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Comment Of The

Day

VISIT TO RUSSIA

RELATIONS

between

Russia and the West must be reckoned better today than for many months

past. There is no major

THE WEATHER: Light variable winds becoming mainly S. W. to W. Cloudy or overcast with patches of slight drizzle and some fog patches at first in the S. E.

approaches.

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CUT-PRICE FARES WITH BRITANNIAS AND DOUGLAS DC-65

Debris

HK-LONDON BY AIR: £136 Sighted

Another Two British Jan Crouch Inquiry UK TRAWLER

Airlines Want To

Operate

Service

By CHINA MAIL REPORTER

Here

source of tension and the Two more private British airlines have asked to start cut- price fortnightly air services between London and Hong- kong.

Berlin crisis appears to have receted temporarily, Khrushchev's the FreeD

with

at speech Moscow Con- gress suggests that Russia ik matreing 31 period of pengeful competition with the West and, like China, is wholly preoccupied ecmomic questions, Thus there is an auspicious timeliness About The long-awaited announcement that Mr Macmiling is going to Russia. The visit how- ever, cannot be judged by whatever final communique stems from it. 11

not a mission with any de finite objectives, Like Mr Mikoyan in Amerien Mei

Soviet Dancer Charged With

Shoplifting

In New York

Macmillan will explore both A member of the the Government

intentions!

and feeling in the country.

It is more in the nature of

a reconnaissance prior to a

new summit than a Big Two get-together.

was

Tuesday

And not only do they offer fares at £136 single and £245 return, a little more than half Boac tourist fares, but they plan to use Britannia aircraft as well as DC-6s,

Last month mother private British airline, Eagle Aviation 1d announced plans to operate rervice between fortnightly Britain and Hongkong using the "colonial route" also at 136 sinate.

The comparable tourist class, is £224.

Bosc fare.

Permission

New York, Feb. 5.

The two latest British; nilines Soviet

applying to start serviers to Beryczka dancing troupe engyong ere Hunting-Clan and

on Airwork. arrested here

They alto plun services to and charged with having stolen $42.11 West and Central Africa and worth of goods from New the West Indies.

In a joint stalement from York's Macy's Depart-London today the two airlines were applying was re-unnameed they Store, ment

for permission to operate the services, according to The arrested Rushin is 41- w year-old Gennady Petrovitch Reuter.

it

Popular Welcome ported here today.

But

the cable did not say

TR Macmillan may be sure. Lov, a minber of the Beyozka where the application had been

henrly and

reception. States organised by impresario; Russia has Agured pro S. Hurok minently in

the British MISUNDERSTANDING Pross in recent weeks and

ing the lower Hurok's representative told

the generaus tributes paid newsmen that the Russian leaders

nol

Lvov did speak English and that the affair contributed to the better was a misunderdanding caved feeling that exists between by the language problem.

Among the articles Lvov was the two countries today. Mri Macmillan will also leave alleged to have hidden under

his cont were a brassiere, with America's blendbe tes and socks. This is important. Washing. The dancer was released un ton has been notoriously sang ball. His case is due for Blow in responding to consideration tomorrow

East-West Huruk's representative said he store would tension. Accompanying this thought Macy's

the withdraw

complaint. - frigid demeanour is belief that allies should France-Presse. conform.

relaxations in

their

but

Perhaps things are changing Forced Landing

now and all this talk

existence competitive

CU

to come

HORO- may

It is too thing after all. much to hope that tensions will be entirely eliminated even by successful summit talks but the best the West can aim at is an implicit agreement to live and let live. Suspicion has to be moderated. And this ¡!! spite of the fact that as

to agrcement atomienily as well as con ventionally may be as away as ever.

far

Teasing Gesture

K

At Wake Island

Tokyo, Feb.

A four-engine Japan Airlines per. Das aboard plane with 37 hos made an emergency landing en Wake Island with a crippled

airline spokesmu

engine, said today,

from

mem¬

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The Kialement said: "Air. work and Hunting-Citan are anxious and, willing to serve the public interest by harg

possible tares which economics dictate.

