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THE LEADER TO ” COUNTRIES

Just Hours Before The Comet Leaves, A Message From Moscow Tory Of The "SPEND SUNDAY WITH ME" Leader

Day

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TO PAY

OR the first time in our history, registered births

Inst year topped 100,000

And Khrushchev's Last Minute Invitation To Macmillan

Sends British Hopes Soaring

Moscow, Feb. 21.

and natural increase for the The Soviet Promier, Nikita Khrushchev,

last 12

years now total

700,000. The nightmare

problem of overpopulation la again brought into sharp focus.

Are we powerless to check it? Of the many community groups which have laburen ifrelessly to relieve poverty and misery in our

midst

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has invited the Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan, to spend Sunday at his villa in suburban Moscow in order to have a long private talk with him, British sources said today.

The last minute change of one of the most energetic, Program Feightered Interest

in the visit by Macmillan, who

and also most modest, is whi leave Landon for Moscow Planning is morning at 8 a.m. (4' p.m. the Family Association. 11x Intest Hongkong time), with the For- Aguren deserve to be widely cign Secretary, Mr Selwyn read for by calculation | Lloyd and a party of 30. from records, the Assuein- It was nut yet known whe- ilon claims to have ther other British end Soviet officials would take part in the Sunday talks whether they would be held solely between the two government heads.

prevented 6,792 live birth Inst year, ur 6.4 per cent of the total registered births.

HIE figure is an estimate

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but the Association be- loves it to be realistic. It

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The Chance

British circles expressed great satisfaction "When one considers the Im

at the invitation, plications of adding 7,000 | which seemed to give the visit- unwanted babies to Ing Prime Minister the chance Hongkong's already swollen he was hoping for.

population in

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CETTAS

of

Macmillan has always sold Involved, kompiliat

that he wanted above all to get cost required,

of

cn Khrushchev's! education and sacrifices Information

regarding major required of the other family Intentions members, the $10 per birth world problems. prevented it

cost Family

Planning seems a small price to pay for the increased well being not only of the families involved but of the Colony as

a whole."

since claima

During the past few days, Moscow newspapers hove ut- tached considerable Importance

semillan's visit.

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No Negotiations

"Russians Will Win

Space Race"

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Washington, Feb, 20. Dr Hugh Dryden, assistant director of the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to- day warned Senators that the Russians would send a man into space before the United States, when he showed them a model of an American space ship.

Committee.

that the

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Dryden said that the capsule would protect is future oc- cupants during their space trips and would be equipped with

and parachutes rockets make the return journey down

DENNIS STAFFORD

CAUGHT

AFTER 6 WEEKS

London, Feb, 20.

'LONDON IS TO BE EVACUATED' Rescue Offers

TV Show Causes Panic In Britain

Stafford, 25- Dennis

year-old convict who A escaped from Dart- moor prison - one of Britain's largest gaols

six weeks ago was recaptured in London tonight.

London, Feb. 20. minor panic swept parts of Britain tonight. A voice' boomed over the nation's commercial television service: "London, the cabinet has decided, is to be evacuated... "}

Just before the announce- very frightened by the "ward- ment a picture of a motion-ing" he said, less satellite was hovering over London.

shown

Swamped switchboard nt As- sunt frightened men and women sociated-Rediffusion television to their telephones asking their headquarters in London was

The space ship and the volca

The

Stafford was recognised by two Scotland Yard de tectives as he was walking along fashionable Piccadilly, arrested and taken to a police station for question-focal police stations: "Are we swamped by telephone calls.

bring Invaded from outer Ing.

space?"

In November, 1950, Stafford coraped trem & Lenden prisca and was later crrested in Fort of Spain (Trinidad.

