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SWISS MADE

COMMENT OF THE DAY

What Is The

Reason?

17E imagine that reguiar!

Walipteners to Radio Hong-

kong programmes will have Jonrned with some resent ment that the weekly feature, "Down Memory Lane,"

which has been running continuously for more than five years, la to come off the air at the end of this month. For seoras of listeners who are not ashamed to admit that nostalgia possesses

and to

appeal, Aileen Woods' pro- gramme provides stimu- Iating entertainment. It has become an integral part of Radio Hongkong. listeners

entilled are know why it is being found necessary to remove this feature from the station's programmes. We doubt very much it is because its designer and compiler has grown weary of the task; we hope very much that it is not so, because it is the personality which has,

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from the first, engraved it- solf

the programme which has Thude it delightfully refreshing each week. If the removal of "Down Memory Tane" is a decision based on adminis- trative policy, then Wo suggest that il be immediately reviewed and rescinded. Listeners hear

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1953.

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GRAVE RIOTS IN KARACHI Disguised Demonstrator

New Controls 9 Killed,

On Hongkong

Exports

Washington, Jan. 8.

A tightening of con- trols intended to pre- vent Chinese goods entering · America through Hongkong has been announced by the United States Treasury Department.

Under a new plan all merchandise leav

for ing Hongkong America must have an official export certi- ficate from the colony. -Reuter,

More Than 60

Injured

REDS TO BLAME

Karachi, Jan. 8.

Armed troops sped into Karachi today to break up Communist-led rioting which killed at least nine persons and injured more than 60 in two` days. Soldiers of the Eighth Punjab Regiment restored order after police rifles, clubs and tear. gas had failed to control the mob of stone-throwing

Edingburgh Is student rioters. All Set For

The Wedding

(Our Own Correspondent)

Edinburgh, Jan. 8. Part of Edinburgh's the High "Royal Mile" little enough that originates Street will be closed to from the station and they all traffic for about three should not be deprived of hours when the marriage of.) something which is widely the Earl of Dalkeith and popular in order to fit the Miss Jane McNeill, daughter whims of officials. And if of the Hongkong barrister, on the other hand, "Down takes place here on Satur- Memory Lane" has to go off the

because

day.. of a Lit cheeseparing policy on the part of the Treasury, which is notoriously niggardly when it comes to providing finance for Radio Hong- kong, then the situation. calls for investigation on the highest Government lovels, and

Thousands will see the Queen, and the Duke of Edinburgh

of the royal other members

attend the family arrive to wedding.

Special car parking arrange ments are being made by the

:

The Police Commissioner, Mr A. Naqui, said at least seven persons were killed in the fighting today, but student organisations said the toll was at least 12 dead.

Two persons died of injuries received in a similar clash yesterday.

Forty-one policemen and 19 rioters were known to be injured but the police said an unknown number of wounded rioters had been removed from the "battle- field" by friends. Unofficial sources said as many as 100 persons might have been hurt in the fighting.

His Last Budget Today

Washington, Jan. 8. President Truman is Police and a fleet of buses will scheduled to send to Con- be available to take guests

Forty rioters were arrested after today's outbreak, which

BRITAIN'S.

FORMOSA

POLICY

Revision Requested

(By. Charles, Folby) Washington, Jan. 8. One of the most crucial

The war goes on In Indo-China, and after cap-

Soldiers

turing an enemy-occupied Japan-Korea

Discussions

village, a French officer examines papers found on Vietminh regular soldiers who are, disguised ng civilians.

London Ex-To Resume

press.

NINETEEN

the police said was organised questions which arose dur CREWMEN

by the Communist-led "Demo-ing Prime Minister Chur.. cratic Students Federation." chill's final talk with the The disorder was ostensibly a

student demonstration, but Mr new United States Secrs Naqul sald most of the fighting tary of State, Mr John was dono by Communist Foster Dulles, was the agitators.

future of Formosa."-27

announcing if thought

features

unless

B0

to the reception.

Tenants and

served seats

In

Q

Korean

the

RESCUED

Kanatsu

Described As A "Drone" By Magistrate

London, Jan. 8.

A second attempt to "fast unto death" was tried by Mr Curu: Charan Dass, an Indian, with kita.. wife and four children out alde No. 10 Downing Street.

