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4 am lie Sail Choose from £3000000 ryi Stocks of Machinery BOD GEORGE COHEN SONS I CO ITO Wood Lane London WI2 graph Printed in LONDON and MANCHESTER Price 22d and iflormnc No 32807 LONDON SATURDAY OCTOBER 8 I960 BRITAIN SEEKS INFORMATION ONGHAN PLAN FAMILIES FLEE FROM MONSOON FLOODS De GAULLE CALLS FOR H-BOMB VETO France Must Agree Before Use By West WATER TO TOP OF TELEPHONE DAILY TELECRAPH REPORTERS rPORRENTIAL rain brought devastation to A Horncastle and Coningsbv in Lincolnshire yesterday In the West Country (Picture P9) swollen waters still inundated some districts particularly the Exmouth region The word monsoon was used by the Automobile Association to describe devastation at Horncastle Patrols estimated that 4in of rain fell between 1230 and 5 pm Many families were evacuated Last night the problem of caring for the homeless was acute START ADE ON NEW RAK JET PRESSURE LEAVE ON US EUROPE RECEIVER FOR ACTRIC Floods at Horncastle and i Comngsby were 5ft deep at one time and in some places deeper i A telephone message from Horn- castle said water in the town centre was level with the roofs of telephone kiosks TRAPPED IN TREE Kft Mood Beneath A motorist turned back from Horncastle saw a man stranded in 17 1 a tree with 8ft of water swirling available for squadron service by CAMERA OVER BATTLEFIELD BY AN AIR CORRESPONDED rFHE prototype TSR2 tactical strike and reconnaissance plane being developed for the RAF is expected to fly for the first time early in 1963 and to be fEN de GAULLE yesterday demanded a French right of veto on the use of nuclear weapons by the West In a speech at Grenoble he said that if bv mischance atomic bombs were to be let off none should be launched by the free world unless France There is growing concern in London and other Western capitals about Gen de Gaulle writes Our Diplomatic Correspondent He is considered to be trying to have American defence forces in Europe withdrawn Mr Khruschev proposed in New York yesterday that a special session of the United Nations General Assembly should be held in the spring to discuss only disarmament He said it should meet in Leningrad Moscow or Geneva Bonn Rift oxer NATO and de Gaulle Speech P14 I lu Belgian tanker Diainant tons anti the new Danish ferry Tina Scarlett 2000 tons (fork-(iRotMi) alter they were in collision on the Rhine near Emmerich yesterday when the ferry was being towed from ologne to Rotterdam man and a woman were killed ami 20 people were injured from the tanker taught hie amt the flames t-piead at ross the iter Eight other vessels aught lire ami three of them inelutling another tanker Brigitte sank Polite later ordered the ferry's new to abandon ship and badly damaged she ran aground FIRMS HANK FIRS TAKE AITKIN at his feet A van was swept away by the swollen river Bain Late last night water in the centre of Horncastle had subsided to a depth of 2ft But heavy rain was still falling Louth was reported cut off by telephone from the rest of the county Sir Keith Joseph Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Mr Godber Joint Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Agriculture are inspecting Hood damage in Devon In the centre of Exmouth there was still 5ft of water About 100 men of the Durham Light Infantry were moved into Exmouth yesterday to give aid A TOWN ENTRE EVACUATED BRIDGE SUBMERGED Early yesterday evening the A A reported that practically the whole of Horncastle's centre was evacuated Homeless families were taken to temporary billets set up by Civil Defence workers on the First hint of troubles for Vactric outskirts Ol CITY STAFF VTACTR1C the domestic appliance firm which last month reported net trading losses of £122000 has had a receiver and manager appointed by its bankers Chairman and director of the company is William Pegley In a statement last night the companv said that Mr Mar of the accountancy firm of Marwick and Mitchell had appointed bv Williams Bank under a power contained in a mortgage debenture In the accounts to March 1959 latest available bank secured against a mortgage debenture were £411515 SI BSI PROFIT The statement continued that receiver understood that equipment and precision tool subsidiaries were not directly concerned with the home appliance trade and were operating lie therefore anticipated that would continue to trade normally PROBLEMS FOR ALLIES By MICHAEL HILTOy Daily Telegraph Ditlomalic Carrenpomlent MR MACMILLAN on his return to London from New York where he conferred with Mr Khruschev is faced with serious problems over the Western alliance and its relations with Russia Not 4 ID'L't: the least of these concerns I Gen de Gaulle GERM AN PACT There is increasing concern Western capitals including London about Gen de Gaulle and the paths