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JOHN CLARKE'S The
CASEBOOK
Night In Soho
CHINA MAIL
Established "1845
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28,
1952.
Lays "Space Suits” Tested
Duchess Foundation Stone
(Continued from Page 1) popular of all, however, Was 111s Royal Highness the late Prince George, who served on this Station as a Naval Omeer THE eyebrows of in HMS Hawking in
strangers in the public He mixed freely with all of us
your proud position as the world's greatest ports.
One of
In spite of the rapid growth of pupulation since the war--an incretise largely due to your generous hospitality towards 1925/26. the influx of refugees here, has created for tho which and von a warm place, and authorities a problem of over- galleries of Central Lon-esteem, in our hearts. He will crowding without parallel in
police courts are long be remembered. raised high in wonder
don's
any other city In the world- Your Royal Highness the the Government and the people Hongkong are embarking Hongkong have when, as sometimes hup-peuple
been looking forward enger-upon schemes of reconstruction
not one,
pens, the gaoler ushers In not half-a-dozen. but up to 30 or 40 men to be
together charged
breaking the law.
with
Such a number take us much Arranging in the confined space
ta
of
arrival. your
come
of
Now and development; nimed at the That
they restoration of the city's pro- have you will wish me to bid you a most serily, and the improvement hearty welcome on their behalf. of conditions for all countless thousands who live and work diversity of the population here. The will not in the least detract from|
That nature of the genuine
both
we
aro a
bo
SIGN OF CONFIDENCE welcome, and we welcome you
Such plans, of which I have bernuse you represent to of the court, as the chotus of an amateur musical comedy at its us Her Majesty the Queen and niready learned a little,
*The Arst rehearsal.
dock can
also because you yourself have sign of the confidence which is royally shared with us the rightly felt by the people in the only accommodate four or five only need
disasters and The rest squeeze, in where they
triumphs of the future of their city. Every tremendous almost into the tr may, spilling
years
have effort of this mature is to
warmly commended. It is good We Press box and the solicitors'
lived through together. enclosure.
The court SECTIE
aware of the selfless and happy to know that in the short space end of the in about
split at the seams and manner which Your Royal of time since the
10 to
over war you have been able Highness carries out the never spectators begin nervous wonder what would happen were ending culls of
public duty achieve so much. such a collection of desperate men to take it into their hands 10 make a concerted da liberty.
47.
for
IN fact the men are not very better desperate chagrmed describes their mood. They are Camblers, and therefore good losers. They are mostly Maltese waters or Cypriot kitchen hands or Italian assistant cooks-a fair cross-section of the humbler half of Suho's hard-working population.
Pd in the early hours and
ደር
Vious!
fined
are not
in this
that are made upon you. This
I am delighted that my visit makes 'us appreciate all the has enabled me to take part in more your graciousness
today, since I ceremony visiting us here i distant have for many years been Hongkong. We hope that Your interested in the work of several Royal Highness will have an great hospitals at home, and I to assuglate Interesting and enjoyable stay. am always glad and that you will be able to myself with a new development see as much of the Colony and of this kind. Of the many its people as possible.
problems which confront you, ihat of
sufficient providing
is one hospital accommodation elsewhere in that has perhaps As is the esse
most this restless world, we also have affected by the
in
are
ANXIETIES
there are always costs in these construction cuses, though we
told what they cover,
Such
been increase
the
an example reveals, I think, the very generous spirit ol co-operation and good fellowship which exists among
to be associated today.
A.M. "Tex" Johnston (second from left) test pilot, in- flates his new US Air Force high altitude emergency sult in a pressure test prior to taking a B-52 aloft. Awaiting his turn Is Art Curren, test pilot who served as an observer in the flight Helping Johnston adjust controls of the suit is Major DJ. Maloney (far left). The sult was developed to enable flyers to survive in the near vacuum of the upper atmosphere should their cablu pressurisation fall-London Express.
S'pore Labour Party Expels President
Singapore, Oct. 27. The General Council of--the Singapore Labour party tonight expelled the Party president, Lim Yew Hock, after a three-hour closed session.
There is
no better drinkethan “
OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
WATSON'S
Employers Demand Reversion
To
44-Hour Week
By H. KING WOOD
In
Canberra, Oct. 24. "Australia's 40-hour week, introduced five years ago, wasn't any pinch-penny luxury. terms of hard cash as represented by wages it cost millions; when the experts start figuring what it lost in production they begin at nine figures, and there are critics aplenty who lay at its doors sole blame for our inflation pains.
With factories knocking off at 2 and 3 pm on Fridays at a time when everyone was wanting any- thing that could be manufactured after the austerity of the war years, the critics could be in a large measure right.
