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New Danger
Яituation
HE Premier of Laos han declared that the military crested by the latest Vietminh offensive in "serious but not critical," and American officials in Washington aro quoted ne being of the opinion that there is a tendency to attach too much Importance to Ho Chi-minh's drive in the north. They may be right in their Besossment of the military significance of the offensive, but none can dis- pute the importance of its; polition! Implications. may be taken for granted that Ho Chi-minh has con- siderations in his mind other than obtaining a stronger bargaining position in the event of an, armistice consequent un military
It
висссянея. The political future of the State of Laos In manifestly at stake, and
If the Vietminhese
do
Kucceed in cutting off Laos from the rest of Indo-Chíun, | Thailand will be
Cause
for
given
feeling
apprehension. Que design
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1958.
Arrests Follow Railway
Time-Bomb Plot To
an an
Obtain
$208,000 Insurance
%
Mexico City, Dec, 28.
A
A singer, Paco Sierra, was sentenced to eight years in priren today The mastermind of plet to collect US$208,000 Insurance by time-bombing an airliner.
Emilio Arellano Schietellge, an ex-convict, was sentenced
accompilee. Sierra, 42. a
well-known burlesque artist, is the husband er Esperanta Iris, Latin America's top musical-comedy star,
The prosecution charged that Schietelige planied the bomb in
a Mexican Aviation Company DC-3 airliner ön September 24, 1882, ofter taking out life insurance on seven of the 20 passengers for $208,000.
The bombs ripped a seven-foot hole in the cargo com- partment, but the pilot, Carlos Rodriguez, landed the plane safely. No one on board was injured.—Unlied Press,
Disaster
CZECH
GOVERNMENT'S ACTION
Vienna, Dec. 28.
Prague Radio said tonight that "a number of arrests" had been made following the Christmas Eve train smash at Šakvice, Czechoslovakia, in
Mau Mau Issue New which 103 people were killed.
Year's Day Threat
Nairobi, Dec. 28.
Mau Mau terrorists have threatened a raid drive may well be to link in the Nairobi area on New Year's Day.
behind the current rebel
geographically Northern LAOS with
53
The threat was contained in typewritten The letters purporting to be signed by four Mau Mau Autonomous Thai Federa- "generals" which were found in Kijabe trading Lion which the Peking Government created for the centre, 60 miles from Nairobi, after a raid by 100 purpose of attempting to terrorists there on Christmas night. unite the Thai-speaking people of Burma. Thailand and Laos. If this could be achieved It is conceivable that the Autonomous Tha! Federation would move its present headquarters in Yunnan to Northern Laos, thereby establishing ነ Christmas night's rak at direct political link with Kijabe fullowed closely on the six injured.—Reuter.. flo Chi-tinh and
his Christmas Eve battle north of naЯociates. Ho today Is Nairobi between a trapped Mau claiming that the troops Mau gang and troops and police taking part in the offensive in which Earl Wavell, 37-year- against the French Unlond Major in the First Battalion forces are Laotians of the Binck Watch Regiment, obviously
propagandist was killed. П
The letters also said the Mau, Naivasha, about 20 miles north Mau had five well-trained arvi of Kljabe.
Last week, Mau Mau fully-armed "battalions" in the
40 Mount Elgon area on the border terrorists were killed and
were taken prisoner, Ten mern- of Uganda,
of the bers of the security forces were These now "sons Kikuyu" needed provisions and killed, including two Europeana injured. Fifteen loyal und 28 money, the letters kaitl
also killed Africans were
and
The toning of a mission bell
un
C$-
and
The Czech Ministry of the Interior said the accident was caused by "serious negligence" on the part of railway, workers, the Radio stated.
An official announcement at the time of the crash said an express from Prague to Bratislava ran into a passenger train at Sakvice station,
No casualty details were then given apart from a
statement that there was "considerable loss of life.” cluding the Deputy Ministers of High Government officials, in- Transport
and
Interior, the went to the scene of the disaster on Christmas Eve.
