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EDEN'S STATEMENT ON TODAY'S RACING
Death Of
SUDAN
Mr R.P. Denies Trying To
Phillips
OLD. HONGKONG RESIDENT
shortly be visiting Washing- ion for high level dis. cussions on the need for and the persibility of co-ordinated British Commonwealth-US economic policies and financial Invites a flash-back com- ment on the recent ference of Comnenwealth Prime Ministers in London. From the somewhat guarded accounts of meetings held
Mr Reginald Philip Phil- to decide on the future of
well sterling, the prospects of tips. a very old auf world trade and the recovery. known resident of Hong -of Britain's leading position, | kong. illed early this the impression is left that morning at the St Teresa's there were more areas of Hospital at the age of 73. agreement than dispute. The conference laboured under Hongkong in 2000 to join Mess:
Mr Phillips first arrive
one severe disadvantage. It was forced to confer 01 common policies and future prospects without any clear itten of what policy the United Sindes intends to follow during the next four years. Two choices faced the Prime Ministers. They could have turned their backs on
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A. S. Watson and Co.
Fine years later he moved 14 Shanghai and Joined the staff of Gande, Price, Lid, remaining there until the cutbreaks of Wort War 1. He returned to England and served with the forces.
Ile returned to Shanghai after the war and remained with Gande, Prize in that city until 1930, when he retired,
During the Japanese occupa- ton he was interned at Stanley.
KEEN SPORTSMAN
A keen sportsman, the late Mr Philips was a particularly fine footballer in his young days. He was alsu a billiards champion and an excellent lawn bowler.
In Hongkong his sporting in- terest was mainly concentrated on lawn bowls. He was one
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Detach Southern
Provinces
London, Jan, 20.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, denied today that Britain was trying to detach the Southern provinces from the rest of the Sudan.
At the same time, in the House of Lords, the still determined to prevent violations of the Marquess of Reading said that the Big Three were armistice between the Arab States and Israel.
He made the statement in the Lords in a sharp exchange over the export of jet planes to Middle Eastern countries, including Egypt.
Mr Eden's statement heralded the opening of a long, controversial session of Parliament.
"Our
He said he was glad to say, sible to resume exports of jet] The following year he return-¦ agreement håd bees reached | aircraft. the hope of a greater free-ed to Hongkong and became with Egypt on a large number
Government have, of dom of world trade and on
associated with the local office of points at issue but negotia-course, to satisfy themselves that any prospect of making the
of Gande, Price, serving asons had been complicated by there are no strong political in- and freely exchangeable Manager and later as a Director agreements reached by different flections," he continued. "Ther with the rest of the world's until he retired in June of last Sudanese parties with the policy in such matters is based
Egyptian government,
on the joint rurrencies. This would have year.
statement of the In unswer
Kingdom, to a question, he United
the United drastle meant still mora
to reach the
said it was essential
States and France on Lisy 25, eurbs on trade with
agreement over the Sudan with
1950. This
recognized the United States and a frantic
Egypt before taking up other need of the Arab States and nerarable to buy and sell
questions-British forces in the Israet to maintain a certala level within the high walls of a
Strez Canal Zone and the Middle of aimed forets for internal British Commonwealth
East defence scheme proposed | security and legitimate ac!!- defence and to enable them to system of tariff preferences,
by the West.
He said a Sudaneze Parliament play their part in the defence of The conference turned its
us Foo es the area as a whole." back
must be elected EITZ
such Any
possible, adding that this was limitation, any such retreat.
underlined by the differences A more uphill road toward
between various Sudanese Party The horizons of Currencies has been charted, Fist, a greater degree of self-suficiency within the aterling nations must nelieved. Efforts to narrow the gap between what the nations
the United States and what they can bay from her will be sought far as possible without fresh
or loans
grants. "Trade, not nid," is a tónle raide to future policy, but those who quote it-to-sie-so- with the understanding that neither America nor any other nation will buy what it does not need and cannot use, out of mistaken benevolence.
owe
THE British Commonwealth
has mude a real effort to co-ordinate investments in industry and to make a joint plan for trading with each other and the world. The Commonwealth countries resisted the casy temptation of arif walls and trade bonuses to each other. And they have affirmed they will fry to balance their books by a study of world trade needs and an attempt to compete in Alling these along businesslike lines. The
Administration Washington, therefore, will not be confronted with men. dicants beseeching fot handouts when Mr Eden and
new
in
THE LATE MR PHILLIPS
time Secretary
Lord Reading admitted that Egypt was one of the countries to receive jet aircraft.
