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Tourist Trade
THE observations of a group
of travel and tourist
agents who have just con- eluded A study of Hong- kong's potentialities as a tourists' centre will crente
interest general
in the Colony, and should nitrnet the special attention of Government which recenly took the step of establishing An ofetul department charged with the task of finding ways and means of stimulating more tourists to Include Hongkong in their Itineraries. That the general CONFENRUN of the travel axents Is the Colony is attractive enough to make itself a "must" for tourists is fluttering. Nevertheless, cognisaneg needs to be taken of the criticisms which they als advanced, Chief com- plaint, not unnaturally, was that our
airport is Con
sidered dangerous by air tourists, and that núdilionat- ly. Kal Tak lacks proper facilities for passengers, both arriving and de- parting. The first part of this eritivism will, of course, be met when the Kai Tak extension project is fulfilled --unhappily not for some #ime to come. But there is to reason whyTacilities for passengers should not be improved without delay. Air travellers, whether tourists or on business flights, are entitled to normal comforts at air ports, and if these denied, visitors
will
AFU think twice about coming
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OPPENHEIMER SENSATION Suspected
Train Blown Up: 60 Die
Fnompenh, Apr. 13. The French authorities announced today that the Communists had blown up a train bolween here and Battambang in a blast that first reports said killed 60
Dersona.
The authorities nuid there were many injured among the passengera,
French and Cambodian Army units hurried to the secte of the explosion. Other details were not
immediately available.
The Vietmink attack
cane in a region considered hitheria as safe from Com- Rat- munist infiltration. tambang
125 mitra the northwest of
Royat capital of Pnomprah,
The attack occurred less than
a week after Cam- bodia's
pro-Western gime declared all-out war on the rebel invaders who cut into the Northern pro- vinces last month.-United Press
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Dien Bien Phu
Defenders Alerted
Rebels Ready. For New Offensive
Action Taken By Eisenhower
INVESTIGATION ORDERED
Washington, Apr. 13.
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President Eisenhower had directed that "blank wall" be placed between the physicist, Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer, and any secret atomic information, pending a security investigation, the Atomic Energy Commission revealed today.
The Commission issued a statement announc- ing that in response to Dr Oppenheimer's request for a hearing, following his suspension from the post of adviser on atomic matters of the Commis- sion, a Board had been established to hear the case and advise the Commission on whether or not the suspension or clearance of Dr Oppenheimer should be made permanent.
The AEC statement said:
"The President, in- consultation with the Secretary of Defence and the Director of the Office of Defence Mobilisation, directed that pending a security review of the material in the file, a blank wall be placed be- tween Dr Oppenheimer and any secret data, and that without prejudging the issue, established procedures should be followed."
The statement disclosed that and Dr Oppenheimer had requested with
in
Communist causes, and delaying United States
a hearing and added: "A board -bunk development. Hanoi, Apr. 13. was accordingly established for
his reply, demanding a Vietminh
guns the purpose of hearing the case hearing, siege
Oppenheimer denied defences an
and advising the commission she was ever a member of the to Hongkong. Government's pounded French
to whether or not the suspen- Communist Party and asserted interest 13 the subject at Dien Bien Phu today and
ston or clearance of Dr Oppen- that he did not oppose H-bomb of developing Hongkong's Colonel Christian de Cas-heimer should be made, purma-development once it became ar tourist trud is well placed, tries alerted his embattled nent.
odelal project of the Govern- is now but the project carriva with garrison for what may be "This Boord
sitting ment. under the Chairmanship of Mr which the big Red push.
Special AEC personnel responsibilities
Gordon Gray, formerly Secre-
board, security
headed by cannot be ignored, Where Late reports said General Vo
tary of the Army, and presently former Army Secretary Gordon there are shortcomings in Nguyen Clop has completed President of the University of Grat
Gray, is
charges hearing the facilities for visitors which building up the rebel legions for North Caroline. The other
agninst Oppenheimer and his assault on the members of the Board are_Mr can be oflleially remedied, the the third-round
A final decision may defence. bebeleaguered fortress. Colonel de Thomas A. Morgan, former Pre-be forthcoming in about two netion must necessary
Castries reported by radio to sident of the Sperry Corpora- weeks. taken. Passenger accommo~ ~490
tion and Dr Ward V. Evans dation at Kai Tak is one headquarters here that his posi
"Intense" Professor of example. The Colony suffieiently rehabilitated it alerted his fighting fools" for
Vietminh possible self where it can seriously a
when the barrage is lifted embark on catering for nu
French officials here said Glap ever-increasing flow of tour-
now had four freshly-reinforced regular divisions in addition to thousands of battle-tested irre gulors mersed around the French bastion in Northwestern Indo-China, A Vietminh division numbers up to 10,000 men.
ists.
