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THE DAY

RETROSPECT

TODAY is the 12th nani-

versary of the 'liberation

of Hongkong by a naval force under Admiral "Har- egurt after 37 months of Japanese occupation. There were not too many people on the streets this stay 12 years ago. Looking up and dowb The Wanchai waler- front one would live counts et them in scores at best. It was generally felt that some Japanese dleid might not accept their

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1957.

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DAKS

THE HANGUS ACCÉSES GENET IN ACTERS TROUENZA

Whiteaways

NKOWI, O di si

BIG JADE SEIZURE MALAYA'S STABILITY

AT SAN FRANCISCO It's Up To The Chinese

$32,850 Customs

Haul From

Businessman From

From Hongkong

San Francisco, Aug. 29. Customs agents seized 95 pieces of

Emperor's orders tour jade worth HK$32,850 from an interna- tional businessman who allegedly tried to smuggle thom in from Hongkong, the Collector of Customs, Mr Chester Macphee disclosed last night.

render und most people were quite uncertain. Many claim to this day that

their main

for surviving the Decupation was to satisfy a curiosity as

reason

to what turn events would

take in the yours to follow,

To achieve that they had

survived the 37 most an- certain months of their life. Few will claim today that

Mr Macphee identified the businessman as Petco Petcoff, 30, Far East regional supervisor for a soft drink firm.

The jade was seized at San Francisco inter- At the time, Petcoff

they had the faint ideo national airport on Aug. 20.

of what would eventuate. -)

Formos, long under Japanese and his wife were en route from Hongkong to New

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suzerainty,

the York, public of Hongkong rather adim island. Though all atlases showed it, it was to most people territory more in the realm of myth. Today this island is very much reality, China to a segment of this Colony's population, rebellions China to another

nemen

UNPREDICTABLE

HINA. especially the southern part of it, was more of a attive reality.

PERSONAL EFFECTS

Petcoff denied any smuggling intent, explaining he considered the jade duty free "personal effects."

Customs agents found Petcoff was wearing a money belt that contained 90 pieces of jade jewelry. Five small jade figurines were in his luggage. Petcoff said he hid the jade in his money belt for security reasons,

Peteoff and his wife were allowed to prveved to New York.

Stassen Flies To U.S. For Dulles Meeting

London, Aug. 29.

Mr Harold Stassen ́chief United States delegate to The five-nation disarmament conference here left by air tonight for Washington for

consultations with his Gov- crnment.

He will have talks with Me John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State and probably Preddent Eisenhower

Monday

Macphee said the US attorney's office had not review-day nothing in Ume for

Today it is to some their ed the case yet.-United Press.

native China, to others a

China which they dimly hope will be theirs to travel again freely. To the non- Chinese in Hongkong the future in August, 1946, wa as much an uncertainty us it was to the Chinese, Though Mr Churchill then insisted that this was still British territory, no one -Wax really quite certain that it would continue to be Bu for

even a half dozen

years.

Certainly the political future

TEARFUL REUNION

FOR TOURISTS

Southampton, Aug. 29. The Polish liner Batory

WREATH LAYING

AT THE CENOTAPH

The

The Atrierican delegate plans lo fly back to Londen on Tues-

next meeting that afternoon of the United Nations Usarma- -munt subcommittee,

this

Mr Stagsen advanced departure from London for Washington by about 24 hours. FIVE HOURS

He left within about

Avē hours of the end of today's meeting here of the disɔnnament subcommittee at which, accord- ing to a British source Russia rejected the Western hst-stage partint disarmament plan.

Hongkong commemorates (See Page 3 fur full report) Liberation Day today with

While in the United States Mr Stassen will be attending

a public holiday. Church the wedding of his son. Mr services

of this part of the world WAN Bapredictable. The Colony's population then brought more than 300 Sunday.

was at its lowest ebb since cheering,

waving and

of the

The

Happy

held were

last Stassen was last in Washington

NEW CANAL SURCHARGE? Agreement Report

Cairo, Aug. 29. The Egyptian

news. paper Al Akram re- ported today that the United Nations Secretary General, Mr Dag Hammarsk jold is discussing with the Egyptian Government question of placing a surchargo on shipss using the Suez Canal to pay for the canal clearance.

