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Comment SINO-INDIAN DISPUTE FOUR KILLED IN

EMBARRASSES RUSSIA TUNNEL EXPLOSION

Of The

Day

ETERNALLY

GRATEFUL

THE

Terrament

people

kong

will

and

tho

of Hong-

welcome the

magnificent contribution of

Recent Actions

Inopportune And Untimely

Geneva, Dec. 18.

$2,000,000 by the United A Russian diplomat said today the Soviet

States Government to the

Colony's World Refugee

Year project.

And this is in addition to a previous gift of $1,150,000 handed over last August.

Thr

Ins assumed appeal worldwide proportions after! many years of unwilling neas to recognise the plight. of the millions of

fortunates who have sought; asylum within our midst.

Other contributions have been!

promised from other world governments and organisa- Bons and they will be just as welcome an the United?

when States gifts arrive.

Government was concerned and embar- rassed by China's border dispute with India.

De Gaulle

Welcomes

Eisenhower

ur.

Paris, Dec. 18. they President Eisenhower

rived here by special

for train tonight

the On Wednesday, too, it was;

Western Summit meeting announced that the Austra

opening tomorrow, lian Junior Chamber of

The donate

train Commerce

bearing French tu 18

flags and French $26,000 to the local Jaycees American for their own project in brought Mr Eisenhower the 560 connection with the World miles from Toulon, where

landed earlier today from the Refugee Yeur.

There is no doubl that thisi go-ahead body is grateful and that the money will be put to the best possible use within their scheme.

and

cruiser Des Moines,

he

The diplomal rought curi Western newsmen here for an

chat" **informal

Goon after Peking radio broadenst China's renewed demand that Indion forces be withdrawn from ten key frontier posts.

He said the Soviet Govern- racni was anxious to continue the recent Improvement in relu- tions with the West, and hoped the recent Chinese actions in Tibet and on the Indian border would not create

East- TH West tension.

Untimely

Referring particularly Lo The Tharan border dispute. he sald the Chinese activity there "s

tham just more

untimely. I

any

would be inopportune

ume."

Asked what the Soviets were doing to restrain their Chinese ullies, he said

"it is dißcult to

say, but I am sure they are not happy about the situation."

Ke seid the West should understand that communist

Ceneral Charles De Gaulle, China is a very young nation. his wartime which feels it must swert its!! welcomed who comrade-in-arms, arrived ot

as a great power. the noodlit Gare De Lyon Ave minutes before the train was

duc.

The two

"eghật is why the Western polley of non-recognition much greater humiliation to the Presidents shook Chinese people than most peo-

s

Э

Disastrous'

ife compared the non-recug- nition policy with the Malpasset and Dam disaster in Franer, said "trying to keep back Chinu by refusing to recognise it is like holding back a great moun- I WIL the consolidation of said goodbye to General De

tain lake with a weak dam. It these sums might be the Gaulle, he said: "Thank you carries the seeds of disaster." best way of achieving our very much for coming down to

He said Soviet Premier Mr I am very pleased."- Nikita Khrushchev would see me, ends.

Reuter.

the admission of China to the United Nations at the proposed East-West summit conference next spring-AP:

Local welfare organisations tunds warmly ofter Mr Eisen-ple in the West reallac."

the Government are hover stepped off the train. doing their best to care for Mr Eisenhower introduced hus Mrs Barbara the negdy, but the fact that daughter-in-law

contributions are Eisenhower and his son, Mejor many

and

destined for John Eisenhower to General De smart

Gaulle. various bodies 'gives rise to, President Eisenhower made no the thought that in the long formal statement, but as ho

Against this, of course, is the

reluctance natural

ofi

organisations to allow out- World War I

side interference in their affairs.

This being the ense-and it

must be accepted then it behoves all who hand in uiloention distribution

have n

and

Ace Dies

London, Dec. 18. Wing-Commander Gerald C. Maxwell, British air ace in died here today.

to co-operate World War I

so that there will not be, He was 04.

overlapping,

any

making lenst.

the most.

thus

He belonged to the legendary of the coth Squadron of the old "Royal

Flying Corps."--AFF.

G.E.C.

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A

Long Beach, Dec. 18. Four men were killed and two injured after deadly "fumes exploded and caught fire in a tunnel excavation for a water pipe last night.

Colony's

New Oil Marketing Company

oil

Kas

Some kind of deadly spread through the tunnel and killed three of the workmen. A fourth died today of burns from the explosions.

One other workman' was. cri- tically burned by the blasts and another was overcome by fumes.

The bists, een! 15 foot columns of fire soaring out of open manholes spared along 髓 two-mile construction area.

Police and firemen told this story:

LIT CIGARETTE Joe E. Snow, 35, and Allen R. HK$6,000,000 joint Holmes, 39, were working in on open manhole. Holmes ut a American - Japanese

elgarette and a tremendous cx- marketing office has been plosion followed. Holmes and established in Hongkong, Snow were engulfed in flames. it

was announced this morning. The new

company, known as the Unimar Oll Company. Is an Incorporation of the Union Oll Company of California and the Maruzen Oil Company Osaka, Japan.

of

The announcement was made Today by Mr Reese Taylor, Chairman of the board

of Union Oil.

Crazed with pain, Snow leap- ed out of the manhole, his arms and chest charred by the flames. the names in 3 He doused

into

from

puddle, then jumped back the hole and rescued Holmes. They were taken to a hospital in critical condition.

blocks About three where Holmes and Snow were rescued, they found three bodies in another part of the tunnel.

