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Four Kasavubu Discerning bird
day
CHRISTMAS
AFTERTHOUGHT
So it le all over once again.
Nothing now remains to do but to diamantle the Christ. me tree, dismember the frag. ments of the turkey, collect the Christmas carde and store them or dispatch them to one of the charity, organluations, and restore the home to. It former less decorative aspect. On the one hand, there is a sente of Follet when the now miliar trimmings are taken down and it lo possible to close the door without bring- lng down a shower of greeting carde; and the thought that it Is no longer necessary to hunt again for the burned out lamp on the tree, le positively ex hilarating.
Yat there Ia Comething ad about It also. The corner where the tren atood looka awfully bare, and the absence of the tineal and frosted twigs reminds us that life with its round of mundano duties
awaits us.
time, we FTER All, for a
have lived in an enchanted world. On idaying the office, shop windows, the the gay shoppers with piles of multi- coloured parcels, have all added thale magle quota to the atmosphere waiting at home. And once home, the enchant-
ment was full, more especially If there were children to give that added thrill with their exclamations of delight.
So in packing up the tree, taking down the decorationst and brushing up the fragments of tinsel, wo
Christmas sweep 1960 out of tha calendar. Then there is the fact that we are one year older, and let's admit it, when we were very young, Christmas seemed an eternity from the following Christmas. Now the years dance around in an accelera- tive bewilderment of months and days, and we are no sooner over, and Christmas than we are preparing for the next,
Of course, Christmes now is
officials detained
Leopoldvillo, Dec. 26. Commandos from the pro-Lumumba stronghold of Stanleyville yesterday drove into Bukavu, çapital of neigh- bouring Kivu Province, and arrested the entire provincial government, a United Nations spokesman announced today.
Four of the Kivu officials—including the local pro- Kasavubu commander-in-chief, Colonel Singa, were taken to Stanleyville but the rest were released after an hour.
A CRIB MADE
IN JAIL
TENSE BUT
HAPPY REUNION
James
Cairo, Dec. 26. Zarb, 42-year-old Briton serving a 10-year jail term hora on PY charges, dangled a home- made crib on his knocs as ho met his wife and four children in a tense but happy Christmas re- union here yesterday.
He had made it from paper and other material, supplied by British Consul and the
the
never so good as it was when wa were young, but in fact we remember hearing, when we young, that ourselves word Christmar was never so good an it was in our parents". tima. Į Turah prison authorities, as a And so the years roll by, nothing gift for the children. three of la over so good as it was, whom he had not seen for four What nonsense that el And years. what a sign of Increasing Lage It to subscribe It, For
one thing, there was never so much spending money about as there WED this Christmas
And say what you like about money not being everything, it goes a long way to helping towards happiness. Nor does that blind us to the fact that if in such countries ·as England, there are no · poor children as in Dickens' days, and poor Bob Cratchit no
Rumours that the provincial government in Bukavu' was in trouble circulated in Leopoldville last night but no denial or con- firmation was available because of Christmas.
The UN spokesman said the Commando group comprised 60 members of the Congolese na- tional army from Stanleyville bosc.
Shortly after their arrival in Bukavu, the President of the Kivu provincial government, Mr J. Miruho, called on the local UN commander to report titat Colonel Singa was being threatened by the commandog
But when the UN commander, Colonel Irons from Nigeria, ar- rived he found the two Congolese chatting happily together, the spokesman said.
3,500 EUROPEANS. Colonel Irons went back to
his headquarters only to find But later that the whole provin- clal government had been de
tained,
The UN spokesman added situation was now that the ronmal in Kivu with mixed UN and Congolese units patrolling the urea.
There was, however, concern for the safely of the 3,500 Europeans, including women and children, known to live in Kivu province.
Many of them had returned to the Congo after Congolese Inde
of inst summer_and pendence nearly 2,000 were in Bukayu,
The spokesman also said that Mrs Elda Zarb and the the UN would use Its good children-Gerald, 3. Mary, 15, offers to secure the release of the Anne, 12 and Mariene, 10, fiew four Kivu officials — which to Calro from London yesterday include Mr Miruho --- taken to bringing Christmas parcels and Stanleyville. good cheer messages for Zarb,
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longer has to live in fear and Two held on
trembling
old Barooga,
there are still a multituda. of children who know nothing
of Christmas and its cheer,
or its wonderful message.
Nor were the people of Hong- keng unmindful of their ob- ligations those children
to
and if a wonderful party, and a wonderful meal, and a warm jacket or so made the mites of our poor Chinese neighboure happier, thon Christmas war
wall spent
mansue, it must be Christmas
it the year round, and hangor
our
Meanwhile,
strongman"
rule
Next year is the Year of the Bull, but this discerning mynch bird (like our offico cut) knows a good paper when he sees' ono.
