THE CHINA MAIL, · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY - 5, 1959,
Pago
SIX-DAY TORTURE CLAIM
King's IN DEATH
Prince
Marriage PLOT TRIAL Philip
Plans Denied
Brussels, Feb. 4.
An official
palace spokes-
man said today that re-
Paris, Feb. 4.
An Algerian gunman standing trial on charges of taking part in an assassination plot against the French Minister, Jacques Soustelle, charged today that he had been tortured for six days by French police.
The gunman, Alidel Kader Baccouche, 20, threw tho court into turmoil when he pointed his finger at a police officer, Martint Belleur and claimed hè wns tortured him during among security police who questioning.
ports of the engagement | would have been of King Baudouin
to
Earlier Bacrouche sak he would իջե have
and Soustelle, proud and happy If he had been able Princess Marie-Therese of KIU M. Soudelle. France were untrue.
Parks reports satd the Princess,
a descendant of Phillip V of Louis XIV of Spain and France, had been measured for
a wedding dress in pre- paration for her marriage to the the 27-year-old King of Belgians.
The torture Recusatious louched off such an uproar in the courtroom that the presid Ing judge was foretų to ad- 10- Journ the hearing unil! morrow.
wher arudente marred the third day's hearing of the trial
who machtr "There is absolutely nothing to of six Alpetim
"thr spokesman sald.ed M. Sonstelle's car in the "These rumours are untrue,"middle of Paris on September 15,
Baudouin attended a gala per- Enemy No. 1
formance of the Merry Widow
In birge Inst night and obser- vers suld be cave no sign that a Royal secret had been re- vealed.
Applause
The only unusual occurrence al the performatice was the exita warm applause which greeted bis appearance with his usual escort of male attendants, Neither he nor in allendants
were available for comment today.
Government and political sourcen
said that as a constitutional monarch, Baudouin would be forced to notify the Govern
advance of any inent far in Impending matringe and that its of now, he has not done so, They said also that this would be a bad time for Belgiam's King to think of getting married. They elted the country's critical problem in the Belgian Congo, where African Independence hac
M. Soustelle, who escapet Itum the with minor injuries daring aftrek, was nained by the Algerian defendants today this bumber one evviny.
missed
"I would have killed him with pleasure D
pride," Baccouche shouted.
He claimed that pulled tried to make him confess by apply- tor
electric wire to his body. They also forced him to drink my water, ho claimed.
-UP.
Accident
Toll In U.K.
Perth, Feb. 4.
Mouloud Oueaghi, 30, who is believed to nye been the Ono-third of the men who mastermind OF the
allack.
said he and his accomplices had received an order 10 kill a war criminal respon- sible for the death of several thousand of my compatriots." | Several defendants questioned i today admitted they underwent military training at Laroche, North Morocco. before sent back to Park,
being
They claimed they were soldiers and refused to answer finther questists,
Youngest
|
The
Thanks India
Now Delhi, Feb. 4. Duke of Edinburgh said in a farewell message 10 Indlan President Rajendra Prasad today that he hoped "the firm friendship between two countries will prosper and flourish in the years ahead."
our
In the message 'pent al the end of his fortnight's tour of
sold: India, the Duke
"On leaving India I extend to you {my warmest thanks for your hospitality and through you to all the people of Indin who gave me such a fine and friend- ly welcome.
"My visit has been all too short, but even so I have had
me
the to appreciate tremendous development 20 ing on in India today.
"I was particularly impressed by the spirit of enthuslarm which prevailed everywhere.
"I hope that the ro friend-- ship between our two countries will prosper and flourish in the years ahead."
The
Flights
died before their 40th birthday in Britain were accident victims, the chief
Duke will make five surgeon of Birmingham helicopter flights during his visit accident hospital.. Proto Singapore from February 22 fessor W. C. Gissane said to 25. today.
Professor Gisanne will lecture to doctors in Australia on the surgery of accident victims.
