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Geneva Stalemate THE general hope was that
the curront Sino-American talks in Geneva would pro- duce a dotento after so many years of anxious tension. It would be misleading
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No. 36209
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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1955.
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More Violence 2,000 HK LABOURERS TO
In French North Africa
Paris, Aug. 21,
Kuggest that an insoluble Fresh violence flared up again in French deadlock is now inevitable North Africa today, Nationalist rioters bat the complication bedevilling progress at this clashed with security forces in a renewal of disappointment. It is galling the bloody fighting which yesterday claimed to rend that doubt and at least 739 ives. pessimism are reasserting
stage must come as a sharp
themselves in Washington
after
Buch ♫
French trous, planes and tanks engaged promising Moroccan nationalists in "bitter fighting" today at start to the talks and, so Khouribga, a phosphate mining town 75 miles authorities announced
soon after the new spirit of
hope
optimism from Casablanca. The
Kenerated ht the recent there had been casualties in the new fighting but
summit" meeting. And it la no numbers were announced. intensely annoying to note
rebels
on
B0 and
cn
A spokesman gave the official tall cf casualties in Khouribga as three Europeans dead, in- cluding two women, and five injured.
Peking's imprudent need- In Algeria where at least 100 į ribgu and Oued Zem was ling of the Americana by
troops were Are. Even level crossings were repeated suggestions that killed yesterday in mass attacks torn up and lay twisted on the
25 towns and villages,
track. Chinese nationals in the United States are being French authorities reported all was quiet today. They said the forcibly detained there.
rebel attacks is the Constantine At present it is difficult to department have been "stamped know which country has out" and troops had regaled contributed more to the pre-fuli control, sent impasse. If the Ameri-
No omelu casualty figures can atlitude hus at times have been announced in Moroe appeared sternly wooden co, where demonstrations uninspiring particu- yesterday marked the second larly her curiously fussy anniversary of the deposition of objection to employing India the popular Sultan, Mohomme
Yusser, At least 210 Ben people, including $2 Europeans, are known to have been killed little of the official proceed. riots throughout the pro-
-
and
as a third party in the pro- posed repatriation scheme
It is probably because
so
ings have been publicly re-
CHINA
teo'orate.
of
M.
in
as Foreign Minister to the aged Sultan, Mohammed Ben Arafa,
""Many Moroccans were killed
he said, guards, by security Damage to property, was exten- Bive.
Disturbances were reported later tonight from Meknes. No details were available.-Reuler.
City Traffic Experiment
Southern Sudan Uprising
ORDER RESTORED
IN JUBA
HELP BUILD RUNWAY
This morning the Police
traffle department started
Kai Tak Construction Scheme Explained
Hongkong will play a big part in the new Kai Tak aerodrome scheme. About 2,000 labourers will be employed and apart from special technical equipment and trucks which will be imported, as much raw material as possible will be obtained locally.
The Managing Director of Gammon. (Malaya) Ltd, Brigadier S. A. Westrop, said this at a press conference in Hongkong this morning.
The work will be ûndertaken by two firms: Gammon and the French Dragages et de Travaux Publics. company, Societe Francaise d'Enterprise de The $90 million contract will be divided about equally between the two com- panies.
Gamon will undertake land excavation and the construction of the runways and other works while the on the reclamation French company will do the dredging of more than 12 milion cuble yards of sand from Kow- loon Bay to form the bed of the funway.
take The work will
three years and part of the Kowloon
an experiment in Pedderhills will be cut away to provide
of
flying clearanco and further "All material" for the runway.
HUGE DREDGERS.
by
representatives
ΟΙ
the
Street, with a one-way movement
vehicular traffic from south to north, and the provision of park-At a joint conference attended ing spaces on both sides of the highway. Our pic ture, taken by a staff photographer, shows the
arrangement operation.
How
ink
Civic Fathers Become Road Cleaners
Meanwhile,
French and leased. News agency specu- Moroccan political leaders were lation. is
Spa a poor and
In the Alpine gathering reliable substitute particu-town Aix-les-Bains for a larly na some groups are! week-long conference to dis- active participants in a cuss the future of the troubled lobby opposing concessions North African protectorate. The French Premier, M. Edgar to Peking.
