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A Big Meeting

M

IKOYAN and Eisenhower

are to meet. This falls just short of a Big Two summit, but experts say it will be the most important in years. The hope is that the two leaders may be able

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to succeed in an ata- sphere of warm cordiality where the formul, carefully stage-managed Rasemblies of four have foundered in the frigid, inhibited glass- the house diplomacy of postwar years. For they will be unfettered by un unhindered by timetables. foutloose, as it were, to wander over the whole field of East-West problems, and, most im- portant, will meet without any preparatory fanfare of Erent expectations.

But "succeed" in what way? For can we expect Mikoyan Any more tractable

to be

Can

A

Counsel Submits Hongkong Now U.S. Wants To Curb

Mr

Articles Are Defamatory

Justice C. W. Reece in the Supreme Court this morning reserved his judgment on the libel action brought by Dr H. H. Kung, a former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of the National Government of China against the Sing Tao Jilt Pao Ltd and its editor, Chen Man-ying,

£1.000 For

Our Refugee Children

London, Jan. 13. Save the Children Fund has sent £1,000 to Hongkong to help relieve distress of children among the million refugees from China, it was announced today.

than Khrushchev, despite his charm and chattiness during the current Ameri- The

deputy tour. Premier he may prove far less flexible. But don't look for spectacular agree- ments for it is a foregone Conclusion that there will be none. What is to be That in private expected? interview the two leaders will be able to acquaint each other with the true feelings of their respective governments.

De Kung who is not in Hong- kong sued for alleged livel con- tathed in two articles published In the Sing Tao Ji Pau of November 25, 1945. He claimed that as a result of the article he had been greatly injured in

la credit and reputation.

Taxi Fares To Be Revised

By STAFF REPORTER Draft legislation is under

consideration by Govern. ment which may change the present scale of taxt fares in Hongkong Kowloon.

and

оп

firat

At present the rales are, the Island, $1.50 for the mile and $1 for each subsequent mile, and on the Mainland, $1 for the Orst mile and 80 cents for each subsequent mile.

The present scale of fares is

facts regarding road and ter- rain.

HK Textile Exports

Washington, Jan. 12.

A senior United States Government trade expert will fly to Hongkong next month to seek curbs on the colony's rapid- ly expanding exports of cotton textiles to this country, it was announced today.

Is

Australia Make A Stand

Sydney, Jan. 13.

The Surrey spinners, Tony

Lock and Jim Laker, swung the game in Eng- land's way with three quick wickets this morn- Ing but after lunch, Aus- tralia made a stand and

and

Davidson McKay brought the score up to six for 303,

At lunch on the fourth day of

officiut

Air

The domestic textile repro- The

Henry Industry sources slated after

the meeting that they had com-sentatives used the Japanese Kearns, adstant Secretary of

ayardstick for men- Commerce for International plained in the strongest terms quota os

in Hong- Affairs, who will confer with about the increasing flood of suring the increases Hongkong government officials colton weaving goods into the tong's shipments.

Industry leaders from United States from the Crown They claimed that Hargkonz's

Colony.

cotton shirt exports in the United d

235. "The United States Govern-States had increased more than February 13 to 17.

American textile industry re- ment is taking Increasing 1,500 per cent in two years. preventatives forecast that Mr cognisance of the threat to our

In the first ten months of 1958, Kearns might suggest the im- doncsile industries imposed as they said, there exports repre- sented 65 per cent of the Japan- ese shipments with Hongkong sending 419,000 dozen and Japan 733,500 dozen

He calmed unspecified dam-based on a complicated series of pollon of "voluntary" export the lord of cotton textile im-

s

Terrain

uolaz, such as new apply to

calton Japanese

textile ship meats to the United States.

Conferred

JUDGE

quota control-391,743 dozen.

the Third Test, Australia, three for 184 overnight, were six for In the morning Les Favell edged an easy catch to Cowdrey off Lock after reaching 54.

Two runs later, at 199, O'Nelli's bright knock came to on end as he edged Laker to Swetman for 77, his highest Test Innings.

Laker claimed his second wicket of the morning nine runs later as he clean bowled. Richto Benalid for 5.

Just before tea, both David- son ond McKay reached their

It was stated that cotton ap-half centuries.-Reuter.

of

parel reaching the United States

Irom the Colony in the Brzi ten

months ct 1958 had a value of

$12.3 million-about eight times

the amount in the corresponding STOP PRESS

ports, notably from Hugkong. akes.

In

Anal address this

which is having a very serious morning, Mr John McNeill, QC,

Impact," Mr Alax Lovell, a representative of Shirt and Another example cited was Jending Counsel for the plainuft

As the Island has more steep

Pyjama Manufacturers, sald. Lassiere shipments, when for submitted that is Lordship

stopping. as more

the first ten months of 1958 Although the hour-long meet- hesitation in hills, and would have no

Mr Koarns' decision to visiting was held primarily to in-was claimed that Hongkong ex- directing himself that the ex-starting and changing gear

307,000 dozen to the pression euntained in the articles needed on the busy, congested Rengkong was announced after taim the textilu representatives ported

current quata negotia- United States and Japan-under a defamatory roads in the centre of town, he had conferred for an hour of the were capable

is considered more costly than

this afternoon with officinia of tions with Japan, most of it was meaning.

