1952-04-21 — Page 1

CORRECT on all occasions

VULCAIN

SWISS MADE

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Unwanted Schools

THERE will be general

approval of the Director

of Education's defence of the new Chinese School Certificate examination

CHINA

No. 35181

• Established 1845

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1952.

Today's weather: Moderate and fresh East winda, allghtly cloudy with bright intervala.

MAIL

Sedition Trial: Mr Chen's Questions Ruled

Britain Has Mid-April 'Heat Wave'

London. Apr, 20. "Britain's "Ile summer" continued today.

Midnight temperature in central London fast night was 65 degrees. ten degrees bigher than the normal maximum day temperature for mid-Aprli.

Fantastically bigh for this time ul the year," commented meteorolo- FIKL

FO

The temperature reached 75 degrees on Friday, the Highest since last Septem- ber,

Shops cleared stocks of Futmer frooks and tele- plourd for more-Reuter.

made when he addressed a conference of the Chinese section of the Hongkong Tenchers' Association last Saturday, Mr Crozier. put his finger unerringly on the source and motives of the criticism directed againat this intelligent attempt to provide a yardstick Jy which the general standard of Middle School education in Hongkong ean be stimated. Moreover, he gave complete answer to the critics who allege that The syllabuses of the examination have been forced on the schools by the Education Department by revealing that, in fact. these syllabuses have been drawn up by a representa-

syndicate Live

the

Tunis, Apr. 20. schools

which have A hostile crowd of na- indiented their desire and"]tionalist demonstrators

ان

TROUBLE

IN TUNIS

CONTINUES

intention to make use of the gathered before the pers new examination. It is quite mier's residence today and obvious_that__much_of_the|fossed three grenades which criticism hurled iit the falled to explode. proposed Chinese School Certificate examination has been dishonest and without solid foundation. It reassuring to know, how- ever, that the great majority of the private Middle Schools are strongly in favour of the innovation and have pledged its full support.

The authorities said the de-i monstrators, about 150 of them, grouped in front of Premier Sulat Eddine Baccouche's ren sidence around

local 3 p.m. time, shouting hostilo remarku,

THE private schools which

and on

unknown number

were

ot injurca

Out of Order

CROSS-EXAMINATION OF

SUB-INSP HELD

ΤΟ

BE IRRELEVANT

A number of questions put to Sub-Inspector Lowe of the Hongkong Police by Mr Percy Chen, defending counsel, were ruled irrelevant by Mr Justice Williams when the trial of the publisher, printer and editor of the Ta Kung Pao on charges of sedition was resumed at the Supreme Court this morning.

Mr Chen, leading counsel for these three defendants, asked Inspector 'Lowe whether he thought he was being illtreated by the Police, why he had not been promoted after six years' of service, and how many officers who had come to Hongkong as Sub-Inspectors after witness had been promoted. Mr Justice Williams ruled all three questions as irrelevant.

Later, in the course of his cross-examination, Mr Chen said-his-questions might tend to show that the witness was a young, ignorant and stupid fellow, and that must go against his credibility as a witness.

The Judge observed that it was irrelevant to say that because a man might be ignorant that it was a reflection on his credibility and that he was less likely to tell the truth.

When the proceedings

The palace guards opened firesumed, his Lordship ruled that demonstrators Some 15 of them were arrested. Yesterday, terrorists attacked the police station at Mareth, of German resistance during the war,

scene

A Leutenant of the Arub reserve, who is president of the local section of veterans, was

evidence regarding previous articles published in the Ta Kung Pao in February this year went to show seditious intent was admissible and he, therefore, would allow it to be admitted.

The point was argued by Counsel on Friday afternoon in the absence of the Jury.

have displayed antagonism those apparently,

place scholastic education second to political wounded last night when two Korea Truce Outlook

are, which

indoctrination. Mr Crozier describes them as schools which "operate as political

machines,"

and

Hauenge which "cannot have high educational standards." The description, and the implied reproof, are well founded, und

Lalles were fired by an unknown

spani.

A guard at the electric power atlon of Sousse also was fired on last night while on sentry

but sluty,

was untouched. United Press.

GOVT TO RESIGN?

Rumours

Ridgway Is Uncertain

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They Want Seretse As Their Tribal Chief

River Still Threatening

St Joseph, Missouri, Apr. 20.

