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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1959.
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How Pacifists Were Force-Fed Pretty
"Anti-Devil"
Salt Death:
Woman Gaoled
Le Mans, Jan. 22. French farmer's wife was gnoled for five years today for the manslangh- ter of her 18-year-old brother when she was trying to force him le cat "anti-devll" sali.
A Jury at the "surco" murder tri here found int
DEMONSTRATORS
TELL OF
ORDEAL IN GAOL
From Our Own Correspondent
London, Jan. 22,
Two anti-rocket demonstrators who were freed from gaol recently told me how they were forcibly fed six times in eight days. Philip Cook, 22, of Walthamstow, E., said: "They began
force-feeding us after five days.
"It was unpleasant.
"We sat in a dentist's chair in the prison doctor's office, "We refused to open instrument mouth no an toris was put between
Mr Ida Gullonneaut, 32, hadeeth to force them open. formed ber. brother Marcel's
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"A Zít-long rubber tube was head into a basin of rough form put down our threats and livestuck sall bat Without
pint of milk, meat extract and intent to klit.
Marcel died from strangula- bicarbonate poured in.
tlon and Mrs Gullionnelu" whe charged with murder. The jury
threw out this charge.
"Several Kes my stomach refused to hold it,”
"One of my teeth was bent
The Prosecution told the and had to be taken out, but court that a local "sorcerer" on the whole they were good to
had made incantations over us.".
the salt designed to lift the
"eyll eye" from the farmy.
Evil Eye
Police said Mrs Guillonnezu hed forced INT 58-year-old widowed
mother, Madone Waitle, her four-year-old son, and her husbund to eat the "anti-devil" salt, after a series of misfortunes in December, JUST.
WAS
They said she believed a "evil eye." had been cast on the farri Kitice, even Years carller, & ciose relative kicked to drath by a horse? Marcel, celebrating his 18th birthday, refused to cut the salt.
His sister then grabbed him by the neck, forced his head into the basin, crushing his neck against the rim and shout- ing "the devil is here....he'll get us....scure him off with salt."-Reuter,
W.H. Auden Honoured
New York, Jan, 22.
Water
John
Otter, 28-year-old former undergraduate of Mars- ton, Cambridge, told me:
"We drank only water.
"They put a pint of milk in our cell every day, but we used it to wash in.
"I am an Anglo-Catholic, so Insting was easy for me.
40 facled for
days
withou trouble."
Until they became too weak for work they were breaking up gas masks,
"We heard that the rubber was being melted down and used for Army vehlele tyres, zo Cook went to the governor and wald we couldn't agree to that," said Otter. "The gov- ernor told us the story Was bunkum."
Otter and Cook, both bearded, were freed from Norwich Pilson after serving 13 days for falling to undertake to keep the
peace.
The two each lost about 71b. during the hunger strike.
With 56, 40. In their pockets- their 3d-a-day priam wages,
First meal for 13 days: John Olter enjoys lila toast
For baf an hour they paraded outside -unguarded entranes carrying a yellow placard bearing the message: "War ... Wo kay no."
A resident phoned the Air Foret base and #1 R.A.F. policeman broke up the demon- stration.
Cook lowered the banner and told me: "I don't enjoy doing this, but I feel I've got to. I'm prepared to go to prison another six months if need be.”
for
Windsor Castle
Mr W. H. Auden, Brillah bera plus allowances they imme Gardens Flooded
port and Oxford University's diately hitched a lift back to
Professor
of Poetry, tonight Walton. received the Poetty Society of America's highest award for 1950.
On Parade
Mr Auden, who has been an Said Otter: "We must show American citizen sine 1048, was that, in spite of all we've been presented with the Alexander through we're not preparest to Droutzkoy Memorial Award, the give up. We'll be in on future Society's gold medal for dis-demonstrations." Unguished service to poetry at Four hours after being dis- the group's annual dinner at charged they were back outside the Waldorf-Astoria How a rockeet site near Watton, Nor- Router.
folk.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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drunk (5).
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Singing Negro Citizen
Of Year
Toronto, Jan. 22. Maurice Ruddick, the hymn-singing negro miner who kept up
the "morale" of his comrades in the Springhill mine disaster last year which cost 75 lives, was today named Canadian citizen of 1958 in a poll of read- ers of the Toronto Tele- gram. He
was also cited for hig tolerance when he accepted segregation accommodation on a holiday in Georgia so that other rescued miners would not miss the tree trip offered by
the southern state.
Mr Ruddick, 40, was, picked over the Prime Minister, Mr John Diefenbaker, and Dr Marion Hilliard, one of Canada's best known woman doctors who died last year.
Unemployed since the disaster, the mine hero Is living on workmen's compensation,
Benets expire at the end of this month. Then he will apply for unemployment insurance.
