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SOUTH AFRICAN WAR VETERAN PLACES WREATH

“Last Post” and “Reveille” | (background) and Louis Ward. were sounded by Bugler, | Approximately 40 members of Frank Smith. The poem, Branch attended. Maxed “They Shall Grow Not Old” | other surviving veteran,

was recited by the president | Stewart, was not able to ‘erat Branch

ot the Charlottetown tend the ceremony. Mr. Hyde of the Canadien Legion Ed- celebrated his birthday ward Brown, Making up the Saturday at his home on Wal color party were Robert King, then Driv

DOUBLE BLOW IS POSSIBLE

Tremendous U.S. Power

Stressed By McNamara

By BEM PRICE WASHINGTON (AP) — De- tence Secreta mara ¢laims United Slates nuclear striking power is so immense the country could absorb a sur- prise assault, then destroy Rus- sia, and still have enough left aver to counter a blackmail threat from any third power. bo is tr et aaa leryd long y US, teats, tie sassy igen ie the tibility that Red China will de- velop atomic weapons in the oe Namara, in a wide-ranging wished talctew, sew poll! 1, By the end of 1962 the U.S will be able to meet non-nuclear ar crises on two ae by taneously without resort

mediately partial tion. ‘That | "6 rameauig” ne country has not been able to do since ot heerg World aa

t Asia is vital security of the. Pacific = the posite ts yal to the_ se

of the U.S., but the - tation of military force ‘soe e not automatically defeat

the Communists unless there is fe economic and social re-

bee CD ‘DETERRENT’

Many Americans have held that civil defence is ye integral part of the nat t sey that is, if the Russians

feel they cannot deliver a seg ioe first blow they will be d terred from attacking.

McNamara disagrees. He be- lieves that the Russians would not be too concerned with how many Americans they could kill,

Russians

‘A question that has long trou- bled U.S, military men is what would happen if Russia and

all their ou- Clear weapons on each other. thus leaving a third power, fuch as Red China, unharmed.

Strategists have long argued

Fighting Flares | For Laotian Town VIENTIANE (AP) Deputy |

. Phoumi

Nosavan that Communist

over whether the possession-of ‘blow and still have enough an intact nuclear arsenal by a strength left to counter third- third power would deny the two | power blackmail?

major nations the opportunity to | "Yes," said McNamara. concentrate resources and “This implies an_overwhelm- build except on that third pow- trength. Do we have enough er’s terms. to leave at home to counter a

‘ould the U.S. absorb a nu- he was asked.

clear strike, delivers counter | McNamara replied.

Argentin a wari easniiles aektees

said that by increasing the BUENOS AIRES (AP)—Pres- Guatemala Faces

army to 16 combat-ready divi- {sions augmenting the strength |

ident Arturo Frondizi’s party

conceded victory today to Com. Civil War Threat |

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GUATEMALA CITY (AP)

munist-backed followers led ex-dictator, Juan Perce ie congress ional and provincial Government controlled radio tlections in Argent tina. broadcasts charged Sunday that The ruling ey a its | ers of Cuban Premier | admission of defeat in Sunday's Castro and Communists had bed with a warning that the pushed Guatemala to the brink | ronistas’ victory could spell | of civil war and appeale. for me for Argentina. an end to the student-led revolt ‘A massive’wave of pro-Peron | that erupted last Tuesday ballots struck a shattering how | pedio stations also broadcast at ie Fondizi government. | eponted appeals for blood do- | entina’s armed forces! tors, Twenty - seven. persons ents met in secret session to Wore reported wounded in scat discuss next moves. There were f2Pc4 strect fighting in this cap- grave di that the rns ital city Saturd who ousted Peron ia a, milts See ‘would let his fol | The over-all casualty toll was |

crease

een fe adding assorted be gades and regiments, there has been an effective 45-per-cent in- crease in strength of conven- ton forces.

told the conventional war ara of the United pe now adds up to about 21, | sibly 22 combat-ready di

sions.

iver enh cond ot. Ge placed at 20 dead and more than | wounded. |

“interior Minister Aitredo Vie conceded the Peron! aptured oy woolteal pried oe stabe ta the balloting — u a. ‘epaloos Buenos wee Arpeatias's s capi

