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COMMENT OF THE DAY
HK Trade
THE trade returns for the
Trst quarter give Hong-
kong little cause for hoping that the final figures for 1954 are going to show any appreciable improvement over last year's. Assuming there la no deterioration in the Far Eastern situation, &ị nono too cynical forecast is that last year's truding re xulin might well form the basic pattern of our trade for some time to cume. In Sny consideration of the economy in the future it is essential to understand that however great the need to trade restrictions
remove
to improve the overall trade: picture, in the case of China the embargo is going to stay in force until the end of this year at the very least. The United States has made that quite clear, not only by tho
compromise reached with Western nations recently to allow increased East-West trade ira the
European sphere to compen- i sate for the loss of the
but China trade,
by avowed intention to persist with the embargo agamat China and North Korea until there is proof that these countries have given their aggressive intentions. This is a bleak prospect for Hongkong but untit the embargo is lifted the Colony has to do as much as pon- sible to promote local ex- ports for the preservation of a sound economy.
THE HOR.
C.
Blaker's comprehensive analysis of Hongkong's trade position
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CHINA MAIL
No. 35797
Established 1845
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1954.
Dien Bien Phu Situation
Becoming Critical
24-Hour Strike Ordered
Paria. Apr. 21. Communist and Catholic Hallwaymen's Unions today ordered their incumbers-80 per cent of French railway workers to strike for 24 bours at midnight on April 27.
The walkout is expected to paralyse the bulk
of
rail traffic throughout the country.
This follows the general strike call for April 23
by the Communist - fed General Confederation of Labour and the Catholic Union Federation Trade
earlier this month,
wage
They are demanding an increase in the minimum from 23,000 trance (about 23 sterling) 10 25,166 franca (abou 25 sterling) a month--Reuter.
Ship With
Perpetual
Passenger
Genoa, Apr. 21. The French trans-Atlan- tic liner, Bretagne sailed for South America today and there in his prison " cabin
was its perpetual | passenger -- man-without- -country Nicolas Levitsky,
Tuesday contained number of important points, Having noted the setback in trade with Indonesia he sald
VIOLENT
FIGHTING NEAR.
FORTRESS
Urgent Appeal By General Castries
Vietminh
Hanoi, Apr. 21.
shock troops concentrated heavy fire against a French forward position command- ing the fort's crippled airfield today 08 the defenders' position steadily worsened.
Four days of bad weather cut the life-giving aerial support badly. Brig-Gen. Christian de Castries appealed to headquarters to maintain the airlift of vital supplies and men no matter what the price.
Winging to the aid of the weakened garrison from France were huge US Air Force double-decker trans- ports rushing French paratroop reinforcements. It described as the longest military airlift ever established for organised combat units.
WAL
The troops some 600 crack colonial infantry of the Seventh Commando Parachute Battalion-were expected here tomorrow, They left Paris' Orly Field late Monday after the French government appealed to Washington for emergency aid in ferrying badly-needed men to stem the Communist push.
terved
It was the 15th time Levitsky planes "this situation) may lead had sailed from Genia aboard our shippers to seek more the Bretagne and he did not widespread markets so that ¦ expect it "would be the last.
reported
Border Guards
Shoot Woman
Berlin, Apr. 21.
Armed Communist bor-
der guards today what ma unidentified woman and fired 好像
German
匈
motoreve'ist with tominy
un near the West Berlin border. West Berlin polico announced.
The
Poilce wald the WOMAN WIN hit and col- lapsed, while the motot- cyclist, speeding past the shooting scene, escaped.
The shooting, reported to the police by the motor- cyclist, took place at the Berlin end of the 110-millo superhighway from Berlin
to the West where it runs
through a short stretch of East German territory br- tweeti the Allied highway checkpoint and the Went Berlin border. the palloe said.-United Press.
Tito Elated
Over Visit
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Mrs Petrov Flies From Darwin To Join Her Husband In
Hiding Place
Darwin, Apr. 22.
