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THILE the statement.
Wmade by a BOAC official
to our London correspon- ́dent that it is possible the Comet will never fly to Hongkong Un 0 regular servico ÍB disconcerting, it is not altogether sur- prising. That Kai Tak is at present unable to meet the exacting landing and take- off demands of the jet air liner is acknowledged; of more importance is whether the airport can ever -bu
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THURSDAY, JULY 10,· 1952.
Typhoon
NEVER COME Buffets The
HONGKONG
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, July 9. Britain's record-breaking jet airliner, the Comet, will not be seen at Hongkong's Kai Tak aerodrome for some time and perhaps never.
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British Overseas Airways Corporation, which had earlier hoped to put the Comet into service between London and Hongkong in the near future, now consider the aerodrome unsuitable, for their new jet aircraft.
Captain A.M.A. Majendio, who piloted the Comet
Canton
Singapore, July 9. The 10,000-tón P. & 0. Uner Canton arrived in Bingapore yesterday, eight hours behind schedala after being buffeled by & typhoon midway betwebel Hongkong and Singapore,
- of a
One passenger, the wife f a Hongkong Government afficial on her way to Bri- fain, said, "It
worst weather I've ex perienced. I thought I was:
sailor, but I wan a good seasick within a few hourFR,” -Reuter.
British
developed to a degree that on its proving flight to Japan, is reported to have said Businessmen
would render it practicable on arrival in Tokyo yesterday that the reason the plane and safe for large jet had not called at Hongkong was because "Hongkong aircraft. Extension of Kalis à second-class airfield and we won't plan to land the Tak to provido at least one runway of a length that Comet at a second-class airfiold as yet.
engine-driven planes to
kong
has
reached
In China
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FIGHT FOR SUPPORT RAGES
Taft And Ike Share Texas Preferences
i
Chicago, July 9.
Senator Robert Taft won the Texas fight. be- fore the Republican Conventions Credentials Com- mittee today, but General Dwight Eisenhower took 18 disputed Louisiana delegates and his presi London, July 0. Indeed today that it was yet too
Informed quarters here con- dential drive appeared to be gaining momentum.
The Taft forces, working to slow down the curly to expect action by the in relation to exit permits intials Committee vote of 27-24 to seat 22 Taft dele- Chinese Communist authorities Eisenhower bandwagon, won out with a Creden- mado indivdually by British gates from Texas and 16 for Eisenhower,
would permit the biggest A BOAC official confirmed this statement today. operate in and out of Hong-vestigation had shown, he said, that Kai Tak aerodrome The was unsuitable for the Comets "in their present stage of tentative blue-print stage development." but tho problem of accommodating the jet Comet is not confined to the existérice of an adequate runway. The Cofnet requires a clear run into an airport of anything up to seven miles, and it is here that But Hongkong has not been forgotten in the BOAC's the Colony, surrounded as It Is by hills and moun-
long-range plans. In two years' time passengers from the tains, presents compli Colony will fly to Lodnor. in Bristol Britannias, which will cated problem. The ques-be one of the largest and fastest passenger planes in service
tion, yet to be determined by aeronautical experts is whether Ku Tak can be developed in a manner that will offer jet liners the required safety approach.
been
As yet no details have be it
in proposed to develop Kai
to Hongkong on regular service,
response to
the applications
"We need a lot more experience in the operation of the businessmen in China.
This Comet before we risk it nt Hongkong," he said.
opinion was expressed following the official disclosure "Even then it is doubtful whether we shall fly the Comet today that China had replied to the British note of May 19 announcing the decision of Bri- tra roding interests in China down and withdraw their stoffs
It is understood here that so tar no exit pormits had been granted to the British busipose
anywhere in the world.
The Britannia has not yet made its first flight, but BOAC were so impressed with its design that they ordered 26 "off the drawing board."
to
close
men.
The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr Anthony Nutting, said in the House of Commons today that out of 134
Just before the Texas vote, the General's bid for the Party's presidential nomination got three powerful boosts: Taft surrendered to Eisenhower the Louisiana votes in "harmony move" and the big California delegation pledged him the bulk of its strength in the "stolen delegates battle": simultaneously, Joseph Pew Jr., long a Pennsylvania politicai. 'bigwig and Taft supporter, said, flatly that Governor John Fine, who controls about 25 of his State's 70 delegates, had made up his mind to support Eisenhower.
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Facilities
London, Juty D.
Mr Oliver Lyttelton, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, sald today that members. of the Chinese cultural delegation which
at recently vislied. India the invitation of the Imilan Government were
not denied
to their friends when they paused through Hongkong.
Mr John Rankin (Lab- our) had suggested in the Hotso of Commons that they were.
