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REASON FOR PATHET LAO
ANGER
T is surprising, seeing the excellent newspaper coverage that was given to Mr Khrushchev's tantrumsK last week, that not even the best of the correspon- dents gave a hint as to why Khrushchev should have been no rattled by Mr Macmillan's speech.
The reason was that Macmil- lan accused him of the worst sins a Marxist enn have laid to his account: of being emotional and second- ly, of possessing human fullings.
Emotional
case it has been forgot.}
I tea, Mr Macmillan said
In respect of
GO ON
OFFENSIVE
IN LAOS
Bangkok, Oct. 7.
Pathet Communist
Lao forces hava closed in to seize the last stronghold of General Phoumi Nosvan's revolutionary group in Phongsaly Pro- vince, northern Laos, it Was reported here to day.
Radio Savannakhet, monitor Mr K's ed here, admitted that Pathet
are troops
harrassing
subotaging the summit con- Lao ference, that he had been Phoumi's revolutionary forces too emotional, And second-there. ly, speaking of the atmos
The broadcast said the Pathel phere of auspicion that
Luo forces were being re surrounds a country open- ing its doors to foreign inforced by paratroopers from region of inspection, that Mr K's first military
Luang Prabang, which only a suspicions human. That was enough. few weeks ago were still loyal Khrushchev was on his feet to Phoumi raying like a madman.
were
only
Yet there is a reason for all
this, and so subtle were
*The
DANGER
broadcast added
Party leadership
Certain
Scarborough, Oct. 6.
Labour left-wing
MPS were reported today to have met in secret to plot the overthrow of Mr Hugh Gaitskell's leadership of the Labour Party.
Sources at the annual Party conference here said these MPs were planning to put in a candi- date for the Party leadership who accepts yesterday's conference votes for a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain.
Political quarters zaid they The left-wing's second choice were having a hard problem in would probably be Mr Anthony Greenwood, a Labour MP on finding a man for the job.
the Party Executive Committee, who publicly stated before the conference began that he would abide by its decisions. But Mr Greenwood, lice Mr Willson, 15 not expected to agree to stand against Galiskeli,
Their move is almost certain to be defeated. The Party leader is elected each year by the Labour MPs when Parliament begins its new session, starting this year on November 1.
Mr Galtskell has made it clear that he has no intention of offering his resignation, but means lastead to fight the Party conference's "Ban the H-Bomb" decisions to the last ditch,
Ho therefore, automatically for re-election as up Party leader.
Folical experis confidently
comes
|
Own ranks
This situation, political quar- ters cald, may leave the rebels to find a nominee among their own ranks.
The range from Mr Stephen
of the
Lamma Is. tragedy.
NO EVIDENCE OF
FOUL
PLAY
There is no evidence to indicate foul play in the death of the late Mr Michael Holmden.
A Government spokesman said this at 1 pm today after an autopsy lasting all morning.
He added, however, "enquiries are still proceed. ing." It is expected the cause of death will be known later today.
On a hike
The autopsy was carried out to determine the cause of Mr Holmden's death while he was hiking on Lamma Island on Wednesday, "
Mr Holmden, assistant manager of the Hong- kong branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, was one of four people who went by launch to Lamma Island,
He was found dead an a hillside almost ·24 hours after separating from his friends.
'No one will force our hand?'
DE GAULLE FLAYS UN OVER ALGERIA
La Tour du Pin, Oct. 6.
General De Gaulle warned tonight that France would not let any body "force her hand" in Algeria, and severely criticised the United Nations Organisation.
In
an
imprompu speech here on the eve of a three-day In speaking tour which starts Grenoble tomorrow, he said:
REFERENDUM'S RESULTS COMING IN
South Africa's Republicans
increase their lead
predict that any chalanger pilt "Victory for Socialism" to aby South Africa's Republicans increased their majority to 59,068 forward by the left-wing rebole other of the Labour MPs who would only
receive about 50
the
Labour MPs have in the past been branded would as the movement's "rebols" and
heretics."
that votes from
Mr Gaitskell, they say, win the other 200.
