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Comment Of The
Day
Hope for peace
in Algeria
THE Algerians have been Taghting the French for
nearly six years. The price been of the fight hus enormous with casualties
on both sides amounting to
jess
150,000 than 110
persons.
The insurrectionist leaders' willingness to send a de- legation to meet the French President
and
discuss
settlement terms is the most welcome news the Western allies have received for a long time.
Both General de Gaulle and the Algerians have shown in tremendous courage deciding to get down to business at a table instead of blasting away with guns.
THE
Opposed
two
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Established 1845 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1960.
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and all Europej
Passed by Cabinet in atmosphere of secrecy SECURITY TREATY RATIFIED
Japanese Emperor gives his approval
Tokyo, June 22. Emperor Hirohito gave his approval to the controversial U.S.- Japan security treaty last night after the Cabinet passed in an atmosphere of secrecy.
Japan now has completed all procedures for full ratification of the treaty,
which is expected to be passed tomorrow by the U.S. Senate.
BRITISH
SOLDIER
SHOT
DEAD
Kingston, June 21. A British soldier was shot other dead and three members of the security forces were wounded today by five men who staged a surprise attack on search party in the Jamaica hills.
Formal ratification papers will be exchanged in Tokyo,
Cabinet approval caught many by surprise because it was not supposed to take place until Fri- day or until after the US. Senate ratifled it.
took
The Cabinet met yesterday but Look no action on the treaty for fear of stirring up anti-pact demonstrators who have been rallying for the past month,
th Instead, messengers document approving the treaty around to the individual minis
other tors at their homes and
There was no Cabinet places. meeting as satch
security
Kishi, for pushing through the United States-Japan pact.
They were a cases of minor morning,
isolated few violence this
Kishi to resign?
as-
was called The rail strike amid mounting indications that Mr Kishi would soon announce his resignation, a move expected since Mr Kishi, bowing to threatened violence, cancelled the invitation to President Eisenhower to visit Japan.
The Premier met with sociates late last night, and sources said Mr Kishi was ex- pected to announce his resigna- tion plans a day or two after the exchange of ratification in- the, security Nobusuke struments Prime Minister Kishi and Foreign Minister treaty.
It
was expected Mr. Kishi Afichiro Fujiyama then sigried the ratification papers and sent would recommend as his succes- them to the Emperor, who also sor approved them.
Signed
HE views of the
parties are diametrically opposed to each other, but once it can be established that there is real hope for peace the rebellion will lose
The search party, taking part
The government still has not momentum and finally col
in security operations against a lapse.
Marijuana smoking Negro sel, announced when and where the The nationalist opponents of discovered the camp in the Red instruments of ratification will with the US. General de Gaulle, who con Hills area. Tot contained be exchanged sider any talks with the dynamite and crude home-made Ambassador, Douglas Macarthur It was expected to be not Insurrectionists
arms and bombs, but appeared LI. na Initial step on the down- deserted, a government an-luter than Sunday, however,
The treaty goes into effect ward
towards nouncement said, slope
Instruments of as soon as the ratification have been exchang- ed.
The Japanese Cabinet ignored mob threats,
the
Algerian national indepen- Then five members of the dence, are hostile although sect attacked them, killing a
they have so far confined soldier of the Hampshire Regi- themselves to verbal con-ment, and escaped by commin- demnation.
doering a van at gunpoint on The Algerians have become the road nearby.
used to the struggle for
i. The Socialist Communist
Labour front today prepared
Police and troops in battle- another in the series of "biggest
freedom and not unnatural-dress later scoured the area for
ly they believe that they them.-Reuter. cannot be beaten.
Aid assurances
THIS
been
HIS attitude has heightened over the past few months by assurances
of practical aid from the
Arab states and China. Even if the rebels come to Paris with little hope, and
ALGERIAN
EMISSARY FOR PARIS
The
yet" demonstrations,
Trains stopped
Public railway services were morning The stopped this radical students organisation sent picket's out to mam stations lines and make to sit on the
sure train workers obeyed in- structions to stop services. There were some clashes but no ex- tensive violence at this stage.
Protest strikes against the Tunis, June 21. "Algerian Provisional government early this morning stopped publicly-owned railways,
not пате the
Groups of clerks picketed the entrances and prevented govern- ment offices from opening on time.
Group leaders denounced the Prime Minister, Mr Nobusuke
mainly to prove that they Go miment" sald tonight it; but private lines kept running are not intransigent, there had appointed an emissary who and all services were resumed is bound to be a risk for would go to Paris "in the next by 8 a.m. local time. them.
few days." Among the Muslim masseg A statement issued said the there has been a desire for details of the journey remained peace and although the to be agreed between the two initial negotiations may sides. It did break down it would not envoy.-Reuter, necessarily mean the war starting up again with its old intensity and fury, For the vast majority of Frenchmen and France's allies and friends, the prospect of an end to the fighting is almost too good to be true. The interna- tlonal situation
can transformed and not before time.
