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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1955.
By Galbraith
Russo-Japanese Talks Draw
And Son Times Comment
HE father was immense- proud of his son, but kept his pride in his pocket, and never made it a burden to anyone. The father was a country postman.
London, June 2.
The Times today maintained that Japan's main object in entering upon negotiations with Russia is to show the world that she is no one's satellite.
This independent newspaper also expressed the view that Russia is likely to go as far as pos- Sonsible to satisfy Japan in the hope that the ties between Tokyo and Washington may be weakened.
Dick, his promising showed the stuff he was made
of by joining the Army straight from the grammar school he had camed a place at, resisting suggestions that he might sit out the tail-end of the war quite the Army
honourably in a university.
Dick did well in and received a commission.
JOBS EAST AND WEST
WHEN he was demobilised, he
. Another newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, said that Russia hopes to add an important new member to its list of candidates for the "neutrality club."
Japanese security still depends on American friendship and will continue to do so for many years, this Conservative newspaper added."
The Times editorial declared: opposite number, Mr Malik, the "Mr Matsumoto, recently Soviet Ambassador, to pave the Japanese Ambassador in London way for discussion about how who now lead his country's best the two terms of negotia- delegation to the Russo-Japanese tors can get to work. talks which are beginning in to | London
this week. yesterday paid a courtesy call upon his
got a job in Bangkok. It was a job with fine future in it. But
climate there the
made invalid of him, and he had come home.
estate- Here, he entered an agent's office, found the life too duh, and joined a circus-on the business side. In the circus, he met a Dutch girl, and married
It was her.
happy very marriage. But unless you have a fair for it, a circus life is not ideal for a newly married couple, as Dick and his wife noon realised.
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They left the, circus, and he found work with an estate agent again.
That job did not last for long. One or two others followed. In
all of them, Dick earned £10- £11 a week-short by a pound er two of what his wife and he found it cost to live in London
LOSING HOPE
Court Not
Sympathetic To Request
There are a
great many
Problems to be settled and no one expects the conference to end quickly.
"Indeed it is generally thought that Mr Matsumoto has a long task before him and that there will be a good deal of hard bar- gaining." The Times commented.
"The choice of London as the stat of the conferetice is signi- Acant
"ANGLING
"For some years now the Soviet Union has been angling 19 detach Japan from the West- rn Powers and accordingly.was prompt to take advantage of the
Capr. 1968 by MLA Barvan, Io. T. 16. Rog. Là2 & Pat Off.
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"'Alice's husband must be making scads of money..he had to pay so much income taxes they can't afford a trip out here this year!"
Man Who Caused
The
Strike Breaks
Down And
Cries
London, June 1. Dubbed "the most unpopular man in England" for his part in calling the British rail strike, Jim Baty wept today as he was told of the hardship caused to the public by the train stoppage. Then felt besieged by bills. Dick said of the Appeals Court in Mister that Japan was he apologised to reporters for being so "emotional."
DEBTS began to
the wall couple round so that they
we
ton
were too
that
"The
new
Mr
Prime
Baty, 69-year-old General Secretary to the ASLEF (Associated Society of Locomotive En- gineers and Firemen), called the strike for extra money in order to safeguard the status of his fellow drivers and firemen.
Washington, June 1. The Justice Department. today urged the eight-judge recent swing of Japanese opinion. US Court of Appeals to rein- (as illustrated by the fall of Mr state the key counts of the Yoshid) in favour of a foreign government's perjury indict policy less closely aligned to that ment against the Far East of Washington, expert, Owen Lattimore.
