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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
HK Theatre
It too much to ask ten- dollars for a theatre seat in Hongkong? This quon tion was raised last week when a reader complained about high charges for
a with
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CHINA
No. 35944
MONDAY,
Price 20
MOVE TO END BIG DOCK STRIKE New Hitch
Union Leaders To Make Back
London Newspapers
Close Down
London, Oct. 11.
"stalls" seats for the now Hongkong Stage Club pro- duction. The letter suggest. ed that by increasing its admission charges the Stage Club would loet public
and support
the author said: "Surely this (the ten dollar seats) is asking too much when
A spokesman of the Bri- comparison is made London prices for star-tish Newspaper Proprietors studded casts." Quito apart Association said at 0100 from the fact that Stalls GMT today all the London sosts at a West End play offices of the British na- are at least twice as dear tional newspapers n. the most expensive closed down for the night theatre seat in Hongkong following a printing dispute It is impossible to make a
at the Daily Sketch. comparison between
pro- fessional and amatour theatre groups in this way. Admittedly both havo to budget for a production in A similar
manner. There
had
The N.P.A spokesman added that several thousand men were affected by the close down.
To Work" Appeal Today
GOVT. THREAT TO USE TROOPS
London, Oct, 10.2
Officials of the mammoth Transport and General Workers Union said today they would issue "back to work” appeals to London's 21,000 striking dockers tomorrow in an effort to stave off drastic Government measures to get the world's largest port' working with the help of troops.
The decision to take the appeal to mass meetings at dock gates along the sprawling 49 miles of waterfront came as the Minister of Labour, Sir Walter Monckton, reported on the labour situation to the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.
Sir Walter has said he will wait for the result of 'dockers' union meetings during the week before taking any action but transport union official feared troops would be called in to handle the cargoes of the 112 idle ships unless there is a general return to work.
More than 6,000 ship repair, It was the first major shut workers were
out with the down in Fleet Street, London's dockers tonight in four separate newspaperland, for many years, strikes and several hundred meat The dispute dates back to cold storage employees said they 1958
Associated the
to would refuse Newspapers took over the Daily tomorrow Sketch from Kemsley News-sympathy". papers,
when
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the
small
of
More than 100 ships are idle, Meanwhile, a new threat to the docks arose with the report and the strikers' leaders have Watermen, sold that the stoppage will be that Lightermeni, Tugmen and Barge one of the most biter in dock- men's Union executive is meet- Innd's turbulent history.
·In warehouses
ses and along miles resizme working tomorrow to consider join
gesture of ing the walkout.
quay Foods are plled up. Much
part of Britain's vital export drive,
Union!
the leaders
have warned the that
the strike will to every port in the
it. the Milister of Country Labour, Sir Walter Monckton, does not call both sides, together for talks-United Press Reuter
Oficial at the Transport which Workers Union, from The stoppage occurred despite 12,000 members joined the 7,000 an appeal by the Minister of from the breakaway, National
and Labour, Sir Walter Monckton, Amalgamated Stevedores after a meeting at the Ministry Dockers Union against orders.
of the between representatives
be extended it. troops newspaper proprietors and the wouessed fears that the strike were ordered in. They went to before such get the men back action is ordered.
are certain expenses which are common to both groups but in the case of amateur | groups there are certain Anancial limitations which make it absolutely essential to budget far more strictly .than a professional com-
pany.
afford It connot Invish expense and it can. not afford to take risks. It has to recoup its expenses A very limited season, based usually
A Ministry of Labour on average affondances ut previous ment said: "The dispute hal productions. Only rarely is arisen, between unions and the the machine It able to extend per
minding of presses used for formances beyond a certain
the Dally printing,
Sketch."- date.
Reuter
jn
IN small amatour groups there are usually two big
unions involved.
miragement' over
state-
Ex-Rumanian Minister Gets Life Sentence
Paris, Oct. 10. Former Rumanian Fin- ance Minister Vaalll Luca has been sentenced to life Fist efforts will be directed
Imprisonment at hard labour on charges of
acid- at the permanent dock workers.
villes designed who joined in the strike when
Rumanian Lascar semners were ordered to
Organise the or the liner handle
cootiomy and to sabotage Chusan
400 of the
development 3,000 permanent workers, re- turned yesterday when en-
problems to be solved bofors WARM WEATHER ploy pereed not to use ship's
́embarking on - any - prúduc»,
tlon-two problems which hardly arise in the case of a large professional company. They are royalties which for a successful play pro- duced recently in the West End or Broadway can bo very expensive and the hire of a loga) hall or. cinema for the pro- duction. In the present case, the Stage Club has had to increase admission charges because of increased rental for the theatro at the Fleet Club. It in naturally an unpopular and reluctant decision to pass on extra charges to the publle for it can affect attendance. But if an amateur theatre has a duty to sorve the best possible plays to its public
RETURNING
The sudden cool weather the Colony is experiencing at the moment has been caused by the outbreak of cold air from the Continent.
