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'Finest Product Of Hongkong'
is a tribute to the deep
mity of the late Sir Rober! Ho Tung that many beyond the burders of this Colony who have never known his name are numbered among the beneâclaries of his will. It in indeed a touching thought that British war orphans should he remem- bered along with the destitute and needy of the Colony: a is also a token of gratitude and thanksgiving, symbolic of the bonds that Loth Sir Robert and Hong-
Iconideration and magni-
kong share with the mother
country.
It is perhaps an even greater tribute to the man that of the charities, Institutions. family and
friends who
will benefit, the mainstream of his will should be directed to education and alleviation of suffering and
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CHINA MAIL
No. 36449
"Establish 1845
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1956.
Price 20 Cents
RELAX
INDAKS
400 ACIEHO TESUKKILI
Whiteaways
-* Automation Brings Unemployment To Coventry *
2,600
Car
MEN LOSE JOBS
Makers' Tito Tells Russians
Decision
Coventry, May 30.
The first British factory beset by disputes
over automation announced today that it
NO DANGER
OF YUGOSLAVIA -LOSING HER INDEPENDENCE
Belgrade, May 30.
Marshal Tito, Yugoslav Pre- was permanently dismissing 2,600 cm-sident, left for the Soviet Union ployees because its new automatic assembly tonight, the Yugoslav news agency line worked itself without them.
reported. He is on his way by train
"
* state The dismissal notices were handed out for a three weeks
visit to Moscow. by Standard Motor Company, scene of a
Before leaving, he emphasised two-week strike earlier this month over its
that there was no danger of Yugo- 'automation" plans.
Local officials of the Confederation of Ship-slavia losing her independence as a distress in this city, Macao building and Engineering Unions immediately result of the trip to Moscow.
asked the 10 unions it represents to hold emergency consultations.
and in China.
establish I
Particularly worthy is the
proposal to large charitable fund designed to beneft many deferving people who for various reasons have been denied opportunities. And a bequest to many more than those named in his will is the advice he gives to his children. These model precepts that company true greatheny,
are
Standard spokesmen said the 2,600 were not needed in the new automatic tractor assembly plant which is going into operation this summer. The company promised compensation payments of £15 to each of the dismissed workers.
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of a
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Marshal Tilo said the visit! "must be regarded On a result
speedy normalisation relations," between Russia and Yugoslavia, Tas said.
The statement enid: "I am going with my comrades on a
to the Soviet Union the invitation of the Soviet
visit
"We start this journey with feeling of pleasure because we are convinced that wo will
The Standard announcement coincided with a meet-government." ing on automation of the Trades Unfon Congress (TUC). the Its General Council met in London and approved the draft ac- of a 7,000-word statement defining the Union's attitude
to automation.
To many who know ittle or nothing of Sir Robert him- self, a co..paratively small measure of the greatnear he achieved during his life. time is revented in his last bequests. It is not possible to compute nccurately the
full extent of his numerous gifts but it is enough to say that without
and them without his warm heart and his intense concern for a suffering world reflected in the microcosm of Hongkong, this Colony would be very much the poorer.
by
of
On his death, of the many
worthy tributes paid friends and admirers this truly Grand Old Man, the simplest and greatest was that he was "the finest product of Hongkong". It is an epitaph that will be Binked with his name to
live through time itself.
Tito's Visit
PRESIDENT Tito's visit to
any
LEADERS TOLD
Standard
gave its
dismissal announcement, to
Union leaders who had been negotiating with the Company over automation since early this month.
D
have not any the opportunity to
exchange opinions on various International matters. of interest
to both parties, but that we will
with acquainted also become the great achievements recently made by the Soviet Union."
Marshat Tito added: "On the other hand, we are going with
with great satisfaction to the Soviet
to the country Union,
joint which we are linked by Aghting and joint mufferings in which the past, to the country our peoples highly appreciate because of ita tremendour sacrifices in the late war with the Fascist invaders.
