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THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1955.
SIDE GLANCES By
The Philippines And Find-
Manila, City Of Contrasts And Vivid Colour
After a two-hour flight from Hongkong on Cathay Pacific Airways' new "magic carpet" the a part of the Philippine Douglas DC-6 we saw Islands spread out beneath us like a huge map. And suddenly I was aware of a new rhythm around me like a rhumba or a mambo-a compelling tempo which reached from its shores like radio waves.
There were eight of us, representatives of newspapers in Hongkong, who were guests of CPA for three days in Manila on a visit which marked the inauguration of their DC-6 schedule, the fastest flight on the Hongkong-Manila
run.
None of us had been to Manila We found it as gay and before. us effervescent as the hundred nuct one types of carbonated soft drinks which the Filipinos take like water.
Manila is a city of extrenics of wealth and poverty, beauty and squalor, modernity and antiquity, top speed and snall's pace, old world and new world. It is a city of sudder
By
Staff Reporter
Beatrice Greaves
and
.hind. This stirred Into action again and we went our respec- tive ways. The jeep-buses are converted private jeeps, They ceat about eleven persons
for the charge is ten centovos anywhere along the way. That there are not many accidents is pulations of the drivers, Small wonder that every jeep I have
the people by seeking out their grievances and rectifying them, His Paince, the Malacanan, is open to sightseers on week-ends its lovely grounds To enjoy overlooking the Pasig River, end to admire its magnificent com- bers and reception hall, all
you have to do is to call at the Guard House, deposit arms if any, ani
10
a
scen
tribute to the canny mani-
Contrasts too, much like the tem-ldent's tea-pare spoke without in the
perament of the poople.
There is colour in the day from the bright cottons of
Hawalian IT
shiris and women's twirling skirts; from the candy-striped booths which selling fringe the boulevards,
and
all kinds of eatables; and from the
Jeep-buses painted horse-and-buggy which they cull colcsas.
a turn.
On
of
20
There BIT
many forms recreation in Manila. Apart from the very modern theairca, Jal-alai and amusement centres, there is a string of night clubs along the scufront little distance from town. In cool surroundings they provide very pleasant atmosphere, Dance musie is, excellent and n one reporter remarked "They sing as if they are enjoying it have and not as though they to do for money."
Everyone in Manila dances several varia- lions of the mambo. To watch the customers dancing on any night is a treat in itself. Elderly places couples frequent these and enjoy themselves as much
do, as their children Floor
When Dre lively.
we shows were thero we had a Calypso
round the tables making up couple from Amerka who went ditties about the club's clientele, and dance They had a song about C.P.A., too.
his compatriots burned to death by we passed throughing ɛodn-fountain products, the
by
I
carries a Holy picture, a ask for a guide from one of the smart Presidential Guards. We Rosary or all invocation like HONGKONG walked into one of the Pro-"The Saints protect us"'i
there.
The drive through provinces |CUISINE EXCELS Our Filipino
countryside is most emotion when he showed us A rejaxing-even at 80 m.p.h, for blackened godown, the death there are miles and miles of
As for the food in Manila, I from their прат chamber of several hundreds of smooth, straight road with hard think that
the way
to luscious tropical fruits and excit- the
Japanese just before they surrendered Manila City in 1945.
rice fields, caronut Hongkong cuisine excels. Most Frich 1 the face of the old groves, papaya orchards and
of the cooking there is done curator
thickets, of the near-by Rizal bamboo
At these with coconut oil. The fight- Shrine, as he gave us the life coconut plantations they climb hostess strongly recommended of his country's greatest here, up the
treas fetch to
fresh trying all their ice-creams. Jose Rizal, the first to resist young fruit to quench your trlod
as could as "many Spanish rule. Relics here in thirst. It is quite an art to cerve mango, coconut, yam, besides the cluded practically everything it so
The top husk k harked of the might of the pen. In Manila there is unlimited free pots and pans and also articles of off at one end to expose n white
furniture, I
I noticed, he had used dome of coconut, so tender, you dom of the Press. When n
on Hongkong.
can poke a straw through it to the President thinks nowspaper
Fort Santiago which is in this sip its cool milk. to sack one or two of his area of the ought
old walled City, ollicers, il says so called Intramuros, was once the MODERN mistakable terms. A member
scat of Spanish and American of the visiting Moral Rearma-
colonial military
and RURAL SCHOOLS power, ment group was described us
and black
later was the scenes of Japanese "large, burly night." I quote from soclely atrocities. It is now
At night mobile neon lights are cartoons in themselves.
