LIRNARY, SUPREME COINS
Sankyo
THE WEATHER
ZOOM 8
Comment of the day
WHAT DID CHOU MEAN?
R Chou En-lal, adopting
MR
a poetical expression to Indicate that all is well between the Chinese Com-
Party munist
211215 the Soviet Communists, enid, "...the Yangtse and the Volga were flowing in tho Hame direction."
This is rather a surprising relapse from the pedantic terminological exactitude with which the speakers to the Soviet Party Con- Kress strive to cloak their thoughts, unless, of course, Mr Chou En-lai meant exactly what he said. For a topographical reference
Moderato pasterly winds. Fair. At 1.pm at the Observatory. the temperatura was 84 degrees F and the humidity 61 per cent.
CHINA
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Established 1945
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1961.
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents.
Communists offer no resistance DRAMATIC BERLIN ACTION
U.S. troops The walls came tumbling down
free man in
E. Germany
Berlin, Oct. 22. United States soldiers with fixed bayonets on automo- tic rifles marched into
East Berlin tonight to free
an American State Depart-
border
mont official and his wife from Communist guords.
The State Department official was identified as Mr E. Allon Lightner Jr., chief of the U.S. State Deparinent Mission here.
An American spokesman said
tells us that the Yangtaeight American military police-
and the Volga da not flow in the same direction. any
en led by a Beutenant went about 80 yards into East German territory near the Friedrich-
more than does Chinese and strasse checkpoint to rescue the Russian opinion agree on Lightners,
tho Marxist-Lenin inter- The pestroan said the mill- pretation of the evolutionary pulleemen went into East
of the Communist world.
1.0
Berlin twice under arms rescue the Lightners. He said
reruns.
Four tanks
Eyewitnesses reported that the Army dispatched four M48 Patten länks and two armoured personnel carriers to the border to back up the military police action. However, the armoured did not go into netton. force The troops curried M14 automa- le vifter with bayonets fixed.
In his speech to the Soviet the couple were held by the Purly Congress last Tues | Communists far unknown day, Mr Kruschev said in reference to Albanin, that the cult of the individual was imposed upon the peo- ple at the expense of the Marxist cult of the state. The fact that the Albanians were unrepresented at the Congress was not allowed to pass by default, and Mr Kruschov, in one of those significant neides, assured Allonin that he would do all in his power to see that Albania marched "shoulder to shoulder with all the socialist countries."
TOW anywhere else, such a
Nemark would be con-
The apokesman Kald .Mr Lightner was driving bis pri- vately owned automobile with Army licence plates--saned by the Army for privately owned automobiles when Communist guards refused to permit him through the bar- riers built on their side of Friedrichstrasse checkpoint. The spokesman sald after Mr Lightner. accompanied by his
East Berila
Tel
freed
One killed
sidered as so much make- weight, a kind of after-wife, was held for one hour the thought, but those Con- military police walked 80 yards greas delegates who have int learned wisdom through Lightner and his wife.
The Communists offered no bitter experience, over the
resistance. UPI. yeurs, knew just what Mr Kruschev meant. Consequently, it cannot be
assumed for a moment that: Mr Chou En-lal forgot what he was saying when he in turn addressed the Con- For whereus Mr Kress. Kruschev
admonished Albania, Mr Chou said; "China is friendly with all other Socialist countries." and added that the friend- ship included countries from North Korea to Eusti
Viet- Germany and frum nam to Albania,
Just what lies beneath this difference of opinion, it in dieult to say.
LBANIA plays no signi
Afcunt part in European
as cinema
roof falls
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... But it wasn't the sound of trumpets that caused this tower at Tarbes, in southwest France, to come craaliing down. Workmen engaged in demolishing it had tried tug- Then they tried a ring it with cables, but to no avall. steam hunter, with immediate and disastrous results, Two of the of the workmen were buried beneath the 'debris 400-ton lower. When rescued only one was alive, but with This picture was taken at the precise mo- serious injurica, ment the tower began to crash.---AF Photo,
209 homeless in
HK squatter fire
About 209 people were made homeless and 30 squatter huts razed to the ground in a blaze that broke out on Tin Hou Templo Hill, Couseway Bay, shortly be- foro 2 am today.
