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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1958.
CUBAN ARMY BEATS BACK
REBELS More Battles Reported In The Provinces
Havana, Apr. 8.
Army troops boat back two bitter rebel attacks on garrison towns, the Govern- ment announced tonight, as Cuba's exploding revolution led by Fidel Castro spread to the central part of the island. Unconfirmed reports also ink j de „Cuba, was effected following! minoriting in Camaguey | negotiations between the US Amo Sador, Earl T. Smith, and the Cuban Prime Minister Minkler
Province for the first line.
Army communiques reported
W balling at Niquera
State,
Oriente Province kaasl
Quernado de Cuines in
at
Guell.
L45
Gonzalo
An army communique tonight
Villas Province in Central Cuba said four rebels were killed and shortly after it was disclosed a solcher and policeman wound- Governmented at Quemado de Guines when
that
Cuban Authorities
hard taken into custody and then released seven American newsmen for enter- ing restricted territory without power authorisation.
Release of the Amerleans, who had been held at Santiago
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER (In America)
"If anyone else in Wasking ton tells me what a perfectly lovely person the new Soviet Ambassador is I shall
crea.a!"
a Communist-led" group tried to burn the Mayor's house and "alter public order." It was the
reported first fighting
Las Villos Province since the current tendon started.
Private reports sait five rebels and two soldiers were killed in the Quemrla de Guines action. the rebels These reports sid
were driven off when they tried to attack the Army garrison erly today:
Sabotage
An earlier communique in- diented that Castro's rebels ha fought Their way to the very walls of the Government garri- Ton at Niquero, 50-miles-west-
benten off.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
qulewith
THL RV
2-11 POLON.
© TUBE BİNEA Borvia, ma,
"When the guasts come, Mom, tell Prof. Perkins I'm awake we can continue our talks about rockets and sputniks!"
MAN ACQUITTED
OF MURDER
SENTENCE INCREASED
BY JUDGE
D
Sheaffers
BALLPOINT.
WITH EXOLUSIVE
STERING SILVER TIP
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Film Criticism
under the headline “Dole Queue, USA."
From the Filos
25
years
-AGO.
in the current issue of the
No doubt the "recession" in To The Editor, China Mail. Sir-1 read Mr Anthony the USA is big news, but this alory certainly contributes A convicted house-breaker Fuller's review on "Sayonara"
nothing to anyone's understand- who asked to leave prison with much interest, and I hope ing of that problem. As for the article's attempt to given earlier in order to meet he may be interested in my amateurish (and I dare Bay his mother who he said unasked for) opinion on this picture of Chicago in March or April, 1958, I can only say that The longhair boys and was coming here shortly plcture,
the attempt is ludicrous. Mr girls of the London press gave from China had his sen-
Whiting, your reporter, hog A this Alma rather severe beel- gift for facile expression. but lence of eight months in-ng, and i think it didn't deserve be certainly gives your
The film has many short-scribers a most Insecurate ple-Gazette shows that the Colony's Sub-OFFICIAL returns appearing creased to 18 months this that, morning.
comings, but they are not fatal ture of Chicago today,
More total
revenue for 1032 totalled ones, and I must object to Mr
over, he has fallen Inte the $33,549,715, which 15 $441;004 Tip Kwong, 32, unemployed. Fuller's criticism of its "over cheap and ensy pitfall of re-
plot.
below the Remember, peating the with nine previous convictions, emotional"
estimate. On the agc-old untruths other hand, house- Mr Fuller, that "Sayama" 15 about "Chicago-City of Crime" mounted to $32,030,203 against expenditure who pleaded guilty to breaking and committing a essentially a love story, and its If he were interested les facts, felony, was sentenced by a characters naturally take their he could have found out
an estimate of $34,981.001 (1058- Magtrate to eight months and tove problems very seriously.
59 estimate$548,121,710). Tho things both of which give the eredil balance at the end of placed under police supervision | Emotional pecple as they may lie to the beginning and to the for two years.
well be, their entotlong are end of his article:
the year was $12,847,002. hotrest and real ones. And it This morning, when Yip apis essentially a love story, its pealed for a reduction of sefocus wisely remalis on the per- lence in the Appeals Court, Mr sonni drania, it is first and al- Justice A.D. Scholes told him ways a love story, and the other that in his (the Judge's) issues (besides tha love opinion the sentence was much problems) are not "posed" but too light, especially in view of merely touched upon, in its the appellant's bad record. developments, Yet, because of added that the maxknum sen- its simple-minded and unassum- tence for such an offence wat Ing approach, they are tackled 14 years.
