THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1961.
FIRST RECORDING MADE IN
MADE IN EUROPE
'Space needles' transmission
Amateur radio-CHECKPOINT CHARLIE MISSION COMPLETED
operators
claim success
Turin, Oct. 29.
Two amateur radio operators here claimed today to have made the first recording in Europe of a radio transmission from the United States bounced off the ring of tiny copper needles placed in orbit on October 21,
In the past the two "hams," the brothers Achille and Gianbattista Judica-Cordiglia, have fre- quently picked up transmissions from satel- lites in orbit.
Triplets
Atlanta, Ca. Oct. 30. . Triplets, two boys and a girl each weighing about Seven pounds, were born here to a grandmother.
Farly, - yeur - old Mrș Frank Delidie has six other children ranging in age Fron For to 18. Two daughters are married and one has a nine-months-old Non-Reuter.
Greek marble statues. found in Iraq
Bagdad, Oct. 29,
Nine fine marble statues,
some identified as those of Greek gods, were found in Q Greek
temple which
Iraqi archaeologists dis- covered at Hatro in Mosul Provinco, Northern Iraq, Dr Taha Bagir, Director of Genaral Antiquities, announced here,
These third century BC status In Hellenistic style are the drat found in Iraq.
Studica
indicate that the statues belong to the School of Lisbus, official sculptor to the Court of Alexander the Great. established in Antioch Syria, Dr Baqir said.
TO REMAIN
and
The brothers mouneed that they mud. the recording 1418 GMT today. They said they pleked up signals. last night which were also bounced off the needjes
Giving reason for their very tinty, they said the frequencies were too high to be coming from space and the rignals wer! coas Jiletely
from <listenerst
Those coming from artinelal satellites,
Single point
In addition, the signals could the attributed to radio emis- airs Tran space because they come lion
single 1
point, Stands from space would ap parently change direction be-
rotation cise of the
of the arth and
: weakeni for
The same reDZON.
The signals were also subject to fading, which does not nor mally exist On Such
bigh
frequency because waves are not affected by the Jonesphere, they added.
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The brothers said the recep- tion des bad been made with parabolic octagonal radio-
telescope-Reuter,,
RAIL STRIKE
PLANNED
Buenos Aires, Oct. 29. The Argentine Railwaymens | A Union decided to call o countrywide strike start- ing tomorrow after several of their leaders were ar- rested yesterday in skir- mishes with the police.
Trouble began when rali- way workers found workshops closed when reported for work after a 48- hour strike, this strike, which ended on Friday night, was the first in a series planned by the union in suppori uf wage de
The identified statues are of the Greek gods Apollo, Neptune, Eros and Aphrodite. A bronze statue of the god Herver was also found, Besides a life-size mands. statue of a Matra King:
The scene at Checkpoint Charlle at Friedrichstrasse. Bertin, on Oct. 26, showing US Army-licensed private car being escorted by mill- iary police in jeops Inis the Western scotor after a suo- cessful drive through Eant Berlin.
At left and right are U.S. tanke on the alert.-AP photo.
'Sabotage'
fire in Havana
NEWS IN BRIEF
Mongolian stumped U.N. translators
United Nations, Oct. 29.
A language which none of the official translators knew-Mongolian-was used in the United Nations General Assembly for the first time this week.
Professor T. Tseveginid, De- puty Foreign Minister of Outer Mongolia, addressed the Assem - bly a few minutes after his country became the 102nd mc-
Havana, Oct. 29. fire-believed to have ber of the world organisation. beon an act of sabotage
An advance text of the speech almost gutted Havana's in English was provided for the huge five-storey "Palace translators-China Mall Special. of Labour", headquarters of the Cuban Workers Confederation, this morn-
ing, their they
A number of firemen were injured lighting
blaze, the which started at about 4 mm und was brought under control about four hours later.
Castro
The railway management has At dawn this morning Pre- This First Century AD Royal announced it is closing work-mier Fidel Castro and labour statue will remain in the court shops and subsidiary lines 题 lenders surveyed the scene of yard near the Greek templupart of its plans to streamline the fire. One labour leader where it was found, Dr Baqir the Blate-owned rollways. said. China Moll Special,
Reuter.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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4 Take off.
