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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1955,
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Shoes for Men
MADE IN SCOTLAND
Whiteaways
HONG KING EKOWLOON
6 KILLED IN HOUSE COLLAPSE
Nauseating Four Children Among Frantic
NE wonders what are the
lowest depths
ON
Peking
will probe in order to keep their vicious propaganda machine perpetually in operation. An air disaster, which is universally de- plored, is seized upon as a subject for what can only be described as fantastic allegations of sabotage by "United States and Chiang Kai-shek agents," coupled
with the declaration that the Hongkong authorities held responsible for
the
are
negligence in failing to
prevent malicious act.
alleged
The history of the flight of the Air India Constellation. which crashed into the sea off the coast of Sarawak is interesting, particularly the which the special action Feking government forced Hongkong to take.
over
what was otherwise, a nor- mal chartered flight. I was Peking which "dis- covered" that American and Chinese Nationalist agents had planned to sabotage the plane; it was Peking-which insisted that the British Charge d'Affaires should notify the Hongkong authorities according- ly. And, as Government's official statement shows, the most stringent precautions
taken
at Kal Tax plane's during the
20-
were
minute stop-over there to prevent anything happen- ing that would prejudice the safety of the plane and its passengers...
THAT the long Feking
WHA
tirade fails to mention is whether the same warning of a suspected attempt to sabotage the plane, given to the British
Charge d'Affaires, was passed on to the Indian government. As operators of the aircraft, and therefore principally responsible for the safety of the passengers and the machine, Air India would naturally be the most in- terested party if there was good reason to believe sabotage attempt had been planned.
**
It is peculiar, to say the least, that Peking in ita
to provide s ́endeavoura
much circumstantial detail leading up to the disaster, should omit so many per- tinent facts. Hongkong's responsibilities were fully and faithfully fulfilled. And nowhere is the "grievous. accident more deplored than here in this Colony, which appreciates the vital necessity of international aircraft operating at all times safely into and out of Hongkong..
KAI Tak's security precau-
tions in the normal way are tight and effective; in this case they were fool- proof enough to compare with anything of the same nature which could be devised by any of the security-conscious Commua- 1st countries, including China,
The charges which Peking has made in connection with the air disaster, and the onus which it attempts to place on the Hongkong authorities, are contemp tuous in conception and design. Furthermore their propaganda-value outside
The Fatalities
Bid To
11 OUT OF 27 INJURED Settle DETAINED IN HOSPITAL Strike
· Sixty-five out of a total of 71 inhabitants of a three- storey tenement building in Staunton Street which collapsed escaped without warning early this morning miraculously death, and it has now been officially established that the death roll was two women and four children.
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London, Apr. 13.
im-
Will Agree
British Newsreel Hopes Reds
Repeats HK Exports Canard
To A
Ceasefire
Washington, Apr. 13.
The Secretary of State,
GRIMWOOD TO PROTEST Mr John Foster Dulles, sald
A report. by an partial court of inquiry
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT into London's 20-day-old wage claim newspaper
London, Apr. 13. strike tonight set in Thousands of cinemagoers in Britain
hectic govern- motion a ment bid to settle the this week heard a newsreel commentator say that Japanese textiles are being import- ed into Britain under the guise of Hongkong products.
pute.
The report criticised the strike of 700 maintenance mechanics and electricians as just
First fears were that as many as 30 people had-lost their lives when the walls of the house suddenly crumbled, but shortly before 10 o'clock this morning, Mr W. J. Gorman, Fire Brigade Chief, was able to announce that the last body had been extricated from the debris, and that the whole of realistic.""" the occupants of the tenement building had been accounted for.
of Communist China is These two pictures taken by a staff photographer worthless. The allegations this morning show (top) firemen and other rescue made are obviously spur-workers searching the debris at Staunton Street for lous; so too are, the so- bodies, and above, a general view of the collapsed called "facts" on" which Peking boses its charges.
Political propaganda is gen-
tenendent building.
In addition to the six dead, 27 victims were sent to the Queen Mary Hos pital, and 11 of them have been detained, some suf- fering from serious in- juries.
The dead are 60-year-old woman, Kwong Ng, a 54-year- old woman, Cheung Siu, and four children, two boys and two girls aged from three years to nine..
Four men and seven women are still in hospital, one of them,
a woman, is in a poor condition; the others are reported, to be fair,
After digging for six hours officers of the Fire Brigade considered that all of the residents have been accotated +for.
for. The last body recovered that of a dead child at:9,30 am. today.
The remaining 38 occupants are believed either to have got themselves out or to have been absent at the time of the 'collapse.
