THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1058,
Lloyd And Sandys In Private Talks
In
Washington Australian Minister Takes "Ghost" Photograph
BRITAIN MEDIATES BEHIND THE SCENES
London, Sept. 22.
Britain was regarded by diplomatic observers here today as playing an active role in consultations behind the scenes aimed at relaxing international tension over the Far East crisis,
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, who is in the United States for the United Nations General Assembly, has had more than one meeting with Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, and yesterday had talks with President Eisenhower.
Press reports from the United States have indicated he may be seeing Mr Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Fortin Minister, whes in brending his country's delegation at the General Assembly.
A second member of the Bel- Ush Government, Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister of Defence, arrived in the United States lo- day and, though his talks will primarily concern Anglo- American milliary en-operation, he indiested on arrival that hel would also discuss the Far East situation,
These contacts were seen
that these were regarded as un- mainland, which apparently had novemury, a long as Washing-Hutle strategic value.
ten und Pelting continued direct "But this reasoning has to be taltes between their Ambassa-balance against the danger of dors in Warsaw.--Reuter.
Logically No Case
To Cling To The Inshore Islands
Darwin, Sept. 22. People in South-East Asia
Tarting to were
live clan-
the private consultations whichgerously ander the stress UI the Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan, foreshadowed in u statement on the Far East crisis & week ago.
in the Formosa area, Mr Mac-
Crises like Qurmoy
met the Managing hore islands, the Director of the Melbourne Herald and the Weekly Times Limited, Sir John Williams, suld yesterday.
He returned to Audralia after n three-week Asian Tour and
giving any ground to the Com- munists", "he continued, "Any weakening could diet arcos
and Thailand". Reuter.
like Formos, Vietnam, Korea
View
Of Quemoy From A Radar. Ringside Seat
By CHARLES SMITH
Ma Kung, Pescadores, Sept. 22.
talks with political leaders in American Marines flying covering air protection
Malaya, Hongkong, Tokyo and Marula
"No one in South-East Asin 1s
taking the present strains Hight-
Then, after saying that the United States
had neither sought hor received promises of military support from Britain
milian went on, "the fact Hat we have no military obligation puls all the greater obligation upon us to help in any way we can by private consultation and public action, to secure a peace ful solution of these problemus."
However, olkinds here have drawn a vell of secrecy over the Sir
there Juhi said substance of these privato cogentral criticism that the
They say that to Natorelist Chinese had pultations.
com- make disclosures might decrease mitted so much of their strength their chances of success.
ly, but There" secans to be a
general acceptance that no one Tally wants to start a shooting war," he said,
WUS
to the hard-to-handle tarta of
Quemoy and the Inshore islands,
for Nationalist Chinese air drop missions to
the Quemoy islands are flying directly over those beleaguered islands and only a few miles from Communist Migs.
According to an Americon There is no doubt the marine Air Force officer al a radur planes fly over the Quemoys, Foulpost here the Communiste officer sold, and "i's right
planes have made no attempt in there on the radar ar intervene or molest the Na- cunnar, dimute that" tionalist dropping
C-46 cargo plancy
The strongth of the supplies to the station here has been
lalands or
you
Jadar almost
tying the protective covering.
the marine planes doubled ace the current crisis in the Straits developed Jast and chnicians from The marine planes FAD month
several of the radar outposts FJ4 Fury Jets - Skyrays and
United States" Pacific China are part of the first murine air in the
Though Jrilain recognises Communist China, ne contacts Logically there was 10 case hove been reported between for the Nationallet to cling to London and Peking. I was felt islands so close to the
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A British Crossword Puzzle
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Strict Instructions
"Spook" fanatics from all over the world are said to bo secking copies of g strange coloured photograph of the Australian outback in which a ghostly figure appears. The photo was taken by the Roy, R.S. BLANCE, of Tusmore Prosbyterian Church, Adelaide at Corroboree Rack, 100 miles west of Alice Springs, in May 1956. It shows a ghostly figure in a long white cloak at the back of some bushes and it has its hands clasped under the chin as if in prayer. Scientists and photo- graphic experts who have examined the picture are baffled by it. Corroboree Rock is the site used by the Asunta tribo for its final initiation ceremony an enduranco. test of hunger-thirst-heat and cold — and many nativos die in the ceremony. Many experts believe that the ceremony and the photograph may have some spiritualistic connection-Keystone.