One of the most striking in
pressions we gained there was Titzat had used, his hat, penso that not a drop of mijk is usual flavours and I found them'
chatter in
Andrews are
one
45
national
After an hour'a drive or 50
paper "The shrine and the site of a memorial we reached Tagatay, a tldge of
1o the Unknown Soldier. heir-conditioning
some 2,000 feet above sea level,
for the middle of August."
THE MAGICAL
GOLD BADGE
THE OLDEST
STONE CHURCH
of
the youngest member of Presi- most remarkable buildings is children returning
Cabinet.
It
delicious. also tried the milk. Very
rich, it comes from a kind
of waterbuffalo called tho carabou. There is a ban on the slaughter of this very useful
animal, which also works on the
fields. An exemption from this ban must come from President Magsaysay.
The
weather was what sur-
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SHEAFFER'S
JE
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
ALLEGED FRAUD Galbraith
Identification Of Accused Described
"Now lon't that just the grandest store! This bill says 'final notice'!"
SOVIET MOTIVES AT GENEVA
SOCIALISTS FALL OUT AMONG THEMSELVES OVER ISSUE
London, July 13. French and British Socialists clashed here today over the value of speculating on Russia's motives at next week's Geneva four-power talks.
This difference of opinion, the first between major delegates at the 30-nation congress of the Socialist International, enlivened the second day's session.
The former
1
French Defence Jangle? If the Russians would launching a debate on disarma-worth trying," Minister, M. Jules Moch, in agree to it surely it would be ment, had called it "die" to seck molives for the new
Russian attitude. Whatever they might be, the response of the West should be the same, he declared.
of
Evidence of identification
JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBJOK
Samaritan
In Trouble
and the arrest of the accused TAR below the West End in the case in which Joe streets, there was gud- Francis Gervor, 89, 18 den drama. As a train drew charged with obtaining into the platform of an cheques by false pretences, Underground station, a man was given before Judge fell in front of it.
The train shivered to a sud- J. Reynolds at the Victoria District Court this morning. den, jarring, noley stop. Peo
Represented by Mr Y. H. ple screamed, All sected for a Chan, of Messrs Lou, Chan and moment to be turmoil. But in Koo, Gerver is charged with those first confused moments, obtaining ол December 24, the whole apparatus for bring last year, with Intent to defrauding succour to the victim süp from J. Kundan and Co
cheque to the
value of $2,000 by prelending
together onc M. Mirchumal Hotwani, that he was the proprietor of Arm called the Swan Garment
Factory which manufactured rayon Jackets
with
pod efficiently into action.
An ambulance was called. In a police car patrolling streets above, a volco reached through "Go to the the radio statio station," is said.
The police car changed direc ion and acosterated.
MOVE BACK, PLEASE
He is further charged obtaining on January 9 this year from J. Kundan and CoƊEFORE the car had properly cheque to the value of $50,000 stopped at the Underground
of a
of station, two pollocen had ption tumbled out and were running
the Swan Garment Factory, ready, someone
1 tor, "There's
doctor there, called bo
by pretending, together with Hotwani, that rayon jackets and value specined in a bill of towards the downwards escala-
to J. Kundan and Co., them. delivered had been shipped to Australia. Gerver is on bail of $5,000. Mr D. E. Greenfield, Crown Counsel, is prosecuting, assisted by Det. Sub-Insp, HC. Hu, of Commercial Crimes Branch, of Felice Headquarters.
NO. I POSITION
On the platform, the police- man found a crowd circling the doctor who knelt over the in- Jured man, doing what he could. "Move back now, move bacis," The the policemen ordered. crowds obeyed, almost guiltly.
