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WOMAN FLEES WITH DAUGHTER FROM SOVIET EMBASSY IN LONDON

Of The RUSSIAN WIFE SEEKS ASYLUM

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Hongkong Toys

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Hongkong product

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Exports to Britain are now

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Naval Husband

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Moscow

London, May 27.

about 320 million a sear Mre Nina Dmitrieva, 35-year-old wife of

and the Colony to the big-

gest exporter. British Loy

makera

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making

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complaints; our exports are Increasing and loent mand- facturers are copying Pel- tish designs and onder pricing them oth in the A Home market and British! export markets.

British

The London Daily Mirror re-i

cently quoted one Importer, Mr Harry Napier) man

the assistant Naval Attache at the

Little Hope For Balding TWO DIE IN

Young Says Doctor

the. London, May 27. THE man going prema-

THE

turely bald can do

nothing about it, a doctor

declared today.

Writing in Family Doctor,

best advertised remedy will lead inevit- ably to ultimate sadness or complete disappoint.. ment.

a monthly magazine, Dr"The undoubled fact is that

Williams said: David

the loss of hair, except

"Spending a fortune an for rare and abortive at-

tempts at regeneration, la permanent. 1 do not be- lieve that there is a shred of evidence to show that at the present time thorq Is any procedure which will even arrest the Mall process," Special.

China

Soviet Embassy here, has applied Faces On TV Screen

for political asylum in Britain, the Home Office said tonight, spokesman disclosed this a few hours after her husband Captain Alexander Dmitriev had left for Moscow by air.

The Home Office spokes

Buic that

Mra

as saying: "Sure, I've sent Dmitrieva had asked that loya to

Hongkong to be she and her five-year-old copied. Everyone does it daughter Lena be allowed

It is just business, just to remain in Britain. tatter of getting an article

at

the lowest price. If

Her

Hongkong ent provide it!"being

fair enough."

WAR

Russian under arrest", the Embassy "for political reasons.”

I According to the newspaper he was taken to London airport this afternoon by two Russian excurity men,

In the passenger walting The Daily Mail adds, room, Heme Onice officials asked blan the if he wanted to return home.

Airline officials standing near- by heard him say, "I wish to leave for Moscow,

application considered," spokesman added.

Earlier today, Mrs Dmitrieva examples of how locally-reported missing by the Soviet

Embassy on Sunday,

went lo

"THE newspaper also quotes

THE

their British

made products undersell the British Foreign Omice and counterparts, met two members of the Soviet

soldiers Embassy staff.

for example

tur

The Cause

nt half the price of British

A Foreign Office Spokesman ones, toy cash registers at 3/0 against 5/11 for aid after that meeting that she was free to get in touch with similar British produel, and the Embassy or to return lo

3/2 doll which Britain Russia, cannot make under 5/3.1 These are significant dif ferences in favour of the Hongkong product, but it is difficult to blame local manufacturers for copying if British importers are the Inaligators. Besides British manufacturers themselves admit that not all the Hong kung toys that are ander selling their products are copies.

The Colony, however, may well wonder where this rising clamour is

beach. going to Quite apart from the fact that publicity of this kind draws attention 10 Live potential of loent industry and generally lends to new trade inquiries, the long, term effects of continund grumbling by various swe tions of British Industry do us no good.

L

OCAL manufacturers will! renci indignantly to these Intest complaints. Many people in Hongkong and AUTORI have been advis diversification of autpit,|| and the growing export of; our toy industry may be an indication that this wise counsel is al last being headed. But the response from British manufacturers Is hardly encouraging.

Indications are that local ex- porta to Britain are going to grow. This is partly bo

le declined to answer ques- of Mrc tions about the cause Dmitriera's disappearance.

According to the spokesman, Mrs Dmitrieva disappeared with

near

Fears For Life

According to the Daily Mail, Cuplain Dimitriev "did not look back he walked across the tarmac and up the steps "Into the Arrofor TU-104 Jet airliner.

in

The Daily Telegraph says the wife is at a secret address London and is being guardest by special branch officers of Scotland Yard.

This newspaper adds that there

had been suggestions Dmitrieva

vent Into hiding because the feared for her own safety. According to the Dally Tele-

her daughter when due to join graph account, she left her flat her husband last weekend at the and went into hiding with Soviet Embassy country Free Russian friends in Lon-

at Hawkhurst sidence

den after seeing her husband London un Monday, he added.

Marrested" by security guards The Embassy was told that she from the Embassy. had been traced,

The Dally Sketch reports: "People who know the captain Embassy then The Boviei.

think he, too, had intended to asked for an interview beseek political asylum and that Iween members of their wint

when the Russians found out and the wife and this

they returned him to Moscow arranged this morning, In the presence of British Man About Town officials. This evening. the Foreign Office spokesman said

WAR

Kill Ex-PoW Viewer

London, May 27.

Faces that he saw again 14 years later killed Frederick Williams, survivor of the horrors of a Japanese prison camp. They were the faces of Japanese soldiers on a television screen.

