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LMOST ten months have passed since that memor able afternoon last Septem. ber when the Reform Club! held its marathon filibuster in the Urban Council. Hongkong will remember the occasion well,
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motion proposed by the Reformisis that all un. official seats on the Council should be filled by election by next year, Mr Brook Bernacchi spoke for no less than two-and-a-half hours. He was laterrupted on a point of order by the Chair- man on the grounds that the debate was not contri- buting to the
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Whiteaways
HONGKONG SKOWLOON
RUSSIA'S AGRICULTURAL CRISIS
Cyprus Problem
Experts
"Virgin
Land"
Torn Over Scheme Fails
Question Of WANTS TO PURCHASE
Policy CANADIAN WHEAT
Our Own Correspondent
London, June. 29.
The Prime Minister, Sir
work of the Council. The Anthony Eden, is expected
From RENE MacCOLL
New York, June 29. Russia wants to buy 25 million bushels Council then adjourned, to make a major statement of wheat from Canada and is asking for but the four Reform Club on British policy members disputed
the Cyprus and the movement
constituted a quorum and
over early delivery,
ruling and continued the to unite it with Greece in I understand the Soviets are seeking meeting, claiming that four the next few days. It will wheat mainly for their Hungarian and duly passed their motion. probably hint strongly at a Polish satellites. It was later nullified by a fresh approach to the settle- legal ruling that the Chair-ment of man's adjournment ruling island. was in order.
As fur
Was
unrest
on the
But there is wide disagree meat and uncertainty among the government's advisers as wel
Greece or nothing.
д
con-
with
The price will be approximately £16|
Hongkong Asked To Kennedy
Asks For Remove Travel
Police Protection
Restrictions
London, June 29.
The New China News Agency today called on the Hongkong authorities "promptly to remove" restric tions on Chinese travelling between Canton and Hongkong.
The agency, in a, Canton despatch, said 90 per cent fewer people than in the same period last year were travelling between the two cities.
In March there were more than 13,400 travellers.. between Canton and Hongkong but this fell to 9,900 in April, 5,300 in May and "only scores each day at present"
.
The agency said: "Afraid of being denied re- entry many Chinese dare not leave Hongkong to visit their families or for business reasons".-Reuter.
million and the Russians say they will pay Britain Favours New
cash.
This news' means the massive project to grow grain in the virgin lands of Eastern Russia initiated by Nikita Krushchev, the Soviets' political
is faltering.
Locarno Pact
London, June 29.
THE ARGENTINE
State Of Siege
Ends
Buenos Aires, June 29.. An official broadcast over the Argentine radio today announced the lifting of the state of slege throughout the country imposed follow-
Manila, June 30. Harry Kennedy, an Aus- tralian national charged in ing the revolt of June 16 and the resignation of the In- Court here with smuggling terior Minister, Senor Angel and falsification of official Gabriel Borlenght.... documents, sought police The official broadcast said that protection today after his President Juan Feron had de- release from the custody of creed the lifting of the state of National Bureau of Investi-siege because of the "d'sappear- gation and Customs agents ance of the causes that led to
and its Imposition
the re- who had arrested him,›
establishment of order through- Kennedy's release was ordered out the country. by the local Court of the First Instance after he had posted ball at US $15,000.
from
Simultaneously the Army an- nounced the dissolution of the "repressien_command" under the In seeking police protection, Army Minister, General Frank- Kennedy said... he feared lin
Lucero, that was formed "reprisals" certain parties when revolt began after the
had be had disclosed as the big shots Pope
excommunicated behind an
an alleged international Argentine state leaders for their amuggling syndicate here.
part in the Church versus state The Australian,
whose dispute. possession some $100,000 was
THE LETTER seized on Friday, was to have
The radio announcer read the been arraigned before the Court letter
.of resignation which today. But in view of new de- Sezer Borlenghi. sent to Pre velopments in the case the pro sidest Peron ceedings were postponed by addressed the Argentine leader Judre. Juan Enriquez ""to
as "President and friend" Kaw Yiok, a Chinese national
which the dollars were reported to have staged a one-man hunger strike since his arrest last Sundaya
cases in
2
As
he
which 1
The sequel to that fiasco and to a long list of Reform "Club manoeuvres in the as members both supporting and
Urban Council
the opposing
the government unanimous adoption of a parliament on how
fresh new set of standing orders policy can be framed Past boss by the Council on Tuesday. efforts to grant à new
It also suggests a possible reason for Russia's
"Britain would like to see next month's "sum-later date." the new rules as stitution to Cyprus have failed a whole are concerned, few through opposition from Greek recent "soft" policy towards the West. in this politically apathetic Cypriots who say "Union
The Russians are bedevilled Buge new deals may be in the mit conference at Geneva lead to a Locarno-type community will be .in.