LABOR LEADER geverschig, the, see mest polsicaty poworkd post in this nation of 20,000,000. te Autres Praha, @ toads @ Ry RON LEBEL | Yearld Labor leader tured | OTTAWA (CP)—The first Cl Framini, who favors a hands. dian Council on Urban and ott poliey toward Cuba, had Regional Research was formed | er before ventured into pol- here Saturday as a founding | ities until this ection when conference of 200 urban experts | Peron from his exile i Spain ended in noley dsaareemes chose tim to lead the Peron

itas back to There was disagreement on singled out were slums, land Frondizi’s intransigent radical | ure” rang out the meeting | whether the council should hire | speculation, suburban growth, party made a showing ft ing| a staff of research specialists or | Utdated local government in the capital itself and, Sa | structures, transportation, lack pending a ete farm out” research projects | of tax revenue, water and ait count of returns. possibly even rs pollution and lack of zoning. vietory. Peter Dobush, Montreal archi- Tn. the interior province of | 4.4,’ be] WHERE-TO-FIND<IT ("sna chairman of the fou , however, Frondizi can- Announcements, notices 12 ing committee, was named Aates were running tar behind. Grapization are yet to be de) divine, deaths, ete.,.. 3, 12 | chai-man of the board of direc- | Just hours after Argentin ms oe i2 tors. He said the two interim 9,500,000 voters cast faltots the Deleeates did agree thai re 11 Committees will be guided tide began to swell in- favor of | Seateh is badly needed to pro- the delegates’ views in naking i answers to the problems Caste Govtslens. by jada’s transition groups. 2 ons 4 rural society to a largely members. were i Gust oh 4 urban, industrialized country. $ ota mn othictal Gew But delegates com : eontee * ‘constitution and pre plained that the 41 - member paring the next founding con- | founding 00 18 NG ference

‘| ways Sunday of compromising

Devartmest- CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1962.

OAS In Algeria Moves To Scuttle ‘Cease-Fire’

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winds 20. Low-high 20 and 30.

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NUCLEAR TESTING RACE FEARED

GENEVA (CP) Middle- group diplomats at the 17-nation disarmament conference sought

American delegation sought to convince the eight middle coun- tries of the rightness of Ameri- can-British policy on the test- ban issue.

The Americans hope the eight —Brazil, India, Mexico, the

conflicting American and Soviet nuclear policies in the hope of heading off a testing race.

American testing series in mid-

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|and the public relations rofes- 1d- | sion.

Their efforts formed pi a pattern of intricate pressures building up in Geneva and in Peskingce and cow on this isst "The United States is reported

United Arab Republic, Sweden, Burma, Nigeria and Ethiopia— will try in turn to press the Russians to reconsider their pol- icy. Moscow claims no interna-

- [WASHER MAKES | Middle-Group Diplomats SeekWay OutAt Geneva

arrangements insisted upon by the U.S, and Britain. ‘The nuclear test-ban problem has captured the spotlight from the rival Soviet and American general disarmament proposals submitted to the conference last wee

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dio Station

Issues Uprising Call

By FINLAY CAMPBELL

ALGIERS (Reuters)—Security forces moved into central Al- giers Sunday night as the Secret Army Organization defied the Algerian cease-fire with a call for a European uprising

Sporadic machine - gun fire heard in various parts of the city after troops set up machine-

tional inspection are necessary to prevent test cheatint

TRY FOR FORMULA Among the eight themselves there was a hope that some for- mula could be hammered ot

which would blend ti inspection ideas of the Russians with the international polici

have told several delegations here that President Kennedy in- tends to go ahead with the

Pacific in late April unless ne- sintions produce a test - ban ficient controls be-

ioe ‘then State Secretary Dean Rusk and other members of the

St. John’s Players Capture Five Nfld. Festival Awards |:

GRAND FALLS, Nfld. (CP)—) award as director of the win- The St. John’s Players and | ning play. 1 pate their production, “the Man With , Groundswell, a folksy | New.

the Load of Mischief, carried off five of the seven awards pre-

foundland play written by New- foundiand playwright Ted. Rus- sell, was named by adjudi

Norma Springford’ as. the best

sented Saturday to close the

Newfoundland Regional Drama Visual presentation. |The play Festival. cliffe Drama Club of Grand John Holmes directed the Falls

English restoration period cos- patricia Lees, director of the {fume ‘comedy, written by, ASh- spanish. play ‘ma. was Hey Dukes, and named the best actress for her

difector for his interpretation and imagination.

