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Today's Weather: Light ^8E winds. Partly cloudy, some paming showers.

pressure, 1005.1 Noon Observations: Barometric 20.88 in Temperature, 82,1 deg. F. Dew point, 77 dog. Relative humidity, 84%. Wind direction B, Wind force, 10 Knots Low water: Ift 2ló al 4.29 p.m. High water: ff. al 11.30 p.m.

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ACHESON SAYS- Household Cavalry In Windsor Display Six Survive Air France

NO IMMEDIATE

DANGER OF WAR

Dallas, Texas, June 13.

The Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, said tonight that Soviet imperialism does not present an danger of war."

"immediate

However he told a civic audience that United States co-operation with other nations and a strengthening of the North Atlantic community are essential to peace.

Acheson spoke to the Civil among the people of this earth. Federation of Dallas in the first The objective of our foreign of a series of speeches on foreign, polieg affair.

therefore is 10 help establish the conditions neers

peaceful to this kind of

The following is a condensed ary text of Mr Acheson's speech,

i world. Only in this kind of

of our de-

What is the objective of work can you an! I and our our foreign policy? I think ittellow citizens futni in our lives can be stated very simply. We the highest values

world. Ourmocratic society. #peaceful want

"However sume obstacles are of peace is that it conception

to be overene. Not all of them should be a onition of fruit-

ful and harmonious relationship are attributable to the Soviets.

BIG THREE problems

PLANNING

It is good to remind ourselves that we would still have enough left 10 keep us occupied even if the Suviet Union were to be, as we hope !! I will some day become, our good

neighbour.

We have first of all a host of problems left on our duor- step as a consequence of the deal has been war. A great

Washington, June 13.-Plans ere bring ms for the Foreign Ministers of Britoin, Frame and

to rebuild shaltered the United States to meet indone

many still New York in Aut or Septem- buildings, although

In Tuins. But her before the United Nations remalu

when they have been replaced, General Assembly session.

of Propies ani the wounds soefeties will still not be healed.

717

ineet again this year.

Although the

date for

is

New York meeting

absolutely settled.

even

GROUNDS FOR CONFLICT

second obstacle "The

in a

A State Department spokes

meeting will Eaid that the 11.30 ire a follow-up of the meeting of the three Foreign Ministers Loudon last month, when it

that they would realisation of the kind of world was agreed

in which we can live in pence the hat great areas of the world notare breeding grounds of con- the suken-flict because their people Jack

of tolerable meuna mau sald that the United States the was preparing for August."

set of problems The third Arked if chances in the Ger- te would

be dealt with in at- that statute

may ran occupation

world are peaceful be discussed by the Minister, Įtainlug

by those which are created the spokesman said that it was expected the subject would be emergent nationalizin. considered. He added that he knew of n plans for a four- power meeting--Reuter.

Meat Ration Reduced!

tence.

form

of

the

exis-

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The famous musical ride of the Household Cavalry performed recently at

the Windsor Horse Show. In the background is Windsor Castle.

Explosion On Sharp

H.M. Submarine

Landomierry, June 13.- The British naval authorl- Lies

said f a statement

that here tonight

there could be No question ef sabotage having caused 10- n the explosion

he Trenchant.

explosion, which slightly injured four of the crew, decurred while tito 1,000-ton submarine

WIS

on exercises about 80 miles off the coast of Northern Ireland.

She was tonight on her way to Londonderry under her own power.-Heuter.

Conflict Parliament

In

Over Schuman Plan

London, June 13-The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee today said that his Government

Skymaster Disaster:

Helicopter Rescue

Paris, June 13.-Only six of the 51 people on board survived today's French Skymaster crash off Bahrein in the Persian Gulf.

An airline communique said that six bodies- those of four men and two women, all unidentified -had been washed ashore.

The communique those on board

The Fald that

three rescued by the suffering from were 42 adult helicoptere were passengers, one child and eight exposure and had superficial

cuts. crew,

The survivors thus far in cluded two crew at four parsengers.

The

communique added that the wreck was partly above water nt low tide and the search for survivors was con- tinuing.

