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Communist police break up crowd at border

E. BERLIN TEAR GAS ATTACK Listening to a SPL-A-ASH!...And they run for it news broadcast

on other side

WHEN the United King on

dum

negutlated the.

US$6,000 million American

loan in 1945, Imperial Pros

Berlin, Aug. 21.

forenes came to a stand- East Berlin police used tear gas and smoke

#till. That was a condition of the loun

No new or increased prefer- ences were possible. And Britain undertook to dia- cuss with the Americans the complete elimination of Imperial Preference."

Under the GATT Agreement

of 1947 and later, the value of Imperial Preference was further reduced.

In consequence of these pro-

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bombs to break up a crowd of about 100 people who gathered near the East-West border tonight to hear news read from a loudspeaker van on the West Berlin side.

The van was parked near the l dealer in the West Eerlin dis-i trict of Kreuzberg, and an

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8.50 pm to 9 pm (local time). matheer read the news from

In this time the 100 people Kathered on the East Berlla side.

police said the

West Berlin

the East

gressive surrenders of her crowd dispersed without fur fiscal freedom, Britain's ther incident after trade with the Commun- | Berlin police' used tear gas and wealth has played a declin-sinoke bomba,

ing part in her cuntmerce. Early this year Britain enter

ed a new stage in bondage.

As

a member of the Inter- national Musetary, Fund she nevupted a change in the "club rules,** And now having taken £700 million from the "moneylendera" Britain รักษ Eu accept! limitations on her freedom to develop her own financial polícies.

SH

Mortgage

HE cannot devalue her

She currency.

JUR 510 power to impose qouta re- strictions on her imports, that however necessary might be for the purpose of relieving pressure on her balance of payments. She has not the right to switch from 'n deflationary to an expansionist policy.

In return for her advance of money involving a envy mortgage on the enuntry and a promise of payments which are possibly beyond ber capacity to Curry, Britain bus accepted limita tions on her freedom of action.

It la a heavy price to pay for

a mission dedicated to the cause of the former Empire and the present Common- wealth.

GREED

GOVERNMENT to tackling "Operation Cholera" with commendable speed and the Medical and Health Ser- vices are working overtime.

Organised

The loudspeaker news broad- cast had been organised by the West Berlin city government.

Meanwhile, In Washington. President Kennedy said in a mesange published today that the Communist blon fad "Tuthlessly asalted" tiuman rights and dignity in the Ber- In crials,

the

President Kennedy, earlier. majd after conferring with Vice-President Mr Lyndon Johnson today that the Went would pass through difficult weeks and months in main. taining the freedom of West Berlin "but maintain it will,"

The President fore reporters House to make ment after the had given him port

on his

we

appeared be- In the White

a brief state- Vice-President

a personal re- morale-boosting

flight over the weekend to Bonn and West Berlin.

Successful

sald that the The President "Vice-President's trip had been and im- remarkably successful porunt.

"His report emphasises the conadence and trust which the people of West Berlin have in this country and in is cum- mitments and it places a heavy responsibility on all of us to meet them," the President sald.

"I want to express my thanke to him for this most important service he has rendered to our country."

The President told the later- national Confederation of Free Trade Unions that the munist closure of the East Ber- Com-

Tir border restricting the movement of refugees · Lo West strikingly underlingsd the seriousness of the long struggle "for the protection of freedom. į for human rights, and for the

of utt peoples," principle of self-determination

The President remarked that Mr Kennedy was replying to General Lucius Clay, former messages of "solidarity" in the US. Military Governor in Ger- Berlin crisis from the organisa- many, and Mr Charles Bohlen,

the State inlilion tin

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Department's Soviet Affairs expert, who accompanied workers throughout the world.

made Mr Johrison, were as gratified The State Department public the President's message, over the success of the visit to sent on August 10 to Mr Omer West Germany as he and Mr the Secretary of Becu, General Secretary of the Dean Rusk.

State, were.-Reuter.

ICETU in Brussels.

East German police "open-

fire" from an armoured wator carrier to dis- courago photographers

from

Cholera: Some 1.1 million

too approaching closely to the Branden- burg Gato, on the border between East and West Berlin-London Express Service,

TUC VOTES TO Message received,

EXPEL RED DOMINATED TRADE UNION

London, Aug. 21.

The finance and general purposes committed on the Bri- tish Trades Union Congress tonight voted in favour of the expulsion from the Congress of the Communist- dominated Electrical Trades Union.

AL

at

the

Mr the

two-and-a-half-hour AL the conclusion meeting, the committee pussed n hearing non-Communist resolution asking the TUC's John Byrne executive to place before

was declared the

new generat secretary. annual convention of the Con-

Under the rults governing the gress a motion expelling the

eight-million member TỤC a electricians.

union can be expelled only by a vote of the entire Congress. TUC scures suld tonight that Th. executive is empowered an we suggested the the recommendation to expel only to suspend a union. - other day, in the element the ETU which recently gured Router. against which

in a high court election-rigging arc

case would be put to the TUC

Time,

they

SOURCES

fighting and it is apparent executive an Wednesday. that the necessity to press The ETU and the Ave Com- on at full pressure is all too munist oficials concerned lodg- true. •

ed notice of appeal against the high court judgement curly this month.

