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Comment of the day
Changing mood
JAPAN
Jiko Britain be-
the two world wars, has been basking in apachat phase. Too much war naturally produces an appetite for peace, Even Now when Japan is again building
armed
-
up
her
forces following the re- vised law on the defence establishment
and
the Self-
Defence Forces law, provid-I
Ing
totalling 242,000-there are
misgivings, at least among
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·At--1-pm at the Observatory-the-air-temperature - was-90 degrees F and the relative humid 70 'per. cont.
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In response to cable from Bourguiba HAMMARSKJOLD OFF TO TUNIS
MORE WEST Bid for
GERMAN
TROOPS
FOR NATO
Bonn, July 23,
in Bizerta
peace Action in
between France, Tunisia
United Nations, July 23.
United Nations Secretary General Mr. Dag Hammarskjold is flying to Tunis tonight. to try to bring about peace between France and Tunisia.
for uniformed forces A West German Defence Ministry spokesman said today that "great afforts" would be required if West A Germany is to fulfil
the Leftists.
For
to
itu
Nate goal of 12 divisions by next Spring.
some time the new mill- organisation, though tary modest in size and defen- aive in nature, has come be regarded by military
Under plans laid down by the Lightly-orga-
Defence Minister, Herr Franz- well-trained force Josef Strauss, three more divi- sions will be put under Nato which is, man for man, one
one of the best in Asia. Its canmand this year, and
more by next Spring. leaders in all branches are
Nato already has eight West officers who held important German divisions at its disposal. ranke and posts in the last
war.
There was some controversy as to whether the defence forces should make prepara- tions for a direct or indirect invasion. Policy formerly called for defence against foreign sggression, and
thus the main emphasis was on the fortification of Hak- kaido, tho northernmost Island facing the Soviet Union, with whom there was trouble a few years over the leinnds immediate- ly adjoining Japan's moun-
ago
EARMARKED
would
U.N. spokesman said Mr Hammarskjold will leave New York aboard a Swissair jetliner via Geneva, and will be in Tunis tomorrow afternoon.
eon-
Before leaving on his "honest broker's" mission, Mr Ham- marakjold announced he sidered is "clear duty" to place himself at the disposal of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba who had asked him by cable to By to Tunis,
Mr Bourguiba earlier, today urged Mr Hammarskjold to con as
fer with him in person "as soon possible" because of the
BATTLE OF BIZERTA NOT ENDED'
Tunit, July 23.
The spokesman, answering a reporter's questions, eaid West amount to about 13,000 million German defence costs
Marks next year, compared "gravity of the situation" aria- with a sum of 11,200 million in from the fighting over the President Habib Bouguiba said today that "the battle of Bizerta is not ended."
the funeral of Speaking at
Marks earmarked for defence in the 1981 budget,
He added, however, that the
elected in have to Reuter.
approve this
Bum.-
French-held basa at Bizerta, north Tunisia.
Last night, while making
ready to apply whatever instruc-
ions were given them.
"I have told you that this battle would comprise numerous phases, it can only really end with the departure of the--just soldier and the Liberation of the last parcel of Tunisian territory."
next German parliament to be ready for the flight, Hammarske some of those killed in the fight-
September wouki
jold cabled Mr Bourguiba Ining he urged the people to be reply I have received your meusage baking for direct and personal exchange of views with me. Such a request on your part puts on me the clear duty to place myself at your disposal for such a personal exchange of views, I hope, should help in development towards peace, Mr Hammarskjold will be Joined in Tunia by UN director for European Affairs Mr Pierre Spinelli.
talnos northern Island 670 killed and
The only armoured division
in
tho Army is Ktill
stationed on Hokkaido.
ECENT conclusions are For cien direct in-
vasion is unlikely for the next five years at any rate.
the contrary, expecta tions of so-called indirect invasions have been
O
raised.
The Defence Agency Diree-
1,155 wounded
in 4-day fight
were
Tunis, July 23.
tor told the Lower House The government announced that the Defence Force wna today that 670 Tunisians "more of a police force
killed and 1,155 internal against
trouble
DIC wounded in the four-day than against foreign in-
battle of Bixorta. The endless de- vaalon.
