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CHINA
No. 37587
Established 1845
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1960.
LATE FINAL
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French farmers object to agricultural prices
PASTESY DELIVERY TO LEADING MARKETS
THE
WORLD
Of The DE GAULLE POLICY SPARKS RIOT
Day
Thousands clash
HONGKONG'S with
MILLSTONE
A
CORRESPONDENT'S
assertion that
JL1 im- in-
partial commission of
quiry is needed to in- vestigate corruption. will
witle
be received with
approval. The extent
evil, more than any other, is our
greatest cause for
shame. For all that is
admirable this Colony,
police:
over 100 hurt
Amiens, Feb. 11.
Hundreds of riot police fought a three-hour street battle today with 25,000 farmers protesting the farm price policy of Pre- sident Charles De Gaulle.
for all our dazzling pros- About 122 were injured. perity, the rent achieve- ments of Government
the genuine hard work that has gone into making Hongkong the pince it is today, corruption 18 the millstone around our neck, dragging us and down.
down
of them Including a New swoop
It is impossible to exaggerate on Chinese
Its incidence
the
only
and perhaps TERHON Govern-
ment could offer for not holding a public inquiry is the resultant scandal rock
244 shock wmold
to
in Canada
its founda 1longkang tions. The correspondent is Royal
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quite right when he BAYR that Government could never Aiceessfully carry out Auch an investigation for there are few who would dare to probe it to its true depths.
Is not confined to any particular strula of society or department of adminis. tration. At its highest level, fortunes are passed over for Invours, and at its lowest, the
or
Vancouver, Feb. 11.
Canadian Mounted Police have swooped down un four offices and four private homes in raide designed to halt illegal entry of Chinese into Canada, it was announced
today.
a scheme women
traffle
in
ira
A Police spokesman said the ralds were slaged here yester- day. He sold the Mounties, armed with search warrants, seized papers and other records odd dollar or pertaining to the illegal No "tea money". More which informed sources said over the action Government originated in Hongkong. takes either through pro-
one bom Two Chinese, in courts Becution
WITC arrested privately inves-Vancouver, through
September in will Hongkong lust tigating individuals
to never get to the heart of coction with Chinese
and bring Nor is it the matter.
εποική to be
sure of morally children into Canada ilegally.
Immigration officials In strong civil service to deal
Ottawa said later that a "coolic was being operated with this problem. For any accet
official in a Government
Hongkong and Vau- between will couver
Chiness to transport, of influence position
of Lell
one kind slave labour-UPI. that bribes or another are not offered singly or occasionally, but come in a non-stop barrage, ! and it takes the strongest of wills to resist. Not only are direct, blatant
money
HK comment
Mr D. E. J. Dennult. Super- Intendent of the Canadian Im- migration Office in Hongkong, offers made, but told the China Moil this morn- ing that investigation has been gifts of all kinds, presents going on for many months, for the chi
children, jewellery "Any result from the invest- for the wives, little kind-gallon or comment will originale favours, Christ- from our headquarters back in nesses and mas and Chinese New Year Canado." He said so because he presents. It is so much of was not in a position to disclose
part of the Chinese way of life that it has come to cuatom. be accepted And the difficulty of proving hos corrupt been demonstrated in local courts over and over again.
1
intention
If there is any orthodox solution it must begin with restatement of moral values and a basic re- the entire education of community.
curgeats. China has auc-
problem, it has done
The Interior Ministry in Paris announced that 52 policemen were injured lu the riot, three police commissioner - gravely.
'The Interior Ministry nouncement did not mention rioter casualties but a late night estimate placed it at "about 70" injured, several seriously.
an-
also
were
HIK's Footballer
of the Year
The China Mail once again oxtends to the public an Invitation to nominato, by popularity poll, Hong- kong's Footballer of the Year.
The
A simple coupon, which can be filled up in one minute,
will be found in this issue on page 9, coupon will continue to be published dully on one of tho China Mall sports pages until the closing date for the nomination is announcod. This is the seventh annual Footballer of the Year pall sponsored and organised by the China Mall.
It
has proved increasingly popular since its incop- tion and has won wide public support. Two guiding qualifications for nomination are playing
ability and sportsmanship on the field of play. The winner will, in due course, be presented with an inscribed silver cup presented by the China Mall. Send in your nomination NOW for Hongkong's
Footballer of the Year.
A-weapons for West Germany
The Interior Ministry announced that 80 rioters arrested and that an official in vestigation was underway
hurled πιού The enraged bricks and paving blocks at the massive cordons DI helmeted police, mashed shop windows and ripped up street sign posts. and
Police hurled tear gas
made repeated mass charges on the mob with batons and heavy rolled-up capes.
