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HK at the BIF
London and Toronto this month the world's buyers will have a new opportunity to see what Hongkong's industries have to offer as our "shops" at the British Industries Fair and the Canadian Inter- national Trade Fair ореп for business. Our stands at these exhibitions are, of course, not shops in the usual sense of the word but they "sell" commodities which are of vital interest to our welfare and indeed to our survival as à Colony with an independent
economy. They offer
new
בט
business ideas, the goodwill of our manufacturers and our commercial institutions and information
1 wide range of goods-from textiles to torches and from enamelware to leather and rubber footwear, all well made, all made" in Hong- kong and all selling at prices which are competitive with those in practically every other part of the. world.
MORE important, our stands
at Toronto and London help to establish the good name of the Colony in the minds of the world's merchants and
time at the same
they give the professional man and the general public some idea of just what is going on here. That is an essential function of the Colony's exhibition. Tou have a completely many distorted and ill-informed idea of Hongkong's activi- ties, and the role it is. play- ing both as a member of the British Commonwealth and in the development of the economies of Southeast Asian countries. The exhibitions have also acquired a new purpose in these times when the integrity of our industries has been questioned in t number of amazing slanders by British trade groups; it is to vindicate the activities of our facturers and the honesty and
effectiveness of our
As
IT
manu-
trade practices and pro cedures.
our correspondent has indicated, much of this eriticism has recoiled on the critics. Fur from discredit- ing the Colony, the fre- Lanca- quent furores in shire, Manchester and the House of Commons have attracted the interest and attention of a wide circle of buyers, The slurs still require correction neverthe- less. And our representa- tives at the BIF and the
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THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1955.
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BIG 4 "SUMMIT"
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EISENHOWER
BULGANIN
British Government's
Objective
WILL SEEK APPROVAL OF FRANCE AND U.S.
London, May 4.
Price 20 Centa
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Shoes for Men Whiteaways
· MADE IN SCOTLAND
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HONGKONG
MEETING
Election Campaign Opens" Next Week
Eden & Attlee To Tour Key Constituencies
London, May 4.
US Plane Crashes
Air Force Crew Of 9 Feared Lost
London, May 4..
A United States Afr
Force plane, with nie men
Sir Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister, opens the Conservatives' parliamentary election cam- paign next Monday with a one-day tour by road of
on board, crashed into the sca about 90 miles south- Both Conservative and Labour party headquarters west of Keflavik, Iceland, key marginal constituencies. have decided to concentrate their "star" speakers during today, United States Air the campaign into the 60 or so districts won at the Force headquarters here October 1951 general election by majorities of less than reported toda
Britain has decided to hold out for a conference with Russia "on the summit," authoritative diplomatic informants said today.
Instead of settling for a talk with the Soviets on the
2,000:
A B-29 aircraft, carrying a They agree that it is in these areas that the out-lifeboat, had flown from Prest Foreign Ministers' level, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr
wick, in Scotland, to join in the come of the May 26 election will be decided.
search. Harold Macmillan, will seek American and French approval
Mr Clement Attice, the La-1 This Liberal newspaper said Wreckage has been sighted, next week for a meeting at the top level, the sources said.
bour.chief, also leads his party that the "Government is trying but so far no reports of sur- having been seen had Britain feels that a conference of President into battle next week beginning to swindle" Lancashire and win vivors
a country-wide tour by road on seats on false pretences,
reached United States Air Force Eisenhower, Sir Anthony Eden, and the French May 12.
is Eden who Sir Anthony
The Impression the Prime headquart
ENGINE ON FIRE Premier, M. Edgar Faure, with Russia's Premier, seeking to boast his present Minister, Sir Anthony Eden,
The crashed plane is an air Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, could offer a better overall majority of 18 in the gave to the House of Commone fuelling aircraft and was flying House of Commons will drive on Tuesday was that the Governin formation with several others chance for success at present than would a Foreign through the East Midlands area ment was making a real con when it fell into the sea.
of England on Monday stopping ression by the removal of the Ministers' conference.
purchase tax on "quality" goods to speak in vital areas,
He will wind up his tour with the Manchester Guardian com-
Friass meeting on Monday maented. night in the woollen centre of Leeds, Yorkshire, which elected
FAURE
Allegedly Confesses
To Murder
New York, May 4. A husky,
23-year-old
house painter. convicted
These top-level leaders could lay down broad principles that their Foreign Ministers might later develop and implement, in the British view...
