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Soviet Premier's bombshell on Germany
'PASTEST
DELIVERY
TO LEADING
MARKETS
OF
THE WORLD
Day THE IRON CURTAIN FOR EVER
COLLINSON
INQUIRY
THE public may be excus-
Ted for feeling a
"
little
puzzled at the lengths la which Government went to investigate две
series of In- Collinson cidents at Cape Training Centro. It will be recalled that following the murder of s warder there, a cornmission was appointed headed by a Supreme Court two lending judge members of the community. The terms of roference were, however, not examine the general ad- ministration or the morale of the centre so much as events at the camp three nights after the murder.
and
to
Had Cape Collinson as bad a history s some of the pstitutions that have re- cently been in the news in Britain, the need for such
thorough and careful in
ation by an impartial would not have been
questioned. The murder, however, and the incidents which followed
not ap do not
general of IL pear part pattern of indiscipline but rather an isolated outbreak. In which case Government should explain why it acted 80 drastically,
ERHAPS it was anxious
Prestall publie alarm.
before it
real
'Only war canMOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR for charles, anne?
PALACE STATEMENT
change today's TRICKED THEM ALL
boundaries'
Rome, Fob. 8.
Lendon, Feb. 4.
Commander Richard Colville, press secretary to the Queen, hurried back to Buckingham Palace tonight AS mounting confusion arising from the Royal name change announcement brought a flood of telephone calls to the palace.
The Queen's decision to beslow on certain of her descendante the name of Mountbatten- Windsor had used a sensation, chiefly.Lo the House of Commons.
The Soviet Premier, Mr Nikita Khrushchev, warned today that the Soviet Union and its Eastern satellites would rather
war than allow the present Members of the ilouse of Lords were consulted. go to frontiers of Germany to be changed.
UK rail
strike may be settled
independent
"We declare that what has ben mcdited by war,
camol be mediñed again without war," Mr Khrushchev told the Italian President, Giovanni Gronchi, at a reception at the Itellan Embassy in Moscow.
But the Soviet leader agreed there had been "real im-
provement" in International re- Jations.
"Henceforth, men can sleep peacefully, and not expect some- thing unpleasant to occur during the night," he said
But the time had come 10 consolidate peace in such a way as to stabilise the eituation re- sulting from the war..
"We say
that what Was changed by the war cannot be altered without a war," Mr Khrushchev was quoted Aa saying.
But no member of Parliament was able to give a precise explanation of the announcement.
They were equally uncertain,
The archaisms in the wording of the brief
communique published after
the Privy
Council meeting discouraged the uro paraphrase and invited errors. Five different interprolaitons
of
appeared ono hour after the communique was published. The last of the Ave, somewhat imaginative, BUX- gested that the new name would be borna by the children of the Prince of Wales and by the grandcblidren of his young sister, Princess Anne.
Every
BOWspaper had A different inter- pretation.
editions sported the most The last evening
widespread error-namely that the children df Prince Charles and Princess Anne would be the first to bear the name of Mount- batten-Windsor,—AFP.
NEW ROYAL NAME
SHARPLY CRITICISED
London, Feb. 9.
The Daily Mirror sharply criticised the Buckingham Palace decision give the descendants of the Queen's third baby the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
but it is a le And other newspapers crf- at this time, Beired the fact that Common-
curious that it should not have wealth Governments had been been done before."
Will not permit "told" of the decision, but not
"Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary will never permit a change in the frontiers with Germany as allies, we under- stand and back-than," he said.
"How can the situation be solved?"
consulted.
The Daily Herald, which re- necta the offelal views of the harl Party, sald there Labour been a "cabinet clash over the change of name."
London, Feb. 8. Perhaps it feared a general Hopes--that -Britain's deterioration of administra-
threatened national rail- lion. Perhaps it aimed to
way strike may be avert t to grips with a potenti problem
ed rose suddenly tonight, into unmanageable propor Mr C. W. Guilleboud, univer-
Even the conservative Dally tions. But there is no resity don and chairman of AL
"We Mr Khrushchev nuid: hint of this in the Com-
committee, pro- have proposed signing a peace Mall found the decision "curi- mission's report, and the
mised to advance the date of his treaty with the two Germanies, our", public may well ask why report on railway pay.
