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BLACK

COMMENT OF

TH

THE DAY

The Saar

THE first and most obvious conclusion to bo drawn from the midnight agree. ment

the on

Saar by M. Mondes-Franco and Dr Adenauer at Baden Bacon on Friday is that the

Chancello Woat German

may look forward with more cofidence to ratification of the Paris treaties which provide sovereignty for the Federal Republic and ге armament within the Weat European Union. The retin cation debate begins in the Bundestag in three weeks time and the success of la! wook's Fronco-German laiks should go far towards con vincing the majority of the disale on olument in DI Adenauer's Christian

08

CHINA

No. 36026

The Snow

Thaws:

Establigi

MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1955,

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Price 20 Cents

RELAX IN

DAKS

Whiteaways

#ONG KONG I. K019 LOUN

AND NOW FLOODS IN ENGLAND!

The Winter Misery: Episode II

Rivers Overflow In

Southern

Counties

FREEZE

BUT THE BIG

CONTINUES IN SCOTLAND

London, Jan. 17.

A fast thaw brought widespread floods to Southern England today, sending rivers gushing over their banks and raising others to danger level. But the thaw did not reach the North; where fce and snow blocked more than 40 main roads and isolated hamlets in the North of Scotland,

Democratic Party tha the October 23 agreement on the Baar te now watertight and is unlikely to be pre- Judicial to Germany's general aspirations Insofar

that

territory 18 rooma. concerned. But the Fri-

En sorte places to day

Rescuers went out in rowing; visibility night agreement

marooncu .cn yards.

In the north, snow was still failing. Meorologists forecas moro

was on the way for all DIERS.

still where

Early today many west country areas were inundated by overflowing riverà. Villages around Bath were cut off by floods which forced people into upstairs bed-

save

boats to does not necessarily put an familles, who were cared for in end to the wrangling over

hastily established ros. the Saor which has

centre in th. bedevilled

In the Modway Valley of relations intermittently for word for years.

were the floods

Franco-German

over 300 years.

The nex

stage in the appointment of

In other Southern

Fierce inc

zw.cpl

snow

over Scotland

Rhine, Seine, Rhone, Saone and Saar rose steadily, swollen by heavy rain and melting snow.

The Rhing flooded land on the French bank for half a mile and millions of gallons of water were threatening Strasbourg At

were Karlsruhe, it

districts yesterday, belicopters dropped level since tached its highest

were uier

a neutral commissioner to many key roads be named by the Council of several foot of water.

Ministers of the projected

West European Union to

Thu

govern the territory. Saarlanders then have the choice of approving or rejecting the agreement which provide a "Europeanisation" of the territory at a referendum If they reject "Europeanisa- tion", the present Hoffman Government will continue itr office and the Sher, Will ultimatoly gravitate toward Germany. If the agreement is approved, three months later there will be elections for a new Parliament in their territory. And finally the Saarlanders have the right to approve or reject the German frontiers to be decided at n peace treaty which Germany will clude with her

con- former

Ad

Fog fell in the west today to

10 road

hazards,

cuting

food to snowed-up villages.

threatened In Europe, “floods cities and farm land in France and West Germaný, na the rivers

BIG REBEL LOSSES

IN BITTER

COSTA RICA BATTLE

San Jose, Costa Rica, Jad, 16.

Heavy losses were inflicted today on rebel 'invaders in fighting around Santa Rosa, Costa Rica, a government communique said tonight.

A rebel plane for the second time today, strated the town of Iberia, close to the rebel-beld pocket in the north-west of his rugged Central American Republit, but with little effect À communique from Colo Rican staff headquarters claim-

enemies sometime in the et that material captured from

future.

the

the rebels had established SOLUTION to this prob-complletty of "foreign govern lem lies at the heart of a ments" in the invasion. Franco-German reconcilia- tion, for while the Saar's culture la

BLANKET MARKINGS

Hillary May Join Antarctic Expedition

Near Mt. Haut

Ofrom their Concourt first floor window as a wedding down the street to party the

yin' arall (boats, Week-long rains and mating snow rised the Seine in the Paris region to nor emergency

levél.

Young Prince's Plea To Ex-King Peter

London, Jam 15. Nine-year-old Princo Alexander was responsible for the "revetit reconellia- tion of his parents, former Rinr Peter and ↑ Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia, the

arrived here

The former queen from Paris, told now men that Mit - was really through Fringe Alexander. our son, that we came to... · gelber

Heald that Princo "it" Christimas

Alexandrouilon · "anked us.

Family

to ket together again." Wa have made a mistake. In bethe separated · and

are now livery" happy", Franon-Pressa, CA

art

Japan Hit By Heavy Earthquake

Tokyo, Jans 17.

A heavy earth tremor struck Tokyo solidly at 11.25 local time today, be ginning with a sound like an explosion and jolting reinforced concrete build- ings briefly but violently,

In Hongkong: It's Residents in some of the

Getting. Milder

Colony Bay reached, fjs congium and the weather is now getting" milder

• aro÷dlar - to the" Rejab Observatory this morning.” At 6m today the thermometer registered

derrten F while the lowest tekuperature last night was 47.0 degrees and the maximum 69.1.depress.

