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Arts Festival. Tdured-one might almost

Colony which has en-

say encouraged—a · reputa- tion for being an abject slave to commer..alism to the exclusion of the more nesthetic and artistic in- fluences of life, the appear- ance this year, for the first time, of a Festival of Arts, is welcomed with a lively sense of satisfaction. The festival is significant be- cause it illustrates the pro- gress even though it has been relatively slow-made since the war in the, deve- lopment of cultural Interests

CHINA

No. 36089

Established 1845

SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1955.

MAIL

TORY ELECTION

A Pointer To

Churchill's

Resignation

London, Apr. 1

and appreciation among Conservative gains in local elections and a Hongkong's community. The billion-dollar budget surplus today smoothed the festival, indeed, marks the emergence of the Colony's shortening path to Sir Winston Churchill's retire: art and culture from ament which is now being predicted for next Tues- groping, hesitant experi- day.

ment into a confident nod quite fairly self-assertive achievement.

ND quite the most imposing and important feature of

this is that it results from n genuinely interracial effort. For consider the varied societies which are contributing to the festival. In droma there is the Hong: kong Stage Club, the Garri- BOR Players, the Kai Tak

The Prime Minister's campaign chief, Lord Woolton, said that results in yesterday's County Council elections across Britain indicated a "mové-. ment to the right."

Black ink at the Treasury and a fair straw in the voting winds were seen here as insurance to the general expectation that Sir Winston will shortly hand his job to the Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden.

an

At the same time the Treasury reported a 1954- 55 budget surplus of £433,166,594 which boosted the chances of vote-winning tax cuts in the new budget to Flayers, the Linden Players be announced on April 19. and the Chinese Drama Group of the Sino-British The Yorkshire Post Club. In masic theres the authoritative provincial news- Sino-British Orchestra, the paper, fatly predicted that this Crescendo Singers. the will take place un Tuesday, Hongkong

In political circles the assump- Singers, the Chinese Music Group of then was that Sir Winston would Sino-British Club and the give his resignation to the Queen

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Tuesday and Sir Anthony Hongkong Choral Group. would call i swhit national elec- Literature is looked after tion to seek a personal mandato by the Literary Group of from the voters. the Sino-British Club, and. "the visual arts by.

the

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1,600 Rebels Reported Marching On Saigon

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Saigon, Apr. 1. * Government sources re- G

ported two redeli bat- telions. marching on Saigon tonight to rein- force the political enemies.. of the Prime Minister, Ngo Dinh Diem a Government reporta Segid": that the force of 1,600 fighting men had reached Tan An, 25 meter from the capital

They said that the rehel

chieftain General Ba, Cut, me of Mr Diens political opponents, sent the battalions from his western stronghold to bolster dissident forces of the Binh Xuyen sect already entrenched 271 Saigon's suburbs.

AIRMEN

"A Matter BOYCOTT

"FOOD Of Hours"

London, Apr. 1.

It was reported that Hoa

w

Hao military commander Tran Van Sodi asked for

Wextern from help

Cochin China which

en-

General Ba Gut, already has cut off from Saigon En route the "battalions ambushed ar armed National Armay” truck Lin the Sadec. area, the reports agid, "but in- formation "on" casualties was lacking. General Sodi was believed to have asked for the troops to support the Big Xuyen sect trenched in the Saigon. “suburbs in defiance, of the Nationalist Army. All through the country woest of Saigon, Gêneräl Ba Cut's troops increased their pressure

ben leaguered Saigon, where 2,000,000 persona threatened with dwin- dling food supplics. Commandos of his 10,000- man army have already cut of Saigon's road and waterway communication with Western Cochin- China and the rice growing Mekong River

Nairobi, April, 1. Nearly 800 Royal Air

delta. Force.. men stationed at Encouraging gains in yester-

County

A Conservative Member Eastleigh Kenya's main day's local

Council Hongkong Art Club, the rections gave a measure of of Parliament, Sir Beverley air base four miles from Photographic Society of evidence that the Churchill re- Baxter, former Editor of bere staged a mass food Hongkong, the Amateur firement talk had not damaged Lord Beaverbrook's Daily boycott today as a protest Cine Club, the Chinese Cul- Tory prestige at the polls.

Express, said today he against "food unfit ture Group of the Sino- These results are encourag- British Club

för

and the ing," said Lord Woolton, Chair- thinks Sir Winston Chur- dogs." Chinese Contemporary Art man of the Conservative Party chill will resign "in a matter The airmen attended break- ists Group. Thus the inter-and Sir national character of festival is assured.

