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MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1951.
Shocking Holiday And Both Are Doing Fine
Train Disaster
Arundel, Aug, 5.
Two electric trains carrying 700 sandbucket- laden passengers to the beach smashed together on the Southern Railway today in the biggest weekend holiday disaster of the year..
- Eight · persons, including 10-year-old David Gromer who died in hospital after the crash, were killed and 47 Injured, British Railway officials said. Several of the in- jured were on the danger list. The dead and mained in- cluded several children.
UN Truce Delegates Stand By
Advance UN HQ, Korea,
Aug. 6.
United Nations armistice regollators today (Monday) remained on a standby basis waiting for General Mat- thew B. Ridgway's reaction
The Injured were trapped in the splintined, telescoped conches for more than two hours and the screams of frightened children spurred on doctors. police and firemen who tore through the wreckage,
4
The wreck occurred at 11.58 b.m., at the Hitle town of Ford, four miles south of Arundel. Trains had been passing through at five-minute intervals on the three-day August Bank
An eight-couch train 460 persons to the sands n Bognor had halted at the plat- form to pick up the Jasl familles
before its Anal stop nine miles away,
TRAIN SWITCHED The Brighton-Portsmouth ex- press, travelling at its usual to Communist assurances pace, approached the station. It that armed Reds would be was carrying 250 persons, meny
kept away from the Kae-of them bound for the Navy's
Song conference site.
was
open house on its big ships at Portsmouth, and was not to go A spokesman in the Camp through Ford on a second track Information
sold this without stopping. Office morning no word yet had been At the last minute it received over the radio-tele-
onto the track of the train and slammed phone between the Communist strnil delegates' cam
Its rear. Carriages were the ad- into anit
splintered, glass showered over vance UN base.
The Peking Radio thus morn- the station and one couch ram-
med Ing careled a reply of General
a steel signal into
Post: Ridgway's message of Sunday Passengers in compartments in satisfactory explana-front of the moving train and on those in the rear of the Saturday of 100 armed soldiers stationary one were crushed.
engineer of the first
tion
100
of the
yards
from
appearance
come from
The the meeting train, seated in the tiny control place and assurance it wouldn't compartment, was kill
killed in- happen again.
Observers here believed the stantly. Emergency calls went
out to
hospitals within a 20- next move would Gen. Ridgway's office in Tokyo. mile radius and the small station There
was soon jammed with ambul- Indication was no WOR whether
men. the Supreme Allied unces and first ald
The scene resembled a battie Commander had contacted Vice-
ground except for the litter of latest plenic baskets, bathing suits,
children's rubber
water toys
Admiral C. Turner Joy, senior UN delegate, development.
on the
for a
TIME TO MEET There
was still tine meeting to be held today if the
and
spades. Firemen worked alongside a party of WRNS and, the station muster, Alec Miles, directed porters, and platform
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A giraffe was born in the Copenhagen Zoo recent- ly, and in this photo the mother and her daughter are
few hours, after the happy event. plctured a
AP Picture.
Cadets Say They Were Threatened
West Point, August 5. Eight cadets among the 90 ordered. dismissed from West Point for cheating said today that they were "threatened with imprison-- ment at Leavenworth and loss of citizenship" if they did not admit their guilt. The Army vigorously denied
Allies acted quickly in accepting workers in carrying the bodies their charges.
Communist explanation, of dead, and injured from the Helicopters probably will carry
wreckage. harply curtailed ÚN team to
First bid was given to dozens The Imjin Kaeran
River
on the scene-United Press, Dridge-2011-was unusable-across the hooded stream and 11 was
doubtful whether the structure REPLY PROMISED
Kacson.
US
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de-
They said they had manded courts martial to get formal hearings of, their cases, but had been refused in cach case.--The-Army-replied that.
entitled they Avere not this privilege under the law.
Colonel Janies Lear, Academy, public relations officer, suld that none of the men had been
to
Living Language
Why we sny Cat's. Cradle.
"Slic wrapte Crist with clothis, and putte him In the
cratche." (John Wycliffe: 1324-1384).
The first pallern in the Cat's children's game of Crudle, which is played with a length of wool be- tween the fingers, repre- cents
manger-cradio Gents the
Jesus. of the new-born "Cal's Cradle really TECARS
"manger - beesuse "Cafe" is another
way
of saying "cratch," a manager. This word "cratch" Is still used in certain_country parts of o English-speaking world for the rack In which hay is put for cat- tie.
The pause that refreshes
In concluding the series of articles ou Hongkong's light industries, our staff reporter tells readers about.
