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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

REBELS IN

RED CAMP THEN Yugoslavia

WALK

Wexpelled from the Comin

form in 1948 it was thought that Marshal Tito had come to the chasm at the end of the Communist rond.

But oddly enough Marshal Tite did not obey Stalin and what is more he refused to knuckle under to the Communist ideological leader in the Kremlin. This net of lege-majeste didi

nothing

his ta enhance prestige and it can only bel concluded that world opinion and Western warnings dis- suaded the Soviet Union

from taking positive action against the rebel in the Communist camp. Threats there were in plenty

the Moscow sabre rattled in its scabbard, but the outene was only a battle of words and Marshal Tilo stuck toj his own brand of Com- munlem despite repeated warnings from the Kremlin, Heal Breach

TIME appeared to heal the

TIM

breach to some degroo and in June 1966 after the death of Stalin Marshal Tito went to Moscow for con- sultations with the Soviet leaders apparently In the hope that he could persaude

THE WEATHER: Light 8 winds, Cloudy, with fair perlod during the afternoon.

CHINA MAIL

No. 37032

HK POLICE

Smuggling

Narcotics Into

US Ports

Detectives

of

the Hongkong Police,

Narcotics Division, recently smashed a

Estabilahed 1845

FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1958.

Price 20 Cents

RELAX IN

DAKS

THE KARBES CONFORT EN ALTERN TROUSERS

Whiteaways

HONG-KBING I KDW LO UN

SMASH DRUG RING Governor

WOMAN Rebels Claimed To

TRIES TO

FORCE

WAY TO

IKE

Washington, Apr. 24.

Have Retaken

Port Of Padang

Singapore, Apr. 24.

large international ring of drug smugglers Secret Service agents grab. The rebel Central Sumatran radio claimed tonight operating out of the Colony into Ameri- can ports.

bed a struggling, scream- ing woman who approach. ed President Eisenhower today shouting: "I have to get to him."

Working in conjunction with the United States Customs authorities, the Hongkong Police have arrested a number of persons in the: Colony, while eight persons in the United dumbfounded, sald "I'm sorry" States have already been detained.

Paratroopers

To Continue

War Games

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The President, who looked the alight, as agents hustled red-haired womno into and took her to a Secret Ser- A Police spokesman this morn-vice Seld office. ing confirmed a United Press

San fron Capt

The woman was identified as Francisco Mrs Edith Finch of Brookline, the Hongkong Massachusetts. She was taken that stating

The In the District of Columbia Pollee were working with

for obser- connection Hospital afterwards US authorities in

drugs valion. with the muggling of Into USA.

NOT ARMED

The incident occurred as Pre-

and Mrs

The United Press report fur- ther stated that Chester Mnc- Thee, Collector of Customs,

Eisenhower said that his agents had seized sident

Smithsonian Shin Lee, 62, an unemployed were leaving the

where they had machinist, at the Greyhound Institution, Bus Ft Campbell, Apr. 24.

on Wednesday viewed a group of paintings by depot

Sir Winston Churchill.

The Secret Service said them that both shades of Some 7,000 Ft Campbell evening.

woman was not armed, red would not clash,

The

Marshal Tito returned from

that meeting in the Cum-:

munist Meeen satisfied that f

to

Кеп-

paratroopers in Lucky hre Hcheduled

to jump on

Saturday

Raw Heroin

Mr MacPhee sald

that Ler

in continuing war games, hod 28 packages of raw heroin despite a training tragedy worth US$500,000 on his yesterday in which five son. paratroopers were killed and 137 injured,

he had converted the mix-

per- guided and confused wor- shippers of Stalinist Idols to

Mr

Customs MacPhee said the true Marxist faith.

out officials in Tokyo found However much Marshal Tito

some weeks ago that the heroin The killed and injured in the was

to being shipped San may have undertaken

secret minimise disagreements and muss jump of 1,300 men yester Francisco, hidden in a

were dragged by their compartment of a suitcase. He soft-peal his criticism of day

said it arrived on Wednesday no con- billowing parachutea over rough Russin, there is

aboard the American President vincing evidence that he terrain dotted with trees,

The Public Information O-Line's ship, President Cleveland intended to give away any cer said today that "Saturday's thing of substance.