more honestly and for less pre- tentiously than by many another mor vehement but less vehement effort
of
The appeals of six other op- paltants against severity sentence were
dis- also missed, The pico Ip the
Regrettably, Mr Fuller, like majority of the cases was that many other critics, was im their families who were de-
pressed by the tragedy of the pendent upon the appellants secondary couple. I have to say without support while that it was a misplaced partiality. they served out their prison based on emotional reaction
OTHER APPELLANTS
were
LETME.
two
1-Chicago does have one of the nest educational systems- public and private-in the USA
Comments on the Hongkong and possibly in the world-to-Stock Market Markets WETC day. This is a demostrable dull and featureless this torn= fact and can be shown to any-tip (April 5), with hardly any one who took the time to in-change in rates. Forward offer quire.
ings were rather heavy in the 2-The incidence of crime in tower-priced section, but few Olakcago has dropped precipi- buyers were in evidence. tously In the last 10-15 years, so that today' New York, and even Mr Whiting's London, to mention only two cities, both outrank Chicago statistics
In
CREEN
Listeners"
Grld informs the Club There crane are in the Soviet Union today 14,500 broadcasting stations. The As for the middle of his story, chain covers the length and it is confided to quotations from breadth of the country, from miscellany of people none of Minsk to Vladivostok and from whom gives an accurate, com-Murmansk in Samarkand. In plete picture in the few sen- 1928, there were only 128 broad- tensees Me Whiting allots them. easting stations in the Soviet rather than one objective_judg- Next time the China
Mail Uulon. Five years ago there ment, Remember, Mr Fuller, wants the facts, they had better
sets public radio were 22,000 that "Sayonara," despite its senu
qualified Journalist In the country; today there are romantic theme, 19 A jet-age rather than globetrotter with a | 1,400,000,
few hours to kill talking gossip with some men in a queue,
M. 8. SHRIRERIZ. (Bangkok)
Manzanillo, before they were A cardboard box-maker who told his relatives and the Police that he had thrown his baby into the sea was acquitted of the charge of murder wa previous convictions), "only whiff of real tragedy! In at the
Quemado de Guinez Is in the western part of Las Villas Pro- vitice near the north coast, Two separate groups of rebels have been active in the area in recent weeks, but have confined their uperations to sabotage and ter- rorism,
Former PM
Of Kashmir
The six appellants were Chan story, and is characters must contemporary outlook, Hang-ki, 19, unemployed, with have six previous convictions, who That's particularly so in Kelly's was sentenced to six months for case, as he is never portrayed being found upon premises as a romantic; he is, in fact, whilst being under police super- something of a fighter and vision; Yu Tak, 52, street letter- "nothing scares him." Was it writer (seven previous convic-likely that he, even under the tions)...sentenced to eight influence of the puppet-show, months for possession of heroin; gave up his life (not to mention (seven that of the one he loved) with- Wong Wo, 52, tailor, previous convictions), also out making a real struggle?, He con, at least, flee with his wife, given eight months for the same offence; Tang Nom-chal, 41, at any rate, Far from being the
as Its one nue the story, it strikes sentenced-to-total-of months for keeping an oplum uneasy, "over-emotional" note. performance is, divan, possession of oplum pipes Red Buttons and possession of oplum: Cheng to me, rather disappointing too. chill's die Hei, 33, coolie (eight previous Alleminting between D-handed The Jury of Ave men ond, following
convictions), sentenced to nine nuntiness and bristling earnest- deliberated for 10) appeurance,
-makes---||s men!" and the other is an off-two women shoot of the so-called Directorio minutes before returning their Counsel said these Prouocu-months for possession of heroin; ness, Mr Buttons
On, 25, chicken points with the stern air of n Revolucionari which carried out unanimous verdict on 35-year- tion witnesses had testified that and Chu
and just fails to Sheikh farmer, given two months also scoutmaster, BC they considered that the The unsuccessful
attack on old Tse Wal-yce.
convey the recklessness for possession of the drug. President Fulgencio Batista's Toe was allegd to have mur- caused was not the kind of man
peration that would drive him The last-named appellant also to self-destruction. In Itzelf palace in Havana a year ago dered his seven-week-old son, woh would do much a thing, and United PresA.
Tse Wah-lai, on February 22, had disbelieved him.
appealed against conviction. He their double suicide seems morbid st year. He was represented
was convicted and sailenced to and unlikely; only when it by Mc Richard Winter and Mi
10 months for possession of 55 serves as the stimulus for the packets months for offering bribe to a police officer.
One of the groups is affiliated with Castro's "July 26th Move-
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Criminal Sessions this morning and discharged.
tire
The Crown was now telling K. S. Gill, both instructed by the Jury, "Although the wit Mr D. L. Holland-Roberts, ofnesses said they did not belleve the accused, we are asking you Hastings and Co.
Mr W. S. Collier and Mr D.to do so," said Mr Winter. G. Wills, both Crown Counsel, prosecuted. assisted by Intocctor E. Moss,
When the defence sponed this horning, Mr Winter said he would adduce no evidence from his client,
D.