After demonstrating with posters for about 10 minutes outside Mr. Churchill's London home, they were hustled Into police, van and driven off.

Mr Dass, 42, who came to England from Kenya in 1949 to

study law, and his 38-year-old wife, were found guilty on Monday of similarly causing an obstruction in Downing Sirect and were

conditionally Wis- charged for 12 months.

He claimed he was protesting because the National Assistance Board has withdrawn £ a week he was being paid in relief because he refused to accept offeret him by a Labour Exchange

work

Mr Dass said: "All I have been offered is manual work of a kind I cannot do because of physical disabilities."

In court Inter today the Chiet Magistrate, Bir Laurence. Duhn, described Mr Dass 45 "a orone." CANNOT RETURN

"Is there no method of · get- Ling rid of him?" he asked. "Why should the British public be saddled with £0 a week for a drone?"

Mr Dass replied that he was. not allowed to return to Kenys. "So they don't want you there either," Sir Lourence commented.

Mr Dass and his wife both pleaded not guilty to two charges each of obstructing, a policeman and obstructing the highway in Downing Street.

Dass was fined £1 or one day's Imprisonment and was bound over in his own recogni (entite, (of £25) Zand with one- surety of 246 to be of good

algo

Pusan, Jan. 9. A Republic of Korea source that sald today

diplomatic begotiations with Japan which were broken off Inst April will be resumed in the near future.. The source said the Improved relation was a direct result of President Syngman Rheo's visit to Japan earlier this week,

Mr Rhoe met informally with Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida Tokyo, Jan. 9. and other Japanese officials dur Rescue ships today removed ing tis visit to General Mark 18/crewmen from the broken Clark's Far East Command

Headqumbers Officials reported Karachi wall Late last night Mr Dulles paid balves of the Swedish tanker quiet" at 8.30 pm, but military an unheralded visit to the Avatiti, which crticled in two The high source said Mr Rhen patrols were still cruising the Prime Minister, Mr Dulles, in a raging storm in the north told his Cabinet that a broad behaviour for the next centre of the city. City officials according to Washington in Philippine Sea on Thursday fundamental

agreement was months, ordered all colleges closed for formanta, impressed on Me night.

reached with Mr:Yoshida to re-

no "Whis

will lose means three days and police sound Churchill the need for a review

open the discussions on qual£25 and

person who trucks circulated through the of British policy in favour The Japanese Maritime Safety termus."

of

stands surety for blan Chiang Kai-shek.

This would Bureau said the ships were

The

main disputes are dishing lose. £25 it ho appears before direct from St Giles Cathedral gress at noon on Friday his dty.

9 p.m. help open the war to using his searching for a lifeboat carrying rights and Japanese dainos on the same court on a

similar budget proposals for the curfew.

Nationalist Chinese necessary, a more liberal

troops 21 other remaining crewmen. property developed in Korea offence within the next year. The Evening Times charged, based on Formosa as a formid- attitude to Radio Kong-

In the event of his failing to during the 40-year Japanese oc- employees on fiscal year starting next

in an extra edition, that one of table threat against Red China The British ship, Easter, and

find a person ready to guarantee kong by the Treasury the estales of the Duke of July 1.

the dead was a 12-year-old boy, If she doesn't end the

Japanese

Maru cupation.

South Korean newspapers, the second £25, he will have to ordered.

the Radio Hongkong Buccleuch,

bridegroom's Prospects are that he will ask whose body lay unattended in war.

reached the Avahti's position and recently critical of the Japanese go to prison for two months, special re- must not be deprived of its father, will have

the street for two hours while about

Mr Churchill leaves. for his removed eight men from the attitude toward Keren, took a the magistrate decided. expenditures of the cathedral for popular

the police held back bystanders Jamaioan holiday tomorrow

broken bow section and 11 others more friendly line after Presi Mrs Dass was discharged con- which will give them a clear $79,000,000,000, an overwhelm who tried to administer Arst the blue and allver Presidential on the larger storm helf. Another dent Rhee's return. The South ditionally for 12 months.-- there is a very good and view of the bridal processioning part of which will go for

ald-United for

Pross acceptable reason

four vessels were reported to be Korean President was defence of this and other free

quoted Reater. aeroplane Independence. down the long, central aisle.

