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Reluctant Parting
S His Excellency the
A Governor's long and high-
ly successful term of office draws to a close, it is already apparent that the prospect of his departure and a change of personali tles in the chief executive post will not be accepted without the universal regret | of the Colony. Many feel his term should be extended. The Civic Association going as far as to draw up a petition to be forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies seeking this
extension.
is
It is not mere civic conscious-
ness that inspires these
desires for a continuation of
the policies of the Government under its present leadership. Certain
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2 Missing British "Deadly Seriousness" Diplomats Living Of Strike Situation
Near Moscow
From RENE MacCOLL
Belgrade, June 5.
Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, two Foreign Office officials who disappeared from Eng. land four years ago and started the West's biggest postwar mystery, are living just outside Moscow.
I am able to say this definitely on the strength of a statement from a highly responsible Soviet source made during the conference between. Tito! ly the Governor is a diligent, and the Russian "delegation which has just ended conscientious and highly popular administrator who!
here.
and
They are all "smile readily find time for a gossip, a smoke and a joke.
There is no doubt that Rus- -sian diplomats are out to be nice and are doing it gracefully 100.
has personally associated Until now, no Russian has himself with the tremendous ever admitted Maclean and development and growth of Burgess had sought sanctuary the manifold activities of behind the Iron Curtain, let the Colony that have taken alon: gone to Moscow. place during his eight years of office. Much indeed has been at his own instigation and he has! always proved receptive and sympathetic to the diverse | saying. needs of the community; hei
When I was in Russia last year I asked scores of people Everyone looked blank. about the two missing diplomats.
Nobody had any information,
What I am wondering is this: only three months ago Moscow decided to come clean about Bruno Pontecorve, the British
or if they had, they weren'naturalised atomic scientist who fted from Britain in 1950 and made his way
to Russia via
But now a Russian and there has always had their welfare is no doubt he is well informed Finland. at heart. These are the and has access to official sources
He was allowed to write a
traits of a remarkable and of information-eorfirms Mac-dramatic letter to Pravda re very exceptional Governor.iean and Burgess are indeed But the feeling in Hongkong living cear Moscow,
goes deeper. Sir Alexander What are they doing? Said Grantham has become a very the Russian, "It is a special definite and essential part of job."
the Colony-and as pro-
minent and as
outstanding
29 any of the familiar landmarks.
SIR Alexander has seen us
through the years of post- war expansion and develop-. ment and through the crises that followed. The job he came to do in 1947 has been accomplished with dis- tinction. Twice his term has been extended and the time is now oppportune for him to hand over the reins to his successor so that he may enjoy well-carned retirement.
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by
The prospect of change 1
always accompanied some degree of apprehen- sion and uncertainty. Many, for instance, feel, that the Philistine lobby in Hong- kong may succeed
in
prevailing upon the new What
GUY BURGESS
vealing he was in Moscow, and then with the permission of the Soviet authorities gave 盟 mammoth press conference and posed for photographers.
A POSSIBILITY
Tot
If Pentecorvo. why Maclean and Burgess? We are living in strange times and it really wouldn't surprise me greatly if any day now there letter in Pravda signed former Foreign
Was
All Due To The Strike
London, June 5, Forty-six stretcher patients who "arrived ** Dover yesterday after a pilgrimage to
France, were taken to their homes in northern England today by 23 Kent
am- bulances owing to the rail strike.
QUICK SETTLEMENT OR DISASTER
London, June 5.
Sir Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister, Lourdes, told the nation of the "deadly seriousness'
of the rail and dock strikes in a personal radio report tonight, and warned that every hour they last, Britain was slipping behind in the race with foreign competitors for export markets.
The patients spent the night at a local hospital, while the ambulances were being marshalled for the Journey
The West German Post Office said today it would accept no more parcels to England for the line being because of the railway strike there.---China
Maši Special.
Tito Wants
To Go To Washington
From Rene MacColl
Belgrade, June 5. Marshal Tito would like to be invited to Washing ton.
by the two Office men.
Only a couple of years ago when i was in Washington things were so terribly strained that if
Soviet official as much handed you the olives at a party the top echelons of inter- you dined out on the fact for national diplomacy.
weeks afterwards!
