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No. 37627

Established 1845 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1960.

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Comment Specially 'doctored' to make it seem more powerful Of The FRENCH A-BOMB SENSATION

Day

No alternative to violence

RENEWED

underlines

violence in

Africa sharply

the fact that

today Africans have HD

other form of protest open

to them. As things stand,

Alleged bid to

Sunspots

ARSON PROBE IN GLASGOW

disrupt

1,000 FEARED

deceive

America

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

Paris, Mar. 30,

the Union Government has The atom bomb exploded

in the Sahara

blocked

every effective

political channel

through

which African nationalist feeling can express itself. moderate African many

National Congress,

of whose lenders nro sincere devotees of Ghandi's doctrine of passive re- sistance, has been shackled by law and a number of its leaders are defendants in the big conspiracy trial.

Now, not only this organlyn-

last

month was specially "doctored" to deceive America into thinking France produced

more

weapon.

a

powerful

I can reveal this ruse failed completely and has ended itt political nasto for de Gaulle i who was mainly responsible for :1.

Its purpose was to induce the

tlon but ulso the radi- United States to include France

cal Pan-Africanist Con gress which ins taken

of

the leading part in protest ing against the issue Identity cards 13203 10 be uutlawed. Knowing

the Pan-

temper

of the

Africanist Congress it will

in the congressional agreement which enables America to share atomic secrets with friendly nations, providing valuable in- formation is returned.

CRUDE

But Anglo-Amerleaus analysis collected by plane after the ex- of sumples of radioactive dust

be surprising if this puts plosion disclosed the true nature

an end to its netivities. It of the bomb. It was one of the may even drive an organisa-erudest and least efficient atomle tion already showing clent explosions ever staged,

extremiat

tendencies over

the brink into guerilla war- fare or the kind of ter- rorism practised by Sinn Fein in Britain during World War I. And if that happens, the South African Government will have only itself to blame.

I the Groper of excial

lesson the hard way.

developing pattern

its

Ti

The French scientists planned

a modest explosion which, test-

would use little of their precious plutonium.

GODOWN EXPLOSION

Glasgow, Mar. 29.

Police today opened an investigation to determine if an act of arson was responsible for the gigantic fire which last night destroyed a warehouse stocked with about 900,000 gallons of whisky.

One more fireman was reported missing, bringing the total to 20, and

several civilians were feared dead as a result of the fire.

JAIL SENTENCE FOR

HIT-AND-RUN

DRIVER REDUCED

ing a principle they had devised, In an application for review of sentence before Mr I, T.. Morris at Central Court this morning, a young driver had his original fine of $500 in creased to $1,000 or one month's imprisonment and his sentence of two months' jail reduced to 14 days.

Instead, de Gaulle ordered them to create as big a blast an possible.

The only way they could achieve this was to scrape

]] together the plutonium avaliable and eram it into a erude device the size of caravan.

This produced a blast three times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.

the Government persists

discrimination which is un- real, impracticable and un-

The French hoped Anglo- be just, and which CAN

America would mastime that the sustained only by repression and, increasingly, by brute prin achieved in the usual scientific way by using forer. it. must learn

the minimum amount of plut- unium und also assume the of bomb was highly efficient. — clear, and utterly London Express Service,

in which the South African Government has made from time to time through its oversens infor- mation branches that out- breaks of African violence are isolated incidents, ny- related to the apartheid Issue.

violence

refutes the ciniras

What after all was the issue in last week's tragic rioting" None other than the system under which every black African must carry his pass, Without or identity card.

it he cannot work and in liable to summary arrest, A woman caught without her pas may be thrown

Jail with no one into

care for her children.

to The

family of a man who leaves

his reserve to work in a

Africans

object

to rent

rise

town may not joins him. A Johannesburg, Mar. 29.

man dare not move from

bis place of work because Police fired a volley of

he will become unemployed.

It was against this harsh,

the

Inhuman product of apartheid policy that the crowds at Sharpeville and elsewhere were protesting.

shots over the heads

of a crowd of hundreds of Africans in Esselton African townships to. night.

weekend announcement casualties.

The crowd dispersed with mo

Africans and tried to

Johannesburg,

Tof the easing of the paan march on the town of Ermelo,

Jawa seems to be regarded as a climb-down by the 24 miles from

to protest against an increase of authorities, but the Govern two shillings in the monthly mont insiste is only tem-rent for their homes in Essel- porary and that they will be ton.

the moment the 70-onforced

The driver, Cheung Tan, 22, was convicted on March 21 by the same Magistrale for failing to slop after an accident which a man was injured.

