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COMMENT OF
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Rice Schemes
THE
Hongkong
Civio
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Association haa again come forward with ita views on Government's rice policy and there is much in the statement worthy of care. ful study by all who interested in the problem of entauring #1 continuou supply of this commodity t consumers in the Colony a the most equitable rates. It will be recalled that Govern ment issued a statement on Its policy last week whien was largely concerned with putting the record straight 05 far ក recent prices and Imports were cerned without adequately replying to suggestions for alternative
importation schemes. Government & attitude appears to be 18t since only a jew know thei intricacies and complexfits of the rico trauc in Luo Colony,
the majority
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Hammarskjold Visit: SUCCESS or FAILURE? Observers Uneasy Over Bambi Chums Up With Puss Early Ending Of Talks
LAST MEETING 'A FORMALITY"
By D.R. Mankokar, an Editor of th Times of India
Peking, Jan. 9.
The United Nations Secretary General, Mr Dag Hammarskjold, went sightseeing in Peking today with the outcome of his mission on behalf of imprisoned Americans apparently decided.
He is due to have a fourth meeting on Monday afternoon with Pre- mier Chou En-lai, but it was described as no more than a formal winding up session, indicating that no further conclusions were to be expected,
Speculation on the result of the talks was divided.
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Mr Hammarskjold and Premier Chou will meet for the last ilmo at 3 p.m. on farewell party at the Monday. At 5.30 p.m. Mr Hammarskjold will attend Swedish Embassy. He will leave by plane at 7 a.m. on Tuesday for Canton, Hong- kong and New York.
had found hio plain Hammarskjold The schedule made it that the final meeting here coul talks hopeless and decided to not last long and no sign was return for beaming that it would ot
more than a formality.
criticisms made of the new proposals are jargely invaud since they "are not always based on a full appreciatJOB of the facts". In short, they attempt to place their pone.o above cri.acism by all but the expert isw.
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This unwarranted AUTO somewhat pesantic attitude to take. Vigilanɩ members of ine community are fully entitied to express YIOWS Without peng slaered unauly censorious. and their observa.ions and the generve suggestions aliention of the authorities
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The United Nations party was scheduled to stop overnight at Canton in South China and leave carly Wednesday by train Hongkong. At the border they will walk corosy a small bridge into the British Crown Colony and motor into Hongkong.
UNEASY COMMENT
that
to
At the outset, Mr Chou mad: no secret of his invention of dis- cussing with Mr Hammarskjole "ell pertinent questions" while arguing for the just fication of the conviction of 11 Americans an spy charges.
LITTLE DOUBT
soch
that the
Little doubt was
here that Mr Chou brought up with Mr Hammarskjold suca sucs as The announcement
the charges
that thousands of talks would end on Monday Chinese captured in the Korean followed a session of more than war were impressed into Chiang
Mr Kai-shek's forces, five hours on Saturtlay. Hammitskjold dreided use Americans inspired and carried
aapn spy the intervening Sunday for
activity against the Chinese
that mainland,
35 sightseeing excursion,
arose Chinese students, were detained Bome uneasy comment among cbservera over the fact in the United States, that China that the talks were ending so was being denied a rightful seat in the United Nations, and that becn They had by mu quarters to last the Americans committed provo Pecked the
cative nota in bolstering up the 10 days. saven to
Chiang regime on Formosa eriticism made of the new
(United Nations Headquarter? - proponnis
that in in New York had no idea that through military guarantees. principle It is wrong to hand the meetings had been cul short. over the rlee trade to
Mr himself R Informants amall privileged group Hammarskjold had intende1 to expres views specifically on the the airmen, the bo in Peking about five days detention merchants. This is in no
BEER that the and the skimpy reports from possibility was sense a castiga.jou of the
talks came to an abrupt close, Peking indicated the mission individuals who
THE whole point of
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there
sald
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11 Mr Hammarskjold tound
discuss to
unable
of
compose was running close to schedule) Untled Press.
the present rice-Importing group. Objection to monopolies
Observers agreed thai the talks at this wind-up of the
either mean
steme largely tme might
a brilliant success
that
U.S. REACTION
Washington, Jan. 9. Senator John Sparkman,
or that Mr the U.S. would
or
El
be a
in favour of any recommenda- 1.On he UN, Serctory-Gentr:1 Mr Dag Hammarskjold, makes in the cost of the 11 U.S. nirmen. Senator Sparkman also sald the zuccess
of Mr or failure Hammarskjold's efforts to win the release of the men from -s Chinese Communist prison "may a considerable test of the effectiveness of the UN.".
