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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Our Tedious.

Accusers

In

▶RITAIN'S· · manufacturers Para becoming somewhat tedious with their com- plaints

and unfounded allegations against Hong- kong's products. Woollen knitted gloves are their latest target, and, as in the case of cotton shirts a year: ago, thair accusation, for- which no evidence docs or can exist, is that the Coony's merchants are re- exporting Japanese-mada knitted gloves under the guise of being made Hongkong. The extra- ordinary thing is that mẹn holding responsible positions in British Industry Jend themselves to making public allegations against Hongkong manufacturer: without "first making the slightest effort to check on the facts-facts which are readily available at the Board of Trade, the Customs and Excise Department and the London

the office of Hongkong Government. It is noticeable, for example, that it is only after specifie accuantions have been refuted by figures and other information that these

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No. 15780

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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1954

Price 20 Cents

US Rejects Russian Offer To Join

Join NATO

NATO 50,000

A "SLY MANOEUVRE” TO UNDERMNE THE WEST

Text Of Soviet Note

Washington, Mar. 31.

*

Russia today offered thoin the anti-Communist North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, but the falted States promptly rejected the bid as a sly manoeuvre to undermin Western security,

A State Department spesman said the Moscow proposal, which was labelled "astounding" in alomatic circles here, inspired no con- fidence among the free natio in view of the "Iron grip" Russia maintains on "its captive people.

"It is a manoeuvre to ga admittance within the walls of the West, to undermine its security, said a spokesman.

A reporter asked if the stateent amounted to a formal US‘rejection of the Soviet proposal, which is based, the condition that the United States drap its Western European Army plan an sign an all-European security pact.

"This is it (the rejection)""lied the spokesman.

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It also

groupings

RUS A'S POSITION

Soldiers

Locked In Battle

Hanol, Mar. 81... ...Fifty thousand soldiers were locked tonight in û | #CE-SAW battle of exter- mination at Dien Bien Phu. Waves of screaming, drink crazed, bugic-blowing Vietminh, 40,000 strong, cracked, in, one side of the besieged cluster of forts in a savage fight which may determine the outcome the entire seven-year war.

of

The French Command estimated that the Reds lost '1,500: dead 'the first night alone mown down by pointblank French gunfire -or pitifully caught on miles of barbed wire defences,

This brought total Vietminh ensualties in the 19-day battle

to more than 15,000.

יי

·

Gets The Sack

French Govt Dismisses Gen. Juin

Paris, Apr. 1.

I

FLASH FIRE. KILLS

10 CHILDREN

Buffalo, NY Mar, 31, y A flash fire destroyed a frame | suburban elementary school building today, killing 10 children and injuring 24 pupils and teachers.

Those who escaped either ran in a panic through a flame-lined corridor or jumped into snowdrifts outdoors after two teachers smashed windows with their hands.

* The fire swallowed the one-storey Cleveland Hill elementary annexe within 10 minutes, after about 35 children 10 to 7-12 years old had gathered around a piano for a music lesson.

A crowd of 200 horrified werd taken home in bussa and adults, many of them parents, the older ones were sent home rushed to the school in Chock- later. towaga, northeast of Buffalo.

}

It had been reported earlier

There they huddled in freezing that a basement boller explosion weather to watch "remsen fight was the cause of the diranter. the flames

nes and then pick their But John Dwyer Ene County way: through the wreckage in District Attorney, said there was search' of bodies.

no boller in the building, which Paul Rutecki, Erie County was heated by d coal stove in, Coroner, said the remains of the basement.. charred bodies had been. He said 10.

the firo" definitely found. Firemen had reported originated on the ground door, the death total was 11, but Mr probably in an art room across Hutecki said this could not be the hall from the music room. confirmed.

United Press::.

At least 10 of the injured were

in critical conditioti with cuts and burns. The injured Includ

The French Government ed is of the pupils, all mixi early today dismissed Mar-graders, their two teachers, and

Hepper Again Remanded

the rescue.