ROBESON APPEARANCES IN BRITAIN
London, Sept. 22. American Nogro singer Paul Robeson said here tonight he would appear on plat- Farms throughout Britain to help raise funds for the defendants in the South African treason trial,
"Suffering Children Will Pay The Price Of H-Bomb Tests,"
says Scientist
London, Sept. 22.
American scientist and Nobel prize-winner Dr Linus Pauling said here tonight H-bomb tests so far would eventually result in the birth of 150,000 seriously defective children.
60
arsenal
weapons
"I am golag to make mony wing which has been deployed command have been brought in
air to keep the viation operating | appearances,” he told reporters to Formosa to bolster the
These children, he tald a down to defeat while he has in at a press conference announcing meeting organised by the cam- his
great defences in the Formosa Straits. every minute.
This station is charged with the start of his fist actal tour paign for nticlear disarmament, which might win him victory? The Taiwan Defence Cen
keeping radar contact mand in Talpet last week an-
with of Britain since 1949.
would lead lives of suffering. This seems incompatible with other
Dr Pauling, who returned the marine planes and
the nature of war” nounced that Marine Air Group
Mr Robeson said he intended specially from an international [1 of the
Another of the dentists, wing-normally American aircraft dying toward
in to make London the centre of gathering of scientists in Vienna However, stationed in Japan--had been the Quemoys.
Professor Marcus Oliphant, of said, his activities "for the next few certain cases, the officer
that he could be here, the Australian National Univer- deployed to Southern Formosa.
nou give up the radar control of the mazine years," but would
answered questions put by aneity, declared that no govern is switched to one of his American citizenship.
audience of 1,500 planes
and to him
ment could promise its citizens The two Seventh Fleet shi
"I would never olier the
two other scientists. have The dar exports of the Air which
control
radar McCarthy elements to take my
Expinining the term "seriously they would survive in a nuclear
war. defective,"
described ke
缝 Force who
I wil man this important! expabilities.
He said: "This disaster of a lot about country away from me. radar static
tell n
which pro- "You can Com- Suy the
any genetic complaint o back and forth ke
which will un- are what is going on in the aft other American."
duced ane munist pilots apparently
per cent of the clear war
the human over there
The by watching
mental doubtedly overtake acting under vely strie; instruc-
arcupants of American
race and particularly Britain is Mr Robeson, who has just re-¦ Institutions. tions
avold contacl
the offer with radar."
said, "It'
one you cannot prevent except seat tumed trun a tour of Moscow, a ringside Hike having
with nuclear That's the xdication given by sometimes-UP.I.
Yels and Kiev, sald he met and The Nature Of War by doing away |the all-seeing eyes of the radar equipment here, the officer sald.
American planes.
Nicosia, Sept. 23.
falked to Mr Khrushchicv Yalta.
مانجة
"We talk! for two hours about the seven-year plan -und the contribution an artist
make," he added.
war."
They suffered from eczema On the effect of a nuclear. and other diseases, had an 10 war, a third scientist, Dr C. E. of 20 and "just enough mentality Powell, of Bristol University, to appreciate their misery," he England, quoted the view of a can said.
recent scientific conference in Asked about a limited nuclear Vienna that a full-scale nuclear war, Dr Pauling sald: "What war would be a world-wide Mr Robeson said he had national leader is there who catastrophe of unprecedented "deepened" his political beliefs would allow his nation to go magnitude.-Reuter. in Britain,
The officer, who asked to re- Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of main identitled, sald "the Cyprus, went aboard the Israeli whole thing looks like a gentle aer Jerusalem anchored off men's war"i as far as air nett-Laussol last night for a talk vity betwee the Communist with Lady Megan Lloyd George, wid American planes is con-Labour M. P. for Carmarthen. cerned.
The governor, who flew from The Coşumunist planes Just Nicosia by helicopter to meet hover along the mairlanet coast Lady Megan, later brought her at very high allitudes and ashore for dinner at the Com- watch the Nationales planey missioners House in Limassol make their air drop while the before she continued her voyage. marine planes keep ready for the Lady Megan is returning to Migs they should madenly Britain from a visit to Israel. Africa or
attack.
Reuter.
"The coloured people want to be free," he said. "Many of my people dare not raise their voice in South Africa or East the many parts of Commonwealth.."--Reuter,
"Charles" Goes Back
To School
London, Sept. 22.
ness, Miss. Katherine Peebles.
