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COMMENT OF THE DAY

The Bridge Project

FONGKONG will want to Lknow many more details about the new harbour bridge plan before residents can begin to make up their minds about it. But the details published in yester- day's China Mail do, as the promoters point out, provide

basin for discussion and even though the plan in A private venture, in un- likely that it will be trans- lated inte effect for Bome time. So there is no sugges- being tion that We Kre rushed Into anything pre- maturely.

Certainly sume Ink between island and mainland will be needed in the future if the to grow Colony continura

at the rate of the last ten years. But whether an " -shaped anuer-the-harbour Cannel or a bridge is the best plan, that is something the experta 1142] decide when they are able to com- pare all the details of the two projects.

25

The idea of obtaining a loan sound one externally 25 for, If the loan is forth- coming.

immediately

makes the project feasible from

financial stand- we feel, which

point. 2441

It it in, 100, undertaking

commends itself to develop ment by private enterprise. Government would du

well

to give the question early consideration.

something

that

For it ja

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CHINA MAIL

No. 36030

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Established:1845,

FRIDAY, JANUARY ~ 21,-1955.

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THE SOUTH AMERICA REPUBLICS

UPRISING

IN

GUATEMALA

Another New China Mail Sports Feature

20

Aslan sports

long behind

standarde. those of

the rest of the world, are now very much on the up- grade much mo that hany

publications

European sporting begin- are

and take for enquire

ning to sit up

and nolice

more news. Much of

of this be covered by the prep agencies, bal

more much

interest of meaper notice. The sports editor of the China Mal! will beginning with today's issue, present in a weekly lesture, sports Interest for Hong- kong sportsmen

who will able to follow

Indis. scene tu

Гарап, the

bo

sporting

Pakistan,

Philippines

nows

of

An

the

Bingapore, Malaya, Ceylon, Indonesia and North Borneo.

This

-

feature ASIAN will SPORTS REVIEW appear in the China Maif overy Friday.

He Walked requires He

attention before any further

mujur

is

community-planning

contemplated-planning

which could make a bridge

or a tunnel scheme

com.

Across

pletely impracticable, HK Border

On the

would plan quires

fucla presented, t

the apuar

bridge

re

link

espionage

DICTAT

Hongkong

on

is cheaper and

maintenance lean

The latter than a tunnel. has other virtues, however, which cannot be ignored. Communist China without pass- or visa, today appeared be- port including the possibility of providing 121 unobtrusive fore the Royal Commission rali as well as road

His name appeared in a docu- between islami and main

mnt honded over by Vladimir land.

Petrov, the former secret police Sovat embassy in Hongkong expectantly awaits

at the further details

the Canberra. when ho Gought rival schemes,

sanctuary in Australia.

Mr White sald he was not Communist, nor was his wool top exporting company, Australlari Enterprises und Merchandise

connected with Communist Party.

ان

Tiresome Critics

HOW

Limited,

the

OW much longer is this tiresome Lirade of com-

He had visited China, touring plainta going to continue

Hongkong-made Canton, Shanghal, Peking and against

high time other cities, in September 1932. goods? It is

Mr While said he could give ub- British manufacturers

no reason why Soviet spy head- sorbed the true facts about quarters in Moscow knew of his through its production potential,company, except our

local trading relations with Russia.- anything, for if

to is going

be Reuter. industry turning out more and more In future years. And most of this

will output doatined for world markets. Hongkong officials stressed that ali publicity does our Industry no harm and is, in fact, a free advertisement for our That may manufacturers.

be

TRAIN DISASTER Tokyo, Jan. 21. Thice people were killed and electric when have 30 Injured

train, derailed by stones on the of the line, fell on the bank Terry

night, about River last 100 miles west of Tokyo.China Mall Special.

this

Air Assault In Costa Rica

Guatemala City, Jan. 20.

Guatemala announced today that Communist- inspired revolutionaries attacked the Aurora mili- tary base outside Guatemala City today in an attempt to overthrow the regime which ousted the pro-Communist government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman eight months ago,

The government announcement said a num- ber of persons were killed and wounded in the fighting.

CHIKIANG.

PROVINCE

uhwan

Yikiangahan

Price 20 Cents

Upper

Tachen Is. Evacuation Under Consideration In Washington

Eleven

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DAKS Whiteaways

HON WEDN

The Bride &

Sentenced The Mouse To Death

PEOPLE'S COURT VERDICT

Paris, Jan. 20, Eleven "armed "agents" parachuted over Communist China by the United States and Nationalist China have been sentenced to death by A Chinese People's Court, the New China Nowa Agency reported tonight.

Ton others were given prison

and two sentences acquitted

were

The "armed agents" werd alleged to have been parachuted over Kwangtung province in 1902 They were sentenced by

Kwangtung

provincial people's court on Jan. 11.

