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No. 34811

Britain Lashed By Gale And Torrential Rain

London, Feb. 4.

Sixty-mile an hour winds swept Britain today and whipped up the worst sea storm of the winter in the Straits of Dover. Tremendous seas running off the Kentish coast closed Folkestone Harbour to cross-Channel traffic and the morning boat from Calais, the Maid of Orleans, was diverted to Dover with 360 passengers.

More small ships sought shelter from storms battering most parts of the British and Irish coasts. Coast-guards and lifeboats crews stood by for emergencies.

A huge southwesterly surf In Brittany, fishing. boats pounded the Sussex coast, Sens stayed in port. In war-damaged broke right over the promenade Nantes, fremen put up joists to at Hartings this morning, prevedt isolated walls of ruined

Established 1845

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1951,

HUTTON HEADING

No China Mail For Two Days

Owing to the Chinese Now Year holidays there will be no publication of ile China Mall tomorrow or Wednesday,

Publication will resume on Thursday.

The South China Mor- ning Post will be issued as usual tomorrow, but will not reappear unill Friday morning.

The Hongkong Telegraph will cease pubileation to- morrow and Wednesday, but will print again Thurs- day morning.

Mystery Of

flooding the roadway. A 73- buildings being blown down by Former

year-old man was blown over by the wind and taken to hos- pital with his left arm broken. Lifeboats from Margate and Southend on the southeast coast put out into the gale to search for three fishermen in rowing boat.

small

Thames pilot services were suspended during the day when conditions became too rough to put pilots on board Incoming ships.

Many parts of the country reported gale damage.

Tele- phone services were interrupt- ed and shop windows were broken.

the wind.

In Paris the football ground at Pare des Princes, where

France is to play Yugoslavia on Minister

Tuextay, was transformed into a laite.

The National Weather Bureau said that North-West and cen- re of France, north of a line from Biarritz to Basie, is being swept by strong winds likely to Increase in force during the night.Reuter.

SHIPPING SUSTENDED

London, Feb. 4. Mountainous

the English Channel, whipped up by n 60-mile-an-hour wind, today severed contact with the Channel Islands and sent life- boats au in answer to distress

Galcy and torrential

the Trafic was held up in main street of Sunderland, in the North-East of England, when high winds sent heavy calls.

from a pieces of church pinnacle crashing down on to one of the town's busiest tram stops. No one was hurt.

masonry

SODA

Red

FOR CENTURY

Lose But England

Quick Wickets

THIS MORNING'S PLAY

Resuming her first innings in the fourth Test match at Adelaide this morning, England made a disastrous start, losing Compton off the third ball of the day with no addition to the overnight score

of 96 for two wickets.

Sheppard joined Hutton and, the two started to try and wear down the bowling, but Sheppard lost his wicket after 36 runs had been added, and at the lunch interval the score was 149 for 4, Hutton Dr Vindo Clementis, Com-then being 88 not out and F. R. Brown 9 not out. munist former Foreign Minister

At that stage England were 222 runs behind of Czechoslovakia, was believed here tonight to be in Bight or Australia with six wickets in hand. under arrest.

Prague, Feb. 4.

Saw

he

The windows of his apartment

Only 60 runs were added to the English batting side. With during this confident strokes, he advanced score were dark, and a neighbour said England's

00 minutes play, his score from 50 to 80. There he had not been seen near there morning's

which

his 32 the dismissal of were 14 singles among since Jast Monday. Reporters could not reach him there

and runs scored this last Compton and Sheppard

morning, and night.

England Righting desperately for only one four. runs on a wicket that was taking Compton was out this morn woman who answered the

spin very avell. doorbell refused to talk to them.

Immaculato ing without any addition to the

score, when A young man could also be seen length balls by Iverson, Johnston overnight just inside the door, and two and Lindwall kept the batsmen glanced a long hop from Lind- plainclothesmen patrolled out- so much on the defensive, that wall pitched well outside the rain side. They also would give no only one four was scored this tug stump. Talon, intlelpating

morning.

the shot, moved OCTOST ала swept Britain, flooding roads information.

A Government

Hulton, spokesman,

who resumed Eng-held the ball on his left side. and houses, tearing down tele phone lines and causing exten- asked tonight about reports of land's innings with Compton

Sheppard joined Hutton and Clementis disappearance, was again the sheet-anchor of stayed for 60 minutes, searing Dr sive damage to properly. STREETS BLOCKED

cald he could not reach anybody For the first time in many tonight who might know of the

nine runs during the time that Hotel staff at the South

he was at the crease. He was Coast resori

the mailboat of Eastbourne, years,

services

east when facing England Sussex, had to use towels and between

Rnd the former Minister's whereabouts.

never at The mops

in WesterTI guessing to cope with sea water Channel Islands were suspend- which ran

Clementis had fled abroad, as of buildings along the pro-stopped,

have thousands of other Czecho- Meantime, the Hamburg ship-slovak citizens since the Com- menade...

