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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Disarmament
THE "patience and per-
THE
severance" which
Sir
Anthony Eden warns must be shown before any positive results сап be guined from Big Four dis- cussions have surely beep exemplified by the United Nations Disarmament Com- mission and its five-nation committee. Net result to date? Not by any messg complete success, but at last a definite narrowing of opposing views between the Soviet
Union
the ord
Western members of the committee.
Whatever the shortcomings
of the
latest Russian proposals, they do at least indicate дл importaat
дож
measure of agreement on certain essentials for world disarmament, and the five- power committee can continue its tusk more optimistic of coperete achievement than at any previous time.
The principal Soviet con-
cessions now being offered are: (1) agreement to inter national control
agents
being stationed in every country-including Russia; (2) approval of the Wester proposal for 1 census, disclosure incorporating
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The United States government today indicated readiness to give surplus food supplies if needed for some of the estimated 667,000 Chinese refugees in Hongkong.
Mr Christopher H. Phillips, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, reminded the 20-nation executive committee of the United Nations Refugee Fund (UNREF) that the United States had given considerable quantities of surplus food to Far Eastern peoples in countries including Korea. He. added:
THREE DEAD IN
SINGAPORE
Wave of Strikes
Arranged
Singapore, May 13. Calm was restored late last night after
a day of rioting by bus workers and student sympathisers as a result of four police charges with fire hoses and tear gas:
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London, May 12.
SHOCK FOR The eight East European
CHURCH
Communist states headed by the Soviet Union, meeting in conference in Warsaw today, went into secret ses- alon to discuss unifying
POLLSTERS their military defences.
cent of 400 men women questioned in
A communique issued after today's open session, reported by the Soviet dews agency, Tass, said that a "closed session! at
the conference acard a report
on problems corected
the
with
of combined a armed forces". The report was
the Army, A. 3.
But the chief of the Special Branch Folice, Mr Alan Blades, said: "We expect worse tomorrow", when interviewed yesterday. Blades had set up his London, May 12. "1 feel very confident that the United States government would be headquarters opposite the bus company premises A church report said prepared to make available additional surplus food supplies for distribution by which he expected to be attacked at dawn today. today that about 25 per voluntary agencies as circumstances might require.”
Officials last night stated that the disorders had been Mr Phillips, who was speak-governments and organisations very carefully prepared by the Communist leaders, and pool thought there was presented by Soviet ing on the question of the with a view to their assisting in that the rioters, who had been provided with ammonia and nothing wrong in pre Chinese refugees in Hongkong, alleviating the problems of the acid battles to throw at the police, had acted according to marital relations between
The communique did not give General Antonova position in caid the problem was essential Chinese refugees in Hongkong.
There a humanitarian one.
The resolution noted that a
a prearranged plan with unexpected discipline.
engaged couples.
the Soviet Army, but he is a 19 a scrious
doubt" whether report on the situation by Dr
General The report was issued by a former Chief of the was
One European was reported Norwegian mandate
Hambro, the
commander set of the United Edvard
commission.
after the Staff and a postwar General
of Assembly
the CE mba
at tible Soviet Army in the Nations High Commissioner for former Registrar at the Interna- killed, one Chinese student was policeman
Church Refugees embraced these people,ticnal Court of Justice, would shot dead" and a he said.
soon be published and would fatally injured in rioting yester..
and be available to governments day. voluntary organisations. resolution said
Borough Elections/
Swing To Tories
London, May 13,
"But this problem should in no way cause us to lose sight of the plight of refugees "in Hongkong or anywhere in the world," he added.
the
The police, using hoses and
pickets and supporters gathered
and verification, of each nation's strength in conven- tional weapons;
(3) acquiescence to the West's insistence that ceilings for
The Last night #' mob of howling standing armies in Eussin,
committee Chinese students were trying to America, China, Britain and
was moved by the concern of parade their dead classmate's France be graduated; -(4)-|
First results in the local
the repart for, the humanitarian body before the premises of the" apppre-Hock Lee bus company, whers Mr. Phillips paid tribute to problem involved and acceptance of the West's
council elections in about provision that
the "ane efforts of the Bri-ciated its thoroughness. atomic
between strikers fighting The committee did not discuss assisted by students--and the tish authoriües in Hongkong weapons could be used in 400 boroughs, in England
In dealing with a very difficult the
whether the police began in the morning. question at defence against aggression. and Wales where polling
situation.
