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[THE CHINA MATE,

MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1958,~

Princess Begged Her Husband: Shoot Me And The Children

From COLIN LAWSON: Rome.

BEAUTIFUL Princess Badia, aunt of King Faisal and sister of Crown-

Prince Abdul Illah, begged her husband to shoot her, their three

sons, and then himself on the day of the Iraqi revolution,

Afraid that the mob which had already sacked the royal palace would close in on their villa, she said, sobbing: "I cannot bear to see my children torn to pieces before my eyes,”

The 25-year-old princes told her story to a woman friend to day in villa on the outskirs of Cairo where the family is stay- ink.

They have been given refuge by ex-Queen Dina of Jorda who has lived in Calio since she bene estranged from her hus- band, King Hussein,

Last meeting Before the princess and a husband, Sherif Hussein, were allowed to leave Baglad with the children, they had to swear on the Koran that they would not talk to reporters about the Tray coup, the murder of the royal family, or allow photo, graphs. But on the radio teler phone from Cairo was taid her story by her felend.

As the story unfolded, two of the chldren were playing cow- boys and Indians.

Fate and nervous, clad in Gluck sack dress, the

I told him my husband had children killed before my eyes #100L }?? business to attend to and we and begged him to were hoping to sall on July 20, there nnu then with the children He said he hoped to see us in and kill himself. England Jn August ankl goodbye. ; never saw him again. The following morning, at seven, there

the was

most frightful noise outside.

1 tried to phone Mama, but the line was dead. I learned inter, at almost the very lastant was trying to telephone, Mama was facing a firing squad with the rest of the family in the paince yard.

Meanwhile my husband wor turning on the radio and 1 heard an anouncement that my brother's body was being dragged through the streets. fainted. The nứxt thing I knew I was lying in bed.

Prayed

Still alive

50

He said he would not do unt the mob actually forced epen the villa gates.

Laneb came and still the mon had not tried to storm the gate. I felt like a condemned prisoner awalting exceution.

Mohame-he's My le son eight-felt there was something wrong and would not leave my and side. Six-year-old Al sat sucked his thumb. Hussein, two, was asteep,

The shutters were tightly closed and all the doors locked. Then we put the children to bed, sat down, and walted for the assassins.

husband My

whispered: But at dawn things did not "Pleuse, durting, pull yourself look so desperate.

We were get still alive and safe. princess together," and told me to

up and pray. We prayed Moster.

toy 10 Illob. teshion

minutes. We 10 expecteri This is her story:-

dle-perbops in -Now my husband saved minutes.

dok of her last meeting with her mother and Abdul

ΓΥ three children and

assassins is still

escaped the mystery.

I last saw my brother and mother, Queen Nafisa, on July 13. took the children to the palier.

My brother. Abdul Mah, came in, kised the children, ant kissed Mamu's hand. He asked the me why I did not take children to England on July 9 as planned.

THE POST HERALD LEADS AGAIN

My Life and Fast Times

BY

JUAN

go to

husband After ten days my decided to

the new Government and ask permission to leave Bagdad. They agreed. I told my husband I could And here we are now, In not bear to おせい my darlus Cairo, hoping for peace,

ROUND-UP

HELPED TO SINK THEM

EAR Admiral Norman Denning, 53, who has been appointed Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (Training and Manning), was directly concerned with the complicated Intelligence machinery that enabled the Royal Navy to sink the Bismark und Schonhorst during the last war. At prosent he holds a special appointment on the staff of the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff.

**Don't take any notice of my old chop-he don't go a lot on steamships coplacing the beauty of sell let alona Atomic submarines.,

BELL

THAT

Would You

HAS

HE bell-founder's craft is probably the oldest THE

still alive today. It calls for great skill. Sometimes it has been dangerous.

LEONG

NEVER BEEN RUNG

the bell was removed from In 1753, and on July 8, 1776, at Llyods, in London. It came the fron the Lutine, a frigate sunk Declaration of Independence had off the Dutch const in 1790 with

Believe It? the mould, it was found to rang out the tidings that

be perfect in finish and tone. been ratifled by all the 13 states nearly £1,000,000 in treasure of America. Soven years later, on Board. Some of the guld was Overcome with remorse, at a funeral, the bell cracked recovered but insurance under-

writers Boal terribly, the founder gave himself up again and had to be replaced. and was executed. When the bell rang out for people to prayers for the soul of its maker.

