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Comment Second Cuban revolution in two years INVADERS CONSOLIDATING

of the

day

THE NEW SEA

TERMINAL

TEMPORARY sea ter-

to be built by private enter- is welcome prise. That

14 pity newn, but what Government turned up the chance to build one right away that would have won the Colony as many compli- ments as our airport, We have spent more than $100 million on turning Kai Tak into one of the finest in the For Eust.

Admittedly we were forced to take this step because ten years ago the fear was that the big airlines would by- pass Hongkong when they began operating big jets on intercontinental services,

There was never a risk of the shipping lines doing the same thing, but now that tourism means so much to the local economy and in view of the many big liners that make regular calls here, there is a strong cost for Government joining the Wharf Company as soon as possible, inthe-building of a super terminal. THE plans outlined by Me

Barton

yesterday and earlier by Mr Forsgate, will undoubtedly

terminal improvement. A

mean

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will be built with escalators and other facilities which will enable passengers to disembark in comfort.

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is also to be hoped that will mean that passengers and visitors will not have

L Crosa goods wayon tracks, or pass under motiile walk through or cranes wharves often stacked with freight.

But whatever improvements are planned, the greatest drawback is that the ter- minal will be so far out of the way. The logical place for it is not down

Navy-street

out

which to

21L орела distinctly seedy. grubly Kowloon back street, it is at the No. 1 pier next to the Star Ferry or,

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Castro escapes initial attack but brother

reported captured

New York Apr. 17.

Anti-Castro forces were tonight reported to be consolidating invasion landings on Cuba's south, west and east coasts as the island republic tasted its second major uprising in under two years.

SPURS WIN

LEAGUE

London, Apr. 17. Tottenham Hotspur to- night set the seal on thels trilliant play in English League football this sea- Kon when they heat Sheffield Wednesday 3.1 to clinch the First Division Championship-Reuter.

(See full report on Page 8)

General

relieved

of post

Washington, Apr. 17. The US. Army said to- day that Major-General

Edwin Walker has been relieved of his post in command of the 24th

Telephono links were eut, but radio broadcasts picked up here said Santiago, in east Cuba, had fallen to the counter-revolutionaries.

Missing boy's

body found

Bonn, Apr. 17.

deteelives British Army

searching a block of thine Army flats in South Brunswick tonight found the body of a boy believed be Paul Friend, the missing seven-year-old son of a British sergeant. West German police said the body was found under a pile of

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in

the

Major Raul Castro, army chief and brother of the Prin Afinister, Mr Fidel Castro, was said to have been captured it was also reported that Dr Castro was nearly killed or captured.

Chief centre of the lighting is reported to be around bridge- heads formed by A three- prünged landing on the south coast of Las Villas Provinec. Rebels there are trying to push inland and cut the island in two at is narrow "walst,"

Outer invasion nils are pushing

from forward western und eastern cncis the island. Heavy were reported.

the

ol

casualties

Landings timed

The

were landings

Umed by anti-Castro with rising groups in Cuba itself, und ope report said street fighting had broken out in Havana.

In the UN, the Soviet dele-

gate Mr Valerian Zorin, placed "full responsibility" for the in- vasion with the United States.

Bul the U.S. Government has made no secret of its sympathy for the rising, though declaring

there will be no by its own forces,

intervention

rardboard boxes cellar of the Bats, and that foul

Mr Adlai Stevenson, U.S. de- play could not be ruled out.

legate, said in reply to Mr Zorin, Paul had not been seen since that it was not an obligation of Infantry Division in Gerhe left his heme on the housing the U.S. to protect

Dr Castro many. pending an in estate in Brunswick last Wed-

from the consequences cf his vestigation of allegations nesday evening to go out to "treason" to his own revolution. that he gave his troops| play-,

Earlier Dr Raul Ros, Cuban material from the right- 1115 father. Sergeant Nigell Foreign Minister, told the com wing "John Birch Friend, comes from Sydenham.mittee that Cuba had been in-

Society."

search:

London. He in serving with the vaded by "a mercenary force Queen's Dragoon Guards.

organised, financed and armed Police began to

for by the Government of the US, and coming from Guatemala and Florida."

later emphatically denied this charge.)

