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INDAKS
RELAX IN
CHEN BASEINES KEMBANT
· EN ALTERN THEIR ET SENKULAS
Whiteaways
NASSER-THE ANSWER IS "NO" Parson Spends
Why A HK Ship BLUNTLY REJECTS THE
THE Colony Journt
amazement
with
On
Saturday that the Ministry uf Transport hud quisitioned IN Hongkong- registered ship owned by t Hongkong company, the Indo-China Steam Naviga- tion Co Ltd. The Arxi question is why? Not why lue shop was requisitioned -
It was apparenty ursued Ma. a grain carrier beenuse of
this
The Suez Canal emergency but why WAR 11 Comly ship taken over in peremptory fashion? Admittedly the bastern Glory Bios the "Red Duster"-bat
would the MOT think of
requisitioning a Dominion
sup flying the same Bag
without first consulting the company, or, at least, the Governinent concerned? Neither Governmeal
nor
company were asked before the Eastern Glory was taken over and there is apparent
y no reason for this mont inconsiderale teniment of the Colony by the British nuthorities.
ship
at
DULLES CANAL PLAN
Internationalisation
A "Hostile"
Act
Cairo, Sept. 9.
Egypt's President Nasser tonight bluntly rejected the Dulles plan for internationalising the Canal as "hostile and intringing on the rights and sovereignty of Egypt."
In a 2,500 word letter to the committee that came from London to urge internationalisation of the vital water- way. Nasser said "any attempt to impose such a system would indeed be the signal for incalculable strife and would plunge the Suez Canal into the turmoil of politics."
Nasser's letter and three other documents relating to the Suez crisis were released here and in London following a final 17-minute "good-bye" meeting be- tween the Egyptian President and the committee.
The Committee is de. parting from Cairo and will re- port to the principals the out- come of its discussions,"
A committee spokesman said after that meeting "it's all washed up." Australian Prime Minister, the choirmanship of the Right, manner.
A. C. Menzies, Robert G. Menzies and his five! Honourable
in Cairo be- ution commitice will leave for; which took place Loudon tomorrow. "We have
won the Muril and the ninili completed
discussions,' of September, have now bean Menzies said. We have reached
oncluded, the end of our work."
CULO -
the
A non-committal joint mudque sued after tonight's
muntance meeting
WILAT I needed first is a
Statement
why ແ Hongkong-registered
when WILM requisitioned there must have been other, atul probably many other krain
ships carrying home for this purpose. Secondly the Colony wants An assurance that this action will not be regarded ¦ femal as a precedent for similar action against other Hong- kong ships, We need ship. ping for our own extensive trade the British Govern- ment hos quite enough registered at Home poris for its own purposes and it should us Commonwealth ships only in the last resort, Also it should be remembered
Hongkong ships have con- He
"The Commitee has presented proposals of and explored 1 10 of the now which park- cipated in the London conference
the Suez Canal and in turn has received the views of the government of Egypt with gard to them.
je-
to Menzies Nasser tetter Armly justified his nationalisa- tion of the 101-mile Suez Canal on July 27.
He said it "cannot be rerious ly contested" despite what any- one says
ad of the .alks. 11 mold:
"The discussions between Prusitent Nasser and Q COM- mit e consisting of the
Austrrim presental,ver
"The discu! sions have been Lions Ethiopia, Iran, Sweden and the Uni od States of America under i conaretett ki a prank; and formal: Canal," he said.
-
"Nowhere and no date could 1x found where or when the Egypt violated Rovernment of any of it international obliga-
concerning
Sucz
Alleged Pressures Cited
intimidation,
ystem be
the
"The castigated alleged pres- {
15 proposed
traffic through the Canal has been going with regularly and forecard and tractual obligations to their sans gudust Egypt meluding i bound Chinese cruws which must{ "allompted
eco. treated by the prople of Egypt (Malency."
as the bristle ringing upen Uhole r ghis and their eignty 3 of which precludes red co-operation," he said.
be respected. It is unfair nomic pressure and incitement to to nak non-British seamen botage."
to do indefinite stints be- Mediterranean tween the
And the United Kingdom when there are many other ships with all-British crews which
would be
belter i sunted for the job. Hong- kong registers protest against the MOTs action
TL
and requires un assurance that Colony ships will be left alone in future.