65 ARRESTED IN
ANKARA IN
XMAS
EVE PLOT?
Ankara, Đẹc. 26.
A total of 65 persons were arrested in Ankara' alone in what was now being called, the "Christmas Eve plot," and more have been arrested in other parts of Turkey.
2,000 pounds of cotton destroyed
When the official investigation The number of Ankara arrests; who is spending his Nith Christ-Colonel Joseph Mobutu is re- was given officially today by the has been completed, the, pri- of the National Boners will be tried by revolu- spokesman the yellow-walled ported to have warned politi Union Committee, the supreme tionary courts. These courts are long-term penitentiary ten clans that if they insist on re- miles north of Cairo on the verting to political
he organ of the Turkish revolution-provided for as a special mea
aure by a law, passed last Augusti banks of the Nile-Reuter. would release Mr Patrice ry government
The spokesman did not give They have not been in session up Lamimba and “let_all the poll- the names of those arrested but to now. The courts have the ticians settle affairs among described them, as members of powers to pass sentences which themselves.”
be the former Democratic Party of cannot
appealed, 'rang- PLANNING
Adnan ex-premier
Menderesing in severity up to the death Colonel Mobutu is believed to and "religious fanatics." They penalty. be planning to move Mr reportedly prepared and circu Lumumba from`a military camp lafod tracts attacking chief of in Thysville near Leopoldville, stato Cemal Gureel, the national to Boma in the extreme west of unten committee, and the forth Leopoldville province,
Assembly; where coming Constituert the Bakongo tribe, who support due to meet on January 0. President Joseph Kasavubu, are
MORE SERIOUS very powerful.
Among those arrested were that two
retired university pro fessors, six lawyers, two weinen
Meanwhile it was announced. (including a headmistress of a
in Istanbul that one of the secondary school). Soven mer- Ipersone, responsible for the chants, eight officials, two non- attack on the statue of Kemal commissionca officers and 37
Ataturk at Iskanderun on the
and machinery was estimated people described as "artisans, night of December 19-20 had at over $10,000, q' spokesman for
employees of been farmers. cod.
drrested. His 'Identify the Lee Wah Weaving Factory ministries."
was not disclosed. Other
carried arrests wero
heroin smuggling charge
Now York, Dec. 26.
This followm reports Mr Lumumba was raining the freedom of the camp a Threville by offering: money to ħla guards. The officers, are said to be doubtful how to they can hold him.
The Christmas Eve plot" now: seemed to observers to be more serious than-had-first appeared. The alleged plotters were rounded up during the night of December 24-25. Some papers and documents were reportedly seized by the police.
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About 2,000 pounds of cot
ton were destroyed in a fire which broke out in the cockloft of a weaving Factory at No. 435 Castle Pook-road, ground flour, Lalchikok, at 4.30 pm yes- terday...
Damage to the row, moteriais
T must not stop there. in The crowmen from a Danish' flagship were seized and
In Leopoldville talks began.to- arrested оп smuggling day between, the commissioners
Four persons arrested in con- Ltd, told the China Mail this chargos last night in con- appointed by Colonel Mobutu to.
morning. the country und the pro-
The fire was caused by a nection with what U.S.posed govemment of Mr. Joseph out elsewhere. For instance, 37 nection with the defacing on the arrested In the statue ware released after they customs officials describe fleo, nominated prime, minister persons were ed as a $1 million ship by President Kasavubu in Septimall town of Etimesgut, near had proved their innocence
AFP. ment of smuggled puro ember after he dismissed Mr heroin.
and want must be banished from
midst. Our awn task in Hongkong becomes In- areasingly difficult, for always strangers whom we must an• tortain are arriving among gus and. It is not our custom to
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mend tham away hungry, an And if by our okaniple we can
The men were arrested as tasch others to spread this
they debarked from the MV Christmas spirit, which 10, after all, the Christian spirit, Lexa Maersk in Brooklyn,
and if we can forget outmoded
Lumumba.
The talks aro to find a WAY of handing over the governi» ment to the polliścians, who were neutralised by Colonel Mobutu four months ago. The The two, identified by the,
student commissioners differences and ancient quercatoins servico Chinese term of office is due to expiro rols, and address all our energy crewmen attached to the ship, on December 31, and some of to Irioreusing the lot of those
them are understood be re were named as Kwong Laung; whose fertility han exhausted 49, and Ming Yiu-ng 32. Leung luctant to carry on the respon- the-bounty of Nature, we, shali was described as a messboy and siblity of goverment into the Keep Christmas with Dam
now your when the armý has been promised a pay rise, Than the getalbut delight of allis as a enten boy, 1.
