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FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1959.
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AN. AMIGA INT
100 COMMUNISTS ARRESTED IN 24-HOUR SWOOP IN UAR President
The NASSER CRACKS DOWN Batista
Day
Clandestine
Dull Story Printing Press
rotracted bepudia
limiting rotion ex- Britain must }
e of the Hongkong's
nown stories
of
he undertaking that
Just been rene bed
M
welcome relief
Seized
Cairo, Jan. 1.
t in still not known About 100 Communists are reported to
le Colony conceded -
aal judgment must
disclosure of the
wever, right for our
to make a gesture.
here believes for a that the relatively vonemalons we allow
..ake
ད་ང་
the
slightest
to Lancashire's
If india and
keep their DTU-
oned mila-
se the pressure But there is an guarantee that they
That Now?
ICTIONS are as un- Har there as they are he cellings proposed Figkung could be re-
A inadequate to implementation of pendent agreement: la and Pakistan. [₤1 case it will com silly nakong persists will
A
have been arrested during the last 24 hours in a widespread swoop on people suspected of anti-Government activities in the United Arab Republic.
big clandestine printing press has been seized and three left-wing publishing houses have hern closed down for alleged printing or publishing of pro-Communist propaganda.
Khrushchev
And Ike
Exchange
Messages
Gottysburg, Jan. 1.
of the Soviet Union tonight called for
posed restrictions if The loaders illy are making
a to Britain. Ideally
Ahire needs an under-
covering the ex
exports
hree territories.
al get it now, It
If
y
ngkong to postpone
on of its agreement
Pakistan and India
line.
ot be popular here
outset of the
i
an ond to the cold war in
a Now Year's messago to President Eisenhower who promptly challenged them to show their desire for peaceful cocxistence by settling the Berlin crisis.
The president, resting here ring a nollways at as fatto, Jetayed
Connereal Cable sage from K. Vorosbijou, i tallati of the Presidian of Board in Detuber, e suprize soviet, and Prane
committi
el akita Klirushraev, ngkong
EXPRESS HOPE
With the 1ritish
dat it preferred not ociate Itreif with
then
Laents Lanenshire The wo Russian leaders ex- with other countries. pressed the Jupes thu during thereford still needs 959 the United States, the So-
clurified before the viet Union would "unte em of Asian experta aorts in the search for a way toward the settlement of urgoni The considered settled.
internatiovaal problems, or the must be
cessation of the arms race and Clague, Chairman of Bie cold was which is huled Hongkong negotin by the people, with the aim of
his reducing dangerous
janternual relations."
pald
mmittee for
and perseverance?
trusions to
out the Joeni Eisenhower intmediately dis-
tion. For the mem- patched Le committee the Union, wa hard one. As these
statement said but that
-y's
11 eply by Western thal effect nuying us
were noble sentiments,
leaders the Russian Unck
New their 40
e economic grounds old
Year's wishes by applying them
filing could be justified
Pasent. But a gesture
still needed. The only
at is that came so late.
Lost Mora
now to be hoped that
Letry cross-fire
of
between Hong.
and Britain comes lo
end.
ged
Tho controversy
far beyond the
ediate insus of cotton
orts and
it is fairly
lous that because of our
d refuent
ng
·lior
the sultierenl crisis...
گری
Berlin
Tai Lam Chung
Reservoir Leak
'Not Serious'
de-
has to The leak which
developed in the Tai Lam
to come
Lancashire
the campaign for duced working hours in 1 Industry aucceeded. kong had in fact been ding on legislation of
kind for some time11
I but its operation might been indefinitely do- had it not been for shire's intervention,
far
he ways of arrests, which is continuing, la reported to cover both the Egyption and Syrien regions, and abatu 48 people meandersteunl to have detbined in Cairo alone.
Similar Pattern
The arrests are pattern to Lhuse
bren
simir 121 reported to have been carried out a forl- night age in Syria-lhe northern region of the United Arab Re- public.
121
secret printing preas was sald ไป have published
Unbreakable Friendship
Cairo, Jn 1
Soviet **repler Nikita Khrushchey told United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nanner that tho Soviet Union hoped **the Aswan
Dam
will Do the symbol 01 unbreakable friendship be tween the UAR and the USAN," Badlo Calro reported today.
Nasser In his reply also broadenat by Radio Cairo stressed "the peaceful co- sperallon,
ako equality which sincerity"
have marked nkwaya
relationa between the U.S.S.R. and the U.A.K. France-Pres16.
Communist
+aganda.
papers
Hongkong Sees Old Year
Govt To Reclaim Land In Central
Government proposes to re- claim a further portion of the seabed off the Con-
naught Rond waterfront in the Central District, to A provide additional land for development purposes,
About 13 Beres of Crown foreshore and seabed between the Star Ferry Pier and the Jubilee Street Vehicular Ferry The Pler is to be reclaimed. work forms Stage
of the und pro- Central Reclamation project.
