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CAFTRIANT 1940, THE 1965-ZULA TONNÁKV

VOL. V NO. 135

For the Proprofor

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH For on behalf of

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LIND,

vay

The

Hongkong Telegraph

NO DEADLOCK BUT LITTLE HEADWAY BY SLIM IN EGYPT

London, June 8.—The reported Egyptian note, stated in the Egyptian press to have been handed to Field-Marshal Sir William Slim, British Chief of the Imperial General Staff, on his departure from Cairo on Tuesday, is believed in usually well- informed quarters here to have been an official record of the military conversations in which he took part.

The statement of the Egyptian any frich Egyptian note and the account of live Foreign Minister, Sadah 13 Din ay pang lley, denying that he has drafted docum

despatched any thought here to make it char! that Sir William Sm has res ceived only an official record of the Ey plan standpoint as out- lined. In his defence talks with the Egyptian Stoff.

15 Sir note is Witam om 14 in wah with the

known Beypinat view on fettions.

In any case, the British Foreign Ofee has no record of

French Politicians Restive

NOT INSUPERABLE The Egyptian Vacuation

from Egypt

With for

the

t Brith roupa 1 not Kanaity regarded here 2 201 juper- bir obstacle to agement on a revised treaty of athance.

71 is true

that Britain 10-

And

cards the world stuntin

the consequent

defence Per

pred for plu Blippments in

the Middl Eart tical

more cri-

when Del

R

th in 1946 Sidkey-kvin agreement on tresty revision was 10khed.

The British agreem it bes Ler

of Baltich the evacuaÝ 14177 troops within two years is not !

necessarily regarded wave of here Paris, June 1.-A

formal trealy political restlessness has invaded holding good if the French political arena in the negotiations are renewed,

frie, is also 13ut It wake of the heat-wave and be

of the Egyption press reports suggest, British -hind the protection

the meanwhile grea'cst słability the French that In

authorities have in- franc has known since the end of military

the impor ereasingly realized the war.

tance of air power and that on: of the main issues to be faced by a revised treaty of allianc would br the air defence of Egypt.

Many Deputies are loying with the idea of a change in the Cabinet.

The Prime Minister, Georges Bidault, today warned the country against a recrude scence of demagogy which had manifested itself in various ways in political circles since the Government's big prestige aus cess in rallying ive continental countries to work in common fo: the pooling of their cent and

steel resources.

Replying in advance to to- morrow's debate in the Assembly on a Socialist proposition to in- crease Civil Servants' wages, the Premier told An audience in Western France, "Our first duty is to resist demagogic efforts made on the pretext of heiping interests estimable in them nelves but which would create budget deleits impossible cover."---Reuter.

EDITORIAL

10

NEXT PHASE

Real

the

In this context the question of the evacuation of troops seems militarily less im- portant than it used to be.

Diplomatie observers here believe that while no solutkan to the milliary problems of the alliance arems to have emerged

William's visit. from Str

neither resulting position is hopeless nor in deadlock.

the pro- The next phase in ressive 0.1empt to re-open Treaty

revision negotiations, which have been

in progresS between Britain and Egypt since is expected to oper March,

Cairo with the departure for next Saturday of the new Bri- Ralph tish Ambassador, Sir Skrine Stevenson-Reuter,

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Satellites Pour Shocking Surrey Stalin

Envoys Into Peking

Berlin, June 8. The East German Govern- ment today appointed shannes Koenig, 47-year- old Communist Party official, to head the East German State's diplomatic mission to Communist China as Ambassador Extraordinary.

LABOUR'S

REVERSAL

OF POLICY

Koenig, a tanner by trade, left Germany during the Nazi re- sme.

News

Tragedy

London, June 8.-Twenty thousand police were to day huning 33-year-old Albert Price, whose two okildren were found suf- forated at Bornor, Sussex, yesterday, and whose wife

Was

Jaler found battered

to death at their home in New Malden, Surrey. 60 miles away.

Bloodhounds be used in Price-Reuter.

may alko the Acarch for

GLASGOW EXPRESS

CALAMITY

Visiting

China?