Textile United States

Luken

a review up with Appearing with Mr McNeill running a vehlele on the flatter sine way Mr Brook Bernacchi. They ronds of Kowloon. Hence the Manufacturers' Associations. Hongtong's trade, were instructed by Mr Cheung 50 cents difference on the taxi- Wing-in of P. H. Sin and Co. meter.

fre Attention to their plight was The defendants were repre

the But

present laws drawn by the Bishop of Hong-sented by the Hon.

becoming Leo rapidly

out-dated. long, the Right Reverend RO. Alinada, QC, and Mr D. A, L. The inws governing scales of Hall, during his recen! leave Wright, both on the instructions fares were made in 1937, an

of Mr P. J. Grils of Wilkin-amended just after the war. England, Brigadier T.W. Boyle, Secre-son and Grist.

They have not been changed tory of the Fund, said:

Mr McNeill in his final speech since. "Many thousands have to sleep on flat said that when he opened his daily ration amounts to only lems, perhaps nowhere. But 1,200 to 1,300 calories."-Reuter, haven't we longed for

ENERGETIC heart-to-heart talk with the}

this report Commenting on thei Russians ever since

F. S. easy intimacy of the famous today, the Very Rev.

St. John's wartime meetings between Temple, Dear of

Cathedral said he was not suf Roosevelt and

prised to hear of this latest ended abruptly

donation.

ND where will that get us?

some now,

A with our specie pro rooftops and in the open. Their case yesterday morning the drew diesel-engined tools, which are

Stalin, Churchill

thie

Court's attention to the defence as pleaded.

The Defence The defence, he said amounted

to this:

relatively cheaper to operate, have been used by taxicab com- companies to The Island. The Kowloon taxi companies have,

ser

These articles, which were pleaded did not refer to the plaintif And assuming that

Kowloon, Bishop Hall, he sald, has they did refer to the plaintiff they were not libellous; and it they

the plaintif referred to they could be said to be fair comment, a matter of public interest.

with the war? Haven't we longed for return

.

10been making energetic speaking Hongkong's explaining diplomacy in its proper tours environment behind refugee problem to the British one reason closed doors where, bargain people. This was

be why his return to the Colony compromise

on without this has been delayed.

The Dean said Bishop Hall tiresome, frustrating game will be back in the Colony on of one-up-manship?

January 27.

and

carried

can

Of course bath countries have fixed policies, but give and take can only come when trust is restored.

At this

Mr McNeill said that no at- tempt had been from the begin- ning to the end of the matter to

Complicated

RECTIFIES KESWICK'S $3m SETTLEMENT

the Supreme Court this morning Mr Justice C. W: Reece granted an application by Mr David John Keswick to rectify a $2,950,000 settlement in favour of his four daughters.

period of 1957.

Mir

Last Resort

Commenting on these gures, Lovell said: "When the Japanese quota was set in 1957 we accepted all we could bear and these imports from Hong- kong are simply over-saturating the market.'

"As a Inst resort we can go to Congress," Mr Lovell addel, sume form of controls

might be

mandatory

sought If Mr Keams was unable

to find a solution during his discussions in Hongkong. Reuter.

Col. J.D. Clague, Chairman of the H.K. Textile Negotiating Committee, said this morning he had no comment to make on the visit of the American oficial,

all cars, seating three passen

until now, kept using In

implying that only. The langer diesel taxis sent four comfortably. Now, large diesel-engined taxis

are beginning to гppear i

but the starting

Mr Keswick claimed that the the most valuable corroborative price on the taximator la still

Hongkong $1. The

Police terms of the settlement were la-f evidence to assist the Court,

was not called," he said, have registered a number of advertently put in such a way them as a trial,

as not to give effect to his in-

Under the

There was no original

evidence by tentions.

(Mr Keswick's terms, the capital of the trust the defendants

und was to be held in trust for children and two grandchildren) contradict Mr Keswick's According to the Trable his grandchildren to the entire to

Hestetemer.t that he had asked show in any way that the articles Superintendent, Mr N. G. Rolph, exclusion of his children. did not refer to the plaintif.

to prepare of taxi

maintained that his intentious Sir Man-kam the question

farca an Counsel said that he referred, both sides of

of his the harbour 1st the time of the settlement settlement in favour in his opening, to a number of

(sill children and that he intended extremely

his children compli-were that passages in the two articles becoming

then at school) should benent that his children should benefit which not only mentioned plein-cated, and needs revision.

will However, there

no re and he had no thought of grand- or if they died, the grand- tiff by name but used expressions

were chlidren. such

"im- as "high-officlaí,"

vision of farca until Govern- children, although they

tha ment deelde an

draft named as residuary beneficiarles, That being 30, perlant official” and so on which Lady could, he submitted, leave

toglalation, to amend existing today arrived in doubt in any one's mind that the

regulations. Marrakesh from London for articles did refer to the plaintiff,

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it

Sir

Marrakesh, Jan. 12. Winston and

meeting this vitally im- portant element of trust only as the may emerge achievement. But Bould be worth more than Churchill

By paper agreement that!

could be devised at present. This is why the experts ure pinning such hopes on conference that may have no other direct results.

