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Britain's Supplies To Egypt
.
Foreign Secretary Cross-Examined
London, Apr. 4.
suspended
Britain has
shipments to Egypt of im- modern military portant equipment but there was no complete blockade on all items, it was officially dis- closed on Wednesday.
Questiorers preased the Foreign Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, and the Defence Minister, Mr In the Emmanuel Shinwell,
House of Commons on the sale of ships and equipment for King Faroult's navy.
Mr Shinwell said: "Supply to Egypt of Important items of equipment:
of modern types has been suspended."
Mr Winston Churchill's son-in- law Captain Christopher Soames had inquired about such ship- outstanding ments and commitments. Mr Shinwell said 1950 the that since November
bari only
been murm
any
supplied maintenance It- quirements and spare parts."
Captain Soames wanted to know if the destroyer Cottesmore
the bonding under
came
types
of
of
Important modern equipment, but Mr Shinwell fully refused to amplify his general statement.
ROYAL NAVY FIRST Earlier, Mr Morrison had as- the House that Egypt Bured came second to the Royal Navy in the allocation of warships and equipment.
vessels Ox
CHINA MAIL
Refugees Seek Sanctuary
Across the tight-guarded frontier dividing Yugoslavia
and Bulgaria trickle daily in increasing numbers. Bal. garian refugees who have abandoned their homes and waded swAZIDA familles, pushed through matted thickets,
Established 1845
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1951.
DRINK
For Hospitality
Serve Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola WARLOR
Coca-Cola
Judgment Reserved Motor Cyclist Mail
In
Kennedy-Skipton's Full Court Appeal
The appeal by G. S. Kennedy-Skipton, a former Hongkong Govern- ment servant, against the judgment of Mr Justice Gould, who held that the -statement-of-claim-in-his-original action against the Government revealed no cause of action, should be struck out and that the action should be dismissed, was continued before the Chief Justice, Sir Gerard Howe, at the Supreme Court this morning when the Acting Solicitor General, Mr A. Hooton, concluded his submissions.
Appellant was represented by Mr Charles E. Loseby, KC, and Mr Brook A. Bernacchi, in- structed by Messra C, A. S. Russ and Stewart. Respondent is the Attorney-General. for whom Mr Hooten appeared.
Mr Hooton submitted that one could not get a declaration as to status because status was not one of the matters which was a proper subject in the
11
be no question but that appel- fant had a right to say to the Crown "I was civil servant." This was essentially a case that should go to trisl
and should
not be struck out and be sub- mited that for the reasons he had advanced the appeal should succeed
Their Lordships
of fight. It was not mion judgment, question of monetary restion
Dealing with The
yesterday
and risked sentinels' bullets, before turning themselves over to Tilo's guards, This picture shows a Bulgarian farmer
ralped by Mr Loseby who fled and former member of the Communist Party
as to the Crown being estopped, from the village of Vriavo because he said he refused to
Mr Hooton cald that the regu- "terrorise" his fellow farmers into joining collective farms
lations
gave As a result, be
the Governor and meeting compulsory food deliveries.
authority which created a right said, he feared for his own life, AP Picture.
and no right was merely created by an estoppel. Mr Justice
No
To
Of
Strings Attached American Grant Grain To India
Washington, Apr. 4.
the cases
The United States Administration has re- equipment jected proposals for making a grant of 2,000,000 made available to tons of American food grains to India conditional on India sending her strategic raw materials to Member entered the discussion, America, a State Department memorandum dis-obtained by petition without
she was
fcrted: "That is doing."
_I_have_sali_we_are
closed today.
The memorandum, as a background statement cir- culated to all members of Con- gress, urged Congress to approve the Grains Bill without delay.
United
reserved
Ching Ming
Festival Celebrated
NEW
DIRECTIVE
TO MacA
(Continued from Page 1)
employment of Manchurian- based aviation which has been supplied by Rumia United Press
"TERRIBLE
Fined $100
Bo Yia, 22, unemployed, of 20, Bal 'Yeung Chol Street, was fined $100 by Mr Winter at Kowloon this morning for driving a motor cyclo without licence on March 30,
A
Defendant met with an accident when he skidded while turning into Nelson Street and sustained minor Injuries. Enquiries later revealed that ho-had-no- Hoence to drive.
Late Korea News
Aussies Spearhead Attack
With The British Brigade,
Korea, Apr. 5. Australian troops spear- headed the Commonwealth Brigade's advance over some of the most rugged fighting country in the world into North Korea yesterday. DANGER"
Washington, Apr. 4.