The production also won the award for best presentation of a full saaih play for its cast. Deny Ferry, in the lead role, Miss Springford, Montreal carried ff the top male actor rector and actress, sald awa was amazed by Miss Lees’

ia essere cals innkeep- ‘constitution when she had er’s wife in the same play, won | managed to, both direct and

ard for best supporting play the leading role in Yurma, rule, either-male or female. Mr; |a “very difficult play (o pr Holmes carried away a second duce and stage.”

Big Dam Poses Threat === [0 Chaudiere Valley —

QUEBEC (CP) — More than dated (owns like Beaucevile, al 10,000 residents of the Chaudi-| Centre of 3,600 residents 45 miles ere River Valley will face a wall paces thew Poneto of water 18 to 30 feet high If! ice floating in the main streets the Greyhurst Dam at Lake Me-| The dam was built of ei gantic bursts. |later to control the spill ‘trom

The waters of the Chaudiere | flooded again.

presentation of the character Yurma, the leading role in Sat- urday’s play.

ADJUDICATOR AMAZED

ai Louis-Edmond Hamelin, geog- raphy professor at Laval Uni- versity, studied the area then. He recommended in an article that the communities of Beauce- Vallee Joncton and St. Jo id be declared unin-

flatlands of the valley to the St. | Lawrence at nearby Levis.

The valley has been plagued by floods since 1740, when set- tlers built their homes at the river's edge because it was the | Seph shoul only transportation route to the | habitable,

Lawrence and civilization. | St. Joseph has a population A massive blood in 1917 inun-| of 2,540 and Vallee-Joncton 1,471.

Experts On Urban Affairs End Talks In Disagreement

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too many of its) to other organizations

e drawn from the| iversities.

le ne delegates also clashed on dy. ld the

anced, that members.

federal, provincial and munici- pal levels of government areas of st They urged the appointment cman siren of representatives the busi- into long-term ness community, cmiversities centrate on pressing problems” Some of the urban problems

External Affairs Minster she's using the cream in 10- Green of Canada worked zallon batches. gun posts at crossroads and pub- through the weekend preparing This section of Iowa has, lic buildings. Armored cars a speech he will deliver to the | been snowbound for six days. ‘moved into position around conference this morning. the government administration

_ building and bi bar- c were crete to cut off . . the Casbah Moslem quarter teorat eromeae a uropean areas A aie radio broadcast Picked up in Algiers urged

JERUSALEM (AP) — was reported clearing villagers from the eastern coast of the Sea of Galilee Sunday and mov- ing up reinforcements after Sat- urday's bloody battle with Is- rael’s army.

Pledges of support for Syria came from Arab Jordan and even from. President Nasser's United Arab Republic, which has feuded with the Syrians since they broke from union with Cairo last year.

United Nations observers, who imposed a cease-fire after about six hours of furious fighting, be-

gan an investigation of Syria’s |

charge of aggression lodged against Israel before the mixed armistice commission.

The foreign affairs and secur- ity committee of Israel's parlia- ment met in special session to discuss the new crisis.

Israeli army. spokesman said the attacking columns had wiped out Syrian strongpoints at the east coast village of north- ern Nukev from which artillery had been firing on Isracli fish- ermen in the of Galilee. ber that, he added, the task | set for the Israeli army unit

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Syria ) was considered accomplished.

Israel said its objectives were obtained in wiping out fortifica-

tions at Nukev. Syria said the attackers were repulsed and their base at Ein Gev, a mile

south of Nukev, was shattered by artillery fire.

Israel said the Syrians Jost 3% killed at a cost of five Israelis dead and ,10 wounded. Syria's commander on the Nukev front asserted the Israclis lost 200 killed and 100 wounded. Syria’s casualties were placed by him at 10 dead and five wounded.

By Israeli press accounts, the oy

the effectiveness of their artillery, which reached across the Sea ‘of Galilee and battered a settlement there.