So Says Safem

Salem, Massachusetts, June 8-Colonel Roland W. Estey, Treasurer of tho Salom Evening News and formerly with the wartime office of Strategic Services, reported today that the Russian Prime Minister, Generalissimo Stalin, is at present in China conferring China's Com- with Red munist leaders. S }

The Eact German Agency, ADN, giving a concise tay history of his life, did not where he spent his exile.

In a special article, Colonel Glasgow, June 8.-Flames Herr Koenig and the members of his mission left Berlin by nir swept by the wind through Estey said that Premier Stalin left Moscow on June 1 and was Perth, June 8.-The de- today for Peking.

the conches of a Birming-que back on June 10 and that buty Prime Minister, Mr

Peking Radio reported today ham Glasgow express train the Russian people had Herbert Morrison, indicated that the Chinese Foreign Minis tonight burned three child- told he today that the Labour Party ter, Mr Chou En-lni, had to has dropped further nation-ceived Mr Julius Burgin, fratren and two adults to death. Kremlin alisation from its platform. Ambassador Extraordinary and

lion with R pledge to help private enterprise as well as the working class,

to

After the five bodies had been

rest."

been

was absent from the for "a well-earned

Several high-ranking Sovlet He sold the British Socialists Plenipotentiary of the Republic removed at Beattock, 30 miles

of Poland to the People's Re-from-Glasgow-nivage officers officials were with him, Colonel

moking wreckage Estey said. entered the will enter the next general elec-

jewellery scek valuable public of China.

He said that his information Mr Burgin called at the which it had been reported the

Indicated that Stalin's trip to Chinese Foreign Office yester-train was carrying.

The leading coaches of the China "may be looked upon as In an address before a Perth day.

burned out. The a visit for the purpose of giving train ware

to

Communist the Labour Party rally, Mr Morri-

Peking has appointed General ve dead, badly burned, were orters

far ro- enmalitica so

'caders of Red China as well es what had been wang Yu-ping as China's frst the only an confirmed

the establishment of a new set the reported for weeks-that the

ported. Ambassador Extraordinary and

to govern moderate wing strengthened it,

Fire brigades sped to the of policies Plenipotentiary to the People's

cupied Red area of the Far old on the party at a recent

Republic of Rumania.

scene after the traits had come rerot conference of its leaderu

Similar

had to stop with its three leading East." appointments measures He said Socialistic

mado in relation been

to conches on fire, should be reserved for "aters

and Poland, acchslovakin of social General

The flames had been fanned are properly

being Hel-lin Tan WHICH in-

then listed

and by the wind as the train sped untern,"

chosen as Ambassador

And

tho quickly Nationalisation Pranipotentiary

Czecho- uch, mutiers.

in the lust clovakia Projects zet down

and General Peng coaches a roaring Inferno,

The express which was from lection manifos.o were not in- ovak

Ming-chich to Poland, iuced. United Press.

Founders Day at the Chelsea Hospital was celebrated

The one of the oldest

as usual by a parade of the Pensioners who were spected by Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke., Field Marshal is shown talking to

after the inspection.

Payments Union Much Nearer

Oslo, June 8. The Dutch Foreign Mialater, Dr Dirk Stikker, raid to- day that an agreement on European 1m proposed

Payments Union by Mar- shal! I'an countries could be reached "at the end of this month,"

But the agreement, he told

Press conference, would have to be followed further negotiationM

$11 aiming at

crealer liberalisation of trade Europe, United Press,

by

The Dairy Farm's Future

HE Government's refusal to entertain

The Dairy Fant's request for renewal

of its Pokfulam farmland leases has, with- In it, all the makings of first-class con- Several reasons can be ad- troversy. duced for officint obduracy, in the absence of any occasion for a closely argued ex- planation for the benefit of those outside the Company's orbit. The farmlands are In an exceedingly attractive area, on the south side of the island, and occupy a Because of large expanse of territory, the development work carried out at the Dalry Farm's expense, provision of cer- tain roads or lanes and by-ways, the re- glon's translation into a series of building lots, which might be coveted by home- builders reflecting on sea breezes in the summer, would be facilitated-and might result in substantial gains for the coffers the of the Treasury. Quarrel with judgment of Sir Patrick Abercromble who regarded the Dairy Farm, apart from its very valuable present use, as not very suitable for a building scheme, la not difficult to assessors whose minds are made up. We have had so much of that. And even when millions of dollars.are obtain- ed from the suls of a site donated to the public sixty

earlier, cara doce not produce the new better City Hall which

'It

and

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28.

