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THE WEATHER
Light variabla winds becoming Sly. Cloudy with occasional showan. A few bright periods this afternoon and evening, At 1 pm at the Observatory the temp was 83 dogroms
and the relative humid 84 per cent.
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Announcement of restrictions on travel
of the E. GERMANY TO CLAMP DOWN
day
BERLIN CRISIS
T1
E Western Notes to
lusia inve said what
and to be said on the ques- tions of まぁ German settle- ment and of Berlin.
They agree with Russia that a settlement is overdue. They emphasise that it can be achieved only by negotin- tion.
There
remind Russia of their own attempts at negotiation
Alleged polio epidemic blamed
Berlin, July 31.
and of their proposals of The Communist East German Government
1959.
They deny that the lack of a
treaty in itself endangers pence: pence can be endan gered only if Russia at- Lempts
unilaterally
illegally by signing treaty with Enst Germany: --to imprise 11 accompli
fait warn that the Soviet that this
would
Setion
decompili
deprive them of their rights to re main in West Berlin or to k it is have free seress ful They
warn that any Soviet altempt to act upon that would assertion
lend 16 "dangerous" and "mfores svenfile" consequences,
A
LL this has been said with admirable animity. The Western Notes: though reiterating the West's de
for German self- determination as a fumla- mental condition of a stable settlement, are concerned with the present primarily deadlock. That deadlock, despite Rus- aian cunt about "peace," is over the terms of an in- terim agreement or modu vivendi to enaure Viver neither
that West
Bant nut gains new advantages. is Mr Khrushchev's plan to aeizu such advantages now that threatens the pence of
Entupe. The Western Notes logically and lucidly expose that plan in all its dishonesty.
It is for Mr Khrushchev new
announced tonight that undisclosed restrictions on travel between East and West Germany would be imposed to combat the alleged spread of polio.
Thu announcement by the East Gemman Health Ministry did not say when the restrictions would be put into effec!.
The announcement confined itself to stating that the Travel restriction write be part' into effect
Restrictions
Con-
East
Most alserver kere sidered the move an attempl to halt the ever-increasing
from low of refugeek Germany into West Berlin. The East
Health German
that the travel
Mistry sald
| restrictions would protect the citizens of East Germany from pollo infection. The anntance ment said that the disease was
¦
being spread from West to East Germany,
I was not immediately clear whether the restrictions would affect the vital traite to Berlin) from West Germany.
IL was expected that the Interior Ministry soon would an- BRAINCO details ut the now
| restrictions.
officials
Western
denied there was a pollo epidemic In West Germany and that travel between the two parts of Ger- many was carrying the disease: to the Soviet zone.
They sakd
Communist i the statement Was 3 transparent attempt to justify a travel ban
that would keep East Germans trout going West.-UPI.
PARIS
TUNISIAN
Mass riots in Teheran
POLICE DETAIN
CADETS
Paris, July 31.
French police at Paris Orly Airfield intervened at the last moment today to prevent the departure of 69 Tunisian officer cadets for Tunis.
Guvernment sources said the,
con-
In addition to holding the found at UNESCO could exist at to decide whether and how fast-minute cancellation of the cadets, the police detained the the United Nations Astumbly he will implement it. No cadels Right back to Tunis was special Tunis-Air
DC-4 plane itself. Western protests, by them-aken CA Interior Ministry
toy the main which, was selves, are likely to deter orders,
party of 65 to Tunis. kim from signing his legal treaty with East Two clear advantages
The
The cadets were returning to Tunis alter attending courses at} French military schools accrue to him immediately.
main group vf 65 was accuit)- One would be a de facto panted to the airport by a situation in which the West French Army explain. A second would have continuing diff group of four were set to leave culty in dealing with Eastbourd a commerein airliner, Germany without appearing
to "recognise it.
THE second would be that Paratroopers T East Germany, freed from
the international
agree-
ments un! Berlin which hamper Russia, would be better able to deal with West Berlin as an esenpe hatch and a symbol of West German prosperity The West's thetics in this situation necessarily must walt upon Russian moves. What it can do immediately to deter Mr Khrushchev is to from planning to push his advantage tou far. The Western need now is to marshal the conventional arma strength which will convince him that it can reapond to this kind of challenge without having to commit nuclear suicide.
