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No. 37180

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1958.

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RELAX IN

DAKS

THE FANBUS COMFORT IN ACTION TROUSKAS

Whiteaways

[& KOWLOON

SECRETARY OF

OF STATE CLARIFIES UNITED STATES POSITION

Of The DULLES: NOT PRESSING TAIWAN

Day Reduction Of Quemoy RUSSIA TO

Cyprus Hopes Forces Up To

would be

ALTHOUGH to say that a

1

LAUNCH

Chiang 2 MOON

Washington, Oct. 14.

detente has appeared in the Mr John Foster Dulles the Secretary of State said today

Cyprus situation, the British Government

1:W་ appeara

to be viewing the problem

with cautions optimism.

And what an amazing im- provement this is after the black mood prevailing at the beginning of the month

when Cypriot terrorists shot dend the wife of a British Holdier. mother of five children.

For a while it had looked

of

that the United States had no plans whatsoever for urging Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to reduce his Nationalist Chinese forces on Quemoy,

BOAC Strike

Grows Worse

In London

as if this callous murder. followed by the uucern- monious roundup hundreds of Cypriots by British

troops would jeopardise relations to such The strike an extent that any Lalles un the application of the British Roven-year partner- ship plan would become impossible, The maurder had,

anything, the

opposite effect and mider- lined for all to see the need for negotiations.

Nato Talks

THE Nato

meet Paris to

ROCKETS

Cyprus Wife

Killer Named

London, Oct. -15. Following. America's success with Pioneer, Russia has announced that it will shortly launch two mis- Dr siles towards the moon. One is to be aimed to land on

the moon and the other to circle the moon and return to earth.

Mr Dulles told his press conference, however, that there were no doubt discussions going on in Formosa, probably at the present time, between Mr Neil McElroy, the United States Secretary of Defence, and others as to the most useful disposition of the Chinese Nation-working alist forces.

But, said Mr Dulles, he would not want to give the impression that the United States was trying to press London, Oct. 14,

of maintenance the Republic of China to workers of the British du something against its Overseas Airways Cor-own better judgment. poration here grew worse today, forcing the airline to cancel all service to and from London, and to curtail its other opera- tions.

The strikers have decided not to go back to work untit five workers, fired, they say, for refusing to work overtime, are reinstatiki.

Council will

The Compony, on the other today in hand, again

that the claims

Ave prepare for

workers were (1

not fired at all possible tripartite con- and that it is therefore im- ference between Britain, posable to satisfy the demand. Turkey and Greece. Nut- withstanding the failures from that have emerged theso conferences in the past, Britain

clearly optimistic that something can now be achieved.

is

The Cost

A Wedge

Huld the Chinese Cont munists had made clear that witht

they were working for was primarily to drive a wedge

the Chinese on For nosa and the United States, Mr Dulles observed that the Com- munists' sak th! was their political objective.

between

The United States, he sud- ed, must be very careful not to play the game of the Cum- munists in that respect.

Mr Dulics declared that the United States was not in favour of turning oger the islands of Quemoy and Malsu

the Communists.

to

He also said that the United States welcomed the Coni- Meanwhile, the strike is cost- munist extension by 14 days af ing BOAC £100,000 a day, and the previous one-week ceuse- the maintenance workers of fire in the Quemoy area, sister-company, Brilish Euro- pean Airways (BEA) while Opposition

-

abstaining from

sympathy strike, have pledged "moral" and financial support to their colleagues,

The rxilerl Archbishop

Makarion,

Fuid in Athens that he will accept

British Overseas Airways Cor- the Macmillan seven-year plan, on condition that Bri- Puration has been bestiged by passengers whose fights were tain accepts in advance his

cancelled, and Transport Minis- own plun for independence ter Harold Watkinson has in- the end of the seven formed Sir Gerald D'Erlanger, years. And while Britain in Chairman of DOAC that in the reluctant

Btrike to commit itself in mutional interest, the

to

Anal should end as soon as possible. advance

any solution,

ution, it has made known

ut

The conflict broke out when

one important conference the Company line to put the

any work overtime it will agree to discuss in Comet jet airliners, now on general terms plans for a weekly trans-Atlanthe service, on final settlement after the a daily basis.-France-Presse. seven-year plan. It will also

accept such modifications to

the partnership plan as will

He declared, however, that at United States the moment the uld not regard the emusedre as very dependable.