The
will be reclamation bounded on the ens by about 485 feel of the return wall of the existing Central Reclama- tion nad on the west by ubunt 300 feet of the vehicular ferry pler. A seawall of about 1,050 feet in length will be built on the seaward side to contain the rubble for the reclamation.
The compaign ngafrest Eryp- Bin Communists fellows Pre- adent Nresser's recent denuncio- Lion of the Syrian Communists. The last reported arrests of Communists was inst year when 10 were detained before Pres deni Nasser's trip to Moscow,
Anti-Nationalist
Today's round-up seizure of the printing press and the choute of left-wing publishing hases was viewed by observers here as directly collected with anti-Nationalist moves
by the Conumunists.
Up 10 now, the Luthorities had
acted not
the agrairast clandestine Delivities of Egyptian Communists because of thetr negilgible Impuel, the observera undermont.
In a notification published in the Governorat Gazelle this morning. The Director of Pub-
Hongkong sees the old year out, and the new year in as people in most parts of the Colony celebrated the occasion in a variety of ways. See back page. “China. Mail Photo.
Journalist Claims He Photographed The Nepalese
Yeti
Kathmandu, Jan. 1.
first-ever photograph has been taken of the Abominable Snowman-the Yeti-an Italian journalist claimed here today.
Bulgarian Legation
Pelted With
Molotov Cocktails
Guinness
Is Biggest Box Office Draw In Britain
London, Jan. 2. Actor Sir Alec Guinness, awarded a knighthood yesterday, was the big- gest draw at British cinemas last year, the Motion Picture Herald, American trade weekly, announced here today. Io on amazing "We saw It.... Sir Alec Guinness toppen We photographed It" statement, poll of 3,999 British film exhi- Goodwin Spani of the Italian Eltors, 03 per cent of the coun- newspaper 11 Tempo and thetry's, total, who named hum the Hallon T.V. said he saw the biggest money-maker of any Abominable
who star in the world for the year Snowdon "Cooks like a monkey with ended October 31, 1938.. human Succe on the Dorje
Flees Country
Havana, Jan. 1. President Fulgencio Batis
ta's dictatorship collapsed today under the hammer- Ing of revolutionary furces. But the revoli continued.
Mr Batista fled the country, and a provisional government proposed an immediate ccare- Arc Rebel leader Fidel Castro rejected the peace offer and called the creation of the pro- viatonal government “a trick."
Rioting
Filoting broke out in Havana ston after Mr Ballsta and some of his followers flew to the
Dominican Republic.
At least two rioters were shot to death, and severni SCUID
were believed wounded/
The Rebel radier in Havana called on the people to join the schoral strike to be fully effec- Uva teinorrow morning,
Fidel Castro, in a Rebel radio broadcast, sold the Batista dictatorship crumbled because of the latest real blows in the eastern provinces,
'Be Alert'
"Don't trust anyone or let anyone fool you," he told his reporters. "Be altri,”
A three-man military junta took over after Mr Bailsta Bod and nmod supreme court Jusiiro Carlos M. Piedra $8 provisional president,
A spokesman for the Rebel radio said that the revolution witi continue until Camp Coloumbin, Cuban Army General Headquarters just out- side Havana, had surrendered.
U.P.L
They Tried To
Straighten Tower of Pisa
Rome, Jan. 1.
A group of French_tuurhets who had been celebrating the Now Your at Pisa lost night decided it would be an appropriate gesture of goodwill to all men and particularly their Italian hosts if somebody did something about putting straight the famous lean- ing towor.
So they got hold of a long sieel cable, led one end to the tower and the other end to the
The two next biggest draws back of their cos, revived up the
23, at an altitude of over 19,000 and Kenneth More.
Lakpa Mountain on November were also British: Dick Bogarde ahead,
engine and went full steam
fret.
Moonlight
I
The
tower hot surprisingly Then came tour Americans: stayed put. So did the cablo Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, and so at arst-did the car. Wan Holden
Glenn and He claimed that in moonilgbt Ford, followed by Britain's (ora
But as the driver, determined after he had been awakened by Carmichael, Virginia Mckenna,
to do his little bit for Franco- Italian relations, in the night, he who was the only woman in the
continued to an veric cry
press his foot on the accelerator. the enormous, Yeu,
top ten.
The car began to show signs of Brussels, Jan. 1. lurkert at him with curiosity.
