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THE ARAB WEST

CONFERENCE of vital Are of

of North Africa opened in Tangler yesterday, The main topic on the agenda for discussion are vullen- tion of the Aruh West to

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REBEL GOVT MOVES TO CELEBES?

Reported To Have

Left

embrace Tunisia, Algeria Sumatra

and Morocco, the need for Algerian independence and the importance of liquidat ing what

termed are "equela to colonialism."

The delegates of Tunisia an

Morocco are representatives of the ruling parties of l those two countries, the Algerian delegates are re- presenting the Algerian Insurgents.

The scheme of the Tunisian

President, Mr Habib Bour quiba, for unifying the North Afrienn countries was, until the Franco- Tunisian crisis started last

Singapore, Apr. 28.

The Straits Times claimed today the rebel Premier of Central Sumatra, Mr Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, had left Singapore by seaplane for the insurgent North Celebes,

The Times Bold he was ac- rebel Co- scanpotled by the merce Minister, Doctor Sumitru, Defence Minister. Mr the Hurbanuddin Harahap, and the information

Minister, Lleut- Colonel Docklan Djambek.

According to the paper M:

February, to promote Sjafruddin, accompanied by six negotiated Battlement for the Algerian

ninisters, arrived in Singapore problem; | secretly on Friday,

create an Arab West; and Integrate the Arab West in ♫ Franco-North African grouping.

Into Background

Seaplanes

This has been denied by the Singapore Government.

report

The Straits Times claimed two grey painted sea- planes, without markings, landed

TUIE Franco-Tunisian dis-in Singapore waters shartly after

Tpute, touched oft by the

French bombing of Sakeit

Sidi Youssef village, push-

midnight yesterday,

Buch was wanted by a crew

of three, it cald,

ed all idea of a Franco- The Times said the two ale- erall carrying Mr Sjafruddin, other

North

African grouping the three ministers, six

into the background.

ma

men, and a quantity of docu-

Bid. however, strengthen ments, left for Meñodo, capital the desire of Tunisia and of the North Celebes. Morocco to crente tho There the rebels planned to Maghreb Western North make a last stand Africa)

and

it a make

According to „tumos, tho

force like the Egypt-Syrian rebel leaders left their toppling and the Jordan-Iraqi unions state of Central Sumatra in fast

motorboats on Thursday.

in the Middle East.

"And so during March, the

of Tunisia Moroccu-the Neo-

Parties of

Taiwan Markings-

Another Singapore newspaper,

Destour and the Istigial Semanjong gave details of how

decided to hold s con-

the 12 rebel leaders stopped

ference on North African över in Singapore for 36 hours unity in Tangier yesterday at

the home of a Chinese with representatives of the Lusincgsman, then motored to Algerian Insurgent the north of Singapore and took National Liberation Front. off in two grey-coloured sea- planes beuring Talwan mark- Ings.

Corollary

only

Rebel sources in Singapore denies the whole story calegori- cally and suld Sjafruddin and were in

communique his colleagues still

Tun the deliberations so Sumatrn.

A More broadcast from the far received gives no in- dication that discussion of rebels said the Contral Govern- an Inevitable and important ment drive was stopped at the corollary-the question of banks of the. Kampar River, an setting up

AD "Algerian Snjundung front, about 30 Government in exilehes south of Batusangkar, by taken place or is even on the destruction of a key bridge. agendit.

“Bilusangkärr about 12 miles from Bukittinggi tnd is the site One of the military leaders of the rebel Government's ad

of the Algerian insurgents ministration buildings, although recently was quoted

as Bukittinggi Is the capital.

Atating that the opinion of Reuter and United Press.

the insurgent soldiers in Algeria is that the time has

come for the

Algerian THREAT OF

nution to have a govern- mont in exile to represent

the it in

"concert of

nations."

Opposition?

HE setting up of such

overnment would cer tainly meet with opposi tion from Tunisians and Moroccans: ally recogni tion by those two countries. of such an Algerian govern- ment at this stage could causa a final break with France.

REPRISALS

IN CYPRUS.

Nicosia, Apr. 27. Cyprus Government author-

ities today refused

to

make any statement on Eska allegations of "in- human measures" at the Kokkinotrimithia

Dotan-

tion Camp. The Eoka tender. Dighents, ugainst threatened

reprisals, British subjects in leafle's dis-

ributed yesterday afternoon,

The leaflet, addressed to. Sir Hugh Foot, the Governor, said:

A course which has been auggested โย that the Tunisians might, either, at the tripartite conference within two days of the ck-

culation of these lentiels Ja- " or Juter, propose

setting

humen measures against de- compromise the

RIX trinees ni Kokkinotrimitkla "Algerian Com- up of un

Cump are not withdrawn we miltec

of National Libera-

bera" shall strike Britons by way of tion" which would be less reprizal." official than a Gov

a Government The authorities today refused but more effective than the to make any alement on the National Liberation Front's Eoks allegations.-Reuter.

