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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
A Vital Conference
year's annual
con-
Terence of the TUC which opens today is much more thun a
trude meeting of union delegaten. The decisions reached will have a profound impact on the forthcoming conference of the British Labour Party And will Kulde the Socialista'. future policies
on
auch major- mutters 22 nationalisation, wago demunds, rearmament and conscription. The left-wing the unions, regarded · na spokesmen for the Bovan group in the Labour Party, will atrive
obtain support for resolutions which de- maid more nationalisation, in rearmament dis- cuts association from certain American foreign policies, more tradings with Russin and other Communist coun- tries, abandonment of the wage restraints policies, and abolition of the two-year conscription. The challenge to the TUC leaders by the left wing elements will be Strong and forceful. They kayu mode clear their intention of trying to "drive
wedge between
JL
the
unlonlats and the Labour
bu
Party, and if they score any successes this week
bound these
to reflected at the Party con- ference next month,
are
A
to
PART from their struggle win approval resolutions which
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CHINA MAIL
No. 35608
Established 1845 -
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1953.
TWO CATHOLIC PRIESTS MURDERED IN WANCHAI
Sleep Outdoors In Fear Of 'Quakes
Athens, Sept. 6.
The panto-stricken popu- Jation of the Peloponnesian peninsula slept outdoors Just night following series of earthquakes which shook the peninsula yes- terday,
The
Beaten To Death
And Robbed
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A
Rome, Sept. 6. correspondent who
motored along the frontier
North enter
no
Citizens, thinking of the disastrous quakes at the nearby Ionian Islands last month, refused to
atthough bulidings, serious injuries or exten- sive damage was reported.
Corinth Cazal authorities announced that the Canal would be closed to shipping for several days because of quake fissures in the Canal banks. Two slight shocks него fell damare last night but no was done. - United Press
Strike By
Electricians
To Spread
Douglas, Isle of Man,
Sept. 7. The "guerilla warfare"
Communist-led Elec-
1
Falule on the Italian side of
the
Two Chinese Catholic priests of the Holy Souls' Church in Wanchai were brutally murdered in the early hours of this morning by thieves, who got away with a large amount of jewellery and $1,500 in cash.-
The murdered men were the Rev. Fr Peter Ngai and the Rev. Fr John Cheng
were attacked while sleeping in the same their quarters and apparently beaten to death with blunt instruments.
who
Fr
The murder was discovered by the Rev.. James Zilioli, priest in charge of the church. He became suspicious when neither Father Ngai nor Father Cheng were present in church for the 6 a.m. Mass.
Father Zilioli went to the priests' quarters on a floor above the church and found them dead.
Both had severe injuries to the chest which Police believe were caused by blunt weapons.
The telephone and electricity lines leading to the room were also found cut.
of the
Immediately after being informed
of Trieste and of lower through the area
frontier today said Italian troops there were confined to barracks.
Further from the froniler, In area in which the bulk of Italy's active divisions
dent reported that these not seem to be subject restrictions on leave.
At Alcamo near Palermo in Sicily, more than 30,000 people gathered to demonstrate
Italy.
Bonn, Sept. 6. Dr Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats swept into the lead in West Germany's elections with one-fifth of the results counted.
His Party secured 39 of the first 46 of 242 seats to be won in direct elections to the Lower House.
The coalition partner, Vice Chancellor Bluecher's Free Democrats five and Erich Ollenhauer's Social Democrats two..
won
The Social Democrats had lost six direct seats, four to Adenauer and two to Bluecher.
Herr Erich Ollenhauer, the Social Democratic leader, had a walkover in the South Hanover constituency which he inherited from Kurt Schumacher, the former Christian leader of his Party who died last year, Ollenhauer's lend over his Democratic rival, 77,032 votes to 82,893, was almost as great as Schumacher's in 1949-56,000 vates to his rival's 15,000.
