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No renewal of undertaking
THE news that Hongkong I will not renew its volun- tary undertaking on textile
will to Britain exports Cause no surprise locally. Thin atlitude has obvious for a long time. it would be wishful But
been
The
thinking on the Hongkong industry's part to believe that this will be the last word on the matter. current undertaking nine month to run and Lancashire is unlikely Kive up without particularly as Hongkong's decision is almost certain to influence the industries of buth India and Pakistan in the same way.
A fight.
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Light or moderate E or SE winds; continuing fine, 1 pm at the Royal Observatory the air temperature 77 degrees, humidity 79 per cent:
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Four killed jumping from top storey NINETEEN DIE IN CLUB FIRE
Disaster in British
town
Bolton, May 2. Nineteen people (11 women, eight mon) perished in a fire which raged through a drinking club in this Lanca- shire industrial town early today. Four of them died mak- ing frantic leaps for their lives into à river: flowing beside the club building 80 feet, below.¦ The 15 others were burned to
The local industry deserves death, Trapped in the club an
Cause of the fire was not Im- mediately known.
the Bith floor of a worghouse credit
making its building. for
taken to well attitude known
Four others were advance, however. It is an herpital with multiple burns.
searching! Pelice and rumen honest and frank declara-' tion which will find favour the sacking building said the with all sections of the in- denth toll could be even higher. dustrial community. It enn be argued that by making
Eleven of the 15 who tied in Anul decision now, the rooms of the Toy Story!
hus Colony
Kiven Club" were women.
by Lancashire ample oppor- Other patrons, prevented tunity to mobilise its de- flames from escaping down the fencen and have strang stairway, jumped shrieking from the windows to the river Croal official pressure exerted
below-their one hope of safety, long before the undertaking is due to terminate. But this was Inevitable since Hongkong has never made any secret of its intentions.
the
Puzzling
WHAT
16
Hit bank
The river flowed in a channel well below the ground level of the building
Bul
the victime missed the water, hit the bank and were led instantly.
some
of
Others plummeted into the THAT is puzzling is why river find were taken out hardly
the statement Was conscious.
lawyer made by
Police searche the river representing the various downstream in case other vic- the tims had been swept away by interests and why
made the current.—AP. Was
in London and not! simultaneously
announcement
only
kong.
in
Hong-:
It might have been wiser if
the industry had organised
a representative delegation
in September or
equipped with a
October, detailed
balance sheet of advantages disadvantages, and
tanc
At
made its announcement to an assembly of textile in-! terests in Lancashire. least the British industry would then have had a chance to pat its point of to make alter- view and native propositions.
Swift justice for French
rebels
Paris. May 1.
¡
not renew Colony will not
deal with Lancashire
London, May 1. The Hongkong cotton industry was not prepared to renew or extend the 1859 voluntary agreement on the imitation of its exports to the United Kingdom, Mr P. J. Griffiths, the inwycr representing Hongkong Spinners Associa- tion, the Federation of Hong- kong Colton Weavers and the
Weaving M Hongkong Association, said in London today.
*
Mr Grifiths
added that hik employers tell it would be better if their attitude were made
from within known Britain rather than from re- ports filtering out of Hong- koug.
industry fell The Hongkong
"utter dismay when, after giving the Lancashire Indus- try three
breathing years it is apparently con- space tended by spokesmen of that Industry that Hongkong shoulder should indefinitely
the the burden of ensuring success of the Lancashire re-
DOCK STRIKE
organisation scheme.
"The Hongkong industry feels fully Justified in thinking that
has done ile part in co- operating with Lanesebire on the latter's own terms, par-
in Licularly
to the regard duration of the restriction."
the The mills represented by
three associations provided about 90 per cent of cotton cloth shipped to the United Kingdom, and were therefore the parties most vitally affect- ed by any effort to introduce Иис
· restrictions at further
present expiration of the voluntary undertaking. "When the voluntary limitation of exports of Hongkong pifccroods Wa agreed SI 1959. The Wongkong Industry
the made
Justifiable and in good natural assumption faith that Lancashire wished. as evidenced by their request at that time, to be afforded a
of three
In years respite
adjust and to which
te- organist.
