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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959.

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THE LEADER TO 79 COUNTRIES

K. FACED WITH STRAIGHT-FROM-THE-SHOULDER QUESTIONS

Twelve

Of The MACMILLAN IS ANGRY Children

Moscow Talks The Week Before He PEKING HAS BIGGEST

BIGGEST Cut-Price

Cut-Price Killed In

Day

THE BUDGET

WHERE are so few changes

Tin the 1959-60. budget

that it may be described as "atay-put" measure. This is becñaxe Government ex-

pecta

Mimilar roughly

in economic conditions s

the present Anarelal year,

So we continue to travel

long a tortuous but still

Reach

A Low

Point

From DOUGLAS CLARK

Moscow, Feb. 24.

reasmably level road in top. The temperature of the Macmillan-Khrush-

gear. Our own busty assess.

ment of the proposals yester-

day was that it was д

"standstill" budget, but.

chev talks in Moscow, plummeted today

to freezing point.

whether we move through Macmillan was terribly angry today when the

events, or

events move

around us, the result is the same: our financial arrange- meats require virtually o correction.

The budgetted defcit in the current year-$87 million is expected to become a handy surplus of $30 million, and the next finas

the clal your in which Financial Secretary has budgetted for a similar deficit, may produce # similar result. The current your's discrepancy is largely an anexpected because of increase in revenue and a shortfall in Public Works Government expenditure. believes this may not be repeated and that most of The Public Works estimate of $18 million will be spent in the coming year. doubt it. But in any case reserves will help out if the PWD lives up to its ex- pectations, TELIEF granted in the

leaders met again in the country villa which the Russians had placed at his disposal.

He asked Khrushchev point-

blank:

What mutives speech

were your private for ihe public You made yester-

10

day? and

Is it realy worthwhile keep the talks going?

the- specch (Khrushchev's

proposal nonneed the Western

East-West Foreign for Ministers conference and sug- gested a 20-year-non-aggression

between part

Britain and Soviet Russia,

and made yel Persia, Bri- another thade on tain's Bagdad Pael ally.)

No Fuss!

Khrushchev, 1 gather, took the line that he could not under- We stand what the fuss was about, He had made the sort of knock- about speech expected of him when the Soviet election cam- paiga was on. Naturally he had brought in foreign affairs. And in what, for him, is an unusual

what

lo a foreign quest, he offered to leave Moscow and accompany Macmilion on his trip

to Kiev tomorrow.

on toilet preparations and proprietary medicines bring the effects of this year's

The offer, of course, was ac- budget into every home.

be copted and they will fly in the would Normally this

the commendable but we make saine plane together with

Secretary, Selwyn con-Foreign The a reservation.

cension is trivial the Lloyd

Cost to Government will be only 35 million a year. Besides this particular tax been difficult tu Ная administer. So the gesture in hardly magtuimous and Secretary the Financial leaves us with the feeling that if more revenue in required in the future, he

But tonight, the tone tu British diplomatic circles is still acid. The typleat comL- WACHA on the Khrushchev sperch, "It is a good thing he made it now, rather than after we had left, because at légat, we can take up his points with him personally."

millan

Arrives In Hongkong

ailitude will relieve the United The China Mail

States and French governancnis, who, I enn state, have so far learned tile about the details conversations of Macmilinn's here,

Today, top allied diplomats

in Moscow were frank about

the Khrushchev speecks and

Presents

portrait of the Duke

:

A

nique in newspaper history.

想 effect on Macmillan's IT IS

visit. The French were saying

bluntly that it was a mistake

of the British Prime Minister

to have come to Moscow at all.

High-level American sources were Jess critical. They felt that, "If it had shown him just what the West are up against -Macmillan's. Grst-hand experi enge of Soviet tactics would be him when he re- valuable to turned to Britain."

