ROYAL EDITION FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6 1968 N0. 57.349 NWEPENCE The Navy arrests British trawlers From Our Correspondent Douglas, Isle of Man. Sept. 5 Two British trawlers were arrested off the Isle of Man today by a yal Naval minesweeper for?allegedly ?shing in Manx terri- xoml waters. Their skippers are to appear in courr tomorrow at Douglas. Boarding panics from the mine- sweeper Worion went on board the two vessels, Falrweather and Venture. registered a: Pelerbead, Abcrdeenshire. at dawn off Bradda Head, on the island?s southern coast. The Wollon, commanded by LieutenautCommander J. Rich? ardson. escorted them to Do when: a harbour spokesman said later that both [ranEl'S were being held. Mr. Jameson, secretary of the Isle of Man Board of Ag?ca?turc and Fisheries, said tonight that it was allegcd that the vmels bad 11 midwatcr trawling within half a mile of the Manx coast. He added that both skippers had dented knowledge of their positions. First action under 1965 law is the first arrest in the Isle of Man under the 1965 Act relating to ?shing in territorial waters he said. Recently there have been lot of vessels from out.? side the Isle of Man ?shing in our waters. We have had two Royal Naval vessels patrolling the tem?torial waters warning boats like those arrested on! to ?sh any more within three miles of the Isle of Man. The law allows boats less than 50ft. long to ?sh in our waters. These tWo boats are 60ft. oug. ?We are enforcing this law to protect the interests of our own people. If any more boats are caught trespassing they too will be arrested and charged.? At Douglas harbour an official said of the arrest: have never heard of this happening before. It's very unusual. wouldn?t like to say whether or not this will cause an international row between England and the Isle of Man." The Fairwcathcr and the Ven- ture were operating from White- buven. Cumberland, far William Donnun 8: Sun. of Whilehaveu. The proprietor, Mr. Richard Dammit. said at Whirchaven today: 1 have 20 trawlels opera- ting in the Irish Sea. In the last two years my ?rm has built a considerable business curing and salting herring-s for export. All these herring: are from the Irish ea. My ?rm employs up to 40 people each day to handle the herrings, and I have 20 trawler-5 operating. I hoped shortly to have 40. but after today I just don't know where we shall be able to ?sh for 'a living." Fears for herring business Both have a crew of night. and tonight Mr. Donnan said he had not yet been able to speak to his skippers ro ?nd out what had happened. He added: ?If We are unable to ?sh for herrinss 05 the Isle of Man it will cut my business by half. This is a real bombshell. especially as there is now virtually no one ?shing for herring except ourselves on the whole west coast of Britain." Three weeks ago an o?icer of the Royal Naval Fisheries Pro- tection Squadron sailed with the Manx Flecl on board a local boat wiLh poWer to raise the White Ensign and arrest any vessels fish- ing illegally inside Manx territo. rial waters. Our Legal \vrites:~ The arrests were made under a local isle of Man Sea Fisheries Commiltee lay-law of I965. It provides that no nuananx boats more than 50ft. long shall trawl within the three-mile limit of Isle of Mao territorial waters. The regulations were made by the Isle of Man Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and are based on the Sea Fisheries Acts originating from 1883. Such by-laws are supplementary in the l2-mile limit for foreign vessels. The British ?sheries pro- tection squadron, consisting of six coaslal minesweepers. is respons~ ible for enforcing the sea ?sheries by-laWS relating lo Scotland, Northern ireLand, and the Isle of Man. Correspondent The masters of two French ?sh. ing vessels which were escorted into Harwich. Essex, yesterday will appear in court today. the Ministry of Defence said last ILI . The Royal Naval Fisheries Pro~ tection vessel Wasperton arrested the trawlers Virgo Maria and Calupin. both of Boulogne, for allegedly having illegal neLs. The Virgo Maria was also arrested on allegations of ?shing within British territorial waters. Each trawler has a crew of ?ve. ?ew to Moscow yesterday amid rep policies in occupied Czechoslovakia. are not enforcing the Moscow agreemen was seen in Prague as a threat to Mr. Dubcek? In Moscow, Pravda accused Nato THE TIMES Kremlin