Lhe

The clearance of the canal, after it was blocked during hosti lities in Egypt last

the October, cost United Nations an estimated $12 mil lion. It was decided that this cost was to be edvered by a sur charge on skips pass- ing through tire canal.

France-Presse,

NEW YORK TRAIN CRASH: 18 INJURED

New York, Aug. 20.

An underground train crashed into the rear of an empty train on an elevated

London Aug. 29. The Economist, independent weekly review, commenting on Malaya's forthcoming independence, said today that never before had Britain transferred sovereignty to a Commonwealth country "so beset with internal and external uncertainties and dangers."

"The new

Describing how Malaya's strategic position had always exposed it to the ambitions of powerful nations, The Economist said: wealth acquired during the years of British ascendancy has merely made it an even more tempting prize..

"Now the rebirth of Chin- ese millary power and am- bition has made its position doubly uncomfortable.

"With a partitioned Viet- nam only 250 miles to the north, and an Indonesia in danger of disintegration immediately to the south, the degree of stability that Malaya can maintain will largely determine the fute of South-east Asin whole.

Anxious Concorn

A

"And its stability, in turn, will depend largely on the alti tude taken up after Indepen- dence by the Chinese who make up nearly half its population."

The Economist said the fate of the new nation, “lbus launch- ed upon these troubioil waters." would be a matter of anxious concern,

It was right that Malayan Independence should be celebrated, sald the journal.

"But I should

also be pondered, for it is a new be- ginning as well as an end; and what follows this new beginning will affect, and should preoccupy, not Malaya alone, por Brligin and Malaya alone, but the much wider circle of the free nations of Asia, and of the circle outside Asia that hopes they will remain free."

Reuter.

MISSILE

Ghana Seeks Trade With

►

Dr

.

Russia And China

Accra, Aug. 29. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's Prime Minister said today the Government intended to invite Japair. China

and the Soviet Union to receive a trade mission from Ghana,

He added, in a statement to

the National

Assembly that he hoped a mission would also be able to visit India and possibly other countries in the Far, East.

Dr Nkrumah said he was

sure Britain, France'and the Unite States would

why appreciate

Ghana "should endeavour to pro serve normaty relations** with Russia and China. Chana

doesn't intend to follow a neutralisi policy," ho declared,

"It is our intention to pro.

perve

our independence and to not as we see beat at any particular

#me," he said.

In his statement covering" Ghana's internal and ex- ternal affairs the Prime Minister announced A cabinet reshuffle and the creation of a new ministry

by splitting the Minis of Interior and Justice. cald the Government contemplated Introducing compulsory national ser- vice, side by side with the establishment of a terri- torial force,

iry

Ho

An Intelligence service would be estabilised to sive the Government "a comprehen- sive picture of the local And International Bitun

tloa"-Heater.

Now What AboutA

Royal

Wedding?

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aunt.

CHAPMAN PINCHER

tells of the loneliest mun in the world....Space Man. MERRICK WINN

mucets the fearless. US columulet Victor Reisel who lost his eyes for exposing US union gangsterism, ROBERT CLENTON says

"The B.R.M, is going to win at last." SYDNEY SMITH

tella of UNESCO', fabulous new "building by artists."

writes "That's London,”

in July of this year for consul- For the first time since Liberament negotiations begun in the tutions on the complex disarma- tion, the Hongkong Prisoners- subeominittee the curliest part of the Arst crying Poles to England of-War Assaelation, which was March 18.

