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JUDGE RULES QUESTIONS

Survey Nine Die In

Plane Crash

New Delhi, Apr. 30.

All nine aboard were Killes tonight when ап Indian Airline Dakota crashed a field near the Whingdon alrport here when about to land after a Bight from Madrau.

Flye were passengers and four crew,

The plane appeared over Delhi at the tail end of a billing dust storm which wwest over the ely for four hours. Reuter.

Special Police

TO PRO AS IRRELEVANT

Mr Mok Cross-Examined In

Sedition Trial

MELANCHOLY rain- "ltenre marked the publication of the latest of Britain's Bennomie Surveys, It was is and a few hours after the death of the mat who inspired the series-- Sir Stafford Cripps. The original Survey appeared in 1947, when he was virtually economic overlord. It was Crippsiun in origin, scope, and purpose. For the fist few years it set out not merely to record the past but to forevust the future. Those issues were full of estimates and targets, all drawn up after meticulous calculation and with the Leat of intentions, But because they attempted to predict the unpredictable the estimates were nearly always wrong, and The target rarely hit. Even general assumptions were upt to be wildly astray. Thus 19-18 was prophesied as a year of "great anxiety." It

urned mu to le compaYN-; tively easy. For 1919 the!

Special plain clothes When hearing resumed this · Canton. I did not walt for Survey foresaw "the steady policies of long-term pro- police armed with revolvers morning, Ho Sai-wai, clerk of cross-examination.

at the Air Hooten: You were afraid of arrests and opening fire, ag was Fress." A few months later tonight stood guard roundnewspaper registration Britain was hit by its the Capetown official resi-SCA who had previously given being cross-examined,

cvidence, was recalled by the biggest Bnancial crisis up¦ dence of Prime Minister Defence and produces Two to that time, In 1950 precise! Daniel Mulan, und extra signed copies of the Sun Map "Taryets and forecasts were police were still arriving Pao of March 1 and a Sing" To

discreetly dropped. This year no attempt has been in the city from the

Mr Y. K. Mok, barrister-at-law, was cross-examined at some length by Mr.A. Hootón, Solicitor-General, when the trial was resumed this morning of the publisher, printer and editor of the Ta Kung Pao on charges of sedition,

made to estimate in detail! the pattern of the economy' during the coming year. I is a wise omission. THE intest issue. like nibera,

Guards For

S. African Ministers

vinces.

All

Capetown, Apr. 30.

other

pro-

Ministers have been given a night police guard

their homes, rougd

believed for the first time in the Union's

history.

Was

gives much useful infor nation, but, in a general-

General Smuts When way, it contains nothing Premier, only he himself had which has not been said a full-time guard.

Pulice Headquarters TC- score of times alrondy

the view that there Perhaps something is pudined

was any mystery of mything Recomplished

sheer hy

the movement repetition-though results iste, aboul

plain clothes policu .to always obvious. Capetown. I

estimated Britain

told. for the by tonight about 250 extra have arrived example, that the "really pulice important thing ix lu bere. increase engineering out-

Presumably put."

are

is

the

price of those products

important engineering workers

tul,

would

Wils

Mr J. L. Murray, Government Public Relations Officer, also went into the witness box this morning, but after he had replied to a number of questions put by Mr. Percy Chen, leading counsel for the defendants, Mr Justice Williams ruled a series of questions as being irrelevant.

Mr Chen requested permission to consult with his colleague, 'Mr Bernacchi, and then informed the Judge that as he (Mr Williams) intended to declare his questions relating to a PRO hand-out as irrelevant, he would put no further' question to Mr Murray.

Yat Po on March 1

Continuing his evidence, Mr Y. K. Mok, barrister-at-law, was asked by Mr Chen to ex- Plain the manner in which the the

icial welcoming party at

station was

Kowloon railway made up.

Mok replied that at that time outside the station were some officials and some people of the Trade Uniona and

trade organsitions, mostly. commer- cicl

the Witness represented Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. When they persca

they walked away in

Accompanied by Mr columne. MacPherson, DS (Yaumati) he addressed thousands and they waited away in different direc- tions.'

والی

Mr. Chen Did you know if

ORDERED BACK

Witness: iwas

government.

distributor of sugar and I was

Grdered to go back.

Mr Hooton: When did you re- turn to Hongkong?

