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Without Interest
of
CHINA MAIL
Safe Conduct
Passes
As Bait To
This Guerillas
to, head off, having grown bored
with studying evidently hunds.
"There's nothing wrong
would intrigue me know at what stage his care James gave him-. self up as hopeless, and hin abandonal interest in own affairs.
He us on have been boy, possessed of energy and zest, there is nothing wrong banienlly with h health even now; he mut once have been a young min and have dreamt all a young man's dreams of what the future could hold.
mentally," said the officer. the
"Oh no, of course" said magistrate, "he Anve himself a
he when testimonial
arrested, didn't he?"
wha
He remandes Jumes, all the sume, for the doctors to look at hum
When James next holsted him- into the dock, self laboriously
Mr Frank another magistrate.
The Milton, was on the bench. strains doctors.
it seemed, bud Seeing him now, it belled to imagine he could ever nothing much wrong with James was in an ap- have been esther. He is only 32 except that he but he look, an old and decrepitpailingly dirty condition,
and decayed might who
as a centenarian
1ur had dwell
the two poliermen him and told him they going to arrest him, "You're not talking you know,
50
fotard
DEPLORABLE STATE
really has got into a
KTTE
|
Singapore, May 6.
Commissioner- If i g b General Sir Gerald Templer has started a new drive to get jungle terrorists to sur- render, which official quar- ters hope may break the back of the
Communist resistance guerilla Malaya.
in
Millions of safe conduct passes, each bearing Gen. Tem- pler's signature, will be dropped aver Malayon
from Jungles Johore Straits in the south to the Thailand border.
It will be the first time that safe conduct passes with the commissioner's signature will have been used in the campaign 10 end Malaya's nearly Ave- year-old war against Communust terrorism.
s
qurs in the cubble and dust of deplorable state," said Mr some dela eye.
Jaunts was caught late the oller Badger, the probation officer.
"Awful, wl; for his age." trying to gen the thous evening of cars parked in the side-streets the magistrate agreed. He turned around tirestor Square When to James. "You're 52," he said, challenged at what is sometimes called the
Gen. Templer's new campaign were prime of life, and you've got
almed at he yourself into this dreadful state,
nor-Communist "I am sending you to prison terrorists who form a large bulk to a fool,
for three months partly in the of the Communist jungle forces. discipline All posses RUGE EFFORT
that some sort of hupe
to be dropped will will help
a special message from HEY took him to the police-and regular regime
Templer
the asking him pull you together, otherwise, the station and brought
Com- Kuerillos to desert hele tu Bow Street, outlook for you is deplorable."
did not seem James
to he
munist lenders.
"Many of you, who are now guilty to the listening. The magistrate might have been speaking to someone
st ghting for the Communist The story was told in elaborate in whom he had not the slightest detall, but when James's turn to inforest, and in a sense he was, Sprak
came, he heaved himself from his
THEY
next morning
where belme Mr Bertram Beeee, he pleaded not charge,
up with huge effort seat in the dock, add contented himself with observing in a grey, dreary tene: "1 gas fist walking around."
"The feer suggests your ar- tivities were rather different.") said the magistrate. "Would you! like to say anything about that." SLENDER DETAILS
Canal Zone Talks
Cairo, May 6.
carry
leaders in the jungles of Malaya,
are not hardened criminals but were tricked and youths who. intimidated into following the
Gen wrong path,"
Templer's message rends. "There is no hope
In Communism, and in Your hearts you know that...
Gen. Temples told them that they should live to serve the common interests of the people of Malaya than to live like wild We, there-
Britain and Egypt are expect-beasts in the Jungle. ed to make a Joint statement
UT James had bent the white today on the "Arst phase of BUT
thatch of his head, and their talks on the evacuation of burrowed his
Inter is the
zone, about chun
Suez Canal
they have up to grease-stained grity raincoat which
disclosed very little.
fore, call upon you to hide your aims and equipment and report to the nearest police or milliary offeer.
Established' 1845
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1953.
Two men of the Royal Papuan and New Guinea constabulary are welcomed to Australia by 15-month- old Bradley Gray. They are among a contingent of 25 policemen on their way to London for the Coronation.
London Express,
Reds Make Switch In
Offensive Laos
Sheaffer's SNORKEL
Russia To Be Told Mail
West Willing To Go Half Way
Strasbourg, May 6.
Western Europe's Foreign Ministers are ex- pected to tell Russia they will go half way in any genuine attempt to end East-West tension after their two-day conference which opens here today.
The Ministerial Committee of the 15-nation Council of Europe, meeting for the first time for a year, will debate Moscow's recent peace' moves before drafting its annual message to the Con- sultative Assembly.
Because of Sweden's traditional neutrality, the message will be couched in general terms.
