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Comment of the
day
A REPUBLIC
Томони
CORROW Sath frien quits the British Com motiwen th of
Nations.
That in fact, und not all
the derstations on
side 0+ the ether change that.
South Africa is determined to
establish a policy which is
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Colony rejects request for voluntary controls HK-CANADA TEXTILE EXPORTS
Negotiations CUBAN TERRORISM On eve of nation's Republic Day
26 CHILDREN VIOLENCE
will be continued
Toronto, May 29.
AMONG 40
HURT IN EXPLOSION
anathema to most maumbers / Canadian Finance Minister Donald Floming Forty persons, including 26|
of the Commonwealth, unl #policy which in the end must full.
For what is really happening is, South Africa in turning the clock back, and the shade of old Paul Kruger must be enjoying a hearty faugh.
the end. Kruger's; For in
policy has won, and all the blochtened reasoning the
said on Monday that negotiations are continuing with Hongkong to place voluntary controls on its export of low- - so far with- cost textiles to Canada out success.
annual The Finance Minister said the Camulian Government was giv- attention to the ing, "close problems posed by certain in- ports from Hongkong."
Mr Fleming told the Canadian Purchasing Conter ence here that Hongkong officials were told there in March by a visiting delegation of Canadian of officials that *some method to be found for Liberal would have
The concentration avoiding
of
old British Party which turned South, as xpert items where the Africa's "military defeat at the beginning of this con- tury, to a victory of eat- promise, tolerance, 26444 prosperity, is lost.
Canadian market was being dis- rupted."
STUE long?,
even
1
Twaited birth of The
eaponly
Senth
Commonwenith Africa is now a disaster. the more so when it is con- sidered that her indepelt ence is isolation, and that hur isolation is self-inflict- ed because she holds Les a
Low-cost
23
BREAKS OUT
IN SOUTH AFRICA
Johannesburg, May 29.
Violence broke out on Monday night after the first day of a strike called by non-whites as a mass domonstration against the white government of this emerging South African Republic.
u
Koy West, May 29.
children, were injured in an explosion in a theatre in Pinar Del Rio, Cuba, on Sunday, Radio Havana
The first cutbreak came when Strong forces of white and ing, in contraat to the usual
African Negroes in a segregated sub- reported on Monday.
guarded police
the bustling surge of thousands who The broadest said the exurbon township stoned Negro math railway stations In the pile into buses and hang crazily plosion took place during police who work for the govern- African townships, while, police, from overcrowded trains, speelal children's performanec.ment. White reporters on the with rises and bandoliers, kept i
There was a 100 per cent and described
security check for strong a counter-scene had to dodge hurled rocks,
slayaway by the 213 students revolutionary act.
Heavy police patruls toured agitators and intimidators.
of Natal university's non-white Fourle adults and 26 child- Negro settlements to defend South Africa's entire pofice
medical school in Durban. There who force und 5,000 territorials and was a negligible attendance by when re homeward-bound Negroes were injured!
defled the broke out after live phosphorous hud
nationwide home guards were standing by, ! non-white students at the rest
work Me Fleming said Japon has was thrown into the theatre, strike orders and one
Fewer Africans than usual of the university itself, but the already placed controls on
*while a largo percentage of were about in central Johannes- attendance of white students its the broadcast sold.
and traffic burg today ric
This was the third re attri- non-whites stayed home.
was about norma), 10 Canada, and this
'in Absenteeism
South Cuba in The government mobilised all thinner.
the inert butted to sabotage in not "self-restraint hud
its armed forces to cope with i trade between the two countries, the last three days.
Some employers had given: African building trade was put Canadian Imports from Japan | On Friday more than 1,000 trouble expected in the approach their staff three days' paid hollat about 25 per cent but wa
$110 million, hates
to Republic Day midweek. last year
day and told them to stay away, high in the textile industry and tubueru reportedly
At least 50 per cent of Johan- ; Government employees however ond factory is closmg down to- compared to $19 million in 1954, worth US$120,000 were burned
nesburg's 230.000 African work were warned that they might morrow, while Japan's purehuses of in a Huvana warehouse.
failed to if they coverers stayed at home today in be dismissed.
