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CHINA

No. 37678

Established 1845 MONDAY, MAY 30, 1960.

LATE FINAL

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

Missile tracking instruments jammed

(the way to go to

ROME

Of The SPY PLANES, BIRDS, NOW SHIPS

Day

Soviet trawlers British driver badly injured

POLICY OF near British

CONVENIENCE

THE Russian handling of

the latest American air- craft incident raises an im-

portant question: Has the

need disappeared, at least for the time being, to insist upon the fiction that East Germany is independent?

The Soviet Union has reverted to treating the East German Government in the manner of the old colonial powers in handling the military oc- cupation of a conquered province.

In the case of the new in-

cident, the Russians have found it unnecessary to insfat upon East German sovereignty. The inference. is that the procedure is un- Important now and the en- -tire case

reflects little Kremlin faith In Mr Khrushchev's prediction that there will be another attempt to solve world pro- blems at the summit in six- months or so.

Different

FOSCOW'S attitude was

Mar different when the

Russians several years ago began a campaign to force a summit conference. Then, the Russians, in a situation similar to the case of the United States Air Force transport plane forced down In East Germany, insisted that the German puppet regime was sovereign and had full jurisdiction over Its own affairs.

If the Russians has succeeded in their aims such re- cognition. would have pre- sented the Western powers with a problem of aome magnitude at the projected heads of government 'talks.

A

Building case

rocket range

London, May 30.

The Daily Mail splashed on its front page today a report that Russian “trawlers” have been caught spying on Britain's secret rocket range on South Uist in the outer Hebrides and jamming the radar.

Governor

resumes

duty

of

two

Sir Robert Black 're- aumed duty as Governor this morning after an' sb- sence

almost months.

Mr Claude Burgess, who has been · Officer Adminla= Lerink the Government, resumed his post 14 Colonial Secretary,

The Governor went into Queen Mary Hospital on April 4 for a spinal fusion operation. Following his "discharge from hospital he spent some time in the New Territories recuperst«

Sir Robert will not be undertaking any outside engagements for some time on the advice of his doc. tors.

He made his first official reappearance this morning when be watched '-- the changing of the guard at Government House.

"B" Company of the Hongkong Regimen i mounted guard to mark the 11th anniversary of the regiment. (100 report on back page).

Blind author escapes blaze

New York, May 29. Blind author James Thurber escaped without injury to- day from a fire that filled an apartment on Man- hattan's East Side with smoke.

A fleet of "trawlers" Il-added -apy ships with elaborate radar equipment has been concen- trated in the area for the past two weeks.

"Last Tuesday. they monitored the firing of a Corporal rockop from South Uist into the sea near St Kilda, ·

"British teams on the range and on lonely St Kilda found their radar tracking instruments jammed."

The Daily Express also devot- ed fis front page lead to the tiny island of St Kilda, a key- point in Britain's defence sys- tem, buzzling last night with stories of Russia's "py ships".

Jamming

Sald one Islandor: "an army officer told me that the Burns had done the jamming and that this could cause deflection *misalles,”

of

But the army was saying nothing. Said the War Office in London: "Officially there is no confirmation of these stories. The waters are not restricted apart from the usual conditions of international law. so if the Russians want to come there is nothing to stop them."

In any case it is well-known that the Russians have been using specially equipped traw- Lers, submarines Ad other vessels as spy ships,

They are unlikely however to be interested in missiles being Bred at the Hebrides range, These are mainly my rockets like the corporal which are ob- solete by Russian standards.

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Seek secrets

It is the secrets of western radar and other electronic de- Laren devices that the spyships are seeking.

|

British driver Cliff Allison is thrown from the cockpit of his Ferrari: racing. car after hitting a straw barrier on the Chicone band during trial runs for the Monaco Grand Prix race at Monte Carlo. Allison was unconscious when he was rushed to hospital where his condition was described as "serious.” He suffered a broken left arm, probable rib fractures, a cut face and concussion AP: Photo:

TURKEY'S NEW RULERS SEEK

Actress loses big RECOGNITION

fortune in jewels

Elstree, May 29.

Burglars ransacked the bedroom of Italian actress Sophia Loren and made off with £185,000 (almost HK$3 million) worth of jewels, police re- ported today.

Scotland Yard said the jewels, including a sapphire necklace valued at more than

£13,000 (more than HK$210,000), were stolen last night while she and her hus band, Count Carlo Ponti, were away.

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The star had brought the... gems to Britain to wear while playing in a Alm called "The Millionairess,”

Met husband.

T the time of the former Incident when a helicopter strayed over Communist territory the Soviet Union turned its back on all American demands and insisted that it was the 65-year-old writer out of frequencies being used and to to meet her husband at the air- the apartment. The fre detect evidence of new develop port on his arrival from Paris, ments. They are specially in- Friends said on their return they terested in secret new systems sat in a lounge downstairs for identifying friendly aircraft watching television. at long range.

Miss Loren had tucked her: Their main purpose is to jewel case in a bureau drawer and of her hotel suite and gone off study the wavelengths

matter for direct negotia- tion between the United States and the East Ger- mans.

Soviet propaganda was care- fully building up a case for a summit conference but the effort was wasted.

