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President willing to resign if people so desire'
Of The RIOTERS WIN: RHEE MAY GO
Day
EVERYONE'S WEDDING
Poo
OOR Princess Margaret! She has been hounded and pestered and bothered and badgered ever sinco she announced her engage- ment. London newspapers have bean the worst offenders. Admittedly every- wants to read about 0310 the royal wedding, the preparations being made for it and those who are taking part But when a newx- paper begins to suggest who the Princess should invite and how she should arrange the ceremony, that's going too far. This
Royal
in admittedly a ocenaton. But it is also a private affair, event
An
which Princess Margaret like any other bride wants to share with her busbaud, and their families
and
friends. If she wants to avoid a screaming, chaotle stampede which has been a feature of so many other celebrities weddings, who
can
blame her? In fact precisely because they avoid cheap vulgarity her plans will win widespread admira. tion.
RITISH nowspapers claim
Agrees
to hold new national elections
Seoul, Apr. 26.
President Syngman Rhee promised to retire today-"if the people desire"-and agreed to hold new national elections.
Gangland
murder trial shock
London, Apr. 25.
A judge today discharged the jury and ordered a re- trial of three men charged with a London gangland murder.
A key witness in the case, a woman, has been missing for more than six weeks and other witnesses have been brought to the trial under close police pro- tection,
After a conference
with le
fence and prosecution lawyers the judge, Sir William Gorman, said today at the Old Bailey;
INFORMATION
"Certain information has been brought to my notice which makes it impossible for
the case to be continued for trial before this jury,
"In those circumstances I
discharge this jury from giving this case for trial to the next Session opening here to-
a verdict In this case and send
The 85-year-old President Rhee, the first and only President this Republic has ever had, gave in completely to an angry populace which had carried off wild demon- strations over the last week at a cost of nearly 150 lives. In the face of the Intest rioting touched off by a march of 150 of the nation's most respected educators, President Rhee finally bowed and made a four-point state- ment which appeared to answer virtually all of the demands of the angry demonstrations.
Wild cheers
The students who had won what virtually was a "students' revolution" broke out into wild cheering upon hearing the President's statement. Only moments before they had cuptured four army tanks and had threatened to storm the presidential mansion of Kyung Mu-Dae.
In addition to this promise to retire-"if"-President Rhee also pledged:
• That his controversial, heir-apparent, Lee Ki- poong, speaker of the National Assembly, Vice-President- Elect and the actual power behind the hated National Police, would resign from all public offices.
the That there were "many irregularities" in March 15 elections and therefore he had ordered new Vice- balloting, apparently for both President and President.
That he would offer a constitutional amendment calling for the creation of a parliamentary-cabinet type of government.
U.S. pressure
President Rhee's statement came shortly after an urgent conference at his hillside mansion with U.S. Am bassador Walter P. McConaughy and United Nations commander, Gen. Carter B. Magruder.
It was clear that he acted under considerable pres- sure from the United States which only this morning issued a new statement calling upon the Government of Korea to make amends for the justifiable grievences" which touched off the angry demonstrations which have raged sporadically since the March 15 election day.
The scope of President Rhee's announcement left little room for the opposition Democratic Party to make further complaint. On the personal side, there was no doubt that the resignation of Lee Ki-pong would be greeted with the greatest enthusiasm..
cause the wedding la costing £20,000 of taxpayers' money --but take that argument to an extreme and the British taxpayer would also have a right to decide who should be the Princess's husband, No one in foolish enough to suggest that and Princess Margaret probably fcols that she would rather foot the whole bill herself than have people toll her how to run her own wedding. As It la the whole proceedings will be shown over televi- sion. And the BBC will be reporting the procession and ceremony every inch of the way. Besides tho Princess and her husband The three accused are James will drive in state from the Lawrence Nash, 20, steeplejack, Abbey back to Buckingham John Alexander Read 28, un-
Though he is a devout churchgoer, a leader in the Palace through ceremonial Pyle, 25, street trader,
employed, and Joseph Henry
Boy-Scout Movement and head of the Korean Olympic arch-covered streets where All have pleaded not guilty Committee which is dedicated to the principles of fair thousands will be able to murdering
Selwyn Keith Cooney, 31, at the Pen Club, in play, the 63-year-old Lee also was the man who actually ception is to be private- London's East End Stepney ran the National Police which has been accused of wide- and properly ac.
spread brutality. In their district, almost childish enthusiasm Nash is alleged to have fired for
the Royal Family some the shot which killed Cooney. British people seem to for- owner of another drinking club. get that the Princese also has a private life in which they have no right to Intrude.
