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PI TO SEEK EFFECTIVE

ALLEGED ACT OF PIRACY

Djakarta, Mar. 4. The Indonesian Government accused the Dutch Navy of "an net of piracy" lo- day and announced that it would lodge a protest with the Netherlands for the alleged seizure of a ship in Indonesian terri- torial waters.

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Foreign Ministry spokesman, Suwito Kusumowidagdo, said his gov. crament would demand the return of the crew and passen- rers aboard the ship Kasimbar and clair indemnities for any 106%es.

The Kasimbar, a vessel of the Dutch KPM line, was im pounded by the Indonesian Government several weeks ago, She sailed from Balk-

papan, Borneo, with a cargo renttle under an Indonesian master.

The Dutch warship Drenthe have Beized the was sald to Kasimbar ir 1ite straits of Makassar, between Borneo and the Celebes, and to have taken. Merto Manokwari, West New Gulnca.

The spokezanan sald other measures would be taken by the Indonesia Goverment, but he declined to elaborate.

ARMY UNIT

:

The Kasimbar had a unit of Indonesian army troops aboard at the time of seizure.

Suwito accused the

Dutch

of violating "principles of humanity."

Also commenting on a report from Sumatra that Maladin Simbolon, Foreign Minister in the revolutionary government, would attend a meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisa

on (Scato) in Manila as an observer, the spokesman said an invitation to Simbolon would be "very wwwise" and might be regarded by Indonesia as an unfriendly act.

He said he did not belleve that any Phillppine consular post would grant Simbolon a Visa.-Unlled Press.

AMERICANS TO LAUNCH 2 SATELLITES

Washington, Mar. 3. Two American artificial satellites may be launched this week, informed

COLLABORATION Economic Proposals To Be Placed

Before Seato Nations

Manila, Mar. 4.

The Philippines will press for a "more effective economic collaboration" among Seato nations at the eight-nation dofance organisation's Council of Ministers meeting here on March 11-13, Foreign Office sources said today.

Iran Protests

To Britain

Over Oil Deal

Teheran, Mar. 3.

The Foreign Minister, Dr Ali Qoli Ardalan, pre- pared a protest note to Britain and Saudi Arabia today on a reported Saudi Arabian-Bahrein all deal, evening papers here re- ported.

The sources sald the Philip- pines would unfold an ambitious "Scato economic plan" designed to resist the anticipated pres- sures of Soviet Russia's econo- mic offensive in the treaty area. They said this country would also;

1. Seek Scalo support for a "free world alliance" binding Seato, Nato and the Bagdad Pact,

2. Support "enlarge- ment" of Seato to include Vietnam, Malaya, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Nationalist China.

3. Propose

thorough situation in Asia, touching

assessment of the political the Indonesian situation insofar not affected the security of the treaty area.

A

Economic Scheme

on

The sources said the Philip pines would put across an economie scheme which would speed up the economic develop-

Brooklyn Gangs' Threat To Wipe Out Police

A

New York, Mar. 3.

of group

teen-aged Brooklyn street gangs, Including the "Baby Maus Maus" and "St Johns Killers", today threatened to "wipe out" New York city's entire 24,000-man polico force

three Juvenile murder trial de- fendants were sent to the electric chair,

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

atharth

TM. Reg. Um Pals off, © THEN by Kh Berries, Mo.

"It isn't necessary for you to describe the dress you are going to buy with the money you are withdrawing, madam!"

Refugees In Colony Not Britain's Lone Responsibility

London, Mar, 3.

concerning the agreement signed ment of Asian members of the made its threat in a letter to Mr Ian Harvey, joint Under-Secretary of State for

They said that the protest, on Saturday providing for the sharing of certain all revenues and adjustment of maritime frontiers, would be lodged within two days.

