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THE DAY
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Gloucester Arcade
Fishing Habits
THEN His Excellency, the
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Governor opened the annual fisheries exhibition at Aberdeon on Saturday he revealed that a revolution had quietly been taking place in the Colony's fish- ing fleet in the last eight years. Perhaps it should be rallod the first stage in a revolution which may have ne its ultimate goal the one envisaged by the Governor -the formation of a modern Western-style trawler feet with standards of technicati eMolency as high as in any part of the worki,
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Loudon, Feb. 13.
Snow and Ice tightened their grip on many parts of Europe again today. after a brief respite, causing fresh disasters and hindering the efforts of rescue teams in the stricken areas.
Up Subject
London, Feb. 13.
The London Times reports that a thorough re- view of the embargoes on trade with China by the consultative group in Paris is expected in the future.
The first stage in this revolu tion ሂና እኔ . mechanisation This does
that not meant every fishing junk operating in the Colony waters to day is equipped with an The figures show engine.
The paper recalls that this group on which that 890 of 6,000 junks of,
Japan and all the NATO countries except feeland all classes, oh, under one. (1. puifed aeventh of the total, are } people und their tate is still have representatives, meets from time to time to mechanisert. But the im- | known. portant point stress IN that 60 per cent of the fund. ings of Bah in the Colony and
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mechanizedl vessels. years ago they were being introduced
Avalanches In Macedonia
a large number of
Thousanda trapped by bow- dorms in the mountains of Italy ore desperately short of d supplies, Some humlets these have lxzen
eut off for a forte Biginight. Untled Slates free afrizalt has joined alun planes and! helleopter
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FROM the present stage in
missiona.
In
DANUBE FROZEN More than 20 "fying toxcars" from American bases In Dreux Fred Evreux (France), Athens, North Africa and West Germany a tuking part.
The United States Otr foren in Wiesbaden, West GermY,
nounced A
airlifting WOE De creation of a modern 450,000 pounds weight of sup- trawler fleet capable 1plies to stricken villuges long distance operations Italy and
more than 100.000 The pounds to Greece, may take any years, prototypes of 1 modern Hongkong Trawber art un the slipways already but the local Asherman who has only recently allowed him- self to be convinced of the
Frozen teas and rivers have merits of mechanising his held
eld up shipping, and road and thusting hotne and has mil traine
Feriously borrowed several hundred located. dollars to do so, in not like, ly to take lub readily to the idea-or the cost of such a dothmatically-upsetting In- novation us is now proposed,
The junkmaster whe has mechanised his craft in the last eight years can also be considered among the more enterprising and more pros-
the
Colony's perous Baherfolk, It is therefore hard to see the idea of a
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co-ordinate the controls on East-West trade.
"The coming meeting," writes the Times, "will be a direct result of the recent Washington talks at which the British view was put forward that restrictions on trade with China should be on the same basis as those on trade with the Soviet bloc and that the two should gradually be brought info line."
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Abrogates
Escape The
The Russians Lied Agreement
For Stevenson
New York, Feb. 13. Mr Adlad, Stevenson, who campaigning for the demooralio- presidential nomination, escaped injury when
R SHOW
tractor in which he was
travelling plunged 36 feet into a mow canyon 'near
Timberline
Lodge, Oregon, today.
With his five companions, Mr Blevenson scrambled out and walked back to the lodge where he la writing speeches.
he
Ite maid afterwards that onco Crashed in # helicopter in the Malayan jungle.---Ecuter.
Malta Referendum
MINTOFF
WINNING
Valetta, Feb. 13. Half the votes counted in Malta's weekend referendum showed 38,396 in favour of closer political and economic ties with Britain compared with 10,517 against.
The Americen government, Malayan rubber or
seems unwilling to make tured goods.
significant concessions
"I is true that China may with
till have healthy sterling **
The Rhal result is expected in erves and that remittances from the early hours of tomorrow. the Chinese in Malaya and the surplus on trade with Hongkods Mr Dom Minkoff, the Fring pre both useful rources of ster- Minister, polled approximately Jing. Yo. these might be quick-33,390 votes, with 10,517 against.
