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No. 37136

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MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1958,

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Race Riot In England: Eight

Nottingham, Aug. 24.

between

Police squads patrolled the streets here today-after a Vicious 90-Minute Knife

90-minute hatchet and knife battle

white and coloured people inst night.

200

The race riot ended only when 80 policemen with dogs

parted a battling crowd.

TEVER was the United Nations to united as on Thursday last whon it approved the Arab peace plan without a dissentient Six vote. The Arab resolution was indeed as unexpected tho unanimity with .which it was subsequently

adopted. The achievement was all the remarkable because with the exception of Pre- sident Elsenhower's open- ing keynote speech, the, debate contributed Ittle to the final resolution, Buck- slage diplomacy entirely dominated the proceedings. Furthermore, ON the

mure

rostrum, the nations gave

only a

a hint of the true spirit of compromise that existed and which was re- flected mure clearly in the Beveral

attempts nut

mediation by Norway, the Afro-Asian bloe, and finally the Arab caucus.

However, the resolution, is unlikely to do more than

deft further tension the Middle East. Lebanon

may be secured, but the peril facing Jordan is more than the United Nations can avert. Hussein, who

has been given no guaran

tee of personal safety ur continuity of his kingdom

by the resolution, clearly has more faith in Britain.

MOLLOWING Thursday's

F

may

vole, Nasser avoid Bagrantly direct moves ไป

the subdue

in

in

Hashemite Kingdom he would be foolish to defy world opinion when, supporting the resolution, own government voted of 11011- favour interference in the affairs of neighbouring countries. But in Jordan an alreatly and hostile- rescutful majority ΟΣ Palestinian Arabs hus become thoroughly

subverted

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t12

the Nanger cause that to- day

it is numerically strong enough to need no butside help to initiate a revolution. What

handica will

the United Nations in its cum- mission to safeguard the integrity of Jordan" is that the country which threatens its independence has not

offelally been

kentiked This is and condemned. almost as bad as sending the St George to rescue maiden without mentioning the dragon as the cause of her distress, What is worse for Hussein Is that when British troops leave they will not be re-

"I

T

And Hatchet Fight

one side of the road to the other by three coloured

men.

heard bottles being smashed and everyone started

screaming and shouting."

people were taken to hospital with stabwounds and one was kept there. A polliceman and a man knocked down by a car carrying Jamaicans were also treated. The fight began outside an inn, where a man was knocked

The rioting spread as more coloured men streamed into unconscious.

is now in hospital, was the urea. Two were reported to have attacked a Charles Coyne, aged 25, who

passing motorcyclist and slashed his arms. knifed on his way home, and his wife Margaret, three months pregnant, was kicked in the stomach as While men and women were injured by bottles, knives and

razors, No coloured men were taken to hospital. she went to his aid.

A local women said: "trouble has been going on for about! eight months but we have never had a night like. this. It way ghostly.

The

race riot started a mile-long streci of grimy ter- race houses when 21-year-old Mrs Mary Lowndes was punched in the back by a coloured man as she wn leaving the inn.

The next She said: "A black man hit me for no reason.

thing I knew my husband was being punched-from

"Shop windows and pavements were apattered by blood. Coloured men were running all over the place howling and brandishing knives.

RELAX IN

DAKS

THE FAMOUS COMEDRY IN ACTION TROURING

Whiteaways

NONGKONG

Hurt

They were going for anyone in sight."

Another housewife said: "I found my husband at the

roadside with his throat cut. Ho Bald a coloured man did it with a razor. The wound needed 37 stitches."

Nottingham's police chief was officially reported tonight

"determined to stump out violence at once."

Captain Athlestan Popkiss, Nottingham's Chief Constable, who directed police security measures today, said "the crowd that gathered were mostly white und they were hostile to the many coloured people in the

area.

·

"There are at least 2,000 coloured people in this district

alone. "The duty of the police was to prevent further breaches

of the pence."

No arrests have yet been made. Police are searching for

a number of men involved in the brawl. During the fighting. Nottingham firemen were called nat

by police after reports were received that fires were to be started deliberately. The firemen did not have to go into action although at one stage they unrolled hoses and trained them on a group of men.--Reuter.