the thrusts of Mr Mnemll-several villages In Phongsaly
Inn, that one cunnot put were also in danger of being
Communist
his remarks down to mere taken by chance statements, For backed Pathet Lao troops, Macmillan, by implication. had accused Mr Khrush
chev of blasphemy against the Marxian creed,
Phongsaly is Laos' northern- must province, which borders with China, and is west of Sam Neau, which recently fell to Pathet Lao forces supported by To explain a little further: paratroop units of Capt. Kong We in the west, in spite of Le, who al present controls the capital all our superficialities, our Laotian administrative fallings, and our insin of Vicntione.-UPI. cerities, in dealing with
mankind, invoke quality
The plans
The plans by left-wing MPs to find a challenger are inter- preted here as insistences on a
These are the men who now find themselves champions of apolley which has the oletat endorsement
Party conference,
of the
The left-wing MPs at the matter of principles. Some of secret meetings today, are also them
tonight as results from all but six of the country's con- stituencies flowed in.
At this stage there werevious British occupation from choose next Monday, Kruger
768,243 1705 to 1803,
Kruger was pres Day", Paul 818,186 in favour and
The against making South Africa a
constitutional change dent of the old Transvaal re- father repubic
which wil symbolise South prabile and a founding
status-the roof Africanerdom. new Anti-Republican opponents of Africa's
Elizabeth the Nationalist Prime Minister,placement of Queen,
The referendum eampaign has Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, hadas Sovereign of the Union by
heated words on both sides, 150,000 votes overnight. But sident is not expected un Allegations of electors sharp it dwindled rapidly as results early xt year, when Parka-practice have been made, parti from rural Afrikaner strong ment meets. holds rolled in, and just before 1800 local time the Republicans went ahead.
"France helped to found, the United Nations, but not so that It should degenerate into a scandal, kind of permanent
with intemperate speeches, and belli- absurd outbiddings cose dangers. France will not bend a band in this.
REFUSES
"She wants co-operation be- tween nil peoples. But she re- fuses to be swallowed up by nary organisation and by that organi- sation, in particular, especially where Algeria is. concerned,"
President De Gaulle gave this warning to the Algerian insur- "We will never gent leaders: agree that a more or less excited group of people, more or less ambitious, more or less, totalk- and tarian should preach to dictate our conduct. In Algeria, Franco
από wants PERCE fraternity. She will not allow anyone to force her hand in this domain,"
are reported to believe reported to have laid plans for chalked up a lead of more than an elected South African Pro Deen fought with bitterness and solidarity and co-operation, with
in Ho Chi Minh worried n" coup
the Marxian theorists deny. We hold that there is a God, the
Saigon, Oct. 8, Communist North Vietnam Creator, to whom at Inst President Ho Chi Minh has ex- men shall render an ac-
pressed concern about the situa count of their decda.
tion in Laos, it was reported today.
In jeopardy
THE
no
Marxist will have none of this. lle appeals to a creator who has
Hemi being, a kind of Junatic force, referred to in a fine sounding phrase which apart from its rhetorical qualities, is sheer stupidity; "the blind forces of nature,"
Secondly, the appeal is to
The
Communist leader brought up the subject of Labs in a meeting in Hanoi recently with M. Gopala Menon, chair-
man of the International Con- trol Commission in Vietnam. He was reported to have asked Menon what the Commission was going to do about Laos.
that it would be a worthwhile tactics aimed at harassing and gesture even if they only columbarrassing the official Labour fect a derisory vote.
opposition in Parliament when- Spearhead of the anti-ever defence and foreign policy Gaitskell conspiracy is the is under debate. left-wing "Victory for Socia
One of their first plots will be to table an amendment to One of them said tonight: "it does not matter if the vote only derisory. If we were to allow Galiskell to be reelected unopposed, it would look as if he hack more support in the House than, in fact, he has".
Conference
circles were buzzing tonight with specula- tion about who the rebels will as theit nominee for Ind leader.
Some sources say they would like to put forward Mr Wilson Labour's chief economie spokes- man- the "Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer."
But political quarters sold It certain could regarded as Ho Chi Minh's remarks were that he would not take the job, reported by Menon who re-although fio is believed to take turned from the North Vietnam
the view that Party conference capital a few days ago.-UPI. decisions are important.
