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THE FAMOUS CONFORT IN ACTION TRAINERKSVIH :
Whiteaways
NONOWONG
KOWLOON
PI CONSUL DEFENDS COLONY
UNION UNREST False Charges Of AUSTRALIAN Justifiable Homicide Judge Rejects
THE British transport
T Industry i currently
facing one of the most grave.crises in its history. The central London bus- men have already furned down the Industrial Court's award of Ba Gd and are standing out for an extra 2s and a shorter week. At the time the busmen re- fused to abide by ปาย Court's decision iL WAR forecast that a strike by this section of the industry
Smuggling
& Counterfeiting
By EC ALBERTO
would be doomed to failure. The Philippine Consul-General, Mr Eduardo
but now that the railway
WO Rye had their rej
for an increase re- fused by the Rallway Arbitration Tribunal trou- ble looms high on the transport horizon.
L. Rosal, today defended 'Hongkong against unfounded charges made by certain "irresponsible" officials of his government that the Colony is smuggling and counterfeiting contre.
1
The outcome of the Tribunal's
findings was not unexpect
He told the China Mail hej not to investigate the smuggling ed and the Union leaders
memorandum to reports but to look over somo had been threatening to hid set take action
an the Philippine Government pro- dredging equipment). unless
Mr Rosal also took issue with testing the false, charges which
Hongkong and Internal pleasure of Authorities.
GUNNER ARRESTED
Sydney, Apr. 11.
An 18-year-old Australian Army gunner was re- manded in custody here today as detectives kept
woman
a hospital vigil over the .British
ho la alleged to have criminally assaulted and attempted to murder,
·
The soldier, Gary David Mat- thews, war alleged by the police to have crept up on Mrs Victoria Joan Hawkins, 30-year-old wife of a British Army Major, on Wednesday and choked her un-
award was made in their he said had incurred the dis- charges that Philippine passports conscious with his lanyard. ` favour. Despite the Government's
the
to
revenue stamps had been counterfeited in
He criticised the irresportible on officials for having their charges published in the Philippine press instead of notifying the Philip- pine or the Hongkong Govern-
endeavours to hold down A spokesman of the Hong-Hongkong.
and wages
thus equate kong Govemment declined them with the cost of comment on the charges or living, both the railwaymen Mr Rosal's statement. and the busmen are deter- mined to follow a course which can unly lead to n the nation's rupture in economy and disruption of the transport services. Cards On Table
THE cards are now on the Italfo, sides have been
taken and it is hard to see forestall a way clear to what appears to be an in- evitable clash of opposing forcea with the ultimate result that all will be the Iusors in the long run. At the present moment, the British cost of living is being held fairly steady,
до
Mr Rosal did not mention the Philippine officials by naine.
"Irresponsiblement. But he said: und untrue atatements by cer
Philipple tin officials of the
customs, Internal revenue and NEW CRISIS
investigation agencies damage the good relations between the Philippines and Hongkong which am duty-bound to promote.
Carry Openly
"They tolk about Filipino tourists smuggling goods from Hongbong to the Philippines. The tourists openly carry. their gootia into the Philippines abeant ships and planes."
a
Mr Rosal made these remarks when asked to comment on recent feport from Manila about a Presidential team coming here Lord Hinching to investigate "mugging"
Independent Filipino tourists.
(The team, headed by the Secretary of Public Works, Mr came hero Florencio Moreno,
states
the
but brooke, Conservative, only thing that can make it rise to crisis point next autumn will be a failure of the Government to stand firmon current wage claims.
Lord Hinchingbrooke
aiso
cails on the unions to mend their ways as he suggests that otherwise it might be the end of them.
At first sight this implies a
threat of totalitarianism,
but as
FRENCH
STRIKE
by
THREAT
this is ко far An almost
coa!,
IN FRENCH
CABINET
Не туля
remanded unill April 20 without a plea bring taken.
Detectives wait at Mrs How- kins hospital bedside, where she lies unconscious and critical- il, hoping they will be able 10 interview her.
Matthews was alleged by the At- police prosecutor to have tacked Mrs Hawkins as she sat on the verandah of her home in army quarters near here.
He then carried her to a nearby disused moat, battered her and criminally assaulted her, it was stated,
Mrs
Hawkins comes from Matlock, Derbyshire. Her hus- Paris, Apr. 11.
is in the banda Londoner, Promier Royal Army Service Corps Conservatives in
Felix Guillard's coalition loan to the Australian Army.- Cabinet informed Promier China Mail Special.