Flood waters from the Upper

moro Almáy buildings falt Ho shock more seriously; and may nished out of doors in a priva

"The Head Ballld, Mr L. W. Alltree heads the procession from St. John's Cathedral this morning during the traditional ceremony of the opening of the Hongkong: Aminent Behind Sir Alltren, are the Chief Justice Mr T. J. Gould and the Rev. 3. II. Ogilvia uzd. tbk Ray. J. E.. Sandbach, L-Col. Blabbe Bromley and the Rev. Erio. Harde.

POMP AND SOLEMNITY

AT OPENING

OF HONGKONG ASSIZES

Traditional pomp and solemnity marked the opening of the Assizes" the first shots, here for 1955 this morning, held in splendid weather, and attended by members was a perceptible continuing of the Judiciary, the legal profession, and many distinguished residents,

officials. One early suggestion was that senior members of Her Majesty's Services and Government o the shock came from an ex- plosion rather than

∙an 'earth. quake.

sway for a few socenda

Reaches of #e: Marne and the

The solemnity of the British Forces Hongkong). Dr. "On the first of these occasiona casion was emphasis 1 byre and Mrs K. E. van der Mandele, on which I addressed this Court, glour services held prior to and Bishop Lawrence Blanchi was the year of Her Majesty's

Catholic

Bishop No Damage Reports

of Coronation, and my theme was the official opening at St. John's (Heman

the Crowns the scarce and Five minutes after the shock Cathedral (Anglican) and at. Hongkong), occurred, Tokyo's, experts con St Joseph's Church (Roman Others in the body of the fountain of justice. In the year firmed it had been an earth-

Court included members of the last part, Her Majesty, has con- Catholic) quake but the epicentre was not

In the Central court-room at legal profession, the Legislative cluded a tour of many lands, Council, the Consular Corps great and small in area, OVE immediately located,

the Supreme Court, the dis- After the quick first featul tinguished assembly

Heard ad-Government officials and publi which she holds away, and all life continued the city's

hesses by the Hon. the At- of a number of the leading of which are governed on the

principle of the rule of law' torney-General (Mr. Arthur: schools in the Coippy, kú (rüid, very dear to, vand to be.. meteorological observa-entah, QC) and the Hon. The Actorney-Generad said in closely guarded by those who

that the shock the river to a greater degree tory reported

was

felt over the whole of the Acting Chief Justice (Mr part: "Once again, we meet for truly wish to ace justice, prevail than the authorities at first ex-

T.-J. Gould).

the opening of a new judicial in this troubled and Imperfect the Bir Edmund Hillary, jolst-con-pected. Meanwhile, rain eastern, north-eastern and cen

EXTRA MAGISTRATES** year, the third since I assumed world.

It would be dimoult, if not Mount Everest in continues..

Japan. tral of

Mr Justice Gould, in are the office of Attorney-Gentra. The police board said no 1933, sald today he would From the provinces, come willingly join ́the proposed similar reports of rivers for damage reports had been reviewe of the work of the Courts in the Colony, and again we impossible, to define or describe

after the during the past year, commented have with us here today to wit: this principle in 'a' few, ceived 30 minutes

the ceremony a Commonwealth. Antaretle Ex-

beyond normal levels.

on the pressure of work in the pess Magistrates Courts and in the gathering of lawyers and laymen. (Could on back page, Col. 21. The Dordogne in the south shock-Reuter. west har foded some of the been asked.

Tenancy, and said ap

had rich growing land.

queror

Auckland, Jan. 16.

It said that the captured linked india-

material included blanketa Germany, solubly to

its marked "GN" which, It is al- economy is tied closely to loged, stand for the Guardia France. In the past the Gor- Nacional (Militia) of the neigh-edition in 1957 but had not yet mans have always main- bouring state of Nicaragua,

tained that failing the The inves:igating commission, Tentative plans so far envisage

Da, the

1.

Youne will reach the capital In merdays. They will swell

People in many small towns 21-nation a New Zealand party to establish establishment of a European sent here by the community they would never Organisation of American States, hases in New Zealand's Antarctic and villages have been rendered

From Tokyo come accept as permanent a solution has named Nicaragua

exploration, party crossing the

that ct eest .-14 which left 950,000 Saarlanders source of some of the mat the territory and meet the main homeless by the flood waters.

South Pole from Vahsel Bay on parts

fishermen were still missing oft (who are undoubtedly Gex- entering Costa Rica..

The commission, which has the Weddell Sen,

the

ecast of Kyushu and rane- man) outside the Fatherland.

