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VOL. IV NO. 285

Commons Question On HK Wives

London, Dec, 2.-The case of the "Hongkong Wives" will be revived in the House of Com- mons next Tuesday when Mr R. T. Paget, the Labour MP is to ask the Secretary of State for War as he will make a statement with regard 10 wives and families joining their husbands in Hongkong.

On the same day, Mr Frank Fairhurst, Labour, will ask the Secretary of State for War how long he proposes to re- tain National Service In the Hongkong area after the period of their normal service under the Military Ser- vice

Own Act-Our Correspondent.

men

Ward To

Leave By Wednesday

Department

Washington. Des. 2.--The Blate

announced that Chinese Communist officials Have ordered Consul-General Angus Ward and his entire staff to leave Mukden by 8 am, next Wednesday morning. Hmo.

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Recognition In Canton-Mankow Rallway Austin Rd

Two Or Three Weeks Predicted

No Illusions About The Diplomatic Consequences

London, Dec. 2.—Informed sources predicted today that British recognition of the Chinese Communist regime would be announced "in two or three weeks." They said the decision on recognition was not in any way dependent on the adjournment of the United Nations General Assembly, but that timing was generally agreed upon in consultation with other Common- wealth members.

"It was agreed that further delay in recognition would be a point- less gesture," the informed sources said. At the same time, they said that recognition must not be taken as signifying the British Government's I approval of the new regime in China,

They said, "No Commonwealth member has any illusions about the diplo- matic consequences of recognition. When we have recognised the Peking Govern- ment in two or three weeks' time we do not expect any immediate changes of the Chinese Communist policy towards the British Interests in China."

cognition of the new regime in China," Sir Terence said.

Services To Resume

San Francisco, Dec. 2.-The Chinese Com- munist radio announced tonight that rall traffic between Canton and Hankow will be restored by the end of this year.

This will link the South China port with the centre Central China Industrial and economic (known as the "Chinese Chicago"), from where the Hankow-Peking Railway runs north.

The 1,200-mile Canton-Peking road is China's main north-south rail traffic artery. It suffered considerable damage as a result of the civil war.

With the resumption of Canton-Peking through- traffic, it becomes theoretically possible to travel by train from Hongkong to Calais.-United Press.

Girl's Mysterious Disappearance From Liner

(

Blaze

BUILDING BADLY DAMAGE

No Casualties

The ground, first and second floors of 79 and 81 Austin Rond were prac- tically destroyed by fire early this morning. but fortunately all the inmates', managed to escape in time and there were no casual- ties.

The blaze was started when an old man, who won holding a lighted candle in the ground floor of one of the premises, dropped the candle.

It caught alight some wrap- ping paper and within a few minutes the whole shop, which was storing celluloid Christmas toye as well as packing cases, was ablaze.

Although the flames aprend

on the upper floor verandahs of bamboo lattice work, the in- mates of both buildings were

the majority of them lóställ

were

Officer

Five Are appliances, six hosts and a turntable Indder despatched to the scene of the

under are. They were

the direction of Divisional Officer V

Station Seymour and Shipway.

Water restrictions made it impossible to obtain full pres sure of water for half an hour, brigade performed but the smartly and the fire war unde control within 30 minutes and was finally extinguished about 4 0.373,

LONDON INQUIRY STARTED rapidly, aided by the presence

London, Dec. 2. — The British government tried today to unravel the mystery of a pretty able to escape to safety, although pyjama-clad girl who vanished from a luxury liner their personal belongingā. at sea.

The girl, Miss Gwenda McCallum, an Australian, disappeared from the Orlent liner Orcades on the night of October 80 while it steamed through the Tasman Sen from Sydney to Melbourne on the way to London. The liner docked in London on Wednesday. The Informed sources said the be seen, but it would appear to be a greater likelihood If we British government opposed any

Tho Ministry

Britain on the of Transport returning to auggestion that Communist withheld recognition and com

"I think the del:gate held an offelal inquiry to confirm Orcades for home leave.

pointed domination of China meant per- pletely abandoned the Chinese Haiti yesterday

out the shipping company's report Mr Cameron cald he met Miss manent loss of free contact with people to Comununist dictator-

that recognition is not a mai that she met "death by disap- McCallum

at a Sydney hotel the ter with which the Chinese people. They said, ship."-United Press.

