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SPARK PLUGS GILMAN'S
Comment
THE WEATHER
Light southwesterly winds. Folr apart from Isolated shower. At 1 pm the temperature was 87 degrees Fahrenheit and the relativá humidity 75 por cent.
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Public denunciations expected as tension mounts
Of The MAO-K SHOWDOWN SOON
Day
Rationing must
continue
THE Hight of
thousands
of gallons of water
pouring to waste over
the
rims of the Colony's reser-
voirs is one that can be re-i
Karded this
year with
is
Battle for
Communist
leadership
Washington, Aug. 30.
little less than the usual Top U.S. officials expect the bitter back-
frustration. Für while our water worries are far from aver, the prospect of Chinn augmenting supplies during
the dry NELSON relieves concern for the immediate future.
The pipes connecting Tai Lam Chung, our bigge reservoir, with the Chinese dam at Shumchum are due to be completed in Noven
Der
Agreement on supply
is still awaited. Assuming it la forthcoming, for the Arst time in years the Colony will be relieved of
the prospect of u
sprink
short-fall or drought. But
even
dock
if Chinese Come
water
insulelent
quantities from Skumchun
it is to be hoped that some
kind uf water rationing
stage fight between Russia and Com- munist China over international Com- munist policy to erupt into the open within the next few months with possi- ble public denunciations on each side.
Berlin
border
closed
Berlin, Aug. 31.
will be continued, at least East Germany closed the
to ensure that the Colony
gets no more water in the dry season than it receives
in the two supply periods a day in summer.
THE
East-West Berlin border to East German citizens shortly after midnight
- tonight..
آدم
[
Exe
the move-
At stake Is believed Husein's loadership worldwide Communist ment at a time when Chinese leaders are demanding a more militant policy toward the West. Tensions between the two Kints of international Cum- munism have now reached the stage where Western authorities bellove a showdown Interna- tional conference of Red kaders - will bó, convened, perhaps in
November.
Caution
Diplomatic experts, while pleased at the signs of a rift, caution against viewing it as an irreparable split in Communist
ranks. Both rivala, desplle their the
deepset differences, hate West enough to forge a common front in the face of any West- en threat, it is believed.
Responsible authorities who hnva been watching this since last January struggle
in
Later I announced that as from midnigli West GermNANS will not be allowed to visit Daet THE reason for this request¦ Bertia without prior permission. have detcoted * mounting
bitterness It would bar West Germans
*comments by for frugality which may seem Birange to some, IN for the duration of a convention Soviet and Communist Chinese In West Berlin of people ex- theoreticians in the past few that Hongkong's water conpelled from the former
wocks. These show in their sumption has been rising Corman territories.
view that the differences are In recent years--sufficient
widening.
East
The convention is due to last
to provoke concern. Ave days. Domestic
and industrial The announcement described needs are growing at such die expelled people as "revenge a rate murever that Shekeeking milturists' meeting in West Berlin to stir up a "cam- pugn of hatred" against the East.
Pik's supply, when comes, will be rapidly ab sorbed. It will be argued quite properly that that is what water IN for-tu drink, not to store.
True enosigh, but the cost of reservoir building-which appears to be the only way to meet our water needs-
Prohibitively
WEST WARNED
At the same time the East German regime warned the
After weeks of being on the defensive, Moscow is now bo- ! lieved to have gone on the often- sive to beat back Chinese cader Chau En-lai's challenges L Moscow's right to lay down the worldwide"Communist line.
Other signs
Other signs show both sides i Western allies against "misuse are manneuvring Leward
of the air corridors for transport of "milliarists and revenge seckers" because the "corridors fre solely And alone for the supply of troops
ideologient showdown!
- Substantial numbers
an
of
Soviet technicians are leaving Conmamist China. US authori ties at first were · reluctant to
of the three Western powers believe this but too many re- ports have come in to dotibt it.
president: ☐ Chinese
Lu
stationed in West Berlin," nguinst
Normally West German visi-
giving the people all the water they want. By the time the Pluver Cave and
tors to Berlin can freely move | Shao,chì is reported pinnning a about the city, including the visit to Russia's enstern Europ eastern sector. Hebe Haven scheme comes
ean satellie bloc presumably to The Banouncement said that whip up support for Peking's late existence, total expen- during the convention, until demand that Communists every- diture on the three main midnight on September 4, they where adopt a more inllitant postwar reservoir projects will not be allowed in the line.
