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Flying Jib

RACE 1

Flying Arrow

Outsider:-Windermere.

RACE 2

By "The Turf”

RACE I

The Hopahil

Gypy. Diamond Flying Jib

Outsider: Damio,

Ben Lawers

RACE 2

Kwong Leung Bonnis Eyes

RACE 3

Bonnie Eyes

Kwong Leung

Radiotron

Outsider:-Souvenir.

Easy-going

The Tigress

Hurricane

Outsider:-Pegasus.

RACE 4

Norseman

National Honour

Lin Fa

Outsider: Harvest Field.

RACE 5

The Kam Lung

Kingisher

Sulphur

Outsider:-Norse Lady.

Silver Fox

RACE 6

High Straight ...

Jennifer

Outoider-unimoster.

RACE 7

Kentucky Mcon

Rowangren

Spanish Onion

Outsider:-Shun Fung.

Concord'

Calymity

Mustang

RACE'8

Outsider:-Killara.

Outsider:Wonderful Coin.

RACE 3

Easy-Going

Roslyn

The Tigress

Quesider!-Dantz.

RACE 4

Norseman

National Honour

Harvert Ficol

Qutler-Rowanlea.

RACE 5

National Glory

The Kam Lung Sulphur

Outsider:-Kingfisher.

RACE 6.

Huntmaster Silver Fox Trade Wind

Outsider-Crown Witness

Shun Fung

RACE 7

Lady Gloucester

United Victory

Qtle::--Rasher,

Killers

Bur Bird

RACE 8

Jiminy Cricket

Outsxler-Concord.

RACE 9

Mabel

Cmadian Potato

Justice of Peace

Mabel

“Outsider:—Amazing..----

RACE 10

Rifte

Argus II

Ding How

Outsider:-Shangrila,

RACE 9

Established 1845

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1951.

Premier Of UN TROOPS FALL

Iran Resigns

Teheran, Apr. 27.

Ala Hussein

Premier

handed his resignation to. the Shah on Friday night after the Iranian parliam mentary

commission

recommended the expro.. priation of the installations belonging to the Anglo- Iranian Oll Company,

Mr Hossein's remiana- Lion followed a warning by the British Ambassador,

might

ана

Sir Francis Shepherd, that thero.

"most serious consequences"

And far-reaching

пом

Iran

itled to relse properties of the British-controlled com- pany which has a mono- poly on Iranian oll

Meanwhile it was ported from Shiraz that 'explosion occurred there and that part of the cliy WAS

ablaze. There

further detalls.

were

no

Thirty-neven persons were reported arrested in Tesht after one demonstra- tion.-United Press,

BACK ON

SEOUL

Price 30- Cents.

Chinese Regroup To

Deal New

Blows

Tokyo, Apr. 28.

Victorious Chinese columns regrouped last night as a prelude to the second phase of their all-out offensive while Allied troops, taking ad- vantage of the breathing space, fell back in drenching rains toward Seoul. The flash of frontline artillery fire could be clearly seen from the near- destroyed South Korean capital despite the weather.

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United Nations soldiers, who have been disengaging from contact with the Communists for the past two days, were withdrawing through Uijongbu. The fate of Uijongbu itself was not known but its fall was expected hourly,

Every Building In Gibraltar Damaged

DISASTROUS EXPLOSION

Gibraltar, Apr. 27.

At least six people were killed and hundreds were injured when a British Navy ammunition ship blow up here today. The explosion damaged every building on the famous fortified Rock.

Eyewitnesses tonight said that the soaring mush- room of flame and smoke which followed the blast re- minded them of pictures of the atomic tests on. Bikini. Huge steel plates from the ship, the 1,192-ton Bedenham, were hurled sky high and far away One plece weighing about two tons hit the Garrison Library. Others struck cathedrals and private homes, causing great havoc.

Toowoomba Boy

Women, cut and loodstained three miles from Gibraltar acro Strathpeffer

by smashing windows, picked at the Bay.

Hundreds of people were Outsider Justice of Peace. their babies and rushed into the

treated on the spot for injuries street, screaming. RACE 10

Rifle

Silver Spear,

Ding How

Outsider:-Pemrock.

COMMENT OF THE DAY.