High Commissioner's present THESE represent impressive took place, today showed a
Dame May Curwen, British mandate empowers him to help concessions, and while it definite swing towards the
delegate, said she was confident the Chinese refugees in Hong is true some, of the Russian Conservative party.
that questions of eligibility and Prong directis. The legal post Just before midnight, phraseology requires clarin-
the divergert atitudes towards the tion appears doubtful to virtual of 256 boroughs two Chinese governments wouldly all governments except that cation, a basis is offered for results
could mainly cities and towns-de-
the committee or Nationalist China.-Reuter. negotiations which
prevent Conservative party recognising the gravity of the clared the bring world disarmament
had gained 145 seats and lost problem and making efforts to into the realm of reality by 20.
alleviate the lot of the Chinese the end of this year.
Labour had gained 34 seats refugees in Hongkong. Two.. points in the Russian and lost 172.
These barcugh council results proposals create doubt and
io provide There appears are expected misgiving. to be an inference that the plater for the May 26 general
election. Soviets intend to have the
Party leaders kept in touch power of the veto applied
with
their headquarters to the employment of atomic throughout the night
as the weapons even for purely results flooded in.-Reuter.. defensive means. Secondly
the Russians have dragged
in
the
question
of
eliminating foreign bases
and
the withdrawal of
foreign troops from Europe. STOP PRESS.
Palpably this is intended to
destroy the North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation
and
the West European Union. It is a question which bears
no relation to the reduction of national armies and con ventional weapons, and the eventual abolition: of nuclear weapons. It is a red
Conservatives' Big Victory
no!
"
ABSORBTION LIMIT She said Hongkong was small The number 0141 overcrowded of refugees arriving in "he latest exodus from China, was over half a million. There was an annual increase in poputation of some 60,000 people.
not be
solved
Biggest Fire In
"
Ever
New
York City
Ratings Charged With
Murder-
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of Scotland decided in Caucase.
The Communist state 1950, to investigate the leisureferring at Warsaw to set up
pursuits
people.
and habits of young
Ensterne-hype NATO
The report said that though match that of the West. THE SPEAKERS the 400 were not a representa-
Mr. András Hegedues, who tive group, they were far from
became Prime Minister
of being an "impossibly unique
Hungary when Imre Nagy was group."
It
for dismissed said that
rightwing.. more than. a
three weeks Plymouth, May 12. third of the 238 men and over "deviationism" Two 19-year-old naval a tenth of the 154 women ago, presided when the cou-
ference resumed today. nothing was
The
Albanian lear gas had tried to move on ratings from the British air thought there
Prime wrong in premarital relations outside the company's premises craft carrier Ark Royal, between engaged couples Minister, Mr. Mehmet Shehu, Yesterday, morning 5,000 James Bannigan and Alwyn Sixteen per cent of the men was the first speaker. According students and roters were mill-Jones, were jointly charged and four per cent of
the the to
communique, DT thought there was Gheorgiu Dej, the Rumanian ing around the district, and their here today with murdering women numbers increased all day, until last night it was announced that Norman Struthers, amateur nothing wrong in such relations Premier, Mr Vulka Chervenkov, ever if the couple were not the Bulgarian Premier, and Mr engaged. Reuter, an entire tuburban district was actor, in a Glasgow fat.
Peng Teh-bin "the Chinese A nation-wide manhunt follow-
Communist Vice-Premier and alled with over 10,000 rioters.
Defence Minister, who is attend- Mr David Marshall, the Chiefed the finding of Struthers, aged
conference B.3 ar Minister of the newly elected 28, dying in his apartment eight after an overnight
also spoke at today's Singapore Government, stated days ago in a broadcast that the riots party.
