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COMMENT
THE DAY
OF
A Poser For The
Unofficials
NEVERAL lines of approach
will be open to the Un-j official members of Legis- iative Council next week when they debate the White Paper on the future of Radio Hongkong, and in consequence there may not be unanimity of viewpoint, Absence of public reaction to the White Paper through the newspaper correspon- dence columns also leaves
them somewhat in the dark as to how the community : views the various proposals
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HONGKONG 2. KOWLOON
BOMBAY POLICE BREAK UP
STRIKE CALL IN BOMBAY
Leftist Groups Plan Big Protest
FOUR DEAD IN NEW
WAVE OF RIOTING
Bombay, Jan. 17.
Bombay's left-wing parties tonight called for a general strike in the city tomorrow in protest against the new administration plan.
Representatives of the Communist, Socialist, Revolutionary Socialist, and Peasants and Work- ers parties formed an action committee to conduct the strike.
AL a publie meeting, their apokesmen declared the central action "amounted
to a denial of the fundumental rights of the people of Bom-
300 miles south-west of
Four people were killed and 19 injured today in Belgaum, about
10 Rombay. when police fired on rioting
mobs, according to reports reaching Bombay.
A curfew from 6 pm, to 11 am has besen imposed On Belgaum for three days
Minister, Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, announce<i
the on the radio Governuncut's decision to dívide the present State of Bombay into three parts to form the new
States of Maharashtra and Gujerat. Bembay city was placed under direct control of
Central Government. the
Maharashtrans, forming the bigkont TOUP of the city's ¡gulation, resented the EX clusion of the city from Maharashtra State.
Becku It is n White Paper. neither Government nor Legislative Council need feel committed at this stage government's to any of the recommenda- tions. Nevertheless, the Unofficials will have to give bay." iL definite expression of opinion on one major poin, namely, are present Radio Hongkong's services to its Chinese and European listeners adequate? If the answer is in the negative, the Unoflleials must then
Antielpating Communist op- earefully consider pro- A pollee vun and JL stale
position the Government took The precaution of arrestung most posals for bringing about transport bus were set on fire the required Improvement. in the city by demonstrators of the Communist Leaders prior
who also attacked The
to Mr Nehru's announevmont, shops und Bulela They built rond bur7-
35-DAY FAST The tel
canes to block traille. Radio
Socialist Party members u Hongkong must be improved night announced their resigna- in the following directions:tions from the Bombay sinte increased strength of trana- legislative assembly as a pro-
nission;
{s[ p longer hours of
Bombay city Belgaum broadcasting on the Chinese
Karwar from Maharashtra. tranamission; more diversi
In Bombay, buses and trams fed programmes again for
running stopped
tonight ZEK listeners) with em- ar med pulico putrolled phasis on topical and live frestive city in trucks, shows; increased staff. There сап hardly be
White Paper
reaches
hesitatingly
conclusion that
any
serious disagreement with these recommendations, and to do eo would probably exacerbate popular opinion, inarticulate though that may bo. Any such broadcasting improvements, however, im. mediately introduce the troublesome subject of finance, and it is on thin aspect of the White Paper which the Unofficials can be f expected to devote much of their attention.
The White Paper. after exploring alternatives, re- commends that the extra costs, estimuted to be a re- current $1,200,000, bo offret by the introduction commercially-sponsored pro- It also throws suggestion that
grommes. out the
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part of the annual royalty
the exclusion
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arrested
fund
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Revenue
Strong Tremor
Felt At
Orleansville
Orleanville, Jan. 17.
strong earth tremer
WRA recorded in the Orleansville region Jate tonight.
First reports said there was some damage.
Orleansville (Algeria) was the scene of an earth-
daaster in quake
1954 which hundreda of
people Reuter.
were kled
New Peace Plan
For Algeria
[
DULLES' 'TOUGH' POLICIES WIN SUPPORT IN UK
London, Jan. 17.
Lord Strang, who was permanent head of the Foreign Office until 1953, declared in a broadcast tonight that "not for the first time we have to remind ourselves that Mr Dulles' policies can be wiser than his words."
He was discussing the con- troversial "brink of war" article in the American magazine, Life, which asserted that peach had been
preserved because Mr Dulles made it understood that the United States would use alomie weapons against Chinese buses K the Communists per- airted in certain politicies.
