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CHINA MAIL

No. 35527

Established 1845

THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1953.

COMMENT OF MALIK - CHURCHILL

NA THE DAY

Coronation

Festivities

but

single

Wexception, Hongkong has

good--reason to feel satin- fled with the official Coronation celebrations. There can be no complaint bout the imaginative and generous street decorations nnd the illuminations. They have measured up to the best of standards, The dragon processiona delighted and the police work in marshalling and controlling the vast crowds both 120 Hengkung and "Kowloon was highly commendable. Generally speaking The

planning of the celebrations was good and satisfactorily, EXECUTEU, Kowloon migat feet it was not altogether fairly treated wun regard

to the dragon procession. The snortness of the roule

for

الله

CONFERENCE

Arouses

Much Speculation

In

London

London, June 3.

The Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, today.conferred at length with the Soviet Ambas- sador, Mr Jacob Malik, at 10 Downing Street, it was learned at the Foreign Office.

The meeting, the first engagement of the Prime Minister after the Coronation, aroused con- siderable speculation in political and diplomatic quarters.

Officials maintained a strict silence on the topic of discussion and declined to confirm suggestions that the question of a four-power meeting had been formally considered.

of

1 was the first formal meet- Soviet foreign policy and its was rather surprising. One In between Sir Winston and intentions.

The new Soviet Ambassador, There are two schools would have expected

who arrivest here only last thought in the Western world Inte more Consideration Thursday. Mr Matik

paid ព on this question-one prepared the Shamshuipo courtesy call

on Sir

William to necept at face value Soviet Streng. permanent Under peace overtures following Mar- residents, The procession

secretary of the Foreign Omee, shat Stalin's death, the other might easily have started shortly after his arrival. Last believing that they represent from Shamshuipo which Thursday he was received by only a change in Russian lactics. would not only have allowed Her Majesty the Queen to hand

POLICY ENDORSED The Prime more people to see it, but

Ministers' Foreign Omoc omcials sald would have helped to lighten today that nothing

ference expressed approval was known the time taken by Sir Winston so far of any formal Russian Churchilt in is foreign polley the crushes in Nathan Road,

to Mr Churchill's Of the uflicial

daytime approach

speech in the House of Com- four-power

mons on May 11. celebrations

dragon Proposal

meeting. Nor

there con- processions were intended, frmation reports that the

the

his credentials.

for

# Was

con- of

Discussing pence prospects, Georgiis argument then reaffirmed

to be the high spots. That Soviet Premier, Mr on Tuesday through Houg-Malenkov, had sent messages to today was that if there was kong fulfilled requirements, President Dwight Eisenhower not at the summit of the nation but yesterday's display in and Sir Winston allegedly deal the will to Kowloon was a trile ding with the possibility appointing.

four-power conterence

win the greatest Honour of a prize and the greatest among ever offered to mankind, doom- laden responsibility would fail back on those who now-pos. sessed the power to decide!

the West and the Kremlin.

BERMUDA TALKS Meanwhile, the Foreign Office

At the worst the participants that closed In a Big Four meeting would announced today

United States

and contacts. At, the best the world France on the final clate for the might have a generation of three-power conference in Ber-peuce. muda. Oficials believed the

But the British Prime Minister meeting would be held before

fure is believed today to have em- the end of June, but no firm phasised that this would be the most fatal moment for the "free date has so far been decided.

with the consultation Was In progress have established more intimate

The original plan to hold the

Sir

100

nations to relax their comrade- ship and preparations.

on

the

UNFORGIVABLE, however, was Tuesday night's fire works fiasco. As the climax of a memorable day it was profoundly disappointing. The Royal Navy came to the rescue, but this cannot absolve those who were responsible in the first place for arranging the display', The use of locally-male fire by the middle of this month has been officially aban-

He reiterated his conviction works was a big mistake.donor-following discussion be- that any failure-to-maintain. The occasion demanded tween the French Ambassador, maximum defensive

strength that the best available fre- | M.

and Sir would paralyse beneficial peace Itene Massigli,

tendencies works be used and it should Winston.

in Europe and in Winston Jeels however, Asia, Any devision

among the have been known by the informants said, that the meet- West would end hope which organisera that they were

only not to be found in Honging should not be delayed too could survive

He was said to favour foundations of unity, vigilance keng. The Colony expected the last week-end in June or na fidelity. and should. have been date in the first week of July. Following Sir Winston's provided with Brock'