He was speaking to reporters after the liner Arcadla reached Fremantle,
Professor Gissand, who gra- duate from Sydney University, Bareunche, the youngest of said his hospital was the first the troup, said when his turn of its kind in Britain-it dealt inred into several rioia re-
he regretted he was solely with aceldent victims, wus cently
Createns the End
not present during the Seglera- | fully staffed 24 hours a day and future of the giant colony, ber is gun attack.
treatest about 250,000 U.P.I.
year.
Ike Delayed
Valdosta, Ga., Feb. 4. President Elenhower, travel- ling from Washington for a golf and quad-hunting holiday eir eled Moody Air Force Base here In thick tog for half an hour today before has aircraft could loudReuter.
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came
cusen a
earlier He said he would like to see
Ile is facing charges of having
in two participated Abortive attacks anninst Soustelle.
M.
"I demand to share my of responsibility. part Soustello is the author of all the odious
and unspeakable crimes in my Algerian father- land.
"I was not present at the at- tack, but had I been there,
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19 Dance muvement (4).
20 Candle fat (0).
24 French Boldier (6).
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Abron: 1 Strut, 4 print,
8 Reveal, 10 Orlon, 12 Cadren, 19 Precedo, 17 Sere, 19 Dumonel, 20 Spanner, 22 Lena, 23 Restore, 27 Odems, 29 Trial, 30 T-I-rado, 31 Doting, 32 Start. Down; I Serop, 2 Revue, 3 Trace, & Foor, Irises, 7 Tunnel, & Laddere, 11 Resort, 13 Dearest, 15 Ripe, 10 Can-Ads, 10 Rear, 20 Slated, 21 Anoint, 24 Sulla, 25 Omaha, 20 Event, 26 Elan.
highly flammable children's clothes, particularly wincey and flammetétle night gowns, abolish-
ent and safer materials used.-- China Mall Special.
Cyril Lord
Divorced
London, Feb. 4.
Mrs Hessle Lord was Granted a decree nisi in the London divorce court today on the grounds of adultery by her husband, Cyril Lord, British textile millionaire.
WAR
Lord who was ordered to pay custs of the sult, alleged to have com- mitted adultery with
women
Shirley named Stringer at a London West End hotel.
Lord, 47, was married 1936, and has three children. Custody of the two younger ones, twins, was granted to the wife.- China Mall Special.
Wrong Turn
The Rights will range from Ave to 20 minutes in duration, and will take the Duke to and from Commonwealth Services Establishments, seatlered around the perimeter of the island.
Meanwhile, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, left here lo night in Bose Britannia air- iner on her three-week tour of Kenya and Uganda.
Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were at London alr- farewell to their purt to say mother on her 4,800-mile fight to Nairobi-leuter.
Senator Still Believes U.S. Lags
after
DIANA and DENNIS... on their wedding day.
Diana Sobs At Husband's
Chaotic
Funeral
London, Feb. 4. husband
of
slinky
The funeral of Dennis Hamilton.
actress Diana Dors, turned into bedlam today.
Shouting fans mounted church pews and scrambled in front of the nourring actress for mutographs.
Four photographers, laking pictures of Him Dots praying, were ordered by the verger to the St James Roman leave Catholle Church Scores of women, many cluth- their children, Joulier! walited around the star os shu belilnd the coffin.
Arm Grabbed
One woman pushed her way through the milling crowd and trabbed Miss Dars by the arm.
The star, subbing, appealed
динк
to ocior Patrick Holt to help her through the mob. Miss Dors, wearing a cont au blick searf and dark glasses, attended the low quiem mass alene.
re-
who
She sat opposite family mourners of Hamilton, dled of a heart allment on Saturday, agrid 34.
Cheers As Iraqis Sentenced To Death
Bagdad, Feb. 4.
Men and women packing the People's Court here today cheered and clapped as three more leaders of the former Iraqi regime were sentenced to be hanged. They Were Sakl QOTZWZ, former Minister of the Interior, Abdul Jabbar Fehmi, former
vi Bagdad, and Governor Bahjat Attiah, former Director-
The audience booed as the three men, described by the court as "orphans of imperialism" wore led away in handcuffe
Minister Qazzaz, who was
Misa Dors was in New York Washington, Feb. 4. when her husband died.