Stolen
money 'a curse
London, June 21.
be
A bank messenger stole £10,000 from the National Provincial Bank where he worked and hid most of It for two-and-a-half years in the hollow leg of hts dining room table. This was alleged at the Old Bailey today when the. messenger, Leslie Weeks, aged 38, pleaded guilty to stealing the money from a bank trolley and was sentenced to 15 months im- prisonment......
for
the Trade and Industry Minister Mr Hayalo Ikeda, a strong friend of the U.S. Mr was likely Ikeda's candidacy to be opposed. by the several anti-Kishi factions within the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party,
-UPL however.
STOP PRESS
Former Communist spy says:
RUSSIANS STARTED AND
RAN THE KOREAN WAR
New York, June 21.
Former Polish intelligence officer Pawel Monat who defected to the West last year said in a magazine article today that the Communist attack on South Korea was ordered personally by Josef Stalin and Russians played major military roles in the Korean War,
Typhoon fund
nears
Closing stages of Rumjahn trial Farewell presents to
$ million Governors not corrupt
mark
The Community_Ty- phoon Relief Fund today came within $21,000 of the mil- lion-dollar mark. This followed the on- nouncement by the British Government that it would make a donation of £6,250 (HK$100,000) for the relief of distress in Hongkong caused by typhoon Mary.
A statement later issu- ed by the Government said it was proposed donation that the
should be sent to the Community Typhoon Relief Fund sponsor- ed by ten leading in the newspapers
Colony, including the China Mail. This would take yester- day's total of $879,- 653 to $979,653 and leave the fund less than $21,000 short of the million-dollar mark.
IKE'S RECENT
TOUR A
'SUCCESS'
Honolulu, June 21. President Eisenhower be lieves his visits to the Philippines, Formosa and the Republic of Korea were "completely success ful," the White House said today.
a tele- The President held phone conference with Secre- tary of State Christian A. Herter today and later the press secre- tary, Mr James Hagerty, said both agreed on the success the goodwill trip.
ANTI-AMERICAN
of
Former Governors and Civil Servants had received farewell pre- sents from the public for what they had done for the Colony, and those gifts had not been held as corrupt, Mr Patrick Yu, Counsel for Abdul Aziz Rumjahn, submitted in the Victoria District Court this morning.
Counsel held that alleged offers of gifts by Rumjubn to Mr Hary D. Miller, District Officer in the New Territories Administration, could not be held as corrupt either,
After Mr
Sneath, GR Crown Counsel, had made final subinissions for the prosecution, Judge W, F. Pickering reserved judgment until Friday morning.
Mr Yu submitted In his clos ing address this morning, that evidence had shown there absolutely no need for Rumjahn to offer Mr Miller anything. been The land conversion had completed quite legally before the alleged offers had been made.
Too fantastic
Was
The prosecution Rumjahn offered Mr Miller money in order to put him in a compromising situation district officer, Mr Yu said. "But that is too fantastic."
.38 a
Questions asked in Commons
on
soccer pool
London, June 21,
had alleged Mr Ian Macleod, the Colonial Secretary, told the House of Commons today that public opinion in Hongkong reacted strongly against the Football Pools Betting Bill, 1960, and the Governor thought it undesirable to enforce the second reading by the use of official votes.
The accused knew that Mr Miller 'was shortly to go on jeave, and that there was like=|.. : ihood he would be transferred to another job, Counsel claim
ed.
Mr Ernest Thornton (Labcur) such a humiliating defeat for bad asked why the Governor the Colonial Government." and members of the Hongkong
That only goes to weaken the prosecution case that the ac- Legislative Council' all abstained Could he also estimate tho cused hoped to get Mr Miller from voting on the second read-cost incurred by the Post Office into his power," Counsel con- ing of the Football Pools Betting and by the football pool. --- tinued. "You cannot say there BIH, 1960, which has been offi-
Mr Macleod seid: *The was any ulterior motive to it." clally presented, with the result,
Even more fantastic were the that the bill was defeated by Governor, introduced the bill
to ni with 11 after einsulation with amounts of money Rumjahr, was seven votes alleged to have offered Mr Mil-¦ abstentions,” ler, Counsel said.
the Executive Counell which · in- cludes unofficial members."
Regarding the second, part of
The sums of money were all j Mr Macleod replied: "After or practically all the total the first reading of the bill. amount of commission Rumjahn public opinion reacted strongly the question, Mr Macleod, sald it and the Governor he was unable to give a clear was himself to have earned for against
these cir-answer. He imagined it was, to mediating in the land deal, he considered that in said.
cumstances it would be un test opinion, in the council as desirable to enforce the second a whole as well as public reading by the use of official opinion in the Colony-Reuter. votes."