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plaintif objected

and which were contained in the articles did refer to the plaintiff.

So I invite your Lordship to say that It is beyond doubt that these articles de refer to the plaintiff," Counsel said.

Mr

He Contended

McNeill submitted that

the articles were libellous and cited number

expressions

used in them which he contend-

éd referred to the plaintiff,

"I submit you will have no hesitation directing yourself that such expressions

25 are aro

contained in these articles cupable of a defamatory mean-

Counsel Bald,

was

McNeill said that the In- Duendees which were ploaded In the statement of claim were necessarily

as where pleaded the alleged libel

in foreign language, innuendoes and to be pleaded. He mald there was a translation to which Do objection had been taken by Counsel added the defendants. that the innuendoes

were not really necessary because they merely in eRoot set out what was staled clearly and without equivocation

articles in the themselves.

"Your Lordship will have noticed that not a question was asked of the witness for the plaint, directed in any way to try and establish a defence of fuir comment," Mr McNeill said. Fair Comment

He said that hed there been ery serious intention to establish fair comment, one would have thought that' the' editor of a ¡ ̈newspaper or proprietor of scene one would come along to lagi- orte at least that such matters of comment were an honest ax- pression of the writer's resi opinion.

Not only had no one bean cilled to say that po attempt (Contd. of Básk' Paru, Osi, 3)

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RANDOLPH

CHURCHILL PART TWO PAGE 4

Criticised

sign

the Settlement

Д

"inadver-

o man of his

sald the Mr ho Judge,

accepted

to the Keswick's evidence as Mr Justics Reece ordered the Instructions he

gave. Mr of a clause In, the Juice Itecco stated. insertion settlement for the trust und o "Mr Keswick said he did not oo he.d in trust for Mr Keswick's

and for the tently, but he certainly did.not children ilving children living of any of his exercise the care And caution children who

died, which one would naturally ex may have these grandchildren taking the pect to find in share of their dead parent. educational attainments and

Giving a lengthy written position in the world.

criticised judgment, the Judge the Hon. Sir Man-kam Lo, the aulicitor to whom Mr Keswick gave oral instructions in 1949 to

"Mr Keswick was aware of preparn the settlement,

the importance of the document His Lordship said that he at- he was executing and his atti- tached blame to Sir Man-kam tude can only be described as Lo "for creating a situation casual, to the point of careless blind re- which has unquestionably Put negligence, placing the plaintiff (Mr Kaswick) to lance on the colleltor to whom heavy expenso, which, by the he had entrusted the prepare- exercise of the ordinary caretion of the instrument, but who which was to be expected of has failed to carry out the In- him, would have been avolded"structions given to him.

Cautioned

Negligence

for

re-

Macmillan Goes greatest caution and upon the sponsible from the blame

R

"But what I have wald about the atillude of mind with which Mr. Keswick approached the and Mr Justice Recce held that letter from the solicitors

not the

the draft settlement must Court had jurisdiction to rectify, but that it must ex-be understood as in any way

the solicitor ercise that jurisdiction with the onerating

preparing the settlement most compelling evidence.

must attach to Examining the evidence, the which I think

1 situation Judge said he was most sur- him for creating

put prised to find that the solicitor which has unquestionably London, Jan. 13. responsible for the preparation the plaintiff to heavy expense Mr Harold Macmillan, the of the settlement, Sir Men-kam which, by the exercise of the Prime Minister, left here early Lo, was not called as a witness. ordinary care which was to be today by train for a three-day "I am indeed greatly surprise! expected of him, would have tour of northeast England. that one who could have been been avoided. Reuter,

rightly expected to have given) (Conid, on Back Page, Col. 7)

On Tour

BRITONS SMOKING MORE, DRINKING LESS

My London, Jan. 18. The British are smoking more,

drinking, as beer and buying | fewer clothes; it was diaslosed to a movvy published today. During the tides; quarter. et

with £124,600,029 Tor the corresponding period of 1987, They drank: £157,009,408 worth with of beer in - vemparison £150.000.000 previously, and boughs &BGRA4+120) werik af. ees in, the same, quarter af 2 1007.

Their purchases of automobiles And meisroycles Increased Free 30 to 87 million, house- hold mopilandos Aropped from 76 to $2 million, and furniture - from 189, tallion to 29 kalition. homes revi› 158 Instead of 193

million---Tracies-Frases.

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Tea Score

Sydney, Jan. 13. undefeated seventh wicket stand of 183 by Ken MoKay and Alan Davidson had swung the game back in Australia's favour by loa, when Australia

311 were for six-02 ahead with four wickels in band-Reuter,

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