Faure, flew to Aix-les-1
-Bains this
Khartoum, Aug. 21. has unnecessarily afternoon HINA
to join the Foreign Minister,
Antoine
Government troops have restored order in Juba raised
of ex- a number
Pinay, other high-ranking in the Southern Sudan but communications have not traneous issues which has and three complicated the subject ministers the discussions yet been established with Torit, centre of the mutiny,
about 40 Moroccan beyond all expectation. This with
Defence Force Headquarters announced in a com- naturally provokes Ameri- leaders representing all parties.
They will try to work out amunique tonight, can suspicion, China, for
representative government
added; The Major Salem Government reinforcements her part, is not wholly con- the protectorate, now run by a
niso dia Ambassador in Juba, it British vinced that America is doing Franco-Moroccan administration continue to arrive
me the possibili y 'cussed with as much as she could to help under the Resident-General, M. said.
of a plebiscite who ranks A communique issued by the of the holding her nationals desiring to Gilbert Grandvol
of elections for a return to their homeland; it
Cabinet said that two rebel corps for Sudanese self-determination Is therefore fair that her
which had been stationed in Jube instead
tjald took to the woods and were constituent assembly request for a more thorough
travelling toward Yel, 80 miles down in the Sudan agreement." inquiry be granted. America
the East. It added that APPEAL TO LEADERS
He said his proposal for an In Algeria, which politically clashes were believed to have stunds to lose nothing by it
the all-Sudanese round table con- Manchester, Aug. 21. and obviously there is no cannot be treated like Morocco, occurred in Yei, as well as
would succeed in The civic fathers of doubt about which way of since it is part of Metropolitan towns of Meridi, Tambio and ference
abt a protectorate, Andara in Equatoriu Province. of France and
finding a "peaceful solution" life the vast majority
French troops were still gather Chinese emigres prefer,
Loyal government forces, sup-to the situation in the South. Whalley, a village 30 miles ported by mechanised units, He appealed to rul Sudanese north of Manchester, turned Mr Dulles, once so tragicnllyne up the dead on yesterday's
numerous battlefields.
drove through swampy forest leaders to forget the past and road sweepers at crack of The number of Moroccan
lands seeking a showdown battle work whole-heartedly and dawn today and by break- demonstrations the Communists, has not yet dead in
with about 1,000 mutinous carnestly for the future of their fast time had cleared the lost hope of success, how-Casablanca yesterday was
country.
main street of week-end "Every minuto Jost ever, and despite frustrating nounced tonight as 35.
will Violent disturbances obstacles the talks are to
The strong force of loyal
the complicate
situation litter. this
troops, airlifted from Khartoum, evening continue. This is the most tinued
where
several appeared aimed at splitting the further," he said. heartening sign. But the Khouribga
who buildings insurgents,
are spread ir factories and public real tragedy will come
оп fire. European re-
150-mile area. over a Chinese vacillation
rebels are believed to hold Yet, sidents sheltered in the town succeeds in provoking the holl, Armoured cars rescued about 25 miles from the Belgian Secretary of State to hostile Europeans living on outlying Congo border, and Torit, cast denunciation of their tactics. forms.
of the Nile.
immutable in his distrust of
ever
Khouribga Riots
were
in
an-
con-
in
There is a limit to any man'a The disturbances began early patience and at the best of today when Berber tribesmen times Mr Dulles wears from nearby encampments or
shop at muod of
reason rived in the town to sweet
the weekly market. Soon groups awkwardly ..and Belf- of shouting demonstraters began consciously.
KN
to move into the European quar.
be
to
NOWING this, it is ques- | ter. ilonable whether It is Bursts of machine-gun fire and heard really advisable to prolong explosions could
single coming from the dense huddle the talk on this
huts in the Moroccan quarter. of issue. Might not re-Two Vampire fighters of the patriation profitably be French Air Force swooped low linked with some other ques-over the burning houses tion which the two countries machinegun demonstrators. will have to discuss
Pall Of Smoke ultimately if normal re. lutions are ever to exist? Returning pilots sald a thick The Americans must con- pall of smoke hung over the aider the dangers of need- whole region. loss attrition. After all the Intrinsic value of the talks
I
to
troups.
