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CHINA
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No. 37941
Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1961.
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Soviet Union will agree to British proposals
of the CEASEFIRE
day
China's gesture
CHINA'S decision to relapse
will bo
the Imprisoned American Robert McCann widely welcomed JL a humanitarian gesture. Whe ther it also has any political significance la an yet too early to tell. For while McCann Is tho first of the tive Americana jalled
مودا
the
Reconvening of
international
commission
Washington, Apr. 4.
Chinete on espionage charges It is confidently expected that the Soviet
to be freed, the special clrcumstances involved in ha) case tand to diccourage speculation that this is the firat alan of a thaw in the hitherto frozen relationa between Peking and Washing. ton.
AL tila stage the most reasonable vłow to take Is that China has responded to an abylove chance to show she world that It is not the fearsome ogra that it is offen thought to be. Mrs McCann wont to Peking to beg mercy оп ber husband's behair
because he was seriously Ii,
AND
were
по
ND In deciding to make an exception In this man's case the Chinese clearly realised they
zetting precedent which
would compet them progressively to free the remaining four. Оп the other hand, I events do encourage Peking to tako a optimistic view of
more relations with Amarica In, the near future It can always turn this gesture to profit by claiming that it was in fact motivated by more than humanitarian considerations.
The Americans are inclined to
at it differently. cebla
report from American news agency, which has a habit of echoing strong Repubiloan viewpoints on foreign affairs, said that It had
anticipated been
Ons
an
Union would accept a ceasefire in Laos very soon, possibly within 48 hours, well-informed diplomatic sources said today.
*MACMILLAN
ARRIVES
Washington, Apr. 4.
a
The Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan, arrived here tonight from the Bri- fish West Indies for Conference an the Laos President with situation Kennedy tomorrow.
Fresident Kennedy New
carlier from Palm Bench, his Easter vacation quarters-AP.
600 homeless
in Japanese
fires
Tokyo, Apr. 5. that At least 600 people were would free McCanн made homeless in fires fanned by strong winds which swept Japan yes. terday.
reports Tit
This
information
was re-
vealed after taika today between the secretary of State, Mr Dean Rick and the Foreign Secretary, ford Home, at which, it was understood, they discussed Laos prospects in the light of the information supplied by the British Ambassador in Moscow, Sie Frank Roberts,
Sir Frank discussed the Lan situation on Monday in a visit to the Kremlin.
Diplomatic sources also re- Union vealed that the Soviet had indicated informally that it would agree to British sugges Hons about the timing of steps to end the Lacs crisis.
which
This was an element had been unclear in last Satur- British day's Soviet reply proposals for a three-stage poli- fical settlement in Laus.
Airlifting arms
Mr
SIT
said that The sources Vassily Kuznetsov, The Sovic Deputy Foreign Minister, had Indicated yesterday to Frank Roberts that the Russians would accept the necessity of establishing a ̃ecasefire in Lao
an interna- before convening tional conference.
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EXPECTED SOON
Leaders meet for first time
The Prime Minister, Mr Harald Macmillan and President Kennedy at Key West whore they mot for the first time last week.-COI photo.
McCanns KATANGA MOBS
expected
tomorrow
China
from "not
much 10 humanitarian stand-paint on
However, it was understood to avoid having him die in
that one point which had not one of their bleak prisons."
There were
of yet been dealt with in Anglo- The Kennedy Administration
Soviet discussions was whether may not view
decision casualties. with quite the
asperity
Fire Depart- or not an end to the airlifting In Tokyo, the
reported 44 but it nevertheless expected ment to insist that all American section of the Matsuzawa mental before the conference could be Mr Robert E. McCann, who
down, convened. burned Jatt hospital prisoners
Chinesn
patients were relationa Fifty-nine before
evacuated without injury.
in
be released can Improve,
the
same
was
res, A
The national police also sad
THE trouble in that even if the in various parts of Japan cover
of arms Into Laos was necessary
Chiness did intend this to ing more than 4,742 acres. The International Control Con- |
A
to the The
British proposal Soviet Union was that Landen and Moscow should join in un appeal to the warring factions in Laos to agree to a ceaseßre.
ba partly
conciliatory Several
homes
burned mission for Laos would then bei gesture,
atli to down In these fires, police said. many obstacles impeding n
Hundreds of police and self- convened as quickly as possible full restoration of relations defence ground forces personnel were reported mobilised to com- or even all five could make bat the Bres-AP. Hittio
there are
that the freeing of one man
difference. Certainly
President Kennedy would be
disposed to ter. the
no mero minating
of support Nationalists than Paking would be to giving up its claim on Formosa, and its demand ter
American completo
drawal from the laland.