The Senate Republican leader, Mr William Knowlend, said to- night he ផ favoured blockade of Communis; China to force the release of the impri- soned American airmen. He told a television audience, however, that he would not press his de- mand un!! the U.N. Secretary- General, Mr Hammarskjold, re- pored on his talks with Chinese Communist leaders.
"Bamb!” young dter' that was left by its mother in the Autumn is now quite at Bambi, who Denmark. Home In the toss of a forester, and; hls: wife; liviar, at Fudenak wedren sma、, bell on a collar, is allowed to go wherever he likes. He sometimes wanders Into the forest, but always returns. Bambi's companion fa "Mla", the cat.--Londen Express.....
| £700 Stolen: 228,00 Säveð
Armed Africans
* In Bold ·· Daylight Holdup
Kampala, Jan. 9.
Armed Africans yes!er. The Party (tader refused to day staged a bold daylight hold-ue of a lorry extTY- commit himself on a bill to be introduced by Senator Joseph Ing: £35.000. They were McCarthy to cut off all US aldrighidona away by a pass to eny nation shipping materials. to Communist China unless the Chints: freed the U.S. servicemen.
Senator Knowland sai
said he
whted to see the and ""en- sut with the Administration" He said before taking sland, ho bred be
Oppored trading in "strafode
materials witĚ the while thera Was Chinese danger of further aggression from the Communist world.
CHINA'S ATTACK
Tokyo, Jan. 9.
U.S. delegate to the United Na- Communist Chinn accused the from the fact that abuses of the UN. mission had proved ilons, sald today he belleved | United Sta es today of using some kind or another-auch
black- "feel strongly" what it called "empty
mail" in an attempt to free 11 American airmen imprisoned in China as spics.
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collusion between Individuals composing the monopoly to maintain high prices or some other racket
of an obnoxious na.ure-
theoretically possiblę aro
ure
Lo
and that the best means of avoiding
them eliminate the conditions under which these malprac- tices are possible: in the case of the rice importation
The Pope:
'May Never
Resume Full Activity'
Vatican City, Jan. 9.
Pope Pius XII has passed immediate danger but he may never again be able to resume full activity, Vatican sources said tonight.
acheme, to throw open this trade to a wider circle of merchants. It is no argu- ment to justify the present policy of approving only 29 importers to state that in 1940 thero were only Importers and that during frightening brush with death.
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The sources gave that opinion of the Pope's condition five weeks and three days after the
Pontif had 78-year-old
a
The Pepe overcame the 1961 and 1953 only 13 firms December 2 collapse, but it left engaged consistently in the | him in a weakened state to face trade on any scale.
the most critical winter of his 16-year reign.
The Pope's heart and lungs
IN the final assessment the are still in excellent cendiuca most important considera- and most of the five doctors who tion is whether the new have been treating him belleve scheme will be successful in { he can live many more years bringing rice to the con- provided he limits his
NO REST activity.
sumer at the lowest possible price. The Civic Associa-
But the Pope han made it clear that for him there is 110
tion contends that there have rest. The danger and difficulty bean no announcements of
in his case la that he cdways' in- any price fall as yet on the sists on carrying out Church local market and that rice duties even when his doctori still sells herò at $20-$30 a constantly caution "more rest is picul above the Macno price. essential.”
