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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 19

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New ambassador Lord Cromer, a former Governor of the Bank of England, has been named as Britain’s new Ambassador to the United States. He succeeds Mr John Freeman, who recently announced his retirement from the post.—London, November 9. Agent killed A North Korean agent was killed and another captured by South Korean coastal security troops in a gun battle yesterday morning, on an island about 20 miles west of Seoul, the South Korean Defence Ministry has announced. —Seoul, November 9. Tokyo denial The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry today denied that any official negotiations were under way for closer economic relations between Australia and Japan. The Ministry said that the present relations between the two nations were already excellent, and that there were no trade or economic problems requiring urgent attention.—Tokyo, November 9. Fire warning in air A United States jumbo jet . carrying 161 persons made .an emergency landing in . Albuquerque yesterday after a fire warning in the cockpit. . Passengers aboard the Ameri- ! can Airlines Boeing 747, en . route from Los Angeles to Washington, left the aircraft .by emergency chutes. Firefighting equipment surroun '■ ded the plane, but there win [ no fire on board.— , que (New Mexico), Nov. 9. Calcutta shootings ' Two persons died r-.d ' seven more, including five children, suffered gunshot . wounds in renewed violence in different parts of Calcutta : today, the police reported. > One man was shot dead by [ police after they were at- , tacked while raiding a house in the city early today. They , had been called to the house i after a woman had been as- , saulted. Three policemen j were wounded in the inci- . dent.—Calcutta, November 8. i “Well, that’s it” 1 A new law went into effect , today ending “quickie” di- ; vorces which had brought ’> millions of dollars into the , Mexican border town of ! Juarez, the Associated Press . has reported. “Well, that’s ’ it,” sighed Eugenio Flores, a - leading Juarez divorce lawyer, who says that he has helped dissolve the marital bonds of more than 50,000 couples since 1948.—Juarez, . November 8. Bodies floating Five more bodies, believed , to be those of escapers from . China, were found by police , in Hong Kong waters yester- ’ day, bringing to 38 the total number of bodies recovered in a week, the ’Associated i Press has reported. Police : said that most of the 38 were I youths who apparently drowned while swimming from Communist coastal areas to Hong. Kong.-*—Hong Kong, November 9.