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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1958.

£800,000 ARMS SWINDLE SHIRLEY'S

CABLE BRIEFS

Indianapolis, Aug. 20.

Mauri Ruse Kirby, 17, con- fessed today th "boredons" malalt thwart her quest for a

new

record by spending six

Nasser's Deposit

Said To

To Have Disappeared

London, Aug. 20.

months on top of a 71-foot dag The United Arab Republic President,

pole.

Mauri

RUK!

completed: 40

hours 011 the pole with the

help of booKA,

Д

a radio and ke-writing project, but pinned her hopes on a telephone that "Higgs often."--UP.J.

Nanta Monien, Aug. 20.

Burglar A fanitallaus

broke into the executive inen's Toi- teries Co. here, potice reported

today.

Only one item was missing

nitr nt "After cologne for men.-U.P.I.

Hendersonville, N.C., Aug. 20.

An unidentmed" subkerler bought a new bicycle for

jk

Gamal Abdel Nasser, has been

swindled out of £800,000 which had been deposited in a Tangler bank for an arms deal, the British daily News Chroncile reported today. According to the paper's special correspondent in Genos, the affair dated from the beginning of 1957, when the Egyptian General Omar Scheib was commissioned to negotiate the purchase of tanks to replace those lost in the Sinai campaign.

The paper said two Genna bankers offered him 43 tanka For the sum of £800,000 to be deposited in one of their establishments, the South American Bank in Tangier.

Unable To Deliver

newspaper carrier boy, Gene I added that the Halian bankers were unable to deliver Tebben, in replace his stolen

the tankk, and sold the South American Bank to ** Belgian financier. Roger Bule.

Il

the pager mil see the boy at

"it's worth more to me to ge Later, the paper continued, a man identifying himself as General Scheib, called at the bank to withdraw the deposit because of the failure of the Italian bankers to supply the tanks.

than the money for bike," the

hls work

U.P.J.

Mtum, Aug. 20. Police have ruled that Fred

Four days later, the News Chronicle stated, the Egyptian War Ministry requested the transfer to Cairo of the £800,000.

Fuqua caused a three-vehicle It added that General Scheib had visited Genon to bring neeldent when he dropped his charges of fraud, and that the Italian police were Lunglasses and leaned down in-

maklug investigations in Egypt, Tangier, Belgium and Switzerland. --France-Presse,

side his car to pick them up.

Рицца ія county specialint

I traffic accidents.----UP.I.

•

Charlotte, Aug. 20.

James Blaite went for a swim In the Catawba River and "when he fellet to return, his wite touched off a 20-hour search,

Blake finally called his wife to rick him up

boathouse at a where he had stopped to reat ord had fallen asleep.-U.P.I.

Janesville, Wic, Aug. 26. Tavern kespers here havb leapt to the defence of the fair hex with 43) equal rights for ladies campaign,

Ladies are not allowed to sit at the bar in taverna and tho owners are trying to have re- pealed an old city ordinance that says they must stay at the tables-U.I.I.

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Alanta, Aug. 20. Charles Maynard, 200- poder, had to be hauled out of a 20-foot lake overflow pipe by county police.

He had lowered himself into the pipe to clear an obstruction

and became so tired be was un- able

but again. To en U.P.L.

Eban At The United Nations

'Mid-East Can't

Be An Exclusive Arab Domain'

United Nations, Aug. 20.

Mr Abba Eban, Israel's chief delegate, was the

MIDNIGHT

The Water God's ‘Joke'

JAUNTS

澤

CITANDING chest-high in flood water in the main street of a Niigata Prefec ture village in Japan, a local inhabitant prays before the shrine of the local "Water God" and begs him to stop his honourable jokes and take the water. "We revere you, and know you are our friend, we cannot exist without, but we do not deserve this abundance, and ask and pray you our Honourable Keystone. Water God to forget your frivolity," said the praying villager, —

towany.

London's New Economy

Bus

System Started

22 Services To Be Withdrawn

London, Aug. 20. London's new economy bus system-minus some 20 ser- vices began running normally today despite a threat by bus workers to hold a protest go-slow.

STEERED

first speaker, at tonight's resumed UN debate. UK ROCKET He said that while full respect was due to the rights of Arab nations, it remained true that the Middle East "has not been in the past, is not now and cannot be in the future an exclu-

sive Arab domain."

It was

BY WIRES

London, Aug. 20.

'Their

Union trad

ofReilly

oppussed non-co-operation thru U.S. Arms For

tened by some of the 50,000 bus men and women who feared that a pay Increase won after a month's strike fast May might be hit by culs in the number of bases and routes,

The capital's transport autho- weekend in rities plan by the [have_witdrawi 22 services, eur- diverted talled two more and

vital to reca]} tha Uked Nations, is as area - A British company today one, but also to have extended

habited by 54 million

every non-Arab member of the United Natkas in the Midie East had "complete equality of rights with every Arab member of the region," he said.