..
That would set the seal as on his remarkable rise to
Now the Russian faces are
So
"If we go on like this, we shall smash up our hard-earned prosperity," he said.
The Prime Minister, speaking from his official country home at Chequers, was broadcasting to the nation for the second time since the nation-wide rail strike started a week ago.
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The dock strike has tied up six 'ports for nearly a fortnight.
The Premier said:
"I am not going to leave you in any doubt about the deadly seriousness of what is happening to our country."
Sir Anthony Eden said of the facing these difficultles with rall stoppage: "We have had a good humour and good sense," week of this disastrous business, he said-Reuter,
but what I said last Sunday
(when he broadcast previously) is still true it can only end when negotiations begin.
"And let me repeat for the sake of everyone in this land- all grades of railway- including men and citizer.s
-the quicker better."
Eden said the Anthony He has waited with con-Government were ready at any
the
Sir
talks between the striking union leaders and the British Transport Commission, who run the state owned railways, opened.
can be re-
The Minister of Labour (Sir
covered with smiles. Their voices cealed eagerness for such an time to help find a way in which are gentle. Niet-Russian for no invitation for the past year
is nowadays a nasty word and "of course" has taken its place. or more.
But, however much the State Maclean and perhaps Burgess will be emerging any Department would like to ask day now from their dachs him, there is one formidable suburban villas and the snag. Roman Catholic opinion Walter Monckton) and I will seclusion of their "special jobs in America cannot forgive Tits help in this in any way we can," to give a Moscow press confer- for his treatment of Yugoslavia's he added. ence which may serve to clear Cardinal Stepinac - now living Express Service.
NEED COAL STOCKS
Sahara Desert Trek Mystery
Probe Demand Into Two Deaths
London, June 5.
Mrs Mabel Moffatt. said today she would urge the The Prime Minister told the Foreign Office to investigate ployment as yet, but you can-
Bigamist Is||LIBYA'S
Acquitted
Salsburg, June 5,
For the first time in a Salzburz "couri a bigamist was yesterday_found "not guilty” although both his wives were still alive,
A labourer, whose name was withheld by the court, had sued for divorce from his first wife. When he rot the verdict it was written In such a compilested and involved German that he Armly believed on reading it that he had obtained his divorce.
A lawyer reading the document, however, would see that it stated directly the opposite,
Of 10 ordinary people who were given the docu-
ment to read, it was re-
·hh
ported in court, sevEN believed it gave the man divorce. Believing honestly that be divorced the
man had. then remarried. -China Mail Special,
MOTHER
KING® MARRIES AGAIN
Cairo, June 5. King Idris, 67-year-old ruler of Libya, today signed a marriage contract at the Libyan Embassy here, taking the 37-year- old daughter of a Bedouin chief as his second wife.
His bride, Aliyah Lalum, did not accompany her husband to the ceremony and saw him for the first time when he pre- sented her with a diamond ring only one hour before.
an-
She Will not see him again. until Thursday, it was nounced. They
will meet in
the King's suite at the Mena House Hotel, near the Pyramids, before they go on their honey-
ntoon.
ALL-MALE RITUAL· The all-male ritual was con- ducted by Sheikh Abdel Rahman el Tag, Director of Islam's AL Azhar University. Lieutenant
DIES FROM Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser
A
POLIO
Egyptian Premier, and Mustafa Ben Halim, Premier of Libya, were wildesses.
Aliyah is the French-educated daughter of ก
Bedouin wealthy
chief.
The King's present. wife, Queen Fatima, bore Idris one son who died in infancy in 1933.
Boise, Idaho, June 5.
33-year-old mother whose two children were inoculated with Salk anti- polio vaccine died today of polio after an illness lasting-Reiner. only 24 hours.
