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HAMMARSKJOLD LEAVES TOMORROW
Flying To Peking Via
London And New Delhi
TO CONFER WITH CHOU ON GAOLED AIRMEN IN JANUARY
United Nations, Dec. 29.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Dag Ham- marskjold, announced he will leave for Peking tomorrow to seck the release of 11 American airmen imprisoned as spies by Communist China. Mr Hammarskjold will leave New York's Idlewild International Airport accompanied by a party of six.
He will fly to London in a Constellation of the U.S. Military Air Но Transport Service and stay in the British capital until January 1. then will fly to New Delhi, India, in a British plane and proceed from there to China in a plane provided by the Indian Government.
Mr Hammarskjold will confer in New Delh! with the Indian Premier, Mr Jawaharlal Nehru. He will leave the Indian capital on January 3 or 4 to proceed. to Canton, China. From Canton, he will fly to Peking, possibly in a Chinese plane.
scheduled He was
10 confer Mc Hammarskjold was in- with the British Freign Seero- structed
becomes
Under-Secretary/ China
by
the
Solution To
The Population Problem?
Berkeley, California.
solution
Dec. 28.
I- to the
creasing world population might be found in trenilng It as if it were cancer, Dr Alan Grezz Vice-President of the Hookefeller Founda- tion, sald today.
In a report to the American Association for Advancement 01
the
Selence, he said that just
the
as malignant cells grew rapidly And sometimes spread all through the body,
the human specles had crown and spread through
He compared the colonisation of under- developed parta of the world to the spreading of cancer and the big appetite of exhoër celli to the grow. ing demands for humanity for foodReutor,
-by a different mer 28 KILLED
NO JOURNALISTS
IN BIG
P.I. STORM
politics in the 'post World War II era, That Premier is, of course, Pierre Mendes- France, whom even headline readers know as the remark- ably agile and irrepressible "Mr France". In a little more than six months In office he has to his credit not only the ending of the Indo-China war, but the preparation of a plan for granting a greater degree of self-government to Tunisia (a problem which defied solution by many of
route, his predecessors)
doubled that he General
would return by way of Moscow but said it comprehensive reform planary, Sir Anthony Eden during Assembly earlier this month to
his one-day stay in London. acek the relense the 11 AmeTI- was possible he might fly more for the French economy
Traveling with Mr Hammar can airmen and other captured directly across the Pacific to the designed to Increase skjold will be Professor Ahmed personnel of the U.N. Command United States. national productivity and S. Bokhart of
detained in Pakistan, who 11
Communist raine living standarda General of the U.N
11 New Mr Hammarskjold was ex- throughout the country. Year's Day. Also In the party pected to spend about a week in only UN. delegates in making will be Per Lind, of the execu- Poking during which time he his arrangements. Ho conferred
office of the
Manib, Dec. 29. Secretary will confer with the Chinese length last week with tho Swede; William Premier, Mr Chou
En-lat,
destructive The most Ambassador Henry Cabot U.S. scribed as a Radical and Ranallo, his American personal Since Mr Chou accepted Mr Lodge, Jr. and with other dele-storm to hit Visayas and
rare brand of radicalism | ald and chauffeur who served Hammarskjold's offer to visit It in, too. When ho decided | F a similar capacity for Trygve China on December 17, the time, but he had no direct con- Mindanao in the central and
with Washington.
southern Philippines this Lio when he was Secretary has been spent in making or- Mr Hammarskjold, said Just to stamp out alcoholism
General; Miss Anse Alm, his rangements for the trip, prepar week he would not take jour-year killed 28 people, he fearlessly braved the secretary; Professor Humphrey ing a schedule of transportation nalists with him. Ho said he cording to the latest reports
Waldock, Pr.tessor storm of
welcome from the stricken area last protests
of Interna and agreeing upon the staff to would be happy to from tional Law Ri Oxford Univer- go to Peking.
them in Peking but suggested night. the wino producers by sity und duslav Nystrom, of j U. N. sources said Mr Ham- they should, malso arrangements
"Drink Milk Stockholm, who will serve as marskjold might return to Now for such a frip directly with thefndured, the reports added.
