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Off The Pedestal
In a pity that so many in
Torgkong adopt
attitude of cynical apathy towarda things like the 5 Festival of Arts, Along with the more familiar mi conceptions that are
its
it
generally Associated with the arts in that curiously
that notion wooden
IN appenl
sufficiently Esoteric 息技 to manke acceptable only to cranks.! longhair and snobs. This! is putting art on a pedestal
nd it in absolute mon- |
sense.
Neither polite convention or
a particularly artistic wall dictates these sentiments
mure Indeed than any
inspired efther
Lady Grantham to make her fit- ting tributes to the festival organisers Saturday's 11 opening ceremony. all, artis, stelpped of all its finery, a form of expres. sion which conseinusly or unconsciously most of us spek to develop fur own satisfaction.
After
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In fact, the current festival caters not for usoteric, but rather for catholic tastes-- the forms of art with the widest appeal. And to en- Aure breadth of interest the organisers have included in the
of events! programine and exhibits, such highbrow pursuits as photo- graphy, plays by Somerset Maugham as well as Shake- Apeare), and children's art. Surely no one can be s lucking appreciation embarrassed
rudimentary be 118 to by common everyday art of this kind.
THE Colony takes justifiable
It
pride
in its Industrini achievements. Hundreds of thousands are drawn to the exhibition each year to see the wonders of our Own industrial revolution. It is achievement. Hongkong's Therefore the pride. The
name
circumstances and events that stimulated this enlarged enterprise, that
and diversified the popula tion of this Colony have also contributed to the en- rithment of acquisitions.
its rultural!
In this that makes the Festival of Arts such
worthwhite event. It brings
out
light. colour
character in
71 1
and community
that in the past has been
far lo
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JORDAN CRISIS: EDEN TAKES OVER
Preparing Emergency Policy Blueprint
MAKING STATEMENT TODAY
London, Mar. 4.
The Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, took personal command of British foreign policy once again today in the mounting Mid-Eastern crisis caused by the dismissal of the Arab Legion's British commander.
With his Foreign Secretary out of the country and the Middle East situation deteriorating swiftly. Sir Anthony took over the heim.
He held crisis talks with Britain's military chiefs and
with the dismissed Arab Legion commander, Lt-Gen. John Clubb, in a busy Sunday at his country residence.
Official sources suid Sir Anthony would personally lay an emergency policy blueprint before the House of Commons tomorrow.
Labour MP8 Off To Investigate
London, Mar. 4 Mr Joha Hynd, chair- man of the British Labour Parly's foreign affairs group. and Mr Stanicy Evana, another Labour Member of Parliament left for here tonight by atr
the
of Amman,
capilot Jordan.
They are to make a per- БОЛАД Investigation Into lasi week of the sucking Glabb Pasha Genetal John Baket Glubb-frost the comunand of tho Belilah kupported Arab Legion.
At the airport Mr Hynd ป the Jordan govern- ment invited them to go cut some time ago, but no date had been fixed.
"In the
light of events
In-
In the past two days we decided Du leave mediately," he added.
The two MPs also plan
to vivit Calrom-Reuter,
Jordan's action set off a de teriorating chain reaction in the Middle Eastdemonstrations in Arab-Israeli Amman, renewed violence and mortal danger to the pro-Western Baghdad Part alllance.
Sir Anthony spent the day In consultations which took place under unusual conditions of seerfey at Chequers, the Prime Minister's official country re- sidence 30 miles from London.
He spent three hours with General Glubb,
GRAVE REPORT
Diplomats believed the gravity of General Glubb's personal re- port un the Middle Eastern, situation led Sir Anthony to decide on personal leadership.
the
Under previous plang Minister of State, Mr Anthony Nutting. was handling the Jor- dan crisis in the absence of the Fureign Secretary. Mr Selwyn is at the Kardchi Lloyd, who SEATO conference. It had been planned that Mr Nutting should slate- deliver the government's ment to Parliament.
After seeing General Glubb, Sir Anthony
meeting which sources would only may
"members
the of Foreign Office and Ministry
of Defence
the Clulels and Stair".
said These sources Jordan was the subject and that Sir Anthony would discuss in the House Lersonally Commons tomorrow according plans.United
merd
VICTORY FORuded
ADENAUER preoccupied with
the drab routine of the i
11
mirror
worknday world. It is also!
showing the Colony--or rather a smuli part of it-to the Colony. For entertainment, 20- lightenment and for plea sure it is worth visiting
Stuttgart. Mar. 4. The voters of Baden- Wurttemberg today gave Konrad Chancellor
De- Adenauer's Christian
to see what happens out | mocratic Party a thumping ¦ side the ordinary bustle of scal of approval in State this Colony.
elections regarded as n fore. cast of next year's national ONE of the first conclusions election.
