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POST-WHITSUN ITALY NAMPAIGNING in the third

in Italy is now in full swing, but with a difference-for the, first time all alliances have been dropped and the nationai parties are fight- under their OWN

ing

banners. Five years ago the Christian Democrats, the Democratie Sucialists, the Republicans and the Liberals the

and moderate

centre parties agreed to aght the election

ItH a single de- mocratic bloc with affiliated list of candidates. The left-wing Nenni Socialists decided not to join forces with the Communista in a "popular front," at they had done In 1948, but to contest the election Independently as they are doing this year. The right-wing Monarchists and the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement followed | auit.

IB

In the Senate just dissolved the Government bloc ob- tained 50.2 per cent of the votes and returned 125 senators against 112 for the left and right-wing parties. The Chamber, the bloc failed by very narrow margin-50,000 voles-to secure the necessary 50.01 per cent which would have Kiven them their hoped for majority.

In both Houses in 1953. however, there WILS 1L heavy loss of sents by the Government bloc. Virtual Loaders FOR

OR the past ten years the virtual lenders of the country have been the "Christian" "Democrata and, supported by the Vatican and the Catholic Church, they are engaged now in one of the most energetic cam-

hos paigns Italy

ever

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BRITISH WONDER BOMBER SHELVED

By

CHAPMAN PINCHER

London, May 18. BOMBER so fast it could reach Moscow in on hour los bohind the row botwoon the air chiefs and Mr Sandys, the Defence Minister.

The 1,800 mila an hour machine, which can fold its wings fight like * bird, was designed to give R.A.F. manned planes a new lease of life,

THE DART

The Defence Minister cancelled it on economy grounds after £1,500,000 had been ●pent Dn it.

The plane was Invented by 70-year-old Dr Barnes Wallis who built the the тал bouncing bomb which blasted the Ruhr dame, the man who

TUNISIA

ATTACK

READY

From SYDNEY SMITH

Firat

Brita correspondent in Algeria since the crisis,

Algiers, May 18. Twenty-four hours after Jacques Soustolle, the do Gaullist leader landod. in Algaria, French forces are tonight ready-to "arrange

WAS portrayed by Michasi Radgrave In the, fim "The Dam Busters."

Details of the bamber, known The Swallow, were dis- cloned fast night. It has three revolutionary features:

move

te long, taparing wings can that they are straight for take-off and landing but swept back like a papar dart för flight up to two and a half times the speed of ecund,

This eliminates the need for long runways and dangerous. ly high tanding spends.

con-

*There are no alterome, flapk,

tailplane or similar trole, The pilot changes couras by moving the plane's four Jot engines which are. pivoted on mountings out. side the wings.

The jota can be directed alde

to side or up and down. weight

Tow the The

la EO because of the simplicity that the machine la excep. tionally economical on fuel,

Riots In

Lisbon: Many Hurt

Lisbon, May 18,

Police tonight opened fire on

The plane is designed to carry

an stom-bomb far

5,000

No

• miles, without refuelling. Government scientista aro

the work Impressed with

heo that they believe it tromendous future as a civil airliner. It could reach Now York fram London In two hours and Australia in aight.

MISTAKE

But they cut It out of the military programme just whan Or Barnos Wallle was ready to build a full-calo machine because they be. iloved manned bombers were about to be superseded by rockets.

Now the air chiefs are openly saying that the Government's decfsion WEE A disastrous mistake.

The Bwallow principle could be applied to tow-laval bombere and fighters too The Vickers-Armstrongs (Alr- craft) Company has kept the work going

private venture since the Govern. ment withdrew support.

Я

Pivot Wing

Jels pivot up and down

Drop Snoot

Wing in take-off position

Pivot Jets

SOVIET NAVY SAILS

INTO ATLANTIC MOVEMENTS ABOVE AVERAGE

· London, May 18.

a crowd who stoned them Western intelligence sources revealed today that the Soviet Navy has stepped up its traffic from Russian Baltic Sea bases into the open Atlantic-and possibly the Mediterranean.

during a demonstration in favour of General Hum- berto Delgado, Opposition independent candidate for the Presidential elec- tion on June 8.

A British Admiralty openly (ponding step-up in Red Navy declared yesterday that uniden-raffle through the Dardanelles, Thirty-three people were instined submarines were operating Russia's only other sea outlet

Other to the West the whole of the Northjured, nve of them with bullet in the North Atlantic.

that reports indicated today African situation by them-wounds in the legs.

