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HOW DO YOU FANCY THIS KIND OF PHONE?

AMERICA

HAS IT NOW

HERE is something.

new in telephones. Where? In free enter- prise America.

This new streamlined in- strument you push buttons instead of dialling has been experimentally in- stalled in a hundred honies in Connecticut and another hundred in Illinois.

What are the advant- ages? Two, principal according to the engineers at. the Bell, Iaboratories:-

ones,

IT TAKES only five seconds to push out h number, coin- pared with ten seconds If you dial it.

YOU MAKE fewer mistakes

by pushing than you do

dialling and this is particularly

important in America.

long-distance patomatic

where

tele-

phone rodes produce highly

For ex complicated numbers.

ample, to call New York In- formation direct from New Haven, Connecticut, you have

to dla 112-212-555-1212.

NO PLANS

The designers call this "the telephone of the future." They are confident that pushing will entirely repince dialling. But,

even if those 200 families re- port favourably, the change will inke several years.

Push-buttons talk 11 rather different electronic language from dials, and so for only the

exchanges experimental Connecticut and Illinois equipped to interpret.

in

arc

ANTHONY LEJEUNE

~~(London Express Servies).

ARTIE..

"What makes you think hope to cuddle for him?”

London Express Hervic

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1959.

GEN. EISENHOWER ADVANCE BODY GUARD.

GEN. EISENHOWER, ADVANCE

PRESS.

U.S.A.

"Watch your step, Hank. Hostile native down there-fishing.”

When a man has

a name like Nasir, you know what to expect.

BEHI

BY BERTRAM JONES

finish Gan

For a moment I thought I

Colombo. What are his terms for

allowing Britain to EHIND all Britain's base-in fulfilment of the 1958 troubles today with agreement without necusing us her vital £4,000,000 air of bullying a defenceless nation of 60,000 primitive islanders, or staging post fast nearing of stirring up revolt? completion on the Indian bad the answer, Ocean coral islet of Gan is a quick-thinking op- Britain of a 100-bed hospital, a portunist named Nasir. harbour quay, two dredgers, a

The namt: is pronounced "Nusseer." Does it strike you as familiar?

It seemed that the gift by

MALDIVE

INDIA

1,500-ton cargo ship, one 500- tormer, and one experimental fishing trawler would have re- Gan base we used against stored perfect understanding.

feed

Gan

as ma

Japan.

appeared off the beaches, and riffe fire started from its deck.

Punitive forces with guns and cudgels the Maldives have no army--swarmed ashore.

The islanders, with no better ammunition than slones and chunks of coral, were defeated. Sorgo were shot down. -

Their leaders were flogged and Laken away in chains,

The ship sailed on to the next Island and the Government forcen took the defenders in the

rear.

Independent

London Express Bervice.

OUR REPORTER TELLS OF A THREAT THAT COULD SET THE EAST ABLAZE

Reds mass on border

BHUTAN SAYS 'WE FIGHT TO DEATH'

Horror tales hot

up war of fear

From GEOFFREY, THURSBY

Calcutta.

ONE of the few Britons ever to be allowed along

Eight, including a woman were killed. All their leaders and others who resisted were fogged and taken aboard. As I talked an hour ago with The gift would have been Mr Didi demanded nothing. Women reintives of the head

Britain a ไป

Foll He was happy to let Britain use man were chained to the two of his spokesmen, disturb- chicken

deal

promises 10 and Abdullah con- Can under her

Laur Bidi-a ing similarities

37-more-than-worth-it between

defence defend The Maldives and member of the rebel committee year-old Ibrahim Nasir, Prime sidering the supreme

R.A.F. Commonwealth. But ambitious was flogged until he could not Minister of the Moslem Sultan- value ate of the Maldive Islands, and staging point to the Far East Nasir was quick to see the get- stand. Gamal Abdel Nasser. 41-year- and the Woomera' rocket range rich possiblilties,

in as He wangied his way

the Tibet border area of Bhutan told me the old President of Egypt, flashed l Australia now that we are

our last base Into mind.

in Premier and surrendering

full story of Red China's massive build up against Independent neutralist Ceylon. mands that Britain step up But the instant I started to £2,000 a year she offered

the little Indian Protectorate it claims as its own. put things in writing, Prime rent for Gan. Minister Nasir's well-indoctrin- Amid all this the fishermen

Tibetan or on most rellable

refugees nted spokesmen started to and palm-weavers on

authority thut. Prime Minister filtering across the border He told me today: The hedge.

South 'Maldivian islands, In Nasir sat in a comfortable chair with tales of death by tor-Chinese have now massed troops Five or six years ago that cluding Gan, revolted.

on deck and watched all this." They accused the Maldives would have been enough, they said. But not now.

Hush money

Nasir is shrewd and ambi- tious, So is Nasser.

