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COMMENT OF THE DAY

Kenya War

PN the last six months events in Kenya have tonded to recede from the headlines with perhaps one or two notable exceptions-and tho gehural impression боя grown up that the tide hnd turned against Mau Mau, Pérnaps I would have been too. sweeping 'statement to make

A

that

İL "was all over bar the ahouting". But many believed that the shooting war was as good as won and the most urgent problem had become one of rehabilita- tibn. The offeint statement issued by Kenya'e War Council that "there is no Ilkelihood of an early ond to the emergency" reveals that the campaign stage is still far from completed. In terms of cash it is costing £1 million a month and it is proposed to spend another £8 million before 1954

to

Dut it is impossible to estimate how much is to be apent on security and how much

on rehabilitation. Certainly, the stage has been reached where many areas freed of Mau Mau are being returned to close adminis tration-similar to the pro- clámation of "white areas" in ́ ́Malaya—and the re- establishment of disrupted community services is cer- tain to be costly. Military action, however, will con- tinue to use up n’large share of the Colony's Emergency budget and oven though the War Council is inclined to view the situation with "cautious optimism" l

OME

STRIKE

LATEST:

CHINA

No. 35958

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Price: 20 Cents

MANCHESTER MAY BE NEXT

50,000 Dockers Out

No Annual Grant For Hongkong

London, Oct. 20. Labour MP. Mr R. W. Karensen, asked in the House of Commons today whether the Government had considered giving an Increased, financial grant to the Goverment of Hong- kong.

He said the Colony had to carry the burden of the refugees now within its territory.

The Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, re- plied: "The present finan- cial position of the Hong- kong Government is, not such as to require any an- nual grant is, aid of ad- ministration' or Special assistance in respect of the refugee problem.

"On the occasion, how- over, of a dissatrous fro

watter settlement last Christmas, Her Majesty's Government made an að hoe contribu- tion of £200,000 towards the cost of rehousing.” --- Reuter,

U.K. Accuses

Red China Of

would be unwise to expect A Using Force

any substantial

improve

ment for some time, ta

"

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IT is true that in Kikuyu Position Of Foreign country around Nairobi Firms In Shanghai.

where the trouble

WAB

The

worst conditions are very much better. This in itself

London, Oct. 20.

Under- Foreign fa encouraging for. It was among the Kikuyus, first of Becretary, Lord Reading. the Kenya tribes to come said today Communist into close contact with China was trying to force European settlers, in which British and other foreign Mau Mau found its roots.firms to leave China and Still there is no evidence "surrender their assets". that the tribe as a whole

Speaking in the House this Lords in reply to has lost its faith In

5 question. perverted religion. The Lord Reading said, "It is clear terrorista have earned that it is the deliberate polley favour by promising of the Chinese Government to tribesmen that "we will render it impossible

ok

for most

and to force them 10 surrender their

main in China

in

Chino bad the assols of China from

lead you back to your British and foreign firms to re- stolon landa"-tho land which has been swallowed p in the development and

He was answering Lord Van- expansion of the city of sittert, former diplomatic ad- Nairobi and the outliny | viser to the British Cabinet, who

whether areas like the White High-asked

have ldads which

already reduced been British Arms closed to the natives. Cer £300 million to less than £40 tainly the military have million and whether the British frustrated the designs of Government had

protested but the against "this form of peaceful the ferrorists, authorities have found no co-existence."

Kikuyu's the chronic land starvation,

cure for

possible to make an exact estimate of the reducilon but Until they do, the Mau Mau Lord Vansiltart's estimate promises will continue to seemed fairly correct.

way the minds of many.

In Seven Ports

QUEEN MOTHER MAY BE DELAYED

London, Oct. 21.

The British dock strike, fur from improving, appeared last night to be about to spread to another key port.

It was feared that Manchester dockers would stop work this week as their fellow workers in London, Birkenhead, Liverpool and Southampton have already done.'”

In Southampton, where.12 ships, are immobilised, more than 2,000 men have walked out of their jobs, a situation which threatened to delay the departure of the Queen Mother for the United States today.

in

The latest reports said that 741 appeal from the Trade Union shipa were Immobilised

Congress for ending the strike. Liverpool where the number of strikers reached 11,161.

No Improvement in the strike tuation was noted despite an

Govt Help

For Strikers'

¿

Families

The British dock sizikem are maklóg licavy financial spețifices in continuing their stoppage, así 35,000 of them Are receiving no „stzikó pay- from their unions.

All maallah Nailansi

Stevedores. Dockers Unkn, which

tho

“orldNI? ? Csót Anord to 10,000 pay, th

during the siopta": "mbers

The

millahilionaire,

1,300,000 *. strong Transport and General Workers Unions "Is not paying strike pay as it has opposed the "anofficial" strike by 25.000 of itm members.

Thousands of the dockers in London are now seeking national assistance grants (government Ansuolat help).

