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MADE

THREAT TO REARMAMENT

Danger Of

BOUTH CHINA, MORNING POST, UTIX

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Today's Weather: Moderato E. inds becoming freity later tonight, Overcast with light rạn, thundery, at times.) Main leaving off occasinally this afteglioon.

CHINA MAIL

No. 34881-

DRIVE

Unofficial Strikes Spreading

London, Apr. 30.

A series of unofficial strikes which have already slowed down the British rearmament drive, threatened to spread tonight.

This was the uneasy labour situation facing employers and union leaders tonight.

Dockers 2,300 men at

the strike at Woolwich Arsenal, Manchester Docles continued London's vast arms plant..

six-day-old unofficial strike The

A

arsenal was to have

in support of three colleagues | gone on to tank production allegedly "tocked out."

It is now practically at a 10011,

Arsenal workers-Alters and standstill. electricians--were deciding to- night whether to join 2,000 other skilted Workery already

It's Now

Never

The strike started last Tues- day when one man refused to en join a trade union,

Or

Paris, Apr. 30.

The Big Four

REFUSE OVERTIME

Workers ut seven other aris factories ontside London have, in the meantime, refused to work overtime because of the wages dispute.

Heavy Gains

By Tories

Tokyo, hay 1. Conservatives continued to make heavy rains in Monday's nationwide elections for governors and prefectural and munkirat Ra6emblies до additional incomplete returns poured Into the capitat.

These unofficial

reforns

up to the early kourt on Tuesday showed that out of 20 governor conceded elected 19 are Conserva- fives and one Socialist — United Press,

Winds May Have Caused

Air Crash

Established 1845

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1951,

REDS CALL

OFF MAY DAY

ASSAULT

UN Patrols Try Find Enemy

To

Eighth Army HQ., May 1,

The Communists failed to throw their ex-

pected May Day punch at Seoul, and there were

indications that the Chinese were shifting to

bypass the defence of the Korean capital.

Allied patrols ranged out of the Seoul perimeter to the northwest, north and northeast without contacting large enemy forces. One patrol moving out to the northeast of the Seoul front counted 1,000 Communist dead along a two-

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BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR OPENS

Lead Protest Hongkong Off To

Johannesburg, Apr. 30.

Battle of Britain ace, Group Captain Α.

"Ballor" Malan is to lead a forchlight procession of thousands of ex-pervice- men here on Friday to protest against the bill disfranchising coloured voters,

Mrs Doreen Dunning, former head of the WAAF, in to march with Malan. The "Freedom Marchers" will parade 20 abreast. The demonstration is organised by the War Velurans Action Committee which is

hundreds collecting

of i signatures dally from ex- servicemen who intend to Join the protest,

Among the marchers will bo Commonwealth men. Dulch and Belglans. Coloured war veterans will also take part-Associated Press.

mile stretch of the road where Allied artillery had Oil Company

on

Chicago, Apr. 30. Winds up to 86 miles an hour in gusts may have

concentrated on Sunday night on a Red buildup. enused the deaths of those More Than 14.000 workers at aboard when an

A Communist mortar squad infiltrated to airliner.

the the- Ford Motor

north bank of the Han River and fired three 60-mm Company's crushed at Fort Wayne,

banned Foreign Dagenham factory

rounds into Allied positions on the south bank to outrun Ministers deputies met for their over-time. They are protesting Indiana, trying

Monday afternoon. This was the second small group afternoon in against an "Inadequate" Com the storm.

to reach the Han River. A Chinese platoon walked an pany pension scheme.

They also, planned one-hour Werly, Iowa, when their car Two other persons died at

into an Allied ambush on the north bank of the river on Sunday afternoon. It was token strikes by each shift.

plunged into a erek

wiped out by Allied after At the same time, a nation-flash flood washed

machinegun and tank fire. the

hy postinen who

On

41st session this their attempts to agree agenda for a conference of their chils,

American The British,

and French deputies expected in this wide

math week of the argument to threatened

out

い slow" strike was bridge.

No oficial decision on the

ring on Monday-a battalion-

discover once and for all whether want 10 shillings a week more

Russia really wants a Big Fouro bring their minimum pay up Forsign Ministers conference, to £5.

cause of the fatal crash at Fort Wayne has been made. How-

panecting of the deputies uff night to prevent the campaign turn around and wind bod

Only one large attack was enemy dead were left on the thrown at the Seoul defence battlefield.

troop

Suspends

Flying Start

[OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

London, Apr. 30. Hongkong got off to a flying start when the British Industries Fair opened here this morning Within half an hour the Colony's stall was crowded with prospective buyers from all over the world.

At first glance the Hongkong stall is the least attractive in the Commonwealth section at Earl' Court. It is like a "five and ten cent" store that has found itself in Regent Street, One gets the impression that Hongkong alone, among the dozen or so dominions and colonies which have stands 'in this section, is there to sell its goods.

