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CHINA

No. 37140

Established 1845

FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1958.

QUEMOY

Quemoy Under Britain And America

Fire

EKING has warned that

PERING has warned of

Quemy is in danger o Imminent invasion, The Nationalists aru under-i

alarmed after standably

the severe battering the island has received this: week from mainland shore: batteries, and their only hope of salvation as they нес It is

minute announcement by America that it will become com- mitted if An invasion launched.

Up to

# HE

now the Americans have refund this. Beyond vague warnings which are difficult to interpret, their

only clearcut undertaking

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View The

Conflict

London, Aug. 29.

British officials, on the one hand, and American and Nationalist officials on the other, appeared divided today over whether the latest Peking Radio threat that Quemay would be invaded was meant to be taken seriously immediately. Reuter reported that well-informed quarters in London thought the Chinese were preparing a landing on some of the smaller islands of the Quemoy group.

The cable continued: "However, from reports reaching London, it was believed that the Chinese were not about to launch a full-scale assault on the main Nationalist base on Quemoy, as there was little evidence of them massing land forces on the mainland."

has been that they would Our own correspondent cables | Quemoy was a "probing action

Loculon: The Foreign to test American reaction:," involved if the, from

that China

Washi;ton, the Stale invasion of Quenoy appear Ones: believes

China of ed clearly to

serve Department accused En un simply stepping up its

"militarian and aggressive ex- war against Chiang Kai-slick. imminent

"Peking Radio used equally pansionism in threatening to Formosa. And to give

Quemoy. A format threatening language four years scizo substance to this pledge it on it was not followed by statement repented Secretary has moved the nireraftension,"

out correspondent of Slate John Foster Dulles' the carrier Essex from

would be WTHES.

warning Mediterranean through the

"hight hazardous for anyone to assume that an attempt to Reize Quemay could ba £1 limited operation." But spokesman rofused 10 whether the United Stales would fight to defend Quemay.

is

One thoury in Whitehall Suez Canal-which Nasacr most obligingly expedited that China is creating an arti

to force an early by clearing all commercial Acial crisis

summil eonference with China traffic-en roule 10 the

invited. Pacific.

Inwardly Terrified

THERE appear to be con-

Tasting viewa

In Washington, United States officials eeknowledge that China might be in earnest ks 15 threat to invade Quemoy,

Reuter eable said

they neticeably less Inline: they

earlier this were

that the Chinese

A

they were

then

imminence of the invasion. week to kay The Nationalists profess to Lombardment of the offshore be calm but are obviously islands and talk of an imminent inwardly terrifled, less at landing on Quemoy might be the prospect of a Com- Just a war of nerves." munist attack being carried But there was still no clear to Formosa thun at the loss answer to the vital question:

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Security Dragnet

BAY

The curfew went into effort Fit 1 m. without prior on- when soldiers nouncement with rifles and bayonets halted al trade and ordered people

if the streets,

The duly officer for the For- mosan Garrison Command sald the curfew was ordered without

of prestige that the fall of would the United States announcement beforehand "so Quemoy would involve, commit ita formidable Pacific we could search for Communist Sen And Air Power to the agents and other unlawful defence of Quemay, Malsu and agents." He called il a "safety 5ther Nationalist-held offshore check."

lands.

The Americans, according

this morning's Washington reports, admit that the Chinese may be in earnest but the British Government profess to be unconcerned

und our correspondent

Uncasy Shock

decision to fight if

The ofeer refused to sav whether any arrests had been made.

"This is a security matter and you no other de- can give

A U.PL. cable from Washing- cables this morning that Mr ton said the United States ap-I Selwyn Lloyd has made no peared to be moving cluser to tails," he said.

day plans to curtail his holiday

way China tried to seize Quemoy, in Spain. Unlike the In Taipel, the Chinese No- State Department. the tionalist Vice-President and Foreign Office believes that mier, Chen Cheng, warned that the latest Peking threat is the Peking Government "mean a further move in a war of business this time and called upon the peuple of Formosa to nerves against Formosa,

Police and soldiers made a night-time house by house check In many paris of the city, researching for possible pro-cou

munist agents who had slipped lato this city of 800,000 popula ton

Francis Lam, Agence France»

It is not possible to du more crush the enemy when

than speculate. China's struck. threat appears to express definite intention. Russia, Prese correspondent In long- kong, now in Taipei, said today!

it is to be noticed, has that the Peking Radio threat to

weighed

eriticism

ip

of

alleged

with Mr "brink of

саль спи

to give birth al taking women hospitals. Soldiers ordered em- ployees of bars and night clubs to remain in thele clube until down before going home.

