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For Everyone Tit happy fact
THE
about
Christmas in Hongkong's cosmopolitan community is. that it is not by any means the preserve of the designated few. It le ad- mittedly one of the two chief
festivals in the
Church calendar. But to thousands of others it in a cheerful holiday season with many Western tradi- tions and customs mixed in. The giving of presents, the sending of cards, turkey and plum pudding dinners, even the singing of caruls have a far wider appeal. Christmas is really every. one's holiday.
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GRIM OUTLOOK FOR HUNGARIANS
No China Mail For Two Days
There will be no pub- lication of the China Mall tomorrow (Christmas Day) or on Wednesday (Boxing Day),
The China Mall will re- appear on Thursday and will be on the streets by
noon,
The South China Morn- ing fost wii soptar s ULTIMI tomorrow, but will then CICLO publication until Friday,
Commandos
Blow Up Clinic
Happily, too, it is a time of out-going tenderness and concern for thosu less fortunate than ourselves. That Loo ia traditional dating probably from the conversion of Strangers and lonely friends are invited to par- take in family festivities. Many poor children learn for the first time the happy mendos Angulah uf
Scrooge, i
Arab
indigestion.clinic Charities benefit hugely or slightly-but Christmaм is everyone's season.
THE close of 1950 finds the
Tel-Aviv, Dec. 28.
at
fedayeen com- blow up a village Yoknesam, 20 miles southeast of
Halfa, before dawn today, an Israeli military spokesman announced tonight.
Coal Shortage Shuts Down Factories
PEASANTS FORCED TO LIVE
ON LIVESTOCK
Budapest, Dec. 23.
Scores of thousands of Hungarian workers were thrown idle today when many major industrial plants all over the country stopped, production because they were short of coal, usually reliable sources here said.
men and stock-
UNCOVER 6 Convicts
SWISS UNCOVER
COMMUNIST
SPY RING
Berne, Dec. 23.
Escape:
Kidnap
Swiss Federal Police announced today they Patrolman
have uncovered a second Communist Hungarian
Dover, Tennessee, espionage ring operating in Switzerland and have
Dec. 28. arrested three of Its members.
Six young, gaolbreakers "Existence of this second ring," Dr A. Amstein kidnapped and wounded a of the Federal Prosecutors Office said, "was disTennessee Highway Patrol- covered by Federal Police during the investiga-man today after robbing a tion of the ring organised by former Hungarian several hours later by a cafe, but were rounded up Legation Secretary Matel Vegh."
od
Only a skeleton staff of maintenance takers remained on duty.
Unemployed workers will receive only half pay during they said it recruited lia mem-
the stoppage which is expected to last until January 2, the source said.
come to
B
were
of Operations
the ring organised by Vegh were direct- and against Switzerland Italy, police charged last week. bers by blackmail and attempt- ed to collect military, poliitui and economic information.
agents bí this Two women Only 4,000 workers were on dustry would
Hungarian press reports sald
ring
arrested 800,000 | today that 700,000 torts of coal
of 014 duly at the giant Czepel iron standstill and between ant aleci combine on the out-700,000 workers would be out wore expected from the Sovie! them, a Hungarion-born Swim, Union by the end of March to will face trini in Neuchatoi, of work. skirts of Budapest which com-
ease the country's critical fuc
the other, while
an Italian Although today was Sunday il
who actod Negotiations were national,
edd ploying about 31,000,
was regarded as a normal work-shortago, to the The clinic was blown up by
from courier, has been expelled from shdown which
going on for more Ing haitany on government la- orders
other' said, began
East on government a bomb, the spokesman
structions. Monday, Tuesday and
Com Switzerland. European There were no casualties,
but about two-thirds of the total Wednesday will be official holl- munist countries and the West. footprints were found. lending work force had returned to duty
days,
These however, when igle work-
reports said shortage following the end of the alx-
ers will draw full pay.
of manpower and damage to Further attacks by infiltratory week, nationwide geceral strike
The stoppage and wages cut pits during the striho were the since Jordan were reported crippling industry
Hungarian uprising of October meant additional hardship for major obstacles to greater coat
toward the Jordanian border.