Jump has not been cancelled. It And if the Marshal's still scheduled."

drop 15 Saturday The manoeuvres west of the iron

DVLT measured gebeduled to take place curlain are

manoeuvres Bukchon Drop Zone-where-yus- east of it, the two will beterday's tragedy occurred. found to pretty well cancel additional

against

No

The

of detalls

out. This is not surprising scheduled drop can be released

because of training security,"

If two basic facts about the the PIO Offee said. Yugoslav Government are borne in mind.

More Pleasant

T

THE frat is that it is, first, last and all the time a Communist regime and cer

PROTEST

In Washington, tepresentn- live Walter Norblad protested today against Army's plans for g mass jump of patafroopers at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, on Satur

tainly more pleasant than day despite yesterday's tragedy most while the second basic in which five jumpers died and fect about the Yugoslav 137 were injured.

and tactice. Moscow has

been told very bluntly that Yugoslavia will not tolerate in its own interference

affairs. However, this anüb to

the

"They ought to find out just what happened in this terrible tragedy before they go ahead

TORTURE ALLEGED

Singapore, Apr. 24.

Mr MacPhee said officials let that Lee, the shipment go so the alleged San Francisco con- tact, could be apprehended.

Violence

In General

Strike

Colombo, Apr. 24. Violence erupted today in the two-day general strike of public service workers. Two men were injured when

Armed

Secret Servlee

the

chief, U.E. Bauglunan, said the same woman had tried to rei in at a White Ilouse gate a week ago.

Mr Bauglunan sald the woman to see the she wanted Bald President because she had not received an allotment from her corporal In the husband, a Army. She gave ter nge os 42 then and 27 today, he said.

DRAGGED AWAY

Mr Baughman said the woman claimed her husband was living with another woman who was receiving his allotment cheques. She also claimed that, between her husband and the FBI, sho was being cheated out of a lot _of_money.,

insurgent troops had retaken Teluk Bayur, Port of Padang.

DEATH OF MALINKOV FALSE?

Warsaw, Apr. 24.

A high official of the Bovlet Embassy hera vald tonight that he did not balleve that formor

The radio said the attack came while the Government wits were being deployext for a major offensive.

"We entered the town at 1200 neon today, and the Soekarno troops have been driven back to the beaches," the radio said.

Stronghold

Djakarta radio inzounged the fall of Sibolga-the rebel strong- hold in the Tapanuli district of Northern Sumatra, about 250 inlies from Padang, Govlet

The Government radio sall the rebel base fell today at 0,30 am.

The 133rd Infantry Ballation, under a Major. Shahlan, catered the town after one hour's fight- Ing on the outskirts, the radio suld.

Premier, Georg Malen- kov, has diod, as rumour- ed in the West.

The official made the state, ment in reply to reporters' questions at a reception given by Pollsh President, Alexander Zawadzki honour of visiting Soviet President, Klomonti Voroaitilov.

In

Other Soviet officials at the reception also said they boticved the report of

death Malenkov's falso.

Was

In Stockholm, the Soviet Embassy donlod-all know. ledge of Tumours that

died Maienkov France-Presso and United

Pro

One Dead

In Election

Clash

SIR ALEXANDER

ON HOW TO PREVENT ASIA GOING RED

Sir

Boston, Apr. 21. Alexander Grantham, former Governor of Hong- kong, said today "a Mar- shall Plan aid programme could prevent Asia from slipping into the Com- munist fold."

Sir Alexander said that una long-term investment it would benefit the Western powers to Asian under-developed assist

The radio said there were no casualties among the Govern- nient troops, and a large quantity of small orang and ammunition countries. had been recovered.

"They need help from the

It claimed the battalion's ad-outside and they will look to Russia if we do not help them." vence to Sibolga had been

of China ho said, "I do not lumphal progress, with only

the foreseeable future, slight

trom the expect, resistanco rebels, and a warm welcome any break between Russla and from local people, who greeted China. Nor do I see anything

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Internat the invading troops with cries of that points

revolt "Merdicht".wfreedom,

He thought China would be eventually recognised by the United Nations.

New Theatre

and

THE KEY

The battalion had picked up the 20 rebei prisoners along road to Sibolga, the radio said:

India, Sir Alexander thought, It also had some captured

as to whether holds the key rebel motor transport.

