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Police get orders: 'Don't be soft to anyone'
Of The THOUSANDS
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GOOD ADVICE
L
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PERTH
Dome
gavo particularly appropriate ad. vice to the unovicial MLC# on Wednesday night which they should pundar parofully. He told them that their job was "to keep Government on their: toag because that is what we want." As we see it, that was an invitation to them to come out of their shells, to be more opinions, forthright in their
their direct in
asd. above
to be inorD
pronouncements
all, to make a point of speak-
Ing out in public.
In. Hongkong there has existed Communista ince the
ever
took over China a "Don't rack the boat" mentality which is carried to an absurd degree. This mentality dictates that' Government shall never be robuked publicly ae it mo In the mildest possible terms, t addition many of the unoffi- clais acom to be under the Im pression that public criticism and forthright comment is Incompatible with their posi
leaders, as community
above that they should be that kind of thing, Moreover they misunderstand their position. They are not, as they seem to think, working on a committee. Nor are they Government's confidential ad. Viners. The unofficials are in Legislativo Council as the re-
tion
presentatives of the people,
and if the public is not able 10 so that their Interests are then the properly protected, unofficials are not doing their job.
two schools of
THERE are
who
are
thought about the unoffi. cials: one that they are "yes man", the other bellaves they do much good work behind the sooner. We say they will not be effective unt!! they carry out the public's business Peoplo In public. anxiously concerned about the current demand for constitutional reforms have to face the fact that frustra tion and impatience arising from the present system is largely the cause. We cannot have a proper Parlja. ment in Hongkong but that is no reason why there cannot be regular debates on current fegislation ot matters of public Interest, and no reason why questions are not a tea ture of our Legislative Coun.
Rahman's
warning on West
New Guinea
New
Many hurt, arrested
in clashes
Paris, Oct. 27.
Nearly 100 people were injured and hundreds more arrested in Paris and the big provincial cities of France to- night in the worst riots since General de Gaulle returned to power in June 1958.
Riots, demonstrations and strikes in Paris, Lyons, Lille Dunkirk, and Marseilles marked the "action day" called by leftwingers in support of a negotiated peace to end the six-year-old war against nationalist insurgents in Algeria. In Paris, police balon-charget huge crowds of leftwing and rightwing demonstrators outsido a "Peace in Algeria" meeting In La Muftinlite Bank Hall, and in Lyons 20 people were injured in
similar the main clashes between groups,
Smoke bombs
Washington, Oct. 27. Malayan Prime
In an official communique, Ministor
Paris police headquarters sald Tengku Abdul Rahman 485 people had been arrested warned today that In-
and 38 police had been injured, donesia might invade
West
Semf-omcial reports Dutch-held
tonight put the casualty 1st at 60 de- Guineo, unless a peacemonstrators. .ful settioment of the
territory's future reached sooni. Speaking
to the National Press Club, he made a public bid for U.S. support of his still secret compromise plan for once between The Netherlands and Indonesia on the issue.
Yesterday he usked the U.S. Government for "moral support" of his mediation efforts, which he said provides for United Na- tions participation in a settle. ment.
Speaking bluntly in answer to questions, Prince Abdul Rehman said, "Holland will never be able to defund that place....I trouble breaks out, it may not be
there. And confined
when
Strong forces of police, with "Don** be soft to anyone orders charged both leftwing and rightwing demonstrators outside a "Peace in Algeria meeting the
in
huge La Mutualite Hall on the Left Bank
or
of negotiation and other groups chanting "Algerie Francaise."
About 20 demonstrators were treated for Injury in hospital A further 30 were arrested., about 80 per cent of workers its factories of the clly staged work stoppages,
Tear gas
In Angers, eastein France, meeting calling for after a negotiations, several thousans! People tried to fornia pro.. cession. Pulles broke it up with long guo borabs and baton charges. Several were injured, including ene seriously.
In Rouen Normandy, tear gar trunades were ing during riceung and there were clashes between leftwing and rightwing groups.