expected to take ?rmer line in Czechoslovakia Mr. S. V. Chervonenko, the Soviet Ambassador in Prague, unexpectedly orts that the Kremlin was reviewing its basic A Tass statement that the Czech leaders and that another leader may be necessary, 5 position. of having prepared a massive military- political operation? to take over Czechoslovakia before the Soviet occupation. Fears of further repressive moves by increased cou nun?revolutionary Reports from Geneva. said that Dr. Jiri Hajek Minister, had left to return to Prague. before the Russian invasion. Russia were aroused by Moscow charges of activity in Prague. the Czechoslovak Foreign He has been out of Czechoslovakia since Moscow threat that Dubcek may be forced to step down From TAD SZULC?l?rague, Sept. 5 Mr. who was [be political coordinator of the inva- sion of Czechoslovakia, is a mem? ber of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The committee was reported without con?rmation last night to be in semion in Moscowthe sudden move against Czechoslovakia. Diplomats in Prague. who re- ported the Ambassador?s hurried departure for Moscow, speculated that il might relate to a reassess- ment of the whale Soviet posture in Czechoslovakia. In spite of more than two weeks of occupa- tion. the Soviet Union has not yet been able to resolve basic political problem of controlling the leadership here. Tonight, Czechoslovaks heard on their radios a statement by Tass, the Soviet news agency, that the agreement made in Moscow with the Czech leadersis not being carried out with suf?cient speed and that it may bc necessary to ?nd another leader to enforce it. This statement was interpreted as a threat against Mr. Dubcek and in the opinion of diplomats ir appeared to be related to Mr. Chervonenko's sudden departure for Moscow and the reported meeting of the Central Committee of the Soviet party. As matters stood tonight. obser? vers here would not exclude the possibility that. in the end, Mos cow may out of frustration estab- lish a military government here to be able. to control the elusivu situation. Heavy detachments of Soviet tanks and units of infantry troops still hold strategic points in Prague despite earlier assurances to the Czechoslovak Government that the second stage of the withdrawal ?ll-re removal of forces from the cities?would begin late this week. Another line of speculation, among both diplomats and well placed Czechoslovak communist analyss, was that the Soviet Cen- tral Committee may be simul- taneously studying relations with Rumania, around whose borders movements of Seviet and Bulgarian forces have been re. ported for several weeks. Finally, the speculation the possibility that important changes in lb: Soviet leadership may be discussed by the Central Committee as a result of the Czachoslovak crisis. Signs that the Soviet 'Union is encountering considerable politi- cal problems in Prague, in spite of the presence of its armed forces here. included the publi- cation of statements today by two leading prmMoscow communists denying that they had requesml the Soviet intervention. Rude Pravo. the of?cial Com- munist Party newspaper. pub? lished a statement by Mr. Oldrich Sveslka, Lhe paper's former editor and a member of the party?s Praesidium, who stated: do not betray my country, nor our Communist Party, nor my com- munist convictions. Rumours claiming that I was among those who had called for the troops of the Warsaw Pact are not true.? First children ?own out of ruin a Special Correspondent Sic Tome. Sept. 5 A group of 30 Biafran children with swollen legs, open sores and death in their eyes arrived on this Portuguese equatorial island last night in the relief airlift. Swedish pilots carried the small, frightened bundles from Iho uir? craft to two ambulances waiting to take them to the Sic Tom? hos- pital. It was the ?rst children?s airlift out of besieged Biafra. A total of 50 children is expected to be ?own here this week under the auspices of Caritas. a Roman Catholic relief organization. to re- ceive treatment for malnutrition and the debilitating disease of kwashiorkor. Last night's refugees, aged be- tween four and 12. were evacuated with [2.000 other refugees from Immediately after the invasion the Soviet Union announced that the invading troops had been ordered into kit: at the request of patriotic Czec communist leaders to crush a counter-revolution But Mr. said that