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Three
man, peoples woman and a young boy--were slightly injured and sent to hos- pital for treatment. They were Jater discharged.
The scene of the fire was about 400 feet up a steep slope, accessible only by way of a zig-zorcing, rough road, and in the darkness, the fire-fighting was extremely dimeult.
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Three killed on burning liner, 600 people safe
Port of Spain, Oct. 22.
The Italian passenger liner Bianen Costa was burning fiercely tonight at the mouth of St. George's Harbour, Grenada.
Three passengers were killed
and 13 persons were Injured in
the fire.
The iner was considered total loss bul about 300 passen- gers and crew members reported all safe ashore.
were
The liner presented a specta- cular sight here under enormous pall of grey smoke. It was lying in the outer har bour of St George's one of the most beautiful natural bar- hours in the world blazing from bow to stern in a blue- green tropical sea that was calmer than a mill pond.
Scarlet fury
As night fell the scene be- come even more dramatic. passengers mixed with iston-
ders along the shore to watch a fcarlet fury of the floating In- ferno. It became more and more red, a bloodler red than even the tropic sunset above it.
HK soldiers
win at U.S.
football
Seoul, Oct. 21.
The British beat the Ameri- cons at American football here this week, according to a report today released United Nations by tho Command Information
Centre.
It sold the
LAUGHTER
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Primate Meets Patriarch
Can-
DAILY
JETS
of The archbishop members of the
-terbury,-- De...Arthae...Michael.. British contingent of the United Nations Command "act aside Ramsey (left), and the Or-
of Jeru their tea and
thodox Patriarch crumpets" and
salem, le. Beatitude: Bene- diktos, appear to be rubbing noses, Eskimo fashion, as they Freet each other at Lambeth Palace, the archbishop's official residence. in 'London on October 20. The Patriarch wolema was arriving for a
The fire, was reported to have originated with an Ungine room explosion in which the chief engineer was badly-burned.
An unspecified number of beat an American tean 20-0. passengers, mostly Venezue- Jan en route to Britain, are The British team assigned to reported suffering from shock the 14th Field Regiment, Royal and burns although only 20 Artillery, marched on to the were reported definitely went fold with an umbrella cheered to hospital.
by their opponents, and "by The heat from the faminghursts of speed by the Britishers 10,000 tons hulk was so intense and more frequent bursts of that a light plane carrying a laughter from their competitors press photographer was tossed and onlookers" beat members about in the air like a leaf of from the United States Eighth paper even though it was flying Army's Headquarters detach- ut 900 feet.
ment,
10.45
The Coast Guard said the ship The 14th Field Artillery wRS reported at
11 that due to return to its home station passengers and crew members in Hongkong on Monday, Octo- had been ordered to life boats. ker 23. China Mall Special.
The ship, belonging to the Glacomo Loss Fu Andrea Company of Genoa, caught Orc about 9.45 am today off the island of Grenada which is The
of EXT} number
| same 70 miles from Trinidad. casualties was attributed to
(The Coast Guard headquar the alarm given in good time.ters in New York reported that The Fire Brigade turned out at 10:43 am it received first re- in force with appliances and two ambulances at the scene of the fire. It was brought under control at 3.10 am and put out by 4.25 un.
Registration of the homeless (about 38 families) by the Social Welfare Department began soon afterwards and was completed by 9 am,
in
New Oricans, Oct. 22. A light six-knot wind fanned from west Lo chat, One person was killed and the fire
spreading it over area of 40 were about
injured about 100 feet by 100 feet. The fire- victims will be given hero today when the roof The peak of the blaze was a hut meal u1 11 am today out- of
neighbourhood between 2.40 am and 3 am side the Red Swastika Associa.
when the whole valley was lition's premiscs
Golden cinoma house caved in.
up by the interno.
Dragon Terrace, Tin Hau- Victims scrambled in Unaccompanied children made
all Temple-road. politics, and its former im-
directions towards the back of This morning, CARE will dis- portance lies only in the up a large part of the crowd,
Тіл Hau Tempic.