Mr. Lyttelton said, "The usual facilities were given to the delegation when it passed through Hongkong, both on the outward and return Journeys. There
tiina Hrit We no
on the delegates' stay and they were not denieri, access to their friends
the Colony."---Beater,
ROYAL VISIT TO
H.K.
Duchess Of Kent Discusses Plans
Mark Clark. Raises Objections
Not In Favour Of A Political Adviser:
Washington, July. 9. General Mark Clark, Su- preme United Nations Coin mander in Korea, has ob- jected to the British proposal to appoint.
д
| diplomatic political adviser to his staff to weigh strate gic moves in Koren, it was revealed today.
"The British proposal and General Clark's views on it are under clase scrutiny by tha Slate and Defence Departmen's, informed sources said.
Those sources refused to bazard a guess on the outcome of the issue on the grounds that both sides, appeared to have made some "good pointa”
The British proposal is under sfood to have been unde by
Sel Minister of State, Mr. Washinoyd when he visitoki Koren and Tokyo
last month.
Mr Lloyd suggested, it is Bald, that there be attached to General Clark's headquarters a diplo matic-political adviser with small supporting staff on which British representative would presumably serve.
the
might
MAY BE HANDICAP''. Governor Fine promised an after voting 30-21 against scat (From Our Own Correspondent)
General Clark's altitude was announcement of his intentioning the pro-Eisenhower group.
London, July 9. that a
a proposal of this kind tonight after the Credentials Kansas-voted unanimously
Duchess of Kent, ons requiring prompt decisions Tho
handicap military opera Committee reports to the egg- to seat one
Eisenhower tele-who is to visit Hongkong of a strategic nature, including, Mr Pew said: gate, communications addressed to the mether he (Fine) is support- Mississippi voted 48-2 to later this year, discussed the element of surprise for the
plans for her trip with enemy. Eventually Comets and Britannias will form the back-tween January 1 and June 27 in (Eisenhower) to stalemate scot live Laft delegates.
year, one had been the convention or because ho Missouri-voted unanimously members of the Colony's
General Clark at present has hone of BOAC's passenger fleet which will then be the most answered in writing,
thinks Ike can win, I don't to seat one Eisenhower delógafp. | delegation to this wook's for to Japanero.. political
close liaison with the Ambassa He added that 18 called to know. But I do know be Eas up-to-date in the world.
Mr Robert; Puerto Rico voted 29-20 to Commonwealth Health and Murphy, on (Contd. on back page col. 8)
his mind to support seat three Taft delegates.
Chinese Foreign Minister be
Alleged British Traitor In The Witness Box
London, July 9
*
Tak airfeld. The Brundbent Report awaits approval of London aeronautical ex- perts. Moreover, there appears to be a measure of | disagreement among the technical advisers us to whether the Kai Tak pro- ject, us envisaged in the Broadbent .recommenda- ilons, can effectively fulf}} the requirements for handling machines such as Stratocruisers and similar glant planes. The pilot of the BOAC jet Comet considers Kai. Tak__R "Becond-class" airfield, but he was, of course, thinking in terms of its inability to, accommodate jet passenger. air liners. As a terminal for civil aircraft it is still of first-class importance, and it is essential to the
Striet precautions, were taken assist an enemy," Marshall re- future of Hongkong that that no secrets should leak out plied: "So far as I know, it should not lose this during the evidence, and the answer to that is No." statue, The BOAC appear only clue to the kind of infor to appreciate this, for the mation Mr Marshall was in a Corporation is reported to position to give came when the have included the Colony prosecutor asked him if what he had been seen scribbling for the In its long-range plans. benefit of M. Pavel Kuznetsov, Whether or not the Comet Soviet Second Secretary in
William Marshall, British Foreign Office radio man charged with giving secrets to Russia, swore on oath at his trial here today that only friendship caused his meeting with a diplomat.
can over
and
with
Lup
The Credentials Committee
Техая
THE NEXT Immediately after the CroThe XT STAGE Tuberculosis Conference matters, and with the Ambassa dor to Koren, Mr John Muccio aver contested in London.. Committee had com- delegates now goes to the con- pleted action on the Southernvention floor itself.
The Duchess is President of on Korean affairs.
There are some suggestions delegate contests, the Ike forces on
The votes the National Association for the
diaison
with Mr Muccio concluded the Prevention announced that
of Tuberculosis, that this they would Credentials Committee
which has arranged the can might be tightened to meet Brie carry the Texas and Georgia
action In the Committee vote on forence.
tish Interest in greater political disputes to the convention floor,
delegates from many
She had asked to meet the co-ordination on the Korean War States
and related matters. in the presidential delegates from Southeast Asia to had voted to scat 17 Georgia race voted with the Elsenhower get information about the work Oncial sources Gold they delegates favourable to
to Thift. forces.
