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scene the importance of the British Industries Fair to the Colony is not readily appreciated here. Neverthe- less to our local industries and crafts the BIP is an incomparable show window and the existence of Hongkong stand at the exhibition is now regarded as essentint if our manu- facturers are to give them- selves મ fnir chance of expanding their exports, The Colony has reason to be quietly proud of the RUCCCAR which Hongkong exhibitors have enjoyed al previous BIF displays, Last.) yeur, for example, our stand did more business than any other from the British colonies, and the knowledge that this year the Colony's exhibits promise to be bigger and batter than ever before lends confidence to the expectation that hand- some rewards will be reaped, Certainly home of our industries need a fillip at this time, The luteat report of the Commissioner of Labour discloses only too clearly that our textile industry is going through a difficult period. The closing of the Indonesian markets have had a grave effect, number of smaller factories having been forced to close down, which in turn has aggravated the unemploy ment situation.
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CHINA MAIL
No. 35494
Established 1845
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1953.
American Aid:
End Of
"Hand-Out Era"
A MORE PRACTICAL AND
REALISTIC APPROACH
Paris, Apr. 26.
The United States Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, told the French government today that the "hand-out cra” of American aid was over, but he assured the French that the United States would give sub- stantial help to plans aimed at ending the war in Indo-China.
Mr Dulles made it plain that the administration of President Eisenhower would take what it considered a much more "practical and realistic" approach to foreign aid than its predecessor.
The Secretary, here for the North Atlántic Treaty Council meeting which ended yesterday, talked with French government leaders before leaving to- night by plane for the United States.
For two hours Mr Dulles, Mr Charles Wilson, US Defence Secretary, Mr George Humphrey, US Secretary of the Treasury, and experts assisting them at the Council meeting talked at the Foreign Office with a French Ministerial group hended by the Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bidault.
Work Out
Plan
Socialists
Five Year
London, Apr. 26.
Socialist leaders today reached agreement on
a new Five Year Plan with which they hope to sweep Sir Winston Churchill's Conservatives from office at the next General Elections.
ex-
3
When the Ministers emerged, they refused to comment, cept for an assertion by M. Bidault: "My. government quite satisfied." He added that no decisions were made and American officials confirmed that,
authoritative
quarters
sald the gist of what M: Dulles
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British Prisoners Given Freedom
Invasion Of Laos
The Royal Capital To Be Defended
Saigon, Apr. 26.
in
Troops and civilians are tonight working frantically had to say on the Indo-Chinese question and the relation of
to strengthen the defences American ald to it was this: The of Luang Prabang United States recognises the im- portance of the Indo-Chinese wa-northern Laos against a that clear many Lenea since. minh forces, now only sixty President Elsenhower has made threatened attack by Viet- taking office.
kilometres away, according to the French Press Agency.
Laotians in the town, seat of The agency said hundreds of King Stravang Vong of the Indo-China state the helping
The final NATO statement again emphasised that the war was a heavy burden for France and an important struggle for the free world. But the US Congress will receive from other proposals
executive branch of the govern- ment within ten days Mr Eisen-
hower's estimate of what next year's United States aid should be
of Laos, are French engineers
Six Brilons and an Irish
have .priest
been released from captivity by the North Korean. Picture shows them aller their arrival in Berlin from Moscow by air. Left to right they are George Blake, Bishop A. C. Cooper, Salva tion Army Commander Her- bert Lord, Norman Owen and Mgr. Thomas Qunlian. Two other members of the party. Capt Holt and Phillip Dean are not shown in this group. -AP Photo.
Children
Burned To Death
GAULLISTS
LOSING IN
ELECTIONS
Paris, Apr. 26. First results in
Tel. 21433.
Former POW'S Protest
Oppose Welcome To Japanese Prince Newcastle on Tyne,
Apr. 26. Delegates representing about 1,000 former British
POWs in the Far East to- day backed a protest against the City's planned elvic welcome to Crown Prince Akihito of Japan.