A

Sir Winston has suggested to analysis several of the other i

Ministers

their the President Etsenhower that the Prime

Have display; apart from

views which were in generi meeting be an informal cnc, contribution made by the

accord with those of Britain. with no firm agenda. to enable naval ships, nothing was them to discuss essential issues

on Tuesday night! set off

-45 "among friends" and to re- which compared even with view the international situation

back garden Fifth of without adherence November celebration. The by-point advance plan, the community feels grateful to sources said. the Royal Navy for the big improvement in last night's display, but even this cannot wipe out the memory of Tuesday's poor showing and the feeling that it spoilt what WAS otherwise

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LONDON REVELRY

In many parts of England the Coronation celebrations included the roasting of a whole ox on the village green. This picture shows chlidren at Ido Hill, near Sevenoaks, Kent, building up a wood fire on an ancient wheel spit-London Express.

The Queen' Expresses Her Thanks

London, June 3.

today Queen Elizabeth sent her thanks to every- body who made Corona- tion Day "so happy and memorable".

SPAN ad- The message dressed to "all concerned with the arrangements for the Coronation ceremontes and and the marshalling

crowels care of the great which they attracted".

The Queen recalled the months of preparations for "thla great ceremony" and said "this has laid a great burden on all branches of Lite publio service, which they

have willingly shouldered with the single purpose of ensuring the dignity of this ancient rite and of the celebrations which accompany

11". The Queen added as she drove through Lon- don yesterday she had a chance of seeing the Ingenuity of the decora Toas which, I know, have

that

been matched br others throughout the country and indeed throughout all paris of the Common- wealth"-Reuter,

Rosenbergs Refuse To

to a point was issued after the first plenary Make A Deal

TRUCE DELEGATES RE-MEET TODAY

Tokyo, June 4,

Unforgettable Coronation Scenes

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

London, June 3. Reluctantly, after yesterday's never-to-be- forgotten pomp and ceremony, London is return- ing to normal.

Late into the night the celebrations went on in the rain-soaked streets of the West End. Tens of thousands saw the mammoth £14,000 firework display on the Thames Embankment and thrilled to the sight of 1,500 rockets exploding simul- taneously hundreds of feet above their heads.

And, as the last spark from the last rocket flickered and died, they turned in a mass towards Buckingham Palace where they joined thousands already there clamouring for the Queen.

Somewhere in this vast happy This was the first of four tours crowd a young girl, with a pink the Queen will make through scort led round her head to London during the next few keep off the rain. joined in the days. chants of "We want the Queen." But for most people it was In the excitement none "business (almost) as usual" to- cognised her as the 17-year-old day. Shops are open again and Princess Alexandra of Kent, buses have taken the place of who

earlier in the day had gilded coaches along the Ave occupied a place of honour in miles of streets through which Westminster Abbey.

the Queen's procession passed

oth. Workmen

In the Palace the Queen had yesterday. Allied and Communist truce delegates will

pressed a switch and watched

are removing the meet today (Thursday) despite unwavering South from a window the river

gates which were built the Mall and across roads at key points to Korean objections for what may be the decisive blaze in

sweep across London. The prevent overcrowding in the session of the two-year-old armistice negotiations. lying clouds, bathed the capital

reflected from the low- Coronation area.

The news from Korea is back on the front pages of the even- Then, at midnignt, the Queening papers.

In

an end to Rhoo but not to enter into o

D

The Palaco

balcony.

The Communists, after 10 days] The United States was be-in a worm glow.

which to study the sceret lieved to be willing to provide United Nations proposal, pre-security and reconstruction as- and Prince Pluto made their Down In the City, the Stock sumably will have their answer surances as requested by Mr sixth and final appearance on Exchange and great commodity ready. It

bring an may

Below, markets are again conducting the three-year-old Korean war. hard and fast treaty that might 150,000 people went wild with the business of the nation. But

There was no authoritative limit future American policies delight.

there is no real enthusiasm for hint as to what the Red answerin Asla. Apparently South

"PARTIES GO ON

work. Ten minutes later the flood- might be but there was guarded Korea did, not consider such as-

Yesterday so much happened optimism among some observers surances sufficiently binding or lighting round the Palace was so quickly. It was like a dream who thought that

inclusive in scope. the Com-

dimmed and the crowd began to from which none wants to wake. munists might accept the United An authoritative source told disperse. Coronation Day had "THEY WERE SUPERB" Nations Command plan with the United Press yesterday that ended but parties continued into

London, June 3. modifications or allernative pro-Gen. Chol would continue to the early hours.

