THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 1959.
Geo Dawson Gets 6
George Dawson "Sharp, not criminal"
Needed:
Men Of Action
Berkeley. Calif.,
March 26.
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John T Blackmore,
University of California philosophy student, today called for "men of action" to join him in a planned expedition to help revolu- fionaries fighting Chinese rule in Tibet.
Is call for men with "guts" or money went edf vla the bulletin board at Oxford Stati, The notice rend:
"Men of action are needed. Tibet i la revoli. Do you want attother Hungary? AB- oller week may be too late Will you volunteer to light?
"Are you right-then give ike
aeroplanes to India. Poor* Then volunteer. De ready when transportition is pro- vided."
Francisco,
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In
30
or
Blackmore, whose home in
Sen
wild students,
residents Oxford Hall, have answered the call to arms ince the nailce went up three days ago,
Years Gaol
London, March 26.
Cockpey financler George Dawson was tonight found guilty of ten charges concerning his business deals after a 37-day trial at the Old Bailey.
He was sentenced to six years' imprisonment,
The 40-year-old dealer, who, Valin, 39, club proprietor had pleaded not guilty and were found not guilty.
maintained he had been per- Albert Wenlock, 41, export: recuted by police, was col-agent was found guilty on three victed on the main charge – į charges. Charles Eiman, 30, conspiracy to.choat and defraud } chartered accountant, was con- in connection with transactions | victed on six charges. These relating Ministry of Food two men were each sentenced orange juice, buses, bogles and to two years' imprisonmicut. -- inning vehicles.
China Mail Special.
Dawson, a short stocky Lon- doner, who made a fortune from fabulous dealings in post-war scrap, was also found guilty on nine charges of obtaining credit by fraud, false pretences and fraudulent conversion.
Before sentence was passed Dawson said quietly from the
dock; "Though I have been found guilty I always thought I may haye been sharp but not cristinal. I am not guttiy." Pursing sentence, Judge Air- vold said: "It is quite clear from the evidence we have heard in this case you set out to use these various commodt- ies not for the purpose of law. ful profit but as a means of ex- tracting money from people by any dishonest device that ap- peared conventent."
Smiled
There seemed a smile about
court for the cells. Dawson's mouth as he left the
During his trial he told the Jury about business be hind done amcanting to "some thing like £13 mlillon,” He described how he bought
up London trams and sold them
Bes
for serup, made a fortune out of dewling In
bought vehicles from the Americans for worth
25 when they € 2.000.
were
On a trip to Guernsey aborily after the war ended he foundi thousands of tons of serqp brass und copper, "I bought this for nothing- £2 per ton when the prize then was £80 a ton," he told the jury.
Dawson was tried with flyg other men who also denied the charges against them.
Three of them Donald
Air Base
Agreement Lapses
Hussein Appeals
To Arab States
Washington, March 26,
King Hussein of Jordan today called on all Arab states to pull together to correct deplorable Amb relations and block Communist penetration in the Middle East. He sald reactivation of the organisation in the correct course
Essential to serve Arab interesis... Arab League was an step in this direction,
The young monarch made the "The present siate of affairs an address pre-among the Arab states la de-
Press plorable," he said,-UPİ
Bagdad, March 26. British Embassy spokes- mon said here today that the special agreement under which Britain maintained Royal Air Force bases in Iraq had proposals in automatically lapsed fol-pared for the national lowing Iraq's withdrawal Club.
from the Bagdad Pact. the privilege of basing aircraft The agreement gave Britain at Habbaniya and Shualba anci of stationing maintenance per- sonnel at these bases.
The
spokesman said: "Wo have nothing at Shuaibo, but some 400 British personnel, m eluding about 80 familles, are now living in Hobbenlys await- Ing Iraq's decision on the special agreement."
British aircraft were stationed at Habbaniya, about 45 miles west of Bagdad, until 1950.
Britain then ted Hiab- baniya as a slaging base unt!! last July, when the base was sealed off by Iraqi troops fel- lowing the overthrow of the monarchy.
