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Comment Of The Day

LABOUR

DECLINE

VOL DIRE

KOPUNCT

TR Gaitskell has aban-

Mdoned his long struggle

to amend the Labour Party's vows of full na tionalisation. Why Mr

Gaitskell did not immediate ly tender his resignation following this defeat, for defeat it was, is not clear.

THE WEATHER

Light variable winds. Fair or fine. At 1:00 p.m. the temperatura was 86 degrees Fahrenheit and

rulative humidity 72 per cent.~

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Desperate bid by UN forces to restore peace CONGO IN COMPLETE CHAOS

Collapse of 17-day-old Republic seen

Leopoldville, July 17.

The 17-day-old Congo Republic is tonight in

chaos. It is in danger of complete econo- mic and political disintegration.

A political party which is United Nations troops are slowly moving in to take

Aure of itself and the way

its, affairs are conducted has no need to express formal confidence in its leader.

up their appointed positions as peace-makers between hostile Congolese troops, largely leaderless, and. bitterly determined Belgian- paratroopers, sworn to stay until the safety of the European civilian population can be guaranteed.

Colonel

Yet at. the end of last month the Parliamentary Labour Party had to call a vote to

United Nations forces were At the same time the newly express confidence in Mr

today reported to be nearing the appointed commander of Belgian Gaitskell. The vote is ap-initial target strength of 5,000, Forces in Katanga, parently now worth precise- but U.N. officials have recom- Lucian Champion, announced the ly nothing.

mended to Mr Dag Hammarsk-mobilisation of all Belgian men jold, the U.N. Secretary aged 20 la 45 to help the authori General, that twice the number ties maintain the economic life of troops should be provided as of the province. quickly as possible, bringing the total strength to a division of appearance about 10,000.

After the party had reassert

ed its faith in the leader and condemned attacks on him it expressed the hope that "decisions, when taken, will be loyally accepted."

Danger

་་

The danger to the Congo now les less in the direction of war between Congolese and the Belgians than in the complete collapse of the new republic.

A handful of civilian UN officials were desperately strug- to provide emer- sling today sency food supplies for Lulua bourg, in the centre of the congo, to reopen the Congo's only port of Matadi, and to re- pair the oil pipeline from Matadi to the capital.

HAT ambiguity implies That the demands of the Party Conference must be obeyed by the Parliament ary representatives. In other words, national policy will be dictated by an irrespon- sible gathering swayed by ...the block vote of the unions, This is one of the controversies which have recently shaken the party to its roots. Mr Matadi has been in the hands Gaitskell believes in the of the Congolese rebels for 'supremacy of the Parlia three days since Belgian para- mentary Party, and Mr troopers withdrew to ships in Cousins, the big trade

union boss, In that of the Conference.

RUSSIAN It seems that

Mr Cousins won the day in June and his' victory was the forerunner .of last week's defeat of the leader. If the next Conference follows the Cousins line Mr. Gait- skell will either have to swallow his convictions and his pride or resign.

Wa

THAT are Mr. Cousins' chances? They are not bad at all. The Party Exe- cutive has approved a new policy for defence and the TUC will almost certainly support it.

But Mr Cousins will have some solid backing when he appeals to the Conference to reject the plan-if that Is what it can be called. It would not leave the coun- try so defenceless as his own,, but at formas coherent whole.

no

AIRLIFT

OF FOOD

TO CONGO

Moscow, July 18. Soviet aircraft will take off from Moscow aliport for Leopoldville within a few hours with supplies for the Couto, the Com- munist Party – newspaper Pravda ld this morning. The newspaper, quoted by Tas said "the deputy head of the civil aviation Baakirov, executive, V.

told Pravda's' correspon- dent that within a few hours Soviet IL-18 airerafi would be leaving Moscow, airport for Leopoldvilia with a carro of eight toms, each of sugar and -con- serves."--Reuter,"

the harbour after they were shelled by light. Congolese |

As a policy it gives the im

pression of having all kinds of: odd thoughts and pro- artillery. mises pushed into it solely to mollify various critics. It is not a policy for the defence of Britain so much as for the survival of the Labour Party.

Mblamed for doing his

of the

|

The Belgians give

the

of trying to curry favour with the Katanga Government by sending a top official to offer economic aid- though they are trying to dispel this beller by claiming that their offer does not imply Belgian recognition of Katanga's independence.