The Communist Party's constituency of Fritzlar Hom- The Interior Ministry said the chances of getting any seats inberg in Hesse.
election would cost the nation (£200,000),—— West German defence Coin-Marks 2,420,000 the new Bundertag faded al-
when most completely
their missioner Theodor Blank was Reuter. leader, Max Reimann, was de-re-elected in this constituency of feated in the depressed cutlery Borken Bocholt in North-Rhine
Westphalia. town of Solingen, in the Ruhr.
The Christian Democratic Although the Party plaster Union gained the seat from en to
aro stationed. the correspon-
did
the return of Textate to
The Italian transport Minis- "er, Signor Bernardo Montarella addressed them--China Mail Special.
•
NO DISTURBANCES
Helmstedt, Sept. 6. West German border guards ed the town with posters and
In Marm-took special precautions today invited East German Ministers dependent holder
against any Communist attempt from
men East Berlin during the hem constituency.
acrosy the The
Democratic to infiltrate Christian campaign
to break to make Union gained the seat in the border
up German offers
of cutlery Bavarian
But the East of election contres. orders from behind the Iron Deggendorf from
the Bavarian German Communists made na behind his two
cicction generous
Curtain, Reimann
constituency
came well Party.
candidates, The Free Democratie Party and gained the seat from the Social
Democrats in Coburg.
the
COMMUNIST LOSES
move.
1
1
Helmstedt, the small border town where, inst week more than 8,000 would-be-Commandst "election saboteurs" were by, border police, founded up Blumbered quietly in the bright sunshine.
Farm
workers, dressed in Sunday best clothes,
for wage strike of member murder, Police threw out a dragnet and began intensive consultations between Federal Capital, 34 hours after Democratic opponent, Wilhelm walked into the town to record
grammes considered most
in
energy
will also be fighting hard stations, will spread today the double murder Mr D. G.sponsible for the rebuilding of
(Monday),
Mi
electricians
would be
was also an
resulta
was mainly PN Trieste City and to election was primarily a battle constituency
editor
of a
the
between Adenauer's Christian Solingen.
Party.
CENTENARIAN VOTES
he
A
rifles slung
Social Democrat
The seat, which in 1940 was REACTION TO SPEECH
won by a Social Democrat, was today won by Dr Adenauer's Rome, Sept. 6.
The Social Democratic leader, man, Dr Fritz Hellwig. First authoritative reaction in
Herr Erich Ollenhauer, WILE The Christian Democrat leader Italy to Marshal Tito's speech
Konrad
elected in Hanover South, Adenauer was came tonight in a semi-official Pr
Herr Ollenbauer got 77,032 of his communique after
declared elec
olected in
own ot a day
129,294 of
votes,
Christian their His constituency high officials of the Italian
pelling closed in the West Get Naegel, got 32,803, the German their vote. across policies and pro-trical Trade Union, which searching the Kowloon railway station and Macao
Foreign Office
Tha to have has held up work at many shipping wharves for suspects believed
Bald man elections His success was Party candidate 11,017 and the communique
Party candidate Large contingents of police suitable by the moderates sites in Britain,
Marshal Tito
Tito had become the assured on the basis of partial German Reich
2,099. includ-hand injuries and bloodstained clothes,
were drafted into border areas the Trades Union
ot of the megalomania that
Results from
to all over West
lover the weekend
stiffen dietators".
Communist leader Max Rei Council, the extreme leftisting three atomic
tho Shortly after the discovery of friendly.. Ho
confrmed that the
border. detachments on- Germany sald his proposal to intér
munn was defeated in the Buhr lookout for Communist Infiltra-
Remscheid- of Walter McPherson, Director of Criminal the church in Star Street, the absorb the rest of the territory for TUC offices, if they can
tors. on the funds for which were contribut-into Yugoslavia is so incredible Offenbauer's Social Democrate.
Democrats and their main rivais, win any the strength of the Stevens, General Secretary Investigation, arrived
The Christian Democrats gau- Today at Helmstedt station, with a large the of the Union, announced scene
party of ed by the people in Wanchal, Bevan group within
that it must be intended to vell
peat. from the Social where Interzonal trains (carry- : police.
