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CASEBOOK

The twin story THE cut-and-thrust

of

the

CHINA MAIL

Thailand Concerned Over Vietnamese Refugees In The North

Bangkok, Dec. 27.

The greatest threat to Thailand's security Christmas shopping from the Communists today lies in a large group was in full swing in of refugees from the Indo-China war, store.

A confusion of cus- tomers clustered round each corner and the bells cash-registers

rang joyful jingling music.

of

Some Thai and American officials have used the term "explosive" to describe the problem of out an estimated 50,000 Vietnam refugees residing in

the north-eastern provinces of Thailand.

A manager surveyed the sectio and found what he saw, good Then his eye was caught by

What should be ene with the refugees fauzi the fighting in

something that pleased him less. Vjetnam, and lo a letter extent

Presumably, under Communis uriers or threats, the majority vili refuse to leave their homes.

saw two shihap-sized boy lin Links, und the Familakiontz even 10 retum to North Viet sidle through the crowd about · caused by thei presence 2) I hain.

one counter, help themselves in a fountain pen aplece, then slip uwny

The

Manuger Tullowed the boys to the Christmas card de- partment

watched them steal there, half a dozen cards, That seemed to complete their business in the store, for they headed for the street door

'ORPHANS

N the 1kul,

challenged

Thailand rod will be the immic-

انم

The only would be force.

alternative then

APPROACH

diale Legemperios žy b for the newly appointed United States

CAUTIOUS Ambus acis. Mr Julu Puentes.

Thailand wants to get rid of

Realising the potentially ex- the Vietnшnese quickly for a plosive possibilities of the number

rengona, one bemg | situation, American officials in that they

ccupying and Bangkok are opproaching it using lond Thats could be using, cautiously and slowly

and ad- Anottres 18

that they are be vising That officials to do like- Beved to be predominently loyal wise.

Vietinish und

By Mich manager i provide a the

convenient base to He Communist infiltration and agita- the boys.

14

look then back to his offer, 1 tion, and sent for the police.

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"One of the main reasons for

What's your naine?" the, Thailand's urgency is that she State.

an

Another threat to Thailand's security lies northward, across the Laos border in the Chinese province of Yunnun and the newly created Thal autonomous

problemi tu get the

That

เมษ

estinated settled before

Ho Chi-minte's 16,000,000 1, 20,000,000 Thais in Vietminh regime digests its Yurman, of the same racial strain Geneva guis anj, using as the Thuis of north-west Laos, large military force as

a North Thalland and the Shan ¡the gatening Tured,

We States in Burma. adopts rule

Bongkok feel people ACTOSS the Mekong

pollerman asked the larger boy wants

"Smith," the two replied unison.

"We're brothers," the bigger boy explained I'm Fred, le Ron."

your home?*** the

"Where's policetuan asked!

“Got no home," said Fird.

Where do your parents live, then

"Got në parents," Ron 4. "Orphans."

Then they told their story, of their mother and their father dying within months of each other, earlier in the year, leav Ing them alone in the world.

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Conviction Against LETTER TO

Alleged Gold Smuggler Quashed

on

The Magistrate's conviction of Ng Chee, 22, on a charge of importing gold without a licence, was, appeal, quashed by Mr Justice C. W. Reece, Puigne Judge, in the Appeals Court this morning. He allowed the appeal and discharged Ng Chée.

Government Salaries SirPublication in the Sunday Post-Herald on Christmas day of a release by Government for a revised scheme of salaries and Secretary of State, because Gov- transmitted to tho ernment is unable

to accept tions of the Slices Commission. must have caused many others is being

sonic of the major recommendă-

to wander as to what the Coleny ing committed. No details

Appellent WBB convleted by its arrival from Macao on Sep- were given in the": rolcase, but it

Mr Hin-shing Lo for importing,tember 0

just,

on Luard the motor junk Rai It was not Tal In Connaught Road Central nearly

until 11.15 1.7%-- four hours after the

10 September 1, 1934, 30 bars boot's arrival--that an informer

of gold withcut a licence. Ng pointed out the oppellant who was fined $1,000.

was then searched and the gold found on him.