2 13
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7 Her oppositel
9 Dormant.
1 Suffixes,
12 Negative.
13 Meantime.
15 Tigerish?
10 Appeni.
10 Revel.
29 Be a producer.
23 Possessive female.
24 Glant.
25 Fruit for every day.
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Mr Lazaro Penz, on of the founders of the Central Union, said the fire had been an set of rabotage by unionists who had lust the privileges, Another
union leader said it had been he work of North American agents.
Political observers here be- lleved, however, What It could have been starind as a protest against the drawing up of the ringle-candidate lists for the union elections which were now being held throughout the country-AFP,
Sniper hits
U.S. captain
Saigon, Oct. 29.
A Communist sniper shot as American captain in the teg as he led a unit of trainca-Rangers through
Unacceptable
Valleta, Oct. 20. The Malta Labour Party asid tidn lost night that the new constitu- proposed by Britain for the island was unacceptable and unworkable, The Party is de- termined to have the constitu- tion abolished as soon as possi- ble and replaced by one which will recognise of the Maltese people, the Parly
the sovereignty
said.-Router.
Nehru warns
New Delhi, Oct. 20. Mr Nehru said today the situa- ten in the Portuguese Indian possession of Goa
was "deter- iorating" and the Indian Gov. ernment would be "compelled to take some action," according to informed sources here.
The sources said the Indian Prime Minister also told A closed session of the Indian state governors' annual соли ference that his recent state ments that the use of force to "liberate" Gon could not be ruled out did not mean India was going to march in there mediately or in the next few months-Reuter.
203 books banned
Pretoria, Oct, 20. have banned 203 books, includ
The South African authorities Communist - infiltrated Mr Krunchev's "The Inter area northwest of Saigon. mutional Situation And Foreign The bullet was later removed Pelley," and "I Speak Of Free- from the captain's leg and ย dom" by President Kwame spokesman of a United States Nkrumah of Ghana. Other Military Aid And Advisory becks banned include "Adver- Group said the captain was in remmenta For Myself" by The Norman Mailer, "Borstol Doyen Apokerman did not reveal the by Brendan Behan
"Poor No name of the captain who is A More" by Robert Ruark, ond member of the Advisory Group. "The Read To Sharpeville,"
wounded Bernard Sachs,China Mall
1 He may put you in the ple- "excellent"
turel (two words).
2 Haggard heroine.
3 The answer's wrong
4 Jaunty type?
They're experts.
Stupefy.
10 A rum kir
13 Wicked spirit.
14 Tiny?
10 Punch? Correct.
17 Per heal,
10 It has its ins and oula.
21 Penurious colour? 22 Epoch.
SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across) 1 Punts, 5 Nasty, Apt, 10 Image, 11 React, 13 Cot, 13 Ant, 14 Eur, 10 3nd, 10 Ennier, 21 Eldy, 23 Arms, 20 Enigma, 20 Amp, 31 Ace, 32 The,
condition.
The sniper slightly
Vietnamica trainee at the Specful.
time, the spokesman added. --
Reuter
12-HOUR FIRE
New York, Oct. 20,
Monument
Vienna. Oct. 28. A hurb
10 RioRumeni
victims of polltient
A fire moldered for at least hundreds
In
12 hours today la the hold of of Use Nazis, including several Danish freighter tied up at a Britons, will be unveiled Hudson river pier is Mondaitan, Graz, Austria, next Tuesday The blaze was discovered (All Saints Day). A polished
34 AGD, 30 Thiet, 37 Venom, 38 Erc, 30 Weedy, 10 Sided, Down around 1 am in the 6,000-ton granite plilar will bear the in- 1 Parade, 2 Open, 3 Bialed, 4 Siler, Nacre, & Ago, 7 Be',frellite Tilda Dası at pier 23, 11scripilon. in eleven languages; Yord, is Attle, 17 Alm, 10 Arc, 20 am, 22 Dim, 24 Ratted, was still ameldering at 1pm. "Guard freedom and peace.... 20 Sceurd, 27 Nonny, 28 Germs, 30 Anew, 30 Pave, 83 Here, '35 The stalo carried cargo of 350,- we gave our lives for them."- 'Ned.
000 pounds of fish meal,--UPT. | Reuter,
K rejects
Moscow, Oct. 29. Mr Kruschev hös turned down a proposal to abolish night work for women,
Fage 3
EARTHQUAKES-OR
A
SUPER
BOMB?
Washington, Oct. 29.
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission today reported two earth- quakos within the past 24 hours, but said it had no indication that Russia had set off another nuclear bomb.
and so wo that it was an
The AEC announcement of any reports of D" Russian the quakes one in Russia and nuclear explosion, the other off Canada-came must conclude after the French Atomic earthquake which ля been Energy Commission reported misread."
