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Army Takeover

TH

The

THE Army has taken power in Burma, as it did in Egypt, in Syria, in Iraq, in Thailand, as it may yet do In Indonesia and as it in Rometimes on the verge of

doing in Pakistan, temptation among Asians to call in the Army when ever politicians run into trouble is understandable, The Army is the substance behind the shadow of popu- lar government. It is the guarantor of authority and alls tho Vacuum left by departed colonial powers. If the politicians themselves

ro incapable of judging the 4- opportune time when authority requires to be re asserted, the Army hus in each of the above caser

shown that it is capable of independent decision,

The public apathy which ne

companied the transfer of power in Burma reflecta on attitude common to many parta of Asin where ignorance

and

poverty

deprive the community of full political consciouance. But if the Army takeover means Tittle Lo millions in Burma, it has wide in- terest for China and Russi

and the West.

His Motive

G

ENDRAL Ne Win, the new Premier, is a re- nowned anti-Communist and his immediate motive was to forestali Communist coup. Previously foreign policy has shown a remarkable softness to things Chinese and Russlan. With the retirement of U Nu and hia ministers a period of strain may now mark Burma's relatione with the Com- inunist world. Border

Areny arc still in

dispute between Burima and:

not like the word "dispute". There is a state of internal insurrection.

Bid T Match

Commnists'

Big No Guns

Taipei, Sept. 30.

American Marines hacen ashore on shell- battered Quemoy nstall eight-inch howit- zers, it was disci today.

The U.S. Murines broughcially from Okinawa to put gung on Quemoy, how all been withdrawn, a military spokesman tonight.

It

The

was not stated how Ichey were in Quemoy or the methods they used fing the parts of the guns "ashore.

Decisiolo Install

decision, to install tons was taken after the Na- tionalists had claimint the Communists had both The Communists dropp. 676 shells on the Quemoy

203 and 212 millim artillery in position.

group between midt and 6 p.m. today, the Na- tionalist Defence Mry announced,

General Randolph M. Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, ived from Guam today for a four-day visit will have a talk with General-- Reports here say U.S. en pilots will begin airdropping

issimo Chung Kak tomorrow,

supplies on the 'islin the next few days.-Reuter.

CHIANGAGREES TO 'NO FFENSIVE AT TH PRESENT

Fromí DXIS WARNER

SPECIAL T THE CHINA MAIL

Taipei, Sept. 30.

Ching-though U Nu does Chiang Kai-shek,ider the firmest American pressure, hagreed he will take no offensive action againthe Communist-mainland at present time.

which

has

But

deteriorated with the grow- ing inefficiency and disunity of the politicians. although the crushing of the rebellion figured in General Ne Win' Immediate nima, his prime object in stepping in when he did was to put a stop to a process that was i beginning to bear a remark- abic resemblance to the political sectarianism In Franos which provoked the rebellion of the colonels in Algeria.

A Danger

HERE was a danger that

Thukh Noh Wat ma

personal popularity might eura hls faction more sup- port than why other in the November elections,

Cambodan Offer 'o Mediae

Washington, Sr. 30.

States

In return the United [will give all possible assistance to Nationalists in their efforts to break by peaceful means the Communist artillery blockade of Quemoy, and other Islanda In this group.

This is the

essential back- ground to the current

Bilua- tion and also to Chiang's state- ments at his press conference 01 Monday wherein Apparent threat to attuck the mainland "when

time the

criticism

Prince Norodom hanouk, comes" and implicit

Primo Minister (Cambo- of the United States may have dio, offered May to caused concern abroad. mediate the célict ba-

tween the Unjd States and China:

No Conflict

In fact there li no indication

The 35-year-old remier of of any conflict between Chiang

the the neutral Southast Asian and the Americans and no fear he hamade, the at this stage that the Nation-

former Premier might not nation cald

any

notion that

be able to form a govern- offer to L.S. Augant Secrc-allste are likely to take the ment without the help of the tary of State Walt 9. Robert-initiative in Communists. The Army had, son. He added thine had not could lead to wor. however, made it clear that received a definito sponse.

it would not tolerate such

to

-WILLINGESS

pinato to

On the contrary, by pledging themselves to intervene militarily if the offshore islands are in den-

