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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958.
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PANAMERFUGAN
Warns West Of Result Of Attempt To Break Berlin Blockade
Of The K's BLUNT WAR
Day
Miss Ping On
ROM the Colony's earliest
days
when
Colonial
Trensurer complained bitterly of the
"fetid
tolours at night", clean.
Freak
WAR THREAT Rail
Tank
Accident
The Luckiest Man
Town
Kills
Answer To
And Troops Statement
Munich, Dec. 12.
liness and hygiene "The Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev,
rather the lack of them
have been subject
11 sharp debate, it seem to
make little difference
whether our population iN 3,000 or 3 million, CAN-
clean paigns to
up the Colony have been pressed with vigour. And in 110 years we have made sub- stantial progress, relatively speaking.
But the Miss Ping On cam-
paign now being conducted! In Kowloon: reminds Le Colony of a new source of peril which 33°C sequired
when the resettlement ! blocks went up. Into there! residences went people largely ignorant the of principles elementary hygiene and modern sanita | Lion Many had been ed to hoveis for years.
and there is no incentive in un! environment of this kind tu acquire respectability or to learn the virtues of lan- liness and diness.
Novel Idea
NO
TOW
thousands however
substantial have mor dwellings which require of the tenants regular main- tenance. The buildings Art Hot rehite Laurally attrac tive, nor dues the lundry improve the
appearance
Their
exterion
what And
gralhy.
reminds Us
10 expect
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indicated today that any Western attempt to crack an eventual blockade of Berlin by force would result in war.
Western Powers Not Disturbed
it
Washington, Der. 11. The United States warned
flatly Lonight would not be deterred by Rew Soviet threats from defending its rights In Berlin.
In
Interview a telegraphie At the Munich Sueddeutsche Zellung, Mr Kluushchey charged that the West could have only onu motive in maintalaing
tary forces in West Berlin to prepete a hot war."
Muty
hotheads In the Western military permit them- selves much Irresponsible state- ents as that they could break rough to Beriln with troops sri lanka," Mr Khrushchev suld.
Cold War
"But is it not evident that this the would mean war, because
wild other side, too, hus tanks that
powerful weapons other, more which would not be kept idle?" Mr Khrushchev sald the Western Puwers, if they chose to continue the "occupation" of West Berlin, would be "support- ing and even extending the cold
The State Department we a Jormal statement in reply to new threats contained in an official statement issued by the Rasian ¡ news agency, Tuss.
In
London,
authoritative British circles suid that tonight's Ta agency statement on Berlin Constitutes a Soviet attempt to influence the forthcoming Álited talks in Paria on the problems of Berlin and Germany.
DISSENSION
The circles said
was not has
the first Ume the 1255 R tried to create dissensions among untidy; the Western Allies on the eve of an important conference. The inside statemURI} !
contained 1:othing new and had to be considered diplomatic as gold war manoeuvre aimed at malalaining tension, they said.
war.
"The maintenance of such a regime can only be explained by the desire of the Western pawers to prepare a hot war." he added.
He said the Soviet proposals to Makd West
Berlin Á demilithried free vity were the only basia for a solution of the
Berlin problem,
No Basis
"If the Western powers reject the status of a free city for Wet Berlin, no busis is left for negotiations with the Western Powers on the Berlin question," be added.
"We declare once more that we do not need Westem agree- ment to materialise our Berlin plans,"
Mr Khrushchev also warned: River Elte bur- Wesl
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the
HK SHIP
ON FIRE
IN ALGIERS
The
Algiers, Dec. 11. 12,280-ton British freighter East Breeze, owned by the China Ship- ping Company Ltd, of dangers
Hongkong entered the carelessness and dirty habits must be apparent lo all.
port of Algiers tonight, with a fire in her after This is not to say that the Resettlement
Are Tass's statement caused little
hold. usually weil der (between East and elther the dirtiest or the surprise in Bonn
German) is violated and
a dock The ship led up to aggression launched least attractive-some of the informed sources said,
against and firemen were trying to pull back street markets
A new Soviet move had been of
the (east) German Democratie out the smoldering blaze, which ' the beginning expected before
had been discovered in a load of Kowloon and Wanchai are
Republic, the Soviet Union, as these of the Purls conferences far worse-but here is
fathru Warsaw Pact ally of cotton, part of the East Breeze's sources said.--A Agencies.