To this end they have BD- Filled over the years, without suceuss in most eares, to operate services to all those destination:

for which they are now again

upplying.

Eagle Aviation

The Hongkong Government Gazette foday publisher parti- culars of Eagle Aviation Ltd's opplication to operate their pro-

and gald posed service

objections or presentations would have to be forwarded to the Licensing Authority in the ; next two weeks.

re-

The route applied for is London Beninu Khartoum - Aden Colombo-Bangkok-Hong- kong..

The flights would be made once a fortnight, according to the application, increasing to one a week on demand.

No provisional timetable has

been denied, but the airkne reveal they provise using 102- Real DC-GC aircraft.

When the Eagle Aviation plan in London. made known

to have reported

was

re-

HK TO LOSE FULL DAY HOLIDAY NEXT YEAR

NEXT year, there will be

no holiday on Easter Monday In Hongkong.

This was revealed in to- day's Government Gazette, Instead the Saturday before Whit Sunday will be made into a publle holiday. Hongkong thus loses full day holiday and reis a half-holiday in exchange. Also, Instead of a four- day break at Easter and a two-and-a-half joy break Whitsun. the Colony will now have two three- day weekends.

at

No Further Attempt To Identify Mystery. Vessel

ARRESTED

Near

Iceberg

BY ICELAND Tragedy

Reykjavik, Feb. 5.

The Marine Board of In- Icelandic Police boarded the Grimsby trawler Valafell this evening when she anchored in quiry investigating the the of disappearance

the east coast Port of Seydisfjordur to await schooner ian Crouch

tomorrow's court hearing on allegations that agreed this morning that

she violated Iceland's fishing limits. no further action should be taken in trying to Identify д vessel seen

stranded

Recf.

at Swallow

This decision was taken after

it was disclosed that there was

a possibility that that ship be 心 wreck of a might

Formosan-registered vessel that

had been sighted during a pre- vious search.

Mr G.R. Sheath, Crown for the Counsel, appearing Director of Marine, told the Board that the latest informa- tlon from the Director was that The

on the markings "Y" stranded vessel were definitely not Hongkong markings.

Markings

Mr. Sheath added that some time go Shackleton aircraft which WOR subsequently lost while searching for the lan Crouch and reported sighting a vessel which was later found to be not the missing schooner.

"This other vessel," he went on, also had the nurklags "YF" on it. At that time it was es- (Contd. on Back Page, Col, 3)

DEBBIE SENT TO

Pays Truant

Fine After

28 Years: 'Strewth!'

Melbourne, Feb. 5. The law caught up with 41-year-old Wally Holts here today after 28 years demanded Doller when payment of an 11/- (Aus- trajan) fine for playing truant from school.

Mr Hollis, now a brawny Melbourne docker, said he had no idea what he did during the two weeks he and his sister stayed away from school when he was 13. le mother had been Aned but moved away before paying.

"Strewth, a man can be doad unlucky," he said as ho paid his long-standing debt to soclely today. Beuter.

HOSPITAL WITH Khrushchev

BLOOD CLOT

Hollywood, Feb. 5.

Actress Debbie Reynolds was taken to hospital today for treatment of a potentially serious blood clot in her left knee, a spokesman for 20th Century Fox studios disclosed.

She stepped on a cable.

Pote Sarasin, Secretary- General of the Southeast Asia disarm Treaty

(Seato), Bone war Organisation was one of the 28 paz.ungers objected on the ground that

the new

cause aboard the DC-7C.

Tyler would diversion

from its There were nine crew

of traffic bars aboard the plane bound | scheduled services,

Honolulu to Tokyo on

Hongkong, Iti

spokes- what was supposed to be han for Bose said today,

Barding Bie Eagle non-lop fight.--U.PL

Airways licence is application for a

to fores tow-price operate

London, Feb, 0. Tiongkong, "I fo anticipated

Summit talks in the spring that Bose will me a protest."

