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ALLEGED RED THREAT ΤΟ MATSU

Talpel, Dec. 28.

Communist Chinese wäre ships are moving toward the Formosa Kiralt from central and northern China evast, the Nationalist mili- tary information service reported from Farma's off-shoro Island of Matsu today.

The official news agency, quoting a spokesman of the garrison command of Maisu, said the re-deploy- meni of the nea Chinese naval units along the consi

[T showed a Communlet tention to attack the Na- tionalist held offshore island of Matau In the northern end of the Formosa Strali

The spokesman said the Red saluters facing Matsu have also stepped up con- siruction of arilitery posi. Цол The positionis "are obviously designed to ac- commodate large calibre artillery picces," it said.

"All these facts," the spokesman said, "point 10 the Communist intention of attacking the off-shore Island of Mstru?

However, the spokesman sald, the Matsu garrison command Is prepared Lo repel Communfai attacks. --UPL

Policeman shot down

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20 passengers EUROPEAN

slaughtered

by

Balubas

Elisabethville, Dec. 28.

Hundreds of rebel Baluba tribesmen on Wednesday massacred at least 20 Africans in three vicious attacks on a UN guarded train taking schoolchildren home for New Year vacation, a Katanga Government spokesman said.

of the

Scures of others were injured; mothers of children travelling end many

passengers co the train were raped. -- were kidnapped by rebels after Al nad AFP.

attack, which occurred during the early hours in three south Kalanga townships.

the

Initial reports reaching Elkka- bethville were totally confused but the Katanga Government spokesman said it and definitely that ni least been established

20 persons were killed.

It was not known whether Day of the dead were children or how many people were injured or kidnapped.

300 aboard

The spokesman sak the train,

Bing's son father

of child

Los Angeles, Doc. 29.

which was taking about 100 A jury has decided singer

children to their homes in

New western Katanga for the Year vacation, left Elisabethville on Tuesday with about 300 pas- sengers on board. It was pro- teeted by a strong guard of UN Swedish troops.

Bing Crosby's son, Donnis, is tho father of a divor- ceo's illegitimate daugh- ter.

Dennis, 20, had admitted Mrs Marilyn A UN representative here intimacles with refused to make any comment Miller Scott but denied father- on the reports about the training her three-year-old daughter, because the official UN spokes- Dene Michelle.

The jury deliberated one man for Katonga was absen!

The re-bour und 37 minutes on Wednes from Elisabethville. presentative said he was unable day before voting nine to three to give my Information what that Dennis was the father. After had happened to the Swedish the verdict by the mins mothers and three others ca the jury sho: Foldiers. A Paris policeman was and seriously wounded in the

When the train readied the Crosby not disconsolutely for neck on Wednesday night

Kotanga western tried to check the patrolinen identity of a group of Algerians Kamma this evening, only 40 on the Left Bank Rue St Jac-pertons were on board. ques. His ussalkuni, an Algerian, ' escaped.

Paris, Dec. 20.

in

A police car had halted front of a small holel mostly co- cupled by Algerians, and police haled a group of five fur an identity check.

Lown

of

The spokesman sald the attacks by rebels occurred at the towns of Luena, Mukulakult, and Bukama - all lying on a 30-mile long stretch of railway

several moments in the court- rcom.

When asked his opinion of the jury's decision, he said:

"What can I say? They are the jury, They made the decision.

Outside the courtroom, Mrs Scott, a Hollywood divorcer,

line about 150 miles west of tarried with her blende daughter Eisabethville.

IN ALLEGED

BID TO SELL

PASSPORTS

A 35-year-old European, Peter Noci Vesey, Newsome, appeared before Mr T. L. Yang at Causeway Bay Court this morning on * charge of falsely pretending that he could sell Ave American passports for $30,000.

He pleaded not guilty and date for trial was sai for January 25.

Newsome, who was six. ed to be unemployed and of British pationally, waS said to be residing st FIK Far East Mansion,

The charge stated that¬ Newrams attempted to

obtain $30,000 from Ng Yin-fan. described as detective inspector.

to

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The offence was alleged

have occurred

Con

November 15 at Ube

Peninsula Hotel.

Newsome, who has sur* rendered his passport

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the police, wäs on ball of $300.

Defective-Inspector R. P. Style appeared for the Poller.

Car prices may rise

London, Dec, 28. British car prices are likely to rise in the new year to offset a fall in tales in both the home and export market; - ·it was stated here today.

Forecasting this as a "strong Brillsi Motor possbility" a

spokesmon said Corporation of any reduction in the price of "there is absolutely no prospect

tny BMC vehicle.-China Mull Special.

