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COMMENT

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FLASHBULBS

THE DAY

OF

Lessons For HK MONTHS will

pass-

possibly a year or two —before Hongkong will know how useful the Third Southeast Asian Film Festival has been to local studios. The closing speeches on Saturday night claimed that the Festival "had admirably achieved its objectives" but a more precise and detailed report on the private discussions and meetings held last week will be needed before independent judgment can be made.

Father Sheridan, one of

L

a

the

Festival judges, said earlier this month that one of the main objects was to find the key to revival of the Hongkong industry which had suffered

serious decline in recent years. He mentioned that "Jack vatality" could slem from 12 major sources, and it is opportune today to whether local film magnates were provided with the key.

of

ask

THEY should, for instance, now knaw how other industries operating

similar dealing

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In

conditions are

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BRITISH TROOPS TRAPPED IN FOREST FIRE

Nicosia, Juno 17. Many British servicemen were burned today in a forest fire raging in southwest Cyprus where a major anti- terrorist sweep is going

on.

Unconfirmed reports say some people were killed

****

by the fire, which was still burning late to- night.

Soldiers and Cypriot

fire-fighters were bat- tling the blaze when it suddenly grined strength and enveloped them, causing many casualties, according to an official statement.

Helicopters are flying in- jured men out of the blaze area, which is near Vroisha, 50 miles west of Nicosia. More than 5,000 troops have been engaged in a large. scale anti-terrorist sweep in the wooded, mountainous area for the past week, search. ing for the mysterious

Eoka leader "Digenis" and other terrorista.

to "Digenis" —–—– reported

bo George *Grivas, former Groek army general is believed to have slipped narrowly through their hands in the past week, and to bo still in the area. There was no indication of what started the

fire. But at press con- ference earlier today on the results of the first week of the search operations, Brigadier Gooffrey Baker, Bir John Harding's Chief of Staff, said a number of fires had been started by terrorists to cover up their move-

ments,

Tito Convinced About Russia's

"Liberalising"

Policy

URGES KREMLIN TO ABANDON

THE WARSAW PACT

Moscow, June 17.

Polish Officers

Marshal Tito, Yugoslav President, flew back to Moscow today after Reinstated

a triumphal tour of the Soviet Union, with the reported conviction that deep-seated changes had produced a new Russia with which Yugoslavia could now have even closer ties than before 1948.

the

sald

the

of

Paris, June 17.

high

ranking

Several Polish officers have been Senior officials said that relations between the two countries on the rehabilitated as a result of ideological level could now be closer than at any time before Stalin died the present review of poll- and before President Tito was expelled from the Cominform in 1948.

tical trials which occurred President Tito has been deeply impressed during his trip by the changes

In 1949 and 1950, Poland's which have taken place in the Soviet Union,

Marian overthrow following

Public Prosecutor, Stalinism, highly-placed Yugoslav sources said.

Rybicki, announced in an Interview, published In with prob.

Thus,

Joint Soviet- that are hampering Yugoslav

The Yugoslav President was, Soviet Union were genuine and Warsaw today by the daily communique, to be

to have complained that must be recognised as such. progress and expansion signed in the Kremlin after finat Mr Matyas Rekost, Hungarian

He would try to convince the Trybuna Loda. here. They possibly ex- telky tomorrow or Tuesday, was Communist Party leader, had West to do everything possible The interview reported by changed ideas and discussed expected to reflect Yugoslavia's not yet suficiently purged his to encourage the liberalising the official Pollsh news agetucy techniques in the more sugerness to rename ploty and

party of anti-Yugoslav nenti- processes Tow going on sald tho officers advanced industries in political relations with Moscow.

ment.

