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SWISS MADE

COMMENT OF

THE DAY

New Rent

A

Bill

NYTHING which at this

time raises living costs cannot expect to win popular favour; wherefore reactions to the new legin- lation providing for rent increases, which recolves | its first rending this after-| noon, are bound to be un- favourable. Nevertheless the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Bill, 1968, calls for careful apprecia- tion. While it embodies (in a slightly modified form) the recommendations con- tained 121 the McNell

Roport relating to the ruising of standard rents for both domestic and business premises, the Bill also includes a number of: proposals designed to pro- yide safeguards against exploitation of tenants, and it is only fuir that proper

those features of a measure

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consideration be given to which, at first glance, would appear to favour only privileged section of the community. But, in fact, the new Bill does more than any previous legislation to pro- tect the interests of that vast army of sub-tenanta, and strictly regularises the rights of principal tenanta whose avariciousness has brought more misery to those who have to

depend

on cubicles and bed space for their accommodation than any actions taken by landlords. For this reason the new legislation can be accepted with reserved approval.

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CHINA MAIL

No. 35544

Established 1845

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1953.

Half Million

Mourners Jam W. Berlin Streets

DRAMATIC SEQUEL TO

ANTI-RED

RIOTS

Berlin, June 23.

Half a million sorrowing Berliners today packed the streets of the Western sectors to mourn seven West Berliners killed during the June 17 anti-Communist riots in East Berlin.

Columns of silent youths marched through the vast crowds to a memorial service at the West Berlin Town Hall in the American sector. The West German Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer, who flew here specially to pay tribute, spoke from the Town Hall steps to the vast crowd of mourners standing before him.

"Eighteen million Germans behind the Iron Curtain appeal to us not to forget them," he declared.

"In this awesome hour we swear

and this vow I make on behalf of the

whole German people - wo swear that we shall never rest until they again en- joy, freedom, until the whole of Germany is united in peace and freedom."

Russia Accused Of Violating Charter

Geneva, June 23.

The United Nations Committee on forced labour accused the Soviet Union today of violating the United Nations Charter by operating compul sory labour camps to gain its own political and economic ends.

The Committee, issuing a massive 621-page report after an inquiry of almost two years into forced labour allegations involving 24 nations, said that in Russia forced labour as a means of political coercion appeared to exist in its fullest form and in the form which most endangers human rights."

THE two principal proposals for protecting tenants and sub-tenants from exploita-| tion in the way of rent in creases are (1) that land-↓ lords must obtain a certifi- cute from the Department of Rating and Valuation approving the standard rent and this must be served by the landlord on the tenant. Thus the tenant is made aware of the official standard rent and

Such a system, it added, was Can -resist-any--attempt-by-the-by-its very nature a violation of landlord to add to that rent | the fundamental rights of the anything more than the in-human person as guaranteed by crease provided by legisla- the Charter of the United Na

tions and proclaimed in the tion; (2) principal tenants Universal Declaration of Human must obtain from the Secre-Rights, tariat for Chinese Affairs o

of

aro

much a

that way

political

Impeachment

Hearings Next Week

Washington, June 23. A House of Representatives

The Chancellor's solemn

wortis

were carried by loud- speakers over the heads of the crowd pucked tightly in the square outside the Town Hall to thousands more jamming sur- rounding streets..

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on a

Seven coffins of victims of shootings

the Intersector border lay

catafalque in the square before the Town Hall, In an eighth place lay a plaque which bore the name of Willi employed West Berliner shot by Gottling. 35-year-old, un- Soviet firing squads last week after Soviet court martial found him guilly of "inciting to

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surrounded the entafalque.

Eleven flaming funtral torches

A five-ralnute silence marked the end of the ceremony at the Town Hall. People stood to at- pealed at the end and the be- tention, traffle halted and bells

inning of the silence. ginning

all German and Allied buildings flew at half nast. German employees of the Western occupation Powers were given time off to attend or listen to the demonstration

over the radio.

