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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Thai Fears

THE situation

in

north-

eastern Thailand continueR

to glvo concorn to the Authorities in Bangkok and Western officials stationed there. The problem is a legacy from the early days of the Indo-Chinn war when about 50,000 Annamites fled across the Thai border from Inos. There are fears that many are Vietminh ndher- ents and the temptation to the That officials who see their country as the "front Une" of the Free World's defences la Southeast Asia: is to regard these refugees as a beaches of Communist infitention. Another sourer

of concern 10 the 'That authorition in that along Tha same north-eastern border dwell about five million people of Laotian extraction who have made elose contact with their kinsment aeroco. the border. Nobody is ginty Aure how TRYIN of these Siamese Lnofians are sympathe with the Comunumast Pathet

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RADIO STUDIOS GUTTED

Rediffusion Offices Evacuated

FIREMEN'S GRIM FIGHT

AGAINST DENSE SMOKE

Youth Taken

To Hospital

The main offices and the studios of Rediffusion were severely damaged this morning when a fire broke out in the air-conditioning plant at about 9.15.

The fire is believed to have started when the air-conditioning was switched from cold to hot,

The fire spread between the ground floor ceiling and the first floor when coke and cork insulating material caught alight and in its smoul- dering progress sent smoke billowing out through almost every window. So dense was the smoke that firemen in oxygen masks could not reach the centre of the fire.

Crowds gathered as about six fire engines drew up to the corner of Hen- erry Road and Arsenal Street to fight the fire. By this time smoke was pouring from all the windows of the building.

A young Chinesse male employee collapsed and was taken away for treatment at hospital.

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and the first floor

Mr Gorman, wearing civilian elothes, put on a pair of fire- man's boots, tied a blue scarf around his

went neck and straight into the building to in- speet the re

happy about the situation, Following

One

The alter

other. the

Fire Geneva

from these stores out to large, floor studios Brigode vans rushed to the piles in Lockhart Road.

offee level. Agreement and

building, Police Vars also ap-

All the equipment of Reditu- withdrawal

Vietminh

peared, to keep order near the sion, which included typewriters forces from Laos, two north. smoking building.

and broadcasting equipment us ern provinces of the country

Work4vK

exygen equip well bs records and papers, Were virtually occupied by mout, fema hacked uway

were loaded onto a Police van, loval Communist bands | windows

sundpr glass and taken to the Central Police and although there was bricks, und fore <>Wh the Station. The equipment will be stored there until arrangements promise by Laotian authe studios smouldering eriline.

CROWDS OF ONLOOKERS

for them to be returned to the rities to give representation

Mr W. Gorman,

fcdiffusion offers can be made. Chief Fire to the insurgents in the

omeer

INSULATOR ON, FIRE BITIVEN THI the scene Administration pending elve just before

The Fire Brigade which ar- LAST, when there tions, an iron curtain (re was a change of wind. Shook rived from the East and West inforced by thick jungle, poured from the burning building | Hongkong Stations, under continues to divide north over a group of Mures behind Syperimendants Synter and and south. Certainly no one the studios, Crowds of onlookers Dale, were battling with a In Thailand or in Southern were immediately organised into of cork and coke molding m

were passing goods terial Inid between Laus for that matter-really chams and knows what is going on, The logical-und easiest-as- sumption 38 that

It

Is something sinister To add fu Thailand's worries, the north-east is pansing through 21 Jean

period caused by drought and harvest failures and the consequent destitution

and misery in the district in

certain target for exploita- Tion

YET

another cause of

Arc

ground

ANGRY REPLIES TO

McCARTHY ATTACK

Belching clouds from the building have luid an effective smoke screen Derosa Lockhart Rond and

chain of covers the civilians who were pussing radio

from the equipment

group of the Company's

nysson

buts behind the main building.

RECORD EVACUATION

fire.

Pioneers in 1874 ---'

Calculator

still in the front to-day HONGKONG TYPEWRITER EXOHANGE

Aguilar St. Tel: 21439,

BY FIRE

Firemen Prepare For An Onslaught

Firemen outside the Redt fusion Bullding this morning prepare for an onslaught on the They can be seen climbing the ladder to the first storey. (Staff Photographer).

RAPE TRIAL OPENS AT

CRIMINAL SESSIONS

An allegation of rape by fraud was made against Dr Ng Yuk-kin, 49, when his trial for rape opened before the Puisne Judge, Mr Justice C. W. Reece in the Criminal Sessions this morning.

