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FLASHBULBS
THE DAY
OF
Lessons For HK MONTHS will
pass-
possibly a year or two —before Hongkong will know how useful the Third Southeast Asian Film Festival has been to local studios. The closing speeches on Saturday night claimed that the Festival "had admirably achieved its objectives" but a more precise and detailed report on the private discussions and meetings held last week will be needed before independent judgment can be made.
Father Sheridan, one of
L
a
the
Festival judges, said earlier this month that one of the main objects was to find the key to revival of the Hongkong industry which had suffered
serious decline in recent years. He mentioned that "Jack vatality" could slem from 12 major sources, and it is opportune today to whether local film magnates were provided with the key.
of
ask
THEY should, for instance, now knaw how other industries operating
similar dealing
Iema
In
conditions are
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BRITISH TROOPS TRAPPED IN FOREST FIRE
Nicosia, Juno 17. Many British servicemen were burned today in a forest fire raging in southwest Cyprus where a major anti- terrorist sweep is going
on.
Unconfirmed reports say some people were killed
****
by the fire, which was still burning late to- night.
Soldiers and Cypriot
fire-fighters were bat- tling the blaze when it suddenly grined strength and enveloped them, causing many casualties, according to an official statement.
Helicopters are flying in- jured men out of the blaze area, which is near Vroisha, 50 miles west of Nicosia. More than 5,000 troops have been engaged in a large. scale anti-terrorist sweep in the wooded, mountainous area for the past week, search. ing for the mysterious
Eoka leader "Digenis" and other terrorista.
to "Digenis" —–—– reported
bo George *Grivas, former Groek army general is believed to have slipped narrowly through their hands in the past week, and to bo still in the area. There was no indication of what started the
fire. But at press con- ference earlier today on the results of the first week of the search operations, Brigadier Gooffrey Baker, Bir John Harding's Chief of Staff, said a number of fires had been started by terrorists to cover up their move-
ments,
Tito Convinced About Russia's
"Liberalising"
Policy
URGES KREMLIN TO ABANDON
THE WARSAW PACT
Moscow, June 17.
Polish Officers
Marshal Tito, Yugoslav President, flew back to Moscow today after Reinstated
a triumphal tour of the Soviet Union, with the reported conviction that deep-seated changes had produced a new Russia with which Yugoslavia could now have even closer ties than before 1948.
the
sald
the
of
Paris, June 17.
high
ranking
Several Polish officers have been Senior officials said that relations between the two countries on the rehabilitated as a result of ideological level could now be closer than at any time before Stalin died the present review of poll- and before President Tito was expelled from the Cominform in 1948.
tical trials which occurred President Tito has been deeply impressed during his trip by the changes
In 1949 and 1950, Poland's which have taken place in the Soviet Union,
Marian overthrow following
Public Prosecutor, Stalinism, highly-placed Yugoslav sources said.
Rybicki, announced in an Interview, published In with prob.
Thus,
Joint Soviet- that are hampering Yugoslav
The Yugoslav President was, Soviet Union were genuine and Warsaw today by the daily communique, to be
to have complained that must be recognised as such. progress and expansion signed in the Kremlin after finat Mr Matyas Rekost, Hungarian
He would try to convince the Trybuna Loda. here. They possibly ex- telky tomorrow or Tuesday, was Communist Party leader, had West to do everything possible The interview reported by changed ideas and discussed expected to reflect Yugoslavia's not yet suficiently purged his to encourage the liberalising the official Pollsh news agetucy techniques in the more sugerness to rename ploty and
party of anti-Yugoslav nenti- processes Tow going on sald tho officers advanced industries in political relations with Moscow.
ment.
