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FRANCE'S FOURTH REPUBLIC DIES A NATURAL DEATH

RELAX IN

DAKS

THE BAMBUS COMFORT", IN ACTION TANUSKRS

Whiteaways

BAHAMAS KONG

Of The DE GAULLE ROMPS HOME

Day

80 Per Cent Oui

Only Resounding 'No'

S morning's Aral returns In the French | referendam show massive support for General c+ Gaulle's new constitution on which next year the Fifth Republic will be founded. The "Yes" voto was widely In predicted but the degree of support shown by early voting has caused wide- spread surprise and gruti- fication.

Comes From

Guinea

French

In Africa

Paris, Sept. 29.

a landslide vote that mauled the Communists and other opponents of General de Gaulle, France yesterday voted

SCARE AT ROYAL NAVAL BASE

Portsmouth, Sept. 28. A potpolse sparked off a frantic emergency search for a frog. man in this Royal Navy port yesterday.

Ao alert quartermaster aboard the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Albion raised the alarm after sceing a black shape silding through the water Dear the

ship.

The Albion signalled shore in- stallations and Admiralty off- clats Immediately nat the emergency routine "Opera- Hon Awkward" into action,

Naval patrols pushed off from Were the shore. The police oniled in. A aquad of divers went down to examine the carrier's hut).

Bil

after examination, ho Admiralty officials afreed there had been no frostman attack on the carrier.

An Admirally spokesman art- nounced: "We think the quartermaster mistook

Д porpoise for frogman. It was very proper of him to report It."-U.P.I.

massively for the "strong government constitution LITTLE QUEMOY UN Resumes

proposed by the General Properly the re-

suit is also regarded as a

the

vote of con- !

in de Gaulle himself. the vote reflects

widespread disgust which the parliamentary antica of the Fourth

or

Republic provoked. Largely responsible for the re- Current political crises, however, were the constitu tional loopholes which none of the long line of postwar premiera dored

ever attempted to close. And despite deep-seated fcars that de Gaulle was paving the way in his new con- stitution

dictator- ship, the French people have shown that the mea- sures taken to correct ita nost serious wenknesses

to

П

are widely approved,

Red setback

Oth

particular welcome to

The final proportion of "Yes" to "No" was expected to be between 75 and 80 per cent with less than ten per cent of the electorate failing to vote.

The tremendous "Yes" vote, the unprecedentedly |

FOOD SUPPLY

large number of citizens voting, and the loss of Centenarians RUNNING

votes by the Communists are all calculated to add greatly to the prestige of General de Gaulle, and make it virtually certain that he will be elected in due course as first President of the Fifth Republic,

On the basis of more then one-third of the votes already

WEBS

First scattered results from Algeria showed that in

the northern gone, Department of Constantine, the percentage of voters was 83 per cent and the perocutaze of "Yes" votes

counted from metropolitan France,

constitution the approved by 18,130,875 und dis- approved by 3,920,000.

07 per cent. Complete tallies from Algeria and overseas territories

In the cast zone, Department were

of the percentage not to be available for some of Bone, time, but the final result was not voters was 65.5 and of "Yes" expected to be substantially votes 08 per cent. In the south different.

zone, Department of Batna, 94.5 per cent voted and the affirma- ilve vote amounted to 29.5 per

Exceeded

the French Government is Both the overall turn-out and the serious setback which the proportion of "Yes" votes the forecasts exceeded by far the Communists, formerly the largest single party in of official and unofficial

the French Assembly, have servers.

bb-

Balloting took plee generally

cent.

of

But all the Algerian tallies wore based on only tens thousands of baliola,

The. Only 'No'

Iidual

such

19

reports from Buffered. It difficult to in an atmosphere of calm, with French African territories tell the true extent of the only minor incidents noted

inmadia Congo, Gabou, Ubungi- defection Party suppor- scattered sections of motro- Churi, Chau And Brazzavie tera because many more politan France and Algeria,

showed an overwhelming vote in than Communists were op

One ot the most, note-

favour of the constitution. posed to reforms. But in worthy features of the balot

ing was the loss of strength Cum- one department the

Communist Party of the least muntat vote fell by at 18 per cent. M. Gaillard, whose overthrow on April 16 led to the constitutional puta the crisis,