The newspapers reported that the Foreign Minister had dis- cussed the Bahren question for an hour with the British Am- bassador, Sir R. Stevens.

organisation,

The Council of Ministers meeting will open on March 11 in the Hall of Fings of the De- partment of Foreign Affairs here.

Delegations of the seven other Scato countries

ure expected here this week and early next

week

The juvenile hoodlum alliance!

the Spanish-language newspaper El Diario.

The three defendants are on trial with four other boys on charges of first degree murder for the knifing of Michael Farmer, 15-year-old polid crip- plc, in a park last summer. Con- viction could bring death in the

electric chair.

SHEAFFERS

Skrip

Pleasant Concert Marred By Bad Organisation

By R. A. BONES Last night, Miss Irene Liao accompanied by Miss Moya Rea gave the first of their two recitals in aid of the Hongkong Music Traising Centre for the Blind. This concert was given in the Loke Yew Hall of the University and the re- peat tomorrow is in the Queen Elizabeth School, Kowloon.

The fours of the organisers that more tickets had been gold than there were sealo available proved groundless, A1 0.40 p.m., 10 minutes after the concert was due to begin, there was a "general post" and those mem- bers of the audience at the back

were brought forward and those in the balcony were brought downstairs, Such a move hid the unpleasant consequence that people who paid 10 dollars for their seats hat others who pald only three dollars eitling in better meats that they were, and naturally this led to bad feeling.

At 6.45, a gang of stage-hands appeared and shifted the plano backwards and forwards direct- ed by a gloved hand waved from the wings. This to a point which should have been arranged. half an hour before the first member of the audience arrived.

Interruption

The recital began at 8.50-20 minutes lato. Even while Miss Lino was singing further mem- bers of the audience were allow ed into the hall to take their scals. After all this delay and interruption it was only to be expected that the audience were restless and inclined to be talka-

tive

Lady Black Visits Red Cross Workers

Lady Black, President of the British Red Cross Society paid an informal visit to the Indles Red Crosa the working party at Chinese Women's Clab

this morning.

I am pleased to say that the chau, President

The new President was met on arrival at the entrance to York Building by Mrs M. W. Tumer, Director of the Society, Mra Mathilda Ng, Chairman of the Chinese Women's Club, Mrs F. J. Smith, Branch Officer of the Red Cross In Hongkong, and Mrs May Ho, Chairman of the Red Cross section of the Chinese Women's Club, which must have been most Another welcoming committee distracting to the performers. comprising Mrs Chan Fung- of the Club, Foreign Affairs, today reiterated in the House of Commons that the responsibility for Euro-performers showed little signs Mrs Edna Ho and Mrs Kwole as sho of being put off, certainly they Chan, met Lady Binete pean refugees in transit in Hongkong did not were less distracted than I was got out of the Urt at the entrance

Miss Lino has a very good tone of the Club. fall upon Britain alone.

and moderate power; she show-

Lady Blackc was intro- was well able to duced to ed that she

members of the "carry her intonation through working party-totalling 10-

engaged in turning sages in her singing of "Je suis out bandages etc.. for the Red Titania" from Mignon. However, { Cross, she has not enough drive and During the course of the visit, has not yet learnt to project | lea was bcrved. herself suficiently to sing Lady Black commended the working party for their very good turnout and expressed that she would like very much to "drop In" on them again in the near future,

The responsibility in the first place lay with the United Nations

their for the HK SINGERS and pal wito were

Iran claims that Bahrein 15 Pate Sarasin Seal Secretary; The defendants include two and their transportation else an integral part of her territory General, arrived from Bangkok white boys, two negroes, two where was ન matter for the and that therefore Bahrein has on Monday to attend the Seato Puerto Ricars and one Inter-Governmental Committee no right to sign an agreement militery ndvisers meeting on

Dominican.

for European Migration, he said. with a foreign power.

