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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

A MATTER OF OPINION

IPLOMATIC observers in

D. Moscow and in Western

enpitals seem to have vary- ing opinions over the latest lelter went to President Eisenhower by Marshal Bulganin,

Moscow sources point out that the Soviet Premier said that ns. far as preparations for a.conference at the highest level is concerned, "we are

convinced that if agreement | is acbleved to hold such a conference, then procedure and other suggestions con- cerning the practical in- plementation of much บา agreement could be settled:

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TORIES WIN CONFIDENCE VOTE

Stormy Debate A PERFECT

On Bank Rate

'Leak' Ends

London, Feb. 4.

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative Government won a confidence vote today on its handling of the famed bank rate "leaks" affair of last September.

ZETA

The vote, 320 to 268 was ong the biggest margins received

CANby the Government in several

without special dimenity NOW REACH

These concessions could be agreed on vin customary diplomatic channels."

Step Forward

HIS is taken to mean in Moscow that the nute is

a stop, forward to a heads of government meeting, bul both London and Wishing- ton are of the opinion that no progress has been made. The United States insists that

months. I topped off a stormy debate Lit the House of precedent since the 1-fated Suez attack of 1950.

CONS without

15 MILLION Reginald Maudling, Treasurer

DEGREES

C.

London, Feb. 4. DT Peter Thonemann. Australian-born scientist in Britain's engaged therma-nuclear research programme sald tonight that no further obstacles lay in the path of "Zeta" reaching temperatures of 15 million degrees Centi-

grade.

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ned Paymaster-Gencrat, accusti Labour's Harold Wilson carrying out A campaign of stander in the Douse ngalast ex- Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft and Brilish business dignitaries.

Difficulty

The }louse spunker

STRUCTURE

- BUT NOT TO LIVE IN

Parle, Fab. 4.

A 36.storey skyscraper, the tallest building in Cairo ~~may never be lived in, the Egyptian weekly magazina "Akher Sza”, which arrived hara today suggested.

Only a few wooks away from completion, the archi- topts of the 9714,285 build- ing have discovered that:

★The Cairo water sya- tems not capable of pumping water to the top storeys.

Cairo's fire depart- ment does not have ladders long enough to fight a poralblo blaze,

The seasonal flooding of the Nito would undermine the akyscraper which is bullt on the river bank.

The building is so badly balanced that lightest earthquake could topple it.

the

had

ciculty at times making him self beard above the tumult of some dozen MPs all talking ol

ence.

The

Aummit conference must be prepared by a preceding

bank rale hearings meeting of all Foreign

were held to Investigate re- Ministers, but this has been

Zeta is the machine at the ports that news of the im- rejected by Marshal But-

Atomic Energy research

pending bank rate boost had ganin who appears to object tablishment at Harwell, Berk-

been "leaked” lo businessmen. to the

The Board of Inquiry said it of the shire, which is being used in presence American Secretary of experiments 10 harness the found no evidence to sub- State, Mr Foster Dulles, US power of the hydrogen bombstantiate the

reports. for peaceful purposes. a negotiator.

In his letter the Soviet Premier said he noted that considering

the

blased position of certain partici- panta na ministerin! con- ference, the Russians could not be confident that talks at that level would not create additional obstacles the organisation of a summit conference.

to

Distinct Jibe

HIS is a distinct jibe at

TH

·IN A POSITION

Dr Thotiemann added: "We are now in a position to proceed with the next stage to reach these temperatures.".

He was speaking la a British Broadcasting Corporation in- terview.

Dr Thonemann Sald he thought that when 15 million degrees had been reached the efficiency of Zeta would be al- trust 100 per cent.

Dr Thanemann Lelieved that become source the Secretary of State, Zeta would

but on the other hand Soviet of useful power in "not less leaders have several times than 10 and not more than 50 Aluted that they regard years."-Reuter.

President Eisenhower as a

man of peace.

No doubt the Russians have NO CHANCE

taken issue with Mr Dulles over his recent statement that in his opinion if a sum- mit conference did not take

of up the problem

re-

unification of Germany on the basis of free elections It would be much better nut to have the conference at all.

It is therefore plain that the Russians would prefer to deal direct with the Presi dent and thus avoid com. which might plicatious arise at a Foreign Ministers meating.

