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MORE CHANCE OF REAL PROGRESS BEING MADE BY POWERS

AN

Red

Of The SUMMIT MEETING MOVE Official

Day

CRIME

Tof the state of crime in THE paradoxical position

Hongkong was clearly em phasised at the

opening

of the Auslzea on Thura- day.

the For while

incidence of serious oftences has fallen, the acting At-

Macmillan May Visit

Moscow

London, Jan. 24.

torney-General drew atten- The Daily Mail's diplomatic correspondent

tion to the increasing use of firearms. And while this Jans riot reached dangerous pro- portions, Mr Hooten reminds the Colony that legislation could if necessary be rein- troduced to make the death pennity mandatory in caacs, where guns are used.

reported today that an early visit to Moscow by Mr Harold Macmillan for

a talk with Mr Khrushchev "can now be reckoned, a serious possibility.”

The correspondent said that

he understood "from respon- sible American sources" that the States und Britain's United other Nato Alles would not op- pose the British Prime Minister going alone to Russia.

Franc..

Real Progress

"Experts believe there is how more chance of real progress being made with Russin in lop- level talks especially on two of the main causes of tension--the and dls- future of Cermany armament."

The cause

of the upsurge of violent crimes may be partly attributable to desperation brought about by worsening

He idded: "Such a meeting economie circumstances could be a helpful prelude to a Inter-gang rivalry is also full sunmli meeting of the reported to be prevalent, ends of goverment of Britain, but it is difficult to name the United States, Russia and any single factor as being more responsible than any other for the present state of affairs. It must be clear however that stem action by the courts will do much to deter the many criminals in our midst who might think to profit by this fashion, The Chief Justice rightly named narcotics and Triad societies as the foremost problems. Theso evile have indeed, taxed our efforts to Mr. Khrushchev. "later made suppress them and the grow it clear that the invitation was

Triad niso open to Mr Macmillan. ing ovidence of

is Reuter, infiltration in schools causing serious concern. An- other source of regret is

that many Hongkong people

continue to show they would

.

The Daily Mail writer re- called that Mr Macmillan has a long standing invitation to visit Moscow. The Russians originai-

invited. Sir Anthony then Prime Minister)..

Eden

'PRIVATE EYES'

rather pay off Trind threats DEFEND RIGHTS

than inform, the Police. This shows a deplorable lack of truet in the authoritica which the Police must do their utmost to counter. It is hoped that more can be dorto this year

to break up the power of these underworld organ- isations. To the public the most distressing feature of both anti-Triad and anti- narcotic work is that the leaders the real powers in the various gangs continue to defy arrest. The steady procession of small fry be fore the courts does little to reassure us. The Police face an immensely diffleult task but the public must ask for an unrelenting war against these people until power is destroyed.

their

Rome, Jan. 23. Italy's "Private Eyes," angry because the re- .gular police keep arrest- ing them by mistake, plan to introduce a bill in parliament to defend their rights.

Pontecorvo Says Russia

Is My Home'

two

Moscow, Jan. 23.

Bruno physicist, Italian

Pontecorvo, who fled to the Soviet Union in 1950, raid today, in his first Prost interview in years, that the "rate of scientific progress" was faster in the Soviet Union than in the United States, because of the Soviet social system. He said that while the Soviet Union was more advanced certain Belds, the United States was ahead in oitiers Pontecorvo, who was interviewed at the Soviet Dubno atomic research centro some 90 miles from Mos-. COW, caid he was engaged in theoretical research.

A reporter asked Pontecorva if he were homeslek and the scientist said, "What do you mean? My home is here." When the reporter said he meant Italy, Puntecorvo said that one would go back there, day he but he added that he had no Particular plans to do so at pre-

Asked sent.

similar question about Britain, he said he had many British friends and that aired he liked the British sense of when representatives of Tirly's humour. I like the British estimated 150 private detective very much," he said, "they are

count on."France-Presse. met behind closely-serious people whom you can

The grievances were

guarded deers at a Congress In Milan this week.

The bill would remove two the main restrictions which, agencies cleim, were imposed at the instigation of the regular police in its keenness to keep out competition.

These bar alinn private de- tectives from shadowing their quarry or selling tropa-Reuter.

