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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

REFUGEES

fugees In

DURING or part per ve URING the past week the

China, the majority White Russians, and efforts to resettle them elsewhere in the world has been brought to the fore as a result of an appeal from the Executive Committer of the United Nations Refugee Fund in Geneva.

The Committee has appented to governments for special contributions to cuable con- tinuation of the movement of these refugees through Hongkong to countries for resettlement, pleading that its funds for transport are now exhausted.

Since the resettlement schemo was undertaken five years ago, through the Hongkong office of the UNHCR and ICEM, more than 10,000 per. sons have passed through here on their way to new homes. Estimate

DASED on

information

Barom voluntary

PHILPS

CHINA

No. 36953

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MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1958:

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HISTORY

First To Reach Drumright

Pole From Weddell Sea

London, Jan. 20.

Dr Vivian Fuchs and his 11-man expedition reached the South Pole today, the second man in 45 years to reach the bottom of the earth and the first ever to cross the trackless wastes from the Weddcll Sea to the Pole:

For the intrepid 50-year-old polar explorer it was only the half-way mark. He has now to decide whether to brave the oncoming Antarctic winter and attempt to carry through his plans-to be the first man to cross the snowy Antarctic con- tinent on foot.

K has taken Dr Fuchs and

bis Trans-Antarctic team of 11 scientist-explorers 69 days to battle their way over the 100 miles from Shackleton Base on the Weddell Sea. ngainst the hazards of soft snow, danger-,

First-Ever

McMurdo Sound

on the Ross

tions which have interest- ed themselves in the prob. !em of the stateless in Chinn, it in estimated that They now have another 1,200 there are at present on the miles to go to reach Scolt Base, Mainland some 6,000 Sea, to complete the first-ever fugees with vien assurances 2,100-mile land crossing of the which guarantee their enAntarctic continent. try into one of 25 countries, and between six and seven thousand who have no such guarantees to date. The refugees on the Mainland

form only a small

per- of the stateless centage seeking rehabilitation. The So were officers and men of Geneva Executivo Com the US Navy's Scott-Amundsen mittee's overall plan for base, which sits astrido the the current year has been | Polc approved on a target budget

the Sir Edmund Hilary, New Zealand explorer who reached the Fole from the other direction two wteks 170, WAS on hand to #reel him.

RUSSIAN POLAR

PARTY FIND

GOING TOUGH

London, Jan. 19.

For Taipei?

MR DRUMRIGHT

said.

Ecuador Rocked By Earthquake

L KALOON.

FRENCH NAVY

SEIZES ARMS SHIP

Oran, Jan. 19. Two French Navy ships today escorted into Oran harbour the Yugoslav freighter

FOURTEEN KILLED Slovenija bound for

Quito, Jan. 19. X-

An earthquake rocked northern Ecuador today, heaving up a tidal wave that engulfed the Pacific port of Esmeraldas and caused "consi- derable" damage and casualties,

First reports said at least 14) equipment had been destroynd persons were killed.. 43 were in the collapse of part of the injured and four persons were hospital.

miasing. The <reparts sald 40 The Ecuadorian Ministry of per cent of the buildings in Public Works, Treasury and Esmeraldas were destroyed. Social Assistance announced ald

Tibe reports sald "threo War en route to the

stricken al city. An children were killed when

army plane left the ward of a children's hospital capital carrying blood plasma for collapsed in the quake, Most of the injured. the children

escaped because The Public Works Director, they were in the recreation yard! Francisco Albornoz, went with away from the building at the the plane to study the situation and supervise relief measures on the scene. President Camilo Ponce

The would announced Icave tomorrow to inspect the area.

time.