Considering Cases

They cannot claim official Government unemployment rellef" but they can claim national assistance for their wives and families.

The National ‘Amistance Board is considering each on Its merita, but lly the Board is pa ing the

of the strikers rent plus a maximum of £1-11-0 wives their per week to and between

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and for each child under 16.

striking A further 12,500 Lord Reading said it was im-

dock workers are being paid by their unions during the stoppage. These are the 4,500 members, of the SERIOUS REDUCTION

Watermen,

Tur Lightermen, men and Bargemen's Union. "There has certainly been a

and the men, of 15 'unfors themselves remarkably serious reduction in the nasels

in the ship repair strike resiliont. Swopt out of the of British Arms in China, which

now almost four weeks old forests of Mount Kenya and

and involving. eight thou- sand men,— China Aberdaro, they have moved

Special, the government to other, hunting grounda-s

as. far afield as Tanganyika /ed the representations it and this only shows how had made to the Chinese Gov- widespread the trouble still ernment about the position of continues to be. It is there

Other representations had boen' all the time bubbling under

the Chinese Govern- the surface and quite often ment about the difficulties which Breaking, through. So long British, enterprises had met with as it continues the end of in Chbir

THE Mau Mau have proved

were concentrated

Shanghai," he added.

mainly

For 1052 said that

British Arms.

made to

in

in

the emergency cannot be Lord Reading added that the ween Competent, observara reduction in assets was main- are not inclined to attribute ly due to the Chinese authorities the situation

foreing British firms into debt

to co by restrictions, regulations and "placency among the settlers e

that they had been and the authorities-rather

to carry ors, and had

they blame confusion had to,

Mati

The dock strike also spread to other parts of the country naday as Bir Winston Churchill's Cabinos disclused plans to use

troops to break the growing economic paralysis in key po

The Cabinet considered use of troops to shift esamtel cargoes as the number ΟΣ strikers rose to more than 50,000 and the total of idle ships climb- ed towards the 400 mark in dve major ports.

RELUCTANT

Sir Winston and his Ministers are reluctant to use troops fear- Flex asprot, of "sympathy" strikes, but they feel they may be forced to do so before the

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Bir Walter Monckton, Minister

Idle Ships At Two Big London Docks

An aerial view shows rows. of idle ships and countless stationary cranes in the King George V Dock (left) and the Royal Albert Dock (right), 24 of the 180 ships hit by the strike can be seenExpress Photo.

115 People On Hongkong... Staff Buti

U.S. Consulate Denies Labour

MP's Accusations

A spokesman for the US, Consulate General in Hongkong this morning denied charges that the United States sent "hordes of consular officials to Hongkong for the sole purpose of spying on British trade with Red China

Big Three" Agree

Allies To End Occupation Of Germany

Paris, Oct. 20."

·The "Big Threo" Western Foreign Ministers and the West German Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer, tonight reached full agreement on " -new treaties to end the nine: year Allied occupation" "of West Germany.

British and French spokesihen announced that all outstanding issues had been solved, includ- ing the rights of the Western Allies to station their troops In Germany..

Omelain are now drafting in

text on thesa

rights for

moral

at a brief.

brief meeting

100%

A communiquo after the minute meeting said solutions. had been proposed for the re- maining limies left over by "ext=. perts who had been working on texta since. this "London niño.... power conference. The experts had been asked to modify the texts,

UNID SÅLEMENT.

The British spokesman told a press conference he thought the communique understated the ex- tent of the agreement reached. "Solutions for all the remaining isaues were agreed,” he said,

The question: which was at issue is a legal point whether the Wostem powers aré-to-con- tinue to keep their troop in Western" Germany in virtue of | the 1945: Pofadam" agreement or by the permission "of the West German Federal Government.

The

that if they are to remain in West

Germany by permission of the alone, the Russturm will clien

that they have unilaterally ended the cupelion at their pers Ko das ccupying

thet

to negotime “ai agreement - bes twésnapork: employers and thá strike leaders, presented a new Strike "ruptiva

The charge was made to M He said, neither was it, acs | owing to the destruction of lette ministers today

the Under the direction of the Harold Wilson Labour M. curate that the United States local records during the war Prime Minister, he has prepared and former President of the Cooler group in Hongkong The number of resident down

British United States nationals in West Germany, LIDO, 'De the Board of Trade, who asked in were rending for an energency plan in talks with House of.Commons yester- businemwich and warning,them Hongkong on. Getober 9, 1954, mcribed as a sovereign" "date,

and the the Ministers responsible for Food day if this horde of American that if they did not stop trading was 262 Vauable, out the to craft clasts on the question The tail of the officials now is 1,262, Figures for 1938 Transport, Fuel, Powers, the officials was engaged in proof

of a particular, kink which and Local Govern moting American trade with allowed by the British Govers census gute for 1951 and 1941 in such a way, as not to under

***China or "restricting British ment they would be black-listed Reuter

Wire 494 arī 396 respectively-mixer the position of either side

-Reuter, But while the Cabinet con-irado with China frek

and have their dollar assets templated using up to 20,000 The Consulate spokesman told frozen" in the United States i

the statement another allegation made by me. servicemen in the country's key the China Mail ports, the

was was "not accurate”.

