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No. 37218
Established 1945
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1958.
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Shareholders
To Decide On
Future Of Mercantile And Hongkong Banks
n hostile state, depending Shareholders of the Hongkong and Shang- hai Bank and the Mercantile Bank consent of the Communists.
will soon be asked to consider a share exchange offer to be made by the HK and S'hai Bank for the whole of the share capital of the Mercantile Bank.
lo meg whether they wish with the H.K and Shanghai Bok, by
Hong- leting the kon Bank buy shares in the
Merventile Bank.
West hus learn to expect from the Kremlia, is entire- ly unthinkable,
Nor can the three neeupying.
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The Boards of the two burka
powers be buldozed into wid both be ineeling on Decem- 2, devide 011 fina, negotiating the city's future | br
The shade for 1058. Myldend under threats such
offer wil! Eje - Russia
The exchange made crisis has now emerge in dervi at a later meeting.
And its full although 20K far only diplomatic wrangle i prospect, the Soviet aute envisages the grave Con- sequences of Western re- fusal. An airlift
Ban
in
When and if this is
CUTTI-
The move beuane known this į ploted, the stareholders of the as a result of a cable iwo banks must then agree be- mering From Londra, merel this
tole the amalgamation con be- Come a falt accompli.
was!
fraud by the Adviser to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Mr G. D. W. Stewart.
Stronger Group
ife agreed that if this move America has suggested in
concluded the The event of an East Gers successfully
be result will be "a rather stronger would blockade
"However, regarded as "violation of group." le naded,
quite a lot of things have stil frontiers" and "will im-
dane before to be
this is mediately
appressible."
arouse
priate retaliation"
UN Watchdog
NE report suggests the
First of all the shareholders of the 11.8, and Shanghai Bark will be asked by the Board to iperense the bank's capital, which at present stands at
O'Russian would not object s0,000,000.
to the United Nations net- Ing as "watchdog" of West Berlin's freedom. It makes the free city idea no more palatable but there in food for thought here. Oliviously the Western reply should
in
deal with Germany o whole since the unsolved German probleem is the major cause of tension Europe. It might Sugest
the entire vity thut Berlin-East and West- fir placed under United Nations administration and control Immediately Following agreement
free all. German elections, Pending thin, four-power control should remain.
A point in favour of the sug- zestion is that it is a more constructive move than the Russians have made, pro- posing um it does n per liminary to the solution of the German problem as a whole. That it is unlikely to be accepted by the Russians is no reason why I should not be ventured. The atun tion is not one which lenda itself to 1 stubborn, negative
The resistance. West must stand fir Berlin's elatus but it can show Itussia
That it har ideos of its own on how the difficulty can be overcome.
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Tengku's Surprise! TENGKU Abdul Rahman'n
decision nut to take in Chinese Moslem refugees |
Then the shareholders of the
Mercantile Bank will be asked
Branches
Mr Stewart said, "in modern bustness it has been the ten- drney for two or more business
This Ancerns to amalgamate. has been juppening in banks
100.
"Should the two local banks merge, they will still be run as a aeparate' eality by their own head offices. But may be offices possible to amalgamate where both banks have offices
the same place."
"In this move" Mr Stewart
"shareholders cencludeč, the dominant factor."
Father Flying To HK To See
Paralysed Navy Son
by Andrew Sloan
CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Mr Edward Lynch of Rutherglen, near Glasgow is flying out to Hongkong to see his sailor son, Daniel, who is lying partly paralysed in hospital after being punch. ed in the head in a local boxing match.
Danel, who is a triber of the ubled. It would be four of livel
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preliminary danger. bout for the Fleet Boxing | A Noval fils t 18 Missis to Sea- Fen
The punch which dad the the damage did not quite knock hin out.
He reported to the Medical Oficer luter and was then ad-
RELATE to the Royal Noval hospital.
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His conditon worsened and the became paralysed down his right side.
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Nuclear Experts Visit Colony For A-Station BUT “STILL A LONG WAY OFF" Experts in nuclear power generation have visited Hongkong
for talks with the management of China Light and Power Co Ltd "and we are co-operating with others in exploring the possibilities of a nuclear generating station for the Colony," said the Chairman Mr Lawrence Kadoorie.
