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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Embargo Humbug
WHATEVER America's
Established. 1845
MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1956.
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Wrrent reasons men's TODAY'S RACING CMG For Dr
for maintaining controls on trade with Communist count tries It is hard to admire its application of them, Brond- ly speaking the embargo polley permits: Western nations freer trade with European Communist coun- tries them with. China. And the origin! purpose of the embargo was ostensibly to restrict the war-making potential of the Soviet bloc As a whole.
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By "The Turf”
RACE 1
Thanksgiving Day Festival View Many Returns
Outsider: Tumbleweed
RACE 2
Oulsider-Unicom
RACE 3 Thousand Miles Sunstreak
principle in times of Mourne International crisis there Congratulation would be few complaints Rowonglen against such a policy. And doubtless the .emburgo Berved sqme sensible end Juring the Korean war. But what, at any time, is the use of trfing to différentiate between the belligerent in spanish Fan tent of individual members Queenpots of the Communist bloc and | Volcana applying restrictions
on
this basis. Surely the
change King.
Ouiskler:-Esquire
RACE 4
By "Rapior"
Rider's Wish Fbeingster Tune-phone
RACE I
Oulalder: Thanksgiving Day.
RACE 2
Fair Play Mourrie
Congratulation
Outsider-Rowangles.
RACE 3
Flying Dutchman Sunstreak
Thousand Miles
Outsider-Comet.
Spanish Fon
RACE 4
Easy-going
Ben Lawers
OutsideBrantoms
RACE 5
Outsider:-Boyne.
RACE 5
success ol sanctions of Pot O'Gold this kind depends upon Santa Maria Ja uniform and consistent Quicksilver
policy against the bloc as a whole.
Outsider:--Sultan
RACE 6
Strathian
Chim re-
it is not clearly apparentingle Bell
by trenty
lightning Fect
that ceives large quantities of
economic and military aid
From Russia. And that by Beautiful Lie allowing exports of certala 'Sportsmanship
Yuoda tu Russia and Tamond Dahlia
uropean Communist coun- Outsider:-Cruckerjack ties which It denies to
Hawailan Moon
Quicksilver
Wise Leader
Outsider: Anniversary 10.
RACE 6
Strathian
Night People Babsie
Outsider:---Aviemore.
RACE 7
Diamond Dahlia
Outsider:Beautiful Lie.
RACE 8
Outside-Aviemore
RACE 7
Hallmark
Diana
RACE 8
range Beauty
Tell-Me-More
Outsider:Comhill.
RACE 9
n the West.bas no con- Ma Cherie
over
(1) their final
Rination or (2) the ex-
to which Western ex-
release Communist Blondro
Koods in the King Rider
i tegle" category for ex- May Blossomn
o China.
•
Outside-Barometer
hy bother to Userl-Mascot hte against Chini when [Resurrection
receives or is in a Solar Knight
on to
receli-the
bidden trade" fecond d? To n minall extent the argo causes ncon- Bence to Peking because
goods cannot be sent It from the Wot to fis seaboard, And there Brobably some prestige
thed to the lifting
uf
restrictions iTa ng's eyes, But in this al inconvenience and the fuction it gives the èrican publie worth the feeling it provokes in Eastern and Western Fids alike?
worth straining the feel- of America's alliée who arly see the absurdity of as policy but who for the ke of preserving unity in
alliance accept the hum- and nuisance Im- Bes. To the majority of contries "Cocom"
hich apply embargoes on de they see that stringent ntrols which have been opped in ali but China's ay have entirely outlived vir original purpose. But || America apparently, it is
olitically
expedient haintain them.
to
RACE 10
Qutsider:-Easy Money
Cornhill
Attractive Power
Orange Beauty
Outsider:-Tell-md-more.
RACE 9
Blondic
May Blossom Blazing
Outsider:-Vendetta. RACE 10
Resurrection Solar Knight Giddup
Outsider-Fieldmaster.
TODAY'S TEASER TIP
An
For the 9th race assured winner
Dagwood
The
for Mr
tenger tip for the last meeting was Cheerful in the seventh race which finished second and paid $0.00.
