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Communists shell Quemoy and Little Quemoy islands over 5 hrs; Nationalists rept 3 killed, 7 wounded; map
Apptd Under Sec for Foreign Affairs
Mme Ollier, ex-2d sec of French Embassy, arrested, Noumea, after testimony by Petrov that she gave him secret data about loading arms for French in Indochina
de Castries freed; reptd thin, tired but unbroken in spirit; wife gets wire from Gen; French POWs illus
Commerce Dept div repts durables inventories down $200 million, July; other data
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]