General

Its findings will be fust before the boat sailed. pearance." "We must not let the

of UNEXPECTED MOVE poople

He said she came on board Assbly should concern itself; China

and feel

Lake Success, Dec, 2-Na- they have been

the ship without a ticket that the responsibility Iles with communicated to the Malbourne abandoned by their old friends. tionalist China on Friday un- the individual states, the Bri- police.

accidentally Principal witness was Alleter remained "either State Department Press OM-

asked the United cer Michael McDermott nid We must keep in touch with expectedly

Nations to delay until Monday tish delegate continued.

how:ver say a word about the Cameron, n 30-year old British London, Dec. 2.--Four hun-that Mr Ward told the U.S. Con- them by every means at

disposal and diplomatie recogni-

the vote on the resolution cun- principles on which the decision civil servant in Flil who was result dred London Bremen-many of sul in Peking, Edmund Clubb, tion would

afrect demning Russia for its ald to

the Chinese Communists, "pen-based. thom men who fought the fire in a telephoma conversation on

contact, Such contact will un-

The primary considera- but it ding fresh instructions" from ion is that our decision

should blitz of 1940-tortay demanded Friday morning that he had been a public inquiry into the ad-notified by the Mukden munt-doubtedly be restricted

to

the facts of the conform im- Au horitative observers ministration of the London Fire cipal government "te the effect would serve a more useful pur-Chengtu.

whit Brigade and passed a vote of that he, together with all foreign pose than the policy of

that Dr situation, and should not be in- mediately speculated

fluenced by likes or dislikes o! Consulate-jud see.” no confidence

chief members of

No. F. Tsiang of the Nationalist United Regarding the General staff and their depen oficer.

dents, must leave Mukden with- tions, sources said it appeared delegation would withdraw from the government in question. If deal such governm at controls effee- Political he Assembly's main They unanimously condemned in 48 hours after a.m.

uevitable that the Peking Up-

or a great fively the country Committee his resolution which the administration for lack of Monday.

there is a December A.

vernment would eventually s

Ax- also secks guarantees

country. that part of the human ty

hert itself in the General

United Nations members will prima facle case for recognt- factora and for adopting

sembly and the Security Coun

not grant viplomatie recognition. There are other like atutude."

Ward said that he and his cil. They said, "We do not ex-

Peking to be taken into consideration. One leading delegate attached stall would travel via Tien sin, peet the recognition to alter the uon to the Communist

rest But the main one should Government's policy Peking certain drill as "dangerous and that "permlaston has been

government, or send it military

un facts and not on sympathies." and illegal" and said that the alven for a ten firth to handle They may choose to add their votre to that of Russia and be- Union was determ ned to pre- packing and transportation of

Sir Terence added: "We also come a powerful accession vent its use, by going to Court personal effects, as well as Uzeir

the veto bloc-that remains If necessary.Reuter,

own travel."-United 'ress.

and

in

their

understanding" time."

a "Gestapo-

EDITORIAL

the

On

Cilna

New Traffic Regulations

is going to

mark

the

Mbeginning of a trying Ume for

drivers and pedestrians, especially in the elty area, for the silent zone and pedes- trian right of way regulations come into effect. But although some confusion must inevitably result from this innovation. few will gainsay that it is a step in much-needed direction-a the right rationalisation of traffic-vehicular and new regula- pedestrian-control. The tions embody sound principles and once the general public has become used to the now, and what at first is certain to seem bewilderlag, system, a general improve-

movement

and ment in

of vehicles pedestrians, notably in the congested centre of Victoria, can be expected. One

the Traile Department thing discover: they have bitten off a little more than can ba chewed. Because it la so comprehensive, demanding new be haviour on the part of drivers and the. walking public, the scheme may provA almost impossible to adapt successfully within the perlod which the Authorities have in mind. Possibly it would have

may

been more practicable had pedestrian rights of way been first introduced in order to educate both drivers and walkers into understanding that system; where- after the silent zone idea could have been superimposed.. In demanding the general public to assimilaté both ideas at one time. the Police may find they have asked tho Impossible. Nevertheless, the two lanova. tions should be complementary, and on this basis the Authorities are justified in the experiment. Moreover, as they can correctly argue, silent zones and controlled crossings for pedestrians are not novel to this world: elsewhere they are employed with the maximum of efficiency and success, and only wilful stupidity on : the part of the Cofony's pedestrians and drivers can make it a fallure here. The

scheme.