while certainly committed mistakes and want to accept the responsi- bility for them, I cannot take the responsibility for acts which I did not commit and which many say I have committed." He continued: For several days I hesitated to make this per- sonal declaration in as much as Journalists foiled plot to justify invasion; Tito s?clo to his guns 1 Rum'an myopia over sympathy for Czechs 10 was promised that. information would be published in which all slander and ?ctions that were recently made against me would be refuted. ?The future will certainly [all the truth about use who were called collaborators and traitors. Today, I have no other alterna- tive than to declare before our party and our people that 1 did not betray my country.? In the strange situation which has developed here. very men Moscow had counted on to form a collaborationist regime after the invasion are uhlicly dissociat- ing themselves tom Moscow or am: being dropped from top party Mr. Svestka?s denial coin? today with one by a Praesidlum member. Mr. Ian Filler. Mr. Filler was one of the We conservatives. or pro-Moscow Pracsidium members. to have sur? vivad last Sunday?s reshuffle when Mr. Dubcek surprisingly in forming a predominantly liberal ruling body. Mr. Filler was the man who. with the Soviet Ambassador, called on President Svoboda at Hradcany Castle the day after the in vaxiou to pro se a workers and easauts? Cabinet that the Kremlin wanted him to head. According to authoritative Czechoslovuk- infonnanh'. the President refused to comply and in no uncertain terms asked the pair to leave his of?ce. Mr. Piller's explanation of his behaviour. printed in the newspaper Svoboda. had been ?rst delivared at greater length before last Sunday?s session of the Central Committee. Mr. Pillcr said thnt? I declare no my honour and my conscience that neither in the past our in the last dif?cult days have I ever betrayed the people of our own country or our Communist Party He strongly denied that he had ever dealt ?with anybody about ?entering or forming some new government?. Mr. Filler empha- sized thut his meetings on August 2I with about 50 Communist Party Central Cummitlce mem- bers at the Praha Hole! in Prague the village of Okpala on the [mo river where the is heaviest. It is a wonder any of them sur~ vived sni the Rev. Scan Broderick. a 32~yearold member of the Holy Ghost Order who accompanied the children on their ?ight to this island in the Gulf of Guinea. It has become the centre for Biafran relief opcrations Father Broderick. who comes from co. Clare in the Republic of Ireland. described the evacuation of Okpala. The Nigerian Federal forces. in a drive to cut the Aha- Owerri road. crossed the Otamiri river and mved in on Okpnla. which is l6 miles north of Aha and 22 miles south of Owerl'i. when the Nigerians were three miles from Okpala and began bombing the village it was decided to evacuate the 150 children from the Caritasvsnonsorcd sick bay. Under torrential rain. the child. I asuid to have been held under Soviet auspicesgand with Soviet Embassy of?cials were ?designed exclusively to win the release of Dubcek and his liberal associates from Soviet captivity Hi5 call on President Svobodn. be said, was made [0 arrange for 3 "it? to Moscow by a led by the President to negotiate the freeing of the liberal leaderi ship. Similar clari?cations were made by Mr. Vasil Blink. who was re- utincd on the Praesiclium but dis: missed last week as First Secretary of the Slovak Communist Party; by Mr. Drahvmir Kuldcr. who was removed from the Pracsidium: and by Mr. Miles lukes. a Central Committee member. These men were regarded as the chief foes of the Dubcck liberali- zation programme?and as the principal backers of the Moscow interventionist policy. But the Central Committee was: said to have accepted ll'lcir explanation With the nation apparently fully united behind Mr. Duhcek. his attitude appears to be the same kind of passive but successful de?ance of the Russians that the Czechoslovak: displayed in the ?rst week of the invasion. Ostensihly. the Prague leader- ship is bending with the wind, as a political observer put it today. but the real concessions to the Soviets have been minim while following the of?cial order that the Word ?occupation must not be used. the Moscow agreement must not be discussed and the Warsaw Pact countries must not be criticized. Prague newspapers