Six people are missing and 70 campaigua all over the interpreter,
York-probably in mid-January Chinese Government..
of people. have left homeldet.
by Philipphics Service and the Red consulta Cross Chapters told of several towns being isolated by land- alldes,
destroyed roads and homes carried away by floods.
Rampaging loods in at least seven provinces caused damage to crops, properties and public
POLITICALLY be le don
General,
ik
launching
country. And Mr France is
no cheap hypocrite. He sips
rum himself but when VAST U.S. MILITARY
it
ገ
comos to liquid refresh- į ment he has a clear pre- ference for fresh milk. There is nothing phoney in his personality and as politician he has demon- strated such remarkable Ahrewdness and perspicacity: that he is certain to be ranked with the greatest of France's 20th century Pre
miers.
HE
E is the one person in the National Assembly today who understands and AL-
for the many shades of political feeling in France. He is a tiroican
worker
AID PLAN FOR ASIA
$1.120 Million For 6 Countries
Washington, Dec, 28.
The United States plans to make $1,120,000,000 worth of milltary aid available to Formosa, Japan, the Philippines, Indo-China, Thailand and Pakistan under an expanded Aslan defence programme for 1965.
Was
the defences of non-stres & W
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Mr Haminasskjold consuited
gai Professor Waldock
A United Nations spolcamhan
been chosen to accompany. Me Hammarskjold after
tiona with representatives of the British Government.
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Professor Waldock,
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ac-
the
H.E. The Governor presents Lady Lo with the M.B.E. (Civil) at the Government House Presentation of Insignias ceremony this morning."
Hongkong Residents Honoured
Government
At
House Presentation Ceremony
Thirty-six Hongkong residents, members of the Services and officials of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, received the insignia of decorations of awards conferred upon them by HM, the Queen in the Birthday Honours list for excellent work, devotion to duty and loyalty at an impres sive ceremony in the Ball Room at Government House this morning. The presentations which were | Dr A. Woo—O.B.E. (Civil)
made by H.E, 'the: Governor, Bir Alexander Grantham; GCMG, included the CBE OBE, MBE BEM (all Civil), MBE and BEM of
Dr Arthur Woo has been actively associated with many charitable and public services In Hongkong and has always for valuable services to
given his, wido' medical skill Colony,
and administrative experience Prominent among the local
to any worthy cise. residents decorated were Mr Reverend Brother L. M. B. 1, B. Trevor, General Manager
the
50, WES born in Ceylon. Ho has represented Britain in three
before the International worles estimated at US$1,500,000 or and Certificates Court of Justice and is at pre- The weather bureau last night sent British representative on located the storm, which had dis- Council of Europe. one of the Committees of the sipated into a
depression, about 400 miles west of Palawan Professor Waldock served on
Province, moving away from the the 1940
Council of Foreign country.-France-Presso. Ministers
Commission, for the free territory of Trieste.
He has been Professor of International Law at Oxford since 1947.
Mr
Public
Omelal sources said the Ad- Operations Administrator,
putting the Eisenhower and Mr John Foster ministration Anching touches to the foreign Dulles, the Secretary of State. military plans in which heavy Way's of distributing the
Professor Bokhari was until emphasis would be placed on growing flow of arms for
| September of this year Pakistan's tempts to make allowance | bolster Aslan nations.
bulwark against permanent delegate to Ühe expansion in Asia United Nations. He resigned that Defence Secretary, Mr Charles out at Southeast Asiary defence Secretary at the United Wilson, had reportedly agreed on pact in Bangkok in February in charge of the Department of
blue-print allocate 80 per
Under the 1955 military ald | Public Information, United cent of El foreign military aid to Asta in
programme Japan will be able Press and Reuter.. to draw on equipment for its the coming year.
