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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1959.

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BEING PASSED TO PUBLIC

Survey Shows

SO MUCH TO Some Importers

LOSE

FO most people who follow

the international situa tion, the Chinese moves against the Indian border. are stark madness, devoid of reason, explanation or justifiention. As Mr Nehru told Parliament It makes little difference whether # mile or two of wild. un-

inhabitable mountain blogs

to China or ludia and there is no possible vasim which can be called sun why this Chinese should wazit ti begin suddenly shooting it out with the Italians to assert their claims.

Hud there been abortive

negotiations

sarelude

to the incidents of the inst

Still Selling At

Former Prices

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

The prices of a number of cosmetics,

soaps, toilet and shaving creams and proprietary medicines have not come down in price despite the abolition of duty in the budget six months ago, I learn on reliable authority this morning.

few days, the Chinese And during a recent authoritative survey, retailers

action

would be

little

easier to understand. But i

although the frontier has

been in dispute for years,

not only have there been !

no political negotiations,

claimed that some agents and importers are using the money they formerly paid in duty on advertising.

The survey was made after a residents had com-

Bul utherliative

observers are not Inclined to believe this.

mosi They say that formerly ngents took out of bond just down that India 34

Retailers also claim that In-hough steck for their immediate t# be China's posters and suppliers are giving needs, paid duty on that and best friend outside of the as their region for not reducing left the rest in bond.

prices that they are still holding Conimunist bloc.

old stock on which duty has been paid.

but no call from Pekingber of

for such a conference. And plained about prices not coming on top of supposed

The Irony

Brolly Chlan stands to lote Y this premeditated net of

60 much not only in her

relations with the country

that has taken the leading role in trying to secure for her n seat in the

Bomb Outrage:

HK Police

United Not Asked

Nations, but in her relations with Asia generally.

Mr

The irony of the situation

Tien in the fact that Khrushchev is about to take off on a peace mission!

President Americn.

10

Eisenhower

would do well

To Make Inquiries

Rarely did they take out more than three or four months' stock,

When the duty was lifted automatically all supplies still in band were exempted from. duty. But an authoritative survey on August 13 shows this:

In the

the managers

well-

CIRC of three known proprietary medicines. of Ave medicine companies said that price reduc tions had been made or abusut 70 per cent of these articles since the duty had been lifted.

Survey

In the case of cosmetics and

follet preparations, survey Wis

carried cul among five well-known retailers on August 10. The managers of these flores said that in the case of a seltetion of three items, about to ask whether pence has The Hongkong police have so 90 per cent had been reduced fur received no request in price and that the reduction from the Cambodianarranted to 10 or 12 per cent.

They said authorities with regard to

that some priees had even risen. This was be- the bomb outrage ou the cause there had been an in- Royal family.

crease in the FOB prives since i Che duty had been lifted.

any meaning in the Com- munist bloc when a country like China turns around and slabs her best friend

Mr. V. F. Turner, Director Criminal Investigation, fold

In the back. Where is the basis of trust if the Five. Principles of peaceful co- existence are suddenly and of Inexplicably shot to shreda, the China Mall this morning In one burst of fire?

Embarrassing?

when contacted that no request

An observer said there was a possibility that in an attempt to beat sole agents who were not

Britain's Future

Future Spaceship

A British design for manned satellite was recently revealed at the Commonwealth Space Congress in London. The satellite would take two men into space and bring them back safely to earth. Picture shows Dr W. F. Hilton, the designer, holding a model of the satellite-The Times Photo.

'Ike' And 'Monty Alamein All

End Feud At Reunion Dinner

London, Sept. 1.

President Eisenhower and the men who helped him lead the Allied armies to victory in the war that began 20 years ago today met in a reunion to- night to cement old friendships and heal new feuds.

The President was hesi to S Winston Churchill and 25 Bri- tish generals and admirals who fought with him during World

War II.

