Cabled Briefs

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30712, 30 March 1965, Page 13

Cabled Briefs

CIGARETTE and tobacco advertisements of all kinds might be banned in 40.000 British pubs from August 1, the “Sunday Times” says. The Licensed Victuallers’ Defence League committee is expected to decide in favour of a ban.

THE AMBASSADOR of the United States to South Vietnam. Genera) M. D. Taylor, returned to Washington yesterday and reported that “things are turning for the better” in the long campaign against Communist guerrillas. IN LYONS. 12 outstanding cancer specialists will meet today for a conference to work out a research programme for a new International research centre which will have an annual budget of two million dollars. SEVEN policemen were reported injured in Brussels last night in clashes with anti-nuclear demonstrators. About 200 of the 10,000 demonstrators had tried to force their way into the American Embassy after marching through the centre of the city. NEAR LIEGE. Belgium, more than 80 coal miners who had stayed down their pit for 12 days in protest against plans to close it returned to the surface last night. They had been guaranteed new jobs or compensation. CONGO troops led by white mercenaries have taken the town of Aba, in the northeast Congo, and surrounded the insurgent-held town of Faradje. Aba. about 110 miles from the town of Aru, taken by Government forces last Thursday, is considered to be a centre for supplies coming to the insurgents from Sudan.

SOVIET whalers working off the West Australian coast have returned closer to Albany and have continued killing in the area. A supply ship named Albatross, which had not previously been seen, has joined 11 chasers operating about 40 miles east of Albany. LONDON'S office workers will be able to spend their lunch-hours swaying to the rhythm of African tribal drums next autumn. The Ministry of Works has agreed that a stage can be erected in Trafalgar Square during the Commonwealth arts festival, which will start on September 16 and last three weeks. TERRY DENE, the former British pop star, has joined an evangelical group and hopes to become a minister. Terry, who earned £5OO a week six years ago, stands on corners in Soho and tells of his rise to fame and subsequent fast living—and the break-down that followed. FIRST shipment to Britain of new season's New Zealand apples and pears, arriving in the Megantic, is expected to sell well on Covent Garden and Spitalfields markets on Wednesday. The Megantic took 77,789 cases of apples and 18,696 cases of pears from Napier and Nelson.