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Looking back 50 years and looking forward 50 years were subjects of talks by two speakers of the Hong Kong Rotary weekly luncheon yesterday,

Mr. W. V. Pennell, Managing Editor of the "Chino Mail" and "Sunday Herald", the first speak- er, did the looking back, and spoke of the vast and rapid changes that have come over the world during the past half century. The vista of the last 50 years was one of un- parallelled drama, said Mr. Pennell.

tory of man, had devastated the world. And there had been a tremendous social re- volution whose force was threatening what remains of the civilisation that stood at the turn of the present cul-

Correspondence

„The Editor tåkes no responsibi- lity for views expresied in letteri by correspondents, and by na

them

Rice Ration

RIVER VESSELS BOMBED BY NATIONALIST

meuna necessarily." agree with A convoy of small river vessols, ferrying passen- gers and cargo from Pearl River, ports to Macao, was the target of a long Nationalist aircraft over the week-end half way between Kongmoon, and the 'Portuguese colony. dumb lighter in towage with about 50 passen-

Some

Sir, I sent an application for the rice ration to gne of the rice retail dealers at Wantsal. It was in perfect form and order. But the dealer Inisiated first that should write out my trade, which was clearly written down. When this was pointed out, he said the. name of the applicant should be! included in the column of depen dents. Then I got angry and told him dependents are persons who depend on the applicant

whose

The

nume appears at the top. Then, Macao on the murmured something about

I can see many applicants, cs- 'pecially those who do not read and write English, having hard times in having their application aled. This is not democracy, not aven totalitarianism. Why should such dealers be given the right to handle the distribution of the most essential foodstuff? It is be yond any sensible comprehension

between Kongmoon, West, liver

lets, which riddled the deck.

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It was officially added that an attempt, was made de Monday -4bigfús-11p-service to 4150-order....

by holding the !!Comfort Party" - meeting on the résƒ, but evading the Spirit and the lotlar by usa of the loud speaker to hold an. other public meeting on the street bulpw.nett

***Robble, rousing Mail" was told, la recent in origin, This development, the "China"

The effect is to turn so-called "Comfort Partica" into political propaganda rallies by rabble such methods it was added, can

methods.

only lead to disorders in a comis minity where all political creeds. violently with creed are plent and time people propounded

ounded at these meetings. Police action on Monday, which clash between the Sp and

the workers,was to stop the relaying of speeches to persona' in the street by means of the Union's public address am- plifies on the..

gers aboard was seriously damaged by appeal to Mao machine gun fire and two bombs. passengers were injured. Many saved them- selves by jumping into the muddy river to swim ashore for cover from the hall of bullets.

motor Vessels reachod Suddenly it swooped down and The speaker recalled that he than today, and may well

Monday morning, strated the line of vessels which came out to the East in 1912 worse, but it has one unique at his boss telling him to. 1 spent News of the attack was brought had already broken to speed out

youngster with his head full fruction; it has not yet come. The half an hour to argue with him to Hong Kong yesterday eve of "range. of football and empty of any quolation is from E. M. Forsterin vain. When I threatened to

According to reports, several A dumb lighter, towed by sense of history. In the inter-one unique attraction; it has bring him to the Rice Controller Pearl River inland ports. formed came the main target of the at

river Vestels 'coming" from the motor launch,“was last and be=| val Iwo world wars, caeir not yet come.

No, there is no then he said, "All right, you are themselves into a convoy for tacking plane, which strafed the greater than any in the his retlundancy here; the future has right."

mutual attractions as well, but the other

protection primarily craft and dropped two bombs: Unknown holds an unrivaled

against pirates on the way to The bomba, missed. Mincao.

The

Craft was damaged fascination for all of us.

