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PHILIPS
PHOTOFLUX
FLASHBULBS
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CHINA
No. 36530
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THE WEATHER: Fresh W.8.W. winds, Fins, and hot,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1956.
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RELAX IN
DAKS Whiteaways
TILE KARERAIS CONST EN ALTERN TREGRERE
COMMENT We Are Going To NEVER SUGGESTED ALLOTTING
THE DAY
Fresh Fields
is gratifying to note the
I welcome interest shown by European buyera in the stand at the International
Hongkong Frankfurl
Trade Fair Indeed such an enthusiastic response On what was expected to be a window-shopping day for the public suggests that the Colony's continental excure,
sion may prave a highly pru- Stable niternative to the British Industries Fair. This year Hongkong did nui exhibit at the BIF for the first time in nine years be- CALUMEN of FL reorganisation which would have given the Colony's stund less favour. able siting and location. The decision to participate
at Frankfurt was therefore the logical step. Many may
regret the Colony's absence from Olympia, but na Hong- - kong's name IN now well known in the United King- dom (British bayern, lu- cidentally made 70 per cent. of the inquiries at last year's Pair), there is a clear need i to try fresh felds. The Colony' trade with Western Europe lags well behind that with other parts of the world. In fact it does not even equal our trade with North Borneo, so an obvious
Discuss, Not
Negotiate-Nasser
Cairo, Sept. 2.
President Nasser told a press conference in Cairo to- night that his talks with Mr Menzies were “not negotiations but discussions only."
Asked whether he intended to enter into an agreement guaranteeing the rights of nations
Suez Canal using the President Nasser said: "I have already promised to negotiate a new agreement on the lines of the 1888 convention guarantee- ing freedom of navigation. This offer still stands."
He was speaking to a panel of 15 American news- paper and radio network correspondents and a British news- paper correspondent.
Afterwards some of them said Nasser appeared to be "full of good humour and perfectly relaxed." He had just returned from a weekend spent with his family in Alexandria.
Anti-Negro Rally
Tanks Move In
It would seem market for development. JARLIER
suggested Wi
EAR
setting up regional dis- j
which could move plays about in specified regions ( exhibiting Hongkong's į wares. If this idea appeara 100 costly, it might be possible to ship or fly small displays to neighbouring ! countries after participating | in major exhihitions, in this case, parts of
the Tanks of the Tennessee Frankfurt display might be National Guard rumbled
To Stop Mob Violence
Clinton, Tennessee, i
Sept. 2.
sent to the Netherlands, Into this little hill town lo Italy, Norway and France for a short visit. Valuable day to meet any fresh out-
business
break of rioting over the · admission of negro pupils to acquired this way.
the local high school,
new
20
muy
be
i
two
last
local pollee
and 1 vigilantes who had held off the nibh last night with tear gas and levelled shotguns
Shells, Tear Gas
It is pleasing to note that the
Colony's stand has been The Lantics mounted with arranged this year by 76mm guns, were part of more sophisticated und, Nation! Guard battalions decorative hand. Emphasis ordered to Clinton by the State should be placed on quality Governor after an angry enwedi products which typify the stormed through the town
to protest work of various industries, night
against racită rather than on a wide and integration in classrooms.
The town was basking in bewildering assortment, Sunday calm when The 600 which discourages By guardsinen arrived to reilove thing more Than Pursory
some 150 weary
State
highway and superficial examina patrolmen, tion. Certainly the new Inyout should appeal much more to European. cus- tomers. Present indications.
Frankfurt that
will to be
at least
{IN prove Muccessful as other overs, seas exhibitions in which the Colony's traders have} participated in recent years, Borders Closed
NOVERNMENT'S decision; I to reimp the quota | ammunition and tear
system on Chinese entering · commander of the
force. the Colony became inevit-; Adjutant-Gentral
Joe Henry. able when, following the said as he set up his headquar- lifting of the border restricters near the courthouse square, tions earlier this year, a Trouble bruke out last night shortly before a big rally called developed to protest the admission of 12 Figures given by Govern- negro pupils
to the all-white ment On Sukurtly show high school. that The experiment has cost the Colony an increase
one-way
traffe
President Nasser said he was not prepared to compromise on the question of operational con- frol of the Canal and he strong ly reasserted Egyptian soverign ly over the Canal.
ASSURANCE with "greal satisfac. thest."
NEW FIRST LORD
OF ADMIRALTY
Viscount Hailsham
London, Sept. 2. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Cilcennin,
the has resigned,
Ad- miralty announced here to-
night.
He is to be succeeded by Viscount Hailsham, forme - ly Quintin Hogy. one Britain's top lawyers.
of
The Admiralty announcement gave no reason for Lord Cileen- nin's resignation.
