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GILMANS GLOUCESTER ARCADE
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
UN Embargo
Vital
the Socialists considèred they needed
any statistics to bolster their argument for repent of the United Nations trade embargo, Hongkong's trade figures for the month of February would surely
fulfill the requirement. Overall the volume of trade expressed in terms of
dolinrs was the poorest for any month since 1949, the slump being particularly noticeable in the case of
CHINA
No. 35778
Established-1845
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1954,
THE WEATHER....... Frosh Basi Winds. Cloudy with bright:
·Becoming... – Eradually warmEET.
Price 20, Cents
US May Help To Train The First
Indo-China Forces
Mao Reappears On
China. The figures go a long The Scene
way towards proving that
what has fondly been
described
as
龋
trade
London, Mar. 23.
recession, ін in fact 24 depression, and it may be concluded that unless and until there is a substantial relaxing of restrictions, little hope can be held out for any Improvement in the Colony's entrepot position. From a purely selfish view- point Hongkong would welcome removal of the UN trnde embargo against China; nevertheless due Mac's absence "on holiday" consideration has to be from last month's meeting of the Communist Central Com- given to the long-term effect mittee was followed by rumours of any such action. It is that he was
dead or dying. a matter which cannot be
variously re- Ho had ported suffering from turber- treated as an expediency, culosis, heart trouble and kidney valuable though the disease and there had been immediate results would little mention of him in the assuredly be for the Colony recent political reene. were all controls and other artificial trade barriers swept away.
Mao Tse-tung, China's supreme leader, who te. cent reports said had "dis- appeared", today presided over the first meeting of the Committee for Drafting the Constitution, the New China News Agency An- nounced.
Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Central People's Govern-
ment, of China, also heads the Committee.
*mado
of
Many senior Chinese leaders including the Prime Minister, Chou En-lal, and one of the Republic's Vice Chairman, Liu Shao-chi-were also at today's Committee meeting.
discussione.
two
|
IMPORTANT WASHINGTON
DISCUSSIONS
Washington, Mar. 23. --
Mr Charles Wilson, the Secretary of Defence, said today that he and General Ely, Chief-of- Staff of the French armed forces, were dis- cussing the possibility of United States participa- tion in the French training programme for native troops in Indo-China.
Mr Wilson said that two important points under consideration during General Ely's current visit to Washington were: Firstly, ways to speed up the French programme, and secondly, dispatch of United States technicians to assist it.
He told the press conference he was thinking of the possibility of a training programme similar to the United States training programme in Greece, supervised by General James Van Fleet! during the civil war.
Mr Wilson also said that if the French required more planes to beat back Communist attacks in Indo- China, the United States would do its best to supply them. But, he pointed out that United States assis- tance was a continuing programme and he personally did not know if General Ely had asked
the United States to supply 25 more B-26 bombers.
He added by way of clarifice- ; delivered to the French air forer tion that as a matter of fact it during February.
General Paul Ely, Chlot-of- had not yet been determined if
Indo-China. DS tho result of now engaged in high level
0
minute
*the
Voter
The Arst voter to record his ballot In the Urban Council elections at the Hongkong polling station this morning was Mr O. M. Omar, who is seen here placing his vote in the ballot box.-Staff Photographer.
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URBAN COUNCIL ELECTIONS
Voting Starts Quietly At Statue Square Station
Voting for the two Urban Council vacancies started off quietly at 8 o'clock this morning. Mr and Mrs K. M. A. Barnett had waited for nearly an hour to be first with their votes but were beaten to the ballot box by Mr Q. M. Omar.
By 8.30. only 44 had cast fhoir votes and it was not until 9.15 that the tempo quickened, with all booths full and with 210 on the scoreboard.
Outside, the polling station things were moro ; lively, Voters passed down a whito-lined lane with party posters and slogans on one side and handshaking candidates on the other.
Each party have their own'¡ will vote during the lunch hour plot.
Party helpers stand at and, after office hours this
the top of the lane handing out | evening. Jeaflets and by the time the
voter reaches the polling station
he is loaded with pamphlets, sore from
the responding to well-wishes of the, candidate and his hand paralysed from shaking hands.
The
Deportation
Ordered
war-time plea for draft exemp tion as a neutral alien.
voter has one consola- tion when he does finally reach the
end. A brightly painted
Los Angeles, Mar, 23. stall loaded with
free soft Dick Haymes, 37, orosner drinks provided by a thought husband of Rita Hayworth, was ful Junior Chamber of Com ordered today, to be deported to merce, offer some relief.
bis native Argentina on charges Proof that the posters do at- that he re-entered the United tract people was given when one States illegally last year after a Hongkong businessman parked visit to Howall, to see his future his car opposite the polling wife.
