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Build-up of British armed forces continues

of the KUWAIT: TROOPS IN POSITION

day

NEW DAWN

WORLD which has

A watched developments in

the Congo with deep AN- xiety for the past year will welcome with relief the United Nations' Secretary- General's assurance that the grievous stage of the crisis has passed. Mr Hammarskjold has made

Il clear that he ferring to the political crista; the appalling econu-i mic problems, which had their origins in the failure to train of the Belgians

have administrators and

wan re-

been aggravated by months of anarchy and internecine strife, at have to solved.

be

Yet on the economic front the outlook is considerably brighter than it Was A short time ago.

agreement

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Two factors have contributed to thin the Congolese President's give the United Nations a strong say in the control of his country's finances, und the 15-nation agreement on Gnancial aid announced by the UN headquarters. THE most assuring feature of the Congolese situn. Lion, however, is the emer- gence for the first time of

T

real hope that some form of political stability

will

be achieved and that $1 dark night of lawlessness and terror ended.

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SURPRISE HOLIDAY

FOR BOYS

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Birmingham, July 3.

Four hundred boys at secondary school here

had the duty of! today when 11 of their 16 mas- ters staged strike.

The one-day strike was one of

series being

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organised all over 'Britain by the Association of Schoolmasters, a minority group of teachers, in sup- port of its claim to be re- presented in salary talks.

The Jucal education committco decided that the five teachers not on strike were not enough to run the school and shut

it fcr the day. China Mali Special,

HOLIDAY DEATHS

IN U.S.

5 miles from 'SCREAMING AUTHORITIES LEAVE A PUZZLE

Iraqi frontier

Kuwait, July 3. Thousands of British soldiers were today deployed along an 80-mile line across the desert from Kuwait Town, five miles away from the Iraqi border to balk the threat from Iraq which claims sovereignty over this newly-independent

state.

Air Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy, Britain's Mid- dle East Commander-in-Chief said: "We I'm a damn are through the worst of it now. sight more confident now than I was a day ago."

He said his intelligence reports had orders to keep 10 miles from showed a continued buildup of the traq! border. Iraqi forces on the frontier The Second Battalion of the despite Iraqi Premier Abdel Parachute Regiment, who landed Karim Kassem's dental,

by Britannia aircraft today from Brigadier Derek C. T. Hors-Cyprus via Aden, are the latest ford, in command of Kround troops to arrive in response to the oil-rich Shefkdom's appeal for help.

do."

Defensive

force 12

He said there were indications

troops, said the landing Chicago, July 3. United States'

"went through a period of Inde hours yesterday when if the pendence Day weekond Iraqi had crossed the border traffic toll headed toward we would have been a little. mid-summer holiday hurd put to do what we should record today. National Safety Council officials said the total might reach $50, some 100 more than the estimate. "The projected trend points or more victims," a

A 2:30 GMT tablation by United Press International showed 310 persons had lost their lives In truffle

accidenta since & pm on Friday,

The Hst:

The threat, for a long time very real, of a major civil war in which outside! powera would have in to 550 evitably been involved has Safety Council spokesman said, receded.

in

Some of the bandits

uniform. notably the Lumumbist force in Kivu, still seem to be stirring up trouble; but a shrewd blow for order was struck when It

agreed that the was Katanga army should be controlled by United

Tramc 340, drowning 147 plones 4, miscellaneous 72.

Total 563-UTI

Nations officers and that SHORTEST

its white mercenary £017- tingent

patriated.

should be

re-

THE Coquilhnville

meeting opened the pro-i spect of a federal form of

far constitution

more

ndapted to the realities of tribal jealousies than the system which col- unitary

lapsed so dismally. Thanks to the coolness and steadfastness of the United

SENATE SESSION

Washington, July 3. The U.S. Senate on Monday hald its shortest session

that Iraq has made no significant Kuwalt's

advance toward northern border.

"We know the Iraqis are cap- of mounting a very able

Horsford considerable force," sald. But he sold Britain's opera- tion remains "one hundred per cent defensive."

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He said none were deployed aruund the oll town of Ahmadi, headquarters of the Kuwait Of Company installations 25 miles south of here. But he had reserve assigned to this task,

He said he had no aim of re- opening the all drillings between Kuwait and Iraq.

These have been evacuated, to a reconnaissance according pilot.

that it planned Kuwalt. 1 proclaimed "peaceful polloy" and zave no hint that it would use force against the British..

to

attack

The paratroopers moved out into the desert almost krunedi- ately by jeep, with un escort of Mobats anti-tank guns mount- ed on Land Rovers.