But in a letter to Sir Anthony Eden, 52-year-ola Lord Cifcen- ninformerly Mr J.P.I. Thorax ~said:
you the
"You will remember that when the government changes Inok Asked by an American our-
and place last December respondent if he thought Είναι asked me
remain at three Britons arrested on spy Admiralty, I told you that I charges were planning a coup should wish to be relieved of d'etat against
regime, office this autumn.
Were
Long Tenureship
ycare. with
LORD HAILSHAM
FBI
Hunt For Baby Kidnapper
He stressed hi hod been President Nasser replied: "There "reassured by President Eisen- was no plot. But they hower's recent statement which gathering military information. acknowledged that the Cunal SLX months ago
when British "I have been First Lord for was Egyptian and that the only troops were still in the Canal nee
two previous issue was
The FBI freedom of navign. Zone it was not worth bothering | years on the Board of Admiralty flon,"
about. But in the present cir- as Financial Secretary and, much Cilinstances This 15 serious." as I enjoyed the work. 1 feel sure that this length of time is in itsoit sufficient reason for u change.
He said he received this re-enter.
WEST "COMMITTING SUICIDE"
Cairo, Sept. 2.
Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies and his Dulles plan committee arrived for talks with President Nasser tonight to a warning from the Egyptian press that "the West is committing suicide."
The government newspaper Al Gombouria offered that warning on the eve of Menzies' first session with Nasser to present the 18-nation plan for international control of the contested waterway.
refused cum invent,
organ, WUS Jetter
SHARES TO KEAY Hogarth's Testimony At Conspiracy Trial
William Allan Hogarth, first accused in the conspiracy trial at the Victoria District Court, declared this morning that he had never at any time suggested any allocation of shares to William Murray Keay, fourth accused, "in fashion whatsoever”.
any
Hogarth was testifying on his own behalf before Judge W. T. Charles at the
I start of the trial's third week.
The accused are William Allan Jin any of the toples which were Hogarth, chartered accountant, discussed.
of 351, The Peak; Henry Charles Hogarth said he did recollect Patterson, 45, Company Director, the occasion
whan Mr Braude
ef 10 Vicbria Poak Apartments; stated that there should be no allocation of shares to a Govern- John Patterson Whitefield. 54, Superintendent of Lighthouses.ment servant as an honorarium. Marine Department, of Albany Accused said he could not say Flats; and William Murray Keay, exactly what meeting this was 4. Superintendent of Mines, of but his recollection was that is 7 Kimberley Street, second floor. was at a meeting sometime early All four men are og nominal bail or the middle of February this of $300 each. Hogeath,
Patterson
and
Whiteneld Dro represented by
Hamden, Conn.
- Sept. 2. threw its full
A. L. Wright, instructed resources into the search Mr D for kidnapped six-week-old by Mr J. C. Stewart of Stewart Cynthia Ruotolo today in a
Mr Victor Gitins, Instructed desperate effort to save her by
end Company.
Mr H. Calne, of Johnson,
"I could have wished for from the possible fate of | Stokes and Master, is appearing more settled time to hand over
infant Peter Weinberger, for Keay, iny post
panicky it whose
abductor
Mr successor abandoned him to death in
that
fec, however,
that essentia
my should be in office for a reason-
on a rainstorm. able period before the autumn
parliament (due to re-assemble As 700 policemen, firemen,
October 3) and as you boy
and volunteers have been able in the searched Hamden and nearby
know.
on past few weeks to satisfy my 21 about the Navy's plans and precautionary incasures
" appreciate very much your¦ offer of other government work and I am grateful to you for understanding my reasons for refusing "
Of Great Value
In his reply. Sir
Menzies group's preceding the arrival had firmly committed at Nusser to reject the plan pre-
US Secretary sented by State John Foster Dulles at the London Suez conference.
He
scouts
New Haven for Cynthia, her dazed parents uppested to
tho kidnapper not to become upset and abandon her.
ACT SWIFTLY
The Crown, is represented by Solicitor-General, and Mr Der
W. A. Blair-Kerr, Acting
mot Roa, Crown Counsel, assist-
ed by Mr T. Kavanagh, Ass tant Superintendent of Pollec (Anti-Corruption).
Not Correct
Continuing his evidence from last week, Hogarth was referred by Mr Wright to a meeting on April 23 this year in Mr Needa's office.
year.
The meeting was called to dis- cuss something that "cropped up (Conta, on back pwɛo, Col. 4)
Clyde
Strike May Close Shipyards
INOTO
Glasgow, Sept. 2. Tho Clyde strike of 5,000. shipbuilding workers and than 500 apprentices may close. 28 shipyards, industry sources said here today.
The men struck on Friday In support of a claim for a guaran- toed kulmum weekly wage.