eastern sector without prior
Soviet Premier Khrush-
will have exceeded $1,000 million. This does not take into account the numerous service dams which have been built regionally. In deed one wonders how long it will be before the Vast supply of Plover Cove is taxed to the extent that Hongkong will again have tu lean 021 China winter and spring supply- or build more dams,
fur
[NDUSTRY'S needs must of
INDUSTRY's wet and the
burden of domestic con sumers lightened, particu. Tarty for those who rely communal taps. But there can be fitile com- plaint if wo nie restricted four-hour
זונס
peradaslon from the East Ger- chey, is reliably reported plan- hing to visit North Korea, be- Interior Ministry. Inhabitants of West Berlin į lieved to be a Communist China members of the Allied supporter, to preach Moscow's garrisons would not be affected. line that "co-existence" with by his order.--AP.
the West is a technlent necessity at this time In the continuing drive to communise the world.
Japan faces second
typhoon threat
·
Rivalry
Soviet and Chinese dele- gations in Latin America are reported intensifying their rival programmes to exert more in- fluence in this area of the world. The Chinese Communists reported active in Cuba.
arc
will
The Communist camp seek to keep the Soviet-Chinese
Speed king slows down Well-known
Slowing up before his attempt this Septem ber to become the fastest man on land as well as on water is speed king Donald Campbell, here seen driving a donkey cart during his current holiday in Majoren. He has also been relaxing on and under the water — with his two speed. boats, his water-skis, his aqualungs and an under water cine-camera.—Express photo,.
JORDAN PREMIER'S ASSASSINATION
King Hussein accuses
Nasser of complicity'
Amman, Aug. 30,
Jordan's King Hussien tonight charged the United Arab Republic with "direct complicity" in the time bomb assassination of Prime Minister Hazza Al-Majali,
King Hussein told newsmen The situation in Antman was in the Royal Palace tonight normal today. Shops reopened that two minor employees of the and communications were re- Ministery of Defence were aimed, Bu! Arab and foreign "linked up with responsible embassies, government and people in the UAR.”
army buildings hung their The two time bombs shattered flags at halimast The Royal the foreign ministry yesterday, Palace declared mourning for killing Prime Minister Al-Majali the victims of the explosion for
24 hours us from this morning. and 10 other persons,
A number of suspects have been arrested in connection with the_explosions.
Tokyo, Aug. 31. Typhoon Faye raced toward ght behind scenes and away from Western eyes. But the Tokyo today while rescue tensions between the two have workers in western Japan now bullt
The arrests were made by a to the point where military investigation committee worked to cleanup, de some Western diplomats anti-headed by Major-General Mo- struction wrought by cipate that the velled public hammed Saadi, chief of mill- typhoon Della, supply
will necompany try security, which has formed Клус.
Immediately after the two bomb- with D-mile-an-hour
moving
loga in the Foreign Ministry north-
building. northeast at 21 miles per hour.. Japanese police said, mean- venience but it is a small while, that death and destruction price to
compared. pay
wore mumting swiftly in
to two
periods a day all the year round it will mean some winds, hardship and
incon
Monday,
was
the
with the vast outlays the wake of typhoon Della which Colony already Tacen for smashed western Japan on reservoir construction.
According to the latest report Besides, land is too valuable 25 people are own dead an
under 27 other missing, including an
American whose yacht wank
to be submerged
• huge artificial lakes and
with the increasing pres the Inland seo near Icushimoto
nure on spree, the avail-
able foreshores would bo
on Monday-UPI.
better reglaimed for indus Hillary seeks the
try and housing than
car-marked for water
storage, The Colony should Abominable Snowman
not grumble If rationing
is maintained. We havo
Singapore, Aug. 81.
Bir Edmond Hilary; conqueror
hind it long enough now to of Mount Everest, arrived here necopt it as part of the fast night enroute back to the routine of life. We can go | Himalayas In search of the Abo- on doing so indefinitely. minable Snowman--UPI,
denunciation the feud-AP.
STOP PRESS
Dotained
Commllice sources said a messenger boy from the Press Bureau where the second bamb exploded had been do- talned for questioning.
Two other messengers who elisappeared several hours be- fore the explosions were be lieved to have escaped to Syria, the sources added.
KING' HUSSEIN
Omcial sources pakt 41 people wers injured in the bombings, Arenan talo today accused bot 34 as earlier statert.
agents of Damascus, capital of King Humain, Mr Dahjet the Syrian region of the United Talhoun, the new Prime Minia-Amb Repubile, of carrying out for, and senior army officers at the bombing.
