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THE

BLACK BOK

SEE IT, HEAR. IT

AT GILMANS

Radio Dept.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Gloucester 'Arcada

Budget Outlook

TEXT Wednesday in Bud- and the com-

Net Day,

munity in beginning to wonder what the Financial Secretary has in store. It would bo unwing to expect more light than shade in his estimates for the coming Anuncial year.

Certain uncomfortable facts were disclosed last March by Government. One WIB that the Colony's revenue potential had just about reuched maximum point: the other that expenditure on publie works and other projects must continue to increase if the Colony is to progress with the times.

THE WEATHER; Moderato Bouth or 6.2. ́becoming- cloudy.

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RELAX

DAKS

IN ACITRON TRENDS SIE DLA

Whiteaways

HONG KAND

COWLOON

Snowdrifts 20ft High: Bus Passengers Marooned: Starving Moor Ponies Raid Gardens

NEW BLIZZARDS SCOURGE BRITAIN

Atomic Radiation On Human

Life

Fresh Knowledge

New York, Feb. 24. Facts about effects of atomic radiation on human

at

From that was logically de- life will be a major contribu- duced the eventuality of tion of Japanese scientists annual defirits unless mea-to the international atoms- Kurea were Introduced to

for-pence conference iperense revenue. Hence the

Geneva next August. warning of more taxation.

Professor Uoshlo Fujioka, told a press Two things may be hasumed Japanese physist,

at United Nailona About

next financial conference

the Japanese dele- today that year. One, that short of imposing

tuxation gates intended to "present many new

papers on radiation biology to burdens, the Treasury can the conference.

material not expect a revenue fuinke Their

would on the much in excess of the year based

the

bc

results of

the

Temperature In

Scotland Falls To Minus 19 Deg F.

LONDON, FEB. 24.

NO PLAY IN 5th TEST What The Ground

Bangkok Under Talks Water

NEW BLIZZARDS SWEPT BRITAIN TODAY AND BY Achieved

THIS EVENING OVER EIGHTY MAIN ROADS IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WERE BLOCKED.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB COMMENTED "BRITAIN IS ENTERING A NEW PHASE OFing CHAOTIC ROAD CONDITIONS."

From Yorkshire, in the northwest, to Cornwall, in the southwest corner of England, reports spoke of cars and lorries marooned, villages cut off and snowdrifts ranging up to twenty feet deep.

Scotland "operation snowdrop" using RAF aircraft to now ending: two, that ex-atomic bombing on Hiroshima drop fodder to snowbound sheep continued though mist ham- penditure will be consider Nagasaki and ably higher than in the "the unfortunate

Bikini atoll"

what ha eslied

event around

current year. In other words, based on the Financini Secretary's servations of last March, he will have to budget next There was speculation that the your for a deficit.

was a spokes- The professVY man for the Japanese scientists obvisiting the United States,

pered the drop.

Scotland expected a thaw but elsewhere in Britain more heavy snow was forecast,

Sydney, Feb. 25.

A waterlogged ground and continuing rain prevented a start in the fifth and final Test match today between England and Australia,

Bangkok, Feb. 25. The organisational meet- of the eight Manila Pact powers enda today

Since Wednesday it has been with the first steps taken pouring, preventing net practice toward collective security for both sides yesterday. against Communist expan

If weather conditions permit, sion in Southeast Asia.

it is hoped, to begin the match Paper pledges of the United tomorrow, States, Britain, Philippines,

New

and

Pakistan, France, Australia. Colin Cowdrey, the England

Zealand

Thai- batsman,

Д entered nursing land, merde

Manila home on the eve of the Test. But

operation against aggression have for the match. been turned into functioning machinery.

las: September, of mutual co- he is among 13 players, named

3

Cowdrey had a high tempera- bventure on Wednesday,

No great armies have drawn together, but the signi- Bcance of the Bangkok meeting lies in the line that has beca Southeast Asia drawn which, if crossed by Communist totalitarianism, would' mean war. 4 ACCOMPLISHMENTS Here is what the Bangkok

actually Conference plished

1. The permanent operation Headquarters of the eight-nation Mutual Defence Agreement, was Each member will established. have representatives of Am bassadorial rank on this council,

On the Yorkshire moors more, Yorkshire, The road was vainly to clear a path through

Deroes to sald to be sealed at both ends by a ten-foot Bowdrift so that the snowploughs got through

The Air Ministry said local midwife could reach to three buses straided overnight | snow.

two with

aboard, helicopters were standing by to expectant mothers. 100 passengers

to- food al the people

first light none by in

of minus 10 They found

temperature the worse. In this area

degrees Fahrenheit was reported Bow-morrow. ploughs

the Spey

Valley, trampered were

by In Southwest England condi- today from winds blowing et 70 miles

Scotland. described as "the Northeast hour.

worst for 30 years." On

The Air Ministry spokesman Gales swept the East coast Devon moors, starving herds of said that if this were conflamed and many ships ran as speedily wild ponies were raiding farms would be the lowest ever re- and gardens in search of food, corded in Britain. (The coldest as they could to sheller,

tonight Äeports

sület 200 In this cren lis the long ever known in Scotland is minus stranded In cora sentence guot of Dartmoor, and 17 Fahrenheit-in people were along

a highway near" Stain-i parties of prisoners today-toiled Reuter.

