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Lisbon, June 3,- Portugal plans to send troop reinforcements to its island colony of Macao near Hongkong, it was disclosed today.

The announcement camo after a meeting of high-ranking officials on colonies; defence and foreign affairs-United. Press.

Next Week's Big Talks

In Hongkong

Singapore, June 3.-The Defence Minister, Mr A: V. Alexander, will have on-the- spot talks with Britain's

three Service chiefs in the Far East when he reaches Hongkong next week, usual- ly reliable sources here said today.

Mr Alexander, who left Lon- don by air yesterday, is due in Singapore on Sunday and is expected to fly to Hongkong.on Monday, accompanied by the Air Commander-la-Chief, Far East, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd.

The

Commandera Chick Far East Land Forces, General Sir Nell Ritchie, who is due in Singapora hls weekend, also plans to fly-on to Hongkong for Mr Alexander's visit.

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Navy

Fire Under In Commons

Selwyn Clarke's Administration Called "Disgrace"

London, June 3.-Allegations of "shock- ing political jobbery" in the British East African colony of Seychelles were made, by Mr Leonard Gammans, a Conservative who specialises in Colonial affairs, in the House of Commons today.

The Seychelles, a group of 92 islands, is in the Indian Ocean off the East African.coast, The population of about 26,000 is three per- cent white and 97 percent descended from slaves.

Mr Gammans said that the "maladminis- tration was a disgrace to the British Colonial Empire."

The story, he said, began in 1947 when Dr in Selwyn Clarke, a former prisoner of war Hongkong, `was appointed Governor. Dr Clarke was an excellent physician but "lacked the fair- mindedness required of a Governor".

One of his first acts was to Attorney as Acting appoint Generi a Mr Collett, who was only called to the Bar. in 1943 and before that was Secretary of the. League of Coloured People in London.

Mr Collett had "never dfs- gulsed his anti-White' preju- dice.

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Mc David Rees-Williams,

for Under Secretary Colonies, said that the Colony, had been neglected by the pre- war Government. There was great social problem-about o third of the children were Hegitimate.

F

Dr Selwyn Clarke, unrivalled as a doctor in Hongkong who had a magnificent record under Japanese occupation, was chosen,

UNRIVALLED Mr Gammang said that the

had A Seychelles' Chief Justice

Covernor with a soclai

A Royal

spokesman described Mr Collett, who had conscience was needed to look said today that Admiral Sir E. been "got rid of" last Septem-after the health and education J. Patrick Brind, Commander-ber, as "full of venom and so of the people. Cathedral

In-Chief, Far East Station, who unscrupulous that he is clearly returned to Hongkong the kind of person who could. Barcelona, June 3-A bomb from the Yangtse aren, will re- without compunction, resort exploded at

Barcelona main there to confer with Mr Blackmail,"

Colonial the Yet, although, the Cathedral today during a re- Alexander. ligious service

Secretary had said that attended by General Franco's--witc -and-Air-Marshal-Sir Hugh Lloyd, Colleft should not again.

to daughter. The general himself who returned

Singapore employed in the Colonial Ser- from London last Sunday, flew vice, the Governor had appoint

anded blin 05- Some damage was caused but to Hongkong on Monday

an Unofficial member were reported. refurned here on Wednesday. nominated no casualties

the Reuter.

-Reuter.

Legislative Council.

was not present,,

the

EDITORIAL

Tawdry Tub-Thumping

I is a pity that Mr Zilliacus, with his

attainments should give tongue to such childish and outmoded sentiments as those he

before expressed

the Progressive Businessmen's

this Forum In London His audience, which presumably week. comprised businessmen, must have been interested and vastly amused to learn from him that their brethren in the Far East have been able to do good business with Chinn only because it has all been carried out under the protection and. inspiration of Western Imperialism. Mr Zilliacus's tawdry tub-thumping speech could normally be dismissed as unimpor- tant, but it so happens that because ho timed it to coincide with the melting- pot situation which exists * in - China today, it has received, world-wide publicity; and it happens to contain mischievous propaganda properties that could mislead people in Ignorance of the presant position of the 60-called Imperialistic Powers in the Far East. Western Imperialism, as Mr. Zμlliñcus. likes to call it, has been na dend ns. n dɗorhall for years' In China. The last vestiges of its legal status were swept away with the voluntary abolition of Extraterritoriality, during the Pacific. War, and it now, Mr Zillacus wishes to argue that successful trading with China on the part of the Western Pawers is the one surviving Illustration of Imperialism, he is either wilfully talking with his tongue in his cheek, or is abysmally Ignorant. Mr Zilliacus Implies that the Western Powers? through their private traders, have been. exploiting poor China, thun preserving the old "idea of Imperialism and white. superiority." To those who have been In the Far East any length of time this la a laughable proposition. If there has

