% his is Cape Canaveral, Florida, site now under con- struction for launching of the U.S. earth satellite. Mos- COw Radio announced this week that Soviet scientists “have created the rockets and all other necessary equipment for launching an artificial earth satellite for scientific ob- Servations.” Italian Communists |gain in elections ROME Comunists have made considerable gains in Italian local elections, it is apparent from returns. Polling took place on May 26 in 142 towns and villages scat- tere throughout the country. When results covering 270,000 «Of the more than 500,000 votes cast had been declared the fol- Owing percentage polls were Biven (1956 figures in paren- thesis): _ Christian Democrats 39.86 (35.4);.. Communists._ 29.31 6.21); Nenni Socialists 17.19 (19.76); Social’ Democrats 4:89 (4,98). Monarchists and “€0-fascists both polled little 4nd lost heavily. A Communist party spokes- an said the results were a ‘ign that the party had recov- "red from the crisis caused by fal Hungarian events of last The Christian Democrat itish invite Poles WARSAW The Speaker of the British Ouse of Commons and the “Ord Chancellor have invited 8n official delegation from the | Polish Seym to visit Britain. The letter of invitation states that an official visit from the Olish Seym would undoubted- yi contribute to ‘consolidating hose bonds of friendship al- ‘“fady existing between the '*atliaments and peoples of Sth countries.” gains corresponded almost ex- actly to the Monarchist and Neo-fascist losses. The trends were considered, in Rome to be indicative of what may-ehappen in the gen- eral election next spring. Greek war hero killed ATHENS General Stefanos Sarafis, wartime commander-in-chief of the patriotic Greek Resist- ance, ELAS, has been killed in a street accident in. Athens. An American Mission car driven by an un-named U.S. Air Force sergeant knocked him down as he was walking near Athens Airport with his British-born wife. Mrs. Sarafis was critically injured. The 67-year-old general was a parliamentary deputy, gen- eral secretary of the Left Wing EDA (United Democratic Left) party at the time of his death. ¢ CHINA TRADE EASED BRITAIN EXPECTING TO DOUBLE EXPORTS With the dead hand of the China embargo considerably lifted, first mov LONDON eS are being made by big British tractor, truck and machine-tool companies to pin down the government to cases, and to renew contacts with the Chinese government. One of the first to pay a visit to the Board of Trade to seek details was A. V. Spencer, one of the executives of the giant Massey-Harris-Ferguson organization, who went to China last year to make soundings for tractor contracts. At least 100 of this Coven- try firm’s tractors have been sent out as “pilots” to see if they suit Peking, which let it be known last year that China needs 1,400,600 tractors in the next few years. When British Foreign Sec- retary Selwyn Lloyd, to the chagrin of the U.S., announced that Britain would adopt. the same embargo lists for the China trade as for the Soviet Union, he said licenses would be granted “on request.” The government’s decision is far from freeing all items for trade with China, but roughly it reduces the present list of nearly 500 barred items to under 300 items. These are on the list barred for export to the Soviet Union. Lloyd said the decision would mean “certaifi items now embargoed for China will either be transferred to the quantitative control list or the watch list or completely freed.” “The Export of Goods Con- trol Order will be amended accordingly soon as that can -be done. “Meantime, licenses will be granted on request for all it- ems now embargoed for China but: not subject to export lic- ensing to the Soviet bloc.” A Board of Trade official calculated that Britain’s ex- ports to China this year might double, rising from $28 mil- lion to $56 million. But a spokesman for a group of businessmen in the China trade, welcoming the = an- nouncement, - said: “What i as is more important is the prin- ciple of the decision. It means that after keeping in step with the U.S. for two years we have decided to go ahead on our own.” Items that can now be free- ly exported from Britain to China include most tractors, and rolling stock, many ma-~ chine items and chemicals. The change will immediately improve employment pros- pects in those industries. Massey-Harris-Ferguson is turning out tractors at the rate of 300 a day and can produce 100,000 units a year. It is ex- porting to 118 countries, not- ably Scandinavia, Australasia and South Africa. A spokesman said that once the company knew what was permissible it would almost certainly “pick up the threads of negotiations with the Chinese government where they were left off.” exactly : Similarly, Fords, makers of the Fordson tractor, as well as commercial vehicles said it was “very interested” in this lat- est development and undoubt- edly contacts would be re-es- tablished with the Chinese government. A spokesman for the Rootes Group said that “manufactur- ers always welcome the lifting of trading restrictions’ and felt “we have the products which are ideally suited to Chinese conditions.” Already the Chinese have bought a number of the group’s cars — including 60 luxurious Super-Snipes — and commer- cial vehicles. Sir William’ Rootes, chair- man of the group, who is at present in the United States, called on the government last September to be “more virile and active” in freeing over- seas markets for British trade, and for a lifting of the bans on the export of commercial vehicles to China. One of the finest tributes to Chinese business methods cdme from the Midlands firm of Rubery Owen which has been fulfilling a $2,800,000 embargo- free order for Peking over the last 12 months, Gordon Sloan, the firm’s sales director whose visit to Peking last summer resulted in the order, said it would probably be fall before poten- tial business, as a result of the lifting of the embargo, would be realised. But he saw great prospects ahead and had no doubt that the Chinese could pay in sterl- ing for what they wanted. He added: “Their terms of pay- ment and forms of contract are reasonable, and their trad- ing methdds completely above reproach.” Lebanese protesting doctrine Police with armored cars opened fire on Lebanese dem- “onstrating against the Eisen- hower doctrine in Beirut last week, killing at least seven: They were enforcing a ban on demonstrations, after the Opposition had accused the government of “selling Leban- ese independence for KEisen- hower Doctrine dollars” and had demanded that Lebanon should follow Egypt’s foreign policy. Premier Sami Solh ordered the army to take over Beirut after the Opposition announced that it was defying the ban. The Opposition claims that government officials are cor- rupting the elections due to begin on June 9. They threat- ened a strike if the premier did not make way for an “hon- est and impartial adminisra- tion” to supervise the polls. Lebanon’s was the first Arab government to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine of U.S. intervention in the Middle East and its present policy of re- pression depends on U.S. sup- port. Two Opposition leaders were among those injured by the armed police. Saeb Salam, a former prime minister, was hit on the head with a rifle butt and received stitches, An- other Opposition leader, Nasim Majdalani, was shot through the hand. Top runner Sandor tharos goes hack to Hungary BUDAPEST Sandor Iharos, world record-breaking Hungarian middle- distance runner who left his homeland during last year’s rising has returned to Budapest with his wife, Dona Laczo. one of Hun gary’s best women javelin throwers. é The Hungarian news “Homesickness brought us back.” Iharos added that when they left Hungary last November and: arrived in Vienna, “We, too, became the victims of foreign propaganda and that is the reason we did not re- turn.” Tharos said that from Vienna agency quoted Iharos “as saying: he went to Brussels where he became a member of a leading Belgian club, the Racing Club of Brussels. He and Ilona were married in the Belgian capital. The champion said he want- ed to join in Hungarian sport once more and would. start training soon. JUNE 7, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3