Today's announcement faith "With deep sorrow, the Gov. crament received the news of which railway disaster the
on occurred to an express train
between Brno and Thursday Breslau with the loss of 103 lives. Eighty-three people were injured, some of them seriously. "In the crash, a number of "railway-carriages were destroy.
od and, the locomotive': WEL'
Attempt To damaged.
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"Employees of the Ministry of the Interior and members of the armed forces, the medical ser vices and the public took part in the rescue operations.
"All the injured received im
mediate first aid.
Rescuers Nearly Cheated
By Gale
New York,→Dec, 28, The 43 crew members of the broken Swedish freigh- Oklahoma escaped ter almost certain death" when a furious gale blew up in the North Atlantic shortly "The, bodies of all the victime after the last survivor was were sent to their homes and picked up from a life boat, the Government has ordered it was disclosed today. the local national councils provide for the funerals,
Preliminary Inquiries have
the accident shown that
wa caused
through very negligence on the part of some railway employees.
"Inquiries
are still continue
"Ihe railway track wa
Paris, Dec. 28. The trade unions responsible for the strike of key post office disorganised wtrich workers France's Christmas mail, tonight to bring out all post office sought workers.
They called on "post office
workers in alt services to inten-
attempt to persuade the out- xide world that the drive is three miles away probably saved the lives of the six Asians at a spontaneous domestic
the Kijabe trading centre, uprising. The Vietminh Warning peals cut short the forces may well include a desperate attack by sprinkling of Laotian dis-timated 100 Mau Mau gangsters sidents, but the nature of against a row of shops
sent police patrols rushing to equipment which the rebels
the scene. are using in their current
The raiders swooped on the offensive and their extreme village from thick
foresta ten mobility clearly indientes miles away and begun firing that they are campaigning sten guns, riftes and pistols. veterans and
Some of the Troops
terrorists thoroughly versed in the police uniforms and peaked caps sify their actions to the maximum stoppages and multiply work with metal crowns as badges.
everywhere" in support
wago arts and devices of modern
Two Indian shops became
and bonus cinims, ground warfare. No matter!
shambles with damage estimated
The Communist-led Independ- officinis how reassuring
at nearly £3,000.
en; unions also called a general One shopkeeper telephoned a meeting of post office workers for may endeavour to be, the situation created by the police post at a nearby mission, Tuesday afterrioon. The Catholic rebel drive serious, and then the warning peal of and Force Ouvriere (anti- not almost grave, None can say the mission bells cut the rald Comunist)
striking. whether Ho Chi-minh has short.
The attack followed the
Earlier today, the key postal limited military objectivos, but if he can consolidate arrest of 23 Mau Mau suspects workers at Paris railway stations
who, bad been detained in n who
HE
wore
a
unlons
tre
Ing
to
serious
tion
Service received
The Military Sea Transporta
a radio message from the skipper of one
"We were fortunate in reaching of the rescue vesaola which said:
the survivors as a full gale blew up six hours after the last survivor was safely on board."
Captain J. Larson told how an the sinking vessel was located
cleared the evening of the samo do
Ministry The Interior nouncement added that special
pensions and allowances would by the teamwork of the US be paid to the relatives of the naval ship Blue Jacket, which he commands, and a British vessel, dead and injured-Reuter.
the Elaris.
his successes to date, he will screening camp near the village declave been out for six days OVE
10
Carry
have achieved significant until Christmas morning, when stoppage indefinitely,
they were transferred political gains.
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Meanwhite air security men went back to work today after
nine-day stoppage.
French airports are open to traffle again, and International services have
whose
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Price: 20 Cents
Fatal Bus Accident
At Hyde Park Corner, London, recently a bus crashed into a bus shelter, Two people were killed and many hurt. The shelter collapsed and fell on people walting there the bus ploughed
до
through it. This picture, taken after the accident, shows the wrecked `front of the bus, London Express photo.
