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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19573

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TUNISIA RECALLS PARIS ENVOY Prayers Called For

PEDICAB DRIVERS CLASH

Talpel, Oct. 3.

bloody clashes many of the

Frequent among 14,000 restless pedient drivers here is one of the biggest problems facing city authorities,

certain

Police have assigned neslicabs to speciile areas of the elly in order to reduce the srowing number of street #ghis, for passcogers.

DIVIDING

Bul dividing the city pedient

into

areas hine apparently

made the situation WOTLU. Drivers on each site of the Border lines accuse the others

o stealing passengers.

Scene of the biggest balties is the Central Italiway Station in the heart of downtown Taipei. Two teams of drivers of about 30 coth are assigned to the lucrative spot.

Members of one of the term, mostly from Shantung province, recently et shed with the other team of drivers from Fútlen.

OUTNUMBERED

Tension Mounts In Border Area Against French

Tunis, Oct. 3.

President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia an- nounced in his weekly broadcast today that he had recalled his Ambassador in Paris.

France

Surprised Over Decision

Paris, Oct. 4.

to

to

President Bourguiba mid his decision to recall the Tinizian Ambassador from Paris was a first step towards more serious diplomatic measures should the situation not improve.

He sold his elon designed to

preds home to French opinion that "we can- not wait indefinitely 10** 0 solution to be found to the Algerian problem and for the French Government crisis to be solved when for more than three weeks the Tunisian people has been living in A high nervous tension,"

It Is Impossible

President

Bourgulba added:

"At the present stage it is im- possible for mc to maintain friendly relations with France, particularly after a French De- fence Ministry communique practiesily authorises French aircraft to bomb Tunisian ter-

French authoritative circles today expressed surprise at the decision of the Tunisian Government recall its ambassador France,

ercles declared These they did not clearly two sects have fought tend the The each other frequently during Tunisian decision, the past year with cach battle today by the Tunisian President ritory" bloodler than the previous one, Many times the outnumbered lice have been unable to do anything but stand by watching The pedicab drivers fight it out with clubs, bicycle chains and

laded knives. Cauallies an increasing with euch light.

in

that under- rexisons for the

announced

radio broadenst to the Tunisian people.

Tunisian Embassy spokesmen sald meanwhile that Tunisian Ambassador, Mohamed the

Masmoudi, would leave Paria for Tunis next Saturday.

CONSULTATIONS

Informed The French

sources said that to

Ambassador

Tunisia, Georges Gorse, who is

The recent clash between the Fukicu and Shantung province

followed Kroutes

#! surprise attack of one team on the other. More than 100 participated in row in Paris for consultations, would probably prolong his weapons.consultations in France because the. Tunisian Government's decision,

the battle using steel bars and wooden clubs United Press.

EAS

Re-Organisation In Prague

Prague, Oel. 3. The Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party

has approved the draft of a far-

of

Tunisian Police have taken special security

precautions against possibic anti-French prayers tomorrow.

disturbances after Friday noon

President Bourguiba said in his broadcast that French troops were massing on the Tunisian border "and they could

any moment attack our territory.""

He added: "But we will not yield to threats, and we wish that such methods be definitely abandoned."

of

Protect Lives

President Bourguiba said Gore had been

that yesterday he ordered consulting evacuation

the of a number the French Government about Frenchmen from the

burder details of a projected Franco town of Kef. "It is not exclud- Tunisian conference to discussed that should the outstanding problems. The con-

present ference had been proposed by time, uil

situation extend any length of Frenchmen, no rastier France und eccepted by the

what their interest, may be Tunision Government-France- Presse.

evacuated from the region," he Jaid.

Presidcht Bourguiba said that these Frenchmen were not to blame

actions for the

of certain Frenchmen in France .or in Algeria "but necessity to

their lives is protect

com- peiling."

reaching re-organisation of the OBSERVATION TOUR

country's economy and state ap- paratus.

Reliable sources said the re-

shortly gime planned

an im- portant shake-up in the state and ivonomic apparatus to shift res- ponsibility for everyday affairs to enterprises and possibly re- gional organs.---Reuter.

Manila, Cet. 4,

A group of Laotian army officers, headed by Majer Khan Quan, arrived in Lagum Pro- vince, Southern Luzon, yesterday for a two-day observation tour of army operations against Huka in that area-France-Presse,

A British Crossword Puzzle

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THE GUINEA-PIG3–300 OF THEM

PRO-FRENCH MOSLEMS

IN ALGERIA KIDNAPPED

Algiers, Oct. 3. French officials charged to- day that a rebel band striking from Tunisia had kidnapped 300 pro-French Moslems on the border

Three hundred men of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, with eight officers and sóven Warrant Officers, march- ed across the new bridge buju acrode Duck Lake, In St James's Park, to carry out a live load test-to find out for the Ministry of Works - whether the rew bridge would stand up to its job, before it officially opens Dext manth

Three Ministry men with six cas-testing Instruments watched the reactions from a boal as

the guards marched across the bridge and back again-Keystone Photo.

and taken them back into PILGRIMS

Tunisia.

