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Quemoy-Another Dien Bien Phu? Reported American View
Washington, Sept. 1.
A
The United States Government's latest official stand on its policy in the Formosa Straits in no way constitutes stiffening of the American attitude or new commit- ments on the defence of the Nationalist-held coastal islands, informed sources said today.
The American position was safety the Army Secretary, M? Wher Brucker, after talka
Forniosa (13)
with Nationalist
iraders. He warned the Cum- mists not to underestimate the recent warnings y President Eisenhower agudant attacking i
Formosa area.
Me
Ti stance said that Brucker's statements were only a reaffirmation of America's desire to delend Formosa azid aid the Nationalists, while main Eating deilberate _donist con- cerning its pusition on Quetnoy, Matsu and the smaller offshore islands.
No Change
The American Labuar Day
wekend brought no great
Analysis Of
UK Comment
On
Far East
By GEORGE HORIAT
London, Sept. 1.
change to the military situation Britain today officially gave its diplomatic support
in
the Formoe Straits, The
masdive bombardments which
had given way to sporadic helling for 24 hours seem to have resumed.
But although the Government watching Dy situation closely, it atisches no particular importance to the degree of Intensity of Communist artillery
Are
to the United States in its indirect conflict with China — as the Soviet Union has offered its moral support to the Peking Government.
However, Londer, diplomatic sources thought that neither Britain nor the Soviet Union was planning to take part in an oven- Tual, Chinese-American conflict but would try by different means to prevent il
The British Government which hud, until now adopted in utti-
stated bhat it considered the Quemoy situation as serious, that
The United States is reln- forcing it air force units on Formosa, buil nomy observers feel it is Increasingly evident tude of cautious waiting today that the offshore islands are in a special situation which pre- vents the American Government from stating its intentions clear jy in Belvance.
The
position of the isluads, next
the mainland count, makes their defence extremely diflienil. Even if Quemuy Is strongly fortified, It is apparent- ly became an buljøst cumparable in the minds of American cireles to Dien Bien Phu in the Indo- Chloa war,
Island Hopping
The Chinese Communists strem
to be preparing
Islands. They
scize could Quenicy and then plan an attack on Bl Quemoy. An invasion of Mats, firther north, could probably not be effectively pre- vented,
was following it very closely in consultation with ite ally, the United States find that it de- plored the war of nerves started by Peking despite its usual pro- fessions of faith in world peace. Silence
Rickshaw
Passenger
Injured Dies In Hospital
Even more significant, wald A 32-year-old Chineso, Lo
was the diplomatie observers,
silence of the prolonged Foreign Office concerning the of the offshore legal status Eslands.
There years ago the British
.Bald that geographically
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1958.
SHEAFFER'S
JI
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
COLONY RESERVOIRS NOW OVER 90pc FULL
BEAUTY FOR A NIGHT Big Gains From
Last Night's Heavy Rainfall
Our photographer came upon this rare clump of ona night flowering cactus blooms growing on a bank at Shatin. In one row of planta there were eleven blooms... out for one night... dead in the morning. If you want to sen the same again... come back in 1001.
HK'S TRAFFIC VOLUME
DOUBLES IN 6 YEARS DOUBLES
BY A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
During the last six years, the volume of traffic on the Colony's roads has almost doubled, according to the Senior Superintendent, Traffle, Mr G. N. Rolph.
.
In the financial year, 1952/53, there
18,738 registered
were
Kam Hon, of 265, Des Vocux Road West, third floor, was injured when the rickshaw in which ho was riding collided with a private cor outside the velicles in the Cotong, of which Main Gato of tho
15,901, were motorised, and n Royal Naval Dockyard, the fast financial year, thenc Queen's Road East, at were 34,437 registered vehicles,
82,778 about 1.45 a.m, yesterday, and of Those
motorised,
According to the latest traffic
He was admitted to
Queen Mary Hospital and died at 10.16 p.. the same day.