Action At Last
He speded out these
tures usi
(a) Statements threats of force,
prea-
containing
(b) Mobilisation and move- ments of troops by France and the United Kingdom,
(c) Inciting employees and pilots
werking in the Suez Canal
abruptly abandon France and work by United Kingdom and officials of the former Suce Canal Company, ang
(d)
their
the
xom:
sover-
Nasser bitingly referred to talk of a "peaceful solution"
"With all this going on," he said. "we have been repeatedly "Any attempt to impose such made to listen to references to a and to free A system would incrood be the peaceful solution
10 Echieve gra for incalculable strife and negotiations in order would plunge the Suez Canal such a solution." into the
of polities turmoil
“Need one emphasise the con of the comunitteslete.ction beween the pipitat- inescau professou to vrant, Insulating it | Fry, isely and profossed alm?"
he asked. from politics.“
He ung he challenge back to Britain and France.
"For nearly fifty days, and in
lie said traffic on the Carl Ihail
run whampered sines Hostile economie mea. Egypt took it over. sures taken against Egypt,"
cp-spite of the difficulties created Be said the proposals prived by 18 of the 22 nations by France and the United King- taken at the Londen Suez conference dom and by segments of the former Suez Canal Company, the were "self defvaling.“
THE Chinese Government THE
apparently
ในส
Leps in the last two or three days to reduce the pressure of Hongkong-bound travel- Jers
Shumchun-the
action is late but welcome. It should have been under- taken no later than the day after Hongkong an
If there is anything which flagrantly vicleted and dilained the letter and spirit of the Charter of the United Nations it is such acto of attempted pressure intimidation, economic and Incilcment of sabotage,"
Terms For Negotiations
that
Colonel Nagyer said
wan sil Egypt, despite this, willing to negotiate a peaceful
nounced reimposition of solution in conformity with the Do purposes and principles of the
United Nationa,
the
system quota Chinese travellers, Instead, several hundred people were permitted by the Canton authorities to strug- gle up to the border laden with baggage, many with children, in brolling tem- peratures only to find entry to this Calony danied them The outery reported by Radio Peking was in tho circumstances understand- able and it is pleasing to note that the Kwangtung travel authorities have at lust woken up to their responsibilities.
THE
THE reason given by the Hongkong Government for
its action-namely that un-
general economic hardship
Inatis
to
1.3 "in
Colonel Nasser said that pass- age through the Canal "has al- ways been and continues to be tree."
10
10,000 Conspiracy Trial Proceedings Women And WHITEFIELD DENIES Children HE KNEW KEAY
Evacuated WOULD GET $25,000
Tokyo, Sept. 10. More than 2,000 Japanese members of the self de fence forces worked through the night with emergency squads on
the typhoon buffelted island of Kyushu,
southern Japan, evacuating
10,000 more than
women and children.
Local
police today said four persons had been kliled and 20 seriously Injured during evacuation.
the
The National Observatory placed Typhoon Emmur at 4.45 m., hours today 40 miles west of Goto lands off the north- west coast of Kyushu,
Q.M.
Wax
Emma's forward speed estimated at 15 miles per hour. Maximum winds were reported to be in excess of 140 miles per observatory sakt Emma was continuing her north-north- cast course.--Reuter.
hour.
The
JITTERBUG ROBBERS
John Patterson Whitefield, Superintendent of Lights, Marine Department, denied emphatically at his trial before District Judge Charles this morning that he knew when $25,000 was paid to William Murray Keay, Superintendent of Mines, that it was going to Keay himself for his own use. Whitefield declared that there was never any suggestion that the money should go to Keay. There never was any thought that it was going to Keay.
in a con- Whitefield, who is the third accused,
Directors spiracy trial involving also two Company and Keay, was being cross-examined by Crown Coun- Bel Mr D. N.E. Roa.
the
The accused aro Willion not until May that you wanted
abouí Allan Hogarth 52, chartered to become curious accountant of 551, The Peak; man?" Henry Charlee Patterson, 45, Whitefield said he was pot Company Director. of 10 Vic- toria
34.
Eur
Vacation Working In
In A Factory
London, Sept. 9.
