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COMMENT OF

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HK Matric

Results

IS year's matriculation

Tresults

are undeniably

disappointing: to many

they are distressingly poor. Yet it is conceivable that to the majority of teachera and tutors through whose hands the candidates had passed the low 38.1

per- centage of passes was not altogether unexpected. The immediate complaint which one hears raised is that the papers act were unfairly hard, but no genuine basis exists for. the charge. Children who sit for the matric are potential candidates for the Hong- kong University, and if the University is to maintain a properly high standard of nendemic ability and tara out graduands with nccept- able degrees its studenta must be something above the average. The matricula- tion examination, in fact, has to be more than a test of text book knowledge; it must endeavour to extract from a candidate original thought and to challenge his or her intelligence, The fnult of the relatively small percentage of successes, in the annual Hongkong matriculation examination

rests to a considerable ex- tent on the shoulders of over-ambitious

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Local News On Back Page

CHINA

No. 35560

Established 1845

MONDAY, JULY 13, 1953.'

Today's Weather: Moderato Southwerterly winds. Becomlar light this evening. Falc.

MAIL

Top Level 4-Power Talks: Important Decision Today

LORD SALISBURY

THREE FACTORS NOW BEING STUDIED

Washington, July 13.

The Big Three Foreign Ministers will reach complete agreement today regarding proposals for a meeting of the United States President and the Prime Ministers of Britain, France and the Soviet Union, an authoritative source told Reuter,

In the first two sessions of the Western Foreign Ministers' conference here the acting Bri- tish Foreign Secretary, the Marquess of Salisbury, and the French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bidault have both urged such a meeting of the

Newspaper's four heads of Government in view of:

Poli On

Princess's

Romance

01

1. The profound and widespread demand among the peoples

of. Western Europe for an attempt to seek directly with the new Soviet Government a relaxallon of world tensions.

2. The importance of tesiing the reality and soundness of recent Soviet professions of peaceful intentions.

3. The difficulty of formulating Western policies aimed at world peace without a clarification of Soviet policy as peaceful or aggressive, particularly in the light of the new upheaval in the Soviet Government implicit In the downfall of the Soviet leader Mr Lavrenti Beria.

Soviet

Festing Issues An Ultimatum

Leaving Certificate bofore and his former wife was recentment would be reached on the State, Mr John Fretary of tion and

they approve of a childly remarried. entering for the matric. It

him?"

it would seem that even this 1 OCE OF PEOPLE

Major Salah Salem, Egyptian

Minister of National Guidance tot a cup had to last night that Egypt re- iceled this British ultimatum.

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Missionary Released

Released after being kept prisoner by the Vietminhese for seven years, M. K. F. Rollet, a missionary, is seen here in

the hospital of Har (near Saigon) where he is recovering-London Express.

Mine Blows Up Train: Troops Killed

Hanoi, July 12.

Thirty French Union troops were killed or injured today when the regular train between Hanoi and Haiphong was blown up by a remote-control mine about eight miles east of Haiphong.

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Plane With 58 Aboard Missing

Air-Sca Search

Honolulu, July 12.

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A Trans-Ocean Airlines DC-6 with 58 persons aboard was missing over the Pacific today and presumed to have crashed in the first trans- Pacific commercial air nc. cident since World War II.

The plane, flying from Guam Island to the United States, was last heard from at 10.20 'p.m HST Saturday in an area some 300 miles east of Wake

Joland.

An Intensive air-sea search was being made of the area,

A Trans-Ocean spokesman sald the plane was-presumed to have crashed in the ocean,. It ́ ́ fas chartered by a civilian

group and carrying 40 adult passengers, one infant and a crew of eight,

disappeared on Kalend

journey

tho Wako Honolulu leg of s

Five hours after the gigantic search from Hawali, Guam, Wake, Kwajalein and Midway had begun, no trace had been found of the missing aircraft.

19 planes and nine all, ships were put into the search with other civilian craft in same general area also alerted.

In

the

MILITARY STUDENTS Tho Coast Guard here said this was the first United States to crush in commercial plane trans-Pacifc flight since World War II. A Trans-Ocean spokes- man said the flight, was a re- rular common carrier one from Guam by the non-scheduled airline,

He added that most of the

· CON-

passengers aboard were military students and -civilian struction workers.

Intermittent radlo distresa

signals have been heard from the area since the pilot made his Just routine radio check at 10.20 pm the

on Saturday. The spokesman

ald the plane had only enough. gasoline to fly until 8.15 am.

