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Commons debate on RB-47 incident
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Of The LABOUR HIT AT U.S. BASES
Day
WHERE WILL IT
ALL END?
ERHAPS
Purbing feature of the the most dis-
Recond Civic Association- Reform Club statement on their forthcoming visit to Britain is that both groups
fail to realise that they are taking not the first step in constitutional reform, but & further step, and it cannot be the last. And while some will sympathise with their immediate aims, the complications they are likely to give rise to cannot be overlooked. They are asking for eight
elected seats in the Legisla tive Council. It is possible that they will settle for four or two, so long as the
Demand US. fires rockets
for
effective
control
London, July 20.
Mr George Brown, the Labour opposition's Defence spokesman said today Britain must demand effective control of U.S. bases in Britain.
the
He made it clear he could not continue his support for Ameri- can bases in Britain on terms on which United States alreraft at present use them.
Lo
principle of elected. repre- He told the House of Com- sentation in the senior mons this in referring
·legislature is accepted. But Anglo-American talics ΠΟΥ what guarantee has the going on in Washington to public that within a few clarity the arragements under years of getting what they which the United States uses want, one of their number the bases. will not stand up and de- clare that "we are a sop to the principle of elected representation" and that
the
Legislative Council
He said, "This time the agreement inust be a compre- hensive one.
"It must provide for effec- tive British share in the con-
American banes."
must become à proper trol of the operations from Parliament with real power and real responsibility or else pack up.
Mr Brown was opening a de- bate on defence called for by the opposition largely so that 4 could air its views ca American fights from Brilish bases which might cause inter- national incidents, such as that of the RB-47.
TOLD IN FULL
Gwill be recalled that re- marks similar to these were made by Mr Brook Bernacchi this year in the Urban Council. It is all very well to argue that the members of the Civic Ass0- ciation and the Reformi Club are responsible men fully aware of the dangers
He said the British Minister of pressing the issue too must be in a position to know far, but they do not seem what was going on. He must to be
aware of the con-be able to intervene in time to sequences of their demands be effective if what was going and of the effect on the local on ought not to go on. economy.
"We must this time be told in For here is the danger: by full what the terms of the agree-
widening the franchise, thement are," he said. Reform Club and the Civic
There has been too much to Association proposals tend
divide the population, worry people in the past months for us to accept again any as- even more go than today, surances that these are too into two categories-those secret and too highly important eligible to vote and those for us to be told," ineligible. Granted
to
those
Mr Brown then said:
ORL
from ocean depths
Washington, July: 20, .......
The U.S. Navy sent two Polaris bollistic missiles thundering from the ocean's depths today, UT
The atomic submarine George Washington lounched the first Polaris tešt vehicle ever fired from beneath the sea on a 1,100 mile successful shot.
Then, to demonstrate its new might and mobility with the 28-foot, two stage rocket, it shot, a second Polaris from the tubes of the $100-million submarino almost three hours later.
The Polaris firings brought the Navy's fleet ballistic missile system to the brink of becoming operational.
Two submarines equipped with the Polaris, capable of hurting nuclear tipped warheads from out of the depths of the world's oceans, are to go on sea patrol fate this year.
Before then, new longer-range and more powerful Polaris missiles may be ready. The new operational models may double the range of the Polaris, already capable of hitting the heartland of any continent from off its shores.
The George Washington was cruising 30 miles off the missile test centre at Cape Canaveral, when it triggered the Missile.—UPI,
Pharmaceutical factory
planned for HK
One of the biggest American pharmaceutical firms, Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, is planning to set up a factory in the Colony,
range
Mr H. D. Arneson, President, I leave for the States on Satu- of Foreign Operations for the day," Mr Arneson said.
Asked about report that the firm, told the China Mafl the Hongkong factory will produce a new plant would cost $3,000,000,
of basic phar- he rerused to comment. wide
The maceuticals.
reasons for selecting for . Besides catering
the Hongkong as their subsidiary local market, the products will production centre are;
First, there is a great be also available for export to other Far Eastern countries.
demand for phar- Technicians will be flown in
the Far from America as soon as the plant is constructed.
Mr Arneson, who arrived by air from the U.S. three days ago, has been busy making contacts and arrangements in connection with the establishment of the factory.
:
maceulicals Eastern countries. ·
Secondly, Hongkong has the advantage' of
being a centrally located city with good transport facilities- ideal for distribution.
Thirdly, the Hongkong plant will enjoy all the advantages
Industries of operating in this free port.
