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ECONOMIC CRISIS IN COLONY Tribe musters to greet Seretse Anking

Foreign advisers

in Canton

Unidentified foreign advisers

have arrived in Canton. They are directing military exercises at Whampoa, according to thi afternoon vernacular "Wal:

Kiu Man Po" yesterday,

In a message from Cunton, the newspaper said that ex- tensive army exercises are in progress in the Whampoa arek. Sounds of gun fire was audible in the Kwangtung expital dur- ing the Easter holidays.

The city was also crowded with Communist troops. Their audien appearance in the streets caused tension among the population.

The newspaper said that it was learned that the exercises ! Whampón were being carried out with newly-arrived weapons RICT the direction of undert ed foreign technicians.

It

separate message, al50 from Cantan, the "Wah Kiu Man Po" said that regulations for con- trolling the entry and depurture of people from Canton will be

enforced from Apell 15.

Hidden under surface of superficial prosperity

U.S. DOLLAR DECLINE

Hong Kong today is going through a severe · economic crisis, though to the outsider this is hidden under a surface of super- ficial prosperity.

This crisis was not unforeseen. In fact it was expected as far back as early last year, when the Chinese Communists made their spectacular sweep down from the North.

India-Pakistan

agreement approved

New Delhi, April 10.

Those who intend to leave the India's Parliament today "approved a new India.

city will be required to obtain a travelling permit first in addition

Lo an idenilßcation certificate and

provide two shop guarantors,

The

Fighter planes.

morning vernacular "Wah Kiu Yat., Po" quoting # recent arrival here from the China mainland, said that the Chinese Communists have pro- bably now obtained 600 fighter alrcraft from the Boviet Union.

It added that a considerable number of air force personnel has also been sent from Russia to Ching to assist in the setting up of training centres in North East China, North China and Central China.

The newspaper added that its Informant sald that the Chinese Communists have established two big flying training schools at Hanknw and Peking.

Peking Radio attacks Dulles, Lattimore

Pakistan agreement that Premier Jawaharlal Nohru said had halted the feuding countries on the brink of war.

"We have stopped ourselves at the edge of a pre- cipice and turned our back to it," said Indian Premier Nehru in announcing details of the agreement to Parliament.

Nehru called upon the gov- ernments and peoples of both India and Pakistan to "put an end to that viclous atmosphere that has surrounded up for the

"I hope Nehru, too, was sails fied that I will do everything possible in thle direction in Pakistan."

It was felt that the China market, upon which Hong Kong 'Bo much depended, would eventually be entirely re-patterned.

The banks were the first to give out the warning and they did this by tightening on facilties to their customers to curb over- trading, a tendency, which is unfortunately too common, es- pecially after several consecutive years of prosperity.

Not only was the curb placed on ordinary commercial banking facilities, but bank advances on real estate 'and shares were tigh- tened, as these too must be linked with trade, so that many were left.complaining about the un- "Casonable and over-cautious at- titude of the banks.

More than 100 Baniangwato tribesmen arrived at Gaberones in Bechuanaland, Africa, to greet their Chief designate, Seretse KHama,” on his arrival by air from Britain. Here Beratsè'a uncle and principal headman, Peto Sekgoma (standing) reada a telegram he had just received from Soretic's wife, the London-born former Ruth Williams, advising that Gerstes's aircraft had been delayed--A.P. photo.

Easter brings no

respite in China's civil war

Whether or not we are now at the height of the crisis is

mut- are feeling the pinch more and ter speculation. At least wo

more as the day goes by, with tha China market completely im-Easter brought no respite in China's civil war—

and Pakistan, ae a matter of

The Premier said that India mobilised.

two and a half years" sinc: world peace, must "ettle all out- New pattern

India and Pakistan won inde-standing issues by peaceful means pendence from Britain.

to promote the growth of friend- and Pakistan's Premier Liaquating between Life rice countries,

The agreement between Nehru ship and good neighbourly-feel- All Khan, designed to halt Hindu-Associated Press. Moslem clashes that have taken hundreds of lives, provided for: *. The security of minorities in Pakistari and India.

2. Unhampered migration across the border of India and Pakista. for Hindus and Moslems.

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3. Special commissions on bot: sides to investigate any violations of the

agréeme.it.

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Pl train overturns;

14 killed

Manila, April 10.

The new pattern of trade:In. China has yet to be announced by the Communists, but one thing + which can be taken for granted Is that there will no longer be any place for consumer goods In China. -

Taipeh, April 10,

only the prospect of more severe fighting and the possibility of Communist bir raids on Taiwan.

