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COMMENT OF
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The New Line
It
seems fairly obvious that
shire attack on Hongkong's cotton Industry has changed, Once they fought hammer and longs to have our ex- perta restricted, challenged; imperial preference which allowed our exporta in duty free. Now they want houra of employment changed and a minister has told Parlin- that the Hongkong
mont
Government is drafting a
and conditions can be con- trolled
by legislation."
CHINA
No. 37080
Established. 1845
THE WEATHER; Moderato E, winda, Fair.
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1958.
Price 20 Cents
Cyprus Plan Rejected No
Greece Says No:
No: TWO
Turkey Wants
Partition
London, Juno 19.
bill "to see how far hours Greece tonight flatly rejected Britain's new plan for Cyprus, and Turkey has done likewise.
This proposal seems to crente far more problems than it in designed to solve. And if the British and. Hongkong Governments consider the mattor carefully they ought to see both the dangers and Inconsistencies that such a measure will provoke.
BILL to control labourį
A conditions in the Colony. if possible, will be quite useless unless it can
be
effectively policed. Every. one will surely agree with
PSYCHOSIS
OF FEAR
IN CHINA
A Greck Government spokes- man in Athens suld the plan as stands was "unacceptable" to the Greek Goverment On Ankara, the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mr Fatin Zorlu, sald here tonight that Turkey con- not accept any proposal Cyprus which does not contain the Enal solution of partition of the island.
on
He added that it was neces- Aury to have a tripartite con- ference of the British, Turkish and Greek Prime Ministers on
that oven Lancashire. And Mass Campaign the problem.
there are gravo doubts whe-
thia
ther any measure of
For it must in- kind can. volve a substantial increase in the number of fully-. trained factory Inspec- of and a degree tors, supervision that has never. before been experienced In the Colony,
Of Arrests
Says Paper
Belgrade, June 19. The official Yugoslav newa paper Borba said tonight
TWO NEW MEMBERS FOR SOVIET PRESIDIUM
Central Committee Mak es Drastic Changes In Collective Farming
Moscow, June 19.
The Soviet Central Committee met on Tuesday and Wednes- day and elected two new members to the powerful Pre- sidium of the nation's Communist Party.
MEN TRAPPED
Four
IN MINE CAVE-IN
London, June 19. seriously Injured miners remained trapped 825 feet underground to- night in a cave-in which killed one man. Six other miners were brought to the surface by crews.
premature that
Fresh Start
Broadcasting after detalls of the pin had been armnounced by the British Prime Minlater In the House of Commons, the Governor of Cyprus, Sir Hugh Fool, described the proposals us "a fresh start on the new road towards a just settlement. " that a mass campaign of Ile appealed to the Cyprus arrests and deportations people to apply a positive test was now in progress into the proposals and not look,
for points to etillelse or edes China.
which The campaign,
"everybody"national volved minorition, workers, the Army and Com organisations- had been organised under the munist Party short of the demands now vell of a struggle against right- being made, does not the wing elerunts, the newspaper Colony thereby leave self said.
There is another facot to thin problem: If hours aro' con- trolled in the way Lancashire demanda, grave
dificulties economic
scena must Government likely. surely bear this in mind. If on the other hand, allowance is made for our economic conditions and controls fall
aure
the
in-
Intellectuals,
open to continued criticism! An article signed by Vlado for taking inadequate men- Telle, the newspaper's corres- for several aures. In which case pres-pondent in China
British ears, said a special psychosis the
Over the will continue of fear elghed all
country. "Every citizen is ob- Niged to criticise something or somebody and to suspect neighbour,"
upon Government
and the proposed bill, as u sop to Lancashire agitation, will have achieved little.
UT the argument does not
SECURITY
hls
denin,
rescue
a
The cave-In caused by
blast, trapped 11 miners in a pit at Swinton, near Manchester, early this afternoon. crews started digging Their way toward the men, since the accident had put the eleva tor out of commission and
Rescue
Will Negotiate blocked the air pipes, With Makarios
П
London, June 19.
Mr Belwyn Lloyd, the For- oign Becretary, agreed in British Broadcasting Corporation Interview to- Govern. night that his mont would negotiate with Archbishop Makarios over Britain's new plan for Cyprus.
Ha declared: "We are pre. pared to discuss the plan with representatives
both aldon."
of
Answering a further queU- tion ha and that "Maka. rios la certainly one of the representatives of the Cypriot people."-Router.
Burba said that at a meeting right of a minority in Bri- of the Chinese security organs Peking in February and tain to call for remedies in conditions in Hongkong is March details had been given to lay ourselves open to jabout "counter-revolutionary More than for activkles" In China. poralble requests further changes that may 100,000 people were said to have "counter- pose infinitely greater dif- been discovered as
revolutionaries" in the last three
Sir Hugh Foot added that if iculties than the extremely
years, while membership of the Greeks accepted the plan thorny problem of hours—"obscure political movements the emergency holldays, wages and even had been revealed at 1,770,000 detainees be released and those factory regulations, for people."
excluded from the island example.
