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COMMENT OF THE DAY

China Trade

OUND by restrictions,

Burung by regula-

tjona, prohibitions, ombargoes and restraints of many kinda, Hongkong businessmen could bo for- given for succumbing to long-term pessimism, for feeling that the unequni struggle of trying to main- tain trade with China was But not worth continuing.

the remarkable fact is that vicissitudes despite these

the feeling is rather one of thut roatrained optimism

the restrictions will not much longer. Last week a Cabine, Minister and a Labour MP emphasised the peraceuted mate of the foreign trader and manufacturer in the China area; in the case of

remain in force

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URGENT BIG 3 TALKS ON VIETNAM

Western Ministers Hold

2-hour Talks On

Political Crisis

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Paris, Oct. 24..

The Big Three Foreign Ministers held an urgent two-hour conference on the worsening poli- tical crisis in Vietnam today, it was reliably learned.

After placing their signatures on the treaty inviting West Germany to enter the North Atlan- tic Alliance, Mr John Foster Dulles, Sir Anthony Eden and M. Pierre Mendes-France went to the on the mainland, to be bled U.S. Embassy for talks on Southern Vietnam. slowly to death by the grasping. predatory

foreign brms still operating

tax

U.S.

masters of Communist 250 Dockers for, now in ligne Antout o

the merchant, to be cun- fined to trading within the

narrow limits of a hopless

ly outdated embargo on the export of strategic goods. As if the embargo were not enough, the trader is caught In the middle of an economle boycott of the China main-

Return

Work 1

To

Mr Harold Stasson, Foreign Operations Administra-

FOA establishments in Europe, Joined the Foreign Ministers,

The Ministers were reported to be deeply concerned over re-

full ports from Saigon, where a long-

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drawn-out government crisis hos so workened the Government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem that it has been unable to combat Com- munist propaganda.

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It was a high-level review at Libe Franco-American Indo- Chinese talks fecently held in Washingtoh. France had asked the United States for $28,000,000 of military aid for her Army in Indo-China, It was learned, and the United States has not yet agreed,

· U.8,- CONDITIONS

BEA Viscount Makes

Crashlanding

Rome, Oct. 24.

Thirty-three passengers and four members of the

· crow (escaped injury to- night when * British European Airways Viscount plans damaged two engines while. crashlanding .at Home airport.

The turbo-prop plane, bound for Istanbul from London, orashed affor otreling for two hours to usó up the fact

It had left Clampino airport for Aiheng when the pilot, Captain Wilson, Aiscovered the undercarri- Age would not retract and naked permission to mako an' emergency landing. <^-- All aboard received" only a shaking though the air- craft was seriously dams azel-Keuter.

Fierce Gales

Sweep British Isles

Portugal's Warning Trixie R.N. Arrives Home

Of Dangerous Situation In India

· Paris, Oct. 24.

The Foreign Minister of Portugal, Senhor Paulo Cunha, said today that Indian pressure on Portuguese enclaves in India were causing a per- manent state of tension and “maintaining a dan gerous situation” for the peace of Asia.

He paid some of the territories were now sub- jected to virtual occupation by armed bands backed. by India.

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He said that India. having of immediate discusion of their falled in its immediate objec- dispute. Despite this, he added, tives toward Portuguese Goa, Portugal-maintained its offer to was now concentrating on the negotiate a reasonable and Just Isolation of. Dadra and Nagar solution to problems · arising Avell. The two communiles from the proximity of their have been virtually cut off from territories. outside.contact with Portuguese authorities and virtually cupied by armed terrorist bands, Senhor Cunha.gold.

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India had refused to authorise the passage of Portuguese police reinforcements to the territories In the State of Bombay and even declined to allow a civilian mission through to establish contact with the enclaves,

Senhor Cunha rald Inda alo ignored a Portuguese proposal to allow a neutral mission to enter the enclaves.

SUPPORT FOR PORTUGAL.

Senhor Cunha, who com ferred with the Foreign Minis- ters of the North. Atlantic Treaty Organisation during his stay in Paris said he would return to Lisbon with the con- viction thats world pubille opinion supported Portgual in her struggle for the integrity of her possessions on the Indian aub-continent.

Senhor Cunha made it clear during the interview that, while This a de facto occupation Portugal earnestly strove for and usurpation by bands who good, relations with the Indian have forced their way in and Union, the question, of Boyet have the backing of the Indian eignty over the territories

WAS authorities," said Senhor Cunha."not a matter for discussion," "All this is in contradiction with HA

permanent state of tension London, Oct. 24.the fundamental principles of is being kept up against these

there Fleres gales and torren-interpational Jaw

hes > World public

Wearing her specially made red jacket with Körts and United Nations, medala la. Trizio 1,N,, who was aboard the Belfish destroyer H:M.8. Constance, which arrived beme affer, eight years”, „foreign service, Marble" wandinasi, aboard, the

• Temel as a massestia stray, siarving puppy in Japan two years ngo, A collection, among the crew, produced, mere, than falas. ¡ts £38 neoded, to pay for her de

tin, Tykake's shipmater will wish hir'in fùrn Forgan, Long An

The two sidor se ogrodd that tia overnight rain brought so con Dr. Adenauer To Murderer Sang

nga_might

Visit US.