WDE the

PROBING POTENTIALITIES

Japanese might have sought obiain materinia for the setting BUDGET deficit, esti-up of an atomic pile, but Pro- or Fujioka indicated that his Icasor mated or actual, is a new

country's

physists looked to for Hongkong, Japan itselt experience

to produce their but if it transpires, there is requirements.

for it to generate no need

He sold a programme panic. But it could, and under way

to investigate should, stimulate A more atomic potentialitics of Japan, realistic appreciation of the bub so far no evidence had been fact that, as with the Indyoung, "that we can get much

urandum” though

as Christopher Fry's play; are tons would be enough for money "la not for burning.

an experimental pito.

He arbled: "We have been Financial Serretary thinking about the production Ands bimself confronted of heavy water by Japan. Maybe with a "wrong-sided" Rud- we can get it a few years.

311

Likewise, it is sincerely hoped, |

if the

get, he will not automatic- ally

as litic as

"I do not know if there have been any negotiations between

persuade himself that, Japan wit the United States the position demands more Government about the granting | Inxation.

We to us of atomic materials. ure only scientista"

For the current financial year, He admited that at present Mir Clarke estimated JI It was impossible for Japan to reactor, but an atomic

nominal surplus of $14 | bulld

million. Final Ogures should he hoped that no experimental

much as tr might be set up in due i

show it to be very

more substantial. Wherefore course.-Reuter,

Any such unexpected (?)

surplus should be considered

at least as a part offset to any deflelt which might be forecast for 1966-66.

cut

DIAMONDS FOR

HK FOUND

Seven

Rome, Feb. 23.

little metal boxes of

diamonds addressed

to Antwerp

Hongkong

from have

Before Government succumbs

to the templation of raising been found among the wreck- taxation rates and imposts. age of the Belgian Sabena air- there exista two joint means liner which crashed near Rieu, 13.11 of bringing ordinary re- north of Rome on Feb. venue and expenditure was disclosed here tonight. closer together. They are One box was open, but the careful pruning and the only cotton wool wrapped gem judicious use of accumulated missing was soon found near by and handed over to the authorl- surplus funds.

ties investigating the crash.-

HE community is avaricious

THE

Franco-Presse.

in its demands for more Natives Slay Huks education, more social and welfare .servicea, more

an

Manila, Feb. 25. Eleven Hults, including two

medical and health facilities, dissident commanders, жете but as it happens, when it slain by a band of 14 Igorota comes to trying to finance (native tribe) armed only with expansion programme bows art arrows on Wednesday from taxation, only alo Nueva Vizcaya Province in relatively small proportion northern Luzon, it was learried of the community pay their from my sources last night,

The Huks, not identified, were part. The dangerous ten- dency is to create a welfare killed in two separate attacks state without being able to by tribesmen on Huk hideouts call on all the beneficiaries Vizcaya-France-Presse,

mountains of Nuca to make some fört"òfi con- tribution towards ita÷cost. None will deny the difficult dilemma which besets Government. Ever since the war it. has followed a bold policy of endeavouring" to

in the

antions

WETC

the

1805).

Here is a typical scene in Scotland created by the recent blizzards, which have put the whole of Britain under snow. Sheep can be seen making the most of the little grass they can find on the higher slopes of a farm, In the background are farm buildings deep in snow,

The New GATT Benefits Commonwealth. Nations

From M. S. Nuft

Geneva, Feb. 24. The undeveloped parts of the Commonwealth will do better under the new General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade than they have been doing under the old one.

Beginning Tomorrow.

STOP PRESS

оскот

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which will in the broadest sense

be a thermometer, recording the

OTHER CASUALTIES

England's other casualties, Frank Tyson (injured leg) and Trevor Bailey, who recently had a cast removed from a fractured anger, are among 13 players from whom the side will chosen.

be

Alec Bedser dropped after the first Test, and Tom Graveney, who did not play in the last two Tests, are also in- cluded.

are: The 13

Len Hutton, PB. H. May, M. C. Cowdrey, T

COLIN COWDREY,

a doubtful starter

NYE BEVAN CENSURED

fever of Comppaust: expansion | W. J. Edrich, T. E. Balley, night backed, Mir

in Southeast

A

Asin.

