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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

TRIP TO CHINA

AROM this morning's news

FM this mornin' the

State Department has fail- ed to persunde 41 young people to give up plans to visit China. They heading for the boruer frons

re now

Chinese Azorcow. though of course it is quite possible that the long un- comfortable train ride will provide opportunities for some to nieditate the warn- ing by Mr Christion Herer, acting Secretary of inte, that their passors will he consented 11 thuy

Revere, and Hist actual number entering China may be fower.

Bu. this cannot provide the

American author.ics with much consolation.

CHINA

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1957.

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RELAX IN

DAKS

THE FAIRES CONFORT

· IN ACTIEN TROUSERS.

Whiteaways

HONGKONG.

SYRIAN ENVOY EXPELLED

Eka WLOON

SINGAPORE

TO HK

BACKWARD

COMPARED

ì

RADIO WAR ON DESERT AIRFIELD

United States Retaliates RADIO WAR ON

Against Removal

Of American

Officials

Washington, Aug. 14.

the

THE United States today declared

RUNS

WICKETS

Syrian Am-

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LASTIJAN

GVERS

bassador and a member of his staff were unacceptable in retaliation for the removal of three American officials from Syria on charges of taking part in a spy plot.

The State Department declared' Ambassador |

Faride Zeineddiné persona non grata. Dr Tassin

passports are ant individual Zakaria, Second Secretary of the Syrian Embassy, 30 SLEEPY

was likewise declared not welcome to the United States.

property but belong to the Issuing Governmen And There is no reason to doubt that the State Department is determined to take the Tali moons Zelnesting, wie | States involvement in a plot action it has threatened. |1rf for Syrla reverni weeks ago against the Syrlan Government,” | Previous poilcy statements barred from returning to the The announcement also con-

United Status. Zakurla

fained a

the protest ugainst kei Ta derart In Ewo days'

Interference with a diplomatic courier at the Syrlan border two¦ days ago.

time.

T

was

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reveal that the object is to avold a precedent which nthers can exploit. The few who have defled the State Depar.ment ruling have nouncement of this retaliatory bech sternly dealt with, nellan added that the American though the Department's Ambasader to Syria, Mr Jame

Morse, right to consente passports Damestas cn June 30 for re- Is being legally con.ested agent, is not returning to on the ground that it denies Syria to wind up his affairs. the individual's right to free travel.

COMPLICATED

OUBTLESS those who are

this latest i

Dhanias

escapade into the forbidden

$

:

who

left

SOLDIERS

ROBBED

Metz, Aug. 14. COURIER STOPPED

Two French thieves were', The courier, Mr White natd, taken into custody today reported that he was stopped after robbing 30 American at the Syrian border, his car soldiers who put up no more searched and his diplomatic defence than a sleepy snore. passport seized by a person who refused to identify him- self. Mr Turner's diplomalle pouch also was seized and an aitempi made to open it, but] near Metz on These eps were annoɑne?d after Syrian Charre d'Affaires the courier snatched it back from his searcher's hands and after some delay was allowed to depart

SLANDEROUS

Mamun Hamul was sum- moned 12 the State Drpari- ment, He spent 18 minu es wl:h Aristant Secretary of Htate Wiliam M. Rountree,

The announcment said Rountree handed the Syran Charge d'Affahes protest against the Govern- ment fuspired slanderous ram- paign which has been carried on against the United States by the Syrian press and by the official Syrian radio, andfugalhat the nilcgations

On the night of August 2, Louis Villeneuve and Robert Bobin drove into the American Army chang of Tournebridge

their scooter- bike. They

walked into dormitory where some 30 American poliders

were sleep ing, ransacked all the soldiers

ciets, turned out their poc= kets, and helped themselves.

LITTLE NERVOUS

lithe

Middie Kingdom are pinning their herpes upon Kome favourable

tu outcome would restrain the Govern ment from taking action, but it in n compleated question and neither the young people visiting China, nor Mr Herter have made wut

to friendly relations between | cye and grumbled. really impressive CARL.

