THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 4,,, 1960..
LAOTIAN KING URGED TO ABSTAIN FROM ANY DRASTIC ACTION
audassador,
M.
London, Jan. 3.
A Foreign Office spokesman today refused to confirm or deny reports that Britain had unofficially urged the King of Laos to abstain from any drastic political action likely to revive international terision over Laos. The reports, carried in today's the French issue of the London weekly The Obstver sak thut "Britain, to- gether it is believed, with the United States, privately urg- ing the King of Laos to dis- courage any drastic political action which might revive the international dispute over the country."
Olivier Gasrouln, to convey this to his colleagues in the diploma- lie corps.
The
all military assembled hands of administration depart mimis at the National Delence Ministry on Saturday night and told them that from now on they would take orders from The Foreign olce spokesman-Reuter and AP.
said he was unable to comment on the Laotian situation since
no new
the Foreign Ofice had 'received its Em- reports from bassy in Vientiane in the past 48 hours.
Nicaraguan Protest
the
Managua, Jan. 3, "group of mercenaries"
In Vientiane, the Royal Lao-invaded Nicaragua from across the Honduran border, on Satur- tinu Army command told the
being diplomatic corp: here today that
night day
and are вяза Nicaraguan It was taking over government pursued
Guard affairs pending the appointment National
patrols, th of a new cabinet.
The Army, which took control of national security after the resignation of Premier Phoul Sanoutkone's government, asked
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AUSTRALIA
HAS PIPING
HOT XMAS
Six Deaths
Adelaide, Jah. 3. Australia's traditional piping hut Christmas and New Year season has turned to disaster in parth and Central Australia Government announced today. where six people-four of them Nicaragua has sent a strong | children-häve died of heat, ar protest
Honduran temperatures Government,
statement maximum
125 of Fahrenheit,
The heat wave has lasted six days to date and poultry were reported to be dying off by bundreds, while in many places annall wild birds have dropped dend out of the burning skies.
added.--AP.
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Lord Birkett
Hits At
Chessman Case
New York, Jan. 3.
Lord Birkett, England's former Lord Justice of Appeal, today criticised delays found in the exercise of American justice.
With obvious---though not
identified-reference.
to a case
Tangiers, Jan. 3. Moroccan Police have con- firmed, through substan- tial evidence gathered to date, that the young American girl found dead in a nearby forest was awolving Caryl Chessman, the Hellen Muller, it was convicti American author learned today.
who only last December 21 was to din for the cichth time in 174
years on charges of robbing men and Birkett who is being held for question- raping women-Lord ing in connection with the death
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of the American girl, was im- proving.
said Britor feel that "justice delayed is justice denied."
"When we read of cases in
More was recently stated to the United States where a man,
have
commit
attempted to ucide by opening the veins
In his wrists,
Police have now begun inter- rogating him.—AFP.
for example,
to
is sentenced death some 10 or 12 years later (after the
crime) is still e- pealing to the (U.S.) Supreme Court, we feel there Bore- thing strange and almost wrong about that,"
Boac To Resume "In our country," he asserted,
Cairo Flights
London, Jan. 3.
"criminal justice is speedy and
it is humane.",
FIRST CONVICTED Chessmen first was convicted
of 17 felonies in may 1048, and
A British Overseas Air-two of the crimes were for kid-
napping and robbery with body
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in the royal tradition.... summer photo- graph of the Queen, Prince Philip, the Prince of Walen. and Princess Ause at alle of the royal homes. This picture was chosen by the Queen for her Christmas card last year. -Express photo,
Letters For Tongue-Tied Lovers
London, Jan. 3. Dr Amelia Ison today offered to write love letters for tongue-tied lovers.
"Young men and women just cannot express themselves clear- ly in writing today," she said.
"They si down with the kippers and jam to write of their deep love, tear up half a dozen attempts and end up by telephoning.
"I will help them," she said. Dr Ison said all she nooded from the tongue-tlod lover was a letter with "all the particulars." "From that I will be able to judge the education and social status of the parties concerned,” abe sold.
LORD BIRKETT
best seller
book,
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ways Corporation spokes injury (rape) which, in Call-wrote. " man said here tonight forda, calls for the death penal "Anatomy Of A Murder."
Justice Douglas, in discussing that operations through ty. After he was sentenced, the
court reporter who took notes at congestion in the United States Cairo Awould be resumed his Arst trial died and another Federal and State courts which by the airline "as soon as reporter transcribed the first result in delay in reaching trial For years, Chess and judgment in Federal casca is practical."
man used this as a basis for a said he regarded the situation long succession of watts, appeals "almost inherent in the Federal
system."
man's notes.
