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Soviets Refuse To Be Egypt's New
Gagged At Frisco
New York, Aug, 28.
· Russia will probably present its proposals for a peace treaty with Japan at the forthcoming San Francisco Conference, Mr Andrei Gromyko said on Monday.
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The Russian Deputy Prime snapped in response to a shorter Minister read a formal state- question, ment to reporters after his On leaving the pier, Mr arrival aboard the Queen Gromyka and his 31-man dele- Elizabeth,
gation drove past come · 50 What the Russian proposals pickota from the American- aro will be disclosed at the Hungarian Federation carrying Conference, Gromyko said. He placards denouncing Gromyko added that he
and Communism. hoped settlement would Kerve the In his statement, Mr Gròmyko best interests of those nations declared that the Russian delega which suffered most under on hoped a peace would be Japanese aggression, and that reached which "consequently will would be able to resume lay foundation for durable
with other peace in the Far East.""
world powers.
any
He did not mention Koren by
to
had
Mr Gromyko refused to talk Also aboard reporters until äffer the ship
docked. Several attempts was
the Queen Elizabeth
• Mr. Lewis.
W. Dougins. to gain access to his cabin were former Ambassador to Great met with a slammed door. Britain, and Mrs Douglas, Mr On the sun deck to deliver Douglas sald Eurepe is stronger his formal statement, thethan when he was there a year Russian Deputy Premier frowned ago, and "tetermined to build up and appeared nervous,
"No other comments,"
her strength even more."-Asso heelated Press.
Threat
London, Aug. 27.
The Egyptian Ambas- sador in London, Abdul Fattah Amr Pasha, today delivered to the Foreign Office the latest Egypilan note threatening abrogu- tion of the 1930 Treaty of Alliance.
He called ́on Mr E. J. Bowker, Amistant Under- Secretary in charge of Middle Eastern Affairs and handed over the text.
the
A copy was yesterday delivered in Cairo to British Ambassador Ralph, Stevenson:
Bir
The note has not yet been published, but it. la understood in dislómatio -quarters hero'to state' that the treaty revision negolia- Hone
be broken off
and vén delinitely:
to, abrogate the treaty on- less new and construc- tive British proposals are made by mid-September, when the present session of the Egyptian Parliament ends.---Reuter.
MADRID BUTCHERS LODGE PROTEST
Madrid, Aug. 27. setting up stalls to sell meat at charged prices much higher Butchers in Madrid's retall official prices.
than the official ones, markets today tried to prevent
Four-butchers--were-arrested ----After-today's - arrests-it-was meat trucks from leaving the but were released later.
agreed that the butchers should Officials said that the Munich-make a formaal complaint central slaughter house in pality opened the stalls because stating their case against the protest against the Municipality the butchers had persistently Municipality stalls.-Reuter.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
EXCEP
Mining In The N.T.
XCEPT in the sense that it might be regarded as a reminder that Government authority is essential for mining in the Colony, Friday's "large- scale police raid in the Tsun Wan area, *roping in 700 unlicensed wolfram diggers, gives the impression, in the sequel, of something of a farce. Half of the delinquents were fined $5 and the remainder released after three days' detention. Looking at that result, two thoughts immediately occur. If it repre
sents the degree of importance attached to preventing illegal operations, surely 150 police officers engaged in several hours of special duty, could be more- usefully employed elsowhere. Secondly, and perhaps more important, it might be asked whether or not it is preferable that seven hundred men, dally grubbing for a living in the hillsides, should be noted with a Nelsonian eye, rather than they should be thrust back into the atroots of the city to become odd-job .coolies or, worse, potential pickpockets
and thieves. Of public opinion on the possible alternatives," there can be no doubt at all-and the action taken by the Magistrates in the N.T. courts rather suggests ‘ʼn measure of agree- ment. Behind it all, of course, another issue arises and it is concerned with the absence of any clear Government policy in the matter of offering facilities for controlled mining rights. And this is even more astonishing to- day when mineral ores command high prices in the world market and short supply is the rule rather than the excep- tion. As far as we can see, interested parties ready to invest in workable mining lodes, meet in Government departmenta
but with nothing obstructionism, : A more appropriate official approach could easily prove to be of considerable local benefit--and at the same time eliminate the need for awoops on hard-working men Independently operating.
Solution To Water Problem
"is with considerable satisfaction
Government's intention to construct within the next three years a new reservoir, the storage capacity, of which will be sufficient to solve the existing water - supply problem In Hongkong. We congratulato Govern ment on its scheme, which possesses a number of ingenious features, and on its decision to take the project out of the blue print stage and give it immedi- ato practical Implementation. And for what the undertaking, promises to achieve its cost, is relatively light. Er penditure, for the origina 15-mi“ kam. pment would finally hiye rpol into something approaching
I that we see to reveal today
· HERVICK · KING GEORGI
MONG KOK MATAU WAJ
Singapore Govt's Policy Again! Hotly Criticised
Construction Work To Start Shortly
TAI LAM CHUNG VALLEY PROJECT DISCLOSED
A $40 million scheme for the construction of a new reservoir at Tai Lam Chung Valley is to be put into operation immediately, the China Mail learned officially this morning.
