THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1958.
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THE GREAT BATTLE-WAGONS OF THE PAST HAVE GONE "Little More Than Hopeless Pawns"
Economy Axe Falls On R.N. U.S. 'Mail Order'
Anti-Submarine THE LONE RANGER IN LONDON
Replacements For Navy
By JOSEPH W. GRIGC
London, July 30.
Economy-minded Britain is scrapping or selling between one-third and one-half of hor fleet.
A total of 85 ships of the reserve fleet are falling Only 50 are being!
under the economy axe.
replaced.
The replacements ate largely ng the next two years two uir- anali-yulmari crcraft cartlers, two cruisers, 13 fast destroyers, Irigates and destroyers, 18 minesweepers and patrol boats designed to meet 17 miscellaneous craft total the threat of Russia's huge of 50 ships. underwater Beel.
The
fireat
balife = WARRIS
of the past have all gree.
The active fleet today contains not a single battleship,
It consisty of the aircraft Eagle, Victorious, Centaur and Albion, the cruisers Newloundland, Ceylon, Birming 1940 andheld in reserve atham, Shemeld, Bermuds
Carriers Headquarters
ton
Last of these was the 44,500
Vuugunt!, completed i
Portsmouth
1958. The since Government him just disclosed that
shup which has never fred at an enemy - to be used as a training and head- quarters vessel until she is
ready to be scrapped.
The other four brittle-trips of hur class the King George
24 destroyers,
and 30
30 submarines, 20 other und 14
Gambla,
gates, minesweepers vessels.
Manpower
There also is a reserve, feet
of five aircraft carriers, eight
Fifth, Duke of York, Anson and cruisers, 30 destroyers, 54 fri- Howe have all been seropped. | gates, 18 submarines, 156 mine- last of these was the Howe sweepers and a large number of which went to the Junkyards other smaller vessels. only wently.
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fnlling "Olber ships now slated for The economy axe is The same fate, unless some not only on the ships but on the
This Latin Amerigon
Common Navy's
manpower. wealth nation buys them, in being cut back from its present cludò the cruisers Liverpool, strength of 112,000 men now lo Glasgow, Bellöin, Cleopatra ona | 99,000 Dido-all bull! more than 14 | 88,000 men by 1082. years
destroyers
Atomic Weapons Plebiscites Banned In West Germany
Karkruhe, July 38. The West German Federal constitutional court today. banned plebiscitca plan- ned in Socialist-controlled Riales whether the forces West German
оп
mien by emiti-1959-ex-should-receive--atomie
weapons.
The court recalled that the Zambezi, Zephyr, Zebra, Savage, Even the Navy's admirals are Cornus, Norman and Obdurale, being axod. Skice the begin-Soelatlsts (the main federal op- falled in the -33 frigates,, nine minesweepers ng of the your 14 have been position) kad
and 31 patrol boats.
retired bringing the total down Federni Parliament to block a To replace these 83 vessels the from a round 100 to 86, decision to provide
with tactical nuclear ims, and Government has promised dur-U.P.I.
GIANT INSECT BALLOON
A
Crosby, July 30. GIANT balloon, carrying thousande of scientific research,
insects for exploded today at an altitude of 40,000 feet.
It is ba
This biggest ever
exploded, Lailoon lleved, because of violent
bag
added:
the forces
OPPOSITION
"The opposition
by means of plebiscites
achieve such
pressure
hopes
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HE Lone Ranger real name Clayton Moore,
THEA
who arrived in London last week to start a four- week tour pictured outside Buckingham Palace. watching the Horse Guards as they go on parade at the Horse Guards Parade.
The Lone Ranger was riding a substitute horse, as he could not bring "Silver" with him. During his stay in London, he will appear on Children's Televi sion on BBC and in other TV and radio programmes, --Keystone.
NEUTRALISATION OF JORDAN TO
STABILISE MID-EAST?
United Nations, July 30. Among the plans being studied at United Nations headquarters for the stabilisation of the Middle East is one for the neutralisation of Jordan, reliable sources said here tonight. heavy political
Talks are being held on this that the Federal Gov- The immense
made from ernment is forced to reverse its subject between United Nations.)
