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HONGKONG
KOWLOON
Threat To U.S. Cities De Gaulle Shouts Down
Colour In Crisis Warning On Russia's Fleet Of
NOLOUR problem riote
breaking out in England rab the conimentator of any elance, even if the wish existed, of adopting a pompous attitude with regard to America's problem in Little Rock, and with the problems with which the late Prime Minister or South Afrien John Strijdom contended all his life.
Had Strijdom been a man of culture or education one's judgment upon his actions would necessarily have been
different, But he was not. He was the simple represen tative of a very rough and simple farming people who felt themselves to be fighting for their lives in the land to which they were born and Imagined that they had
right to call home.
A Hill-Billy
In
OLOUR campaigners
America ton are mostly from the poorer classes, men
A
Missile-Firing Submarines
THEY MAY BE
READY BY EARLY 1960s
Washington, Aug. 27. group of exports on underseas warfare issued a warning today that by the early 1960s misșile-firing Russian submarines would be able to attack Amorican cities.
macie
use
of
should be "A mausive attack with such Greater weapons could level our entire
universitive, urban soriety," said the report, | private research foundations and issued by the Underseas War privide Industry in investigat- fure Panel, a group of experts ing underseas problems. formed to advise the Military
The report included a cơm- Sub-Committee of the Jointment from Mr
Thomas Gates, Energy the Secretary of the Navy, who said: "All of us in the navy are keenly, nware of this eritical in the Beld of threat we face underson warfare."----Reuter,
Congressional Committee.
Atomle
The panel made five recom- of rougher hibits antica
which It vald, simpler minda than the
would help to meet the danger politielana who
condemn from under the seat them. Governor Orville
Faubus is a hillbilly char- ★The Navy should proveed
acter
of the slemierest! education himself.
as fuist as possible with the production of submarines capable of fring the 1,300-mile
comes from a family back- Polaris ballistic missile. Under ground where there www present plans the dril such sub- hardly my education at altharine will no be available und
illiteracy Waa not until 1900.
uncommon.
Ocension names
4
★The
Polaris subourine programme should be kept published separate from the Navy's regular-
of the leaders of the in-ship budget and should be ad- famous Ku Klux Klan also { ministered as part of the nation's add to this impression of strategie deterrent budget.
man
the rude unlettered fighting for his home and resorting to
anger and violence in the face of the
More attuck submarines
-the kind that truck ency sub-should be built. The present buliding goal-des Incomprehensible sophistica. | cribed in the report is two small tion of the ruters of his is 75 by 1970. destiny.
The Navy's research and development budget for should be
And in England too it is not i undersens warfare
Hurprising to and that those doubled.
who went about London in
wint uppears to have been
A deliberate hunt by knife
fre
and bludgeon toting thugs for ealoured victims members of the modern cult of "Teddy Boys" some of them illiterate,
Not Qualified
and
HE first reason for this
Tsituation is more
Bombardment Of Quemoy Continues
Taipei, Ang. 27.
Bhun Communist guns today con- tinued their bombard- ment of the Quemoy Island group, against which they had fired 2,723 shells up to Just night.
obvious. The folk who are attacked and penalised for the colour of their skin in London, Johannesburg, and Little Rock are generally poor themselves, and it is with the poor white people around them that they come
Convmunist
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WESTMINSTER FOLLOWS
THE MIDLAND
London, Aug. 26. 'The Westminster Bank (one of Britain's big five) tonight announced it would follow the Midland Bank's lead in authorising per• #onal ioans customers with a cheme that is to stari "almost Immediate- ly."
Under
Midland scheme, which won bir headlines in today's news- papers, excited banking circles and sent hire- purchase company shares toppling. customers borrow up to £500 sterling without security, --- Reuter.
the
can
Rains... cause landslide... diverts river floods village 12 dead
At least twelve people are reported to have lost their fires following the landslide caused by a violent cloudburst at San Giovanni, near Domodossola, Sim- plon Zone recently. The landslide foll on to the village and the river Diverio-causing the waters to be diverted into the village destroying practically all the houses. Four French tourists were included in the victims--they were caught in their car. Pic- ture taken from a bout shows raging waters of the diverted river around the Village Inn-Keystone,
Faubus Faubus Seeks Power To
Cancel Integration
Little Rock, Aug. 26.
Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas today submitted to the State Legislature a bill empowering him to close any school that is subjected to forced integration of white and negro pupils.
The Governor said hla pro- The Governer also asked the posed law was essential to pre- Legisinture to postpone the open-
vent repetition of last year's ing of the school year at Little More Rejections
"riots" in Little Rock,
Rock Central High School untli
10 He was referring to the racial | September 15. The opening had when already been postponed from
on elushes which occurred guns 27 shells
A Defence Ministry most in contact and with munique said: "from whom friction would most 0515 readily arise. On this Tateng fired" ground those who do not Quemoy.
at negro students were accepled at next Monday until September B.