Middle East
Britain
can
to
present
Press
held an
"SUMMIT" TALKS
Heads of
Jordan
arc
un-
It of
He Will Present
A Blueprint
Sir Anthony Eden
Lieutenant-Colonel Gamal Abbel Nasser, Egyptian Premier, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, President Shukrwe Kovally of Syrin, and perhaps King Hussein of Jordan would attend the talks suggested by the Syrian President.
declare
MP's Life
Threatened
London, Mar. 4. Brlitsh Labour Member of Parliament, Sidney Silverman, a chief sponsor of the movement to abolish the death sentence, vealed today, that he had received a letter, threaten- ing him with death if the abolition motion, recently Paritament, adopted by
were made law.
It was writen by a man who wants to prove that murder should be punished with death by committing ofte himself, remarked Silverman. The letter was and X."- signed "XMI France-Presse.
Boat Hits Water Swell At. 190 mph
Honolulu, Mar. 4. Henry J. Kaiser's hydro- plane
Hawali Kai nipped
AIRLINER EXPLODES, BURNS
TO ASHES
Nicosia, Mar. 4.
A Hermes airliner caught
STRIFE AND SUDDEN DEATH
Morocco And Cyprus Incidents
Tangier, Mar. 4.
Police forces in Tetuan, capital of Spanish fire while refuelling at Morocco, this afternoon opened fire on a large crowd of demonstrators, wounding several Moroc- cans, it was reported here tonight,
Nicosia airport today and burned to ashes after an 67 explosion, just before Britons were due to board it for London. No one was injured.
The incident occurred after a crowd of several thousand Maroccana marched through the main streets of Tetuan, shouting "Long live independence, long live Sultan Mohammed the Fifth".
the
Strong police forces slapped |--Pazza Despena-of demonstra-
demonstrators and arrested tre, where the clash occurred.. some 50 young
The demonstrators withdrew In- demonstrators.
10 side streets from where they The crowd tried to prevent the arrests and the police, finding pelted the police with stones and themselves outnumbered, made shouted hostile slogans. Military police were use of tear gas bombs and are-
Security officers investigating the possibility of anbotage scaled off the airport terminal and checked everyone coming out, but an airport official said there was so far no indication the explosion was due to that sabotage.
The intending passengera
thels mostly KAF men and families were
only about 100
Severed demonstrators were engined [our yards from the
wounded and taken to hospital Skyways airliner when the ex- plosion was heard, followed by Six policemen were injured.
Latest reports from Tetuan made use of firearms, All their lug- leaping flames.
the police succeeded gage was already on board and said
clearing the city's main square was burned-Reuter.
over today while speeding
at an estimated 180 to 190 miles an hour in an attempt to break the world speed. boat record.
The driver;
Kenneth St.
Oegger, was thrown out of the
stm9.
CYCLONE STRIKES WEST AUSTRALIA
A cyclone today lashed boat and suffered a possible the British nuclear tests at
broken ltg. He was pulled out
of Echi Lagoon by race officials battering the town with 100 und taken to Queen's Hospital.
The neeldont cancelled further
heavy rain.
attempts to break the world The storm uprooted trees and record, although
Kaiser
had
them piled
against houses,
Perth, Mar. 4. Onslow, supply base for Montebello next month, mile-an-hour winds and.
another hydrepinne standing by wrecked verandahs and shat- SKIERS FOUND
on the Intoon. The record is tered windows, in the northwest 378487 Mico-Mo-Shun TV here.
set by coast town, 700 miles wrth of th
Stunde
to
dislod
the with tear gas bombs,
reporta said
Moroccan
trying demonstrators Seme 40 had
at leart demonstrators
been wounded when the polleo
All those seriously wounded
taken were
to hospital. France-Presse,
FIGHT WITH REBELS
Rabat, Mar. 4. One French non-coinmissioned officer and
Moroccan four soldiers were killed during
#
Sight with rebels some 50 kilo- metres southeast of Fez today. Reinforcements were speeding to the relict of the French force continuing. and fighting was still
A European was killed at the Aduan mine near Mekrea
raided the area and carried away during the bight when rebels some rifles. Other rebels at Port Lyautey broke through the wall of the customs building and imade away with 10 rifles.
At Fedala today, demonstra...” tions in favour of Algerian. in-
The Hawafl-Kai was about At Roeburne, about' 100, miles extricated two' slders; 'who had fof: Morocco, from same houses
#
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!
~ Linz, Mar. 147dependinice wat place, During Mountain rescue aqunds today calobrations of the independence cothe "Free Algerian" Seattle
tte in 1952.
in the Arab quarter of Oujda. two-thirds into the measured northeast of Onslow, children bern buried in en avalanche, in flag was flown
mountains, hunt for snakes the Warsheneck.