Britain And Raw Materials

ANEURIN Bevan's ill-judged decision

to rupture his association with Labour's agreed official policy, that of permitting intensification of Britain's defence programme at the expense of already low national living standards, has served one useful purpose. At least it has brought widely into the open the tendency in some quarters to search United States activities-with- a highly critical eye. Much of the criticism has been wall-eyed and mis- guided. Some of it has been prompted by a feeling akin to envy-as, for in- stance, comparison of the austerity inflicted on the Britlah people by war's ravages with America's apparently scot-free emergence from the storm. Mr Bevan's charge that the rearma- ment programme is so costly that it - cannot be carried through without wrecking the social welfare structure was bolstered by the observation that American stock-piling of strategic raw materials on a colossal scale has forced prices to preposterous, heights and created 1 fictitious scarcity, threatening British_Internal_economy. Behind this line of attack is a certain amount of reasoning. It is true that a danger exists, that serious shortage of supplies could undermine Britain's defence build-up, and incidentally de- feat America's primary object. Exces- sively high prices could involve enor- mous new expenditure without an Increase in effective war potential. It may be true, up to a point, that the United States continues to be extrava-- gant, in a time of international émer- gency, in permitting strategic materials: to be diverted for civilian consumption.. No doubt exists, however, that Mr Beyan has been completely superficial, In analysis, and has been carried away, by his own ebullience. The British people do not flinch from facing harsh, facts and it is to the credit of the British Government that it-húa) nayar: painted a rooler picture than the facts warrant. Austerity was the accepted

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Communist troops also advanced on Seoul along

a parallel route from Munsan, but this appeared to be a secondary advance. The Chinese Communists were here about 15 miles from the city.

Thousands of fresh Chinese Communists were re. ported to be moving southward

central toward the fronts, passing through badly crippled, and exhausted Communist divisions which began the offensive last Sun day night and in less than a week's time have suffered losses unprecedented in terms of the Korean war.

Rain spread along the entire 100-mile front yesterday as Alliod troops crowded aboard Jeeps and trucks and weer lucky ones trudged along muddying roads, Altering south in a steady column.

Except for rearguards and parts of some units cut off, in the initial Communist adult the main body of the United Nations forces have been out of contact with the Chinese for nearly two days as they fell back to dow! positions" from which to withstand later enemy

attacks.

In all cases the withdrawals were orderly and Allled troops, 03 by this time grown ac

appears

down

to

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Churchill On The War Path

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4,000 Men Stop Work

London, Apr, 27. Four thousand men two vital British defener Industries — docka and arme making ---- stopped work today over claims for more. pay and better conditions

London's vast Woolwich Arsenal, where tank pro- duction-le to start moan, slowed down to a standstill

an 8,000 skilled workers stayed away. They want more pay and are profest- ing against one man's ro» fusal to join their trade union.

At Manchester Dooks, ship-loading stopped when 2,360 dockers walked out in

boycott of overtime

* work. Unofficial striko leaders in the docks, en-

the Govern couraged by ment's failure to rela Court ruling

against similar stoppage early this

3

year announced that they would ank for support from other poris.

A strike delegation has already gone to Liverpool

Reuter..

Magnuson And HK's Refugees

THINKS IRO. CAN HELP PROBLEM

Senator Magnuson be- lieves it is possible to help relieve. Hongkong's refugee problem through the IRO, and one of the reasons for his visit to the Colony has been to investigate for him- self the prospects.

He told the China Mall yes- terday that he intends to advino the United States Government on whether it would be prac tical to continue the activities of the International Relief Or- ganisation in the Far East, with Hongkong as its base of opern- tions.

The Senator pointed out that the process of checking up on the records of these refugees in

commendations was a dificult

Lask

Festival Of Britain order to be able to make

Opening HK To Be Represented

(Our Own Correspondent)

London, Apr. 27.

Mr U Tat Chee, leader of

He realised that the displaced persons in the Colony were costing Government $0,000 4 day for food, and he felt that in the event of an emergency here the presence of these refugees would place a heavy' strain on the water supply and other services,

5,000 IN S'HAI

that

The Senator revealed the Hongkong delegation to the number of non-Communist the British Industries Fair, people from Communist ter-

and Mr EGA. Grimwood, ritories in the Far East is

growing problem-5,000 are

Hongkong Government re awaiting transfer from presentativa in London, will Shanghai area alone, be official guests at the opening of the Festival of Britain South Bank, site by the King on Friday."