His Confession

London, Oct. 25. land, part of a policy of Two hundred and fifty complete ostracism of the dockers in Hull last night Peking regime by the United agreed to go back to work States Government. Because today to unload three grain Hongkong is suspected and

skips. mistrusted, because About 2,488 men are still on America's isolation of China strike In Hall. must be so complete, a form

Apart from this there was no of embargo has been placed change in the strike altuation. on trade with Hongkong as Last night the Transport and

General Workers Union- well, and our import and ex- Git

Britain's

largest union-appealed port trade with America in

to the country's strikers recent years has fallen to return to work. The appeal away appreciably. Washing contained in a resolution passed a stable South Vietnam govern foods to many villages and ton has even gone further by the union's executive Com- thru this.

of all ment, representativý mittee at a meeting this morn-

peared for the moment to have without should aialer, alert: dubbed the WHEN Mr Harold Wilson Ing. the strike, now en-sectors of publie opinion, trust towns in England and Wales Although India's attention ap-ti shifted from Goa after the ha

happen. We have victims of

Bonh, Oct. 24.", accused her last week of tering its fourth week, as un- be established if the Southern today.

The Federal Chancellor. Dr. fallure of Indian policy there aggression in the classic form of part of the 'country is to be saved]*! Justliable and deplorable.

London Had half an inch of this summer, Senhor Cunha alack by armed bands,

Konrad Adenauer will take off exercising "panoply of

The Transport and General from Communism.

rain during the night,

continued, the enclave was still The unshakeable determina- this moming on his visit to the economic warfare controls'

Workers Union has disapproved The United States will insist against a number of Hong the strike since it started three before giving. further aid, that

Mountainous districts in Wales practically cut off from the tion of the Portuguese govern- United States and will stop for

hinterland and

and all supplies must ment for total

defence ond five hours in Reykjavik on an kong Arma (which are weeks ago yesterday. Although effceive steps be taken to. in were the worst hit areas. Forty-

vigorous

*Jackson, Tennture, Odf, 24, reaction from our official visit to the Government trading with the mainland a majority of the dockers belong creaza political stability in eight hours of continuous rain be brought in from the sea?

Aman He sa

said diplomatic exchanges nation, has not

confessed to the unnoticed. of Toeland,'". It gone

was announced with the

the to it and have spurned its direc

uurder of his married -gif support of

Salgon, it

caused a landslide on the main pa said. was

near with India had not yet produced The world, however, continuta bere tonight, British Government),

the

Toad, helves,

smaller stevedores

friend and then sang majurn full Mr

as FOA London--Holyhead Stassen who,

was to be confronted by the threat Dr Adenauer will travel with to: police to the strains of was assured of echoes of ap- union has supported the strike.

"ready to search for A from proval and agreement

BARRETT'S WARNING

expenditure in foreign countries, boulders fell from the hilltops.

lory solution Mr Earlier

Dick Barrett, in the Colony. He many

was called in to discuss Branch: would

strong havo done

Secretary of the 7,000 Д 115

espects, a source said.—United Steve-

Press; greater service by avoiding National Amalgamated

and Dockers Union sensational and extravagant dores

recognised (though not entirely untrue) which has officially

concerning the ac- the strike-declared: "We shall charges tivities of the U.S. Consulate fight on to the finish." Here. It was his reference 10 Mr Barrett said the strikers "hordes"

consular officials were the spearhead of the sent to Hongkong "lo spy" of working class movement. They Communist મ brought British trade that

were not part of prompt denial

from Sir plot. He added that if the La- Alexander Grantham. But bour Party wanted to be re

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America's

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To Police

ichtet is charged with U.S. Carnarvon Hundreds of tone of ; any results' but Portugal; Man of a potential clash in the Fay Bow`of his closet assistantą į hillbilly ballad how she

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mcans,"

Dynamite may be needed to international in all available | East as a result of the pressure and is expected to. réach | treated the guy who played

The probitum remains un-there-United Press territories Washington on Wednesday morn gamot of life fair,

waid today

clear the blocked road, al

ROADS FLOODED

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In Cumberland, many village 15 Injured By Bomb roads were flooded.

sald Senhor Cunha. resolved

has "International law

been violated and these violations have not yet been remedied But there is a fundamental-neod reas to find a remedy for such a ituation where the Indian Union has taken a position in complete contradiction to the principles of International polley which it pronou

the world every enhor Cunha said the Indian Government had persistently cold-shouldered Portugal's offer

Today, Rabat, Oct. 24.

gale-lashed Titleen people were injured pounded the Sussex coast. one of them seriously-when a

In Sussex o high wind blew home-made bomb was thrown, today at a

group of Moroccana 10-ton British Army lorry off in the road as it was climbing a dancers near, a race track the Rabat area, A grocer. dis- steep hill near here today.. of the covered

under another bomb

It dropped 18 feet into his store counter in the same sand quarry landing upside vicinityFrance-Presse.

down and Injuring its two occupants-China Mall Special.

