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▶RITAIN'S· · manufacturers Para becoming somewhat tedious with their com- plaints
and unfounded allegations against Hong- kong's products. Woollen knitted gloves are their latest target, and, as in the case of cotton shirts a year: ago, thair accusation, for- which no evidence docs or can exist, is that the Coony's merchants are re- exporting Japanese-mada knitted gloves under the guise of being made Hongkong. The extra- ordinary thing is that mẹn holding responsible positions in British Industry Jend themselves to making public allegations against Hongkong manufacturer: without "first making the slightest effort to check on the facts-facts which are readily available at the Board of Trade, the Customs and Excise Department and the London
the office of Hongkong Government. It is noticeable, for example, that it is only after specifie accuantions have been refuted by figures and other information that these
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No. 15780
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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1954
Price 20 Cents
US Rejects Russian Offer To Join
Join NATO
NATO 50,000
A "SLY MANOEUVRE” TO UNDERMNE THE WEST
Text Of Soviet Note
Washington, Mar. 31.
*
Russia today offered thoin the anti-Communist North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, but the falted States promptly rejected the bid as a sly manoeuvre to undermin Western security,
A State Department spesman said the Moscow proposal, which was labelled "astounding" in alomatic circles here, inspired no con- fidence among the free natio in view of the "Iron grip" Russia maintains on "its captive people.
"It is a manoeuvre to ga admittance within the walls of the West, to undermine its security, said a spokesman.
A reporter asked if the stateent amounted to a formal US‘rejection of the Soviet proposal, which is based, the condition that the United States drap its Western European Army plan an sign an all-European security pact.
"This is it (the rejection)""lied the spokesman.
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It also
groupings
RUS A'S POSITION
Soldiers
Locked In Battle
Hanol, Mar. 81... ...Fifty thousand soldiers were locked tonight in û | #CE-SAW battle of exter- mination at Dien Bien Phu. Waves of screaming, drink crazed, bugic-blowing Vietminh, 40,000 strong, cracked, in, one side of the besieged cluster of forts in a savage fight which may determine the outcome the entire seven-year war.
of
The French Command estimated that the Reds lost '1,500: dead 'the first night alone mown down by pointblank French gunfire -or pitifully caught on miles of barbed wire defences,
This brought total Vietminh ensualties in the 19-day battle
to more than 15,000.
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·
Gets The Sack
French Govt Dismisses Gen. Juin
Paris, Apr. 1.
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FLASH FIRE. KILLS
10 CHILDREN
Buffalo, NY Mar, 31, y A flash fire destroyed a frame | suburban elementary school building today, killing 10 children and injuring 24 pupils and teachers.
Those who escaped either ran in a panic through a flame-lined corridor or jumped into snowdrifts outdoors after two teachers smashed windows with their hands.
* The fire swallowed the one-storey Cleveland Hill elementary annexe within 10 minutes, after about 35 children 10 to 7-12 years old had gathered around a piano for a music lesson.
A crowd of 200 horrified werd taken home in bussa and adults, many of them parents, the older ones were sent home rushed to the school in Chock- later. towaga, northeast of Buffalo.
}
It had been reported earlier
There they huddled in freezing that a basement boller explosion weather to watch "remsen fight was the cause of the diranter. the flames
nes and then pick their But John Dwyer Ene County way: through the wreckage in District Attorney, said there was search' of bodies.
no boller in the building, which Paul Rutecki, Erie County was heated by d coal stove in, Coroner, said the remains of the basement.. charred bodies had been. He said 10.
the firo" definitely found. Firemen had reported originated on the ground door, the death total was 11, but Mr probably in an art room across Hutecki said this could not be the hall from the music room. confirmed.
United Press::.
At least 10 of the injured were
in critical conditioti with cuts and burns. The injured Includ
The French Government ed is of the pupils, all mixi early today dismissed Mar-graders, their two teachers, and
Hepper Again Remanded
the rescue.