Crew Abandon

Burning Ship Off Cuba

room and; that the

Immediately he glimpsed them, 43-year-old Williams, a former Lance Bombardier, turned his head He then walked out of the room and cullapsed.

Death Shock

And he died in hospitol next shock, brought morning from

on by high blood pressure..

Miami, May 27. The Coast Guard here re-

"I be had not seen that TV ported tonight that the

film, be might have been alive Greek freighter, Aghias

today," pathologist-doctor, Spyridon, 19,921 tons) had David Howapsar said at the

inquest today, on Williams, reported a fire in its en- gina

The excitement would have crow was abandoning ship | caused the strain on his heart off the coast of Cuba. and the fim may have brought The const guard said the about a stroke." vessel was about four miles off Cape Arenns, 80 miles west of Havana, and that a Coast Guard cutter from Key West was on its way to the scene.

The rhip was said to be en route from Norfolk, Virginia, to Japan. She had reported today that the was aground but planning to reflost.

Then tonight came the report that there was fire in the engine

100m.

The captain was still aboard, but the crew had taken to the

A theory advanced by thebands, the Coast Guard såld.—

he understood Captain Sketch is that the Captain was Reuter, Dmitriy had returned to Moscow in a Soviet jet plane. | "The spokesman uld not know whether he was expected back

in London or not.

The Daily Mail нуя that Was "hald Captain Dmitriev

in disgrace" beenuse he had become too much a "man abuul town."

According to this news- paper, ho joined A London club, wore the club's ile and had extensive social contacts with a number of English familles "a practice frown- ed on by the Soviet authorl.

Man Alive"

After

t

Bear Hug

Paris, May 27.

cause of the attraction of The story of how a mambor

the

partly

July free market,

because the Colung) has to pay for its ever in creasing Imports from Britain, an Increase bound to keep pace with our own Industrial expansion. Clear ly some British Industries are going to be hurt to some extent in the process.

to

Paul

The Daily Herald (Lobour) ayy_In_a_front page ciltural

that the case "could lead to an international quarrel just when everybody hopes that the world is heading for summit talks,"

The

adds: newspaper would be silly if it did, hope it won't,

Let Her Stay

We

"In any case, what Britain does about the human problem

UK TO LIFT RESTRICTIONS

ON $ GOODS

Williams was sitting with his wife when the TV show that killed him some onto the screen last week. It was Sir Brian Horrocks telling his war stories, "Men In Action."

This one

was

Scots Say 'No Bishops'

Edinburgh, May 26.

TSUN

WAN

BLAZE

A 40-year-old woman and her 11-year-old daughter died, seven people were in- jured and about 500 rendered homeless in a big fire that broke out at a squatter area in Tsun Wan, New Territorios this morning.

The two people killed The Hongkong appliances had to be moved to Kowloon to re- were Cheng Chuk-yee, place four fire engines sent to 40-year-old woman, and her Tsun Wan 11-year-old daughter, Kwong Shuet-mui.

On receipt of the alarm, the Kowloon Fire Brigado despatch-. ext four

nn. fire engines and

Escaped

The injured, all of them ambulance. The injured wern males, are receiving treat sent to the Kowloon Hospital. ment in Kowloon Hospital. They are Chu Lapehai, nged 42: Lam Shing, 52,

started at about in Fu Wah Choy Chun-chuen, 60; Chan Hau

of at the Junction Chiu-luen, 28, Cheung Tak- Castle Peak Food and Chung ng, 30; Lee Cheong, 48 and On Street alongside the Fu Wah Lam Hing-ming, 38.

Weaving Mill "near the Tsun Wan waterfront.

About 40 houses spread over three acres of land in the area of over a hundred were razed.

Factories

The Aro

rum 2.50

men's effort.

The texille mill and other houses in the area escaped the conflagration due to the fire-

Mr Cox, who was on the spot, said, "the boys certainly did very good job preventing the fre from spreading."

The Cause

The Church of Scotland Most of the houses damaged decided hore today by a were "single-storey · promlacs. narrow majority that the Two small factories, constructed!

It all started with a man appointment of bishops of brick and stone, were also

reading burnt..

_newspaper by the was too high a price to

side of a fire, it was learned Mr R G. Cox, Acting Chief i

The burning newspaper spread pay for closer unity with

Fire Officer, said, that two ap-i the blaze to

a mosquito net the Anglican churches.

pliances from Hongkong had to nearby. And when the net By 300 votes to 260 the Gon-

bo ferried across the harbour at | caught fire, the whole but went eral Assembly of the Church of

So... after the Vehicular up in flames. Scotland found that. the

Ferry Service had stopped run- The fire was brought under "bishops report" proposals,

ning "It took them only 11 control at about 4.18 am and was among them the revolutionary

minutes from the time we put out about two hours later, one to appoint blahops were phoned to ask for a ferry to the Registration of the fire vic- "unacceptable in their present time they landed in Kowloon, time by the Social Welfare Do

fcrm,"

the

The assembly expressed Orde feeling that the proposals im- about

Ane piled a denial of the catholicity Wingate's Burma explolts.

those Juanese of the Church of Scotland and when he saw

and regularity weight of the validity soldiers, Williams-his

ministry within the while in prison dropped from 1 its stone to four stone remember Catholle church. od agala....

