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Communist guards throw grenades at sightseers TEAR GAS BATTLE IN BERLIN

West German European woman hurt

police retaliate

Berlin, Oct. 29.

mittal. But there has been East and West Borlin police this afternoon

a connitlerable amount of speculation, rumours, hear;

any reports and imagin tive Retion, published in local

newspapers which probably continue until

one of two things happen: the laying of for raal charges against one or more of those detained, or

further statement from Government announcing the end of investigations.

few newspapers have published only what they believe to be true and have done their best to check, through private sources, instead of titilinting their renters with spicy Kossip culled from the keyholes of the rank-and-file constabu lary and the army of! dubleus Informants who claim to be "in the know.” THE China Mail has been

I told a variety of stories!

with which it could regail Its readers daily. Some are i contradictory-though they

Most

But

threw tear gas grenades at each other at the French sector border with East Berlin, West Berlin police said.

EX-

They saic Enst Germans, ing between West Germany and threw four tear gas grenades at isolated Berlin.

West Berlin The incidents indicated group of

tremely cautious sparring to up- hold political positions white volding possibly explosive- in- cidents.

sightseers.

West Berlin pollee, in turn, buried seven tear gas grenades over line well.

At two other points along the American sector, border Com munist police lay threw tear as grenudes at West Berliners friends woving to relatives or in East Berlin

Interference

with US ears

150-

on the autobahn between lated West Berlin and West Germany aroused fively specul- ation over renewed assertion of

for Fast Meanwhile, the Allies probed Sovice responsibility at Berlin's rector border today the West had gained a point in Germany. It seemed possible and

In East Germany forces halled U.S. ears operats insistence that East Germany

Soviet

BLACKOUT

HITS CITY BUILDINGS

Contral Building today at noon stopped six lifts and four escalators and black- ed out offices and shops.

stili was a zone of postwar military occupation.

A US Army spokesman sald two ears, described as "asslat- ance vehicles," were stopped by a Soviet ofleer at the Babelszer

The checkpoint outside Berlin, Soviet Gilleer was quoted as saying the vehicles were un- necessary because the Russians already controlled the super- highway.

Incidents

The meldents took place be- fore noon and in the early after- noon, and later, a S. spokes- man said, a third U.S. car pass-

out difeulty.

An attendant on the grounded the Soviet checkpoint with- our told a China Mail reporter that no one was trapped in the

all purport to come from A power failure which hit the highest sources. defy the mout diligent at- tempts to check them. In the absence of any in telligent offelal information these stories are circulating either by printed word or character or by word of mouth and are gaining It was later learnt that the growing credence among China Building on the opposite the many who will believe corner, was niso blacked cut

The cause of the power failure almost anything they hear This is a dangerous state of is not known.

t

Fine points of interpretation' are involved in the incidents. The Russians have always ob- sected to regular U.S. patrols in the 110-mlie autobahn route to Berlin. The dispite nared originally in 1952-53, when 5(1~ Shups, offices and a restaurant | called

"courtesy US Army affairs. Newspapers cannot

used candles

hurricane patrols" and

Sovlet come under Yet Govern- be muzzled.

lans to illuminate their pre- criticism. The patrols were dis- ment's extraordinary re- mises.

continued, presumably in line ticence gives the gossipura'j

with an agreement" still un- and

rumour-mongers vir-

published, tually free rein. And speculation is bound

the continue as long as slightest grounds remain.

If anyone is to blame for

this alluation, it is Govern-

ment for being unneces-

Train crash

kills 19

sarily cagey and unnatural- Nineteen persoun

ly tight-lipped.

YE will possibly be told

W that investigations are

offleinily

Bald.

New Delhi, Oct. 20.

killed were and 52 injured when a pas senger train left the ralis fa- day near Farukhabad, about 200 miles east of New Delhi, continuing und until they

an Indian Railway spokesman are brought to a conclusion

The dead included 15 anything

Hid might compromise their Ceylonese Buddhist monks who outcome. But that is not an his: shrines in India.

were on a pilgrimage to Budd- excuse for official silence. This was the second serious Nor is the plan valid that occident un indian railways in any official statement may nine days. Fifty-two person be in contempt of possible died when AM express train court proceedings. There jumped the rails 125 miles from secras to be no reason at all Calcutta on October 29,-Reu- why the public cannot be ter

given an intelligent outline of the progress of investi gations, the number and identities of those do- tained, even if at this stage they cannot be named, and the deportations or formal |· court charges if and when

they are made.

