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LATE FINAL
CHINA MAIL 6
GILMANS
No. 38043
FTER a long perind of temporising, the Macmil Tun. Government has come to grips with the problem of Britain's waning econo- mic strength in a competi tive and dangerous world. The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, only
Sad recently introduced an austere Hud- get, providing for a greatly above inereused surplus
the line." Supplementing this, Mr Selwyn Lloyd gave the details on Tuesday of a nasty mixture of fiscal and monetary medicine which is about to be administered to
the people of Britain.
The "burden" and "din- ciplines" he had already foreshadowed Are there,
and
apparently are
more severe than was pected.
much
ex-
The United Kingdom is in a dilemma. Either way, she
must strengthen her ecuno- my, whether she decides to join the European Common Market or to maintain 8 degree of economic aloof- ness from her fantinental Western allies.
THE question whether all taxes,
To the increases in
all the pressure exerted in deny credit to Industry and consumers, and the steps bi be taken to reduce Govern ment expenditure at home and abroad
really
are
necessary, ur likely tu achieve the purpose, has
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Colony stand in Australia a great success.
12,000 FLOCK TO HK EXHIBIT
SEEKS ASYLUM
IN
BRITAIN
Opening of the Sydney
Trade
Fair
From ROBIN HUTCHEON
Sydney, Aug. 1.
Crowds streamed through the Hongkong stand on this the opening day of the and when the Sydney Trade Fair — gates closed tonight Colony officials estimated that 12,000 people saw their exhibit.
the Colony.
Reserved
1
delego-
003
And the United States was not It was one of the busiest st
there at all. "We had other days ever experienced by
fuir Hongkong trade
commitments elsewhere," said ijun. Not only were there 05 a United States oficial.
The total value of goods un to 70 trade Inquiries by poten-
than display is more tial buyers of Hongkong pro-
the ducts but
Th delegates and million.
single biggest Chinese student assistants were exhibit Is a helicopter brought to inur dated with questions about Sydney by the Kussians. France
75-foot scale model of | bas a Paris and Switzerland a 50-fout the panoramic photograph of Swiss Alps.
This evening the Hongkong scores of stand gave running
Lost match the Hongkong - made
students-girls Hongkong
cheongsams gave blue added touch of local colour to one of the most impressive dis- plays of Colony products ever}
sembled overseas.
Today and the next two days were to have been reserved fur but when the buyers only.
trnstiles opened at 10 o'clock This morning-one hour before the official opening thne-the general public as well as buyers were admitted.
Trade Fal authorities later unsounced that there would be buyers days, So no peciul this means the buyers will have te lake their place in the throngs
who were entering the Colony
already begun to provoke This is Shou-kang Wang, 32-stund tonight at the rate of
lively debate in the United Kingdom.
A quperficial resemblance to the Australian Government's eronomic purge last Novem- ber, following 11. onerous Budget, should not cause the entirely different the circumstances ot
more
thousand an hour.
บ
We
year-old lieutenant in the The Hongkong stand is con- Chinese Nationalist Navy venicntly situated just gu who hos flod from through the turtalles and turn Formosa, seeking political lett. The leader of the delega- tion Mr Dhun Ruftonjce ad asylum in Britain.
tonight: "We were very picoseti Mr. A. Butler, the Home with today's results and
Secretary, has given bim 14 believe we will do even better days in England while the than we did at the Melbourne Home Office considers his Trade Fair two years ago. United Kingdom to be over- plea looked. Britain stiil labours | Said Wangt; under the handicap of try- Ing to replace overseas in Vesiments disposed of to
"I would rather die than go back to Forinusa. If I return, they will certainly kill me." He is living at scere address in London.
a
finance her vast war effort. His story: he was at high school
After an early phenomenal
effort of doubling
the the volume of her exports in the postwar period, aucia! welfare, with incrensted wages and icisure.
i
Home inetleient muunge- ment, has tended to raise ! imports and reduce exports, ↑ so that Britain has had in- i adequate trading surpluses to cover her international: responsibilities.