No exact casually count was possible, bul police estimated their own crsities at "about
Seven killed
in collision
Amiens, Feb. 11.
Seven people were killed and some 40 injured today when a bus and a truck collided near here.
The bus was filled with borne farmers returning after the demonstration In Amiens.
After the accident a car crashed into the wreckage of, the bus, The automobile fire And the caught fro spread to the truck-AF.
50" and eyewitnesses said there were probably "many more than that" among the rioters.
TREATED AS EQUAL
IN NATO ALLIANCE
London, Feb. 11.
secretary
Lancashire hears 40 years a of HK "ban on Chinese imports"
A British textile chief was reported today to have said in Manchester that "there was a complete ban on the importation of Chinese cloth in Hongkong.”
Mr Kenneth O. Boardman this Colony which in the course went on to say that "should the ❘ of ten years has become the
Hongkong Government allow un- wonder of the textile world." Jimited imports from Communlit Communist China was send- Chino then the Hongkong spin- | ing Britain textiles of the ning and weaving industry highest quality and the remark- would be virtaully obliterated obly low price of her cloth within the next 12 months." made her the outstanding toxille
But in Hongkong this morn-producer in the world today.- ing Mr Boardman's statement Reuter, about the ban was denied.
An authoritative source said; "Thore is no restriction on im. ports of cotton goods from Main- land China."
are
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"Imports from China danger to the local Industry out we can do nothing about it in the way of tariff."
In 1859, cotton plece goods of all sorts imported from China totalicd 120,193,430 yards valued at almost $110 million.
This represented 37 per cent cf Hongkong's production.
Mr Kenneth O. Bourdinan, Chairman of a group of Lan-
The House of Commons tonight endorsed shirts mille enlied for & live-
the British Government's policy of treating West Germany as an equal Nato ally entitled to have the weapons available to the alliance. ·
towards
It rejected by a majority of 89 a Labour mollon consuring the government's polley Germany on nuclear weapons.
The voting at the end of a two-day debate, was 322 to 233. the
· Mr
Hugh Geliskell,
contended that Labour leader, to give West Germans nuclear control weapons, even without
before the of the warhoods. Paris summit meeting would prejudice the conference.
Lloyd's reply
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, made these points In reply to the debate:
Mr
KYBO
monwealth.catton goods, accord-
year quota on imports of Com- to Router cable from Man
chester,
He said "the amount of cloth
imported by Britain, should be reasonably controlled.
HK a country:
U.S. ruling
on deportation
Washington, Feb. 12.
A US. Judge has ruled that Hongkong is a country and therefore aliens could be deported to it.
The ruling by District Judge
Miss Alla Clary, secratary
and "right hand” American Congressman
to
Sam Rayburn for the past forty yours, is of present visiting the Colony. Miss Clary, who describes horsolf as "the oldest in- habitant of the Congres- sional office" arrived yos- terday on the President Adams.
Miss Clary was met by APL monagor and wife Mr and Mri E. P. Morsell, who are taking her on a sightsao- ing and shopping expodi- tion of Hongkong..
B.S. Matthews was given in the Sho will leave for Saigon to-
case of two Chinese merchant seamen the U.S. Government is
seeking to deport because, they overstayed.
The
seamen, Peter Ying and
The reorganisation of the industry is likely to cast in the Wong Chuy-liang, had lived in region of £50 million and those Hongkong for years and British firms now remaining in the in-officials have notified the Gov- dustry are committed to pay ernment they would accept the a sizable devy for the next len return of the two men.
cars,
the evidence that
Germans become filled would haired and inferiority If they weapons. wore denied nuclear
He had still favoured Cler
It rearmament. Man necessary to get the Americans
"As we have ten years to pay responsibilities: to accept their
awe must have ten years of rea in Europe, But that was
different
from sonable opportunity to work." thing very
German with arming the nuclear weapons.
Labour censure
many
in Europe
Protection
for "Some protection Lancashire textile industry
the
IS
3
The 1052 Immigation Act.
allowed says deportations are only to the country from which an alien lagt entered the United States.
Attorneys for the two seamen contended Hongkong is not n country and pointed to a ruling last October by Judge Alexander Holtzoff holding that the island
It would be utterly foolish as important to her as to other for us not to recognise the fears textile producing countries," he of the Poles, the Czechs and went on.
of Formosi was not a country the Russians as t as GUT- The Cotion Board, he said, within the meaning of the act. Full British support for
Judge Matthews held that a concerned," he said.
