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VOL. VIII NO. 20.
HONGKONG, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1957. ·
Conservative "rebels" hauled on the carpet
Price 40 Cents
Staggered office hours
CHIEF WHIP SUMMONS MPs suggested for Hongkong
Queen on way to Denmark
Hull, May 18.
Дисси Eilzabeth and Prino Thilly arrived here to-day prior to sailing to
the night aboard
mysl Yacht Britannia for Copen- bagent where their
State
visit to Denmark beglus on Monday.
A
seven-hour
During programme here, the raynl couple will visit Hull Uni- versity, where overseas will 10
undergraduates
presented.-France-Presse,
Sequel to vote
in House on Suez issue
London, May 18.
The Conservative Party's Chief Whip hauled six "rebel" Members of Parliament on the carpet to-day for abstaining from a House of Commons vote on Suez policy on Thursday.
The Chief Whip, Mr Ted of the Suez crisis last autumn his policy his asking them to call and see
HONGKONG Heath, Hent letters to the six and it was
nephew was defending by re-
PETITION: REPLY ON
TUESDAY?
London, May 18.
A Colonial Office spokesman #ald to-day that petition for
him individually on Monday, fusing to vote-United Press, Political observers said Mr Heath would deliver a mes- age from the Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan, to the six asking for an assurance that their rebellion would not be repeated.
The abstentions did not affect the Government's majority
an extension the term er office the
In
Sulz debate. The House in Mr Mac-
sillon's Suez policy
of Hongkong's Governor. Bir vule confidence Alexander Grantham, was still under consideration,
when
A
Pearson advocates trade with China
Ottawa, May 18,
Mr Lester B. Pearson, Canada's External Affairs Ministor, last night advocated trado with Communist China as a weapon against Communism,
"Diplomatic recognition is one thing but sale of Canadian products abroad is another," he told a political meeting.
Me Pourson said it would be foolish to sell Chino supplies that could be used against Canada, but he added: "We should look at the problem from tho supply of surplus agricultural products to those (Asian) countries. It may bring us closer to weaken- ing Communism in those countries.”—Reutor.
NEW BRITISH BASE Kenya to become major defence link
YACHT
CALL TO
OVERDUE: TO SHIPS
London, May 18.
Britain has decided to build up a big new air, land and sea base by 308 system in Kenya as part of the nation's revised global strategy, Govern- votes to 250. Dat the deliberate ment officials reported to-day. He said no decision would be fallure of 14 Conservatives to rest of the Go- taken before neXL Tuesday vote with the
vernment supporters pointed up Chinese three-man il
the fact that mang Torles are from delegation
the Colony
with what at unhappy
they which presented the pelitten 19-regard DK the Government's the Secretary of State, Me Alan climb-down in face of Egyptian
to cave Lennox-Boyd, is due
pressure. for home,
Besides the six rebels, eight As Sir Alexander Grantham's other Conservatives who ro
Governor---which lasted from term i
the Parliamentary already been extended three party on Monday did not vole, times since his appointment in Since they are no longer mem- 1917-docs et end until De-bers of the party Mr Heath was cember no news may be forth unable to call them to account,
months, the
Informed soureen Bald coming for some Colonial ofce spokesman Macmillan was determined
to receive the eight back into added.
the party unul they have apolo- gised unreservedly for their conduct.
The petition, brought here by Dr Francis Pan, Mr Daniel Chen and Mr G. E. Gan, is also being submitted 10 ihe Queen.- Reuter.
Cause of all the trouble
Baghdad, May 18. General Nuri et Said, Primo Minister of Iraq, said to-day that the destructive pelivities and propaganda of International Communism were "causing the present tension in the Middle East."
"We do not want Kruschev and Shepilov to continue inter fering in our affairs. We have Com- decided munism and fight Communit agents and their fellow travel- lers," he added.-Reuter.
lv
onkow
Peking Radio announced the
Ceu Chinese National People's gress will open its annual session on June 3 in Pekkig, Associated Press reports.
No inclination
None
اس
Them has
Mr not
So'
fo thown any inclination to do s and the constituents of que of them, Lord Huchingbrooke, gave him a thumping vote of cendence last night.
Five hundred of Lord Hin
constituents at
The Royal Navy authorities in Hongkong have asked all British and American shipping in the vieśnity to keep a look-out for the yacht, Lady Barbara, reported overdue on
trip from Manila to Kaohsiung, southrm Formona,
Earlier a Reuter report from Talpel quoted Nationalist shipping authorities as saying they had no information about The mesing yacht, reported iq havo left. Manila on May 9 with an American businessman, Mir Charles Henderson, and five Philippiacs cllizers aboard.
