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Comment New move to launch campaign aimed at ending war of the DE GAULLE GOING TO ALGIERS
day
50 years old
TUBILEE Year: a time to
look back with pritle, to reflect with thankfulness, to ponder thoughtfully on past tribulations and trials: a time, too, to look forward with hope, to plan with resolve and to lunch into the future with fouth,
This will be the chief com- cern of all those associated with Hongkong University! in this 50th anniversary of Its founding. For this is a landmark in
its history. appropriate.
ly coinciding with a stage of momentous development in the Colony's own history unlike Any it has ever The course to be known.
taken by the University in the future will therefore -best be decided by a care- ¦ ful study of present day conditions and needs.
If the past has one lesson for the University it is that thero has never been, until recently, sufficient stimulis to bring to full flower an Institution that has been budding with promise for the last 50 years. Local well circumstances -- enough known →→
conspired to retard its growth. ADUCATION in Hongking
E
or
was a rare and expensive Juxury. The local business. community moreover sither imported talent from abroad else sided with the observation Lord Melbourne once made to Queen Vic- toria: "I don't know why they make all this fuss about education; none of the Pagets can
read or
write, and they get un well enough".
But to its everlasting credit the University weathered Its difficulties and alded by a number of splendid gifts, survived public in difference. And today its position is unassailable. And how will the University develop? It is worth think ing how helpless and ham- strung the Colony would ba today without its own uni versity-trained doctors, teachers, architects and en gineers to realise how necessary consolidation and expansion is for the future. A survey of current needs
is essential but that is not enough.
Jelso it
¦
Vote receives Latest The cat that draws
mixed reception
Algiers, Jan. 9.
President de Gaulle intends to fly to
Algiers to launch a new move for nego- tiations aimed at peace in Algeria by next July, responsible official sources said here today.
3 killed
in
clashes
Algiers, Jan. 9. Two Moslems and ono European were killed today in clashes in small towns near Algiers.
funeral
At Boufarik a crowd of 1,000 Muglents wending demonstrated with rhouts for a Moslem Algeria and cries of "Ferhat Abbas to power."
They clashed with European clvillains, stoning one to death. One Moslem was killed by a shot, reported to have been fired by European civilian.
At Batna, 1,000 Moslem de- monstrators parader 021 Lise
outskiria of the Iowa and clashed with troops who blacked their path.
Several soldiers
were wounded and one Moslem was killed when the troops dis- persed the demonstrators.
MINOR EXCITEMENT There was another Moslem Tlaret, demonstration
where there southern Algeria, was bloodshed during the ferendum poll. No casualties were reported today.
re-
Minor excitement occurred in one Algiers suburb but groups without Moslems dispersed
u
dirorder.
to Aiglers, riot police dis- Secondary groups of persed
children school "Algerie Francaise."
The French President is cx- preted in Algiers-a city he has shunned for two years because and European hostility agitation against his Algerian
month polity-later this early in Febuary.
of
D
With the backing of a massive "yes" role in the national ru- ferendum on Algeria's future, he is now determined to over- Fich his turbulent
A
striking
news
London, Jan, 9.
wretched smell" sent 400 car workers on strike at the Rover factory at Solihall today.
Rover officials mited-but found nothing
from apart ordinary industrial incils.
This made no difference to Bald they the strikers, who would not return to work until the inditrating fumes ecased,
Rover officinis feared that a further 600 workers would joln the unofficial strike tomorrow.
THREAT
London, Jan. 0. Five thousand employees at a threaten- opponents Peterborough factory
unless 15- and has drafted, a peace time-ed to strike today
your-eld Spencer Howden was kept on the payroll.
table.
Good reason
A Ministry of Labour doctor had ruled that Spencer wps under-size for a craft appren-
He has good reason to belleve tice. Spencer, nicknamed "King that a renewed offer of negotia Size" by his workmates, la only fluns to produce a cease fire in4 feet 7 inches tall, weighs only the six-year war will be favour- 84 pounds and wears size three ably received by the Insurgent shoes. chiefs, the official sources said.
The
factory management quickly offered Spencer a job as a clerk and the strike was averled.