13 Just fancy giving a point to The nine-year-old Prince of Wales, who The Prince wore short grey flannel trousers
him! (4).
14 May be worn round the
waist (4).
10 Chinn Blower? (5).
17 Sound accessory to have up
a car (4).
16 Slippery customers from 18
Acres (4).
31 Letter with a wager in It 20 Euston and St Pancras, for
(4).
37 Describes the Circle (5),
33 Shed tears (4).
example (7).
22 Gol à move on (4).
24 Just give us time (hot's
what's usually done!) (5).
25 Put in (5).
27 Looked up and down (4). 28 What д change in the
weathor! (4).
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was given the title by his mother and a large square of sticking plaster Queen Elizabeth this summer, will
on one knae.
still be greeted by his schoolmasters Prince Charles, who came top of his class
as "Charles' when he returns to
Cheam Boarding School today, Buckingham Palace spokesman said there would be no change in the boy's way of addressing Prince Charles-first At hair to the British throne ever to go away to school.
Prince Charles will be 10 on November 14. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh took him to the school when he started last. year, but last night a more grownup Prince Charles said goodbye to his parents and eight-year-old sister Princess Anne at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. He travelled to London on the night train with the royal govers-
The
of 20 in goography last term and eamed an "excellent progress" com ment in French moves up a class this term.
13, he will finish at Cheam, and his parents will then be faced with the problem of choosing another school. Duke of Edinburgh was educated at Gordonstown, a progressive school in Scotland founded by a German, which aims to teach boys leadership and self- reliance. But Prince Charles himself Is reported to favour Charterhouse, a public school, where David Dawkes, his friend at Cheam, is going-China Mall Special
FORMOSA
CHANNEL
Loudon, Sept. 22. Despite the omejal statement that the situation in the Formosa Stralta was much tho same, British diplomatie clr- cies believe that it has notice- ably worsened in the last few Jaya.
They are wondering how the American and Chinese Governments will be ptile to extricate themselves from a posklon fraught with serious dangers.
Two factors, it was felt in Loudon, have contributed to the worscuing of the situa- tion:
Russia's uncompromising sland an reflected In Khrushchev's letter to Elsenhower which seemed directed to encourage the Peking Government in Its untractable position, And the apparent determination
of the Peking Government to force the issue by making the blockade of Quemoy effective.
No Clash Yet
It was, pointed out, however,
that the mainland forces have not yet burnt their boats and that if they wish they can bring about a decrenso of tho Tension by a telephone call trom Peking to the Fuklen Commander ordering him to stop or reduce the shelling of Quemoy,
It was equally pointed out that until now both the Chinese and the Americans have been careful to avoid a direct clash. The danzer seems to lie in a reinforcement of the blockade of Quemoy which despite Nationalist claims that they are able to run it alone--may force the Americans to take direct action in trying to relieve the beleaguered garrl-
Gon.
Serious Danger
In the words of a British ex- pert, there is a serious dan- that the Corrumunist
ger
tactics may compel the Amerleans to choose between military brinkmanship and humilitation.
The British Government is still pinning its hopes on the Sino- American tulks in Warsaw, believing that they may pro- duce Л face-saving formula which will allow the hostili- tles to peler out, even in the absence of a formal ceasefire Agreement.
One of the reproaches addressed to Mr Khrushchev is that in his last other to President Elsenbower, he seemed to et- wach very little importance to the Warsaw talks, thus taking a more intransigent position than Peking itself.
The British Government which is standing squarely behin the American "administration in the search for a peaceful solution, may now have to take an active part in the un- official behind the scenes on close details of any such move, Chinese Tacticians Cuservers in London believe that British Foreign Secretary Mr Selwyn Lloyd is now engaged In private talks-but in some Aslan capitals, if not in Mos cow. On the other hand, the major diMculty for a would- be Britial mediator in Peking is that Sino-British relations hove reached recently their lowest ebb and that there is still no sign of an Improve- ment.
in-
On the whole, however,
formed opinion in Whiteball till seems to consider the Chinese rombit in the off- shore islands arco as a "ilmited operation"
The Chinese leaders, "chrewd and ablo, tacticians, may still call a halt to a dangerous policy before collision with
States becomes these Quarters France-Presse,
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the United
head-on
inevitable, believe-
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