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WASHING MACHINE/

GILMANS

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THE WEATHER: Moderate N.N.E. winds. Overcast with periods of rain

CHINA MAIL

No. 37288

Established 1845-

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1959.

Price 20 Cents

PAA

THE LEADER TO 29 COUNTRIES

FOUND WITH MORE THAN $4.5 MILLION OF PRECIOUS STONES

Of The HK COUPLE HELD IN

Day

Airport Check

Anglo-Egyptian Reveals

Impasse

In the

An

Tigotiations which HE Anglo-Egyptian Snan- dragged on for almost two years were completed - UT su it was thought middle of last month,

WUH Initialled Agreement which, to all intents and purposes, merely required. the formal signatures of the partica concerned. Jubilation expressed in Bri- tain and elsewhere was, however, short-lived when it was discovered that the huge Smouha eslate had bren included it category of "Egyptianised agricultural

Bad"

the

and

consequently valued at a

nomina £1 millian.

Bags

With Gems

And US$10,000

An un-identified Chinese couple, reportedly

from Hongkong, were detained yester- day by Spanish Police at Madrid-Barajas Airport. In their baggage police found more than US$10,000 in currency, and about HK$4,620,000 worth of precious stones.

It seems strange that the Bri- IRA ARMS

tish negotiatora, capecially, and the arbitrator, Mr Eugene Black, President of the World Bank, showed abysma! ignorance In accepting this part of the -agreement.

On the alleged agricultural land at Alexandria is a golf course, a race course und n

area

CACHE

DISCOVERED

Belfast, Feb. 22.

garden suburb and it must Police tonight discovered an be considered, a highly

abandoned dugout fitted which developed

with bunks and stocked should have been in-

with cluded under the heading of

explosives at "sequestrated" properties, Draperstown,... London-

derry.

Designation

HIS difference in designa- Ttion, means

a valuation of about

difference

£11

The dugout believed to have been prepared by members of the autlawed Irish Republican Army, was built into a river- bank. There were signs that it

had been used recently.

In the dugout were. Hidden 105 pounds of geiignite, fuses million and it is not mur- and abandoned haversacks con- and notes on the taining textbook prising that when document arrived in London guerilla warfare, for further study prior to

rejected it as an unfavour-

France-Presse reported it. was understood that the couple were being sought by Interpol, the interna- tional police organisation.

Entrusted

A week ago. a number of Hongkong jewellers reported to the Police that a man whom they had entrusted with over $2,300,000 worth of precious gems for sale abroad, had.dis- appeared.

It was learned this man had been in the diamond busincer for more than 20 years, ind was well known locally,

"A"touni" jeweller said he had known the man for many years and had erTE to trust in

usually they would give hum a number of jewels which he would pay for on the spot, and then he would travel through Asia and sell them.

Last Seen

This jeweller sald he hnd last seen the missing jewel salesman last, Monday morning.

Several men have been de- signature the Government tained for questioning.

During the past 24 hours police in County Derry have able and one-sided bargain. found rides, revolvers, sub- The Egyptian claim that Bri-machine guns and ammunition ***

tain's attitude does not con- buried in four different placer. jewellers are known

form with International-Reuter, practice is as ridiculous aя

the method of valuation.

be

any

There

cannot grounds for the claim as the Initialling of a document is generally understood to he acceptance in principle, pending further study of

- ICE BLOCK

TO GO ON

the various clauses prior to - AFRICAN TRIP-

zabificativanaema

Oslo, Feb. 22.

Obvious Points A three-ton black of ice bo-

had been thought that the

twa obvious points of

a trip today from

freezing northern Norway

to Equatorial Africa wrap- ped in glass wool,

"Optration Loc," title vi the was launched to see how little lee would melt

difference, the amount Bri- tain should pay the United Ice-block safari,

age

Arab Republic for the dam by the time the block ends its inflicted during the trip across the scorching deserts Suez operations and the of Afties.

amount the latter should A truck with three drivers pay Britain for the Suez aboard began the long haul in base, would have been the minus 10 degrees Centigrade hardest nuts to crack. Both weather, moving slowly ang points, heavy with politics, Norway's snow and fee-covered were, however, circumvented roads, by leaving them out alto-

BUNDLED-UP gether.

