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No. 35158
Established 1845
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1952.
Nine Men Appear
Education In Dock On
Week
main purposes of Education
Tiongkong's
Week which opens today were admirably outlined by the Director of Education in his broadcast Inst night. A ready response from parents and all others who profess any interest in the educational welfare of the Colony's children should result. Education Week has two obvious values: it serves LU stimulate the active interest of parents in the type and calibre of curricula adopted by the schools, while children derive no little encourage- ment in their studies by being able to demonstrate progress and achievement to the adults. Mr Crozier stressed the importance of regarding child education as a purinersnip between the pupil, the teacher ang the parent. Education, if h is of
permanent value cannot begin and end at the school, nor must it be con- Bned to the narrow limits of scholastle endeavour. lience the new and highly desirable expansion curricula o include art, handicraft, civies
and other subjects which aanist in building character and stimulate wider interests,
the
Sedition Charges
FIRST HEARING FIXED
FOR APRIL 16
Under the Sedition Ordinance, nine Chinese - editors. publishers, proprietors and printers — stood in the dock in the Criminal Sessions this morning to face Mr Justice Williams, Senior Puisne Judge, on charges of alleged seditious publications in their newspapers of March 5, 1952.
The newspapers concerned are the Ta Kung Pao, New Evening Post and the Wen Wei Pao.
The indictment was not read, and no plea was taken at the request of Defence Counsel.
The accused who are each on bail of $10,000 will appear on April 16 when the case against the Ta Kung Pao will open at 10 a.m. before a Judge and Jury.
uf
that
The accused persons are Fei come today and had surrender- Yi-ming, Richard Bow and Lee ed to their bull and Counsel. Tsung-ying,, proprietor and had no doubt that his Lordship | publisher, printer and editor would agree to a request to
respectively of the
Tu Kung
renew their ball. Pao: Yang Siu-feng, Richard Mr-Hooton said he had
110 Bow, Kwok Yung-wei and Lo objection to the defermeat Fu, proprietor, printer, publisher taking of plens, but said -of
and editor respectively of the his only point with regard
Wen Mr Wright's remarks was that New Evening Post; and Chi-ying, Yu Ilung-shlang and this was not a novel procedure; Lee Tse-chung, printer, publisher It was time-honoured. and editor respectively of the Wen Wel Pao.
the
Also named as a defendant in THE Director of Education the Wen Wei Pao case is Moy
found opportunity to Man-ding, proprietor, of deprecate
stated by Crown tendency newspaper, to send Counsel to be absent umong parents their children to school for Pao Post was Appearing for the Ta Kung. the sole purpose of passing and New Evening Post ad scholastic examinations. by Mr P. C. Woo. Mr Percy This narrow conception of Chen. instructed by Mr H. L. education is rightly to be Kwan
for the Wen appeared deplored, yet parents who Wei Pao.
Mr not
A. Hooton (Acting
subscribe 10 it
wholly to blame.
are
the broadened and
Hig Lordship: There
SVAL
such a case a year ago in Eng- Jarxl.
His Lordship then Axed the dals of hearing for the Ta at 10 am. on Kung Pao case April 16,
One behalf of the Wen Wet Peo, Mr Percy Chen made similar application for defer be extended to April 18, which ment of plea and for bail to
was also granted.
PAPER'S COMMENT
D
Before the Court adjoumed,
a
Solicitor General) gether with Mr Wright said that he had Despite Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr (Crown serious matter to bring to the
more
enlightened horizons of our Counsel) appeared for the Pro-hud always been the law rigid-
educationists,
secution, assisted by Det. dispropor- spector P. Lowe,
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In-
Justice Williams said,
It is understood that Mr John McNeill, QC, will appear for the Ta Kung Pao while the Hon. Leo d'Alma:la, QC, will defend the New Evening Post, M: Brook A. Bernacchi will appear with Mr Peray. Chen for the Wen Wel Poo..
st
Committed For
Trial
Moy Man-ding, proprietor o the Wen Wei Po, was committed for trial by Mr Hin-shing La Central this morning on sedition charges. He attended: Police Headquarters ni 10.30 this morning when the warrant
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for his arrest was executed. US POLICY
The special procedure in committing the defendant was taken under
section 73 the provisions of
Ordinance. The defendant was charged with publishing alleged seditious statements on March 5
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Fight For
Life Of
Air Crash Victim
Frankfort, Mar, 23.
