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WHAT THE LABOUR PARTY WILL DO IF ELECTED TO POWER
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WHAT THE
Of The BEVAN:
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Dr Zhivago
DORIS Pasternak is doomed,
nurk
tho book
has
those words in
that ho written
which пла begin publishing 'in Lo China Mail.
morrow's
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Scholar, artist, librarian, he has unwittingly trodden on ground where commissors fear to trend. He has told the truth; he has recorded history as it should be
Aneurin Bevan
recorded; its place in the 'We follow United States too hearts of men; not the
closely
blood stained roll call of the
battlefield; nor the terrify.
WE'LL
GIVE
UN SEAT TO CHINA
British People
Against
Present Policy'
London, Oct. 30.
Mr Aneurin Bovan said tonight a Labour Government would insist on using all its influence in the United Nations to and Communist China's isolation and bring her into the United Nations.
ing triumphs of n modern At 6.15, The Producer Will Call
Caesar.
"Lights, Action, Cameras"
HE MEANS
But he is doomed, neverthe..
less. The wheels
In are motion; the deadly machinery of the 20th century juggernaut is poised to crush yet another human being who hus rocorded what he has acen and experienced, whereas, truth, these days, is what the state says is expedient. We know not what will follow. Doubtless docu- ments are already being drawn up which, being will nevertheless forged, bo entered as authentic papers taken from
BOMO foreign embassy, im plicating Pasternak. There will be no shortage of witnesses if such a stop is 'taken. His own friends of yesterday will come for- ward to say that he is not only the author of the
YOUR LIGHTS
By
ANDREW SLOAN
CHINA MAIL REPORTER
It would do this even if it met with some hostility from the the United States, he told House of Commons in a debate on foreign affairs,
Many of China's excesses might be due to being driven Inte complete isolation, he said. That had been so with the Stallnisi regime la Russie.
Peace-Making
!
It was not peace-making to keep Communist China out of the United Nations,
"It does not
-ascord with the wishes of the Brilish people," he said.
"The overwhelming majority
in this country would prefer to Britai talking more
clearly and independently of the United States on this and diher questions"
TOWNSEND LEAVES
Amid Laboise cheers, Mr Bevan said it was folly to compel, the Chinese, to bind closely to Russia" when many traditional indpencer f Chinese society viltu vilimical to closer re- lationship with the Soviet Group Capisin
I HAVE heard of some unusual bets being themselves more
offered, but the latest beats the lot.
The odds settled on last night were six to one against the majority of the lights on the Peak and the Hongkong Island Nobel Prize winning "Dr waterfront being switched on Zhivago," but also the between 0.15 and 6.30 p.m. author of the forged tonight. documents. He will go to trial. Justice will be de- manded in the name of the will Retribution people. follow its inevitable course. More Merciful?
On N the other hand, con-
publicity already brought
It all began when the pro- duction munager of the J. Arthur Rank film crew, Mr John Dark, mentioned to me that he required the afore-mentioned lights switched
at that particular time for a scene in their coming production "Ferry
The
on
1
liim rrs already set to this Russian uthor, a lot of people talking. They re-
Jounched Д more merciful course mayantly
$500,000
be found, He wil live in steamer-cum-ferry to play the!
"cading" role in the movie,
splendid Isolation. Ne - Stars in the film will be Orson come will he earn, he will welles, and
be the parish of Russian Sylvia Syms.
literature hia former
British actress
friends basten to denounce, THE PEAK Fear will keep the fondest
Mr Daric Bald
he had beetl
friend away. Either way,phoned by his director early Boris Pasternak, you are yesterday. The Director asked,
• doomed RH a mortal, but want to have the lights on you have already earned the Peak and the waterfront ON immortality.
tomorrow evening (that is 10- arrange Bight). See If you can
NEW COTTON PROPOSALS
Tho
the Chairman of Hongkong Textile. Nego- ilatlar Commitee, the Hon. J. D. Clague all- nounced that he received the Cotton Board's counter= 1, proposals this morning.
"Details of these are of course confidential for the time being and the full proposals have been com- municated to members of the commltice who will rive them their KORÉ serious attention," sald
Colonel Cluguo.
*The Hongkong Cam- mities will be meeting to discuss the Cotton Board's Ielter early next week."
Dr Zhivago Sell-Out
But his friends who have denounced him lack only
Yesterday evening I met Mr
Stockhoun, Oct. 30, the courage to do what he
Dark and we began to talk The first Swedish languago has done. For a long time about the possiblities. Soon we edition of Doctor Zhivago by they have complained of were joined by quite a number Nobel Prize. winning Soviet their treatment as artists of people. Some said more time author Boris Pasternak, was under the state. They say would be required.
one day, the sold out in they Arc dominated by One said that it was just a ignorant men wholly in ittle too early to have lights publishers reported today. It
Was released yesterday. capable of appreciating the on, as it was still light. But Mr France-Presse. beauty of the written word, Dark countered that to shoot a
(Could on pare 3. col. 8)
men who stand high in the hierarchy of the State only
because of
blind
obedience their petrified
minds can give.