Advance claments of the 24th

Infantry Brigade are already in - with No. 12 Kuwait, together Commando Battalion, two Cold- streem Guard companies from Bahrain, an 11th Hussar Squad- ron with armoured cors from Aden, and the Third Dragoon Guards

with tanks, a British Anny spokesman cald,

Also here are Marines of No.

Battalion 45 Commando Aden and a Parachute Battery

Third of the

Royal Artillery Regiment.

Flies in

LORD

SUTCH FINED DID HEMINGWAY

Dumfrice, July 3. Long haired rock and "rolt singor "Screaming Lord ¡Sutch" was fined £12 in court hare today for gotting into a scream- ing match and hitting two men with a micro- phone.

The prosecutor said "Screaming Lord real Sutch" whose nomo is David Edward Sutch screamed: "You are a shower of

Scotch-

tho miko bers of

audience

and swung after mom- dance hall shouted in-

sults at him.-UPI,

KILL HIMSELF?

Kotchum, July 3.

Blaine County authorities today ruled out the need for an in- quest in the gunshot doath of Nobel Prize winning novelist Ernest Hemingway.

The

bo

left Duthorities

for it was decided not to hold an historians to ponder, however, inquest. The death certificate

of whether the question

the will read self-inflicted gunshot noted author killed himself de-wound in the head."** liberately or accidentally in his Asked whether it could Idaho home yesterday morning. construed from its finding that Coroner Ray McGoldrick the death could be considered said: "The prosecuting attorney a suicide, McGoldrick said, "No."

Ilawover, and the sheriff and the coroner

asked when met this morning with Mra whether could be called ac

After Hemingway and her son.

eldental, he said, “No one was there at the time this hap.

their discussion of the matter

Court throws Red out of UK union

London, July 3.

pened.

It's

hard to say

whether he shot himself Ac- eldentally." McGoldrick, who also 19 McGoldrick director of the Funeral Home in Halley, nounced that arrangements for the funeral were pending at a decision that the burial will be at Ketchum.

Catholic

He sold funeral arrange- ments have been tentatively set for Friday and probably, would Include Roman Catholic БЕГ- vicca

"Or it may be just a grave- side service," he said.

He said that following his conference with Hemingway's oldest son, Jack, And the widow, the Hemingways ferred

with Father

Waldmann

con- Robert J. a Catholic priest

from nearby Halley.

The family, already deluged with 'flowers

from friends of Hemingway's all over the world, asked that flowers not be sent and Instead. requested

friends

# contribute memorial offering to thoir tavourite charity.UPI.

A high court judge today ruled that Mr John Byrne should re-

place Mr Frank Haxell as General Secretary of the 240,000-ta strong Communist-controlled Electrical Trades Union "as from this moment of timo."

und

The

"I think as good and sound a serve the ideals of the The Judge, Sir Charles Winn, as to

result of this election as possible fromxuled on Friday that Mr Haxel Party."

four other Union oMcials

by Mr will be achieved if I now do- case, brought

And another Union clared that Mr Byrne was elect- Horse had conspired together to pre- Byrne

Frank member, Mr

of this vent "by fraudulent and unlaw-

Chapple, ed General Secretary ful devlees' the election of Mr

election for Union and declare, as part

that as from Byrne as the Union's General the General Secretary in 1959. my judgment, Secretary.

Mr Haxell, a Communist, today, as from this moment of was elected with Mr Byrne the time, he is the General Secret- unsuccessful candidate.

ary of this Union."

Sir Charles Elworthy New in !from his advance command

headquarters in

Bahrain today for consultations with the Ruler of Kuwait.

The British troop deployment stretched beyond Mutla Fort, which 16 about 25 miles north of Kuwait Town nad the

Managed

Costs are estimated £80,000,

at about

arose out of

the

Ho

ان

JAPAN'S RAINS KILLED 248

Tokyo, July 3. The National Police, making a final toll on casualties caused by flood and landslides, sald 248 persons were killed in the heavy downpours in central and western Japan.