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Washington, Jan. 23. University of Chicago meteorologist has warned that shquld

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If The

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Inhaled Anaesthetic & Looked Drunk. Atlantis

DOCTOR ACCUSED Did Exist,

Rome, Jan. 28. Italian Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti, now en route by train to Moscow, might have caused the fall of the Italian Govern- A

ment last night if he hadj delayed his departure.

Togliatti and three other Communist Depulles left Rome by train lost night to attend the 21st Soviet party ecogress.

They doparied before the pre midnight chamber vote on the "bankers scanda?" which Pro mier Amintore Fanfant's coal tien won by only one vote.

DEFEATED

Any one of the four missing Communist votes could have dicte led Fontani and probably brought on enimmediate con- fidenes vete. If Fanfani had Inst that, the Government would have fallen.

Premier Fontani, besieged from all sides in a quickening political crisis that threatened to tumble the Government, to- night persuaded at least two coalition re- members of his

gime to withdraw or surped their resignations.

Purged

OF MANSLAUGHTER Russian In Russia

OF TWO-YEAR-OLD

London, Jan. 23.

doctor accused of the manslaughter of a two- year-old boy, deliberately inhaled anaesthetie during an operation on the child, it was alleged in court today, and the effect was that "he showed all the symptoms more usually asso- ciated with drunkenness," Mr Oliver Nugent, prosecuting, said.

doctor. Peter William The Gray; 30, was charged that he and slow" "unlawfully killed the child, Kelth. Terence Goold, on October 16. Dr Gray was senior consultent anaesthest at Chase Form Hospital in subur- ban Enfield.

The proseculion said that during a hernia operation un' the bay the supply of oxygen to him failed and his heart stop- ped. It was restarted and he lived for a month.

Oxygen

"It was found that the cause al death was softening of the brain due to 1ck of oxygen which çccurred during the The diminutive but dynamic operation", bir Nugent sold. Premier and Foreiza Minister "The lack of oxygen to the met for fore-hours 20 minutes then was due to Dr Gray's in an extraordinary wallon with failure to switch over from the his cabinet, in an attempt to cylinder which became empty. stave off assaults from within to the fudi one.: and without his government.......... UPI.

DE MILLE` HAS QUIET FUNERAL

:

FORBIDS HAVING

Claims

London, Jan, 23.

A Soviel scientist claims to have amassed "much evidence" showing that the legendary lost con- tinent of Atlantis really. did exist, Moscow radio reported today.

The work of other Soviet

Atlantis once existed and that Its disappearance beneath the Atlantic 12,000 years BEO had been witnessed by the in- habitants of Western Europe's | shores, the salenilst, Professor Zhirov, told a Moscow radio cor- respondent.

scientists also suggested that

He said a submerged moun- tain range and a big plateau

CHILDREN had been found at the legen INJECTED

Morristown, N.J.,

Jan. 23:

dary zile of Atlantis and re- search had shown this region had once been land, but sunk beneath the Atlantic 12,000

years ago.

Huge Island

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Moscow, Jan. 23.' Sukhan- Ilabaov, 48-year-old former premier of the Soviet Republe · Turk- menia,, has been dismissed from the Central Commit- -ted of ', 'the' Soviet Com- munist for "breaking Leninist norma of party life," it was announced in the Turkmen paper Iskra received in Moscow today. Babary was recently also, dir- missed as Flest Sceralary of the Turkman Communist Party.

Jelera, reporting a meeting of the Turkmen Central Committed auld additional and more serious material on Babaev's activities was being studied by the Soviet Party Central Committee.

Denounced

He may also lose his deputy's seat in the Supreme Soviet.

Babaov was denounced by the present First Secretary of the Turime party, D. Karaev. Iskra Said Ñ; Dürdyeva was dismissed from the Turkmen Central "Commilitée for similar and said "several violations,

mlatskos."---Reuter.

