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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

A TEST

THE United Nations Dis- armament Commission is

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expected

to meet next Sovlet

month to test the

Union's threat to boycott

ita work and If

Russians carry out their

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CHINA MAIL

No. 36934

Established 1845

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1957.

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MACDONNELL ROAD TRAGEDY

Military Policeman

Killed In Jeep

TWO OTHERS INJURED

It is highly unlikely that An army jeep went off Macdonnell Road near

the Commission's five-

member sub-committee in. which disarmament talks have been concentrated would be convened at all,

In that case the four Western members of the smaller unit, Britain, the United States, France and Canada, will probably have to make private approaches to the Soviet Union before de- elding on the next move. In line with the Nato leaders* statement that they would welcome a Foreign Minis- ters conference with the

the Russians if

Soviet Union refused to attend the sub-committee, a high-level meeting would appear to be the logical outcome,

Negotiation

T present there is no view

Axuding the sub- committee itself to take ac- count of the Commission's membership.

In private negotiation which led to the increase in the Commission's size the West showed no inclination to bring other countries into the sub-committee.

The United Nations General Assembly agreed last month to expand the Commission to twenty-five nations from its present membership of eleven, but Poland, Yugo- slavin, two of the nominees, announced that they would

not serve.

Thus these two states of the Communist bine may also be absent when the Com- mission meets in what may well easily be a Ression.

Others

critical

HE other members chosen

Garden Road early yesterday morning and

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SOEKARNO MAY MEET

QUEEN'S MESSAGE Soviet Communist RACE FOR MACMILLAN

A report on the Queen's Christmas Day message, which broadcast and televised

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in Britain, appears on page 3.

plunged down the hillside resulting in the Bushfires &

death of a soldier and injuries to two other servicemen.

The vehicle was at the time juur

Srrying two military volicemen mid a member of the RAF Pollès, The accident occurred about 1.30 am on Busding Day when the jeep went off ho road, crushed through the side wall of a bridge and plunged 60 feet down the slope,

Serious List

L/Cpl J. Hider, of London,

The

Corps of a member of Military Police, was dead when brought into the military hospl- tal following the accident. His Cpl G. Robertson, comrade, also of the Provost Company, who is from Canelon, Salkirk Scotland, sustained arm and leg injuries. The mlikary au- thority said this morning that Cpl Robertson was still on the serious list.

The member of the RAF

WAS

Pelico who was injured Cpl B. Deluchi who was al on the dyer list.

The military jeep was extens sively damaged as a result of the accident.

Chinese Heroine

Denounced

By JACK GEE

Peking, Doc. 26.

QUALLER

Other Accidents

DEEP WATER

BAY PLUNGE

A driving instructor and o learner driver were injured when a private cor plung- ed into Deep Water Bay

Snowstorms

Over Holidays

Sydney, Dec. 26. Hundreds of people spent their Christmas holiday fighting bushfires in many parts of Now South Wales. It was the hottest Boxing Day on record in many parts of the state, with 110 degrees Fahren

120 helt al Newcastle, abou! miles norll of Sydney, the maximum reading.

FLARED UP

at about 9 pm on Christ- Bushires flared up at Lane mas Day.

Cove, a Sydney suburb, at Ray- The car was proceeding west-mond Terrace, near Newcastle, at ward along Island Road, when Hill End, about 190 miles west of Siney, and at Roto, a tiny

miles west township 400 Sydney.

It went off the road suddenly : and fell into the waters below.

The two in the cur managed

of

Has

Party

Shake-Up

London, Dec. 26.

The Soviet Communist Party made its second

move in two days in an apparent effort to strengthen its Central administration.

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SOUTH

POLE

Wellington, Dec. 26. Sir Edmund Hillary in a radio message received today said "We are head- Ing hell-bent for the: South Pole, God willing odd crevassca ting."

permit.

The news ended a five-day mystery over the whereabouts and intentions of the explorer. Moscow Radio announced to- The broadcast said that the He went off ecuth to make a right that Alexel Klrichenko Kazakh Communist Party

survey after establishing depot

where had been relieved of his duties Central Committee unanimously 700

he orgininally Arst

the of Gecretary

the approved the results

planned to link up with the Ukrainian Communist Central December meeting of the British expedition under Dr Committee and a member 01 Plenary

session of the Soviet Vivian Fuchs, trekking from

នង

of

posite side of the frozen con- tirent.

its Presidium in connection Communist Party Central Com- | Shackleton Base on the op- with election to the post of amittee.United Press. recreatry of the Central Com- mittee" of the Soviet munist Parly.

Routine Move

Com-

followed

the

Kirichenko's move by one day the announcement that Ekaterina Furtseva, only woman to have gained

Soviet hierarchy, post in the had been freed of her commit ments to the powerful Moscow

rcason.

