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WHO CARES?
LEADING British
A Journalist recently in
Bangkok for the Seato con- forenco made the fol- lowing comment in a report on the meeting: "But the blunt truth is that neither East nor West cares tipi- penco for the welfare of
the Laotians themselves.
The Laotians are pawns in the world game of power politics." Our comment ls: what utter nonsense! It is not the blunt truth or any other kind of truth, The country is undeniably re- mote from the West I tho geographical sense. Its people are presented to the
casually
AR
in-
world different to the civil war, The peasantry
Is rated
among the most primitive in Asia and apart from France, and in recent years Amenien, there ro no strong links between the Laotian people
and
.Buy nor
THE WEATHER
-Light variable winds. Cloudy with-fair perioda. Warm and humid,- Coastal mist or fog patches dovoloping tonight. Noon tempora- turo: 77 degrees Fahrenheit, relativo humidity 77 per cont.
CHINA
No. 37940
RAY
Establishod- 1845- TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1961.
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cento
UPPADY, SUPREME COURT
NOWI
save
US$108
(round-trip
Bank employees held up at gunpoint DAYLIGHT ROBBERY IN CITY
$50,000 snatched Questioning after robbery
in Ice House-st
this morning
Two employees of the Chiyu Banking-Corp. Ltd were robbed of $50,000 at gunpoint by two man in Ice House-street near the bank promises at about 10.45 this morning.
Car licence
fees to be increased
Europeans. But to that neither East West cares tuppence for Car licence fees are likely
them is about as stupid as saying that America and Britain with their 55,000 war dead, cared nothing for the Koreans when the Red North overran the South, TT is no silly ne saying that Britain cared nothing for the Poles or the Czecho- alovakian people
to be increased, This was revealed today in an offical statomont com- menting on a newspaper roport which said fees were likely to be increas- ed by from 50 to 100 per cont.
The two victims, Ho Tak, (47) and Ng Pak-lay (22) wero coming back from the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation with the money in a brown leather handbag carried by Ho.
When they reached a lane between Edinburgh House and Henry House in Ice House-street they were ap- proached by two Chinese
men,
was
one of whom armed with a revolver, and robbed of the handbag, Hoj told a China, Mail reporter.
The two bank employees immediately shouted for help and chased the robbers who The full text of the Govern escaped down the lane and DI thement statement is as follows:
turned into another between Belgians, Dutch or French "Newspaper reports that Gov- when Hitler's fuck-booted crament proposes to replace the the Bank of East Asia and hordes trampled on the face existing three types ut motor Windsor House and dis- of Europe.
Of course the vehicle licences with four new appeared in the crowded Dea
with heavier fees Voeux-road Central. West is concerned about ita categories.
being imposed on the large car, is substantially correct.
Within five minutes of "However we regret that we the robbery Police were call- cannot give details at present as the matter is still subject toed to the scene. Investiga- tions were carried out at the Communists no genuine.legislative procedure."
own vital interests in Southeast Asin, but of very much greater concern 18 that if Laos la sacrificed to
ly freedom-loving country in Asia wilt bo sufe, nor will they have any reason to trust the promises of the West.
Thly declosure follows on the once. warning given by the Financial Secretary, Mr Arthur C. Clarko All the banknotes stolen in his recent budget speech thu are believed to be of $100 "the days of cheap motoring are
denomination. going."
The
WARNING
Irregular times
Chief Inspector J. Hidden in centro questioning members of tho· Chiyu Bank following the daylight robbery at gunpoint in lee House-atroot this morning.
Soviet reply to pleases
note
British Mac
Kingston, Apr. 3.
Mr. Harold Macmillan told a press conference here today he was pleased by the tone and character of Russia's reply to British proposals on Laos.
he
The Prime Minister
the was in negotiations between ond sper-king at the
of his laland territories on the shape 10-day tour of the West Indies. of the new state when' in-
He is flying on to Washing-dependence comes but lon tomorrow for talks with added that problems could br President Kennedy.
a will to solved if there was solve them.
Mr Macmillan recused to discuss the possibility of cacing Testrictions on Jam Kenyatta, convleled Mau Mau. bader.
