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CASEBOOK
Premature Chimes
LANIEL TO
MAKE A
POLICY
STATEMENT
Paris, Jan. 5. Premier Joseph Laniel, whose whose resignation
Was make
was late in the evening. Bright lights shone down upon a square whose pave an important policy state- ments and roadways were ment tomorrow when the almost deserted, giving the National Assembly, whose whole-the haughty busi-work recently had been re- ness buildings and the bare, duced to a long series of soot-blackened trees-a look budgetary debates,
will of cardboard unreality, like turn to general policy. a stage-scene or a film set.
In one corner of the square, there was a coffee-stall, round which a group of regulars stood, sedate as clubmen in St James's Street windows, munchling bung and drinking tea.
Suddenly, the dignified atro- sphere was altered, for round a eomer, into the square, swung a woman whose progress was no erralic that she might have been doing her daily tint of exer- cise round the deck of a liner caught in a heavy sen.
When M. Laniel's resignation was turned down by both the incoming and outgoing Presi
dents,
M. Rene Caty and M.
Vincent Auriol, whose term ends on Jan. 17, he called un extraordinary session of Parlla- ment to approve his Govern- ment by what will be a virtual vole of confidence.
The Premier's statement, ap- proved earlier inkiny by his Cabinet. will mosely Conceiti dumestic policy but will include affirming the cun- a passage finuation of France's present foreign policy.
Parliamentary attention is ex-
to pected be focussed on M. Laniel's statement , ol, look what's arrived,"
on foreign the coffee-stult polley tomorrow in view of the of
Foreign coming Four-Power customers said gravely, under
Ministers conference in Berlin. his breath, to his neighbour.
"0"
UPON A BANK
ono
"Seems to be finding #1 heavy going." the other observed, look- ing in the direction of the way- Ing woman neross the street.
The bright lights show Woman to be fuir-haired, middle-aged, wearing a tweed suit. The coffec-stall customers watched her
with Interest,
progres
They saw her slop #n her stride in front of a solemn bank budding. They watched as she wavered about The Luke's entrance and then, as if she had made a greal decision, rouch for የክር bank's bell-push, put her thumb to it and keep it there.
OVER HER SHOULDER
As
if
not
iL
wishing it to be That bell-pushing thought was in any way
ful-time occupation, the woman pre ently. still with her thumb where It was. Jooked
She over her shoulder. KUW the coffee-stall and ics customers and realised she had un audience. She rounded On them with a sling of oaths.
She was still swearing when a policeman came on the seene, and she wasuli ringing the bank's front-door bell.
the "Now, now,"
polleemon cald, "get along home, now."
"I'm ringing out the chimes," the blonde woman said, "da go away."
She refused to move. Instead, the switched
some of her in-
verlive
customers
from lo arrested her.
the
Ruffec-stali
the
affeer. Ho
Next morning at
of being
Bow Street, she pleaded not guilty lo tl
charge
drunk and disorderly.
IJTEN
EXASPERATED
While the Premier 15 DECE Paul Reynaud,
ng In the Assembly the Premier, M. will be addressing the Council >>f the Republic, the Upper House.-France-Presse.
Big 4 Talks
Security Precautions
London, Jan. 8. The Big Four are expected to institute' elaborate security pre- cautions In Berlin to prevent any public demonstration gel- of control during the ting Foreign Ministers meeting there this
diplomintic sources month, yesterday. The fear of serious disorders arising
demonstrations from against the
Communist German Government
CHINA MAIL
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1954,
The Fringe Of A Continent
A Custo
NORTHERN
TERRITORY
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
QUEENSLAND
N.S.W
THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN”,
TOUR
ARROSE PER 3
DEPART APR.
This map of the Queen's travels in Australla shows that although the royal party will They be on the move for 57 days they will louch merely the fringe of this great continent. will travel 14,450 miles-facfud log 500 miles by road or country trips, 2,000 miles by road in the cities, 800 miles by train in New South Wales and Victoria, 1,150 miles by ship, mainly around the coast, and 10,000 miles by air. Air travel will be made up of 35 separate flights
And meteoro. and every airfield to be used has been inspected by R.A.F. pilots, engineers, logisti. Fur land travel there in a fleet of 115 vehicles-some of which will be flown from State to State during the tour w bleh begins on February 1 and ends on April 1.London Ex- press Service.