$f there la
with-
a botter feeling
welcomed but it would be wrong to expact spectacular decisions or developments, it America will take years for
outstanding resolvs differences with China.
were
No laughing
matter
was
released
the by Chinese
on authaçitics Monday after" serving ten years in jail in Tient- sin, is now expected to arrive in Hongkong to- morrow moming.
ATTACK UN TROOPS
Elisabethville, Apr. 4.
Thousands of Africans armed with pangas and muzzle-loading rifles marched on Elisabeth- ville airport today. They tore down the United Nations flag, ripped out telephone wires and smashed windows. Katanga police, led by white! nation conference would be cell-Trave! Service after elaborate troops at the airport. But some ed to deal with the Lacs preparations were made by Swedish troops were reported Red Cross and U.S. Govern- to have been taken prisoner by problem.
ment officials to meet him today the crowd.
o, as lo supervise the case tre
This
WDB announced early
and, later, an international 14-1 this afternoon by the China officers protected Swedish UN
Other sites
made
Mr
at Lowu and to fly him off to
The Africans marched after ably American military hos President Moise Tshombe had. The sources sald Britain was pitol in Manila.
tok a crowd of 6,000 that he now optimistle that the Anglo-
McCann was releared had earlier reached agreement with the United Nallons that Soviet appeal could be
a wife Flora made and the International Control after his Commission reconvened within a special trip to Peking last week Katanga forces and UN troops to plead for his release. It is should shure guarding the air- day or two, and that the con-reported to be seriously ill and port. ference could begin work within suffering from a form of cancer. about three weeks.
The
Chinese authorities his release and the greed to McCanns were understood have left Peking last night.
It was thought that they may have left by plane which would have enabled them to catch the
Division
But even so, after he had almost the Anished speaking, entire crowd armed with pangas, sticks, Iren bars, muz zle-landing rifles and knives- began to stream towards the airport-Reuter,
Plane missing
Santiago, Apr. 4.
of
A 30-hour search by planes, ship and ground patrols national peltoe falled today to find a trace of a missing Chilean 24 people plane with airlines abcard. The plane carried 20- passengers, including nine mein- bers of a Chilean professional crew and four
San Francisco, Apr. 4. growing up, it will be widely Four workers in a chemical products factory nearly died Inughing here today. Britain and the United States One of the supervisors passed were said to be epposed to the by a huge vat which was being Soviet suggestion that the can- cleaned, and heard two workers Cerence should
in meet Inside laughing heartily. When Phnompenh,
Cambodian he passed the some
way capital, on the grounds that at quarter of an hour ister, THER
thewould take too long to install the more traits today from Can- mobilised the entire population soccer team, obviously a step in the right men were still laughing, so the necessary facilities for a major
to
THE release of Mr McCann 18
the
direction. If this process is supervisor joined them to Aco International conference there.
what was so funny. continue. four 10
moro
Britain and the United States Presently a fourth man. Pass- Americans need to be freed
underslood to incostant ing by, heard the three other were
favour And
almost the propaganda Paking moderated. A# the Americans, they
far laughter, and he too was seized must with the general hilarity.
President Tshombe said the to arcement meant that Katanga troops would guard the military part of the airport and UN troops the civilian side.
Earlier textay,
be
of the
members.
had ton to Shumchun on the Hong of Katunga Province after the
The plane left Castro, in the Swedes had disarmed and or kong-Chinn border.
and extreme southern part of. Chile, - troops rested Katama The China Travel Service an- | rellco who tried to take over for Santiago and was not heard Log passing over from after nouncement gave no indication | the airport. war over Radio Inside the vat rouring with Geneva, London, Ottawa or whether the McCanns did travel President Thombe had des- Angeles,
Alr- The Chilean National possibly New Delhi, as the site by plane or whether they made celbed the "actions
the twin- owners of Another baue still pending the long overland journey from United Nations in our country lines, But in the end, n doctor had we the question of Laotian Peking to Canton by train.
motored plane, had not had an adopt a more realistic attitude
representation of the confer- towards China in the United, to be summoned urgently.
accident in 20 years—AP. Nations and much could be It turned out that the reser- once, since the U.S. and Britain done to restore trade between voir was giving off toxic fumnes recognised the Government of on the Prince Boum Oum while thei the two countries particularly which acted directly In exports of surplus food to nervous systems of the workers, Soviet Union maintained China.
