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Comment Large assembly sees Princess get honorary degree of the CLIMAX OF GOLDEN JUBILEE

day

Give Hongkong

a break

TONGKONG is big, news

H

ac,

at the moment. Princess Alexandra. is here, and her visit has occasioned a huge concentration of journal- ists and others connected with the distribution of news and events concern- ing the Princess's visit. All over the world, people will be opening newspapera and reading eye-witness counts where the Prin сеня went and what she said Sound radio will give n commentary on what is happening on the spot. TV films will be rushed across the world so that viewers will see for themselves just what is happening here. Film companies will be mak- ing picture records of the tour so that once again, Hongkong's wonderful scenery will form a back- ground to a royal occasion. This is all to the good, most flattering in fact, for geographically speaking, Hongkong is only a pin- point on the map, so that to become the focus of world attention is quite an event.

It is only to be expected that as the various stories and pictures leave the Colony for their respective news. papers and TV studios, hatare called human interest angles will accom- pany them. It is not the privilege of this or Any

IT

other paper to assume to dictate how any informa- tion service should present its, copy, but over the past decade, the China Mail 1s

Loud cheers for the Princess when she opened the new headquarters of the University

of Hongkong's Students' Union

painfully aware that news KENNEDY IN CLASH WITH TEXAS JOURNALIST

stories have been sent out

with so much slant that

they finish up definitely crooked.

is said that the camera

eannot lie, perhaps not, but by a cunning juxta- position of pictures, it is capable of expedient exag- gerations and cruel con- trasta. The reporter's pencil can conjure expres- sions, and find considerable

incidents. Examples of this could be

HK University celebrations? final

congregation

The visit of Princess Alexandra to the University of Hongkong, as her first public engagement in the Colony, was hailed this morning as the climax to the Golden Jubilee celebrations by the Governor as Chancellor and also by the Public Orator, Professor David Barker. An honorary degree of Doc-together with the generosity of" torate of Laws was conferred the early benefactors, that made upon the Princess at the Univer possible the event we now cele- sity's final

Jubilee Year Con-brate," the Vice-Chancellor said. gregation in the presence of a

the Dr Ride added that as crowded assembly filing every

University moves on further in- of the Loke Yew Hell.

to its first century it rederica.e with her

customary sunny itself to a growing burden of

responsibilities in Abiu,

smile, Princess Alexandra

"In all this work, it is inspired Я humble and steadfast

brought, a charming note of re- laxed poise in the ceremony of pomp, and pageantry started by by the entry of the Chancellor's allegiance to your Majesty," the procession,

Vice-Chancellor added.

The Princess iben read the

Many facets Queen's reply to the Vice-

Accompanied by the Vice-Chancellor's Loyal Address, as". Chancellor, Dr L T Ride, she follows

made her progress to the plat-Continued on page 4, col. 6)

University

and dignitaries, repre- senting many facets of Colony life, awalled her entrance.

Hei gown of crimson with a deep blue border and black val vet hat, in "Tudor: style covered most of her champagne silk maire gown and her golden- brown hair.

Hongkong is unique," the said in replying to an address by the Chancellor, Sir Robert Black. There nowhere quite Ake 12”

WARS EASIER TO TALK →→

ABOUT THAN TO FIGHT'

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the University, Sir Robert

Princess Auxandra.

Nehru condemns Russia

for nuclear tests

New York, Nov. 5.

is Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, of India said today it is "obvious the Soviet Union is largely responsible" for the present tension which has arisen from resumed Russian atmospheric tests.

Nehru in-

in

NOT SATISFIED

same way that he had done publicly since: The justification for the resumption being the alleged military build-up in the West.

This

"We, at home, have heard ä lot about you in recent years and we cannot but admire the

However, Mr

Mr Nehru was asked by one pert....Basically. this proce- energy with which you have

would tackled the problems that have dicated that he was against a of the interviewers on the panel durg of one following the other bring evil beset you since the liberation in similar resumption of atmos- show whether he agreed with (in testing)

the results" pheric tests by the United conclusions reached 1945...

Mt Nehru said during, his re- of 'States. "Basically, this pro- United States' on the basis An example cedure of one following the speeches in the United Nations cent conversations with Soviet representative Mr Premier Mr Nikita Kruscher in "Hongkong has set an ex- other (in testing). would bring by Indian

K. Krishna Menon that India Moscow, the Soviet leader ex-. Washington, Nov. 5.

evil results." umple to the world in the way

would consider the US. equally plained his reasons for re- in which people of all; races: Mr Nehru made his remarks

the copy in factually unrelated President Kennedy was reported today to have told a Texas newspaper

have worked hard here, and during a live television appear-guilty with Russia for resum-suming nuclear testing in

ing nuclear tests, are to fight. have worked in harmony to ance (NBC-Meet the Press) a owner that "wars are easier to talk about than they are

gether," she

she said.

few hours after his arrival in he put Ameri- The newspaper owner, Mr The Chancellor presented the the United States. quoted ad nauseam; suffi- He said, in a clash with the at stake before cient to say that far too newspaperman ut White cans' lives in jeopardy in a E.M. Dealey, of the Dallas Princese with an ivory powder many people are unaware House luncheon, that he intend-nuclear exchange, the report Morning News, sald soon after bowl on behalf of the Univer

the lunch October that hesity. of the energy and the ed to be sure US. security was said.

hed told the President he was the Loke Yew Hall of the courage that has enabled

"riding on Caroline's tricycle" University, the Vice-Chancellor, Hongkong to achieve a

instead of being a leader, on Dr L T Ride, read a Loyal horseback."

