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No. 36066

COMMENT OF New Job

THE DAY

Hongkong Civic

For Gen.

Association Templer

IN the four months since

IN

of

Reported

London, Mar. 6.

its formation, the Hong- kong Civic Association has mude a enallous and un- pretentious entry into the realm

local

General affair,

Sir Gerald There has been none of the Templer the Miln who bombant and Lub-thumping trounced the Communista in usually associated with the Malaya-gues to a new job emergence of a new politi- tomorrow, Monday: Special į cal organisation. So far Adviser to Defence Minister the Civic Association has Harold MacMillan on sub- been content to announer version in the British its objects of association and has since provided some thoughtful considera- Hongkong's rice

Clone

pulley.

Over the werken tha

Association imated its first newsletter and the seenera publie now has an japans tunity to study its mires and sends j2 greater de tall. Caution and modera Bun, it would appear, are Two fundamental precepts which govern the attitute of the new organisation, This largely debated by

the fact that in working t

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colonies.

The General who turnest what ; looked like an endless bottle against the Mulayan terrorists into almost complete victory, has been o leave recovering from tropical disease since Just June.

The new job, according Suures leges to the Kuver- That, will my.lve co-ordinating defence throughout the coluniol Territories against Communismi

and terrorism.

The appointment, made at the

[THE, WEATHER: Light or moderata E.SE. winds, Ulożdy with fair periods in the West of the area. Ben for spreading In this evening.

'Established ́1845

MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1955,

MISSING US

FOUND

CRASHES IN MOUNTAINS OF FORMOSA

Hongkong Aircraft Join In Widespread Search

THE WRECKAGE OF THE MISSING US AIR FORCE C-54 TRANSPORT PLANE HAS BEEN LOCATED IN MOUN- TAINOUS COUNTRY 38 MILES NORTH OF THE SOUTHERN TIP OF FORMOSA NEAR THE TOWN OF HENG CHUNG, IT WAS OFFICIALLY STATED IN HONGKONG THIS

personat request of Mr Muc- AFTERNOON. NO OTHER DETAILS ARE KNOWN.

Millan emphasises the govern- Bent's far that Communists will turn increasingly to mnltra- ton, querilla warfare, terrorism

and med public epintos and Sanditry as the danger of an

**

mailers such

ןדין

and out het war becomes

cost of living, education greater.

D The

housing, the refugee c

squatter problema

the stimulation of local 7

Search for the missing plane continued this morning,

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

PLANE

two Hornets and a Sunderland flying boat of the RAF Snow & Ice

joining in the hunt.

The Hornets returned at 11.30 a.m., and reported

The Sunderland continued the search.

KENYA FIRST

no result.

General Templer's first Jol is

Col O'Wighton D. Simpson, US Air Liaison Officer stationed in industry the Association 'expected to be in Kenya where Hongkong, said early this morning he had received no further news about

realises the need for "eare the government hopes he

ful serotiny"

atel

newaletter uliservex:

would be

nounce

pintform

foolish to

2121-

them

NO Noun after Cli formation".

DRIMARILY the most wel- Come feature of the new Association IN that its formation provides evide ence of a growing interes! 171 civic affairs by the Hongkong community. Secondly, it H newsletter contalas

J number rational and balanced as- sessments of conditions in this Colony and only brief glance at its 12. column bulletin is sufficient to show that rudicalism

and impetuosity have part in its policies.

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Ju a brief analysis of the Re-

form' Club platform and the aims and objectives of its) own organisation, the Civic} Aslation stresses there is fundamental difference

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between the two bodies un

the question of locali

franchise. The Civic Am-1

sociation is "armly opposed |

to any immediate large-seale

will

able to clean up the Mau Mau terror with the same tueties he

In usert

Malaya-small, closely-knits military units, peychological warlare to counter

propagando, system of rewards.

terrorist

and

GENERAL TEMPLER

General Templer's

the missing transport plane.

THE GAZA INCIDENT

Armistice Commission Finds Israel Guilty

Gaza, Mar. 6.

The Mixed Armistice Commission found Israel guilty of an attack against Egypt on the night of February 28 in the Gaza region at a meeting in the Sinai Desert near here today.

The Commission rejected an Israeli complaint alleging a series of provocative acts by Egypt. The. Commission ruled there was not sufficient evidence to back up the Israeli contention.

left

Okinawa for

The

aircraft early yesterday morning Hongkong, carrying a replace-

the

Το

Return

England

London, Mar. 6,

Snow and ice returned to

ment engine for US Air London and Southeast Eng- Force Dakota which had to reland last night after last turn to Hongkong on Friday be- week's spell of springlike cause of engine trouble.

The Royal Navy destroyer, sunshine.

