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THE WEATHER

Moderate gusty cast winds. Fals. At 1 pm at the Observatory the temperature was 79 degrees F and the humidity 47 per cent.

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U.S. warship rams North Point-Ngautaukok ferry

of the HARBOUR COLLISION: 2 DEAD

day

NKRUMAH &

THE QUEEN

Queen tu leave

England for a visit to

10.

Ghana

November On This decisian emerges from

weeks

of doubt, during

Launch picks up 19 survivors

which group, querying An American warship collided with a small

the wisdom of her visit,

stendity grew in mumbers i and influence.

was perhaps best expressed!!

The case of those apposing it

for

Set

ferry boat near North Point today and

two

of the ferry passengers drowned.

were

by Mr Jeremy Thorpe, The collision, which occurred at 10.10 am, threw

Liberal M.P.

North Devon. himself recent from

a visit to Chata, who said: "It has beconte the in- escapable duty of every statesman of the British Commonwealth and

Colo-

all 21 people on the motor boat into the water.

10 And They reported that the motor As they struggled

floating wreckage, bant was badly damaged in the pieces of

bow by the collision and subse- nearby ships reed to the rescue.

of the quently sank. paris Clinging

11 the

was motor-boat,

warship The American sniashed

Lender were pleked up one the 0,450-ton destroyer survivors

Piedmont, which was en- by one and taken to shore.

tering harbour on a recreational visit.

nial Territories to advise Her Majesty that for poli- tica) and security reaso115, The two women were found to this is Tit an opportune be dead on arrival at hospital. moment for her proposed VINIL to the republic' of Ghana."

Mr Thorpe's

Police

î

A Marine Police launch was later reported to have picked up all survivors. against

Details of the accident were statement was Mr Duncan sketchy, but Marine Pulice Sandys fact-finding tour of ofleer told the China Mail that Glans made earlier last month. Assured that the

receive Queen would

IL rapturous

Mr welcome, Sandys advised the British Government to go ahead with arrangements for the] Royal Tour.

the accident occurred about 500 yards off-shore.

is very obvious that Mr Thorpe and others of his opinion, although by no

of his moane.

political party, feel that the Queen, by visiting Gbuna at this tim in her capacity យន head of the Commonwealth, is giving wort of ne- quiescence to President Nkrumah's oppressive policy.

Mr

10

The motor boat plies between North Point and Ngautaukok, but is not connected with the

by service run

the Hongkong and Yagmati Ferry Co, Ltd.

The hame of the ferry was Lo Ker. Nineteen of the 21 peo- ! ple aboard were passengers and two were members of the crew,

5,000 RIOT

POLICE GET

Opposed Thorpe and others, are those who feel that the very presence of the Queen in an atmosphere of goodwill and welcome, will do much to

the relieve

oppressive policies instituted by Nkru- Riot mah. There is much to be wald for both schools of thought.

Those who oppose the visit have plenty of facts on their side. Fact number one is, whatever view you

SET FOR TROUBLE

Paris, Oct. 31. police began moving into position in and around Paris tonight to guard against any new mass de- monstrations by Algerian Moslems tomorrow the seventh anniversary of the Algerian wor.

take of President Nkrumah, Five thousand riot, police and there is no doubt whatever mobile gendarmerie Telnforce- that Ghana, the country hements have been put at the dis-

to

led

umidat freedom glowing promises of pros perity, la rapidly approach. ing financial disaster und dictatorship.

evident also that INkrumah is looking more to Moscow and less towards the Commonwealth for his politica! policies. He will tolerato no opponition, and those who duro to gainsay

posal of Paris Police Chiel, Maurice Rapon, it case of trouble.

11 has a complement of 1.200

men.

Offices may close early

for the royal visit

At Government's

Rug- Festion. the Hongkong General Chamber of Com- merce yesterday sent a re- commendation to it 940 members to close their offices at 4 pm, an hour earlier than usual, on Fri- day when Princess Alexan- dra arrive.

Princess Alexandra will arrive at Kal Tak at 4 pm and leave Queen's Fler about 4.45 pm on her drive via to Government flouse Statue Square,

The recommendation was made so that those who wish to see the Princess on her ride to Government House may do so and those who do not, may keep clear of the Central District before road closure.

Plane pirate gets life term-plus 25 years

SUPER-BOMB'S DEATH CLOUD HEADS FOR ALASKA - WHILE

MR K EXPLODES 2 MORE

Washington, Oct. 31. While the monster cloud of radioactive fallout from the Soviet Union's giant nuclear blast moved today at 50 mph towards Kamchatka Peninsula and Alaska, Russia exploded two more test devices in the atmosphere over Novaya Zemlya.

The Atomic Energy Com-, feel, calculated that the fireball mission bere announced that the might have been as large as Ave yield of miles in diameter and probably first weapon had a "several megatons." The reccnd churned up considerable mate- was in the intermediate to high rial from the earth.

the yleld range-probably a mego- ton,

If this WBS the case, debris, full of radioactivity, would probably fall to carth Soviet Premier Mr Nüdta fairly quickly, in contrast to last Kruschev had said originally week's smaller blast when most material that Russia would conclude its of the radioactive current testing series with the spiralled into the stratosphere explosion of ล 50-megaton and was unlikely to descend tu bomb,

carth until next spring.

Not last

It was a bomb of that size that went off in the Arctic yesterday. But obviously it was current the last of the not Sovlet series.