The Government mid the locked station,
door and the headed towards his office,
action was
bosed on Haymes' As he started crossing Statue Square he stopped, Icoked at
Haymes, through his inwyer, the Buttering slogans, turned round and walked back into the
David Marcus, said he would hall and voted.
fight the case to the United One political sign in the lane States Supreme Court if neces-
sary. suggested people should look
Mr Marcus termed, the action behind them. It was surprising "cruel and Inhuman banish- how many did just that.
mentTM ****Stripped FOOLPROOF...
of
legal verbiage," he mid, "the order is of Mr Haymes to the territory Organisation within the poll- predicated upon a visit in 1053 of Hewall and his return to
6.
The grimy Dutch tramp steamer Amstelstad docked here today with a skeleton officers crewing station is foolproof and what after a 19-day voyage across the Pacific following voters have paired through have
bcen handled quickly the desertion of 19 sailors in Japan.
elelently.
Mr
and California in a matter of days
and the fling of his, address • two report (as required by allans)
tion Service"-Reuter.
The sailors had rebelled against conditions on the 10,000-ton freighter and said the Chief Mate dimculties, such as people who one day late with the Immigra had attacked one crewman with a fire axe,
the
was old because it was at the
tha start of
There wero one
wanted to vote but had no vot Ing rights, and four teenage girls who were undèr age.
Between 9.16 and 10.30 the number of voters increased con-
RIOTING AT PAPER MILL
more aircraft would be sent to Staff of France's armed forces, THE Socialists
The New China News Agency strong debating said Mao had submitted to the General Ely's visit, ma Rome
Washington talks on Indo-China, Committee the flest draft con- points in the House
Discussing the possibility of was reported to have stressed stitution of the
the People's Re-United States participation in the urgent need for more planes Commons on Monday when publie of China, drawn up by
1he French training programme, including Committee of the
transports and hell arguing for an expansion of
the Central
Mr. Wilson pointed out that the copter offensive, inese Communist Party.
to meet the Chinese
Current East-West trade, but they The Committee
United States The
decided also
programme for also crred in one or two
within
Korean
It troops was months to
great was not clear whether
final decision on the number of contentiona. The
Iccess. sugges-
от and revision оf
He said the United States had American planes to be sent to the draft constitution so that it tion, for example, that the
told France
Indo-China had that hopes for a
yet boen British Government, by
may be submitted to the Cen- trol People's Government Coun- final victory in Indo-China reuched, but presumably there continuing to support the
would be agreement on this The adoption and promulga- depended in particular on cil for
The vessel, which will return caused much friction. Captain before General
Icft Ely UN embargo, was merely
native peoples. Braft constitution.
to Japan with a new crew, after vaa Knapen admitted the food us the pandering to the wishes of
Washington on Thursday, According to the Agency. He said he was not criticising
In Vancouver, was "not the best" and sald Itsiderably jumping from 210 Today the General had a 35. loading grain
to certain sectiona uf the discussions draft constitution the French
on
programme but he
made the voyage across with meeting
pur 657. At. 11 a.m. 800 had been also
like to be held in United States Congress was
Wil
groups would
see it operated Secretary of State, Mr John Padfe with its 10 officers and chased
recorded with a further 182 session Jointly by the pledary
"more aggressively)" manifestly absurd. Britain
Foster Dulles, but he avoided six stewards working. 16-hour ship's trip,
passing through within half an
Dacca, Mar. 23. willingly
He said a new crew arrived hour to bring the 11.30 total up. He said the big problem reporters by entering and leav-shifts. ussumed ber
of the Committee and the Na- tional Committee of the Chinese facing the French at the moment Ing Mr Duftes' onics by a private | he spent double time on the being flown out from
Thirteen people were killed. obligations by associating People's Political
Captain A. van Knapen said in Vancouver last week after to 982.
and 35 injured in riots yester Consultative
Holland who lift,
Officials at the poll said the day at a big new paper-mill at could be used in the combat He was scheduled to confer bridge and rotated his naviga-and would man the ship on its figures so far were much the Chandraghons, near Chittagong, zones were being diverted to with the United States Joint tmrs with one mate on duty at return to Japan-United Press. same as last year. They expect 130 miles south of here, it was training the Vietnamese forces. Chiefs-of-Staff and the standing a time, sometimes charting the
the rush time to be between officially, announced tonight. The United States might be group of the North Atlantic ship's course by the stars.