A month ago, the Company said it would lay off about 3,500 men temporarily this summer while new automatic machinery was being Installed to boost tractor output, Theat workers feared many men would never be re-hired and 12,000 men struck for two weeks to try to force the Company to guarantee jobs for all those laid off.
The strike ended two weeks ago when the Company agreed to hold further talks with Union leaders. As a result, the Company last week agreed to Union proposals to transfer 1,000 tractonnen to a car factory. The Union also naked that another 1,000 men be saved by operating a rota system in which 1,000 men would be idle for a week at a time while stijl receiving a guaranteed wage of £6 a week.
"Our Journey to the Soviet
Union must be regarded as the normalisa- result of a speedy tion of relations and establish- ment of friendly ties and co- air two between
The talks were adjourned till today for the Company to pers
announce its decision.-United Press,
Lover Made Woman
Kill Her Child
- how Algarron Describing
scratched her, Labbe told the judge; "He said he did this to riss above the common berd."
Blois, France, May 80.
of Denise Labbe, accused
drowning her child as a
to "love sacrifice" artillery officer, told a
despite the court here today her lover The Judge: "Yet
sufferings, you ögreed?" "scratched
until I me
than Itussin-more
Junket other recert
by lenders and neutralist wavering westerners-is a subject of apprehension and possibly even anxiety in Washington and London. The reason for this in that shuce the Yugoslav-Soviet rapprochement last year The Marsha! Tito has not enjoyed quite the Rame trust accorded him during hle years of exile from the Cominform.
taken
The Russians, have
obvious pains recently to erdot a more attractive the Communist facade on
Stalin has been system. debunked, The Cominform has been nominally, swept been Berin has away. purged and, in fact, many of the impurities resented by Tito have been removed. And in these conditions the Kremlin is obviously hoping to regraft Yugoslavia on to the Soviet oak...
nn
my
bled he even bought a Labber "I enjoyed it to the ex- penknife to scratch
tent that it was Jacques who dic It to me. Once
he skin."
scratched the Scara on my shoulders just as they were beginning to heal in order to malce them bleed again"
30-year-old blonde typist stood weeping in the dock for
almost six hours as she gave' evidence of her relations with Lieutenant Jacques Algarroa, her 20, who is charged as accomplice. Newspapers havo them "The Demon
***Wringing her hands, Denise added: "He hated everything that was human, social or
He conventional
said WIC must form an kleak couple who would do anything for each other.
called Lovers," Labbe broke into fits of sobbing several times while deserthing three unsuccessful bids to ki hor two-year-old Cathy, daughter of A former affair, and her*final drowning in a wash-bucket,
"He wanted a woman to be his
plaything".
Algerron, who had been sitting
calmly in his corner of the dock, rose to his feet ond said: "Not you."
"Love" Sacrifice"
Rebels Swoop On French Outpost
STUDENTS
Willing To
Pay High For The Information
Nicosia, May 30. Notices were posted all over Cyprus today offering £6,000 sterling and a free passage to anywhere in the world to anyone giving, in- formation leading to tho arrest of 25 Cypriot Greeks whose pictures and descrip- tions appeared on the poster." The notices-in English, Greek and Turkish-said the reward would be paid in cash, and free passage with British pro- Rio de Janeiro, May 30.
tection would be given to the Students and school informant and his Immediate children - made deter dependants
PARALYSE TRAFFIC
anywhere outside mined effort to paralyse Cyprus,
The journey would be kept the traffic of Rio de Janeiro, secret und arranged so that the tonight and, in continued destination remained unknown, protest against increased the posters said.-Router. fares, staged sitdown strikes on the rails to hold up tramcgre.
--
Motionless, trams noted dams stopping the flow of other traffle
Earlier, students had burned
Bishop's Appeal
Bishop Anthimos of Kitium, senior Greek orthodoxs bishop in Cyprus, today sent a message to the Greek Prins Minister diplomatic urging. "Improdiate
out and damaged a number of intervention" by Greece
truncate
over
"Turkish atrocities in Cyprus the threatening.