At every stand in this sec- These are only a few of the lion of the Fair there were "serious enquiries" made within small groups of people taking two hours of

opening this polite interest in the exhibits morning. But there is a darker mostly raw materials und side to the picture. Most of the native handicrafts.

But the 120 businessmen and women people who

had come to buy who have come here this year were to be found on the Hong- from Hongkong are more con

stand. The secret is that cerned with getting TAW only Colony materials than selling their pro ong is the showing finished manufactured ducts, goods of quality and price WORLD-WIDE MISSION which compare favourably with

To many of them London is Fair.

only the Arst on a mlazion that will talos them all over thọ The result is that while other world

ira search

of stands with

more picturesque materials. One of them-Mr B. casual visitors F. Wong, manager of Salkowong exhibits attract 03 an antique shop

attracts Chemical Works is looking for tourists, Hongkong is doing business with the people who now, that American supplies are alternative sources of sulphur have come to spend money.

Payment Of anything to be seen elsewhere Royalties

London, Apr. 30.

The Anglo-Iranian. Oil

DI

row

of as the alternative to He intends to try the

A

1/2

terials

Within a very short time cut off. His hopes are pinned several pages were Oled in the large sources quiries," About half the on- tries related to enquiries from

list has been pro- Textiles home

and buyers. fancy necilework seemed to be used of chemicals. and in the greatest demand but ene Another indication of changes Hongkong needs most, London buyer had declared that have taken place since last your are ikts of prohibited exports from Hongkong covering mine closely-typed foolscap pages and a further list of materials of which

ich suppliers are recommand- ed to request that all orders be by the Hongkong

sized assault launched at 6 am. The Communists again used The Russian petles recently In Leeds (Yorkshire) 1,200 |ever, it was deemed likely a gust

of Seoul briefly before a counter-northwest of Seoul on Monday the payment of the £2,000,- book reserved for "serious en-s that cut into Allied lines north primitive smokescreen devices Company today suspended have raised ericus doubts among postmen have alrendy started of wind twisted the plane and

hurled it slow" com-

attack drove the Reds back to Screen to the ground. As the

sum movements. 000 monthly

for ad- the Western delegates as to the an unofficial "go

plist approached the field, air- three hours later. About 100 | Nineteen smoke pots evenly Soviet Union's intentions about paign,

to the the

East-West tension

Union leaders were trying to port officials instructed him to pasing

spaced along the Seoul-Munsan Vance oil royalties of

to outrace

road belched white smoke which Persian Government, it was storm because the spreading.

produced a haze over the area. learned here. from They were also attempting to risen

11 to 85 m.p.l.

day's heaviest action The sum was due to be de- nble to Tribunal Apparently he was not ìble

in the cast where three posited today up the wake speed

in the National scheduled hearing

in two do so,

Korean baitations, Bank of Persia in Teherau. weeks' time of the postniew's The Weather Bureau gold

tacking on a seven-mile moun-- Under agreements between claims.

heavy

duest was blowing in

tain front between Inje and the the Company and the Persian Ships awaiting unloading at southeast New Mexico and the

an Allied Government £5 east coast, forced

million was Manchester include one with wind reached 76 miles per hour

withdrawal. The battle sub-pald in January in respect of 9,824 bales of Egyptian cotton int Carlsbad. It was impossible.

sided at midnight after the royaliles not due until the end and another with 50,000 cases of to see farther than half a miley-

Reds had seized a ridge line of 1951 under previous agree Spanish oranges.-Reuter.

United Press.

just north of the 38th Parallel.ments.

the B Four Foreign Ministers ended at 5.30 p.m. GMT, with no progress being made towards an agenda, & Western spokesman euid

The deputies will not meet tomorrow, May Day, on the pro-i posal of M. Andrel Gromyko, the Soviet deputy: They will meet: again on Wednesday at 3 p.m. GMT.—Reuter.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

man

Yaumati Ferry Services

HE report presented by the chair, THE

Hongkong of the

and Yaumati Ferry Company to share- holders last Saturday gave a charuc- teristic picture of vigorous and con- scientious private enterprise in Hong- kong. The company, like many other important undertakings here, has had its share of post-war difficulties and handicaps to overcome; moreover, public sensitivity to the degree of success or failure to fulfil' obligations is more apparent where a public utility is concerned. Thus, in reporting a record year of carrying more than 70 million passengers und 800,000 vehicles, the Yaumati Ferry Company is doing something more than merely giving shareholders a sense of satisfaction. It has, quite clearly, effectively catered for a big public need, and this promotes general approval and congratulations. Mr La Tak-po's recital of post-war achievements throws a spotlight on the company's initiative; it also, in some measure, reflects the tremendous advance made by the Colony generally since 1945. For had not Hongkong as a whole set about resolutely to fulfil its rehabilitation the progress which the Yaumati Ferry Company, as well as sister utility undertakings, are able to record, could not have materialised. The community can take to itself quiet satisfaction in its contribution toward helping our leading trade, commerce and industrial enterprises, as well as