Asia will go Communist. A new

theatre of war was

"India has learned the work- opened on the for northern

Free World and ings of the three outskirts of Indonesia

stresses the importance of the days ago, according to bolli individual in its polley This

Bukittinggi Djakorla

China. for cannot be rid (rebel) radios.

confirmed Aslang are watching these two, India and China, to see which by Djakarta ratlo, said that on will succeed. If India fails and Karachi, Apr. 24,

was killed and April 21, two rebel aircraft anglly turns to Communiam, 50 man

an Krupnsai Airport

will the other smaller countries the north about 30 people includ- Morolal Island in

in Asia. Thus we must give ing 14 policemen were Moluccas group.

them all the assistance possible Djakarta radio said the bomb to prove to the rest of Asia the injured in a clash outside

era had damaged the runway

United Press.

As she was dragged away, the woman screamed that the FBI was doing terrible things to her, including extortion.

Mry Eisenhower had already

into the Fot

White House moudon before the woman One appranched the President and got within dx feet of him United Press.

Rail Unions Marking Time

The rebel report,

bombed

had been

по

a polling booth here today and some buildings on the air-benefits of the Free World."..... during

first held, but there Karachi's municipal corporation elec-casualties-Reuter, tions for five years.

Fightly developed when erowd tried to force its way #women's polling booth, ran into

under tradition

London, Apr. 24. Britain's three

unions were today marking time provided sex segregation.

This menns submitting the

claims to the London Transport Wage Board, whose findings are

regime in that it is deter mined to remain indepen

three bombs were thrown into dent of any other Power, and risk even more lives in a harbour engineer's workshop, including Russia.

While arother and larger exercise," the A bomb was also thrown into a postul van but no one was Evidence of this latter fact Oregon Republican said.

well 100

The Congressman, a member | injured.

in the nallon-wide railway has been only,

dispersed House Armel Services

police

to union decided

Police said the electoral staff Illustrated at the current of the

outside the Colombo crisis, one

the polling its rejected wage claimed in panie, and refer Yuganiay Communist con-Committee, called for u preli- pickets

London's 18,000 tube booth had to be closed for the ference in Ljubljana where minary Inquiry into the disaster, General Post Office.

Tha atrike centre

shifted for

rest of the day, two top lenders have lashed possibly conducted by the Com-

from the Government sector to workers to arbliratión.

Stones wore thrown and one out against Kremlin polleles miltoe staff,-United Press,

The private sector when wor kers in 50 companies in Colombo

man attacked a police inspector with a knife, the inspector fra struck in response to an appcal

at and Injured his attacker und of the Ceylon Trade Union not binding on the parties.

will niza Bed another mon nearby. But the tube workers claims 21 which Federation,

Police were injured by stones new be precluded from striking membership of 25,000.

clnim until 28 days and knives, and the civilians by on their PORT UNION

after the Board's decision 15 steel-tipped bamboo slaves cat

ried by the police.-Reuter. The Singapore Legislative As- The Communist controlled announced-Heuter,

rejected a call Port Union also called a strike the West. The Yugoslavs sembly today

for a commission of inquiry into of its 4,000 harbour workers. can complain, with some allegations that poller had tor- Armoured cars patrolled justice, that the West is tured left-wing politicst pri-Colombo streets. Skeleton staffs, too prone to turn a search-soners.

protected by the poller, were at An Independent member made work in Government offices. ing and auspicious eye on their relations with the the call in a motion alleging Pelnie Minister S. W. R. D. that the sald and Communist camp

npatien tied up, punched, and gave Bandaranaike

und "freezing" | Government has taken strong blind eye on any move that electric shocks

action because a strike of pyblle members of emphasises their indepen-treatment to four

the leftist People's Action Party

nervants

unjustable, dent stand.

irresponsible and hardly in keep- While it seems impossible to last autumn.

The Chiet Secrelary, Mr E. ing with the principle of tradu alienate

B. David, sold the allegations || unionism.-United Press. from the Comhad already

been investigated munist bloc the present rift and the Attorney-General had provides an opportunity for decided there were no grounds improving relations with for proceeding

plaints-Itcuter. Marshal Tito's regime,

Russians cannot be inter-i proted as a swing towards

with the com- -

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Britain's Nuclear Tests

PACIFIC DANGER

AREA REPORTED

London, Apr. 25.