Asked why the US Goycin- ment had declared personal non grala the Syrian Ambassador an: the Second Secretary, i rather than other Syrian Em-j -Villeneuve wus д "strong | bassy ofteluls, the Slate De- nervous, so Bobin-10 calm

periment spokesman, Mr him-picked

up a tool and "The threw it 10 yards away, where Lincoln White, stated: continued prcance of those it lander with a clatter. two persons does not contribute A few soldiers opened

They all

JI

Mr Herter's statement is per

haps more remarkable, Les phs.itudinous and woolly thun the young people's assertion that "our exercise of the right of US citizens to travel is consistent with loyalty to our country", be warns of possible * legal consequences

adds,

somewhat recklessly that "quasi state of war exizts", This is most difficult to swallow.

He is possibly referring to

the Korean War, in which incidentally # United

an

IKE'S AID BILL SLASHED ONCE AGAIN

Washington, Aug. 14. A HOUSE appropriations subcommittee

Extra guards have been mounted on Royal Air Force

airport at Sharjah planes following a sabotage broad- cast by Nasoci's Calro radlo.

belin;

Cartful check made of passengers arriving on civil planes, It is feared Nasser or Klar Baud máy send in saboteurs to try to destroy the £3,000,000 worth of aircraft and stores.

Ploture shows; What's the SCOTT

the ... But

всоте. board's blank

cricket (10 there now) on the airfield at Troop carrying plancs stand where the

later stumps havO

beer pitched ...Express Photo,

threw defiance at President Eisen-

trimming

Sharjah. another hower tonight by $842 million from his embattled foreign aid programme.

The group approved a $2,521,- 760,000 foreign ald mcncy bill only a few hours after Mr that he Eisenhower declared would recall the lawmakers in special stasion this autumn l they failed to vote enough nation's funds to protect the

race and security.

Syria and the United States." | went back to sleep.

The two housebreakers finish- regarding United | All Agencies.

cd their job at lekure. They wenl oir with some 300,000 franes (about $650) worth of personal nal army

goods, identity papers, petrol ration coupons, und scue American dollars, and a conviction that Americans are sound sleepers.today."

DIPLOMATS DENY SYRIAN CHARGES

Beirut, Aug. 14.

Howard Stone and Francis Jitton, two of the three American diplomats who were expelled from Syria today, said here that they had no idea why they had been charged by the Syrian authorities force comprising with "plotting against the Syrian Government." contingents front several nations participated.

Nations

of

V

The Syrian Government charged that Stone and Jition, oficials of the US Embassy in Damascus, and Colon Robert Molloy, military attache in the

In an interview with an AFP in an official Syrian Goyem- truce has been sigued and correspondent on the edge of ment statement yesterday. hostilities are, now at una swimming pool at the flotel end.

still Exceller Tension may-

hire, the two men exist requiring the retaid they had had no advance American Indication that they would be deployment forces to South Koren, but iced of participation in the

"plot", which this

serionaly be described us a quasi atate of war, particularly as the threat comes not from Chinese, but North Korean territory?

спп

FICTITIOUS?

CCORDING to the mean-

As selected for the word

"quasi" (1.e. seemingly, not | has

described Wos

Altrincham Challenged

had taken part in a

to overthrow the Syrian Government. It dc- manded that the three Ameri- can trave Syria within 24 hours,

EXTREMELY CORRECT

first Air Stone said he had London, Aug. 14.

heard of the Syrian Govern- Altrincham, who

men's charge of an "American aroused a furore in plu?" Inte Monday night at a

Lord

had been inentioned until went to the Embassy the next morning.

really, practically, half, Britain because he criticised dinner at the Damascus Club, almost) the degree of just the entourage of Queen but did not learn tha. his name fication for the American Elizabeth, has been chal- vlowpoint varies. Obviously what is "not really could lenged to a duel by an un mean anything from non-named "resident of Kent",

it was disclosed today. existent to fictitious. Not even Secretaries of State

Lord Altrincham has refused Are able to give substance the challenge. to essentially empty words. But Mr Herter is on' more substantial ground

ho refers to existing luwa which may-but only may-- permit the Government to launch prosecutions.