Spray also found its way into ping authorities have the main rooms.

storm wa

warning to shipping munists gained

power in this

coast, forecasting heavy, souib-

diplomats linked the caster and sing heavy souler Clementis mystery with uncon tonight and early tomorrow.

Into the basements cd, and alt air services were diplomatic circies was that Dr

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Hongkong's New Chief Justice David &

Sir Gerard Howe, KC, photographed recently in London after returning front Nigeria.

New Appointment Means Reunion

(OÜR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

London, Feb. 4.

Goliath Testing Strength

FROM SELKIRK PANTON

Tokyo, Foh. 5. Two armles one that thought it was David and the other Gollath-are to- night locked in battle in Korea not knowing which is which, like two evenly matched wrestlers testing each other's strength.

That, at least, Is the picture this strange see-saw Korean wor presents in its new bafing phase in the struggle, not, mind you, for a blackened, Impover- shed scorched earth Korea, but for the principle of whether plain

should aggression allowed to pay.

aro

For not so many weeks the David, the United Nations→ forces, in anxious retreat und with the sea at their backs were nervously awaiting the onslaught of the Goliath, Chinese hordos who were

to engulf them in overwhelming numbers.

And tonight? Look at the front: all along its 140- miles

the length

United Nations foreca and the Chinese and Korean Reds are embattled in some of the most ferocious hand to hand fighting this awar has seen. Men

are dying and suffering and yet the

by::

gains marked-on war, maps bo either side after 11. limited "UNO offensive and counter-offensive would not Lequal,

a threepenny London bus

The line drawn roughly cast to west about ten miles south of the blackened rubble-spot STA

His appointment as Chief Justice for Hong- kong means more than a promotion for Sir Gerard Howe it also means reunion with his wife.

Lady Margaret Howe joined the World Health ma

marked Seoul, South Korean Organisation of the United Nations last November while back and forth,

capitals on map has swayed.

'alil has beep brief holiday together in London, Lady Howe left for attack. The Reds have brought more. Counter-attack followe Hongkong to take up her appointment as adviser on up more artillery. child welfare and maternity in the Western Pacific.

ANTHONY Iverson, and although Hutton Sir Gerard was Attorney-General in Nigeria. After a gained and last and gained once.

BROOKE

Several Eastbourne streets along the entire North German country in February, 1948. LAUDED

were blocked by unrouted trees, Four ships were tonight rac- ing through mountainous seas to rescue the crew of a 4,000- ton landing craft which broke away from her tow-rope in a gale off Wes! Scotland today.

She was

towed being

by a frigate from the Clyde to the Londonderry naval base in Nor- thern Ireland after a refit, and carried a skeleton crew.

the

Four ships responded to the Irigate's SOS message and

feboat of Campbeltown was launched.

TORRENTIAL RAIN Paris reports that

firmed but

persistent reports The Meteorological Office here that some changes are about said today that the storm-front, to be made at official levels of Czechoslovak government spreaching Germany from the the Atlantic, was expected to send and Communist Party-As- temperatures soaring again. sociated Press. Reuter.

UN Meeting Site

Calls A Halt To

kept him away from the frank bowler as much as possible, he was finally clean bowled when trying to drive Iverson with a

ross shot.

Freddie Brown was 'the next When Sir Gerard arrives in years breeding, horses, in his cracked Iverson's Hongkong in March, he and his native country, Faith will then man in ond last ball for a troop. A mick wife will resume a partnership be his expert adviser, he says: of Johraton's first ball in the that has brought both of them next over gave Brown another recognition for a life ime spent three runs. With the luncheon In the service of Britain's interval approaching both colonies. batsmen began to play more When Sir Gerard was resident cautiously adding only 11 runs magistrate in Kenya from 1930 during the remaining 25 minutes to 1934, Lady Howe was a Medical Oncern the colony, of play.

She held a simfar appointment in the Straits Settlement and Federated Malay States, (while

Troopship In Difficulties

INTRIGUING PUZZLE

But still this does not answer that Intriguing Chinese puzzle: Where is this: Chinese Gollath? And where are his hordes? And what is he up to?

Campaign Singapore, Feb. 4. Mr Malcolm MacDonald, British High Commissioner Appeal To Germans for Southeast Asia, today praised Mr Anthony the West Brooke's appeal to halt the ing him from the back foot and Sir Gerard was attached to the the 11,275-ton British troopship | for All-Ger- anti-cession' campaign in midon and midwicket for singieegal department of Malaya), | Devonshire resumed her journey may be on the eve of the long.