The American position has been that lower level prepara-" tions should come before any top-level talks.
for
Three Foreign MinistersTM is
to
after
a
"Closer examination show's it
Failing agreement. in Paris ave Labour and two Conserva- to have been nothing of the kind The Prime Minister was briefed among the Western Ministers ve Members of Parliament in It is not a substantial concessio
"The effect will be to to settle for a top-level con- 1951.
Under recent boundary to say: ference, they would propose
will Increase encourage the production of to Moscow & Foreign Minie-changes-which
of Members of quality textiles for sale at home
and ters' conference, the sources the number
Parliament in the new Houses of end abroad Britain sald.. But they sald
benents both intends to press strongly and Commons by Ave to 630-Leeds substantial
Ireland,' clearly for the top-level. idea will send only six MPs to Parlia-Lancashire, and to Northern as the better coarse-United ment.
WIFE TO DRIVE Press.
to
bring
A United States Air Force spokesman said that the last message from the plane was just after noon today, and reported having developed engine
fire.
A severe
There was no message from after that the their rádlo spokesman said.
"We brought our full air-sea rescue team into action.
"Wreckage
was located Inte tonight, but so far no survivors to have been picked up."
he
•
Mr Macmillan, the Us Secretary of State, Mr Joho Foster Dulles, and the French
OVERCAST. SKLA Foreign Minister, M. Antoine
The crashed plane with an Pinay, are to meet in Paris between May 7 and 11.
"For cotton it does not happengine blazing was last seen May 8 is scheduled the date
down 19
through an over-L circling a special meeting of the Big
With his wife driving the car, to be true-The benefits cast aky "BERLIN AS VENUES.
Mr Attlee will alto four the East be substantial. In quality goods
Other planes in the formation which they are to discuss the..
The early summer is e-Midlands area and Yorkshire, they will be confined to a few
radiced emergency messages to invitation Moscow for a four-visioned for the Four Power then going North into Scotland. ranges of furnishings, chintze Keflavik Power conference,
parley, the end of June ör
All the planes taking part in On his way south again, the and prints, sold by the yard, Britain,
"The great mass of Lancashire
fight afternoon routine considerable July being the earliest practi- former Labour Prime Minister consideration of pros and cous, cable dates, the sources said. will tour the Lancashire cotton quality goods, those which
were. "tanker versions of the has come to the conclusion that
The choice of date and place are, spending two days in this enter most into both, home and
part of the 310 Air Refuelling a meeting at the summit is pre-would depend on the level of key district befce driving into export trade, will be unaffected" Boeing Stratocruiser. They were the industrial Midlands winding
which was based ferable at this stage to a meet the conference.
Squadron "GRAVELY INJURED" Ministers, ing of the Foreign
Berlin has been lentatively up his weak's tour
originally at Smoky Hill, Selina, the scurces said.
mentioned as a meeting place ham.
The chances of the Govern Kansas-Reuter. Anthony Eden, the for the heads of government.
Sir Winston Churchill's cam- ment candidates in the textile Sir Prime Minister, thus has come
to be Himited Premier Bulganin intimated paigning is likely
"They will his willingness to participate in to the five meetings and an even by hose vodas and Miniature Baby Churchill for top-Four Power talk a fortnight of poll tour which he has ar- deserve to lose them in all
ago. He nodded approval af ranged in his constituency at
textile constituencies. Moscow reception to questions Woodford, Northeast London.
ask- At the last election he had a from: correspondents who ed whether he would be ready crusting 18,579 majority over his
Sir Anthony-62,000.-Reuter.
round to the suggestion of Sir
Winston
level meeting, a project which
Sir Winston relterated only fortnicht before his retire
ment
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Birming
Divorce For of a bludgeon slaying which Anthony has publicly shared, the hower and
Betere and since then Sir to meet with President Eisen-Labour opponent in a poll of
Hindus
another man later confessed, American view that preparation United Press told the police early today on the Foreign Ministers level that he beat a man to death would be an unobjectionable
Today only three weeks ago while face to a top-level perley.