Army The Secretary of the Government's long term has ordered General Walker to Paul on Wednesday night and

to transferred canwhile

wore later joined plan suggests, at Kowloon be

by Aremen. dogs who at soldices and tracker Point

Army headquarters where the public U.S.

ecmbed a desolate scrub Heidelberg.

and wharf is at present.

Though the statement did not forest area south of the town. The main reason the Wharf

Company is not developing mention the John Birch Society,China Mail Special, the pler nearest the Star Ferry is that it is made of wood and would be pro- hibitively expensive to turn into

modern equipped terminal wharf -- unless Government helped pay the capital costs. The Navy-street pier,

a group dedicated to extreme anti-communism, but oficials here acknowledged that this was the case Involved.

The Overseas Weekly,

newspaper, fully serviceman's

ported last week that General Walker had given army faelli- ties to disseminate John Birch Society propaganda to

his

a re-

Trouble spreads in British

prisons

Liverpool, Apr. 17.

in trouble Outbreaks of British jails spread today to

dows were convicts

down strike.

dows with chairs.

Un the troops. other hand, is concrete amul General Walker said his be extended andh division's information pro- developed in about a year gramme was intended only to of "enemles of about $4 Inform soldiers cost

who would destroy us. Reuter.

can

แ

million.

UT if Government had

Buken a greater interest

in this project, a modern fully-equipped, convenient. ly situated terminal could have been built, even if it meant

apeeding up the removal of the railway station to make way for it At Kowloon Point. We feel this is a lost opportunity and the plea of economy in Government spending hord- ly explains its reluctance to share in this project when The it has spent so much on turning Kal Tak into a first. class airport, including a $16 million terminal build- Jug,

Spy suspect not in Israeli Premier's confidence

Jerusalem, Apr. 17. Israci Prime Ministar, Mr David Bon-Gurion, to- day denied that a former top military plannor, ar- rosted on suspicion of spying, had over been his military advisor or had onjoyed his confidence. A poleman for the Govern-

(The Guatemalan Government

reports

The blunt-nosed rocket carrying the vehicle in

tho which Major Yuri Gagarin orbited

carth in "man's" first flight into space rises slowly into the sky from a launching site somewhere in the Soviet Union on April 12. The picture, released in Mos. cow by Toss, is believed to be the first showing the launching of a Soviet rocket.-AP Photo.

State of emergency

Gaitskell objects

to surtax concessions

London, Apr. 17,

Giving the opposition's first impressions of to- day's Budget proposals, Mr Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour leader, objected to the surtax

concession.

Situation

grave in Laos

Vientiane, Apr. 17.

numesc

The Laotian Foreign Minis- ter claimed today that two Communist North Viel-

battalions

sup- ported by heavy artillery and launched an offensive in South-Central where the situation was "grave."

Laos,

The Miniator, Tiso. Sopsat sarma, was speaking to reporters at Vientiane airport on his ru turn from the Royal capital of Luang Prabang with the Prime Minister, Prince Boun Oum, and the Defence Minister, General Phoumi Nosavan.

The three Ministers, had con- ferred with King Savang Vat- thana after a flying visit to the battle area today.

Mr Supsalsanna said Govern- ment forces were taking "all necessary measures" to meet the offensive, in the region of Nhoumarath. There was no im- Immediate threat to the portant town of Thakhek, on the Thailand

border about 30 miles away, he added.

Earlier, military cources said government troops appeared outgunned by rebel heavy artillery.Reuter,

Ceylon KHRUSHCHEV 67

declared in Ceylon

Premier escapes Other unconfinatel sold Dr Castro's "entire military The guard" had been killed but that the Premier himself had суспрес.

Colombo, Apr. 17.

Ceylon Government tonight proclaimed a state of emorgency throughout the island, in an attempt to quash the Tamil Federal Porty's civil disobedience compaign.

