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COMMENT OF
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Kai Tak Plan
DECISION by the Ifong
A kong Government un the
the
extension of the main runway at Kai Tak airport can be expected within the next few months-a decision primarily, if not wholly, intended to givo Hongkong landing facilities for biggest jet airliners so far designed. This will involve the spending of almost $90 millior in the course of the next hour or five years of which about half may well have to be fluanced out of current revenue. Indeed, unless a loan is secured {additional to the $48 million expected from the Home Government for this scheme) the Kai Tak exten- sion, together with the Tul Lam Chung Dam and other essential development pro- in- jects may require an crosse in the Colony's taxation rates in the not too distant future. Quite apart from the financial considera- tions the present plans entail 1
of major feat engineering. They envisage a central runway 7,500 feet long and 700 to 760 feet wide jutting cat into Kow- loon Bay and require a $3 million dredging operation to make the extension possible.
T is pertinent to ask at this Govern- stage whether
ment experts are considering the latest developments in aviation reported recently to the effect that in both America and Britain de- Anite
has been progress made towards an aircraft which can take off and land vertically in врасе
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no greater than that required by a helicopter. Cabled re- Washington from porta xtute the US Navy will announce this week the development of two propeller turbine fighters which will be able to do just that. Towards the end of last year the Managing Director of A.V. Roe and Co, Sir Roy Dobson, said vertica! take-offs by jet linera would
possible in be
the near future. While American developments are BO far
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No. 35767
1845
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1954.
THE-WEATHER J
AMERICA'S H-BOMB
DISCLOSURE
Can Be Delivered To Any Part Of World
MAR. 1 TEST REVEALED
Washington, Mar. 16.
Mr W. Sterling Cole, Chairm an of the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, said tonight that the United States had the hydrogen bomb and could deliver it anywhere in the world.
device."
Previous official statements had referred only to a "hydrogen
Mr Cole, who made the statement when appearing on a television programme, said: "We have planes that can carry any weapon we have to any part of the world" from overseas bases.
There was, however, no American plane capable of carrying
weapons non-stop around the world.
American military officials had earlier claimed that their present global net- work of advanced air bases would permit modern aircraft to hit all main Soviet targets.
Mr Cole predicted that within 10 years several atomic reactors or power plants would probably be producing electricity for cominercial use.—Router.
Israel-Arab War "Inevitable"
kvar Tel-Aviv, Mar. 16. The Israeli Army Chief of Staff, General Moshe Dayan, said here today that war between Israel and the Arab countries was inevit able.
Speaking at a gathering of reserve officers' day in Tel-Aviv, he sald war was inevitable, but I was not known when it would start. Ho
the asserted that Arab states were concentrating all their energy en a plan to
500 HIROSHIMAJ
New York, Mar. 16. Time magazine said today the United States exploded in the
Pacific on March "thermo- nuclear device" with 500 times the power of the bomb destroyed Hiroshima.
at
that
himself as to what took place. He declined, to make any further comment at this time.
no
on
how
They Stu
Stil! Don't Belleve Us
London, Mar. 16.
Henry Strauss, tha Under Becretary to the Board of Trade, said today. in à written reply to a par lamentary quesilon that goods imported into the United Kingdom .and marked British Empire made were able to for felture if the description was false.
Was replying to
by Conservativo Member N. IL. Spence, who ziked "what alepa, seg being taken to carure that textile goods imported in tho United Kingdom from. Hongkong and marked British Empire mado are fu fact manufactured there", ---France-Preme.
Indo-China Battle
NEW REBEL
ASSAULT AWAITED
Saigon, Mar. 16..
and
Price 20 Cents
ORIGINAL-ODHNER Calculator -- Model 107
McCARTHY ARMY HEARINGS.
Senator From Wisconsin To Take A Back Seat
Washington, Mar. 16.
The Senate Investigations Sub-Committee voted today to explore at public hearings, with the witnesses under oath, the charges and counter- charges between Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin), its Chairman, and Army officials.
Senator McCarthy himself agreed to take a sest In the background with Senator Mundt sitting, as the acting chairmanTM
Senator Mundt presided at the closed door meeting at which five resolutions were adopted, setting up the ground rules,
decision
Senator Mundt announced the as he deemed necessary under sub-committee's
nt a the rules of the sub-committee. Senator Mundt's selection must bo confirmed by D majority vote committee.
news conference which all mem- bers attended,
a
At his direction stene grapher who had attended the hearings to keep the emelal record, road from his notes re- solutions which declared:
1. That the sub-committce would run the inquiry,
2. That "all sworn testimony would be taken in sessions".
3. That Senator Munde Acting Chairman of the in- quiries, would be empowered "lo employ stich counsel and staff"
Joins In Hunger Strike
of the sub-
The resolution also declared that the staff must be "accapt- able to and responsible to" Democrat members as well as Republicans.