The
Already, sald the sparse TC- govern- ports arriving here,
have recaptured ment troops Juba on the White Nile, roughly halfway between Torit and Yel They are now driving on Torit to break the mutineers flank, sald reports received here United Press,
EGYPT'S PROPOSAL
Whalley (population: 1,378) and Asked whether Britain
is one of Lancashire's busiest Egypt had reached agreement villages at summer weekends on the plebiscite proposal, Major but the rubbish which tourists "understand leave behind sucks around till Salem replied: the British side has not yet reached a final decision on this Monday. subject,
"As for Egypt, she will accept any decision the Sudanese may take," Reuter,
KRUSHCHEV IN BUCHAREST
DO
The parish council has
to spend money' on power street cleaning--and the county council's policy is opposed to Sunday work.
French company including the managing director M. A. F. Brisse, the manager of the Far Eastern branch, M. G. A. Barthe,
and two dredging engineers,
M. M. J. F. Oules and M. F. Volson, Brigadier Westrop, and M. Brisse made these
LOOTERS' ADD TO THE MISERY
Floods Death Nearly
Toll 200-
New York, Aug. 21.
The' death toll in the eastern US seaboard's record floods soared toward the 200 mark on Sun- day while thousands of persons in the disaster area battled for survival against water shortages, food spoilage and threats of disease.
in
four:
In hard-hit Connecticut alone, offelals said 61 persons were still missing.
Satyagrahis Beaten Up
The toll stood at 182 dead and button factory that gave the well over 100 missing in the town its economie, ilfe blood all floods that wiped out homes, were wiped out.-United Press.
and · industries two hugo dredgers the businesses largest of their kind to some eight states and made a shum to the Fast East are, boing bles of roads and farms va towed from France to
to Hong- The
Breakdown showed: undertake Pennsylvania, 98 dead; Connec- koor by tags to dredging
In Kowloon ticut, 64; New York, work They are expected to Massachusetts, 19; Rhode Island, Bay arrive in three months' time: 10; Delaware, one; New Jersey,
hopper barges, tugs and six and Virginia wo other Boating plant to the value of 15-6 million are to be built and it is hoped to
Those who survived the place orders for this equip
the Bloods were caught in the grip ment from shipyards in
of a battle not only rgainst the Colony.
although this is not the perils of the disaster itself but
project biggest
undertaken man-made problems as well. the French company, the. LOOTERS ACTIVE
Looters pilfered abandoned now Kal Tak scheme provides some unusual features, parti homes, businesses and factories cularly the removal of mud in low areas, helping themselves from the site of the runway to everything they could lay extending into Kowloon Bay their hands an. Nineteen per in the first of three such in and its replacement by sand sons were arrested for footing invasions on Friday have been lo lay a firm and level, founda», a single Connecticut town. tion;
by
London Aug. 21. The Indian information Ser- vice said today that the Intian Satyagrahls (Peaceful Invadera) bore marks of “stvere beatings" after being thrown out of the Portugueso, enclave of Goa.
The official government news broadcast moni- tered here, reported that 71 the 82 Satyagrahis who marched over the Goans border
service, in a
were
ejected from the enclave... Sightseers hampered rescue
Dicked
up at a start on the profect and rehabilitation work
brey
various points along the
the border, has been
clogging highways first reliminary, Materials hon looks at the food damage, the information service had been ordered, and Omeláls, particularly In New marks of severe beatings."
Six were so seriously Injured, the agency mild, that they re quired hospital treatment
have special plant is being ex Jersey, begged Sunday drivers. ported, but actual reclamation to
go home and ride some will not begin for several | where' also, months until the hecessary State police tried to detour equipment arrives
to other sections and the drivers radio stations broadcast pleas for them to stay away.
100
two-ton
No lives were lost in Competent, sear Hartford, but that town of 9,000 'population suffered the loss of its three
The Indian agency “also, mid that a second group of Satya-
104 grahis, strong who entered Coa on Friday had been sur- mounded
after a much of several hours.
"They were all arrested are being held in the enclave,
Did you know?
DAY AND NIGHT When the dredging equipment The Chairman of the Parish Council, Mr Arnold Brooks, arrives, work will go on day and
is 52. led a team of a night in Kowloon Bay. who
This is what will happen: mud dozen amateur street cleaners today. Two women-one of will be dredged from the run-major industries in fires. A tex- the information service said
tile mill, magnesium plant and United Press.. them the wile of
local a
sile and deposited in Junk way doctor-helped the sweeping Bay. At the same time another Moscow, Aug. 21.
dredger with Cairo, Aug. 21. Mr Nikita Krushchev, First squad.
