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COMMENT OF THE DAY
The Colony's Problems HONGKONG in genuinely
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delighted to welcome its distinguished visitor, Vice- President Nixon of the United States. It is an in- precedented event in th
is the first time the Colony has been visited by 01 Amerieur Vice-President. and it is of speelal signi fenner beenuse Mi Nixon is not merely on a sight- seeing tour, but is muter- taking a fact-finding and problem-probing mission. To Hongkong that is extremely important, for in the past we have been led to feel that many of our problems which ark not purely parochisi but are part of
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ANGLO-US TROOPS QUELL
TRIESTE RIOTS
Crowds
Battle With Police
Trieste, Nov. 5.
American and British troops went into action
wider international issues tonight to help quell fighting in which at least
three persons were killed and scores injured.
bave Hot been
appreciated in administra- tive and political circles in Washington, largely because
there has not been any serious
attempt Lu din- cover the facts which form the background
to those problems. We des not expect Vice-President Nixon during his brief stay. here to assimilate all the angles and complexities of the Colony's economic and social connundrums, but it fa honkhy sign that Mr Nixon comes here with an open mind and with the ex- pressed determination to see as much and hear ar much as he can about this place and its relations with the rest of the world.
was characteristic of Mr Nixon to make his fiest words when he arrived at
Jent
and
We
or
Thousands of Italian students and pro-Italian supporters surged through the streets. They battled hard-pressed police flying squads with brickbats and clubs and the officers struck back with guns, tear gas and water hoses.
An Allled Military Government communique said two persons were killed-a 16-year-old student and a 63-year-old man. A hospital reported the death of a
third victim of the savage fighting.
At least one of the dead was hit by a ricochetting police bullet
excite or Incite the
Six Trucklonis oi poller, not to armed with machineguns and prople. It is the usual thing of British Infor.try company roll-Marshal Tito's supporters to ed into the riot-torn city this oceuse others of the things they evening. They fanned sut do themselves. United Press. patrol through students and police had battled for hours.
areas
pr
where
For the first Aime in the CIRLIL years of The Anglu American occupation troops were called for rini duly when the situation threatened to get
communique said General Win- Reuter reports that an officlat
terton, British zone commander, "really regrets that the actione of irresponsible elements In Trieste today should have led to to a number of casualties" and atided:
"He wishes to assure the population of Trieste that he will take every measure needed to ensure, that order, is main- tained."
The communique appeated to the people to remain calm and exercise the utmost restraint," control. But the demonstrators The communique said 33
cattered without military in-arrests were made during tervention.
carlier clash this morning be-
the
Something like 100,000 Trics- tween police and students near thes-more than a third of the the Church of Saint Anthony, elly's populatim thronged nit but no casualties were re- down-town streets and watched ported.
as the British and American It added: "In the afternoon troop trucks passed through
began collecting
at n
crowd
in
a
5 Matters Settled
7.20 p.m. on their way to the front of the Church for sterm centres.
service (of reconsecration) to IN UGLY MOOD
be held at 1830. The crowd shouted ugly and
Towards the time of the maniy anti-British criis. be- service, 500 or 000 persons had cause the Military Government collected with the obvious pur- of the city was largely in Bri- pose of attending the service. dish hands.
"They were joined by get out English,
of here", considerable they yelled.
number of those "You are murder youtif who took part in the Ing our students,"
| morning's demonstration, An Allled Military Govern-
the service began, "Alter ment spokesman sald that
large
of demonstrators unsolved. number entire battalion of the Royal
remained on the steps of the
Kal Tak yesterday a tribute completely out of hend. to the manner in which the
The
tonight rioting ended Colony hak tackled ita
after the show tremendous refugee prob- Ameritan and British
uf force by gratefully
S troops. The heavily armed American acknowledge the Vice-ond British troops went into President's compliments. It
when the disorders is well to remember, haw-threatened to get out of police evor, that our refugees nre nol alt homeless destitute. They Include artisans and craftsmen whee are now #nding livelihoods in Hongkong. Instead of Pa Shanghai and other ports and cities of China. It iz these refugees who have helped to build up the vast new Industries of the Colony, and they depend, not on the benevolence of the Government
the charity of the community, but on Hongkong's trading and economic cinditions. Where they are politically conscious the majority are steadfastly unti-Communist, and
therefore, the friends and supporters of the Western democracies, Their health, wealth and happiness cannot be totally ignored in the Interests of world politics.
