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SWISS MADE

COMMENT OF

THE DAY

A Social

Evil

THE British Weekly, in its

Tatest issile, has raised

**_ "Today's : Weather? -- Rising East winds, moderate at Orst. Generally cloudy with slight risk of some rain patches.

CHINA MAIL

No. 35427

Established 1845

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY (5, 1953.

New Gales Lash Coasts

Of Britain & Holland

THOUSANDS

OF MAROONED PERSONS

IN PERIL

17 Bodies Washed Ashore

At Steenbrugen

Amsterdam, Feb. 4.

the subject of social evila which afflict Hongkong, with special reference to prostitution and its at- tendant acourge of venereal disease. The cabled version of the article does not dis close to what extent the journal analysed the prob- lem as a whole, but it did devote particular attention to the Impact which prostitution hur on the welfare and health of servicemen statloned in the Colony, and it wound up with the somewhat unfair suggestion that insuficient attention was being paid by the responsible authorities to the question of safe- guarding the moral and social welfare of these men. None would everything possible is being. done in this direction, but a military apokeaman has correctly emphasised that considerable efforta have been, and are still being made by locul elvilian organisations as well as by the Services social welfare departments to counteract evil influences to which servicemen Bro exposed. Moreover, the diaclosure that the incidence of venorcal disease among the

The population of the village stood ready outside the Police troops has been cut by half of Almkerk were ordered to station during the past year ovacuate and important dykes In the Norfolk danger

arca indicates that the fight were reported to be seriously 1,500 fremen and 950 pumps against this insidious and weakened between Zeriksce and were standing by, dangerous threat to the Brouwethaven on Schouwen Shipping raced for shelter men's health is meeting Duiveland Island and at Klunder! from the rapidly rising scar.

in Western Brabant,

The known with some success.

GMT was 1,008-1,223 Breaks in the dykes at either 10 p.m. of these places might result, in in Holland, 418 in Britain, further lots of lives. it was in Belgium and

Germany. feared.

Savage new gales lashed the devastated coasts of Britain and Holland on Wednesday night, whipping giant waves against broken dykes and imperilling thousands of person; marooned in Europe's worst floods. The angry North Sea, driven by winds of 50 miles an hour, thun dered into lowland regions where the toll from last weekend's flood sent death, figures mounting toward the 2,000 mark.

insist that

are

Chip Sails

With Jet

Fuel For Red China

Washington, Feb. 4.

a

The United States failed In an attempt to stop shipment of 7,000 tons of aviation jet fuel from, Ru- manta to Communist China and a Finnish tanker carry-

ing the strategic cargo is

reported to be en route to the Far East today via the Suez Canal.

Owned by a shipping company in - Heldalīja the tanker ઝ reported to have taken on the

On Wednesday night, as the sea rolled unimpeded through smash-cargo recently at the Black Sea. ed dykes, nearly 9,000 persons were marooned on wrecked Dutch islands. port of Burgas in Rumania." Tens of thousands of others in Britain, Belgium and Holland faced a nightsta Department, when it

of terror.

Several temporary dykes guarding villages in south-western Holland wore washed away under the first impact of winds whistling at 50 miles an hour. saw sandbag emplacements United Press staff correspondent Harold Melahn crumble and dykes become undermined when he left the 450,000-acre Dutch flood zone at nightfall.

Seventeen bodies were washed ashore at Steenbrugen in flooded Brabant during the storm tonight.

hurricane from the northwest

The

Informed sources said that the

learned of the ship's destination, asked both, the Finalsh and Turkish Govertiments to stop the shipment. Both replied that they were powerless intrude.

to

These sources said they bellave that the United States will take no steps to block the shipment

Turkey's reply was mald to

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Survivors Of Ferryboat Disaster

Dulles Had A Hard Task Convincing Churchill And Eden

London, Feb. 4.

Draggled hair hangs over the faces of these two survivors of the Princess Victoria which sank in a fierce gale last week a few miles off Belfast Lough. They are L/Cpl. Albert Dickie (right) and Fus, Walter Baker, and they are seen drinking a welcome cup of tea after their terrify Ing experience.-Reuter- photo.

The American Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, had a difficult time today to con-- vince British ministers that President Eisen- hower's new Formosa policy will not increase the £100 Fine danger of a general war.