ORGANISED BY HEDS doing.

against Communist Mr John McNeill, QC, who nations

en route to the scene-United as having told Premier Yoshida HIT BULLS-EYE Associated Press reports that

"We ha

hit the bulln-eye," Press. have has arrived in Edinburgh, will aggression.

that disagreements between. the give

ALL SAVED

countries were the fault of ve his

daughter away.

The foreign aid part of this the Police Commissioner charged the Prime Minister said when

in a communique tonight that he arrived-in- Washington-from-

former. Japanese militarists.and Thers will be feur brides-

probably svill be about the

* Durban, Jan.”8. led by same as the President asked last touched off the fighting were been

procession which New York. Britain has studente

that he "would not spare Co- so far maids and six

The 10,585-ton Dutch liner operation" about the value Klipfontein sank

in the Prince Richard,

future. — son of the year, although Congress cut his

off the coast United Press, Duchess of Gloucester.

army and also has of Portuguese Africa today, but request then by more

Democratic Students shown

Peking all the 233 persons aboard were $1,000,000,000 and

to be seems

Foderation and other

tako counter-measures in a mood to make an

non should student Communists. ever

saved.. larger cut this year.

against Hongkong. President

10- He said the police have

the whole attifixde of But Truman's

request Jast

for formation which shows that the Britain In recognising foreign aid was $7,000,000,000.

This will be Mr Truman's students were misled by certain Chinese Communists rather than

political and

Interested Chiang Kai-shek is under com and last budget as he parties and an-students who his office in less than two joined their

stant

In America. fire

Mr processions, thus caused most of the trouble, tain to change.

and Duties feels it is time for Bri- administration of forcing the police to open fire. new

As

even out of office, General Dwight Eisenhower The students were demon of the fter the honeymoon "tomer may make some changes in it, strating against police use of

champion of Chiang, Mr as wi.creabroad," Breith and his bride will live departures can be accomplished their demonstration

yesterday they

positions in & mall house on the Duke of in the first year of the new when

prótesting China and Russia. Buccleuch's estate.

rgime.

what Mr against Increased fees and other Consequently,

He urgei Britain should take Truman proposes on Friday grievances. will be the basic working docu- When the students assembled an unprejudiced view of the new

possiblities; Me ment of the new Congress.

tho Prima Minister

thanked Bir Dulles and promised It will contain funds for the Mushtaq Ahman Girmaal, went to take his views into account. atomle and hydrogen bomb in his car to address them, the London Express Service, programmes, the fourth year of car was overturned and set on Buenos Aires, Jan, B. At least 10

were Korean

Then police ald, the North dre. war persons

went into killed when a Buenos Aires city Atlantic Treaty nations, Indo action, using tear

* and today while Ching and other nations of t bus caught fire

batons and at first only firing blanks travelling in the capital city's streets-France-Presse.

Truman's Warning PRESIDENT Truman's final

State of the Union messagu can rank as one of the most memorable he has delivered during his term of office extending over eight years It was, notable in n number of respects, not the least

direct being his uddrous to Stalia and the Kremlin and his warning that if they continue tu base their policies on the Lonin theory that war botween the Communist states and the free world was inevitable, it would mean ruin for Russia and It regime. hor present would be supremely com forting to feel there was any prospe of Russia acknowledge the reality of Mr Truman's warning, and of the Kremlin readapting its international policies accordingly. But tho trond of events. particularly since 1945, holds out no such promise. All the signs are that the Soviet leaders have com- mitted themselves to a long-

pages,

Dr Herbert Howells ras com posed a special plece of music to be played before the arrival of the bride at the cathedral. It is entitled "Sicilian for a and is de- High Ceremony" dicated to the bride. :

***ohoir Miss Isobel Billie and a of forty will sing during the ceremony which will be per- The formed by the Rt Rev. Bishop Kenneth Warner.

the

organised by the Communist- of Chinate less

than inspired

other

:

Death Sentence On Two Spies

Steamer Sinks: 20 Drowned

Buenaventura, Jan. 8. At least 20 DETECTE were drowned when a small coastal steamer sank off the Colombian it was re coast last Saturday

ported here tonight..

