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Comment Tour of Tsun Wan community centre and housing estate of the PRINCESS MEETS THE PEOPLE

day

Moving_scenes

BOILING POINT in

IN BERLIN

THE Berlin situatium

Talmost builed over

The

other dav when Soviet Lanka confronted United States arMONT

the

city's east-west dividing line. Indeed, if the situa- tion was not a dangerous, it would be Iudicrous. For here we have ; ; ' major. world powers quarrelling and provoking each other like a couple of gutter- snipes disputing the cupation of a backyard. Nevertheless, the incident was serious enough for the members of the North At- lantic Treaty Organisation

their to call upon partner and ask just what the was happening, and if

show U.S.

of forre

any

major

-

rate,

welfare room for blind

The smiling Princess Alexandro

became

serious twice this morning during her visit to the Tsun Wan community centre and the So Uk housing estate.

The first time was when she entered a room de- voted to welfare for the blind in the Tsun Wan community centre.

She also toured the So Uk A picture of deep concern and

North Government Pumary compassion. Princess Alexandra. who is president of the Royal School in the estate.

for the The Princess was wearing a Commonwealth Society

silk pink attentively to. sulmon

dress and listened Band.

hot and

and coat, with matching mave histories of elderly

shoes, Young blind people before her

She was also wearing the jade They were busily engaged in

brooch presented to her at the learning braille, weaving and

dinner last night by the Chinese sitting at tables in small groupN,

community of Hongkong. GLISTENED

She travelled by Jaunch 10 Tsun Wan in brilliant sunshine. Fifty minutes after leaving Queen's Pier, the Princess step- pad ashore at Tsun Wan where she was welcuned by Mr D. R. Halmes, District Commissioner. New Territories.

Mr

nf She grasped the hands

old women to veral sightless give them a royal greeting.

The second time when teurs glistened, was in the courtyard Governinent Iwo between

the So Uk housing schools in estate.

There she received one of the

most lusty happiest and

wei-

dicated a change of policy in dealing with Eust Berlin. At Washington did cali a halt to the strong arm tacties, and at the mament, the Berlin border has resumed status quo, and incidents are mostly domestic, with the usual run of escapees from the Eastern Zone. Looking back at the incident comes of her tour in Hongkong.

situation: itself, and

More than

children which provoked it, it is packed like sardines lifted their difficult not to find that the happy U.S. Military went out with Prine ss.

Many of them were waving a chip on their shoulders.

Union Jacks. Some only had For although the rights of entry to East Berlin are clearly defined, it

The Prineese soun recovered both unnecessary and pro- her warmest smiles and went vocative to assume at this down into the courtyard to mix

that stage

American with the children and speak to armour should cross into their teachers.

the

seems

East Berlin as a necessary protection for its military personnel.

aware

4,000

faces to

cheer

the

HOLLYWOOD FIRE WAS WORST SINCE

SAN FRANCISCO BLAZE

Los Angeles, Nov. 7.

Officials today estimated that the disastrous Hollywood fire, which began yesterday in Beverly Hills-residential district of film stars and millionaires-and. was still raging today, had caused the greatest damage in a single California area since the great San Francisco disaster of 1906, when an earthquake shattered the famous coastal city.

More than 2,000 residents of He was found on the roof of the expansive hills and canyons the house with garden-hose in of the filmland' residential area: hand, but firemen advised him

be to leave the area. i neur Los Angeles had to

Later, however,

to

Voroshilov argues

his way into Kremlin party

Moscow, Nov. 7. Marshal Klementi Voroshilov, former Soviet Pre- sident, finally got to see his former colleagues at a Kremlin reception tonight after being turned away from the Lenin Tomb at the Revolution Day parade this morning.

way

had never seen a disaster any-

The old white-haired Marsha), where in the world to equal the

two orders of Lenin shining on Hollywood holocaust.

blue suit, Among the devastated homes his double-breasted

his the former-ranging In Values

from argued

past four US$375,000 security men barring entrance to US$100,000 were those of actress Zsa Zsa top tables at the reception in

the Congress Hall. Surt Lancaster, Gabor, actor film director George Power, and the vice-president of the io CBS radio and television net he work. Howard Melgham.-AFP

evacuated.

