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CHINA

No. 37670

Established 1845

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1960.

LATE FINAL

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

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ROME

'War if anyone tried to pinch Hongkong'

and all Europe

Of The NO DISCUSSIONS ON COLONY

Day

THE RIGHT

PRICE

YESTERDAY we discussed one

of

aspect of the problem corruption, namely where It -originates from putside the public service and is directed towards the securing of wome Javour or privilege from a

• Government officer. Today we discuss another aspect, the corrupt official who withholds some service which Govern- ment provides or who compli⚫ extes some procedure unless the right price is paid. In this case corruption la directly in- Jurious. It succeeds in many capes almply by the exploits. tion of ignorance.

The procedure to obtain licences, permits and authorisations of

one kind or another is a com- plete mystery to most people. In other cases, ilcences and permits Bro Issued for fees which are not prominently displayed. In yat other caves fue depends upon an indivi dual's ability to Justify his claim for a particular permit or licence. The unsuspecting, the illiterate, and the sim. pleton are ready target for the venat official. Many crata come up in court which show that people expect to pay something where complications are involved and when an Improper demand is made, no questions are, asked,

POOR and uneducated people

Montgomery's assurance

on talks

talks in China

War "with a capital 'W'" would be declared if anyone tried to "pinch" Hongkong, Field Marshal Lord Montgomery said today,

Lord Montgomery speaking at a conference told reporters that the status of Hongkong in connection with China would not be discussed at his forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai,

The Earl of

Dalkeith's by-election victory

Edinburgh, May 20, 37-year-old Earl of Dalkeith, heir to the Duke

"The matter is not discuss- able," he said adamantly.

"Hongkong is part at the Bri- lish Commonwealth and bas nothing to do with China

"If anyone tried to pinch. Hongkong It would be war with a capital 'W" I can assure you," he added.

WAS

Lord Montgomery answering a report that Chou said recently he would discuss the status of Hongkong when they mel

be-

"Whatever is discussed tween us I will not associate my- self with any discussion about Hongkong," he told reporters,

U.S. criticised

During the conference Lord Montgomery criticised America for breaking internatibaal law over the plane incident.

;

K smiles

at an American

can

Paris, May 19. Mr Cyrus Eaton, the Ameri- indus- millionaire trialist and Lenin prize winner, was at Orly air. port with his wife today to say farewell to Mr Nikita Khrushchev when the Soviet leader left for East Berlin.

Mr Khrushchev warmly shook Mr Eaton by the hand when the 76-year-old American greet-

"We can't get away with tied Him as "the brilliant leader and the West should admit be of the great Soviet people." ing wrong," he said.

"I feel that the incident was tragic to have taken place on the eve of the conference.

to

"Mr Khrushchev' went the summit with the score of 15 love and ready to serve.

"Well he did serve and it was a cannonball."

Mr Khrushchev presented Mrs Eaton with a big bunch of red roses.

The millionaire and Mrs Eaton arrived from New York at the airport just before the Soviet Prime Minister's aircraft was due to take off.

Mr Eaton congratulated Mr Khrushchev

the on

Soviet scientific achievement of the launching of the space ship..

NO LIES

of Buccleugh, emerged Lord Montgomery pointed out the victor early here to-that he thought America put her an awkward position day in

a three-way by allies in

by using their airfields when election fight for a seat in executing intelligence flights.

Mr 'Eaton told Mr Parliament.

When asked if he had any Khrushcher: "The founder of suspicion that the Soviet has the company of which I am been conducting similar espionage

the head was George Washing- activities Lord Montgomery replied, "I have no States.

ton, first President of the United information on that.

Ain, this Colony seem to be not merely submisalve in the face of these demands. Often they seem to believe that this In the way Government and The

organlea- private enterprise tlone-work. But it is not enough to ask peopis to ac- quaint themselves with pro- cedures and fees stipulated by Government. It is up to Gov. ernment to take two important steps. The first is simple: where any permit, Ilcence or

The Earl of Dalkeith, the certificate issued an enquiry Conservative candidate, won the desk must be prominently seat bg 12,109 votes to 6,775 for situated which will inform his Labour Party opponent, Mr People about the exact re-

Ronald King Murray, a barris- quirements. Failing this, pro- minently displayed and simply ter, and 3,458 for the Liberal phrased notices and a loud candidate; Mr Richard McPake,

a solicitor speaker system ba em ployed.