2. p.m., and 3 p.m., and after Among those killed at the able to help them bridge this Treaty Organisation Inter today. Stewards worked double shifts
Karnaruli plant-one of the of the Delence Department sources of eight hours to the galley
By 12.30 the total number of biggest Industrial undertakings suggestion that said General Ely who recently and eight hours He rejected a
on deck, and
voters who had recorded their In East Bengal which has been 'ballots at Indo-China the
the Statue Square working for only four months war the chief steward replaced the the United States would find it-
front, had brought with him to cook, one of the deserters, self more involved than ever in
polling station was 1,220, the Washington talks a top the Indo-China war if it decided
The seamen who deserted the secret list of weapons and rust-coated ship in Japon to send out training personnel.
which the French equipment "I would not dig us in any needed for the war.
charged that the
the brawny Chief deeper than
now," he added.
herself with the United Nations trade boycott of Communist China after Peking's entry into the Korean war; there was no question of the Government yielding to outalde pressure. The embargo at the time was a necessity, and the only justifiable point of debate today is whether or not circumstances have sufficiently changed to merit withdrawal of trade restric- tions imposed to deal with a specific situation,
THE
Conference.
It, however, did not publish details of the draft constitution. --Reuter.
Stole From Embassy
of
Karlsruhe, Mar. 23.
on, trial
Was
the fact
that men
we are
tourca
MEETING REQUESTS
BusOutrage JORDAN
Mate, Peer Bomer, 46, ad HELD NOT
attempted to inttock a
Areman a are axe in the Northern
Mr Wilson said he had no in- At a news conference today Japanese port of Hokkaldo TO BLAME
formation to conärm
a report Mr
Duiles, before
he
was, assumed that once
with
met They said the fight led to their
p.m.
IN KOWLOON
The poll was being held at
were the operations manager and two other senior officials,
Six victims of the riots are '
the St Andrew's Church Hallin hospital with serious injuries.
in Kowlooni.
In the first halt The couse of the trouble is not
known-Router. hour only five people attended.
to
STUDENTS TEAR
DOWN FLAG
The
demonstrations, which took on an anti-British charac- ter, were staged on the occasion of Greek Independence day in of commemoration of the war
Greece won her independenco.-France-Presso,
went Eight people
Dr Raymond Lee was the first here today accused of a series
cast his vote, and in the of thefts, including stealing
carlier part of the morning. about 200 pieces of silverware in Paris that General Ely had General Ely and the Chairman strike is Otaru on February 27- Joint and the eventual departure of
there were few people attend- from the Japanese Embassy at been casured that if the Cam- of the United States
Jerutalem, Mar. 23.
Athens, Mar. 23. ing the poll. The number in- munists in Indo-China used Chiefs-of-Staff, Admiral Arthur the Amstelstad for Vancouver HE British Government has Oberwinter, near Bonn.
Students today tore down R Radford, lold reporters tha without them.
Jordan was today ac-creased in the later part of the made it crystal clear that
Britiskt flag in the centre of hearing two fighter planes, the United States During today's
octendants admitted their Itself would retaliate against the as rapidly as possible to Franch
United States was
was responding
BRANDISHED KNIFE
quitted of responsibility for morning. It supports the general
Between 10 am, and noori, 206 Athens during demonstrations gullt.
fighter bases which presumably principle of expanding East-
Romer defended his action in the murder of 11 Israeli people arrived to cast, their in favour of a union of Greeco military ald. Five of the bettised Wost trade relations, and it stateless Poles.
were would be in Communist China Yesterday Admiral Radford, keeping discipline among the citizens in the Negev desert. votes and at noon, the Agure with Cypionat
: cnc & Russian Reuter,
General Ely crew but denied he attacked The Jewish delegation to stood at 283. has made practical contri- and two were German women.
who accompanied MORE PLANES -
Among the voters were. Messrs to a White House conference, anyone with an axe. He held up butions to that ond by The prosecution sald they
the Israel Jordan armistice
F. C. Clemo, I. B. Trevor, E. B. hod stolen more than 200,000
Washington, Mar. 23.
with President Elrenhower, said a knife during an interview after revising, its embargo lists to
Marks (about
asked for additional the ship docked here and ad- commission had accused Teesdale and Austin Coates. Defence £18,000) worth
Department officials if France permit conclusion of trade
Altogether, 1,500 have regis- planes the United mitted he brandished it, but Jordan of being responsible. today predicted that the United bomber deals with Soviet Russia. of fewellery, gold and sliver.