Meanwhile
Rush To Adopt Abandoned Baby
Melbourne, Mar, 17, Melbourné, Police Hond- quarters have had more than 100 phone callà-in' 24 hours from people want- für to adopt. a-four-month- baby, boy who wan found. Abandoned
રાત
- fruitbox' in the elty,
Wonjan
claimed
were the child's
-- mothers -- but their descrip- dons dia not resemble the
the police
that
police believe the mother may bare |-aban-- doned the child while she › Books: for :, work and will claim him before he can a" ward of...' the
bly, Sild” the baby, if unclaimed would become *"ward after thrós, months, and could then be legally
China Adopted. - Speciat
Special Guard For Churchills
CARA Sir Winston
gave
•Com Leonard
branch,
hos
Scotland Yard's
ordered
4. Thist the sub-commliteo public should "proceed to the holding of these public hearings....to other
London, Mar. 16. all. 14 the
exclusion of bearing
Sir Winston and Lady the sub-committee Churchill were kept under should adjourn unul next Tues day at 9.30 p.m., GMT, when unceasing watch by armed Simator Mundt would report guards from today, fol what had been done about lowing the receipt" of an The hard-pressed garri.
hiring the staff.
anonymous letter threaten- the Republican Bon of Dien Bien Phu,.
which ing the life of the Prime Mr Dulles
Committee, was replying to a French Union fortress In
National question as to whether the
helped prepare the text of Vice Minister's wife. United States would entertain a Northern Indo-China, steel-
President
-The lotter", posted in London, Richard Nixon's
criticised was sent to the Prime Minister's Japanese claim for compenened themselves tonight for
marks when their irudie official done
10, tion for the fishermen who, another mass assault by The weekly news magazine decording to reports, were ex-
television als last Saturday Downing StreetYOUR - now
apparently avoiding Bootland Yard-detectives fear said the March 1 test makes posed to radiation from Ameri- Yletminh rebels
within half a mile of their
scheduling Senator McCarthy as that it has string of truth" all its predecessors look like can atomic tests in the Pacific.
Cairo, Mar-16008
speaker in nature, which
- from letters: destring? of one inch valutes. It said a November, 1982 test The Japanese Foren Minin air defences,
American woman |*|
threatening reprisals produced. 4. Dreball 28 miles in try, Mr Dulles was told, has The Victron attack, was exs
cooms Chu Itsunomcial attitudo rooms. Journalist, Charlotte Weller, to
ain's fight that since President to
the damerer with a force calculated said that Japan might ask for pooted within 24 hojim
Mr Dulles had French bombera few through was
In a Risenhower was dispensed Believing the threatened tons of TNT or 250 compensation.
Mau Ma participating 5,000,000 times the force of the Hiroshima Just returned from an inter driving rain and mist today to atomic bomb.
American conference at Caracas pound rebel concentrations with strike topight along with Senator McCarthy's tactics
high
explosive and napalmi nine Egyptian feminists will quietly become unavailable asination
for arranging any further en "The force of the (March 1) and said that he has only now
ob-fearned of the nation and has while transport planes dropped with a view to obtaining gugements until the Senator Buri Chief "prob-
Information
mmunition and supples to the women's suffrage. the
special explosion Time said,
becomes more "tractable". nbly exceeded 10 megatoons unfortunate accident came French
Vietnamese
extra plain de-
clothes police to (500 Hiroshimas), It sent
But Senator McCarthy Mrs Weller, the wife of the every indication about, assuming that the facts fenders.
that he does guard the Downing Street house radioactivo cloud billowing to
Rome correspondent of the Other aircraft ferried troops a height that may have exceeded are as reported."
care whether the Re-paid the Prime Minister's country not Daily News, arrived from Laos and other parts of Chicago
publican National Comunitted home at Westerham in Kent. He said that the report of the
yesterday an
of
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, the 20 miles. In the thin air of the
Indo-China Into the Red River here seems likely. American Embassy in Tokyo on
Home Secretary, and Sir John stratosphere, it
not.
Nott Bower, Metropolitan Police: like the case of the fishermen came delta, 175 miles from Dien Bien cruise on the steamship Inde sponsors his future speeches or the cloud slumped over
were brand In only this morning-United hy, as the French High Com-pendence when she learned that
mand prepared to throw
Commissioner, are said to have water tossed from a bucket.
