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GILMANS GLOUCESTER ARCADE

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Arms And The

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Nations

AST November the United

Nations Assembly adopted

a proposal that a small sub- committee he formed to disarmament, The study proposal embraced atomic and conventional weapons and although Russia and her satellites declined to Vote the Soviet Union agreed to take part. Hopes but were quickly destroyed and a decisions were made or recommended at the London talks The

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ton pattern familiar and since 1946 The bern phrases have Hame

ruse

!!

in

used without gain-except possibly to the Soviet Un4413. There is as there alway hen been

agreement principle that the use and manufacture of atomic weapons be pruhibited stat such probibition be areom- · panted by a form of inter- national

ALTECH-

control. Kasmin insists that prohibition be immediate ditional, International con- trol coming later. But to prepare and carry this into effect might take years try accomplish and even prove. impossible. Under Anglo-French

for

plan "d urmament would proceed automatically step by step until nuclear weapons were eliminated and other arm- amenta reduced to a level strictly necessary internal security and fulfi ment of Charter obliga- tions." The Soviet demanti is tantamount to a demand for the prohibition uf atomie

weapons without,

any system of control. It is

hard to regard this proposal†

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serious attempt 22 reach agreement and seems rather designed opportunity for propaganda which will represent the Western Powers rojecting the Soviet appear)

for the abolition of atomic, warfare. Russia's adamant atlitude that there be no "interference in the domes- tie affairs of another coun

CHINA

No. 35876

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FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1954.

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These two pictures were taken yesterday by Our Staff Photographer during the blaze which raged for two and a half hours in the valley of Tai Hang Tung. The photograph on the left shows a European rescue worker helping a Chinese woman struggling with her child and a few possessions up a steep hillside. photograph on the right shows firemen standing by outside the gutted ruins of flimsy squatter huts after putting out the blaze yesterday evening.

The

Pathetic Scenes Of Victims

At Kowloon Tsai

The death roll after the disastrous 21⁄2-hour blaze which swept through the valley of Tai Hang Tung, Kowloon Tsai, yesterday afternoon, has risen to seven,

Doctors' Plot Sequel

Soviet Security Chief Executed

London, July 23.

The former Deputy Minis ter of State Security of the Soviet Union, Mr D. Riumin, has been executed under a death sentence passed by a military court, the official Soviet news agency, announced this morning.

T'ass,

Mr Riumin was the ometal of 4

Of the six casualties detained in Kowloon responsible for the arrest

group of Kremlin doctors shortly Hospital yesterday, a nine-year-old child, Yan Yuk-before the death of Stalin. The try" automatically rules out lin, and an unidentified woman estimated to be released after Stalin's death.

about 40 years of age, died during the night.

control by inspection.

tuo

ngo

In addition there are five other dead, including two children whose bodies have not yet been recovered from the gutted ruins of the settlement.

had

of

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Fanned

valley

Dimiy by

bottleneck

and huts,

while

the

doctors were exonerated and

The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported in April, 1953, that Riumin had been arrested In connection of the Mcacow with the cam doctors

Mau Mau Under Control

London, July 23.

The Colonial Secretary. Mr Oliver Lyttelton, in- dicated in the House of Commons last night that terrorism Ln Mau Mau Kenya was now well under control.

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cannot say when the shooting war will come to an and but we are right on top of this problem," he said.

Meanwhile the Govern→ ment was pushing on with development -MI] over Kenya and among the great majority of the popu- lation not affected by Mau Man.-Reuter.

HK-Bound Airliner Down In Sea

Survivors Sighted

A Cathay Pacific DC-4

had been some

List Slashed

150 More Items For European Trade

Washington, July 22)

The Western. Allies have agreed to cut the master list of banned strategic goods to the Soviet Union and her European satellites from 400 to 250 Items, Mr Harold Stassen, the Forelga Operations Administrator, announced today.

United

Mr Stassen said the States and her allies had-reach- ed "almost complete agreement” at recent tulks on the new list which would come into effect in a month's time.