The

to

"agents" sentenced death included "group leadera" HUR Ping-yuch, and Chin Chung-chth, the agency said.

CONTINGENT OF 40

Washington, Jan. 21.

The "agents" were part of e National Security contingent" of 80 dropped in American 1200*3 Broups reports that

planes marked by American

con- four

There was no indication whether the

The United States rebels included followers of Arbenz, who was Council met today amid exiled from the country and is now living in gressional authority might be sought to use United parsonnel, the New China News Switzerland.

States navy ships and planes to evacuate Chinese Agency estd.

The 11-day Nationalist troops from some islands off the Com- the members

was overthrown last June in an Arbenz

| revolution led by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, who is now President. The Castillo Armas victory result. ed in the outlawing of Communism in Guatemala and was hailed by the United States as a major contribution toward blocking the establishment of a beachhead in the Western hemisphere.

the

ry move against the

Pun

La

wad

La

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in gov-

And

Donc

Communist

along the demilitarised. Nicaraguan border and seemed prepared stand and fight. United Pres

MOBILISING FORCES Managua, Nicaragua,

munist Chinese coast.

were all sid

Oxlo, Jan, 20.

Ад herolo bride Sparsberg, near Oslo, 17- Binchingly allowed. Sa mouse which got inside.

weddfor her long white dress

to "Wicklo rather than to disrupt the church-marriage ceremony, The pricki notlood that "normod rather agitated at the altar, but he pai fi down to normal excilement on the "great. day".

When the Intrepid mouse finally bit her leg and tore

#looking,

the

barrassed bride could stand the strain no longer and said, in a voice which could be heard throughout the church, "The mouse!?

Finally, her brother, well-known football

administered a well-er,

kick. The mischievous mouse beak a hasty „po- trees and the pricat" råve the newlyweds his bless- Inga-France-Presse, ut

MURDERER SENT TO ASYLUM

to have been killed in the fight-

London, Jan. 20. A 23-year-old ex-airman, The meeting of the National Security Council, toping All the weapons, radio transmitters, ammunition, maps

States

went to the cinema after defence organisation composed of the President and high and parachutes captured were Christopher Owden, who officials, followed a secret briefing to congressional leaders made in the United

Some of the "ngents were stabbing his ex-girl friend on the Far East situation by the Secretary of State, Mr

their on Bald to have taken off

WELS yesterday John Foster Dulles.

espionage inission from Okinawa 25 times,

the Broadmoor for in- Mr Dulles was reporbod to have Although neither the White and others from Formon. Some sent to

received criminal asylum of

allegedly told the congressional leaders at House nor the State Departe espionage training in Kana- definite detention.

DO-inloute meeting that the ment would comment on the Administration

Medical evidence was given at would like to meeting between Mr Dulles and gowa, Japan.

the leaders,

The mission of the "agents", have the evacuation authority in the congressional caga stach

uch action was necessary. Two congressional leaders, who

them

Nicaragua declared today he was (asked not to be named, said ther State is unofficially said the newn agency, was to his trial here that Owden, fpiri

had

insurgent ident

presence

of the

our

сом

from

Chairman

of the

For the

Asked if the outicok was en-

"Wo

that couraging Senator George re-

do hope

will be plici

fliers eventually the released and that more stability the Far be brought to

will

East."

.

SE Asia

Defence Plans

up" guerilla bases, or guilty but insane of murdering rufitary Miss Patricia Wood, 20-year-old sursautions, collect

n

the

here to have outlined "set following two problems.

ending the group of faland

Yet under Castanakot pressure, the Chinese Nationalists

be forced out of this isinads and would need American help to

wo

them out.

American military experts

regard some of the many Na-

his

and

Kills Then

Major,

He was alleged to have bought a knife to kill the girl when the. broke off her engagemnant to han and attacked her in the front porch of her home; stabbing her seven times on the front of the

Himself body and 16 times in the back.

He also hit her with a milk bottle.

diefence

the

Police said that in a statement Cairo, Jan. 20. An Infantry captain committed after his arrest, Owden fold after shooting to End cinema, then to a cafo for tionalist islands off the Chinese suicide in front of his troops them he later went to a West a cup of tea and after reading mainland as of no real value and ho today, Chiang Kai-shek might increase death the major charged with

strength in ground forces but relaying to him on order which of her death in the evening He was they would

on the same evenlig, also require naval he had previously refused to papere, went to a second cinema

obrcy. rotection

transport

Dine then arrested. Aln el The captain, facilities

Owden, though he pleaded not Hidayat, who ignored an order. In the light of this altustion,

admitted Mr Dulles and the congressional from the High Command several guilty, did not give evidence. leaders are reported to have days ago, became. furicus when The