į made a gravé error in agreving City hospitals treated dozens
and today's American proposals for
Mr Galtskell asked whether to unlimited imports
all terriery of gar country 'includes of people for head cuts
a partial nuclear test bar.
the Supreme Allied Commander ments within the cloth quotu subject to a sovereign power- other injuries. Some were bc-
The personality of 'condl- ---❤
had sole personal eelliru. The next two years AP. lieved to be in serious
Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet responsibility for deciding would undoubtedly show tion.
direct Prime Minister, had largely con- when nuclear weapons were to heavy increase in this trade. Pointing up the
Did he first Mr Boardman held cut a shirt He said there is no quota for
with Russia towards of all have to obtain the con Chinese to enter Canada now challenge to General De Goulle's tributed to the progress beln be used in Europe.
head of made
made in Hongkong landed in Gover-Britain at a cost of 7/1 and cold except those who qualify under new
The suicide of world war ment? provision or County a further violence of the kind that peaceful co-existence.
crupted in Algiers January 24,
in the shop at 12/0
"I doubt if a similar shiri of gration law.
mingled was accepted and "we must the rloling farmers
have no more brinkmanship." It stipulates
British manufacture could offered by retallers at less than Canadian residents of Chinese their protest slogans with shouts
25/" he said. origin can apply for admission of "Algerie Franculse" and "Vive
Mascu."
further.
that
any
Lo measures
nent of the American
To this Mr Lloyd replied that
ali Nato
weapons-coNVED-
It was possible and desir- tional and atomic, including
able to negotiate a Berlin agree-tactical weapons were, control- of their wives, husbands, all The farmers poured into the ment to improve the situation led ultimately by a political au- unmarried children under 21, city throughout the day from all there, if this were an interim thority which was in fact a
But the one it would have to recognise counsel of their governments, and mothers over northern France,
Interior Ministry communique the West's fundamental rights over 60.
Ite said most Chinese
insald many of the rioters appear in the city. Conada are Cantonost.
ed lo have no connection with
fathers over 85
Warning
our correspondent However, he had not heard the farm demonstration.
Warning against the dangers of anything like the "coolic
of a neutralised Germany trying This gave rise to cpcculation
elements dealt with the rockol" muggling slave labour that rightwi
East against West, to hosille
President to play off into Canada as reported in the France 60
have Mr Lloyd said it was much safer Charles De Gaulle may with the help of the firing press. squad and a court whose But he said that "we are well taken over the farmers demon- to have her associated in a free Mr Galskell had eariler said of the legal trame stration and attempted to turn allance of Western partners. function is to condemu aware
which has been going on for àit into an anti-Government pro-
there wat not the slightest problem. long time,"
Instead of judge. There in the core of the Corruption in Hongkong thrives on the inability of the law to deal with It. Corruption exploits a system of justice which is foreign the lund in which
to
mento
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and which
different
for
WO
arc
climate and for people with different moral idons. In short, fighting the evil with the wrong weapons.. Yet what are the right onen? Ruthlessness, arbitrarinens, the fear of death? Surely these are equally repugnant, But
Hongkong perhaps H the shock that a truly artial investigation could give. Perhaps we have
OUTBOÏVOR been telling good we are for too long. And it would be a change for us as well as others to know how really rotten we are. Perhaps only then will Hongkong he driven by shame and desperation to work out useful methods of correction,
how
teel,UPI and AP,
BRITAIN PREPARES
FOR 'S DAY
London, Feb. 11. Deliain today made plans to keep the nation moving from midnight on Buriday when a nailon-wide railway sizike in due to begin. Every incans of transport from bloyoles to river boats will de brought into force to bring workers to their jobs and keep industry color. Folles in London and oftier bla alties have drawn up olabor- ale schemes to prevent traile chaos a hundreds of thou sands pour into town in their own cars. The Government. In reported to be confident for the time belor at least about suchi essential applies as all and ccal and fuel to the power *lation.
After hours of negoílation tódaý
the deadlock over increased wages between the railway- men and the urlish Transport Commission, which runs the atate-owned system, was still unbroken.
a hard The Nailonal Union of Railway-
is demanding men eash offer from the mADRKE- ment
general Tonight the Union's
'Doctolaty," Mr Sidney Greene, named noon tomorrow as tho deadline for such an offer if `the strike is to be called off. After he and delegation bad find talks with the Ministry Industry of
Labour's chief
Peter peacemaker, Me
·BL John Wilson, the Union leader said: "Our poslilon 1 unatiered Wo wont hard casb.
