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Comment China Fir hits rocky island in Tat Hong Channel of the HK SHIP AGROUND OFF LYEMUN

day

Bold budget

IVE Mr Selwyn Lloyd bis

Gr due: there is nothing

chicken-hearted about him when it comes

to stating

hin party's economie eunvic- tions. Its Art budget is unashamedly

Conservative

in character, perhaps more so than any since the war. He has been honest enough admit that the most to perniciously taxed people are not those in the middle or lower income levels. but in the executive

and pro-

fessional class who

huye

been unjustly squeezed by successive Labour and Con- servative Governments out of the fair rewards their ability. initiative, enterprise and responsibi- ity.

for

But the Chane Her has made this relief possible in a rather clever way. He will pay for it by taking larger slice of company pro fits; this may mean slightly less for shareholders but if it does it will also mean! that those who have done the most to ensure the success of their business will receive a fairer share of the rewards, For the majority of the population, i income and purchase tax rates remain unchanged, but then they were eased only two years ago.

T

rather

THE most notable features of the budget, however are the two flexible controls

Chancellor that the given himself to iron out economic the occasional Idels which develop in the course of the year, as well ns to pep up productivity. Thus it inflation should assert itself in alarining way in July or August, Mr Lloyd will not have to wait until next April before he takes the

remedial neerssary

113-11 – нареч. Now, now, will he have only the weapon Bank Rate to deal with these periodic crises. The second measure he has adopted is the controversiad surcharge

employees which is aimed at dr- couraging the tendency to over-staff, and encouraging automation, Hr Selwyn Lloyd's anxiety to spred up the modernisation of Industry and to lick It into better shape to face foreign competition is praiseworthy but the unions

suspicious.

Bre

013

of

of the

threat this measure poses

Crew rescued

The

in late

night drama

10,000-ton

Hongkong

registered

freighter, ss China Fir, went aground on the rocky island of Ngai Ying Pai near Lam Tong Island in Tat Hong Channel about six miles off Lyomun Pass, last night.

Shortly after 10 pm, the wind was strong, the sky was dark and the tide was rising when the crew aboard the Japan-bound China Fir heard "the ship groaning and vibrating after run- ning on to rocks."

Pilot blamed

for Arcadia

grounding

Honolulu, Apr. 19.

"Then she sted towards the starboard side and her stem went down," sald Ko Yung-kum, seamon in the ship's boiler room. "As we all clambered towards the stern, the ship started taking in water until the front deck was six feet under the wayes.

"Luckily there were no casualties. All the 43 members of the crew, including our captain

rescued by were Trawler coming along our stac board side."

Walked off

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SILVER COINS SEIZED ON

CHANGTE

Krisbane, Abr. 19. Customs yesterday seized

A £850 worth of silver colns hidden in an oil tank In the engineroom of le carzo passenger ship Changte when it dorked here.

The silver was slacked in 29 Hessian bags belonging to seaman Chu Yien-9212,

46,

The ship was, returning today to Hongkong.

Je

The Customs said that Chu would probably ceive a bank draft for the money when he reaches Hongkong,

Far Eastern stealers Day 22 shillings Australien for every A£I worth of coins because of the relatively high silver content.

Under exchange regulu- tions travellers arc net allowed to leave Australia with more tha £20 in Australian currency. - London Express Service.

Maudling

predicts big_tariff

reduction

A veteran harbour pilot blamed for the January 5 gunding of the British Juxury itner Arcudia th Honolulu

By then the Chino Fir listed to harbour

been suspended such an extent that the kus

crew for two months,

"just walked over from the Pitoi August Hasselgren, 64, freighter on to the trawler." surrendered hin licence 01 Tueray to the Coast Guard, The suspension notice was for- tinued Ko "We all went aboard Mr Reginald Maudling, Pro- warded here from Jumes Donahue, Seattle, Washington US. CIVIL Service examiner who presided at heurings in Honolulu.

"None of us got wet," con-

the rawler in dry clothing.

"The two came

trawlera which

to our rescue had been trailing along in the wake of the Chinn Fir," 57-year-old Ką went on.