Mr Stassen sold that the new list would open the way for greater cxports of tractors, textile machinery, Asting boats and equipment for processing food.-France-Presse,

Deserter Or Was He Kidnapped?

Missing German Official Was

Reds' No. 1 Wanted Man'

From Sefton Delmer

Bonn, July 22.

The taxi which took Dr Otto John into East Berlin on Tuesday carried with it to the Soviet espionage authorities their greatest prize of the cold war. He was at the top of Communists,wanted list.

presence

For Otto John was not a true, democratic and not have been jured Inje Soviet only the chief of the West militarist Germany thich beth berri ory

by promises. of he and John had been working psychiatrie treatment, German counter-espionage for when they supported the. A vaguely-worded note that service with access to all British and Americans during Wohlgemuth left In his office the secrets of the Westerh the war. John scoffed at the for his secretary indicated that allies in the North and West idea and reported Pulliz't John had gone voluntarily to in West Germany to the Soviet Zone and "does not Germany. He had just re the British.

want to return to the Western turned from America where Inside Western Germany It sectors (of the city)," Weat he discussed with the au- seif John was up against enemies German officials sold the abte

more powerful | was merely a "camouflage." thorities secret information perhaps even

than Russian secret service. gained from American and cther allied sources,

HATED NAZIS He knew it and made no

key

secret

Three Injured

In Peak

Car Accident

Nevertheless observers and it hard to accept the suggestion secret of his antagonism to tho that John has deserted the forces which are putting Nazis THUS the position remains

Western cause and gone over to and militarists back into unchanged from 1948 when

jobs of the West German sd- the Soviet zone freely. the first Atomic Commission

He flow in as a refugee to ministration. was deadlocked for the same The fire started at about 8.30 | the hillsides, and left there after

Britain in 1944. He came from

John's counter-espionage ber- reason. it is the same with

p.m. yesterday behind the the blaze. A large pile of about

[The doctors were first recused

Madrid to carry on the fight vice had been penetrated with Studios at 30 seperate lengths of hose were conventional weapons and Young Hwa Film

the sincked high in front of the

of plotting against the lives airliner flying from Bangkok against Hitler in which he and the connivance of the today the strength of the armed Boundary Street, and by

of Soviet

his brother Jeaders. Then

and other fellow German forces at work arrived Yung Hwi Studios. tume the Fire Brigade

to Hongkong has crash-his

by agents at the new unofficial Here forces.

the

жето defeated. April 4, 1993, about a month

A European woman and her already

LUCKY WOMAN

landed in the sea off Hainan conspirators Stalin's

the Russians have been stand on the scene

two children were injured when death, lucky woman, One

I know John's abhorrance of Gestapo. having after

And it has been An open ing rigidly and unyieldingly Sced up both sides

razing salvaged most of her possessions Ministry of Internal Affairs an-Island and a dinghy with the Soviet system was even survivors have been stronger than his abhorrence of

secret for some time that Nazis heir car, XX228, driven by the with another by the demand they pul thousands

squatter including four large squealing Dounced the doctors

exonerated and freed. forward

and German mill in the administration have been mother, collided years

sighted by a rescue plane, Hitlerlan strong pigs, set up another home in a

out to get John discredited and and rolled down the hillside wind the Are chasm.

yesterday evening, "I should have done south-westerly which they know cannot

FIFTEEN MENTIONED according to reports reach-tarism.

thrown out.

The More important, on several

accident occurred tits in the first place," she

At United Press said the West possibly be accepted, raged out of control for sure.

|ing Hongkong this after-

about 6 p.m. hand

Occasions

Soviet waving to chuckled

he rojected

yesterday, whilst German Interior Ministry Russia's proposal that all drug their hoses near it

the car was travelling towards evertures inviting him to cress proudly at hor harriedly ed. The Ministry said investiga-noon.

announced tonight there nations, especially the Great Registration

ar the top of the Peak, on Stubbs, Soviet zone and join "umcient sign to show he Road. of the fre constructed structure.