Nine hundred welders also warned shipyards yesterday they will strike next Friday unless they receive satisfaction of their claim for a minimum hourly rate Mr Wright said It had been for piecework. The employers suggested by a number of the have
the rejected
claim.-- witnesses called by the Crown United Press, that he (Hogarth) proposed the to allocation of 10,000 shares Keay as an honorarium at that meeting. Asked
that was correct, Rogurth said that was
not.
Train Disaster Death Toll, 112
Asked if he ever
suggested the allocation of shares to Keay at any other meeting, Hogarth never at any replied, "I have time suggested
location any of shares
to Keay fushion whatstvoI.
Ho also never suggested at the meeting of April 23, or at
uny In
112
Stephen and Eleanor Ruotolo, who have lost two other child- ren in tragedies, pleaded with sightseers to stay away from their home in case the kidnap
to return Cynthia. 1 per tried
They did not want the abductor Anthony" 91 am here co very imporvant, to receive them with our boots
frightened away, to be
As the papers pre- Eden told Lord Clicentin that Weinberger kidnapper claimed business art i am going to code ** Monie Wedera
his long and devoted service at he was before he fet peter to mate u that business, wateled." Menzies typically
Lider-stab
Press and ficial comments; the Admiralty had been of great nie. cament when he served tron
value to the Royal Navy during
But cars drove slowly up and difleuit pirkad London a chartered uirliner.
of tranalton down the 1xt anyway, with. The US delegate to his five-
Mand Where will, i know, be Sunday drivers pausing to starð
Hyderabad, Sept. 2. sincere regret that his associa at the ranch-type home.
The death toll rove to committer. matiza
151
the train wreck State
of tion has now to be broken" Ley Hentet - Secretary
late today in Whale most of de townsfolk
Viscount Halshum is 48.
occurred about 80 miles which yon got la 10 minutes varlier by were at church listening to their
US Air Force plane ho Poul.
was a Conservative member of
from here this morning. udnisters arging calmness. the
The Menzies mission
For the first time since a now is partiument for Oxford Cily from
Eye-witnesses sold the crash long military column, including
fast-action jaw The committee got a generally 3mited to explaining this plan 1938 to 1850, until he succeeded Federal
was
scene was strewn with baggage Batnouredd personne carriers, all
to Nasser. The committee has his father in 1980 and had to **** | cautious welcome in the Egyptize
porsed by the Congress wi 迈
and bodies of those who died Joepe, korvics and ambulances,
but Al Gomhourla, the vo JES
mathority
enter the House of Lords. to negotiate.
result of the Weinberger case,
when the Secunderabad-Dorna-, moved down the main straet lo
oficial government
indicated before his Menzies
to the Second World War he the FBI moved oẞletally into any other meeting, the payment challem train crashed through, a The bivate aret on the fair blunt
In the
40 "open
departure from London that bo served in the Ride Brigade, --- | kidnapping 24 hours after it of cash to Keay as an honor flood-weakened
foot high grounds,
Arium. was reported Menzie" which it published to expects to spend no more than Rzuter.
At the meeting of April | bridge into a river, -- France- "We
full loud of day.
about four drys here. Не
Until now, Federal agents 23, no decision was arrived at Presse. Kus," the
"Egypt would like to tell you expects to be back next weck-
had had to wait seven days to one painful truth which
end to report Nasser's drawer
net offelally in kidnap cases you will find out for yourself here
to the 18 governments backing
The FBI actually entered the the
plan.
Ruotolo case informally minutes after Cynthin was stolen from her prom in the gift-wrapping department of a crowded shop. Mr Ruotolo, 33-year-old Marine Corps veteran, and his 29-year-old wife have two other Kenneth, 8, and Susan, children 20 months. But Western diplomats were
river Ministers in all churches in in the the New assured that a tough bargainer
Haven-Hinden BRCA was on duly Ira Cairo, One wake of a two-day downpour. announced from their pulpits
called the London newspaper
In the Ain Department, four that anyone with any informe- 62-year-old Menzies EL "new rivers overflowed, destroying tion at all about Cynthio should Churchill.
autumn harvests, Another, the report it immediately to the Egyptian heralding Menzies arrival to-
comment Rhone, was rising several inches police. The kidnapper was ask- on hour and was expected to ed to bring the child to one of day showed a growing swing flood National Highway 92 to the churches. toward tolerance of American night views and a hardening of the break with Britain,
Tie
bave
small local potice aided
by hastily-organised armed
of at least 66,000 in popula- vigilantes, fried time and again tlon, assuming that all to clear the square of a crowd holding Hongkong re-entry of some 1,500 which was grow permita still In China ing in violence, exercise their right to re- turn.
Many of the new Immigrants
Screaming Mob
the West is committing suicide in this area because the West
understand refuses 10
these people," the open letter saki.
