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The New NATO Mtion tout NATO should
R Foster Dulles' sugges-
begin to manifest its pur-] pose beyond the limits of a military alliance is net a new one. was advocated by Lord Ismay as secretary. general of the Organina- tion. 10 months ago, but me; with no response then. Las: December the North Allan- tic Connell devoted Home attention to the iden, but reached no decisions, The purpone uf Mr Dulles speech Beers to be 1o ing in Paris next week into
prompt the ministerial meet.
some definite action,
It is a pity the Secretary of State did not elaborate his theme. There
talk uf vague
substance to Article 2 of
CHINA
No. 36417
Established 1845
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956.
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RELAX IN
NDAKS
THE PAMOKS CENTURY IN ASTERN TRAUENSS
Whiteaways
HONGKUNG
KOWLOON
GRIM WATER WARNING TO HK
Unless There's Rain By May.......
Three Hours Every OTHER Day!
Unless there is heavy rainfall before the end of this month, water supply throughout the Colony will be reduced to three hours EVERY OTHER DAY from May 1.
Announcing this today, the Director of Public Works, the Hon. T. L. Bowring said: "the Colony's water storage position is rapidly becoming very serious as a direct result of the exceptionally low provides for close economie | rainfall since the effective end of the wet season
bgen giving the NATO treaty which
and political co-operation
between its members, but no blueprint has yet been pros duced.
early last September.
"During this period of nearly eight months the rainfall has been only 14.69 inches against an average of 26.53 inches.
In this respect Mr Dulles hat clearly passed the bull, per- mitting himself only a ten- "In spite of this and of the ferable to our ultimate alterna- tative suggestion that there fact that consumption bas con- jtive, the introduction should be closer integrationsistently vert above the esti- Jemergency scheme entailing the
of the Westery sledi Kuropean countries
of some
of
a
figure, the amount of cutting off of all supplies direct water in storage on April I was to the premises arf CONSUMIOTH and about 140 nition gallons higher and the substitution of a system
than we had
estimated
their associations auch h as the Coni and Steel Com
of drawing wirier from street Since this date however, the stand pipes only This would munity. the Western pusition has delerforated rapid- operate very harshly on certain European Union and they. There has been practically sections k the emmcity, rainfall this nath and con-notably the aged and the Infirm.
gene up steadily develop sumptam has
coming of hotter
projected
scheme for the
peace purposes.
Euratom"
with
the
ment of alvinie energy for either. The renount of water in storage this morning was only All this merely constitutes 1,287 million gallons.
A
RESERVE ESSENTIAL
"If the
present trend
con-
the germ of an idea. practical formula is still re- quired and to date nu at tempt has been made by thenues and no rain is received in the meanwhile, the storage will members of NATO to pre.
be reduced to approximately 1.- pare one. Moreover,
000 million gallons by May 1. matter how solid be NATO This storage is only two thirds na a military alliance talsu (of the reserve which we require open to some doubt and mis- for safety in ense ruins are still
ivings) it is undeniable further delayed. that
members ILA
suffer "Unless theres
therefore substantial differing
and rain is economic
received before May 1, consider "
I necessary. If the political problems, while
reserves are conceptions of dealing with Colony's essential
the safeguarded, that the them also vary considerably,
catly draw-off should be reduced Closer
of integration
the to approximately 17 million NATO Countries in The gallons a day as from that date, felds (+1 reonomics and politics in highly desirable,
10
"This will, I think, be best achieved and will operate most but it recomplishment fairly for all consumers by pro- the somewhat longer Ikely to prove a tougher Viding
task than NATO's creation period of supply of three hours on alternate days, the Island
of #t defensive military being supplied on one day and
machine.
The council of ministers bus
the Mainland the next.