Usually reliable sources said he managed only partly

to reassure the British, alarmed by the decision to allow For Breaking

General Chiang Kai-shek: to attack the Communist main-Į land of China.

death toll.. at Suffolk and Essex regiments. And hopped beciznu of the ship ministers and senior officials, | Nationalists ·

20

seven In

new storm forced down Corps of the Signals, els a

jn

Is

Closeted for seven hours with j move which leaves Chinese free to raid their Mr Dulles is understood to have Red-ruled homeland, Asso-

that he believed clated Press. told them British fears that the, decision would invite Communist retalia- ton

and antagonise anti- Communists in Asla were exaggerated.

CREW ESCAPE

IN PYJAMAS

after

*

Racial Law

Johannesburg, Feb. 4. Patrick Duncan, son; of a former Governor-General - of South Africa, was fined £100 with the alternative of 100 days in gaol today. for entering the Germiston coloured area illegally last December.

Men of the Middlesex Regi-- have included the reminder that ment, who recently returned international agreements pro from Korea and Hongkong and vide for the free transit of all. are now returning from leave,

ships through the Dardanelles will soon be helping in the work stats. along with men of the Royal NOT RECIPIENT East Kent, Royal West Kent, Finland does not receive any American aid that could be Also engaged од work are men from the 18tment. Battalion. Devonshire Regiment, THE problem of prostitution

Neither Finland nor Humanta in Hongkong does not only

member of the United Army Service Corps Nations which adopted & reso uffect the Services, It has

The Dutch weather bureau helicopters in Holland and many water transport section, the un impact on the

Bocial prodleted that the wind would of

the planes which, in n Royal Electrical and Mechanical Lution banning the shipment of conacience of the Colony as

veer to the northwest-a diree- tremendous airlift operation, on Engineers, the Royal Norfolk strategie items to Communist a whole. Visibly the number tion which is the most feared by Wednesday, fock off rat of the Regiment, the Bedfordshire and China and North Korea when

With Mr Stassen he then had Regiment, the the Korean, war begats of women and young girls Dutchmen who have fought the survivors of one hard-hit island, Hertfordshire

The only possibility af stop-a 90-minute session-discussing It was al they wer practising the profession sea for centuries.

were taken to various Northamptonshire Regiment, the shows no decrease; if any that breached dykes, killed an estimate the

Royal Artillery and the Royal ping the jet fuet shipment ap European affairs with Mr Eden, bases BO it was difficult to

peared now to be in the hands Mr Butler and the British De-

Madrid, Feb. 4. number rescued Engineers. thing they

The crew of the British radar more estimated 1,500 persons and left but officials said that it was "in the main task of the troops is

Northern Command, of the Chiness. Nationalist navy, fence Minister, Earl Alexander. In the ever and 300,000

The American visitors had demonstration ship Blue Coral An informed source pointed ubiquitous, than

Appearing with him on homeless In Halland thousands."

the tanker might be unch with Prime they do not hesitate to some years ago...

Minister escaped in their pyjamas today similar charges were Manilal Mable out that tho Only purade the Colony's main

belloved to be still marooned i thorpe, --Lincolnshire, read by now Nationalist | Winston Churchlil and. Mr_Eden. when the vessel capsized and | Garidhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi,

a few hundred are sandbagging Gurts of 70 miles an hour re-

unfts if it ventures into Then followed two sessions, each sank in the docks at Palamos and is a three-mile-

four other Europeans,.. thoroughfares during the

in different places on the island where there

tasting two hours, swhen Eastern | after being gutted by fire. · in remote

Рег including three women, of Burgomaster

long breakthrough. day as well as at night. Nor corded, meanwhile,

Emmason islands off Northern Scotland,

Troops from the Army

voyage is ex-affairs were reviewed.

mits are needed to enter the take

Ministers told are all these unfurtunates the

Send Steenbrugen in Brabet atat in Northern

two

Earlier The British

the crew about first area

Command engaged pected to

fight to they recognised | desperate appeal for huge mattresses with deliberately,

save their coloured areas, destination the Americans the there include the 30th Army weeks. The pre

precise wayward weekend. At the same time which to stop dyke gaps and Engineering Regiment, the 62nd of the ship is not immediately the military case for withdraw- ahip stood silently at attention

Gandhi, editor of a South beings. Many of them are strong winds drove against the Burgomaster cf Oude

the flames burnt confronted with the same flooded farm

Tong H.A.A. Regiment.-Router. of Yorkshire in

Ichown. However, if the fuel is ing Bir Truman's orders of June whlie

fluttering

African newspaper and a bitter dykes protecting In Norfolk}

en routo to the Korean war 1950 to the United States 7th Ensign

opponent of the country's racial problem, which is not social, northern England.