HMS Concord, left Hongkong

Heavy snowfalls жете ге

yesterday to assist in the search ported from the East Const, but for the missing C-54 and is still in London the fall was slight soon vanished in the morn~ sun. In the

al_sta.

Plones of the US Air Force bused on Formosa and Okinawa

and

ing

Peak district of falling

are also taking part in the wide thickly. today and police

snow was Derbyshire,

spread search.

from!

Talpet quotes a US Air Force

C-64

A United Press report

that the spokesman as saying

either may have crashed in the mountains of Southern

four-engined plane was

Formosa or into the sea.

The

at 10.38 a.m.. last heard from

SNOW

sald conditions were very bad.

Motorists were warned that

masses loosened by a thaw might send dangerous avalanches crashing on to ronds in Northern England.

More show showers and frost were forecast for most of

esterday near the southern tip the country today. Reuter.

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OHIO FLOODS

Chicago, Mar. 6. 16- The flooding Ohio River rolled into low-lying arcas of river towns in Ohio, West Virginia,

Indiana Kentucky and

today and chased

more Hundreds persons from their homes, Eut much colder and drier weather moved into the Ohio Valley and it appeared that most river communities would escape major flood.

of Formosa, when Its pilot mmude a check with the radio tower at Herchun. In minute telk wax

with the fower pilot made no operator, the mention of trouble.

United Press adds that spokesman at Clark Field. the Philippines said, the plane was also carrying 14 persons,

those None of

aboard was identified by name, but so far as was known there were no VIPs among them.

The Commission, which reach- The Mixed Armistice Com- ed its decision after a

tense mission found the attack eight-hour meeting, condemned premeditated, the Israeli attack as **brulu!". The UN observers who in- The Commission stalc it felt vestigated the incident WCTU "grave anxiety over the serious Major Sven Rosenlus of situation resulting from this at- Sweden, Captain Elvund Muller tack."

of Denmark and Captain Pierre Saiah Gohar, Palestine Altairs Huc of Belgun.-France- Chlot of the Egyptian War Presse. Ministry, expressed his satisfac-

tion over the docision. He said appoint-

extension of the franchisement brought applause

from

that Israel's complaint against ""TEDDY GIRL”

It is much more vitally Kenya's hard-pressed settlera Egypt was only a "delaying

important at this stage that tonigh

the existing franchise ac-1

feelings with,

tactic designed to hold up the vate In the (United Nations) Security Council."

week after the clash between The curfew imposed here last

Egyptian and Israeli troops near the demarcation line was still in force tonight,

TERRORISTS

ת!

TWO PLANES DIVERTED Two Hongkong-bound planes from Tokyo were diverted to Manila after circling over the Colony for two hours because of fog this morning.

Liverpool, Mar. 0, Police patrols here are trying The plones, a BOAC and a to stamp out gangs of "Teddy PAA, were scheduled to arrive girls who ate terrorising men at 9 am, today. and youths in the tougher parts of this trans-Atlantic senport

quire a greater degree of A spokesman in Nairobi sum-

med up their political awareness so that "Just what we have been wait its scope of activities may ing for." be expatuled," the news- lotter states.

Nearly two years ago Wilfrid Havelock, ΠΟΥ Minister tor IN View

of the existing Local Government

terminal. in Kenya British Government policy, said: "Kenya needs a Templer," this is a welcome pronounce and the slogan became a battle- ment, It amounta to & ery in the European community, logical and sensible

angers Knuckle How long will General Templer ceptance of the present stay at the anti-subversion job?

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Armed patrols maintained a constant guard in the Gaza streets. No further trouble was reported from the Arab refugees quarters and secondary schools in the town are to be reopened tomorrow morning.

European residents mostly families of United Nations Re-

were warned to stay at home

policy and the conditions that it is likely to last less than Government sources said tonight existing in the Colony, a year-just long enough to get fugee Organisation offlelais Development of political the system organised. consciousness is an CHACN- After that General Templer and guard their doors-Franco- poll will probably be appointed Chief Presse.

of the Imperial General Staff in succession to General Sir John

tial preliminary to

tical advancement.

The Civic Association also Harding who retirea in Novem-

outlines four stages of ber. progress following

was

Some of the girls Man Lives

are re- ported to carry blcycle chains Wrapped around their manicured dusters are also in favour and head-butting is a favourite form of attack,

The girls operato in packs. Their victims are often young men friends seen out with other girls.

