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Solo Agente: GILMANS
COMMENT OF THE DAY:
Polio Facts
THE talk on polio given by
the Director of Medical
and Health Services, Dr D. J. M. Mackenzie on the radio
Inst night will do much to
allay fears that have come to light in recent weeks fuced that the Colony is with a serious epidemic.
which
is to be commended for his detailed comments deal with the main issues that have arisen, for the advice he has sought from abroad on a mass campulsen. and for putting the polio outbreak into perspective.
Rightly, Br Mackenzie stresses there are greater dangers to the public health than polio. And funds are limited. campaign which will cost
A
upwards of $8 million and
benefit, in his view, such a amall percentage of Hong- kong children does
not seem justified, particularly
There when
14,000 are nelive tuberculosis Cases each your causing 3,600 deaths and other illnesses taking higher tolls than polio. The argument defies" Challenge grounds and the Tealth Department's priorities will
economie
be regarded as fair.
The Main Cause
UT while Dr Mackenzie's!
talk may deaqulch much
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United Nations, Aug. 7. The United Nations Security Council tonight unanimously ordered an emergency session of the General Assembly on the Middle East and the United States challenged Russia to let the Soviet and satellite peoples hear the full proceedings by radio.
The Assembly was expected to be convened formally tomorrow
Early this morning the tropical storm to the south of the Colony intensified to a typhoon. The typhoon is now! moving north towards the coast, and is expected to cross over the coast southwest of Hongkong.
A Chinese station on the coast west of Hongkong reported a guat of 80 knots this morning, while the highest gunt recorded in the Colony today was 54 knots. Winds are not likely to increase unless the storm re- curves towards Hongkong, but on its present Course; should pass inland south of the Colony, according to the Royal Observatory.
The No. 3 typhoon signal, raised on Wednesday morning,
afternoon, but Britain suggested it defer any substantive NASSER
discussions until next Wednesday.
JORDAN GOVT
EXPOSE
TERROR GANG
Amman, Aug. 7.
of the alarm. It must be The Government announced tonight it has cracked
said that if the information! given last night were known when the number of notified
polio cases began mounting
rapidly earlier in the sum
mer,
there would
a UAR-supported student terrorist ring with information from a 20-year-old graduate of the American university in Beirut,
Nadia, duughter
of a
inminent
Jordan business
pro- man,
The
11-0 vote came after Russia offered two face-saving amendments to the American resolution and Panoma and Bri- Iain helped work out wording Like United States would se Lecpt,
Ong of the amendments
WCA
that a reference to the com- plaints of indirect aggression by
HUMILIATES
IKE'S PERSONAL
REPRESENTATIVE
Beirut, Aug. 7.
Lebaton and Jordan be dropped Reports reaching here today from Cairo indicated
from the resolution.
The Soviet Delegate
Arkady
A. Sobolev, then withdrew his Town resolution Tallingfor Assembly soasion speelfieally to get Western troops out of the Obvious
Middle East,
have The ring hus exploded more been far less concern. And than 200 "seure bombs"
Dr Mackenzie believes Amman and took part in a plot was arrested on August 2, and that public alarm was to overthrow King Hussein in charged with a part in a bomb letter to the Westhat it must not justified, the Health Apr 1957, the government said. incident. Department has only itself to blame.
For it appears that the main
that American Deputy Under-Secretary of State Robert Murphy had been subjected to a real humiliation yesterday by UAR President Gamal A. Nasser.
On his
in Cairo, arrival Murphy was first of all ennfront- ed with a report that Nasser "had nothing to say to him",
to wait
But Mr Sobolev said it was
that obvious
the Assembly would have to deal with the withdrawal of American and
Thereafter, he had British forces
Lebanon from and Jordan aml-quoting Soviet nearly 24 hours before Nasser
was willing to receive-him. Khrushchev's latest Premier
In the Interview which follow- "And n way to Iquidate the threat of wie in the Middled Nesser adopted a very shorp tone toward Murphy and showed United Arab Republic agents
Easi," Most members of the gang- in Beirut and Damascus were
"It is unfortunate that the obvious hostility toward Ameri- the said to be behind ring's numbering about 20-were re- activities.
perled to be doctors, students peoples of the Soviet Union itself can policy.
of Eastern countries and government officials aged and the
Europe will have no way of between 20 and 30.