More

outside

4 More U.S. Airmen Held By Red China

The

New York, Dec. 7.

United States in- formed the United Nations Secretary-Genomi

tonight that four additional Ameri- can airmen were being de. tained by China in violation of the Korcan armistice agreement,

The disclosure was made in a letter from the chlet United Henry

Stator delegate, Mr Cabot Lodge,

to the Secretary- Hammarsk-

General, Mr Dag

joeld, in advance of General

Assembly consideration

10-

the

inorrow (Wednesday) of raso of 11 American airmen being held by China.

APPROVAL EXPECTED The Assembly

was expected to approve the recommendation of its Steering Committee that the case, entled "complaint of detention and imprisonment of United Nations military sonnel in

per-

violation of the Korcan armistice agreement," be placed on the agenda, Britain

hr moved that the question be dobated in the full Assembly Immediately rather than being referred to a committee.

Korea

ccccrtance

the

The 13 nations that fought in have already drawn up a

asking joint draft resolution for submis

Secretary- General to seek the release in with the Когезп Armistice Agreement of the 11 American airmen and all other The Indielment alleged that Sentor Crown Counsel, and Mr

policemon took up captured personnel of the United Mr J, A. Bendall, secretary of August 28, 1954,

Li Crown at 436 Simon On

Counsel, positions

the main Nations Command still de- the

tho

assisted by Detective Concem, supervised Natia Road, first flour, the

lasp. W. entrance to the Supreme Court Lained." evacuation work of the m-used had carnal knowledge of

Watson

building. Two, emergency : varta | 1927 NAMES GIVEN Accused is defended by Mr stood by outside the building. portant office papers and disc

his letter tonight Mr Lodge Tam Sman, a 24-year-old spins- | Brook A. Bernabeħi, instructed During the course of the said that in addition to the 11 and tape recordings.

by MrM. A. da Silva,

Crown's opening, which de-

thero Americana Long before the trial was due cupled an hour and 15 minutes American airmen who The Crown's allegation is that to start at 10 a.m. the Court was his Lordship had occasion to captured while engaged og mis- the alleged crime was commit-alled to capacity. No standing warn the spectators sitting on sions of the United Nations Com- ted in this course of a medical was permitted and spectatore the public benches not to jump mand in the Korean confilet and examination of the complainant who arrived late were turned up and down 'ke Jack in & whose detention is admitted by

away and asked to leave the box" and to remain quiet during the who had called et the doctor's building.

the hearing. The Judge sald

Chinese Communists,"

identified them First surgery for

"this is not a circus and Lieutenant freatment of M

Camera, Clyde stomach complaint.

posted if the spectators did not remain Captain Harold E. Fisher. First along the Court corridors, at the quiet he would have no alter Lieutenant Roland Parks and various entrances to the Court native but to clear the Court

Licutecant Colonel Edwin Heiler-Reuter.

Among those who watched the fire was Mr B. H. Lyon, from London, chairman of the Far East groups of Stations, who is visiting Hongkong during a tour of the Rediffusion Stations in his area.

Hc toid

Fellow Senators Condemn Him important

Washington, Dec. 7.

***The

you

A reporter, thing

which here see

Is that Chinese entertaining service to subscribera has not even been

The interrupted.

Hongkong Several Republican and Democratic Senators, in-network was laid out by on cluding two who voted against censuring him, vigorously engineer who had worked with condemned Senator McCarthy today for his attack on President Eisenhower.

de-

has been no softness,

censuring McCarty, opposite."-Uniteti Press.

critics.

NO COMMENT

"in

Redifusion in Coventry dur- ing the Blitz. It would take # lot more than this to really dis-

service. organise our

It's damned nuisance, But it won't affect our service to suh- scribers. 11

FORCED OUT BY SMOKE Mr Roy Dunlop, Controller of Programmes, suid that the inter- ruption in the service this morn- ing was less than half an hour. The programmes were kept go- ing at the studio until the an- nouncers could not continue any more due to the smoke.

nervousness in Bangkok is war-time The mtivity of resistance leader. Pridi Panomyong who is crported