Confidence
of heroin and twa
more courageous
des.
Gruver
takes does it become digestible.
One critic commented sneer-
Organising Revolution
་
Mr
Jar. Lro D'Almada, Barrister-at-law, has reported to the Police that while playing only at the Country Club, Fan- Ding, he lost his gold writ walch.
JEW
YORK-The
Ndrought
14-year
comes to an omeint end in the United States tonight (April 6). In 19 out of 48 States, beer, ale and porters will be sold in restaurants, clubs and hotels Broadway. however, is compelled to TC- moln temporarily, dry. The
to
*Wet" cause.
New York brewers are cautious and have decided not moke delivery of any Bombay, Apr. 8. alcoholic drinks until 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. They fear Abdullah, former
of the possibility of an orgy Prime Minister of Kush-celebration if drinks are sup- which mir, who WAS released plied tonight, an event from detention in Jan- would be prejudlelal to the uary, is now organising a
* volunteer corps and rals.
Shanghal-The Shanghal RAF ing funds to support his Association at fir annual dinner actlylties, Bakshi Ghulam last night paid silent tribute to Mohammed, present Prime the victims of the recent air. Chu alicged he was wrongly gly, that it raised "important questions" but provided "poor convicted. Dismissing the ap-
in Flanders
and Minister of Kashmir, said | disastere
America at the beginning of peal, his Lordship said that answers." What the critte didn'
today. realise was it's beyond Gruver'a
the ceremony. The chairman, in sald that Dr there was ample ovidence upon mentality and temperament to The 62-year-old Sheilch, known the course of his speech, men
expert, had which the Magistrate based his give more constructivo, or more as the Lion of Kashmir" was tioned the formation of an air said that he did not consider conviction.
plofund, answers. Gruver is deposed and arrested by defonce company of the Shang The's statement to be a true one, His Lordship lold Crown helther a social thinker nor on Bakshi, In August 1953 and hai Volunteer Corps during the
"And here you are asked to Counsel, Mr Deamond Mayne, altruistic dealist, but the answers spent four and a half years in And this man guilty of murder that the sentence of 10 months he gives are honest and sound detention,
His reply: "The on these statements alone," he on the Arst charge appeared to ones.
Arst
Mr Bakah told a press con- obligation is to love each other"
ference here the Shelich's told the Jury,
that Mr Mayne sald
the im't any intellectual theoris volunteer corps was being raised "I submit to you, with every fo the fact that the accused had unfidence. bearing in mind the maximum_for_such an offence ing, bul a simple assertion of on the lines of the Razakars that a woman should take pains
ady and the appeared to be one year on plain truth. What be actually a milliant body of Muslin over her clothes, buttoTM pas
vehicles her sintements which an expert and summary conviction. He added means is the first duty, or ob-volunteers which caused witle.
Is to our human proad lawlessness in Hyderabad | private dressing room - nữ. persons who know the accused that the Court could also in-gation,
instincts. Ane of $10,000,
When your duty to states in 1940-43.
Some Hongkong women go too The Jury, he sald, had heard well all say they do not believe, pose
Reducing the sentence to 12 any tradlilon or institution works
far with this "attractive posing." evidence of the uttering of this that you cannot find him guilty months, his Lordship said that against normal human desires, it
On the ferry a few days ago, I stalement by various witnesses, of murder."
the Magistrato had exceeded is time to revise it--for it means and the statements to that effect made to the Police.
Quite Simple
Mr Collier told the Jury In his cinsing artdress that the issue was quite simple.It amounted
Mr Winter Chung,
a mental
said he had thrown his baby into the sta.
absence of the
innocence.
the
Mr Coiller pointed out that In the present case, he went the statement had not been on, the Jury must be satisfed/ that the crime of murder had. made once, but on several occa- slons, and also to the Police. been committed and that
it before And when Tso was eventually accused charged with murder, a most. they could convict. If they were they must serious offence, he still said the not satisfied, then
same thing.
committed
V
be excessive.
Dequit. Unless there
Hla Lordship said the Pro- Wus evidence
had produced 10 that he was in depressive sccution state of mind, Mr Collier said evidence that the deceased had the Jury was entitled to take died. In a murder case, it war the statements for what they highly important that evidence was adduced as to the circum- were worth.
stances of the death of the de- crased.
GUINNESS GETS
HIS OSCAR
posed very well.
Contrary to Mr Fuller's view,
folbies. to
*Infatuation,
SILENCE
of
ear.