undoubted intellectual

of

chance

Mr

been any exploitation it has been of the foreigners carried out under the aegis of corrupt provincial and national adminis trations: certainly, during the past four and a half years, the foreign traders in China have been forced to try and

the operate. In

face of deliberate obstruction nnd locally-created dis- advantages, and Imperialism, even if it had attempted to exist, had no whatever of impressing itself. Mr Zilliacas confuses Imperialism with a fairly hopeless struggle on the part of foreigners to maintain ordinary trading relations with China-n struggle which would have manifested itself even to Mr Zillacus had he found the time and opportunity to have paid a visit to the Orient since the war. This extremo left. winger also took it upon himself to deliver some observations about the defensibility of Hongkong in the event;" of hostilities and to advance a line of polley for our future relations · with China. Mr Zilliacus, is. entitled to bo an, arm-chair military export if he HO desires, and in any event nothing he said last Thursday was original wither in idon or content. Moreover, he has no reason to believe.otherwise than that ́ the British Government is giving the closest attention to stabilising future relations between Hongkong and Communist- governed China. Hla realistic policy is not a unique or exclusivo concept:⠀⠀ In fact, we humbly recall that this paper auggested some of the points - now ∙advanced by Mr Zilliacus, several weeks ago. It is not a remarkable line of polley: Just one of plain commonsense, and one, which we feel confident, will be adopted by the Imperial Government" so long as the Communists; in China” aro prepared to offer quid pro quo.

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Mr--Recs-Williams---asserted.

that Dr Clarke had aroused, the fre of the whites by being more interested in preventive services for the people ns a whole rather than in hospital services for

them.

Dr Clark had done a great dent to benefit the islands.

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"And They're All Mine"

Virtually bursting with pride, Charles Collins walks alongside four nurses carrying his quads from Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx, New York, to a car for trip to their home. Two nurses will help Mrs Collins with baby The tending chores. quads are 29 days old.

AP Picture.

Isaacs' Warning To Unionists

Four Make Big "Some Progress"

Secret Session On Berlin

Paris, June 3.-Sitting in secret for the first time, the "Big Four" Foreign Ministers today made "some progress" in two and a half hours' discussion of Soviet and United States plans to restore four-Power government in Berlin.

Mr Robert Murphy, political adviser to the American Military Government in Ger- many, told Reuter after the "no publicity" session that "everything was very friendly and there was some progress."

London, June 3.-While the Minister of Labour, Mr George Isaacs, warned Bri-

The "Big Four" issued this tish trade unionists today brief communique after the con- that they could destroy the ference: "Today, under the Labour Government, meet- chairmanship of the Foreign ings were taking place to Minister of the USSH, Mr Vyshinsky, a closed session of settle Britain's industrial

the Council of Foreign Minis- disputes..

ters took place.

must

No Sterling

GOLD STRIKE

Discovery In S. Africa

Johannesburg, June 8.- A gold strike more than twica, as rich as

any pre- vious find in South Africa was announced today from Erfdeel Farm, . near Oden- daalsrust, the Orange Freo- State. The yield was off. cially confirmed at the "fabulously rich" figure of 529 ounces of fine gold to a ton of oro. in a reef just over five inches wide.

This is more than eight times as rich as the former record for this area. Since today's reef is narrower, the overall value of The new strike is about two and a half times as much as the previous record,

The previous highest' strike, at. Geduld No. 1. also in the Odendaalsrust area of The Orange Free State, ylelded less than 63 ounces per tön".

The value of ore samples from the leader reef at the now strike "equal, 17 ounces per ton. These figures give the oro a theoretical value of £4,350 per ton in the basal reef and 2140 In the leader.

IMPORTANT POSITION

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An-

The sensational strike-at-Erf- deel Farm is important for lis even More position, perhaps than for is richness.

The Erfice! find was nounced today in a notice post- ed in the Johannesburg, Stock

The Exchange.

Free State Gold Areas Limited, who hold the option and prospecting con- tracts at Erfdeel and elsewhere confirmed in the Free State,

that the strike was "fabulously rich,"

Shores-in-the-company's- £575,080 issue capital-in Avo fected by the find were booming The ministers discussed the New York, June 3. The on the Johannesburg, market Soviet and United States pro-Pound Sterling will not be today. The company's shares posats relative to Berlin,

devalued this year, Mr Robin rose from 15/36 to 20' shillinge Brook, Director of the Bank of before lunch. England, declared here. Neither would devaluation occur under circumstances ns. they

Devaluation shilling shares and others nt-

he

added..

of

Mr Isaacs fold a northern trade union conference, "The Government must justify itself in the eyes of the people and "The next meeting will take

stand

or fall by its place on June 41 achlevements."