"The Middle East, as detined in the general practies of the

A British Crossword Puzzle

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12

14

16

18

110

22

26

ACROSS

3 Hobby, perhaps? (8).

7 Sleep in a henhouse (5).

B: Good looker? (8);

10 Sooner or later he'll give

Out! (0).

13 Most expensive, my sweet

(7).

16 Fateful date for Caesar (4),

17 They smooth things out (7).

18 Take the chair (7).

20 Biblical character (4).

21 In this one is serious (T).

24 More profound (8),

27 Settle? (8).

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1 Criminal deception (5).

2 American, falhör (5).

3 Stock in a shop? (5),

4 Not one-sided (4),

5. An enemy might to R (6).

6' It's a get-out (0),

Close to (8).

11 39,37 Inches (5).

12 Nationality with Hon is fog

(5).

14 Walks heavily on the stairs

(6),

15 Quite senseless (5).

16 Use a rubber (8).

28 Snapshote should be in this 18 Unruffed (6).

(5).

20 Plunders (0).

19 Not exactly birdies (8).

22 Rocky chnins (5).

23 Outstanding accounts! (5).

-24 Mostly

(5).

Incautious

25 Very Scotch (4).

rubbish

WEDNESDAY's cnossWORD,—Across I Tarmac 5 Valee,

& Solid, 9 Antielen, 10 Chazin 11 Abalk; 13 Back, 13 Order, 18 Entree, 18 Lavery, 30 There, 22 Lido, 23 Orion, 25 At-one, 26 Follte, 37 Is-let, 20 Mɛct, 20 Repeat, Downs 1 Transmit, 2 Relleule, 3 Asla, 4 Combing, 5 Vietory, & Adhere, 7 Bergo, 14 Dodnite, 18 Redolent, 10 Everest, 17 Trooper, 19 ironic, 21 Hotel, 24 Note,

Arals,

laking language as the broatiest criterion, and 76 millites net Arobs: by eight Arab states and

at least four non-Arab states,"

Mr Eban rald, relations of the Arab states with each other and with their non-Arab neighbours were not likely to achieve full utability in the early future.

If the Middle East could not yet have peace, it must have i

and started one

Further economies involving

announced the develop-seven others ment of a small short-new service. range rocket that can be in all a aine per cent cut In steered to its target by mileage are planned for the end of the year to save £3,000,000 thin wires.

and meet a drop in annually passenger trame accentuated, they claim, by the recent slop

The Pye P.V. rucket is five feet long and can be carried by one soldier. Thin wires link a controller on the rocket body to age. the operator as it can be made to turn corners by defecting.

feest ecurity. in advance of af It has a range emite and substantive solution of disputes, is intended to strike largets

must be

a basic tyslem of conduct for Miocle East states applied.

General Habits

There were "general habits" which could not be reconelled with any concept of security under the rule of law,

tke tanks and fortigations.

SOLID FUEL

6,800 Buses

The London bus service, operated which tur to today 0,800 buses daily ver nearly 3.000 miles of roads, is th biggest in the world.

Iraq Arrive

Bagdad. Aug. 20. |HE first shipment of U.3.

THE

ald to irag since the July 14 revolution arrived todry aboard tha .U.S. freighter Navigator,

Premier Abdul Kerim Kasalm aprlier told a nowa conference that the ship. ment was on the way and a U.S. official confirmed his elatement.

The shipment,

erdnance

and signal spare parts, wili be unloaded at the Part of Bantah by tomorrow..- U.P.J.

De Gaulle

ALARM POLICE

Mobberley, Aug, 20.

to

After being tucked up in bed, seven-year-old Shirley Boswell and her younger sisters, Susan, 3, and Kathleen, 5, decided go for a walk. Wearing coats over their nightdresses, with soninis On their feet, the three youngsters

from get out

their counel! home in Townfield Road, Mob- berley (Cheshire) at 11 p.m.- and a widespread police search followed.

Their stepfather, Mr Arthur Wrench, found their beds empy nt midnight and told the police.

Road Blocks

Hom blocks were put up a:1 around a ten-mile radius, patrol cary and police with tracker dogs scoured the area.

Mr Wrench and his 16-your- old son helped the police In their all-night sunrch.

11

Al 7 1.33 a poljerman found the three little girls huddled to gether sleep in a field half mile from their home.

They

shivering and were

cold and ex- suffering from posure, but a deelor examined them and found them otherwise for their Ex- In the worse

[XTIGHT.

Alarming

It

"it was alarming to think they were out all night. was fortunate the weather was mild." said Chief Supl. T. Athen, who directivi the search. "When Shirley fully recovered the is going to have aairiet lecture from me about the serious consequences her Hittle jaunts might have."

It is

the second time the three sisters had gone for A late night stroll.

On a provious occasion they were found at midnight three miles away at Knutsforder Chia Mall Special.

THE SHEIKH

WAS HIS NAVY DAD!

Plymouth, Aug. 20.

Flying the gaily-coloured flag of the Batinah coast; and with a fully-garbed, bearded "Sheikh" stand. ing impassively on the forward gut dock; the frigate Loch Ruthven re turned to Devonport, on completion of a 12 months' commission in the Persian Gulf.