The 19-year-old Crown Prince is due to arrive at Southampton sotnorrow in the liner Queen Elizabeth to represent his coun- try as Queen Elizabeth's corona- tion on June 2,
The Newcastle City Council have decided to give him a civic reception with tea,
when he visits this North-East industrial centre on May 12.+
Delegates of former prisoners of war, meeting here today sup- ported the Newcastle Far East POW club's protest to the Lord Mayor about the visit.
the
This Club has asked Lord Mayor to receive a de- putation to discuss the planned reception, The Club's secretary, J. W. Gardner, said he thought those
responsible for the arrangements did
a storm
Mr
realise what
would produce.
Не said the
originot
been
not they
fact that the arrangements whittled down to the
"had
the offer of a cup of tea" to the
French Municipal elections Crown Prince during a courtesy showed moderate Conserva-ml victory for the former Call could be regarded us a live and Radical gains at the prisoners. expense of General Charles Last week
the City Council
de Gaulle's French People's approved the reception by 34 voles after the Labour minority Rally, the French Minister|
protesta.-Router.
V
(south-
а
the
Churchill Bust Rejected
London, Apr. 26.
chill, the Prime Minister, which A bust of Sir Winston Chur- Queen Elizabeth commissioned, has been turned down by the Royal Academy here.
The bust may win a place of honour at Windsor Castle if it La given Anal Royal approval but it will not be included in the Academy's, Coronation year exhibition.
The Gaullists, who won landslide victory in the 1947 "considerable ground" Municipal
Elections, yielded moderates and fadicals in Paris, eastern and northern France, the Minister said.
M. Brune estimated that about
Reason for the unanimous re- abstained from voting-Reuter. artistic merit."-Reuter.
of the Interior, M. Charles the counell had joined the Brune, said tonight,
The Communists appeared to that our textile Industries
by maintaining their positions should be fully represented
except for
some losses in the Mosello Center Franco), at the British Industries
But, in defence to warnings from Britain's 8,000,000
Sault St Marie, Ontario, castern
Pyrenees Fair. Happily this is so. In strong Trades Union Congress, which controls the Labour
Apr. 26.
western) and Calvados (north- fact they are again staging
Party purse strings, the leaders have decided to step
west) added. Eight children their own special exhibition
were The warily on certain nationalisation and
did not ap- to burned to death today when pear to have suffered any losses from which tangible and
build additional strips of the a flash fire and explosion in the Paris area, M. Brune told which Party leftwingers in particular have championed, valuable results enn be anticipated. The British
The leaders the 27-member The conference was evidently
Luang Prabang air feld, where ripped through a home on a press conference here. moro French troops are being Industries Fair can offer National Executive Committee, held in a spirit of amity, with
the outskirts of this city. flown in. mutual benefits to Britain of the Party-tonight concluded le recurrence of the open
All civilian haulage con- The blaze slaried from the the colony of Hong- a three-day conference on the feud which over and
the past two The United States feels that it tractors have put themselves at stove in the home of Mr and kong. Both are seeking to Five Year plan, the am of years has existed between Mr cannot continue what it con- the disposal of the French mili- Mrs Philip Derry. Five of the
Attice. increase their exports of which, Mr Morgan Phils, the Clement
the
Parly drs the "hand-out era" launch-tary transport headquarters victims were Derry children and Secretary
und his oil lold corres- leader,
guarded by the Democratic adminis there and boy scouts have taken the others were the children of and each manufactures,
"achieve the
control adherents of Mr Bevan.
[Mr_end_Mrs. Arthur__Trudell.. were helped, Mr Dulles said.
French officers Chancellor of the Exchequer Britain and to enable her to Neither as It happens,
Now was
the American people Laotian ex-servicemen are flock- the Derrys, has declared that since the make a contribution towards
present today - the final day demand that ald should pay off | Ing into the town to try to re- end of the war the target the under-developed areas of of the conference. Mr Bevan, in results, he said. Indo-China enlist in the Laotian army. Many Provincial police identified for exports has been to the world,
who, like Mr Attlee, was pre- was one of the fever spots in other reservists have already the Derry family victims បទ He said the major proposals sent yesterday, was at home the world where such practical been called up. They said the Dorothy, 7, Philip, 5, Clifford, presented have been approved with a core throat and sickness, aid was justified, Mr Dulles inhabitants are behaving with 4. Eleanor, 3, and a year-and-a- and the draft programme would Mr Attlee still taking things added. But it must be proved exemplary calm.
