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CHINA

No. 37681

Established 1845 THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1960,

LATE FINAL

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

PAN AM the way to go to

ROME

Belligerent Peking statements a fair warning

de and all Europe

Of The TROUBLE FROM CHINA LIKELY

Day

Herter predicts new

Farewell to probing attacks

the General

NEW general arrives,

another

leaves.

A and

It

Hongkong people have wit nessed a succession of top- ranking Array men in the postwar years holding the post of Commander, British Forces. And while all have in their own way made their mark in the Colony and are individually well- remembered and widely- admired, Lt-General Sir Edric Bastyan will alwaya have a special place both in our affections and in the history of the Calony.

was Sir Edric Bastyan who was instrumental in bringing the long-standing military landa question to a final solution and the re- sult, as we were reminded on 'Monday, is the freeing of large arena of valuable land in the central district for city development.

T

has

Washington, June 1.

Secretary of State, Mr Christian A. Herter predicted today that Communist China will launch new probing attacks around its borders in the wake of the summit failure.

But he saw no relihood of immediate Soviet action which might ignite a war over Berlin.

Mr Herter spoke at a closed session af the eight-nation An here. meeting Seato American official. reported his statements.

Earlier, the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand and the Foreign Ministers of France, the Philippines, Thai- land, Pakistan and Great Bri- ward- tain had voiced similar ings.

A spokesman for the Seato council said the minsters called Communist probing in Southern and "belligerent Asla and

from statements truculent"

Peking fair warning of mur trouble in Southeast Asia.

Branded outlaw Mr Herter delivered an ur

re- compromising statement garding United States refusal to Communist China, recognise which he branded an aggressor and an outlaw.

He said Communist China was and trying to neutralise Japan wanted to absorb the smaller nations along its borders.

say the General been sympathetic to the Government's wishes is not giving him the really credit he deserves. He has really gone out of his way 10

especially operative and relations be- tween the Army and, the local Administration-al-as ways good-have been better..

be

Co-

The Colony will not forget,

no progres,

These objcolives would be furthered-rather then checked. nations recognising never Peking contend- if Communist to the China were admitted United Nations he said.

States does not The United

China, but moreover, that the terms imore Communist

diplomatic was in all direct US. on which this land

with the Peking Government negotiations

been ab- returned to

he ex- were as reasonable as we regime there has could wish. No money is solutely being handed to the Army plained. but Government is to erect

the Mr Herter reported on Various buildings to the

$17 breakdown of the Paris summit value of just over million and to allow the conference, repeating his con- rent tention that Soviet Premier unlimited Army free use of Shamshuipo Nikita Khrushchev used the U-2 spy plane incident to pre- sheer The

which 3 conference, camp.

didn't trast between this deal and the swingeing $112 Moscow had decided it million charge imposed by the Admiralty for

сод-

vent

Tough policy

want.

Mr Herter said it seemed un- only likely thai Mr Khrushchev summit up the would follow

part of the Dockyard lands

Western

is one that still causes in- failure by carrying out his

threat to drive the credulity.

allles out of West Berlin,

I is not our

to

He saw the most immediate

T is not our intention to danger in China's tough policy

services but it is neverthe-

He read a summary of recent

less necessary to emphasise Peking radio and press declara- the difference in attitude lions that the United States must be driven out of the West Pacific

to show how well the and accusing the United States Colony has been served by of trying to create two Chinas. per--UPI. the General. It was

haps most

appropriate

that one so popular should have been awarded

his

K.B.E. during his term in Hongkong.

thoroughly

honour.

It Was &

well merited

At the Legislative Council

yesterday the

Governor

paid both Sir Edric and

Policeman

shoots

Lady Bastyan deserving at

tribute for the way they have interested themselves

in local affairs. The Colony

fleeing

will not forget Sir Edric's man defence of local industry against overseas criticism A and the encouragement he gave to British troops to see over Hongkong fac- their leisure tories in hours, He has clearly had Hongkong's interests very much at heart.

importance

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SPLIT OVER

PEKING

10,000 died

in Chilean

ADMISSION? earthquakes

Washington, June 1.

