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Army chief decides to close down embassies
Of The REDS GET MARCHING ORDERS
Day
Local men
at the top
MTJY
I has taken the local will surprise many that
government 100 years to appoint a Chinese onlelal as Chlet Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs. It is not in sense meant as criticism of the expatriate officer who has given long and loyal service that we say this but the rate of introduc- tion of senior local civil servants into the top ranka of Government seems to be making slow headway. Hongkong is admittedly not working to any timetable, nor is it committed to policy of replacement of expatriates as in the newly independent territories, butj there are good reasons why Government ought to lay greater stress on training and prepaving local men for the most senior posts in the public service.
T
any
TUIS has nothing to do 1 with appeasing critics who accuso exputriates of being out of touch with
local feeling, nor is it con- cerned with current moves to give local people 11 greater say in the adminís- Colony.
tration of the
Neither is it a suggested economy measure directed at savings. in expenditure on housing
home leave
salaries and fares. But it has a lot to do with that word "partnership" which officialdom Lakes great care to stress whenever they pay tribute to the progress of present- day Hongkong. For the
fonction and purpose of
Soviet, Czech envoys DEATH FOLLOWS LUMUMBA'S INVADERS
told to quit Congo
Brazzaville, Sept. 15.
Colonel Joseph Mobutu who took over control in the Congo yesterday announced last night he had decided to close down the Soviet and Czech embassies as from today.
He gave the Soviet and Czech Ambassadors 48 hours to quit the country,
From journalist to
Chief of Staff
Leopoldville, Sept, 15.
Colonel Joseph Mobulu, Chief of Staff, has held his army post since the Congo was declared independent on July,
He has been practically the acting head of the Congolese army inco General Lundula, named by Premier Patrice Lumumba as army commander, was sacked by President of the Republie, Mr Joseph Kamvubu, on Monday,
CoL Mobutu, who is only 30, was formerly in the "Pubila Force" (army) for seven years unser Belgian rule in the Congo. A brilliant soldier, he was appointed lo a job as military newspaperman in the news service the Public
Force (newspapers and radio). In 1956 he quit the Public Force to work as a regular newspaperman in the daily news- Baner "Avenir", and was one of the Congo's first African journalists,
Col. Mobulu soon won the respect ut his superiors and colleagues and 'gained a reputation for moderation and good sense both among Africans and Europeans in the Congo- AFT.
Drug-crazed tribesmen
kill and loot
Elisabethville, Sept. 14.
Hongkong has undergone All Europeans are being evacuated from the
considerable change Ist
recent times. Hongkong is
110 longer needed by Britain
for the same
reasons that prompted it to take over the Island in 1840,
ITS evolution
into
north Katanga town of Manono where 70 Africans have been reported killed in clashes between drug-crazed tribesmen and Katanga police.
Swedish troops of the
UN
planc
Col. Mobutu charged that the Soviet technicians who were currently 01 Crump Leopold, Leopoldville, were really "Rus- sla officers disguised as civi-
lans**
Colonel Mobutu also strongly attacked East European Com- munist countries. He was giv» ing a pruss conference late last night, contents of which were broadcast from Brazza- villo (Frenoli community, Congo) radio station early this morning.
Another act by Colonel Mobutu was to lasue a cease- fire order to his troops on the strife-ridden Katanga fron
tier.
Col. Mobutu took over tem- porary power in the Congo Yea- terday, in #n army scup to "neutraliso" the two rival Čon- goleso governments. army Chief of Staff,
He said the army artion is "not a military r ip but a simple peaceful" revo;ution." -
He said the army's action was LOW TRIAL CONTINUES IN DISTRICT COURT
"to help the country out of the deadlock" caused by the rivalry between Mr Lumumba and Mc Kesavubu who" has" appointed Joseph Ileo Premier in Mr Lumumba's place,
Col. Mobutu said the decision to "neutralise" the government affected the Parliament as well as the President and Premier,
The reason
The army took this action, he said, "so the politicians will ·baye time to try and reach an agreement with a view of better serving the in- tercals of this country,"
bitter There were seven white men in recent are ying from Bitenbethville and 73 Africans, mostly women years
to reinforce the Irish company and children. 31 coxmopo- litan commercial and in-guarding the 70 whites from One baby born only today dustrial
bands of
tribesmen was corried metropolis
Is the
from the meant that while Britain is believed to be Baluba sup-while the mother hobbled pain- still held responsible for porters of Mr. Patrice Lumumba fully down the steps,
who are roaming the town the
Many of the women and tooting and burning shops. children are the families
African police at Manono, TOOK DRUGS
Two more aircraft carrying refugees were expected to arrive here tonight and the airlift was to be resumed tomorrow..