Attacking behind an intense Raybun fold artillery barrage laid down by Speaker Sam Representatives on Wednesday the New Zealanders, Australian, Middlesex forces Today is "Ching Ming", not only Chinese troops were Argyll and
of the 88th traditonal Chinese festival on among the Red forces being pushed off south which occasion pilgrimages are massed in Manchuria, "and Parallel at dawn. They ran in- Chinese Communist re- of their think, we stand in the face of to st the graves made to
may
sistance immediately. ancestors by the Chinese com- terrible danger that this
be the beginning of World War munity in the Colony.
Thousands of people thronged III." the va
various bus termini, the ferry wharves and the railway
their turn
a
were
observed
Joss-paper shoes did a'roar- ing business.
05
2
Solemn-faced, Mr
men,
to
the
丸 strong
the
Care
Notices
Registered ́articles-and-gros) maila close one bour warlier than the ordinary mall, when malis close as Hundays or beform là am, on, shy other day, register- *A artisine and parcel malls cives At 5 DIA. On the previous day. Mais are closed at Kowloon Post Offee, one hour earlier than the U.P.U. clóging times.
THURSDAY, APRIL 5 By Air -Canada-U÷BA-5-pm; Via-CPAL. Siam, Malaya, Indonesia, b p.m. Vin C.P.A.
Philippines, B p.m., via P.A.L.
Indo-China, France, French North and West Africa, 5 p.m. vis Air Franco.
_By_Surface_
Canada (Parcels only), 5 p.m. viä” / Cartlevilin
FRIDAY, APRIL
By Air Formoe, 10 a.m., via C.A.T. Siam,
Burma, India, Pakistan, Middle East, Afries and Europe, 15 p.m., via B.O.A.C.
Malaya, Indonesia, 6 p.m., via 6.0.A.C
B.N. Borneo, Australia, New Zea- land. 3 p.m., via Q.8.A.
Philippines Guam, Hawaii, USA. Canada, & p.m. via 2A L
Formosa, 8 p.m.. via HK. AITWAYE.
By Surface Macoo, Ba.m., 4.30 p.m., via W/m Yu Men/Tak Shing.
China, Peoples Republic, 8.30 a.m., 4.30 p.m. train via Canton.
Philippines, Indo-China and France, 10m via e Felix Roumei.
Japan, 10 a.m.. via u/s Mandeville.
SATURDAY, APRIL 7 By Air Formosa, 3 p.m., via C.A.T. Blam, 5 p.m., Via P.C.A.B. Japan, Korea, 5 p.m., via B.O.A.C.
By Barface
- Macno. 8 a.m., 4.30 p.m., via x/s Yu Men/Tax Blung.
China, Peoples Republic, 8.30 a.m.. 1.30 p.m. tala vie Canton.
Japan, 10 a.m., vin s/s Nordvest. Ceylon, Madagascar, India Pakis- tan, 10 a.m. Via / Star Alcyone.
Australia, New Zealand, 1 p.m.. via / Eastern Glory.
Malaya, Indonesia, 2 pan., via x/x- Tilwangi.
East and South Africa. 3 p.m.. vla
Straat Soenda.
SUNDAY, APRIL
By Air Philippines, B.N. Borneo, 1 pm..
via C.PA
Indo-China, France, French North and West Africa, India, Pakistan
Air France.
Formoen, p.m. via HK. Airways.
By Surface Macao, 1 p.m., via s/s Kwong Tung, Chins, People's Republic, 4.30- p.m., train via Canton.
Great Britain and Europe, 6 Pam, v
Philippines. Japan, Noon, via /r Tegelburg.
Formosa. Noon, via a/s Wing Sang.
Radio Hongkong
HX.T.
Weather Report; 0.11, "hursday: Of Serenade"A Programme of Continu- on the ous Musle arranged by Betty Drown:
Stall holders in the markets
guns rattled meat, fowl and vegetables were
The Senate-Democratic-tender "It's beautiful Spring weather 8.30, Harry Horlick and His Orches offered as sacrifices.
ast € 117" The
Hongkong
and Mr Ernest McFarland, who also Gold
White attended
The Chinese Communists pu: Editorials" Silver
the Exchange declared
House
heavy stream meeting, refused to say whether down holiday. Several other or-
was accurate mortar bombs Mr Rayburn's statement ganisations
ond shops
were
information given Argyll and Middlesex attackers on also closed to enable their staff based
of their there, but he did-tell-reporters; they moved toward the the
graves
boundary--Reitter. to visit ancestors. .
Extra Police have been as- signed to the various cemeteries in the Colony to maintain erder.