American Tuck n roll atar strain. First I His photographer wok a flash-
started to balls picture of it, at a range of
Elvis Presley was the number stretch and then with a loud ten draw at British cinemas-rending of metal it split clean pelted the Bulgarian loga- co yarda. tion with small Molotov
was with two China Mall Special
in two.-Franco-Pressc. Spant said he cocktails last night in an Sherpas and a Nepal italon anti-Communist demon-ofleer at the time. stration.
ile Works draws the attention A group of unknown persons
of all persons having objections to the proposed reclamation or any chains of private right to
objections claims to him in writing within
submit such
two months.
Defence Money
or
Water-course
The following morning Spani The occupants of the legation were male to, exungulah the fire and the Sherpas found tracks caust by the Malotov cocktails made by the Yell in the sandy soll of a water-course. The and paraffin-soaked rags thrown
Sherpas were convinced that through the windows.
the animal was a You.
Paris, Jan. I France is planning to spend 1,575,870 million franes (uboul
The demonstrators also litter- Spani made his, sensational £1,129 mullion) on defence in ed the fashionable Ibenue calm after returning from 1950 out of n total budget of Mollere
anti-Communist thro-month expedition
10
The round-up la reported to Chung pipelines was off- cially described this morn-have been triggered by the dis-0,180,000 million (about £4,420 pamphlets.
tribution
official et anti-Government million) according pumphlets by Egyptian Comfigures published today.
Reuter.
ing as "not serious and of
a very minor nature". was revealed on New Year's Waterworkca that engineers were tavestigating the leaks. Loss of water we
About estimated gi gallons
INVESTIGATIONS
Intely this legislation
sto hurt us than it la kejy to Hongkong'u, At Britain. Making
Pakong goods
* us at a
our
disadvantage petitively with
hours but the benoit additional few cents
consumption
daliy
ka
10.000
munists-Reuter
London Battle
with
✡ in
ру
Central Nepal.
Meanwhile, the Nepal Govern.
GENERAL ELECTION
FIXED FOR MAY
By DOUGLAS CLARK
London, Jan. 1.
They ran ovvy before palicement has confirmed that Spant The General Election has been fixed for May. This,
arrived.U.P.I.
hna lodged a "We have proof" claim of the existence of the Abominable Snowman-France- Pregre
Teenage Thugs Duke Stays U.S. Servicemen
London, Jan. 1.
One man was shot and wounded when teenage gangsters and United States service- men fought a street battle and about 40 people were arrested during New Year celebrations early today in London.
Indoors
I understand, is the decision taken by the Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan.
-
Top Conservative manogers| Secondly, experts, ara have been alerted and the Party
thriving bey and headquarters warned to put all pectation; and the preparations in hand for Thirdly, unemployment, tha élecilon on May 14 or 28.
after a one and a 2a12 (per cent rise in winter, should
atnet to fall'ngàln in April
REASONS
For the present Conservative Fourthly, production in Leaders London, Jan. 1
are bound to deny
industry will be picking The Duke of Edinburgh has that dates have been settled up by May.
Internationally, Fifthly,
Russia
remained indoors since Sunday so as to confound the op- talks
witz
water about 450 million gallons a day. denrer
An
official statement this morning sald "A smail Jenk through the hillside on cach
with bad cold. And, a slight position; Iere are the rentons side of the Tai Lam Chung
Infection of the ear, It was why the spring elections have possibly at the manmit---may Police tunnet ut Sham Tsony (SERT
been decldedi Dro looking for ensuation: жете themselves; hospital with star wounds in Itarned here today,
be a near prospect. His Brewery)
recently witnesses
the Pound Ja 110.0
after a man was attacked by Léonagers fighting another fight in the adjoining The Dhake, who is 37, was
Firstly,
Between now and May, thoro developed,
taken to hospital with a wound | American jervlecmen. In the Shepherds Bush` aren,
mid to ho now mueli’beller and
Kirong enough to with- things would have happened: "Investigations are now taking | in the chest in the. Paddington | Notting-Hill distelet, some of The fight started when hopes to bevul in a few days. (stand
run on
Sterling further eut in the bank rate; election substantial purchase place.
district of. West Londor tik last wimmer's zaefal riota; ; King of youths throw. Boullos e la staying al Sandringham which the Spring
inx new Water Authority
Autumn by duetioru; and budget into Injuries were slated to, be not. A number of youths were through the windows of a cafe' Hous In Norfolk, where he and might provoke. phaixos, however, that the serious,
later detaine
owled by coloured poopid. | ether" members of the Royal contrust, Is lie time of the which is expected to Binst that task fe not sórtawa and of a A policaman who intervened Throq while men and one Four, be them. were arrested. Family april the Chriathas year when the Pound la most standard rate at income fox-
vulnerabló, *very rainor nature,”
holiday-China Mali Spacial, and a doctor called to attend coloured, man were taken to China Mall Special.
London Express Service,
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