Fr Johm Baptist Cheng was the Yugoslav dictator's real in-
9.15 pm GMT the Bruted the By Labour Party would auto- here last night.
across the twelve direct constituency
re: Democrats who had won with a ing East Germans in Later this morning the Author-born Hongkong in July. 1918, tentions" matically increase and Mr Stevens, here for today's
ordained priest in
It seemed likely that Marshalsults had gone to the former, slight majority over the Chris-border have to stop for passeng- ⚫er checks and money changing. the British Trakieties offered a reward of $5,000 and wa become
formidable. opening at more
the Macho was
In July 1944.
two of them captured from this tian Democrats in 1949. Soil Tito's real objective was "to this ordination,
Professor Carlo Schmid, police walted in railway carri- The trade unionists Union Congress (TUC), said that for information leading to
are
he after by Junch time today about apprehension of the murderers.
or the
crystallies a. situation which is Social Democrats, the hard core of the Bri-
Father Zilioll who discovered appointed as
Even in the Social Democratic Social Democratic Chairman of ages which were standing idle editor 5,000
favourable to him in the hope
was old Bundestag, re- on the side, tracks, tish socialist movement and
murder said this morning he Chinese Catholic the
paper, called out.
Bremen and Hamburg Dr elected in Mannheim city.
The men were tired after their influence is profound.
will bring him other bene Adenauer
cbc 10
Wilhelm "They will be from 30 big went to the priests' quarters to Kung Kau Po. He was also the that prolongation of the status strongholds in Protestant North the
Dellies, appeared
second investigate because they had not founder and
of the ts", the communique added. Through the trade unione vites and from
Social De-days and nights of walling for.. 50 or fu Jobs appeared for the early morning Modern
Students,
up on Oltenhauer's Chairman of the monthly Marshad
now Communist break the Bevanites enn win com-
Tito's speech had catching employing "two or more men," | Masa._
students
mocratic Party, was re-elected magazine_for_Chinese
rendered one. _service"to_let.
through which never came. mand of the party and he added.
When he looked into the two At
at Lemgo, Westphalka : ----- the same time, he was the world soe, once and for all,
HOLDS SEAT
Router. dictate its national
and
About 3,700 men were out on
The station was locked up. Saturday in the fortnight-old adjoining rooms where the two spiritual director of the Chinese the real extent of Yugoslavia's damestic policies. The main
priests lives he found them life-Catholic Students Association. He demands on Triesto,"
In Rhineland Palatine the also an active issue, therefore, at the TUC trike. The Union has stopped less on: the floor.
worker in
in This should strip the band-head of Dr Adenauer's
Platforms entpty of passengers Chari- construction ot
were full of police The rooms were in a very dis-the Legion of Mary and at the age from the eyes of those who collery, De Otto. Lenz, held the
and special Frankfurt, Sept. 0. conference is whether the work on new
three acomic energy stations,
The oldest Weat German, border guards who patrolled up present leaders can assert
four oil refineries, four London'! orderly state, the drawers and time of his death was the spinta | have persisted in belloving that seat for the Christian Democra-
ül
with down chests having been ransacked.
the Junior there was the slightest trace of the Union. Dr Lenz is the most 108-year old Kari Glockner, cast and director their independence of the docks, motor factories, a Lank
Greally alarmed, Fr Zilioli Chinese Section of Hongkong, reason on the part of Yugos-likely candidate for the Interior his vote in bed at his home in across their shoulders, left-wing clements. Failure plant and steel workers.
rushed for the telephone and About a mouth and a half ago, lavia or a minimum Intention Ministry should Dr Adenauer Eidengesses near hero today. to do so would mark the
Union The
Ja demanding found the. phone disconnected. he was appointed as Assistant to solve the problem by means form another Government sinca Polling officials brought the beginning of the end of three pence per hour mord for He then raised the alarm, Parish priest of the Holy Soul's of negotiations, either direct or his present Interior Minister Drurn to his bedside because
Police arrived shortly and a Church.