Radio reports received here the tonight said the ship struck an

Juan Perea Sandoval and his "unknown object" in the Indian

to be the wife, believed, Ankara, Jan. 8. Ocean, about five miles off the

Two sples were sentenced to coast of Mozambique and about

two survivors of the

arrived here today. "They salú 100 miles north of the Portu death by a military court here

the steamer, today. The two spies were a

Santander, bæʊko, guese colonial city of Lourenco Turk from Bulgaria and in two and mank during a storm. Marques.

former official in the National The Santander had sailed--froin The vessel sank in 45 Defence Ministry. — France- Buenaventura the day before-

liner Bloemfontein Castio reach- in the Far East against ed the scene, in time to rescue

De vesco treaty and

the Earl of but experts say that no radical tear gas and batons to disperse | Dulles is determined to build úp / minutes. The 18,400-tons British Pre150,-

BUS DISASTER

East and the Middle East.

United Press.

Terrorists In Malaya

term and thoroughly Abandon Their Camps

planned scheme for world domipation; that though certainly they almost realise that a war in. which the most destructive atomic weapons would be employed could not possibly deter mine itself into a "stage in the development of a Com mbalat soclety,”"," they

to Intend

ahead go with their nefarious plan. Mr Truman's warning will probably Kallion deaf enra, got it does reveal to the Soviets that

Singapore, Jan. 9,

A joint sweep carried out by the Malayan-Siamese police, assisted by British Commonwealth troops and RAF on both sides of the Thai-Malayan border. is forcing the withdrawal of a large gang of Malayan Communist ter- rorists, according to reports reaching the police authorl- ties in Kedah, North Malayan alate adjoining Thailand, yesterday.

today

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of

were

Churchi

all of the Kupfontein's 114 passengers and crow of 119, al- though the Dutch, ship's-boat- wain and engineer were in- Jured-United Press,

Manslaughter

They turned to live ammun STOP PRESS Charge Against

tion as resistance grow fiercer during the four-hour battle.

Later the military commander the ares; Major-General Mohammad Moosa, and the Secretary of the Defence Minis try, Iskandar Mirza, toured the deserted streets of the zone-Associated Press.

batllo

Vast Sabotage Plan

Buchos lees, Jan. 8. Local authorites today at tributed the -fres (which have destroyed crops and pastures over thousands of acres in Buenos Aires Province, to

vast plan to subotage pro duction." Ani

Nino terrorist campr capable has long been infested by .of accommodeling *:200 persons rebels. were found destroyed.

On December 14, a Siamese The reports sald the swoop dkiride office at Sadno way extended as far as the Siamese killed with three Siamese con

of Eva Peron (named after. the democracies are no towns of Singgori, Handyal and stabios, and increased violence city statement in the longer blind to the overt Sadao, and most of the retreat and sabotage were reported in Frealders Peron's wife who threat of imperialistic Coming terorists were bollovod to Paris, andther North Malayan died last year) mid there had the That Malayan been one hundred, fires. Nothing to state an have crossed into

Thailand

border.

like it had happened before. Commenting on the operation Ner had other provinces suffer

ended yesterday, then from the current dry spel? went into action on Boxing Day police spokesman said, "The

monism, and are now pro avold capture said the pared to withstand it,

police spokesman wherever, and in whatever Malayan That security forced whichs form it may display itself. That too, is another warning Mr Stalin and his fondern should hood;

had fres. Phaterday desire.

as a result of reports: that a spirit of co-operation, shown: by Three fres large gang of terrorists the Thai-Malayan police forces ed nearly 20,000 aslive bear the border, which was concellent, Unked Prem, v zraka cropar Rattana

; de fo

TEST MATCH

SCORE

Sydney, Jan. 1. South Africa "made a disastrous start in the third Test cricket match against Australia today, losing their first five wickets for 118 runa--Reuter.

Local Doctor

„An, additional charge of manslaughter was preferred. by the Prosecution against Dr. Robert Bymons, 39, of 85 Macdonnell Road,"sl- ready. "charged with dan- careless gerous driving, driving, falling to stop after an recident and fall-- Ing to report an accident before Mr Hin-shing Ln at Central this morning. 7).

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sccdeed is KUPITE

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The defendant N

to

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while travelling In alons

Boad Bari, Susan'a eppodle the lIMS "TRIDAY)

The Miss Jamry i intured

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wfter the kooldent..

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