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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1959.

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TO CONSOLIDATE WEST'S POSITION ON BERLIN Communists Riot Of The MACMILLAN LEAVES In Le Havre

Day

CONTROL OF

MED. FLEET

TRANCE's request that her

Mediterraneun fleet should always remain under nation- | al control even in war comics

As a severe blow to the

15:

of

To Visit Canada

And United States

London, March 18.

The Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan, and the

Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, left by air for Canada and the United States early today to consolidate the West's position on Berlin and European security.

Western Alliance at a time

when absolute unity needed

the face Russian threats to Berlin's status and the outstanding German question. The timing of the announce- ment rather than the request itself is the mujor cause for concern a carier in the year high French civil servant aned the following warning in tones of sonie satisfaction to a number of Mr Lloyd yesterday met the his Nato colleagues: "You people are going to find us making quite SIL of

capital, thrown

The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary will spend all B the Canadian into mourning of the by the death cariter Canadian External Affairs Minister, Sidney Smith, before geing on to Washington,

high-ranking. Sviet Orcial, Markboll Suslov, marking speculation that the Soviet Pre- trouble for you this year." micr. Nikita Khrishehcy, had

[331 delivered

eleventh-hour The French claim that thi

Britain

and the United message to the Western leaders, Staten were notified of the move and it must therefore be expected that both coun- tries protested vigorously against any further weaken ing of the Alliance.

Britain Starts

EV

NIVER since Mr Sandys introduced his first White Paper on defence which led to the cutting down of British forces in Germany on specious pretexia that provided precedents for everybody to reduce defence spending, shorten national

i

Courtesy Call

But the Lloyd-Suslov meeting larted only 20 minutes and was as merely A described Jater courtesy call. Diplomatic

seurvey said the two did 110t discuss the International situ- ton,

Mr Suslov, the top Sovicl Communist theoretician, has beer in London since Friday on a 10-day unofficial visit spon. rofed by some Labour Members of Parliament.

Labour Party

Official To

Stand For Parliament

London, March 17. Mr Morgan Phillips, 57-year- ald Ganeral-Secretary of the Labour Party, is re ported today to be sook- ing a parliamentary seat. He has allowed his name ta

Le put forward for selection as prospective candidate for North- cast Derbyshire.

Mr Macmillan and Mr Lloyd This is a "safe" Labour sca: were to spend all of today in at which the present member, the Canadian caplial and in Mr Henry White, had a majority talks with the Canadian Prime tf more than 17,000 at the 1985 Minister, John Diefenbaker. A general election."

Forelen Office spokesman had

NO COMMENT

Mr White, aged 08. Intends

service and ecoromise on said last night that Mr Smith's equipment, it has been felt death was not expected to force that Britain has been the cancellation or postponement to retire at the next general most irresponsible partner of the Ottawa vist.-U.P.I.

by setting a bad example,

Gaullist Policy

HOWEVER, it now looks

OFFICIAL

WELCOME

MISFIRED

Sao Paulo, March 17. Official Brazilian plans to greet the Duchess of Kont ond Princess' Alexandra of Sao Paulo airport misfired tho yesterday because plane bringing them from Rio de Janeiro arrived on

us though the Gaullist government's polley of national greatness has not only been partially imple- menied, but puts Mr Sandys' White Paper in the shade. There is no doubt, though, that the French have taken their cue from Mr Sandya by maintaining that what is good enough for Britain is j

Francr good enough for despite the disparity in The French attitude is that Shapo is fur too. Auglo

is the aircraft's Saxon and there rosedent demand for more-to-md-been-delayed, arrived

The state governor, Professor Carvalho

That Pluto, hearing

from departure

efection.

Press

reports today giving! news of Mr Phillips' ambition to enter the House of Commons quoted him

declining all comment on the matter.

Labour rules prevent party oficials sitting in the House of Commons. So, Mr Phillips would have to resign his post it

AS' BIG AS A DOUBLE-DECKER

HIS LAST

LAST DAY

ON CYPRUS·

Nicosia, March 17.

The second

23-tom

Mayoral Election.

Le Havre, March 17. Helmeted riot police hurled tear gas bombs into a howling, stone-throwing crowd of Communist demonstrators tonight to climax an uproarious inaugural meeting of this Channel port's new City Council.

At least four police were | Injured in the fighting.

The Communists were furlous because the council used a one- vote edge over the Communists to loss out of office the city's long-time Communist mayor, Rene Cance.