of The Earl

Dalkeith is The second stop is more drastic married to the former Jane and this is where we believe McNeil, daughter of the former the Attorney-General's new Hongkong barrister, Mr John committee can be really help. McNell

where

can

ful. The procedure of every

The by-election was caused by "Government department,

Scottish It comes into contact the elevation to the the public, must be bench of Mr W. R. Milligan, thoroughly overhauled and it Lord Advocate for Scotland, a

entirely replaced. Conservative,

with

nectary

The Police Traffic Department

At the general election last

"But I would say that if a Soviet plane conducted the same activities over America, it would be shot down,” he

said,

"He was the man who said he could got tell a lle,

"I hope that we can make this the basis of the foreign policy of the United States,"

Mr Khrushchev, smiling *** warmly, replied: "We have no

doubts ihat sooner

-or

later the United States people

Feelings mount

over U.S.-Japan

security treaty

Tokyo, May 20.

Plans to hold massive violent demonstrations against President Eisenhower when he visits Japan next month built up today with Lower House ratification of the much debated U.S.- Japan Security Treaty,

DARING

LONDON

ROBBERY

Four

Angered by, quick passage of the treaty earlier today, anti- treaty demonstrators-which at one point swelled to some 20,000 persons were exhorted to iurn their wrath against President Eisenhower on his scheduled arrival here on June 19.

Field Marshat Lord Montgomery surrounded by a battery of micro- phônes at this morning's press conference held at the China Fleet Club. China Mail Photo.

No 'Ugly Americans'

says Ike

Lisbon, May 19. President Eisenhower today strongly defended. mem- bers of the American foreign service from the criticism contained in the best selling novel "The Ugly American.”

Capetown

journalist released

Johannesburg, May 20. Mrs Myrna Mackenzie, Cape- town journalist and cor. respondent of the London Daily Herald, has been released from prison at Simondium, near Cape town, the political cor- respondent, of the Rand Daily Mail reported to- day.

Mrs Mackenzle, who is 27. and is also known as Myrna arrested on Blumberg, was

April 11 under the emergency

regulations.

She was released on Wednes- day, the Rand Dally Mall cor- respondent said in a Capetown dispatch.

He said that she and another woman who was released with ber, Mrs Jean Bernadt, wife of a Capetown lawyer, have barred from disclosing the conditions of their release.

NO CONNECTION

On May 3, the' South African Minister of Justice, Mr Fratcois Erasmus, said that Mrs Macken.. zie was being held for reasoNS not connected with her journa- listic activities,

Mrs Mackenzie has one child, a daughter aged two and a half, The Rand Daily Malt cor- respondent said that so far four detained mothers had been re leased from Blen Donne Prison at

Simondium and Roland Street jail in Capetown.

Mr Erasmus said in the House of Assembly on Wednesday that 35 women had been detailed in South Africa emergency regulations-Reu-

"We must oppose Eisenhower's

Shortly after his arrival here ter. visit," Sanzo Nozaka, leader of Mr Eisenhower received mem- the Japanese Communist Party,bers of U.S. Embassy staff and told a crowd massed outside told them that contrary to the the Diet compound, strongly

used

hinting that force should be Pictures created by the best selling book he thought his coun- Ly's representatives abroad Loudon, May 19.

OPEN THREATS

were doing a good job. cashier men attacked

Open threats of demonstra- "I tell you fatty" he said, and his escort in the South- tions by rightist as well as

"that there is one book which wark district of London to leftist groups has led to plans did

great disservice to the day and escaped with 23,500 by police to mobilise the big honest public servants repre in wares they had just col-gest security force ever called

of senting the tected from a bank.

out for a state guest when America." Elsenbower comes.

The wage match took place

United States Economic war

He said the book contained However Land Montgomery will bring forth leaders who will

The ultra-leftist Zengakuren many exaggerations and dis- as the cashier and his guard stepped from a car to carry the (National Federation of did that he did not think that take a sober view of the situa-

self-government tortions and as far as I am con- full scale war was a passibility. tion and the need to co-exist,"

Mr Khrushchev invited Mr money into the firm which en-Students

Associations) said, last monthcerned, it was sickening" "The next war will be fought

UPI. some They were taken to hospital that it would muster. in the Soviet Union later in the with economies, diplomats and and Mrs Eaton to spend a mouth ploys them. politics,

year. Reuter.

with head injuries,-China Mall 5,000 members at Tokyo Inter- national Airport when the U.S. Special.