Signlucanoe hes there- Russia. Specifically, he would
ould Lieutenant-Colonel Zdislaw Asia, Some of the important
fore This follows a your after
been attached to the our suggest that the Kremlin may Barboslewic, points they should have resumption of contacts between
prise visit to Budapest-zollow
to grant dealt with are nudience Russin and Yugoslavia, since requirements, conditions in which time, the Rusiare
cow of Mr Mikhail Suslov, pean counus member ot
icaters cou Communist the which films are produced, been "on probation" in Yugo-
Party's Presidium and its lead training of actors and clav eyes
ing theoreticia.
Despite Yugoslavia's newly udinitied ideological Identlly with Russia, Yugoslav officials claimed that Marshal Tito would continue to pursue an indepen- dent foreign policy.
the
have
actresses and script writing, There was no doubt in the to mention only a few.
minds
of most of President Tito's party that the Russions had come through the test, that the further changes
were stil
in secret of the success of the progress and that the entire
What, for instance, is
Burmese and Japanese in-process of “liberalisation" now dustries, and what are the going Jessons for Hongkong; or, to motively encouraged
put it another way, what ja it that these films or American films have
or
En Russia must be
officials say
that Yugoslav Yugoslavia is not returning to even
Moscow, but that Muscow has that
now advanced to such a point the local enes tuck-do the that
the Soviet leaders have Shaw Brothers have the accepted many of the principles answer is making Cinema-laid down long ago by Marshal Scope Alms and wide-screen Tito, pletures? And what about the quality of lucal film stars? The criticism is made that local producers called "camp of socialism and put far too much emphasis peace, although not factually on a pretty face und nol inside 1.
nearly enough on acting ability, and that training is inndequnte,
Western
here diplomais believed it was virtually certain That Yugoslavia will henceforth be spirtually part of the
Few
Differences
60+
Yugoslav officials said that, ideologically and in the sphere
But
THERE are reports that of world politics, there were now
Malayan money is to be few differences between Yugo Invested in the Hongkong slavia and the Kralia, industry in an attempt to they were Insistent that there revitalise it. This is wel was no question of a "return to come news but it has to the fold," as it existed before be understood, 48 Father 1948. Sheridan said, that money
Well-
informed Yugoslav alone cannot put Hongkong sources said that Marshal Tito's remain argument in his discus- films, on the road to covery. The best thing that along with Mr Nikita Khrush
chev, Communist Party leader, local producers could de confirmed the theory of "peace. would be to get together as ful co-existence." soon as possible to syn-
The Yorosity view, these thesise the ideas given out]
sources said, is that genuine last week, and map out a plan of action.
The Idea of co-production withi
Asian and European studios seerns to to a good one that deserves more thought by local companies. It involves a merging of local material and overseus. talent
and
there are obvious lessons to be learnt from this kind of experiment,
adjust to
e
greater
where
❤mmander ew. Przybyszewaki,
to the East Euro-olonel o
Josez J110w, Major
Marsani Tro's visit to. Mos i indem Side, the Soviet Zelry Machalin and
could be convinced that Mastowick, a
Jan
edlottél :th the
Woman Whol Disobeyed Curfew Shot
Nicosia, Jummer 17. ↑
35-year-old Greek Cypriot woman is reported to have been shot and seriously injured by troops toulshit as her car WRE leaving the curfew of Nicosia,
she Anastassiadyu.
Valentine
She was in the car with her two mom when, accord- ing to first reporía, troops imposing the curfew open- ed fire.
The incident occurred on the border ares betweEIN curfewed and free zones of Nicosia.
An official statement was expected later,--«Børster,
2 DIE IN
GUN DUEL
First reports told of 24 injured in the blaze. It was later reported that the nearest hospital, at Pandaya, was "choked" with casualties. The civil hospital
ot
Limassol was told to clear away all, non- sorious cases to make room for the forest fire casualties. Reuter.
4-YEAR-OLD GIRL SLAIN BY
Woman To Be Foreign Minister
Of Israel
Tel-Aviv, June 18.
The Israeli Labour Party tonight elected Mrs Golda Meyerson, Minister of La- bour, to succeed Mr Möshe Sharott as Foreign Minis-
ter.
