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AST Saturday the newly-!
elected Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Mr Ko Chouk. hung, proposed the holding of an international trade fair in this Colony and invited Government, the Con- sular Cores and Trade Coni- missioners to support the ideu. It can be said im- mediately that the response
the will be cautious, for proposal presents many bág) proteins ans! if will have
to be pushed
before the authorities Kive
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more consideration.
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BUDAPEST & WARSAW IN FERMENT
State Of
Emergency In Hungary
FIGHTING GOES ON
VIENNA, OCT. 24.
THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT
Colony as the Fair site. Mr TONIGHT
DECLARED A STATE
OF
ko points out that Hong- EMERGENCY THROUGHOUT THE the COUNTRY, BUDAPEST RADIO REPORT-
kung is a port of inter- aliomal
fame
and
meeting place of merchants, ED.
of all nationdities.
It is
also a very convenient point) The radio said heavy fighting was still the going on near the city's Karoly Romert
Jr the Far East, quidistant from
being
extremes of Korea and In-barracks. donesia and fairly central to
neighbours like China,
The radio said the state of emergency
Japan, Formosa, Thailand, took effect from 6 p.m.
Malaya and!
Vietnam.
Burma.
IT I
very
British,
certain that American
Fighting continued in the streets of curfew- bound Budapest as anti-Russian rioters defied and appeals for order from Imre Nagy, swept back to European manufacturers power as Prime Minister earlier today on a wave would welcome the idea of of popular feeling. selling more to the maturing nations of Asia und
also
But the Budapest Hudio an that a struggle begun,
Icading
It is certain that demand nouncer said this unfortunate : 10 firing und "desperate resis for
Is one and a half days of armed tance." overseas products
sufficient to warrant a pro-risings is coming to an end."
jeet of this kind. In this
The announcer said that in Diplomat's Report
event, the extent of financial respond to
the government appeal young people were laying
A
Assistance forthcoming from down their arms in parks, gate those
would who
derive ways and side streets. greatest benefit would be
terday He appealed to the civilian determining population to hand over factors. Local agents could arms found to the nearest police perhaps give the organisers station. some idea of oversens in-!
one of the
Announcements
any
had been terest in an exhibition of made over the radio throughout
the afternoon about the exten
this kind.
sk of the 2 p.m. surrender
The sponsor recognises that deadline.
an international fair would/
bet
14 "stupendous involving
11
is
Factory Battles
task"
The radio
also made several
"tremendous
that
responsibility". Une wall announcements about the situa ders about a possible site,tion returning to normal st fnance and the organisa-various factories la the pro- tion involved and the first vinces. conclusion
the Earlier there had been balties factories be- prestige and prosperity it at several major would bring would not between workers and demonstra- tors. The rudio sald workers sufficient compensation for formed "armed units" to beat off much effort and the attackers but it did not say Obviously this where or how the workers ob- expense. would have to be considered tained their arms. in great detall before any decision could be laken.
но
It has been sald the Colony
would be better served! either by participating in more overseas trade fairs or expanding exhibits at those fairs which il already
An Austrian and a German
the arriving nt
Austrian froniler said heavy artillery was in action in the Hungaria: capital when they left today. Several bulidings were ablage, they said.
Western diplomat who reached Belgrade today said Hungarian army officers yes- refused to carry ont government orders to occupy a square in Budapest where demonstrators had-gathered, According
Belgrade (Contd. on back page, Col. 2)
to #
Statue Of
Stalin Destroyed
Vienna, Oct. 24.
An Austrian' eyewitness
of the armed rioting in
ald
Budapest yesterday
today in Vienna that the first action of the mob was to lear down the great statue of Josef Stalin in the centre of the city and mash it to little pieces.
The rioters 'used blow- lamps to cut off the statue at its base, sald
the eye- witness, who left Budapest this morning, "and then there was a rush of people for the statue, armed with hammers, who broke it Into Little pitoes, which they carried off 16 0-
venire."
TROOPS PASSIVE
The eyewitness, whose identity was not revealed. said he was struck by the the "paisive attitude" of Hungarian polico and troops, many of whom had pulled off the red stora from their caps.
The poller and the army did not reply until de- monstrators opened fire. the eyewitness stated.
