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COMMENT OF THE DAY

The 11 Airmen

THE debate that has occupied so much of the time of the United Nations in the past week over the imprisonment of the 11

by American airmen

the Chiese Government will persunde inutty who Art sceptical of the effiency and general usefulness of that body that it has, once again, demonstrated its great value And has added another achievement to its already lung

accomplish.

meni 13100 its format The Free World will generally approve of the

taken by the United States Government tu secure The # release. Indeed had the administration succumbed to the pressure of the Republican extremists to eniotre I blockade on the Castra coast it would have constituted serious

tempt for the principles of g the United Nations and it would

considerably have weakend its prestige us an vrganisation specifically designed as a forum where international problems may bu disetemked and acted upon According tu prevailing world opinion.

CHINA

No. 35908

THE

BIG

Established 1845

MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1954

FREEZE

New Gales, Floods And

Snowstorms

Sweep The British Isles

LONDON'S ICY ROAD MENACE

London, Dec. 12.

Gales, floods and snowstorms.swept the British Isles today in the third week of the worst weather since the disastrous floods of two years ago.

and snow.

Some parts of Britain faced added perils today after heavy frost Flooded roads around London were frozen over and in north Yorkshire snow ploughs were clearing many roads as an overnight snow storm continued this morning.

Midlands

The wintry storms were also responsible for these incidents:

• Mourners for an elderly flood victim in the Irish went to her funeral by rowing boat. A sudden snowfall stranded a foot- ball train in the North of England for two hours.

ton.

High winds kept the Queen Mary out of drydock at Southamp-

The floods rose in Maidenhead, Berkshire, during the night and today parts of Many will the main streets were under three feet of water.

In the west Fleetwood.

count Lancashire,

town

of

no doubt share the Indian view that justice, as the West knows it, demanded the presence of Communistency repair squads stood by

the battered spa defences

China at the debate, that i, night, but despite a 30 feet tide should have been possible and д freshening wind the for Peking to reply at the thousands of tos of rubble United Nations and not via poured into gaps in the sea walla

stood firm. ita official radio station. 10

now

might even be argued that had Communist China been represented in the United Nations before

said had the Americans adopted a leas truculent nttitude to Peking, the dispute may

bave

The arisen. therefore should

never

enae

strengthen the resolve of a number of non-Communlat nations to have the Peking regime seated B 0001 19

possible. Under the cir. 理 however, cumstances,

of

The

In the Thatnes valley peak of the floods is expected jodny. Last night many were impassable as continued to rise.

the

roads river

Woman Gets Top

Czech Post

Reshuffle

Cabinet Announced In Prague

London, Dec. 12.

other Democracies had employed India's argument to justify absteation in the United Nations voling, it would have meant sheri- Being an Important

A 57-year-old widow be the principle that

with the release of all prisoners of came the woman

Government post war following the cessation; biggest of the Korean hostilities behind the "Iron Curtain" for a legal nicety which the since Rumania

purged her West can ill-afford.

Foreign Minister, Mrs Ana Pauker, Prague

former

has

NOW the question arises: Radio sald today.

will China release the Mrs Lumila Jankovcov, A prisoners and China's former Socia! Democrat, ultimate attitude will deter- held Cabinet runk in Czecho- mine the success or failure slovakia since 1947-even before

Ommunist

d'etat. Nations ie of the United

of Industry, authority in this case. The She was Minister

then Minister of Supply and approaches made already since 1960, Minister of the Food

by Mr Dag Hammarskjold to the Peking Government and the indirect recognition of the Communist regime that this move implies is an opportunity which China may eventually use to secure official

Nationa United membership. A back-doot

Sho

In

coup

A sudden six-inch snowfall in Northern England's Westmorland County stopped a train carrying fans home from 300 football London un!!! snowplough arrived two hours later and cleared the tracks.

HEPAIRS BROKEN

At Wallasey, England, where the River Mersey opens out iniu the Irish Sea winds of gale force blew in at high tide and crumbled

in the the Rhine

Allied ad- varice of World War II, will be ru hed aboard the first ship leaving Liverpool Lomorrow and are scheduled to arrive Dublin on Tuesday.

Rain fell ftfully today in the Irish Midiander around Athlone where 30 square miles of farin- lands are under water.

