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Comment SHOCK U.S. QUOTA PROPOSAL
Of The Day
THE SCHEME
OF THINGS
Textile plan put
Crowds see Princess and fiance
air
to Tariff
hearing
▶RITISH MPs are right to The
Bresent approving vast ex
penditure "on the But, as
пеня,
nod",
usual, they seem more concerned with the running cash than the long torm policies of the busi
If this is right, the annual expenditure should provide value for money. well-run, profitable bunl- NEBR,
or nition, becomes famous for one nr two special "lines". Brituln was formerly aupreme 战神 JL
and industr
maritime
power.
Washington, Mar. 3.
American cotton textile industry today asked the U.S. Tariff Commission to recom- mend establishment of country - by - country textile import quotas limited to 1955 import levels.
The
proposal, even if
the accepted by
tariff commission, would face i heavy opposition in the Eisenhower admistration.
What is the to be in the new It hopes to ease the industry-
age? Is she to aim at land. | Inbour-tongress
pressure for Reu, air, atomie, or space drastic protectionist measures
to by putting into effect the rela power7 Or dissipate her resources in very modest restriction of
she
fin
a vain attempt to excel at cent per pound special fed qu them all? There is a ten-cotton textile imports.
do too much at once.
and
The Quota proposal was im- mediately opposed at today
dener at present to s the hearing by Mr M. Masaoka, development of a super counsel for Japanese textile in-
sonte airliner for the New teresis and U.S. Importers
service is being evn-Japanese textiles,
York
sidered. Such {1 project
Damaging
of
must be enthusiastically Such a scheme would hurf
supported if Britain is to Japan, but it would full most compete in fast, modern heavily travel.
New 'Queens'
on, Hongkong, India, Korea, Formose, Pakistan and several European nations which textile have rapidly bullt up exports to the United States since 1935.
UT there is also a pro-psed on its present or 1857
Bossi to build two new voluntary expert
After giving Japan » quola
Emits, little volume of U.S. icft would be
ocean liners to replace the of the 1955 Queens, which have kept textile imports
nations.
the flag flying magnificently to divide among these other on the North Atlantic for 25 years. But will the £200 million estimated for the airliner and the £80 million for the ships both be justi- fled, since both are in the same service? Or will one cut across the other? If so, where is the sense In pursuing both?
This was dramatised at to day's caring by testimony that U.S. textile imports from Hong. keng jumped-700 per cent in the Dust three years from 20,000,000 square yards in 1957 10 170,000,000 square estimated in 1830.
Inadequate
yares
labour
Both industry and Someone should be looking spokesmen called the Eisenhower constantly at the national administration's proposed 8-cent scheme of things, trying to for pn inadequate remedy for the balance ONO enterprise US. Industry's ills, which they against the next. It would blamed largely on the mounting
flood of cheap textile imports } be nice to think this
being done. But experience from low-wage countries. suggests that it is
were
D
In this stand they. not. joined by three more Southern There is the Blue Streak. In Congressmen
Olin Sen. 1957 this missile was given Johnston
of South Carolian,
Waving bystanders are reflected in the Royal car as Princess Margaret... and, her ·
Tuesday, flance. Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones, arrivo, al Clarence House, London, an The couple had driven from Buckingham after spending the weekend at Royal Lodge, Windsor, with the Queen Mother-AP Photo
10,000 die in Agadir:
No deadline to rescue
Agadir, Mar. 3.
Between nine and ten thousand people died in the Agadir earthquake on
Tuesday, the Moroccan police estimated today.
a rip-roaring go-ahead to Rep. High Alexander of North the tune of £600 million. It Carolina and Rep. Thomas G. was chosen in preference Lo Abernethy of Missisippi. either
Mr Halbert M. Jones, speak- An airborne or A
American Cotton Police estimates were based seaborne rocket. Today the ing for the
Manufacturers Institute, and on reports from survivors from Blue Streak
of the the ruined city now being re- being slowed down because Mr Seabury Stanton,
Northern Textile Manufacturers grouped In reception camps at possibilities of mobile
in-peal
for absolute protection south of Agadir. vestigated." Why was this through import quotes allocated
launchera
programme
being nre
Was under-water
Association, presented the op- Inezzgane some 10 miles to the C
Another slight earth tremor
not done more thoroughly by country of origin and cate accurred during the morning, three years ago?