Mr Macmillan said: "We and in Scato have our partners been pleased by the tone and The fact in that Britain
character of the reply of the Colonial Secretary, Mr and America have treats
Soviet Government to the Bri- later 17. obligations under which Claude B. Burgess,
budget According to a bank of tih note. they guarantee the freedom pounced in the official
There are certain points to that parking meters ficial, it was their practice and independence of the replies
be cleared, but I feel optimistic. extended" to send two messenger boys about the general conditions," would be "broadly country. This treaty was
in- incter charges would be
to the Hongkong and specifically designed to save
Asked if a Laos Sattlerment creased in licavy trafe areas, the people from the same
Shanghai Bank every morn-ould give hope for an Im- charges car park
Inay
rcia- fate which engulfed those doubled, and that Governmenting to collect cash for the provement in East-West
replied, in Northern Vietnam. And would charge fees for or install day.
tions, Mr Macmillan the Wont has extended meters on vocant Crown land
"Anything that is settled la
this offer to the Laotian
people in the same way that it hus promised
used as temporary car parks.
The spokesman said the gain. Present maximum annual timo for collection was al- leonce fee for a car (more
help, than 2,500 cc) in $240. The ways irregular in order to
ahould they want it, to u large number of countries in other parts of the world which aim to stay independ- ent and free.
THE catchery of the politi clans that the freedom and independence of Laos is in- separable from that of the free world is
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mere
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La a medium ramze fee of $100 for cans between 1,200 and under 2,500, while
Done my best
་
Made clear:
"We have made it clear that nelters of security must reit with the Governor," he said.
Asked if there was any pos sibility that South Africa might rejoin the Commonwealth, he sald Not in the immediate future, unless the present Gov- ernment changes its (apartheid) polleles,"
He said he hoped South would return "under
"I have done my best to pro- foil any robbery attempts. duce a delente between East Africa
The younger
messenger and West. It in Loos all goes changed conditions."--Router." received bruises on his back well it will be all to the good. cars
when one of the robbers
of
under 1,200 are charged $100.
If those are increased by 50 per cent the new charges will be $150, $240 and $300.
If they are increased by 100 per cent they will be $200, $320 and $480.
cary.
And as Government indientes cliche designed to pacify that a special category is being
considered Zor large tunnusl licence fees for this category is Ukely to exceed $500 a year,
anxious Axinns. It means what it saya. And when Britain last week put before
Russin plans to bring about an end of the turmoil that
has overtaken this country, Shock for
It was prompted less by the desire to avert war for the West's sake, than to bring pende to Laos in conditions which would ensure it of dignity, independence and freedom as well as fully representative government. What the West can be thank- ful for is that Laos and its people are considered auff-
ciently important to war
Nehru's
party
New Delhi, Apr. 3. India's ruling Congress Party
by losing the
rut joint military action aufered a prestige defent today
if
peace talks fail to bring Parliamentary
Bey New Delhi scat to the
The loss of New Delhi came
March.
It
prodded him hard for being| optimistic."
OFIC somewhat makes Mr. Macmillas said. Britala settlement
too slow in handing over the wanted a political bag containing the money. and to see Laos as a neutral
The cash was insured. country.
We hope that as a result, of Police are requesting wit-
negotiations....there will be a Police Station and are carry-goodwill can be brought back nesses to report to any position on wluch order and ing out a widespread search to that country, and the Laotlan for the robbers.
people allowed to live their Ono is aged about 45.1 under
lives quietly, neither falling
the control of Com dressed in a European suit, muucts nor being asked to join and the other between 30 in an alliance of the West." and 40, dressed in a multi- Mr Macmillan was asked if Staten coloured Hawaiian shirt and Britain and the United
had come nezrer to resolving black pants.
their differences over China's admission to the United No- Hons.
TCA Vanguards grounded
Montreal; Apr. 3. Trans-Canada Air Lines today
grounded all Vickers', Vanguard elferaft and ordered ingretion of the planes undercarriages us a "sensible precaution."
