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THE DAY
OF
Rousing Success
THE visit to Hongkong' of the Secretary of State
Mr
for the Colonies has been a rousing success. We Bay that not because Lennox-Boyd has been Ro generous in his approval of the Colony's activities in
fields of the
Industry, commerce, administration, public health, education and noelal services, but because of the deep and genuine Interest which the Secre tary of State has displayed in our community life and welfare.
Both Mr Lennox-Boyd and his charming wife have cap- tivated people of all classoN wherever they have moved in Hongkong during week. There Малая been
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New Purge Is Under Way
AIMED AT THE MIDDLE-CLASS
From RUSSELL SPURR
London, July 29.
After a three weeks 3,500-mile tour of nothing superficial in the Communist China, I am in a position to inspection of the com report that the country is gripped with keeps this Colony so vitally terror. A new purge campaign aimed at
plicated machinery which
alive,
All sections of the the educated middle-class makos suspect with the feeling that the every thought and word.
community have been left
Earth-Satellites Launching Project
FIRST SMALL STEP TOWARDS TRAVELLING TO THE MOON
China Mail
Feature Highlights
Here are some highlights
feature section:
10
of the
today's
P. 5: "Flight Glory," Jast instalment by Graham Wallace,
P. 0: The comes
Royal doctor lo Wingate's rescue:
another chapter from "Gideon Goes to War" by Leonard Mos- ley.
P. 7: A Did # Happen? Robert Mac- s'ory by
Secretary of State lim- Thousands have already been whisked
Dermot of away by the dread secret police. Thousands
bued within full and syin- pathetic understanding
our
problems.
manifold
VE have no doubt that the
Win five days have been
more live under the threat of imminent arrest.
fruitful ones for Mr Lennox- In every big city of China, doctors, teachers, Boyd; that he was able to bureaucrats, even Communist Party officials are gain, visually and through being closely examined for "counter-revolutionary
meetings with civic tendencies."
bia
leaders, Industrialists, social
welfare workers, and Un- They are being urged to confess-or denounce official members of Coun- someone else.
cil, a finely drawn pleture of
Hongkong's anxieties, aspirations
"Don't try to hide traitors" they are told, "or
and achieve- you'll be held equally guilty." ments. We would be ask-
The purge is backed by all and colleagues. A list of clues ing fur too much to expect the
power and organisation of was provided to be looked for the Secretary of State to the totalitarian state. The Com-In other people's conversations, return Home accepting munist Party press
Such and police
tendencies without question our ideas are
1984-style "liberalism, grumbling and in-
dividual
undisciplined)
of how current, domestic witching up a
aver
Nevertheless, he has probag bombs under newly- |
(Le
.P. 8: A Face shines through the Iron Curtain · by J.P.W. Mallelleu, MP: Joan Harrison writes on what the "Summi wives talked about Geneva,
171
P. Rene MacColl's first report on his second trip to Russia:
P. 18 & 17: Local and overstas sports reviews,
Frustrated
ав
Man's Homicide
problems should be solved, I saw posters magically appear thought might reveal a "dan-
China depleting plotters gerous character."
The faithful were advised in' n, special footnote to send their
editor-in-chief.
ably obtained a new per spective
bf
built factories
Hongkong- 1 read newspaper articles denunciations of traitors direct.
69 A
The
are
.
All
con-
London, July 29.
Professor A. M. Low, famous British scientist,
| said tonight that the United States plan to launch small unmanned earth circling satellites was "the first small step” towards travelling to the moon.
“But it will still be a very long time before we can do that," he said.
The American project would be tremendously important in forecasting weather conditions and |for television and it would have "possible wartime
uses."
The satellites in war could be used for "observation," he said. There was also the possi- bility Anally of "real attack” from them but in this direction the plan was only a.child's stop. Professor Low thought it would still be hall a
century before men could be placed on the: satellites.
On the question" of weather. forecasts, he said: "If we can! get enough weather forecasts from many places and high up chough we could gather reports for
a long way ahead. That is crow
TUAPSE
CREW IN
CANTON
Moscow, July 20,- The Soviet news agency Toes announced today that 29 of the of the tanker Tuspse a valuable commercial problem." seized by the Chinese Nation- and held In Formosa So far as television was con- alists cerned, he said that through since June last year arrived in satellites it might be possible for Canton on We
Wednesday.
DESERTER
Gls Arrested
After Reunion With
Relatives
San Francisco, July 29,
Three American former prisoners of war, who chose to stay in Communist Chino after the Korean 'truce, re- turned here today and were arrested by
USED BORROWED immediately
NAME
Army authorities.
The three, William Cowart, Olho Bell and Lewis: Griggs, fold the Chinese after two years that after all they wanted to go home.
New York, July 29. A GI who borrowed a
Passports were issued and name, today began serving a they crossed to Hongkong 25-year sentence for deser- where they boarded the Ameri- tion from the Army in war- can liner President Cleveland, which brought them to Son
time.