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Reds Bomb
Tachen
Talpel, Jan. 10, Twelvo Chinese Com- munist planes bombed and strafed Nationallat beld Tachen Island,
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the
South Cheklang coast, for two hours this morning. according to an official Nationalist Government an- nouncement,
No detalls ars asyet avaliable, but the nouncement
Tallets
A-11's and that the attack lasted from” 0600 to 0800, local time.--- Reuter,
wera
an- the
A Radio Peking broadcast,
bered in Tokyo, said the
was veiled in threats dirret U.S. to LLC by the action unless the airmen wore the The radio quoted freed.
Dally, Chinese Govern- People's ment mouthpiece, in denouncing the United States,
This blast came in the midst United by the of attempts
lons Secretary-General, Nations
Mr Hammarskjold to free the con- victed men.
fog, znqlorist affer tüking only £700.." \
The lorry. carrying money Intended to buy coltan. from African farmers, was; ambushed on the main road from Jinia to Kamull, north-east of here.
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The Africans drove raloon car cut of the bush
road bordering the
and of the five men, who jumped out of it, fired They shots from pistols. grabbed a shotgun from # man in the lorry cab.
privac motorist while they were transferring money bags to the car.
The robbers dropped same of the money, driving off with only about £700 In coins.
ched
The saloon car was later found abandoned.—Reuter,
Dr. Edith, MP Shocked
Photo,
Thermometer Drops Below Shiver Point'
BRRR
THE
ICE ON PEAK!
i
Brrr....Hongkong really shivered this morning.
The minimum ground temperature dropped to 35 degrees. F'and on the heights of the peak, lee formed In the bitter wind.
If that ground tempera- ture sounds low, you may be surprised to know that I's not the lowest on record in the Colony. On January 16, 1893, the atmospheric mialmum was 32 degrees!
The minimum atinospherio temperature last night was 40.1 degrees.
A Hongkong resident, Mir A 8. Abbott of Lugard Kond phoned the China Mall this morning to say that he left * tub of water outside his house last night and at 7.30 Q.DL had coating of 1/10th of an inch of fee.
'The First Time'
"I've been 30 years in: Hongkong and it's the first time I've seen such a thing,” be added.
Two days ago there was a ground frost st, Fanling,
weathermen re-. Hongkong
ported today.
Hadio reported that The Villagers And In London
Peking Ching Yuan-chung, who was not identified, wrote in the People's Dally that there historle precedent for action by the against China.
United
BAD STATE
was
of
Tel-Aviv, Jan. 1.
Dr Edith Sunumerskill, British direct Member of Parliament who is States louring freel, was today reports ed to have shocked the people remote Israeli village by unconventional way she registered a protest against whe
he quality,
the
considered absence of sex
London, Jan. 9. Londoners
the wun today for the first time this year..
But it did not warm their chilled bones. Temocratures remained near freezing point.
Helen Keller Plans
To Retire'
The Communist weiler, how- ever, said tha. this "overlooks the fact that the Chiang Kai- shok group which permitted the
Reports said she led the head- Americans to rule the roost to China has been thrown out. man's newly married daughter- "Ine sad state of U.S. troops. ruin the women's quar
ters into the village squaro, and in the clampede south from the made her shake hands with all Yalu River has certainly been the assembled men present forgotten alsa.
village leaders and dignitaries.. Historical precedent certainly Dr Summerskill said la er 'that'
New York, Jar, 9. exis.
a" said the writer, "it the she would "rik being ostracised Helen Keller, who for more Amendan aggressors. want to by every Israeli man for the rest than 50 years has made her own make war on the Chinese peopia. of her visit here,” but she must bindness a beacon of hope fo It is the precedent of Hitler, say that sex equality in Israel people less handicapped than Tojo and the Korean war."--- Hobtains only in theory, not in ; she, said today that sho planue United Press,
praduce."Reuter.
ta rotiro · soon) as, America's "Ambassador" to the world's sightless.
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BOMB OUTRAGE IN ITALY
TWO KILLED, 40 INJURED
Ancona, Italy, Jan. 0.