"These measure, although
US Courts
been presented with somewhat drastic, are much pre- challenge ly Mr Foster Dulles, IL R A challenge which has long existed but hitherto conveniently ignored. The Western world. waits with keen interest to Bee whether the council is An t- prepared to make tempt to give substance to the conception of 11 revitalised NATO along the Hines of economic ntid political integration. Water Situation
L'apparent
become
100 during recent weeks that the Colony has been consuming more water than I can afford, There has been a steady increase in daily consumption (29 million gallons last week) and
Ban Segregated Buses
The
1
Washington, Apr. 23.
United States Supreme Court today out- lawed the last
vestige of racial segregation in public transport in the United
States.
DETAILS LATER
"I can assure the pubile that these drustle restrictions with not be imposed a day longer than 15 absolutely necessary, They will certainly be celaxed as soon as there is any appreciable rainfall.
"Meanwhile 1 am giving week's warning so that everyone can make preparations for adjusting their water-using routine to the gurtalled 'hot'of supply
་་
"The Water Authority will give notice later this work about
supply days and hours on both the island and the Mainland",
CURFEW
FOLLOWS
RIOTING
Nicosia
Nicosia, Apr. 23.
Wan put under curfew 1onight afler Turkish and Greek Cypriots bad battled in the streets following the shooling dead of two young Turks.
the
A big Are raged near the Turkish quarter of
old walled city.
Steel-helmeted British troops with Sten guns mammed bar- ricades between the Turkish and Greek sectors after breaking up battles which flared when a 22- year-old Turicish Police Con- stable was shot near
his home In the Turkish quarter.
Turkish women captured two men after
and Incident turned them over to police.
A young Turk was shot dead when he chased
a gunman enter. ing a elgarette factory in the Turkish quarter.
the
Other Turks fell on the gun- man and nearly lynched him,"
A corresponding In D unanimous decision, it according to eye-witness reports. diminishing of intake from struck down laws in 13 Southern-Reuter, the streams. In short, the States requiring segregation of water situation has steadily while and negro passengers on local buses and buses travelling deteriorated and must now
wholly within a state.
Tien years ago the Based on current daily con-banned segregation
sumption, the reservoirs travelling from now contain enough sup-another.
be regarded as acute,
0110
Court on busta
B & K IN LONDON
DISUANDA ASLEPIAT!
SLAVE CAMPS END TERROR UKRAINE!
RUSSIANS CLAIM:
SPY TUNNEL KHRUSHCHEV,
FOUND IN E. BERLIN
Berlin, Apr. 23.
The Soviet authorities claimed today that a tunnel
had been discovered enter-
GAITSKELL
IN CLASH
London, Apr. 24.
Mr Nikita Khrushchev last night refused
ing East Germany from the British Labour leaders' demands that he act
United States sector of
Berlin and built for the pur-
pose of tapping Soviet mill-
phone lines.
at
G
to aid Social Democrats in prisons in Com- munist ruled states.
tary and East German tele- He emphatically turned down appeals by Mr Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party leader, and other Socialist chiefs, at a dinner they gave in honour of himself and Marshal Bulganin at the House of Commons.
The clon was made hastily
summoned Press con- Jerence at Karlshorst, Soviet headquarters in east Berlin.
Soviet troops yesterday had
"climinated
ап
American
Monitoring centre" located in
The
DETAILS GIVEN
The clash with Labour leaders. Mr Khrushchev's firm deter- the Soviet sector of Berlin, ait was learned authoritatively,mination not to neist imprison- Soviet spokesman said
como after an hour's speech by ed Social Democrats had been Mr Khrushchev in which he largely to blame. defended pre-war Soviet policy, It was learned that Mr Gail- bitterly assalled the British att-skeil raised the issue of the post- ftade at that time, and attacked tion of the Social Democrats in thre Labour leaders for their the Soviet area, stressing that recent support of West German thousands of imprisoned men rearmament.
and women were comrades of The dinner was attended by the British Socialist Party. all the principal chlets of the
He also put in a plea on be- party the members of thehalf of Jewish minorities who National Executive Commitice might be suffering in the Soviet and Labour's parliamentary Union. "shadow" cabinet.
tunnel, alleged to have becn discovered in the East Berlin suburb of Alt Glienicke, was about 330 yards long and hed installations enabling connections with Soviet military telephone lines, the spokesman said.