Agure

higher: "The Parly seems to have lost a quarter of ita electors," he said. Thore

in perhaps a danger in reading sweeping political implications into results on Auch

a comparatively uncompleated and straight-

Інний For

BR

forward

Involved.

most,

WBO du

Gaulle's measures promised

an era

of stable guvera- ment unknown since the end of the war. A now mood

of

nationalism

France

Aweepe

today based on technological Coinciding

scientifle ned achievement. factors aro ሲ growing determination to "settle" the Algerla problem and ta end the Assembly debacles which have degraded the fair

of France throughout the world.

пато

Algeria's Role

IUS It would be wrong to

Tanti for every "Yes" vote

A

The Result

he

Paris, Sept. 29. The Ministry of Interior this morning announced

following oficial yote for metropolitan France? Iteristered voters: 600,848,

26.-

Number voting: 22,505,703 -84.9 percent,

Valid ballots: 22,291,306, Yes: 17,080,828, 79.25 per- ceat,

No: 4,82,474, 20.75 per- cent-U.P.I.

which

In previous elections had polled about 25 per cent of the voter.

had The Communists

can- poigned

ngalist the con- stitution, along with a minority of radical socialists, socialists and some public figure led by Pierre Mendes- ex-Premier France.

Ex-Premier Felix Gaillard, newly-elected President of the Radical Socialists, who favoured estimated constitution, the that one-fourth of the voters who normally back the Com- munists had deserted them this

A personal or political vote for de Gaulle. Likewise the "No" votes cannot be wholly time:

ballote 09

ascribed to any party or In Louviers, Eure Depart- individual. Many have been ment, where Mendes-France is earned by bitter but entirely Mayor, the voters non-Communist opponents of per cent in favour of the con- the new Constitution. Men

stitution.

Repudiated

In the African territory of Guinea the vole was going sa massively for "No" as in other territories it was in favour of "Yes".

Early results in Guinea where a "No" vote had been consider- ed certain were 50,409 "Nocs" against 551 "Yesses".

Lessons of the referendum as drawn by several political leaders inal night were:

Come Out

To

Vote

Paris, Sept. 28. Three people aged over 100 yours were amongst those who went to the polls in France today in vote on the referendum of the now constitution.

Maric Rou One, Madame

101, went curly tourier, aged to vote "Yes," impressed by the Charles de fact that Premier

her by the Guulle had shaken

recent visit to hand during his Bordeaux.

Another, Modamo Jeanne Famoult of Montlucon, aged 100, went to vote although she had not left, her house since the January 1930 elections.

A man, 103-year-old Jean De Dicubesson, voted by letter from the Deux-Sevres, Western- France. He is the oldest in- habitant of his department. France-Press.

WHO SAID

'NO!'

Colomiey-Les-Deux Eglise,

Sept, 28.

Electors of this little village,

150 miles from Paris, todny

France has shown that she gave an overwhelming vote of is optimistle and enterpria-confidence to its most illustrious Ing about the future, said cluzen-General de Gaulle,

the Information Minister M. This la Jacques Bousteile, proved by the disappearance of apathy among the elec-

of the 108 who voted only one said "No" and the gen- eral said "It was not me."

tort.

The General toki oficiais to- has Blown ★FTRACO

sho right he was very contented" wants nothing more to do; with the result of the réieren- with the paralyslug system dum-Reuter. which produced permanent cabinet Instabiilty, said ex- Prime Minister Fellx Gall- Iard.

France has shown that atte is prepared to fight for the maintenance of Algeria in- side the sovereignty of France, wald former Prime Mialsler, M. Georges Bidanik.

For the first time, serious inronds have been made on what for over ten years has been a solid Communist vote of more than five millions, Partial results inst night in- dicated that a million people 1 least who have been veling Communist this time switched over to De Gaulle, --Reater und France-Presse.

CHILDREN

MISSING

IN BOAT BLAZE

Manila, Sept. 29.