Lives have even been lost in casting bells. It is said that eight men were killed making the largest bell still in use. It hangs in a great Buddhist monastery near Canton, în China. "Cast in 1400, it is 18 feet high and 45 feet wide.

to

first time

it

it was to

Saved Sentry

the cali

Biggest of the bells in Britain World's Biggest

Is Great Paul, the 10%-ton one in St Paul's Cathedral. Also in

the cathedral is a 54-ton

hour Later the sands shifted, ex- bell recast k 1716 from Great posing the ship, and cargo Te, à bell that used to hang valued at £40,000 Was JG in the old clock tower at West- covered. Blg efforts were mado minster,

to salvage the rest, but although millions of tons of sand were

moved, only five grains of gold were brought up.

Making giant bells seems At Peking is another

Not all bells are produced In the reign of William III, have been a Chinese enormous temple bell about with the perfection of the "Poor fashion until the middle of which there is a macabre Sinner's Bell, The Arst Big Ben, Great Tom saved a scntry at

The bell of the Laline" was the 17th century. When the legend. A Buddhist maiden in the Houses of Parliament, be- Windsor Castle from serious saved, however, and is tolled at

Yong-lo trans is believed to have thrown came cracked a few weeks after

Lloyds when important shipping Emperor

was installed Originally punishment. The goldier was nows is received, such as a wreck ferred the seat of his herself into the molten christened St Stephon, it received

or the arrival of a long-overdue government from Nanking metal a minute before the is nickname when on M.P. to Peking in 1403, he bell was cast.

the

ordered nine huge bells to

the commemorate

event. But three centúrles later FACTORY involving cupital expenditure of over £10,000,000 n missionary reported see- may be built on 100 acres of land at Havant, Hampshire,ing-seven of the belle-still- permission is obtained from the Board of Tride. A joint statement Issued by the chairman of Hampshire County Council, the Lord lying on the ground. Each Mayor of Portsmouth and the chairman of Havant Urban Council weighed about 50 tons. says the site has been selected by British Nylon Spinners The factory could give employment for 2,000. men.

£10 MILLION PLAN

RECORD PROFIT

MA

[ANCHESTER United Football Club made à pront of £07,007 on last season with match receipts of £208,054, both figures being records for a Belikih Soccer club. Easily beaten is the £50,810 returned in 1948-49 when United played on the Man- chester City ground at Maine Rond. Since the war United have made a tolul peolit of over £338,000, the lowest profit being £1,042, In 1055-56, when money was set aside for ground_Im- provements. £114,000 was received from Insurance arising from the Munich alr disaster and payments to dependents have totalled £67.019. £54,550 was paid out for new players last season when players' wages and bonuses accounted for £44,218 and travelling expenses £27,274.

TELEPHONE LINE

TWO of the biggest nabmntine tele-communication contracts ever

placed in the United Kingdom have been obtained by Standard Telephones & Cables, Lid. One is for a telephone Irik between Britain and Sweden. A1 530 nautical milea, it will be the longest sužmarine telephone cable in Europe, casting one and quarter mil- lion pounds. The other, for over 700 nautical miles of deep sen eable for a new 30 channel telephone system between Miami.

Florida and San Juan, Puerto Rico, is worth two and a half million dollars.

FANGIO Roman Reeds To

Whooping like a czy

Red Indian to keep up

drove spirits, 1

ענת

along one of The worst mountain roads in the woriti. The night was black. The outer edge of the road was a prectulee. I had only my sidelights left. I way Also scared to death.

And when people ask me what Was my Supreme uchievement, my most vivid memory as a racing motorist, I tell them it was this terrify. ing night in the mountains,

Few know the place, and low remember the rose. But I will never forget it....

So begins the frankest- and most exciting story of

the racetrack ever told.

In it, Ave-times World

Champion Juan Fangio re- veals for the first time the secrets of his fast and fabulous life.

The story begins exclusively

[NEXT SUNDAY

in the

South China Sunday

·POST-HERALD

LE

Replace Modern Thatch

DEEDS fron

truckwater

planted more then 1,030 years ago by the Romana may supersede thatch as roofing material for country collages. The reeds, from Weymouth, look like inlch but cost less. Roofs made from them are being lested at the Rural Industries Bureau at Wimbledon, Surrey,

Portable Speed Traps

A NEW electronle speed trap

is being tried out by police in Britain. Named the "Speed- meter, la said to enable traffic police to determine immediately after a car has passed whether It has been speeding. This portable unit will be on public view for the Arst time at the Watch and Clock Exhibition at

ARTIE...