WAR
The GI, Pte Arthur Athans, reunion
kentenced by ཝཱ Court Martial yesterday after plead ing guilty the desertion charge.
to
He left behind a sobbing wife and five children who learned
his true identity only after his arrest on May 18.
Alhans deserted
from
the
་
three had 90 minutes of with their relativen when the liner, docked, Then within minutes after they hall cleared Customs with their setny possessions, the United States Amy: arrestat
thest and took them in the back of a truck to the stockide Baker across the Golden Gate
San Francisco, SERIOUS
fre
CHARGE
| Army an December 7, 1944, while serving a five-year ser-
Charges against The mén tence at Fort Knox, Kentucky, could lead to a possible death for being absent without laye centence for each. They were ter the third time.
obviously shaken as « Cantuin He worked as farm labourer Walter Leahy,
of the Sixth
a TV station to cover a quarter The tanker, subject of B of the earth with one trans-number of Soviet notes to the for a year and then settled in Army Provost Marshal's Office, mission.
Unitedi States and requests from Welcoming the news, he saide the Soviet Red Cross "I take my hat off to the Ameri-Swedish Red Cross, was carry- and went to cans."Reuter
THE PLANNERS
Washington, July 29. Five.cmbient scientists from three-countries the United
to
where be formally road them the
Trainer Joseph
SP and found-i
Safe
.n
charges
Bell and Griggs had perhaps
temning
against
3
States, Britain and Belgium-crew.were flown from Formosa 1od hans, the-com-um cfforts to improve, their own.
have been responsible for much to Hongkong on Tuesday.
Iman tange
of
Levant, New York, thetook the name of
a mechanic. the mast
charge read In 1948 he ing a cargo of kerosene to China
-Feliciting' when she was seized "in waters ed. the
Motor
general cfficer of United under United States control," Company in Jamestown The
States: “Army, ta
deset the agency uld.
business
Bourished, As Joseph All three were charged with The released members of the
Trainer
became
Uetraying their fellow prisoners He had five children situation in the Korean prisoner of the planning behind the pro Mensures are being taken to
in se from of war tampa-Reuter. ect to laugh earth-cire
earth-circling | effect the release of the re- eight years to 20 months, t satellites
These are the men: Singapore, July 28,
States: Frustrated by his first wife
ley United
Bronk, W. re-marrying In India on a false Fot the United presumption that he was dead, tional Academy of Sciences. A Bilch watchman murder his An outstanding physiologist, and second wife when he found her blophysicist, he holda honorary from more than a The Defence Counsel for Dewan dozen universities in Europe
When
the
Dr
-01,
Dr
Def President
malachir of the crew, Taks addock Reuter. ;-
States Na- Fate In The
served as an anthember of the
government adviser
Balance
Calcutta, July 29,
The fate of the 45,000 in- habitants of the world's biggest to the river island, Majull, 'was un- on known today, after communica-
Athans, who was dpatted into service from Buffalo, New York, declined to say flow he wes finally traced and arrested.
United Press:
Spore Strike Decision
Valuable Metal Discovery In HK, Claim
-London July 20
older
A 28-year-old British now surving in Hongkong has written to his parents hero, that he has discovered deposts of metal there which he claims by alloys.
Singapore, July 20, Tom thousand City Council
conference.tions · were cut off when the workers ́decided to strike Axis invaluable in - creading Tib
rising putra river flood-Wodnesday
The
after
Labour Ministry
efforis officials and
claims for Colonial. Omee Pon Han-nien, acting Mayor favoured few.
"If this is freedom," an In-it must be a terrifying experi-Committee for the International an elephant, died of starvation higher wages, better conditions, letter which suid: at last my
its position in the colonial lashing out at "the insidious to the empire and its vast im-schemers who have Infiltrated letters would be treated portance
"show every
very branch of government," Adentially. window" of the British way A young Parly worker in
The Chinese government is of life in the Far East.
Hankow frankly told me acting as if a revolution was al "traitors
hand. Guards are increased o in bed here with another man doctorates everywhere. Mr Lennox-Boyd stili hns be
Thousands will have น be public buildings, Key arcas. fore him a strenuous tour,
iquidacch."
Particularly in Peking. are
Singh, 34, explained this avat
and America, with matters of consider-
with electrified barbed the High Court before it found American The cartoonists concentrate ringed able import demanding ble (on baidh-headed Hu Feng, a wire.
Singh guilty of the lesser charge and will be a attention in Singapore and leading Communist author. He The web of.
restrictive of homiekie not amounting to
to American bas been Malaya, Hongkong's claims is described us the leader at a teglstation
jerked murder and sentenced him 10 International. anti-government con-tighter together. Passes to any special consideration giant
ace one year's imprisonment.
uses of atomic the briefesi could, as a result, not un- spiracy.
(a) now needed for
Counsel sald that Singh was in Geneva next Waterham, od, the.. exact
nature of his
journey: The police must-and buried alive for three hours
Alan T.
