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India Won't

THE CHINA MAIL.“ MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1959.

Give Up A Snip-And

Himalayas: Nehru Cousins

Bombay, Oct. 4.

Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, declared today that while India was prepared to hold negotiations on minor adjustments of the Sino-Indian border, "there can never be a question of surrendering the Himalayas."

The Chinese, Mr Nehru told a mammoth public meeting here. nonly wanted to erose the Himayne bait "git right on our doorsteps."

PAINED

Mr Neuru declared connal be tirendened into rendt ring large chunks of territory,"

we

sur-

our

"It is more a question of the unity of people and the Justice of our cluse," he said.

CONFISCATION

He said that the Himalayas had played an important part in the life of the Illan peopic, and cited the centuries old

India and China, between marked by a total absence of any occasion on which the two

It pained him, Me Nehru id, countries had fought each other. that a dispute

should have

Ligg

had past

15

Of late, however, Nehru said, aikan between the two countries of Aala, which Camn had included large areas lived in mity ver the of Indian territory on its maps and thus taken a step of con- two thousand years.

"India is prepared to "Any

us Acation. quarrel between (China and India) is not only discuss minor border adjust not in the interest of eltber of ments with China but we are change the us but of the whole of Asia Hot proptred

entre border by transferring and even the world."

the Himalayas," he added.

During

speech Js 2-hour- Nehru also sought to end the controversy arising from recent the Indian developments Defence Ministry-Router and AFP.

Mr Nehru said the issue : could nol be kettled by shouting slogans or passing resoluitons, Nellber was a question which side had superfør might,

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Chinese-American

Senator's Tour

Honolulu, Oct. 4. Hawall's' Republican Sen Hiram 1. Four next week berina

Intensivo 2- month tour of Far Eastern countries to learn every- Thing

he can about the countries and the people of the orient and what they think of America.

He is the first Chinese- American senator. Fong Hongkong

will arrive in

an November 12.-UPL

LETTER, 2 YEARS

ADRIFT, DELIVERED

Pensacola, Florida, Oct. 4. A letter taken out of a wox- soaled bottle floating in the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to Norway via mail after nearly two years of! drifting in the seas be tween here and the Canary Islands.

Stresses

Policy Split

Edinburgh, Oct. 4.

Mr Frank Cousins, leader of Britain's giant Transport Workers' General and Union, spoke of his differ- encos with the Labour Party loaders prer hydro gen bomb policy at an olection meeting here to- night.

Mr Cousins moved a motion at the recent Trades Union Con-

completely Eress

rejecting official Labour Party-TUC nuclear policy, which calls for the formation of a non-nuclear club.

CHEERED

WAR

Tonleist ho

cheered "I have no when he declared: Apologies for being the spokes- man for my union in that fight,

"All the leaders of the Labour movement want to get rid of these dastardly weapons. The difference between 115 how quickly this <-2.11 bo achieved and by what method.”

He said the Labour move- ment was aiming at summit talks which would result in agreement on areas of disen- ragement, the withdrawal of troops from foreign lands, tho complete abolition of nuclear WeSpots and a strong reduc- tion in conventional weapons. That is where I am with the

Labour movement." he added. The captain of a fishing vessel, "I wanted them to go quicker Sidney J. Clopton, fished the than this. We want peace at heavy bottle out of the Gulf all times. not just at election about 35 miles southwest of times.”—Reuter. here. It waa carefully sealed with wax.

It contained a note, translated

by a Norwegian-speaking resi-

dent here, which read;

Frk Astrid Pedersen.

Stongh 90.

Porsgrunn, Norway.

Dean Astrid,

į

This letter is written

January, 1058. Hope it reach you. I put it overboard north of Canary

Best regard to all, Franc.

Oldvam.

21st: wi

island.

INSTRUCTIONS

Attached Instructions

ما

to the note wero the finder written in several Languages,

they

read: "Please bo kind enough to post the enclosed letter. Thank you. M/T Rondetjeil."

The Canary Islands are of the coast of North Africa. Capt Clopton mid the bottle, which was completely dry inside, had apparently drifted across the Atlantic Ocean and around into the Gulf.

The letter was forwarded on Friday nigh! to Miss Pedersen.

-UPI.

17 Die In West

Bengal Floods

Row Starts

Paro. 3

HE DENIES CURSE OF ‘HOPE DIAMOND

A few minutes after Jayne Mansfield opened the £1 million Chiswick fly-over a row started over the cost of the new "bridge." A contra ellon firm director claimed the Ploture fly-over, could have been bullt at half the price. shows Jayne cutting the tape with a pair of golden selators, - Express Photo.

GOVERNESS Nearly

BOUND,

HOME ROBBED

New York, Oct. 3. Two burglers broke into one

Postman Says It Had Nothing To Do With His Misfortunes

By RAY FARKAS

Washington, Oct. 4. Legend has it that the Hope Diamond is strictly bad luck for whoever owns it. Through the years tragedy has followed in the path of the fabulous stone.

The first owner of the carat diamort-a French venture--is believed to have been killed by a pack of dogs.

