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Lancashire And HK Textiles
THERE in growing evidence
THERE
that a carefully planned campaign is under way in England to discredit, and If possible render lanocuous to the Lancashiro indus- tries, Hongkong's petition in manufactured textiles.
com-
A series of House of Com- mona questions has lately been directed at the Board uf Trade Ministry, the burden of which has been that Hongkong's textiles are a dangerous threat the British Industry, and, ¦ what does the Board uf Trade proposé to do about it? These questions have included vague suggestions of unfair practice on the part of the Colony's manu- facturers and merchun- dlaers, and one quite preposterous claim textile production custa here are ten times below those in Britain. That the Board of Trade spokesmen in the Commons have been able to supply eminently satisfactory to the queries raised by MP's appears make 110 impression 01 those determined in their efforts
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WE will accept the protest
that Qur
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textiles Are more and more ultractive to British pur. chusers. More than this, we will putat to the fac: that Lancashire firms, spite their exproseed fears of Hongkong competition, are actually sending buyers 10 the Colony to mako direct purchases of products. Even so, compared with the
Indian trade In goods, our sales to Englund cannot in all seriousness be
rated as competition culated to cause disquiet
among
manufacturers."
our
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1955.
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Mr Foster Dulles, in polley speech on Formosa Stralts, urges
RELAX
DAKS
IN ACTION TRONDERH
Whiteaways
HENNDKLEH AL
Europe In
NO FURTHER SURRENDER Grip Of
Would Not Serve
3-D Space Shoes
The Cause Of Freedom Arrive
Or Of Peace
NEW YORK, FEB. 16.
In HK
THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE, MR Visitor's Novel
JOHN FOSTER DULLES, TODAY OPPOSED FURTHER SURS RENDER BY NATIONALIST · CHINA TO THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS OF COASTAL POSITIONS OFF THE CHINESE MAINLAND,
Without mentioning the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu by name, Mr Dulles, in a major foreign policy address; said:
"It has been suggested that Nationalist China should surrender to the Chinese Communists the coastal positions¦¦ which the Communists need to stage their announced attack on Formosa,
"It is doubtful that this would serve either the cause of peace or the cause of freedom.”
"The Chinese Communists have been the initiators They have already formally declared their intention, tó If the Chinese Nationalists now oblige by making it
Mr Dulles continued of violence in this area. take Formosa by force. easier for the Chinese Communists to conquer Formosa will they, be less apt to do so?
I doubt it."
Quick London. Reaction
London, Feb. 17. Mr John Foster Dulles's
aspect
of
Mr
islands:
Footwear
in
Mr Ronald Shanik — an American arrived
with Hongkong this week
the latest thing in men's
footwear a pair of "three
dimensional space shoes". specially made for lung walks and touring.
They look like a cross between an outslit pair of army bootar and a pair of underwater flippers, have two soles (one leather one crepe), are square-
maximum comfork. They should and are intended to give the do. They're big enough to take both feet!
They're still new in America,
so Hongkong will have to wait a few months before they come to In the course of his speech, "We sincerely hope that this the market--and when they do Com- they will give the biggest pair the Chinese Dulles sald,
regarding the decision of
hero ALII Inferiority evacuation of Chinese constal munists is not Irrevocable and of foot will abide by the complex. that they
The Customs men must have principles of the United Nations rather than challenge by force boen rather surprised when Mr the defensive obligations of this Shanik cariyer two days ago
with
his many packages: three country.
hold-alls, two army kind bags. record case and a large camer Because inside Mr Shanik has but the kitchen "everything sink".
GROCERIES
Lin-
ther
"The President did not ust our armed forces to help the Chinese Nationalists to hold the Tücher islands, and/ Yushop In nny event we believe that and Ehan, lying ama, 200 their attitude towards the United miles north of Formosa, These Nations Security Council has net ended the responsibility of that islands were virtually related to the defence of For-body which by the charter has
the 'primary mosa and the Pescadores,
responsibility for maintenance of international peace and security."
"It should not, moreover, be carolessty assumed that peace promoted end security will be increly by the non-Communist nations idefinitely granting one-
to sided concessions the Com- inpist nations...
