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ECOGNISE the two in the picture above? No mis- taking the Queen. The other Is West Germany's Presi dent, Dr Theodor Heuss. The picture was taken at Victoria Station at the out- art of his three-day Slate
Unfortu visit to Britain. nately, it
much
WHX
criticised visit. Many Bri-
tish people said
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GENERAL AYUB KHAN SETS UP DICTATORSHIP IN KARACHI
The
UPHEAVAL IN PAKISTAN China
President Murray: Hongkong Has U.K. GOVT
Mirza Abdicates
Karachi, Oct. 28.
Pakistan's rumbling coup d'etat took A sharp turn towards complete dictator- ship
when last night
Sandhurst- trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan took over the powers of Presi- dent from former strongman, General Iskander Mirza.
22 DEAD
Heuss
has
IN MINE
should not have come-13 years after the war ended!
We say they are wrong. Not
just becnine tinday we are
General Ayub Khan now has | complete control of the country
and holds those runks;
★Prime Minister,
Chief Martial Law administrator,.
forced to live us friends EXPLOSION Minister for Defence and
with Germany in at unified defence of Europe against the East. Not just bicuure
a nution which considers it- An
aelf christian should for- give. Not just because the war ended as long as 13 years ago and if is childish and small-minded to per- petuats prejudices. But simply because in this ever- shrinking world Britain cannot hold neighbours at um's length. It has to make A fresh start with Germany, It has to learn to trust. Real friendship must replace the sneering, suspicious enmity which still exists.
Bishop, Vir, Oel. 27.
explosion rumbled
through the Pocahontas Fuel Co. coal mine two miles from its entrance today, killing 22 men in the same tunnels where 37 miners died 20 months
ago.
Rescue workers, craaling
for Kanimir Affairs,
Hupreme Commander of the Armed forecs.
The Clue
Why did Ayub Khan take the realdency as well?
The only clue is given by Ex- President Mirza in his "abdica tion" statement last night: "... an unfortunate impression exists that General Ayub and
rough nerid fumes and piles do not always act in unison...
I have therefore decided To
of rubble found it bobies hud- dled in one group and veep ualde and hand over to others in another section of the General Ayub Khun." wrecked shaft.
the
The recovery teams penetrated
gas-filed depths using masks and oxygen tanks. They NODAY for "German", tound a heavy accumulation of examination in- zas and Arst
Nothing now stands in the way of the dapper General in tus bid to clean up corruption and rackets in the country.
His new 12-man cabinet was tust night. -All agencies.
many still inwardly read dicated the victims died of suf- announced earlier "Nazi". We have to rememoration.-U.P.I.
ber that any of the people
in power in Germany today
opposed Hitler even more MOUNTBATTEN SAYS:
courageously than the Alllos, cass was one of them. They were Germans opposed to their war-time leuder, fighting the frenzy which bad Neized the nation. It took courage to be a traitor and in the eyes of the once all-powerful Nazis, these men were just that.
Hongkong knows this feeling
of hatred. We have good reason to hate the Japanese for what they did. So have millions of people in Asin. But it is a feeling we have to fight, particularly when wo read of German and Japanese industry making n comeback, when we rend of shipping orders going to German and Japanese yards In preference to British. It is a feeling we have to atiflo when people like Theodor Heuss honda over A cheque for £5,000 for the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.
TH
THERE is a saying: "I can forgive but I cannot forget," British people
who sneer at Germans-istud
USN Only Beats Britain In Size
Southampton, Oct. 28.
Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, the First Sea Lord, declared here late last night that the United States Navy beat Britain's only in size.
He had just arrived in the liner Queen Elizabeth after visiting naval establishments in
re-
the United States and Canada.
Lord Mountbatten told porters: "They ore naturally much bigger than us, but I think that technically we are keping pretty well level.
1 think the exchange of in- formation is a useful two-way trame."
Lurd Mountbatten alded that the U.S. and Canadian naval establishments, ships and schools were all first class.
During his tour he became the first Briton to board the U.S.
nucleur submarine Skipjack, which is still in building.
