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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

PART ANSWER

Telongkung Electric WIE stutoment issued by

Co Ltd (pablished yester day) goes part of the way to answering public criticism of the surcharge and the recent three cent reduction. It was sur- prising to learn the attitude of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and

per

the Chinese

Manufacturers' Union to tho

CHINA

No. 36803

Established' 1845

THE WEATHER: Moderale or with scattered showera,

fresh 8.W. winds. Fair

MAIL

THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1957.

Price 20 Cents

RELAX IN

DAKS Whiteaways

THE FAMOUS CONFORT IN ACTION TEQUERAH

CHANGKONG

MAO INSISTS ON FREE CRITICISM

Special Meeting 400 FEET OVER THE TOWN

Of Political

Bureau Called

Peking, July 24.

company's proposal to allow CHINESE Communist President Mao

a leading Arm of chartered accountants to investigate the surcharge account.

It may be argued that an Laitor's report on a single account is not a penetra time an inquiry as kome consider necessary but how far is the non-shareholding public entitled to probe into the affairs of a public com pany without Interfering in Rs right of Independent operation and control? INTOLERABLE

the case of a monopoly I lexuards against aver

Tse-tung called a special meeting of the Political Bureau and Standing Committee of the Communist Party Central Committee to discuss questions raised by the recent removal of four top Soviet leaders, it was learned in Peking tonight.

The meeting, which lasted 48 hours, was held

in Tsingtao, near where Mao is vacationing, and ended today. The meeting also discussed the situation inside China after the recent campaign against "rightist deviationists"

are fair demand but Well-informed sources sald Mao told the meeting of results clearly It would be intoler-{ of his recent visit to Shanghai, where he said he found intellee- :ble if every recklesstuel and non-Communist "progressive" circles extremely reserved. suspicion were to band "sometimes even hosille" to the campaign in China against publicly investigated. The minority who criticised the Communist regime during the

"rectification campaign." company's decisions may

The sources paid that Mao insisted on the necessity of prevent- certainly be questioned and ing "deviationism" in China and stressed the necessity of con- the public deserves a fulltinuing the "reetfication" movement he launched list April. reply.

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So far one company has gone part of the way to answer- ing public, criticism. The not bothered, What the public is ask- ing for in not planation so much opportunity to make up its own mind on the

recent decisions. Could not actual changes in fuel prices be given instead of the per- centage increases and de- creasca?

CHARITABLE

TO

specific mention is made of the Hongkong Electric Company's inten- tions to decrease the suT- charge as fuel prices full. It is implied that the sur charge is geared to fuel costs and adjustments are made accordingly and the charitable assumption IN that the company will re-

The movement, aimed at permiiting free criticism to improve the work of the party and government, was brought to a halt during the campaign against "rightlats,"

Although the decisions taken at the meeting were not yet known, I was belleved that Mao threw all his weight into the balance in order to re-establish situation which was partially tompromised by a minority of fanatles in the Communist Party. This minority, it was stated here, lacked political sense and thought the monent had arrived to prove the ascendancy of the "lert fiction over the moderate elements within the party- France-Presse.

Russian Minister

Relieved Of Position

Moscow, July 24. Mr Mikhail Pervukhin has been relieved of time but touriste his post of Minister of the Medium Engineering specifically Industry and appointed Chairman of the State stated to allay public con

have

cern?

could

been

The company does well to

illustrate the,

cost

The Duo-Bress artists

of the Sarrasani Circus

recently gave an out- standing exhibition of

acrobatics 400 feet over

Berlin. Thousands of spectator's stopped watch the team perform.

Hero lo the female pari-

10

ner hanging by her neck from the Berlin Funk-

turm-Keystone Photo.

HILTON HOTEL

FOR MOSCOW!

By JOHN MORKAZ

New York, July 24. The Soviet Union and Polish interests have approached Hilton Hotels International Inc. about the possibility of setting up an American-managed hotel in Moscow and Warsaw, it was learned here today.

Committee for Foreign Economic Relations, Tass made on two different oc- the bread terms under which fi said today.

of Mr Pervikhin was demoted mitice for Foreign Economie electricity For domestie to a candidate member of the Relations under the Council of consumers today compared Supreme Soviet en July 3. Ministers," with prewar years. Indeed Tas said the change was nd a full explanation of decided by the Supreme Soviet. this kind been given publicly

in the first place the sur charge outery may never have developed. It is a barl habit of many Hongkong firms that big decisions affecting the public uro announced without adequate explanation and they have only themselves to blamo if misunderstandings and 11- informed criticism develop. FLIMSY ANOTHER interesting dis-

closure is that the inci- dence of the cost of electri- city in the basic mana- facturing cost of spinning, weaving, plastics and rubber shoes is between 1.5 per cent and 3.6 per cent and

MIKHAIL PERVUKHIN

The announcement said: "The

that the increased electricity Presidium of the Supreme charge in the cost of the Soviet has decreed the completed articles is less i reorganisation of the Central for Exonerie than 5 per cent. The argu- Adminiloticu ment

Colony's Relations with the peoples' export industries would be democracies into the Stats Com

that the

hurt by the increased sur-

charge WAR, of course, flimsy. Industry generally has had a fair deal from the Colony's power com" panies.