The two sailors were alleged conforming to wete "closely Communist technique in seek caused his death by cutting his
in court this morning to have. ing to foment industrial unrest."
on the
2
Bat a
New Terrorism ing the
In
Algeria
Algiers, May 12.
The communique gave tio details of their statements but added that conmissions set up fought by the conference had met
after dinner and that session would be tomorrow-Reuter,
Good Samaritan
Act Tragedy
next
beld
London, May. 12.
on the body with a knife or French authorities There was a deßnite limit to
TEAR GAS
other, sharp instrument and desperately today to quell a new New York, May 12, the absorbing powers of the
Along the Alexandra Road, striking him
head outburst of terrorism and reports microphone from Tunis said that several An 11-alarm fire, one of Singapore's embattled thorough possibly with Colery and the problem could
guerillas have been caught run- satisfactorily the biggest in New York fare, tear gas mingled last night stand. without emigration and resettle-
They were also jointly charged ning arms to Algeria from Libya. City history, raged out of with the fumes of ammonia from ment, she said.
Many
officers expressed alarm She stressed the difficulty of control for hours in a four bottles thrown by the strikers with stealing from his
schoolboys, 3.5 police watch, a wallet, camera, dlary, that the increasingly bold attacks discrimination between refugees block section of Brooklyn and
patrols sought to quell the riot roll of recording tape and £7 in by the rebels may turn North and Chinese inhabitants of long tonight, causing damage es- ing crowds,
cash.
Adica into another Indo-China, standing. There were relugees
The two men were remanded Officers back from Vietnam said For over two miles along
A passing motorist, Mr Frank to await escort to that the Algerian rebels were who were well off and inhabi-timated in the millions.
The fire broke out in a lumber Alexandra Road, near the site in custody tants who were impoverished-
Glasgow.
who stopped his car using precisely the same totics Mills, 45 sometimes through helping re- yard and spread to a four-block of the Hock Lee bus company,
Vietminh. to help in a North London road detective told the court as the Communist A fugees. It was also hard to dis-area that included oil tanks, the road was blocked but only
disperse quietly when accident late last night, col- he telephon- between
political other lumber yards, coal hoppers temporarily. No sooner did the that he arrested Bannigan on They tinguish
the Ark Royal here French troops are around, and lapsed and died board refugees and people who had and garages.
police arect rough barricades of
attack when they are noted for assistance-China Mail.
Special come to Hongkong for economic More than 400 firemen from stones and paying blocks than yesterday.
He said Bannigan admitted United Press. London, May 13.
crowds tore them down 70 companies controlled the the
that he and Alwyn Jones were The Corservatives inflicted a reasons, she said.
She warned against any dex-
again and swarmed into the blaze.
on leave together in Glasgow up crushing defeat on the Socialists
Fire Commissioner Edward disputed area. herring proposal, and it in yesterday's municipal elec-dency to set the refugees apart as a privileged part of the com-
Several cars were overturned to May 4 and had returned to- may have been deliberately tons in England and Wales.
Cavanaugh made a preliminary and set on fire, including oregether to their ship.
Neither man made any state- damage estimate of $2,000,000, included by the Russians
only four results to munity.
HAS NO DOUBT because they know it cannot come in this morning, the re-
Mr Cheng Pro-nan, Nationalist He said the blaze resulted in the police car. Of the two police ment, China Máll special. be accepted by the Western turra showed the Conservatives
Chinese observer, said his gov- greatest number of alarms in the men driving it, one was seriously 334 seats and lost 35
fatally wounded. powers. Much, therefore, depends on and the Socialists won only 47 ernment had no doubt that the City since the 1919 Standard Oil wounded and one believed to be
Chinese refugees in Hongkong fire in Brooklyn, and lost 388.
Three firemen were overcoma ja were eligible for aid by the how insistent the Soviets The Liberals
won 16 seats
United Nations High Commis-by smoke. They were treated are about this particular and lost eight while the Inde-
at the scene before returning to sioner condition. If they are pendents won 75 and lost 49.