We Hail Him -
TAVE they not complained
Hot these men?
Did they Czeslaw
.not circulate
Milosz's book among them- selves? They called it "The Captive Mind," and they praised It because they found it a really true and penetrating interpretation of the paychological trials of the artist under a Com- munist regime. They have forgotten it, for
And moment at any rate, for the same cause, they Jinvo
denounced Borla
the
Pasternak, But we who are free and more fortunate, hail him. Whether he agrees to. accept the Nobel Prize, does not matter. It is his. The greatest honour an artist can
It earn la bla.
is rewarded regardless of t Ian's opinions on politics, religion, or any other social attitude. To Boris Paster- nak wo pay homage. Hall! Author, Poet, Artist, and
Hero..
See Also Page 2
Doctor Zhivago
No
10 book has been more widely acclaimed than this first novel by F8-year-old Boris Pasternak. It has been banned in his country ...it has won the Nobel Literature Prize....t has been hailed by top critics in Europe and America as one of the major masterpieces of writing in our century.
Smuggled out of the Soviet Union, it is a story that tells of what happens when ordinary people are caught in the type of upheaval which changes the course of history in this case the Russian Revolution.
Because of the author's incredible grasp of human and - inhuman reselloc a' nation's leadership is overthrown, the CHINA MATI, tomorrow presents-exclusively-s special extract version of "Doctor Zhivago,”
M
Included in the feature-packed woskond issue arei
"This Man, Macmillan...the second chapter in today's most astonishing success story, that of Bri- tain's Prime
Minister, worities by Robert Genton; They Taught The Gestapo Their Business.....con- tinuing the exciting series by Rex Laufence on the scoret societies of the world; --
Also all your favourite cartouni, comics and passies, parée of features by'iop writorn in Eslinin “and the Dullad Ntate book and roporá reviews, and all the latest news and view Tako, home a DIBINA MAIL 18monkw!
We have followed the United States too closely in this matter," he said,
Mr.Bevan said 'the position of Formosa Mateu and quemoy had been decided since the dyil war "by the force of the United States." The unwise for Peking to press the points of Formosa at this time, But the off-shore islands were its "an entirely different cate- KOTY."
Opposition believed It
Inflexibility
Earlier, Mr Selywn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, had sald the Peldog Government was showing "complete inflexibility" in its approach to the problem. He was "absolutely untin- fed" the United States Gov. ernment wanted to deal with lt peacefully,
In
If the United States gave
where he WAIS.
days to contain
of his Blm on his trip the world.":
ile said he was very pleased with the result of the shoot- ing he made here and added that his delay in departure was because his team found quite a few, beautiful spots to shoot.
Frantic Search For Miners
Springhill, Oct. 30. | All the men of the village of Springhill, armed with spades, ware working to- night to try to rescue more of the miners trapped some 13,000 feet down in the Springhill mine, fol- Jowing the "miracle"
·had been entombed since: last Thursday,
Ong party, working from the pocket where the 12 were found alive, tad progress ed about 100 feer through the mass of fallen earth
*
lightly higher level, was forced to wear masks duo to soopage of poison gas. A third party, working of the lowest level, reported find- Ing some air pockets, giv- ing ronawad hope that
and rock. They-reported | · more of the 68 remaining the air was breathable.
Proscué of 12 men, who Another party, working at a
Survivors For Six
How
Tell Days In
minars might be saved. Franco-Prosse.
They Lived Dark Tomb
Springhill, Nova Scotia, Oct. 30.
One of 12 miners trapped two and a half miles underground for six days before being rescued last night told today how they spent the time praying, singing hymns, tell- ing jokes and just sitting.
THE MORAL?
Live In Sin
And
Save £20,000
Hugh Guthro, 31, sold they "I guess the 'reflection of the had been In darkness
with | batile must have sent light Into nothing to eat or drink. When the hole because the next words TESCURTA tacked their, Way I heard I will remember, all through 60 felt of debris to the days of my life: We are reach them 'the'men "just started alive in here. How about sonic to cry."
water?'
Guthre, trapped three days in p nearby mine in 1836 before being rescued, said: "I am dois with coal mining.".
Still Missing
| But the dramatic statue of
They told us they were in prolly good shape.