The trouble in laugh Le Hayre. П notoriously Red port city, had been antiëlpated. Extra reinforcements of the para-military CRS (Republi can Becurity Company) were rushed in from the provincial capital of Rouen Ne Communists

'Red Workers roped not caly

were On-

because the

Two Socialist councillors non-Communists were ganging joined in the anti-Communist up to oust Communist Mayor majority of 10 to 18 which Cance but also because a So- elected or Mayor Robert Mont-clalist was acting as the main gullon, the rotund Socialist city i instrument in his defeat UP.I. comptroller.

The police brawl with the Communist crowd-which in- cluded briwny Red workers from the docks-crypted after police cleared the public from

chamber council response to an appeal from the chairman.

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It had been a rowdy session from the moment it started at 8.30 p.m. After only 20 minules the chairman used his special powers to summon police to his ald.

As soon as the public were cleared from the gallery they jained Communists waiting oul- side in bombarding police with clones. The police fought their way out of from under the hail of stones with tear gas and the crowd dispersed.

Rod Port City

JOE LOUIS MARRIES

Los Angeles, March 17. Former heavyweight boxing champion, Joo Louis and Mrs Martha Jefferson, Los Angeles attorney, were married at Winterhaven, California, last week, as- sociator of the couple

disclosed tonight.

The ex-champion and Mrs

Jefferson had been "going to- gether for some time" and their marriage last Wednesday came as "no surprise" to their friends. The pali quelly drove to une ltle town near the California- notlonwide municipal elections, Arizona linn for the ceremony except for an incident in one and then returned here without village during Sunday's ballot-disclosing the

The violence was the Brst lo crop

up as a result of the

ting when drunken voters turn- today.

marriage until

ed over ballot boxes and sel Both hnd been married Bre to the ballots,

previously-U,P.I.

steam boiler for Jardines 3-Year-Old Sleeps Off

Dyeing and Finishing factory was successfully delivered to Shatin this morning on this Army tank transporter.----Chinn Mall Photo.

he were elected to Parliament. Archbishop Makarios, asked at a press conference.

-Chian Moll Special.

RUSSIAN NUCLEAR CENTRE

BLOWS UP

by deep "Vianna,"barch=”1/4

paper Die Presso reported today that on accident

in

French influence and high by car at the airport three The Vionnoso daily news-

minutes after his guerts had posts in the Alliance. While it cannot be doubted left to visit Sao Paulo's museum

that the Mediterrancan is of contemporary art. a French sea, the United States has the biggest fleet there and the British have nominal command and it is this that appears to irk the

French.

tonight how long it would be before Colonel George Grivas returned to the island, said, “If he wishes to return after the Cyprus Republic is proclaimed, I see no difficulty."

The Archbishop sald Grivas often walked around in Cyprus unrecognised.

He

Last Night-

All Eoka men still on the wanted lists can henceforth circulate freely, it was offelally announced tonight.-Reuter,

disclosed that Gelves spini Inst night the Greek, hopitalité nerez shorty-belokan

he went there, "I saw him for two hours at my sister's house," the Archbishop stated.

US Weather

Archbishop Makarios said: а Soviet "My brother drave Grivas from nuclear centre in Febru- the consulate to a bungalow ory, 1958, #eriously Injur- near the secretariat, and he waJ ing nearly 200 people scheduled to leave there at t A

Turning his car

occurred around, he raced after the royal party, catching up with them at the museum's entrance where off!- clal greetings were exchanged.

Reuter.

SOVIET AGENTS Canadian Foreign

T

IE Soviet Union Is about diplomatic resume

Minister Dies

13,

-and-contaminating 5,000 square miles in the Sverd- fork region, central Urals. | Dio Presse, quoting as its source an unnamed Est bloc physicist, who recently return- vd from a voyage to the Soviet Union, said the catastrophe ac- counted for the ban on freighters in the Sverdjort and Cheljabinsk regions.

"He met some Eoka men in. this house and persons who had

helped Eoka. But as a little crowd gathered outside, ไปง departure was advanced by. 20 minutes."

Makarios salil Grivas landed secretly in west Cyprus en October 24, 1054.

Balloon Over Asia

Another

23-Ton

Boiler

Arrives

A 23,tan item bollar was

•Jutealfully -tüliväred" "on- an Army tank transporter from the Kowloon Wharf to its owners, the Jardine Dyeing & Finishing Co., Ltd., at Fo Tan, near Sha- tin, this morning.

This was the second bailer to

On

Washington, March 17. U.S. Navy weather balloon be delivered to the factory. The which hit a high-speed lot frst one, which was of the same stream in the upper air size, wis transported there was expected to land in February 10. the Orient today after The Hongkong & Kowloon travelling about

Wharf & Godown Co., Lid. thirds of the way around the world.

