| | | { * | : | | : | An artist’s conception of what the United States’ earth Satellite may look like is shown in picture at top. Picture at bottom shows the path around the earth the satellite will take. y USSR rehearsing for geophysical year By SAM RUSSELL MOSCOW eee than 500 observatories a arene stations all over Oviet Union have begun a ®onth’s rehearsal. for their Major task in the work of the aranationial Geophysical Year hich begins on July 1. oni Same time as this was noyy ite Professor Nsmeya- eae the Soviet Academy of scientist” disclosed that Soviet os Sts are ready to launch Irst earth satellite as: part = ee Contribution to the in- lonal research prograrn. Bd res that after many fs OL work Soviet scientists a ie cote the rockets and € other necessary equip- ant, for launching such a di ite which will travel a Istan ce of some hundreds of miles round the earth. ae Scientists had hoped to : € to launch their satellite Wake sprember, but recently it tha ma Lat in Washington With 5 € program was_ beset ei ie) many uncertainties that aunching would have to Gelayed Spring ¥ ies. least until the Ho Richard Porter, who is plan arge of the U.S. satellite es has explained that the delay is due to the magnitude of the problems involved in firing a 20 lb. sphere 300 miles into space with such exact speed and direction that it will circle the earth. The one month’s rehearsal here is to ensure that all the Soviet team are ready to go into action at midnight on July 1 when scientists all over the world begin their studies of various aspects of the earth according to an internationally agreed program. This will continue until Dec- ember 1958. Many new or com- pletely re-equipped Soviet re- search stations will be taking part in the studies, including three stations in the Institute of Terrestrial Physics, three stations of the Institute of At- mospheric Physics and many others. A special station has been established on the Fedchenko Glacier in the Pamirs at a height of 16,400 ft. the world’s highest meteorological and hydro-glacial observatory. Another station at Alma Ata, in Kazakhstan will concentrate on calculations of ozone con- tent throughout the atmosphere of the earth as well as on studies on ultra-violet radia- tion. Take demand for ban on H-tests on to streets, Bevan proposes “The arms race was always mad. British Labor party’s leading figures, told the conference of the National Trade Operatives last week. “Britain has joined the Hydrogen Bomb Club,” Now it is criminal,” he declared. “We LONDON Aneurin Bevan, one of the Jnion of Furniture have paid our sub- scription and now we are able to let off the biggest bomb of them all.” And he stressed that it was no good trying to deal with this matter purely in the House of Commons. He was under no delusion about what would happen in the forthcoming Commons disarmament debate. “The Conservatives will march into the lobby and reg- ister their majority in the House of Commons, which no longer represents the majority of the country. “J believe we should take our propaganda away from the House of Commons and take it into the streets of our ALGERIANS VOICE cities and demand that Britainwhom we shall never know. should resume the initiative she used to exercise and stop this madness. “The time has come when the conscience of the people of Britain must be roused. It can no longer be roused only in the House of Commons. It must be roused outside. We must tell the government that it no longer has any authority among the people.” Bevan questioned “whether we are entitled to condemn to death large numbers of people CHARGE Did French PARIS Suspicion is mounting that the two recent massacres in Algeria — of 301 males in Mel- ouza and of 37 farm workers in the Oran department — were the work of reactionary French forces. French fascists among the big landowners in Algeria have shown that they will go to:any length to prevent Algerians from gaining their full inde- pendence. They .could either have car- ried out the massacres them- selves or more likely hired some hill chief with a feud to do the mass killing for them. One or two of the hill ‘tribes have been notoriously used by the French authorities for ac- tions against their neighbors who were more rebellious against French rule. A statement by the under- ground Algerian National Lib- eration Front, whom French propaganda is accusing of the massacres, declared that the murdered people were its brethren and denounced the “horrible massacre” of them: It added: “It follows the in- tense bombardment of the en tire Algerian-Tunisian frontier, obliging thousands of Algerian men and women to put them- selves under the protection of the Tunisian. people, the mur- der at Biskara of 50 Algerians, the throat-cutting of 15 others at Tebessa and the kidnapping of 300 hostages.” The French government also has a major conflict with Tun- isia on.its hands, following the killing of seven Tunisian soldiers by French troops. Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba announced that all movement of French troops in Tunisia was now banned with- out Tunisian permission. He was speaking at the fu- neral of the killed Tunisians, and declared: “Today we ask France for the opening of negotiations on the evacuation of the French army. “If this be fending our said our way of de- way of life,” he “then we have to ask ourselves seriously whether such a way of life is worth de- fending. 41d, The time had come when the British Labor movement should insist that the British government take the initiative in stopping “this madness.” “The time has arrived when we should reason about these affairs like adults and not like children playing with danger- ous toys.” instigate massacres? “We shal] never accept that foreign troops should continue to be stationed on the soil of independent Tunisia. and to bring war there. We have the means—army, National Guard and the whole people — to prevent the movement of French troops.’ “We are not for reprisals. We wiil not say ‘seven of our peo- ple have been killed, they must be avenged.’ But we are start- ing the battle of evacuation.” As he left the funeral the Suspicion that French interests in’ Algeria may themselves have instigated recent massacres is reinforced by these pictures of a French policeman shooting down an Algerian which evoked tremendous crowd present set up the cry, “Evacuation, evacu- ation.” The incident in which the Tunisians were killed occurred when a French patro] entered Tunisia from Algeria and opeh- ed fire on a Tunisian party led by Khemais Hajeri, secretary- general of the Tunisian foreign ministry, who weré investigat- ing French frontier violations. Seven Tunisian soldiers were killed and Hajeri and 14 other Tunisians seriously wounded. widespread indignation when they were published in France. Numerous atrocities in Algeria have been laid to French forces. JUNE 14, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3 4 1 | 1 i j i iH : H i Ke H }