"In considering

At about noon, when half way splinters and、 machine gun 'bul- future the however, wer

really a

dealia are with many more known quantile than unknown What we carpet fredlet with any precision are the accidents of life, such as war The past half century had seen the life of

or untlinely nation vast discoveries in the realm of

the life

of an individual events in selence and medicine. Two great Of course, we can prepare to som philosophies of history, prompt-extent for such events Nation ed by the terrible turbulence of arm themselves for detence, in- the era,

were seeking angwers dividuals place bets on the and reasons,

Donicz Ages were tele-to give Lady

Mr. Ralph Shaw, the foreign Luck

a chance, and seeping into each other the they take out life insurance fo machine age, the air age and the the event that their luck shout Motion Pictures, has written to publicity director of Yung Hwn atomic age. Crowns had fallen! eventet

out prematurely. But th the "China Mall" with reference and new diefatorships had em- Jockey Club and the Insurance to the statement by Mr. Yao erged, based on mass movements. Company, as organisations, cun Hsin-ning in the "People in the

Another phenomenum had been look forward with confidence News"

to

on Sunday. Mr. the rise of Asia, and the inmense the future. They know with con-

News" column adslide of power, T

on-Shaw ways that so far as Yung siderable exactitude what to ex Hwa, are concerned, there is no The past half century had soon

ceiling pricé of HK$3,000 for violent changes in values and

that a script idens, and the

scripts. He added Greatest socini earthyjunke over to have shaken mankind,

tury.

ar

Mr. Pennell quoted from a his- torion who, before the second world war, sold: """Oure is the first generation to

our fundamental Ideas men and the universe changingt growing old, and dying ore rapidly than our brief bedles From the paleolithte period, when it took 300 generations to change the style of chipping a flint axe- heal, to the Victorian era, is in

pect.

a

Yours etc.,

TAXPAYER.

Studio scripts

is judged by its merits, and that recently Hung Hwa 'paid HK$7,- 000 for a script which had to be altered considerably before - in could be adapted as a screen play.

Scientific progress "Let us see, then, what we can prediet of the future in broad. terms, using an approach some what similar to that of an insur ance underwriter. First, wa know that selchijne progress

is being made at an ever increasing rate. Sources of power on

earth this are probably all but limitless. Be a minority, actually expect th He pessimists, fortunately always in fore very many year lave passed deluge. I say 'fortunately. it should be possible to se rise cause if the Cassandria ever be production 18 To elimination of poverty within the

then progress fimits of possibility. Remember,

stop and the end would in

same a majority bring the

he-

this respeel one age-ours is on- did not predict that poverly would deed be at haad. We shall have i

ether.".

Impetuous changes Half a century ago, sald Mr. Pennell, the Westerd world looked

with despair upon

Immoveability. China's

"Tho great forces of reaction in Pek- ing were having their last fling, but merely to open; the flood-

to

but we may

might troubles, an: pierity of them, in the coming years, continue to expect a net advance in human progress

Humanitarian ́idga

ori from 'where Hong King Passengers jumped into the quantities] water and swam ashore for derives considerable of fresh foolstuff, and Macao, a cover. The Injured included those Ione Nationalist aircraft was aboard, observed flying bigh over the The other vessels sped

area,

and escaped boing attack.

AWAY

No discussion on Dockyard dispute

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"DRIGO 2-premises100 of the A general, statement on the in- eldent was issued to the Pross yesterday, by the Public Relations Officer. It said:

"Because of political issues in- troduced by speakers to a -per-

There was no discussion yesterday between the

Commodore Superintendent and reprosonic-mitted meeting in Russell Street fives of the Royal Naval Dockyard, workers. Mak Yiu chuen, Woo Sun and Yan Hung, who

signed the demand handed in to the Com- modore Superintendent on Thursday, last as representatives of the Committee for the Iob. provement in the Treatment of Naval Yard Workers, were told through an interpreter, when they called on the Commodore Super- intendent yesterday, that this Committee was unknown to the Dockyard Management who could not recognise it.

Personalia

"it is supremely important to

Dr. P. Jenkins will speak at remember, moreover, that an tonight's meciing of the European other development has closets YMCAs's Debating and Discussion parallelled the birth and growth Group. His subject will be. "An- of the Machine Aga, I' refer to ftarctic Wan what is sometimes called the 'humanitarian, Idea."

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Tho demand was written on letter paper headed with the address "Holy Kong Naval and Dockyard Chinese Em- ployees Industrial Union."

