THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1960.
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BITTER LAOTIAN STRUGGLE SPREADS COMMUNIST AGENTS MURDERED
Big army meeting A slide, a sudden skid
called for
Vientiane, Sept. 21.
King Saving Vathana of Laos today called a meeting of his army commanders throughout the country after a clash east of here yesterday botwoon opposing units of the divided armed forces. Official Government sources said both General
Quan Rattikhone, Commander of the forces) loyal to Prince Souvanna Phouma's neutralist Government, and the right-wing revolutionary leader, General Phoumi Nosavan, had been summoned to the Royal capital of Luang Prabang for peace talks.
Vientiane,
20
but
Chi The sources said it was also marching
It
01 Souvams retreated
the town possible that Prince
where
Siamese would attend the meeting in his Pukesinzer, capacity as defence minister. plure dropped arms.
They also received rein- forceraenkr of Holdiers speaking Laufian but coming from the Siamese side of the Mekong, the radlo said.
Three killed
General Phouma, whose head- quarters are at Savannakmet,
Southern Laus, W114 defence Meanwhile Pro-Communist minister in the pro-western puthet Lao rebel headquarters government of Mr Tino Som- have ordered their sunith, ousted coup lust month,
in
units 10
activities in
paratroopeenso ni military
areas under the control of Prince Soivanna's government, aeyurding to #rebel brandtast monitored here.
Heavy
General Quan Rall three members of the revolutionary forces had been killed in yeslerday's clash and nd un- known number Three
Kovernment
were wounded.
wounded,
soldiers
General Quan said Genere Phoumi's forces, which had been advancing
Highling between Pathet Lao guerillas and fores of General
beeri Phoni haN reperica in several arens
recently, especially near the
border with Communist
Vientiane, Vietnam, were pushed back in yester- day's clust
Vientiane rudio, quoting
North
U.5. denies charge
well-informed sources, said to- Meanwhile, the State Depart-
ان
day that byul forces had also ment tonight dismissed ** rviello Jou" rompanies revolutionary troops about miles south of Vientiane war the Mekong iver in Monday.
The troup La
beet:
Seek custody of daughter's children:
"malicious and completely with out foundation"
Russian
States charge that the United
Interfer- was guilty of “Kross ence in the infemal affairs t Laos."
"The dental was issued a few hours after the Soviet Govern- men had rectised America and ulher Seato countries particu- larly Siam and South Vietnam
lineiting med revolt against te Neutralist Government of Prince Souvanna Phouma.
The Russians alleged that Anerira was reinforcing her naval forces in the area and that Stamese ships had bom- barded Lantian vessels.
Wils con-
New York, Sept. 21. A Welsh couple have arrived
kere
J said it was "unpossible to the liner aboard America to altempt to re" actions "aimed at un- leashing civil war in Laos," and take their three grand- warned that the situation children
mother fraught with dangerou whose was murdered, home with, aquences for pence in South
East Asia. them. Mr
Mrs daughter, Dorothy balde and went to live in Hop- kinsville, She Was found there in June, Her strangled husband Richard Rariae, is now confined in a mental institution. --China Matt Special.
Bud
Lambert's
Gf
was
The American denial said the State Department suspected that allegations might the Moscow he in response to a plea from leader Prines Scuvannouvong,
of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, und half brother of Prince Stuvanna Phouma.--Reuter,
A British Crossword Puzzle
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3 Outsize hat wearers? (B).
7 Nearer maturity (5).
As quickly as possible (8).
10 Maize for grain, that is (5),
13 Put one's house in order?
(7).
15 Opportunity's occnston (4).
17 Puts on a new coat (7).
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21 Gun emplacements: (7).
26 Sound again and again (6).
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ditions (8).
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action? (8).
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4 Down-trudden fellow (4).
5 Bring into concord (8).
Not obstacles to the fashion- able (8).
See about a male ruler (0). correction 11 Became liable to
(0).
12 Make an incision, man (6).
14 Lust conclusion, Mary (0).
16 Spaniard behended, just for
a game (5).
16 Material of the church (5).
16 Bird big at the fair (8).
10 One-masted vessels (6)
22 Two-faced feld-work (8). 23 The approval of the French
(5).
24 Test the depth of a strait
(5). 26 One-way carriage (4). ;
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. — Aerous! I Gamble, Hunto, 8 Apron. 0 Elixir, 10 Tinny, 11 Dron, 12 Nibe, 19 Pooch, 16 Ancona, 18 Allght, 20 Satin, 22 Harp, 23 End, 25. Ouldo, 20 Nipper, 27 Elder, 20 Stark, 20 Defeud. Downi 1 Greyness, 2 Mail-bont, & Lata 4 Ear-ring, blot spol, Unison," 7 Tonic, 14 Oak-apple, 16 Hampered, 11 Ain folk, 17 Chained, 10 Lieder, 21 Adult, 24 Eiro.