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West Berlin police made sure that

traffle halted by putting traffic lights to red. In factories hooters blew and on the lakes the sirens of steamers also signalled the long silence.

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Prince. Alberi of Liege, is seen as he tries out an ancient cross-bow, when he attended the meeting and received the Administrative Council of Royal Archers in Brussels, Belgium.—London Express.

Unofficials And Rent

Increases Bill

The majority of the Unofficial members of Legis- tive Council are not in agreement with the provisions of the amended Landlord and Tenant Bill which will be given its first reading this afternoon and they will move amendments at the second reading in a fort- night's time. This was disclosed this morning in an official statement issued by Dr the Hon. S. N. Chau, which reads:

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"The majority of the Unofficials are of the opinion that the Bill" as it now stands is not acceptable and.... will at its second reading move amendments which it is hoped that the Government will accept, These amendments are designed, to palliate the possible hardship to tenants which might be the result of the increases proposed in the Bill.”

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Picture Waiting For

Of Eire

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Dublin, June 23. rapidly becoming a country of old maids and old bachelors, a speaker in the Dail warned today.

Suspected Smuggler

certificate of apportionment It admitted its inability to which, in turn, must be cstimate recurately the number served on the sub-tenants. Soviet Union or the number of of slave labour camps in the This certificate will clearly persons detained in them. show whether or not the principal tenant is entitled The Russian penal code, the Judiciary sub-committee today to make any increases in report said, was manipulated in set hearings for next Tuesday on out

The silence was kept through-

Western rents and if so, to what ex

Germany tent. These

offenders could be sent to work a resolution to impeach Supreme workers and the public general- much

in mines or uncultivated areas Court Justice William O. Douglas, ly paid tribute to the dead, needed reforms for

East Berlin, from the edge regularising the position result of this system, it added, Georgia) called for the impeach- looked

marked for development. As a

Mr W. M. Wheeler (Democrat, of the Western

sector, landlords, principal the Soviet economy had come to ment of Justice Dougies for under continued martial law.

silent.

and deserted

Singapore, June 23. tenants and sub-tenants. On depend to a considerable extent "high

A cripes and

suspected Chinese opium paper, at any rate, it will on forced labour,

Soviel tanks had been with- demeanours" shortly after the drawn

Captain P. Glies (opposition), smuggter will be virtually impossible for

step ashore to- out of sight and In speaking in the debate on the marrow from a 10,000-mille sea Rumania and Justice gave a stay of execution several parts of the sector East agricultural estimate, said that journey Into the arms. of tenants and sub-tenants to Czechoslovakia were accused of last week to atom sples Julius bo victimised, But clearly

German police appeared also no Irishman would work for a Singapore customs officers. running labour systems for and Ethel Rosenberg, the proper administrative political and economic purposes.

to have been withdrawn.

farmer now. He went to Eng- land machinery is necessary if

After the memorial demon-

and came home with The Supreme Court overruled

The man who was picked up Town

money Hail, the

In his pockels. substance is to be given to

The in the Indian Ocean, 750 miles Russin and her satellites were the stay order a 6-3 vote and stration at the

Irish farmer Just could not from Colombo in a disabled boat: the form. We shall expect invited to fill in forced labour the Rosenbergs were executed on bodies of the seven victims were

compete in wages, with other three months ago was refused borne through the streets for the Colonial Secretary this questionnaires but

not. Friday. dil

burial in the French sector.

potential employers,

permission to land at Colombo afternoon to be able to ex- Neither had they answered

A 45-car cortege followed the

because 17,000 pounds of opium against them

had been found in his boat. plain in detail how Govern by other States, the Committee by Mr Louis E. Graham (Re burial carriage for five miles ment proposes to implement said.

publican, Pennsylvania) will from the Town hear Mr Wheeler at Tuesday's burial ground.