Cheung also had his original disqualification from holding a driving licence increased to the statutory period of 12 months.

i

The firemen were killed when a gigantic explosion burst the walls of the warehouse cover- Ing them with a mass of folking bricks and timber.

The warehouse which burned down was the third one, each containing whisky stocks, to have been destroyed in this city In the last five weeks, leading police to believe that the series of blazes might have been start- ed deliberately.

A

Fund opened

city-wide collection

was

organised today by the Mayor

of Glasgow for the benefit of

the families of the victime who died in the worst catastrophic in the city's history.

Work which was being carried on to find the bodies of the

eleven firemen still buried under the churrs ruins was interrupt- ed becau of the danger of the Mr Morris said It was Im-building's aber framing fall-

ating on the rescue worlds. portant that the applicant's

tempt to void reporting the By mid-afternoon today, matter was nearly successful and workers had still not succeeded would have been successful had in clearing up the debris under it not been for the acumen ol

which the victims lay.-AFP. a passer-by who, having seen what happened, pursued the de- fendant's car for a considerable distance, on fool, Intercepted it and noted its number and later!

incident to the

DATED BACK

Ships collide head on:

counsel for the applicant. Cheung's sentence was dated no casualties

from the day of the original conviction,

In his judgment, Mr Morrisreported the spid: "I have reviewed this police. case in the light of further te presentations brought to the no- tice of the court by learned The applicant is a young man of 22 years of age and having heard what has been said in support of this application by three wit- nestes I have come to the con- clusion that he does not perhaps merita sonlence of two months' Imprisonment."

DETERRENT

"But," Mr Murris added, "he must be treated in such a way that he, his comrades and others will be deterred from such be- haviour in future."

The

Prosecution's case was that defendunt failed to slop having after his private car been involved in att accident on the carly morning of March 18 in Lyuhurst Road,

of

Mr Oswald Cheung, instruct od by Mr AK. W. Lui Messre Lo and Lo, represented the applicant.

Sub-Inspector M. R. Atkinson appeared for the Prosecution.

The

Houston, Mar. 29. freighters Hastings and Antinous collided head on into each other at the entrance to the Houston Channel today.

None of the total of about 90 men on board the two vessela the owners was injured. But said the bows of both vessels were smashed and the damage was considered "major".

It was foggy all morning and there was quite a bad haze at the time the ships collided a report sald.-UPI.

Expert testifies in

manslaughter case

Damage to a taxi and bus was consistent with that found on a station

wagon allegedly driven by the accused.

This was said by Mr W. Winter of the PWD workshops, Caroline Hill, when he testi- fied this morning against Marcel Noel Andre Fleming, charged with the man- slaughter of a police inspector.

radio reception

A solar eruption interrupted long distanco radio com- munication between Hongkong and other parts of the world yesterday

afternoon.

The interferonce lasted for one and a half hours, said a spokesman for the Cable and Wirotess whon contacted by the Chino Mail. The effect was first felt at 4 p.m.

communications in the im-

mediate neighbourhood in the Far East region were not affected. "As the company has many

DEAD IN FLOOD HORROR

Rio de Janeiro, Mar. 29. More than 1,000 people were feared dead today in floods caused by the rupture of the giant Oras Dam, and thousands of others remained stranded in the water-covered Jaguariba Valley leading from the dam to the Atlantic Ocean.

The number of dead-as esti-

mated by the chief of police in Portaleza, the capital of the state in which the dam is Altunted WES considered re- latively low compared with the means to get around the number of people coimated at 250,000-who fled the rampaging interruption, the solar

waters, eruption has not caused Sluggish Blood waters still us great inconvenience,“ | threatened the city of Aracati, said the spokesman.

near the Atlantic, Ignoring ap- peals from the authorities, al- most four thousand people re- fused evacuation from the city.

'Death or

Glory' boys for Hongkong

London, Mar. 29. About 420 officers and men of the 17th- (the 21st Lancers "Death or Glory boys") loft Southampton today in the troopship Oxford- shiro for Hongkong.

It is the first posting cast of India in the re- gimani's history.

com-

Too formor manding officers met to give the Lancera a sond- off. Oldest of them was Lieutenant-General Sir Bertie Fisher, 82, who commanded the regi- ment in 1919 and was its Colonel from 1938 until 1947-AFP.

Girl falls 60 feet, hurts

arm

CHINA MAIL REPORTER

A soven-your-old girl foll 60 foot from a vorandah and survived this morning. She suffered a twisted left arm and was sent to hospital.

