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Shock report on Rhine Army Moscow accuses
New Streets Offences Act
criticised
London, Aug. 8.
The introduction of the
Streets Offences Act con-
BRITISH FORCE ALMOST VALUELESS
From COLIN LAWSON
Bonn, Aug. 7.
cerning soliciting by Britain's 55,000-strong Army of the Rhine is today
prostitutes has placed the homeless, friendless girl; in the big city in an even more dangerous position than before, declares a report to Britain's Home Secretary, issued today, The Central After-Care Asso- clation says it is not desirable for young girls without roots socially to be accommodated in a big city whore they are con- stantly under temptalian, and in! danger of being swept into or- ganised prostitution.
It adds "the introduction of new laws concerning sofIelting has resulted in the homeless and friendless girl being in a even more dangerous position than hitherto, since once she has been picked up and introduced 10 the call-girl system shu is not likely to be seen in, the streets by the policewomen, who have in the past rescued many such girls from a life of prostitution.
"The fact that only a small bumber of girls is involved does not make this a less serious problem, though it is for this reason, more likely to
be overlooked."-Reuter.
She jumps into river
Saigon, Aug.
A young mother killed her child and then committed from
almost valueless as a fighting force in face of
an attack from the East.
after
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This is the inescapable 0001- Close to his home is a British clusion I have come to
in need of a civillan three weeks' investigation luto mechanic. He gets the job. its operational capabilities.
Worse sul, the vast U.S. Army
Up goes the balloon. Docs
of 200,000 is in nearly as hope-Hans immediately report to his Wehrmacht until under mobili- less a situation.
his sation orders and "desert" key Job with the British? does he remain.
Small Eastern forces, would overrun the West in a few days in a conventional war,
Only atomic push-button could salvage the situation but bring with it at the same time atomic reprisals,
The British Army of the Rhine, kept in Germany at a minimum.cost of £40 million a German year, employs 55,500
With- Army
civilians. All are in key, jobs essential to a land war. out them the Rhine cannot function.
ANXIOUS
Commanders at all levels with whom I talked display the fulling gatest auxiety over their operational roles.
No one knows.
Or
r2-
The German Defence Ministry wriggled by saying that German employees will be given the status of soldiers and still main with their Allied units.
Note the word "status."
For it added: "They would remain under German law."
As what? German soldiers? Or civilians? Again no one knows.
What kind of power would a British C.O. have over them? The Army Act? The Manual of of Military Law?
Indeed, one went so far as to say: "The wheels of the Rhine
Certainly not. For Dr Aden- Army as at presem legally and auer laid down years ago the operationally constituted in principle with which few would West Germany would come to a argue, halt within a week of fighting." Take a look at the 55,500. They are just as much a part of the army 25 British generals, colonels, junior tank com- manders, and privates.
For instance, at the vast tank repair depot at Welter in the Ruhr, the number two to the British full colonel is a German ranking as a leutenant-colonel.
He controls 2,000 technicians.
German
That Germans will never be
allowed to serve as mercenaries
in foreign armies.
The Rhine Army is estimated to be short of six to seven thousand . urgently needed second-line heavy transport drivers without which it simply could not function..
E
come Rhine
Where are they to from? Cautiously Yet no law, no machinery, no Army official spokesman said: regulations exist in the West "It cannot be said we have an German Republic which can acute shortage. But obviously
Ger-. effectively mobilise these men with full employment in in the event of war. And it is many there are difficulties." the basé workshop for the
But even though my inquiries whole of the Rhine Army. the Bach Ho
were carried to the highest level Without it, the army cannol
at Rhine Army HQ. no one the famed River of Per- function.
would be drawn into comment- fumes in the central Viet- Equally, no laws
ing officially un the chaotic nam city of Hue, accord- machinery exis: to mobilise the state of the German law cover-
Ing these 55,500 German ing to local press reports, rest of the 55,500,
ployees.
Sa
suicide by jumping on
Friends said that the girl had had an unhappy love affair with teacher. She jumped from the bridge and drowned before rescuers could reach her...
The River of Perfumes is well known in Vietnam, for the quiet beauty of its waters, which, Bow down from the mountains of Labs to Hue in the coastal plain. -UPI.