TARTAN

TROUBLE

Finally the Hongkong Electric Company statement takes

London, July 24. pride in its own achieve-

Mr John Hare, the War ments and developments In the postwar period. Trus Minister, told a press con- the Colony's electric light ference tonight one of the and power service is good, problems to be sorted out but Hongkong would have in the amalgamation of fair cause for complaint if regiments was that of it were otherwise.

dress. Public enterprise undertaking "One of the most dificult & community service should marriages i see is that between realiss It has a. two-fold a Scottish regiment which wears duty to the community as the kit, and a regiment which well as shareholders. wears trews (tartan troutes)," And if it falls in its duty he cald..

to the community it forfelts its privilege to continue this service. That principle is surely unquestionable:

Such problems were being to the regiments themselver,

but if they could not agree thori the War Onke, would have to Embora aolution-Reuter,

a

The Soviet Inquiries have, Ined briefly to the Russsians

casions over the

slx might consider operating past

hotel in Moscow. months. Gnancier and a director of the Robert Dowling, New York

Illiton Hotel chain, recently

A Hilton official said that the Inquiry about a possible hotel

on behalf of the Polish where discussed the project one

Goverrunent. Hc described with Russian officials,

the Russian

them only were He said

na "Polish interests" the Atomic Energy Board, anxious to

attract American with "Pollsh contres."Unfted Tars said,

visitors and realise they must Press.

Mr Perviklin bas been returned from trip to Moscow In Warsaw was not an officiat

succeeded by Mir Yefim Slavsky wha has been re- lieved of his post of head of

(The post of Minister Medium Engineering has pre- vlously been, considered in the West to cover the duties of the Soviet atomic energy board).

Mr Pervukhin lost his joo as a First Deputy Premier during the July shakeup, but retained his ministerial offer.

He had been a full member of the Presidium before he was demoted to candidate or alter- native member.--Reuter.

have modern hotels to accom- modate any influx of tourists,

A Hulen hotel in Moscow, he added, however, was still # long, leng shot and not an active thing at present."

Royal Tour

London, July 24. Could Change

The Queen and the Luko of Edinburgh Jett London by "However," he added, "it Royal train tonight to begin could change overnight."

their overnight land and sen Meanwhile the Hilton com- Journey to the Channel Islands pany disclosed that it had out-for a four-day tour-Reuter.

CAR OVERTURNS IN KOWLOON

At 'about 8:40 am, today this car, driven by J. A. McDonaki, of “Argyle Streət overturned in Chatliam Road near Gun Club Hill China Mkil Photo,

HK REFUGEE QUESTION

'LET UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

DISCUSS PROBLEM

Geneva, July 24.

KOWLOON

Dance Hostess Said: I Love You

Pakistani Tells Of Stabbing

A 32-year-old Pakistant on trial for unlawfully and maliciously wounding L

young dance hostess de- clared in the Criminal Ses- sions this morning that after he had stabbed the girl, she said “Salim, I love you."

Saduddin Salim, testifying pn ha became angry when the girl

THE British delegate to the United

Nations Economic and Social Coun- bis own behalf, said that cil, meeting here today, said that the question of Chinese refugees in Hong- kong could best be discussed at the next UN General Assembly.

A

SAMURAI SWORD SLAYING

London, July 24, POLE was acoused in

court hara today af having "horribly and Brutally murdered . 24. year-old art student with a Зарапово samurai sword and then of having mt- tempted to kill himenit.

The prosecution said that tho Pala, Winter Wiars, aged 84, attacked Shirley Allers in = West London lodging house, where they had lived. together "and, loft her in the corner "tarribly stabbed Injured, alashod, and hacked."

A

twisted three-foot- tong samurai sword, blood tained and bent; was found belde her.

He

found later WER locked in his room with the

gas stove full on and with wounds in his chest and wrist having made thoroughly determined” at- tempt to kill himself, coun- sal added. China Mail Special.

The delegate, Mr R. J. Scott- Fox, spoke during the discussion of the report of the UN High Commissioner on Refugets,

The report covers the detivi- ties of the. High Commissioner, Mr Auguste Lindt, from May, 1956 to May, 1957,

Mr Scott-Fox said the ques- tion of Chinese refugees in Hongkong could not in practice dez- be separated from other perately poor people and helped 1wo isolation, since the categories of homeless people are Inextricably mixed and are part of one and the same problems.

다.

USUAL PROCEDURES

"Apart from the legal issue, therefore. The problem of theno

PAKISTANI GUILTY

Sallim Saduddin

wad found guilty of unlawful wounding and was ser- tenced to 18 months' im- prisonment,

Efe was found not guilty of wounding with intent to cause bodily harm,

The Juty added a rider to their verdict advocating leniency, and Mr Justice Reces expresnéð, sympathy for the defendant,

Yip Lal-ha, 21, insisted on going out with a man who had earlier booked her out for the evening. He alleged that Yip, took `n "spitting pot" and wanted hit him.

refugees might' not be }. susceptible of solution through the usual procedures of the Ifigh Commissioner's office.";

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"50 I got more mad. pushed her with my hand, then che tried to pick up something cise to hit me. At that time, the knife came into my hand,**** Sailm snid.

He is alleged to have stabbed Tip 22

He thought that the questips could best be discussed at the next session of the United. Na- Hong General Assembly.

Mr A. 1. Bethlis, of the Soviet

referring to Chinest loved Yip more Union,

22 times with a spring pen- knife.

Yesterday Salim said that he than his own

refugees In Hongkong, sat they life. He saki that he and Yip

were not polkical refugees, and that the

their

In a room In Chinese Government lived together

after they Kruisford Terraos, hed no objection to return.

left Fanling, where his job had terminated, earlier in the year.

Prosecuting is Mr W. A Blair- Kerr, Senior Crown Counsel, assisted by Det. Inspector K. F. (Contd. on Page 3, Col. 7)

He sald that Some local authorilles were preventing them from leaving Hongkong.— Router.

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