Mr A. J Clifford, instructed by Mr J. C. Stewart of Messrs Stewart and Company appeared for the appellant.

The Crown was represented by Mr W. A. Blair-Kert, Senior Crown Counsel.

STRAIGHTFORWARD

and rested

There were two accounts as to the circumstances of the Burcat but it appeared,

asid Counsel, that the Magistrato resolved in favour of the Pro- scoution.

NOT ON BOARD Mr Clifford sold that evidence given by the compradore of the Mr Clifford said that the ap ship

was to the effect peal was a straightforward one appellant

that woa not on whether or not during the trip from Macao tợ on board there was sufficient evidence to Hongkong. base the conviction.

Appellant, Counsel said, was given three or four Counsel suggested that the Magistrate days leave from September 4. left out

an important fact for

by the master. After referring the defence, which related to the

to tho Magistrate's berthing of the motor vessel on

finding. Counsel said that the question of the appenant not being un board but on leave appeared to have been accepted.

THE DUCHESS OF KENT HAS

A LUXURIOUS NEW HOME

London, Dec. 27.

The evidence amounted to the fact that four hours after the ship had arrived, appellant came off with some gold on him, not having been a member of the crew during the voyage

from Macao Counsel submitted that suspicion was not enough and, on etrcumstantial evidence, sald that facts must be incompatible with Innocence.

The Duchess of Kent will move into a luxurious new home on New after referring to an authority Year's day.

It is the Communists' long range strategy to build up the idea of a "Greater Thal State" and use OBJECT TO FRENCH it us an operating bare against The overwhelming majority Thailand und

prasibly of the Vietru.mese (about 90 The Communist igurehead for per cent according to Govern- the Thai autonomous

State is mem spokesmen) stated in u Pridi Panamyong, 21 former recent questionnaire that they Promier and influential politi- A house in Kensington Palace tractive white portico leading into would not go to South Viet-clan who fled

near Hyde Park has been re- to Singapure In

an old-world house which has a nam because of their objection 1947 after

c up d'etat in stored and re-decorated for basement and three floors only. to French control.

All They have Bangkok and then disappeared hor.

the painting and The 33-foot long drawing room shown little or no inclination, behind Us Bamboo Curtain. papering was done while the is also the music room, an apart- however.

to return to North

Duchess wus in America last ment the Duchees would never ant Communist Vietnam

Autumn and now her furniture, without

for she

fine 16 a much of it kept in a London

herself. planist

Princess Alex- storeroom since 1940 when the andre and Prince Michael play Kents Belgrave Square house well, too, and musical parties was hit in the blitz, is rapidly have always been a feature of being installed.

the Kents' entertainment.

con-

10 or

will

and

for

INFILTRATION EASY our (ul.

Officials fear the Com- home was," Fred said.

There! Thailand's Prune Minister, | munists may try to set up was a kid lody what we mot Field Marshal Phibun Pibul"Free That State" within Thai- when she was on holiday," Ron

Bongaron, She lived in London, would use force if necessary to

said recently heind itself, or possibly over the inded.

border in Laus, with Pridi at auid she said we could stay with

get the Vietnance out of his | its head, her two wis ever here, so we

country. He did not say where Although Thailand came, and we did for is

week he would "force then

Yunnan do not have a com- two. Got

when he would start.

mon border, infiltration would nowhere, see, muster."

American officials in Bangkok be easy through the use of the The policeman and the manu.

fear that this brondi ger looked with pity at the two

Mekong River which Vietnamese comes of

from Yunnan, boys, and the trifles they hud persecution"

nationals might

Alexandra, be precisely separates Burnia and Laos and Communists want to

Christmas Day. "You'd better come along to what the the station," the policeman said.

give them an excuse for inter-boundary of Thalland. vening. WORKING

ur

stolen.

A

no one

T Great Marlborough Street court next morning. the

Lave

£

They are using moderation in their reussions with That off-

en the probļcin.

