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Big Fire In Kowloon
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Drinking water had to be car ried from the nearest hydrant about 4,000 yards away. Suatta- on was provided by numerous brooks rurning tatough and under
the huts.
Two Children Missing
Tragio Casos dramatised the havoa A mother of six mast- aged to save fpue of her child. ran. Two were missing up to lato last night. The last the mother saw of her two miestng chi'dron was when they were running out of the house, was reported.
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Prague, December 4. According to Western diplo matic sources here, Mr. Noel Field, an American mentioned in the Rajk trial in Budapest as a key organiser of the Unit- ed Statos Intelligence Service, may be one of the contral figures in a spy trial being prepared in Czechoslovakia,
Mr. Field disappeared in May this year. Three months later his name was mentioned in the trial of M. Laszlo Rajk. By then hilị brother, Mr. Herman Field, had disappeared and no had Noel's wife, Mrs. Herta Field
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In the Field affair,
Western observers plecing to- gether what evidence there is bellove that Czechoslovakia la to have a trial the lines of the Rajk and Kostov casos, Thara is at present no indication that any big name Communiste pro affected.
No Trace
Another fandly lust everything Meanwhile, there is no trace of except for a dustbin and a large the Field family. Mr. Nuel Field's
mother personal effects frying pan, which
left in a hotel. salvaged after the Are.
here have disappeared. The Cze- ller husband was shopping in choslovak authorities were asked
She saved her liong Kong then.
to investigate the case but have tour sons. The victim alleged that
not yet reported any clues. unters had taken away most of what was in her house before it Was razrd.
A carpenter had completed two new huis recently and sold them for HK$2,500 each. The victim alleged that the owners refused when he saw them to pay lumn riter the fire.
A retired laundryman, who ar- rived in Hong Kong this year,
Mrs. Herta Field was in Prague in August when she was belioved to be looking for her husband. She apparently coiled on Mr. Herman Field for help. She went to Prague's Auzyne Airport ́to meet Herman and has not been heard of since.
The Budapest prosecution In bought brick house in which to the Itajk trial said that Mr. Noel
Can live with his family of seven. Field was a member of an Ameri-
Harry He saved quite a number of his Oent
personai effects, including 嶺
can spy organisation which, they
said, was called “Organisation X."
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A Shanghai couple rushed back to Lee Nguk Village on learning
115 inen) New-From StedTusion the fire and found their brick
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THE NUMERALS
house gutted.
Personal Effects
Destroyed
Their childram escapad.
all
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But
Court Brevities
Ling Ching-pin,
merchant,
charged with importing,14 tools ef gold without # permit, had Ave toela of the gold ordered confiscated
Wicks ut by Mr. Kowloon yesterday.
Defendant, who came here from personal belongings and Taipeh by air without, any lug- little carnings kept In age last Saturday, carried the' trunks" were destroyed. The gold in his pockets. couplo presented
pathotic
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Some Buffs soldiers helped the Hin-shing La af Central yester Fire Brigudo and Police in ro-day charged weth harbouring an scue work. Brick walls of houses unmarried girl of 15 years with- which were burning
the mother's had to be battered down. Two British sal- November 20. diers assisted a fireman to rum down
Mr. H. W. Fraser of the S.C.A. a solid wall to break a house where it was believed a sald that Ho had kept the girl in a hut in Sampan Street near man was buried under debris. It Iwas subsequently found that the Spring Garden Lame. Tvictims were two roasted pigs. / cused was remanded for three Those who, did not suffer from days while the S.C.A. completed the fire have another grouch their investigations.
the
scene
which is serious.
People rushing to tramped on vegetable patches, which were well Alled with greens. Fences were damaged.
An old woman, whose matshed miraculously escaped the fire, she stood by her garden yelling her head off at passers-by who violated her patch without any ceremony.
Note: Romanisations in brackets are used in many was frantic
text books.
Vocabulary:
1. (yat) yut' (1)
One.
2. (i) (3)yce
Two.
3. (saam) star(1)
Three.
4. (sz) say(3) ......
Four.
5. (ng) (2)ng
Five.
6. (luk) (3)look
Six.
77. (ts'at) tout(1)
Seven
8. (part) bant(3)
Eight.
9. (kau) gau(2)
Nine.
10. (shap) (3)shup
Ten.
11. (ling) (1)ling
Zero.
Combinations:
1 (3)shup (2)ng.
2.. (3)yeo (3)shup
3. say (3) (3)chup baat (3):
4. (3)look (3)shup tsut(1)
5. gau(2) (3)shup gau(2)
Numbers For Practico:
31317. saam(1) yut(1), saam(1)
yust(1) tsut(1). 48484, suy(S)... boat(3) sny (3)
bnat(3) saya(3).
20202. (3)yco ́ (3)look: (3) you
...: (B)look (9)voe.
10307 yut(1) (1)ing saam(1)
(1)ling truf(1).
(2ing gau(2) (2)ng gai(2)
60595. (2)ng
Fifteen. Twenty. Forty-eight. Sixty-seven. Ninety-nine.
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