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CHINA
GI-9
No. 37898
Established 1845
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1961.
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LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents
Father of man who disappeared
of the WONG SIK-PUN
day
Visit to Peking?
TIME, 10 would have Thought, would have done something to simplify the West's problem of bow to deal with China. But the years have not only ron firmed China's apparently implacable hostility but lu creased her intransigence
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to the extent that it now finds difficulty living in harmony with its neutral neighbours, It has in addi- tion squashed Tibet, turned its back on nttemple at con- ciliation, publicly proclaim- ed its belief in war and given several illustrations of its recalcitrance. -
new
administration hous taken over in Washington but the Formatu stumbling block remains, And Br Kennedy is no more likely
to repudiate Chiang Rai shek to the satisfaction of Mao Tse-tung, than Presi dent Eisenhower. And
there is not even * giram uf hope, for while Mr Khrushchev
released
1wn American airmen, which he was undoubtedly holding hostage for just such an occasion, Mr Ken
nedy still has to lament that Peking has made no move to free the five im- prisoned Americans.
It is against this background that attempts to get Mr Harold Macmillan to under- take a visit to the Chinese; capitai have to be seen, for even though Britain's re- 1 lations with Chinn are on a less strained footing, what would such a visit achieve?
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KIDNAPPED
Police launch Driver trapped in bus A-scientist
big_search
for armed men
The father of
a prominent Chinese businessman who was kidnapped in mysterious circumstances a few years himself kidnapped this ago, was morning.
He was Mr Wong Sik-pun, manager of the Over- seas Trust Bank, Ltd, adviser to the Bank of Tokyo, and father of Mr Wong Ying-kau who disappeared about two years ago and, despite an intensive search by Police, was never seen again.
A full-scale police search is being made for the three armed men who seized Mr Wong senior at gunpoint at 8.15 am today.
Helicopters, tracker dogs and road blocks are being used, and a large number of Police have been called in to search for the kidnappers.
Sketchy details
Details of the kidnapping are sketchy, but it is under- stood that Mr Wong left his house at 18 Perkins- road, Hongkong, at 8.15 this morning to go to his office.
Three armed men were waiting for him in a car. They seized him and drove away, The car was understood to have been found later abandoned in Wanchai. The Police later issued the following statement through
the Government Information Services: widespread search is being carried out by the Hong-
kong Police following the report that Mr Wong Sik- pun, father of Mr Wong Ying-kau, has disappeared.
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TR Macmillan has the "In the report, received by the Police, Mr Wong is
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reputation of an
ice.
breaker. He is also one of
the most able, and patient. statesmen of
Dur Lime.
But the point the Prime Minister has repeatedly mnde is that there must be some sign that China Itself wants improved relations not only with Britain in particular but the West, including America, in gen eral before Ruch a velture can be attempted. And he has said this without speci fcally ruling out a visit to the Chinpur mainland. This is the right attitude to adopt-to remain open and receptive to any response China should make. For in the meantime much has to be done to clarify attitudes
in the West, in
the Com-
alleged to have been kidnapped by three armed men in Perkins-rond, Jardine's Lookout, at 8.15 am to- day."
MR AND MRS WONG YING-KAU
monwealth and particularly No man in Level crossing
in the new
ministration on the Peking Government. For if Mr Mac- millan is to attempt a visit to China, and if it is intend- ed to be something more than a goodwill-inspection tour, he should be able to speak for the West and noL just Britain.
Pa who are pressing the
M Frime Minister to meet
Mao with no more idea of anything useful emerging
from their discussions than
further trade improvements
And
sputnik
Moscow, Feb. 10.
A top Soviet space scientist today dented that there was a Inan or any animal Hfe aboard the new Soviet sputnik weigh ing rix and a half tons which was launched six days ago.
of
the
disaster
Gallon Ohio, Feb, 0.
At least two people were killed when a passenger train and a lorry collided at a level crossing near here today.
A dining car overturned arid caught fire ind Bremen cut through the
10 metal
rescue
Professor Leonid Sedov, passengers. Chairman of the Astronautics Another carriage also turned Commission
Soviet on its side. Academy of Scientists, sold in
First reports said at least 24 Interview with Pravda,
Police mid the lorry, carry- ment pledging support for was expected to burn up on re-ing eggs, hit the side of the the five principles of peace-entering the atmosphere "in the train. Neither of the lorry's two ful co-existence, have ob very near future,
occupants were reported hurt.- violely not given this
Reuter, The sputnik carried no equip- matier very careful thought. ment for space research, and Personal contacts are un- the actual launching of such a doubtedly useful but only if heavy satelliie into an accurate thero la promise that some-orbit was the inala object of thing valuable will come of the experiment.
a wishy-washy state- \ quoted by Tass, that the satelit peuple were taken to hospital.
them. And It is difficult to
"No special system for the (sato)lito's return to earth was
see how any better under-provided for in this experi- standing could emerge from one visit. Mucmillan la cer- mental launchlag" by added.
tainly no Montgomery and he is not going to embarrass his allies publicly in Peking on the Field Marshal did, merely to curry favour withi
Мао.
ΑΒ
Reuter.
RIOTS IN INDIA
Jubbulpere, Feb. 9.
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Russian plane fired on
PRESIDIUM PRESIDENT
ON AIRCRAFT
Algiers, Feb. 9.
French Government spokesman here con- firmed that French fighter planes had intercepted a Soviet aircraft north of Algiers and fired warning shots today. But he catch that the Soviet, nircraft and followed this by plans had entered the French | cutting across its course, zone of responsibility withoul "In conretion with' fble an international fight plan, barallt attack, the Sovlet Gov- The Soviet Government eromal protests resolutely 10 charged that a French plane the Government of France upon bizzi and opened fire upon which falis the entire responsi-
the Soviet aircraft carrying bility for the notions of the Protidlum President Leonid Brezhnev to Rabat,
by
French armed forces."
