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Lumumba demands withdrawal of Swedish troops

Of The BELGIANS MUST RETURN GOLD

Day

The eighth

deadly sin

EVEN

665 Wanchai

exasperated

residents"

have written to the China Mall complaining about noise made by US Naval

landing craft at Fenwick The Pier in the small hours, At the risk of provoking an outery we ask: is this a fair request? Most people would Kay "yes" un hesitatingly, and so would we so long as the appeal is for an end to unnecessary réise. It is pointless other wise. The fact is that Hongkong is a noisy city. Whether it is more so than most is hard to say. But let's list a few of the grumbles that. have been made in recent years: low-flying jet planes, stereophonic sound effects, trams, church bells, pile drivers, noon guns, artillery salutes ad nauseum, bark- ing doga, crowing roosters, screaming children, mah jong, transistors on benches. Even the Colonial Secre- tary concedes the world of Elvis Presley is with us.

UT a few other

Bentegories of exasperated

residents like the man we

Martial law declared

in Congo

Congolese

Leopoldville, Aug. 16.

Government tonight decreed martial law over the entire Congo for a period of six months.

MRS G. E. MARDEN

know whose fat is sand- Mrs

wiched between a cha-cha academy and à bowling alley. Another lives above

a tram depot with a night-

club and a pile driver best- ing rhythmic tattoos on either side of his bedroom. Another lives between a

G.E. Marden

dies in London

rifle range and a garage for Mrs Dorothy Marden, wife

of Mr George E. Marden, died in London yesterday at St Mary's Hospital.

Mr Lumumba also threatened to seize all Belgian property in the Congo unless the Belgian Government returns "our gold" within 15 days.

The Congolese have been accusing Belgium of taking its gold reserves out of the coun- try.

The Martial Law decree was signed by President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Patrice { Lumumbe. They gave "the gravity of the situation" as the reason.

It

Mr announced by WER Lumumba at a news confer- ence, which only a handful of attended. Most

newsmen

Western newsmen walked away after bayonets were pointed at them in front of Mr Lumumba's residence.

At the same time, Mr Lumum- ba demanded immediate with- drawal of Swedish from the Congo.

UN troops

Opposing authority

"They have done a very bad job." Mr Lumumba sald.

He accused Swedish troops of opposing the authority of the Congolese Government and of defending Belgian army officers.

Mr Lumumba again accused the UN Secretary-General. Mr Dag Hammarskjold, of Ignoring the Congolese Government and

the

of boycotting the decisions of the UN Security Council on Congo.

"Our Government does not exist for the Secretary-General," Mr Lumumba said.

Mr Lumumba did not explain will be taken what measures under the martial law, to which he referred as "military regime," He said the military rule over

intmediately.

Poole denied

reprieve

London, Agr. 17

Mr Iain Macleod, the Colonial Secretary, kan refused

adviso the to Queen to reprieve Peter Poole, due to hang in Nairobi tomorrow for the murder of #2 African houseboy, the Colonial Office announced early to day,

The Colonial Office statement said: "Following on the decision of the Governor Petrick of Kenya, Bir

exercise Renison, not to

the prerogative of mercy in the case of Peter Henry Richard Poole, a petition praying for elemeney has been submitted to Her Majesty by solicitors act- ing on behalf of Peter Poole and other repre-

Bentations have been made. "The Secretary of State for the Colonies has, by Her Majesty's command, given the most careful conside- ration to all the matters raised in the petition and the representation, but he has been unable to advise Her Majesty to intervene." Peter Poole, 28, is the first while person to be con- vloted by an all-white jury in Kenya for the murder of an African.

He was sentenced to death last December. Last month dis. the Privy Council missed his appeal, Last Friday the Governor of Kenya dismissed a petition for his reprieve which con- tained more than 25,000 signatures-Reuter.

THREAT TO RETAKE

VIENTIANE

Vientiane, Aug. 17.

Anti-coup d'etat leaflets were showered over Vien- tiane on Tuesday at noon claiming army forces in the south under deposed Defence Minister, Phoumi Nosavan, is preparing to re- take this capital.

Authorities promptly broad- cast an appeal to the people no! to believe the leaders.

dropped The leaflets were from a low-flying DC-3 believed

Boy's body found in bush

NSW Premier pledges

intense search

for Sydney kidnappers

Sydney, Aug. 16.

Mr Robert Heffron, Premier of New South Wales, tonight pledged an all- out search for the kidnappers of eight-year-old Graeme Thome after discovery of a boy's body in a wood near Sydney.

Graeme's father, Basil Thorne, a salesman, whose son was kidnapped shortly after he had won £A100,000 in a lottery, will be taken to see the body tomorrow. Police who saw 11

said there was no doubt it was Graeme, who was kidnapped on his way to school, in the Sydney suburb of Bondi on July 7.