Main kick of employers is that in the refrigerator. I've found the 40-hour week in in reality them in coffee.essence, sugar, about 35 hours what with dripping tomato sauce and cocoa, morning and afternoon tea A 17-year-old girl across the breaks, time off for showers, Into road was bitted on the longue starts, early knock-offs and so by one while she was asleep."
Mrs Gray, of Botany, has had forth. They make it more pain- ful producing statistics which ants. show that with three weeks' Mayor of that area, Alde:man holiday, a fortnight's sick leave F. Chagwick, sald Argentine ants £1-million and time to be allowed for three would become n months' long service leave (after problem it Government did not 20 years) actual time given to help local councils to fight them, are brown Argentine ants the boss falls short of 30.
NSW Government first intro- coloured, about a tenth duced the move ns a
voto inch long and never stop when Only known catcher; later the Federal Gov-on the move.
chlor- ernment put the matter in the destroyer-rather costly
dane spraying.. hands of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court which in duo
SYDNEY: After 35 years on course ruled in favour of 40
the bottom of the ocean a Bri- hours being Australia's working
has begun to tish
company week.
•
of an
salvags a wealthy cargo from the liner Cumberland, which iles of Eden, on the South Coast,
B
Significantly, it is from the time of the shorter week that our basic wage took kangaroo
A salvage ship has already leapa upwards until today It stands at £11.17 in NSW, with recovered from the Cumberland a few shillings either way in 500 tons of copper Ingots and all other States, and the situa-500 tons of lead ingots. About tion more or less out of hand. 1,000 tons of Ingots still remain in the ships-the value of which FIGHTING HARD
today is about £300,000.
Now the employers have gone back to the court and asked for the restoration of the 44-hour week and a reduction in the basic ware
Employers, fighting hard, are being bitterly, opposed by the union. The case is likely to be
A Party statement issued after the meeting said that" Lim, who called a general meeting of Party members for October 31, was acting prejudicial to the interests of the
Party.
The statement said, Lim
asked to
return
bad The Parly's
membership is im predominantly Indian, bul Lim
and long drawn-out one, general feeling of all partics that the court will not touch hours but will cut wages-per- haps the 19 prosperity loading it granted in the boom days of $1050.
In NSW Parliament this week
The Cumberland, a freighter bound for Britain, sanic in 200 feet of water after hitting
German mire,
COPLAND'S WARNING
a
Living
Language
Why we say Pain,
The derivation of this word throws up one of the oldest bellefs of mankind. It comes from the Latin paena, meaning penalty or punishment. Al through the Old Testa- ment, and especially in the Book of Job, it is argued that evil com- mited is repaid on earth with pain and sickness.
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TURBDAY, OCTOBER 23 -
By Att Japan, 430 p.m., Thai Airways. Mitaya, Ceylon, Blare, Dutma
Beirut, Gresi { Britain, Burope, a pm, 1.0.A.C.
Surface Macan, p.m.; p.m., Tai Loy/Tak Shing.
Formos. 5 p.m.. Wingsang.
GENERAL HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20-
By Al Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, UIS.A. Canada, 8 am, via P.A.L
Pakistan, Bahrain,
Formosa, Japan. 2 p.m. CA.T:- Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, 4,30 p.m. C.P.A.
Formosa, Okinawa,, UBA.
N.W.A.I
(New
ADELAIDE: Sir Dougios Cop-York), Canada, 430 pm H.K.A./ Indo-China, Tonkin only), 4.30 Jand, hard-hitting Vice Ghen- cellor of Australia's Nationalp.m. CP.A.
Japan,. p.m. B:0.A.C.
By Surface
pm.
T'ai Macao, Noon d University, is never frightened to buy into an economic argu- ment-which maybe is somewhat Loyak Shing.
China People's Republic, 9:30 am, train via Canton. natural, as he is an expert on
indo-China, Noch, as North Star, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 This week he told a meeting
in Australia
economics.
might
By Air Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, USA.
our anxieties in Hongkong, but population; the response of Their crime is that they have have said on more than one people of Hongkong in extend- been caught "frequenting a occasion in the past that the ing and Improving the existing
on as the charge Hongkong citizen's outlook
is. facilities
I think. most Raming house,"
of police has the future is one of confidence. remarkable. it. A posse
The Colony has seen diflicult
I bave
heard much of the caught them all wagering away times before; and there is an their tips and commission on inherent optimism in the char- great contributions which have
been acter of its people which stands already
made through card-games with nursary-names
charities, good stead. The Govern- organised like two-pack rummy, in a dingy in
and by for con- basement labelled
ment shares (bls optimism, as private donation, and the gift has always dene, and a convinc-of a fully equipped new hospital venience "club.“
Those who have not been ing outward sign of it is the by the Jockey Club is an out- of building standing instance of this whole- caught before are bound over in large programine varying
sums of money not to schools, hospitals and clinics, to hearted generosity.