He was commenting on D report that a zezier Corporation and petitions. station officer, Mr. S. S. Harris,
had received his postinį papers
"It is no good, for instance, writing a Bernard Shaw lype letier for the local butcher's girl friend," she mid-UPL
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Interpol Called In To Join Hunt For Killer
Birmingham, Jan. 3. Police today called on Interpol to help them track down the maniac killer who chopped off a girl's heid in a Birming- ham YWCA hostel. The slayer has evaded a massive police net flung across the country.
The girl, 27-year-old Mrs Ruby May Carlor, found Stephanie Baird, who never battered to death in her cottage went out with boys, was bo- home in Cowbridge, Wales on headed with a table knife and Saturday, her body. horribly mutilated 11, days ago.
She was the first of three young women to die violently in. ittle more than a week.
Friday the body of 18- year-old Pauline Blaney, a pretty factory worker, WRE found in an apartment only two miles from the scene of the ärst murder,
She had been beaten, stren- gled and roped.
Arrest Made
In Birmingham on blurday night police arrested a mild- looking factory forendan, 47- your-old Charles James Goodby, and charged him with killing the girl. Goodby gave himself up to a policeman in London.
Police said there were indica- tions that Pauline Blancy's
She too came from Birming- horn.
Welsh police sought the ald of Scotland Yard defectiver to help them find her killer, who also attacked her six-year-old 500, Alsu, now in hospital with severe head injuries.
No Link
Police said they do not link fier with the Birmingham YWCA killing.
in
In one the biggest man- hunts
British criminal police history,
have vainly sought
Young curly-haired man about Ave feet, seven
seen leaving inches tall,
Hostel where Birmingham Stephanie Baird was alain.
the
The News of the World today doubled to £5,000 its reward for death was not conected with information, leading to the con- the killing of Stephanie Baird, viction of Miss Baird's killer-
The third woman to dio was 'AP,
Girl, Unconscious. For
Many Years, Dies
Now York, Jan. 3,
A girl of thirteen, who 20 spent the last seven and a half years in a coma following a road accident, died in hospital here today.
The girl, Boverty Nilsson, lost consciousness after suffer- ing a head injury in the woeldent and had remained uncon- scious since then,
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Her parents came to see her in New York hospital every day.
The doctors hoped to save her, kept her properly fed by a tube and put her in a special rocking bed to prevent ber muscles from strophing.
Thanks to this procem, Beverly continued to grow nor maily while in com, but she died today wilkoni ever regaining consciousness.—-AFP,
On-Spot Fines For Reckless
Skiers
London, Jon. 3. Ski-policemen are collecting their first fines from reck- less skiers on the slopes around Innsbruck. Patrols will be out all day on the crowded slopes around the Tyrolean capital watching for dangerous ski-ing.
Offenders must pay a fine on the spot or, in the worst cases, can be locked up for the night to appear before a magistrate the following morning.
A police officer said: are running a campaign against ski-ing accidents, as you might run a campaign against trafe
BAN THE BOMB' PROTEST AT U.S. EMBASSY
London, Jan. 3.
the bomb? Chanting "ban
tests," and "stop the about 1,500 demonstra. tors surrounded the US. Embassy today and hand- ed in a protesi letter to President Eisenhower over the US. de- cision not to renew formally the nuclear test
moratorium
Embassy stalk sent for a half dozen extra Merine guarda and police to handle the orderly des ongizatore, but there were no Incidents reported.
Canon John Collins, who had Just preached the afternoon per- mon at St Paul's Cathedral, handed a letter to B Marine guard
New York, Jan. 3. graduate of Columble University today presented accidents.
THE TOURISTS the 205-year-old institu» tion with $5,000,000 "Our slopes have become
do (£1,800,000), the largest crowded that if we didn't
something about it our hospitals gift ever made the school | soon would not be able to cope The letter, signed by officials by a living person. But on this. Lord Birkett mid
with all the accidents.
and supporters of the campaign The money was a such a situation. in Britain does
was given to
local for nuclear disarmament, esked "Offenders are mostly Lord Birkett, who
Columbia by Brooklyn-born juveniles, experts who think Mr Eisenhower to reconsider ha Judge at the Nuremberg trials of not exist because of the belief in
the foreign | decision on the muclear moru- William Black, President of the they can
hustle zi war criminals, appeared on speedy justice.
Chock Full O'nuts Corporation | Lourists who 'get into their torlum. were evacuated the nationally televised Colum
thebla Broadcasting System show
"We ask you to continue the and President and founder of way! the Parkinson's Disease Founda- "We want to feel that our bem on tests and to give a lead visitors have # fair chance for summit talks by stating that Black's gift will be und te Experience over Christmas has America will never be the first shown us that the mere.presEDIOS | COLmtry to resume testing of the letter search centre on the grounds of of our officers who are recognis uuelear weapons," Columbia University's College able by their police caps has said. of Physicians And Surgeons.— done much to improve discip
line."London Express Service. UPL
for Cairo-the first Booc opera- tions maz to go back since the
hirlines staff
from Cairo at the time of 1956 Suez crisis.-Reuter,
20 Wounded In Tribal Warfare
Lulusbourg, Belgian Congo,
Jan. 3. More than 20 Africans have been wounded in cloakes over the weekend between the Lulua and Baluba tribes, the Belgian News Agency reported tomlight.