The woman, Mrs Annabelle Nelson, was the third fatality and the 38th person to develop pollo in Idaho after close asso- ciation with vaccinated children,
Louis Gebhardt, research
If Aliyah bears a son it is as Queen in the desert country. expected she will replace Fatima
TITLE OF QUEEN
Cairo, June 5. Aliyah Hamkum, who today married King Idris of Libya, is from today Queen of Libya, the Libyan Premier Mustapha Ben
to the Libyan
specialist at the University of Halim announced this evening
in
a message Utah, said yesterday that live
and people. polio virus had been found
of vaccine. made by samples
The message' said the noble Cutter laboratories and returned wish" of the Libyan people, by the Idaho
their state health expressed through laboratories.
representatives in Parliament, All Cutter vaccine was with- "was fulfilled by the marriage.
some, time
This wish, the message said, draw
ago when cases of polio began to appear stemmed from the people's in children, vaccinated with the anxiety at not seeing an heir
to the throne of Libya.” company's product.
Dr Leonard Scheale, the The message expressed the Federal Surgeon-General, said hope that "God will grant him in Washington, that a complete (King Idris) a Crown Prince report on Salk vacciné may be The Fremier's message released by the Public Health referred to the King's "legal
or four times"
about Mrs Melinda up quite a lot of ends. London in obscurity in a village after nation there was little unenthe death of her sister and Service in midweek--Reuter. right to marry, one, two, three
Governor to abandon the Maclean, Donald's wife who hed City Hall scheme. These from Geneva in the late summer fears are entirely hypothe- of 1953 and ticul and to an extent un Vienna with the three Maclean justified even allowing for children?
the
disappeared in More Immigrants
serving a gaol sentence.
said
no.
to
Before Washington can ask Tito over the State Department not stop most of the trains in a a man reported to have died has to be sure New York's land like ours without soon from thirst while notoring Cardinal Spellman is ready
bringing some factories to a halt. across the Sahara Desert. Canberra, June 5.
"This will not be the end of say yes-and until now he has p
Mirs Modratt said: "It necesTM The Labour Minister, Said the Russian: "About Mrs
Mr
the story. At this time of the fo the
cut to French. opposition
go announced today
It is certain, scheme that still exists. Sir Maclean I know nothing. I have H. Holt
however, Tito year, we ought to be building up sary I shall
West Africa to try to find out winter. not seen her, I know only about that Australia planned to take will receive an invitation from coal stocks for the Alexander Grantham's suc- Maclean and Burgess.
in 125,000 immigrants in the Krushchev, First Secretary
"We have had a cold winter exactly what did happen." of
The victims were Miss Muriel and we have already lost one cessor, it may be assumed,
This admission, coming after 1955-56 financial year.
Russia's Communist Party to
Alan Freda Taylor and Mr million tons of cod this year will be one who will have four years ní tight-lipped Of those admitted, $5,000.
visit Moscow "soon,
Norman Couper. A third mem the community's intereat at silence from Moscow over just will 'pay their own farts and
through an unofficial strike (in
ber of the party, Mr Peter Such a visit would serve to
a key Yorkshire coalfeld). remaining 70,000 as his what happened to the two men, the 'as much
Barnes, survived the ordeal. underline to the world that all
The country cannot afford to predecessor and one who ties in with all sorts of extra-receive government assistance. is now well between the Kremlose one single ton more if we
So far we have received only The indux, is sensitive to the needs of ordinary developments which
added to Auslin and the former rebel
are to keep industry in full the scantiest detalls from the
Foreign Office ore transforming the East-West tralia's normal birth rate; will
would indicate too, that swing all through next winter. scene almost from day to day. increase the population 2.4 per the joint declaration of last "But we are going to lose a quite a number of things to be Never have I found Russian cent, Mr Holt said, - United week in which Yugoslavia lot more if the railway strike explained," Mrs Moffatt said. officials so affable and pleasant Press.
There
has been no mention appeared to go the Russian road! goes on. We shall suffer for
became later next January and of what
of the two on many matters of interna- this tional policy no empty February
coloured
porters, who were sup- wes
posed to be with them or what gesture-London Express Ser. WEAKENING NATION vice,
"We shall have to try to im-has happened to their luggaga,
"Another thing that wants port mare coal to take the place
heart
all sections of the popüla- tion.