"

The Iromors were felt in the

but

there was capital, demago,

A

Tidal Wave

Taipei, Jan. 19. US Ambassador-designate to Taipei Howard Jones will replace Ambassador John Allison

Djakarta, -ot

Two Shocks authoritative sources said

A today.

customs cutter. with four and a bank inspector Consul-General at Hongkong guards. Everett Drumright has been ank In the heavy seas. The picked to replace Jones in Tal-bodies of two of the guards pet, the sources

adding were recovered later. Govern The earthquake hit Esmeraldas that the Nationalist

9.08 a.m., the reports said. report from Guayaquil. approval of Drumright.

spokesman Colombia, said its seismograhs tidal wave and that the town US Embassy

Agniel sald, however, recorded two shocks, nearly 40 of Las Palmas was under Lucien

feet of water for of this kină minutes apart. "Announcements

It sald the Residents of Esmeraldas fled time,

Enrique and are made in Washington,

Hotel and zeveral we have no comment on such into the streets in panic, while Dufer

-bulidings ships and boots in the harbour other

collapsed rumours."

quake, Jones previously headed the called toward the open seas for during the The expedition started from

. Other reports

said other in Northern Ecuador Ocean aldo of the United Press. Indian

The United States Consulate peal for blood plasma and felt, the tremors, but that the only some mud - futs have been Antarctie on December 27. They arrived at the first inland base in Hongkong could not com- X-my units. They said

hospital destroyed. They reported no and some nine days ago-United Press. ment on the story this morning." plasma.

casualties.

New York by way of Casablanca, carrying 150 tons of arms and equipment destined for the Algerian rebel "National Liberation Front," French sources said today.

The arms and equipment were to have been un- loaded In Casablanca. From the Moroccan port would have the arms been transported to Algeria to the rebels.

Torpedoes

A large number of Ban

galore torpedoes were in- cluded among the wea- pons. It was presumed that these explosives would have been used to breech the barrier along the Algerian - Moroccan border,

Radio Moscow reported today that a small groupment was approached yesterdaye Andes Institute at Bogota, said It also had been hit by the According to the manifest

of Russians pressing across the Antarctic toward the Pole of Inaccessibility have com- pleted 519 miles of the 1,420-mile journey after "great difficulty."

Komsomolskaya the store bare, of Mis', on the US ald programine in Indonesia. Baleyfasis - Issued - an np. [towns

The 32-man expedition has reached the Camp, the broadcast snid, the second of four inland camps 01 the way to their objective.

The Communist radio seld "Arkady Nikolayev, the leader or the Soviet expedition to the In the Antarcticy has reported

of US$6,600,000, but less was relossed by the London Fole of relative accessibility

than half of this so far has been pledged.

News of Dr Fuchs arrival headquarters this expedition.

Provision is notably for the Leadership

closure of many camps in i Germany, Austria, Italy] The main party under the and Greece: no mention has leadership of Dr Vivian Fuchs been made yet of any arrived at the South Pole late allocation for resettlement this evening met by Sir Edmund of the China refugees.

ary," the statement sold.

Per Capita Cost Tresettlement through thu

capita cost of

Colony is somewhere in the region of US$450, and taking an average over the past five years of 2,000 per- Boan resettled, the annual cost approximates a million

of

to Moscow that the sleigh and tractor train headed by lm has travelled 510 mills and has arrived at Komsomolskaya Comp

Difficulty

As soon as the news

"The men wintered at this Fuchs' arrival reached Lon- scientifle base have been brought don, the Royal Geographical 50 tons of freight."

Bociety, which is partly re

sponsible for the financing of bis trip, sent him the follow- ing cable:

It also said, "The train over-

camo the great difficulty of loose snow in which the enter

to a depth of 20 inches."

The broadcast said that the

group would take a "brief rest" at Komsomolskaya and then continue their progress into the interior of the Antarelle."

Gaillard Seeking Ike's Approval Of

Algerian Policy

His

Paris, Jan. 19..

Algerian policy by President Eisenhower to counter rebel claims they will defeat France with decisive Soviet Aid.

Informed sources said he has in his Ambassador asked Washington, Herve Alphand, to get such a statement.

MATS Plane

"President and Council Royal pillar tracks of the troctors sank Premier Felix Gaillard is seeking a public endorsement of his

Sodely send Geographical hearties: congratulations to you and your men on accomplishing this first stage of your great dollars.

journey and on your planned This is

A heavy burden scientific programme in face of which in part is recovered such unprecedented difficulties by repayments against pro- and over route never previously missory notes signed by the explúted. All best wishes. migrants upon their depar~ | Kirwan." ture to the resettlement country. Voluntary organisations,, of

which there

three main bodies the World

are

Council of Churchos, the

(LP. Kirwon is Director and Secretary of the RGS.)

