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Police Expect
VERY COLD
COLD Trouble From
AR J. B. Priestley must
MR
be about the most un-
popular Englishman
visit Australia since Harshd
Larwood went there a quar-
ter of n entury ago.
Demonstrators ·
Niigata, Dec. 11.
Mr and Mrs Priestley went Tension mounted here today as 200 pro-
Melbourne 1 attend an
internationa
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ference, and. Tiky.
con-
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pence conferences, it ended
with an almighty row,
A. $2 consequence, Mr
Priestley has
said some
mighty unkind thing
Seoul Koreans tried to obstruct the arrival of the first group of resident Koreans to be repatriated to North Korea.
The pro-Seoul Koreans strad- abbat Australia in general, i died a railway crossing. It took and Australians in parti- polley and railway guards 22 cular.
He
were
minutes to eject them.
A total of 343 Kurema arrived
said he and his wife
cold shouldered and by train from Tokyo. A heavy police guard prevented a feared treated like lepers.
Chch between the North Koren He said the treatment The pathisers and pro-Soul cle- Australians afforded him Rents apposting the repatriation. was plost contemptible. He went so far as to say he did
SIX HELD not like the smell of the
Australian olitical
Six membr Korean
of to South organisation were
atmosphere, and likened the arrested at the railway station Australians to the Ameri- on
rans when Sen. McCarthy
was holding forth.
Charges of deliberately bloeding frame.
A heavy police and #tar! fhrough.cuit
enter
Police said ultra-nationalistic Japanese groups had the elty to obstruct the repatria-
tion.
Police said there were u confirmed reports that "counter- intelligence gents of South Korea and iniltrated into the city with machine-guns and dynamite.
Felice
WARNING
served notice They would not permit any gathering
in front of the railway station
i and abservers
might ovOT.
Netherlands Aid
To HK Refugees
United Nations, Dec. 10.
The Netherlands will contribute next year the cquivalent of US$26,315 for the relief of refugees in * Hongkong, it was announced here today.
Mr C. W. A. Schurmann, chief delegate of the Netherlands, making the announcement said this\\ would be additional to his government's contribution of US$263,158 to the programme of the High Com- missioner-for-refugees:
The contributions were subject to parliamentary approval.-Reuter.
Iranian
Troops Alerted On Iraq Border
Teheran, Dec. 10.
feared a clash Iranian military garrisons along the Iraqi border were alerted today to watch for any "develop ment" from the direction of Iraq.
The Japanese marttime rafety | board meanwhile Bad four patrol! boats cruising the harbour area. Well, what is it all about? Mri
railway
while the railway from yesterdkry
several and Mrs Priestley attended line Erum Tokyo prevented the helicopters hovered overhead.→ this so-called international outbreak of untoward incidents UPI. peace conference, but when during the nightlong trip. they
A second group of 521 was OK» on Mr
got there,
Priestley's own admission,red to arrive by train from
he found that the Com- munists had taken it over. Now this is what we carinet understand: Mr Priestley boasts of being Yorkshire, Bradford at that, and he kes to say he is plain Jack and no banBERASES.
the Osaku aren.
Two Sovic: ships dropped or tomay to carry the strat Dü Kore.." of resent to North Korea.
Hoth the Krylon, 5,034 tons. and the Tobolsk, 3,407 tons, np. pears with large red cros marks on their while painted; And while none doubts that Ping from the Krylin were flags in Korean, "Wetrume stother; nd." painotie Koreans 10 your
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f the Tobulsk. SPECIAL DUTY
Wreckage Was Not
Missing Aircraft
Panama City, Dec. 16. Search for n Colombian air- liner missing since Tues- day night with 46 persons aboard shifted today to the open Atlantic off the northeast Colombia,
The two Busan his are Fakeduled to sal Monday
e North Korea.
Nugath police headquarters placed 1,200 plinclothesnien on oneri duly to cope with any emergency. Police planned other
corner
of
A report yesterday that A- Colombian plane
of
had Le
AUSTRALIAN
ORDERED EXTRADITED
Serious Riot
CHRISTMAS
ISSUE
Breaks Out OFF the presses to.