The reservoir will take from three to three and a half years to complete. It will have a storage capacity of 1,150 million gallons which, it is officially stated, will meet the present. deficiency in the water supply position and remove any anxiety of a prolonged drought.
"On today's consumption figures," said an official, "the new reser- voir would provide sufficient filtered water for à full 24-hour a day service to be maintained throughout the year.”
Filters.
The Tai Lam Chung Valley|
From the pumping scheme thas been under review station another 30 ing, pipeline
since 1940, and the present con- will discharge to Rapid Gravity Thousands
alters, the water will gravitata
Singapore, Aug. 27. struction proposals represent a Filters designed for an output Another devastating attack on the Singapore for solving, tos all time the
first instalment of a bigger plan of 10 milion gallons per day.
Service Reservoir, —From government's policy during the riots last December Colony's water supply problem,
another 30 kr. pipeline to a Here are the principal features was made by the President of the Singapore Assof the new scheme.
service reservoir on the hill Tai Lam Chung Reservoir beh
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ciation, Dr C. H. Withers-Payne, who said at as will be formed by the con- have
behind Laichikok. This will
a capacity of about 10
futuro
to 20
Marooned
By Floods
Mexico City, Aug, 27.
general meeting that the lack of leadership and the struction of a 130 it bigh concrete million gallons and be designed
extension inefficiency of most of the senior officers of the dam. The dam will be built for
thicker than normal for a dam of million
From the Lui- had shattered what little confidence the public. The top water level will water will be distributed to theed by fleing Boog in Eastern
raising in
Singapore government during the December riots is height to allow for a chikok: Service Reservoir "Paratroopers were mobilised
the
Distribution Aub-
the
Adddy to drop food and medicino to thousands of persons maroon-
Mexico.
the town is about 48 Inches the developing district on buntales
only
then had.
be 150 feet above sea level and town mains but a trunk main reservair will have e capacity will also be laid to a further "From the first overt acts jag the reins of government of 1,150 million gallons stored reservoir at Mn Tau Wel, un Air, bighway and rall relict by the rioters, the government dropped them, the COC was in an area of about 200 acres, the hill behind King George expeditions headed into the seemed to have been suffering ready to take them up with Outlet Tunnel For the com- School, of about fived milkon hurricane-devastated area be- from creeping, paralysis," he real leadership, determination, plots scheme the size of pipe gallons capacity to feed the tween the Sierra Madre Oriental cold.
knowledge and skill."
required to carry the water to
and the Gulf of East side of the pebínsula. Mexico, wherd swelling rivers He said it also had to be
Touching on the Governor's | diameter.
- LOCAL CONTRACTORS ·
overflowed across nearly 15,000,- considered whether; the gov- | dispatch, slfached to the inquiry Unfortunately, the
proposed that all the 000 acres and inundated dozens ernment action in muzzling the report, absolving the Colonial possible line for this pipe to work shall be let out on' com-of towns and villages. press was not connected with Secretary of blame, Mr Withers take would be along the main tract to local firms. Ita wish to prevent, criticism. Payne said: "We do not support road from Castle Peak, but The reservoir, outlet tunnel President Miguel Aleman Paying tribute to the then the dispatch of the Governor, due to the twisting nature main aqueduct, pumping station, ordered the paratroop company GOC Mal-Gen. D. Dunlop, dated 15th July, except insofar the road, and the lack of any filters, and service reservoir of the President's Guard to lead Mr. Withers-Payne' said:" "WORS repeated what was dicar wide vergee at the side, it will be designed by the Cole rescue operations." were Indeed fortunate that from the Commission's finding, would be quite impossible to suting Engineers and the con- Officials said many of the when the nebulous hands hold namely, that the Deputy Com- lay such a large pipe on many tracts supervised by a staff of
missioner of Police did not sections of the highway.
engineers engaged by them on refugees, who fled their homes deliberately withhold informa-
behalf of
as Adio waters rore to, depths of Government, and It is, therefore, planned twerking under the direction of over six feet in low-lying areas the Director of Public Works along the Panuco and Mante The Singapore Association Is dodge the worst sections of the By this means it is hoped that Rivers, could be supplied only. an influential body, comprising read by tunnelling. The first local firms will
the by airdrop.ne leading Europeas and Asian tunnel starts at the reservoir.maximum possible benefit out Reller rescue operati
Instead of the usual arrange of the vast expenditure.
for victims of last business and professional men.--- United Press.
ment of a draw-off tower
Flying Saucers Again?
Lubbock, Texas, Aug. 27.