Sir

frst Winston was the Ues to leave. He was escorted to the porch of the embassy by the President and the U.S. Am- bassador, John Hay Whitney, Field Marshal Viscount Mant-who helped him into his coat.

SEVERU Lord Merelsumary left three gomery of Alamein, a post-war critic of the President's minutes later. wartime leadership, was one of And the feud looked as good the first guests to arrive.

"Monty" who complained that

had been received from Inter-reducing prices, other linporters | the President did not return his poi.

Police also said they had no it formation whether the bond

sent to Was

Cambodia from TS Mao Tse-tung trying toj

embarrass his Soviet allyongkong. on the eve of his visit to ing

I

America?

might import from Singapore on other arty ports ut lower

Christmas card greetings, march- ed into the reception room with prices and so force a reduction an outstretched hand to greet the

President.

(n-

In prices.

When the Financial Secre- inry, Mr. A. G. Clarke, Mr Franents Touraint, Act-

nounced the Consul-General

abolition of the of the

duty Consulate General

I would helpent. he said

income which handles visus on behalf people of the lower

group and predicted a full in to his of Cambodia, said he had no

communication with the Cap-household bills for these items bodian authorities on the in- eldeal.

If so, could he French not have done this with much less damage

own alliances by firing his guns in other directions? Perplexed observers all over Mr Toussaint said any mich Asta are asking just what request would be channelled sense is there in squander-through Cambodian Embassy in ing ten years of fruitful London. friendship?

And since China has refused

THIRD DEATH

Some Effect

The cuts did have some im- mediate effect and a brand of British toothpaste fell from $3.50 to $2.50 und a well-known hoir tonle from $0 to 31.

When duty on tailet prepara- to give an explanation for

Meanwhile a France-Presse | Hlens" was first ropesed in May, her extraordinary action, report from Phnom Penh states 1911, it was a. 10 per cent tax on perhaps Asians can assume that one of the men wounded in the local retail price. In 1947 this bols that Peking really cares for yesterday's bombing attempt on cember

De

was

no one and is out only to Cambodia's Royal rulera died changed to 25 per cent of

the FOB price in the case of the im

ported goods and of the

Desert her authority over number of dead.

today bringing to three

and show her contempt for

Veterans Another eritie of the Presid- Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, was among the group of men who still carry the military trim figures of the war

years.

Before the group emerged for pictures, the bubble of volces could be heard coming from the rcom where the President stood to greet his guests.

"Glad to see you aller all these years," the President was heard to say several times.

The dead are Prince Vaktivan factory price in the case of local Field Marshal Viscount

her weaker neighbours and two

servants.

as healed.-UPI.

Atom War

Not Army's

Main Role

Over Again

Landon, Sept. 1.

A front-page cartoon in Evening News today's showed a walter and a cook below a poster read- ing: "Ike's dinner for old war-time colleagues."

Says the waller: "Ther want another twelve dozen hamburgers, bud. Ike's using them as model tanks ho to show Monty where went wrong at Alamein."--

UPI.

Lightning Explodes Oil Tank

to

London, Sept. 1. The Soviet Union may have carried out an important

mid-August, delegatem

the space experiment shout Astronautic Conference currently taking place here sald today.

The suppoellion was based on the fact that an uniden- Ufied object had been discovered in outer space, the delegaten zak.

Bince the object could not be identified, many theories have been put forward on its nature. Well-informed circles presumed it war of Soviet origin and that it had been launched Into space in mid-August.

The Western world's observation and trucking stations net-work was on an alert fooling between August 7 and August 14 when three American satellites were faunched. When the scientists counted the number of man-made bodies revolving in space, they found one too many.--AFP.

Seven Killed In Second Day Of Calcutta Rioting

Calcutta, Sept. 1.

At least seven people were killed and forty sent to hospital with bullet wounds after Calcutta police opened fire tonight on crowds which held the city under mob rule.