In Nigeria
Lagos, Dec. 11.
morrow morning comes a giant Christmas edition of the China Mail -with every one of its 30 pages packed with an exciting variety of the season's features and entertainment for YOU
The ger and
Over 200 steel helmeted police carrying and the entire family.
wicker basket shields threw tear gas grenades yesterday to break up a wild riot after some 10,000 Nigerian rail- waymen demonstrated against their
European bosses.
Police reported 37 persons were injured and 188 demons- trators arrested at the scene of the riot, the Lagos suburb of Etute Metta,
When the riot subsided, the suburb re.embled
# battle-
around A crefusion of uncon- Failee picked up the injured and
scious bodies lay in the streets.
hustled theth off in trucks.
Union officials who led the demonstration claimed Lo
workers were killed, but police denied any deaths.
The loters battled polfee with sticks, stands and broken bol- tles, and when police batons failed to quell them, the tear gas grenades were used
Cars trying to force their way through the battling throng. rume under a hail of stones,
Four Killed As Dynamite-Laden Truck Explodes
Yokohama, Dec. 11.
supplement is big- better than ever this year. Just look at some of the articles, short stories and highlights specially prepared for your reading pleasure:
Farewell to the Fifties the most famous living historian today. Professor Arnold Toynbee, looks back on the decade just ending and makes a prediction for life in the Sixties;
*Party-Time Fashion,
Top
the how to be Christmas
party-time, and a girl wants to look her very best. A truck loaded with four fashion writer Hazel Meyrick
brings women readera tons of dynamite collided latest advice on with another truck in pre- the belle of the down darkness today and ball; exploded with a bomb- like blast that killed four persons and injured 80. Killed were the drivers of both trucks ond their assistants.
There were unconfirmed re ports of "an exchange of the" between an Iranian patrol post and three rloads of armed Iraqis. trylm to croog the border near Tekeh Dahnisian. Tension belwen Iran and Iraq has increased stearifly in recent weeks and just last week Shah Reza Pahlevi spoke out in Press conference against the Kasem regine m Bagdad.
Today's reports of Border un- casiness partn only four days before President Eisenhower's
The trucks collided in scheduled visit to Teheran He due to reach the Iranion
heavily populated district. After the tear gas attack, the Residents within a cupital en Monday for a vili demonstrators broke
1,000- in CO3- of about seven hours during fusion. But They which he will be the guest of grabbed any weapons they could reformed, The Iraqis retreated from the find, and launched vicious coun
ter attacks against the police. Sydney, Australia, was patrol post after the
Police
reinforcements ordered to be extradited firing but one car was surround-cuiled in, and
for 30 minutes to face charges of obtained by Iranian patrols and five ing A£3,500 under false Iraqis were arrested, the report
weapons. pretences.
FROM U.S.
San Francisco, Dec. 11. Kevin Richard Gale, 35, of the Stah.
id:
reported
The Iraqis were being held by pending border patrol guards
Was
Detective Sergeant Neville
a decisión on how to handle Souththem Stevenson, of the New
from Teheran, it Wales Police, applied for ex-¦
reported.-UP!. tradition.
Mr Priestley is sincere in his efforts to promote in- ternational peace, we patise T. chif of the Best Cross to consider if he is as band-jre, fiction centre and Japane e headed as he pretends to be forante, officiats immediately when he falls for the oldest i think trick in the Reds' pack. Mr Priestley has worked in
Fleet Street. He was a good newspaperinan lung before
Fearne successful novelist and playwright. H anyone should know what gos on behind the scenes, then Priestley should.
to call on 300 students at a sighted the wreckage walked into the trap, at-, police training school for help twin-engined C-46 in the jungles) tended the conference, and it caned necessary.
of central Panama proved to bei Commissioner got himself cold shoulder- Thur was unrest in this porta misunderstanding apparently ed by the public.
city a pro-Seoul elements said caused by inaccurate transla-
"¡ police tried in slop thein from port by operators at the rause anyone in!
Canal trying to Australia to lose any sleep: Kure bound Koreans to change convince the North
Zone rescue centre.