A pleasure boat with 50 passengers burst into flames and sank while cruising off the seawall of Manila Bay on Sunday ovoning.

Pastor Released children were missing, and 20

like Mendes-Franca for

Algiers, Sept. 28. example. So that while to-

Others whose" "No" campaign American Methodist Minister day's Agures give a fairly

was repullated In their own Lester Lee Griffith was released clear indication of the mood

areas weTC former Foreign this morning FLN. (National of the electorate on the

Minkter Christian Pinau, Liberation Front) cuptors, it constitutional issue, the vat- former Cabinet Ministers Ed- was reported here tonight from ing trend at the forthcoming mond Naegelen and Felix Tizi Ouzu. parliamentary elections is Gouin, all Socialiste, arti still far from predictable, former Premier Edouard Du- collent health. He was kid- though it is now difficult to indier, a Radical like Mendes- napped by the rebels ona month

ago-France-Presse. envisage any outcome that; will not be grooted with confidence.

final observation: in Algeria

OLES

the results have proved just encouraging for the Government and it is there that the truly inspiring and heart-warming result will be most widely halled. So bad- ly in nood of strong govern ment, Algeria, which over throw tho. Fourth Republic, has now earned the right to bo called the saviour of

France.

Griffith, was said to be in ex-

First reports zaid four

persons suffered burns, thrce of then seriously. All pasten- gers were saved, according to ollier yources. Tho police authorities declined to give de- tails pending completion of an investigation.

A Crow

member of the i fated "Kingsway" sold the fire started with the Ignition of gasoline leaking

from tho engine of the boat-U.P.I.

THREW HUSBAND'S ASHES AT MATE'S FEET!

Bydney, Bapt. 23.

The Sunday. Trush and taďaỹ

strained voice: "You wanted hing here all the tima-hore's your mata."

that a and faced, middle-agad woman burst through a crowd || Drinkers at the "bar" | Tõoked

In a suburban hotel op Friday), astonished as the emptied the

walked straight to the bar and throw ashes of her dead hus....

band at the feet of his former drinking 'matas,⠀ She was quoted as saying in al

dahen from a box on the beer stained. fear. On the top of the box was insérībéd "Rock- 1. Wood, Gemetery -- remains

|

Then one drinker, who had known the dead man for-50 yours scooped the ashes from the Hoor, wrapped them- in * newspaper and Look them home. When police Inter- viawad the woman, aho bald her husband made a spoolai mque he wanted his ashes souttered in the hobile=17.P.I.

LOW

Quemoy, Sept. 29.

The civil administrator of shell battered Little Quemoy island said last night that civilians on the island had only 25 days' food supply.

Mr Kal Ja-ting, who crossed to Quemoy Island on Saturday night to plead for more food told journalists that two-thirds of houses on Little Quemoy had been damaged or destroy- ed.

Ho sald the situation won "very very serious."

of

The island had run out rice and the 5,700 Islanders were living on sweet potatoes and millet.

'PROBLEM IS LICKED!'

be

Washington, Sept. 28. Abundant daily supplian for the offshore islanda of Quemoy and Mateu will arriving within the next fortnight, the United States Army Secretary, Mr Wilber Brucker de. clared here today. Ho wald in a television Interview: "Within the пект fortnight suppilas will be there in bun. dance, day by day,

weather

hald may them up for a few days, but as far as the problem In concerned, it is licked." -Reuter.

טודיי

MENON CALLS

FOR

CEASEFIRE

World

Debate

United Nations, Sept. 29, The United Nations General |

Assembly resumes its world affairs debate to. day, as delegates prepared for a shift of emphasis from the Far East scene; to that of the Middle East.

G ̈KOWE ODİN"

Britain To Build

B

The 'Swallow'

London, Sept. 28. RITAIN will soon

be

producing # revolu❤ tionary plane with wings which fok like a jack- knife, the Sunday Pic- terial sald today.

1 said the plane should be air by the mid-

In the

1960s,

will be loved

on the

swivel-wing Swallow, de- signed by Dr Barnes Wallis, who made the dam busters' bouncing bombs, the Pictorial added.