Questions

THE DUKE

BY HIS

FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES

Others who have met him, In their view it was now who went to school with evident that with the British | election eining along Khruch him, who sail with him, who his shipmates, his chey had misconstrued Mac- | were mullan's visit as a sign of weak- friends from bachelor daya, ress. Its speech was on at have contributed their im- tempt to exploit him,

pressions. And now the questions every- one here is asking are:

What can Macmillan possibly pull out of the bar? and, What

*

Tuesday's

And in two days-Saturday

save next and Monday-the China communlque Mail presents the most vivid

SNOWFALL

IN A CENTURY

Peking, Feb. 25. DEKING shivered today

Pinder

its heaviest snowfall for this time of year for more than century.

Snow, which began falling

last night, continued throughout this morning and afternoon, draping

over the white blanket city's roofs and piling up to one foot deep in some places.

Squads of workers, house- wives and police shovelled the snow away from the broad main streets and

narrow lanes. The city authorities urged people to watch out for sparrows driven out from

winter

quarters to seek food and to scatter poisoned bait so as to kill off birds which are considered pests here.

The snow was welcomed, the New China News Agency snid, and the Ministry of

issued Agriculture

directive saying the snow was very beneficial to the growth of wheat and spring ploughing. Reuter and U.P.I.

HK COLD SPELL

EXPECTED

TO CONTINUE

1

to

The present. cold spell is expected to last for another 36

spokesman

hours, according to a Observatory this morning.

ANTARCTICA

of

'Copies' Worry The

Toy Men

London, Feb. 24. Britain's toymakers, whose sixth annual fair opened in Brighton last week, are worried over growing cut - price competition from Hongkong. Menufacturers there hove copied British products and are cling them at about half the

{ price.

Collapse

San Luis, Feb. 25. A Mexican

National Flag Day celebration south of here by 70 school children turned into tragedy yesterday when a temporary stage and brick wall collapsed.

Twelve children wero more than 50 killed and others injured, 31 seriously,

..

An expert enn immediately in the accident.

There were reports that some pot that the quality of the

timber

supporting the Hongkong tay. is lower. For of the

stage had been the average parent the differ- temporary ence is not so easy to discern. stolen, wenkening it so much it

But the difference in price is.

would not support the weight Here are some examples:

of the children. Doll's beauty set; British, 48, 3d: Hongkong, 31. 04. Clarinet, 78, Qd. (5x, 9d.), Sel of Boldlers, 49. 40. (20.). Pusa-in-bools, 4s. (2x). Latest Agures show Britain's toymakers are enjoying boom conditions with exports 15 times greater than pre-war

£7,500,000,

Threat

11 Or Under

The tragedy occurred #t Estacion

miles Coahuila 18 south of San Luis, a railroad Mexican terminal town on the border.

Police said all the survivors were injured. Each youngster was 11 or younger.

The injured were

taken to But as South-African born MF hospitals at San Arthur Katz, managing director! Mexicoll-U.P..

of a Swansea toy firm, said: "This is a serious threat,

We have had to suspend the production of some Bnes ilke the Royal ur 65. 11d, cash register. It was

copied to sell at 3s. 6d."

Official Hongkong sources are The minimum tempera-alive to the problem, and n ture today was recorded at spokesman freely confirmed the 8 a.m. at 51.4 degrees. copying, But, he claimed: "This Is not now so widespread as it Yesterday's minimum was was some months ago." 52.7. Tomorrow the mer- cury is expected to fall still

-THE NEW further.

WORLD?

from being a mere siring portrait of this remarkable The possibility of settling

of platitudest

But tomorrow is another man that you have ever

day. Before they fly to Kiev, read. the two Prime Ministers will have another morning session together in the Kremlin. More- one powerful over, I gather

Mikoyan may yet do some-

Service,

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SATURDAY'S

#1

The forecast for today is over- cast, skles, with periods of light Taln, continuing cold.