In
Damazeus today, an "Algerian provisional RDV- ernment" spokesman wald the referendum results were unfair and the insur- genis would carry on their. siruggle until they won complete independence.
An Insurgent spokesman In Tunis said "there can -be little doubt that the results In Algeria were widely fal-
sißed,"
In Paris, spokesman for President de Gaulle's office
said: "Talk of fresh con tack with the FLN (Insur- gents) is premature."
President de Gaulle, the spokesman said, had been *immensely strengthened by the referendum results both here and in Algeria for his taak of seeking peace and buliding $1. петь Algeria."
Campaign opened
Mr Jacquce Coup de Prejac, shouting offieint spokesman of the chief government representative kere, Europeans in Algerin, many told Reuter today: "I think we of whom are disgruntled over can now 3 that the self-
TUBILEE Year, whatever the result of the referendum on determination campaign
does, focusses General de Gaulle's "Algerlan public attention on this Algoria" policy, were asking opened."--Reuter. institution and its contri-today, "What next?"
or
The Echo d'Alger headed its bution to society. A jubilee editoriat, "Yes to what?"
fund appeal
to be "The bead of state will not opened and the extent to be slow in giving us one which expansion can take
more answers on this subject place will depend un the answers which may be hard to community's response. We swallow," the newspaper said. go so far as to say that the The Journal d'Alger, which Jubilee celebrations will be backs De Gaulle, described the
referendum ns "a blank cheate In vain unless they manage stimulate wider public
to
new
interest in the University, In addition to planning ahead, the University will be con- Acious of the need not only to maintain but improve existing standards, and to these to whatever ppply
vontures it under- final takes.
word: In every stage of its pre- sent development Hongkong has had to plan carefully within its means. If what it has done is worthy and commendable, it is because necessity has dictated it, imagination and skill have gone into its conception and quality of the highest order ha characterised its crea tion, Similarly the university must progrean if on the occasion of its next great anniver- sary the authorities are to he deservingly generous to the prosont administra tion as Sir Robert Black was yesterday to men like Sir Frederick Lagard
other founding
fathers who wore responsible for giving Hongkong' á Univer- Bity which in turn has given so much, to 'Hong- kong.
to the President of the Republic to settle the Algerian problem." WIDE OPEN
General de Gaulle
The rond was wide open for to "impose solution, the
newspaper
his
satd.
Kidnap victim
dead
Portland, Ore. Jan. 10.
has
on
On
The body of Beverly Ann Allan, who was kidnapped 27 It adder that one of the not- | November
by her boy able features of the poll in friend's killer, was found Algeria was "the discipline Monday in a brushy area be- which
the army
had clearly sido a highway. shown towards the
Govern-
The body of the 10-year-old ment."--Reuter.
University of Washington student was found by highway workanen 37 miles west of Portland,
Plane crash
Wichita, Jan. 9.
The three-man crew died in
Her boy friend, Larry Ralph Peyton, also 19, was found dead in the front seat of his parloed' in a lovers' Jane,
The sheriff's office mid it
car
the Baming crash of an Air lacked, a good clue to Payton's Force 47 medium Jet bomber slayer and the girl's kidnapper. near the mouth edge of McCon- | OMeers speculated more nell Air Force base today.-AP. } one person was involved.—AP.
than
RETURNED
London, Jan. 9..
More than 000 technleins, on strike for the past nine weeks. returned to their jobs today ti the American-owned Catepillar Tractor Company's factory near Glasgow,
A go-back agreement was reached at the Ministry of La- our offices in London last week which provided for negollation regarding the dismissal of two shop stewards.
on
The • stoppage began November 2 following the dis- missat of the two shop stewards and developed into a dispute over union recognition.
LOANS
London. Jan. 9. Two
unions more
have decided to help Belgian strikers with loans.
The Communist president of the Scottish prea of the
National Union of Mineworkers. Abe Moffat, said Scottish miners and accided to send £1,000.
The Lancashire textile factory workers decided to give £500. Union Congress The Trade last week announced it was lending the Belgians £50,000,- UPI & China Mail Special.