Earlier reports said the DC-4 into the the charges

them.

Tho roof and the sides Powers, reduce their armed victims, which began innedlate. One hut was completely.against them were false and that had sent out an

emergency

SPY'S INVITATION

kidnapped by the Com- of the car were pushed in and forces by one third has onlyly after the fire yesterday, con- untouched

und by fire,

its their "confessions" had been message stating that its port

the rest of the body was also found support with her tinued

The latest of these came la munists." all through the night, occupants unconcernedly ate obtained by the former Ministry engine was on fire, that it was

Invitation brought NERVOUS DÉPRESSION

badly dumoored. of State Security-later merged losing altitude and wanted all March. The

to John by Baron Wolfgang a John disappeared on Tuesday The other car HK2841. with the Ministry of Internal possible assistance.

with von Und Zu Putlitz, a former night

Dr. Wolfgang escaped serious damage. The Affairs under Lavrenti P. Berla, As soon as the report was

German diplomat and a former Wohlgemuth, who practised on passengers of the damaged car who was also executed--by received in Hongkong, search

spy who is today a self-con- both sides of the Iron Curiain. were immediately sent to

hospi and rescue operations went into

fessed Soviet agent.

An Interior Ministry spokesman tat for treatment. Their condi action,

Putlitz called on

sold Wohlgemuth is known to tion was John

not revénlod by tha A number aircraft, in-

Cologne and told him he would be "an active Communist.” Polico. The names of the in- cluding a Cathay Pacific Dakota

be made extremely welcome and two R.A.F. Sunderland fy

Western sources said that fured, ware not known up, to the comfortable on the Soviet John, who had been sufferingime the China Mail ing boats have been sent out to

side of the frontier should he | from a nervous depression, may | press. search for the plane.

17 PEOPLE

agree to cross,

time,

firmen tried

satellites. The reason being When this task was taken over

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the Social Welfare Ofer from the Resettlement Depart- 8.15 a.m. today,739 families had been registered, representing from 5,000 to 6,000 Are victims,

that as the total strength by of the Soviet forces in closely guarded secret it is ment quite impossible to assess what the effect of "blind" acceptance of such an The Hon. T. L Bowring and undertaking would be. It Mr W. W. C. Shewan, Director would, as far as is known, and Assistant Director of the leave the Soviet bloc with Public Works Department, a great preponderance of visited the scene of the disaster

morning to conventional armaments and this forces and the effect of this possibilities of clearing the area. The Pollee have set up a com- would be greatly increased If the proposal were adopted and post at the You Yot Chun Club house. From this pest without simultaneous police will drect the operations solution of the problem of of keeping order, preventing atomic control. The depress- looting and patrolling the dis- ing feature of the Sub-| trick. Committee meeting

A

has

survey

the

TEMPORARY HUTS Hundreds of victims have not* bean that the Soviet delegation has simply up temporary shelters in Maple repeated proposals which Street where the Reit:t Centre have scnt- have been thoroughly situated. Others

disconsolately

-terad

and

examined, discussed and sitting on street pavements bi- rojected over and over hind the chazred roninants of ngain in the past, even thole possessions. though the other countries

A China Mail reporter, tour-

have made it clear that they lng the area this morning aaw

were prepared to modify or abandon their own ideas and

to search for another basis of argument This has happened twice before and it looks ominously as

any

pathetic, scenes. Walking among the charred

S.C.M.P. Fund

For

Fire Victims

The South Chinx Morning Post, Ltd., will be and pleased to receive acknowledge contributions in aid of the victims of the disastrous fire. st Tai Hang

Tung, Kowloon Teat

The Fund is opened with a donation of $10,000 from

the Hong Kong and Shang- hai Banking Corporation and. $10,000 from

Insurance Society of

· Union Canton, Ltd., and lis sub- sidiary companies..

tho

Cheques should be made payable to the "Tai Hing Tung Fire Relief Fund" and all donations, however small, NWIDE be acknow- ledged.

some of ruins,

them "stil their morning meal, throwing smouldering,, were tired and odd grains of rice: to chickens blackened men wo

women and running about in front of har searching for what while another similar structure, children,

Fifteen doctors were mention-

tions had shown

methods most strictly forbidden by Soviet law.