The men were told that this) body' was not being repreâentea and the Commodore Superinten- dent had no proof that the subs stance of the letter from the three men who claimed to represent all the dock workers, in fach repre schted the opinion and wisties of the dockyard workers, or even any considerable portion of them.

on the evening of January 28 the Tramways Union was advised by the Commissioner of Police on the ikorning of January 30, that 210 farther inestings" "would beʻal- lowed in Russell Street and that a perpbeed Comfort Party from persons

themselves the calling

38: banned societies", should bo Hield! Indoors or elsewhere. A written warning was also serv

the organisers, u

од

Derved

Deplia this official warning the Comfort Party was received on the roof of the Tramways Unlos premises in Russell Street. An attempt was made to evade roade on the roof to the crowd to the ban by relaying speeches Russell Street through a public address speaker hanging outside the first floor of the Tramways, Union premises.

Attack on Police "Following arepesch of an in- Nammatory nature, Acting As- Hanth alatant Commissioner want to. the 'Union," promises with two other Police officers and removed the loud speaker front the fest Boor! He was returning along! Russell Street when, an organised attack on members of bis, Police, party commenced,

be abolished' by any given date I only suggested that it could be. within the not-too-distant future.

forward march Science the Inevitable

factor the Machine Age, has only luss begun in terms of accomplish ment. We shall have more foud, better boyfer, faster communi ich to changes which had

cations and more gadgets that. lately become so impetuous and

were ever dreamed of. And wo spectacular that many look at ahall have! all of there thinge

Mr. P. Gullart, who spent a them with as much dicmay as with fewer hours of labour.

"There have been organisations number of years on the borders they looked at the aga-long "The extent to which different and individuals with a highly de-af Tibet, will address the Europe ramparts of resistance countries

consciousness on YMCA's Debating, and Discus- change.

mey share in

thes veloped social Even the nature of the confilet

bencfts obviously will

throughout rewarded history. Butsion Group next. Wednesday night. depend

He will speak on "Mountains and

"If the letterän question does Some really widespread appreciation various Influences, changed from states may delay

upon seemed to havo

Tribes, in West China,"

in fact represent the generas Ele crowd, which refused to one between the Western and tha velopment within their borders by for the hidividual, of the rights or selentine de of social responsibility, of regard

opinion of the dockyard workers, 'disperse and by this time was Mrs. H. Kossakowska, Messrs. unclent Asian ways of life to isolating their people from the man, is even newer than

this must be represented, to me abotit 6,000 to 3,000 strong, was the conflict that merged, Insensibly world at

CH J. A. Cassidy. O. Moseley, through the established chan cleared from part of the stroot into the world confict in which

large, keeping them in steam engine. We confess with

SIA VII A. A. Stone and D. Timlin left nels for negotiation with the and tear gas was used. The area the-old Arlan-ways-of-life-secem grace of progress elsewhere. Shume that could, torture Hong Kong for the United King necessary representation and was then contained and rear- ed thrust into the far background. At the other end of the sale, vanted parts of the world, torture, dom yesterday by BOAC.

agreement of all unions, the rival: of reinforcements with fur- and in- danger of there is the the

workers were told, at fer deb.

**ther applications of tear gas end! emphasizing welfare to the de-

long hours of work m

abled the area to be cleared. Tho in this

even more Inhuman surroundings, for Karachi by BOAC yesterday, to negotiate with them on whas hours

The men resented this refusal crowd dispersed after about an had played in Immense changes, and--showed". Larding the

But the im how in its own way some of the But there will be great technicatto-remote past.

Departures for Bangkok by they said was just a technicality. "There were about 50, ensual- consideration Is that such BOAC yesterday included Mrs. G. and they would not sign in copy ties caused chiefly, by the hell of the solution of a single world. Inay ba quite sure.

are today generally re- Dolgin, H. Isobe, T. Morinaga, of the statement with a translation missiles from the upper floors of And almost

Chinese setting out what the Tramway workers' dwellings "The fact that the world today laevitably, this progress will be cognised is evils. Most countries. D. Mackie and Major N. Kark. in

transpired. They said they would in Busseil Street. Only three how as they have gone on the dards. Even today, so suo after tection of the individual from ex- Chloe Musangend elaimed to represent is divided into two only shows reflected in higher living stan- have gone well beyond memper Mr. C. Y. Chlong, Mr. and Mrs. have to consult those whom they persons were defined in hospital path towards. wider unity," the tig.700 terrible war in history-ploitation on to positive prom

and there were no fataill speaker, said..