Similar demonstrations took mile when it suddenly flipped Joined in
were aliva but injured place earlier today in Casablanca, They driver washed into the town with throwing the through the air. The boat was debris from floods caused by the Third Wider, ought in the -France-Presse."
TERRORIST SLAIN. came avalanche, was still miss- pulled from the water before it cyclonic rains.
Nicoala, Mar 4. ing. The ski party was com sank,
A Cypriot was shot dead by posed of three and not five or The pilot of a private plane
in troops security ag earlier reports British which had been following the
de skiers
Limassol tonight after he bad suggested. Hawaii-Kal over the thresmie
thrown a bombat an army course said he was flying at 160
patrol vehicle, it was reported Yesterday, one skier lost his
[X] avalanche miles an hour and that the boat
in
W20 here. A Cypriot passerby him
ite was pulling away from
Tyrol, while his two companions injured by the bomb explosion. rapidly
were rescued.-France-Presse, Four other bomb explosions in the Limassol area tonight and ive elsewhere in the island caused little damage and casualties.-France-Presse.
Herald it apparently bit a and water swel, nipped over alewed along for about 150 feet. Frogman divers who recovered the boat sald its speedometer
at the was stopped
190-mph
side of the boat
An entire
would The leaders their agreement to regard any mark.
tgahast Jordan av egression directed against each of them immediately 10 her and
go assistance, the sources said
When the flood receded, the makes look shelter in shops and hautes and in the township'a school. The children so have killed 200 snakes.
far
The cyclone was reported Perth towards moving south
full force was where its peeled tonight.
Sx-
It has already disrupted com- munications with the eastern states of Australia, and caused concellation of all flights from Perth airport-Reuter.
was torn off by the impret. The Hurricane Hits A
rudder
was missing when the and boat
recovered cmcials said it may have been
WAS
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and lost during the run, causing arc ulso expected to the accident.-United Press. -
Syria renew their offer to grant im- medlate financial aid to Jordan to :placu Britain's ennual grant of 12 millor eterling.
son H13
Danube Valley
Lifesaver Taken
By Shark share fatally attacked a
Melbourne, Mar. 4.
young lifesaver as he
from about 200 yards today.
swam shore
Crowds on Uhe beach, and in the water watched horrified as John Wishart fought vainly for
Frankfurt, Mar. 4. Fargo, Dakota, Mar, 4.
Winds of 80 miles an hour his life. Mr Catrol Day, Scrator
of ripped
through the flood- It was the second Australian Cairo, Mar. 4.
the North Dakota State stricken Danube Valley today, shark death this year.-United of Egypt, state
wis kfiled in adding to the damage caused Press. Saudi Arabi, Syria and perhaps The Arab leaders' meeting has Legislature,
by the water and jagged chunks expected to hold been
further Impetus Plane crash near Fargo today. given
and two ather of ice. summit" talks in Cairo carly folowing Keg Hussel's dis-
occupanta of the plane wore At least two persons were This week to review the Middle missal of British General John
by the also killed. The private at drowned Belgian soldiers near. Adenouer's
East Party
political and miHtary Glubb os commander
saved threo others with increased suatico, alpiematie scurcis said Arab Loglos, diplomatic quer craft in which they were flying, Cologne
In 1 crashed
snowstorm when they rescued ters sald-Reulcr.
a woman. strength
its main rivals and
here today.
France-Presse.
1wo children from their urd lost vital seats In the Slate
boat, runaway
A
ira man Dusseldorf was killed by falling rebtte
drasv Dr
of returned dismissal
that
from the
General
Glubb
Is that
was
Jordan may not have said Parliament. But the Christian And Here Is A New Danger
its inst word If Exypl Democrats failed to secure a and Snudi Acabin were
much-wanted absolute majority
responsible for this decision, which would enable them to
and there is no reason to govern alone.
LAKE TIBERIAS INCIDENT
Syrian coastal defence
J
Jerusalem, Mar. 1. Israeli-Syrian
Tension
doubt they had a finger in Preliminary totals gave the the pic there is also as following unofficial distribution reason to believe that like of the 120 State Parliamentary Jack Horner they will be scats:
Israeli Chris Jun Democrats 66 (50 'forces raked an satisfied with one plum in last Parliament),
police patrol boat with gun- and a comparatively small
Socialists 30 (38). Free fire on tense Lake Tiberias one at that.