Mr Adenauer (West German does not Federal Chancellor) serious
Dispute about Uils report is a want this. But who is asking. general day-to-day problems
in negotia his opinion? of deadlock are not given the benefit cause
to end the threatened of Ruch
searching ons St
called examination as the Com-trike, which has been mission carried out at Capa from February 15, Collinson.
Tur
more
Treport seem
und
of
to
The new move was disclosed
during falks between leaders of and the three railway unions the Trade Union Congress. The Unlon leaders immediately went to consult their executives.
we arrived in Berlin. Jt is obvious that the situation, has changed radically: The Germans cannot pretend to lay down the low.
Peace treaty
CONTROVERSIAL
af
110
the
"If this is a sentimental deci- sion," the Daily Mail added, "t arises from the best kind of sentimentthot of a unlied and laving family life.
WHAT IT MEANS
"It is in that knowledge that the Queen's people will receive her decision and join with it in the affectionate hope that
all
will be well with her when she becomes a mother for the third time."
The Dally Mirror städ: "The
In a front page Daily Mail will not br and Queen's dealston "We have made war,
article entitled "What it means" have lost millions of men. The plauded by the British public." Mr Cyril F. J. Hankinson, editori Germans went to Stalingrad "Its timing when the whole of Debrett's Peerage explained
"It is most unlikely that there and close to Moscow, but thenuation is awaiting the news of will ever be a Mountbatte
Itayel birth is controversial." Windsor dynasty. But this is After tracing the German bow I could come about,
Mount- If the Queen's third baby connections batten family,
Mirror were a prince..... if he married rdded:
and had at least two soYA,
"If the line of the Prince of "Now, only 15 years after
Wales became extinct...... "I speak realistically. If the World War II against Germany,
"If the first Mountbatten- necessity is recognised not to
died The informed that leaders of the other two railway change the results of World War Britch nation are abrupy i windsor's elder brother
without issue. 、、、、 I we should also recognise the Mountbatten (formerly Batten-
"Then the first Mountbatten- recessity for a peace treaty," he berg) is to be joined willy Windsor could, succeed to the It is this we are trying to do milly-r should it be Wilhelm throne. It is as remote as that
nilly?-with the name of-AP and Router. and also liquidate the occupa- lon regime in West Berlin," Mr Windsor (formerly Hanover)" Khrushchev was quoted as say- Ing.
MEETING
The N.U.R.
leaders
and
unions began an informal meet- Ing with Sir Brian Robertson, the transport commission chair- man.
off the strike. But
the
If conditions at the camp are any worse than the few in- cidents suggest, the terms of reference should have been far more general. But If the Commission has re- vealed the fuli extent the trouble, the Prisons Department has reason feel satisfied that only one roally bad beating and cer- tal administrative defects have been brought to light
They have not yet agreed to
Mr THE chief merits of the call
general Greene, im-Sidney to bo
stated, secretary of the N... told me plied rather than
porters: "The fact that we are Tho
of the experiment
talking with. Sir Brian un Letter from Mr Guillebaud 16 training centre as an alter- native to prison for juvenile hopeful."Router. delinquents has revealed no serious or insuperable dif ficulties. The
genera of the
camp's administra tion appear, with some small exceptions, to be endorsed. Slackness of discipline la a fundamental weakness not while the lack of suitable com- staff is a common
no is The hope plaint today. that the eight recommenda tions made by the Com- mission set matiere aright and that this institution is able to play its part use fully in the rehabilitation of wayward youngsters. A final thought: this kind of Impartial Inquiry is un- doubtedly helpful to the de- concerned. Gov-
parts reasons for hold-
Jag the hearing in camera may be attributed to
"The
four that witnesses might
on
Papathies
tho public's
But while
it
would be wrong to dis courage
STOP PRESS
DIAMONDS LATEST
Jerusalem, Feb. 8. Israell' police said today interpol has not yet been called into the case involving. the disappearance of £120,- 000 of diamonds sent to a customer in Hongkong.
