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KOWLOON

Comment U.S. HOLDS BACK CONVOYS A QUESTION

Of The

Hopes It Will

Day

The China Fleet

Trafalgar Day, Oct. 21

THE full story of the Royal

Try on the china Coast

would tell a large part of China's modern history, It runs from days when Bri- tish men war 'walled up the Pearl River, ailenced

Not Be A.

Full-Scale

Bombardment

By JOHN HEFFERNAN

Washington, Oct. 20.

Bocca Tigris guns and took The United States is holding off resumed

merchantmen

into

convoying of Chinese Nationalist supply vessels in the Quemoy area in the hope that the latest outbreak of Communist firing will prove to have been merely sporadic, officials said today.

their Canton, to more recent days when the British ́– Navy prevented piracy and amuggling along the China coast to support the foreign run China Customs that provided a huge part of Chinese revenue. Admiral Keyes tells of his It was emphasized that there service with a gunboat, was nothing yel to show whe- aboard which he kept his ther this latest Communist ac pole pony and shipped him ivity was simply an interrup- The censofire or whe- between Happy Valley and in the bombardment was polo fields in northernther treaty ports. Submarinersg to be resumed, in full tell of bandit patrols

In

In

force,

today

Bias Bay when they would Unually reliable sources said

in at night and float that at one time about

consideration been given y periscope depth watching calling off Mr Dulles' trip over the Polo from England lo the pirate ports from which Formosu. That was when first armed junks would sail out· to rendezvous with gange that boarded coastal

reports were received of the Communist order to their shore batterica to open up again.

When

It became 'evident, however, that the resumption China of shelling was only temporary at this point- formidable at leant

thoughts of changing Mr Dulles plans were dropped.

steamers 11.9 fare-paying passengers and then took over when well out to sea.

those days the Fleet was affair, a powerful striking force which refitted Hongkong, had a recreation port. on the laland at Chinwangtae and pald regular

calls

Dn

in

Trump Cards

Mr

Diplomalle sources mid that treaty it was fairly obvious that the ports where their Royal Communists had chosen Marine bands became a Dulles impending visit to the familiar sight.

area to try to demonstrate both to the United States and to the Nationalists that they hold the Gump cards.

UT even in those duya existed argument

Bur

:

in Naval "strategy. Thoso of the "Nurrow Sea One official commented that School" centred Naval the resumed fring was "dis- strategy on the Mediter- appointing" to the United States

had been ranean and Suez Canal Because it

Thought Dist the temporary. ceasefire

an area on which we-spent would grow into the reasonably

Inst

a great deal for little pro-dependable censefire which At in this This school argues that "

war, the United States Gought,

Britain wer

were to abandon When Mr Dulles left Washing- the Mediterranean (and ton on Friday night for Rome therefore the Middle East) was the general belief her Russia could extend her In- that one of his prime objectives fluence down to the Persian Generalagimo Chiang to reduce persundu Galf; cut the world in two;his forces on the offshore Islands amash the armed ring and redeploy them

would be

"around her; and be free to Formosa.

extend step by step through

to

on

Mr Dulles has intimated in

STILL LIGHT SHELLING

Taipei, Oct. 21. Chinese Commun- ist batteries lobbed 48 rounds at Quemoy between 8 p.m. on Monday and midnight, and then fell silent, the Chinese Nationalist Defence Ministry re- ported early this morning.

Communist guns continued light sporadic shelling to- day firing 166 rounds up to 6 a.m. — France-Presse & U.P.I.

DULLES

ARRIVES

Taipei, Oct. 21.

John

all continental Europe and the past few weeks that there Secretary of State Africa.

could be important consequences Foster Dulles arrived in flowbig from a dependable Taipei today for defence talks with Nationalist Loader Chiang Kai-shek fou than 24 hours after the Chineso. Communista broke the Quamoy coolo- fira.

. The other strategists are the

"Open Seas School" who ceasefire, but he has emphasis- point, now with more anded that "short suspensions of more reason, to a future on armed attack do not provide a wider sens... when the solid foundation upon which to cheapest freight will go stabilise the situaton in the in- from Hongkong to Britain tercat of peace."-Reuter. under the North Pole, and

increasing develop

when

ment all over the worlU.S. Will Not

distributes trade more and more evenly over its surface. In the last war it was by the open seas that Britain survived. And it would be A healthy thing for the local governors of Panama and Suez to feel a little less

Indispensable.

TO this school of thought

It would seem natural to divide the Far Eastern Fleet into two newer larger fleets... one for the

Ocean, Pacific

based perhaps on Canada, Australia, or a Royal Naval Island in the Pacific; and

Countenance Appeasment

More than 200 American and

officials mel Mr Dulles at the airport as lie arrived from England over the polar route in a converted Jet Lanker. Mr Dulles received u 19-gun salute.

FOR ALL

Eva Bartok To Marry RACEGOERS

Indian Prince?

London, Oct. 20.