Sovlet fleet' movements are con- solvos".

eldorably bigger than this.

Police look precautions against witnessed in preparation

Backed by for the Whitsunilde polling

120,000 regular possible demonstrations in the vicinity of a meeting addressed 35.000 are parachutes, French Jaya,

by General Delgado and all All the other parties and prepared to dash

Suustelle gives the word to trets leading to the meeting

place were sealed off.

$ soon as

meanwhile, are Teres the Tunisian border

and ported to be campaigning

"clean-up" the hoses which are

againal what has been the main centres of attack by described as "the increasing Algerian terrorists.

subjection of the Italian

Government and all other

public authorities to the

priesta

bishops

and

Man Who Counts

2 objective of the mineral

Christian Democrats

of demonsira-

and from side to side

REPORT LABOUR MP's ON HONGKONG MILLS 65-hour Week "Average"

London, May 19.

The average hours worked by operatives in Hongkong spinning and weaving mills are "not less than 65 per week," a British Labour Member of Parliament estimatos today,

Mr

About Ernest Thornton who

are 14,500 workers made his third post-war visit to employed in the spinning mills All the Colony earlier this year, and 10,000 in the 100 aays this in a letter to the weaving mills. Financial Times.

The M.P. adds: "80 only eight-hour about 7,000 work This route is strategically He concludes a report on the shifts and about 17,000 work!

than the Baltic hours of less desirable

work in Hongkong ten to 12-hour shifts. In fact, exit because Russton ships can texto mills by saying that mostly 12-hour-Reuter. "The

of number

Soviet be

closer sur nowhere else in Asia except in kept under naval passages between thevolllance.

South Korea did he find women Baille and open вел thle

working 12-hour shifts. far winter and - spring · wan above the average of corres-

In ponding periods

recent Russia customarily years," one Western naval source said,

NO ANNOUNCEMENT

moveg

по

Only people with invitations to the meeting were

allowed

ships between the Black Sea, through the cordon.

via the Dardanelles, and the during the summer Small groups

His report covered the perice Baitle

In previous years tory assembled In streets ear preceding the Lebanon upheaval months.

were given the meeting place at the Lyceum, and NATO's big sen manoeuvres these movements

by Rodlo Moscow. There I was told this this morning in shouting "Long Live Delgado in the Mediterranean this week, routine pubilelly

has been Mansu's offer, And

the the past,

British such announcement so far this In They were rapidly dispersed though General Salan is numat

has Republican Admiralty by

usually

on year. police which incidentally none of the authority in all General National Guards on horseback, nounced the passage of Russian Massu's orders I would appear but in some cases there were ships past Britain, which Hes on

the man

sea route from the main that Mass is

Baltic to the Mediterranean. could

counts militarily today

This year these spot reports liave not been issued. WARSHIP

the lenders expect to attain alone is absolute majority in both Houses

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who clashes.

Demonstrators Since I arrived, everything 1 possibly be achieved only by post-election alignment have seen and heard strengthens Saldanha Square with other parties with the conviction that there is a police and

will re- lamp - posts. which they formed the way back. Government bloc in the last mon French no matter what fire several times during these

Government in Paris skirmishes.-Reuter,

Algeriu

clection. However, it is

a Christian whether even and

Lny

decides.

doubtful

This is the uninistakable con-

nt

the

stoned the

broke

Police

glasses 10 opened

the

and Social Democratic vielion of the French in Algeria B-26 Shot Down worship slipped past. Denmark coalition, with their hoped-rivilians and idlers.--

for higher poll, could reach den Express Service,

the necessary total of seats |

for their majority. doubts have been expressed that the Liberals, the next largest centre party, which had only five fewer seats than the Social Democrats, would

join in any coalition | with the latter because of policy divergencies.

Another favoured course for|

the outgoing Gox

Government to

return on majority is com- bination of the Christian Democrats, Liberale and the

--

onarchists (n

with 40 Boats 'in

Chamber and

dissolved

recent seats in the Senate) possibility,

There i

*

ever

how-

that such an alliance would throw the

working clasaca'

non-

maalst Nenni Socia

lista (75 seats in the Cham

be and 30 in the Senate) and Social Democrats (19

and 4 seats) into the op-

and

position. Should this happen the possibility of fusion within two years is fore-

Been.