Kirichenko Was

named

TRAIN BREAKS

IN HALF

Cocoa, Fl., Dec. 26.

City Committee for a similar A crowded New York-Miami passenger train broke in half today, derailing 10 cars and injuring at least 11 persons. Several other passengers and rewmen aboard the Florida Florida East Coast Railroad's

. No Special were shaken up.

蝨 secretary of the Soviet Party'a Central Committed before last week's

meeting of the Supreme Soviet.

Western observers in Moscow cald last night's announcement speelal significance. They add-on sented that it was a routine move

iat in cases where a Communist Party leader had been elevated from a subsidiary Communist organisation.

to release themselves from the Firefighters at KIL End; about Madame Furtseva hnd nu

to wearied by four days of battling The in- against the flames,

car and were later taken Queen Mary Hospital.

42, structor, Ho Chow, seriously injured and was de- tained.

was

The leamer driver was dis- charged after treatment,

A Chinese woman who hat

been holled in China for A the past 10 years as the heroine of an abortive up- rising in Formosa in 1947 against the rule of Chiang Kol-shek, the Nationalist leader, was denounced to- day as a "rightist" by the Chinese Communist Party.

CAR GOES

INTO NULLAH

private

COT crashed through the railing at the end of an open nulloh in Waterloo Road, plunged down a drop of about 10 feet, and rested on its left side facing the direction from which

had it travelled.

And all the six occupants,

THE her bear term or two

The Peking People's Daily, the driver and five passengers,

the

DEATH. TOLL

IN AMERICA

New York, Dec. 26. Final: count of Christ- 'mas holiday deaths in the United States was 268-215 of them traffic fatalities.

Fires in the 30-hour period killed 27 people and 26 died in miscel laneous accidents.

The road deaths were the second highest since

Another Elected

was burt seriously, The Florida Special originates New York, travelling over the Fennsylvania ine to Washington and over other llnes Jacksonville where t switches to Florida East Coast Line tracks.

Now the South Pole itself is Bikely to be the rendezvous point. The two parties are still an estimated 800 miles apart.

INDIRECTLY

Hillary is trying to make direct radio contact with Dr Fuchs. Meantime they have contacted each other indirectly by messages through Scott bare. In these, Dr Fuchs mid he expected to make rapid progress from South Ice, the now advance base which he planned to leave yesterday. He thanked Hillary for information about the roulo south of Depot 700 and for making bad areas with snow cairns,

Dr Fuchs had hoped to reach the Pule by Christinas and link up with Hillary at Depot 760 by January 10, but was held up by blizzards and other hazardā,

China Mail Special.

Mr A. B. Latin, Firet Secretary of the Afghanistani Embassy in

Djakarta, Dec. 26. Indonesian Government cl. cles said today that it was possible President Sockar- no would have a personal meeting with Mr Harold Macmillan, British Prima Ministor, within tha mozt Fortnight, probably in New Dolhi.

These sources noted that the cabinet had not yet announced where

President Sorkamo

MALAYANS ARRESTED

Djakarta, Dec. 20.

Ап Indonesian Army spokesman sald today some Malayans ware baing questioned 16 connection with the attempt on Novambar 30 to sessualnata President Bookarno with hand grenades.

Ahmad Lleut - Colonel Bookendro, Direstor 01 Military Intelligente ald two detained Malayana wore members of an or- ganiaction called "Autocla tion of Malayan youth abroad."

He said the organisation was not Involved in the investigation. The two men wore simply being question- od to 100 whether they were involved.--Reuter.

would holiday next month bat they said they could not deny would press raports that ho frst visit India.

The Times of India yesterday reported that Mr Macmillan would be in New Delhi`on an oficial visit on January 8.

This is three days after Tho accident blocked the Peking, arrived here frem China Prealdent Soekarno

ir. due to Presumably Kirchenko's re-

Tailroad's main Une, and yesterday with his wife and six leave, Djakario for a nolgh- placemest on the Ukrainian officials said trains would do- children en roule home for re-bouring Asian country general- Committee reflected the same tour over Senboard Line tracks fassignment. Mr” Lätift had ́bben ly expected to be India procedure.

temporally-Unlied Press. Fin Poking for two years.

Iteuter

Radio Moscow also 'reported ji that Nikolai Belyayev, a ment- ber of the Soviet Communist Party Presidium, wra clected first secretary of the Kazakh Communist Party, replacing | Ivan Yakovlev.

CHRISTMAS

World War Two-China EVE QUADS

Mall Special,

Singapore, Dec. 28. Quadruplets, all boys. were born to a Malay Woman in ure Argentina, Australia, | the woman, Hsich lisuch-hung, were only slightly injured, desperate calls for help to the | Singapore on Christmas Eve.

