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RIDING THE

TIGER

FR Lee Kuan Yew, Prine i

Minister of Singapore,

How knows what it means

to ride a tiger.

in speaking to his people over the radio, and excumming hist government for itx failure to get much done, und in-

cidentally apologising for the politicni divisions in Singapore, he hus started to beat out the old tune,... the British.

For, says Mr Lee, trying to get himself off the Com-

munist hoolt, hia party worked with the Coni munists because they had one common aim....to get rid of the British.

SHOTS EXCHANGED IN BERLIN

Refugee killed

SALUTE FOR A SUCCESSFUL DICTATOR

"

in leap

for freedom

Berlin, Oct. 4. Communist and West Berlin police fired on each other tonight across the divided city's border. It was the first known exchange of shots across the border in the current Berlin crisis.

One Communist policeman was carried away dead or wounded after some 40 shots were traded, West Berlin police said.

At this stage, it might be as

well to ask why people of when

The affray was touched off West German border guards

two

fried refugees

tout Huenfeld, said they saw East escape the Communist zone by German polles moving house- hold gods from houses near the border today and taking people away in cars.

Mr Lee's background caning across rooftops of houses talk Buch drivel. It goes fronting Berlin's French cooler. well with the crowd, of

One of them was killed when course, but when Britain has he broke free from Cumi- not only declared its inten-munist policeman, leaped and East German police sealed off the operation tion of granting political missed a safely net being held the area during freedom to a former subject for him by West Berlin fremen, and barbed wire along the bor

reinforced.-UPI & refugee was der arrested and led back by Com-Reuter. munists into the Red zone, West Berlin police said.

people, and given concrete expression to that declara

tion, "getting rid of" seems scarcely an apt phrase.

On the fat

XHATEVER way Mr Lee

The

Second

WDS

SSYRIAN

East Berlin police opened fire with rites on the Bernauerstrasse where a crowd of about 500 West

the two would-be serponbled over

police

refugees the rooftops

way most free people see it. For instance...a business pursued by three East Berlin man columnist for the Japan Times said two days West Derlin police Bred back ago: "Singapore is still with pistols. living on the fat it accumu inted while it was Britlah

and has since done little that is constructive about the future." The writer continued, to say that Singapore chose to quarrel childishly with the West and then pro- ceeded to frighten European businessmon away, raised taxes, embarked on poorly thought out social schemes and otherwise discouraged economic development. The writer adds, there is little about Singapore at the moment to justify its existence.

Obvious

LEAVING that where it is

for the moment, it is necessary to say that it is

In the light of powerful flash- ghts the crowd saw 22-year-old

Bernd Luenser standing on the edge of the rout yelling: "Help, help me, I want to jump."

above the

REVOLT BORN

ABOUT A YEAR

AGO

Damascus, Oct. 4.

Two senior Syrian military officers said in Damascus today that last week's revolutionary movement against the union with Egypt was decided on about a year ago by groups of officers throughout the Army.

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As West Berlin Bremen rati Up with a net, on East Berlin: policeran grubbed Luenser. They struggled for a moment high

But it had its inception a year street, en

quest for meeting of the Kuwall told representatives of Chamber of Commerce, after the merger with Egypt in League political committee to the But he missed the act and 1959, they told a

Agriculture and industry that press con- discuss Syria. was killed instantly. An un ference.

A League spoltesman told re- the new regime plans to estab- canny silence feil

"One on boili

year was lost in Just porters that the Foreign Minis- lish a "government of the people sides of the border.

talking", they added.

for the people during the next iry and Syrian events were an Internal

two or three months." internal question.

Laienser jumped.

Pulled back

Luenser's companion WES dragged away by the East Ber- in police. One the police was seen being dragged back by two of his comrades, and the West German news agency DPA suld he might have been hit by a bullet.

The duty police officer, asked whether this was the first time West Berlin police had fred

The two Brigadiers, who re- fused to give their names, sald 25 peuple were killed In the re- volution. Casualties on both sides did not exceed 100 killed

and wounded.

In Cairo,

Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry spokesman teld the Arab League that the UAR would not accept Tunisia's re-

The station

Generalissimo Francisco Franco (centre, backgTORNÉ) takes the salute from # balcony in the provinclai capital of Burgos, Spain, on October 1, at a military parade marking the 25th anniversary of his rule as Spanish Chief of State... It was in this same city that Franco was named Chief of State October 1, 1935, mi the successful conclusion of the Spanish Civil War, Associated Press photo.

Reds' mass

walk-out

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TWO SAILORS

ADMIT SPYING

FOR HOLLAND AND THE U.S.

Kiev, Oct. 4. --

Two Dutch sailors told a military tribunal here today that they had looked for rocket bases and military establishments during a “spy tour" of the Soviet Union earlier this year.

The men, Evert Reidon, 30, stilp's engineer, and navigator Lou de Joger, 25, were arrested lost August on the Soviel-Czech border, after a

month's car tour of Russia.

Portholes

The court was presided over by Major-General P. 1. Arki- movi, the judge who last month American stu-

Mokinen,

sentenced the

dent Marvin right years' imprisonment similar charges.

to

on

Reidon told the court he had been given spying assignments in Amsterdam by Dutchmen, and alau by an American.

He said he had taken photo- graphs of Soviet warships his through, the portholes of ship while docked at Soviet ports and the Polish, port of Danzig.

Lou de Jager said he had taken pictures of warships in Shanghai harbour while visiting China.

Death

RADIOACTIVITY

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Bome, Oct. 4. Radioactivity made "noticeable" increase over Italy between September 21 and 27, although it presented no, danger to health, the National Com- mittee for Nuclear Energy said tonight.