Mir B. F. Smith, Divisional as if ashamed of their curiosity. All but one of the crowd obeyed: Superintendent of Western Dishe, a lean, curly-haired dark trict, testified this morning that man, still hung clove above the an Identification parade Was doctor
held
presy
at ) 11 am, on March 21
the
Will you please' move away,"
Over
his
at the Central Police Station,
"Was hotless and wearing where among a number of eight said one of the policemen, who
accused elected
civilian mackintosh Der SOTLY, the No. 1 position of the parade. uniform.
OH, SHUT UP The first witness, Wu Cheuk- ching, a
woman, identified the X/Y don't you go and get
who one
had
an ambulance, instead of accused as the
the used her godown. Another wit-telling people to move?"
Identified the accused as
Lean man demanded, urgency in the one who had engaged him is Irish voice.
the salt. One to pack
of the
There's an ambulance com- In the complainants
ense, Laming," the policeman sald, and Yu-tao, woman, made no began again to shoo away the loentification, Mr Smith sald. crowd. "Did anybody witness
Another complainant, Mr S.this?" he asked. Chopra, after walking along the line stood before the accused and said: "He looks like the man, but I am not sure."
#
prised me most of all. Maybe we were lucky but it was cer- tainly not as unbearable, as we The scenery here is breath-
had been led to believe, It was taking with the Taal Volcano in the midst of a steaming Taal sun, of course, but in the shade
scorching under
the nconday Lake and the China Sea
"For heaven's sake why bother Gr within buildings there was beyond.
COULD NOT BE SURE always a cool breeze while in
who saw it, get an ambulence, Intramuros
the was founded by
Mr Galtskell's speech brought
man, get on ambulance," Ja the rural areas where the evenings it was cool enough
the Secretary-General of the the Spaniards in. 1571 and
Irishman called. He would not Two of us wore Issued with a
peasants live In primitive huts to wear a light cardigan. As a
French Socialist Party, M. Guy In ruins. The re-
Insp. Hul testified that he saw let the policeman got on with Press Pass for the Independence now mostly
of straw built on piles, we found matter of fact we seemed to
Mollet, to the rostrum, to deny maina
elaborate
the accused on March 19 and his job of finding witnessES. Day celebrations from the offee, mai
Spanish several bright, modern school- have returned to Hongkong on architecture
that either be sten
he
"I shall or M. Moch had search warrants were exccuted at
have to arrest you may of the Press Secretory, who is
stling day and buildings with playgrounds. Alla particularly tho old churches. One of its along the
But in the major British con- termed analysis road were peasant found it less comfortable than
the accused's home at No. 11, for obstructing me in my duty" Russian tribution to the debate, the motives, a "waste of time" from Manila.
Old Bailey Street, second floor, the offlcer began, “if you home from dent Magsaysay's
former Labour Chancellor of What they had said, he de- a gold OBE medal San Augustin, the oldest stone school. A great store is set looked like
and two other places where don't. But in spite of the weather the Exchequer, Mr Hugh Gait-clared, was that they could not with education
seized. various documents were in the Philippines, we never had so much
"Oh, shut up and get a move und worked like Aladdin's lamp. church in the Far East,
be sure of the answer and that skeli, reported that if M. Moch
The accused was arrested on the on," the other shouted. He was to a seat in the gigantic all paintings, ex- Universities abound, and they Manila entitled us
elther-and in spite of meant that Russian motives did
same "whatever it really was, the cach усаг
day and following an Independence Memorial grand-quisite wrought-iron gales and say that
less imaginative ice-cream not matter, he must disagree. doctors. the
arrested. sombre basement
on March duty of the West remained the Identification parade
I DIDN'T KNOW sland from where
Vault where the Vice-
relawyers, engineers and olher creations, as DC-8 glided
"Russian intentions are at the same", remains of the rich faith- | professional President took the salute
T the Clerkenwell court the 21, he was charged with coD- in the
turned down are
to Kal Tak earth last root of the whole international ful have been buried for out in thousands. Medical, and week
M. Moch reiterated the views spiracy to cheat and defraud.
Irishman; whose name was military and civic parades. In
agreed situation." he declared.
of French Socialists that "the hundreds of years. The incessant legal fees are cheaper than in "There's no place like home." crowd estimated at over half
On May 8, Insp. Hui testifled, problems of disarmament must of priests
he went with Mr Chopra to the million, the Badge, with the help chants
medical drugs, like
SIGNIFICANT COINCIDENCE form the centre of the Geneva No, 1 Godown of Kowloon of a policeman, cleared a path pervaded the whole bullding
four-power conference"--Reuter, Wharves and Godowns and took for us. Found in our bags it when we were there.