Above is Froderick F. Lenzen, 24-year-old American airman who has been charged at the US Air Force Base at. Manston, Kent, with stealing eleven pistols. He said he had intended to sell one of the guns in an attempt to raise money for his marriage to a 21-year-old English girl, and to keep one pistol for himself, London Express Photo,
Fisticuffs
In Italian Parliament
Rome, Jan. 20.
SELECTIONS
By "Rapier"
Gracechurch
Amber
Courtier
RACE 1.
Outsider:-Dem.
Boom Town
Deuces Wild
By "The Turf” ·
Gracechurch Amber Comet
RACE 1
Outsider:-Roue D'or.
RACE 2
RACE 2
Boom Town
Santa Claus
Outsider:-Ben Lawers,
RACE 3
Flying Dutchmon
Gabriel Junks
Outsider:-Ambition.
Hiram C.. Deuces Wild
Outsider: Santa Claus.
RACE 3
Flying Dutchman- Ambition
Isana
Perfectibility
Outsider: Boyne,
Bankfoo!
Norseman
RACE 4
Outsider:--Top Secret.
Kentucky Lad
RACE 4
Bankfoot
Aviemore
Icefield
Outsider: Jolinber.
RACE 5
RACE 5
Iping
Adorable Ada
Iping Bonita
Lassle
Adorable Ada
I
Outsider: Gold Crown.
Outsider:-Lassie.
Marietta
RACE 6
RACE 6
Adorable Atalanta
Lily
Tonyber
Outsider:-Meadowbrook.
Matador.
Al Fresco
Outsider?Glorious.
Adorable Atlanta Arabian Dagger
RACE 7
RACE 7
Phoenix.
Al Fresco
A. Gransl Time
Outsider:-Windchaser,
Gladiolus Heliophyte Busy Bee
RACE 8
Outsider:-Prairie Moon.
Hallmark Mineote Fidra
RACE 9
Oulalder!-Precious Mine.
RACE 10
Fighta started in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. (Lower House) tonight as Leflist Deputies played a last | V. I. P card in their struggle against a government bill to change irigh Straight the electoral law.
und
First Edition
Outsider: Great Conqueror.
Matador
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Cutsider A Grand Thisso.
Prairie Moon.
Dawni
RACE 8
Fleet Admiral
Outsider:-Busy Bee.
Hallmark Mincola
RACE 9
Diamond Dahla
Outride-Evening View.
RACE TO
First Edition
Great Conqueror
V. f. P.
Outsider:Ben Macdhul
Pres. Eisenhower Lassoed
After
Inauguration
DEFENCE WEAPONS
He said fighters supplied were agreements with Egypt and by essential defensive weapons and the Tact that no Southern
number
exported and Sudanese
representative
took the
authorised for export was small. part in them.
Lord Strubolgi asked: "IS Mr Eden recalled that the chioti diMculty in negotiations had not Egypt, one of them-to get Nearly 200 Luftwing members not our own leapt to their 'feet and tried to been over the special powers Planes-and are given to the Governor-General, a frees in Ezypt under threat of charge the governacht bencher Erion, in the draft statute for violence at the present time? as one of their colleagues stag- self-government approved by the supplying modern aircraft
What is the sense, therefore, of gered into the chamber Sudanese Legislative Assembly.
to shouted that police outside fund Egypt?"
beaten him up. SAFEGUARDS
The President the Chamber
benches "I must
០ make it clear the
:dered the Government have not proposed
cleared as burly ushers forced He said, in reply to another back the Communist and SociaȚ- io ndd to these provisions, but it was to the continuation of question by Lord Strebelgi on 1st Deputies and gradually
During the Presidential inauguration parade an odd cowboy roaming along- These safeguards that the inflammatory statements" in restored order.
the edge of the crowd lassoed a policeman as he passed by on his steed. Southern representatives ugrecu will not think that,
Enyo " hope Lord Strabolgi
policeman's failure to see the amusement side of the merely and we do not think they should because some persons make in
rope trick was pensated by Mamie's energetic applause. be removed without the stews of flammatory statements, we should the Southern population.
