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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Squatter Fires
Na little over a month there
Inable over a month
squatter firea. About 1,200 huts have gone up in smoke and about 9,000 people have been made homeless. In- dividually the firea were comparatively small
onex
but, as the figures show,
their total destruction over in period was about equal to that caused by E major blaze. Granted six fires in 40 days is an abnormally high figure. But the im- mediate cause of concern is; are those fires going to con. tinue at the same rate in the New Year? If so Hongkong le going to have a nignt- mare problem on its hands for. naturally, the building
of new housing for the victims cannot possibly keep pace with the fires and the Colony will simply have an ever-growing population of literally homeless people on its hands, destitute, hungry, miserable and in many cases anemployed. The beggar population appears to be growing larger every week and that's only natural for if the squatior fires destroy the homes they also destroy many "cottage Industries" which have grown in thene areas.
victims
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No. 36012
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1954.
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CRUCIAL VOTE POSTPONED AGAIN!
But Tragedy Followed
By A New Triumph
MR FRANCE WINS ANOTHER
CONFIDENCE MOTION
Paris, Dec. 30.
The French National Assembly last night put off until this after- noon its crucial vote on West German rearmament, but it gave the Go ern- ment a vote of confidence, by 287 to 256, on a treaty admitting the Germans to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
The Premier, M. Pierre Mendes-France, will have to wait until 4 p.m. GMT today for the key vote on which he has staked the life of his Government.
A last-minute procedural snag wrecked his hopes of getting the treaty through last night after an 11-day debate, when the Deputies seemed within a hair's breadth of taking a vote.
On the proposal of the Speaker, the Assembly accepted the ruling of the Steering Committee that the bill having been changed by the withdrawal of one of its clauses, a further 24 hours was necessary before the vote of confidence on the amended bill could properly be taken.
newn
vulska
t
the frustrated Premier
He mid he What
con- was now
The full text of the Deputies* the Assembly A number of motion tabled in
tonight reads:
and
arut
of
When the assembly committee, favourable voto up ruled
that the vote would be fideully expected. A postponed Communist deputies deputies from all groups, except little over a month ago in rushed
"At the end of the debate, the the
the Communists, tabled a motion
of which has posed this column we deplored the C.mmunist demonstrators, who to be adopted after the two con- object cynical thinking of many gleefully sang the "Marseillaise," ndence votes connected with the grave problems of conscience to
Paris
patriots, the National agreements have been French people In Hongkong who France's national anthem.
Assembly desires to reaffirm its believe that the aistribution Inside the inmediate vote an
passed later tonight.
indissoluble attachment to the Indivisible fundamental of ald and comforts to the the NATO tread to ser
This mollon is a general re- (bedding, free wanted the
affirmation of the National As- principles of French policy be
by meals, etc.) only encourages France was at least preringsembly "indissoluble attachment attachment which
any the fundamental and in- called into question to arson. We still deplore that forward with the question of divisible
principles of French differences about the methods of belief-although it Js he Paris agreements,
policy-maintenance of Atlantic application of this policy: becoming more prevalent The Assembly gave him the solidarity.
reinforcement of
maintenance (1) Tho the majority every week-because if we vole though
in European cohesion and untiring the solidarity of the members resorted to that kind of favour of the Government was search for
of the Atlantic Community, action it would amount to maller than when the same standing."
basis of their recurity; question
voled on Inst prejudging the cause
of Monday.
I got a majority of every fire which would be 38 then compared to 31 last grossly presumptuous and, night. French Parliamentary even If wide-scale arson procedure called for
a second could be proved it would | vole, still constitute a discrimination against the The vote today is the key majority of innocent suffer.one. It is on the Paris treaty the bringing West Germany into the But
European Western proposed
ers.
flagrant
WES
KEY VOTE
certainly abnormally high figure of nion and putting half a million six fires in 40 days suggests troops Into Western defence. that the recent conflagra- The Assembly rejected this tions were a little more than treaty by 280 votes to 259 la a Christmas a coincidence and it would pre-dawn hardly be presumptuous to eve. M. Mendes-France put it conclude that they
to
on
vole
back
the Deputies after were nontinally rewriting it. something more than A Reuter's
chief Paris chapter of unfortunate pendent Harold King reported: accidents. What is even more The debate started off in an
to
corres-
maddening than watching atmosphere of serenity which hundreds of flimsy huts going had not been observed previous- up in games and people dying ty
since the
debale started and losing all their possessions 11 days ego. is that although the Pollee The cutstanding feature of themselves suspect arson in at the debate up to the time of least two of the six recent the dinner adjournment was a cases, the perpetrators of these
these notablo speech by French vile acts have not been Socialist leader, M. Guy Moilet, brought
justice even who came out in favour of the though "Intensive investiga-Paris agreements in the strong- tions" have been carried out est possible terms. He by the authorities. Why?
hy? oppicuded by the Fremier al- That's something we'd like to thash it was M. Mollet, who
If the Pollee hope to was know.
responsible in the begin- theso
despicable ning of November for prevent- crem creatures they will have to being the Socialist Party from smarter than they have been joining 13:0 Mendes-France up to now. A number of Cubinet. courses withirs
catch
cepted Police practice de-
was
Was
be
on
FAVOURABLE, FORECASTS. offer
continued to Forceests themselves for serious study. favourable. It wag expected And when the instigators are that the confidento v.10 caught they deserve severe Germen rearmament will be penalties. For that is the only adopted by small majority nĚ | way of advertising to others between 20 and 30 votes. with similar intentions that A move was made just before this
contemptible kind of the dinner adjournment which crime, doesn't pay.
was interpreted as a sign that a
International under-.