A British
CIVILIANS?
or
No one today knows just how have many of these Germanis commitments to
armed forces.
the German
| Take Hans Schmidt who bas just completed 18 months con- script service with the Wehr macht. He is still läble to recall in case of war,
Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
2 Marginal instruction (4)
Toasted teacake (7),
8 European republic (4).....
9 Meat for a shilling, girl (4)
10 Mounted on a horse? (7)
11 Measure by stepping (4)
12 Give away a hero (4)
14 Kneedied? (7)
17 Reliable alloy (5)
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19 Feeling found in the Hon's
den? (5),
22 Hurried to fire rife! (7) 28 Surrounded by (4).jpg 27 Sheffield today, maybe (4): 38 Secondary means of approach
(7)
29 By which some are suspend-
ed (4)
30 Not entirely fine Roman (4)
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2 Your engine has a knock, my
love! (6)
3 Building, we all have (0)
4 of the whip? (5)
5 Don't take kindly (6)
6 Order given to those
deserve it (5)
To invest or clothe (6)
12 Monarch, of old (4)
13 Not needing to diet (4)
15 Spruce up the hair? (4);
16 Everybody's doing #tf, (4)
who
18 At once, perhaps, a petrol,
rating (6)
20 Stiff and straight symbol (6)
21 Bird fond of the water? (8) 23 Not a straightforward re-
mark? (5) 24 Gulde animal (0)
(B)
DOUBTFUL
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Privately I was told bluntly: They cannot be absorbed into the Army. And without that or German legislation covering all contingencies they be a doubitul asset."
would
British students
The X15 in record flight of 'provocations'
The United States Air Force X15 rocket plane shafiered the world air speed record when, piloted by Joe Walker, leading test pliot for the National Aeronaniles and Space Ad- ministration, the experimental plane flew at 2,150 miles an hour from Edwards. Air Force base, California, on August 4. In the top photo the X15 (black) comes in te land after Ita record flight. Just above it is one of the F104 chase planes which kept watch on it. In the lower picture Joe Walker is shown in the cockpit, after landing the X15-AF Photo.
'Brain'
city's
Ne
Moscow, Aug: 7.
Three British postgraduate students who have spent the past academic year at Leningrad University were stated by a Soviet newspaper today to have been caught “taking pictures of military objects.”
The youth newspaper Kom. somolskaya Pravda gave their names as John, Donald Chad- wick, Alan Bodger and Michael Sholton, but did not mention their home addresses.
ot the
The allegation came end of a long article about students and other foreigners who committed, provocations" in the Soviet Union, Observers said it fitted into the current campaign for vigilance against foreign spies.
TOOK PICTURES
The article asked what made three Britons, who were described as philologists, engage
in taking pictures of military objects.
The British Embassy has had Do official complaint of the alleged pictures incident.
Congressman appeals on China trip
Washington, Aug. 7. Representative. Chorses, 0. Porter, (Democrat, Ore- gon), has appealed to the Supreme Court, in, his, 14- month fight for a pass- port to travel to Chino,
و لا اله الا اخوان
Mr Porter's Attorneys have filed a petition molding the High According to various sources Court to review Lower Court here, however, the students rulings upholding the State De three, but af six studying in partment's refusal to issue him Leningrad who have now re- the passport............. turned home were stopped by The Supreme Court will, de police 3n Leningrad some cde later whether to consider months cup, about the time of the case.. the American U-2 spy... pline Incident white photographing near the river,
Abait seven British students are expected, in Leningrad and | nine in Moscow, in the
academic year-Reuter,
INFORMATION
In his petition, Mr Porter said he wanted to visit Chìnă next or the more knowledgeable performance" of his Congres- slotal. function. He said he needed first hand information "concerning the most populous country of the world whose ac tivities and purposes almost dally confront the Congress."
Russians in
control in
The US Court of Appeals dismissed Mr Porter's passport suit on the grounds that is Congressional status alone did not exempt him from the Stale
North Korea Department's ban on travel to
Secul, Aug, 7.
Lleut. Chung Nak Hyun, who
China,
Mr Porter contended that any member of Congress, should be
flew a Russian made MIG-15 allowed to visit any nation jet trom North Korea to free pursuit of legislative duties
UPI. dom in South Korea," to-day said North Korea was under the tight control of Russians,
Chang held his first Press
Criminal killed conference to-day since his de
will control Criminal killed
rail system
Hamburg, Aug. 7.
For years Dr Adenauer has The first fully automated underground railway in the world with an electronic brain controlling the arrival and departure of trains is planned to be in operation here by the end of 1962.
refused to tackle the subject of an emergency law covering the kind of problem which British staff officers have for long en- visaged. He says it would be too hot a political issue.
The "brain" will control the
As one British officer put it whole system, which engineers hope will extend under the en- to me: "Rhine Army is depen- lire city. It will stop and start dent on anything which may be irains, direct them to platforms, contained in a German emer- and increase or decrease speed gency law. But there ja Do Es necessary. firm policy."
Be prepared too for another shock
The 55,500 Germans, with the exception of higher executives, ore all trade unionists.
And the German T.U.C. han just wrested another £1,500,000 in mlaries, and wages for the next 12 months to add to the annual bill of
£20 million.