# ,coalition: What IL4 Prince Sihanetignade publleger of falling to the Communists, possibly persuaded the Army his "willingness torve in some the Americans have committed

tako immediate action capacity"

peace themselves more deeply to the is a desire by most polis during an inform press inter-Nationalist cause than ticians to deny the election view following a minute con other time in the past and for ference with Seckary of State this Nationalists appear

the

at any

The Communials also appear

THE REMAINS OF 3 VERANDAHS

This dramatic picture shows the section of the old Chinese tenement build- ing where the three verandahs collapsed early this morning. Miraculously no one was killed or seriously injured, as far as is known, Pictures can still be seen on the walls walls which previously formed the rear of a room,——

(China Mall Photo).

Barbara Castle's Meeting Thrown In Uproar

Scarborough, Sept. 30.

A public meeting on Cyprus addressed by Mrs Barbara Castle, Vice-Chairman of the British Labour Party, was thrown into uproar tonight when members of the League of Empire Loyalists staged a demonstration.

At least five of these extreme right-wingers Including woman, were ejected from the hall.

They were hustled out by stewards and some anembers of the audience amid shouts of "treason and sedition" and counter-aries of "go back to the Nazis,"

Shouted Down

that

"Anybody who thinks would be a fool because it would be nothing but a disaster for this country.

Interrupted again Mrs Castle said: "I

am sorry for These people, for they are not serving the cause of Britain by shouting hysterical stogans of the kind which plunged the world, Into the last World War."

Mrs Castle was cheered as Archbishop Makarios there were When Mrs Castle mentioned she arrived at the meeting, vcerles of "Makarios is a traitor" gonfsed by the Movement for and "You

Colonial Freedom,

are guilty of sedition," As she rose to, speak, how- She commented: "I have ever, a young man shouted: known in the last "Barbara' Castle, when are you how Juvenile sections

few days

apologise for your British people can be. nati-British statements -in

going to

Cyprus?"

He said he was representing

Ejection

of the

the League of Empire Loyalist in this country stop. hehaving "We have toi to make people

and was promptly shouted

down by people around him, like hysterical children and Other members of the league stampeding us into a situation then began shouting slogans, in which British lives are lost

One young

man told Mirs just becture won't face the Castle the

Labour Party had fact that every member of the condemned her not for Bri-human race has equal rights." tuln's honour, but because they The election of the demon- might lose voles."

strators then began and Mrs "We Condemn You' inks with the Archbishop.

Castle told the meeting of her

monstrous

- Another shouted; "The League "I think. 13 condemns Barbara Castle as an hypocrisy for Tories ilko advocate of Cypriot terrorism." Lennox-Boyd (Colonial Secret- Mra Castle then blamed the try) to attack me for not caring Government for its inaction and about the Lives of British procrastication over the last 12 troops, when the Britka Gov- months with regard to Cyprus,ernment and Lennox-Boyd him- "We in the Labour Party have self insist

rallroading Bever tried to make party capi- through

bated by the tal out of the Cyprus Issue," shemejority declared.

Cypriots,"

Router.

in

u plan

of

House Occupants Have PROTEST STRIKE IN CYPRUS

Miraculous Escape

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

The occupants of three verandahs on the corner of an old four-storey Chinese tenement block in Wanchai had a miraculous escape from death when the verandahs, loo. sened by the recent rains, crashed into Johnston Road early this morning.

Singapore Rebuff To

Big Banks

date beyond the November John Foster Dull. He suld, grateful. deadline to give the factions however, that held not discuss

Hingapore, Sept. 30. time to regroup.

the offer with M Dulles,

THE Singapore City Coun According to U Nu, General He noted that had recently satisfied with the current situa

cli today voted to No Win will ensure that visited China, wich his Gay Lion, They have withdrawn their

withdraw council loan funds from the, Chartered elections are held "within ernment recognin this summolor patrol boats from around six months".

By this time, mer, and said: "My relations the Quamoys apparently con-

Bank and the of

Hongkong Shanghai and their artillery and the seaponai

Banking the Anti-Fascist People's with Mr Chou En-in and Mradent that the combination Freedom League Party, the ao Tse-tung good enough bad weather in the Formost Corporation, and to placo.