Police

pickets had

been

No offieiat casualty figures way yet available, and it was withdrawn from many spots in feared that more persons might north Calcutta because of heavy be lying dead or wounded on stone-throwing by deman- the city's streets,

strators. Several incidents were also reported in south Calcutta. -AFP and Router.

The police action appeared to the disturbances, have quelled which had grown in size and violence since the police etle a balon charge on A crowd of some 20,000 dernor 'rators yes- terday.

OPEN FIRE

Resistance

The mob violence developed trom a political movement in opposition to the ruling Congress Party's stala food policy. The mavement was launched by the Communist-dominated Prico In- crease and Famine Committee on July 13 in outly

and ing districts, Calcutta Itself on August 20. It culminated in yesterday's mass demonstration in front of the Governor's residenze.

Pavement

'Owner'

Protests

London, Sept. 1. then in The man who tried to fight

The police opened fire afiar they had been heavily stoned by the demonstrators.

elty laws and called a patch of pavement his own, protested again to- day when someone paid his fine.

Louls

was

They also opened fire at twoi

Goldberg, 53, other places in Calcutta today."enjoying the fresh air" on the. But there were no immediate

reports of any carualties in these Incidents,

VIOLENCE SPREADS

avement near his home three weeks ago when policeman told him to "move along."

Goldberg protested that "you can't do this to me" and refused At first limited to an area in to move. He was arrested. In the centre of Calcutta, the mob court, however, the Magistrate, violence spread today as night: Mr Leo Gradwell, cald that approached, with large numbers technically Goldberg was not of students joining the rioters in within his rights. protest against yesterday's police

action.

Ohio, Sept. 1.

would

1ke any

"The low says you only have

costs,

steps

REFUSED

Goldberg refused to pay, and went home to wall for some-

Police Minister K. Mookherje the right to walk up and down." A

100,000-gallon said tonight that the whole city he said, not stand in one place. huge crude oil tank on the was in the grip of the distur- He fined Goluberg £2 and £1 outskirts of Lima explod-bances and that law and order ed tonight after being necessary to restorę culin,

The police have prohibited struck by lightning, send-

than five ing Dames and heavy tetherings et moty black smoke hundreds of ple and have fued a warm one to arres: him again.

"1 om ready to go to guol for ing to any penans who might fect into the air.

be carrying batons er any other freedom any time," he said, dangerous weapons, or who die "Again and again if necessary,

Today, however, food-fturbed the peace,,

Police shid seven motoridentlied man walked into the vehicles, three of them am-

court where the fino was im Areposed and paid it.

The tank exploded during severs thunderstorm that ed streets and several buildings

wore set on

shortly after dusk,

Goldberg objected

an

2321-

again. this" he said.

They can't do агод

London, Sept. 1.

Chlef

of the in the city. Britain's

The explosion, which spewed bulances, Imperial General Staff, flomea 800 to 1,000 feet into the General

Francis air, filled the depressed Sir Festing, said today that it surrounding the tank with flan was extremely doubtful if crude oll

No injuries were reported. nny war the British Army UFL was likely to fight in the foreseeable future would be a nuclear war.

The dinner was held in Win- feld House, offic!ul residence of U.S. Ambassador, Mr John May Whitney, the

flanked The Presiderit was ex- by Sir Winston Churchill and

Mout komery of Alamein in the U.S. Another products, In that event China will servant was reported In ล

was Embassy's Blue Room as he led the duty have only herself to blameerlous condiilon.

#bolished it was pointed out the reminiscing.

vleteries They recalled their if she ads herself cold-

discovered that Hongkong would not feel | Police reportedly -shouldered and ostracised

peared in motion a number of clues which have the rull 25 per cent effect-be-over cigars und brandy after thone countries who led them to seek the Cambodian cure the duty once looked to her achieve-terrorist Izong Emigres affiliated prices without freight and in- ments

with respect and with the "Free Chunbodian Com-urance und both the importers

und retallers profits, admiration.

by

Imittee."

But when

WELS FOB. the dinner.

