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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1955,
HK TEXTILES: NO
Dilemma? HONGKONG British
NLESS
C'unservative
Uvernment and its par-
Jamentary members
juve
Toua suttedensk and good reason for adopting a new attitude since Sir Winston Churchill last delivered
MENTAL HOSPITAL
pronouncement on the sub- Statement In House
jeet, there is little or no chance of the Opposition motion calling for a Вік Three leaders' meeting being
approved kay
the House of Commons.
The Kovernment's stated position Is that no useful purpose would be derived from even exploring the possibility of Eisenbower-Churchill- unu}} Bulganin conference the Paris agreements have been fully ratified and the future security of West Germany assured through the necords.
As a tactical approach to an obviously ticklish question thia may be wholly right, yel there is probably wide- for the spread sympathy
Socialists' proposal. It ex- prenses a growing aware neas of the urgency of the question of proper control
thermo-nuelgar of
and
atomic weapons, even tʊ à. point of their abolition. Mr. decisive! Attlee is quite
about it. It is his conten- tion that production of the
has hydrogen bomb
tion.
(1)
sented two alternatives the nations of the world- vo-existence or co-annihila
And to
certain measure he is supported is This view by the American physicists who last week presented a considered re
but port on the multiple, by no means entirely pro dietable effects of thermo-1 nuclear bomba.
Of Commons
Our Own Correspondent
London, Mar. 9. Mr Henry Hopkinton, Minister of State for the Colonies, today told the House of Commons that the government is con- cerned about the state of
in overcrowding
the
Govt
Repudiates Proposal
TARIFFS CONTRARY
TO PRINCIPLES
London, Mar. 9.
Mr A. R. W. Low, Minister of State at the Hongkong mental hos Board of Trade, asked the House of Commons to- pital.
day whether they felt this was the time when they He had been asked by would want to take discriminatory action against Socialist MP, Mr Ken-India or Hongkong. He was replying to the de- neth Robinson, if he was bate on the Opposition motion seeking to censure the government for its policy towards the Lanca- conditions in the Hong-shire cotton industry.
Mr
aware of the overcrowd- and unsatisfactory
ing
kong mental hospital, Mr Low said there was a tendency in some and what steps he was quarters to blame Indian imports for all of Lanca- | taking to improve
But that theshire's present difficulties. Robinson also asked generally correct.
position in that hospital.
what plans the govern-
was not
He asked whether they could helpfully take ac- ment had for additional tion to restrict Indian imports and leave the door wide mental hospital ac- open to Hongkong imports. commodation
accom-
wis
in Hong-
If India imports alone were restricted, he said, it that Hongkong imports would kong, and when these might be suggested pre-
were likely to be im- quickly increase and go quite a way to fill the gap. plemented.
Mr Low said the suggestion said the British government has M. Hopkinson fold him
to deal with always considered that a licens- of using tariffs
ing policy on Indian textiles by that a new mental hos-imports would be contrary to
the government of India would pital is planned for the Britain's agreement with Índia
be frustrated by the very high The under which Britain enjoyed a with Colony
tariff. level of 20 per
of their
did not modation for 500 pati- valuable preference of
of India government cent on her exports into India. first ents.
cept that view. It would also stage The
also be contrary to
The Opposition motion home the long established a tradi custodian -- a
Bonal beda
principles of Britain's Gefeated by 288 to 280 votes with 120
Empire and
The House then carried with would be completed, it Commonwealth
trading policy if the govern gut a vole a government amend- the Labour men! rebutting was expected, by the ment decided to go in for tariffs
and motion
approving Spring of
year, and renegotiate the Indian trade
declared intention to take safe- This, he said, would re- agreement.
guarding action in cotton im- would then. in The question duce overcrowding
that
ports that might prove essentia), polley was arise,
The
govremment had earlier the tariffs the existing hospital.