Hove. Sussex, Mar. 31 "LOUD, "WHOOSH" Miss June Mahany,
William Sanchez 20-year
de Pinar
sat down at the plano when tradited last week from Spain, flames burst out with a loud was remanded in custody for a "whoosh" She said it Bounder second time bere tellad of almost like an explosion, recharge of murdering 11-year-old The instant. the children The artist was brought dowil
Margaret Spovick. the flames they became panicky, They
darted around, the room, from London by car for the *-less than
2. Refusing, to uppeir, before doors and MBA Corque and i meking,enquiries, in Spain= "arm
He was unable to say whether tional tease and to strengthen | question of establishing villifiers of Hongkong talk the United States had consulted peace ht be expected system of collective security in
At nightfall, after 24 hours of shal Alphonse Juin from the school principal and two about "obtaining statistics,"
Britain and France
before they would welcome taking Europe, which has been pointed slaughter, opposing forces his posts as Vice-Chairman other teachers who, rushed to or attempt to back out. of issuing its staternent.
battled for possession of several of the High Council of the measures ill, the object of out hitherto, should disappear."" an untenable position by The Kremlin proposal was providing) Buation
The note in which
zaid: "A situation French Union positions
sub-
Armed Forces and per- "human Fea" declaring that their obser contained in identical 10-page the North Attle Pact would arises where relations between merged under vations must not be taken notes, handed to the US obtain
hally
defensive states are based not on secking asadults; Bayonet – swinging } manent -adviser to Govern-old practice teacher, had"Just Hepper, 62-year-old "artist, ex-.
the too literally." This is a Ambassador, Mr Charles Bohlen, character ndonditions would nece and
Interests of the
cream of ment on national defence. preservation, counter-attackers and the French
mutual and British be creat exuding the pos
the defenders, drove co/13,000
This decision, It was a cheap and unworthy way of envoys in Moscow. Mr Bohlen siblilty of awing one or other | operation but on setting one rebels
back off some of the nounced after a Cabinet mest trying to besmirch the good immediately
ing was taken because the name of Hongkong. It calls of the note to Washington for.
relayed highlights part of many into military tion against another--which focaptured sireng points.
evitably increases tension in re for the strongest possible study.
lations between states and thus The French maintained, how-Marsal had "gravely failed in the obligations of military of a new ever, that the heart of the discipline: by protest. The accusations
The pote 'contained a violent
*** defences still held." The milli- "In thise the North At-Increases the danger vindictiveness denunciation
1. Making a speech with pushing and shoving one an-hearing which lasted lesa of the proposed lantic Trey Organisation would "in tur connection one should ary authorities said it would be
out authorisation, end.
other. Some rustied for the five minutes because they are made, not six-nation West European couse too close my consider the fact that the first 48 hours before the final" out-
to crowd of His counsel said he was atiti out of ignorance, but Army, which is designed to
possible 1 Reding dsistée chilt would to world war," us towell "as the come was known my Premier: 19sepa Loniel” when through into the m because our critics make no aggression. In its stead, Russia European suntries, which cetted by the creation of military
guard against
to the entry of other second world war, were pre
summoned to explain his con outdoors, 4
Barthwould not be, in a -position ? to? effort first to satisfy them-
SITUATION CRITICAL
duct.
Within moments, walk of question witnesses until the next proposed .selves
all-European alongside h establishment of 28 to the facts security treaty,
effectly [en]
'stem of
groups of states setting one collective
The situation was described as The Cabinet action does not flames scaled off the door bad hearing, which was fixed for relating
Apri B affect Marshal Juin's position the two teachers in the The body of Margaret Spevick to Hongkong'
"critical" Russia sald It would be will-security Europe would against mother and by the split of Europe into two enemy products,
General Nguyen Van Hinh, as the
to the only living, Marshal of room rushed
two ing to consider joining NATO have am important/signi
camps.
Vietnamese Chief of Staff, France.
windows. They could not get was found in Hepper's onerroom. if the United States would ficance foe strengthening of
"In this connection. one should med the Vietminh were Asked HONGKONG manufacturora join
whether it would them open, so they smashed datiof at Hove on February its proposed have a complete answer to Pact.
European peace thre the world.
of the Soviet not forget the particularly dan-herding young, untrained re-affect his position as Allled them tind grabbed students and Router. repeated the The pun
gerous role of German the many baseless alicgations famillar Soviet warnings about Governme as regards the Larism in such military grouping machineguns at their backs to Europe, a Government 'spokes-
mcruits into the slaughter with Commander-in-Chief, Central pushed them through.