Kwok Lung-clum, the girl,

ant estride a parapet

on the

Stranded

sald

Unconfirmed reports that at Limosoro, a city of taken 50,000, 80 people had refuge in the town's church

NT ESCAPE

INCIDENT:

JUNK WAS

UNARMED

bell-tower, the only structure. The junk which chased on-

above water.

At Forlim, almost 1,000 people remain stranded on rooftops, awaiting rescuers, and another 2,000 huddled similarly at Um- betro.

other junk Into British waters, in the Now Torri- tories yesterday was not armed nor wore the ten men on board in uniform. Attempts to drop rubber life-

helt boats from planeš · und

A Government spokesman copiers proved fruitless when confirmed this today. He also the boats were swept past sur- told the China Mail that in- vivors by churning waters. vestigations were proceeding and Plans were being made to no decision could be made send resettò squads to help the about the 19 people detained. |victims---AFP.

EMERGENCY

CALL

About 1 dm yesterday a junk carrying two men and seven women

waters

escaped from Chinese Into the waters off Sa Kiu, north of Castle Peak.

Oyster workers

The escapees

landed when the ten people on board a second junk caught up with them and tried to round them

· up.

The Blood Bank sent out 3.b emergency call this morning

The villagers told the police following an argent request who intercepted the intruders. from Queen Mary Hospital, The nine people who fled to were be- Six men and wegien, all regular Hongkong territory

doners, rushti to the Bank lieved to be oyster gatherers In Fung Tonse,

working on the Chinese side of The call was made because the Deep Bay.

blood was needed for anƏ The pursuers were thought to gecizient," but the hospital be endres from The Chinese said the blood was to be held Oyster Workers Co-operative in ready for chest operation, Nam Tau area across the bay.

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WEDDING RECEPTIONS

The mo

Cooks-Waiters

rl's A woman necing the precarious position shouted from

her or across the street but the girl

did not hear ignored her.

After railing the girl got up looking pale and shaken, and Testifying before Mr Derek on the bus were also at the same, no doubt that they made contact crying.

in The rent rise, it was stated, Cons at Central Court, Mc Win-level and this was also the case with each other while traveling

The girl was by herself situation returna to normal, was to be used to provide sports ter said he examined the three with the rubber marks on the in the same direction.",

Fleming, who is alleged to the stat. and belligerent facilities in the location. The

the aide of the bus and the graze on vehicles defiant,

The father is a barber work- compared mood of the Africans is per

RAIDS

damage done to each.

the offside front tyre of XX have killed Inspector S Wal-

ming and injured Mr S, Coces Ing in North Point, Police confronted the march- Ho foun traces of red puint 4240." haps most clearly exempli

four additional traffic changes, ther also works. and scratches on fied by the mass burning oting Atrienna on the outskirts in the dents

Mr Winier said that the dent! He is also alleged to have been ordered the station wagon, XX4240. res of the township and

two other traffic the pass books and the re-

mudguany! {Involved in Examining the taxi and bys on the roar netraldo demonstrations in them to return to their homes.

found

of the taxi was the same height nocidente on the rame day, one marks consistent

bumper of the In Garden Road and the other as the oflakie Capetown Monday. And volley was fired when they he

en

with those of the station wagen's

in Pokfulam Road. the most tragic aspect of

the refused

Mr W. S. Davidson, Crown Meanwhile police carly today bumper and door hluge. All station wagon. clashes is the certainty that carried out a number of roids were at the same level.

Caunsol, assisted by Chlef In- spectar C. Pope, is appearing collisions like this will hap under the Public Safety Act. Continuing Mr Winter said: pen again the moment the

Colonel A. Spengler head of

for the Crown. Union Government attempts

assort

authority. South Africa fuces a bittor, terrifying, late charged Zuture.

nowed

to

"The rear view mirror ätted

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London, Mar, 29. NO DOUBT

The House of Commons to- Agreed in night acarimously Continuing, he said. "I have

Mr Harold Caine, of Mesars principle to a bill which will the Security Branch maid the to the offsido front mudguard no reason to doubt that the bus

and XX 1240 made contact with Johnson, Stokes and Master, is enable Britain to suscribe about Telephone: Gloucester Catering Dept. 23086 or 36021 Special Branch was not carry of the wagon and the scratch on

247 million over the next five ing out the ralds and he could the side of the bus were exact- each other as they were travel-representing Fleming.

Hearing continues this after-years to assist iesa developed make no comment on them-ly be enmo height." He said. Ting in opposite directions. As to

countries-fleuter, Houter.

The door hinge and the dent the taxl and the wagon, I have ¦ noon.

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