Souk

Officials said the raid took place between Sept. 80 and Oct. 1 at the village of Bord) Mraou, 21 miles east Abras on the Algerian-Tunisien frontier,

The village, according to French officials, had declared its loyalty to France and was under tho protection of a French initary post. It was situated between the actual frontier line and a barbed-wire barrier designed to keep nitrators from coming Algeria,

REBEL BAND

Itr- into

ATTACKED

BY MOB

As

Volcanic Ash Sprays Atlantic Isle

Inlands of the Azores

Angra do Heroismo, Azores, Oct. 3. Volcanic ash from an underwater volcano now in its fifth day of full eruption splattered Sho Jorge Island, fifty miles from here today. Priests throughout the nine The birthpangs of the Titand called started on September 25 when for special prayers to Protect Béviere earth, shdcks were regis the population.

tered near Fayal. Two Ways The Azortz-bound Russian Inter hugo underwater explo scientific yousel "Zarya", en stons tore the surface of roule to study the phenomenon sen, and some rocks and sand In connection with the Inter-shot into the air. national Geophysical Year, was expected to arrive at the scena of Fayal Island tomorrow.

STILL FROTHING

Winds carries volcanic ash to heights of 20,000 feet, dumping it over turge orcan.

منا

The tall eruption burst forth on Sunday with Aroor that awakened the islanders. It hurled rocks, stones and water 1,000 feet into the air.

Since then the explosions have been continuous with the island pushing further out of Latest reports reaching here the water. The historic light- from Fayal Island sald the how house at Capellahos islet off Capelinhos Light-house, blacked out by volcanic ash and on the western coast of Fayal, abandoned by its 300 employees.

silli frothing around the-United Press,

was

cone of the underwater volcano.

It is now nearly

135 feet above the surface of the 40 fathom deep sea and has crept within 300 yards of the Capelinhos Rocks.

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has

Was

NARCOTICS RING

Li-Col. Jose Agostinho, an

Marillo, Oct. 4, Azores meteorologist who

Police squads prepared to witnessed the growth of the fan out all over Manila today

of following

reports

city-wido

Island, cald the intensity BUREAUCRACY

DRIVE IN PEKING

By DAVID CHIPP

Peking, Oct. 3. The number of managerial

and non-productive

per- sonnel is being cut in many enterprises during the present drive against bureaucracy here.

Reports appearing in Peking Newspapers teil of the directing stas of stale farms being cut to a quarter or even less of their

size original

and redundant cadres belug sent to work in the Helds

One report said that in 38 Colombo, Oct. 3. guvernment trading companies Twelve persone word hospi- in the capital the number of talised with hood Injuries workers had been reduced from cudre suited (white culler) today following two separ6,887 to 2,522. ätò diracks on members

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of a United Nationalist

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OVERSTAFFED

Party religious pilgrimage. The pilgrimage was led by

The newspaper, People's the party

chief,

Daily, held up as an example Jayewardene and a group of the Sbih Ching Shan Iron and Buddhist monks,

were Steel Works near Peking which who travelling to Kandy, a religious cut its executive officers from 31 centre 72 miles froin Colombo.

to 20 and its clerical stai from SET AFIRE.

nearly 2,000 to 900,

He said that Tunisian police Officials said the rebel band demonstrations developed would use force if tomorrow's struck at night in two sections.

Foreign visitors to Chinese tnto One headed for the

The pilgrims nearby

were attacked Tectories have always consider- disorders.

French garrison. Its fire prò. | by

stone-throwing ed that most of them with the an angry, A Tunisian Government com-vented the garrison from going mob, shortly

after they left exception of those in Shanghai munique said that thousands of to the aid of the village, Colombo and again a few miles have been grossly overstaffed. Tunisians had demonstrated in authorities add,

outside the city. The assallants The same is true of the ma Kef, near the Algerian border, Meanwhile the second regi-toppled a UNP propaganda van jority of offices where clerks sit and two other lowns "in protest ment of the bard raced into the after setting it afire.

looking at the ceiling and in against French aggression" and cluster of Arab huts, Reports The police sold they had some shops where often several had demanded arms to defend said they were set afre and seized several of the attackers. customer.

assistants try to nervé Tunisian territory,

destroyed,

None of the injured persons The answer was reported in a serious con- dition. The pilgrimage continued without further

The French National Defence They also rounded up the Ministry nuld yesterday that villagers and marched them off French aircraft flying over into Tunisia. Algerian territory

the hear

Eighty familles in all were France-Pres&c. Tunisian border were fired on taken, the French sald--United 13 times and hit ten times with Fre automatic weapons from Tunisia between September 18 sud 30. They di not return the until October 1-Reuter,

fire

FRANCE WON'T WITHDRAW

NEW JET READY

Toronto, Oct. 3. Avro Aircraft Ltd will unveil Its 1,600-mph jat fighter, the CF105 Avro Arrow, tomorrow.

The Jet, made for the Royal Canadian Air Force, already

cont search and development,

$200,000,000 i re-

United Nations, Oct. 3. France told the United Na-has Lions today that her withdrawal from Algeria would. unleash anarchy and "probably" civil

WOX.

The swept-wing jet will cany a crew of two and is powered by two Pratt and Whitney jet The French representative, engines. It is planned to in- Guillaume Georges-Picot, in a

the new Iroquois .jet policy declaration to the United engine developed by Orends Nations General Assembly, Engines Ltd, a sister company charged that nations who of Avro Aircraft.

1 Might it be long and wind- | protés$ affection for. France had) "After the officin unvelli

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3 He keeps himself to himself

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netive list (4).'

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cheothreged "outside, interven- the Blane will be taken back tion which only prolonged the into its closely guarded hinger three-year-old Algerian con- for more tests mid adjustments. flet and stiffened the resistanedi is not expected to be ready

nationallets the Algerian

to for ita malden flight before thụ French overtures for n settle-end of December, United ment.--United Press.

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10 Joint affair for the work!

man (5).

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pot shots t bird

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22 Detergent product (4).

28 One of them finished off

Cleopatra (4).

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