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THE DAY
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Tourism In HK
Ust becoming
INDENIABLY tourism is an im- portant part of the Colony's commercial and social structure. Up to half EL million tourista pected to visit Hongkong this year, and they will probably spend around $300 million while they are here.
are
BX-
Thenc are striking figures,
full of meaning. They mean, among other things, that Hongkong is rapidly "sell- ing itself" As a centre of attraction, not only for
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RUSSIAN TROOPS TO Chaudri Mohammad
REMAIN IN RUMANIA
HK TOURISM West's Military Plane To Govt Sets Groupings The Fly
•
Up Committee
globe-trotters, but for thou- Late this morning it was
Hands
of people in neigh- officially
that announced
Reason
London, Aug. 11.
2000 mph
Ali Becomes Pakistan's Premier
Karachi, Aug. 11.
!
Pakistan's new Premier, Chaudri Mohammad Ali, today promised selfless service to the nation in his efforts to raise the standard of living of the country's common man.
The Premier told the nation in a ten-minute broadcast that three main problems were facing the country:
1. Settlement of the Kashmir question with India. 2. A speedy drafting of the constitution that would
Communist Rumania opened the door US Air Force Ready enable earliest possible nationwide elections
For Experiment
·
Transport Planes · Collide.
Appalling Air Disaster
Freudenstadt, Aug. 11.
The US Air Force flying boxcars collided in formation and crashed "like chunks of load" today in a fiery dis aster that killed 66 Ameri- !. cans, including 55 foot soldiers who went up to get the feel of flying.
3. Economic development to improve conditions of the common man.
The US Seventh Army bouring countries who are Government has appointed today for Soviet troops to stay in Rumania
Washington, Aug. 11. Mr Chaudri Mohammad more and more turning to a working committee of re- beyond the agreed deadline unless foreign
All parties represented in the Partla infantrymen took off in ród and silver Air Force C-118s on a travel 118 a medium for presentatives of the interests troops pull out of Western Europe,
The United States Air broadcast barely an hour after ment."
his new. 11-min Cabinet Was He ended his address with a "familiarisation" fight to holiday-making.
concerned in the tourist
Presumably acting with Russian consent, the Force today announced that sworn into office. He stressed the promise that he would serve the
(1 early Kashmir country with "utter devoilon The apsurge of visitors also industry of Hongkong to
settlement in the interests of He said: "I will spare nothing means that Hongkong, if it consider and to recommend Ramanian Premier, Gheorge Gheorghiu-Dej, said it was ready to make the need for is to enjoy to the full the to Government whether or in a telegraphic interview with the United Press first rocket-powered flight world peace and Indo-Pakistani not even my will spare nothing.
by the X-2 research plane
prokiesa, advantages from this now' not a Hongkong Tourist that "important changes" had occurred since Russia designed to penetrate the sooner this dispute is found source of publicity Association should be es- made her original withdrawal promise in wartime "heat barrier" at 2,000 miles settled the moner Indo-Pakistani and revenue, must ration tablished, and if so, recom- to the West. Alise its tourist industry mend the form of constitu- It cannot be permitted. to develop in " haphazard tion, membership, methods and of financing, etc., of such an
manner. Resources Itens need to be pooled,
ap.
association,"
ure Mr. F. C. Bridger
concerns whose operation (An Express Company),
ate their variety of service (Sun
to ensure that tourists are provided with every pos8-
(Royal Intor
The terms of that promise-later written into the 1947 Rumanian peace treaty-were that Soviet troops would pull out of Rumania and Hungary as 800n as they pull out of Austria.
In view
the
from reply
her troops
out of
peace
1
TEXT OF REPLY
'
of
relations will be put on an hour or more.
X-2 is the first plane apecin-friendly, stable and sane basis," he said. "We (meaning India cally built to explore the point and Pakistan) must co-operate in speed where many metals i economic and political pro weaken or break down owing togress on the sub-condiment is to
tremendous air friction.
The aluminium alloy normally used in aircraft has been re- placed by stainless steel and other materials. Highly temper- withstand cd glass which con temperaturen of 1,000 degrees Fahrenhelt has been used for the windshields.
be achieved."
This was the Premier's only reference to foreign affairs.
A MUST
Pakistan."United Press,
Strip Tease Strike Is Planned
acquaint them with airlifts they might encounter In combat.
Fifteen minutes later, after the air impact, they spun in from 4,000 feet strapped inside the fat fuscinges with their in- Bantry equipment, including a three-quarter-ton truck.
