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CHINA
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Established · 1845
THE WEATHER: Lizhi or moderate winds, between N, "E. Fina-and-vool,
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, ‹ 1957,
Price 20 Cents
RELAX IN
INDAKS Whiteaway's
US TEXTILE CONTRACTS FOR HK
Fancy Shirts
Shirts And Cotton
Wear Worth $12 Mill
Czechoslovakia, FIRST ORDER OF ITS KIND
Albania, Bulgaria and Rumania, By a coincidence an East German delegation was in Moscow at the time
of his visit there
and
By VICTOR SU
Contracts worth approximately HK$12 million have been following a meeting between concluded for the manufacture of Hongkong fancy shirts and the two groups fairly hackneyed
other cotton wear for the American market it was revealed communique
this morning by Mr Lee Sen-hung, one of the Colony's leading textile industrialists.
emerged which contained no surprise. Herr Ulbricht, it in worth recalling, in devated exponent of Stalinism, and his loyalty to Moscow has never been questioned.
A similar type of communique may emerge from Mr Chou's
The contracts, the first of their kind, are to be regarded as a trial order, said Mr Lee, who added that his group of textile interests was considering the formation of a syndicate to handle future business which, he thought, might be of a tremendous magnitude.
shirts info
Hong~ Ung the deal. The shirts and, cheaper
the other commodities will be tai-
as a competitive challenge
textile
to mills.
British
than
could the
MACMILLAN'S NON-CABINET MINISTERIAL RESHUFFLE
London, Jan. 16.
The Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan, installed a fresh Minis- terial team in command of Britain's armed forces tonight as the prelude to expected sharp cuts in defence spending.
MURDER CHARGE
TESTIMONY
Dr Was Cut Out Of of Will
Mrs.
Eastbourne, Jan. 16.
Edith Morrell, wealthy and temperamental old widow, cut her doctor completely out of her will two months before he al legedly poisoned her, it was
With one exception, he shuffled experienced administrators from other assignments to head the Army, the Air Force, the Navy and the Supply Ministry, in a second list of Ministerial appointments, completing disclosed in court today. the new government.
These mon will serve under War Secretary: Mr John
Mr Duncan Sandys, in com- from the Eden government. He
the tough" Defence Minister, pleting the defence appropris lions due next month. Govern
ment sources said Mr Macmillan planned drastic cuts in defence spending
Tho now Mindstera do no serve in the Cabinet. They are:
First Lord of the Admiralty: | the. Ear) of Selkirk, 50, who was Minister without Portfolio (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) under, Sir Anthony
ta
Japanese,
Tho shirts could be retalled considerably cheaper than sim- manufactured in the or lines United States.
One reason was the lower ecst of labour in Hongkong. Eden.
Textiles represent Hongkong's most important Industry Ladi year 1 manufactured ankl exported $190 million worth of shirts and other garments
10
Right-Hand
Hare, 45, who is a holdover was appointed to the War Office last autumn during the Suez
crisis.
Air Secretary: the Hon. George Ward, 49, wartime bom- ber pilot who was Alr Under- Winston under Sir Secretary Churchill and Sir Anthony Eden.
Minister of Supply, in charge
of procurement: Mr Aubrey Jones, 45, Minister of Fuel and Power under Eden.
Man Dropped
Eden's
The doctor, John Bodkin Adams, is sold by the prosJOCH- tion to have poisoned three of his rich patients, though he is' only charged with the murder of Mrs Morrall.
Mrs Morrell, widow of a food £157,782 when she died in her clifftop mansion six years ago; her solleitor, Mr Hubert Sogno, told the magla- trates hearing the Enso
Health Grows importer,
Worse
London, Jan, 16. Sir Anthony Eden's health has grown worse during the last few days, informed sources disclosed today.
He gave the court details of the many wills the widow made An and 1950. between 1946 carly one contained a bequest
of £100 sterling for Dr Adams. Then at one time she drew up a codicil leaving her man- Biom ond all her "personal chat- Sir Anthony would probably tels" to the chubby, 67-year-old have had to undergo another | doctor if her only son should operation it be had not resigned die before her. . է
stopped all activity last
his rest, the abdominal paina from which ha Buffers grown woTSE,
talks with the Soviet puppet In Hungary, Janos Kadar, another trusted alooge,
The Introducilom though if it is to be released long-made for local consumption it may American market was viewed lored by several Hongkong place greater emphasis on the Japanese
Industry imperialist
designed machines machinations which hitherto has supplied will be used for fully shrinking overseas and skip lightly substanilal proportion of fancy the material before tailoring. over such questions As and aporta shiris, as well as To date letters of credit Suviet leadership of the other cotton and artificial silk amounting to
hundreds ol Communist bloc and the garments imported by the thousands of dollars have been "gallant role of the Russian United
States
received and productión. work Army in suppressing the Under the terms of the Hong- has already started. Fascist-Imperialist distur-kong contracts, American and 11 is expected the complete bances in Hungary".