9ix men of the Bamang- wato tribe arrived at the Chipstead, Surrey, home of Serese Khama recently and Erected the exile

their

chief. It was their first offelat A call after flying here from

Bechuanaland. Led by Keo-. boka Kamange, the tribesmen are in London to see Lord Salisbury, Cominonwealth Secretary, and to plead for the retuiti cf Seretse Khema Sereisc's uncle, Petu Sekgomo.

The boiling Missouri River bore down on St Joseph today and airmen fought a day and night is in the Bamangwale delezu- battle to save the huge Air Force installation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

tion London Express.

German Mine Disaster

Berlin, Apr. 20. About 13- East German

jured in an

accident at a

Eisenhower miners died and 27 were in- Indisposed

The mighty Missouri and Mississippi Rivers relent- lessly continued their two-week rampage, which had wrought damage estimated at $200,000,000, driven nearly 100,000 persons from their homes and wiped out spring this morning_in={ the interpreter whether they were

crops on hundreds of thousands of acres of rich Mid- tence had summoned a number long they

Western farmland. held their re- of witnesses and lig-understood | spective posts, and whether from the Crown that their case they had been in those posts The rivers already have pour- would be con

concluded on Wednes- during the past two months. ad over their bunks in North day or Thursday. He asked if Each defendant anade certain Gd Scum Dakota, Minnesota, the witnesses be excused mean-

Nebraska Toplics.

and Jowa, The while and be asked to return

Witness also said that he ask- Missouri River fight apparently at Court on Thursday at 10a.m.

ed the interpreter to explain to had been won in the twin cities His Lordship remarked it was

Omaha, the defendants the conditions of

Nebraska, and x reasonable requeat and grant-

for the warrants of arrest. Council Bluffs, Ina, however, Cross-examining, Mr Chen as the record wall of yellow it. Defence witnesses who were asked Insp. Lowe what was his water pushed into Missour! and present and told to return in-

rank in the Force and he replied Kansas and moved toward a that he was a Detective-Sub- } junction with the swollen Mississippi. In many places the Mr Chen: Oh, a Sub-Inspec- Missouri twists between bluffs an Assistant Super on the Missouri-Kansas border intendent. So you are one of that are a mile to 10 miles the lowest of the hierarchy of apart. the Police in Hongkong,

REMINISCENT

ed it.

Inspector,

tor, not

Div.

and

How!

mine at Zwickau, Saxony, yesterday, the East German Information 'Ministry nounced today..

the

пот

Paris, Apr. 20. General Dwight Eisen-

The accident occurred in hower, Allied cluded Chan Kwan-po, Wong

Supreme Chik-leung and Y. K. Mok.

Commander, who is suffer-Martin-Hoop pit in the coal ing from a throat infection, industrial centre of Zwickau.

mining district around the big The

then Crown

rostrett Insp Lowe their case with

was stated

The Information Ministry did tonight to be witness-box.

gava He evidence of

of

"As progressing

of the satisfac-not state the nature the production EVILL

anslations from articles pub-

torily as one could expect."accident. ished in the Ta Kung Pao on

Major General Howard Speedily organised rescue Witness agreed and said he Washington, Apr. 20.

February 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 23

Water poured into this chan- Snyder, senior medical officer teams managed to save most of was of the lowest grade officers. nel and spread from bluff to at Supreme Headquarters, said:

the men working on the shift, and March 6, 8, 9 and 10. because of this the

Tunis, Apr. 20. General Ridgway todayWitness told of his obtaining Asked if he was familiar with bluff-the way oldtimers always "The general had some fever All injured miners were general public has reason

eirculating called the were

prospects for a from Mr Hin-shing Lo, Mags be called, Insp. Lowe replied he The US Corps of Engineers at ture is

the list of Police witnesses to describe the great flood of 1881 to feel some dismay that here today that the Baccouche

this moaning but his tempera-out of danger, but same men truce in Korca uncertain said that on his return to Police Irate, warrants for arrest and such so-called educational Government would be forced to

was and named them"

back almost to were still missing, the Ministry in the Kansas City said 10,600 persons normal.

shid. sard. institutions actually exist resign shortly owing to the com- unless United Nations Headquarters, he saw Mri

following order; Sub-Insp. Hui were homeless between Rulo, Tha

The 02-year-old Suprema A state enquiry commission in this Colony. They serve bined hostility