It had been admitted thast
not
HUMILIATING
such large deals were commonplace to the accused, said he hardly and Counsel thought it likely he would give or practically all of
Mr Thornton asked how far commission away,
Gratuitous gifts, whether clative Council were consulted cepted or
all
not, were
offence, Mr Yu submitted.
his
not an
Nothing to gain
unofficial members of the Legis- Landslide deaths
before announcement of the Government's intention last De- cember.
Santiago, Chile, June 21. Twenty people have been
Mr Thornton also asked why killed in heavy landslides in
Mr Yu invited Judge Picker- the bill was not withdrawn in- Chile's Lake Panguipulli region, ing to rule that the offers-if stead of being submitted "with it was reported today -AFP. any had been made-were not
corrupt offers.
The land
transactions had
completed before
were made. and nothing to gain offering the money,
Mr Elsenhower thought his already been
the offers visit to Okinawa was *very
he Rumjaha had satisfactory" even though encountered an anti-American from demonstration by about 1,500 Counsel submitted.
Earlier, Mr Sneath, prosecut- members of left-wing organisa-
concluded ing.
his cross- tions.
examination of Runjahn. Department "I put it to Earlier, State
you that the the occasion officials here, studying world- Mayar deal was wide reaction to the President's on which you chose to corrupt turbulent Far Eastern tour, ex- Mr Miller, and that the Mayor pressed beller that the Com- deal itself did not require you munist "victory" in Japan to corrupt him, but that it was would be a brief one..
one on which yn old Com promise hint as District Office." Mr Sheaths said.
"No." Rumjan replied. "I put it to you that so long
They said the Communist inspired riots that forced can
cellation of Mir Elsenhower's visit to Japan eventually would as the mixe deal was going on boomerang against the Reds quite nicely, you only needed to They said a wave of revulsion make offere; but on December 2 against the Reds was likely in you found difficulty on the TO non-Commurilst and neutral Wong deal, and Mr Miller was not willing to go along with you. countries.
Therefore you actually arranged to pay this corrupt money to him," Counsel asid
Mr Eisenhower, who plans to Temain here at least until FH-
Monal, sentenced to death in absentia by; "We had planned the attack very care- the Polish government this week, now lives in fully. We rehearsed every detail over and over. the United States. He served in Korea as a We had ten infantry divisions and one division Polish intelligence agent gathering information of armour. A few weeks before we were ready,
we moved all the civilians back from a bound-day, will make a television and on U.S. forces.
radio report on the trip to the American people shortly after his return to Washington- UPI.
He said in Life magazine that Russians ary on the 38th Parallel about seven to 10 piloted most of the Mig jet fighters used in the miles depending on the terrain, We told them Korean war, manned a majority of the Comthat this was for their own safety because we munist anti-aircraft batteries, mapped every expected an attack from South Korea. Then major battle for the North Koreans and man we moved in our troops, along six different pulated truce negotiations.
STALIN'S ORDERS Monat reported there were at least 5,000 Soviet officers and soldiers on active duty, in Korea while he was therú.
roads, and waited for the order to attack. We even had a complete timetable worked out showing exactly how far south we would move each day and where, we would stop to rest."
Monat said Russian miscalculations in
The former Pollsh agent said Stalin per- cluded the fact they did not expect the U.N.
Under his hat
"No, that is not true, because I knew it was not in his power to do anything in this case," Rumjahn, replied.
"What has been alleged is that these corrupt offers were
Ben-Gurion to not made primerly to get any
sonally ordered the attack and Russians, drew to take mempt notion and did not think the Visit Argentina
Onty after two years did.
metables. He geld the Russians Firth U.S. Force in Japani would be in some of the notes begin to ap-reasoned that by eliminating the one American action within 48 hours after InvaHAY, pear in circulation and the trail eventually led to Werks who admitted the offence.
He had made full restitution
of the money which he told the court had been
Ching Mail Special
"a curse,"
favours on the Mayer deal," but were done under the cloak of that deal to compromise Mr. Miller and get under his hat." ***NG! That is "not true,”- cused reple
foothold on Communist-held Asia they set an Monat declared the real ruler of North
"You appréciate my points in Brussels, June 21, example, of Communist invincibility for Aslan Korea during the war was a Russian Lieutenant.
asked Mr General in civilian clothes, Boviet Ambassador Israeli Premier David Ben- these questionst* nations.
Monat reported a conversation he had with Vladimir N Hanwayev, All North Korean Gurion, sald today he will probe Sheath. Major General Choy In, Chief of Staff of the mitory, orders, Monas gald, were drafted Insity see Argentine President "Yes, I do," Tunjahm re- North Korean Army. He quoted Choy as Ruslan and had to have a Ruslan: officer's Arturo Troidizi within the next plied.
Law daysAP. having told him:
Initials to besome effective.-AR,
(Contd. on Fars '5, Col,·3)
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