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Moscow Radio salu tonight that American military moVER in the Far East had created "briuk-of-war situation which could explode 11 any moment."

"Baulked in the Middle East by the uction of the U.N. General Assembly Mr Dulles is now transferring fils brinkman- ship to the Far East" it declared.

"In the terminology that Mr Dulles naes, the United States is preparing to go over from indirect aggression against the people and government of China to direct aggression."- All Agencies.

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DR WERNHER VON BRAUN OUTLINES

A World Satellite Telegram Service

That Will Pay For Travel In Space

Amsterdam, Aug. 28.

Dr Wernher von Braun, inventor of the V2 and brain bohind the "Explorer" satellites, tonight outlined a plan to ring the Earth with satellites handling all the world's tele- grams and financing interplanetary travel with the proceeds. good only for

Police Issued special passes to taxi companies

Here And There

Nationalist capital.

sharp invade

imunineally Quemoy caused considerable shock in the

curfew

was

Golden Wedding

Dulles war"

A five-hour policles. But if the Ameri

be accused" of clamped on Taipei early today anything it is that they in a city-wide search for "pro- have not made their inten- Communist agents." The drag- tions elear,

their et followed a demand by the and ambiguity has encouraged Communist Army Commander of Fukien that Quemey surren- China to probe their intender or face severe attack. tluns..

Carrier Midway

Hongkong opinion would prefer that the combatants!

China reopened

its artillery Quemnoy were separated and it must bombardment of the

be widely deplored that group last night after a 12-hour

Nice, Aug. 20.

.

The German-born

He firmly denied that Russia of head

Dr von Braun sald he was still America's guided missile pro- convinced that his eight-year-old had tried to launch a moon Jects, addressing a press con- plan for a permanent manned rockel. (It was reported from ference here, added in reply to satellite space station was teasi- East Berlin sources earlier this questions

moon ble, despite the recent discovery week that three attempts had rocket America already pos- of a dangerous radiation belt falled this month.)--Reuter,

NOT INTERESTED sesses is nimos: powerful enough round the earth.

that

the

for an

He said the station could orbit 10 interpkinetary trip

below the danger level, and could Venus or Mars.

be used to launch low-speed rockels which would be unable to escape the atmosphere if they started from ground level.

with

which could

He told reporters at the In ternational Astronautical Con- Sir Winston and Ludy Chur-gress here the "elegram satel- chill may celebrate their golden les" would be equipped wedding, which falls on Sept, tope recorders to receive elguals 12. on the French Riviera, where sent up from super-speed elec- they have been staying for the tronic machines, whole of this month, a member handle impulses of a millionth! of their household said today.

of a second.

Thoy could register whole Reuter.

books in a few seconds, he said. All Stations East

these small islands-useful full as Nationalist planus joined Combined Operation to the Nationalists perhaps, U.S. forces in air defence exer- but not essential to the de- elses over the Formosa coast.

In Honolulu, the US. Navy fence of Formust-have

that the nircraft become the cause of Ho confirmed

carrier Midway had left Pear!

Penang, North Malaya,

satellite passing over Aug. 28. London would record signals there A combined Thul-Malay polles froin the ground station patrol shot dead one Communist containing all the telegrams for terrorist and wounded another Frankfurt. Munich, Vienna,

041 the Kedah state-Thailand Istanbul and so on.

much friction and tension. Harbour unannounced on Tues Nationalist provocation is daro join the U.S. 7th Fleet to be deplored as much as in the Formosa area. American ambiguity. And Admiral Harry D. Felt, Comborder tust nigh-Reuter, the Communists would do mander in Chief of US. Pacific

the well to avold risks.

shelling of forces, sold

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Mine Disaster

Warsaw, Aug. 28.

miners Fifty-six Polish coal died of suffocation when fire broke out today in The math ventilation shaft of a mine in Zabrze, South Poland. Another 52 miners were taken to hos- pital with gas poisoning. - Reuter

.

Burst Food Factory

Brownsville, Aug. 28. Thirty people were reported to have been injured when on ammonja tank at a food factory exploded here today.-Acuter.

"A Tow minutes later the satellite appears over Frankfurt, where, on

the a signal from ground station, it plays back all the messages for Frankfurt and is ready to receive .more telegrams," Dr Von Braun said.

He added that a rate of only penny a word would be enough to finance all

space travel including expeditions to

a

the Moon and Mars,

More Or Less

R

Dr von Braun, who was still using a walking stick na semalt of a back injury he sustained on Monday, said of the US, moon-rocket: "little less escape velocity takes you to the Moon: a little more to Venus,

-U.N. Secret Report volved.