declaration of But Chief Judge Henry Edgar-Hatoyama, the dicate in a series of sharp ques normal relations interrupted to consider the resumption of to his wife: "There's only one thing. You must go back to tions from the Bench that he
shared a lower Court's view since the Russian refusal to sign Holland
that
the San Francisco Treaty left the charges
the two countries technically "IC
selt your fur coat, "formless and obscure" to bring was soon taken up we'll get the price of your fare. to trial,
This was the reason given by by the Kremlin, which suggested I'll stay here and settle things
either Moscow or Tokyo as the Judge, t up. One day, it be all right the Federal District
meeting place. One
Luther Youngdahl day, perhaps. The
last January "But Japan, anxious to con- wife went back to her people. for dismissing the key counts.vince the Western
His action caused Premier world that These counts charged
her new independent" Dick did not feel he could go Lattimore lied when he denied policy augurs no ill will to the Queen for special powers to foreign Sir Anthony Eden to ask the it testimony before the Soute Democratic Powers insisted to his parents, who had such,
of him
Internal
deal with the emergency, high opinion
and Sccurity sub -"Com- |;"
dislocated. Industry throughout struggled for a time to pay off mittee in 1952 that he had ever Western capital and at one
moment favoured Washington. the debts. Then he lost hope of followed the Communist line" or
the country. The final choice fell
upon getting straight by honest means, prometel Communist interests.
London
mainly because Anglo- The Justice Department has He tried to buy two diamond charged that Judge Youngdahl Japanese relations are less con- rings at two West End shops, was "blased" in favour of Latti troversial in Japan than handing over worthless cheques more. Mr Youngdahl rejected Japanese-American relations. for them. But the jewellers this as a "scandalous attempt to
"Japan's main object in er- both said: "We will send the interfere with the administration tering upon the negotiations is rings when the cheque
of Justice,
no doubt to show the world in cleared."
At # hearing before the general and Asia in particular Appeals Court today on the gov
that she is no one's satellite. ernment's motion la reinstate ICK resilsed then that when the key counts, Lattimore's at
the cheques bounced. he torneys, Thurman Arnold and
Joseph would face criminal charges. He Senator
O'Mahoney, wal back
that argued that the bias to the Bot
charge had seemed so empty since his made a fair trial impassible. wife went away. He took 23 They urged the Court to throw pills, which he thought would out the entire case--including pa fatal dose, put 35. 6d. in five minor counts still pending.
DICK
HOPE LOST
He
ia
the gas-meter, and lay down m-United Press. front of the gas fire with the
gas turned on.
Presently, someone In the house complained of a smell of zas. Dick was
brought back
pleaded
io life, and presently Brought to Bow Street, where he guilty
'to attempted suicide, and to attempting in ootdin money by means of worthless chéques.
The story was told to Mr K. Barraclough, the magistrate 'Dick said: "y want to say that my wife had no notion of the queer things I was trying to do."
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Confidence
Is Behind
US Boom
li
CONCESSIONS
on
Terrorism Again
On Rampage
Constantine, June 2.
SHEAFFER'S
7
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
ALLEGED BANK FRAUD
Stevenson
Witness Under Criticises Cross-Examination "Misguided"
US Policy
A denial that he knew that overseas Chinese remitted funds to their homes in China through his bank was made by Wang Koo-ho of the National
New York, June 1. Industrial Bank of China when he was cross-
Mr Adlai Stevenson examined by Defence Counsel, Mr Patrick Yu in
charged tonight that the the Victoria District Court this morning."
government's "misguided" had Mr Yu, instructed by Mr F. H. B. Wong, is immigration policy defending a merchant, Ng Yik-wah, said to have strangled the flow of new been the intermediary who remitted funds for talent and energy to the
United States. Chinese from the South Seas through Wang's Bank.
Ng is charged before Judge J. Reynolds on two counts of causing the National Industrial Witness: I myself have Bank to pay in Amey money done anything wrong
The case is proceeding... to $58,525 on 1954 by falsely
cause you introduced him to the Bank
amounting October 8, pretending that three cheques for a total of $95,000 drawn by him on the China State Bank were good. Two alternative counts accusing him of having cbtained $58,525 credit from the National Industrial Bank by fraud от false pretences were also preferred.
The Prosecution, conducted" by Crown Counsel, Mr J. W, D. Hobley, assisted by Insp. R. Dudman, alleged that accused had knowingly exceeded his credit at both Banks when he drew the cheques which were subsequently dishonoured and that
the National
Industrial Bank would not have made the payments in Amoy if they had known that this was the case,
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THURSDAY, JUNE 2 By Alr India,
Pakistan Middle
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He called for an urgently needed" revision of the immigra tion laws
and expressed the hope that steps recently "and at would long last announced" succeed.
This apparently was a refer- ence to a new immigration pro- gramme announced by President Bisenhower last week.