Before ho
died Hamilton, Senator Stuart Symington
(Democrat-Missouri) sald whose real name was Gittings General of Security,
was received Into the Roman a three-hour Cen-Catholic Church by Father tral Intelligence Agency Patrick Cancy, who conducted briefing today that he today's requiem mass-V.P.I.
believed still
Russia and Reuter. would lead the United States four to one in missiles in 1961 at present rate of progress.
the ISRAELIS KILL
Mr Symington told newsmen: ^My position remains exactly
the same. I heard nothing to- day that would change my con-
on the Senate floor."
The Missouri Senator said in a flour speech that Russia could achieve the four-to-one inissite lead in two years.
He also raised a question Cleveland, Feb. 4. whether CIA estimates of Rus-
An elderly motorist drove belan cupabilities had been down
tween the whirling propellers
of an Air Force Hercules C-150 turbo-jet transpori as 1 prepared to take off ai Cleveland łapkins airport to- night.
The motorist, Andrew J. Dird, 70, of Fairview, Ohio, escaped Injury although the propeller made six neat silces through the
roof of his car.
"I must have made a wrong turn," said Bird.-U.P.I.
graded for budgetery reasons.
WOMAN, CHILD
Gaza, Feb. 4.
of the Interior for four years until the revolution last July, was found guilty of causing deaths in the course of various demonstrations.
Barbaric
Felual was found guilty of causing deaths during street
Bagdad central gas. He was denenstrations, and strikes in nequitted 011
charge of mltusing state wealth.
Allah was found guilty of killings caused by "barbaric, shameless" torture.
viction as they were expressed Four Israeli soldiers entered United Arab Republic territory south of Rafah, killing a woman and a child, the United Nations Emergency Force an.
In addition to a death scn1- nounced hero today,
tences, all Uureo were given and The Israeli soldiers Ared on a terms of imprisonment Bedouin camp, the announco-Atlich was ordered to repay the ment sald.
Ainic exchequer £80,000.-— Της United Nutions Emer- Reuter. Mr Symlorton said with gency Force later Issued ♫ emphasis today that he did not communique paying one of its
patrols had
the charge that budgetarg
-discovered alderations Ogured m Live armed Israelis on Egyptža ter- estimates. He said
ritory. he only naked the question. The closed scribed as a briefing, was given by the CIA director, Alien W. Dulles, members of the Senate Space and Preparedness Committees--U,P.I.
to
con-
testimony, de
lost
Stripped
Landon, Fob. 4. They said they had
Phyllis Dixey, London's star their way, and withdrew across strip-tenso artist during World { the international frontier.
War II, told a tax court yester- Later, the patrol learned the day that she stopped taking it Taraells had attacked the camp, oft and became a hotel cook in- killing the woman and child and stead so she wildn't be "strip- wounding
woman. pet of everything again by the Router.
tax man"-U.P.I.
another
Politician Denies Scandal Charges
Paris, Feb. 1.
Mme Ellabeth Ne
A lawyer representing the 74-year-old former Assembly Speaker, Andro Le Troquer, and
Pinnjeff, today dealed his clients were in any way Implicated in the Rose Ballet striptease scandal.
Le
Mulire Marcel Herand said Le old former poliep
named Pierre Bortit, is Troquer and Mme de Pinajef}, 144, were ready to prove the custody.
falsity of the allegations made Maitre Heraud shid agninat them.
Troquer did not deny knowing In two ellents and four other Borlut. people have been charged by A magistrate examiņing
the
oficial residence of Lo Tro- driver pa of Berlut's "prolegeon."
both clients But
formally
home of Alme. quer or the Do Pinaieft. protested against the allegationi,
Pierre Solut 13
alleged to and were ready to prove their falsity, he said.
have organised sumprise parties Maitre Herand added that at houses in and near Paris, none of the accused, none of where girls aged betwren 14 the alleged merilcipante in the and 10 are cald to have taken affair, and none of their an- | part In striptease sociates had ever visited the 1 orgles-Revier.