The short-lived political spring allowed to retum implying that No one denies the evils and in China last year bad now be the ban on Archbishop Makarios
Siberian and other exiles "the .cold
would be wrongs that abound in this come
Colony and many are work- tempes," the newspaper added. removed,
-Reuter.
ing hard in small ways to overcome them. But although this is a British colony, the
vast majority of the people are not British
citizens.
Seal Scare
Nicosia, June 19.
of
would end,
be
AMBULANCES
A dozen ambulances stood by at the plt head, while relatives of the men and many inhabitants of the mining village gathered
to awali news of the trapped miners.
Early in the evening, the six uninjured men were brought to the surface, while rescuers were still struggling to bring out the rest of the survivors-France- Presse.
HELP FOR GROUNDED FREIGHTER
Munila, Juno 20.
A Japanese vessel was ro
ported today to be rushing to the aid of the 5,983-ton Otaka Otani Kisan freighter. Higashi Maru, which Fan oground in northern Philippine waters last night.
troops Meanwhile, British moved into several suburbs In Nicasia today to prevent any trouble following the announce- The
An sos message, intercepted A loud explosion off-shore ment of the British plan.
Jast night, said, the vessel had Conditions, laws and cus-shook houses in Furnagusta, east Turkish actor of the old city by the RCA marine station here ran around at 8.33 p.m. of "toms here differ in many Cyprus, tuulght and the authoti- was virtually sealed off from the
British Greek side. respects from those in ties said later that a
had fired a 'depth An overwhelming majority or Balintang Island in the Batanes Island group, northern Phillp- Britain. And it must be said, destroyer
House
Commons pines. alao, that of many customs charge at a suspicious movement the
approved the new British pları that Europeans might find nearby:
Officials said the movement for Cyprus, parliamentary tobby distasteful, long factory
bald. -- Router and was later catablished to be that sources hours must surely be one of a scal--Reuter.
France-PreÜ, of the least. THE fact le too that Hong
keng has not been able to digest the vast new popula- tion it has acquired in
the postwar years. Much of it Indeed is permanently Indigestible. To ignore this means making no progress in dealing with kent problems, And Govern- ment has to take account of existing limitations even if it meittis tolerating for a timo what in obnoxlous If there is any solution to Lancashiro's problem it lies along the lines of a volun- tary agreement. If Hong keng had made a gesture by conditionally offering a self- Imposod ceiling after the failure of the British cotton Industry's talks with India and Pakistan. Lancashire's latest campaign might never have started.
-But
local
refusal by the
repentry to mako
ovon the smallest gesture can only encourage Lanea- shire to go to the most unreasonable and possibly damaging limite to have our restricted. And exporta this is a foud which we aurely ought to keep out of.
In Tomorrow's China Mail
66T HAD dodged death for hundreds of miles stul
now, as the wolves' fangs sank in my limbs, I was begging, picading to die...."
Thus ex-German paratrooper Clemens Forell con- Linues his true-life story of an amazing escape from a Russian prison in Siberia and a long, long walk home to Germany. Read the next instalment of "I walked 8,000 Miles to Freedom" In tomorrow's issue of the China Mail.
Included in the big 20-page feature-packed paper is the story of a new discovery on the mystery of William Shakespeare. One of Britain's top reporters asks: "Is This The Real Shakespeare?"
Other highlights for your weekend reading plea-
sure are:
Sensations of Sports -- by John Cottrell;
Show Business- a full page of Inside stories of flim- dom by top reporters in Hollywood and Britain; Two pages of pletures taken on the spot by China Mati photographers,
Also all the latest news and views, 'n page of lust. week's news pictures in Britain. Pidgin English by R. W. Thompson of the University of Hongkong, your favourite cartoons and comics. Pick up a Chinn Mall on your way home tomorÁMÝ.
The message gave the ship's position as 19.50 degrees north latitude and 122.09 degrees cast longitude and said it was in danger of breaking up.
The 8.3. Kotaku Maru was (X- pected to contact the distressed ship at about 7 am, today.-- U.P.I.
China's Stand
Tokyo, June 19. China has threatened to cancel two trade faire scheduled to be held in Japan this autumn unless relations between the two na- tions improve, a Japanese official maid ląday.
Genzo Goto, chaliman of the Nagoya Chinese fair committee, said he has received a letter from Su Fang-chou, Vice- Secretary of the China Com- mittee for Promotion. of Inter-
Trade, national
advising China's stand.-U. P. I.
of
An official announcement
RELAX IN
DAKS
THE KAMORE COMFORT IN ACTION TROUSERS
Whiteaways
HERREG KONG t KOWLOONI
Change In Big
Three Banks'
Interest Rates Yet
Hongkong's Big Three Banks will probably reduce their bank interest rates in the future but not
at the present, it was learnt this morning,
Commenting on the effect of the reducilon of the Londo Bank Rate by a half per cent to live per cent, spokesmen. for the Colony Big Three said that the lowering of the bank in- terest rate here would be con- aldered.