Police Were Maled to have learning about the discussions in the General Assembly which captured a "arge quantity of here in the Security Council or cxplosives.-U.P.1. & Reuter.
is about, to meet," Mr Lodge said.
the
led to Information that
the ring. the cause of the mounting con-breaking of cera, was the figures sup-government said, came from a plied by the Government of 20-year-old girl ring anember, the number of cases notihed, Nadia Salti.
These have Kiven เท
entirely false picture of
the extent of the outbreak.
This has certainly been
the
Cure
In past years
though it seems that there will be less disparity be
tween
cases
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cases
to
Israel
For
Guarantee Jordan?
Washington, Aug. 7.
The one chance for maintaining the independence of Jordan would be a potential Isracli threat to occupy the West bank of the Jordan River if evor Jordan wore threatened with losing its independence, roll- able sources sold today.
They said the British ernment
Gov
"That is because radio brosd- casts from outside ore Jamned,
cen- and Soviet papers, are Bored"
Indignant
It was reported that
Nasser
wan inclinant over declarations
Did Macmillan
Bring A New Cyprus Plan?
Mr
Athens, Aug. 7.
Harold Macmillon,
is till huistel. Guats of gale force are expected to persist throughout the day, accompanied by rain and henvy showers,
From midnight to noon the observatory recorded a rainfall
of 0.94 inches. At 9 am, the last position fix on the typhoon was within 60 miles of 112.6 degrees East, 21.3 degrees North, moving slowly North. The places the storm some 140 miles SW of Hongkong.
At the time of going to press, no damage had been report-
ed by the Police or the Fire Brigade.
Lebanon's Civil War Near End
--Beirut, Aug_Be
General Fuad Chehab;
Lobanesb Army Com-
MAYOR RETURNS
FROM
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mander and President- The Vico-Mayor of Manila,
elect appeared last night
to have got his "pacifica- tion" campaign well under way with the collection of arms from extremist
groups, Soldiers today moved in un- to several obtrusive, Kroups points in the capital and be- gan collecting arms being carriet epenly by irregular forces.
Mr Jarus Marcos Rocos, cut short
of his tour Chins and returned to Hongkong today on his way back to the Philip- pines.
Mr Roces, two aides and four crossed the Filipino newsmen border at Lowu at 1.15 p.m. to- day after 23 days of a scheduled In some cases the army took | 45-day invitation tour of China. over road blocks that have been manned by these forem tince the. They are due at the Kowloon insurrection started three months Railway Station at 202 pm. ngo.
Little resistance was reported Mr Roces and his party were and observors tonight felt cau- Invited to China by the Chinese Hlous optimism that the
Institute arms People's
of Foreign collection might mark the begin- | Affairs in Peking. They left ning of the end of the civil srife Hongkong for China on July 10 here.-Router.
despite a Philppine Govern- ment travel ban,
by Secretary of State John F. The British Prime Minister, Dulles to the effect that Nasser
who arrived in Athens to- necessarily the only was not
nationalist lenda of the Arab movement.
ut
in
Speaking to Mr Sobolev, he
He was also said to be angry Gold: "We ask you, on a trial
the casing of lension batis, for the duration of this
Lebanon and at Presiden! Ecasion, to General Assembly
to Eisenhower's
give plans permit the Soviet people and economic ald to Arab countries the peoples of Eastern Europe while lowring once more the to hear all sides of the grave question of construcling Egypt's issues dividing the world today | Aswan Dam, -not just your view.
Stop Censorship
"Just have it come right in as It is said in the General Assemb- ly. We ask you to stop censor- ship of foreign news. Let your people hear the answera not wint some journalist or mentator has to say.
notified and "discovered" this IN difßcult to year. It know why
not reparted directly the Health Hepartment, but subsequently discovered in the physiotherapists' clinics have been omitted from the notifications. And it is difcult also to understand
The sources also understood why the Health Department
fell this potential that the UN. Secretary General, has not made this clear threat could alone save King Dag Hammarskjeld, was aware Hussein and the independence of this possibility during his Middle East Jordan of
British k
forces last visit to the were eventually withdrawn and and consequently he might be no U.N. forinula found to main- favourable to any move within
"He did not reply to the ques- tain its independence,
the United Nations to preserve
tions being discussed," the Rus the independence of Jordan.
slun delegate said: "tie prefers The sources said it was to depart from these questions subject which has possible that a member of the and raise United Nations Assembly might nothing to do with the Security introduce a resolution to say it Counell, namely, who is trans= was the view of the United mitting news and how In what Nations that Jordan should countries.”
before now.