new air, sea and ground self- defence forces.
and a master tactician and he has been blessed with a golden eloquence and a knife-edged realism which time and time again has converted amorphous feel-
Assembly: ing within the
а
Compensation For Loss
OF CPA Airliner
Peking Sends
President Eisenhower and the are among items to be thrashed post on being appointed Under-Cheque To U.K.
which
would
UPWARDS SWING
To Indo-China
London, Dec. 28. The Foreign Office today ·re- ceived from Communist Chins a cheque for £367,000 as com-
of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Cassian-O.B.E. who was awarded the CBE; Mr
Colonial
C. B. Burse. De arded the
Secretary, and Dr both of whom were
the Rev. Bro..
Woo
LMB
Osian, who received the OBE
public
(Honorary); and Lady Le, who was awarded the MBE (Civily for an
an outstanding record of service extending over many yearti
The citations accompanying the awards were read
by the Hon. the Acting Chief Justice, T. J. Gould, who was atured, in full bottomed wig and red
(Head Mr. L. Altres
by
Lady: Lo—M.B.E. (C{v{l)
Lady Lo has an outstanding record of public service ex- tending over many years. Having a high sense of duty, Lady Lo has freely given her time, energy and advice in the promotion. of numerque charides and Food causes.
norary Mr (Honorary)
W. G. FitzGibbon-
Reverend Brother. Cassian M.B.E. (Civil) has served in Hongkong for 31 years, and has done much to foster good relations with the Colony's administration. He
has
taken an active part in the Boy Scout movement and has also encouraged schools. and teachers totako an interest in the movement He
Is a popular member of thei community and most highly.
respected.
pensation for the shooting down gown. He was accom Bailiff, NITIS:
and Tholland King Peter Ends der off Hainan last June 33.
Divorce Move
PRE-OCCUPATION WITH ASIA The administration was said into a precise and prac- to be ready to ask Congress to
wai 440 aircraft, automatic tical decision. Like a harry-approve a total of $1,400,000,000
river craft, wenpons, armed for the entire programme, prob-coastal ing sheep dog
patrol vessels, COM- ably during January, perpetually driving bis
municallions, ertillery, ammuni The significant increase in orderless flock into line. In Asian defence spending was It-The trend of American mill-
tion, and minesweepers. presenting his policies hegarded as clear evidence of the
ho
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pre-occupation
Beeks, no self-advancement | United States swiftly growing but is genuinely concerned with the welfare of the teeing nation,
Asia.
Lary aid to Asia between. 1950
unal 1955 has been
steadily with guaran-
swinging upwards. The monthly government In average in stabla
1950 was less thati $10 million, whereas in the first To June this year, about 72 half of 1954 it was about $70 per cent of the total of $9,400,-
world-wide millon-Router, security programmes went to Europe with Asia and
WHETHER ho succeeds in 000,000 spent
getting the Assembly to mutual
100%
approve the Paris, treaties, the Pacific area receiving only
or not, he has, done more 17 per cent. The remaining 11
CHILDREN'S
than any French Premier per cent, went to the Middle LUCKY ESCAPE since the E.D.C. plan first East and Latin America.
came into being
to bring
FIXING A LEVEL
idea of a rearmed Germany privately today
+
his country to accept the Dofence officials here said FROM DEATH working in co-operation per cent share in 1966 oppro- IN AVALANCHE with Its Western European Priations would in all
act the foreign military addi
Last year.
that Asia's 00 probability
Stockholm, Dec. 28.
An avalanche swept down upón a group of 19.Danishı children and › their STOWN- leader today・・ in the up EnzashoergLIDS Mountains 60 miles west of Oestersund in Northern Sweden, bui all survived.
Only, two of the, children and the leader were caught, by the snowfall. If hurlow
passengers
den
Forces,
of a Cathay Pacific Airways
who was the Mace Bearer.