He said that 150,000 refugees duty.-United Press, There are no Communist cou adamant, the rest of their
from the mainland had been re- valueless. cillors in England and Wales as plan becomes
since 1949. zettled in Formosa Economie and financial dificul- Thus, while much of the the Party post its only two
ties had prevented the accep-
Between
taiz
month and July his government would move 845 disabled Chinese ex-servicemen from Hongkong
latest proposals can
With
had won
maining seats,
be The Socialists also lost
re-
welcomed as an encouraging trol of 11 municipal councilstance of more.
contribution to a solution of France-Presse.
the disarmament problem,
considerable.. clarification
and some amendment is
required before full agree ment can be reached in the five-nation committee.
A Special Election Series
A young Canadian whose voice is known to millions of BBC listeners begins a special series of three articles on the British General Election in the China Mail to
morrow.
He is Robert Mackenzie, political commentator and author of the widely acclaimed book "British Political Parties" published in January. Tomorrow he discusses the Tory Party.
Dockers Vote
To Strike
London, May 12.
RESIGNATION REJECTED
STUDENT, DIES A Chinese middle school 10 student died on admission hospital with gunshot wounds.
He is believed to have been
Rome, May 12. shot by police with a sten gun Siger Glovani Gronchi, new- burst when a mob attacked
elected President of the Dalian Republic, today refused police radio car. ·
Four Chinese who brought to accept the resignation of the student to the bospital have Premier Mario Scelba's Govern- been detained for interrogation.ment, offered
courtesy
aly
United Press correspondent, gesture when the President took Gene Symonds, underwent an office, an official communique to Formosa, he said. It was A mass meeting of dock emergency operation for a trae announced tonight. hoped that 30,000 refugees workers in London's East End tured skull and arm. He is on Political observers expected might be moved from Hong- tonight, voted to strike from May the dangerously 11 list.
Gronchi to turn down Signor The government due 23 in support of a claim for fall
announced kong to Formosa in
the Prender's offer but were course, but this would depend recognition of their union by
today (Friday) that troops are
surprised at the length of the on the economic situation and port employers throughout the standing by in the light of come interview about two and a
which might be countdockers belong to the
tinuing mob astivities. assistance
half hours. Some observers be- received.
CALLING STRIKES
lieved that the President had Mr Cheng dhanlted the British small National
Amalgamated
A wave of striices involving asked Signor Scelba to reshuffle. auberities for "generous and Stevedores and Dockers Union 40,000 workers in Singapore will his Cabinets consistent assistance to the re-it is just over 10,000-strong be called in the next few days. fugees
in Hongkong:
with members In London The strikes will paralyse Outlining the "enviable"" Liverpool, Hull and Manchester, nearly all industry and trans
Hongkong. The strike decision must now porte economic situation
sild be hoped the British be put to the rest of London te
There may be strikes at the authorities might be able to do members, and if they agree to naval base, civil suport Cable aile bit more for the plures stop work, it will almost cer- and Wireless, and the local thos
tainly spread to other docis industry. at least the refugee tal camps would be continued.
He urged the High Commis. 2nd cripple the nation's chie
| ports --Reuter. S sioner to explore possibilites of small, for them. A word from bim could mean five continuation
and that
All these have been called in protest against the use of force' by police
Official sources have main- tained a strict silence about the interview-France-Presse.
Korean Fishermen Fired On
Tokyo, May 12 Several. Scule Korean fisher men were severely wounded co by doing • something, kowever. Parrots Escape Delegates of the unions after when they were fired
North Korean ANCI in the a meeting decided to west coast fishing grounds near Paris, May 12. One hundred screaming cables protesting resinst police
sace, South Korean intelligence SOLIZUES parrots broke loose from their action to the British Trades the Indian
safty bace today ciger today as they were un Union Congress
It is expected that the United- government of "Negil
I WAS Gurkha platoon (in the North Korean : Govern- which earlier in the day med shout the incident which "dispeced" Communist strikersins via reported to have – operated
France Free gal Reuter last Tueningence-Presse,
Chinese re The acided, OH ANNU
The coqunities
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