holf-old baby. The Trudell inally passed
victims the easily after a recent operation that aid was being used in the
Wilme, by
Sisavang Vong, the aged King, resting. most effective way, National Executive at a further for appendicitis was
has repeatedly refused to leave The plan, analysing Britain's If military leaders-presumably his palace in spite of the pre- meeting on May 19.
economic difficulties, stes the American-ware satisfied that sent Vietminh threat.-Reuter.
were ready to be necul for a big boost of exports, such plans
production, and cater
the executed, then United
NO EVACUATION Slates sacral gearing us of industry and would be forthcoming in
Vientiane, Apr. 26. provincial police said Derry
occupants of the But police sald they will bo the Job of putting Britain greater amounts than ever,--
Laotian officials made it clear awakened at six o'clock plane, a T-33, were taken to on the alert against any Com- her i permanently on
United Press,
today that the Government was light the fire in the wood stove hospital at the Pepperrall ale munist bispired demonstrations. As It left the Executive today
not at
-Associated Press. [base, near hero-Reuter. contemplating in
frame present putting into force the plans for building.
husmarkets_to_offer. The Folvency and indeperidence" Loyalists' and the Leftwing | trafion, by which governments over traffic co reported that They were being cared for by 22 per cent of the electorate hadjection is believed to be lack of
Poolants to
enable Dritain to pay her way, but "now we realise the need to set our sights higher." This applies also to Hongkong industrialista, whose resourcefulness and enterprise will be required
in the highest degree if the presunt trade recession is to Le successfully met and
overcome.
Industry & Sentiment
e
The Conference covered the whole field of domestic policy. It decided to defer until a later meeting the final shaping of the Foreign Policy section of the
programme.
THREE POINTS
Mr Philips would not divulge
feet.
It ran to about 20,000 words, but it to be pruned to more
is
the decisions taken at the con-manageable length for circula- (ten វុឌ local branches und ference, but among the most Trade Unions, and will be significant, it was subsequently tailormade" when it reaches learned, were:
the Executive next 1. The rejection on a vote of Reuter. over two to one of a proposal for the nationalisation of rented Innd, which had been champion-
THE Federation of British Industries have no use for Scottish separatism. Their memorandura to the Royal Commission uti Scottish Affairs in Edinburgh lacks nothing in pungency. All the evidence, they say, supports the conclusion wingers.
month.-
ed by Me Ancurin Bevan's left- Vendor Breaks
that the economy of Scot- 2. Pending discussions with land ia, and must continue the TUC of a proposal to nation- to be, jutimately bound up allso a number of major firms with the economy of the in the chemical industry.
to
of
Sunday Law
his duty, did
Hall Porter Charged With Murder
London, Apr. 26.
were
24,
-
Training Plane Crashes
St. Johns, Newfoundland.
May Day Holiday For Singapore
For
the first
of
Apr. 27. A United States Air Force two- Marian, 12, and Dianne, 9.
seater jet training plane crashed
Singapore, Apr, 20. Derry and his
at Torbey airport, five miles from wife were
time in the severely burned in an attempt here, while landing after a dlight history
Singapore, the from Goose Bay, Labrador, colony's, workers will celebrate to save the children, who were
May Day us a public holiday. sleeping in one
room. The yesterday.
The wo
the
one-storey
broke wooden shield
the evacuation of Vientiane, the
An hour later flames administrative capital of Laos.
The Prime Minister, Prince cut from the Souvanna Phouma, sold today behind the stove and spontane
ous combustion Government
caused an ex-
that the Laotian
was determined to fight to the plosion that cut the parents of from the back room where the end whatever might be the dim- culties C sacrifices-France- children were sleeping.
Presse.
De Gaullist
Views On Peace Moves
no real was
Paris, Apr. 20. Gaullist spokesman Gaston Palcwski sald today settlement with possible without Germany and
"The German treaties
Both riced to the back of the building, where they broke a window and tried to rescue the children. But they were driven back by the heat and dames.United Press.
