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Comment of the

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The great pending decision

QETWEEN now and the end of

thousand and one argumento for and against the historic decision of and Inevitable Great Britain to enter the Common Market. They will range from the claess of the woman who didn't want her child to prow up as a young European to the hair-raising warning of a Labour MP that decision to join would CALLO the English language to fore Its supremacy in International affairs!

French does in fast become the official language of the Common Market the millions who speak English will con. tinue to grow in numbers and Influence all over the Con tinent (and not least in the USBR). Indoed thoxe who cherish one of the most beautiful languages on

earth

will

be only too happy ir

French has the added protec fan it seems to need from the new bureaucrats of Europe.

True, the

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been

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England, France-now there's only America' USSR TO OVERTAKE U.S. BY 1970

Prediction by BUT THE DECKS STILL GET SCRUBBED

Khrushchev at reception

Moscow, June 25.

Mr Khrushchev said today that the Soviet Union was now number two country in the world, but would push the United States out of first place by 1970.

BIG RUSH

SHOOTS

JARDINE'S

SHARES

TO $32.50

remains that Europe wants us There was a big demand for

in and probably in the end will not diamiso the claims for consideration of members of the Commonwealth.

when

Jardine's shores they were first quoted on the Hongkong Stock Ex- change this morning.

were

There will be powerful voices

beckoning the Mother Country

About 42,200 shares, amount- back to the Cammonwealth-

to ing to about $1.3 million, which she will not have

the sold at prices ranging from $32 leave anyway! Already Canadian High Commissioner to $32. in London urges England

to

look to the Commonwealth for future trade-"p picture of expansion and opportunity stle the imagination.”

and will to.

to

Just as the sons and daughters

of all Europe will be requireu

In a highly emotional sperch to a Communist party rally at Aln Ata, capital of Kazukḥston, he said: "We, the country which has existed for only 44 years, the country which was far behind Western countries, has come to vecupy second place in the world, i “England, mistress of the seas, England, which had Africa and Asia we left them behind us. We left France behind us two.

"Comrades, there is only America.

"And this country can be coin- pared to a worn-out runner. He had the prize but others have been born, trained, and are now running.

Young & strong

The United States Is now

but running on its past reputation, at the Anishing line the young, fresh, strong runner will break the tape.

"Our socialist country- young.

strong. organised, mobilised-15 snapping at the heels of America-not silently, but saying 'Look, we are in the race. Flurry up or

we shall overtake you.''

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Mr Khrushchev called for merciless

struggle against The business In Jardine's partsites" and "spongers" who hares helped to bring the ap- tried to make use of the "goods proximate turnover for all created by the people," thu shares listed on the Stock Ex-Soviet news agency Tase re- change this morning to about ported. $7,130,000.

The opening quotation for the share was $32, then progressive

to give the expanding com ly $324. $324, 324 d $32

monwealth the people they teed, so will their resources

as well as ours be needed 10 bring these hopes truition,

during the morning session.

The price represents abouti 100 per cent increase over the full rolling price to

of $16 when Jardine's shares were mnde available to the publle on June 15.

COMPARISON

"We are building our Com-It's the no-limit age in munist house" he said. "Those which anything anyone} who impede us in the building | of this house be seized by the

can do, someone else can do better except invent ear and shown up."

a deck that doesn't have Work & work

to be scrubbed.

Speaking

which con reception The technology marking the 40th anniversary build rockets to hit pin- of the formation of the Kazakhstan Republic, he added," I call upon you to work, work, work.

al a

Europe ls, as Mr Draw rightly says, deficient in raw material and in already populated tv an extent which in itself imposes strict limitatione upon growth. But Britain's entry will

In comparison, Kowloon vide Europe with readier ac- Motor Bus shares showed an cess to the raw materials and appreciation of about 52 per the newer members of the Cell when they were first Commonwealth with greater quoted in the Stock Exchange more so that our cup should be access to the Industrial pro. last month.

full and our riches grow," Mr

pro-

"Work alone is the source of the wealth of the society and the wealth of every man."