The greatest increase wa registered at the Adriatic Sea port of Brindisi where readings of 31_micro-curles

per cabla metre were re- corded on September 20——— greater than in the peak nunlear testing periods of 1958-59---Router."

EAGLE SMASHES INTO PLANE

London, Oak. 4.

A giant cale smashed into tha wing of Soviet Ilyushin 14 He told the judge he con-

plano as it was crossing sidered himself guilty, but mountain range in Kazakhstan,

southern would never spy again if he

Russi Moscow Radio reported today. got home. Earlier he said he would

not have spied in

The Radio which did not say United Nations, Oct. 4.

ho belloyed when Amerien, because

the incident there

occurred, Soviet delegation led a

was greater freedom sold the piano made an emer mass walkout of Communist | there, bloc states in the UN General

The

gency landing with the bird embedded in the wing-Reuter.

STORM TILDA ·

Assembly today when the Both Reidon and de Jager He said that the Government Chinese Nationalist delegates said they had been ples, for In Alexandria, a boat-lood of

would hold

went to the rostram to speak. the Dutch a general election

Intelligence service doctors, cagineers, Egyptian

this

for long periods." They faco two-three

month after teachers und army officers'

This was in line with their a possible death sentence with perled instead of waiting the wives arrived from Syrta. An

usual practice.

alternatives of from seven to 15 months previously na- accountant told reporters that four

At 7 am Tropical Store Tilda "demonstrations

quoted almost nounced. are

The Soviet Union contests the years Imprisonment.

was.centred about 40 miles west the northern him as saying that the privileges right of the Chinese Nationalists continuous" In

They were questioned in open of Shanghai and was # town of Aleppo.

of labour unions would

moving be to be seated in the UN and court for five hours today, bo- north-northwest limited by giving them a 25 per customarily colle

at 10 knots, Nationalist fore the judge ordered a secret the Royal Observatory. cent share of profits,

delegates "men who represent session--Reuter. In a In Beirut, the Lebanese Com→

Inter broadcast,

themselves" - munist daily, An Nida, said the Kuwatli was quoted as saying Reuter. outlawed Syrian Communist that the new regime WAR determined to "erase ali traces Damascus Radio, monitored of President Nasser's tyrannical

Cut down

back at East Berlin, People's CHAIRMAN WILSON Parly supported the coup.. the policy of The UK Police, anid: "As far as I Government to grant know, yes,"

al-

110 one

but

Blackpool, Cel. 4 In Amman, continued to urge and terroristic regime from CONTENDER maximum power and policy; Meanwhile, Two uniformed Mr Harold Wilson, 45-year- the Egyptian people to rid | Syria." to her former peoples when East German guards tonightold "Shadow" Chancellor of the themselves of President Nasser Al-Kuwatii sald that the they are politically adult threw away their weapons and Exchequer, Lenight became and his "dictatorship and hand- country, under Nasser's tuler.

climbed over the border wall chairman of the British Labour cuffs." enough to use it.

inle West Berlin where they Party for the coming year. But nothing is more ob- asked for political asylum, West Mr Wilson, who was vice-

vious than that Singa Burlin' police sald,

chairman of the Party, succeeds pore's violent outbreak of

Mr Richard Crosaman, MP. xenophobia is nothing more thun cutting off her nose to spite her face. The problem is no longer

But an East German woman! who tried to scale the barbed wire fence at another point was pulled back by East Germon policeman and led away.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for Britain's, but it is Malaya's, the Federal Ministry of ali and as this paper pointed German said in Born today

out three yearn ago, that East Germany is stepping

nothing le more obvious up the deportation of police than that Singapore would opposing the regime from areas tke federation with close to the entire 050-mile Malaya.

Sensible

EOGRAPHICALLY, such Twould Reem a sennible

arrangement, but politically,! it would be disastrous for Malaya,

Mr

border with West Germany.

He sald these measures, which started about 10 days ago, were first observed on the southern stretch of the frontier bordering Davarla.

Moving goods

But in the past few days deportations had begun tr central and northern areas. Les s In trouble There was no sign that the with the Communist Party, vllingen. They were conaned to deportationa were of whole and should Malaya Ict in people rekarded by the East Gor- Singapore, nothing is more URS certain

"unreliable," the those apokesman declared. agitators would complain of Long-distanea lorry drivers treatment and invite la reaching West Berlin today fold their fellow nationals to free police they had seen signs of them from political din-large-scale deportations yestor- crimination,

day near Boizenburg,, n north German town on the River Bibe,

than that

That is the tale, and that is

the pattern.

Forunately, Malaya is well in formed on this, were she not, we should soo the tall, Singapore, wagging the dog, Malaya.

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They old long columna of wand from the area loaded with foriles were soon driving east- furniture and household goods. Xerds of shoop and goats wore being driven in tho kamio direction...

Mr Wlison was eiceled chair man at the first meeting of the new National Executive of the Party-cuter.

never-goes, medzi

an infer bottle!

United Nations, Oct. 4. employed 5,000 secret service U Thant, Resident Represen~ Meanwhile, in Damascus, the | agents in Syria at a cost of one talve of Burma,

tonight million Syrian pounds a year, emerged as a strong contender new Syrian Government today cut down is expected period of the station sald.

for the office of acting Secre Interlin rulu and promised

It quoted al-Kuwaili as pay-tary-Generol as hopes rose in labour unions 25 per cent ing that the sole job of these diplomatic quarters

that ho share in profits,

agents was "to terrorise Syrians would be acceptable to both that and spy on them."-Router & the

Union Badlo Damascus zald

Soviet

and the Interior Minister Adnan al- UPI.

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