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Early-Morning "Joy-Ride" Ends
Offer To
66
Mediate
For Its Recovery
London, Jan. 10.
famous A scion of a Scottish clan offered today
to act as a go-between for
the recovery of the snatch-
ed Coronation Stone Britain.
of
and head of the Royal Stuart
The offer came from Capt. II. Stuart Wheatly-Crowe, founder
group devuttel Suriety, krepint green the memory
Royal Stuart the long-delimet
a
to
of
The slow-known North of the border as "Scotland's Stone of Deling" was yanked from under the Coronation chale in daring Westminster Abbey in rald early Christmas day.
Ardent patriots highlands are believed by de- lectives to have brough: off the coup.
from
In Tragedy
Car Lands In Harbour: One
Man Killed, One Missing
Of five men who went for a "joy-ride" at four o'clock this morning one is now dead, one missing and the others treated for shock and cuts in Queen Mary Hospital.
The car in which they were travelling along Connaught Road Central left the road opposite the Harbour Office and plunged over the Praya wall into the sea.
One of passengers, Hui Kwok-ngoi aged 37, of 45 Fort Street first floor, pinned inside the car, was drowned.
Driver of the car. Tam Wah aged 27, of 187 Des Voeux Road
floor, the West, second
and two passengers Sung Chit-cang, 30 Tam Wing. 29, were and rescued by the crew of the No 1 Fire Float which was lylog alongside 1 nearby wharf,
his
near
FRANTIC SEARCH
issued Wheatly-Crowe offer from his home Lymington, Hampshire,
He cald if those in the know will address him "anonymously or through some third party" he will "undertake to negotiate a peaceful settlement or solu- tion,'
Nationalists
have
The Afth occupant of the car, Ng Ming-wun, 25, of the Mi Liah Company, Was scen the Marine swimming towards Wharf by a constable on board a Police Launch but disappeared in the water before he could be reached.
a
Bishop In Dock Investigating the cause
US MAKES
DECISION
ON JAPAN
with Japan.
The
the end of
Established 1845
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951.
Expedition Heads For Antarctic
on
The Norsel Expedition has now left for the An- tarctic. They expect to reach Maudheim, Queen's Maud Land, round about January 15, and this will be their last touch with civilisation for many weeks. This picture shows the Norsel leaving Cape Town at the start of the
long journey.
Price 20
UN Patrol Enters, Then Leaves Deserted Wonju
Cents
ALL KINDS OF PORTABLE
Typewriters & Calculators
AT REASONABLE PRICES Hong Kong Typewriter Exchange
9, D'Agullar Bt.
Britain's Gold Reserves
Mako Big Jump But Still Too Low
London, Jan. 10. The gold and dollar reserves of Britain and the Sterling Area jumped by $544 million at the end of last year, the Treasury an- nounced today.
They
amounted
to
་
$3,300 million on December 31, 1950. compared with $2,750 million at the end of September.
Mr Hugh Gaitskell, the Chan- cellor of the
pross
"ger, told
Tel. 21433.
Train Smash
In Storm
Larbert, Scotland,
Jau 10.
A train crash in a thick snowstorm today killed one person and lajured at Icaat 18 others.
The
wreck
occurred when the Perth-Glasgow expresa piled into a switch engine at Alloa Junction, three miles north of this Stirlingshire village.
A pazenger train bound In the opposite direction
flagged down and
the
ta injured Stirling. -
carried hospitals in Associated Press.
SINGAPORE
QUITE SAFE
The
# that
Singapore, Jan. 10. the reserves were too low.
Singapore government But the
has asked the Malayan Infor- nation faced tho formidable problems
to of the matlon Agency in London future with its economy basical- take immediate steps to correct ly much stronger than it was the British
an erroneous Impression among year ago, he added.
people that Sing-
During the last quarter of pere is unsafe following the 1930,
the Sterling Area's net Bertha Hertogh riots of Decem- Kold and dollars amounted to ber. $300 million compared with
Several commercial firms
surplus of $187 million in the have received letters from pro- third quarter of the year $180 million in
quarter.
and spective employees in the UK the second declining to accept posle for which they had previously up-
Reimboursement of expendi-piled. ture and other forms of assist- One such letter stated: "I ance under the European Re- must confess the recent news of $140 million in the fourth quar- has caused me to change my covery Programme amounted to rioting and murder in Singapore
mind completely about continu ing to seek the post."
With The US Second Division in Korea, Jan. 11.
An American patrol which battled its way into the central Korean rail and highway hub ofter compared with 147 million in the third and $240 million ju the second,
Nehru To Wonju pulled out of the town last night.
Summon
His Envoys
Briefing
One mile and a half South of the town, the UN forces ran into enemy fire from an estimated two enemy platoons.