The majority of the refugees 1 Wo brys plended guilty to found their way to Thailand their thefts. Ron, as he was 16. over the las seven years when stood before die dock, Fred 4ighting drove them from their year older, qualified to stand in homes in Vietnam.

"They tell they've botli

II!< bren in a job up to the time of their arrest,'

policeman told

hind

POLITICAL

REFUGEES

!

then

down

forma the north-eastern

A third security threat (which Thai officials think is the casi Impor unt) is the Communės. terrorists who operate along the Thai-Malaya border.

These terrorists are moly of Malayas Communist Party whe

the

INOVE ACLoss the border when

British pressure on the ben enames too great. Recent co- opera

her ve efforis by British and

TC-

security forces have ced the Communist petivities in the rector considerably.

Unomeinl and Unconfirmed the Communists

The north-eastern area where reports that

A few of them. however, are political refugees who fled from Mr Paul Bennett, VC the the French no far back as the magistrate, and that they have late 1930's. been living in lodging-houses.

Neither Fred or Rom

the hard working Vietnamese plan to expand their activities anything more to say. Theik

have rolled in cornish groups in this area to create a diversion cuse was remanded for a week.

is one of the most unproductive to the main efforts in the North that Su

the polloc

Mr and Chorles Morgan,

circulate from time to time The poor through Bangkok, the probation parts of Thailend officer, could And out more

soll of the flatlands south about them.

wcat

There have also been uncon- the Mekung River. When next they were brought which divides Indo-China and armed reports that Communist

(Russian) to court, they were both shown Thailand, is not good for rice. into the space before the dock. This year the area suffered more landed agents and supplies at It had been discovered that they than usual, first going through near the Thai-Mainya border.

sceluded spots on the peninsula a drought and then floods that

United Prers. washed away much of the young

were both 10 years old.

DISCREPANCIES

Cropa.

fred

MR MORGAN went into the even the Thuis themselves to be The Vietnamese, admitted by M. witness-box to point out harder

workers and better discrepancies administrators have virtually Their name is taken over whole towns and

one or two other

in their

story.

not Smith,"

he said. "They are sections. not brothers, just friends, and

their parents ore not dead.

They openly proclaim their devetion to Ho Chi-minh.

"They do come from Guern- Visitors to the area report that wey, and they have been work-virtually every Vietnamese home But they has a shrine with a picture of

for both the Communist leader.

boys' +

UNDERGROUND OFFICIALS

are

in London. ing in shouldn't have been, absentees from battalion in the Army,"

An Army officer rose to con- firm the fact.

back," the magistrate said

the officer. offcor.

intelligence reports indicate that the Vietnamese operate out- side the jurisdiction of Thailand

"You'd better have them authority. electing their own to underground officials, collecting their own..taxes, running their the officer awn "Very good, sir,"

courts and pronouncing answered. "And the looks that sentences, Including the death he gave the boys as he led them sentence,

out, and the looks that they The Government says it has returned as they left the court-) evidence that the Vietnam areas room,,suggested that an inter-are hotbeds of Communist fer- esting chapter in the sagn of mentalion with steady streamli Ron and Fred was about to open of.

agenta and agitators from Vietminh areas.

Train Crash: 6 Killed

Rio de Janeiro, Déc. 27.

rid

The question of how to get of the Vietnamese is one question for which no one here has yet found an answer. Field Six people were killed and at Marshal Phibun has asked the least 40 others injured today United States to pay for ship- when a Brazil Centre Bailway ping them out. There have passenger train rammed born Indications that the United stationary train filled with holl Slater would pay part or all of day, travellers, near the town of the transportation but the prob Miguel Pereira, Rio de Janeiro! Jam remains: whore should they, State. United Press. Labeant.

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In 1955 Kensington Palace be the scene of dinners and parties such as it has not known many years past as the Duchess, an Rust of Queen Elizabeth 1, entertains for her debulante daughter,

Princess who

was 18 an

THE DUCHESS OF KENT

bu

furishing style of the moment. There is a small office for her Becretary

1V

and Lady-in-Waiting

to share and the three servants attached to the permanently household cach have д сот-

one bathrotan between them.