Matches & Pencils
Ever since cavemen discovered that by rubbing two pieces of wood together long enough, one could produce a spark and then a flame, men have been searching for a quick and easy 'way of producing this valu- able element. "Pencils, or rather the idea of drawing with some instru- ment, goes back just about as far, for it appears cavemen were partial to drawing. Both match and pencil took centuries to perfect, and the physical intricacy of the simple-looking machine termed a 'match' to- day is underestimated. Between them--the box, stick and 'match head
require some forty raw materials.
DREAM
Coca-Cola
From THE FILES.
100 Years Ago
A Month In HK
11
"did
From within and from without we have bute to make up n. budget to anything in the way. of novelty. We cannot call o mind the month during Which there has been so litte of an cxeling nature, as in the one Just endid,
On the 25th ult., there wát an altempt at a Land Sale, upen 'the' new principle of advances in *Mutch making started in the the East Iffrewise, but manufac-, pany which employs 53 Can- pash down on a Axed upret an- Diony with the Hongkong Match turing methods are not come work production must reniat. But the regulation, Factory, in 1938, and about six parable.
full is which is a good one, has onths later, what was to be So many materials are need- 300 to 400 gross of pencils a day. | established too late; there are the biggest factory with the most ed because there are so many An average American factory's more people disgrezd to red than materi machinery In China requirements. Firstly, the match daily gure is three to four to buy land in Hongkong nowa- vent no. The Great China among other qualities, maust be thousand gross.
days; and the male spoken of Match Company covers a fair safe and must strike.
This
The World Pencil Company's net yield, in the ahape of A com just of Ping Chau Island, One necessitates oxidising, reducing own skilled engineers make the mission to the Auctioner, vory,
nail concern, the Tal Tung and adhesive agents, oxidizable machinery used in the factory, much
mare W3 should suppose, which uses almost no automatic ma
materials Hke animal glue, which cecuples one crowded than enough to pay the cooles resin and machinery, has been busit since
workroom. _water-soluble_gums,
that carried his Auchlancering inert the war.
materiale such
HOW IT'S DONE. chair and rendezvous flag from pulverised glass,
are Grooves
hollowed 1,000 Over
workers
quartz, clay
end of the town to the other, slabs and plaster of Paris, and under] the-
of wood, and employed by
There has been three factories,
Criminal the two pieces stuck Session of the Supreme Court, at heading but, this figure does not include salds,
alkalis
dyes,
with lengths of graphite casual labout on Chung Chau wax and certain chemicals. The in the grooves. Sticking used to walch, of fourie:n, cars,
only one, Island, in lite Rennie's MU!! | M***
sciences refugee camp and in fact all matched recipe is an ancient be done by machinery, but it was following sent
une, basically the same found that applying the glue by the remainder: and cover boxes,
£10 contury when
method. safety method
Shaping--cutting the Almost the whole of the full matches were first invented. blocks into individual pencils with hard labour for periods of two years (4)the same for one time workers are Cantonese, and
ABOUT PENCILS ·
The then
pencils are | year. (3) the same for six months follows, and Pencils
another matter smoothed
under the Great China, Company em-
altogether. They be out of ploys 600 of them.
Dipping into paper (1)-fine of £50 to the Queen, Whereas Japan is rollers.***
enamal (on a plea of guilly to an as- long to a match workers" union
the
running where paint comes next, and then when mult on board Ship.) ·*.. which has given no trouble nor matches are concerned at the the pencil is try the ends acc
moment, become politically minded.
she is very much in chopped. .off to
SOME RELIEF- equal length. I the race with
ότι pencils, What takes the stamping machine It seems he industry has en-
the name of the Asia's demand for pencils; she comes the of taking over 00% of Indo-
then and Anal
singe-packing. makes them cheaper than we It is cheaper to make machinery
aro
the
YO
miscetegether w
one
there
Boquital-end the
with
aver the colony. The casuals fold today as it was, at the turn of hand was a far more economical for 18 years (1). W ment
arc
Urely escaped, the Influence of 15-more, Japan is in the process second to each pencil,
the American embarge although of course they have
been
hit with different degrees of force.
can in Hongkong, nhd
sub-
As some relief to the ennul of which we should have had to complain, the Governer and mitted for pub Legislative Coureli bave rub...
public consideration and comment the draft of an
Matches have In no way been sidised with first class at here than to get it from Japadance having for its cbjcc
crippled by America, for their forty different materials come
ROW
per cent
from America into the Ninety Hongkong's pencils have
and our products are of quality then
of that country, Bose All the workers are trained
Trade
from all over the world, and
in the factory and all live out those whose source was the States be exported to England, Pakis- except for ten who share a
They have ..., come from other match lan, South America and South mess. making countries; for instance, Africa, for the Colony'a populace union. Amerlean pine from Scan-prefers foreign pencils, and only Generally speaking the out- dinavia. But it is not so easy uses ten per cent of those locally look for the Colony's pencil obtaining access to the sources made.
