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THE CHINA MAIL : WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1961.

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'Climate of fear' in Algeria Belgian Government

Holiday bonus?

Los Angelet, Jan. 3. Actress Joan Fontaine, woar

ing a full length mink sho sald was "My Christmas prosent to myself," today wen her marital freedom

Young

from film producer Collior Young as her New Year's gift to hersoft.

testined that She "drank a very great deal, was not very warm or affectionate or attentive," and svtdom came to see her when she was sick. She charged cruelty.

The blonde actress is 43, and

Young, 52.

"WILD RUMOURS'

THREATEN

NEW RIOTS

Algiers, Jan. 3.

A "climate of fear" is building in Algiers only three days before the crucial referendum on the city's future, the French Army Commander here said to- night.

Gen. Jean Vezinet, Commandant of the Army Corps centred here issued a statement that he is resolved to keep order despite the "wild rumours" which threaten new riots.

They were married November 20 Mau Maus the fee:dum on Algerin's

2, 1952, and separated last May.

They had no children, although Miss Fontaine has a daughter, Debomh by her previous hus- band, William Dozier, and a child, Martita Pareja, whom she adopted in 1951.—AP.

Rank buys Fox

interest

Loulon, Jan. 4.

The Bank Organization, Bri- tain's top film makers and dis- tributors nonbunced today they have bought out 20th Century Fox's interest in the Gaumont

Beltish Company.

Caumouni British is a Ranic

sjon.

may be released

Nairobi, Jan, 3. About 20 Mau Mau de- tainces remaining in de- tention camps will prob-

ably be released in the

next few months, a Konya government statement said here today.

The detainees do not include Jomo Kenyatta, the convicted Mau Mau leader, or his asso- ciales, who are living in redzie thom at Lodwur, in the remote nerta. Alto excluded

and wemen

The warding came amid in- erring tension coninceted with politeal future to be held from January B-B, there were widespread fears of trouble ance ballot starts,

Vezinet did not specify what rumours he reterred, 19. But he raid they were planted by "provocateure" and urged Europe as and Moslems in Algiers to disregard them.

"Let all honest men, be reas-

ured," he said, "The military authorities ask everyone to re- mala cains and composed.

RUMOURS

Algiers is living through days and nights marked by word-of- mouth "Information" that seems to have no identifiable source but finds isteners ready to be- lieve almost anything...

of

The sensational nature ap men, some of the rumours is ou arrested in last level with the "news" that

quarter

"

subsidiary engaged in film pro- | July's sweep against. Kikuyu | race through the Casbah Arab duction, distribution, film eath administrators.

during the Mostem theatres, ballroom and televi A Jovernment spokesman pra-independence demonstra-

ago that Rank agreed to pay £4 mil-mphasised that the timing oftions of a month

the releases had nothing to de rebel army was marching with the date of next month's Algiers. general election but depended

on for Fox's 50 per cent 12- tere In the Metropolis and

Bradford Trust, i

company

which holds voting control over Gaumont British-AP.

on

Vezinet said: "With regret.

news

on whether their home districts table facility, the most tenden were prepared to accept themous

the reporis,

wildest Renter.

rumours and the most unlikely are born and sprend throughout the Algiers district. "They cause disquiet, provoke appreliension, and create mutual distrust. This climate of fear is fraught with danger and 'is a generator of troubles and dis- orders."

PART-TIME ACTRESS

SLASHED TO DEATH

New Orleans, Jan. 3.

A shapely teenage girl, a part-time actress and cousin of a former Miss America, was slashed to death in the bedroom of her apartment to- day, her 18th birthday.

Peller Identified the girl Donna Trussell,

Lynn Buillard, 25, the girl's

a community | cousin, walked into

Miss

theatre metress and cousin of Trussel's bedroom to find the Lynda Lee Mend, Miss America attacker bending over the vic- of 1980.

tins.

YOUNG NEGRO The assailant, belleved to be Negro, slushed the ⚫ young beautiful girl across the throat and stomach and ripped the clothing from her body.

Miss Bullard, who had come to the apartment to with the gli a happy birthday, fled and apparently so did the slayer,

Police arrestad a Negro who reportedly had blood splattered in his hair--AP.

