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CORRECT on. all occasions.

VULCAIN

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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

World Of Initials

has been recently noted

commentator that international relations Lo- day are more and more -λ being governed by complex And confusing assortment of organisations, councils, committees and sub-committees all carrying high-sounding names which are immediately, reduced to easily-forgotten and mean ingless initials. The latest is the European Defence Community (EDC) to which Britain

this week gave certain guarantees in the event of war, Britain is n member of NATO, but na

of EDC, and France, Italy and Benelux are members and NATO: Germany

while West

buti belongs to EDC not to NATO. Britain is a member of Western Union, but America is not, and neither

Italy.

Yet Western Union is more or less merged into NATO, Few can find their surely through this amazing tangle. If such a position arises in domestic legisla- tion it is often put right| by a clarifying nut. There be good reason

seems

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Urban Council Chairman Truce Talks Enter A

Seek Unusual Censure

London. Apr. 24.

A censure

Four Labour Members of Parliament today put for- ward

motion on the Speaker (Chairman) of the House of Commons, Mr Willam 6. Morrison.

of Thiey

Bccused him Elving permission to an other Labour Member of Parliament to

to speak early this morning In an all- night debate then shutting him up before he had time to say anything by accept

the Ing a motion closing

sitting.

The censure mallon will be discussed in the House of Common unless the four Members decide ta withdraw li.

The last time a similar mation was labied Was -nearly—20years...ugb..........

Reuter.

Death

Of

World Famed

Singer

New York, Apr.-24.

the Elizabeth for the existing foreign

Schumann, complex to be straightened famous German-born opera and but also, for at the moment Lieder singer, who became the process of making life American citizen during the last difficult is going on in every way, died here fast night after an sphere, all the time, all over the world.

illness.

She was 03.

Testifies At

Sedition Trial

DESCRIBES

AS

TRANSLATION FAIR, BUT

"POSSIBLY COLOURLESS”

The Hon. K. M. A. Barnett, Chairman of the Urban Council and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Examiners (for the Chinese language) went into the witness box this morning when the trial of the publisher, printer and editor of the Ta Kung Pao on charges of sedition was resumed before Mr Justice Williams at the Supreme Court. Mr Barnett was call- ed to express his views on the official translation of the alleged offending article which appeared in the March 5 issue of the Ta Kung Pao.

At one stage witness read extracts in Chinese. He also said that the use of the words "British authorities" in the article was amusing. He contended that the writer was trying to avoid using the phrase "Govern- ment of Hongkong," although in each instance the use of "British Au- thorities" quite obviously referred to the Hongkong Government.

To

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not was to

Mr Percy Chen, leading counsel for the defence began his cross-examina tion after Mr Barnett had been in the witness box an hour giving his evidence. The Hon Kenneth Myer Witness explained that the | Arthur Burnett was the first | Chinese liked to use words witness called this morning. He pairs. "Sal" meant to kill by said that he was a Cadet Omeer beheading specifically but Class 1, Chairman of the Urban necessarily. Council and a member of the butcher men like animals, Legislative Council,

Mr Hooton then turned to the Witness said he was acquaint- words

and "Systematically" She was a direct descendant with the Chinese language in TODAY the backward races of Henricite Sontag, one of the

"premeditatedly" which appear- several founs. He spoke Caned in the translation. "Systema- cannot progress without a great granos of German music, tonese well, a lille Hakka but tically said witness, was a good Point Faur Programme, a

Elizabeth was born in Thurin- understood it well. He also transington of "yau po che and Colombo Plan, an ECAFE,

Southwest Mandarin, ECLA, ECOSOC, UNESCO, gin, where her father was an spoke

# "cat wat" was Though she had which was the mother tongue the use of "premeditatedly" for organist.

of his wife, and he had pot-transtution. "A plan" was tered around with some other usual meaning of "kai wat" and

has

was

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Sophie

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could offer WAT made

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dialects.

Regarding the written Chinese language, the witness said that he had studied ancient classical Chinese and the historical style and was very familiar with the

novellst style modern

wus

reasonable

The

context, Mr

Slap-Up Meal For Mutineers

They thus-ended their four- day muliny.

The convicts

marched

Difficult Phase

.

London, Apr. 24.