The But much of war damage is
possession of 10 cases. exempted OUT urther Customs !
cares were opened on July 2 in the presence of seven Prosecu- tion witnesses and were found to contain three sacks of crude salt cach,
WD3
from
ita
the
at
suli evident in Manila. Commer-
men
be-
prayer penicillin, are
Hongkong
also cheap cause they are manufactured in the country itself. In fact com- petition is so
great that it is there clal bulldings have not been go- common, for these professional permissible, and Indeed quite of difference ing up at anything like the rate world of
their talents between arrival and departure. they have in Hongkong, al-en to advertise When we landed at Manila air-though public buildings, like the local newspapers. port
univer- with
The people of Manila are very formalities in reel precaved in tremendous drop from rich to Every one, even the humblest The polite and extremely channing. Hongkong, they told me. An pour is just as plain in the peddlar, speaks Dome English. ences as in the people them-The salergirls, telephone opera- official invited me off the plane first and I was greeted wit a Park, sometimes called "Milllon-waiters we found very respectful}
To drive through Forbes lors, hotel boys and restaurant corsage of orchids by a charm-aires How", with its sprawling and helpful." ing Filipina in national costume, c
bungalows relaxing in the sun,
they dispensed
the kindneRY we
The
mon
were given
Our passports
cigars.
are most and The
state offices, schools sitles
is like turning the pages of a EXTRAORDINARILY were examined "House and Garden" magazine. with all speed and our baggageOn the other hand there are the ARTISTIC passed without search after we huts of tin, cardboard or wood, had nothing to declare. All like any squatter area in Hoog- eight of us were away
It took us to go through Cus
16 minutes, (The same
toms and Immigration Hongkong).
ת!
some
On the return journey, there white was a complete volte-face, took
an hour to get through taped over some Manila. Customs, Immigration room facilities and Currency Control No one
scala
prc.
all of
us were
rain in
West's Fear Of Diem's Proposal
im-
attitude
Mr Gaitskell said it significant that the recent provement in Russia's had coincided with the carry- of Western Ing out
defence policy.
He added: "Our French, and German comrades will forgive that they must mo if I say concede that ratification of the Paris agreements did not have the effect on Russian policy which they feared."
Mr Gaitskell also clashed with The Vietnam government is M. Moch on two other points. studying a proposal to bypass The French statesman had urged the Indo-China armisilee agree the West at Geneva not to rake
Washington, July 14.
ment by suggesting United the question of free elections in
nom,
n
Authoritative-
the Soviet satellite stalės.
Mr
Gallskell retorled: "If the
Nations supervision for nation- wide elections with North Viet-
usually well informed Russians press for the removal within kang
Filipina women
sources said here today. extra-
of foreign troops, we would be Our hotel was air-conditioned
ordinarily artistic. There are and very comfortable: also ex- and in almost every strect is to feel that the agreement does not
many fashion schools in Manila Mr Ngo Dinh Diem, is said totes."
