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COMMENT OF

THE DAY:

Savagery

HE news of the execu-

Ttion of Mr Imre Nugs

and his associates comex an

cold shoek, not unfore seon perhaps, but savage. horrid and merciless never- theless. The body of the 1956 revolution today lies dismembered and decapli aled. Now the severed head is destroyed. Yet

is doubtful whether wanton brutality fully explains the action.

Khrushchev, who must take responsibility for the deci

Is

sion, was illustrating in the most vivid and crude way possible, three props on which Soviet policy baxed. It first, callously indifferent to world opinion, second, inflexibly rigid in its orthodoxy, and third, aiterly ruthless in carry- ing out its decisions. Für these reasons the Soviet Government has no wish to hide the verdict.

Bitterly

JUGOSLAVIA has reacted

bitterly tu the news. Why they, least of uny country, should entertain illusions about the Russians is hard to explain. Marshal Tite may reflect that with Hittle less luck and ttle more resolution by Russia in 1948, he might have shared a similar fute an Mr Nagy. The executions are however undoubtedly intended tu intimidato deviatora includ- ing not only Tito but per- also Mr Gomulka, haps

Premier of Poland and ex- ponent of the "Polish road to Socialism" as well as, to provoke all-round self- examination in the Satellite Governments. Confident

THERE are indeed lessons.

the

everyone in execution of Mr Nagy Khrushchev is after all one of the mon diabolically

Could it be

world Publicists in the

today. that the same points he

in makes

hin

Bringly marathon letters to the Western Premiers no longer evoke the response he de- aires (indeed, did they

And does not a ever?). act such as this constitute 1. ÙÌ that speaks far louder, and more graphi- cally, than words?

What

I

is the lesson to the

West that the executions

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London Bus Strike To Continue Students

Garages Vote Against Return

To Work

London, June 17.

Hopes that London's 8,400 buses would be back on the road again tomorrow after a six-week strike ended today when more than half the city's 114 bus garages voted against a return to work and a busmen's delegate conference adjourned indefinitely - meaning the con- tinuation of the strike.

Leaders of the Transport and General Workers Union, to which the busmen belong, will meet again tomorrow to consider. future strike policy.

To Accept Or Not

By tonight 60 garuges had voted against a return to work and 52 for a resumption, with two results still to come in.

The issue was whether to accept a recommendation from Inst. week's delegate conference that work be resumed and fresh wage talks started with the London Trans- port executive.

More than 100 busmen and "clippies" demonstrated in favour of the strike outside the Transport and General Workers Union headquarters us delegates arrived for the crucial conference to review the voting.

One

Replica Of A Gallows

CONCRETE BRIDGE CRASHES:

8 DEAD

Vancouver, B.C., June 17.

A $16-million steel and

concrete bridge Lil under construction col. lapsed into Vancouver Harbour today.

An estimated 35 to 40 work- men plunges into the water amid the debris and police

said at least eight were killed, They feared the lotal would go higher.

More than 20 men were res- cued within a few minutes by the crews of harbour craft and bellcoplers. Ambulaners rushed them to hospitals. Divers and other rescue workers were on

the scene probing the waters of Burrard Inlet for others who might be trupped.

Perfect Weather

The accident occurred in mid. afternoon in perfect summer weather. There was no in- mediate explanation for the col- inpse.

'There was no perceptible wird. Construction teams an the bridge were working in 80- degree temperature when

group carried a wooden replica of a gallows with au effigy of a busman swinging at the end of a rope, with the caption: "A victim of Trades Union Congress loyalty." A banner across the entrance hall said:tween 30 and 40 "We are not Reds, but we are not yellow,"

On Friday, delegates recommended an end to the strike on the employers' promise to review the pay of 14,000 men not included in an earlier offer of an eight shillings and six pence a week rise for the remaining 86,000-Reuter.

PREGNANT MOTHERS

SLEEP OUTSIDE

COLONY HOSPITAL

Questions Asked

House Of

In

Commons

London, June 17.

convey? It is that today the A Labour M.P. referred in the House of Commons

Soviet glant is supremely

arc

confident of the power it wields in world." affairs, that it will have its own without caring to way count the cost, and that there

to be no mis-

about understandings

its Intentions. Is not this, after all, just what Khrushchev reveals in his latest note to the Western Premiers? Real Reason ITAS ho not already told

H

Mr Eisenhower and Mr Macmillan that there are which Bome questions Russia will not even dla- cuss at the proposed sum- mer meeting and others, he implies, on which Russia has already made up Its do mind? The West would well to ponder Moscow' latest show of callous indif- ference to world feeling, and apply its meaning to the discussions that Russia is

w's

today to expectant mothers in Hongkong, sleeping outside a maternity hospital overnight| because of overcrowding.

