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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1957.

"Pride In Our New Commonwealth"

THE QUEEN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

The Cabinet Calls On Subjects

Crisis

In Israel

Tel Aviv, Doc. 25.

Mr David Ben Gurion, Israeli

Prime Minister, today bo-

To Set Example

For

The The World

Sandringham, Dec. 25.

gins new talks with londors The Queen, in her sound and television

of his five-party coalition

in an attempt to end the week-old Cabinet crisis. The Cobinel met for three hours yesterday to discuss the ericks auf will continue the dis- cution after Mr Ben Gurion's talks with coalition lenders.

The split has been caused by alleged "enkages" to the pay by Ministers of the left-wing Achouth Taivodja party in order to defeat o Cabinet decision to send a highranking Isruell to Bonn for talks.

Me Ben Gurion has been urging the government to buy West Germany and atens from

Christmas Day broadcast messago, today called on the Commonwealth to “set an example to the world which will encour- age upright people averywhere." Speaking from the long library at Sandringham

House, the Royal Family's traditional Christ- mas holiday residence here, she declared: "In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on | the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal."

Today things were very dif-

us Parliament yesterday raid ferent,

government

the

would ank Germany to sell weapons "im- perative for Israel's detence."

Mr Ben Gurion has threa- trued to resign over the "leak- gex issue. He insists on the THE the ministers esncerned but they have refused.

"I cannot rad you Into battle," she said, "I do not give you lawn or administer Justice but I can do something else I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old Islands and to all the proptes of our brotherhood of nations."

A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

1 Fights (8).

5 Goods sexborne (5).

# Pale yellow ̃ (5).

9 Rapidly dismissed! (3, 3).

10 Rellet (5).

11 Is often let of (53.

12 Corny listeners (4).

13 Files in the factory

m the office (5).

16 It's essential to every

(8).

18 Takes lesson

(6).

20 Dov: some forming (5).

22 Gave employment (4).

23 Man of many parts (5).

25 Racing trophy (5).

rather

DOWN

Striped blped! (8).

2 Tenancy 1st (8).

3 (4).

4 No nomad, obviously (7).

5 What conscience makes of us,

we're told (2).

# One kingdom (6).

Clique (5).

14 Trying times, these (8). sewer 15 Joined up (B).

26 Climatic severity, maybe (0).

27 All over! (5).

28 Free-wirel

(5).

20 Fell (8).

at the

senside?

10 Conáing into being (7).

17 Repeat performances (7).

19 Make: exultant (6).

21 Snow hut (5).

24 Journey (4).

TUESDAY'S SOLUTION-Across: 3 Eggs, 7 Poles, & lich, 5 Aged, 10 Inferno, 12 Elsa, 15 Roots, 18 Pawn, 19

Wise, 22 Poem, 23 Larks. 20 Pass, 20 Seethed, 30

Train, 21 Copy. 31

Soda, 32 Pride, 33 Nuns. Down: 1 Point, General. 4 G.L-gol. 5 Side, & Acts, 9 Anon, 11 Rowel, 13 Loam, 1 Anun, 18 Stoke, 17 Swop (rev.). 18 Pans. 20 Restore. 22 Prey, 24 Aspen, 25 Heads, 27 Amok, 28 Scan,

HIFI TRANSISTOR RADIO

For the first lime, the Sovereign's Christmas Day mes- sogerst broadcast by the Queen's grandfather King George V 25 years ago today --- was teleyised on both the British Broadcasting Corporation and Independent (Commercial) not- works.

Recalling the anniversary, the Queen, who sat alene behind her desk, said she hoped her television appearance would make the message "more per- Bonal and direct."

The speed at which things were changing all around had made many people feel last se unable to decide what to hold on to and what to discard, how to take advantage of the new life without losing the best of the old.

But it was not the new inven- tions which were the difficulty, she said.

"The trouble is enused by unthinking people who careless- ly throw away ageless Ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery. "Tuy religion thrown aside, morality in personal and public lite made meaningless, honesty

would have real

counted

as foolishness und self-interest set up in place of self-restraint.

Critical Time

"At this critical moment in

A Mysterious Blast In Norma Talmadge,

Rotherham, Dec. 24.

An explosion shat- tered houses at Aston, near here, tonight.

Yorkshire

Town

Four people, including an 80-year-old couple, were injured.

Ambulance mon described the scene as "a blaz. Ing Informp."

The cause of the explosion is not yet known. An 82-year-old woman and her blind, 83-year- old husband were taken to hospital with severe shock.. Those injured in the house next door werp g 71- year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl. They were badly cut and bruised-Reuter,

Ceylon Won't Permit Use Of Bases For

Indonesian Dispute

Colombo, Dec. 26.