No one has 'mado 'any
proposition to us today, but averse to na we are never offer."
be
Sostland Yard, headquarters of tho •London Metropolitan tint the Polleo, announced whole of it once will mobilized to beat the Game Jame in the capital. London, with its iceming mil- Lions Inco * particularly dizicult problem if the tall strike materializes, Stoppage of the underground railway wyalem will 'dilve all travej-. lors to the surface.
N Polloo said today they will for- bid all parking and loading and unloading on the mila traffle routes in and out of the city centre, Special parking Fotes are being prepared on the fringe of the centrar arca-Reuter.
ha
Etonian
London, Feb. 12.
A man who was educated at
Eton, one of Britain's most ex-
clusive schools, with Prime
morrow 'uftor which she will be 'returning to home in Falls Church, Virginia.
Cash sweep first prize
$1 million
Approximately 2,500- 000 tickets have been sold
10 for in tho Pearce Memorial Cash Swoop, the Hongkong Club's trop- Jockey
to- Kurers announced day.
The treasurem added that prize money will be around the $1,300,- 000 mark on the basis of latest sales.
Minister Harold Macmillan, an- STOP PRESS
nounced that ho will sock 'elec- ton to a London borough coun- cil-a u Communist.
HK's ingenuity "Hongkong textile productions Mr Gaitekell caused a noisy are those which are mainly scene when he said the "Suez feared by Lancashire," he went mentality", and the iden
that on
"Yet one
cannot help but "might is right" was still on the Conservative benches. The cen- admire the boundless Ingenuity sure motion also applied to the and breathtaking efficiency of election-Reutet. Government's recont handling of
dence of the British colony of the negotiations for the indepen Cyprus.
Germany's right
Mr Harold Watkinson, Minis- ter of Defence, who resumed the debate today, also defended West Germany's right to have nuclear weapons without control of the warheads..
British forces,, he said, had. the
"Corporal," anarullery substitute wilssile, with a range of about 7 miles whereas the
had only. "Honest D. | Gerinana
John," an, artillery substitute weapon with a range of under 20 miles ---
As far as he could ascertain Germany would have no other types of operational missiles for at least the rest of this year,
Heuter.
He is Mr Cranville Giles, 08, a former school master, who la to contest a seat in May at the Drentford and Chiswick borough,
CONSTABLES BRUISED MY ARM,
HEWETT TELLS COURT
. . . .
W. G. Hewett, an accountant of the Chartered Bank, told Mr T. Morris at Central Magistracy this a result of morning that he got a bruised armas rough handling by two police constables.
He denied he had used Howett in facing three num- monses for dangerous driving, atualyé language to the car driving while under the influence clubles apart from calling th of drink and using abusive "fools". language to two police com
K WANTS NOBEL stables.
PEACE PRIZE
Cross-examined by Mr Simon F. S. Li, Crown Counsel, he enla he was very angry at the way the constablès treated him.. Rome, Feb. 11. Premier Nildta Khrushchev.:
not understand was happending when has reportedly put forward his I could candidature for the 1000: Nobel what Peace Prize according to a dis- they grabbed hold of me by patch by the Italian Continente arms and mado mewak
"I had not done anything ale nows agency correspondent-
wrong," Hewett jaid, In Prague AFG
Quelón, Hewett said be could not remember how many dries 12 he had that even-
He said as far as he could re- member ho;bad more drinks on another occasion without any effect
he. He also denied that
pital: "I was just looking out of. vanitled on the way to the hos the window," he added.)
Hearing continues.
Macao latest
The Fortagitess Consul- General In Hongkong, Dr Jono Pequito, diámissed the. London report that, Macao may be handed over to China as "completely un- founded."
'the "
"There is absolutely no" 'truth'In 11," he told
China Mail this afterno00.
"Macao is a PortuguRAD Province and as such wo (cangos.part with B”.
Referring to the Portu. mission to Peklog
. mentioned in the report, Dr Peggito vald, "the Mission was completely a private one consisting of private cllizens going to Chink for a visit, "It had nothing to do wila oiligini malters, *
“And Unt, so-called secret i nerollatlan for establishment of diplomalle rettidos br=" tweed Lisbon and. Peking in. entirely baseless”---
Maono, Feb. 12,
Fu Tak-yu, millionaire - gambling magnale, reported.
to have - pisici between.
·115$25,000 | and $50,000 for nophew Ho Lei-ram's release by Commuólst Chinese
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