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MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1959.

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THE LEADER TO 79 COUNTRIES

SOVIET PREMIER EXPLAINS WHY HE MADE THAT SPEECH 500 Lose Of The K: I WAS ELECTIONEERING Homes In

Day

A

His Toothache Was 'Real One'

COLONY PREPARES FOR THE DUKE

PRO-WESTERN

VOICE

THE most pro-Western

T

voice to be heard in the

Middle Enst for some time

in that of Persia. Not

sinco President Chamoun's

Moscow, Mar. 1.

appeal for help last year to Mr Nikita Khrushchev was today quoted as

combat Communism within the

Lebanon and the threats from without has there been heard such a confident and assured voice of authority. President Chamoun did not cry in vain in the wilder- ness as rebellion threaten- ed to engulf his country. The United States answer- ed his appealla the hour of danger and troops were sent to his aid with such despatch that It

upret

Nassor and the Kremlin line of thinking. The best they could do was to sit back. and hope that a fighting war would break out and thus pave the way for inter- vention

Bloodshed Was,

having told a foreign ambassador hero that his strongly-worded foreign policy. speech in the Kremlin last Tuesday was "only an electioneering speech.'

The ambassador said Mr Khrushchev told him he was

NOW, EOKA Surprised at foreign

MEN SEARCH

BRITONS

however, FOR BOMBS!

avoided; a conflict averted and peace returned to the Lebanon In the face of Soviet

Nicosia, Mar. 1.

warnings that The tables were ironically

"volunteers" would be sent into the country.

False Calm

HERE the position reata,

Talbeit a false calm but

to

TO

action to the speech, in

he which

rejected the

Western move to hold a foreign ministers meeting on Berlin, and said Russia was prepared to sign B non-aggression pact with Britain.

No Coolness

The ambassador, who did not wish to be identified, sald. Mir Khrushchev also declared that: the toothache which stopped him turned at Archbishop going with Mr Harold Mac- milian to Kiev last week was Makarios homecoming to-

really toothache, not merely a day-Eoką members once diplomatic illness. wanted for anti-British terrorist acts. politely searched Englishmen for bomba...

the Russians, their satellites and their fellow travelling

One British journalist who nations can be under no carried a small bottle full of misapprehension as to the brancy. anticipating a. chilly West's determination

day, had the bottle confiscated assist its allies and friends, with apologies by his searchers. Tha Shah has been no less who were taking no chances forceful in supporting his that it might be a bomb. Government's determination

Members of the Eoka under ground were responsible for the to select its own friends, The Shah abandoned the tech-security of the Archbishop. The

nique of flirting with East Englishmen were guests.

searchies were and West in 1955. This

but politely, and the carrier surprising 'departure from

situation irony of the reverse

The body

polley at which Persia has caused laughter on both sides.--

been an adept for decades | U.P.L.

was the outcome of argu- ments pressed home by President Boyar of Turkey,

The Shah and his Government

have been forthright In

ELECTIONS

their statements that they FOR CUBA

want a treaty with the

United States and its links

through the Bugdad Pact IN 2 YEARS

nations without interference

or obligation placed on their sovereignty.

2

Havana, Mar. 1.

This, of course, was like Elections will be held in

throwing the red flag at the Soviet bull.. Russian re- action le typical of their blunderbuss diplomacy and It cannot como as any Bur priae

that

Soviets, tho having been scorned, replied with threats of invasion

and denunciations alleging Forsian

submission

He rald the Soviet Premier Cold him he was "still not Dessimistic about his talks with Mr Macmillan, and 'that Mr Anastie Mikoyan's sudden trip to Leningrad, to greet the Brush leader there yesterday was designed to prove there Was no cooleres,

Mr

The ambassador said Khrushchev was in an expoil sive mood and "I asked Khru- shchey point blank whether he a diplomatic illness in It was really had toothache or whether view of reports of coolness be- him and Mr Macmillan tween in their talks here..

not diplo "Ho sale it was

A stopping had matic at pil. fallen out and it was giving him pain,"

Too Sharp

The ambassador "sald

Khrushchev

Mr

told him he had joked with Mr Macinfilan about British before the his tooth Prime Minister New from Mos- cow to Klev.

Mr Khrushchev had added: "I told bim Prime Ministers must have good teeth, and answered "E Mr. Macmin Cuba in. two years, Dr Fidel Castro, Prime tokometimes your teeth are a title too sharp for us?! Minister and revolu-

The

umbassador quoted Mr tionary leader told a Khrushchev as saying of his visiting group of Amer foreign policy apnoea know

have

made the should not can newspaper editors to-it has been suggested that I Mr Macmillan day.

speech until Immediate elections would left Moscow but the election

to not be fair because of the en- was to be Sunday before he my thusiasm over the victory of the left and I owed it to for demands

what was electors to explain aggressive bases along the revolution, Dr Castro sald.

happening. That is all I did."

Western

Russo Persian border.

