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Mystery Of Comet Crashes Believed Solved
London, July 11.
Circles close to the British Admiralty said to- day that experiments in a Comet 1 airliner had revealed that a structural weakness caused by excessive pressures caused two Comets to explode in mid-air.
They described this fault as
or majestangaza falagtre
Admiralty Parches said that a Comet named "Yoke Une-le- was given underwater pressure tests at the Naval Att Resturch slation at Parishor sagh and that after K werkt Bes plans fuselage explodes!
The ciroles sakl that "Yake Uncle was suerifier by naval roxarch workers to discover what th: fault was that caused the two Cornet i alreraft to blow ip in mid-air after doing approximately 3.000 flying time,
OUTS
of
"Yake Uncle" was Inumerzod in on artifelat luke al Furt- borough and was given the same [35Å*49?⌘! effects
hie experienced in normal Sight.
"Yoke Uncle" had done appro ximately 2,000 tying hours and exploded after a further 1000 od hours of underwater pres SUC
Navul engineer
were (run) -
vinced that they huil thiservernd the fault
Havilland -n the de
Comel i Qucenfi,
Their
on the Farn
bogh test. has been handed
to the Ministre of Supply, Mr
Duncan Sandys,
who was ex- pected to make a statement on
Rain Helps Hongkong's Water Supply
rains
IA
The heavy Hongkong since last Thursday have added a total of 533 million gal- lons to the Colony's water supplies, it was announced today.
This means that Hong- kong's water supply now stands at 3.010 million gallons or more than half the total reservoir capacity.
Black-Out In
Hongkong
A fault in the high tension
the subject before the House of cable at Queen's Road Central which supplies the Wing Kut
Channels in the near future.
Ite:wopch મ continuing to muk double sure before a final report IN suirit1ux to The Ministry of Transport and Civil
Aviation,
Street Sub-Station, caused black-out from
a
Connaught
Road to Queen's Ioad, west of Strand East and the Man Wa
Street Polinger
frum Lone
Experts explam that the hugh degree of pressurizations. inside morning.
Bonham
10.10-11.35 this
An engineer from Distribution the let murine; ta enable it to operate at great altiturs up to of the Hongkong Electric Com- at present the more than seven miles high-pany stud
That
may have set up unexpectedly company was making texts 10 the super-locate the exact position of the
sev ve pureRSEI
Almte ure.
Prec
Reutes
1
France.
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By Aur Japan, Korea, ŭ p.m. Thailand. Malaya, Indonesia. tralia, New Zealand, 5 pm.
By Surface
Maran,
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fault. For the time being the Wing Kat Sub-Station was being supplied by a stand-by cable.
While
ther vables. connecting
if the tripping
of the
an accidental
switches tartaseri
lights
NOIK
fer
cast of Pollingor Street to flicker and
go out In minutes. birt that Was temnejet.
Failure Of Peking's Farm Policies Alleged
Washington, July 11. The United States
ment information agency inday Peking's
Jarni
CHINA MAIL
Established 1045
MONDAY, JULY 12, 1954.
Accident At Police Demonstration
F.A.O.
FISHERIES TRAINING
CENTRE OPENED
Twenty-four fisheries officers from a number of South-East Asian countries and territories were officially welcomed by His Excellency The Officer Administering the Government, the Hon, R. B. Black, CMG, OBE, when he declared open the Fish Marketing Training Centre at a ceremony in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre of the University of Hongkong this morning.
The fishery experts have assembled in the Colony under the auspices of the Hongkong Government and the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Na tions to take part in a six-weeks fisheries marketing practices.
training
course on
During police sporta day hold in Hamburg. " police sergeant demonstrated a radio- controlled motor cycle with a sidecar of his own c011
construc- tion. Everything went in order at the start-starting, lighia on and off, signals turning, etc.. but at the
end of the de- monstration something went wrong and he couldn't control the machine, which drove into some of the spectators, injured
this child.— some, including
Express hole.
High Court Action
On Lockwood
Melbourne, July 12.
The High Court here to- dny dismissed a writ asking tt to restrain the Royal the Commission on Espionage Mr Black was niet by Mr undernourishment amongst
and from questioning Mr Rupert J. T. Wakefield, Director of world's population today.
that this state
Wis of affairs
Lockwood, His Excellency
un Australian Marketing.
the fact that aggravated by to introduced
Mr these
in journalist named as author were popatlutions
WIS
(. Reever, Economist of the greasing" épuce. Any effective of a Communist document. Fisheries Division. F.A.0.; Improvement hi living stanchards
Dr
had to take account, therefore, C. Miles, Regional
of the demands of a growing Fisheries Officer for Agiu population. and the Far East, F.A.O.;
ed a cordial wilesine to the PST-
the Government
sub
of
of
the
The latter aim
נן
fer Lawyer
Mr Leckwool contendej thal the continued sittings of the Commission con- stibuted contempt of the High The FAO was tackling this Court in view of a libel writ nud Me 0. 1. Dawson, Chief task, as he saw it. In two ways:
out by their client lost to promota
Tuesday. the production Regional Economist, F.A.0.