Signlucanoe hes there- Russia. Specifically, he would

ould Lieutenant-Colonel Zdislaw Asia, Some of the important

fore This follows a your after

been attached to the our suggest that the Kremlin may Barboslewic, points they should have resumption of contacts between

prise visit to Budapest-zollow

to grant dealt with are nudience Russin and Yugoslavia, since requirements, conditions in which time, the Rusiare

cow of Mr Mikhail Suslov, pean counus member ot

icaters cou Communist the which films are produced, been "on probation" in Yugo-

Party's Presidium and its lead training of actors and clav eyes

ing theoreticia.

Despite Yugoslavia's newly udinitied ideological Identlly with Russia, Yugoslav officials claimed that Marshal Tito would continue to pursue an indepen- dent foreign policy.

the

have

actresses and script writing, There was no doubt in the to mention only a few.

minds

of most of President Tito's party that the Russions had come through the test, that the further changes

were stil

in secret of the success of the progress and that the entire

What, for instance, is

Burmese and Japanese in-process of “liberalisation" now dustries, and what are the going Jessons for Hongkong; or, to motively encouraged

put it another way, what ja it that these films or American films have

or

En Russia must be

officials say

that Yugoslav Yugoslavia is not returning to even

Moscow, but that Muscow has that

now advanced to such a point the local enes tuck-do the that

the Soviet leaders have Shaw Brothers have the accepted many of the principles answer is making Cinema-laid down long ago by Marshal Scope Alms and wide-screen Tito, pletures? And what about the quality of lucal film stars? The criticism is made that local producers called "camp of socialism and put far too much emphasis peace, although not factually on a pretty face und nol inside 1.

nearly enough on acting ability, and that training is inndequnte,

Western

here diplomais believed it was virtually certain That Yugoslavia will henceforth be spirtually part of the

Few

Differences

60+

Yugoslav officials said that, ideologically and in the sphere

But

THERE are reports that of world politics, there were now

Malayan money is to be few differences between Yugo Invested in the Hongkong slavia and the Kralia, industry in an attempt to they were Insistent that there revitalise it. This is wel was no question of a "return to come news but it has to the fold," as it existed before be understood, 48 Father 1948. Sheridan said, that money

Well-

informed Yugoslav alone cannot put Hongkong sources said that Marshal Tito's remain argument in his discus- films, on the road to covery. The best thing that along with Mr Nikita Khrush

chev, Communist Party leader, local producers could de confirmed the theory of "peace. would be to get together as ful co-existence." soon as possible to syn-

The Yorosity view, these thesise the ideas given out]

sources said, is that genuine last week, and map out a plan of action.

The Idea of co-production withi

Asian and European studios seerns to to a good one that deserves more thought by local companies. It involves a merging of local material and overseus. talent

and

there are obvious lessons to be learnt from this kind of experiment,

adjust to

e

greater

where

❤mmander ew. Przybyszewaki,

to the East Euro-olonel o

Josez J110w, Major

Marsani Tro's visit to. Mos i indem Side, the Soviet Zelry Machalin and

could be convinced that Mastowick, a

Jan

edlottél :th the

Woman Whol Disobeyed Curfew Shot

Nicosia, Jummer 17. ↑

35-year-old Greek Cypriot woman is reported to have been shot and seriously injured by troops toulshit as her car WRE leaving the curfew of Nicosia,

she Anastassiadyu.

Valentine

She was in the car with her two mom when, accord- ing to first reporía, troops imposing the curfew open- ed fire.

The incident occurred on the border ares betweEIN curfewed and free zones of Nicosia.

An official statement was expected later,--«Børster,

2 DIE IN

GUN DUEL

First reports told of 24 injured in the blaze. It was later reported that the nearest hospital, at Pandaya, was "choked" with casualties. The civil hospital

ot

Limassol was told to clear away all, non- sorious cases to make room for the forest fire casualties. Reuter.

4-YEAR-OLD GIRL SLAIN BY

Woman To Be Foreign Minister

Of Israel

Tel-Aviv, June 18.

The Israeli Labour Party tonight elected Mrs Golda Meyerson, Minister of La- bour, to succeed Mr Möshe Sharott as Foreign Minis-

ter.