at home. They have repeatedly org, not only in raw materials anti-aggression pact for Europe built round a re-reported to have owned the two years as a minister and 12 years terested,
At the UN conference just Before the solution is ham-assured the satellite states that IN view of the widespread mered out Cyprus is likely to Moscow will look after them. endeck in San Francisco I talked united Germany, an authoritative source here said found, was
difficulties on to many
behind the today. feeling of astonishment cause the first big clash in the But increasing
United Press. new parliament. It may begin the farms has made Russia go to scenes-men of the East, in- which followed the Re-with a Labour motion of censure Canada for immediate help.
cluding
as well as formists' Alibuster in the next few days."
Russia's apparent inability to Westerners.
I received scores of hints that maintain her programme September, however, two
self-sufficiency at all costs" added up to the fact Russia specific standing
may well be the reason why asking for a breathing space be- deserve comment.
Molotov has smiled in America cause she must-London Express and Krushchev became so con Service. vivial in Yugoslavia
orders One is 6 (5) which was later deleted in favour of a new one, 10 (1). The former specified that every notice of motion "mast be con- fined to some matter in- cluded within section 54 vi! the UC ordinance or dealing with the procedure of the Council". Not surprisingly perhaps, Mr Bernacchi said it had been included "for the express purpose of muzzling elected member". That, of course, is a patent absurdity The new order would merely re- quire members to confine
Experts in the Foreign Office and among the committees ad- vising the Cabinet agree on only one thing that no solution will satisfy all the interested parties which include the Greek and Turkish governments as well as Britain herself.
PLAIN TALKING
its
of
have
men
the satellites, as
He
Doesn't
Qualify
Such a treaty, which would also include the United States and possibly Canada, would guarantee peace on the continent for both the Communist and non-Communist nations.
Sir Winston Churchill Erst which would have to be work. mooled the idea of a Locarno-ed out by foreign ministers at type security system-two years talks after the summit.mest. Ago. He was referring to a pact the visit to London in early of the kind signed at Locarno in 1925 in which five European July of Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, sales mutually
Frime guaranteed India's
awaited France against attack by Ger- keenly
ministers here who rhany and vice versa.
Minister,
The Senator's
Concession
It said: "After serving for île
union leader I belleve. I can better serve my country by re turning to my original work as
Peronista union leader!" Senor Borlenghi, according to the broadcast, said he wanted to give the President а free hand In choosing a new minister and concluded "I will always be your faithful friend and shall con tinue unswerving in
mith in the
Peronista doce"
today he would travel to Swif zerland on July 8 with his family and some friends.
No hint has yet been given of Senor Borlenghi's successor put the retiring minister said would be a young man tested within the Percnista muve-
"Reuter. ment
Russia was formerly one of
Washington, June 29, Senator John McClan con the top wheat-exporting nations.
ceded today that Britain had the The fact that she must now usk for outside and capitalistic-
by Cabinet Fight to use warships to protect help, thus confessing to her
believe he her merchant ships trading with The problem is regarded as satellites that she is really ap
The United States declined to may be able to give a very Communist China
But he said Britain should mainly a Foreign Office one as against it, is a giveaway.
sponsor such a pact with the valuable assessment of current tension in Cyprus draws
following his stop all trading with the Reds. All reports that Russia is in
Communist powers when Sir Soviet thinking Wellington, June 20. strength from the inflammatory trouble at home seem to
The New Zealand Workers attitude of both Greece and new and firm grounds, And
Winston Churchill subsequently talks in Moscow and Belgrade, He has been a leading Senate critic of Western nations that Turkey.
Union said today
trade with Red. China, that James discussed his suggestion with-Reuter. since she is asking for dollar Hury, the paralysed 2-year Washington. But British policy
Commenting
a British wheat in Ottawa, Russia's
warning to Nationalist China First steps. say the experts, negotiators will go to the Bigold Irishman for whom it has experts are expected to raise raised nearly £3,000 to send the proposal again in talks with may be plair. talking with Four "summit" talks in Geneva him to England, cannot be ad- American and French diplomats
that she would use warships to protect her merchant vessels, Greece and Turkey-in a calm next month under a consider.