Major Ezzat Abdul Ghand order charge but set out to prove he agreed that the President would

to execute have to get special authority to ed him

Two years ago he spent come mand. cover the use of American forces

revolver months in a mental home after

• He wilpped out in any withdrawal of Chinese Nationalists since this might bring and shot the major despite the attempting to kill himself with Americans and United States intervention of a geceral who aspirin while serving in the warships under Communist are. was present. Hidayat then com- Royal Air Force. He had since But it is also reported that milted suicide before his troops. become a salesman-China Mall

Special. there was no suggestion of any wholesale evacuation of Chiang Kai-shek's outpost forces back to Formosa and the Pescadores

islam deute, ENQUIRY

-France-Presse.

the com-

was insano,

of fighting The outbrook Guatemala left three of the six Central American Republ political turmoil, President Jose Remon of Panama was machine- gunned to death on January 2

Jan. 20. and Panama has been under

President Anastasio Somoza of state of siege Moce then. Cost

crush a Rica still is trying to

1. decided to seek President

General Chiang Kai-shek and political intelligenes, and neighbour, in a suburban street, .country's forces If the: mobillaing his

in amberstick)

asked for carry out semed disturbance to suffered from schizophrmala have southern-border with authority he might make the rea

know he was doing strong at the of President Jose on the

American help in the Tachom preparations for her (plit personality, and Las not GCOTEC which the Costa Rican Costa Rica to avoid violation of quest by next Monday...

coastal China Trance-Presso his northern Senator Walter

the

Islands, pired Nicaraguan territory.

the outpost

off Cheklang province, of Sydney, Jan. 20. government claims was inspired

The possibility of Interna- new President directed

by

Senate presumably in the form of more tional conflict is grave," he told Democratic-controlled un Aus and Mr Alfred White.

end sup- Committee, aircraft, ammunition Foreign Relations who said Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua businessman tralian

ples for comb 20.000 troops de- the

President Somoza complained told reporters "Mr Dulles gave Informed sources said the new correspondents here, he "Just walked

led

by...... into

a bird's-eye view revult in Guatemals was border from

patrol plane Colonel Francisco Cosenza, that

in the situation military for a "Blind"

in served as

East former Guatemalan Ambassador Organisation of American States

particularly to Italy, Unconfirmed reperie Costa Rican bombers which had

"wiped out the small town of Formosun area.

"We also were briefed on the said Bve persons were killed in the clash at the Aurora military La Cruz, near the Nicaraguan base-United Prem.

frontler and penetrated Nicara-status of the 11 American_air- men held by the Chinese Com- REBELS ATTACKED

uan territory. guan Jan, 20. San Jose, Ceuta

the Nicaraguan air munists following the report He said

which Mr Dulles received yes- Costa Ricanes today

force had been put on a round

terday from Mr Hammarskjold, would and alert the clock blasted a rebel troop convoy un

United Nations Secretary- Americin highway

General." patrol the border, stincked

of and Cruz ncar

"Another violation

be a sufficient rebel concentrations other

territory would Northern Costa Rica, the

motive to provoke war between mament

the two countries," le declared. announced tonight.

the conflict A government communique

"And worse you F-51 of the four suld Iwa

could be converted into a con- because tinental dispute Mustang Bghters acquired from

the country the United States for $1 each

Nicaragua being

various shot up", the rebel convoy attacked would have went

countries as allies." on to attack

Somoza add the concentrations "causing troop

OAS patrol of on serious

rebel troops, plane would have prevented any

Cruz meanwhile, halted a government rebels round La

the defending drive

themselves, 1,000 yards utside fortress of Santa Fioso in North- PREDICTED DEVELOPMENT On hearing of the La Cruz western Costa Rica. The insur-

armed

with bombing from

his son, Colonel get force mortare and bazookas and sup- Anastasio Somoza, the President ported by a tank and half-tracks said: "this is the situation 1 mounting machineguns,

authorities sald ing Government

halted their with- they put dangerous toys the rebels drawal toward the newly-created the hands of a maniac."

(Early this week the United

resolution sold four Mustong States

for one

with Mr John Fuster Dulles. ***++++ | Aghters to Costa Rica

Mr Holland, who flew into dollar each.)