Gaillard
and Prasidant
Rone Coty tonight, they
would resign.If. Gaillard TREASON
follod, to take a strong
stand against Tunisia, Informed
sources said they demanding that France were take the initiative before the United Nations Security Council to brand Tunisia for "interfer- ing" in the Algerian rebellion.
CHARGES
DROPPED
Rangoon, Apr. 11.
00
But they did not resign. They The Burmese Home Ministry have frequently threatened to
Gaillard went "soft on Tunisth and Galliard in turn bas said that if they resigned, he would too,
today withdrew treason charges against a former Cabinet Minister, U Lun arrested in 1954 with two other
former Mini- stera. They were alleged to have conspired to en gineer a coup in 1949.
U Lua had written to the Home Minister admitting his "errors. The Government had it would drop charge sold against the accused if they made such an admission
The five Conservative Minds- tera spes two hours with Gaillard and two hours with Paris, Apr. 71.
Coty. total walkout is Their spokesman, Housing divorced from democracy expected tomorrow throughout Minister Pierre Garet, told
Iron the implication seems to be France's
"So for and reporters afterward, unions will
labour union there has been no rupture." be potassium mines, that the destroyed by the rank-and-aicials said today.
SITUATION GRAVE The 24 hour "warning strik fle rising against their
But he warned, "the situation leaders who pursue policies to effect obout 300,000 miners,
is grave." not in keeping with reality. will be repeated but for an
Despite Garb's claim that
The other Minister still in This is not without Rume "indefinite parted", on April 21,
the Labour if union claims are not granted, there had bom no bacak i delontion, U Ba Fe, 73, has made substance as
appeared obvious that if Gaillard no admission and the care against the officials sakl leaders in recent
the French coal mines are nation- accopted Party
Conservative him will continue. ultimatum, US-British attempts The third accused, U Thara- that they
・to that
any increate in wages to end the crisis through their waddy Maung, died early this curb their demands in the would affect the cost of coal and good offices had collapsed. year at the age of 64-Reuter.
Garet's ovont of a Labour victory thus will be felt in other sec
colleague-Minister of the economy.-France at the next-general-tor
Presse. olections.
1
weeks warned unton beads alisext. The Government tears
will have
Spin along with Kenwood
no hanging about with KENW
D
for Agriculture Roalda Boscary. Monsservin, said the showdown had been
postponeti un to
'morrow's special Cabinet meet-
ing at 9.30 a.m.
*The affair must be settled
tomorrow," he said.
Verdict In
Lana Turner Drama
A
BY JACK V. FOX
Hollywood, Apr. 11.
Coroner's Jury today ruled that the death of Lana Turner's lover, at the hands of her 14-year-old daughter, was “justifiable homicide.” The verdict of the 10 man, two
woman jury
carne 28
the
minutes after it received the case. It followed dramatic re-telling of the fateful Good Friday night in the Turner household by the dazzling star herself.
ANOTHER
HOAX
IN BRITAIN
London, Apr. 11, "Top
secret" atomic papers found in an under- ground railway station here on Wednesday night were a deliberate hoax, the British Atomic Energy Authority stated tonight.
The documents, which brought a Scotland Yard detective speeding to the atation, contained pages in Rumian torn from univer- sity examination papers.
A blueprint marked "top secret" appeared to be based -on published drawings.
Si Gix, other sheets:ħati Bævni copied from taxt book. Two-tim nogatives showed church and train. China Mall Special
Govt Generals
Failed, Say Rebels
Neither the star, nor her daughter, Cheryl, were in the courtroom to hear the verdlet, which is tantamount to clearing
of re the dim, shy beauty ponsibility in the slaying.
"She (Cheryl) remain in custody until and unless Judge Lynch (Judge Allen T. Lynch Monica Juvenile of the Santa Court), changes this ruling," McKesson salð.
Lana left the courtroom tr "The juvenile hearing will be mediately after the case went to held on the 24th," McKesson the Coroner's Jury, accompanied | sold.-United Press.
Jerry Glenler by her attorney and bla assistant Louls Bipu.
her She was en route to luxurious Beverly Hills mansion when the verdict was read.
Told Of Verdict
Told of the verdict, she said only: "Thank God."
She immediately was put un der sedation and was to spend the remainder of the afferitoon In bed
'Only Cheryl's father, Stephen Crane, the second of Lana's four ex-husbands, was in the court- room to accept the verdict.
"I throk Glott. I'm so grateful, no one will over know," he said, bitaking infà steusz.
Lena hold centre stage for
this
more than 30-mimales. morning as sho Te-told the #horror' of the knifing of her Lover, small-time hoodlum Johnny Stompanalo.