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other
this
Prusse
und
China, but it close that the United Kingdom
well
European countries are determined to lift some of the restrictions,
The Times
adds, "In short, the British and Americanly absorbed it orders on the It is estimated that the Anal governments have ugreed to scale envisaged. In somne quarters government vote will be about differ. Officials examined the were forthcoming." -- France- | 66,500 of the 90,342 votes cast, restrictions on China trade In
-Reuter details during the Washington
End talks review is still proceeding.
"As in the pist, ŝan.agreciment back Ice, 20 fer high, has
between the two governmenta completely suspended naviga will possibly be reached before lot on the Danube in the consultative group meets in breakers are working a 24-hour
"Both the French and Ger day. Budapest newspaper re-
Man govermenta are said to ports reaching Vienne suid the have pressed for some relaxation Danube in Hungary was frozen in recent months, and Japan has In a "solid sheet of lee."
also asked for the removal of 10 Both the Itullan and Aus-Items from the restricted list. trion authorities are worried over the danger of floods when
MAIN PRESSURE thaw comes-Reuter.
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Austria and all available' ico-
revolutionary trawler feet TRADE GAP
getting very far in Hong- kong until the prototypes are able to offer some really staggering evidence of their capabilities: until, in short, they prove they are worth changing a way of life that has existed and, indeed, has been perfected during the course of it good many hundreds of years.
WIDENS
London, Feb. 13.
Paris,
"The main
for a pressure change in the embargo seems to have cuine from businessmen Several British ALITAS with
China for orders from
guxxis, which they could freely ship to the Soviet bloc, have been re- fused licenses for export to China.
"Since China cũn! get the Prividonat figure rated to-goods quite legitimately from
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of
ONE of the frat guarantees imports £340.3 million, exports have one
by the Board of Trade the Soviet bloc, the logic show that the United Kingdom having two different cinbargoes, unde gap w January widened one for the Soviet bloc and an- £74.2 million compared with other for China, has been ques- December's +ficial adverse ontd. balance of £715 million,
There is
now little doub January gure
(to the that in the long run, the British nearest decimal place) were: Government would prefer to embargo list for all £250 million
the Communist countries, and re-experts £14,2 million,
This may well be slower United Kingdom exports in than expected if the Janury to the United States | Slates government sets its face were provisionally estimated at against any changes." £16 million and to Canada at £10.1 million-Retter.
At
the fisherman might seek 13 that there are assured markets and therefore 19- sured prices for his pro- ducl. This is an important consideration and obviously will trawlor development depend to a large extent on whether market conditions warrant the capital outlay involved.
present, wholesale fsh
United
HONGKONG TRADE
The Times adds, "The posdi. bility of changes in the Chino
Troops Fire On embargo has raised hopes in the
Rioters
city of a revival of trade through Hongkong and of rub- shipments from Malaya to
ber Chino,
"Hongkong, in particular, has felt the draught of the embargo
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Woman's Revelations Under Lie Detector
Detroit, Feb. 13.
An Iraqi immigrant said during a be test today that she and her young lover planned the murder of her husband a month before the crime was committed.
Mrs Victoria Halsha, 23, made The staying was last Friday. Mrs Halsha's husband, Aziz,
during the past five years. While the statement shortly after she in 1951, it handled engineering began a lie test to conarm her goods worth £27,000,000, story of the slaying of her hus-
£20,000,000 band. worth
prices are at a record low. Limassol, Cyprus, Feb. 13. which ja distinctly dis- couraging. Sir Alexander One Cypriot Greek villa Grantham mentioned in hisger was killed and a Cypriot opening speech 10 the Greek woman injured when rubber fisheries exhibition
that troops opened fire on a riot and other goods worth £50,- She at first told police a
000,000 for the China market. "one or two" local firms ous crowd today at Kolossi, the total shipments, from Hong- her husband and raped
|"dark-skinned burglar" killed were seeking export outlets a village six miles west of kong to
her China last year were for the surplus catch. If Limassol, it was officially barely. £11,000,000 of
little before fleeing. But, when con- more than 10 per cent of the contradicted this venture proves success- '
evidence which fronted with
her story, The ful that is, if say fish are announced. canned locally and assured reaching here, the British troops
According to
level" first героті The Times zoca en:. "Vlows accused Maurice Hamilton. 20, markets
found are
about the potentialities of the another recent immigrant, of the in
had gone to remove a
alaying Greek Chinese market differ widely. Southeast Asia, Japan and
the village when flag in Korea-it may provide the vere heavily stoned,
incentive Tocessary
They withdrew and returned development of the local with reinforcements. fishing fleet,
When the :showd became violent the troops fired*klillag
for
they
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ceritracts
Chica's
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85, was found in his bedroom with three knife wounds in his chest. His wife was found tied to their dining room table......... United Press.