President arrives there.

"I don't think that it is likely

to their credit have bent over October, the result was 19.991 that a war as we have known. backwards to defeat corruption votes for Mr Milligan to 11,235 in the past will break out.

the award

of driving

for the Labour Party candidate, ficance. It may not be fool-

There was no proof and it may have alven Mr G. G. Stott. rise to sama new grievances Liberal candidate then,

but it was the right thing to do.

THAT is only one small section

of one Government depart-

PRESENT STRENGTH

The strength of the House of

Commons now is:

Conservatives and associates ment-all have to conduct thla 364, Labour 257, Liberal six agonising reappraisal, Time-and Independent one, honoured Bystoms must go The Earl of Dalkeith said: "I the overboard if necessary. Whole think the result, affirms procedures must be revolu-faith of the people

in the tionised. Government must policies of the present Con-

greatest pains to servative and unionist govern eliminate possible abuses. And ment in providing

better life to schlove this a speolai com- for the people of our country milee of Government officiala and recognition of the great and members of the public work which is being done by must be set up. The Chairman our Prime Minister and should be someone of the call- bre of Mr J. W. Platt, Chair. team in a realistic search for

- taka the

of the recent Salarles

world peace,

his

"Although we feel in some

I

"There would be no winner if a nuclear war started. It would be just plain suicide for both parties.

"When

to Mr spoke Khrushchev last year he agreed des- war would mean that truction of civilisation.

"There is no doubt in

that everybody peace.

"But before

mind

my

wants

we can

Criticised

Washington, May 19, Democratio Senator Thomas Dodd said in the U.S. Senate today that Mr Cyrus Eaton. well-known Industrialist from Cleveland, should be tried in court for his-transatlong with The Soviet Union,

a

And in New York

a

New York, May 19. Nearo got away with $4,000 haulin's daring rush- hour hold-up on * Central Mr Dodd said that Mr Eaton,

New York Bank today. by going to Paris to meet Soviet

The Negro entered the break Premier Nikita Khrushchev, down this cold war suspicioh had violated the Logan Law "Rockefeller Centro" bank, at between East and West must which forbids Americans to have went up to a woman cashier, midday--the bank's peak hour private dealings with foreign told her that he was disappear.

armed, "I think that the cold war in powers with the intention of though in fact he did not pro the future will centred fluencing the United States for around Asia and Africa," he eign policy.-AFP,

added.

be

Leader needed

Lord Montgomery stressed that the West needed more unity and

Commission, who will not be way dejected by the news from a leader.

"I think the summit break

afraid to act drastically and Paris I feel that more than ever down has done more to throw ruthlessly to introduce a new, Britain's influence in the world Westem powers together tran almplified system that is alpo is vítal,”—Reuter.

as foolproof as possible.'

•

It la Immaterial whether cortup. tion was worse twenty years app than it is now. As the population grows, as the Body, Corpylent turns to obealty and is the demands of the people for Government servicom in- CPEM, the opportunities for corruption expand proportion-

Queen Mother

to remarry'

New York, May 10. The Daily News quoting

anything else in a long time.

"Leadership that has not been displayed in the past has to be shown.

I would say by his efforts at the summit Prime Minister Mac millan showed great leadership. "The leader of the Western

should have world

great stature and an unequalled' understanding of both worlds, "So far thin leader has not appeared, he added.

'U.S. supplied

the wrecking

duce any weapon, and ordered

her to fill a bag with dollar bills. As soon as the bag was

A direct appeal to violence was made by a leader of the Young Communist League who Eisen- said, "We must stone hower as the brave Venezuelan students did to (US Vice- President Richard Nixon in Caracas."-UPI.

UN to hear

Russian spy charges

alled to the tune of $4,000- United Nations, May 19. the man grabbed it and ran, The United Nations Security

Immediately disappearing among the crowds thronging the side-walk-AFP.

on

meet Council will Monday afternoon to hear Russia's spy plane charges of "unheard-of- provocation" by the

WHY HE WAS

SAVED

FROM

GALLOWS

London, May 19.

under

ROCKEFELLER

MILLIONS

GO TO WIFE

AND FUND

the

New York, May 19. Mr John D. Rockefeller Jr., who died on May 11, divided the bulk of his $150-million estate equal- ly between his widow and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., according to his will filled today. The widow, Baird Rockefeller, was the major individual beneficiary of the will which was filed New York lawyer Mr William Parsons. She was Mr Rocke- feller's second wife,

The

Rockefeller

Fund,

Mrs Martha

by

Brother's

Inc., is the family's philanthropic foundation which Mr Rockfeller had con- tributed $58,981,000 during Jits A gipsy scrap dealer conuretime. The fund la admini- demned to death for the stered by his five sons and a capital murder of a police daughter. man was saved from the gallows by a fault in the it judge's summing-up, was disclosed yesterday. The man, Jim Smith, 28, had tus capital murder conviction

May

instruments' PASTERNAK United States, it was an- Court of Criminai Appeal.