T%
The Rev. Simon Phipps, a close friend and escort of Princess Margaret, is work- ing at Baginton, Coventry, factory hand, the Sunday Dispatch reported today.
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The newspaper said that Mr Phipps, a tall, handsome former and now Chaplain of major Trinity College, Cambridge, "is furious Because a secret he has kept for a month has leaked, out
According to the newspaper, father nor the college knew about his decision to sample factory work during his NO ONE KNEW
nether
holiday.
The Sunday Dispatch adds: ("His friends on the benches did
Bot
know
his identity. His friends in the church did not know where he was spending the summer vacation.
the tory:
Peak Apartments; John really interested In the name of Patterson
the Chinese. He was only in 54. Whitefield
terested in the Chinese who was Superintentent of Lighthouses,
Dayment rective Mutine Departmellum
of Albany to
buffer strip. Murray Keay,
of 54, Superintendent Mines, of 7 Kimberley Street, second floor.
are They
CITA nominna bail of $300 each.
Flate; and
Hogarth,
Mr Rea: IK you were not curious before that about his were you not before
name,
his
curious as to the nature of Petterson and rights?
Whitefeld: The question of represented by Arc Mr D. A. L. Wright, Instruct-rights was entirely a matter for
Whiteneid
of C. Stewart ed
by Mr J. Stewart and Company.
Mr Victor Gitlins, instructed by
Mr H., Caine, of Johnson, Stokes and Master, is appearing for Keay.
our legal advisers,
But you firt discussed this dis- long before your legal advisors came into the picture.
It was mentioned to gre
me it was not discuseedi
You
"Mr Phipps, who won the military cross during the war, is living wih a family in Coventry and
every working day catches
the fac- a buz to
Each evening be has caught the bus home again and, with his working clothes hung ready for the next day, has at around the fire watching televi sto0.
up
"Last night, furicais becaus? his secret was out, he died with friends. Tamarrow he will have to face the good natured Mr Phipps, a bachelor in his banker of his workmates," middle thirties, has partnered Princess Margaret at hum balls and escorted her to the theatre. SONG WRITER He is well known as a song
the Princess to a London revut for which he had written, the lyrics.
Singapore, Sept. 9. Three **Jitterbug gun- men" sang and danced to
อเ the tune of "Pistol Packing Momma" on a radio while
The Crown is represented by length, and 1 have no jurisdic- 1 was they robbed the home of a
Mr W A. Blir Kert, Acting tion over settlement.
only a member of the Syndicate, wenthy Chinese here last Sofielior-General, and Mr D. hnd no jurisdiction in an off-writer and last your escorted
Counsel, clat capacity. night, police have reported. mont
Rea, Crown
by T. Kavinagh. | Caj
MF sajd They
had accepted in your tho gunmen assisted
of Superintendent own mind that payment must ransacked
of ship- Assistant the home
Police (Anti-Corruption). be made before Mr Armstrong owner Lim Hong-moh, tying up
hi
CTOSE++ came on to the scend?--You Continuing
troit Friday,
was accepted more or less. examination
White- Counsel asked
Whitefield, I am asking you, Crown nord.
to Hogarth's not "it was accepted," sferring ovidence.
whether it wes at a
reaction. My your meeting
of
that April 23
this $25,000 Hogarth made the suggestion of opinion was that
(Contd. on back page, Col. 1) Jaying a de 15,000 shares.
that he Whiteneid replied thought fo.
Whitefield said he did not re-
14 occupan'я.
One of the gunmen tried to 18-year-old farce
Lam's pretty daughter to dance with him, She refused although bandit waved a loaded In her face, --Reuter.
the pistol
US Ambassador
To Resign
Dusseldorf, Sept. 9. Mr James Conant, American Ambassador to West Germany. announced today that he would submit his resignation to the State Department at the end of
the
year.
Returning from a six-week vacation in the United Sinics, Mr Comont explained at Dussol- dorf airport that such a move was customary following American elections, even when the present administration was returned to power.
The ambassador declared that he was convinced that President Elsenhower would win in the cicctions. — France-
Jeclives, we find that they are self-defeating," he said, "and that they lead opposite results from those aimed at The Committee's plan.