The glamoÒLE movie star told the Coroner's inquest that
daughter
al sprang ther
eight-inch Stompanato with an bladed butcher's knife after ha bad threatened her violently and told her she would `rever get away from him.
Confusion
Miners To
Co-operate
With
Coal Board
London, Apr. 11.
Witchcraft
Evidence
Bombay, Apr, 11.
A judge today rejected ovi-
denco here that a band of woman, riding naked on dogs, had, lod a man into the jungle and than killed him and aston kia flosh
during a lesson in witch- craft
He rejected the evidence of two girls-daughters of the man alleged to have been killed-and
their acquitted
60-year-old grandmother end Ave other women of d chargo of murder. All the accused belonged to the aboriginal tribe.
The prosecution said the two girls, Navashi, 15, and Pateri, 10, were told they would have to sacrifice. their father, as part of their lessons in witchcraft.
INTO JUNGLE
On the night of October 5 they and the accused wake up their father und asked him to follow them. The women, some of them riding naked on dogs, led him into the jungle, killed him and ale his flesh, the pro- secution sakk.
Police later found a skull and, bones, but an anatomy expert said they might have belonged to a woman.
The judge sold the Prosecu- tion had not succeeded In es
of the tablishing the murder missing man, who disappeared after going to a nearby town to rock work.
The case was based on the general bellef in the Warit village that many people had died, because of black magic
he said-fouter.
Delegates representing Bri- practised by the accused women,
Lain's 700,00d miners- meeting in conference here today unanimously agreed on their union, policy of co-operation with
Stowaway
the National Coal Board Sent Home.
to'combat a slump in their Industry,
London, Apr. 1 Maria Salopek, agod 24, On wages and conditions, the pretty Yugoslav girl who came conference agreed to resist any here by stowing away among u attempt to worsen conditions, cargo of oranges on a Swedish and use every method to im~] ship, - today "sailed back for. prove them.
Yugoslavia,
The brief court celion, which
The Coal Board's plan to shut Before Maria left aboard the Singapore, Apr. 11.
lested slightly more than three uneconomie pits should only be 3,655-ton Yugoslav ship Volvo
delibera- The Indonesian Army gen mours Including the
a last resort adopted after all dina, the vessel's master said:. erals had failed in their tions, broke up in confusion as
other steps were...inken. The "She will probably be aned and, dark-haired man war against the. Central Bwardly
Union should press for the re- put in prison when she reaches Sumatran rebels, Padang shouted he wanted to be heard."
The District Attomey's Office striction of now opencast work-Yugoslavia,"
The girl was found when, the radio said tonight.
Raid after the verdict that "ating.
Sweddati The Union accepted restricted 1,907-ton
fruit ship this time" it planned to recruitment as short-term "Ivan Gorthon, docked hero last "Soekarno stated this would ahead with the juvenile hearing measure but urged a limitation week, be a lightning war-over in 14 the equivalent of a trial, in of unisecessary oil imports. She was held aboard the ship days," the rebel radio said,
Santa Monica on April 24.
awalt return home but But the war la now about a
The man who put the court Sales must be stimulated, and to
the Government should be escaped-and was found and and the revolu. Into uproar, later identified as month old, tionary republie two months Stephens Trusso, shouted from pressed to encourage extended taken to a police station into the
samo night-Neuter the audience & demand to be East-West trado.-Reuter, Our troops are launching heard." counter-attacks..
"You scum have told a pack
Was A friend of Johany's. him. Cheryl was-in- love with
kimi. Sha
old.
various on
SPUTNIK II fromis, and we have the support of lies here," he shouted
The
VISIBLE
The Conservatives, authorita-. tive sources said, are
stead-
Manchester, Apr, 11.
Soviet dog-carrying fastly apposed to continuation of the good offices talles,
Sputalk I could be seen clearly They were reparied to have with the naked eye near here urged Galilard and. Caty to tonight. brand-Tunkit in the Security An eye-witnest sat it ap. Council for supporting the 3-peared "very high and almost year-old rebellion by providing like a star.
a chelter, and supply route, for "A bright shining tail also the rebels,-United Press, could be seen."-Reuter,
of most of the population."
DICTATOR
a
The rebel Tadio anid "Boekarno wants to become dictator. He is using the people as tools to achieve his ambition. "We the people, made him what he is. Why should wo let him use us as instruments of his personal gain, and turn this country into a Russian satellite??
Reuter.
"I
in love with WOLS Sho was jealous of her mother."
the Then he stormed from courtroom, a horde, of reporters trailing as he left the building. Lana departat a few seconds later.
Distict Attorney William, B McKeon salt that the Coroner's Jury verdict --under law not binding on the decision of the Juvenile Court Judge."
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