Mrs Evokiya Petrov, heavily veiled, few from here at 3 a.m. today in an Australian Dakota to join her refugee husband, Vladimir, in his secret hiding place in South Australia.
A police car drove her in teeming rain to the airport. The destination of the plane was not disclosed. The Dakota, one which had been held as a standby during the Royal visit to Australia, arrived at Darwin Airport late at night under secret orders and the pilot refused to answer any questions,
GENEVA TALKS
Barbed Wire To Protect Delegates
Geneva, Apr. 21. Swiss troops today began erecting two rows of barbed wire entanglements round the villas which the Soviet, Chinese and North Korean
Foreign Ministers will occupy during the Geneva conference,
Tho three villas are about four miles from Geneva, neur the Lakes De Village of Ver-
soix, which looks as if it is be-
to withstand ing prepared siege.
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Election
Budget
Australia's reply to Russian Saturday,
demands for Vladimir
the retum Petrov.
of refugee
Dublin, Apr. 21. Mr Eamon de Valera's Fionna Fall Government, which leaves office on presented its election budget today, cut- diplomat, as a "criminal" forgerting the tax on bread and and thief will be to ask for beer and increasing income particulars of his thefts, it was
tax allowances for children. announced tonight by Mr R. G. Menzies, the Prime Minister,
Parlament, the Dail, dissolves Two Russians in Canberra,
un Saturday for a general elec- und n Junior diplomat
tion on May 18, correspondent, have been aud denly
recalled 10
Finance Mr Sean Macentee, Moscow, Australian Government sources Minlater, said the year had been said last night,
one of the most prosperous in They are Mr Y. E. Pintkala, Elre's history, with the cost of
the Soviet Em- Uving an attache at
But, he said, MF bay, and
V. Antonov, "smoothed out."
of the the end of meat rationing in Soviet news agency Tass. Canberra correspondent
this summer They Britain-due
situa- leave by
air faced them with a new
tion in a more competitive mar- ket.
ere expected to within three weeks.
newa
It not known whether the recall has any connection with Vladimir Petrov, fugitive Third Secretary of the Embassy, who has received political saytum in Australia with his wife.
Only five diplomats will re- main at the Soviet Embassy with the departure of Platkata who is the most Junior envoy on the Embassy's list of ometals.
Antonov, Tass correspondent, here for about a year did not mix much with press and diplomatic circles 107.
falling and
prices
He reduced the tax on beer by eight shillings and sixpence
38-gallon barrel, and bread by a halfpenny a two-pound loaf from May 1.
Income tax stays unchanged, but with an increased personal allowance and increased allowance.
child
Mr Macenteo also said stamp
duties were being modified to help buyura of houses valued -Reu- under 2,500, sterling-Reuter.
[
The wife of a Russian entity Husband's Right
Belgrade, Apr. 21. - President Tilo returned today
from an "extra- The soldiers started work ordinarily successful" State with Ave railway wagon loads visit to Turkey that tight- of barbed wire, of which
several miles will be needed ened
this links between
fourth villa A
near Vermix Balkan pation and NATO's
will be used by the _Freach WOMAN'S SUGGESTION -- Easlegimosi pariner.
Foreign Minister," The 'chutista will be trans 2. Wounded,
M. Georges to as high as
Marshal. Tito to French-mannert number
1,000, ore
stepped onto Bidault, who is not expected to to Dien steadily
under-
be given such ond dropped
Yugoslav sail from the deck of
claborate "de- allegedly clogging the
training
fence" measures. the Yugoslav Navy hospital at Dien Bien Bien Phu or clae used to free ground
(Seagull) at 8.10 Several hundred Swiss troops unito already Phu with no prospect of evacua-ship Galeb other nirborne
at Split and told In Indo-China for action at Dien tion despite appeals to the Reds this morning
will guard roads and buildings for a short truce. No wounded cheering thousands that his during the conference, whien have been removed since March mission to Turkey had achieved
begins on Monday. 25. Since then the airfield has "much more than we expected" been wrecked. A new medical He said his party had been unit was parachuted in today to
happily surprised" to and relieve the exhausted doctors
that in Turkey "the entire who have been
operating and
nol country,
Just its leaders, amputting
ceaselessly
n tremendous welcome prepared slege started.
