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OAL, electricity, transport,
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gas, wages for workers, wages for MPs, wages tor public servants, now sumps and phone calls: up, up and up they go. The Chancellor
the Exchequer, Mr Peter Thorneycroft feets there is nu economie erisis in Bri- fain but he may agree that unless action on n nationale xcale is taken Hoon
'the country will be faced with
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FRIDAY, JULY 19,...1957.
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RELAX IN
DAKS
THE FAMOUS CUMFURT IN ACTTON TROUIERE
Whiteaways
HONG KIKU
XY LOON
ATTEMPTED COUP AGAINST NASSER
Army Officers And
Former Cabinet Ministers Involved.
Cairo, July 18.
a crisis of sanie mugaitu PRESIDENT Nasser announced tonight that he had foiled an attempt by army officers and civilians, including two widely former Cabinet Ministers, to overthrow his regime.
The difficulty is trying
shape the most
acceptable policy, Britain's
reniest problem is that in-i
dividual self-interest over said. shadows every ather con sideration. The Cabinet is up. hobbled by members who think more of an election
two years hener than treats ing the inflationary infec- tion now; the unions retuse a wage treeze uniess prices and profits are frozen too; and big business instead of earrying higher custa passes them on to the consumer
The attempt was made in April, the announcement A military court of seven officers had now been set
The conspirators included Dr Mohamad Salah El Din, former Foreign Minister, and Abdel Fattah Hassan, former Minister of the Interior, the an- nouncement said.
Other members of the plo: ¡ November. Ile surrendered the were roven former senior ofeers Gaza strip to Israeli forces and and two junior officers and five was taken prisoner.
Dr Mohamed Salah El Din. 4 Wafdist, was Minister Forcin Affairs from Decembe: 1950 to January 1952.
for the Muke of good civilians, looking balance sheet. THERE is talk in London
union
now of the establishment of an independent body to advise on incomes, prices and profits, Even before its formation. traile leaders
are ant to be suspicious of 1, beleving i that it
my me the functions of a wages cour und try to put the brake on claims. The Government has disowned these suggestions and it will probably present the nation with clearer picture of its plan and re- actions to it in the econo- mic debate next Thursday. Today's announcement of in- ereased stamp and phone charges, however, is likely to intensify the outery that Britain's state-run indus- tries are largely to blame for the nation's current in- flationary problem, Apart nationalised indus-
from
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tries like coal, electricity and transport which have
A military rou! at even senior officers under the chuir raanship of Brigadier Moliamod Fouad Digwi had been formed, the announcement said,
Colonel Nassir was one of the all increased prices late leaders of the coup d'etal, hend ly. 600,000 public servantsed by General Negulb, which received JHLY increases usted King Farouk in 1052. A which will cost the Governmilitary junta
then
Egypt's ruling body,
02
In April 1954 he was reported
to be among those deprived of political rights for 10 years by order of the Revolutionary Com- mand and the Cabinet, This wast the lost heard of him in public quarters.Reuter,
HK Yacht
In Channel
Race
Cowes, July 18.
A yacht entered from the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, Orionis Two, owned by A. G. Dalziel, and sailed
by A. J. Stephen, was
Bad-Luck Raymond US-China Coverage
Portsmouth, NH, July 18.
Raymond Littlefeld, the driver of a garbage truck, is the mezi unpopular man in Portsmouth since his run of bad luck started today.
First, he struck a little girl while driving his truck. He took her to hospital at once with a slight fracture of the skull.
When he went to the police station to report the accident, his garbage truck caught fire. When he grabbed a fire-extinguisher ftum the police garage, he was so excited that he sprayed weld all over the sheriff's car instead of the burning vehtele,
Then he called the firemer. While they were fighting the flames, an old lady caught her foot in the fire hose, fell down and broke her leg.
Now no one wants to go near Raymond, his bad luck is catching, they say.-France-Presse,
Students Told How To Go About It
among the 60 starters to Menzies Very BLACKWOOD
day in the 180 miles cross Channel race from Cowes
to Dinard (France), became Ortenis is competing in the class for yachts of 32 feet to 70 Early in 1954 Colonel Nasserfect rating for the King Edward took over as Prime Minister and II Challenge Cup.
this class.
Fifteen of the starters were in
Whitehall. Naguib.
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of the Revolution
ESCAPED DEATH`
A French
naval vessel
19
cscorting the yachts, which left in fine weather and a moderate
In October that year Colonello fresh southwesterly wind.