the safeguarding provisions

Bulgaria,

charges levelled

The sub-committee,

mis-

headed

of the new Bill Unloss The Commitice found cause { session. this is forthcoming Govern-for milder criticism of Spain Meanwhile the National Com ment cannot expect to cap-and the Union of South "Airlea

mittee of the Communist Party ture tho confidence of the and absolved 11 nations of

the United States issued general public in presenting Chile,

major blame-Argentina, Brezil,

Colombia, Ecuador, statement in New York today on what 11, by normal France. Paraguay, Peru, Dr the Rosenberg, spy executions, standards, an unpalatable tain, the United States and calling the couple "two immortal piece of legislation.

American patriots".

Venczuela-United. Press.

Pinay Gives Up The Task

Paris, June 24. ¡Centre-Right solution of his The French Cabinet crisis latest attempt. Meanwhile the dragged Into its thirty-fourth outgoing Prime Minister Reno day with little but the falluro Mayer is still in office on a cure of seven possible Prime Minis-{taker 'basis.-Reuter, ters to show for the efforts at solution,

The statement sald the

Hail to the

Dr Adenauer ieft Berlin by air for Bostro belle, he had for Bonn Immediately after the toured the sector border visited a hospital where many of those wounded in the riots still

e-Reuter,

and

"The men and the girls are going. I hope we may soon! get a government that will un-

There he boarded another ship

The oplum was impounded and derstand satisfactory employ he had to continue his journey home

eat will have to be found at with the ship which hand picked

him up to Gdynia in Poland, Ho believed the country need-

ten yearn

national govern- ment to get rid of "dirty, ex- for Singapore. hausting politics", which were

A customs official said today doing a lot of damage.

"We shall be waiting for him Eire was rapidly becoming when his ship comes country of old maids and old morrow,"

d

of

Rosenberg care was a politic Reds Begin New bachelors, Whers Irish people left

Offensive

the country while they were young they married quickly

Reuter.

ROYAL VISIT TO RHODESIA

In to-

Omcials believe the oplum was destined for Penang, Malaya.— Reuter.

-

Bill To Outlaw Communists

plot to assist in advancing the McCarthylte pro-Fascist reign. of fear in the United States, to brutalise the population and

Tokyo, June 24. get It to accept the further The Chinese Communist Fascisation of the United Army hurled two regimenta States without resistance." against Allied defences on the Korcars central front last night The statement, published in and early today, breaking

London, June 23. the Daily Worker, the Party five-day "little armistice" that Organ, said the "claim that followed the completion of the

Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Sacramento, Calli, Juno 23. Mother,

her and.

daughter the Rotenbergs had their day

Governor Earl Warren, of truco agreement. Coult

is a mockery of the The attacks by an unofficiat Princess Margaret will fly in a California, has signed a Bill in-

converted truth and justice. The Supremo y estimated 5,000 to 5,000 Overseas Airways Comet 10 Party in that State.

specially

British tended to outlaw the Communist Court was reconvened illegally Chinese Communist troops airliner when they leave next Washington, June 23.

to. cancel the stay of execution, slammed Into Sniper Ridge and Tuesday for a 16-chy visit to The Bill made low by his The House of Representative and met with a pistol to its "Boomerang" hill near Kumbwa Southern Rhodesia. tonight approved a bill giving head in the form of impeach on the central front.

aignature, declares that a poll- The Royal pair will be ac-tical party which advocates the Pakistan 1,000,000 fona of ment threats, in an atmosphere President Vincent Auriol was surplus United States wheat.

The Reds struck on the last companied by a party of 12. violent overthrow of the Govern of a southern lynch town" day of the Korean war's third They will expected to pin bis hopes once The House also today rejected Throughout their

Bicep aboard the ment, sabotage-agalist It, win] trial the year and the eve of the target Comet, which has hall come of not be recognised; again on the chances of forming a move to cotopel Pakistan to Rosenbergs insisted they Were date- they had picked for its 20 seats removed to provide Ti:0 a coalition of centre and lett of ply the shipping costs of the innocent victims of a frame signing the armlstice-Valted sleeping accommodation Reu- been allowed to vote in California centre parties instead of the wheste-Router.

up Router.