Reds Mass Troops For
Possible Southward Stab In Indo-China
Hanoi, Jan. 5.
A new Communist build-up massed troops in the mountainous narrow waist of Indo-China to day in a position that threatened a southward stab toward the French base at Savannakhet.
Apologised For Everything
"All have to say is that I
Loyal patrola probing out of Savannakhet, in Laosdisorderly along the Mekong River, and reconnaissance flights from nearby Seno airbase reported important Vietminh troop movements in the Annam mountains between the placid Mekong River and the coast of Vietnam.
Important enemy concentra- Easttion appeared to be headed for of mountain township prompted the
Dr Konrad Adenauer, the West Tchepone, midway between the German Chancellor, to oppose Mekong and the coust and a key the choice of Berlin as the con-poi from
point
which the Reds into ference sile when
the Mekong Russia eug- could pour
Valley and outflank Savannak- het.
gested it last month.
But the Western powers were prepared to take the risk pro- vided adequate police precau-
The Reds also sent out hun- guerillas
tions were taken, and even sawdds of Commandes,
some propaganda advantages
and saboteurs charged with
In the Ministers meeting in the whipping up local feeling against divided city.
the French, cutting communica-
вла harassing tions
Stowaway Resumes Journeying
Franco- whom
The Reds hoped by sending the war underground to create A Laotian fifth column as strong as the one in North Vietnam.
London, Jan, 0. The young Indian stowaway no country wenty,
aboard the Polish liner Batory when she left Southampton to- day for a 10-day overhaul in Sunderland.
When the four High Commis- Laotian defence preparations. Atened All Mansoor, remakied sioners' representatives meet in Berlin, probably on Thursday, to discuss the location of the conference, the Western delc- gates will press strongly for ac ceptance of the "neutral" Con- trol Council building in the American sector.
NEW
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL
SNORKEL
PEN
HKS 2150
EDITOR CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTING TO PERVERT COURSE OF JUSTICE
An editor of the vernacular daily paper Wah Kiu Yat Po, Kam Cheuk-ting, 44, of 104 Java Road, ground floor, was arraigned before Mr Justice Reynolds at Victoria District Court this morning on a charge of attempting to pervert the due course of justice.
Kam, who pleaded not guilty, was represented by Mr W. I. Cheung of Messrs Wilkinson and Grist, and Mr Simon Li appeared for the pro- secution.
The charge was that the accused on October 24 last year attempted to dissuade Leung Ching, a singer, from giving certain evidence in criminal proceedings then pend- Ing in the Police Court against Lo Shun, ellas Lo Ka-shun, who was alleged to have committed an offence against her by threatening injury, with intent to cause her to give him a sum of money. Leung Ching was a potential witness for the prosecu- tion.
At the commencement of to-] and reputation of Lo Shun and day's hearing there was some then sald that Au Wing-shun, orgument as to the admissibility | snother man, was trying to help of one of the two eoritradictory | Lo.
statements made by the accused, She denied that Kam had then who maintained that he made told her he had beard Au was It without being cautioned and sending someone to see her but when he did not fully under- asked him to see her instead us stand the nature of the charge, he knew they were friends, and said there was no truth in the Sub-Inspector G. A. Rich, who pu
part of her gave evidence on this point, said quoted him as saying "Anything statement which that the statement enade In
In the way of money or other: answer to the charge way directly conditions would be accepted on: ccotrary to the other taken by condition you do not give such hlen, and that both had been
strong evidence in Court against Lo."
written by the defendant hienses and certified as corect by him, He stated that he had, through Leung agreed, however, that an interpreter made the et- Kam warned her Au might try cumstances of the charge clear to trick her, and that she re- to the accused and had leo piled that she was not a fool administered the customary and could take care of herself. caution
She told the Court that she
and
Police interpreter Liu Shuan-made her complaint against Au
Kam, not against kal, interpreter attached to the denied that Kam had asked her and
CID office at Central
Police not to
strong give
evidence Station, said the accused wrote against Lo. his
The case is proceeding.
own statement after being charged, and read the statement which he had made on this oc- casion - "I did not do these things". Before the other; state- ment Kam was called to give evidence was admitted, however, on this point
Four Fishermen Charged
on ammunition
Be-
30m
were charged
before Mr
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
By Air
Japan, 6 pm. Formosa, 6 p.m.