Two strange formations Uk "strings of beads in crescent shape” bustled through the sky over Lub- bock at a speed which car ried them from horizon to horizon in three seconds, three Texas college profes- sors said today.
tion."
Poisoned Bread Kills 3
TUNNELLING
ما
obtain
The distribution system will hurricane, which claimed. 205 the dam, with the outlet pipes be carried out by Water- lives in Jamaica and Mexico, passing through the dam itself, works Office of the PWD as an began as a second tropical
the draw-off tower in this ordinary item of new works storm: across
Continent cast will be built away from construction.
broke up and headed out Into dam and siled over the end
L
the
the
hoped to be able to call the Pacifie It of a tunnel which will carry for tenders for the dam in six hurricane, which the water directly under the hill at the southeast of reservoir,
"emerging Tsing Lung Tau.
menseed
Ocean. The new
and L Paz or seven months' time, and it is Mazatland and the estimated that the entire project opposite sides of the Gulf of above will take up three to three, and California, lashed both flaking ports with squalls, but weather the officials – said winds
An unusual feature of this a half years to complete,
An officiat recalling
bad tunnel will be an arrangement background to the Tai Lant diminished from 90 to 35 miles. whereby the discharge from a (Conta, on back page, col., 1)nn hour-United Press. catchwater over nine miles long will be directed into this tunnel near the Thing Lung Tau out- let; and it will be done in such Three people have died a way that if the flow from the catchwater exceeds the draw-on and 28 people have been taken to hospital in this to the town, the surplus will flow back up the tunnel and small provincial fown, as a will be discharged int
into the
Pont St Esprit, France,
Aug. 27.
The weird formations were reported by W. L. Ducker, head of the College's petroleum en
"If I hadn't had confirming wit- nesses present 1 fool mare I believed caused by bread would have said nothing about from a local bakery..
the catchwater a
gineering department, who said, result of food poisoning, resin the first stage |
what I saw.”
More than 100 people who ate of the scheme, the dosin shatt to the funnet will have to be the bread were ill last week; built. The tunnel will be about Dr Ducker said, he and Dr and dogs and cats were affected
a third miles in length. one and A. G. Bert, professor of chem- as well..
This is to relax
Main Aqueducts ical engineering, were
Yesterday, a married couple, ing at the home of Dr W. L. Mr and Mrs Paul Rieu died convey the water from the re- to the filters and service, servoir Robinson, geology professor, ona after airs Rieu had Jumpert out Saturday night when two of the hospital window in a reservoir from which it will be
and distributed to the town. beads whipped One man died last week. Tsing Laing Tou the next section From "string of nerom the heavens.
today a fourth person was in a
will comprise á 30 ir, diameter steel
as far as the Dipeline
Hallucinations have been a feature of the poleaning Four Browery when just of the hospital cases have tried become a tunnel emerging
Ho said, "We felt no shock com now.
waves such as an object moving at such high speeds in lower atmosphere, would give off and to commit suicide and all have before the site of her which the absence of such waves would ad intermittent attacks of Pipe Works after indicate that the formation was terror in which they thought another 30 tax-pipe flying in stratosphere 80,000 they were being chased by wild to a pumping station near the feet above the earth or higher. beasts, the bottom of the access road to Bread is now being brought Shing Mun at the town, elda of The three professors donded to St. Esprit, which stands, on Taus Wan, “Allogether 4.3, miles that passage of the objects the Rhone, about 22 miles north of pipeline und 2 miles of turno, across the are of the aky re- & Avignon, from distant locall-will be required. quired about three seconds.
$100 millon an outlay beyond the means of Hongkong. The modified scheme will cost $40 millión, -and when com- pleted the new reservoir will be cap- able of supplying suficient additional filtered water to allow of an uninter- rupted service. The scheme is bold in imagination and clever in design, and fullost credit goes to those associated with it. It is a matter for satiáfaction too, that most of the money to be spont on the scheme will remain in the Colony, shared among Hongkong con- tractors Undoubtedly the neral public will give hearty approv to the
isation th "timeɔthe w
three
required.
TWO DAILY OUTPUT Police enquiries have shown un
Pumping Station. As the level Ducher and we ngured that that a baker bought some home of heater to the Reservoir The need must have been 1,500 made four from peasants con will be a maximum of 160: 2001, miles per hour if the objectay to the law which stipulates it is impossible to get the water that flour for public consume to the town entirely br-gravity, were miles, high p
Hon can only be bought from it fast i?Thin Wan (avabout the The PILLARoLrs said they could
recognised millers.
ing It will therefore, not determine the shope of the Austrait of the four and the pumped from here to alters objects because of the grond, hit autopales have so far not grow which are to be "alted hurther dach gave on a Sion of redoclod | 'anded conure identification of up the Shiogluing mocess: XUNG a) much an diavation' stint, the
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