1
don't really remember what was said for the next few minites but I can tell you we
Another 57
Er are suli were whooping it un for mising in the mine, North minute or two. América's deepest seven days themselves up to approaching The twelve men had given. after an únderground, earth Ter.. London, Oct: 80, movement wrecked cpar torthezi thath. They had tried to furmel their way out but becamo £500-n-year t, engineer 15,000 feet below the surface wasted, and just sat und Ives with a 21,500 in 10 years at all walleda mwoman author- without | vergi semeldur flyers, perolcen |-- One survivory) Gorley Kempt, rettin married Bezane KwameperBad injury was not win, ki mouth sic pipe "when ho they hope to save £20,000 mg them that and hopes against an
that sorge-miky, be found alive, heula the clinic of in taxation, the House of A member of the Arcus tekin metal
of metal against Commons was told last nigfit:
Mr Otho Prior Palmer, a Conservative, who disclosed this was urging the Government to do something about illogical" tax concessions before the next budget.
| Earl Wood, told how he found Of wouldn't let myself believe broken compressed-air pipe it. I just lay there istering after breaking through a wall for nearly an hour, I guess. of debris: in the mine yesterday morning. *.
"We thought we heard come one speak. It was just a piece of a word but, it hit us like an electric, shock.
"Blatt Phillips the engineer
He said the couple realised took his testing bottle and went they would lose about £336-a to chock the air coming from
the pipe 1 had uncoveredt
The picture. will show soches from Yugoslavia, the Sahara, the Khyber Pam, „the Holy City, Japan, “Australia, North | your if they married. and, South America and if possiblb, Central Africs. The pleinre will, be, released. In
colour of the wide screen. Group. Captain Townsend said he hoped to return to Hong- kong some day if possible,
to force on this laste the might PARATROOPERS
withdraw from the responsibl litics she had undertaken in the Far East. He believed only a small minority thought that would be a good thing for world; peace. Reuter,
Queen's Family May Appear On Television
London, Oct. 30, - Prince Charles and Princess
Anne may appear on tele-
RELEASED
Amman, Oct. 20. Four British paratroopers held by the Saudi Arabian authort- tles were released over the border at Aqaba, Jordan, today, according to British Embassy sources.
Civil Contract
"Then I heard a pick u Bomething click on the pipe and hollered. God, how I hollered. "I had dug a cublayhole in the rubble...I just lay there I'm not a praying man, Kempt day after day and 1 prayed-and said.
(Contd. on page 3, col. 3)
They entered into a cull can. Have you provided
civil tract for the men to
Day the woman £1,500 a year. The net saving in tax was £200 a year.
When 12 months later twins were born they made convenants through trustees to pay to the two children £250 a year each less tax. That meant a saving of £87 year. There were other similar savings so that
were altogether they
saving C930 a year.
Mr Prior Falmer salt the to get couple had decided
married when the children were 21. By then they would have The sources sold the men saved 20,000 which they in- were in good health with no tended to settle on the children. complaints."
There was no Immediate
The soldiers, three Privates Government comment, ---- China and Lance-Corporal, were Mall Special, taken into custody by Saudi Arabian, frontier,gaards. when they wandered over the border!
during a night exercise on Sep Time Bombs Kill Children
vision with Queen Eliza-tember 20-Reuter. bath on Christmas Day, ac-
cording to widespread Tenement Fire:
press reports today,
The Royal children, with their, father the Duke of Edin burgh, may be seen with the Queen at the end at ber traditional · messago to the Commonwealth.
People Found
Oran, Oct. 30. Two 105-millimetry artillery Thite
persons, man, shells rigged as time bombs ex- woman and a small boy," who ploded in atreet in nearby. were reported earlier to be Tiaret today, killing nine and missing following tenement injuring 26. fire in Shanghai Street, Yaumail, yesterday evening, have been. found.
The dead included three Mos- lem children.
The Queen's address will be televised for the second year in addition to being broadcast all It is now known that only
It was the worst act of robell: Over the Commonwealth,
three persons were injured. in As usual, she will speak from the fire which gutted six tene terrorium in war-torn Algeria | of..a timo Sandringham House, her Normant houses. Two men were since the explosion folk home where the whole discharged after receiving treat- bomb in an Algiers dance casino family gathers to celebratenent, but a woman is still de- that took 10 lives and injured ChristmasChina Mail Special tained in Kowloon Hospital 87 on June 9, 1087.-U.P.I.
SCREAMING CHILDREN CATCH A THIEF
London, Oct. 20.
bool. creaming Twanty
children broke up: na-attempt, to snatch wages`here' today—
• and then reünded; ug thi Vålder.
“hotea.and ran away.
bae containing about 2409 in A boy agad 14 held on to the thier until the man hold a site at his throat. The wages clerk shouted for help
End about 20 school-shildren Then, the thief dropped the appeared on the scene, wages and 'ted through a mais Böya", and gleja ran"after ; the
of back strestauran | Arthur: Hider, a 42-year-old; thief, shouting and throwing Finally, the children' chased the
wangs afarkifera shipping' | : "missitant
man into "house, talaphonaill the pallor and waited until 'a tors the Delfirm, was attacked by a man in | Ong 11-year-old NAA
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