whether pointed out followed
would apply
to all Common rejected a Labour muggestion Mr Robinson
wealth
a government buying agency countries
whether that the proposed hos-
import cotton yarn and piece- pital was some 20 miles Britain should discriminate in
Inzeller against
goods-Reuter. main popula- From the
is the advanced THE fact
nations of the world have 23 for themselves created dilemma from which there
be tu
no
eux
appears
or simple solution. excape The abolition of 1 and A
by Internationall bombs agreement may seem to be
3u1 the obvious Duswer. this action does not abolish knowledge, nor would prevent the unscrupulous from applying that know- Jedge to aggressive ends in the event of international ostensibly re- hostilities stricted to the use of what! have become known as con- i ventional wenpona.
The unpalatable truth is that suspicion dominates inter. national relations today. and all the signs are
will continue to do so, The Communista, headed
Rusaja, have
given
military strength,
tion centre.
next
trade kong.
if
от
or Hong-
Its
of
to
"la this the time when we Queen Of Bermuda
Mr Hopkinson took note of would want to take discrimina
the point.
Bid To Avert Party
Split
of the both
London, Mar. 10,
members Two senior
Party, Labour British 110 former maisters, made an 11th
by
con
the the Labour
tory
action against India or
Hongkong?" he asked.
Trade with India was
really
going very well. Last year Bri- tish exports were £115 million sterling in value and India'a exports to Britain
the same value.
were
about
On the question of the import
of cheap goods, Mr Low said the in mind the house must keep
to
fact that the United States, whom Britain was trying man-
her
exports. fully to increase
against might well take action
STRIKERS
REJOIN LINER
New York, Mar. 9. John Walsh, local director
her if she pressed a tariff polley of Furness, Withy & Com-
too far.
announced tonight pany, that the Queen of Bermuda would resume service from New York to Bermuda on Saturday, March 12.
Were
sall
201
Price 20 Centa
RELAX
DAKS
Whiteaways
ID 7 MONG UKU WINON
DISCRIMINATION
Elderly Woman Sues
TO FIGHT BANDITS
Tén hand picked English pictured paratroopers
boarding their aircraft 'In England on their way to combat the bandits of the Malayan Jungles. The troops are obeying an wanted" re. "urgently
quest from the Director of Operations in Malaya General Sir Geoffrey Bourne. They are part of new drive to combat terrorid m. — London Express.
n
Highlands
Restoration Campaign
"Husband"
AWARDED £4,000
IN DAMAGES
London, Mar. 9.
A 69-year-old woman who sued a 73-year-old man for breach of promise was awarded £4,000 sterling damages with costs in court here today.
The couple, who met at a fun fair; went through' a form of marriage on Christmas even nearly 50 years ago when the man, Mr John Purser, was already married. He claimed that the plaintiff - Mrs Purser, otherwise Miss Fanny Enis knew this at the time. She denied the allegation.
They lived together for 24thought it Wes A lawful years and she had three children, ƒ marriage," the judge, Lent
she
China
Then
tenance
months
secured a main-Justice Denning, sild. order against him 16 Mail special.
ago
and brought the
present action after his real wife,
whom he had traced to a
London
hropital, died, last July, Space Rocket
Purrer denied that he had dys up the
of
his first marriage to wipe the second Mrs
John Purser, £3 a week blacksmith when he married"
and now a prosperous
Purser off as a "lability.
in
1901
man said to own 100 houses armi have £10000 Já. his CURTED! account. denied he loft
the
plaintiff when he fell in love with money."
May Become
A Reality
Washington, Mar. 9. Plans by the American Rocket Society to launch an artificial- satellite into space may become He had paid her £5 a week reality if the Society's request since she left him 23 years ago. to the National Science Founda
If he won the present caspon for Research Funds is met, although she should have no the Secretary of the Society, Mr legal claims against him, he
would see that she did not want Milton Rosen disclosed here to for anything ROW ...