for us.
a welcome such as we Several doctors buve been
experienced anywhere killed and wounded.
a decline in one area will A former cabin-mate of Bien Phu.
our exports
to
was not the only setbacked
Just
traveller"
were securely with
in cabin,
Ki
"Michael such a marked "perpetua! not have
The High Command sald Red Levitsky O'Brien, Patrick
has soldiers effect upon
economic our
drastically tightened papers and their hold most of the well-being". The decline in no passport nor
way country will let him land.
ound the title Indonesia
Dust luated As the French steamship pull-
on the northwest side of
the Levitsky locked airstrip. The tarmac already is There
in his nine-by-tx foot one-quarter held by the Heds. year.
declines considerable
he marked
up another
Violent fighting continued to Maluya, USA, tally on his personal chart that exports tu
SA but Headquarters said Thailand and Pakistan, to notes the ship's brief stopover nightfall that there had not yet
Genoa, Naples, mention just n
Mrat Marseilles, few.
Dakar, Barcelona,
Illo ઘટ
any direct aamult, Blaker has correctly stated Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and that Hongkong manufac- Buenos Aires.United Press. turern should attempt to secure wider markets for
day
Kat
The rebel move seemed part of General Vo Nguyen Gap's new tacties of strangling off the French Ances
by and past
strung-point by The steady weakening would gradually lay open the core of the fort.
TIGHTLY PACKED
their goods but this involves Brave Nurse strong-pukat.
of
existing maintenance
market-the established backbone of our export trade-as wall дя the cultivation of other small but potentially valuable markets, particularly 10
Very Ill
Rending. Apr. 21,
Her condition grafting operation
Other factors worked against the 11,000 defenders now tightly
monsoon
at
large Increase in air power.
Ex-North Korean Minister Said Hiding In Tokyo
ever ainee
Umbs The
nover
cleo,"
3. With no hope at present of "During the sending in rescue column, peasants, workers
There will also be 246 security policemen with a fleet of last care at their disposal.
To Use Force
tisa
Bonn, Apr.
East kidnapped in Berlin, suggested today that & neutral commission should examine her husband, and "Mr
Santiago De Chile, Apr. 21. and Mrs Petrov, who sought
A huband's right to asylum in Australia.
She told
conference force on his wife oven firing u a press Impartial examination on few bullets into the furniture arguments--- neutral territory, perhaps Swit- to emphasise his Six Russian planes landed zerland, would
what was upheld by theTM” Santiago reveal here today bringing more stad "really happened" In both cases. Court of Appeal. and freight
Soviet, for the
Her husband, Dr Alexander
Д It reversed leading Chinese
Was North Korean Trushnavich,
gure in the exiled Russian or decision in Agure Two flew on the regular ganisation in West Berlin, West after the bad complained that Soviet airlift from East Berlin, Berlin police say he was kid her husband had suddenly ap which began last week, and napped.
delegations.
whole trip and citizens
the Keuter
since the bastion lies 180 miles greeted us with Joyful faces. neross hostile peaks and jungles secing in us their real friends," from the French-held Red River
"It was not hard for he
Pubd. delta, I was hard to see here u to
agree with sto
the Turkish
LIN
our
the
co-
how the siege could be endet. leaders on all problems of A small mobile column advanc-international policy and ing north from Luang Prabang
relations between was all some 60 miles away operation In the economic, and was not considered to have
political and defence'l (this the power necessary to punch word he especially stressed) "folds will be greatly broaden- through the Reds.
od."
RADIOPHONE TALK
nover
Al-be parachuted to the enfancers. independence,
fine.
of
others
Moscow. --
Din
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lower court the wife's favour
East German authori-peared at a political rally, seized ties claim he went to East Ber-her by the arm and dragged her iin voluntarily with evidence of off home away from her malo Western
and
sabotage escort.