OUT OF DANGER

nounced today.

There was no indication that. US Secretary of State Christian A. Herter attend.

·

the

י,

for

GIFT TO PARK....... One of the specific requests in the will was a gift of 1,500'acres on Mount Desert Island, Maine, to the U.S. Government as ati addition to Acadia National Park. Mr Rockefeller gave this park, valued at $3,571,000, to the Government, s number

years ago.

.He

The 88-year-old philanthro A verdict of guilty of man'-

pist, who died in Tucson, Ari- Mr slaughter was substituted Chleago, May 19.

and heart strain, ordered that all would the capital murder convfstion zone, as a result of pneumonia Stevenson, Mr Adial E

and a ten years jail sentence unfulfilled charitable pledges he charged tonight that the

The Foreign Office in London was substituted for the death had made be carried out. United States "with our series

also specified that his widow's at blunders....handed. Mr

sald there were no plans for the sentence,

Giving their reasons yester share, of the estate be held in Khrushchev the crowbar and

Moscow, May 19. Foreign Secretary Mr. Selwyn the sledgehammer" to wreck Boris Pasternak, Soviet author Lloyd to attend, although the day for quashing the convictrust and that she have the in the summit.conference...

of the controversial novel, Dr "possibility could not be ruled tion, the three Appeal Court come of the trust for life.

judges said they did not think He also left Mrs Rockefallor Zhivago, recently reported out": Mr Stevenson, in a free-

orifleally ill after a stroke, is The Soviet Foreign Minister it was safe to assume that the general power of appointment swinging speech at a Cook

now "out of danger, one of Mr Andrel A. Gromyko, an- jury fully understood from the over the principal of the trust,

they could and provided that any part County Democratic dinner, said,

his friends ́zaid today.

nounced in Paris he would leave summing up what Premier Karuszeńwwsacked.

Since his stroke, his second New Fork tomorrow to propremena Smith's intent at the principal not appointed by be held in further. case against the the time of the offence, gether will this conference let there, he no

Smith had been couvkled of trust for his sons and theft. mistake about that

within a few years, he has been the Soviet But Mr Stevenson added: cared for by two Kremin doc United States

He demanded last night that the capital murder of pollice descendants. Mr Rockefeller "Without our series of blunders, } fors. ・・

According to his friend, they the Council meet urgently to constable. Leslie Mechan, 34, children were by his first wife The News said protocol de- He said that there is a seriour Mr Khrushchev would not have

need for disarmament within a pretext for making his im have told the author's family hall the unheard-of-provocative who was dilled when he was the late Abby

possible demand and wild there is now "no question of his action of the United States in fung from Smith's car, to which Rockefeller,

The will was dated the next 10 years

"And if we don't get it I think charges. Let there be no mis- being in dangers The author sending U-2 fet by Dianes he was holding, on March 2

China Mail Special

8 1958-UPI, Lover Sovat territoryUFI, then re-may be in trouble," take about that, either."-UPI. and poet is 70.—strus

ataly. We doubt whether the sources close to British royal #ppeals that Government is

circles," said tonight the Queen now making for pubile ico- speration are going to produce. Mother would like to remarry. apostacular results. And the

Her intended Béchild hussa"-TUU Mitgomeryurther Idea, of a dramatic purge is the News raid, is Sir Arthur criticised America for keeping Just fanciful thinking. Only by Peon, 74, her Groom-in-Waiting 25 per cent of their Strategic vidorque overhaul of those and Treasurer to the Queen Air Command "flying around

armed 24 hours a day." channels whether in public Mother's household, utilijjag For Government-in which corruption can thrive crees that the widow of a W thle svit be thwarted and, monarch should not remarry and "wen time and perseverance, that the Queen Mother's plans Uliminated,

thus involved dificulty ——AP.