"If the non-Communist Asians to feel that their
"We helped the
to Nationalists evaucate
Chinese
stude
these
and
EVET CURR
opposition to any further islands and regroup their forces
the China 20 if cal evacuation
as to avoid a bloody
battle which
would "growing coastal islands by the Na-wasterul
British tionalists will aggravate the mus Nationalist China and the
have inflamed publle emoliens. already serious Anglo United
States have Relatively speaking, Hung- American difference of view impo
important contribution 10 The industry is over this kung'a textile
the cause of peace, still in its infancy. True Formosa problem, according "It has been suggested that Western alles are disposed to it
Nationalist Chino should
Communism to diplomatic quarters here further and surrender to the threatens the peace then the Chinese Communists the coustal entire area could quickly become tonight.
The American Secretary of positions which the Communists indefensible... State's advocacy of Nationalist need to stage their announced
of these retention
islands re- attack on Formosa. effect the In
policy Britain urged him to adopt last week.
first-rule modern machinery and an abundance of skilled labour, but its production output is not in the same class as the big competitors to thejected Lancashire industry.
Sir Anthony Eden, with the
whenever 60 retreat
Ther Were books, papers, batteries for his camera, wigs, hats, rattles, castanets, records, groceries he was told that the coffee was not the best in the the East small stove for
the coffee and, of essential saucepan in which to mako it
course,
THE WEARER ¦
THE SHOE
Crisis Brewing In Hungary
Paris, Feb. 16.
Tea Prices
Reprieve For Housewives
London, Feb. 6.
A teapot tempest which
Blizzards
Prolonged Cold Forecast
London, Feb. 16. Thick snow clouds roll- ed south from Scotland today plunging London briefly into cold and semi-darknOBS.
Sloot and snow fell in South- ww England this afternoon while a blizzard raged in Scot- land.
Gale-driven SCOS battered Britain's coasts,
All 18 crow of the Boulogne trawler, Saint Pierre Eglise, ground near Yarmouth, Nor folk, were safely brought aahore by breeches buoy na strong winds whipped up seas around the ship.
Blizzards in Germany, Den- mark and Sweden and intense cold in Austria, brought a sud- den now wintry spell to Europe today.
'con-
ON THE CONTINENT Reuter Tuporia
frcm tinental centres gavoitus plcture:
Loudspeakers Hamburg warned people in the industrial
Ruhr
to stay indoors as much as possible today to avold' n raging blizzard expected to in- crcase its force to more than 65 miles an hour,
Lower Saxony was niso in the grip of the storm and trams crawled through the streets of Hanover.
In the Black Forest, 32 inches
reighters
the Ceylon Prime Minister of snow were recorded and stirred up when he called many lonely villages and farma British retail tea prices were cut off from the outslite
world.: "damned ridiculous"," blew
Dozens of coastal refreshingly on the house and fishing boats sought refuge wives today they learned in North Sea harbours,
Copenhagen: A ferco z bliz. that an announced rise in
zard raged över Denmark and prios hund been postponed.svg bitter cold s
Leading blendera 'decided last night to drop for the moment price rises ranging from eight pence to ono `whillling a pound proposed for the end of the month.
Stockholm: 750 heavy fetic storm today blocked!{}} secondary roads in the south Swedish province of Scunia.
ISLAND ISOLATED
The Swedish Island of Ven,
A director of the leading tea lying between the aduthwest merchants, Brooke Bond, Mr, const and Denmark, was isolated Leslie Grey, said today that the by the blinding blizzard
Borts trying to land supplies decision will cause Arms "pretty.
He explained that for the 750 inhabitants returned big losses.' they were "carrying fairly big to the mainland
vain after, a stocks bought at the higher battle against the wind. prices" which meant that they Vienna: Thousands of workers, were loging about 10 pence on 84 motor mow ploughs and 12 every pound sold.
horse ploughs worked all day keeping traffic going in the snow-covered streets of Vienna, The meteorological station said today that the present intenso
Reuter.
most Mr Grey said if the
devel-- yesterday recent price
"Another two pounds worth and I would have been a mule
A train," he chuckled. "But the Customs didn't seem to mind." Mr Shanik Is by profession a
A government crisis simi-market prices dropped by about mobile Disc Jockey. Hence the
lar to the one which resulted ivo pence per pound-were not cold would last for sometime paraphernalia.
maintained, they would have to is doubtful
He is on a world tour enter in the recent Soviet Cabinet reconsider the selling prices. "11 would serve either the cause of dramatic change in leadership taining on radio, TV and, where shake-up is brewing in Hun- peace or the cause of freedom. last week, Mr Dulles said that possible, at children's parties.