Mr Lockwood is claiming ine: fo Improve Addressing
food the 100
or 50 methods whereby any increased £A10,000 (£8,000 sterling) people present. Mr Black extend-
libel against the was distributed to damages for production pants in the Training Centre, clearly seinted
im Commonwealth Government and to the problem Mr W. J. Windeyer, chief Corn- | He Govern- Hongkong was mos happy to net which was the principal subject monwealth counsel on the Com-
for examination at that Centre salon. host for this Centic, namely,
TILD
Mr Windeyer 103 named Its marketing since
the Colony's
as author of docu- Lockwood many aspects. such perishable,
which he said con- 85 fish
To assist in this examination, ment
series of criminal libels and was written in the Organization, lecturers had been provided by tained
by varicus00
the sanctuary of
Sovich Em- apartments of the Hongkong Government and
and by the Univer- bossy in Canberra,
Mr Lockwood has already sity ot Hongkong he went on.
hape that the deliberations made a brief appearance before of this Regional Training Centre the Royal Commission, set up diplomat Vladimir In Fish Marketing may
be after Soviet
and Third
Secretary Mr Petrov. altended with SUCCESS,
M.V.D. (secret police) chief et the addresses
deserted to Aus- Embassy, Short explanatory
the training centre was trolla inst April. given also by Mr Wakeleld and
On Friday he refused to iden- tify a
signature on a passport, claiming his answer might be used in criminal charges against him. Realer.
palleres marker of "are meeting with failure, Just but vital, commodities as Moscow's have."
After seven months of ferret and vegetables, which was first sale of rice and other grain to introduced in Hongkong at the the
state at low prices, the end of the lust War, was unique oversens In the region.
ינו
the
***
agrney saad broadcast. the Chinese Com- le said the special circum- Aus-munist
which ruled in the early press
admiting stances widespread peasant discontent days offer the War, enunted with the limited geographical area of United Press.
this territory made it likely that the methods adopted in Hong-Black said. in conclusion." kong would not necessarily be the most suitable in the ferri- other participating tories governments.
SIDE GLANCES
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ĮK397, 1978 KĮ NEA BITIN, KA
By Galbraith
"You don't have to tip ma, Mr. Dùnicp-I'm telling you this just as one businessman to another?”
Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GRINNAME for and on behalf of Bouth China Morning Post Limited at 1-8 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong,
While the Hongkong marketing authorities would spare no peiris to demonstrate what has been done in Hongkung, he went on, would nonetheless be neces- sary for the participants con- in mind the stantly to bear extent to which these develop- their mints are applicable to own country.
He said that Hongkong wad aware of the great extent of
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dr Miles.
Mr Bluck was then introduced to all the participants.
Radio Hongkong Polish Tanker
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Crew Repatriated
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Nehru Speaks On Dangers Of Geneva Failure
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From the Files
100 Years Ago
ment upen Allahabad, July 11. The Prime Minister, Mr Nehru, today said he hoped the French Premier, M. Mendes-France, would succeed in fulfilling his pledge of bringing about a ceasefire in Indo-China,
Mr Nehru who addressed a public meeting, said if the Indo-China war was not stoppel and allowed to spread "then the world would be in grave danger of facing near annihilation through a full-scale atom and hydrogen bomb war."
Mr Nehru recalled about the time the Geneva con- ference began in April last that the world was about to intervene in the conflict in Indo-China
time. at thut American ships had nearly reached Indo-China waters It was a real hair-breadth escape for the world that nothing happened to enlarge the Indo-Ching war.
Gruenther's Warning On Russia
As we have on 100 many occasions had reason to com- the dilatorincas of our (to BLY nothing of the American) naval officers in pur- suing the pirates, by whom the coast of China, and especially the estuary of the Canton River, is infested, it is with the greater readiness we record a late in- stance of promptitude on the
Captain part of
Sir William despatching an ex- Hoste, in
the two junks pedition after which committed the dastardly allack on
воларот, and murder of its owner, reported in mother columm.
On Information of the *C- currence reaching Sir William, he sent Lieutenant Morell with the culter of the Spartan and some nien in a China bost, but, strange to say, without a single large gun, to the Cap-suy-moon, in search of the pirates.