Contingencies

THE basis of the Soviet

to

Change of Heart

Ja

The revolutionary Gover ment Council of Ministers issued the a decree today authorising

pro- confiscation of goods and

The Soviet Prime Minister perly belonging to supporters of

Fulgencio said Mr Mikoyan's sudden trip former

dictator

Macmilian groot Mr

day after. the Included as persons the decree Leningrad-the move into Persia is centred

the Soviet Deputy Premier had upon Articlo VI of the said, "collaborated with Soviet-Peralan. trenty of sustenance of (Bausta) tyranny" himself made an election speech Mr. Macmillan's legislators and criticising

оп Berilo was 1921. It is well to boar in were former mind that as originally military leaders of the ousted "ough" line agreed the article only offer-Bovernment-Reuter and UP. designed, to show there was no

ed Ruskin the right to "advance its troops into the Persian interior" In several contingencias, one of which was foreign use of 'Porsina territory as a base of operas tlons against the Soviet Union.

Such a situation does

not

Princess Anne

Down With Flu

London, Mar. 1.- Eight-year-old Princess Anne exist and it was the has been in bed for the past Russians who raade it clear few days with a mild attack of It was learned at that the articlo "was in influents, tanded to apply, only to Buckingham Palace late tonight, Casas In which preparations-Router. are made for a considerable armed attack upon the o- viet Union by partisane

of the regime that has been

overthrown."

Soviet Interpretation of any

treaty is always in her own favour and it must be with ratiostion to the West that Ferris, situated a sho

I on the Russian threshold,

* hàn hàg the courage to defy

the moguls in the Kremlin

and call their blur.

Anthem Disappears

From Coffee Shops

coolness.

Observers here sald the pre- sence of the affable Mr Mikoyan spreading good cheer and hos pitality today in Leningrad was the outward symbol of a changa

of heart by the Soviet Govern- ment to save the Anglo-Soviet talks from stalemate-Reuter,

Four days to go to the arrival of Prince Philip, and Hongkong's - pre- parations" go into top gear today.

In this picture workmen are putting finishing touches to the colourful standards which line the Duke's processional route to Government House. In the back- ground is the Hongkong and Shanghai Bonk with a giant roplica of the Bank's crest over the entrance.

now

Garden Road and Con-

naught Road are lined with lamp stand- orde in pastel shades. Pal Lous celomonial

arches have been erected in Näthan Road,

MAN SUES

GERMAN ENVOY

Bonn, Mar. 1 A formbr, member of the West German Embosay in Romo, Max Krasin, has started legal proceedings In Bonn against the West German Ambassador in Rome, Dr. ¡Guenther Pawelke and two other German diplomate for "abuse of power, soques- tration, assault and bot- tory, contempt and stander."

Kowloon

Fire

BY CHINA MAIL

REPORTER:

Fire broke out in one of the last squatter areas in the densely-popu- lated Shamshuipo dis- trict of Kowloon this morning, making over 500 people homeless. The only casualties "wero' two The ease relates to incidents firemen who received superficial which occurred in 1981 when injuries when a wooden beam Dow 庭 commercial and blocks of masonry collapsed traveller, was a member of the on them. Both were sent to commercial section of the West hospital. German Embassy in Rome,

During a visit of West Ger... man Chancellor Konrad Aden-

Krous

Timber Yard

Quer to Florence, Kraus ro- Shortly after 7 am, officers at tried to approach the the Kowloon Fire Station noticed

Dancellor as he was getting a tall column of sunske curling

into his car. He claims that he up from a timber yard in Tong was prevented from doing so, Mel Road, Shomshulpo. At the later arrested by Italian police, same time a fire report was re- Eight of put into a mental home, and ceived by the station.

the mine major are appliances in expelled from the West German Kowloon, and two mere from Foreign Service Administration. Hongeag were despatched to

staled to

Psychiatrists Bro have testified that Kraus bears

the scene.

The timber yard, measuring no sign of mental disorder.

roughly 500 feet by 220 fees, la Other diplomats implicated by ringed by a largo number of Kenus in the charge areaquatier huls, and it was among Clemens vots Brentano, brother these that the fire is believed of West German Forelan to have started. Minister Heinrich von Brentano, and the West German, Conmil Keneral De Beigner Kreutzwald.

The Equatters quickly eva- cunted, and in 49 minutes the fire was under control. But a Fire Brigade, officer said this morning it will continue to smoulder until five or six pm

WARMEST WEATHER today.

Booklet On Marriage IN UK SINCE 1866

Causes Storm Of Protest In Britain

London, Mur. 1.

A little booklet called "Getting Married" caused a

storm of protest in Great Britain today because of its frankness "In discussing pre- marital sex relations.

RUSSIANS GO. TO

Kowloon, Causeway Bay THE POLLS

and Aberdeen,

Regiments taking part in

the march past

waro

Ono

prevented from rehears- ing most of last weak bacause of roln. drill carly yesterday morning was ruined by a downpour.