Gould, he said, had decided in his judgment that the plaintiff could not sure for salary and therefore the ploinuff had no legal right
Mr Hooton said that the only claim which was right was that civil servant the plaintiff was
For the first time in many which, in Counsel's submission,
weeks they found barbed wire in this case was not a claim of
the barricades around which right as against the Crown bo-
had sown Rayburn Chinese Communists Miss Irene Ward (Conserva-
cause one could not enforce itions to get to the cemeteries took the
House floor during anti-personnel mines and booby tive) charged the Egyptian gov
against the Crown, emment acquired more British
FAULTY PHRASEOLOGY
this morning. Bus Lines which the debate on the conscription traps. As advance troops cut bill and told members: “Since the cemeteries Replying for the appellant, lead to motor torpedo boats than the
far-off Communists fired from Royal Navy has in commission,
churia-and not all of them
emridges Mr Bernacchi said that it now packed to capacity. Long queues the massing of troops in Man through the wire the Chinese
overlooking them, and asked Mr Morrison to en-
appeared in the light of some of of passengers were
Communist Chinese by ony After the Australians had the awalling quoted that
to board great extent is my belief taken their first hill for sure that no further. British
val
that we are in greater danger day, they sent out phraseology of the declaration buses at Tsimshatsui, Taumati should be
claim was romewhat faulty. He and Jordan Road.
of expanded war today than at patrol which crossed into North To cope dealt with procedural effect and Egypt.
with the situation, any time since the close of the Korea the first British troops sald that a declaration could be additional services were main-war in 1945." Mr Morrison cald
enter North Korea since by the Ferry Com-
Matthew Lieutenant-General misinformed, and when another
panies, Bus Companies and the asking for any further relief.
He said he might give more tained
offensive counter- Ridgway's and Mr Bernacchi said that the Kowloon
Canton Rail-information to members of the started in January. the Foreign Secretary somewhat
Many more buses were House later. Mr Rayburn and point
whether basically way. was
The Brigade's new comman testily asked: "Do the honour
intended "India is already exporting this was a claim on a contract put on the road and special other top legislative leaders who der, Colonel William "Bill" 0,00, "Programme Summary"; 0,02, able Members wish us to apply a complete blockade to Egypt?"
all the manganese, mica, but with the Crown and therefore train services between Kowloon went to the White House wero Burke, said, "I had hopes that Jazz For The Moderns presented by
and other
John Waring (Studio): 9.30, "Hit major export
Station and Fanling
understood to have got a secret the Aussies could be were
first Parade'; 7.00, "Symphony Of Strings" When
other Members said
lap
one which could generally form
operated.
bricing, 15 a basis of a petition of right.
they frequently do
String Choir Geraldo and across the line." they wanted to be sure that the
commodities which her mines and industries can produce
Counsel submitted that the
at such, meetings, from military British
The British commander add- (BBCTS); 7.30. La Demi Heure Tran- nitry came first and
Saying that the attitude of the without great additional out-
had
Presumably Mr Rayburn case could not and never
od, 33 New Zealand shells Salee (Studio): 8.00 World News and News Analysis (London Relay): 8.15. Egypt second. Mr Morrison re-
of capital. Indian Government and people loss. India is compelled to go of service between the Crown also did thriving business,
based his remarks on what he whizzed overhead and machine- Vocal Recital by Marian Nowakoak! what
been put as high as a contract towards the United States was
was told at this briefing.
in nearby hills,. (Ba) and Irra Petna (Soprano): friendly the further in debt for the food it-and-a-Grown servant ns not Mr Morrison sald
had fundamentally
tre: 8.45, 8ports Review by Bull Directly ments
State Department
denied state- needs now, its ability to carry being the basis of a petition of
Phillips (Studio) 0:00 From The bought its motor boats
India had cut her ments that
minimum development out its
(London Relayi 9.10. from shipyards in Britain sincements
of manganese export
the plan will be seriously endanger right at all.
Mr Bernacchi added that it 1046, but that Egypt had con
States. India had ex- the statement said.
ed siderably fewer than the Royal
ported three-quarters of her
The statement said the primary was a peculiar thing in Hong- Navy. He said: "In any case
total no naval vessels or equipment United States last year.
manganese exports to the
interest of the United States in kong in that under the local law people had no right to petition the situation was humanitarian. have recently been sold to Egypt
The statement also pointed
It said that despite political but they had the peculiar pro- unless to meet the requirements
know what Rayburn of the Royal Navy and of the out that the ban on exports of differences botwo the United cedure whereby one could, sue
the Attorney-General.
knows. I know the situation is monazite was in States and India over the situa- North Atlantic treaty nations stituted by the then indepen- tion in the Far East relations.