Next came

who a princess was beaten to death French mob

by

mon

4415 | Evelyn Walsh McCleon — pur-

ad- vived the hope. But her

was julled in an auto crash, her husband died in o mental 10- siltulon, and her daughter from an overdose of siceping plin,

Gem dealer Harry Winston purchased the Hope In 1949 and pave it to the Smithsonian In- stitute last year. winston ap garently beat the legendary bad fuck that shadows the diamond, but then came James G. Toddi

DELIVERY

Louis XVI and Maric Antoinette possessed the Hope, and they expired on the guillotine.

Another French family came усте by the diamond. They wiped out in a fall over TIKI,

It looked as if the spell was When Winston malled the

breken

when Thomas stone to Washington from New Hope got the stong Hope died York, it was portman Took who a normal death. But his grand-delivered it to the Smithsonian. son died penniless, and his wife Todd inded up scrubbing floors for a living.

The diamond's first American

OWALT Washington

hostess

Half Of

China's Workers

Are Women

Tokyo, Oct. 4.

superstitious

cfalma he izi't and never will But since he delivered Hope last November, here's what's happened' 10 him.

be the

truck:

is leg was crushed by a

Ils wife, mother of four, died from a heart attack while Todd was recovering:

---He was thrown from his car in an accident, suffering a head wound:

Tock's dog strangled himselt when he plunged through a basement window while Icashed to a free:

Four rooms in Todd's subar= ban Maryland home were gut- ted by fire.

Women now supply 45 per cent.of the labour power of that stuff," he says.

in China's countryside, according to the New China News Agency,

of Manhattan's most lavish penthouses last night, bound a pretty governess with her own stockings, and mode off with $75,000 (£27,000) worth of jowels. The governess, Peggy Boyle,

"Practically nl} able-bodied commuráty mess halls to liberate 22, returned to the penthouse women are toiling in the fields women from the household. of Mr and Mrs Crane Hausso-

"Chinese pensant wonien of the people's communes, the men from the Haussamen's Communist agency said in ahavo bocOMO vital and formid- summer home to get a dress for broadcast to Tokyo,

uble social force," New China her sister's wedding and sur

said. "The days when they wer prised the two thugs.

The broadcast did not say worns down by heavy housefuld Warning ber that they precisely how many women aro work and kitchen drudgery are would kill her if she scream-at work. But with the peasant gone.

Feudal bonds ed, they fled her hands be-population totalling 550,000,000,

have been, allowing women hind her back with her stock and with probably 400,000,000 of broken, tags, blind-folded her and these in the rural

menfolk," working work alongside the threw her on a bed,

force, this would mean approx the Agency added-UPI. Police said the men forged a mately 180,000,000 Chinese farm in floods which have hit locked drawer, removed the women are now labouring in the Southern West Bengal jewellery and put in a brief

case. A Iew minutes after after three days of tor- they fled, Miss Boyle walked to rential rain, according to an elevatorr and sumtnoned reports here.

who notified

Calcutta, Oct. 4. Seventeen people are report- their have lost ed to lives and about 50,000 have been left homeless

About a million people were said to have been affectedl bry The floods and thousands of homes in both rural and urban areas are reported to have collapsed.

rain

operator police. UPI.

Cars Confiscated In Indonesia

cruntryside.

TOTAL FORCE

In addition one out of every six industrial and white collar workers is a woman, according Lo a recent Peking radio broad cast. Adding another 10,000,000 or so, this would make the total female working force something like 190,000,000.

RESCUE WORK

"In old China," New China The army has been called in to help civil authorities in the

suid, "pcament women were kept Djakarta, Oct. 4, operations, The

indoors and TESCUO

tolled away like; Sixty Juxury care, from stepped yesterday, but many Europe and Singapore,

slaves." Nowadays, however, have stricken areas are still inacces- | been" confiscated from various they get outdoors more, Muslim Chiefile, even by boat.

persons because the vehicles "In the busy farming seasons According

100 Chief were brought to Indonesia by of 1057," the Agency said, "70 Minister Dr B. C. Roy: the evading foreign exchange regu- per cent of the Chinese peasant 50,000 people lett homeless lations, the Sourabaya Prosecu- have been given shelter by on Omer announced in districi oflcern.

Java.

Deplores Malayan Move

Singapore, Oct. 4. The Chief Kathi of Singa- Hail Ali Bin pore, Mohammed Said Salleh, said today that it would be a "disgrace" to the Muslim religion to build a mosque with money col- lected from a public Jottery,

Fo was commenting on 0 Malayan Government move to subscribe about a million dol- lars, derived from its social welfare lottery, towards build-

to

Mr Roy added however that he thought the death roll would not exceed 11-Routes,

Ing of a national mosque in A

Kuala Lumpur, Malaya's capi→

tal.

The Chief Kaihi said "TE IN Impossible to deny that money collected in this manner la gambling money-and gambly ing is strictly forbidden by the Koran.

To build a mosque by using such money is a disgrace to the religion and it shows the weak- nces of our Muslims in not being able to build a mosque by more honourable meaFIK.” -- Reuter.

Musical Work

Dast

to

King Baudouin Leaves England

London, Oct. 4.