"It was on this understanding
that the Hongkong cotton.
Industry,
ar rather the kee- concerned
the tiona
wlih manufacture of pleocgoods, imposed upon leelf a quota of three years' duration lo a Co- spirit of Commonwealth operation." Mr Griffiths said, The total cloth import into Beliain had risen by 90 per with cent in 1000 compared the pre-quala Jear of 1958. **This serves to demonstrate that the Lancashire fedualry itself was unable to meet the the demands of mounting domestic market, "It must be of grave concern to Hongkong and all Common- wealth proanores that efforts should be made to restrict their exporta to the UK in such a manner as to permit foreign countries to create new In And expanding markets the UK to the detriment of the
tries," Mr Grimths
AFF.
added,
Hussein to marry
again
KING HUSSEIN
U.S. WILL NOT INTERVENE IN CUBA
Washington, May 1,
Mr Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State told a Senate subcommittee today that the United States had no plan to intervene militarily in Cuba.
The assurance was given in Latin American private to the
1-
clod first by the press before even he or the members of the
ubcommittdy of the Senate | Foreign, Relations Committee were aware of what was going on.
Foreign Relations Committee.
Жале Mcrs?, The told reporters after clared
door had
Senator
chairman,
the
three-hour
inceting.
that Mr Rusi clear that thers to no nude
on the part of the ad- plan ministration to proceed with any intervention American armed
zubcommittee,"
said.
"The Secretary of State made perfectly clear, however, that stories and rumours, saying the administration is planning mili- tory intervention because of the bloody nose we are supposed to have suffered in Cuba, have no basts in fact whatsoever," he
Replying to questions, Senator the Morse said there had been no of a possible naval of Cuba and none
States Government
the
the
In Cuba."
"That is a fair Interpretation said. of the meaning of what of State told Sceretary Beirut, May 1,
Senator Morce discussion
blockade Commonwealth indus-King Hussein of Jordan told his people tonight he has
"What remains is a continus-about future ald which chosen a foreign girl-ation of the status
quo. But if United Moslem but not an Arab Cuba should follow an aggres- might give to Cuban refugees in
Florida. sive course of action-speaking -to be his future wife, In a dramatic broadcast on
here, our base at Guantanomo Amman radio monitored
or commit some other military Senator Morse sold his
in the 25-year-old King
against the full confidence President but Aancee's name is Mona el Hus- act of aggression
Mr Rusk, United States-of course we, Kennedy and
the sein.
would defend our interests and criticised what he called
omission of the United States our honom."
consult with Government to
American republics be-
Nkrumah becomes
TROOPS MAY dictator of Ghana
BE CALLED IN
London, May 1. The Cabinet hold a special meeting today to discuss the increasing dangers of a week-long London docks strike while speculation continued whether troops might be called in to shift perishable foods.
was A statement
expected later in the House of Commons.
Meanwhile another 300 men voted to join the 13,500 already involved in the crippling stop- week aga page sparked off
enlisted wht one
mall firm part-time labour.
Wilh 78 ships affected and
were
Swift justice will be meted halt the port at a standstill meat in Importers were considering fly- out to those involved the abortive putsch in Al-Ing in supplies from Rotterdain geria, the French Govern- and other parts of Europe. ment announced tonight. About 14,000 tons of meat waiting to be unloaded.
than 8.000 tona reporters perishables
were piled up In hour quayside two-arxi-a-half
sheds and another meeting of key ministers presit- 8,900 tons were waiting on un- ¡TONGKONG has given the ed over by General de Gaulle manned ships. HONGKONG given the
Sheltering
M Louis Terrenoire, Informa-: More tion Minister, told after
ihat:
a
ان
ruling
party
Jordanien sources In Balru said they had heard she is netu. ally a British girl whose father is a British officer stationed in Jordan,
hypothetically if it should attack Full confidence
-
Assistance
#t The Senator sald
We a
Bay
WILD
other
said he had
fore deciding to support the
"After deep consideration of refugees and that the operation when a member of the organisa-
was
The stiri has become a Mos- clear that the decision to mount anti-Castro landings.
