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EASTER HOLIDAYS
and On Friday, Saturday, Monday, Aprií 3. 3. 21. the pubitu counters at G.F.O. and C.F.O. Kowlops will be - epaned for public" burimum from 3 săD DO noon. The Shaungwan Post Omes will be opened from 3 625, - to book for
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general delires' commencing at
Live In Fear
SPEND THEIR LIVES LOOKING
OVER THEIR SHOULDERS
Vienna, Apr. 5. » Judging
by by reports brought here travellers and refugees, there is little fun being a Communist leader in the Soviet satellite states of Eastern Europe.
It is true that they can, and often do, live lives of luxury, are driven about in big American cars, inhabit beautiful, comfortably furnished villas, eat and drink of the best in the land. This
noon only. There will be as luxury is emphasised, too, the reports brought here say, by the fact that the mass of workers around them live lives of austere poverty.
10 m od one collection from all polar boxes on APNI 3 And ⚫ respectively.
There will be no delivery on Easter Monday, Aprú 11, but there will be ane collection from all pillar boxes.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL
By Air Formous & Canada. 6 p.m. Switzerland.. Denmark, Norway & Sweden, & P..
By Surface Mamo. 6 pr.
4
THURSDAY, APRIL 7
By Al
Japon, 8 km.
But when it comes to personal; was investigated and all per- liberty, there seems Title tosanal documents examined. The choose between the Communist building of the Physical Train- leaders and the prisoners ning School at Biglany, where the their concentration camps.
congress took place, was sur- rounded by a cordon of militia.
Beria in the Soviet Union itself, in the house next door. energy
coal
British imports are twice as the picture has much as prewar. GIFTS - Just For taking the changed. Britain sure has
Until nuclear for all its imports in the form comes, they are likely to go the-first-time since the ur-of crude oil-and-refines it an increasing for a long rival
The over here. Moreover. im- time for every year spring.
her up at ports from America have gets more and more costly garageman fill now
price. And the yearly dwindled to a mere trickle
to mine." grumble about petrol prices only a tenth of the starts again...
mighty flow that now comes Why should bus fares be from the Middle East. so high? Why should it cost |
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London Relay) nouncements: 8.13. Gypsy Nights; 830. Prize Winners Concert Queen's College. (Recorded); 9.15. Wednesday Theatro "For Dear Life" A play by Lionel Brown (BECTS): But sooner or later the 19.15, Fantasia on the "Ola 104th" price structure will have to 10.30. Music of the
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of the world Pryed, expereticed story. Eveil without it, the much cheaper than in petroleum in America. It claims that DR. SCHOLLY Foot Coinfurt Ser-Britain is often five times world prices of Middle East vice, Telephone House (31ezzaninėj Hongkong provides the expert atten- the cost of its production in oil are pegged to those han your feet deserve -- By Lendoti Kuweith
American cil, with the (BECTS);, qualified Chiropodist.
result that
consumers aking cheap oil from the Est nevertheless United Middle report has pay high American prices. sensation. News map summarises here the status and better salary Interest fucts behind the report.."
Before the war, half cur petroleum came from the and western hemisphere,
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Decimal
System
New Delhi, Apr. 5. The Indian Government plans to introduce the decimal system in the ecuntry.
Replying to a Parliamentary question today, Vice-Finance Minister Arun Chandra said the question of decimalising Indian money was being studied.
A committee had been set up to consider the consequences which would follow the in troduction of the retric system for weights, measures
and money.
The question was also being examined by the Planning Commission
Thalland Malaya. Indonesia. Aus tralia New Zealand, Ceylon Mauritius, & the
Burma, India. Pakistan, Middle Fast, Africa, Great
Europe.
10 am. Japan, noor, Philippines,
By Surface
USA, 2 pm
Kärea, az.
Britala
Hawaii
Macao, 9 .m. Cima People's Republic.
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India, 11 am.
Burma. I p..
Japan, 2 pun.
Malays,
Ceylon.
The names of Raik, in Hon-
The First Secretary of the gary, Kostov, in Bulgaria, Fatras- Communist party in Poland, canu in Rumania, Slansky in Bizu, works in the Belvedere Czecholalovakia, not to mention on the Klonowa Utea and lives The who all faced the glows or road passing these houses is the firing squad for taking aalosed to all traffic, and guards &faire step, are sufficient evidence are posted all round them at..
of the constant danger in which diese intervals Marshal Rokos- & these leaders live despite, or sowski also has a villa near to perhaps because of, their guards. Bierut, which is surrounded by a high wall and thickly guarded.. Here are recent reports, from
Most of refugees and travellers reaching
the Polish Party Viema, on the security measures leaders live in a colony of villas taken to guard the Commumist ou side Warsaw, at Konstancin, "party bosseS” in the Satellite The whole area round the villas is surrounded by a high barbed- lands.
wire fence with guards armed with rifes and bayonets or sub- machine-guns every hundred yards or SO,
10.33
Aden, Middle East Great Britaki &c Europe, 3 p.m.
