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CHINA MAIL

No. 37181

2-31 15

Established 1845

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1958,

Peking Radio Charges Against Jehovah's

Prico 20 Cents

RELAX IN

DAKS

THE FAMEUS COMFORT IN ACTION TROUSERS

Whiteaways

Witness Men

Of The TWO BRITONS ARRESTED

Day

Only A Lull

HE

For Enat crisis has

Temporarily

fizzled out

Detained With Three Chinese In Shanghai

but make no mistake, it Peking Radio announced last night that

will flare up again. China

it

will see to that, even Chiang does not not fire the first shot. The great danger still i the presence of Nationalist

troops an Quemoy and Mateo, and the Kreat need today is to avoid any chance of another clash. Lord Mountbatten said re- rently the big problem for the West is to prevent a local war turning into general war. The more pressing problem, however, is to provent the local from starting at all,

A

War

This does not mean giving ground to the Communists whenever and however they challenge. But it is clearly ludicrous for either Chiang or Dulles to take a stand on defending the islands when the Nationalists have

voluntarily already

Bur-

rendered some of them to the Communists-and under pressure. And it borders on megalomanin for Chiung standing fast on Quemuy

two British men have boon arrested in Shanghai on charges of carrying out "counter-revolutionary activities under the clock of religious activities”. The two men were Stanley Ernest Jones, 42, who comes from Stroud, Gloucester- shire and Harold George King, about 40, comes from New Malden Surrey. Both men are single, members of Jehovah's Witnesses and are reported to have been in Shanghai since 1947.

De Gaulle's

General

Bans Strike

With them have been arrest- ed three Chinese men, named as Ku Cheng-shu, Liu Wen- pin and Teng Hsing-jung

Jones and King were accused of working with the three Chinese to distribute "reactionary books hostile to the Chinese people published by US Imperialista"

ed Algiers, Oct. 15.

to

They were nisa alleged have carried out counter- revolutionary netivities design=

wreck China's socialist construction by "preaching

divídual examination."

to puse us the defender of General Raol Salan tomgu from house to house" and "In-

the Western Pacific, South- east Asia, Australla and New Zealand.

An Affront

UEMOY

banned a general strike called by the All Algoria Public Safety Committee. General Salon is Getierat Do and Gaulle's delegata generi Commander in Chief of the armed forces in Algeria.

The strike was planned and Matsu tomorrow. afternoon.

Qoccupied and armed by

J

Chiang and supplied by the Amerirnis constitute แ serious provention to Communists if for no other than their reasons geographical relation to the mainland and the existence of batteries Big enough to deter shipping from using nearby pots. So even in their most tranquil mood the islands, occupied by the Nationalists, are not accept

ablo

for

"Absurd"

A New York report said, the President of the Watchtower Elble Tract Society, Mr Nathan H. Knorr, (named by Peking Radio as leader of the Organisa- tion), described the charges

Britons a against the two "absurd,"

The Committee of Public Safety had also called for mass demonstrations against what it described political inter-

Mr Knorr said: "Our work in ference in Algerian affairs.

General

China has been to spread the Salan whe

flew after good news of God's Kingdom bick to Algiers tonight conferring

General and is completely divorced from with Charles De Gaulle, the Prime all political activity" Minister In Parls, said he could no tolerate the strike call.

General Salan said that fol- lowing his talks with General De Geulle there was no change in Line Government's position on the Algeria problem.

to Peking. Besides He sald that demonstrations they ure A front to would serve no useful purpose the mainland government, and called on everybody to As a leading Labour MP carry un his work normally tu recently asked: how would the Americans have liked t if George I had stuck to Rhode Island?

Formosa occupied und armed

by

supplied Chiang and by America in however completely different

pr position. It is 100 miles Away from harm, admitted- ly Atill nan unfriendly neighbour for China, bat nat much more so than South Korea, the Philip

even Japan. pines Besides the Communists can hardly complain about Nationalist occupation, Formosa

with

American help. They took the main- land by force of arms and maintain themselves with Soviet help. Chiang is doing

or

of

morrow.

But the

At the London headquarters of

Mr P.

A European woman sustained slight injuries this morning when the car which she was driving overturned la Garden Road near Bowen Road.