A
USTERITY at home in now oflleially regarded as necessary to offact capitai! outflows, and expenditures abroad on defence and sid. At least
the Macmillan Government is making some effort to curb Govern ment expenditure, which the
Government
Menzies has failed to do. No enthusiam can be felt for Ablanket measure to in- bc- living costs, cause, if tuxes had to be
стенко
Increased, a more selective
1
in Tientsin when the Com- munists took over, and he fled to Shanghai, enrolling in the Chinese Navoi School of Technology.
When
tu
"The reaction from buyers, the public, workmen, officials and attendants at the neigh bouring stands has been most cumplimentary,
Surveys
Surveys by Hongkong dele- gates during the day show the been more! Colony's stund has crowded than any other in the International pavillon. And REFUSED
workmen have been coming to ihre stand
to admire the ivory the school moved Formusa, he moved 0. fle carvings and furniture.
Hongkong is one of 21 foreign has never sen his family
and Commonwealth countries since, and was refused per- mission even to write to them. exhibiting at the Fair together with seven hundred Australian He was sent to America on
Brmis. At least 15,000 visitors post-graduate course at the
and more than a million Aus- US Naval school in Monterey.
tralians are expected to see the In America, he fell in love with Jounna.
12-day show, alto from
The her Formusa, and married
But he secretly In Mexico. was ordered 10 returni to Forman en June 7. But Wang was able to get visas from the Beltish and Swiss embassies, and, leaving his wife behind in Los Angeles, fled to London. If he is re- lowed fused asylum In Britain, he many's. then has o 30-day visa for Switzerland.London Express
Service.
from transistor,
Help literature and the boys answered
The girls helped to hond cut.
questions Hundreds pamphlets on Hongkong uistributed,
ut
were
CONGOLESE
MASSACRE OF REVENGE
Leopoldville, Aug. 1. Rampagior Congolese soldiers tonight were re- porled to have killed upwards of 200 tribesmen In a massacre of revenge near Luiuaburg,
A United Nations official 011 special_investigating mission to the area Bald hundreds of huts have been burned down. He wald he saw some 100 bodies.
The reported massacre follows
ambushi Ιπ which about 20 Congoleso soldiers were said to have been klized by Luntu tribesmen.
The Congolese soldiers of govern- the Leopoldville ment are reported to have driven into village afier village
aring Indiacri- minately al men, women and children.
"We could have a full- scale war on our hands the fighting goes on," said a UN official—AP.
f
PORTUGUESE THROWN OUT
Culonou, Aug. 1.
state of The West African
WEATHER
An unstable south- westerly airstream brought thundery showers to Ilongkong shortly siter noon today.
Verwoerd calls HONGKONG
for general elections-18 months early
Pretoria, Aug. 1.
South African Prime Minister, Mr Hendrik
•Mir
Verwoerd, today called
a premature
general election for October 18.
Verwoerd's decision, day's election announcement -
come from-Verwoerd himself. which followed a secret meet- ing of his Cabinet in his Pre- The October election will be toria office during the day, was the first in South Africa since contained in a statement issued it gained repubilean status lust
African State Muy. by the South Information service.
Mr Verwoerd's announcement į said he had decided to cull an election 18 months early, in or der to keep a strong and stable governinent in power for the next five years in the interests of all concerned in South
Africa and overseas.
Popular
His ruling Nationalist Party, which is still riding a wave of Afrikaaner popularity through- racial out the country desplie and economic upheavals, would be able to develop national Dahomey today took over the unity more successfully if given Portuguese enclave of another reasonably long period (ny Ajuda arch expelled the in power, the statement added,
The Nailonaitsts have been in Portuguese resident.-UPI.
power for nearly 13 years since the defect of the late General
MOTHER POISONS J. C. Smula United Party in
FAMILY DINNER
..
