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Quick Action Imperative
THE Colony,
at fret
appalled by the shocking Christmas Day fire disaster, has responded with charne- teristic promptness to the official appeals for aid for the many thousands who have lost their homes and possessions. Much more, however, н needed 3 ensure that all the sufferers can be provided with cluth- log, Blankets and other
necessities and we commend
to everybody in a position
to do so, to give generously
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CHINA MAIL
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1953.
ORIGINAL-ODENER
Only $550 HONGKONG TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE
D'Aguilar St
Price 20 Cents
VIETMINH REDS PREPARE They Need
NEW ATTACKS
French Air Strike Over
Return To Work Begins Today
Paris, Dec. 28.
and thus help to relieve the Striking key ground staff
fortunate prople are Now
ht
GMT to- work at 11 a.m.,
Disturbing Situation In Indo-China
Hanoi, Dec. 27.
More than 100,000 victory-flushed distress which so many un-night decided to go back to attacks along Indo-China's 16th Parallel to- French airports last Communists wheeled into position for new day under orders from the rebel leader, Ho Chi-minh, to "destroy the enemy and rans Day disaster was the trol tower plotters, radio opera-achieve new feats of arms." worst fire which has ever or guiding aircraft on and off afflicted the Colony; cer airfields and nirfield firemen,
suffering. I has oficially day.
been stated that the Christ.
The key men, including con-
December 10 claiming higher
aquatters rendered home wages.
that an
Neighbouring Thailand cancelled de- tainly the number of came out at 11 am GMT on mobilisation plans. It ordered into service Their trade unions an- for three additional months troops_racing less through a single con-nounced last night flagration is the largest agreement been reached into position in the city of Nakorn Panom, casy and the Secretariat of State for just across the river from Thakhet in Laos, which fell to Vietminh assault columnis yesterday.
ever,
and it is
appreciatu that
ment's emergency
facilities Are
had
between the strike committee
Govern-Civil Aviation.
relief During the eight-day strike,
being they
It watch to assist aircraft in dis-
aff for or arriving from Indo-
maintained 0 security
stretched to the limit. Is this which makes it
tress and handled aircraft taking Imperative that the limited China. Other aircraft, including official resources should he transatlantic services, were
to airports Immediately augmented by diverted
outside France or, public donations, both in landed
in clear weather, and (Dok off without money and in kind. Readers ground assistance. of the South China Morning
Trade Union sources said the Post Company's group of settlement provided for
an newspapers are invited to immediate bonus
ranging from to 7,000 Francs (£3 to 3,000 make monetary donationa£77, to be followed by negotia- through the fund which the tions for a new wage scale. SCM Post, Ltd., has opened. British European Airways The need is urgent and the cause so self-evident that it requires no additional emphasia.
men returned to work.
..
Poised for attack against Indo-China's “rice bowl-the lush Hanoi delta protected by French: steel and concrete forts were three Communist divisions which did not even have to be used in the lightning drive from the coast to Thakhek which chopped Indo-China in two.
A round-the-clock airlift poured supplies into Savannakhet, 50 miles south of Thakhet, where battle- weary French and Laotian soldiers massed for further. Red attacks, expected within a day or two
A
driving the French from their long-held Lai Chau base on Red China's frontier.
Ho's broadcast victory. Order Leading the rebel spearheads of the Day seemed to confirm in Laos was the battle-win French predictions that the coinminder, "Vo Nguych Guy, said they expected normal ser- lightning dash which spilt Indo- now believed mapping the next the Chiro along the 10th Paralle, move in the Laotian campaign vlees to start immediately
which
Chinese dividest
and which last week slashed Indo- Air France, the French state British occupation troops at China's "narrow waist" after nirline, announced departures the end of World War 11, was for London at 3 pm, GMT and merely the first phase of the € p.m. GMT today
rebels winter drive.
Political quarters They also announced depart❤
speculated Ve sliced Lhos without eating THE tragic fire poses prob-
for
and that last week's rebel attacks on his troops, massed around the Birmingham lems other than those of ures
Manchester, Caracas and Bogota,
followed Ho's proposals fortifed delta "front" in this war quick, emergency relief to New
to York.
end the which coldem aettles down leng Cairo, Teheran for negotiations tho thousands of dis Frankfurt, Barcelona, and North fighting,
designed to enough for firm fighting lines to were possessed squatters. There and West Africa. Normal time strengthen his bargaining posl be drawn.
He also has had time to ream is the tremendous task of tables would be operating from tion for a settlement, splitting resettlement, and it is this midnight today, they added.--the nation Korean-pattern his crack 320th Division, badly
into North and South.
mauled 1w0 months which once again under- Reuter.
