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WHAT NOW?

W

WHAT in to be the West'

reaction to the sudden turn of events in Syrla? "If the question suggests that 11A entirely unexpected situation has arisen, then it has been misunderstood, Syria's swing to the left has been uppacent for many month but then the rift! between Syria and the West! bas widened with it, With the latest sharp turn in events It would not be

surprising if a complete break resulted.

CHINA

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REDS BEAT U.S. IN

Russian Agents

Uncovered

Projected Coup

From DONALD WISE

Damascus, Aug. 22.

America took an obvious step RUSSIAN volunteers are now coming

in this direction Inst werk into Syria by sea and air in by declaring uncceptable

tho Syrian envoy thousands.

Washington. It was reinlín-

tory but at the same time

I have seen them--hard-faced sweat-

consistent with the steady ing men in thick suits stomping round decline in Syrian-Western relations ince the British lobbies, of the sleazier hotels in this atinck on Egypt last year. city. Many of them are registered as A CLUE

UT what caused this

Bdecline is now less im

portant than what is to be tone to salvago genuine friendship with the whole! Middle East including, if It is at all possible, Syrla. The Iraqi move on mau in the Security Council, al shock to Britain, gives as important clue to Arab feeling generally. America's

Middle

Bulgarians.

US Newsmen

Ready To

Move

American

correspond-

friends in the East place rain

dollar aid: ents in Hongkong who are to enter China Egypt deserted when the trying

emphasis on

ILL-FATED TANKER ON TRIAL RUN

The ill-fated tanker World Splendour which They me picked up at Sona

exploded on Tuesday and finally, sank 30 miles east by an ordinary Western world;

The 26,307-ton (gross)- airline. For the

of Gibraltar yesterday. last eight months at least the thrice- vessic was built by the Swedish shipyard Kockums weekly flight has carried is

at Malmo and delivered by them to the owners Mer- many as 40 of them.

chant Tankers Corp., Monrovia, Liberia, this year. Photo shows World Splendour on her trial run on June 3, 1957,

Their ulls were puld by the Russian Embassy. They spoke | to no one and they paced thei shabby corridors rather than go outside.

DISAPPEARED

aro

for

and

radar-

Then they disappeared. They went off to secret nir military training camps and a top secret jet një buse, Hundreds landed at Lalakia Aswan Dam millions were stressed this morning that more have refused; Saudi

which can now handle' Itussian Arabia it was now entirely up to freighters up to three thousan earna much from its Peking to

decide whether tons. There

geologists, concessions to # lig to let them in or not.

agriculturalists, engineers among dollar oil group; Jordan, a The State Departmena yester- them. There are air force and little nervous vi its day officially authorised 24 tank instructors - and main- neighboura, has refused one Amerlenn newamen to enter tenance experts Kource of Western aid only China for a trial period of six controlled unti-abetul curs

months, becording to dispatches But Oils i tho to accept another to ensure

dangerous from 'Washington,

part. My Information ↳s that its independence.

Mr Wendell Merick, of United most of these men are here to Press, sal it was now just a stay and fight, for the Syrians RASPBERRY

question of getting a visa from when they feel the time has the Chinese Government,

16 try and roll Israel come no alternative to. Applications had already been into

The cannon Storriendship? marie sotne time ago, Me Merick the sea.

supplied front The question must be asked said..

Syria's struggling four millions. because no amount of ald.

The scientists, technical officers and NCO's, will persuade Syrin's new

pilots and tank

will be leaders to desert their new

commanders

morc often than not. Russians. though attachments-even

How many volunteers the country's swing to thet

there? No one knows. Not even loft lies in its economie Mr John Roderick, „of' A530-

!clated Press, sald he

the Syrians. This isn't the sort difficulties.

had from his hond

of country where a member of Faced with the prospect of receiver word

the Chamber of Deputies can acquiring prosperity at the once to proceed to China "as

get up and ask the Minister for expense of pride, or retain-

details.

•ing pride at the expense of prasperity, Syrin beileves that an alliance with Soviet Russin not only provides the liest compromise but delivers an effective rasp berry to its hostile critics in the West.

SCANT HOPE

"Unfortunately, Mr Dulles has no control over Peking, so all we can do is sit down and wait for vians," he added."

RECEIVED WORD

soon as possible".

"I'm all packed and ready move at a moment's notice,

as soon as I get my visi," he suid.

M: James Bell, of Time and

Lite, said he had been instructed by his home office to "stand by."