Magda Fontages dies
history. whatever that a WAS SHE MUSSOLINI'S
for in the main, especially
in the text books written
behind the Iron. Curtain, it
la a thesis to prove what- ever happens to suit the State
And
in today. Stalin's time, because the State of today discredits what the State held yester- day, a historian's life was always in jeopardy.
Now
to have accused Khrushchev of emotion and of being too human, good Marxist as he is, is to put him on the spot, For how can one, who accepts the unnatural mental regi- mentution implicit in com- munism, admit the in- fluence of emotion. In his make-up. And in approving history and denying the qualities of humanity, how can one bo too human?..
pro
no
And as we all know, the cars
of the Kremlia longer than asses' cars, and what was whispered in New York would be shouted from the roof tops in Mos COW,
Gonová, Oct. 6.
Magda Fentoges who MISTRESS ?
said she was Олсе *
mistross of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator committed suicide with poison on Saturday, police said here today.
She was a colourful "character in the 1930's. In 1936 who shot and wounded the Count de "because Chambrun, French Ambassador to Italy
he made me lose the love of a man who in so famous that i dara, not mention his name.”
300 PHOTOGRAPHS
A search of her flat revealed 300 photographs of Mussolini. Sho was found guilty of shooting the Ambassador but was given a suspended sentenco.
1
After the war, she was Jolled for 15 years by
a French tribunal after being convicted of espionage. Known as "Mogda of the seven, nomes,” She was accused of working for the Gestapo as "Helen,"
"In 1955 the ̈was committed to a mental hamu by a Porin court after, appearing on a charge of stealing painting, from Maltro Rene Flosiot, the lawyer who defended her on the pre-war shooting charge.
She has been burled in Geneva. She was in har ́ ́fifties--Reuter,
the address in reply to Queen Elizabeth's speech at the State opening of Parliament, gretting that it contains no plan to implement unilateral nucicar disarmanwent.
The aim
to
AT LAST
The result of the 128th con- stiuency gave them a majority of 1,100 on an unofficial count.
Witwatersrand“ University's electronic computer, which pre- of South dicted the results Africa's last general election The aim ot the left with almost bullseye accurancy, that the final culculated wing rebels will be
favour
the of harry and assall Mr majority in Gaitskull at every opportunity, Republic would be about 70,000 in the hope that he will give out of a total all-White cicc- way to another leader prepared iurate of 1,800,000. to accept the "Ban the H-Bomb>" Though this would not be n
sweeping majority, Iine endorsed by the Party con-
mean that the old Afrikaner dream of founding their repub-
ic at the southern tip of Africa. was at last within their grasp,
DATES The voters would have given notice of their intention to i
Inks with sever
the British
ference, At
Party conference sessions here today, Mr Gaitskeli cored a tactical victory for his nationalisation policy.
The conference voted by 4,153,000 votes to 2,310,000 to valuable state. recognise as
it would
miny
Dr Verwoerd is expected to cularly against the Republicans, Dr Verwoerd has claimed make some statement soon on
that the setting up of a republie his expected victory and
will heal old wounds going back units Boer war daya and English-speaking and Afrikaans.
Colony blackout speaking South Africans.
Sun spots
cut off
radio contact
This seems very doubtful in such places as Natal. The pre- dominantly English - speaking electorate of that province voterl Brimst the overwhelmingly
the zupublic, regarding it as ubila of Dr Verwoerd's National Government.
remaia
Natali certain to bitterly bostile to the idea of a republic in spite of the result of the vote,
EXTREME
At the other extreme, White Africa voters
South-west have proved some of staunchest pro-Republicans. This is a men- Sun spots disrupted world- dated territory which the Aro wide radio communica- Asian gatioris, in particular, tons, resulting in news wish to see removed from the transmission blackout Union Government's control.
Commenting on the reguits around the world today.
meat of aims bis recent pro: Crown, which go bark beyond A spokesman for Cable and to far, Mr Peter Brown, nation-
the half century of the Union's existence,
The former Boer republics är} the Transvani and Orange From State and the old British colonies of the Cape and Natal
al chairman of the small Liberal
Wireless told the China Mall Party, said today: "It would be this morning that Hongkong has been feeling the effect
since yesterday,
BETTER SOON
ter in the evening," he said.
grave mistake to suppose that a Republican victory solves any of South Africa's problems.""