Macao. 8 p.m.
GENERAL HOLIDAY FRIDAY, APRIL. 3 By Air 'Hawall, U.S.Ã.... 8 àm.
Thailand,
Burma, India, Pakis- tat
France, Erypt Switzerland. Great Britain, 8 a.m.
London, Apr. 5. conterence now in its sixth week The five-nation disarmament
held a two-hour session here to day under the chairmanship of Mr David Johnson, the Canadian representative,
POLAND
eré
Communist leaders never go anywhere on foot. They are driven at high speed in cars with thickly curtained back windows. These
security closely followed by policy curs. When the car arrives at its destination the security police keep watch while
the bos dives rapidly Into the building
1.
RUMANIA
When high Party or Govern- ment leaders move about the
city of Bucharest DF country -they, travel, in_big. usually American, cars. They generally have an escort car which follows dangerously near and 'cuts out any traffic which tries to get in between.
During the Party Congress in 1954, an Other countries attending the Warsaw, in March
When approching ertes rends talks are the United States, Brl-pupils of the Militia Officers the drivers give special signals. tain: France and the Soviet School were brought to Warsaw. The pollee switch the lights so were patrolled by that the cars can pass at great
He hoped that a decision Union. would be made in the near future-France-Presse.
| THERE THEY GO.
I DIDN'T WANT HIM TO SEE OUR FACES. IN CASE THE PAPERS PRINT OUR PICTURES.
The streets
The next session will be held militia day, and night and any speed and are never held up.. tomorrow-Reuter.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
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WILL7
SURE,THIS IS BIG STUFF! IT SAYS HERE, POLICE PROMISE ARREST
TODAY*
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HERE THEY COME NOW-
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BAGGAGE:
Friday, 8th April, 'at 12.00 moon for the UNITED KINGDOM vla Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Said.
Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No: 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by Noon on Thursday, 7th April.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Cole Godown for loading. on board by ship's slings only.
ingers sho
EMBARKATION: Passengers should embark between 9.30 and 11.00 a.m. on Friday, 8th April, 1955,
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AS PARADISE INCHES HER HAND, TOWARD THE GRINNING GUARD'S GUNWA
OUTSIDE THE RODOMÉ
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WA COMMOTION IS HEARD
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The whole aron, from Bufet
to the Arcul de Triumph, has
| been heavily guarded ever since " ther Prime Minister, Me Gheorghiu-Dej moved into villa on the Someana Kiselef. All- benches which used to line this route have been removed, and pedestrians are forbidden to laitter
the neighbourhood. Agents check the identity of any workers engaged in the district | every day.
General Bodnaras, Minister of the Armed Forces, has an escart cay filed with special guards who jump out the second the car stops and take up aggressive attitudes. when, in February 1954, Bodnaras could not go by because of the deep snow, be was Seen walking to work escorted by two bodyguards with sub- machine guns at the ready.
BULGARIA
Here, too, high oficials al- in fast Russian ways drive
cars followed by guard cars. When the statue to the Red Army was unveiled in Spetem
bar 1954, the leading officials 'drove right up to the statuc just as it was to be unveiled and drove away. immediately. afterwards.
The Party leaders live in well guarded villas on a road near Boyana, on the mountain over- Tooling Soffa. Mr Chervenkov,
the Prime Minister, has a house outside Sofla entirely surrounded by high walls Anton Yugay, lives in Sofia, but in a street with a "no entry" sign at both ends.
- HUNGARY
The leaders do not appear much in public. They travel in special cars with drawn curtains and have special red headlights and harsh hans so that the police know them and · always give them free passage." Guard cars weare from side to side behind to prevent over- taking by strange cars.
The only sport, which the Party and Government leaders in Hun- gary get is also done inder closest police protection. In 1952, arders were given that no fisher- men were allowed anywhere near the back-waters "leading into the State game reserve be- tween Foto and Csaned, on the Danube.
1953, further order's forbade fishermen to land on the eastern banks of the Danube in this' arta) on to pis further than half way across the river The police announced that guards would open fire without warning on anyone who disobeyed order
When Comm
want to fish or shoot, sect: pervice motor boats patrol the river while secret police: gmerds with" formary@gumi Hne the bank nt olowa intervals ---China Special