Pakistani raw cotton will be order will be fulfilled within the United Kingdom, Southeast Mr Macmillon's second minis- Commons, The Power Minis- and used, it will be spun-and woven the next six months.
Aston, European and African serial Iist dropped a veteran ter. Sir Percy Mills, was up-work, the sources said. Despite in Hongkong mills, as well no
Minister Mr Lee Sen-hung said that markets.
of State from the pointed to the House of Lords. TR Chou in a speech yester-dyed and printed M
in mulu-despite the need to meet n 25 But therto the Colony's Foreign Once, the Marques of day admitted mistakes by colour designs.
cent customTIS
and tarif, plus manufacturera
exporters Reading, who had been right- Postmaster - General: the past Hungarian Govern- j Styles to suit American trans-Pacific freight charges, ho have been unsuccessful in their hand Inan to the Foreign Ernest Marples, 49, who was Mr
His doctor, Sir Horace Evans, ment (since purged) and in buyers have been provided by considered 1 would still be efforts to penetrate the American Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Macmillan's chief aide when the who examined him again to
the shirts market.
latter was Housing Minister day, stressed to him the need economic co-operation be-the US import company hand- possible to produce
Sir Anthony Eden tween Hungary and Russin,
In his place Mr Macmillan 1951-4.
for complete rest and emphasis But this is as far as he is
appointed the Hon.
Dayld dropped him.
Minister of Health: Mr Dennised the seriousness of his case, prepared to
Ormsby-Gore, 39,
juntor
the sources indicated. go; the mis-
official it the Foreign Office Vosper, 41-year-old newcomer.
Sir Anthony's Health Minister, Sir Anitiony Eden and his since 1951,
Mr Roger Turton, was dropped wife are due to leave next Fri-
day for Now Zealand, from the government..
Minister of Work: Mr Hugh doctor has arranged for close Molson, 53, former Deputy in medical supervision during the the Transport Ministry who was trip and during his stay there.
colleague of
agus of Mr Mae-France-Presse,
مارال
takes will be rectified, he adds, and he even seems to admit that popular satisfaction was justified, but he relegates the revolt 10
a minor ruction and i
after a parting slap at the
United States for inter-
per
JAPAN TO LIMIT TEXTILE
EXPORTS TO AMERICA
Washington, Jan. 16.
since 1953.
Commander Allan Noble ro- talbed-his job as Minister of State, at the Foreign Office Comar Mobile took over last
autumn buckeesing Mr Anthony
against Sir Anthony Eden's de fence policy.
Mr
In the 1930s. Treasury: Mr Enoch Powell, 44- Paymatster-General: Mr at the University of my
to the
your-old former Greek Professor
The United States: today described Japan's decision to limit its Nutting, who, quit in protest, millan's Secretary ference in Hungarian exports of cotton textiles to this country as "a major step forward in the development of orderly and mutually beneficial trade between the United States and Japan."
affairs wishes the country
che
Announcement of the Japanese plan to place an annual overall ceiling of 235 million square yards on Japanese cotton exports to the United States over the next five years was made by the State Department this afternoon.
happler days and closer ties with the Soviet Union. The communique issued after
Mr Chou's talks with Polish Communist chief, Mr Vladislav Gomulka, how- ever, provides more interest. Agency reports say they joint communique made no
Departments of State, mentich of Soviet leadership Commerce and Agriculture said of the Communist bloc. Min a joint statement:
The
Chou is reported to approve aimed at
"It is a constructive measure
forestalling the Polish road to socialista future
possible injury to the Unlied (08 distinct, presumably. States cotton extile industry. from the Soviet, Yugoslav or! "It recognises the problem Chinese "ronds") but then faced by various segments of splits hairs in a speech in the domestic Industry and meets Warsaw a few hours later this problem through the volun-
exercise of restraint by proclaiming "there is lary
on only one road to Rocialism exports of cotton textiles to the
American market,” but it may be developed to suit varled conditions".
The Japanese programme de monstrated Japanese under-
Mr Gomulka's jibe at United standing of the importance of
States economic pressure in the orderly marketing of Middle East was a little un-tem
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significant
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developed during 1955, and 1950 in blouses, velveteens ind ging-
hams.