Very Upset

Suld Mrs Willisars e he was very, upset."

"I could

She added that her bus- band was forced to work in the Japanesemiae. But he always refused to discuss his experiences with her. Nor

The "bishops report issued In 1857 resulted from joint tulka between

the two

churches,China Meli Special.

JOURNALISTS

SHOT AT

Moxico City, May 27.

~~ducer" and "screen

would he see doctor, or The famous Mexican pro London May 28laim prolon The Financial Timos sald

today that Britain Addison recorded verdict in Walsall coroner. Mr John

"about to remave most of accordance with the remaining rostrictions evidence, on imports from the dollar

arco.

It adds in a front page report that "a government unounce ment to this effect is xxpected *JOUIL.”

The newspaper says that Anal detalle of the Government's

|

Was

medical

It is possible that his death-

necelerated by his

perlences at the hands of the Japanese," added Mr Addison.

Ha Suffered

Emilio Fernandez today! attacked a group of four nowspapermen with a re- volvor and shat one of thom

in the seriously chest.

The incident occurred at Fer- nandez's home where the news- papermen had gone to talk to him on his return from the Cannes Festival where his film La Cucaracha was shown.

Mrs Willary, who has a

The conversation became of the French Greenland of Nina and her small daughter plan are not yet available but oxpedition wal rescued should be influenced only by it is thought that dollar Imports daughter aged 10, sald later,

"I hall always blame the Uvely after drinks had been what is right.

will now be treated broadly on

served and Fernandez suddenly from the clutches of a

bedroom, rushed up to his "If she wants to stay here. the same basis as imports from Japanese for this," polar bear was revealed in

"most people will say why not the so-called relaxation area, în

"Fred suffered terribly in) sclzed a revolver and dashed a telegram from the ex- This is a free country.

the main the DEEC countries their hands and had a scar down the stairs shooting wildly.

where $ The

Carlos on his forehead

nowspaperman, pedition's leader,

"Nina is free to go to Russia and associated territories."

This would mean that Emilo Victor,

Japanese soldier once hit him Haro, of the Excelsior was hit the if she wants to. But it would be

with ■ drill while in the ns he was climbing into his French polar expedition wrong for us to force her to go "wide range of American con

car. Doctors later said it was If she feels she

KTAILER as grounds sumer goods would be given headquarters today. for fear.

access to the British market." "When he saw that TV Alm, a miracle he was not killed as "British

The and Trasalan duplo-

report adds however, Fred's face was all screwed up the bullet was within Inches of that "eertain items subject to and he looked as though he his heart.

Fernandez later ded and the quantitative restrictions indepen was actually re-living his days dent of their origin, will not be as a Japanese prisoner."--- | polica were today guarding his | freed"-Reuter.

London Express Service,

home-AFP.

One of the expedition's mem-

if there is any solution It lies bers named Pierson was outside muts would do best to keep

in British Industry resign- the caravan sent from the buse tactfully out of this and let ing Itself to this situation to vick up parachute drops when Nina mako up her mind, and taking its own protec. his companions heard shouts for Reuter.

tive measures Buch Вя

They rushed out help,

and

making better use of its

it though visibility was poor they

advanced technology and concentrating On products

toy

saw Flerson rolling under o polar bear.

They seized Iron bars and to disengage him. wounding the bear on the head

Alliance Gets Election Shock

stato

which Asia, and particular- ly Hongkong is unable to managed produce. Our own

Kuala Lumpur, May 28. “ and paws. The bear made oft

Party one seat. makers willingly concode

eoad and Plerson was found to be HE Malayan Government Opposition successes word the superiority of more suffering only" from superficlul

today won

the Perak higher than generally British and foreign injuries. complex toys in Hongkong and Bel-

election against the pected: The next day a French Air heaviest opposition in

In earlier, atate polls in tain has to accept the fact Force plane dropped a Maumer

major poll for years.

Kedah, Perlis and Malacce; that there in an established rifle and market for the cheaper and Polar bears in this leo plateau The ruling Alliance will the Government took every

the 40-noat stato sent. Implor Hongkong toys at are very rare.

The French expedition is assembly with 31 members. The Peoples Progressive operating within the framework The Peoples Progressive Party apparently got strong ut the International Greenland Party won "eight meats and Chinese support in town Qlasiër Expedition"

tho Pan-Malayan – Imlamte - areas; :

Home.......

(SEE P10)

the bear

was shot.

Moslem Malays returned, tion gain is a setback for the one candidate of the. Pan-government.

the ex-Malayan Islamic Party, which Fow had expected

advocates rule on religious Alliance, after

a virtuni law.

monopoly of votes in Malayn for

years, to lose nearly a Candidates of tho multi- quarter of the Perak neste racial Alliance won by to the opposition.

Another seven-state elec overal thousand majorities In

tions follow. Next some electorates.

But observero say the Selangor. on Saturday. comparatively heavy opposi- Reuter.

That was a very good plece of partment is now proceeding at work, especially at that time in the Tsun Wen Divisional Police

Station, the morning."

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