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and an
KIDNAPPED AND
DRUGGED ENEMIES
Ex war hero dies on the track SPY REVEALS IN U.S.
45-year-old
Jolin Forbes-
Distinguished
Clark, uf Wolverhampton,
who won the
Cross Flying
with RAF Coastal Command during the war was driving a Cooper- Climax
climb th in a hil Gloucestershire the other day out of when the car went
control and hit a crash bar- rier. He was unconscious an
the ear careered neross the
track and overturned; track marshals ran to the car to sop crushing him, and managed drag him clear before Hamics broke out—but they were too late.
ANOTHER EXPLOSION
IN ALGIERS
Hammarskjold threatens to use force in Congo
Blunt warning to
Tshombe
troops
In the two incidents, thare had been
in casualties
sume the
United Nations, Sept. 21. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has threatened to use the United Nations Congo peace force to stop massacres of civilian villagers by troops of secessionist Katanga province, it was announced today. Hammarskjold, in a cable to Meanwhite in Leopoldville. Liberian and Tunisian Kalunga present Moise Colonel Josoph Mahulu, army involved
sald 10- but Tshombe, warned bluntly that Commander-in-Chief,
the Congolese called for "It is the duty of the United night he had Nations force to protect the withdrawal of Guineana (and | Liberian encounter. | civilian population and this duty Ghanaians from the UN Congo
force following the discovery of „A trevaller from Stanleyville is no way restricted by rule of
non-intervention (U.N.)
documents involving "Com said that all Sovie! technicians munists. Guineans domestic conflicts."
and Pre- and all the flyushin alteratt sident Kwame Nkrumah of Rusca lent to the Congo had "ABY repetition will Chona."
been withdrawn by today- therefore be resisted by the He said that if the troops some of the aircraft taking off United Nations force.... the were not withdrawn "It will with paint hastily slapped over cable read.
be a question for our general
Algiers, Sept. 21. A powerful explosion rockel
busy
midtown corner in Algiers Inte today, severely in- Juring nine people struck by fly- ing pieces of metal or splinters of glass.
The explosion was traced ton time bomb set within a parketi car in front of a well-known
the
cafe.
It exploded at the peak of the
hour when Wening ruth neighbourhood pavements thronged with workers homeward-bound shoppers.
The blust wrecked the war, end broke windows in the vicinity as high up as the fifth floor. Plate glass windows of nearby shops were shattered. --- AP.
in
The UN Chief said "accord-
staff." The Colonel who the new "Air Congo" signs still claims to have "neutralised wet.-UPI & Reuter. confirmed Reports" the rival politicians and suG- Katanga
gendarmerie carried out brutal repressive pended their rule did
einborste. operations" agalast civillan
has
Michel, Mr Lamumba's
vot
in your lapel
are I trowds in the Leuna vicinity. He said he had also ordered Don't wear a flower and The population of that area -- the expulsion of Mr Serge
mostly Baluba Tribesmen →→
UCOSA Madame Andree ank believed loyal to pro- officer, were
Russian Premier Potrice Blouin, who is regarded as an Lumumba, arch political foe of influential adviser to the Tshombe in his claim of in- Lumumba Goverment. dependence from the Congolese Central Government,
IT IS A WOMEN'S WORLD:
EVEN IN CASTRO'S ARMY
Havana, Sept. 21.
Cuba strengthened its army with Soviet weapons and drafted women militia for active duty today to free men from hill fighting against anti-Castro guerillas.
EVIDENCE
London, The
Dolly Express, after polling London bankers, rc- ported recently the hallmark of Usually reliable African a top banker" 1s that he does sources said Colonel Mobutu not wear a nower in his lapol confronted several African cin-buttonhole. bassies here yesterday with evidence of a plot to restore
Mr Lumumba to power,
The evidence three letters
was alleged to have been in Mr Lumumba's briefcase when he was arrested recently and hell for a short while.
One of the letters was alleged to have come from President Kwame Nkrumah and a second from Conakry, Guinea, urging Mr Lumumba to trust nobody but the Guineana and Com- munisto.
Reports from the interior suid One of tho counter-revolu- women illitia units were press- tionaries was killed and two The third, allegedly signed by ed into service in some towns others captured. There was no | Mr to relieve men for netive combat.j ofefal report on
duly.
casualtica
Mr
Antoine Gizenga,
Deputy government | Lumunibe's
Premier, called for 30 Czoch technicians The reports coincided with Government pross reports to take up posts in the Con- reliable military information from Pinar Del Rio, also regolese administration. that Soviet Rumia has supported the capture of seven plied the Fidel Castro regimo guerilias, identified with 80-ton Stalin tanks. Batista army men, and a large presumably to be used against amount of boots including sub- his armed force
machine guns, rifles and pistola,
The Russians also have agreed-UPI. to put MIG jet-fighter aircraft into Castro's hands before the month's end, sources said.