Greek
Yesterday when, according to which
ard
official Agures, two trams wereon of the
completely destroyed and 128 damaged, students placed. tabics
Anthimos, who
*19
en the tracks and played cards nying to Athens soon for talks
and chess,
said in his message to the
APOLOGIES
Magesst,
107.
with the
Official ditent represent- atives apologized to the Rio de [Janeiro-police chief, General anxiously
Augusto Algiers, May 30, Several rebels and French troops were killed violence early today when some 100 rebels swooped down on a mixed French-Moslem garrison at Maald out post in the Aures foothills
Greek..' govermanent,
M Constantine that Cypriots and awalted Arm
lives
the speady action from Greece to and urged that fare protect their endangered
and property-Routex. increase protests be peaceful,
wamed students against "subversive, cements
trying
to expleft the altuation.
Scores of students have been arrested.
students
After reports that About 30 of the rebels entered the garrison
were train up tram rails, with the aid of a Moslem sergeant and fought there was an urgently called with the troops for three and a half hours before meeting of security chiefs at the
presidential palace tonight | Reuter being driven off.
said Roparts-reaching here that several rebela were kille and a sizable number of French and Moslem troops were dead, wounded or missing in the clash. Mostem riflemen fought along- side French troops' In, repulsing the attack.
Reinforcements were delayed by rebel leted road damage and arrived about half an hour. after the clash. A big opera- tion was underway in the area to hunt down the fiecing re- beis.
iry
Another operation was under- "In this respect, a great part way in the West Constantine was played by the Belgrade de Department where troops claration and the negotiations ficted heavy capualties on . TC. which we conducted with thebels in several, clashes. Soviet leaders.
FULLY REALISED
"We now can state that all points of the declaration touch- ing our mutual relations have been fully realised,"
(The Belgrado, declaration, issued during the visit of the Soviet leaders to Yugoslavia in May, 1955, pledged both coin- tries to closer co-operation In folds economic
cultural and put forward proposals de
world strengthen signed to peace).
and
CUNS RECOVERED
Near the town of Amouches, troops killed, several rebels and captured another today, in a battle which had been under- way.. since yesterday... Troops recovered 71 guns and . three automatic pistols from the rebels, Air-supported troops clashed with rebels at several points in
operation
лепт
High Jinks In Ghent
Ghent, May 30,
Dutch students reliving a victory of 120 years ago stormed Ghent's old castle in the centre of this. Belgian City early yesterday, barred the doors and proclaimed themselves rulers of Ghent,
Local police pounded in vain on the doors of the 800 year old castle as students, thoroughly enjoying them selves, tossed pamphlets over the ramparte.
The Fire Brigade roared to the scene. But their ladders would not reach the top.
Soviet Housing Shortage
Londok May 30,"
"Mr Duncan Bandys, Britain's Minister of Housing and Local Government, arrived here to night by air with his wife, after a 17-day tour of Russia as guests of the Soviet government.
At the airport, Mr Bandys, a son-in-law of Sir Winston
Churchill,
Nisslans 4 housing were faced with shortage "infinitely more acute" them that of Britain immediately. after the second world war.
sald
the
Holt Honoured tion, so as to increase the num-
The Soviet authorities ho added, realised that it would be. a great many years before they could hope to overcome the problem, and It was only, n- tural that they should adopt lower standards of accommoda- ber of dwellings provided.
Mr. Sandys suld he was struck
to which the London, Biny 30.
Russians were uring prefabrica An ex-prisoner In Korea, Mrtion and mass-production
become a Vyvian Holt, has Knight, of the Order of the Britory methods on building sites.
Router. And on top of their loftytish Empire on the occasion of the official.birthday of Her perch, the "defender of Cheat Bajesty Queen Elizabeth WAITED IN VAIN decided to celebrate with beer and lunch.
The
While all this was going on, another group of students was infitrating the streets of Ghent, pasting up proclamations com- memorating, the old victory.