Parents Tested The Young Mr France
The Bible The Apple And The Coin
Paris, Dec. 29.
was
A story le going around Parls about a test to which the present French Premier, M. Pierre Mendes-France, was sub-
when Jected
be young.
His parents found their 80 bright what parents do not that they decided on the fol- lowing experiment. They shut him up in a room with a bible, an apple and
BON
Saturday Mail Tomorrow pup
Because of the New Year holiday, the Saturday Mail will be published tomorrow (Instead of Saturday) with a full range of the latest and most popular features avail- able locally and overseas;
The Big Popular Feature-packed Saturday Mail will be on solo after 11 am. There will be no China Mail on Saturday but normal publication will be resumed on Monday,
Look for two new attesoilons in tomorrow's Mail: ATTRACTION NO. 11. Jane Roberis, China Mail fim, critic, picks her "Ten Best Filma of
the Year That will appear on Page 2 in addition to her waekly review of current flime showing
ATTRACTION NO.2 c
In the Colony,
of
Chapman Pincher, ace Science Writer
·Sarect gives file first report on a remarkable misión, ATA
Fick's
a gold coin. Should he pick up the bible and read it, his parents were to make a priest out of him.
Should he prefer to eat the apple, he would be come a farmer. If he pocketted: the gold coin, ho was to be a business-
man:..
A quarter of an hour later, his parents entered the room to find their son reading the bible and ent
to find out from Britain's top experts what lies dhead in the Ageing the apple while the
of the AtomTM Don't mát 15, THERE ANY HOPE FOR MANN
Lord Hallshem (who still Forgets he is no longer
eply men who must accept honours
Quintin
Bigs which Anne Ale that when you get cut on a sping ixpedition, make surou or your well-groomed best
RESEPARA ATTENTION
REPAID THE OLLATER
Now Yant features the China pletures, cartooné," comle to ried when the time
gold coin had disappeared
into his pocket, wife at a The parents were at
lose what decision to take on the future of their son [but] the old gera
who was
"He will be
a
LILIAN · JUST – LOVES
JAZZ:
Jaxx has no greater convert thần Lilian, the pedigree Friesian, watching, with bovlae Interest na Philip Pickerill tunes into her favourite · programme, on his father's farm at Hopton, Staffordshire, In fact, Lil is zo sddicted to jars that when the radio wet broke down recently, the milk yield dropped until it was repaired. ›
Philip's her, Joseph Plekerifi, installed the radio in his cowsheds because he is con- vinced. It soothes his pedigree herd and Increases their milk” Field.---Heuterphoto.
1,000 FLEE FROM
Britain's Top Box Office Star In 1954
London, Dec. 80. American... ́... screen star, Alan, Ladd, and the British
comedy. "Doctor in the House," were the top cinema box office attractions in Bri-
9 Killed Inain. In 1984, according to
ROCKING' ISLAND Air Crash
Earthquakes And Eruptions
Shake Mediterranean Group Messina, Sicily, Dec. 29. Terror-stricken inhabitants of tiny Salina Island fled
in panic to the Sicilian mainland tonight when a new day of violent earthquakes rocked the island,
yards
fo the cast of the aming lava strojan."
Internationally famous Angelo Cumin, director of the Catania Volcanology Institute, sold the the bination bore all the hallmarks of the disaster of 1927.
volcano-earthquake.
cam-
was
(2) The reinforcement of the cohesion of Europe, the Coast Guard Jaunches and uniftention of fishing bonts fürried more than progressivo which is a factor of progress (1,000 weeping women, children and pence;
and old men sway from the (3) The
untiring search rocking 10-square-mile island. for Inernational relaxation of The volcanic Island of Stromboll tension through the channels flamed in a dangerous eruption 20 miles to the east. Scientists of
negotiations diplomatic
In 1927 Stromboli erupted con- sala Stromboli was the focal point and by a four-power
of the havoc.
violently and Etna, 60 alles ference as soon as the pre- paration for such
who fled to Sicily south on the Sicilian mainland. con- The 1,000 ference has been sufficiently left behind 700 young men and also was roused. Salinh
landowners whe clung doggedly then the hardest-hit island, al- though human habitations were The National Assembly re-to their homeland.
the 'DIE WITH OUR ISLAND'
wiped out over whole of
the Its determination to do
ad of our Lipari Island. "this is the
group. everything in order to ensure
So far no deaths have been the establishment between all island, we will die with it," they nations of a definitive
bold Italian perce
officials who tried reported on Salina or Stromboli. assured
persuade them to leave by the simultaneous
reduction and controlled
minor injuries. All through the day, as on uncounted scores of people armaanents."