The Colonial Secretary, Mr the UNC could boycott the Panmunjom sessions. At the posals which

Hotel Sir Oliver Lyttelton, stood on the Savoy United Press.

Winston Churchill joined the lawn agree to.

at Buckingham Palaco South Korean offeinis were,

Included the today and, with à nod towards meanwhile, still firmly opposed

Prime Ministers, the massed ranks of the Colonihi Eastern rulers, American Coronation service contingents, to the United Nations plan which

milijonaires and British

said to me: they charged abrogates South

peers.

"You know, they In countless homes through were superby yesterday. Korean sovereignty.

"Having been a Guardaman out the country, too,

myself I consider I

President Elsenhower has sent at Icust one note to the South Korean

President, Syngman

Rhee, in an attempt to reach agreement, apparently without

too much success.

BREE'S ACTION

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New Safety

Device

London, June 3.

revellers who Commonwealth

lasted till dawn.

merry-

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May the Queen presented thing of a judge of marching,

Coloalai superbly in

and I

the must say troops performed the procession."

Then he turned to where the

Queen stood on the terrace over- looking tho

the garden and added: "I am sure she must have beca "Hittle proud of them."

when it "smells day, too, it was the turn of

millions

30

people" to greet their newly-

Mr Lyttelton was at the

time honoured the aircraft which has a tem- the capital's poorest quarters, crowntatives to see the newly-

runs.

Coronation Medals to 2,600 over- seas troops at a parade on the British air safety experts have lawns of Buckingham Palace developed a

new plane :e watched by the Commonwealth Mr Rhee, in what may have warning device which automa- Prime Ministers and the High been a step to quash moretically switches on a warning Commissioners. vigorous objections from South light or sounds an alarm in the Korea's formidable little army. pilot's cockpit yesterday

· seven) out" o fire, generals from their duties 50 The device consists of a length crowned monarch. Lining the Palace with scores of overseas that they could visit the United of steel wire running through miles of streets through some of brief oficial communique

Queen present Corona- States" a

windows bright tion medals to 2,500 Common- method of avoiding a dificult perature-sensitive metal filling leaning from session. It sald;

situation without losing face.

and through which an electrode with red, white and blue bunting, wealth and Colonial troops who The Prime Ministers began

they cheered themselves hoarse look part in the procession. thele general Sir Winston will not take any

discussion of the

Major-General Choi Duk-son, South New York, June 3.

As the temperature rises the es the Queen drove slowly past. Our own correspondent. Korean delegate who Minis international situation.. try with him, nor his Minister will of his leading Cabinet

be continued

Julius and ai

the Ethel Rosenberg boycotted

electrical resistance of the filling Inst

plenary of State for foreign affairs, Mr necting tomorrow afternoora" under sentence of death for meeting but who said that he decreasca. When it reaches a Selwyn Lloyd, who runs

the The conference which is transmitting United States atom saw the UNC transcript later, point at which there is danger of Foreign Oke's day to

an informal level is mainly

secret to the Soviet Union said said that the Communists adre, the circuit is completed and today the Government offered specifically turned down that

the warning sounds. concerned with foreign affairs. business in the absence

to spare their lives in return for part of the UN proposal turning craft Constructors said the de- The Society of British Air- Eden, But Secretary, Bir Anthony

session

be WHIL De a confession of spying.

over to the United Nations pri- vice had already been tested on of the But Sir Winston is picking his devoted to a review advisers

from among the gov. economie position of Britain and The couple declared in Boners who continue to reject severni new: British planes- ernment experta and he will the

Me sterling area as a whole and statement that they spurned rep

Reuter. take a small group of technical the progress of the plan for the offer and were prepared to

the disposal of such Panmunjom Meeting staff with him, the sources said. freeing world trade worked out rest their case with history, even prisoners is the one basic issue

in Sir Winston expects firmly by the Prime Ministers here last if it cost them their lives that has separated the Allies and TODAY'S proceedings at to have the full backing of the December.-Reuter.

Sing Sing prison's electric chair, the Communists almost ance Coronation

the talks started, It seemed not They are to die on June 18. may well Commonwealth Prime Ministers

kely that now meeting in London for his

Although there have been past unlikely

the Communista talks iden of early exploratory

hints that the Government was in the past 10 kinys have drawn

memorable Coronation Day, fittingly celebrated.