Reuler.
death when
fred al
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ment around £20 million a your. HUS, as one commentator | President
has said, there is no wage Command Council from General restraint in There is uf course reason why the British Government should make an exception of its own in- dustries by denying its em- Nasser escaped ployees opportunities allowed young (insmith other sections of Industry, during a rally in Alexandria. There is also no guarantee that 11 decision by the Government
"10 set example" would induce others to apply restraint. But one thing is certain: and that is if inflation is to be stopped, unpopular action is absolutely necessary, and while the unions may be blamed for their myopic reluctance to comply with wago freezes the most re- ceptable action will be that
an
which aims to deal with if possible, every facet of the problem. In other words the kind of action needed is that which will produce not sectional grumbles but n national grumble.
to
TIL the wake of the trials which followed, General Negulb was relieved of all ofe
official posts because of allegations that ho was connected with a plot by the Moslem Brotherhood overthrow the Nasser regime.
Brigadier Abdel Fatlah Hassan was formerly Egyptian Under-Secretary of Stale for Sudan Affairs and C-in-C of the Egyptian armed forces in the Sudan.
He was sald last November
to Dr
Mahmoud Fawzl
to be the prospective successor Egypt's United Nations delegate, In July last year he signed a joint commercial protocol the establishment of a Soviet trade centre in Cairo.
HOUSE ARREST
011
Mx Thorneycroft mado the
point last week that there He held the posts of Minister
uno
Cir
Minister of Social Affairs under the Interior (acting) and
of
King. Farouk,
was little point in blaming
another. Full operation was needed, he
He was arrested in March, snid. These are not empty 1952, and placed under house cliches. They constitute an arrest, for about a month after appeal for sacrifices on a being accused of trying to stir national scale. And unless up communities against one an- create disorder the country as a whole soller and lo prepared to pull its weight and forgo self-interest
and sedition.
Digwi, now เก Brigadier charge of the military court, there cannot be an end to was Military Governor of Gaza
the present dilemma.
In
when the Israelis attacked last
Saturday's Mail
Jill Doggett, who has just rejoined the Bouth China Morning
Don Juan
Claim
Satisfactory
Loudon R. G.
July 18. The ecndition Menzies,. Australian Prline Minister, who underwent an operation for tonsollitis today, was stated tonight to be "very satisfactory."
The Prenler, who is 82, hopes to be back in Australla carly next month after a week In hospital and a few convalescence-Reuter,
day's'
Maintains To Throne
REFUSES TO ABDICATE
Lausanne, July 18.
Don Juan, Count of Barcelona and pretender
to the throne of Spain, said here today that he would never give up his claim în favour of his 19- year-old son, D^n Juan Carlos,
The Count was speaking to a Reuter reporter in the garden of a lakeside villa owned by his mother, ex-Queen Victoria Eugenia, widow of the late King Alfonso XIII of Spain,
Post Lid, tells a Hongkong Story in tomorrow's China Matt.
THE PRETENDER "Sophie Eddle
and the Quest for the Perfect Girl." Apart from the usual features there will also be the tourist's "When the monarchy is restor- road to Moscow, . Pat Smyllje takes her car, and a handsome ed, the succession will naturally Russian Interpreter, on a motering holiday, in the Soviet Union, be mine," the Count saldi,
That Russian Row. Fleet Street writers tell you the news behind the new-"What is Khrushchev up to? And is he all that happy about Big Brother Mao?” by Sefton Delmer and Chapman Pincher,
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And how does President Eisenhower's flagging importance affect the alluation? by Roas Mark,
Sce a Hongkong picture. graph in the World.
The Most Successful Photo-
"There will never be. any
question of my stepping puide or abdicating later in favour of my son."
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Army. Training
drawal from power of General Franco, the head of fate.) The Count sald his six-100t tall son, who has just finished two years of training In the Spanish Army, would begin one year in the Navy on August 17. Later he would spend a year in the Air Force,
"I have a bag packed to feave for Madrid at any time," he zald.
The Count gave the interview on the day marking the 21st anniversary of the Falangist revolt against the Spanish Re- publican government,
In Madrid photographs of Franco WEI displayed pro- minently in Spanish papers as the country commemorated the beginning of the 1938-39 civil war which brought Franco to: power-Reuter & France-Presse.