Industry in not very bright. of supply, and the cost in some cases is higher. in price is being taken care of the coloured and most of the
Raw materials have set a
But the rise problem since the embargo. All
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and
on improvement on
matters ot method of decision the present fact, in our Supreme Court, by tho unanimous verdict of a Jury of Lix. Some remarks on the will be found proposed law paper, Among our extracts also the supplement to this
Made Joe Look Large Chinese vessels, presunie
Too Smart
new
will be found the details. DI gatlant boat attack on several > be pirates, three
which were captured after long chase and at great hazard. We have heard, with much
uch pleasure, that the effect of the long exposur in open boots has not resuled ia sericus sickness to those engaged, as might have been anticipated, and would certainly have occurred had it not been uven averted by the excitement of close action
"
by the new markets, for output ordinary graphite comes from has increased 250% since 1946, England,
a little from Hunan, but this is of very rough THE DIG WOREY
quality compared to the Ameri-
Berlin,-Aug. 5. What is really worrying the can which is, as with so many The sharp crease in Marshal match Industry is the future materials, the best and most ex- Stalin's trousers (in a prospect of all the new-won pensive. Very little wood, too, statue, here) is the only thing markets going to rivals-Japon comes from the States now dimming Sovlet-German friend- chiefly who though she has no England supplies most of it and ship at the World Youth Festival match industry at present, will Formosa a little.
in Berlin... doubtless start a
as soon as the We may shortly be without peace treaty has been signed, both materials and markets for
A hurriedly erected slatua of a and probably fix up trade pacts the penell industry, which would Germany shows the Soviet nard's stores, Officers clothing,
Stalin-the-only one in all The wrecked Steam Ship Rey-- with many of Hongkong's create a critical situation. buyers in the South Seas,
Germany, Japan, and Ameri-jacket and
leader dressed in a nattily-cut Books etc., as saved by wrecking In this case, Hongkong may ca
sharply creased vessels sailing out of Cura-sing are the biggest
pencil have had It" for Government producers and threaten to leonk stance.
trousers in a somewhat Napo- moon, are being sold piecemeal
at
village of. Keczow; the does not consider we are squeeze Hongkong.out “alto-
According to Rias, the radio
Auctioneering scene last capable of producing suflefentgether. China allows no im-
week was beautifully decorated with or consistently
to ports she is self-producing and in the American sector, Soviet enough
self-consuming.
officials humly refused to attend the. Hags of all nations hu
Spot. The grecful festoons, The colony produces none
the unvelling ceremony.in East in pencil factories spinng
very naturally arises--it because of the necessary, raw materials up after
· Last
Friday the war, and they Berlin Uttle struggle bravely on keeping up Stalin had been made focally and consumes
to look things can be saved (some of iba "too bourgeois",
bocks not damy they said. itself the Great China Com-full production, football players scheduled to be
Chinese One is the World Pencil Com The Russians were also said expelled aid he already haa
Majesty's Pliat have News has been rec:lved by many has 60% of Hontcong's football
which
no pany which started two years relative kallness it mained at anchor of the Pratas, absorbe received, offers to play
It is the biggest in the relative smallness although it whilst the Reynard's crew for five other colleges. Other mail of the death on July 26 of
more than 10 per cent of the ago.
Colony-and- hag a branch in is rather larger than life-Reu-
effects on to cadets said they also have been Mrs Susan, Highby, of "Tat Yat",
rafting the Canton... To the World Com-ter Kenhalme Estate, Leigh-on-Sea, factory's output. contacted by other universities Essex, who for 20 years, from
What this Industry needs is
Island, from whence they might They said they were giving the 1502 to 1922, was a resident of
an assurance of security 10
have been taken on some
fulure offers serious consideration
that it can go ahead and ex-
occasion? The Louisa, a Cochin United Press.
cand.
could be restored in limb for a
Karachi, Aug. 5. inotor convoy to travel to Pakistan will reply to the Platest message from the Indian Enpinceu have | Prime Minister, Mir Jawaharini | threatened with severe punish- pulled the 21 pontoons to a cafe Nehru on the Kashmir dispute inchorage along the shore, It soon, official sources here sald would take time to move them today. back in position sa trucks could cross the fact flowing stream swelled by recent ralas-Asss- Ali Khan, was considering the ciated Press,
inessage today-Reuter.
They added that the Pakis
ment if they did not co-operate with the investigative board. He said, "It at any time 19
it discovered that such threats
the properly for so doing."