But
you summer lovers have nothing to fear as this cool weather is `expected to, warm up slowly in the next two days.
cows to handirik-bound cargo. It was hoped the other 2,600 would return tomorrow afternoon, deputeteve MEETING
"HALL",
ALP Hansport union hopes to
THO persuade the main body of strikers to go back at a meeting to be held at the Royal Albert Hall on Waineway. The Na Horal Amalgamated Stevedores "and Dockers Union's 7,000 meu
are on an "official" walkout.
the
and
Punishment |
Drill For Duke Of Kent
Iver, Buckinghamshiag
The Duke of Kent, sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to Elizabeth's youn soldier
aprisonment,cousin, spent par agency sald
19th birthday yesterday on Three other persons: Wero
punishment drill. sentenced" with "Luen in 'm trialTM before
a military panel of The · Hunaiskati Supreme
Court France, Presse.
LEAVE CHINA'S U.N.O. SEAT
EMPTY
SHAW CROSS
New York, Oct 10.
Sir Hartley Shawcross; former Labour Attorney-General in Bri- possible, there is every just-tain, said today that while People's China should not be seated immediate
in the most attractive form
fication for asking the ly in the United Nations, the seat should be vacated.
public to pay a reasonable
price. The local groups have given us a number of productions fresh from Broadway and the West End in a wide range of drama And their In recent years.
for admission can charges only, bo described
moderate.
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Narriman
be
"Our view should be that West's policy must not while Communist China cannot aggressive, it should encourage expect to be sealed whilst she conditions in which the Com engages in warilke motivities, we munist. countries are not forced should leave no doubt that if she into the closest alliance with peace, her right to be seated will be recognised," he said in an address to the Harvard Club,
"For my own part. I would have thought that in the mean time, it would be-more realistic
plays her part in contributing to each other."Reuter. Walks Out On
Husband No2
Cairo, Oct. 10,
the amateur theatro Ex-Queen Narriman left her and less provocative to leave the
Alexandria home, and went to Chinese seat empty than to have her mother's home In Hello- it occupied by those who have polls, after a quarrel with her not and are not likely to have. husband, Dr Adham El Nakib, a any effective government ever friend of the family said to Chinava" EMERA
groups here are to remain something more than just village dramatic societies, und if they continue to full a very definito, cul- tural need in this Colony night, It is rather mean and niggardly to complain about high charges. This is not yassLondon and the local casts may not be "star-studded," But plays are expensive to produce anywhere and the tandard of theatre in Hongkong is well-worth en- couraging. We can, . of. opurse, allow the present groups to degenerate to the Tybl of "amatour drama- which would limit heir appeal considerably deprive Hongkong of Hous theatro altogether. unfortunato that, so Any Min Hongkong" are [Shetic, about local produc- It rather fignatar that ake the ursolblshy view, that:
K*QUEEN HARRIMAN
The
(ex-Queen's mother, Medame Assila Hapem, told re- ters it was the evil eye" of lous people which led to tha
The said the quarral soon be patched up and nan would go home to har
rear-old
NOR DOES ANYBODY
New Peking Manoeuvre
On Formosa
The
TODAY'S RACING
SELECTIONS
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Icefield
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RACE 3
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Kneck-Again
Outsider: Emerald.
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Some Again Fighting Spirit. Diamond Queen.
Outsider: Avoca,
RACE 5
John Halifax Giddup
·Adorable Ada ›
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RACE 6
Strathpeffer
Peony
Wild Cat
Outsider:Crown Wliness.
RACE 7
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Easy-Going
Outsider:—Acroplane,
RAGE 8
Gay Prince
Forward View
High Speed
Outsider:--Bright Bay.
Ironside
First Lady
RACE 9
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"Outsider:-Harvest Moon:"
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Atomio Casi
By The Turf"
RACE J
Charleral Hiram C Prince Dahlia
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RACE 2
Rainbow Strathian
In Suez Canal Pact
• Cairo, Oct. 10, The British Foreign Under - Secretary, Mr Anthony Nutting, left by air tonight for consuliations In London on a- now "hitch preventing final settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian dis pute over the Suez Canal
EONG.
