Cable Items In Brief

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30678, 18 February 1965, Page 13

Cable Items In Brief

ABOUT 500 left-wing students opposing “normalisation” of relations with South Korea engaged in a bloody clash with police near Tokyo airport yesterday. “As many as 60” demonstrators and police were injured.

HIGHER taxes in the next Australian Federal budget are more likely as a result of the Commonwealth loan which closed last week—-under-subscribed by £20.8 million. The Federal Government set a -target of £6O million.

PRINCESS Fadia, aged 21, the youngest daughter of former King Farouk of Egypt, will marry a 26-year-old White Russian geologist, Pierre Orloff today, a London register office reports. Both live in London. Princess Fadia is a Moslem and her fiance is Christian Orthodox.

THE RULING Freedom Party has promised in a manifesto for the March 22 general elections to continue its efforts to impose stricter controls on Ceylon’s newspapers. Two controversial bills calling for the appointment of a press council and take over of the island’s biggest newspaper group, were due for second reading when the Government was defeated on a no-confidence motion on December 3.

BRITAIN’S Far East Air Force, now as big as any British command in the world, could handle anything that might happen in Malaysia, its commander, Air Marshal P. G. Wykeham, says.

A BRITISH Council of Churches report, “The Future of South Africa,” recommends to the British Government that emigrants to South Africa should be taxed and the money used for the relief of apartheid victims. The report also suggests that

the assets in Britain of emigrants to South Africa should be frozen and no more than £lO allowed to each prospective settler in the republic.