10 only danger "Tho
this President Egypiirn
soid. with fact
the freedom of passage stems from coming ilo said
taking ever he agreed
the threats, the deployment of || Presse. those statements of the 18- operation of the Canal."
He denied that Egypt intend-armed forces, the incitation of nation praposal which
noted
and workers that Egypt's
cmployees rpt's sovereign rights ed to discriminete cgainst Bri-
bologe the operation of the must be respected, freedom of lain, disrupt the British een my
and tho cconomic its line of fradu Canal Canal
safeguarded. and interrupt PASSIKO
measures against Egypt. Egypt's ownership respected, and supply through the Canal.
"ff, on the other hand, as it "It is clear beyond cavil that and efficient and dependable
be farther from and nothing could
scems, the objective is to am- maintenance operation,
Cnid Tw one could putate and to Bever from the development of the waterway the truth
out vedidly point one single very body of Egypt one of its ensured.
Come "When, however, we
reason why, and for what unful
the aim is to main points, if the
integral and purpose, the
government deprive Egypt of an consider
entertain
part of its territory, we should m.cans proposed by the Com- Egypt should
be told of it" millee to attack these ob- polley."
to
ways
Buch
What He's Prepared To Do
Sunday Walk Ends Tragically
Dublin. Sol, P. Lady Constance Dennoby, 04-
bir pound
iiarold We of
They were struck by a trailer water tank which broke away from a lorry
member the question of com
minion for brokerage being brought up at that meeting
"Oppositionist"
Crown Counsel suld that Hogarth in his evidence went on to say, with regard to the question of brokerage commis- sion, that that led to a bittor conflict. Mr
about
but
|
French Troops In
His latest song called "Orl- ginal Sin" had its first publle performance at the Edinburgia Festival last week when it was sung by university singers.
His father,
Captain William Phipps, a gentleman usher to the Queen, said last night he had no idea where my son was or what he was doing during his vacation,'
Mr W.
S.
manager of the
D.
Lockwood, factory where Mr Phipps working, was re-
Cyprus Ambushed ported today as saying: "He is
Nicosia, Sept. 0. Boka terrorists tonight bushed 1
am-
any
treated just the same da other worker in the factory."-- Router.
4
vehicle carrying
Troopship Leaves French troops on the Famagusta- Nicosia road and opened fire
Southampton, Sept. 9. with small arms, it was officially The British troopship Empire Rea suggested announced.
Kent left Southampton today that Whitefold "was Dort બ
No casualties were reported for the Mediterancen. leading oppositionist" at this among the troops involved in The ship, 0,528 tons, carried a meeting.
this first Incident since French large number of artillerymen, soldiers
arrived
transport unita, in Cyprus.-engineers and Reuter,
-France-Presst,
Whitefield said he was, but
it was at the meeting of May 1. In not recollect the com- mission
question being discussed at the meeting of April 23. It did might have been, but he cet reelec
Mr Roa recalled Whitefield's which evidence in chief in Whitefield rated that at a meet ing in
In the Sports Club on May 18, the question as to the iden uty of the Chinese who had the rights over the buffer strip came up and that no one seemed to know who he was. It was then
Mr
50
George Dennehy, former Chief decided as a matter of curiosity Secretary to the Government off to send for Kesy.
Whitefeld Rea arked As sm. was killed and her hus whether when the question came band seriously Injured today
all
naturally while they were walking near up they their Dublin home.
curious to know more about the Chinese.
Whitefield replied
tha affirmative. Ho added that when that point was raised, and as no cre/seemed to know who one enid, "Lot's he was, some. send for Keny and ask him.” He could not remember who Soldier Wounded said that; it was either Putter-
Sir Harold and Lady Constance Ho mid Egypt was, wiiling by the Committee on its inat dated September 7, concerning
had just returned to Dublin progress of the talks, to enter into a "binding ar-night in Cairo included:
the
dated This last letter was a pallent after a three-wock, stay in Paris, 1. An alde memoire, rangement
the Dulles-France-Presse. to the Egyptien re-explanation of establishment
and September 3,
concerning of Just
Nicosia, Sept. 9.
cr himself. Whitefield agreed that the resion was that money, was to be paid to this Chinese, înd
restricted entry and con- sequent growth of popula- tion would only increase equitable tolla and charges. government stating the Com- plan, a resurance that Egyptian
Egypt, he said, was also will-mitico's mission"to prosent to rentreignty would not be Im
an international In the Colony-is quite ing to to everything possible as it certain proposals relating to paired by
of the
and giving the future operation of the Canal Board adequate.