But the postman firmly denies the diamond had anything to do with it. "I don't believe any

In fact, Todd looks at it this way "Perhaps I'm actually having good luck. Thank God All four children were outside instead of inside when the fire hit"-UPI.

Two

Women Climbers Evacuated

women

Dow

Katmandu, Nepal, Oct. 4. Two members of the all-

expedition climbing the 26,867-foot peak Cho Oyu in the Himalayas have had to be evacuated to base camp because of high allitude sickness, according to report received here to day.

蒜

King Baudouin of Belgium left Aberdeen Airport by Belgian Military D.C.-4} transport plane this after-

The expedition is making noon for Brussels after a steady progress and has set up second camp at roughly two-day stay in Balmoral te

22,500 feet over a glacier at Castle with Queen Eliza- the foot of a 300-foot high ice beth and other members wall, the report added.

of

the British Royal family now in Scotland.

DRESSMAKER

The expedition is led by the The King who had parti- leading French mountaineer and women worked in the felds," cipated carller in the week in dressmaker Madame Claude With the formation of the the golf tournament at Glen- Kogan, and includes two Bri- The owners were said to be people's communes, "practically eagles, went to morning service tons Miss Margaret Carvall,

warnen the work of the

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all able-bodied mostly Indians and Chinese-drawn into Feuler.

Fish-Killing Red

collective.

in the Catholic Saint Andrear who runs a London secretarial Cathedral nt Braemar, near college, and thio Counter Balmoral.

Dorothea Gravina, also of The chief reason for this was A royal household car drove London.

Cho Oyu is the world's sixÜ the fact that the communes had him from the castle to the Aber- 1

highest peak-Reuter. nurseries, talloring teams and been Airport.-UP),

Tide Threatens | MAUGHAM WILL REPORT

Florida Beaches

St. Petersburg, Oct. 4.

ON SLAVE TRADING

London, Oct. 4.

new outbreak of the dreaded fish-killing red tide Lord Maugham, just recovered from a serious illness, is back in London

spread 100 miles down the Florida west coast after investigating reports of slave trading in the French Sahara. from St. Petersburg on Saturday, threatening the tourist-rich beaches that dot the shoreline.

Way

A

1 Million Can't respiratory Have Children

An aerial survey late today, serreting polson which showed that the main infesta~ | paralyser their tion, first spotted on Thursday, aystems. When vaporised by

still several miles off crashing waves on beaches, the shore. but some dead fish were poison cam Irritate the mucous washing up at the tip of Long- membranes of humans.-UPI. boat Key, a popular, bathing beach near Sarasota.

CAUSE

New york, Oct. 4. American Air Force tests have shown that taste and sight to closely linked,

4

He says he discovered wide-, 5,000 miles through some of the spread slavery and has photo-wildest country in the world. graphs to prove it. He is pre- paring a full report which hi will prevent, with the photo- graphs, to the House of Lords the United and probably to Nations,

At Timbuctoo, their first objective, they made sonfact with Arab'chlofs who, they had been told, practise alavery – and I trust the mữn women, who belong to them with extreme ernelly,

and Lord Maugham says ho

the cou- Mr Davidson won

dence of a chief of the Tusceg tribe, who:enabled them to sea tan nlavery in'all its borror.

"I met little alavo boys abd |gitle with swollen, empły· bil-

Liss;">anys Lord Maugham.

London, Oct. 4. There are more than 1,000,-

After a 200-mile trek into the Lord 000 couples in Britain Who Saharo from Timbuctoo, want children but cannot Maugham bought a 20-year-old have them,

writes. Dr slave boy for the equivalent of Dr Robert F. Hution, bloio-

£37.10. in trancs. gist in charge of the State

Bernard Sandler in the

Lord Maugham mayo: "Es Marine Laboratory here, said

magazine "Family Doc-

name was Ibrahim, 1 freed him rotting h were floating so In a series of experiments de-

for."

Immediately I paid over the cloes to the shore at Sarasota aigned to test conditions which Moscow, Oct. 1.

kind of a

money" Dr Sandler chief of the Th- An important new musical Key that "arty

confront future may

Maugham is an export Lord

A few days after they reached 28 Great actor (4).

work by the leading Soviet westerly

travellers, the Air Force put fertility Clinic at Manchester's

on the Middle East.

He only Timbuctoo on their return composer, Dmitri Shostakovich large numbers of fish onto the volunteers in a blackened-out Victoria Memorial Jewish Hos-

room and fed them, The sub-pital and he says, infertility is European companion on his journey, Lord Maugham and Mir SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD~~Acrom: 1 Clutch, 7 O-pal,concerto for violinello and beach":

Michael Davidson became seriously EL. vestigation

was Mr by jets couldn't tell the difference now a serious social problem.

"For the individual marringe Davidson, an expert on West Lond Maugham belleven” they". between white and whole wheat. --obeskitäomis

} were polsonød to try and provent' and bread. They found that beef, it maat well be a tragedy, that Africa

they ,mutton .. and pork taste the can wrock family happines They spent three months on them disclosing the facts Babysame--UPI,

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