1
A spokesman of the Labour (MPAI) Party angounced earlier
BY do that Mr Bharott would
SEX MANIAC
*
Seattle, June 17. The battered, nude body
submit his resistion to the Cabinet tomOTIOW.
The perthal committee elected Mordechal Namir, at present Secretary-General of the Israeli Federation of Labour, - to take over the Labour portfolio: from Mrs Meyerson.
of four-year-old Kathryn
Israel's condition Cabinet will Lane Ruoff, daughter of a hold a special session tomorrow Washington State legislator, morning to bo. told of Mr
Was
discovered today Sharett's resignation and of other crammed under the rotting government changes
Later, Mr. Ben Gurion, the boards of an alley garage; Prime Minister, is expected to apparently the victim of a announce the government | changes to the Knesset (Parla- BOX degenerate,・・・
Police said the child, one of mont) four chlidren of State Representative and Mrs Richard
was the Ruoff,
object at Д nightlong search by hundreds of officers and neighbour,
The polire chief, Jack Porter, said the toddler apparently had
been strangled with a sunsuit:
zammed
BORN IN RUSSIA
in
Mrs Meyerson was born Russia and taken to the USA at the age of eight, n
As a student at the teachers' in Milwaukee, she
A piece of clothing had been eminary
deep into her throat to began to take an interest in She did war stifle her arcams. The police public affairs.
Proller work in World War 1 and Bald she had been Buxumlly
notive Wan attacked
dis- The child's body was covered by a group of volunteer storchers la The old garage a short distance from the Ruoff pame
Mr Ruoff, a prominent surance man, and his wife were placed in a doctor's oure and treated for shock.
Jeft
the Zionist Socialist Party in America.
Mrs Meyerson settled in Palestine 35 yea
ryears, ago, started work as an agricultural labourer at Merhavia, where she was for, three yea
In 1976 she was clected to the Women's Labour Council.
was a member of Kathryn dianie Jarjoexicative of the Federatint of ther, home, yesterday after Jewish Labour (Hitadruth) noon to vit 's playmate a block and has been a deligale to many away! She never arrived Zionist congresses and repre- sented • Hisiadruth at +- inter- national labour conferences Era England and America”
the West no longer wanted to try resistance movement in World Norwich, Conn. June 17. to change their internal regimes War 2.
A 29-year-old man and there-United Press. by force, the sources sai
that. All were freed and totally re-his estranged wife's gun- Yugoslavia
believed
Не Rybicki sald. unless the West demonstrated habilitated,
In conEdence the Russian alto announced there would be changes
the cast of and willingness to new heuring in
cox-director of meet Moscow halfway, there Jozef Rozanski,
the Soviet the Judical Investigations sec- danger Union would return to thetion who was sentenced to five "Iron Curtain."
Was
conclusion drawn by ex- observers
Cars.
The
Yugoslav President is thought to sẹo himself and his country is a bridge between East ami West and it is re.
Rybicki said the new hearing Western perienced ported that ho
and more Intends to here was that Yugoslavia would stemmed from new inform Western Governments extend its economie corections incriminating evidence against of the results of his Moscow
Rozanelet and from protests by with the Soviet Union talks.
against hla *LOG large scale, the final extent do deputies Yugoslav Bources sald Pres- pending on whether she con- [endent" sentence. -Franco dent Tito would tell the West Unued to accept American aidh. Presse, he believed the changes in the 1-Reuter.
תי!
While Togliatti Says To Reds QUIT BEING CARBON COPY OF THE SOVIET UNION
Rome, June 17, Italy's Communist Party boss, Palmiro Togliatti, told world Communism today to quit making itself a carbon copy of the Soviet Union.
Italian political commentators WAK
Nazi's Body Dug Up From Grave
The Hague, June 17, The body of Anton Mussert, Holland'a Quisling who was shot in 1946, was up by unknown persons and removed from graveyard here last night,
a
The police said they believed an attempt was being made to muggle the remains out of Hol land. Warnings went out to all frontier posts today.
in a blazing Ike Visited By
carrying boy friend were killed today gun duel over her affections, the police said.
