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Comment If the weather is right Sahara bomb will be exploded Of The FRENCH ATOMIC TEST TODAY?

Scientists stand Anglo-U.S. satellite | East-west gang warfare

by at remote

Day

VICTORY FOR NASSER

AST week's outburst of

Lens between tref

and the United Arab Re publie Is probably J112 isolated incident, yet it

desert site

Paris, Feb. 8.

would be foullsh to dismiss Weather permitting, France may explode

the skirmishing as insigni- fcant or trivial.

Outbreaks of this kind are a

grim reminder at the symptoms of an underlying altuation that in not im- proving with neglect and that continues to threaten the peace of the Middle East.

It is not yet passible to assess the blame for the current incidents as the charges and counter-charges by both sides vell the truth from the onlooker. The circumstances have been repeated many times in the past: incursions into dis- puted zones, deliberate or otherwise and the resulting clashes with guns.

Piracy

E incidents along

her first atomic bomb today or to-

morrow.

Scientists are standing by at Reggane, in the remote

Sahara desert, where the bomb is believed to have been put in position on top of a 300 ft

tower.

Twelve hours notice will be given to airlines to Bwlich their scheduled routes over a 580,000 square mile. area of the Sahara Desert.

All that is awaited is snitt bie conditions weather

which, among other things, will per- mit the test to be held with no of radioactive fallout danger un inhabited areas.

PRECAUTIONS France

Вет claims

safety for are

more prect ulions extensive than those for pre- vioux British and American tests.

Journalists will not be allowed to watch the blast, but the

Ministry

Torderant on the to provide full reports and

with singly; they must be taken as a whole. It may be impossible to eradicate the underlying hostility and resentment.

But an effort can be made to ensure that these do not take the form of probing attacks in a repeated pat- tern of, provocative viola- tionn of the Armistice agreement.

This effort, too, should be extended to stopping the Birncy of Israeli cargoes by Egypt along the interna- tlonal waterway. The claim that Egypt in Blill at with Israel, and is

War

therefore entitled to seize the goods as war prizes is a specious argument.

Adamant

TASSER is adamant that

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he intends to crush Israel

of his mentality.

shortly after it photographs takes place.-Router.

Oxford

students

weak in

English

PEKING

ASKED TO

FREE HK

JOURNALIST

Tokyo, Feb. 8. Mr Earnest Hoberecht, United Press Interna- (iona! Vice President and General Manager for Asia, today called on Peking to "release im- mediately" Bill Yim, the UPI reporter they sen- tenced to jail on spy charges.

"United Press

International

did not send Yim to Canton lo spy," Mr Hoberecht said.

"It sent him there as a legiti mate newsman for the specie of interviewing an purpose American who had gone there of the with the permission

Communist Govern- Chinese

London, Feb: 8. Many students at Oxford, Britain's oldest univer- sity, cannot speak orient, write their own language properly

common

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weakness

to the whole

Co-operation

"Yim went into

Communist

country, according to a re-China with the full agreement port published here today. and co-operation of the Chinese So, in order to ensure that Communist officials.

"Apparently

Incantime.

ho was thrown

and that the United Arabuniversity entrants can under- Republic is poised to strike stand and write English correct-in jall and held for months be- the fatal blow is a measurely they should be made to fore being tried. Nobody knowa take a more difeult examine- what happened to him in the Who he is trying to fool is fion, the report says.

The report, by an Oxford himself and his people for committee to review university there is not the slightest entrance requirements, describes doubt that no other coun- the standard of English amongst deluded by the most candidates and in the try is grandiose utterances he whole country as "regrettably makes at every conceivable low."

HAMPERED opportunity.

The Sinal battle and the utter rout of the Egyptian forces is still fresh in the memory and it takes little imagina- tion, to visualise what the would do in the Israelis event of a second clash.

Complacent

"The Chinese Communisla even refused to tell the Interna- Bional Red Cross they were holding him.

him to jail *Their decision and to céuse him of being a spy is unfair, despicable and proof of the Red regime's con-

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Lecturing at the Royal Society last week, Professor H.S.W. Massey, revealed that work has already started on the construction of British equipment to be carried in the fest Anglo-American 'satellite (to be called. International I) which is due to be launched next year. It will be carried 1n

Scout vehicle, and is planned orbit will carry visiblo 15 ΟΥΣΣ

the British Isles, where it will be far. 1.0

Edinburgh It should stay In north 28 orbit for about six months. International -I' will be the first of a series of three joint efforts; all equip- ment for gathering information in them will be designed and built in Britain, and all data will be processed in Bri- Lain. By the time the programme is over, Britain'may have her own spade vehicle, based on the-Blue Streak misalle, in the construction stage. Picture shows Professor Massey held to coincide and a Scout nose-cone at the exhibition with the lecture.-Timén photo,

U.S.

Navy man

fined: attempted

to smuggle

gold

It also says recruitment of tempt for the principles of free-A U.S. Naval Chief Petty Officer was fined $3,000

has been doin of the press."--UPI.

scientists at Oxford hampered by the · Latin or classical Greek requirement.