"We want to amass more and

ducts of Europe. His argu. The KMB shares hind been Khrushchev continued amid ments can be turned in upon sold to the publle at $58 and stormy applause and shouts of themselves 10 provide con-opened on the first day at the approval. clusive pleas 1or Britain's Exchange at $80. They were Earlier Mr Khruslichey said Inclusion, as an indispensablo | quoted at $82 this morning. link between the old and the A total of 722,949 Jardine's new countries, and betwoon chores were sold to the publle contrasting needs.

on June 15. So heavy was the

oversubscribed by 50

times.

We shall be told that much of | demanzi for those shares, they

our ancient sovereignty wilt were have to be abated. There nothing new or fearful In this. Much has already been abated

and for the common good. But we cannot afford to "turn

our back on the Common Market," to use the phrase of

the Foreign Secretary, it is)

now becoming ona

Di the

for

world's greatest markola high quality products. There have been scarifying re-

ferences by the opposition

to

the hectic and persistant quarrols of the European peoples. The political prob.

jeme, saya Lord Home, would

be the least serious to bo overcome

the country hnd **achieved much" during the years of So- viet regime, but we still have much to do. And this the work which will bring tangible results, raising even higher the standard of living"-Reuter.

British FA drops

action in bribery probe

Hastings, June 25,

He was more pungent when no The Football Association said today it had dropped

mentioned the Inevitable ten-

the question of action in the case of certain British footballers suspected of having been concerned in bribery.

denoy of commercial exchanges between the mother country and the Commonwealth to fall, whereas by joining the Com- mon Market the exchanges would as certainly rise. And carried

The

Argociation which tus

The object was "o find out out a probe into the whether sufficient evidence what i moro, since Britain josue, said today its legal pd- could be obtained to Justify

visors felt that "no action which criminal proceedings and tbo Association could take make possible thin intervention would be other than conclu- of the Director sive and incfectual."

wants to carry with her both the Commonwealth partners and the Froo Trade Area nations, mattors All round

ought to improve.

The classic structures of trade

or

to

point targets round the world and put atom- splitting warheads in their noses, has still find a way to koop the decks clean. This picturo was made un- dor the missiles of the

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IRAQ LAYS

CLAIM TO NEW STATE OF KUWAIT

Bagdad, June 25. Major-General Abdul Karim Kassom, Iraqi Prime Minister, tonight claimed that the Persian Gulf sheikhdom of Kuwait was an integral part of Iraq, and said the 1899 British froaty of protection had been "forged" for a payment of 15,000 rupees.

con-

Dritain ended her protection! of the oil-rich state last Monday. and announced the signing of a treaty of friendship "and" zultation with Kuwait as a fully Independent covereign state.

Addressing a press conference, Major-General Kaseem do scribed, this treaty as "illegiti- it had been mate," rined by. "Irresponsible people who are under the influence of imperialism."

and said

Part

Kuwait was part of the pro- vince of Basta in the former Turkish empire, he said, and Britain had recognised this both before and after the signature of the 1899 treaty.

He added: We are in a position to obtain our rights Kutty, but we always keep the prace....Steps which we take initially are peaceful stepa," He also warned: "We shall extend Iraq's borders to the south of Kuwait."

Prime Minister Kassem said in a lengthy historical argument

The Prime Minister said; "Sons of the people" had been fighting to get rid of imperlallsı in Kuwait since 1918, but they were against "widely inuentis! imperialism," while in Iraq the former regime "sold the coun- try to Imperialism."

Support

General Kassem said

decree would be repubilean 1rated shortly appointing the present Sheikh of Kuwoll ES Governor of the Kuwalt district of Iraq.

The Iraq Chief of Staff and Military Governor General, General Ahmed Saleh af Abdi,. said in a telegram to General Kassem, broadcast by Bagdad Radio tonight: "The entire army supports the contents of your press conference concern- ing Imperialist conspiracies over Kuwait, which is an in- tegral part of the eternal Iraqi Republic,'

Meanwhile, observers In London said that Iraq's claim to Kuwait, if pushed, could set off a crisis among two major oil

rocket-armod American that Kuwait was part of the sources of the non-Communist destroyer, Doway, in Kiel vince of Basta, in the former world in the Middle East.