They und the rest of the locul com- munity are entitled to some consideration. The trading embargoes which Hongkong has imposed at the behest of the United Nations and the restrictions which the United States has applied in commercial dealings with the Colony are endangering the livelihood and the contentment of hundreds of thousands of workers
here.
are,
British Regiment stationed here had been called out from Ros- sott! Barracks on the outskirts of town.
"Their orders are that they can use both rifle butts and any
one
Church.
a
Д
STONES THROWN "With the arrival of police. these demonstrators began
to
London, Nov. 5.
The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, today told the ouse that five small, pending questions between Britain and the Soviet Union had been set- Uled. There were, he said, two
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Vice-President And Mrs Nixon Feted By HK Industrialists
Last night Vice-President and Mrs Nixon were feted by representatives of Chinese-in-
In Hongkong. dustry
Top photo shows the dintingutslied visitors being, toasted, and above, Mr Nixon received a memento of the occasion 53 ivory model of the Statue of Liberty.-Staff-photographer,
War Office Apologises
According to Foreign Omée
London, Nov. 5, sources, the five solved problems are the Bundock affair. George
The War Office has apolo- Bundock, a British Embassy employee in Moscow, had to be gised to a mother whose son
McCarthy
Woman MP Appeals To Churchill
Fine Action By French Forces
Laicae, Nov. 5. French Union forces re- turned safely to their own lines tonight after smashing into the headquarters of the elite Communist Vietminh 320th Division.
The French High Command sald the Red unit, 4 major Communist striking forces would be "practically out of action after the raid.
The Communist-led Viet- minh rebels failed to interfere with the calm withdrawal of parachute hero General Jean J. M. Gilles' raidews from tho 320th's former headquarters,
the French said.
Tanks and Infantry covered the cight dusty miles from Phu Nho Quan, 01 miles southe cast of Hanol, back advance command past nt Lalene under a heavy umbrella of air protecilen.
to their
It was the second time Gener- al Gilles and his battle-hardened French
Moroccans, Foreign Legionnaires and native Viet- probed into the rebel headquarters and withdrew during Operation Seagull, the
namese
London, Nov. 6. Lady Tweedsmuir (Con-first attempt in the eight-year servative) today urged Sir war to track the Reds to their Winston Churchill, the inner Jair Prime Minister, to seek a personal interview alone with Mr Georgi Malenkov, the Soviet Premier.
THE DESIGN
designed not to capture territory
The hit and run jaba were
but to smash Vietminh power. The rebels withdrew to avold a. Speaking in the House of fight the first time, but Mon- Commons debate on the Govern day swift thrust caught them ment's polley for the new ses-by surprise and the tattered Son of Parliament, Lady Tweeds-remnants
-moir said she bellëved'ike Prime
of the 320th battled
French
Minister was still "the greatest vagely to block the Parliamentarian and statesmun
we shall, too."
! She pleaded with Sir Winston to use those gifts while yet he might."
sho
Finds Another suggested there should be no
Communist
New York, Nov. 5. Serator Joseph McCarthy said tonight he had evidence that e fonne teading · United States Any rader engineer "Isa mem- ber of the Communist under- ground today."
advance.
General Gilles chewed
up
more than a battalion in count in the assault, Hendqaurters said, ed dead, wounded and prisoners
and put the division out of com bat.
Lady Tweedsmuir agreed that Sir Winston would first need to have
However, the French Com- the goodwill of the
mand reported that the Reds Western Ailles.