Children playing on the edge 10 of French's Forest, about miles north of Sydney, ford and the body, tightly bound gagged and lying in a shallow grave Jut 100 yards from the road ar some houses.

· Thought it rubbish.

They thought it was a bundle of rubbish at first and went on playing till dark before telling their parents.

Two of the parents, Mr David

well and Mr Eric Coughlan, went and examined the bundle by the light of a torch.

The blankets had beca knotted up," Mr Coughlan said. "As I undid the knot I saw two arms hanging down."

Then they telephoned police and took detectives to the spot. The detectives lifted the blanket and found the body wearing a Scots College blazer, like the one Graeme was wearing when

and social worker for the country becomes effective to be based at Savannakhet in day he disappeared.

the South,

PWD steamrollers. While another has the misfortune Nathan to reside

over a . Road traflic intersection and hears nothing all day

Mr George Marden was for- but a symphony of cars in first gear major,

merly Chairman of Wheelock Marden and Co Ltd and Mrs A revving diesel at 2,30 a.m. Marden

was widely known in can hardly be described as Hongkong as a generous bene- mellifluous and soperific. factor but surely it is no worse many welfare agencies. than the

They were signed by "The cases quoted. abové, The correspondenta St John's Ambulance Associa Mrs Marden was a member of

In answer to a question, Md'Ela and claimed complain moreover that the

and Brigade for tion Authorities

Lumumba said his govemment sion to re-take waste their years. Before leaving last year,

special been made by the establish plans to time on trifter Mike beach she was awarded minstrels and mahjong Venerable Order of the Hospital military tribunds to replace the Ministers in Luangprabang. and leave

Belgian magistrates who had

This is obviously referring to fled the country, threats to our nocturnal

The proclamation followed some action the Government of peace untouched. They are

tension be-Tiab Somsanih had taken be- during days of mounting right, of course, but how

twear the Congolese and the fore last Sunday's decision to

resign, would they go about ban-

the

many

the Most

worst of St John of Jerusalem.

Mr and Mrs Marden were in England married World War I.

Military tribunals Committee Against the Coup

ning noise from our midst? in 1920 when Mr Marden was

bot-

Mrs Marden came to Shanghai United Nations-AP.

OBLIGATORY cork het connected with the

crepe

soles for cha-cha dancers, earphones for jazz fans and radio listeners, mullers for jet engines,

INTERNED

Chinese

Thumas

She taught at the Hanbury School and in the

silencers for sporta cars, Cathedral School for Girls. rubber wheels for tramcars.

In 1942, the Mardens were

21 lusty chicers in a sound-interned by the Japanese in proof room for the Duke's Shanghal, but they were rc- next birthday and a noon Patriated the same year.

silence by the Princely They came to Hongkong in Hong, might be a start. We

*1946.

Human herds

fleeing from Luluabourg

Brussels, Aug. 16.

In addition to her many activi- "Human herds" of men,

*women and children to night were reported flee- ing from Luluabourg, the

of capital

would gladly throw in our tes in Hongkong, Mrs Marden : buzzing dictophone and was a prominent member of the

ringing telephone as our St John's Cathedral choir. .contribution to a noise-free Mrs Marden is survived by city if the US Navy would her husband and son, John, who employ

of Wheelock į oars instead of is now Chairman diesels and yachts instead Marden and Co Ltd.

of landing craft.

A forlorn hope. We console

Year

ourselves with the thought that Chinese New would be characterless and insipid without its crackers. And life at home would simply not be the вате without the pitter patter of

tiny feet, their tearful

HAMMARSKJOLD

BACK AT UN

New York, Aug, 16.

atrife-torn

2

the deci- Vientiane has Council of

Carrying on

Somsanith arrived here from Lalangprabang on Monday and is carrying co until the new government headed by Prince Souvanna Phouma takes over after ratiskalion by the Na- tional Assembly and royal in- vestiture.

move

on

Phoumi's latest apparently taken since the Somsunith and Souvanna Cabinet formation

King's sanction.

money Host

London, Aug. 16.

A government officer made a first examination of the body by torchlight In Mr Coughlan's garage. A detailed examination will be made tomorrow after Mr Thorne has seen it.

Detectives said the Arst examination did not show the cause of death. Those of them- who witnessed the examination said there was no trace of bullet wounds.

The body was found near the spot where search parties found Graeme's empty school case on July 8-the day after he vanish-

ed.

A family of six, who began a two-week holiday in East Anglia on Saturday,

The same day a man telephon- watched all their holiday ed them saying he had the boy spending money

+

sink

slowly to the bottom of

Great Yarmouth harbour today.