AGE-OLD METHODS
"The West is still using the age-oki imperialis L m:thods of
and terrorism, Bend they'll
pressure
to
believing domina Hon...
"Egypt is
stubborn. very And behind Egypt there are one million Arabs and behind these,
The mob, screaming "nigger one hundred and By mi
at lovers"
the vigilantes, ARDS perhaps the majority threatened
and Afrkars. God be overwhelm the with you, Mr MenZĪOS,"
10
are old people and children thin line of armed men in fron!
who add nothing to the of the courthouse. Colony's productivity; wha in fact impose a burden on stration,
At the height of the demon
tear gas was used to niready strained resourcen. break up the crowd, At the And the consequences of same moment, 100 members of allowing the borders to re- the State highway patrol roared main open Indefinitely into town with their car strens could well be disastrous, shrieking. Obviously there is a limit to the amount of schools, housing and other services
The police surrounded the
courthouse while the crowd dis-
porsed quietly at the approach which this Colony can at of a thunderstorm,
The anti-Integration, rally, at present provide and while
first called off, was held an humanitarinn. considera- hour later on a vacant lot.oul- tions dictate that we should aide the town. Speakers called assist the newcomers in for calm, saying the segregá- every way possible it would tienist movement deplored be a suleidal polley to ex- tend this open-door charity indefinitely.
of
violence-Reuter,
Caddy Murdered
The Colony has an obligation
to the thousands
Durban, Sept. 2. destitute people. already. A 15-year-old African caddie, clamouring for, sustenance was stabbed to death on the Kroonstad Orange Free State, within its bordors and no argument can be made for golf course after an argument över a cigarette buit, Another apreading the general hard- African was detained by the
police.Reuter,
ship:
В Com-
It was possible the answer might not be made public until then. Menzies ordered plete blackout on the committee's work.
Al Shaab, published by former Minister of National Guidance Salah Salem, had this to say;
"Although the committee hasetal been formed to discuss prin ciples which Egypt has already rejected, we are still not going
TOUCH BARGAINER
Pres
Al Kohabar quoted an off
commented source which
on Prezident Eisenhower's reply to Egypt's note of August 31, (Centa, on back page, Col. 1)
SCOTLAND YARD SEARCHES PLANE FOR SOVIET DISCUS THROWER
p
London, Sept. 2. Scotland Yard agents surround- ed a Soviet jet airliner and searched “Moscow-bound civilian plane today in their hunt for the clusive Russian woman discus thrower accused of shoplifting.
But there was no sign of Nina Ponomareva, tolice arrest for allegedly trybig to steal fue Inexpensive hate from a Lon- don bargain: basament '; shop: has mushroomed into an inter-
national incident, N
A Soviet, ibarau “spokesman
மா
I said 'tonight" that Ning
still in London, "but not at the Embassy" But the police maintained their guard, around
the Embassy grounds, " Soven Mies Ponomareva's teammater, who broke off a weekend track and field meet with
British Olympic hopefuls
to protest against her arrest, stew home today in a Soviet TU-100 jet airliner.
remainder of the 50- member Soviet squad are scheduled to return to Moscow tomorrow. United-PréSS"
SEVERE FLOODS
IN FRANCE
cut mainline
In
Paris, Sept. 2. Floods devastated crops and
highways several French departments to day when rain-swollen overflowed their banks
FIAT 600 multipla
An extraordinary ingenious six-soater ·
But a check of
At police request, all churches Flood waters destroyed crops in the area remained onen alt and isolated farms along the last night and the kidnapper Baone, Veyle and Chalaronne was asked to tako Cynthis to rivers, and inundated cellars and gound floors in the town of the churches failed to turn up Bourg
En Bresse-France- any trace of the child this morn- Presse.
ing.-Unlied 'Prots,
one of them.
TWO TEEN-AGE“ EUROPEANS
KILLED BY
Constantine, Sept. 2.
A rebel grenade killed two teen. are Europeans” and ‚wounded 20 other persons in front of this provincial capital's Palace of Justion today,ge Mend The grenade exploded among a of young Bunday
crowd
GRENADE
Charley Nakache: The flying afeel wounded 20 others, seven of them wonten,
It was one of the most daring of the Algerian rebels' under- ground attacks in the cities. Constantine, Algeria's _' third largest pity, is the capital of
Departments or
Three
atrollers in the Egoisade Leclers, a favourite rendeous The expinion sent aware of dominated by the Palace of
panle through the promtund- Ination, and Vringed" by the
·ing_explanade crowds and the * popular pavement offer.
confutalais hampered the police Moarch for · the “ attackers. Fragments killed, 12-year-614 ̄† Joan Alimi/khd=19-year-old United FreeSAN
truly vast space for the corrlage of baggage
or merchandise ON SHOW AT
Regent
Motors