Tiger plane reported A Flying becing a green flare some 300 miles east of Wake during the night

Ten of the passengers had been scheduled to leave the plane At Honolulu.-United Press.

Mutinous Convicts

Surrender

'The United Slates Sceretary, would depend not only upon the of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, recovery of the health of the has not dissenter from these | Brilish Prime Minister, Sir London, July 13 vlews

during the tonference Winston Churchill, but on what The ភាគ១ circulation Daily!

the three Governments decidet its but has urged the further dis- various Mirror todny called on

stepa which would be the proper procedure to 4,500,000 readers to say whether cussion of parents,

Princess Margaret, sister of must precede any such Big Four follow preparatory to a meeting of tho, heads of Government of

The mine exploded directly beneath particularly regarding Britain,

the military queen They assume that because

Elizabeth, should be meeting,

France. the United

Cairo, July 13. Bgreed of an

Sirwagons of the train, which carried soldiers. It was the a child has convincingly allowed to wed Group Captain the formulation

Lieutenant-General Western policy

the States and the Soviet Union- towards,

second time in three months the train had been blown up taken School Leaving Peter Townsend.

unification of Germany, & de-Beuter.

Francis Festing, Officer Certificate, there will be no Under

by mines, A page one five-

DRAFTING REPORT,

Commanding British troops difficulty in matriculating column headline "Princess clored Western objective which be achieved without

Washington, July 12.

told the Several other mines were The tondency, therefore, is Margaret und The Gallant cannot

Today two committees of ex-in Egypt, has Soviet

along the track and co-operation. Filol — the paper announced to forcu a child into

perts

worked behind closed Egyptian Government that, detected examination for which it is national poll and printed Authoritative sources yesterday doors drafting a report on the unless a missing British air. / removed by squnds of railway

workers

travel who always ballot form which said:

denied stu American press report mutter of whether to invite the man is returned by to aboard this train. not, perhaps, academically

"Group Captain Peter Town-that agreement has already been mu

to u Big At Schools generally, In

Four Union

The Hunoi-Haiphong railway reached in principle between the | Sovi send, 38-year-old Battle nk Hongkong, require

Britain pilot was the innocent three Foreign Ministers upon a meeting on Germany and per-morrow morning, "measures

kin. future meeting

of the Big Four haps other East-West problems will be put into force which is the main traffic line in Ton- the line student to obtain at least porty

was hoped disrup would be divorce. He was

restored either later before three credits in the School given custody of his two children heads of Government. They said which they are expected to lay will cause serious

the U.S.

inconvenience to tonight

carly confidently however, that agree-

tomorrow

Kuala Lumpur, July 13. Dulles, the Egyptian community in inorning. No further details A resolution was adopted British subject today when the Ministers the

acting-Foreign

were available at the moment. unanimously by the fourth the area of Ismailla.". "If Princess Margaret now 22 will have before them the reports Secretary Lord Salisbury and

Later. the French High

another annual conference of the announced is a sensible condition, yet so desires, should she be allowed of two committees who met last the French Foreign Minister, M.

night on the question of German Geo

when they

reported that the small loyal cil meeting here yesterday

success when it was Malayan Trade Union Coun

Salem, Oregon, July 12. About 1,000 prisoners in the unification and the implications Georges Bidault, "falla"short"of"requirements

The paper said it believed of this for the defence organin meet tomorrow morning.

Last night the three Foreign

victnamese outpost of Phuong to ask the government to Oregon State Prison here gave hear that will offer a candidate a

the time had come for the voice tion of Western Europe, includ- Ministers were able to

Tru on the Red River 18 miles abolish the "outmoded and s today after

24-hour 50-50 chance of passing the of the British people to be heard įing Germany,

from Mr C

Charles E. Buhlen,

south of Hanoi, was captured

mutiny. Before capitulating, con- the his examination. It iR, of in the problem.