A British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

3 Continent. (4)

7 Ilun off quickly. (5)

8 Quite wee. (4)

Leading man. (4)

(2

13 14

IS

12

14

[16

19

2:2

22

52

DOWN

1 Neckwear, (8)

2 Lizard in school! (7)

4 Kid when undressed. (5)

5 Tho mighty midget? (4)

6 Nevermore (4)

10 Bucceeded in

fo's journey.

11 Allas adder. (3)

(7)

12 Personal bearing (4)

15 Fogged out. (5)..

18 Bob? (4)

10 Rates, of course, as a flower.

(5)

21 Question of locally, (8)

23 Man to turn to either way.

(4)'

28 Dog Inclined to strmý1, (5)

28 Scoft or taunt. (4)

29 Mákos amends. (?)

-30 Token, - (4)

91 Distress call. (4)

32 Kdep 'short.. (5)

33. American wugi (4)

This is the place. (4)

19 Preposition. (4)

14 Mutiny scene. (4)

19 Looking old-fashioned. (5)

17 Draught-beer? (4)

18 Often goes to pot. (4)

20 Long way ahead. (7)

22 Really uppressive spot. (4)

24 Hart, Maybe, of

strument (5)

25 Centrally placed, (6)

--37 Mountain-govt- (4)

29 Manage to spot. (4)

en

in-

- YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: „¦ Supper, 7 Elon (rev), Trump, 10 Named, 11 Iran, 13 Apparitions, is beer, 18 Toad 19 Regenerado, Hair, 24 Reign 25 Irish, 20 Kiin, 27 School, Down:-3 Usurp, 3 Piper, 4 Hen-CAD, Reminder, I Soda, 8 Torse, 13 Nervo, 11 Aitch, 14 Ordering, 17 Ariel, 18 Tennis, 20-Keith, 21 Amigo, 23 Arla,

The Algerian rebel "premier," Ferhat Abbas, has appealed to Algeria's Moslems to boycott the balloting, and there were fears of rebel terrorism to back up his appeal,-UPI.

K attends New Year

tree party

Moscow, Jan. 3. Soviat Premier Nikita Khrushchov today attend- ed a party inaugurating the Kromlin's "New Year trec" (the Soviet name for what used to be known as the Christmas tree), Toss said.

The "New Year tree" party held today happened to fall New just mid-way between

Year's Day (last Sunday) and the day celebrated as Christmas by

Russian Orthodox the Church, Friday January 5.

Tass said Khrushchev was accompanied by his family and

Lidyn Shevtchenko, Mra retired teacher who long ago the had taught Khrushchev "ABC" In his native town of Kalinovku.

Д

A crowd of young technical students who Aled a hall of the former palace of the Cars where the party

was held. gresied Khrushchev, with lout cheers, Toss aid—AFP.

Tshombe seeks

African- conference

Elisabethvillo, Jan. 3. Kotango government sources

Romeo' plunges

airport into

darkness

Cairo, Jan. 3.

Teenage couples in Cairo liked to do their courting in the airport grounds, parts of which offered reasonable seclusion. And, in the week be- fore Christmas, every night the lights went out, to their further delight.

Worried pilots and harassed ofelals trying to bring the planes in in the dark, put the police on watch. And on Christ- mas Eve they arrested Ahmed Mabrouk, aged 20, who

WAS Carrying 300 yards of electric wire.

Ahmed explained that he merely wanted courting couples, including himself and his girl friend, to have the privacy of darkness during Christmas week, so he had blanked off parts of the airport lighting. leaving only the moon and the stars to light the lovers,

Mac would be

But the unromantic police rushed him, and his girl friend Fatima, off to the public pro secutor's office, and Ahmed saw In the night sky only through the email window of his prison cell for the week of his sentence,

And, for good messures, teenage

arc couples

the completely from. grounds-Express photo.

barrcu airport

Financial

officer named

Palm Beach, Jan. 4. President-elect John F. Kon-j

welcome in Peking, journal says

London, Jan. 3. an article signed by Stuart

Abmen Mabrouk, the alre

port "Romeo," with his girt friend Fatima at the public prosecutor's office, Cairo. --- Express Photo.

