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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

The Hongkong Stadium

THE

TARIOclation

Hongkong Football wants to know, in view of its agree- ment with Government, by whose authority the Police opened the Hongkong Stadium to absorb the

Makarios

Established 1845

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Another deadlock looms in the Cyprus talks. this time over an amnesty for convicted

Cypriots. General Harding and the Archbishop reach an impasse. and then the leader of the

Cyprus Enosis movement decides to seek help. He picks up the telephone... and now read on:

MAKARIOS SENDS S-O-S

overflow audience for Dr. GREEK SPEAKING MP FLYING TO CYPRUS

Billy Graham's rally last

week.

That's quite a good question, TALKS AGAIN NEAR DEADLOCK

It

but so far as the public is! concerned, there is another} that is better and more Important. It is what is the agreement between the HKFA and Government which gives the Football Association authority

to

question the right of the Police, to upen the atadlum to the public?

ACCINA about time the record wan put straight about the Hongkong Stadium-who owns it, for whose benefit was it built, and for what purposes is it intended. Indleputably it was designed and constructed by the Public Works Department and

From DAVID BURK

Nicosia, Feb. 21..

In response to a telephone SOS from Archbishop Makarios, Mr Francis Noel-Baker is flying to Cyprus again tonight.

Greek-speaking. Socialist MP Noel-Baker was in the Colony

ten days ago.

NOW FEARS OF

FLU EPIDEMIC

Ananced from public funds. If Europe's Freeze Ends Too Quickly

The stadium therofore

belongs to Government who holds it in trust for the

community. It is foremost!

London, Feb. 21.

Medical experts hoped today that Europe

a sports stadium, but as would emerge from its three-week deep freeze because a sudden thaw might cause

was made officially clear gradually when it was opened, it la there to serve other pura serious outbreak of flu.

poses also presumably in-

So far, according to European bridges and buildings along the cluding

revivalist's medical opinion, the bitter cold river's banks. a overflow meeting.

has kept flu germs inactive.

AT Monday's meeting of

None of the 705 deaths attri- buted to the worst winter in

modern memory has been caused

the HKFA Council con- by influenza. And doctors sald siderable stres was laid that it the temperature rose on the Association's powers gradually, people would have a chance to adjust themselves to

to allocate the stadium for the change, and the danger of public use. We feel the the discase would be lessened. Colony should be told more So far, Italy is the only notion about this. In fact it is to experience a major outbreak high time the text of the of the Ru. More than 350,000 agreement between Govern- cases were reported in Rome mont and the Football earlier this month but it does

not seem to be spreading. Association (whieh nets as

SUN-BUT MORE COLD

administrators the stadium) public.

of

be made

How

Why all the secrecy?

A five-mile stretch of the

Scine at Melun, 25 miles from the centre of Paris, is now Ice

covered.

The river is frozen

solid at each bank, and the lec varies in thickness in the middle of the river from 6 to 14 feet

TERRIFIC PRESSURE

Then, with the blessing of]] both Socialist and Tory parties in Britain, he won the esteem of the Governor, Sir John Harding and Archbishop Makarios by acting as an unofficial go- between.

Now the archbishop has

called him in again at a

crucial moment in the nogo, tiations with the Governor

over the island's future.

With

his Cabinet-style Church Council, Archbishop Makarios has been discuss- ing the Governor's answer to an amnesty demand for convicted Cypriots

..and others arrested under the emergency laws.

PARDON FOR KILLERS

The archbishop, with it is be- Heved ferrorist prossure behind him, demands a free pardon even for killers. It is estimated that the bridge

The British believe if they of Ponthierry (near Melun)

Makorlos Persuade

to Co- alone is at the moment with-

constitu- standing a pressure of 800,000 operate in framing a tons of ice packed around it. tion for Cyprus It would bo

release minor possible to

and suspects, but for dams, fenders

of the

of

SAXONE

Shoes for Whiteaways

for Mon

“MADE IN SCOTLAND

Noel-Baker

S-O-S CALL

| MP To Urge Lennox-Boyd: 'BAN HANGING IN COLONIES?

London, Feb. 21. The death penalty should be abolished In the colonies under direct But Whitehall control.

to those with their own It legislative powers, should be merely sug gested. This is the view of Mr S. T. Swingler, Socialist MP, who is to ask the Colonial Secretary what action he will take since the Commons voted, against hanging in Britain, He says he realises that application of abolition throughout the colonies is administratively diff- cult owing to their dif- ferent stages of political 'advance.