"Destroy the enemy and France's Operation Seaguli. the necessity
achieve new feats of arms," Ho larmohed in an apparently vain 10 his army of crack regulars, effort to reduce the force of the equipped with some of Red rebel winter campaign--United China's most modern recoilless Press.
acores
for Government's long-term
rosettlement plan belag NAGUIB'S
accelerated to the utmost, Nothing is to be gained by Rocking to attach blame for the squatter village fires which have been plague
Fo
over the last five years. They
COMPLAINT
accept
"unfair
which
illery and backed by swarms
uf bare-foot, jungle-wise conlles
plies,
who carry ammunition and sup-
Culro, Dec. 27.
UD
the
PRECAUTIONS
ago
In
with
Accidents, Tragedies
Mar
Christmas
First unofficial reports from eight countries showed at least 112 persons met violent deaths and 80 were in- jured or missing.” The total does not include the worst disaster in Europe over the holidays the collision of two passenger trains in Czechoslovakia near the Austro-Czech border on Thursday, in which "around 100 persons were
Bangkok, Dec. 27. Thailand today ordered airong
police forces to patrol ECHOES SENTIMENTS
Communist threatened "Actively and the peasants to the must remain, a daily possi- President Mohammed Naguib apply the goverrament's agrarian Mekong River, poundary
invaded Indo-Chinese bility until the so-called today told Mr Richard Cross polley, lift the lover of politica ing
of Laos, and
CR11** illegal squatters have been man. British Labour Member of and improve the technique of kingdom
de- the scheduled renettled in properly Parliament, that among the nighting," Ho ordered in the celled
mobilisation of troops,
London, Dec, 27. - developed sites where fire things "marring" Ango-broadcast, that echoed the centi-
Reports reaching the capital relations and pre- ments of Red China's Mao Tse- rlaka nro reduced to the Egyption
mid Thol troops were rushed. Western Europe began counting the tragic minimum. But the venting a Suez Canal agreement tung.
to the town of Nakon Panom, toll today of traffic fatalities, murders and suicides Aggravated position caused were
some British politicians again-1 | "pace","nly echo of Ho's recent opposite the burning town of
campaigns" by
statements, however, Thaihek, which fell by Friday's dianster poses Egypt and Egyptians.
to the which marred the peace and happiness of the was an announcement that the Communust Vietminh in the Christmas holidays in 1953, its most bountiful challenge to Government Me Crossman had just return-Rods had, freed 207 war pri Reds biggest offensive of the which is not to bo met ed
to Caire from a visit to soners, including 84 French, in
Indo-China war
since World War. II. morely by invoking tem- Palestine Arab refugees in the
a Christmas ninesly.
TOP
Thai porary and expedient relief Gaza coastal area of Egypt. A French spokesman for the visited the
detence officials Thai border town The Egyptian President told measures.
General Permanent Mr Crosman Egypt could not Henr!
commander, supreme
"shifted.
where the government declared here Navarre structures for the homeless
a state of emergency and por "any bargaining or from a top NATO post in only supervised enlargement aquatters must be speedily infringement of her indepen- Europe with orders to
"clean
of the airport to handle the in- provided, which means that dence and sovereignty. She how targets in the resettle had sold her word.
seven-year-old wife of refugees who streamed said isolated
ted Laotian ruxiliary across the river. ment plan are required. And. President Naguib also told Mr units were sniping at the strong General Phao Erlynnonda, thie needs to be accom Crossman that a solution to the Hed forces along the Parallel pollice chef and deputy Minister killed and injured." plished even if it involven refugee problem could be found nighting guerilla batties to give of the Interior, told frontier
com-loyal troops nt. Savannaichet| more substantial immediate only in repatriation and
residents of Nakorn za officials and pensation.
and police forces were capable of necessary measures" had of bulldings, Egypt or any, eno Arab country been taken, he said, to counter and
giving protection to the lives construction
property of Thai people Government has announced arone, he sld.
M: Crosman will fly to Kenya declined to say whether the rein-
rebel victorious drive. He along the frontler. top priority for emergency
will rollef
meanuroa: similar aboard the plane which priority is also demanded brag Me Aneurin Bevan, leader forcements streaming into the
by "air bridge" were u General Phao, accompanied
The traffic death rate drop- of the left-wing of the British city
A 16-year-old West German for undertaking resettle-Labour Party, and Mrs Bovan build-up for on airborne by Air. Marshal Fuen Rithagan!
was shot to death by ped from seven an hour ind boy head of the Air Force, and ment.
pounter-alinck.
other high Army officers arrived Ruzian border guards and his about six an hour over Satur In Nakom Panom on Friday mother was seriously wounded. day night. But today the coun- the situation. The Russians opened fire with try faced the worst period of General Phao said the governa tommy gun, apparently basny holiday-the closing hours ment was planning to take all cause the boy's father drove when motoriste race home from posible steps to make Nakome the father, mother and boy
past a stop sign. They then their holiday visits, Panom a safe sanctuary for "our brethren across the river for 30 minutes without giving as well as stepping up defence first aid, before allowing them
to enter the American Zone, of the town".