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to

One Killed, 20 Injured

Crack Express Train

In Head-on Crash

New York, Oct. 24

fair," authorities

Jimmy Sloan, 48, † a former hall proprietor, admitted Mas Gracie Stoward, 43; mother of two grown-up sons, outside

a cafe in Jackson yester-

then

that

woman moro ho told Police, spent more than $4,000 on het and I always treated her right. 1 did it much. 1'31 probably get the electric

T∙ had to."

but I can't help it.:

Later Bloan added to his con- The Montreal to New York passenger train Laurent-fession thems lyrics of 4 külbilly tian smashed head-on into a freight train on a stretch of ballad: -"I loved you, darling, single, track along the shores of Lake Champlain today's played the game of lite fair.

but'you' inlätreated 'thoʻguy who

SHIP DISABLED IN HEAVY SEAS ing one person and injuring 20 others,

London, Oct. 25. Messages received by Lloyds Shipping Agency early today told of the fight to save the 340-ton 'German 'ship, Klaus Wilhelm, disabled in heavy weather in the North Sea.

the fact that the Americans tuned to Westminster as a possess apparently complete, Government, they should come accurate and up-to-date details out openly in support, of the activities of Hongkong dockers. businessmen suggests

Mr Barrett nuded: "This will that they have been fairly thorough in not end as easily na everyone their inquiries, The word, thinks. "rpying however,

The milwaymen will be on SURE esta

will be that the Americans used under-the move, the miners

The south-bouña "train strücke. hand and dishonest methods to coming to support you and,

the 30 car" "north-bound freight gather their information which before long, if they bring the

near Port Henry, tearing up 200 Le not true. But Mr Wilson's troops which will be a very comments

foot of truck, and hurling-cars stupid thing-frey will show

crazily over

ver the tracks. attempted coercion of British once and for all how they are firms cannot be denied, Firms going to get your nose to the they .org

Witnemas sald; the freight carn have been designated, their grindstone, and how

The Coast Guard cutter Chero-splintered into matchsticks in U.S.A

felghter. Santa have been soing to make you compete with

The ship reported last night The Italian your German friends and the blocked and the U.S. authori-Japanese workers."-Reuter & that her engine had falled near Elisabetta went aground on the kee and a patrol boat were and throw their loads over the ties have attempted to apply Franco-Presse..

the ship wash sunds off Orford Virginia Copes yesterday as it ordered to stand by to, gaslat the wreckage. economic

The Laurentian's'engine: and Ness, in Suffolk, eastern Eng sailed for the port of Baltimore, tugs, pressures

land.

· Norfolk officials said the com

The Santa Elisabetta, was mercial tug Brand, was sent to

in 1943 by the Now several cas tumbled into the Lloyds stated that the 1,573- the scene, about seven miles east England Ship Building Corpora-wamp lying on both sides of the ton tanker, British Scout, had of Cape Charles lighthouse, at ion in Portland, Maine, It sells track. Most of the pastonger reached the ship, but the

on the way to Moses Ludington noon. Another tug loft-New under the Italian flag from were unhurt. A brakeman dindi weather was too bad to take York for the grounded. vessel. Genoa- United Prew,

Hospital, her in low.

The

ship. 419-ton British

from Durward, was 10 miles the Klaus Wilhelm and steam

funds

against

them. And the only sin that

they committed in the Ameri can eyes was to trade with Communist

the

Ching,

legitimacy of that trade being entirely Irrelevant. WASHINGTON'S denials are

not convincing. One spokes man said Consular official

made friendly may have

approaches to local business.

men to explain the operation

Top Mau Mau Leader Captured

Nairobi, Oct. 24. Ing to her. assistance.

Belgian shing boat had Mau Mau terrorist got longside the German ship, they affected their business leader, self-styled Field Lloyds said Reuter.

of American laws, and how

['ray".

be true in

somTME

cap bis certainly not in all

In some instances, not only

rahal Kaleba, was cap. red this morning" hiding

hare Arme been designed in a cave on the south-west

without any reasons being for this action but in

lopes of Mount Kenya,

Kaleba, who is half Kikuyu azd, holt Somali, has been, a top fighting Geburns of the Mau Mau srorist organimation in recent

ode of the chi of the notoriou

comth

Russia's One New Proposal

Mercy Ship Picks Up Sick Fisherman

London, Oct. 24.

The Bocidest occurred on “a single "truck' running along the Jake: The police believe a jammed |switch was responsible for - the!

two traine

on the sama track.

Ambulances and are trucks from nearby towns Ticonderoga. krea rished to the

open

The British ship › Pincher walled from the Faroe Islands today carrying a sick British fisherman to Scot the a tracks, bu Land for medical attention, it was announced tonight.**

A Royal Air Force Bunder. | Find fying boat crushed “yesber day killing four of lis www in attempt to land, on Traungr Flori tek take the fish

the Hu

The dead man wue Sergeant Davies, only one of the four dead, to be found The

Communi

Leader Dead

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