The Foreign Ministers' de

Stockbrokers offices and that Mr Collett had not been is One meeting was being hold cision to hold another secret

exleted market corridors were jammed collector of taxes but only a to persuade

with crowde North-Eastern session tomorrow was regarded today.

speculators, gesticulating ex- adviser. He had been engine drivers and firemen to as a further step forward to help

There was much pressure for talking and over-zealous and indiscreet in work next Sunday and not hold them discover what concessions

cliedly. some matters, but got nothing another 24-hour strike against each side would make to estab-devaluation but devaluation was

Brokers, ad- not the best solution of Britain's

explaining that for himself from being Acting turns of duty forcing them to lish a united, damocraile

problem, he said.

there was now "just not tho Attorney-General.

spend a night in railway hostels ministration for Berlin.

Devaluation would add to money to plunge," said that.⋅ MAJOR PROBLEM away from home.

Britain's trade deficit as fast as two years ago such inforing- The major problem to be scl- it increased exports, he ex-tion would have "made ther tied is to what extent the

plained,

market go mad." At another meeting leaders unanimity principle (the velo)-

Instead of by devaluation of of the fallwaymen's Unton met would apply to a now

Sterling, England hoped to in The Free State Areas shares railway executives to discuss mandatura. the men's demand

The Soviet Foreign Minister create her exports and improve almost doubled a few weeks for a 10

balance by lower [ngo-from eight shillings to 14 uhlilings wage increase.

has so far insisted on retention her trade Awaiting the resulta of this of veto powers to prevent the price for her goods made shillings when preliminary in- meeting 3,000 men handling possibility of the Russian being possible by greater productivity dications from the Free Slate possibility of, a and lower raw material costs, showed the consistently pulvoted by who generally goods traffle continued their three Western Powers.

the Mr Brook sald-Reuter.

rich borcholo result.-Reuter,

Mr Rees-Williams thought the Chief Justice's criticism of Mr Collett was 'extreme and flam- buoyant and not justified,"

LONDON DISCUSSIONS

In recent local Government elections all six Goats were captured by members of Me Collett's Party

the Governor supported the Progressive Party

"Is it to be said here that u man should not be allowed to sit on the Legislative Councilt I have never heard such un- democratic nonsense,' Rees-Williams said.

GO-SLOW TACTICS

Kom-

ta and slow tactics and refused

In previous meetings of the work normally. It was feared that men at other depots would Council the Western Ministers movement it have maintained their stand on join the go-slow

voling principle there was no immediate result the majority to the negotiations.

secure smooth-running The dockers' strike spread to government, Eire with the result that a cargo But Mr. Bevin for Britain

Mr

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unnainioUS

of egg and six cars belonging has suggested that the Minle- Mr_Rees-Williams added that to Indian . doctors crossed and ters should list items which the ädministration of the re-crossed the Irish Set, Dec- might require Seychelles would be discussedkers at Dublin refused to un vote and those which could be between the Secretary of State load a ship from Liverpool, settled by majority voling.. and the Governor, Dr Selwyn where 50 ships are tied up by Clarke, who is coming to Britain the strike.-Reuter. for consultation. So far as he knew, the Governor would be returning

tho colony Reuter.

to

14 PRISONERS ESCAPE

Moundsville, West Virginia, June 3.Fouricen prisoners escaped today.

from the West Virginia Blato Penlicatlary hera. First reports sald

the group, all from one cell black, included seven men serving life and

sentences...

A GOOD SIGN

Previous experience of secres

· sessions of the Foreign Minis- ters, suggests that the close

BOGUS POLICE accrecy preserved today: should

CAPTURED ·

be interpreted as a good sign,

In earlier meetings observers have detected a tendency 10, wards leakages only when secrof Bangkok, June 3-Four bogus sessions were uppoaching dead- polleemen falled to extort 50,000 lock or on the verge of final baht. (US$2,600) from a victim agreement... They were · caught by genuine |

by Judged this standard to police officers,

blackout can be taken as The quartet

quartet told Nai Sombat on. Indication that real negotia

the.

pant

day's

PTO on

Tan Phanit, in his home that tions have started but have not they suspected him of being in approached a decisive point. yolved in the February "plot! it is omcially stated that to- against the Phibun government morrow's meeting will continua

tho' They said they would keep it

on the

Berlin quiet if he came across with Prison wardena, local

Bahi Bhbour,

It is belloved

that only the State-police

A throw out rond

meanwhile, had problems of administration and blocks but no prisoners had called the police, who nabbed control were touched upon-to-

two been recaptured

hours three of the four exorllonists. day and that the questions of after the masa break,

Follen caught the fourth when currency, traffic and trade,” áll The Assistant Warden, Mr he tried to warn the intended of which are under negotiation Roy Watkins, said that the men victim against giving "avidence today in Berlin by exports of escaped by drilling through the to the authorities—Associated | the Four Powers, still remain for {{{cally; bars.—Routeri

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