He said it all depended on Pcking, but as for himself he was ready to move.

THE country offers scant Not Civilian

THE

hope of redemption at pre

sent, but perhaps it does

suggest how the West ought

to conduct its relations with

other Arab nationalists

which

Character

London, Aug. 22,

ESTIMATES

★ Extimates of

are

Russian

arma in Syris pot the number of tanks at 230' and MIG's at aboui 60. Blore are coming all the time.

some

ut

Russian men and materials

in unconditionally bargain basement prices.

Express From Beirul,

porter, Colln Lawson cabiles; I can tonight reveal details of fie "American' plot" which led ta the Communist, coup in Syrlu,

It is a story of clumsiness

Moscow obviously A British Army officer, testi- which the Russians were quick regards as "good invest-fying yesterday at Erentwood to exploit.

ment"

It is

is tempting to feel, as one commentator put it, that "the overt appearance of extreme left-wing elements

top

The plot was uncovered not on behalf of two of his men! charged with car thievery, said by the Syrians but Russiau the men were lawless, slovenly. agents ex- Kremlin's

responsible and lazy but had security bass Serov. For months "good Army charecter."

they have been working In Prosecutor John Marriage zecret in DamaSCİLA

at the head of the Syrian said, "I dread to think whit Government may well cause one

has to do to get a bad

réaction in favour of the character in the Army."-Unit-. West among some sections ed Press.

of Arab opinion", but is it

worthwhile sitting back and Joan Of Arc II

waiting for this opinion to. develop? ARABS FIRST

Is

may also be argued that Syria's tend may be follow-

Nancy, Aug. 22.

A French woman from ' Lorraine suffering front 11- nervous breakdown posed as Joan of Arc and burnt herself

to death, police sald today.

ed by others in the Arab

The charred body of 40-year- work who are disillusioned old Mademoiselle Yvelte

RELIABLE SOURCES

is the story ★ Here

have pleced together from reliable sourers known to be anil-Communist and 'pro-West,

(Conford on Pare 8 Col. 7)

INSULT PUSHED

BEAUCHAMP TO SUICIDE

London, Aug. 22.

A CUTTING insult at a late evening party pushed Antony Beauchamp, Sarah Churchill's husband, over the brink to suicide early Sunday morning, his friends said today.

LADY JANE

In Saturday's China Mail

with the West, The most Jacquot was found in a fold in tomorrow's feature-racked China Mad).

obvious candidate is Egypt near the house of her parents and another possibility is pere.

Yemen. The Western world In a letter

found in her

is faced with the dimcult room, Mile Jacquot announced

taak now of channelling her wit

to die "s Joan of Are burnt the stake."

Arab naticanlism to some She soaked her clothes with creative purpose of its own. petrol and set are to them.- And what a required ie Chine Mail Special.

Initiative from the West**

and abandonment of

that

Parls, Aug. 22. outmoded idea of rushing An Insurance company agreed to defend "our oil supplies" today to write a four millio overy time trouble brews in francs (US$9,824) policy Insur- the area. When we showing 15,000 matches against fre the... · Arabs wè gre more

at Version.

Beauchamp's body was cremated today at Putney Vale, Cemetery or the outskirts ori London ufter

20-minute funeral service. Miss Churchill. who was estranged from

it

HMS Nigeria

For India

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DAKS

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Whiteaways

#UNGKUMA

LOON

SYRIA

$3,000 DONATED TO UNIVERSITY BY AMERICAN AIRLINE

a leading American airline expressed the hope that the company's action would "spark a drive" in Hongkong, when he handed a cheque for HK$3,000 to a' China Mail representative yesterday to be forwarded to the University of Hongkong.

THE Vice-President of

Mr P, L. Beascofer, Vice- President, Orient Region of Northwest Airlines, sald when

he arrived in the Colony from Man Overboard Tokyo. yesterday, his attention was drawn to yesterday's Chinn Mail article on the "dire need" of funds for the University to enable it to expand.

WORTHY CAUSES

Le Havre, Aug. 22.

One of the crow of the French ner. Liberia 'dis appeared overboard during

orossing

from Now York,

Wils

reported when tho liner

docked

the

here today. con-

Mr Benscoter said it has always been the polley of Northwest Airlines to tribute to worthy causes in London, Aug. 22.

the areas in which it operates HMS Nigeria, a Colony Class in the Far East and from cruiser of 5,000 tors, is to bo which it derives revenue. handed over to the Government

Mr D. C. Edwins, the local of India on August 20 at the manager for Northwest Airlines, Birkenhead yard where the made out the cheque for $3,000 ship, completed in 1940, has payable, to "Hongkong Univer been refilled and modernized, an

he hoped the aity caying Admiralty announcement stated University would accept it.