none the less suc~ cecded in conveying their views of the whole situation simply by printing the statements of Mr. Sveslka and Mr. Piller, In the same way. Prague Tclc- vision gor its point across last night, when it resumed transmis- sion from its own studios for the ?rst time Since the invasion. It presented Smetana's opera Dali- bur (Faraway Forest) a tale of peasants rising against their oppressors. The National Theatre in Prague also plans in open its season on September It) with a Dalihor. The maintenance of public order is being gradually rciumed lo the Czechoslovak forces. For the ?rst time since the invasion, Czechoslovak soldiers with sub? machine guns appeared in Prague today guarding bridges. tunnels, and other strategic spots. A showdowu between the Dub- regime and Russia may develop with the return here of Mr. Jiri Hajek. Foreign Minister, the target of vociferous attack by the Soviet pt . . The Prague Gavemment refuses rn dismiss him as other public ?gures objectionable to Moscow have already been removed. In fact, M_r. Hajek is expected to address the National Assembly, of which he is a member. when it meets next week to discuss the implementation of the Moscow agreemenLiNew York News. Service. ren were taken by car and lorry to the village of Flinihhe. 25 miles east of Okpala. where they arrived early yesterday morning. In the secondary school now serving as a relief centre they were given hot breakfast of yarns. cereal. and tuna ?sh. Then 30 of the children?those with the has! chances of survival ?ineluding two whose mother and father had been killed in the bombing raid. were taken to the airport and put into a Swedish Transair DC7 making the relic! shuttle service from S50 Tome. Father Broderick, who will relum to Biafra tonight, said the Nigerian bombing ?is getting savage now but the were gaining ground militarily. yesterday?s ?ghting the Biafrans succeeded in driving the Nigerians back six miles from Okp?dll. saving the Aha-Owerri Sir Roberl Menzies: walked to ambulance. Sir Robert Menzies taken ill By a Staff Reporter Sir Robert Menzies, former Prime Minister of Australia, was admitmt to the London Clinic yesterday after he had been taken ill. The Clinic mid Sir Robert, aged 73, had been admitted for a check-up. He fell unwell while having lunch yesterday with his daughter, Hca cr. who is married to Mr. Peter Henderson, a senior of?cial in the Australian Ministry of Ex- ternal A?airs. An otlchul at Australia House said last night Sir Robert felt "mtber crook" at lunchtime. ?One would just hazard a lay man?s guess that it was a stroke or perhaps a slight coronary." One of Sir Robert?s medical advisers sui His condition is entirely satisfactory." A doctor and an ambulance were called. but Sir Robert was able to wall; In the ambulance unaideLL Dame Pallie Menzies went with him to the clinic. where he is expected to stay for a few uys. Sir Robert. who Sir Winston Churchill as?Lord War- den of the Cinque Ports, was Prime Minister of Australia from I949 to 1966. He had planned to sail for Aus- tralia today on board the P. 8; 0. Liner Canberra. Sir Robert arrived in Britain on lune l6 for the annual visit he promised to make when he accepted the of?ce of Lord Warden in I965. As well as carrying out the ceremonial duties of his of?ce. he has been speaking a: school speech-days and similar functions. He was appointed president of Kent County Cricket Club this year. and his visit was. timed so that he could preside in a marquee at Canterbury cricket week, the climax of the season for the club. E. Women?s claim rejected By Our Labour Staff The joint committee set up to investigate the Ford women machinists' dispute has rejected their claim for a higher pay grade. AL a mass meeting at Dagenham yesterday the women decided to chalk-age the committee's ?ndings. Mr. Bernard Passingham. deputy cunvenor at the Dagenham car plant. said they were challenging some of the facts supplied by the company to the committee. which met on Wednesday. Although the women seem to have lost their battle, their ban on overtime remains. Zoo?s red panda recaptured By a Sta? Reporter Rama, the red panda. was caught yesterday. four days after his escape from London Zoo. The panda had been at the top of an elm tree in Regent's Park and was watched by zoo keepers all night. Yesterday they sawed the top off a sapling into which he had climbed and caught him