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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
CHINA MAIL
No. 35936
FRIDAY OCTOBE
London Nine-Nation Talks On German Rearmament
Two Years Ago FULL AGREEMENT EXPECTED TODAY
And Now
AHLANGES come s
so rapidly
and events crowd B0 swiftly on each other's hools that one is apt to forgot the shape of things a few years agos. During September- October 1052thore, waad heavy, fighting in Korea;
Foreign Office Says:
Conference Is
truice talks had been broken Ship From
off and there was fighting In Indo-China as well. The situation in the Middle East was no better. Dr Mossadeq had finally rejected the Anglo-American proposals for a settlement of the oil dispute and was proposing
break off to
diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom (which he Inter did). British relations with Euypt wore strained; there was as yet no settlement of the Sudan question; negotiations about the Suez Canal Zone seemed outside
the region of practical the aplit politica and
between Britain and Egypt was having 11 affects on
Hongkong
Aground Over The Hump
Bingapore, Oct 1,
The 5/97-ton · Bahadur went.sgroana oft Pulan
Bakom Jaland." south of 'NARROW MARGIN OF
Singapore, yesterday after. noon, KSANA
The ably arrived from Hongkong in the morning. It was heading for Ceylon with a cargo of rice after taking on bunkers at Bukoms island.
An attempt will be made to refloat her today. ** Reuter.
DISAGREEMENT LEFT
London, Oct. 1.
All official and unofficial sources in London were predicting this morning that the nine-nation talks on rearming Germany and arranging a new defence system for Western Europe would be con-
volutions with the other Fire Quickly claded successfully by today or Saturday at the
Arab'atates. Nor were relations with each other
by any means all that could
be desired. A grlim picture, but contrast it with the altuntion today.
Amatic relationa
Put Out At·
Not only Shek Kip Mei last night that after the afternoon session, the ministers
have Anglo-Iranian diplo
been restored, but what seemed beyond all hope two years ago the oil dispute has
Evidence of this was seen in the cables which arrived at the China Mail office this morning.
A British Foreign Ofice spokesman sald in London
were now “over the hump” in their negotiations.
The Belgian Foreign Minister,, M. Paul Henri Spank ****** told the press the conference might reach final agreesient on Friday and the drafting of the final communique would then take place on Saturday.
He said there were two questions still outstanding! control of arme manufacture which would be referred to specialiste for further study and this would take about a fortnight to three weeks and 2. distribution of U.S. equipment to European powers,
TWO INJURED
been finally settled. The Afire broke out in stone effect of this can be out at the far end of Shek Kip Mel- Resettlement Area* this stabilining factor for the whole tures. An equal morning and two people were 1. change has coma Dvor The fire elarted when a man Anglo-Egyptian- relations; smoking a cigarette entered the The Sudan question, which hut and occidentally flicked the had helped to embitter those relations for the past thirty, reary in out of the way and the country is moving Vowurda - Reff government, THE other question of the
and petrol. This caused a flush and, the hut why ablaze in start
ash into a solution. bf rubber The American Secretary of State, Mr Dulles, he said, was still opposed to the establishment of a European ablaze in an in-organisation as the agent through which, Américan arms Would be delivered but he hoped Mr Dulles's attitude was not final,
A Worker in the hut at the Aime suffered burn injuries to his hands and was admitted to Kowloon Hospital The other victim was a woman who suffer- Suez Canal Zone and od alight injuries when she the final withdrawal of dashed into the hut in an effort British troops after over to rescue a powing, machine,
Fire operations were directed soyenty years is virtually settled. True, the treaty by Divisional Officer V. C. Sey- has not yet been signed, but mor. Prompt work by the Fire Brigade brought the blaze under Mr Anthony Nutting is in control in half-an-hour Cairo to clear up the last remaining details and final ralification appeara cortals, The result means opening
Chtet Fire Officer W. J. Gor- man was also at the scene.
up an entirely new chapter Man On
Arson
Charge After
Our own, correspondent said Dr. Adenauer was now so satisfied with the progress of the London, conference he believed it would be successfully concluded within the next day or so.