Paris, July 31. French authorities can. firmed today that three French marine paratroopers reported missing yesterday In the Casbah of Blzeria, were still abscht from their unite.
The repari said Tunisian police arrested the paro- troopers when they drove Into the Casbah after taking a wrong turning.
The authorities said their fate was unknown.-Reuler.
Paris, Mr Meanwhile, in Adlal Stevenson, chief United States delegate to the United Nations, today disclosed that
days for several
he has role in seeking played a sciution
The to
Franco- Tunisian erials Over Bizerta naval base.
At a press conference during; a visit to UNESCO headquarters here, he told a questioner.
Involved
" have been involved in dis cussions with the French Foreign Minister, Mr Maurice Couve de Murville, and thei State Department in Washing tun for the past several days. But am not at liberty to say 4. this anything about their stare.
Mr Stevenson added: "I will, juswever, repeat what I saiči after seeing General de Gaulle list Friday-that I am still hope- ful it will be possible to find
"In the politest areno flets pervade and there are many unhappy divisions," he said, adding that there should ba constant struggle to im- prove this situation-Reuter.
The Persian Government declared a state of alert and banned the anti- government National Front from holding a mass rally.
But thousands demonstrated.
USSR TO SEND 2nd MAN INTO SPACE?
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Moscow, Aug. 1. Tho Savior Union may be preparing to Fend second COS- monaut Into orbit around the earth soma- time this month, ac- cording to persistent currently cir- culating here.
rumours
The rumours, strong- ly reminiscent of the leaks boforo Major Yuri Gagarin's historic space Hight fast April, sup- pliod the following details about the possi- ble second
cosmonaut.
WINDS OF IDA AND HELEN BATTER S. JAPAN
Tokyo, Aug. 1. Fringe winds of two pawer-
ful tropical storms botter- od the islands and coastal
of southern Japani today, causing widespread flooding.
Groan
Police reported one person illed, three injured and almost 3,000 houses flooded. It was the second serlous flooding experi- enced In some of the arenu within a month.
At least 14 other deaths were to the attributed indirectly Soviet
BiermaHelen and Ida. Police sald 14 persons were drowned and a dozen others were miss- ing on Sunday at beaches be- cause of rough waters whipped up by the storma,
He would be one of the team of cosmonauts in special training since spring 1960. He would circle the world severat times five to 17 instead of just onco before returning to carth in 疆 capsule similar or ovon identical to Gogurin's "Yostov,"
AFP.
Water problem
in Teheran, splitting into on
little mobs and ranging through the city, shouting "Long live Mossadog"- the 79-year-old symbol of the party.
National Front-leaders had been picked up and jail- ed, but the demonstra- tors,
HK island
Residents in the North Point, Causeway Bay and
Happy Valley districts have been plagued by an irregular water supply over the last four days.
Many have complained to the defying tonks, China Mail that the supply has cavalry, armoured cors, varled from a weak flow to a machine guns and police trickle, and there were times with drawn batons, kept when the taps were completely up their protests all day, dry. Picture shows palico, with
The manager of Winner House drawn botons, seizing a said
the this morning that National Front demons- shortage posed a serious problem trotor.-AP Photo.
for the North Point hotel. "Our top floors were particularly hard hit by the week pressure of the water supply."
RELUCTANT PEER'S SUCCESSOR
TAKES HIS SEAT IN COMMONS
Londen, July 31.
A resident of Causeway Bay complained that in the last two days he has had either no supply at all or "a very late supply in the mornings."
Another realdent, Hving In mulli-storeyed apartment blocks
д
off King's-road experienced short supply bath in the mora-
few days.
22 HURT IN BUS CRASH
Latest reports from the U.S. Joint typhoun warning centre on Guam, Issued through the U.S. Air Force Weather Centre at Fuchu alr slation, near here, Indicated that both storms
diminishing In force-
were
UPI.
Charged with
aiding in jail break
London, July 31.
Ronald Alan Joal, 27-your-
old
car dealer, was" ro- manded in custody here today charged with aiding the escape of 10 prisoners from London's Wand- sworth Jail on June 24. Of the 10 long-sentence pri- soners who fled from the ja, only four have since been re- raptured. One was caught on the day of the escape after he had broken his leg.