More Difficult

Manchester, Aug. 28. Russia is not laterested in a

tho

race to the moos, Professor

A.C.B. Lovell, director of giant radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, told reporters when he arrived here by air Lonight from Moscow,

The professor said the Rus- Dr Herbert

leading York, of thr American sians "are content to spend their physlelsi ndvaneed research Projects me in the development of big- agency, declined al the same ger and better satellites."

He said he had been dis- press conference to predict what would happen next in space appointed to hear of the recent moon rocket failure in America. travel.

"But those things are to be

"Every time we say what wo are going to do, the Russians do

the declared,

Dr York said the first fights to other planets would be by anmanned vehicles because it was much more difficult to being a space vehicle back than sim- ply to send it up.

Meanwhile the chief Russian delegate, Professor Leonid Sedov, said he and his seven colleagues were achieving their personal aim of establishing contacts and friendly co-opera- tion with other scientists,

Replying to questions he said: The standard of papers that

have been read at the congress

up to now makes a rather good impression."

Portable Radios -A Danger

that

A Nationalist soldier on duty at a pill box on Quemoy looks out over the 2,300 metros channel that divides him from the Communist stronghold on Chiao-yu Island.---Keystone,

SECOND ATTEMPT IN THREE DAYS ON LIFE OF PRIME MINISTER

Syria Trained Murderer Arrested In Lebanon

By LARRY COLLINS

Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 28. Premier Sami Solh disclosed today his bodyguards have foiled two attempts on his life in the last three days.

Solh said his bodyguards yesterday arrested a con- victed murderer who had been released from prison by the rebels, sent to Syria for pistol training, and came back to Lebanon to kill him.

The Premier said earlier this week his guards uncovered

an attempt to bribe one of his bodyguards to plant a bomb in either his bedroom or the back seat of his car.

Solh narrowly missed death roule to his summer home 10 expected, knowing the complex-in July when terrorlate booby-miles Northeast of Betret. The ily of the rocket."-Reuter. trapped a parked car along the explosives-packed ear went off seconds before Solh's car passed it, idling six innocent passers- by.

U.S. London Ambassador

Buys Up

N.Y. Herald Tribune

New York, Aug. 28.

Soll's anger at the attempt to {kll him, threafened to forestali the election of General Fund Chehab as Lebanon's next Pre- sident.

Soth identified the convicted murderer he said planned to kill bim yesterday,

Ahmed Mohammed Younes He said Younes had been serving a 20- killing A year sentence for

the rebellion early in

when

John Hay Whitney, New York financier and at polleeman but was turned 10080 present American Ambassador in London has Aldar prison was captured by acquired a controlling interest in the news-the rebels, paper "New York Herald Tribune", including the Paris edition of the paper, it was an- nounced today.

Д

ago

Returned

Icardi

Lebanoso Pollco Reld, the Ogden

President until January 19, 1901, the Younes had retumod from his London, Aug. 20.

of the Herald normal expiration of his term pistol training course in Syria, The Brilsk Civil Aviation and publisher

After

that, he will Soll said, and photographe weze Issued warning Tribune, making this announce of office. Ministry

thin new-clrculated to Solh's bodyguards. "The problem is that there today

passengers using most today, stressed that he and devote himself to

two bis own family would keep

Yesterday Younes said radio receivers of

paper. are far greater distances in-

In the The New York Herald was other men arrived in a car at 50 guidance accuracy portable

he would founded 117 years newspaper and that

by Monsourleh, the mountain town requirements even to get close board airliners could cause dis- considerable Interest

aster.

Iforace Greeley, who later ac where Solh has bis summer may mis United Nations, Aug. 20.

terrifle. You

They said in a

circular that continue as its publisher, Venus by a much as a million

"experience has

that His brother. Whitelaw Reid,quired the New York Tribune home, and asked a grocer the The Security Council met in

and himself will remain on the and merged the two

way to the Premier's home. Aa secret session for 30 minutes miles If you do not have fortuitous radiation by

The average weekly circula- Younes approached the house today to prepare its annual re- rossoneble guidance systern.”

recopiled by the port to the next General As

aircraft However, their mother has re- tion of the New York Heruld he He underlined the superiority rassenger's portable radio rosy newspaper's Board of Directors,

Tribune 19 920.473 and on bodyguards and arrested, but sembly. It was announced after-ot man for exploration nights cause interference to

systems and Insigned from the Bourd,

Whitney will remain at his Sundhrys "There is nothing to beat a man Davigation

Franco-his companions escaped, the warts that the document, also

It comed to correlating strument akting systema, ---

Premier cold-U.P.1. unanimously, ap-| when

post as Ambassador in Loudon FreSGU. Reuter, judgments" ho mid.

secret, was proved-Houler.

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