It appeared the damage to Kin Gev, a collective settlement. was particularly heavy. Also se- verely hit was Poriya, on the western shore seven miles across the sea from Ein Gev

Israel sent planes to bomb the artillery firinp on the two set- tlemenis and Jordan said some of the bombs fell on Jordanian

s surprised the attackers |

population 3 “atiack the police —now battle begins.” The ieorieae was made by ex-Gen. Paul Gardy, former inspector- | general iG te Foreign Legion top secret army eee At Oran in Western -Algeria President de Gaulle’s speech announcing the cease-fire was drowned out by a private br ad cast by the secret army c ex-Gen. Raoul Salan, vie called on troops to desert

CABLE CUT The telephone cable between Paris and Algiers was cut for a period and there were teo ex- plosions somewhere in the city during de Gaulle's broadcast.

Immediately atlerwards Eur opeans saneaablod ele oe conies beating and blowing whistles ad. sae to the rhythm of their slogan

“Algerie Francaise

When news of the cease-fire reached here the staffs of /Je giers newspapers promptly walked out, the first to obey orders from the secret army for a 48-hour general strike.

In Oran, big crowds of Euro- peans defied thé curfew time of 7:35 p.m. and gathered in the streets.

French flags appeared from many windows and hundreds of car horns sounded the beats of the slogan.

‘The secret army,.which an- nounced the formation of an un- derground government Saturday, night, stole 100 tons of arms from a military storehouse im Oran. haul_ included 208 bazookas and 2,872 rifles.

The announcement of the fore mation of a “resistance” gov- ernment by the secret army came in a private radio broad- cast Saturday night by ex-Gen Edmond Jouhaud, No. 2 man in this army.

Jouhaud said the government would parallel the present ad- ministration of President de Gaulle and would aim at keep. ing Algeria part of Metropolitan France,

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Cease-Fire Agreement Announced By De Gaulle

Ry ANDRE PASSERON

EVIAN, France (Reuters) —~ French officials and Algerian insurgent leaders Sunday signed a cease-fire agreement to end the bloody, 72-year Algerian war at noon today :

In Paris, President de Gaulle, who 0 power nearly four years ago on the promise that he would bring peace to Al-

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geria, announced the cease-fire in an emotional nationwide ra- dio-television broadcast

The French leader was visibly moved as he told the French people in a seven-minute speech that “‘a solution of good sense” had been reached at Evian

Algeria must be able to be come independent if it wants to, de Gaulle said, but “there are links between France and Algeria built up over 132 years of association.”

TO HOLD REFERENDUM Then, as expected, he indi- that the French pesple be asked, in a national referendum, to express approval and confidence” agreement “in order that what |has been done will be solemnly | recogniz

In an interview with the Ale gerian press service, the insure gent news agency after the agreement was signed, Belka- cem Krim, chief negotiator for |the insurgent delegation at the peace talks said

“In this historic hour our thoughts go out to all those who, |since Nov. 1, 1954, have sacri- ficed their lives so that a free and independent Algeria shall |live. They are worthy of the | gratitude of our valiant people.

“Our thoughts go out to our glorious Moujahidines (fighters) and to all the militants of the national cause.”

The historic announcement of the long-awaited cease-fire was |made by a French spokesman here after 12 days of peace talk:

SET OUT INTENTIONS

Louis Joxe, French minister of Algerian affairs and chief French negotiator here, said two delegations signed a collee- tion of documents titled ‘con. clusion of the talka”™

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Woman Rescues Boy From Cougar

HINTON, Alta. (CP A | six-year-old boy is in serious | condition in hospital after hav. |ing his throat chewed and face matiled by a couzar Friday voy was rescued when Elsie McEvoy. a neighbor. grabbed the animal by the -ars and pulled it away from him. The cougar retreated into the | bus! snarling. It was later shot and killed by another neighbor, | Joseph Berube

Brian, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kilbreath of this com. munity 180 miles west fuouten, wen playing 30 1 ree from his home with other chil- | dren when the big him.

1 did the ag ~~ 1 could,” Mrs. McEvoy said. “I grabbed the cougar by the cers and tore 1k off the boy.”