Congratulations

of The headquarters

Later the group will split the into one bunch going to

ала South Geomagnetic Pole the other to the Pole of In- Bccessibility.

114 Admirals

But Only

The Russians plon to leave 85 Warships

five-man group to winter at the

Polc Inaccessibility, the point the Antarctic Continent farthest from any coast.

the

in

National Catholic Wel-Trans-Antarcile expedition also fare Committee and the cabled congratulations Jewish United Hias Service 50-year-old Briton,

---have dono most praise- worthy work, but the time

has come for the problem to,

become part of the global plan.

to the

EXPLOSION AT RUBBER PLANT

No immediate details of Dr Fuchs' arrival were availablo bere beyond the baro fact, flashed by

radio Across thousands of miles, that he had arrived at the most southerly spot in the world.

Baytown, Texas, Jan. 19, Nothing was inown of his

Three workers were killed Sir Edmund with

and three others suffered severa Hillary, the rangy explorer who climbed Mount Everest in 1963 burns in a Are which followed

a big explosion at a factory here today.

If the work of resettlement of i

refugees from China is to continue funds are urgently meeting needed.

▸

Lack Of Funds

bis and added now honour to name by reaching the pole on foot two weeks ago-the Art FIVEN if the present rate of man to do so since Captain

E progress is maintained it so

will be some five or six Antaretle wastes 49 years ago.

Edmund

had Earlier, Sir years before the last refugee

his passes through the Colony. warned Dr Fuchs that in Lack of funds can mean an opinion he would be unwise to oven longer wait for the attempt the accond half of the Antarelle crossing to Scott Base. last few hundred.

-United Press and Reuter, Already there has been re- sponse to the Geneva appeal from the United States

rubber

Many more ware taken lo hospital with lesser injuries.

Flamos shot 75 feet into the eir and meniced an oil refinery But firemen got the nearby. blaze under control before it could reach the refinery.

The explosion was felt over a wide area of this industrial town on the Gulf of Mexico.--Reuter.

London, Jan. 10. The Sunday Graphic, be- moaning the growth of bureaucracy, claimed to- day that:

The British Navy lista 114 admirals and only 85 warships in seruloo,

The Navy' civilian

staff

of 173,000 62,000

then the moro uniformed naval strength.

132

The

Army ta generals, "ten to each guided missile,"

The RAF has 100 Air Marshals and just 200 Jet bombers In the V-series (Vulcan, Vallunt).

Colonial Office spand- Ing had doublet In' the past 10 years while the Empire it ruñs has dwin- died.-United Press.

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testant and Eastern Ortho-RED INDIAN VIGILANTES ROAM HIGHWAYS

dox Churches, which has

been working through the

World Council of Churches,

with an offer of US$100,000. Car loads of armed vigilantes

A most generous gesture, but a fraction of the annual budget of the Hongkong Office of the UNHCR and ICEM Tho_problem is international and humanitarlan' and calls for International solution, 7.and that solution can bo brought about by contribu tions from all United Na tions members. It is to be hoped that the Geneva ap peal will not fall on Heat

Maxton, NC., Jan, 19. `rosinod highways early to- day searching for Ku Klux Klansmen

Wiskely burned the glass-

............................................................... ́arined men had halled them a riot and planned to seek an indictment of the Xian and questioned and thresten

ed them at gunpoint. leader.

Moveral

hundred Belors this the same reporters While

were escorted by a friendly efraged・ triumphant · Indians,' armed

"Molgung', and \ Files, Indien to tribal war council bold after paidnight kn) tho at, the outdoor 10 Kainbow Grill. Some of the -- Indiana orowded ja'that place rally sito their sysupathilsoęs louded into ches and druvo ...

had painted thali froes, after the Klansmen who lud fied when the thvellur The started. ment effosts moved in where the

and Indian | Kight vigilantes in sua car ·

Up: one in which thres Untied mymanikaurachad, left elf inn

Press reporters and ano radio rounding up the Klansmen,

network reporter were mut-

Indians had routed from Kian rally last night? with war whoops and bursts of sundrs that wounded at lesat four perFONS,

Robeson County law enforce

Indians.