It is not expected to suggest | 132 Parliamentariaus from
Belgium, any specific means of reaching Fronce.
Denmark, agreement between Communist Western Germany, Greect, Ice. and non-Communist arens.
land, Ireland, Italy, Luxem- the Netherlands, Norway,
The Committee is preparing 101 Thursday's opening session
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 By Air
Japan, 6 p.m., D.O.A.C. Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, India, Pakletan, Middle East, Great Britain & Europe, 0 p.m. B.O.A.C.
By Burface Macao, 2 p... 6 p.m., 18 Tai Loy/ Tak Shing.
THURSDAY, MAY ↑ By Air Formosa, 1 pɔn, via C.A.T. Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, U.S.A. san drancisco), 1:00 pm. P.À¡A.
Philippines, North Homeo, a p.m.,
of the Assembly consisting of Turkey, Britain und the East, Africa,
MAU MAU
ROUND-UP
Smart Police Work
Slam, Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Middle Great Britain and Europe Okinawa, U.S.A. O p...
6 pm, CPA/DOAC. The Ministerial group is cx-HKANWAL preted to adopt Ave contentions to introduce common European rectal and educational services.
The
agreement has been ready for a year,
but has-been held of a dispute be- because
Up
Dy Surface Macao, a pun. 6 p.m., us Tai Loy/ Tak Shing.
China, 'eople's Republic, 0.30 am... train via Canton.
Pakistan, Noon, 15 Vibeke Marrik. ss island Japen, Canada, 1 pin.. Mall.
tween Germany and France Indo-China, i pimi, a Elbeth, over the Saar being a signatory Middle East. Great Britain
Malaya, Ceylon, India, Aden, and to the pact.
Europe, m., es Corfu.
FRIDAY, MAY 1
SOLUTIONS DEVISED
Several solutions to the prob- iem
a
have now been devised. The one
most likely to be adopted would remove the need
Nairobi, May 5. Police today foiled a suspected Mau Mau allempt to attack the barbed wire surrounded police for signatures, and allow mem-
adhere to the compound at Githunguri where bers to 90 Kikuyu are now on trial ment by
agree
By Air Slam, Burma, India, to a via T.A.C.
Indo-China, France, French North and West Africa, 11 am, Air France. Japan, U.S.A., Canada, 11.2 m. C.P.A.L
Indo-China. France, French North
nem.
and West Africa, 4.30 pan., Air Viet- N. Borneo, Australia, New Zeniami, 6 pm. Q.E.A.
Stam
Pakistan, India,
Great Batain and Europe, 0 pm. 1.0.A.C.,
By Surfac Macao, pr. 6 p.m., se Tai Lay?
accused of murder in the "night the Cour depositing letters with of the long, kulves" MasgACTO Mr Van Zealand, Beiglen at Lari in March,
Foreign Minister, who will pre alde over the Committee, is ex- The police arrested 20 ler-
pected to press for a more active rorists in a surprise raid on a
Tak Shing role for the Council, both as a Mau Mau hide-out, where, they separate organisation and in re
believed the attempt was being lation plotted.
The raiding party unearthed containing regulation
Paris, May 5, a Mau Mau "Quartermaste's foclog the
the
Malayo, Coylon, Aden, Middle East, Great Britain de Europe, 10 am., 85 Radnorshire.
China, J'eople's Repubile, UX ans.
to the six-nation Euro- pean Steel and Coal Community.
One of the main problems in via Canton.
Committee is maintenance of close links be- The Vietminh High Command today appears store"
tween the Community-consist- to have switched the main weight of the offensive police raincoats, simts (knives) ing of West Germany, France, and pungus (chopping knives) italy, Belgium, Holland and alher Luxembourg and the before matic quarters last night to have planes will be used in the big in Laos, from the Royal capital of Luang Prabang and European clothing.
and was examining his hands
with an interest that almost sug- Heated he had never
realised he possessed such things H did not answer the magistrale, who therefore was obliged to And him guilty.
now
They were reported in diplo
made considerable progress, and Aly Zein Abidin, Director of the Egyptian government's Political Department, said: "The atmo- sphere is always good."
Yesterday's session lasted three hours and the delegations resume the task today. They are reported
to
have heen discussing precise terms of for joint reference
technical committees to make on the spot
A wont detective sergeant rend out to Mr Reece slender, details of James's career.
There were
off number previous convictions against him; he had been found guilty in 1936 of loitering to pick pockets, then had disappeared from the sight of the ptice for ten years, he-was-picked-up-for-wandering-base. abroad, Five years after that hel
of the was found guilty of buttering buse in working order is one of with intent to steal from shop the problems under negotiation.
-Reuter. ping bags.
when studles in the great military
On none of these occasiona was! he dealt with anything but Jeniently, but of what he had
** done between his small odven- tures into crime, we were toki very little.
H
YAWNING
Future maintenance
Off To Edinburgh
The messages are written in Chinese, Malay and Tamil.
