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COMMENT OF THE DAY

Budget Debate

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S expected, the Unofficial members of Lægislative Council were not in severely critical mood when they debuted the Budget yesterday. The disarming effect of the Financial Secretary's presentation of his Appropriations Bil was plainly visible. The general tone adopted by the speakers was that of being thankful for small mercies, The public, however, will share the several times repented apprehension over the ever-increasing cost of administration and will trust that the Hon. Leo D'Almada obtains

assuring- reply to his query as to whether the cfflelency expert's reporį, now nearly three years old, has been made practically effective in such a maner As to achieve savings in ad- ministrative overheads. If the debuts did not provide any verbal fireworks, it did zerve, to show that the Un- officials are well alive to public needs. A good argu- inent was advanced for an early improvement to the Kowloon.

wharf ferry circus; the plea for better street lighting was well 1ounded; the suggestion

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that when the present howloon Hospitat removed the site should be devoted to A children's playground was admirably conceived: the opinion that even more attention than at present should be devoted to primary educa- tion in Hongkong merits the close attention the Directur

Educn- tion. None of these pro- positions runs seriously counter to official policy already enunciated and eacji and everyone contains merits which justify measured consideration.

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First Chinese Peeress German Peace Pact: Big 4

In British History

Above is a recent photograph of Lady Lindsay who, through the death of her father-in-law this week, becomes the first Chinese pceress in British history. Formerly Mias Heino Li, she married Mr Michael Lind- say in Peking in 1941. Her husband has succeeded to the title of Lord Lindsay of Birker.

Meeting "Probable"

Western Powers May Require Conditions

Paris, Mar. 19.

The French Foreign Office said tonight it seemed "very probable" that there might be a meeting be- tween the Western Powers and Russia to discuss the Russian note calling for a German peace treaty.

A spokesman said that such a meeting might take place at the level of the Foreign Ministers' deputies or the three Western High Commissioners in Germany might meet their Soviet counterpart, General Vassili I. Chuikov, Britain's Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, and the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, will meet American diplomats here tonight to discuss the latest Western draft reply to the Soviet proposals.

tish Embassy,

French sources said today that they did not expect After

sent,

to

be

source

Grave Diggers Begin Task

In

Condemned Village

Tignes, French Alps, Mar. 10. Gravo diggers, supervised by a special team from a Paris undertaking firm today cleared the pathways to the temba in the tiny cemetery of Tignes soon to be under the water' of France's biggest dam.

Most villagers have given their consent to the removal of their dead In a few days the rest are expected to ac-

And quiese. The Prefect has ordered the special police barring access to the cemetery to be withdrawn and allow the villagers to visit the tombs for the last time,

Meanwhile, the waters of the Isere River are mounting slowly in the Times Valley at the rate of three feet a day. In two weeks' time the flooding of the Taxes is expected to begin. About 100 villagers who have vowed to remain until their compensation is increased abowed no sign that they were preparing to evacuate,——Bealer,

"Ike" Happy Over

Primary

Returns

Paris, Mar. 19. General Dwight Eisenhower happily studied the returns from the Minnesota primary election today and visitors said he got "more jovial" by the hour

"Keep shoving those bulletins to me as fast they come in," a general on Eisenhower's Supreme Head quartera staff was ordered.

Seaman ::

Alleges He Was Chained To Bridge

Seattle, Mar. 19.

A young Canadian · 'sea- man charged today that his captain had chained him to the bridge of the freighter" Clyde Seavey for 67 days on a voyage half way around the world.

William Olynyk, 27, asked for $100,000 damages from the ship- ping company concerned because of the chaining and because “I Was made the object of ridicule and curiosity at ports the ship visited."

ship company said that Olynyk was disciplined because he was subordinate and mutinous". The company accused Olynyk

The storneys for the etsam-

of kicking Captain Williams in the groin during an argument at

Djakarta.