Earlier today It was an- nounced that General de Gaulle would address the nation in a televised speech on Friday. November three days after anniversary of the the sixth Algerian struggle.
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RIOT IN FRANCE
No change in Hongkong
FLOOD
bank rate likely'
"There is not, likely to be a change in Hong- kong's bank rate," said Mr G. O. W. Stowart, Deputy Chief Manager of the Hongkang and Shanghai Bank this morning.
Mr. Stewart was ask- ed whether the cut in London bank rate will effect the Hongkong.. rote.
The half por cont re- duction in London rote is only
small change," he said,
"The move might bo...- aimed primarily to ro- fiore pressure on the dollar by discouraging 'hot money, a large amount of which has flooded the London market to profit the high interest rate."
(Since the London interest rate went up to six per cont on June 23, an incessant flow of foreign capital — up s to US$500 million by September has pour- ed into the London market where US$300 million was used in "relending" and the ro maining US$200 million. invested in short-term sterling bonds),
Another reason could be that the hire- purchase business may bonefit from the in terest reduction, Mr Steward said.
A Chinese banker in Hongkong said he bo- lieved tho cut in London bank rata was to help the British motor and
alectric
appliances industrios,
now in a temporary re cossion.
But Mr Stewart was inclined to think that the reduction of half á per cent was too small -to help these industries.
vory much,'
ha
Nevertheless agrood the pound is now "in a vory strong „position,” with reserves of gold and oxchange up to £1,110 million, The rumour of a reduc- tion in the London bank. rate has been in the air for quite some time in the Colony.
Local banking circles predicted yesterday, on hearing the change in London rate, that there will be little change in locat
low
ratés" "because, they have been enough on the focal market."
FBI AGENTS SWOOP
ON ALLEGED SPIES
Map, aerial photographs seized
New York, Oct. 27. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents tonight swooped down on a Russian cmployed at United Nations Head- quarters and a New York illustrator and arrested them on charges of espionage.
During the meeting, called by the French National Union
Students.
Saurets close to the President Teachers. Socialst and Christian Unions, mid.one main theme was likely three rightwing youths shout. to be a strong appeal for na- ed “Algeria is French" and lonal unity-on which he has hurled crude
and already insisted in recent tours bombs
the of the French provinces-Beu-nounced teargha audience. They were pounced❘ter. -on by angry leftwingers,
smoke into
Outside, police were ordered
† trouble breaks out, the Como disperse a crowd estimated
ait sessions. In short, there lu munists are sure to take advant st
no reason why our unofficials age of it."
act like
carnat
the
ге-
In his prepared address he presentatives of the people In said that he had presented his any other Parliament even ideas though they are not elected. Unless they assert themselves and win popularity and glad
of dia rcopact, the rumble content we hear today is going to grow louder,
for a settlement of the Issue to Indonestä and "1 am to mention, that after several attempts Indonesia has way to meet thege come come suggestions of mine."- UPI.
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between 15,000 to 20,000,
which was chanting "Peace in Algeria," "negotiate" and "put the paratroops to work."
Shock force
armed
A shock force of at least 3,000 police, many of them with three-foot long riot sticks, carved up the demonstratoru into groups..
There were brief but bloody clashes between police and lertwing groups including well-imown politicians - and also between police and right-
the
The Justice Department an- agents seized the two men at
arrests from their homes in New York. -Washington minutes after U.S. Attorney General William
'INTIMATE DETAIL WAS ENTIRELY NECESSARY'
Anglican Bishop defends
'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
London, Oct. 27.
wing demonstrators shouting A Church of England Bishop went into the witness box here
"Algerie Francaise."
In Lyons, about 4,500 demon- strators, chanting "Peace Algeria" clashed with
in
police, who blocked roads to prevent them reaching the city centre and threw tear gas grenades to break up the crowds,
There were also skirmishes between demonstrators in favour
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Johannesburg, 'Oct. 27. diamond weighing at least, 184 carat haa'been found on- the waste hoop of the Pre- mler, Mine near Pretoria by an. African, worker' named Thompson' Bitolo,
Sitole handed the diamond. to
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BUSMEN'S PAY UP.