Forty-Five Communist Ships Fought Off

INVASION

REPELLED

Fierce Sea Battle Off Peking Publication

Quemoy Islands

25.

Insults

Tito

The Nationalist navy ropelled 45 Communist ships attempt- CHINESE EMBASSY FLAYED

ing to invade one offshore island last night, the Defence Ministry announced this morning.

Nationalist sea patrols intercepted two waves of Communist gunboats landing barges and motor junks approaching Nationalist-held Tung- ting island, which is 18 miles due south of big Quemoy, the Ministry According to the reports the Nationalist ships fought off the invading flotilla, which then fled. The communique made no mention of losses to either side.

said.

Bombardment

Taipel, Aug. 25, Chinese coastal batterica hegan a heavy bombard. ment of the Nationalisi held Quemoy Island group early today. the Na- fouallat Defence Ministry announced.

T was the third suc- cessive day of Communisi

Quemoy.

shelling Reuter,

of

THEY OBJECT

то

placed. The futility of an observer group has been shown only too clearly already

Lebanon, Jordan's long-term prob- ROCKET RAMPS| Jem in internal and external security for it is ludicrous

was involved.

Belgrade, Aug. 24.

KowtoUN

BRITAIN, U.S. FORCES MUST BE WITHDRAWN

Chou

London, Aug. 24,

Mr Chou En-lai, the Chinoso Prime Ministar, said today the struggle to "prevent any American or British procrastination-in-with-- drawing their troops" from the Middle East should continus.

In a speech quoted by the New China News Agency, he said all pence-loving countrica and peoples should persist in their struggle to secure speedy and fallhful implementa- tion of the resolution on the Middle East posed by United Nations General sembly.

Frustrate

the

The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported tonight that a publication said the resolution "in- issued by the Peking embassy in Belgrade was "anti-Yugoslav" indicates clearly that with the tone and had insulted President Tito.. Quoting an article due to struggle against Yugoslav Communist newspaper appear in Borbe, the official Tanjug sale the tomorrow, second secretary of the Chinese embassy had been summoned to the Yugoslav foreign secre- were intercepted at ariat. His attention was drawn The invading Communist vessels

night after a day-long artillery bombardment of to this "uncustomary and Im- Quemoy and a strafing attack from eight Communist permissible activity. aeroplanes.

The Ministry communique said Nationalist sen patrols intercepted four Communist gunboats and six amall landing barges west of Tungting at 1106 GMT on Sunday,

with

He added: "Although restora- tion to Ching of its rightful legitimate position in the United Nations continues to be ob-

of the support

Socialist and Nationalist countries, the Arab revisionism"tain eastern European countries States, united in one, are cap-

and China.

able of frustrating the attempts "It is obvious that the con- of the United States and Britain Since the warmings to Chinese diplomats in Belgrade had been tinuation of this activity....can.... to interfero in the internal ignored, Yugoslavia had taken only aggravate the relations be- affairs of the Arab States." appropriate steps

thetween the two countries."

Borba, sold, Yugoslavia on her Pelting Government,"

part was doing nothing that Discourteous

would worsen such relations Borba sald; "The impermissible but she could not allow anyone, The second secretary was in-activity of the Chinese Embassy not even the Chinese Embassy, formed that the publication, and the extremely discouricous to "violate harshly her legal

of its diplomats regulations."

The Druzhba, could be distributed tude

newspaper concluded:- 11 Yugoslavia only

it is contrary to the polley of non-

In the internal "Yugoslavia therefore and interferener stopped publishing

the that

Chinese affairs of a country whose hospi- expects Yugoslav material.

tality they enjoy.

Embassy in Belgrade will stop the anti-Yugoslav actions." premeditated provocation in the Reuter. new wave of the anti-Yugoslav campaign, conducted from cer-

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This interview took place on July 30, but the Chinese em-

"The Conimunist flotilla had intended to Invade Tung bossy had "turned a dent car

ting," the communique said.