From Bahrein came the news that a helicopter rescued three men who had drifted for right hours in the water with out life Jackels.

Surfnee craft rescued the three other survivors,

Better Wait On

wanted to help, not hinder, the Schunan Plan, but Mr Robson

he forecast an even greater pooling of Western resources under the Atlantic Pact.

In this, he said that Britain would be found leading the way.

of

the House Speaking in Commons he qualifed the Bri- Schuman

atitude to the

STOP PRESS

AMERICAN

· CHARGED

to

The Sydney

dent, George

Those

the

picked up by zurface craft were more serious- ly injured.

which were The six bodies

will be buried washed ashore tomorrow,

an when

attempt will also be inade to lift tho alreraft to recover the remain- ing bodles,

Ships and

are sit planes searching the heavy seas for n

It was which

still raft on hoped some passengers might have escaped.

All aboard the airliner were French, except for one Stateles person. They were reported to include French Colonial officials returning home on leave from Indo-China with their and children.

BAD WEATHER

wives

Helicopter

Crash

Southampton, Jane' 13.-- The world's largest hell- copter, the Southampton- built "Air Horse," crashed near here today and all

three

were Occupants killed.

The plane, designed to carry 24 passengers, was willl In an experimental slace and the three men killed were leat pilots.mat Reuter.

DRAMATIC

RESCUE BY TEENAGER

Alabama,

Birmingham, June 13. The entire neigh- bourhood henped praise to- day on a teenager with cool head and fast feet, who

The plane, a Skymaster DC4, snatched a two-year-old tot to Paris, from a drainage ditch sec from Salgon

flying

left Karachi yesterday.

Sun correspon- Johnston, said the scientists were already on two

The others

radio

It sent

at

weather

The passengers included

31. French Journalist,

D

been carried into an under- a last message 10 minutes bends before he would have fore it was due to land Monus, June 13.-Australian Pahrein, saying that it was dy ground culvert.

low in bad were reported lug very scientists today

While the parents and neigh- be Investigating

Shores tiny over a licavy sea. a

bours of little Johnale "Shangri-la" island in the

the spot where of eight included; milled around The crew Preiße where the men spend

the he had toppled into rushing hair 53-year-old, Jean Sladek, long hours combing the

pioneer be-water, 27-year-old Doris Jean of beautiful. almost-whito na-pilot, an aviation

lieved to hold a world recard Schatz had a burst of inspira tive women,

tion. She sprinted three blocks SWISS TAKING

with 19,500 flying hours,

through backyards and alley- Plan by saying that the manner "Finally, and this series

in which Britain can help "will in a

were a co-pliat, ways to a culvert, on a hunch NO CHANCES not as you see compiled

two that "the water was too swift operators, only appear after the negatia- order of imper- descending

to permit Johnnie to just sink". challenge Berne, June 13-The Swissions have berun".

yards the island, described as part of mechanics, on air hostess and a

She was right. A lew thare there

Directly he PINC completed his

corul-fringed Isles some steward. the

from the culvert, Doris Jeans presented to us by the Soviet Government today ordered that

the Conservative Suvant

300 miles north of New Guinea. the emergency food stocks to be statement, imperialisa

of the boy's head caught sight Winston Churchill,

Johnston sald the women haviour appears to be based laid up by every Swiss house teader. Mr

Jean tabbing under water and jumped to have figures an expectation, if not an hold in case of war, must be assesse to demend a full-dress-de

He wanted it next week.

were reported

those of the Balinese Francois Armorin, of the Paris in after him. Johnnie already R collapse of sembled by the end of Septern- | bate.

rivalling those anticipation,

The Leader of the House, Mr Lur. world-pro-

Ng To-Ling, travelling trader, beauties and faces reminiscent Left-wing paper, Frane Tireur, had been carried under two

intersections and the non-Soviet of fresh meat is to be reduced¦cers which the Soviet leaders

returning frem 'n reporting our street For the two-thonth period Herbert Morrison, refused to Charles Joseph Murphy, 43, un-of the Egyptian lovelles of

of Indo-China.

