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ENGULF HILL HUTS

1

Frantic scream starts rush

ON GERMANY for safety

TB Khrushchev's declara-

Mtion in Mosenw yester

day

will come as a shock to the West. Particularly those who, with the British Premier, Mr Harold Muc- millan, have

been the

staunchest advocates

of

summit talks. It seems to

reluctance

vindicate Mr Eisenhower's to meet the while the

Russians and

future of Berlin and West

Germany

Year

is not the only East West problem calling for

West settlement, the

has now to make sure that it is not going to meet the

ARTIC intransigence all along the line.

The Soviet Premier is forever atreening Iussia's win- cerity. "But this ig no guarantee

chusms

that

aeparating East and West can be spanned. In fact before a Bummit meeting the West will want new

that some tangible ther than complete Tallure is assured. What has

the uncompromising

Mr Khrushchev to offer which can be reckoned n real contribution to world pence?

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER More than 200 people fled for their lives down a hillside when a giant sheet of flame swept through 21 squatter huts at Chai Wan this morning.

DESPERATE

BID TO

HEAD OFF

RAIL STRIKE

The

London, Feb. 9. Government tonight tried to head off a nation wide rail strike which threatens to paralyse the nation.

its

A spokesman for the Minis- try of Labour tumoured chter Industrial commissione, FR Khrushchev makes no Mr P. H. Wilson, will meet to- representatives of

German

Mbones about encrificing morrow with repressway

unity for the mea whose 356,000 members safety of the satellites in threaten to walk out at mid- Eastern

Europe. And he night on Sunday unless they get clearly shows his contempt a pay raise. for the scrawny scrap of i Gerraany

Whe

men

which Stalin managed to wrest from Hitler,

and for the rule it under Moscow's guidaner today. It will be noticed that the feelings of the people of East Germany count for nothing, The European satellites demand

CRIPPLING

for

22

Tonight's Government an- reunelment came as the nadon braced

urippling all transport stoppage, that would include Lordon's underground system,

טרסות אותי

The threatened stoppage also

Prillk and fuel

the division and there is would affect transport of fool,

the end of the matter. And urban markets. what kind of leaders

who

they

Are

to

national

Several people

had amazing

Why is any change needed?

QUEEN'S DECISION

POLITICIANS

PUZZLES

London, Feb. 9.

:

escapes from death and injury The Queen's decision to introduce the new royal surname of Mountbatten-Windsor, has sur- prised and puzzled politicians.

as the fierce blaze fanned by a light wind raced through the tuts within a matter of minutes. The fire started in No. 3 - tion of the village shortly after

9 in.

The alarm was rated by an old woman who dushed from her blazing hut situated at the top of the hill.

Hearing the woman's frantic hut dwellers fed screams the

from their homes without even bothering to collect their posses- sions.

Within five minutes the entire hillside was burnir! Bercely.

153 homeless

MILLION

ΤΟ ΟΝΕ FREAK HAND

Texarkana, Feb. 9.

Despite desperate attempts by When Maurice Silberberg re- villagers all the huts in the

tired a few years ago, he section were destroyed.

decided to take up con- tract bridge.

at the blaze may spread to

At one stage it was feared

a further section. However pre-He started learning it just a few men from seven brigades which had rushed to the scene, brought the blaze Under control, It was later learned that 28 fumilies or

153 people were made homeless. One person jured.

Cooked

Yesterday many MFS were change asking "Why is any needed? And why it should be announced 30 or 40 years before any member of The Royal family may be directly affected?" The most widespread assump- tion was that definite advice had been extended to the Queen by the Mountbatten family.

It is known that she consult- ed Earl Mountbatten months ngo.

QUESTIONS

Puzzled MPg right put down, parliamentary questions to the Prime Minister due back from Africa on Monday.

It is hard to see how

these

ia One thing that is clear that reports that the Cabinet clashed on this matter are com- pletely baseless.

FOR STEEL MILL

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

Hongkong and Japanese businessmen planning a $22.5 million stoel mill for the Colony are investigating three sites in the New Territories.

Building of the mill is expected to begin in two months.

$1 million

for HK refugees

"

Qsio, Feb. 9.

The Norwegium Ro- fugee Council" has do- cided to give Chinose refugees living in Hong- kong 1.6 million kronor (HK$1,320,000), and a half a million kroner (HK$420,000) for trans- porting refugees from Hongkong to countries where they can settle down.-AP.

It has not yet been decided which of the three sites, one of which is on an island, will be adopted. They are all on pri- Vote Innd.