Seven Years

He escape fren Dadmocr early last month with another man, William Day, whose body was found in a reservole four miles from the gaol last Mon- day:

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For Marooned

Animals In Africa

Salisbury, Feb. 20. Anxious animal lovers are bombarding the Southern Rhodesia Government here with offers to help in the rescue of wild animals miroonid On flands formed by the ris- ing waters of the Kariba Lake. But

the Irrizatia Minister, Mr A. R. Stumbles, has told Farliament all offers of aid from the public have boan ze-- icoted because of the danger to untrained people.

wide

The trapped animals, forin

cross-poction of Jurigle Ilte, ranging from elephants and lions to baboons and makes.

TRANQUILLISER

The government in its rescue operations plans to shoot on

at the forces. quilliser darts" animals such ca licns and co- parts.

Beasts like elephants and rhinos will be driven in the rint direction to elve then

chance of reaching land l they swim for it.

But there will be no attempt to rescue ---süthi**antendly as snakes, menkeys, Baboons or bush pigs-Reuter.

who phoned a domestio news agency, com- plained: "They came out with Television studios in Londen,

a special announcement from the West of England and South

the

Minister nying Prime Wales got their quota of calls,

there was a space ship over But the volos was only in- London ready to drop bombi troducing # play "Before and we had to keep calm,

the The

GOES

actually Dawn"....

"They

gavo about Вл eccentric Irish words of the Prime Minister's drank and a lonely gir: who specah.

was awful, the worst found themselves the only "I people left in an evacuated thing I have seen."

The public roaction rccilled the pre-war alarm in the United Die man phoped. Scotland States when Orson Welles- prodajana.

a radio programme on “Both Stafford and Day were Yird and, said the play should duced originally Eaoled for seven be stopped. His wife wab ex- the "War of the Worlds." years, Stafford for housebreak-pecting a baby and had been. Early reports, however, did thg, receiving", and being: in possession of ou

Tonight a message was sent to Dartmoor Prison authorities who were expected to send an escort to collect Stafford.

offensive

He and Day escaped into the swirling mist on the Devon moors after scaling a 20-foot highwall with an improvised ladder.

Eluded Net

Dryden tolá the Scripia Mr Macmillan will carry with him the good wishes of all Space The figures are all the more

parties in Parliament for the space capaule, shaped like an the

of his trip, says electric light bulb and an Atlus Buccess remarkable

weapon. enable the type rocket would Association

ast London report, year's achievement to be In an eve-af-departure speech United States to launch a man of the situation in into space within a few years. almont twice the number he spoke

experimental fight Berin and the Russlan attitude The prevented in the previous wards as being "threatening would only be made once cer-

tainty of its success could year; proof that doubling the number of clinics to 20 and even dangerous."

guaranteed, he added. has shown good results. The Association further- more believes that with larger resources it could Influence greatly the birth rate

and through it, the well-being of the Colony. Here is an organisation_ton.

The Prime Minister will leave corned with one of the

London in his Comet jetliner basic Taply

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with a clear-cut philosophy on economic hardship in Hong- his visit. "It can do no harm, kong. Here is another and I trust it may do some

Later Stalford was reported example of how with public good."

to have reached the West Indies donations our people are

the plancer Wright brothers again. Another report said he

was in Brazil-Reuter. It is generally assumed that in France-Presse, tackling their most formid- his meetings with the Russians able problems. It is one the fecal toples of Berlin and the organisation that deserves German, question na n subola will. maximum community aup be closely studied.-France- -port="

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The Prime Minister has all along made it clear, that his visit is "a reconnaissunce and that there is no question of negotiations being involved,

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The first experimental will nights would be made animals on board, he added. Dryden told the Senators that at the astronautics were now same stage of development as deronautics were at the time of

Dulles Companion Ordered To Rest

not suggest that British viewers, had reacted with, the same de-

of panic

as American -RTCC

previous listeners did on the occasion,

Apologised

The Orson Welles ply pro- duced a wave of suicides and collapses from coast to coast.