GEYSER OF FIRE
** One of the twin-engined, twin- talled boxcars with 47
men aboard smashed into the Black Forest between Edelweiler and Groomwiler in a göyzer of fire that not an acre of trees, and underbrush ablaze.
.
Turning to domestic issues, he termed the drafting of a consi- lution a must. He urged that the document be framed with "minimum delay so that elec- tions will be held at the earliest exempted possible date." He called for a joining in a "strip tease thudded into a grain field near constitution that would "give strike" due to start next here.
New Delhi. Aug. 12. Government clerks have The other, carrying 19 men women from and the big Army truck,
duc
credit to the finest traditions Tuesday to back up demanda The Air Force first announc {of Islam."
ment to the United Press to be after the conclusion of the cabin from the rest of the air- pier life in a just social order."
15era then slow down the fall-very tired after four days
to
A ribbon-type parachute
£1
cam-
like chunks of leach, sald an “Army, sourbe ***There was no chance for anyone to get out."
THEM FIRST FLIGHT,
ONE essential would The working committee is
Soviet troops are withdrawing from Austria by pear to be willing and under the chairmanship of Mr
J. C. Cowperthwaite, Deputy October 1—and the question put to the Premier was, generous co-operation bc- tween publie and private Financial Secretary (Economie. what would happen to Rumania?
of the "changes," Minister, Georg! Zhukov, set for are in any way related to Mr F. C. Clemo (Hongkong the "necessity of the presence" getting all Soviet troops out of or cun be applied to Tours and Travel Service), Mr of Soviet troops in Rumania will Austria,
FLYING LARORATORY tourism. Thus, local offices Horace Kadoorie (Hongkong be removed when foreign troops
develops The rocket engin of shipping companies, air- und Shanghai Hotels), Mr J.withdraw from Western Europe,
on United Press July 31 power almost equal to that bus and ferry com- V. Kammering Iines,
Mr caked the Rumanian Premier dsed to drive à modern navy W. Lines), Mr
C.G. WAS
directly Gheorghiu-Dej,
for on authoritative cruiser at high speeds. panies, hotels and travel ocean
were killed, Air- Knowles (Cathay Pacific
The should co-ordin-
the Since
Austrian
In the economic field, he said, for more pay because of ed that 47 men agencies,
peace answer to these reports.
The X-2 will be used solely
but reduced the toll to when ways Mr Benjamin C. LOD
treaty was finally signed fart text of the reply today said: as a Dying research laboratory a great deal had been done in "technical difficulties."
counted ono House), Mr Paul May, there had been widespread
MAS
is known, the Soviet to accumulate, information about Pakistan in the eight years of
The women will remove only it learned It had
too many infanta ymen abroad (American Luley
President
whether speculation
Russia troops are on the territory Alight at speeds much greater its existence as an Independent their makeup and sandals as a
according to the than that of sound.
nation. He urged greater effort, token of sympathy, union the more heavily loaded plane
-42 instead of the actual 41. ible facility for seeing and Lines), My J. L. Murray (Gov- would honour the past pledge Rumania
Relations to clear
member Public emment
said in order to ensure
adding: "If they treaty,
If the pilot has to bail out at however. making the most of long- Officer),
J. G. O'Donnell Rumania Mr J.
and Hungary at he the security of communications high altitudes, antive to an end a fuller and hap be almost nothing left."
Explosive *Economie progress is a means took off their sorts there would Both aircraft went down kong.
(Pan-American World Air- |****
in Austria.
charge M. A Snowball same time. Diplomatic quarters of Soviet troope Mr
There are only a few women took Mr Gheorghiu-Dj's state- Ways), In these days the Colony has (British Overseas Airways
The Premier's voice sounded working among the 6,000 third with Austria it 3. K more than its natural scenic Corporation), Mr M.
of grade clerks who want their Moscow's own answer that she rectssary, under the present
an marathon negotiations to form { minimum. basic pay of beauty
visitors. Stark (Mackinnon, MacKenzie no longer felt bound to a simul- conditions, to take into accounting cabin until it resched to excite There exist many vialble und Company),
taneous withdrawal.
the fact that during the last altitude where the pilot could a new government. His usually sterling per week doubled
Many of the soldiers who The Premier's
dey will start their signs of progress
DOOK STILL OPEN a Tourist United Press The formation of
paign today with a procession died in Germany's worst post questions, cabled period important changes have safely make use of his own para-fluent speech became halting,
In the tackling of our new
chute-Reuter. European Occurred
He expressed regret that the full dress this time-to the war air crash were on their to Bucharest, did not say that situation.