Encouraged by the appreciation shown by America's First Lady, the cowboy therefofo no longer continue
asked the President's permission to rope him in. The President consented and as he stood up, the sure snaking loop of a real American cowboy entwined the general as its captive. Instinctively to columns of strikers trying to smothered the march on Parliament.
Mamle startled
"I regret that our attitude on negotiations on what are matters this should have given rise to of very considerable importance suspicions that we wish to de- to both countries.”—United Prass, toch the Southern provinces from the North. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The late Mr Phillips took a leading part in the rehabilita tion of the Kowloon Bowling Green Club after Liberation.
He was also, for many years,
of the Kowloon electlon, member Cricket Club.
Two Kikuyus
Murdered
Thousands of police scaled off all streets near the Parliament building after more than 1,000 Communist - led demonstrators
had been detained in the centre of Rome.
POLICE CHARGE Jeeploads of armed police with sirens screaming had charged in-
A
the
Washington, Jan. 20.
The com.
་
bodyguarda elephant salute and moved on. President, with
lodged yesterday by the Eociety The peace float, of the District for Prevention of Cruelty to to see her hus- of Columbia, which is the Animals. The birds flew off,.
march
on
THE ROYAL BANK
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"Preservation of the unity of the Sudan depends on will
The Communist transport band caught so early In his Washington district, represented lustily fapping their wings, the co operation and mutual
strike tied up buses and trams presidential career. but the an enormous world map our-
fell and confidence among various sec-
for an hour tonight as Communist ballery of press photographers, wounded by baskets with live searchlights were it powerful of Hongkong tions of the population net
and Socialist Deputies drew stand,
blankeling
past pigeons.
sident Eisenhower and his wife Lawn Bowls Association and in
our view nothing wil
had fred towards the end of their 60-hour
of their
As the float rolled past the entered the White House which President of the Kowloon Bowl- contribute more to this than to
Allbuster against
cameros on Elsenhower in the President all the pigeons were is to be their residence for the the electoral loop of one of his Kansas cow-released despite a strong protest! next four years-France-Presse. ing Green Club. He took a show the Southern population
Nairobi, Jan, 20, reform bil lawn bowls side to Shanghai lu at the outset that their wishes
boys. boys. Terrorists murdered two Since Sunday, more than 140
with 1047 and defeated the Shanghai will be taken into consideration
All American believed to be Communist and Leftwing Social- team in the first Interport in the settlement of matters of Kikuyus, both
parades, the drum majoreties vital importance to them." resistance men, in the Kiambu Ist speakers have risen to match after World War II.
were there with their twirling Mr Eden said, in answer to district, about ten miles north make declarations against the batons and shapely legs but for
that the elected of Nairobi, last night.
bili-thus delaying the crucial the show of shows, the World Parliament itseli questions,
vate of confidence on it demand-Champion Sudanese
Majorette,
Miss One was slashed with pangased by the Prime Minister, Signor Hilda Gay Mayburry, was should decide the matter.
"We have not delayed 'an (long kniven) and the other was
Alcide de Gasperi,
the Kentucky float. as suggested in some burned to death in his hut,
Spectators' appreciation of her quarters, for some imperialistic
A loyal Kikuyu today gave party or group of parties polling skill at turning the baton at a manoeuvre but in order to try
general election will get two- Mr Butler go to America. / Freemason, being a member of and get an international agree- the warning that Mau Mau (over hak the popular votes in a speed of an aircraft propeller only equalled by their ment by which election could terrorists, who had been chased Fhirds of the seals in the Lower was
back into their reserves by take place under joint auspices."
House. This would reduce the admiration of her generously recent clearing-up, operations, reft and Right wing parties to displayed legs. CO-OPERATION AIM
were planning new 'murdera. Ineffectual minorities after tha Representatives of Negro Re- He sold Britain would do
general election of publicans of New York followed takes place to everything
It could to gct The Kikuyu told administra-spring's
Deputies-Router.
in the disguise of "Uncle Sam' the
cortege passing Egyptian co-operation in Intro- tive effoers at Nyeri, north of
in their red striped trousers The Monument at 4 p.m.
ducing Sudanese self-govern-Nairobi, that
and blue and white starred ment and self-determinations murders were being planned by
coats." He added that one of the dif- terrorists. ficulties was that Britain was working on the assumption that
Nevertheless, the very restraint and purpose of the Commonwealth with which the United States is allied," merite it being mot halfway, The Commonwealth nations are determined to ask for a new world economic con ference that will challenge American sincerity and in- tentions. For, while there is no reason why the United States should allow herself to become a lumping ground for useless manufactures un- economically produced, there why she is every reason .should aid and encourge the rest of the world to sell
what her
she needs
The late Mr Phillips was
Lodge St John.
a
Ne was a bachelor, and is survived. by an eider brother Thomas, who resides in London.
