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COMMENT OF US. Navy Establish Bases And Stockpile Indian Ocean Ports

THE DAY-

Beyond Jordan

THE problem of getting] Tritish and U.S. troops

out of the Middle East is proving tougher than the jroblem of sending them in. And of the two, the British neein Lo be Tress ja-

ly fixed. While the Elect of the

Lebanen hopes to secure an early withdrawal for the U.S., Jordan is reluctant to hear of the replacement of British

MARINES IN

New Preparations To Help

Friendly Nations

Washington, Aug. 17.

United Nations

whom the The United States Navy today announced knows, by Ih ones whom she does not. new preparations to help any friendly And her reluctaner is not hard

nation in the Indian ocean which might to understand. Britain can hardly withdraw while be affected in any way by the Middle danger still threatens, but

East crisis. an obligation undertaken by

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se tooly-knit an organist. tion as the United Nations, and one with such multiple, controls, might not seem sure to the population it is required to inpress. Only a quarter of this popular

tion

the original

N: ve efficials said that Ameri-

a ships and marines had put

into Singapore. and that they would tenialn in the area for the time being.

They added

that the Navy

was his increasing its efforts.

bugun months

ago, to arrangi

Bedouin inhabitants of old for stemge depots at strategical- Trans-duran who have a Jy located ports around the traditional loyalty to the| fndian Ocean.

Bashemite throne. These

are outnumbered three times

by

Palestinian

Tarir arrival coincided with Arabs, the setting up he ports, located sophistiented town dwellers strategle points of the aren united in fanadical hatreda mumber of stuckpiles of of Britain. Is whom they fuel and various supplies.

ascribe their niseries, and Repercussions

re-

for Israel which has placed them an their land.

URSE professional U

employables kok on the aid they have been living on for ten years as their right. They

The US Navy began to build up these depots after the elos- nut of the British Trincomalee Base in Ceylon, which had also been used by the Americans, reftise tu

Navy cireles said that the new

move, to settle, or to work, stockpiles bâd been bull up in It was Palestinian boy case of repercussions in the who shot and killed King indian Ocean prou from events Abdullah in 1961, and the in the Middle East,

Blut

was hatched in Cairo.

Now

#gain Cairo radio

However, the Navy does

daily urgea Jordanians "for intend to add another fiest

(ita-prosent number,

the glory of Allah" to The ships in Singapore murder their king.

The loss of Iraq was felt by ed in

Jordan

not

เย

art

from the Seventh Fleet station-

the western Pacific.- almost 15 an Reyter and France-Presse,

economic death blow. This union WALA to have re- dressed the balance of Jordan's imports

million) against her ex- ports (£ million). Hnu An agreement of any kind been possible with Israel, old

pipelines

could have

flowed again bringing oll

from Kirkuk to the Mediter

ranean without ever cross-

Another U.S.

Shoot For The Moon

Washington, Aug. 17.

ing Nasser's borders. Even The Air Force's chief of

without Israel they could

have brought it to Jordan where petrol sells today at $100 gallon.

research and development said today the United States will try again to shoot a rockel to the moon in 28 days, the next favourable period.

Light-Gen.

But at King Feisal's murder only a sudden march upon Bagdad

could

have saved King Hussein's third

Roscoe Wilson dream.

He had already main the prediction and also thrown up his grandfather's said that the Russians. "might dream.

Briti

because their con-ben tis nection and subsidy, in location would give them "an carller shot by a day or two" He when conditions are ripe.

L

favour of his second,

"

joint subsidy from Egypt raid he thought "they probably Syria, and Saudi Arabia, to ve tried already,"

find that only Saudi Arabia

paid up. After the over-

throw of Feisal he was

PREDICTION

Underwater T.V.

To Check

KLM Disaster

Galway. Aug. 17. Aviation

were. experts today studying the

pos. sibility that a propeller or ene of the blades of a pro- peller may have come loose and smashed through the 1- of the pilota - cabin Jated KLM Super Constel." lation

"Hugo De Groot", which crashed in the sea last killing 09 Thursday.

prople

Experts have given up plans to refloat the plane's wings but these may be studied by means of sub- marino television cquin- ment.

Other parts of the plane bave been sent to Holland *for further study as to the possible causes of the ersch,

Meanwhile, nine of

34 bodies no far recovered

the aca from

have been identified,

They are to be Bown frosty Bhannon to Amsler. dam, and the remaining 25 will be burled bere ex

Tuesday,France-Presse.

Robeson

Feted In Moscow

cert

London, Auz. 17.

SINGAPORE

Fastest And ̈ ̈Silentest... The Comet IV

Mr John Cunningham, the pilot of the Comet IV (left) seen with Mr Ferdinand Croatex, discusses the new silencer after last week's record flight on

Mr Greatex is the designer of the siloncor. arrival at Hatfield Airfield.

The Comet had been carrying out noise tests at Idlewild Airport, New York, before breaking the New York-Lond on transatlantic air record, set up last The Comet, piloted by john January by a Britannia, by one hour 28 minutes.