prises 18 individual plants em-
the
of
workers on the eve of a Christ- mos already darkened by uncer- tainly about the future.
world badly in need of peace and goodwill, Events in Hungary come to mind. but in Hongkong one does not have to go far to find ktiman ruin. Squattern, beggars. street
Aleepers, from cripples, destitute children, Later in the day. refugees, lepers, fire victims
A water reservoir in Northern 23. Israel was
A Hungarian minister blown up, causing these are
thousands of
slight reasons why good Christian found tracks
damage. Aguin
Georgey Harosan, police state, Mr
Heavy snow blanketed the leading to the was quoted by a provincial country today bringing threats men should not rejoice, nol Jordanian border.
newspaper Dunantal! Napolo of stoppages and delays in road even in counting their own
last week as saying that unless and rail transport services 10 blessings, unless it is done
coal production increased, 70 add to me difficulties of getting creatively to produce a com-
In-coat to the factories. per cent of the country's munally Happy Christmas. Christmas is also evory one's opportunity. The large number of parties
On
TWO SHOT DEAD Two Inaltrators from Gaza were reported shot dead Saturday when they attempted to Dee from a storehouse at a settlement bear the Gaza strip. a visiting They were shot by Morber of Parliament, and papers found on than identilled
them as Arabs from Gaza.
ugross
for poor children shows there is no lack of good in- tentions. It would be churlish
A military urt ut Acre today and cynically dishonest to sentenced a run, enught trying
ship Add that these collective de
the horder 15 monstrations of goodwill Auru i to nine year's gaol,
The Carr tend the man, a emerge only once a year, 10 gulty of offering his because Hongkong hax AL
to the Isiseli Army | good record for charity by, while secretly in the pay of an- any stundards, But much other esaint:-- Uniti Press, more Can be June and
Christmas provides the ente
COLD MORNING Hongkong experienced this mornlag one of the coldest days is of the season.
Christmas can be everyone's business.
To Christians, tomorrow
the birth
operative
11
of Christ. The The Royal Observatory
minimum tem- und adaptablerted that word is "birth". At this timeperature of 49.3 degrees F. was r. 1. IN grew warmer
of year, the spirit of
they and 10 a.in., the
કાશ! softens the harderature was 52,0,
heart: a mood or feeling of
well-being in giving is born
Communist pre-
that is worth seizing. surving,
Karachi, Dec, 21,
Chinese Premier
output.
coal
Hungary's normal daily cop needs dre officially estimated at about 78,000 tons, More than half the countrys former 85,000 miners have left the pits and between, 20,000 and 20,000 re- crufts are urgently needed, ac- cording to the reports.
Kadar Organises New Army
Vlora, Dec. 24. Refugees who crossed Into Austria Inst night from Hungary reported today that the workers' councils 110 Jonger exist in Hungary.
"The reond ring,” Amateln said, "had been Bir Vegh's predecessor Hun-
THE EDITOR &
HIS STAFF
Take this oppor- tunity to wish read- ers of the Ching Mail- a very happy Christ- mas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year:
posse of sonce 100 officers,
The convicts escaped from a gaol in 'Georgetown, Texas, on riday, atter beating a gaplor, Clarice, Wade. They drove her in a stolen-car.
They were Identifcd Kenneth Ward, 19, James Long, 20, Kari Laugenachlanger, 20, Robert
Aizera, 2A, Fred Cole, 25, and Bobby Dean
Moore, 22, Most of them were bong herd on Burglary charge,
Sheriff Charlie Crockarel sald the convicts invaded a roadside iran
They were stopped by State Trooper James Bilbrey 32, the only patrol office un dly, here a shost, while later, on the road þyt opó of the coll- and freed bibrey back into his cur,
organied by CONSTABLE pustied out a gun
garian Legation attache Americ Pehn"
Ho identified two of the thres men, who have been arrested,
"Dr Viktor Schivoff, a trade unton employee, and Hans zogg, distribution manager for the publications of the Swiss Labour Party (Communists)."