The Republican National Com-) Senator Homer Fergusin Lo be organising a **Free

mifter rebuked him saying he Senate Republican policy Chair- Thai movement under the committed a "major citor" inman, said there was "ho Justi- auspices of Peking in publlely denouncing the chieffcation" for Senator Joseph nearby Yutan province, Su excentive

McCarthy's statement far however this latter fear Republican Senator Hermannouncing President Eisenhower. is not taken very seriously Welker, one of McCarthy's

"There by Western diplomats and staunchest supporters, said he to appeasement that I know of appears to be only another backed the Scrator's statement, as far as Communists are the President should cerned," said Mr Ferguson faggot which the Thais are Ho said

fact

bas been just the Texanst prepared to kindle to extend the flames

WHITE HOUSE REPLY of anxiety- anxiety within their coun-

The White House sald totiny Senate Republican lender Mr the best

to Senator try as well as in the Western

answer For the Thai William Knowland, who voted McCarthy's world.

criticism of Pre- censuring McCarthy.sident Elsenhower'S foreign people are said to be in against

furnished by different towards Western declined comment.

Colleagues who spoke outPresident himself inst defence efforts in Southeast

Dgainst McCarthy after he when he recommended patience Asia and unconcerned about made his attack on the Pre-

the release of seeking

The Managing Director of the the dangers to the north-sident used such terms as "no Americans imprisoned in China.

service, Mr W. A. Whhing tald of cause cast.

this i

**Injustified" and "Am-

When the

House that the present building may be White nonchalance it is almost Republican Senator Ralph E.

learned of McCarthy's state replaced by a multi-storey apathy that the Thai

the ment.

presidential Press building to be erected on the Flanders, who originated has no chip on his shoulder

proceedings, said Mc-Secretary, Mr James Hagerty, site. censure about "coloniallam"

Carthy's

boiled called in newsmen and referred latest movO Western domination, Slam has

down to a "declaration of war" them to an Eisenhower state- always been independent and

on both the President and the ment last June rumming up the

administration's achievements even the Japanese, during the Republican Party. few war-time years of control, Republican Senator Arthur fighting Communism in the U.S.,

Chairman of the and to the President's recom respected the outward forms V. Watkins,

or

19

the

polley was

in

the

week

the

of Slamere sovereignty. Select Senate Group that re-mendation of patience, on Consequently SEAT has not commended censure, said Me-issue of the gooted Americana

to overcome the suspicion Carthy's attack "shows him to he made in lurking clsewhere about be the same irresponsible Me- last week.-France-Press. Western intervention in Asian Carthy."

had

affairs. That officials however

are inclined to take lively

A MAJOR ERROR

ฟาง

and loquacious interest in the Republican Senator Leverett Manila treaty and in fact Saltonstall old that he almost persuaded Mr John "sorry to see two men who are to do the same thing, get of the signatory nations last into ptschalitis,"

National Republican

Foster Dulles to call meeting trying to

a

month. But it is possible that

projects than it can finance,

The

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When the service stopped at the main studio, Mr Dunlop said the programme was shifted to a sub-station at Radio Hongkong, It was hoped that carly this afternoon on emergency studio would be set up where normal servicca would continue.

London, Dec. 7.

Communist Chinese anti- alecraft units in Fukien facing the Nationalist stronghold of Fonnoso shot down two Nationalist planes and damaged ten others in November, the New to- China News Agency sald night-Reuter,

the

press conference

Cuban Men U. S. Girls ?

Pinched Never!

Key West, Florida, Dec. 7. accept an invitation to parti-

women

An Engry Cuban Consul topalo In the "Comparsas,” a they are more interested in the Chairman, Mr Leonard Holl, said

opening the Havana economic clouses of the treaty in a a statement President Elsen- day naked for an apology from parado for the country is at sent hower was "fighting the Com-the United States Government caralval session in February.

Dr Campbell said the last your involved in

munists for

few years for a high school Principal's mora development

quite

that Cuban men had

men made indecent ges- bebro Senator McCarthy made charge The Thais and Western diplo his malden speech on the subject ungentlemanly "pinchbu" pretty tures and pinched the girls in the Key West girls visiting Havana. band. I don't think Cuban meh mats in Bangkok realise that in the Senate."

have An Insult

very high respect for McCarthy has made "Senator the best hope of tackling the danger of subversion In the

major error. Without at-

The Cuban Consul, Mr

"Like Ladies" north-east is to raise living tempting to evaluate his fight Oscar Morales, said that Dr standards in the area. Indeed, against Communism, I regret to

Harold C.