Estimates this morning show- Vice-President was able to re- his manuscript. ed that some 200 luxury homes; turn and sove end villas bad been destroyed in He and Mrs Nixon had to spend

of path

the blazing last night in a nearby hotel, but the

their home was saved. The holocaust.

final darnage

Mr Nixon was reported estimate could

surpass US$15

have stated last night ibat million.

Amazing

An embarrassed aide de camp, apparently major young appointed to keep an eye on the Party sins at the recent Farly man who confessed to anti- Congress pursued him but falled to catch up to him before he got to Mr Anastas Mikoyan,

Marshal Voroshilov grabbed a glass of wine from a passing and clinked glasses with waiter Mr Mikoyan and the Chinese Ambassador.

Fire fighters, who numbered HOXHA LASHES SOVIET LEADER Brst Deputy Prime Minister.

1,300, salt it was amazing that nu one was killed or seriously injured in the inferno.

Another 2,000 fremen were standing by, ready to step

Mr K-the new

in the

if the blazing woodlands could

Hoimes presented District Officer, Mr S. A. Webb-

Johnson and the Chairman of not be brought under control.

the Tsun Wan Rura! mittee, Mr Yip Tak-fan.

INSPECTED

Com-Twenty-four aircraft of the U.S.

Air Force were also

At the Community Centre the Princess me: Mr D. W. B. Baron, Director of Social Welfare, the

the sticks left but they wavedPrincipal Youth. Welfare them nevertheless.

UNVEILING

Chayman

standing by loaded with anti-incendiary chemicals.

The gravity of the situation was stressed by California Goy- ernor Edmund Brown, who de- lared the district astér area"

Almost all the better-known

On roof

Machiavelli

in

London, Nov. 7.

Officer, Miss Dorothy Lee, and the Warden of the Centre, Mr Henry Cheng

Hollywood Alm stars and diree- The Albanian Communist Party chief, Mr Enver After inspecting the Centre, tors were affected by the in-

Hoxha, today accused Mr Kruschey of the Princess Jeft for So Uk ferno, and even

former US.!

"Machiavellian" tactics and of slandering the where she was received by Vice-President Richard Nixon

was made temporarily homeless Albanian Communist leadership, the Albanian when the flames surrounded his

news agency Ata reported. rented luxury villa.

Speaking

Tirana, the Albanian capital,

the an- October Mr Nixon, who left Washing- niversary of the 1917

to settle in his native Revolution, he said Mr Krus-

his failure in chey himself California after

was "guilty" of last year's Presidential election the deterioration in Soviet- campaign, was working on his Albanian relations. latest book when hearst "Our Party has not been, and noticed the flames approaching is not, in agreement with the -only 1ew hundred yards criticism of Stalin such us way made at the 22nd Congress and after," Mr Hoxha said.

(It was at this Congress insi mouth that Mr Kruschev launched his attack

1he Albanian leadership, which was taken up by bther speakers).

the Housing Authority, Mr K. S. Kinghorn The intensive tour of inspec= The Princess planted a com-

memorative tree Du undertaken by the Princess

outside the Not only America, but her this muming included the un- Estate office before leaving for

the allies also, are

Queen Elizabeth Nurses' of veiling ceremony of the Princess

ton Community Centre Training School where she met the maddening frustration Alexandra

and of Medical the Director with the building commemorative plaque of dealing

She visited twenty sxial and

Health Services, Dr D. J. M. Russians. Their attitude.

welfare organisations housed in MacKenzie and his wife, their cynicism, their

that building and visited the This afternoon Princess tonation of megaton housing estate at So UX where

Alexandra will attend a Youth bombs, are definitely the met a family in one of the Festival at the Hongkong Foul- lunatic qualities. Bu be new mulli-storey Mtructures. ball Club Stadium cause they adopt Buch queer tactics is no

de.

excuse

for the West to reciprocate. Wiser minds than those to be found with the military leaders must assume total control of this dangerous artificial boundary line be- tween East and West Berlin. Only wise atates.

from his home.