Most bewildered among the 200 relatives and friends walt-

Leaves Parising to welcome the ship home

For Tour

was the Shelkh's four-year-old son, Christopher.

Comi-

He knew his inther, mander C. R. Jones, of Ports- mouth, the ship's electrical offi- eer, was coming home, but his mother and grandmother tried to convince film that he the imporlng ngure dominating the scent. African

The southern region of Bri- tish Railways ununed today The solid fuel rocket will enst Jess than 1,000 when it goes thut on September 15 it will en into production, a Pye spokes-services by 35,000 train-milea per week to implement the na- man said.

tionalised completed

Transport commis- The project was

Government futancial ston's decision to make There without

urant was the invocation and prue ice ald but with technical support economies.

to London's of a state of war (with Israel) from the Ministry of Supply.

arose anti-tank

today France has nual there were the "wave-

When he gave the binck Midik of the

East rockel lengths

with similar aleering when more than 230 mechanis maintaining 1fts and escalators

beard a tug, It held, and his which vibrate with monstrous gear-U.F.I.

on the waterground railways The Premier's first visit will father complained that It hurt, echoes of hatred, inveelive aud

struck work over a pay dis-be to Malagarwar,

young Christopher was at last bcitement to fubversion and

pute.

Convinced, violence."

The Israeli delerate said the great powers could do much to strengthen security by guaron- tcong the territory of Middle forcible states East

against change and by helping them

to develop their "new political freedom into broader visions

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MYSTERY OF THE

BLOODSTAINS

A new threat travelling publie

tour

Paris, Aug. 29. Frouch Premier Churles De Caulle left by air this evenlag Cet a 15,000-nile 10-day which will take Bro to

French Madagascar, territories and Algeria.

If the strike continues for De Gaulle necompanieri by any length of time, 1s and Minister of State Pierre Pillmilh escalators at

$4 stations will and overseas France Muister Cornut-Genllle, will be stopped and passengers will Bernard have to climb the stales up explaits to the people of French

the federal Ank territories from their trains to the street.

envisaged under the proposed blood-China Mail Special.

୩୯w constitution. Frince- Presse.

Worthing. Aug. 20. The mystery of the

which stained drifting dinghy caused a lifeboat and helicopter of economie ani social pro search of Worthing has been KTC,"

They could also avoid dissolve. Mrs E. Dolman, of

Grangeway, Rustington, identi- Location of the intra-regionul milltary balance.

the

Rad the dinghy as hers. Tho bloodstains, she salil, were from worms which she cut up in the boat as fisting belt.

Mr Eban halled the seven power

tabled on resolution Monday as a document which mny echo across the future, as a point of reference for Middle Eastern life in many years to ed come."--Router.

Coming To HK

The

Singapore, Aug. 20. Governor of Sarawak, Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 20.

Borneo, Sir Anthony The Malayan gunners, Captain British

T. Lopez

and Sergeant Abell, is resting at the Singa- Ibrahim Bia Mohammed Zaln, pore General Hospital after a Lof the First Field Battery, sinus eperation on Tuesday.

The Hospital'a Mellent Superin- tendent, Dr L. M. Ham, said: "He is progressing suliactorily."- Reuler.

It is believed that boys set the Fedoration Artillery, have been dinghy adrift while it was moor-colected for a short course

at Littlehampton-China |field Bring in Hongkong next

month-China, Mail Special. Mali Special

Furore Over 'Eisenhower Slept Here' Plaque

AN

London, Aug. 20. "Eisenhower slept

here" plaque has start-

Martin, wife of the Econo

mle Minister at American Embasey.

1

the

ed a heated controversy It reads "In this house,

Corn.

among the folk of Per- ranarworthal, in wall, the Daily Mail re- ported.

The plaque was unveiled at Tullimar House, home of Princesa Marthe Bibesco of Rumania, by Mrs Edwin

between sheets at Tulli- maran important American wartime head- quarters-gays the Daily Mail diarist.

General Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of "I don't recall him being the Allied Forces, dwelt there," Mr K. G. Julian for a fortnight before detective chief at the time, is quoted as saying, D-day in May 1944."

"But then, that doesn't But some of the 'locals are

cerlain President Eisen- mean to say he wasn't.” hower nover did akcepThe Princess is qualed as

telling the diarist, "I know there is this controversy However, he did stay al Tullimar, but it was 20 Becret very few people knew about it. "The President sent me

signed photograph when I told

the him about plaque. It is a way of showing our gratitude.”— China Mail Special.

was

During the past 12 months the Loch Ruthven, under the command of Commander W.B. Smith, has been patrolling the Persian Gulf on ant-arms and unti-personnel patrols, China Mall Special

PREMIER HAS GOOD NIGHT

Capetown, Aug. 20.

Mr Johannes Strijdom, the South African Prime Minister, who is ill in hospital here, today had his best day of the past week, a hospital bulletin said.

It added that the Prime Münster is somewhat less tired, but his condition otherwise unchanged. Mr Strijdom, who entered hospital on July 26, is suffering from a blood clot in the lung.--Reuter,

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