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GILMANO ALOUEITEK ARCADE
No. 37086
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Cold Summit
HE withdrawal of the
Soviet Union from the exports-level disarmament talks at Geneva is in line with the present “refreeze"
in relations across the on Curtain. But Mr Duller' "deep disappointment" is in strange contrast with his attitude to any kind of
meeting with the Russians earlier this year. These talks, after all, can be regarded as one of the pre- liminaries lending towards
summit conference and it
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is not long since Mr Dulles was the butt of almost every corteogist in Lur world the monolithic
blockhead that blocked IL friendly mveting. HIR manoeuvres then gave the impression of
man being hauled willy-illy to an un- wanted conferetice, enught clever meshes of in the Soviet propaganda. But re- cent events have altered, among other things, the world's opinion of Mr
Dulles.
THE general movement to-
Twards the summit start-
ed inst October with the Polish Rapacki Plan for a zone in Central Europe free of nuclear weapons,
This
idea was followed up by
Marshal Bulganla
in
A
shenf of letters addressed to heads of Western govern ments just before the Atlantic Council meetin
in Paris in December.
Western strategists feared the plan would undermine NATO.
But few people wished to misa a chance to reopen communications with the
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GREEN LIGHT FOR SHEK PIK
NUCLEAR Engineers' Preliminary CAN YOU BEAT
BEAT IT?
MISSILE TESTS
Washington, June 20, The Atonio Energy Com- mission today announced It had drelated an area around Johnston Island in The Pacific для д Danger zone because of planned Laste of short-range mix- alles with nuclear warheads.
The Commission Kaid it expected that the surface danger area would remain in effect for three or four werks.
The firings are part of the current series of tests at the Eniwetok proving Erounds-Repler,
Report Submitted
COST ESTIMATE TO BE MADE The construction of a large new reservoir at Shek Pik, on Lantao Island, is a practical proposition according to a report received this week by the Director of Public Works from Messrs Binnie, Deacon and Gourley, con- sulting engineers.
This reservoir, when constructed, will be of about the same size as Tai Lam Chung with a storage capacity of some 4,500 million gallons. The decision to build a reservoir on Lantao was taken in principle by Government some 18 months ago, subject to the successful outcome of certain preliminary en- gineering tests and final approval of costs once detailed estimates had been obtained.
Textile Arrangement With
HK "Within Our Grasp
London, June 26.
Sir David Eccles, President of the Board of Trade, said tonight that some arrangement with Pakistan and Hongkong regard- ing their textile imports to Britain, “is within our grasp if everyone understands the larger interests."
industry | we Bould come fo
cade. While Western Governments
He said he was anxious therO were *Li e-rdinating should be gane voluntary ar- their replies, however, A rangement whereby the effect second batch of letters upen our textile Industry arrived from the Marshal should not be entas ropisic." proposing A multi-nation Sir David spoke shortly after Summit conference.
Members of Parliment repre-
Russians. It even appeared, Sir David was speaking at a ↑ senting the Lancashire textile- On the textile trade he said: in the light of Sputnik, an allner of the China Associa- producing constituencies had "It is very much in the interest If the Russians were launch-ion-- businessmen's organisa- complained in the Houre of of the long term future, of new less telise, drtion interested in promoting Commons about the harmful Hongkong and Lancashing that
effect on the British trade with China and the Far
some Exvt.
of cut-price competition from sensible arrangement and come the Hongkong producers.
to it voluntarily.
"If it is not voluntarily, then very serious consequences can occur throughout the whole of our world,
IN
Sir David suggested also that British businessmen should buy more from China so that Chinn would have inore sterling with which to buy British goods.
"Help me to get this settled on a sensible basis."
KESWICK DEPLORES SMEAR TACTICS
ان
I is upon the results of thesu tests, which have been in pre- Rress over the Jost KEVEZ months, that the consulting Cngineers have now reported. Their report says, in effect, that a water-light barrier can be constructed below ground level across the valley floor near the mouth of the Shek Pik river,
The reservoir dam will' be built upon this foundation.
Further Report
is described by the consulting engineers themselves as pre- liminary and they state that a further report and estimate of the cost of the work will be sent as soon as possible,
"Until we have this final port and estimate, there is Hitle that can be said," П Government spokesman -com- mented this morning. We are however assuming that every thing will be satisfactory and that work can be started on this most essential project in the near future.
The report received this week
"Meanwhile we are going on the assumption that there will be no hitch, In our plans and are getting on with projects which will speed construction when final approval is given to the scheme.
Diversion
"We arc. for example, pressing on with the completion of the road linking Silvermine Bay with Shek Pik.