Lord Strong told British radie listeners "We claim that nucisvar
a deterrent. power 13
to
Au
were
of
had a success it is usually best not to trumpet It abroad,
we
"Not for the tiral time have to remind ourselves that Mr Dulles' policies can be wiser than his words."
Lord Strung also said: "What is how about these statements 4 the disclosure of the inter- pretation
placed upon these
STUDENTS' MARCH
ON HAMMARSKJOLD
to
Athens, Jan. 17. Students attempted
march on the residence of the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Dag Hammarskjold to- night to deliver a pro- Lest against British polley in Cyprus.
Police,
קם
however, broke the demonstration before it
Mr Spyros Theotokia on the Cyprus and
Arab- And within hours of his ar-
Israeli dispotes,
`rival students, who have been among the most vocal supporters of, Enosis, were No Injuries were reported in marching on his residence.
Lite scuffio when
polico
Broke up the march. Several of the students were rested, howEVER, “
reached the house where Mr The students told police they Hammarskjold was stayiqë,
Mr
Hammarskjold arrived this afternoon from London For two days of discussionis with the Foreign Minister
wanted to give Mir Ham- marskjold a profest résolu- tion
had they
drafted agalnai continued British rule of Cyprus - United Fr
JORDAN WELCOMES
ARAB AID PLAN
general powerN and intentions But Wants British Assistance As Well
the United Slates authorities
by the
in their application to specific-
д
Was
made
Amman, Jan, 17.
The Jordanian Foreign Minister, Dr Hussein Khalid), said tonight Jordan welcomed financial aid offers made by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syrla but thought a meeting of Foreign Ministers was necessary to discuss preliminary detail
"It is often asserted that warns, and of the fact that this
interpretation have
broken out in the
past known, by express design, to because the acessary warnings the Communist powers." have not. been given
Lord Strang concluded carly
that enough or in plate enough terins. the domestic
in
Mr sphere, "If it is true that the resump- Dulles
les no doubt wished, in an Len of hostilities in Korea and election year, to take credit for
outbreak
at
a note to Speaking
a press con-, King Saud had sent hosulitics over
foreign robust Republican
ference he said he hoped an Jordan, calling for a meeting of Formosa uverted, and the policy and in the international
of Jordan, he may
shed understanding could be reached the heads of state have wished negotiating position of the non-sphere, Communist powers in regard to by emphasising that these were with the sister Arab states and Syrla, Egypt and Saudi Arabia Indo-China (at
Geneva President
that their aid offer would not Eisenhower's
to discuss Arab financial assis- affect conference) strengthened decisions
British financial assistance for Jordan to replace Bri- counteract 40
tish subsidier. tance to Jordan. because plam and specific warn-misapprehension as to continu-
It was unofficially stated in Dr Khalidi said he bad sug- Ings were given, then is there ing American toughness which
Damascus not something to be sold for
Minirler President's conciliatory gested the Foreign
and Cairo recently that the old envisaged would them?"
attitude at the 'summit' con meeting before the calling of a
million over "But, as against this, there ference in Geneva last July high level conference of the amount to £100
the reflection that, in
heads at state, na suggested by the next 10 years-Reuter. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, diplomacy, if you think you have
More Details Wanted
139
the
was
the
own
any
may have created to the Soviet mind."-Router.
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED
Washington, Jan. 17. tions
He revealed that he had re- reived no cp. from Egypt
Saudi Arabia and Syrls shortly after | M. Samir Rifat became Premier
un Jamiary 9 expressing wish to consult with Jordan on
ald should how financial Forgiven.