The British taxpayer
will
have to find this and next year the demand for rises will grow even more strident. Only by paying industrial rates can these men be kept by the Army, Within couple of years the wage bil will jump to £26 million.
of
Rhine Army is supposed to be the best-trained force Briv Lain possesses. In the view Regular Army officers, it is about the worSL
in view... of civilian labour. shortages, units are, stretched to
such an extent that 100 per cent training cannot be given.- London Express Service.
Another rebel victim dies
Algiers, August: 7. Another victim of last week's Algerian rebel femorist' raid
WBS
bathing beach at Chenua 31 Tackled by the hair? (7) 26 Given a distinguishing mark died to-day, bringing the death
toll-in the reid to 14. 32 Mend your way of speaking!
The latest casualty SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD Acrom: Copper, 5 Rhomb, Omadrau, the fourth member of B Tepee, 9 Nation, 10 Laird, 11 Never, 12 Tled, 13 After 16 thene family from BHO Lesser, 18 Cradle, 20 Tweed, 22 Calf, 23 Adder, 25. Space, 28 to die of wounds inflicted) Pop-gun, 27 Trees, 28 Trus, 29 Relent. Den: 1 Constant, 2 the rebels who machine, ame Patience & Elon, Renewed, 5. Re-lease, Hearse, 7 Merge, 14 the bench. His boat Triangle 13 Reef-knot, 16 Ladders, 17 Sleeper, 19 Reacts, 21 Dra is shoegitáli Wiper, 24 Rose.
AFP.
The brain takes immediate action in case of accidents. An electronte impulse can stop trains at any time and the "brain" is capable of countermanding previous orders. +
cause
redundancy. Present train drivers will, supervise the brain to ensure smooth working-China Mall Special.
Woman crew on Peking train
Peking, Aug. 6.
The new system will not | A gleaming new passenger train with streamlined, double-deck carriages which went into service in the Peking area this sum- mer, is yet another con- crete proof of China's bid to build up her railway system.
Portuguese
leader
honoured
Sagres, Aug. 7.
This, diesel driven. "Dast Wind", grain with m sil-woman crew-even the driver is ā woman--gerves two towns near Peking as part of a plan to speed up suburban service in the capital area
Itrums twice daily between Feling and the towns of Chang Ha Tien and Loa Li Ha, shou 35 and 53 miles respectively to Ten thousand people, im- the west, and is made up of six
carriages. blue-and-white cluding the presidents of
self propelled diesel unit of Portugal and Brazil, today each end permite a quick burne watched 43 ships sail påst around ... The foury, double. Sagres Point, the south-decker carriages in the middle western tip of Portugal, in each have 104 seals on the top deck, 80 on the lower deck and honour of Prince. Henry space for 14 more on lending the Navigator, patron of near the entrance. Portugal's fifteenth con- Chinese officials «ý that, tury, explorers.
type of carriage has increased the Doe's carrying capacity by Ter sail training chips from 60 per cent. Beuter. eight ounces, led by the barque Portuguese navy's
the parade
Colombo, Aug 7 Sagres, headed flowed by 83 waps me Eleven people were idled and countries, led by the Portugue Colon kaunsport bound bus ran 25 injured yesterday, when a sloop Bartolomeu: dias,
on the road and gushed down WITTEL MODs; Bertain, Porto
a-221-foot precipite between gal, Spain and the United
Panara, tndlay: Madisksfrom. in States flow part
Southeastern Cerion, courting trem. from which,
Six died on the spot
and
mound the cost opened the way
Saigon, Aug. 7. A notorious killer and kid- napper has been killed in Southern Vietnam where he committed several crimes over the past year.
The criminal. Bien Van Tau was killed by a patrol, who surrounded the hut where he war, hiding out in Long An vince south of here--UPI.
Six drowned
Saigon. Aug,
fection to the South. He said one big reason for his defec- tion was that in the North Ko Six persona were drowned. officers when a sampary crossing a river rean De forces,
á barge and "cannot keep their prestige be- near here struck cause enlisted men openly at capsized, local press reports. back you."
said.
The Lieutenant said there Three survivors of the acol were still Russian advisers in dent, all women, said the sam
crossing the North Korean military for- par passengers were ces and they, not the Chinese the river to attend a theatrical Communists controlled North performance in the town of Lai
Thieu.JP
Korean affairs.-UPI.
WHY
our
summer
sale
extended for one more week?
1. "Encore, Encore, Encore!" from both our friends and foes from our friends who have not had the chance of being leisurely attended in the past two weeks due to pack-house condition; and from our foes who believe it is the easiest way to get us bankrupted by selling almost everything at cost or under cost.
2. Läte arrivals of 1950 summer lines of new prints,
new designs
gns and new fabrics not before seen in our store, must be cleared to make room for our coming autumn and winter shipments
Remnants left over from the past two weeks. Instead taking the risk of being caught for legal dumping in our back yard, are given away at fraction of cost.
Tyebs of Pottinger St.
-The sale definite
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