After refering to further
very serious, and I personally feel what we say and do here and other allies, The same dent Government of Travan- between the two countries were authorities, Mr Bernacchi said criterin wouki be applied core in 1945.
may mean the balance between "fundamentally good and friend- must be abundantly clear to the Court that the Crown was generally in regard to any ships
We have to be 1. A ridge of mountains, 2. Of war and peace. The State Department de-1y? or equipment for the Egyptian clared,
Philippi, a city of Macedonia, 3. amendment to TA "Any
very careful." It expressed the importance to purporting to say that between
60 miles off avyUnited Press.
the Grain Bill which would in the United States of a "stable, 1942 and 1940 the
Mr Rayburn did not elaborate in the Atlantic, _and_told reporters he would the northwest coast of Africa. 4. terfere with India's indepen-friendly India and sald that it
stand on his remarks
the seven hills of Rome, dent control
the One over its own' 're- WIS In America's
case that there was national appellant's
House floor. He would not say
name used for the Italian sources by compelling the Indian interest to make the grain avail-no authority in the Governor
when
the letter to Ken-
whom he meant by non-Chinese Gover
5. He had Government. sent Government to lift its embargo able.
Communists and his listeners m middle dismiss him
A Dig as a precondition
delivery
There is an additional intannedy-Skipton to
Cheung Chi-chong, 30, assumed he meant the Russians, perspires from his snout; a cat of food would not of India why a grant would be far more i result gible
but highly important reason Spectively.
Lordships in the lasting
wil not wanted to come to Hong-United Press. the United States and 裁 single case where the kong from Macno, but had but might even result in the valuable to Teheran, Apr. 4. The Shah of Perda postponed Indian Government choosing to than its cost," it added.
Court has said that an action
no money. He boarded the on refuse the
"This is the terms despite the
first official re-based
1 on the dismissal of his State visit to Jordan
Lung Men and informed a UNLICENSED quest India has made to the civil servant cannot be main- April 8 to "sudden ap-suffering which would follow
"Should this
It would United States occur
declared. Chinese member of the crew for help. The tained." Counsel pendix tro
A Persian Court communique take, decades to restore the de- response of the United States "What the Courts have said is that he could not afford the LORRY DRIVER Issued tonight emphasised the struction which United States will be watched with the utmost this: the action being a Shah's regret at being unable prestige would
When the ship arrived here suffer in India interest by all the people of for damages for wrongful dia-
A 10rry owner, Wong Poon cannot be maintained, to
visit that King and all Asia", the State Depart-Asia who have seen the response miszal
yesterday, Cheung was arrest- return
United States has the action being for arrears of od for being a stowaway and ter at Kowloon this morning for 41, was fined $100 by Mr Win- which the Abdullah made to Persia in the ment added.
randstained, made in recent years to the
salary cannot be
this morning he was given two summer of 1949.
driving & motor lorry without a As arrangements were being
nations of Europe for economic because there is no at a weeks by Mr Winter at Kow-Licence.
servont to be pald
loon and ordered 10 be Ex-
Ng It wald that the way to ob- and milltary ald.
Choong, 32. licensed Shah's visit, a special Persian
HUMANITARIAN
Crown, and subject to statutory
driver, was fined $10 for per- a civil servant is polled, "If the United States responds provisions envoy was on his way to Jordan tain a lifting of the Indian em-
Cheung told the the Crown's plea when he told the crew mem- to express the Shah's regrets to bargo was not through an at-
servant of but to India's request by making sure, But
submit ber compulsion #t
would
drive. he had no money the King Abdullah.
there bots nover.been The communique atressed the through negotiation in a friend- food available only on a loan
a case latter gave no indication as to the kind basis it would inevitably be which has relations" between ly atmosphere
which could be created by the cited both by Soviet propagan Courts before there probably take the trip. He said it was
come before the "friendliest
whether he could or could not the two
gran of food.
dists and by Influence in India
has arisen before-in which a sulted before the decision to
civil servant saya 'I was elvi he knew no one here. All he postpone the trip was taken and rated that the United States the free nations towards telephone talks between the could well spare the 2,000,000 Soviet Union and Red China as servant for x years and he had was $8,000 in Chinese curence,
You were not arency, worth HK$2.25. two rulery resulted in complete tons of grain without jeopardis demonstrating a lack of true
because civil friendship for India and then says
servant Governor purported to dismiss
Postpones
State
the
Visit
completed in Amman
A
for the
radioactive
tempt
Jordon's countries.