A spokesman for the Talwan Navigation Corporation sald the 31-ton yacht should have reached Formon's southern · Port, Kaohsiung, ührte tlays ago, The seas noutli of Formosa had been stormy, but he was Inclined to dismiss worries about the safety of the vessel
Some experienced navigators thought it might havO been blown off course tuwarifs the Spratley Islands.
NY BUILDING
COLLAPSES
Drought menace
EASING CONGESTION IN CITY STREETS
The Traffic Branch of the Hongkong Police have addressed a circular letter to the manage- ments of a number of big business houses in the Central District, and to the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, and the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, inviting them to consider the possibility of staggering business hours so da to alleviate traffic congestion during the morning and evening peak traffic periods.
to
The letter, which is signed by been sent out to ascertain the Mr A. Morrison, Sentor Super-reaction of employers and intendent, Truffle Branch, says try to nespes the practicablilty of that "deteriorating traffle condi- | staggered hours for business' tions in the Central area must houses, Police thinking, he said, be apparent to all. and it is was at this stage merely ex- couriered that, if through theploratory. co-operation of large firmis, such
"Miracle" feat by pilot
Paris, May 18.
An Air France Super- Constellation, with 13 paa- sengers and nine crew on. board langled safely at Gander, Newfoundland, to- day after two of its four, engines fulled over the Atlantic.
Olala at Orly Airport here, who' reotived reporta of a six-hour struggle by the
Commandant pliot, Haymond Dupont, to ktẹp bla plane chorzo'over the ocean, said It was $6 "miracle" the airliner wIEN safe.Sunday Post-Herald Spoolal.
SUNKEN
ready pretty bad. Meanwhile, SUB STORY
n scheme could be arranged. "At present" sak the spokes- congestion of both vehicles and man, traffic conditions in the pedestrians would be reduced to Central area just before Pu.. the general convenience of all and just after 5 pm, are al concerned."
safe with
more and more multi- hat storeyed, office blocks going up, become, increasingly they must
More and more people are swarming In to the Central
A Police spokesman yesterday that the letter
worse.
OUTBREAK IN District at much the same time.
KUWEIT
armed
every morning, and swarming out again every evening.
Completo tanglo
DISPROVED
London, May 18. The Dutch submarino chaser Utrecht exported to-day it find made contact with a "submerged
The development is likely to transform The Fist African colony into a sort of Imperial
London, May 18. halfway, house linking the home The Daily Telegraph reported owner that
"It is not only the private car object" in the North Sea but islands. militarily with
to-day thai 10 Arab civilians Buses,
causes congestion,ports that a submarine might Colonies and Commonwealth
trams and ferries all have sunk in the area appeared and 40 others in bring their quotas of passengers
to be a false alarm, were killed partners in Asin and the Pacifle. jured in Kuwelt yesterday in 4 into the area, and the effect of so
The search vessel said signals from ths The British decision has been clash between Kuwelt
echo sounding-ap- many people all trying to get to followed by a bush-hush ro- forces and members of an im-work at the same time is a con- paratus were "too vague" tạ appraisal of the project for a
portant family in the shelich glomerate, mass of people and i indicate a'sunken veraci.. now Pan-American defence dom.....
The Dircent reported to Ams- Hongkong The report sald armoured
an ar grouping.
and in the erdem that it found arca
finshed Senior military staff officers vehicles, artillery, mortars and
with interests la machine-guns were used in the Tsimshatsui Star Ferry concourse chored drum" which of countries
lights and gave off smoke-like battle, which followed the re-area, Africa south of the Sahara
"No matter how people pro submarine's.emergency marker Desert already are in conference versal by-a Kuweit court of na
understanding between Shelit ceed to and from work, whether boy.. to ensure joint planning and co- Abdullah
The Utrecht
immediately: Al-Salem al-Sabah by private vehicle or by publle. operation. The powers concern- And the Influential Almalik ransport, the effect is the same headed for home. ed are Britain, France, Belgium, family under which the family because everyone is trying to get Portugal, South Africa and the occupied a building belonging the
at the same time. All missing and there, was specula- Central African Federatioza.