The husband was then fined 200 pesos
(about 15 shillings sterling) but he had since spent
trum
NO SECRETARIAT
"Spy activity."—Reuter. Geneva, Apr. 21. With the opening of the Geneva conference only Avo days away, there la atil no authority here who knows when the meeting will start or how the world press will have access to the deliberations of the 19 nations taking part
official laslation into
There is no Secretariat for the conference. There is no trans- lating staff available to handle the big job of the five
There languages. are no arrangements at all for the distribution of documents, and the press centre here, from which
from press reporters many countries will be working. in still unfinished.
1
"Without exception, this is one
of the most amazing conferences I have ever witnessed," was the description
to applied
the today by a high arrangements ranking official of the United Nations,
" have just been told," he there is to be an sald, "that extremely involved system of seral - simultaneous translation which need a squad of at least 40 translators. We have eight here in Geneva,
"TWO
of the Ave official languages are oriental, for which It is hard enough to ind translators. So far as I know, there are no trained Interpreters for Korean,
A nursing sister who single-packed in a little circle, less than
He said this co-operation was 13 new-born nded r.xuet
three-quarters of a square me
The the Far East, Mr Blaker babies
in area. from a maternity home
position is
General de Castries, In a achieved "despite the opposition in the world who also defended Hongkong's blaze here on Easter Sunday
headquarters radiophone talk with small that some
General of all those mathematician calculated
two Rene Cogny, his superior
đu not want to see concord be- and participation in trade fairs was still too ill today to be told
men are in each square yard Northern
tween alles, who do not like to that only two of the infants had
Front
commander, and sald "overy oppor. survived.
since much terrain taken up emphasised that the airlift must see two peoples living together tunity should be acized to
Sister Freda Holland was
by big mine-fleks and barbe be
be maintained no matter
In peace and friendship." what ahow the Colony's wares in badly burned as she carried the wire entanglements.
the sacrifice, if the garrison is
FOUND FRIENDS from their cots overseas markets not only choking babies
The main factors were:
to continue.
"In our allies the Turks," be He also appealed with a view to orders but in the smoke-filled nursery.
1. Parachuting after a akiomaterial
men and to the population of Hano! to added, "we have found friends them- allow also to establish in the over-
growing steadily contribute tuned milk and fruit who will was greatly harder
as the bastion shrinks Julce to ease the suffering of the scives to be deflected by any minst sens
1 proper improved, doctors suld today.
and the weather clouds up for wounded. The contributions will kind of machinations from their appreciation of the Colony
A team of doctors and nurses
the
downpours.
determination to maintain their and its products".
to save the sur- fought today
their the clouds and dodg
freedom Piercing vivors one two weeks old, the though the French have per-
and their peaceful develop- fected an air and ground con-
ing cocurate ack-ack IF there is a need to develop other only #dren's
trolled instrument allowing planes managed last night to ment." markets there is also a The chief specialist
Before mounting the special drops despite poor drop more men. Each day Dien definite need to give wide at the Royal Berkshire Hospital precision publicity to Hongkong'
morning the two babies, a boy y, it was considered un- Bien Phu reports its losses and platform prepared for his brief here. Dr J. J. Kempton, said this
needed speech, Marshal Tito said good the French could keep what specialities ΑΠΟ
to Vice-Admiral products. It might be argued and a girl, had a good sport-pumping In the 200 tons of and the men aro assembled from bye formally
commandant of the of volunteers Jerkovic, too that it is not enough for ing chance of recovery China supplies needed daily without a among hundreds
Yugoslav Navy which had just for dropping-United Presa. Hongkong to have resident Mail Special.
completed its fortnight's mis- foreign and Commonwealth
VIETMINII AMBUSH
sion by bringing him safely home. He Wan welcomed by Hanoi, Apr. 21. trade commissioners in the
the Colony but that even more
Heavy fighting took place be- President of the Croatian should be done by Govern-
tween approximately two Vlot-Parliament, Vladimir Bakaric, minh battalions and France- on behalf of the Republic of ment, the newly-formed
Vietnam units, following a Viet-Croatia, to which the city Trade Promotion Division
minh ambush at a very vulner-Split belongs. of the Department of Trade
The five official languages for able point of the road and rail- The city's population learned
Hanol with way
that
conference aro linking
yesterday morning
Pre- tho
Engilab Seoul, Apr. 21.