Algiers, Jan, 17. The Governor-General, M. Jacques Soustelle, flew Paris today to seek support Mr Nehru's move touched oft for his peace plan for war- a political storm us the Bombay Lon Algeria where an es Minister. Mr B. 5.timated 150 terrorists have Hiray, a Mahneashiran Congress been killed in three days of leader,
offered to resign
bitter
between fighting Sha Karma Deo, a prominent French troops and the rebel Congress leader and former associate of the late Mohandas "Army of Allah." the Gandhi, announced that he
He took off from Algiers as would begin a 35-day fast
200,000 French troops wrged a self-purification and atonement relentless struggle to contain for his fallure to convince the mounting terrorist attacks over uuthorities of the justice of his wide stretches of Algeria. case for inclusion of Bombay in Saustalle is scheduled to use you wanna ganja in maj Maharashtra State.
brief political leaders who may
on matters of fact essen- Most parts of the city were form
or participate in the
The explanation by the ital to the three baste claims not affected. The disturbances next French Cabinet. After
Secretary of State, Mr John made in the article that Mr were mainly confined
with to the conferring
outgoing
Foster Dallas, about the em- Dulles had "averted war" industrial northem portion, Premier, M. Edgar Faure, he
heroic role at- Korea, Indo-China and where half of
wil
barrassingly Bumbay's 60
moct. the Socialist leader
article in tributed to him in an textile mills and the govern- M. Guy Mollet and possibly the
Life last week on how ho Pierro ment rallway workshops were Radical Leader, M.
averted three wars over Korta, forced to close.
Indo-China and Formosa working
most of the correspondents on all-time record press con- ference today with most of their questions unanswered.
But Mr Dulles succeeded in himself in wrassomating
of over-emphasis
and over-simpllication from some of the more belligerent phrases used by Lite to describe the success of his policy of deterring Communist. aggression in the Far East by threatening to re- taliate with the atomic weapons. "INFORMAL CHAT”
Police opened fire seven times. njuring at least 10 people. They arrested 10, including a nurse ar Communists. It brought the total number
sinco Monday morning to 541.
Policemen used tear gas and thew stones to disperse crowds.
policemen Pas njured treated at a hospital.
Ti Teachte
fistui banUCA
When the
Ware
were Prime
TENGKU IN
BED
WITH COLD
London, Jan. 17.
Treasury receiven from Tengku Abdul Rahm,
Rodiffusion
should
Mendes-France,
Several towns in Maharashtra
рарет M State Including Pouna, were re- Sousteile proposed last week to ported to have had a total busi- give quickly to the Algerians news stoppage.
the same rights as the French Students remained away in metropolitan France. This from schools and colleges as a would
mean
to the stading gesture of protest, United Parts National Assembly about Press,
100 Algerian deputies.
Singapore Ban
On Japanese
be leader of the Malayan inde Sand Crackers
allocated to Radio long-pendence delegation to Bri- kong. The question which tain, took to his bed this exercises
the mind is afternoon with a feverish whother radio station, atifl under
government supervision, should dabble
A
in commercially-sponsored
programmes,
cold.
11e said: "I
have got to be
tomorrow for the start of the
conference. I am sure I shall be all right. That is why I am in bed now."
Singapore, Jan. 18,
A Singapore customs spokes- man sald last night that checks
being made were now
an all Imports from Japan to prevent sand crackers being muggled
Into the Colony,
In
Now Algeria has 30 deputies -half, elected by the 8,000,000 Moslems and the rest by the 1,500,000 French residents, Unrest continued also French Morocco. A group of terrorists, armed with sub- machine guns killed the director of the agricultural development office pl Skl Mousso, near Tulda, and his wife lost night.
GUARDS GAGGED
The director's sister-in-law was seriously wounded, but the
small couple's five
children escaped unhurt.
A French relief column found the two native guards in the This action followed the director's house bound and arrest of two Japanese in gagged. The rebels stole two Tokyo on suspicion of attempt- | rifles.-United Press, ing to smuggle crackers Singapore. Com
It might, for example, be
naked: Does the training Earlier today the Chief Mini- which civil servants receive ster conferred with the mein- fit them for
bers of his mission on the final running
of quani- details
Lomorrow's
successfully
commercial enterprise7 ference.
Equally speculative is Malaya could bẻ given Inde- whether civil servants feel pendence by August, 1997, If the themselves capable of func-independence talks were success- tioning
AN
ful, the Tengku sald earlier to- businessmen, day
at a bedside
press con- some of
ference.
which certainly
fhem would become if com- mercialism wore to be
Thero
are many
into
of any local Malayan Prince
The spokesman said they had no knowledge ngents acting for would-be Japanese exporters of such "horror toys" and checks
SQ
fur made had not revealed any attempla to smuggle
crackers. But
in
uratil
Plans To Marry
ter
In effect he also withdrew as a publle expression of policy the statement directly attributed to him in the article which has caused most of the controversy over it, both in the United oth
This was States and overseas, Mr Dulles statement that "the ability to go to the verge of war without getting into the war is the necessary art.".