De Gaulle
The local banks lowered their bank interest rates on May 23 after the London Bank Rate had been reduced to 56 per cent,
The HK and Shanghai Bank's Chief Accountant, Mr J. A. II. Saunders said, “There are altera- tions in interest rates, but there will be no general reduction for the time being"
Not Likely
Snubs Politician
administered
а
Paris, Juno 19. General Charles de Gaulle
today sharp snub to cortain par Ilamentarians for trying to make him ravert to the practice of submitting all Their appointment appeared Neliner man's name was well;
government actions to known nationally, Boll were to be in line with a. Khrushchey
examination by National believed hand-picked by Pre-policy in force in recent months Party --to appoint Communist
Mr A.O. Small, Manager of mier Nikka S. Khrushchev,
Assembly commissions. to-leaders obviously loyal to him the Chartered Bank said, "This
M. Platre Montel, ConservA- latest reduction in the Bank of tive Chairman of the Assembly's personally to high posts.
Engiant rate has been antici- Defence Commission, visited the Like other men named to in-pated for the past two or three Prime Minister to ask for ex-- portant positions in the past week in the London money pianations about the Govern- year rieither is a "personality," market.
ment's agreement with President "It is not likely that the Bourguiba of Tunisia In the field of agriculture, the general level of local bank over-withdrawal, of French troops for the Central Committee made a far draft interest rates will be altered from the country, with the ex- reaching change farm marketing procedure and for the time being.""
The manager of the Mercantile ception of the naval base
Bizerta, Issued a new challenge to the Bank, Mr W. Tait, said: "I would
IS WORRIED say that the matter is being con- sidered. There may be changes According to usually reliablo In the present interest rates, but sources, M. Montel fold Gen- probably none in the immediate
"The Defence cral de Gaulle: future.
Cermission is worried about tho airfelds in Tuni→
night of the moetings said they devoted attention to Soviét #gricultural problema together with electing the 1300 members of the Presidium.
WHERE IS MOLOTOV?
re-
Warsaw, June 19. Polish sources ported today that former Soviet · Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov has been replaced as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia and is under surveillance in Moseqw. ...From Moscope it was reported there was no evidence here tonight to support the Warsaw re- port, U.P.1.
United States,
In
Agriculture
collective
The commilice noted that the Soviets have been "approaching the volume of United States agriculture in a number of pro- ducts" and had even moved ahead in a few.
To Convene On Saturday
United Nations, June 19. The U.N. General Assembly's Hungary will extraordinary
lato of the tia,
of
General de Gaulle replied: "It would be premature to say anything more about this agree- mont at present. There is 10- thing to worry about."
The interview, It was learned, lasted three minutes.-Reuter,
Soviet Protest
To facilitate this race with U.S. agriculture, the announco-
Central Com-Committee CTS ment said, the
two-way meet here in mittee restituted charge in collective farm Saturday session to consider the issuca involved in the execution marketing.
of imprisonment of key leaders of the 1950 -Sovici revolt.
Moscow,. June 19. Russia, has protested to Don- The meeting originally was new price structure system called for tomorrow, but dif-mark over a demonstration in front of the Soviet Embassy in for form products. Until now feuilles in getting the five mem-
collectives have
Copenhagen following the exc- cution of Imre Nagy, according to the Soviot News Agacy Tass.-Reuler.
It did away with obligatory deliveries of product, setting up
Mr Khrushchev was also said the
tubers together in time caused the to have delivered a major ad-products over to the authorities 24-hour postponement, Reuter dress. Neither the subject nor and received payment in kind.
(Seo Page 3) text of the sprech was mado-UP.I. publle,
The man named to the Presl- Blum, boosting its membership to 25, wete N, N. Podgornyl Mr and B. S. Polyanski, Podgornyl is First Secretary of the Ukrainion Communist Party. Mr Polyanski s Prime Minis ter of the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union.
Wants Review Of Cocom Completed
A
London, June 19.
deputation representing major British trado inter- este today saw Mr F. J. Errol, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, and expressed the hope that the current re- view of East-West trade controls by Cocom would be completed with the minimum of delay.
The deputation, organised by the Sino-British trade council, was led by Sir Hugh Beaver, President of the Federation of British Industries.
Sir Hugh expressed pleasure, at the government's statement of its agreement in principle with the desirability of relaxing embargo 09 widely as the practicable and hoped that the Government would use its best endeavours not only to ensure that a really worthwhile casing of the embargo took place but that this was achieved in weeks rather than months,
Failing such early action, there might be a danger that arders trem tho important Sino-Soviet bloc would be lost.
Bouler.
THE DUKE'S RADIO-HAT
Londen, June 10.
The Duke of Edinburghs went to the "About:ences "today' with # midget radio under his top hat tollaten
`arlsket | match, the London Star.... re- ported.
The newspaper paid the Queen's
husband had a tiny translatori
set made to fit under the tall grey hat, traditional handgour for the racOS,
England started the second of a
five-gams - cricket serisa today! and the Biar amid the Duke - didn't want to, mios šie play-
by-play..P.I.
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