The Ruddicks
have children Reuter,
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Communes Give More Control, Says Chou
The
Budapest, Jan. 22. Chinese Government
has gained
more control over the country's agri- culture by the formation of outsize communes, the Chinese Prime Minister, Mr Chou En-lai, said here today.
In a three-hour talk with Hungarian Journalists the Chinese Premier sald alliances More than an inch and a half of communes had been develop-
London, Jan. 22.
of rain in the last five days hasing into regional units. brought flood waters into tho
Factories and enterprises gardens of Windsor Castle und
victe under their jurisdiction turned the playing fields of Elon where formerly
they into a lonely stretch of water under direct control of the cen-
tral government,
U.P.I.
Pope's Legate
were
DAME MARGOT: I
HELPED
Girl Craves
She Started
Margot Fonteyn
"I did my best."
REBELS
Jeering Crowd At "War Crimes" Trial
Havana, Jan, 22.
The first of more than 600 members of the deposed. die- tator Fulgencio Batista's army and secret police charged with "war crimes" went on trial for his life in Havana's "Sports City" coliseum today before a roaring, jeering crowd of 30,000 people,
Local agencies for trade and money management bad also been placed at the dis- posal of theso alliances of
The Arst defendant in the re- communes, through a recentvolutionary trials ordered by Vatican City, Jan. 22. decree, Me Chou said.
Fidel Castro was Major Jesus Pope John has named
"Thereby we wish to increase sosa Blanco, accused of con- Armenian Cardinal Gregory their independence and arouse
fessing more than 108 murders Peter Agagianian, Proprofect of even greater initiative and lost,
and defying his accusers by de- The Vatican's Missionary Con- but
want to not least. we
elaring: "I would do it again gregation for Propagation of the stimulate the commercial life of
under the same circumstances." Faith, to be his legate 10 B communes and to increase, the National Marian Congress nt commodity production of com- Salzon next month, it was au-munes for the markets." nounced today.-Router.
Reuter.
Girls Picket Hotel
SCIENCE FOR PEACE
NO TORS AVAILABLE HERE
Miss April Carter (left), secretary of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear, War, and Miss Pat Arrowsmith, the field organiser, parade with a slogan board outalde the Great Western – Rofel, Paddington, London. They were trying to dissuade applicants for technical and scientifle posts at Aldor. maston Atomic Weapons Research Establishment who were being interviewed at the hotel-Routers photo.
The huge coliseum Was packed to twice its-15,000-seat capacity and thousands of other Cubans milled through the stresia outside.
Those attending the trials in- cluded an estimated 330 Asneri- ean and other foreign newsmen from
dozen Western hemisphere nations.
througout the country broadcast on newsedists.
and re-
"That's A Lie”
Woman
Receives
Physics Award
New York, Jan. 22. The triol was televised Dr Chien-chlong Wu, Pro- fessor of Physics at Columbia University, who has been described as the greatest active physicist, tonight ceived the 1958 Research for Corporation Award her contribution to the knowledge of beta-decay
Sosu Blanco stood handcuffed in prisoner's garb before the revolutionary tribunal and the jeering spectators and dented. every charge against him.
"I'm not
hero to
woman re-
Row Over
Arms Sale
To Batista-
By CHRISTOPHER LUCAS
Dame
New York, Jan. 22.
Margot Fonteyn,
star of the Covent Garden Royal Ballet, admitted to me that for more than a year she had been secret- ly helping Cuban rebel Fidel Castro.
She Wo characteristically modest about what she
жан able to do "Just the best I could" but close friends claim that she played a major behind- the-scenes role,
A rolo
which, in fact, provoked the Tow in the
House of Commons over the
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the
Slim
Pills
London, Jan. 22.
Ann Irene Curtis was a in-
pretty teenager
telligent, lively, fond of dancing.
But her life was changed when, at 15, she bought a 55. box of slimining tablets
at a chemist'a. In a mental
Sho' le now hospital
Ann, now 10, of Holyrood
Avenue, South Harrow, Middle- sex, should have appeared in court at Harrow. Sho has ad- mittod that she stole 78. from her younger brother.
Miss E. M. Byus, probation officer, told the court that Ann was having treatment, and the case was adjourned indefinitely.
The Change
Last night Ann's mother, Mrs sale of the planes and tanks | Katherine Curtis, naid: "When by Whitehall
ex Ann' left school she became a dictator Batista.
hairdresser's apprentica
No- body could have called her Int. Dame Marget wite of Itoberle but she did have a certain Arias, former Fanomanian amount of puppy fat. Perhaps Ambassador in London, spoko
someone teased her. to me from her sulta In Havana's luxury Hilton Hotel:
"Several of the people ning the Cuban revolution were contemporaries and friends of my husband, It was natural that I should help.
Dinner Parties
run-
"We looked after many of the people now in the revolu- tionary Government when they were in London,"
HOW DID SHE OPERATE? "Several months ago," she the sold, "I started breaking news gently, to people in London that the Cuban revolution was serious.