IT may even be said fairly
that the city hall scheme is now firmly entrenched in government policy and nothing short of a majer financial crisis would see it postponed. It is debt owing to the people, a debt which Goy- erament has promised to repay. Its revocation at some later stage would' amount to a betrayal of trust and lead to a loss of confidence in the ad.. ministration. Viewed in this light, requests for an extension of the Governor's term would seem unjustified. The Idea of a
petition is in some respects unfortunate proposal
an
as I have in Belgrade.
though undoubtedly it is inspired by the worthiest motives. It tends to make the sorrow of parting more acute in the face of what would seem to be an ir- revocable'decision — though. at the same time it does constitute 2 handsome tribute to the energies of the Governor and his con- scientious devotion to duty. Regret at the pending change is, as we say, everywhere to be seen. It should, how- ever, be associated with ja- gratitude and thanks for the good government we have enjoyed and the best wishes for a long and happy retirement in the years ahead
DONALD AND MELINDA MACLEAN
will
It
TALKS: NO
and there are
of production lost. These im-clearing up is why they should
ports can only be paid for by exports,
But we are endangering our
DECISION YET expert trade; when you icse ex-
have been allowed to cross the Sahara without being in a con- voy."
Miss Taylor, a school teacher, port orders, you lose future had been given extended leave to visit. Teintives in Nairobi. markets. London, June 5.
That is how, the stoppages "She always wanted to cross the Brain will give her final views on the place and time of are weakening the nation Just Sahara by car," Mrs Moffatt
when It was getting strong and said. the "Big Four Summit" talks to
WELL EQUIPPED Some people the United States and, France Prosperous."
were asking. The Foreign Office will, bề within the next few days, diploe Prime Minister added, if asked to speed up in "on the matic sources here sald today.
the goverment were making spot" inquiry into the death of enough use of the powers taken Miss Muriel Freda Taylor, one of emergency of the two Britons reported to under the state proclaimed a few days ago by save died of thirst while cross-
ng the Sahara by car.
her brother,
the Queen.
A British Foreign Office spokesman said that the sugges tion that the Western Big Three" would propose, Geneva as the place and July 18 as the
"Yes, we are," the Premier The request will be made by date for the opening of the talks
er, Mr Albert Taylor, was one of the ideas being cone added, but we are not using of Manchester. He sold:
their telephone the Foreign Office sidered by Britain, France and emergency powers for the United States." he added: own sake, only as we require There
seems
be no reason why the trekk should have ended in "No Western ripartite decision them
We have had no need yet to this way. They were very well has yet been taken on this.” --
requisition vehicles. Reuter,
equipped for the trip." We shall do so at once if we
Mr Nehru Begins
His TripTM
have to
So far, he added, no oficial Information about his sister PUBLIC THANKED
dying of thirst had reached him, The Prime Minister" said that "All I know is what I have essential traffic had been keptrend in the newspapers."-China moving during the past week Mail Special
nly by bringing into use all SEEKING SURVIVOR Cairo, June 5 kinds of alternative transport by
ww Paris, June 5. Mr Nehru, the Indian Prime road, canal and air..
A British Vice-Consul, whose Minister arrived here by aiz Sir Anthony Eden thanked all territory, includes the vast south today from Bombay on his way who had helped to keep the Sahara desert, struggled today to Prague on the first mage of essential services moving par with a spare communications his 35-day goodwill visit to ticularly the police, and he also system to discover how a British the Soviet Union and other paid this tribute to the ordinary woman and her travelling CONT Furopean countries",
people:
panion from Kenya, died of Mr Nehru left later for Moscow Reports from all parts of the thirst in the desert, via Rome and Fraque-Reuter, country show that you: Rre (Cond, on back page, Col. 5.
Frenchman Slain
King Idris married his second wife today-France-Presse.
Ex-Governor Dies
Souk Ahras, June 5. Five terrorists attacked and killed a French settler last night while he was a few yards from his farm gate on the out- skirts of Souk Ahras, Algeria,
Capetown, June 5. the police reported here today. Sir Herbert Stanley, a former The dead man, Yvon Raucaz, Governor of Ceylon and of was found with his body Northern and Southern Rhodesia,
*with riddled.
machine-gun died in Capetown today at the | age of 83,-China Mail Special. bullets-France-Presse.
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