Television spoketmen later

10 frightened apologised

and viewers

explained the announcement was made to create atmosphere, Don'

At the end of the play an

under announcer said: "We stand that the play has caused some alarm.

Washington, Feb. 20. Mr Andrew Berding, 57, the Assistant Secretary of State for |Pubile Affairs and an almost constant travelling companion 01 Mr.John Fealer Dulica, the

has About 1,000 police combed Secretary of State, the moor in freezing weather, ordered to real-der two wosks. but the two men cluded a net Stric Department officials of road blocks and. It was be-sold Mr. Berding, who has aç- most had companied Mr Dulles on loved they might have

the outside help.

of his flying visits around world, had been working at "very fast pace", and had to be taken home by a doctor end nurse-Reuter.

"It was, of course, publiclsed 3-a play; but revertheless we should like to apologise if the opening caused any distr033."-- Router,

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18-Degree Drop In Temperature

The temperature dropped 18 degrees in 17 hours to 7 o'clock this morning when a minimum of 53.9 degrees was recorded. At 2 p.m. yesterday, the tem- perature was 72.1.

For the first time in ove days, the relative humidity, has drop-

When pod below 90 per cent, observations were taken at the Royal Observatory this morning, the humidity was down to 12 per cent,

The outlook for tomorrow!, for is, the same as today, with cloudy skies and fair periods. But tomorrow, it is expected to be alightly cooler.

Begin reading JACKYS DIARY on page 14 of

THREE THOUSAND SEE LATE AGA KHAN REBURIED day's Chine Mall-

Aswan, Feb. 20.

The reburial ceromony to

day of the Aga Khan, the late spiritual head of the Ismaili sect, took exactly a quarter of an hour.

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building of special mausoleum here, wrapped in a green, white and gold shroud, and was carried in brilliant sun shine, by Prince Karim, his grandson and succes- sor, Karim's uncle, Sad- The body of the Aga Khan, ruddin and Karim's

who died in 1957 and brother Amin.. who was buried in a tem-A group of 700 women porary tomb, pending the had preceded the pro-

cession to the mausoleum, where they awaited the arrival of the cortege. The crowd of Ismailis, all dressed in white, who at tended the cereriony was estimated at 8,000.

While the coffin stood in the mausoleum, the Pakistan Officer, Kassel Aly Gasfor recited verses from the

Koran. Afterwards, the body was lowered to ita resting place while the crowd prayed...

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Prince Karim is to leave here for Cairo tomorrow and then fly to the United States to resume his studies at Harvard Uni versity on Sunday.- France-Presse.

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London, Feb. 20.

Lord Hinchingbroke, leader of the right- wing of the Conserva- tive Party parliamen tary group, today crl ticised the Cyprus 'agreement; which was reached in London this week.

Speaking at a party rally, Lord Hinchingbroke aalà that Britain should con- tinue to exercise its rights in Cyprus on the following three points:

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Britain should sovereignty

retala full

over liabases, This has boon obtained.

Britain should', have the

right to re-occupy the island

in the event of domestic dis-

• order breaking onf

the which threatened.

basen. of." these ・・・ Necurity.

Parliament had been given 'ASEILFENDER on this count but the exsos ciruses should be given thorough examing-

Britain

should have the right to, veto the now, stalo of Cyprus, freedoni, la con- clude · frestles with Ki eremy powers, to ‘obieln wabafates or to set up Blocks of sonis which could threaten British positions. It appears that Beltain has not obtained -this-right-in the agreement provisióna, j France-Presse.

Four Axed To Death

Zurich, Tusz 28. A. Swiss mother and her three- sons were found dead in a pool of blood in their home today. Folice said they had been kill- ed with an axe.

wida.. Authority launched a spread search for Emma Gander, motorbike was found abandoned 39, head of the family whos? near the edge of Lake Zurich.

The brutal murder of Mrs Maries, 34 and her three sons, was the second crime of vio- Ienco In Zurich within 24 hours, "police säldUP. T

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