London, Apr. 18. sident of the Board of Trade, said today that he hoped to be able to mako a "really big movo" in the reduction of tariffs.

of

The grounding of the P and O-Orient liner was blamed en

Speaking in the House bula girls and company oficials "As soon as we went aground, bearding the ship just outside both trawlers came alongside, Commons in a debate on yes-

distracting punt,

Hasselgren And after we went aboard the terday's Ludget, hu said that and the Arcadia's master. Capt trawlers, we stood by the one way to get greater eficiency W. T. C. Lethbridge. There stranded vessel until 4 am when in industry was more competi

tion, including more compeli- we started salling back to Hongton from Imports,

was no terious damage to the 30,000-ton ship.-AP.

Essex train crash kills

two

to full employment and Three people

קונן

firms that are big asers of labour are grumbling. I this tax does no more than

force

conta and exacerbate labour troubles, it would be better to cnst around for a less damaging stimulant.

London, Apr. 18.

were tonight known to have died and 13 were injured when a train left the rails at Basildon,! Essex today.

telescoped ecnches.

|

kung.

"We reported at the Marine Police station in Wanchai."

Captain G. C. Walker of the China Fir was the last to leave the grounded freighter. He was busy interviewing Govern- ment and police officials, and the shipping company's sollektors this morning.

He went on "I beiteve we

must, in the coming months, during the GATT negotiations which will soon start, alm at really sub- stantial reductions in our lariff rates over a very wide range of

industrial products."

This should not be done on

a unilateral basis, but in ex- change for new Opportunities for British exports by recipro-

DISASTROUS

A Taikoe Deckyurd iug and a police launch are still standingcal tariff reductions by other by the vessel whose bow was countries reported to be completely under water leaving only the stern and ¦ the tip of the funnel above the surface.

Iron ore

Mr Harold Wilson, the

Labour

opposition'a finance spokesman, etaimed that the budget showed a "monumental irrelevance" to the problems of the nation.

He said that the budget should have been dlclated by the "ls-

"manifestly

of

Firemen and other resene Mr. M. J. Bent, Marine workers are stilt

searching Superintendent of the Fir Line among the wreckage of three Ltd, owner of the ship, told the Cha Mall this morning that NIE budget, however, is a

The crash came as the train the China Flr was carrying 1.000 bold one and a very was passing a set of points. The long tons of iron ore from creditable first effort for engine and the first three of the Mormugao in Portuguese Iud to surtax payers as class Mr Selwyn Lloyd who is nine coactics hurtled into

the to Jupan vin Singapore and clearly determined not to be bankatent along one side of Hongkong. caught flat-footed by the the track.

Rescuers, hampered by steep

the

dis-

Kennedy warns Soviet Premier against intervention in Cuba

Castro sends

in Soviet tanks and aircraft

Washington, Apr. 18.

20 dangerous

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JOE BROWN KEEPS

FIGHT TITLE

London, Apr. 18. Joo Brown, the Ameri can Negro retained hi world

before crowd

lightweight title

ช

a capacity 18,000 Earls Court sladium here tonight, but he was given a treniendoUS baille by Dava Charoley. the Arlilsh, British Empire

and European champion. who took him the full dis- tance.-Beuter.

(See also Pare 8)

Seven die

in

plane crash

President Kennedy told Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev today that the United States will meet any intervention by outside force in Cuba.

Mr Kennedy, in a reply to Mr Khrushchev's blunt note earlier today on the Cuban invasion by anti-Castro forces, said he hoped that Russia would not use the situation in Cuba as a pre- text "to inflame other areas of the world."

Mr Kennedy said it should bej enterprise no surprise that refugees from } general peace. that Castro-dominated nation "I agree with you as to the of the U.S. have been aning desirability of steps to Improve whatever means are available the international atmosphere. I to return and "support their continue to hope that you will At countrymen in the continuing co-operate in opportunities now struggle for freedom."

available to this end. A prompt¦ The President added:

ceasefire and peaceful settlement; "Where people are denied of the dangerous situation in the right of choice, recourse to Laos, co-operatin with the Now York, Apr. 18.

such struggle is the only means United Nations in the Congo and Dr Fidel Castro has thrown of achieving their liberties." a speedy conclusion of an ac-

Soviet-supplied tanks and

Kennedy repeated his ceptable treaty for the banning

of last weekd that of nuclear tests would be con- said the two-engined aircraft jot planes against an in-

bestructive steps in this direction. was no more than 10 feet oft vasion force battling to

involved in any mliitary Inter-The regime in Cuba could make | the runway when it nosed down maintain a foothold invention in Cuba.

a similar contribution by per- and burst into flames at the Mrmitting the Cuban people freely base in this wertern U.S. stale.