Gaillard asked President Elsenhower for publie backing of his Algerian home-rule plan during the December 18-19 con- ference of Atiinile Heads Government,

of

But President Elsenhower merely sald-privately that the United States did not sock to umseat France in North Africa,"

feel

French officials now the President no longer needs

being reserved since after much stalling the French. Parliament

Overdue

Honolulu, Jan, 19, The Navy sold today a Mili- tary Air Transport Service en route from C-97 Hickam Air Force Base to Kwajalein has failed to report ince 5,05 am, and an air-sed search has been started.

The plane has a crew of

has come out in favour of seven aboard and was scheduled Halled home-rule for Algeria.

READILY SUPPORT

In

to mrrive at Kwajaleio-at 1140 a.m. At last report the plans WA 305 miles southwest of Oahu and due to report again at 4.30 a.m..

The 3,000,000 Moslems. Algeria would more readily

Search planes and the escort support the bill it the Ameri- can President commanded it, destroyer Rodford have bean officials' belleve.

sent from Honolulu and other ships in the area hayo "been American backing further clericu.United Press. would help the French to com that Com bat rebel claims

rebel munist-armed

troops trained in Tunisia, and Lybia soon would launch a decisive offsenalve in the Spring.

Cafe Bombing

In Algeria

The United States, however, threw some cold water on French expectations today by promising'); food -ald-worth $700,000 to the Sidi Bel Abbes, Jan. 19. Tunisian Red Crescent (Moslem Three European women were equivalent of the Red Cross) to killed and 42 persons wounded, be distributed among refugees

(many of the seriously, when a from Algeria

tertsorist-planted bomb exploded. Franch claims the refugees in fact are rebel prisoners-United on a cafe terrace in the centre of Bidi Bel Abbes today. Five Press.

of the jured were "Morlems, and three French - Legionnaires. One child why bark.

Still To Marry The bony was planted on the

baggage carrier of a bicycle, Calore, Jan. 19. which was parked 'dutaide the Francolin/Sagan, 22-year-old Cafe: De.... Imince, frequented, Angered "ovor | bestselling Trench novelist, | mainis by Europoobs, The view Klan" "orose kursları dirovlod will marry Gur Schoeller 40- Lima" had been sitting on ite nă” monborn of table y xB00 | year-old publisher and big game | terraco of the cafe.

of marlier to the week, foli upan huntery "in: the last:/ daya.

the IKIANEVADAKINE BRYCERÁ January * ~ her another, Mme

Injured persons in the cate

handana stran tortow Fidow | Falla Quatres, said here we panicked-sat i the "mapicalcu, e

12

To-

The Quito Observatory ported that the epicentre at the earthquake was located prob ably in a paint near the Colombien border or in the

(The Columbío University Lamont Geological Laboratory at Plexmont, NY, said the qupice was stronger than the one that caused 23 deaths at Arequipa, Peru, last week, He estimated it at 7.0 in the Richter stale, which has a maximum of 10.3- United Press.

of the Slovenija, register- ed in the Yugoslav port of Rejika, the cargo was composed of 3,286 crates of arms and munitiórie, 95 tons of munitions and 55 tons of arms, packed in new trates marked with the stock number "400"

The freighter, owned by - tha - Yugosing Line was brought into Orán, hiri bour by the French Navy escort vessels Casaard and Kabyle.

After Its cargo of armą waA unloaded by French soldiers, the 6,824-ton freighter continued on its route to Casablanca, and New York. France- Presse.

Prince Rainier Fights For Absolute Monarchy

Monte Carlo, Jan. 19. Price Bainier III and Princem

Grace carried the banner of absolute monarchy defenders to the polls today agulhat de- advocates of sweeping moerstimation of their prin- cipality.

The vote by the 1.210 eligible

male electors out of aident population of 20,412 this will decide whether seaside paradise of 373 sun- swept acres. will remain an absolute monarchy

that ft

has been for : tlie past:"496 year.

The stakes are high: Dr. Josepla Siman, a well-known › ‹ look figure, has promised, that if his list is elected he will clip the powers of Hainler, 34, and his 28-year-old wife, thin former American movib “non. tress Grace Patricia Kelly He said he would 'radically de

mocratias the 1911 coalitsi- tion and sive real, law» making powers to the Na~- ional Connell-United Proms.

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