PARLIAMENT TO BE DISSOLVED TODAY
Cairo, Mar. 24. The Egyptian Cabinet on Sunday night de- cided to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies and to hold General Elections on May 18.
‚'
The Cabinet, headed by Independent Premier - Naguib el Hilaly Pasha, will issue a decree dis- solving the Chamber of Deputies today (Monday)..
The new Parliament will open; on May 31, the Cablact agreed.
Premier Hilaly Pasha has been
Russian Note. On
in office since March 2, when he German Treaty
succeeded Aly Maher Pasha, Independent, whom King Farouk appointed after dismissing the Wafdist Premier, Nahas Pasha,
Nahos Pusha was dismissed 24 hours after the January 20 Cairo rloty.
the
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Meanwhile the Minister
Interior, Mortada Maraghy Bey, sald "Life in the Suez Canal zone towns of Port Said and Ismailin has returned to normal,
us before
October 16" ((when the Waldist Gov- ernment abrogated Egyptian Treaty),
Reply Will Request Information
London, Mar. 29.
The Western replies to the Anglo-Russia's note on Germany
STRONG LINE
The new Egyptian ment
Govern-
to the
appears determined take a strong line with students and secondary school- boys who are disrupting the educational life of the country by continual strikes und-de- monstrations.
are due to be handed over in the next few days and are expected to provoke series of exchanges be- tween Moscow and the three Western capitals:
Doctors were today fight-tion" of students owing to the ernment into
was
Western opinion is that the Russian" note proposing a con- ference on German unity Mohammed
Rifact
and Pasha, aimed at German opinion, Minister of Education, has issued Intended to set back the Allied
that 4 Warning
Egypt is timetable for bringing the Boạn threetoned with a Most gena
the Western "The Western reply is under-
orders following put counter-proposals on either demonstrations and disorders. the draft treaty or the setting
up of an all-German Govern-` recent speech to the ment but to seek clarification of
points.
ing for the life of one of the frequent closure of universities
tonight.
Doctors at the Frankfurt University Clinic sald tonight: "If he survives the next 24 hours
may
of
In &
it is
whether the
three survivors of the Royal and secondary schools Con} stood to avold any attempt to Dutch Airlines (KLM) crash Goverment here yesterday, in which 44 people lost their lives.
Of the survivors, Dr Paul Ibrahim University Senate, he some these is a request for Schaumburg, of Germany, was declared emphatically: The be-
One of attention of his Lordship. It
stilt in a critical condition late lict that the less of a generation elaboration of Soviet ideas on | 1052 eontrary to section 4 (1)
students through interruption the form and powers of the ly · enforced that while
an(e) of the Sedition Ordinance.
of their studies is less important proposed all-German Govern- tionate emphasis
accused
was awailing trial,
the danger of foreignment between its election and Washington, Mar. 23. scholastic achievement con- SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS
After Det Inspector P. Lowe newspapers were not allowed to
occupation, is shoer madness. You the peace tresty. Special tinues. In large part this
Police precautions comment or voice opinions on had given formal evidence of President Truman said on there a faint chance that he
should show mbre parentai The Western notes will also or otherwise of the to the execution of the warrants Is duo to the attitude of were taken and Senior Officers the guilt
Sunday that efforts of the
interest in and give more per- 15tact ment would ob- live" the defendant
allowed US and its Allies to strength- Was employers, a great number present included Mr C, Willcox accused person.
The other survivors were the sanal attention to your students." Counsel drew (Acting Director of the Special
the attention
en the cause of peace and Dutch air hostess, Anna Gautler,
Rifaat Pasha's speech follow-ject to an all-German, associa Brand), Mr W. Segrue (Diree-of the Court to comments School Leaving Certificate tor of Criminal Investigation) the Chi Yin Daily News
freedom "are turning back and Mrs Ruth Horn, of Germany.
ed the closing of the Fund el tion with regional organisations good
Na- higher scholastic and Chief Delective 1;
whereip, 21 and 22.
Awal University, which, with compatible with the United Inspector March
the threat of Communism." They were both making
in the American Army diplomu a sine qua non for c. Dowman.
progress in Counsel was Instructed,
10,000 students, is the biggest tions Charter--taken employment.
the European army, This is even
the writers men-
in the Middle East, as a result forence to The Court was crowded with editor and
Hospital at Frankfurt.