He refused to make a state- iment of the 'hitch, '' which
| developed "yesterday- `nt - talks.
and” between Mr. Nulting, Lleubénant-Colonel Gamal Abdel
Outsider L'Are Triomphe, Nasser, Egyptian Prime Minister,
Clonfeckle
RACE 3.
Beautiful Lig
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Ping. On
Crackerjack
Outaider-Knook-Again. RACE 4 Fighting Spirit 1. Ginger
Santa Claus
Outsider:-Same Again, RACE-5
Mineola Seafre World Peace
Outalder: Adorable Ada,
RACE 6
1 Fortuna -
Crown Witness 'Strathpeffer
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MRRACE 7
Attractive Power Calamity
May Blossom
Outsider-Jelfield,
RACE 8
Gay Prince..
Tom Thumb: Air Power
Outsider: High Spee
"RACE.
First Lady
Evening Viow' Dashing Beauty II
Outsider, Queenpots.
Corset
Atomic Caesar
BOXING LESSONS FOR
PRINCE CHARLES?
London, Oct. 10,3
Prince Charles came home from holiday today to a London that was buzzing with reports that he would soon be mixing it with boys of his own age in the boxing ring. The heir to the Throne will be six next month,
↑ Sunday andwapáper · Car- toonists and a field day, with 'the''; Iden.":"The. Sunday Pictorial pictured the boxing * promoter,. "Jack Bolonione, waying over the telephone: *A contract for which *. Charles" Estará or. Prines?" * The Hunday Graphic car
toonist sketched a small boy - explaining a black eye to his : mother: ""Kf you must know,
<I^rol'1÷by Rojal Appolat="
- The Bunday: Chronicle cartoonist had ons ・ police- man.cautioning snother against interfering w‚zizon) fighs: between two bowyn Kis front of Buckingham Palace: "Eetter: Nee, who they are Bratis
bobby
War Office said the Duke, son of the Duchons of Kont, was given the
He and 150 Lother onicar cadets; spent half Hour... crunching up. and
parade
"the ground,
at
Band- Military Academy
fa minor offenent to Righ
Paris, Oct. 10, down the
He said he was not advocating The Premiler and Foreign Royal Military
the handing over of Farinai to Minister of Communist anybodybutthers
the
givenām!
Communist - China "nor' does China, Mr. Chou Eand cane to him;
4.
great danger in the present cabled the United Nationa
home here. Later he
alluation and it could not go on accusing the United States and his mother and his sister, indeinitaly.
London theatre. Chipa Mall Hartley said he thought the farmed aggression Frincess Alexandre, went to th Communists states who are against China's territory of pal
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allow-
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Mr Butter' said mothing- had bear sotilad but 18 wilk #JI right with him,
The London Daily Mirror asid letters Proen Its renderá favoured boxing". 16g"" :sons for the Prince by-nine
to one United Press,
We're all
CADBURYS
Mr Nutting was heen off by the British Minister, Mr Ralph Murray, and General E. R. Benson, Chiet-of-Staff, Midano: East Land Forces, and military adviser in the talks with Egypt.
Mr. Nutting flow hero on September 28 to speed up the 'negotiations on an "agreement for the British evacuation of tho
Canal Zone, which was expected to ave been aloned In coming week;
NOT SERIOUS.
Colonel Nastor, who lunched. with Mr Nutting « earlier today," told reporters: There are some obstacles in the way of the Canal: sotilement, "but they are not, cerlous".
Ho did not think Mr Nutting would return to Cairo. Vien
A British Embasży spokesman mid:"--"We are within a short distance from the point where everything "falls into place. financy: and the future organisa- tibh of the Canal:: base. Thawo two questions are inter-related.”
wources said would also have talks in London, with Letirezentatives" of contractors who will work in the Canal base after the arréement
Mr
French MRP View Of London Pact
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The National Council.ptthe Popular Republican Party pass- ed ́a resolution. né' a' meeting to day, doclaring that the Londo agreements in their
pensable conditions for their
place
This strongly indi
Party deputies: would:
·vote
| against the Government, though” the resolution gave no clear,
| ruling" on "" what attitude, - they
would adopt.
A AN
Instead, it loft it to critles and the Party Executive. Committes to draw the consequences the resolutions
United Press said that French | sources. Interpraded, the res
tion to mean that Repubiles deputies" could vote, desi, thé like—Reuta and United Pres.
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