Mr. Rosen, a rocket expert From the US Navy research The court was told the plain- laboratory, sald that it was
A
flvo containing
tiff went to see Mr Purser when technically possible to create the she returned from a tour-year fatellite. stay in Canada. There was a
· The intcllite the Society had row and later Mr Purser..ob
in mind, he continued, was lained a copy of his first imar
about sphere
in feet singe certificate.
scientific- }dlamoter Mrs Purser had taken out a
apparatus. Bummons for maintenance. Then R would be launched into the real wife was found and space at a speed of five miles à magistrate's order for malaten-seccad and would revolve round ance could no longer stand. the earth at the same speed, at was then that the breach of an altitude approaching 1,000,- promise action was brought, 000 feet.
In court Mrs Purser wore a!
Eventually it would slip back weth chain ring. The court was into the atmosphere and break New York, Mar. 9.
tok John Purser gave it to her up, he sald-France-Presse, determined Scottish before they were
married
"to nobleman today launched a keep the other choes off
judge
'couple: the old "Scot to help Scot" cam-
cannot Wounded ferlings paign for $10,000,000
measured in money. Marring? shore up the economy and cannot be reduced to the level restore the, fading popula- of money in that way."
A
to
he
told
NEW YORK, -BANS
be
TOY REVOLVERS
New York, Mar, 9. Toy revolvers have been. were banned in New York by a ruling intimate in 1807 and Mrs Purser, of the City Council because they
criminals ta. used by then Miss Enis, became pregnant. were
Ex-Showgirl tion of the storied Highlands He said the couple
Found
Unconscious
of his homeland.
Lord Malcolm Douglas- Hamilton, who la devoting him-She told Mn Purser and he sold intimidate victims of, 100 "hold- course, we will get married." ups last year, it was reported seli to the restoration work,
They were married in church here today. pald ja announcing, the drive
ata ceremony, attended, by In future, only cowboy type that he hoped to get the help fritids and relatives," "I am guns will be avaliable us toys ---"
22,000,000 Americans of
of quite satisfied the relatives Franco-Presse, Scottish ancestry,
ล
Jards.
.
+
MADE
GERMANY
QUOTAS NO SOLUTION
New York, Mar. 9. A strong Scotland means a evidence of good faith 01 hour bid to avert a split in
Dealing with suggestions of a
35- strong America," ho said at 0 honest intention in their party ranks over dealings with the Western "rebo" Mr Aneurin Bevan, who quota system, Mr Low said that
Mrs Janet Armour, threeterod with
expulsion would be a short term and not
year-old former showgirl press conference in which he powers; and they, them is
and heiress to a $750,000 outlined a non-charity plan for from the Party Parliamentary a long term solution.
permanent revolving tund for nelves,
clearly are
Departure from policy of true
The ship will
from thare of the Armour meat small "cherzoter loans to help group. vinced that the democracies Furmer Secretary of State for entry would ralse very big are trying
Commonwealth policy. Bermuda on Thursday without to trap them war. Mr John Strachey, and issues of into concessions that
will former Home Secretary James it would be difficult to confine passengers, arriving in New packing fortune, was found the small roller, farmer or
to cloth.
York on Saturday morning and unconscious in her New York little businessman of the High- hotel apartment, toilay The Highland area, which has weaken their political and Chuter Ede, were reported to be action
to Mr Mr Low sald the Opposition's malling that afternoon at: 3.
Of the 210 crewmen who have the victim of an overdose of lost one-third of its population planning an approach Comment Avsee, the Party leader, plea for a state-buying commis-
the wildcat sleeping pills.
by emigration in the last 100
"Scotland's most strike which began last Satur-
The police said they found years, IN such an atmosphere the to potch up the crisis which ston would lead to special dis- participated in
he said, problem," prospects of reaching any menaces the Labour Party with crimination against India.
Dealing with Jute, Mr Low day, 136 have rejoined the ship two notes beside her body, in-serious defeat in the general elections, Jovel, which agreement,
government did not he said. Of these 76 were flow dicating the probability of a adding: on any
in some paid the are expected for the control or abolition circles next autumn.