Forty-one people were killed
Schuman coal-steel of demonstrations the day after the wereuoned the three newspapers by
pool among whom
almost immediately and indicated name
when the Hilaly Pasha had succeeded Aly and other European communi- not only
ur-engined DC-0, carrying 47 Maher Pasha 25.Prime Ministies, guilty of the
people, crashed in poor visitor offence bui also commented
It will also ask again that the ty in the woods surrounding Cairo's universities and United Nations Commission on Frankfurt's Rhino-Main Air
about to schools have been closed for the all-German elections be allowed port just as it was
Germany and Greater part of the present to enter Eastern island,
take up the Russian academic year as a result of de- probably
monstrations
the and disturbances reference
Potsdam and by students
teen-ago Agreement on Germany's fron-
tiers.-Reuter.
of whom still consider a
with the result that the dents.
all its
ท
of
the
no
ball of $10,000.
Mr H. L. Kwan appeared for the defendant.
23 Injured In Riots
"We are not sitting by, wait- ing
qut fres when to
Dut trouble starts in some fer- away places," he said. "We are actively at work, every day, with our neighbours and our friends around the world, not only to overcome any
threats 10
but also to world
peace, strengthen freedom and justice
in that, The future, the danger to peace will be less."
Trieste, Mar. 23,
civilians Twenty-three
So
Mr Truman made the Com ment in a foreword to an outline
of American foreign polley draft-
THREE SUCCUMB Two of the six initini sur- vivors died on the way to schoolboys.Reuter, hospital and a third died during
night. He was
the
Fuad
an Egyptian,
The dead passengers
Girgis
more pronounced in Eng-spectators lund than in Hongkong several newspaper correspon that they were examination system, with Mr Wright asked his Lordship
pernicious short to deter taking of pleas in this that the articles were published
with seditious Intent, comings, is glorified and case and not to do anything fur-Wright added that It was his ther than fixing a date for the duty on behalf of his client to worshipped beyond
Counsel trial of the accused.
draw hig practical usefulness. It is, came
attention -Lordship's to Court unprepared 10 to this and to ask that the therefore, a welcome sign make pleas but merely on the
Salicitor General consider that scholastic examina-understanding that dates were to whatever action necessary. tiona
and one policeman were in Hongkong aro be fixed for the hearingr
* Lordship said that Mr Wright
that this doubt the Solicitor said gradually being put into a
General injured in a new wave of was a novel procedure whereby would consider such a matter riots today. the accused
com- brought
and he
was
grateful to Mr
BLYCH Africons, Alve Department does not want raight before a Judge without Wright for drawing his atten-
It was simultaneously reported by the State Department at
mailed letters had
Dutch, five Britons, four Nor- his request. He urged Ameriprised tion to it. A warning which his ed that The legal
the bombing of cans to read the 80-page docu- weglans, two Americans, two
ment so as to understand better | Itallians, for the Ta Kung Pao Lordship had in mind was that threatened
hotels requisitioned by the Colony's educationista and the New Evening Post do it was improper for any news-
Egyptian hotel of US policies, but the nation's but libera! stred to have a little more time paper or any person to suggest troops. The text of the letters not only the roots and branches Israelts, one more allitude to
procedure any way that any of the per-was not disclosed these 1T3003 wero sons in these proers were guilty managers said requirements on the part of | W
brough! before his Lordship, or otherwise of any particular menacing. parents and employers. Counsel did not wish to discharge.
defence as to the I hope that that warning will which they might be remembered by persons who Jurisdiction have in this case by pleading at feel inclined at the present stage this stage. The accused had to comment on this case," Mr
moro reasonbale perspec- tive; that the Education
were
the usual preliminary com-
a child to become a slave mittal proceedings
to examinations, and that | advisers
desire
馥
educational
the to look into whereby
close
any
Russia's New Role For
Czechoslovakia
THE general public owe It to themselves and their professed interest in local education to visit the schools this week. There is a natural tendency to stand aloof and to criticise institutions and systems, the criticism Invariably being ill-informed and the interest of the critic in the subject vague and unreal. The Colony's schools this weck are being bold enough to show themselves off to anybody sufficiently In- terested to discover just what they are doing in the Main detalls of the Communist | Czechoslovakia a much more way of educating our government's budget still are important role than hitherto in youth. Failure to make une secret-including
Vienna, Mar. 23.