Hove. Sussex, Mar. 31 "LOUD, "WHOOSH" Miss June Mahany,

William Sanchez 20-year

de Pinar

sat down at the plano when tradited last week from Spain, flames burst out with a loud was remanded in custody for a "whoosh" She said it Bounder second time bere tellad of almost like an explosion, recharge of murdering 11-year-old The instant. the children The artist was brought dowil

Margaret Spovick. the flames they became panicky, They

darted around, the room, from London by car for the *-less than

2. Refusing, to uppeir, before doors and MBA Corque and i meking,enquiries, in Spain= "arm

He was unable to say whether tional tease and to strengthen | question of establishing villifiers of Hongkong talk the United States had consulted peace ht be expected system of collective security in

At nightfall, after 24 hours of shal Alphonse Juin from the school principal and two about "obtaining statistics,"

Britain and France

before they would welcome taking Europe, which has been pointed slaughter, opposing forces his posts as Vice-Chairman other teachers who, rushed to or attempt to back out. of issuing its staternent.

battled for possession of several of the High Council of the measures ill, the object of out hitherto, should disappear."" an untenable position by The Kremlin proposal was providing) Buation

The note in which

zaid: "A situation French Union positions

sub-

Armed Forces and per- "human Fea" declaring that their obser contained in identical 10-page the North Attle Pact would arises where relations between merged under vations must not be taken notes, handed to the US obtain

hally

defensive states are based not on secking asadults; Bayonet – swinging } manent -adviser to Govern-old practice teacher, had"Just Hepper, 62-year-old "artist, ex-.

the too literally." This is a Ambassador, Mr Charles Bohlen, character ndonditions would nece and

Interests of the

cream of ment on national defence. preservation, counter-attackers and the French

mutual and British be creat exuding the pos

the defenders, drove co/13,000

This decision, It was a cheap and unworthy way of envoys in Moscow. Mr Bohlen siblilty of awing one or other | operation but on setting one rebels

back off some of the nounced after a Cabinet mest trying to besmirch the good immediately

ing was taken because the name of Hongkong. It calls of the note to Washington for.

relayed highlights part of many into military tion against another--which focaptured sireng points.

evitably increases tension in re for the strongest possible study.

lations between states and thus The French maintained, how-Marsal had "gravely failed in the obligations of military of a new ever, that the heart of the discipline: by protest. The accusations

The pote 'contained a violent

*** defences still held." The milli- "In thise the North At-Increases the danger vindictiveness denunciation

1. Making a speech with pushing and shoving one an-hearing which lasted lesa of the proposed lantic Trey Organisation would "in tur connection one should ary authorities said it would be

out authorisation, end.

other. Some rustied for the five minutes because they are made, not six-nation West European couse too close my consider the fact that the first 48 hours before the final" out-

to crowd of His counsel said he was atiti out of ignorance, but Army, which is designed to

possible 1 Reding dsistée chilt would to world war," us towell "as the come was known my Premier: 19sepa Loniel” when through into the m because our critics make no aggression. In its stead, Russia European suntries, which cetted by the creation of military

guard against

to the entry of other second world war, were pre

summoned to explain his con outdoors, 4

Barthwould not be, in a -position ? to? effort first to satisfy them-

SITUATION CRITICAL

duct.

Within moments, walk of question witnesses until the next proposed .selves

all-European alongside h establishment of 28 to the facts security treaty,

effectly [en]

'stem of

groups of states setting one collective

The situation was described as The Cabinet action does not flames scaled off the door bad hearing, which was fixed for relating

Apri B affect Marshal Juin's position the two teachers in the The body of Margaret Spevick to Hongkong'

"critical" Russia sald It would be will-security Europe would against mother and by the split of Europe into two enemy products,

General Nguyen Van Hinh, as the

to the only living, Marshal of room rushed

two ing to consider joining NATO have am important/signi

camps.

Vietnamese Chief of Staff, France.

windows. They could not get was found in Hepper's onerroom. if the United States would ficance foe strengthening of

"In this connection. one should med the Vietminh were Asked HONGKONG manufacturora join

whether it would them open, so they smashed datiof at Hove on February its proposed have a complete answer to Pact.

European peace thre the world.

of the Soviet not forget the particularly dan-herding young, untrained re-affect his position as Allled them tind grabbed students and Router. repeated the The pun

gerous role of German the many baseless alicgations famillar Soviet warnings about Governme as regards the Larism in such military grouping machineguns at their backs to Europe, a Government 'spokes-

mcruits into the slaughter with Commander-in-Chief, Central pushed them through.