The

The Cuban Revolutionary Comell said "much of the

Troop reinforcements were in order to make room, it was Cuban countryside has already dispatched by train and road to thought for the expected influx defected from Custro."

areas, as of new political prisoners, the Tamil controlled The Soviet news agency Toss the Government

took strong emergency decisions were inade said that Rusia is prepared to measures to deal with the at a meeting of the Ceyloneso ald Cubans in their uitle with separatist movement led by the Cabinet today. the revolutionaries.

Tam Federal Party. The parly "The USSR and other socialist was threatening to set up a rebel countries, indeed all the peace- Tamil government in the north- Liverpool prison where win-loving hellons who are her erty and eastern areas of the Federal Party volunteers tra-

smashed and 150 most devoted friends, are pre-island. staged a brief sit-pared to give the Cuban people

Reports from the Tamil pro- vinees carller today

had in- dleated growing unrest, with

velling in batches without ickets Meanwhile the Government on the state-owned buses, dell- their help and suppert," Tass was expected to release 100 berating courting prosecuilon.--- Seven prisoners broke win said.-Reuter & AP.

short-term prisoners tomorrow | AFF,

Then other prisoners un ex- ercise demonstrated

with

B

sit-down strike.

But In both incidents

the

warders had no difficulty controlling the men

in

No reason for the demonstra - tions was given-Reuler,

Two die at

Biggin Hill

a

new

selection

of

MOVADO dress watches

at

from

to

place in

rejected Mr Ben-Gurion reports as "slander." of

The

The prize for suceera wha a free egg and bacon breakfast The apokesman zald Usein the clubhouse.

for

Morcover the Colonial Secre- tary's statement to Legis- Jalive Council that Govern- ment han accepted the idea

Two

Biggin 1, Apr. 17. weekend fliers

WETE

anted yesterday in a "Battle of Erilain" exercise at the famous

wurtime airfield here.

They took off with 20 other of the £5-an-hour of a terminal in principlement cald after today's Cabinet planes but that "ita realisation meeting at which the arrest of Surrey and Kent Flying Club

Intercept "invaders" the Colonel Israel Bner was the lies some distance in future" suggests that it has main subject of direussion that other clubs.

Government's lint

bcon given

priorities at

or near the Cabinet considered Ughtening Death came intend

up chealen on candidates for Cufford Wills (40) and Dennin

end of the queue. And it

(34) when their slim, faut red and rilyer Tiger

likely to stay there unless post connected with curlly Woodhouse all those fatorented keep secrets. Government under constant El Barr, 40, was regarded at Moth crashed into a no et

"Brain trust" of fog-hidden

pressure to give thin pro- one of the

elm tree at 100

Ject the priority it deserves. Irani's General Staff-Reuter. mph.-Culra Mail Special.

Moscow, Apr. 17. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev today celebrated his 07th anniversary in his villa in Sochi

on the Black Sea.-AFP.

This £60 million lo surtax payers, ha sald In the House of Commons, was very close to the amounts by which the National Health Service con- tribution 637 the public had recently been raised,

À man

wo earned £10 * weeic had to pay tenpence 1

week more in health contribu- tlong and also more for ↓ doctor's prescription.

But a man earpbyg £2,000 to £2,500 a year was bubstantially better cff.

the

Mr Gaitskell said opposition had no quarrel with the proposal to take power to modify indirect taxation be-

Budgets, tween

There was awkward in always something

a Budget having to wall for before taking action,

Difficulties

But he thought there would be inculties about varying the customs duties. from me apparently to time-without

any regard to Britain's inter- national obligations under the General Arretment on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

Mr Lloyd here Intervened to say:

"That was one of the

It specifle excepillons I made. certainly cannot apply to apy import duty,"

Mr Galtskell complained that the Budget did nothing to stimu late production or exports.

For

a year there had been virtually no industrial produc- ten expansion whatever,

He did not think the measures put forward by Mr Lloyd adequate.

There was no encouragement to firms to invest in new equip- ment, which was below thất of European competitors, Mr Gaitskell said.—Rouler.

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