No slackening

The Belgian official, who ar rived amid great secrecy for talks with Katanga officials, was later Identified as Count Harold** Lynden, Under-Secretary of State in the Belgian Premier's

office,

The picture of economic collapse in the Congo was re- inforced by statistics showing that of the 80,000 Beiglan Europeans who formerly lived in the Republic more than 30,000 have left and the big exodus is continuing unabated.

The exodus threatens the total collapse of all public services including hospitals,

ELCROSS

of

the

alport

There was still no sign tonight of slackening in the flow of civilians fleeing the country, There was a 24-hour queue of cars waiting to board the ferry the Congo River to Brazzaville, capital former French Congo,

At Leopoldville officials said there was enough fuel for 55 jet airliner flights to Brussels-a capacity for nearly 10,000 refugees.

Hundreds of cam Leopoldville airport tonight abandoned by refugees who tossed the keys to airline offi- / cials before boarding planes to Brussels:

slood at

A mongrel puppy was found whimpering and growling after four days imprisonment with no food or drink. Art airline off- clal with a

gun managed entice the crazed-animal-to`n bowl of food.-Reuter and Our Own Correspondent..

Churchill's

to

war memoirs on TV

A European accused of having concealed arms is marched at gunpoint into the Congolese army head- quarters in Leopoldville.. The man is barefooted and carries his shoes in his upraised hands --- a security measure aimed at discouraging him from

for it making a run AP Photo.

Wanted

man

thwarts

police

Oakington, July 17. * man wanted in connec tion with a murder in quiry committed suicide today while Scotland

BOY SAYS ALLEGED

KIDNAPPER

WAS KIND TO ME

Hinckley, July 17.

A 12-year-old boy told a magistrate's court here that the schoolteacher accused of kidnapping him and taking him to Europe "was always very kind to me."

BIG HUNT

FOR 'BUGS

London, July 17.

Yard detectives stormed The British secret police into his sliding panel hide- out.

room

hal

West may have

answer to Russian rockets

CHAPMAN PINCHER

London, July 17,

Startling progress with a new electronic defence against Russia's H-bomb carrying rockets has. been made by British and American scientists.

It works on the principle of interfering with the electronic “brain”... of the rocket soon after it is launched.

The rocket can, suddenly be thrown off course, so violently that it breaks up in the air.

The warhead would not ex- plode., becauLNE the fusing mechanism built into the rocket would also be destroyed,

The system, largely developed

at the Royal Radar Establish- ment at Malvern, Worcester- shire, is an electronic "break- through" to which Mr Karold Watkinson, the Defence Minis- ter recently referred.

TWO PARTS ·

It consists of two parts;

•s now method of sending radar wives around the horizon; it is so percise that it can detect the peculiar dis- turbance caused when a Launchins -rocket - leaves lle

pad thousands of miles away;|

6 = jkenning device to in- terfere with electrontó elrouïta which keep the rocket (on - La parranged flight, kla

Gyroscopes: In "Russian mis- siles send out electric "signal-to tiny motors if the rocket veers off course. The motori move dins which - steer it back again

Experiments have shown that | It should be possible to inter- fere with these electric signals In the early stages of rocicet flight by beaming out radio waves of a speziak type.

:

BALLOONS

Waves could be generated by Instruments carried by high- flying balloons or by rockets fired straight upwards shortly after launching 'of enemy' missiles.

Láter it might be possible to instal an entire detection and the destruction system on ground.

But while offering a defence against Russia's missiles the new

system throws doubt on the U.S.

Skybolt rocket to be bought for | the RAP

The Skybolt contains so much schoolteacher, Kévin Treacy, 28, was charged with that it is particularly susceptible

electronic computing mechanism "stealing

The

and taking away to interference by cudio.- EX- Tony Stephens, a minor, against press Service.

the will of his lawful guardians,

his father and mother, He was Also charged with passport

forgery.

It was alleged that for 15 months Treacy" and "the" bor wandered round Europe until London newspaper reporter found them in Ulin, Germany.