Some of the children

were directed against them. As the heavy burdens of the East-North Altic Fact, le

in loosening the drst and prevent ony retreat.

man answered: "The question engulfed in flames as they Mr E. G. À. Grimwood has West arms race and the dangers known.

world wars,” it added,

Officers said many of the ro- arises whether, he will remain struggled toward the windows. vernment of

4trat said, the Colony's industries of atomic war.

emphasises

"Dle, Frenchmen, there or not."-Router.

When the teachers saw there have nothing to hide; they man sald the Russian offer of anot share the present moment | cerning the policy -directed to- Dle", appeared to be jazzed up:

The State Department spokes- USSR hot shared and can significance of the question con-bel yelling

London Mar was nothing more they could. speak for themselves.

potent 120-proof

themselves (00

do, they dragged

Mr. Anthony. Eden the for-he woollen knitted gloves manu viously

European security treaty pre the poin view that the sald wards the creation of military with

through the setting them degree) "choum" rice alcohol,

windows, and olgn Secretary, turned down had been rejected by treaty is a defensive charac

ac groups of states

Main, hope for factured here conform 100 the three Western

each other con-

few feet into the surestion in the House of for the defenders

dropped the selves against powers in ter.

.tho French

All aviation.

snow. per cent to the requirements |Berlin. He said the security of

the Soviet trasted with the policy of effec. was

Commons today that he should regard

among co-operation

The principal and two other propose a revision of the inter- all planes in Northern Indo-China laid down for import con- Western Europe was a matter Governs proceeds from the tive

over the battlefield.

teachers who. were injured national Law governing the cessions under, the Imporial of direct concern to the Europ-fact tthe North Atlantic European slates in the cause of ranged

Tait for territorial isean countries themselves. Preference regulations

Pact es a closed group, of maintaining and strengthening They dumped huge quantities

those waters. napalm and explosives on task the states, ores

to dis- nobel divisions "Such co-operation between beyond dispute. The woollen

Mr Christopher READY TO CONSIDER

them prevent new German aggres-

before

they yarn used

The rest of the 1,200 students The Soviet noto declared: slon adsince it is only the all the European states, both big

mount, another assault.

"“view of the modern devē wholly

Yorkshire, Guided by from

the unchangeable Soviet on, of all the Great and small, independent or trondi

and high school ments of offensive weapons. nothing but Hongkong principles of its peace

loving Powersheluded in the anti-social order, would permit the Mobilisation of the nic ̋oria | here today, President Dwight Junos debination: siementery, dative, made, the “stabroetión · labour is employed in all foreign policy, and seeking the Hiller Mition which does not avoidance of a situation in which for combat, however, partially Eisenhower said that the Rus were in no danger and the two Mr. Edon said: "The Govern North Europe is periodically drawn deprived the Dien Bien Phu slans might possibly be prepare buildings they occupied were ment consider that any exten- phases of the manufacture lessening of tension in inter- partiet in it-the.

into disastrolta wars, which is defenders of air-dropped: "sup- ing now to examine with the not damaged.

sion of the breadth of territorialt With their guns firing US a plan for the internation- These gudents were marched werd beyond the three miles of these gloves, including the national relations, the, Soviet Atlant fact cannot, but be re-testifled to by the experience of plies an end, it was feared alisation of atomic energy used

Government expresses Jis gardéd

an aggressive treaty the histories of European states for boura

orderly fashion into the wall contrary to the in dyeing process, and the o

rcaditions to

consider, together directs against the Soviet during the Fast century." the French might run out of for peaceful mang

school auditorium, where they trests of the United Kingdom finished article is as British- with interested governments, Union

United Press and Reuter.

ammunition if the battle con- made as anything being the question of the participation

Referring to the publication sang songs until the crisis was and of

ther seafaring "Innection with considera-

tinued for long at its present in the Soviet Union of detalls over. The

3 children nations. -Router. produced in the North of of the USSR in the North tion the Soviet proposals on

intensity. England. Nor is sweated Atlantic Pact.

atomic and thermonuclear The French claimed to have researches in that country, he the of collective

won back most of the ground said that it was not possible to they lost since the attack start ascertain,

comes

That

almost

The

well

tha

and in

of peace.