The plane carrying Brezhn Tho charge, reported
continued ta Rabat, where Morcow radio, was included in Moscow radio said the President a formal protest to the French was welcomed amid cheers of Government delivered the tens of thousands of Moroccans. Kremlin by Soviet Foreign But the protest said the Affairs Minister. Andrel Gromy | Sovlets "demand that the guilty ko to French Churge d'Affaires be punished and measures be De la Granville.
taken to prevent such incidents from recurring."
Over course
The
Brezhncy charge sald
Rabat, was hending toward Morocco, en route to a Stato visit in Guinea, when his Soviet civil airliner IL-18 was buzzed over the Moditerranean
north of Algiers.
Pass on
The French Charge D'Affaires accepted the protest and said he would pass it on to his | Government, Moscow radio sald.
-Reuter & UPI.
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MACMILLAN made n
The protest said: "A tive engined jet fighter with French identification marks sudden appearance and дерт proached the alrerakt thres Any dangerously closC,
"While coming up to the rie- said, Phe Aghter erat," it twich opened Dry on the Soviet
London, Feb. 10. The Primo Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan is 67 today.
neuter.
Speaker and deputy subject
of
•
censure
London, Feb. 9,
Both the Speaker of the House of Commons, Air Harry Hylton-Foster, and his de- mly. Bir Gordon Touche,, aro the subject of Cenzure motions.
soon as there is samo Four people were killed today This is thought in Parliamen prospect that China in intercommunal clashes in
towns nvir Jubbulpore, would welcome this meeting two
of sceno
disturbances which and that some positive PC- broke out a week 'ego. sults would atêm from it, Twenty-one people have been that is when Mr Macmilion (killed and di lajured in cinahes should be on his way, between Mortem nn Hindus The time to 'uno an Ice In the aren, following an alleged breaker is when the thaw gint who was subsequently re
criminal assault on a collego starts, not at the height of ported to hava committed the winter. frooze, :;
suleidę---Router,
tary circles to be at UR- precedented situation. The cenatro motion on the
Speaker is not regarded serious as it is only 'tabled by a private member, Mr Sydney Kilverinan. Bat the proposed
motions
Alr Sliverman is protesting Riley was hanged.
agabut a ruling that he could The not ask a question about George Riley, hanged today ho was for murder, while under the death sentence.
Bir Harry Hylton-Foster hat
ho would not take it his ruling WAS
said
amiss tested The Government will oppose dir Silverman's motion on the ground that it is established praditos that the Höyal preco- gative of meroy by reprlove in capital cases is not discuss- side in the Hazeo of Commons. whole of the Labour oppor)- | This Is the jague, that Mir Silver- ilon.
man wished to raise before
censure of bla' deputy "la" backed by, the
on the
censure motion deputy Speaker regrets that he accepted a Government motion for the closure of last night's health services debate, contends that this "Infringed the rirlits
minorities"
of
because many members willi wished to speak and the minister had not yet replied to points made during the debate.
The debate on the Speaker's ruling will be next Thursday.
It In expected that the debato on bla doyuly will be taken on the same day --China Ma Apecial.
Firemen at the sceno after falling 60-foot elm tree had crashed into the cab of a Lou- don Transport double-decker bus in a high wind in Ealing, London, on Monday. The driver, Mr Frederick Turner, 29, was trapped in the wrecked cab for about 20 minutes and rullered severo Jeg and chest injuries. The bus conduciress was his wife. She and three passengers were alightly Injared. Nearly 50 men worked to free tho trapped driver.-AP photo.
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disappears in Britain
Washington hint to Moscow
Washington, Feb. D. The United States has quietly told the Soviet Union to avoid London, Feb. 9.
stirring up· trouble, while the A 53-year-old British atomic new Kennedy administration is
scientist has been missing in lis formative stage, for a week from his post Kremlis
Word has been passed to the through diplomatie the Atomic Energy channels that should Moscow Commission laboratorios try to take advantage of the
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at Salwich in northern new Washington government England; it was learned while it is still getting its for- eign pelley bearings, the United today.
States will resist more' stiffly Police of Blackpool,
where administration.
and quickly than the previous celentist Donald Ford Phillips lived, acid that his disappear-
This weg learned
tonight- after Washington strategists be- Kan FL. his atomic research work, while US-Soviet relations.-AP.
ance had no connection with
spokesman for the Atomic Encigy Commission declared that Phillips' work was not in the least secret.
The spokesman cald Philips ked teen doing analytical work connected with the production of uranium-barul fuels far atomie pilea,
broidscale. review of
Lady Chatterley's
Lover burned
Phillips might have been a
Edinburgh, Feb. 9, vielim of amnesia, a Blackpool D, H. Lawrence's controver- pollee inspector suggested. sial novel, "Lady Chaiterley's The relentit had dicappeared ¦ Lover", was burned in public in after work a week ago on Edinburgh by Miss Anes Wednesday, after having told Cooper, a 62-year-old former his wife that very day that he missloriary In the Belgian, felt fine.-AFP.
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Cavities
Tokyo, Feb. 10.
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around her.
crowd gathered
One thousand of Takyo's |...... She said that alhough she 5,500 dentista went on a 24- had not read the book fully she hour strike today to demand an was convinced it was 'evil. increase in basic denial fers That which is Satan's should under the Government's health be returned to Satan," she Insurance plan.-AP.
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