200 VANISH

WITHOUT

A TRACE

Mrs Barbora Castle, (Labour) asked how many medical staff were employed in the ante-natal elinics at the Tsan Yuk Hospital, Hongkong

She also asked how many sessions were held per month

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of the spans suddenly shifted, weaved crazily and buckled into the water, puiling a second span with it.

A project foreman said be. working on the two spans at the time of the collapse. All went into the inlet with the twisted wreckage..

men

Third Span

were

An hour and a half after the accident there was concem that a third span might go and rescue workers were sierted to of the pier on remain clear which it was leaning at rakish angle.

a

The outgoing tide washed come of the bodies as far as 30 yards downstream from the bridge site.

The fallen section of the bridge was 140 feet long and was the newest portion of the project being financed by the provincial government.-UP.I.

High Award

For Churchill

Paris, June 17. General de Gaulle and his government today awarded Sir Winston Churchill the Croix De La Liberation, the Prime Minister's office announcod.

The cross is a high decoration

and what had been the average | for services for the liberation of altendance per

last year.

Gession in

Official Report

Mr John Profumu,

Colonial Under-Secretary,

piled:

the France.

the

re-

"I have usked the Governor

Sir Winston Churchill will be the third foreign personality to rezelve the award. The other two are President Elsenhower, who was Supreme Allied Com- mander at the liberation, and

of Hongkong for this informa-King Mohammed V. of Morocco. tion. When it is received, I will circulate it in the official report.

The award was made on the eve of big celebrations for the 18th anniversary of General de Gaulle's historic 1948 call over Mrs Castle then referred to London radio to France to carry copy of a Hongkong publication on the fight.-cuter. Which she had received and sald:

Moxico City, June 17. Officials said today that some 200 fishermen op- parently were drowned in

"It contains a photograph of a storm yesterday off the Pacific coast of nearby this maternity hospital, with ex- Caxaca-stata,“

pectant mothers sleeping outside overnight because of the over-. men, aboard 21 beats, crowding and the necessly to seemed to have disappeared queue for long hours. When Mr Nagy and his associates without a trace after the stom the Minister makes his state-

now so ardently proposing. To pass off the executions of

The

48 "Judicial murder," no caught them by surprise,

Angrant than

more

uny

ment will he confirm or deny the facts?"

other Soviet "treason trial" it they all were drowned it and a number of speak would constitute the greatest no-cvil neutrals are bound maritime tragedy in Mexico's wall for the Governor's full re-

history, offletals Bald. not

to soo it this way-Is only to ignore Mr Nagy'a

to tho

DISASTER

.

patriotic resperwhelming desire of an

First reports of the disaster number of Hungarian came from Sabino Ortiz of thic people and the foul way in fishing boat Chenique, which which he and Pal Malcter went aground near the town of wore betrayed by the Zacapulco after five Russians, but to misintor seven crewmen had been washed prat Moscow's real inter- overboard.

tion in releasing the nows.

of his

"The waves were a nightmare," cald. "It took us two

It is ne mere top of the gavel Ortiz

with which Russin now in-hours

to reach the bench.

vites the respectful aflence Twenty-one other bonts just

and attention of the world, disappeared and I'm sure all but the commanding whack aboard then were lost,"

of a bludgeon intended to The storm shed the entire numb and shock, but above state of Chispas and caused, ex- all to Illustrate that Russia tensive crop damago, and land- means what it says.

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Mr Profuma sold he would port which, he knew, would take these things into considera- tion-Reuter,

Paris Visit

London, June 17. Mr. Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, told questioners in the House of Commons today vlalt to Paris he thought his on June 20 and 30 to sce General de Gaulle was "timely." He hoped it would be useful. Reuter.

Prank Becomes A Problem

The Austin Seven van which was hoisted on the 70ft, high roof of the Cambridge University Senate House as a prank by undergraduates, became n problem for those who have been trying to get it down from ita precarious perch. The Cambridge Civil Defence team (seen above) were jeered and laughed at when they tried to get the vehicle down. After two hours of trying with derricks and hoists, they had to admit defeat.

The van was eventually cut up into pieces and taken off the roof-Central Press Photo.

'No Polio Alarm'

this

MEDICAL Department spokesman sald morning thero Wis no cats for alarm because of the increies of pells cases over the past few months.

"It's

a summer disease and this is a acasocial i5- cream." Anollier Tesson be gave for the rise in the number of notified was the increase la popula- Non in Hongkong.

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CROCS

"There is a greater awareness of the disease in the Colony

nad people are more ready to notify the 'authorities of any polio

Those which have como to the at- tention of the authorities

nearly STO

all young Chinese children under the

Most other' age of four. cases reported are usually adulte or recent young arrivals to the Colony," the spokesman mid

He said the "attack rate In the Colony compares favourably with other European countries whero the discaso exists. "Our attack rate is one-eighth of the attack rate in Britain. In Britain it airikes five people in every 200,000."