We possess the amen- ities and the attractions and there should be no hesitation in improving facilitica where at the moment they Dre inadequate or detrimental to
the tourist trade.
A Sullen Peace
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An African, with his arms bound, lies in the back of a police lorry near Nairobi, less than an hour after four-year-old Andrew Stephens had been killed as was later he was playing outside his home. In this picture the man, who identified as Gichocho and admitted taking the Mau Mau oath, is being questioned Since then he has been charged with murder. - London by police officers.
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Chiang's Invasion
Under Informal
Of Mainland Discussion
Washington, Apr. 13.
Diplomatic sources said today that Chinese Nationalist officials and U.S. authorities have discussed "informally" the possibility of Generalis imo Chiang Kai-shek's forces on Formosa invading the South China- mainland if the non-Communist nations find themselves involved in joint military action against the Reds in Indo-China and the rest of Southeast Asia.
They emphasised that this did not mean the inclusion of Nationalist China in the proposed "united front" pact against further Communist aggression in the area. They said an invasion by President Chiang would be "supplemental" but timed to exert maximum pressure on the Reds if the anti-Communist defence alliance leads to open warfare.
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New Split In Labour Party
London, Apr. 14. Mr Aneurin Bevan, So- cialist
WNA left-winger, involved in a bitter clash with the
official Labour leadership last night after he had attacked the dec!- Яions of the Eden-Dulles meeting here on Far East issues.
The Internal Labour row blew up after Mr Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretury, had reported to the House of Commons on his talks with Mr John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State.
Mr Eden announced Britain and America were prepared to examine tho posalbility મ
collective de- establishing a fence for Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.
Mr Bevan angrily charged that this would be "universally
regarded as EL Burrender to American pressure." He do- clared it would be deeply resented by the majority of people in Britain.
ANGERS "O
"OLD GUARD"
In contrast Mr Clement Attlee, Labour Party ledder, and Mr Emanuel Shinwall, former Defence Minister, took an uncritical line, towards the Eden statement.
Immediately afterwards the Labour "shadow cabinet" Parliamentary front bench- in private and leading
of
the party "old
Mr angrily assailed Bevan's outburst in the House
met
of Commons.
Jort
the
Some wore frate that
winger had eommitted him- zelf to a snap judgment which might lay the Labour Party open to the charge of irrespon zibility.
They were particularly annoy Led. that the Opposition should again be facing a major squsb- 80 soon after its recent ble "down the middle" split over German rearmament.
But one section, while pop parently regretting Mr Bevon's Intervention, thought Mr Atlee should have
that the urged Geneva conference should not be prejudiced by any action before it opens on April 20.
Mr Bevon, who is n member
Waz
of the shadow_cabinot;" uneble to attend park of the | meeting because he was his -speaker in ศ debate in the Comunons. TODAY'S MEETING
two-hour
housing
The
Return With supply to India and Japan and adherents, including
Contracts
of
starve those countries into the Communist camp".
It
meeting had
He said New Zeoland, Aus-
obtained the agreement of, tralia and the Philippines also the signatories to the proposal had a stake in the fighting there that the motion be considered and "should make somo con- today at a meeting of the
If Indo-China foll, 293 - member tribution"
Parliamentary in Lahour
Party. Mr Attlee wilf troops
threatened make a statement to the meet- "it might be better for ing giving the official · lender- on the ansiounce- (Contd. on back page. Col. 4)
Meanwhile, Oppenheimer is
He said President Eisenhower Stole Ades of Secretary of
Senator Douglas was Inter- has enemy shelling. He said he had University, Chemistry. Loyol dented all clearance to Govern-f
Dulles have re- promised some time ago to un- viewed on the television "The Comunission,
ment, secrets, including those of John Foster
that he believes the leash President Chinng's troops gramme "Dateline Washington" and the the AEC
Defence ported
South for attacks on the Chinese main- | lmed here for Station WDSU hold ultimate
for responsibility
Mobilisation Scientific Commit- Communist
China is tenuous
inland. Instead, he said, the nd-| TV. in New Orkans. Ho de party's chief and an decision in this matter, belleves
tee headed by Dr Lee A. Dur-
vasion
the had Formosa
kept that propriety required that it bridge, President of the
might ministration from
situation scribed the Indo-China Califor-
enlist make no further statement".