Made Legal waiting retrial for the first hardened.
killing.
New Delhi, May 4. Divorce among Hindus was made legal for the first time under a clause in the Hindu Marriage Bill passed Harry be a good
CITF can be left to deal with that.
IT might even
plan if they carried the fight into the strongholds
of our detractors. A lecture
from
(Lower House) today.
the British
EISENHOWER'S ATTITUDE
BOY
WHO
There were doubts in diplo CAN
ference:
"The goods from which pur- chase tax has been removed are perhaps a fifth or a sixth of all those that come under the tax, and no more.
"A few, a very few mills may bencft. The vast majority will
Survives
Kuala Lumpur, May 4. A baby gt weighing 1b. 12 pza at birth in March and given one chance in 50 of living is still alive today and out of danger.
AGRICULTURE POLICY
Born to an Indian mother London, May 5,
three months premature, the Mr Тот Williams, former not,
so small that her Conservative
baby was is now for Labour Minister of Agriculture said today it was a very Ekely candidates to explain this away. parents did not expect her to The Prime Minister must be live and have not named her. contingency" that if Labour was
a tube returned to power it would re- pursued until he tells us in terys She was fed through FEEL
introduce bulk buying especially yards and looms just what until a week ago when she was from the Commonwealth. these mythical substantial bene-given a bottle,
kre," the Manchester Today the baby weighs 4 lbs. He was replying to questions f
Mali Bozs. and Is steadily gaining conterence on the Guardian at a press
weight-United Press, Labour Party's agricultural Special. policy issued
for the today general electhm on May 26.
New "I think that both Zealand and Australia welcomed and those long-term contracts would do so in the future," Mr Williams sald
NO
PAIN
London, May 4.- Richard Mains, aged 8. wants to find out about the one thing that all children would rather forget-pain.
expan-
Paul Pfeffer, who tocas re-
matic quarters whether Presi- trial dext month for the slaying der Eisenhower would be ready of a sailor, Edward Bales, was
such top-level talks to agree arrested yesterday in connection in the near future.
the brutal beating of with
The President has intimated Meyer,
department I a
that he considers a Foreign store porter. Investigation of Ministers' meeting the preferable in the House of the People: the beating drew from Pfeffer course as an opening move for
the confession of the second East-West negotiations. Congress. Communist and saying.
to be France was believed Socialist benches applauded
favourable to a top-level con-
The Party's agricultural mani- Some decision was expected to
For Richard is the little boy said the next Labour
festo entitled "Full Harvest" govern- be reached in the Paris talks
who never cries because he bas
Ave-year ment would offer a Britain will not rule out no sense of feeling or touch. cext week.
talks on the Foreign Ministers'
Officially Richard's "condi plan for agricultural level if she fails to persuade - tion" is diagnosed as gangline It would reintroduce fixed, the United States and France uropathy. Medical scientists to join her in the top-level ¦ have for years, been trying to HIS UNDOING
Idea. But, in an abrupt harden and a cure for th ing of policy, Britain has Police said Pfeffer beat the pint-sized Meyer, bound his
decided to make the top-level described
NO RATIONING hands with wire and left him
lilea her objective. unconscious
under Rockaway
Sir Anthony
The policy statement has said world" Beach's boardwalk on Sunday
He said ironically: "When peats the Socialists' declaration repeatedly in recent days that' night.
Britain would welcome, talks if ever this boy can be made that they would not reintroduce medical food rationing into Britain, a Con- Meyer" survived the beating with the Russiacs either at the to feel pain, then and, according to the police, top level or the Foreign Minis science will have achieved an- charge made by many
ters' level. So, today's raising other triumph and passed an servative speakers. that was Pfeffer's undoing
Labour of British sights to the summit other milestone in progress," amounts to a policy switch.
BRITISH VIEW
H
Meyer was tour in the industrial north when the clause was passed by
beaten with a length of iron pipe, as were of England. with films o 150 votes to 20.. slides and exhibits
It had been strongly opposed Bates, and the second stain man. Byrd, a 53-year-old the BIF stand, at which Mr by members of the rightwing Melich Grimwood, Colony officials Hindu Mahasabha and by some Negro handymen. All attacks orthodox Hindus in the Govertook plece at Rockaway Beach, and Hongkong businessmen ment benches.