the German Democratle
Re-
mixed cargo. good starting point,
public, will ALAI her obliga- The ship was en route from uons and, Logether with the the East to Britain.
days discovered ten German Democratic Republic, was first
Breeze had the Eust Inviolability defend the
of ugo, and lond, sea and air frontiers.
stopped at Athens and at Mulia Mr Khrushchev ale said that to control it by injecting carbon dioxide into the hold, using its install- own apparatus, which
ал
Colonel Killed
Lt.
al
The Urban Council are to be commended on their novel Idea. The Health Education
Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 11. Committee might consider
Col.
1. Brown Aiston exhibition or film on
Commander of the outh domestic hygieno
which (37)
Fighter-Interceptor Squadron could travel among the re-
Wright-Palverson Bearby settlement blocks for the Force base,
was killed today duration of the campaign. when hhs parachute failed to It would also be a good open after he ejectol himself
jet fighter idea if the campaign were from his F-104 made an annual event.
U.P.I.
THE CHRISTMAS MAIL
The
Colled by the local police the luckiest man in town, Clande Gordioner, 18, of Great Barrington, Mass., smiles while he waits to have his-foot freed from his demolished cur after a skid tied it around as utility pole. He complained only of back pains. It took rescue workers 45 minutes to free him.-U.P.1.
Telephoto. -*
RAF Shackleton
& Crouch Crew
Still Missing
Singapore, Dec. 12.
The Are Hopes for the safety of ten crew members of a Royal Air Force Shackleton reconnaissance bomber missing since December 8, in the China Sea were fading early today.
the two Germanys inst taku part in any negotiations on nn all-German peace treaty. Alr
oMelal Sovict Agency Tuss had earlier stated in chilling bluntness that Soviet ship ot troops are not in East Germanymander of the fire services and the captain of the 'purt, all apertures were sealed and more carbon dioxide was pinged into
ed in all modern vessels. The ship was launched in 1957. News
Following an inspection of the Algiers by the com-
tu show the West the road to Berlin.-U.P.I.
Considerable Threat
London, Dec. 11.
The British Goverment mode it clear tonight that its restriction on the sale of Bri- Lish warships to Indonesia had been because of "a considerable threat to West Now Guined.
THIRTY-TWO pages of the best in reading.... That sums up the glant Christmas issue which
Mr Specially prepared for YOU, comes out tomorrow. This feature-packed journal will carry articles, short stories, cartoons and pictures to delight readers from six to sixty,
Included are:
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A Christmas Carol....The story that saved Christ- mas, a special e ndensation for the CHINA MAIL of
the immortal story by Charles Dickens;
The Day The War Stopped.... One of the most amaring incidents in history and it happened on December 25;
The Tramp and the Millionaire... a Christmas short story written specially for the China Mail by Herbert Harris:
Also all your favourite cartoons, comios and pules; throo pares of news plotures; the last chapters of the Heckefeller Dynasty and Logan Gourley's "Camela Bometimes Bite."
At the same time Air Force spokesmen said that there was doubt as to whether the 13 men China Sea picked up from a atoll on the same day by a mys- lerious fishing vessel were sur- vivors from the missing Austra- lian schooner lan Crouch.
The Ian Crough left Hongkong
the hold. It was believed that for Australla on September 20 several days might be required and has not been heard of since. to put out the fire-France- Presse
The Managing Agents in Hongkong, Manners Navigation Company, said they had re- ceived no information from the ship yet.
Family Killed
DIVERTED
Policeman
Didn't Realise It
The Shackleton was diverted Was Murder
from an anti-piracy patrol and, after locating the men on the | atoll, reported that they had been
picked up.
