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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

The Budget

THE Paancial Secretary

THE

has again budgetted for defiell $64,4 million), but this time without dis- playing the slightest algo uf apprehension. In fact conteniment and confidence pervaded the whole of Mr Arthur Clarke's presenta- tion of the 1957-B Estimates, and the com. munity IN suitably 20- presned,

It is doubtful if in any other British colony the Treasury could contemplate a recoril- setting expenditure in alle year of $668.9 million, and

the prospect of a substan- had deficit, without having to seek naditional revenue

through taxation. Yet Hongkong financial posi-¦ tion is such that it can RASURIY huge spending commitments. including

$150 milliost fur non- recurrent public Works) without making may extra taxation demands on the general public. It is position which gives cause for quiet satisfaction,

The reason for the Financad

Secretary's

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1957.

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RELAX IN

INDAKS

THE FANINS IN ACTION TRENDERS

Whiteaways

NEW PIPELINE PROJECT. THROUGH TURKEY-

London, Feb. 27. British Government spokesman said today the Iraq Petróleum Company and "Interest- ed governments" have discussed the possibi- lity of running an oil pipeline from Iraq through Turkey to the Mediterranean.

Mr R. A. Butler, Home Secretary and House of Commons majority. leader, spoke of the Turkey-pipeline propo- Hal Jo answer to П question in Parliament. Conservative Member Gresham Cooke asked that the government prepare plans "as

a

He

matter of urgency” for the laying of such a pipeline to relieve pres. sure of transport in the Suez Canal,

also sald Britain should ask the permis sion of the countries concerned for such n project.

Mr Butler, in his written

reply, said:

The planning, finance und execution of oil pipeline projects such ns that referred to are n matter for the com- mercial interests con- cerned, who invariably consult with the Gov. ernments of the coun- tries through

which

the pipelines must pass, "Discussions have, in fact, taken place re- cently between the Iraq Petroleum Com- pany and interested governments about the possibility of a pipeline from the oilfields of northern Iraq through Turkish territory to

the Mediterranean sea- board and arrangements have been made for Her Majesty's Government to be kept informed as to their progress.” The Iraq Petroleum is an international company including British, U.S. and French interesta........ United Press.

ARMY MAY BE CUT BY HALF

PLAN

FOR THE FUTURE

TARGET- 1959

From HUCH POND

London, Feb. 28.

Defence chiefs shaping the British army

conteniment of the future are working on the basis that

was the revised estimates for the current fiscal year which promiso 14

surplus of at least

million Instend "T

$10

1471

en.

anticipated deficit of $43) million. And vastly couraging is the fact that most of the turnover is dur to increased revente which exceeds original expecta tions by nearly $40 million. Provision for an additional) $6 million in totul revenue for the coming year appears to represent extremely con. servative estimating.

PRIDE

t will be 175,000 strong.

That is loss than half the present size.

ARABS SAY:

'NOW WE'RE

NEUTRAL'

Cairo, Feb. 27.

can be taken in the The leaders of Egypt,

Arabia, Syria Colony's sound Snancial: Saudi condition; and also satis. Jordan proclaimed

there

It Is. In fact, roughly the

| size of today's regular army.

Which means that national servies could be abolished. The target for all this is the end of 1958.

Today

the army Is usin 373,000 mil wasteful, com- plex organisation scattered aft over the world.

Specialists

Tomorrow's atomie army will consist of well-pold specialists

contracts, and on long-term

with overseas garrisons headly cut, their and

a big skatepic reberve

trouble spots,

and

will

That is the plan.

Mr

Duncan Sandys, knows what he

Tie Defence 1310

Minister,

wants and doesn't mind riding

Last

faction because it means "positive neutrality" in stationed in Britain to y that Government can con world affairs tonight fidently go ahead with the said the Arab nations many urgent projects need- defend themselves without ed by the community. In foreign pacts. the circumstances will be no evilling with nation "summit" conference here

A communique ending a four- | loughshod over the generals.

year the War Omed the officially declared policy commended Saudi Arabian King appointed a committee headed of getting on quickly with banks "highly appreciated by Lt-General Slr Richard the things that need doing, extorts“ in his Ŭ.S, talks with Hull to recommend a plan for a Procrastination is oul of President Eisenhower,

streamlined atomie army The committee tuno with conditions and

220,000 Suggested necessities.