A Go-between・・
AMBUSHED
Gunmen of the tressist organizaŭ
SHOT IN HAND
Two of them piled into the patrol. cur. With Bilbrey, ang in buk25-| (30 kurie auch, with the trooper AZKI THE+ Other? in the drivor's
other: Lou
the stolen
Cypriot . Greek special" stable: today), salle, drove his
S
John Hancock, sald
Loudly, pain in the Bouth Cyprus Bulbreytarted to grappled mémlatna
with the colivict. In the back
through the hand. But on at-
the
arol car into the county court- house. -
"Both were arrested in Zurich The attackers; tossed a horrib.) beat'szig' was shot by the driver last week," ko suid,^"ahď havỡ fat the car; and when the driver Premitāto get" another shot t large number of workers handed ( consurned on the spot because ained pheir rélonised" frotti:ksistöde:] Elwérved to avoid it they open | Mover the driver. Fante
et up with. sub-machinenima, after documents found in their The two women and the other possession worn confiscated."
man were alightly injured in the car crash but escaped un- scathed by the bullets.
over to them by the Hungarian Buthorities.
A call was made for a 10-day but it was now general strike, All of the members of the impossible for the workers counelts have been arrested and carry out such a spectacular either shot or deported without move us they were all at the Workers The refugees and of their resources. tril, it was said. also reported that the govern- now were only paid if they ment of Premler Janos Kadar showed up for work, the re- has organised a new Hungarian tugees said,
waret worst of the army, composed
of the old Becurity clements
former Communist police and Party and trade union leadera.
All of the refugees mai- tained that the Sovict forces were, deporting an increasingly
A
Economic conditions were said to be bad throughout the coun- try. Not only were the workers having difficulties, but cho peasants were being forced to kill livestock because of the lack of feed. The meat had to be
of the lack of means of trans- part, the refugees reported.
"Hans Zogg." he said, had The
refugees also expressed acted es go-between between doubt that the Soviet Union was
Pehr and Schivoff and had.also sending food to Hungary. They been requested by a dunctionary maintained that a large part of of the Russian Legation to pro- the food sent by Western coun
cure pictures of new uniforms ries
ald to
the Hungarian for Swiss police." population had fallen into the hands of the Hungarian and
Amstein declined to identity Soviet authorities. It was on- the third man "as we are still nounced in Vienna today that investigating his case for links the total number of Hungarians to other members of the ring." who have sought refuge in Aus- Formal charges against Schf- tria since the October Insurrec- volf," he said, "will be filed as on has reached 148,622. Of soon as investigations are com- this number, 74,831 have alread, pleted." boen sant to other countries.
Government's Food Warning
and Chou En-lat will move toward cultivating applying. Hongkong offers the role of 10 American air-statement said today that, if the men in a further bid to improve supply of food in Hungary now was satisfactory, it cannot be and Sino-Amerigr
infinite
creative
possibilities
goodwill of
perennial variety-which really
for
relations
་
An Old Affair
an
Was
The special constablo unhurt and returned the at- tackers' fire.
Police searched the area but found Gone, Earilor today large they had discovered a cache of arms and ammunition nearty-United Fresa
#
Elevated To Bench
Singapore, Dec. 24. Mr. Murray. Buttrose, Atis- Solicitor-General
AD
000
The convicts then split up and fled, into groups. af, two leavy Blibrey in the car.
Two of them stole another ckr but were spotted by one of two Andy helicopters pressed Into the hunt and captured at roadblock. Two others Wero found huddled in a cave on the banks of the Cumberland-River-- while the third pair wsa picked up 00 foot not far from the town.--United 'Press.
Terrorist IncidentTM
4
The reference by Amstein to tralinn-born
in Singapore, was today ap-
Algiers, Dec, 23. "Soviet Legation" indicates t
of the Colony's Four Europeans and a Moslean is an old affair, The Soviet pointed
Puishe Judgės,
were injured tonight when a Legation in Borne was elevated Hungarian Government, peasanta to kill their livestock, such tropical produce as tea,
official
announcemeat terrorist grenste exploded in coffee, cocoa, chocolate, orange, to the rank of an Embassy
suld Queen Elizabeth had up- an Algiers Bur. The terrorist because of the lack of feed.