Some 820 Laotian refuge
offcial aubsidisation for the This problem was the concern more time to regroup end re- l'anom the Thai aimed forces Sixty of the 50 injured also deaths zinco 11 pm., GMT
required clearance work and of all Arab count:les cad not
to Cairo tonight-Reuter.
the
16-YEAR-OLD BOY BEHEADED AND ·
SCALPED: FARMER ARRESTED
Duesseldorf; Dec. 27.
The police announced that a 28-year-old farmband confessed he killed, bo- hended and lped a 10-year-old boy, The scalp. was found in the murderer's pocket.
„The police wild they found the body of Wolfgang Graebner, 16, in a wood nes: Gruiten, out
de of Duesseldorf. The body. Whe out to please and the masing, head was found in a "ditch, nearby.
1
What shocked them most was interrogation roning confessed that the skin arxi hair had been he killed at scalped the boy; alashed on the sovered head, the policë said.
SURVEY SITUATION,
night to survey
mostly aged women and children,
In
the 112 reported deaths, A United Press survey show- were In truffle accidanged a total of 516 sccidental were hurt in traffic accidents.
Including 424 suicides have been Thursday, Thirteen reported and seven murders and traffic. There were 72 deaths 10 persons were killed, in misa fres and 80, in miscellaneous celleneous necldenis..
mishops.
the boy was dead, when his
Your Help
of
Our staff photographer yesterday. caught these two studies of some the Shumshulpo fire vic- tims partaking of a sub- stantial and much needed meal after they had lost their homes and posses- Eions on Christmas Day. Nearly 60,000 people are now in argent need of clothing and other pro- vistons until they can be rehoused.
STOP PRESS
Davis Cup: Hoad Wins
Tel. 21433.
Fire Victims Relief Fund
At 11 o'clock this morn- ́ing a total of $40,548 had heen subscribed to the S.C.M. Post, Ltd., Shum shuipo Fire Victims Relief Fund,
Heading today's donations was a cheque for $10,000 from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- Ing Corporation and $10,000 .. from the Union Insurance
Society of Canton, Ltd.
Members of the public who desire to subscribe to this fund should cross cheques and malce them out to "The Shumshiripo Fire Victims Relief Fund."
TODAY'S DONATIONS
Hongkong & Shanghai
Banking Corporation $10,000 The Union Insurance.
Society of Canton Ltd 10,000
Mrs Mr &
M W. Turner Joan & Leo Landau
Indo China Trading
Company Ltd.
Mr & Mrs O. Skinner Hon. Kwck Chin &
Birs Kwnit Chan White Ross
Mr S. W. G. Perry
1,000
500
BOO
500
500
250
250
Mr & Mru W. J. Dyer
Mr B
and John
150
R. C. Olive
100
Mr & Mrs C: A. Wright
100
Mr A. M. Mack
100
Mr & Mrs D. B. Sinclair
100
Mr & Mrs C. Maclean
100
Mrs Julla F. Chang
100
Mr R. D. Bell
100
Anonymous
80
Dragon Inn. Party"
Mr & Mrs S. A Gray Mr Erich Benola
Dr & Mrs. G. V.
Mr Mrs
Griffith
Y. T. Mol
.50
Mr. & Mrs. R. W. HÀ
Maynard
50
Mr. Fauchen
50
Mr & Mrs Alastair Toda
Mr Leung Yew Cheung
.50
دائمة
Melbourne, Dec. 28. Australis drow first blood-in | George,
rge, Sybil & Bil the Owen
the Challenge Round of
Davis Cup here today, when "In memory of Thelma" Lewis Hoad beat. Vic Seixas of Mr & Mrs S. S. Gordon the United States in straight Mr F. A. Nixon
Mr F. J. Robinson sets-0-4, 6-2 6-3. ̧
FJ. Hoad, making his first ap Mr A. C. Greaves. pearance
the Challenge Mr John March Round, played like a veteran
ไท
E. H. P. White Mr E. and dictated matters through- Mr Charles Luk out the match,
He was especially accurate in his powerful service. ) Ip threo zels he had caly five game
Mr L. M. 8. Stronach Anonymous
In
the Mr Cheung Chun Kwan Mr & Mrs Cheung Wing points against his service, and on each occasion he saved the
Anonymous situation to win through. On Mr The Chung the other hand, he broke Mr Yuen Wal Lalen through Seixas' service Ave Mr Choung Lay times once in the first set, Mr Lt Forg twice in the second and twice- Mr Lo Tak Müs the 7th and ninth gamesin Mr Chan Po Cheong the third-Reuter,
Mr Leung Fong Melbourne, Dec. 28. Mr Wong Tung The United States levelled | M. Lam Ho Yin the singles in the Davis Cup Previously
today when $15,285,00. challenge round
Total Tony Trabert defeated Ken Roseweli 6-3, 0-4, 0-4-Reuter. `$40,548.00..
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Ware reported to have crossed parents took him to a hospital record of a into Nakorn Panom by hoon United Prom Saturday Trom Nakorn Panom French ・ planes could be sein burning the town of Thalchest
napain
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