South Africa's largest chain goods amounted
Another fire caused Cusadian
anti-tan sp.
store group reported 100 per response to a nationwide
In the early hours Republic strike call.
repor-cent attendance in must centres, lers drove through the tong but In Johannesburg it varied regimented lines of the town-between 50 and 100 per cent. ship's council houses, hardly Many engineering concerns sout was about.
reported to absenteeisin. Postal of the Johannesburg Chamber of Later as daylight · flooded in ¦ services in the Johannesburg!
were Commerce, gave this rough esti- on the cold scene the townships area
nate, based on information re- | still had an air of Sunday mom- Reuter, !ceived from businesses In this
were
10
ul
He said that Hongkong had rejected Conudion proposal to place valuntary controls on low- cost lextile exports.
: $178 milton-up $96 million damage in the Havorm customs Canadian offelais visiting : Fince 1954-Regler.
| house,—AP. Hongkong earlier this year were tuld by the Colony's authorities this time to introduce a system that "they were mit grepared at
of voluntary restraints in res-i peet of their exporta to Canada," Mr Penting sald,
premise that no progres FOURTH TIME LUCKY
country can tolerate apartheid.
But the consequences of this!
!
Police said
May on Sunday, shot himself |
and three times in the chest once in the hund.
Miami, May 20.
Willie May, 53, ! reactionary policy will not had all the intentions of killing he visited upon the authors himself with a 38 calibre pis
These tol. of policy alone.
fanatics extremists.
whe entertain beliefs of racial superiority which Bre
Three bullets passed through denied by facts, will force the body without hitting a vilai a million white people of organ; The other bullet flatten- British stock to share their ed when it struck the skull and fate, while another 12 mil-was deflected without damaging! lion of darker skins are the brain--AP.
al in the anare.
AN
N immediate consequence is this. Already. the Communist nations are be- ginning to show an Interest in the exiles from South Africa, by offering them arms and military training. The outcome of thin will be that former South Africans will endeavour to secure by force what they have been denied by io- tuluraneu.
Such situation is canse for alarm, but the difliculty in. what
the Commo- wealth of Nations do about
it?
For it is part and parcel of
1,500 HOMELESS
were
Tokyo, May 29. Fifteen hundred people homeless in north eastern Japan today following a fire caused by
a storm.
The blaze and an explosion in 2 powder store at a mining 500 about town destroyed houses. Casualties figures were
so for unknown-AT.
1
Magistrate jails Dutchman on driving charges
Jacobus A. Viseer, 24, a Dutchman, of Rotterdam, was sent to jail for two months by Mr T. L. Yang at Causeway Bay Court this morning for driving while disqualified. Viscer, whose residence In the Inspector M. R. Atkinson told Colony was given op 22 Tung the court Viseer was stopped by Shan-terrace, first floor, was police while driving the private alsu fined $200 br another five car this morning and admitted no licence. Inspector wecks
he had in prison for driving
Atkinson sald he was brought without third party insurance.
back to the station.
"Enquiries
Viscer pleaded guilty to boil charges, which stated that he drove a private car, early this morning at Hennessy-road while is licence had been disquali- and without third party led
Insurance.
HE'LL BUY MORE TEXTILE GOODS FROM HONGKONG
the Commonwealth's belief The managing director of an influential import-export
that every member is a
voluntary member., to come
and
go as their elected governments determine.
business in Ireland paid tribute to the Colony's textiles, before leaving this morning by Swissair for Europe, via India and Pakistan.
He was Mr William Brown, of
Yet the ties which existed World Wide Agencies Limites,
between South Afrien und of Dublin, who had visited Britain cannot be entirely Hongkong to purchase textile severed by a group who piece goods. have obtained power by "The alm of my firm is to buy more goods from Hongkong," he denying the country uni-
suld. versal suffrage.
"Unili now, there has been very little expuri uf textiles to Dublin.
THE нnne policy seems to
believe that we a
be no appeal to the more market or these goods and with beral groups It Saath the cu-operation of your manu- Africa, and to pray that facturers, we are confident that before more damage is a good deal of reciprocal busi- done that common BenBent will result," will prevail over Boer obstinacy.
ARRANGE
Mr Brown has arranged the purchase for his firm of cotton In the intereats of all free textile piece goods, including people, for the sake of the grey cloth and finished material making-up into ilgh aspirationn the British suitable for Commonwealth entertains. ladies' dresses.