By "Daybreak"
RACE 1 Many Returns Festival View Thanksgiving Day.
Outsider: Starboard
RACE 2 Mourne Congratulation Thunder Sky
Outsider:
Sunstreak Thousand Miles Marianne
Outsider:
Braniome Quizcile Queenpots
Outsider:
Evergreen RACE 3
Midget RACE 4
Ben Lawers RACE 5
Pol O'Gold
Santa Marin Wise Leader
Outsider: Hawaiian Moon
RACE 6 Night People Strathian Jingle Bell Outsider:
DR they are being used as a pawn in the negotiations to free Americani Im- prisoned in China. And the Republicans may feel that with presidential elections later next year it would be unwise to make any conces sions to Peking that might upset the electorate-parti Crackerjack cularly as there is no cor- tainty that their one sure hope of success, "President
Diana
Babsle RACE 7
Beautiful Le
Outsider: Fidra
Brivisto
RACE 8
Eisenhower will lead them | Ma Cherie
at the polls, et
Tell-Me-More.
RACE 9
To the Americana these may Outsider: Cornhill
be good reasons why 4 strict
embargo should be main- Blondie tained on the China trade. To Tamerlane thele Western allies, how- May Blossom. over, it seems downright un- fair that freer trade should
* have to depend on the re-
fusal of Washington to look at this question rationally and sensibly. Before Sir Anthony Eden naks for a revision of the embargo in his Washington
Outsider: Blading RACE TO
Resurrecion Mascot Solar Knight
Outsider: Icefloid
By Young Hall
RACE 1 (11) Thanksgiving Day
(3) Festival View (7) Rider's Wish
RACE 2
(8) Mourne
(1) Congratulation (9) Norse Lady
RACE 3 (14) Thousand Miles (13) Sunstreak
(2) Comet
RACE 4 (3) Brantomo
(8) Quconpota (10) Spanish Fan
RACE 5 (8) Pot O'Gold (10) Quidinilver (14) Wise Lender
RACE 6 (17) Strathian (14) Night People (12) Lightning Foot
RACE 7 (1) Beautiful Léo
(4)
Diana (3) : Diamond Dahlia
RACE 8
(11) Tell-me-more
(7) Ma Cherie (3) Cornhil
RAGE 9 (3) Blondie (1): Barometer (7) May Blossom
RACE 10
(8) Fieldmaster (15); Nosurrection. (17)' Splar Knight
PLACE PROGRESSIVES OF
........ THE DAY
Race 3 (18) Bunstreak Race 8: (14) Night, People,- Race 10: (15) Resurrection
NAVAL BATTLE OFF MATSU
talks with the President Chinese
K. C. Yeo
TWO RESIDENTS AWARDED OBE
Dr the Hon, K. C. Yeo, Director of Medical and Health Service headed this year's list of Hongkong recipients of New Year honours. He has been made a Com- panion of St Michael and St George (CMG),|
The OBE (Civil) has been awarded Mr Horace Kadoorie, Cev.Leg.Hon., who is a committee member of the Kadoorie Agricul~ tural Aid Association and President of the Jewish Recreation Club.
The OBE has also been conferred on Mr Shum Wai-yau, Managing Director of the Wah Kiu Yat Po, a member of the Board of Directors of the Hongkong Anti-TB Association and a member of the Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children. Mr Shum is also Chairman of the Hongkong Newspaper Society.
Shrine Stampede
112 People Trampled To Death
residents
become
DR K. C. YEO
MR SHUM WAI-YAU
MR H. KADOORIE
The Queen Honours Nearly. 2,000 Of Her Subjects
London, Jan. 2..
Queen Elizabeth today showered honours on 1,900. of her subjects ranging from Britain's greatest ballerina, Margot Fonteyn, to a man who helped doctors by allowing himself to be bitten 770 times by malaria- carrying mosquitoes.
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In her New Year Honours List-the eighth list of her reign-the Members of the Order of the Queen created four new barons, three baronets and many knights British Empire (MBE), They
throughout the British Commonwealth.