A fight developed but there were no reports of results this morning.
The patrol
had driven into Wonju from the Southeast along the road from Chechon. It left Wonju on the Southward rood forces have along which UN been attacking toward the town against heavy opposition.- Associated Press.
Conference
London, Jan. 10. Prime Minister Jawaharlal
BAD WEATHER Nehra has summoned all
Tokyo, Jan. 11. India's Ambassadors in Heavy snow and rain-Olled
continued to Europe to meet him soon weather
in for talks on
Korea enemy the crucial the
us Futh Air Force world situation.
Oghters and bombers again were prevented from resuming Indian informants sald the full-scale aerial onslaught. by Mr
conference will be held in Paris on January 17.
Thursday
protect
on
I can see no reason delib rately to put myself in the way SPECIAL FACTORS
of such danger as this."
A Announcing the figures, the suggested
governancnt spokesman
that Treasury emphasised
British Arms that a write home letters clarifying number of special factors un the present position here-As connected with the quarter'ssociated Press. current trade payments contributed to the large net surplus at the end of the year.
These probably accounted for over one-third of the total.
and Chinese
Communist
Aggression
PI TO
BACK US.
İSTAND
In particular there was an in- now of
funds from North America, mainly in anticipation
future commercial needs. This was likely to reduce correspondingly the Sterling Arca's dollar receipts for some months to come,
At his press conference, Mr Gaitskell worned, "In spite of
STOP PRESS
N. KOREANS
ATTACK
Washington, Jan. 10. Authoritative sources said today that the United The rescued driver and two States has abandoned all So far a frantic nation-wide passengers were sent to Queen hope of a general peace con- Hospital where search has turned up no trace Mary
they treated for of the stone except an identify were
shock ference on Japan and will bomb
to negotiate separate ing plaque, found in a
and cuts. All three, however. try Tuin 800 yards from the Abbey.
after their alliances for the termination were discharged The stone originally stood in clothing had been dried. Scone Abbey, in Perthshire. The
According to the driver, Tam of the state of war between Kings of Scotland were crowfied Wah, he and his four passengers the Allies and Japan.. on it from 840 AD until its were out for a joy-ride to enjoy
The sources said that Mr John morning breeze. seizure in 1200 by Edward I of
the England
Shortly dawn a break-Foster Dulles, who is in charge
After It was then placed on a shelf down truck from Gilman and of treaty arrangements, will go
Tokyo before under the sea; of the Coronation Company went to the scene co
January to explain the Ameri- Throne in Westminster and 27 the accident and salvaged the enn position to General Mec-
been car from the British monarchs have
water. In the can
The crowned on it, including King back of the car the body of Hut Arthur and the Japanese.
American position as it exists George VI,
was found.
today is in favour of a "round Scottish
The whole of the roof of the robin" sort of agreement on the Hillman Minx number termination of the state of war never ceased to demand its re-car,
HK 1600, was badly damaged turn.-Associated Press,
Tokyo, Jan. 11. and the front windows were
Manila, Jan. 11. the progress made last year it Communist roc.ps in Wonju smashed in.
American idea, which
United Nations The Traffic Department is has been formulated
Foreign Secretary Carlos not going to be easy for us attacked the of the Dulles after consultations with
A fow combat sorties
Because of the rise in import front-line reports said that an were P. Romulo is carrying to pay our way abroad in 1951. troops before dawn today, and accident and slatements were the Assistant
of Secretary
flown yesterday as all of Korea
the Game amount of all-out drive down through being taken from the three sur- State, Mr Dean Rusk, and
seemed to be Mr Nehru is at present attend- was covered by a cloud blanket Washington the Philippines prices vivors earlier this morning.
State Secretary Mr Dean
ing the conference of Common- from ground level to 10,000 government decision to back goods imported in 1950 might Central Korea
nation £400 million shaping up Acheson, is that it would be
wealth Prime Ministers here in feet. Frontline air activity was the United States in a firm cost the
extra this year,
North Korean troops od More Huks Killed unwise to try to hold a general London. It is due to end over restricted to flights by T-6 re-stand in the United Nations He described Britain's econo 10,000 strong charged out of
pence conference at this time.
the week-end.
connaissance aircraft operating against Chinese Communist mie recovery in 1956 as a "real Wonju in a blinding snowstorm. For that reason, the Ameri-
at tree-top level from their
success story."