1

Mr

declaration Americans would not

Mr

contral Cuba, Cuban With that statement,

Kennedy exiles reported today.

rejected Castro radio stations exultant- Khrushchev's charge that the broadcast a Khrushchev United States was supporting pledge to send Castro all the the Invasion by Cuban forces necessary ald needed to hurl the reeking to overthrow Dr Castro, invaders into the sea.

The Cuban Revolutionary Council In New York sald "Cuban freedom fighters" were attacked and large amounts their equipment and medical supplies destroyed.

In

The text

his

message,

Mr

Fallon, Nev., Apr. 18.

least seven men were killed and 12 injured today in the takeoff crash of a U.S. Navy R48 transport plane at the Fallon naval air auxiliary station.

Licut Cmdr John Jacobsen

to determine their own freedom Some survivors fled from by democratic. processes and the fiery wreckage. A crush freely to co-operate with their Latin American neighbours.

your Government

believes is

truck team rescued others.

Cmdr Jacobsen said the plane. "I believe, Mr Chalaman, that

recognise that was flying to Alameda, Cali- you should free people in all parts of the fornia US naval air stallon after world do not accept the claim an overnight stop en route from of, historical Inevitability for Grosse Ile Field near Detroit,

Michigan. The plane had drop Khrushchev also threatened to Communist revolution.

"All Car

What ped off members the Castro regime give

of a Navy It Wis necessary assistance" in resist

Its own business what it does squadron at Fallon.

continuing to Alameda with a ing the invasion.

the world is the Following the text of

crew of four and at least 73 from

business. The great passengers. President world's message

in revolution the history of However, Cmdr Jacobsen said. Kennedy to Mr Khrushchev:

man, past, present and future, "There was a mixup in the

revolution of those under

passenger manifest and we are crious is the

the searching

wreckage regards determined to be free.

more bodles."-AP. "John F. Kennedy"—AP.

M

"Mr Chairman: "You are

in misapprehension

venta in Cubo. "For months there has been

The planes were described as Migs. Other Soviet and Czech equipment has been pouring into Cuba since Castro began lining up with the Communist bloc,

Soviet Premier Khrushchev backing up Castro with an offer of help, charged the United States with

in- backing the vaders, He sent President Ken- evident and growing resistance

the

dictatorship. personal д nedy

Inessage to

than 100,000 refugees demanding the President halt More

have recently the invasion.

fed from Cuba Into

countries, neighbouring Their urgent hope is naturally to assist their fellow Cubans in their struggle for freedom.

CUT OFF

American correspondents in

Castro

Havana were cut from the out- Many of these refugees fought

alongside Dr Castro ogainst the Batista dictatorship among them are prominent leaders of his own original movement and government.

Intolerable

alde world by government communications blackout, zut Cuban- diplomats in Com- munist countries plctured Castro's forces as winning.

Major Faure Chomon, Cuban Ambassador in Moscow, claim- cd five attacking planes, one of them American, had been shot These are unmistakable signs, down

and several troopships that Cubans find intolerable the blown up.

denial of democratie liberties The Cuban Charge D'Affaires and the subversion of the 26th in Prague, Mr

of July movement by an alien- estimated the invaders at 2,000 be surprising that, as resistance cannot dominated regime. It men and said two battalions of

Raul Roa

Jr,

tanks, were battling the rebels. Cuban troops, supported by four within Cuba grows, refugees have been using whatever means are avaliable to return More than 36 hours after the

and support their countrymen Invasion

on Cuba's swampy in the continuing struggle for south coast in central Las Villas

freedom. Where people DIO Province, the rebel force had not denied the right of choice, re- reported the seizure of any

Course to such struggle is the important objectives.

only means of achieving their Little news came on any of liberties, the other Inndings reported by 1 have previously stated, Cuban exiles on the eastern and I

astrous" balance of payments position, the stagnation of pro-

and the duction unjust distribution national dividend."

He attacked the refier granted

linotion of the "most blatant type" and compared it with the recent increases in Health Ser- vice contributions.