The statement also said that lemons etc." the statement said, early this year,
proved his
appointment to fill who threw the grenade was would Schivoff, the Soviet Union has supplied promising that measures
employee of the
force the vacancy caused by the re- pursued by a security Hungary with 5.000 wagons of be taken to accure supplies of Secretariat of the Association
these foods.
tirement earlier this year of | patrol -and seriously wounded, wheat and will supply 25,000 by
of Public Employees, was ac Mr Justice Taylor, an English-Talcen prisoner he was rushed to The statement also indicated cused of pro-Communist lean the end et
May.
would be imings
hospital. -France Presse. ' It was "ridiculous" that the that cigarettes
in lerigthy articlo **** "erroneous theories of the pre- parted from Yugoslavia, because published recently. In the leading
cluse "Hungarians ceding regime" should
like the Swiss dally "your Zuercher fowl in Budapest, marietty of Budapest to be the dope van af leste y portarian cigaretics Zeitung."
of central Europe deprived of recently imported."
the with en wye to getting American promised that it will be always
support of Communist China's 20."
LT a set in the United Christmas spirit all the Nations, reftable sources cald to-
day-Untied Press.
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year round.
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The statement indicated that there were transport difficultles. of meat and The abundance
explained by necessity
do not
Demand For Union Leaders
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Nations, the
is the fourth major Communist espionage ring un- covered in: Switzerland during the past years. In 1954, three members of the Canchoslovak Logation were declared "per- Untied States had supported sona non grata" for attempting Representatives of the Free, soon as possible, according to a Hungarian Unfor of textile communique from the associo- Hungarian independence in the to collect military information, workers have demanded that tion of Hungarian students: United
con- while earlier, a Rumanian trade democratie, secret and free elec broadcast over Budapest radio munique then respectfully ro delegate was ilona be held for the selection of today.
quested" the American Govern economic espionage with i
to restore union leaders, radio Budapest
on the official students' communique'} ment
Hungary's Disagreement The reported tonight.
also demanded that the United
thousand-year-old kymbol of status of this man resulted in The textile workers' union also States should return the Crown independence.
Rumants withdrawing its Minis. called for the independence of of Saint Stephen, which was
Radio Budapost added that ter to Switzerland and leaving trades imions from the govern-fist carried off by the Nazis in
A Charge Amaires in charge ment and the party close and 1945 and which is now send a delegation to the United of the Rumanian Legation in freternal collaboration between American custody.
States Legatio in Budapest Borne-United Press, the workers' councils and the
The communique said this and tramit their request to union, and an Independent, union crown symbolised Hungarian the American Ambassador newspaper, Radio Budapest said independence, Noting that the Router ́und. France-Presse;
The union representa lives charged that "under the regime of formor Hungarian Mathias Rakrosk and former Communist Party First Becre táty: True Geroe, Hungarian workers were exploited in ita ahameful manner?". f
Premier
Hungarian
students
wili
Landslide
Reported Plan For N. Africa Buries Cars
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Washington, Dec, 23. Reports received here from Madrid Indicate that the may Spanish government in the Lage
year an associated next states of North Africa, stretching
Sto from Mordicco which could be on cortical terms with the West, While no details of the project we known here mortary Its
· believed thé icină rig pców dot.
Sorubloži kute United States. Ch
The union, representatives said that textile workers Czechoslovakia - received same pay whild one-third:|23 garlan
swe demand tho liquidation of exploitation and, the ance of the factory whigh"
Out Geroo
these countries, that Spain
·shouli, exort' her influenço, Spain's Chier korest is seeing that Monteco remains o firm' friend of the West and that everything ponsible be done by the West and socially, the United States, frence and Sparta sature her, inercis and endale rell-beingi Spain would like to free ald co-ordicistad United Prous 3
Ipoh, Dec 29,0 Two cars were buried under sdns of debris and two of the DAMENESTE were injured when landslide bought a convoy of ten cars travelling up to Cimeron Haarende yesterday, evening
The injured
from
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