A Foreign Office spokesman stated tonight that the armis- tice talks at Panmunjom had entered into a difficult phaze because of the refusal of many Communist prisoners of war to be repatriated to North Korea.

The spokesman added that it was not a question of an American way of preventing exchange of prisoners as Radio Peking had claimed.

The spokesman said that in order to dissuade Communist FOW from refusing to be repatriated; Ailled authorities had informed the prisoners of the promise made the Conimu-

nista mot to prosecute any prisoner who returned home.

Despite this assurance, many of these POWs were main- taining their opposition to the repatriation, the spokesman sald. France-Presse,

Communists Storm

Berlin:

West

Kidnap Policeman

Berlin, Apr. 24.

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Missouri Pounds City's Dykes

Kansas City, Apr. 24. The Missouri River pound- at the Greater Kansas City'a reinforced and height- ened dykes today with what appeared to be the head of Its long mammoth crest.

"The crest it right at our back door," said E. C. Corkill, United States hydrographer,

The mighty river staged herO at 30.6 feet. at midnight and held a meady reading at the same level at 0.30 am,

The dykes hold, and Kansas City hoped that the 50-mile long erest would carry its 397,000 cubic feet of water per recond safely past a community that took a $400,000,000 beating in the food of 1951,

Mr Corkif said that, the River -probably would-rise-more-than þan additional · four-tenths of a

unter the predicted crest for

Kansas City.

Thousands of East Berlin Communists storm-foot to 31.0, which is half a fast ed West Berlin in a series of major demonstrations today the worst in the city's seven-year occupa- tion history and battled police with stones and

with their hands.

Communist "netion squads,” demanding German unity on Soviet terms, swarmed into the Western sectors at. a score of places along the 102-mile line separating the four sectors of the city.

West German police drenched the agitators with" streams" from high pressure fire hoses and beat them back with clubs, Injuring muny.

At least 30 Communists were arrested and one West German policeman was kidnapped into the Eastern Zone,

The demonstrations, in which

FACTORY

EXPLOSION

Stockholm, 'Apr. 24.

A second explosion oc-

CITY. KEEPS VIGIL

The River continued to pour millions of gallons of water into various places but the trouble spots are above. and below Kansas City. Here the dykes are 40 feet high and an addition- al six feet of flashboarding have been added to sections of the pratecilon

Wille. Kansa City kept vigil, tired airmen and other troops

Kangayat Fort Leavenworth,

counted off as lost their

Valiant nine-day battle to save, the Sherman Ale Force base as the $3,500,000 base disappear- ed beneath yellow water,

a sea of swirling

The River found a weakness

on Wednesday night and punch-

an estimated 12,000 Reis took curred in the Nobel explored through the south dyke,

part, appeared to be u dress rehearsal for the Communists' sives factory in Bofors, cèn- threatened rioting on May Day, tral Sweden, today while which they have designated as security pallee were investi. "fighting day for German galing a case of suspected unity.

sabotage.

WELL PLANNED

But the Western police called today's action the best-planned and most widespread of the oc- cupation..

One worker was badly burned in today's explosion.

Sabotage is suspected.

The Communists began their

The blast occurred while forays into West Berlin at about palice were investigating an ex- 00 2.30 pm. Sporadic fighting was plosion last Friday, when still going on at 7 o'clock as 1,000 kilogrammes (about 175 lbs.) o

detonated while police battled Communists in explosives the American, British and being tested. French sectors.

The

Security police were in after engineers had The main trouble spots were called the Vinetaplatz in the French found ingredients

had been the explosives.. sector, 20 miles from Central mixed into

first detonation the British sector of bringing their

down from 200 to 100 each Berthe American district point

the busy degrees Centigrade.-Reuter. Tampelhof and

where the Potsdamerplatz, American, British and Soviet sectors come together,

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UNIO, WHO, and goodness first-class operatie career, she

Jackson, Michigan, knows what else--all chock was particularly beloved as u

Apr. 24. a-block with Committees, Lieder singer,

probably a more accurule trans-

-The 179 convict mutineers tation of the combined words establishments, missions, advisory bodies, experts She made her opera debu at

would be in a planned and at Jackson prison today filed She was at

systematic manner.”

out of their barricaded cell and vast masses of Earnest Hamburg in 1910. Workers. Nobody can escape the Vienna State Opera from