again; those pre- say nothing of reclamations and a city hall bound over, lose the £10 or £20 which they staked
ike Your Hongkong would their good be- Royal last time on
Highness visit be
to haviour. The man who runs the
with connected in some wany clubul betalf of mysterious this spirit of the people hera, the communities in Hong Background figure as a rule-is We could, of course, have asked kung with which I am proud
£50 or more and you to start another reclamation. charged up to £10 cost for There
I thank you once more far several now under|
or in process of your welcome, which has deeply. bring planned, but the
there Bro
touched me. 1, trust that it will boen other features of our work and not be long before this build-mediately all Party documents had been Party president since the Government admitted that that costs planning-which deserve recogni
ing
13 completed; I pray that it
serve you well, and I and funds to the Secretary the Party was organised more five years of the reduced working now be so high that it would (San Francisco). Noon. Vis P..
the end
was week had cost-State-transport bedimcult to maintain before and
of than four years ago. He one is our medical will tion,
cusis,
he elected to the Legislative Coun-services alone more than £18-employment. and health services. We thero shalt now have much pleasure the month.
millon-and The Minister added, could not afford to get foundation stone The rift started when the cfl last year-United Press. fare decided to ask Your Royal in laying the
couldn't be induced to have a too far out of line with those a Yuk Maternity General Counell.nominated Highness to
K so gracious as of the Tsan
guess at the cost for all Govern- overseas.
they did there candidate for the December to lay the foundation stone of Hospital,
ment
would be increasing difficulty in departments At the court hearing president selling exports and home pro a new maternity hospital. It is
of the Australion Exporters duction of manufactures would autmoded
Association, Mr. A. W. present
Sparks, be replaced by cheaper imports. notice calling a general meet Party Guests
Sir Douglas 'auid that between gave evidence that the cast ing, published
local In the papers,
the
At today's informal luncheon producing goods for export was June, 1848 and June, 1852, the showdown action
party at Government House, the now so high that there was great average wage in Austraila had dimculty in finding overseas risen by 04 per cent but in Sir Stanley Unwin, well- C. R. Dasaratha Raj, one of the guests were: of the University in collabora❤
same period HE Lt-General Sir Terence markets, Letters which he pro-Britain publisher and Party's representatives on the Lion with
known British Government This is a false impression, of
risen only 22 per authorities. It is being writer, arrived in the Colony this Legislative Council, said yester-Airey, KCMG, CB, CBE, and duced showed that Australian wages had course, for two at least on the
Jams and canned meats In
There was little reason for Justice, and Lady Cillef
Britain. Electric stoves and deal with Tessa.
to the public by the Japart. He is in the Colony for settle matters amicably, "but QC,
optimism in prospects immedi He will be Lim walked out without even Howe, The Hon R. B. Black,
and fans In South Africa. Stationery 'Tessa is a big. bonny, Irish Hongkong
rately ahead, he said. OBE. ose present at the open Forum of caring to laten." of the close
tools in Kenya. Colonial Secretary, and atting symb Club, and is the second time.
Sir Douglas leaves girl, and two constables carne
his post University upon her at 1.15 a.m. standing association of Government and the Literary Group of the Sino-
to sion will split the Party per- | Ridehalgh,
early in British Club this afternoon
Attorney Hongkong, Jams in Singapore, the New Year to become High half-cmply bottle of wine and shouting the choicest insults she could think of at all who passed her by.
THERE seems to have been
more of these tases than usital, lately, as if a great drive London were on telean up and rid it
this shameful of Indeed, there have blemish.
been times when it has seemed going to be built to replace the and in-
that by night, one half of the
End's waking male adequate Tsan Yuk Hospital SIR STANLEY
population was engaged in
will bear the same
Ikime.
West
playing rummy and the other will be run, like the present half were busy catching them at hospital, by the Medical Faculty
it.
the
UNWIN RETURNS
Treasurer
city election. After nearly thres Luncheon
months' wrangling, the
Party
spilt into factions and Lim's
Was
side of the catchers had time to even to the Govern./ morning by BOAC plane from day's meeting was an effort to Lady Airey, Sir Gerard Howe. Prices were too high, to sell;
ment
and
Q
4
of
cent.
in the
Our
It is believed Lim's expul- Mrs Black, The Hon. Arthur and hand
Canned fruits and plastics in with the In a Solo doorway, waving publle and private bodies in the answer questions concerning manently and seriously weaken General, and Mrs Ridchalgh, Sparks sold that to sell in Commissioner in Canada.