a promise with the deal. That, how- ever, is by the way. Examination of the Government's decision will not include consideration of the use to be made of the revenue from land sales, should further representations fall, Pult concerns only the moral validity of the official polley. For more than sixty years, the Dairy Farm has rendered most valuable sarvice to the community of Hongkong. Its Business Interests have grown remark-

In

ably, to the point almost of converting Its dairying into something of a Fideshow. There is no evidence that that has been has allowed to happen the Company taken pride in producing that important commodity, fresh milk, and whatever views are attributed to the medical au- thorities, the fact remains that supply has 10 never been tuly equal to the demand.

after farming activities destroy their sixty years, some of them involving stress and stram, will leave a bad odour, on the assumption that it is correct to say that the sole interest of Government is to re- sume this extensive area for building pur- poses. Should other factors inuuence the Government's mititude, they shoud bo made public. Admittedly, the blow has not fallen without warning. The Dairy Farm has been invited to survey alterna- tive farm sites in the New Territories, Their finding. that the suggested areas were inadequate or not acceptable for other cogent reasons must be accepted, together with their reluctance to consider spending the very large amount required to accomplish a successful transfer from Pokfulam to the mainland. The Ustry Farm gives public service, the Icas of which would be sharply felt, but it remains It so happens a business undertaking. that two members of the Board of Directors are also members of the Legislative Council, and it would be in- teresting to see the issue debated in that chamber, not on the basis of a defence of vested interests, but on the soundness of official policy. The Government should not baulk if they have a better case than that so far disclosed. The public would

be happier to be able to give approval without reservations.

New Turkish Broom

Sweeps Changes In Services

10

Ankara, June 8.-The Turkish Government; in sweeping Service changes announced today, appointed a new Commander-in-Chief of the Army

and relieved the Commanders-in-Chief of the Navy

and Air Force of their posts.

The Commander responsible for the defence

to

The Government of Burma

on

marlo

his

Colon: Estey did not disclose source of information.~~- outer.

Birmingham to Glasgow, caught Merciless

oday announced the establish fire at Beattock and ment of diplomatic relations came to a stop-Reuter.

and

the with Communist China appointment of Ambassadors.

said that

The announcement Burma had given its formal ac- Ford to the appointment of Mr Yao Chung-ming as Chinese Ambassador to Burma and the Government Central People's

had

formally

accepted the ap- ointment of U Myint Thein, former Burmese Ambassador to he Kuomintang Government,

በሳ- Burmese Anibassador to China-Reuter.

Arms

Shipments

quickly

Anti-Leopold

STOP PRESS Fight Threat

Trade Mission

To Peking

From Our Own Corresponden!

London, June 9.-The British

which M business deicration Keswick run that hav• **

To Indo-China king, will include other than

Washington, June 8-A millt-

of the strategic Dardanelles was also relieved of his post while the Commander responsible for the defence of the Bosphorous Straits and the ary source said today that the Istanbul area was shifted to another post.

is General Kurteeba Still Pondering

General

The new Army Commander- In-Chief Noyan, who succeeds Muri Yamut, appointed last Tuesday as Chief of General Staff.

Over Tibet

several

"old China haut...