Mr Wilson said that Britain' economic weakness had been shown at the recent Mocmillan- room man,

Kennedy meeting a Washingten. The There, the whole world could who five years ago said he was see the Prime Minister, the man

undermanned movement to Prime Minister Castro's mil- going to make Great Britais tary forces, which are estimated great, in the role of "s rather at 400,000 men

counting the

swing of the economic pen-

She was built by the William slopes, formed a human chain to Pickersgill yard, Sunderland, iu dulum during the year. hand the injured on stretchers 1937, may well be that with these to a waiting convoy of ambul powers he will not only dia- Į ances,

Ko, tho engine courage emergencies before The train

travelling sold that the Ching Fir arrived they arise but in the long from Fenchurch-street, London, in Hongkong on Monday, ran bring about a healthier to the Thames Estuary town of yesterday and steaned out of ship cleared port at 0.45 pm attitude to spending and a | Shoeburyness, Essex. gradual reduction of pro- It was the second major crash Lyemun Pass.

duction costa. This in turn

Was

There

military intervention in Cuba. In the event of any military

repeat now that the nd western ends of Cuba and United States intends no the Isle of Pines.

There was a growing fear in Miami that the rebels may have struck loo soon, exposing an

may lead to a much-needed train crashed into the back of among the crew. They were the seedy uncle at the receiving end i clviljan militia.

on the fine. In January, 1958,

ancther, killing 10

improvement in output and Reuter.

exports,

Mr Gaitskell, leader of the

Opposition, and the Liberal

Party dlangree with this

people.

were four Europeans

explain, the chief oficer, chic! engineer, and the secand engineer.

Mr Bent added that "as for as we are concerned, the ship is

thesis but it is one that STOP PRESS all there walling for expert

novertheless deserven to be

tried. Much will of course

depend

on Mr Selwyn

Lloyd's sense of timing and Havana under

the care with which he uses

hin now power and the only

Buenos Aires, Apr. 10.

hope In that the bombardment? payroll tax backfires in a series of bitter and pro- tracted labour disputes, ho will be courageous enough to approach the problem next year from a diferent tack.

A broadcast by the Caban news agency Prens Latina monitored here said tonight Havans was under Lom- bardment---UPI,

advice on what to do salvaging."

with

The Royal Observatory said the weather conditions in that area were generally not good,

The weather station on Wog

Island recorded easterly winds of 22 to 25 knots, a visi- billy of 2.5 nautical miles with low cloud at 500 feet last night,

There was intermittent slight rein, the sky was overcast and the tide was rising, the weather station spokesman aald.

of some well-chosen homilies from his wealthy forward-look- Ing nephew," Reuter.

Prisoner

escapes

intervention by outside forco we will immediately honou our obligations under the Inter- American system to protect this hemisphere against external refraining aggression. from military Intervention 11 Cuba, the people of the United not conceal their }States do

Whlic

GAMBLE A rebel spokesman in the admiration for Cuban patriots United States claimed the in- who wish to see a democratic vasion spearhead on the south system in an independent Cuba. coast had moved inland to the The United States Government, urea of Colon, a city in Malan-can toko no action to allfie the zas Province halfway across the spirit of liberty. narrow island of the main road 00 miles east of Havana.

The Invasion troopa, variously estimated from only a low kun-

Caroful note

"I have taken careful note of

At about 10.15 am today indred to 5,000 men, gambled that your statement that the events Old Bailey-street, a prisoner, the. Cuhan people would rally in Cuba night affect peace in sentenced to 12 month: Impri- | around them in a popular up- all parts of the world trusl sonment for possession of den-rlatog to topple Castro's Com- this does not mean that the HOTELS drugs, escaped from munist - backed government,į Soviet Government, wing the custody while being escorted They banked on large-scale de- situation in Cuba în preiext, from Victoria Prison to a Pri- fections frem Castro's militia. son's Department van for trang-

is planning to Inflame other The Revolutionary Counell fer to Sianley.

mean of His world, I would Ire mascried largescale defections

The police were called in and|ind taken place, but there was to think that your Governostni a hunt for the escaped prisonerno supporting evidence of this. is too geral a tense of respon- la now in progress.

afblilty to emberit upon on

--AP.

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