"The Soviet Government has been frity, the undesirably Price Cuts

of

participation

consideration

In Russia

the

of

three

1

May Be Ready

Now To Talk collapsed as they tried to get

on

Eden's "No To Suggestion

into the building to 60 HRKIT

who were trapped. Washington, Mar. 31. During his press conference at the

STOP PRESS

labour employed. On the contrary some of the most in view that, arising in connec- of Lid States

the reasons

for this od on Tuesday aftercon. modern machinery is used in tion with these questions, aint collective security of

But

Bu decision: satisfactory solution to all in- Euro vas discussed.

several ports on the east side of

people He added that "certain") the process of manufacturing terested states could be obtained

NO OBSTACLE

the bastion were till occupied woollen gloves, notably for in the interests of strengthening

by Vietminh assault waves. The bught that this might mean into

The a change. In the · Boviet policy and security the dyeing of the yarn. That the peace

Moscow, Mar. 31,

fighting was confused in the this station, as well as the

and the sign of a, Russian Hongkong's greatly im- peoples

the United

redoubts, Russia tonight announced tungle of trenches,

destro "it is perfectly evident that partation of

to negotiate honestly) proved products represent the North Atlantic Treaty Star luring the second world cuts in the price of bread, bunkers and wire erected to and sincerely--France-Po strong competition to some Organisation' might, under war the common struggle tea, petrol and many other hold off the rebels. of Britain's textile industries | quitable conditions, Jose · ita { age Hitlerito aggresalon, the

- BADIOED REPORT is not denied, but this does aggressive character in the event or sibility which the United commodities both neces

The latest battle report radio- not justify false allegations of all Great Powers which St together with the Soviet sities and luxuries - from

participated in the anti-Hiller Un France and Britain, tomorrow morning, exactly ed by Colonel de Castries that Hongkong manufac coalition taking part in i shtor the postwar regulation a year after a similar price during the night sald the silua- ..turers- are' palming off Russia said,

of Fope, and also considering

tion was ill critical; and the Japanese cut-rate goods on The Soviet Note, published in theint of view of the United alash. -

French Union forces, which British today's edition of Pravda,: was St an unsuspecting

expressed at the Berlin The Soviet Cabinet and Com-

throw the enemy

times. back six to addressed

the Frenchcorence, the Soviet public. Moreover, whatever

Unlon munist party executive made the ones donot see any obstacle in the announcement in a decree which in a desperate counter-attack competition Hongkong's pro- Government.

to Britain and the pve consultation of the promptly sent shoppers hurrying probably would not be able to ground, ducts aro offering their were sent

United States,

Picipation of the United home with their baskets empty, hold the regained counterparts made Jn England, the complainants ernment of Eranes, as well as

It declared "Since the Gov. In the all European Nearly all shops except pro- French Staff officers mid.

closed for "glock Strong gusts of wind blew Visions taking" and the mar

caricat:crowds saway, part of the parachuted; in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Governments of Britain and

ammunition quickly thinned

for the advanes Leicestershire and other in- the United States, have declared ut the obstacle in the way.

Breads are down five to eight poste posing a dimicult supply for the hard-bitten, dustrial counties are re- their desire to lessen. Interna-eaching agreement on

per cent, ten, by 10.3 per cent problem!

Union olhumbered Teach minded that last year the

coffee and cocoa by 15 per cent, macaroni and floum by eight. troops, they added.

Furthermore, Colonel cert

The

wes Castries Blern memaga sild, taxtilek

shoes, one battalion of Thai country, tribesmen seems not to have

Identical

the

collective European

United Kingdom: textile

industry, como off best in

the exchange of goods with Hongkong: Britain exported £7,500,000 worth of textiles to the Colony," which was

Floods Endager. Basra

Basra, Mar 81.

the

ver cuts over.

* . perfumes, -- equipment,

building,

goods; and Scores of engineers and ndreds of labourers were medicines come : donk o 26,000,000 more than we sold fighting tonight to protects major shipping and oll centr

to Britain. Farthermore, industry port from floods, beag down from the Baghdad The price of the United Kingdom's overall | area."

trade

The mypilen watery of the aghúnd, bearly 300-milies Tigris and the Euphrated" which iver from here,ihas been clos

alreathy - cnused "havoo, i Teheran's Radio

*west off) az Qurne onight that

herebral tremor hadi

of

author the region

Til foods have's com

the town p

The

1 Aam

Router:

mut up the same resistance,

stubbornness

and, hérolama??" red-bereted paratroopery,

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