London, Feb. 24. British Labour Members of

Attle

their leader, against a challenge by Mr D. C. S. Compton, Aneurin Bevan who leads the panol or ex- Graveney, T. G. Evans, J. Bleftwing of the Party over big

has Statham, A. V. Bedser, J. H.

power talks on Germany.

After a

stormy two-hour meeting, the Parliamentary

De military

all membera perts from been sit up. It can meet any-Wardle, R. Appleyard and F. whare, any time it wishes to dis- | Tyson.

cuss the defence of Southeast

Asia. The panel is not similar

to the European NATO setup,

MADDOCKS UNWELL

Party adopted, by 182 votes to 72,, a motion "deprecating Mr.

di Langley, the Australlan Jevon's action in putting for- where actual divisions of Air and wicket keeper, has been called ward, a House of Commons Naval fleets are committed 1 ready to Sydney In care Lea M:d-motion urging discussions with to fight. Instead, the SEATO docks,

who succeeded him in Russia bofore the Paris Agree- panel will have poper commit- the team, is unfit.

mente, which bring a rovereign ments of available forces for use

West Germany Into the Atlantic Maddocks wed takon 11 last defence should certan situations arise.

"system,had-- Véen

The fact that no United States night walle dying from Mel- ratified-Reuter

stationedbourne and was believed to boi

unita

are actually

among the member nations does suffering from the effects of

not mean America cannot be inoculations for the forthcoming Rock Crushes House committed, Mr Dulles told the members in definito terms that US is ready to aid the under the Manila Fact if they are a target of aggression.

Blile

3. Experts on anti-subversion

الان

vul meet

Australian tour of the West

Catania, Feb. 24. Indies,

Three of the Ave Inhabitants England, who have already of a osttage In Palagonia, near of retaining the Catania, Sielly, were seriously

mado

sure

| Ashes, ato 3-1 up in the Uveito. | injured when their home wÀI

Although

the

gicundenen | frushed under a fall of a rock

to continually ex- has done his best to cover the here today...

on "Com- pitch, rain has seeped through.

The rock, a great block of

plons" and The outfield is under water granite, broke loose from the

Reuter.

cliff face-France-Presso.;

Imethods of combating the

| now.

4. Economic specialists will be attached to the permanent re. presentatives to work out methods to better the economic health of Southeast Asia and to work on bilateral aid agree- ments-United Press,

Mass Suicide

Threat

Sao Paulo, Feb. 24. Some 1,000 mambers of #

Evacuation Of Japanese suicide sect today

Nanchi

threatened to resort to violence or commit hari-kiri if they are not allowed to return home, to ilberate

country.

Communism"

afrom***

15embers of the Cherry Tree

Taipei, Feb. 25. The Nationalist government ท Final revision of GATT which present evacuating troops would carry out their threat to

Battalion, said they has been in progress here since

From Nanchishan island, morrow if the Japanese Сод October isn't expected to be generallasimo Chiang Kai-sulate did not grant them visas completed before next week.

But Inula, Ceylon and Parí“ | shek's : northernmost outpost off to return to Japan

the coast of Chekiang provinco, "Battalion" representatives and are already very happy Nationalist officials reported to Japanese consular officials-held the big, feature-packed with the new concessions given day gath

talks tonight as the Brazilian meet the constant challenge week-end edition brings you two new series of articles: them on the use of tariffs wel of providing the Colony The Great Gamblers and the Cloak and Dagger Squadron, restrictions to protect their new with improved amonities. THE GREAT GAMBLERS written by Julian Symons tells and developing industries.

It is a costly busincas, and maybe not only is Hong- kong reaching the ultimate

in producing ordinary ro venue, but it is also nearing the time when it must deny itself some of the ambitious schemes which it desires.

Tomorrow's Ching Mail

about people who have gambled with fortune. And tomorrow

Tho

J

TUC WARI NG

The officials, who asked not police prepared to intervene on 1o be named, said the evacuate expiration of the deadline This progress Covers only Nanohlahan about 129 milos

tion of Nationalist, troops from not by the octFrance-PressO. the gombler is Arthur James Cook, Miners Federation Secre those under developed areas north of Formos began thres tary, the man who told the Governs : "To hell with the which are independent nations, days ago and was expected to

the colonies be completed today. position of British Empire

which are regarded as "depozit CLOAK AND DAGGER SQUADRON is the story of 238

Squadron, the RAF's most fantastic unit, Leslie Montgomery dents of Britain is being don't They said there were about

parately.

DOTE 3,000 Nationalis troops on this tella Gordon Thomas some of the squadron's cru war-me wit

British govemment's island, may, 25 olles aff China exploits for the first time. Also in this week's Saturday Mail, the Archbiation of Canterbury plan to give them as well as coast.Regle

s the Church of England's newer to the problem of divorce, senior anumbers of the Com- Tony Motta, China Maii feature writer spende an afternoon follow mondał Wo await the Budget, fairlying a social welfen care worker du har, rounds and non what develople

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