1

A spokesman of the Labour (MPAI) Party angounced earlier

BY do that Mr Bharott would

SEX MANIAC

*

Seattle, June 17. The battered, nude body

submit his resistion to the Cabinet tomOTIOW.

The perthal committee elected Mordechal Namir, at present Secretary-General of the Israeli Federation of Labour, - to take over the Labour portfolio: from Mrs Meyerson.

of four-year-old Kathryn

Israel's condition Cabinet will Lane Ruoff, daughter of a hold a special session tomorrow Washington State legislator, morning to bo. told of Mr

Was

discovered today Sharett's resignation and of other crammed under the rotting government changes

Later, Mr. Ben Gurion, the boards of an alley garage; Prime Minister, is expected to apparently the victim of a announce the government | changes to the Knesset (Parla- BOX degenerate,・・・

Police said the child, one of mont) four chlidren of State Representative and Mrs Richard

was the Ruoff,

object at Д nightlong search by hundreds of officers and neighbour,

The polire chief, Jack Porter, said the toddler apparently had

been strangled with a sunsuit:

zammed

BORN IN RUSSIA

in

Mrs Meyerson was born Russia and taken to the USA at the age of eight, n

As a student at the teachers' in Milwaukee, she

A piece of clothing had been eminary

deep into her throat to began to take an interest in She did war stifle her arcams. The police public affairs.

Proller work in World War 1 and Bald she had been Buxumlly

notive Wan attacked

dis- The child's body was covered by a group of volunteer storchers la The old garage a short distance from the Ruoff pame

Mr Ruoff, a prominent surance man, and his wife were placed in a doctor's oure and treated for shock.

Jeft

the Zionist Socialist Party in America.

Mrs Meyerson settled in Palestine 35 yea

ryears, ago, started work as an agricultural labourer at Merhavia, where she was for, three yea

In 1976 she was clected to the Women's Labour Council.

was a member of Kathryn dianie Jarjoexicative of the Federatint of ther, home, yesterday after Jewish Labour (Hitadruth) noon to vit 's playmate a block and has been a deligale to many away! She never arrived Zionist congresses and repre- sented • Hisiadruth at +- inter- national labour conferences Era England and America”

the West no longer wanted to try resistance movement in World Norwich, Conn. June 17. to change their internal regimes War 2.

A 29-year-old man and there-United Press. by force, the sources sai

that. All were freed and totally re-his estranged wife's gun- Yugoslavia

believed

Не Rybicki sald. unless the West demonstrated habilitated,

In conEdence the Russian alto announced there would be changes

the cast of and willingness to new heuring in

cox-director of meet Moscow halfway, there Jozef Rozanski,

the Soviet the Judical Investigations sec- danger Union would return to thetion who was sentenced to five "Iron Curtain."

Was

conclusion drawn by ex- observers

Cars.

The

Yugoslav President is thought to sẹo himself and his country is a bridge between East ami West and it is re.

Rybicki said the new hearing Western perienced ported that ho

and more Intends to here was that Yugoslavia would stemmed from new inform Western Governments extend its economie corections incriminating evidence against of the results of his Moscow

Rozanelet and from protests by with the Soviet Union talks.

against hla *LOG large scale, the final extent do deputies Yugoslav Bources sald Pres- pending on whether she con- [endent" sentence. -Franco dent Tito would tell the West Unued to accept American aidh. Presse, he believed the changes in the 1-Reuter.

תי!

While Togliatti Says To Reds QUIT BEING CARBON COPY OF THE SOVIET UNION

Rome, June 17, Italy's Communist Party boss, Palmiro Togliatti, told world Communism today to quit making itself a carbon copy of the Soviet Union.

Italian political commentators WAK

Nazi's Body Dug Up From Grave

The Hague, June 17, The body of Anton Mussert, Holland'a Quisling who was shot in 1946, was up by unknown persons and removed from graveyard here last night,

a

The police said they believed an attempt was being made to muggle the remains out of Hol land. Warnings went out to all frontier posts today.

in a blazing Ike Visited By

carrying boy friend were killed today gun duel over her affections, the police said.