March 0 to 8 and Inter the top Meanwhile, teenage violence The questioner was Mr Regin- Recently the Foreign Minister level ministers' conference.

broke out again "this time aald Sorensen, a Socialist, who arnnunced that Iran would

Scale sources believed that the murder. Police found 17-year- asked if the Foreign Secretary sever diplomatic relations with Philippine proposal for a link up old Arnold Bulovas slabbed in would confer with the Colonisi any foreign government that al- with Nate and the Bagdad Pact the heart and left to die on a Secretary about European re- tempted to draw the island into will not meet with opposition at street corner in Brooklyn. The fugees in Hongkong "with a view an alliance-United Press, = the Sesto moeting.

boy died hours later in a hos- to ensuring their assistance and It was gathered that the mem-pital. Police said they did not transportation elsewhere through ber nations understand that on know why he was killed the United Nations or other the basis of exchange of in- United Press,

wise." formation

the secretariat level, there would be no neces- slty to get action by their gov ements under constitutiona)

sources said today. One would be a secpad Explorer An satellite identical to the one accesfully launched by the

Army on January 31. while the other would be the Navy Vati- guard catellite whose two previous launchings on Decem- ber 6 and February 5 ended in failure, the sources sald,

Lawyer's Scepticism Dissipated

Honolulu, Mar. 3. American lawyer de- fending three American "China Hands" accused of sedition returned today from two months in China

processes.

on

Philippino delegation sources sald they would not propose enlargement of Seato at this time but would "support" any proposal to include Vietnam, Malaya, the Repubile of Korea and Japan in the alliance,

Co-ordination

and said his initial seep-this

Who is expected to touch on.

Mr Harvey added that the Foreign and Colonial Secretaries already have this matter under

Service.

FIRST TIME consideration, London Express

IN

25 YEARS

The

TO GIVE 2 CONCERTS grand operatic roles. FOR BLIND

|

Blind Choir

Short Story Translations

The British magazine Fr- counter, In association with

On the concert platform, curtains do not serve any really useful purpose. When they are heid forward and upwards about The Hongkong Singers are three feet so that the choir can presenting two concerts arrange thernsalves behind this week, the proceeds them; when they are released from which are to be

to fall on the singers and dis arrange their hair when they given to the Hongkong are puliod; then they become Music Training Centre a farce. Far belter is it to for the Blind. The first leave them open,

Thurs- The choir of the Training International PEN, is offering performance, on POLICE CLAMP

day, is at the University, Centre for the Blind had to prizes worth £300 for the best suffer these indignilles when English translations of short and the other In Wah Yan they made their first appearance stories originally written in one DOWN ON

College, Kowloon on Fri- on a pubile platform. During of the Asian, Arabic or African New York, Mar. 3.

day. Both concerts begin their second item, a stage band languages, Prizes will be equally International Ladics

FAST TRAINS at 8.30 p.m., and tickets appeared and fitted up, very divided between authors, and

noldly, two loud-speakers which translators. Garment Workers Union

are available from mem- then had to be tested while the The closing data is October President Carlos P. Garelo, tonight called a strike for

Laporte, Mar. 3.

bers of the choir or from choir wore sült singing by 31, 1958, and the judges will be 10 a.m. Wednesday after

Police set up a radar speed

blowing into the microphone Graham Greene, Blephen Spet- nation's "co-ordination

Moutries. failure of Q

on the 20th Century chock ticism about his clients' idea" at the opening session,

fast-ditch

and topping it and then turning der, Angus Wilson and Gerard Limited and other crack Now charges that the United said recently he favoured ch-

mediation attempt to York Central's trains today to

The programme is vorled and up the gain until the obvious Hopkins,

The rules of the competition,' States used germ warfare largement of Sento lu include settle a contract disputo. force compliance with a 40- should appeal to all lovers of "howlback" ensued.

The choir showed great

which these

should bo carefully in Korea "was substan-

countries.