Squadrons of Royal Air Force
uir-drop-United Press.
Coronation
Ban
A
London, May 5. The Nyasaland Supreme Council of Chiefs of Congress and People has decided to ban all Coronation celebrations.Jn. Nyasaland as part of their pro- fest against eentral African from message federation. Blantyre, Nyasaland, reported today.
Other measures announced included a ban on the recruit- ment of labour to South Africa and Rhodesia
and a policy of
with
vari- non-co-operation ous executive organs, including the Legislative Council.
These are "preliminary" mezi
London, May 5. Crown Prince Akihito of Japan left London by train to- night for Edinburgh on a fort- night's tour of Scotland.-Reu-sures, the Council stated, add- ing that they "deeply regret" Parliament's rejection of their request for a hearing.-Reuter.
doesn't appear very bright said the magistrate, glancing at James, who was yawning hister.
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to the rich Mekong river plain on the Thailand (Siamese) border, according to military reports reaching here today.
The French cabinet is expected to discuss the situa tion tomorrow.
French forces ranging out in sortica 15 miles north and northeast of Luang Prabang did nol encounter any Vietminh troops and there is a growing foeling in military quarters that the threat against the Royal scat has diminished.
A French news agency dis- palch
said the French High Command was taking a serious
The police also seized rifles and a revolver, all landed,
One of the captured terrorists was identified as a man wanted for the murder of a Kikuyu
headman.
European nations in the Council of Europe.
Demonstration Broken Up
The Community, which plans
Amsterdam, May 6. to set up a defence and poll- tical organisation, threatens to
Police with drawn sabres and overshadow the purely con truncheons charged demonstra. sultative all-European body, tors among holiday crowds, on which has no executive powers the Dam Square here this after- Assistant Superintendent K Eglen and Inspector Stanley but makes recommendations to noon
Committee of Foreign Ministers, Reuter.
Brown fought their way out of the A Unique
Distinction
New York, May 5. Mr Thomas Torazo Nishio,
view of the situation northwest 54, became an American citizen of Vientiane the administrative today and United States im- capital of Laos following the migration officials belleve he is Vietminh thrust towards Paksan the first person born in Japan situated on the Mekong river to gain citizenship in this area
without a special on the Laos-Thailand border.
Act of Con- Military quarters here said it crees in almost 100 years. was possible that the Vietminh
M: Nishio, a clerk in Wall commander General Yong Street, was one of 200 persons Nguyen Giap 93 th trying to from 32 countries to take the reach the Mekong
plain to gath
before of allegiance of rice Federal Judge Clarence Imminent Galston,
assuro
his troops supplies before the rainy season sets in.
OTHER POSSIBILITIES Another possibility was
T
Mr Ernest Le Mothe, that naturalisation supervisor, said was Mr Nishio was admitted to trying to make contact with citizenship under provisions of
the Victrial commander
tion an
a Mau Mau ambush less than a mile off tho Nairobi-Nyerin main road in the South Nyeri reserve last night.
Terrorists fired on them from both sidea
as they rounded bend. One shot set their truck alight.
to
the
era,
The demonstrators mingled with the crowd, yelled "Long - Live May Fifth" and placed a bouquet of red roses near the nutional
monument,
JOINT APPROACH
Paris, May 6. In Diplomats Washington, n
The Dutch Communist Party- London and Paris are working
on a Joint approach toy, Mr Faul de Groit, said hard
Day that the Party would Russia on her recent peace feel on
to according diplomatic demonstrate in Amsterdam today sources here.
in protest against the Govern The police officers leapt be-
But reports that the "Bigment's decidon not to make the hind a hillock and fought a te Three are about to send a day an official holiday to con- gun and rifle duel with
have Three-Power rote to the Krem memorate Holland's Liberation terrorists believed numbered six-by the flames of Un were described in official from the Nazis. This is the Brist
diplomatic the truck.
"premature, quarters tonight as year May has
celebrated. They escapad to Nyeri in an
American servicemen on leave The sources agreed that pro- African's truck after ordering
the only people gress in the exchange of views were almost the driver to turn it round their
between the three countries had allowed through after roads covering fire-Reuter.
been made since the article in leading from the Square, wore One American the Soviet Communist party cordoned off. newspaper, Pravda, on April 25, calmly took a photograph of tila suggesting talks with the West girl while two police charges to end world tension.-Reuter, were made nearby.-Reuter.