It then vanished and there have been no further reports of the fishing vessel. Ironton, Ohio, Dec, 11, Tomorrow further air and dea Six neuters of family cearches of
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the area will be
John Profumo, Foreign burned to death today when an carried out, but to date there Under-Seerotary, made
this oil cook stove apparently ex- hon been no sign of any sur point when replying, in the ploded in their small three-vivors or any wreckage.—Rau- House of Commons to criticisms room home near here-UPI ter.
by Mr James Callaghan
(Labour), that Britain had turn-
cd down orders worth about
£40 milion.-Reuter.
Defence Cut
Washington, Dec. 11.
GOVT "NO" TO LIMIT ON
FOOTBALL POOL MONEY
London, Dec. 11.
London, Dec. 11.
A Yorkshire policeman who sow three Indians kill another Indian with meat chopper, did
not
- suspect it was murdor and want on his way, it was sold of the Loods Assizes today.
Gurdeve Singh, 28, builder's labourer and his wife, Har- bajon Karu, 23, and the dead man's widow, Mehinder Kaur, 23, all of Bradford, have plead- ed not guilty to the murder of Banta (Charlie). Singh, a'58- -year-old Slicht, in Bradford,
. PC Albert Edward Peglar sald The Washington Evening
on, the the cults of Saturday profes- that from a passage Slar reported today that Presi-
opposite side of the strent ho dent Elsenhower had called for · LABOUR. M.P., Mrsonal football matches.
The record is about £300,000. saw two women and two men a cut in United States Cefenco Marcus Lipton, failed Mr R A. Butler, the Home fighting in a room in a house in spending for the fiscal year beginning next July 1-Reuter. today to get the, British Secretary, told Me Lipton that Borwick Street,
Government to limit the legislation would be needed to
"Occurrencia of the lure Impere a compulsory limit and Plan Unacceptable amount that can be won on he could not hold out any hope are fairly frequent in this arch of its being introduced at the tion and the demeanour of the football pools.
and there was insufficient AC- present time.
Athens, Dev. 11.
Mr Macnllian's porthership plats for Cyprus cannot be go- Mr Lipton urged this in thr Pramod further, he cald it people in the room was not such as to warrant my going in at tha copied nan basis of discuselon House of Commons because of wan mattor of individual
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for the Bottlenieat of the jaland's the." "undesirable social enn- opinion what the rocini con time," the officer added. future, Mr Evangelos Averoff, sequences" caused by the large sequences were following upon the Greek Foreign Minister, laana won at the cost of a low the giving of such large prizor. | next evening, and remembered said tonight,--Houter,
pence for correctly. forecasting Heuter..
He learned of the murder the
the incident--Francs-Preira.
RAF Clubs
To
Close Down
Forco's
London, Doc. 11. The Air Ministry is to start closing the Royal Air Malcolm Clubs which provide welfare sor- vices, the Secratury for Air, Mr George Ward, an- nounced fast night. There are 1 clubs in Ger- many, one in both Hongkong and
опе in Singapore and Britak.
(A RAF spokesman in Hong- kong said that they bar comment to make at present on the forthcoming closure.)
One
London, Dec. 11.
One man was killed and 41 injured, six serious- ly, in a freak rail crash tonight in. Urmston, Lancashire.
A train ran into a large buckel which had fallen from a road crane operat> ing on a new bridge being built across the line.
The engine of the train was overturned and five coaches were derulled.
Then according to a Bri- tish Railways statement, a second train crashed into the wreckage-Reuter.
50 Stranded For 24 Hours In Ice-Bound Bus
London, Dec. 11. Most of the 50 bus passon-
gers stranded for 24 hour when the four buses in which they wore travelling bocamo snow-bound out- side Glasgow were rescued today.
The road is still thick with and snow and a few passen- gers are still trapped.
The four buses were stranded last night after one of them skidded on the ice and stuck across the road,
Snow, rata and fog swirled across Britain today to confirm that the weather of 1958 will go down among the most fantastic periods in the nation's history.
After snow in April, the wet- test summer for years and a month of foy, this was the
Mir Ward told the Hause of Commons that the clubs had been in debt to the Air Ministry | picture in Britain today:
for some years in oplie of a subsidy,
He understood
that the clubs
had been seeking financial help
from outside sources. But he had not been informed of any success in this direction.-Reu- 12T
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