Ho

The

the

Mr Blair-Korr said he agreed It was after the ship had berthed that a cast of some hours appellant was seen coming off

currying gold.

only biration bed-sitting room with question was whether appellant was or was not on board during The Duchess's own bedroom has

the voyage. pink décorations,

CROWN'S CASE

submitted that Princess Alexandra has chosen evidence of the compradore was ADAM FIREPLACE

floral-patterned wall-paper and not probative either way. The not say appellant The dining-room has a superb white fumiture. The rooms of witness did of Kent and was not on the young Duke

board; he said he Adam fireplace which the Mini- stry of

Prince Michael have

ex-did not see him on the boat.. Works bought for £523

The master, Counge! went on, at a cale and which was sub-tremely plain off-white scheme.

Central heating has been in had stated

be that

gave scquently the subject of some

stailed for the Duchess likes to appellant four days' leave and ocrimonious Parliamentary cri tician on the grounds of alleged | be warm and comfortable in they were now thrown back on winter unlike some members of the finding of the Magistrate, The Duches has a small pri- the Royal Family who still pre-who stated that he could not vate sitting-room, papered infer coal fires in every ro.un. accept the whole of the crimson in the "new-old" || United Press,

testimony of the master and the compradore without serious doubts.

extravagance.

Appeal Against Conviction

For Alleged Rice Smuggling

An appeal was brought before Mr Justice J. R. Gregg in the Appeal Court this morning on behalf of Lam Kuen, shareholder of the Heung Kong Laundry, 13-15 Talpo Road, ground floor, against his conviction for importing rice into the Colony without a licence, and forfeiture of 140 sacks of rice.

bus

is safe 13

assume that with somewhat larger measure of solidation of cost of living into basic salary" a considerable increase in the pensions bl k involved.

Dr Sloss was brought out at some expense to preside over a salarics commission appointed by H.E. the Governor, consisİ- Ing of a nominated member of the Legislative Council and a well-known member of the Chiness.community with a civil servant acting as Secretary. The Commission drew up

report which went fully into the ques- tion of salaries and persions, and made various recommenda- tions which the mercantile com- munity considered not un- generpus.

E

Upon receiving the report, Government was unable to ac cept, some of the major recom- mendations, and a senior civil KTVENĆ was directed to draw a revised scheme.

up This revised scheme

10 tho transmitted to Secretary of State for his ape proval, presumably with the

was

concurrence of Excoulive Coun- cil. From the "release" it up- pears that part of the revised scheme has been approved and is being put into effect.

It must be assumed the un- official members of the Execu- tive Council were informed of the cost of pensions under the revisod schema Secretary of State's approval the before

and other taxpayers sought, would welcome information on approximate pensions cost:

(a) at present

was

(b) under the Sices Scheme (c) under Government's r

vised scheme,

from

excess

no upon the assumption that further departments will be opened, and no substantial in- crease in staff is contemplated.

The business outlook is far

bright, majority of commercial under- and while tho

takings in the Colony have been compelled to reduce staffs or salaries, Government launches a scheme to increase salaries and reward retiring civil servants with pensiona In

of salaries paid to persons actively M+ Blair-Kerr sald

that it engaged in similar work in the was the care for the Crown that U.K. appellant was board the ship on that trip from Macso. I am confident many share the If the Court drew inferences view that this is not the time to.

fact and say of

burden the Colony with ingrossed sonable inference that appellant, expenditure for pensions and I coming off

junk which

had appeal to unofficial members of berthed some hours previously the two Councils to protest in with gold in his person, could the strongest terms against the Into the Colony, the appeal must substantially increases the, pen

seld to have imported

gold be dismissed. But if his Lord-sions bill, ship found it was not a reason- able inference of fac

facts the appeal must be allowed, he said, NOT JUSTIFIED Dismissing

on

was

rea-

adoption of any scheme which

J. HENNESSEY: SETH.

the appeal, his Far East Conflict

Hamburg, Dec. 27. Astrologers predicted today In 1935 thero would be

conflict would break out "over Formosa

is godson of the late President appelle crown Counsel, repre-his own act or omission. Failure to the appellant. If the Magis peace in Europe, but an' drmed

Roosevelt, will stay in

Palace apartments too.