The funeral morrow,
Queen Accepts
A Sturgeon
a new scries of
Chief Geuil, ruler of one of on the the two countries still exercised the smallest locations
Nyeri reserve, was arrested Inst codominium over the Sudan,
alleged Mau Mau while Egypt thought that this night as an
adherent. had broken up. Ho denied that London, Jan. 20.
United States hat charged į Four Africans were murdered the A Royal sturgeon weighing the British with complacency on in the Fort Hall district, 20 40 lbs. was delivered for the this issue.
miles south of Nyeri, on Sunday Queen at Duckingham Palace
Marquess of Rending, night, police announced today. this morning. It was sought at Under-Secretary for
Reuter. Foreign trawler and sold Affairs, sald earlier in the Lords Grimsby by to a local sh merchant.
that Britain, France and tho Since the days of Edward United States stood by their all sturgeon, caught round the
undertaking in their joint state- ment of May 1980 to prevent
ΟΙ frontiers
and dous not her- coasts of Britain belong to the
The
or
The bill provides that the
Spy Sentenced
To Death
M
CAN'T BE SPLIT
London, Jan, 20.
The only proclaimed refer- of a The principal accused
ence to atomic
Energy came group of ten, charged with with members of the State of
10 plotting
overthrow the Vermont-which bas always
to death their bonneT ment, was sentenced
bnouncing that min Communist govern- voted for the Republicans-with by shooting today, Sofa Radle Vermont was the atom which no one had ever been able to reported.
The men, Todor Stojanov Christov, was described as a
The cold dull weather did not former member of the Bul- prevent 15 beautiful girls from garian Tsarist .army.
appearing on the Maino float IRON AND LEAD The other nine accused re-wearing their costumes. They FOUND IN COWcelved prison sentences ranging were followed by Miss America, from 10 months to 20 years.--- former Miss Video Venus and Reuter. fith merchant American politicians and tradition,
former Misa Television amiling Bellville, Jan 20, offered di to the Queen... businessmen have urged
the the Arab-Israe So rarely does
Falm loaves of the B Sovereign The
conficmained
An arsenal of, potential wea- upon the world greater de- necept Buch
undertaking
The parade ended at night fall vation to the principles of
already but the "in full force and pens was removed from the Opening Of School Florida foot, merchant had already sent the
atomach of a cow belonging to
as three main attractions fled free trade and convertible fish to a customer in Yeovil, said in answer to sharp ques
Bezuidenhout, S.
As a mark of respect to the past, by the Labour Peer, Lord Bethanie, Durbanville, Hona
the President's stand.. South currencies. The time in Somerset,
telegram n
Into Dr S. W. Tso, who was a they were Miles Burma, the now ripe for the United arrived from the Palace to say Strabola, on the sale of lot Africa.
veterinary surgeon A
remember of the permanent Board elephant rymbolising the Ro- States to give отогу "Your very kind offer gladly planes to Middle Eastern coun
norter,
covered lengths of iron and lead of Direction of the Po Leung publican Party, America's first assistance to those coun accepted."
The dah merchant at once Lord Reading said thint tubing, pieces of wood, a big Kuk, it has been decided to post atomic gun and the District of tries who are anxious
changes in the defence nail and stones,
pone the opening of the Po Columbia's peace toate m with his Yeovil after got in touch and willing to give the custerner end the sturgeon was programme, announced Inst The cow has recovered from Leung Kult, sahool, originally Mies Burma hailed briefly in arranged for tomorrow, until front of Elsenhower, bending fullest posible expression to sent by road to Buckingham July by the Prime Minister, Mr the operation. She had to re-
Thursday, January 29 at 4 p.. her knees in the customary those principles.
Palace.-Reuter.
Winston Churchill, it was pos-ecivo 160 stitches-Reuter,
self produce economichily. Į sovereign and in accordanco with an nes by either eile in
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Postponed
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