"Forty-two arresis were made, people are living better in many grammes of broad education and left Hong Kong for Rangoon and

Bangkok yesterday by BOAC.

The matter was reported to a Nearly 800 Police were erfgaged Looking forward ugris of the world than thor did it better ent

should never be forgotten

meeting of the Royal Naval in the operation and a party of leven 10 years ago, while,compari thate Catinumism derives much eli representative, in Hong Kong, headquarters-last bight by tho) operation was completed in thren. Mr. Robert Bruce British Coun.- Dockyard workers at their Unit military about by The whole cali Consul-General in Hong markable advance. In making this

hits strength. front its continuing will be tbo, guest speaker at to-

three men

hours.""

Mr. Pennell then dwelt

world scene'uf

overt

and so ro--

part that the Rotary movement triment of Prest of botts have been common-in-the-not-

forces wera driving us all towards progress in any event; of that

WE

Of

Mr. A. M. A. Motiwala loft

British Council film show

15.

Police occupy

Union headquarters.

Mr. Karl Bankin, the Amerison with 1000 reveals a truly re Kong, did the looking forward statement, I am referring not sin championship of the common He said:

to the "Amoriens but also to man. The degree of success at The subject assigned to me to important parts of Europe, Africa umanitarian idea to the aims

ply

Africa tained by this perversion of the day provides plenty of scope and even Asia. Looking Forward from 1956. The "We stand on the threshold of or tragedies of cur time. That sordid imperialism is one of the Committes has neglected th the Age of Plenty, and what are great tra furnish a crystal hall

but has we worrying about? Armageddon?t has been most successful where given me

broad concept

ept of is quoted from Devere Allen:

me twa texts. One of;ime The Not really: I think we htimärilty were least developed Christian, Conference at Bangkok!" the making of Chinese films, the police to disperse, and thero

end of civilisation clucation and 'Predictions delier meeti know it?

all recognise the come are futile unless 'decom-some catastrophe why of and that governments panied by concreto effort." - This destroy mdokind, Just as our an- / Down to able to remain in Hong Kong A

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1900-1950-the Silent Revolt! Lon" will begin at 1.30 p.m.

Dr. S. C. Loung will speak on

After Monday night's clash, all. was quiet in Russell Street "yea- The topic of the. British Coun- terday, Tram workers who gather- "Highlights of the Far Eastern ella, film show tomorrow will be ed in Canal Road, were told by at tomorrow's luncheon of the Y's The speaker will be Mr. Yao was no attempt at furtigr

^uti further dis- ich Men's Club at the: Boor Garden, Haing-hung well-known play order.

Hotel

* wright and stage director, and his The headquarters of the TramE

Mf. Yao went as China's dele- seems to me rather a truism, but cestors have feared throughout Passion,

only by isolate

Inuisseli Euficient

Workers. Unjan evidence

B. Rofonvorgio of Blaggate to the Soviet Theatre Fes- Street, were ocdlipled by the the second text is more arresting: the ages. But only the confirmed that Communisin is a false doc left Hong Kong on Monday. Uval in 1987, and has since lee pace, and, no cite was allow- Tomorrow, 'may not. ba., better (Continued at foot of nezt Coly trine. Yet its s recognition of car-

tured extensively in England.. led to enter: lain basic human noods and hs-

Among the departures from the He later visited America on a The Commissioner of Police, pirations can give us hope that Peninsula Hotel on Monday were Rockefeller Foundation Fellow Me DA WA MacIntosh, told, the the reeds of changes are still there. dr. and Mrs. F. 3. Bernick, Mr. and Mrs. CF. Tung, Mis. H.

hip, where his playa were pro-China Mail Yesterday that the The humanitarion' idén is im Blow, Miss S. Langan, Miss B. M. | Universiteto Kat Cornells police would continue occupation

duced

Yale and plicit In the in vocational and community ser Mrs It W. Montz, Miss A. Millor turned to Ching he has concen-haviour and no further disturb of the "remises until he was DS- principles

Rotary Kelly Mrs. A. Marust Me and In recent years, after he re- Fintred there would be better bo- Club will continue to

Miss B. L. Brossy, Messrs Frated on writing scripts for the ances would do said there was contributions Murphy. A Trille, 3. G. Faulk- From the standpoint of interna

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