The alleged monitoring centre had been equipped with nine amplifers, one tape recorder and several measuring menta, he added.
Instru-
U.S. Omells declined to com- ment on the Soviet allegations before they had been studied.
Later Soviet Army officers took about 100 reporters on a conducted tour of a tunnel to- night to show them how Soviet telephone cables had allegedly been tapped.--Reuter
Mc Khrushchev Bulganin and
in London: These pictures show their arrival, their reception by some of the crowd, and B&K laying a wreath on the Cenotaph.
Marshal
But Mr Khrushchey reported- It began pleasantly with ly retorted that he refused to do vodka and English meal of anything on these questions. turtle soup and duck.
There were no Social Demo-
But the atmosphere had crats in the Soviet Union, he
It was not his busi-
changed minutes before mid- declared. night when the meat endedness to do anything about those after three hours and ain other Communist countries, quarter,
he added.
THE HITLER PACT
Mr Aneurin. Bevan, Labour's, loading -- left-winger ~ and Mr Sam Watson, one of the most powerful Trade Union leaders in the party, jumped to their feet back Mr Galtskell's plea for the Social Danocrats,
But Mr Khrushchev reported- ly with me heat also turned down
their intercessions.
Another picture shows a group of Soviet safloral
standing in front of the Karl Marx memorial i lighgate Cemetery, London,
B&K arrived to a refrain of cheers.. and, Labour Lenders offered
as the picture above shown, protests. Mr K supply a list of Social Democrats (left) looks happy enough but Marshal B imprisoned in Eastern Europe, (right) appears less ut case. Prubably one but Mr Khrushchev refused to of the posters upset him-Iondon Express receive it, Photos.
Reds Planned Tengku's
-Overthrow-
Kuala Lumpur, Apr, 23.
to
Because of 4hia, Mr Khrushchev said, Russla made her pact with Nazi Germany.
On disarmament, he, was re- ported to have betitled Wes- tern proposals for control- which Mas
always
been * stumbling block in the post- war East-West starch for agree.
ment on an arms cut,
He threw cold water on the United mutual areas of inspection, say
States scheme for
Russia. In
was only prepared to have control by people being stationed at strategic points,
Mr Khrushchev at one point 1 reported to have expressed his belief that everybody want- ed peace, the Americas as well as the British.
Mr Khrushchev is reported to have said that Mr Gaitskell's reference to anti-Semitism in Russia was "all nonsensa"
Marshal Bulgarin who spoke first, s
sat silently throughout Mr Khrushchev's speech and during his colleague's sharp clashes of vlow with the Labour leaders.
In attack on British pre-specifio war polley, Mr Khrushchev is this slated to have particula, ly Marshal Bulganin mado, what attitude of Mr was described as "witty and
He also expressed a hope for closer relations with Western Socialist parules, but made 20 proposals aimed at
A captured Communist document, Issued assalled the officially today, confirmed that the Malayan Noville Chamberlain's Conserva-friendly" speech-but no detalls Communist Party's alm was the overthrow of tive Government.. the present Matayan Government.
Tho document, a private letter from the Editor of a jungle newspaper to a high ranking terrorist, was recently captured..
WHAT THE LETTER SAID
The writer, sending his letter just after the Baling "Peace" talks with the Communists lost December, said:
"Undoubtedly our tactics are to join with the Tengku in a common effort to get rid of the colonial rule of the Britis) Imperialista.
"If there is a statement of prace we can then immediately win over more support of the broad masses of the people and go a step. further by overthrowing the Tengku's bourgeois dictator- ship and changing it into a joint dictatorship of all races and strala.”—Reuter,
THEY BUTCHERED HIS CURLY HAIR
stato to MPs Will Hear About Cost Of Demob
was as far
plies to last about 40 days, Today's decision and in view of the uncer-reaching as its one in 1954 out- tainty of substantial rain- lawing segregation
+
full future,
in the
immediate schools.
this 18 not sufficient margin.
