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TRAIN'S DASH TO FREEDOM CONFINED

of the

day

Hurtles past

THE ARMY & Reds at

HONGKONG

TONGKONG people Trave

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leg

watched wath

Vid Vigg anxiet the

debate that has been goog on in Britain recently defence polts the Far Eant. For ¡¡ territory geographically situated

this Colony is

the prospect Army kar 1h+

full

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throttle

Berlin, Dec. 6. East Germon locomotive engineer pirated a seven-car train and roared past Communist border guards into the treedom of West Berlin last night with 25 friends and relatives on board.

The tenan low fled past Albae slished at 5 nigdi urut as proe the binder und Bar Satisti Secur rean Spandau. when th ch- Kommen brought to Ferchung

brake step with his Jani nie erstie By Wester

outer garments and then minarum of baggage

creating suspicion

of losing the rison after

grad: al whattling down of the Navy and Air Force to token proportious 19 1HF! that viewed with a good deal of misgiving The new CBF and British spokesnien: have

The made it clear that a drasite

ais children wrong th change m pedsey as proposed

age from an eight day-old man to a youth but the mounting termi

fudowth. and external pressures

tention by US. Mining Poli Britain suggest that The

Harry Deterling Ha 28 year-

of two SoN. AT vehicles in the Colony cannot expect to

US Soctor at Berlin qurlare, ma alddaganeer,

Th-year-old tain its present Karya-3. fireman a 23 passengers

10 Cur- spat etaliation indefinitely

Bored that th

01 were remunast pedice harasal number

from

US MP'a fugers

COPALLASh and

Anny sedans in Evs Ber- 1)

of British

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steem surprised that long would not retton to Faq tier-

kring should put such faith

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the presence

f the Army, when clearly n

Kar- rison of its zize could not

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Angry man

Police said seven others, in-

hope to repel a fail-scale <luding the angry train conditar -

Concera tor, returned

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invasion. Our however is

for in- vasion than for the MAN tenance of internal security which has been the founda- tion of local prosperity in recent years The Army in

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An hour After the dramalte escape, an Bust German switch- locomotive Inilower The Para Way train over the fle- used stretch af bordia Track Berlin in West

1 coupled on the escape trait: and drag- addition to being a "tif- with its locomotive back

'fle 1 East Germany

seven persons returning stayed aboard East Germany operats the ratikroseds. hodh insafe and pute sole en Berlin The escape jook

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the

local security forces, is symbolic Britain's concern for colony and its determina tion that Hongkong and its three million people should survive.

HE danger of removing

Tthe garrison without any

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place over tracks unused by

essenger

13. August

When

- Com- imilist started walling no West

Berion

Detering hold a reporter he hail hear the In would the black murupletely next week

+ffective replacement 15 that it would give rise to So Ju started planning the ex fears that Britain is ab.

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with th Hartmut Laelay. hus dicating its interests here. Breman, This would certainly

family and friends

He sau al: 25 refugees were serious for Hongkong. The

n the palest The seven 14 mood of optimism and ron-

turpees

were passengers who fidence that has persisted happened to be aboard when the during the disturbing post- tram pulled out of its next-to- war period would be shaken -Jast arheduled station. and the economic quences require no stress- ing.

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be little if any confidence in Buch

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One of the Sovi Cars Wit held for an hour and the second

15 minutes,

The MPs acted as a 200-man US idaniy Convoy rolled across Communist territory an The lobahn Son Weat Ger- Many

The last elements of the Three-section

reached West Berb

without tale:fckence from East Germani Communists or the Soviets,

tonight

HONGKONG SHIVERS

AT 56°F

Hongkong shivered early

this morning when the temperature drop- ped to o chilly 56 degrees F, a new low for this winter. This was recorded ot 7 am.

The humidity ot the

time was 47 per cent. and this dropped even further later today.

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TO PROVIDE AID FOR TEXTILE INDUSTRY

HK to be Asian HQ for

Int'l Wool Secretariat?

Hongkong may become the headquarters of the International Wool Secretariat's activities in Asia, Sir William Gunn, the Chairman said this morning.

Sir Willam and Mr W

asperating in Hongkong "but Vous, the Managing Director we are riqualy ronsidering

he Secretarial, are here in opening a market here. We are pm the figure

extend- also considering turning Hong- pole the pcability stood at 26 per cent.

Secretariat's activites kong into a headquarters for nut WE Bu 10 Hongkong and of providing avivres in Asm in vew of the The lowest temperature leca! Lextile manufacturer ging importance of Asia as a

market for woel recorded this

with technical assistance year

The Secretarial was 45.2 degrees F on

ganisation comprising Australis January 17.

New Zealand and South Africa, with the express aim of promot- ing sales of wool in ail parts of the world.

Sir Williams said that of the

Secretaria! moment, the

is dis

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Newcastle, Dec. 5.

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huyen add Japan coming second.

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The recorded figure of Austra-

he wool tops export w Heng

g in 1980 represented a total of HK$35,000,000 The figure for 1961 is not yet nvariable, Sir William seld. However, he added that the gure was increasing annually.

Asked whether wool would be eventually replaced by synthetics, Sir William said: "Not in my time?"

TO AIRPORT

Johannesburg, Dec, 5. Ex-chief Albert Lutuli spent the night of Johannesburg

when airport

he was delayed for a second time today while on his way to Oslo to receive his Nobel Peace Prize for 1960.