Chinese
convoy ambushed
U.S. EASES
CONTROLS
TO HK
AND MACAO
Washington, Apr. 3. The Commerce Department
today announced steps to
case United States con- trols on a wide variety of 'articfcs for oxport to
Hongkong and Macao. But at the same time closed stops to tighten controls on US, scientific, and "profes- sional instruments going to the
two colonies.
dis-
and
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USN AWARE OF
SOVIET TRAWLER
OPERATIONS
London, Apr. 3. Americans at the Polaris submarine base at Holy
Loch, on the Scottish coast, know that radio ̈ signals are being sent to Russian trawlers operating outside the three mile limit, Mr George Brown, deputy leader of the Labour · Party, said today.
Mr Brown, speaking at Holy Loch after spending four hours abcard the United States sub- marine depot ship Projeus there, cald."that Proteus bad picked up. signals from the Russian trawlers.
"Everyone on the ship" knew Russians were there, ho
Uso sald.
"I am very worried that somewhere in this country there are high frequency radio trans- mitlers in operation," he added.
Asked if the Americans were monitoring the radio signals, Mir Brown replied; “If you mean by that decoding them, that is problem for intelligence and not for the Proteus.".
New Da Vinci found in America
Now York, Apr. 3,
A painting bought for "a
Q
modast sum" In Now York in 1932 has been identified by an art ex- port as
portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci, pos- He and Dr J. Dickson Mubon,
sibly of Amerigo Vespucci, a Scottish Labour Member of
the explorer who gavo his Parliament
guests of
name to the Americas. Captain. Norval Ward, come mander of the 14th United States The owner, an art restorer, Sutanarine Squadron and Casuald dhat when he bought the tain Richard E. Laning, con-painting it was entitled Por mander Proteus
WETC
First MPs
trait of a "Florentine Years later, he removed the. dirt, and uncovered the lettering "Amerigo Vespucci,"
Virginia Intermont College of Professor C. Eriest Cooke of Bristol, Virginia a specialist in Da Vinci's works, Heved it was by painter.
said ha bo- the Italian
1
Tests at the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts showed that the painting, was completed at a time when Da Vinci did his greatest work.
They are the first Members. of Parliament to visit the ship.
A U.S. naval spokesman gald in London tonight that the mayy had always known of the existence or Russian trawlers cutside the three mile limit of Scottish waters, and that the trawlers tended to congregale in the Holy Loch area.
Ho
that aded
he did not The nows of the discovery know of any radio signals coincided with rumours of a which are reported to -have sale of what was believed to be been transmitted to the trawlers the last Da Vinci painting in a from the mainjand.
privato colicetion. The work Earlier today, British Navy Hend of a Woman," is owned
Prince Franz and Air Force security officers by
Joret of were reported to be carrying out | Liechtenstein, It is believed a two-pronged probe into alleged that about £1,780,000 is being spying connected with Ameri- asked for the painting—Reuter. can Poleria carrying submarines in Holy Loch.
Checking
The security men were sold to be:
1. Trying to track down the source of mystery.
radio
signals apparently coming from in, or near, Glasgow.
30 drown in Arab
River
оп
2. Checking on suspected
Tehran, Apr. 3. The department said that with spying by trawlers off the west
const of Scotland.
Thirty of 80 pasatngero The Admiralty refused to aboard a motor launch which offeet from today the following Items might be shipped under contr or deny this report Bunk 翅 Shat-al-Arab Dear general licence which would not circulated by a domestic news Abadan on Sunday are feared noed its spoolfte approval:
ogency and given prominence | drowned, the evening DOW Adding machines, card punch in British evening newspapers paper Koyhan reported today. Gangtok, Apr. 3.
equipment, collating
machines, tonight.
According to a Keyhan Several hundred Chinese coxheadliners cylinder having
The agency also linked the the spot dispatch, the launch, formaliners, photo security probe with other pro which took aboard 10 picnickers were killed and large machines,
composing machines, motion jected North Atlantic Treaty
on Sunday hit an underwater quantities of arms and picture screena, certain type Organization bases in Scotland.