That the Russians had exploded a super bomb, about twice the size of their October 23 blast. which was estimated at 30 megatons.
The French claimed their Instruments recorded the ex- plosion at 0945 GMT today.
The Russians have so far ex- ploded 25 nuclear bombs since their current test serles started Bn, September 1. They have sald they would conclude the tests with a 50-megaton blast at the end of October.
Moscow Radio today told the
£4 book now worth
£3,570.
New York, Oct. 29.
The Franch Atande Energy Soviet people of last week's A book bought in Cam. Commissariat sald later, how-United Nation's resolution up- ever, that its recording could pealing to Russia not to carry
RECORDED IN HK
In Hongkong, Royal Ob. servatory nelsmographi re- corded an earthquake a few miantes before 1000 GMT (7 pm) yesterday.
"Local tremors caused by fresh winds and sex well obliterated essential detalin of the tremor,“ an Observa- tory statement added.
have been
Bhut ot an earth- quake "whose readings on the registration equipment are similar to thom of I high intensity explosion."
The head of the French Srismological Institute sakt in Strasbourg that "the reading of our selamographs clearly dicated an earth tremor about
6,000 miles away."
Positive
17-
He added: "I cannot give any Indication on the dievelion, but I am positive it was not an atomle explosion."
The Seismological Institute al Uppsala, Sweden, said fts in- struments recorded 2 quake
about the time, the French sald they had
recorded the Soviet
test. It put the epicentre seme-
where in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska,
blos!.
proposed 50-megaton
The radio aid the resolution had been "pushed through" by the Western bloc, and said the Soviet delegate had told the U.N. that the West was making every possible attempt to ob- struct Russia In strengthening Its defence potential-Reuter.
Longest Lull
bridge store for U.S.$12- (abour £4-5) four years ago has been found in Lawrence, Kansas to have its
covers strengthened by Anglo-Saxon parch- mants valued at between U.S.$0,000 and U.S.$10,- 000 (£2,850 to £3,570).
The book, at636 English translation by John Barclay of the Latin poem "Argenis," lo in the University of Kansas Ubr- ary. Mr Thomas Buchanan, library director, said the Anglo- binding were Saxon fragments used in the written in 1000 to 1050 AD.
from a sermon
Talpei, Oct. 29. The longest lull in Chinese communist action against the nationalist-held Quemoy islands since the
the big crials in
He zald Professor Bertram Formosa stralt in 1958 remains Colgrave, a visiting. British ex- unbroken. Saturday was the pert, helped to identity them,
47th straight day in which the Only three other libraries in the Communist guns trained on the United States had Anglo-Saxon
i parchments.--Router. complex were silent.-AP.
AN OFFER OF ADOPTION Nehru and the Kashmir beauty
Srinagar, Oct. 29. Dr Markus Baath, head of the The parents of 17-your-old
"No rooording
Institute, said:
of a bomb test” was registered at the time.
to Mise
Anil replied "I do not know.” Fellow students began Kashmir beauty Miss Anil her, calling her
Nehru, Raina said today that they
And herself said she thought In Denmark, the Seismological
would be dolighted for her the Prime Minlater was 'obly Institute reported an earthquake
0945 around
GMT, and
to be adapted by Prime Joking. Minister Nohru. he was "con- spokesman sold vinced" it was a quake.
He
Impossible
Mr Nehru started it all when he first saw Anil on Friday at a camp for students taking part be in an inter-university youth
festival in Now Doihi.
He told delegates to the 22nd Sovie! Communist Party Con- gress that such a move demand-
arlded: "It would ed "time and the
necessary Impossible to hide a 60-megaton conditions" but the government explosion behind the earthquake would think about it. The pro- recording." posal was raised by a womant speaker at the Congress on Saturday-Reuter.
In London, the British Atemle Energy Authority said: "We have no confrmation at all of
When organisers introduced the shapitiy Mias Raina, Mr Nehru said: "Will your parents give their consent to your be- coming my daughter?”
But her 57-year-old father, a retired settlement officer of the Kashmir Government, said he and his wife were "happy" at the luca,
Mr R. C. Raliza said, however, that he would like first of all to find out his daughter's feelings on the subject. Anil's brother and sister were very excited at the news. They said Mr Nehru had been their sister's Idol:—AP.
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