Scated In the frost Towa Теп
were killed were Lelde Grantham, H.E, the when the Hongkong airliner
British Commander, was shot down by Chinese Comm
New Hospid Mrs C.B. Sug- fighters. The
The Peking Govern
Han, R.B. Black and full responsibility Mrs Black, Mrs rent
accepted The compensation received Hon. Sir M.K, Lo, Commodore will be distributed among and A.H. Thorold, Alr. Contohrd femules of the violims and and Mrs R.C.: Field, the
the wounded and in- among cludee Indemnity to the airline for the loss of its plane; France-Presse,
Hawking,
the
B.C.K.
Mr. C.B. Burges Col H.B.L. Dowbig- gio, Mr P.H. Jennings, Mr 1.B. Trevor, Prof. Gordon Klbg, Dr Arthur Woo
AndMr Henry
Ching.
The following is the list of
Dutch Mission Get citations at today's ceremony of
Peking Orders
London, Dec. 28.
Boveral contracts have been
presentatioff of fnzigala at Ġov- ernment House
Mr I. B. Trevor, M.C
signed between export corpora C.B.E. (Civil)', tions in China 'and 'a' group- of
| visiting⋅ Dutch busy and T
rezulis!
fol-
"satisfactory the Commu lowed their nist
dat: New China News
Agency.
20 today. Th
majority
Dutch of: the Cstand, Switzerland, Dec. 28.
group left Peking today after, Former, King: Pelee: of Yugo pay of 18 days. A few members slavia announced today he and are staying behind for ‹ further
¡ his, estranged ex-Queen' resobed by
neighbours. Observers say spending pattern for several ho may auecodd but future years, barring wat. the Deputies are ganging The suggested 1885 total of upon him to overthrow $1,400 million would be about his Government early in 180 million does then President the New Year. No politielabenhower asked Congress for can expect gratitude for But the decrease in the re any great achievement quoted appropriation åld not he may make during his necessarily mooh a slackening in torm of office. Churchill the flow of foreign military aid, found that out at the end a Deferico Department official of World War II: Pierre unsod, stubbented them to re buried in Valley, used by
okrry-over funds-from previous They were buried in the mow
rambling
their
a reconciliation during
art
Mr Trevor, first appointed | in ¡1024, 'Bas been · Gerveraj Manager, Kowloon – Canton Railway since 1946, and has done excellrot work in 'mena- ging the British section of the Kowloon (2#
Canton Railway which a few years" "ogo was 180 second 'tho
budest of all BM- ish Cokelat rallway systems. Ho has; consistently *** striven ffor, the welfare of officers in hir department, 2 man ska
antoanent, bởi thờ holiday in Swimurinnd.
business men and the Chirm "Queen" "Alexanden“ und 1 Ans National Import: :and | Export tend to continue to live our lives Corporation under whose pogether
munnouncmement | alaptons the negotiations took the ex-King's: Pren quidd-chun, both countries | Mes C. B. Burgess...OBÉ.
products of tha] (Civil) NiWe, imve given
ing the annot
Aldo
Mendes-France doesn't expropriations.
but cacapod with fracturod legr pedt gratitude either, but à funther funds had
While two children on already he deserve the thanks, of beens earmarked “ forsending side set off to the nearest village order to halt div the Fine World (for his arma to Korea and Germany. toy get help, the other
the
ECONOMIC AID Badge managed to dig out
PALLI2Mtd FunnelsaESANCTAm military aid plen Loe
Aša") and the two burled SUNctober.?
Handbel
jap: of. 10 years
tomme to bring about will be in addition to the big A helicopter - airlifted do unity and for new ocupoule sealstance pro-three canaltidn
PRO care trades, discussided by Me where they received bilen by
Fares Bar, dekhelf Forses, treatment/United. Prekið.
dpacity.
Mr Fitz-Gibbon, Assistant Registrar, has shown “obility of the highest "order during hia 41 years of “servicol. In recent years, as Chairman' the Special Survey Board,; clid excellent work straightening out stores afte the liberation.
(Contd. on back page, Col. 3)
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