Address to Her Majesty, the community that for vigour

Queen. and growth is unequalled anywhere since the ter- mination of World War II. Overcrowded it is, but only because

many bave sought asylum and found a way of life removed from uncongenial situa-

BO

tions. Hundreds of thou- sands arrived with only the

rags they wore, and have.

a

ESCAPE FROM EAST

:

BERLIN-UNDER

MACHINEGUN FIRE

Berlin, Nov. 5.

somehow found a place in Five East German men and four children managed

the community.

TUCH has been done for

M

them, much more re- mains to be done for them, for the word "complacent"

la not to be found in Hong-

kong's vocabulary. Vivid

to escape, under East Berlin People's Police fire, into West Berlin this afternoon in an attempted mass flight of about 30 East Ger- mans across the heavily guarded border, West Berlin police said.

East German police ran after

contrasts there are, and it They said the group cut a is only to be expected in a gap in the barbed wire fence them but it could not be seen separating the French sector of from the West Berlinside community where wealth, West Berlin from East Berlin, whether any were dircted. energy and enterprise but were noticed by East Ber- build and, misery in the tin police who then opened fire. form of countless refugees flock in All that can be asked then is objective Police said that they did not reporting. The distortion mow what was the fate of the remainder, including the mothers

* GRENADES DE

which causes a one night of the children aged from nine ensation on TV, or occa- months to 14 years. slons the ephemeral glory At another point of the see-

threw their gue

of a by-line Is to be deplor tor border, East Berlin police

ed under any circum stances, TIENES Hongkong has its problems, over three million of them. By stating Just this ailua- tion and drawing attention

grenades

pt

West Berliners who were. Way-

East Berlin. ing to their relatives and friends

The children were aged nine months, qve, nine and 14 years. As the fratgroup crawled hula the wire Dear

it

DEAD SILENCE

FRIENDSHIP"

DELEGATES

Mr Nehru denied that Mr Krishna Menon's speeches were meant to imply equal censure.

explenation "didn't "It is obvious that the Soviet satisfy me at all," Mr Nehru Union broke the moratorium said.

and, therefore, they are largely for:

responsible

considered all nuclear tests

does

inst TRAIN-BUS CRASH

"I am However, he added: this new sure have been sure for some

time-that Mr Kruschey phase." On behalf of the University,

But he made it clear that he not want a war."UPI London, Nov. 5. Mr Kennedy's friend; Mr Dr Ride pledged the Chancellor

members to continued Radio Moscow in a broadcast to "evil things.

I am against Charles Bartlett, Washington and

Albania, heard here tonight, any nuclear tests." correspondent of the Chat- loyalty to the Queen on the

friendship

Another interviewer asked the tanooga Times, wrote today that occasion of the Golden Jubilee salda Chinese

Nov. 6. Kyoto, Year.

deleration has arrived in Prime Minister to put himself in "a dead silence hovered over Dr Ride sold that the Univer- Russia for a two-week visit. the position would you risk the

of the American Six persons were killed and the luncheon table when Mr

⚫ seven others seriously injured President Dealey ended his remarks.

of the United States by when an electrie train orashed The President

lato a loaded bus at a railroad and that the first Chancellor ton reached Moscow yesterday, not.

Mr Nehru replied with a eressing today.to sal was the then Governor, Lord headed by Mr Kang Yung-ho, a

member of the Presidium and smile; "There are other ways of The bus driver, who escaped

injury, was held for investiga you and me. Mr Dealey, Mr Frederick Lugard.

low

sity was founded. In

1911,

in a during the reign of King Georg The station said; the delegastathan

The difference between

Kennedy, continued, “Is that I

"It was his guidance, inspira-Secretariat of the All-China protecting that (security): But was elected President of this tion and clear-sighted vision, Trade Union Federation. UPI. I don't know, I am not un ex- tion by the police-AR. country and you were not. And I

tain

have

the responsibility

of the liver of 180 inillion. Americans, which

which you have not." "He said that, while he is

that the nation's vital. In- President he intends to be cer

terests and its security are at stake before he puts the lives of the people in- jeopardy nuclear exchange.ÊN

The President said he had that men tend to like the idea of war until they have tasted it, but that quickly Eot

Fled through observed

hail of bullets

Berlin Nov. 5,

A young West Berliner whisked his 18-year-old sweetheart from behind the Iron Curtain today, reclug- s fosilade his car throzigh s of bullets; Ared by: Catia». manist border waarde be- reaching freedom

been with

01

of a marine. before they

a diversionary raid h the Far East In 1049) and that they had been roaring to Ro But he

them Bagain after they had been and ir den behind ehemy lites for ve appetite for combat had come What

-to-Whist the Colony Jan "hrough i done and is doing on its Schoentiole gozdoviation-an-afel-des-Chip Western sotarealer be

submachinegun

own account, is Worth East Berlin, policeman Boots while. So with goodwill to volley all our press colleagues, parallel to the barbed wires

The larger part of the group,

and with malice towards itll on the East Berlin side of none, we say, give Hong the fence, turbed, and kan back Kong a fair break.

Into East Berlin,

West Dortin police said six bullets verder the gr but the Bi-your-old endan Injury, Neliziera all Bed SUPER SAGU TAJ

She talk about than they are

Just as tough as you are, Mr. Doslay the President anfd; 'and I didn't dit alssted Presis dant by arriving at most judg-

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