yesterday and beat back aggression. The Indian leader will brief, forward bases. continu- can Government has decided to
MAJOR PROBLEMS campaign
tank-led Task Force of the against proceed on the principle that his envoys personally, not only
"After all that has Several B-26 light bombers Hukbalehaps inPilence gives consent" and go
been Second Division from the edgo on latest developments in the
the achieved the prospect of our of the strategic transport centre reportedly kill ahead with peace arrangements tension areas of the world, but were dispatched on night In Washington officials
truder minions, but all return-
President standard of living is disappoint in the ice-glazed mountainz of during past 24 with Japan-United Press. also on India's attitude towards ed to their base without having Elpidio Quirino will
insist on ingly gloomy", he added,
Central Korea these problems.
been able to locate the enemy in any peace treaty discussions.
reparation payments from Japan He listed three major economie The
gain five-mile Veteran invader
problems which navigator The Philippines, however, will Britain during 1951: the impact troops, in the first attack of the
French American,
and Dutch Santereili Lieutenant Richard
Acid
oppose the
Japan
of rearmament on industry, the Allies this year, was wiped of Brooklyn,
eguards. weather was the worst he had under scarcity of raw materials and out in the first hours of the seen in all missions over Korca. These
continuous rise in the prices Communist surge out of Wonju "This is the first time that by Quirino, Ror
and top- Romulo
in the face of a deadly artillery Importa. have gone so far and never even level government leaders in
The nation's industrial barrage.
pro- he said. saw the ground,"
which
duction during the year in The Indian Government's
the
About 5 am, today a hravý views doubtless will be con-
B-29 Superforts of the Far concluded
Air Force's Bomber Com- Secretary boarded
for eased by nine per cent on 1949. small arms and mortar assault a plane for Bines the numbers employed hit the Dutch contingent of. veyed in time to the nations of mand struck at three supply and the United States to lay before were only up by one and a half the Europe Including Russia, by
United Allied force, Pentagon communications centres in North individual envoys.
Depart per cent the output per man Press correspondent reported Korea,
targets by ment officiis a plea for addi- year was seven per cent higher, from the Second Division area. attacking
airfleld Lonal aid for the defence of Mr Gallskell sald-Router. The airfleld
hit by the islands,
For Six Hours
Bratislava, Jan. 10.
A Roman Catholic Bishop, Jan Vojtassak of Spis, was in
Communist
Manila, Jan. 11.
the dock for over six hours Govenment forces, hero today before a seven- ing their member State Court trying him for high treason and espionage. Central Luzon, Bishop Vojtassak, who is 72, ed six Huks sald
that
he had never
never used the hours. pulpit for political purposes.
A delayed report to Philip- He admitted being the author pine Army Headquarters sald of the series
ies of reports obtained 30 Hules raided the village of from
parishioners and sent Awallon, near Baggao, Cagayan to his Church superiors. province. Sunday night. The
The Judge said that all these Huks took firearms, money, reports contained espionage clothing and Jewellery from
villagers.-Associated Press.
matter-Reuter.
COMMENT OF THE DAY 1.
He is expected to reaffirm that Khartoum, Jan. 10.
the Indian cale is essentially au Rita Independent one in world affairs Prince Aly Khan Hayworth left here today by and that India wants no part of private plane for Nairobi. They East-West rivalries, arrived here on Tuesday,--Asso- clated Press.
The Only Visible Cloud
IR Arthur Morse, who is in a better
the current situation vis-a-via Hong- kong, has expressed the opinion that there is no undue cause for anxiety, and we are confident, judging by the manner in which the announcement of the voluntary evacuation of American families has boon received, that the Colony as a whole shares Sir Arthur's view. Sir Arthur pertinently points out that far from feeling there is any need to consider evacuation, the British authorities are continuing to send the wives and families of servicemen to Hongkong-an unthinkable action if there existed the slightest evidence of trouble in the foreseeable future. More- over, all reports from the border con- firm the impression that Hongkong is going to be left in peace. As distinct from 1940, there are no concentrations of potentially hostile troops massed on the other side of the frontier; on the contrary, there is ovidence that the Chinese Communists have withdrawn the pick of their troops from Kwang- tung, leaving just sufficient for ordinary police work. There is, in fact, good foundation for such a reassuring state- ment as that made by Sir Arth-r Morso. The only visible cloud is the growing ollect of the American embargo on local industrica, and that.... this is not a Bgment of the immagination la proved by the decision of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce to lodge a written protest with the American Consulate-General, and the antiquaco- ment that Mr A. G. Clarke, Director of Commerco and Industry is going to
London to discuss with Colonial Office officials the effects of the trade embargo. Both actions reflect the increasingly difficult position in which legitimate traders, industrialists and the public as a whole are being placed by an embargo so ruthlessly applied by the United States authorities. We is imagine the British Government fairly well aware of the sound and feasible arguments which can be made out for the Colony against the applica- tion of a total ban on raw materials and commodities from the United States, but we commend Government for sending one of its key officers to London for the purpose of putting for. ward Hongkong's case in the strongest terms possible. Personal representation in a matter of such import is much to be preferred to telegrams and air mail despatches. The Colony's traders and manufacturers need quick action if our economy is not to be seriously disturbed and there is a much greater chance of that action materialising if the right man is on the spot to plead our cause. And we observe this while giving due acknowledgment to the efforts already made by the United States Consulate- General to obtain for Hongkong some relief from the embargo. The willing co-operation given by Mr Hunt and his colleagues in this respect is wholly appreciated, and it is correct to rogard Mr Clarke's visit to London, as being complementary to the endeavours, of the American Consulate General to. effect a modification of the ban. We trust Mr Clarke's mission will attended by the success it deserven.