Boals manned by soldiers and Red

workers rescued Cross families huddled on the thatched of their collages repairs in a 40-foot roofs

and Hap of the sea wall for the third carried fodder to cows and speep consecutive day.

stranded on tiny green patches of high ground.

лет

Dry-docking of the

giant 1,000-ton liner Queen Mary "for overhaul at anoval Southampton was postponed for the second day in

30 m.ph. winds,

Dublin's triher

o r:w

by

dried out from a flash flood which drove 5,000 people from

homes last week.

Metal workers

UNDER CONTROL

salt

The

Army authorities that for the moment the situa- tion suburb

"under wus

control"

still Hundreds of farmers were

their water- refusing to leave

rescue Icgged lands and Army boats brought them blankets.

Army

Their

rescue

food and

boats touk Mrs Bridget

worked Sun- day overtime today at Stock- port, England, on parla for Bailey emergency bridge to re-moighbours place the railway bridge which Hughes' funeral at Athlone 10- had to be blown up in Ireland day. Mrs Hughes, 85, died in because it was damming the hospital there on Friday after swollen River Tolka.

she was rescued from her flood- for the bridge. The parts

ed home. She was the only which is of the same type as fatality far of the Irish Mid- those that were thrown aCTOAR land fods.

THE WEATHER; Moderato or fresh North winds, Cloudy,

bat fair porfode,

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Did This!

Mr Anthony Nutting Says:

Scotland Yard IF CHINA ATTACKED

Got The

Photographs

Sydney, Dec. 13. Scotland Yard. London's police headquarters, went Info nation to recover two photographa for an Austra- Han woman

While in London lasi year, Mra Elizabeth Fraser of Melbourne, paid 6 shil- tings to 1 street photo- graphor for two snapshota, She was due to mi bome thull way, but the photo grapher promised to mali the photographs.

no

Months passed with sign of the mapshols, 80, eventually, Mrs Fraser wrote to Scotland Yard.

The photographs

rived almost by return of post, with a letter from Sir John Nott-Bower, Commis- sioner of Metropolitan Police, saying pleased to have been of service. China Mal Special.

ho WAR

HONGKONG MAN DIES IN MALTA

Allegedly Injured In Fight With Sailor

Donald

Valetta, Malta, Dec. 12.

Arthur Peterson, 38, of

Hongkong's Principal Probation Officer Sydney, Austraila, has died from injuries allegedly received in a fight with a British sailor near the well-known Hotel Phoenicia.

ឆ

for

for.

Industry.

the Government changes

four, bution service with the object of John Tucker Thomson, 20, of, clinical psychologist announced by Prague Radio to-

Caltecats, Ayrshire, 3.OKET- years before taking up his ap- preventing crime through con- becomes В Deputy day, she

mechanic aboard the warship pointment in Hongkong, after structive work with, and pest of Food Premier and the

has been having studied under Professor potential or actual delinquents. H.M.9. JA Minister

Striker,

Dawson at Sydney University. charged with murder.

He took the Diploma in Social Mr Peterson, who arrived in

and then Science

at Sydney. Malla last Tuesday, returned to

as a case trained extensively his hotel early Thursday mom-

worker with the Austrailon ing, covered with blood.

Red Cross Society. Later he was. appointed a counsellor

Laken DYET by Premier Jindrich Uner, former and Minister of Agriculture, CONTROL MINISTERS

At the same time, Dr Vaclav method perhaps, but China Skoda, former Minister of Jus- can argue that it is ance, was also appointed a Vice- absurdity to have a world Premier. Under the present body which while not recog Czechoslovak administrative sel-

the Vice-Premiers nising a regime will still up, aogotiate with it on specific different issues. The United Nations after all is only a means of

facile

control groups of

of ministries. The minor governmental re- shuffie follows elections held in Czechoslovakia on November 28. diplomatic The outgoing Government for- Once the contact mally resigned and a new gov- has been made, it borders ernment was formed by Premier on legal pedantry to con- Vila

Villar Siroky. The appoint- tinue a denial of full and ments of the

more contact..

two now Vice-

complete recognition. China Premiers were the main changes may therefore use this mode

of contact

From

the old lot,

Mr Jankovcovs, a former to penetrate teacher who has travelled widely existing Western opposition in Europe, was a member of the to her admission. The free- Czechoslovak

resistance move-

MR DONALD PETERSON

The porter asked needed assistance,

under

In addition, his responsibili thes covered all other activities In connection with the preven- tion of delinquency,

FORMOSA, BRITAIN WOULD BE INVOLVED’

New York, Dec. 12.

