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The City Hall THE

THE Engineering Society's

letter la the Colonia! Secretary pretty well suma up popular opinion as to the facilities which should be included in the propored City Hall. Moreover, coming as they do from a budy of technical men, it may be assumed that the recom- mendation, enn be

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tically embodied In 13 modification of Professor Gordon Brown's embryonic design. Not everyone will agree with all of the pro- posals advanced by the Engineering Society. There is a decided division of public opinion on the ques- tion of the desirability or the necessity of including the Urban Council chamber and offices within what is intended to be a community building, more particularly as it alienates space which

might be put tu nore

This,

advantageous Use. however, is not the musi

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Commons Told Of Effect Last Of Breached Dykes Sealėd

Of Embargo On H.K.

SEVERE DROP

IN TRADE

WITH CHINA

London, Nov. 25.

Mr Oliver Lyttelton, Colonial Secretary, told the House of Commons today that Hongkong's rigid observance of the embargo on strategic exports to China has led to a "severe decline in her export trade with China."

Mr Lyttelton was replying to Mr Stephen Swingler (Labour), who had asked what reports he had recently received from the Governor of contentious issue, and Hongkong about the effects of Hongkong's bones will be broken if the economic position of the embargo on trade in Aually approved design strategic goods with China.

Includes provision for the Urban Council, What bas been made manifestly clear in that the majority of people who have a suflicient amount of interest in the subject are convinced that the City

should Hall possess un Assembly Hall, à concert hall, a theatre and 2 library. There Arc regarded as the minimum of

in the first six months of 1952 the exports were requirements and it is on -this minimum which any £10,100,000, compared with £22,100,000 in the second six

revised design should be months.

Mr Lyttelton said there was some recovery in the second half of 1952 and the first half of this year, but the Governor has reported a renewed downward trend during recent months, due principally to a considerable slackening in China's demand for pharmaceuticals.

Mr Lyttelton said that the trends were shown in thew

figures:

In the second six months of 1951, after the embargo was inquaed, Hongkong exports to China fell from £72,000,000 is the previous six months,lo £28,250,000.

based. There will be genvendj • Mr Lyttelton added: "The embargo has imposed a severe agreement with the strain upon Hongkong's economy and, despite the success of Engineering Society's point manufacturers and merchants, in finding new business, must That it is not possible, į continue to do as long as the traditional Chinese market is within the limited col largely denied to Hongkong. Our International obligations allowed, to provide a build-preclude any relaxation in longkong controls at the present ing that will eater individually for all functions which envisaged, and the obvious alternative is for halls to be an designed that they

utilised for

can be than

one

the

10

more

purpose.

Admittedly his poses prob lems, but nut, we imagine,

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an

Insurmountable

nature. The basic considera- tion of any city hall design must be to allow of the maximum public amenities. The City Hall, is for the benefit of the community as _a__whole._and_the_claims.of. government offices and council chambers must, if

To

public

necessary, be subordinated However much there might

*requirements.

be to muy in favour of the existing design, it does not satisfy that basic considera- tion. It is casential that it be modified in such a way` that it makes provision for the fundamental amenities of a city hall.

time,

"I am, however, deeply conscious of the hardships suffered in Hongkong and 1 shall do my best to ensure that the benefits of any relaxation which may attend a political settlement in the Far East are enjoyed by Hongkong in equai measure."-Reuter.

Gouzenko

May

Says Canadian

Edward Here is Private Roberts, 24, of the 1st Bali, the King's Regiment. sen: to 56 days tenced recently, detention for desering. Ec unit in Germany to Fell his join the Foreign Legion. Join fauzlit in

W25 Tough

Indo-China. Wounded and awarded Croix de

the

Guerre by

the

French and the Cross of Valour by Emperor Bao Dal. In October this year he surrendered to the Assistant Military Attache At the Hritish Embassy in Paris. He has now expressed a wish to re-enlist in the British Army as a regular-Dally Express Photo.

Be Interviewed Government

Ottawa, Nov. 25.

Canada today gave permission for the United States Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee to interview Igor Gouzenko, former Soviet Embassy code clerk who disclosed a Communist spy ring in Canada in

1946.

B.

Pearson, saki Mr

The United States Stale De-Lester partment has made twe requests Gouzenko would be free to go to to the Canadian Government for the United States for question- permission tu question Mr ing and also

American that Gouzenko un Sostet espionage.

questioners would be free to Yesterday. the Canadian Ex-come to Canada. fernal Affairs

Minister. Mr

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Mr Gouzenko has been living a fe of secrecy and anonymity 25 a Canadian citizen since he disclosed Soviet espionage work in Canada.

Earlier Mr Pearson said that #go," Canada "several years pessed conndentally to the United States evidence from Mr Gouzenko that an unnamed assistant to the United States Secretary of State, was a Soviet agent.