Fireman Harold C. Young led

apparently was caused by a lighted cigarette.

a

Police said Mr Thurber, and his wife were visiting Mrs

The actress discovered her Aileen A. Lange, who occupies

And during RAF exercises foss when she went up to her the six-room apartment.

When firemen arrived, they they can also study electronic suite later.

She had insisted on, wearing found Mrs Thurber in the cor-countermeasures fitted in Bri-

Hish aircraft for jamming her own jewels before the ridor outside the apartment,

Russian Size zaid fier husband was stil

fighter

and gulded camera in the film comedy "The

Millionairess," bagod missile defences. in the apartment,

George Bernard Shaw play, This time, the Russians made

Young found Mr Thurber In

These electronic spy ships are In addition to her own fabu- no pretences. The Americana bathroom where he had taken also operating off North Ameri-lour collection, she had bor plane was in Soviet hands refuge from the smoke.

can coasts. British and Canadian rowed gems from

a Pariglen and the Russians. never The fire damaged furnishings counter-intelligence have been high fashion salon, to wear in bothered to say otherwise. In the Lange apartment before aware of them for some months, the movie, The only excuse they gave it was brought under control Hours and London Express

UPI. for, applying Soviet jurisdic tion was that the East German regime was a mem- ber, with the Ruselans, of the Warsaw alliance of Communist nations.

Little doubt

HERE seems to be little doubt that

Bervice.

HK girl returns with

Cypriot boy friend

London, May 29.

Miss, Loren usually kept her own jewellery in a Saules bank yault, and friends said they thought, the Jewellery was not ingurad

Biggest ever

Delectives warmed over the hotell to question cooks, maids, gardeners and the bulleen to tuy

Sophia Loren and her husband Count Carlo Ponti.

theft of Mas Loren's In order to get away from to get a lead on the theft which sees was spectacular not only crowds and to be nearer ber they described as one of the betting of the value of the work, Miss Loren rented a house biggest

ever recorded new but because I showed in the little town of Elstree, Britain.

han Russlán | Miss Sylvin Kwik, 17, daughter of a Hongkong merchant. There was no indication, this how well organised the thieves where the film studios.

affair

entire

who was made a ward of the court after flying to any or the doors in the house Were They had only a few. located UPI and AF?...

days to plan the robbery, and sharp slap visit her Greek Cypriot friend, Mr Pandelis Lazarou,had been forced open, but some only two hours at the most to for the East German

24, in Cyprus four days ago, How Into London tonight” fingerprints have been found on a toute may be re chief Walter Ulbricht and his party.

She was accompanied by Mr Mr Lazaron walked hand in Scotland Yard was conducting plan Lazarou, her family's lawyer, Mr hand with M Kwik touch the investigation, plea Mandenys yr Humphrey Bogies, and one of the customs barrier)

Observers were won performance her four brothers,

Before

there

be a forceful

For twee

These circumstances however me" facilitate the task-of-Scot "Iand Yand who do not rule out

Four die in hostel fire

London, May 29. Turkey's military rulers ap. plied, to the British Gov ernment tonight for diplo- matic recognition,

Toll in Pl flash floods

mounts

Manila, May 29, The death toll

flash floods that swept Manila and five subur ban towns and cities to 150 after cleanup and relief operations today failed to account for 19 per gons

missing since early Saturday.

rose

The foods followed torrential rains caused by typhoon Lucille...

Deaths from drownings and electrocutions previously stood at 131.:

fence

The office Secretary Alejo Santos suld the smissing Boods which stru

Bollowing

sleep.

NO ESTIMATE:

A spokesman for Mr Santos said the search was continuing missing is found and every bit thinill" every person reported of debris cleared up.”

A foreign office spokesman There is still no estimate of said the formal note from the damage to properly but un- Dow Turkish government is official reports sold destruction under study.

of public highways, totalled US$800,000 while's morn¿.4han 5,000 were homeles

Britain is unlikely to delay long in granting recognition to the regime of. General Cemal *Also" unofficially reports sald Gurnel.

darrage to privata property may "As his administration is now reach one million dollars. in effective control in Turkey" A`Red Cross spokesman said. said one diplomatic source, It more than 15,000 persons

is expected that the request for ceived rollet inckiding clothing recognition will be acceded to canned food and footwear tow shortly."

Meanwhile

from # report Istanbul says that former Premier Adnan Menderes, and other high officials of his gov➡ ermanent, ousted and detained in a military coup"d'etat on Friday, may be moved from Ankara to milated island in the Mar mara Sea Otv

day,AP.

Old hand

Port Elizabeth, hivy 29, ▲ 100-year-old blind strican woman was acquitted in court here of having about 600 mark- The report ** circulated; Injuana cigarettes for: sálé, Istanbul and Aukara, said:mfil- The ancient/crone, whoffied tary authorities hed decided the out of court impossively, accom move would " minimise the panied by her : 38-year-old. chance of any public disturbance, grand-daughter, who, was gelio

acquitted.China-Mail Special

Chileans panic, more quakes rock country

Santiago de Chile,

The earth heaved and buckled for the eighth

straight day today in dévas

Chile, causing new panic and tumbl ings damaged by earlier quakes and floods."

Huge US Air Force C-124 weak to

master transporty came in |" 150-mile lih a steady rain to land

at Santiago and Puerto Monte with, part of 6:00 tona” of. erierenby, it being sent moder *Operation

vereign

suita the Soviet