"But", stressed the Dublin
It must now be the task of bushices executive, "the quailty
the Commonwealth to get has to be good.
South Africa back among them.
"Standards were not con- oldered by customers 10 be sufciently high, in the past.
i
were
Unveiling
Mr E. P. Bradlow,
area.
President
of the
paris But In other country, the strike seemed to
be a fatture, with normal or near-normal attendance
African workers. Johannesburg
proved
by
the
exception, and the biggest stay- at-home uccurred in the shanty
of town
Alexandra,
which houses about 50,000 people in and in the in-shack squalor,
most pouthwest townships-the
heavily populated area of all. Die Vaderland, reported that a person claiming to be Neon
The Johannesburg newspaper,
Mandela, the man behind the tele- stay-at-home call, had phoned their office today,
The caller said: "The stay. at-home campaign is a fallure, but it is not the end. Wo will plan a new campaign to pre- vent Africans co-operating in a Republie."
was
normal-AP
Be
LORD HOME IN
SPAIN FOR 3-DAY VISIT
BULLETS, Rifle
BUTTS USED
REFUGEES
TELL OF
FOOD RIOT
IN CHINA
Maceo, May 30. Two refugees who arrived hore carly yesterday from Shokki, the capital city of Chungshang County, told
a group of reporters that three people were killed in that city on May 15 following small food
Q
riot.
One of the refugees, 34-year- old farmer Chang Sam, said thint a large group of people on the evening of that day staged march in protest against the food situation there,
MORE PEOPLE
20
Chang said that step by step the march attracted more people was suddenly out of the control of the militia sent le stop the protest.
when Even
the militia charged with their rifle butis The crowd refused to dis perse,
Several soldiers were ordered to the spot to control the crowd and when the people cried even more loudly protesting against the food shortage the soldiers opened fire into the air first.
Still the crowd, believed to be around 500 to 600 people, ze- fused to return to their homes. The soldiers then opened fire.
Three farmers were killed on
Madrid, May 29. Lord Home, the Foreign Secretary, arrived here today for a three-day official visit which he said he hoped would lead to "closer co- the spot, After this the crowd operation and greater understanding."
was
shame
He came by train from L In Durgapur, West Bengal, bon-only a week after the pri- Mr Nehru told the All-India Committee, policy. vate dinner at which Mr R. A. Congress The caller, who spoke in Butler, the Home
the ruling Secretary, making body of added: "I have no Engilah,
re-Indian Congress Party, that it made his much-discussed conducted
time to answer questions. I mark that it
was regrettable to see "core of and it was discovered that de-
have to flee to safety." vi fendant had been convicted
The Prime Minister, Dr Hen- Spain had been left out of in the great powers" supporting ternational affairs so long and Portugal in perpetrating the dangerous driving on March 28 this year,
that she should be fully incor- "bloodiest and darkest" form of and had been dis-drik Vervoerd, cunimented to-
colonialism in Angola.-Reuter. qualified from driving for three day that current attempts to porated in the Western world. manths," the Inspector said.
Bur
up unrest should be seen not as an attack on the establish- "In this case, I have to draw ment of a Republic, but as an your Worship's attention to attack by those who did not Section 22 of the Road Traffic want to see the country develop Ordinance, which deals with the in the future as in the past. question of disqualifiention.
Estimate
MORE IMPORTS
Lord Home is the first British Foreign Secretary to visit Spaln for 50 years. No major issues, such as Gibraltar or Spain's into Nato. are expected to entry Dr Verwoerd was speaking at arise, but Lord Home is expected to prison unless there arc
Pretoria of a to press for more Spanish im- the unvelling special reasons and special cir-bronze plaque commemorating ports of British mods.
"Defendant in this case should
HO
eumstances.“
NO REASON
When sentence was passed on him,
Viseer pleaded with the Magistrale for leniency.
"I will lose my job It I go
to prison!" Viseer said,
that
However, Mr Yang replied: "You should have forearen before committing the is absolutely no olence. There reason why you should drive again before the three montlis are out.
"There is no reason the Court should not take a serious view of this," Mr Yang said,
the establishment of the Re-
dispersed and returned to their homes.
Five more people were arrest- ed soon after the riot.
the people Chang said that
the morch in protest staged
decision of the against the Chinese authorilles of Shekki to continue to export scarce farın products produced in the area. -UPI.