Washdagtan on his way to the ho Somoza sald President

Commonwealth Prime Ministers would never consent to

the Commonwealth premiers conference in Londoni, sald bo personal interview with Presi-

Costa are to discuss a dramatic would bring up the cessere dent Jose Figueres of

tomorrow-Router, Characteristically, Morris Abraham ("Two-Gun") Rica, in a bid to end the tension shake-up of defence plans matter in talks with My Dulles

two countries. when they meet in London "How fould I, with the at the end of the month. attached to Japanese goods Cohen seca nothing incongruous about being a Jewish between

In tomorrow's China Mail,

Top priority is to be given to which must not be asseci- genoral in the Chinese army.

me?" he asked, the Stepney-born problem child who became Sun Yat-sen's Person who tried to assassinate

"If there is no explanation a new all-Commonwealth setup The ated with our products.

from the Costa Rican Govern- to guard Southeast Asia. We have listened tolerantly bodyguard gives his views of the Communist-Nationalist

'based in ment today and a promise not core of this will be an imperial our feud.

strategie: to the criticisms umbrellas, toya, gloves

There is a good chance of the popular week-end paper, and to violate our territory further Malaya,

At present there are 25,000 (woollen), brushes, shirts,

the favourite with every, mem-wo will take adeguato measures

to repel the aggressions and British and colonial troops based enamelware and now felt two factions coming to terms,

our dignity Croteau, safeguard

in Malaya--moet of them en- Foucher hots. Our agent in London he says in an article in which ber of the family,

he looks back into his thrill-

gged in anti-terrorist activity. in doing

Australia and New Zealand are first-class job packed past and into the misty writing on Hidden Mysteries of territorial integrity, Reuter.

the Undersea Jungle, tells you

now being naked to put, troops correcting the fallacious future.

This is one of a number of in the second article of this

In the Malayan theatre. highlight feature stories ap- exciting series HOW HE CAME

The new Commonwealth plans are being put forward because- Now it is time for the Federa-pearing in tomorrow's blg 20-FACE TO FACE WITH

1. Australia and New Zealand tion

feel the ANZUS pact from which Britain is excluded doesn't give A girl of 18, who has now sufficient safeguards on the Asian been polo-squntik 60 tout above mainland, Parkland, Washington, for 153

and the dominions. 3 Britaks Jane days claims to have broken all craighten hent

are inimpressed by the present of industry, 'fooling

Sir Boverley Baxter sugests; and

proposal Mr. SZATO, which wil pinch in the competitive the Labour Party rename felf Roberts welles on current films, records,

full pages of But the is not giving up. In be discussed in Bangkok) next

Trivandrum, South, India," fight with goods made, here the "Liberal-Socialist Party" to the are three Lal get the Liberal voles...

2 Jan 20. and Home-side pictures, fact, she wants to stay on her month. It is felt there proposals. local

wil ve SEATO na a paper or- and exported abroad.

The London theatro spat.

to dis The Idon, it some, in

wilbout Kantation this group come out here this week focuses on the there is the otte and only Giles, perch till February 5

Athlity-your-old villager adequate

ave birth to quins at a hospital and see for itself just man dlacavored by Sir Laurence the latest book and record rescourage other pole-squattere force

Intial discusion on the new here yesterday. what's happening in this Olivier, who has just been views, two pages of Woman from trying to boat 250r

What she thinks about up plur haye already started sinon Four, Call girls were fully Colony. They obviously awarded a £10,000 sim con acres, local and oversens sports

reviews and, most important alott not stayed, but her only the rival of Sir Frederick developed though under normal don't know, and won't be truck,

Tomorrow's Mail has a full ALL THE WINNEES AT THE pastimes are the radio and tele- Ebedien, veemmest bend of Aue, welche fifth, a boy, was love what they're told.

SMARStayyor | Rmdurdavaïowed and pronta txarai, phone talks with her friendza Irming These absurd complaints ration of interest, excitement VALLEY TOMORROW,

France-Press S must be brought to an end.'

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marked gooda

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Japanese

"Made

in Hongkong" (to 66

qualify for

ference,

Imperial Pre- these nefarious mua*

allegations auggest)

stop. There is n stigma

我

of

beliefs of a number of British industrialists.

"Two-Gun" Cohen Speaks...

of British Industrica pare

Jean

China Mall, Hongkong's MONSTER SILARK!

to the OAS investigat-

Predicmission would occur if |

oil

Pole-Squatting

A

Girl's Record

Ladies: there is a specialty for YOU: A famous novelist has or the National Union of Manufacturers to send to her face lifted and tells you how she feels about it all, what she Hongkong a delegation res had to do and what happened in the doctor's clinic. presentative of all section

the

in

B

and

Parkland, Jan. 20,

Shake-Up Predicted

Washington, Jan, 20.

Mr Sidney Holland, the New Zealand Prime Minister, said tonight he would discuss the

possibilities of a Uni

a United Nations

ceasefire London, Jan, 20. The Daily Express poll tical corrspondent writes:

Sir Winston Churchill and

reserve

on

China

Dispute Over Uniform

~

London, Jari, 20, A Custome dispute over tho Astred uniform of. General gruenther, SHAPE Commander, | la prevention the General from it to Madanie Tussaud's world-famous," wax- work show.

presenting

The uniform, a vált from Gen. Gruenther to me, Tussauds

computed at some « £20, but are purchase tax payable Hos not yet been fired, leg

No other similar, uniform can be found in London-France- Prepo

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