Police Captain Clarence Simpson said the husband, Ralph Schneller, dred a 12-gauko shotgun and a revolver at his 42-year-old rivni, Robert Miller, who blazed back with five chota from his own revolver.
Grandchildren
inta
гост
Doon
DYNAMIC ENERGY
#
the
Her dynamic energy is shown by the many execullye, jobs ahe пля
includo held. They Washington, June 17. directorship of Histadruth's air- Four young children burst mined Aviron Company chair-
President Eisenhower's
Reedmanship of the supervising board In the Walter
of the Jewish Workers Sick military hospital here this after- Fund,
They were President National
of Palestine Count the "Actions Elsenhower's grandchildren who Jewry as well as the Wero paying the President Committee (inner counell) their first visit since his opera the World Zionist Organisation, tion eight days ago.
Mrs
Meyerson, who is 58, was Miller, shot twice in the chest
Eisenhower's the first minister of the Stata of Major John by the shotgun and once in the children-David aged 8, Bar-Israel in Moscow, a position sho shoulder by the revolver, stap- bara 7,, Susan 4, and Mary Jean held from June 1948 until
the gered into
and
the February, 1949, street
aix-months, each brought
when she re- collapsed outside the three-President a vase of flowers, turned to Jerusalem to become storey building where Schnetter | which the eldest had arranged Minister of Labour and National and his wife occupied, separate themselves. apartments.
In the shooting spree, Schnetler's wife was hit in the arm by a revolver bullet.
BODY ON PORCH Schnetter was found dead on: the porch after police armed with teargas surrounded the building in the bellef that he was still alive. He was shot in the left eye and neck.
Friss Secretary James Fingerty said the President wan delighted with Els grand- children's 10-minute France-Presso,
visit,
the new Israeli
Insurance in Cabinet,Reyter.
Spies Sentenced
Jaffa, June 17 An Israeli military court here
to life imprisonment on charges of espionage.
Girl For Film Stars today sentenced two Egypilans
Captain Simpson, safe, ballis-
Santa Monica, June 17. Mussert founded the Dutch tic tests would be made to-
Film stars Tony Curlis and Nazi Party in 1931. During the morrow to determine whether Janet Lelgi today became Ho criticised the Russian Communist Party boss, war he was proclaimed "Leader Schneller was fatally wounded partnts of a baby girl their Nikita Krushchev, and said a few good words for the latestherlands people" by by Miller or if he idled himself. Best call.
The baby, unnamed as yet, Captain Simpson said Schnet- Josef Stalin.
ter's wife had planned to divorce weighed in at six lbs. Both him and marry Miller.
were doing He said mother and baby
fine. turned and shot her when she "Just what we wanted," said
Curtis.Reuter. ran after Miller was killet.
Simpson said Miller came to see Min Schnetter and found the
band's demand that ho bà al- lowed to visit their six children. -United Press.)
1. It wa EXCLUES to
по
Nazis.
Captured in 1943, Musaert was
"peaceful co-exlitengen
Signor Togliatti's attack on rentenced to be shot after a two- Impossible so lour an
two suid that Italy's Communist the present Russian leadership day trial in which he was found power blocs existed in the Party, largest outside the Iron consisted of the main points; qulity of trying to bring Holland world. world. Frealdeal Tio was Curtain, apparently mean to
reasonable under Nozl rule-Reuter reported to have
the chart its own ecurso
Independ-
olatim, 28 Mr urged
Krushchev theent of the Kremlin, to abandon
that. did,
the
pact-the
power of the Army and pollee prevented alber leaders from deposing Stalin when his faults became clear.