The Secretary of State said Chai, in view of Chinese Communist opposition to the proposal, he did not feel that the present aspects of the Far East eriala could pro- fitably be taken to the United Nations or the World Court si the lague.

Mr Dulles read the following forinal statement at the start of his press conferenc

The Peking

ceasefire order

says that the American nation is great nation and that its people do not want war. They welcome pence.' That is very true. So we shall strive for consistently with the

obligations to our Allies and to world order.

be acceptable by all three SAGAN ON Honourable performance of tur

powers: This. however, could mean much or little.

Partition

INCE agreement between

not seem all that likely, Bri. tain is also anxious to re- assure Greece on the ques- tion of purtition of Cyprus. This possibility was first of all raised as a sop to the

DANGEROUS

DRIVING

COUNT

Corbeil, Oct. 14.

Turka, but has become Franco's bast solling novelist

rather an embarrasament,

as the Greeks hava always

resolutely opposed it and

fear the seven-year plan

< will lead to it.

Francoiso Sagan, whose hobby is driving fast cars, goes on trial today for dangerous driving.

of

"The United States remains treaty of mutual loyal to its

urlly with the Republic China. It believes that this tra ty is not just an inter- Governmental arrangement but the one that is responsive to nspirations of all Chinese who cherish freedom,"

Entire Accord

Mr Dulles, questioned about possible reduction of Nationalist forces on Quemoy, said it was primarily a matter for the Re- public of China to decide and the United States did not have poltey, at all on the problem.

The Secretary of State sald he thought most of the United States Allies, and indeed all be bad talked ta. Had been in entire socord will · the position which tho United Stales had taken with regard to the offshore Islands - position of strength and re- soluteness in not giving in.

The United States did not intend to agree to provocative nets from these islands.

At one point in the press conference Mr Dulles referred to the Chinese Communists as very shifty people and said he was not certain how much reliance was to be placed on their word.

He noted that their state- ment of last Sunday had said that it was

to up to them decide when they

should fight should slop and when they fighting-Reuter.

PRICE FOR

CHIN PENG'S

HEAD DROPS

Reports from East European capitals any

are nu experts on a missile of the same size as Sputnik II which would be launched towards the moon in the near future.”

Landings

Nicosia, Oct. 14. Themistocles Dervis, Greek Cypriot Mayor of Nicosia, sald today he bad received an anony- mous letter naming a JES the Greek Cypriot

Mrs alleged killer of Catherine Cutliffe, a Bri- tish sergeant's wife, in Famagusta on October 3.

But he cald he could not com-

QUEMOY: 'MY TERMS” BY CHIANG

From DENIS. WARNER

Spacial To The China Mail

Taipei, Oct. 14. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek will not consider reducing the Nationalist garrison on Quemoy and other offshore islands while the Com- munist military installations, air and naval bases and troop concentrations remain oppo- site them on the mainland.

may

Nor is he prepared to agree to "That may come sooner than make any sort of a deal whereby many people expect. I fire-power might be increased in eyes of the Western public, but exchange for a partial National- we feel it is a practicable, ist troop withdrawals of a type realistle proposition well within mentioned recently by Washing-the possibility of attainment." ton as a possible basis for a per- manent ceasefire in the Formosa Straits,

The missile will be provided ment or take any action on the with instruments for measuring letter "as long as it is anony-the garrison's effective defensive not seem easily achieved in tha he moon and its heat and eler-mous," He said the letter was tricity conductivity. The instru-written in English and was con- ments would

also provide data is a fund of £5,000 for in- regarding the pussibility of future landings on the moon by formation lending to the killer's space ships.

Similar reports about the Soviet moon rocket appeared in Communist newspapers in Den- mark and Norway. Reuter.