Winston's campaign" of hours."

show a move- ment to the right which has

chief. "They the

FROM today until April 23 the community are guing

been evident for some time." Mid-day returns from

"I think the resignation of Sir Wicton is a matter of hours

fast because it is a chargeable offence to miss what is called "the Queen's first parade,"

But they ate their midday

on

Cre

It was a new danger to the American-backed Mr Diem mho remained master of Saigon for the moment United Press.

Newspaper

County elections showed the and the accession is authority meal and supper Strike Talks

no

of Sir Anthocy Eden is a mattor cafes and camp canteens.

The

of days," Mr Baxter said in a zismen's mess. normally crowd- speech at Birmingham,

ed at all mealtimes, was silent and deserted all day.

This declaration putt the frinest foundation yet under the unofficial belief that Sir Winston is quitting.

Today's food demonstration is the second in six months.

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GAINS "Big Three"

Troops Prepare

Oppose

Prepare To Neutrality Condition Attack

Algerian Outlaws

Algiers, Apr. 1.

London, April, 1:

The "Big Three' Western powers are opposed to Rus sia's demand to impose neutrality on Austria as a condition for a state treaty

ending the 10-year occupa tion of the country, diploma- tic sources here said today..

They said agreement on this --

"French security forces, police and regular Army troops in Algeria rushed final preparations today for an all-out offensive against Nationalist outlaws, expected to start in the next few days. point had already emerged from The "state of urgency" which the French Na-Western consultations, under- tional Assembly authorised for Algeria early today preparing an approach to Russia taken during the past week, on will be proclaimed in Algeria in the first part of for four power folks. next week, French sources said. It will be the signal for a vast push against the outlaw "Army of God" which has terrorised the Aures and Kabylie Mountains of Algeria since last November.

TRIED TO

GIVE CHILD

In Pass the Interier Com- mitce Vijiko "Ax/embly. 10day: adapted MRL “state, or urgency" modification, projects without clearing the way

for rapid Senate approval of the measures, A "state of urgency" is legally somewhere between or- dinary civil law and martial law under "urgency" conditions. The local authorities are empowered te censor news on press ports, forbid public meetings. close theatres and sei up military tribunals to deal out swift jus-vestigated fice to outlawS.

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BANDIT DANGER Travel along roads in the Aures Mountain area is by military convoy three times week Lone

or pede. strians

run the danger of bandit ambush

French officials reported that local

to Algerians faithful France were subjected to loot ing and in some cases mutilä- tion by the fellagha groups.

The French Governor General in Algeria, Jacques · Soustelle, today commented on the state

"The

AWAY

New York, Apr. 1, Juvenile, authorities today in- Tulsa couple's efforts to give away their 15- year-old son through' a classified advertisement.

The Tulsa World reported the Incident

Dorothy to Judge Young who sent a Court Coun- seller, Mr Tom Sark, to see the parents

Mr Sark said that the boy's mother died when he was six and the father has re-married. "Neither he nor the step- mother wants the boy," he said. He reported that the father's income was adequate to support. the child.

This

isn't a hardship case," he sald, "They just don't want

of simple duty of all demo- cratic authority. is to guard the

Judge Young said that the boy against murder and armed at- Lacks, against

acts of pillage and probably will be taken away vandalism. It is pacification and from the couple, but they will not blind repression which the be required to pay for his sup- Republic intends to carry out," port-United Press.

Paid

be

In French Army barracks in

Eastern Aigeria the order was

The Western powers are ex- pected to bring it into a tripartite

declaration on Austria to be sued before Herr Julius Racis

the Austrian Chancellor, visits. Morrow..

China Mail Feature Highlights

Here are the highlights of today's feature section: P. 6: Did Cook Ever Reach:

the North Pole?" By

Julian Symons.

P. 7: The Faith

Healers

in Hongkong, by Tony Moth Signs of a Crisis. in. Red Chins, by Wilfred Ryder,

P. 8: Saturday Short Story, “Dginn * Rummy' "'". by

George Redshaw. Report on. Indonesia by Sefton Delmer

sense.

Week-end Wormazi

P-13. Sir Beverley Bax-

ler's column,

P. 16 & 17: Local and overseas sports reviews.

The Soviet government bàs, recently indicated that Austrian neutrality and firm provisions against any future anschluss union with Germany) are the mainpoints on "which it two wants satisfaction before sign- ing the treaty.

Britain, France and the United Slates would be willing tọ strengthen the provisions in the a pessible unschluss though they consider. that in fact the treaty's terms are quite specific.

given to prepare for early action PAPER URGES state treaty, against Londen, Apr. 1.

against the outlaws. United

to be given numerous oppor change of control, tunities of discovering for But in the Sezialist-controlled themselves to what degree Lendon County Council Conser- the arts can and do flourish vatives picked up 14 seats. in Hongkong. The festival is Final results for Wie County of also a challenge to the London gave Labour 74 seats

Last October when the then

Negotiations between manage-Press. public, for, as Sir Alexander to 91 for Labour and 37 for the and Conservatives 52 compared

Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Grantham has observed, "A Conservatives three years ago.