Police Captain Clarence Simpson said the husband, Ralph Schneller, dred a 12-gauko shotgun and a revolver at his 42-year-old rivni, Robert Miller, who blazed back with five chota from his own revolver.

Grandchildren

inta

гост

Doon

DYNAMIC ENERGY

#

the

Her dynamic energy is shown by the many execullye, jobs ahe пля

includo held. They Washington, June 17. directorship of Histadruth's air- Four young children burst mined Aviron Company chair-

President Eisenhower's

Reedmanship of the supervising board In the Walter

of the Jewish Workers Sick military hospital here this after- Fund,

They were President National

of Palestine Count the "Actions Elsenhower's grandchildren who Jewry as well as the Wero paying the President Committee (inner counell) their first visit since his opera the World Zionist Organisation, tion eight days ago.

Mrs

Meyerson, who is 58, was Miller, shot twice in the chest

Eisenhower's the first minister of the Stata of Major John by the shotgun and once in the children-David aged 8, Bar-Israel in Moscow, a position sho shoulder by the revolver, stap- bara 7,, Susan 4, and Mary Jean held from June 1948 until

the gered into

and

the February, 1949, street

aix-months, each brought

when she re- collapsed outside the three-President a vase of flowers, turned to Jerusalem to become storey building where Schnetter | which the eldest had arranged Minister of Labour and National and his wife occupied, separate themselves. apartments.

In the shooting spree, Schnetler's wife was hit in the arm by a revolver bullet.

BODY ON PORCH Schnetter was found dead on: the porch after police armed with teargas surrounded the building in the bellef that he was still alive. He was shot in the left eye and neck.

Friss Secretary James Fingerty said the President wan delighted with Els grand- children's 10-minute France-Presso,

visit,

the new Israeli

Insurance in Cabinet,Reyter.

Spies Sentenced

Jaffa, June 17 An Israeli military court here

to life imprisonment on charges of espionage.

Girl For Film Stars today sentenced two Egypilans

Captain Simpson, safe, ballis-

Santa Monica, June 17. Mussert founded the Dutch tic tests would be made to-

Film stars Tony Curlis and Nazi Party in 1931. During the morrow to determine whether Janet Lelgi today became Ho criticised the Russian Communist Party boss, war he was proclaimed "Leader Schneller was fatally wounded partnts of a baby girl their Nikita Krushchev, and said a few good words for the latestherlands people" by by Miller or if he idled himself. Best call.

The baby, unnamed as yet, Captain Simpson said Schnet- Josef Stalin.

ter's wife had planned to divorce weighed in at six lbs. Both him and marry Miller.

were doing He said mother and baby

fine. turned and shot her when she "Just what we wanted," said

Curtis.Reuter. ran after Miller was killet.

Simpson said Miller came to see Min Schnetter and found the

band's demand that ho bà al- lowed to visit their six children. -United Press.)

1. It wa EXCLUES to

по

Nazis.

Captured in 1943, Musaert was

"peaceful co-exlitengen

Signor Togliatti's attack on rentenced to be shot after a two- Impossible so lour an

two suid that Italy's Communist the present Russian leadership day trial in which he was found power blocs existed in the Party, largest outside the Iron consisted of the main points; qulity of trying to bring Holland world. world. Frealdeal Tio was Curtain, apparently mean to

reasonable under Nozl rule-Reuter reported to have

the chart its own ecurso

Independ-

olatim, 28 Mr urged

Krushchev theent of the Kremlin, to abandon

that. did,

the

pact-the

power of the Army and pollee prevented alber leaders from deposing Stalin when his faults became clear.