"It will probably come as wish to continue state trading to Bermuda on Tuesday morning suicide attempt."
Mrs Armour returned here shock to many to realise that of the latest annihilating It was learned that Mr Alles one moment efter found on and an additional 59 are flying
Atst
to Bermuda
from Paris a few weeks ago, large sections of the beautiful weapons are rather forlorn, was against tire expulsion of other method of honouring
The men undertaking to the jute industry.
husband, Holly North and West of Scotland are and Acceptance of this melan- Mr Boyan, discussed last Mon-
As for representations to the re-employment at the request of Her, divorced the Labour "Shadow choly conclusion
by would day acem to govern the gener Cabinet, but was over-ruled lodian government, about the the British National Union of wood producer Reginald Arnow virtually descried
level of import duties, Mr Low Seamen which declared that the mou, is now living in London. indeed in-sgift of total derelic She was rushed to Bellevue tion. It is an underdeveloped Frence-Presse.
strike was unauthorised and that ally accepted idea that the
it would not support the men Hospital in serious condition but area in the heart of Western civilisation--but one which we best deterrent to the us
since the articles under which was said to be responding to intend to revive from the grass The police said one of the roots up by private, non- Murder Charge Follows they were operating were vald treatment
unul' this December,
REPLACEMENTS
notes
...wan addressed to her governmental support." for the men who lawyer. The contents of theThe Highlands area had 18- Replacements Exhumation
of Scotland a century ago. NOW, did not reapply for their jobs, second note were not revealed per cent of the total population it has only six per cent,United will be suppiled by the Union by the policy,United Press. Both Sergeants belonged to They are being flown from
Electrical the." Royal
and
England Arid will arrive in New Gherkins In Mechanical Engineers, Dunne York on Friday, Mr Walsh said.
now married to Watters "We are glad that so many of German widow Maria, who the men have returned to the Bottle Blow Up Has The Answer fver with him is is stalloned at Ton planship because the Company has
of H and A bombs lies in
their
and
ag.
menna
of
the knowledge of power to annihilate, that their use by an gressor Inevitably retallation in kind, But even if it in establish- able that the abolition of thermo-nuclear and atomic by international weapons agreement is impossible, that does not rule out com- pletely the possibility
bo- useful top level talks
tho three most tween vitally concerned nations
Britain America,
and Russia. Sir Winston Churchill has it on, record that he is still ongerly awaiting the proper of portunity auch, a meot- ing, bat this might well be mooner than, later. If the Boylet leaders were", on their part to make a suite able gesture.
London, Mar. 0.
A British Army sergeant, Frederick Emmett-Dunne, was charged in London today with the murder of Sergeant Reginald Watters, found hanged 16 months ago at Dalsberg, West Germany.
Watters was originally de olared to have committed suicide, The Army authorities opened the case a fortnight age, calling in the help of Scotland Yard,
Senior detectives went 10. Germany and Walters, bod tona exhumed Detective Superintendent
Мос
Dougall who London to report dtai
tode present" todays when Dunne war charged
Of Body
Capetown
Chicago, Mar, é. ! Dunne,
now na weed
desire to work a hardship on Bottles of pickled gherkins Somer them and i sen sure that most; which blow up, efter dermenting Sir Pacy Billio form appear in d acted without giving setshire, will
sufficient London magistrate's court consideration to the serious stay out the firm which pro-Chief of the British tomorrow.
aled in the law courts here goes international diem through, it were reported there forganisation, @la I was announced earlier way were taking, saldir in the $210,000 12 a claim vice, who is ba today that Scotland Yard Walsh.
the Great Lakes Pickle. Come he has the answer
German
deadline fork applicat reemployment had been examining for were brought back from passed and those who had not after Watter eeppiled would not be
Watters, stood, 30, he added,
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