Nasir climbed to power on the shoulders of his old boss. So did Nasser.

Nasir sees a chance to turn

liny Gan (one and three-quarter miles by three-quarters of mile) into a power bludgeon. Nasser did it with Sucz.

For half the morning-in 0

EXION

CRIC

de- the

So Nasir's men chained him upright to the most facing the ns sun and as the sun moved round

they moved him too.

I have it

three

for

CHINA

TIBE

NEPAL

BHUTAN

ASSA

INDIA

EASTE

Can still proclaims its inde-ture and crude crucifixion; along the Bhutan border. I was

of of within four miles

them. Government of mismanagement pendence. Britain-anxious of a psychological war

They move up patrols at night. Until Nasir came to power in and extortionate taxation and the safety of her new base-lus nerves that is turning a December 1957 there was no they set up their own State..

"One offered to mediate between the peaceful, once-happy State

night when I WES trouble between Britain and the "A British conspiracy! Try- Maldives Government and the lato a nation of anguish, camped near the border the Maldives, her island Protector- ing to get Gan by aiding the rebels, and has denied any part

Chiocso were trying to stop rebels!" howled Nasir. ate since 1077.

Mr Dermond Doig,

refugees a writer, Tibetan

getting O miles 150 Day spent more than six weeks in through. I nearly shot one of Bhutan -sometimes

my mules which walked into my places

lent. I thought it was the has been Chinese."

in provoking the uprising.

he

of

But Prime Minister Nasir has tossed this offer back at us and

in

I wonder who prompts him?

(London Express Service).

where no European before.

palm-shaded house within Nustr was No. 1 assistant to.

And today I can tell how Found of the Indian Ocean Mr Ibrahim All Didi, the Prime crushed the revolt on two combers breaking creamily on

beach here in Ceylon-I have Minister who initialled the 1956 the islands. tried to pin down Nasir's agents agreement with Britain allowing

us to re-establish the wartime chartered schooner with 10 men to an exact statement of what he is after In hush money.

A Maldivian Government-

CHINESE

CREEDS & CUSTOMS

VOLS. I, II, III.

FRENCH AFRICAN COMMUNITY

Containing many beautiful colour plates and black & whito illustrations by the author

V. R. Burkhardt

$19, each volume

!

On sale at

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST LTD.

Hong Kong and Kowloon,

Is calling us "Imperialists."

please, Our lamas have given uo prayers to recite for such an For more than two months eventuality. We are prepared to now, Red Chinese propaganda be killed mercifully-but we will has been claiming Bhutan as not go back to Tibet."

part of Red-dominated Tibet.

The Chinese also claim the now a country of torture

The women said Tibet was ond ..State of Sikkim, to the west of death by atoning or crude cruci- Bhutan, and parts of Nepal and fixion. Women whose husbands India's north-cast frontier regions.

were fighting the Chinese ware tled naked to the top of tall polds to die of exposure.

"Shoot us'

The refugees aro making their If the Chinese move. In

to India, way across Bhutan Bhulan or Sikkim, it could Most of them can barely walk. mean a great clash with India. Their mules are dying beside Sikkim is also an Indian

them. Protectorate.

Parents with chlidren try to

Bhutan has begun · lo raise sell them--not only because they and train an army to defend have nothing else left to mall, its frontiers, Conscription has but because to them it seems been introduced.

the only way their children may,

Mr Dolg 'told me: The get a better life. Bhutanese decided that if the Chinese attacked they

would

not turn and flee into India.

Unsure

to

acll their

Mr Dolg .sak: "I met "They pledged themselves to parents ready die, if necessary, in their fields children." and valleys.

He also met Tibetans one.of "This is the basis on which them a lama who were to their defence' force, I being bewildered they had lost their bullt up,"

Buddbirt falth,

Wallo the Bhutanese Arc training, the

Chinese are Two men including the lama saturating the border area with-had-turned in their propaganda. They say Bhutan ánguish elsewhere-to is part of Tibel, and that it will tianity.. bo... berated." They beam The stories of torture broadcasts into the area,

prc en

Kreat

Chris

and

And it is no conckfence that murder in Tibet are having a these broadcasts

the bad effect in most of the border Unlike the Bhutanese, asmo wavelength as All-India as

not everyone is sɔ sure that. ho Radio.

Whilo Mr Doig, was in will or can-ghi, Fear Is Bhutan, Tibetan refugees were spreading. stul escup/g into the country. Ted China is exploiting the Bhutaness, guards, without ins fear, by boastful" "broadesets structions from the capital,, from Peking, about har might. told one group of women "Wo This alone is a serious, thegat in: do not know what to do with the border areas you. You may have lo ge back Now that the Chinese Army li to Tibet."

there the danger is, befoming The women crowded round worse.

JUST A NEW SORT OF MIRAGE, I ASSURE YOU”

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