our public utilities, to the achievements in which they justly feel pride. Apart from the rehabilitation and expansion programme to which the ferry com- puny has committed itself during the past five years, the annual report made reference to two other matters of public interest. In the special Or- dinance which gives the company a new Franchise, the chairman found cause for satisfaction, notwithstanding the necessity for paying royalties up to 16 per cent of gross truffic receipts and meeting pier rents totalling $600,000 a year. It must be a source of great satisfaction to Government that it has been able to draw up a Franchise that earns the full approval of those who operate under its terms. Reference made in the report to the inadequacy of bus services connecting certain areas in Kowloon with the ferry company's terminals suggests there is consider- able room for suitable expansion in this direction. Land and harbour communications are inextri- cably interdependent, calling for the closest co-operation between the com- panies concerned if the full interests of the travelling public are to be pro- tected. And every

effort should be

CrOSE-

made by ferry and bus enterprises to see that the operations of the one are not jeopardised by the inadequacies of the other, for when this happens, the public are the sufferers.

No Compliment To The Police IRRITATION, however highly stirred,

can never be accepted as an adequate excuse for abuse and profanity. Never- theless, there will be a certain sympathy for two ratings of HMS Cardigan Bay who were fined at Kowloon yesterday for letting their feelings get the better of them. On the evidence, provocation had gone a fair way towards the ex- treme and a sense of grievance was, ac2 cording to their code, legitimate. On- lookers when an Argylla private became. Involved with a European police in- spector, they consented to make state- ments as witnesses, were told to wait and then, for a time which appeared Interminable, were virtually Ignored.. With the mon due back on their ship, the time well after midnight, a show of Impatience about heel-cooling for nearly two hours, without a word of explana-

If the tion, was hardly surprising. protest went beyond the bounds of pro- priety that too, in the circumstances, was not altogether difficult to under- stand, if it could not gain approval. In Court yesterday," apology" was given for the delay the Inspector had gone to hospital for examination and treatment of injuries—but the ratings were fined for unbecoming behaviour. Technic- ally, the decision' was correct, but the incident exemplifies what, we are afraid, occurs far too often in police chargó. rooms. Some officers take their own time, and slight consideration is given to individuals there merely because they!! happen to be eyewitnesses, or public- spirited. And the police have the least to gain. Certainly, the capacity, of so- many citizens to "look the other way" is not likely to be reduced.

Seoul Awaits Its Fate

AND THE TROOPS PLAY POKER

(From Edward Howat)

Seoul, Apr. 30, Seoul awaits its fate in

streets silence. Its empty, nearly all its people are gone.

The

was North

himsdif Interested in basket- ware, fireworks, paper lanterra and toys.

VARIED ENQUIRIES

A buyer from Paris. wes. Jo terested in practically every ex- | supported hibit on the stand; a Belgian Government Essential Supplies Hongkong stand has very

businessman wanted needles, certificate

hair nets and buttons.

From

The

A

Ireland there were inquiries for tow "prestige" exhibits,, Excep China may

glassware and crystal tions are a number of ivory and while on American buyer from mother-of-pearl omaments. New York was most keen to obsquipment and reel helmet could cet of Infantryman's webbing

Across the entire. central From March' until the end front there were only scattered of the year it had been decided patrol contacts with small that the Company should enemy forces. Patrols operal-

of £2 ing north of the Hongchon river a monthly instalment

000,000 on the last day of each Chunchan found southeast of

until month

the end of the no sign of enomy movement. year.. East of Chunchon, however, The Persian Government in- groups of platoon to company dicated to the Company that it strength were engaged through- would like payment of this out the day. The Reds showed month's instalment but asked no disposition to attack, how-that-It should not be regarded. ever, and fell back before the s an advance on royalties, it

hould Already the war-racked capl- fire of Allled Infantrymen. was understood, here. tal seems to stand aloof from

The Eighth Army claimed 2,-

The Persian Government was hold. that this the fifth and mightiest battle 895 enemy casualties and took believed

on Monday.-

be payment should which will soon be fought for its 77 prisoners

month's United Press. pock-mariced battled buildings.

considered as in settlement of TRAPPED BY GUNS For tonight is expected to

claims for the past which it the battle eve.