The
a
་
proved unsuccul
however, and the
party were returning to Hong- they kong,
when, of Lintin, were fired et by a large pirate fleet of twelve or fifteen
attempted to surround
the boats and in and capture that they would have succeeded but for tho
tinely appearanço
of the lerche Anonyms, Captain Boyle, which bore down to their assistance.
Washington, July 11. General Alfred Gruenther, W Mr Nehru declared that Mr Krishna Menon's presence in Supreme Allied Commander which Geneva had helped much in the in Europe, has warned Con- Geliberations between the parties gress that Russia has great concerned. "I do say at one timely increased the striking there wad the possibility of unother wur breaking out
but power of its armed forces this was
India's averted and
particularly air power-and counsel in this matter was heard
is stendily improving the with respect".
Mr Nehru added that while a
Rod satellite armies. would not ceasefire by itself
At the same solve all the problems in Indo-
Arthur Radford, China, it would "lessen the fever
the Joint Chiefs affecting peoples' minds involved
clared that tho in the war.
new
A
FURTHER SOLVING "If the wor stops through a ceasefire then ordinarily fighting does not take place and the ground in cleared for further solving of the issues at stake peacefully".
Mr Nehru referred to Marshall Islanders appeal 10 the
United Nations to prevent
con- botub Lests and
the United States from ducting hydrogen near the Marshall Islands
a highly improper said "it is and utterly wrong thing to ex- periment with hydrogen bombs
which In these islantis handed
as a trust America."
trusteeship These are
areas and cannot be destroyed by hydrogen bomb testa-Reuter.
over
A Russian
Invented
were
to
The Helicopter
in
time.
Admiral chatźman of of Staff, de United States
THROUGH THE THIGH
re-
junk
↓
As it was, one seaman ceived a matchlock ball through the fleshy part of his thigh, and the boat was struck in thres places Llout, Morell returned could not "afford to permit
to Hongkong to report the cir delay
French and Italian
cumstance, and Blr. William
the rolification of the proposed nixx-
Houte at once despatched
ta Tartar P. & O. steamer nston European defenes force.
Adiniral General Gruenther,
Lintin, manned by 40 seamen Govern-
the and having Radford and other top
and marines, testified
Spartan's launch, pinnace, and ment officials recently
Re before the Senate Foreign
two cutters with their crews, lations Commitico on President in tow the whole under the
ald foreign Elrenhower's new
Lieutenant Pal- cominand of Their heavily ser; but the pirate fleet had programme.
was made i 27 censored testimony
disappeared, and the expedition returned on public today.
Monday night, with them The Committee hopes to fako bringing final action tomorrow on ila seized on murpleton, samed with bill
$3,100,000,000 | eight guna authorising
crammed with The stinkpots and gunpowder the for
programme.
to jars, and having no papers. She measure would end all aid
they was commanded by a France and Italy unless
In the formerly a boatman railty the Army pact or an ac-
Decem- employ of the Harbour Master ceptable substitute by
of Hongkong.
Lieutenant Palliser received a
from contusion,
being jammed betwixt the launch's gun and some heavy spara Jashed alongside the junk,
What makes the failure of both
these expeditions more provoking is, that, during their absence, the junks of which the first went in search are now known to have been quietly at anchor,
at least for one night, back of Stonecutter's Island, almost within sight of
ber 31.
General Gruenther told the Committee on June 14, "In the past three to four years, there has been very little numerical irærease in the Soviet strength," But he said there had been "a
Increase in very material
the effectiveness of Soviet forces".
GREATLY IMPROVED
He Bait Russiry airpower has
land "greatly improved", divisions are "more mobile" and
So Moscow Says better equipped and the size of
London, July 11. Moscow Radio said today the Russians invented the helicopter 200 years ago.
bulld
@ machine
the Soviet Navy has increased substantially.
of the 1963
stvere
at the
two
the man-of-war.
STIKU
com-
tion be correct, she is more nen-whoreas, if our informa- likely to be found in the neigh- bourhood of the Pratos Shoal
A LETTER
HM. frigate Spartan has of late repeatedly gone eruising He said the Sovieta also have about; and the US. brig Por- put a "great deal of effort" in-
polso, though hitherto unsuccess- to building up armed forces in
ful, has also been assisting in their satellite countries with u
the quest after pirates. In con- The Western world has "mutual security programme of generally failed to credit any their own". He said these sequence of her long absence
from barbour,
Bome Indeed, body for the helicopter, The troops were not "first class"
fears
of are entertained
An for! now Encyclopaedia Britannica,
but would be in a few
accident to the latter vessel, on example, says simply that years.
