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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1958.

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RELAX IN

DAKS

THE FAMEDZIS CONFORT EN ALTERN TRANSMISS

Whiteaways

#NG KONG } KEWLOON

SOUP AND COFFEE POURED THROUGH PIPE TO TRAPPED MEN Ben Gurion

Of The MIRACLE IN THE COAL MINE

Day

Work And Eat

HE recent allotment of the hend for

1USSIG

care of a million Palestine Arab refugees in 1969 is not the full amount that these professional politicall pawns cost us in subven- tions and dules. And, H always in cases of the giving of charity, the money doled out brings back

no

answering gratitude. Thi| could hardly be expected.

there

But the particular circum-

stances in the Middle Eart! are not a simple ease of need. Refugeen regard the dole as their desort

co science money, which is for less than their due, that

.... As

the

of

must be paid by the treacherous governments Britain, the United States, and their satellites for allowing

resurgent the Jewish people to push them from their homes.

There is little question that the Jews did intimidate many to desert their family felda. The Jews paint out that some Moslems re mained in Israel and that these retain their felds to day. But those that did re main are the fortunate survivors of a great many

12 Given Up For Dead, Found Alive

After 6 Days

Springhill, Nova Scotia, Oct. 29.

Pasternak Forced To Reject Nobel Prize

Stockholm, Oct. 29.

Nils Staahle, Director of the Nobel Foundation, said today

Man Tells

Of 'My

Verandah

that Soviet writer, Boris Pasternak, had been "forced" Factory"

to renounce the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature.

"Even if Pasternak renounces | In Lontion, a group of top British writers and scientists, mul on the list of candidates several of them Nobel Prize-

The isteraiure prize", winners protested today to the Stouhle sald.

Soviet Writers' Union against the dismissal of Pasternak from the Union.

Prize Money

Masked rescuers digging for 69 men the prize this year, he will re-

trapped six days in a shattered, gas-for filled coal mine found 12 of the missing miners still alive today, scaled in a chamber 13,000 feet deep in the ground, "There are 12 of us," a voice gasped through a pipe pushed through mine debris. "Come and

for God's sake." get us, "We're all right. The

ulrike we had yesterday with has been

good. Some of us the rock plied up to the roof, ure hurt, but not badly. We're then it may not be until to- awful damned thirsty though."

morrow morning."

Mr Boren said it was a near- miracle that the miners were alive.

"They

appear to be feeling) cold, but they were very thirsty," said a rescue worker who came to the surface. "The soup and coffee should help."-U.P.I.

The dramatic appeal for help from Gorley

ok Kimpi, one the trapped mich, Get rescuers

to digging through a heap of work, coal, splintered limbers and mine machinery that were dumped into the shaft by

starp earth shift fast Thursday,

Were Spared

ware

The rescuers poured hot soup| more who remained tea and coffee through the pipe tus long and did not live to tell they dug cautiously toward the the tale. The refugees miners, who apparently

out into Jordan, a spared from poisonous fumes by desert land totally a work or wreckage and a pocket

of supporting

...

of air.

them. They have lived sincu E. A. Mason, Nova Scolia then now for more than Mines Minister, sold that ten years... on United resour hud dug through 20 Nations bounty.

And they feet of debris to wilbin 40 feet! have strenuously resisted of the trapped men,

all efforts that have been

"With luck, maybe we can made to resettle them else got the cul by midnight," where or tu find any rescue worker Mr William solution to their problem. | Boren said. "I gets worst,

The list of nations that sub-

acribe to their interesting: The

aid

United

States, Britain, Italy. Greece, Holland, Australia,

Tunisia, Japan,

Jordan,

Malaya, Libyn, Belgium, Canada, Turkey, Ghanu, Franco, Denmark, Pakistan, Ireland, Persia,

Luxem-

bourg, Yugosla Lebanon,

Arabia, Saudi Morocco, Liberia, Cam- bodia and India. Mr Rank Asha, representative of the United Arab Republic at the United Nations had the goll to refer to

Egypt's private

.contributions of then $3,376,000

more

Big Drop In Hongkong's Humidity

The humidity in Hongkong has fallen from 85 to 39 per cent in the last fort night.

Complaints of chapped skin and dry throats have become increasingly audible as a result. year money that sup- The Chinese have a remedy would-be for dry throats: a sweet soup ssin and secret agent called “Mul Jou Chor,"

Chinese dates are boiled in

every

in the land. Russin too,

for the refugees "the land water and a dash of sugur Is

of Promise" and another added.

secret donor,

la absent

from, the list.

CORONATION

ON TUESDAY

Vatican City, Oct. 29.

THE coronation

of Pope John XXIII

lake place November 4 il officially announced · to- night.

If Pasternak changes ไปส

The Brilons appealed to the mind before the presentation Union not in dishonour Russian day, December 10, he can claim literary tradition by victimising his prize money (US$40,000).a writer venerated by the en- If he changes it after then he tire civilised world, will not get the money but la The cable was signed by T. entitled to his gold medal and S. Elliot, Bertrosc

will Russell, <liploma.