N his reply on February 9 Mr Macmillan blamed the small results uchieved at
Mr John Keswick, Chairman Geneva in 1965 on the luck of the Aelation said there had of adequate preparation. be much controversy about He accepted the Marshal's limiting the importation of proposals provisionally, but Hongkong-made texules and asked for the summit to be "unfortunately too
many preceded by another meeting | Hongkong's enties have been of Foreign Ministers, and using near tactics".
those ggested
of the He said that last year's trude United States, Russia. Agures showed that Britain hud
materials million Jus France, and Britnin, those a surplus of £21 who had met at Geneva. year in her trade with long His letter also proposed a
Jong. conference
Not unly longkong competed Ja Geneva In with Lancashire.
June,
On the last day of March
members of the Atlantle
GRANTHAM:
Every new country with aha 28 million spindles while aatural desire to attain cconsinle | Hongkong had only 300,001. independence immedia.ely set Mr Keswick nuded that tr up a textile industry and the Manchester they spur but did efficient mills in Lancashire not always loll, but in Hong- recognised this, and met il. kong they both spun and toiled
the Most of imports from and added "I wish the people Hongkong were finished by this of Lancashire toiled more." country for re-export.
Referring to China's economic and her political Restrieling such Imports would position simply drive such places us strength, he said it was reason-
into the Hongkong
Ainishing able to procket that by the end this century "China wil trade whict: 1 was indeed be of
certainly be twit of the ginning to do, he said.
The Chairman sals Lancashire dominant powers in the world."
CAMPAIGN UNJUSTIFIED
Council anonimously adopted Str Alexander Grantham, I suffered more than anywhere, flood of refugees.
He said the mother country and published n joint com- former Governor of Hongkong.clse from the United Nations munication that ranged over told the Association that the embargo on trade with Chino should be prepared to help the both the composition and people of Hongkong thought that upon which Hongkong depended people of Hongkong which was
"OSE
of the marvels of the campaign against to much, subjects to be discussed at Lanenshire's
Hongkong had accepted the world" and was an example to the conference; the Soviet them (in regard to lex-ile fin
ports) was "ntirely unjusti-unbargoes but had then to turn life world of what could be done Government appeared to ac-fied" and "extremely unfair." to its own industrial production when a country got rid of cept the substance of this Jie suld the Colony had leven though it was facing a "rms" and "oracles."-Reuter proposal and from thle emerged Mr Eisenhower's
proposal for a conference of experts.
Then
internal rumblings in the Communist body politic began to be heard outside. Mr Khrushchev, it appeared, still had much to gain from a good propaganda display and it is suggested that he held critics at bay for some weeks, with the forthcoming conference as his excuse. THEN came the sudden
switch, the recull of am bassadors, the executions in Hungary, and a spate of anti-Western propaganda:
Why? The only country in need of these things was China. Obsessed at home by too much desire for free thinking by a traditionally free thinking people, it was China that outlawed "Rovi- sionism", took Russia to task for her loss of control in the Batcilites, and has called on the whole Com- munist world to tighten discipline and authority. Time will show whether, In backing Staliniam so public- ly China has not backed the should survive this purge horse. If revisionism China will be the loser. Anyway, she has put the ..precariously thawing "cold
war safely back into the freezer again. Once again;' To know where we are.
In Tomorrow's China Mail
WHE
HEN a boxer is knocked down by a legitimate blow and stays down for ten seconds, he is con- sidered beaten. Yet Gene Tunney, heavyweight champion of the world, was on the canvas for at least. 14 seconds during a fight 31 years ago -- and he got up to win the fight!
Read this exciting last instalment of John Col trell's series "Sensations of Sport,” in which he takes the reader to Soldier's Field, Chicago, for a ringside view of boxing's' most controversial match-between Tunney and Jack Dempsey,
Included in the big 20-page feature-packed issue
is another tense chapter of "I Walked 8,000 Miles To Freedom," Clemens Forell's almost unbelievable story of his escape from a Communist prison in Siberia and a long, gruelling trek across frozen wastes to his home in Germany.
Other highlights for your weekend reading plea.
sure are:
Let's Take Hongkong's Word... by R. W. Thomp- son of the University of Hongkong;
Show Business... a full page of Almdom's inside stories by top reporters in Hollywood and Britain; Hongkong pictorial.... two poses of photographs taken by China Mail photographers covering all the, spelat and news assignments, in town;
My Chameleon... another short story in the Inimitable George Ramage style
Also all the latest news and vinwa, a page of last week's news pictures from Britain, Johnny Hazard, Mandrake, Ferd'nand, Nancy, and all your favourite comics and cartoons, Pick up a China Mall on your? 'way home tomorrow.
