputa- inform his government of the tion said they hoped Australia | deputation's views, would not extend proferentin?

treatment to Japan without

first providing

A meeting to

Pooling Nuclear Research

REPRESENTED

The Industry wab represented at the meeting by Sir William Palmer (Chairman of the Bri- tish. Rayon Federation), Mr L. F. Cockerfl (Colton Board), Mr W. Ward (Chairman of the Wool Textila delcgation), and Mr Frank Roatron (President of the Manchester Chamber of

Commerce),

A statement issued in Man- chester tonight on behalf of the British Industries concerned sak Australia's proposed course would open the Australian mar-

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Amsterdam, June 25. An atomic expert of the Organisation for European illes,

Economic Co-operation It would prove disastrous to (OEEC) appealed here to the Australian textile manuine- day for the pooling of turing industry as well as to Europe's means of nuclear Australia and to the whole fabric United Kingdom exports to research.

of Commonwealth economic and nnoncial Inter-dependence. — Reuter.

The expert, Dr L. Kowarski, advise to the OEEC, was speak- ing at the second information conference on atomic energy, organised by OEEC warning against individual nuclent TO- search work by the European countries. He said it would mean each country would have 10 build a reactor with a capacity sufficient for 10 million people, and many more experimental plants would also have to be established.

BIGGER

MONTY HITS OUT AT BANNERS

Belfast, June 26. Fichd-Marshal Viscount

But If Western Europe pooled Montgomery

aid today

Its means of research, the unit that people who advocated would be numerically bigger

then Britain, the United States the banning of nuclear or Russia and would have a good tests "just chance of estching up with them, senso"..

Recalling a suggestion in the Field-Marshal OEEC report

struction of

on

did not make

Montgomery,

Com-

European nuclear co-operation for con-deputy Supreme Allied

an experimental mander in Europe, was guest at reactor Jiko America's $30 a civic luncheon glycn In his militon (£10,700,000)

one honour by the Belfast, Corporn-

Bald such a reactor could baton. ready in Europe. within fouT years.

HO pointed out that tha nuclear strength of the Western.

It would also be necessary to Alliance had made war very ex- build four other types-a boiling pensive for aggressors and that water reactor, a homogeneous was the reason why there had water reactor, a liquid metallic not been aggression, fuel reactor and a reactor with accelerated neutrons.

"Therefore, when people say Ва Britain's proposal to build a that these weapons should homogeneous reactor in her own banned and must not be tested, territory was a modert start to it does not make sense until the This co-operation, and Dr political leaders have sorted Kowarski faid he expected things out and reached a proper decision on this project "would be measure of international agrée. taken before the end of this year, | ment on disarmament,” he said,, -China Mall Special,

-United Press.

MISS FINLAND MARRIES

25jgva. Arvinen, a former "Alas, kinimas

Foutename Girady Himerison of the US Navy.