Pieter's neighbourhood could tell the true story of The Law Minister, Mr H. V. Queens. the tremendous develop Pataskar, ment that has taken place divorce was already allowed here in the postwar years, among 80 per cent of the com
would might do a lot to curb the munity and the clause malicious falsehoods that bring in the rest,
The clause allows divorce by have taken root abroad.
either the husband or wife
saia
customary
People in Britain and Europe various grounds. Including have always had a fascina-adultery, desertion.. insanity tion for the East-whether and leprosy of more than £ve it is seen through, the eyes years.-Rev.CT. of a businessman anxious
to expand trade
or the
Collins & Vietnam
....
leading nerve
specialist Richard's case #among the most baffling in the
5100.
farm pro-
and meat
guaranteed prices and assured markets for major ducts, including cereals,
re-
The manifesto said a government. would also provide The police searching Pfeffer's
THE DANGER
special Credit facilities for curious public whose vision
room found a wallet contala-
Rictard, an intelligent boy, farmers and Emprove marketing forever probes, the distant
ing the driver's licence and The British view is that Salgon, May 4. and alluring horizons-of-the-
President Eisenhower's special other papers belonging to Byrd, world, The Hongkong stand,
It would also
ico establish com to Vietnam, General A routine check disclosed that meeting of hoads of Govern who is being educated at home, by grading and abolishing fat
knowing they have principles of policy, with greater without
missions to regulate home and offering as it does a glimpse Lawton Collins, manounce Byrd had died seatments could lay down the broad takes knocks, suls and bristice's stock nations
freedom of action than their happened. of the East and a unique private briefing of American beating,
But his condition can be imported supplies of meat and cercate and set up commissions display of British and correspondents. today that he Confronted with Byrd's wailet, Foreign Ministers enjoy.
They could then ask their dangerous too.
fruit and Like the time when something to improve
vegetable there, savoured "emstitutional non-Prefter allegedly told the police. therefore attract abchy" for Vietnam, with ex-All right, I tell you. I did. Foreign Ministers to convene at
The statement charged that once and to translate their desi passed across his eye. He distribution. wide attention.
Emperor Bao Dal as head of State-Reuter,
slons into detailed rgreements cratched hard on the retina. It
outstanding..
problems took a leading cpthalmic surgeon Labour's policy of expanding Prefer was held without ball on
agriculture during is a s He was scheduled to go on trial provided the top-level mesting to save the sight of that eye.
Recently the door of a hot of cffice had been abandoned by government on June 6 on a manslaughter proves succesful.
between oven was opened against the Conservative
Chinese enterprise should
There are early indications,
of this already. Hongkong
is always on the lookout for
new opportunities to expand.
trade. Each year
Murderer Hanged
Leeds, May 4.
...
charge for Bates kiling in 1953. Thus, the question between He was convicted of that charge the Americans and the British Richard's knee. His leg war which came to power in Octo- participation at these fairs Winton Shaw, 39, radio en once, but was freed when mass appeared to be Which is the badly burned. He knew nothing ber 1851 Reuter
which is the horse? about until someone saw his
MECRITICAT: COMMENT and has shown tangible and gineer, was hanged at Leeds clayer John Francis Roche con cart
The Informende ved that gireddening-leg
Meter Manchester, May 5. useful results. And the Prison this morning for murder-leaved the slaying a WA
mroeling on the summit would So now he has to wear special
The Manchester Chardian opening days of the BIF ing his girl friend, Mrs Meant
Tate, 24, whom he struck with A Grand Jury later disbelieved be short since President Elsen- protective padded clothing Just augur well for at least a an axe and stabbed 20 times Rocher's confession, however, and tower, could not be expected to in case something really serious today criticised the Govern repetition of the "success of with a sheath Knife China re-indicted Pfeffer or the stay away from Washington for happens to him without his ment's policy towards the indefriile period. lubent knowledge China Mail Special Lancashire textile industry and past year
killing United Press
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