"The increase in Hong- konr was due to Bom extent to the lower mor- tality ruta among young infenis," he added. With betier health conditions existing in tho Colotly, fower chlidren die in in- fancy, and more grow UP and are able to infection by polio.

During the week ending June 7, 22 new cases were reported. This was the largest number reported in any one week this year and brought the total since January 1 to 85, (with

10 deaths) or almost doublé the total for the whold of inal your.

FOUND DUPLICATING MAO'S WORKS

1

Bingaporo, June 17. A Singapore Government spokes- zuma confirmed tonight that even. Chinese were detained Yosterday for compilelty to duplicating two works of the Chinese Cornanunist Chairman, Mao Tse-tung.

Chinese Lypewriter, duplicating machine and 37 copies of those books were selgod by the polios........ Somea |-

A

A

other books on Marxium and a-Peking ..Communiam,

newspaper.ware also seized. Three of the detainees were

bank olarka,

The arrests were made within

Inw hours of the return here of Blozaporo Chief Minister, Lin Yow Hook, after con- wiliutional talks in London, Lim bad earlier indicated that

Singapore

CHILD CHAIN STORE HEIR FOUND AFTER KIDNAPPING

Ottawa, June 17.

A two-year-old heir to a chain store fortune, who was kidnapped from his home in Montreal last Saturday for $10,000 ransom, was found alive and unharmed today in the home of a taxi driver here.

Police sought Greta Goode, 40, a German Immigrant maid who vanished with "blue-eyed. Joel Reitman from the boy's home,

The taxi driver, Edward toyer, told police that the boy had been left in his care by à ste woman yesterday while spent a few hours "sightseeing." The woman did not retura,

Unperturbed

The boy was reunited with his distraught parents who drove here from Montreal lato today. He was unperturbed by the exeltement. While his parents reached wept, ho

over his mother's shoulder and tried to play with his grandmother's glasses,

of

The boy is the only child of Cyell and Dorothy Reitman, His father is the only son Sam Reitman, who is the prin- elpal abareholder in a chain of more than 200 clothing stores across Canada.

Greta Goedo, who started work for the Reitmans only two weeks ago, was at first believed to also have been abducted. A ransom note found in the Reit- man home threatened both her and the boy with death,

Checking

However, police said they had been chocking into her "back- ground since Sunday. They said she was born Ta Cologne, Germany, and entered "Canada in 1954. The Reitmans hired her through un employment

service,

The ransom money-$10,000 In unmarked $20 and $50 bills... was deposited in a Montreal 12-¶¶..................................................... Eiding place as instructed in the Iransom note. Police said, how- subversive clements before the ever, that as of noon today the holding of general elections, money had not been picked up. scheduled originally for the

Nowe media were informed end of this year bul new post- of kidnapping on Monday' after- poned.

noon, but withheld the story at The Communist-Party is banned the request of the police; The in Bingapore and Malaya, Bo ransom note had threatened far, the Singapore Government death to the boy if police were bus detained nearly zzlexia~ | informed. The news blackout

bers including afvember of was maintained until the family tho Legislativa Amambizes and pollon agreed to release the

Hry-UPL

Stone Soviet Embassy

Copenhagen, June 17. Windows in the Soviet Embassy here were smashed tonight by showers of stones flung by Copenhagen students protesting against the execution of Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter.

Several hundred people Jeered and booed outside the En- bassy but as violence flared they were quickly dispersed by alrong Danish police re- inforcements, including polico dogs.

A

MOTION IN

COMMONS

London, June 17,

Bix Conservative Members of Parliament tonight tabled

a motion calling on the Government to condemn officially those responsible for the sxeou- tion of former Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy and -hia mancolates.

The motion was tabled by Major Legge-Bourke, Major Bir Guy Lloyd, Colonel Tufton Beamish,' Mr John Eden, Mr Alan Green and Commander Maydon-Reuter.

toup of

Danish and Hungarian students, holding nloft a Hungarian flag, tried to deliver

D written protest nt the Embassy but were re fused admittance.

Later, demonstrators chanting "Free-Hungary" ́ marched to the office of the Communist sally newspaper Land Oz Folk.

Massive police reinforcements prevented any major outbreak of violence but close by the Soviet Embassy studentă act fire in the middle of the road to a Soviet emblem-a red star tack of cardboard.→→ Rouler.

LINER RUYS CATCHES FIRE

Buenos Aires, June 17. Flee broke out in one of the

holda of the 14,288-ton Dutch passenger, liner Ruys tonight and two fire companies and firamon maritime profecture

Royal Interogean Lines, arrived from Japan last week with tourists and Japanese Imml. grante, She was due to, sall on June 21 for Bouth Afrion, Hongkong and, Japan,

were called out to fight theThe Ruys at present is berthed

the

Docks in Newport northern Buation Alres-U,P.),

blaze. The motor

veel, owned by

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