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America Rejects Russian Berlin Proposal
Washington, Nov. 27.
A State Department communique today rejected the Soviet proposal to turn Berlin into a "free city" but added that the Government would study the Soviet note carefully and consult America's allies on it.
Low Vote
In
UK By-Election
London, Nov. 27.
murning thist iht Admiralty Only twenty-five per cent of
were Dying out the boy's father with all pess.ble haste, did when any not usuntly Royal Navy man was con- z.dered dangerously ti.
Subandro In Moscow
Moscow, Nov. 27. Lynch was operated on Wednes
indonesian Foreign Minister, day morning and was taken) Norostiali Subandra, arrived in to Queen Mary Hospital where Moscow tonight, the Soviet Tass his latest condition was 10- news agency reported. ported air.
Subandro is paying a visit to
now living in the Colony The Medical Omeer in charge the Soviet Union as the guest of said he did not expret Lynch Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei would be permanently dis-Gromyko.-France-Presse.
will be received in Hongkong with sharp disappointment. His reason that the ro
any
fugees "cenaed to be of
concern to us as they do not In Your Saturday Mail
prosent any big problem"
in puzzling. The Tengku
knew when he vislied long-WHAT is the secret
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kong that there were only n few here. Presumably there hud been 2,000 or 20,000 instead of 200 want- ing resettlement, the Tengku would never have offered them resettlement in Malayn, Hongkong will agree that a couple of hundred refugees more or less makes little
tho difference. in
total aggregate of minory, hard- ship and poverty that in the But lot of these people. Burely the Tengku's gesture was not to Hongkong but to the Moslem refugenz themselves. Their wretched plight continues if they stay that is n Jore. Surely matter of concern to all their Montoms, whatever nationality.
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The State Department said that "the Soviets seem to be proposing that while they lep their grip on East Berlin, the three Western Allies abandon their rights in West Berlin and retire in favour of what is called
free elly."
The United States will not agree to o unilateral repudia-, tion of Berlin," the statement satd.
No Agreement
the electorate voted today
Nor will the United States "en- when the Labour Party ro-
ter into Buy agreement with the tained the seat of Shore-Soviet Union which, whatever end ditch, poor London the form, would have the suburb, in a parliamentary result of abandoning the people by-election.
а
coused
The by-election was by the elevation to the peerage of the Labour member For Shoreditch, Victor Collins.
of West Berlin to hostile do- dination," the statement, added.
It salt: "The United States, along with Britain and France, the is solemnly committed to Michaelcurky of the Western sectors of Berlin. Two and a quarter in Berliners million Western rellance thereon have conTM vincingly and courageously de- monstrated the good fruits freedom."
Labour candidate, Circ beat his Conservative opponent Thomas Whilpham today by 10,214 votes to 3,219.
Heavy rain was presumed to be the reason for the poor turnout.
In the 1955 general elections, the Labour candidate polled 23.500 votes to 9,210 for the Conservative in a 65 per cent turnout.--France-Presse.
Faults Found In New Atomic Reactor
Risa, Nov. 27. Officials of Denmark's atomic research station here said today that faults had been discovered in an atomic reactor duo to start operating within the next few weeks.
Sixteen of the 20 graphite reflector elements in the reactor -built fargely from American
of State, But the Secretary John Foster Dulles, and other American oficials do not want to seem to act hastiky, and the United States "wli consult
.
He made the statement in company's annual report which has just been distri- buted to shareholders.
The China Mali phoned Mr Kadoorie this morning and asked him to name the people with whom the company was
discussions, baving
but Mr Kadoorie said: "I think at this curly date it would be wrong to give these names."
He added that The company was discussing the possibilities both with people abroad and people in Hongkong
it is learned that represen- tallves of a British firm nego- tloling with the Japanese for the construction of a nuclour power generating station visited
recently The Colony
for dis- cussions on A station for Hongkong).
Co-operating
The Chairman's statement on nuclear power said;
"Last year I referred to the zrowing development nuclear power.
HK-Berlin Of The East
Says
Grantham
London, Nov. 27.
Hongkong, in giving sanctuary to hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from tyranny, was in a sense the Berlin of the East, Sir Alexander Grantham said tonight.