Karami

Ends

Lebanese

Crisis?

nected with his recent offer to

arrest

Reward

In an interview today in the drab Japanese-built sdministra-

Again, discussing the fact that the Communists, as always, seem to have the initiative, he said; "The initiative cun be seized and wrested

the from

Com- But the writer had said, "Civetive building which is now his munists only when the Western it (the £5.000) to the widow of headquarters in Talpel, Chiang nations decide to take collective. told me he had given no con- action. I do not think the time Sergeant Hammond," who was

the question of is quite ripe for that yet--the murdered in Cyprus last August. sideration to

withdrawing troops from the Western nations jack determina- It added copies were being offshore islands.

tion and courage to face the scnt to two London national

issues as they should be faced." newspapers, the local Times of

At Quemoy, he said, the Na- Cyprus, the Human Rights

tionalist forces had succeeded in Committee, and Mra Barbara

destroying the Communists' plan (British Member

kinnli Castle

for aggression "in this Parlament and Chairman the Labour Party).

Dr Dervis said he had idea" who had wriften

letter.

Fool Strongly

"Wo feel very strongly that su tong as the Communist military of forces remain opposite on the of mainland, the Communist threat place off the China coast" thereby to the offshore islands will re-preventing them from pushing no main as it is" he said.

Into the Western Pacific, thrust-

the

To my question whether he ing into Southeast Asia and on had reached any agreement on Lowards Australia and New He could not mention public-this point with the American Zealand. ly the name of the alleged kill-Defence Secretary, Mr. Neil "That is our signal contribu-

cecurity in the free subject nor did we say "any-world" he added. thing about it in our discussions yesterday."

No Loss

er given by the letter as McElroy, Chlong replied:tion to the maintenance of col- might possibly involve libel-"McElroy did not bring up the lective Beirut, Oct. 14. Lebanese Prime Minister Reuter.

Rashid Karami formed a streamlined four - man cabinet tonight that pro- mised to end the nation's five months of bloody civil strife.

The formation of a new gov- ernment team came at the 11th hour before a general strike was scheduled. The strike would have left the nation without electri- city, water and transport In protest of the politician's mab!- ilty to solve the long crisis.

The new Karami cabinet, which gained the backing of all of the nation's warring factions, was made up of Karomi, moder cte opposition leader Jah Hussein Owein), Phalangist chiet Pierre Gemayel and independent Chris tian political leader Haymande Edda,

NEW CABINET

Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 14. The price on the head of the The agreement, expected to Malayan Communist Party be confirmed shortly by an off- tender, Chin Peng, has been cul announcement of the lowered, according to rewards

new

He was reported to have told

'WAR COULD HAVE the Press in Korea that it was When I asked him whether

ENDED IN 1944'

New York, Oct. 14. FUELD - MARSHAL Viscount Montgo mery of Alamein, who In 1944, commanded British Armies fr Europe, declared in the second

of his part memoirs published here today that World War Two could have ended in

1944 in Europe instead of in May, 1945. - France-Presse.

(SEE P8)

ministerial appointments, Polio Epidemic Claims 5 More

crisis whose latest phase began

Not Easy "It is, however, not easy to offered today to the people of will put an end to the Lebanese reconcile these ste obliga-South Thailand, Gonn

with the a1- of ours Bounced Chinese Communist

Chin Peng, Secretary-General on September 25. of the Malayan Communist The now Cabinet respects objective. The Chinese Com Party, and his ten politburo coi

balance between Moslems and

Singapore, Oct. 14. munist's statement again makes

IL includes two

The six-week old poliomyelitis I crystal clear that their chleagues, are now worth £2,106 Christians:

Moslems, Karbo alive. or about £1,333 dead.

and Queint,

epidemic has claimed five jective in the Fur East Loos

Christians, Gemayel more victims, bringing the total Once the price for Chin Peng and two

and Edde.

The new Government will be 84, and today the Education Ministry ordered children who caretaker Cabinet which is ex hoye not been Lamuntoed to pected to try to restore order stay away from kindergarten

classes. The Ministry for a more long-term banned sports meetings among Government-U.P.J. & France-

schoolchlidren-Reuter.

far beyond the offshore islands was £29,180-Neuter. and has as its primary, if not exclusive, purpose take over Taiwan,

9.59

Top Communist and security and prepare the

Flees West

"The offshore islands treated as a matter of in- difference. Indeed, the "state ment says that the suspension of sholling is 'to enable our compatriota on Quesnoy, bóth