Clashes
Scattered
between clashes guerilla bands and government forces were reported from Las Vilius province in Central Cuba to Pinar Del Rio at the western end of the laland.
Maj. Binaglo Walsh was re ported commanding anti-Custra ruerillas in tho Cienfuegos auctor of Las Villas,
A former Castro adherent; Walalt is known as a violent ahil-Communist, *****
In Pinay Del Rio, diso guerisins subuibed an army. truck carrying inilillamen.
as former
KNEW OF PLOT
The spokesman told a press that 4 Congolese conference officer had told him that Colonel Mobutu "knew all about a plot between Ghana and Guinea" to bring Mr Lumumba lo power.
In other developments in the Congo:
Colonel Mobutu's "college" of graduates and students, whn, alated, Mobutu officials havD will run the Congo ill the end of the year, took over mont buildingo peacefully to- tiny. They birived with an armoured car add söverai lorry. loads of troops.
govern-
A United Nations · spokesman rld UN treo bro nen tin In the past week on Consolead sciding them. 160 caminifer
A werk A reporma
the
Washington, Sept. 21.
A documented report concerning abductions, drugs, terror and murder by Soviet and Eust German intelligence operators was sworn to- day by a former U.S. secret agent..
Theodor Hans testified at a pubile tear of the U.S. Senate Internal Security Sub- committee.
The witness sald he was born in Germany in 1920, cante to the U.S. as a student in 1937 and is how a naturalised American eltizen.
Hana sald he had 15 years experience in dealing with Com- munist espionage and counter- agents in Berlin,
the Communist agents to aid In abduction of their suspects. in ou ense, he said, a pretty East Germon ballerina was used as bait to entice a West German political leader into East Berlin where he was captured hurried off to a prison comp.
..and
The witness sald Soviet agents used murder in #0 - effort to eliminate political foes and defectors. Hans said he is convincett these layings often are dis- gulsed as sulcides.
ALLIES INADEQUATE ·
Hans said he had collected
Senator Oln. D. Johnston who data on several hundred kid-presided alone at the hearing nappings, both in East and West asked photographers not to take. Berlin, by Communist denis. pictures of Hons. He said this might injure the ability of the After detailing scores of in-witness to serve as an intelli- dividual cases, the soft-spoken genes agent in the future. and scholarly appearing wil-
Hans testified that after ser- news said the U.S., British and vice in the army he became a French counter esplomage civilium intelligence agent, spend- eltoris in West Berlin and
ing much of his time in Berlin other contact points "were do- and West Germany after World fitely inadequate.”
Wer I ended. He mid 'he re- fool of personal ex- | signed in December of last year perience in checking use of for personal reasons and drurred wines and candy by turned to this country.-AP.
Sweet Daddy Grace
leaves
the fortune collected
for the church
Inte
Washington, Sept. 21. The Federal Internal Revenue Service says the Charles M. (Sweet Daddy) Grace, Negro religious leader, with controlled 90 bank and sayings and loan accounta
balances totalling more than $1.8 million.
The service made this esitmate in pleadings filed with the U.S. tax couri The Government has filed claims totalling nearly $6 million against the estate, unofficially valued up to $25 million.
The Revenue Service claims back taxes, penalties and interest in its action against the estate of the evangellat who died in Los Angeles on Jan. 12.
Reporting on an investigation of his finances through 1880, IL sald Grace underestimated his taxable income, each year from 1945 to 1958.
re-
Thb, service said Grace over the years "soquired many valuable hotela, apartment buildings, store buildings, sidences and other properties,” including the bir Eldorado Towers apartment building near Central Park in New York City,
Grace's tax court estimated The papers Bled in the followers at 3 million and said he established at least 108 "houses of prayer.”
His visits to these establishments, in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac, "were marked by large cash collections which were taken up and given to him," the service sald.
It added that be obtained income also from such enter- prises as restaurants, cafeterias, beauty parlours and the salo of "Sweet Daddy Grace" soap, lotions, hair dressing, writing paper, coffee, tea, cookies, emblems and enfenders.
The revenue servies said Grace, who was born in the Portuguese Cape Verde Islands in 1893 and never becaeno a U.B. citizen, placed his real estate holdings in the name of the "Church of the House of Prayer for sil People, Bishop Charles M, Grace, Trastée" and that the constitution of this organisation provided that members "have no power to interfere with Grace or to judge him, as he shall be judged only by God."
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The Grace eslaic, scattered over 14 alates, the District of Columbia and Cuba, is: enmeshed in states as well as federal taxtigation and swita among members of the religious organisation have been filed over the succession to Grace's DelloDAP.
THE PRINCE IS OUT FOR A STROLL
iley, what's going on there? Anyokò what think I was a Prince," the Istest addition to the Royal family, Prince Androw, seems to be saying as he is taken for a stroll.
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