Tikes - cherish the fact that ́ ́In
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Customs officers and heroin | Reuter.", deing good, this multi-national,{/weighing, xbx cunces was pack- "Colony was at one. For ined in 4 doren bags the pair had
exercising that, greatest of concealed on their persons. Christian Virtues, Charity, race'
cusicana
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Strike called off.
Paris, Dec. 28.
Ankara,
BIG ROBBERIES
IN PARIS
Paris, Dec. 26. Smash-and-grab raiders, stose a diamond necklace warth
110,000 new francs '(about £8,000); from a central, Parin jeweller today the third big robbery : In the Paris area within 48 hours.” – gala de g
Talkingmachine,” park coming off a switch on a
Four fire appliances respond-
ed to the call and the blaze was put out in 20 minutes."
the
The factory occupies ground floor of 'u 'three-storeyed Tenement building.
Cold night
* Vienna, Deò. 26. Five- ** French* istočenia.","ano with a broken nem, who hat apeni Christumoss Krécold and exchatused
chalet : the Austrian Tyrol. were reached by local::pollon
- socKY.C
The students, threol girls ariá two boys all undok #37,- were in
nor creed played any part. The men were taken to the
Agency office for - The, pilots and crows of 4 ALF On Charlatinas Eve in singvering mother mig tror of evil which bot oad Who was the neighbour? He in
want. And who was his com
France's Boeing 707 feet, wife forced their way into a depart fortert He who of his kinda
have been on strike alnce Dament, store, in suburban Drancy could mest his need. Bo if we
cember 9, announced tonight that, keep that spirit, it is Chrift
ther would return to duty to- and got away with 250,000 how Ffrabia (owoły i 20,000) and the ・mar all the year rounda
questioning, Agents sold they would be hald at the Federal House of Detention until art, roignment scheduled for to
morrow morning-AP, «U
morrow--Reuters
Commandos called out in Belgium as strikes spread
Brussels, Dec. 26.. Commandos in camouflage, uniforms took over from riot police in central Brussels today as strike-bound Belgium ended its Christmas holiday with the situation largely unchanged.
The government told its Nata Ircopa on Christmas leave from Germany to stand by, following its declarations\that it had no intention whatever" of modi- fying its planet austerity meatures which are the strikers' main, target.
STILL PARALYSED
Both sides claimed successes but the railway system was to- day still largely paralysed. Trade unions said 90 per cent of the notwork wna at a stand- still, but the government claim- ed many trains were running in the Flemish-speaking north.
Chalminds and steelworks in in the southern red belt" are the main industries affected; so far. More workers in SOILO arets today voted to comme-out tomorrow.
tacked the manager of trape from St Anton two days ago to part company in North Parlak Two of the even returne und snatched he briefcase cons | mazliet night end reported tant mining 150,000 new feants the cloer Evans Baywat vind "Umore than: £10,000);=Reuter. I chaletom;PUGAZ
87 killed in
UK accidents
Landon, Dee, 20. Eighty - sovch person's were killed' In Britain-in trafilo accidents in the three-day holiday work. end the Ministry of
to- Transport, announced night.
There were, 40 fatalities, on Friday And 27, os Saturday, the Christmas day toll was 20.
Last year 101 were kill». ed on the roady in four-day period of Decem ber. 24- to 27.—AP.
Gas, electricity and Postal Father shoots
ervices were also hit, and alr Kervices-unaffeciră ...; so far-tonight faced the pro- spect of a walkout fomKORTÓW Brussels airport
by
workers-Reuter.
BETTY WEDS
AGAIN
Las Vegas, Dec. 24." Actress Betty Hutton and jizy trumpeter Pete Candoll were * married here today, sha for the fourth me and be for the. third,
They plan to visit Europe for six months and Miss Hutton said that both would begin work in a Loadón night club on January
10,
down two daughters
Stamford Conn, Dec. 26. Armed with twa "pistols › a fathar shot dead his two student doughters, wound- od his wife and three neighbours, and then kill- ed himself hare shattering Stamford's Christmas Day calm.
Leonard Moser, 48, shot him- self in the temple with one of the pistols when two policemen found him in a park after a big manhunt.
The police sald Moser had shot his daughtern, aged 18 and
The couple have been. friends 14, and then splashed acid in the face and eyes of his wife for 12 years.
Helen, 42, and in the face of two Garth- "I should have done this a Pother women. Robert long time ago," Miss Hutton 19ld waite one of the women's hus after the quiet church ceremony, bands wan shot in the mouth
Reuter.
and right leg.-Reuter,
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