Disastrous
Forest Fires
Los Angeles, Dec. 28. Two major forest fires, danterel by 80-mph winds, raged out of control over 12,000 acres in Los Angeles National Forest today. A heavy cloud of smoke hung over the area.
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Fire Victims Relief Fund
The total
amount of donations to the S.C.M. Post, Ltd., Shumshuipo Fire Victims Relief Fund rose to $109,085 this morning, an additional $80,000 to the overnight total.
Donors sending contributions by cheque are reminded that these should be crossed and mude out to "The Shumshulpo Fire Victims Relief Fund."
TODAY'S DONATIONS
Joliffe Sentenced
Co., Lid
H. T. Kung ..........
20.00
Jardine, Matheson &
2,500.00
Mr & Mra W. T
Stanton
250.00
St. Patrick's Society of
Hongkong
600.00
Drs To & Armstrong
200.00
Mr Yeung Wing Hong's
Birthday Party... 2,608.40
Royal Interocean Lines 6,000,00 J. Blaker
Hongkong Telephono
I. Prentice
Stewart
üin J. Colin
D. Law 37; China-born Canadian | Mr & Mrs G. O. W. citizen, was today sentenced to one year imprisonment Miss Anita Lea and a US$1,000 fine for Inniss & Riddle (China) Ltd. attempting to smuggle 153. Dickson Leach kilos of gold-bullion out of Dry & Mrs Arthur the Philippines on Decem ber. 7..
Immediately after the Ben tence was meted out by Judge Gienvenido Ten of the Pag Mr & Mrs Wallace Court of First Instance.
Harper near Manila, Jolliffe filed an appeal Anonymous and was immediately released Miss on a US$1,000 ball and allowed to Hongkong pending
1,000,00
ca
Lid.
10,000.00
100.00
Thoresen & Co., Ltd.
1,000.00
Thomas Le C. Kuen
800.00
J. G. S. Hom
100.00
Carmichael & Clarke
.250.00
Mr. Mrs & Miss
Rdchalgh
200,00
-་
Butterfield & Swire
Manila, Dec. 20.
(Hongkong) Ltd. Willinn Ernest Joliffe, G. W. S.....
2,600.00
500.00
500.00
100.00
100.00
1,900.00
00.00
W. WOD Members of the Malayan
100.00
Mr & Mrs J. R. Collis
Association & FriendsTM Aronymous Zaka
00:00
5,00
100.00
600.00
20.00
E.
Allen
Laurie in memory of
Mrs E. O'Brien
20,00
W. R. M. Stevens MI Sunnyside Co.
80.00
& Mrs D. Hung..
25.00
-50.00
30,00
W. C. G.
10.00
150.00
Mrs Ee Soon
200,00
100.00
23,00
6,00
11.00
200.00
60.00
100.00
20,00
·50.00
100,00
100.00
25.00
25.00
100.00
to go his
The
worth sightly than US$18,000, was discovered Jolliffe's waist by tied round Customs agents as he prepared board a plane for Hongkong.
Knowles Joliffe was former commercial secretary of the Canadian Mr &
Howa embassy in Shanghai, and, was The fires caused the evacua-Inter Canadian Trade Commis B. Fletcher
Miss E. R. Naylor ton of more than 2,000 persons stoner in Hongkong til 1948, from their homes and destroyed, when he resigned. He took up Wong Mt
Miss Kelly
Heywood
| 160, dwellings, chiefly summer residence in Hongkong, where Mr & Mrs G. 8. P.
his business is
During the trial, Joliffe claim- homes.
ed that the gold buillon repre- J. & C. H.
Mr Chinese businessman, ented the payment of a debt by who "Ull now could not be G. located.
The winds swept ashes many
miles ahead of the flames, showering, nearby Pasadena, Altadena, San Marino and, some parts. of Los Angeles, more than 20 műlés from the nearest fire.
a.