Were
I WILL NOT RETURN TO UK
-(Continued from Paze 1)
Nena Kit, agat 47, of No. 25 reports, this makes the density the newspapers. It spares me
Block. s. floor. Tui Hangmile. On January 3, there were of vehicles in Hongkong, 71 per Tung Resettlement Estate, was 463 miles of roads in the Colony, 150 miles of these being in the New Tertiterles.
knocked down and injured by a
Senior
they to open an | Government Island Hopping esipalim which belonged
unid wont start with the Invasion of politically
Mainland China the rocky Tan and Tungtung and that it WHS
talvis. able to pull Nationalist Small troops out of them and leave a hundred miles of open sea be- Nationalists and tween the Communists,
Now the Government limits self to saying only that the Ao attuck on Queney would slitation has changed and they require extensive forces and
let I be understood that the
private car in Chatham Road, equipment. China seems to have
offshore islands have perhaps
Bear San Wei Street, at 3.15
Mr Morrison, the considered the different asperis
become is the meantime, For- of the problem: Either the Na-
mosa's first
of defence yesterday. fle was adinti Superintendant, Traffic, now on lizza
led to Kowloon Houkal. tionalist garrison, pounded by against Communist invasion.
leave, has said that it the A Chinese Woman As Ye increase
in vehicles continues the coastal batteries, will simply
This pollon conflicts with unidentified, was admitted to surrender, or, weakened und
at the same rate, he estimates that of the majority of British Queen Mary Hospital last night that there demoralised, it will offer no
will be 118,000 newspapers effective resistance, to a landing the shot
which think that after she had been knocked vehicles,
islands are not down by
or four times the or It will try to exape to the worth even a
a bus
in Hennessy present volume of traffic will be localised conflict, Road, opposite the Lockhart uding the Colony's romis. Pescadores and Formost.
that the Amerienes should per Road market.
The latest growth in the num Since Quemoy is practically
runde the Nationalist to
ber of vehleles was described cul Aff from Formosa, OBY
evacuate them and that Britain
as "the greatest increase on evacuation attempt would be
hould take the lead in oblain- doomed to failure unless it were
cord," by Mr Morrison in his Ing the admission of China to
report. supported by the American 7th
The United Nations, Fleet,
It would be possible however It the Chinese Communists chose not to oppose it too effec- tively.
Definite Stand
It is probable that in view of
the British press comments
Government States. The Communist Chinese Com-Unitou
asked the British mand may be seeking to gain might have
Gavermanent to take a more de- time by attacking the smaller
islands while mnintaining snite stand and that the Jalter pressure on Queroy, and wall- concerried with maintaining the ing for the big island to fall into spirit of interdependence pre- its rela- eir hands without the riske of sently characterising an invasion.-France-Presse.
tions with Washington, decided to do so without making any binding agreements,
Certain British
Movie Star Fined $25
in
commentators feel that this is also the attitude of the Soviet Unlon which has used the press to express carefully weighed terms its sup- port of China's just cause.'- A Mandarin movie actress,
In fact these observers say the Lau Leung-wah, of room 703 British Government seems con- Shaws Building, Nathan Road, vinced that a major confitet in. was, fined $25 and ordered to the For East
Refused To Plead:
Man
Remanded
In a recent traffic murvey car- } ried out Singapore,
the ini authorities reported there that the amount of traffic on the Colony's main roads, had In- creased by 45 per cent in the 1st Ave years.
Hongkong on the other hard shows a much greater increase, but this is split up into two areas, Hingkong and Kowloon,
who sold
From the Files.
25
years -AGO
THE
HE water situation is re- vealed in the monthly Water Return just issued which shows that whereas on September 1 last year all the reservoirs were full ex- cept the new one at Aber. deen which was five feet
far from full, except Tytam Intermediate.
29 feet 7 inches below overflow,
the
storage on
1,494.20 million compared
Hongkong's reservoirs are now almost 92.8 below, this year all are very
per cent full according to a Government spokesman, who told the China Mail The Tym Tuk reservoir la this morning that last night's heavy which means half empty. The showers added nearly 500 million quantity in Island WILS gallons to the roservoirs.