The casualty figures brought monstrations, snake dances, no confrmation or denial from and other disorders provok-the French, who only listed 13 ed by the Communists and dead among French soldiers, their Socialist allies a year Tunisian sources said their own ago suggest one form of final accounting could mount penetration.
much higher.
.
Another source of anxiety is
7
still Korea. It may be that
the recent military coup will
Sahara
The Tunisian Agure wus in fact not only stabilise understood to include casualties
the situation in the South both in the Tunisian blockade
the
Not directly
on
Diplomatic quarters anid Mr Hammarskjold's emphasis having a "personal exchange of views with Bourguiba, and on underlining the competence the Security Council's role in
of
dicated he did not plan to mediate in the conflict directly. Most likely, he will gather Bourguiba's thinking on the conflict, and report back to the Security Council.
The Tunisian government "which is loyally applying the decision of the Security Council for a ceasefire has the right to be sure that the adversary, acts with the same loyalty," he said. Mr Bourguiba sald French Foreign Legion were not doing this and that Tunisia would be "obliged to react" if France did not proper- ly follow the Security Council decision.
paratroopers
Anglo-American resolution, de
Mr Bourguiba noted that the feated by one vote in last night's Security Council debate, had called for an end to military
Shown above is one of the arst pictures to come out of Bizerta, the French naval base in Tunisia that is besieged by Tunisian troops. French bombers and rockof-firing aircraft are bombarding the attacking Tunisians, and here is a unit of the French ·05- motion-Express tillery Photo.
In
HURRICANE
ANNA
Miami; July 23. Hurricane Anna, tur packing miles-per- hour over a small area near the centre, headed for the British Honduras late today and was expected to "pass Intand, south of Belleo about midnight.
winde up to 90
TUC LEADERS
WARN LLOYD
London, July 23.
Rusk says
treaty would be absurd
Washington, July 23: Secretary of State Dean Rusk sald today... a saparato Soviet peace treaty with East Germany would be "a legal absurdity" so far os Western rights in Ber- lin aro concerned.
He said Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's threat to sign the treaty by year's end' "is not an set of political wisdom and if implications are drawn trom this notion that our rights have been destroyed, this could create a very dangerous situation,"
GRADUAL BUILDUP Essentially the same view was expressed by Chairman J. William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ho salda Russian-East German pact "need not-it certainly does not legally-plter our rights."
But Fulbright said if the treaty is signed,
States the United should take appropriate action to see that the Allies contine to have access to the Communist encircled elty.
Meantime, there were grow¬ Ing, indications that President Kennedy's plan for meeting the
Leaders of the eight million-strong Trades Union now threats to West Berlin calis
Congress warned the Chancellor of the Ex-rather
for a gradual arma bulidup, than any, sweeping
chequer, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, here yesterday emergency action.-UP! that a tough tax "budget" next Tuesday
would upset their support of the national pro- TROPICAL STORM ductivity drive.
com-
Mr Lewis Wright, chairman of the TUC production mittec, delivered the warning govern- at a meeting of the ment's "Industrial enhinct" the National Production Advisory Council on Industry at the Treasury.
As
NORMALLY
Mr Wright spoke, the At 2200 GMT the season's Chancellor, wiw normally operations and a resumption of first Atlantic hurricane was presides at the meetings, was negotiations without demand-centred about 128 miles south-in his office working out detatis ing evacuation" of Bizerta bas cast of Belize.
of the measures he is to an- At Mr Hammarskjold's
He said those countries which
All shipping along. the coast nounce next Tuesday. behest, the Security Counell
supported the resolution were of Brilish Honduras and
Mr Reginald Maudling. Pre- call to yesterday issued
not necessarily hostile to French Guatemala were advised to take sident of the Board of Trade, both France and Tunisia to
Both evacuation of Tunisian terri-Immediate precautions against who took his place, promised to ceasefire. agree to
on the morsage to tory, "but they seem to
force winds❘ pass fear gale to hurricane partles have almost ■lmut-
Lloyd. that a condemnation of France and rough seas.—AP, taneously ordered their troops to cease Aring,
might provoke violent reacitons from that country."