Mr Lutul and his wife were confined in the overseas transit quarters at the airport, guarded by plain clothes policemen. Sir William and Mr Vines

A BOAC spokesman said to- arrived here last night on the

night

it was

the hoped that last leg of a round-the-world Comet airliner taking the tour of wool-importing countries. Lutulis to London would be able

for an extensive survey of wool markets.

Nur William revented Australia was responsible fur about 62 per cent of the unnus} expor: of wool, representing a Tora! value 01 approximately A 2,100 million. New Zealand caru next with 24 per cent, while the rest was covered by South Africa.

they will be meeting local tex- There are no standard prices tile producers, for the sale of Woo] among The press conference Look

£1 place at the Australian

missioner's office

In other Berlin developments. A British surgeon is preparing to choose six in. members of the Secretarial.

is sold on-trze auction with the

They will stay here for three

in the morning. The Comet was

was found to have

to take

off in the

a

or four days, during which time pressurisation fallure half an

curable cancer victims to test a new treat- United Kingdom as the largest Life Buliding. ment of the deadly disease-massive trans- fusions of blood taken from vietns of multi- ple sclerosis.

The East German Com- munists rejected. ።። "nobsen- sica!" u US protest against

the their strengthening

wali cviding the city

The Reds weekend project Marwel the Western Allied Crossing Join Elk Friedrich- strasse

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narrow lane. The Communists said they were not obliged to ask permission Melver, 48-year-old russultant. 4 Americans to strengthen neurosurgeon at Newcastle Gen- their orders. UP & AP.

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and Pacific. in both the Inran Occans. the report atld.-- Reuter.

New York, Dee 5. Newsweek magazine reported They informed their relatives today that the US Navy is One British magazine hax and trends of their plan. These build a powerful radio trans-

suggested that Hongkong "passangers" bought tickets for raise

local H

security the main de which normally force. The idea however ends at the Albrechtshof station, Berlin has no merit. There would male from the West

border.

Lady shoveled coal on the Bre and Detering apered the if it could be recruited. than wale as the tram rush- How can it be otherwise in ed through its normal terminal a territory with

110 pro- station, Albrechtshof. spects of becoming self-tipping. governing and where local loyalty counts for so little? TOR will it be enough for British people to remind

United Nations, Dec. 5. the Colony that Singapore Deterling said.

Adlai Mr

Stevenson 30- with its big Naval base and

**S* shouting. Army

Stoga," nounced today that he will not is garrison

run for the U.S. Senate

next! 1,500 miles south, that Pasengers reported.

He felt he could best Eleven of the refugets were year. troops could be rushed up related to Deterling. including serve the country by remaining

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They both traped into the coal tender for protection from expected guntire when the tram ushed past border guards, one-

Fourth of t mile farther on.

But there was ne shooting.

meanwhile

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FULL ATTENTION

emer his wife and mother. They wore Chairman of the U.8. delegation gency. If the reduction of, extra clothing underneath their to the United Nations-UPI.

the garrison proves un-

avoidable, there may be something to be said for: rotating some of the British and Commonwealth forces now stationed in Malaya and Singapore for short tours of duty in the Colony so that there would always be a definite number of man to mBIL the garrison here. But it should be made clear to Britain that confidence would be dangerously shaken if the Army were to pull out without an effec¦ tive replacement. Problems at home and in Europe where the British Army is under strength, are well understood in Hongkong. But responsibilities here cannot simply be discard- ed because they Bud- denly become too onerous.

"Yet this is the attitude that

some Labour MPs, retired

field marshals and Fleet

Street

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New Delhil. Dec. 5. India has “found it necessary" troops up to "arcas to move threatened

by aggressive manoeuvres" of the Portuguese near the border of the enclave of Goa, as a precautionary mea-

sure.

A spokesman of the External Affairs Ministry, told reporters Portugal had

concentrated troops "to overawe and latimi-, date residents of Goa and their compatriots across the border."

--Reuter.

'Very polite'

New Delhi, Dec. 5.

Indian Premier Mr Jawahar!

al Nehru announced today that Communist China has suggested the drafting of a new Chinese- Indian treaty on Tibet.

He said the message, received yesterday. Was "very polite" Mr Nehru said he would reply in due course, but the matter had to be considered.-AFP.

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Multiple sclerosis is a brain disease which causes paralysis. Dr Alfred Piper, genera! practitioner in the coal mining village of Lemnington, Northum- berland, reported recently that in 11

11 years of

be! of study never come across y vBSI someone with multiple sclerosis contracting cancer

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"A number of specialists the north of Britain have also been unable to namne a cancer victim among patients suffering from sclerosis, Dr Piper said.

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Dr Piper's report so impressed Dr Melver that he decided to test it on human cancer victims. "It appears that Dr Piper has mad. painstaking research within his own resources before taking the matter as far as this."! the surgeon said.

"This experiment will be the i first of its kind in the world. We hope to start almost immediate- ly and, at present, we are sorting out patients of both types in relation to blood 'groupe."

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The six cancer sufferers De drawn from local hospitals.-- AP.

Amersham, Dec. 5.

Former Labour Prime Minis- ter Earl Attlee was admitted to Amersham General Hospital to- day. He was understood to be a stomach all- suffering from ment. He is 78.-UPI.

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