He sold the U.S. had violated invasion
dreiston lem, they said and thus could the
mude by the anti-Castro Cuban the Caracas Resolution of 1954
for ch calling
consullation have adopted a Moslem name. Accra, May 1.
by conducted
Cubans,
felt President Kwame Nkrumah tonight took over full
my situation I have found I am
that the international Com- executive direction of Ghana's ruling Conven-in need of a partner in my life although they did receive US tion of American States
and of a family," the King said assistance in training, finance
munist movement constituted a and equipment. tion People's Party.
in deep even tones.
The Senator indirectly re- threat to the Western hemis- would "This fecting
ferred to reports that the State phere-Router. the one hand strengthened each time I met a
had opposed the Cuban venture child, boy or girl. I know this Department on is a private question but since I
the White House on have always acted in co-opera- tion with you my people, I feel
Bill has
rough Commons
The
passage
He told a huge rally here it would be his responsibility from to give "personal and executive direction to the party and the Government,"
now on
He announced
be
a reshuffle in it my duty to inform you of my
said plans."—AP. the party heirarchy and ministerial changes would be an- nounced today.
to
reshumic when
He lo expected the Cabinet appointed Ghana becce independent last July.
Не said tonight he had taken over at the request of the committee.
President Nkrumah said had taken over direct control of The party for two reasons!
lic
Tani
Murdered girls found
and that
the other hand had approved it with reluctance.
He said he was satisfied that the State Department, the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency were joint participants.
"the
But he
repeated that
Cubans themselves wanted to
make the Invasion,"
School bus crashes
Moltville, Ala,--May_1. Sixteen children were
taken
to hospital today when a school
Senator Morke announced bus crowded with 40 passengers that arrangements were being careened down an eight-foot made for Mr Allen Dulles, head embankment near here,
Patrolman George of the
Central
Intelligence Highway
line.
Holland, Mich, May 1.
today found the Agency, to give secret testimony Davis rald the crash was caused Police here bodies of two girls who were to the full Senale Foreign Re- by a brake failure when a hot
Committee later
this section of tailpipe fell off and A hydraulic
the 10 spokesman said
zuffered youngsters
multiple cuts And bruises, possible fractures and several suffered from concussion.-UPI.
Unaware
the
scen
on Saturday when lations they went out to gather tulips.week not only on what he call burned through
The bodies were found buried ed the "Cuban flosco" but on
all round under dead leaves not far from CIA activities
Iay world. Near thern their homes.
cartridges, an Cinrty shotgun.
He said that Mr Rusk today A warrant was out for the
had given an objective, factual Boy investigator said.
arrest
of
16-year-old Scout. James S. Stephens, and open-breasted statement to subcommittee "reviewing whose blood-Emeared bicycle the
the early stages of the plans to were found in a
train Cuban refugces in various lane near where the girls were
last seen.
parts of the Western hemis- The girls were Morgand phere.”
that The Senator and
the Chambers, 12, and her friend
training activities had been dis-
and sweater
President Nkrumah, founder and life chairman of the party, London, May 1. now assumes the posts of party Government had a general-secretary and chairman
committee. of its central rough
tonight passogo with a bill for subsidising a new ocean liner destined for the highly competitivo trans-Atlantic route. "The Russians launch a man
O 1. The country, led by into
and the British space launch a white elephant into the the party, was entering a "new political solution regarding the ocean, moaned one Conserva-struggle for the total liberation tive Member, Sir John Vaughan- of the African continent." Morgan.
• 2. At home the country Sir John was one of several and
BOYCOTT 1. Three hundred
Members of Parliament who had entered a new period of in- technical revolu- arrests tentional or not, of shelter.atty
and hundreds of
Mr Jack Dash, Communist objected to giving millions of dustrial and an appointed searches have been carried out Ing behind
Arms and a leader of the strike, told pounds in subsidy to the Cunardtion.