Inil he made several eriti- sal references to Arab leaders who once urged collaboration with the Soviet bloe and who sought to fulfill personal am- billons.
Although he named no names, it was bejleved he probably re- ferred to President Gamat Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic.
"Desire To Exploit"
Husseln said: "There can be no stronger ties than the ties of brotherhood among Arabs."
He said this naturally led to creation of the Arab League.
Fireball Hurls Man 15 Feet
Adelaide, March 26.
Frogmen Search For Docker Jewels
'As a small buat stands by, nava) frogmen search the River Kchen at Woodmill. Bouthampton. for Lady Docker's missing jewels. The fragmen had been asked by police to help in search for the Jewels. stelon from the Dockers' Southampton. — Reuterphoto.
Emperor To
Visit USSR
Addis Ababa, March 20,
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SPACE BOMBS WILL BLIND RADAR, BUT...
Washington, March 26.
A Defence Department spokesman said today that last year's high- altitude Argus tests | show the feasibility of causing a total — but temporary blackout of all radio and radar in the Moscow area.
Hoy W. Johrison, director of the Defence Department's Ad- vanced Research Projects Agency, said this could dune, in theory, by setting off | high nititude nuclear shots over
the Indian Ocean,
Ho
quickly added
ha
that
Father
Blinded
Daughter
-COURT TOLD
Malmesbury, Eng.,
March 26,
Nursin--presumably by space A father of 10 children was shots in other areas-could produce a similar blackout in the United States.
Johnson cautiously discussed the implications of the Argus testy in testimony before a Senate Space Sub-committee.
He prefaced. bls comments with the comment that the full military impact of the tents is not known.
conclusions
Some of the drawn may have to be changed, he said.
Advantage
He agreed. however, when chairman Stuart Symington (Denioerul-Missouri) asked if the data gathered from tho
Emperor Haile Selasale of Argus tests seemed to show. Ethiopia has accepted an invita-
A fireball which struck A stationary vehicle at suburbsa Goodwood today hurled B workman 18 feet through tho alr.
Percy Griswood was loadingbeen fixed.---Router. goods into the vehicle when the fireball struck.
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He was badly shaken bul un- hurt,
He said: "I was lifted off my feet into the air.
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But, he said: "Owing to per- sonal ambitions and the desire to exploit the machinery of the Since then, the British plemen | Arab League for selfish and "I felt myself flying through He said he has collected $250 Rery Williams, 35, property at Habbaniyä. ”Háve Feda in a personal interests by some state the air and then I landed on my from fellow sludents to sunogent; Kenneth Maclagen, 57, state dl enforced Idimness members, it has not been pos- fest shaking like a jelly," he port the revolution.-U.P.I. i prospector; and Jack Raymond Reuter,
sible to direct that Pan-Arab } added.—China Mall Special,
NOTICE
attacker."
flon from L Nikita Khrush that "the advantage is with the chev, the Soviet Prime Minister,; "Yes" Johnson said after a 1o visit the USSR, usually re- Hable sources said today. The pause, "I thlok that true." date of the visit has not yet. The United States Into last summer exploded three small alamic bombs more than 300 miles above the South Atlan- ile. The tests spread stem- porary 100-mile thick shell of deadly radiation above the earth at altitudes of up to 4,000 miles.
Marathon
London, March 20. Mr and Mrs Malcolm Raper were granted a divorce here
The electronic release of the when they told the judge that shots also, produced some inter- their arguments were not onlý | ference with radio and radar frequent but also inng. One of¦ transmission and reception. --- them lasted 37 hours.-U.P.I.
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"I did not mind her having boy friends hat I did not want her to sleep away from home. I believed there was too much temptation," the father, 53- year-old Francis Goldstone, was alleged 10 have told the police.
The girl, Mavis, former beauty queen, appeared in court with a black patch over her right eye,
-She told the court that when
she got off a bus on retuming from a cinema one night her father was waiting for her, On the way home he attacked her with an axe,
Goldstone denied the offence stars but En a second state- alleged to have ment he was admitted it.
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