In London on 100 years of Hongkong's today.

formed last year, laki wreath history. Such today is the

Mr Stasson is due to have They stood at strict attention at the Cenotaph this morning in discussions with Mr Dulles on pressure of population upon while the vessel moved into her memory of the fallen. our resources, much of thisberth tu

he may, according | Munday but the strains

ceremony was carried here in refuge, it is

1 American sources here, also British And Polish national out by the President of the Assosee him soon after he reaches wonder that

ennenthems. Be

the Tears poured down clelion,

Bon. Dr J. M.Washington tomorrow. traverse the

of the faces of many of them. streets

Rodrigues, on behalf

IN 'CLOSER TOGETHER' Central District at even up, many literally ran down the

Then, when the ship was tied many members.

The Flongkong Polie?, divided

Washington, Aug. 29, nail's pace.

Into Maintand and Island com- Mr Starsen, speaiding to Te-track during the rush hour Senator Henry M. Jack- Yet this population lives and gingway to throw their arms

Around relatives and friends mands, will compete in lawn parters at London Airport today, injuring 18 people. thrives, much of it, true, on they had not seen for years.

son charged tonight that' bowls matches for the Policefore taking off for home tonight, the

anid:

The crash was apparent-the Defence verge of poverty, but

Department EVELYN LYONS They were among the first Liberation Shield

"We are closer together life goes on, buildings go Poles to be granted passports in

have been for ly caused by vandalism. has cut future production The matches will be played ut now than we up, street sleepers do not substantial numbers to come to

Valley

commencing the last 11 years." He added A motorman, trapped more schedules for long-range appear in be Inorg in England for visits. In most cases

that the

Soviet delegate had than two and a half hours in-missiles for namber than they were in they have relatives in England. COCKTAIL PARTY

made

the wreckage of his cab, had some "negative com- ments" on the latest Western 10 have h foot amputated reasons. the inte 1930s and people-United Press.

Mr Jackson before he could be freed, This evening at 7.30, H.E. proposals, the Governor and Lady Grant-

This

aftemicon We have The Tranelt Authority chair-technion difficulties ked delayed ham will attend the Liberation made proposals

for perfecting -far-reaching, man, Charles Patterson, the target date

both the intermediate range Day cocktail party to be held practicable proposals to Im-charged that vanduls caused the ballistics missiles (RBM) and

accident. by the Royal Hongkong Defence prove the prospects of peace," Force The social i take Mr. Stassen said. "I

Mr Patterson said trippers Inter-centinental buistics mis-petitions fill the pages of your Saturday Mail. place in the OMeers Mess evident that a modern war would were zometimes clamped down, les (ICBM).

He said the when repair work was being

"slippage" oc- in the testing stage of done on the tracks, but he said the missile programme. He sald no repairs were underway on the delay could be a serious that section of the line.

parties unknown psychological blow to the free must have clamped down those world but he did not believe it the East-West would upset two trippers," he said.-United Press.

balance of power.

Senator Jackson Chairman

an Atomic Energy sub..

plon for the future.

AGITATION

CHILDREN continue going DRIVER KILLED

to

school,

larger

numbers than ever, though

the

4 pm.

IS 50

Modena, Aug. 20. there till is not quite the Andrea Frascheti, head of | Volunteer Centre.

be such a vast loss to all. space to fit all of them in the Ferrari automobile firm's As it is A holiday today.

"striving "We kave been Our population has changed planning bureau, was killed lo-Kowloonites will be entertained against that for so long. We will considerably. One can recull day white testing a Formada II to an open air concert by the row be looking to the response years, barely two de 1,500 cc. racer on the Modena Band of the Bn, the Greenby the Soviet Government to

Howarde. The concert will these ezdes ago, when i was still track.

new propisals."--Beuter Fruschetti lost control of the take place at MacPherson nt possible for a journalist fear in a bend and the racer 5.30 pin for two hours. Hongkong to identify every somersaulted several times.

Those living on the Island can other person crossing on a

The driver

to also enjoy an open air concert was rushri Star ferryboat.

hospital, with n fractured skull given by the Police Band afterwards Queen's Pier from 9-10 pm,

Even political opinions are and died shortly

acceptable in Ilongkong if without regaining consciousness. ngitation is frowned upon, France-Presse.

us, it is everywhere the world

whether over,

in

British Missile

Moscow, London or New

London, Aug. 29.