FIGHT AGAINST

'FAROUK CHOCOLATE'

Investigation Of Hongkong Gloves

Washington, Feb. 25, The Director of the Office

of Civilian and Defence

Mobilitution,

A.

Mr

Loo

Hoegh, today on-

Luis and at

ADENAUER DOWN WITH THE FLU

Bonn, Feb, 25. Dr Konrad Adenauer, 83-. year-old West German Chancellor, is suffering slightly from influenza, but this has not affected hla respiratory organs on some previous Govern- occasions, the Chief ment spokesman, said today Router.

Makarios May

Bounced the opening of a Undergo Surgery

national

in-

tocurity vestigation of imports of wool knit gloves.

'London, Feb. 25. Greek Cypriot leader Arch- to bishop Makarios may have undergo a minor sinus operation, it was formed today from sources in his entourage.

Melbourne, Feb. 25,

Antarctica with the over- flowing populations of the world or using it as giant refrigerator for storing food was discuss-

The investigation would de- ed during an eight-day

termine whether imports were meeting of an Antarctic

threatening impale US. na-

either tional security, Meteorology Symposium

by forcing American glove manu here, it was reported to

taken. day.

"Farouk Chocolate."

however, and it wor to trained employees

hoped that the operation, would Hannan, Senior

The portly exiled monarch desert to other Industries.

made unnecessary by anti- Meteorologist of Melbourne, saldlost the first round some time Principal suppliers of wcolbe that the symporium filled many ago when a civil tribunal ruled "krift loves to the US market bloties While Mekartog ps in the overall picture. He that an Italian firm in nearby are Japan, Hongkong and Italy been given to combat by

F. CHINA MAIL

Aan

The first thing today. Mac- Soviet leader is trying to put This Feature In

and Lloyd studied the restraining hand on Khnish- chev. would prefer to get it by a text of the speech. By the less compllented means. tima Khrushchev hud turned up This raises a small but im- ter lunch with the Soviet De- thing to revive these sagging, portant issue. By world puty Premier, Mikoyun, Foreign sputtering talks-London Ex- Standards we in Hongkong Minister Grouyto-and the Am-press are not overtaxed. But the barsador to Brul, Man, SAC great bulk of the $800 British attitude to the speech million Government is 4% was drinly spilled. pecting this

year will be paid by a minority of the population. Yet the benefits

Macmillan would

come not of its expenditure will be

outside to meet his guests and felt by all. Now it is right be photographed. Instead, on

his cold plea that

was that Government should ex- the

Indeed pect contributions-however bothering him and

after a giddy spell which over- small-from everybody.

HE Amall duty It is can- look him at the British Embassy

Restrained

Flying Saucers Follow Airliner

Detroit, Feb. 25.

Telling is not a severe im-inst night he is stilt for from The pilot of an American Airlines DC-G airliner said here

well he gave orders that

post on oven the poorest in pictures should be taken in the the Colony for Invariably entrance hall, charity comes to their aid.

cour-

Here he met Khrushchev And while no one will cavil and others with frigid at the idea of cheaper lesy, Later his cold di nol toothpaste, soap or lipstick, prevent him from joining them

coolly restrzined Government, ahould stick in

TCO!.

to the principle that every among the pines and beeches one shares in paying the surrounding the villa with the Colony's huge bills, made Union Jack fluttering on its huge incidentally by tho Throughout the one and a presence of hundreds of sojourners thousands of whom the Colony is support- ing until happier times re- turn to their own country, Financial Secretary says

today that three mysterious objects resembling shin ing saucers had accompanied his plane for 45 minutes last night on a flight from Newark, New Jersey, to

Detroit.

...

T.

repactad:

Milan, Feb. 25. Ex-King Farouk of Egypt today started the second round of a battle against facturers out of business or No decision has yet been.

forcing

had bad full right to call in that order an official said. situs

a brand of Chocolate EX10 Tether to pa

The ex-sovereign bad asked

the court to order the

The average depth of lea changed. is 7,000 feci.

huge ice dome up 10,000 feet thick,

to

★

dome, ico Under the about sea level, is a rocky

surface.

nomo

The company argued that another was "Just Farouk

in the name,"

cummon ns Middle East as Joe in the West.