Paumunjom

détermine whether or not a

Korean armistice can

bo

reached.

day

of the

The Communists with the Kremlin leaders.

to

have had nino days to ponder over the United Nations Intest proposals which means that whatever attitude they show at to- day's meeting, it will be calculated. They have been @given abundant time

Atudy, the Allies' new con- ditions and they cannot fall to appreciate that they present the limit of the UN's concessions in the mattér of repatrinting prisoners of war. No sign has been given by the Reds of how they intend to reply

United Press.

The

FULL APPROVAL

London, June 3.

British Commonwealth

This

their

on

US

Spree In Korea

City Buildings prepared to make such an offer up a counter-proposal which the

London, June 3. to the Rosenbergs this was the UNC might be willing to accept

While Sir John Nott-Bower, Razed By Fire

Bret time the couple had mener at least to negollate over.

of the tloned poslitve offer.

Despite reports from Washing-deputy Commissioner

Police, worked Monila, June 4. Their statement was issued by son that the UNC proposal is a Metropolitan today approved the projected A fire of undetermined origin their lawyer Mr Emmanuel Bloch "take it or leave it affair, it to keep order during yesterday's Bermudn meeting

between broke out last night in Cebu who talked to them today at the was not thought likely that coronation celebrations, his son France, Britain and the United city's commercial zone and till prison.

UNC delegates would rejectin Korea was stirring up a mild

disorder, States and favoured early late last night was still raging The Rosenbergs said they further negotiations if they could

Ideutenant W. J. Nott-Bower Western talks with Russin..

see any hope of an eventual furiously, loving already gutted were visited yesterday by

the with the Durham Light In Authoritative sources said the property estimated to amount to Federal prison director Mr James rentrations that

celebrated the great Commonwealth Prime Minis- 4.000

4,000,000 pesos.

V1 Bennett whom they basle United Nations principle fantry, fory now in conference here Local civil and military

described as an emissary of the of no forced repatriation is day by leading a patrol to place a Coronation eniblem opposite were unanimous on both points. authorities converged at

preserved. the Attorney-General, Mr Herbert The eight overseas

rime scene of the fire to help quench

In fact, Brownell.

the show-down to the Chinese trenches in the Sir Winston Churchill's Ministers accepted the view of the binze and prevent looting.

stage approached It seemed that front line. The statement read:

the United Nations would have And thousands of miles away Gov-Casualties so far reported include ernment

"Yesterday we were offered more trouble with its South big father - a model of good that the Bermuda session should try to Davuda one constabulary soldier wounded deal by the Attorney General of Korean ally than with the Com-behaviour, was on duty outside

the and a woman proprietor of a the United Sintes. We were munist enemy.

Buckingham Palace to see that way for a Big Four meeting of drug the Western powers and Russia. France-Presse.

who collapsed, told that if we co-operated with

South Korea's official spokes- pranksters did not get too far the Government bur lives would man, in a statement approved by out of hand-Reuter. be spared. tainly no grounds exist for Eisenhower and

Air Rhee, reiterated yesterday "By asking us to repudiato the that the Republic's opposition to over-optimism that they Prime Minister will take part

truth of our innocence the Gov-an armistice had undergone no WII. regard them as acceptare delayed until Fradice, settles

No. Decision Yet

ernment admits its doubts can change at all. This was after able. Nevertheless they have her new Government.

cerning our guilt. We will not reports were circulated that Mr Paris, June 3. been presented within fine They may

help to purify the foul record of Rhee had expressed agrecement start later The National Assembly meet- a fraudulent conviction and with the United States stand en opportunity for bringing than the original date of June 17 Ing to decide whether to accept barbarle

the truce issue.

Moscow, June 3, sentence. as Britain and the United States M. Pierre Mendes Franco's "We solemnly rfectare now Nevertheless, if it came to a An Important six man Soviet Arif they reject it, there can

are proceeding on the assump-candidacy as Premier recessed and forever more than we will choice of whether to plzenie

Commercial Misalon is going to tion that France must be repre- with no decision at 0 p.m. GMT. not be coerced even under pain South Korean officials or to con- Buenos Aires to concludo "dis- aented.

It will meet again at 9 p.m. of death to bear false witness clude a truse with the Com-cussions for a trade pact with Sir Winston Churchill opened GMT but a vote appeared un- and to yield up to tyranny our enunists, there the week-long conference this likely until early tomorrow. — rights 00 afternoon with an analysis of United Press.

Reuter,

~2.

to the proposals, and cer

the deadlock to an end, and

o do escaping from the conclusion that the Com- munists have no desire for **h cessation of hostilities,

The Bermuda talks-in which Sir Winston Churchill, Presidant the French

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