Aldous and Julian Huxley, In a brief Interview.with a Somerset Maugham, J 3. Western Journalist at his

Priestley, C. P. Snow, Rebecca villa near Moscow, Pasternak West, Sir Lewis Maurir Bowra, said he had taken the decision

Allon Wright-Jones, Rose "alone, freely, and without Macaulay, Graham Greene, Infermior

The Iterbert anybody."

Rend and Stephen reason for his decision, bo Spender. added, was the reaction which the award had provoked throughout the world, and

in the society to which I live and to which I belong."

TORIES END FEARS OF 'FLICK SWITCH' SOCIALISM

London, Oct. 29.

Capitalist Air

But in Moscow. Mr Vladimir Soviet youth Semlchastay, a lender, muggested that Paster- nak should leave the Soviet Union and breathe capitalist air."

"I am sure that the Soviet people would applaud ħha lf he did this." Mr Semichasiny Raid

yes

"Pailerfakhan, lived -- 41 to "the Soviet Union ad' moje he épita in the fath of the Bablet pëople.

"What sort of conduct is this? Even a pig does not foul Its sly. It would be unfair 10 a pig to compare it with Pasternak."

rival

Film Version Int New York. two

Alma producers are American preparing to make separate versions of Doctor Zhivago.

Dragon Productions has ul-

as the tile of its film, and has Pnnounced that a scenario was being prepared.

The Government today introduced a bill repealing

various surviving war emergency regulations ready registered Doctor Zhivag which Conservatives believe could be invoked by their opponents to help “bring in a Socialist state by the flick of a switch." Socialists believe this Is, residents of the Sterling Area aimed at cramping their action which are outside the reach of If a Labour Government wins the Exchange Control Act. the general elections expected next spring.

OL the Government's

Now Bill

There is stili also control over

727-

Indepenilent producer-director, Joshua Logan, however; nounced that he planned in make a film version of Paster- nak's novel, using the Бал

title.

+371

was

The dale for the coronation Wis fixed by the

Pope new himself. Earlier, it had been expected that it would take place on November 9.

The coronation will take place in St Peter's Basilica-Reater.

Is Marilyn

Expecting

A Baby?

Annual T/O $80,000

A man told a Tenancy Tri- bunal this morning how he ran a 10-man mechan- lsed leatherware factory on the first floor verandah of a Kowloon street, and

a nearby rooftop.

Warns Nasser On Jordan

Cheung Hsul-wah, sole pro- prietor of tho Nam Kwong Leatherware Manufactory of No.: 204 Tal Nan Street, said he had; been there 11 years.

He claimed $15,000 in com- Mr pensation for being moved out of the premises which is present the subject of an "ap- plication for exemption.

BRIEFCASES

at

com-

He told the Tribunal, prised of Mr H. H. B. How (president), Mr Douglas Hung kpd Mr Lau Chan-kwok, that bis atsiual turnover was $80,000.

His musiness

was mainly concerned with the manufue- Lure of camera cases, lady's håndbags and briefcasez

He used some machinery and employed five regular and ave casual workers. ·

He mid he made a 50,000 not pront' last year,

His family of four depended on the business for 4 iving.

OPPOSING

Jerusalem, Oct. 29. David Ben Gurion,

Israeli Prime Minister, speaking today on pos sible happenings in Jor- dan after the British evacuation there, sald that "all Nasser knows and needs to know is that we are opposed to any

entry of foreign

... troops into Jordan."

Questioned in Parliament on what would be Israel's stand-in the event of the disintegration of Jordan as a kingdom, he added; ***There is no need to tell a hostile world whất; we are or are not going to do."

He said it was a hypothetical issue but one that "involves peace or its opposite, Wo

Witness was one of the tenants should not cross our bridges opposing the application for before we come to them." csumption brought by the Shung

Yuen Land Investment Co. Interpreted

Ild, who proposed to creet on

Hollywood, Oct. 29.

the site ten eight-storeyed build- Diplomatic absorvers-hero -in- Marilyn Monroe returned to Ings accommodating ten shops terpreted Mr Ben Gurion's work on her new movie to- and 70 domestic flats at a cost statement as n warning that day following an un-ut $700,000.

Israci might take action in the The applicant is represented event of Nasserite attempts to scheduled absence yester-

by Mr Leslie Wright, instructed selze Jordan, either directly or day which forced the com- by Mr J. C. B. Stack of through subversion. pany to shut down, losing Hastings and Co.