Mr Secretary
Jack
nt
the
Cater, Assistant Colonial
But the announcement of the honours was touched with tragedy, as Dr Secretariat and former Registrar Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, who was to have been one of the new barons,
died on Saturday,
of Co-operatives and Director of
011
with Sister Edith and Brother Sachoveroll one of a
erary trio.
.
Sir Gilbert
femcua
Skinner, Chiet In- Dr Garbett, aged 80, was told hoods overseas-six in Australia, ane Ceylon, spector Hongkong and Shanghat about a week before his death one New Zealand,
the Queen's 'intention to jene Pakistan and nine in colonial Banking Corporation a Trustee of
a territories. of St John's Cathedral and make him a peer and, thus
Mr Vernon Barilett. (CBE), member.
Wrote the former Chairman of the Mission gormanent
Among those honoured are; writer and broadcaster on inter- Homkou. Auxilary. House of Lords. Far (3 years Sir Basil Embry (Night Grand national arters Tokyo, Jan. 1. Mr. E. Greenwood, Class 1 as fi spirituar peshe had lead Cross Order of the Bath GCB), My Rudolf Bing (CBE) m
the life member but we to have Air Chief Marshal who-com-i mer of the Metropolitan Oper Police headquarters today Mechanical Inspector of
retired early in 1850- plained recently that he was New York. reported 112 people were Public Works Department,
As he was a bachelor without being retired five years before;
Laithwaites trampled to death and 75
heir his title has become the normal Air Force age. For (Knight Commander Order of the Immediately null and void. the last two years he has been Bath KCB), Fermecent Under others injured in a stampede
Margot Fonteyn, 36, becomes Commander Allied Air Forces Secretary at the British Com at the Shinto shrine in
Dame Commander of the Bri-Central Europe. During Worldmonwealth Relations Ofico. Niigata prefecture, Northern
tish Empire the female equi-War Two he escaped from, Ger- Former High Commissioner to Japan only 30 minutes after
valent of a knight. Now the star man prisons four times.
Mr. Tom O'Brien (Knight), of Britain's famed Sadlers Wells the temple bells had tolled
Ballet she learned her first General Secretary of the Theatre in the New Year.
Trade dance steps at the age of four. und Cinema Workers
She is married to Dr Roberto Union and Labour Member of Arins, Panamanian Ambassador Parliament, In London.
Police Bald the disaster struck in Д crowd of 40,000 worshippers at a Yashiko village 160 miles north of Tokyo when an unidentified person missed a step coming down a fight of stairs with a a 30 degree incline. The person slipped and fell. pulling others down with him.
Police said there was a reaction." Crowds at the top of the stair were pushed down da the crowd at the gate were said the walking
up. Police
stair collapsed.
"chain
Police said a
big congrega- tion wis praying for a happy new year shortly before mid-
OFL hour night Half
later
death struck.
HORRIBLE PANIC
MR JACK CATER
Mr Penn Yuck-wing, who is chief clerk of the American Plonger Ling and United States Linc and Hon. Treasurer of the
a
Professor Solly
Zuckerman
Pakistan, he was Private Secre tary to the Viceroy of India from 1930 to 1943..
TWO CRICKETERS Mr Ian Johnson, and
Keith
The mosquito anan is Mr (Knight) a South African who Miller (members of the Order Charles Howard, a former ship's is Professor of Anatemy at of the British EmpireMBE)
ace Australian cricketers. radio operator who In 1940 Birmingham University.... offered himself to doctors prab-
Professor Kathleen Lonsdale pre CBE), B1 34 one of scientist.