However, on one of the sites, the multi-million-dollar Hong- kong-Japan joint enterprise will inally be constructed, covering an area of 50,000 to 150,003 aquare feet,

At first, the new plant will turn out constructional material and other bullding Items made from them,

Shipbreaking

The factory will also go inta; shipbreaking to ensure ◊ supply of scrap fron.

Ha future plan is to expand into production of steet shoots and wire rodì, using furnaces.

The industry s

joint endeavour betweeon the Hong- kong Metal Enterprises Lu, and Full Iron and Steel Co.

Protestant Lid, in Japan.

objection

to pools

The

*

Macmillan

authorised documents in Eden memoirs

London, Feb. 9.

Mr Harold Macmillan, the Prime Ministor, authorized publication of official documents quoted In the memoirs of his prodoces- sor, Sir Anthony Eden. This was officially stated to.

day.

of

Mr C. W. Shih, Managing

Lord Home, Commonwealth. Secretary, told 4 Director of the Hongkong Metal Relations Enterprises Ltch, told the China Labour peer, Lord Silkin in the Laria that Skr Mail this morning that Japan House will contribute to the technical | Anthony submitted the text of and Installation side of the his book to Mr Macmillan, business and Hongkong, the through Str Norman Brook financial side of the project. Secretary to the Cabinet.

Lord Silkin naked if the He said that except for the Prime Minister took into eight Japanese techniciana the.

relations with

be done in our

BC-

of such publications." If so, was it not mather surprising he had permitted publication

Lord Home He took into consideration, no doubt, all the considerations, political and otherwise, which are relevant."",

could be ruled out of order A body representing the organisation will be entirely count the mischief that might months ago. Consequently,alnge ministerial sources them-

majority of Protestant staffed with Hongkong people, the United States in the course his wife and their bridge selves insist that responsibility

Churches in Hongkong Lartners, Mr and Mrs Sam for the Queen's announcement

"As Hongkong Imports 00 has protested to Govern- per cent of is steel require Lee, were started when he rests with the Cabinet, nal the

ment about the introdue, ments from abroad arumlly mado an opening bid of Palace. seven spades.

tion of football pools in our effort will more or less

to the was slightly In-It was the last hand of the

contribute Hongkong..

Colony's economy," said Mr Shih, night. Mrs Lee, one of Sliber- were distri- meals

Christian Hongkung berg's opponents threw down buted by social welfare workers

It is understood that when Council Chairman, Mr 5. C. two tees and a king and told und the British Red Cross will

brought him he

up the Leung, has couldn't possibly Macmillan distribute clothing at 4 p.m.

declaration make it.

the Cabinet Colonial Secretary, Mr Claude several weeks

he ago, Silberberg d make it with

took Burgess, saying: the tine that it was natural case. He had been dealt all

"It was that Prince

any 13 spades—a onge

Philip ke in a life-

father should wish his descen- time, million to eno shot hand.

dants to bear his euriame, -AP.

And the proposal went through virtually without com- ment,

sanction this The NUR chiefs met today

of the A denial of freedom and who with representatives

Trades Union Council for

four

are

content to accept permanent division of their hours in an altempt to reach

at

some kind of solution to

country? Surely only those wage dispute. who

elutching Atraws.

ane

Mr Khrushchev' should not forget history. Out of the frustrations of the Weimar Republic arose the Hitler dictatorship. The Rhine- land and the Saar could not be separated from German stato.

And while

me

the Adenauer regime may be forced to

accept the continued division of their country, the temptation for disgruntled Germans

both sides of the Iron Cur- toin to look back to the heyday of the Swastika.

the

After the meeting, TUC lead- ers said they were "unable render further assistance."--AP,

10

IRA campaign

of violence

now sporadic

Belfast, Feb. 9.

of violence launched in Northern Ire-

will grow more compelling The campaign

and appealing. Particularly

sinco Its resurgence has recently been so strikingly demonstrated.

TXWHETHER

W chev

Mr Khrush- expressing was his own views to the Italian President, pressure Inconsed West

or

from

Chinn

Fireworks

factory

blows up

New York, Feb. 9. series of explosions - blowing up small buildings like a string of Chinese firecrackers swept through

Taken to hospital in

plastic bag

Idaho Falls, Feb. 9.

worker was taken to hospital in *ble trans- parent plasilo bar here last night—

precaution A prevent radiation spreading through the hospital.

fireworks fac- | An atomle tory in Maryland today. A state trooper sald 23 people were believed to be in the first of the 18 small frame buildings to blow up.

"I don't know if any of theuri got out or not," he said.