Com- Mr Brooks now plans to call capacity buckets will draw sund Egypt today officially proposed Secretary of the Soviet
a village meeting to organise from depths down to 75 t in
Hum and munist Party, today arrived in to Britain that British
Hom Wan (opposite the anti-litter an
rota, "We are Egyptian troops be sent to the Bucharest at the invitation of South Sudan to restore order the Rumanian government, the proud of the village" he said Warp Dock company) to re-
today, "and I don't think there place the mud.
At the same time a flest of exça- after the outbreak of mutiny Soviet Tass news agency said.
.vators, tractors, and tipping He is to take part in the will be any lack of volunteers.” there.
celebrations of the eleventh-China Mall Special.
to work on the Jarries will by cen The proposal was mado
shore to dig, way part of the anniversary of the day Rumania Major Salah Salem, Egyptian
Kowloon hills es prepare the site "It looks 03
" glant Muilater in charge of Sudan was "liberated by the Soviet
for the new aerodrome.
"The main problem is to flamethower had squirted over affairs, when he saw the British Army from the Fascist yoke,"
to get Ambassador
Egypt in
sufficient sand in order to fill lies less in the Immediate everything," one pilot said.
Every railway
the station along Humphrey Trevelyan, for the Reuter.
Unless the runway site. solution of current prob- the 25-mile line between Khou-second time here tonight, '
New York, Aug. 21.
mud is taken out and sind put loms than In creating
The current heat wave broke in, there will be settlement. harmony and establishing a
another New York record lo- The
probem
ls to got the run- basis of confidéneć na u pré- |
end," mid to the Fastway hit 928 (F) Badier Westrop, requisite for future dia-
The mercury degrees at 4,50 p.m. to set a The other problems present cussions.
now record for August 21. The
no unusute difficulty,#
The last record was 92 degrees, set
French company. In 1937.
Brigadier
added, had Westrop This marked the 19th day this undertaken far bigger schemes.. year that it was hotter than 90 In Indo-China, one pro- degrees, equalling the recordject required the removal act in 1944. One more 90-plus 100 million cubic yards of day, will make this the hottest
an against only 12 million cuble summer ever recorded here yards in the Kal Tak scheme. United Press.......
But the importance of solving
this specific problem should not be underestimated for
16 Convicts Stage Riot
Sir the Tais announcement stated. Record Heat Wave
Lincoln, Nebraska, Aug. 21. Sixteen rebellious convicts, ring-leaders of a 18-hour It is about the least thorny riot at the Nebraska State Penitentiary five days ago,
of all nettles which both rioted and set fire to the prison segregation building today countries must grasp. The bofore being subdued by gunfire. world watches the proceed- inge at Geneva with hope
4
SHIP DETAINED
Manlin, Aug. 22. Philippine Navy authorities reported last night the detention of a Formosan fishing vessel off No Cagayan de Oro Province. further details were given. → France-Presse.
Schooner Ablaze
Macao Elections
The riot was the third in the Prison guards, armed with
backed by Na- strife-torn prison in five months. but it is worthwhile stress shotguns and
Last March 27, eight
Flushing, Aug. 21. ing that the outlook will tional Guardsmen stationed at
three-mested Danish continue discouraging until the prison since Jast Tuesday's Nebraska convicts hold two guarda and a fellow prisoner
on schooner Hans Egode caught segregation both countries rid them-riot, moved in quickly and
Are off the Dutch coast tonight, selves of present delusions forced the rioters to surrender hostage in the
after firing a series of blasts into building for 68 hours,
but reports from shore stations 200 Finally the process of the side of the building.
Last Tuesday, more than
members had
Macao, Aug. 22. renewing contacts - kas
yelling convicts ran amok in sald ill crew! -
Elections for three- menta | Ei saved, destroying live prison yard, and It only begun
303-ton shooter was the Macso Legislative Council expect sud. bulding was only slightly buildings with fire," And then Illogical to
fully ablaze lets were heal Briga retreated into one of the pel- den reconciliation as the damaged, lat
Prison oficials, under the the Ditch shipping radio, t
Scheveningen,
No one was injured and the
·héd
Immediate result. In time den Theoph Bovey said ho son's two cell block buildings than two miles off the coast by Electea
ordered the guards to
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