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Comment Security guards open fire as crowd attacks officials. Of The NEW SINO-INDONESIAN RIFT
Day
Two Chinese
NEW ERA FOR shot dead
CYPRUS
AST week must surely be
LA
unique in the history
of colonial rule. The Bel- zians handed the Congo Luck to the Congolese; Ghana became a republic
in West Java
and the British protec- A
torate of Somaliland has merged with Somalia and won independence,
The most welcome news for the British Commonwealth and, for that matter, the allies in the West, how- ever, was the announce- ment that the British and Cypriot delegates have at last cleared the way for the
of formation
the Cyprus republic after many months of protracted negotiation.
of
Years of senseless fighting ended in 1958 at the cost of hundreds of lives on both sides giving rise to bope
that there would never be a resumption hostilities, bat in the months that followed there existed an uneasy truce, With the conclusion of the London and Zurich agree. ments the way appeared to bo
for final and open
Djakarta, July 4.
battle between armed Chinese and Indonesian security men at Tjimahi yesterday has brought a new rift in Sino- Indonesian relations, already shaky under attacks from the Communist Chinese radio.
FISHING
QUARREL:
In or out
of limits?
Reykjavik, July 5. Iceland's. Foreign Minister,
Mr Gudmunder Gud mundsson today handed the British Ambassador a strong protest,
lasting peace in the troubled island. But Arch- bishop Makarios' intra- ---Bigence... On Home of the major points caused by bic own interpretation of the It agreements did not help matters.
THAT
Two Chinese women were shot dead and another, two overseas Chinese wounded by the Indo- nesian
the West army when Java military authorities dis- patched troops and police to Timahi to forcibly evacuate overseas Chinese, the New China news agency reported."
First reports said the fight occurred when same Chinese, mostly women, armed with sticks, clubs, and palas,, attacked Indonesian officials and attempted to seize their guns. Warning bullets were fired by the security guards and in the confusion, the two women were shot dead.
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The Communist, Chinese Am- bassador, Mr Huang Chen, per- sonally lodged a vehement pro- test at the incident with Indo- nesta's Foreign Minister Subans grio. The meeting lasted only 15 minutes and D Subandrio declined to disense what was sälet.
alleges the destroyer Duncan had on June 28 Compensation
European Nepal airlifts
injured
in car
crash
ree-Europeans weta, injured when the station "agka- they were travelling In crashed into a pillar outside GlouDES-
troops for
border defence
Katmandu, July 4.
SUDDEN DEATH OF LEADING HK BUSINESSMAN
Mr Charles Gomersall, prominent Hong- kong businessman, died suddenly last night.
He was one of Hongkong's most distinguished "self-made men" and prior to coming to the Colony in 1952, was a leading, businessman in Shanghai.
Mr Gomersall was Chairman and Managing Director of China Engineers Ltd, and was, pro- minent in textile manufactur- ing, shipping and general
Irading.
He was 65 years old,
After leaving Jardine Mathe- son and Co Ltd before the war, Mr Gomersall determined to start up in business on his own. He travelled. widely throughout China and made many business contacts.
MUSICAL INTEREST
Mr Gomersal was also d keen patron of the arts and was closely associated with the Music Society of Hongkong and frequently used to have visit ing musicians perform in his Peak home.
Mr Gomersall had fourt daughters, three of whom are now lining in the United King dom and one Mn Christopher Astwood. In Bermuda. Three of his daughters are married and
ter Buliding, Pedder Street, at Nepal today continued to airlift troops re-the youngest is still at school
4.50 this morning...
passengers, Miss V. A. Perry, 19, of Flat 28 14 Shou- son 1, and Mr L B. MŁO- Mulan, Director of the Sino- British Ltd., were thrown for ward and knocked uncoN= acions
hindered the arrest of the But it was learned tonight that Grimsby trawler North- the Indonesian government was
compensation Both ern Queen and last night considering some the arrest of the Hull for the victims relatives.
The battle came on top of a trawler Kingston Jade sustained radio campaign by when both these trawlers Peking against the Indonesian its had been fishing illegally military authorities over inside the fishing zone of handling of Chinese settlers, and Iceland...