floating face down when the girl esti-ive this assurance, arguing that employed, of 18, the Government

Lion "Rock Cleopatra's time. n debate so quickly Road (of week ratione the

ap-males ford imports would be to have

Connecticut),

Johnston Nrai

cald the expedi-;

Air France in Paris reported reached him in water up to her

waist. of the Yat tlon hoped to save the land that the hostess of the plane of For, an-parently in the belief that the cut off by a Europan-war, each would be to discuss the Schue Wan-man, partner

man Plan before the House had Yuct Electrical Boit workshop, beauties from

"I thought sure he was dead," extinction the non-Soviet household must hold stocks in-

from was slim and vivacious 18-year- nouncing this turlay, sald the collapse

worlis essenti to the concluding seven pounds of sugar, the full facts.

Thomas Cheng, master of the malaria, tuberculosis, inbreed-sid Nicola Combaret, a native she said. "I carried him A lon: procedural debate then Hankow Store. difference would be made

up

consultation of four pounds of cooking fats and

and

Tseng Tating and dietary deficiences.

of Puris. who has been with Air of the ditch and put him on the ground. I was taught artificial of tinuance and

Mr before system."- 12 pounds of rice, dour or cats. followed and in this Mr Char man, were charge his mom-credited somewhat by Mr R. W.

Johnston's account was dis- | France for two years. per head.-Beuth.ir

respiration in school, but I got chill made it clear that the Reynolds at Central

couldn't remember United Press.

Conservatives would press their ing with

seconds nervous giving bribe

of Robson, editor of an authorita-

started demand for A debate to the $6,000 to Mr T. Clunie, ASP, tive Pacific. Islands monthly. I accident in a total of 719 return how to do it. So

Air France to squeeze his flights since the for his Robson sald the natives prob

Another giri, who had accom- Members of Parliament, meet endeavouring to obtain official ably

began 18: mixture of Saigon-Parls service

shouted. Doris,

and Poly- years ago.

The other was in panied Mongoloid,

·lessuing of Malayan,

nesian and Melanesian strains. January, 1043, when a three-Johnnie's father, C.. W. Shores, He sold he doubted Johnston's engined plane crashed in Cen-an Army veteran

had saved men from On the application of Mr A. reports of the extraordinary trai France, killed all 14 passen- times

the accused were re-beauty of the women and

London, June 13.The ration |

by 2d worth per head per week, are not hesitant to using whre which equivalent to 1/4d per headi, hey can. They

making

The Ministry

by an additional 24 worth tinned meat

ter.

EDITORIAL

WHILE

response

of

leadership

--Reuter.

The Tuberculosis Battle

in

spurt the recent

the Anti-Tuber- subscriptions to culosis Association is gratifying, public the appen unfortunately falls seriously short of the minimum required to maintain the sanatorium at The its highest standard of efficiency. drive for donations has that as its sole ubjective, the goal is $350,000 covering The anticipated expenditure over and above the Government subsidy of $150,- 008, and the result of the campaign up to dale has been additions to the Associu« tion's resources totalling roughly $160,- 000. Subiruction reveals a shortage of about $190,000. These facts are nut ont- lined in a spirit of criticism. By and large. the community has earned warm thanks, for all sections, Chinese uncl foreign, have participated, many firms offerings and the have made generous powerful claim for aid in the battle with the scourge has been universally re- cognised. Bearing in mind the absence of any guide to the degree of effort required, the response has been excellent -and, at the same time, not enough. To make up the leeway, it is suggested that those who have already subscribed might consider whether they cannot af- ford a tle more and that those who the object serious have abstained give thought. Of all the ailments dangerous le residents of Hongkong, tuberculosis is the most menucing. It is no respecter of persons, rich or poor, the children infection as the adult. are ne able to Indeed the danger of contraction before the age of twenty years is almost cer- tainly for greater than to a person who has passed beyond forty years. The rate of incidence in the Colony is, moreover, Oficial statistics show quite alarming. an average rate of 7,000, reported cases Bannually; and eight deaths dally from