The Colony has regards future development
· A British soldier was wounded the Canal
Canal and to explain to the advantages that would accrue to 60,000 more mouths to feed ..
Colonel Nasser, cald that he Egyptian government the nature Egypt with greatly expanded today when a fime bomb ox- as a result of leaving the
was convinced that
any
But its tono alreat borders open for six months blasda
ef the Dulles pcosa" The text of the 18- study" and it simply has not the majority plan for international nation proposal -
defent.
"Our dipotissions have been resources to cope with any operation of the Canal would plan was attached.
condialed in an atmosphere more refugees in fact, the leave the reader with but one
that the 3. A letter from Mr Menzies
**: courteous ***franknews* and latest Influx will be a conviction, namely,
responsibility, it said. “But
In Larnaca Aakod why 11 was that they take the purpoe, is to
Bucz to Colonel Nasser dated Sep- further severe strain on the Canal out of the hands of Egypt tember 7, attaching a Spanish they have, in our opinion found a sekdod, but unexploded at the matter until May 10 Colony's economy.
and put it into some
disclosed deep differenets of Lent-bomb in a ditch today other proposal "in.event the Suez
which Franco-Presse. Hongkong regrets that Poking Hincks,"
|it|soeziis etear
un and objectives of mich. pro- Canal franc-enly admitted ploded at a swimming beach six they all wanted to know more
the
Dulles
Committee was unable to rotch agreement with Your Excellency on the matter of an International
.of
DO
about him and what sort of a miles southwest' of. Limassol,
The time-bomb was hidden In Person they were paying. the sand, Many British service- men were on the beach at time,
British trooper
at the
No Necessity
before they mada, egy Inquiry
about the ChineseWhitedod
at Easy For Smugglers the Syndicate. Therd was no
pre-
Radio did not quote respon“ "It is diMcult to imagine Bible Colony opinion on the anything more provocative
|tion ħaf, débats, one i closing of the borders the people of Egypt than this board of the Suez Canal." 1
. Friday, gloomally_nated"> thats and it doplores ita be alch. exploitation of the misery 201 of such a nature is The Spanish proposal, pro-understood Colonal Nesper nature, to amersin (friction, Ucipation on the Egyptian body
posaly pick misunderstanding of and goons coministering the Canal" it: the I lock-timately the undor abid, by obvious Incompo-nuous virile, 13. would be, in 18-nation, proposal were reject standing of the Committee
carbon, the tank caleuried other words, not the end, but ed by President Namer
3.A 3,000-word latter from Commal bee by the is powers the beginning of freable,”. The father documento releseed | Mir-Mentiegat
and, discomfort of Chinese travellers caused, ns' we'
Conco in Canton, To this extent; its strictures ara's self-indictment.
aid that actually. Mr Armstrong was dealing with the affairs of necessity, for instance, for Kuda Lampur, Sext
Arm- peit, becoming curious Mor him- Tho Custom preventive strong was dealing with the
Choch-self-defeating #aad; of; n{vided for “International į pat“ would not accept the beses12 bruich hits toximated", tksat,¦ro- | affairs, the if he had, wanted is.
to
venue totalling about $100,000 know the name of the man was being out by snuggling was up to him, Whitefield added. each month from the freeport Mr. Res said he was not now, of Penang Blogthark mainland of concerned with Mr. Armbirong men waking you, wh kowa lat
ARE TABLOID EGGS THE RESULT?
Tokyo, Sept. 9. A Japanese housewife in Tokyo hap two hens, which eat newspaper every day. Last summer, the hens sampled
some newspapers lying about the house.
Since then u sheet of newspaper town into amali bits
with and mixed
FIAT DOO
dry tea leaves has been added to the normal diet of rice bran and chopped vegetables. The hens were reported to pro-
fer Japan's most respectable daily, but an English language daily was also "gulped down with relish," necteding to the housewife.--Router,
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