Commissioner Polico
Mr, Holt, who represented Britam In Seoul when South Paktlout arrived to see what was going Korea was invaded, was made a prisoner by the North Koreans village,
years in spent Boveral on. Burgmeister Merchiers of and Several other rebels were Ghent sent his driver to keep captivity
when troops him posted on: the situation...! last night
Another new Knight the killed
British Ambassador to Saigon, wooped down on them as they word about to sabotage D *** "AWAIT ORDERS”
Mr Hugh Stephenson, who bo
The statement continued: "I telophone line samo 500 yards
the village of Hamma from would like to emphasize also
set fire to a farm and Rebels this rather important point that relations between our two chopped down 1,800 olive trees
countries have become clear ench stable, as relètions between two equal powers. A
"During the last year almost All factors Wero eliminated which could have cast doubt en such a character of our relations.
"While saying this, I want that there is no ground, for all to point out at the same time,
those {spect:iations irisome.
which quarters, according to allegedly Yugoslavia is in dat ger of losing her independent Bhatian," Merahai Tito said.”
DISCORDS ENDED Marshal Mo added:
There
Denise sald that while they Denize mid that when Cathy are no longer aber, serious and
were riding in a taxi, he told wa saved from drownlag is a difficult problems *her that a woman' genuinely river near her home, her colved, bunda
In love would kill the driver (Contd, on back page, Col. 1).
to make her man happy.
Describing an alleged incident
near the town of Aintagrou!, Others slashed the throat of a farm guard near the town of Al- Ksour and uprooted 7,400 grape- viner.-France-Presɛ0,
face
London, May 30. Officials waited all today - In
to hand over a new London flagship for the Bulgarian mer-, chant navy-but the crew never The 10.337-fon ship arrived.
Balkan will be renamed
An Embassy official said tho crow had been expected on.
Off wont student telegrams to comer Knight Commander of the Dutch War Ministry: the Order of St Michael and St day but "something has hap
George France-Presse, wa uwalt further
Queen Mother's Congratulations.
Accident
orders.
At thred local time, your students devoted Arnsterdam took and fre holding the | Grovendeal Castle at Ghent." A sudlar, telegram to Amster don's Burgomelster Daily brought this terse comment:
Finally the defenders gave up the tinigsver "And."after seven hours of questioning, strong polico London, May 30,
escort took the conquerors of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Ghent to the Dutch border and
their Motter fell and twisted her right sent them on ankioat her home, Clarence United Fress. House, this morning, a Bucking ham Palace announcement said.
The Queen Mother, who is
carries out a Take Marshall's full schedule of engagements this afternoon with her right-
Place Plea ankie heavily bandagod.----Unlicia Pros
nevertheles 10. be
(Canid on back page, Col. 1)
In Paris Restaurant which BUOL POST-MORTEM REQUEST
Algarron first. asked her t
to
kelili her child as a love
merifice," she said: "This
awful, But in view
socmed
of
Bordeulix,
I
The outcome is unpredictable, but if Tito pursues the tra ditional Yugoslav role of playing off one great power
30, whom he helped to liberate moy against another, he
The United States. Consul at during the Indo-Chin war. appear to move closer with
Bordeaux today asked for a throl met his host when he out actually doing so, His
his state of mind, it was quite post-matem examination on made a forced Faridkorg bubind surprising Invitation to normal. Italy's Communist loader, The
asket Lawrenen R. Buol, former the Vielmimined, te later. ho When Judge:
American evil airline plot, who fratormed the French authorit Talmiro Togliatti-Indeed, you this, what' did you
died at Rabat je Lee Trbis that he had seen Tychener, and in a mid I Would Asurprising to Ruania as Donder
Seigneurs, Ariego (Gouthend two other Frenchmen ( to the West-demonstrates Wabbre he asked me to do race) on Simmy,
Chine infermeres corno and The Dow mortem on Buol will homible that 1- had, na Kuht Buol, who collapsed, suddenly, taidon ico.at/ Bordonuz on frim
mikti: hla; body. to do it. But he replied that after taking a bath, was staying ame mising sugary to the forthet was the that gave the nor at the time of his death with coming, talks in Moscow. tion Ita valLIO."
his strong, independent
mood which some Western
observers mee af á "pro-
would have done it. Once I fouly him the kiến, was no
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