Bradford, July 31. A coach, a double-decker bus,
and a car piled up here today, The charge against Jeal today alleged that he alded the men's Injuring 22 people, About 20 of the injured were escape "knowing that they were reported to be girls un their all convicted persons serving way from Doncaster to their centences for felony." work at a Bradford factory.
detective alleged in court At least three
were today that a car owned by Jeal people detained in hospital, Including was used in the escape. Joni the driver of the coach, who said: "The car has never been had suspected fractures of both in my name yet"-China Mail
Special, legs.-Chinn Mail Special
Bandits slaughter 12 adults,
Bogota, Aug. 1.
Many opposition Labour Members of Parliament pointedly walked out of the House of Commons chombor today as Mr Malcolm St Clair, Conservative, took the sear of Labour's Mr Anthony Wedgwood Bonn, transferred by Law to tho, House of Lords.
"We had water, from 6 am to week of
that he was u peer 7.45 3m and in the evening, the j and member
dressed as soldiers, of the House supply was cut off at 8.45 pm," of Lords and therefore could not sit in the House of Com-he said.
Ings and evenings for the last Fiftoon persons, three of them children, ware killed yostorday at Colombia, by
WITH
mons.
It ruled that the detested can
didate, Mr St Clair, the
should replace him--Reuter.
Earlier to opposition shouts
"shume" und "glurious demo- cracy" the Government noved motion that the official re- cord should be altered tv show that Mr St Clair and not Mr Wedgwood Benn House of Cammons Member for Bristol South-east. The motion was carried by 235 votes to 148 Government ed through the regular customs and take the first steps, at a and police control unchallenged very
majority of 90. early date, towards
other- satisfactory Mr Wedgwood Benn, of a and barded the planes which evolution
this them to Tunis, settlement of
wise Lord Stansgate - and were to By
unhappy
known 04 the "Reluctant Then, at the very last moment, conflict,"
Peer" was elected member neting
In reply to
for the orders-stopped
a question, Mr
Bristol constituency xi to:
by a big majorily, but the very Baty" that the harmony | election court decided
All 60 of the Tunising pass-
If he knows that orders
נזון
will respond with conven-fresh tional arms if necessary, he hold up the planes and to 'Stevenson said it does not seem will be as eircumspeet as if load the endels,
nuclear arms were involved
-because be mest also know that there is no cer- tainty that a conventional war will not explode inte a auclear war.
It is at this stage of caution in the war of nerves which now appeara inevitable that the West, recognising Runnin's right to bave Eant Germann act as its "agents" Un the routes to Went Berlin, might be able th seek the new guarantees, which it has long needed for the elty and its righta
there. The necessary preliminary to that initiative in to put Western defences in Europe { on an Яounder fooling.
Ring of police
around Rabaul
Rabaul, July 31.
last
Native police armed with botons ringed this Now Britain town tonight after violent
wockend riots in which two people worn killed and several hundreds injured.
Superintendent Brian Holloway, who arrived with the police Fruen P'urt Moresby, New Gulien, six] et ; The town ja completely covered. We will be ready for anything should fresh rloting break but."
The trouble began on Saturday when inter-tribal Oghting broke out. 1 continued yez- terday when A group of Toini natives who anarched on Rabaul were met by about
3,000 town natives-in war- paint and carrying poura, bow and arrows, slings and rocks.
They were kept apart by police roadblocks and two fire engines which turned Jets of water on them, Polles, mone with blood streaming down their taces, folight desperately to keep them under control.
carrying Itadlo?quippet - ears
European offlcera and native
police continuod their patroja of the town today and tuto the night.
Sir Donald Cleiand, Administra
for Papua and New Guinen, arrived In Rabaul today from Port Moresby to see the silta- Hon. He naid he did not ex- pect any further trouble "in the next few days,"
(New Britain fe adeninistered by
Australin under
United Nations, trusletstily)—Houter.
The official hours of water supply for the whole Colony at present are from 8 am to hooa and from 4 pm to 10 pm dally,
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three children
Aguila, Colombia has been plagued by bandits
The victims were shot and dia- merabered by machetes. The bandits
escaped
pollee chase. The Incident occurred in Valie Province in the south constal mountains.
violence es an inheritance of a decade of undeclared civil war that ended with a poli- tical truce three years ago. Dandits still operate in cutlying regions, most of them youths who were themselves victims of violence and living on oullaws.---AP,
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