It la doubtful whether any

factual information, of this

the

Under that agréement, the Soviet Army admitted respon- ribility for security on highway between West Ger- many and West Berlin.

Llitle

heard of the agreement until recently. In August this

when yrar.

the Communists built 1

woll through Berlin to cage in the East sector, the U.S."Army In- creased trips of what it now cully "military Assistance vehicles."-AP &. Reuter.

Hussein's brother

A

in Bowen-road crash

A graphic picture of the damaged convertible shortly after the accident.

China Mail

Pantographer.

the

European woman was injured when the white convertible in which

she was travelling to town, crashed against a stone wall on bridge over the Peak Tram rails at Bowen-road this morning.

KOWLOON

FIRE RAZES...........

SHOP

Firemen fought a blazo for more than two hours early this morning at No. 108 Portland-street, Kaw- loon, before extinguishing It at 5 an

The

ground floor and cockloft were severely damared It was learned that the premiNER wero occupied by a shop dealing

materials for shoe-

making.

A large quantity of rub- ber sheeting and rubber solution were found on the premises.

There were no casualties. Six Are engines and two ambulanges were rushed to the scene skortly after the fire broke out at 2.50 MI,

TYPHOON CLARA

The car, No. 7638, is owned by Mr N. E, Clark, Adviser to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- Ing Corporation,

Queen Mary Hospital and the police re- spokesman

the name of fused, to disclose the driver to the press

EYE-WITNESS

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U.S. EXPLODE NUCLEAR DEVICE

Washington, Oct. 29.

The United States today set off another nuclear device in Nevada. It was deto- nated underground where fallout was contained.

It was the fourth US. lest announced since the U.S. re- sumed testing on September 15. two weeks after the Russsions began nuclear experiments again.

The Atomic Energy Commis- sion sald today's test was of Ira yleld, presumably meaning that its force was measured in thousands of tons of TNT.

Chambers

All the US. explosions have been. set oft in underground chambers at the AEC's Nevada testing

ground. Radioactivity from Buch detonations is smothered under tons of rock and earth.

A MODERN

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OF ASSISI' ACQUITTED

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New York, Oct. 29. A millionairo charged with maintaining o gathering place for drug addicts ***was acquitted ・ yesterday after his lawyer described him as

a modern Francis of Assisi,

S. Cram, Mr John was set off in the atmosphera

American who holds degreea from Princeton and Oxford over the Arctic last Monday.

Universities, was arrested-in known It was the biggest

buliding in Harlem, New York's man-made. explosion in history,

as he was dis- negro section, Soviet Premier

Mr. Nikita tributing sandwiches to about 20 Kruschev has sald would conclude its currant test be narcotics users.

the USSR men, some of them alleged to

Russia has cet off 25 nuclear "On nearing the Junction of blasts since resuming testing. Bowen-road, she swerved to 24 in the air and one under- the left and her car hit the water, end of a grandio wall” on the

The biggest detonation of the . bridge over the Peak

current Soviet series-p device ralls in Bowen-road.

estimated to have the force of The woman was sent by tm-30 to 50 million tons of of TNT bulance to Queen Mary Hospital where her condition was report An eye-witness... told theed to be “fali."*" China Mail

that

The front of the car Was travelling down, Magazine Gap- smashed in, the steering wheel, road behind a car driven by a bent forward, and the car doors European woman, at about 8.10 telescoped backward. The back am, when "she appeared to be scats inside the car were turned

upside down from the Impact. unable to stop the car."

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PRINCESS ON HER WAY TO THE COLONY

London, Oct. 29.

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Princess Alexandra of Kent left London Airport tonight on a 30,000-mile tour during which she will visit Hongkong, Japan,, Thailand, Burma ・ and Aden.

Princess Marina, her mother, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Prince Michael, druve with the Princess to the airport. The Tokyo, Oct. 30.