Dr N. Ledneva Moscow. physicist, and mathematician, rides are even now, making concluded, after 20 years' shady, that Atlantis had been a huga island west of Gibraltar, the Borlot News Agency Tasa reported last July 12,

Spanish Guests

The Christian Scientist wife of shipping exccutive sought today to set aside an injunctionforbidding 1. han from sending her three Greek foster childrán to

Madrid.. Jan. 23, ** school-without--- huving Most impressive” predf" of "Several young. Spanish girls thero immunised against this, he said was the remark: who met Miles Stichiko Shoda in abla simbarity of the relief of "Brussels : lagi September and -diphtheria, NC AR

the ocean bed in this" brea to become good friends with her Mrs. Pauline Mana, of Maine the geographiesi descriptions of have been invited by her to her "The reason for his failure. was that on a number of occa-tain Lakes, New Jersey, declar- Atlantis given by Plato, in the wedding with Crown Princa BC. on the Akihito of Japan. “It was re- alons that morning both before ed her intention to seek a ruling fourth century and during the operation Dr today setting side an injuh baels of earlier sources. Reuter. ported here tonight-Reuter. Gray inhaled anaesthetic.”

Mr Nugent said Dr Gray "became incapable of perform- ing his duties or exercising the proper care it was his duty to exercise during the course of the operation."

Negligence

Hollywood, Jan. 23.

In conclusion Mr Nugent said: The prosecution - 10y3 The film producer, Cecil B.

De Mille; was buried hore this is beyond a matter of mere today or a funeral which negligence. This is gross negli observers said was one of gence showing utter agregard the qulatest of any major for the safety of this patient:

Tho deliberate Inhalations Hollywood figure for many

made him inespable of doing his yeari.

constantly duly properly and

A 15-minute episcopal service disregarded the warnings of the was read over the 7-year-old surgeon: He failed to make any A alibdued,crowd sort of inquiry as to how long film planeer.

the oxygen had failed to show on of 500.overflowed the church

De. Mille; known throughout the meter and he neglected the leading patient as what must have been world use the

as the producer of gigantle productions a critical moment by going off op western and biblical themes, on some other matter altogether." The case was adjourned until died last Wednesday of a heart attack-Reuter..

January 30-Reuter,

hydrogen bombs to melt Arctic ice until they have a better iden of what the effects will be U.P.I.

tica lesued by Morris County Judge Nelson K. Mintz.

Mintz ruled yesterday that Mrs Maas could not enter the 10-year-old children-two boys and a girl in the Mountain Lakes school system. The Judge said the facts of the caso re- quired him to aid the school board in its effort to prevent discare.

The Judge dismissed' Mra Mana's claims that the school board acted in a "wilful" and malicious manner."

Immunisation is against the tenets of the Christian Science religion-UFJ.

Asylum Sought

is

Paris, Jan. 23. - The French Government considering an application for political asylum by Sener Ful- genele Batista, deposed: Preal- Cubo. the French dent of

spokesman Foreign Ministry sald today-Reuter.

Woman Sews Her Finger To Machine

Worcester, Mass., Jan. 23,

A PROFESSIONAL. ssamstress

accidentally sewed her anger to an electric sewing machine, she has to drag the six-pound object twice across a roam to got help.

Just kept perspiring - from Alexander pain," s

Adamlak, 69, said yesterday after her orddal.: “I used the sheet ng a towel and kept wiping my face and my eyes," The woman was trapped for 40

agonlting minutes, the elec trie needle and thread pin, ning her finger fast to the machine cabinet.

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Bhe dragged the entire machine.

across the room to reach a telephone and call police. When they arrived she had to pull the heavy object to the other side of the room "to press a buzzer releasing the "been door lock. She had sewing, sheet when the ac- eldent happened, and her amily was not home.

The needle passed through the nofi and forifinger of her left hand. Police nursa Richard J. Hébert removed the needio from the machine and then Attempted to take the needio

from her finger. The beedle broko, however, and had to be taken out later by'a physician.-U.FI.

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Bombs With Sugar

And Weed Killer

London, Jan. 23.

A boy of 14, was sald at Barnet (Herts) Juvenile Court

to have told the police, "I have been making explo- sives from Bugar and weed killer. I wanted to make a big bang."

The boy was remanded in cus- | know

tody, until January 30, accused about." of maliciously damaging

what you

ore talking

Questioned ebent similar

public hall by letting off a home-explosion behind the cl> house made bomb.

at Potters Bar Golf Club. two 'n'ghts carl!ar the boy said, "All Det.-Insp Ghloves said that right. We only had two. I got - the explosion occurred of the incendiary cases, from, ja

friend about six months ago. Oakmere House, Potters Bar:

When interviewed the next

nied «to make a big day the boy,repiled, "I don't bang."-Chinz Mail Special!

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