Ambassador re-
The British plied that the Brilish view was that the Northern Queen had been more than twolve miles from the coast,
suffered
inforcements to boost her northern
border defences following last week's
shooting
frontier.
incident on the Tibetan
About 200 soldiers in battle- troops 12 miles from the tron- injuries dress were flown from here to tler. Mr Chou's letter said they to her jaw and elbow
and Pokhra in central west Nepal, would go back to this distance general concussion. Her colt and it was understood some after the rebel bandits" have dition in Queen Mary Hos would be sent to Mustang,been put down. pital was reported as sailsfac-scene of last week's clash
THAT is now in the past. The last barriers have been broken down and it Is A tribute to Britain's desire to acek a com- promise at extra cost to herself that the final
it touched off the charge-ex-Misa Perry, stages have been reached
pressed privately in official cir. without further bloodshed.
cles here that Čommunist China Despite the extreme difficulty
was deliberately provoking such and complexity in the later
incidents to embarrass Indonesia: stages, none of the parties
The Indonesian Government to the London and Zurich
described the affair as "regret agreements have seceded
table". The general feeling here. from their determination
Reports here said the Coast however, was that the Chinese to establish both an inde Guard vessel Odinn came upon had been provoked by their Em- pendent Cyprus republic the Hudl trawler Kingston Jadebassy officials into some kind of and British
sovereign and measured it as being 2.9 gesture of defiance,
A Chinese Embassy oficial military
the miles Inside Hits. bases on island.
The destroyer Dunean de was privately reported to have The cause of friction beclared the trawler was outside been visiting Bandung-only a
when the Coast stone's throw from. Tjimahi tween Greece and Turkey limits but has been removed and the Guard asked to measure the when the clash occurred. success of the negotiations distance of a buoy dropped be- will consolidate Britain's side the trawler the destroyer. alljes in the Eastern refused, the reports said.--Reu- Mediterranean and under- write Western defences in the area.
OILY SUGAR
THE Cuban dictator's de
termination to pursue his
THE
Ler.
Repatriates
A government statement said the Timaht incident occurred when a force of 12 police and 12 soldiers visited the area to check on
a group of Chinese; applying for repatriation to China.
Karachi, July 4 Thirteen persons were killed in
The Chinese, who are restrict- a train secident yesterday 41 ed under President Sukarno's Sarai Saleh in nearby Bawal ban on aliens trading in rural pindi, official sources reported
were scheduled to be areas, today.
moved from Timahi to another Two carriages crashed into a government designated set course of nationalisu- dry nullah and a third carriage while awaiting repatriation. tion of foreign lodustries | was derailed.
There was no immediate in- almost reached
The total number of dead and dication as has
what actually peak with the expropria-injured was 47, including three touched off the clash-AP and
its
tion of the oil firms. Little army personnel)-UPI.
now remains except to take over the Cuban Electricity Company and the Cuban Telephone Company, both of which are owned by United States interests.
be
Dr Castro appeared to
in a dilemma when he grabbed the hotels and was left without tourists with. which to fill them. This la nothing to the dilemde in which the West, particular ly the United States, now finds itself. Russia will supply til for the re fineries and the Communist states are willing to take Cuban sugar formerly con- Bumed by America?
THE.
AFP.
to
Area
Arms
and a
Mr Koirala said the Chinese Apart from strengthening the figure of one killed and 10 cap- Mr MacMillan had a fractured border defences, the troops are tured in the Mustang clash now
skull, a wound
near his left expected to restore confidence tallied with Nepal's information. eye, bruised
femong the local people who Official sources here earlier sprained wrist.
have been reported fleeing from put the number of casualties at one killed and 17 captured by After arrival at the Casualty the area in panic.
Chinese, troops... Ward of Queen Mary Hospital be was transferred to Canossa Hospital where he was ported as "comfortable."
Mr
re-
T. H. Plakedrough, driver and owner of the ear received only superficial infuries and was not admitted to hospital, Mr Plakedrough la accountant of the Pacific Islands ship- building.
Other troops were walking at Gauchar airport here to he flown towards the border, and it is understood the airlift will be continued tomorrow.
Tibetans blamed
Communist
Mr Koirala, who was speak- ing during a debate on the bor
Chinese der clash, said 300. troops
MR 7. C. GOMERSALL
Born in Loridon on Janitary 26, 1895, the late Mr Gomersali Polytechnic London and Man-
One killed
in Calcutta
- riots
Calcutta, July 4, Police opened fire on de
monstrators kiffing ono
and wounding seven in
Gauhati today.
The demonstrators, demand- ing that Assamese be made the state language, attacked shops and homet belonging to Bengali- speaking residents. Adawngto-dark curfew was clamped où Gauhati, second city of, Assam state, fallowing the vio- lence..
The Bengali-speaking popu- lation, a minority in the state,
oppases making official Assamese the language--AP.-
Raft of
missing plane?
Bodos, July 4 An object resembling a raft has been spotted in the sea near the Arette Norwegian Hear
·Isle halfway between Norway and
the
was educated at Regent Street P
bergen Island,
had remained at the scene of the clash and with- drew only on Saturday.