A now force would thus up- pear on the scene capable of contenting with the Com- munists for lendership of the Italian working classes.

and small groups to the election arena

, the

decision of alie

Independently is viewed with sono apprehension, poll- Bome observera seoing tical confusion and a new! porlod of strain between Church and State as a result of the elections,

Britaltry Admiral Sir William Davies; however, sald at a news conference in Lisbon, Portugal, yesterday that unidentified sub marines were operating in waters covered by the NATO Atlantic Commands.

Only in some parts of Japon did he and a seven-day work- ing week but there it was legal whereas in Hongkong "these conditions operate within the low."

Not Big

1

Me Thornton wriles: Hongkong, there are 18 or 19 Pew spinning mills, some com- bining weaving also.

our

Engineers'

Pay Call

London, May 18. Lenders of Britain's 2,000,000 served engineering werkers notice on Prember Harold BOY" Macmillan's embattled ernment today they intend to press new wage claims. "They are no big by

Their claim threatened a new Britain's crisis

troubled standards (biggest has 45,000 spindles, average about 25,000)

The engineering workers' but by Hongkong standards they industrial front. are large industrial units.

addition there are about claim came as a strike of Lon- 150 small weaving mills, mostly don bus crews entered its third after a within days nationwide rall strike WAS

an

He said "limited numbers of U-boats were involved. He re- fused to specify whether they very small and some of them week

comparativey old.

"In nine of the new spinning narrowly averted last week by were Russia's-United Press.

mills three shitts of eight hours the award of a three per cent each are operated, but in the wage rise to 600,000 - "railroad other nine or 10, two shifts of workers.-United Press, 13 hours each are worked.

17 Die In Crash

But I was learned that last weekend an unidentified Soviet fying the flag of & Vice-Admiral, accompanied by two destroyer escorts. Djakarlu, May 13

confirmed that defences 01 It also was

Oporto, May 18. submarines Eastern three big seagoing

A bus loaded' with 40 passen passed through the Baltie lust

gors plunged down a ravine near month and, subsequently dock-here tocny killing 17. All the injured, ed in Egypt.

survivors 23- were Omeial sources

many of them seriously.—United Istanbul in said there had been no corres- Press.

Anti-aircrafi More About

French Crisis: P3

Ambon island, Indonesia, today shot down

rebel B-20 bomber when it at- tacked the Ambon airfield, Air Force hendquarters announced. -France-Presse.

(Above) the new Franch Prime Ministar "M. 7 Pierrig: Pflimkie, anavere questions at an informál, Press dunfarenda and (right) rioting in the Champs-Elyesse, Paris, over the news that the Army had takan över contrál; in Algerfum Cantra Press.

"In the 160 small weaving mills various types of shift, ara | operated, none seems to be less than 105 hours, and mostly they are 12-hour shifts.

"In all cases the mills operato seven days per week, generally the only time the muis close i ut Chinese New Year for four days.

The best mills offer a rest day, to each worker after work- ing six days: in others after working 14 days and in some cases there appears to be not even a theoretical day, of rest each month.

No Rest Day

"In practico most of the operatives do not take a rest day because if they work for 'ED}") this day they are paid 50 per cent or 100 per cent bonus for that day. So, in the best milia, the operatives get eight-laye wages for woven days, work.

"But it for any repƠN an, than operative is off; för more half a shift in a week he, or she, loses the premium rate. Therefore day not worked, for any cause, often means the loss of two days' wages. This

a vicious myster,

"Only a half-hour break for meair is allowed in many the ruilla operating

shifts,

"This means

of

12-hour

for

an 90%-bour actual working wock-and women too. Forty-two per cent

of the oporativos employed in cotton planing and weaving are females Bal

that

Mr Thornton generally the minimum hours worked are 32 ond one half and tha inaximum 80 hours and one halfsper, week.

HK Spinners Association's Reply

Mr C. T. Chu, Secretary of the Hongkong Cot- ton Spinners Associa tion, said this morning that the member com punles of his Associe- tion which formed the backbone of the local cotton industry -worked three eight- hour shifts a day. Thus, operatives worked a total of 55 hours a weck.

"I cannot speak for milis"

that are not members of the Association, but I would say that as far as my own members are concerned it would not be accurate to say that the averago work-.

Gr Was ing week bours," Mr Chu added.

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