The fallout cloud from Rus sia's super-bomb test moved today at 50 mph southeastward over contral Siberia, the United Leon Bearden, 18, was jailed for life plus 25 years today for

States Weather Bureau reported. pirating a Continental Airlines jet airliner on August 3.

The Bureau said the cloud maxi- they Intended to take the

lo curve eastward was likely !for craft to Cuba and sell it,

by tomorrow tomorrow and. The pilot told the Deardens he night, it would probably be over didn't have enough fuel to the Kamchatka Peninsula in By to Cuba and got permis, eastern Siberia,

Dearden

mum

received neur

punishment violating three Federal laws In the pirating, His под Cody, 16, who pleaded guilty to similar charges, was sen-) tenced to an undesignated Federal institution until he is: 21.

INTENTION.

The elder Dearden's sentences

are concurrent.

Los The plane, en route from

Houston, WOR Angeles

El Paso, Oct. 31.

captured.

alon to stop at El Paso, where the couple were UPI,

A Bre broke out on the roof of a squatter hut on the hillside behind No. 48 Tin Hau Temple read at about 2.40 am today.

was The fre

extinguished arrival of the fire piraled between Phoenix and before the

to

El Paso, The Beardens said! engines.

Stalin's body

Low altitude

At the present rate of move- ment, the cloud was estimated to reach the Aleutian Islands, and perhaps the western edge of Alaska, by Thursday.

Fallout experts, studying re- ports that the 50-plus-megaton explosion occurred at the rela- 1vely low altitude of 12,000

removed

from Red Square tomb

Moscow, Nov. 1.

The body of Josef Stalin, ruler of Russia for a quarter of a century, has been removed from the granite tomb in Red Square and placed in the Kremlin Wall

Tass announced early pester-1 five days after he died on March day that the body had been re- 5, 1953. Police have renewed warnings

moved in conformity with the Lenin's embalmed body has that all unauthorised demon-

técision of the 22nd Party Con- been enshrined on Red Square strations are banned--it move

gress to take Sulin out of the since his death in 1024. apparently aimed nat only at tomb and leave only Lenin there. the Moslems but also ot the

Square has been closed French Communist Party which all yesterday afternoon and was has called for work stoppages still closed after midnight.

this week. and demonstrations -Reuter,

CLOSED Apparently it was

MURDERER

wid

The Weather Bureau calculat- cd that the fallout cloud from yesterday's nuclear explosion would citele the earth closer to the North Pole than the earlier. one.

today to be over Finland.

CHINA

Black arrow markings in our map show the move- ment of the monster cloud of radioactive debris set off by the Russian super-bomb explosion. The dotted line shows the cloud's likely direction of drift.

direction,

the

predicted that firebuli touched

The Bureau day's It was moving in a

more mound, there was probably the initial fallout will probably northerly direction than the fallout of considerable potency miss Japan and most of the hitting cloud frum the explosion on ny far away as 850 miles from, United States before October 23, which was estimated the blast, In 24 southeasterly Europe in about a week.

Mr Robert List, a Burcan ex- pert on fallout patterns, suid: The cloud may say north and ll is very Canada. go over The area in which the radio-dimcult to determine active debris might have rained things, but it should hit Europa and in about a week, with the Scan- down was largely barren uninhabited, though maps in- danavian countries getting more others." Reuter & dicated there was some habita- than UPC: toh in the area, a p

The Weather Bureau later rald it had received reports that it was raining or snowing over Siberia. today which centra

any fallout would increase descending from the cloud as it passed over that aren.

Calculations by the Weather Bureau indleated that if yester

mand personnel of the Army and, in large measure, considered the major reason for early Ruston reverses when the Germans attacked in June 1941, § ℗

The Tass announcement.omit- Stalin's Body was removed by ted stating just what had been order of the Communist Con done with the body, but the gress after two weeks of at- Indication was that it had been was cremated. Bodies placed in the acks on his record. Ho

and wall normally are cremated al- branded as closed to

murderer a New York, Oct. 31. pomit workinen either to re-

charged Communist leaders though a few have been buried with

the just outside the wall. Mrs Katherine Geddes Bene-piece the facing stone over the

having instigated

thousands of old The ashes of numbers of his opinions aro soon thrust dict bequeathed the Income portal of the tomb or to erase daughter of

ÚS$20 million trust fo the name of Stalin engraved Bolsheviks and most of the top-noted Communists have been

Devel officers of the Soviet placed in holes cut into the wall. I Gamble there. granddaughter, Benedict Porumbeanu, whose Stalla's name was put on the Army just before the beginning From the nature of the Tass an-1

nouncement it appeared this had runaway marriage she bitterly portal stone when his embalmed of World War II. opposed.—AP.

body was placed with Lenin's

into jail, in the best man- per of dictatorships. Nor does he deal only with his immediate ministers is this way. Tho workers

who came out on atriko three weeks ago to give | concrete expression to their grievances now Inn- gulsh in jail to consider the wlsdom of their actions. For those who feel

that

Britain should bend over backwards to accommodate President Nkrumah, there ia this to be said. Tho Queen hus approved the appointment of Mr Do Freitaa 18 British Igh Commissioner of Ghana, The significance of

to

the

thin appointment la that Mr De Froitan in a Labour MP, and as such, a member of the British party

at tha moment opposed Queen's Government. But it romains to be ROCK whether President Nkrumah learns anything from this democratic

gesture, or whether ho in too blindod by the pomp and circums tance plus the giltter of his vikita to Moscow and Belgrade,

front her

It nearly wrecked the com- been done with Stalin-AP.

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