A
United Press said, the London conference swept aside the chief remaining obstacles to agreement on German rearmament yesterday and brought the meeting to the "door-step of final agreement:"
Changed Atmosphere
... The news agency said one delegate emerged from the
conference and told the press that only "a very narrow margin of disagreement" was left to bar the way to full agreement.
Reuter said a sign of the changed atmosphere in the
and Tai Hang Fire nine-power talks was the new jovini relationship between
In the Middle East for it phts an end to, the Anglo- Egyptian conflict which has
constant been a damaging factor in Middle Eastern affairs since the close of the 1914-18 war. The black spot is still, of course, the tension between *but oven here the change in
the overall picture has made | seven.
M. Pierre Mondes-France, the French Premier and Dr Konrad Adenauer, the West German Chancellor,
A Chinese, who is alleged to have started the blaze in North Point early this morning by
The two statesmen who are central figures in the Aring his hut, No 112 Tin Hau Temple Hill East, was termed conference greeted each other with smiles and claps on according to medical the back today. They spent several minutes laughing and and wos remanded for
an interpreter, S
the Arab states and Israel, for mental observa, talking to each other partly in French and partly through:
LO.
Kit: possible for the British tion by Mr Tang
offer, with some hope that
At Central this
it can prove useful, of its Fools alias Pal. Fook, 39, babbled neke.
had to good offices to bring about and
bo
by the Magistrate nož
Previously they regarded each other with some aloof-
Last night's proposal by Mr Anthony Eden, the settlement in this powder to say anything that might be British Foreign Secretary, to keep four British divisions - ket area. It is too early to used in evidence later, when on the continent till the end of the century seems com.
judge the outcome, but the the charge of arson was read to pletely to have changed the picture. offer is very seriously made him. and will be very seriously considered that would have beon Impossible, a few years
* Inspector N. R. Reynolds Is in charge of the cast (See Back Fare For Full Btory
of Fire)
Ghosts Still Walk At Borley
Borley Rectory Britain's famous haunted house was destroyed by fire fifteen years ago. But the polter- the strange eario ""glowa”, the footsteps and; the kable outüne of the Blue Num
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Mr John Foster Dulles plans to leave London Saturday by air for Washington, American sources, said tonight, and informants said they expect the com
to end before he leaves-Reuter, United Press, ance. Presse, London Ex
(For summary of
ka see Back Page)
MR VYSHINSKY.
́U.N. Surprise
Soviet Move Against Nationalists
New York, Sept. 30,
· The 'Soviet Union/tonight: asked the Britted Nations to condemn alleged· "pira» ital nitacks by the Nation" slist Chinese on shipping“ in^ the, China-Ses."
Savlat delerate, Mr Andrel Y** Vyshimiky, calling for “hádijlen of a new, Item on 'stenda" charged the Nationalist Chinese with a
6 whone - gulit, must be shared with those who enegurage the Nationali
gation-th, the area. the China Bear "An explanatory: letter '16) (he Secretary-General: Mr Dag Hammarskjöeld⠀⠀ said. that in repente moniker Caon of piratical attack on merchant ships" OF VARIOUS countries in the Chiba, Bea
·and' of 'the'. Itzite of istich ...shipu, by Kuomintang.maval
vessels have multiplied ****
Mr. Vrahldsky cited" the.... seisure ** of *** the ** Soviet Tuapse by the Nationalisia on June 23, 1954 and charged that ac cording to information available, the members of the crew of this Soviet ship are being subjected to flagrant coercion,”
I
Another instancé of thesO. criminal activities was the 'seisure '*-* by: Kuomintang naval vemels of the Polish merchant ships, President sid on May 18, 1954,
*1955. A number of
- been ›piratiosă metal
Chiang Cried out by the Kai-shek forces against merchani vesela «of: Den Tukrk:- the United Kingdom and other sountriesdej
"Buchsellvilice are a gross violation of the uni vecially recognised prin- olple of freedom of nayiga tion on the high seas, and crime which the United Nations is in duty bound to condensa Instrong, forma." "United" "Press" and Reuter.