September 1048.
up
Prospect
Mr Verwoerd's announcement- said the prospect of an election in 1803 when it is officially due-would harm the pursuit of unity among South Africa's coples. He reasoned that party political trials of strength would be virtually eliminated by an immediate election and would allow the Government to give full attention to the coun- try's economic growth as well as allowing it to deal efficiently with South Africa's racial prob- lems.
Tolki rainfall sinco midnight was 0.7 of 1nch.
$3
Meanwhile Typhoon June, centred about 1,130 miles cart south-east of Hongkong at HOOD, WAS
west moving
north-west Bi Bix knots towards Lusani.
Maximum winds near the centre were estimated to be about 65 kuota,
Tropical 8torm Hotea
situated 40
miles south-west of Nagasaki, moving north st aight knota.
Was
MUTINY
ON
DUTCH
SHIP
Part of Spain, Aug. 1. Mr Verwoerd partially blamed opposition parties for bringing The 1,000-tón Dutch banana on the quick election—although there has been widespread speculation on this possibility
for several months now. Op- position parties, in fact, have been preparing to fight on elte- tion this year.
thip Geestland, delayed here for 24 hours by ~ reported mutiny, left six of its crew "on the beach" when it sailed for Europa lost night.
Mr Verwoerd, 00, was born
Mr Verwoerd claimed the op- In Holland. He became Prime position parties would harm the The most popular products
Quito, Aug. 1. Minister in September 1958, country by continuing "to keep were furulture, exotle Chinese A mother of four children in after the death of
Three of the crewmen wêre Premier alive uncertainty concerning an brocades, ivory carvings, acti thl Ecuador
worried Johannes town.
Stirjdam. He has election unfounded rumours and asked to sign off-in effect, fired built ficial birds, lovely carpets lea- about her health and afraid of | since
to absolute even bitter feelings" if an elec-by the ship's captain and the for himself in the turing Sydney harbour bridge, what would become of them if power
tion was not called immediately, other three refused to salt. died, put
the Nationalist hierarchy, Koala bears and Kungaroo sho
poison in
He went on "the retardation
Dutch Consul Mr A. C. Vroon is to be presented and a big tank of goldfish which family's dinner.
political observers
of progress by the lack of co- denied reports that Capt. J. decisions to Taronga i Alt Ave died after being Important Park Zoo after the Fair.
rushed to a hospital.—AP.
and belleve all taken by
the Government-Including to-operation or fementing of rus- Solleveld had to display a gun
picion or adverse propagande to
subdue armed mutineers can, therefore, only be used aboard the vessel.
Senate boosts Kennedy's
request for funds
Washington, Aug, 1.
a political weapon as long as elections remain around the comer."AP.
55 DIE IN LANDSLIDE
ANGERED
Mr Vroon sald the troubl arose when crewmen, angered of by Salleveld's confiscation rum bottles they brought aboard when they returned from town drunk, refused to chey orders to prepare the ship for sailing.
asked for Capt. a landslide caused by heavy
Solleveld rains wiped qut the village of police assistance on Sunday armed marine Pradesh, on night, and six Daduwa, Ultar
on his
Lucknow, Aug. 1. Fifty-ve people died when
night
President Kennedy's roquest for US$3,500 million to bolster U.S.Friday, it was reported here to police spent the night
military might was raised to US$4,500 million today by the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
voted to Unanimously, biggest crowds have provide every cent the Presidenti been reported today at a slogan- asked for last week-and then neared Russian pavilion where added nearly another billion to the accent is on sputnikry and build up bomber, missile and heavy earth-mering and farm satellite forces. equipment. But by far the most impressive of the big interna- tional pavillons was Ilaly's, fot- clorety by West Ger-
application of them might POLICE FIRE
have been sufficient for the purpose and less harshly concentrated on those less Able bear them.
PPARENTLY Britain
A suitors from the same
rigidity of official thinking aa Australia concerning the timely
adjustment of
Interest rates, which does help to obviate severe fiscal measures.
