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GLOUCESTER ARCADE
COMMENT OF THE DAY
Trade Campaign
THE promotion of Eart.
West trade
has to date
remained more in the realm of hopeful expectation than tangible realisation.
But
IM
this does not mean right to discount completely the efforts which are being made to foster expansion. of trading contracts be- tween Britain, Soviet Russia und Communist
CHINA
No. 35799
WHO IS
Established 1845 -
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1954.
Hongkong's Footballer Of The Year?
THAT is what the China Mall, with the assist.
ance of local soccer fans, is going to discover during the
next two weeks.
The current Belson
has
China. The prime obstacle been a notable milestone in to the movement is Britain's the history of Hong Kong willing acceptance of her football, with a galaxy obligation not to transact deals with the Communists oki and new
involving
Blits цетон
strategie com-strating every week their modities. And it is this soul and apuny. Tavus k which requires that
appropriate for the automa ΠΟΠΗΙΑΙΕ loving public to
the
French Press Agency
forecast uf
C
sailonal trade offer" by the their Footballer of the Year,
Chinese Communists be treated with extreme ent-
tion.
Many different kinds | in this issue of of offers conli rate
"aenuntional," but they
To do so, turn to l'age 10
M
kull, where was be fouNG
家庭
KOMUNAKJU 100m
would all be futile if they simple
referred to commodities which can be completed in
which continue to figure less than a minute. the revised embargo list.
Britain has a aclf-imposed
Imitation
when it comes
nomination This
form
to trading behind the iron will appear daily and bamboo curtains,
in
the
andhina Mail
up
to
and
The two guiding qualifica-
tempting though the offer including Saturday, May 8. may be in terms of cash,
it w stand
chance no
of acceptance if, thereby, tions for hongkong » roo-
Britain's obligation to pre- baller
vent
strategic
from reaching
materials
of the Year ure: (D) Com- (a) playing ablaty; the muniats is compromised. sportsmanship on the hek ol HONGKONG has more than play.
an academic interest
the current
campaign
in
10
Make
your
nomination
expand East-West trade. NOW and send it to The
China The system of direct trad- | Editor,
ing with West Europe Wyndham Street. countries which the Chinese
People's Repubile is
deavouring to apply
en-
18
apparently inimical to the
of the Colony.
Nevertheless it is
wolfare
worthy
that
this
note-
was
placed in perspective at the the Annual meeting of
Hongkong General Chamber
was
to
Mail,
Britain's Aim At The
Geneva Conference
London, Apr. 23.
of Commerce, and that the
The British delegation which is to participate in able Chairman
the forthcoming Geneva Conference will do everything declare "it is our bellef that the facilities afforded in its power to limit the risk of a world war as a result
of a deteriorating situation in the Far East. ult
by the Colony
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Russian Diplomats In Australia Recalled
SEQUEL TO THE PETROV CASE Strong Soviet Protest
London, Apr. 23.
Russia tonight demanded the recall of all Australian diplomats from Moscow as a result of the Petrov asylum case and announced that her ambassador and all other diplomatic staff in Australia had been ordered back to the Soviet Union.
In a note to the Australian Government, the Russians protested against Australia's action in giving refuge to Mr Vladimir Petrov, former Soviet secret police agent in Australia, and "kid- napping" his wife as she was flying back to the Soviet Union.
The Soviet news agency, Tass, said the note wES handed
Mr Brian Hill, Australian Charge over to d'Affaires in Moscow, by the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Mr Andrei Gromyko,
It repeated earlier Russian charges that Petrov had stolen money and demanded that he be handed over to the Soviet Union as a criminal.
Prince On
Rebels Drive
Forged Cheque Wedge
Charge
K
London, Apr, 23.
Prisco Nicolaudis, 21,
sop of ex-Queca Alexandra
of Yugoslavia, appeared ai Bow Street, London, Police Court today on charge of obtaining £120 by means
forged oheage, as well 2.5 έπαι solid silver hair brushes from a Piccadilly shop under false pretences.
The Prince, who holds Oxford University silver- degree, save
attck 10
topped walking
the pollocmanı on duly when he went into
dook.
the
ad-
The hoaring Was journed until Monday and the young Prince was to- leased on ball-France- Pressc.