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Candidates reaching a certain standard in mathematics sclence should not have to pars these languages at ordinary level of the General Certificate of Education in order to go to Ox- ford, it suggests,

But Oxford's traditional rivol --Cambridge-erlirises this sug- the meantime the United gestion as not going far enough.

Nations is complacently

A Cambridge" experta' report, the tinderbox published in sitling on

the same volume, two languages unable to make the Egypt would like any

ian dictator come to heel other than English to be accept- and abide by internationale for all candidatos decisions.

over tho

The authorities of each unl- versity are to consider the re- parts of their own experts

Syria-Israel

agree to

UN meeting

But not agenda

Jerusalem, Feb. 7.

The Danes today must have separately-China Mall Special. Syria and Israel have agreed

mixed feelings eventual capitulation of the Inge Toft's owners who ordered the unloading of

the vessel after nine months in Port Sald. The Danish shipping company and the charterers must be admired for their tenacious stand in their efforts to thwart the dictator's demande.

not achieve their

That

Russia's Aswan

Dam loan

to a meeting of the mixed Armistice Commission to discuss means of pacify- Ing their troubled border, but have disagreed on the agenda.

leads to London slaying

London, Feb. 8.. Warfare between club gangs in London's slummy East End and fashion- able West End is believed to lie behind a dramatic slaying here yester- day.

Early today detectives were hunting suspects in an attempt to track down a gang who burst into a small crowded club in Stepney, East London, and shot down two men, kdling one of them.

The dead man was Selwyn Cooney, owner of a club ta the Solo district of the West End

He died in the street outside the Stroney Club with a weeping blonde

trying to wounds.

KOWLOON TO HAVE

NEW LUXURY HOTEL

By CHINA MAIL REPORTER

tend his Kowloon may soon become the site of a new-luxury

His friend, ex-boxer Billy! Ambrose

with three revolver

hotel.

This was disclosed today by

thole in the stomach, dragged German hotelier, Dr Max Benn himself to a car and drove un-who arrived from Bangkok last nided to a hospital, where he week.

staggered into the casually de- Dr Henn has been scrrching partment and now lies serious-Hongkong for a suitable site to ly III.

WALL OF SILENCE Delcctives Investigating the

crime in London clubs were be- Ing met with a wall of silente -behind which, It is believed, les fear of reprisals,

start buliding a hury hotel.

So far, of the many locations Dr Henn has seen he revealed the morning that King's Park was ideal for the type of hotel he wanted to build.

e till up in the air at pre- sent," he sait

"But I dennitely plan to

a build the hotel in Hongkong

be

REPORTS ON SUBMARINE

-DENIED

Buenos Aires, Feb. 7. Argentine authorities today dented reports fa local newspapers that planer bombed and sunk an EX- Identified submarine in the Golf of Nuevo.

...

The trouble began when rang forced its way into the and it my plans eventuate the club and asted for Cooney. A whole thing should be Analised

"The submarine was reported fight broke out. Men fought with the hotel ready to

to be lying on the bottom in 15 with bottles and coshes, women opened in 18 months. ecroared, serta maka

ave not yet-approached fathome_of_wator..... anybody on the site of King's Suddenly shots were fred. Park will return in about a

started The gang which

the month Aght fled. Cooney and Ambrose officiels and contractors," he area, last week, but made nu staggered down the wooden | addød stairs, one dying and the other gravely wounded.-Router.

A TIP ENDS

36-HOUR SEARCH FOR

POISON PILLS

London, Feb. 7. An anxious 36 hours ended for Lancashire police last night when 2.000 danger ous pills stolen from a chemist's

shop, were

found.

The Navy said that radar to talk business with contact had been made with an unidentified submarine in the

SWIMMING POOL

Dr Henn said that plans zo fur provide for the Kowloon hotel to have 200 bedrooms, a big swimming pool, several bars and restaurants and many other luxury facilities.

"It will be a Arst rate hotel but I tend to keep the tariffs down to an absolute minimum because I realise that people just

millionaire can't afford rates," he said.

Dr Henn who is a Doctor of Chemistry started in the hotel business eight years ago.

"It's the funniest thing that ever happened to me," he said, "I originally started out to build hospital but when couldn't get a licence I was left with a big empty buliding,

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"An American army officer was the first to see the possibili- ties of the building and he sug- gested that I should convert the phantom' hospital into a first class hotel.

meniton of an attacks. Foreign Minister Diogenes Taboada alca dented the reports.-UPI.

A

Giant jet

lands safely

despite fire

Los Angelos, Feb. B. glani 707 Pan American Jet airliner tipped over on one wing ni International Airport runway today

Landed bat successfully despite a fre in one of the engines, police reported

The airliner, en route from Honolulu, carried 113 passen- thegers and a crew of nine.