Budapest
this
was encircled
by tanks, he said, but foreigners were ablo to leave the city by road.
here confirmed n
that seven evening cars were turned back to Austria by an armoured- car block some 20 miles from Budapest this morn- ing. Two of the drivers claimed to have heard the ONC of the riotlug.- France-Presse;"
POLISH CROWDS Tell-Tale Papers
IN STREET
CLASHES
Many Demonstrations
Warsaw, Oct. 24. Thousands of youths fought men în civilian clothes armed with truncheons near the Hungarian Embassy here tonight.
Two processions of youths each numbering more than 2,000 met near the Embassy after marching through the city shouting anti-Stalin slogans,
Eyewitnesses said that as they approached the Embassy, men in civilian clothes and wearing red arm bands on sleeves dashed into the procession and broke
it up.
Demonstrators said the men and punched and kissed them beat them with rubber and wooden truncheons,
It developed into a running Oght in the street and through the adjoining park.
in lorries bassy. cential
!
leading past the city gaol, Some beat as the door as they passed. As they reached the city diplomatic quarter they were joined by another group several thousand
Near The stroog,
the excurity police headquarters men with red armbands were waiting. In- As the joint procession, cluding several women, neared the Hungarian Embossy further along the street, men with red
Found On Five Rebel Leaders
Algiers, Oct. 24.
Documents found in the possession of the five Algerian rebel leaders arrested in Algiers last Monday contain lists of names and addresses of correspondents of the "Algerian National Liberation Front" in numerous countries, the police revealed today.
The documents also contained the "letter boxes” used for rebel
countries, correspondents in various They show that the "Liberation Front" planned to eliminate its principal rival, the "Algerian National the systematical "extermination" of Movement" by the movement's leaders, the police said.
"CHOU IS
rushed in swinging SINCERE”
spot
Once a crowd closed-MARSHALL
More processions, demon- strations ond fights were re- ported from all over Warsaw.
More than 300 troops rushed to the Soviet En-
Brmbands the Others drove to
truncheons and broke up. committee
omces and
After the lighting groups re- offices of the local branch of
mained
on the the Communist Party and accu-
heatedly. headquarters Jad rity police
with
a red arm- round a man parked nearby.
"he shouting
hus Д Soldlers armed with carbles band
truncheon" and the man broke and rifles patrolled outside the
and ran. Later a youth big Soviet Embassy building in away threes, about 50 yards apart seized the truncheon and handed from each other.
it over to a soldier.Reuter, filed Crowd's
past shouting slogang,
including "Rokossovský
to home."
Marshal Rokosovsky lives near the Embassy
X students procession from the technical, high school, gánging and shouting took another route
COLONY OCCUPIES SPOTLIGHT IN THE COMMONS
Minimum
For
Wage Workers Proposal
London, Oct. 24.
Mr Lennox-Boyd the Colo- nial Secretary, rejected the
by suggestion Labour
A
Mr member,
per
ed free accommodation estimated at 108. week and meals subsidy at 48. 5d.
Frank Allaun, in the Mr Lennox-Boyd added:
to-
House of Commons day that he consider introduction of a mini- mum wage in the Hong- kong cotton industry.
added, But the police, they appeared to be taking no action i patronises. Hongkong's against the rioters, watching the need, after all, is to
detachment. The courage the export drive bodies of several soldiers were Mr Lennox-Boyd quoted the
en-
scene
and take the Colony's shop reen. window further afield. This
policy appears to be gain.
with
A first report from eyewit
chanted
in
average weekly earnings Hongkong cotton £2 operatives between nesses on yesterday's scenes in
138. 3d, compared with £7 5s. in Britain.
Ing increasing favour and Budapsel said crowds there has been a promising in chorus stogans such as "The increase in trade in the Just Soviet army must go," "Follow
nine month, the overall Poland's example" and "We In addition the majority of
rise in value being in excess of 25 per cent. This trend needs encouragement.