Amory's resignation
poses a problem
Post may be given to Lloyd
London, July 20.
It is now almost certain that Mr Selwyn Lloyd will shortly quit the Foreign Office to become Chancellor of the Exchequer in place of Mr Derek Heathcoat Amory who is expected to resign from this post, political sources said today.
Top Israeli physicist
arrested
They said that Prime Minis- ter, Mr Harold Macrhillan, would · announce 旮 Cabinet reshuffle at the beginning of next week but it was not yet known here who would replace Mr Lloyd as Foreign Secretary, --
Mr Lloyd who is in favour of a rapprochement between Bri- tain and the European Common Market will now be in charge of
economic the Treasury · and affairs.
The names of a number of Ministers have been mentioned recently for the Foreign Office succession and the latest tip was Israeli security police have the Earl, of Home, currently arrested one of Israel's Secretary of State for Common-
Jerusalem, July 20.
top physicists on suspi-wealth Relations. His name has clon of espionage, it was been mentioned with insistence announced tonight.
during the last 24 hours in the who will be given the vote
He is looking for a site sull- "I want to make my own post-able for the construction of the will be drawn from certain
House of Commons lobbies. as it is થૈ
A professional and tax-paying tion plan. So long
Haifa police, spokesman
DIFFICULTIES groups and may therefore proper end necessary require plant.
It is not yet determined
And fourthly, labour sald they were holding Prof.
The appointment of Lord is cheap...
Kurt Site, 50, head of the be said, to deserve this ment of membership of the
Secretary Department of Halfa Homo na Foreign privilege. This may keep kind of bases here, but not
aMiance, I will support these whether the factory will be
Mr Arneson is accompanied Physics situated in Hongkong, Kowloon
on this trip by Mr. C, G. Technicon-Israel's major en- would create certain difficulties everyone happy for, say, the terms which have been or the New Territories,
and would also break with "But the plan is well under- Clark, Divisional Manager for gineering college. the next two or three years, operating up to now. That is
The spokesman said the 20-year-old tradition according way and must be finalised before the Far East. not just possible."Reuter,
Czechoslovak-born scientist was to which Peers do not hold the suspected, of passing
Foreign Office post, formation, to the agent of a foreign power.
UT what happens after
Bthat when the develop-
ment of Hongkong and the inevitable increase in living standards COX- siderably enlarges the pro- fessional and tax-paying population? The disparity between those who will have earned the right to actually vote and those eligible will again make itself felt. There will then be fresh demands to widen the franchise and to in- crease the number of elected Councillors to represent the bigger electorate. Where will it all end? Rother than seek a political solution which is beset with so many difficulties,, it might be pre- ferable for 'Government to consider strengthening the Legislative Council along lines suggested by the China Mail earlier); this. year. That is by increasing unofficial membership to
Kaifong group begin
tour of
Britain
Left to right: Messrs Salomon Rafeek, Chau You, Loo Wan-yden, Gan Geok-eng and Cheung Kum-tim,
London, July 20.
about 20 to include appoint. Five men who played a leading part in social welfare work in Hongkong today began
month's visit to Britain as guests of the Colonial Office.
ed experts in special fields.
They are Mr Solomon Rafeek, Their tour, arranged by the They will see land settlement Mr Caru. Yau, Mr Cheng Government's Central Office of activities in. East Anglia. Meet Kam-am Mr Lee War-yuen, Information, will take them to local government officers and
Cambridge, Bournemouth, Nót- voluntary work and Mai Chen Cleok-eng.
We said then and say again that the basic weakness of the Hongkong system is not that there is so fully red presentative parliamentary FOUR well-known tingham, Edinburgh and Gläse kod skupia Scot Estitutior hat that there bunemer while the fifth his dow, and allows for two periods have discussions 8 no forum in which the post in a Hongkong dockyard, for interviews and discursions In ORDER
ower in London, UKENTANG DAN
In A Fon big lasues of the day can all occupy hith
their distriop Kalfont Associa During their British four the falls at
visitors will have widemrend | and befaleed, discussed and tom attled publicly by peopleThey are mos by Mr opportunities to study British matted to do so and in HT GAINCHI
ith and social welfare ser- tioni fouch with public opinion: Choer, Hongkon
op
The spokesman said Prot Sitte was atter
Investigation Security police.