Tho

SPENT

The Judge gold that on the

United States and man, the

China They also

forecast the cruiting of German soldiers, the death

a leading British #dréninkid

and

Everything in the new royal and (2) the 'Magistrate had no present case He was convicted }·lant was a member of the crow happenings" around Mr Vyachewi

Appellant was fined $1,000 by was that where a delay has been Mr W. T. Charles in the Ping the fault of the Court itself, the shan Court in June 4 for in- Count leaned over backwards in Lordship said that the last para- porting the rice at Tsim Pel order to save the appellant, but graph of the Magistrate's judg- The Duke of Kent will Hive Taul Bay, New Territories, on where the delay, was due to any ment (in which Mr Lo sald in Predicted In 1955 there when he gets leave from March 10.

cause other than the Court's effect that he had serious the Army and Prince Michael,

Mr 1. H.

fault, then Chan, of Messrs own

It had been doubts) appeared to him that the 12-year-old schoolboy who Lau Chan and Ko; appeared for decided that the appellant must the Magistrate should have

and Mr D. F. O. suffer from the consequences of given the beneflt of doubts that

the The Mayne,

sented the Crown (respondente) to enter into a recognisance was trate found himself in any state. £50,000

of concern to of doubt it was his duly to give appeal purely a matter The grounds of the

that doubt to the accused, be farm - housu country

(1) that the Magistrate the appellant.. home of the Kents; the Con- were

said CONVICTED ON JUNE 4 Mr. Chan said it was impor- pins at Iver in Bucks, will still misdirected himself on the onus be kept on but most of the of proof in a cast where goods tant to determine whether the evidence the Magistrato could

in transit. to Duchess's time will

of was at fault in the not justifiably find that appel- politician henceforth were imparted

appellant be sh

another place toutakle Hongkong spent in London

June 4 and in the normal on that trip. Even if he found slav residence is essentially elegant, jurisdiction

characteristic of theforfeiture order.

had up to very

4 to enter into appellant was seen four hours Duchess herself with her

a recognisance. On June 22 a Inter would, have raised serious cultured tastes. About £50,000 Mr Moyne raised a preliminary letter was sent to him care of doubts in his mind that he had has been spent

in reconstructing point regarding jurisdictin. He his solicitars

Court

on Magistrate was not justified on personal a house which in the sentence had not complied with Juno 20 for this purpose, the evidence to find appellant personal gift of Her Majesty the provisions of the Magistrates

took some me to got in guilty of the offence, the Judge tbe

declared. Queen who cari choose the Ordinance in that he had inded touch with him and he failed tenants for it.

enter Into It is not far from the Rux-within the Ume limited

recognizance to

turn up on the fed date, but he still had by dan Embassy in Kensington Ordinance. There was no pro-week to comply with the pro- Palace Gardens and has an at vision in

visions. W Cunsel in the Ordinance, declared, for an extension of

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time, and the Magistrate had to

1

STOP dld appear, the was in hospital,

as the date for appellant

before

no power to grant a recogni- Eventually August 10 was ap zando after the time limit had. expired. It was

not necessary income Mr

appear. And he executed the

for the appellant to appear to

fore cuno particular Magistente

To USA in order to enter into a recogni

who place.

Chan said that while it was

„Washington Dec, 2::: zaneœ- ha 'would do this before aktied the strict proooduce had s

any Magtrade..

the "Ordinance, then to retentum submitted 7; the.

Both Brits and United States Counsel suumitted that where not been followed, appellent, had ledge of a possible Washington with officials today disclaimed know an appellant did not comply fulled the provisions of the

Ordidance. conference between Bir Wigston was but of Court Appellam!

border-linecap Churchill and President Elsene Wequired to go before a gro the Court should termina hower in January (1)

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