Witness: 1 came back in 1935 attended a number of meetings of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce,

and

Mr Huoton: I suggest to you,

Me Mok, that you were subject-

Lion in that case und the learned ed to.very severe cross-examina- Judge

Ook a serious view of. Rome at your remarks,

Witness: No, that is not so. Mr Hooten: The Judge ad- journed the case from 1 to 2,30 p.m., and when your name was called at 2.50 you did not return. Witness: No. I asked for per- the matter mission to leave as was urgent but the Judge told me to come back tomorrow,

But the Prelorie correspondent of the Johannesburg Star today quoted a senior assistant com- Yet misstoner are J.P. Coetzee, as saying extra to Canton that the visit should even now demanding less pollee had been sent la Cape- be postponed to March 07 work and more money. The town because

of police, Brigedier any recommendation was made did not turn ignored the

KI

desperate need to earn dollars is emphasised. Yet,

at this moment, as powerful'

moverent ty ifnot

the

United States

in to

the Union.

of reports

or!

Wkness: Yes.. Mr Chen; Can

you tell the threats made against individuals situation which has developed in convermed with the political Court why it was that Mr Chen did not accompany the party to Lowu?

His Lordship: Which Mr Chen is that?

Mr Chen: Mr Percy Chen,

THE IDEA

There had been a few cases of exclude some of Britain's similar threats in the Trans

best-selling lines,

MA

Intosh.

2

Mr Hooton.

direction ut the Judge.

Witness: I

did,

WAS

Replying further, witness said that he came from Chungshan, opposite Macao, but he born in Canton.

You are an Mr Hooton: enthusiastic supporter of the prevent Chinese Government.

Witness: Yes,

OPEN LETTER

(Our Own

Witness: I should say that of the incident with regard to the

reported, was not an eyewitnes and I cannot say whether it was persecution or not.

that on March 1 the Hongkong.

had planned to

Chinese in

-Mr Hooton: Are-you of opinion

Government butcher the Colony?

Witness: No. Mr Heaton: oven?

Witness:

No.

the

Or to kill them

Mr Hooton: You disugrec very strongly with any sugges- tion that the Government

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Forty-five people, were injured when the Clyde- Thames express crashed 800 ft. up on Blea Moor near Hellfield, Yorkshire, The train was drawn by two engines. The second toppled over its side, followed by five coaches. Many passengers on the train, which left Glasgow at 9.15 a.m. for London, were Easter holklaymakers returning home London Express,

Strong Allied Reply To Soviet Note On Plane Incident

Berlin; Apr. 30.

The Western Allied authorities here today told the Russians that to fire "in any circumstances, even by way of warning" on an unarmed aircraft in time of peace was "entirely inadmissible and contrary to all standards of civilised behaviour."

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Wafdist Youths Cheer

Premier

Cairo, Apr. 30.

For the first time sinco the introduction of martial law, which bans assembly and demonstration, about 300 Wafdist youths march- ed to the Presidency to- night and cheered Premier Hilaly Pasha.

-They shouted "Long Live Haly, man of the Watd, man of morality, liberation and purifica- tion"

Premier Hilaly Pasha came to the balcony of the Presidency and acknowledged their shouts.

Meanwhile the country awaits the return of the British Am- brssador, Sir Ralph Stevenson, freen London with new British proposals on the Sudan ques-

The dispatch of the British proposals to Cairo hae wound up an intensive fortnight of Ediplomatic activity in London. The aim of the talks was to break the deadlock on the Sudan isque whose mucleus is now that of recognition by Britain of King Farouk's title to the Sudan. ro that. the

progress achieved by both countries in their de fence talks may not be arrested. FIRM DECISION

and

King Farouk assumed the title of King of the Sudan last autumn after his Government had unilaterally abrogated the 1938 Anglo-Egyptian

Treaty which reaffirmed Britain's and. Egypt's Joint rule over million square mile bush desert land south of Egypt.

The upshot of the talks, it is. believed here, is a British under- taking to refer

the question fairly to Sudanise opinion, but

Arm decision' to stand by the. British pledge not to 'commit the Sudan

of to a change status. without, such consulta-

tion

Amr Pasha had an important 'talk with the British Defence Minister, Lord Alexander, In London yesterday, and it res mains true, it is understood in Londoh, that Anglo-Egyptian agreement

on Middle East defence is now virtually com- plete and dependent only on a solution of the Sudan Isstle.

Final stages of the drafting of tho the British proposals on Sudan were a British Cabinet discussion yesterday morning and two lost meetings between Secretary Anthony Foreign Eden, Sir Ralph Stevenson and Sir Robert Howe, Governor- General of the Sudan, one last evening and one earlier today.---

Router.