he is treading It is now clear that Gen de Gaulle is bending every effort to have the American defence forces stationed in Europe withdrawn This has caused serious alarm to France's allies notably Britain and West Germany Dr Adenauer West German Chancellor is now turning towards i mg with Mr Macmillan this INVITATION TO EX-ALUES From Our SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW' YORK Friday KHRUSCHEV told United Nations correspondents to-day that during his managing Mr getts Peat been Deacon's the borrowings the control profitably they extremely were piling up SHARES RISE Last night ordinary shares closed on the Stock Ex-change at 13s 42d a rise of 72d during the day Earlier this year thev reached 46s 3d A year ago Mr Pegley reiected a take-over bid of 55s a share from 1965 The order for a pre-production batch anticipated in a Ministry of Aviation announcement on Sept 20 has been placed and construction of the first plane started Some details about the plane were indicated yesterday by Mr Watkinson Minister of Defence and Sir George Edwards Executive Director (Aircraft) of the British Aircraft Corporation Both were speaking after the Minister toured the factory of Vickers-Armstrongs one of the Corporation's companies Except for reconnaissance the roles of the TSR 2 have been obscure because the terms tactical and strike have no precise meaning with modern high-speed range aircraft MANY WEAPONS Mr Watkinson clarified this to the extent of saying that it had not been decided how the TSR 2 will fit into a strategic role He added that it had a strategic ability and could carry a wide range of weapons including nuclear ones The plane offered a wide range of roles and its reconnaissance ability would be unusual It would provide a kind of television camera over the battlefield which works in any It would be able to take off and land ill short distances due to an unusual undercarriage £250 GIFTS CAN BE SENT ABROAD Residents of Britain may now make cash gifts to people abroad of up to £250 a year the Treasury announced vesterdav Applications for larger amounts on compassionate grounds or in special circumstances will be considered" by the Bank of England US REPLY TO RUSSIA A Russian Note yesterday warned the United States against arming West Germany with rockets The State Department commenting in Washington later said: It is a transparent Soviet attempt to confuse discussions at the United Nations and distract attention from Russian A VAUXHALL MOTORS TO DISMISS 1000 WORKERS SHORTER SHIFT FOR OTHERS ill) TEEEAR 4 PH REPORTER VAUXHALL MOTORS are to make a further reduction in passenger car production schedules at their Luton factory it was announced last night This will necessitate giving notice to men with less than 10 months' service with the company About 1000 men will be affected It will also involve the introduction of a four-day four-night week from Oct 14 in place of the five-day four-night week which has been in force since Sept 23 After meetings of the manage- JVl I EM) TO ment advisory committee the ioint consultation commit- 4 4 i I I tee it was announced that the cm -3 lt xpll ployees with less than six months' service at either Luton or Dun stable facories would be given two weeks' notice at once Other men at the Luton factorv who icined the company between September last year and April 1960 would be advised during next week MEN TRANSFERRED Lorry Demand Strong A company statement said: The demand for the Bedford truck continues to be very strong and full-time working on these models will continue at the Dunstable factory All possible transfers of men from car to truck production will be made The forward outlook for sales of cars and light vans which was substantial in comparison with earlier years fell significantly short of the production rate the early part of this The normal seasonal fall-off in home car sales had been accentu- seemed in no doubt that all that is ated by the credit squeeze It was needed is a period of convalescence not possible this year to adiust the mi it- i HE Labour party conference that will mark a turning in British politics ended here to-day with the usual fer- came on Sept 16 when it was announced that no dividends would be paid for the year and a profit of £580000 had been turned into a 1 22000 loss Mr Peglev reported that financial resources were strained to the iirrnI and sales showed a marked decline in the first three months of the current year He said hire-point Purchase bad debts had been wrifcn off Trading continued difficult and stocks Britain and the United States for wee he suggested a conference assistance in moderating what with all former enemies of Ger-arpears to be a French megalo- many early next year Such Bunw- as wanted to attend NUCLEAR VETO would sign a peace