Uproar brake out just before the vote over a demand by Mr Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour (opposition) Leader, for inform- ation about whether a letter

from the Governor of the "Bank of England was given to the Lord Chancellor.

Disclosed

The Lord Chancellor made an investigation before the tribunal was appointed and decided there was no case for an inquiry.

Mr Gaitskel said the Jeller disclosed that private in- formation had come to the overtor about transactions

Aside from these minor drawbacka, the Cairo sky. scraper can be coneldarod a perfect technical success, the magazine concluded), w France-Presse.

SOEKARNO WARNED IN TOKYO

Opposition Govt To Djakarta To Be Set Up

Tokyo, Feb. 5.

An emissary of the Indonesian rebel movement said today he was awaiting announcement at any moment of the establishment of a revolu tionary government in Indonesia,

Licut-Coi Ventje Sumual, co- ernment (which includes Com- bel military commander of cast munists) of Premier Djuanda Indonesia and one of the leaders | In Djakarta.

in

Establishment

revolt

An

Post Office Engineers Awarded Pay Boost

London, Feb. 4. arbitration tribunal has awarded a wages rise that will mean £3,500,000 more a year for 75,000 Post Office engineering workers, It nounced tonight.

was

an-

It was the first big pay award by the Civil Service Arbitration Tribunal since a tough govern- ment policy on wages was on- nounced in the House of Com- mons last October.

of the "young colonel"

Sumual, who met the United egainst the pro-Communist policies of Djakarta, sald Presl-Press in a Tokyo hotel where he dent Sockamo had been notified

has been registered under B of the impending action by the etious namo since January 29,

The Post Ofco Englacering rebel leaders

described as Padang,

another, eriler Union announced wonight that step in the plan of the revolu- weekly pay increases of from Sumatra.

ticnorice the notification to seven shillings to 23 chilling Sockorno that they planned to dixpence had been awarded to set up an opposition govern 50,000 members. The In- ment,

<rcases are retrospective to July, 1950.

WILL NOT ADD

Consequential pay Increases will also be made to the remain- ing 25,000 workers covered by the Union.

Sumual, a crop-haired, husky 34-year-old veteran of the In- donostan war of independence. Faid the rebel Bukittinggi Radio the establish- would announce

ment of the revolutionary re- to- gime "perhaps today or morrow."

This, he said, was the next stuge in the fight of the military junta against the coalition gov-

IKE SUFFERING

FROM

SLIGHT COLD

Washington, Feb. 4. President Eisenhower tonight entertained at dinner 50 top scientists and military leaders despite the fact that he was suffering from a "slight cold" and a "slight sore throat."

Mr Elsenhower joined his guests at the tradition-breaking first White House scientific and

by three corporations in walchinilitary dinner. directors of the Bank might The While House Press be, or held to be, concerned. Secretary, James C. Hagerty, He felt an attempt was being had anounced less than four Elsen- made to cover up the situation. hours earlier that Mr

Mr Reginald Maudling, Pay-hower had a very slight" cold master-General, reported that and sore throat. But he said Mr the Governor had said he was Elsenhower had no fever and conducat in the three instances had not changed his working that everything was proper and schedule.

larity.

OF PEACE there was no question of irregu ON CYPRUS

- KUTCHUK

―

Nicosia, Feb. 4. Turkish Cypriot leader Dr

Confidential

He declined to disclose the Lord Chancellor's proceedings, which were confidential.

Labour members repealed-

Dr Wernher von Braun, one

WestGerman

Communist

Arrested

Duesseldorf, Feb. 4.

of the chief architects of the West German police clamped Almy's Explorer satellite, chi Dr John P. Hagen, chief of the Navy satellite programme, were on the guest list.

News Conference

President Eisenhower planned

to hold a news conference Rt

and

down on three Communist front organisations today and arrested a former Rod Member of Parliament. Flying Squads ralded offlers seized records of the ly urged him to say whether 1530 GMT tomorrow. This will organisations in the five German

states where they were active. the letter had been scen by be his second meeting with re-

the the Lord Chancellor (Lord porters since last October 30. His

The police acted under Federal Supreme Court decision Kilnir), but Me Maudling fast press conference WEB on

of August, 1950 which out- refused to say,

January 15

Communist Party lawed the and front organisations.