Presumably the Foreign Minis- US Ambassador to Moscow, A British military spokesman last night by the Reds after a exploited system of

prisoners set up a three- in a com- deep affection"

on the significance of in Cairo said course, to he regretted that "A true and

views

to that the British violent fight.

committee The rebels later tract labour and to intro- | man

present per cent of this was reported to exist between munique ut the end of the con-

the power struggle inside demand only 38

concerned

their demands to the warden. ---- Leading evacuated the post,

duce a new wage system”. the basic Soviet Union. Mr Bohlen flew Aircraftsman A.V. Rigden, who on Tuesday

GARRISION "DISAPPEARS

France-PreSEC. year's entrants for matri- the Princess and Group Captain forence

Lord culation

in together with

Salls disappeared after being called satisfied the Townsend wha is an equerry to conditions under which such a

Another resolution adopted The entire garrison of 50 top level Big Four meeting might bury and M. Bidoull, and they out of an hotel in Ismallia on Vietnamese · soldiers has com- by the MTUC conference will examiners, yet much better the Queen..

"to government Mr Dulles home. med "But

at this week Peter Town-be held. result such as that, than

July 9 by a man whom the Bri- pletely disappeared. A Marine request immediato investiga- send

Whether

Bollen

Paria, July 12. due to leave London for

Mr

will ish military authorities suspect patrol found the post sacked conduct lowering any

of the

take

in further

General Alfred M. Gruenther, the not very important post of

con was an Egyptian Army Captain and reported that the struggle tlions in co-operation with the take part

the examination's standard.

particularly workers into the possibility of who must have been amang

assumed Foreign in civilian clothes.

yesterday Air Attache at Brussels-a move.

Authoritative sources here said ferences which has set the world specu- that in the discussions so far Ministers

long and violent. was not known to-

nationalising the tin.

Supreme Command of Allied lixiustry. The British demand for the

The MTUC also lating" the I

Phuong Tru region is

decided by forces in Europe, left here to- declared. ie, poper

there was no indication that the day. The only direct talks to-

Dulles return of Aircraftsman Rigden one of the communications lines means of another resolution to night by air for New York to M. Bidault who were to by D o'clock tomorrow morning used by the Vietminh to in establish a "political fund" 60 testify before ond

a Compressional and Group Hafting the agenda of the Bioper Princess Margaret

(8 a.m. British summer time) Altrite into the Red River delta. that trade unions can take part Committee. He will return to

Meanwhile, French

Paris later this week.-Reuter, to the re- the German

role in Indo-China with direct after which General Festing re-

Unionin politics.--United Press, question. It was role not to obstruct any further

that there reference to the amount of aid served the right to take such forces dispersed two companies killing 30 possible, however, conclusion of an armistice marriage of divorced persons.

the Church frowns on might be

preliminary meeting which she can expect from the action as he considers necessary of Vietminh Reds,

was bandod to the Egyptian rebels and capturing 17 oth

others, in Korea is heartening the remarringe of even innocent of the Foreign Ministers of the United States.

sub-Governor

Suez during a mopping-up Speration nows. That he himself

And divorces,

repeatedly Lord Salisbury has been in Canal, Brigadier B.3. Gordon, refuses to add his signature Princess Margaret as third in ou

advocaled by

the Soviet Union disposed with a cold and was Oficer Commanding the Now the region of Queng Trị, 30 a truce is not of any succession to the Throne has to consider the German ques-unable to fly down to Rhode Arfa area of the Canal Zone. great moment. The United grent responsibilities in giving t

to the Church's full weight Nationa Command

attitude. Reuter. responsible for that duty and with

without or

The Way Cleared

ters will set forth

GERMAN QUESTION

THE announcement that Dr It is believed that between Foreign Ministers had in mind day were between Mr

to

the

Syagman Rhee has agreed Che's attitude

Townsend stands the Four heads of Government to open conversations on France's

President Rhec's signaturo, the agreement would remain valid. Mr Walter Robertson, President Eisenhoworá

in parties

Renaming Everest Proposal

Biratnagur, Nepal, July 12.

four powers

as he

Island today to see Mr Anthony

had planned not expected that the Eden It is Foreign Ministers will attemp! Reuter. to fix times or places for either the Big Four Foreign Ministers or heads of Government meet- ings but it is thought

that they

could be held before the West German elections

which

personal envoy, has nc- The General Council of due to take place in September.

complished a first class job Nepa's National

Democratic

The discussions to date seam of work in his negotiations (ruling) Party has recommend to have let open the question Mount whether I would now be noces- with Rhee.

renaming of His patienco ed the

Everest as "Mt Tensing". sary to have the still scheduled was exemplary and it has

(The New Zealander Edmund meeting of the heads of Govern- been duly rewarded by the mallary and the Sherpa Tensing ment of the Westem Powers antisfactory arrangement made the recent successful na postponed earlier this month. that has emerged. Every-sault on the 29,002 foot moun- An official spokesman has aid thing now hinges

that he holding of this enceting ontain)-Reuter. whether the Communists are prepared to accept the Allied assurances that truca conditions' can be faithfully fulfilled. The probabilities are that they will, and that the principal delegates will

COLOUR BAR DENIAL

Birmingham, July 12.