'Betty' fans a forest fire in north Japan
Tokyo, May 30.
The Foreign Secretary's visit A forest fire dravo 2,000 miners and their families from pubile outside the Common- was hailed today in the pro-
their homes today in a northern Japan mining town.
wealth which comes into being
on Wednesday.
Dr was not a caso
as a necessary Western front."
seems
government Portuguese news-
The Taro Ore also destroyed Fanned could see
by fringe winds of Verwoerd claimed it Paper Diario da Manha, which
said only the blind of an attack the value of Spain and Portugal Tropical
the 42 houses in two nearby vil- Storm Betty,
A company ot the At- by black against white,
through the lages. force in the forest fire raged tempts to stir up unrest were
residential area of Tare Town in ground Self-Defence Force was Its members helped "the д manifestation of
cvacuato Iwate Prefecture. Toro is some called in.
1,300 women and grabbing hand of Communiam
250 miles northwest of Toltro.
children from Toro. over Africa, which secks to
Reports from a town about create unrest and then chaos,
50 miles away from Toro sald by undermining the spirit of
destroyed by the people to make them
Hachinoc, It receptive to other Ideas," he
under control at Bald. He added: "It is our duty to resist this and stand firmly to- 6ether in the spirit of 'South Africa First' to win the struggle for South Africo,"
The strike call by the African Mr Yang also ordered defen- National Council, is both against dant to be disqualified from the Republic and against the holding a driving licence for apartheid palleles of the govern- year.
ment.
"Thank God that old Britain, and practical, cautious not to suffer from such blind- ness," the nowspaper cald
But strong criticism of Lord 700 homes were voiced today another are in Home's visit was by Mr Nehru and several Indlan was brought newspapers, as well as the pro-5 am today,
There government Ghanaian Times In Accra.
injury.
were no reporty
Hundreds of fire fighters fought the flames but couldn't save the residential district. It was wiped out, reports said.
The Hachinos ire broke out In a storehouse at 11.40 pm on of Monday and spread rapidly to
ajvbiing houses.-UPI,
RATHER DAUGHTER WED COLOURED CHRISTIAN
THAN A PAGAN ENGLISH BEATNIK
London, May. 29.
LONDON'S MYSTERY BLACKOUT ^n English clergyman told members of the West Indian Government, attending a
London, May 20.'
church service here, that he would rothor soo his daughter marry a coloured Christion from the West Indies than "a pagan English"beatnik."
The mystery blackout in London on May 15, when more than two
militon homes in south and south-cast England were without The Rev. electrioliy was due to overloading of power and the automatio operation of a protective cut out switch st a sub-station, The only Kuarantee that in or Interim report published something dmllar cannot tap- today by the cununiites of en- ogain is more national' quiry pot up by the Central "supergrid" transmission lines Electrielty Generating Board. he people of your Colony some of which have been hot
MR W. DROWN
co-operation he had re- pan
But on this condition. That but I am happy to repert that and
South Africa rutrus this state-of-affairs joes not celved, at all levels. purged of what the British now apply." Foreign Secretary described Mr Brown's parling message havỡ boen very kind to me and up by objectioímn on amenity A human error was directly
I am sont grateful to them for grounds. apartheid."
ussialance their splendid co-operation.”
an "the sterilo doctrine of | to the Colony was in terms of
appreciation for the
These are
responsible for the blackout, it conclusions drawn i sald,~China Mail Special,
galez
to
at-
Clifford Hill WAS preaching at
Common- wealth service at n London
church, congregational tended by West Indian dele- the Independence talks here and British Mem- bern of Parliament, "Aro Christian I have more in common with a Russian Chris- tlat and I believe there, kro many such in' Rusia today.
than I have with a heathen Englishman, who is more con- earned to waste his money in. our newly legallard betting shops," Mr Hill said,
suggest we must go back to the original meming, of the word 'Commonwealth if we aro to give the world the quality of ingrat and spiritual leadership It sorely necits.” Ho added "11 is our Christian i
duty to help those who are not enjoying the same alanlari of living on we are, and who are ungently in need of œstablish- ing industries to work the high percentage of unemploy- od in their lately."
Mr Hill was apraking in Totten- ham, an area in which he is well known for his work among coloured Imanigrants.--- China Mall Special.