Thopratically rice smugg- None of the doctors will offer ling is therefore still a pay-a prognosis on the Pope. They ing proposition. We are also note the steady, slow improve
Hor 75th birthday, June 27, inclined to agree that rice ment, halted several times but
has-been set by Miss Keller, DE prices in Hongkong are over det back, over the past 38 days. But they always
her target date for retirement likely to romain among the caution, that he will be 10-year
from her travelling, post with highest in the world under old on March 12 and he is li
the American Foundation for the now system though, of weak..
Oversens Bilnd, for which“, she course, some reductions are
has circled the globe-five times.
· “GETS UP LATER' likely, Government would bo wise, to cast around for story to name new Cardinals. The Pope wants to call a con-
An unidentified man tossed a hand grenade among u cinema audience here due to set out on her last trip In February -Mim Keller is alternative methods which informants said he probably
tonight" kllling two women and injuring 40 other people, some seriously.
abroad." It will be a 40 000-mile will make possible moro would not be ablo, to co mo„be- realistic price réductions by i fore" Spring,........
The man thon fad thres re- They used for the exits, pilise who appeared to have tour by plane, trals and car to, | valver." Shota into one of the jamming, the doors for many hurled the grenade.
help sala's blind people, th restoring the true competi-He be able to retumu
Thơi bomb i... throwing was. When this most had to, trip of tive spirit to the trade. For some of his activities in the and slipped out minutes, and allowing the borab
thoughtto";be "work" of a her, câtoor; i¤ - 'overy}Mâm Kaller, this reason we feel that the Spring according to informed unbolood amid the prope
"It had », of Best "bean thought
↑ suid, aho hopes to dev Singapore scheme is one Vallcan sources, but he may that on explow on had occurred
meining days, to'a. roun to mu
to all his
in the grojectio
elpation. For there in little in bed during the day. He alls / The
proposal, "that", desarvos never be able to
examination even though it form duties
He no longer apanda.iny/ Lima Sáchieved ith insituting a br420 Stepi semidhair, or; at: 1775
involves Government parth:
hour
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of the
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Cher
the "low -- thirting? {(Fahrenh^!{}, the Ajr Minis-
try reported.
Very Cold'
This Evening
The Royal Observa- tory today forecast- moderate or fresh Northerly winds and said. It would become very cold this evening.
Britain's lowest tempera«. ture today...-ZT degrees Faltrenkelwas recorded at Hurn, bear - Southampton, In the West Country and in Wales the temperatures were in the forties --Reuler,
This
Another Fire! 15 Huts Burnt
Fifteen wooden huts were destroyed at 10 o'clock this morning when a fire broke out at Section 8, Chai Wan Resettlement area.
Apart from destroying these (bub, the fire also sloried a bush
arc.
In all, one quarter of a square mile of land was razed by the fire, which burnet for nearly an hour trefore it was put out by the Fire Brigade.
There were no ensunilles in' this 'Aro. Polico
oro investi→.
gating the couze.
100 Huts Burnt In Macao Fire
Macao, Jan, 10.7 More than 100 kufa were destroyed and several bundred people rendered homeless when a fire, broko
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ou at 5 a.m. this morning.
Chengchawin the nor horn part Macxo,
The majority of dwell-
luga in the Chengchow sector as wooden huts. Reuter.
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The Victims of the Cheung Sha Wan Now Village fire yes- terday have already been given two meals by the Social Welfare. Office at the Maple Street Wel- fare Centro. The 8,000 odd victims received one meal yos Nerdarchat: @ramatind another this s morning at D. They will receiver another meal today at 4.80 p.m.
The 3,420 persons ecmp. is'ng 882 Comilles have been given temperary sholice at the Maple Street Centre,
The cause of last night's fro under investigation. Twelve persons were injured In the fire, and two of these were who. multered from burns received while fighting the fire.
Ben
Government Signs
Corrected
The road surfaco warning "Halt-Majbh. Road Ahead" at the junction of Canton and Salisbury Roads and tho ecription "Pollog, Visiting Book"
-on a, box in Carnavon Read have been corrected sines
the publication of the spelling mistakes in Saturday's China Mall
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