Two-

The alleged Grins diaries The Navy sold the balloon as published by the Govern- was launched from - Stanton, ment said he arrived in Cyprus | Minnesota, last Monday. Next on November of that year,

Dacorated

undertook the operation with the assistance of the 8 Coy Royal Army Service Corps (Independent Infantry Brigode), EXPERTS

relations with Australla

Ottowa, March 17. The break between the two countries came about in

External Affairs Minister

The Viennese piper sald the

This morning, four selected veteran а

day it was speeding eastward expert drivers from the 8 Coy, 1964 following the Petrov Sidney Smith, 62,

educator and a member of the accident occurred in a nuclear

at more than 100 miles an hour. RASC, with their Second Com affair.

nt u height of 34,000, feet. Petrov, Third Secretary in the Prime Minister's Conservative research centre after an explo

mander, Captain, P. R. Cooke slon which partially. destroyed

The Navy Said it was lo charge, were present at the Russian Embassy in Can-Cabinet since September

1957, died today.

the centre's illter system.

Makarios 'confirmed that ho scheduled to drop automatically operation. berra, sought asylum in

Radioactive dust from eight decorated Aspokcamon for the Prime

Crivia with the a 12-pound lead of instruments Two tractors and one..troller Australia and his Jia- Minister's office gal: Smith reactors reportedly contrininat-i

modal of Saint Barnabas at a this morning when, if its speed were required for the operation. closures about secret aer- suffered a heart attack

Just ed -a vast area, northwest of

house in Nicosia earlier, this had not changed. It probably one of the tractors was held in vice activities in the coun- before he was to have lett Sverdloris, necessitating

month

was over northeast Asia. The reserve. try wore sufficient to cause home to attend this afternoon's evacuation of 12 villages

He said the only other' per- Instruments transmitted pres- L/Cpl. 9. c. Stabbing drove a first class political storm session of the

non decorated with, this medal sure, altitude and position dato, the tank transporter, was Archbishop Spyridon.

-U.P.I. which reverberated through mons-U.P.I. out the world. The result that other countries

began to intensify their Inquiries into the Recret police operations carried out under the cloak of diplomatic immunity. With the facts at the disposat

of the Australian Govern ment future Soviet agents are likely to find their movements restricted. If relations are restored - as appears likely there will be a close watch on all |

Embassy personnel.

the and

collective Irms

France-PressU.

House of Com several

Unexpected Snowstorm

New York, March 17.

marchers and

Chills Sons Of Erin

when the parade started shortly | ming the line of march from, Irish—and the weather bureau— weather bureau, 130,000 after noon. By 3.30, storm 44th to 18th Streets, through the turned and snow wax forecast.

a million clouds · had gathered, and at Fifth Avenue shopping area and · Police said the turnout · of taken by aur about 4.20 p.m., a heavy, mow past Central Park and towering marchers and watchers was. a onlookers were

apartment houses,

record. The avenue` WAS A... Sea rise today when a windswept began to fail.

shamrocks, r snowstorm struck suddenly in

ggromm

ho

of:

the midst of New York's 100th A chill wind blow the flakes Clear skies had been forecast neckties and other St Patrick's and biggest St Patrick's Day against

Tinh Avenue ['st first. Later, clouds were Day-retralia, ned, da umiał, a parade.

marchers. It whipped the skirts predicted. It was not, until greed stripe had been painted for drum majorelles und sent a after Liv Song of Erin began along the centre of the avenue. The sky was blús and sunny chill through the crowd Jam-marching that the luck of the U.P.I.

1

Caph A. Midler, Master Mariner of the wharf company was in overall charge of the operation.

Laughing And Singing

Guests Killed

Annapolis, March 17.

B

A truck Jammed with mora than 50 laughing and singlag Brazilians on their way" wedding smashed into another truck today, killing 10 persona U.P.L

Giant Hangover

Blackpool, March 17,

A three-year-old boy was sleeping off an outsize in bang- overs here today after drinking six plats of home- made wine in a two-hour session.

The boy, Mark Spedding, and o four-year-old friend found their way Into basement of a boarding house last night. There they discovered 14 bottles of October 1958 vintage home-made wine. Mark's pal took one sip and left it at that -but not Mark.

He was found two hours later by the landlady propped in a *** corner," his' säilör hat-cocked over one eye, and clutching

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Mark

was taken to hospital where he stayed the night while deelors and nurses goi to work with a stomach pump. His mother took him home from

hospital this afternoon. "He's still sleeping it off and I can't get any rense out of him Fet," she said, "I make him Bign the pledge tomorrow."

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