Dies After

A Stroke Sultry Star Of Silent Screen

Los Yopos, Dec, 24. Norma Talmadge, sultry star of the silent serpon days, died today. She was 60. Norma and her two sisters, Constance and Natalie, were among the first stars of the cinema. Norma, born at Niagara Fails, played her first in role when she was 14. It was "The Four-fooled Pest," completed in half a day.

Her fra big role was in a screen version of plekens' "A Tale of Two Clifes." She became one of Hollywood's top actresses after this aim. She appeared in over 30 films between 1914 and 1830.

Her death followed a stroke. WEALTHY

Norma was believed to be one of Hollywood's wealthiest stars, aka time when taxes were low,

she earned $7,500 a week.

At the height of her fame, fan letters came in at the rate of

3,000 a week,

She once said; "Making plc-

Facilities at the Trincomalee Naval Base and at the Katunayake Air Base will not be available to any power or any military organisation in the event of military intervention in the dia- pute between Indonesia and the Netherlands, fe. It gives me what I informed sources said today.

Roaring Blast

Kills 15 In

Christmas Eve

Disaster

our lastlory we will certainly A

Primo Minister Bandaranaike gaye this assurance recently to the government Parliamentary party. It was made in reply in A question of whether facilities allowed the British could be used by any South-east Asia Treaty organisation power in the event that SEATO took some military stepe in the Indonesian dispute.

The Prime Minister told the party that Britain now enjoyed temporary fcclities under the supervision of the Ceylon Gov-

turen is a colossal game. To me

want."

But she made only two talkies -"New York Nights" ond "Mademo du Barry" before the retired in 1932.

Norma married film producer in 1910 and Joseph M. Schenck

in 1934 after a divorced him much publicised romance with comelon George Jussel. She married the comedian two weeks later and divorced him after five years. She had been mar- ried to Dr Carvel James s[pee 1948. China Mali Special.

arnment and that the Ceylon A COLD TASTE Government was in complete control of the bases.

St. Louis, Dec. 25.

Mr Bandaranaike emphasised Police today Bought a thief thai Ceylon should not help with an unlikely taste in winter

He is wanted for breaking into city Products, Inc., and stealing more than two lans of kr.- United Press.

Buenos Aires, Dec. 26. roaring blast which took supras the rationalist move loot.

ment in Indonesia or any other possibly 15 lives in a firo-Asian country by allowing her works store cast a shadow { bases to be used for military of grief over the city at purposes-United Press. Christmas.

lose the uust and respect the world if we just abandon those fundamental principles which guided the men and women who built the greliness of this coun-

Business was brisk in the try and Commonwealth.

and ofces of Walter "Tadny we need

Special Store kind of courage, not the kind Gonsalez and Suns, pyrotechnic needed in

Christmas baltic but p kind manufacturers, which makes us stand up for everything that we know right, everything that is and honest.

Eve.

Is

true

"We need the kind of contage that can withstand the subtle

QI

The principal pwater and his three sons, with three employees,

| waited on a shopful of customers,

VIOLENT

corruption of the cynies so that At 5.30 p.m. a violent explo- we can show the world that slon shook the entire clty block we're not afraid of the future." and thick columns of smoke and The Queen declared that we Bame rose skywards. The rush could take a pride in the new of air slammed the doors shut Commonwealth we were build-and trapped all inside in a

bizing Inferno,

img.

The achievement this year of Police said tonight only rela self-governing status by Ghanatives might be able to identify and Malaya was a wonderful the charred remains by some tribute to the effects of men of personal trinket. goodwill who had worked Nobody lived to tell together as friends, "and i wel- uppened. come these two countries with all my heart."

Such Was the force of the

New Soviet Bomber Sets Record

A

пож

Moscow, Dec. 26. successful long distance non-stop flight into the stratosphere by a "colossal" heory jot bomber was announced by Red Star hero today.

The Soviet Army publication whatsuld the new bomber carried 10 tons of fuel and supplies of food and oxygen. It said it flew searing blast that a car parked higher and longer than any She quoted ʼn passuge from outside was blown right across father aircraft of this type. John Bunyan's "Pilgrims Pro-the street.-United Press. gress" in which Mr Valiant says, though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble 1 have been at 10 arrive where I am."

Christmas Spirit

It gave no other details..

Foreign observers here specu- lated that the report might refer to a new intercontinental bom- ber which could make a round- trip fight to the United States without refuelling.

The alrerall is the second new

Birmingham, Alabama, Dec. 25. The Queen ended her mes- The city of Birmingham ten- ange by wishing everyone God's {porarily suspended its code plane announced this month, blessing for 1958 und "all the dealing with minimum fying The Soviets announced the test fun and enjoyment and the jaltitudes today · "lu' considera- fight of a supervonic jet fighter peace of a very happy Christ-tion of children and Sapte with a speed of 2,000 miles per

Claus."-United Press.

hour on Dec. 14.- United Press.

mos.

Reuter.

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