THERE may be less trouble and greater merit in a lesa
ambitious regional trade fair
for Asian countries which could be held at the same time as the Colony's annual exhibition and include con- ducted tours of leading factories. This would have the attraction of adver- tising the Colony in this part of the world and dis- playing its industrial capa- city. But again, the oppor tunities for sales promotion seem limited, and those who are invited to contribute finance might well aak, since they will certainly be businessmen, -what benefit they or the Colony would dorive from the project. Mr Ko is to be commended for his Idon, and it is one that deserves consideration. But he will have to give botter reasons than those he advanced on Saturday before the public imagina- tion is fired. Privato dis cussions. between the Chinoso Chamber of Com-| morce, the Genoral Chamber of Commerce, Government, the Consulates and Tradò Commissioners would por hapa be a good starting point to find out how much support is forthcoming.
vow we shall never be serfs."
The report said It was only when police began to drive back the crowd from the radio station
The Latest Situation
1001
Vienna, Oct. 24. The
pockets of resistance were fighting a desperate do-or-die battle
certain
Budapest this
thing
of
in
the cloning stages of the 24-hour Hungarian armed rebelliott, according to re- porte from Budapest Radio.
The Government, backed Soviet tanks, was up by reported to have the situa~
in hand. tion in the capital in
the "counter Many of revolutionarica” wöre to have taken advantage of the appeal launched this afternoon by the newly appointed Premier, Imko NEST, Jay down
their by 5 DJU... GMT and escape punidiment.
Other Isolated groups werd keeping up the siruz- however, and the Budapest Radio reported. In a late night bulletin, that a fleren 'attack"; "had" been launched by the re- ** bola aguinata military ** barracks * In, the exptial
Hongkong workers enjoy-
"Many also enjoy wel- fare facilities on which cash value cannot bo placed. Cotton workers' conditions
compare fa-
Textile
HK Rejected
growing in their present rate, from five million square yards to 60 mil- lion square yards in five years, there soon be even fewer milis in Lanca- Would it not be shire. possible to introduce minimum wage, Kenya, to workers?"
Informed sources attached great importance to documents mentioning the aid the Algerian rebels expected to receive” from foreign countries. The sources did not deny published reports that a note written by one of the rebel leaders mentioned the ald the rebels might receive from the Moroccan authorities.
Questioning of the
and study of the
about
recent
prisoners documenta la continuing here. The sources Singapore, Oct. 24.
sald the
leading prisoner, Ben Communist China's lead-Bella, replied freely to questiona activfiles, the ers were sincere in promises origin of the prisoners, false not to attempt to dominate identification papers, talks they the rest of Asin, Singapore's had recently and theses they defend- prepared
„MOROCCO'S THREAT
Rabat, Oct. 24.
A PROTEST former Chief Minister, Mr were
STRIKE
+
Rabat, Oct. 24. Moro than 49,000 French civil servants employed by the Moroccan Government will be- gin a 24-hour general strike at midnight (local time) tonight
the anti- in protest
against French riots in Meknes.
French policemen in Morocco will
at their posts to- morrow to protect the European population from further rioting. The strike was called by five
stry
unions, representing French elvil servants employed by the Moroccan Government,
Tho Union also requested the French Govertiment im-
mediately to draw up plans for the repatriation of all French civil servants in Morocco.
Earlier today in Casablanca, police officials French, security
in began a "sit-down strike" in protest against the rioting in Hongkong Meknes-France-Presse.
88
£
vourably to those other Mr Lennox-Boyd replied
Hongkong industries and
not been pro- it has
to introduce a posed legal minimum wage." Mr Allaun said: "If Hong- kong cotton exports to Britain made with under- labour continues paid
"If goods are to be kept out of the United King- dom on grounds that
Vice
Squad
people are paid less than Arrests
here, some of our manu- facturers exporting to
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Philadelphia, Oct. 24.
Eleven men, including a disc America would have jockey, a radio news announcer difficulties."
Immigration Restrictions Query
Mr Tufton Beamish (Conser
vnilve) asked a question About the
and comings goings of refugees from the Chinese mainland to Hong
Hongkong kong and of residenta to the Chinese mainland in the last six months.
The Colonial Secretary, re-
plied:
Later Mr John Rankin (Labour) sald only 16,000 persons in total Hongkong out of the population of three million were entitled to vote in the Urban Counell elections.
Mr Lennox-Boyd replied that ha had nothing to add to the answer he gave to a similar question on December 14. 1050.