FISHERMEN'S STRANGE CATCH
Imperia, Feb. 13.
· Several fishing' smacks from
About Burgess
And Maclean
London, Feb. 18.
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the British Foreign Secre- tary told the House of Commons today that the
ACTION AGAINST HOLLAND
The Hague, Feb. 13. Indonesia tonight abro- gated the Dutch-Indonesian Union unilaterally, as from today, according to Dja- karta massages reaching - here.
The announcement was made Indonesian . Cabinet
after an
of the Dutch-Indonesian con
Burgess and Maclean affairs brought into clear ion to consider the failure relief the lack of candour of the Soviet authorities in their statements about these men.
Referring to the disavowals by Soviet statesmen of any knowledge of the missing British diplomats, who re- appeared in Moscow on Saturday, the Foreign Secretary said: "This kind of conduct shows you how difficult it is. to establish the relations of mutual trust which the Soviet Union professes to seek."
Mr Sciwyn Lloyd said that ↑ (M15) the British counter-
ference in Geneva on Saturday.
The Indonesian government **will. consider similar
sures regarding the other agree ments reached with the Nether- lands during the round table con- ferarco in The Hague in 1949, mainly
in the financial and economic fields," the Informa> ; tion Minister, Sjamuddin Sutan Makmur sald,
the statement made by Burgess espionage organization, was true. Minding to the reports the
and Muckedn (to British and Russian
correspondents)
was designed "to be used for pro. paganda purposes."
He declared: "No credence can be placed in their words.”
On speculation that the rem
statement apperennes and
of
the former British foreign cffice men was aimed at driving wedge between Britain and America, Mr Lloyd said: this is the explanation, they will not succeed."
NOT WITH MI5
Mr Selwyn Lloyd replied: “I don't think that is exactly what Burgess claims." (In the state- ment Burgess said he had been “associated" with these depart ments).
ed
said the abrogation of the union established in 1949 when Holland transferred sovereignty to Indonesia was "only the first step."
The government and the gov- ernment parties would discuss the other menSVTES ágainst Holland on Tuesday night, s
to
"But, in fact he was employed in a department which at the outbreak of war dealt with.pro-said. paganda to neutral countries
BREAKS DOWN an organisation witch beetime
The Indonesian government "If | known as SOE."
The Foreign Secretary recall-
would give a statement that in
October, Mr Harold parliament on its decisions a9 Macmillan, then British Foreign soon as possible after the re- Secretary, had tisked Mrturn of the Indonesian delegation Vyacheslay Molotov, the Soviet from Geneva, Foreign Secretary, in Genova, Tho Geneva conference, for information about. Maclean originally, called on December and Burgess,
10 to improve relations between the two countries,, broke down Saturday after the delog-
to agree o arrangement for the settlement of disputes arising from the ex- cution of the financial-econo- mie agreements.
A Labour member, Mr Percy Daines, asked the Foreign Secretary whether Burgess' clam (in the statement). have served in the British secret service and military intelligence
Taking advantage of Government's relaxation of travel restrictions be tween · Hongkong・・ and Kwangtung during the new year holidays, hun- dreds of people queued up for trains to the border over the weekend. This picture, by a staff photo- grapher, shows a section of the waiting travellers at the KCRTM yesterday *morning.
COLD AND DRIZZLY
a
a Cypriot Greek man. A woman when Second Five Year to walked from her hubend's) thrushës tind blackbirds, instead rain during the night. From
was injured..