Jashed back hard inside the At the meeting itself, French-held Red River deltu itself with a series of ambush of agenda and that there should and lightning thrusts at isolated be a Soviet assurance before French outposts during the past hand that he would-be re- 24 hours. They took the worst celved.
of it though, with 80 killed and Mr Patrick Cordon-Walker. 60 captured against "compara- former Labour Secretary for tively light" Franco-Vietnamese Commonwealth Relations, sald losses. the Western powers must bear
Operation
forces Seagull blame for the present began pulling Somo
back from Phu deadlock with Russia,
Nho Quan today at dawn. It was a "great mistake" not They left the battered village to suspend
pressure
for the of 5,000 population scarred with European Defence Community traces of the bitter fighting that while making à really big cost the Reds the use of one of effort for talks with Russia and their best formations.
throw stones In spite of an ap-kept a virtun prisoner in the they sought as a "deserter" / before the Senate Investigations | thus give proof of the genuine-Reds were remarkably
of
The second
for the damage.
The two
-
.
unsolved questions
were: (1) the general question PRISON FOR
of Soviet
to women married
British nationals who had not CRIPPLED MAN
to
Say
over top-secret material to tho Communists while working on radar for the Army Signal Corps at the Massachusetts In- Elitute
from of Technology 1942 to 1945.
He added that a second witness
Sub-Committee-a women-haj other non-lethal Instrument to peal for order by a responsible Embassy for five years as he was all the time he was lying without question "engaged in
required on break up the mobs but must not police officer.
a charge against open fire," the spokesman said. "Their attack assumed serious him by the Soviet court. Recent wounded in an army hos-Spionage in the Signal Corps at
For Monroulà. Now Jersey." Ile said that the order for the proportions and extended to the ly, he was given a visa and per-pital in Japan. Americans was the same.
guestura (police headquarters). mitted to leave Russio..
Four months ago the army Sonator McCarthy, Chalman The soldiers did not
"In view of the perilous situa- mave. in
for Private Thomas of the Sub-Committee, did not the Hall searched was on the milling crowds im-tion with which the police were affair Mrs Clare Hall, Soviet Gunn, of the 1st Battalion, Duke qe either of the witnesses.
Senotor McCarthy demanded mediately. The trucks merely faced, an order was given to fire of a British Embassy of Wellington's Regiment. They toured the main boulevards. By a volley over the heads of the employee, was allowed to jom wanted to know why, en com- that Harvard University dismiss pleting his compulsory full-time Professor Wenbil H. Furry, the time they reached the Piazza crowd. Unita It had been cleared by
"The ensuing struggle between her husband outside Russia.
The third was the
softening national service with the regular who, he alleged, refused to tell the Poilee.
demonstrators and police Jasted
reported for the Senate Permanent Invealj- gations Sub-Committee yester- STREET BATTLE
some time, but finally resulted of restrictions on the movement army, he had not part-time training. British diplomats in Russia.
whether day
he had In- Steel-helmeted
Polica riot in the dispersal of the de-
In the fourth instance,
At the time of the inquiries doctrinated students with Com- squads cordoned the square in monstrators.
fisheries agreement, permitting Private Gunn, severely wounded munist philosophy. front of the Son Glovanni "During this incident, two per- English trawlera to fish in the in the stomach and leg in Korea, Church where two demonstrators sons were killed and 15 injured, White Sen, was signed.
Senator McCarthy said Dr were illed and scores were in including one seriously.
