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: For the second time within three weeks French police
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end for attacking the government’s policy of torture:and re-

Pression in Algeria.

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ment he has sent out—tortur-
ed by French parachute offi-
cers. The authorities promis-
ed to bring him to an inquiry
—but at last weekend it had
not started and no~one had
been allowed to see him.

Audin is a young university
professor arrested by the para-
chutists.— and he has been
missing since June 21.

A French writer, Martin
Chauffier, who went to Al-
geria: with a delegation for
the International Commission
Against Concentration Camps,
has described some of the prac-
tices’ of torture being carried
out in the country to suppress
the independence movement.

“Sometimes the interroga-
tion is pushed so hard that the
victim dies of it,” he wrote.
“Sometimes he emerges alive
but in a state in which he
can no longer be handed over
to justice or restored to liberty.

“In both cases he disappears
without leaving any traces.
Sometimes a laconic notice an-
nounces that he had to be shot
while trying to escape... .”

Chauffier declared that on
good authority it is estimated
that about 80 percent of the
Foreign Legion parachutists
are German, some of them
former SS men—which means
the very men who not so
many years ago tortured
French patriots.

workers

"gree to end strike

folfoy,
“fair:

log, (Citorial added that “the
Selveg tam-workers let them-
SPonsibie influenced by irre-
ut sk elements and had
Beton a unreal demands.”
Workene . ‘€ war tramway
Daj TS were among the best-
they }Yorkers in Poland, but

| Daig ave been among lower-

Hower OuPs since the war.
the, “© Over the past year
ahd ap. ° Teceived increases
furthe, now due to receive a
8S pant 10 to 12 percent rise
i Of a wide range of pay

or lower-paid workers

to Lo, 8 the government, went
Doge, 2 and explained the pro-

Inere s
Workers ases to the tram

WARSAW

The Strike of tramway workers in Lodz ended last week
Mg a mass meeting. Trybuna Ludu, reporting the re-
© work, said “the Lodz tram-workers, recognizzing the
Ness of the strike action, resolved to return to work.”

Apparently they were dis-
appointed and decided to take
strike action, demanding be-
tween 30 to 50 percent or more
in basic wage rates, plus ex-
tra payment for years of ser-
vice and increased bonus pay-
ments. oe

Attitude of the_ authorities
to the workers’ demands is
that they are not exorbitant
having regard to living stand-
ards, but they simply cannot
be met because the country Is
unable to afford them.

The solution to low living
standards in Poland is not by
strike action but through in-
creased production, as Premier
Gomulka has patiently point-
ed out over past months,

DR. CHEDDI JAGAN

Jagan may —
form govt

GEORGETOWN

Dr.. Cheddi Jagan, victor in
last week’s British Guiana’s
elections, called on Governor
Sir Patrick Renison last week-
end to discuss formation of a
new government.

The People’s Progressive
party, led by Dr. Jagan, was
ousted from office less than
four; years ago, when British
troops and warships were sent
to the colony and the constitu-
tion was suspended. Jagan was
deposed from the premiership
and jailed.

In the elections held last
week, the People’s Progressive
party led by Dr. Jagan took 9
of the 14 seats. Dr. Jagan him-
self won his own East Berbice
constituency with 15,640 votes
to 2,197 votes for the splinter
PPP candidate and 576 for the
National Labor Front candi-
date.

The splinter People’s Pro-
gressive party, headed by John
Burnham who led.a_ break-
away group two years ago,
took three Georgetown seats,
and the United Democratic
party obtained one seat.

The present constitution —
less democratic than the one
suspended in 1953 — has no
provision for a chief minister
or leader of the Legislative
Council. Dr. Jagan has hinted
he will ask for six of the 11
council seats, to which the
governor has power to nom-
inate.

He said it was too early to
announce his policy because
his executive would have to
determine it; but he would
start by cleaning up the gov-
ernment so that. the people
would have confidence in it

and would work enthusiastic- .

ally toward building a better
Guiana.

But British Guiana with its
nearly 500,000 people, intends
to stay in the Commonwealth,
he said, :

Radiation. perils
dairy industry

SYDNEY

Radioactivity from continued nuclear tests may ultimately
cause milk to be banned in Australia, paralyzing the country’s
dairy industry. This is the warning given here by Col. Lilly-

white, member of the
Authority.

The warning is given greater
significance in view of the

British government’s announc-
ed intention of conducting fur-
ther atomic weapons tests@in
Australia this fall and another
series of H-tests at Christmas
Island in the Pacific next
spring.

Colonel . Lillywhite forecast
the milk ban if cows ate quan-
tities of radioactive grass.

Radiation strontium 90
would attack the bones and
milk of cows “and people
drinking the milk could be
horribly affected,’ he said.

Colonel Lillywhite strongly
advised regular tests of milk
and water taken from country

districts to ‘determine how
much radiation they con-
tained.

“If nuclear tests continue,
our dairying industry might
run into trouble,” he warned.

Another Australian Civil De-
fence official, Dr, E. P. George,
adviser -to the New South
Wales Civil Defense Organisa-
tion, has dispelled some of the
illusions created by the Brit-
ish government’s —announce-
ment that it exploded “clean”
atom bombs at Christmas Is-
land last spring.

The so-called “clean” bomb,
he said, would bring down;
more radio-activity over Aus-
tralia than previous bombs be-
cause it had been exploded
high in the air.

Earlier bombs, exploded on
the ground, had created only
localised fall-out. Bombs ex-
ploded in the air threw the
radio-active material high in
the upper atmosphere, causing
fall-out over a wider area.

The engineering pavilion at the 195 U

Australian Federai

Alexander Yakovlev.

Civil Defense

Rainwater
radioactive

Rainwater in storage tanks
in several parts of the Jura
Mountains, Switzerland, con-
tains radioactivity exceeding
safe limits.

A Swiss federal commission,
announncing this last week-
end, said research would be
undertaken to find ways and
means of diminishing the
radioactivity in these tanks,
which are -used mostly by
farmers in dry regions where
other sources of water are
rare.

The commission said there
was no cause for alarm over
the increase in radioactivity
of both air and water in recent
months, but added:

“On the other hand, the
radioactivity of the rain ‘has
recently reached levels which
cannot be considered inoffen-
sive if such rainwater is used

directly as drinking water overs

a period of several years or
even decades.”

Guided missile flown
by Soviet test pilot

MOSCOW

One of the Soviet Union’s
leading test pilots has been
rocketed into the air at tre-
mendous speed in a guided
missile to test its accuracy and
stability.

This disclosure, that a human
being has, for the first time,
taken his place in a missile,
was made here last- week by
the famous aircraft designer

and Industrial Exhibition in Moscow. Here the most
modern of farm machinery used in all types of diversified
agriculture can be seen. This pavilion is one of the key
points of interest in the Exhibition.

August 23, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE-PAGE 3