Mr Stevenson discussed im- migration in a speech at the public assembly of the Ameri យ Jewish Tercentenary in
Carnegie Fall. Hi R speech was wwwdcast
"A misguided policy has of late
not only prevented us from helping to
the world's grievous wounds," he said, ""but has strangled this flow of new talent and energy,
soon
REVISION NEEDED "We all hope that our current. immigration laws will undergo
an urgently needed revision and. that
the steps recently
long last announced will succeed.”
and
at
Mr Stevenson said the US had not been living up to its full responsibilities "of freedom. If It had there would be less racial and religious discrimina-
..And I believe that we
The witness Wang, testified that his Bank allowed the accused an overdraft of $50,000 East, Africa, Great Britain & Europe, tion, he said, adding. only against post-dated cheques, but Mr Yu maintained that for the last three or four years the accused had been remitting zmoney through the Bank amounting to more than million dollars and his credit
overdraft which
was always good; he was per exceeded one lakh.
mitted
ад
Mr Yu put it to the witness that the accused never had any but
security with his bank, Wang did not agree.
CREDIT ONCE GOOD
his
He admitted, however, that formerly Ng's credit with
know that he would defraud us by such means," he added.
Bank was very good, "but we did not
Witness would not agree that on October 8 his Bank would have remitted the money in any event whether or not the cheques were forthcoming.
Wang said that when he went
By Surface Malaya, Ceylon, India, Ader. Md. least, Great Britain and Europe,
Macao, & para.
5 D.m.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 By Air Thailand. 8 am.
Formosa, Japan, Korea, 10 a.m. Indo-China, 22 mm.
Philippines, 2 p.m..
Formosa, 5 pm.
Burrea," India, Pakistan, East, Africa, Great Britabi rope, 6 9.m.
Japan, .m. UŠA. Canada.
By Sur
Middle
in the West would never have watched free society generate the spirit of racial antagonism which opened its gates to the Fascists."
There would be less squalor
and fewer - and want
class actagonisms such as those that Mr Ste- spawned Communism,
& Eu-Verisor said.
Lig
China, People's Repubile. 9.30 a.m. Malaya, Burma, India, 11 a.m. Japan, Hawaii, 1 p.m. Macao. 2 p.m.
Thailand. a p.m.
Macao, & im.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 By Air Thailand. Malaya, Indonests, Aus- traila, New Zealand & Ceylon, 9 lem.
Philippines, 3 p.m. Indo-China, France. 2 p.m. Pallippines. N. Borneo,. 6 p.m. Jepes. Hawall, U.S.A., Canada,
é p.m.
Malaya, Indonesia, Australia. New Zealand, Thailand, India, Pakistan,
to see the accused on October 9, Middle East, Africa, Great Britain &
| Europe, d ́p.m. Ng was very surprised and up- set that his cheques had been dishonoured, He said he would "do his best."
Wang said that he suspectedi that Ng spoke these words for the purpose of delaying matters.
mote
An ex-barber's assistant, Baty was injured in a car accident a few months ago and left hos- pital with a weak heart. Re- porters found him today at his home in Stanmore, pleasant- North London suburb, sipping berb tea and following on the After 48 hours of relativeHe put the same interpretation radio and television the con- calm, yesterday was marked on Ng's handing to him of 3 sequences of his action.
and saying that he could by increased terrorist acti-collect more than $10,000 on it. Baly was successful in obtain-vity throughout Algeria. Wang agreed with Mr Yu ing à rise in wages for the.
was in code but train drivers and Bremen whom near Khenchela and her throat
A young woman was attacked that the note
denied that he knew. in
was he represents in negotiations
because such remittances was cut, last October. But when the re-
Indonesia were illegal mainder of the
Near Edgar Quinet the body of rallway workers
an Algerian was found. obtained the
an increase in January this cancelled out the extra vay which he considered essential to mark the
skill and exiga responsibility of the foot plate-
"But scarcely less important is her desire to obtain from the Soviel Union certain concessions to which she considers herself entitled,
"High on the list comes
never
return of Japanese prisoners of tar-estimated at many thou- sands-whom Russia has released,
"Then there is her claim to the former Japanese territories, seized by Russia in 1945-south Sakhalin, the Kuriles, the Hahoma and Shikotan Islands,
"The two last are. so close to the tip of Hokkaido that when
the sea is frozen a journey an
foot is easily practicable; and the loss of the island chain has entailed the loss of fishing rights which are important to
a cour- try where fish is a staple diet.