Haiphong
aldont Tito would land there to- French, Hussian, Chinese and | Former North Korean deputy Premier and
The ambush which
took day and epent the whole day de- Korean.
"DILATORY" turers to acquaint neigh- Foreign Minister Pak Hun Nyung, who was purged place amidst increased Vietcorating the city for his arrival.
Tho KAMO United Nations against Vietnam Tito will travel to Belgrade by bouring nations with the last August, escaped and made his way to Japan, a do- minh activity
communication lines between train from Split and will prob- spokesman said he might be able inherent Infected Communist army officer claimed today. ponsibilities
from at to get more translators Haiphong and Hanoi and Dien | ably make a major specch trade with Hongkong,
Loe Wan Bong, who hold the, not tried along with 10 others Bien Phu was set at a point some the Belgrado railway station New York, but even so it was
whether problematical
there this extent closer considera-
rank of captain in both the who were accused of participat-13 miles cast of Hanol where the tomorrow. United Press.
would be enough. tion might profitably be Chinese and Korean Red armies ing in a plot to form ailway track leaves the road to given to the proposal that and defected to the south in "capitalistic" government and cross the paddy fields. This re-
There is implied criticism in many quarters in Geneva, also February, said the former No. 2 promptly executed.
of the "dilatory" way in which advance arrangements for the Many French Union troops.
conference were being drafted in the Far East and oven
were wounded during today's
by the different foreign offices. He said Pak' is now in extio, Pak was the loading avowed fghting the specific results of further afield to seek more probably in Tokyo, hidden and Communist in Koron until his which were not made known by
Nairobi, Apr. 21. Mr Henry Suydam, head of trade. For sooner or later protected by "Choron," the 1947
Self-styled Mau Mau Brigadier the news division of the Ameri- MOTH CE under Russian the French Command-France Karani, son of Karanja, who can State Department, is due there will be, an improve- Korean Communist organisation auspices with
North Presso.'
claimed he commandedi
aded the here tomorrow (Thursday) but Zient in tho exchange there.
South Korean officials
Hikablka company of Verrorists no press officials, from the Bri position of Indonesia and
| under General Chinkgewi
or "French Foreign Omong Thailand and the adverse they could not conform Lew's via the port of Chinnampo in
small boat, which travelled Strong Earthquake executed, in Nairobi, today for are expected in: Chmaya; unti trade position in Italy which report
unlawful powers.or * Pak was purged from his gov down the west coast. He did
fras | after the "NATO meeting will result in renewed rent and party posts, so not know how or where the demand for imported goods cording to Lhen he tried coup reached deals pointe duration was for here 2013 and Hongkong cannot afford to compete with 'dicta of: Kim poured, Vague, on
* Bung. He was lodioted="but|United
and Commerce, as well as
the Chamber of Commerco
and the Chinese manufac-
To
a trade mission representa
tive of Hongkong Industry should make pariodic tours
to miss these orders:
r
to double their socurity lines for
quires the French Union troops man of North Korea flod by ren Previously, it had been 08- along with 10 supporters and sumed by many observers that some 30 rallen prison guards.
Pak ako was executed.!
J
nick
Lee
said the
Korean Labour bod
and 85
:
Lärm, Puets, Apr. 217
Mau Mau Chief
Executed
A strong earthquake. of short valve other
of
-
the matter
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Border Patrols Fired On
a small fortune
In legal fees fighting for his rights in the
Chilean courts.
London, Apr. 21. Israel Radio reported tonight "The woman's obligation to that fire had been opened on obey her husband implies also Israell patrols from across the the husband's right to impose armistice line with Egypt thres obedience and adopt any attl- times in the last 48 hours. tuds to achieve this by all
casualties were rudered per legal means he may deeth No
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