Mr Dulles did not deny today that he had made this statement in an "Informal chat with Mr James Shepley, the chief of the "Life" burcau, lust December.
he said that he was not Condrous
at the timg of the chat that he was speaking for publication and that “I would never
myself have expressed in quite that way for
inys
An English Girl P
He said Malaya sought gradual
Mr Dulles cut off this part of home rule in Bnancial adminis-said, continue to carry out the the customs would, he
the press conference at the end superimposed on the exist-tration, police and milltary checks, as a precaution,
London, Jan. 17. of a stormy half hour of un- ing structure of Radio matters.
Prince Osman, 'grandson of usually blunt questioning, cross Hongkong.
after Chinese New Year. The next step would then be
the Sultan of Johore, today an examination and demands for Towards the end of icet nounced his Independence
the with
engagement to a publication of the facts" and pitfalls total
soveral, people. In the associated with the intro Malayan Government in charge Federation
Brilish secretary, tem-age
not insisted on passing on to other of Malaya duction of commercially-
were long after his first cousin mar subjects, of defence and foreign affairs.
filled or injured by explosionsried in Engman, 23, said he answer a large number of ques- Malaya sought independence of home-made
He had already refused to sponsored programmes over
Bind crackers, the 'British witith
Princo Osman. Common- a government radio station, wealth and greater control over but it was believed that these and it would be erroneous to own financial matters. Ho were made locally and not im- belleve that the dual system said Malaya was the Common ported-fouter, would automatically be a wealth's chief source of hard success-financially or from
particularly US
the point of view of im
proyed broadcasting ser- He said the longest delay vices..
according home rule' - woulć come in the financial field, three years' walt would
Because the White Papor con- where
14
Gaol Sentences
For Espionage
would marry 17-year-old San dra Redman, a pretty brunette with shoulder-length hair. The couple
revealed their wedding Three Killed
plana, at a press conferenco: in
the South Kensington home of her parents,
"It was Prince Mahmud wh In Air Crash
storted my romance by formally put quebec City, Jan. 17. introducing us in November
„Two erow members and, one
tere killed “ early.
twin-engine
just after my 15th birth- sidera Radio Hongkong be necessary to set up a contral
Helsinki, Jars, 10. - day," said Miss Redman, should, at least for the time Malayan bank.
Four Finns were sentenced Princo Caman is an agricul being, remain an officially- The Tengku added that the by... a Court at Kuoplo ontiral engineering student. His controlled station, there is talks wre expected to last about Tuesday to prison sentences father, Prinon Ahmal, lyes, in room for the
Wocks, Reuter view that three
and | ranging from three to six years] London" in retirement-- United Franco-Presso.
Press, P fox espionagez-Brande-Frang. Government should be pro- pared to finance Its improve. ments and to meet its
additional operating costs “SNOWMAN" (WITH MILK WHITE SKIN)
from the Treasury. By so doing It would retain its Independence and avoid any danger of clashes and dia putes with commercial in- terest whose patronage the station would otherwise |
Calcutta, Jan. 17. ing Zoe vetition, dimovared and Officials
An "abominable mpwinen" (wDE reported to have been killed" in the northedas regióne of tha #jade of, Assam, it was learne Reports reaching Calcutlegt
W
citry' of northern
said. Irðluded – the pilot -Three other, gray,
mosa.
the
Over
bo
his
Dr Khalidi
added that
Slow Progress In Geneva Talks
Geneva, Jan. 17. The Sino-American falks in Geneva weze not progressing rapidly enough, Mr Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the United Nations, said today. On grounds of net wishing to Government had officially re
Mr Menon, who is on his way comment on the views of the plled to the aid offer tonight from London New Delhi, author of the article, he would seeking clarification on "basic made his statement after a brief not say, either separately or in and formal matter" such as kind stopover at Geneva aimport and amount of ald envisaged, during which he conferred with connection with the article:
In Mecca
a Saudi
Arabian Mr Wang Ping-nan. Communist Government press department Chinesa delegate to the talis statement issued tonight said France Presse:
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