Czechoslovakia's Parliament meets on Monday to ap- prove a new budget that is expected to make that country
a major fortress along Russia'g'2,000-milo military front in Europe.
of this opportunity makes for defense.
less justifiable ill-founded criticism of the local
defence of the locations the
sphere.
Allied
their tone was
two
French,
nine
two German and'ono
brale objectives,
The authorilles still did not "The purpose of the American know the nationalities of the
the other four victims. The Meanwhile, the Righlist foreign policy is to defend
killed crew members were all nowspaper Giornale di Trieste independence, and integrita Dutch.
youths the Republie," Mr Truman said. blamed "co-Fascist"
A Dutch DC-3 Dakota, curry- for yesterday's riots, in which "To co this we cut build peaceng KLM officials, made several came 100 persons were injured. in this world: not peace at any Damage resulting from the price so that the peoples of all fights over the Frankfurt area riots was estimated in "tens of countries-big and small alike today aking photographs thousands of dollars",
can live free from the fear of different points along the doom- ed air Jine route to the airport. One American and three Bri- | aggression."
The commission itself visited tish cars were overturned and
In a day, but put together slowly the wreckage
"World peace cannot be built the-netne of the disaster, where of the burned --sometimes painfully and it] airliner was strewn over hun- in the woods takes hard work,"Associated dreds of acres Press,
three rilles from the aerodrome. -Reuter.
the tires of another car sinshed.
United Press.
TENSE CITY
Trieste, Mar. 23. Jeep loads of heavily armed
this
Grenade Kills 2, Injures 19
British and American milita patrolled the streets of tense city on Sunday after a four-day riotous demonstrations over Trieste's political Tuture,
Another 10,000 troops, con-
Salgon, Mar. 23.. Communist-led Vietminh ter the Soviet alituting the backbone of the Alica military government,
rorists still ke to toss bomba the alert but or grenades about in crowded were cenfined to their barracks | places in Saigon.''' In order to avoid incidents,
Their latest attack
It Is belleved here that Mos-were ordered on Buz Proguo newspapers make
it clear that the budget calls forcow now wants:
squeeze on the already hard- 1. Czechoslovakia to build a
4
was on
PLANE ON FIRE
ot
Bangkok, Mar. 23. A Dutch KLAI, Constellation from Karachi was completely destroyed by fire which started when the plane was about three miles from Don Muang airport. here early this afternoon. All passengers End crew mem- bera were safe,
The control tover sad the fire started whep the Constella- educational system. While pored population to pay for strong, highly modernised and Half of the victims of the the evening of March 15. Twoich was only three miles from none will deny it suffers giant new industrici ecebines, mobilo Communist army that fights
bitot the airport, but the
the burning degrees of defects, it is higher armament production, and can act as a "holding force" be- and civilian police are still in codes or hurled into a managed to land
park during a the condition European
a colebration. Eight possible. to demonstrate the coins of military training for
plane ca the runway where it and 13 Vietnamese many in the event of wer that it is progressively half the nation's 12,400,000 meter troops in Ger- the hospital and
of a score of them are described residents of Salgen were wound was burned for more than one and 2.The
become as serious. Earlier, reports that Improving` and that 'It has pod more to show that is good higher wages
population must forgo the ur Vany to
of Russia's 181 persons had been injured. Two Vietramoso died later, hour after the passengers and consumer Western outposts tuned, to a were scaled down slightly,
French and Vietnamese police crew got out safely.
The airport fire-fighting en- than it has to hide that la goods to provide one bililon speedup of turning out more.
frequently, make
night-time gines which were alerted before Indifferent. The publie can dollars Jono for three new and more artillery and other Eleven more demonstrations checkups of all cars, bicycles the plane landed went to work mako Education Week, the |· foundries,
The origin Russia's were reported during the tlay, and motor cycles in a search for immediately, weapons to supplant success that it deserves to Western diplomats in Vienna own, armament industry-Asso bringing the four-day total to grenades or other explosives. the fire was not yet determined,
bellava Russia has assigned clated Presz/
112-Associated Press, enjoy.
Associated Press.
United Pr
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