"There are a lot of fire trucks and ambulances here," he added. "But they can't get close to the buildings, because they're burn- |ing and igniting other buildings.

ANOTHER BLAST

"We're expecting another one to go up anytime now. It should be a hell of a blast."

to

The worker, Billy Chris-

The Queen's decision clearly was intended as a tribute to her husband, 30-year-old Prince Phillp. Mountbatten was the Home he adopted en retinquish- Ing his Greek and Danish ́ütles In 1047.

op-

Both supporters and ponents of the Queen's move

written to

the

Employment

The

memoirs, published re- cently in the London Things and

"At least it will give more the SCM Post in Hongkong. employment opportunities to the were often critical of actions by workers in Hongkong. besides the United States in connection with deep regre making use of scrap Iron to pro- with the Indo-China settlement that we

learned from local duce finished goods on the und with 1956 Anglo-Frencha newspapers that the Govern-spot."

ment was not unfavourable to

"In

September, per-

football pools being organised Mr Shih sald the project has and run in the Colony and was been six months in negotiation. ventemplating granting

Mr Minox mission to do this.

Ishida, adviser of Fuji Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., arrived for pre- liminary discussion.s.

GAMBLING FEVER

"The extent of the gambling fover and the evils to which it 'can lead is well known to the

Government,

saw it, however, as a triumph. "The Government itself has

"And last Friday, Mr Ishida and Mr Satara Takushima, Pre- sident of Sangyo Shrinkó Co. Ltd., of Tokyo, a subsidiary of Fuji, arrived for further talks."

Fidi Iron and Steel Is one of

componía.

for Philip's uncle, the 69-year-enacted certain checks on - the big three Japanese steel old Earl Mountbatten of Burma, limited gambling. Supreme Commander of tish military forces.

Dri-

The Earl's pride in his familly name is well known. He has no son, now his name will be kept alive in the most Royal possible fashion.

Yesteniny,

the left-leaning

tiansen, 28, dropped a steel Daily Mirror, with more than tablo on his foot and fell four million circulation, de- against a radioactive piece

ofmanded the whole laue be sub-

mitted to Parliament. equipment at the Atomic Energy Odmmission's national reactor lesting station.

Physicists decontaminated him but sent him 10 hospital for He sold he helped one elderly treatment of four broken toes. woman away from the scene bul |--Ficuter. sold she appeared to be sufer- ing mostly from shock.

Tho Borles of blasts broke windows in nearby houses.

WARM AFFECTION And Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard said today:

"The warm affection in which the Queen is held will ensure that criticism is restrained. But it would have been far better if no occasion for controversy and critickam had been offered." Star replied with a six-column headline:

Queen "Leave the Alone."

The Daily Mirror's objection to the name Mountbatten lay in! its German origin,

land three years ago by More than an hour after the RN cruiser for Peru To these complaints the liberal

blasts started, a raging fro was

the outlawed Irish Re-threatening the plant's ammuni publican Army organisaten dump reportedly contain- tion has dwindled into ing about three tons of TNT "sporadic attacks on life AF.

and property." -

The Governor General, Lor! underWakehurst, said this today.

Reading the Queen's spetch nt the way East-of the Northern Ireland Parkin

at as the opening of the new session relations have im-

mont, he said this Was due proved in recent months, it mainly to government meatures, is hard to tell. But either the exemplary discharge of their way, he leaves the West dulles by the police and the little alternative than to armed forces and by "the com“

the same

diplomatic rundsbig good sense of the gen- If Rasein

ista eral publle". persista

Business in Northern Ireland's refusing talks on Gerincu trcles improved towards many, the summit meeting the end of last year, the governor can be postponed until the al declared

pay

play

game.

in

wha

in the

Soviet leaders are brought Present high employment in to realise that the West has the shipbuilding industry no intention of accepting expected to continur the permanence of the Immediate future but a general Iron Curtain

decline in the aircraft produc- anywhere. And that only the self- tion had caused much anxiety.

The governor hoped that expression of the people of

Important project planned the European satollites in

producing frekaltor planes In the paramount factor in Northern Ireland would give by continuing employment to many determining how and

countries workers for some years ahead- whom

thong

Reuter, should be ruled.

133 for

Portsmouth, Feb, 0. Peru today took delivery of a Fix-inch gun cruiser, the 0,071- ton former HMS Ceylon-AP.

