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CHINA

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No. 37941

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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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Phone 37031

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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