FAMILY
LEAVING
Mr Donald Jackson Black- wood, the American who returned
Hvazkung to from Maceo with his Korean wife and infaut child on July 12 after S two-month trip to Cam- munist Chins "out of curiosity," + leaving Hongkong by sir with his familly elther this afternoon, or tomorrow morning,
An
American Consulate oMelai said this morning that Mr Binckwood, who had been issued with an ordinary passport for travel before his trip to China, has now been given = "restricted on- way passport" back to the United States. The visa for his Korean wife was granted “within the week" after aho had successfully passed ` her. medical examination. The official added that ho understood that Mr ́and Mrs Blackwood and their son would be leaving Hongkong for the United ̧ States tomorrow. However, the China Mail this learned
morning that the Blackwood family had booked witha Pari American two days ago. The flight on which they were booked is ex- pected to leave about 5 pnt today.
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Up to noon, the China Majl learned that the Black- wood family had not called to take up their reservations and that Mr Blackwood had tried to book air passages on - a plane leaving tomorrow morning.
'ROCK' RIOT IN POLAND
Warsaw, July 18, Millamen had to fire into the air last night to disperse riotous rook 'n' roji faus who flooded Into the Baltic Ses beach resort of Zoppot where American singer Bli Rasmey and a West German Jazz band were performing.
Spirits ran wilà, in the cyan- |· They marches into the streets, (The Spanish Parliament ing and youngsters demolitiod a dancing all the time, unill D was told on Monday that the
crowd of nearly 2,000 had mass- ed in the centre of the seaside Monarchy would be restored restaurant
town, Unlied Prtes,
called "Zegna m spain on the deaths or with. Emmutku” - (farewell, rocrow); ****
DULLES OFFERS
NEWSMEN TRIAL PERIOD
Washington, July 18. SECRETARY of State John Foster Dulles offered today to let a limited number of American newsmen go to China for a six-month trial period.
At the Hongkong University this morning studenta taking part in the Housing Survey were lectured on the project and told by. Mr Lam Hol-cheung something of the ari of interviewing. Thomas Yan was another speaker. China Mall Photo,
Has Anyone Got An Electronic Brain To
To Spare?
W
‚ANTED—one electronic brain to digest and analyse the findings of the Hongkong University Housing and Resettle ment Area Surveys which have been arranged simultaneously to take place next week.
If no one can contribute an electric brain or even a simple electric computer, a very welcome answer to im- medinte problems would be another Chair or Lecturer- ship in Statistics.
Mr E. F. Szczepanik, Lecturor in Economics, voiced this appeal yesterday during
con-
ference following the final brief- ing conference held at the University yesterday.
THEIR BENEFIT:
Emphasising that householders about to be Interviewed withla the next two weeks, should be assured that the survey. Was primarily for their beneat, Mr Szczepanik sald that informa- tion about the scheme would be broadcast by Radio Hongkong and Rediffusion on Monday to advertise the work and seek the fullest co-operation.
Students have flung them- selves whole-hitartedly into the glant
tack-a pre-lest
has. already been completed-and many have cancelled planned holidays and visits to familles abroad, he said.?
One Indonesian student has given up the opportunity of visiting ble parents in Banding. Chief Assistant Thomas YAD a DA. graduate in Economies and Statlylies last year is Mr Szczepanik's stalwart Heutenent on the administrative side of the scheme, and he gava an address to students who had just received their schedules and querlionnaires with special at the Chemistry Hall, identity cards upon their arrival
Mr Szczepanik had previously Introduced to the gathering Mr Lam Hel-chbung, of the (Contd, en beok page, Vol. 8)
But five representatives of the news Industry told Dulles he hould completely remova the present ban on travel of Ameri- can correspondents to the Com- munist mainland.
Dulles and the news represen tatives were unable to agree on how many reporters would weat to go to Communist China if the State Department ban was lifted, The Department will now under. take a study to determine this. Automatic Check. Assistance Secretary of Sta'e Andrews H. Berding, who also attended the meeting, said Dulles "indicated he was will- Ing to accept a limited number (of reporters) for a six-month period
Being said there was dig- cussion of what would be con- sidered a "mited number" but he could not go into that.
But William Dwight, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and one of the conferees, sald "We just don't believe you can limit num- bers or limit nows facilities."
He sald Dulles feels that he cannot have "overybody troop- - ing.over there."
"We don't think they will. We think economies will be an automatic "cheek," Dwight add- - ed.-United Press.
Mysterious Meeting Of Reds
London, July 18. Communist leaders from Russia and three of the Soviet satellites held a mysterious meeting in a vilia near Moscow today, Moscow radio reported.
The broadcast, heard here, did not say what transpired at what Ranking Communista from
it
called a "comradely meeting." Albania, Bulgarin and Yugoslavia took part.
Radio Moscow did not identify
the Russians who presumably
affended and organised the con- ference-United Pres
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