Mr Anthony Nutting, chief British delegate at the United Nations, said tonight that a Communist attack on Formosa would be an attack on a United Nations member, "and of course Britain would be involved as a member of the United Nations."

He was spending in reply to questions during "a television Interview.

Asked if an attack on outlying Formosa Islands would be con- rideruck an attack on the... United Nations, Mr. Nulla replied that it was not a good thing to Advertise what one's intentions were to the potential enemy.

BRITISH HELP

Questioned about the offer by

wrong". He cautioned, how- ever, that Mr Hammarskjold was not empowered to negotiate for the airmen's release but only to "make unremitting efforts."

-- NO RISK OF WAR

Mr Nutting said he saw "no risk" of war with the Commun- Ist world "as long as we in the West remain solid, united and strong".

Huge canorcte blocks. which had been tossed about like toy bricks by the hugo waves, mark the breach in the sea wall caused by heavy storms at Fleetwood, Lanca- abire,

A gap some 300 yards fong was born in the wall,

Now plans are in hand to evacuate 2,500 people in the event of floods,

Throughout the day, tons of rubble have been thrown into the breach in an attempt to hold back the sea from the fishing port.—Reuter.

Tried To Steal A Battleship

a

Piece By Piece Kobe, Western Japan, Dec. 13.

Police recently arrested a gang led by

a 30-year-old Korean who piece by piece had been quietly stealing "Japeneso battleship.

The battleship Mutsu WDS sunk near

here in

the Inland Sea during World War Two.

Before they were arrested the gang had "salvaged" more than 50 tons of metal from the sun- MV:

ken hulk and sold 11 as scrap Dag Hammarskjold the Und'ed

Nationa Secretary-

fron-China Mall Special. Generni, to go to Peking in con-

Father Caned Teacher nection with the case of the 11 American airmen imprisoned by

Mount Isa, Australia, Doç. 12. Communist Chinese, Mr Nutting

Mr Nutting said British re-

The father of a pupli at tho gressed that this was Mr Ham- marakjold's mission and that the cognition of Communist China State school here was fined £AB

had

(24 sterling) for having caned not hurt Anglo-American ould not sy what Mr Ham-relations. He said Britain's vote

a 21-year-old woman teacher mirskjold would do.

three-foot stick. condemning the with But he added that the British | imprisonment of the American Pleading guilty to a charge of Charge d'Affaires in Pekin) airmen showed that his country common arsault William would do anything he could to was "square behind the United Wheatley, a mine

told employee, the help.

States,'

had struck the court bo Asked if Britain would join. "We don't always have to go teacher across the buitocits in the United Blates In

an along the same road as long as front of her own class becauso

have the economic blocicade of China if we

same goals," he she had struck his son the pre-

Mr Nutting said his Govern- ment recognised China because "we felt we should realise the fact of the Communist govern-

this ment". He said did not mean Britain approved of the re- alme

in

the UN.

Mr Hummarskjold's mission sald-Reuter and United Press. vious day. China Mall Special.

failed. Mr Nutting insisted it

was not an economic matter but a matter of the Chinese broken the Korean having armisilce agreement.

CO-EXISTENCE

"Peaceful

1

Mr Nutting said; co-existence is possible but would not describe the co- existence we know today as peaceful."

He mid the West was striking a trading balance between not throwing the Chinese into the arma of Russia and not giving the Chinese equipment for aggression-Router.

RARE SPIRIT

BROAD INTERESTS Mr Peterson was a man of the scheme for rehabilitating ex-broad interests. In his youth he the Australian was at one time a professional servicemen by

a keen Department for Post-var Re- kangaroo shooter and

Mr Nutting, said tonight MT construction. He went to Eng- horseman. He studied singing land in 1948 10 broaden his under Harald Williams, and sangammarskjald, was approach- "with › rato · missionary Ing administrative leading roles in amateur open. experience and organisation.