treaty so i Attack pH speeding up the solution to the to the policy of going alone gjlN 'MtaiRtu in bann rig the bomb already been chosen On the face of it none is in actual danger be Rf loaf But the size of the Labour vote will some indication of the extent to which the faith of habitual Labour supporters has bc-n 'Taken bv week's The main roads between Lincoln and Skegness Louth and Sleaford which meet in the centre of Horncastle were cut The bridge carrying the Lincoln road over the river was completely submerged Electricity services and telephone communications broke down In some parts of Lincolnshire (Continued on Back Page CoL 61 DTNZEO BEATEN AT HORSE SHOW Riding his chestnut gelding High Court Stillwell of Windsor beat world champion Capt Raimondo d'lnzeo of Italy on Merano to win The Daim Telegraph Cup international show MOVE TO TAKE OVER FIRMS A Commonwealth Affairs Correspondent RESIDENT NKRUMAH is expected to give consideration to proposals for nationalising all foreign businesses in Ghana including British firms This is far from meaning that they will be accepted The proposals according to Ghana officials in London have been under preparation for some time They are likely to be dis cussed in the first Cabinet meet ings attended by Dr Nkrumah since his return to Accra from the United Nations Mr Gbedemah Ghana's Finance Minister who left London Airport last night for Accra said he knew nothing of the matter as he had been away from Ghj-1 since the beginning of August All I can say is that I am very much surprised by the announce ment" he said I have sent a telegram to Dr Nkrumah advising him to issue a statement immedi atelv confirming or denying the report An announcement of this sort should not be made by a tumor URGENT REQUEST Three-year Scheme Mr Duncan Sandys Common wealth Secretary last night sent an urgent request to the British High Commissioner in Accra Sir A VV Snelling for information on a report that Ghana intends to put the nationalisation proposals into effect on May I and to complete them within three sears A spokesman at the Common wealth Relations Office in London said: have received no com munication from the Ghana Gov ernment on this suhiect But we are making inquiries in The proposals appear to have been discussed by a section of the Continued on Rack Page Col 1 MR WILLIAM WHEELDOX DIES BY-KLKCTION TKST Our Political Correspondent Mr William Edwin Wheeldon Labour and Co-operative MP for the Small Heath Division of Birmingham died it his home in Birmingham last night His death will cause a by-election He was 62 Mr Wneeidon's death increases the number of -elections now pending to nine Labour is on the defensive on! three of these seats the others being Fbbw Vale a ni Bvn tor wtvn an utaU-s nu As Small Heath will be the first in which the selection comm rite procedure will have operated since the Scarborough decsion it will also be a test of whether the constituency party wants to back a Gaitskellite or an ofltc'al unilateral st candidate In either case the endorsement of the prospective candidate must lead to a battle in the National Executive CtiNER i Election Wheeldon Lab) I iMV Owens CL mai 4931 Obit iur PIO CONSERVATIVE TREASURER MK ROBERT ALLAN Bv A Political Correspondent Mr Robert Allan has been appointed a Treasurer of the Conservative party by the party leader Mr Macmillan His consequential resignation as ioint Parliamentary Under-Secretary Foreign Office was announced from Admiralty House yesterday The party appointment is unpaid Mr Allan who is 46 will continue to sit in Parliament as Conservative MP for South Paddington He will take up his new duties immediately There are normally two party Treasurers and Mr Allan succeeds Mr Christopher Holland-Martin MP who died last April Sir Henry Studholme Conservative MP for Tavistock has been ioint Treasurer since 1956 Mr Allan was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Anthony Eden when he was Prime Minister and continued to serve Mr Macmillan in the same capacity He took up his Foreign Office appointment in lanuary 1959 He will lose £1500 a year by his new appointment his salary as a tumor Minister being £2500 plus £750 of his normal Parliamentary pay of £1750 But he will be free to take up activities in the City London Day by Pi lSl'Ol 1 BARRINGTON Viscount Barrington died at ms nome at Hartfield Sussex on Tuesday and was cremated yesterday He left instructions that his death was not to be announced until after the cremation PIO Index to Other Pages PAGe Buths Marriages and Deaths 18 Bridge D) Broadcasting 12 City 2 and 3 Classified dvt index 2 Concerts 16 Court and Social 10 Dr Matthews 8 Entertainments Guide 8 Film Notes 11 Gardening II Junior Daily Telegraph 7 Nature No: II Obituary 16 Personal 2 Sport 4 3 and 6 Stamp Collecting