Commenting on a report that The French, for their part, been due to leave for Nicaragua

accept could

today at the invitation of the Sir John Hunt, leader of the port services were disrupted by a blizzard which has been nover

any

Minister. Everest expedition, was keen to

tho development that threatened to Nicaraguan Foreign

Sir. Antarctic,

All Agencies. break up the marriage between Server Sevilla Sacasa, has post-explore

any poned its departure until Mon- Edmund salt he would join Saar coal and Lorraine ton-o7O

expedition led by Sir John. which buttressor the French day morning. economy against superior

PRESS CENSORSHIP

German economic resources Costa Rica's President, Jose 1. And at the root of the present Figueres, returned to the capital French objection is the deter-onight after a personal visit to mination that Saar power shall the front, a not pass under the control of

a carmed Germany, Ad posed here from tonight, sant

France. and the Star Other provide 35 per cont of the pro- | were: 1 duction of the European Coal Ger-

and Steel Community. many provides 45 per cent, If the Saar production went to Germany, the French figure would fall to 24 per cent while Germany's share would rise to

per cent, THE Saarlanders

genolly | .recognise France's need of their coal-rich valley to match the potential of the Rühr. And they seo just as clearly the not for the Lorraine qe for, younited with Germany they would be no match for a Ruhr working on cheap Swedish ores their high level of would fall, ant

prosodity latre-scale Varam/ovmant woult almost certainly follow The Starlanders want, to keep the bresant economics union with Franos but they simD KATE?,

The

raging since Saturday night

If New Zealand did not end Atoms For Peace'

a team, he would join the British Expedition If possible.

LEAVING IN DECEMBER

Talks Today

Love Letter 'Scandal'

School Desks Ordered To

Be Searched

The Egyptian

Cairo, Jan., 10.

Government today ordered the draks of school girls to be searched daily for love letters following scandal involving an 11- year-old

giri,

secured for the

addition of three exbro magistrator

to

the permanent staf, and the creation

of another. Tribunal.

The Attorney General, speak.. Ing on the rule of law, sald the

British system

ministration

nh thì a

Justice did "achieve our ends in so far as 'It is humanly possible so to do

also referred to law re- form, and mentioned it, was hoped to go ahead with the Crown Proceedings Bill and the undertaking of a review of the, District Courts Ordinanco

-ATTENDANCE

New York, Jan. 16.

Sitting on the Bench, with thei Scientias from seven coun

Acting Chief Justice, were HE iries will meet at Unlied Nasions

A circular issued to govern the Commander British Forces, neadquarters tomorrow to begin

W. Reece, Seń), prepna atom of the dust intern schools by the Education Hengkong (L-Gen C. S. Bag- uses of clomic energy loy

be expel any

to

girl found

In

Mr.

Possession of love letters Justice poids. (Pyisno G Love #candal' .came inibissioners of Police), Bir

national conterenco, on peaceful / Ministry, tola headmistresses SME-Justice-categ

The

Rosa has fallen into the hands designate, i disclosed this at, a weld the Fumiges Antetëwill to the open; on theʻ, ariesi at.

of

-

The conference, *

The expedition, which pinns Prozs censorship is to be im-to cross the Aclarete continent, in tracked vehicles by, passing devicpmenus today the South Pait, hopes to leave

Britain. In December this year. Dr Vivian Fuchs, leader town of Santa

MrA C. Maxwell revolutionary forces, piss, conference today.

37-year-old Osugn, ↑ Abdul Shouson Chow, and Mr. LiPo- Dr Fuchs, replying to ques- take place some time-In August official sources said. Santa

be considered Sr under United Nations auspices Hammoude, a court baille .kwal (Senjor Unofficial Justices Rosa is about 25 miles from tione, gald the Costa Rican frontler with Edrid. Hillary

right men to load the New Assembly, at its last General of the murder o **Nicaragus.

Zealand team if the New Zen-Assembly as part of President Weiad Osman Hamdi, 1500 The Organisation of Land Government agreed to take Cisinhewer's Atoms for Price

plan Reuter. American States team cone part-Housee.! firmed that a rébel DC-8, plane, had been shot down in flames

in the La Cruz arem in' noriti»

"weat" Costa Rica,:;

mag, believed

tợ

be a journalist, was killed. and 30 others wounded, on the government alde, in a batilo between Government. forces, and rebels which broke out. yesterday' „in nor h-west. Costa Nien, according to un- oficial estírniates.

closer ties with Germany? EDSAMA V ThờZTÁS

"Ambassador

would "ne" the| was approyed by the Ceneral Melanietoper, Print B. Becuo | of the Katech were Mr. C.

'Metal Diviner To Search For

The Queen's Lost Watch

Loddan, Jan. 16.

The Quocir plan

Pleteri

mistress. Below the

d'Alroada. (Registrar), Mr Wil Police, who arrested him last lem, & Low Deputy Registrar) wack, found, letters, at him home ind Mr G. 8. Edwards (Benlor from both the dead woman and Clerk of Court).

the Accommodation was her daughter Ashgan; one letter

was provi for the thr bord ilpettuk

attributed In the markines to Ashran

Hammouda le said to havu Hondths: Judge tot! police that he asked Ashgan Judy

to marry him but later began. 1974 couting her mother. He was 24t alleged to have confessed, thac | 34rma the killed her when she trine "arroð herts affectionn-after he had spent all: le money on her

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