PEOPLE FLEE FROM GAS

About 400 people from 90 families at Redfern, a suburb of Sydney, NSW, fled from their homes in the early hours of last Thursday morning when a heavy concentration of raw ammonia escaped from an ice cream factory. At least thirty people collapsed from the effects of the gas and nine were rushed to hos- pital. Photo shows two choking-Bobbing women assisted from the fumes by a

gas-masked freman, Keystone.

US Summit Strategy Plans For

Nato Meeting

Next Month

New York, Apr. 27.

The United States is completing fresh plans this week on summit strategy for discussion with her allies at the Nato council in Copenhagen, officials said today.

FATHER CHRISTMAS

GOT LOST

London, Apr. 27. Worried railway off- cials sought an explana- tion today of how a freight-car loaded with Chrisimus parcels got into a remote siding at Leeds last December-

Uni- and stayed there noticed for four months. The car was part of

a matt train which puffed out of Manches- fer Station on Decem-

ber 29. What hap pened to it then nobody knew.

Since Christmas, the post office has paid out' hundreds of compensă- tion claims for lost parcela-United Press.

The plans which cover the complex issues of disarmament and European security will be reviewed at the three-day. Ministerial Nato meeting next week.

They inge on the United States determination not to "go It alone" despite mounting pressure from the Kremlin for bilateral Russo-American nego- llations.

Moreover, the US appears in- clined to stand by her allies in maintaining the demand for a "package deal" arms-cut Arrangement.

Earlier

for suggestions break-up of the Western packaga disarmament project have been abandoned, the sources sald,

SINGLE ISSUE

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Communists Receive Setback In France

Paris, Apr. 27. Finnt second ballot results of the French County Coun- cil elections, today showed a marked setback for the Communists and gains for both the Socialists and the Conservatives.

With 114 results still to come the Communists had registered 24 Josses and six gains, having obtained only 39 of the 1,481 sects

despite they contested, the withdrawal of the Sociulis! condidates in 30 election areas, Socialists, with 245 seals,

gained 43 and lost 37.

Conservatives with 400 seats,

gained G and lost 45.

Radicals with 300 scals, galned 33 and lost 00,

FINAL RESULTS

Final results for the 1,320 seats contestext last Sunday and today in the County Cound) elections announced officially tonight showed Communist and Gaullist, lusses, with Conserva- | tive, Socialist and Popular Re- publican (Catholic) gains,

The 1,520 metropolitan scats were distributed as follows:

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Lioness Goes

For A Stroll In Paris

Paris, Apr. 27.

Tribesmen Lay

Siege Ta British Fort

In Aden

London, Apr. 27. Tribesmen armed with rifles

and

machine-gans sor- rounded and attacked a British fort in Aden to- day, the War Office an- nounced here.

The statement suld that more than 300 tribesmen brought under siege the fort at Asgarir, eight miles from tho Aderi Yumen border near Dhala, Aden.

No casualties were reported.

OUTNUMBERED

Local mullamen

manning

the fort were badly outnumber- jed. They totalled about 40,

But a reflet column of British Pedestrians jumped into and Aden-levied troops WILS parked care or ran to understood to be on the way. safety down side lanes a down into Aden come ten days British Army reserves were Gladys, a young circus

ago. lioness, padded down the British alreraft from nearby Rue du General Michel Aden bases dropped supplies to Bizot in esal Paris to- the fort through the day. night.

Itockel-anned jot Aghiera strafed and bombex the At- The lioness, followed by tackers, it was said. polles, walked into an holol.

The communique ndded: "NS Gladys, with two. other ions, uttacks are being made on had been performing in a circus villages."

at the nearby Faire du Grone This referred to the fact that

Conservatives 522 seats (13 carnival. As she made a jump in the past Royal Air Force gains): Socialists 237 seats the tub on which she landed planes have launched raids on

(three gains); Near Socialists tipped over.

74 (12 gains); Communists 50

STARTLED

Yemeni villages in the vicinity after attacks.

YEMEN ARMS

The tribesmen were believed

(SL Josses); Radicals 387 (19 Josses); MR.P. (Catholles) 147 For safety she leapt from the (27 gniris); ex-Gaullists 60, (18 tub to the shoulders of her losses); others 19 (seven gains); trainer, Louls Willy, and with

The War Ofice said the arms The elections affected half the one further bound cleared the used by the tribesmen werd contons in France, each one of 11-foot railing of the cage and supplied by the Yemen, which which elects ond counentor for lunded in the étówd;

bus received arms from Rus the departmental General Bofore the startled audience sla according report. Assembly or Provincial Parlia- had time to realise what had ment. There were po plecions appered Gladys hail trotted to be inhabitants of the border in the Paris area which includes across the carnival ground and jngion between the Ader" "pro-~~ about a atth of France's 24,500,- disappeared into the neighbour-tectorate and the Yemen,

streets. 000 electors.

their homes on both sides As she turned into the hotel a the unmarked frontier. CONTINUES TALKS

policeman called out to the With the unit of Aden re- manugeress who was leaning out cruits in the fort was a British Meanwhile, M. Rene Pleven, of a window to close the inside political adviser, Robert Somer- French middle of the road door. He slemmed the outside set, who recently arrived in the

his door and Gladys was caught in area. leader, today continued

vestibule.-China to the talks with political leaders find a way of ending the 12-Special. day-old Government crisis.