RANGOON

EDITOR

ARRESTED

rejects demands bill on austerity

Brussels, Jan. 3. Belgium's Parliament today rejected a Socialist demand for withdrawal of the austerity bill which has produced a fortnight's strikes and violence, while in the streets mounted police again charged with sabres and two demonstra- tors were injured in a 10-minute battle,

Marsive police precautions. prevented a feared inajor con- ftial, but 10,000 strikers' demon- strated in the city.

In Antwerp, several demon- strators were injured and others Arrested in clashes with the I police, when 15,000 strikers

smashed

and shop windows wrecked troms and buses. In Bruges, bad eggs were thrown from Catholle headquarters at demonstrators, who retaliated by breaking windows.

A Socialist speaker in tho Parliamentary debate, Mr Georges Bohy, said the count= try's atmosphere was that of "a state of slege"-"you stumble | on barbed wire, armoured cars and such like, everywhere," he sald,

Vote

Voting on the Socialist motion for withdrawni of the austerity bill was 121 to 83 nil the Catholics and Liberals voting against, except one Liberal who abstained.

More liberal immigration quota plan

Washington, Jan. 3. President-elect John Ken-

medy has expressed sup- port for a plan for more liberal immigration quotus to the United States.

the

A bill to be introduced to the House of Representatives this week by Mr Alfred Santangelo, a Democrat member. of the House, will incorporate them,

The Bill would provide. The street baille started when

among other things, for demonstrators surged into ajUnited States to admit up to main boulevard leading to the 00,000 refugees a year and for Parliament buildings.

the national quota figurea to bo based

more up-to-date figures. The quotas, which are Yelling "murderers"

proportionate to the percentage "Gestapo" tre demonstrators of Americans of that descent, attacked the police with stones are based on the 1020 census.

hurled and

thunderflashes Mr Santangelo says Senator beneath the horses' hooves,

written to lar Has Kennedy But when police charged at about the BI and he has the gallop with raised sabres, given detalls of the letter. the strikers fied for their lives,

The police immediately made

a counter-nove.

Moderate tone

and

In the provinces, mass

de monstrations isa some strike centres passed off without major incident. But in Antwerp

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Senator Kennedy goes further than Mr Santangelo, however. He calls for the national origins quota system to be scrapped replaced by A altogether and "more equitabla mcifiod strikers smashed windows, a1-Reuter. U Soin Win, the Editor in tacked pedestrians and sabot-

Rangoon, Jan. 3.

Chief of the Rangoon Engaged trams and buses.

Observers here said hai

the

fish language daily "The the Chamber of Representatives,

inDetermined to quit

Foature

ot

Guardian", was arrested the Socialists adopted a today for publishing a moderate tone in their attack:

Talpel, Jan. 3. Chang Tao-tan, President article by Max on the austerity bill-un attitude

taken as confirmation of their the Legislativo Yuan (Nation- McGrath, correspondent

sald fear that extremists advocating alist Chinese parliament) of the Associated Press.

southern autonomy would suite today he is determined to quit. McGrath was expelled from control of the strike movement, because ho "catmot please the country last week when the

Absence of such extremist everybody." article was first published.

action THREE TIMES

Editor

Sein Win was taken to the central prison in Ran- goan this afternoon.

The "Guardian" which had sometimes printed violent criti- cisms of the U Nu government has been subject, to legal action three times in the last few weeks, but until now the editors to remain Golder who recently tour-have been allowed ed Communist China, the tree on ball.

The article by McGrath which London Far East Trado caused the editor's arrest today Journal suggests that insinuated that Burmese army Prime Minister Macmillan leaders might take over power would be warmly welcom-in the country unless the poli

ticians succeeded in improving ed in Peking should ho the country's Internal decido to make the trip. |tion.~AFP. He could do more than any other statesman to help create a new atmosphere, that is if he does not mind being received on a Chinese red carpet," said the article.

"He would and in China an unprecedented opportunity of making progress towards pence and more prosperity for both Britain and Ching,”

OBSTACLE

situa-

Dag off

on

tour

New York, Jan. 3.