It will be on the waY thai handles these
posal to dilute the concept of wholesale nationalisation to which the party is committed in the controversial clause four of ita constitution,
Meanwhile, Mr. Galtskell to night had received more than became one country on May."Tronsmission ought to be bet- the government 400 telegrams, letters and other 31, 1910-eight years to the day He could not predict when the problem of race relations, that messages - congratulating him from the peace of Vereeniging. for his stand yesterday against which cridod the three-year the victorious "Ban the H-war between Britain and the Bomb" rebels at the conference, two republica
These
pledged massages
Natal's link with the Crown whole-hearted support for the
back to 1844. For the! gobe oficial Galtskell polley of Cape Province, founded by the axherence to the Nale alliance. Dwich in. 1652, it dates from -Reuter.
1800, though, there was 'n pre-|
It
took a thief..
Nancy, France, Oct. 6. Three French prison officials and a warder might still be locked up Inside the 'Bar-le-Duc jail hare if it wara not for the talents of anë" of the prisoners -- an expert housebreaker.
The warder was taking the officials and offer prison of three oficials, all members of otrs lookna on helplessly, the the Justice Ministry, on aŭtour | wardor walked over to the cell the perinon hen the look of of the housebreaker and ep. the door leadirigé but of the polod for help, main cellblook refused to work Amid alighter from one end The warder: friod: 10 turn the of the prison to the other, the keya second time. But it housebreslow cumcally inserted brokea jak pantai a plece of wire and unlocked
White the three, Mialetry | the 'dcorHoufer,
and especially the explosive
disruption in radio communi- the future of the country will cations will be over..
depend, observers believe. "Severe radio atmospherics Another burning Imus has which have blocked trans- been and will be whether South Pacific radio service for three Adelea will be expelled from nights this week, halted radio the Commonwealth on the de- transmision again today," re- claration of the republe-Rez- ported, the United Press In- ter. ternational.
The Far East' was also · out of radio contact with Europe. '"*
LATEST POSITION
FOR PILGRIMS Typhoon Kit was contred at°
?
London, Oct. 0.. Affor almost 23 years of continuous servico as a 'British, troopship, the motorship Dilwara is expected to leave Southamp too tomorrow to begin hot new career as a pilgrim ship in the. Far East corrying pilgrims from Malays to Jeddah,
720 miles southerni “of Hong- kong and was moving wori si eight knots at 11 am today. Winds 2:80 knots were te- partod by a US Air ForcO-TO- conruisesnDo. plato nying
The Franch President's critical references to the United Nations were warmly apploaded by a crowd of about 1,500.
He said France wanted
other countries "but she wants to remain France."
"We want to make Europe united, but we want to maica. this unity in remaining our selves. The alliance which is called Atlantic, that is to say an alliance of peoples on both sides of the Atlantic, is alliance which we want and which we practise, But we want to remain'as France with our rights, our duties, our responsiblities."
In the present international situation, General De Gaulle added, "We want to keep our soul, our liberty of action."— Reuter.
DEATH TOLL
RISES TO 18
Manila, Oct. 7. Typhoon Kit continued to cut a path of destruction and death across the southern | Philippine re- plons with 90" "mile-per-" hour winds and heavy rains causing 18 deaths and property damage pre- dicted to run' to millions of dollars.
!
The typhoon was last located
last night 50 milem, cost
boadod Legaspi City and towards the heart, of LaizOTE Typhoon signal No. 2 has been, ́holsted ¡aver- the-Mandia Faron, which is expected to bone, the brunt of Kil's futy today. The Test of Luzon, was placed
through the centre anda trphotes signat Not
"E ft continues on la course,
[Thoịnhập has been taken over | Bundayili in apolognan, for, the ye Weather, Biconar, jmid "WOLLER -
by the China Navigation Com- pany Ltd, and on her arrival at Hongkong are will be renamed Kipla Lumpur.----AT)
it would pass 850 milesh Mantle and Luzon Devices of Hongkong shout; mid-day on braced themselves dogs the..
won't which thepill Royal Obwoystory, said,
Forecast for today!" Winda' to ' remains ideenia... to / fronta mortisauderly. Fair.
be: 90. Iniles an hour:"crotra - windy and very heavy zaku
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