Thailand, Málnya, Indonesia, Aux- tralia, New Zealand, B p.m.
Dy Burface
3 p..
Fornoo, # 9m.
North Boro, 3 p..
--
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7
By Air
India, Ceylon, Pam.
Thailand. Burma, Pakistan, Middle Easi. Africa, Great Europe, 10 am.
Philippines, 11 am.
Japai Noon.
Indo-China, Noon.
Formosa, 1 pm.
Britain &
Quai, Hawaii, USA. & Canada, 1 pm.
Formosa, Okinawa, Japan, U.S.A.
Canada. 6 p.m.
Philippines, N. Borneo, 6 p.m.
By Surface China. People's Republic, 8.30 am. Indo-Ching, 11 am
.Burma. Noon.
Malaya, India, Noon,
Indonesia, 3 pm.
Macao, 0 p.m.
Sick Berth Attendant Hughes, of the HM Hospital Ship Maine, stood before Mr Hin-shing Lo at Cential this morning and said.
Kam said he remembered the
Four fishermen Interview he had with Inspector with possession of arms apologise for everything that
Rich and Interpreter Llu
and Hin- he wrote D have done."
October 27 when
Lo "Everything."
pt Central in Hughes' statement
this himself in
Chinese hing
morning. apology, embraced a
charge of The nature of the enquiry was for three days in police custody They were remanded conduct
which was
mode known to him,
he aald,
Macao. a.m. at the request of the Prosecuting early but he did not quite
Officer, Det. Sub-Insp. H. A. N.; perpetrated by Hughes this morning at Queen's Road St.
www.g it. He was not cautioned,
and Cattell, Central near Ice House Stree
wrote a statement himself.
The defendants, Wong Wal- Hughes, who was tater fore he made ft all ho was affirmed to have been drunk,
told
was that people had lodgedung, alias Fo Lan-hung. 28, chased pedestrians and shouted a complaint about a conversa-nemployed, Au Keung, allas at the more adamant plodders tion he was alleged to have had a Lo-bim, 18, unemployed, To
Kwal,
unemployed, and of the pavement, at I o'clock with Leung Ching, and he was Wong Pok-lal, 19, beatman, in the morning.
asked whether he Defendant's senior officer told Ming-shun.
knew Au were alleged to have had in
their the Court that Hughes was a
possession on
board a boat at Tai Shu Wun, Aberdeen, good and hard worker and had clear record with the Navy.
two revolvers and 11 rounds of "You must maintain the peace
ammunition, on Tuesday, C") and tranquillity of this oasis, said the magistrate, before cau- tioning and discharging Hughes, who was additionally bound over In $100 for on year,
PPP Gains
Union Control
refused Unent.
JUDGE SATISFIED
Mr Reynolds Bald that he was satisfied that the nature of the charge was understood by the accused and that a caution had been administered.
Mr Llu read the second state- ment in which the defendant
had said that he Leung out of
goodwached
"make peace and
and bring
time.
22
Radio Hongkong
1.K.T.
Troopship Here on America On Allsfalt
SIDE GLANCES
and his Orchestra: 10.09. Weather
Rect
By Galbraith
6. Time Signal and Summary: 6.05 Lucky Dip Variety Requests presented by Aargherita (Studio); 6.56, Weather Iepert! 7. Time Signal, World News and New Talk (London Relay); 7.10. Orchestra of the Week-London
Lattor 745,
Cooke (Recorded London Reley): 8, Echoes of the shows; 6,30, A Plano Becital The troopship HMT Empire by Professor Julio Esteban Angulta, to Hamadale arrived
Con This Director of Music, Mania here
servatoire (Concert Hall); D. Time the morning from the United King-signal Wednesday Thoaire, John matter to an end". He knew dom with miscellaneous troops Mile in "She Bloops to Conquer" by Oliver Goldenlth Produced by Lo Shun had done wrong, but for the local Garrison. She also mod
Kalkes (BBCTS): 10.30. as a friend of his, wanted him brought a number of Service One Night Stand. Itay Anthony to be punished only lightly so families dog Hongkong. The 19-year-old youth, who
that he would repent.