LABOUR

He is also aware in many colonies there would be strong opposition to the policy. But he thinks it should at least be put to them for considera- tion. Where there is dislike of the idea, he says, the Colonial Secre tary need not press the British view which was argued solely on conditions prevailing in the United Kingdom.

Point to note: Although voted against, hanging has not yet been abolish- ed in Britain. A free vote in the Commons is not mandatory

on the government.London Express Service.

CENSURE

MOVE DEFEATED

House Approves Govt Economic Plan

London, Feb. 21. The House of Commons tonight endorsed the Government's latest moves to stop inflation by

The Oving such pressure the killers the law must take 325 votes to 259.

whic

The sun finally shone in would also leave stranded on its course, Haly today, but the weather-the river's upper

Last man warned that it was only at thousands of boats moored

reaches

Lo

night Archbishop Juli before a renewed onslaught the bank, us the upper levels go Makarios was preparing to tell can the general public be of cold and snow.

Sir John Harding: "We insist on satisfied thint there has

an amuesty for all,"

Tee locs cut

ball Association's covenant blocked

[erry Danes

If an

over.

tri- frozen

Then he thought of a little sideline bargaining, reached for the telephone, and called Noc)-Baker, across

ised

to

down. of most of

Many

the Solnes of been a "trespass and a Decmark's

Giant butirles are completely pupulation, violation of the agreement" Scandinavian airliners were unless it is aware of the taken off the Polar route to the

A sudden thaw, on the other and United States precise terms of the Foat-

the ice-hand, would, it is feared, cause widespread floods, as the dems grent belt between could with Government.

no longer be closed, the island of Scaland and the France-Presse. agreement can be regarded Danish mainland. Copenhagen violated because the and the majority of Denmark's Police, meeting an emer-population are on Scaland. gency, tuke over the In London, the Air Ministry Btadium to accommodate | predleted scattered snow and members of the public, Devere cold. throughout then it must be a strangely British Isles. worded treaty..

หย

THE Inference is that the

It

powers

or

Hongkong Football Association has undisputed

allocute to withhold allocation of the stadium according to its own inclinations, Perhaps this is not so, but at the moment only the HKFA and Government know. And this Is a stadium paid for out of Treasury funds and provided for the benefit of

the Colony as a whole!

K

np-

U.S. AID FOR

STRICKEN

EUROPE

the

Washington, Feb, 21. The United States will

ald offer

to European countries that have been stricken by a severe cold the last three wave for

the State Depart. weeks. ment announced today.

Tho State Department the American ald would be offered to all: European countries, includ- Eastern European Communist countries.

American ambassadors

wald

to

WILE

10 12 countries have received kirstationa estimate wint necessary for ald and

immediate then to study possible U.8. assistance for long-term damages, such damages to crops.com France-Presse.

By this margin of 66 it re- Jected a labour consum motion urging it to declare it had no the Government confidence in

to

or the steps it was taking overcome the economie crisis,

These include a £36 million cut in the Government subsidy Mr on bread and milk and a cut of £70 million in expendilure by the Now

are the Government and the nation- negotiators waiting for the MP's plane.alised industries on new pro- London Express Service,

jects.

ADENAUER'S WORST SETBACK

Bonn, Feb. 21. A depressed group of 250 Chris- tinn Democratic deputies gathered in the Parlament building in Benn teday to on their hold a postmortem

Stato party's defeat in the elections at Ducrseldorf yes- terday.

The North Rhine-Westphalian

parliament, by 102 votes 这波。 dismissed He

day was Dr Konrad Adenauer, the Federal Chancellor, of whom newspapers today said he had suffered one of his. worst-ever political setbacks For the first time for

years, frank criticism of Dr Adenauer wan heard in the members of his

lobby from

own party,

many

to Younger members of the Party, especially, said that the Free Democrats would not have

their staged

revoit In Ducnveldorf if Dr Adenser had not kept all the reins of Government in his own hands for so long. These members considered the new. alliance of Social De-

Kar! Arnold, the Christian De- who had ruled the mocrat State since 1947, and in- stalled Social Democrat,

A Herr Fritz Steinho, in this place, Principal speaker of the meet- ing of the party in Bonn to-

Indonesian Action 31 Die In Sewer

Condemned

Tragedy

mocrats and Free Democrats as the pay-off for years of benevolent autocracy.