"The Japanese action provides. A basis for the expansion of two-way tyxlo between the United States and Japan in an atmosphere of the friendliest co- operation between
the two nitions, auch as that which has characterised the economic and political relations between the two countries over the last deende.
can
look
Dredger Refloated
the
Other promotions went to:
Reginald Maulding, 39, former Australia, and Member of Minister of Supply. In this Parliament since 1050, post of Minister without Port- Economic Secretary to the follo he will represent the new Treasury: Mr Nigel Birep, 50, Power Minister in the House of Eden's Air Secretary.
The Chief Whip Retained
have
WROTE CODICIL
A later will bequeathed an oak chest of silver cutlery, an Elizabethan Court cupboard, and a Rolis Royce car to the medical man. But on September 13, 1950, the crotchety old woman wald have.fits of by her nurses to have. temper for no reason-wrote a codicil to her final will cutting Dr Adams out altogether.
After the widow's death Dr Adams did get the Rolls Royce Hi and the chost of silver. But this we "by favour" of Mrs Morrell's siduary legate.
Arthur who was the re-
that,
ROYAL BALLET
CREATED
The prooccution claims motivated by greed, Dr Adams killed Mrs Morrell with ản overdose of drugs because he
xpected to be left. the silver
and the Rolls Royce.
URGENT REQUEST
Mr Sogno related how some London, Jan. 10.
months before the widow died The Royal Ballet was born Dr Adams naked to see him today.
urgently. "He told me that A Charter from the Queen Mrs Morrell had promised him combined the world-famous many months previously Sadler's Wells Bollet at Covent would give him her Rolls Royce
sho
"She now remembered that and
Mr Macmillan retained the The Admiralty was vacated Garden, and the Sadler's Wells car in her will.. Attorney-General, Sir Reginald by Viscount Hailsham, whom Theatre Ballet at Sadler's Wells Manningham-Buller, the Solici- Mr Macmillan prompted to Theatre, considered the junior tor-General, Sir Harry Hylton-Cabinet rank As Education company, although co-operation she had forgotten this Foster, and the Chief Mr Edward Heath.
the two
has
London, Jan, 16. British salvage vessels
between
been desired to give him the car and Whip. Minister. have refloated the 3,500-
also the contents of a case in Other NEWCOMERS are the voluntary. ton dredger Paul Solente,
her locked box at the bank.? Earl of Perth, the Minister of the largest obstacle scuttled
The new Royal Ballet, which Dr Adams said the case con- Mr Heath in Conservative State for Colonial Affairs under will continue to perform by the Egyptians at the
ostalned come article or articles disciplinarian of the House, the Colonial Secretary, Mr A senior and junior companies at
Jewellery propane a Port Said entrance
with the title of Parliamentary Lennox-Boyd, and Mr Derck the two theatres, will also in- lawyer should
of
He suggested the
a codicil Suez Canal, the Admiralty
Secretary to the Treasury,
Walker-Smith, Minister of State chudo the Ballet School train- to Mrs Morrell's will which announced here tonight.
at the Broad of Trade under ing unit for the dancers. The British salvage In the Service Ministries, M
could later bo destroyed KIE The Queen vessciz
is the Royal was not approved by her son. Macmillar, shunted Mr Kirch the Board President, Sir David are participašing
Eccles.
Ballet's Patron and Princess "I pointed out, this was im- with
from the Air Ministry to the the Unlied Nationa
Mr Macmillan. retained Sir Margaret is the Corporation's || possible"" the lawyer sald.- Treasury, promoted the Supply fleet in the work of clearing the Canal-France-Presse, Minister, Mr Maulding, to the Anthony Eden's Minister of first President.—United Press,; || China Mail Special,
Power
Mr Ministry, and retained Pensions,
John Boyd- Mr Hare, who returned only Carpenter, and Minister without today from an official tour of Portfolio, the Earl of Munster. Middle Eastern bases,
-United Press.
an orderly Read Village
"For the United States cot- ten textile industry, the Japa ncse programme should provide a basis on which it to the forward to the future with the wise in view of the forth-economics of both countries as confidence and the knowledge coming talks on the sale of cotton textiles, the statement that import competition from American subsidised surplus said.
Japan will follow. farm produce to Poland, but "Under this programme, it pattern," the joint statement on the whole this com-should be possible to avold said. munique seems to have been situations such as those which An accompanying State De- drafted with much grentor
partment announcement Gald that the United States had been informed of the Japanese
in programme
note today
Paris, Jan. 16. from the Japanese Ambassador, The romantic young wife of Mr Masayuki Tani, to Mr Johna postman at Fors (in western of Foster Dulles, the Secretary of France), Madame Odette Gilluer, State. The text of this note was aged 24, was brought to court rol made public by the State today, charged with opening all Department, Omcials referred the love letters that passed reporters to the Japanese through the post. Embassy.
care and discretion thau
those from
usually emanating Death Sentence
interbloc
meetings.