RUSSIA'S AIMS ARE UNCHANGED
A
1
Into
Indo-China
Fortress
Hanoi, Apr. 23.
Vietminh regiment drove a dangerous Wedge Into the fortress of Dien Bien Phu last night, captur- ing a key western outpost and the northern half of the airstrip, the French High Command announced today. The High Command said the peril to the besieged strongpoint Northern Indo-China had grown “more serious”.
There were
serious casualties on both aldes during
เก
vory
the fighting on Thursday night,
The battle along the western defences of Dien Bien Phu last night brought the warfare as brutal as any of the First World War.
Eight hundred men of at least one Vietminh battalion fought
way
with knives, and tommyguns into the French Union positions in an attack which
begun yesterday after. and raged until after dawn this morning.
ARE their
Paris, Apr. 28.
noon
.
The Russian note said that He did not know yet whether since Petrov left the Soviet Em- this could be done.
the Aus- Mr Hill said: "It is a matter basssy on April 3,
had tralian authorities
taken for handling at the very highest of the Government of
A: the French and Viet. "a series of steps calculated to level
namese defenders fought back uxacerbate still further relations Australia and it is not possible with the USSR and to create for mo to make any comment
and The North Atlantic Coun- | bitterly with machinegun Impossible conditions for the on the merits of the affair." cil declared after w one-day mortar fre, the rebels Infiltrated normal functioning
Answering a reporter's ques- diplomatic representation of the ton, he said it was not easy to meeting here today that between, forthed hillocks
The Vietminh-hadi: d vacato. Soviet Union in Australia.”
ui Embassyal much "the military strength of
be very the Soviet Union and its reaches through the driped-up The note repeated allegations notice. "It is going
satellites continues to in- rice
Daddles and were pr
ere protected. made
earlier by the
wrigitled along Lacan on 'they Embassy
crease.”
In the Franch positions. close to Petrov nad
they sprung to
מון.
the of
Soviet dimeult.""
that
Mr
p.m.
the
to their fest
A communiquo said' the Then ther Counell had found no evidence and attacked, hurling grenades that the ultimate aims
of the and Soviet Union had altered.
was H
not
who
Jast
The Council reaffirmed Mr views
summoned 10 Hill was Canberra taken u large sum the Soviet Foreign Ministry by of state money and demanded a telephone call at 2.15 pan.,
which set the interview for that he should be arrested and handed over as a criminal.
These demands, today's note otherwise engaged." saut, had so for not been me Nairobi, Apr. 23.
by the Australian Government. de The Soviet Government Nearly 8,000 troops and
return police, European and Afri-manded the immediate
Petrov вла and "kidnapped" wife can Home Guards, moved of the "criminal"
of those reg into position in Nairobi to the punishment night, ready to begin the
recali the
of Announcing biggest comb out of Mau Mau suspects in Kenya's Soviet diplomatic personnel from Austraia, the nole said this was emergency.
la view of the events necessary in
personnel which "present a threat to the in Australia" safety of the Soviet
Sir William Hayter, the Bri- tish Ambassador
Moscow,
have
of his
M
{jtr མ British delegation The merchant
It will also strive to maintain activities can prove 25 Western solidarity and to obtain leves, however, that the Korean question will serve to set the a cease-fire in fudo-China necessary in the future to
The
ponsible in the air. Tempo of the conference. order to enable a modus vivendi. trade with China as they
simultaneous with question of
of foreign troope in the past." have proved
The third point of this three-drawal Nor is that expression of told progranume s
egarded as naturally be discussed.
If the Chinese, as is he- confidence based un un the most diflicult to achieve,
lieved,
discuss profes
110 reality. Direct trading There are of course other aims
Before dawn tomorrow, 5,000 of question of the prisoners, such considered arg and which possesses its pilfails,
an agenda will be accepted. if, British and African troops, with polleeman in importance such as, will experience
probably secondary
however, the Indo-Chinese every avaliable bistance, the question of
district, will the Nairobi show that they can only
problem is raised, the British of unitention pouceful
swung into action to clear the be avoided by both Chinese Korea
delegation's attitude will be which tups the list on
capital of thousands of suspect today suddenly cancelled a car
trip
to Yalta, and British traders through the Geneva #genla The Bri- follows:
A military truce must ed Mou Mau supporters. (1)
resort, plannerl making use of the services tish delegation believes that it
be preceded by a political agree
the (Saturday). that Hongkong can efficient is as impossible
In one gigantic swoop, (2) The political agree-
Embassy The British ment;
to screen hope The Colony the unification of Germany and ly provide.