Awami League found it impossi-house of the Home Minister, first fight. rt WEB DI varied sociological prob- Association was the major re-
"alr of our industrial commendata of a report sub- Russia intended to back out of "In the Weat, military group- Jems,
familiarization" flight' to, show ble to join the goverment coal-Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant to Government by the her Yalta promise to withdrawings, numerous foreign military mitted
tion. He said the door was still VESTS AND TROUSERS
they would be development, and our ex-Public Relations Officer on
them how from Rumania and bases her troops
have been created, and
open.
even parachuted pansion in education and completion of a
If their demands, which also carried and survey of
all Hungary after the end of the the Paris treatics that provide
"What the country needs at include free transport to work into combat in the Army's new health services. Moreover, aspects of the tourist and travel Austrian occupation. But he
*** for the remilitarisation of
this time," he said, "is a national and free s Mr F.C. Clemo noted in industry in the Colony conducted saki the situation in Western Western
crn Germany and for its
education for their airminded tactics. government composed of all children, are not met they will airdrop was planned today, but his address to the Rotary a few months ago,
Europe and "changed" with the inclusion in the military group-
all aboard reportedly wore Club this week, these are
of Western military s
ings of the Western powerE
turn up for work on Tuesday Moscow, Aug. 11. The PRO
wear- parachutes all ready strapped unshaven and shirtless, Canada's Minister of Fisheries, matters which are being
te, them. have been considered by both and talked about overseas
ing only vests and trousers. the Executive Council and the
wear the fisheries in the Soviet Far East,
Sikhs, who normally grouping under the fact, as it is known, that about which the interest of Trade and Industry Adviøry Warsaw pact.
Warsaw
has been con- was injured and sent to hospital
hair tied in a top knot scores of visitors has been Committee and approved in
fall while in-
under a turban and their beard Hitmulated before they principle by both of them. It is Warsaw
pact
neatly rolled, will go to the Air Force and Army parties "appropriate propriate measures have been meeting a drydock at Petrepav arrive in Hongkong. upon the advice of the Execu-measures have been taken to Baker to ensure the security of lovsk on the East Coast of
office with hair and beard flow-were trying to remove the bodies that the working ensure
Paris, Aug. 11. tive Council
to. the US Army hospital in the security .of the the European democratie sintes,, Kamchatka Peninsula, it was
Seventy cliizens of San ing
The crash IT is proper that Government committee has been set up.
democratic
it the demands are still not Stuttgart tonight. European
slates, among them Rumania.
announced here today.
Marino mado a brief Issued by
stopover. met on August 30 the clerks willmarred the 60th Troop Carrier among them Rumania."
"If the foreign troops of the The announcement Western states were withdrawn the Canadian Embassy in Mos here today en route by air from arrive for work clad only in Wing's two and a half year their homes in the United States from the countries of Western cow said Mr Sinclair's condi-
to "save their tiny nation from Pyjamas, with a bed sheet drap fatality-free record. of tion was not regarded as serious the limits
ed around their shoulders, the Communists.
After that "we will have boundaries, and and he was expected to resume their national
within a a fortnight". San Marino a postage stamp further
plans," say the military groupings create his tour
in
the
and
should Interest itself in organisation any overall designed to promote and control the touriat in- dustry in Hongkong.
the even to
extent of
helping financially. But Government's
the
response
survey and report alla alliances that have have been ratified.
betary
INJURED IN ACCIDENT
followed by the Communist "It is a consequence of the Mr James Sinclair, now touring FLYING HOME And he said that under the cluded, aty, to which ap- as a result of
Europe within Red Scientists
role should To See Harwell
be paternal rather than executive.
It has been
Geneva, Aug, 11. Thirty scientists from "Iron intimated that Curtain" countries have accepted Government has in mind an invitation to visit the British the formation of a Tourist atomic research establishment at Association. Such a body, Harwell on August 24, a British properly
and spokesman announced here, to- constituted fully representative, could night.
d
TO VOTE
thoir
in due
cast Italy, voted a majority of China Mail Special. Communist and pro-Communist Socialists at the last elections held in 1951.
the
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No fetual
None got out after the planea collided at 4,000 feet.
י
The two aircraft involved were from the Wing's 17th Troop Carrier Squadron, which won the 11th Air Force's safety con- course."- test last June for a year's flying, without accident.-United Press."