to
hatred
EASILY SPARED
at
as-not-a-civil-servant w
claim
Stowaway From Macao
passage,
"I'
on
Court tha mitting an unlicensed driver to i
It was snld that the vehicle carrying a full load of scrap iron at the time when a Police officer stopped
Minister in Teheran was con- The State Department refte- seeking to pull India, away from has not been tach a case witch his arst time in Hongkong and found defendant had
the
the
agreement on
the issues in-
ing its
own needs. Shipment
of the 2,000,000 (needs of fier
volved, it was stated..
tans to India would leave the "A gift of food in this situn-you retrospectively for those Higher Prices
Nuremberg, Apr. 4.
fugre Hving Bavaria, has
at Miltenberg, challenged the
tre, to India', francal importance and benefit to the
sald
sperately the
In
of food grains
not
掂
mero
a legal
For Produce.
Melbourne, Apr. 4.
it ami
no
Ng said he was only engaged to drive the lorry for the day and he turned the car over to the owner at the end of the day not knowing that Wong was an unlicensed driver.
HE REPEATED OFFENCES
King Abdullah is reported to United States with about 10,000,- tion would not only be a great six years. bave cabled the Shah wishing 000 tons, "much more than was humanitarian act, it would also LEGAL RIGHT ISSUE him a speedy recovery-Reuter needed for a safe carry-over' be a a dramatic act of the greatest Quating from a further au- Proposes Duel
the State Department United States in our relations torty, Mr Bornacelu said it
country was do with India. Its returns in friend. stated there must be
The Commerce Minister, Mr. need of economic ship and confidence would far right against the Crown and
moral claim to some John McEwen, announced to- With Dog Whips development not to improve the exceet its cost.
BOTE
of advice the Court might night that Britain had agreed to pitiful standards of living of her The State Department Guenther Just, a German re-/People but merely to keep them "It was true” ·
that India's give the Cova. Either a man
A naval patrol boat stopped from deteriorating.
had a legal right to say he was pay higher prices for Australian
a motor fishing junk, Sam Hing. food shortage and inability to a civil servant or he had not butter, choose and eggs. If her present six-year de- pay for its import nood
The now agreement ended a near Paltai Island on Tuesday of As the authority stated, maybe deadlock over prices which had and found three tins of diesel chairman of the Bavarian Party, velopment programme were to 0,000,000 tons
oil in excess of the amount Dr Josef Baumgartner, to a duci aucceed it would require· her was a result of the former trado | " was true a contrret betwears a begun last August.
-Mr McEwen said that the new | allowed and seven · druma · of total avaliable foreign exchange impasse between her and Pokist of the Crown WAS * with "dog whips" for saying assets, it said.
with certain peculler 'contract, Deculiar provisions implied by prices would be retrospective to gasoline, cach, containing that the biggest cheato come to... "It la absolutely asseritial to
virtue of publie
and in July 1. of last year.... Bavaria from somewhere else." India's development that its
the policy, and
He said that there was The junk master, Kwok Shule effect Dueling is forbidden in Ger-
ball of seven and
20, was ability to obtain further exter-Tito Govt Changes gave the average servant
per cent, in-
at charged no right to
payment many, but legal exports doubt nal loans should not be re-
but did crease in the price of choicest Kowloon this morning with whether duel, with dogduced", the State Department
Belgrade, Apr. 4 that moon be
malary fox, could not go to bitter and cheese, a 23 per cent. | attempting to export, prohibited Whips would come under
come under the mar
Changes in Marshal. Tito's thr Cours and my "I was under increase in the price of shell goods and conveying dangerous quening law lining the possibly
"India" has no funds and no Government aro (mminent, poll” contract Dr Baumgarter
of earning fundo tical observers thought, today.
of service with nor ezen and an 18 per cent in good was fund a total of during tiowy yours and whether crease in the price of ex Purdered the confiscation, of the
by
Winter who › also. challenge, said that Just ~"had | which what not be desperately Belgrado Ilidlo! annormoed by virtus of that contact I am, ducts. based it on a "completely wrong needed for her vital develop that the Yugoslay, Government entkled to claim mything or Unofficial estimates put the oil and gasoline. quumption” and would "him" ment programmno and which met today to discuits own noiz mod Counsel sodyba new price of chadeest butter at Insp. Dewar disclosed that the self- ba*** chent” if he main could be spared to pay a debt reorganization. No detalls were in higginso, rateniesions Mr seven and a half per cent, over accused was God $250 for tained his allegations-Reuter. for food. ^
Igiven-Router parent
Bedak Bernacchi said that there could I former prices-Reuter?
| similar, offences in January,
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