A Ministry of Labour official today denied allega-

Israeli Troops Blow Up Houses

Aminan, Jordan, July 12.

The

of the

Major Salem told a press con- Kerence:

"We shall wait and see what action the British threaten. 10 take."--Reuter.

Boycott Of

Majlis

The

miles northwest of Hue in Cen- tral Vietnam, the French High Command announced in Saigon.

The

been operations hos carried on by several battalions of Franco-Vietnamese forces for the past two weeks.

High military sources also dis- closed another mopping-up operation in the Song Ba Valicy,

Ot

the easter fringe of the mountainous regions, resulted in 800 natives rallying to the local troops. During this operation; the sources salt, three fortified Red campe were destroyed and grent stocks at rice and salt were captured.

this week clear away any tions that employors here were operating a colour bar. Consisted of eight men who ap- Deputies would resign and the cross-examination of prisone

Teheran, July 12. It was reported that six French Arab Legion authorities said Premier Mohammed Mossadeghor Vietnamese soldiers avere in- here that a Jewish patrol cross and his Ministers have decided Jured by arrows crarating from ed the Jordan border early to-to boycott the Majils (Parlia- blow pipes used by rebel natives. Increased patrol activity oc- because of Opposition day and blew up a house in the ment) Nabl

was curred in the last 48 hours over

·Samuel village, three attacks against him,

all parts of the kingdom as a kilometres within Jordan ter-learned today. ritory.

Semi-official and press reports result of the improved weather.

call rc- captured during their opera- consisted eiga nail to have said that all 31 pro-government One patrol reported that, after proached the nearest house on government would

during arriving in the village, opened ferendum to get-publle support tions, it was learned that remaining obstacles to the

French aerial bombardment the Afro-Are and threw two hand against the Opposition.

Communist post some Apparently Dr. Mossadegh's of sighing of a truce. Some of The official said there were annual rally" of

Arenades through its windows. the Caribbean organisation the questions which the 10,000 coloured workers in

The President, Dr. Clarence The house was blown up a four decision came after last Thurs-miles southeast of Dan Ban, the Communists have been ask-city but unemployment among ing the UN Command could them was not disproportionately J. K., Pillso, a coloured African minutes inter when a time bomb day's Majlis session, in which post was complotely destroyed doctor, said there was a very which they had planted on the two Opposition members called and the Reds lost 200 men, in- high

door

him on

"rebel" cluding one general. "Imbecile", ü went off, the report sald. high percentage of unemploy- quito justifiably be put to

French patrols were highly up and "a foreign stooge." The patrol then blow the Reds, and answers un-

ment among coloured people.

The attacks came when the successful in destroying soveral munition and food doubtedly would be the "No complaints have been He knew some who had not had second house, it was said, but

job for six, twelve or even the occupants of both houses Spencer, a Mossadest man, an- Vietminh mu BRIC, The threat O made to us officially that menu-

Various minor clashes be- unilateral intervention by facturers are refusing to accept eighteen months,

The Sunday Chronical felow were away as the time and thallmounced that there would be in fdepots, it was reported,

of the government dono casuallles resulted. The men interpeliation

Tuceday but. that Dr tween French Union forces and Dr Rhee has been the coloured workers, for jobs for

that

himself would not be the Vietminh were also reported

from principal poser, and with which they are sulible but it declared

different parts of tho to attend. the removal of that danger, must be bomo in mind for the Africans and West Indians had to Israel.

Arab Legion forces said the are generally joined the city's Negro Com- most part they

Political sources belloved that country. The French Air Force and carried. out dieblo for the unskilled or munity since the war and "that found near the two destroyed

Britain's eccorid Dargest city bas houses a live mine with Hebrew If the pro-government Deputies was active.

sortios oh Vietminh semi-skilled type of work",

concentrations-United Press, The alterations were made at a colour problem, cannot be letters inscribed on France-boycotted the Majlis it would be soveral Prose.

'paralysed—United Fre a meeting describesk as the denied"--Reuler,

the way is clearly open for the conclusion of a cease

fire on mutually acceptable forms.

He added:

over

a

then were said to have returned on

they

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