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nel hearty
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welcome Lo Mr Lennox- Boyd, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, suitably acknowledging the compli ment he is paying us making this his first place of call in an extensive tour of British possessions i Southeast Asin. We believe both
and Me the Colony
derive Lennox-Boyd mutual benefits from this visit.
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If the Secretary of State ands the programme which has been prepared for him somewhat. Tormidable, we would crave his indulgence. Dongkong's rehabilitation nehievements and current
CHINA
No. 36185
'Established' 1845
MONDAY, JULY 25,
1955.
CALL FOR TALKS
Senator George Urges
Dulles-Chou Meeting
Washington, July 25.
Senator Walter George (Democrat, Georgia) tonight urged a "face to face" meeting between top U.S. diplomats and the Chinese Communists within the next six months.
An American indication of willingness to sit down with the Chinese Communists, Senator George said, might avoid a new flare-up in the Far East, which he said was now in a state of "quiescence."
Senator George, Chairman
of the U.S. Senate Foreign
problems cannot be absorb A CO-DRIVER? | Relations Committee, said
the i
will
Nonsense Says The Duke
ed in 24 hours, and Colonial Secretory probably discover that even five crowded days are not wholly suflicient for this 33173339 Nevertheless, he will not lack opportunities for seeing Hongkong and hearing about it, and we are sure he will carry back to London with him some valuable first-hand know-
London, July 25. ledge.
Two newspaper today publish- Without indulging in any fulsed denials by the 10-year-old Duke of Kent ut a report that prite, we believe the Secre- his euusin, Queen Elizabeth, ha3 tary of State will find much ordered that he must not drive to admire about the Colony, | alone In future, its people, its administra- tion, ils enterprise and the. Courageous manner in which exceptional problems haveing his third car crash within been tackled and in
13 months. small degree overcome.
JO
WE imaging that Mr Lennox
Boyd, like other distin. gui died visitors, will be im- pressed by our thriving and energetic light industries; that he will gain a respect ful appreciation of our refugee problem and of the way in which it is being Holved by squaller resettle-
i
The report was published in a Sunday newspaper after the Luke had left hospital follow
Today the Daily Express and
Daily Mirror Published a state.
ment issued by the Duke to their reporters yesterday.
It declared that it was ab- solutely untrue" that in future accom- he would have to be panied by a co-driver.
Temporary Only!
President Dwight D. Eisen- hower should not participate in the conference, "but I do think it should be carried on by the Foreign Ministers.'
Senator George made his pro- posи1
now meeting, for the Faimed at casing world tensions, 011 the television-radio pro- gramme "Meet the Press "
Senator
George
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Butler Determined To Tackle Inflation
Steel-helmeted Police Charge Hostile Crowd
PITCHED BATTLE
London, July 24. A epending
is spreo threatening the British economy with inflation and the Government is deter- mined it must stop.
It is expected Mr R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will attempt to check Infiatlon by controlling hiro purchase Edles before Farliament. · rises on Thursday for a three-month summer vacation.
There
that
по are
Indications
OVER
IRISH PARTITION
Belfast, July 25.
A dozen civilians and four police were injured in a pitched street battle over Irish partition in the streets of Newtown Butler, County Fermanagh, late yesterday.
Eleven men, six from across the border in the looms ahead for Britain but the Irish Republic, were arrested, police disclosed.
is justified by the etnings of demonstrations. Indiented Police
relaxation of trade re- that strictions on non-strategic goods between the United States and Communist China should be one of the leey points of the pro- nosed East-West meeting.
"Some Information
Expressing strong "hope" that take such n meeting could place, Senator George said he had "come information" from
the matter.
on
"Chinese and Indian sources" on He said U.S. talks with the Peking regime might lead to of the some accommodation" hot war threat in the Far East, A State Department spokes- man declined comment Senator George's proposal.
The Chinese Premier, Mr Chou En-lti, offered to enter the Formosa altuation during the recent Afro-Asian con- ference at Bandung.
Lava Flows
From Etna
Throw Stones, Bottles
One
arrested man wis
and
a major economic crisis
rate of Internal expenditure is
The fight occurred at a festi- considered to be still far too
val in the town' attended by high. Tightening up measure about 1,600 people when a already introduced have not crowd from the Irish Republic brought spending down to a
with
and flogs appeared prudent level.
embloms-defying a ban by the The result is that the nation Government of Northern is having to import more than Ireland on the holding of public
her export drive.