2. The present

Russians

WRERAW

a

The Soviet Union remains the Nato and to have told

"Arst

of the grent model บริ that mistrust would continue construction of Socialist 60 eo long As the Weat thought clety," Signor Togliatti sald, but

"the front of Socialist construc the Bast European CommuE IN→

countries were totally on has broadened." rubservient to Moscow.

The

1ct

Big Changes

Soviot model cannot and must not be obligatory any more. The International political structuro of the world Yugoslav sources, ben

Communist movement } loved that big changes were in changing today," he declared, "The whole complex of the progress in the El Europina

The

3 MAIN POINTS

Leaders led the

Busines

campaign

•

Pho

claimed that Schnetter

NAGAS STRIKE couple arguing over the hus-

AGAIN

Shillong, Assam, June 17. Hostile Naga tribesmen arrned leaders with automatic

which boosted Stalin an deml-rod.

3. The

Krenillia

*

weapons

kept Conusunist Parties eat swooped on Kohlms Own in the Mintoff In London

J

alde Russia completely in the Naga hills of northeast India on anch kliled-six dark about the true state of Wednesday aflairs in Rumia,

civilians in a surprise attack, errors", Signor Togliatti point-reaching here tonight recognising Stalin's according to

delayed reports

White

London, Juno 17. Mr. Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta, arrived here [by all from Geneva tonight for tallow with, the British govern ment on the integration of with Malta with the United King-

dom.

ed out that he accomplished The Nagne ares said to have many "good thing"" which were carried out looting before dis- being ignored by his directors, appearing into the hills

arms and other Booly, ... NEEDS EXPLAINING

Tho reported attack came

Here, then, lies the real Im

portance of inst week's Festival to the Colony, Future Festivals will in countries and Marshal Tito was Socialist system is becoming dicate how far Hongkong said to have stressed the need polycentric producers have been prefor

more independence for pared

short them. comings and put new ideaa The Tugoslave believe that Signor Togliatti nized his into effect. Perhaps raore control of local affairs by the views, in question-and- than one week of dlacussion Kremlin may shortly be answer article published by the He said it was all very well only two days after the Nagar It understood that Mr is needed for any real replaced by a looser form of Party organ L'Unliesport for the Kremlin leaders to crill had ambushed a motor convoy Minkoff will also discrims finan boneft to be felt and it is monomic, military at political wawelcome the fact that cire Stalin, But be said what hear Kohima, killing three cial aid for the island with to bo hoped use will co-ordination with a large degree among the Communitat Parties

needed was their explana-prople and injuring, several government ministers.Reuter. the which are in power, mutonomy for be made of regional

́a dosire not tion based on-Marxist ‘criteria former 'antellites," the

Bources bo fall into the error of Stalin of how; such, erroks: "pok mixed- oporation in the future.

le developing the demand, 1 up with the

of of will be up to Important subject the Federation of Motion President Tito's discussions, was method and our own

devise our Sociállat: #Dele

way of The question of the respon- Queen Flies Home Picture Producers, of Anla entities it to take full add to have bom the guaranteeing ours you against afbility of the autre : dircoling quowel of Yugoslav relations the dongurs of Magnation and group murt be considered,, ho vantage of the", technical with, the East Earopenas Kruciorucendations, in order, to sakli (""This Includes: those ability of lis more experi- countrios, * particuliriy Hungary | mosolye the problems of liberty comrades who, foday have keri ale for: Lordon after k-tun-day ChISKER enced neighbour, Industries, and Albariz

for the working, maawen, folded. (Conti, où Dior

of local

Hongkong's membership: in

i

4

V-Blockholm, June 17,

Visit to Bw

Tokyo Earth Trembr

Tokyo, June 18, VA sicht darthquakes, rocked alty buildings in Tokyo, todar. but no

Both plentdeck qulity and admitted they had twice crossed

into Israel on an espionage: mission for the Egyptian army.

The sentenced men, Abtul Aziz, el Brim, 24, and Soutelman came from Abou Sawers, 21, the Egyptian-held Gaza sirip,

bordering Israel,--Reuter,

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