Prosecuting, Mr M J. Jardine, Bald Tony was in Treacy's art class at St Peters Roman Catho- le School, at Earl Shilton/ Treacy started a religious move ment among the boys which was known as "The Crunderg „Tony" was a member,

Maladi is vital in order that large stocks of food can be brought into the capital which at present is living- mainly on

have the small amounts of food that

been carefully can be airlifted in by planes re-

examining certain Bri- turning to pick up refugees.

tish defence centres i

in the Mr Patrice Lumumba's Gaitakell cannot be Ꭱ

Willem (Gypsy Jack) Smith,

WENT TO ITALY search for hidden micro- Government was reported to

24, nestled a 12-gauge shotgun utrost to unite his battered have loss four of its key man-

London, July 17,

phones or tiny listening between his knees, and used a bers tricluding the Foreign

devices which might be in the witness box Tony battalions. One must assume. Minister, Mr. Justin Bomboke

Sir Winston Churchill's big toe to pull the trigger when

Stephen sald he and Tready that if he became Prime and the Economic Minister, Mr

used by spies to gather art went to Genoa, Italy, famous wor memoirs will police discovered the secret

in his mother's forest: military secrets, the where Treacy daughte Minister he would take de J. Yava who wrote that he was be made into a 26-épisod cisions in the national in- leaving because

television series," it was

Sunday Express revealed school today.

Later they went to Innsbruck, térest, whatever Mr Cousins "disastrous" colieper of national.

Announced here today. Smith, wanted in connection The Express said that at Austria, and other places. or the Conference might and international confidence i

Shooting was “schedule to with the fatal shooting of a the, Congo,

begin tomorrow

the housewife, had been the object cast three British plants work- The boy's father, Francis Broadcast Chartwell movies studios of one of the biggest manhunting for the Air Force have been Stephens, told the count that However, there is little pro

At the same time Kalanga The TV spectacular will in recent British history, police minutely searched erpecially he had starched for his

the Jaboratories of the Board of incessantly since March 1950 apect of a renewal of Labour Province, which, has announced race the history of World War sald.

Directors meeting rooms for visiting Paris and tramping. rule in the foreseeable its cusion from the Republic 11 as Sir Winston wrote it.

round Spain small devices called bugs, — It will have its American TV. future, and it is easy to is talking of waiting with paris

such as the kind that were see why. The party lacks of two other dissident provinces debut sometime

Police ere searching a gypsy found last year at the American all settled principles, policies including the diamond-mining November

camp

the Embassy in Moscow and else- or convictions.

section of the neighbouring Mr Edgar Peterson, producer

wild-haired.

mother where, Kami province and the southern of the series, stressed it wa

lived in a part of Kivi province into a new not be intention to make

too smal dependent Katanga State story in the Hollywood sense Katanga province leadly pro out of the memoirs duces 60 per cent of the Congo's

have said.

Its various sections are at odds on every Important question, and its leaders are silent on some.

he truth is, of cour

the Jeaders have no tim

pet down to the

business of making

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A broadcast by the regional text. To will be

to Premier of Kivu Province, Mractual fim

merican

Miruho said he had asked the war and how

Lumumba, Government toon of the resuma diplomatic relations wit are. Beldim and appealed to Euro German, Alma taken up try to keep the pin his province to stay at of the war will

party togeth

in

early

TOO SMALL

jan-interior" The factories

the out-] clied the - Rolls Royce” plank

Mr Joseph Alexander Valeri tine, a journalist on the Daily

said when he found the boy in a room.

Completa

tings

THE GROOM WENT AWOL

Wantage, July 17.

Tremor felt in HK

A slight earthquake felt in Hongkong....... this mywning.

Two residents told the China Mail that they felt the tremor.R

Ons who lived in Bowen Hoad said he was sitting од the drawing ^^ room. nouch at about · 7.48-Am. reiding the newspaper when he felt "a" gonfie" but very perceptible mollan *** “I can't; any › that any- thing... rocked to but the molion wan qulla noti seable,” he said. - 'Another rendent living at Shek O also imported feling, the. tremor.

A Royal. Observatory spokesman.confirmed the tremor it, and Isound - the following ratemant;" allo “A small, earthquake was recorded at the "Royal:

Observatory at 1.38 2.1.

"Tremors were recorded or about five minutes, The indications are that centre was approximatelý 80 miles north-north-east

of Hongkong."

Wokesman "affled that the Intenally of the quake was very

Norway's stand on RB-47

incident

Oslo, July 17.

Mr Halvard Lange, Nor

wegian Foreign Ministe said in a speech, near today that y points to the-

RB-47 aircraft been shot down over national waters.

Mr Lang time, as with

there are po allegation

contin

Norwegian faroj

An uninvited wedding guests

watched Neville, Charles

Clarke escort his teenage avoidable and

bride through a showe

of confetti and then re

ed the bridegroom

Seventeeri

Brady bilket

plinues to