ALL THAT'S LEFT
blackened A tragment of a kitchen wall; the whole of a rickety wooden staircase; a chest
of drawers miraculously hang-
fable" and their wage claim as
Sir John Forster, who was chairman of the court of in- quiry into the London news- papers dispute..
today he was hopeful Com munist China would agree to a ceasefire in the Far East.
Mi Dulles spoke on the brief Formosa situation ix a
the Associated Church
address before editors represen
ting
Press.
He told the group the outlook in the Far East was "not so pro- mising," but he added:
The current edition of Fathe newsreel includes "We are hopeful and trying:
many ways to bring about ac a sequence showing how competition from import-ceptance of some sort of cease- ed cloth has hit the Lancashire mills. Cinema-Are whereby force will be re goers see a shot of a packed warehouse and hear nouzced as a means of achieving
national goals," the commentator say, "As stocks grow, Japanese With Communist China's de.. textiles masquerading as British because they are exported through Hongkong, continue to flood into the markets of the Empire."
The newsreel sequence is based on an interview with
mand for Formosa and the off-
shore islands obviously in mind,
a them sax: We don't expect the goals themselves will abandoned.
be
Mr Dulles said that two
Mr Cyril Lord, boss of 16 Lancashire mills, who has just American allies West Germany
returned from a' business trip to Australia and New Zealand.
+
and South Korea, had agreed
not to use force to achieve their long standing aim of uniting
Mr Lord told me today that dole because of competition from their countries. he didn't agree that all textiles Imported cloth."
Mr Dulles said the Western nations "must exhaust all peace ful
means" of settling the Formoon crisis provided they did
exported from Hongkong were Mr' Lord said British mills Japanese goods on which awere currently producing cotton small amount of work had been cloth at an annual rate of 2,400 solve surrender of peo done in the Colony to enable million yards, of which them to qualify for imperial pre-million yards had to be sold not elaborate on this point. ference. But he believe that abroad. Last year imports of Reuter. some Japanese cloth was inding cotton cloth from all sources
500 pie to enslavement. He did
its way into Britain and the amounted to 266 million cards.
Momma Kels through Hongkong's contribution was 201
of
"In
ת
Zealand and Ausmallion yards,
.
Fralia claiming to have been said, were upsetting the whole
said, "I saw samples Imports on this scale, he
Troops Move In
made in
Hongkong. But that balance of the industry end isn't possible because Hongkong
causing the present "deplorable" doesn't make any nylon. There- conditions. Five per cent excess
Shillong, Apr.. 13. fore it must have come from of supply over demand in the
Troops were moving into the Japan-and that is my com-British home market could Goalpara district of Assam to- plaint."
cause a slump in Lancashire, night to prevent a recurrence of Mr Lord agreed that British
Mr Lord said he would be last week's disturbances over ing to the third-foor wall of the
manufacturers Imported foreign disappointed. If Mr R. A. Butler, West Bengal's claims to material, and after doing athe adjoining building; framed pic-
Chancellor of the Ex-adjustment of the border line, tures and small clothes-bundles to work it suggested that a new
Urging the strikers to return small amount of work on it re- chequer, didn't abolish purchase according to information avail
as "British." But zax oh cetton, textiles. In his able here tonight. grotesquely suspended en metal
negotiating
be exported It body rods and masses of bricks and formed to include all 14 unions thought that this was a Budges next Tuesday. But this An Assam government spokes
short-sighted
In any alone would not be enough. man told the Press Trust of policy. rubble these were the remains in the newspaper industry.
case, two wrongs don't make a Lancashire cotton mills, 71
he India that the troops would be of the building occupied by As the report was being re
right.
Bald, Walter Monckton,
must have 100 per cent stationed there for some time... persons, in an area familiarly leased Sir
to protection if they were
Though the situation was now- known as "The Street of 30 Minister of Labour, summoned Houses" where some of the newspaper employers and union Hongkong," he said, "but my industry. All imports of cotton decided to take all preventive "I have no complaints against survive as a healthy and virile normal the government had Colony's oldest buildings rechiels to a meeting tomorrow
concern is with Lancashire goods for retention in the home measures against any possible located,
morning,
where 81 factories are skut market should be banned. down and 51,000 workers on the
wage
THE ONE CHANCE
At this meeting ministry con- ciliation officers will press both parties to settle. their dispute en the basis of the report drawn up by three men appointed by Sir: Walter Monckión.
Only a few days ago, just be- fore the Easter holidays a par- tion of the adjoining building, No 66, collapsed and the Fire Brigade was called out. Part of it was then demolished.