The whole country. President spokesman who is limited in Metropolitan France. to the brief he has been sized Included four machine-dockers it was hoped to conting company to help build a glant
new passenger iner to replace Nkrumah said, must be mobilis- Carol Gee 11.--AFP. light machineguns, the stoppage to London but given. Yet when Lancashire guns, some
ed for the realisation of these the Queen Mary. and bouby- unless an Inquiry was held into
The cost of the new liner two objectives. As general secre- nent its man to Hongkong 30 rifles, grenades
labour "we shall have to con estimated at 30 nullos, oftary it would be his responsi- to explore local feeling an apped shells. The police opera- the problem of hiring part-time
tion is still under way.
which the Government hasbility to "make sure our forces an extension it was no less
2. New appointments and siter the other porta as well."
offered to meet £18 million. Dockers Liverpool
are properly developed and de- and person than the Chair-posts in the army will be de
HITS OUT soon. The "Immense plymouth
ployed to give us victory in these were bayuniting man of the British Cotton cided
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Chancellor most Important exercises." - Board, Lord Rochdale. majority" of the army had re-, diverted ships he claimed.
mained loya). Ex-Generals The strike now hingeF DO a of the Exchequer, hit out Raoul Salan, Edmond Houhaud request by strikers for an official, Conservative and Latour critics With Hongkong's reasoning and Andre Zeller were still on Inquiry into its cause-the hir-in a House of Commons debate. "A very clear consequence of dinpute the run" there will be no
as they aban- ing or part-time labour at one
no help from the Government is London wharf. and Mr Griffiths makes his much courage,
those who followed
Union representatives denied n gradual withdrawal of Britalu point well when he refers doned
express route across an inquiry, from the to the "atter dismay" which
3. Air Force General Jean the need for such
but strikers insisted it must be the North Atlantic," Mr Lloyd the Local industry felt Nicot, now under fortress ar- when it was suggested that rest, was reproached with help held before they return to work. said.
The Bill was given a second Maurice At a masa meeting at the West Generals rebrl Hongkong should indefinite-ing
In India Decks this muming 2,500 reading by the House. It stifl ly shoulder the burden of Challe-now, awaiting trial
procedures before ensuring the success of the the Sante prison in Paris and strikers voted to retum to work has to go through other Par-
Zeller to leave Franco when the if the enquiry were set up. lamentary Lancashire
| Reuter.
becoming law-AP. reorganization scheme. What we do believe rebelllon began.-Reuter,
In that Hongkong should have taken
A little more
trouble to make sure that Lancashire fully Bader-
stood its rennons. There in atil timo for it, however,
them."
and did not show
al
Black magic suspected
London, May 1.
and we urge the industry The Rev Arthur Francis Arm-
to follow up Mr Griffiths
statement with a delegation
to Britain led by a pro-
minent member of the locat buninens community to emphasing the
ot
strong, 50-year-old rector Ackworth, Yorkshire, suspects a black magic cult many have stolen a valuable silver chalice
of 1031 froin his church..
unanimity"I have told the police about my black Imagic zuspicions," he
of feeling on the matter.
zald.
"I thought at first i was the
work of a sneak thief, then I
"It
st Reuter.
Durplice for their ceremoniez, and also a consecrated object buch as this challee.
Astronaut waits on weather
Cupe Canaveral, May 1. There is a 50-30 chance that the weather will stop Tuepiny's of an expected Jaunching American astronaut, informed sources said Monday.
A conference about midnight may bring a decision.
The weather does not become a critical element in the count- down until the final day when discovered that my
fuel fa piped into the Redstone of rocket. 1g
hundreds worth talen murpilea had also been
would
hit the showers but a thiet
Scattered pounds,
in discape briefly this afternoon, after have great culty "People
posing of 1."-China Malla morning marked by variable magic
cloudiness-AP. Special
from a cupboard."
Mr Atmtrong added
dabbling in black usuntly try to get a luister's
a
new
selection
of
M
MOVADO
dress
watches
at
'COOP' LATEST
Hollywood, May 1. Actor Gary Cooper, dying of cancer, was reported unkier heavy sedation today, steeping most of the time.-UPI.
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