CHRISTMAS EVE

TRAGEDY

Geneva, Dec. 28,

COLONY TO MAKE Badly burned TIENTSIN CARPETS

A new million-dollar carpet factory, which will be set up early in the New Year, will manufacture carpets of a kind formerly only made in Tien- tsin, China.

Tientsin carpets are world-famous. They are different from other carpets in that the woollen piles are securely knotted in the back so that they .will never come off.

CHRISTMAS

WARNINGS

REDUCE ROAD TOLL

The backing of other rugs is secured with a layer of latex instond.

also

Tientsin. carpels are famous for their designs and beauty in colour.

The new factory, will be set up in San Hul, at the foot of Castle Peak, in The New Territories.

Capacity

made on looms on large scale, will remain classified as "hand- mads art objects."

The canvas backing will be obtained locally,

The plant will look to Eng-

land. for proccesed woollen

sailor rescued

Manila, Dec. 20.

A badly burned crewman was taken of the Liberian-tanker World Jury today by a wroyer of "The U.5. 7th Fleet about 250 miles southeast of Marilla.

A US Navy, spokesman said the US. Sproston, a destroyer, "- rushed to the aid of the World Jury (earlier identifica as World Joy) at 27 knots, ***

The tanker sent distress signals reporting, a. "series of yarn which originates front explosions aboard the vessel Australia and Argentina.

and reported several?" "Ferów Samples have been rent members injured, one serious- abroad for stone time.

ly.- UPI. And the response? "Very

With its foundations and, 40 | good. One prospective buyer per cent of the building com- has come all the way from pleted and 30 workers-under | America to Hongkong just to training, the factory is expected { lock us up.”...

to begin, production, in March.

The

Worldwide

21st child'

Leicester, Dec, 28. Mrs Edith Hill, a 46-year-old grandmother, wald today after

It will be eventually staffed with 400 craflamen

Mr Robert B. Landis, Chair- | giving birth to her 21st, child; London, Dec. 28. The new factory, called the mas and Managing Director of "This is my last."

Hongkong Oriental Rug Co Ltd. | Landis Brothers & Co Lid, said Tid baby, Deaths on British roads dur-will have a capacity to turn out the market is worldwide,7 lb 13 os, raised the total of a boy weighing ing the five-day Christmas 160 carpets of nine feet by 15

Landis 'group' are the her childen Tying to nine boya 127 feet per month.. 'period totalled

major shareholders of the new and 10 girls, Two children, died It aims against 215 last year,

at producing the factory. Other charcholders are in infancy. official figures disclosed traditional Chinese carpet with. Ronden and Co (HK) Lad, Mrs Hill married at 18; and

new designs,

the Han Kwok Chan, Mr Chan her eldest son is now 30. Her today.

Such carpets, unable to be Yuk-lam, Mr Tia Cheng-scong. husband is a postrian-AP.

Government and Press warn- Fings pgainst. drinking while driving, fine weather, and dry roads were: apparently respon- sible for the dramatid reduction In the road toll..

But traffic experts tonight stressed that the pre-Christmas "office party" had again emerged as the biggest single factor in the accident rute.

They pointed out that the largest number of deaths. this year, as in 1950, occurred on the day and night that people vele- brated before going home for Christmas,

. WELL BELOW This year's biggest foll-40 dead-was on December 23 when there were parties all over the country in offices and factories on what was the lost full work- ing day before Christmas.

Last year the comparable "drinking day" was Christmas Eve when 71 people were killed or died of injuries.

Every day this year, however,

and posed for pictures, TRG A mother who went out into The first allock took place at child, clenching a All ve broke and ran. Two

Yag doll, the forests near Sion on Christ- | the: holiday toll "was consider- of Lucia. were quickly captured, but three the station

Three smiled happily as flashbulba | mas Eve to get a Christmas tree |ably below last year's figures others dashed up a stairway to-

were killed passengers

there popped.

for her seven children has been and road safety and motoring ward the roof. One of them and

*The kidnapped.