and the French offensive in the Mr Hammarskjold will
not
The authors of the Anglo-
but actually frustrate all Bizerta air-naval base area and be passing through France on
schemes
of the Commu-skirmishing In the · Sahara his trip to Tunis. He has ro-American resolution and delega- ilons which voted in favour of nists for a take-over. That Desert 500 miles to the south. |ceived no invitation to stop in
were exerting efforts to remains to be seon. The
In The Sahara. French Parls, The French Govern-it plance and commando pairala ment, backed by a number of trag about contacts betwena and the Tunisians Intereepled a Tunisian column Western allies would like to see the French
the negalia-
Aplit between the military
so soon after the original
coup was very disquieting.
Instead of being R
"Ain
ing factor, as It has all along, the Army might
well
the most inn- prove
But gerous factor of all, Japan's position would cer- tainly be serious indeed if South Korea, for whatever reason, collapsed,
W
TXWORLD communism has always had Japan as a prime target, though it has Buffered there lis most obvious frustration. And the
of soldiers and civilians try the dispute settled amicably in and bring abou! Ing to plant the Tunisian flag bllateral talks-UPI.
Sahara
on a point of the Desert 24 miles south of the internationally recognised Tanlaina frontier and close lo the rich French oilfields. Information about the Sahara clashes was scant, but the Tunisions claimed yesterday that 100 Tunisians were killed in a French ale attack on a fort on the fringe of the desert- UPI.
long and heated propaganda DISASTER
campaign against the U.S.- Japan Security Pact is an indication of their am!- bitions.
On that score com- muntem has been defeated and now, whatever happens in Kóres, it is likely to
a permanent defent, prove Japan's fellow Ablans are too close to the experiences. they suffered after Pearl Harbour and all that to re- gard's Japanese military revival with complete com- posure. But
nation as a whole.
There
a
Aro
It is true, signs of mood. changing
Tho
AREA
tona, Reuter.
COUNCIL WARNS 'COLOUR BAR'
TENANTS
Birmingham, July 23.
A Socialist councillor at Smethwick, near hero, where 600 tenants are threatening a "colour bar" rent strike, said. today the council will not submit to “mob rule,”
The council har allocated one tion to Mr Moharaned he
Boston, July 23.
do. President Kennedy today
clared Charleston, Virginis, a of it flats to a coloured man, dharter zone, following sud- Mr Sardar Mohammed, his wife den treak floody fat Wed- and three children, because nesday which destroyed or their house is to be demolished damaged bundreds of ‘hauses under slum clearance. and killed 21.
They are the frat coloured The President's dreiston people to receive accommodation makes Charleston and adjoining on a 600-flat estate.
salð.
* insimply that they people have differéat ́ware of Ute to ours, and attiat la not the pizee to house theiti) 'un- Tabs they are' all · housed to, gether in one block.”/1 After meeting of the Bo
It does
does neem Arcax bit by the cloudburst Over 160 tenants on the es-elalist group.which controls the counciller that there la genuine eligible for Federal assistance Intalo have signed a protest-peti- council, the leader,
ค
This deaire for peace and con-repairing the five to six million tion and today a committee was Ernost
Lowry, saidi chosen to represént nearly 1,000 | family is being re-housed' la tinued progress among the dollar dimage-Neuter.
fiat-dwellers In the town, the normal way, and we will apokerman said.
not submit to mób rule,” "LITTLE ROCK
The Pakistani Workers' As The chairman of the com-toelátion dated a statement, mittee,, Mr. Norman Hüper, who here tonight' ii' which they: ocen lives next door to the flat bared the position will ALLIG The Hawailan land quivered allocated to the Mohammeds, dek, Sharpville Notung Hol today under two fairly strong fald that tomorrow deputa scene of London rach pedia
tion would ask the council to sofbances in August 1908) and
the tragedies revemládí (itsthan || earthquakes.
No victims or damage were reverse its decision. "reported—AFP,
There is no personal objec-, Eschenkumas LIJA) KATERET.
young people, we are told, EARTHQUAKES |
now love war stories, war Alms, and war songs. Like war Staalf, they were all feared and hated a decade ago. The hors of the battle field is common property,
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