Brussels, June B-A "bring inck Leopold"

Government

ormed entirely from the Social- Party (Catholic) hristian

50-year-old Prime Pean Duvieusart,

nder

л

Minister, M.

as today sworn in by the Re- ant, Prince Charles

The immediate objective of he Government-Delgium's 10th 'nce the liberation-will be the Act peal of the Regency hich keeps King Leopold in self-imposed exile in Swit- erland,

Political circles

iz

I will

believe that

be only a matter of decks, following the convening f this newly elected Parliament un June 20, before the King *eturns.

Socialist deputies, meeting to- Mr Keswick's proposal hasday, warned that they would a "merellesa" fight been put into effect quickly, carry on Until Wednesday morning act on against the King's re-assump- had not been started,

tion of his prerogatives-Reutër.

A leading figure in a great in- Arst shipment of arms aid to dustrin corporation will prob Indo-China was due to leave ably head the delegation, the the United States West Coast number of which is not likely to

arly next week, He expected exceed half a dozen. the first shipment to be fol towed rapidly by others.

IL was understood that the London,

8.-British personal June

of General interest Government officials said today Omar Bradley, chairman of the that

the Foreign Office was Joint Chiefs of Staff, had a de- General Noyan is succeeded still considering the question of cisive effect in getting ship- by the middlo as Secretary of the Supreme Hongkong transit vitas for the men's started

delegation in New General Tibetan by

of June. General Bradley or- Defence Council

"high ccred

pr.ority for these Mahmut Berkoz, whose succes-Delhi.

with the re- They said the Indian Govern- arms shipments, sor as Third Army Commander

ment had previously issued the sult that material was reactivat- was not named.

used in record time and was now Visas "in error" and that

rushed 10 tho Weat of the Buuation being Relieved of their posts were "d.liesey"

Ulgen, concerning Tibet necessitated Coast. Admiral Motmet Al

announcement is An official maiter receiving further] Navy

Commander-in-Chief, the

expected shortly-United Press.) General Zeki Dogan, Air Force considerat.on.-United Press,

General Commander-in-Chief,

of

Izzet Aksalsur, Vice-Chief

and General General Staff, Maxaffer Tugsavui, Commander (Dar- the Second Army dancies).

of

The former General Stall

Chief, Abdurrahman Natiz Gutan, and General Asim

Army

(GLraits

BALA

Jewish Underground

Works In Reverse

Munich, June 8.-Forty disillusioned Jewish Tinaztepe, Commander of the displaced persons, among them about 10 women, Istanbul), were both shifted to who returned illegally to Germany from Israel, ended a three-day sit-down strike here today in the office of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

First the Army Council.

SWEEPING CHANGES

an-

The displaced persons had do-] had been grossly misrepresented. As successors were not

American Intelligence oficials to Interna- a return nounced for Loveral posus arier manded

onal Refugee Office (IRO) care said that the "reverse under- hese changes, observers COR- aldered that they were only a and subsistence from IRO funds, ground" was in operation to annel these displaced persona as at the time before they lef. re- in stoge

sweeping D

to Austria trom Hallan

inlo Germany, using organisation of the armed forces Germany,

The Jews charged that the und Party by the new Democratle

organisa- Jewish organisation. had practically the same Government,

methods employed "swindled them" into going to tion and

originally to get Jewish refugees The Prime Minister is Adnan Israel.

A spokesman for the Jewish out of Germany up to a few Menderes, whose Party came to power last month after a Lad- Agency sald that he displaced months ago.

IRO oficiais ended their strike after

declared that μάτισεις ilds election victory over the coming to an agreement with the returning displaced persona People's Republican which had ruled Turkey for a the Agency. He declined, how-would be offered, pending any

ever, to give any detail of the other arrangement, only what quarter of a century.

ass'stance was i -ver care and agreement.

on the German Ankara and Istanbul new- Many diethadoned and dis-available

forecast that 30 papers today

displaced per sailsfied

Jewish

estimates placing

Jewish

communities in Ger generals, and 200 colonels would sons, soTTL

Party

economy.

bs put on the retired list, but their number as high as 600, meny were said to be not "al- his could not be immediately have returned illegally to Get together happy" about this re. movement of Jewish confirmed from omletal sources. many, from Israel, complaining verso

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