The decision by the jury did found frozen to death. She ap. organisations were today certain turned and fired a revolver at station WDS

not have to be unanimous bo-parently slipped and fell into a that the campaign agaitisi drink- cause the trial was a civil, not ravine, breaking a leg-China ing while driving had achieved a criminal action-AP:

some success.---Reuter.

many

A pillaged an

the policeman who was pursu- quantity of bloodstained cloth ing them, hitting him almost he was found later in the point blank. In the resulting station environs. confusion, the trio escaped. - Several of the African women. ΑΡ.

passengers

many

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FOR the many who were intri COMMENT OF THE DAY

gued by the oryptio sign of the star entwined in a qượn- tion mark. the Christmas holiday has given amplo op- portunity to satisfy curloalty. For the many who have still not on the Exhibition of the

Throo Christmases at John's Cathedral Hell, there le still time. We urge it as a good but brutal cura for dis- peptlo stomachs and. lingering alcoholic remorse. There are the authentic sounds of Wan- chal-and oven, the amalist- Hongkong, has heard much in recent years of the shooking contract flying standards of Its people. Bome would "haye, us bellova that it is somatlig to be ashamed of, although we In Hongkong are proud to have given so many destitÜES- people an alternative to staP:/ vation and hopelomnom. But! we.canast rest on our laurais, Neither do we want to And the over-present spur, to prea. ter effort is symbolised most aptly by this exhibition' of the way in which 'three types of people celebrated: Christmas Him, us and them, 2

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chal and Shamshulpo and The squatter hats of Tal. Hang are a standing reproach to the

community and Hongkong has in the paat baon, renowned for the way in which, it has, - accepted' tough challanges ---.

and made good. This is the problem to which the people genatally and Gevard- ment-in-particular - will - hays! to`address themselves in' the. new_yerr; with ; even "Agrostér condern than in the past. The criticlema mada" of the Hous- Ing. Authority's disappointingly, slow progrGan 2 VATİFOP-thle month reflect the frustration

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THE rationalist can shrug off the stark contract with the `argument ́ ́ "that most 'Chinese]

do not celebrate.... Chëistmás}} anyway or that nothing wa can ever do will appreciably narrow the gap between oloak, well-fed -- luxury and "filthy, wdrawny - povarty., Cononde him both pointe, but we would

till be, falling. In our duty. If wh・ Were- ta- give-up::without; trying. The slums of Wan-

getting on with the job of re- housing and repettlement fast enough.

FLAB

LABORATE plans and res ports come to light from time to time, but they taka too long to materialise, Mann- white, If to accentuate the contrast in living standarde, International hotel companies splash out 'mišilons on land, design fabuloue bulldings, mal contracts and begin. com. struction; as if every moment mattered. The conclusion is unavoidable that where profits provide an Incentive progress, in rentastic, but not otherwise. What - Government, must)" alan encourage to in very much greater extent than in the past in, higher wages-in-tha' lowest brackets. It should also seek to abolish, tha aldoutòm whereby, workers are paid in king=rather than gashi-Must- Improvement, has occurred with the Colony's increasing prosi parity this year' but Govern - ment cannot leave thà ralelng of living standards to change, What la ̈required is 'a'phased 'and 'gradual' pian' for wage

Improvementa

THE relevance of the Exhibi

-tron-ät ál John's Cathedral to the living "conditions of

· Hongkong's massae: weliljke. obvious to RIE WND: DRA IL/S 11) MAU KIA (visual, “sermon. † for. churchgoers on Christmas day, "but it ie e picture we all dugh). ́to`keep in mind: throughaut: the coming year-as: the boun

· that” many, are beginning 1933 2-të-prick - the- siden er labe

foll. Hongkongle mimpty not lo imant, d

Our poor Red prawns

4 third

of the displayed ' prawns, * mostly...' from 'Chiga, were headless. The expari Of - PRAWNA, WAs forthwith cutoff; and America was saved from a deadly menaçe.”.

·New York, Dec. 29. Faraid | 1.Mas · hopeless! On The Nation massimo devotes the other hand, a signal Buo=! Can't editorial to its current eces was achieved, in the case | edition to “The sang of the of crowns, óf which-- 4.25 headless prawna": In. Ikone-milllan, pounds. were sold to kong.

the United States in 1958... "By arrangement with tbo

British, Hongkong prawns The wire. decapitated before erating, tim distinguishing them from Communit Drawns. But otte day .30 American consular offer who had occasion to visit Hong- Central Fish Market, kong's -was thrown into consternation when he saw that more than

After outlining the export_con- ditions prevalling in Hong- kong because ・ of the U.S. embargo on material coming. from China, the editorial gues on:

"It is distressing to report that attempts to segregate, tag and register Hongkung ducka haya failed-a UB. consular officiat

editorial also suggested, Will tongue-in-cheek, that the Hongkong water supplied to American warships there should be "de-commingled"- *ince the native Hongkong water is

comminglog with # supply from China-before li is given to American seamien or American boilers.-AP,

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