THE Chinese goodwill mission
For Brutal Murder
F
to the two rebellious satel lites has obviously been designed to produce suitable communiques demonstrating Communist solidarity, 011 certain issues, notably the Anglo-French action against death here today for battering a Egypt and the Eisenhower 87-year-old farmer to death on
London, Jan. 18. Morris Clarke, a 27-year-old lorry driver was sentenced to
A
Love Letters
She followed the development The Background of ali the romances in the
vicinity with the greatest in in giving the background ofterest-but she was often care-
Middle East doctrine, the his farm near here last October Department announcement sald: anteumed open
Japan's decision, the Stateless in scaling up the envelopes
only difficulty has been to
She com-
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NUCLEAR TESTS BAN URGED
New York, Jan. 10. Japan today appealed to the United Nations for the cessation nuclear tests at the earliest possible date,
Mr Renzo Sawadd, the Japanese delegate, making his country's first speech on the disarmament question, urged the General Assembly's political committee to agree to estabilibing procedure for prior notification of all kinds of text explosions."
This procedure, which he described as the minimum, roquiem- men, should be established by a competent organ of the United Nations--Reuter.
SPAAK RETURNS
London, Jan. 16.
Nautilus Refuels
Washington, Jan. 10. The atomic submarino. Nau- night for Brussels after talks in | tilum will be refuelled for the
The Belgian Foreign Minister,
avoid repetition of tedious Clarke,
According to the prosecution "The Japanese programme has mitted the further indiscretion who had debts of been developed in an effort to of telling a friend and confidante eliches. On other questions 1,000, used a wooden stave to meet the problems which arose about the progress of the local M. Spaak, left here by air to- communiques and
prese mash in the skull of Arthur M in.. 1955 when exports of love affairs. statements have had to take Johnson, "a quiet, kindly man," Japanese textiles to the United account of local sentiment threw the body into a dyke and -Increased sharply. These Angry lovers compared notes | London with British ministers Arst time this spring after sali- and in this respect, distinc-stolo £600 from a safe in his exports were heavily concen- about their opened letters, and on the European free trade, area ing over 50,000 miles in two tlons have been made.
trated with respect to
certain ad her charged Her husbank plin. He declined to make a years on its original load of
at the airport-nuclear power, the Navy Bald Clarke said in his defence commodities, such as blouses, will not be prosecuted.-France statement
Router.
today.—United-Press. velveteens and ginghams. If he would vialt Belgrade that a night started when he to confer with Marshal Tito, secused Johnson, “a bigger man "Not only were the domestic:
thesa of His reply was " have no than me," of carrying on with producers
items **** | offccted, but the entire textile information on that". The his wife.
industry became concerned bo- recent editorial clash be- Passing tire death sentence the
judge sald the circumstances of cause of the impact on the tween Belgrade and Peking the case were "so dreadful that price structure of the industry For the third time this winter.
hous0
Mr Chou was naked in Warsaw
sentence being sub-
Presse.
THERMOMETER FLOPS TO 49.9 DEG
--
rose to a maximum the temperature dropped just degrees on Tuesday, below 50 degrees and again In the 40 hours to eight o'clock the minimum was recorded at today the temperature fell by breakfang' time.
32.9, deproms,
:
of 72.8, the Colony yesterday
· about · Inch-time.” The (cold front (with nor not, cust - winds - took its plaón, "gradually clearing the horvý
shrouded the Colony heigüids for the last two dayanamad A Royal Obervatory apokumakai || Sold the China Mail this morm= Ing that » temperatures: wire exported to be low, and the
on divergent ronds to so you should not count on some other concentration of Japanese art themcertainty as to where cialism has possibly inclined other him against this southern estuted
export might hit." vonture. Thus the outstand- Since recent moves to amend There was no mention in the ing rift in the Communist Britain's hanging law it has State Department announce- comp remain
United Staten to ecek, to pro- And there seems to be no out death sentences.
discrimination against Johnson disappeared from ble vent Immediate solution to, this
farm on October 17 and was Japanosy textile on the problem which is the sound dead in a fenland dyke domestic market
or the im greatest obstacle to tighter tem doye later ater a huge posing of quotas or tariff Soviet control of the Entel police search of the area barrios on Japanese Importa lites.
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Hongkong's seasonal traplosi Woallar experienced earlier
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