Secretary-General, Dag Han thin polythene material had decisions'
Bealey of The court held that profected marsidold, Harold an air capacity of, five mon
British delegation, a:d in the Socialshe equare foot, it wee designad | picbiveltas
American to rise to an altitude of 135,000 controlled city states of Hamburg James
representative the un attempt deputy were te interfere in the "exclusive United Nations. sphere" of the Federal authori- ties and wore unconstitutional. The court also held that the state of Hesse must stop similar plebiscites planned in local communities there.-Reuter,
fect.
tree fight The previous record In free flight balloons Was $35,000 quare feet in air capacity.-France- Presse.
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This neutralisation, under the auspices at the United Nations, would permit the withdrawal of Jordan by British Ircops from providing guarantees that Jor-
din
absorbed
would not be into the "Nussor Empire" although strategically separates Egypt and Syrin, now Uniteel joined together in the Arab Republic.
Advantage
Fordan's neutralisation would have the stiliional advantage of
Since the withdrawal of Bri.
Beginning
To Feel
The Pinch
Baby Business Denounced
New York, July 31. Social work agencies today denounced a "mail order baby business" involving the adoption of several thousand foreign children by Americans.
Some of the "proxy" adoptions (wlihout awaiting a quola num- have had "tragic ecnsequences," ber they said, incdiling the death of This provision, the study que child and the beating and charged, has been used by somer abandonment of others.
Americans to adopt children: "without having seen- them. Mr and Mrs Laurin P. Hyde,orst. No knowledge of their velerin social scientists, urged physical and mental develop-· Congress to plug a legit Josment, and no information about hole in the McCarren-Waller thele emotional nnd social Immigration Law which, they needs." said, "belped boost the number of proxy adoptions.
Sponsored
Their 30-page sludy was spon- cored by The Child Welfare League of America and be International Social Service, or- ranisationa concerned with ndoption programmes, Tho agencies estimated more than 2,000 children have been adopted from overseas by proxy since the end of World War If
The study covere# 73 families who adopted 07 children by The adoptions had not proxy. suceceded or were "in quest{mu“ in 29 familles, they said.
The report cited. evidence of brutality in some cases, includ- in the death of one chilid.
Most of the enses the Hydes studies involved youngs.cra London, July 31.
from Korea, Japari and Ger- British exports to some im-many, of racially-mixed paren- portant sterling marketstage and under six years of age. are now beginning to fall and exporters will cer- tainly need to be "wift and adaptable" in dis cerning and seizing export | amendment designed to enable
couples lying abroad tem ~opportunités
porarily
to bring their adopted children to the United States
This was slated fodny in a Government monthly economię tevha "Bulletin for Industry."
REDUCING
The review went on: "There that romu primary producing countrion ate now
are signs reducing imports because of the
decline in their real
to become
incomes
Legal Loophole The legal loophole, they said, was in a recent immigration law
"It is inconceivable that our government should permit proxy adoptions involving Ht:le children who are little more then helpless pawns," the Hydes sold.-U.P.I.
75,000 Were Deported
To Russia
Bonn, July 30. Seventy-five thousand Hun- were deported garians after the October 1956 uprising suppressed_by the Soviet army, Dr Bela Fabian, a member of the Hungarian Government- in-exile in New York, sald today.
were
ence,
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Of these 12,000 aged persons
lower eventually return to their country.
n Press Addressing
ecenter- MrFabian asked the Western world to Intervene so that the USSR would
ai isost free girls aged 12-18 who were Union deported to the Soviet STATUE BURIED and where they are imprisone
with ordinary criminals.
TO CHINA
IN GLACIER
נתא
Mr Fabian'salt that nows of the 3,000 workers of the Crepel Steel Works in Budapest who Courmayeur, July 30,
leported to the Soviet and reserves, and this tendency An aluminium stalue of the were seems likely
more Vidin Mary which stood for 5 Union and then to China
to Hungary by years on the 13,245-foot Glant's brought back widespread.