The strike by some 105,000 year-old ordinance restricting choral music, The first half of Sources sald discussion of garment workers

seven trains to a speed of 15 miles per delssohn's well-known "Hymn resolutely with

the concert consists of Men- presence of mind and persisted studied by intending competi tially dissipated."

tors, are announced the political situation

in the would Eastorn

their singing. states would cripple hour. Los

Angeles lawyer AL particularly take into considera- pre-Easter dress production In

March issue of Encounter (No. There has been a noticable Im- The City Council ordered of Praise," which includes the placed in its orbit, the sources Wirin reaffirmed that evidence

54); or may be obtained, fren of billion-dollar tion conditions in Indonesia, tho

provement even in the Industry, enforcement of the ordinance at very beautiful chorale "Let all

charge, from Encounter, said,

Two other Explorers will he found during his stay

weeks since I last heard them.

25, in where the Central Government Plants affected produce 72 per a special session yesterday men praise the Lord" and the probably be launched before China justifies the calling of and a rebel regime ara locked cent of the nation's dresses.

They are now learning to con- Haymarket, London, SWL Eng- following the death of three equally delightful "I waited for April, they added,

1,000 Chinese witnesses to

Innd. In battle United Press,

The slaiko order

Soprano duet trol their volume and achieve was issued persons in a train-auto collision and the chorus. The soloists in quite a passable piano

the Lord" for a If the Navy succeeds in tesuty in the trial,

by Julius Hockman, General last Saturday alght. Jaunching Its small Vanguard, of John Powell, formerly editor

Manager of the Joint Board of

this work are Margaret Sains- always most impressed by tho The automobile in which the 3.3 lbs., it will try to launch a of the Chinu Monthly Review,

David Dubinsky, victims were riding was struck Soprano; and Robert Witcher, puplis are making in the very bury, Soprano; Hildn Carr, tremendous strides that these inrger satellite, weighing 20,0 | his wife, Sylvia and associaté Ibs., and equipped with "better editor Jullun Schuman are

Hockinan said they had which authorities instrumenta...

charged with sedition by the

cald was whole concert is Robert Bell. scheduled no further meetings travelling between 00 and This larger satellite was to Arperitan Government.

with employer groups. It would m.p.h. have constituted the officlat

be the first strike

Mayor Everett Koomier sald American participation in the

dustry in

warrants would be issued for International Geophysical Year,

Press

the crews of all train but was eclipsed by the Army's Explorer weighing about 20 lbs.

the ordinance-United Press. -France Presso,

BETTER CHANCE

The Explorer II, which is to

be launched first, has the better chance of being successfully

ISRAELI

ARMY

Istrial

Johannesburg, Mar. 3.

can 'mobilise an army of 230,000 men within 48 hours, Captain

Pehtall

Strassbeg Deputy-Director of the Israeli Delenico Ministry, sald Johannesburg today.

In

The scepticians I had when I entered China as to whether the United States engaged in bacteriological warfare has been substantially dissipated by what

I saw and head," Mr Wirin sald. "Whether or not the United States was responsible for parti cipation in bacteriological wur- fare is for the jury to deter- mine,"

added. France- Presse.

ho

Suspect Arrested

in

thees

I am

Arms Plane Was President of the Union, and by a New Yoric Central trala Tcoor. The accompanist for the short time which this Training

Destined For Latin America

Israeli

Jerusalem, Mar. 3.

Foreign Ministry spokesmen said today they had no doubts the arms- carrying. B-17° - bomber) awaiting repairs at Bond Airfield,

Algeria, Was

destined for Latin America. Spokesmen refused to com-

in the in- 25 years-Ualted

ACTORS

LOSE APPEAL

Washington, Mar. 3 group of 22 Hollywood

Centre has been formed.