Berlin, Oct. 14. Military and Civilian, to zot Heinz Brandt, former No. 2 sumolent supplies, including Communist in East Berlin, has food and military equipment, fed to the West, the Com- to strengthen their entrench.munist press reported today. meal'

Bredt was dred as Secret concessions minor ones ad- her bare feet was charged as u "The main theme constantly ary of the East Beriln Com- mittedly--from both British result of an accident that al-reiterated is that the Americans munist Party in the purge that and Greeks. British feeling most cast her life on April 11, must abandon Taiwan and followed the workers' revolt of their alliango with the Republic June 1953. Since then he had of China for

editor the defence of been

of the weekly Taiwan and 'go home."

magazine Economy.-U.P.I.

All this goes to show that the

The 22-year-old" writer who she liked nothing once said

driving a sports 100 miles an hour in

better than

last few days have brought | car at

ia that since the acven-year 1957. plan looks like becoming a

Miss Sagan, who married her fait accompli Greece will no

The publisher, Guy Schoeller, last oppose it.

longer

is that Athens will winter, was driving with three friends in her powerful British

hope valus

learn

to appreciate its Aston-Martin sports car when and in time CO- It turned over at top speed, operate. Mr Solwyn Lloyd swerved off the road and over- made it clear nt Scar- turned in a field. borough last week that

All the occupants

partition would only be a last resort, Grocce must jured in the crash

were in-

near this town cast of Paris. Froncolae, understand that its in-

****found with her head on the transigence is chiefly to

of ber manuscripts blame for such an idea ever undnished third novel "in a:

considered. being

The month, in a year," hung bo therefore remedy

lios tween life and death for several largely with Athena, | days.—UP.I.

way

Presse.

Possible Break

'Mermaids' Returned

Tunis, Oct. 14. Tunisia may break off diplo-

Mombasa, Oct. 14.. matle relations with the United Two dugongs-sca" mammals Arab Republic. Following Tuni-whose appearance gave rise to ain's row with Egypt at a recent the mermaid legend were today Arab League meeting, Tunisian returned unharmed to the Indian Secretary of State for Foreign | Ocean at Malindi after being Affairs Sadok Klakkadom, disused in underwater shots for a closed tonight-France-Presse. Jam----Router.

British Rockets Become Outdated

London, Oct. 18.

THE British Bockçi Bluestreak

whleb was intended to carry hydrogen bomb warheads En

operation bolween British and American scientists that the Diucstreak programma. is new outdated."

being "relegated to research Ho adde that the Bluestreak was wark," the Dally Herald air correspondent reports today.

that The correspondent KRYE

"rocket design has advanood so quickly because of co-

to have been installed in underground Bring altos in East Anglia to šuke the·pisod of the American-bullt Thor. Black knight, the deliish rockst

fired on the Woomera Rango į The Blocstreak lost favour ne s In Australin last month, was H-bamb rocket because "E also part of this develop.

fuck Is propelled by liquid which has ment prograMME,

many disadvan- Inges in handling in war."

A tow rocket in -ready Unti

Thor, now belur delivered to the Royal Air Force, will be Britain's only operationał missile.Benim,

Now, the Daily Herald v Iter Hays, they will both be used as "research rockets for Hei. txin'd; own miallite-launching plan/*

a matter for the Chinese Gov- | Quemoy had not given the Com- ernment to decide.

In

munists a political victory by Though he smiled frequently, precipitating, inter alia, Dulles's Chiang who was dressed a rejection of his hopes of libera-

the

the plain lawn uniform without in- | ting

mainland, ilgnia decorations looked tired Generalissimo replied he did not und his answers sometimes re- think the

had Communista flected his frustration that the gained In the political field, West inled appreciate the "Despite the bluffs and threaty issues at stake here,

which ovents have shown the To my question whether he Communists do not have the would prefer to go down fight- | strength to carry out, I suffered ing or agree to the creation of no political loss in this CZMTM two Chinas, he replied; "I went paign," he said. to explain that as far as we are concerned, we have every reason to be confident we will succced In our efforts to recover mainland.

Now!

the

Milltarily, If the Communists attacked again with force they would meet with greater force, "This is specifically the case in (Conid, on page 8, col. B)

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