2. The present
Russians
WRERAW
a
The Soviet Union remains the Nato and to have told
"Arst
of the grent model บริ that mistrust would continue construction of Socialist 60 eo long As the Weat thought clety," Signor Togliatti sald, but
"the front of Socialist construc the Bast European CommuE IN→
countries were totally on has broadened." rubservient to Moscow.
The
1ct
Big Changes
Soviot model cannot and must not be obligatory any more. The International political structuro of the world Yugoslav sources, ben
Communist movement } loved that big changes were in changing today," he declared, "The whole complex of the progress in the El Europina
The
3 MAIN POINTS
Leaders led the
Busines
campaign
•
Pho
claimed that Schnetter
NAGAS STRIKE couple arguing over the hus-
AGAIN
Shillong, Assam, June 17. Hostile Naga tribesmen arrned leaders with automatic
which boosted Stalin an deml-rod.
3. The
Krenillia
*
weapons
kept Conusunist Parties eat swooped on Kohlms Own in the Mintoff In London
J
alde Russia completely in the Naga hills of northeast India on anch kliled-six dark about the true state of Wednesday aflairs in Rumia,
civilians in a surprise attack, errors", Signor Togliatti point-reaching here tonight recognising Stalin's according to
delayed reports
White
London, Juno 17. Mr. Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta, arrived here [by all from Geneva tonight for tallow with, the British govern ment on the integration of with Malta with the United King-
dom.
ed out that he accomplished The Nagne ares said to have many "good thing"" which were carried out looting before dis- being ignored by his directors, appearing into the hills
arms and other Booly, ... NEEDS EXPLAINING
Tho reported attack came
Here, then, lies the real Im
portance of inst week's Festival to the Colony, Future Festivals will in countries and Marshal Tito was Socialist system is becoming dicate how far Hongkong said to have stressed the need polycentric producers have been prefor
more independence for pared
short them. comings and put new ideaa The Tugoslave believe that Signor Togliatti nized his into effect. Perhaps raore control of local affairs by the views, in question-and- than one week of dlacussion Kremlin may shortly be answer article published by the He said it was all very well only two days after the Nagar It understood that Mr is needed for any real replaced by a looser form of Party organ L'Unliesport for the Kremlin leaders to crill had ambushed a motor convoy Minkoff will also discrims finan boneft to be felt and it is monomic, military at political wawelcome the fact that cire Stalin, But be said what hear Kohima, killing three cial aid for the island with to bo hoped use will co-ordination with a large degree among the Communitat Parties
needed was their explana-prople and injuring, several government ministers.Reuter. the which are in power, mutonomy for be made of regional
́a dosire not tion based on-Marxist ‘criteria former 'antellites," the
Bources bo fall into the error of Stalin of how; such, erroks: "pok mixed- oporation in the future.
le developing the demand, 1 up with the
of of will be up to Important subject the Federation of Motion President Tito's discussions, was method and our own
devise our Sociállat: #Dele
way of The question of the respon- Queen Flies Home Picture Producers, of Anla entities it to take full add to have bom the guaranteeing ours you against afbility of the autre : dircoling quowel of Yugoslav relations the dongurs of Magnation and group murt be considered,, ho vantage of the", technical with, the East Earopenas Kruciorucendations, in order, to sakli (""This Includes: those ability of lis more experi- countrios, * particuliriy Hungary | mosolye the problems of liberty comrades who, foday have keri ale for: Lordon after k-tun-day ChISKER enced neighbour, Industries, and Albariz
for the working, maawen, folded. (Conti, où Dior
of local
Hongkong's membership: in
i
4
V-Blockholm, June 17,
Visit to Bw
Tokyo Earth Trembr
Tokyo, June 18, VA sicht darthquakes, rocked alty buildings in Tokyo, todar. but no
Both plentdeck qulity and admitted they had twice crossed
into Israel on an espionage: mission for the Egyptian army.
The sentenced men, Abtul Aziz, el Brim, 24, and Soutelman came from Abou Sawers, 21, the Egyptian-held Gaza sirip,
bordering Israel,--Reuter,
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