Princess was met by a reception Typhoon Clara was spotted party of over 30 people. coday 270 miles ecutheast of

Lord Hastings,

Lurd-in- Marcus Island, moving west Walling, was there to see her London, Oel.. 20.

northwest at 17 miles per hour. depart on behalf of the Queen, The brother of Jordan's King The Joint typhoon warning Also present was the Earl of Hussein, 21-year-old Crown centre at Guam predicted that Perth, Minister of State for Prince Mohammed Talal, arrived |the typhoon, with 75 miles-per- Colonial Affairs, the Canadian at London Airport tonight, hour centre winds, would be 120 High Commissioner to London,

He was met by the Jordanian miles west of Marcus island to- | Mr George Drew, and Ambassador,-UPI.

morrow morning-AP.

Burmese That, Japanese · and Ambassadors.

Albanians compare Mr K

to

John Foster Dulles

Vienna, Oct. 29.

klud would in any way Albanian worker groups have accused Soviet Premier Mr Nikita Krug-

hamper the investigators.

Thass

not already

prehended know both from

Government's

-

Initial An.

nouncement and follow-up newspaper stories that the

heat is on. The more-Im-

portant consideration

chev, of being a "plotter" and have compared him with the late U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the Albanian news ATA said today..

ATA said the telegrams denounced the Soviet leader as a plotter who

seeks to overthrow the legitimate Albanian leadership.

public confidence which in A telegram from a clothing being undermined by apec- co-operative sold in part: "His lation and rumour, and (Kruschev's) speech recalls to which would be restored by; occasional

the Christmas messages which the U.S. Presidents issuo announcements from the White House arid in on the progress of the which, while shedding crocodila inquiries. The public would tears about the destiny of the be more likely to discount Albanian peoples, call to over- the tenshop tittle-tatile, and throw the peoples' power, look for the Inciual truth | from Government,

Accused

"Mr Krusehey will be as matela Tin not too late to start successful an Dulles and his ne

I undo the damage that complites.

Another telegram replied to

han boon donio. We urge Krunchev's npeech on Friday 11 Government to make as full which he accused the Albaniant a statement na possible, an) of taking money like Judns from soon as possible.

the "Imperialisis.”—UFI.

DULLES

KRÚSCHEV

the

1ST STOP Princess Alexandro's first stop -fortefuelling-ts Montreal. She will spend two nights in Vancouver before flying on to Hongkong, via Honolulu Wake Island.

and

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA

slon,

series tomorrow or on Tuesday detoration with a 50-megaton

despite a "solemn appeal" from the U.N. General Assembly not to go through with the explo- Here is the text of the AEC announcement on today's test: "The AEC announced today that a nuclear test of low yield was conducted underground to day at the Commission's Nevada test alte."-UPI.

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Police said Mr Cram illegally possessed hypodermic needles, but his doctor testified that the millionaire bad an adrenal gland allmont and used them only for his own injections,

He had no way of knowing whether the men he helped were addicts he said, but would not have lurned them away if they were--Router.

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Princess Alexandra's visit to Japan will last from November She is due to arrive at Hong-14 to November 22,

She fu to kong on Friday. She will stay;

be received with the Governor, Sir Robert Empror Hirulito and Empress Black, and Lady Black, at Nagaku, and from November 17 Government House.

te November 10 will visit the Kansal ciistrict Jn During her nine-day visit to historical the Colony, she will be enter-western Japan. fained to dinner

-the by

Later she is, to stay with the of Thailand, Chinese community and will re- King and Queen celve an honorary degree of and will go on to Burma und Doctor of Law at Hongkong Aden, returning to London about University.

December 11.-Reuter,

Please stop the bombs, Mr K'

London, Ool. 20,

A 12-year-old Banbury schoolboy has sent a letter to the Borlot

Prime Minister, Mr Niklia Kraschev,

Richard Mellor wrote the letter on school exercise paper, and

got his fencher to correct the apeliing.

It sakt: "Dear Mr Krushev, would you please atop the making of muclear bombs? The reason being because many lives are in danger with these bombs,

"There is nothing to be gained by another war, I am only 12, I do not know what war is like and I do not want to know ellier.

"So please, Mr Kruchey, it is up to you."

Richard's teacher wald he was a typically English schoolboy

"mischievous, but most honest,Router.

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