The President and his guests remained in a panelled

Chivalry A Lost Cause

Oxford, Sept. 1.

A man driving through here

on his motor-scooter saw and

a girl screaming struggling in the grip of 1wo men.

He ran across and struck

one of the men twice Inj the stomach and the girl got away.

room

for half an hour drinking cock- talls before they emerged for photographs.

General Festing told à press conference that it was wrong, as many people cemed to think, to say that the army's primary role was for nuclear warfare,

The British Army had ap- eight different fronte since 1945 but none had velved nuclear war, the General said.

on

A senior, pullee, official said the disturbancer were spreading to the northern part of the city and the situation "appears to be deteriorating."

Scandinavian Girl Weds Young

U.S. Millionaire

New York, Sept. i.

Another Scandinavian working girl has married

a young American oil millionaire.

One of the 'tessons learned during the last year was the importance of strategic mobility. Ike And Winnie

That meant air mobility with- The President came out first out which it would be hard with Sir Winston's arm on his. for the army "to do ite stuff.”

TROOPSHIPS

Inga Lucia Rizell, a tall, slim | Regere 1st, who was associated Montgomery remained well back in the group' although he soou

General Festing thought that 20-year-old

D. Rockefeller to blonde from with John stand near troopships woult decrease In Nykoping, Sweden, was married the ploncer daya of Standard moved forward to

importance. Sir Winston's shoulder.

There would slut today to Paul Jaime Peralta Oll. gistrates Court, his inter-,

When the photographers were ba places where a troopship Ramos, also 28. vention cost the man £9.

President WHI

needed but would be ten were

The welding came less than structing the policeman. through, the

to remark about Siramphibian lift would be needed hoard For the two

One old in a limited war such as that in two weeks ofter øll helr Steven He pleaded not guilty and winston: "Hic's a plain clothes policemen

Korea,

Rockefeller married Anne-Marie making the first arrest in told the court he thought fellow."

President Eisenhower also in- The vertical take-off aircraft Rammen, a Norwegian girl Oxford

tho under the new

men were "getting

had worked for wartime was most valuable but it was who vited many of his Street Offences Act, aimed fresh" with the girl.

advisers.

men in the execution of his duty and £2 for ob

00

will not accept charity. It's

a matter of principle."-UPI

Obstructed

By Waiting For A Bus

London, Sept. 1.

A Londoner who broke the Inw by waiting for a bus went to court yesterday. William Fraser Grant, 57,

bus was waiting for n

in Camden Town, north London, but declined to join the qutus (at the bus stop. Ramos is the son of the lato.

Palloa 10hd him to move on. ofl petress Millicent Rogers and Ho refused, and was arrested; her second of theo husbands,

Yesterday, Grant appeared Argentine banker Arturo Peralta in court charged with obstruct- Ramos.

ing tho. footway and was fined The bride is the daughter of Za dd. He pleaded not guilty. The Folko

a benker Rizeli,

Tho Magistrato told him: Nykoping. Neither the brido's "There appears to be some con- Jiko Ramos,

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young parents nor the groom's father fusion as io, what your rights Rockefeller, owes his wealth to attended the wedding.

went to The really are. If you the operations of Standard Oll newlyweds plan to visit Sweden stand bround

bus you The Company, He is the "great- ["in" spring. They will must stand in the proper place." grandson of Henry Huddleston 'heneymoon in Mexico/-UFI. -China Mall Special,

at driving prostitution of The girl, who pleaded guilty over, political and juridical "terribly expensive" to provide Rockefeller family as a mald.

the streets.

But today, at Oxord Ma-

Ho was fined £7 for na- saulting one of the police-

War-time Foreign Minister to loitering for the pur- {

and later Premier, Sir Anthony posc

prostitution, Eden refused the invitation of of was fined £8-Router.

thy advice of his doctors,

ant to maintair because of its complexity.

Sir Francis said that recruiting for the army was "going pretty well"-Rouler.

In