H
World-beater
UNDREDS of millions of
pounds have been poured into the aircraft industry.
OND
gory of textile products.
Raised
causing further shifting and slipping among' the rubble that
Mr Stanton sold Japan's share was Agadir.
of the U.S. market should be fixed at the quola and sub-quota
As a result of the shack, the
eruption cause?
Agadir, Mar. 3.
levels it voluntarily set in 1957. terapo of the evacuation an A new tremer this morning tended to bear out the These amounts have since been quickened perceptibly. It caused raised by Japan
a desperate spurt among rescue In agreement and
demolition worker
moment threatened at every with burial under the lattering quota idea remnants of buildings.
theory that Monday's curthquake was caused by the sudden eruption of an under-water volcano on the continentul shelf of the Atlantic Ocean.
But the years since the with the US Government by an: war are littered with aban-average of 0 per cent.
Mr Jones said an alternative
The doned designs. Only
French Mediterranean British
absolute
fleet now anchored off Agadir is aircraft, the Vigo the
tho might be a system
matter DJ world- et special levies to discourage the spiders-working soon as rescue and demolition count, had been a
8,000 sofdlers-Including to investigate benter. Why? There is
no imports above the 1855 volume along the ruins, were ordered operations permit, lack of brains, akili,
Soundings
by tho or of imports.
in put on their helmets. Sappers ingenuity. But there ha He said Jopen's "statesman- | were" issued with sticks of French fleet, showed today that obviously been an absence ko decision" in imposing
dynamite to blow up the most the earthquake which destroy- of coordination. Hence the voluntary restraints on its ex dangerous buildings.
ed Agadir caused a huge up- waste of money. And now porta
The ruins were scheduled to heaval of the ocean bed off the
Britain
ther
to the United
States
to .be
taken
is undecided whe-hould be giver full recognition be sprayed with quicklime to- Moroccan coast, depths for-
His quola proposal woult in night os or not to enter the effect, force on other countries typhus.
a precaution against merly of a hundred fathoms and
more, now showing as 22: Industrial the restraints which Japan ay used to rein down disinfectant
Aircraft were contest. прасо
fathoms, a similar power tells a
plied voluntarily.--UPI.
All the jettier in the port- over the rubble. Britala is spending £1,000
the only one of any consequence But Palico spokesman million on atomic energy,
between Casablanca and Dikor denied published reports that a yet she is also laying out.
were craxited and twisted, and deuiline iv been set for see there was not a crane left in £1,050 million on the coal
operations at earthquake-working order. Wharves nnd industry with its diminish
shattered Azadir or that warehouses, which catered for ing output.
authorities planned to reze the the port's thriving trade in apri- city.
cols, vegetables and minerala There has been nothing like from the rich hinterland, were that, nothing at all," the all badly damaged AFP. | #pokesman said.
A council of ministers meet-
London, Mar. 3. An RAF Hastings on flich!
The British people still have
An
enormous Industrial,
scientific. and commercial
Ike to rest and golf
Ramey Air Force Base,
Mar. 3.
potential at their command. President Eisenhower return-
But if they are to get the ed here today after his tour of Ing tonight denit with measured best out of it all this must Brazil, Argentina, Chile and to bo taken to prevent an from Ceylon to the Maldives, epidemic in Agadir" and other crushed into the pen today in be used winoly. Since 1945 Uruguay.