"the daughters of the Nile" had. Moreover, there "Twenty-eight US observers Press.
that his speaking style conferred with the Prime Minis- reinforcements into the all-out been on a hunger strike for hints and 230 natives of local Islands
battle.
women's suffrage for four days. and cholee of themes will not be ter before deciding to strengthen IN SERIOUS CONDITION - confined to propeller turbine
had been
what evacuated to
attack opened on She asked the President of the toned down. Since the
normal' security precautions, aircraft the cables claim the
a com- General bad been considered Arab states,
Ds Feminist
The letter
now Foundation, Tokyo, Mar. 17.
He is expected to use a near Saturday the crack rebel troops
being American Air Force had a
of the "20 years Dretors treaux 23 Japanese sanding the fortified Dlen Shank, if she could jom them. version
of examined for fingerprints and Dayan said, were now trying to plately safe refuge, but the un-
'fall-out' showered fishermen whose boat similar project under way weaken Israel through a block predicted
„She has confined hörself to a ¦ treason" theme that brought|other clues at Its source. ---- The Red Sea port of Einth, them with radioactive particles showered with radioactive "agh" Bien Phu valley harasty now dies of water with a few drops angry protests earlier this year Reuter for pure jet aircraft.
be open to Their must
exposure to radiation EALISING the speed with he added,
She informed from Democrats, from an atomic bomb explosion two resistance centres. They REA
Ahips,
approaches.or and
10 Umes the was
control the northern grenter
near Bikini on March 1 said to-
PAY DEABLY
'her follow strikers, however, Senator McCarthy is going -which new aviation Israel-bound
Egyptian blockade against the scientists deem safe....
day condition of five of the men
But the
the, French claim
they that she would stay with them through his committee fles Spurned Wooer Gevelopments havo
part could not be permitted. "The 1954 blast upset plans "ucceeded one another in
for the formal test shot, which was "serious."
ss Independence is due to leave hoping spokesman said
to come up with French Army* General Daynis, will be witnessed by the Atonile recent years, has Govern- Israel, sald
health the rebels lost 2,000 dead yester on the next stage of its cruise specific cases of what he calls must have modern arms even if Energy Commision, the Joint orders of Japanese
Meanwhile, about 20 ment considered that by the
treason. other
Congressional Atomic Energy authorities. Two are in Toyko day in their assault on an 'out-
meeting
He will speak la Chicago to tline Kal Tak boasts of nit meant sacrifiers in
Commission, and Dr Edward University hospital and they re- post three, miles north-west of suffragettes sought a
with the
Egyptian President, runway long enough to take spheres.
of the Teller, the scientist principally mainder are in the Kyorithu the fortress. This was in addi The Israeli Minister
Milwaukee on Friday and the biggest jet airliner in
for the thermo-hospital in Yaizu, home port of tion to 1,500 killed on Sunday Mohamed Naguib, today while morrow and the next day, in the word, it may no longer Interior, Mr Rokach, also spoke responsible
their 90-ton fishing boat No. 6 night and 500 when the French he was meeting with a number
counter while
of the Revolutionary Council Oklahoma City ter attacked yesterday
Reûteri scientists feverishly Fukuryu Maru.
and the Cabinet. be required because vertical at a former officers' meeting in nuclear weapon.
Tel-Aviv today, saying thot take-off and landing by that
The fishermen received burns morning.
lull In ground fighting was
The women, who wanted to hero time may be a reality? It Syria could not interfere with recalculated their data and tried
sovereignty over to explain the unexpected force and lesions on the head, and Israel's full
petition to the Pre- present a is recalled that although Sir the Sca of Calice. Israch of the big blast, the formal test
other exposed parts after the full reported today. Officers
said they thought the rebels
were stopped by, the ash from the stomie said
Das Three
of them were Frant Whittle's first jet guaranteed free ashing on Lake was postponed for a few days of white
were licking their wounds", Aghter flew in 1939, by 1943 Tiberias to all its citizens, sald That test, in which a thermo-explosion smothered their cloth-were
nuclear device will be dropped
Testing and
and regrouping for the Do Havillands wore already
from the bays of a B-28 on the Déclors said today the men's next stage of their bid to cap- Nogub in an adjoining room.
ture the fortress. phoning the application of
shrouds of a huge parachute (to
High "Command an- The jeta to civil airliners and
give the plane time to get out condition began of its way), is expected to dup last night and five were "in a
serious condition.". The hair of/nounced tonight that the rail | Egyptian women had not the war preventedl a start being rande Found Poisoned to the March explosion.
of Halphong. prout half the patients began to way line between Hanol and fall out, while lesions and burns supply port
cut by a rebel ra'd, bad been started to swell on others.
repaired. The railway is
annihilate Israel.
The
Mr Rokach.-France-Presse.
Locarno, Mar. 10.
project until 1946 the advent Comot might well of the
Mrs Erika Canaris, the widow have been hastaned by
of Admiral Canaris, the Ger several years. It may be
man secret service leader who taken for granted that if
was murdered by the Nazis, has this new development can
been taken
here to hospital be applied to fighters it will sufering from poisoning, it was not be long before it is reported today.