The

Jack-knife

newspaper said the first jack knife plane would probably be a low altitude bomber.

.

With wings in the normal position, the plane will have slow, safe takeoff and landing speeds.

como In

of

This was expected to with the release tomorrow the report of Mr Dog Hom- marskjaki, U.N. Secretary- General,

the air, with wings folded back, it will be- come a guided missile

more than an hour, it

capable of on his recent peace-

2,000 miles added.-U.P.I.

Nations

Į malding mission to Arab capitals. Usually well-informed sources havo said the Secretary-General Washington, Sept. 28. envisages a Unlied India's chief delegate to the watdidog operation in Jor- dan, Lebanon and Syria, with United Nations, Krishnn cavoys on hand to report back Menon, in a televised inter-to New York immediately view, today called for the there was an upsurge of tension

Chinese

which threatened Communist

to or outbreak

accept a ceasefire in the Router.

to develop into serious conflict,

Formosa Straits, and for

the Nationalist Chinese

to evacuate the offshore 1,000 Triad Men

islands peacefully.

Menon waid that such evacua- tion of the offshore islands was the basic condition for a peace- ful settlement of the future of Formosa.

He expressed fears that un- less the ccaseiro and evacua- tion

the carried out, woro world risked destruction.

Menon, who is India's De- fence

that Minister, saki Chinese Nationalist leader Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek was trying

United to drag the States into

war. The Ameri- Shelling of the 14 square cans, ha sald, should let mile aland by Communist Chiang know that o U.S. shere batteries went on day and would in no way aid him in night, he said.

such wars-France-Presse. Islanders were spending most of

timo in shelters. their Farmers were only able to work.elds during respites. In shelling.

un

Every fishing hoat the Island had been destroyed by shelfing, he said.

Triple Murder Sequel

Two Chinese men have been arrested and charged in connez- The only way to make the tion with the triple murder at ne-and-a-half-mile trip to No. 10, Kai Chiử Road, 2nd Quemoy was by sucaking over floor, Easter District on Sep- at night in boals sent from

tember 18, They will appear Quemoy.--Reuter.

at Central Magistracy tomorrOW morning.

CAT Denial

Civil

Air Transport spokes

man denied today a NEWŃ PO- lease that it is under contract

On the afternoon of September 15, three Intruders gained entry the flat. Subsequently into two Chinese women and a boy were found dead in the flat

Arrested In HK

Action by the Hongkong Police during the past few weeks against triad socie ifes has resulted in 1,075 members of illegal societies being detained by the C.I.D.

Police action against These societies is continuing, All detainees are Chinese males, 243 were arrested in Hongkong, 621 in Kow- loon and 211 in the New Territories.

Nationalists

Sink Communist Transports

Taipei, Sept. 29. Nationalist Chinese artillery hil and destroyed 22 Communist "transport boats" off the China Coast on Sunday, the Defence Ministry said today.

Three other boats were dam- aged by the artillery assault, e morning ART communique added.

The communique did not dis- close where the Communist

release any details as to thò ex- act type of ships.

PEKING ISSUES flotilla was shelled and did not

16th

WARNING

Artillery

Paris, Sept. 20.

But it was believed that the Radio Peking reported 22 Nationalist artillery was direct- American milltary aircraft "ied against small wooden junks. trucked into Chl's "territorial The action probably took pince waters' in the Amoy area, near the offshore island groupe Fuklen Provinco.

of Quemoy or Matsu.

The Nationalists claimed last week that their shore guns sank 32 similar boats.

Five American worships in- vaded China's

"territorial waters also in the Fuitlen area," the radio added.

Nationalist transport planes, A spokesman. of the Chinese meanwhile, flow through air- Ministry,

quoted by

Last Radio bursting artillery shells Peking, stated that "The Chinese night to parachute, suppiles to Government for alriting supplies to be-'with stab wounds and another

elves Its 18th Big Quemoy and one of its tagured. Quemoy Land or that woman

serious warning against these smallest and most heavily bom- its planes are engaged in any wounded necessitating their ad-military provocations."-France- barded satellite, Tatan Island.—

mission to Hospital.

Presst such operations.

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