Bono, Feb. 4.

until the Japanese invasion

Cancelling a

London, Feb. 4.

distress signal,

earlier alarm because

These questions have engen- dered 2 new optimism even among the most sceptical ob- servers in Tokyo, but cautioup still, they expect the hordes to pop

up at any Hution appeared to be having

moment like the rabbit from the top hat of a little trouble with Iverson, play-

devil magician (Chinese brand). Geneva, Feb. 4.

They may be right and we Dr Jakob Kaiser, The General Council of the

pushing the ball to between World Federation of United German Minister

in to Singapore tonight after an awaited Chinese all-out offen- Nations Associations, which 15 man Affairs, appealed to West Sarawak as "a true and un- and for the rest of England's 1941.

she had sive to drive the United Nations, Innings, the policy seemed to be She returned to Africa as a asked for help. winds of

meeting, here,

But the general' today unanim- Germans today to form "self-

el selfish service to Sarawak

into the sea. for Hutton to take Iverson and Government Medical Officer in against Com up to 68 miles an hour were re- ously adopted a resolution call-protection units

allow Brown and such incoming Nigeria where Sir Gerard took The distress signal was sent feeling is an up and coming one corded on the French Alloniicing for the

United Nations munist propaganda and infiltra and her fine people."

Mr Brooke, 38, nephew of the batsmen as Godfrey Evans to up the post of Solicitor-General out from the middle of the Bay and a belief that David car and Channel consts today, ac- General Assembly to be held tion" in all cities, villages and

off the

announced still smite Goliath, in Geneva-Reuter,

other in the Colony (he was appointed at Biscay, Lloyds factories in the State-Reuter. third Rajah and next in succes-score the runs

slon, had formerly opposed his bowlers. companied by torrential rain.

Attorney-General in 1946). Uncle's decision to cede Sarawak

THE SCOREBOARD

Lady Howe won a Rockefeller The Devonshire said that her to Britain for £1,000,000 in 1946, Australia (1st Innings) 371 Travel Fellowship in 1948, and main engine had broken down Many in Sarawak supported hims England (lat Innings) joined the United Nations World and that she needed immediate

Mr MacDonald welcomed the

Health Organisation last Novem-ald. substance and spirit of Mr Washbrook, o Iverson, b

..Lindwall Brooke's appeal as an "act personal abnegation which we must admire. I. feel sure that the lead which he has given to his supporters will meet with a good response."

COMMENT OF THE DAY

The Realities Remain

PEKING'S reaction to the adoption

a8

by the General Assembly of the United States resolution condemning Communist China as an aggressor in Korea was as anticipated. The Peking Government

indignation, expresses defiance and intransigence. Yet Mr Chou En-lai's broadcast, which has to be accepted

Peking's official of the General acknowledgment

couched in action, was Assembly's remarkably generalised and vague form, and so far as future military action is concerned promises nothing. Mr Chou endeavoured to strike a more when referring to the definite tone United Nations Good Offices Commission which is charged with the task of trying to bring about a cease-fire in Korea. Mr Chou dismissed its existence somewhat contemptuously, leaving the immediate impression that negotiations for bringing hostilities to an end in Korea are out of the question. But Peking has struck this attitude all along, and while it is familiar, it does that it is not necessarily unchangeable. Eventually the realities of.the situation must condition Peking's policy. And the realities today that the United Nations now possess strong military positions in South Korea with all the indications they can contain the Chinese Communist and North Korean forces for an indefinite period; that while the Poking Govern- mont insists upon prolonging hostilities in Koren, there is not the slightest prospect of any other issues affecting Communist China and her future status being nottled to the satisfaction of Peking; that the Chinese Communists have confront them the possibility of an invasion by Chiang Kai-shek's forces along the southern coast which would commit the Communists to fighting on two fronts, / These are not

mean

are

unimportant considerations, and, despite Mr Chou En-lai's defiant broadcast, aro more likely to influence Peking's future policy relating to Korea than the General Assembly's condemnation vote. be expected Nevertheless, it cannot that the Peking Government will immediately change its tune. The dramatic world cannot look for any overnight turn from fighting to diplo

Chinese Com- matic talking. The munists will use time to heal the wound to pride caused by the United Nations aggression vote. The best barometer will probably be the future military actions of the Chinese Communists in Korea. Weekend reports suggested that there had been a general stiffening up of resistance to the current limited offensive by the United Nations troops, but no signs are yet discernible of a major counter-offensive. On the con- trary, front-line correspondents are writing about the "new baffling phase". in the Korean conflict, and are advancing a number of, theories to try and explain why the Chinese Com- munists aro remaining relatively passive. To create a negative military situation in Korea might well be considered by Peking as the most suit- able way of leading up to a cease-fire agreement with appropriate negotia- tions to follow. The Chinesa : Com- munists are in a position to bring about a military stalemate, particularly as a number of hints have been coming from Lako Success that the United Nations will refrain from trying to drive north, of the 38th Parallel. There- fore, despite Mr Chou En-lai's truculent statement, there still exists prospects and possibilitics of a cease-fire being arranged, and in duo course, a datig. factory settlement of Korea and companion problems in the Far East by negotiations,

.of

Sarawak's Anti-Cession Asso- clations have served notice. on Anthony Brooke that they can- not accede to his appeal to end

USS Partridge

Mined

Washington, Feb. 4. The

mine American sweeper Partridgo hit s mine off Korea on Friday and sank with four dead, four missing and goven wounded, the Navy an- nounced today.