Com- admission

The question on munist China's

to the United Nations has caused a minor split in the Seato ministerial con- ference, informed diploma- tic sources said tonight,

Differences were report- ed to have cropped up between the United States and New Zealand on this laste during a discussion of the international outlook in the wake of the summit failure,

Conference sources said they expected the debate to be renewed again tomorrow when the Seato third meeting enters its day and the foreign closed ministers hold 2 session with only their top advisers present.

SUGGESTION

Informants reported that Mr Walter Nash, the New Zealand Prime Minister, who is leading his country's delegation had suggested that agreement to Com- munjat

member- China's ship in the United Nations to ease the might help lense post summit oullock. Me Herter in turn re- plied with a blistering at- tack on the Peking regime in which he said that the United States had no in- tention of changing its policy of refusing to ex- tend diplomatic recognition to Communist China.

The members of Seato are Britain, the United Australia, States, France, New Zealand, Thailand and the Philip- pines.

Pakistan,

Of the eight, only Bri- lain and Pakistan have extended diplomatic re- Dognitip to Communist China but the New Zealand Government has indicated ile intention to do so at some future time.

RECOGNITION

Mr Nash said publicly

on his arrival in Washing - tou

last weekend that

New Zealand would re- cognise the Peking regime think it is ex- "when we pedient,"

The ministerial

four-day Scalo meeting, the sixth since the organisa tlon's formation and the first held outside the treaty area is due to wind up on Friday (June 3) when the final communique will be issued.

Conference. sources sald they expected the ministera would agree to hold next year's meeting in Bangkok, the home of Beste head- quarters.Reuter.

ROYAL CAR

Santiago de Chile, June 1. The death toll in the Chilean earthquakes was estimat ed at 10,000 by Senator Anitneto Rodriguez, who opened a debate on the disaster in the Upper House here last night.

"Cleanup operations, lists of people missing, a thorough in- vestigation in hills, bays and islands...indicate that this country will mourn the death of no less than 10,000 fellow countrymen," he said.

The senator listed 10 pro- vinces affected by the disaster with A total population of 2,448,578.

At lunch time today a tremor hit the earthquake-ravaged city of Concepcion but no damage or casualties were reported,

Concepcion is the centre of last week's devastating earth- quakes in Chile, which destroyed about 30 per cent of the ald houses in the city-Reuter.

HK heiress and boy friend

Sylvia Kwik, 17-year-old Hongkong heiress, pictured

at London Airport on Sunday with her Cypriot boy friend Fendells Lazarou. They were brought back from Cyprus by her-father's lawyer after Sylvia had on Friday been made a ***#ard of court. Her father, Richard Slong Kwik, who villy'

recently heard of her infatuation with Lazarou, flew to London from Hongkong. Sylvia' met Lararou when he was working as a male nurse at a hospital near where she was Hving In Epsom, Surrey: she followed him to Cyprus at the end of his training-Express Photo.

Members of Menderes

regime face death

Bodies

of students found

Ankara, June 1.

mostly of students

Poles clash with police over religious issue

Warsaw, June 1.

Police used tear gas and truncheons to disperse a crowd of about 5,000 people demonstrating in Zielona Gora, West Poland, on Monday over a religious issue, according to sources here."

Police reinforcements had to

be summoned over 60 miles away, to quell the crowd. Police in- were and demonstratore volved in a Merce street clash. An unknown number of arrests were made.

burned

1wu

Demonstrators policecars, the sources said. They tried to storm the police head- quarters in the city, where the main industry is textiles.

Second time

This is the second time in just over a month that a re- ligious dispute has erupted into

a serious street demonstration,

U1

On April 27 in Nowa Huta, Poland's model steel town the south of the country," a- crowd of between 2,000 and 3,000 citizens fought a pitched street battle with police after the municipal authorities had ordered removal of a religious

cross.

HK MAN ESCAPES FROM CHINA

Macao, June 2. A former bus driver from

the Kowloon Motor Bus Company arrived here on the night of May, 30 from Chung Shan county after a successful escape in a fishing junk.