He said the submarine wid
Japanese are! really "the latest and best" and he
not forgiving at all. We had invited her to visit Britain.
blame our former enemies-Reuler,
for Britain's decline and the
dissolution of the Empire,
Purls, Oct. 27.
required rescues of
And what we remember of
Paris Aremen said that of 30,000 alarms to which they these two nations are the responded in the last year, 80 foulest and most bestial were to get cats out of trees and atrocities they committed. off roof-tops, 69 were to get This may be natural, but it people out of stalled elevators,
means that in so doing we und five perpetuate the Idea of persons from sewers.-U.P.I. Germany being both a con- genital aggressor and our hereditary onery. A new generation is growing up and for the sake of the future of Western civļlian- tion wo have to atop rememboring the past with Hongkong
Like the vo
bitterness.
heads in the picture above, wo have to get together. The Queen did right by Inviting the German Presi dent to Britain. We hope It will not be long boforo | she returns the visit.
Jock Murray
Found
A Conscience-
Now York, Oct. 27. Hongkong, the British Crown Colony where until recently trade and shipping were the only interests in life, has found a nobler purpose ---
that of giving a home to hundreds of thousands of refugees from Communism, Saturday Evening Post magazine said today.
GIVES
BUSINESS And Dr A BOOST Zhivago
HP Restrictions
All Lifted
London, Oct. 27. The Government announced tonight the ecrapping from Wednesday of ail restrictions on hire purchase and rental agreements, sparking greater car, hopes of
An article, "Hongkong Defies | Hongkong Government as sa3- Oblivion," written by Harolding "the zeal to trade and to television and radio sales. A Board of Trade statement J. Martin, quoted Jock Murray, survive is still Hongkong's most
powerful motivallon... we do said that on Wednesday, 10 Public Relations Officer of the
not feel we have a mandate to orders controlling hire purchase, reform the world.
credit sales and rental transac- "But under the tremendous tions would be revoked, pressure of circumstances," the article said.
Eva And Her Prince Want To Be Alone
Eva Bartok, 29„year-old Hungarian-born actros, with Prince Shiv, 27-year-old son of the Indian Maha- rajah of Palitana.--Express Photo,
Paris, Oct. 27. Actress Eva Bartok and Prince Shiv of Palitana would
like to be left alone at least for two months. The Indian Prince atrived here from Rome and met the actress minules later at the home of a friend, driving there in a cream-coloured Rolls-Royce sent by the actress.
(Hongkong)
Freedom
has been forced to reform it- Sir David Eccles, President self, to make great and lasting) of the Board of Trade sold in a changes... in ita basic at later speech at Harwick: "We titudes. By so doing, says Mr can give you this extra bit of Murray, it has found, if not a freedom because the credit soul, at least a conscience and
the other squeeze and a new sense of social responal-measures we took bility to the millions who now, have worked," and perhaps until they die, will A spokesman for know no other home,
firma Out of hire purchase
stern
¤ year ago
the major warned
A great evil, therefore, a great however that British people good has come."
should not expect now to get
inundated
de-
"By a strange twist of Inte, things without paying any the Blood of refugees that Posit
wel- Motor trade leaders the great entrepot
Government move brought with them the city's comed the salvation," the magazine sid, likely to boost their sales of The Korean War embargo crip here. pled Hongkong transit trade.
"As the tinde with China begun to dwindle, it was obvious soane other way had to be found by which population grown to nearly 3,000,000 could make a living. The answer lay ready to hand.
Changed
now
Service
The removal of all remaining restrictions will enable manu- facturers and dealers to give the public a better service, Sir David Eccles, President of the Board of Trade, sald,
"If that happens, It's bound
to be good for business," hë
"A city which for 120 years declared. had existed only to buy and "I do not expect this can re sell and trans-ship goods that duce a rush of orders for cars others had manufactured began and radio and television sets, change, almost overnight, but I think it will help the into a great centre of industry, manufacturers and the dealers making everything from plastic to give the public better ser- combs to locomotives."
vice."-Reuter.
to
Hongkong may have solved its refugee problem but there s remains the threat of Communist
China, Saturday Evening Post said.
"Many observers belleve that China when she wants to take ever Hongkong won't wait for an excuse the article sald.
It qualed n British resident as saying: "We are still here
China's pur
*
The China Mail announces that it will begin publish- ing exclusively next Satur- day serial extracts from the Nobel Prize winning book by Boris Pasternak, Dr Zhivago.
DON'T MISS reading a book which the world is talking about, which has made headlines all
over the world.