***doubted that They Included Call being done to prevent tuberc would be made by the Unitos an early decision "In the name of decency and fornia, Maryland,
and, Michigan, losis in the area she is to tour. fair play, I am confident
States Government on the Eri- that Minnesota and Pennymittee conference
The Hongkong delegates to the fish proposal would have to be. The Credentials
are Miss M. L delegates to the convention will overwhelmingly vote to seat the chairman,
They said it Ross Rizley,
of Everett, Principal Matron of the fully considered by the Secretary legally-elected delegations from Oklahoma, who has voted con- Department of Health
these two States," said Senator sistently with the Taft forces, Medical Services, Dr G. B. Smart, he returns to his desk from his and of State, Mr Dean Acheson, which Henry Cabot Lodge, Elsen switched his vote on Texas and pathologist of the Department trip to Europo and Miss D. Stration, a nursing America United Press," -supported Eisenhower.
ster, and Miss W. A. Wooding, sister, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge a nursing sister. Eisenhower's campaign Elsenhower men admitted that ager, issued a statement saying the floor fight would be one of the Georgia and Texas decisions the roughest to split the Re- were "stains on the Integrity" publican Party in 40 years and of the Party and must be erased. sald they could not hope to get He said the context would be the support they received in brought to the floor for a ramming through the "fair play" decision-United Press amendment. They will beneût;; however, from that amendment. Under it, no contested delegate can vote in his or any other
He denied knowledge of a scrap of paper, containing highly secret-hower's campaign manager. information, found in his wallet when he was arrested in a London park ROUGH BATTLE with the Russian. It could have been forged in his handwriting and plant- ed on him, he said.
When Marshall, in the witnces box, was shown the paper, the prosecutor warned "Do not read it aloud. Some of it is highly secret."
the
In his final speech the pro- secutor asked the jury if they belloved the credible ac count that Marshall spent three hours on a seat in the park dis- cussing Germany, Korea and cultural conditions in Moscow
use Kal Tak Lon, was radio call signs or with the Soviet Embassy man.
when
Marshall denied this.
"A Sordid
& Disgraceful
I
Story"
TEUMAN
..
-TRUKET
contest until be is seated by the President Truman told re-
"WORRIED" Washington, Judy 9.
porters today full convenilon.
that he was "afraid its "favourite can- The Georgia-Texas fight on didate", Senator Robert Taft, the floor may be decisive in the would be defeated for the Re- Taft-Eisenhower Oght
for publican presidential nomination. BOAC are prepared to fly
Ho claimed the Cisc was
nomination. It
The President denounced as a Wes reported their new Bristol Britannia
established "beyond all reason-
that the series of daylong deve- "dammed He" allusions at the Re able doubt." planes into and out of Marshall, who once worked as
Maidstone, July 9.lopments was giving Eisenhower publican convention in Chicago Hongkong
Defence counsel, Mr Howard,,
by Senator Joseph McCarthy to Did June Rivers really think the edge. these a radio operator in the British
anyone who associated
of a "Truman- machines come into opera- Embassy in Moscow, insisted that said
Hank and fle Taft backers the existence the man who got into her bed nowadays was
Acheson-Lattimore" he had never given M. Kuznetsov with a Russian
party. tion, and this assurance Information that would harm suspect. He claimed there was after a wedding reception was talked of possible spectacular
play to block Eisenhower and stie convention at the National He made the observations on Alone should atimulate Britain.
not a stred of proof that her husband? oficial action to enlargo
Marshall
even suggested the possibility to Kuznetsov parted for hours When they talked
Airport, that
where he greeted the the Ohio Senator place the Secretary of State Mr Acheson Her husband's best friend, name of Central Douglas Mac upon his return from a trip to modernise Kal Tak on end on park benches, they
contained on the Information the secret plece of paper,
William Williams the least possible were discussing the Russian way
24, Arthur in the nomination. But The court adjourned until to-charged here today"
with Taft leaders sald Armly they Europa delay.
and South What is required of life and topics like Germany,
America impersonating her husband, were very much in the running book following the Re
Tho President who at this time is a firm Korea, Malaya "and all sorts of morrow-Reuter,
apparently decision by the exports on
odd things."
The scribbles which watch-
The jury, which included four and planned to stay there.