The spokesman said Prof. Sitte, a recognised puthority on
arrested on June 15 the
RED CAP' GIRLS
FOR HK
· Five girl - ʼred ̧ capt (Military Police) NCOs, the first 'members of a WRAC 'Provost, “section ever, to serve' with the army in the Far East, dre shown at the war office in London. They will fly to Singapore and Hongkong. They are (left to right)
·Sergeant-Major Joan Hall, 26, of Palmers Green, Lan- don) Corporal. Jeanette Popper, 19, of Liverpool; Lance Corporal Lavinia Griffiths, 25, of Birken- head; Lance Corporal
·
Mary Pearce, 21 of Leatherhead, Surrey; and Lance Corporal Diane Salisbury, 20, ⋅ of Mill- brooke, near Plymouth, Devon.-AP photo.".
UN troops have
right to
enter Katanga
United Nations, July 21.
Mr Dag Hammarskjold told the Security Council
last night UN troops have the right to go any where in the Congo including seceded Katanga Province.
a
The
UN Secretary-General Mr Hammarskjold spoke after that Mr said he had so informed Mr reports circulated
Patrice Lumumba, Premier of Moise Tshambe, the Katanga the Congo, planned, to fly to As it Feer, Lord Home would Premier. The Premier has de New York to address the Coun- be unable to spel in the Houseclared that rich province in of Commons, and, If he were dependent of Congo rule and appointed, the Prime M the bus warned UN troops to stay would have to take on the out.
heavy burden of justifying his government's foreign policy in
costale radiation, has been held the Lower House.
in custody since his arrest,
However, come political
He was recently engaged in observers
believed that M
a research project for a Western Maxmillen would be pleased to
government to try to find effec- do this,
tive protection against cosmic
radiation in
The last Peer to have been- manned space flight Foreign Secretary was Lord Prof. Sitte, a non-Jew, is 4 Halifax (1938-1940); former inmate of Buchenwald Another favourite for the concentration camp. Since the Foreign Office, succession was end of World War I be hos Mr Edward Heath, currently worked in Britain, the United Minister of Labour and sald to States and Buzii.
be a protege of the Prime') He joined the staff of Techni- Minister, and nonERS con six years ago-UPL
STOP PRESS
U.S. warning
United Nations, "July 21.
The United States served notice in the UN today that
in the Mid-Beat Bewil
the NF-
dal Bervice
out of the
The name of Mr Harold Wat kinson has also been mentioned He is currently Defence Minister and it may be recalled that Me Macmillan himself was Defence Minister before becoming "For- eign Secretary in the government of former Prime Minister Bir Anthony Eden.
Political sources here believed that Mr Lab Macleod would be unable at the present, juncture to leave the: Colonial ". although he has made no pe of his ambition to bett
become Foreign Secretary one day
Mr Duncan Sandys wel known for His Strom-EM pean" opinions, appears to have
Wishing the Foreign Ofice Mr. Sandys Minister of AR stood to be con
Matadi deserted
The
Matadi, July 20.
Moroccan United Nations contingent In the Congo marched Ints" the once bustling Congo: pors" of Matadl this afternoonR and found It runsucked and practically deserted by the civilian population,
Some 2,000 rebel Congo-
· Icso midlerg > completely!! taken by surprise by the Moroccans filed before them.“ The UN forcés⠀⠀⠀ consisting - of! lws companies" of the Royal Morpocka" forces: Ind by Moroccan Commander- In-Chief Colonel Driss" diä „not fire a single shot, wate
Of the 1,500 Europeans who once inhabited the port only four. Forlagutse and one Belgian reimüindë.
narek old
night
Cou
withdrawal
e
A Congo representative, how
ever, said Mr Lumumba has post- poned his trip and would come later.
the
The 29-nation Asian-African group announced before. meefing opened that it wanted complete withdrawal of Belgian forces-AP.
Minister
arrested
Elisabethville, July 203 Mr Justin Bomboko, Con- golese Foreign Minister, was arrested at the airport here today when his air- craft landed on its way to Albertville,
Armed Belgian troops detain- ed Mr. Bomboko and a com=" panion in the aircraft until the arrival of "African troops who took them into custody and re- -moved them from the airport,/?
It was learned that the pilot of the aircraft teaming of ME Bombalog's presence on board, radioed whend to alert the Katanga authorities Bom boko will be held in Katanga unil he can be expelled.
Authorities in Katanga, which pis seceded from the Congo kut ing week, bave aiready laken steps ons to expel the central army com demand mander and emissaries of the
Leopoldykite Government.