Finally there is the Japanese anxiety to find Russian markets for Japanese exports and to secure new sources
of the raw. which Japanese materials 'upon industry depends.".
What concessions the Soviet
теп.
VAIN. REQUEST
men were
code
from
Released
Men In Fine
Condition
Honolulu, June 1. Four American fighter pilots freed after nearly two years in
"And today we were living
rigerously to these respon sibilities, we would sternly resist all those trying to stir mistrust and supicion and hatred in our midst," he said. "We would not tolerate any abridgement of freedom, and opportunity
for..
decent American citizens."
NATION'S STRENGTH Mr Stevenson. sala every American was descended from. Immigrants and revolutionists. The nation's strength he said, was due largely to a blending of racial, religious and cultural in10 strands, "woven together the fabric of American liberty."
For it requires today, not just a nation, but a nation of nations to offer undersLand- ing and, through understanding, leadership to the anxious, and aspiring peoples of the world." he said
If the 40,000,000 persons who migrated to the United States between the American Revolu- tion and World War II had re- maized
in Europe, he said. "how much greater Europe would have been.... and how feeble and underdeveloped our own dear land would be."
WORKED WELL
- Mr Stevenson sald some step- tics wondered whether the
He agreed that the accused a Chinese Communist prison told him on October 9 that he camp arrived" here today eager In the Aures mountain region, was expecting remittances from for a reunion with their loved terrorists set fire and partly the South Seas but added that ones lots of ham and eggs and United Nations could ever work destroyed forestry estate,
he also thought this
with the finance and painted out "It has worked was just a little talk It Was reported from for the purpose of putting him
officer
pretty well to the United States Philippeville,
The six
four airmen who were for nearly 170 years.. young of Moslems left their homes
"deported" through the bamboo and
It was foolish, he said, to joined a local outlaw band.
curtain at Hongkong yesterday blame current perils of freedom Recruitment
arrived at 8.22 am, aboard the by terrorists continues strongly in this area, From various parts of Algeria reports came in during the day of cut telephone wires
and
DID NOT KNOW
on
Mr Yu: You knew that be-54 Bataan, once the personal tricks payed by
**
aggressors,
part, has surely been the fault of tree society am ever had its chance to loose itself that totalitarian imperial-
its evils in the world," said Mr
Radio Hongkong
FLET
Jim, Baty, asked in vain for
tweet 1951 and 1954 all the re-plane of Ger second increase. The British
Douglas Mac- mittances were from the South Transport Commission... refused
Arthur. Seas to be remitted to China. on the ground that an increase
The Air Force revealed Witness: I did not know from that each man had from 15,000 earlier for the drivers and firemen broken telegraph poles--France- where the money was remitted to 20,000 dollars in back pay would start of a 'new spiral of Presse demands all round.
to Hongkong. I did not ask coming which they could draw Stevenson. AND IN MOROCCO
the accused.
in Honolulu if they so desired. Casablanca, June 2, New York, June 1.
So Jim called the strike, and
"I deeply believe that, if free "You introduced him to the After an informal but warm men had better lived up to the today, sad-eyed and slow- Terrorists in Morocco killed One of the nation's biggest
bank yourself specifically for gresting at
the
planeside, responsibilities of freedom, free banks said today that the
voices, He told reporters that his two persons yesterday, while at these remittances because you the
beaming ex-prisoners society would be in a far WILL SHE COME BACK?