Little Rock's Central High
"From 0705 to 0740 munist guns from
Com-
Hulenc
7
Meanwhile It was lined 10- day that the nine negro pupils of the Little Rock school have been given a grant of $1,000
association table them to continue their studies elsewhere.
businessman's
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School under the Supreme Buy Their Rights live close to the problem "From 0545 to 0030
Com-Court's Integration ruling. Pre- and its
despotched aggravations are munist guns blasted Quemorsiden Elsenhower not highly qualifted to judge und Tatan with 2,440 shells. Federal troops to the cily pro- tho rights und wrongs.
feel the negro pupils.
Defend The Rights But there acema deeper shan ilred 240 shells at
problem, which is a problem | Quemoy." There was no re In a message to the State In the world. Time was
part of damage or of casualties Legislature, Faubus called on the members to defend the when it was the village folk used.
The Arkansas Legislature mol rights of the people of Arkansus 48 hours before the United who were secure and wise,
Mr Tho Hel-sheng. Eresident against thos who want toStates Supreme Court was due who and the townsmen
Chiang Kai-shek's senior adviser, usurp them.
te meet to decide whether in- chased now thoughts and has warned that the current Com-
His proposed law provides tegration at Little Rock Central ways and became unstable, Įmunist bombardment of Quemoy Now it is the poor who are would "very likely lead to all-that in the 30 days following High School, should continue or the closure of a school, the whether it would be preferable unstable and insecure, the
population of the zone where to grant a stay in order to most threatened by hy
He called on the people of the school was situated would allow feelings to calm down. change. Education, it seems, Formosa to exercise patience be called on to say whether France-Presse. has become more necesary and keep calm while the curtais they wanted the school re- now than it used to be. [or war is rising."—Reuter, opened with coloured pupils,
out war.
SOUTH AFRICAN PRIME MINISTER
LAST RITES IN CAPETOWN
Capetown, Aug. 27. Cabinet colleagues of the late
South African premier,
!
Pretoria for a slate funeral on Saturday.
Johannes Birijdom, will be There
memorial seryloo hero today..
the
be two 10-sun pallbearers at Els state salutem after today's service cofin leaves the church, and It is removed freen ibo hourso at tho station. Afr Foros aircraft will !
After the service the coffin will bo takyn in a spoolal' trala to
Indian Floods
Calcutta, Aug. 26. - Floods in the States of Bengal, Assam and Behar to- day spread to many rivers, particularly the Koshl which rose above the danger level,
Villagers along the edge of fly past and dip in salute, All members of the South the Koshi are being evacuated.
by boats with great difficulty, African, cabinet will attend the mate funcrat in Pretoria, due to strong currents,
The leader of the apposition. Cattle havo been wasted Bir de Villets. Graff, will) awer and large agricultura} hond a reprcsontalive contin- GOOGLE эго now waterlogged gus of the United Party | with heavy crop darbage. - Reuter,
UP.I.
In North Carolina
Charlotte, Aug. 20.
The Charlotte City School
Board rejected the 13 Negro pupils seeking admission to white schools for the autumn jem.
The Board based Its denial In most cases on. the location of the
Two
Hostile African Crowd
Dakar, Senegal, Aug. 26.
A group of about 500 youths grouped in the middle of
square here tonight shouted down a speech' which General: de Gaulle was making to nearly 100,000 people cram- ming the square, balconies and roofs. The French Prime Minister, dignified figure in General's uniform, shouted to make himself heard, geril- culating with his hand as he
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toll
did so.
Some of the crowd near the stark heard him say: "Those who
want independence have
WRONG NAME
Rheims, Aux. 26. Sixty-five-year-old Vic-
for Stovena burst into the village church at Mareal- Dampcourt near here yes- terday-In time to stop his own funeral,
Willo M. Stevens was
on holiday last week, the body of an elderly man was found on the rallway linen outside the village. An Inquest decided that the dead man Was M. Stevens,
M. Stevens read of his "death" in the newspapers and hurried home to tell his mourning family the rood news-Reuter.
Nkrumah Asks For Facts On Jimmy Wilson
Acera, Aug. 20.
Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of Ghana, has asked his ambassador In Washingtas, Mr D. A. Chapman for the full facts of the Jimmy Wilson case. Wilson, a 55-year-old negro, has been sentenced to death Alabama (where the capital crime) for stealing $1.05 from a white woman
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Occasional lono shouts "Vive de Gaulle" (long live de Gaulie) rose above the crowd's hostile roar.