A letter sent in the name of the three Western High Commissioners and the three Western Commandants in Berlin was in reply to a Soviet allegation that an Air France plane, shot up over East Germany yesterday by Russian fighters, has strayed from the air corridor between West Berlin and West Germany, vool, but it was from Capetown

The Soviet protest against cumstances, even

the by way of plane of

French High Mr Hoolon: Are your wife violation of pir tarific regula-warning, on an unarmed aircraft that the majority of such reports |

Commissionco, but U10 de- ONE valuable thing the had come, the Stur correspon-

and six children in Canton? Survey does do ia to

In time of peace wherever that parture time was kept secret. Mr Chen repeated the ques- dent sald.

Witness: I have four wives. tions" by a French plane was

published within an hour of a aircraft may be is entirely in- Air safety officials today dis- demonstrate once again the Dr Molan's official residence | tion and witness replied, "The Some of the children are la

Western Allied prolest to Gen-admissible and contrary to all cussed new means of Increasing Queen Mary Better idea was that Mr Chen should Canton, aunie in Hongkong and woefully

margin is Roote Schuur at Ondesbosch,

eral Vassil! Chulkov, Chairman einndards of civilised behaviour," safety in the corridors. They

London, Apr. 30. which separates Britain a Capetown suburb. Special remain bobind to communicate

of the Soviet Control Commis- the litter, said.

sald that Soviet fighters and Queen Mary, grandmother of from disaster. In 1949 armed police, were on duty with Mr Todd and Mr Mac-some in Macao.

(There was a snigger among sion of

the Germany, against

light bombers continued exer- Qužem Elizabeth II, who has The Western. Allies repeated slight recession in America there today at every entrance.

suffering elses today only in the area been

from a chill Minister was enough to send Britain

of Justice C. R...

their "chement protest agains: where the Skymaster Mr Chen: When you were in the spectators and his Lordship "unwarrantable attack" on the

was shot since April 3, "getting along splaning. In 1951 it was Swart was asked in Parliament Peking did you know whether remarked, "This is no laughing French plane by Soviet fighters.

very

Gold an well Indeed They said that the plane was this unwarrantable and brutal .the

People's Govern- matter"). police Central why extra

attack" and their demand the Korean war, the loss of yesteriny

within the air corridor at the

it was not known whether the official at Marlborough House, an Immediate investigation.. Persian oil, a fall in the were being drafted into Cape- ment was made up only of one

time of the attack.

grounding of Russian planes in her home, today. "errrying 50100

rifles political party or several?

"The Western Allies demanded punishment of these respon other areas was due to the In- 'She will be 05 on May 20———— price of rubber, or some-town,

Witness: Several parties.

Mr Hooton then handed Mr

of those rou

sible and reparation.

cident. Reuter,

Reuter, thing else not on a world wrapped in blankets."

He said: "You will have to Mr Chen then handed witness senie. Time was when the

of the Ta Kung Pao of March the punishment

Western Allled air traffe ex- acccpt my word! that from in- deportation order served on 10. which contained the follow-sponsible for the incident and nation could have taken formation and advice I have re- Chan Kwan-lun

on September ing:

afternoon Six due reparation for material damperts met here this Mak Ying-kwal's such events in. Its stride.ceived it has been necessary to 27, 1950. ond asked him

to discuss safety measures· fol- whether he had seen Chan in Canton; Indignant at Kowloon

children release open letter in age to persons and property.

Jowing But now Britnin lives from transfer a number of police to

SOVIET COMPLAINT

yesterday's incident, The Soviet counter protest | an Allied spokesman said, hand to mouth, and until Capetown. What that informa- China. reserves aro large enough tion is I am not prepared 10

Withess sald he saw Chan in incident; Father encouraged to

struggle against persecution said that the plane had strayed

Air France officials in Berlin Canton in October last year and the country state publicly, and if you are not

Correspondent). from the air corridor, immored

sold -today that Carry

had radar Chun spoke to him.

The article continued, "An orders to land and that a Soviet through rough times, the prepared to take my word it

proved that the Skymaster had Cross-examining, Mr Hooton open

letler

denouncing the ghter fired warning shots wolf will never he far from is Just las bad."--Reuter.

| began, "Mr Mok, have you Hongkong Government for its front of it before it disappeared kept in the recognised air cor-

give evidence previously in the

measures of persecuting out Berlin's Tempelhof Airport.

our into clouds and finally landed at ridor.