лы gallong. 'The Colony's reservoirs now hold an estimated | 2.200.41 million galiong
September 1, 1932. 9,714 million gallons. Yesterday, the storage I is interesting to note that figure was estimated at 9,219 million gallons. in the serious drought of 1928-20 the foal in storage on Septem- Since rain began to fall over the Colony at 9 p.m. ber 1, 1920 was 1,749.93 million last night, the Royal Observatory has recorded the eight months of 1933 was gallons. Observatory rainfall for
withi
110
a total of 4.14 inches up to 11 a.m. this morning. 40.5 inches against 82,53 inches The rain started as a result of a tropical depression which or the same period of 1932.
moved in on the Colóny yesterday afternoon, causing the No. 1 storm signal to be raised. The signal was lowered at 2 a.m. this morning.
MOVING AWAY
The depression is now about 100 miles West of the Colony moving West at 10 knots, away from Hongkong.
So far this year, the total rainfall since January has been 60.47 inches, which is roughly 89 per cent of the average rainfall years,
✩ * Exceedingly scathing criticism of the late Lord Kitchener and other outstanding figures of war years is uttered by Mr Lloyd George in the firal volume of Juta wer memoirs published today.
The average rainfall from January to September in pre-
vious years, according to the Royal Observatory, is COMPLAINT
67.46 inches.
The rain caused a minor road collapse in the Upper Level Peak area, at the junction of Park and Lyttleton
Rouds. Traffic was diverted while engineers carried out an inspection of the damage.
TYPHOON GRACE
has been
frequent in the past of
lack of contact between the community, with a resulting Navy and the Hongkong
absence of understanding And friendship extra- ordinary at a naval base and
The latest report on Typhoon Grace, issued by the Royal inexplicable in view of the Observatory, states that she is now moving NW infnet that the Colony is un- the direction of Formosa, at 14 knots. Her position questionably ship-minded,. was plotted at 3 a.m., as 18.4 degrees N, 127.9 said a S. C. M. Post leader. degrees E.
The Royal Observatory reports that for the rest of the afternoon the weather will be cloudy and showery, but it should clear up later today.
Death Of General Who
Surrendered Bataan
Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 1.
wald he did not want
Blame has been apportioned to both sides-the community for its Belfishness and to the Navy for its exaggerated indepen-
dence and its traditional ellence, It is noteworthy, however, that naval men who have left the gorvico bere have been absorbod with a peculiar facility into local life, demonstrating that there is no real difficulty.
It is now a great pleasure to observe that the Navy liberalising its local outlook and entering more deeply into the consciousness. This anycne Colony's
He billy.
ma'utined that to the advent of the new Com- 74, who made what he alecase and starvation, not the modore, Commodoro F. Elliott, a called the "ignominious | Japanese, forced the Americans kinsman of Hongkong's first decision"
to surrender and Filipinos to give up, administrator, the famous Cap-
Years later, when asked what tain Elliot Bataan to Japanese forces}
first gesture is the pro- in 1942, died last night he would do if he had a chance
to re-live the Botos Incident, posal to have in the Colony this of a heart attack.
he said he would have taken the year a more fitting celebration of Trafalgar Day (October 21) some action.
then we have seen here for very many years.
Maj-Gon Edward P. King, else to shoulder the responsi-development we appear to owe
Death came to the soft- spoken little General at Bring wick hospital, near his home on St Simon's Island of 10.25
All of the American forces on Bataan-more than 70,000 troops ***Were suffering from disease and malnutrition at the time of,
General King him-
The
*
a lot of trouble," he said.
He added: "I have been drufung statement, I am not accustomed to public speaking but I was provoked to do R.”
Then he read his statement, Group
Captain Townsend, he left England on August 10, said he would like Pe
General King became ill early to make it clear
A fight between two cate that any Friday morning and was taken aurrender, allegations of animosity be-
to the hospital and placed in an self spent 41 months in Japanese ander a bed woke up a motor car driver who was asleep on tween Mr Sioloff and himself oxygen tent. He suffered at least prison camps, and was not re- the bed and this led to the were unfounded.
two heart attacks while in the leased until the end of the war, There is great solidarity and hospital.
subsequent discovery of a man King friendship between us.
was Gen, Douglas never wanted to put in the film
He At his bedside when he MacArthur's artillery Chief of crouching in the verandah of 19A High Street, Wert Point anything I thought undesir- and his stepson, Joe Beutel,
his wife, Pauline, Staff when MacArthur moved
district
3 a.m. With to the Corregidor Island fortress
nasistance of his father, the Klug look all the blame for and left King in command driver took the thicl into Asked if some people might the Balaan surrender because be Halaan.---U.P.I.
custody. His brother blew say the success of the Alm was
Police whistle and an Indian due to the use of the name of
constable arrived and took the Peter Townsend, he replied that
тать to West Point Police other men had names and what-
station.