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only to take it," at whalell The largely hostile reception sections of the crowd standing he got rear the rostrum cheered loudly. Senegal is me of the most inde-
not
unexpected. At the end of the meetingpendence-minded? Gezeral de Gaulle was loudlyde Coulle's 12,000-mile aerial Мороусту отв cheered by most of the crowd. tour to urge Afeleon backing He gestured his thanks with for his projected new constitu- a wave of his armLER,
The demonstrators, waving their banners, left the square chanting "Independence and bunging the bonacle of army and gendarmerie lorries parked In the roads leading up
the square.
AL the begining of his speech Geneint de Gaulle said: "I want to say a word first of all to those people who are currying placards. I want to this: they want in- dependence let them take it on September 28 (the date of the referendum for the
new con- stion). And if they do not fuke H, let them know what France Offers thom the Franco-African community."
Thousands of Senegalese negroes cried "go home" "today,
Kay
young demonstrators dashed out of the crowd to hurt. nationalist tracta into do Goulle's limousine as he drove Into town from Yoff Aliport,
There was minor scuffling as troops cleared a passage for his
car.
The bitter reception he got here was
contrast to In sharp the mass adulation de Gaulle has received so far on his trip. The 07-year-old Premier looked tired after six days of almost uninterrupted travelling, speech-taking and hand- shaking.
He remained completely cool, wher be lew into Dakar on his and impassive under the angry till-now triumphal tour.
erfes directed at him-U.P.I.
Police Wounded In Paris Shooting
Paris, Aug. 26. Three policemen were shot and wounded in Paris tonight by Algerian Moslems. The police making their rounds in a jeep saw two North Africans on the sidewalk and stopped to check. their identity cards. The Algerians pulled out pistols and fired, hitting the three polleemen and wounding one of them seriously. The Algerians escaped.
those
All Paris Police leave has been be imprisoned. Only cancelled as part of new pre- convicted by courts of terrorism cautions Police on
⚫ against
terrorism. may, under present laws, be leave are being re- imprisoned. called immediately.
A Toronto woman journalist
Mear while in Marseilles, who knows Dr Nkrumah pets in
The move follows terrorist where one of the largest scale scnally phoned Ghana to ask men were shot dead and a wave carried out, 480
which four police | F.LAN. forrorist attactu was him to lead the protest against of sabotage, at all installations being sheltered by social security people are the sentence.
No action is expected until in the provinces. The ambassador's report been studied.-Reuter.
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U.N. Observer Dies In Clash
Eervices
after petrol dumps French troops are tu be rear their homes were sel alight. assigned to protect rallways, The fires are now extinguished stations, steel works and but the sheet of mixed water bridges throughout the country. and parol in the Mourepiane It was reported tonight that district sull gives ut Berce this is the first time that troops heat, It is feared that many nava, been assigned this task other people in the area have since 1947.
been forced to leave their homes, The government, It was but figures were not yet avall- pointed out here, has not the able. power to bring those, accused of Eighteen Bremen were, in- Beirut, Aug. 26.
terrorist acts before militaryjured while extinguishing yes- A Canadian officer, a member
courts sinco
emergency terday's blaze. Four were today of the United Nations observer powers voted previously havo in a ecrious condition:-France- team, died tonight of wounds now lapsed, nor con suspects Presse. received earlier today in a clash between insurgents and security forces in a southern quarter of
Beirut.
The observer was rushed to: the American hospital with six bullet wounds, pul uled there.--
France-Presse.
French Troops To Leave The East
Paris, Aug. 20.
Government in-
The French negro pupils homes to the white schools and the "best tends In the near future to re- interests of the students," In duce the number of troops others.
its former Indo- Nitro pupils, stationed in both of whom atleed white China territories and virtually schools last year, will be en-eliminate its "milliary pre- rolled again this year in white sence"! there, it was learned in schools,
official quarters today. A third negro who attended
The Government is continuing a. white school last year, has the application of a policy been re-praigned to ሲ negro "complote disengagement" from school because the white school its colonial past and is smooth- was torn down. Negro leaders ly preparing the way for nor- bald here she had intendig to | malisation of relations with appeal the re-assignment back South Vietnam, it was learned, to a Negro school.-U.P.I.
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RN Minesweepers Leave For Macao
of
are the Damertam, Davenham
and Darsham. Tho commanded by LA ED. Llewellyn, LA, J. 3. Lezich 'and Lt. A. M. Cook respecí tively.
Four MCSWEEPERs of the The other three minesweepers'
Hongkong Flotilla left for Macao this morning on week's operational visit. Senior Officer of the Hongkong Flotin, L. Cmdr. A. A. W. Boathwayt Captain of Hovingham is in command of the vessels,
The foot will return on Satur-
day.
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