Five More

At 1216 GMT a Nationalist patrol met five additional gunbouts and mutor junks in an unspecified area near Tungting, the communique reported.

Nationalist naval fire drove off the Communist fleet, the communique said. The Defence Ministry did not say how long the sen engagement lasted. However, at least five hours and five minutes after it began, the Ministry said the sea battle was still raging.-U.P.I.

London, Aug. 24. to believe that Nusser will

Some 200 people today concede Jordan'a right to

marched from Ely, in Cam- independence untit the bridgeshire, to the Royal Air Government in Amman Force station at Mepal, aix neknowledges Caire's supre- miles away in protest ut the

best The

that installation of American rocket--

Jerusalem. Aug. 24. сли hope for, launching ramps in Britain. Scores of people faited here The march was organised | when the mercury jumped to 30 The Cambridge Labour degrees Centigrada (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in a freak Parts and Trades Council,

heat wave.

Heat Wave In Jerusalem

macy. Hussein

therefore, is a temporary respite. There is one other by consideration.

BR

A

• During it, a petition address- RITAIN In agreeing to ed to British Prime Minister the resolution may have Harold Macmillan was present recognised the inevitability ed to a. Conservative Member

living of Parliament

of Hussein's fall and B route-France-Presso.

more concerned now about

nvolding trouble between Israel and tho King's Auccessors.

The moral

U.N. the

Authority of standa ቤ better chance of

achieving this with its pre- sence in Jordka than, re-

on the

to the warning" and continued to distribute the review.

Friendship

Druzhba (Friendship) published by

Russia.

Lo Chinese-

+

Soviet Frindship Society in

the Borba, according to version of its article given by Tanjug, sald the Chinese em- bassy in Belgrade had been distributing for

Jutos

Uime

containing

part publications "unprincipled and unscrupul ous attacks against Yugoslavia and insults against the person of the President of Yugo. slavia."

It added "Such actions are a

Their New

Game- Defying Jet

Fighters

Thornaby-on-Toos,

Yorkshire, Aug. 24. Children are playing "Last Across" in front of fast- landing jet fighters on the girfiold hero.

It said- this "uneustomary oc- tivity of a foreign mission in a sovereign country surpasses all Hamsin, brought extra hard-limits of normal diplomatic oc- ships to mountain areas of the tivity and by its anti-Yugoslav

content Interior,

constitutes a violation the of Yugoslav laws." A secondary result of heat wave was a record number Borba said that kier, whén of bathers at the new bathing the attention of the Chargo In some parts of Israel the pool in Jerusalem denounced by D'Affaires of the Chinese Em- temperature roso 10 42 extreme religious elements here bassy, Mr Chou Chiu-ych, was Police and Royal Air Force degrees Centigrade

(107.0❘ s

"desecration" of the sanctity drawn to the matter, he replied authorities have

appeated to degrees Fahroatelly and a dry of the Holy City because at that hla embassy would con- stop it, and also the children's easterly whud, known as the allows mixed bathing-Reuter, tinue these activities as "the other dangerous games.

One is to sit on a fence close

while to the landing strip jet planes scream, Those who lose their nerve and jump are "cowards and the winner is the one who sits it out

Another game is to hide in a beside the runway, and being driven by Tony Curtis, ditch

as the Hunters, Meteors or come in a few feet Police said Seddon, 30, had Vampires

been charged with assault up the children jump up out of with a deadly weapon.

MOTORIST RAMS FILM STARS' CAR

Hollywood, Aug. 24.

Intively apenking, a hand- THREE of Hollywood's top

ful of British paratroopers.