Tokyo, Apr. 30. will prosent in due course All today United Nations soldiers in advance lines!" United Nations guns tonight. The Anglo-Iranian Oil' Com-

for mashed an apparent Chinese have watched and

pany regarded this request us

be

the enemy, Tank CARTE Communist' move towards a May altering the whole basis of the

checked again and again their men's positions,

have sat in their turrets and Day crossing of the Han River. agreement under which today's

Searchlights awliched dislant hills peered at the

on instalment of 22,000,000 was through binoculars for the first

"artificial moonight"

help due, according to information And their

avallable in London signs of the new Chinese attack the gunners

weer targets. The Chinese

addon tonight were caught in

Thus it had been decided to and company commanders have!

a violent, rapid cross-fire which suspend payment pending clari- one Allied staff offleer describedfication of the Persian Govern as "like machine-gun fire."

ment's request-Router. Strong Allled tank and in-

NO COMMENT fantry patrols pushing out from

London, Apr. 30. lines round the deserted South

Foreign Speretary, Mr few Chinese to fight and many the House Korean capital of Seoul found Herbert Marrison, declined in of Commons today dead from the barrage.

to comment on the Persian dil Farther

to the

tank nationalisation plans, and Infantry patrol driving He had been touch with Ambassador in north-cast from Seoul found th

The

· ·

But

this has not moved the haughty city whose streets look bored because they are empty. groups is there Only in little life and this is not the life of Scoul's one-time million

people copic but cf soldiers: soldiers walking through the old imperial palace with its carved pagoda roof and the walls, They test the innar the bodies of 1,000 Chinese cut Teheran about the latest de- ancient paintings sugging from

the.

down by artillery,

west a

British

in

velopments and hoped to make The remnants of the force a statement tomorrow, he said. wandering in the area dazed

Mr Anthony Eden, the deputy and bleeding were taken pri-leader of the Opposition, had

naked If he could make Apart from the barrage the statement today. entire central and weatern

oner.

Mr Morrison said that he did

went

to anticipate the

oats were quiet, action being not limited to aggressive Allied statement he hoped to make

spring mattresses on beds and a tousled-haired Texan called Johnnie Houghton bounces up and down on the gilt and red throne: soldiers play poker in tho, domed captiol building, with nover less than ü thousand dollars on the table: soldiers

their alceping patrolling-Reuter, putting down bags In

the

empty monkey house zoo which is shaded by trees in a

riot of glorious cherry blossom: Boldiers this time South Koreans sitting in plush swivel chairs in the sun outside check stations with rifies over their knees watching

Dags

for refugees who no longer

tomorrow.--Reuter.

Shaw Wanted To Be

A Michelangelo

London, Apr. 80.

The only civillons are a few old women who keep out of eight and a band of five Litle George Bernard Shaw, who had little in common with barefooted boys who carry shoe the shrinking violet, revealed in a letter published today string boxes over their that he had really intended to be an artist like shoulders.

Everything elso In the city Michelangelo, may be better.

F

Just waits. › Tomorrow the But he could not draw very I could not draw, well enough waiting will probably be over

well, Q and the battle won.Tomorrow

he bought box to satisfy mycelt, and the in- structions I could get were is Moy

Day-London Express came and started writing.

-The letter was written a year word than useless. Service.

before Me Show's death last November to Helmuth Gern- "So when dry, plates and shielm, prómoter. of "Master

push buttons came into the plena of Victorian Photography" market I bought a box camera exhibitions at the Festival of and began pushing the button.

"That was in 1808." Britai

Pläne Explodes

Bovenbake. Kent Apr. 30.

the

►

A twin-engined Meteor Jet Mr Shaw wrote:

Me Shaw was, an enthusiastic, fighter exploded", mach crushed"}","I always wanted to draw photographer, eno, of his Inst near where today while ori a and paint.

| books, þeing' a collection of ploí training, flight. The, pilokioj 1 "I had no literary ambitions, tures he made at the hamlet of Royal Air Forch-mem

"Xasbleed to be a Michelan-bla adoption, Ayot-St LAW. gelo, dots Shakespeane, but ¦ ronco-Associated. Penon,

tain supplies of paint brushes.

An unusual but valuable en-hardly be incident in this cate quiry came from South Africa. y but, neither one feels, could they be included among goods A Johannesburg businessman wanted to act as the South which there is a ready

market. African representative for Hongkong-cotton and lace manu- facturers.

The famine of consumer goods in many colonies was re- flected in two enquiries from the Gold Coast for hardware, torches and cocking utensils. A British West African wanted enamelware. From Malta there were

enquiries for socks, textiles and fans.

TERRORISTS'

,

OUTRAGE

Singapore, Apr. 30. Terrorists wearing

one-star caps, hacked two Chinese men and a woman to death in Johore Stato yesterday, A fourth Chinese was shot.

One of the strangest enquiries The terrorists dragged their came from an Australlan. He victims from their homes and wanted suites limings. But bound their hands before mur the only enquiry for food came dering them. from Dublin reputedly the

Afterwards they tooted their -best-fed town. In the British houses of goods worth STS$300.

Islev.

-Associated Press,

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