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GILMANS GLOUCESTER ARCADE
COMMENT OF THE DAY
China Trade
OUND by restrictions,
Burung by regula-
tjona, prohibitions, ombargoes and restraints of many kinda, Hongkong businessmen could bo for- given for succumbing to long-term pessimism, for feeling that the unequni struggle of trying to main- tain trade with China was But not worth continuing.
the remarkable fact is that vicissitudes despite these
the feeling is rather one of thut roatrained optimism
the restrictions will not much longer. Last week a Cabine, Minister and a Labour MP emphasised the peraceuted mate of the foreign trader and manufacturer in the China area; in the case of
remain in force
CHINA
No. 35956
Established 1845
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1954.
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URGENT BIG 3 TALKS ON VIETNAM
Western Ministers Hold
2-hour Talks On
Political Crisis
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Paris, Oct. 24..
The Big Three Foreign Ministers held an urgent two-hour conference on the worsening poli- tical crisis in Vietnam today, it was reliably learned.
After placing their signatures on the treaty inviting West Germany to enter the North Atlan- tic Alliance, Mr John Foster Dulles, Sir Anthony Eden and M. Pierre Mendes-France went to the on the mainland, to be bled U.S. Embassy for talks on Southern Vietnam. slowly to death by the grasping. predatory
foreign brms still operating
tax
U.S.
masters of Communist 250 Dockers for, now in ligne Antout o
the merchant, to be cun- fined to trading within the
narrow limits of a hopless
ly outdated embargo on the export of strategic goods. As if the embargo were not enough, the trader is caught In the middle of an economle boycott of the China main-
Return
Work 1
To
Mr Harold Stasson, Foreign Operations Administra-
FOA establishments in Europe, Joined the Foreign Ministers,
The Ministers were reported to be deeply concerned over re-
full ports from Saigon, where a long-
-
drawn-out government crisis hos so workened the Government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem that it has been unable to combat Com- munist propaganda.
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It was a high-level review at Libe Franco-American Indo- Chinese talks fecently held in Washingtoh. France had asked the United States for $28,000,000 of military aid for her Army in Indo-China, It was learned, and the United States has not yet agreed,
· U.8,- CONDITIONS
BEA Viscount Makes
Crashlanding
Rome, Oct. 24.
Thirty-three passengers and four members of the
· crow (escaped injury to- night when * British European Airways Viscount plans damaged two engines while. crashlanding .at Home airport.
The turbo-prop plane, bound for Istanbul from London, orashed affor otreling for two hours to usó up the fact
It had left Clampino airport for Aiheng when the pilot, Captain Wilson, Aiscovered the undercarri- Age would not retract and naked permission to mako an' emergency landing. <^-- All aboard received" only a shaking though the air- craft was seriously dams azel-Keuter.
Fierce Gales
Sweep British Isles
Portugal's Warning Trixie R.N. Arrives Home
Of Dangerous Situation In India
· Paris, Oct. 24.
The Foreign Minister of Portugal, Senhor Paulo Cunha, said today that Indian pressure on Portuguese enclaves in India were causing a per- manent state of tension and “maintaining a dan gerous situation” for the peace of Asia.
He paid some of the territories were now sub- jected to virtual occupation by armed bands backed. by India.
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He said that India. having of immediate discusion of their falled in its immediate objec- dispute. Despite this, he added, tives toward Portuguese Goa, Portugal-maintained its offer to was now concentrating on the negotiate a reasonable and Just Isolation of. Dadra and Nagar solution to problems · arising Avell. The two communiles from the proximity of their have been virtually cut off from territories. outside.contact with Portuguese authorities and virtually cupied by armed terrorist bands, Senhor Cunha.gold.
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India had refused to authorise the passage of Portuguese police reinforcements to the territories In the State of Bombay and even declined to allow a civilian mission through to establish contact with the enclaves,
Senhor Cunha rald Inda alo ignored a Portuguese proposal to allow a neutral mission to enter the enclaves.
SUPPORT FOR PORTUGAL.
Senhor Cunha, who com ferred with the Foreign Minis- ters of the North. Atlantic Treaty Organisation during his stay in Paris said he would return to Lisbon with the con- viction thats world pubille opinion supported Portgual in her struggle for the integrity of her possessions on the Indian aub-continent.
Senhor Cunha made it clear during the interview that, while This a de facto occupation Portugal earnestly strove for and usurpation by bands who good, relations with the Indian have forced their way in and Union, the question, of Boyet have the backing of the Indian eignty over the territories
WAS authorities," said Senhor Cunha."not a matter for discussion," "All this is in contradiction with HA
permanent state of tension London, Oct. 24.the fundamental principles of is being kept up against these
there Fleres gales and torren-interpational Jaw
hes > World public
Wearing her specially made red jacket with Körts and United Nations, medala la. Trizio 1,N,, who was aboard the Belfish destroyer H:M.8. Constance, which arrived beme affer, eight years”, „foreign service, Marble" wandinasi, aboard, the
• Temel as a massestia stray, siarving puppy in Japan two years ngo, A collection, among the crew, produced, mere, than falas. ¡ts £38 neoded, to pay for her de
tin, Tykake's shipmater will wish hir'in fùrn Forgan, Long An
The two sidor se ogrodd that tia overnight rain brought so con Dr. Adenauer To Murderer Sang
nga_might
Visit US.