As for the Airwork and were widely forecast by the announcement British press today as a likely Hunting - Clan

a low-result of Mr Harold Macmillan's that they too planned

Rester. price schedule to Hongkong and mission to Moscow this month. the Far East, the Boac spoken- man wild, This will have be dealt with in London,"

HRUSHCHEV'S invita- Proposal Rejected

tion to Eisenhower will

Teheran, Feb. 5. probably be written off by Persia has rejectes a Sovie! the State Department as i proposal that Persin should not teasing gesture, yet that ign a blaterul defence agree visit more than anything mint with the United States in Soviet for certain else would set the seal on this presqut phase of im guarantees, informed

10 DR IBit

wat said here tonight-Reuter. proved relations,

be widely hoped that

Washington take up this offer.

More serious con- tacta with the Russians must come sooner or later and a refusal by Mr Eisen- hower to make the visit cannot defer the meeting. He therefore stands to lose nothing by going.

is

Feeling in the West today seems to be "We've never hind it so good." But there also appears to be a fear that summit talks will not only fall to dispel tension but revive it by emphasising irremediablo differences, Just how true this view

explora- Mr Macmillan's

It would tions will show. lo belter stil If Mr Elsen- hower could make his own first-hand appraisal before West Tho the Dummit. should be ready to go pre- pared for all eventualities.

return

Sources

to

Summit Meet

Miss neynolds, whose suit for husband, divorce from her

on Eddie Fisher, goes to caurt February 17, was told she must remain in hospital for at least her leg in three days with

the clot is dis- traction until sipated.

She was escorted into port Icelandle coastguard by the

British vessel Thor and the destroyer Agincourt,

12-

Four-Mile Limit The Thor tried to arrest the 380-ton Valafell lest Sunday, when she was alleged to have been fishing almost a mile in- side the four-intle L commised by Britain, but the Agincourt and another British destruyer Intervened.

The Admiralty teday ordered the allow the Agincourt to Valafell to submit to arrest.

Mr Brian Holt, Secretary at the British Embassy here, a ro- of the trowler presentative owners, and an Icelandie Justice Ministry offen?. went to Seydisfjordur todayReuter.

IT'S NOW 'MACKAYON'

London, Feb. 5. His political friends called him "Mac, the unflappable." toonists have labelled him "super-Mac."

car-

Today, after the anounce- ment of his forthcoming visit to Moscow, friends, cartoonials and adversaries have taken to calling Prime Minister Harold Macmillon simply "Mackayon." France-Presse,

A

New York, Feb. 5. U.S. Air Force plane has sighted an object re- sembling a hatch approximately 50 miles cast of Cape Farewell, where Greenland, near

the

cover

Danish freighter Hans Hedtoft collided

with an iceberg last Fri- day, the coast guard re- ported tonight.

The report, relayed to the cutter coast guard by the

Campbell, which has beert searching the area ever since

the collision occurred, said that the piano sighted a large grey object, approximately 10 by 30 feel, and a large box-like object, The possibly a hatch cover. plane niso observed stains on a small piece of ice which is believed to be oll.

Investigate

The plane reportet numerous feet ergs In the vicinity.

It was unable to identify the uleets further due to the onset of darkness and a low fuel supply.

en

The motor ship Umanak is route la investigate the objecta, the coast guard said.

A

for spokesman

Royal Canadian Air Force Search and

sald to- Rescue Headquarters right that five aircraft and at least four surface vessels were an arca expected to traverse off the southern Up of Green- land tomorrow, the last known position of the vessel with 95 persons aboard which struck an iceberg last Friday and adloed slic Was sinking- U.P.I.

& Moonshine MAN CHALLENGES

Vodka

Soviet Premier,

Moscow, Feb. 5.

the Mr Nikita Khrushchev,

called today for a more vigorous campaign against drunkenness and against who distilled the "chemists"

lielt spirit, which Cid serious damage to people's health.