"

On his latest trip, he said he would pay for the jewels after he had sold them. At least three well-known

local to have entrusted the salesman with a largo quantity-of-precious stones. However, none of them are prepared to siste exactly how much they had given him.

No official clarification

of

this caso could be obtained from the Hongkong Police

A

Baptism On Tight Rope

The Path To Death

Short Legs Caused By

Squatting Doctor

Says

Tokyo, Fet

A Tokyo doctor who has studied the problem for 30 years, says the only

way the Japanese can develop longer, lege : Is instead of squatting on straw mats.

Dr Fuseo Lahihara, research i chief of the Social Insurance

have identical leg-tors proportiona

Central Hospital here, sold. the Then, he added, the growth Red Marshal's

style of killing is more important La Rochelle, Feb. 22.

than diet in determining the crowd of 4,000 wotched length of legs in proportion to today as a priest parform-the rest of the body ed part of a baptism cere-

This is especially true, he said, mony on a tight.rape 60 between the ages of 2 and 8. feet above the ground. The priest, holy water in

hand, aloud at the top of a freman's ladder as eight-month-

En nerobat, retched him in

Nutrition

of Japanese babies logs alys down suddenly while the Nissi bble' reartinue doveltying normally.

By the time they reach 8, the Japanese children have stubby legs and long torsos, he said.

Taller

Warning

MADRID

This was the path that the Turkish Prime Minister's

Viscount left as it ploughed through ranks upon ranks. of beech trees, three miles from Gatwick Airport outside London last week. And there too was the 300-yard scar, left by the crash-trees with the tops ripped off,..then stumps growing ever shortor up to the final 150 yards of bare, devastated earth. And at the end, a fragile crumpled silver shall; ·

Fifteen lost their lives in this crash but the Turkish Primo Minister, Mr Menderes miraculously escaped with only slight injuries,

Smallest needee (DE VIKIN

jaken on MARS

Mega de man be Pegatan mungk

harga at mag die

1

TO BE ALTERED

Just before this crash the Air Registration Board - which governs British civil flying had issued orders to modify the altimeters fitted to Viscounts. The same altimeters are fitted to Comets and Britannias, They have three needles on one dial reading in 100s, 1,000s and 10,000s of feet, and when two needles are in approximately the same position, the larger can too easily obscure the smaller.

The above diagram shows the standard altimeter in two positions: the reading look similar, but there's a difference of 990 feet, --Express Photos,

PM's Sheepskin Hat Sets London Agog

London, Feb. 22. The who sheepakiti hat, which. wore Mr Harold Macmillan op his arrival in Moscow Yesterday was today the talk of British malo fashion air-

Tomorrow it tope. the bill at the men's wear fair at Earl's Bourk, London, "The Bri- tish Prime Minister, Look." A male model will wear

exact copy of the wide-

collared boat, worn by Macmillan in Moscow and a Landon outiliter has nuder- taken ta

ahat produco

Identical to the Prime Minis... · ter's to complate the new look.

The hat is reported to have been in Mr Macmillan's wardrobe for years before emerging yesterday sa what is being called here "the hat tripk of the year."

Tonight Mr. Stanley Costin, editor of "Style for Men," maldi "British hatiers (are elnied that the Prime Minis- ter should be such a well- dressed mian for his trip to Eussia."--Metzler,

Dulles Discusses

Berlin Problem

In Hospital Bed

Washington, Feb. 22. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and cancer- stricken Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, discussed the Berlin problem for 45 minutes today.

Moscow, Feb. 22. Morsbal Rodion Malinovsky, Minlater, the Soviet Defence today issued an order of the day saying that Soviet Armed Ishihara said lengthy studies

Forces "are ready to deliver a old Soola Delmay, daughter of he has made here and in the US.

convinced him that this differ Ishiha conceded, however, crushing blow to any encroach- cradle held on the centre of the ence In Living manners, rather that did did affect overall nuents of imperialist aggressors Tho bundled-up ice block and wire by her god parents, Roland than in nutrition, explained the bolght. This, he said, explained on the great achievements of began undergoing tretiment for

Froncine ParyThe physical differences between the fact that Nisels are genoṛul- | roclellum." its truck will go through the and

American Nisel and Japanese. ly taller than Japaneso, the Sweethearts of the High Wire Countries,

After Scandinavian

on the the blessing Germany West Netherlands,

wire, a normol christening ser- Until the age of 3, họ snið,

He maintained that nutrition Japanéwo babies and Nixel could not explain the difference was held in the parish

babler 2 children born in proportion between legs church at Saint-Jean-d'Angely,

America of Japanese parents torsos-UP.I. near La Rochelle-Reuter.