Manila
& Mrs A. S. Mitchell
Holdsworth
6. Vaughan Contacted by an AFF reporter immediately after the sentence, India Emporium Captain Larson commended
Jolife said he would avall him Mrs V. Hiranard BANS two of his officers for locating
More than 1,000 men, and can allowing him to return to M. & Mrs T. M. self of the authorisation of Judge Mrs B. Marghanmal the Oklahoma'by means of radio hundreds of pieces of equipment Hongkong pending his appea Gregory "triangulation" at a time when were thrown ihto the fight the ship's radar was not work-against the flames. The larger able because of heavy seas.
of the two separate fres Was that above Monrovia in tho Sán Gabriel range of mountains.
DELEGATES
airlincenied since December 10, / day banned the
been
nhe
rapidly restoring normal services.
The airport control and com- munications workers decided to
HOW IT WAS DONE
London, Dec. 28, The British Government to-
entry of all The Blue Jackel's message That fire was near the town of foreign delegates to a teachers explained how the "triangula- "conference
for peace" which tion" worked. The rescue vessel, Sierra Madre, nestling in the
which knew. Its own position, foothills above Pasadena. opens here on Tuesday.
radioed the nearby Llarla and
· NARROW ESCAPE Four have already been turn-asked its position. call off their strike after recely-ed Back--two from West Gerr
The flames erept to within a ing temporary increases of 3,000 many and two from France, Using the two fixed locations few hundred yards of a heavlly- to 7,000 Francs (C3 to. £7)
us points on a chart, the Blue populated area in Sierra Madre pending further negotiations. - Invitations to the conference Jacket's officers then drew lines Reuter,
were sent to individuals
from the points corresponding to Canyon. organisations all over the world, the directions from which the
China and
The other fro was about 15 Including Russia,
Oklahoma's distress signals were several countries behind the reaching the two ships. The in-miles away in the Mount Baldy Iron Curtain.
tersection of these two lines region, north of Claremont, and
the Oklahoma's
Pomona, citrus cómmunities near the San Bernardino County line. The Blue Jacket and the The wind "also blew down Finnish freighter Orlon, which power lines to the city of also participated in the rescue. Upland and the flamea swept were ploughing through heavy through heavy timber in the San BOAR en route to Scandinavia Dimas experimental forest. with the survivors:
STOP
PRESS
DAVIS CUP
LATEST
Melbourne, Dec, 29. Tony Trabert and Vic Seltas, representing the United States, won the first two sets against
the Australians, Lewis Hoad and Box Hartwig,' by 6-2, 0-4
A Home Office spokesman re-represented fused to say why delegates "fixits position. would not be allowed to enter the country,
"We never do in cases of this kind," he added,
The ban drew protests from the conference organlasre and a spokesman denied it was Corf munist inspired.
The Mount Wilson Observatory The Oklahoma's entire crew, was within a mile of the fire Une. "We are not affiliated to any including one woman, wha Millions - at- dollars worth of pollical party although we are rescued by the two vessels 360 scientific equipment, as wellyna not afraid to work with any miles northeast of Argentia, the observatory's" 100-inch tole people or organisations which Nowfoundland. The 5,914-ton scope, are housed for the metal we believe have the sang alins vesseirbroke in two, late Satur- dome, Furnas landmark.
United Press. as ourselves," he said—Reuter, day-United Press, ---
in the doubles of the Davis Cup Luck Made Him A Generous Santa Claus
Challenge Hound today.
Hartwig was solected at
the
last moment to replace Ken Rosewall, who lost his singles yesterday against Tony Trabart
Iteutor.
Made Hin
Santiago, Dec, Pa. Spanish-born Pablo Martinez Laya, was halled today as Chile's
if not then, world's Banta Claus erior, be relatives and friends presenta/worth," "870
hola in the shoe business, to buy | brother and Bualnega partner. his Christmas presents and bad the idea that to buy whole Jottery Lickety dior, $79
Hmong His Fieni”, $80,00) ends would, bèze; quicle $150
had
Za- friend; another.
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