The search shifted after re- And if only he will stop this their minds.
port: were riceived that plane) willy dirting with politics. A group of 2,000 pro-Scou! fragments were seen floating in and get back to novel writ- Koreans
Th report WHS ing which he does under a front of the Niigata railway
sued by the Civil Atrongalics before Gale will be turned over stand, everyone will be the station and then demonstrate in
Bord at Rogela which did not
{" Stevenson specify its origin. It said plane
for return better pleased.
a parade through the city.
fras menta, possibly belonging to
Sydney. the nising C-46 • Curtiss Commage of "San" airlines. weeks were sighted afloat outside the gulf of Uraba, some 100 miles) from the small seaport of Turbo on the northeast coast,
The order was made by U.S..
Joseph Karesh upon receiving evidence pre- rented by Sg Stevenson and
Rat Priestley's hard words they would resort to "force" if |tion of a Spanish-language resaha E. Anderton, altorney here;
won't
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US Air Force rescue mission "nits resumed their search for the missing plane at duwn.-UPI.
Ship Collides With Truck
San Sebastian, Dec. 11. A ship collided
fruck here today,
with a
The bow of the Spanish trawler Trincherie, mano- euvring into a berth by the fishing wharf hit a truck parked close to the wharf's edre.
No damage to the ship Was reported — but the truck was severely dam- aged-UPI.
10 Australia.
APPROVAL
The U.S. rous!
Secretary of State approve the extradition
to
I would take three to Ave
before this could be necomplished.
*
Gole
he was mos, anxious to return and defend himself and express
to Australia
cet fear that evidence he might need for defence would become unavailable with the passing of
Lime.
Gule was extradited on charges of ilsely representing a Eccre- torial service, called Gale Cor- poration Proprietary, Ltd., William Clarke Wallace, of | Sydney.UPI.
to
Mme Laval Dies
Cyclone Destroys Town
Lorenzo Marquez,
Dec. 10. The town of Mocim- boa Da Praia in Mozambique was com. pletely destroyed by a cyclone last night, ac- cording to reports reaching here.
It was feared that o great number of people had died in the dit- aster.-AFP.
Colony's Revenue
tor
The Colony's revenue Paris, Dec. 11, October was $75,724,550.97, and Madame Plerre Laval, widow expenditure $84,095,004.19, re- of the former Premier of bulling, in a surplus of $11,028,- France under the wartime 575.78. The General Revenue Vichy regime, died yesterday Balance on October 31 stood at at her home.-AFP,
$479,183,051.40.
NO MORE WEAPONS AT MEETINGS
י
Port Moresby, Deo, 10. This was “eksetitial for the safety" of council members, a senior native, affairs official
A New Guinea native local government counell her pass- ed a law forbidding members from
Taking weapons to council meetings. - -
Under time new law, members
anid today: Offenders are liable to, в Пдф of £5 or a month. in gaol.. The official explained: "The department excourages these
of Walyo Council in the meetings as a "beginning Chimbu area. of the Now Guinea highlands have leave their stone RXCE arrows at the door.
and
to
eventual self government, “But the Chimbus are: Hot, fem- pered and love to thoroughly “discuss toples and diapufen.
council member threatened another
Tear Gas
more police batons inei
stment of rioters' Finally the rioters fled.
11
Among the casualties were number of journalists, including the news editor of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission. Reginald Fur, who was Jourd lying unconscious in the middle of a road,UPI.
Q
Talk About Ghosts when the festive dinner in over and the lights are low, talls will turn to the tradition- al subject of ghosts-read this exciting article before. hand.
But there are only a few of highlights - there is a Christmas menu by famous
yard radius of the collision the were literally blown from chefs, their beds by the tremen- master dous explosion.
Я seasonal thriller by detective-writer Cyril Hare, the adventure story of
Police said 80 persons living Wild West Christmas, articles on toys, gifts children can make in the area were injured,
and much, much more. two seriously, by flying
And, of courac, All
YOUT glass and fallen timber,
favourite
comics. cartoons. Eight houses were destroy puzzles, three pages of news
the ed and 38 damaged, they plctures,
best in
sporla said.
coverage and comment and all
It was the second explosion the latest news and views.
to rock Yokohama this TAKE HOME A CHINA month.-UPI.
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