The building and construction programme for 1957-58 is impressive, including 11 new primary schools. The most intriguing item however is

new

It added, however, that "the defence of the Arab world should emanate from the Amb nations in the light of its real security and outside the sphere of fureign pacts."

AND ISRAEL... The communique

was issued

men.

Another Slash

At present

Sinatra Tells How Dimaggio's U.S. WANTS

Men Raided Marilyn's Flat

Hollywood, Feb. 27.

Singer Frank Sinatra told a legislative committee today how a private detective and a cameraman attempted to raid the apartment of Marilyn Monroe one night to gather evidence for Joe Dimaggio's divorce from her.

Marilyn Monroe

Soviet

The reld flopped when the pair of investigators burst into the wrong apartment, thorough- ly frightening a neighbour of

Miss Monroe's.

The detalls of the baseball slar's marital differences with Misa Monroe and his attempt to got evidence that would ensure his divorce were disclosed be- fore a Senate Interim Committee which is probing possible links between private detectives and scandal magazines "Confidential,"

such

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HAD DINNER

Sinatra told of having dinner with Dimaggio one might at the Villa Capri in Hollywood when the baseball star got a telephone

Awitin-chine back to the table

and asked me to drive him some-

We where Afler

loft the

• restaurant, be "told the the

Subversion

Charge Defeated

general area," Sinotra sold.

The crooner drove Dimaggio to the address in his Cadillac.

Sinatra said when ho parkcod the car at a curb they were met by Q private detective, Barney Rudifsky, and '"'n man with a camera," They dis- appeared around the corner ant camo back between two and five minutes later."

THAT TRASH

was

It

during this time, apparently, that the "ralders' crashed into the door

of the wrong apartment, next door to the one Miss Monroe was occupying.

Asked by chief committee investigator Lloyd Harris

Frank Sinatra

FRENCH

SEIZE REBEL CHIEF

The general thought this was the minimum with which they the provision for testing the at the end of a three-day con-

could manage.

Paris, Feb. 27. practicability of building ference of Saud, Egyptian Presl- Mr Sandys has thought other- New York, Feb. 27. whether he had read of the in- The top-ranking Algerian a new reservoir at Lantas dent Nasser, King Hussein of wise and hus ordered a further A Soviet resolution al-cident 篩選 revealed in the rebel leader in France, designed eventually to give, Judan and President Shukri el slush of 45,000.

leging that the United September Issue of "Confiden- Louanchi Salah, was arrest. the island of Hongkong a Kuwally,

tal," Sinatra declared: the army has States was guilty of sub-

French counter- for Arab

ed by water supply.

"I'll put it to you this way. I The

leaders also 80,000 regular soldiers on lag-versive activities in Eastern don't have enough time to read intelligence Thu

today in a Colony is asked in view with

announced they would work for term engagements and 90,000 "an immediate and uncondi-

that type of trash." men who have signed for three European countries was re- equanimity the spending of tional withdrawal of Israel be-years.

sweeping raid, which was $215 million before it ean and the armistice lines."

jected tonight by the United

Launched simultaneously in VERY FUNNY be deckled whether it is!

yester- So if the present recruiting Nations General Assembly

Paris and Algiers The communique as quoted by rate can be increased slightly special political committee. feasible to proceed with the Cairo radio, said the leaders had he all-regular target

Sinatra said when the pair of day. can be The

to voting was eight in investigators returned scheme, and then a further made six decisions:

the Salah, alins "Monsieur Jean", $15 million before the work

To work for an immediate and reached.

favour to 53 against with eleven car they said "we went through was described by the French unrundiilanal withdrawal of

Orders have siready been abstentions.

the wrong door. I thought It polico as the kingpin of the proper cia begin. Public, Israel behind the armistice linex, sent to commanders-In-chlef all Those in favour were: Poland, was very funny."