Mr. Morales demanded that Campbell's charge is effort is now concentrated find him in what must be strange not true" and further was Dr. Campbell apologise for the towards" that end. But tech-company to him making a per- "an insult to the dignity of the statement and when nono wes nical as stance and economie sonal attack on the President of

Cuban man who holds all received lie made a formal re are inclined to be a long the United States.

womanhood in highest esteem, port to bin Government term answer to what may

Consul objected to Dr The Consul said that many prove to bo Д short-term "The record of the Elsenhower Campbell's statements last mothers had called him and sald challenge, Speed and vigilance Administration on the Com-wook at Kiwani's luncheon their daughters had been treated. are therefore of the utmost muniat menaóe both at home and where he said he did hot think "like lader on the Havans importance,

(abroad Denka for itself."

the highs, school band would visit last seawoli, ----Uinitoa PreRN'S

ald

NO JUSTIFICATION

ter, without her consent.

SPECIAL JURY

JUDGE'S REBUKE Police officers were

thn

and at all approaches leading to See Back Page Full Report

A special Jury of seven menit. has been empanelled.

the

The Prosecution is in hands of Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr,

NO GUM FOR CATHOLICS

Before Communion

ANOTHER LABOUR

CENSURE FAILS

London, Dec. 7.

Sir Winston Churchill's Government tonight defeated by 298 votes to 269 a Labour opposition motion seeking to censure it for showing an "unwarrantable compla cency towards the continued existence of social injustice in Britain. Communion

Vatican City, Dec. 7. A Catholic who chews gum before

to going commits a mortal sin, according to an expert on Church law In the Vatican City weekly, Osser- vatore Della Domenica, tonight.

The newspaper had been ask

The motion also accused the Government of a "doctrinalre determination to abandon pub- lle enterprise, essential controls and other forms of intervention

et by a Belgian reader if "or-by the community." dinary American gum" could be chewed before Communion.

The expert replied: "Amerlean contains digestive sub- gum

which, it swallowed. stances, would break the Eucharistle fast."-Reuter.

A Smooth Type (RN) Gets

A Dellente -Assignment

Lieutenant Rodgers R.N. acknowledged in, thu ward room of HLM.S. Now-

casile na a smooth type, So smooth in fact that he's playing the part of, Cin- derella in the ship's Christ- man pantomime.

Today Newcastle arrived In the Colony' after under- going a refit in Singapore and before the ship was properly docked; Liraten- ant Rodgers leapt nimbly ashore on a delicate" an- signment.

Hii biak-to Invita' vizit ing Bim star. Avs Gardner loles on board this after- nooi.

Would she be piped Aboard? our reporter asked. -chasing Lieutenant Rodgers down the Dockyard.. "No," Cosmo the breathless-reply, "hui xhe, will probably be welcomed with open arms.”

Mr Gaitskell said Conservative assertions that nationalisation brought incfficiency were "silly nonsense,"

Steel

A BAD POLICY

production went

up when the industry was threaten- 心意 with nationallsailon and continued to go up when it was nationalised by Labour, he said.

The Opposition did not believe in controls for their own Bake. But a return to complete laissez faire, which the Con- servatives were doing was bad.

Mr Regnald Maudling, Econo- mie Scorelary to the Treasury, Bild the Government had doni: with the balance of payments crist; bequeathed by the Labour Government. It had restored the International value of the pound, dealt with the legacy of inflation and achieved record levels of!

of-a output and productivity sound financial basis.

NO BENSE AT ALL

It find also achieved a west social advorico · in housing--by Ljuilding 200,000 new Bouane‘a) year and it was now raising old age permione.“

In the light of that the motion minde "no simo whatever.”

The Parlamentary Labour Party today decided not to oppose the· Government's pro- posle that Brións · should pay direct higher; síeekly contribta" tione for fncreased "wolbare {state" beredtupißester & China

Mail Sorcmi 09

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were

Next Premier?

Tokyo, Dec. 8. Ichiro Hatoyama, once purged by General Douglas MacArthur as an "ultra-nationalist," today rose as the most likely candidate to become the new Prime Minis- 1er of Japan.

But the date on which the Diet would elect the successor who to Mr Shigeru Yoshida,

signed with his Cabinet un Tuesday, was still unsettled.--- United Press.

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