Moroccan was killed at wanted to get the business for were hustled 10 Tripler Army stronger condition today every- economy was heading for
in good heart - and | Ouida, record-shattering
even
prepared to hold out for another a local market and another killed. year
your BankNo. I knew the Hospital for a medical checkup where in the world, United ICK'S father, old and. retired without being spurred by war
three months if need be. DICK
in the same area when he was accused was in the expert and Physicians reported later that Press. man
leads who by
all went into
the shot through the head by unimport business and also. now,
the or inflation."
four were in "ne 400,000-strong National Union of known assallants,
Physical witness-box. He said "My son's The First National City Bank
Railwaymen
A charge of explosives was did not know he was remitting hold a press conference in the
mitting money to Amoy, but I condition." which has con- room's waiting for him
The men home, noted in its June Bank letter
are scheduled to sir, if you'd let me take care of that "the major
business. Union is ready to make to this damned the strike of the smaller found under a seat in a bus in
67,000-member "ASLES, is als Casablanca during a routines, Seas. I did not know it was Hickam Field Officers Club at
money for people in the South him,"
upswings in the past two considerable list of Japanese
a"Jim", usually called "Big Jim security check, decades" had been triggered by claims remains to be seen, The Fr
The explosives on behalf of overseas Chinese. 4 p.m. HST. (11 a.m., HKT).— "What about his wife?" the war or inflationary trends. But Times said China Mall Special,Campbell."
were removed,
nover knew he received United Press magistrate asked. “Will sar now a "sense of confidence and
Meanwhile, two Lerrorists,
overseas to remit money from back to him, do you prosperity has grown, it
Like Baty, Campbell is also 80 years old A large, Jovial were arrested in Casablanca inst
to China. Booming production, retail
the ac- The Hague, June 1, man with a slight Scots accent, night for having fred on a
Witness denied that car driver. A third cused instructed him on "Yes, sir, I think she will" sales and constructions are play-
The Dutch Cathoile Dewshe has spoken out against the European the old postman said. "She's a ing key parts in the 1955 per-paper De Maasbode says existence of the smaller union, Moroccan is still being sought nice girl she's a good wite. formance,
the country's third "Nothing is less sure than that declaring that all railwaymen by the police-France-Presse believe she's written, my son to largest commercial bank said. Japanese Premier Hatoyama is should belong to one group. say she'll come back as soon as But if took note of these po planing to sell out to the Com-
sible "soft spots" in the second munists in the coming negotia, Union, known as the aristocrats of the rails are believed, to prober 1. Declining farm internes tions with Russia! 20 Coming downturn in "Hatoyama is a shrewd poli- largely Conservative, Campbell's. Labour car zales,
tician who realises how strong followers are mainly
Big Bill 3. Expanding · costumer his position is between East and supporters. It was
West and hopes to derive the Campbell who introduced are simultaneously at noon today by Banks Club or that he tried on The Radio said that her
Germer Slackening rate of new maximum benent from it. petent, as the last Labor HMS Tamar and at Signal Hill, these occasions to get aim to bat according to the provisions
soliation condemming home construction. — United The newspaper" "expects, how,
Parly
bou Kowloon, in celebration of the repay the money owing to his of the food control plan; 1,300, COOK HT Press.
ever, that the Soviet-Japanese If the two
could come
Sam second anniversary of
the Bank
the remittances. - 600 ration tickels for May Have talics will fast long. adding: “It to terms about a wage scale for Coronation of Her Majesty the Mr Yu: I suggest that the been distributed among some is difficult to try to be friends the different categories of rail Queen. All Her Majemy's tilps obvious reason for your whole 10,000 consumption of watch with everyone: East and West workers, the strike would prob- and visiting American war-attitude towards the accused is the rationayatem actended to and public opinion at home.”— ably-- end tomorrow, France ships in port were dressed that you were afraid of being | peasanta in ita Chine Mali Special,
Presser
overall for the occasion.
Involved with your Bank be-France-Prese
come think?"
He
The magistrate nodded. put Dick on probation, and sent hlim off with his father. I saw them leave the court. They went arm in arm, in silence, as If neither could” And words: apt „for their admiration and affec-
tion for each other.
debi
it added.
Printed and rublished by WILLIAM ALICK. GRINHAM for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Vistoria, in the Colony of Hongkong,
DUTCH COMMENT
While the men of Baty's
Anniversary Of Coronation
October
to wire to Amoy to stop the remittances. He said he did not
Red China's New
Food Plan
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know that the accused had. in A new food control plan with B-Tokyo, June 2........ structed the China State Bank its aim to retrench, urban supply
there.
A 21-gun salute was fired Pr 11 and October 18 he had made Radio Produced by Alan Burgess (Parik
invited the accused to the
this morning
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