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Mary

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the

According to IRO information

is to

the Communists are willing to allow them to leave, but the overriding difficulty provide ships for them : The

Work on the Hongkong stand at the BIF is now well ad-

Senator feels that it is vanced and despite last hero where members of the IRO

The United States, he suld, minute delay in clearing ex- could serve a big purpose, hibits through the customs, "the" well

dressed

and she was able to for Monday's | Europe de

take opening,

more, Africa and South exhibits this | America Among now

had also expressed a year will be a blackwood table willingness to absorb dispinced which Mr U Tat Chee later persons.

present to Queen

Senator Magnuson said he felt hopes to

the IRO was the proper body to arrangements are made to enable all the deal with non-Commmmist DP's 120 delegates and visitors from in the Far East and that it could to see the Royal function butter from Hongkong Hongkong Family when they visit Earle than elsewtrere in the Paodic. Court on Tuesday,

When the Senator was refer- As in previous years, a visit to the heavy, Industry section red to the petition of the refugees.

at Rennie's Mill which has been of the BIF Buningham is dressed to President Truman, being arranged and it is also he said that he thought there hoped that the delegates will be could be no question of the nbie

inspect one or

two United States taking in DPs and Large factories during their four training them as troops for of the Midlands,

another nation.

to

London, Apr. 27 Mr. Winston Churchill on Friday called off his trip to the United States and customed to the ups and downs pledged a last-ditch light to unseat the Socialist govern- First come a series of small and shock or rushed to hospital, of-the-war-In-Korca, were inment which he accused of Colony's shop....window will be has taken. 327.000 DPs from

among United unprecedented fear of going explosions, then a gigantic blast to hy school-huren were sald og pris.

Nations commanders that the to the people in a new elec The explosion shook the Rock. to have been hurt by brokers

Communist offensive will be tion. It shook La Linea, a neighbour-glass.

and it even The Bedenham,

supply contained Д Ing Spanish town,

have Mr Churchill also stepped for

the through was laden with explo-Bltered rated windows in Algeciras, vessel,

alves when he went up, She ranks and in yesterday's, re- the first time into the controversy arrived here on Tuesday with treat there was little of the over General MacArthur, a crew of 26, men of the Mer- gloom and confusion which scribing him us. - "great soldier

safesman,' great

01780 last chant Navy.

A characterised

winter's and withdrawal from North Korea, blasting the British government Tonight the vessel was half

for causing a wave of anti- United sunk

British feeling in the and only part of her

JOCULAR SIGN stirn visible. But it was 'not

States over the affairs. A sign at the side of a bridge known what had happened to

The Conservative leader in a which American combat en-

Shissen, the crew. The cause of the

Mr Harold letter to gineers had just blown before explosion remained uncertain.

Asked for indefinite postpone- taking off for the south give.

ment of his scheduled address to One

Indication version told to Reuter an

of the

celebration bl-centenary was that a fire broke out in a jocularity, with which Alled the University of Pennsylvande fighting. lighter alongside the Bedenham troops are

May 8. Then he addressed while

Someone had chalked OR B Ammunition was being

moting of the Primrose League unloaded at the gun wharf in- sign a parody of the currently at the Albert Hall, side the Admiralty Harbour. popular American novelly song Firemen were fighting the "If I'd Known You Were flames when several small ex- Coming I'd Baked Some Rice management and incompetence" Minister Clement plosions occurred,

In the centre of the line of Prime culminating

Attlee's government had brought troops were tremendous-blast-as-the United Nations

ere Britain..ta as grave danger us Bedenham herself was shatter falling back to defend the

any in his memory. ed. The lighter also blow up. Seoul-Chunchon

SERIOUS EFFECT which

had He said, one of the worst fought a way three days ago effects had been the loss of Workmen ron for cover as only to be hurled back by intimate contacts between the shells in the Bedenham began British and other United Nations British Prime Minister and the,

this lateral President of the United States. to explode. Glass began to fly troops. Without and Gibraltar and La Linea supply route no defence of the He sakt "A wave of irritation is were plunged

peninsula in the passing across the United States, into shadow centro of the when smoke spiralled into the proximity of the 38th Parallel and isolationist forces there are Great giack to is possible.

upon sky from the ship.