'FOUND INNOCENT

Olynyk said that when

the

weat

The American Minister in Mr Eden arrived here by air London, Mr Jullus Holmes, and this morning with the text of General Eisenhower upeni But the margin between them the new American Ambassador the Western draft in his pocket. the day of his office, conferring was, at the latest count, less than to France, Mr. James Dunn, areThe British Foreign Secretary on military matters and studying | 10,000. attending a dinner at the Bri-is here also for the meeting of nulletins from Minnesota, He The result staggered veterans ship docked at Houston, Texas, ne

the Council of Europe's

14 posed for photographers as he of both parties even more than was tried and found innocent of ign Ministers, hera

assaulting the captain, Foreign

left at 1452 GMT and smiled, | General Eisenhower's success in

the New Hampshire primary on He said that one of the ship's the final draft of the Westem the business have completed but remained silent.

before them, later

March "It is the general's decision to:

mates brought agirl friend "CLARION CALL" reply

agreed before in the week Mr Eden and his

aboard when the ship stopped and Friday. It was not known when French

American col-permit photographers, but there

Emphasising political, obser- at another port and showed him the Westem roply would be leagues are expected to get will be no statement," said his vers' views that the Minnesota off as a "chained curiosity"

down to the final draft of the "It is his decision. I speak for General Elsenhower to come press chier, Brig-Gen. Lanham.

recult was a "clarion call" to reply to Russia.

He said in ocurt that the the general." CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

homa and Bght for the nomina-original argument started after Ausually reliable

tion was the relatively no and his shipmates ---General Eivenhower smlied "ar here said today that the West-flash bulbs! went off and

Minnesota he en Powers reply to the Soviet strode to his waiting car. But the sa

showing by Senator aboard following a party in Tuft

Djakarta.

> with the Russians on certain feeling was evident that he must had not been on the ballot and two mates come armed to note, is likely to agree to talks

His name, like, the General's

"Two days later the captala be impressed by what a source | RM_ conditions

close to him called the "amazing paper, but the fact that ho and incredible" Minnesota write-showed so poorly in popular esteem dampened his supporters' (in vote-United Fress.

ardour,

From an international point of view

"In a few days I was moved the votes for Generat Eisenhower and Mr Stasson to the starboard bridge tall and were of high significance, In attached to a chain a State where many Scandi- long."-United Press. navian and German Immigrants and their descendants, live, the fact that about 75 per cent of Republican voters supported

Mice & Monkeys Catapulted 80 Miles Into Space, And Live

Washington, Mar. 19.

An American Air Force scientist told today of a V-2 rocket cata- pulted 80 miles up into space with live monkeys and mice aboard.

It was a preliminary test aimed at learning eventually whether man could ty in the outer space, or in the border-zone of space ranging up to an altitude of 120 miles.

The mice were still living and propigating freely, he said.

THE relief engendered by LORRIES

the

of any

absence proposal to increase direct

in the

taxation

Coming STONED BY

financial year is matched by the sense of hope that

the restaffing of the Inter- STRIKERS

nal Revenue

Department

will produce comparable results in tux collecting. There is still a widespread conviction amongst those taxpayers who have met thair obligations regularly sud in full that a consider- able amount of evasion is going on. The desire is that the Internal Department will now be in a position, not only to catch up with arrears of work, but to track down those who cheat the Treasury of by deliberately evading direct taxation.

revenue

Revenue

SEVERAL Unoficials yester

day reiterated the plea that any future search for increased revenue should | be made as painlessly as possible, and that new calls on the pocket should he spread as widely as practic

able over the community.

The five monkeys survived the acturi fights but four of them were killed when parachutes bringing them back to earth fall- ed to open.

The fifth monkey landed safely but died of heat prostration li the New Mexico desert.

were for

As the monkeys rode in the nose: af a rocket, they equipped with instruments measuring pulse, heart ation and blood pressure and the information was radioed buck to the ċarth all during the

Chatham, England,

Mar. 19. Strong police reinforce-flight. ments from Rochester and other towns moved Into the Anglo-Iranian on

breathing,

MOVEMENTS PHOTOGRAPHED

The mice were free to run and

Naval Officer Struck Off List

Pro-Red Activities

London, Mar. 19.

The Russians, would have 10

clear, what size they pro make posed for a national German army, it was said,

They would also have to ex- plain the reference in their note to Germany's eligibility for membership in the United Na- tions and state whether the terms under which West Germany could and receive near Independence the occupation be ended would apply to the whole of a reunited Germany

21:0 The Western Powers would not immediately insist that the Bus sians allow the United Nations Commission

Tall - German elections to investigate conditions in East Germany as a proof of | good faith before the talks began,

it was added.