They said that the plane hind Supreme Court before the oc- fellow-countrymen was released

Today's Western Allied letter, been watched by radar at the cupation of the Colony by the by the children of Mok Ying-

which was nimi addressed to Tempelhet airport, Berlin, Japanese?

barrister-at-law, and General Chulkov, described the where it landed damaged by Witness: I think it was la published in the Nom Fong Soviet protest as "an apparent cannon shell and bullets with 1934, a case relotkig to some Dally News on March 8. The effort to justify yesterday morn | two passengers and a

steward estate.

writers stated that they would ing's outrageous attack on injured. Mr Hooton: In that

write letters to Y. K. Mok en-

The French Foreign Minis- subjected to some

couraging the latter to stand

It said thrt all the evidence ter, M. Robert Schuman, re- severe cross-examination.

on the forefront in the anti- confirmed the facts of the inci- ported to the French Cabinet Witness:

only I

Favo persecution struggle, Mok Hing-dent. Es Eiven in yesterday's in Ports today on that attack. evidence-in-chof. I was not crusg-examined,

chi

other writers, Western Allied letter "that the and the

'Wo feel deeply

CREW PRAISED In aircraft was repeatedly fired on states. Mr Hooton: Did you complète your evidence?

dignant when he learnt from

rom by Soviet. Agbiers and severely

The Cabinet praised the Witness: After the examlin.newspapers that the Hongkong damaged and that it is not the

British Government had. un-

case that the aircraft was out- plane's crew for taking tion-in-chief I had to To to

reasonably opened fire. injured side the air corridor-fixed by plane on to Berlin and Landing soane and arrested more than four-Power agreement) when safely despite the considerable

damage. 100 compatriots. Reckless per- it was attacked..

Guy de "Quite apart from these ques-

Ja Tourelle, secution can never frighten the Chinese people itions of fact, to fire In any cir- Political Director of the French

Foreign Ministry, tonight re continue. Moreover the

ceived the Soviet Counsellor, M. Victor Abilov, to protest

attack.

to

the door. The only way to

incrense reserves in to act)

on the Survey's warnings, Weather Stops "We must produce more.' "We must work harder." Search For Plane

"We must put up with shortages."

ve

must

exercise wage and salary restraint."

were you These injunc

tions have been uttered thousand times before. But they remain truc. The unvarnished fact is that if Britain is to recover, the whole nation must act upon them all.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, Apr. 30. The United States Air Force search for the missing Pan today announced that the als American Stralocruiser with 50 persons aboard had been called or because of bad weather.

The search has been delayed until at least tomorrow. --United Press,

case

Alleged Extortion Racket: New York

Chinese Newspapermen Allowed Bail

Now. York, Apr. 30.

paper:

were

Kwai

they persecutors will suffer the

consequences of their ill-doings.

French aircraft.”

in

We have decided to write AUSTRALIA BUYS

bo tried, with Moy and letters to our father to stand on the forefront in the anti-

Indicted. on 53 | wiil Two officials of the China counts each by a special Fed-Wong. 'Daily News were released on eral grand july on charges of The assistant United States persecution struggle." ball today. In the Federal court violating the 1850 law which | gtorney Mr Myles Lans, Heald

DOLLARS

against yesterday's

the

A French Foreign Ministry spokesman Baid that 80 muchlaegun bullets and cannon Canberra, Apr. 30.

chelle has been fired at the air The Mr Hooton: Do you approve |

Prime Minister, atter they had pleaded innocent forbids the remittance of money the grand jury would continue of your children's views set out obert

Mrcraft. France would bask for Menzies, today. an compensations for the damage ጊሱ chargen of helping the to Red China without a licence an investigation of the "extor-

that the Australian | dono. nounced Chinese Communist regime to from the Treasury Department, tien racket which he said had in that retter?

arranged to Western air traffle to Berlin extort

millions of dollars from The Judge set a $1,500 ball drained as much as a million Witness: They have their government bad

buy $30,000,000 from the Inter-through the three recognised Chinese

each for Tom Sung, manager of dollars from New York's colony own opinion, S

| International air corridors: was national Monetary Fund. The judge 'rojcased Mr laundry, Chin You-on, as of 40,000 Chinego 11

Mr. Hooton; How

old

He said the amount would be running formally today after a Eugens

Boy, president of the a'slant manager, and Chin metha

eldest one?

available between now and Sep-five-hour interruption yester=" Chineco langungo newspaper Hong-ming, laundry worker The money was sent to China Witness: Twenty-three, published in New York's Chinu who were also indicted in con-at the request of their relatives My Hooton: Is it also your tember 30. The government day. town, anÉN Albert Wong, ngelica with the crak, mak

who were imprisoned for failure opinion? are you of the opinion sought the purchase to texture The West German Presider, former editor, in a $1,000 ball They were charged with end to pay taxes and fines Imposed that the Hongkong Government temporary dollar finance during Theodore Heuss, few, to Berlin grunney, to, Communist by the Communists-United reciclessly persecuting Chinese 'n/period of acute financial dim-today for tomorrow's May Day

caltyUnited Press.

orientations in the private controlled banks in Chyna wodness:

Kresidents of this Colony?

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