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A spokesman of the Chinese delegation denied that a decl- sion had been reached to withhold the view that recognition does not imply moral judgment. draw the resolution rather than risk the psychological setback of does not constitute approval seeing it defeated in the United Nations.

had not bee

to-

"I would request postpones ment of the vote until Monday," is a matter Talang said. "This

munist

the

WHERE SYMPATHIES LIE

Two More Plane Disasters

The British delegate however Dutch of the utmost importance to my made it clear where the sym-Company-Reujer. delegation

down

Anu

or deliberat:ly" until after sad. He testified that she

had no money and that he paid her fare as far as Melbourne.

LENT HER PYJAMAS

Mr Cameron said he accom panied the girl to her cabin that night, lent her a pair ni pyjamas and stayed with her until about 1.30 nm.

He had been

Miss

Introduced to

McCallum in Sydney by

again.

know how long there, he said.

Two Couples Dance For 11 Days

·

Frankfurt,

Dec. 2Two couples, battard and barely able to stand, today set up a darico new German marathon record of 240,5 hours in 11 days. The winners were Karl Gut and Liselotte Dich! and Helz Holland and Grote Schmidt, They had beaten records pis

Lighter

Explodes

"It's the Quality

that counts!

were

two friends whom he called vicusly established in the pret few weeks in Hamburg, Berlin Mr and Mrs Mana'

and Munich before the marathen About 2,30 a.. the same dance craze reached Frankfurt.— morning that he left the girl's Reuter. cabin and went to his own, Mr Mann and a couple of other 26 People Killed

men he did not know came into his cabin and woke him up. The Hague, Dec. 2.-Six He said they asked him to Mombasa, Kenya, Dec. 2.- the government that is re-people, including two British come up for a drink and he told Two Indians were killed and dive

they lighter on which ons. The spokesman sald, core. In the past we have pilots, were killed when a them to go away and went to men seriously injured when a

not been deterred from TC- Catalina plane crashed today He heard

with the next day that working

oxyacetylene however, that his delegation ha cogbling governmenis, whether

Muntok Bay,

hia coliln Banka they went from It is in

to equipment exploded in the sea. bach un opportunity to assest Communist or otherwise. the sentiment of the

of the members

they stopped The lighter, empty for some of the world organisation--ad- not true that recognition would Island, Indonesia, it was Miss McCallum's but did not at Mombasa today. in this

That morning time, is believed to have pre- Police attitude

experiment IN

mittedly lukewarm toward the betray the people of China. It learned here tonight.

can be argued that, if the Com-

carried petrol-As- that the the girl was missing.-Associat-viously Nailonillst cause-and that an admirable. there is to be no Immediate

It was stated here regime control

sociated Press, was carrying out ed Press. application of the letler, of the law should opportunity for further consulta- of the majority of the flying boat

tions with the home government Chinese people, normal diplo "nautical reconnaissance" when Komebody in ignorance or thoughtlessness

was desired.

matle and commercial relations 1 crashed while coming violate the new regulations. Everybody As the 59-nation Political could be established with nd- to light on the water.