Leung Fai, 41, who was ac companied by his 18-year-old son and seven other escapees, told the following story:

In November, 1958, Leung According to incomplete re-enlisted with 700 other experts ports available here tonight the and skilled workers to do tech- trouble flared up following the nical jobs in the China mainland failure of the Church and local at a pre-arranged salary of 100 authorities to agree over the JMP.

status of a building which the Since then he has been Church has used for parish assigned to jobs in Shlu Kwan purposes since the war..

and Yeng Pak.

Music concerts

said

Sources

the building formerly belonged to the Ger- man Evangelical Church.

The local authorities wanted to use this building for music concerts.

A torryload of workmen ar- on Monday morning to begin removing furniture and other

An army spokesman said today a number of bodies

had been found in Ankara and Istanbul and members of the over-rived at the disputed building" thrown Menderes regime might face possible death sentences.

RAF plane

becomes a 'sitting duck'

chattels,

They were expelled by a

The spokesman, Colonel Ertu- last Friday's coup to foment a

said a commitler counter revolutionary movement.' grul Ailatii,

He also said that about 400 group of angry Catholic women. The militia (police) were sent was being set up to inquire into The responsibility of the former Democratic Party members of

five or to the scene but by this time regime's leaders, including Mr Parlament, including Adnan Menderes and ex-presi-six women, had been arrested word of the trouble had got and were being sent to Yassi around and a large crowd began dent Celal Bayar, for crimes in-

base, off to gather. cluding murder and corrup- Island, the naval

A mob went down to the Istanbul. tion.

local poilce headquarters and found against

the first official de hurled stones at it and yelled Giving If a case was them they would be tried and talls of the number of suppor-insuits. More militia were called faced possible death sentences. Let's of the Menderes regime from Poznan,

COMMON GRAVES under arrest, he said that in

All the detained Democratic

in addition to the deputies,' ave The bodies were found

officers and an undis- common graves and refrigera- senior

according to closcá number of government London, June 1.

tion chambers, Four men escaped serious Colonel Allati, who said he officials have been detained.

injury today when their was official spokesman of the Royal Air Force Anson National Union Committee, the junta which overthrew the gov- aircraft crash-landed on ment of Mr Adnan Men- the roof of an egg ware deres. house shortly after taking off from Northolt airfield in Suburban London.

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and Reports that students

killed in anti- others were Menderes demonstrations which preceded last week's army coup

Party deputies except three are alleged to have violated the con- stitution by voting the April 27 law creating a commission" to investigate the activities of the Opposition Republican Party,

He stressed that the army was

Clash begins

When Leung learned that he was to be transferred to Hainan Island, he refused and returned to Canton, thence to Chung Shan from where he made his escape.

He described working condi- lions in the places he has been as worsening-AFP.

LORD MAYOR MISSES A DATE

London, June 1,

Sir Edmund Stockdale, the Lord Mayor of London, tonight made the kind of slip that every British schoolboy fears.

Addressing a dinner given by

celebrate the 600th anniversary the Corporation of London to of the Admiralty Court, he re- ferred to the Battle of Hastinga a most important date in Bri- tish history-when Waliam the Towards evening the real Conqueror invaded Britain and clash began, It is not known became William. 1. yet how many people were "Only the other day." Sir Edmund was saying, when the injured or arrested."

A police official, answering a mistake occurred "we attended a. service in Essex because 900 telephoned inquiry from Warsaw tonight, refused to give any in-years before King Harold of formation other than saying: England knelt to pray before the Battle of Hastings and that was "All is quiet now."

in 1100ah--1100

Just how bad the clash was

Reuter,

Those present including high court judges, judges from the Commonwealth and high-rank-

the correct date-1066-Reuter.

and said that if any Republican night, but sources in Warsaw The altaraft failed to gain were denied by spokesmen of not linked with the Republicans or Monday was still unclear to

the former government. height after takeoff, swept over An investigating group in Is-had acted unconstitutionally he said Communist Party authori-

the would have been arrested too. ties took a serious view of ting. naval officers then called out railway line, and pancaked tanbul is inquiring into unto the roof of the warehouse exact number

of the bodies, Reuter. about half a mile from the air-which the spokesman said "Is

not too large," field

of "We have traced many them," the spokesman added. "I cannot say how they were kili- ed."