Of the use of "bloody", ap- Į block Into the dining hall for the troud. The present 1910 to 1948 and had a long

meal of beefsteaks, ice the with pearing in musical association there with generation is creating Richard Srauss, the compuser which he had always kept up. Barnett said that "huet seng" cream and appropriate trim-

It was style that was stil

a peculiar word sort of mad world-and it

which and conductor,

mings, one of the rebels' is littered with portentous

growing, he added. The news-mennt strong and pungent initials which few peoplej Her mest

operatic papers style was really asmell. He said that the author terms of surrender.

up the metaphor Initials role understand. The

was keeping his development of the historical

of the slaughter house and it style. themselves do not matter Rosenkavalier.

Witness said he also had was a good translation. much it is the bodies they When Audria was annexed

Qu comparative represent which bear down by the

made her knowledge of the Nazis, she

Witness next dealt with the one by one from the cell plock and catch the world up in home in the United States. But philology of written Chinese and terminarbarous which in

A before she left Austria dhe had had studied written Japanese; he

Chinese is "ych men." Original- where they had been besieged their endless tentacles.

for four days, Fellow prisoners a liftte Japanese but not been gained

ly it applied to the non-Chineset the doors "frisked" of the greatest! épox He was the author of suggestion advanced by one London honours Vienna

man for possible weapons just he emerged. an a paper which was really a people living in the wild coun-

try and foresta It was newspaper. It is to create a singer, she

the critique of another writer on the Honorary Member

words the like the

and "savage" of the Chinese "barbarian" uncultured people The surrender of all weapons, character system. This paper behaving in on uncivilised man- which included hundreds of had been adoptd by the London

ner. He pointed out that "yeh" knives and clabo, was part of University and the Civil Service

in Japanese and developed into the agreemem by which the Commission.

meaning stupid and dullish. men gave up their revolt,

Reading in Chinese from อ

The mutineers, led by a long- Mr the article, paragraph

term convict called "Crazy Jack" Barnett agreed that American did appear in the words "per- Hyatt, insisted they would accept nicious and wicked plots of the ne truce unless it was guaranteed American and British imperial- by Michigan State 1sts." He added that it should reud

imperialism" rather than

Mr Williams accepted the rebela surrender tenns carly Referred to the sentence "the today, and Pater the rebels Mr Hooton then handed wit- British Imperial sis continue to released the eigh last guards ness the copy of the Ta Kung act in obedience to the idea of they had Pao of March 5, containing America", Mr Barnett said that hostages, Earlier, the mutineers the article complained of, and "will" was a better meaning for released another of their remain- the Court's certified tragisiption."ynu sze". It was something ing nine warder hostages-the Referring to the phrase "un- that came down from a superior nfth of 13 originally seized when lawful and outrageous nets of

to an Inferior and its basis was the revolt began on Sunday like an order from the Emperor. night. Io collapsed persecution". Mr Hooton asked If "persecution"

good

being released and was sup- FAIR TRANSLATION

ported by convicts when he was Mr Hooton: Subject to those handed over. comments you have made, Mr

body known as STWDL, Vienna State Opera 2nd Un romanisation which means Simplify The Vienna Philharmonic. Whole Darned Lot, It is

Critics praised Elizabeth the considered opinion of

Schumann's poetic diction and that newspaper if such on her regard for text and phrust. organisation could be got Her favourite ecmposers were

Mr Barnett said that he had going with world-wide Mozart, Schubert, Schumann. been nearly 18 years in China membership our lives would Hugo

Richard and Hongkong and had passed fid

all the Government language examinations in Cantonese and written Chinese. He was deputy

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translation.

Witness replied 4hat that translation of "pik hoi" www

of

Mannen Williams.

bcen

Governor

holding us

MAN WITH KNIFE

before

HICCUPS CURE

In the first area 5,000 Com-

London, Apr. 24, munists attempted to hold anti- Wesern rallies and fought with A drink of mustard in cald today eured George 300 Western police. The Com-water munists throw stones and were Paterson of Glasgow of Irizzup.

Paterson had been hiccuping answered with streams of water and truncheons.

for ten days.--Reuter. /

POLICEMAN BEATEN One Western policeman was beaten and kidnapped.