Algerian national liberation reaction will probably con- To uphold in full the rights over the world: economies must Rumania, Ukraine, Soviet Sinatra got a Joud, laugh | Front in France. The police form to Government's hopes, the Araba sovereignty aver their sturt this year. London Ex-Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Byelo- from the audience when he was were holding Salah at head- Tai Lam Chung it is known territories and their territorial press Service.

cussia, Czechoslovakia.

asked if he had ever mot quarters of the territorial secu- cannot solve our water

Japan, Laos, the Philippines, Marilyn Monroe. "Delightedly, rity division where he was to Britain and the United States yes," he replied.-United Press, be questioned, were among those voling against

fore

An

waters;

of the Palestine Arabs and

The necessity on in part of supply problem, and there pensate Egypt for ail damages and the aggresive states to com- additional source lowes caused through their aggre- remains an imperative sen; requirement. The hope is To reject all atteinpls made that the expensive fests and Egypt's sovereignty and rights over preparative work in con- an integral part of Egypt. her nection with the scheme will sovereignty

absolute; prove successful.

ONE

proposition

which

with the view to reducing

today The Suez Canal as the Suez Canal

ever

the слях

UN GRANT

United Nations, Feb. 27. The United Nations Assembly adopted by 52 votes to eight, with three abstentions a To condemn British aggre resolution giving the Secretary- remen and to assume an iitude of budget ef $16,500,000* this aggression;

Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, Egypt, Finlund, India, Indo- nesia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Yugoslavia, all abstained. FRANCE TOO

Completion of debate on

the

ESCAPED Through

General. Mr Dag Hammarskjold Soviet items brought the special Front Door

★Fights

To support absolutely the force in Egypt until December

Press and flouter.

France-Presso.

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sion against the territories of

and to political committee to the should meet with general early with Yemen in stemming finance the UN. International of it agendin

and wound up approval is that of preparing

Cuhors, France, Feb. 27. Its work for the year. two budgets-one for capital Algeria to freedom and indepen

nc the Arabs of 31.

Before the vote wit tiken, A prisoner escaped from expenditure and the other dence and their courageous siruzzle The Soviet bloc countries

the Cahors gaol today--by the front for recurrent expenditure. At the imperiallit force.United voled against the resolution. Mr Vasily Kuznetsov, of

Soviet

the door. Union, accused French delegate of "irrespon- Ramon Monsegur, described

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malefactor", a "dangerous ible propaganda."

The whole world, the Spvlet pulled his iron bed to pieces. delegate continued, knew how He heated part of it over a France

Аго

of coal mado

he had rttempting to #Utrotile" the Algerian libera-smuggled into his cell, cut tion movement-Reuter.

through the bottom of his cell door, and

climbed into the cor- ridor.

When the night guard mad> his rounds, Ramon hit hint over the head with a chair. With the guardo keys, Ramon strolled out through the main door of

It would present a truer state of affairs than under the existing system whereby all types of revenue fro bundled together on one kide of the ledger and all forms of expenditure on the other. The introduction of n Capital Budget would un- doubtedly make the annual Estimates more readily understandable. Criticism of the Estimates in virtually ruled out by the realitics of the Colony's financial 'condition; Further- more, while in other cir- cumstances the big increases) in Government establish- ment would be regarded as the alarming,

argument that personnel must keep pace with growing social. services has to be accepted. The budget as, a whole is most praiseworthy.

SHOT 2 ELEPHANTS WITH BOW, ARROWS

?..

So He Wins $10,000 Bet

San Antonio, Feb. 27.

Mr William Negley, a San Antonio oli magnate, cablei his wife today saying he had killed two elephants with bow and arrow.to

win $10,000 bet, Mrs Negley Informed

Mr

A. N. Gassman, an archers dealer, that she had reetiv- of a cable from her huse band in the Belgian Congo saying: "Killed · two cle- phants according to wager," Mr Negley, 42, had made

on $1,000 to $10,000 that he could kill an elephant with bow and arrow.

Mr Negley left on Els expedi

tion on Feb. 9 with a 5- foot 4-inch hard · rock"-2- layered maple ventre, bow.

d

I has a 10%-pound pull and shoots 23-inch, arrows of compressed cedar imprez- nated with plastio pointed

with farid- ṛharpened A

honda---China Mail' Special.

bet with one of his frienda

י

was

PLANE IN DISTRESS

1

---Milwaukee, Feb. -21..