Mr Rankin suggested that the minister was maiding "very slow progress in this matter.."
and a teen-age dance operator, were charged today with being members
of a vice ring that allegedly lured young girls by promising them modeling
ter during his visit to Hong-tiered by county detectives,
The 11, who had been mules-
kong last year.
morals squad investigators and
-district attorney, were
Allison.
ordered to appear before chief "The surprising thing is that the
there is not the same pasalon-de
Hersch Inter ate desire to exercise the magistrate Joseph Hers franchise there as there is in today.
They included Steven the UK." he said.
disc jockey and radio commenta- Mr Anturin Bevan (Labour)tor who bills himself as "the suggested that as democratisa man who owne midnight" Bob tion was taking place on the Horn, former operator of a Leen- very borders of a totalitarian age delevision programme who country the British govern- was fired last June after being arrested a drunk driving ment should "set an example charge, and Jack Barry, redlo in this matter.”`*
IIe stressed the need for a Mr Lánnox-Doyd said "It was
generoun oxtansion of the franchise if a repetition of the
porious
troubles of the past were to be prevented.
"It is not possible. statisticalis to distinguish refugees from the rest of the population. From mid-February to end of August, while restrictions on com China were lilled, entry frogn 14,000, or four per cent of the Hongkong residents
ents who crossed China remained Mr Lennox-Boyd sald he went there: 66,000, or 81 per cent. most carefully. Into this mat- of the Chinese entering, the Colony with Chinese govern- ment re-entry-permits, chono to stay in Hongkong............
ath
Talo
population
of two and a half million and a "naturai" annual increase of
résources 75,000, Hongkong's
of water,homas, employ meni, education, and health: services who already laxed?fo; the
nmigration
news announcer.---United Press,
not a bad thing to point out FOR THE LAST
that much was the progrEER being made in Ilongkong that 800,000 people" had preferred to leave China recently to go and live there."—Reuter,
NO. 3 STORM SIGNAL LOWERED
The No.33 local storm signal, was' lowered at 7.55 this morning and replaced by the strong monsoon warning,
A Royal Observatory,; statement said typhoon" - Jean le showing sings' of weakeningen,
Frost, lo strong winds, are sull expected in Hongkong
obried; 23: 12-15/sm," on. in the Colony was 54
The Nort Tuesday, and the
TIME
Washington, Oct. 25. The United Status and Bri tain, as in past years have con cluded a "gentlemen's agree ment under which Trials will vote alongside the United Statem against the admission of Con munist:
China
to, the United Nations
well-informed dip
diploma the sources disclosed yesterday in Now York,
These courcom
that Bittain had informed the United States that this was the last Liepe that she would agred too much mo Procedure, Beginalng in 1987; Britain; will resume its freedom
David Marshall, said today. France-Presse.
Mr Marshall, who is chairman
to
to
of the Labour Front Party which controls the government; · Moroccan Premier, Si Bekkai, returned today from a trip to stated today, on his return Communist China;
Risbat from Paris, that if the five Algerian rebel leaders rested by the French were not leased, Morocco might break relations with off diplomatie France.
He told a press conference: "I am very impressed with the reasonablences Mr Chou En-kal in his polley towards overseas Chinese
of
A Message
the
of
ar-
Si Bekkal flow to Paris yes- terday from Tunla on the Sul- tan'a anstructions in a vain at- tempt to obtain the release of the five men. He said the Sul- fan considered the arrested lead. ers as "his guests of honour".- France Fresse.
"He asked me to pass this memage to
people Malaya: If ever China secks to dominate Malays, I hope Dalaya will fight back.""
that Mr Mr Marshall mid
on overstUS Chou had called Chinese to give their loyalty to
Rabat2, Oct. 24, the country in which they had seven French soldiers were settled "completely and without killed and 15 others injured last qualification."
military night when
Convoy Ambushed
convoy
Mr Marshall was met aboard was ambushed some 20 miles the as Glenroy by Singapore's south of Oujda, on Moroccan territory close to the frontier present Chief Minister, Mr Lim Yow-hock, and by Labour Front with Algeria.
was on its way to supporters.
relieve a When ho
ashore where nine other soldiers were hundreda of banner-carrying. Injured during an attack by an Breworks - throwing Labour armed band earlier yesterday.
Franco-Presse.
caine
Front men met him-Reuter.
The military post at Toull,
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