Canes are increasing. Yester- day the numbers had jump- ed. but it must be con- auling to the authorities that the pubile in not apathetic in the "call to

arma."

SO THERE!

Fort Dodge, Aug. 21. Chester Evans, 65, had a KNSWOT when a Judge sentenced him to 15

It la deplorable, however, to pessinlate

note that avarles on the days in jail on his 270th charge part of a few seems to of Intoxication.

dominate their lives oven "As long as they'll make it, though ven are in danger. 1'11 drink it," he told the Judge.

And this does nut only

apply to vaccino hoarders,

--UPL

It applies equally to Rome SEVEN DROWN

establishments which are

reluctant to give up their

a few conta ench

Hyderabad, Aug. 21,

A river fortyolat,

plying

Gordon's gin butties worth between vilinges near here with 31 peopls en -boned, and in |midstrenin, drowning geven,⋅ Ac="

We only hope that our appealing to reports reaching here

yesterday will result in a today.

ranli of bottles from the

The remaining 24 people-10

publie who; we trust, are passengers and thus crew of six ndt as mercenary ar péliars, drwanti -shore-<-diarer,

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understood

Merkilan, Miss. Aug. 21.

got Four bootleggers said they

the message and closed up last week after listening to a ser- mon by the Rev J. L. Morgan, who said he feels there should be no more illegal liquor pokk here.

The Minister's message per- haze was made more inspira- tional by the fact that he also serves as Lauderdale's county sheriff-UPI.

JUSTICE SERVED

people

inoculated

The total number of people inoculated against cholera in Hongkong from the beginning of the campaign up to yesterday evening is appro- ximately 1.1 million, said a Government spokesman this afternoon.

of in- Hardworking teams coulators yesterday alone im- mumised come 250,000 people,' he added,

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The statistical position to day was as follows:

Confirmed cases to date, (including four deaths).

Confirmed cases, on danger list, 1.

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are

ensure that all vegetables properly, cooked.

Health Inspeelors this morn- ing began calling at cooked food stalls, incat shops and "lo me!" stalis to worn that all danger ous foods which are exposed for sale without proper protection contamination will be against selzed as from tomorrow.

All food to seized will be destroyed in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1961.

Suspects under observation,

Contacts held in the Chatham- road quarantine centre, 238.

Chinese

press reports this morning sald that vegetables Health inspectors have been from certain parts of the Yuen instructed to selze all dangerous Long district, In the New Ter- foods exposed for sale by un- ritories, are being dipped in Hcensed food hawkers, all "slu disinfectant before they are mat" and "lo met" exposed for

tn the Kowloon sale outside show transported

cases, and D.whoicanle vegetable market.

Los Angeles, Aug. 21. A Judge

assault dismissed charges against James Welsh, 35, "In the interests of Justice."

at

roast meat and all cooked meals A Government spokesman axposed for sale without protec- confirmed these reports but tion against contamination

cooked food stalls. stressed however that only a small proportion of vegetables

Welsh told the court he hk

Members of the public are ad- James E. Soricion, 34, on the head with a board at a drive from the New Territories are vised, in their own interest, to

being dipped in disinfectant and re-cook thoroughly befora con

additional sumption any roast ment or other that, despite this

absolutely meals bought from meat shops) precaution. Ily essential that housewives should' or elsewhere.

in cafe when Singleton incx- plicably reached over and poked klo finger through Welsh's cheeseburger.-UPI.

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SIR WINSTON BREAKS A RULE

· London. Aur. 21. Eighty-seven-year-old Sir, Wins- Lon Churchill broke the safety rules at London Airport today by smoking his in- evitable cigar ou the airport apron.

Bir Winston, on his way, to Monte Carlo for a fortnight's hoilday, paused for a moment at the top of the airport steps, then ficked, tie clsar 15 feet down the ground.

It bounced in a shower of sparks And a press photographer stepped on the smoking stüb. A policeman said afterwards."1 have always kept a. very close eye on Sir Winston's cipura: No! one would dream of telling blm the dangers of smoking.” --Houter,

DOING HIS BIT

Holsopple, Penn, Aug. 21, Magistrato John Gindlesper

ger is doing all in his power to check tho ever-increasing divorce trend.

The Justice of the Peaco

advertises: "Marriages performa-

ed with tight knots-non-break- able."UPI..

Typhoon 780 miles away

At noon Typhoon Lorna was contred about 780 miles cast, southeast of Hongkong and was moving west or west northwest at 7· knots,

A

extends westwards from the Pacific

weak ridge of high pressure No rainfall was recorded at the Royal Observatory, between midnight and midday today.

anticyclone Across

South China,

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