Press reports recounted a fresh amphibious assault

on the sea coast near Shanghow by guerillas. who stormed ashore on April 5 and withdrew after causing great havoc.

Gurkhas kill 7 terrorists in Malaya

Singapore, April, 10. Seven terrorists are known to have been killed and five captured by a patrol of the 1/7 Gurkha Rifles yesterday in

still in Harbour

The evacuation ship, sả. An- king, was still at anchor in Kowloon Bay inst night, wait ing for a go-afiend signal froin Shanghai "officials.

More than 70 'passengers, hrajen board the ship, in Shanghal some 1,600 foreign nationals are pra pared

lov the evacuation.

Whit

the reason for the several

day metals are not saying.

delay is, Butterfield and

coke di the In the American President Lines' as.

General Gordon, the Shanghal. officials have agreed to a evacua- tion "in principle," but have not approved a detailed evacuation plan.

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Last evening the British ship- ping company wired the Anking to "stand by awaiting further orders,""

Thip meberge was taken to means that Shanghai – has not definitely turned thumbs down' on the evacuation, “though several days of delay have not raland hopes over the project.

Shuttle ships

When and if the Anking does arrive off the mouth of the Yang- tse. It is known that shallow- draft boats, will shuttle Shanghai passengers to Shanghai, and then return with the evacuees.

Rumours yesterday were ifo that the delay may be caused by numerous reports of an impend ing invasion of the Nationalist- hold section of the Chusan Is lande,

One shipping, official, not But- terfield and Swire, sold yesterday that he thought the principle rea- ion for the General Gordon's coa- cellation was the Sungmen com mando; raid, "

"He pointed out that within 24

an operation in Negri Sentours after the rald

bilan. In addition, one bandit' was wounded but

escaped. The patrol suffered no casual tics.

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One guerilla was shot and kill- by a patrol when they ralded bandit camp in the Baling area

of Kedah. The police announce ment of this said that the bandit was a known Indian terrorist,

Armed with Sten guns, Brens and rifles, 50 to 60 bandits"at=" tacked a lorry collecting Intax ir the Kota Tinggi area of Johore Among the Red craft sunk driver and alightly injuring two

yesterdas.

seriously wounding its the reports stated, was a‹gun« blat probably one which pre- escorting constables. The Flory viously belonged, to the Altex lorry was also at

was completely burned out, be tionalist Nav

tacked in the Kuala Kangsar area but was only slightly dam

As in the raid on March 13., Reds killed, the remaining craft the guerillas landed in the raced back to Dulchow Peninsula, The greatest sufferers will vicinity of Nanhwel, 20 miles their base, but several were sunk therefore be the importers South East of Shanghai.

by pursuing aircraft. American consumer goods which

They consisted of several hun-: at one time flooded the entire China market. Holders of these dred well-equipped men belong- goods have been off-loading at ang to Klang Province's anti- loss, and

Communist self-defence army and have been trying to East Asian markets. In alternative outlets in other had the co-operation of comrades

ashore.

Two days before the landing, the seabome guerilias-so reports claimed-sank.. more than 90 troop-laden Communist junks and captured six more which were fully loaded.

The effect of this is found in the continued drop of the United

which last States dollar

week touched the record low of HKS 6.15 since the devaluation of the pound. It is now only about 35 cent above the official rale.

Despatches predicted still fur ther Red attempts to establish beach-heads on Hainan.

They alleged that "Russian ad- 'visers were now giving intensivo, training to a small invasion forco and that the coming-operation would be directed by them. They amashad - ashore On The advivets, the reports said. April 5 and, despite fierce re-arrived In Luichow Peninsula alatanos, destrnyad more than sche wooks ago from Canton 100 junks at the water's edge | Ansoglifed Press

India's Parlament approved the agreement

anton a

a voice vote, At least 14 persons were t-may-be-dlacuated, however, killed and 18 others rescued San Francisco, April 9.***

Genery) debate this from burial alive Peklog Radio today blasted

beneath o month On the rituation the "reactionaries" Owen Lat-

mass of iron ore when a min- Bengal scene of the

most timore and John Foster Dulles,

Ing company train overturned cent communal disturbancee. 'who they said were trying to In the agreement announced to near the town of General Mac. push the United States aggres- day, the India and Pakistan Gov-

Arthur, in South East Samar sive designs in the Far East. ernments Agreed

Saturday night. to prevent the Island, on

The Mantla ofice of Elizalde The inoatleast criticised Mr. | disc of news and "mis- Lattimere, "so-called Far Easter.