His Confession
London, Oct. 25. land, part of a policy of Two hundred and fifty complete ostracism of the dockers in Hull last night Peking regime by the United agreed to go back to work States Government. Because today to unload three grain Hongkong is suspected and
skips. mistrusted, because About 2,488 men are still on America's isolation of China strike In Hall. must be so complete, a form
Apart from this there was no of embargo has been placed change in the strike altuation. on trade with Hongkong as Last night the Transport and
General Workers Union- well, and our import and ex- Git
Britain's
largest union-appealed port trade with America in
to the country's strikers recent years has fallen to return to work. The appeal away appreciably. Washing contained in a resolution passed a stable South Vietnam govern foods to many villages and ton has even gone further by the union's executive Com- thru this.
of all ment, representativý mittee at a meeting this morn-
peared for the moment to have without should aialer, alert: dubbed the WHEN Mr Harold Wilson Ing. the strike, now en-sectors of publie opinion, trust towns in England and Wales Although India's attention ap-ti shifted from Goa after the ha
happen. We have victims of
Bonh, Oct. 24.", accused her last week of tering its fourth week, as un- be established if the Southern today.
The Federal Chancellor. Dr. fallure of Indian policy there aggression in the classic form of part of the 'country is to be saved]*! Justliable and deplorable.
London Had half an inch of this summer, Senhor Cunha alack by armed bands,
Konrad Adenauer will take off exercising "panoply of
The Transport and General from Communism.
rain during the night,
continued, the enclave was still The unshakeable determina- this moming on his visit to the economic warfare controls'
Workers Union has disapproved The United States will insist against a number of Hong the strike since it started three before giving. further aid, that
Mountainous districts in Wales practically cut off from the tion of the Portuguese govern- United States and will stop for
hinterland and
and all supplies must ment for total
defence ond five hours in Reykjavik on an kong Arma (which are weeks ago yesterday. Although effceive steps be taken to. in were the worst hit areas. Forty-
vigorous
*Jackson, Tennture, Odf, 24, reaction from our official visit to the Government trading with the mainland a majority of the dockers belong creaza political stability in eight hours of continuous rain be brought in from the sea?
Aman He sa
said diplomatic exchanges nation, has not
confessed to the unnoticed. of Toeland,'". It gone
was announced with the
the to it and have spurned its direc
uurder of his married -gif support of
Salgon, it
caused a landslide on the main pa said. was
near with India had not yet produced The world, however, continuta bere tonight, British Government),
the
Toad, helves,
smaller stevedores
friend and then sang majurn full Mr
as FOA London--Holyhead Stassen who,
was to be confronted by the threat Dr Adenauer will travel with to: police to the strains of was assured of echoes of ap- union has supported the strike.
"ready to search for A from proval and agreement
BARRETT'S WARNING
expenditure in foreign countries, boulders fell from the hilltops.
lory solution Mr Earlier
Dick Barrett, in the Colony. He many
was called in to discuss Branch: would
strong havo done
Secretary of the 7,000 Д 115
espects, a source said.—United Steve-
Press; greater service by avoiding National Amalgamated
and Dockers Union sensational and extravagant dores
recognised (though not entirely untrue) which has officially
concerning the ac- the strike-declared: "We shall charges tivities of the U.S. Consulate fight on to the finish." Here. It was his reference 10 Mr Barrett said the strikers "hordes"
consular officials were the spearhead of the sent to Hongkong "lo spy" of working class movement. They Communist મ brought British trade that
were not part of prompt denial
from Sir plot. He added that if the La- Alexander Grantham. But bour Party wanted to be re
A
America's
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To Police
ichtet is charged with U.S. Carnarvon Hundreds of tone of ; any results' but Portugal; Man of a potential clash in the Fay Bow`of his closet assistantą į hillbilly ballad how she
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mcans,"
Dynamite may be needed to international in all available | East as a result of the pressure and is expected to. réach | treated the guy who played
The probitum remains un-there-United Press territories Washington on Wednesday morn gamot of life fair,
waid today
clear the blocked road, al
ROADS FLOODED
·
In Cumberland, many village 15 Injured By Bomb roads were flooded.
sald Senhor Cunha. resolved
has "International law
been violated and these violations have not yet been remedied But there is a fundamental-neod reas to find a remedy for such a ituation where the Indian Union has taken a position in complete contradiction to the principles of International polley which it pronou
the world every enhor Cunha said the Indian Government had persistently cold-shouldered Portugal's offer
Today, Rabat, Oct. 24.
gale-lashed Titleen people were injured pounded the Sussex coast. one of them seriously-when a
In Sussex o high wind blew home-made bomb was thrown, today at a
group of Moroccana 10-ton British Army lorry off in the road as it was climbing a dancers near, a race track the Rabat area, A grocer. dis- steep hill near here today.. of the covered
under another bomb
It dropped 18 feet into his store counter in the same sand quarry landing upside vicinityFrance-Presse.
down and Injuring its two occupants-China Mall Special.