Five Die In Plane Crash

EHOW 3. DON

TASS MAN REFUSES TO REVEAL SECRETS

w

Washington, Feb. 21. The highest ranking American employee of the Russian news agency Tass refused to tell Senate In- vestigators today whether he associated with Soviet spies.

Harry Freeman, nasigant manager of the New York Tass office, first told the Serato Inter- nal Security sub-Committee he did not asociato in his job with propio he knew to be active in Soviet espionage

Then he "rovised!", his shower and invoked the Fifth Amood- against possible self- Two other American Miami, Feb. 21, A four-engined Air Force ployees of Tass New York

and office-Hays Jones cargo plane crashed and ex- Sasha Small Lurie--swore they a rocket" on had not been Communists since ploded "Uke Palm Beach Air Force base working for Tass. But they re- fused to say whether they had late today, killing five crewbeen Party members previously. members..

Mrs

MOSCOW ORDER The Air Force announced that

Freeman, a all aboard the plane were killed

bald, amil- small,- when it

crashed from a lowing man, said he had not been t altitude at the edge of the Communist since 1041. He said Palm Beach Air Force base, that was the date of an office The names of the dead were directive forbidding Tassem- withheld

103

with old pending notification of ployees to take part in any

political activity. First reports from Sergeant Freeman

refused to Robert Clark of the West Palm whether he was a Communist Beach Police indicated that prior to 1941. He said he had nen might have perished worked for Toss since 1929 and alght In the roaring fames that en previously worked for the New gulfed the plane within seconds York Daily Worker.

Freemon after it hit.

But the Air Force said only five men were aboard,

The Air Force Identified the plane as a KC-97 Boeing strato- the plane freighter. It sald

crashed "while attempting routine landing". The plane was assigned to the Air Transport Squadron at Palm Beach Base. United Press,

TENGKU WILL ASKA

testified that Tasa had about 23 employees in the United States in bureaus in. New York and Washington, He said the acting manager was Loonid cluizen.

Velichansky, a Soviet

The title of manager was hold by Ivan Beglov, who has been back in Russia since May 1985. He listed the employees, about ten of whom were, Russian.--- United Press.

Well, What All Commoners

About it, Chin Peng?

Singapore, Feb. 21. Malaya's Chlet Minister, Tengku

will Abdul Rahmon, broadcast today to Chin Peng, the Communist terrorist leader to in the Malayan jungle, Radio Malaya said today in an official

London, Feb. 21. 'A Brigadier and a’Lieutenant Colonel got up in the House of Commons at the same time to the Colonel speak today and.

down" shouted Sit.

10 hig ranking colleague.

W. B. Williams abour MP immnodlately asked the Speaker it it was proper for Li-Col. Walter Bromley-Davenport to give such orders to, Brig. O. L. Prior-Palmer..

"Ali men are equal_here" Speaker W. S. Morrison ruled.

Brigadier down, and Davenport speech-United Press.

Prior-Palmer. sat *Lt-Col Bromley- went on with his

People buying goods on the instalment plan will have put down a bigger deposit.

The Labour motion took the statement. form of an amendment to the

The Chief Minister said on his resolution asking arrival from London on Sunday Government

to affirm the House

no con- that in this broadcast, he would fidence in the proposals,

ask Chin Feng to keep his The Government motion was promise to surrender his forces.

between Tengku later approved by 325 votes to At talks

Abdul Rahman and Chin Peng 250,

at Baling, northern Malaya, in Mr Hugh Gaitskell, Leader December, Chin Peng promised of the opposition, said he could the Malayan Chief Minister he not understand why the Chan-would surrender if the Tengku In cellor of the Exchequer, Mr in constitutional talks in London today Herold Macmillan, gave such a secured control of Malaya's-in-twin 'brothers, Tommy and wholesale condemnation to im-ternal security and defence. Joseph Williams, on indrder port

Tengku Abdul Rahman charges In tho bludgeon secured these powers in London, laying of a nine-year-old 'cub.

-Unfiled PreSS, Rculer.

controls.

Mr Gaitskell went on: "After all, one fifth of our imports are ill subject to import licensing. Half the dollar imports are also subject to control."