London, Oct. 27. Delogates representing London buen decided yester day to accept pay increase offered by London - Transport
·which will cost, tao, ne tionallsöd “service about £2,250,000 a year;
today to defend "Lady Chatterley's Lover" against ́a charge of obscenity,
PENGUIN BOOKS
LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
en triái,
thut in
"
The Bishop of Woolwich told proper language to talk about
They matters.
werc a jury
his view the sexual
clinical discussed in author, D. IL Lawrence, had either "tried to portroy the sex relation terms or with words usually as something sacred,"
thought to be course or obscene. the The Bishop, who has a sott "He wishes to find and three daughters, contended language in which, sex. can be. plainly tind not that Lawrence could not have discussed left out his descriptions of irreverently, and to do this he the tries to redeem the normally. soxual relations between well-bred Lady Chattericy and obcene words and use them in ls entirely the gamekeeper of her husband, a context
The bishop added: "I think serlous," Mr Hough said, prith Lawrence tried to portray this Mr Gerald Gardiner, defence relation as a real sense of counsel, asked how far the des. Holy Communion. For him criptions of sexual Intercourse flesh was snoraznenial of the were necessary, to the theme of splett.".
Redeem
the book,
that
Mr Hough replied: "Entirely necessary. Lawrence is trying. Penguin Boolc Limited, to set sexual situations more Publishers of high-class paper openly and more clearly than back books, are charged at the is usually done in Action, and Old Bailey, Central
Criminal to do this ho must describa 'that Court under the obscenity laws which he purports to represent." Thochso was : continuing ed for, publishing a new edition of
Reuter
The fires bought, the case in
- “Lady Cintlerley, mea
old ban on it lifted (9).
LAWRENCE,
an effort to have the 32-year Rumour quashed
Plut. defence witness was Mr. Graham Hough, a: Cambridge University, Jocurer and iterary
Washington, Oct. 27. The Stato Department a today
orille, who told the court why after contacting the US. Em Lawnmowe Hour-lotter by in Addis Ababa, derived words" and intimate" detal Inrumours eirculating here that Haile Seltsele, had: describing Indy Chatterley's
WAR
All died. in Origin of the rumokira the book, Bir : Hough said that
Lawrence's view there was no not immediately knoWYAMATP,
as the
P. Rogers named the men Igor Yakovlevich Melekh, Russian, and Willie Hirsch, des- cribed as a free-lance medical
lustrator in New York.
Mr Rogers said that Melekh had sought to obtain U.S. Intelligence data in New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and Chicago.
in-
"This data included a map of Chicago, showing military stallations and aerial photo graphs of the city," Mr Rogers sild-AP.
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CHAOS IN ENGLAND
London, Oct. 27. Amphibian-borne. troops and marines moved in to the rescue tonight as flood wators
rosa
menacingly over large
arees
of western and southern England.
Torrential rains over the last 48 hours have sent rivers ever- flowing. Toto the streets of towns and marooned house holders, Flood waters and landslides mide roads impassable, cut railway Unes and
telephone lines down.
HAVOC
brought
The Royal Automobile Club caused reported flooding "havoc
and- choos in the West Country.
Police said the situation In Exeter. was. "veryY serious" after
Exe over- the River flowed and flooded half the city to a depth of five feet. Amphibious vehicles were called in to aid rescue work, Wartim
assault cruit BIKA acuphibious vehicles were also headed for........ Taunton where police sold the situa tion was "slightly improved" aftor a day of, “continuous rainAFP.
Reshuffle of Tories
London, Oct. 27. An announcement is expected soon of a reshume in the junior ranks of Mr Harold Macmillan's Conservative Government,
The Govertiment, has to 10-. placa Mr Robert A. Allan, who
Of recently resigned his post Joint Parliamentary Under- Secretary at the Foreign Office on being appointed a treasurer of the Conservative Parly or- ganisation.
Another vacancy is the office of the Government Whip (party in the House of manager) Lorda, Reuter.
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