Robert Lehr, moderation both within the its 40,000 contracting members.
indirect," with Italy."
is retiring from was not feeling well-Reuter. of quantity TUC and the Labour Party China Mall Special.
politics. Jewellery and cash were also discovered missing.
COST OF ELECTION Postal Minister, His
Herr executive. The Bevanites would be in the position to
The Communique sald Mar Schuberth, won the constituency
Boon, Sep. A. from the small Zahedi Appoints
shal Tito had rejected outright of Landshut
The price of today's elections all the proposals so far put far-Conservative Bavarian Party. in West Germany is estimated at New Minister
ward by anyone, including his Dr
himself Adenauer
was 7.5 ptennigs (11⁄2d starling) per ship, Bishop Lawrence Blanc Man Found With
re-elected without any difficulty, voler. own people.
It concluded "there is 10 By 0.30
p.m. GMT the Teheran, Sept. 8. Mass the funeral service will be Premier Faziellah Zahedi to- held at the Catholic Cemetery.
Time Bomb doubt that this speech furnishes Christian Democrats had won
to the Italian Government and
thirteen of
reported results. day appointed Lt-Gen. Abdulla Fr. Peter Ngal was born in
Tel-Aviv, Sept. 0. to the Governments of the Three
hree of them were consti Hedayat as Minister of National
Shen
Waichow, Tam Tong Yeang,
man Allies, new
from said today
fundamental tuencies wrested Defence.
บ District, in 1900 and was ordain-
Halta cor- elements for a broad raview of Social Democrats. Two of the General Zahedi, who had kept ed pricat in Hongkong in April described
of the extreme the situation"-Reuter,
three represented a movement Defence and Interior 1930. Ja June, the same year, respondent
of other Rightwing votes to the Christian Democrats but the Ministries for himself when he he was appointed to work in the Rightwing newspaper Herut district, Swabor, had been arrested while carry- bomb in rst drew up his Cabinet list Hoi Fung
ing a ticking time
third victory-in Muelheim in two
formally Kwangtung Province. ago
the Ruhr-was a straight gain virtually certain that the
presented General Hedayat to In the following year, he was Halfa port.
of the right from the left, existing executives will the Shah following the appoint-assigned to Hongkong and be
Herr Erich Ollenhauer, leader came Assistant Parish priest in tempt to set off the bomb was] orge against the various ment.
of the Social Democrats who resolutions which are being Hedayat previously was St Margaret's Church.
In protest against the flow of
campaigned against any strong During the Japanese Occupa- West German advanced by the left appointed Minister of Defence
goods to Israel
ties with the West because they under the restitution 'agreement
might wingors. The attitude of by Premier Ali Razmara, shat tion, he was sent back to Hol
kill any chance of all- between the two countries. to death by an assassin in 1950. Fung District, where he worked
with the country people.
While
German unity was ahead iri his the man was being United Press.
In 1940, he returned to log detained, the Israell freighter
constituency of Hanover South and looked kong and worked in the HolyRimon (2,373 tons) was
set for a big victory. ALLOCATING AID
11- London, Sept. 8.
Church Soul's
ឆថ Assistant
His predecessor, the late Dr loading a fourth shipment of and The Persian Government will Parish Priest,
Kurt Schumacher, won over- West Gennan goods, mostly
last whelmingly there in the laid it down that big-scale use the new United States uid there since.
Iron piping. During his many years in
Federal election in 1949, Bonn, Sept. 7. of $45 million (about £10,107,- trading with
Com-
Earlier shipments have been develop agriculture and Hongkong, Fr Ngoi became, very 000)
Herr Ollenhauer had 20300 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's the unloaded in Israeli ports under coalition Parties won a smash- votes munista before the casing industry and to build housing well-known and loved by
votes had when 38100 of political problems would for the poor, Teheran Radio said people in Wonchal. He was stron polico protection.m
ing victory in Sunday's West been counted by 9 p.m. GMT. be "putting the cart before today.-Reuter.
always very quiet and very 'Reuler.