and Company, operators the expert" whose Department of

Samar Mining Company, said 1′′ Sinte nemorandunt on Americans

bodles had been recovered and 18 policy in the Far East,

It said,

persons buried under the are which was thrown out of the over- Stater proved that the "United was planting to dominate Asla. 7

turned ears, were dug out alive. added that despite Senator Joseph

A report of the accident brough! McCarthy's charges that Mr. Lal-

In Karachi Pakistan's Premier Slaming of the motor launch Cass Tacloban, Leyte, by Captain IL timore was a Communist, the

Liaquat Ali Khan, today phêöged memorandum definitely revealed himself to carry out in full the day and all of the dead and red- Mr. Lattimore's "unperialist coun-agreement ho

cued were employect of the mine signed who recently tennace,"

with India's Prime Minister who were riding the train down t Turning to Mr. Dulles

la another factor contributing to │tack. the Jawaharlal Nehru to stop Hindu-piers from which the cre is ship- broadenst sald his appointment ar Moslem strife.

oplision that night rous communal pastion" and to bad "propagande directed against the territorial integrity of either country or inciting a war betweea the two countries".

Pakistan' pledge

Disclosing to his country's

to

ped.

Slaming sold his 18-year-old adviser to the State Department" likewise showed the "waritke na- Parliament details of the pact son, Ricards, was among the sur- ture" of the Department's policies, designed to end communal clashesvivors. He quoted Ricardo as say- It termed Mr. Dulles the "No 1 In the sub-contineut,'Liaquat All the locomotive and oigh! war-mager of the Ualled States," Khan-zald:

loaded

'cari derailed, throwing oul

Almost complete absence of demand for the greenback, encu the covated possession of hopr ders, is the underlying cause of the slump. It is not wanted-ba- 'cature, there are no

American goods...

and captured 14 others,

rald, like the previous one. The orders for was staged from Chuson Island. the Nationalist bibekado. base 10' Heavy, off-loading, by the miles South East of Shanghai."

Reports from Chusan said Gen- - Kuomintang In Talwan jo.pay]|

for needed-war- material and eral" Shih · Chuch's Nationalist other necessities in their com- troops there were in fighting teằm Ing"fight"with the Communists, for an expected Communist at- The troops, in six days of hard contributory, and not exercises, had repelled a theore lical investor in which the sup- posed enemy, suffered tremendous

the slump, but aff' agree it is only a

the main, factor.

Riding it out"

lossen.

Egypt protests to U.S. over "Life article

London, April, 10.: Egypt has protested to the State Department in Washing- ton against what it calls "de- famatory articles" on Egypt in American publications, it was reported in Cairo last night.

The Egyptian Ambassador, Mr. Kamél Abdel Rahim Bey, told the State Department that the Egyp- than Government and people were "prepared to go to extreme Umits In this protest

Blockade tightened n typical representatiye of the

am solished, that Premier the workmen.

Because of recent Nationalist United

ted States monopoly of capital-chiu would do everything pos- The search continued since, b No serious collapse is expected, naval sweeps along the const near ism who had been repudiated by sible to sựe: khut - Ufc, property, was not known deflately how however unless there is a further Chusan, zorvice quarters here be- the American peoplo during thele | culture, ellizchship and other many men were stop the loaded worsening of the situation. Mer-lieve the Reds might launch their rights of Moslems in all parts of cars when they overturned-Assc-chants (with adequate financial expected Invasion of the vital is- India are safeguarded.

ciated Press.

resources are riding it out." land from Shanghai Instead of that the protest is belleved to be Those who have not, are selling points clocet. gut at a loss, because to borrow An result, the blockade of [187out of the question with too | Shanghai has been tightened. Licle in the current number of-the:

last election.

It cald Mr. Dulles was an out standing exponent of Americar cold war policy against the on" lightened poɔople's democracies. It also charged that warmöngéra were spreading rumours inboul Bying mucers and unidentified submarines off the West Coas "This la not a coincidence," 19 added. It said the U.S. Navy cooked up a similar submarine

The Weather

:

Forty-four dead, missing

in series of disasters

The authorities

market so tight.",

vers and, flnunciers shun the Nationalist blockade feet'snys A Chinese correspondent with oven requests for loans on the hardly a single vessel, no mattor bost oft, securities, such -as real- estate in the best localities, and how small, inanages to elude it.

As merchants told

the “China

not,

Yn Tolwan, still further mea÷ sures werd, ordered in an attempt.

The Washingtonéreport" added-

expecially concerned with an ar-

magazino "Like"!- hended "The Problem King of Egypt."