The President is due to rest estetance measured. there has been too much
low cloud and heavy rain near The council also decided to the Island of Gun, waste of resources and mla- and play golf here until his re
turn to Washington on Sunday. | demolish unsafe directed effort. Both must the may make
bulidings In An Air Ministry spalicarna speech in Agadir but the spokestran mild, rescue aircraft pleked be remedied it Britain, io Puerto Rico tomorrow, however, emphasized that this did not the crew ant passengers to remain among the fore-ving personal impressions of moon that the city was being no pay was striously. Injured.--
mbat nations of the world. kla tour-Reuter,
| rozet-AFP and AP.
Reuter.
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And
Constable on wounding charge
A 21-year-old polico ennalable, Wong
ix- shan of 01 Carpenter, Ra.. 4th Floor, appeared before Mr L-M. S. Donnell at Kowloon Court this mor ing on charge of wound. ing.
· It is alleged that Wong,
and unlawfully
maji- elously,' wyninded N man Tang Lipat Tang Chan Streať on Wednesday.
Detective Bub-spector Dominio Ng maked for sbyen days remand. LOT further enquiry," adding that cho might be trans- ferred to District Court,
The Magistrale granted the_'applicatlán,{
bu ball of $500. No pies was taken,
Opinions differ on passenger levy
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Leading Hongkong travel agents were today divided on Government's
proposal to impose a $5 levy on outgoing air passengers. ›
MORE TOURISTS
FOR HK SAYS AIRLINE OFFICIAL
by a China Mail reporter
Hongkong can expect a huge increase in tourists this year, a leading Colony Airline executive predicted
today.
Joy ride cost him
$1,200
A caretaker-car-cleaner, who took Mr Jock Sloan's car for a three-hour: joy ride without his consent, was firied
by $1,200
Mr
He is Mr D. R. Y. Bluck,
Commercial Manager of C.P.A. who has just returned from the Polfe Air Travel Association conference in Now Zealand,
Mr Bluck said the Enference forecast
Lourist that
and business travellers to the Pacifle area this year would. Increase by 30%.
"A ble percentage of these
feuriste and businessmen will come to Hongkong," he said, "From all Indications of the conference Hongkong has a very bright future in tourist trade,
he added.
Biggest
The conference reported a
The levy described officially As "a passenger service charge" is collectable from the airlines as from April 1.
Based on last year's 150,667 passengers who left by air, the javy will add MATA than HK$780,000
Government coffers,
to
However the Hongkong Tour- lat Association has already pro-. tested to the Government over the ruling.
Mr
the
The Chairman of the Hong- kong Tourist Association, W. C. G. Knowles lold China Mail today that "the levy will be a definiie tourist, déter- rent."
"We have written a letter to the Government protesting
levy.
strongly against the forthcoming
.
"So far we have had no re-
ply." Mr Knowles said.
Director of the Hongkong Tours and Travel Service, Mr Hamilton Dick bitterly attacked the scheme,
"We are trying to promote tourist travel and here the Government is sticking a little thorn in the side of tourists and travellers," he said.
The amount of revenue col- tected will not be at all great. "Besides the Government will have to spend money in or gantsing its collection.
at
"On the whole I thinic, the Idea is ridiculous,” he added, However Mr. S. W. Clark Travel Advisers was in entire agreement with the Government plan
"It's quile a reasonable iden,”
1. T. Morris at Central bigger Increase of travellers to Mr Clark sald
Magistracy this morning. the Pacific area than any other
place in the world over the it's for the common good and
Mr Sloan is Programme Con- troter of Rediffusion Television. year 1950.
*The Pata member nations Lau Hol-fat, 28, of 50 Mac- floor, Donnell Road, ground
are really going into this pro- pleaded guilty. He was charged jeet in full swing," Mr Bluck with taking away
vehicle saich, without the owner's consent, driving without third party in surance and without a valle licence.
A
"The way I look at it is that
besides anyone who can afford to travel by alr can afford the extra $5.
"It is working in many other countries and there is no rea- "Already Hongkong has con- son why it shouldn't be used to tributed to a HK$1,200,000 fund help out a common cause for to advertise the Pacife area in Hongkong,” he added" America.