II Topics 7 World of Music 11 TO meet- Berlin issue He did not give an ind cation of Mr Macmillan's reaction to the proposal But he said the British Prime Minister did give an assurance that a four-Power Summit conference would be held during the early part of 1961 which I this matter could be talked PACE Disarmament Speed-Up II it emerged that the West was sincere about holding a Summit then the status quo in Berlin would be preserved at least until such a meeting took place The Russian leader gave the im- i pression that he had accepted wholeheartedly Mr Macmillan as I spokesman for other Western Powers But he reiected what he de- scribed as the pace steps to agreement on disarmament proposed by Mr Macmillan during their meeting Mr Khruschev said the British Prime Minister had said it was better to lead up to agree- ment gently allowing the creation of better conditions and confidence among nations This could take five to 10 sears and Mr Khruschev declared he would not wait that long Does that mean I a grandfather should begin these negotiations and that my grandchildren should end the United Nations We want to reach a position in which Socialist countries have a third of the votes This would be lust equality with other States We just ask for our share of what we have a right to have If vou want to subordinate us without giving us the right to these equil conditions it means we shall uphold our interests outside the United Nations by relying on our strength I Mr Khruschev used the Rus-j sian word which means force as well as strength" but his aides said that in this context the milder interpretation was intended and issued a correction) Moscow Mr Khruschev said had given de facto recognition to the Algerian rebel government but Gen de Gaulle had entered would be a Summit conference But the possibility of another summit some time in 1961 was implicit in their discussions Reuter I I I i a a jumping competition at the Horse Arusha Industries then headed by Ye Show at Wemhlev Mr Lindsay Carstairs He gave as Jear snow at VVemtley his reason that the offer did not 1 take account of the group's earning potential Mr Pegley himself owns more I than half the 1200000 5s voting shares There are also in issue 800000 5s A voteiess shares While a meeting of the directors I was in progress last night a spokes- man for Vactric Ltd said: are considering what to do This has come as a great shock to In a speech last night in the French provinces Gen de Gaulle said France must have a power of veto over the use of nuclear weapons by the West This follows speeches in which he has bitterly attacked the United Nations The General is also in serious trouble over Algeria On one hand he has appeared to falter in follow ing out his own earlier announced programme and on the other he has reiected any idea of United Nations intervention Between these two courses there re no prospect for France but a dismal and increasingly ruinous continuation of the fighting KHRUSCHEV SCHEME Assembly In Geneva Meanwhile it became known vesterday that Mr Khruschev had proposed to Mr Macmillan in New Yor a special meeting of the United Nations General Assembly next vear in either Leningrad or Geneva At a Press conference in New jrk vesterday Mr Khruschev made the proposal publicly Besides leningrad or Geneva he also suggested Moscow as a suitable site and said the meeting should be in February March or April It should be devoted exclusively to The Care of your Investments disarmament Mr Macmillan and Mr RIGHTS DEMANDED Khruschev reached no agreement iuj clrBufL Mr Macmillan for his part wanted se Strength serious discussions to be resumed Mr Khruschev also said that in a small body alongside techni- Russia would never accept even cal studies by experts a 99 per cent vote of confidence Mr Khruschev took no notice of the Prime proposals Instead he advanced his own suggestion for a special meeting of the General Assembly them? by the United Nations in Mr Hammarskioeld We do not seek to obtain an equal position or an equal number of votes in the Security Council or Secretariat of The crucial problem that faces him is how to retain control of a predominantly Right-wing Parliamentary party committed by its conference to a Left-w ing policy on defence and foreign affairs ACTIVE OPPONENTS Whatever plots and counterplots may be worked out between now and the beginning of the new session he cannot solve this problem without also retaining control of the National Executive It contains at least seven members mostly MPs whqse sympathies are firmly with the Left on the nuclear issue Its extremely active chairman will be Mr Crossman whose intransigence compelled Mr Gaitskell to remove him from the Opposition Front Bench only a few months i go And its treasurer will be Mr Nicholas