After Freak

Accident

Teddy girls,"

10 too young

London, Mar, G. drink in Liverpool hard, have PREMEDITATED

Jerusalem, Mar. 0.

been seen taking whisky and A young steeplejack, in The attack on Egyptian forces rum into local "bars to "lace" hospital in Bradford today,.

their milk shakes, near Gaza last week

has three cuts to remind him Liverpool's "teddy boys" - o' An announcement will prob-launched, by a heavily the establishment of a legisla-ably be made shortly-London Israeli urit estimated at two

described because of their ex of the "three lives" in one of Express Service,

waggeraten Edwardian clothes England's most freakish ac platoons which penetrated more than three miles within Egyptian are reported to stay well clear cidents in yours.

China Mall Special.. Supervision Headquarters ro-

ture the formation of an electorate (Hongkong is therefore.in this stage), the control of the legislature by

"NO INFORMATION"

A

armed

The cold, which pushod tem- peratures into the 205 in the Middle West, covered much of the country, except for the East and deep South.

New York City was plogued by a thick fog that cancelled

airline many

flights, slowed harbour trame and made driving hazardous. A rash of car ac- cidents killed one person and in- jured 15.

The Ohio, swollen by heavy rains and melting snow, crested at Piltsburgh and began falling there, but the crest was rolling downstream.--United - Press,

Eighteen-year-old Billy Harri- | territory, United Nations Truce of the "teady girl" disturbances.

Nairobi, Mar, d. report that General Sir ported tonight.

the electorate, the control Gerald Templer, former British

Details of the attack were

mortars,

Big Explosion Test Today

STOP PRESS

MURDER TRIAL VERDICT

"

Unanimous verdisia of. guilty son and his mate, Kevin Hadley, were returned by the Jury early fell from the top of a 78-foot [this :afternoon „at tho. telat qi chimney at Brighouse Gas works two men charged with the yesterday, when a heavy stone murder of Police Constable Luí smashed through their scaffold~ | Shing in Kowloon on Decem- Ing.

ber. 6 "Tank, Hadley fell on to a roof

oof and

Mr Justice Grear passed the Las Vegas, Nevada, Mar. 6. was badly hurt but. Harrison death sentence on each of the The US Atomic Energy Com-larided in a deep water tank 40' two nocused, Yam Kwan-pak, mlaston announced today that feet below.

He was near to mi

20, and Ho Kwong-tang, 24. movo-did the present atmospheric con-

continued,

! (Soo also Back. Page) net drown as the stone had al- explosion "Grandfather -the

biggest

and the water drained away.

But, within minutes Harrison

frattured gas

Upon

of the executive by the High Commissioner in Malaya, ascertained by United Nations legislature and the establish is to fly to Kenys to study the military observers here. These ment of independence from Mau Mau war was dented, by details formed the basis of to- the metropolitan governa government spokesman here day's Mixed Armistice Com- mont.

tonight,

condemnation of mission's He said "the Kenya govern- Israni's "brutal” attack last This It states rather 48. ament has no information of any Monday

night. generality than

this report to that effect,"

The unit, belonging to the Colony's predestined, course.. The report appeared in the regular Israel Army, was armed one For oven though it is hard London Sunday Express, which with rifles, light outomaile sub-blast, in

most smashed through the tank, HK Ship Fired the present series of to sec Ilongkong attaining said General Templer would and machine

guna, the fifth stage it may never on so long in Kenya. It added "Bangalor torpedoes" and some finally set off on Monday morn~ was choking the stone had | Western Steamship. Company,

out why the "war" had dragged bazookas, hand grenades, experiments here would be

THO "Wertway of .. the theless pass through part of he will find out why the army: 200 lbs of explosives. the same dvolutionary pro settlers and police have noi The lardoll forces, sing been the fast and most important the gas swirled into the water upon by Nationalist sunboat,

This explosion was to have main und Waax-inch she Hongkong reported early, this morning that sho⠀ was fired the report, attacked the of the experiments current tank. cosa. Howevor; a full public worked together to full | Egyplan “mlillary", camp, blowly being carried out here but It Firemen --- roasted him as he statement released by the Royal | understanding of the faction," development entailed in the

Commenting on

the reporting up a stone building, four, likely political transition the General Templer was in- Nissan huts and a concrete was postponed because of bad was about to resub to the weld this arternoon 2 of Hongkong is essential. vestigating problems of colonial water pumphouse.

It will be set off from à 600- At Bradford Royal Infirmary in 24 do 5

Mine Was degrees 50 Any organisation that seeks defence, the newspaper said he Another regular Imriell Army foot lower: 10 believed that today was stated, tint Harri- 110 demo

had been moved from the War unit was reported to hover this device Inc Hines at now, type, sony suffering from phuck, wal to promote this understand office to the Defence Ministry penetrated into Egypuan terri- of nuclear explosive donned to probably be dindar finis Ing deserves welcome and by, Bir Winston Churchill for an ambusbod amliftary met on hydrogeny, bombek- few days with cari menally Aust encouragement.

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