Some of the children
were directed against them. As the heavy burdens of the East-North Altic Fact, le
in loosening the drst and prevent ony retreat.
man answered: "The question engulfed in flames as they Mr E. G. À. Grimwood has West arms race and the dangers known.
world wars,” it added,
Officers said many of the ro- arises whether, he will remain struggled toward the windows. vernment of
4trat said, the Colony's industries of atomic war.
emphasises
"Dle, Frenchmen, there or not."-Router.
When the teachers saw there have nothing to hide; they man sald the Russian offer of anot share the present moment | cerning the policy -directed to- Dle", appeared to be jazzed up:
The State Department spokes- USSR hot shared and can significance of the question con-bel yelling
London Mar was nothing more they could. speak for themselves.
potent 120-proof
themselves (00
do, they dragged
Mr. Anthony. Eden the for-he woollen knitted gloves manu viously
European security treaty pre the poin view that the sald wards the creation of military with
through the setting them degree) "choum" rice alcohol,
windows, and olgn Secretary, turned down had been rejected by treaty is a defensive charac
ac groups of states
Main, hope for factured here conform 100 the three Western
each other con-
few feet into the surestion in the House of for the defenders
dropped the selves against powers in ter.
.tho French
All aviation.
snow. per cent to the requirements |Berlin. He said the security of
the Soviet trasted with the policy of effec. was
Commons today that he should regard
among co-operation
The principal and two other propose a revision of the inter- all planes in Northern Indo-China laid down for import con- Western Europe was a matter Governs proceeds from the tive
over the battlefield.
teachers who. were injured national Law governing the cessions under, the Imporial of direct concern to the Europ-fact tthe North Atlantic European slates in the cause of ranged
Tait for territorial isean countries themselves. Preference regulations
Pact es a closed group, of maintaining and strengthening They dumped huge quantities
those waters. napalm and explosives on task the states, ores
to dis- nobel divisions "Such co-operation between beyond dispute. The woollen
Mr Christopher READY TO CONSIDER
them prevent new German aggres-
before
they yarn used
The rest of the 1,200 students The Soviet noto declared: slon adsince it is only the all the European states, both big
mount, another assault.
"“view of the modern devē wholly
Yorkshire, Guided by from
the unchangeable Soviet on, of all the Great and small, independent or trondi
and high school ments of offensive weapons. nothing but Hongkong principles of its peace
loving Powersheluded in the anti-social order, would permit the Mobilisation of the nic ̋oria | here today, President Dwight Junos debination: siementery, dative, made, the “stabroetión · labour is employed in all foreign policy, and seeking the Hiller Mition which does not avoidance of a situation in which for combat, however, partially Eisenhower said that the Rus were in no danger and the two Mr. Edon said: "The Govern North Europe is periodically drawn deprived the Dien Bien Phu slans might possibly be prepare buildings they occupied were ment consider that any exten- phases of the manufacture lessening of tension in inter- partiet in it-the.
into disastrolta wars, which is defenders of air-dropped: "sup- ing now to examine with the not damaged.
sion of the breadth of territorialt With their guns firing US a plan for the internation- These gudents were marched werd beyond the three miles of these gloves, including the national relations, the, Soviet Atlant fact cannot, but be re-testifled to by the experience of plies an end, it was feared alisation of atomic energy used
Government expresses Jis gardéd
an aggressive treaty the histories of European states for boura
orderly fashion into the wall contrary to the in dyeing process, and the o
rcaditions to
consider, together directs against the Soviet during the Fast century." the French might run out of for peaceful mang
school auditorium, where they trests of the United Kingdom finished article is as British- with interested governments, Union
United Press and Reuter.
ammunition if the battle con- made as anything being the question of the participation
Referring to the publication sang songs until the crisis was and of
ther seafaring "Innection with considera-
tinued for long at its present in the Soviet Union of detalls over. The
3 children nations. -Router. produced in the North of of the USSR in the North tion the Soviet proposals on
intensity. England. Nor is sweated Atlantic Pact.
atomic and thermonuclear The French claimed to have researches in that country, he the of collective
won back most of the ground said that it was not possible to they lost since the attack start ascertain,
comes
That
almost
The
well
tha
and in
of peace.