He chose to make the state- an entire day's shooting. Hearing continues this after ment on the second anniversary The blonde glamour girl, ön noon.

of Israel's military operations against her return to the set of "Same

Egypt when Israeli Like I Hot," refused to say

forces occupied the entire Binal Peninsula within 100 hours,

Нег

whether she is expecting a baby. husband, playwright But one point in the rivalry Arthur Miller, said his movie transactions in gold and Trea- is clear. Neither producer will slar wife is feeling well, and sury bills held here from resi- have to

that he will remain hore with pay for Alm rights, oncedents outside the United King- since no

10 days, at copyright agreement her for another exisis between the United States which time the picture will be

the Saviet Union. All completed. Agencles.

vast emergency powers, only 13 dcm, defence regulations now re- main. They pro concerned

The Government has made and principally with economic con- transactions in gold and Treasury manent legislation covering the trols,

power which it proves neces- sary to retain,

The present proposal is to

the away

emergency an which the de- legisintion fence regulations were passed; lo provide freit parliamentary authority for the powers ctili re-required, and

Those to Umit powers strictly-Router.

LEI Tuday's new

cuts the number of regulations to five, und narrows the scope of some ut these.

30

For instance, ulation 65-

The humily today was per cent.

Fail in relative humidity Experts on the spot are united usually occurs with the onset their pronouncements winds from the north.

in

that the refugee problem in |

Jordan is "insoluble." They LORNA HEADS

have agreed

years. It is the declared

Intention

of

on this

the

for

Arab

refugees mastera in Cairo

of

Lheir i End

And

NORTH-EAST

defence

of the five retained-ai present gives competent authority power:

--în regulate or proalbit” the

sweep

production, treatment, keeping. Contribution For

storage, movement, transport,

disposal, acquisi distribution,

Lion,

or consumption of articles of any description.”.

se

It will now be whithicɑ down.

to empower only the imposition

HK Refugees

Geneva, Oct. 20.

ol certain strategic controls, The Australian Government

for control mental Committee

Euro-

here that

Df

Typhoon Lorna appeared to control of hire purchase, con- han notified the. Inter-Govern- Moscow to keep this status | pick up speed and began head- | irol of welfare goods, quo. To remember that ing of in a north-casterly ut essential gouca from over-prun Migration these people loft their fields direction this morning. But in seas if the supply should DC A40,000 will be made avail- to save their lives is no is present position-ap- | interrupted, and certain detail able for the resettlement reason for supposing that proximately 200 miles east of tunctions, now it is either reasonable the Luzon coast-It is posing no to Hongkong, which or possible to return them.

continues to 'enjoy' warm sunuy The United Nations contri- weather and cool breezes.

that Western

threat

General Powers

refugees of European origin arriving in Hongkong from the mainland of China,

This supplements a £425,000 But the five remaining regu- grunt made in January. In lations still confer general addition to financial support, the Australian Government powers to control supplies and services--and charges inado for has already admitted 10,000 of most of whom these refugees, them for very wide purposes.

Union in the There is still also control over left the Soviet financial transactions between early twenties--Reuter,

COMET NEARLY BLOWN UP

bution of $10 per head, The typhoon is reported to probably represents less be moving at about 10 knots. than one-third of the price Earller reports said it was almost stationary. For nows nuționa arc pouring into this problem. about Lorna'a darnage in the

Philippines see page 3. It money were an answer we would say "Let us pay more and got the matter settled." But this

money bong poured like salt Into a pund. The refugees háto us for it. They look to Egypt and Rusain who do not pay. It la time now for stronger and more positive pulloles Middle East to settle this problem, and the Pan Arab instigators who use it and The keep it going.

the in

Nicosia, Oct. ·ZD.,

time bomb blew up in

British airman's hand-10ggige this afternoon, alightly In- Jaring 10 mon about to board a. Comet for Britain,...

Comet, was undamaged.. an anthertiallyn: sanroo

sald the pencil-type bamb was "ceriainly iniquded" to blow up whatever aircraft. the airman was travelling. The plane inter left for Lyncham, Wiltshire, with the resi, of the PARENESS............ TRO, infared mem

AMONE » STOUD, Dream Nicosia. and. Amma,

·Jordan, were detained here for treatment,

The bomb went off shortly be-- forw the Comet veus duo to

* {tesve, and while the men werd afstatered round theile Juggage, waiting. Die woouTŽÍT phook, Mentor,

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"I think Marilyn will be able to finish the picture withoul any more trouble," Miller cold. "As soon as it's over we'll head back to New York.

**Meanwhile busy writing here in the hotel

KING'S GIFT TO THE QUEEN

Nicosia, Oct. 29. King Hussein of Jordan 19 sending two thoroughbred Arab herzes to Queen Elizabeth os a. special gift, it was oficially an- nounced here tonight.

The horses, a three-year-old mate, I'm

and a four-year-old stellers were flown here today aboard a Beverly aircraft.

They were accompanied by a member of the King's body guard and two grooms. Chine Mail Speclus.

keeping

room."

Miller also refused to make a statemerit on the rumour that the couple is expecting a child.-U.FL

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Reuter & France-Presse.

Democrats' Chances

Washington, Oct. 29."-) Democratie campaign mana- gors' appeared convinced today they will gain at least eight U.S. Senate seats in next Tues- day's election and have an oven chance or better to gain eight others U.P.I.