Speaking at a meeting of the Royal Commonwealth Society bere, Sir Alexander. former Governor of the British Colony. of mainland China, said long- kung
Use to was of unique both the Communiat Chinese the Western authorities and world.
For the Chinese it was "heir only
The peephole into
free world they have no other prephole into the free world'
Listening Post
For the West, "Itongkong 15 the best stening post there is into China, and even the No. tionalists in Formosa will accept that."
Discussing the Colony's future, he polated out that Hongkong as a Brlitsh Colony "Is quite a lot of use" to the CommuDiris,
Communist China had the full advantage of all the Colony's facilities, like banking, shipping of and insurance, used its port for Shareholders freighting purposes and gained a will no doubt be interested to great deal of foreign exchange know that experta in nuclear from the sale of foodstuffs, he generation have already visit-said. ed the Colony and...that wo
on
SIR ALEXANDER Hongkong is defensible
He added; "And here I al- most forgot to say one thing. and that is this, Hongkong is defensible. You can get Z great many good authorities
that, both
and British American.”. If China ever attacked Hong- are co-operating with others kong, "they would and an empty Speaking of the impact of a Government In in exploring the possibilities elly-and Hongkong, is only of Communist of a nuclear generating station use in peace time as a going con- for the Colons.
"Capital cost Der kilowatt of nuclear generating capacity particularly for early stations will be very high. Fuel costs, however, after allowing for the initial charze should be much lower than for conven- tional stationa.
"In saying this, however, I must stress that generation of electricity in Hongkong by ihis means sill some dia. Lance off and should not be taken as being likely to affect us in the near future. Апу Immediate expansion which might become necessary will be by means of conventionai plant".
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Spectacular 30-Car Pile-Up
In America
Chicago, Nov. 27.
A northern California fog led to a 30-car plle-up near San Francisco today, in- Juring 32 sons in the most spectacular of the trafic accidents which marred the Thanksgiving holiday scene.
The fog was part of the bad weather which subdued the joya
with the British and French of travelling in many parts of as well as with the U.S. but traffic was reported Governments the Federal Republic of Ger-heavy in spots. many," the statement sak Franco-Presz.
GAPS IN NOTES Pago 2
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Rodzinski Dies
Boston, Nov. 27.
ot
The highway death rate ap peared encouragingly low and mounted elowly. running alightly less than three deaths per hour since the ometal holiday count showed a traffe toll of 71. FIRE TOLL
In addition, fires claimed 12. lives, 10 of them children; ono person died in a plane crash and 13 others in various accidents Dr Artur Redziński, one of jfor an overnil hallday, toll of 97. America's most famous orchestra conductors, died tonight at Massachusetts General Hospital of a heart ailment. He was 04-U.P.I.
manufactured equipment are Russian Warning
lenking, the officials said,
"There was a possibility of catastrophic results," It stoled.
was
The atomic station states will cost 60,000 kroners (about £3,000), to rectify the faults. Reuter.
United Nations, Nov. 27. Rumin warned today that it will block all efforts to enlarge the Security Council and other UN. hoding unul Communist China is admitted to the United Nations-U.P.I.
Fog along the const in Cali-| forníu shut down airports and
was responsible for the multiple
smash-up at the south end of the new Carquinez Bridge, 35 miles northeast of Ban Francisco. Three of the 32 persons hurt were in serious condition.
California highway patrol sald a car, went out of control on the moisture-pricken- ed highway about a.m. god went broadside across a divid- ing strip. Approaching drivers found themselves in a series of collision when they tried to halt--UPJ
cern.
Advantages
There would seem to be few advantages from the Chinese point of view in making an attack on Hongkung because, by the expiry of the lease or the New Territories - Hource
the Colony's water supplies "they might reasonably expect to get
of
It back as a going concern in 1997,"
S
Chinu he said: "From the pure- ly Hongkong point of view, not from the United Kingdom point of view, tho great difference was not that. It was a Commu- nist regime but the fact that, compared with any of its pre- ceding regimes it was a strong one."
The altitude of the Peking Government to Hongkong had gone through various phases, said Sir Alexander, who wns
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