Holidaymakers - yesterday, chivered under typical Chinese New Year weather conditions, the temperature hit minimum of
32 degrees In some Industrial quarters, it From the time she implicated
Fahrenheit. is believed that 1956, may be Hambes 15 her. The text, Mis
The thermometer at 9 o'clock the critical year for placing of Haitha had claimed the first
Italian Riviera returned höme | At 1 a‚m, it was at 58.3. in connection with she imow about the murder of the litle port of Imperia on the this morning was 64.9 degrees, her husband was when Hamil today with a "catch" of There was light but steady starts, early next We are told the Hongkong
15 year cacing of the trade bedroom with a bloody knife in of fabr "An
midnighto 9 am today. fisherman is not "conserva-
restrictions, it is said, would his hand,
approximately 0.41 inches of gan The Ashermen sald they were rain fell tive" but progressive and
Barrage Of Stones encourage China to place large Shortly after the test began, enterprising. But that does Today's battle was the after- orders in this, country and other however, the comely, housewife right but to sea and art bout Today's forecast indicates an not mean he has no hand for math of an incident on Friday European countries and thus sald she and Hamilton had to cast their xibts when a anow overcoat sky with mist and
when Cypriot Greek elementary
women weaken her dependence on the planned the murder more than a storm everted them, periods of light rain. economics fought hand-to-hand and with Soviet Union, &
Suddenly, out of the whirling either. The trawler idea is a atones against British troops
Paris, Feb. 15, CHINA'S FINANCES Police said Hamilton would marwflak sappeared shugo
The world-famed Eiffel Tower good one and it is to be while village-men stayed out
undergo alle test after Mrs flocks of half-frozen birds which will shortly, got, a third elevator hoped Government gives of sight.
"The amoumption, however, Halsha's test was completed. ar nopped, down in hundrede 1 and Jour new pavillons the fishing community avery • In the new clash, today, men in that Chine can adequately They said the tests were "very the bosts or fell, uttering plors basef of each of its pillars. Incentive to moderniso in joined the women who remained finance imports. This hair sul dificult to administer because cing tries, into the sou, where
They
The 981-fook, tower, built in were drowned,
· this way,,But to dơ thắt | In the forefront of the attack to be tested,- Hales of Chinese | both ·Mrs Haisha” and Hamilton iront of the blue, had ra- prèschAWAK MONOWE ELEMENT PR
1800.00
elevators they will also have to help furious barrage of atonos when remained comparatively low and lauage and on interpreter vived by the time they reached K8The new elevator will be
soldiers, came under a products to this country" havs, sponk={Chaldean an ancient create the necessary con- they tried to lower the fag and hardly seem sudicients to augs had to be used Hamblion is land, and new/off, but numbers i båsed in the North, Pilar where ditions to make the idea when the mob failed to disperat, portataharp: Intresse is the the god of
{Scottish,'|'<of them were capftired and sold HUITENKIN (FRception: pavilion appealing and profitable, they opened freenRouter.
The
Mr Molotov said he was quite unable to provide any informations falled tion.
On January 12, Mr Harold Wilson, a former Labour Minis ter, had in Moscow asked, Mr Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist Farty. Becrotury, the same question.
an
Tonight's mova -ĉomfá after Djakarta reports, tddny, that, the Mr. Khrushchev was reported Indonesian political parties had |to have replied: "Are these men | boen demanding the cancellation in this country?. I have heard of the sgrekments / with the nothing of them and I have not Dutalter RAY
mot them."
The House must be prepared
to draw its own opinion about the veracity of these statements,
Mr Selwyn Lloyd said.
It brings out in clear reljef the constant.lack of candour of the Soviet authorities in their statements about these men.com Reuter.
Wedding Night Tragedy
Rome, Feb. 13. Bruno Ronchi, aged 40, of Treviglio, North Italy, died of a heart attack on his wedding night, after a 15-year ment to his bride, Lucia Ville according to porta
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TOKYO SHAKEN BY TREMORS
Tokyo, Fab. 14. A series of sharp earthquakes
| reaching here today. shock Tokyo
The couple, who were today, sending their way to a Capri honeymoon, buildings reling end. shaking windows for about 30 seconds,
spent their wedding night with relatives at Sestro San Giovanni. The tremors were felt at When they retired after about 9.53 a.m.
on
copious meal, there was no sign There were no immediate re-that Bruno was ill, the reports ports of damage, however, said, but died before their hosts, although one observer shouted, summoned by his wife's cries, "It's the worst quake I've felt could reach their room [ in years.""
Bruno and Luela had long whole city appeared to postponed their marriage for shake and away as if tilted on financial reasons,
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