Criminiai ing-cheung, Female detective Nibraska, and Kansas City. Tunisian negotiators sacrificed prin- Segrue, Director of of

Cheng Suk-wah, sign Hongkong anything but a publie opinton and of the Bey ciples on which they will not Investigation,

A Allied Commander postponed his led by the Ministry for State Insp. total of 180,000 meres of farm departure today for certain

J.F. Scott, Mr

to Security was investigating the. Oslo useful purpose, Manifestlyn Tunis,

letters addressed to the three

D. G. Mac land yield.

land between these points were continue D

tour of cause of the accident. pherson, defendants,

Divisional Supt under water. they do not operate for the

East of Kansas western European countries be The East German State Sacre- The Bey today gave what was

Chon: Bofore we come to (Yaumati). Insp. C. Blackbourn City, downstream toward West tore relinquishing his command. aume purpose ** thu considered a further demonstra- Ilis telephone talk with MT

(0/C Mongkok) and two de Alton, Missouri, another 187,000

tary for Coal and Power, Max properly

schools, ton of his dislike of the new John Steelman, Assistant to hese letters I would like to take

oMelal tective constables

announcement | ellosa, and representatives, of namely, to give children Ministry when he decorated a

President Trumin,

neres had gone under. was broad-a point on the warrants of arrest the CID,

carlier today Aid he was "pro- the Central Committee of the the production of object to valuable scholastic train-French doctor, Professor Paul. cast on a television programme

gressing normally in a case of East German Socialist Unity The latest serious new threat upper respiratory these documents. Í find on the "Battle Report." ing; to educate them

Infection" Party rushed to the scene after to Chevalier, with the Nichom

to St Joseph, Missouri's Reuter. think

the accident-Reuter, intelligently

Mr Steelman asked: "Does it record the certificate of the for Iftikar Order, a high Tunisian look to you as if an agreement Registrar is missing...

third largest city with a popula- themselves; to inculeate decorailon.

tion of 78,588 persons. Mr Hooton: I have got it here, between our

The city be reached creative idens; to encourage

stood ready to receive the 27- Other signs that the Bey's negotiators und the Com- my Lord. pupils to take an interest attitude

Loot towards

Mr Chen: Oh, Mr Hoston has

river crest in a matter of his Ministry munists?" General in and gain an appreciation is likely to precipitate a crisis,

got it. I think that the certi-

hours, probably shortly after Ridgway replied: got

midnight of the fundamentals of observers

Sixty-fivo be information avail-icate of Information should in Tunis say, is the "Fram

dump trucks were sent to Kansas City civica: and to develop fact that apart

attached to the warrants for from Salah able lo me, my conclusion

to load up with sand to help in within themselves a Hens Eddine Baccouche, the Prime continues to be that it remains arrest (which at present 1 object

the fight to keep the spreading of self-reliance

and Minister,

and Mohamed Ben uncertain in that any agreement to going in) as the documents.

water from inundating. Sherman Khirta, Minister of State, the on armistic terms can be reach-

Air Force Base, at Fort Leave- Bey has only seen his Ministered with the Communists only

worth, a few miles downstream from St Joseph.

stability.

run

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fail

to

cun

Hongkong has its well-

Anti-Corruption Purge- proven educational aims and is fast improving its standards. Thero, can be Powers Given Govt. no room in the Colony for schools which refuse to

Cairo, Apr. 20. comply with either. We believe that politics of any

King Farouk tonight signed a decree giving Egypt's type are not for school- government full powers to purge the administration of children. A school which

corruption and bribery. teaches them (and those which do must of necessity

are not valid in law.

note

OBJECTION NOTED His Lordship, I will your objection, Mr Chen.

Insp Lowe, honded the certi- catc of information by Mr Hooton, identified it

Insp

Identified

altached to

Replying further, Insp, Lowe said that he arrived in the Colony on April 5, 1046, and, with the exception of a period of Home leave, had been with the Police since that time.

JUDGE'S RULING

Mr Chen: After six years and you are still only Sub-Inspector. His Lordship queried the re- levance of the question.

Lowe then three office copies.