Clearing skies brought cheer to those responsi- blo for planning and ar- ranging the visit. The big question people were asking over the weekend was: "What huppens if it rains --- will the Garden Party, The Youth Display, the laying of the foundation stone, the march past at Kal Tak and the recep». tion on the Britannia go on as planned?" Mail Photo..

China

EXER

Moscow, Mar. 1.

One chapter of the pamphlet Is entitled "Is chastity out- moded?". And another gets right down to fundamentals by making in the opening lines: "So you're a bride. And are you pregnant too?»

The booklet, issued by the British Medical Association ári

London, Mar. 1. Temperatures in Britain to

10 00 day coated

degrees Fahrenheit and over in the warmest weather for this time

Factories

Fortunately the Fire Brigade was able to stop the blaze from spreading to the timber yards whore there are a number of furniture and box factorica. A spokesman of the

of the Department

Relief

Social

OVER

of the year since 1800, the Welfare officer wild that Weather Bureau announced.

500 people had been registered Thousands of Britons took as homeless, and they had been

of the advantage

spring-like taken to the Maple Street office, being weather to drive to the seaside, where free meals were preating trame jams eight miles distributed. long on the ronds-France-

Preise.

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Now Europe To

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HK By Rail

London, Mar. 2,

edited by a woman doe A travel authority asserted here today that

More than 99 por cont of the brought down the wrath of voters turned out in many church officials who say it en- areas to cost their ballots courages free love.

In the elections for the Supreme Soviet of the

BARBS

Russian Federated Repub- Most of the barbs were aimed lie (RSFSR) the largest at an article written by Dr republic in tho Soviot Eustace Chesser, a Union, Tass news agency psychologist, reported tonight.

chastity Was fashioned.

The elections are to close to- night.

London who asked if

through train services to East were now feasible, This would make it possible for travellers to book through tram Victoria Station, London, to Hongkong,

No Obstacle

Mr 3. H. Price, editor of, a becoming old tell known London continental timetable, sild In a fatter to the Daily Telegraph that bogia- changing equipment now existed

Dr J. B. O'Sullivan, Secretary

Moscow and the Far

Pranksters Send Cars Off Road

Modeno, Mar. 1.

Tass said that in many cities of the Guild of St Luke, which at Ave-Russian frontier-stations Police today were looking för.

or districts the electoral furnout represents Roman Catholle doc- In tors, called the booklet Out- exceeded 29 per cent, Moscow this Agure was, 00.29 rageous...medically and morally

cent and per

in Leningrad || wrong," 90.05 per cent,,

The R Rev. Percy Gilipin, Tass sald these results re-the Bishop, of Kingston, said he presented a "dazzling demon- believed the morals of young stration of the completo. unity, persons were slipping and that of the party, the government publication of the book only End the people-France-Presse. speeded up the process-UP.I.

17-Year-Old Lovers Elope At Gunpoint

Three of these were in Europe and two in the Far East

There was thus "ao techni

cal obstacle now to s through service from Paris or Ostend to Moscow."

Bir Price added: "With two train could bogte-changes, la work right through from Orlend to Hongkong. It would take 18 days, algune

Dual-Gauge

the dangerous · pronkstais who repainted the centre. dividing line on the main --highway here leading of © 19ost 15 curs off the road: during the night Into the bushes.

Np/injuries were reported since all the cars were travel-.. ling at slow speed - becaine for

direction

"At present, Russian dual-theme time, the sougo sleeping cars run from pranksters changed Buenos Aires, Mar. 1. company today. He was threatened the pilot with a of the pair would have to be moscow to every expital for RISTOR WWO 17-year-old Argen- optimistic about the future, 32 revolver, forcing him to responsible for their cub eastern Europe and to Vienna, ing mo

wie Fried's letter, was secon→

The levers, who forced "We are young. what fly on to Uruguay, tody. Neator's mother, whoyongyang, and Paking open war on their intended journey.

changing to boylest at the But-

a pilot at gunpoint to fly better future than that," he Uruguayan authorities inter- has now consented to a gonded by a photograph showing them to Uruguay last cald "I believe everything fered with their wedding marriago, met them at the the Moscow Bering EXOTERS

failed to show up and the Wednesday in an attempt to will be worked out in a few plans, however, by sexing dock. But Sugana's mother get married, were back days and we will be married them.

Chally after numerous girl was brought to the home today, still single, at last for

mothers; offers of Ridpoured in for police stationslag

the the inlovers, they were EVE ane, put on Bout and sent here. !en and Authorities stipulated, Nestor however, that the mothers Sue

Ira Kuala Lumpur, Mar, 1.The would-be-bride, dark After their Malaya's National Anthem to- day diseppeared front eames shop haired Susana Porras Biva; objected to a mar

on inter authorities ruled was held at a local police couple rented em warmproper to play the station. Her weethearts here last - Wedn record to public enterislumat. Nestor Aranguren, Kept her once it was alofty

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