Police barred their way and One of the Government's made a baton charge. Some of Immediate anxieties is that de- the crowd retaliated, using livery of goods for export has flagpoles as weaponɛ. been delayed by recent railway and dock strikes. This delay will equally delay payment for them.
Meantime
Britain la in that Catania, July 24. part of the year when sterling Two narrow streams of ts liable to seasonal pressures, dollar The central gold and lava were slowly advancing reserves of the sterling area of down the flank of the Mount which Britain is banker-hove Etna volcano tonight, but to be sumciently strong to meet and was no these pressures. police said there
Because of the temporary loss danger yet to two villages of earnings caused by strikes
Government
can take no standing in their path less e
· the expected chances. Henca than half a mile below.
"squeeze" a word Mr Butler is The 1,700 inhabitants of Milo fond of applying to restrictive and Formazzo, saved by only a measures such as now seem to
when the 10,708-foot be contemplated-Reuter. few foct Etan last erupted in 1960, were
they need worry for they would be given good warning of danger.
ment and other housing pro had been driven home from the egotiations with the U.S. ever told by police
Moreover,
The Duke's statement said he
jects.
through Royal Military Academy, Sand- visits to some of our lead-|hurst, where he is
an officer ing factories he will be able endet, by a chauffeur. to satisfy himself, that good labour conditions exist and that allegations of unfair manufacturing and trading practices by the Colony are groundless.
He would also return to the Academy with a chauffeur "only because of the temporary special clrcumstance."
Today the Duke is due to take part in rehearsal of an official
But while outwardly the passing out parade of cadets at
Secretary of State will see Sandhurst
a prosperous Hongkong-Reuter huge new factories,
hundreds of new buildings
--domestic
Thursday. on
The State Department and President Elsenhower said they were willing to hold negotit- tions if convinced the Chinese would agree
lo a ceasefire in Formosti arca, But the
toward actual formal moves
been made.-As- talks have
& United
Press Fociated Press.
no
und business, NOW THE DIPLOMATS
new reclamations, a busy harbour, clean streets, ex- panded Hocial services, political tranquillity and Arst-rate law and order, he
in the throes of a business depression, Immediately traceable to the restrictions imposed on trade with China.
GET DOWN TO WORK
Geneva, July 25.
not
Higher Wages?
the crowd, which replied with a barrage of stones.
About 200 police then with- drew the tender, donned steel helmets and made a second balon charge.
"
Failed At
The Top Of A Hill
New York, July 24.
A terrifled truck driver rodo his runaway five-ton | truck through Winsted, Con. nocticut at 80 miles an hour today with no brakes.
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He shot through three red Lights on the main street before удл. with four terrifled horses and two ripers in the back, bumped to a halt egtinat the curb on an upgrade outside of town.
John L. McFaum, 48, couldn't
speak for 20 minutes after the ride. He told this story inter:
WIFE'S WA
WARNING
He approached the sleep grade leading mio Winsted and tried to shift the truck le A lower gear to slacion speed broke. the transmission The truck started freewheeling down the hill. He pressed the foot, brake, which went right to the floorboards,
when
Panic-stricken, he yanked the brakes but the truck emergency
was rolling so fast it promptly. burned out,
His wife, driving a cor, saw Priest Intercedes
the truck was out of control and The pitched battle was ended pulled alongside
"I've got no brakes, get out only when the parish priest, the
shouted McFaum, Vory Reverend Canon Thomas of the way,
the pulled ahend Maguire, remonstrated with the but Insteri
raced toward the first palice and called on the demon- and
intersection. She slowed down strators to disperse.
did so but the police at the caution light and waved
before off further arresis
two cars coming into the
They
mado the fighting ended but later the peace was restored to Newtown intersection Just as the horse police made another arrest and Butler. part of the festival crowd be came hosille, pelting the police two with stones and bottles.
Urban
A police statement said that van rocketed through.
members of the
MISSED "BY INCHES" Council at Clones Monaghani, in Then he missed a boy on a A fire tender was summoned the Irish Republic, were among bleycle "by inches." At the the police retaliated by those arrested.-China Mall second intergection, the trucke playing two.powerful hoses on Special:
SEVEN CHILDREN
DIE IN FIRE
rant through a red light end shot between two cars. At the next red light a pedestrian Iran out and stopped a..car from endssing in front of the fun- away.
The last red light was at the crossing of a haavily-travelled But McFaum's luck held and he aped across.. Then the truck headed for an upgrade
| road.
Sunday Morning Tragedy In Canada outside of the city.
Patrolman A.
Montreal, July 24.
