ARMS TAKEN OFF SHIP

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28559, 12 April 1958, Page 13

ARMS TAKEN OFF SHIP

Algerian Customs Unload 86 Cases i (Rec. 8 p.m.) BONE, April 11. Customs officials at this East Algerian port have unloaded 86 cases of arms from the British cargo ship Baltic Exporter, French officials said last night. The 86 cases were described on the ship’s manifesto as containing old rifles and had been taken on at Leghorn destined for Hamburg, they said. Troops formed a guard round the cases to keep away idlers while they were examined. The Baltic Exporter has put off her departure until this morning. French officials said the cases would probably remain in Bone after the ship left for the examination to be completed.

‘‘The main purpose of Mr Khrushchev’s triumph over the work-until-you-drop Stalinists is to prove that under-paid workers under-work,” says the ‘‘Daily Mail.’-’ According to reliable sources quoted by the newspaper, fresh ferment among Russia’s 200,000,000 people is springing from the high cost and low standard of living clamped on them by a gigantic arms programme. , Mr Khrushchev has made veiled references to this from time to time. ’But on his return to Moscow from Hungary today he forecast in the most positive terms yet a ‘‘sharp increase” in consumer goods for the Soviet people.