obstruction which ripped open, photographic prints,
the bull food supplies seized two of
Tánge ot antibiotics-Heuter weeks ago when some wide 3,000 Khampa resistance drugs and medicinal prepora
tions, mostly in dosage form. fighters ambushed a long and medicinal chemiente in bulk Chinese military convoy form,
The department sald that in south Tibet, a reliable
those articles which, coukl now He said China was a compli source said here today. be shipped only inster individual
Barcelona, Apr. 4. cated issue and referred to Lord Acording to a Tibetan coming export licences included certain A bus, carrying 36 persons Home's statement a few weeks from north Siddim the Khampas types of gyroscopes
ac- rolled over a 150-foot deep ago that the realition of the ambushed the convoy In the eclorometers and polytetra- ravine on Monday, killing reven International situation called for region of Tagri, nezr Tibet's fluoroethylene - covered blloy and Injuring the Pelting's admission,
"It
4
Complicated
17
urra
and
BUS DEATH PLUNGE
was
for
Fifty passengers were rescued by private launches. Rescue groups are still searching survivors. Sunday
Iranian now year's day. In addition to the 30 people drowned in the river near Abadan, eight people were reported killed in traffic ac eldents, and some 123 received slight Injuries from automobile remaining and other aceldento in
other
Worst Baltic storm
in two
decades
routhern border with Nepal, on steel pipe and tubing-Reuter,.occupants of the vehicle-AP, parts of the country.-AP. very complicated the highway leading towards about a settlement. Only aghtwing Jan Sangh Party in temporally
question Indeed," Mr Marenilla Gectok in western Tibet. repeated. "Doc It maa brad- The source. said the local quarter of a century ago we abyelection.
ing over Formosa to the Gov-population of the Tingl
រ wore sufficiently
orment
China? complacent
Which gave nid and comfort to e China? Or both? to ait by and watch Itnly as a shock to the Congress
Khampas, Tibetan #ghters who pulverise Ethiopia. All we Party led by Mr Nehru, the
"The more you study it the have long resisted Chiness oc- more difficult and complicatedcupation of Tibat and who could do wan to impose Prime Minister, now preparing
Elght Vanguards were in it is because there are so many fought a war in 1859 when the Banctionu. itler and Hus-for the General Elecilon next
volved in the grouraling as the possibilities."
Dalal Lema was forced to leave solini, not surprisingly re- The Jun Bangh Party 1s wake of the belly-landing 'on:
Mr Macmilla rald that the country. guarded this no proof of strongly rightwing, advocating Sunday night of one of the Britain would continue to show A high-level diplomatie source Qur
and private ,enterprise- Dit
giant four-engined turbo-prop the Federation friendship and said fighting still continued in pro- airliners nt "Montreal inter- plunged
into the Cerential treatment for Indio's
airport. The plane's goodwill when it receives fall southern Tibet resulting in many national European conflict. If the majority Hindu communily.
Chinese casuaitica. who were left landing gear would not independence most rear, Wont and cared do much
the byelection While
He avoided giving a direct } falcon, to liospitals at Pheri and Ay lower. The 42 pantangers and
The new spurt of about the Ethiopian people have little bearing on next seven Craw
membera aboard answer when asked whether Gyengloo. General Election. escaped voturi,
Kritain wold continue to give aghting was the second since then as it cares about the year'a
observara Bald. It, Laotian people talay, the polleat
Super constellations were put friendship and help to Jamaica, the 1939 revolt
The local population, report. hlatory of the world might red to reflect the growing in services to repen all Van
the Federation.
edly suffering from famine, was Mr Macmillan said it would sold to be supporting the ru- be wrong for him to. Intêrtere; sintance.--AFF.
if I deolden to split. away from sirength of severni [rightwing} genti filgħin unill the uniter-
have taken in "deoldedly | groups, nome of which have a earringe, exumination is com- different course.
strong Hindu. sppeal,--Router. pleted---AP..
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nowspapery sanching hero todarka The reports in the newspaper · Bovlet Katyle |
rajā polionmen patrolioa : in · bonis, when
· floodwatersi...of the river: Daugava pyari flowed: Inte streets and breernente Lark
forced
The newspaper, sald: the Baltia story
·waters into Kira Quli and the river.". Some - Inhabited' Islanda were finoded by 11 to 16
· Loches of, water, the newspaper mata,
The river level, roso almost four "fect tören Inobios #burn, normál að the height of the vi storm, Eqvini žatvia mila, juk 1 sald- ne seriösa damage vean caused and no chopal-
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