The car was being driven up Garden Road at about 8 am. when

it skidded on some loose gravel pear Bowen Road,

WHY COMMUNIST BOMBARDMENT OF QUEMOY FAILED

By FRANCIS LARA

~~·Taipei, Oct. 15. The United States 'military experts who are currently studying the lessons of the six-week Communist bombardment of Quemoy are unanimously agreed serious that China has suffered a technical setback.

They stated in their reports that the Communist artiflory, which fired nearly half a million shells against the Nationalist

Jehovah's Witnesses, Rees, assistunt to the presiding minister in Britain, said last night: "I know both these men The above pictures taken by staff photographers show the car moralise the careisen, because

lying on its side and after it had been righted,

It skidded right across Garden Road into the bill-side and over-fortress, failed in its attempt to

turned. The car was badly damaged.

very well. After ministerial work in this country, they went on, an Intensive Bible course in New York in 1940-47.

"Then in 1947, they went to Shanghai and have been there ever since. There is a congrega-·

of Witnesses to Shanghat tion they take care of, and they have with regular contact afternoon. been in

the branch office of the Witnesses in Hongkong.

All Algeria Public Safety Committee tonight main- talne s call fur a guneral strike Reuter.

turturrow

Wreckage Seen

the

Caracas, Oct. 15. Search aircraft torny sighted wreckage of a Venezuelan Super-Constellation which was reported missing last night with persons aboard. All were 23 feared to be dead,

The wreck was spotted on the 3,000 feet "Cedro" Peak in the Sierre De Perija mountaina on the Colombla-Venezuela border.-France-Presse.

Second Bridge

Neutrality

Ate

quite "These chorges ridiculous. Jehovah's Wit- nesses are the same all over the

CANADIAN FIRM

TO BUILD BIG

HOTEL IN HK

world. The one thing, perhaps, A Toronto architectural firm will build a

we are best known for is our neutrality and non-interference in polities and milltary affoles. In fact, they put us in ghot for our neutrality.

"I suppose now these two have been arrested there will be one of their famous trials",

"streamlined hotel in Hongkong, believed

maintain the blockade and de-

of the inaccuracy of its Bre ond

the irrational use of cer- tain types of shell, which would normally have been in- Onitely moro devastating.

400 Launches

DEMON LOVER GETS “LIFE”-

KONLOON

BOAC Strike: "No Extra Headache For Hongkong"

|Hongkong's BOAC office report they are having "no extra headacho" bo- causo of the engineers strike at London Airport.

According to reports late last night, BOẶC have been able to get round the trouble to some extent by using Shonnon Air-. port, and Rome and Zurich Air- ports, instead of London.

Flights to the Far East aro reburning and leaving from Zurich and Rome, ona flights It the Western hemisphere from Shannon.

107 Held Up

Although the airline is doing everything they can to "help the travelling public," the Singapore office reported an initial delay when 107 passengers had been help up.

A Reuter cable from Singapore atates that. Mr W. D. C. Erskine Crum, BOAC chief there, sald that only those aircraft from the Far East which required major maintainance were now flying to London.

The rest were being turned round at their last European port of call

Although

two-thirds of DOAC's feet has been grounded by the strike according to a Reuter cable from London, the Hongkong office "has по headaches", According spokesman, because they are being helped by other airlines to carry their passengers,

to

Q

The spokesman said, "Tho other airlines are helping us, which is the natural and logical thing to do when this sort of thing happend."

The London cable said peace

this aimed at ending the strike broke down last night when the Chairmen of BOAC and British a union call for their

European Airways turned down

tendance.

pt-

Angry union chiefs Btalked out of British Overseas Airways beadquarter denouncing the employees' attitude as "foolish and provocative."

No 'Open Door' Policy To HK Immigrants

The

North

An

Jesselton, Oct. 15 government of Bellish Borneo is not following "open

door polley" op Chinese immigration from Hongkong, the Chief Secretary, 48-year- Mr A. M. Grier, sold here.