'Quake Strikes 2 Japanese Islands

Tokyo, Nov. 26.

A heavy rolling earth- quake rumbled through two of Japan's largest islands early today and the result- Ing tidal wave pounded a coastal area less than дл hour later.

The Central Meteorological Observatory suid n tidel

wave

hit the Bose Peninsula roast at 3.27 a.m.

The first shocks of the quake hit Tokyo at 2.50 a.m.

(The US Weather Bureau at Honolulu said it had received a report frem Japan saying nine- foot waves were moving toward Korea from Jepun.)

A Japanese seismologist said no serious trouble was expected from the waves.

Earlier residents along the entire coastline from Southern Honshu 10 Hokkaido WITC alerted for possible after-shocks

of the quake. The Maritimo Safety Agency at Yokohama the general coastal US Pacific

Fleet head- quarters at Honolulu warned ali navai American vessels and stations in the Preife to be on the

alert for possible tidat waves caused by the quake. All

bases Navy ships and ordered to take the necessary action to minimise damage and desist the civilian authorities.

wero

MINOR DAMAGE

First reports indicated there Was only minor damage and there were no immediate reports of casualties

Office buildings awayed, but lights remained on in downtown Tokyo near the Imperial Palace. American residents of the city Teported falling crockery masonry and

some Blarms were set off.

United Press Robert Udick toured the famous, Gloza

thopping district and said he saw no signs of damage. There was no panic in the strcels, he added.

Britain's Blunt

Note To Russia

London, Nov. 25.

Britain today bluntly told the Soviet Union that nothing stood in the way of a resumption of discussions on an Austrian state treaty-except. the attitude of the Soviet government.

Workers throw stones on top of sink-mata, made from twigs, which then. sinks to the base of cais- HONY now in position`at the dyke at Ouwerkerk, on the island of Schouwen- Duiveland, Holland, the Inat to be repaired after the February floods, and seals them.-London "Er- press.

This was revealed here today when the text of the New Tropical

British note to the Soviet government on the subject of Austria was released. In the note, Britain told the Soviet Union that Her Majesty's government was willing to study any Soviet proposals which would bring about an Austrian settlement and which did not raise extraneous issues.

the Brush

state

diplomalle 370 particular,

Storm

Manila, Nov. 26.

Reds' Proposal.

The weather bureau The note stated that the Bri-Majesty's government hope they issued a storm warning for tish government was willing to will see no objection to the Southeastern Luzon Inst .consider. any Soviet proposals resumption of work of the night as a tropical storm

diplomátic through

at u dale which the channels, deputies particularly if the Soviet gov-Soviet government

Ands con- east of the archipelago errument would. Indicate the ventent."

gathered momentum and basis on which they would be The British note concluded: headed straight for the prepared to conclude an Aus", hov

however, the Soviet govern-

Philippines. trian treaty. The note deplered ment would prefer to make

The storm was predicted to be past failures on the part of the

proposals through

miles onst discuss channels Soviet government to

and in

of Catbalogan. the Austrian question with the would give an indication of the town, Samar province, at 8 am. three Western powers.

local me today. It was ex- basis on which they would be "In their note of November prepared to conclude the treaty, Pezie 10 be 230 miles east- at 8 and 3"

document Her Majesty's government would northeast of Catbalogan burglar stated, "the Soviet

pm. local time tonight-France- gover give any such proposal prompt Presse. ment. Ignored Her Majesty's and careful consideration.”—- correspondent government's invitation to France-Presse,

discuss

the Austrian treaty at a meeting of the four foreign ministers at

Lugano. They said that they awaited... reply to their note of August The sustained tremor, which

A CANDIDATE subject and con- on this bout

minutes, fined themselves Isted

to

recalling occurred at 250 a.m. Tokyo

Montgomery, Nov. 25. the time of the Korean political the

Buggestion contained in time. The

The defeated Democrat can- conference proposed today that Me:coro- their earlier moles for pursuing didate in the last United States the conference should be con- Central logical Observatory here report this question through diploma Presidential, elections, Mr Adlai vened in the last ten days of cd that the quake was felt on tic channels, without, however, Stevenson, sald here today that December,

main lend of Honshu

New China News putting forward by this means the and

Hokkaido, in Southera

ony, proposal on the Austrian he had no intention of running Agency reported. second largest

the Island in

for the Presidency ogrin in The Agency, quoting an on- 1956. Japanese

cial

Communist archipelago United Problem."

communique, Press.