At the same time it was an- nounced that an Order of Lenin awarded to Dr L. F. Timashuk, the woman physician who had "unmasiced" the accused doctors,

of

had been cancelled as incorrect Air Traffic Control at Kai Tak by the Supreme Soviet Pre-airport received the emagency sidium,

call at 8.45 a.m. HK Summer time today.

The aircraft carrying. 17 people

Pravda

altacked Biumin 49

"a hidden enemy of our State ave crew members. and our people."]

18

north,

including

The registration number of the The official announcement of aircraft was given as VR-HEU the execution said: “In view of and its estimated position was the particular danger of Riumin's 18 degrees, 40 minutes wrecking activity and consider 110 degrees 47. minutes cast, ing the gravity of the conse→

about 30 miles oast of the of his crimes, quences

the south east point of Hainan Military Department of the land. Supreme Court of the Soviet Union sentenced Rlumin to the

highest penalty death by shoot ing. The verdict has been car ried out."--Reuter.

Lowered

100 French Wounded

In

He did his best to parsunde

John that Sovlot Germany was

Hongkong Man

To Produce

Joint Movie

Manila, July 29, fim executive from Hong-

In Vietminh Attacks who arrived her last

Hanol, July 22. night anich he would noon 'pro- One hundred-French Union | duce a joint movie with a local troops were wounded in the Red motion plature.company.

Was

The secret sandwich success

Here's the secret of sandwich

went to

staccess=at ton-time, supper time--almost any time. - A thin spread

| sandwich of all. It does you good, too, becacing Bovril is the gọc

of beef in its most concentrated form,

Insurance Rates River delta yesterday as the An agreement, for the Joint of Bovril on bread and butter makes the tastiest, most satisfyin

fighting drow to a close in the production, to be

called way said to have and a half year Indo- mahone,

by China war, the French High been lared `last · year Command announced today, Premiere Productions of Manila London, July 22.

Though a lull hung over most and Mansang Film Company of Police patrols strolled past the first, was completely razed doped surence rates for shelled road patrol south-Mr HO, Tink-koon

underwriters today of the dell Vietminh forcer Hongkongand

general itself in 1964. But the lond- the burnt and smelling corpees and Hts farmer' residents' pokon ship from Europe travelling) winber of Franch. Unidet troops, that the picture would be filmad

weat

rest of Hanoi, S wounding

Manager of Mansang: Film, said ing powers'of the free world of pigu that had been roasted | in; the"ashda velik Bileks sintés" north of Canton, China from five |

alive in the blaze. The tall of hope of recovering some little to three per bent.

archell High, Command com- on location in the Philippines will not be deterred

The Communists and in Hongkong, with his com More imunique saldı.

if had been thelf homes yesterday, natuality built back to back with

history is going, to repeat

and

London

to try the pony, supplying to the female

their efforts to reach agree pig was untouched by died, pe DORION FEE Carrying a babyThe new rate covers war and also si stormedtur EK ment and this attitude was anorded strange contrast to with all girt bring to Der strace riot-and civil: commotion Vietri, 36 miles northwest of actresses grands erle

alere) supply? summed up by M. Jules] is churred carcase. CHANG black trousers, walked dnsedly ride for All ID FROM ONE Hanos, and some wake fed inside ing male, Lund dur Moch, who saids!We must stromen were killi on the on the blickened mineider Anked imepehind Fath Batula or Black the barbed wire da un nes not be responsible for a souse today, renovering: homes by patrolling Cacakken watery Sad poeta endhang sumdinavia. Core Kon métach

that had been dragged over all y (denia, na koni, pare, Ost: 1)}}} ==unk

failure

mate

28.000

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BOVRIL

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