I believe, to be soul.”—U.P.I.

them with the Overseas Straits will be sumelont to crack

• main group in Parliament

the islands.

Chinese Banking Corporn- They are now employing an. tion. four hundred guns which continue to drop an average of lightly more than five thousand shells n' day" on Quemoy.

which U Nu heads, is ex-

pected to have patched up TOWNSEN) ARRIVES estimated

Its quarrels. No one doubts

that Russia, whose economia influence is increasingly felt

In Rangoon, and China, will

exploit any strife

IN KARACHI

Kanchi, Sept. 30. the Group Captan Pater Town-

country. The present crisis send arrived here today from

Menacing

is therefore a tosting time Paris with his American Elm What began as harassing fre

for democracy in Burma. The producer and technicians. Army. takeovor should be

Ho leaves

tomorrow

five weeks ago · has sow.

for sumed a more menacing pat

The Communists are a warning to politicians and Peshawar and Khyber Pass ontem.

the Afghanistan frontier where using both air bursts armour

to predatory powers on her he will shoot pictures for his plorcing hells. All roads are horders that the country's neutrality will be preserved based on his trip around interdicted and on

the west

the world lost jeur,,

coast which has taken thei with tho. utmost doter Townsend will stay in Pakis-besvlest pounding, troops ard mination—even if it fan six daya, vailing Lahore be- now obliged to gloøp · under- involves temporarily pon-Core moving on to New Delhie-ground. sioning på Parliament.

France-Presse.

“(Omail, en pars`8, ́ool,`8) ~~~

The Coungli Finance comunities hað sukuested that this be done to re- ward the Overseas Chlacke Bank, which had invested In a current city loan,

The Mayor, Mr Onz Eur Guan, said that "In the "fight againať" colonialism” the Couftell should support local codicersis.

This did not mean that **the** Council-' was ‘against foreign Invesimient, ⠀ bo anid, but merely that local capital wuchs to be pro-, mpiad.Kenter.

י

During the morning I was out because of the precarious feared that BA old lady was position, but they шего missing under the massive pile shepherded to the back of tho of debris,

but she was later block and taken down the rear accounted for.

staircase, The tenement block is very

The falling nüsonry and old, and it is believed that the

girders damaged the Hongkong rain weakened the brickwork Trantways overhead lines, and and mortar around the fron blocked the tracks for a short girders. Shortly after 7.a.m. time. For

short periods, be-

were removed

this morning, the Fire Brigade tween 7-0a.m., the tram·ser-- dispatched an ambulance, two vices were held up while rub vehicles and 10 men in ble and girders response to an emergency call,

Occupants In the rear of the building wero unable to get

from the scene,

(Contd. on Back Page, Col. 7)

PRO-NASSER MAN RELIEVED IN IRAQ

•

London, Sept. 30.

Colonel Abdul Balam Mohammed Arif, regarded In Bagdad as' the leading pro-Nasser orator In Iraq's revolutionary regime, has been relieved of his posts. as Deputy. Premier and Minister of the Interior and appointed. Ambassador to West Germany, · Bagdad· Radio said tonight.

*

this Earlier

month ?, tho | outspoken · criticisme 犹 Colonel left his former, post as West. Deputy Commander of the Iraqi armed forces

the

Jaber Omar, Minister of The

Iraqi Army uld later Education, and: Brigadier Found" Chink... this was at hiɛ gwn ro- | Al Ratabí, Minister bf Redon- 'quest, but obscrvers said, they struction, were also relieved of believed he had, bom, beindved / Reir porta, Bagdad Radio said, as a “personal check!! por · hia Router,

Nicole, Sept. 30, Thousands of Greek-Cypriat workers want on strika throughout the island today in protest against Britain's new "partnership" plan which goes sito effect tontorrow. The strike,, which was called by political organisations, began at noon and is of unspecified duration.

NO FINER CHOICE THAN

By mid-afternoon most shops and offices wars shut down in the laland's townawith the exception of food shape which must stay open by law. But even these were "half-shut.” Entertainment places were also closed and port activity in Famagusta was greatly reduced as Greek dockare joined in the strike Rautor.

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