Ke said the Syrian authorities had been extremly correct in arrangements for making the them to leave the country, but had given no explosion of the charges.

Previously. Mr Stone said, or re- Anericons in general had been

-France-Presse.

ACROBAT

LOSES

TEETH

Rome, Aug. 14. Two acrobats were.in- Jured. In a circus act today when

one of them lost his teeth.

The men were perform- ing a trapezo act at io Onu Lown of Rovereto. aerobat hung by his feet a trapeze, supporting the weight of the scound by a wrap gripped to his

teeth.

to

There was a gasp and a ory from the audience as the second acrobat sud- denly plunged downward, followed by tho Brst, whose

terih had been pulled out by the weight on them.

noth acrobats, Tiita Glatu, 28, and Aldo Rosennie. 31, Buffered multiple fractures— France-Presse.

Strike Spreads

Informed of the subcom- milice's action, the White House Press Secretary, Mr James C. Hagerly. cald only: "I think we'll stand Un what we said

Not Enough

Mr Eisenhower had told П extraordinary news cou- ference that he wanted the fail $3,30%,000,000 provided in a foreign aid authorisation bill on which the House com- pleted congressional action cariler today. He said even this was not enough but he

would settle for it.

Singapore, Aug. 15. Singapore millionaire Mr Tan Lark Sye last night blamed local ministers and politicians for the Colony's "backwardness" in indus trialisation when compared to Hongkong.

He was speaking at a dinner given by the 32 representatives of Singapore commercial and Industial organisations to mem- bers of the visiting Hongkong trade delégülion.

Mr Tan sald Singapore had the same opportunity and spirit of enterprise 0,5 Hongkong which already had over 9,000 factorics,

"If the condition of the Gov- ernment and encouragement of enterprise were the same ps It had been in Hongkong, we might today have over 10,000 factories operating in Singapore and Mainya," Mr Tan sald-Reuter.

TYPHOON LOCATED IN PACIFIC

WAB

The Royal Observatory said that at 9 o'clock this morning Typhoon Agnes located about 1,000 miles from Hongkong at 16.8 N.134.6 E (about 450 miles NNW of Yat) moving NW at 10 knota. Winds of maximum speed of 80 knots

SULTAN THANKS were recorded near the

BRITAIN FOR

ENDING REVOLT

Bahrein, Aug. 14... .

The Sultan of Muscat and Oman in a pro- clamation issued today thanked "His old friend the British Government for its aid to His Majesty's forces in ending the rebellion” of Oman.

The Sultan's message Esue by the Sultanate's Foreign Ministry, said, "Now that order has been re-established and pence relged in the kingdown, we shall resume our efforts 10 conditions Improve the lying

Was

of the pointion."

After stating that his in- terior Minister Sayed Ahmed

Nizwa, Ibrahim was now in former rebel capital that captured by the Sultan's forces i way, the Sultan said: last Mondly welcome given of the to the representatives Government by the inhabitants quests, $185 million more from of the region shows that the defence support aid and $200 | dissident did not have the million

But the economy-minded rub committee. meeting behind closet

doors, Kinshed an addlilonal $350 million from the

ald Present's military

re-

from Mr Eisenhower's developmental loan plan.

Tho

support of the population."

FORT DESTROYED

total silil The subcommittee could be increased before the

Two tons of explosives to- bill Anally is passed. The day blew to pieces the favourite

Koes before the Imeasure now

fort at Tanut of Sheikh Sulci- appropriations committee

full and the

to the House floor Bin. Himyar, Lord of the Green Mountain and political where, the Administratum un

achomer behind the rising. Joubtedly will try to reverse

The hand which: Brod the zome of the reducilons.--United

charge was that of Said Bin Preis.