In Spandau, 500 Communists, mostly youths, fought 50 West- ern police. At Tempelhof, in front of the Borough Hall, 600 agitators blocked 100 police,

At Potsdamerplatz 3,000 Cop- munists gathered on the Soviet side of the border but retreated when Western riot squatis cpod to the square, Western police also repelled Communist In- vusion Equads throughout the day at many other points along somewhat mild but it was prob-Barnett, what is your opinion of At the same time, one of the the border. ably the closest one could get in

a whole? prisoners came out from behind The Communist police made Erglish. The original to oppress the translation as

and surrendered, -no effort to break up tho.de- "nap pile" and adding "ho Would you call it a fair transla-the barriendo

collett for Tast flon?

hands high in the air. Waiting monstrations, gave it a more serious meaning.

meant to put to death. Wit- I would say it is a fair trans-police took a long knife from week by the East German Com- net explained that in the historylation. It is possibly colourless him.

The rebels' terms for surren of the Tang dynasty, where the It does not reproduce the style Empress usurped the throne and of the original but it represents der were: no repelsals, and out put to death all the princes in the meaning. The impression I 11-point programme of prison was reforms. They also demanded the immediato line of succession, got is that the transinter

trying to the word used in the context was

avold extremes be the steak and tec-cream dinner. "hol" which meant to put co cause of the slightly watered- The riot has cost one life, with douth or to order to commit down effect.

Injuries to 11 convicts, four Mr. Hooton next told Mr Bar-State troopers and four, guards suleide. "Pik hol" was such, a

which belt that a question had been put and damage to the extent of degree of persecution made life Impossible, he added, that in an essay the point was $2,000,000.

Mr Hooton then referred to always put by the writer at the the word "masacre and Mr end of the essay. Barnett zuid that the word was Mr Barnett replied that the

Governor Williams said that

ho accepted the men's terms to

In reply to the men's unquall-

a

munist. Party to protest against and hinder conclusion of contractual agreement be- tween the Western Allies and the West German government. — United Press.

Guards Flown To Quell Riots

Rio de Janeiro, Apr. 24. Two aircraft flow 80 State e dair translation of "to sat" writer might have had in mind ensure the safety of the remain- If he had been doing the the assay lawn, or the eighting nine hostages, then still held Guardsmen into the town of

by the convicts

Uderaso, in Minas Gerals State, analation, said witness he legged style of prace composition, would have said "butcher", which was now extinct. It was

transport workers strlice, ne- ing of animals are also meant Civil Service examinations with pledged that no reprisals would cording to reports reaching here vas used in the alaughter the style used in the alt Imperial fed demand for no reprisals, hete quel riots which followed a

be taken by the guards or other today. the profession of a butcher: very girlet rules. It was VCTY

who operato The reports

sold the rioters The ease of ""to" was almost | formal:

and

centences were schnel confined to the slaughtering of Umited to four or six characters Michigan's gaol for the Stato had burned down the Federal.

and State revenue Department, of Convections

collecting animals fa large numbers for He had been reading many of The Governor's capitulation offices and other Government food, but not for sacrifice, Ap these essays but had not taken

bureaua, plied to kaiman beings it was to judy writing them. If one came after a tenso night when

A police statement charged used to men what is done to had another century added to the hostages safety hung in the

that there were notorious Com-: a routed enemy or a captured one's to then it might be worth elty. It meant to put the "inha- | the while." **/he remarked.

munistic elements among the strikers-Reuter. bitants to the sword, -

(Donida on, back page, vol. 1)

balance against the mounting rage and frenzy of the dlchards in the cell--Reuior.

Damage to the airfield may run as high as $1,000,000 though planes and equipment are safe- ly stored elsewhere,

Dry weather is predicted for the next two days,-United Press.

Man's Murder Confession

Grays, Essex, Apr, 24. Efronten Arthur Pye, 31 of Aveley, Essex, Wes Balc ut Grays today to have told the palico ho strangled his wife after a quarrel and then buried her at midnight in the garden. of their home,

Pye, accused of murdering her on March 2, was exmmitted for trial to the Chelmsford Assizes,

The prosecutor said Pye made a statement in which he said: "Before I filled the hole in again, I got a 7 lb. bag of lime, I sprinkled all this on her body and threw the bag in the hole before I filled the hole in,"

Pye said his wife spent the previous weekend with another. man-Reuter:

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