Fighting between the two tribes broke out afresh on Friday
There were other points of disagreement between Justles "Small World." In a pre-taped
Douglas and Lord Birkett, programme, he appeared with
For one thing, the Amacican U.S. Supreme Court Justice high court official said "The Willam. Douglas, who spoke American experiment has taken Washington, and Judge the direction of popular election John Voelker of Ishpeming, of judges, and, by and large, 1 Michigan. The latter, under the think it has worked out pretty pen name of Robert Traver, well,”—AP;
from
night in one of Laulunbourg's Ten
7 Small bit of land, apparent-African
ly tenanted (5).
communes. Police
were rushed to the trouble spot
14 Leave in a fury but stop the and made several
conflagration (5, 3).
15 Sent down (8).-
10 Waxe-slaves? (7).
Reuter.
tion,
build, an 18-storey medical re-
SQUATTERS DIRECT ACTION
Paris, Jan. 3,' L French families showed today there's more than one way of getting into a low-rent housing project, pro-
17. One turn could produce this Premier Diesviding you do it on
particle (7),
19 Stabilised like washing on a
line? (01.
21 Follow on (5),
24 Sapless (4).
SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Aeros: 1 Accors, 8 Acted 9 Eals, D Am-used, 11 Pairs, 13 Morale, 14 Bo-be, 10 Swear, 18 A-ware. 10 Rear, 20 Upsets, 24 Am-ass, 25 Opener, 26 Eire, 27 Amend, 28. Temple. Down: 1 A-way, 2 Chum, 3 Scer, 4 Bedate, Asperne, Twister, 7 hastard, 10 Bober, 13 Barbara, 14 Bagange, 18 nused, 17 Waste, 19 Booort, 21 Epen, 32 Snap, 23 Eme.
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Montreal, Jan. 3, Quebea province- tonight mourned the death of Primjer Paul Sauve, the second Chieboe. premier to die in office within four months.
Wis
One, pregnant woman exerted on a stretcher.
municipal authorities they manifesto,
working clami suburts of Eowy« |
Water and Les-MoulineaUX. electricity servios had not To been Installed, the stairs were nat completed, and the spart- for years, theys, Kiid, they had menta were empir.
But by the time building, mas
thorities, realland/what had happened, it was ' Fanonry 1, and, the squatters had Exed themselves upcomfortably with Portalo oil stoves,
- REFUSED TO MOVE Bodensto
ed: thommelvon: kik
New Year's eve. Tired of spending years on the walding it, the enterprising hoursholders tentsported: skate furalipread their children They refused to move and locke
*/brand-new apartment"| house on the might of Decges.
·ber 31, while nearly owney band' ! else...wse), too. Duây... MINERY - hadziaking, te netipo de
they had no right to be in ther "nine-sleray, buliding. In the
The 12-year-old premier died en Szurday, victim of coronaryÝ
rombosis though. appeared in the best of health,
Police were called to break
· đưwn : the: doces, and slect the
Mr
The Letter credited Eisenhower with helping to lesson East-West maion, but oddad "we ....... sro apbelled to
American Clovermeneut not to renew the ban UPI,
BOAT NOW OUT h of the decision
OF DANGER
Atlantic City, NJ.,
Jan. 8. The 75-foot fishing boat Boaskip with four people on board which was re- ported #aking by thè U.S. Coast Guard suriber today,, has sent message thatite pumps were working and that the ship could regala port. under its own power.
walled for their turn to ret | Inte 020 of the low-rent apartment houses being balit In the outskiria of Paris "and for your we have been set. ting bething but promises.” Their Airoot action approach apparently succeededi-possibly became thousands of familles
In an earlier" mêstage? the, share their complaint. A ship's captain: said that "the AGERULITOS WAS stron | venej war, inking: walares,
arrival of "A temporary shaffer, in Paris di Pending the and promised, : the kind cat. Cont Guard Poulter,
copter was flying over thì
The
of the
on testing
British TV Viewers
London, Jan Á. Nearly half of Britain's
adult population in waj ›ing "tele falen at
viewing hours, according to a British Broadcasting Corporation report" pub -lishadi today.
váy layı, devoles ht
By day ship which was about di miles "level, the "SEMEN," KELLzi canst or.... Allshite City, to spend
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