"Needless to say that this is
As an alternative to the ne
was sentenced 10 three money more than well spent months in fail
he
"It may well be that Hong REBEL MPs
Sub-Inspector M. Atkinson, kong in the future will depend prosecuting sald Lau was 0
more and more on tourist travel
caretaker of a number of flats for its economy. at 50 MacDonnell Road,
of the
Mr Sloan, one of the tenants flats, employed him to rican his car and gave him
a key to allow him to open the door to clean the inside.
CAR MISSING
At 10 p.m. on February 20, Mr Sloan parked his car out- alde his flat. He left again at 10.40 p.m. and found his car missing.
Mr Sloan, however, went to his office ht the Rediffusion Buliding,
When he returned to his Anti at 1 a.m. he noticed his car was sul missing.
After waiting for some time
he sw Lau driving his Car back..
The matter was eventually co-
ported to the police.
told
the Court
that
"The general feeling at the that present conference was holel facilities were Inade. quale.
"But all were Inore than satisfled with the anticipated facilities," he added.
LIED TO
SAVE
HER' CAT
TAKEN TO TASK
London, Mar. 3. Mr Hugh Galtskell, leader of the Labour Party, tonight rebuked 43 rebel Labour MPs who refused to vote for an official opposition motion con- demning the Govern- ment's defence policy on Tuesday night.
The rebels who disapprove ot nucfcar weupons, considered thu motion should not have admitted the need for a nuclear deter- with rent
to
Miami, Mar. 3. policemen camo sirens screaming search for Colette Barrett's lost.cat.
Mr Stoun suld he had never Ten givea Lau hia consent to drive the car. He mld even if he had been asked to do so he would have refused to give it,
Sub-Inspector Atkinson elso Miss Barrett, a model, T
Lau's ported yesterday the central driving icence was not valid. was wearing a diamond-choker Mr Morris ciro disqualified Lauland gold leash worth $10,000.
The cat, an alley named from cbinining a driving l'eenca for 18 moths.
Irwin, was retrieved from top of a palm tree. He wearing only a $20 collar.
Miss Barrett admitted she
4
the was
Mr Gaitskell told them at the
weakly party meeting that thay had a right to refrainu from vallug on 'the' grounds of desp Jy held personal consciekać loun conviction. But conscknce whis an individual thing. It could not be used to justify an organfred demonstration against accepted 'party polley. Many argociated with the epizodo had not pro-
indicated viously
they werY disturbed by the party's defenço polley.
"But how else could I get Ove aquad cars to look for poor : little Irwin," she said.
Big shared
market turnover
A turnover of $3,500,000 was Stock, Ex- recorded at the
10- change Market up to noon day.
This figure is about '10 per (urnover arnt higlier hit the up to noon scalerday which re- sulted in a record turnover of $5,852,000 for the full day.
A detective said there's law against tellinig. Hen Miami Beach police, AP.
ན
£26.000 at
first try
REAL TROUBLE
Ho made it quilo,,clear that no any Labour member who chose to to go ogainst the party line in later debates on the tamed services could expect to be in real trouble
1.
Mr Gallakoil's words of warn- log and: admonition received warm support from most of the 130 MPa. present,
When a voto was takesi "on a mption approving his statu
only one St Heller, Mar. 4. merit to the party, 22-year-old holet night porn put up his hand against At this morning's session, inter yesterday Learned he had Mr George Wigg, ond of the creases were registered in bank, won £20,440 on a football pools nicst prominent of the rebels, e Dotel, Aght, elvoirio And, tele-coupon, he found in a waste Mr Emanuel Shitiwell, forgner Minister, zem phone.share.
paper basket and Alled. out to Labour Defence
gorded as ringleader of, this Among the transacślone were; [kif the time. Ifongkong Hotel; 5,500: TIbrug It Was the first time the particular protest, did not at~ kong Land, 11,203, Ching Light, porter David Richmond had lend the morting. Other rebole 11.100, Mongkong Electrio, 8,400 over, filled out a pools form, slip did not wait for the vote
Neuler.
Neuter. and Textiles, 10,000.