Pook of Mont Blanc Russian soldiers who delivered fumilica of the ports of manufactures increased has fallen 3,000 feet and buried letters to the
a glacier, two Alpino deporteçs Falightly in the first quarter of itself in
Fabian said the son of Lazlo this year due mainly to a sharp gulls said here today. j drop of exports from Nort One of the drst to contribute Rajk, Hungarian Foreign Minis
America.
MINEWORKERS Britain's share of world ex-Tooth
SUBMIT
NEW CLAIMS
London, July 30. Leaders of the National Union of Mineworkers to- day submitted new wage claims for 700,000 ment. bers.
It is estimated the claim in- Velves £30 million. a year, equal la Mirce shillings a va coal prices.
The Union leaders are de Brisbane, July 30. A Royal Austrian Air Force pasuring Israel's security along munding a 15 shillings a week Increase for 336,000 day-wags officer who Blew to New Britain its longest frontier.
and 2 shillings 14: investigate reports of a
minore, crashed warplane, found three fish troops in Jordan is closely 15,000 mafkamen, and propor
for pricce- increases American sitcraft and the e-linked with the problem of tonale
-the mains of
within evacuating four nimeni
American work miners and clerkal sint. ja radiles of 15 miles.
Marines In the Lebanon, both
The National Coal Board to. His report, released by RAAF for political reusons and be
day promised the calm, would officials today, said the planes enuse of supply problems, the
fuli be put before the were American planes lost duringes of the two operations SUOT
board. ing Live war agains! the will probably he worked out
The mines' earlier claim for | Japanese,
together.
a en shillings increase The office. Wing Commander
Politically the question of recently rejected by an arbitra- Keith Rundle, brought back the neutralising Jordan, is also ex- tion tribunal-Route. remains of the four airmen in
It has been miniature coffins made by the tremely complex.
suggested that Jordan might to natives
United Nations placed under Trus veship, or that its frus flers might be guaranteed under U.N. auspices. These problems are all under study here, in line with diplomatie ncgadations un the summit meeting on the Mid-
Al planes had crashed into heavy jungle on Gazcile Penin. ala between 30 and 10 miles from
Robau. China Special,
Another Protest cle Ear-France-Presse.
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Salford, July 30. Salford City Council today
decited to write to the Prime
Minister and the President at
the Board of Trade protecting
about "lack of action" to protect
Swift Approval
he
Washington, July 30, Senate gave its twit
the cotton industry, ngalast im- and unanimous approval tonight
poris of cheap foreign textiles,
tu n record $40,032,740,000 Their letter would urge Im-peace-time defence money bill 31.245.770,000 moro mediate action "to prevent large carrying
scale depression and unemploy-tun Prealdent Eisenhower re- ment in the industry."--Reuter quested.-U.P.I.
MARGARET
FLIES EAST
was
Toronto, July 30. Princess Margaret landed al Mallon airport tonight to begin the eastern phase of her Canadian tour,
A crowd of more than 10,000 was at the airport to welcome the Princess, who was greeted by Ontario Lieutenant-Governor 3. Keiller Muckay and Premier Leslie Frost. She was also ac- companied by George Hees, Federal Minister of Transport.
-U.P.L.
SPACE TRAVEL AND 'MAN
Moscow, July 30.
Man is adaptable enough to get used to changes in gravity in space travel, a leading Soviet psychiatrist sald til today's Sovetskaya Aviatain,
Recent experiments have shown this can be done with training in control of body movement by Jump-
ing on a trampolin and by delayed parachute jumps, Professor Konstantin Pla tonov wrote, quoted by the Soviet news ngency Thes. Sub-surface swimming is one of the methods of training for operations in a state of weightlessness, he mid
The professor suggested that some of the means of lighting boredom and Bilence in fight would be to arrange a change of sourds and "colours, the lighting of the cabins, and to imitate the day..... und sergence of nig h Special
to fund to pay
for a new ter executed in 1948, and the executed of The Review continued, "The statue was Giuseppe Brocherel, grandchildren
guide len af former Premier Imre Nagy were Increase in our own share was 04, the only
homes those who hauled the original in Cominunist children's Tess than Japan's and Germany's
different under Glant's Tooth in in Hungary burt in line with the rest of the statue up the
1994. China Mail Special. OEEC countries."-Router.
SUMMER
NOW ON Ends Saturday
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