Parls, Oct. 15. Simone Deschamps, 48-year-old spinster, was today sentenced to hard labour for life for the murder of her lover's wife, Mlle Deschamps, a

member in

the

The American experts report- ed that the Communists, Irislead of using large surface vessels or old spinster, had told the court Replying to a question from submarinics which

could be she plunged a scout-knife into an unofficial manoeuvred in the comparative-Marie-Claire Evenou's heart be- Legislative Council, he said ""by

shallow

around cause waters

Dr Yves Evenou, her na stretch of the imagination Quemos, preferred to employ a lover, told her to do it to prove can the door be described DA fleet of some 400 light, cheap her love.

open to all and sundry."

and easily bullt motor launches. The case had been dubbed in

He sald an officer of the Some of these were armed Frunce the "Demon Lovers" Colony government was posed that in Hongkong, to ensure little

dinɛnage, paratively

contri- The court awarded one franc only those who would

to thebule to althoughs they eventually pre-symbolic damages

Borneo's. well being vented the Nationalist L.S.T.

to Everious 12-year-old daughter, were permitted enter,

Router. (Contd. on Back Pare, Col. 4) Francoise.-Reuter.

to be the first Canadian-designed build- with torpedoes which did com-affair. ing to be erected in Asia.

According to a United Press International cable, John B. Parkin Associates of Toronto announced they will start con- The above Information was struction on the Victoria Park Tokyo, Oct. 15.

supplied to the China Mail by Hotel in January, 1050 with start Presse.

no worse. But the strongest China announced today that Reuter and Agurice France completion scheduled for April,

argument in favour

Chiang's

withdrawal

of construction work will

is learned that the two men

1960,

Mr Parkin sald the hotel would cost about HK$6 million. He said labour is so cheap in

Hongkong that to build a com parable hotel in Canada would

to next year on a second Yangtze From sources in Hongkong 1 Formosa โป that the Com-river bridge at Nanking which

will be the longest in Asta -- have been under virtuil house münists would have to go longer and higher than the arrest for some time. A recent out of their way to challenge one spanning the Yangtze at British visiter who tried to see him there. Today the posi- wuhan, which China already. them in Shanghal was refused tione are reversed; it is claims to be the largest in Aslo, permission by the local author cost as much as IIK$18 million, Chiang who is challenging U.P.I. Mao in China.

Distressing

IT

is distressing to read that

ties.

The Contract award followed Mr Park'n's two recent trips to the Orient when he met mom bers of the Chinese syndicate

STRANGE TREASURE INuding the hotel, the Victoria

SUNKEN U-BOAT

Oslo, Oct. 15.

A German U-boat carrying a strange treasure

Park limited.

The 18-storey 240 - room hotel will be bult in Victoria Park overlooking Kowloon Bay and the harbour. It will be a high-class hotel designed to ailract tourists.

Mr Parkin said the design

that Mr Dulles has no plans to urgo Taipe! to reduce its forces on the lalands. And that he is not in favour of turning over the islands to the mainland. How can be convince anyone

On board the German Sub- The Hoevding Ships of company has opened a Hong- ho is anxious for a conse fire when he leavea a ticking U-43 was one ton of opium Hugging Serop Company learn- kong office for the construction, valued at 125,000 Norwegian ed of her load and received "There has been, Canadian time-bomb on China's door Kroer ($17,857). The sub-permission to raise the sub, heavy construction in Asia but step. He makes no attempt marine also Was carrying which is now docked in Moss, Wo

this is the first bollove to remove it, or ever to wolfram and molydben, two Norway,

Canadian building there," ho defure it. He even stands valuable-metats,

added, by and watches it being

equipment sch Mechanical The entire oplum load prob primed

for another in from Singapore. But on April ably will bo mold in Norway, lucas elevators and two separate evitablo explosion. M9, 1946, Royal Air Force born to the complicated formalities to air conditioning unlis will be Dulles may call this loyalty bere sank it off the Norwegian arrange sale abroad. A ton of imported from North America

friend. We call it coast,

oplum is enough

to handle and Europe but all It has remained' at callous disregard for the

the Norwegian conatumption for three labour will be used, Mr Parkin

mid. world's safety.

bottom of the ocean over since. ' years,- UPI.

has been brought up from the sea after 13 would bo altra-modern in years.

line with his firms specialty in modern design. Ho aid the

to a

U-843 started Its Inst

trip

Chinese

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