Farouk

up. did not give Antarctica proper is n low-lying continent with Today his lawyers appealed the ruling in a civil court of appeal only a few mountains.

in Milan,P.I.

Soviet scientists CS- tablished a base at what s believed to be the coldest spot on earth.

1,000-foot KING HUSSEIN, THE

There

is ✡ layer of cold cir OVCT Antarctica, with warmer Dir above.-U.P.I.-

ROAD CLEARER

WOA

Captain Peter Killion said means close to the plane," Cap- other members of the crew and tain Killian said. some of the plane's passengers "But one would move in at had also seen the objects, and intervals, fall back again and when he called other airline change its place in the forma-

Washington, Feb. 25.

Amman, Feb. 25. pilots in the vicinity by radio tion while keeping abreast of

The White House Press

King Hussein directed an un- they reported similar sightings, the ship (aircraft) which was Secretary, James C. Hagerty, usual snow dearance operation

travelling at 350 mph," half hour lunch, the atmos-

said today he knew of no basis today in Jordan, which An aircraft manufacturing for reports phere staped that way. Even Captain Killian and his co-

from abroad that cried under a five-inch white passenger pilot, John Dee, said the objects executive

said: the United toasts were drunk by the

States might order and then one partial

blanket. mobilization before British side with cold polite-anally disappeared in the haze "Every

As the flakes whirled thick as the plane lost plitude to would glow brighter than the Russia's May 271 deadline for

over the capital, the King Book others n it it had moved ending the accupation of Berlin. off in his helicopter for a re land. Then the two leaders with-

"The objects

nearer the plane."-Reuter. were by no

round Government has been drew to the sitting room where

connaissance flip snow bound kingdom. On re- to double revenue in Macmillan exploded his two able

he Issued turning to \bbs, seven years by insisting atraight from the shoulder

orders to the Jordanian authori- that we all pay our fair questions.

tics, and within a matter of

tha hours all

country's main roads were cleared-France-

The

that

share. This must always be

RCAL

British diplomatie circles are

at pains tonight to contrast oli

the policy. We applaud the this with the extremely cordial fact that Government has relations of the two leaders al done so much in recent the British Embassy dinoer only years

without raising 48 hours ago.

taxes. Today it appears to be nearing the limits of its

Not Budged

not grumble if in future

Ingenuity. The Colony will

And they are appraising the

more money has to be found deep differences which remain to pay our ever growing between the Soviet and Western bills. But the Idea

Gormany. of attitudes to

The speech, they point out, shows spreading the burden of that apparently he had not

all pay budged an inch. taxation so that something should not be

Well, the British too overlooked, even though the standing firm with their French wealthier few provide most and American allies, This re-

needed. of what

emphasis on common Western

Bro

now

-UP.I.

DUKE'S DRESS RAISED EYEBROWS

London, Feb. 25..

Watson said. "Ho often it shooting in The belted Norfolk jacket wears

Scotland." and knickerbockers in which the 'Duke of Edin Tho knickerbockers of the burgh was photographed Duke's lovat (grey-groen) during a shooting party suit faston below the in Pakistan are not a new Ince are worn with long addition to his wardrobe, socks, Mr Edward Watson, the Saville Row, traditional Duke's tallor, said here home of the finest British. today.

tailoring, today "applaud- "He has had that ault fored the Duke's choice of the Edwardian-style coun- at least 15 years," Mr

try auit, also favoured by Press. the late author George Bernard Shaw.

But there were raised eye- brows over his cholco of an open-necked shirt to go with it.

A spokesman for Tailor and Cutter, influential trade weekly, commented:, "A tic would hayo, looked so 'much........ better."--- China

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