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“British policy since the Princess Kashmir incident (when a Kuomintang agent at Hongkong placed a bomb aboard a plane carrying dele- gates to the Bandung Confer- ence, killing 10 of them) has continued to allow Kuomin- tang agents in Hongkong and Kowloon a free hand to organ- ize, and they have become more and more reckless.

“~The Kuomintang agents have drawn in many gangsters and hooligans and their scope has been getting larger and larger.”

Speaking slowly and em- phatically, Chou continued:

“The Hongkong authorities thought these elements would be useful to strike a blow against various offices of People’s China and other or- ganizations there. In fact, they got out of control.” ee

Chou charged that Kuomin- tang organizations were being preserved in Hongkong to cre- ate trouble for People’s China.

“There is also the desire of the U.S. — and there was pressure on the British from the U.S. — to leave the situa- tion like that,” he said. :

The British authorities in Hongkong~ would have been happy to see the organizations of People’s China in Hongkong or on the Chinese mainland suffer, but, he~said, “the re- sult has been that one million Kowloon people have suffered from looting, burning, rape and death.

“Our mainland, where we have firm law and order, has not suffered.”

T asked the premier what he considered the British should have done in order to prevent

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these outbreaks and future

ones.

“The police should have been sent immediately the outbreak began, when it was very small, Regardless of the Kuomintang, and regardless of political factions, this was a disturbance of peace and or- der.

“This is an enlargement of the Kashmir Princess incident. Now there is the Kowloon in- cident, and next it will be Hongkong and Kowloon.”

Enlarging on his remark about the “two tigers,’ Chou said:

“The fundamental outlook of the British—that this is a conflict between Right and Left—is incorrect.

“But because of this outlook they tried to utilize the Kuo- mintang agents and their gangsters. In a way, Kowloon is a microscopic reflection of the British Empire, and if the same policy is continued they will meet this sort of thing everywhere.”

When I asked him to explain what he meant by this, Chou said:

“As I told Mr. O'Neill, the British hope that the more anti-Communists there are in

their colonies and other terri- |

Tories, the better it will be counter the Soviet Union and socialist countries.

“But it is not those countries which get hurt. It is the ter- ritories of the British Empire which suffer loss. And the power stepping in is not the Soviet Union and the socialist countries, but the United States of America. Look at the Iranian Oil Company and the Suez Canal Company.”

‘COOPERATION’

India draws Suez plan

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

A plan for settlement of the Suez dispute calling for ““‘cooperation’’ between Egypt and the countries using the Suez Canal has been placed by India before Egypt

and the major powers.

Foreign ministers attending the Security Council

debate on Suez last week re- ceived a draft of the plan from V. K. Krishna Menon, India’s minister without portfolio. The plan reportedly embodies the ideas advanced by India at the first London Conference on Suez.

Indian sources in New York declined to.comment on pub- lished versions of the plan. But from other United Nations sources it was learned that its essential feature was _ that there should be “cooperation” between Egypt and a “users’ association.”

It was stated that “consul- tation and liaison” . between the users and the Egyptian canal authority would be un- dertaken by a consultative committee of 16 nations, com- prising Britain, France, the

British Guiana wants

constitution restored

GEORGETOWN

All political parties in Bri- tish Guiana will ask the British Labor party to delay a con- stitution which is being foist- ed on their country.

This was decided by a con- ference of the parties conven- ed after they. had rejected pro- posed constitutional changes announced by Governor . Sir Patrick Renison.

They want the order in council setting forth the changes held back until their delegation arrives in England and demand restoration of the constitution suspended when the People’s Progressive party was elected in 1953.

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Seretse Khama, former chief of the Bamangwato tribe

United States, the Soviet Union, India, Japan and Egypt, and representatives from nine geographical regions.

The Indian plan would also reportedly provide that in the

case of disagreement between »

the users and the Egyptian authority on complaints of dis- crimination against shipping or the amount of tolls, ‘the matter would be referred to arbitration or to the United Nations.

Britain and France have in- sisted in their recent talks with Egyptian Foreign Minis- ter Mahmoud Fawzi that a minimum Anglo-French re- quirement for negotiation would be that any agreement arrived at should include “built-in” sanctions, whereby Egypt would automatically be punished for acts of discrim- ination.

It was reported that the In- dian plan would also call for a freeze on tolls at the level fixed in the last agreement between the old Suez Canal Company and the Egyptian government.

This would be to meet West- ern assertions that Egypt would, without some form of ceiling on tolls, be able to raise them to such heights that shipping companies. would would find them uneconomic. Provision would also be made in the Indian plan, it was stat- ed, to deal with canal im- provement programs.

The Soviet Union supported the Indian plan in London and it was widely reported to have received the approval of President Nasser.

deposed by the British government, received a tremen- dous welcome on his return to Bechuanaland last week. He is shown above with his English wife and their two chil- dren, Seretze (3) and Jacqueline (6).

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