STRAYS TO NE SHOT

zone it might be unloaded at Fleet to shield the China main- stern.

segregation laws, was fined £50 but economie. They

County, to the south, families his town were weakening. Arc

Ostend, Feb. 4.

The fire broke out during the with the option of going to guol not, therefore, to be con- began fleeing to high ground said that there were 12 dead and 200 missing Other reports been issued

Ail stray dogs found after 5-held Dairen, Manchuria, land from Nationalist attacks.

Soviet port of Vladivos

night and apparently spread to for 60 days. The other defende domned out of hand. after order

children from have spoken of about 200 dead

[ants were fined amounts ranging in a barn near Oude Tonge.

The intention they understood the fuel tanks.

All her Nevertheless it remains a to evacuate all

bo 50

shot to

radar equipment, from £50 to £20. of the rampant | 7|

ravaged city will

was to force a redeployment of used for demonstrations in question whether the civil great use River.

SHOOT TO KILL Thirty-five

avoid possible epidemies, the

Communist forces and so re Spanish ports, was destroyed.--- All eight defendants said they authorities have been as thousand people live in the Shoot to kill orders were authorities decided today, energetic as they might in area, 6,000 of them in homes issued at Gravendess, Holland, The Ostend veterinary sur-

¿con to be subject to now), where coven pertions were ar dealing with prostitution. | believed

patrol all butcheries to rested. More than 1,000 Federal ace whether the meat sold con- In fact it would be flooding,

Polico ware rushed into the forma with the BRITONS WARNED

requirements enlightening to know

Dutch flood

maintain of public health regulations. whether anything oflcially

the House In

of Commons der, Looting attempts were Black marketeers

haya is being done to control, let the Home Secretary, Sir David eile reported on battered portedly tried to sell con- alone oradicate this sócial Maxwell Fyle, warned that the Canvey Island at the mouth of faminated potatoes to farmers evil. Certainly it would be country must be prepared for the Thames River in Britain.

on the interesting to be told what further flooding

next The Dutch Radio said that results have accrued from spring high tides of February 1,000 people were in danger at Abdenbroke on Voorne daland, the

post-war legislation 10.

Referring to criticism that that a group of 1,000 werd which aims at discovering VD carriers, and whether Britain had no adequate flood marooned on Goereeverflakkce to be feared there has been any success warning system, Sir David said Island and that it was trying to in reducing the incidence of that Britam had been fortunate learn the fate of 400 people who they said. Associated Press In having suffered no similar were on St Phillipsland Island

the region

had

advised that

aren to

He

the disease. The health and orucal in this century and ac when the flood struck. Another well-being of women who Government had organised

+

group was isolated on the re- mains of a dyke near Bonchel on are forced by circum-system.

Goereevenfiskkee liland where stances into a degrading But, he promised,

"I have waters fore a 100-foot gap on calling noed also to be con- given

that the Tuesday night.:. aldered, and we should like devising of a warning system

DAY OF MOURNING to see Government come should be explored as a matter

instructions

of urgency."

P.m. in the streets of this flood: dhe State Department's un-

of the area for pig feeding. -

Schools will reopen next Mon- day

unless the situation worsens with tonight's expected storm,

Authorities aid nothing ⋅ was for Ostend: The centre of the storm la far away,

case

successful intervention in this

raised again the question of a possible blockade on the Red China coast-to choko off

being unloaded war_materials at Communist ports in the For East-United Press.

Red Proposal Unacceptable

DOUBT RESULT

liave pressuro on Korea and Indo-China.

Fut they cald they believe tho decision would not achieve this result and would also provoke unfortunato pelitacal reper- cussions.