'HK IS A RED-HOT TOURIST ATTRACTION'

Washington, Nov. 7.

A U:5. Commerce Department survey on tourism in the Pacific and the Far East today described Hongkong as "o red-hot tourist attraction," and said that it had a phenomenal rise in the tourist world.

in:

in the and San

manship will negotiate A typical visifor in the Travel Association, the perilous course the Colony,

the report added, presents travel groups opposing ideologies have spends more money there daily Pacific and the Far East, assumed. It is heartening, than at any other place in therefore, to find that Fur East. President Kennedy is not!

rattled by

The report estimated

the had its

that

headquarters

described was

Japan "the key point around which Lourism can be built in the

because Far East

of the wide range of tourist attrac- tion.

Violation

Mr Hoxha said the Soviet leadership called any party that Japan, did not share their opinions on which re- The report said that

do certain principles raised at the Hongkong and Hawaii now

"anti-Marxist, three times

tourist 20th Congress as much business as 15 other countries of dogmatic, sectarian and as be- areas covered in the survey. ing against the proletarian re- Francisco.

volution." The project was financed by BUS$140,000 grant from the

He added that according to Hongkong tourismu could be President's special

Leninist principles

governing fund for developed to grow twice

the relations between Markist 28 Asian economic development, fast as the total Hongkong with participating countries pay-

parties, no matter how important economy Expenditures by

Congress, its decisions tourists in 1968 could climb to of 296 pages, was prepared by ing the local costs. The report,

binding only on its own mem- 188270 million, not counting Checchi and Company, B "The enormous vitality, colour bers

The attempt to take the de the money to be spent by U.S. Washington research firm. and energy of Tokyo are truly servicemen and overseas The survey estimated that impressive an urbanised city cisions of one party önding on p Chinese.

tourist expenditures in the that offers endless things to see all the parties constitutes

could The survey of tourism in the region

be quadrupled and do. Kyoto is equally im- brutal violation of legality and his critics at home. area was started in 1958 on the within a decade, it property pressive, but in a different way," the independence of Marxist

(Continued on page 3, cok Especially such a eritic as initiative of the Pacific Area developed.

allowing himself to become the crude and clumsy artifices adopted by the Communists.

In

SU

doing, he has the

backing of every sane

person in the West. And it

is particularly encouraging

to find him standing up to

Mr E. M. Denley who owns the Dallas Morning News. For Mr Dealey told President Kennedy that he was not leading the nation it should be led, meaning, presumably, that Mr Kennedy should

give tit-for-tat to Russian

pro- vocation. To which, Kennedy replied that

Mr

having the responsibility

180,000,000 American

is

of

Ilves in his charge, he not going to squander them in a nuclear exchange. Such sentiments, are endorsed by all reasonable people, and to start something that cannot be stopped, all because some 'East Berliner thumbs his nose to someone In West Berlin, would be the height of human folly. By all means, let the West stand firm on its principles.. Do not on any secount give an heb But this above all: Do not let us be led into mi Annihilating war, just, be chuse some U.S. soldier goes looking for a quarròl.

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London, Nov. 7. Church of England's Aus- sembly took setlon today that could abolish the Prime” Min- ister's virtual authority to appoint bishops,

One speaker pointed out that

Three other members of the as things now stand-a new Party Presidium-Gennadi Prime Minister could be "a Jew, Voronov,

Otto Kuusinen and a Turk or an Infidel," and still former President, Nikolai have the power to narne the

toasia Church's bishops. Shvernik-also accepted the Marshal.

from

Mr Frol Kozlov came up to exchange a few words with

guests.

Britain has had one Jewish Prime Minister, Benjamin Dis-

Elm, but Mr Kruschey was reell, but so far as is known," neither a Turk nor an Infidel. talking to other way away

After considerable debate, the Assembly adopted a resolt- tion asking the Archbishop of Canterbury to work to appoint

The Marshal had a few find words in the arena reserved for top guests and then the young, major took him Armly by the elbow to steer birn out

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