Firemen said all three work-

Capital and board member- rhlp will be shared equally be tween the two parent com- men died of asphyxiation. panies.

WATER PIPE

HEADQUARTERS

Was

THE

ot incorporation

The fourth fatality Unimax, a HK$6,000,000, fully-Holmes, who died in Long Beach Integrated cil company with Community Hospital today of headquarters in Hongkong and his barns.

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by jointly owned

Union Oll of California Company

and Maruzen Oll Company of Japan

by

The water pipe is being fald a tunneling process with

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BRITAIN LOOKING FOR REACTOR TO

POWER NUCLEAR SHIP

London, Dec. 18.

The British Government is to invite tenders from selected firms for two types of reactor to power a nuclear-propelled merchant ship..

A Ministry of Transport an- Storms

Continue

London, Dec. 18. Storms raged round the Beliish coasts today after a turbulent

night of high winds and rain. Ships were pinned in dock, in the River Mersey at Liverpool, A Royal Air Force reconnais- sance plane swept low through storms off western Scotland to ¦day in a final search for a Bel- tish trawler missing since Mon- day with her crew of 19.

It was seeking any survivors

No More U-Turns

For London Taxis

nouncement tonight said: "Pre- paration of tenders is likely to take some months. When they have been received the Govern- ment will decide whether an the order should be placed for

London, Dec. 18. building of a nuclear-propelled London's famous square-cut ship,"

taxis,

The tenders will be for a boiling water reactor and an Urganic liquet moderated recolor with propelling machiney for installation la à tanker

dend- of 65,000 tons weight.

Meanwhile,

the announco- |from the 450-ton Red

will Falcon ment said, negotitions believed sunke on her Christmas continue with the shipping and voyage home from the Icelandic shipbuilding industries about Ashing grounds less than 24 their participation in hours from her. home port of arrangements for building and FleetwoodReuter.

I operating the ship-Reuter.

Extra

The New

POWER ELEGANCE SAFETY' COMFORT

Hillman Minx

A BETTER BUY BECAUSE IT'S BE

the

is announced, this morning, a open manholes at various inter- statement from Mr Taylor said, vals.

The men "Unimar will place immediate Macco

were employed by Construction Com, A cmphasis on marketing In

company spokesman' said deadly Southeast Asia and the Middle methane gas had formed in, the

East.

excavation from the decompo- "Products will be obtained sltion of organic material the from the Maruzen refineries in

sometimes

sises way deadly Japan and from Union Oil's re- Jorm through a mine shaft.-AP.

aeries in America,

"Directors of the jointly- owned company will be equally divided between Japanese and American citizens with Mr F. K. Codwell, of Union Oil

Xmas Seare

Company as Chairman of the For Postmen

Board,

DIRECTORS

"Operating officers and direc- tors in Hongkong, will be Mr Kahej Mega and Mr James H. McGee

In

"Other

directors

Mr are

and Mir

Kinzo Tokil and Frank Culling Hideyo Fujita in Los Angeles."

Osaka, Japan,

A spokesman for Unimar said. the purpose of opening the office here was to provide better ser- vice to their present customers in the Far East,

Estimated sales in their first year of business has been put at US$2,992,000. This is expected to reach US$6,271,000 in four years time.

which must by First Taste

law be able to turn al-

most in their own length are now to be banned

Mounted

New York, Dec. 18.

policernan John

from performing the very Ready got a taste of the foot manoeuvre for which patrolman's job last night.

they are designed the Ready had to dismount when ኪ። a suspected purse snaichur U-turn

was galloping after dashed into From Monday U-turns will be an apartment building. banned in the "Pinic Zone" inThe pulling mountie got his the city centre where parking is 'man after a chase up 13 fights also banned. Penalty is up to of stairs. Ready was careful to £20 for the first time and £50 (bring the suspect" down "by the next time-Reuter,

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London, Dec. 18, Postmen stopped porting the Chriaturas tall at Smith@eld, London, and hurried outside this morn- Lux when two parcels started licking.

Police were

called and opened them carefully to

each And

contained battery-operated ‘razor.

The

shavers were switched off and repacked, -China Mail Special,

TRAPPED IN PRESSURE CHAMBER

Five Die

Tokyo, Dec. 18. Five persons were roasted to death and three others were seriously burned to- day in a pressure cham- ber at the construction site for

melting furnace of a metal pany in Wakayama pre. fecture, western Japan. A pressure chamber is used adjust workmen returning outside from underground conditions.

to

B

to

com-

Eight men were in the pres- sure chamber when workma outside noticed smoke seeping from the chamber. The door of the pressure chamber ders not open from the outside.

Workmen forced cpen the chamber door and fund the man dead inside and the other seven seriously burned. Four of them died in hospital.

Police investigating the cause of the fire-Reuter!

Airmen Acquitted In Malta

Valletto, Dec. 18.

Three Royal Air Force men were acquitted in a magia- trates court here today on a charge of holding up a Maltese civilian,

They

car.

They were LAC Peter Sulton. 20, LAC Robert White, 21, and LAC Colin McGill, 19. hod pleaded not guilty.

The police alleged that the three men, in a self-drive held up a civilian as he was driving home late at night, struck him on the head and demanded money, when the man resisted. They were al- Irged have made off with- out the money.

The court held that the police had failed to prove their sufficiently. Special.

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