Party 7 (0), Communists 9 (4), today and angry largel re- although Syria's borders.
taliated with a threat to proached within a few yards of use open force, ›
Democrats 21 (23). Refugee
Popular. Vote
Final offcial results of today's elections (percentage of popular vote in brackets);
The lake shore.
up-
The Danube dropped a few inches early today at Passau, the main danger point, but know nothing of two missing began rising slowly several Israel polleernen, the Israeli hours later and was
expected Armistice Commission delegate, to reach 17 dost above normal Major Sivan Teppner, reported, some time tonight. Major Teppner accompanied
over
u
tons of
Winds of near-hurricane ferte UN observers who reclaimed the swept down from the Alps. boats and two bodies of Israeli toppling trees and power lines Jordan's next step may be
police killed by Syrian gunfire. and slowing the job of sand- Israel demanded an anmetate bagging village streets along to accept Arab League
the banks of the Danube. aid to counter the effect of
Israel said it was a routine investigation of the Incident,
High was pushed British assistance. At any
Syrian guns slashed out at the
The Anal Israeil version of high wall of wartime rubble in police patrol. It was in the
batteries the attack said the first police Durseldorf, hurling rate, without the assurance
Irarli police boat from the same
where Syrian area Imrepets where a few months ago
huve opened up on Israeli boat had been abandoned and that the Arab Legion will
Christian Democrats 1,392,320 Israeli commandes killed more fishing boats. Israell onells the fring:started when a scound brick and stone against a three- be commanded by A and judicious
moderato
(42.0), Socialists 142,037 (28.0) than 50 people. In a surprise treated the incident wits the best west cut fato the Issell storey hotel next dolding Free Democrats 541, 233 (16.6).
"retaliatory
This raid
ulmost
The Jewish ke gravity.
túrag It out of some collapsedUnited Press. leader, Britain may find it Refugers 204,280 (6.2). Com the Syriane wounded four Israck! State claims the Arab nations challows. dimeuit' to justify continua-mimists 104,612 (3.23).
policemen and cenfeated their plon an all-out attack on Israel tion of its generous grants. Although the CDU increased boat. Later, the United Nations this summer with modern jels Opponents of Brillah inita percentage of the popular Armistice Commission reported and other equipment suppiled
cent it that two of the pollee had been fluence in the Middle East voto from the 30 per would most like to see the look in 1952, it fell for short of handed back doad.
The boat also was returned. abrogation of the 1948 the 524 per cent it reaped 'in
'A WARNING Anglo-Jordan friendship the State in the 1953 general trenty. And this cannot now
alection.
The Socialists, who received
Isracl
to
by the Communists.
GRAVEST CONCERN
•
SALVAGED
The second boat did not go
man was the building:
out until confirmation had been Regular Medical
Reports, Sought
United received from Syria of An Iraci Foreign Ministry Nations message outlining the This was done salvago effort. carlier had warned spokesman said today: "Tal because the first boat had been bo dismissed ne unlikely. If 28 per cent in the 1862 election, Syrin
return the four wanton attack muat raits the shot at, an Israell spokesman
Vashington, Mar. 4. In Bald.
member of the United it ever happened, Britnir, had only 23 per cent in the wounded palicemen taken from revest concrasiest tozalca
The Syrian attack came eight Statpe House of Representatives would no longer have bases Federal balloting. Today's vot- leraall territory or "we would the regions bo heightened
days after the UN armistice plans to introduce a bill tornar-
netler"
Irradi raid the Syrians
Herald Israell re
in the country and one ing showed a flight increase in have no alternative but to take ing reported Syrian more check against Arab their strength.
of Canada, announced that the make regular pubile reporta, on hostility would be lost. It The FDP, which broke with opened fire on the polico boat on chlet Maj-Gen, E. L. M. Burns row requiring the President to
the northeastern shore of the highest Byrian authorities" had his health,
Mr. Herbert, Zelenko, (Domo- in n depressing thought but Dr Adenauer on both State and after it ran oground
Byxla
was lake four d'three UN representa-asured him strict orders would charged Israel
lend
armed lives there with the two bodies, ba given to Syrian military crat, New York) salt the bill it needs careful, considera-national levels in the past two
above their "attemping months, was well
Two other policoman had earlier forces on the edge of Lake would, require a health report: tion in the present re- 12.7 per cent Federal showing units for eplonage.
Tibering not to fire on fraelf from anyProstent within six thinking that is going on in 1953 but alightly below their An Israeli spokesman pointed been reported missing.
Hoth boats were returned, shipping on, the lake-United months of,ble, inapturation and in London now on the pes 18 per cent in the last out that the lake was completed
within State alections-United Press.
Israeli unstable Middle East,
ory. But Byrian police claimed to Fram
Votes For Women Motion Rejected
no
Berno, Mar. 4. The malo voters of Berno to- day rejected by 62,871 votes to 52,920 a motion aimed at grint- ing women the right to vote in canlonal affairs.
Only six of the Berno Can- 30 districis, voted in ion's favour of the women-Reuter.
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