Why France gave up Suzie role

rumours

ช

ת!

khe had lont in romÍCU when setor Marlon Brando wwiiched his attentions Prot broken

ber

Flipino- Hungarian actress Barbara ΓΛΩΣ

Hollywood, Feb. 1. Persistent Hollywood indicated today that I was romance and not bronchitis that mado French-Chinsse actress France Nuyen give up her role in "The World. of Suzie Wong."

Informed koprock that the latest scores of the film, shot in London, showed that Miss Nayon had gained weight. Three Mina said that

been Nuran

may have making up in food what

sources

sald

Brando and Miss Luna were reported to have Lo- Luseparablo sloce

cemo.

Miss Nayen left Hollywood to flim the fral scenes "óf "Ausle: Wong" In MenE - kong.

Mis Nuyen and Brando Vication thetr Abent

last Int together wimmer. AFF.

And the Chairman of the of the Hongkong Metal

"It is therefore with surprise that we learn that the sllowing | Board football pools should be even considered

"We trust that you will do your utmost to prevent per- mission being

given by the Legislative Council or whatever other bedy is responsible"

The Roman Catholic Church view on pools is believed to be that there is nothing morally

as

ammed Reuter,

intervention at Suez.-

Dramatic rescue of ship's crew

the well-Helicopters today Enterprises Ltd.,

known retired Chinese general, Lt-Gun Yung Chiu-woon, Д Division Commander in the 19th Route Army, which frequently went into action against the Јарапеве during the Sino- Japanese war.

San Francisco, Feb. 9.

began taking off the crew of 40 of an American tanker carrying wine and oil- which ran aground on a shoal near here.

The

ship, the

8.522-ton

be Angelo Petri, belleved to the world's biggest wine tanker,

wrong with the idea, so long Dr Banda's began drifting helpicasly efter

it and causes no harm to his family or those for whom he is responsible.

Israel-seeks heavy arms The

Tel Aviv, Feb. 9.

Until 1917 the Mountbattens, Israel is trying to obtain descended like British royalty from Queen Victoria, had the German name Battenberg.

father,

Ear Mountbation's Prince Loufs of Baltenberg, was hounded from command of the British Navy in World War 1 because of his German name.

release expected

Salisbury, Feb. 9,

for the canal zone. She radioed that she was losing power in heavy seas and that her anchor was dragging on the bottomL Then she went aground,

HEAVY SEAS

While heavy CES pounded

release of Dr Hastings the tanker and ships and tugs

Banda is expected "any mood to her aid, hellcopters 'minute."

Orton Chikowa, President

took off the first three crew members. A coastguard spokes- man said, "she's in real trou-

to

some types of heavy arms, General of the Malawi African ble. We will get the crew oft first and then worry about the to Congress, said this today. especially armour,

ship." match the United Arab Mr Chirwa, who described.

The Angelo Petri was carry - Republic's offoctivo Rus- himself as a "caretaker" for the ing 2.6 million gallons of wisse

detained Congress leader, sald from California vineyards slan armour.

from talks with Mr Juin Macleod, ports in the Caribbean and va Shimon Peres, Deputy Colonial Secretary, and other the United States cast count, The family anglicised it to Defence Minister, revealed this British cabinet incirbers

你 She DILO earried,cotlan- Mountbatten In 1917 at the game

today.

getbered pressure was to be reca all. Built at a cost of $7 time no British royalty dropped i

Graught."

million the tanker made, her all their German names and Mr Peres told a radio corres- adopted Windsor.London Ex-pondent that a number of power returned to Blantyre (Nyasa-

"We expect Dr Bunda to be maiden voyage In. Soplember,

1937-Router.

press Service, and AP.

Mc

had turned down requesta for theso arms, and in future, Israel nne," he added. would have to rely for its arms

Ballot boxes suppiles on European production

ambushed

Rangoon, Feb. 10.

Preah elections · have

plants-which required the con-

rent

of all members of the

European community.

He said the Israeli arms in

dustry had made considerable

Birthday at sea

*London, Feb. 9,

Palace investiture

London, Feu, D.

The Duke of Edinburgh today held an inveauture at Bucking-

Но

strides, especially in the produc- Mr Harold Macmillan, the ham Palace on behalf of the been tion of shells and spare parts. Primo Minister, who is 60 to Queen, who is awaiting the

child. ordered in sorry areas of Kanu including rockets in use. by, the morrow, will spend his birthday birth of her third Blate after, officiala carrying air force, artillery, ammunition quietly in the sidp the Cape presented 101 men and women

the Insignia of ballot boxes to the polling office of all calibres and

their spare paria town Castle which is bring with In Paan woré sinbushed, it was for armour

artikery,ng him home after his African, awards, announced in the How reported here today-UPI.

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