In this 140,000 voto elec- German Parliamentary
other tions, ensuring
parties German par-stituency
the Christian ticipation in the defence of presented waro
Democrata, the German Party, Western Europe,
and the the Free Democrats A landslide victory appeared extreme Rightwing German :coming for the 71-year-old Reich Party.
Chancellor, who has τόπο out
dictate and have their own
extreme policies adopted.
WHILE the outcome of this
trial of strength cannot be categorically forecast, thero are plenty of reasons for believing that, the moderates In the trade unions will win the day. The conference delegates are morally bound to accept recommendations from the Council, and it is
the trade union leaders on the question of more trading with Russia and her allies was indicated last month when the General Council
tho
the horse." Likewise the General Council have made It known that they do not
to
the
weeks
He was a very popular leader of the young people and took A solemn Requiem Masa for keen interest in the activities the two priests will be held in of the young generation.
Church Souls'
.at Holy
w. His Lord-
the
10 a.m. tomorrow m
will officiate. Following
the
remained
Polico
as the
PROPOSALS REJECTED
and
Observers belleved the at STOP PRESS
Mountaineers Using Nylon Equipment
Calcutta, Sept. 6.
A Landslide
Victory
favour precipitate nationali- sation of key industries, while several trade union leaders have recently ex- pressed themselves in favour of continuod wage restraints in order combat inflation. Judged by All their tenis, windproof, The advance party of the The expedition will probably midnight.
to reach the col and the policies which the TUG | clothing and other equipment are Japanese expedition arrived in nttempl
At 2.30 am. 11.30 GMT), make the final assault, from
with have been following in the made of nylon, all made in Japan India last week.
nearly 9,500,000 popular there along a ridge.
votes counted, tho Chancellor post it can be anticipated ecme nylon ropes from the
As no recommaissance has yet
The expedition plane to and file coalition Parties had with a reasonable degree of Unked States.
Annapurna-2 is a sister peak been made on Annapurna-2, it
on September gained 166 House sont and the confidence that the of Annapurna-1, climbed by als not known yet from which leave Calcutta extremists will be voted French expedition in 1950. aldo the peak will ap-12 and establish a base camp Socialists only 28. The overall at 14,000 feet by the end of popular vole showed 6,023,310 down during this wook's The Japanese climbors are proached.
votes for the condition Parties: September. vital conference at the Isle equipped with an open circuit
However photographs taken by
and 2,451,032, for the Bocialiai of Man, and that the oxygen apparatus, Designed in-
dependently by Japanese makes the French from Amapurna-1 They will spend about 40-United Press.
the existence of moderates will continue to bus which they have found very showed
aders on the mountain, the final depression) between mult, taking place sometime hold power in the Generallar to sat used by the succol
Pafter. October, 20,-Beater, Council,
pomsful British Everest expedition, Armapurna-4 and 2.
.
the
con-
LAGGING, BEHIND The main party of the seven-man Japanese mountaineering expedition to boldly for tying his nation's
The Christian Democrate Annapurnu-2 arrived in Calcutta by air from Tokyo today prepared for an "all-future to that of the Wester
Allies. The Socialist opposition were lagging with 0,200 votes,
the nylon" attempt to scale the 20,041 Himalayan peak.
German Party, other conceded defeat shortly after
partisora in the Government coalition, with 340, the Froo Democrats with 1,000 and the extremo.: right-wing German Raich Party with #37.
Dr Otto Lent, hood of Dr Kotrod · Adenitúer's 2 private oice was tonight elected for the Christian Democratic Party na first deputy chosen by direen vale to the new Bundestag (Lower Hound of Parliament),
August: Martin. Euler, leading official of the Free Democratic | Party, was re-elected in his
bo
Some of the 4,000, Communists who were arrested last Wednes- day night are still in a tempor- ary gaol on the outskirts of Helmstedt. They will be re- leased after serving short sen→ tences for disturbing the peace. Others, regarded as "agita- tors” were transported to Bruns- wick where they also will be dealt with summarily,—Reuter.
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