be
INDIA'S ATTITUDE
defence seven though
од
Mr Romulo also will inform
administration of
that
a round
of conferenco
Just
before
and State
Mr Nehru has stressed more radar guidance. than once at the Commonwealth sector at Pyongyang was hit by
JAPAN MUST PAY talks that India's main objecthe largest formation of Super-
Romulo himself disclosed in tive in to strengthen inter- forts. More than 100 tons of
press staternent national peace that India greatly general purpose bombs were a last minute regrets the world arms race and, the target. Similar attacks were pines will urge
dropped through the clouds on at the airport that the Philip- the United Andeed, is
down her own
made
supply centres of Nations to brand Communist Kaesong the world situation is growing
and Hacju.
China as aggressor and will North of Pyongyang, a long join in any more serious, and that the re-
sanctions against the new
had cognises
Communist B-29 that
dropped out of the Sino-Reds which may be regime in China has come to
the formation due to engine adopted. stay as a major
The decisions in regard to force In Asia trouble was jumped by an call- and the world.
mated 16 enomy MIG-15
Jet Japan were revealed by Mala- fighters, but fought off the at- canan sources, who said it has India, therefore, would seek to tack in a nine-minute running been definitely decided that work with Red China in
battle. The crew of the Super regardless of the attitude of friendly way.
India's chief delegate at the fort claimed that one MIG was the United States, the Philip United Nations, Sir Benegal
destroyed" in pably
the pines insists that Japan must Rau, will probably attend the Combat Cargo
pay for the damage caused hery Command talks. He is due soon to ay to transports continued the flow of
by her The
attitude.on fer with Nehru and his advisers vital war materials into Korea. rearming Japan has changed
since the Communista оп on latest developments in the In addition supply drops were since
frontline | made to
mainland disclosed their agg- For Eastern orisis,
United Press.
Europe from New York to con-
With the Indian Prime Minis- tor will be G. Shankar Bajpai, head of the Republic's Foreign Offee, and M. O. Mathal, Nehru's special assistant. Associated Press.
Americans To
troopa
N. KOREAN CLADI
Tokyo, Jan. 11. The General· Headquarters of has the North Korean Army issued A communique claiming
sive
the
position. It is now believed here that Japan naked be per- mitted at least defensive armat” ment if assurances can be given that Nippon will not be armed to the
point whene
sho
पक्ष
the occupation of Kangnung, a again become a menaco to her city on the Korean east coast 20 neighbours Associated Press,
miles
south of the 38th parallel, by Red forces.
The claim was mado in a broadenst of the communique
Leave Bangkok issued by the GHQ of the Re-
rean People's Army monitored in Tokyo by the Kōrean Infor- mation 55.
Kangnung is the second city
Protest Made To
It was
Belgrade
Frankfurt, Jan. 10. reported today that
Bangkok, Jan, 10," Four American firms hero have been ordered by their head of any size below the parallel Hungary has sent a protest note offices to evacuate wives and and was the base from which to Belgrade, accusing Yugo- children of American personnel the Bouth Korean forces
alavia of "covering up" the Immediately,
pro-
Tho
A spokerman of one of the bared for an original crossing crimes of their border guards. of the parallel on October 1,
Hungarian propaganda firma
the action was a last year.
radio, charged that a 13-year- #commnoniacona
MOTO," . Ho
The latest oficial word from old boy, who "wandered into pointed out many of those Gen MacArthur's Headquarters Yugoslav territory Was ar affected had been interned in reported merely that friendly seated by the
border guards various parts of the Far East forces had withdrawn across tho and "badly beaten by the Japanese during the last parallel The North Korean occasions. It said that after warto move will not affect broadcast: was the first: In- months of imprisonment the operation of the firma involved, | dication that the Reds: have youngster was allowed to re- the spokesman
dded-da- ponotrated along the east coast | turn to Hungary - United #ociated Pros
to Kangnung, in United Press. Егем
on several
of
will face
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