the deputy of Mr Frank Cousins in the Transport and General Workers' Union Transport House is irrevocably 1 committed to unilateralism for the (Continued on Back Page Col 6) MUST REVERSE MR GAITS AIM Mr Gaitskell in a television interview last night said it was vital to reverse the defence decision at next year's Labour party conference He believed it could be done if the vast majority who do not want us to go It alone saw to it that the traditional policies were voted back It was conceivable that the next party conference might be held in the spring instead of the autumn It would have a bad effect on morale in the West if a great party like ours were to go neutralist and want to get out of NATO But that has not happened vet and I hope not going to It was easv to exaggerate the extent of the differences in the party This is on one issue only on defence We don't spend all our time in the House of Commons discussing defence We discuss a lot of other things on which as far as I know there is no question of £40000 RACE From Our Own Correspondent PARIS Friday The Aga Khan's Charlottesville is expected to start favourite in the £40000 Prrx de de Triomphe to be run at Longchamp on Sundav Some 23 horses remain entered to-day but the final field is expected to be about 18 The national lottery on the race will have a record prize The owner ot the winning ticket will -receive some £150000 Probe hie P6 balance by increased export In mid-July a stockpile of 3000 unsold cars on the factory car park was causing so much embarrass-I mtnt that the Vauxhall Company allowed price freedom and gave bonuses to dealers Prices were I slashed by £100 and more The new 1961 model came out in August but sales did not pick up In mid-September production workers went on a five-day four-night week GEC REDUNDANCY 200 To Be Laid Off Another effect of the credit squeeze yesterday was the decision bv the General Electric Company to take more than 200 workers off its television production lines at Coventry by Thursday It stated Although every effort is being made to re-employ as many as possible within other activities of the company at Coventry a considerable proportion of redundancy will be At the Southend factory of Cole yesterday 600 were dismissed because of the fall in sales About 400 of these are women An official said that a high proportion had found work elsewhere in the I area Approximately 1000 of a total of 2500 employees at the factory of Smiths Motor Accessories I td Witney Oxfordshire are to work a four-day week from Thursday Car Price Cuts Unlikely and Mr Hare's Proposal Pit LATE NEWS DOCHERTY REFUSES TO LEAVE ARSENAL (F rank Coles See Page 4) Tommy Docherty Scottish international halfback refused to sign for Blackpool after clubs agreed terms 4 Personal Column Page 2 SUN-SPOTS CUT RADIO LINKS WIDE EFFECTS Daily Telegraph Reporter Intense sun-spot activity had stopped many radio-telephone and telegraph communications with countries overseas the Post Office reported last night During the day international radio and Mie-phone links in many parts of the world were disrupted severely Radio telephone telex and telegraph services have been disrupted for two days A Post Office spokesman said last night: are worsening and no relief is likely before Sunday" Telephone calls to America on the transatlantic cables were normal but (he BC said its short wave transmission was being affected To-day's Weather (Midnight Forecast) General Sitiation: Depression ex pected to move from SW into England London SE and Cent England Anglia Midlands: Fog at first becoming cloudy with rain or showers and perhaps thunder later in day Wind light SF veering fresh or strong and later SW strong (Max temp 57-60) Channel Is England: Cloudy rain or showers and outbreaks of thunder Winds SE fresh or strong becoming to SW strong (58) Wales: Cloudy rain at times and outbreaks of thunder Wind moderate to fresh becoming light variable (55-58) NW Cen and NE England Lalf District Isle of Man: Fog patches at first some rain later with perhaps thunder Wind SE light becoming fresh or strong (54-58) Borders Edinbi rgh and SW Scotland Argyll Ireland: Fog patches at first then bright periods and scattered showers perhaps thunder in places Wind light becoming fresh (55-58) Cfn Highlands Moray Firth Caithness NW Scotland Orkney Shetland: Bright periods scattered showers Wind light becoming moderate (53-57) English Channel: Sea slight Irish Sfa: Moderate Ot'TLOox: Changeable Weather Map World Reports Pb NEW PRESIDENT Russian Aim He made it clear that he wanted the new American President in the saddle and then a resumed General Assembly circus with as many heads of Government present as possible All this can hardly be encourag ing for Mr Macmillan 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