Not Joining

at

& United Press.

Six Killed

New Delhi, Aug. 20,

Six people

wore killed instantly and 44 injured when nloaded motor truck ploughed through a crowd of 200 in a Amman, Aug. 20. village. 60 mling south of Indore The Jordan Foreign Minis-oy the Bombay-Agra road Jost

w

"Kids

Mr

or

curred

of

economy ters

also cald.

Security Council committee cheeiding on miesiica

On Kashmir

United Nations, Aug. 29. The Security Council probably

resume

the debate on Kashmir question on Sept. 24 it was learned today.

Council members were under- stood to have agreed on that

progress, made the charges after meeting more than three hours with the acting Secretory of Defence, Mr Donald A. Quarles,

representativen and

of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency.

Distinct Blow

York.

There was once, ngitation in our markets

Havilland und Rollster, Mr Sumir Rifai, tonight night. against goods of Japanese Royce are co-operating In the described as "untrue" reports An unconfirmed report said manufacture. Today there development of an intermediate that Jendan would join the the driver was beaten to death date, to take up once again the Mr Jackson said: "It Would is anitation in other ballistic inirsile which will have Bagdad' Pact.

by surviving vilingers, who 10-year-old dispute between be a distinct blow to our own markets against goods of a range of about 2,500 miles, "The Jordin Government will were attering a religious India and Pakistan over the people and our allies should the

informed sources said today. manufacture? Who

not pin any foreign pact," he festival at the time of the former princely state, United Soviets, win this race because The source would ever have thought in

sold that De told the press-Reuter,

aveldent.-United Press,

Press,

It would represent the first time Havilland Propellers Limited August,

The United States hos falled to 1945, that our bad

win a raço Involving an im- portant weapons system." Manchester or Tokyo,

Our

trade could ever disturb stricture

already bulit a metal

It is perhaps

consisting ΟΙ towers which will be used

In

a tribute to the trats. The Holls Royce Company way of life that is possible meanwhile was preparing to in Hongkong that au many test a rocket moter destined for people chose to stay here. the missile, the source added.-- Migration from this Colony, France-Presse,

though extremely difficult,

is not impossible. China

not closed, there is little

Strike Ends

reason why Formoon: could

Boston, Aug. 20. those absorb

who The Boston rewspaper would wish to go there. Yet Bike, which left 1,250 familles without their daily newspapers there are so many who pre- for 21 days, ended tonight. fer to stay here. So many, some 300 mailers, who indeed, that they constitute for higher pay on August the Colony's biggest and voted to accept a strike-ending ever growing problem, ·¤argement.-----United Prem,

struck

0,

SUBMERGED MOUNTAIN RANGE FOUND UNDER ARCTIC

New York, Aug 29. The discovery of an undersen mountain range rising 5,000 feet above the Aretle floor was announced today by Columbia Univerally scientists,

The scientists, stationed on the Arctic leo pack drifting to- ward the North Pole, ruäloed] news of the discovery to the University's Lamont Geologi.

Lomonosov Touge 'central 'Arctic.

In

the

cal Observatory at Palisades, New York. Maurice J. Davidson, 20.

Ecophysist in chargo of the This research project, said sound- Inga showed the 8,003-foot mountain range WDS Bub merged nearly 5,000 feet bejów. the fee pack.

Hla mesinge said there Was every Indication that tho discovery paraikis the great!

from extends range Greenland across the Aretle Ocean toward . the now Siberian Islands,

Me Quarles appeared to dis- pute Senator Jackson, He con ceded the misalle programme has been under careful review but said, "we have observed top priority on the long-range ballistics missilo."

Ho said the Defence Depart- iment had "not allowed funds to injure the programme."

Mr Jackson enid that economy motives had prompted a cut in missile production plans. He sald defence eMicials have The reientists who made the

"revised downward" the num- discovery are engaged fa ber of missiles expected to roll research for the International off production linos when the Geophysical Year, United weapons are perfected—United

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