It was extremely risky to 661

"This

In another part of the Parlin-

mont

50 Free

Democratic say Britain would have nothing with import controls at deputies held a stormy meet- to do ing in which the North Rhine-all, Westphalian section of their The Weak Spots

party came

under

Bevere

Opposition, ho believed in a combination

said,

of

criticism for their Duesseldorf The revolt. Many Free Democrats belleve monetary and physical control that the electors ́ do not sym- | The latter · enabled the nation pathise with the sudden to "block up 1

the weak spots In

the economy."

change of front in Duesseldorf. They think that the party will Bir Gaitskell said he thought pay for it in the elections to it "deplorable" that Mr Mac- millari should cut investment new Industrial equipment

of

The south-western state Baden-Wuerttemberg due in a fortnight's time.Reuter.

24 Hours' Grace For Rebels

on

at a time when other countries were increasing it.

of

The nation's future rested on modern equipment, he said.

Mr Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board Trade, sold import restrictions would lead almost automail- Rio De Janeiro, Feb. 22.

cally and immediately to re- La Paz, Feb. 21.

Brazilian Air Force rebels are tallation today officially informed the The death toll of a Sunday being given 24 hours to surren Mr Thomeycroft sald the Netherlands of

Indonesia's carnival tragedy rose to 31 to der and chat their nine-day-old chief obsticle to production was unilateral denunciation of the day.

Poople were returning | jungio revolt against the Gov- that the economy was Netherlands-Indonesian economic from a fiesta when 18 children ernment, a source close to Prestrained

The Hague, Feb. 21. The Indonesian Government

over.

is agreed Government acted reasonably in pointing adininistrators for the stadium and it is not suggested that the Hong- kong Football Association is anything but well qualified and trustworthy to' fulfil the functions. Nevertheless the terms of its trust have been with- held from the public, who, quite naturally, are puzzled

and financial agreements of aged from four to 12, fell into sidene Jucelino Kubitschek sald On industrial investment he and confused when they'

X940.

ah open rewer, More than a last night.

raid the Goverment was not road that opening of the

The Netherlands promptly dozen adults also feil in. They. The source said that a special stopping It but trying to stadium at night time by Austrin was "back to normal" replied by stating that Indonesia were all recovered dead-United plane le Rio De Janeiro today moderate it Investment had

PICES. the Police without HKFÁ today after digging itself out of had violated international law.

fer Belen, capital, ef the nor-gone up 18 per cent last your authorisation in a violation a record snowfall yesterday. The communiquo "said Indo-

the state of Para, where the and looked ifce rising by 17 'of an'ngreement,

Paris, coal socks were low nesia gave a "bad example: by'

rebels have reized airfields, with per cent next your.jpg annulling

from the Air Minister, Organisations, find associa-pudd normal pressure might Presse.

Ani Alves Secco telling tions which cater not onlyot be maintained if the cold

them that if they surrendered continued

Bordeaux for sports and athletics, :

no reprisals would be taken Franco's Largest ports, WAS

Reuter. but other activities, are

tied up by a 25-inch nowfall,

and the national gra company the statuto France Malaya Riots Fear

OBO of

entitled to know just where Brood and milk deliveries word they stand when it comon cancelled and no publle trans-

Tut Tut!

London, Feb. to seeking use of the port moved in the city. war ined one pound today for Patrick Huggins, 20, student, Hongkong Stadium for Measures were being con "wantonly discharging a mis

pubile performances,

·

How York, 'TED, 21. To worldly magazine News week said it its now inue today that the bloodiest.... rióta {yet| would come in Malaya in mid- April as the result of pamphlets

*

Trade Union Protest

Earlier today Trade Union Londines decided to make 'a' strong" protest against: Mr"Macmillan's

166, criticisma" drawn up by the Truders Inion. Congress

Call: TUC small, thứ governing

|proposalaja AVA Twins Again

now being distributed calling Johnson City, Tenn., Yet, 21. soconomie & committies will be for mass demonstrations,ENT

Arquett 38, gave fisioed :: before sidered in Paris tonight for alle, to wit, a snowball, to the Indled, without giving dễ birth yesterday to her math pet Creek blowing a passage through cer- damage of persone in Kensing-talls, that mcurity ofsily have of twine in 15 yemerke Bhe, and body We suggest Government tal, or the Seine dams, to ton Courtshipped vete

rwoendly guided) Chinees: Coni- | her.... husband, a school Janitor,“ clarifies the whole situationellave a block of fellow back- The target at pellottun.-mundet ogsono traibly arrived in now have 45 child wain United without delay.

Hing; up around the ancient United Presą,

{Malays from PARIN

is

Twins Charged

New York, Feb. 21: An.. Ohlo county grand jury

Wheeling,

West Virgols Indicted

14-yer r-old

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