The Empire Halladale also has Reports 11. Time Signal. Radio News (Recorded London Relays: Georgetown, Jan. 5. has lived aboard the ship as a
Leung Shing was then call-placement troops for Korea 15. Goodnight Music: God Save MAY BE COERCED
stowaway for nearly three The left-wing Peoples Progres-
and is dite to sail this afternoon. / The Queen: 1.30, Close Down. Party (PPP) has gained ed, and said that sho bad name turned eut to
Diplomatic sources here suid Observers, however, pointed months and has travelled 20,000 sive be Agnes, and her age to be yesterday the Western Minksters
out that the Laotians, most pro- miles, hud stowed aboard the control of the Central Executive known Kam for a long
Batory in Karachi last October. jot British Gulana's powerful They spoke over the telephone 43, and after the police had told would not set a time limit on the
French of the Indo-Chinese When discovered he told the Transport Workers Union in the
on October 23, she said," and Mir Bertram Recce, the magis Berlin conference, but they were
peoples, were unlikely to co ship's officers be wanted to elections for officers for 1954.
the next day they met at the trute, the story of her urrest, plready agreed that a fortnight operate willingly, though they leave India because
Star he could
won six sec Kowloon The Party also
Ferry and went to the she was invited to ask
to ask questions, to three weeks would be cuffelent might be coerced into minor not and work.
flons of the Union's transport de-
Restaurant. There "Oh," the
to text Russian sincerity at the anti-French actions. no
At Southampton
defendant told her he was 'cott- on Nov. 2.
Result from three questions to ask. I just thought negotiating table. This is cus the
Vietnam In North
French immigration officers
sections are not avaliable.
about Lo Shun, and was New Year's Eve, su 1 assumption that interpretations
Union bombers and fighters to to let him land and he went
The
Government, dismissed
da secret plot against was ringing the chimes out." Into French, English and Russian
her by Government last
Au Ming-shun. "He day kept up non-stop attacks on to Gdynia, Poland, behind by the British sounded thoroughly
will be made simultaneously at
told me it was Au's intention on Ned troops massing for on the Iron Curtain. He was not October, consisted of six traders. at the United Nations, and not
expected attack on Dien Bien- wanted there either.
the Peoples
to use money Progressive couldn't know eenoocutively as at past four-
Phu, inst French-held stronghold Ahmed All Mansoor was Party. whai
you were thinking," Mr Power meetings.
in the Thal country,
taken back to Karachi in the The newspaper, Daily Argesy, last The Foreign Office sald
In a move to forestall possible | ship but was unable to get a night it "shared to the full" the Red propaganda against French Inding
quoted extreme leit-wing tireles to permit
Union election Government's
return to 24
saying the hope
Union forces, the Laotian, Gov- India or remain in Pakistan, result paved the way for carry- Berlia
conference
crnament today announced that When the Batory arrived ating out a threat of civil dis- would lead to four-power agree-
Laotian military ment to give Austría her free-
officer, Southampton today with pos-obedience Colonel Sounthone Pathamma Rengers from India and Pakistan, Cheddi
recently made by Dr dom
deposed Commenting on the Austrian yang.
would take that happened was that I had a note to the Big Four yesterday
"HOSTILE” WITNESS Commander-in-he remained as the only "pak-The
Peoples Progressive few drinks, and thought it was
appealing to the Ministero to Chief of the 20,000-man royal"!
she left for Parly are already in control of New Year's Eve, and wanted to
At this point Mr Lt, who was solya the Austrian problem, a, urmy.
Sunderland. While the ship is two other Important unions questioning her ring out the chimes, so I rang spokesman said "We, too, ain- frg built Bearents dropped bang overhauled, Immigration the
As a prosecu- Waterfront and Sugar fion witness, asked for permis- the bank bell."
cerely hope the Berla confer-tons of napalm on Red General officers will report to the Home Workers unions--Reuter,
sion to treat her as "hostile" In ence will lead to a settlement Vo Nguyen Glap's 310th Iron Office, who will decide whether of the question, towards which | Division
view of the evidence the was at Sonia, Vietminh Mansco is to the parmitted to
giving, and applied for permis- we have been working for bulld-up centre 33 miles cast of land, or whether he will have to
sion to CCORS-examine many years."-Reuter,"
Dien Bien Phu.
her, which Mr Reynolds granted.