52-year-old. atomic of the Order of the British (Dame)
Mr. Paul Scoßeld (Comman-
ig inolari at London's Hospite for Tropical Disenses, After he had been bitten by the mosqul- Britain's foremost Shakespearean Countess of Albemarle
toes
for
moved a
:▪│
three days surgeons reactors recently drew 10,000 (Dame) hot 'dovoted herself a piece of his Uver, for Ruse on theatregoers to per- to improving British rural life. sturly and
and the * results-/ helped formances of his Hamlet in Mr William Lyons (Knight),
automobile advance medical Moscow
designer who Queen makes Ba Cobert Sitwell (CBE), chairman and managing director
pidat, essayist and novelist and of Jaguar cars-Reuter,
Eber of the Oran
him a
the British Empire (MBE)..
of
Another Monarch is Rgless Chip Cap- few tain Douglas
Battle of
Police described the panic by CMS, Day Schools in Hong-Spitfires
indos
"horrible" with women desper "ately crying and people falling
down the stairs screaming they were being crushed to death.
Jan. 1. retronted towards, the mainland
Mr
Britain, By jok
award
kong Tyrer, Assistant Com-pit he has given new hopes to misdoner of Police, Kowloon Umbless
mbless people. He made and New Territories, is awarded Commander of the Order of the the Queen's Folied Medal, while British Empire (CBE) the Colonial
Police Medal is Police headquarters sent 200
The the policemen to the scene of dis awarded to Mr M. B. Frazer, Agatha Christie, thriller writer whose books have sold over 15 aster and initial reports said the Senior Superintendent of
Chief
/million copies in Britain and victims had been taken to a Mr H., B.. nearby hospital.
G. Amerien alono
Hove of Police".
Mr Police said they had a force Appleton, Chief Inspector of of 36 policemen regulating Poller, Mr Wong Wing-yin, trafe inside the temple grounds Inspector of Police and Detec by midnight, but the congregative-Sergeant Chu Leung, tion was twice and su
The Yashiko village coastal village facing the sea of Japan in the Niigata prefec ture. The Shinto shrine of the village of 7,700 people is locat Tod on the top of the hill-out-
side the village-Reuter.
FOUR DIE IN
AVALANCHES
Davos, Jan. 1. White death struck in Swit All-Time Record zerland and Austria last night and loft four persóna 'dend: and 'one' mutasing,
Beer Drinking
Jart. Christmas holiday Week, Romite.
Fatno
The new Barons are: Colonel John Jacob Autor, 69, chairman of the London Times newspaper. Younger son of the first Vis- count Astor
Sir Francis Raymond Ever- shed, 86, Master of the Rolls, a high, legal post, He is a member of the Permanent Court of: Ar- bitration at The Hague. He was Britain's
In's youngest fo
judge at the age of
Shera Godber chairman and managing of the Shell Transport and director Trading Company. He has spent ***
his life in the oil industry.
07.
thereditary
An offelal statement from the THREE BARONETS
He once sald
Baronets Alpine rescue
an knights)
Hubert London, Jan. 1
American soldier, and two Britons dranje about tan French citizens, a man Buid intial Coed Boerd
Houldsworth,
Colonel million gallons of beer in the
killed by an James Hutchison and Colonel at the. "Gemshuecke! spokesinan, for - the National
Charles Ponsonby, « both near here Brewer Society estimated here,
fourth, person, á honey-forvalive politicians aske an all-line record.
mooning Frenchman, was kille panlous of Horlour
The Queen created three Com The demand for the national by an avalanche near Innsbruck, select order of paty 85
póst-war: slump is Austria. United Press, to improve steadily, headded
More Britons than ever before
type available only in house. Chhia Mali
Nothonist wars after the HERA.com are now preferring, boitled beer ||
pubic
next month, the American ships daringed several Communique, added. administration should give munist vessels in a naval battle. The communique also report this question serious of Matsu island last night, the od that a Communist hunk with Boboisl
Defence Ministry: el, sailors aboard “was captured thought and pay careful at Nationalist tention to the inconsisten announced here today, yesterday by Nation de darts
This was the third day forces at the mouth of the
cles of a poliich running on which payel engrani ilver el had been sta causing straining pding i mente have taken place in nla Marini, whéer, the creasing frustration among-MEONE The Communist
its allies.
Youtht Shoot Girl Colon
New York, Jan. 1. A gang of youths shot and seriously, wounded a 10-year-ol
they became abort with
at care, polOD
to remove
Ahot
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