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GILMANS GLOUCESTER.ARCADE

No. 37690

Comment Of The Day

TROUBLE IN JAPAN PRESIDENT Eisenhower

had a legitimate excuse to call off his Far Eastern tour following the Paris summit conference de

bacle. That he failed to do so at the time was a tac- tical error.

Since

the Paris meeting there has been a constant clamour for and against the decision to press

on

in spite of the degenerating political climate in Japan.

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London, June 13.

Plans for Britain to join the United States

in world-wide, round-the-clock patrols of nuclear strike bombers were today reported under consideration in London and Washington.

of force he would have to deal with.

The British planes would

Skyboll,

0

U.S. Strategle Air Command ! and the Royal Air Force would co-operate in keeping a pro- portion of their H-bombers eventually carry the American Even in the friendly Philip permanently aloft and thereby

1,200-mile range pines there have been out-immune to missile attack on missile which was the official bursts, but it is not their bases, according to de- object of Mr Watkinson's U.S.

visit, anticipated that there will fence sources here.

real trouble Britain's Vulcan and Victor Mr Watkinson any

ocgotiated an "although danger exists strategic bombers, now based agreement for Anglo-American. which must be guarded only in this country, were be- co-operation in development of Iloved to have been offered facil!- | Skybolt. This will become against.

ties at U.S. bases throughout | Britain's principal deterrent.

weapon now that the British Blue Streak rocket has been abandoned.

be

Army control

THE President is assured

THE

of a warm welcome in Formosa and it is unlikely that there will be serious demonstrations in Okinawa which is an American ba30 where control is vested in the United States Army. There has beea ample

warning of what сви occur in Japan and Friday's

the "welcome" accorded

Press Presidential Secretary, Mr Hagerty, does not bode well for the President when he lands in Tokyo next Sunday. Feeling is running high

against the America! Japan security treaty and the two Heads of State.

already

The left-wing has

shown that it means busi- ness and that intends to destroy the treaty and the Government as well.

Warning

the world.

Nuclear weapons carried on would not be such pairols primed, sources said. War-

V bombers for HK?

A Royal Air Force spokesman-. -.. said....... This morning that, there was no information whether Hong- kong would be a base for British V-bombers which are to be deployed in L globe girdilog defence system.

The spokesman said he could make no camment on that the

report press V-bombers with nuclear striking

will be power atationed not only in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Central Africa but also in certam Asian terri- tories like Singapore.

heads would only be fused if orders were ever given for an attack.

have

The idea was said to stemmed from the British De- fence Minister Mr Harold Walkinson's recent Laiks Washington,

in

HOME leading American On his return home last week journals have question- Mr Watkinson foreshadowed the possible dispersal of British

ed: the advisability of strategic bombers to foreign continuing with the trip in bases. Defence officials here con- view of the unfortunatefirmed this over the weekend. fact that the Japanese police are apparently in- capable of controlling the mobs.

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A secret

Up to now Britain has shied away from the cost of main- They certainly had plenty of taining permament H-bomb

warning yet it took about patrols.

90 minutes to disperse the But, with its air buses open demonstrators against Mr to rocket attack at only four

minutes radar warning, Hagerty and it might be asked what kind of protec- kyborne force is now consider

ed the only feasible method of tion can the President maintaining a British deterrent, expect..

Just how many planes would

The President's determina- tion to carry on at this late stage is a correct decision. To have done otherwise would not only have been a victory for the left-wingers but also to concede that policies can be shaped by the mob.

Consequences

MUCH a victory would be a tremendous Allip to the Communists in the Far East and the rest of the Red world,

The consequences of cancel- lation would have been enormous, even to the ex- tent of forcing the United States out of its position in the East to the detriment of her allbes.

If the demonstrations agamat Mr Hagerty have aroused the feelings of responsible Japanese it might spur them to action resulting in. a less stormy welcome for „the President.»

Vulnerable

Blue Streak was discarded in the belief that its axed site

And would be too vulnerable. the argument Jar Skybolt would be just as vulnerable unless kept up in the air and out of harm's way.

Sources said the idea for patrols was given impetus-by- the increase in International tension following the collapse of the summit- talks.

The flights would be regard- ed RE "training missions" though each plane would be liable to diversion to a real target if the call came. Britain now has around 200 nuclear bombers against 1,500 and probably America's

more if the plan

would need gets adopted.

Besides the pooling of bases facilities such as flight refuelling would be shared between both air forces.-AP.

Lady Attlee

chalks up

her seventh

Leftist demonstrators carrying anti-American placards surround the radio- car that preceded the limousine carrying White House Press Secretary James Hagerty at Tokyo's Haneda airport last Friday. The man at lower left is actually standing on the hood of Mr Hagerty's car. The President's press chief was forced to enter the city by helicopter after the mob had besleged his car demanding that Mr Eisenhower cancel his forthcoming visit to Japan --AP Photo.

Ike visits

the land owned

Russia once

Anchorage, June 12.

Mary's Mary's damage to Colony's pleasure craft

Typhoon Mary sunk or badly damaged several plea- sure boats in the harbour and the Deepwater Bay anchorage last week.

More than 20 pleasure junks Reporting on the damage to craft in the Royal were reported smashed. "beyond members'

all recognition" and losses of Hongkong Yacht Club, the Vice all types of small craft in the Commodore, Mr A. T. Trenerry are retold the, China Mail this morn- Deepwater Bay trea

In other caIES, owners have

ported to exceed 30.

reported that their disappeared without trace."

boats have

badly

Many others were damaged and ship repairers have their bands full

The American-owned brigan- tine Wan Fu which ran aground in Kowloon Bay was salved yes- terday by Pacific Island Ship- building Co Ltd.