Turkish empire and that the Bo Kuwalt and Iraq arc Harbour, Germany, for signature to the "forged treaty" large-scale producers of oil, Kiol. Wock.

of 1809 was obtained by Britain with extensive reserves yet to for a payment of 15,000 rupees, be tapped.—Reuter,

The rockets

con nuclear warheads. - Photo.

carry Af

Mass man-hunt for

escaped

convicts

London, June 25.

Police all over Britain were tonight hunting for nine convicts who yester-

day made a mass break-out from Wandsworth-London's "trouble

jail"

mallbags at the jail.

Loncion police combed the capital's underworld, ordered to Thoy alled furniture up to a "get these men," by Scotland window, jumped into the yard Yard's new chiet gang-buster, outside, and used ropes to Deleeuve Chlef Superintendent | scramble over the outside wall. Ernest Millen.

Pollee raadblocks today mur rounded London. checking on the thousanda of cars pouring out in blazing sunshine to sea- Bide resorts,

Saushing through the fence of a nearby bowling green, they strolled, in blue prison uniforms to a parked car and

drove off.

A few hours later,

one of Ten men originally made the them, 26-year-old Lesile Travis, wak yesterday morning, when was picked up in a north Lon- three wardens were bound and don street, a leg broken in a

gigred after a mock fight | fall from the prison wall.

among

prisoners atitching

Fight at the bullfight

BROKEN LEG

More tropical depressions

At midday a tropical depres- slon was contred about 800 milos cast of Hang-

was kong and

moving A Home Office spokesmen tôn

slowly west-northwest. night sold another, Thomas At the same time another tro- Was centred Smfthemon, also 20, had been pleat depression arrested in Liverpool. He later about 250 miles southeart of withdrew the announcement. Kyushu and was moving slowly however, and said; "we are still north. making inquiries.”

.

At 8 am tropical depression The nine still free are be-Cora had weakened to an area loved to have split up com-of low pressure. centred to the

west of Hatau Island. pletely.

Shortly after their escape half-Pressure is low over Eastern

China and the Gulf of Tonkin. of them got into another car,

A passing anotorist who saw (hem gald:" "I thought it was drunken wedding "parly until

they screeched off with The SEVEN MISSING

Istanbul, Juno 25,

60-ton Turkish motor-bont sank near here today, altor

Bogota, June 25. of Public Pro-

Fighting today broke out be- secutions",

But Mr Boggart added: "The tween pollee and spectatore at a Mr A. G. Boggart, chairman replies received were of such a bullfight, resulting in mix people are undergoing groat changes. or the FA Council, recalled lupature that in the vlow of our being killed and 10 wounded at Of the Hongkong [aelf is an slugement which ho

legal advisers no setion which the village of Natagalma in the read

offside door swingling, wnd azma the Football example and, a witness. And during the Attciation's sum-

Association could Tolima district of Colombia, and legs sticking out." Laico would he other than in- abesle change must be the mer meeting here that

When a local pollerman - Antiquated, and -overcrowded conclurive and Ineffectual,”

eldentally creation of the outward look February 20 he had explained

killed a spectator, the Wandsworth prison-mora With this advice in mind the Football Association could onlylation of the village be 100 years old - has reaffirm ite

attacked described as the most trouble determination "at came incensed and

zome in Beliala. all times to take

appropriate polico headquarters.

Seven persons were reported Allacks action against

violent dimili ormed

on officers, violence between prisoners, the defending police strikes, and attempted escapes Rumelifeneri this afternoon. — the rules

sit-down misaing following the explosion concerning bribery between

which wrecked, the Algarna off which may in future come to and tho attacking bullfight have been. Ha cominonfare in

enthusiasts.—AEP,

by the Common Market coun- that, in close consultation with tries, in place of the present legal advisers, the Association Introversion, Asia and Africa would invllo wrillen replies to aliko are looking

their way. questions from a numbeT Thoy must reolprosato, for the players who word under age is revolutionary beyond all Puspicion of being concerned others.

with bribery.

of

any breach of

ita notice"-Reuter.

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