He is Lance Corporal William fade into the back- fairly
alleged crimes are still unknown, acidom do give permission during the Japanese bombing of Director of the United National
The 100
300 square mile island is employers for a settlement of Bruce Harris and he had been ground. But somehow,
Indeed he hasn't yet stood trial.
Singapore in 1042, move residence.
Friday. Science Foundation. He has in
State of Assam, North- their demands falled on do not think they will. But already Hu Feng is branded
Even holidays are forbidden news reached Indio his first wife conducted important research
Workers engaged in street studying geology as a hobby Feast India.
before he wendi to Hongkang Whatever its defects, Hong- traitor his confession will fill
more than 100 kilometres from Te-marned on the wrong pre-in several scientifle fields,
Elsewhere in Assam,
acleaning, sewage disposal, elec
years ngy. kong is functioning in A in the tacts.
your home. With the exception, sumption that he was dead.
Dr Joseph Kaphal, chairman stampeding herd of cattle tricity and water supply services three
The deposits of the mesind positive manner, and its
MAYOR ARRESTED '
of the of course,
A British medical practitioner, Party's
of the Und'exd States National
a boy to death and made twelve demands, covering beryllium he mentioned in a trampled Dr C. B. Wilson, fuld the Court considera- of Shanghai is also under arrest.
Geophysical Year. Ho is inter in the flood-stricken arcs.
and pay for hobby of picking up bits of me, ence for a man lb be buried alive nationally known for his interest In the state of Bihar, seven the period they were on strike rocks has been of some uso. tion are modest. The con- He too is condemned in advance.dian diplomat's wife told viction is that, in
"I have found a metat which eon. Ils fall 10 ays ago was the "let's have slavery any time.for three hours.
To a man whose first wit: in the upper atmosphere and persons were drowned when last year. terror drive London Express Service,
The City Council finance and capsized on the had left him and married an- the laboratory production of their boat
say is called beryllium and general
committee, which they say is valuable," other
purposes flooded river. added, upper atmosphere spectra." man, Dr Wilson "It must have been another OXFORD SCIENTIST
In north Bengal over 1,000 while agreeing to most of the He did not say in his letter: terrifle shock when Dewan
encircled Britain: Dr Sydney Chapman families were
by men's demands, have refused to where he had found the deposits pay-Asso- of the metal-China. Mall' Singh saw his second wife in of Queen's College, Oxford. He rising waters, and another 500 grant them strike
Special. bed with another man."
has been described as "the families were evacuated to safer clated Press. The Prosecutor said that world's most distinguished zones-France-Presse Dewan Singh gave himself up geophysicist" ius acted fatally stabbing the man he clentine adviser to the British government and is now Presi- found in bed with his wife-dent of the International Com- mittee for the International
sympathy and
a
signal for sequence of Mr Lennox throughout the elly. Boyd's visit, these will be
Shanghal "Liberation more readily forthcoming Daily" urged its readers to sift In the future.
The
the thoughts of their
for those who believe in the best
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OLA-DRINK THROUGH,
Strikers Picket `
Sawmills
Georgetown, July 29. Rot-squad cars patrolled the lumber producing areas here to aa hundreds of striking lumbermen defled emergency re- gulations and picketed six saw- mills.
day
The three-day, old strike was big British gov- set off when
at
Police station after
United Press.
ALL RESCUED
J
GIRLS REVOLT,
Bruges, July 20 Police were called in today to break up a revolt of teen-age
The
Geophysical carcel. Nicole, giri delinquents, at the "Institute
Belgium-Dr Becretary of the special com- for re-education here. mittco Wiesbaden, July 29.
for the International
girls, all loss than 10 ernment-owned timber company A US Air Force C-47 went Geophysical Year. A theoretical years old, barricaded themselv
and destroyed and from the down in the Mediterranean on physicist
professor of in a dormitory withdrew recognition Sawmill and Forest Workers Friday but all of its 18 passen- geophysics at the University all its furnishings, Union after the Union had called gers and crew were rescued, Libre of Brussels, he is an as- Girls are sent to the institutë trial before a US Air Force European hond-sistant to the Director of the followng
Court, France- quarters sold on Friday night,'Institute Royal Meteorologique children's -Associated Press,
of Belgium,--Reuter,
Prespe
four lightning strikes within the past eight months, France-
presse.
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SOMEWHERE between boiling-poin
· and freezing-point lies cooling-point. A Mr. Fahrenheit has charted the first two, but the last as far as we know, has never been defined. The only effectivó test is to take a long cold glass of Rose Lime Juice in the hot, clammy hand; then, tilting the head backwards and closing the eyes, tip the glass at mich 'an 'angle, that the, thlist-annihilating stream floves steadily down the parched throst. At some point là this";} operation a delicious sense of well-being will pervade the body. Thit, gentlemen, is cooling-point, mend/-
cannot be measured in Fahrenheit or Centigrad
only in
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