Taimur, brother of the Sultan, who arrived a Mizwa yesterday and told the watching villagers

being that Tanut Fort was destroyed on the orders of the,

Impaled On Wood Shaft

WILK

Sulton,

British soppers Inld the ex- plosives in such a way that al- though the three-powered 717 •Resident pr Kent"

London, Aug. 14, The strike of London.

triangular fort was split wide when wrote: “I hereby challenge you'

dock dluci

open, neerby cottages were un- with rifles

workers spread to another 800

Capetown, Aug. 14. under of the viewed with suspicion in Syria; workers this afternoon, involv

Louche volvers,

Mr P.5.J. Van Heorden [but there had been no special Queen's name.

Destruction of the fort was Chouse your

than a third of the

Oberholzer the hour suspicion directed against then more weupons

dockers in the walkout, And naruc

tonight understood to have been order- and place. I

have nothing to accused Americans, He said he

to his knowledge, halted work in the afternoon, as good recovery in hospital who took up ams against him.

Allogether 0,404 dockers kád | reported to be making aed by the Sultan as the final It is a pity that responsible | tore. "In

symbol of success against those my heart I feel that had never,

by the Syrin empared with men like Mr Herter have to I have not

long to live, but been followed

the accusations

morning.

after being impaled for France-Presse & China Mall 1150

cliches cheap

like rest assured that there will be police. before "willing tool of Communist only one vietor, and that is me."

that he had been followed by mobilised 74 ships in the port, five-inch thick wooden propaganda." Name calling

Duelling has been forbidden the police after the Government walle the urlonding of four shaft by law in Britain for sorg 150 statement

published ather ships was partially Inter- years.-France-Presse,

France-Presse.

I repled.--France-Presse,

A

is a rather childish pursuit. But it does indicate what flimay foundation tho dictum of "No travol to China" rests upon. Arbitr-

authority ary

MAY well prevail against the youth dologation, but it would seem that if the American Government has no belter ense to produce, the ban as It stands cannot for much longer remain the formidable deterrent the Government would like it to be.

8,007

this

were made, against him, but The sirike completely immore than an hour on a Special,

Wha

Golden Desert Chariot

Paris, Aug. 14. MIR All Ibu Thant of Qatar presented King Saud of Saudi Arabia with the world's

•most zumptuous motor

gold trkmined, air condlilopod, and cosilog an estimated US$100,000 during his re-

cent pilgrimage to Mecen, the Egyptian newspaper Al Masio, reported in an issue reaching Paris today.

All the door handles and other metal accessories in the car thove are solid gold, except for the driver who must con-

tent himself with door handles and other fixtures made only of pure sliver,

Mr Oberholzer was driving] NAVY CUTS

his car when be collided with a donkey-drawn cart. The shaft at the cart went through the ear boret, battery and dash- board penetrating his body and Anally stopping against the back of the door framd.

Washington, Aug. 14. The United States Navy De 18,000 of its civilian employces partment announced, today that would be dismissed as an econo- mle measure. The Department employs 308,717 civilians.

Tho cut is crio of several imineasures intended to bring the The car seats seven persons mediately in front and behind Department's expenditure within

comfortably, and la auto= his body. When rushed to hos- the $10,409,000,000 budget allo- matically air-conditioned, --- pital, he was still conscious, cations for 1937-58; — France- Franco-Press.

China Mali Special!

Police rescued him by BOW- ing through the start

Predo.

centre and about 50 knots within 50 miles away from

It.

The Observatory also stated that the trough of low pressure across the China Sea from Manila to the Parnetia con- tinued to Intensity and there were Indications that a tropical depression was forming in the caster half of the trough.

Manila was lashed by strong rains carly this moming as a depression hit Western Luzon with 30-mile per hour centre winds, says France-Presse.

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