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RELAX
DAKS
THE RAMOUS EBRÆDET IN ACHIGU TROUSERS
Whiteaways
HONGKONG
KOWLO UN
Comment NOW QUEMOY SHELLING ENDS
Of The
Day
Island Of Blood
down with heri
Saughter's Arat
dance hands.
in her froek Shot down by two murderous teen-nged thugs, members of this brainless juvenile horror whose men- tal proceseca astonish and disturb every elty in the world. wm even this outrage pass uncondemnedi by Archbishop Makarios?
The horrible shooting follow-j
for
now
ed a day after the inaugura- tion of the new British partnership plan Cyprus. Many may question the wisdom of sharing government with a people who in their ex- tremities have shown them- selves 110 better than savages. But this would be a caso of heart ruling head. Many will envy de Gaulle's "solution" of the Guinea problem when recently it repudiated the proposed French
constitution. But our
13 different. Way As a guardian power Ari- twin still has obligations to ita troublesome ward and a parent should know better than to lose its head in a crisis, Bealdes there are not only Greeks to think of. And there is no reason why
Communists Begin_|_|| One-week Ceasefire
Talpei, Oct. & Communist shelling
Ho
of
Quamoy stopped this morning, according to re- ports from the land, o
ed from Quomoy today|An sald fow rounds were fired between 2 a.m, and 3 o.m. local, then shelling stop- pod.
Amarican
military
spokesman said it would. bo postible for the big off convoy standing Quemoy today to unload
United States military In Taipei a Nationalist Ho addod ho doubrod
spokesman announced.
added reports from American millitary assis tance officers who return-
source said he believed the Nationalists should now coase retaliatory bombard- monts.
whother the operation would be stopped becausé of the Communist offer. --Rautor,
Taipei Resolutely Opposed
To Compromise Agreement
By FRANCIS LARA
Taipei, Oct. 5.
Bitterness over United States policy in the Far East rose here to- day after widely-published but unconfirmed reports that U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulls was considering the des- patch to Formosa of a special envoy to discuss the Formosa Straits situation with Nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
the mass of decent people Several sources have said this envoy might be New York Banker
on Cyprus Turks
and
Greeks should not be given"
4 chance to work together
towards a legitimate politi-| cal objective.
Churchills On A, Cruise
Sir Winston and Lady
·Churchill hava just leff Monte Carlo for a ten-day cruise in the Mediter- ranean, They are the guests of Mr Onassis in
luxury yacht "Christina". Sir Winston and Lady Churchill are on the quayside.
BOOTI
and former high-ranking government official John McCloy.Russian Test.
These reports have added. weight ex rapidly-growing. suspletons that Washington is) ta arrive One thing is certain, however, preparing
at some Either
svith agreencut now or later, compromise oke-fifth Turkish Peking over the offshore islands population of the island issue which would mean a grave cannot be handed over to setback for the Nationalists."
the
their Greek brothers AB A
The
concern felt in political here government circles
reflected by
blood offering. Too often it has been the orderly and and the loyal who have been was significantly spiked un the political the report of the envoy's possible arrival which had front-page
Formosa headlines in
to nox! papers
ambitions of trouble-
miskers. Too often Britain;
news-
dispatches
has given way to the most quoting 10 American Senators violent and most vocal, Besides, Archbishop Makarlos's plan for in- dependence-assuming Euka supports it is regarded as
I
possible final Bolution
whereas Britain's partner- ship scheme là an interim measure. And Cyprus, clear. ly, is not yet in a fit, atute to be entrusted with solf- government.
Advantages?
will be asked by those who
Idvocate immediate with
And
drawal: what advantage
Britain docs
get from Cyprus? True, we maintain a military base, successor to the Suez base, on which the Bagdad Pact and Western resistance to Sovlet penetration in the Middle East is centred. But also wo draw from Cyprus two-thirds of London's criminal community. And Cyprus we spond well over two-thirds our annual 1/11 for overseas troops who ara in the main national servicemen,
on
of
It is indeed a grievous and costly burden in terms of blood and tears that we aro expected to bear but it is as futile to think of die owning this
as to expect a
facilo
War Chances
Getting
Less And Less
Day By Day
Beirut, Oct. 5, Vice Admiral Wallace Beakley, former com- mander of the United States Seventh Flect told correspondents
here tonight he be- Heves the chances of in the Formosa area are decreasing day by day.
war
Admiral Beakley is on his way home to Washington to become Deputy Chief of Naval Operations Reuter.