He is now In on Aldershot Furry also refused Fifth was the Robey affair. A was in an army bed in Japan. jured in a two-hour afternoon "Following upon this incident, Soviet vessel, the Robev, dam- (England) hospital recovering whether he had ever turned THIS is one thing we would street battle.
the demonstrators proceeded request Mr Nixon to At Icast
demonstrating
attack a number of Allied to aged a buoy. In the Tyne basis from his wounds. Chino Mall
โก 1946 and the Soviet Union, Special. understand and to give it student was hit by a ricochetting other installations including the last month, agreed to pay £400
Excelsior and Regina sympathetic consideration. Police bullet during the after-
hotela Allled officers)." noon and was taken to hospital (used by The gradual relaxing of with a bloody hole in his Reuter, the US restrictions are
Błomach. extremely welcome,, yet they The other casualties were hit the international by flying stones or clubbed by
the Police, trading embargoes having a crippling effect here. The Southeast Asian markets
not wide enough to make good the deficiency caused by the In the Plazh Cavaná, a almost paralysed trade teugh section of the city, a gang with the hinterland of of youth dropped matches in Chinn, and the danger of the gas tank of a Police motor
cycle. It went up lu tho
a sheet economic current
of flame-United Press, recession becoming a slump
ITALIAN DENIAL and causing widespread
London, Nov. 5. Trieste, Nov, D. unemployment and distress Italy denied tonight that
the proposal of the United States Mr Aneurin Bevan, leader of-China Mall Special. is inherent. Hongkong had incited the bloody riots in envoy, Mr Arthur Dean, to dia- the left wing or the British was today, re- striven to be and is ex- Trieste and Government officials is arrangements for a Korean Labour Party,
political conference lower elected to the party's "shadow pected to remain one of the appealed for calm in the troubled level closed session talks.
cabinet" which Assists Mr important outposta of city
The announcement came et Clemont Altice in directing the democratic freedom in the denied charges by the pro-Tite preliminary talks about con Parliamen
A Foreign Ofee spokerman the eleventh session of plenary opposition party. tactics:
In Far East, but this task is slovene, newspaper Primorski ference plans. if politica! Davik accusing the Italian Gov-
Bevan was the only compromised and trading barriors deny ernment of passing directives fors,
Plenary sessions were, there- "Davanite" elected to the body,
recessed indefinitely. --- but he battered his position this, the people of Hongkong and
for the Trieste demonstrations, Router.
| year.1-Lost year, he was elected its refugees the right of a "wo are not pushing for de-
twelfth - and last, while ; this docent and stabilised monstrations of this kind," the
time bb, was named in the rinti livelihood.-
spokesman said. "It is our policy
position--France-Presse..
and
are
are
The crowds tonight were not violent. But they stopped trame by pulling trolley bu contact arms off the overhead wires,
it
STOP PRESS
REDS ACCEPT-
PROPOSAL ··
Panmunjom, Nov. 6. The Communists here today announced they would accept
in
been allowed. to leave Russia, and (2) the general question of tourlit travel and cultural ex- chango visits of British travel- from lers to Russia, apart
invited officinity.
guests. France-Pressc.
BEVAN WINS ELECTION
The Senator said he was sending 17 telegram to Dr Nathan Putcy, New York, Nov. 5.
-President of Raymond Cosme, encased in a Harvard, "to see, what his alt- plaster cast and unable to move tude towards Furry will be," his head, was wheeled Into Reuter,
court on a stretchet hero today and sentenced to 10, to ‘15 years in prison for the murder of his wife.
ho
He was crippled when fractured his spine in a jump from the fifth storey window of Brooklyn flat on the night of the murder, December 8, 1959.
Mau Mau Leader
Killed
Nairobi, Nov. 5. notorious. · Minu' Mou terrorist, Kivunja Kirloki, was killed by the security forces today south of Mount Kenya.
A Candidato" For - it was learcode on the_list
Presidency
Kibunda was
of the "wanted terrorists." Two Chartres, France, Nov. 5, companies of the King's African A veteran of two world wars, Rifles and pollee. units took up Albert Lutzing, a labourer, on- positions at down when two men nounced today, that he would be tried to break through the a candidate in the next French | Ambush, and were shot. One Presidential, plaction.
was Kibunja, the other a He is 56 years old.-France- | member ; of his gang —-France- Presso.
The
well-
ncas of Western Intentions-armed and well-equipped.— Reuter.
United Pres.
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