Bad Management

Man Injured In Explosion

GEORGE DYSON

A 33-year-old hawker Was I had thought and hoped that seriously injured when a gas will perform two wories by Asally been driven out of our balloons exploded at 10.80 a.m. After the interval the cholr flash-light photographers had cylinder he was using to All the modern English composer, concert halls or at least severely to-day, The explosion occurred George Dyson. The first of restricted to the absolute mini-jon the ground floor of 20A these is "Three

In the Central

Former Bank Courage," which is a very fine when the artist is not actually District.

Songs of mum number of pictures taken Graham Streat

Engineer Dies

a short illness.

continupl

selling of three well known performing. Last night, there The Injured man, Wong Wai. ponus: John Bunyori's "Val- | was A

movement was taken to Queen Mary Hospi❤ our," set to a new and inspire during the first half of the pro-tal, where he is receiving treat»

tune by Dyson; John grammo the part of the ment. Masefield's The Beeker'; and photographers and faches both A.E. Housman's “Revolila.”

ing

Car Accident

atus and the stage. These ment further except to say that A

News has been received trom

were joined by a noisy cinc- French Deputies were showing actors and writers, including Scotland of the death of Mr A. is Dyson's little known Fantasia bo clearly heard on the other. The deal work of the concert camera, whose whirrings could "perfectly healthy democratie Gale Sondergaard and Howard McAlpine, procedures in wishing to raise Da Silva, lost their appeat for engineer of the Hongkong and City in question is London, and

reldred resident in Honour of the City." The side of the auditorium. the question of the plane and its damages for being blacklisted Shanghai Banking Corp, which this work should be of great in-

A 30-year-old Chinose I am sorry to have taken so tained serious injuries when bo cargo in the National Assembly, by the film industry before the occurred on February 22 after terest to all lovers of London, general organisation and rela- car in Leighton Hill Road a

long

about grumbling

the was knocked down by a private They said, however, that Supreme Court today. A man was arrested yesterday following an exchange of afternoon on suspicion of having messages between Paris and refusing to testify some years yoous of sat, is survived by his city of Londen as he knew it at found It almost impossible to wing Lok Street, socond Door,

They were blacklisted after

for it is a setting of a poem by tively Mr McAlpine, who wALS

little on the music, but about 7 p.m. yesterday. 65 William Dunbar în praise of the with so much." distraction, I stolen a man of money from a Jérusalem,

The man, Chan, Kwong, of 135 French authorities ago before the House of Reper- widow and Chinese woman in Canton were now

married daughter. the very beginning of the six-concentrata convinced that the sentatives Un-American Activf- Road, Kowloon.

plane's eventual destination was fes Committee during its in- the Hongkong and

The late Mr McAlpine joined teenth century. Dyson's music sincerely hope that the most pitol for treatment A

on the music. Is detained in Queen Mary Ba two At about 11 a.m. yesterday, Latin America and that every vestigation

Shanghai this work is often imitative of worthy cause for which this of alleged -Com-

Enquires are being made by" months lecture tour, said that a Chinese woman, who had just thing about its halt at Bone was munist influence in the aim in Banking Corp. In 1934 and re the sounds of the city: the bells concert was given will not suffer the Police 40 locate the articl Israel's stronglk, was essential alighted from a bug in Lal Chi in order.

fired in June, 1950. Whilst in may frequently be heard in the thereby. dustry. to maintain penca la the Middle Kok Road near' Shek Kip Mel

inyolved to the accident: ké The plane itself has also been

Hongkong in his late years, he accompaniment; The

for instance, group bad Xost which had become the Street, found that her pocket | sold to the

wought served as committee member of while the choir echo the sound OTELS purchaser, a damages on the ground they had the Hongkong Toolball Associn- of the river, and orice, momen- centro of the cold war-France- | had been cut. Some property spokenan confirmed, United not been able to get work since then. During the war, he was darily, the plain song chanting of Presse.

-I was missing.

Prem.

they were blacklisted-fleuter.

interned at Booley Camp.

the church choirs

He described the atmy as the atrongest force in the Middle East

Stressber, visiting the Union of South Africa on

behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham

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