Reproaches against Chances that United Nations Britain. Some people made for air-

would defend Scout were slight General MacArthur that great raid shelters.

Among the injured were 14 unless there is a rapid change soldier and great statesman, as The settlement of difficulties with Spanish workmen who were in the overall situation, taken to La Linea; where panic

Reporting from Seoul last Japan after the war have proved shipped the people, Something night, a Reuter's correspondent Indulged in by Mr. (Defence like 7,000 of La Linea's 60,000 said that Chinese Commurdsis, Minister) Emanuel Shipwell and inhabitants work in Gibraltar, advancing down the Ullongbu even so said a minister as Mr going over each morning and corridor hard on the heels of Deputy Prime Minister) Chuter returning at night.

the withdrawing United Na Ede, enable those who do not

like

us in the United States to Lions troops, were within ar-

that Rigges

Hu Majesty's

copital

'condition in Britain during and since the war; a generation has grown up without knowing anything but strictly rationed food, hard living, the sacri- fice of consumer goods in England in order to earn hard currency by ex- porting them abroad. By doing with- out, the country has been able to dis- pense with Marshall Ald and ended the last financial-year-with-a-favour able trade balance. Normally, the population could expect to relax from the long strain. For that matter, in normal circumstances, Britain would be on the high road to prosperity. But, no Buch things are, there is prospect. The price of rearmament is a further tightening of the belt. The most promised by Mr Gaitskell is main- tenance of the present hard-won solvency at the cost of more hardship, further sacrifice and a drop in living standards. To people who have stood the pirich so long, the tightening of the screw must be painful. But the Bevan complaint that the United States is forcing the pace is without basis. All intelligent people are aware that the Soviet Government alone is responsible for preventing the rest of the world from settling down to the ways of peace. The excessive stock- piling accusation might easily provoke the rejoinder that, in the event of a third world war, heavy concentration of vital materials in the United States would offer the soundest guarantee of a victorious outcome, once the first hammer-blows had been contained: Mr Herbert Morrison's tribute to Ameri can foresight and Mr Acheson's s surance that full account will be taken of the essential needs of other friendly nations, for basic economies and for defence, need to reiterationy The appropriate allocation of scarce materials to zones where the hood de greatest, calls for a spirit of co-oper Hon. What Mr Boven seems to overlookedrla the certainty that will not be lacking,

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the Comighway

to

Mr Churchill said the mis-

Furnit

The Hongkong delegation met the Secretary of State for the Colonied, MY James Griffiths, this evening at an informal reception at Lancaster House to welcome, them Britala

On the question of Hongkong's trade with the China mamand, Senator Magnuson said he trad not completat his inquiries and therefore was in no position to * mice any comment,

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The disaster was reen copy tillery range of the Southern Government tarve had something “GRADEAL: (Special)_COCKTAIL"

from Algeciras, Ey-witnesses said that there was dend silence for a few seconds aflér the big explosion. Then a grout clown of smoka sonred up nearly to the top of the Rock's 1,390-foot

cout

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447 cannot

to do with General MacArthur's demissal believe there is BITTER FIGHTING. British and American artillery the slightest truth in this

Mr. ChurchU said: "In leap-frogged each other in holding back the Chinese ad- every quarter of the world wo regarded by our friends vanoo yesterday morning at are

of with

wonder and anxiety, Uljongbu while long lines

and by our enemies, In- Alled, troops tramped through pity, comptoirs infra talay by an drizzling rain towards new cluding some of those countries Hanwe have helped most in the avlatlan bomb breaking, free from a catre White byling hosted fiver Further to-the-week, past, like Egypt and Fertin, we regarded or treated with from the Balenhum and falling American troops fought back are

an advancer Com-hostility or bitterly when

It expanded outwards like a great mushroom or umbrella, One reports that

the

back among other munitions *| muntia, hit hard at.ROK Dost- Mr Cumitempting "the

the hall

people in Spain, reported seeing

Labour Government

were

united

When the exploatin occurred owls,

orowout yesterday on theby their desire to hold on to

abort

Throughout

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This terday that the

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office at all costs to their own reputation and their counte fortune and to put off by every had meaner in their power to the last th

contact

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Strengthening

of with our democratic electorate we shall do all in our by every constitutional means open to us to bring this strasnaful gispense", and uncer- allon | Shuty to a spoedy end."--United Reuter

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