оп

OPPOSITION DEMAND A West

German official said

that the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and West Ger-

many and the American Am- bassador to France would meet

in Paris tomorrow or 'Friday to |decide_the_reply, the AmbuaSO-

dor acting for the United States Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson.

A retired Commander of the Royal Navy has been Com-jump during the flight and all

The Social Democrat opposi- struck off, the Admiralty's pany's new refinery at the the time their movements were

list of officers because of his tion today called on Dr Konrad Isle of Grain near here to-being automatically photo-

Adenauer's Government to per activities,sunde pro-Communist day to deal with strikers graphed.

the Western Allies to followed the the House of Commons was meet the Russians for discus- who stoned lorries passing Today's news

announcement of the through the pickets' Unes.

use of told today.

| sons on all-German elections monkeys in rocket experiments

under international control. One driver was hurt by fly-made in Toronto by an Editor of -It means that the Navyman,

д motion fabled in the ing glass.

Colliers megazine who predicted Edgar P. Young, will no longer Federal Assembly, the Social mun, employed that within 10 years human be- be entitled to call himself Com- Democrats Nearly 4,000

proposed that the by the Macalpine Company on ing would be able to make the mander Young. Nor can he wear West German electoral law of construction work, are striking trip to the moon and back.

the uniform of a naval office:. last month should serve 'for increased pay, better wei- Details of the rocket ex

experi-

Conservative members applaud basis country-wide elec- fare facilities and an afternoonment were told at a meeting of ed when the

First

Lord of the tions-Router. tea break.

the Aero Medical Association Admiralty, J. P. L. Themas, here by Dr. J. They came out on an un-of the Air Force Aero Medical taken off the Navy list "because P. Henry said that Young's name had been official

strike yesterday and

| Laboratory "at

at Wright-Patterson the Admiralty had no further use were joined by night workers.

Base, Dayton, Ohio, The strikers stopped all lorries delivering being worked by the psychological effects of being

goods to parts of determine the site Macalpine Company. After some made "weightless"

for his services."

The testa

were designed to the physical and

EMMARLASING

under cer- Mr Thomas added, "His ac

The Financial Secretary cials called for police help.

stono throwing at lorries, off- tain conditions of extreme al divities on behalf of the Com-

CX-

collected. He aptly pressed the sentiment in metaphorical form by requesting that before wo atart to scrape the bottom

on.

for

13 D

Mass Malay Evacuation

Kuala Lumpur; Mar. 20, The entire Malay population

vent

to

RAF Plane Crashes

At Stanley

A twin-engined stigio Bester 'RAF Hornet Bghter crashed Into Stanley Bay at about 10.30 a.m. this morning.

The pilot is believed to have been killed, but this could not be confirmed,

Chinese working at Banon Villa, said that ha

Live

ap-

A

aircraft

A Cardine from the direo-

tion of Wong Ma Kok

He added that the plans sounded as though it had developed engine trouble and when

it arrived over Stanley Bay It noto dived into the

the sea.

A flying bost and + destroyer are searching, for the wreckage

Police under the direc tion of Mr A. 1. Gordon. ASP and Sub. Insp. K. Macleod ars

the search. KAI

assisting in

ACCIDENT TAK An RAF Gloucester Meteor ershed while landing at Kai Tak - at noon' today, There were no casualties.

The undercarriage of the Jet Aircraft collapsed after it and touched down on the runway facing the sea. Incoming platics жего held up for half an hour being while, the jet was removed.

more

doubtless appreciates the

1 suda Algbt possible hazard munist Party were proving. A spokesman for the company that would face man be the source of distress and embarras of isolated Belum Valley-near

New York, Mar, 19. point. The Hon-C. E,,Terry

About two out of every Ave avid today that negotiations gions of tree space, also made a neat contribu were going

ment to the Royal Navy 'nt home the Thailand border into which Dr Henry said this “gravity | and abroad and it has boon British paratroops were dropped registered Republican voters in tion to the debate, by

Minnesota want General Elsen- Union leaders have asked the free condition could be pro- necessary to make it clear that to drive off Communist terrorists have to be the Presidential requesting that Govern men to return to work while duced for several minutes as the Admiralty do not hold them

have been

been evacuated, to pre-candidate mont, does all it can to their grievances are discussed, it rocket fell freely, with down selves responsible in any way for

of their party, the exploiting them. terrorists

„latest election figures from the ensure that the maximuin | is

understood

Terrorists have procianed at primaries revealed. ward acceleration exactly equal his conduct.". amount of revònue, due The refinery which is due to to the earth's gravity.