It is unfortunate therefore that disagreement has dove- loped on a minor matter and and France, and, after a voYDERCO

If the U.A.R. remain ada mant, as thoy say they will, the rest of the document will. go, by tho, board.

Mr Black has returned to

RCTOR?

Mediterranean, start out from Algiers for deep French Equatorial Africa.

Only when the truck and its cold curgo-reach- Librevilic, Africa, will the sponsors of the Calro in the face of an irip-alass wool manufacturers Egyptian warning that she know it they have pulled will take "decisive measures" enough wool over

to settle her financial claims on the text of the initialled document. It is possible that the throats are designed to 'throw the blaine on Britain. If Mr Black can make the Egyptians see reason on the basis of the British solu tlon, that a clause be insert ed, allowing for discussion

the ico-to keep from meling-France- Prest.

:

Boiling Milk Tragedy

Turin, Feb. 22. three-year-old girl, Brunetta Visantini, died when

on the controversial polot at se fell into a cauldron ⠀ of- a labor dato, 'ho will have boiling milk here being mude dodoa rent deal towards into buttermilk curd.as A 40-year-old woman suffer- rectifying the error of last

month but the way will beedburns on the arms when far from clear towards a she tried unsuccessfully" to ""lift 11 settlement.

'the girl out-Reuter,

י

Nixon's vilt was his first with Dulles since, the Secretary cancer at Walter Reed Artny Medical Centre,

pross

The order was issued to com- Stats Department. memorate the Forty-First Anni-offers Lincoln White who an~- versary of the creation of the nounced Nixon's visit, said Dulles brother, Allen W bead Soviet Armed Forces-Reuter,

of the Central Intelligendo Agency (CIA), also called, to alve the Secretary a briefing on the world situation,

Duke Nominates His Tiddlywinkers

London, Feb. 22.

THE Duke of Edinburgh has nominated a "dis

'tinguished" tenin of London tiddlywinkers as his champions in place of the "Goons" in a tiddlywinks match with Cambridge University on March 24,

Announcing this here, the Empress Club-the Duke's new champions following the defeat of the "Coona" last year said that its team was already in full training in some of the most exclusive drawing rooms" in London: ShahL

hand.

The teams are expected to "squid-off" before a grand gathering of connoisseurs of the ancient game. Cambridge havo already announced that their team. is training nightly on "babychama mildly alcoholic champagne perry and that Air Marshal Lord Teddur, Vice-Chancellor of the university, has been invited in- the role of chlef supporter.

Acting swiftly on the information, the Empresa Club now disclose that their training lotion" will bo Pol Roger champagne,

Final team selection would however not be disclosed until a later date, ze waThe Empress Club coach, 28-yearold Glive. Wilber

The match will be held in the Empresa Club in the -heart of London's-theatreland and arrangements for the building of a suitable amphitheatre'ürð kirendy In

force-Rapphael, commented: "If it was good enough for Sir Winston Churchill to win the war on it will be good enough for my boys."China Mail Speciali

**NO INDICATION

CHURCHILL

SEES BURGESS

Moscow, Feb. 22. Former British diplomat Guy ¿Burgess, who ' disappeared from England in 1951 and subsequently turned up hare, called on old school- meto Randolph Churchút todpy

White did not say what aspect of the Berlin problem Nixon took up with Dulles.

There was no indication

Journalist Churchill, ia bers whether Nixon also discusedd for Brith Prime Minister recent democratia proposal that Macralian's vi President, Eisenhower naine, a

Churchill, who attended Eld successor to Duct Dulles, no called his room

with Burgess, sold when, "HOLDE

Prior to Nixon's visit, spent - tha” “morning 3-randish. Hotel National-maying newspapers and liriening to Burgos ha falt it? clavalca i musle

on his 2-4 res: grlend playing a jok cord player. Ha, gala out for 5 However p

Burge

morning land afternoon walks Churchut he had

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