The Partridge was 130- foot wooden vessel. Sho

went

down 12 minutes after the explosion.

The sinking occurred off Kaugnung on the cart coast of Korea

·

Four officers and 31 men were aboard the Partridge,

This ཡ

the fourth

.sunk minesweeper

Korean waters

in

The Partridge was among minesweepers which went ahead as the Instileship Missouri, with supporting ships, sicamed into the Kangmung area-Reuter. ·

Simpson, b W. Johnston Hutton, not out Compton, e Talon, b Lind-

wail

Sheppard, b Iverson Brown, not out.

Extras

Total (for 4 wkta)

20 to

visit to

here.

2 ber. She has recently returned She left Liverpoot for Singa- 887ongkong from a

10 pore on Friday with about 1,000 troops on board, including the wes First Battalion, Royal West Kent 883, Regiment.

Sir Gerard Howe, who 5 born in Dublin 51 years

9 became a KC in 1947, and re-

Later tonight the Devonshire ceived his knighthood two years rodfood-Cancel my distress signal. Vessel now under con-

later.

assistance."-Reuter.

And the people who were recently gloomy about, the Chinese hordes and were full of we are now explaining why there do not seem to be any Their list goes like this:

1. The Russians, alarmed at the speeding up of the Wear's rearmament by the

Korea adventure has called them back.

2. The 2,

United Nations alr

onslaught has scattered them into groups hiding in hills for

(Continued on Page 8, Col. 1)

He and Lady Howe have one trol. Many thanks for offerz of cover and they are being

16-year-old 149 daughter,

Faith, who le a keen equestrian sports- woman and well-known in Irish hunting circles. When her father Icaves for Hongkong on February 9, she will enter Prince Dublin, and hopes eventually to become a veterl- nerary surgeon.

STOP PRESS College,

Sir Gerard plans, when ho

Test Tea Score retiree, to spend at least ten

Ten score in the third day of the fourth Test match was England 237 for wickets,

Hutton not out 129, Brown b Miller 16, Evans c Burke, b W. Johnston 13, Beder ibw Iverson 7, Tattersalle Harvey, b Iverson 0, Warr b W. John- aton 0, Wright not out 7, Extros

7.

Counter-Attack By Reds

•

Tokyo, Feb. 5. The Chinese and North Korean Reds carly today coun- ter-attacked the advancing UN the western front and concentrated 10,000 to 15,- 000 troops in the Anyang area for throw into the battle

Last Wkt Stand rope on

After téa, Hutton and Wright 10 proceeded to make a last wicket Seoul, an Eighth Army com- stand and at 3.16 p.m. (HK Time) munique aald.

ad carried the score to 203 for

A sudden and fierce battle: 9. Hutton was then 150 and raged under the cover of dark- Wright 13, with 22 "extras.

ness in the vicinity of hill 102, twelve miles west end north- ENGLAND ALL OUT west of Suwon, and near hill England wero all out at 3.30 103, ten miles north and north- (HKT) for 272. Eution not out west of the same city, their fight against British | 160, Wright lbw Dindwall 14, Mid-morning reports from the colonial rule, over the colony Extras 21. The Last wicked front said the enemy was trying

which the Brooke's family had added 53 wuna. formerly governed, as White

to encircle the Yank, and Tick troops at both points, but that checking the counter-

"The enemy" "Is striking back

were

Rajahs for more than 100 years. DEATH OF MR J..heavy artillery and air strikes

Lattack. FERGUSON

The five Sarawak groups, which

have fought openly against cession, expromed, deep

regret that Mr Brooke hud Nown was received in Hong- with fury all across the western decided to withdraw from the kong this morning of the death rent, en Eigirth Army spokes- struggle not want

to San Diego-General Hospital man said. "Instead of merely "We do

n to bo

bon of Mr J, J. Ferguson, formerly repelling our attacks from his colony, but an independent of the Hongkong Education Prepared positions he lairying | state "under

the constitutional Department The late to go on the offensive at least in artnited Way, Renofcaments in rule of the Brooke Rate Ferguson arrived in Hongkong both woops and weapons, “at a the British Common- in 1980, and was inturned, ka k being rushed to the front, wealth of nailonk-så modiated Prisonas, or Wax Ja, Japan: from | especiality in the Seoul and

1913.10. 1949.

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