Mr Eden is reporting on the For

Eastern aspect of his talks with Mr Dulles to the House of Cainions tomorrow (Thursday) In a special one-day debate- demanded by ценя

opporition-on

question.

the the

Labour Formoza

London, Feb. 4. Mr Dulles and British minis Chinese Comunist Prime

ters and their advisers this EAST AFRICA STORM, Minister Chou E-h's proposal morning discussed Britain's

Beira, Feb. 4.

today for an immediate cease Intionship with the future six- Strong winds swept Beire in fire in Korea followed by a poll nation European Defence Com- Portuguese East Aften today, lical conference on the fate of murity and also reviewed the uprooting hundreds of trees, prisoners of war was totally in Middle East. situation. destroying scores af bungalows acceptable to Britain, a Foreign

A communique trued after and native huta and unroofing Office spokesman, said here to

today's

said that there had Talks dari tit activity was stopped as ships in pointed out that the proposal was several buildings. All port night.

The Foreign Office spokesman for rapid progress in setting up

been full rec

of the need recognition up steam

contained in the Soviet resolu- nity but did tion on the ending of the fighting

mention in Korea which was defeated a "GOOD DEAL the United Nations General Assembly before Christmas,

American Britain refused to conclude an armistice in Korea until, settle ment has been reached on the last remaining point of, dis agreement the prisoner of war Issue-Reuter, i

Queen Juliana has named forward with concrete Folier in loudspeaker vans Sunday na a national day at the harbour kopt proposals for dealing with toured King's Lynn tonight mourning and special prayers and strengthened their moor-substantially the same as that the European Defence Commu-

the... whole problema prostitution.

of ing

"No casualties were reported Associateti Press

MA

of warning of new danger, In will be offered in churches

driving rain 10 ambulances all denominations. The Queen

will broadcast to the nation.

In Eraziand 1,000 villagers, Royal Air Force volunteers and Cambridge University students, who

dropped the

Handcuffed Prisoner Escapes

By Smashing Bus Window

Sweets Again Off Ration

LEPERS. RIOT-

Bombay, Feb.

Feb. 4,

John Foster Duller assured Britain on Wednesday the United States will continue its policy of trying to limit the Korean war, British informant reported

than

booker to enter the desperate. "batilo the house gap in Norfolk, strova to all a 60-yard

up torn in the mist bank of the

The official mid talks between river noa with London

Mogxinler

American and British leaders London, Feb. 4. Ġlasgow, Feb.. 3. window, but he was stopped by and rati contact

Food Minister Gwilym Lloyd

have ended with Prime Minister was already cut." Tho. Polica John Mitchell Cowan, one of one of the escorting warders.

George ended sweet rationing

Churchill and Foreign Sekretary After jumping from the bus, and Comtguard mom act up a today and hopes the children

Eden "a good, doal happler 21 prisoners being taken in a police bus from Edinburgh to Cowan disappeared down a alde radio station to broadcast warn-would not get left behind in the mob of Hoting lepers from

the the Aoworth Laver Home most day when he conference bagan Glasgow, today emashed the street. Later Police converged ings-United Press,

race to the shops.

Sweeks and chocolates have hero bombarded the staff, with window of the bus with his on the area surrounding Carn

* TROOPS CALLED IN handcuffs, Isopt through the tyer dog track, after realdenta

been strictly rationed in Britain kalves and stones, in a de- London, Feb. 4.

since 1042 to conserve sugar monstration: arminst alleged but broken glass and made his escape reported seeing Cowan, his thes

The Army Eastern Command which I still rationed,

food and conditions. and hands covered with blood,

|||| across a railway embankment.

running through a prefab reported today. that more than They were taken off the ration Six staff members and six Cowan's getaway took place housing alter

| 3,000 troops under that Com- once by the late Labour Govern patienta word injured before when the bus stopped for traffic; He was on hir way to the mand are repairing son walls, ment, but had to be put back palice broke up the riot with lights in Glasgow.":

prison here to serve six years rescuing cattle and performing | bocaine the public math for tear gas and arrested four of Asociated Another prisoner tried to for assault and robbery other tasks in flooded East coast them made them too warce for the ringleaders,

@quitable distribuilon-Reuter Kollow him through the broken Reuter.

Mr Dulles

adsurance exported como after Mr Eden had ex- pressed Britain's disapproval of the United Sintesi action la deneutralising Formosa. - In the course of a private chat be tween the two Foreign Secre taries corller - in the day, Eden ку aald to have outlined Britain's Learn regarding the

Reuter.

..

the

from

her

will appeal-Associated Press.

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