Press.

ter.

| for years.--Neutor.

The seventh man Invited to form a Cabinet, Antoine Pinoy, throw in his hand last night without freing the Nation's As- sembly. Two others had done the same before and four failed to got the necessary 314 National Assembly votes.

Whoat Bill Goos Through

in

MEETING

&

Naguib, Nehru

Mohammed Ali Hold Discussions

Cairo, June 23. President Naguib's meeting tonight with Mr Nehru and Mr Mohammed All to discuss the prob lem of the Suez Canal base lasted one hour and took place in the Republican Palace formerly the Abdin Palace.

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Accompanying Mr Nehru was the Indian Am- bassador, Sirdar Pannikar, while Sir Zafrullah Khar was with Mr Mohammed All.

President Naguib was supported by the Deputy Premier, Gamal Abdul Nasser, and Major Salah Salem, Minister of National Guidance, who are two of Egypt's top negotiators.

not

No official statement was issued ; learned that we do not bargain concerning the meeting at which and

consequently do the Canal question was fully negotiate but ask an inalienable discussed in the light of the

recent Commonwealth Premiers' | right-a right which cannot be conference.

delayed or disputed".

When the meeting finished

President Naguib accompanied In an obvious reference to the uy Mr Nehru and Mr Mohammed] Anglo - Egyptian dispute over All appeared on the balcony of the Suez Canal Zone he told a the Palace and were loudly

cheezed gathered

by in

the

huge "Liberation Rally" In Re- great crowd

Republican publle Square near the Abdin in ibera-Palace! tion rally's celebration of pro- clamation of the Republic.......

Square to participate

"We shall not yield one inch

At

the start of his speech which was broadenst the Pre- sident said "I proclaim to you that we have shattered in your

Mr Nehru arrived this morning or accept any rubstitute for this by ais trom Switzerland where right," he conferrod with Indian diplomats from many countries.

Mr All, arrived yesterday.

WILLING TO HELP Mr All said after seeing the Egyptian leader yesterday that there was no hard and fest plan yet but prospects for a settler, ment of the Canal base dispute were "brighter than ever.

hare the last shackle of oppres-

son and despoilam imposed on you by a dynasty allen to you since it assumed power.

"In your name wo have put an end to a monarchy which will fade into history with all the tragedies and sufferings. It has brought upon you.

He added that he and Mr Nehru would: do everything in our power to help."

President Naguib, will meet Mr Nehru several times in the

"The Republie has been get next three days, at social fune tlons.

up with your will to pave the The deadlock over Egypt's way to glory and to an honour- demand for British evacuation able life in which all citizens of the Canal zone and Britain's chall_co-operate and in which insistence on terms ensuring the first cervitors of the people effective role in Middle East shall be their rulers,” zaid. the defence was discussed by the President. Premiers of the Commonwealth in their London conference this month.

The

States United bassador Mr Jefferson Caffrey, called on the Prime Minister of

Mr Mohammed Pakistan this afternoon and it is under- stood discussed questions.

Am-

"Thanks to the Revolution" continued President Nagulb, "Egypt has gained a new Armer throughout the conadence whole world, confidence in the All political and economic fields".

East An estimated 100,000 to 150,000 people packed the Rally Later the Ambassador called Square for a Liberation

Representatives of on the Egyptian Foreign Minis- celebration.

·Rally, branches came from all over the country.

ter.

Middle

Mr Caffrey is expected to call on Mr Nehru tomorrow. -Router.

After the President's

speech

the crowd repeated an oath confirming him as leader of the Republic and swore to protect the Republic and "liberate" the had country-Fleuter.

NAGUIB'S SPEECH

Cairo, June 23. President Naguib said tonight that Egypt's "enemies"

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