Ono of ils aides wald M. Pleven would continue--- his talks tomorrow and report to President Reno Coty later in the day on whether be is willing to go ahead to try to form a now government,

Today's talks included discus- sion of an all-party policy memorandum on Algeria which M. Pleven wants party leaders to approve. Reuter,

Iraq Refuses To Pay

Share Of

Arab League Budget

Cairo, Apr. 7.

Iraq announced tonight she would pay her share

of the Arab League budget no longer.

SABOTAGED “

Com

The Arab League Pollcal

д In

statement Committee,

The Iraqi Ambassador He said that in addition to not because piece-meal arms-cul Ibrahim Khodelr, made the paying its share this year or in agreements would leave Russia announcement after a meeting future years, Iraq would also with an overwhelming conven- of the Arab League tonight.

not settle its previous debt lo tional force.

the League of £250,000. "Iraq will not pay its share of the budget of the Arab But there is chance that League this

year or in the the single issue of nuclear test years le come owing to its in- tonight, expressed its "soTTOW" suspension might be Red from | debtedness us

result &

of over the Iraqi altitude, and reconsider the the package plan, leaving all damage to the oil pipelines urged Iraq to other terms intact,

during the tripartito aggression | decision. On

that All Jawdat this paint

It added much soul in Egipt," he said.. searching is currently in pro-.

Ayoubl, former Iraqi Premier, gress and a decision was ex-

had previously announced Iraq's all its pected to be reached by the

preparedness to meet Administrailon In time for the

financial obilgations. The Irng Petroleum May 6-7 Noto conference, pany's pipelines through Syria U.S. Secretary of State John to the Mediterranean were Foster Dulles har sounded the sabotaged and three pumping mafor. Western allies on these stations blown up during the

Political observers hors con- preparatory

sider that the Arab Longue bus close Suez erisis.

The flow of oil from Irag entered into the most sexlots Dulles met the envoys of Bri- | tain and France, and more off-of some 20 million tons yearly crisis of its 13 years existence

interrupted. was

It began with Iraq's announcement Algier, Apr. 27. Blago exchanges are envinged again on March 11, 1057 but is The crisis follows tension be terrorist, accom- this week.

states since tween Arob on which the delegates of attacked today was stabbed as panled

Bot yet fully restored. by two companions, Dulles, moreover, wad

Mr Khodeir mid the Iraqi Jordan-Egypt political cinth a the three North African he came out of night club, throw Д hand-grensdo In pected to have a personal ex- Goverment was in debt because year ago and more' rocent nationalist parties have and taken to hospital with Orloopsville today which In- change of views Immediately of the losses caused by pipeline developments, after the creation meet publicly and officially, severely lacerated arm. They jured 13 people, thures of them before the start of the Nato destruction, and could not pay of the rival groupings of Their decisions can have a bald the incident was not seriously. The three terrorists conference, in direct talks with Im share of the League budget United Arab Republie and the great effect on the future thought to have any political made their getawayFrance the Belsh and French Foreign until all its debla had been monarchic' Arab Federations.

Prike.

| Ministers,--United Pross--- auttled.

---fleuter. destinies of North Africa.elgrillicance-Reuter.

top body the

Committee

of

Co-ordination and Action Soldier Stabbed which, at recent meetings

In Cairo, studied the Iden

of

up an Algeriau

Going in exile.

Nicosia, Apr. 27.

A British soldier was stabbed Grenade Incident consultations last week. The current conference in by an unknown terrorist in a Tangier is the first occasion busy square in Nicosia tonight,

Omelais said later the soldier A young

in

SERIOUS CRISIS

the

the

In

Mall

with

of

The War Office sald that ho was "cale”.—United Presa.

BRITONS BUY RUSSIAN VACCINE

London, Apr. 27, British sufferere from multiple Geleroals are buying vaccine from the Boviet Union at £25 that in the hopea of being cured, д London newspaper aald today.

Reynolds News sald that the vaccine apparently worked. It quoted ons Briton, Bydney Grant, as asylhg It had given him back the use of, hli right arm and log, which were

partially paralysed. The Russian vadelne made from à ratios virus extracted fram rate, was, first advertised in Soviet Nowe,

English language publication Isausd by the Soviet Embassy hare. Bince then Soviet authorities have had "hundrade" of letters making for it, despite warnings from Britain's Health Ministry that is affectivanosa is doubt. ful United Press

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