A holdall containing about

£40-the year's holiday savings was of Rochdale foundry worker his own Harry Eyre, his wife and four remeval children--fell overboard from a Phouma's pleasure cruiser. has the

Tonight Mr Ere took his family to the Great Yarmouth The leaflet appeared to cause National Assistance Bourd office Kasal Province, in no immediate great stir here where he was given a loan, column stretching nearly but they nontheless injected e 20 miles,

jarring note in the otherwise Tomorrow Mr Eyre will try The Belgian radio quoted a re-smooth movement of develop to get a temporary job as a port from a special Congo Cen-ments In the past 24 hours-bean-picker on a nearby farm, tral Government investigating AP. committee as saying the arrival

of UN troops had falled to end the bloodbath of Inter-tribal warfare.

The report said the fugitives were oxhausted, hungry, thirsty and without any form of protec-

cries, their shattering The United Nations tion. yella, their thunderous Secretary-General, Mr Ham

games.

The report published today in! And in the office marskjold, andvod in New York Leopoldville, according to the think how morbidly long- tonight by air from Paris on his radio, sald men of the Lulus and Baluba tribes are killed some it would be without way back from Leopoldville to the

Council every day throughout Kasal

Province. debate on the Congo situation.

those friendly types who

attend the Security

make a beeline for the desk

Mr Harrmaskjold refized as

at which we sit full of

NEVER ACCEPTED The Baluba originally came thought and concentration, usual to anover any questions,

As he walked rapidly to his from the neighouring, province

-Reuter.

STOP PRESS

KIM REJECTED

Beoul, Aug, 17.

The Korean National An sembly today rejected the nomination of American- educated economist Kim Do Yan for Prime Minister of the "new" republic.--UPL

Indonesians advocate power

policy to win New Guinea

Djakarta, Aug. 16. To win Dutch-held West New

Guinea, Indonesia must turn to a policy of power, Two senior Cabinet ministers told the people of the Republie this during a recent tour, of the Celebes and the Molnoćas : -the Indonesian börder pra-"} vinces facing New Guinea, Security, and. Army Chief, of Staff, General, Abdul Haris Nimtion, sald'in ̈n speech that the struggle for Well New Quines would not be deler.

:

The

rained in the United Nations, ; "For this reason we have to the United States or Russia, renounce such methods.

the accent of but on the New Guines main- "Instead the land,

struggle must be ga deeds, a concentration of afrength In the country, itself. We should the Stemnify our efforts in economic development, and ́accurity felids.

Foreign

11.0

Minister, Dr Subandrio, seldi wan longer aziy use talking with the Dutch strength has to be food willi 'strength.

while they chinwag and sip car he merely said, "I had a very of Katanga and the Lulua hove tes, both noisily. In fact, good journey. He impatiently never accepted them give the avenge man half reiterated his refusal to Corts- Now Baluba tribe people are hour of sustained ment when a newspaperman in-fleeing the predominantly Lulua. silence and he would.com formed him that martial 187 capital of Lulabour, cord The Minister for National General Nation said that for Bowever, lead we talk abroad,

д

plain that it was unnatural had been decreed in the Congo. ing to the report. and start running around

Mr ·Hammarskjold drove

It declared it was the duty of

to find out why. We rom- straight to his UN office to draw the Central Congo, Goverment

mend these thoughts to our up his report for the security to "take emergency measuTEN

to remedy the eftation." Wanchai readers.

Council on the Congo-AFP.

years we have ́struggled for the liberation of West Irlan of negotiation, by means diplomiter, mass railles and

resolution.”

This had yielded no results.

17 the situation at home re- mainu sad. People will laugh ¡at our statemente; "People will respect tis if our state to strong-even if we are silent."--Reuter,

and would "feed him to the sharks" unless they paid

£A25,000 ransom.

The kidnapping-the first case in Australian history of child kidnapping with demand for ransom-shocked the country. Reuter.

GRAEME THORNE

COMPLIMENTS" OF

Ship goes aground in harbour

The 700-ton_motor vessel Elsbegh went aground on Cost Rock in Hunghom Bay last night.

The accident occurred at about "Il malf an hour after the ship salled for Swatour with a full cargo.

A Marine Police hurch, stood by while a tug tried to pull the Elsbegh off.

The ship was refloated at about 1 am today with the help of a rising tide.

There were no casualties or damage.

STILL HERE

The Elsbegh, owned by the Shun Cheong Steam Navigation Co Ltd of Hongkong, was still

in harbour this morning.

A company spokesman told the China Mall that the cause of the accident was still under investigation.

The ship usually carries pig containers from Hongkong to Swatow, he added.

Lourenco Marques, Aug. 16. ' Forty men and wonten were drowned on Sunday when their boat overturned in 'a gale off Inhaca Island, Portuguese East Africa, it was learned today.

Two members of the group going to a tribal festival, were able to swim ashore-AFP,

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