"At the time of the rogu in the House of Commons Castro's representative Dr Plodra, cama to London. My husband was kim. away, so I looked
and introduced him around.
*I invited several iofiuen- tal people to dinner and goi things started.
"It didn't really amount anything much"
to
'More Serious' Diplomat Aries took up the story
Friends of friends over here
wrote and told us what was Foing on in Cuba," he said.
"I got a pretty clear picture of what was happening and it seemed to both of us that the British Government was un- derestimating the situation, qui. that it was far more serious than was apparent.
"We were able to tell one or two people informally what we knew. Again it was a CALO of 'friends of friends' — they put forward our views and urged that arms should not be sent to Batista."
Rebel Thanks
News of the efforts of Roberto and his wife to help the rebels soon reached the headquarters of Fidel Castro, fighting his way
and her work on parity across the island.
law.
To the evidence of every wit- ness who testified against bim he replied, "That's a lie."
At one polat Sosa Blanco asked the massed
"Friends of ours here invite thousands for siletier, saying,
She was the Arst woman to us to came to Cuba," said Dr -listening to you."
recelve. the award which is Arias, "and we were invited to He said: "I nut
made yearly to honour scientists stay at the Hilton Hotel here in justify myself or to ask for who have
guests of made outstanding Havana clemency. I do not know
Government. contributions to knowledge. whether am on trial in the
Tho 23rd recipient of the Roman Coliseum or whether I award, ale received U.S.$2,500, ;
"Yesterday we were asked to meet. provisional President am standing before our Lord a plaque and a citation
Urrutia and Fidel Castro. They Jesus Christ. I have nothing The recently-held parify law
thanked me for all I had tried to do,"
to say except that I only stated that objects which are
carried out orders. 1
man of honour.""
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the
mirror images, of each other
as the
the
must behave in the same way. Postscript from Dame Margot; At his loci remark
Dr Wu was one of a. tolm of crowd broke info even wilder scientists who carried out tests "Please don't turn me into an- hools and feces, until the and finally disproved the law. piher Errol Flyno. I'm no Tribunal President, Humberto |--Reuter.
Bort Tikaria ibrestoned to
Sc6a
have demonstrators thrown out of the Collseira. Among other crimes, Bladed was, accused of leaving 4 man tied in burning house so that he was cromated, and of executing 11 mino workers during the two-year war against
Castro's focess. - U.P.I,
Flood In U.S.
heroinet"
"About six months later. K found out that sho was taking the pilla. I did not think that anything sold openly in $
willianb 晶 chemist's shop
4b RBY prescription could bark
“But then I could not get her to go to work. She never scemed really awake. Her voicu became coarse and her language
very bad.
"She lost ono job after an- other, and ended in a factory, from which she anally got the sack.
"She borrowed
money from family and friends to buy the pills. She took money from пле and otolo 13. from hot brother John's money-box,
The Craving
"It was about two years be- fore I realised it was the pills that were
I changing her.. tried them myself.
"At first. I seemed to have tremendous sergy, But Later I felt dopressed and srayed for more villa.
"Aon is a voluntary patient in a hospital at Sheniny. I hope she will stay thern until
she is cured, though it will
take some time.
"I have written to the British Medical Association asking it to try to stop the open sale of these pills-Express Service.
U.K. Election
Rumours
London, Jan. 22.
The present session of Par- its liament should finish work on hand towards the middle of April, nuthoritative source sald today.
an
This news caused a revival of rumours that the Prime Minister, Mr Macmillan, would call for general elections on May 14 or May 21 (elections being traditionally
heks on Thursday).
If he does so, Parliament would close it session -fow
days before the presentation of the budget at, the beginning of April,
"Omelal circles, without con firming these reports, painted out that the way was open for elections 11 Mr Macmillan so decided.
If not, the govemment could carry on debates on,' gotsmind questions to keep Parliament busy until the momenez holidays. -France Fresco,
YETI EXTINCT, SAY RED SCIENTISTS
A group of Soviet scientists who returned recently from at sun.
mountain range have concluded that the Abombichle char generations ago, but has now completely disappeared.
Chicago, Jan. 22 Prof. V. Hazik, one of the Fiasts floods powered by the members of the expedition, weld worst storm of the winter swept today the Soviet clone had through, a ̈score of Pennsylvania | not succeeded in i discovering towna točky, and kupt mork, than "any "trace" of the: EinowiÉRI, Or 10.000,-/ persona : hpconiais: 'In-, postire proof of its exté hd.
Jah, 28.
to the Famik exfited several
the region had reported the by people who did not live i appearance of the Yets at the rodou, were false, different periods, ther maid, t The
Hazel said that the alleged unpociálky, ta photographs of the Yeti's foot- ports:ok - the" unle "Printą, atsiga, skin, eta, zadel-Peti
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