This morning the PWD shored the adjacent walls and evacuated tenants living in the four-storey An anxious Fleet Strest to- building at No. 62, another old night saw tomorrow's meeting tenement. Demolition of the as the one chance of ending the remains of the collapsed build- strike by Friday when dis ing will start immediately the shoring is completed.
In the meantime the rubble is being removed in truckloads and whatever fumiture and property salvaged piled on the sidewalk.
Cleared Of
20,000
HIS CHIEF. CONCERN
HIS CHIEF COMPLAINT Mr. Lord's thiết
complaint is against imports from "Japan, though last year these amounted to only 52 million yards against.
10 Years In 193 million yards from Indis
Soviet
missal notices affecting Slave Camps
outside
non-editorial workers
strike take effect. the str
Frenchman's Ordeal Newspaper ownera
who have suffered an
Strasbourg, Apr. 18. estimated net loss of £1,600,000 during the sus
Jean Remetter returned pended publication of nearly 30 home here today carrying newspapers were hoping 10-
night for a settlement in time in a cardboard suitcase a to publish the 30-million cir tattered prison uniform eulation, national Sunday press, a souvenir of over ten years in Soviet labour camps.
Larceny Charger
New York, Apr. 13. Mr Chih Ku-chang, a Chin ese businessman of Los An geles, was cleared today of charge of grand Larceny of $210,000 of Chinese Nationalist government funds,
The magistrate dismissed the charge after he was told' that
the grand jury were not satis-
fed that the defendant knew
Cocked Hats A
"Cockeyed" Idea
Singapore, Apr. 13.
the money was stolen and they Mrs Amy Ede, a Singapore. returned no indictment.-
Remetter, now wrinkled and grey at 33, told reporters that he had been drafted into the Nazi armies during the war and sunt, to the Russian front
He later deserted and 'was picked up by a Russian patrol while in civilian clothes..
A Soviet army tribunal found him guilty of espionage and sen- tenced him. to 15
Labour, he said.
years
· FISH BONES MENU
hard
city counciller, has launched a He was first sent to a Siberian.
The money was alleged to be vigorous attacks on the "cocked camp at Tomsk where he work
Coun-led as a woodcutter, he said. part of funds entrusted to Gerhat" requirement for eral Mow Pam-tsu, who had cillors.
When he arrived in 1945 there been in charge of the Chinese Mrs Ede said forthrightly that were 8,000 prisoners. When he Air Force Office in Washington most of her colleagues would left three years later he said wall he fled to Mexico In 1951 look cockeyed cocked threequarters of them had died
-Reuter,
from the cold and malnutrition. : She threw the committe For long periods they fed us into confusion by demanding, only on a powder made from "What about the womant and crushed benes," he said.
arat za
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erally boring. When COMMUNIST NEWS AGENCY REPORTS considered lucicy
utilises tragedies such" us that which befell the Air
India plane on its way to
WRECKAGE OF PLANE FOUND
hours
we could
recommendation for official garb | Which called for ilk robes, cocked bats, dress trousers and evening Remetter said
gaid "he next 'spent Teechkasen in TAMARA dave years at T
would I look like orientat Russia working in the Bandung, it becomes ob-
London, Apr, 13.
"Luggage was found near the disclosed that at 1620 noxious and nanseating. The wreckage of the crashed wreckage but no signs of life local time on the day the atri
eqppenfileg a retired con- Finally, he was sent to Kara B) | bell normal. Thé. plane gras fused--and then returned to ask ganda, an assembly comp for Feking government stands been found near Sidamu Island
added
Fishermen
the Sidanau tie about 14 hours: aying dis- Mrs Ede if she would attend foreigners near Moscow, in 1933. to lose the respect even of of the Natuna Islands, about 310 Island said the plane exploded stance from Djakarta. Ten their next meeting to recon The Russians freed him at the those who are not unkindly miles northeast of Singapore, and caught fire in the air before zinutes later the plane sent outsider the matter of cocked hats beginning of this month aftes disposed towards the the New China News Agency it crashed into the sea, it said three SOS messages and then and dress trousers." -- France-representations from the French
was slent."--Beater regime.
Embassy in Moscow-Reaster, quid today.
"Dakarta airport authorities
By such behaviour the Air India Constellation has were discovered,” the agency, craft had reported conditions to the costume?" she inquired copper mlaes.
Presse
recurrence of trouble in the district, he added-Reuter.
Tests Postponed
Las Vegas, Apr. 13. - An atomic explosion to test During his tour, he said, he weapons and supplies planned. ad been shown a letter from a for tomorrow has been post- Japanese Arm inviting a New poned because of unfavourable
(Contd., on back page, Col. 1)weather-Reuter.
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