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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1951.

KING'S MAJESTIC

SHOWING TO-DAY *

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20

& 9.30 P.M.

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 &.9.30 P.M.

A great ACTION picture ALIVE with excitement!

Walt Disney cap.

tures every stir-

ring moment on

the screen!

Color by

Walt Disney's

PRESENTATION OF

Robert Louis Stevenson's

reasure

TECHNICOLOR

Island

WITH BOBBY DRISCOLL

ROBERT NEWTON - BASIL SYDNEY

Produced by PERTE PEARCE Birsted by BYRON HASKIA- Screenplay by LAWGENDE E. WATKIN Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, foo

TREASURE HUNT 'COMPETITION!!!

Holders of stub-tickets for "Treasure Island" are cordially in- vited to participate in a guessing competition-guess the number of "gold' coins" contained in the boxes which will be exhibited at the lobbles of King's and Majestic beginning to-day! The first ten nearest guessers will be presented with seasonal awards varying from a Washing Machine donated by Bosco Corporation, Radio donated by Elephant Radio Co., and other consolation prizes. For details please see announcement at the lobbies of King's & Majestic.

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED

Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus Final Showing To-day: 2.30-5.30-7:30 & 9.30 P.M.

SIERRA

COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR

starring

AUDIE WANDA

MURPHY - HENDRIX

BURI DEAN IVES · JAGGER

Commencing To-morrow: Double Features in 1 programme "SOULS IN PAWN” and “COUNTER BLAST"

ROXU

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Dan

WHEN

THE WEST WENT

WILD

WITH

LAUGHTER

DAILEY

Ann

BAXTER

A TICKET TO TOMAHAWK

TECHNICOLOR

RORY CALHOUN WALTER BRENNAN

NEXT CHANGE

Robert NEWTON

גו

Dennis PRICE

"SNOWBOUND"

Directed By DAVID MacDONALD

THE HONGKONG SOCIETY

FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

EVER READY TO- AID.

SUFFERING CHILDREN

Joint Honorary Treasurers MR LAM CHIK SUEN,

LAM WOO & CO.,

25, Des Voeux Rd., C.

MR A. McKELLAR

Mackenzie

Mackinnon,

PRESS

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Co.

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The Earl and Countess of Harewood with their infant son, David Henry George, Viscount Lascelles, after he had been christened in Harewood Parish Church, near Leeds. The picture was taken in Harewood House, and shows the parents with the grandparents, (left) the Princess Royal fondling her grandson, and (right) Mr and Mrs Erwin Stein-Central Press.

BRITISH AND REPLIES TO CHARGES

FRENCH RUSSIAN PUBLISHED

London, Jan. 7.

Britain and France, in notes published today, rejected Soviet charges of violating the wartime agreements with Russia and counter- charged that the Soviet Union was maintaining vast military forces.

The two notes, drafted in close consultation, were handed in last Friday in Moscow. Though not identical they were terms and both were in reply to Soviet notes sent on December 15, 1950. in broadly similar

In her note, France accused "The French Government is Russia of causing a "serious determined to oppose any situation" by keeping consider- utilisation of Western Germany able forces on a war footing, most as a base for aggression," the of them "massed well ahead of note added. the western frontiers" of the Soviet Union..

The French note accused the Russians of the establishment

In à counter-blast to Soviet in the Soviet occupation zone charges that France had violated of Germany of militarised the Franco-Soviet pact of 1945, forces, organised in regiments

and trained in the use artillery and tanks.

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the French Government cused Russia of pursuing a policy hostile to the French Union."

of

HOSTILE POLICY.

The British note told the The French also charged the Soviet Union that inclusion of Russians with (1) having "done German units in the Western nothing to enable close colla- Allies' defence plans was de-boration between France and signed to "prevent the re- the US.S.R. for the main- establishment of an independ- ent German 'national army" and was "purely defensive".

tenance of peace and economic restoration; and (2) of "pursuing a policy hostile to the French The British note said that it Union, in proof of which there

is the Soviet was desired "clearly

Government's and un-official recognition of Ho Chi equivocally" to refute

charges minh who is in armed revolt in the Soviet note of December 15 that Britain had broken the against the legitimate govern- Anglo-Soviet treaty of 1942 by

ment of Vietriam". her role under the North At- lantic Treaty.

The text of the British reply contained a point-by-point re- buttal of the charges made in the Soviet note.

The reply was drafted in close consultation with France.

The British note made these points:

attitude

X(1) Britain's tains no threat to peace. German remilitarisation

Government.

Tragedy In A Kitchen

Berlin, Jan. 7. Fire Brigade men to- day found 38-year-old Margot Wunrum and her five children, between the ages of one and 16, gass-- ed in the kitchen of her French sector home here. The smallest baby was lying in a perambulator.

The mother and her other four children were lying beside the gas- cooker, with

pipe opened.---Reuter.

its

Germany to be used as a base for aggression",

ATLANTIC TREATY

(6) The allegation that the North Atlantic Treaty amount- ed to a group of powers direct- to ed against the U.S.S.R. and con-other peace-loving States" is. unfounded since the treaty is directed against rio power or

(2) West German participa- tion in the defence of Western group of powers but "solely Germany is "purely defensive" against armed aggression itself." and solely the result of the to work for a peaeful settlement FORCED TO ACT

(7) Britain's determination need to. improve security of Replying to the Soviet charge against the threat of Commu- outstanding international that France was aiding in the nist aggression.

differences particularly in the rearmament of Germany, the

United Nations of photographs French note said that France Atlantic Powers is consequently promoted her latest proposal to and in the (3) The action of the North Council of Foreign Ministers taken by the South China had been obliged to "envisage the responsibility of the Soviet hold exploratory four-Power

indispensable measures to rein- Morning Post, South China force the security of France and

talks with Russia contained in Sunday Post-Herald, China territories of which she must unfounded" to state that these Union continued to maintain

Europe, including the German

the tripartite notes of Dec. 22. (4) It is inaccurate and The note said that the Soviet Mail and Hong Kong Tele-assume the defence."

defensive measures will lead to vast military forces when her graph Staff Photographers been led to "examine the possitarism since they are designed to agree to effective international

Her Government had

revival thus a

of German mili-wartime Allies disarmed, refused bility of a contribution by to prevent the re-establishment supervision of armaments, Western Germany to the com- of an independent German na created militarised German enon defence.”-

tional army."

units in the Soviet zone in The note said that projects for (5) Britain, in her note of violation of the Potsdam Agree the participation of Western Dec. 22, had already formally ment and opposed measures of Germany did not envisage the assured the Soviet Government collective security in the United creation of a national army or that they are determined never, Nations when Communist forces the restoration of German war at any time, or under any committed aggression in Korea. potential.

circumstances, to allow Western Reuter

are on view in the Morning Post Building.

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