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EXTRA GUARD
Some Landen morning papers
reported today that extra guards were likely to be detailed watch over the jury.
to
"This step may be deemed necessary to ensure that mem-
inter-
[F the Princess and her hurband to dodge all the ballyhoo of squealing. chooring crowds tho hers of the jury are protected moment they step into from the vossibility of Buckingham Palace after ference." the Daily Express said. the wedding, who, having
A key witness to the shoot- enjoyed
the quiet good taste and comparative privacy of their own wedding, will blame her? And if as the Sunday Pictorial reports that after her honeymoon Ako wants to settle down quietly
na
ing, Mrs Fay Sadler, 36, part awnee of the Pen Club, has
Churchgoer
He also was the master politielan who ran the Liberal Party and was wklely accused of being the man behind the allegedly rigged March 15 elections.
President Rhee's announcement came as no surprise to many in Seoul who believed that he eventually would be forced to bow to the angry, mounting public pressure. But the speed with which the announcement came surprised some who believed that the President would hold out longer and hope for the situation to calm down. It was believed that the spectre of the military may have been responsible.
For, as the demonstrations increased in strength, anger and determination, there had been growing talk of the military taking over to ease the crisis. This is in fact in best Asian tradition.
been missing for two months, Burma, Thailand and Pakistan are examples.
and has not responded to numerous police appesis (o come forward.
At last weck's hearings the broke Mrs prosecutor said a fight
Newspaper extras
Newspapers put out immediate extras.
Old time residents said there had not been such started Cooney's wild scenes of joy in Korea since the nation was liberated friend. William
Citizens of Scout reach for extras reporting Vice-President John M. Chang's resignation in protest against the March, 15 Presidential elections, which his democratic party charged as niggad, na
Extras also reported that Vice-President Elect Loe Kl-poong would rosign in face of public criticism of the ofections, which lod to the recent bloody up- rising.
AP Photo.
U.S.
Skybolt favoured Bluestreak
to replace
London, Apr. 25. Britain today was authoritatively reported to favour the American Skyboft rocket as the most likely weapon to ro- place the abandoned British Bluestroak missile.
British interest in the airborne Sky- bolt is in proference to the American Polaris missila, designed to be fired from atomic submarines.
A final decision has been deferred for the time being at least until after the U.S. visit of the Defence Minister, Mr Harold Watkinson, lato in May or early in June,
But there were mounting indications today that the government is tonding in principle toward the Skybolt because it is cheaper, and because it would be supplied by the U.S. directly to Britain Instead d through Nato-channels.
A full dress parliamentary debate has been scheduled here for Wednesday in which the Government will face hoovy
attacks from the Labour opposition over the Bluastroak, developed at an expenso of some £100 million and officially aban- doned as a weapon a week ago.
But having dropped the costly project Britain has already in principle decided to get American missiles instead. She has not yet finally made up her mind however on the type of rocket she wants to adopt as a vehiclo for her own nuclear warheads.
The first inclination was to favour the aca-borne Polaris which the U.S. success- fully tested carlior this month.
But government exports have had second thoughts in the past few days which shifted the interest to the Skybolt.
What makes the Skybalt more attrac- tivo is that it can be launched from Bri. -tain's existing bomber fleet. The range of the missile is between 1,000 and 1,200 miles and it could be launched from a plane while it is still outside the range of enemy defences,—UPI,
Ambrose, was from the Japanese in 1945. People were hugging and DEATH OF BLACKMARKETING BLOOD:
Armstrong-Jones that is out in the Pen Club and then also perfectly understand shooling able. She has lived in goldfish bowl for 30 years. There are three in line of succession to the throne before her and if now ahe profers to keep in the background, tho British people should respect her decision.
An for Hongkong's $50,000
gift-which works out at less than two cents per hond of population-it
would have been in better taste if quaralous correspondents resisted the impulse to complain until Princens Margaret had expreased
had
her wish. She could ask
for
shot in the stomach and dancing with perfect strangers. Cooney died from a wound in
The crowds roared in approval. The tension relaxed. the head
Capital continued marching from the When stopped, the trial was But the mobs In its third day, and the de- Avenue singing the National Anthem and waving flaga. Troops, who had held them back only for a few moments, retreated slowly for the marchers and soon formed two column ranks and marched in front of tho crowd all the way to the Capitol Building.
President Rheo's statue in Pagoda Park was toppled by the demonstrators.
tence was expected to open- China Mail Special.
LAR QUAKE TOLL NOW 700
Now shooting
The mob, which numbered at least half a millon, continued to press toward President Rheo's mansion and new shooting broke out. Most of the shots elther were blanks or real bullets fired into the air. No wounded could be seen.