"That's a British rocker

all right,"

First Big Ben

shouted in the House: "Why not ad of sleeping at his post, call it Big Bent" This was an but he maintained he had heard allusion to Sir Benjamin Hall the the Westminer

ball strike 13 toli and stout Chief Commis- alter for Works.

times at midnight,

One bell which has never elled is the biggest in the world, It is the Great Bell of Moscow, weighing over 106 tons. It stands on a platform near the Kremlin. Cast in 1733, it broke from Its As Windsor is more than 20 made to hang it. A piece of the support when on attempt was away the court did not three-tre: thick metal broka

Tragedy is also linked

Tho celebrated Liberty Bell in also gave trouble, a London bell- Sinner's Bell" in the Church Ordered from with the history of the "Poor America

founder in 1761, at a cost of miles of St Mary Magdalene at £100,000, it appeared pound believe the sentry's story and he away and the gigantic boll Breslau, now Wrocław, in when it arrived at Philadelphin, Was convicted. But reveal y where it fell for over

out 13

Poland. Legend says that But while being tested, it was people swore adidavils that the century. when the ball was commis. cracked by a stroke of the clap bell did in fact ring

Then, in 1836, Tsar Nicholas sioned 600 years ago, the per and had to be recast in the times, and the king granted the

prisoner a free pardon.

made it into a church, the broken city. founder was called away for

part serving as a dear. Several n short time. The mould

Perhaps the most famous of all people could enter at a Ume, as Then the tone was found to be

is the one which the beel stands more than 19 feet had been made and the defective and the bell was recast small bells metal was nearly ready for once more. Finally, it was hung hangs in the underwriters' room high and is nearly 23 feet vcross. tapping. But the boy left in

charge disregarded strict instruction not to interfere

the with

He furnace. fingered a catch which kept the metal in. A stream of glowing metal began to flow into the mould..

The boy rushed terrified from the foundry, into the arms of his muster. Think- ing his work ruined, the enraged craftsman hit the boy und killed him. But when the metal cooled and

see first missile base

IT'S SO SECRET,

EVEN

RESIDENTS DON'T KNOW

By GORDON THOMAS: Somewhere in Norfolk.

AM in the shadow of Britain's first nuclear missile base. Behind new barbed-wire fences men are working seven days a week from

the Goldsmiths Hall, London, dawn to dusk preparing sites for Thor rockets. from Ocióber 14 lo 26.

Mechanical

IT'

"Dustmen" ` At Atomic Plants

TWO mechanical arms will be:

brought into operation soon at the Wigdseale Atomic Energy Plant, Cumberland, to

of highly ra io-active uranium

Already the foundations have been excavated and reinforced with enough concrete to build a small housing estate. The labourers many earning more than £20 a week with overtime-have been told that they are building car parks. This has become their private joke.

wide area.

The sites are spread over a Red — 'restricted' Then the slender cigar-shaped roclocis will stand on their "car Most of the villagers I talked patio." Looking like Domo- I stood by one of thera. to were unaware that they were thing out of science action. But

going to have guided missiles real this time, A vast dispose

concrete cube of for neighbours. And if they specially treated cement. Soon were they accepted it with the · CAFE CANAVERAL, Florida, glant rocket will straddle phlegmalle way of Norfolkmm. — A Thor intermediate rungo the cube.

Security at the bases is strict. ballistic miello, which will pro- So far fewer than 100 men are There are "Strictly restricted" vido the big thrust for the US. working there. More will come red signs every 200 yards besldo Air Force's first moon - rucket, when the rocket crew rooms, the the barbed wire,

blasted toward space the other! police dog péns, and "the ad- It will be some months before day in another test of guidance ministrative offices go up.

the base is completed.

and power.

fuel elements. Spent 33-lb. fuel

elements from the reactors will be packed by the mechanical

dusimene into containers. They

will then ba submerged in water for up to six months to allow the radio 'activity to decay.

LEFT-WING LAMENT BY CUMMINGS

My calm

Mu

dash

vert

"Macmillan's glamour is bad enough—but now there's a rumour that Selwyn Lloyd is beginning to glitter!".