Jordan lended a funeral service hero
programmes today for Mr Majali, The late were still suspended except for Premier's body will be buried [official communiques and read- at Kerak, his hometown Los | Joga from the Koran,...UPI 'and southern Jordan,
Fretter:
radio
Hussein's
message
U.S.
zipper makers to
open plant here
A well-known American zipper manufacturing con- cern is going to set up a plant in Hongkong late this year.
Talon Inc. will establish the factory in Castle Peak-road near the Hongkong Spinners.
The Hongkong factory will car for garment manufactur- ers in Far Eastern countries..
Building construction for the factory is already underway.
It will be staffed with about 50 workers and equipped with Talon machinery to be shipped here from America.
TECHNICAL ADVISERS
Two
will
engineers
arrive from the United States late this year to be in charge of the technical maiters.
Raw materials will be obtain- ed from sources all over the world.
Acording Lo Mr William Wakott, Manager of Connell Brothers (HK) Ltd,- partner of Talon's new Hongkong factory, "the Far Eastern market is big, "gen than we can supply."
The plun will materialise in November or December this year when Talon's International Division Vice-President may arrive in Hongkong to put the new factory into operation.
JOINT VENTURE
Tolon will be responsible for i the manufacturing side of the plant while the Hongkong part- ner, Connell Bros., will look afier soles of the producía,
Talon decided on the Hong- kang venture in view of the fact that garment imports, Inte U.S. from the For East had contri- buted to the shrinkage of the domestic market for their zippers.
Mr Lewis Walker, President of Talon, said "We don't intend to import zippers into America.
Hongkong germent industry makes
of zippers from Japan, West Germany, Spreden ond USA.
use
}
Arc
There
five local, zipper manufacturers also supplying the local garment factories.
But by far the major suppiler is Japan according to official in- formation.
'Young Marshal' still kept
to UN chief under custody
Amman, Aug. 30. King Hussein today .cabled MG Dag Flam- marskjold, the UN Beore- lary General, urging all 'friendly and peace-loving
nations to be swarn of Jordan's difficulty in pre- serving her treedom, scou- rily and' Integrity,
News of the cable came a little more than 24 hours after bomb
explosions killed Jordan's Prime Minister, Mr Hauza Majali, The cable also expressed ́. Appreciation of Mr Ham- marskjold's action in at- dering his special emissary, Signor Pier Spinelli, to return to Jordan, #in arder to merve the cause of justiod."
Young King Kefi WALA greeted with thun. derone.
applause .fromt thousands of people today, ›when he drove to the hosptial to visit theo
› wounded' in the explosions.
Reuler,
Talpel, Aug. 31. Marshal Chang Hsieh-liang, son of the late Manchuria warlord Marshal Chang Tao-lin, la still under cus- tody in a suburb of Taipei, It WAS authoritatively learned today.
African sentenced
to death
ULRICA SCOTT-FORBES
... The murdered artist,
Capetown, Aug. 30. John Denis Eacoline, 20- year-old coloured man, was yesterday sentenced to death in the Supreme Court here for the murder of Mrs Ulrica Scott-Forbes, 57-year-old artist.
Mra Scott-Forbes--who was commissioned by the Queen Mother in 1954 to paint a portrait of Princess Anno-was found last May 10, in her flat here sufforing major burnsTM She died in hospital the next day.
According to ovidence at the trial, she had been beaton, 'criminally, assaulted,
strangled and burned. Routar.
U.S.-British
agreement on bases
London, Aug. 30. The United States and Bri tain have reached 'agrée- ment in principle on new terms for the use of Bri- tlah bases by Américan planes, diplomatic sources Bald today, O
The "Young Marshal," already 60, now has been held a prisoner since the dramatic Blan coup of
Only details remain to be December, 1938, when he kid- napped Generalissimo Chlang, settled before the accord, is released him and went to Nan- completed! king to "atone for his sin."
It was. Ho took abode in a spring re- sort: in Heinchu, south of Tal- Britain wl be given a bigger pol, when he was first flown here way in the use of the bases, os- trom the mainland in 1941:
In recent years, according to
understood that
pecially, on the dispatch OE
sources, he has been permitted American planos from these to move around quite a bit, vinis bases for reconnaissance, mis- Intimate friends and very often, 'alaris elona" to, the Iron Curlsin. to spend some time with the
The problem was high lighted first couple.
But he has not been set free by the NB-47 plane incident in the airict mere of the word. last month. The plane shot Denying a foreign wire report down by the Russland over the Bourses said the government
would make it publle if his cus-Barents Sea on July 1 took of jody were to be onded/--AFP. | from Brilish base/-UFL., CÉ
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