Some tribute kitchen utensils to the Historical fact that it was which police estimated at from climbed over the ridge to avoid re-victims. Later in the day,
100 to 200 persons. a member of that Police said it was u. miracle the conflagra what belong
the Hongkong Branch of the troublesome group of coun-there were not more victims. They grabbed tries which were under Tur-
hading they could und dragged kigh suzerainty, and whose been carried out of the building their children to safety. exploits played havoc with on stretchera.
- onco
19th-Century power
politics.
Unconscious
spectators
Something fell
One
eft witness aid 15
Was then Mr Chou Enlai people were taken out "on merely using Mr Kruschev's stretchers. She cald something reference to Albania as a fell on the roof and then the point which could mark out Immediately collapsed,
# Hysterical mothers mobbed
cinema
fundamental difference of the street outside the opinion in the interpretation reaming the names of their of Communist policy in children. Police stepped in to China as opposed to that in held them hock-AFP. Rusota?
If no, the world is faced with an incomprehensible para. dox. For Mr Kruncher during the course of his speech made reference to a peaceful coexistence be tween the Communist world and the democratic West.
to the
Protection for Nasser
Jerusalem, Oct. 22.
On the other band, the Arab press reports reaching Chinese still scom to cling here toany said United Arab more orthodox taken strong steps to safeguard Repubile President Naster hag Marxist theory that the himself against assassination. Anti-Communist powers The reports aald President must lie destroyed.
Nanser's house is now being Se back we are in Wonderland guarded by tones and apcelal bodyguards, Brki the entire
British Red Cross Society will issue used clothing and blankets, to the homeless,
parts that the rhip was being abandoned. The Coast Guard caid it dispatched - one of its planes from San Juan, Puerto Rico to the teene and the plane reached the flaming ship as it was putting passengers and crew members ashore in life boats).—AFP and UPI,
SIX KILLED
Cologne, Oct. 22, Six people were killed today when two sports planes collided
in the Cologne area, the West German news agency DPA re-
ported.
No further details were im- mediately available-Reuter.
STOP PRESS
Korean charge
Seoul, Op. 23. The South Korean military Junta today announced offl- cially counter-revolutionary charges havo been Aled against ousted junta chlet re- tired Lt. Gen. Chang Do- Young.
Chang will go on trial at the Revolutionary Court on Thursday along with 25 others, including four former Junta members and mostly officers who are under sim- lar charges, the court said. They could draw maximum penally of death or more Lira ten years in prison under the Special Crimea Punishment Act of the Janta.
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Te deum sung in the chapel of Lambeth Palace to wel- come his arrival. Ho flew into London yesterday for a pri- vate valt on his way back to Jerusalem from
the United States-AP Photo.
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Gurkhas to
replace UK
troops here?
From CHAPMAN PINCHER
London, Oct. 22.
The British Government plans
to
withdraw tant farge number of the British troops stationed in Hong- kong and replace them with Gurkha ́troops."
Currectly the war orice is stepping up the recruitment of coloured soldiers in Fiji, the Seychelles and the West indien territories and they plan to make more ide of the Gurkha regiments already recruited.
The Defence Chiefs are eon- vinced that far too many troops end tanks are being kept In Hongkong.
Nows reports yesterday said the British Government had de- cided on this plan of seeking more recruits in the colonies to avaid having to reintroduce con- scription in Britain.
HK reaction
By a Chino Mail reporter In Hongkong today, it was learned that there was no know- ledge of any intention to with- draw a large number of British troops and to replace them with Gurkhas.
But it is common knowledge that a British battalion is to be replaced by a Gurkha battalion next year. This would be re- garded, however, as a routine change.
It was also learned that while British Defence Chiefs have been reviewing overseas com- mitments, particularly in connce- tion with sterling payments, there is no reason to suppose "That The local garrison's belag given any special considera- tion
"The new British proposals to recruit more colonial troops does not moun that the Army in Hongkong will seek to enlist more Chinese soldiers, it was Army learned. Although the
la anxious to recrult locally, co- listed soldiers for administra- 'tive duties, there is no change in policy which might confirm any special concern of the Do- fence Chiefs in the number of UK enlisted troops serving to Hongkong.
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