GOVERNMENTS AND MORE GOVERNMENTS
President Government
Paris, Jan. 9.
do Grullo's while crie- brating victory in the rÒ- ferendum on Algeria today also celebrated two years in office the first zovern-
survive s0 ment to
long since Mr Raymond Poin- care's which lasted from July 23, 1920 to November 6, 1028.
Out of 138 governments belween 1875 and 1939. only eight fasted Itoro iban a few months, Not one of the 22 cabinets of the Fourth Republio (1945 two to 1058) survived Year-Reuter.
A
.
3 escape
from
prison
London, Jan. 9. Three men broke out of a London jail during the night, led by 38-year-old Harold "Rubber Bones" Webb, so called for an amazing series of escapes including two from high- walled, Isolated Dartmoor prison.
Webb was serving four years at Wandsworth jail here for shopbreaking and carrying bur- glar's tools at night.
When he was sentenced at London Sessions In 1950, the deputy chairman described him "man of obvious intelli- gence and ability and consider- ible ingenuity.”
Last night he took with him James Kiernan, 34, serving four years from May last year for breaking-in and receiving, and Harold. Jacobs, 35, who had just storted a three-year sen– tence for conspiring to steal.
IN ITALY Among Webb's escapes in- cluded one from Naples, Italy, In 1945, when he was serving three years for stealing on Artny vehicle. Cooper: "I just the
Webb claims in all 11 escape who opened
from Dino: including
close military arraİ,
art
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jor sketched
London a man riding a harsC cat called "Topsy" har exhibition. Artist Dr George Cooper, of Hertford, whose 54 paintings are on show at Foyles in Charing Cross-road, London, taught his two-and-a-half year-old black cat draw by hangis, 7 a crayon on a string against a drawing pad. Topay holds the crayon in her front paws.
Dr But the drawing, although on show, is not for sale. Sald 47-year-old
thought Sir Albert Richard son (past president of the Royal Academy, erhibition) might be amused to see it." Topsy, a stray who walked into house in 1958, has done about sir drawings. PICTURE SHOWS: "All my own work” says Topsy with her sketeh of a
Express photo,
Belgium recalling
more
troops
from Germany
Brussels, Jan. 9,
The Belgian Government decided at an extra- ordinary Cabinet meeting tonight to call more troops back from Germany to deal with con- tinuing strike riots.
Violence today centred on and Mons, where Charlerol troops and polico fired warning shots when they clashed with strikers who attacked telephone exchanges and nowspaper offices. A government communique tonight küled and two injured in
sold one person wat
Charleroi in what were des cribed as accidents at road bar- rivades thrown up by strikers.
A government source re- fused to give details of the ac- eldents, but said the barricades
Icy roads
cause havoc
London, Jan. 9.
mostly comprised holes dug In Snow and ice on British- cobbled roads followed by plies of cobbles and other obstruc-
fast driver Lore which into.
Warning shots
Riot
run
police reinforcements moved into Antwerp port to- reports that night following ngitators were infiltrating to stir up trouble in a mass de- monstration tomorrow,
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оп
roads caused havoc to traffic and several acci- dents
the throughout country.
Nine passengers were injured when a London-bound coach kidded on tee and crashed into a house at Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
truck
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of corrosiva
Dr Cooper's"
man on a horse-
FOG BLANKETS
HONGKONG AND MACAO
The Arst for of the year
the blankeled
Hongkong approaches today, hamper- Ing marine navigation,
As the harbour area is covered in light misi only, LILO seasonal change la westber has not interrupt. ed air traffo at Kai Tak,
A
for spokesman Royal Observatory said at today bat fog enshrouded Waglan and the South China const.
доса
tho
It is likely to divar up towards evening, he said,
Macao residents also ex- perienced their first fog of the year in the morning when harbour traffle was hampered and buildings at the mid-level of the city were enveloped.
However, thero reports of collisions either in Hongkong or Macao,
Forecast for today: Light variable winds. Becoming cloudy and misty after sunset for the Inbour
were no
'I will be back'
Were
A Home Office spokesmin said that in last night's escape, the three tmen, who occupying the same cell, got over the prison wall with a Topo of sheets and blankets.--- China Malt Special.
MACLEOD NOT LAST CS
London, Jan, 9. The Financial Times today printed a long interview with Mr Iain Macleod in which he said he thought It "very unlikely indeed" that he would be Britain's last Colonial Secretary. *** an certain," he added, "that I have my hands very Iuli
now.