Gf
its administration, Colony's fortunes and pro- greas depend on a public Hurvice that embodies the ideal of partnership and Reports so for received in which draws on the culture, Meate the uprising started when experience and tradition of Africans took drugs and were According to reports, white the various peoples who given charms by a local witch-women at Marumo declined to have been the ingredienty doctor. He is said to have told Lake the first plane out, be- of Hongkong's'
them the charm would protect | lieving the Afrleans woro In poatwar them from death,
greater danger because the poiler The .white population of camp was one of the first tar An added important reason Manno, have been gathered in gets of the uprising.
for encouraging local par- one spot and are being protest- A European who arrived in tielpation In the most ud by UN forces,
the DC3 sald the church at senior levels of the civi! Katanga authorities
said Manono had been sot on fire and service is that Hongkong is Balubu tribesmen ambushed a the roof had fallen in. part of a rapidly dwindling police patrol yeterday
He said the Africans were "as
BUCCESS.
colonial empire and the The police drove them off. ferocious as lions."-Reuter, time is not far hence whenkibing three and wounding two,
a colonial service career Since then there has been will hold out too few further fighting in parts of the prospects, and too little town and in surrounding areas. A pilot who returned to Elisa- after flying supplies
acope and encouragement bothville
to attract from Britain men into Manono today, silid: "When of the calibro Hongkong circled the town I saw some knows today and needs thing was wrong. Shops were the future.
burning."
Manono
S Government doing Commandant Plures Barry of I enough to provide future the Irish UN For aling mari Administrators for Hong ed yesterday Katanga police, kong? It is paying the best numbering cbout 60, as well as salaries and giving the
a platoon of Kalanga gendar- best conditions of service, merie, were slowly driven back; but it might do more by by the attacking Africans. offering University scholar
ships
to public appointees 10
service make
aure that in the years to wild"
REFUGEES
Tho commandant 'sald the Alricans had been running and eventually the come it will be able to Katanga forca had gone ip the place Joenl mon I, UN troops today and asked for positions up to the rank protection, because they could
Coignial Secretary,
no longer datead themselves.j There have been Isolated. The UN troops had disarmed.
cases of senior postings, them as a preliminary, to pro- | already. But when they are tection, made regularly, Govern DC3 aircraft is known fo ment may be sure that it have landed at Maciono about will be giving the greatest
take out räfitrees.- dusk possible encouragement to Marie landed at Elisabethville Later a DC3 piloted by Jan. the intelligent and talented tonight with 30 refugees and a
· Hongkong' youngster to dog from Manona, Mr. Marka make his career. In tho claimed that this "must be a
public service.
work record load, for a DC3.
Lam Chun-Kit ‘nigger
in the woodpile'
Lam Chun-kit, a former clerk of Wilkinson and Grist, was re- ferred to as "the nigger in the woodpile" in a letter written to the senior partners of the firm by Robart 'Eli Low.
This
Was
Mr Cooper said that reference to Lam occurred a letter written by Low.
Given to police
year?
until
Mr Cooper: That is correct. I suggest to you that you had not notably drawn the attention -To of the police to the memoran- have to dums themselves one of the satd documents I gave to Mir Harris when he called 'at the office was the power of attorney and also I told him that the power of attorney was referred to in the
Cango Premier Lumumba's invasion troops-300 strong advanced ten miles, into the breakaway province of Katanga Jan Friday. Picture shows two dead tribesmen. They died
• because they stood in the way of the terror march of Lumumba's troops, through Kasai province, lait bastion bet fors breakaway, Katanga-Ex- press.photo.
One killed· as plane hits hangar
Dallas, Sept. 18.
.
The crash also crumpled the nose of the plane back to the passengers" "compartiment. UPL
Col.