British hospital be- mitted to
in Paris shortly when they
Senator McClellan told a repor- cause he is not British
for the conference of
ter: "Of course Britain has a right to protect her ships if she trades with Red China, but shejured her back today in a fall should not be trading with her."
United Press.
and private atmosphere,
4.
aple bancicop.
in
Mr Henry, who comes from
Baby's Body
heads of government opening Sent Home
on July 18.
men
But since Greece rebuffed the If Russia reeds foreign wheat
County Meath, was injured in a their remarks to essential British note calling for an end so badly the farm situation
inflammatory pro-Enows her huge experimental granaries car accident ten months ago and
Rocent suggestions by spokes- urban service business
paralysed from the waist down,
the three with Greece) broad-at home must be very bad,
of
Western which is what they were (Union
An estimated
million it is feared permanently. ene
powers both publicly and pri appointed, nominated and cast from Athens the diplomatic
of them
His fellow workers started a raw elected to do. The British Poach has been temporarily workers-mast
checked.
youths and girls with
nafund so that he could be in Eng-vately suggest that there is still Government's view ON
previous experience of farm land and near his family. The much work to be done to co- a Western Joint Recent terrorist activity in work-have been in difficulties. New Zealand Government is ordinate constitutional reform is
Their living conditions on the willing to fly him back to Eng-attitude for the historic meeting well known and the general Syprus also make it difficult for
with the Soviet leaders, Britain to make concessions
virgin lands were frightful.land. feeling is there is no point without
Workers the appearing to
appease. Tractors and ploughs rusted. in
PUZZLING STATEMENT in Hogging a dead horse. Firmer anti-terrorist' measures
the mud. Moreover, the UC is not the in Cyprus have been suggested platfom for that kind of in government circles.. debate.
Whatever course is finally
JI
In Box
Londonderry, June 29.
New Casablanca Outrage
FILM STAR'S ACCIDENT
Hollywood, June 29. Actress Barbara Stanwyck In
down a fight of stairs at her home here.
Miss Stanwyck was taken to St. John's Hospital in nearby Santa Monies in an ambulance for X-rays, Dr George Ainlay, A hospital committee here
Sr., said the extent of her Casablanca, June 29. knjury ·was' has criticised the parents
not immediately, and relatives who failed to
Twu Europeans were serious known. He said she was in branch in Dunedin, where Mr Yesterday's statement by Mr Visit a sick baby in hospitally wounded here today when "great pain"
The actress was coming down Henry is in hospital, now said John Foster Dulles, the United and telephoned for the baby an unknown man fred on them
in the centre of the city. The fight of stairs with an armful State, to be sent home after it had man who fired the shots ran off of garments when a hanger ap today that it had not been able States Secretary to find accommodation for him opposing suggestions of a comdied.
in the direction of the Moroccan parently fell from the clothes, in Britain's hospitals China mon security guarantee because
her to trip-United Mail Special,
Press
t
Union
8 YEARS FOR COLLABORATION
of
The committee was discussing quarter. The victims were sent dousing of the lack of trust between yesterday a complaint from Me to hospital-France-Presse. Esat and West has puzzled diplo Robert Donaldson, temporary matic quarters here.
The statement followed
A
spate of speculation by respon-
PROJECTS FAIL Both Hungary and Poland Mr Benacchi's strenuous adopted It is clear that many obediently started "student".
objections, however, experts are advising Britain to
virgin land projects in the wake threatened the prospect of abandon her uncompromising of Russia's own. But these pro-
in stand over Cyprus that she unanimous agreement
postman, that the body of his Lour weeks old son had been the new standing orders and wanted no outside interferencejects also ran into trouble.
So it seems to be the general any British
sent home in a cardboard' box. an amendment was made, in the affairs of
admission that the Soviet and
sible American commentatoreS territory.
satellite
"offen- Order 10 (1) is essentially
The baby diod in the city and Agricultural
New York, June 30. about the possib:litty of a
bere from as the Communists call United States Army Corporal. |
county hospital the same except that the But it is out of the questionsive"
which Harold Dunn, formerly
security
measles. Mr Robert McCarter, sanction of the Council in that Sir Anthony Eden will con them have falled
some way the Communist the Committee Secretary, sald is
abandoning
Since Russia, is entering the prisoner of war in Ears, was and Western countries. committee
Britain's required rider
to eight years' "hard One highly placed, scarce here
the body was sent home as tele- before any motion not bear- sovereignty over Cyprus or per- world market on such a scale entenced ing on the statutory duties mit any step threatening the it may well herald a new look labour by a military court here defence in international trade to match for collaboration with the enemy. or procedure of the Council security of the
softer are being built on Dew
and
look in Dunn pleaded guilty to the can be debated.
diplomacy,
charges-France-Presse,
THIS amply means
до
that however motion, 'irrelevant, can be ruled out of order automatically. Council in committee must decide. True the harangue can continue in committee, but as these meetings are held in camera, the public will be mercifully sheltered, Another clause, 13 (18) is
bases which
the island.
new
Dramatic Murder Trial Evidence
.1
Duesseldorf, June 29.