provoking sparms of helplers Prince Sauverna Phoupa who fled from Laca to Cambodia inst The
need, laughter. most pressing
Three of the men were so il December, was still the Prime however, Is for America to convince Chlang Kal-shek they had to be taken to hosp!- Minister. that he can no longer expect 'tal, but their state was not con-
the oldered dangerous-AFP, bo
regarded at representative of more that
to
650 milion Chinowo people, that his authority covars only Formona
that America and
Dan do no more than ròcognles him as the ruter of this island until the people of Formask
Sugar sabotaged
Havana. Apr, J.
that
Woman raped
DS 4 Cause of war.
There were frequent calls by radio urging people to gather in the elly centre,
Feeling was rubning high when President Tahombe begin to speak. He told the crowd UN that all contacts with
civilians were
or
soldiers Nairobi, Apr. 4. Police with tracker dogs are banned. hunting an African who raped Fresident Tahombe said that and electricity supplies a middle-aged European woman water out walking with her dog at the had been cut-off at the Swedish edge of a forest near Eldorel, camp outside the elty. 200 miles northwest of here, yes-
Too difficult Britain and the United States were said to belief that if this issue proved too difficult to solve between now and the start of a terday,
the Intornational
The African had approached
Sharpened knivos
UK HOLIDAY ROAD TOLL
London, Apr. 4. During Britain's four-duy Easter holiday 44 perdors were killed and 1,210 injured on the roads, according to provisional! figures issued today. Fire destroyed 500 tons of conference,
At Easter last year the total her and asked for work. As lo He told the Crowd--some of Sugar cane at a plantation near talka should begin without any
it wan to representatives of Laos.
walked away, she was grabbed whom were sharpening knives was 75 killed and 1,500 Injured. A strong government appeal! qlarify their status. But one Son Lula, Orlenie,
the on flie ground as he spoke -- today, Cuban - here
Britain however, was said to from behind, dragged into Americane
travellers to thing the
leeep their able for muat vealed
that if he had not been Are was be hoping that a broadly-based | forest and raped, make clear. If Formosa con-authorities bald
Another Laotian Government, including The woman, who was spend- to come to, an agreement with speeds below 50 miles an hour tinues
over the opul niso the bad weather during stros that it is an net of sabotage. to
cane Prince Souvanna and elements in Easter with her son, was the United Nations Inseparablo from China, Jurgo quanlity of sught Washington cannot Indefinitely had been destroyed recently in of the leftwing Pathet Lac, could cald to be "quite comfortablo" In control of thes alpert if would the holiday are believed to havo
Mati have asked them to go to the helped keep casualtica down.
China Mail Special. be responsible for keeping a the Moengua region, in Lay be formed before the conference' hospital today. - China
Special.
airport and capture. It divided country apart.
opened AFP and Iteuter.
Villas Province.—AFF.
KILLED MOTHER
Delaware, Apr. 4. Gary Georger, aged 13, shot his mother in the back while she was playing the organ last night, because of an irresible urge to kill I couldn't control." Gary at first told police that a prowler had killed his mother, then Anally confessed that he had shot her with a carbine- AFP.
Tobacco heir's
third wife objects to No 4
New York, Apr. 5. Tobacco heir Richard J. Reynolds yesterday an- nounced he had taken a fourth wife in a ship- the board wedding In South Chirin Sea and. wife No. 3 promptly branded the marriage as Hlegal.
"I am shocked," rald Muriet Marston Reynolds. 40, after And Reynolds announced he
wrl
31-year-old German deeter of philosophy, Anne- Marie Schmitt, aboard the sy Rotterdam last month.
Muriel
a
ber Reynolds and Atlanta Lawyers claimed In tharply worded statement that the 55-year-old multi- millionaire's latest marriage was illegal because her divorce appeal still
pending before the Georgia Supreme Court. It will be argued this summer,
ALLEGATIONS
They charged that Reynolds feigned an incurable lines3 10 help win the divorce last May, then "hastened to 0 pre.. arranged European yachting cruise and the delights of romance."
Reynolds, who brought his new bride back to his private domain at Sapelo Island, Georgia, could not be reached immediately for comment on Muriel's charges.
Mr Anton
But his lawyer Kravitch, who guldet Reynolds' to shed year-long legal battle his third wife, cuid in Savannah: "I am delighted that Mr Rey- nolda has remarried and I'm not at all worried about the legality of his action."--AP.
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