Mobutu's broadenkt stunned
.rovealed this the capital. Most
Mr Grieve: Is it right to say for the defrouding? - Yung: during morning observers had been watching the
the cross that neither you nor your part-Dicks- examination of Mr B. rival
N. Iner brought Mr camps of
either of the At a later stage in August, A Braniff International Airways Cooper, a partner of the Arm, memoratums by Lów Kasavubu and Mr Lumumba.
and last year, Lam was dismissed. - DO-7C,; with seven, mechaniem Ironically, bath leaders had who testifled before Judge P. R. Poon, to the attention of
the You had received a letter from
aboard and taxing around the. claimed the unmy's full loyalty. Springall at the Victoria District police
September Jast accused in which it said "Lam side of a hangar,, wheeled Count..
- suddenly and, with 'all 'four Chun-kit, I think, might be the Col. Mobutu sald the Congo
hub by will be
nigger in the woodplic." What "Congolese Low is charged with fraudul-
engines roaring, crashed into a technicians and foreign special- ont conversion, corruption and
was your attitude towards Lam]] = hangar today, when that letter was received? The crash killed one man and ists led by us (the army) to conspiracy.
the
wnswer the question, I injured five others. save the country from chaos.".
n At the United Nations, the
tell you what: Lam Security Council today refused
(Contd. on back page Col. 5). to give a seat in ita Congo de- bate to a delegation appointed " by Premier Patrice Lumumba,
The vote was not a‘final, de- "It is perfectly plain that once elsivo pellon against Lumumba, again, accused is pointing a file, A Polish motion to seat the Anger to one of the frauds - Lu Did It not occur to you that Lumumba delegation, headed which Lam subsequently plead-it was very much in the interest by Thomas Kanza, was defented gulity and with which accus of justies and in the Interest ed by fallure to gala the ed himself is charged," arked of the accused that the necessary seven votes in its Mr W. P. Grieve, defence memorandums and the
letter favour. The vote actually, was counsel.
should have a: ORCO been 3-0 for the Polish motion, with "Yes," replied Mr Cooper and brought. Lot the notice at Russia, Poland "end Ceylon also agreed that the letter re Inspector Lal?-Low had been supporting it and the other ferred to th memorandum interviewod on eight council members abstain- which Low had made
several day by Insp. Lai sometime in Ing.-UPI & Router.
day of his departure.
December last year. Wo assura- ed at the time that the police know full well of the contents. The memoranduma were in the file re Sing Woo-road.
Soviet officer testifies:
on the
RUSSIA READY FOR SURPRISE NUCLEAR ATTACK ON US.
"I believe that the Soviet dictator- -ship would undertake a surprise attack if the folr she could win in one stroke," he said,
...Washington, Sept. 14, Capt. Nikolai. Fedorovich ̈ Arta- monby, a dafècted Soviet naval officer, testified today that Soviet Russla Kas been preparing for a surprise nuclear
"Make no mistako--they are attack on the United States since 1955.: power seekers, mot political idealísto. DayThe 32-year-old Russlan said that \. "Mr Khrushchev, does not wish to
despite Mr. Nikita Khrushchev's public. **wait: Indefinitely for the United States. declarations favouring disarmament, to become a socialist state; by ravalu- Sövlet military forces have 'bean under tion; moreover, he does not believe this orders to be ready to touch off. án 'will happen. He would like" tó" see it. Immediate nucleur attack on "America," take place in ¿Nis lifetime!) PARAgu
Capt Artamonov, decorated com.The comm/fen named its withoss mander of a" Soviet naval" déstroyer" until he escaped to the West in June: 1959, gave this tastiniony to the House Committee on un-American activities.
only this morning, saying, it was the first time, the ' had been ” identified "though" he had"boek? In" the United
aban, nince last year,
Brokerage
two
On the question or brokerage, Mr Cooper said the office was against it and that if the inter- preters were receiving bruker», nge, it was outsido their low- Jadgo.
Re-examined by Mr Bodilly, Mr Cooper said. Lam was dis mlased after Low went on leave. **Mr Bodilly, then naked. When | Low went on leave, who, as for as you were aware from in- formation you thon" had, "were you suspecting of fraud? N
Mr. H. . . How, also rest presenting Low, objected to the question on the ground the. answer would be hearsay,
Mr Bodilly pointed out the Information he meant was the memorandumns and tho, letter,
Other information?
Mr Bodilly: Did you have any other information regarding the matter except the documents far your "powaematon/?106, 20
|| Me Cooper: Yospita
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