CONVERTED

Another owner of small plea- sure cruiser reported that his craft underwent a conversion during the typhoon.

ing that:

●' six small "L" class Jachts were wunk · at their moorings;

** one lost its roast;

Bunk:

A motor launch Was

two or three cruisers suffered damage:

● the rest of the craft moored in the typhoon shel

ter of Kellet Island suffered minor damage such as paint- work rubbed and rigging strained.

"Worst of all was when the wind went around to the west and the useway wall started to disintegrate.

"This was the wall behind which a lot of people Sheltering,

were

"It originally had an inboard engine. Now it's an outboard,"

Lest weekend, owners veyed the damage and hardly

"An Austrailiari, pilot, Mr Den a single boat in the booming

Brown, who was down there Reet of pleasure

launcher.

"said that if it had lasted another boats cruisers, speed.

and

two hours, the whole lot would. motorised junks escaped some

have been drowned darpage.

“It is difficult to estimate the But the foresight of a damage. The six yachts that of boat boys employed by the Hongkong Motor Boat and Sid Club saved more than 60 from serious damage,

As the storm approached the Colony they pulled the boats to safety in the boat house or up the hill beyond the reach of the | battering wayes.

Visitors to Deepwater Bay

were sunk have since been raised and I doubt if $100. damage has been done to the lot. But in other cases it is more serious

"The causeway will have to be completely rebuilt,

Mr Trenerry - said a lot of boat people sheltered in the

small boats had been washed up during the typhoon, there by the typhoon.

(Conte, on Page 5, Col. 4)

President Eisenhower today visited Alaska, the land America bought from over the weekend thought the ground floor of the Yacht Club

the Czar of Russia almost 100 years ago-now the 49th state.

He lanced at nearby Elmendorf Air Force base today on the first leg of his 22,975* mile Far Eastern tour.

It was the President's first visit to the northern territory since it became the 49th state last year.

Two little Eskimo girls pre- sented Mr Eisenhower with flowers as he stepped from his silver and orange 707 jetliner.

Mr Elsenhower told the air- port crowds that the Russian London, June 12.

over Alaska in his flag few

and said he Earl Afilee, the former Labour father's boyhood

Prime Minister and Countess never thought in his own child- Alileo escaped unhurt when hood' that he would one day, the their car was involved in a as President, welcome collision today with two territory to statehood, approaching CATK on the The United States purchased Amersham Road at Chalfont Alaska from Czarist Russia in

1867. St. Peter, Buckinghamshire,

"My Lady Aitles was driving at Mr. Eisenhower said: the time. No Dne

the first visit since Alaska became oncoming cars was hurt,

the 40th state means much to Lady Atlee, who is 03, bas me as an Individual and been driving for 35 years. She American. I find myself going regularly acts as chauffeur for back to my boyhood when we her husband.

felt that Alaska was a place of gold and glamour and the Yukon and the Klondike and Sourdoughs, and we felt that Jack London and Robert Service knew the country and told us about it."-Reuter.

The Daily Telegraph Lady Attice had now had sweat be in the air at a given mishaps since 1955 and on every moment is likely to remain occasion but one her husband, a secret. An` enemy would who is 77, had been a passen

be kept guessing what sort ger-Reuter.

White slave' on a future

Leopoldville, June 12.

The most flourishing racket promoted by Congo ally slickers these days in the "while slave" business on a Inture-delivery, basis,

No white women have actually been sold Into bondage, and 8,000 tough Belgian para- troopers and 20,000 colonial troops are deter- mined none will be, but tribesmen coming in from the plantations and mines to look at the' while man's towns don't know that,

A brisk business in the "mile" of wiva and daughlets of Europeans is going on with the country dwellers with the promise the buyer will get his woman, after, the Congo becomes independent on June, 30,

The price for a Belgian woman in about U.8.520 a month's salary for the, average tribesmann

The swindle works Ilike this. A city nalive rees one of his country wasing syeing a white woman in the street, he sidles up and asks:

"Would my friend like to acquire that white women after independance?"

The deal lumally clinched. over a beer, -1.“bill of male”, is handed, OVR,

trade basis

Sinos few Jungte Africans can read, they are often stuck with an election pamphlet which they are told gives them the right to possess the white woman after Independence day.

Some of the local "eon men" don't just sell the woman of the house --- they sell the house along with her.

One Belgian rushed into, a police station recently to report that an African had knocked at the door of his home and asked if he could have a look around.

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The African explained he had just bought the house, would be moving in on July.. and wanted to have a look at his "property. The Belgian bought a gun and is appre- „bensively zwalling July 1.

ave sent their wives and Many Europeans have children home to Europe or into the border- ing British pousesatoda until things: mirulgbtes. out after Independence.» (at p

Airlines and "shipping offices, report are booked sold for the next two month by Europeans: konding for.

'I AM NOT A

CANDIDATE'

MR STEVENSON

Chicago, June 12. Mr Adlai Stevenson, who Fwas the unsuccessful 1952 and 1956 Democratic Pre- sidential nominee, declared today that he was not a candidate for his party's 1960 nomination....

He said this in a state- ment today to amplify a message he had sent to Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, which she had interpreted as mean- ing that Mr Stevenson was a candidate.

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I will not seek the .therefore,

nomination

I am not a candidate," Mr

Stevenson said today.

Renter.

Moscow, June 12. Soviet writer Mikhail Holokhov author of "And Quiet- Flows the 'Don" had given the Lenin Prize for literature he Won this year for the building off's school in his home villago on the Dai

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