Pritt, QC, would believed Mr Nishio was the first
SIDE GLANCES
4
"An
MILLIONS TAKE OATH
Lagos, May 6. Two million people are es- timated to have taken, the Mau Mau oath in Kenya, according 10 Chief Hezekian Olapipo. the West African the 60,000 supporters who live the McCarran Immigration Act. Davies, Beroes the Mekong river in
lawyer who helped Mr D. N. Mr Le Molhe said he be-
of in the defence Thailand ant who Two Chinese men were
Jomo
Kenyatta and other nequitted by Mr Hin-shing Lo able to supply arms.
Or the Vietminh may be try-citizen without a special Act of
native of Japan to become a Africans on Mau Mau charges. at Central this moming on a
as Describing Mau Mau charge of effecting a public ing to cut Laos in two.
sed armed
of a repressed uprising mischief, when the Prosecution Reports from Indo-China Congress in almost 100 years,
against the white offered no evidence against suggest there may be Vietminh Mr Nishio was brought here people
settlers of Kenya," Mr Davies commando raids against Luang by
The his parents in 1000.
said:
"The oath is a terrible The defendants, Yu Lam-
Probang to harass the popula- parents later returned to Japan
one and its saimants become hing, 48, of 0 Kwong Yumm or even to kidnap the King. and Mr Nishio stayed here with M. Gilbert Granval, French an aunt. He has two daughters,
fanatics worse in degree than Street, first floor, and Yee Siu-
a Roman Catholic nun
the Hitler youths." chung, 29, of 1 Glass Street, Ambasador in the Saar, is being one ground floor, were alleged to increasingly tipped as a strong Reuter, have conspired to obtain falsely candidate for the post of High a passport from the United Commissioner in Indo-China,
An desurance
France States Consul in Hongkong on
1952 and this would not abandon any of her dates between
Indo-China associates was given year,
today by M. Jean Letourneau, Franco's Minister for the Indo- China Assoclated States when he arrived in Saigon after six weeks
London, May 6. in Franco and America.
Britain today abolished steel "Tranco will pursue her mill- rationing, effective from 10- tory efforis in Indo-Ching and morrow, for the second time increase them if necessary" he sinco, World War II. added "The main gronghold of Indo-China will be defended”.......` Reuter.
New Proposal For POWs
Panmunjom, May 6. The United Nations Command today, in an effort to break the deadlock on the fate of postm armistice prisoners, proposed that all prisoners of Korean nationality be released {ti- mediately after
armistico
an
that
Woman's Offence
- ·
Steel Rationing Abolished
Mr
that the
Davies added
were fact that 2,000,000 people
sworn the to have believed outh might mean "a fight to the finish unless justice is done." -Reuter.
Radio Hongkong
R.K.T.
0, Tima Signal and Programme Bummary; 0.02, Echoes of the Theatre
The Minister of Supply, MrClibert and Sullivan: 6.30, Forces Bandstand Concert Hall). A. Concert; Duncan Sandys, announced by the Band of 1st Batt. Dorset Regt- the move In the House of ment. By kind permission of the Commons. Only
tinplate will Commanding Officer Lt. Col. OG.W. White, D.8.0. conducted by Dand continue under rationing.
martor Mr J. Piani; 7. Lucky Dip
presented by Requests Mr Sandys said that ration- Variety ing was being abolished bem Margheria Btudio): 139, Weather Report: D, Time Signal and World CAUSO In Magistracy and settle where they choose in
of Improved supplies. News (Londidate for Urban Coun Relay): 0.10, Mection
Koren.
"People come to Court for The nationalised British steel Talk by
dena-ett-Mro. O. Jones, (Recorded); The Communists requested a justice, not to contract TB", Industry now being
9.15, Letter from America by Alista- 40-minute adjournment after remarked Mr Hin-shing Lotionalised raised production air Cooke (Recorded London Ralay); today's session had been in pre- this morning, before falng a from 15,633,000 inget tona in 830, Orchestra of the Week-London Ingot, tons Philharmonic Orchestra: 9. PlanG gress 14 minutes, and the United neatly-dressed 20-year-old 1051 16 10,420,000
fecital by dermaine Mounier (a Nations Command agreed,
Chinese woman, Wu Chul-fung, last year.
corded): 0.30, Wednesday Theatre. Production this year is CX- Bir Lowis Casson and Barbara Jof- $30 or 10 days for spliting in the
ford in "All's well that ends wel3" premises of the Central Magis-pected to be 17,500,000 tons.
Steel
Country tracy.
retioning was imposed in by William Shakespeare. Part
Juncrs: 10.49, "Down # Orch; was arrested 1040, lifted in 1930 and re Lane London Prominade The defendant
Redla yesterday morning when the Imposed in 1051 because of the 1950, Weather Report: 11.
News Real (Landon Relay): 11.15. God Baye: The programme. - Goodnight Muse: expectorating in the rearmament
Queen; 11.30, Close DownL United Preaa. corridor of the Magistracy,
Reuter
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