700 WATT Reuter
Monday, series of violent tremors shook the island and rocks cmshed down the slopes of two extinct volcanoes, which form the island, and splashed into the w
Advanced,
news
United Press.
11,000 Car Workers
01 and
Go On Strike
Red Cross officials said there was no house left habitable on Salina..
The 700 nahermen and pea- sants who remained on Salina huddled in groups near the shore. They feared to go inland where rocks and masonry fell and huge cracks were opening in the ground,
A police, radio sending Morad messages to the mainland was
SHIPS STAND BY Two big Italian Coast Guard the only communication avall- able to Salina. If the carin- ships, capable of evacuating
quakes continuo it is expected the 700 who stayed behind to sound the alarm for the waited offshore. They kept Sicilian authorities to enforce a radio Coventry, Dec. 29.
communication with dotal evacuation-United Press, *Messina
the End Palermo, Eleven thousand employ- ees of the General Motor Sicilian capital.
The Coast Guard ships made Company (Standard Cars) intermittent trips to Stromboll decided today to strike from where Ieva was pouring so
down eight
tomorrow rapidly
the well-worn of fire"
the sea
o'clock
morning in protest against the dismissal of two union officials and the suspension of nine men.
were dismissed men suspended In
and tho
The officials
dispute over
of
that experts on the spot pro claimed it a major eruption.
The-Paris Metro Gets A Perfume Spray
The Stromboli lava flowed Bat Smells "Just The Same' sizzling into the sea'at 12 miles an hour. It drove out the 150 Inhabitants
fishing "of the village of dinostra located 200
Parla, Dec, 29. A trial spraying of the city's underground subway the trensier
system work, from one factory to an
with Paris perfumes began, to- day but an initial poll of travellers elicited the universal
"the Metro still reaction that
other.
The
company stated that
BUM stewards
(unton two, shop organisera) (woro
sacked for attending an unofficial, meeting and a union convenor was dis- missed for addressing a meet- ing without permission.
REMAIN
BACKED statement said
said the, nino men were suspended
„Afifor-fall- ing to undertake the work for which they were employed."
A company-spokesman, sald the management would negotiate over the suspensions when the strikers returned.”.
added: *remain "Those sacket will Backed,"
claimed
Tho shop slowards they had been promised-sup port in tho
sturicard products
and
280
be handled,gr
Today's Puzzle
Picture
smells the same."
Officials of the Metro system
Guntersville, Alabama, Dec, 29.
A C-110 Bylag' box car with
11 Air Force, men aboard ·crashed' into a mountain in the Termesso Valley Lake region, today. Nine men were killed."
ti...
Two othote survived bat were injured in desperate low-level parachute leape,
The big two-engined aircraft, with a box-like troop carrying a fuselage suspended between twin falls, hit a "bump"! Inga high-altitude storms and
a sharp began
bucking descent, the survivors, re-- ported,
Doors Tom Off
The
initial jolt in the sky lore off both rear doors of the plane. Air- men Michael Kinnane and Robert Johnson' were able` to escape through the door openings.
"I broke my leg and got out about the head trying to reach the door,” said Johnsori.
Kinnane. Was ; also hurt, either in getting out of the plans or in his landing In the 'delmiy-wooded hills. Both men were.... reported -not seriously injured, how- ever-Unthod. Press,
installing jet stream vapo.
hayo
decided to fight
sometimes noisome aroma. by
on the rear end of trains
two main lines. ·
On"
the Vincennes-Neuilly East-West line, the deodorant
Based on an unidon
ch
On
ttys
brand of Eau de Cologno,
·Cricans-Clignancourt stations were
du Pin
North-South
douzed with
or plaPERIMENTS
WMORE
All station masters, buic con- ductor
foceived detailed of instructions you the
Only the new
the annual poll of film ex- hibitors organised by the Motion Picture Herald, « re- sults of which are announced today.
The 4,485 exhibitors, who took part in the survey, voted Jack Hawkine: s the top money- making Brush star.-
§. HAWKINS 'FIFTH
In the International: Ust »Alna Lack is followed by. James Stowert
://Gregory Peck (dne | Marlins and to Lowia. Jack |'Hawkins tokes fifth place in this
section.
>The only actress in the very th
ten, is Doris Day, number on the list. The other places go to Danny Kaya, sixth, Burt Lancaster, seventh, Dirk Bro gado.
Norman ninth, and Wisdom, tenth,
In the list of British stars. who have appeared in British- mado films, Jack Hawkins is. | followed by Dirk Bogarde, Nor-
Wisdom,“ Glynis Johns, “ Kenneth More, Alec Guiness,
man
und John Mills. In its survey of box office draws in Britain, the poll gave the first three pieces, të British nima: aftrouble in
Doctor
La House" came
tho
Store
and "The Belies of St Trinians," two
PLAIN
**@her comedies, are
The fourth
"The GlennX -" Miller Story followed by "Knock On Wood" "Calamity Jane,” "The Caine Mutiny" --"On tha Waterfront," "The Purple Plain" (British) and "Happy : Ever After" (British),—Reuter,
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