"The Soviet Government has been frity, the undesirably Price Cuts
of
participation
consideration
In Russia
the
of
three
1
May Be Ready
Now To Talk collapsed as they tried to get
on
Eden's "No To Suggestion
into the building to 60 HRKIT
who were trapped. Washington, Mar. 31. During his press conference at the
STOP PRESS
labour employed. On the contrary some of the most in view that, arising in connec- of Lid States
the reasons
for this od on Tuesday aftercon. modern machinery is used in tion with these questions, aint collective security of
But
Bu decision: satisfactory solution to all in- Euro vas discussed.
several ports on the east side of
people He added that "certain") the process of manufacturing terested states could be obtained
NO OBSTACLE
the bastion were till occupied woollen gloves, notably for in the interests of strengthening
by Vietminh assault waves. The bught that this might mean into
The a change. In the · Boviet policy and security the dyeing of the yarn. That the peace
Moscow, Mar. 31,
fighting was confused in the this station, as well as the
and the sign of a, Russian Hongkong's greatly im- peoples
the United
redoubts, Russia tonight announced tungle of trenches,
destro "it is perfectly evident that partation of
to negotiate honestly) proved products represent the North Atlantic Treaty Star luring the second world cuts in the price of bread, bunkers and wire erected to and sincerely--France-Po strong competition to some Organisation' might, under war the common struggle tea, petrol and many other hold off the rebels. of Britain's textile industries | quitable conditions, Jose · ita { age Hitlerito aggresalon, the
- BADIOED REPORT is not denied, but this does aggressive character in the event or sibility which the United commodities both neces
The latest battle report radio- not justify false allegations of all Great Powers which St together with the Soviet sities and luxuries - from
participated in the anti-Hiller Un France and Britain, tomorrow morning, exactly ed by Colonel de Castries that Hongkong manufac coalition taking part in i shtor the postwar regulation a year after a similar price during the night sald the silua- ..turers- are' palming off Russia said,
of Fope, and also considering
tion was ill critical; and the Japanese cut-rate goods on The Soviet Note, published in theint of view of the United alash. -
French Union forces, which British today's edition of Pravda,: was St an unsuspecting
expressed at the Berlin The Soviet Cabinet and Com-
throw the enemy
times. back six to addressed
the Frenchcorence, the Soviet public. Moreover, whatever
Unlon munist party executive made the ones donot see any obstacle in the announcement in a decree which in a desperate counter-attack competition Hongkong's pro- Government.
to Britain and the pve consultation of the promptly sent shoppers hurrying probably would not be able to ground, ducts aro offering their were sent
United States,
Picipation of the United home with their baskets empty, hold the regained counterparts made Jn England, the complainants ernment of Eranes, as well as
It declared "Since the Gov. In the all European Nearly all shops except pro- French Staff officers mid.
closed for "glock Strong gusts of wind blew Visions taking" and the mar
caricat:crowds saway, part of the parachuted; in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Governments of Britain and
ammunition quickly thinned
for the advanes Leicestershire and other in- the United States, have declared ut the obstacle in the way.
Breads are down five to eight poste posing a dimicult supply for the hard-bitten, dustrial counties are re- their desire to lessen. Interna-eaching agreement on
per cent, ten, by 10.3 per cent problem!
Union olhumbered Teach minded that last year the
coffee and cocoa by 15 per cent, macaroni and floum by eight. troops, they added.
Furthermore, Colonel cert
The
wes Castries Blern memaga sild, taxtilek
shoes, one battalion of Thai country, tribesmen seems not to have
Identical
the
collective European
United Kingdom: textile
industry, como off best in
the exchange of goods with Hongkong: Britain exported £7,500,000 worth of textiles to the Colony," which was
Floods Endager. Basra
Basra, Mar 81.
the
ver cuts over.
* . perfumes, -- equipment,
building,
goods; and Scores of engineers and ndreds of labourers were medicines come : donk o 26,000,000 more than we sold fighting tonight to protects major shipping and oll centr
to Britain. Farthermore, industry port from floods, beag down from the Baghdad The price of the United Kingdom's overall | area."
trade
The mypilen watery of the aghúnd, bearly 300-milies Tigris and the Euphrated" which iver from here,ihas been clos
alreathy - cnused "havoo, i Teheran's Radio
*west off) az Qurne onight that
herebral tremor hadi
of
author the region
Til foods have's com
the town p
The
1 Aam
Router:
mut up the same resistance,
stubbornness
and, hérolama??" red-bereted paratroopery,
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