Police are first trying to determine whether the din- 'monds disappeared before or after leaving Israel.
The diamonds were con tained in a bag which was handed over by the GC- to Israeli posizi porten *ofedale who, In turm, 'handed them over to `an ale- -line ofiolat at the airport.
But the bag arrived empty la Hongkong, police said.
Portal Authorities
im- the informed Iarnell Post Omeo of the disappearation--UPL
similar Invostiga
lucnl tions Into presidents din problems, the closed in this case do not Room to justify the attention
mediately An execu- they were given, An
de- live decision following a partmental inquiry would have been sufficient. As a general rule, Government should reserve high level public investigations for the major issues of the moment,
added.
"We do not want to go over
name of
WHO AGREED?
"Who was consulted?" 'the the hends of the West Berliners,
demanded. "Who but want to recognise the exist
Mirror ing regime and create a situa- agreed?" tion that can endure.
Minister Macmillan "We shall give West Berlin and his cabinet were informed," the possiblity of having assured the Mirror asserted, but it ask- transit links with all countries
"Prime
ed: "Were they merely inform- with which it wishes to haveedor did they agree?"
relations.
"Prince Philip was certainly
"This we have proposed be-consulted," it went on. "And Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cause it is the only right way.
I do not see any other reasonable Prince Philip's uncle, was fully
aware of what was going on, solution but if there were, we | thould be ready to examine, wel- "Is the decision prudent? If come and approve 11, to ensure it is prudent, is it necessary? peace," Mr Khrushchev said. If it is necessary, is it well
timedi Counter proposal
The newspaper recalled
11
Mr Khrushchev sald he knew speech by the Queen during the that many wished to liquidate oficial vielt of West German the socialist regime in East President Heuss to London In Germany, and absorb the Ext 1030.
German Ropabile into West Germany.
GENERATIONS
Well-known
HK actor
fined on
tax charge
to
Burglar leaves a
protest
By a China Mail reporter
A thief who broke into a Hongkong flat
yesterday and walked off with a haul. of $5,183 in cash and jewels, loft a note of protest, "There is not enough. money! I'll call again.”
The burgled fat was on the first floor of 17. Second Street, Splyingpun.
At 10 am, the landlord, Mz Chanz. left for the Post Office to send a parcel.
ho
Returning at 1.30 pm, found the iron gale to the Nal
Inside were ransacked.
of car. The front and rear rooms
Well-known Cantonese nefor and opera singer, Leung Shing-bor, was this morn. ing advised by a Kowloon magistrate eliker to set up
a better system for filing tax returns or to employ a better staff.
Leung pleaded guilty to three suxmonses for submitting in- correct business profit returns and was, fined a total of $700 by Mr W. F. Pickering.
Proseculing. Mr S. E. Cun- ningham of the Inland Revenue Department said Leung furnish-
ed on incorrect return for year 1955-58 by omitiing $1,050 he received from Rediffusion (Hongkong) Ltd.
The front room occupant, Ngan Kam, 20, relative of an overseas Chinese in America, Kound her trmk forced open.
She lost US$310 HK$20 in cash, bigold chain worth $270 and three gold finger rings worth $130.
.
The burglar'a found in her room.
note was
Now they are
too punctual!
Derby, Feb. 8.
A punctuality drive by Bri- tish Rallways has hit an un- expected snag the publle "is complaining because trains aro running an, time.....
A ticket collector explained here today that "people have come to rely on trains being. Inte."
He said that because many In the rear room, the tenant, trains are now leaving on time, Liu Shul-chun, 47, relative of people who make a last-minute a Chinese in Canada, found dash through the barrier, return Canadian $440 mlosing from her to complain that they hava was also forced missed their train.China Mall trunk which open.
Special.
Lin Dai may get
'Suzie Wong' role
London, Feb. 8.
the Two Hongkong actresses are among the four finalists to replace France Nuyen in the film version of "The World of Suzie Wong."