Witness added that on March His

21,

third

Chut, question,

was

be

Mr Chen: Do you think you are for a few minutes at a time. by sucrificing essential prin-

being illtreated by the Police. The new Tunisian Government ciples which the United Nations

Insp. Lowe: Possibly. SCHOOLS which

His Lordship ruled the ques-

The greatest. battle since adopt

the such consists of high Tunisian offi- Command will not do." Home

Later General Ridgway snid

tion as Irrelevant and asked Mr river firstened the Omaht and curriculum are failing in cials, known to be pro-French,

could defeat "with

Chen what was the purpose of Council Bluffs eren was being their duty to their pupils who have no political amila- the Alles

Bona The Bay has also put extremely heavy Losses any Mr Hooton then called for the asking that

waged at the airbase. There, and the community. Any his seat to only minor, decrees offensive which the Chinese letters of Mr Segrue to the du Mr Clien replied that the sub- 000 soldiers from Fort Leonard

Wood school which pluces the

lace the Ministry was con- Communists and North Korean fendents.

ject matter of the charge related

Missouri, 150 ridemen inculention of a political stituted, keeping important de- military forces

are presently Mr Chen said he hud no ob- to oppression because the article from Fort Riley, Kansas, and 550 creed above scholustie crees pending).--Reuter,

capable of mounting."Reuter.jection to them being produced complained of dealt with per airbace personnel reinforced tuition is, to put it bluntly,

but on technical point he cecution or oppression, There ho dyke holding the river back something of

would object to the handing in fore, the question became quite from menace.

the multi-million-dollar of the originals and would ask relevant on the fore of the Installation. Mr Hooton to, produce his charge,

The flood waters 5050

to coples.

Mr Chen (to witness): Why within a foot of the top of the have you not been promoted? endangered dyke and hope was

Insp. Lowo: I don't know. strong that the field would Lordship: All questions saved-United Press. he was in his office at Head-] relating to this officer and his I have quarters when the first and service are irrelevant.

defendants arrived to made my ruling and my ruling gether with their solicitor, Mr must be followed, Mr Chen.

Mr Chen: My Lord, may I P. C. Woo, Witness spoke to them

ank my em through his interpreter,

questions In my own Special purge committees, to ordered the cancellation of the Chan Kal-ming:

way? Insp. Lowe, have any other neglect their proper educa

be set up by the Justice Minis restricted roldenes imperd

said that he put cor-officers who came to Hongkong Witness Pasha. tional functions) should will have access to all Abdel Fattah Hussan

tnin questions to each defendant. after you official correspon- former not be tolerated in this dence, books, documents and Social Welfare,

Mr Chen, said he objected to been promoted?

His Lordship: The question is has risen to the highest point in Colony. The children, of telegraphic messages.

Hursan Pasha, who has been all the questions on the ground

of hearsay

irrelevant, Hongkong are part of the

You can ask the over 10 years despite 250,000 at his country home about 159 community and

Inspectors If you like unfilled jobs, government officials their A Cabinet, committee headed| miles from Cairo, is expected to

His Lordship said that Insp. other

when they come into the reported today. welfare IA, in some by Premier Hilaly Pasha ap-return to the capital this Lows was perfectly entitled to

say what he told the interpreter witness-box,

A Ministry of Labour offelat measure, Government's proved the draft of the decree evening.

to ack, but when the Interpreter Furthor questioned,

said this week there is still responsibility. In the earlier today. Dr Zaky Abdel

Fuad Sorg El Din Pasha, came to give his evidence he Lowe sald that he was attached substantial shortage of labour in Interests of the children, told reporters that the purge and "strong man" of the Ward questions and the answers.

Motaal Boy, Finance Minister, former Minister of the Interior could say exactly what were the to the C.I.D.

Almost all parts of the country, | Mr Chen: When you came including 80,000 vacancies. therefore, the Authorities committees would carry out are entitled to take proper sweeping campaign."

party, remains under house Mr Chen: I have no objection from England did you como vital engineering industries, T20

from a Police School! steps to ensure that they

arrest at his country home to that, he

solution, according to Informed do not fall victims to mal- | fr.

Primo Minister Hilaly Pasha. The order of restricted residence

Witness: Insp, Lowe said that he asked.

I came from a'sources, is to shirt men and education,

his onpacity as military was imposed on both ministers | all three defendants' (the second Police Force. S

resources from depressed Indua- governor-general of Egyp!, today' a month age.--Router.

having amived later on) through) (Could, on back-page, Col. 6), tries United Press,

ministries

Wardist

on

Minister of

18

Sub-Inspectors

Insp.

Unemployment Grows

London, Apr. 20. Britain's unemployment figure

A

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farewell

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