A Capital Airlines Constellatho prison and vanished. The tion with 21 prepte on' board police are still looking for idim, reported belog "in distress" tp-France-Press, day soon after taking off from the airport here.

Captain, Richard

Pease, the pilot, reported that the nose whee) of tile' cirliner kad jam- med and he was unable elther to retract it or extend it fully tof The four-engined air- craft had petrol for nine hours fying.

The vast dragnet operation, which topped off a three-month investigation, also regulica in the arrest of 12 others nine of whom were charged with threa- tening France's external secu- rity.

Those arrested, most of them Moslems, included an assistant Liberation Front chief for

France, 25-year-old Hamed Taleb, and a

a key Front mem ber. 31-year-old Mohamed Lebiaoul, who had been sent from Algeria to reorganise the movement in France,

Both were currying "foreign" passports made out to alfase, the police sald. They said Taleb was the son of Sheik Brahimi

Look Bachiri, who refuge in Cairo and then re portedly fled to Pakistan`after a dispute with Egypt's President Nasser-France-Presse.

i

Desperate Battle

Algiers, Feb. 27.

arifllery, un

French planes,

DUMPING BILL Infantry, have smashed glans

The House

London, Feb. 27,

of Commons to night finally passed a bill nu- thorising the British Goven The plane was bound for mant to impore customs duties Detroit when. It took off on goods "dumped" in Britain, Router.

There was no vote-Reuter,

on

BRITISH

A-SECRETS

Washington, Feb. 27, The vice-chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee Atomio Energy, Senator Clinton Anderson, sald

the Brillah were ahead of the United States In producing electric power from atomle energy.

He referred to the British Calder Hall power project.

He said the United States was now interested in developing the same type of power reactor.

"Will the British give us full and

complete Information--all the details on their Calder Hall Factors?" he asked. "I hope so," he added.

ISRAEL

LEAVING

EGYPT?

Washington, Feb. 27. Diplomatic sources said tonight that Israel had ap parently agreed to with- draw its forces from Egypt-' ian territory.

Their statements came after 1bo Israeli Ambassador, Mr Abba Eban, had said tonight that the hope of an early solution to the U.S. plan for a withdrawal "is now""mutch sironger,"

Emergency Meeting

Jerusalem, Feb. 27.

The Hubli Prime Minis- ter, Mr David Ben' Gurion, staned an ezkergency Cabinet stasion- tonight,

The meeting Isafed six hours. It was mainly de- voled to the future of the Gaza arca-United PTZKA,

American officials also said they had received "Indications" earlier that the Israeli govern- ment might be changing ita previous stand against troop withdrawal,

But they withheld any formal confirmation of the reported agreement.

Diplomatic sources said they expected an announcement to be made "this weekend" that Israeli troops would be with-

Ho sold the US. Atomic drawn from Egypt. Energy Commission has agreed

to give the British alt informa- They said the announcement

tion on the design and operation to pull the troops out of the of the atomic

powered sub- Gaza strip and Gulf of Aqaba marine,

Nautiles, and other count would be made at the military reactors.

United Nations in New York.)

He noted that a group of Japanese scientists and

M

2 BDr. Eban lasued his statement ginects recently recommended tonight in reply to inquiries that their country Introduce a about reports fint Immel had British-type power reactoroffelally agreed to the US rather than the type developed proposed compromise plan for by the United States United settling the Israeli troop with-

drawal, Jasue-United Press.

Press.

HYDRALOCK'S FATE

is

The 980-ton British freighter, Hydralock, believed to have sunk but no definite confirmation is available, a spokesman for the owners, Wheelock Marden and Co. Ltd., said this morning.

The spokesman said the only cable the company had received sald that the crew were safe.

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people are

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rebel band in southern Algeria, -killing-72 / me for in, a butikė

which is continuing, ou revealed today,

Thower-reate clash took today and see how well they sult you place in the rugged, barren mountains in the Altou, arba, about 200-milem:_south-west of Algiers-United Press.