Old Shells Blow Up Children

Maubougo, Apr. 24, Fiva children-the youngest aged five and the oldest

killed 13-wero

today when a shell loft over from the Gorman invasion of France exploded in their faces,

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Four of the children died putelght and a fifth died in hospital. A sixth child was badly injured.

In Budapest, an exploding six World War 11 shell killed children and Injured three others seriously, the Budapest Nemzet newspaper Magyar

sold today.

It sald

that

11

Group

of

ū

children aged between Ave and 15 years found the shell in wood near Besynue, south

Britain la today reported to have declared a 37,000-square Budapest,United Press

mile area of the Pacific "dangerous due to the test of

a nuclear weapon from April 26.”

One will be the "warhead for

2,500-mile rocket

The News Chronicle said that, this warning to shipping about the

being

over

ol

Plane Flies By Flapping Wings

a new Christmas Island test has developed in this country,"

The British bombs, said the been issued by the Admiralty

writer. will be dropped by and the Foreign Office.

Hanover, Apr, 24. Informed sources had ex-Vallant aircraft flying at

A small prototype alreroft pected such a warning but no 80,000 feet and will burst wo

napping confirmation could be obtained miles above the Pacle.

designed to fly by It will take about ten years plastic wings was shown to the. of it early today from the

press here today prior to ex- Admirally or Lloyds Shipping for the debris to drift to the

karth"

hibition at the Hanover Indus- Intelligenco,

About 9,000 British service tries Fair.

the bo

called an or- men wil

assisting THE BIGGEST

The aircraft, zelenlife team, but Sir Williamanthopter by its designer Herr atomic Walter Filter, uses a smail jet According to

Britain's the Nows Penney, Chronicle, Britain wil start weapons chief, will not be pre- for taking oft. Once airborne,

Che designer

power Bay, the within the next week the big-| sent, vala

The News Chronicle writer driven wings will take over. gest... Hydrogen bomb testing

The prototype, which has not the also said that a "fortnight ado, programme evor held in-

the Americans roped off somo yet down, is claimed to have a Paclic."

miles off the cruising speed of about The

relenco 400,000 › #getaris newspaper's writer said that he understands Tuelle for tests at Eniwetok. miles-an-hour and will sell for £2,000, China Moil Britain plana to test up to 2,000 miles to the west-Reu-about three "Hydrogen bombe.

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Special

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Merger

Washington, Apr, 25.

-... President Eisenhower today Beat to Congress a proposal for merging the Office of Defence Mobilisation, the Governminel's Strategle Stockpiling Agency. with the Federal Civil Defence Administration, for economy and efficiency reasons-Reutor.

Takes Over Malta

Valleita, Apr. 24.

The Governor of Malta, Sir Robert Laycock, tonight banned all demonstrations and public meetings in Valletta and took over control of the Maltese civil service and day to day administration. Earlier he had formally secepted the resignation of Mr DomTI Mintoff, the Prime Minister. and his cabinet after inka during which they were un- able to assure the Governor that they could maintain law. and order if they remained in office.

To Dissolve

The Governor is expected to dissolve Parliament tomorrow and call department heads together to ascertain the post- don of the civil administra- tion; what money is required for payment of salaries and wages to government ployees; and how law and order can be maintained. It the Governor decided good administration can continue to be conducted he will not n5- sume emergency powers, it is understood

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His ban on demonstrations and public meetings in Valletta and Floriana takes effect, from Today until May 8.

This will outlaw a mass meeting planned for tomorrow by the General Workers Union, which supporis Mr Mintoft, It also means British

troops and familles may be allowed to enter Valletta agala, after. a week-long ban-Reuter,

Want Police

Head Removed

Valletto, Apr. 24. Malta's Labour Ministers.to- day culled for the removal of the Malta Police Com- missioner, Mr V. B. Do Gray, who last night ordorod his men to broak up Labour Party demon- strations.

They announced over the "local"

radio relay system that they had decided to advise tho Governor, Sir Roberi Laycock, to dismiss Mr Do Gray under powers given him by the locat Polleo Ordinance.

Mr Lennox-Boyd spoke to Mr De Gray by telephone this afternoon, expressing full-con-

dence him.

The Police Commissioner was given a great ovation by his officers and men when this became known at pollee head- quarters-Reuter,

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