It was understool that her incorporated in airliners both of the propeller condition was causing mxiety. turbine type (of which there She is 61 years old. Franco- are many) and the pure jet. Fresse.
United Press.
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thon
ACCIDENT
UNFORington, Mar. 16.
At his news conference today,
was
new
of lemon juice.
Doria
All 23 are now in hospital at/Fd dearly for their succes. A only until Thursday, when the ammunition and indicated ho is Throws Grenade.
ing.
to deteriorabe
allowed to, walt
for President
... Mrs Weller told an AFP con- respondent that nbo wanted to know that American weren' wore with them--France-Preme,
a
The second of the battalion
A party of scientists investi- vital. link for the French forces the Secretary of State, Mr John Eating the fishing boat at Yaizu in Tonking. Footer Dulles, said that the reported Gelger counters showed reported burning by radiation of readings tu jeet away. They strength outposts guarding the
fishermen in the decided that the boat was now 23 Japanese Central Pacific is an unfortunate unusable and must be burned at sen after investigations werd accident.
Mr Dulles aid that he only completed-Roulet
the incident this leamed of morning and had nu information
"Killer" Panther At Large
Near Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Mar, 16.
Eerio screams that “aounded Hike a cat but only more so" early today sent pölicémen" into "a" wooded area north of Los Angeles in a search for an escaped black panther.
Cairo Radio's Allegation
northern entrance to the 11 mile long Dien Bien Phu valley was evacuated yesterday morn= ing, after a 48 hour assault by the
rebels. Its survivors fell back on the main defence post- Lions.
Department
fire.
the
Store Fire
of the
the
New York, Mar. 10. Fire broke out today on the 10th floor of Macy's, the world's The 150 yards length of this largest department store, and It is a truism., in the
isolated strongpoint on a bare 100 employees were evacuated aviation world that "cach
brown hillock, neycombed temporarily from office sections vagotation, was new plane designed today
with trenches, and dugouts. beconies obsolescent almoat
shopped below, unaware of the London, Mar. 17, At the time of the French immediately in the light of successivo developments.
Cairo Radio last night quoted; withdrawal, there were at least
Smoke billowed into 'n Saudi Arabian communique 1,300
strown rebel corpses; This applied, for instance,
saying British troops had around the barbed wire defence skies in mid-Manhattan, draw- to the first series of the
opened fire in the Buraimi-coals of this hill alone. It was official-ing a huge crowd in the streets below. On the first floor there Comet, for before this air-
ly reported hep area, killing one Arab.......... craft was flying two new
The first outpost on the was some alarm and customers and bigger, Comets. were ori
The Buraimi casts, reported northeastern rim of the valley left instily as persons rushed In from the street rod to be to tell them the design boards, Necas
to be rich in oil, los on the fell on Sunday. Il-defined border batwaon
building appeared 201 the... CLAIME sarily development of airport
Saudi · Arabla" and the Omah
Thoro facilities must keep up as
Two policemen heard the The animal, pound for pound best it on with now
to British protoction unge animals, was reported their trestles. aviation trends and it might chama several times after they one of the most vicious of all cost, whose sultans are matitled Le wise I Hongkong's wore summoned to dig area by game
a man trembling with fright, yesterday to have escaped from planning, authorities con- Diber officers
rs who had been a travelling carnival. The police There have been a number of suited overseas experts "ou searching in a residential section were sired by a warning from incitans an the disputed area.
Wayne
Awosk agó King Baud of this question of vertical about four miles away where the panther's owner, take-off first before com- the missing 140-pound killer'; Robert, s mitting themselves to the cal was reported seen last night Don't fool with this baby Saudi Arabia, ind(there was pranent plans. For these we called in on the new and don't try to capture: 11 every reason to hope
Miive said Roberti's un- would be welllade may prove to be a waste of.
Omcers armed with thoigums compromisingly vicious Verger near future of the time and money in the years' plunged into the rooded faren shoop him on fight." me. United twien Boudi-Arab
but fired us Bund the blade, ont prentsarada nas
searah,
THE Th; rebel : radio) Dydis (no penale, however,
had reduced Dien Bien Phu to calmed leday that rebed forces
Tha Scompletely folated pocket! (The broadout quoted the anyále Vietmian Generalla Vo
the #} "greate Used:
Ground
started, in
the
on Saturday.
20
Rome, Mar. 16, Filippo Cardellini, 62, Was arrested yesterday on charges of throwing a hand grenade at 41-
she ignored his wooing, year-old Cecilia Dorazal because
by the explosion-United Prock.
She was only slightly injured
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