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She was 85 years of age and led peacefully after an Illness faring five weeks.
market
Not more than ten million. 18 sunk into Hongkong's match in She was the widow of the distry, and what machinery late Captain Walter Highby who,
there is of the 1939 typo de- during residence in Hongkeng.
signed by he Japanese,
The
cost of inbour which the was Quartermaster of the old
Voluntee
here has not gone up within. Defence Corps,
and was also District the
determines past year, Vienna Played by Marek Weber
Concert Grand Senior Warden of the whether the bulk of the work and la Orchestra: a. A
shall be done by workers or Featuring Kathleen Long (Planists South China Ledge.
machinery, and labour certainly wins in Hongkong.
From
2. Variety. Bandbox. Cambridge. Theatre, London (BECTS):
of Hengitong 'Memories 2.30.
The Tomb of Tutankhamen. A
3.30, The Melachring Strings: 3.45. Captain and Mrs Highby lett Feature Programine by Leonard Hongkong in 1922 and Captain Cattrell (BBCTS). With
Jack Highby died at Leigh-on-Sen in Hawkins As Howard Carlor 44: May, 1948. Cherlon Williams and fils Orchestra: 5. "ing Up The Curtain" Musle for
Shakespeare by British Composers
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They had one son who lived Hongkong frein 1902 to 1914, BUCTS). BBC Theatre Orchestra and who at one time was an ap- Conducted by: Walter Goehr, Sylvia
In the Buldings Office Ilobert Irwin Prentice in the (Sopiane) Robih (Baritone): 5.43. Xavier Cugat and the PWD. He has since become
*
Match making methods differ radically from those in western countries, where in 1940
.con English splint cutting trivance produced two-million sticks an hour from a log of American pine or napen. Eight
Is Orchestra: 0. Programme Sumhe headmaster --cf S John's ten thousand box outsides
hours
mary!' 0.02, Children's Half Hour: School at Billericay, EIFER, which were turned out evening |
Durothy
co-educational
school.
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and six to seven sider, American methods are different again. Basically, boxos aro fashioned in the same way the world over, though here they are covered and assembled by hand. Output here is measured in cases of Bfly gram, and Great China turns out 100
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1 Mauna Lea in Hawali. 2. Nations Album: 7.30, A Nobert Stolz Concert: B. World News and Now George Washington. 3...
The Analysts London Helay): 6.10, in Manchester
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From The Editorial (recorded half-moon, but less than a full Relay) 0.10. "Hulle Australia” Introduced by Peter (BBCTS). Finch, with: Jor Nichols and Dick Mentity na liosts: 940,Concerto Plano Concerto Alan Rawathome) Capriccioso, Chaconno, Tarantella.... Louis Kentner with BC Symphony Ble Malcolm Con by Orchestra -Bergent: 10,Berenades' '10.15, Chanson Pranquim!!.10.34, African Journey. A Fortune Told in Gambia, "Astals by "Calin Will DDCTS) 10.50, London Promenade Orchestra). London 11 Radio News, Tel Relay) 11:19, Goodnight *me Weather Report: Con :: Sava The King 3.302 Close Down.
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Sweden, Belgium, Japon, three cluta are-conaistons with
Norwby India and a limited eply two soltastofan, and the and due, exoludes one of those
from America chief. quantity: clockwise order, the three.oficials
Indo-Asia, which is the arais-Japhet, 'conirman: Tam
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marke respective Kwives::assillesith.
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the
even)
up
by
Junks, why
why may not.
the
By Galbraith bullt bark, with a Chinese crew
(commanded by an Englishman). has also returned from her trip to the wrecks; and from what has, oozed out it would appear. that the Reynard promises to remain "a spectacle" for many a long day to come.
THE WEATHER
The Baromater throughout the month has carried a high range- a mean of, nctations of the Thermometertowa a little be- low the average, and at no time has the Temperature been higher than 89 deg (the known maximum recorded being 02deg.) Of rain we have had a plenly; the number of days on which I has fallen already exceed the everage number for the month
(105
The health of the troops in Garrison is not so malisfactory as we would wish to have the plea- Bune of recording; as compared with the state in July last year.
the improvement B
most.
how monest, Then we had to
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fell of 23 deaths this month there has been twelve
privates of the 50th Be (8 of them
of
bia
Craft) of the Corps (one droth by
out of window and fracturing his skull) * Brid one of the Bag Anisiepi Bura geons. At present dale there are
ick to the European hos peals and 14 in the hospital of The Ceylon Rino Coroa Potat BY: 174. Abou: 150, convalesOdo64) (ihres-imurths of thes there living on