#1 ever they might do they night be accused of using their names. "I hope the success of this film will be in its mer: and artistic success."
able,"
Asked if he thought his future On the island, according to Me might lie in the world of nima, Rolph, all the vehteles seem to Group Captain Townsend went to come into and teave the plied: "I would like it in this Mukhtiar Singh, 34, charged centre of town at the same time, lind af form, with this
with disorderly conduct and there is only one way they message." and resisting arrest, reload bottleneck,
can do this, through the Queen's fused to plead before Mr But in Kowloon this situation A. L. Leathlean at Cen-is not quite so peute, because tral Magistacy this morn-there are a number of alterna
tive roules to get from one end ing.
of Kowloon to the other.
He said he did not want un
At present there are
few
-
Reporters and photographers tonight besieged the hotel sulle where Group Captain Townsend Was conferring with Mr Stolom
Nearly two hours later about 60 reporters and photographers waiting downstairs in the hotel lobby stormed up the three flights of stairs
to room 359,
Improbable and Indian interpreter-all Indians facts and figures regarding the Any $5 costs by Mr B. V. Rhodes that the Peking leaders will spoke in favour of the Commovement of vehteles in and at Kowloon Court this morning avoid in time a direct conflict missioner of India. He wanted out of the busy areas of town, booing and singing "Margaret, for parking her car in an un-
with the United States as ther| a Pakistani Interpreter,
Mr Rolph said, but later this Margaret darne-moi ton cocuk authorised place.
did before.
Mukhtiar Singh, residing at year the report nude Defendant's car
by a (Margaret, Margaret, give me found was
London would also like to the Slich Temple, 371, Queen's United Kingdom trufle expert your heart). parked in. Chatham Court acar think that the Chinese Com-Road East, was alleged to have who came to the Colony a few
Flye Kimberley Road between 0.13 munist campaign has mainly
uniformed abehaved in a diorderly manner months ago, will be made public. later arrived in the naITOW poilermen p.m, and 9.30 p.m. on March 13 diplomatie goal: A summit con- at the office of the Commission-
passageway and forced the mass |ference on the Far East with the er of India, Tower Court, Hysan
and of reporters
cameramen Police, participation of China or an Avenue on September 1.
down the olaire into the lobby. of Mr Town- sand and Mr Stoloff has them! leaving Lima for Brussels by way of New York on Novem- ber 14. They will visit - Hong- Long-Reuter
is year, When asked by
defendant falled to identify the Asian move at the next General He was also alleged to have Theft From Flat Terry
prosentatives
30
was
driver of the car. She also foil-Assembly of the United Nations | resisted arrest when Chief In- ed to appear In court when with a view to repineing the re-spector A.E.G. Wheeler summoned at that time.
Nationalist carrying out his duly.
A sum of $270 was stolon Defendant appeared in court loader Chiang Kai-shek by those Defendant was remanded until From No. 6, Tong On Street, in the company of a mandarin of Communist Chinese President tomorrow, Chief Inspector AE.G.) fourth floor, shortly after 0 am. movie actor, Mr Lo Wal.. Mao Tse-tung-- France-Presse. / Wheeler is procecating..
yesterday,
died were
This Funny World
2945
"Gaven may be your fucky number, Madam, but our cars come in either six or eight cylinders!"
file
THE Emir Feisal, King of Iraq, died in his hotel here nt. 3 o'clock this morn- cable from
ing, Bays Berne.
"WELF
Amir Ghazi, the 21-year-old son of the late ruler crowned in Bagdad today, Tha- body of King Feisal has been embalmed and leaves aboard a British worship which will carry
to the remains
Haiza on September 10 and from thoro RAF machines will bear the casket to Bagdad, via Jerusalem. King Feisal died following a heart attack. It was with the -assistance of the British. Gov- ernment That Friml ascended the throne of Huq, for. It was Britain who selected him. When Mesopotamia cried out for her own ruler,
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