Film star Eva Bartok sald today she hoped to marry the 27-year-old Indian Prince Shiv of Palitana. ¡ According to a Rank Organiss

tion spokesman the 29-year- old four times married star disclosed her plana at the Organisation's Pinewood Studios this afternoon. The Rank spokesman added

that the Prince Ma et pro- sent in Naples talking the matter over with his father and It is hoped that he and Miss Bartok

can

MRITY soon as possible." The Prince's father in 53-year- old Sir Shri Bubadursinhi Mousinhji, the Maharaja Thakoo Sabcb of Palitana. Hungarian-bern Eva Bartok gave birth to a baby girl on Delober 7

11 last year, months after Izr divorce from Gennan actor Kurt Jurgens,

The Marquis

。

*

Her name has been repeatedly laked by gossip columnists with that of the Marquis of

Haven, Milford

distant 'cousin of Queen Elizabeth. The Marquis, aged 39, great- great-grandson of Queen Vic- toria, was, best man at the wedding of the then Princess *Mizabeîn and the Duke of

Edinburgh In 1847. After her divorce from Kurt Jurgens, Eva Bartok became A follower of Pak Subu, Indonesian spiritualist. The Marquis was with Miss Bartok when she farewelled Pak Subu last March on a trip to the American West Coast. The

married Marquis

MA'S Romaine Simpson, an Ameri- can socialite in 1950. She obtained a Mexican divorce on the grounds of incompatibility in 1954.

on

He is petitioning the London Divorce Court to confirm the validity of this divorce, Questioned later by reporters at her home, Eva Bartok said the report of her engagement was

Film star Eva Bartok famous for hats trios on a new style during the shooting of har latest film "Operation Amsterdam"... borrowed the naval cap of her co-stor Peter Finch.

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BRAZIL POLICE MAKE 400-MILE SWEEP FOR MURDERERS OF HK MAN

Rio de Janeiro, Oct, 20,

Two planes and one helicopter were added today to the fleet of cars, jeeps and trucks that took part in a spectacular chase for Lin Fu 'Chow, a Chinese wanted for questioning in the assas- sination of the Hongkong millionaire Lee Ching-dee and his secretary.

Montgomery Says The Politicians Lost Us Prague, Berlin,

Vienna

New York, Oct, 21. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery said today that President Eisenhower is a "truly great man" who deserves most of the credit for the Allied victory in Europe in World War I but that America was to blame for the isolation of Berlin and loss of Prague to the Russians.

of the German

The controversial British mill-in a September, 1944 letter "a bit of a premature rumour."tary leader, in the third part | "agreed

with me" about, the Reuter & France-Presse.

of his memoirs published today Importance In Life Magazine, also gave his capital, but said in a March 1940 version of the battle of the letter that he regarded Berlin ga geographical Bulge, when Elsenhower order- "nothing ed him to take command of the location." North or left flank after the Germans threatened a complete breakthrough.

Time Bomb Damages

A

RAF Plane

ed

but a

"I have never been Interest- in these," Montgomery quoted Elsenhower,

look the Montgomery also

Some US military leaders, including Gen. Omar Bradley, U.S. to lask for its political have tended to minimise Mont- policies.

of "If the higher direction gomery's rola in the battle. Bradicy wrote that the German the war had been handled pro- offensive

doomed "Was Nicosio, Oct. 20.

toperly by the political leaders of could have British Canberra jot fallure...24 hours before Mont-the West...we

grobbed all three (Prague, Ber- In and Vienna) before the Rus- bomber suffered consider-mery came to our rescue,"

Montgomery praised Elsen-

signs ablo damage when a time hower as one of the major in-

hla life. He said! bomb insido the aircraft fluences in exploded tonight at the "the President was a remarkable Akrotiri Royal Air Force and most lovable man." baso in southwest Cyprus A Major Share

The Secretary stepped into the

Last November an explosion centre of a new Formosa crisis in a hangar at the same airbeld and which exploded yesterday when destroyed four Canberras Los Angelos, Oct. 20. Chinese Communist guna Lom-Jone Venom Jet Aghter. President Dwight Eisenhower barded the

offshore Quemoy There were no casualties.

The Canberra was standing stressed tonight that the islands, shattering the two-week

Did casefire.

at a dispersal point on the air U.. has "romalned at The Communists charged they field. peace" during the six were ending the ceasefire

Royal Air Force spokesman yours of his "administra- cause U.S. naval vessels had had no explanation for how the tlon, but he warned that resumed escorting Nationalist tomb was planted near the

American Canberra vesels to Quemoy.

tonight. An "there will be no appoos and Chinese spokesmen denied mediate court of inquiry ing Communist aggression the, charges.-U.P.I. while I am President."

one for the Indian Ocean In a Congressional election based on Singapore, Afrien, campaign speech Mr Elsen-

the Seychelles. Lord hower said,

or

"During Bix Louis Mountbatten's recent years of serious international stress, America has remained at announcement.

of Royal peace." Marine Commandos for the this Far East adds to

At the same time, he de- picture of an "Open Seas"clared that "those in the world. policy

as doce the who would do us harm know forthcoming closure that America will not be bul-The lied." Royal Naval Dockyards in

He added, They know that Malta and Hongkong.

of

The Royal Navy, however, has

America will not countenance a

oftablishedUPI.