Young.

a writer and lecturer "Independent state" in Belum. from existing taxation, in go into operation next year will

The monkeys and mice ap-on Eastern Europe, Is Chair-hey ordered the Malays

Although General Eisenhower process 4,000,000 tons of crude parently got through it all man of the Bulgarian Friend-plant food for them and offered was not, a nominated candidate all from the Middle East each right", he said.

them arms with which to attack on the primary ballot papers. Committee Britain. year-Router.

All the monkeys actually is also

is also leading one of the security forced.

than 100,000. registered "slept" ihrough their 1,800 British-Rumanian Friendship The evacuation was made on Minnesota Republicans wrote miles per hour ride because Association, the British-Savlet foot. For seven days they walk- his name in... they were under an anaesthe Friendship Society, the Society streams and rivers. The youngest Political observers were un

ed through Jungle anderos for Cultural Relations with the 24 Ahould make sure we have

USSR and the Union of Demo-rcher whe Ave, the oldest 60. animous that the vote for not only skimmod the cream

| Thred Rods Incratie Control.

pregnant women were General Eisenhower Police And

Among them......: from the top, but have algo

He was 'expelled, from

"astonishing show of strength": Gun Battle

After the villagers

ers left security properly cleaned it round

Labour Party. in 1938 at the forces burned down all huis in in votes was made only last The decision to pount "urite- the sides. The proposition

Singapore; Mar. 10:some time as Sir, Stafford Cript their villige and destroyed the Friday and the General's sup Three police officera Is commended as the fairest

organising Mr. Joseph Lynch of the killed and 13 were wounded, Front movement with the Com-terrorist Mandis.

the Popular crops to prevent them faUing into porters had thas little, time for way of making good the University, and that the tremor four of them seriously, in a munists.

a campaign. deficit for which the had occurred sotho 14,000 kilo terce

The evacueca arg to be camped battle today between Formerly on the staff affin Kelantan for some time and was tapped by that, for Mr General Eisenhower's ..., vote Financial Secretary has metres from New York, probably Communist terrorists and the Commanderin-Chief, China will afterwards be allowed to go Harold: Stapson, three times necessary to in the Netherlands East Indica police patrol in the Kuantan Station, he retired in 1939, after where they like Associated elected Coverhoof Minnesota

tres of Pohang United Premii 17 years in the Navy-Reuter. | Profe

had the State's favourlia” sons,

of our taxation bucket we 'QUAKE RECORDED -Reuter.

found it budget

New York. Mar, 10. An earth tremor described as very violent was recognised by University here today, the selzmograph, at Fordham

were for

was

an

two men renowned for their

Internationallamm” seemed to prove that the "Ola Guard" Republicanism of Senator Taft was fading.

The bulk of the Democratic primary went to another "tav ourite son" Senator Hubert Humphrey.

the mess hall, put me in hand- me to the cuffs and tastened port mall of the bridge with a leg iron", Olynyk said.

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12 feet

760 Japanese Depurged

Tokyo, Mar. 19. day depurged 760 military and The Japanese government to- polition figures barred from public life since World War II

offences,

He was the only nominated punishment for various war candidate, but his huge majority. over the "write-ins", Senator Today's 1st included Kazuo Estes Kefauver and President Aoki, former Finance Minister; Truman, meant indirectly a

a vale Rainei. Arima, former. Minister of confidence in the Truman of Agriculturo; Shigetoku Administration's foreign policy.

Kuroda, former Lieutenant- Senator Humphrey was merely Generar and

a convictedwar "stand-in for President Tru- criminal; Masayuki Tani, former man, who had not permitted his Foreign Minister; and former name to go on the ballot paper. General Kenichi Uedu.-AE90-

Reuter,

ciated Press.

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