AFTER 10 YEARS

He told pressmen that he had said the Allled delegate would The British note continued: not the faintest idea what his consider the proposal and reply *Ten years after the

would be in the next session on Nov 27 Morcow poilical future

-Reuter, declaration, the Austrian people France-Presse. have still not obtained their complete political and economic

It Independence.

was their auty

to full that promise In the declaration and to. with the United Nations

STROMBOLI ROCKED

Rome, Nov. 25, An earthquake oday resked He said that the FBI was fully the island of Stromboli, where Informed 011 the "Gouzenko the Stromboli volcano is Jazzted, M: Pearson said he had asked revelations was the Royal

1s

The

of the Island residents rushed out of their houses for for and received the constant Canadian Mounted Police.

but of destruction

no protection of the Royal Canadian

Government's lear The madian Mounted Police,

the second re-casualties ror damages were re- reply today to Referring to the Unlied quest said that it was willing: ported.-France-Presse. States bellef that Mr Gouzenko Mr Gouzenko ugrees To might be able to "shed some make arrangements for a con- light" on the Soviet espionagefidential meeting under Cana- system there, Mr Pearson said dian auspices, at which the former clerk had been person designated by the United fully interviewed by the Royal States could be present, it being Canadian Mounted Police and understood that the evidence or had said he had nothing more information thus secured would to offer.

not be made public without the

any

Mr Pearson had told approval of the Canadian Gov- Washington of tha Royal ernment."-Reuter.

Canadian Mounted Police

estion Mr Gouzenko.

OBJECTION

28

made

resolution

BIG GOLD

SEIZURE

an

of December 1952. Her Majesty's govern-

ment have not

efforts for the

20,

their

of a

During the present they have three times pro- posed that the treaty be discuss- cd by the disputing parties and since August 28, they have twice puggested that this question be taken up at the proposed con ference at Lugano."

Singapore, Nov. 20. Customs officers on the trail "It is all the moro surprising,” of

international gold-the British note went on, "that smuggling ring operating bethe Soviet Government have not Washington, Nov. 20.

tween Hongkong and Southeast been willing to resume negotia The Senate Internal Security the United Subcommittee last night ob-Asia seized US$42,000 worth of tons on Austria in that the three was tabled today in thejected to the condition of sec-left gold bullion last Friday, Western governments, in order to

meet Soviet with

Wishes, had, in their it was learned today.. of Commons hero recy, which the Canadian

notes of

iz. withdrawi} August The gold haul, made following

short

dratt vigil along Singa the

treaty, the role were to group

question Mr pore's

smuggled gold the carllest possible restoration: Soviet Best seizure of Igor Gouzenko, former code clerk who broke a Cana this year, Customs officials said. of Austrian reedem end inde- A total of 70 pounds in gold pendence. In order to remove taken from two men as any possible misunderstanding,

one more formally to state that

thls draft is withdrawn,'

he said, but they had repeated their request to

TRAN reply to States

House whent

Mr Pearson Bummary .of tho position

the in Gouzenko,"

PASSED OVER

gave

that "every scrap of Informa-

Government had said it would

"Affairoo

Canadian insist on. If the United States 14 Wront, was the big-object of which was to achieve !

The Canadian reply reiterateddian spy plot-lcuter.

tlon" supplied by Mr Góuzenko

to

the Canadian Royal Com Fog Blankets

mission in 1940 had been

passed over to the United Parts Of London

Federal

States Investigation

Bureau

of

"The Canadian Government

London, Nov. 20.

based at a quRY from a 1 Her Majesty's government wish

they land

NOTHING IN WAY The note, continued:

"Her

sampan just before dawn on arrest- Friday. Both men were od and held for questioning.

The smugglers were described by a Customs Office spokesman Majesty's government believe as "very small fry in big that nothing stands in the way Fog dropped like a curtain organisation which WO feel

of the resumption of discussions bolleves that there has nirendy | over parts of London last sure is behind this racket”.

on the Austria" state treaty, "For The spokesman anid,

except been ample opportunity for Mr night, while in other parts the

the attitude of tho Gouzenko to give information air stayed crystal dear under months now we have been Soviet government. Her Ma- and make known his views to a brilliant moon.

working in very clost lason Jesty's government are prepared the United States through Air services at London air with the Hongkong Palles on to study any Soviet proposal established channels," Mr Pear-port were halted, and road the gold-running : channels bowhich would promote an Aus-

confusion in tween :son' mnich,

trame was in

and Hong-

trian editiement and which does "Nevertheless," he added, "In some areas.

not ralso extraneous - Isacos. 11 view of the m. 2ond United In places motorists plunged “He said Intonadvề thoatista, the Soviet government do not States request, the Canadian from bright moonlight into the lions were now in progress to feel able to participate in the Government is willing to darkest fog, cansing trac And the ring lenders in Singa- very near future in a conferenco 'arrango ' interviews."

chaba China Mall Special pora-United Press.

of the foreign ministers,: Hex

Į

kong."

-STEVENSON-NOT-

"London," "Nov,252

The Communist delegation at the

sub-committee discussing

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