COTTON BALES ABLAZE

IN KOWLOON WHARF

Im-

Was

"The Americans could not understand that it was of little avail to win the war strategical- ly it we lost it politically," he wrote. "Because of this curious we suffered 10- viewpoint, "We do not always pgrce

cordingly from V-E day orward, about the strategy, and major and are still so suffering.” ineties of the war in which we

Momgomery sold the dispute Montgomery were engaged,"

over his command of the North wrote, "(but) although it may

that no one Bank during the battle of the Bulgo resulted over misinter- be true to say than could have been respon-pretations of a post-battle pres

an achievement; sible for such (as the Allied co-operation and conference he held and "feeling victory in Europe), the major against me on the part of the share of the credit goes to American Generals"U.P.I, Eisenhower, without any doubt,

"I would not class Ike as great soldier in the true Betuse of the word, Ha might. have become one if he had ever had the experience of exercising, direct command of a division, ull- corps and army, which fortunately for bim did not come his way. But he was a

commander, great -upreme military statesman.

"I know of no other person who could have welded the allled forces into such a fine Aighting machine in the way he

Moving Towards Talks

London, Oct, 20. Britain, Greece and Tur- key moved towards agree. ment today on a high level conference over the future authoritative of Cyprus, sources reported.

The United States was exported to participais as an "observer" at the pro. Jected conference.

Paul Henri Spaak, Nato's Secretary-General who has worked behind the scents for weeks to bring aboul this round table meeting of the chief contestants xlated to paril- elpals in the talka....... Ho la believed to have been ask- ed to not as the chairman of the conference.-U.PL

ww mino

Bangkok Police Comb Out Reds

Army Coup

After Army

Bangkok, Oct. 21.

The scene of the hunt centred north today between a point

of Brasillo, the future capital of Brazil, and the clly of Porto Nacwonal, both in

Goles State.

Police action is buing developed miles over a radius of 400 which comprises a number of towns in Guins.

Another Chinese, Chao You-

chien, alias Tony, was cap

and taken tured yesterday immediately to Spo Paulo, where the two assassinations took place earlier this month. Tony was quoted as saying on his arrival at Sao Paulo that he could write a whole book about the crime.-U.P.I.

Frank Sinatra Finds A Titled Wife

London, Oct. 31. Frank

Sinatra and the beautiful 38-year-old Lady Beatty are "planning to marry," the Daily Mall reports today.

The newspaper caya that friends of Lady Beatty -- whose marriage to 63-year-old Earl Beatly

was dissolved in June

FRANK SINATRA

bellova the only

questions

to be answered are "when; and where."te

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowne were bit by the second are in two and a half months, when oulton baics itored in one of their godowns near Jordan Road batat inte did, and kept a balance among Over 100 police patrols fanned out across the city flames this morning.

the many condicting and dis-

and began drawing in a massive dragnt for territorial expansion by force. At the time of going to press, the fire was stili kissing, and no turbing elements which threa

Communists carly today. been served well by her They know that America will accurate amcazment-of-the damago, could be made. A tened at times to wreck the Chinese workmen in Hong: not desert her friends."

Chinese newspaper pinced the damage, faure in the region ship."

Montgomery added that it is Police searched mostly politelang were arrested,

A friend of the couple is of $100,000. The Unlied States, the Presi kong. Many of them would

The action followed the dia- two be prepared to migrate to dent sald, "i allergic to ap- The fire broke out in Godown 250, which a boatde the godown my beller that historians will Chloese newspapers and

Some newsmatic seizure of power by the quoted waying "they are Ike reached his Thai, newspapers. which caught fire on July 29 this year reballing in the 'deeccord that

terribly fond of each other." new naval yards. If offered peasement. There will be no

party-under greatest heights; is:President." papermen were picked up for Revolutionary the chance. It is to be hoped "pposing Communist aggression trustion of 1,000 bales postom, non & RAMANA

***Commander *: Held; "Both / Baye,... been married. But the British leader alan questions. Polico reported the Bupremo that the Royal Navy will while I am President. The re- The Fire Brigade sent more than ten spylianicos to the sosur.

Including the Fire Boat Bir Alexandés: Graníbama, B. issid that inhower, obanged dragnet would catch a number Marshal Sarit Thamarát, who twiće previously: Endy-Bonn curd shows that for alx years, not forget her own long no new victim har fallen The building 2100le in met an fire. But upoke ia hampering fre- his mind about the Importance of high". ranking military and said the coup, was necessary bow disk. marriak, Sto Calfornian history on the China coast, to Communist Imperialism Amman's Pafforts to get inte ime zonewa and bring out ing bura= |of-reaching - Berlin before the police officials but so far it was cause of Communist, subversion. Mr. Willan O'Connor, Was dites

[solved in 1940 —Reuter, France-Presse.

Russinon, "He said Eleshower! not known whether any lettlat i is the "bation --UP.I. ing balen. or these servants here.