The
Grand Canal
To Be Rebuilt
For Modern China
Paris, Oct. 5,
A mammoth project is now under way to restore and expand the Grand Canal-China's ancient man-made 1,000-mile waterway, Radio Peking
reported:
The canal will come to life again in 1860, two years ahead of schedule, it was decided at a
Peking. incuting
The radio said the cunul was Aret built in the 6th Century artificial B.C., and that this watercourse has been silted up la most sections for 103 years. When the project is finished 3,000-ton ships will be able to sall all the way from Hanychow In Chekiang Province to Peking. Included in the project, the radio continued, is the cutting of new canal between Peking and widening and Tientsin, the
the river bed deepening of between Tlentsin and ɔngchow and the straightening out of some of its meandering sections to re- duce its total length from 1,700 to 1,503 kilometres.
On completion, too, 3,000-ton. ships will be able to steam up Onal Bay through Tientsin to the capital-France-Presse.
Anglo-U.S. Atom Men Meet
London, Oct 5. Admiral Lewis Strauss, Atomic Energy
advise to President Eisenhower, was the luncheon
heho have asked President Eisen- guest of British Prime Minister |
hower to "disentangle ourselves Harold Macmillan today at Mac-
Resolution
Washington, Oct. 5. Russia which resumed II-bomb tenis last week after deciding last year to give them up, today sub- mited draft resolution in
Im- the UN for an mediato
of suspension Nuclear Weapons texts,
India submitted a similar resolution.
Under four-power agres- menits, talks were due to be held on October 31 in Geneva between Rusia, America, Britain Kad France for the suspension
of ferts.euler
Washington Is Hopeful
This May Last
Washington, Oct. 5.
Nows of the Chinese suspension of shelling in the Formosa Strait camo to officials in Washington today as a welcome súr- prise.
The State Department spokesman declined immediate comment. Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, is away this weekend at his Lake Ontario sailing and fishing retreat, and was not due back until Tuesday.
And President Eisenhower's White House comment today. Assistant Press Becretary, Mrs The President who was at the Anne Wheaton, said she did not White House this afternoon, think there would be any was believed to have been watching the current world serles baseball game in New York on television when nows of the Chinese announcement
Taiwan Spokesman
Tells Of The Red
"Ceasefire
Trick"
Taipei, Oct. 6.
to
A Nationalist Military spokesman today dismissed the Communist offer suspend the shelling of Quemay for one week and negotiate with the National- ists, as "purely international pro- panganda.”
The spokesman, Admiral Ilu Hob-tu, added "it's nonsense."
The Foreign Ministry spokes- man, Doctor Kiang Yi-seng, re-
WHY HELEN WON'T
MODEL BEACHWEAR
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Helen Lee Mei
Our tons,
from Chiang Kai-shek's espica-milan's "Birch Grove" estate in Why won't Helen Lee Mel poss
to all our problems. 'duty in Cyprus is clear: It
the mother of an
hoi
Sussex.
Princess At Balmoral
in's swimmi
fused to make any comment until the offer has been studied,
A high-level Nationalist ofl- cial who did not want to be named said his government had plenty of experience of Com- munist censetres when it was on the mainland.
Не cald the Commun'ala would offer to stop fring, then firing would later break out again,
The Nationalist
reached the capital.
Officials said privately that at first sight the offer was to be welcomed as a sign that tho Communists might accept u lasting ceasefire
the
Formosa Stralt a prime alm of United States polley and a precondition, in Washington's vlow, for. negotiations aimed at n settlement.
One official expert on the 'Tar East said it was too early yot to judge whether the announce- ment, was a serious gesture or a -propaganda' stunk
Ho raid the move was only for a temporary stoppage of the bombardment, not a dependable ceasefire...
Nationalist China's reaction would be a very important elé-
TRIAD SOCIETY
SUSPECTS ROUNDED UP
A total of 1,255 popple, suspected of being mem- ber of Triad Societies, have been rounded up by the Police since September 1 and up to 5 am. yester- day, October 5, the Hong- kong Government Public Relations Office announced today.
off
official said: "We have always been opposed ment in the situation, this to halding any meetings
with official
said, The Formosa the Communists. We
don't Government's attitude would want to sit at the same confer have to be taken into account in ence table with them. Nor do deciding whether United States we want any third party nego-warships would be taken tiating with the Communists on escort duty In conveying matters which may infringe or Nationalist supplies to the off- prejudice our rights."
shore islands.