The raids took place in the

North states

Rhine- Westphalia, Bavaria, Hesse, Baden-Wuerttenberg, and Lower

Fazil Kutchuk stated to- day on his return to the island from Ankara that there is no possibility of The Government majority in Hagerty at his late afternoon peace and security return the rst vote would have been news conference today said the ing to the island under the one higher if a Conservative President red specifically re- MP had not dropped off to quested him to inform reporters present administration.

sleep despite the noise, Fellow of the cold so that vocal buski- "The British Government is Conservatives came back for Css would not come as a sur- to the Bagdad Pact meeting trying to and an experimental him from the voting lobby, but prise at the news conference

and tomorrow, administration which includes too

Hagerty said the President was

Police arrested former Com- being treated for his ailment by

munist M.B. Walter Fish in his Maj-Gen Howard McC. Snyder home at Wuppertal where they who was using a throat spray to

finding Red reileve the President's condition, reported

paganda material and large fmount of money.-United

But Britain, judging from the speech by the Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd,

last week, has given

inde-

Up self-government, but this is Reuter, insistence on a preceding Impossible on an island with a Foreign Ministers meeting homogamous population. and might be willing to pendence is alsó unacceptable," agree to Soviet insistence he stated,

on

preparations diplomatic channels.

No Reference

TR

Lloyd

though

made

по

"No matter what efforts are made, there is no possibility of wo Cyprus cominuallies living together under the same flag

Nations fog." Leven a United

Kulchul continued.

late-France-Presse

Road Closed

Belfast, Feb. 4.

Northern Ireland authorities

United Press.

today blocked with paling of Not Going To US

M reference to the need for of Cyprus cannot

He stressed that the problem County Donegal.

remain in

spikes the main road between Londonderry and the republican

Sydney, Feb. 6. border town of Letterkenny, Mr Harold Evans, publie ro

lotion adviser to Mr Harold The authorities, trying to Macmillan, sald here today that check terrorist raldi from there was no truth in the rum a Foreign Ministers meet- abeyance indefinitely.

"The Brilish Government across the border by nationalist our that the Prime Minister ing and he said that the

must accept the consequences extremists, havo now closed all would return to England by way level of the talks did not ir Archbishop Makarios retums roads except one betwoon of the United States for talks matter what mattered

to Cyprus," said.-United Londonderry and the Irish Re-with President Elsenhower.-- was that concrete results Press

public-China Mail Special. China Mail Special, should be obtained.

Further consultations

be-

tween the Western leaders ure needed to reconcilo their own positions beforo they can attempt any new negotiations with Russians.

tho

But the political climate is much clearer now than it was some months ago and there is no reason why the current exchange of latters 'should not eventually lead to a menting between the heads of government later in the year,

ho

YOUNG WIFE ACQUITTED OF MURDER

Franklin. Penn, Feb. 4.

A Jury today found Mrs Lydia Dean innocent of the rifle alaying of 'her Air Forco busband.

The verdict was returned after four hours and 37 minutos of deliberation by a panel of seveni men ind five womUTIA,

Dry Dean, a 22-year-old sa-

furalised citimen, broke info

·Seats when tho

Saxony.

Press.

pro-

Two Weeks To Prepare

London, Feb. 4. Duke Miguel Primo Do Fuvera, who

last resigned week as Spanish Ambassador to Britain after being nasped in a divorco, care, wag today allowed two weeks to prepar An answer to charges made against hlm by. Major Anthony ******** | Greville-Boll, former British

parachutist

by a single shell from a 19th contary buffalo rifio.

read. Bul scated between her mother and matrom, the young Filipino giri throw ker left arm to her brow and started to noži, The raven-haired mother Mrs Dóna siill was, dased by the

that began ordeal

14st December 7 when her hus The Blato called the death first post and no longer claimed dip

Greville-Bell had clied the Dean contended the shoot 69-year-old former Ambastador ing was accidental, Sho text-in a divorce suit against his fed she had wanted her hus« wife, Helen, 28. band to her, after ho'bad

In a brief hearing today, De demanded a diveron to MSITY

British gizi expecting is Rivera's attorney told the court that his cllent had resignot his chlid.

DANG, T/Sgt. Ronald'. Dear,

was shot

Farid, killed

Gogtoo murder.