Mr Benscober commented that

tonight,

10

Its

The transfer of the Nigeria in some small. way it would

the University will meet the need of the Indian | zivo

expand Navy for a second cruiser for opportunity training purposes. She is to be facilities and so accept additional renamed the. Musore-France- students who are applying for Presse.

admission to the Institution,

The missing mau, Lauls Leguen, B 82-year-old French electrician ||20%|:- tant, was seen by a crew member on Sunday climb- Ing over the ship's rail and falling into the eddies made by the propeller.

Tho liner stopped Im- mediately and conducted a search for Leguen, assist- ad by an Italian freighter. The search was abandoned after. three hours. Franco-Free, ¦

NEW FIGHTER WOULD MELT FLAT OUT

London, Aug. 22. PRITAIN'S newest fighter, the DSR-53 swept-wing Inter-

coptor, can climb ut 10 miles a minute and would melt if it travelled at its maximum speed, its designers disclosed icday at Leavesden, Hertford - chire.

Beauchamp, and 30 friends and The security curtain around the!

relatives attended the ceremony, But London society was not

yet ready to lay aside

the

queston of why Beauchamp took

top secret S-R-53, powered by a rocket-assisted turbo-jet, was partly lifted at a press preview here today by the manufacturers Saunders-Roc and de Havilland, makers of the Viper turbo-jet and the Spectre rocket engines. Speaking at the headquarters of

the

de Havilland Engine (

Company, Mr M. Brennan, chief designer of Saunders- Roe, said the S-R-03, with the boost eld of the rocket to acceleration for short periods at high altitudes, could climb ot around 40,000 feet a minute -in other words its pilot could top Mount Everest, in 30. seconds.Reuter.-

his life. He was found by police 2nd DAY SPECIAL REDUCTION

sprawled dead on a bed in his phish fat with an empty bottle

of sleeping tablets beside him.

PHONE CALLS

His friends said the Insult late. Saturday night and at least a dozen phone calls he made with- in the next few hours told ther story of his death.

Thirty-seven-year-old Michael Alexander, writer-cousin of Field Marshal Lord Alexander, called that he had severní pir-

-

cons Including Beauchamp at his flat for drinks lajo Saturday. "Everyone was talking quietly when one man's voice was lizard over the rest," he said.

te was

making Insuliing remarks to Anteny, calling him common little man and other things. I can't repeat it, bul Antony seemed to take it very seriously.

Athe,, Diane

29, was another guest at the party. She and Lady Jane Vane - Tempest- Stewart, whom Beauchamp had, dinner with earlier,

calls

received

from him within

next few hours.

SO STRANGE

the

to

"He apparently made at least a dozen calls," Miss Athe said; "I thought he was drunk. But ho wasn't. He asked me come to his. Bat but I said, I was tired and I didn't go.

"I had only gone he might still be alive So strange

that

TISTELLE Hillaly tells you why she took up Chinese painior such a gay and charming man Handing the Chinese Brush.

Among the other features are:

Itead her story

Return to the, felands by SIR ARTHUR GRIMBLE. *

No Jam in Glana by JOHN REDFERN.

Gulana Šteto and the PPP by HAROLD JAMES. Odd Man Out in Nito Land, by ROBERT MORLEY.

The Sylvia Ashley Story by RODERICK MANN,

The Pyknic Man by ROBERT PITMAN.

US Presidents - the Age of the Tycoon by ROBERT BLAKE.

AND Ctrl Blacïcion's Column, Frieb, Books, in Sho`fullest

Interested in their welfare photo technician to build a scale The matches were used by a than our own pet interests, model of the 12th and 14th cen- only then will wo be more tury Notre Dame de Vernon weekend prokage of news, views, curfoons and competitions. respected than the Russians. 'Church-United Prees,

EXCLUSIVE- -JOHN LUFF INTERVIEWS FRED ASTAIRE-

with scores of friends should die alone.'

Lady Jane called police after she talked to Beauchamp and ho threatened- suicide. It was 100 lato

the-United Pres

by

Border Clash

A

Amman, Aug. 22.

Jordan Army spokesman

cald tonight three Israeli troops

had been killed today in elashes

with Jordanian forces,

fd

He mid the Israelis had crOSS-

into Jordan territory,

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