Lennox-Boys left the affedent and labour, which have The Prime Minister arranged to return to London a painter been going on all day in culture, however fine, that Out-country,

the trend was less party at No. 10 Downing notice' appeared on the main | attempt to end the British news-

Street Lonight to celebrate his headquarters building is not supported by its mark

marice a Labou posted mar-

saying: people is not, a living thing.ginal gains and losses en The wife's 70th birthday anniversary. we want food that's it to cat paper strike, finished tonight in deadlock, with the employers If we seek to prove that basis of local issues.—United

But Mr Lennox-boyd did not Hongkong is not a cultural Press.

wilderness, we must show it

London, Apr. 1.

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but

The President General Craveiro

not only by the standard achieved in the arts,

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Tomorrow they are expected/

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tu go to the official country (see the sign before he left using to grant any increase in residence, Chequers, for the Reuter. week-end. On Monday they

of Portugal, will return to London for what Lopes, and may be Sir Winston's last week

also by the interest and sup his wife are to pay a state visit as Prime Minister. port which the general

to London from October 25 to

public affords them." It is 18, it was announced tonight.

up to Hongkong to

this festival the first many successful

come.

ones

See

of

"ELECTION IN MAY

make It will be the first state visit by

a President of Portugal to Eng- Mr Baxter made his forecast toland Portugal's ally since they a speech to women Conservas tives in Birmingham's Edgbaston 14101 century-Routz.

constituency this afternoonn,

"I also bet something." he told the women Tories that the election will be in May.

Meanwhile, it was disclosed that Sir Anthony had cancelled a speaking engagement for May 31. The Foreign Office Cott firmed that he was to have

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Hongkong Man Acquitted

Calcutta, Apr. i.

The Calcutta High Court to- day acquitted AA. Watson, a British resident of Hongkong, on charges of organising the smug- gling of gold bars, into Calcutta last May.

Watson

pay to the striking maintenance mén.

This is now the second "wick that Britain has been without her large-circulation · national daily and Sunday papers.

"

Peshawar Demonstration

Peshawar, Apr. 1.

WITHDRAWAL

On the neutrality Issue, they would have no objection to the Austrian

government under-

taking to stay out of any mill-

London, Apr. 1. The indiscretion of Admiral Carney, Chief of Naval Opera tions, in stating the other day that the Communists wtary alliances. They do not feel, attack by mid-April has at least however, that four-power in- sistence on Austrian neutrality suggested

that

opposition

would be compatible with the American involvement over w

far sovereignty and freedom prom- is Quemoy and Matsu.

conference.

More than 20 palicemen and 40 broader and deeper than mightised at the wartime Moscow civilians were injured here today be

be imagined amidst the strident. of the Republican right

In the Western view, there

in a clash between the police and wing, and the New York Times was no reason why neutrality

Fifteen dres...

were

on

sovereign state-Router.

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COL

demonstrators.

The demonstrators, whe inhas now declared aquarely that should be fereed Frank Hexell, chies of the cluded.

the Nationalists should withdraw which did not even take part in North-west Frontier strikers, said here tonight that tribesmen, and Afghan refugees from the islands. The Times the Second World War as a

News Service. the strikers today told the embelonging to the Afghan Demid ployers, headed by press cratic Front, broke through à nagnate Viscount Rothermtre police cordon several times be. the Daily Mail that they would are being appealed against a be prepared to go back to work. sentence of a lower court which if the employers were prepared arrested while trying to force had given him a year's im-10 accept free negotiations. their way into the Afghan con-

sulate here. The indignant crowd Donment and fined him 50,-

Tupees

He said that the Ministry last September. He

was several times beaten and # was arrested and tried after a Labour had agreed to set up

clubbed to prevent

its forcing an ship's engineer had told customs committee of enquiry for this co

consular office addressed the English-speaking officials that gold found hidden purpose, but alleged that the

2 huge meet- under his cabin bunk had been employers had refused to Oing of

parties con put there by Watson.

sider any increase In pay to demned the Afghan raid, "Inst

on the Wednesday

Pakistani Watson was arrested at Dum- maintenance

on the dum airport here

re grounds that this would lead to Embassy at Kabul and demand- while turning to Hongkong with his demands for pay increases by ed breaking off diplomatic rela-

between newspapertions bride after honeymooning in other actions

Pakistan and England France-Presse.

employees--France-Presse. Afghariston-France-Presse,

Union then,

The official reason given was that it fell during Parliament's Whitsun recess, The House of Commons said no date had been fixed for the recess. Whaun falls on May 15-United Press.

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