And Pracs on October
RED CHINA'S NATIONAL DAY
U.S. Navy Cancels All Shore
Leave In Hongkong
Move To Avoid Any Possible Incident
Bán Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs Says Russia
Vyshinsky Presents
Soviet
New
Disarmament Plan
New York, Sept. !
Mr Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet delegate, tonight presented to the United Nations General Assembly, a "new disarmament plan taking as · base" the proposals advanced last June by Britain and France.
The Sovich placi calind for the. At this stage of Mr Vyshin-|said in a statement: "The pro- unconditional prohibition of dey's proposal a permanent Apposals could not have been alomie, hydrogen and other ternational control would be es accompanied by a more unault-
MrVY weapons of mass destruction," a teblished, wie kontole Including apeochi was calculated to incresse /
which would "have able speech, "rubetantial reduction in done the pawer
* venilonal. armamenta...... and the Inspection on a permanent buis, rather than reduce tension establishment of international to
to the extent necessary to inauro was uncompromising Implementation the intplenientation of the above abusive. control ove of these decisions, using as a mentioned convention by - all
outlined
basis the
the
and the United "*" of France
Kingdom of
Vyshimky
plan at the end of a specch
"We" shall; however?coriàle ́his disarmament proposals
Bushinsky asked that the Jasting 'an, four-drid 40 minutes. Į plane arteri ku bitter attacle on
Nations Disarmament
Commission submit for the op- U.S. Reaction o proval of the Security Council
Mr Vyshinsky put forward his
plans to rearm »West: Germany, criticism of the Southeast Asian Treaty Organisation and the re fun to seat Communist China in the United Nations nam
Just Demand!
He said » Russia, woja „porn severo in Ita-démárid for ther
seating of Communter China In the organimation.
a draft olmed at accomplishing Mr Henry
enry Cabot Lodge the thoss objectives. Cafe United States delegate, declared The treaty, he said, must con- immediately after the Soviet tain the provision calling on proposal had been presented to states to reduce their military the Assembly, that it would re budgets within six months or a celve" our careful and earnest 50 per cent of agreed consideration that the year. Yume and for a reduction of hotme":
· Mr Lodge torsoted: Armaments "and" armed forces
proposal seems to denote some and military appropriations to thing of a change in the anti- be effected as from the levels of tide of the USSR toward two of December
1953. 31
“Udemand!! that "the International important principles which the just {{temporary);
the United
States has been trying. Chinese People's "Republier taka control commission would be for years to get the Soviet to its best established in the first place con funtier, Mr Vyshinsky's proposal. This Would "be "under" Securit Connell it power, mojice and nimed forcen word
states/
The Boylet Union: vinced, sald Mr Vyshinsky, that
in bey United Nelsonis astiglød and that, their.
teh upro first that nuclee || participation in the work of the
and conventional armi
related parts of shayt information om hemd must be alt
balanced fakstong
Messo
On the completion of thồ” Next perdent reduction then simultanemis-implementatión öf further measures would be call ed for.
Thme
would
any rato
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Include educ British-Fr tion?! within six months a year which include
of the remaining 60 per cent of portant pe
ithe
armaments, armed forces and mentioned, spid Mr. military expenditures, based
the
level of December 31, 1013 British Criticism complete prohibition of atomic
and hydrogen wezoons, a ben or Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, Beltäh the manufacturer and "elimina"". Minister of "State, coi tion" "cd_rúch weapons, from the on, the, 'disarmame armaments of member states. and speech of Mr
Rome's Montesi Scandal
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