Air Force Earlier the leader of the op-
taking part in The Nepalese Party leader, Dr K. J. Rainali, position, Mr. Bharat Shamshere, chester College of Tedmology. rescue planes
He was a Member of the the search for the missing moving a resolution to discuss
reconnaissance plane today declared that there was the clash, said the Chinese Institute
of Electrical RB-47
reported this evening that it no need to strengthen Nepal's
He had been with Lancashire hat sighted the object Boating sation agreement was more im- The three had attended the dress border defences, and blamed violation of the border militari gineers.
rehearsal of Fashion Fiesta Tibetan Khamba tribesmen for portant them the kiting of one Dynamo and Motor Co., Ltd. in the seasome distance from sponsored by the Hongkong last week's "unfortunate
and Jardine the land, and that it might Matheson and Co. Lick, Hong- be raft from an aircraft," Society for the Protcellos of ident" in which one Nepali Nepal citizen. "This is trea-Manchester,
kong. Children in the Gardens of was killed and others captured chery to a friend," he said.
the The co-ordinator of - "Eucliff", Repulse Bay, the by Chinese troops..
search, Norwegian evening before,
centre chief Rolf Bentzen said, too much He was also director of Fir however,that not Line Trading Co., Ltd, Vanhope should be pinned to the couver, BC Canadian Fir sighting-AP Steamship Co., Ltd, Hongkong Knitters Lid, Hongkong Weavers Ltd, Hongkong Dyers Ltd, Hongkong Traders Lid, London, BW Parquet (Malaya) Ltd,
who The party were on their way' lo He criticised those
where Mr MacMillan's car claimed that Chine was ex was packed when the col- pansionist, and said he did not dent occurred,
completely accept the Nepal government's version of the 'Mustang incident.
The town with
liveliest
the
politics
Bydney, July 4 Aldermen had to restrain the
The people of the dayNew South Wales outback town of Nyngan are excited today W they await what ir expooted to be another fiery class tomer. row night - bosween. Nyngan's explosive, wigs wielding Mayor and ike outspoken editor of the town's howie
ell
Knight, Nyngin' Coon»
hold a spe
ing, and it the sinflar to those Cornell' mesting
Russianshav 6 | Tomer, stretched out their ten- tacles to within: hitting distance of American shores and it te difficult to seg how there is any pos ability of getting out of i the impasser desde The United States bluff his
been called and it is pu
lous that Mr Mikoyun ay recent visit to Cuba har Zoald Fore
A
But he said China should not have moved her troops into the 12-mile demilitarised area with out informing the Nepal Gov cmment
Dr Raina said be had In- formation that Tibetan rebek were entering Nepal with arms, He did not know whether they were being disarmed by Nepali 1roops.
Rejected
Alderman Wren bad ordered Mr Campbell out of," the chambers, (olaining he - WIS. interfering with the conduct of the meeting,
The Prime Minister, Mr B. P Mayor Wren said it was a Koirala, today rejected the likely he would and a man claim made by Mr Chou Ex-la,
the job of bouncer at his letter of apology yester
day on the Mustang clash, that
mayor as he leapt from: hla seat, produced six-foot horsewhip, and advanced "on Mr Campbell, Indications are that tomorrow night's meeting will be Just as lively, perhaps more of Alderman Wren said today he
tomorrow night's meeting,
was trying to hire a "bounce" "But I have asked Nyman the Incident took place on
to help him control the
"Nightclubs employ, bouncers to throw out drunken Dairona, I want one to throw out orderly Alderynen - Bad
Wes
police to attend the meeting Tibetan territory to stop any unruly ⠀ ber
maintain that the in- havio
cident took place on our ter ritory "the" told the Nepale Parliament;
Mr Campbell that
63 Mr. Koirala also
Even if Nepal agreed to give up: 10,000 square miles of her! territory bordering Tibet, Chiba would still not be satisfied. Reuter,
Chinese hand
back
prisoners
Katmandu, July 5, The Communist CHI- nese today handed over the body of a Nepale army officer, killed in o border
Chinese
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Kuala Lumpur, Sino-British Cambodia of
(Malaya) Lid, Singapore, Ta Hing Trading Co., Ltd, the Fir Fine Lad, Fir Steamship Co., Ltd, Compania De Navegacion Abeta" SA, Fortuna Garments: Ltd, Globe Textiles Inc., Daya UMAN was also a
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He was also director of Mountain Lead Mines Ltd.
An active personality with many friends, Mr Gomerakl was a - member of the Juantor Chelon Cab and Hurlingham Clish, London, and chaltioRIT OF the Muude Society of Hongkong from 19587
ARME FROM SHANGHAI
Gomersall came
her
support
London, July 4.
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Belish For- eign Secretary, his sent s etter to Prince Norodom
theek of Cambodia: Ing him of Britain's, myport fer, Cambodian
Jetter war stated to have been delivered last week › Cambodian Toreign M
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