He is trvived by a widow, spirit" the task of freeing the 11

American airmen, In Hongkong, Mr Peterson's Mra orgina_Peterson, ana duties Included the building up mother, airs Clara Frases, both Mr Nutting called the Chinese

nction of a modern and effective pro- | Ir. New South Wales, Australia.

a "great and grievous

a

MORE CRACKS' SEEN ON THE MOON

Warning To Space Travel Enthusiasts

London, Doc. 13.

Hold that rocket ship the moon is cracking up. Dr H. Pércy Wilkins, who has been studying the moon for 44 years, reported today that many cracks were appearing in, its surface and they seemed to be muṛtiplying.

"This

is

Hong Kong

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE

Picture Record

OF HONG KONG EVER PUBLISHED

99

Depicting Waterfront Sceries, City Scenes, Urban Scenes, Harbour Scenes, Architecture, Churches, University Buildings, Markets, Features, Chinese Ceremonies, Shipbuilding, Factories, People at Work, People at Play, Arts and Crafts, Sporting Activities, Character Studies, Child Welfare, Chinese New Year Scenes, The Colony by Night, Pageantry, Hong Kong a Hundred Years Ago, in all, over

300 Photographs

Finely Reproduced on Art Paper

ing of the airmen, however, mont during World War Two and is likely to be a long pro-was twice decorated. Her hus- cess and a trying one to the band was executed by the Nazis. Americans, and her allien. She has a son aged 10. India's assistance and born June this

POLITBURO MEMBER

him if he but Peter.. year, she was presentation of the Ameri

Ho mid, he feared the dream He said he found many new, lear thán 200 yards acros at cah came to the Chinese may posts in the Czechoslovak Com

elected to one of the highest son replied: "No."

of just shooting a rocket 'ship | ones and some in the process of that distance." When ho did not appear for at the moon in the boller that being formed. They disturbed |-✅ The cracks appeared to 'dis= In the long run, torvo a use munist Party. She became a breakfast later in the mom-'It would come to a safe, routing | him because,, as a member of, pose of the theory that the ful purpose but for fa candidate (non-voting) membex ing, Hotel authorities entered place was over,. From now on, the Brħish Inter-Planetary ingon was covered with a layer saving reasons along China,is orzu

and found him un-rocket ships designed for

the Society, he was, interested In, of, durt,” Dr Wilkins said, His unlikely to release the airmen of the Party's Politburo, which his room

|240,000-milo

Journey would space exploration. .,

own theory is that the alternate He died later in hospital have to be able to direct them-

baking and freezing of the without (recovering

But there was no nood to moon by: its 300-degree varia conscious-elves to safe lunar ardun." Minister

fear that plocos ness-United Pres.

of the motion in temperature from noon « ME PETERSON'S VIEWS

would break off and haurila this new conflict to Health in March, 1954. She is

FIRST SEEN IN 1891

to midnight To

„Ja“ responsible, Mr Peterson, who has done

through spacy,

"But whe

whaLover the reason," strain relations with the Deputy Premier.

The Jowish-bom Ann Pauker, much for juvenile delinquency Dr Wilding is amelenographer:

"They

all matso he said, "It is going to make overly Europe's leading woman in Hongkong, accepted, the post-an satronomer wito upadializes cracia, he said, “ranging, I space ship.. landings hazardous when the world is on the Commals, lost her top posts of Principal, Probation Officer in in: the moon. He has that come would as, from 50 foot to one until such ships are equipped verge of solutions to in the Rumandan Government the Social Welfare Office, in 1960, pleted, researches into the moon mile_deop. But they are very to

chang direction as they number.

of International and Communist Party in a purgó 1. He was calnently, quallied cracks which were first, sighted broad ---- even. our biggest approach ibe moon,”----United | HONGKONG problem.

15 in the simunite of 1952-Reuter, for his Work," and had been im | în 1991.

telescope won't see anything Pr***

policy

for some time.. In the mean-Russia has

time it is to be hoped that minister, Mrs Mem

Marin D. Kovrig

the West doas not allow nina

Communist bloo at a stage

appointed

of

પ

Donscious.

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