· Uniteit | Tomalle Immunity. *** Franco-

Free

Confirming on exclusive United Press

report on Thursday, Sumual sala the plan was relayed to the President, who is visiting Japon, at the Japanese Government

Kut house on Monday, by Col War- ouw, military attache at the Indonesian Embassy in Peking.

In Hongkong

The engineers' clakn was re- ferred to arbitration in Decem- ber when negodations with the

Post Offee broke down,

Mr Churles Smith, General- Secretary at the Union, sald Worouw, who joined Sumual tonight the increases will not add in Hongkong, flew back to Hong-lo the cost of living because kong on Tuesday night en route telephone charges have already back to his post in the Chinese been adjusted months ago to capital.

provide for these Increases." -- Router,

"His mission has been com- pleted." Sumuol said.

President Soekarno denied" in -Genito-last pight thatthe ind it ceived an ultimatum!' from Warouw but was travelling and could not be contacted today for on Immediate comment,

The colonel sald he himself

was planning to leave for home as soon as possible,"

"I think my mission has been achieved," he declared. "The planned result has been realised."

The rebel lender sid that he had

other objectives in Japan besides that of "elling Pro- eldent Soekarno what may happen."

But he refused to expand on this statement-United Press.

Etna Explodes

makes the surg

Catania, Féb

Violent

shaking explosiona Etna's north-east crater tonight sent a tongue of fiery lava rolling down towards the village of Randazzo, on the tower slopes of

the volcano.

Incandescent boulders were hurled acveral hundred feet into the air,China Maif Special.

Dulles Sick

Washington, Feb. 4.

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: K.0, W L D 0 N/

Big Freeze

·

Hits

Florida

Chicago, Feb. 4.

One of the bitterest winter

cold

waves on record dealt a stuggering blow to Florida's billion-dollar tourlet, vegetable and cattle industries today. The cold was part of a trans- continental weather onslaught which piled up 10-foot snow drifis in the northeast end sent food waters .coursing through sireels In California's San Fernado valley.

DEATH TOLL

Thousands of school children had a holiday in the California floodlands and northeast anow belt. But the weather also etalmed B mounting toll of

A

lives.

United Press count showed' Iwo men dead in a fire In Florida, six southern Cali→ fornia traffe deaths blamed

on the rain, and two more dead in a bus-truck crash on en fer highway near Colfax, Cat!?..

for

of 10 a total fatalities. In Florida, it was feared tho

coll would

prave a death blow to ranchers and farmers,

ICY BLAST Florida cattle, unused to sub- freezing temperatures, were reported dying by the hun- dreds Dn frost-blackened ranges.

Tender beans and corn withered before the ley blast,

with and,

colder Weather predicted for Wednesday, it was feared

be the plants would

killed entirely. The freeze was Florida's third major cold wave in bal MANE

months, The Miami-weather --- Forecaster,

Gordon Dann,

shuddering at the City's 50- degree low and 60-degree high today, said it was the worst winter an record for the State lucrative tourist fadustry-United Press.

Bread Boycott

Cairo, Feb. 4. A bread boycolt spread in Calro after 20 people died

from re-day

food poisoning.

to-

The State Department ported today that Secretary of Another 195 people were in

Authorities State John Foster Dulles is feel- hospital.

bave

Ing better but is still suffering opened an investigation.China from a cold:-United Press, Mail Special.

PERUVIAN POLICE

POLICE CALL

OFF WAGE STRIKE

Arequipa, Feb. 4. Peruvian Army tanks controlled strategic corners and infantry- men were posted on roof-tops today whlie workers cleared the burricades remaining from a Aght last night between soldiers and civilians in which two persons were killed and 11 Injured.

隨

The clash stemmed from

strike by the polleo force in support of demands for higher pay. It involved a platoon of

soldiers and a number of civi lans backing the striking policemen.

were

Federation;

Julio

Torres,

· lender of the Construction Workers Union; Manuel Ampuero, leader of the Truck Drivers Union; and Telesford Salas Neves, Secretary of the Graphio Workers Union.

Shortly after the encounter, the policemen called of the strike to avold further bloodshed. Four labour lenders

gooled as agitators after Gov-None of them was directly con- ernment officials in Lima neeted with the police strike but their unions, notably the constructions workers, suspected of including ex- treme left-wing elements. --- United Press,

said they had conclusive proof that Communists had incited the civilians egalnat the army. The four are Bernardo Linares, Secretary of The Labour

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