Anal

the reflection:

General Assembly by its success last week has en- hanced its own prestige. The vote hus rendered the Security Council virtually

stara-Janet Leigh, her husband Tony Curtis and *Inger Dean Martin wore shaken up in a crash here to- day which police said was caused by o motorist trying to ram another car.

unworkable; faith in it an Singer Frank Sinatra and other

inn,

ал

a means of dealing effec- tively and immediately with

crises

bas appreciably; it has prestige value only for great powers; It could be eliminated without being missed. The lobbies of the United Nations lend them- selves to informal and un- reportable discussions. This is the natural environment of diplomacy. It should bo used more often.

celebrities witnessed this real-life Hollywood drama. Mis Leigh, who is expecting a baby in November, was taken to hospital ond treated for Curtin and Martin shock. wero' cold to have bean "shaken up," but worn un hurt The three

FRANK "May-Day!, May».

pongwriter

Caha Sammy ware in the car with them. Santa Monica-hora of BritistsPolico d the sccident ob-

stars were driving

home from a party at the

Born actor Peter Lawford. Down' Media's wife Joan and

curred when another motorist identified an: Robert Seddon,

JANET Treated For Shack;

tried to rhm a car which ho mistakenly, thought was enrty ing his wito.. Beddon's car bounced of the

diher vehicle and hit the cát |

Frank Sinatra was

returning

the ditch.

DISTRACTED

A senior officer said: "This from the same party in an- game must be stopped somehow. at the are distracted other car. With him

was Pilots

are con- comedian Erde Kovaca

and moment when they

centrating on bringing thels air, his wife, actress Edie Adams, craft in safely. When they see They saw the whole thing. the children they have to pull

up and go round again. Police said, when they arrived "There is a regulation that

on the scene Sinaira

was nobody must stadd within 100 standing up in his coupe and yards of a jet engine, but some calling on the radio-telophote: children are within a low foci. "May-day, May-day" (a dia-The heat from the pressurlatd tera signal). His friends suldal is terrific. How they face up ho was contacting the hospital to the noise and the sight of a to arrange treatment for a screaming jet so near to them-1 Leigh. This was the second don't know. (accident in which, she had "We have to paw only, twó been involved in a week, foot or so over their honds some-

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times."---Ching,Mail: Special:

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Iceland To Make No Concessions

Iteykjavik, Ang. 24. TOELAND will make no concessions of any kind to foreign trawlers, and has taken no steps to alter decision to extend Icelandic territorial waters to 12 miles, according to Afr Ludvik Josefssop. Minister of Fisheries.

He had had no official Information from Great Britain that the British Government intend to uso armed forces in order to protect violations of the 12-mile order, the Minia- ter added.

Mr Josefsson, who is a Communist, deuled in an Interview with the Com- munist party newspaper Tjodvijan that the Icelandle Government' had asked for Soviet support for protection of the 12- mila Him-Router.

STOP PRESS

Taipei, Aug. 25. Nationalist Chinese warships sunk two Communist Chinese tor-

boals pedo

west of Tungting Island early this morning, captured “many”

and

sallors

the

destroyed Communist boats,

Defence Ministry said.--U.PJ,

the whole course of this ecsatori showed that a change is taking

structed by the United States,

place in the situation of com- plete domination of the United Nations by the United States."

Mr Chou was speaking at a banquet given by Prince Noro- dom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia, who is on a visit to Peking-Reuter,

US$ 1 MILLIÓN

FIRE

Bursa, Turkey, Aug. 24. A million-dollar fire burned through the wooden shops, of this city's bazaar district today, killing two and seriously tr ĮJuring ten persons.

Tic fre started in the book- shop district of the bazaar and quickly spread, destroying more than 400 shops and houses,

Turkish officialy put tha damage et cae billion Turkish Hiros-more than US$1 million. ---U.P.I.

Mrs Meir Returns

Tel Aviv, Aug. 25. Mrs Golda Meit, Israel For- eign Minister, returned early today from visits to France, Italy and Britain where she had talks with government minis- term...

Sho told reporters she found a better understanding of faradi'a problems in these talks, than in ony she had had before.

She said this changed at- titude was, due to the realisation of Israel's importance as, a factor in Middle East Affairs and Its permanence in the region.mm. Neuter.

MANILA QUAKE

Mila, Aug. 201

tavmor of An earth. undetermined Intenalty rocked Manila and iin vichafty - for appróximbley-35 zocorida at* 1655 GMT today according to the woolher, buteou here. No damage has ketti reported." Router.