Rus:in
Top secret talks
transport
in the
down-town
The British Defence Ministry Stop tests plea complete
confirmed that top secret talks are under-way. Bet a spokes- man refused to say where they are being held, who are taking part in them or what precisely is under discussion,
No NATO'submarines were
to
Not a chance
have be- to the Kuweit Government, traffic converges from the sub-ich the vessel may
urban areas
of Kowloon and longed
or some France-PressO,
European nation- Hongkong into these two areas, Easitra with the Inevitable resulta United Press.
pedestrian and vchieular tangle" the spokesmani Fald. New Delhi, Muy 18. The Lower House on Wed- The suggestion in Mr Morri- nesday will discuss a resolution son's circular letter is that large
Tokyo, May 18. clingbrocke's
appealing to the United States, numbers of employees should The Prime Minister, Mr Melbourne, May 18. Weymouth, Dorset, voted un-
Great areas of Eastern Aus-
the Soviet Union and the United arrive at and leave their places Nobusuke Kishi, said to-day, audiously to support what they
the slightest Kingdom to suspend nuclear ex- | of employment at staggered in- "There is not described as "is sad duty" in
tralia are in the grip of drought.
Informants said the Kenya plosions pending New York, May 18. It is estimated that in New bases
an agreement (tervals between 8.30 a.m., and chance for Japan to recognise resigning from the party. Only
A three-storey building col-South Wales, where there has as perhaps the most important fer.
could emerge collectively for their discontinuance-Reu- 9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. and 6 Communist China at the present two speakers were critical of
New York's been no useful
stage."-Associated Press. July for Lour link in Lord Hinchingbrooke's action lapsed to-day on
the Commonwealth's months, 80 per cent of the Slate inter-continental defence chain. und one of those said his only East Side and police fesred some complaint was that Lord Hin-persons were burled in the des
is facing the worst conditions
Long-range bombers, able to chingbrooke had not
experienced in 10 years. gone far bris,
deliver nuclear bombs, would be Farmers from Ανα enough,,
States within striking distance of the Firemen and police dug Into
in Melbourne for a Maule East from Nairobi's East Paradoxically, one of the six the debris with their hands in meeting
this week who joined the search of victims while awaiting conference
have Leith airâeld. Conservatives
of warned of the seriousness #rebels" in betalning on Thur-power equipment.
the dry spell-Reuter. sday and who was being called The debris was piled up to a before Mr Heath is Mr John height equivalent to the second Eden, the member for Bourne-storey of an adjacent buliding. mouth.
Gas fumes spread through the Mr Eden's uncle, Sir Anthony,
area. Reuter. was Prime Minister at the time
Room
Weathermaker
Arrests in India
Premiers chat
Colombo, May 18. The Prime Ministers of India | and Ceylon, Mr Nehru and Mr Solomon Bandaranaike, had in-
formal discussions to-day on the
They also could reach British territories in the Pacife by way of the Maldive Islands, west of Ceylon, which recently have become the setting for new Royal Air Force air staging posts.—Associated Press.
p.m.
"STALINISTS" ATTACK GOMULKA
th
Warsaw, May 18. Pollibureau and J. Radkiewicz, The Polish Communist Party former head of the secret police, Secretary, Vladislav Gomulke, would be expelled from the has been sharply attacked by Party, "Stalinists" In the Polish Party's Critics of Gomulka also at Bini plenum,
Informed tacked him for his policy of source sa'd to-day,
moderation towards Workers The attacks were said to have | councils centred on his agrarian polley They argued that such coun- which the critics zaid ad brought about the liquidation of co-operatives and the rostora- tion of capitalism to the coun- Lucknow, May 18.
tryside, A total of 1,143 Socialists
Paris, May 18.
Disunity continued to prevail have been arrested in Prime
The Premier, M. Guy Mollet, in the party, as debates wero Minister Jawarlal Nehru's home.
series of personal to-day asked the National As-marked by a Jakarta, May 18 stato of Uttar Pradesh for launching a
The Indonesian Army to-day mbly for a vole of confidence, attacks, elvil disobedience.
The vote will be taken ад The source said that Roman movement against the Govern relieved Li Col. Ventje Sumual Tuceday.
Novak, a member of the Oc The Socialists were ar- of his cominand In East 10- ment;
M. Mullet's request followed tral Committee, in a report on rested after they demonstrated donesia, only three days after amendinents to the original Go-the actions of persons accused of in largo
the Premier Djuanda had warned vernment motion providing for maltreating prisoners and "sua- groups outside
Court, Magistrate's
United against such a move.--Associat- new and increased taxes. — pecta" had declared that J. Presi
led Press.
France-PreRDE.
Berman, former member of the
special train which took them to ancient Sinhalese kings, Anuradhapura, the capital of the s-Reuter.
|
Mollet request
Watson
ells should be handled "with an iron fist."
It was learned from an in- formed source that 300 members of the Party, who had been ex- disorders last pelled after the October, would shortly be "re- habilitated" and readmitted to the Party-Franco-Presso,
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