:
Winnipeg, July 24.
tor demands Widespread The two lava strearms, glow-
higher
and wages in Britain ing brightly in the darkness
Seven children, all members of one family, were against the black back-ground Europe generally were predicted Thorvaldson, of the roughly conical mount by Mr G. S.
President of the Canadian burned to death in a fire that destroyed a small house at tain, were travelling
Chamber of
of Commerce, in an Hull, Quebec early this morning. 300 and 400 yards apart:
Interview here. The second river
java Mr Thorvaldson, who recent- of
ly returned. from a tour of broke out from p crater on the
other European eastern tip of Eina yesterday Britain and
between
of the The parents children, Mr Aldoria Lallrin,!
attending a wedding!
and flowed quickly for nearly a countries, said that the economic 44, and his 48-year-old wife More Explosions mite along a path parallel to revival of Europe had been ac- were the other stream which burat companied by high unemploy-party with their three eldest out four days earlier-China ment but it was based on low daughters at the time. Mail Special.
Shooting Tragedy
Follows Wild Drinking Spree
wages.
"Any North American must wonder how long it is going to
GRANDFATHER ESCAPES
In Saigon
*
Resha found the truck wedged against the curb. When he opened the McFaum was using one door
and to pry the other one off the emergency brake. All four fingers of the brake-hand were bloeding from the strength of his grip-Associated Press.
Fires Started In Casablanca
Casablanca, July 24. Terrorists B'arted a number of fires in and around Casablanca during the, night, causing con- siderable damage but casualties.
the
Saigon, July 24. Terrorists tonight blew up stallons Just before the labour unions The children were sleeping in five telephone relay
on their feet and ask the second floor of the house here, helf a mile from the area, get up
where electric transformers for bigger plece of the pie," when the fire broke out.
were blasted on Friday. he said.
The children's 60-year-old consider the disarmament pro-
The recent British strikes,
Blais, Police mid there were nó A home-made bomb exploded posals advanced at Geneva.
Mr Thorvaldson said, were on grandfather, Ferdinand.
Jacques Nault, casualties tonight. After
the outside a restaurant.pn Then, early in October, the Big
a "comparatively small scale and a boarder,
road early Four Foreign Ministers will
and were mainly the result of in the house at the time of the violent explosions South Viet Rabat-Casablanca
biaze, managed
escape.naITI army tanks and police today, causing heavy damage. in Geneva to take up
New York, July 24.
between Nault suffered purns Jurisdictional disputes
he jeeps
rushed to the relay
In Marrakesh, almost all Arab disarmament, German unifica-
A 69-year-old man shot unions. "But I think they are tion and European security.
another man to death today, ran the forerunners of demands by attempted to rescue the trapped stations. but the terrorists had shops had closed down by last night in protest against the EXAMINING THE PLANS
bigger down the victim's mother with labour generally to get a This means that within nine of her own car after forcing her to piece of the ple," he said,-
The relay stations were in a arrest of a number of Moroc main residential area of north cans after rloling in the town ten weeks the experts--and look at her son's body. then Chino Mall Speciál.
Salon-Reuter.
last Thursday-fouter."- Foreign Ministers-will killed himself, State Police re- have to study such important
will learn that the Colony is The Blg Four powers today begin the second stage of their attempt to case world tendon
meet This is the by negotiation. period in which the experts, home in their own capitals, will
to imple work on
of the "Summit"
THIS is a sore subject with Hongkong because it was always understood that the trade embargo was applied solely to deprive the Chinese Communists from obtaining]
ment the of
cone. Leaders
of the Big fore leavira Geneva, pro- before fessed confidence that their had started
six-day meeting
on
the right road, but
advantages while the cach also stressed the im-
Korean war was in progress. portance of the follow-up.
have much to do To many it seems that the 'The experts
in the next few days at dis- the Big Jour cussions which have planned between now and October. BUILDING ON SKELETONS They must take the many vague and conflicting proposals on disarmament, German uninica- and European security tion and if they can and in them any basis for future negotiation. And, if so, they must try to take the skeleton propuls
A them out and with detalis. Cnder the schedule agreed on at the summit talks, the five- member United Nations Sub- committee
Disarmament will meet on August 29 to
time has come for the re- moval of these restrictions. They serve no useful pur- pose, are definitely harming! the economy of Hongkong. creating local unemployment and helping to lower living standards amongst a large portion of the population. Mr Lennox-Boyd 'can expect to
receive strong representa tions on this subject from community leaders who will hope that the Secretary of State will be in a position, when he returns to England, to une his influence for a substantial revision of the items still appearing on the embargo list.