Ho added that Mine. De Pinkie, who is an amateur painter, had sala pho nad Only one person, a 33-yxwr-} started painting a portrait of
affair.
scenes and
Diamond Town Springs Up In Siberian Waste
Moscow, Feb. 4.
A town of tents and barracks in the middle of frozen Siberian wasteland is bidding to become the future diamond capital of the world,
The combination of a vigorous zeven-year-plan and deposits containing hundreds of millions of curats give good promise that this hid may be a seces:(u) one.
If so, by the middle or late 1900s the Soviet Union will not only be supplying its own indus- trial and namental diamond needs, but may also be selling on the world market and rivalling the African continent's p.csvnt monopoly on diamond produc-
1lon.
ground is frozen year round and where, in the absence of roads, all travel is by feat or reindeer, went helicopters and bulldozers, engineers and worker.
are being mined
Until recently the town of Mirny (peace) was just a col- Icollon of Ecologists tonta
at Now a power station and least one diamond processing plant have been put up, and diamonds with the help of automatio equipment, Mirny's population is growing for Jabourers and quickly,
are at- peelalists of all ages
by the high hardship tracted
and the prospect of wageS adventure ploncering work-U.P.I.
The burgeoning Siberian town in the Viyul basin he tween the Lona and the Yenisei rivers is at once the climax and the beginning of
billion rouble story.
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It is the elimax in that her Soviel geologists found
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than ample reward for a search which storted
before Long World War II and 103 trom
disappoint- disappointment to ment ever eastwards.
Fabulous
the
Gradually
methodical hunt concentrated on the huge Siberian plateau where at lust in 1940 the Arsi diamonds were uncovered
and gave
hint of fabulous amounts yet to be
found.
And they were found. In February 1936 Nikolai Bulganin, then Chairman of the Counell of Ministers, fold the Twentieth Party Congress that the Soviet Union had made a wonderful discovery of diamond fields estimated to hold hundreds of millions of carato.
Jess
than
Ar
If not the largest deposits In the world, they are at least "no
the African Brazilian ones", said a Soviet geologist M. N. Bondarenko in Tass statement later that same year.
Vast Arca
"British
Want To Co-operate"
Londen, Feb. 4. A Foreign Office spokesman said here today that the British Government wish- ed to be co-operative over the request of the Chin- ese Government for the British mission in Peking to move to new quarters because the present alte was needed for a town planning project.
печу
However, it was "a com- plicated business to move a fair- ly large mission and clearly everything will depend on the help provided by the Chinese in nding suitable temporary or permanent accommodation, he added.
The
I
Russia's diamonds are dis- tributed over a vast area in Northwestern Yakutia in time berlite veins or tubes, a geolo- | gical team used to describe the It Wila understood vertical deposits,
Immediately after the dis- coveries were made, the Com- munist Party Instructed ap propriate Government Minis- tries and Institulen to start developing the fields.
20m-
was spokesman reenting on Press reports from Peking that talks had begun betwem the mission and Cuinese officials.
That between 50 and 00 Britons and their dependents live in the Embassy compound.--Reuter.
Claim Dropped
Washington, Feb. 4. Federal officials today 012-
A site in the Vilyoi hasin was chosen for the main seitlement which is destined to become a nounced they had dropped population and industrial centre Claims
La income Laxes they for the whole future diamond reviously Bald Negro singer Puul Robeson owed on the industry.
he
And this where the "illion $25,000 Stalin Peuce Prize rouble" adventure story leghs | received in 1933,
Robeson, CD, is now recovering
anew,
To an area where few humans from bronchliks In Moscow, ber have ever set fool, where the Reuter.
SUTHERLAND'S NEW
TAPESTRY
Artist Graham Sutherland stands in a Paris studio before one of the panels of the tapestry he is designing for Coventry Cathedral. The anal tapestry -being woven in Aubusson, France-will measure TAL. by 40ft. It will represent Christ sitting in majesty surrounded by a symholic interpretation of the four evangelists-Express Servico.
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