Developments before the publican
closely on the question of how best ng detectives had seen hlm
women, found him not guilty,
Credentials Committee and by- elevision,
with-friends the airfield can be im- make for M. Kuznetsov were
Mrs Rivers, 21, told the court play in the California and Penn- at the airport for a few minutes proved. When this has been maps of Russia and the division reached
that when she was half asleep sylvania delegations for over-before Mr Acheson's arrival, thero is little of Germany. Papers he was
"I am worried. It looks like a man got into her bed and was reason why work on the scen to show the Russian were
my candidate is going to be intimate with her. She assumed
beaten," he said-United Presa, project should not begin "summaries of items of newn"
It was her husband till he got eulled from newspapers, he
ENDORSES TAFT immediately. But it must said:
out of bed to make a cup of Tên
Chicago, July 9. be made clear to Whitehall Britain's Solleitor-General,
and her real husband camo on
Former President the scene."
Hoover today publicly endorsed Herbert that the Kai Tak extension Mr Manningham-Buller, opened scheme is essential, and it the prosecution. He said: "It
Senate Robpet Tart for the Ro Mr Williams, a railwayman,
publican presidential nomina- will be up to our represon- is clear this wireless operator ment in an hour-long meeting told the court he went in the tatives at the forthcoming on with an agent of a foreign the indecisive vote at this morn- had left there.
was in prolonged communica-
with Senators "todży following Rivers home to get a bicycle the McCarthy, went to the rostrum Hoover, London conférente on hir Power, chowing Colonies to put full Asked "Did you ever tell emphasis on 'this point. Kuznetsov anything likely to
Unprecedented Situation
Teheran, July 9. The Shah of Persia is reported
tween the two houses of Parlia- to have pleaded for unity be-
port development: in the telling him him papero and ing's private session of the Senate }
on Dr Mosradesh's candidature Rivers bedroom. It'savas dark,
shadowed action on the conven-
ton floor itself.
to
tion
ALL
LISTEN POLITELY Delegates and visitors at the Convention Hall Ustened polite- ly to three hours of oratory, but Bnally were brought shouting to their feet when Senator, Joseph
who has long name the Truman administra
been regarded noa Tuft par the "betrayer" of the tisan, made the formal endorse
ment on statement... · lagund McCarthy tore into through Senator Taft's campaign It was authoritatively fearet | but when I got accustomed to that after the meeting, the light I could see she was in
to the chewing land' both the Shah and Senators bod, lying on her back.
stamping of delegates. He was Minister of Court, Hussin Ala. "I sat on the bea and I kissed forced to pauso briefly several
The Senate had earlier today her on the check. With that London, July 9. Police Inspector disclosed no reached an unprecedented situa she tutte round and put her The Police today charged two details,
armá round” me.” observers noted flon in reconsidering'.
They, word Dr. men in a court case which may that high, Seqtland Yard off-hammed - Mosaadegh's...... • Gantilda! [then Intimate..
Defence counsel asked the
Successful End To Man-Hunt?
but
for the Premiership.
hero
had
a long session with the
were 30
He said: "I · wented into
Mesote In the
governs headquarters, - United Presi
:
red
Ma
:
Family Quarrel Darkons City
is as posters shaped like labelled herrings and "Acheson
and "Latil- more wore paraded around the convention floor,
Dieppe, France, July 9. Here is a summary of the This port clly was, without
A woman threw a radio at her Committee during three days of
husband during a family quarrel. hearings:
Texas voted 27-24 to seat The radio missed, went out of 23 Taft and 10 Elsgalower the window and hit a street Helogates,
light. A short circuit started Georgia-droid by voice fire which disrupted the city's
• voto to meat-17 Taft, delsgutes l'electricity) United Press,
marka" development - In=Bri- | clala in court during the fowture for the Prime Senators surý "Can you believe that any action taken by the Credentials | clectricity for two hours today.
There tain's biggest-man-hunt for minutes the men were in the yours
dock included officers who prosent Dr Mosadegh gut 14 The men were remanded on combed London's underworld votes, while his rivel, General woman would let a man have $1,000 ball for two
latercouring in bed with her weeks,
after six masked Zabodi, got one vote. Nineteen and think it was her husband?!? Inst month recused of receiving 4,000 £1raillers coshed a mall-van crew Senators returned blanik papers, notes, the "properly of come and got away with mall bags not Indicating their preference. The judge called it “a cordid person unknown," k
containing more than £200,000 | Two
·Invalid.
and disgraceful story, Fran Formal evidence given by a lin notes, — Router.
['Houter..
neuldr
votes were
household said today that detalls A member of the Duchess' of her tour will be released very shortly.
·
Film Studio Fire
Burbank, Calif, July 9.
Latin
Making Recovery
Singapore, Junn 9. Army Headquarters in Malaya announced today that Liouten- ant J. G. Tedford, at the First A fire broke out today at the Cameroons, to recovering in a Warner Brothers studio, scene military hospital from mottorite of a major · fro tw months ago gunshot wounds. on both lega that for a time threatened to sustained in a ferrorist ambush destroy the huge movio studio of his car on a rond, in Johore lot-United Press.
early on Monday--Reuter.
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