Committee prepared to vote on vantage for the Chinose people. a reasonable chance of

m.chanics in to be given

Two Dutch the Chinese resolution and the

would not wish to put too

single two of becoming familiar with the new system be-

tae, passengers, bot weaker

on this counter.measures pro- much weight

were among posed by the United States and aspect of a most complex prob-nautical advisers, fore prosecutions are instituted. This is a

ine kuled. The Aichi menb.T But for these reasons we co-sponsors which would do tem. to what is approach commonsense

clare

member of the crew and the four other that a "hands-off" policy

agree obviously difficult operation, and it

wards China, Dr T. F. Tslang cannot

states bind themselves in with-occupants of the plane wire in- addressed Chairman observe how

aro sated to bo Lestes holding recognition.

jured They be interesting to will

Pearson of Canada.

out of danger. intelligently the public reacts to the

The plane brlonged to the It is self-evident that unless

Bat afsche Petroicurn drivers and pedestrians are willing to make a genuine effort to respect the new regulations that the result will be chaos, with probably a sharp increase in the Incidence of road accidents. The duty of the public is to appreciate that it is being quietly and nicely educated in the art of making the best and safest use of highways; that what is being introduced now is something designed to beneft everybody; that unless there is willing co-operation on the part of perlestrians and drivers the experiment will never succeed; that not only the rules of the road, but the courtesy en-bodied in the highway code need to be observed; that there must be mutual respect of each other's rights and duties in, using the road. Refusal to heed the elementary rules laid down in the new scheme can mean only a painful education in how and how not to cross and drive along pro-- fected areas, Intelligence will easily solve. the problem and will enable the experi ment to be successful that much the quicker. The Polleo have already indicated that they are prepared to give all the assistance, and make every allowance possible in the first stages, to drivers and pedestrians; it la now up to the publle to v show understanding of the now regula....... tions in the quickest possible time.

There was no objection as Pearson adjourned the Com- milice until Monday morning.

LITTLE SUPPORT

re-

SECOND CRASH

Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 2A (Royal) Airlines DC-3

These Treas.

and my government.pathies of his government lle. will an expecting fresh instruc-"Although my delegation tions from my government, 1 vote against the Chinese

Bald. "this must will be solution," ho the Commitee hope willing to accommodate me to not be taken to mean we wish Beal that extent."

do acquit the Soviet Union of crashed in a rainstorm us an the charges brought by China emergency field in Sao Paulo against it. Not at all I am State today, killing 20 of the 22 sure that all members of the persons on board, the Llue an Committee were impressed by nounced. the statement made br the The plane was flying on a Dr Teiang's request for delay delegate of China and the regular domestic route between came after the Nationalist causo evidence" he advanced that the Sao Paulo and the small city 200 miles 10 had received unexpectedly little Soviet Union systematically and of Jacare, about

deliberately violated the 1945 the Southwest, Associated support.

Britain's Sir Terence Shone treaty of friendship. announced. that the -United charges cannot be lightly dis-

-- 44TH THIS YEAR Kingdom would oppose each miasta. Indeed, refusal of the clause

of the Nationalist resolu- USSR delegation to take part

London, Dec. 2--Last night's tion and that British "recogni- in the debate, does not streng-

of of then its case. Lion

Brazil air crash in which 20 or non-recognition"

was the Communist Chino would be

Sir Cart Berendsen of New persons were killed,

bo im- 44th this year in which 10 or hased largely on the degree of Zealand said it would effectiveness of that regime's proper to pretend that the draft more lives were lost and the

resolution control, of the country.

reaffirming the sixth reported within the past Sir Terence replied to Dr principles of the Charter "faces week.

Among latest crash Talang's remark of Thursday, up to the situation, and is do- when

Chinose delegate ing something about it." spoke of Britain's reported in and that hold honestly carrying a statue of Our Lady Lention to recognise, the Peking and regime.

that Elated has been rald

General As of Fatima, at Arboleda, Colom the United Kingdom might exsembly do nothing This bin-12. kllied.

November 28: tend recognition because of being the case, he said,

is five sponsors of the resolution Dakota near the Chinese-Indo. commercial interests. This

and an entirely unjust un should say so, and allow the China border--10- killed.

November express deep,

28; An

North warranted allegation about our Assembly "to policy. I do not intend to any bitter regret over its inability Colomblace liner in anything about the Intentions to take effective action-United Colombla on November 20-12

ared killed.---Reuter. of the United Kingdom on re-Press":

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