IF "Of course if the foreign troops ....were withdrawn from the countries of Western Europe, thas the necessity of the Warsaw in the West were Liquidated, The Minister's executive as-republie perched high in the organleers, and we shall re- treaty would be removed," salt the situation in Europe would sistant, Mr Alistair Fraser, was Appenino mountains in north-veal them
change, and the necessity of also injured in the same ac- the Rumanian Premier,
Warsaw
bready would cident, the Embassy said, but "It is obvious that the needs the
along with the has already been released from slly of the
presence of Soviet be removed
would be necessity of those measures en-hospital-France-Presse. troops in Rumanis
suring security that are pro- removed too; and these troops vided by this treaty.
bo withdraw from "In this case, it is obvious would
next of the pre "Once And For Marine's the necessity. Rumania,"
that Secretary of · Slate, -The US
of Soviet troops in Mr John Foster Dulles, Bug-Rumania would be removal
in gested
June thni
All" Petition. the
withdrawn from Rumanla......... Soviets might find some sort of too, and these troops would be "justification" for, keeping Soviet United Fress. troops in Hungary and Rumania beyond the Yalta-set time limit.
purpose
Soviet
of
ostensible troops"
10 presence and Rumania to guard lines of com
to the troops
WD
int
were
/
of
met
New Delhi, Aug. 11. A seven-man deputation New Delhi citizens today
prosented
Death Of Famed President Rajendra Prasad and
Actress
all"
д
Those 70 adopted Americans hope to tip the balance against the Communists by voting in San
elections September 1.-France-Presse!
on
Policemen Shot
By Terrorists
'Nicosia, Aug. 12.,
do valuable work in inject- The spokesman for the British ing new enterprise and Im delegation to the current United agination to the tourist Nations conference on the peace
ful uses of atomic energy said industry.
The room that well over 100 delegates in There is considerable
all had accepted the invitation. and, im- for streamlining
memorandum The acceptances included
Hungary proving the Colony's tour-total
of 16
urging the government to solve. Soviet from the
· Moskod terrorists fired a volley simply iam services.
and Undesirable | Union, Byelorussia
the Góa, iste "once and for the munication
munica
Food bullets to two police officers "touting" needs to be Ukraine and five each from Austria so long as they
of the main streets of The memorandum eliminated;
proposed in one hotel
Czechoslovakala necom-Polind,
there
Milan, Aug. 11. immediate imposion of coo Famagusta early today, modation increased and Rumarila,
} On July 31, widespread re- Joan Bradley, Icading actress nomie sanctions against the The two victims Sergeant
Costas 'perts were published that the
Costopoulos and Con- British Atomic energy
stable Anvi Emin were rushed and a closer liaison deve- Authority, which issued the in- Soviet Union intended to honour of the word famous operetta Portuguese and an approach to
show Oklahoma, died hors 29 Banding conference nations a loped between the variouavitation,
withdraw had chartered three the agreements and
tonight from Infantile paralysis, to ask at least their moral sup from
and Hungary. enterprises whose interests aircraf r
from troops fly guests
but not, dangerous. are in any way touched by Geneva to Harwell and back Rumania by October 1-the doctors at a Millan hospital said port in solving this vital later their condition was serious
Miss Bradley was suddenly
edionialls problem of
European deadline the Soviet
The sergeant had five bullet' stricken with pollo on Tuesday on Asian coll. She was taken to the Dergano
deputation included wounds and the constable two- The Hospital hore where she was members of the Delhi Legisin- Roubor,
made thoroughly attractive;
ourism.
The
on the same day,--Reuter,
Defence
The Problems Of Governing A Colony
A
medan and whom the French secret service is scared of.
placed in an isolation ward. Ative Assembly: representing
On Monday night she had right-wing and leftist opinion-
female lead in Router
Patchoma According to other
and they give a comprehen sive account of the multi- farioue responsibilties of a
Governor and David Lewie gives the Inside plained, she
An important series of articles on "Governors and Governor- ship" written by well- known authority
colonial on colonia) affairs, Mr Harold Ingrams, CMG is to be published in the China Mall beginning to
morrow.
examino some of the problems they entail. :
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This is only one of tomorrow's
feature, highlights.
also for thean:
Watch
to hospital, where a doctor said
SHIP AGROUND
members of the troupe she had
Hamilton, Bermuda..... perfectly: all right but the
Aug. 11. The 2,500-ton, French-owned," fokewing morning she com- TO HELP FLOOD
she could not
nơi uae har
VICTIMS
British-registered freighter Wychwood went on the cocks.10 story of the on-off romance of Dockers first mild her con-
Berlin, Aug. 11. miles off the coast shortly after Eddie Fisher and Debbie Roy-ation was "not preoccupying" The East German Cabinet
GMT
today.. p.m. nolder, a
but gave no details, and today decided to send drugs
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radiood the There
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to Moscow. Aride the Russland.
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