The Foreign Editor of the newspaper asked him,
"If you were a European settler in any part of British East or Central Africa, how long would you ex- pect final' control of your affairs to rest. with Mr Macleod or bla successors in London?"
IN "INTERESTS Mr Macleod said control would Jan Just as long as the Government United Kingdom
felt they must retain it in the interests of all the inhabitants
the territories.
The Colonial Secretary was questioned as to his attitude towards other countrice assist- terrl- ing Britain's dependent torfes-in view the limited volume of public funds avall. abit in the United Kingdom.
Mr Macleod said they wcl- comed assistanco from other frkndly countries. in the free world, and, of course, from the United Nations-China Mali Special Shannon, Jan. 0. Princess Margaret
-Margaret
Smiling
a 10-day visit to Ireland with Lost memory
husband, Mr Antony
policeman found
Bristol, Jan. 0.
In Leeds, two policemen were Police In Charlerot today used taken to hospital after the van fire hoses and fired warning in which they were taking P shots into the air when strikers young prisoner to court collided dew home to London today after attacked newspaper offices. In with a car on an ley road, The Mons, police fired warning shots prisoner was unhurt. and threw teargas bombs when
Part of the London suburb of her they repulsed attack by Streatham was sealed off today Armstrong-Jones, hundreds of demonstrators
15 carboys whon
"I will be back again and 1 the local telephone exchange. acid spilled onto the road from will look forward to seeing
TIDSS Earlier, troops folled a
a lorry which skidded und invasion of the southern Indus-
Margaret told tree. China hail you," Princess trial town by "Socialist
com-
Special.
Superintendent Philip McMahon mandos," some of whom were
of the Irish Criminal Investiga.
A policeman who took a job us arrested and taken several miles
a dance hall bouncer while suf- tion Department, Ho header a outside the city In Iorgies
fering from loss of memory was 23-man bodyguard during her being treated in hospital today. where they were freed to walk back to town-Reuter.
Constable Alec Jöhn, 34, dis- The bodyguard was to shield on December 17 for treatment of japparired while going to hospital her from diehard Irishmen who head injuries ha received when still thing the six counties of bat was beaten up by threa Northern Ireland should be hoodlums.
He was identified' when the part of this Republic. But not
"nasistant manager at the dance Irishman made a hostile hall aw bis picture in a news-
Want fine for murder DRUNK IN CHARGE
unill January 17.
OF BABY-£2 FINE.
London, Jen. D.
DAILY MAIL UP
BY 700,000
stay.
London, Jan, M. The London Daily Mall clashed at a nearby nativo
which last October absorbed market with Folice reported that During had
been battered to death, by Folloo said 'they' thought - the Farmworker James Loveridge, the opposition News-Chronicle, one iron bars and lengths of chain-{
market brawi and the murder - 20, was fined £2 today for be today announced a recond leap inove.
in circulation of 709,000 coples when a niob atlacked him -in
were entinepted.
ing drunk in change of a baby. the grounds of Cathollo. It was though the brawi_began,Apolloman told the court day
"No such comparable increase milon hospital.
when a woman for whom s that he had to help Loveridge man had paid. "belds price” off a bus while Loveridge was hen over before been achieved Teft with another, man--| carrying hls 14-day-ohl daugh-in daily neweber history"
"the Daly Mail Mid--UPL ter, UPI. China Mall Special.
Port Moresby, Jak, 9. Four Papuana charged
having murdered anallyo yesterday in the grounds of a mission hospliai sald today' In
court they understood, the charges and "wanted a fine.” stipendiary Marlsteste. Mr N. Two hours earlier, reports said,
·200・ tribemmon гост rival
Q'Conns heard evidence of
arrest, and remanded the meu ) - groups in quaiern New Galuon
Princess
J
paper.
John's wife, 30-year-old Margaret and mother of two children, Bald: Armstrong-Jones spent six days «zi is wonderful, to know that with his mother, the Comtem of he is safe, But now I face the Rosse and four with Lady" de misery of his not knowing who
I am"-UPL Vesel, a sister,~~AX”.
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