It is the first jot Cunningham, covered the 3,496 miles in six hours 16 mins.

It will be put into transatlantic airliner to make a non-stop Atlantic crossing. servico later this year by B.O.A.C.-Keystone.

INDAKS

RELAX IN!

THE FANDON CONFARY IN ACTION TRAUBERA

Whiteaways

New Saudi Arabia Accord With Cairo, Revealed

Cairo, Aug. 17.

Crown Princo Faisal of Saudi Arabia indicated strongly today that the oil- rich desert kingdom has returned to the good graces of Gamal Abdel Nasser,

and

Speak to newmen at Pe contacts with the United States, end of three days of talks with thought about the use of Ameri- the United Arab Republic Pre- con and British Iroops in sklent, Faisal said met "clouds Lebanon

Jordan. Не between the 1wo countries answered: have now been cleared of."

"Our stand against foreign He said there would be no intervention is well known. communique but at the talks are opposed to aggression any- covered "all conceivable aspects" where. These forces must with- and were "aimed at safeguard- | draw from Lebanon and Jordan ing the intereste of the Arab and they Inevitably pation generally and the two withdrawn." countries particularly."

Breaking Point

Relations between Nasser and Saudi Arabia were at the break- Ing point last March walil King Saud relloquished control foreign, internal and economis policies.

oi

been

Faisc apparently has Fuler in all but name since then and his current visit to Cairo was expected to bring one the rlefest Middle Eastern countries clowr in Nasser.

Newsmen asked Falsat what Saudi Arabia, which has close

Dynamite BRITAIN TO RESUME

Found In A

Shoeshine

Box

NUCLEAR TESTS

London, Aug. 17.

The Ministry of Defence announced tonight: "The current series of nuclear tests at Christmas Island will shortly be resumed."

No further detalls of the coming tests were given by the Ministry of Defence who die not disclose when they would ptort,

Beirut, Aug. 17. Police today discovered a package of dynamito in a

Britain exploded an H-bomb shoeshine box outside the near Christmas Island on April St Maron Maronite Chris-28 after announcing that a tian Church in Beirut, it series of tests would take place.

The ban

en shipping in the was announced.

Pacific danger area was lifted Qu May, but the Ministry of

this. Defence said

did not

tests would not lake place,

Polleo sald that the owner

Keram,

left the church

ef The American Negro singer, the shoeshine box, Mahmud

Paul Robeson, received A

was preparing to ex- hero's ovation from con- plode the box at the moment

audience in Moscow's Lenin stadium, Radio Moscow church-goers reported today.

alter Mass,

Meanwhile, the Beirut milt- today banned ory commander the circulation of automobiles and trucks In the centre of the

of Robeson, making use Russia for a two-week visit on newly-wun passport, arrived la

Friday.

Indio Moscow sald Robeson

was freeted in an address be city in order to bumper the ac-

left with little more than In a further prediction, he fore the crowd by an outcinivities of terrorists who used plans to expand Jordan's said, "I feel that before this who

prosperous phosphate in dustry. (last year it yielded 400,000 tons) and the hopes

called him "our great vehicles for escape after tossing catury is out we are going to friend, our dear friend, an out-bombs into stores and buildings.

have people not only on

the standing lighter for the pouce France-Presse. mankind." and happiness

Of Robaton's Passport dif- fculties with the State Depart- ment. the Russian said, "all

noon, but also on near planets," Wilson made his statement in of three companies prospect a television interview, ing for oil.

LMUST surrounded, his

At Cape Canaveral, Mr. Roy progressive mankind wrathfully A supply lines are reduced Fees Department's idvazice re- your bonds Up

Johnson, head of the U.S. De-demanded your freeing

to two slender threads a search projects agency, said here Lebanese air line to Jerusatodes that would probably

Br

+

lem which must pass over cost $1,000 million to send man

Syria

to the moon, either hostile

In Moscow, the Soviet Tuss hostile Israel, and a long bad

Agency reported the mountain and desert rim News from Amman down to the launching and explosion of the south Jordail port of Aqaba, United States moon rocket to- lay 1, five-line message, from vulnerable

Egypt, The Agency

did not comment Israel, and Saudi Arabia. or speculate on the fallure of King Justin's policy now the attempt to circle round the can be little more than that moon.-All Agencies. of the skipper who takes in

battens null,

down and

hopes his timbers hold till the storm blown out and a change comes.

And in the Middle East this may not be a bad policy.

The Biblical King David

lived to triumph over worse orkis than those that faco

Jordan Likely

To Agree

Washington, Aug. 17. Senator Thurston B. Morion Hussein, and in no part of (Republican-Kentucky) prilet. the world Is sudden un-ed today that Jordan predictable

chango

more matter of days" would agree to

Old Lady's Example

from

Bukerworth, North Malaya,

Aug. 17.

Mercy Journey To Heart Of London

London, Aug. 17. A Royal Air Force helicopher Janded in the heart of London after bringing a sick boy 130 miles from Dorchester.