niu Institute of Aceanology.
enough indigenous
very os sup- Nationalist leader "in
"the most serious in the World
If the Reds port to crack the authority of subordinate role."
today" Three New York newspapers reported earlier
in regime
tako all the territory
the today that. Dr
peninsula, he said, before it The documents released by
a mollon put forward "they would shut off the rice by a small group of Mr Beven's Oppenheimer, who is 50, had Oppenheimer included a letter south of the Yangtse River. been
A high American defence
his wife, suspended from all his to him in which Major-General
Miss Jennie Lee, MP. criticising oficial posts on security grounds. K. D. Nichols, AEC General official last week indicated the
Mr Eden's statement. advised him of the importance the US attaches to Manager, ad
dure President Chlang's forces as a French alemen used one-ton
and of the procedure there in the side of the Chinese charges blockbusters for an assault to-
Washington, Apr. 13. for answering them. It was
Reds. Major-Gen. George C. day on the rebel supply lines
The Government disclosed to-dated December 1953, and
23,
director of the Stewart,
De- nott- funnelling men and ammunition
day that Dr. Robert Oppenheimer contained Oppenheimer's
fence Department's office of to Dien Bien Phu -United Press.
London, Apr. 14. access to ilcation that he was suspended ence was stripped most
in-milliary assistance. REBELS READY
A-bomb and H-bomb secrets by from
Access to restricted
House Foreign
Affairs
Commit- Nine members of a party ho cald, British be damaging dock strike in
Hanol. Apr. 13,
President Eisenhower
the formation. on
tee that Generalissimo Four Vietminh divisions re-basis of "substantial derogatory
dis- ALE the history of the port of
Chiang's of 22 British businessmen Malaya would
and New York has just ended, Inforced with fresh troops. tion" reported to him by closed that steps to deprive in ferees net as a restraining the arrived at London airport them to move North"--United ship's view
information" the Justice Department.
Bluence against
any aggressive last night from Hungary Press. but the dispute that started especially young recruits
of the Communiti it a month before remains modern equipment, are about to
This disclosure was made by material began shortly after Mrs
the Chinese forces on the mainland.
1.and reported deals totalling sturt the third phosc of the
the Atomic Energy Commission Lewis L. Strauss, one unresolved,
Diplomats said American om- £350,000; .. It was simply zen
general offensive against Dien
which stated, in addition,
that oned to the AEC
Commission members, smothered by a threat from Bien Phu.
as Chair-dials both here and in Formosa the world famous "Mr Atom"
"talk about more than just de-.) A statement issued by them the National Labour Rela- This, at least, la the feeling
has been suspended not only as man.
fence" when they discuss mili-said: "Immediate business has tions Board which the strik of the French Command here,
a scientifle consultant of the Oppenheimer, whose
connectary matters with the Nation- been transacted to a total ing International Longshore- who used the brief respite last AEC but also as a member of tion with the United Slates
alists.
350,000 in textiles, chemicals, Association called week to parachute the maximum
project malomie
began in the
drugs and metals.
Technical NATIONALIST REQUEST "unprecedented and illegal." of ammunition, medical supplies Offloo's science advisory com- early 1940's when the A-bomb
discussions on and men into the besieged mission. So the New York waterfront
Meanwhile, Nationalist on-contracts for engineering items fortress, is just as unhappy as ever.
is now President of the elals in Washington are said to were carried on to an advanced Newspapers dropped into the
The AEC spoke out after Op-Was merely a theoretical possi penheimer himself had released by so Advanced Study The ILA feels that it has camp every day tell the men
a stronger the United Kingdom. been bullled into submission. there the whole world has its to the Press documents detall-at Princeton, New Jersey. From be pressing the State Depart stage and will be completed In
ing charges against him and his 1843
the end of the warment to bring about
The value of these addition diplomatic offensive against the until eyes on them. Its returning workers are
he was head of the super Chinese Reds.
al contracts is in the region of For eight days now no wound-reply. sullen and unappeased. The ed have been evacuated and
noted nuclear secret A-bomb laboratory
They have suggested that £450,000, covering trade during American
In Federation
United
electrical equipment, the 1954 of doctory working in the calling credited more than any other or Alamos, New Mexico.