We are also preceding with The diversion of the stream la Shek PIK valley itself and are investigating sources of suttable
for the construction
of the dum embankment.
"A notice in today's Govern- ment Gazette calls for tenders for the construction of bungalows which will be re- quired to accommodate the small army of engineers and other experts who will be re- quired to live on the job."
The spokesman added that the experiments at Shiele Pik have been necessary because the nature of the sub-soll near the valley mouth where the
dam
(Contd. on back page, Col. 5)
China Blamed For Soviet Somersault
Landon, June 26.
China may have vetoed Russia's participation in the projected East-West Genova conforance on methods to control nuclear test explosions, informed sources sold today.
The Peking regime's Interven- | extending, nuclear lest controls tlon was belleved 10 have beyond the Soviet territory to prompted the sudden about-turn } that of China,
of the Kremlin, which notilled the West yesterday of its with- drawal from the conterence after having announced Soviet parti- cipation the previous day.
Plausible Reasons
*
course
WIS
was
no
Behind this suggestion the idea that the vast areas of China might be used for nuclear tests where they could escape -detection, thus by-passing any Western agreement vn test suspension with Russia.
Mr Dulles also made it plain
such Terformed, diplomatic observers that any
arrangement believed there were plausible { would not imply recognition of rensors for auch
of China by the United States, action.
Burprisingly there China had not been invited to town reaction from Russia to participate in the Geneva dis- this suggestion at the Ume. Nor cussions and Russia apparently did Moscow propose that China did not propose her inclusion, be invited to the discussions. though she pushed Polish and Czechoslovakslau sepresentation,
Yet the possibility of extend- ing any possible future quclear
Informed sources believed control posts to the territory of China, irked by these develop China hod: 'boon rpecifically ments, may have told Russia to mentioned among the aims of withdraw from the Geneva talks the Geneva - considerations.
altogether once the Russiazım. In- Tro auggestion came from the dlcated readinces to negotiate. US Secretary of Blato, Mr John The velo appears thus to have Bulle, carlier This como after Moscow had already mooth. At a press conferenca accepted the conference invita he mentioned the desirability of tionU.P.I.
Foster
China Irked
inside the carriage was the then Prince of Wales how the Duke of Windsor.
Lendon, June 26, 06-year-old London tnxl driver, Mr Gordon Lane today claimed the motoring oolnYesterday Mr Land's taxi col- cluence of the century. Forty years ago he was driving lorry when he was involved In a calRaion with a carriage.
Ndad with a clock black saloon car Dutelde Buckingham Palace.
in the car was the Duke of Edin.
BEIRUT FIGHTING FLARES UP-
Beirut, June 26, Rebel forces today opened what was feared to be an all-out attack on the Government of Camille Chamoun, but fighting died down to sporadic gunfire and bomb blasts during the evening.
Full-scale hting erupted in the city of Beirut and raged around the Rad
Salh Square,
The army inaved armsured. cars and tanks and opened up Un rebel Lusions with 75 millimetru cons,
Rebels
Infiltration
attempting
were j-parently to inflicte nerus the square in the centte of the city.
Other fighting broke out throughout the city, there was shooting directed at the home of the Foreign Minister, Mr Charles Mulik, and the Presi- dential palace.
However, there appeared to be no rebel attack in force other than at the square,
Burgh-on
blu
way to talk about road safety to the Auto- mobile Association, Describing his two "royal colll- alon" to reporters today, Mr Lane challenged other British motorlate "can you best 31?”— Router.
Tito Looks West Again For Credits
By SIDNEY WEILAND
Belgrado, June 26. President Tito's government today indicated it would seok economic credits from the West to replace the $285 million (about £101,785,000) But here
of long- torm aid which the Soviet Union suspended last month.
As night approached the heavy' gunare died down.
and there throughout the city there was occasional outbursta of riẞo and automatie weapons fre.
Offensive
Vice-President · Mijalko To- dosovic, Yugoslavia's chief economic planner, told Parla- ment the Government would other It was feared the attack was ask for credits "on the the start of a major rebel tide" to build factories which offensive on the eve of the Acha should have been inenced by Moslem feast. Observers be the Soviet credits. loved. It may be renewed in Although Mr. Todorovia. did intensity tomorrow morning.
not
clacally mention the West, foreign observers said it The Opposition leader, Saab was clear the Goverment Safem, said the rebels suffered looking towards
and "several casualties" during the States first hour of fighting.-U.P.I. nations.---Reuter.
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