Wilson

the Home Secretary

Services

ment

strike "arm" winning frath recruits.

BIG LOSS FEARED

During the day, the 45,000 men CAT Plane

alwady striking in London and the twin northwest port of

#t

pool and Birkenhead, were jolin-Down In Sea ed by one. thousand more Liverpool, 8,000 at Hull, 000 at Karston (near Liverpool) and nearly 200 at Rochester, Kent,

The Ministry of Labour, flood ed with nationwide reports abou the effects of the stoppage on the country's economy, declared that between

£45,000,000 and £50,000,000 worth of Imports and exports were new held up by the strikes,

The Ministry released these official Agures to support a weming by Sir Walter Monck- ton that continuation of the atrikes threatened the "economic life of the nation."

Agminist this gloomy back- ground, the. Government court of inquiry today begon hearing in public evidence in disputes over rocking conditions between employers"and"; workers.--. |France-Prcase. & Router.

A CAT cargo aircraft made an emergency landing In the Gull-of-Siam`yester- day and so far only~:'one survivor has been resotted;"/ He Captain Harry Hartenberger "

of New Weston, Ohio..

This was announced this morning by the President of Civil Air Transport, Mr A. T. Cox

a Chincinco pilot and flight operator were also aboard the plane. To did not know whether any others were on board.

The Royal Thai Air Force is searching the area and CAT 'ban :sent, u, plane, 'to. xlvo' assistance in sestel

and rescue operations „

was

Questioned on the number of consular officials in Hongkong The ecckelman, admitted that. the Hongkong consulate was the largest in the Far East,

THE MAIN REASON

He explained that the main reason for this was the many citizenship and visa cases handled here More people on the staff were involved in this sor! of work

than any other, he

addect

The U.S. Consulate in Hong kong currently has a total of nino consuls and 20 `vice-consuls. These do not include Mr Jallan

Harrington, the Consul General, who is al present on a

Washington,

visit

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London, Oct. 19. The Colonial Secretary Mr Lennox-Boyd later tonight cir- culated details of the United

States Consular staff now in Hongkong

These showed that on October 1954, there were 115. people employed in the U.S. Consulate in

18.

Hongkong, Including one Consul-General, nine Consuls and 20 Vice-Consuls..

were

WHY CAN'T HONGKONG SEE THIS Consul-General on Consule

· FIRST-CLASS FILM TOO?

By Jane Roberto

China Mail Film Critic

In a world of, by and large, second rate films, a first class picture

is not to be shown in Hongkong.

Handicapped by not having, minds-good for badm

my reservations about his gifts

political and adraínistrative: 9.47 least these asseta) boon, allowed to,200. “On the of their stupidity and futility) disappear,

PART

•

Waterfront” (the Press. „hday Anything, that, arouses people Bosley Crowther!, "What look

only on preview of a film from

confusion: there is also con- MARTES

the lothargy of Vandag | Hlod: tire two best: piet ifusion over what the real"}, Ho said only a comparatively after it has been shown to the complacent minking is a good the summer popped up in Ju

I Have "novertholem, thing, even if it happens that Viewer, bol kay Mall must small part of their assets left Censory)

respect for the usually | the resigent Itself is a bit tion

"Something more than in China, hid Boon expropriated) emosiek zriors and women who | startlingsh

palliatives and much deeper and condrosted directly, 1

political cone

marks

dons Lately since the Genova comment on Binu for the But-fudg

conference, tho

Chinese and publication Pšto pay heed-in cities li had been more me their, opinions, M

cspecially in the NEUNIVERSALA PRAISE Powel try, and cidt permits, And almost universally there?) Timés, theli "fundämnertial allitude|been

for this complete, remained, unchanged.

and two „Vice-Consuls, a grea The number of mubordinate. staff for 1938, was not available

Bailey Case

Dismissed

Extra Guard For HK

Police Launches

London, Oct. 20. Following the dis

appearance of a Hong- kong Police launch from' ita moorings on July 29, the Hongkong authori -ties have taken mea. sures to prevent a of this repetition "geizure"

. THÂN NĂM revealed by the

Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan ́ Lennor-Boyd: in the House of Commons today when ho

replied; to Air Commodore Arthur Harvey, (Cons". Macclesfield) about" the die- appearance of the launch.

Längox-Boyd, ALIS Hangkang pellón launches at moorings are now - guardad by: shore police as well as

as by this

JW

"All

wi. Frequent vialla

*« own 'crews,

by off

officer fan in charge and shore police are also made." * Mr Lennox-Boyd, them... outlined the details of the

meizure of the' Pollós launch In-JyIteuter..

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