States ask Labour
diesel engines, tables, instru nations, 80
European no atmosphere of the improvised individual
Western Gene gure on the
Advisory guaranteed privilege to work hospital have done miracles development of
serving
for five which have recognised Peking ments, heavy chemicals, special znotais."-- steels and other to withdraw that recognition, the piers, though some piers daily in caring for the men of atomic weapons,
main charges: past close years as its Chalaman.
Britain, the Netherlands, Reuter. are keeping on American the besieged camp. France two
association
News with Communists
of his suspension hit Federation of Labour men
this capital
hard. His former Sweden, Norway, Denmark and colleagues were shocked. The Switzerland have recognised the Government but the mon who mado him chief of Peking
Reds have not reciprocated in the Los Alamos Laboratory, the cases of Britain and
the Major-General Leslie R. Groves,
Netherlands. took "full
for responsibility
The Nationalist argument is doing . But he refused any
that withdrawal of recognition,
Oslo, Apr. 13. other comment.
Soviet patrol boats have ar- Joseph Volpe, Jr., former especially by Britain and the London, Apr. 14. general counsel of the AEC and Netherlands, would be a "cheap
of way to exert pressure against rested the Norwegian sealer
for Malblomsten --
legally associate close lenat 40 years and hus Commenting on possible repercussions of the in-one-ume
sus the Chinese Reds,
The Nationalist contention is operating in the inner waters of powerful allles, not least Information disclosed by Vladimir Petrov to the Australian Oppenheimer, called his
to highly respectable shipping authorities, Chapman Pincher, the Daily Express scienti-pension "a disgraceful event that the withdrawal of this the White Sts, the Norwegian
As a result of Volpe sale,
services.
and recognition would show the Foreign Ministry announced firms who are loth to break fic correspondent, says it is feared in Britain his revela- Oppenheimer's up old working agreements.
not me does
enjoy. The chances are slim that any tions may lead to the discovery of spying as widespread advice are denied to the coun-mares of China that the Peking The ship had been missing prestige abroad that it claims. since last week when other Norwegian seaicte in the Arotic long peace will break out as that revealed in Canada in 1946 by the Russian cypher try."
The incident had repercus- SENATOR'S PROPOSAL reported they had lost radio con- over the New York water clerk Igor Gouzenko.
Senator Paul Douglas" (Demo-tzet with her. front. As it is, New York
The announcement There, are fears, continues, Fincher foresees that confirma-alons abrand. In Austrin, Dr
at Hans Thirring, a theoretical crat, Illinois); proposed tonight has lost US$80m. In busi Pincher, that Russian agents don of serious espionage neas, and 8500m. worth of may have penetratad secrets of Woomers could cripple relations scientist who figured out, ono that Chinese Nationalist troops Ruslan Foreign the inter-version of the H-bombs in 1949, on Formosa be used in the fight the Norwegian cargoes have been diverted various British defence projects with America on
In Indo-China.
ahip wha • takon, to Vladimir. to Baltimore, Philadelphia, located in Australia: The greatest change of Information relating aid, "Buch treatment is against Communist-led rebels Moscow of the arrest and sild
shameessional committees and Norfolk,
at Although he described Chiang where there was a court hearing. Virginis, concern in felt for the Emu feld to guided miles,
Winston Churchill and
No information was given Many Import houses and testing ground, for if Communist &
Case Chairman "corruption and terrorism, about the outcome of the cose shipping companies are now arranging, to move": their 'bo infltrated into the atom British 'security chiefs had, been once, began looking into the Op. Kohek's TOVErnment as one of
test carried out last Octo-warned of Potroy's asylum, bld penheimer
to get in business, once and for all ber they may have learned the before Mr Menzies made the anis Willam E. Jenner (Republican Senators Douglas sald President and the Norwegian Embates In
sadrets of en entirely new nouncement in the Australian Indiana) told the atas of his Chlaris's forces would be a very Moscow was trying away from this embattled type of weapon believed to be parliament Our Own Corres Senate Internal Security Buby distinct help to the beleaguerod touch with the Malblomsten's
Trwich and Vietnamesi, albo Apper Reuter and unreliable port of entry. unknown even to the Americans, pondent.co
lina
far
who broke the strike. One observer has said that the
ILA has been
Přesso.
品 He was with masterminding
United States the AEC's
is accused of Committee,
wounded Fear That Soviet Spies May
by 'n succession of blows from the Government and it may never recover.
Yet it
has dictated the labouring conditions of the port for at
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