+ BIGAIL comments in tho Women's World .... I ågres
and mako pubite
In his summing-up, Mr Justice his jurisdielion. He also order your disloyalty to your society. He said a recent "silence" by sat for 10 minutes behind a Gregg reminded the Jury thated the sentence to start from and your human race. Worked Sheikh Abdullah was attributed pretty lady and mine was the Crown Counsel Bold. it the Prosecution's duty was to the state of conviction on March out on this thesis, I think its by some people to his desire not privilege to watch her fingera conclusion answers the questions to go against law and order, kiss curls, move rings, it her mounted to a question as to prove its case beyond all reason-14.
But others belloved he was hat and take off and put on whether or not the Jury ac-able doubt, and that it was not
preparing to strike with "full her coat. Quite a chumming
performance! cepted The statements as being for the accused to prove his
force." truc.
I think there shouldn't be any Sheikh Abdullah became hoff-measure" in self-criticism. Kashmir's Prime Minister in
Over 2,400 radio licences have Of course, not all Americans are
1047 when India and Pakistan been issued in Hongkong since semi-barbarians, but It can't be denied that they have many gained independence and had the beginning of the year, the Agure being somewhat in excesa. If the military's aim is ve years of undisputed rule.
Tribesmen invaded the state of those issued at the same time their boys from
in that year.. Ho agreed to the last year. As from April 1, inter-racial marri-
to Intla to
SAVE licencer may de secured at the age should be strictly forbidden, accession
Kashmir. from the invaders and reduced fee of $7.50, a reduction And why the to begin with
some measure to preserve
of $2.50 being made on the full- regulation to bar Japanese wives
autonomy. (London, Apr. 8. from Joining their husbands
Since his release he has ad-licenco from that date, Actor Alec Guinness, shabby back to the States? The military
is responsible for bringing thou-dressed publle meetings dis-
the accession puting and unshaven, today, ac manis of GI's, male and single.
and do- TT will bo observed in the manding that the people of the Hongkong Volunteer · Des cepted
American to his
a foreign country, and "'Oscar" and a "best film naturally should foresee the state be allowed to decide their fence Corps orders published on "actor" "award from the consequences, Ins't it rather own fate-Reuter,
Groat late in the day to work out this Varioty Club of
"system".to "save" their boys Britain,
from "infatuation?" One 11 thardchul bo note that this interrupted
"system" is now abolished, any- shooting of the film "The Horse's way; but the problem posed in Mouth, in which he plays
Sayonara" is still as urgent and penniless, drunken artist, to go vital as it was several years 220, to the show business awards as there's still a got of prejudice
Savoy Hotel in our world these days. luncheon at the He had no time to change.
N. T. CHOW. Mr M. J. Frankovich, part president of the Variety Club, who made the presentations,
He
Danger
--In-the-present ense, there was no evidence that the body was sald the Jury would no lound. Apart from the state. doubt be asked by Mr Winterments of the accused, there was to find that these statements no evidence of the death of the were made by a person in a child.
depressive state of mind.
But, Mr Collier declared, ona did not admit serious crimes to the Police without a certain amount of thought, unless the
Last Seen
Mr
Guinness
Bangkok Blast
TO VISIT RUSSIA
Katmandu, Apr. 8. King Mahendra
and
Quten have accepted
r
another page that there ia แ long-Hai-of-now-recrulla, 40 in
wiam T Tumbor, of
Jawen than 98 are of German, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian nation- ality, for the most part well- known residents of some yetay' starkling. They are all enlisted in the Army Service Compe Cadre,
"Thelt public-spirited action will be greatly appreci
an in- ated by the Brillah residents of vitation to tour the Soviet the Colony.
Union, Rayul Palsze
nouncement said today.
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Mr Justice Gregg said the person was insane, and there evidence was that on February was no evidence of insanity in 22, Lost year, the accused, was this care.
soon carrying the baby' out of In bis address, Mr. Winter the factory where he worked,
This will be the first trip to Tondora are now invited. Jor pointed out to the Jury the and that was the last time the
said the "Oscar had been : To The Editor, China Mall.
an Iron Curtain country by the site preparation. In connexion dangers of convicting anyone of child was EVET MEN,
world's only Hindu monarch, with the new gaot in Stanley. murder in the absence of
A Prosecution wliness who flown from the United States
Bit-It seems most unfor The invitation was tendered The work conglits of rite_pre... know The had said he was not after he telephoned Hollywood. dead body.
including retaining Both the British and Ameri- iuuate to ma that a newspaper. by President Voroshilov and it paration Mr Winter referred to the the sort of person who would
Chiki into the sea, con awards were for the actor's of the quality and influence of a expected that the King and walls and foundations for the sintetment Tso made to his wife, throw his
wall and building brother-in-law and to
that and
in his view the performance in The Bridge on the China Malk should publish Queen will leave in time for boundary to his other co-workers that he had accused had given the baby the River Kwai"-China Mall such a story an appears on page the May Day celebrations where they oCLUT
ground, of your April 1: edition United Frew, Special, thrown the baby into the seats | away,
four
on made