It picked up the boy, six- A 100-year-old Chinese year-old Patrick Woodhend, nt hospital and woman, Madam Loke Ah Choon, the Dorchester yesterday, took out Malayan landed him 100 yards. from citizenship papers,

London's Great Onnond Street

China in 1032,

Madam Leke Was born-in Hospital.

She has two cons, six grand- children, and 14 great grand- children.-Reuler,

The journey took the hei copter about 75 minutes. China Mali Special.

necessarily mean that further

REJECTED

The ban on shipping was in posed on April 20,

In May, Mr Harold Mac millan, the Prime Minister, re-

( jegted demands from the La-, It was Britain's fifth nuclear bour opposition in the House of test. The first device was ex- Commons That the tests ploded at Christmas Island on shuold be suspended until May 15 last year. after the summit conference with Russin.

He said the first explosion was one of a series which had not been completed.

We

will be

FACE-THE-

FACTS

New York, Aug. 17. - The head of the powerful Arab League expressed high hopes today that Saudi Arabia would move Into

Arab the United Repubile's camp as a ro sult of a mooting between President Gazzal Abdel Nasser and Crown Prince Faisal.

Abdel Khalek Hasssona, Secretary-General of the Arab Leaguo,. was dis- cussing the Middle Eastern crisis on the CB8 television show "face the nation."— U.P.I.

Faisal's statement about the Anglo-American troops was far millder than those which have been made by United Arab Re- publie leaders.

They Have Gone

Falsal denied that is talke with Nasser were almer at strengthening the Arab League,. noting that if there had been Christmas Island-an Isolated any Arab leaders trying to cural atoll in the Pacific about weaken the League "they have

between

central now gone," halfway America and Australia wns

That appeared to be a retor- It Britain's chosen

first enco

to the deposed fragt leaders hydrogen bomb tests.

who allegedly

had

Britain's last nuclear device was successfully exploded over the central Pacilic, the Ministry of Supply announced that early The fest such fest took place planned to invade Syria. indications were that fall-out high in the air over the central Faisal expressed hope that would be "negligible."

Puclie in May of last year, the crisis in the Middle East This came 28 days after the when the "device" was drop had soled, adding that such

Vallant Supreme Soviet had adopted a ped from

four-events should provide any object one should cor- the on resolution

"unilateral engined jet bomber. The test-teston so that termination by the Soviet Union Ing of further nuclear devices rect any wrongs in his own

country."-U.P.I. of atornic and hydrogen weapon followed.--Reuter, teste."

Help Is Rushed To Persian

Earthquake Areas

Teheran, Aug. 18.

prople made homeless by the

trusnors,

Relief teams carrying sup-

Unofficial cstimates say about plies were today being rushed to western Persia, 12 people have died, although newspapers quote rumours that where villages are re- 100 to 150, people were killed

the Hamadan ported to have been razed or kijured in

region, by strong earth tremors over the weekend.

several Official reports say towns and villages in the Hamadon, Kermanshah, Asado- bad and Kangavar regions were damaged and large numbers of

THREE SONS DROWNED: MOTHER'S CONFESSION

San Antonio, Aug. EL withdrawal of British Ircops Mrs Rosa Pena, 25. walked into probable. But while the from that crisis-threatened *tor rages, it is unlikely country.

1

that British attempts to

withdraw from Jordan will

Mr

다.

-find willing cooperation Assistant Secretary of

Morion,

former State,

sald he belleved Jordan would

British troopa

a U.N.

tesak,

the San Antonio Police Station today and taid officers she had drowned her three young, bone and then taken rat polaga, kocording to Polloo, statement,

from the Jordan guvernerent from its opposite to Pollos found Richard (2), Alvin

ment. A sussensful with having the

drawal now would probably placed by

be the end of the King,

U.P.I.

-

(d), and David (0), lying on the floor of the Pens homie, and the bouro' "In a mess.”

divorce. She told police she had been having trouble with her husband, who could not

They said Mrs Pena, told them

she tried to kill herself after the drownings, but became violently III after taking mat be found. poleon. She walked to the police station then and told officers what she had dete. Pollos- amid- fold them she drowned - her three children because her husband, Alfonso, threatened to take them from beri she mind him for

Mry Pena sald her six-year-old boy came upon her drowning the other two boys in the bath tub and pleaded with her io slop. She said she drowned the bay to koop hħa quiet. ---

U.P.L..

..

In some areas, familles have left their houses and are cam- ping in the open air for safety. Unofficial reports here on Bald between two Saturday and eight people had been killed by an earthquake Friday which damaged several villages in the Kermanshah area, where some 1,400 people died in a quake last year- Reuter,

Hunting Fall

on

Nairobi, Aug. 17. Slr Evelyn Barling, Governor of Kenya, was taken to Nairob Hospital today with a fractured coil bene and 1WD broken riba after a fall while hunting.

His condition is not perious. -Router,

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