Today, Government warns of
in public
THE END The Court dook the action a possible drastic curtail-by refusing to review on warlier ment of supplies-from the circuit court existing three hours a day down
in
"He sent m
his lovely, brown, curly hair... his hair was the Arst thing that attracted me when I met him in 1940."
sk the Secretary of State if
ho
is aware
Smith,
that
un
H-BOMB
TEST BAN REFUSED
London, Apr. 23. private with
Mr
Anthony Nulting, excellent
Delegate to the been re- British army record, had fused a final signature on his United Nations Disarma- demobilisation papers until ment sub-Committee today he had his hair cut."
to my platcon Said Bessie Braddock, Socialist sergeant, but when I could M.P. for Liverpool: "I will not find him I asked gl- mental police corporal Larry Parks to cut my hair. Ie benowed a pair of clippers and shenved the hair off the back and sides of my head right down to the skhi," Said Smith's 23-year-old wife. Miry, "I nearly cried when I saw what they had done to
London, Apr. 23. until you get your hair cut, What's left of the curly brown and cut short,
hade
William Arthur Smith is to be discussed the House of Commons. Smith is a 25-year-old former Army private, A few weeks ago, he was due to be dis- charged, with only five min- decision, handed
he went to the Rited welfare Richmond, Virginia
officer for the final signature on hla discharge to three hours every other last year, holding that segrega-
papers. This, Smith · said, is day. It is a most disagree- tion on Interstate buses
unconstitutional,
what happened next: able prospect, yet Govern-
decision followed a "The welfare The latest
offeer told me ment cannot run the risk of
I'm signing nothing for you the interstate another 1929, when water prohibition by
commerce commission Inst of on segregation
In
in
WAR
rejected a Boylet proposal And, she said. "I will demand that H-bomb tests should be
on immediate statement and ta inquity."United Press.
halted.
He contended that any limita- tion of teels should be part of a whole disarmament programme,
Mr Harold Stassen, of the
Syria Given Peace Plan Big Bombardment United States, said tests were in
Damasqus, Apr. 22.
had to be imported and November doled out by the bucket. races in station waiting rooms One would like to see a volun- used by Interstate travellers and
tary reduction
emential part of Roy arms pro- daily on interstate trains and busca
Tony's decision marked the
Taipei, Apr. 23. gramme so long as there was no water consumption by the
but "separato
Chinese Communist guna op- | disarmament agreement in exli- public, but that seemingly virtunt end of the Is expecting too much qua" doctrine in the transpori Mr Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary-General, posito Nationalist-hold" Quomoy benen
today unleashed the Solentific information showed Government's action will do. It affected the Southern today put his Palestine peace proposals to Syria's leaders, who land.
Staton mostly
such
heaviest bombardment for some that outside the immediate test where
promised to reply tomorrow. !‛ probably enuso some con practices had been in force.
time. The guns fireet 340 rounds area there was no danger to atornation, but it is a propor
Land, killing two humen 14th and there could be Foderal Courts have also put Ile is believed to have urged a reduction of forods on both at the one to take if there should a cod, to segregation of the sides of the Armistice lines between Byris and Israel, strengthening civilians and wounding thred no danger unless she present were | terta were increased a thousand- be no early replenishment races in free schools and public of the Truce Supervision Organisailon and fall freedom of move, others. Nina houses
destroyedFranco-Protho, fold, hoveddød,—Reuter, of the reservoirs.
parke-Bouter,
sment for observers/---Router,
of it were avòllable, Mr Khrushchev, it is anid, ro- During the evening he was peated statements reported to reported to have extended an have been made by him in India invitation to Mr Galtskett and which seemed to imply that the Mr Alfred Robens, the Labour British and French pre-war Party's chlor foreign offairs Governments encouraged Hitler spokesman, to visit Bussin.---- to attack Russia and go East. Router.
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