"rightists" leader of Belgium, Brazil, Burma, as

The accident occurred ubout

town of Orange, 60 miles away, The Woman is Markanah (Formosa) 10.40 pin on Egypt, India, Italy, Mexico, within the Talwan

Christmas Eve

and to Army Headquarters,

the Binte Amat, 27, already Autonomous AL- at the junction of Waterloo

The are, on a 30-mile front, | meiher of seven children and Norway Tunisia and Yugo Democratic

Junce Party in Peking, of

Road and York Road, Kowloon is within half a mile of the her husband is Kafan Bin

travelling town. comprising the Security which she is Chairman.

Sabet, 33, a $(M) 140 a month The newspaper accused her Tong. The car was

airport employee, from Kowloon Tong of "trying to seize

powor

Prince Edward Road when the through the

anti- help of revolutionary clements,

tral accident occurred, tors, lawless captialists

and other bad characters."

slavia while the nations

Council make up the re- mainder of the member- ship.

It is believed that no formal move has yet been made to call the Commission into Session but this is likely to take place early after the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Hopes of success are not high and even the most cynical cannot expect the Com- munist bloc to accept the invitation to the talks. The best that can be expected

The newspaper claimed that just before the current Chinese ectiscation campaign, sich members of her encouraged Parly to attack the Communist Party,

to which she also be- longed, and tried to set Com- munists and Overseas Chinese at loggerheads.

towards

The postmaster at Roto, where more than two million acres of grazing land is burat out, said by telephone today

Back From "only rain can save us now."

China Trip

brought

In Paris, huge snowstorms and torrential rainfall over the

Christmas holidays chnos today to central and southern France,

sch-

A glant nowstorm hit tral France over the holidays and even today was disrupting traffic and making trains hours

inte.

Two of the children weighed 4 pounds at birth, and two 3 pounds. All are now doing well-Reuter,

SEAMEN'S PARTY

!"

The traditional Christmas din-

Mr Halldor Laxness, Icelandic novelist and winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature, to- ituned here yesterday after a "When she was in Hongkong, three-week visit to China. He she once

about was accompanied by his wife wrote articles herself and sent them with and his secretary, Miss Halla photographs to America, Britain. Berges.

The worst-hit area was around

in is that the Western nations Japan and other Asint

Mr Laxness said he was very Clermont-Ferrand,

by the much impressed

China's central France. Roads gain a diplomatic and pre-tries, boasting she was paganda victory through Matriarch of Taiwan," the news beauty and that during his stay blocked, towns isolated,

In China he had not reca any phone service completely di- from tho Royal Navy. and the refusal.

paper said.-Reuter.

beggars and that the people iupted, and rati traffic delayed, seemed "happy and healthy!

Mr Laxness leaves in the my Asia on Sunday to continue his world tour.

coun-

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In Your Saturday's Mail

RAINSTORMS

her given by the Sailors' Home and Missions to Seamen WDB

old at the Missions Inst night,

Following the dinner, which couth-was attended by about 200 sea- were farers, avariety show was given. tele-Performers included entertainers

Chinese acrobats.

Some trains, from Paris wore running up to seven hours into without electricity for the entire

In 20 full packed pages of weekend fare the Week. Terminus Assault in the prea. Some regiona went

end Mail brings you reflections of a world tottering on the brink of destiny.

From Bethlehem 'GEORGE CALE arks; "How often do we see the Big Thing when it happens?" And his tale' from the Holy Land of the day when Christ was born in the cradle has a viensage for mankind;

A. J. P. TAYLOR teils of a King of England, most im- probable of his kind, who not by pomp but by simple integrity led his Commonwealth, and in many ways the world, to "The Gateway of the Year;"

And JAMES LEASOR brings to the fore another bud- ding-member of this Royal clan ..... Princess Alexandra who was born on Christmas Day 21 years ago, and now takes her full place and responsibilities in the Royal Round;

Even GILBERT ODD in "Zanfer of the Ring" telle a tale' that is not for sportsmen only. His deeply human con- tact with the "grenta" of bozing bring to life their victories "and disappointmentë............a struggling Wife, shot with hope

and pain.

Lawyers' Conference

Mr Manyasu Hasegawa, Pro- fessor of Political Science at Nagoya University, was among

Mr Chung Man, Station Christmas Day. Because of this, Master of the Kowloon Motor bakers in the region were not Bus Company, was assaulted by able to furnish enough bread to A group of Europeans at the meet the demand, Kowloon Tong Bus Terminus The worst rainstorms were on the arrivals by train from China shortly after midnight on Chris-the Riviera, where the lower yesterday. mas Day.

road route from Nice to Monaco

Bir Hasegawa was on his way. Police later detained three was forbidden to traffic yester-home after attending the Inter Europeans for enquiries. Mr day because of large cracka in national Democratie. Lawyers Chung was treated at Kowloon the road. — Reuter and Unlled Conference in Moscow where he

Press.

was invited to visit China. Hospital and discharged later.

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