The Premier, quoted by Tass the closing News Agency, told session of the 21st Soviet Com- Congress here munist Party that "20ws should be passed severe measures providing for against those who abuse spirits and permit the violation of th

especially against social order, ret those who engage in the cit 'Samogen (home- distilling of made voda)."--Reuter,

The young actress, mother of two smuli children by her marriage to Fisher, dislocated the knee last Monday when she

cable whil stepped on hearsing an intricate dance step, She had trouble with the knee after she dislocated it in a childhood seeldent, but had no six

serious complications for Locust Plague

years prior to the mishap on Monday.

Miss Reynolds complained of

Buenos Aires, Feb. 5. Dain

Robert tortuy

D: und

A plague of locusts which Rosenfeld

called was

to settled in Rafaela on Tuesday town into examine her. He ordered that night plunged the she be taken to Mt Sinai Hospi- darkness as millions of the in- sects crawled in the generators, tal for treatment.

Dibble co-stars in the picture and caused abort circuits, Streets and Bob and stores were covered by a Wagner.-U.PI.

blanket of locusts.--U.P.I. with Bing Crosby

In Your Saturday Mail Mickey's No. 4 Wants Divorce

TTISTORY'S Women of destiny made slaves of

wars,

What was their secret-beauty or brains? Or a combination of both?

1

Tomorrow, Rex Lopez,

noted British Journalist, tells in the first of six absorbing articles on famous women-how Eva Peron rose to power..... Logan Gourlay, whose flctional sketch of show business "Camels Sometimes Bite" won the applause of CHINA MAIL readers last year, tomorrow beginy a series on one of Holly- wood's most fabulous personalities-Darryl Zanuck.

Included in the feature-packed 20-page issue are;

My Lunely Love For Soraya. ..the second, and last chapter of a tropic love story that airred the world, by the Shah of Persia;

CHINA MAIL, writer John What's in a Name?.

Luff continues his fascinating series on Old long-

kong.

Also three fail pages of news plefares; pages of recipes, fashions and aritolea for women: all your favourite comics, cartoons and puzzles. And sil the latest news and views. Take home a CHINA MAIL tomorrow!

Santa Monica, Calif.,

Feb. 5. Actor Mickey Rooney, 38, today ткан sued for divorce for the fourth timo in his tumultuous.

this time by actress Elaine Mahnken who charged he caused her grievous mental dis tress, suffering and guish.

career,

nn-

The Rooneys became estranged in Jane inat year when the 20-year-old seiress said sim- ply she thought "both Mickey and I may be happier if we zel a divarod."

She fled hor complaint in

Superior Court, saking a "fair • share" of community pro- perty and both temporary and

MICKEY ROONEY

permanent

support.

Sho

the diminutive

estimated actor-comedian,

whe NAS

been A show business star since his toddling days, now has an Income of $350,000 annually.

WOMAN TO DUEL

A

Buenos Aires, Feb. 6.

of the Salta male member provincial leglolature challang- ed a female member to a duel today. He later withdrew the challenge on the grounds that she was not worth meeting on the field of honour.

Alberto Flores sent his seconds to Teresa Mesquida, charging the had insulted him during a heated committee.dlapute. A few hours later, however, ha

BLACK & WHITT

Mickey provlously was married Gardner, to actress. Ava Alabama beauty queen Betty Jane Base and actrem Mariha

Vickers.

MACK & WHIT

Rooney and Miss Malinken were 18, married

on November 1952, and had no chlidren. She asked that the court award her $,353 monthly (emporary alimony plus attorney fees pending hearing scheduled on February 13. She also re- quested an order barring hira from disposing of community marcia. Mickey's current girl friend is Carolyn Mitchell, « 28-year- old blonde slarlot, and there has been sproulation he would marry her when free.-V.P.L

decided the

not WAD

worth fighting with because she was not a lady,

His opinion probably stemmed from the fact that Teresa ID 4 former member of the Peronista women's party. He lu a member of the ruling Intrasilgent Radical Party,

A Buenos Aires evening nawa- paper suggested tonight that if the due! came off, Teresa's cholen of weapone should bo rolling-plat-U,P.J.

BLACK & WHITE

'BLACK

&

WHITE'

SCOTCH WHISKY

"BUCHANAN'S"

BLACK & W

BLACK & W

*UCHANAN,