About the second rummond,
as he said Leung omitted $850 re-
celved from the Sun Yim Yeung Troupe in his return for the year 1957-53;"
Jailed a danger to society
A studio spokesman said to day that producers Rey Stark Hugh Percival have nar- rewed the field from 35 possiblos In the case of the third sum- since a scrious throat infection mons, Leung was said to have forced France Nuyen to step out omitied a sum of $5,000 _reof the $8,000,000 production last ceived from the Gum Bike Filmweck, Comparty in his retum 1958-59,
for
He said that Leung had a similar conviction in 1958 but was cautioned.
Mr Cunningham said that the London, Feb. 8. tax on the three sums amounted
Ar. to $882.40. Twenty-seven-year-old
thur Cook fired a round of shots into a group of men, women and children pass- ing in a London street early on Christmas Day, it was alleged today at the Old Balley.
Heading the short list is petite dark-balrod Nanay, Kwan, 10-year-old daughter of a pro minent Hongkong architect and his English wife."
She was
flown here from Toronto where she was about to FOR CHARITY Miss Helen Lo of Mesara tako the role in the stage play D'Almada and Masos, reproof, the same name,
Stark, Percival and Director senting Leung, said he had been
in show business for over 30 | Joan: Negulesco. were watching years and, to averagó income the result of her screen fest.tom "One cannot help thinking tax he had paid to Government day.
The other Hongkong girl is that providence played a hand for the last five years was in
who has The Queen emphasised then that night" prosecuting counsel the vicinity of $70,000 a year 20-year-old Lin Dui,
She sald the between gaid.
annual sum acted in several Chinese that "the connections
which her client had raised for Language movies in Hongkong.
to $100,000, Four of the men, complete charity amounted many
strangers going home with their and that Leung's wife was look- families, were hit but all es, ing after the accounts, caped serious injury.
O
stutca
SHOT FOUR MEN
COMPETITION.
ocampetition comed Nobu McCarthy
In mitigation, Miss. Lo sald Their that Leung had donated the $800, from Japan's Bubject of the second ruumions, and American actress Natalie
Wood, to charity organisation.
She old Leung thought that Final decision on the ruplace- before as the amount was given 10 mom will be made charity, it was not liable to tax. Thursday, the spokesman said
"It has to be this week," exkled, "We are losing so much and we can't afford to waste any more time,t. All the footage made during.
"If anyone can coriously think this in a reisionable proposal, then we could make another; To absorb West Germany into East my family and the oli back of Germany Germany.
"You sce; this is an equal generations." and pertinent proposal, because But also, she emphasised that from we live in a century of social "nothing can ever crase
terialn deeds and changes. Socialism in moving the record forward and is taking the place events perpetrated in Europe
It would be within our memory," of cpitalian,
Cook, who pleaded guilty to The Daily Mirror said it hasi logical it the capitalist resima.
volver with intent to cause wero 10
in West pleaded that Germany's past re-shooting at four men with a re- disappear Germany and all Germany be- cord should not stand in the grievous bodily harm, had just
way of a new friendship. cumo socialist.
But it commented: "A peremp-Proviously been thrown out of a
public house, water, t "It would be the most logical
to change tury declslen solution, but because nuo ga
A doctor told the court the would accept it, we don't pro name of come, future members
of the British Royal Family, prisoner was a chronic alcoholic pose it," ho, sald.
"We alice, who have made and to link the House of Wirid with a brala abnormality to for with Mountbatten (formerly } whom 'drink was "a deadly war on Germany can now makes Battenberg) would be ot no poison." He had told police he pace with her: That to the apistance at all in furthering did not remember what hap-fight from London to Sydneyfilm) has been scrapped and will
was-grounded here today behave to be done again... best thing. Refrige
the understanding which most pened as he was very drunk." "We shall insist on a solu- Intelligent people coraldor de
The Judge sentenced him to cause a bird was sucked" into Luckily for Paramount that three years imprisonment as 'n one of li four engines on italia, Misa Nuyen fell ill bofora tion of this problem, beendão | sirablo," we want peace," Mr Khrushchey The Daily Mall said the danger to society. China Mail takeoff from Singapore China work had started on the interior
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