SLIGHTLY HURT

The crew of two RAF men on board were slightly injured.

IN ROBBERY The other two men, both BEC tion, the spokesman said there

the

100

The

on

A Jaruar sports car

of

· Answering a reporter's ques-

cameramen were uninjured, was evidence although badly shaken,

that some

DON'T SHOOT THE SPACE SHIP

Policeman fired three shots ata suspected burglar in Hunghom at about 4 o'clock this morning. A policeman on patrol in Baker Whampoa Street rear Street found, a big cardboard of the box between two houses. The

local garrison, unlike ser. A search revealed that

digarettes. yice bases in many other box contained more than

packets of Common- parts of the

Shortly after, a man wealth, has increased in constable lay in wait.

An official of the dairy.com

the ware- the postwar years and the bicycle arrived in front of one

pany which owned of CBF of the houses and was about to appointment

cardboard box

house said he was working in his office nearby and did not Is therefore one which pick up the carries greater prestige when the policeman called on

The Hon Geraid Lascelles, know about the crash until an In him to halt and responsibilities.

Sir General wishing

The man refused to obey and the car's owner and a nephew aide told him there was an air-

VI, had his craft on the roof.

the Yaounde, June 1. Edric and Lady Bustyan fed leaving his bicycle behlod, of King George

"none" "There it was" he said. "It Two Europeans a Greek and farewell and a happy re- The poliedman fired three shots Jaguar staten, on April 7.

The thiet fired two. warning: in an attempt to stop him but

an, Italian-were killed when an Mr: Emrys | Hughes (Labour) commented: "You had better' tirement, the Colony ex-

pistol shots during his robbery was like a siting duck.”

armed gang close to the Nigerian

be very careful because you tende congratulations and the man escaped.

The constable brought the of Barclay's bank here, one into

Firemen sprayed foam over border, attacked the town of

might shoot down an Ameri a warm welcome to his cardboard box and the bicycle the ceiling and the other at an

brea to prevent the Douala yesterday, first reports inkwell standing on the cashier's

can space, ship or satellite by successor, Lt. Gen. Bir back to the station.

cascading fuel from the air said here. today.

mistake. Roderick McLeod and Lady At about 6 am, the police desk./

He got away with £1,800 and crafts wing, tanks from igniting There was no indication so far McLeod with the hope received a report that the Kun that they find their stay Kea Store et 84 Baker Street Later, abandoned the car in one The aircract Bad been enroute of the number of wounded.

of the "city's streets.--AFF. to Marham, Norfolk. Reuter, enjoyable and interesting, had been bungled"

St Leonard's, June 1.

belonging Queen first cousin to Elizabeth was used here to day in an armed bank rob bery,

the

London, June 1. putles had been trying since Sir Richard Glyn, a Conserva

Live, Asked in the House of Commons today what action the Brillsh Government had taken to shoot down or other- wise interfere with the Soviet which we wRI ship space

violating British air space." Mr Jan Orr-Ewing, Civil Lord of replied: Admiralty,

Two killed by armed gang

Reuter

from Washington, which will "You might then receive a reply

prove conclusively that George- Washington, the man who never told a lie, no longer operates there.”

.eatht Sir, Elchard ' Glyn, said

nation had absolute and ex-. clusive sovereignty of the air space above it and this applied to anpiloted as well as piloted planes. Von de

**

It was technically possible for an, napiloled, plane to record by photographs of other means "all that was happening on the ground over which it pamed. and signal this back to bar,

la

Bir Richard Glyn added: “in the satellite be quite rubsian- troumstances, might not this

tlal reinforcement to the very

number large

of Russian

who representatives operating, some in privileged positions, in, a number of “·

which ̈ ́this. countries over satellite is passing?"

te naked how many times the space ship had passed over Britain

Mr. Orr-Ewing replied that a United Nations sub-committee was studying this very prob- lem of sovereignty. In outer

The Soviet space ship had. pass“ ed over Briisin 35 times since May 15 when it was launch. "el-Renter.