in a neL Biafra link. the Irish missionary said. Last week the Nigerians get within one mile of Ab: but the Biafrans used 130 mortar bombs against them and have pushed them four miles south of Aha. The Nigerians have not managed to push southwards from the Onitsha-Enugu road, he said. In the east the Binfrans. surprised by the Nigerian offensive against Oguta. have driven them back is miles this Week. The heaviest toll is among civilians, he said. Nigerian air- craft machine-gunned the Brain hospital over and over again yesterday. ?Somebody must force a cease. ?re Father Broderick said. ?The Blafrans will no: Rive in bemuse they are certain they will all be slaughtered York Times News Service. BBC. shows execution. page 5. A Minister ?rm on pay policy despite TUC rejection From MICHAEL THOMAS, BluckpooL'Sch 5 The Trades Union Congress massive rejection of Government [lay policy here today will not a?ect the deter? mination to continue with the prices and incomes legislation. This was made clear tonight by Mrs. Castle, Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity. do not think the Government are at all surprised by the outcome of Lhe voting she said. It is broadly the lines we anticipated." A contemptuously tiny majority pledged the full support of annual Trades Union Congress for the General Council?s voluntary incomes policy. The card vote on this resolution, in which the dyers? union described the policy as the ?fairest and most e?enive way" of removing wage anomalies, was 4.266.000 in favour and 4,232,000 against. a majority of 34,000. Unions with at least 200.000 votes abstained. The council did better when it sought the delegates? endorsement of its own report on the principlus and practice of the policy over the last year. This secured a majorin of 758.000 in a rather bigger poll. When 3 Similar report was put lo a conference of union executivas in Croydon last February, the majority was only 536,000. None of these votes proves any- Lhing but that the unions are still split almost equally over T.U.C in their individual wage strategies but Mr. George Woodcock, T.U.C. general secre? tary. commented after today?s Session that: the council would, at least be able to carry on as it had been doing. Appeal to unions There was no doubt at all about the delegates? fueling: on legisla- tion to curb wage increases. They demanded its repeal by 7.746900 votes to 1.022.000?3 majority of 6.724.000?with the electricians. steel workers. and clerks as the only big unions to dissent. A proposal by the electrician; that some inde? pendent body such as the Prices and lncomcs Board should apply incomes policy rather than the T.U.C. received few votes other than their own. Mr. Woodcock said later that he hoped that the Government would reflect a little on the merit of the Prices and Incomes Acts. although be imagined they would hardly be surprised at the dele- gates? attitude. In opening the debate, he dis- claimed any wish for controversy and appealed to unions not to be African role defended by Ian Smith Salisbury. Sept. 5 Mr. Ian SmiLh. the Rhodesian Prime Minister. tonight scored a signi?cant victory over dissident right-wingers ut the ?constitu- tional congress of his Rhodesian Front Party. He was given a cool reception from the $00 delcgates when he. and members of his Cabinet. entered the hall. l?lc received only a smattering of applause. Conference souera said. however, that he broke the strained with an appgal to delegates to keep your an Occasionally snapping at right- wing interjectors, Mr. Smith emphasized that the decisions made at the conference would be vitaL He declared: ?Merit is going to be the criteria in Rhodesia. You can't call a black man a second elass citizen just because he is black. You have a special respon- sibility for black Rhodesians. becauSc they are not represented at. this congress tonight." is ruled our suggestions that there was a poEibillty of appeas? in; the British Government. "We are practical people and we want the right constitution for Rho- desia." he said. ?If we wanted appeasement we would not be here France Prase. Haiti President to free Knox Port?au-Princc. Sept. Presi- dent Duvalier of Haiti announced today that he will free Mr. David Knox. the British colonial o?icial sentenced to death on spying charges. The President made the announcement after Mr. Dalton Murray, the Brinsh Ambassador, had made a