the supposition that, In belongs to the "ares-old Other testimony: literature of flying".
pany with the Portuguese armed Gruenther 1. General
pre- forcha Amazona, Lieutenant Moscow Radio ended the dicted there would be To
Carvalho, she had gone to Hal- fat repetition mystory today with the announcement
anti- "Tomorrow is Communist riots in East Berlin, the 200th anniversary of the He said the Russians "learned demonstration by the Russian their lesson" and now had the scientist Lomonosov of the situation "under control", "They world's first hellcopter.
are not going to let it' be "A group of Leningrad scien-
repeated," he said. tists has boen studying the 2. Admiroi Radford cald After the above appeared in minutes of the meetings of the "militery men" wars opposed to this morning's Overland, the Academy of Sciences for 1754. U.S. trade with Communist following extract from a letter One of those minutes, dated nations. He made the statement dated Cumiingmoon, ́6th July,. February 4, 1754, deals with altre Sonatar. J. William Ful- has been sent to us:---- Lomonosov's first proposal to bright {Democrat, Arlosnana) "We had in here last night 7 for taking remarked that some poople in boats of the same description as various scientifi Instruments the
the Administration thought it the one I saw in tow of the Into the mir," the broadcast might be to the "net advantage" Tartar, and there is not the least went on.
America to engage in some doubt that they belong to the meeting decided to kinds of trade.
same gang. They all cleared out build such a machine. On July 3. Admiral Radford testified this morning, but were signalising 12 the same year, Lomonosov that India had "great Internal with other boats and the shore demonstrated this model hell trouble" and was not really all night. I and sure their hiding
today's copter, prototype of
to join in any anti- prepared"
somewhere hereabout.... place machines.
movement "outside Communist Moscow Radio did not say their country"
not very far off either." Senator Ful-
It is to be hoped the Spartan, on Friday, your scientine cor- My First Novelonund Leh
whether Lomonosov's helicopter bright had commented, colleagues
"Our respondent, Chapman Pincher, mann gives the third talk in this are remaining here, having been ever got off the ground. United Government and the people in which again left the harbour made reference to a new paintories: 150, Weather Report
Government spend a lot of time yesterday for a cruise, may fall so hard that children
in with the pirate feet. cannot Time Sigual and World News on ranted political asylum by the Press
don Relay); Bảo; News Talk Metricon
Chinese Nationalist Govern
Insulting Andia, about once specjal anouncements;
week." ment. nor hobnailed boots scratch it 8.10
Joys, and Aribulations of the
ĈEA BUT FOR U.8. AID Mr Adam Lewandowski, poll- Successful Flight
... (From 'our, Overland Edilion.) off concrete, and which is so
Randomab in Hongkong, Bertal Pleytical officer among the departing
By the Burgo, which arrived 1ough that when cans have been by end ordered,Hand group, sald they wanted to go
4.Maj-Gen. George Stewart, on the 22nd June, the 59th coloured and lettered with it Shephard (Recorded);
head of the military,aid-pro- | Regiment received a roin forces they can be squashed fat and across the keysFrankie Frobag 8.45, home "because it is too hot.
Opening of the Flay" Markstiny | here."
A 62-year-old woman pilot, sramme in the Defence Department of 111 omears and men reshaped",
Training Centre, by Hila Excellency Officer Administerium
When asked for his impres Mrs Marlen Hart, landed her ment, said, Indo-China would but though they have- arrived The Your readers may be interest-The
Itecorded Epeeches sions of Formosa, he
single engine plane hare today have fallen to the Reds mome in the heat of summer, the
Very paints government, ed to know that these
from the Hongkong University had nothing are made from resins their nine months on the island25 countries of Europe, Asia and US. help to the
to say as during ofter a 30,000-mile trip through time ago if it had not been for worst season, the list of Sick
anti-Commu- thanks to
Providenco known technically
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Zimbler he and his colleagues were con- Foan (Piano) with the
Their Africa. resins.
sins. We may shortly
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She left London on Wednes
crassode The folat number in day with an auglish copliot, Me sixistant Secretary of State not been as yet. Bryan Neely, and made stops at sald U.S. military preparedness Hospital yesterday morning was aware of the Labrador, and Boston. Prestwick, Icoland, Greenland, In Japan was the only major 470,18% of whom
deterrent" to Communist aggrer, soih; and of this : 3. belonginlas Noely, aged 29, 14 Mrs Harision there. He said "there" is to the new draft were, Kargica handled the mane most of the illo question" but that Japan cases. The Death hi Marrio way across the Atlantic. Reu-, is a major target for Redance the lif cuf January, have
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detention months
in An official handbook que Formosa. by the Central Office information,
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