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to
One Killed, 20 Injured
Crack Express Train
In Head-on Crash
New York, Oct. 24
fair," authorities
Jimmy Sloan, 48, † a former hall proprietor, admitted Mas Gracie Stoward, 43; mother of two grown-up sons, outside
a cafe in Jackson yester-
then
that
woman moro ho told Police, spent more than $4,000 on het and I always treated her right. 1 did it much. 1'31 probably get the electric
T∙ had to."
but I can't help it.:
Later Bloan added to his con- The Montreal to New York passenger train Laurent-fession thems lyrics of 4 külbilly tian smashed head-on into a freight train on a stretch of ballad: -"I loved you, darling, single, track along the shores of Lake Champlain today's played the game of lite fair.
but'you' inlätreated 'thoʻguy who
SHIP DISABLED IN HEAVY SEAS ing one person and injuring 20 others,
London, Oct. 25. Messages received by Lloyds Shipping Agency early today told of the fight to save the 340-ton 'German 'ship, Klaus Wilhelm, disabled in heavy weather in the North Sea.
the fact that the Americans tuned to Westminster as a possess apparently complete, Government, they should come accurate and up-to-date details out openly in support, of the activities of Hongkong dockers. businessmen suggests
Mr Barrett nuded: "This will that they have been fairly thorough in not end as easily na everyone their inquiries, The word, thinks. "rpying however,
The milwaymen will be on SURE esta
will be that the Americans used under-the move, the miners
The south-bouña "train strücke. hand and dishonest methods to coming to support you and,
the 30 car" "north-bound freight gather their information which before long, if they bring the
near Port Henry, tearing up 200 Le not true. But Mr Wilson's troops which will be a very comments
foot of truck, and hurling-cars stupid thing-frey will show
crazily over
ver the tracks. attempted coercion of British once and for all how they are firms cannot be denied, Firms going to get your nose to the they .org
Witnemas sald; the freight carn have been designated, their grindstone, and how
The Coast Guard cutter Chero-splintered into matchsticks in U.S.A
felghter. Santa have been soing to make you compete with
The ship reported last night The Italian your German friends and the blocked and the U.S. authori-Japanese workers."-Reuter & that her engine had falled near Elisabetta went aground on the kee and a patrol boat were and throw their loads over the ties have attempted to apply Franco-Presse..
the ship wash sunds off Orford Virginia Copes yesterday as it ordered to stand by to, gaslat the wreckage. economic
The Laurentian's'engine: and Ness, in Suffolk, eastern Eng sailed for the port of Baltimore, tugs, pressures
land.
· Norfolk officials said the com
The Santa Elisabetta, was mercial tug Brand, was sent to
in 1943 by the Now several cas tumbled into the Lloyds stated that the 1,573- the scene, about seven miles east England Ship Building Corpora-wamp lying on both sides of the ton tanker, British Scout, had of Cape Charles lighthouse, at ion in Portland, Maine, It sells track. Most of the pastonger reached the ship, but the
on the way to Moses Ludington noon. Another tug loft-New under the Italian flag from were unhurt. A brakeman dindi weather was too bad to take York for the grounded. vessel. Genoa- United Prew,
Hospital, her in low.
The
ship. 419-ton British
from Durward, was 10 miles the Klaus Wilhelm and steam
funds
against
them. And the only sin that
they committed in the Ameri can eyes was to trade with Communist
the
Ching,
legitimacy of that trade being entirely Irrelevant. WASHINGTON'S denials are
not convincing. One spokes man said Consular official
made friendly may have
approaches to local business.
men to explain the operation
Top Mau Mau Leader Captured
Nairobi, Oct. 24. Ing to her. assistance.
Belgian shing boat had Mau Mau terrorist got longside the German ship, they affected their business leader, self-styled Field Lloyds said Reuter.
of American laws, and how
['ray".
be true in
somTME
cap bis certainly not in all
In some instances, not only
rahal Kaleba, was cap. red this morning" hiding
hare Arme been designed in a cave on the south-west
without any reasons being for this action but in
lopes of Mount Kenya,
Kaleba, who is half Kikuyu azd, holt Somali, has been, a top fighting Geburns of the Mau Mau srorist organimation in recent
ode of the chi of the notoriou
comth
Russia's One New Proposal
Mercy Ship Picks Up Sick Fisherman
London, Oct. 24.
The Bocidest occurred on “a single "truck' running along the Jake: The police believe a jammed |switch was responsible for - the!
two traine
on the sama track.
Ambulances and are trucks from nearby towns Ticonderoga. krea rished to the
open
The British ship › Pincher walled from the Faroe Islands today carrying a sick British fisherman to Scot the a tracks, bu Land for medical attention, it was announced tonight.**
A Royal Air Force Bunder. | Find fying boat crushed “yesber day killing four of lis www in attempt to land, on Traungr Flori tek take the fish
the Hu
The dead man wue Sergeant Davies, only one of the four dead, to be found The
Communi
Leader Dead
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