207 Miners
Trapped
reven
A 39-year-old hall porter was charged tonight with murdering Sydney, Apr; 20. Mrs Grace "Babs" Darrington, Fest of the United Kingdom, leftwing proposal, to which the
3. The cold shouldering a Ringing a bell on a Sunday found strangled in her flat here and an integral part of it. TUC object, the introduction of children to his ice cream truck nylon stocking knotted round attract neighbourhood on Wednesday with her own Against the economic pres- Aure making for integration, a social service tax. This apbrought Robert Harris a fine of her neck. parently did not reach discus-one shilling. nationalist sentiment and ston
The man, John Haskayne, will The charge Proposals for publle ownership read: "While not being a guard morning. pride might pull in the
against Harris
appear 1: Court tomorrow opposite direction, towards of further sections of other in-
or postman in Her Majesty's disintegration. Industry dustry were considered by the Post Office in the performance Mrs Darrington, who was 50
Mexico City, Apr. 26. use a noisy but looked younger by fifteen realises only too well, too; conference. The view of the
Two hundred and Rusla of the party, who Instrument, to wit, a bell, on a years, was found dead by her that marked increase in
agreement on miners were trapped one thou- the purpose husband, a cornercial traveller, the devolution to Scotland have six representatives, in publle street-for
Indo-China,
sand feet below. ground when a Bevan, on the of selling articles, to wit, der of the functions of Govern: Executive, is that more Govern- cream."
zliver and zinc mine near She was found lying across her
and Austrian
75 miles northwest ment must also entail
Angangion, ament control of Industry
are linked" he sald "To be truthful," pleaded box, dressed only in a green night marked increase in Govern- necessary for the job of national Harris, "I did not know it was dress and there were signs of a in a speech at St. Denis, Paris of Mexico City caved in after an explosion according to ment expenditure. To this, economic recovery.
an offence."-United Prees. violent struggle. Her husband suburb, "We cannot see Russia
reliable reports hero, Scottish industry is As only one propost
had been away, on a business trip. abandoning Austria if Germany.
fro The explosion and a and is going to bo which it started killed many of resolutely opposed. On the nationalisation of rented agricul
The police established that armed in both camps. Mrs Darrington was in a club other hand the Scottish tural land-was-subject to a vote, It is assumed that others
"SimBarly a necessary Unk Trades Union Congress contained in the draft submitted
on Tuesday evening. Later she must be created for the settle- Auggest that additional to the conference remain, though
was seen with a man in a public mont of the affairs of Korea
and house and neighbours heard her
Indo-China. A disarma- departments of labour, in sufficiently vague form to
London, Apr. 20.) enter her fat in Hatherly Grove, monit · Conference would Be stop throughout the night had trado and supply, be leave the Party uncommitted to
A Mulay school was burned Paddington, at about 11 that illusory if at the same time the established under the negis definite action at any given time.
the ground Anchided: to
today afternight. She was then believed Soviet world seized, both the proposals of the Scottish Office, while Development
counell for the having been struck by an in to be alone.
gale, to India and the soureca at the same time they assall shipbuilding and ship repairing cendiary bomb dropped during - the "multiplicity, of nuthori- | Industry; perkal Acquisition an RAF strike against the Com- Haskayne, a single man from to the security · and prosperity
ties, responsible for the through Gavemment investment munist terrorists at Kuala LumLiverpool, was charged at Not of the free world. various branches of High- of the airgraft and machine tool pur, it was reported today from ting i police station where "France can play an oesntial of drowning in flood water John Christle, now being tried role in European appeasement rising in the tunnels where land development. They manufacturing industries; auther Malaya.
Ity for the National Con? Board, No one was injured, but u
the for the murder of four women if she lays down as a previous they are trapped. regional which runs the State-owned coal pupils are now enjoying an un- In the Notting Hill "House of comition the stabiliantion pend-The dimsler is the worst in urgo that authority 'be created for mines, to
I own expected holiday, France Death was also charged-Rousing the liquidation of the con- Mexican mining Bulatory Rou the Highlands, and I machinery
Fresso.
+ Dicis of Asa-Houter.
racke
mako
the
Incendiary Bomb Destroys School
is divided
of raw materials indispensable
the
have
miners. Thirty-three bodies already been recovered.
Rescue squads working non-
today rescued more than 100 of man, including 15 seriously jured and 33 suffering from
location.
of those still underground 37 are known to be in danger,
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