tuberculosis. In his récent brondenst, nd- vocating full public support for the Anti-TB. Association, His Excellency the Governor gave figures covering medical estimates, declaring a minimum of seven percent of the population to be victims of the disease. That would embrace more com- than 200,000 people-and many petent observers are inelined to belleve that this represents an underestimate. Thousands of cases are never notitled. Many go back to the country when T.B. develops to the stage of incapacitation. When it is recalled that the sanatorium was made possible by the munificent gifts of Mr J. H. Ruttonjee, aggregating nearly a million dollars, it is the mural duty of the public spirited citizens of this Colany to keep it operating at maximum levels. More than that, they should be prepared to foster any project connected with a general attack on the allment. There should be, for instance, some means of segregating the incurable. The sanatorium and hospitals trenting T.B. patients quite correctly cannot provide treatment for them except in the clinic. Yet these in whom the discase- hay so far advanced that their days are numbered offer the gravest danger others, especially children and particu- inrly their own children. These

cases enthusiast of the need help. As an

Welfare Society Itongkong Family

urgent suggested on Monday, there is need for a camp or a settlement wliero the badly stricken can pass their last duys, away from their families. In the battle against tuberculosis, the most successful method implies an attempt to prevent the spreading of infection, that again must depend largely on segregating serious cases. Overcrowded tenements lend emphasis.

to

biller end,

Ing for the first time since the

as

UJI

#

Inducement

for the motor vehicle licences.

Whitsun recess, crowded into approval the Chamber to hear the Prime Minister's statement.

NEGOTIATIONS

Shaw.

WITC

the

he nded that he could not repudiate the reports

tlon-United Press,

only the This was

and crew Kors In Police devotion of their menfolk, feuter. After tracing the history of the manded three days discussions with the French custody. No pleas were taken However, Government, Mr Attlee said, and no ball granted. "The British Government w/11 Mr Y. H. Chan appeared for entirely until further investiga- be kept regularly informed of the defendants, the course of the negotiations which will open on June 20 he- tween the French, German and other Governments. They them- selves initiated studies of the French proposal immediately if and the was put forward studies will continue.

"But there is no question of

forward putting

alter- any

at the native British proposal present time. It would not be right to take any step which might be regarded as a diversion or as an attempt to modify the (Contd. on Page 5, Col 1)

Husband On

Tokyo Peace Treaty Conferences

Washington, June 13, - Officials said today' that conferences which are expected to iron out differences between the Defence and State Depart-| ments' views on the Japanese peace treaty are scheduled to take place in Tokyo between June! 20-23.

During these four days the State Department policy adviser Mr John Foster Dulles visit to Murder Charge Tokyo will coincide with that of the Defence Secre

London, June

13. Albert tary, Mr Louis Johnson, and General Omar Brad- Price, 33-year-old house-painter

In London's ley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

found

sleeping Green Park this morning after nation-wide search for him by 20,000 police, was charged today of his wife,

merrow.

aro

are forecasting Omcials

joint con-basis. offelals expect

of the between Mr Johnson, that the preparation ferences

draft and co- General Bradley, General Doug United States

with other as MacArthur, Mr Dulles and ferences

Allled with the murder Doris Maude Price,

members of MacArthur's staff governments will be completed in time for a call for peace con- He wil appear in court to-to take place.

These

ca-ferences about next January. conferences The battered body of Mrs

major policy pected to settle

leave 01 Prica, aged 27, was

the prepara found questions before their prefabricated home intion of the United States draft Surrey last Wednesday..

of a treats can go on, The same evening the couple's It is generally conceded that two daughters, Jennifer, aged the Defence Department will be three, and 18-month-old Mau- assured at the conference that reen, were discovered in a baby United States strategie interests carriage left on the South Coast. In Japan can be worked but

Mr

will Dulles

Wednesday evening and arrive in Tokyo on Tuesday, June 20, and remain for about a week. Meanwhile, Mr Johnson and whose plane General Bradley left the United States yesterday, are scheduled to arrive in Tokyo

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peace settlement and on this United Press.

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