"Flames started pouring from one of the jet engines," police- Gaviln said, Harvey "after the fet scroped along But the fire runway. seemed to go out by itself and

Two men were arrested and charged with breaking and "This I did and today entering the shop and stealing Atlanta Hotel stands In Bangkok the

Included thanks to a smart young srmy drugs, which cocaine and pethidine, Policeman." suld all the stolen drugs had been found.

SCHOOL GROUNDS Some of them were recovered

by Mr P. F. X. Leonard at Kowloon court this morning for attempting to export $83,000 from the grounds of a Roman worth of gold and watches without a permit.

Stranded tug leaves Macao today

W. C., Greene represented by M G. S. Stevancon of Stewart and Co. pleaded not guilty.

Scalor Revenue Officer W. L Stone

secuted.

Catholle convent, where child- ren attend a day school.

announcement was made at a

Police loudspeaker cars have toured this town regularly since the drugs were stolen, warning that they could be lethal. Revenue assisted by

Warnings were broadcast on 1nspector K. K. Loung pro-radio and television, a special Revenue Sub-Inspector Chaing football match here yesterday

Urat Hon-pice:fied

and detectives visited 32 schools Novumber 29 he faul

to warn children. of gold in

alter The arrests came paper packages

ccret compartment inside

telephone tip sent police to Buitense belonging to the de- locked house-Reuter,

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five

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다

fendant then about to leave for Salon from Kal Tale nir

Macao, Feb. 8. The privately owned tugboat port on a U.S. Miltary pione

Pilita which made a sur- The Sub-Inspector went on sty that in another four prise appearance here on to January 27 is leaving paper packages, he found 200 ladies watches Jnside the same Macao today.

milense.

The American skipper, Robert Albert Bott, 29, Chico do Paula, 30, of the

A UN spokesman cald this and Bill Lat, 40, of Hongkong. Saved by a

tonight. Cairo, Feb. 7.

Syria Inslated that the meet- The Soviet Uniors 15ading ing should deal with

1,150

zont

are crow members.

the 18-

in Macao a fourth crewuxian of was taken on. Ho is Lau Kin-

bicycle pump

this does not detract from Expi busson, fillion for inliliarised me last week. Rece tho principle Involved;

the construction of the entire but israck held that this was Capt. Bett sold his ship left Ramely, free navigation for Aswan high damn, it was on- not within

Kalundsorg, Feb. 7. on Jorary 10 for the Commission's Muniin

but encountered nil countries.

spokesman. Hongkora

Andreas Hansen, a workman caused Orst belloved dead after being stormy weather which This is yet another triumphunced today.

Juridiction,

the

Russia preylously

gave the Bald.

mani

the

Churchill tries the plot managed to bring the

his luck

plane in all right."-UPI.

Wally Hammond

in car mishap

Monte Carlo, Feb. 7. Sir Winston Churchill spent his third successive night in the municipal casino tanth!

Pietermaritzburg, Feb. 7. and took home some winnings.

The condition of Wally Ham- Sir Winston has been playing mond, 50-year-old former Eng- trente et quarente," game land cricket captain, who is in

blackjack. He has hospital here suffering (kmilar to

been playing cautiously and has serious head injuries after his car overturned at Camperdown managed to win a litle each not tell how

near here yesterday, was tonight right. He would much he won-AP,

said to be improved-Reuter,

NAVY CURE

COLD

CURE KILLED AND DOCTOR!

Special to the China Mail :

trom

knock him out for 18 hours, “As a dogtor, ke, would, know

this would boʻlsiñal, and keep him' quiol, 'Ho be-

Hleved. In a large whisky to "It is possibly that will dis doses, he belief in Targe Prescribed about 12 STALIN.. for himself. This could have aftooted his

memory and in

might have

Portsmouth, Feb. 7. A Naval doctor's cure for A cold was "a large whisky to sweat it out, and massive, dose wweat it out and a massive

down of Barbiturate," of Barbiturate.” When be caught a cold himself, De. His widow added, bolleved he used the curo-be died. that small doses of the drug

were habit-forming. At the Inquest, his widow mid

couri told the for the arrogant Egyptian equivalent of US$100 million The UN spokesman sala: the cnilno room to become overcome by polson gas while

Burgeon Commander Robert A pathologist who has been allowed to for the construction of the firstWe are not giving up hope flooded and subsequently he working in a trench hero, was

fath Entiat Commander Hawkins had Hawkine hud proni be diverted course to the nearest revived by a colleague get away with It. And stage of the dam. but as she is that a meeting will

gtaken: "han / ́good yina" - and ] The coroner rufed there wAD apiztis to cure a' cold. forced air into his lungs with a

of

The Leash 40 KRĒTS ... no· évidence of suicide. purt./overv the whole dam, arrangod!!!

Maille would giva'à patient no¦xt: heying done, that he is now building

.pump-Chik The ship has been repaired bicycle

verdict: Mimadventuro.

· Barbliurnio. druig at all of one'that' would] not to be expected to rest the loan has been unified;

at the Maroo savai yarı--AFF. Special, upon his laurels.

UPI.

There has been 'no. Incidents for the last 24 hours-Néuler,

who

taken two

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three morn: similar agres 'by

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