Hun- "The Chinese Communists this undoubtedly was an eleYesterday he went to visit the gary, specialists on
that
this
KREMLIN CHANGES
the
Soviet
Union's
But for the momem "we have put away the levels for tea at
Pineau Succeeds
Tea
THE conviction grows that full backing of the Common~ have been the Initiators of mental personal struggle for Tiger Balm gardens and found garian questions said here the proposed increased prices","
then
Lancashire interests are
wealth Prime Ministers after make their conference endeavouring to
here, whipping boy. out of the pressed Mr Dulles to persuade Colony's textile industry, the Nationalists to quit the for the purpose of hiding coastal island. the inefficiency of the In cotton mille in the
of England.
the British view, these
North Islands rightfully belong
to not
Communist China and are vital to the defence of Formosa the Percadores, whose left undetermined
The anti-Hongkong campaign and
can be tolerated so long ownership was it romains within ils
by the Japanese peace treaty. present limits, but it has The fact that Mr Dulles did come to our attention that not state that the United States a move is afoot in Britain | would help the Nationalists to to peravadoc the Board of defend the coastal islands was, Trade to withdraw the pri- however, vileges of Imperial Pre- ference from the Colony #
textile manufacturers, thus,
in the view of the interest-
od partics, removing
Hongkong's objectionable
greeted with relief
here.-Reuter.
Pilgrims
competition with the British Battle With
industry.
Any auch, move
to drive
Hongkong out of the British:
market must be resisted. It
is dificult to believe
the
Board of Trade would agree
to the proposal. For if, as
Police
Buenos Aires, Feb. 16. Pilgrims defying a ban on
round the district,
violence
They In Uhts area.
described it as "an that five-year-old Wu. grand- today. Ho power have already formally declared extraordinary demonstration of son of the Inte Mr Aw Boon-
haw, was having a birthday These specialists based their disarray." their latention to take Formosa despotic that the full signi- party, so he stayed to sing statement on rumours of a crista
Acaree of what had occurred the children.
Birthday to you" and which have reached here from Budapest and on the fact Hun- For his act, Mr Shanik has a gary's Premier Imre Nogy, who largo red wig, one dilapidated was Malenkov's political alter- hat and a number of dance ego in. Hungary, was conspicu- records including a Mambo, a ously missing" when Budapest jitterbug and a "meringue", a D
foted the 10th anniversary of dance from the Dominican re-
its liberation recently, public.
MR FOSTER DULLES
by force. If the Chinese Na-, tionalists now oblige by making' it easier for the Chinese Com-
BASIC PURPOSE.
was still obscure and perhaps the last act of the drama had not ye been played.
Mr Dulles saidi that one could perceive the owlines of baste polley difference between those primarily concerned with the welfare, security and great- ness 01
of the Soviet Union and and those who ito peoples, would have the Soviet Union
and its power serve primarily ugent,
HIS PROCESS
as a tool of international Com-keen photographer and munism and as a means of develops and prints achieving its world wide umbi- tions.
In
Mr Dulles said that if the first group, prevailed then deed there could be a basis for negotiation and practical agree
three minutes. -
All the top Hungarian Com- mmist chiefs, who are members
Mr Sharik is really an estate at the Politburo, attended the goings-on, except but he is also a very anniverary
Nagy
First and the takes.
Vice- photos in Premier Ernest Gero.