He said the demand that convoys be unescorted by Unit- ed States warships,, together call for direct with Poking's negotiations with the Formosa st-regime, suggested that they
A top Nationalist official to- day said the Communist cease. fire often was an open admis- sion that the blockade WOR fallure,
lure and General Investment) Mlas L. Gufterres, the Jantzens Co. Ltd., said that their star
the agent in Hongkong, told had consented to model at the China Mail this morning that
low provided that *11 the did not
exactly know publicity in connection with, what Miss Lee was told be- fore she left as the arrange- the ovent were not on 'a com- mercial basis.
ments were made directly by correspondence with Miss Lea by Jantzen head office ttempt to drive a wedge between were attempting to exclude the New York.
He said Lee Mel bad never
slated
Jantzens
Jantzens
la
contract will and that the representative Hongkong had only asked her verbally to take part in the
modelllur,
"She consented," Mr Wel sald,
the condition **00
I have listed, The spokesman also sald Miss Lee had naked the local agents of Janizens to supply her with a detalled programme of the fashion show..."something that Jantzens have not done Lo-date,"
"But," added Miss Gutterres, Byliss Ice Wee well awera that she would be modelling, ...whether it was in swim sults or otherwise."
Diles Gutterres said there was mla- the possibility of m understanding with the movie. star in New York. Meanwhile, there was no news from Mis Lee Mel hersNOЕf.
Baby Shark By Caesarean
is to make the best of what
Sir Edwin Plowden, Chairman A news agency report from Now Although Nationalist lenders of the British Atomic Energy,
- York Hays that Jantzen, Xno, appears to be an irremed
stick to Commission, was present at the
which invited the beautiful ably dimcult position. As have been 'careful to
their pronouncements that no luncheon.--France-Presse.
Mandarin movie sts to the Dir Wel also said that the local over- compromise solution of any kind
U.B, with five other models to Jantzens arents received s 'growing multi-national will ever be accepted, Chiang
Commonwealth, Britain is himself gave
display lie now line in swim-
cable from New York which an indication of
Marineland, Florida, Oct. 5. sulte, is sending_ Mis Leo
sisted that the head offleo
A alx-pound shark belleved being judged by the way growing uneasiness when
back to Hongkong becausO” KİLE she la gulding varlaus
the Arst born alive in there was outting down the to bo Auld, he sill refused to believe
had refused to make' pubila
been delivered dependent territorico that Washington
length of Miss Lee's travel captivity has contemplated
appearances in 'boschweaRT. Ballater, Scotland, Oct. 8. any major change in polley.
abroad, “I parod the informa. Bere by czesarsćan operation. Princess Margaret staying at
tion on to Miss Lee just before Biologiste acted as surgeon Chiong added that if he wore nearby Balmoral Castle since would be her return from Belgium last
she took off,” he added, after it appeared that the 250- able and mutually-satisfar-driven. to the conclusion that Friday, was Indisposed today
bir. Wel wild this could, mean? pound mother shark would not fory solution for Cyprus all justice and righteousness because of a slight chili,
"that" Janiæena had planned all be able have a normal birth. will meet with general havo vanished from the earth.” She is not confined to bed
along to make Mim Lau's
· The mother, shark died after Aympathy.
but stayed indoors,Reuter.
the operation-Rouler. to the U. a short com.
to
'maturo nationhood. And wo
may expect that
our
attempts to find an honour-proved wrong be
-----Franba-Presse.
Miss Lee was to havo appeared
st`sa afrtified fashion show si Now York's Idlowlid «Alr- pert tomorrow.
Mr Bonsid Wel, spokesman for Miss Leo's studio, Motion Pio-
trip
He saw
Nationalist
the offer as art
China and
United States,
the United States and to treat the crisis as a "civil war operation."
2
He said he believed the Com-
Officials said it was for Gen- munists were trying to winjeralissimo Chlang Kai-shek, to support of neutralist nations. by state whether he was prepared their gesture-Acuter.
to enter into bi-lateral talks with the mainland regime. The two governments have not negotiated directly with one
thought unlikely that such talks would take place now.
World Series: another since 1919 and it was
Braves Beat The Yankees
New York, Oct. 5. Milwaukoo. Braver boat the New York Yankees 3-0 here today to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-suyen world base- ball mories, The Braves now need only one more rame to clinch the series and retain the world chama- planship they won last year, ...against the same oppononta,
(See story on P7)
Nevertheless, officials folt in spite of these misgivings, tint the move..made a welcome break in the tension: which has existed since mainland, güna began to bombard Quemoy and Matsu on August 23.
Mr Dulles spoke at his press conference last Tuesday of the posiblity of withdrawing Na- tionalist troops from the off- shore falands in the event of a dependable ceasefire.
Diplomatic circles hoped that [the "Communist nunouncement represented a move towards auch, a crusedre, which might pondbly lead to a settlemDUKA Lang Router
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