The statement made by her to Inspector Rich on October 30, then read aloud to the
She
oficer
CX-
Austrian
Reece said, "ony
ques- more tions?" As Agnes could think of no more, the magistrate ask- ed if she would like to speak that the from the withers-bex
04
path.
from, it's bad enough here,
Isn't
17
the mid. "Look, nil
NOW I KNOW....
THE case was found proved.
THE O
known?"
the
magistrate asked. He was told
that Agnes had been fined in
June, for being drunk.
Pay 105," he said.
"Haven't
snapped.
got It," Agnes
“Has she a fixed address?”
Mr Reoco inquired. He was told
she had not,
Ship Searched
For Suspect
Macao, Jan, 0.
morrow
over
10-
of
Mansoor was stiil on board and Prime Mlent rom his
when
continue his voyages.-France-
A military spokesman said Presse. that 100 Fronchi Union prisoners recently freed by the Vietminh were so exhausted on arrival
here that doctors ordered them to hospitals.
clude
up
by
A Macao CID squad hoardedhetnameto post 28 miles north Yokota air base, about
for.
36-DAY STRIKE SETTLED
New York, Jan. 5.
A 30-day strike of 14,500 steel-
or any other means to Induce me not to give said. "He told me he did not evidence against Lo Shun" she promise Au Ming-shun to in- troduce him to me, end told me
see any of the were friends of
P
not to people who Au's.
!
workers against the Continental Court, and Leung“ agreed with
x
US Jet Fighter Crashes
Can Company was setiled today. with an eight-and-a-half-cent | or denied. each sentence as li The ex-prisoners, who in-
(about Tokyo, Jan, 6.
pence sterling) | was read out. She agreed that Moroccans, Thala and Two American airmen ware general increase and other cash on October 23 she had had a
benefits--Reuter. Foreign Legionnaires, were klijed when their
call from Kam, but mid that it Stafco jet picked
uco figlitor A Franco-
co crashed today near
she and not he (as her "I have," Agner said, "but
and searched the m.v. Tal Loy of Hanol. They were the first west of Tokyne.
30 miles
RECORD FLICHT statement said) who mizzested | don't have to tell every- yesterday surely
their menting the following day. suspected a
Lisbon, Jan. 8. criminal wanted by the Hong-batch of 207 prisonery freed
On Oct. 24 shd met him and An Air Force spokesman said A British European Airways he said "You have complained You'll have to tell me, or I kong police.
after an announcement by the the coure of the crash was uns umbo-prop. Vircout alchiriar, to about Lo Bhun and we as news may have to find you a: fixed
Vietminh Radio at Christmas-known.
A bar flew from London to Lisbon paper reporters are very happy address," the magistrate said,
time.--United Press.
fighter had been on a in two hours 58 minutes, claim about it. Formerly he took ad "Ten shillings or raven days."
trearang: fighting
ing to have set up a record-bes | vantage of you and if I had not They led her out, and as sho
The Air For was, with) | Tween the two cities, t went, she delivered a parting
settled the matter you would holding the the airman's nomes unil next we covered the 1,030-mlies at ago,
announcement of The plane crying shot towards the Bench. "Now I
20.
have made a complaint long
Printed¦ând" published by WILLIAM ALIEK GRINHAM, for of kin had been notidad, art avmarre speed of 330 miles | Leung agreed that Kam' then; and, on behalf, of South China Morning Post Limited) #32:1-3 Christmas," she said.
Heuter
Mad Man' hour,
went on to talk of the charteter WyndhRIA rest, City of Victoria, in the Colóny of Hongkon
One man, who obstructed the search and insulted the CID men, was detained. His identity was not disclosed.
The Tai Loy was boarded as seon as sho beribed at her urumi know there isn't a Father wharf upon, arrival from Hong-
|kong-France-Presse.
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