personal plea for clemency for Mr. Knox, who was accused of being involved in an abortive invasion of Haiti last y. Mr. Knox. aged 45.. was born in South Africa. He was director of inormaLion the Bahamas.? .P. drawn into a ?ght. He called the dyers' motion a pig in a poke" and wished it was not on the agenda. but said that it had better be [named or the Government might think that the T.U.C. had n0 policy and that in legislation would therefore be justi?ed. The Government's policy was nasty, brutish and short, but. the .U.C. was looking far ahead to more orderly and just system of collective bargaining under its own in?uence. He assured unions that the T.U.C. was. there to help them win improvements for their members if they would only accept a comprehensiVe and consistent policy. The debate was remarkable more for what the speakers had 10 say about one another than for speeches on the merits of the motions. Mr. I. Feel. of the dyers, explained how misguided were those Who had begged him to withdraw his own. He insisted that it would be a dreadful Sign of Weakness to swoop the unions? differences under the carpet. Two features Mr. Frank Cousins, of the transport workers. and Mr. Peel?s chicf opponent, was at his most waspish. He even lbeW in for good moosure an attack on Mr. Sidney Greene. chairman of the council?s economic committee, for something he said yesterday. Mr. Hugh Scanlon. of the engineers, arrayed so many of the usual left? wing arguments against Mr. Peel's motion so quickly that his perform- ance resembled the breathless agility ofa one-man hand. There were only two signi?cant features of the debate. One was that. in spite of the president?s invitation. nobody wanted to speak in defence of wages legisla- tion. The other was the genuine bitterness about if expressed by people as different as local gov- ernment officials and Thames bargcmen. Conferunce report. page 8: lead- ing articl' e. page ll. IN BUSINESS NEWS: NEW AID FOR STERLING SOON Callaghan faces plot questions By CLIVE BORRELL and BRIAN Mr. Callaghan. Home Secretary. is expected to be asked for a state- ment about. plans. which have been passed to the police. that groups of militant extremists intend to occupy certain central London buildings on October 27. Several M.P.s, concerned at threatened armed violence. intend to press fora quick reply when the House of Commons; reassemble: on October The groups plan to seize key buildings and installa. lions while polite are busy con- trolling an expected total of 100,000 peaceful demonstrators In an anti-Vietnam war march. Soon after reading reports of the planned violence in The Times yesterday. Mr. Marcus Lipton. Labour MP. for Brixton. wrote to the Home Secretary. asking that the demonstration should be limited to the con?nes of Hyde Park. Mr. Duncan Sandys, Conserva? live M.P. for Streatham. said last night: ?The Brilish people will not tolerate anarchy such as we have seen recently in quc?. Having now been warned of an extremist plol. the Home Ollie: have a clear duty to take what- ever action is necessary to forestall this plot." Scotland Yard yesterday issucd the following statement: ?Scot. land Yard is aware of growing interest shown by the press and other news media in the anti- Vietnum war demonstrations which are to take place in London on October 2547. .. Some of the press comment is factual, but some is speculative and likely in arouse public Appre- hension unnecessarily. The police know of no reason at [his stage to assume that these demonstrations will involve forms. of violence appreciably dl?emm from thus: experienced in London earlier this year." However. at least 20 members of the militants' executive commit- tee-will meet this weekend at a scum address in a north Midlands city. It is at this meeting that ?nal plans are expected to be laid THE REST or THE-NEWS- Malaise of society: Mr. Maudling examines the reasons why Britain lags behind in economic growth 11 The birch: An end to Yugoslav crash: Error by pilot Ibree drowned: Three men died in an effort to save a girl bather Arts and Property corporal punishment in Entertainment: 9 market Lu schools urged at Oxford 2 Businl?ss Science report In Nuns 2l-30 Sports [3-15 . Chin-d: News 11 TV and Rndio Is 333'?? I?m Court. Social 12 The Times enge or execuuve 3 Crossword 20 Diary ll] 7 12 75 Years Ago 12 . 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