The article carried a sub-head reading "Farouk in a bowildered moody monarch who vacillates. between "self-indulgence and a sincere. desire to help his people."

The King is, retärred / to pampero, obstinate and capri- claus, Reuter,

On Other Pages

10 minimise casunttien in ofthu"] Page 2 145 avent, ot Communist air raids. !

Chicago, April 10. | plone mikring with 10 men aboard shares in first class companies. "Every Communist military ship

counted 44 slut Sterday NE scare two years.ago under, alinillar.pfaons dead or missing today

In Chesapeake Bay five crew Mall when asked what they sighted is sunk at once," he de circumstances when Congress was the series of Easter ship- en wese teens and from the to sit tight and await develop-as Ashing boats, are closely in-

men were missing and, the body would do: "What can one do but clares,...

"Tuneshit appearing craft, mich also considering an increased military budget.-United Press; wrecks and plane crashes.T tugboat Lorraine, which, sankments?" And this seems to rum

Alr son resclio units secured without warning on Sunday in up the general attitude of the spectatore being allowed to ogen in, four separate; searchool cool. 20, nendows: PAY the overall China situation avait adds, usd radar detection at night. thousands of square miles of "nasty weather while towing a mercantile community who feel Watto waist

The Nationalist warships, ho { there' is 'little, they, can_do, while for 38

mon missing' and feared A dead aboard ships and planes lost amphibious type plane reported clarification. nt sea. Six other persons, fra 14° was maiding an amergency. cluding a Los Angeles family of | Landing with four persons 'Aboard crashes involving on Sunday night 40 miles South SALON GRIPs) four, dilled, in "SAL 0800 GMT (3) plm. IIKBT) "a ridge) private planes, yo

PAKISTAN': East of Kingston, Jamaica, in the Yað flæh) promuro, eurera, Japádě? Presnúra

Two New England frin

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ves-Caribbean. Nine: United States! falling over 8 Ching and the adjacent sola carrying'a total of eight men Navy" and Army-planes and five

PLANE CRASH: was, and a storil depressios appena 10 were missing In the wake of a destroyers were sent to find it

violent, snow and wind storm bấîn another. Caribbean, PORTCH”

auberi, Pakistan, April 19. Today's Forecasti-Moderata winds. the const, of Massachusetts dén-the, Cuban Coast Guard hunted

More than 15 persons were Cloudy, with light rain, we drakescribed by the Coast Guard is the for an unidentified alp reported feared dead today in the creat worst of the season. The Coast in distress of the North Easion of a Royal Pakistan Air Force Guard sent out five platics and coast of Cuba Lan Nortierd frontler

pland in the rugged hills of Paki Miren (fast) dawn to the vessels at Early today?

search a 30,000-square gigit nien, narrowly missed firs „The plane, carrying. 15 service==| tori

Faster when they urasti lauded hale, men and an "unknown number: whatan, for third missing feilig

Brevenich FV-seroplane

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„Civillana, in "this" Nationalist "capitat:"city" were advisedito

* build air raid shelters and wa- ter welle before the, and of this month, and were told they could free advice from the por

Childand of Hulhan cald 'vic- Despatches from the South

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Meanwhile, in London, the Conservative "Daily Mali” to. day splacked a report, that the British Government would ra? Gelve this week an urgent re- quest for military reinteres ments for Malaya.

Was BA- the Gordon's "trip was cancelled, asia

* Anking passengers spent their in Kowloon Bay last night. second night on board the ship

Explosion

Un Long theatre

A time bomb' planted inside Kwong Wah Theatre, Un Long, the niena - lavatory of the New Territories, exploded on Friday vening, causing con- sternation to a large crowd of theatre-goers.

The explosion occurred at 9.25 Pan when the last show had just started - No-one-war injured though an employee of the theatre pads was inside the lavatory at the Bald the requcals would in- time. The force of the explosion clude a demand, for, at least one was said to have knocked thờ extra British division and a cor- employee unconscious.

"Aside from the shattered win- respondingly large increase of closet rquadrons of the douglast damage was slight.

Force, Royal

Following the explosion a detail The unwspaper stated: "It is of police was despatched to the understood that the civilian chiefs coner from, the Pingshan Polite

in Malaya considered that Cat Station, who had the theatre sur- least two more, diyisions, are tro= founded.. Ono; suspect was re- ally needed to bring the war | ported to bava, þuen taken into against the Communist bandits to custody immediately. Lator ap- no carly, end."Router *** ölher 'suspect was picked up.

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