The Hungarian press recently said that Gero, was sick but it has not mentioned Nagy1 since the Premier received the coun try's religious chiefs for an inter- view last January 22.
ber
His process? It's simple. "You try each photo for three minutes if it is an inside one, and only one minute, for outside ones us two minutes: would mean
explained. ments between
United overeaching," he the
In addition," Hungarian papers The real reason
Mr
mentioned the have not
tra- Stater and the now Russia,"
Then there might
ba re- Shanik's world, tour la, to
ditional" message ‘of congratuja- activated the historie friendship como a member of a well-known tions which Nagy should have j
airline's Clipper Club. sent to his new Soviet counter- American between our countries and their
this of To become a member peoples," he added,
part, Premier Marshal Nikolai club, one has to
around travel
Bulganin-France-Presse, BANGKOK MEETING the world on the planes of this airline. He will return to New Referring to this month's York on April 15 to become one.
Imembers;
meeting of the Manila Part of the club's first thousand EXPLOSION
trade spokesmen have
Paris, Feb. 17. M termed the current drop in prices
Jung Christian Pineau a normal end of season trend,
succeeded in forming a Cabinet too late to influence the major ( it was announced this morning. price levels.China Mail Special-France-Presse.
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was declared in the House entry into a suburb of the Cen- munists to conquer Formosa on Tuesday, "It is not the tral Argentine city of Tucuman will they be less apt to do so? polley of the government] battled tonight with police who I doubt it.
powers, Mr Dulles said: to restrict importa from the had thrown a "disease cordon"
"We shall at Bangkok deal colonies by.. quotas
with the problem of organising OF The suburb, Son' Cayetano, "The United States has no the fronty council. Also we tariffa," it
must surely was scaled off by order of the commitment and no purpose to shail begin to deal with the follow that the govern Provincial Governor after
defend the coastal positions ns. three-substantive probleme as-
New York, Feb. 16. ment could not withdraw thousands of disease-ridden
An explosion, in two bury there. The basic purpose is to signod flocked
namely Imperial Proforence con- pilgrims had
council,
city streets of Segain, South namure that Formosa and the military
security, security
Toxus, ccasions from a colony no hoping
cured by Fescadores will not be forcibly
tonight, calased) New York, Feb. 18. ninst subversion directed from
early claiming taken a 14-your-old girl long as its products con-
over by the Chinese without, and economie welfare.
Nicholas Treuhast, 10-year-old serious property damage and a formed to the requirements miraculous curing powers.
Some Asians retain
a fear son of an attorney and grandson yet unknown, number of ensual- hardly
dly to be expected derived from past colonial re- of a British Peer, was killed to
of the Act.
10 bo
Tonight a lorryful of pilgrims
to
the
Tragic Death Of Peer's Grandson
The throat to Hongkong's om te neighbouring province that the Chinese Communists lationships that close ties with last eight in Oakland, California,
of Santiago del Estero clashed will
Howmunch
renounce
that
Police said that they could ee their ambitions, the Western powers will lead to when he rode his bicycle into not tell if there were any dead. Imperial Proference rights in a fist night with the police as
might they not may be more apparent than they tried to break through the
efforts their being dominated by the the side of a bus and was One policeman said that there their
many people" Burt Western powers.
It is asential under the vehicle's might be
einoa ambulances, were frunning real, but it behoves Gov-cordon
The father of the
rvallen "miracle
ZORCO? their goats by
be dis- wikel that few should"
The ernment to keep a wary o
boy was the son of up and down the street. The del Calle Leyva, Communiels had
In 1950, the Chinese perfed,
Kattomey Robbery, Treshadt, and explosion occurred in, the contra eye on any manoeuvros, girl," Emilia
was reported to have been 'ar
accepted a Words are not enough. It is vanCHCHET
date of the town, where there are alther through political or rated, Folloe also coruscated Security Council Invitation in hoersary to infuse these words a mother
mer several office billidings and private channels, designed, about 130,000 pesos (about relation to Korea. However this with the brosia of life. That, I Temken Litcy:
shopa CESAREA to deprive Hongkong in- 28,250. #berling); believed to time the Chinese Communists hope, will be done at Bangkok. FLY died dustrialists of those legit have been contributed by "be contemptuously rejected the Those who gather then will than 30 mate'rights:
Bevers." Reuter,
Invitation
Les Police said that it apparently Choi win Ver? explosion, but there
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