Beginning next Baturday, Dr Zhivago will be con- tinued in next week's daily China Mail to preserve the gripping continuity of this story. The China Mail will give you the heart and essence of the story. Pasternak's book has been widely compared with "War and Peace", the famous Tolstoy eple. The Daily Telegraph describes it as "The most remark- nble work to have emerged from Russia since 1917."
The Daily Mail has said: "It
has a majesty and depth that is bound to place it in the first rank of world novels".
Yet Moscow Radio daily
sintes this book. Only by reading the serial version beginning in Saturday's CHINA MAIL can you realise why this book has aroused such a furore, such, widesprend comment, such admira- tion,
ANOTHER ATTACK
ON PASTERNAK
thut
Miss Bartok and Prince Shiv, who occupy rooms on the third and fourth floors of the same fashionable hotel, issued a joint statement saying: "Prince Shiv and Miss Bartok would like the press to because it suits
London, Oct. 28. recalling, for instance, know that they will have no further statements for pice to have us here, she selln
Radio last neither Tolstoy, nor Chekhov, the next two months and they would greatly us a million dollars worth
nor Gorky were ever awarded Moscow
night renewed the the Nobel Prize." appreciate it if their privacy was respected."---U.P.I. | food day for Hongkong dol-attack on Boris Pasternak,
lars that are easily convertible Into US dollars which she so the Nobel prize-winning In Stockholm, the Secretary desperately needs for China, author. of the novel Doctor of the Swedish Academy, Dr if (Hongkong) is a doorway Zhivago,-as "a writer who other Academy members to
Oesterling, and opening on the world. She can lives in the Soviet Union as night boycotted a ceremony in do business here as freely as
Stockholm at which I Russian
HK ATTRACTS U.S. TOURISTS
Washington, "Gel_21,"
came second to Japan during the first nine months of this year in attract. ing Unlied States tourists to the East, according to figuron released today by the 'Sisle Department's pastport office,
Japan's total for the thres quar- ters was 11,556, white klong-
kong followed with 3,581. In 316 passport holders travel- third place was Talwan with i ling.abroad. 1,894, followed by India, 195 040; Korea 1,417: Thailand The Western hemisphere was 1,003; Pakistan 918; Vistama 207: Malaya 16; other East places $28. Europe still continued to milzsci the majority -- of American tourists with a total of 646,536 out of a total number of 539,-
second as An arca of vinits with 20,225; then followed the For East with 23,081: Anstralia, and Oceania, with 10.018; 'the Middle East with
· 9,788;*, Africa
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A phosphorous bomb sanda
mushroom of smoke and blaxing fragmente up into the air us two soldiers demonstrate the latest "fight 'brok" deill Cyprus.
Anders
two
anyone else. I she drove us an emigre in. its midst," cut, she'd lose all these ad- The radio said: "Feople who nuclear physicist presented the Lenin Prizo (0 Mr Artur vantages. She'd gain nothing until now have shown not the Lundkvist, a left-wing Swedish but three million people and least interest in Doris Pasternak writer. she's
of gol enough: those suddenly discover him. Or,
more correctly, hey discover in Dr Oesterling is the R him a means for oitzeking 50- who last week announced the cialism, for Pasternak and award of the Nobel Prize for literature are things which in- Literature to Boris Pasternak, terest them Icast,
which triggered Russian attacks "If one considers Russian on the Swedish Academy for literature,
cannot help "political provocation."--Reuter,
already."--U.P.I.
CHINESE ALLOWED TO STAY IN AMERICA
Washington, Oct. 27. The White House announced
today that
former Chinese Nationalist Marine Captain, who was to be deported next week, has been granted a four- month'stay.
In a letter to Democratic Re« presentative of Illinois, Henry Machpez, assistant special counsel to President Elsen. ower, said that the Immigra tion Commissioner, J. M. Swing, had informed him that former Captain Hsuan, Wel had been demonstration followed granted until February, 1 of by Major General next year to give Congress RE Kenneth Darling. the new opportunity to consider bills in Director of Operations In his behalf.
The
orders
for
Cyprus that from now on they The ex-Marine Captain said. were to stop and fight back) he will be shot as a deserter by In the event of being am-] the Taipei authorities if he was, bushed by Ecka terrorists, | deported there. Nationalist Instead of taking svolding | Chiness spokosinen hava deniri action.Central Press Photo,
that assertion.---France-Presse,
onc
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