The Targell delegation, after fered to voto in Kowloon, and 1821, when The Embassy tableware dis- States would soon dispatch more States "would certainly consider said, "I did it after he (the
fireman) gave me a bad mouth. the vote on the Jewish motion, was expected that most people It has been possible to do appeared on July 11, 1953, just bomber planes to the French it. this without violating obil- before it was to have been used forces fighting the Communist was reached on supply bums and I didn't need the Commission) United Nationa "They were a lazy bunch of accused the President of the .gations to the United at a reception for Crown Prince Vietminh in Indo-Ching.
of Nations embargo. In the Akihito during his visit to France, it was learned author
bo dispatched to, Indo-added.
partial (he had abstained ense of China, however, it is Germany. About two-thirds of latively, had requested 25 hot walde ended aircraft: they knife to keep them in line," he representals Hatchison,
Fellow officers defended Romer from voting), and said that they less easy to do so. Unilateral was recovered in. October.- bombers of the B-29 type, in China from United States breas
addition to the 22 which were In the Pacific. Reuter, repeal of the UN boycott by
the Commission's meetings. Reports from French: hond- he was man but admitted would take no further part in
was a "hard driver". Britain is out of the ques-"
The Commission was meeting quarters in Indo-China indleated The Dutch sailors, who were tion at this time because,
that existing airfields and] town back to Holland after in Jerusalem for the last time facilties there would have to
roach the charged that to
decision
after while it is true fighting has
examining evidence ceased in Korea, the armis-
poor, food and drinking water
relating to the murder of the Israells, who tice has still to be conAD-
were in a bus travelling along lidated into a penco treaty,
the Beersheba-Eath sou ...at and it must be left to the
the Limo of the attack. Geneva conference to ia-
The Jewish motion had
Been 'dicate whether this can be
submitted in four points ac- cusing Jordan of" responsibility, and demanding the arrest, and exemplary punishment of the attackers. After the first two
Pituitary Gland Affected
By Atom Bomb Radiation
7
Boston, Mar. 23.
A leading medical expert on atomic radiation said
A
be expanded to cope with addi- their desertion, tional aircraft, and that more technicians would be needed.to service them.
#
Major-General Jean Dochaux, French air commander there, was quoted in the press, as say -- ing that the French forces were
achieved. It was the Peking today one of the delayed action effects of the atom bomb short of air technicians and more. Korea which rendered neces is an enormous cancer of the pituitary gland.
Government's action. In
would have to be sent with any
Tobacco Store
Blaze
London, Mar, 23: Smoice from a million smould
new plates stench Embassy e:ing;` cigarettes, wafted over
wherefore its abolition de \ that it crowds the brain Into animals which'survived the heat Ar
being
thele
sary the UN embargo This tumour becomes so large De Furth found that young
in Washington, sald rush hour workers from big Sofeated through the adverse mechanics were now blaze at a tobacco store this Jordanese, votes and the abstent pends very largely on what one-third or one-fourth of the and blast of the bombings available to handle additional morning in Pall Mall, in Lon- tion of the American chairman sort of role Communist cranium, Dr Jacob, Furth of developed the pitullary tumours alterant and there was no need don' West
the Commission representing China Intends to playlo
West indie bor for American personnel. Far Eastern affairs in the Children's Hospital there, told in their old age. The pituitary,
pen-kized gland: In many led at main connechoding fremen had to re the United Nations, the Leraall
don masks before they announced future, particularly in science welters accompanying the base of the brat and ocntrols said that there were now 250 could scrambio over crates respect of Indo-China. It the American Cancer Society almost all of the hormone-Dio American technicians helping wines and tobacco to get at the
ducing Lands of the bodyra,
building, adjacent to the French air force and more flume in will be events rather than four of research centres, . political policy that will Dr Furth formerly was asso- Dr Turth said there no way were not required for the United Unterlegerb
The Club! dictate whether or not the clated with the Atomic Energy of knowing whether?
Present plans really for the and had to, opens windows and present trade boycott of Commission, and at Oak Ridge, Japanese, exposed in their youth
Tennessee, investigated on sots to the Firoshima and Nogamic withdrawal of about 200 of doors for Ching remains much longer orgamics of atoms, bombenax= | blasts, Wii (dwy Kopja (umours inforde
ploded in Elletri,“
the
decision tá
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