But while this and other local problems will be brought to
the attention of the Scero-) tary of State he will dis-
co
the
proposals as President ported. said
the
TUC Solution
to
04
children.
cscaped.
Kull firemen were unabio ta do anything.
The children who died in the Police
blaze were: Annette, 14, Nicole, the incident
13, Sutarme; 10, Apulette, 9, hower's plan for an exchange occurred early today at Spring
Tolpuddle, July-24. of miltary blueprints befeld after the three, had spent
Mr Victor Feather, Assistant Gillies, 6, Diana, 5, and Line, 2. tween the United States and the evening together at several Secretary of Britain's 8,000,000-Associated Press,
British Ruscio,
Primo taverns,
strong Trades Union Congress, Minister, Sir Anthony Eden's Its climax came when Willis said today "inflation is eating plan for limited disarmament Crandeli shot himself in the into the pound at home and
head as police battered down the destroying" Germany, in rod Around and various plea for new doors of his home.
security arrange- The victim was Leroy B. The TUC has repeatedly toki ments and proposals for ro-Federsplet. 31. His mother, Mrs the Chancellor he should do two moving barriers between Com-Sarah J. Federspiel, 54, was re-things at fourt and do them
|ported in poor condition but was quickly. munist and non-Communist expected to recover from her countries.
Injuries,-Associated Press.
European
Most of these proposals were
made at the "summit"
con-
ference in the barest outline,
leaving all sorts of questions Two Mau Mau
unansower plan, for exam- Tho
clear. falled to make ple, whether the President in- cluded atornie establishments exchange offer to hlo blueprits-Associated Press,
in
Men
Meet Their Match
Railway Traffic | Drowned Trying atacked him on the farm
Ban On Goa
Bombay, July 23.
To Save Boy
bo
Britain's cred Beach Crowds
abroad at a pellmeli pace.
"He should impose a higher rate of income tax on unearned incomes and start a capital gains lax."--Router.
Cool Reception For Turncoats
+
Flee From
60 mph Squall
Honolulu, July 25.
American turncoat
Atlantic City, July 24-
A sudden aquall with winds up to 60 mph hit this resort area today, sending hundreds of thousands of Nairobi, July 24.
bathers running for cover. Robert Cronchey, 22-year- old Londoner, fought two Mau Mau terrorists when they
Many streets were flooded by Three servicemen stopped ashore on the rainfall and the basements manages at Jujate in the Rift United States, soll today for the of homes on, the inlet were left Valley north of Nairobi.
in frst time in five years confident inches deep in water. A serious Cronchuy, who was born London, July 25.
Hampstead, holds the Colonial we will get a fair trial" Two man died at St Austwell Police Modal for gallantry and brought to. account for thels, traffic Jam developed an
leave the city and cars cover that Hongkong is not India and the Portuguero colony Bay, Cornwall, yesterday while a senior reserve officer in the collaboration with the Chines thousands of visitors tried to
Kenya polico.
Two strangers were reported The three were accorded a lined up bumper-to-bumper for composed morely of a com- of Goa will be suspended from saving two children,
Jack Stopchers, 44, munity of complainers. Wa today. believe he will find that we An official announcement by collapsed and led after diving on his farm and, when he went cheatless welcome at silent stares several miles pe
The-Coast Guard sent all its Into the ses and bringing his 10 investigate, one of the men they walked down the third,
rushed at him. As they strug class yangway of the Prast patrol boute to help all craft are industrious, at timon the Southern Railway hoad
daughter ashore whillo Ingenious; that We are quarters in Madras said the
home-made gun at him but Thay maid thay, wire, unogrizin No one was reported injured tolerant and reasonably true would
away by a wave and drowned Cronchey escaped injury
on head all of the better of what mer had in for them. The often patro | Kielarti÷Huhany COLL Poital" traîle between India when going to the rescue per the struggle 'and as he drew: Kl′′ but; 23 QUOTES DUS MAANTREKWI
090 people #656 Mr Lennox-Boyd will take and two other Portuguese boy,AS DE BA away with him comforting love of Daman and Diu The boy, was washed towards revolvers the stemor wo broke do use to impressions of this colonial have already been stopped some rocks and safely brought away - and Vfects China
whörs --Chină Mall Speciali outpoat of Hongkong,
Recher
All Talkway trafne batween
bo
Mr
Reds,
happy. The hope is that "until further notice. #ded Thomas Bovéy, 24, was carriongled the second terrorist fired a dorit į Cleveland
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