As some of the passers-by
looked likely to answer her jibes with their fists, the officers told
on
social services of the Colony. Your Royal Highness, behalf of all of us in Hongkong I welcome you and your son most warmly to the Colony."
DUCHESS'S SPEECHI
of
Tessa to be quiet, and when she Replying to the addres would not be they arrested her welcome Her Royal Highness the for using insulting behaviour
likely to cause a breach of the peace.
"I'll plead not guilty, you see," she answered them.
THE was as good na her word SHE
Street later that
in Bow
morning, thelr Dunne, the witness-box.
story to
Duchess of Kent said:
Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen.
I very greatly appreciate the kind words with which you have on behalf of the welcomed me people of
ple of Hongkong. My son and and the police told I have eagerly fooked forward this historic Sir Laurence to our arrival in
und I Then Tesan went into Colony,
to be among you here today,
know that our tour of South East Asla would not have been complete without a visit to 4 city of which we have heard so much.
"I was slood where a man sells hot dogs sorr," she said, "and I admit I asked one man for 2
a cigarette, and he give me one. But what for d'you think I'd swing the bottle about? might have dropped that. I'd rather drink it."
"Any witnesses?"
Laurence asked.
I
*mm very pleased
Hongkong has often been in
it, doing the thoughts of the people of Britain during these last few the dieulties with
Sir years;
which you are. contending are at home, ani
"I shouted for them," Tessa familiar to us said, "but they didn't seem to everyone is aware of the ro
All afraid of sourcefulness and spirit with
want to come.
these police they seemed."
"Very well, pay 208. please,"
said Sir Laurence.
And Tessa, whose mood had
which
theso difficulties aro being met.
The Queen is herself deeply concerned with the well-being
one of fury, became all of of all her peoples overseas, and in closely interested in the fox- almost funes of this Colony, whose
sufferings in war-time were severe; Her Majesty has served the speedy progress you have been making in recovering
a sudden demure, "Thank you, she saki, end BOTT," bobbed a curtsy as she went to pay the price that all must pay, Hamblers or girls who have had too much to drink.
ob.
Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GRINNAM for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.
publishing.
SIDE GLANCES
It in the December elly election. The Hon. B. C. X.. Hawkins, South Africa, a stave would
CMG, OBE, Secretary
for have to be quoted at £20.10 but Chinese
and Affairs,
Mrs
Australian manufacturers could Hawkins, The Hon. A. G. Clarke, not now produce them for less Financial Secretary, and Mrs than 260.10. Clarke,
Hon. Sir Arthur The Morse, CDE, and Lady Morse,
By Galbraith
One manufacturer's summing The Hon, T. N. Chau, CBE, and up of the 40-hour week:
and in our time. Mrs Chau, Sir Man Kam Lo,
Ease
CBE, and Lady Lo, Dr the Hon.
S. N. Chau, CBE, and Mrs Chau, CANBERRA: It costs £23. to
The
►
Hon.
Leo d'Almada enlist a soldier, Castro, QC, and Mrs d'Almada, man, Parliament
During The Hon. John Keswick, CMG, week. and Mrs Keswick, and The Rt. months Rev. Ronald O. Hall, MC, Bishop
spent of Hongkong.
on
The
this
Cont
:
Formosa, 2 p.m. C.A.7. full
Indo-China, France, French-North-
West Africa, 400 pm. Air Vietnam.
Philippines. N. Bomeo, 4.30. p.
C.P.A.
Australia, New Zealand, $30′p.m. Q.E.A
Btam, India, Bahrein, Pakistan. Middle East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe, Noon, B.O.A.C.
Ty Barface Macao, p.m.; 6 pm. Tal Ley/T_Shing.
China People's Repubito,:930 àm, Malaya, Burma, Calcutta, Noon, j_Birdhana.....·' .'-
Japan, Noon as Pakhod. Canada, Noon,, sa Mapledail,
traia, via Canton.
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Aftieth In the series sailor or air of lessons in Cantonese to bo was told this broadcast over Radio Hongkong the last
12 by Mr S. K. Lee will be given hoti
been 070,000
0.30. evening at For the guidance of listeners (gun disowns During the year the perman-
wo publish below a summary of Bakugang(1) ent forces gained 17,000
men the lesson: Summaries of sub(3) but lost 5.000 while the citizen sequent lessons will be publish- kong is a banker,
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