SHELLS JAPANESE
It was another demonstration of the mood in Congress to move fast in readying America to meet any threat arising from Great Britain had
the Berlin crisis precipitated by 2 dia- appointingly
[} stand Soviet Russia. featuring mainly photographs.
TEAR-GAS
INTO RIOTERS
Osaka, Aug. 2.
and
Authority
On Monday, just six days after Mr Kennedy asked for it, Congress gave him authority to call up to 250,000 reservists into
service military
and extend activo ments one year.
duty tours and enilat-
Senator A. Willis Robertson, Democrat-Virginia, manager for the biggest peacetime defence appropriation bill t
history, sald the meaFUCO approved by the committoo now carrica nearly US$47,000 million. This is more than
US$4,000 vuted above the total
million by the
PRESIDENT KENNEDY
bombers without specifying the kind to be bought.
noted that Mr Robertson General Curtis E. Lemay, Air. Force Chiet of Staff, said he preferred the latest model of the jet B52 to the faster but, shorter range 1358.
It also voted US$448 million to push development of the huge B70 jet bumbers as a com- phite weapons system.
President Kennedy and his top civilian defence leaders had not ocked for additonal bomber
had production, but
recom mended int US$220 inllion-be spent to develop the B10 as an aircraft rather complete
The Senate Commitee voted experimental US$525 million to continue pro- than duction of heavy long-range jet system-AP.
weapons
CONVICTS HOLD GUARDS
HOSTAGE IN PRISON
Kingston, Aug. 1.
Two knife-wielding convicts who have held fivo prison officers hostage in Ontario's Kingston Penitentiary for almost 24 hours today, listened to radio roports of their escapade.
Helmeted police fired tear-gos shells to curb some 2,000 persons staging a riot in an Osaka slum district early today, Japanese newspapers re-House on June 20 and more than Time will tell whether an
09$0,500 million above the andue dialocation of pro- ported.
totals Congress voted last year. ductive private activitien
About 20 persons, including Police fired fear-gas shells at will compel some of the
Prudont were reported injured the mob when police reinforce restraints to be shed, which police,
surrounded with menta were when the mub ormed hus
been our experience.
"This is a balanced pro- old, Australians could not wish stones, slicks and bottles bat-attneked,
fled pollge and stormed a polles The heldent was sold to have gramme," Mr Robertson more fervently for an early box in Illgashi Tamachi, reports started when a crowd became "between capacity for nuclear
for dissatisfied with police handling | war and capacity Higashi Taminchi is an romuval of British burdons, said, because, while they con are where houdluma assemble. of traffic accident in which an railed confilita
"It provides n prudent rain. Fuur tinue, our export trade will
fire engines, enlied to aged pedestrian was killed,
Reports and the mob, com- | torcement of the conventional iAuffor, greater demands extinguish a fire set off by the
confd mab,
plained that ho
have strength for our armed forceE.". were also nuncked and will be made on local banks
Beveral been oaved if police had called Mr Roberton said he hoped to finance wool experts, and forced to turn back.
police and private cars were also for an ambulance Immediately, to call up the bli for expected the inflow of nome kinds of reported to have been set on fire Police said he died instantly passage in the Bonato on Thurs-The men holding the hostages asked to see Afficials, includ. LAP. capital may diminishi.
By the rioters,
uny.
inore
The convicts had a radio in the
kitchen office In which they were holding the trusted-up hostages.
A stalemate set in as officials al The maximum-securlly Inalltu- tion appeared ready to wait out the allimation for the safely of the hostages.
ing the Canadian Minister of Justles, Mr E. Davie Fulton, the Commissioner of Persten- tarlos, Mr A. J. Macleod, and the warden.
The convicts and their hostages were not selling any food. But a spokesmen eald “ibey #ked for water and wire given that."~~ēteratør.
Only one person survived zeven-year-old girl.-Router.
khip while police launches stood
by.
However, no serious trouble developed.-UPI.
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