It said 81 persons were still

But the Judge said today: "I The Judge granted an injune- His judgment came at the end have come to the conclusion that❘tion restraining Mr Haxell from of a 38-day hearing of what had fraud deprived Mr Byrne of a Iraq denied once again today

acting as General Secretary of become known in Britain as the number of votes and I have done the Union or doing any of the

my best

to indicate that that work of the General Secretory or "ballot rigging" ease.

number amounted to such a lotal (any elected office the Union. that, had he not been deprived

awarded Mr Byme of their advantage by fraud, he damages of £380 less tax up missing, with 1,227 injured from would have obtained a majority to today and thereafter at the the heavy rain in late June, of at least 1,130 over Mr Haxell. rate of £300 a year less tax Police also said 345,383 per- until such lime as he begins sons were affected by the rain- to receive the aplary of Gen- storm with 3,117 homes destroy- cral Secretary,China Mall ed, damaged or washed away- Special.

AP.

Estimate

British orders. Britain has no

in history-meeting for

Saudi Arabian troops assialing in Kuwait's defence are under exactly 7 seconds. Senator Carl Hayden, Demo- Kuwait command and not under Nations Secretary-crat-Arizona, 83, Dean of Con- diplomatic relations with Saudi as sat as the temporary presi-Arabia though it is believed here ding officer and convened

that Incoming troops from recessed the session with a al- Cyprus were given permission gle sentence, spoken so fast to fly over Saudi territory, sounded almost word.

General at one level, and

its

At

to the devotion of Bervants in the field another, the UN hus justi- fled its existence. The achievement has been

slow, but, despite

Rome

and

like one long

GAVEL

Inst security post on the road to

the border.

In New York, the Security Council last night adjourned until Wednesday its debate on Kuwait's complaint that Iraq threatened her territorial inde- pendence.

In Valletta, Malte, it was' re- ported today that the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Centaur, home- ward-bound from the Far Fast, has been ordered to take on supplies and join the carrier Bulwark at Kuwalt,

Unconfirmed reports reach-

The Judge said the Union was controlled by the Communist Party and was also "so managed

THE COMMON MARKET

Cardiff, July 3. The Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan sold tonight that if the two main trade groups of Europe drifted further and further apart ho feared the only benefit would be to the Communists,

He was speaking in a re- Ing Beirut today said the Iraqi corded Interview on South Foreign Minister, Hashem Wales and the West of Eng Jawad, has offered his resigna- land Independent (Commer tlon, hut General Kassem had | clal) Television. refused it.

London sources today estimat- ed the number of British troops in Kuwait at between 4,000 and The seven seconds between 5,000, not including naval men. clumsiness, some stupidity the top of his gavel to convene Tanks of the Third Dragoon and good deal of ad- the meeting and the tap to re- Guards could be seen rumbling ministrative inefficiency, it cess it clipped four seconds off through a developing sandstorm has been notable, the more tie uld speed record, set on | north of the new airport, which Bo because it was in the December, 20, 1950, by the late is occupied mainly by Hawker

Reports also sold the Iraql face of the opposition and Senator Kenneth McKellor, De-Hunter jets of No. 8 Squadron

from Aden and No. 208 Squadron government had said it would downright sabotage of the mocrat Tennessee.

"The senate will come to oc- from Nairobi.

withdraw from the Arab League Communist powers and der, and by order of the Senate A pilot officer said the jets) if Kuwait was admilled as Bome African states,

will stand in recess until July making reconnaissance sorties member—All Agencies.

PLAIN SPEAKING

5th at noon," Hayden said.

The session had been

scheduled as a token affair, to

let most of its members enjoy

THE Prime Minister, Mr long Fourth of July holidays has not that started on Thursday night.

Macmillan,

minced words over the Bri--AP.

tish position fu Kuwait. He has made it clear that Bri- tain is carrying out its obligations according to the trealy at the request of the Sheik. United Arab Republic allega- tions that the decision to move into Kuwait is another!

Australia's surplus of AE15.8 million

Canberra, July 3.

Australia finished the financial year, ended Jane 30, with a surplus of A£15.8 million. Treasurer Mr Harold Holl

example of imperialism are said in a press statement that fatuous and ill-conceived thin was A£300,000 above the Suez la a thing of the past. hudgit estimate-AP.

Diplomatic rolations have

been re-astablished

and

attempts to revive and uno

pant events as a parallel in the present case are merely childish.

MAN BITES VET

London, July 3,

A bangistrate today fined a dog'

lover who blí a veterinariau.

It cannot be denied that the

threat to the oil-rich king- Peter Green, 26, was fined £1 dom le real and we can only for maliciously wounding veteri ¦ nsk what the UAR wouldnary surgeon Arnold Morgan at a dog atow. Green explained have done had ono of its that he bit Morgan in the wrist own treaty countries been because he thought Morgan was threatened.

handling a dog fou'roughly--AP. |

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