В
Mr McCarter said the attendant might have been "over zealous", but acted as he thought right.
thought Mir Dulles might have directed by a woman who been trying solely to dissipate phoned, the hospital
United States any belief that the coight
now give serious con- sideration to the kind of security system proposed by Russia inst yes was rejected by Western powers
I would say that after having discussions with the attendant. the and with the nursing star con-
at the tour-cerned that they had all carried
power conference in Berlin be out a sad
out a sad duty with seemliness Me McCarter they said would un- and decorum, dermine the Atlantic pact and zaid.
The Committee chai
c2use
OF
shafenaka MT
Ronald Emmett, 23, half brother of an army sergeant accused of murder,
perpetuate division of Ger-
the told a court martial today how he helped suspend a fellow soldier's body in a
J. A Piggott, said. This hangman's noose because the defendant "wanted to make it look like suicide.” “
**MUTUAL LIMITATION BUN the first case where relatives Mr Dulles may have had in never thought it worth while to Sergeant Frederick Emmett Duisburg, where the body was: Emmett said "My brother mind some mutual limitation of come to see the child who was also interesting. This rule Dunne, 32, is on trial charged lying in a gas cape, Emmett asked me to help him," armaments on both sides of the seriously ill no one felt that noW
in Europe. This duty
privilege Asked who actually lifted the iron curtain
to come and which prescribes use of the with the murder of Sergeant said. guillotine in curtailing Reginald Watters, 30.
body up into position, he said: was an idea first put forward look after the conveying of the Emmett lay, on the floor of the we both lined together and by MPA Mendes-France, the child to the last resting place. debate is a sensible com- The prosecution, allege be court to dehonstrate the position then 1 helped him."
French Prime Minister shortly China Mall Special. allows called on Emmet who was of the body knees toward the
He (Emmett) overtimed a fire after the nations of Western every member, to speak ät/ private in the same barracks to chest, the head sloping gow, bucket to make it look as 1.1turope devised the arms Co
TRAPPED UNDER least once on particular help him leave the body hang-the face revealed.
ing from the banisters.
Asked what Emmett-Dunne had been kicked by the man stem within the seven-ostion
Western Eu
FALLEN TIMBER The key prosecution witness said or did the witness replied ed six ar seven inches off the
European Union S whose-feet were left suspend.
Even such a limited agree. Other worthwhile improve-
New York, Júde 291 + said today he was summoned to the prosecutor: “My brother
ment
call for would however ments appear to have been by his half brother who was said he wanted it look as though ground.
Eight men were injured, Lane confidence of each side in the made and Mr Bernacchi is then Company Sergeant-Major it was suidde, sir."
Emmett said early this years other to ensure its fulfilment of them critically, today when a sufficiently satisfied to on the evening of November 30, He said the defendant moved he read in the newspapers that
avatko for a Brooklyn describe the new rules as|–1953.
the body as some people came the body was to be exhumed and probably common super-section of shoring collapsed, Ser "comprehensive and similar Emmett told the court: "He from the upper part of the block "This thing got on my nervesy body diplomatic obser-an
promise since it
measure, z
ТОРОВСК
here think, i The Ice said that In the British view the question from tha Mr. Derek Curtis-Bennett, German unity would be
of the dead leading the defence, asked conference - fque,, Emmett if he was food of his culd be made on
in most respects to those said Remember you are my Emmett said he ran out of the he said.so I got on to the found in municipalities brother and I said yes. So he building. He reained later and police throughout the world." I said: "I have killed a man. Of noticed a
o the course I made some comment. banisters to No, the architects deserve 1: asked him how and he said he man the tease packed brother was the witnere other the Colony's congratula- had an argument and either He told the tense tions. But at the same struck or pushed this man and courtba pian was not hang replied. Mr Curtis-Bennett-armen time, it is to be hoped they be had fallen and he was dead."" ing up. He was still on the peated the question and Emmett mig? are treated with proper They went to the barrack floor and the rope was still in mid loudly "No sir?? China respect,
blocic at Glamorgan barracks, the banisisms.”
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