Nations Secretary-

United General

Dag Hommarskjold left by

plane today for 19- day flying trip that will take the the republic of

to

Referring to meelings he hart him nody named economist Mir with Premier Chou Enlai, For Congo, Union of South Africa, Charles J. Hitch as chief eign Minister Chen Yi and Dr United Arth Republic and financial officer of the Chi Chao Ting General Secre-India. U.S. Defence Department the Promoilon of International that he did not anticipate visit-

tary of the China Committee for

Tite Secretary General said -the biggest spending Trade, the author says that they ing Laas during the trip. agency of the US gov told him: "The opportunities of A UN spokesman said that a

ernment.

expanding trade with Britain could be excellent, but the primary purpom

of the trip

Mr Hitch will be the Penta- atmosphere is poisoned by the was to study the apartheid pro- Ron's comptroller, with the title fact that the British government blem in South Africa.

Ho #aid

this Secretary- of Assistant Secretary of De-votes against China taking her

General may have talks will fence. In a $20,000-a-year job, rightful seat in the U.N.

Abdel Nasrer, 1JAR removed the President, and Indian Prime

he will supervise preparation of "It is obvious that once this Gamal the huge defenes budget. I obstacle

now runs to around 40,000 mil-atmosphere will Improve," lion a year, or about half the AFP.

total budget for the whole gov-

ernment.

Mr Hitch now is Chairman of the Research Council of the Rand Corporation, an organisa-: tion which handles defence re- search. Ho tam just published à

said today that President book, Economics of defence in Molsa Tahembe of this the nuclear, age,AP. Congo socassionist state still intends to hold kle round table conference of independent African

states in Elisabethville be- ginning on February 25. The confirmation followed an announcement from Leopold- ville that President Haruvubú of the Central Congo government Intended organking" tum` own cenderetion ol table African-elatos-tn Leopoldyllio on January 25,

roun

Kaayabu'a plim to hotă conterences www" utor)," Born ga

Search is

called off

Brest, Jan. 3.. Maritime authorities here,20- ported. today radio, messigen from the stene käid t36 TAMEN for survivors of the sunken ship Indian Navigator had been call-

anover for thraent Tehombe's "af") ed off.

Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dur- ing the trip-AP.

had by tonight eased The 04-year-old, speaker fold these faara both among the Chinese reporter that he la Socialist chiefs and the nation, also suffering from poor health. -Router,

-UPI,

A

million Morris Minor cars

Oxford, Jan. 4.

One million Morris Minor carn have now rolled off the assembly line at the British Motor

Corporation Plant mear here, the Corporation announced today.

The Corporation claimed the production of one mil- lion vehicles of a common design was "unique in the history of British indasley,"

Forty-eight per cent of these small family cars have

been exported, the Corpora- Hon added.

The first of the post-WLP

"Minors" streamlined

teri the assembly line in Octo- ber 1948, and 171,031 werS bullt in the next four years- The series two -- an ad- vanced desiɣt-also ran for

four years, during which

322,000 were bulli, Over 800,000 of the Morris Minor "1,000” model have been built slaco October 1950 China Mall Special

THE ANNUAL BALL

in aid of the

Mansfield named ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION

Democrat

leader

Senate

Washington, Jan."^3.

Senator Mike Mansfield was elected as the Demo-

cratic Party's leader in the Senate today 28 the 87th United States Congress formally con- vened in preparation for a new era in Ameri can politics.

Senator Mansfield, a mo- piccoming President.

He rucereds Vice-President- All the ships in the. Bay of derate Liberal from Montana,

tempt to carve for himself a pison, as bescher of the French- Binay which were participating Who was elected unanimously clect Lyndon John, who pesking: Afrooms states, and as in the setach have tumed by his Demeralio colleagues today resigned his. Senala. soat will, after January 20, poterim raibing point for the their own router, the motages Lalou on the responsibility of and polipalo daybrist spiments of said, No sign of survitore was piloting through the Senate preside over the Upper Houre Rise CongovAT!

Hoglalation ! märulited, hy, the fof Congress ---Beuter?

AND BRIGADE

will be held on

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1961.

at the

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency

the Governor, Sir Robert Black K.C.M.G., O.B.E, K.St., President of the Council of the Order of St. John in Hong Kong.

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