Not Soon Enough
THE
Department has been culled upon to muke statements in polio several times during the summer and in general their comments have tended. to confirm the impression that the figures give. Mackenzie has criticised tho authorities" anonymous who
caused anxiety by airing their views in publie "without any
Rense of
10
They said no statements this effect had been made by rael but it is the betler Of
some officials that Israel might feet the need to do so in order to preserve her security.
A Pause
com-
Mr Sobolev retorted that Mr Lodge "did not speak on the issue on the agenda.'
remain Independent, although "I can assure him that the
ence.
out the story,
Record Cold
Moscow, Aug. 7.
In Peking they were received by The Vice-Premler and Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi. They had cought an inter-
Soviet Anturile scientist, lo-view with either Chairman Mao Tse-tung or Premier Chou En- day, is believed to have day recorded a new world ret lal but this apparently had not
cord low temperature, Soviet
brought new proposals for News Agency Tass reported.
tho Cyprus, excluding
I was minus 84.3 degree
(30.7 possibility at partition of Centigrade
degreca
the island, well informed Fahrenheit) registered near the
South Magnelie Pole,-Reuter. sources sold tonight.
These circles considered that the British plan for Cyprus, thus modified, might serve as a in the basis of discussion British-Greek talks opening tomorrow.
Nasser also concealed from the pubile the fact that he himself had asked Murphy to
It was stressed that the first vizit Calro. Ho had even put British plan presented lust June
by press and
was rejected primarily because the visil was A
it might have led indirectly to radio, that humide approach by Murphy, the partiden of the island. no a kind of last resort.
The Greek government ain- Just before Murphy's visit, 1 nounced earlier today it was aol with the remarked to a basing its discussions Nasser had
parliamen-Prime Minister, Harold Mac- visiting Japanese lurian Massatoyo Tassoul, millan, en his plan for settling "I wonder if I should see him. the Cyprus situation during his
visit. It seems to me that Murphy is Incapable of understanding the Arab mentality."
An Affront
سوری
A brief but courteous note the Ainerlean
clear that to Sec
They said it this reasoning not guaranteeing the independ-Soviet people are informed not issued Dr
was correct then other nations might pause before committing. aggression against Jordan in
responsibility or con-- structive solution." This is not so. Public anxiety was
based entices on free In Your
provided by Government and it these fears were based on false assumptions, It was up to the Health Department to say so, Half- way through the summer was not soon enough. The only constructive sugges tlon the public could make was that the possibility of a masu campaign should
bo Investigated. And this
the Department has done.
Beyond this the layman has littlo scope for comment. Mackenzio provides
Dr
4
figures to show that "there will probably be no more cased actually
causing
paralysts this year than during 1987." Hie views are, reassuring
it and
la
only to be hoped that events justify his confidence,
Saturday Mail
Woman Envoy
The office of Prime Minister Constening Karamanils said in a statement that a meeting with Mr Macmillan was agreed an enly on the basis that a discus- sion of that particular plan does not take place.France-Presse & U.P.I.
PRICE DOUBLED FOR DEAD FLIES!
less than others in the world. Embassy made it
asked They belleved that, if such a They are told who has aggressed Nasser had
Mrand who were possed,
is aggressed on."- Murphy. resolution the event of evacuation of Br Harunarskjold would have to U.P.I.
Cairo, Upon his
arrival in (Contd. on Back Page, Col, 0) 1:sh troops.
Murphy was not met by any Egyptian ufciat. Thereafter, he had to walt 24 hours before
Katmandu, Aug. 7. the American Ambassador The Nepal Government today Mardin, Aug. 7 Raymond Hare WILS able to doubled its price for dead Aler Мгк
Trinidad Legorda, make an appointment for him from hali Philippine civic leader, today with Nasser.
rupee (ninepence to 1s. 6d.) a the became the Pulppines first Hare told Egyptian officials pound weight-la check
of cholera which hon woman ambassador.
that Murphy was expected next spread
killed about 300 people in the She will represent her gov-day in Athens and stressed the
of the ettuation Katmandu Valley. ernment in South Vietnam, re-salousness
from a People are being stopped and placing Ambassador Mariano which would result
the streets, but Ezpeleta,
affront to Pre-Inoculated who has been re- premeditated
Eisenhower's assigned to Bangkok-France- dent
personal the epidemic shows no siga, of
abating-Reuter, representative-France-Presse. Presse,
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