"Tebaran, Apr. 25. a golden rose bowl or a The earthquake which levelled silver casserole dish but the Iranian cily of Lar killed After the announcement, however, it was a happy zurrounded as sho in with about 700 people and injured mob, but it was in no mood to break up. At the Capitol
several thousand, priceless treasures like the
grounds, the crowd hesitated in front of huge barbed Iranian crown Jowela and other Dr Hussein Khatibi,
Red Cross Director, who made wire barricades. But soon thousands of demonstrators the estimate. said he believed broke away and climbed over huge fences and rushed early official esitmatos | behind the barricades.
exotic royal tropplage, we đôult If nho would be happy with a present like that. Let's leave it to Margaret's good sense to say how the money should be spent.
ed.
1,100 to 3,500 were exERKoral- It appeared that almost every" ons in Seoul's two Just DT to 100 million population had joined in the wild demonstration
and bubllation--UPL
been recovered
bodies and burled-AP.
INDIAN BANK CHIEF
TRIAD
MAN JAILED
A Triad society man who has been blackmarketing in blood for the last five years and making $20
Governor leaves hospital
The Governor, Str Robert Black, loft Queen Mary Hospital today, three works after undergoing an opera. tion for spinal fusion,
The Governor tinues to mako very Butisfactory
con-
progress and will spend a fur- ther four wooks of con- valescence in the Colony.
Border
talks
bear
no fruit
New Delhi, Apr. 25. India and China today fail- ed to resolve differences over their common frontier but agreed to carry on discussions at lower level.
A joint communique issued after six days of talks between Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Premier Chou En- lai today suid both leaders ex- plained their respective stande on the problems affecting the border areas.
Tis leads to greater under- standing of the views of the two governments," the communique sald.
Examination
The two Premiers 604 nounced that they decided on further examination of the question by officials of the two nations in meetings to be held alternately in New Delhi and Peking between Juno and September this year, The communiquo said that both India and China should make every effort to avoid friction and clashes in the bor der areas" during the period of further examination of a fac- tual material x the border dis
pute.
Later, at a Press conference, the Chinese Premier, Mr Choui Ph-tal said today China ·re.
the boundary in the cast but was
pudinted the MacMahon Ling as prepared not to eroes that line. He had asked India to take a towards the similar attitude existing borderline in Ladakh,
'Unfriendly'
He said it was quito "uTL- friendly and inequitable” for one side to try to impose its maps on the other before a
the survey was 'mado and boundary, delimited. He said the great friendship between India and China was immortal, and the dispute over the boundary was "temporary."
He also described difficulties in negotiations as "temporury” and said he was convinced
a Bolu- flon would be found.
Mr Chou said he wanted tho trod China had no intention of claba-
Indian people to know
ing any territory from India or
profit on each donation, today went to jail for any country. On
six months.
The death occurred Inte
Monday night of Mr T. R Lalwani, General Manager of the Bank of India Ltd., after a brief line. He passed away at the Canoss Hospital at the
GEO of #3.
We will not commit aggrey- nion against any other country but at the same time we will not
And Sub-Inspector R. G. Lau-t Inspector Laurel told the tolerate aggression committed rel told Mr K. A. S. Phillips, court that Kwok was arrested against us," he said-UPI MI Central Magirizate, "this is real, by personnel of the Trind Squad Router.
yesterday
ins morning
tho fy blood sucking."
Eastern District following two Mr Lalwani, arrived in Hone-
The man, Kwok Sam, aged 80, weeks of Inquiries into "a kong on April 4 in connection had in two years asked about 100 vicious ring of bizhuketeam with the opening of his Bank's people to donate blood. All had of blood." now branch at Central Building, given blood three times-300.ccs
However, he suddenly fell illa tine. on April 5 and was admitted to hospital,
Now quake
Kwok admitted being a ment hits Tokyo
ber of the Wo On Lok Triad
On these transactions also holoty. He joined in 1999. ...... hand made a profit of $0,000. **** Mr Lalwani i urvived by
and the Trappelor Laurel his wife, who came to Heng- blood donors should get 1120 kong with him, two sons, Me I. For ext 500 ccg of blood but Lalwani and Mr H Lalwent, they received only $50. and a
married (daughter, „Mri |... Kwale got $20 cmd 300 wCELL Saviin Advani,
to an "inside man"!
shodje
Tokyo, Apr. 20,
Tokyo's high building at 9:18
rolling earthquake a.m. today.
Kwok raid in mitigation that and he had stopped doing this kind of business for two years. was now working as a cook.
There were no Immediate re Mr Phillips sentenced Kwok to ports of properly damage on alx months' imprisonment.
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