ment must be negotiated by the authorities alove oll
40,000 give no reason and 30,000 which botween will watch with close their
issue of two belligerent powers the vital
Embu
Mera Dassador's action. and other as Kikuyu, with centred on but
must recognise each interest,
not
in London experts in diploma- Indo-Chins which is at stake in
such It must not consist in น tribesmen and detail some 5,000
tic practice expressed the view despair, the East-West trade
Mau
spivs, this conference.
gansters, political compromise with Com- Mau
that the Russian action amounted promotion campaign.
anti-Communists robbers, and pickpockets, munists und
to a diplomatic breach and ex- Those detained will be held
pected. the two Governments in special camps-Reuter,
would now nominate other
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In single government; (3) The principle of a territoriai partition is acceptable.--France- Presse.
Incendiary Bomb
Kills Workman
Suggested Cure out
London, Apr. 23.
the for
Crimean tomorrow
would the Am-
for
Mr
d'Affaires, The Charge
Moscow arrived In
only with stayed Uctober, Gromyko for 15 minutes while Deputy Foreign Minister gave him the main points of six-page Soviet note through an interpreter.
Mr Hill
later informed "Sir the British Hayter, William
who Ambassador,
immediately projected trip to cancelled Yalta, Crimea, on which he was due to start early on Saturday Reuter,
a
Child Murderer
Hanged
Edinburgh, Apr. 23. John Lynch, 45-year-old Irish murdered two labourer
who
was
little girls last December, hanged in prison here today.
The children, Lesley Binclair, and Margaret Johnson, 3, were found asphyxiated in a tenement room China Mall Special
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Moscow, Apr. 23. Rusala wants the Australian
to Icave start
the
London, Apr. 23. Mra M. Hudson, London ex- Embassy
Patients In Acton Hospital ΟΙ pert
three on juvenile delinquency, country within two
here will soon be able to dial Deputy Foreign has recommended brown bread days, the Soviet Grays, Essex, Apr. 23.
direct relations Gromyke, friends and a cure Minister, Mr Andrei and raw vegetables as
call A war-time incendiary bơmb
told the Australian Charge from a mobile telephone for bad girls. exploded
a refuse dump Ori last
of juvenila d'Affaires, Mr Brian Hill, today. box wheeled to their bedside. Вете
night kliling
HA great deal
with
The idea, first of its kind in said the Embassy Mr Hill to do workman, delinquency is 50-year-old Council
Britain, Was copied from Bannister-China Mali digestion,” Mr H.
sold. Chion staff would endeavour to go on
Canada,China Mail Special, Sunday night via Helsinki. Special,
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hip.
Eyewitness reports
Its Hanoi
t teaching.
tonight spoke
that the European desperate efforts to relieve, the Defence Community was in enoucle north-western strong- NATO's essential interest and point, with
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welcome ratification of the French Union troops trying EDC treaty by a number of force their way through 2,000
Vietminh signatories.
proaches.
Using
several
hundred
barring the
commando
kilver
by French
The Council also expressed gratification at the "far-reaching bayonla steps" taken by Britain and the
the towards States United operation with the EDC.
co-
and hand grenades,
came within: 100 yards of the murrounded posi- tion but were thrown back by the Communist, who have been The Council paid tribute to
the north-western French battering the gallantry of the
Union forces in Indo-China and strongpoint with heavy artillery
the and mortars.-Router. that
expressed the
Genova conference would have
hope
positive results.
The Council noted with ap- proval that NATO member gov-
ernments
Drought. Continues
London, Apr. 23. Britain's dry spell, now in its no signs of had no intention of 17th day, showed recognising the sovereignty of breaking today. the so-called German
Clouds covered much of the cratic Republic or of treating country and temperature drop- the German authorities there ped, but the sun was expected to later. China Mail (in the Soviet zone) as a gov return ernment-Reuter.
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