The South Vietnam Premier, entitled to say that the Russians should clear out of the datel- tremely germ-conscious. I spent be found dress-maklig shops protect his nation against the
Ume breaking
Ho said M. Moch had "poured stamped paper strips
where young giria fashion the danger that the Violminh willtarised zone in Europe from a
scorn" on the idea of a domill embroidered win It "Sterilised in red which were most delightfully
of the bath-owns with a sewing-machine. trickery and illegal ballot,
general election by military viewpoint. But why This type of work is less expen-
look at it from a purely military sive there than in Hongkong,
sources here confirmed today that the The flowers and plants we saw Three
Big Western powers were in a botanical garden in the advising Mr Diem to honour. Philippines Waterworks were the election provisions of the some of the most beautiful armistice and to agree to open main roads in Manila, have ever seen, Flowers shops preliminary talks with North in Manila are gorgeous. Every Vietnam next week to plan, for kerbs,
are wider, blossom la dressed like some the balloting. straighter and more picturesque priceless jewel. than ours in Hongkong, but the the side-sircets are muddy and In
asised whether we had any CONTRASTING thing to declare. They just mad
went
through each piece of THOROUGHFARES Juggage peering into shoes, knocking the bottom off
car-
board boxes until they camo The
upon the Press Pass. Quite lined with shady trees and
But
suddenly out bags were sacro- sainct and they were passed back, to us immediately with revered care. others without the Badge the search continued. INTENSE
NATIONALISM
grizs
and
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Buicks shoulderm
Escolta is the fashionable shop-
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Former Hongkong Banker Honoured
L'Etranger, has been made Chevaller do
A Peter, pleaded not guilty to the charge of obstructing a police man in the execution of his duty. He listened while the story was told to the magistrate, Mr E. G. Roboy, "The injured man WAS obviously upset by the uproar this man was causing, the policeman sald.
"Listen," said Peter, "I was there when this happened, There were a lot of women and girla on the platform:", I was trying to tell them 'Don't look I was trying to help in every WOY.
"I didn't know this wES.`n policeman. I thought he was, I railwayman, for I just saw thu. mackintosh and the buttons,"
TRYING TO HELP
Mr Marcel Uboghs, former Manager
of the Hongkong branch of Banque Belge Pour Band wore a helmet and no the second- polloeman
L'Ordre de mackintosh, He corroborated Leopold in recognition of his most of what the first had said,
service to Belgian and banking in forests in the Far East,
The award was conferred on him by H. M. King Baudoun of Belghun in Brussels on Jume 23.
"All I want to BRY" Poler srid, "is that all I was doing L was trying to do to help the injured man. I wasn't thinking" of myself at all, I was more concernes
him with
1- Just wanted to help,"
this officer," the magistrate
Mr Ubaghe has born with "I think you were obstruct. the Banque. Belze for 30 year old you must pay a fine of.
in the Far East. He was in
Shanghai, Tientsin and Peking
20.
before joining the Hongkong Poter
Branch
Middle
& Eu
Chips, People's Republic, 9:30 a.m. Malaya, Ceylon, Pákistan, 2 pm- Macao, 1. p.m. Philippines 3 pm..
Mateo, pm. UNSATURDAY, JULY 16.
SHIPS OBSERVE JULY 14.
lil-repair. Traffic, which is on ping centre with its department nation did not sign the Indo- Mr Diem claims that as his the right-hand side of the road, tores that scil everything is chaotic, Luxurious limousines,
China agreement he would not the latest
Special products like fare and
be breaking faith by refusing to shawls from Spain, and diful go ahead. Cadillacs
BRO with buses, jeeps and Filipino handicrafts. ilke wood coles and except for places carvings and meticis made of But fears are being oxpressed Western capitols and in Another strong Impression I controlled by traffe light the attract tourists Converted In
Into Hongkong money shopping Washington that without "Mr. gained with of the intense logan for driving might well here, except for shop and Dlem's co-operation the Soviet nodes (BECT LINE SANTIMO nationalism of the Filipinda and bo "May the best man win," *Hawali shirts, is expensive be- Union whi embarrass the United when Form (tenord. Ships of the French Navy and the widespread popularity of We were on one of the jeeps
the exchange le
le moro President Ramon Magsaysay cho day when another jeep in two Hongking dollars to a pen the Big Four heads of govern
over front of us suddenly stalled on
"gbo Quiapo ištrict la chiaper. Iment i ponterence opralogy at
The
than States, -Britain ""and" France 21
They attribute the victory, the a very busy street Like a bull, and much more colourful Communist elementer to President's arm wland and, they our driver accelerated, and say he ham become a man of rammed the vehicle from be
there ar
Printed" and pul indion, beh
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another man tried to give-a puld, with two persies, after dving more positive help on the road from Jerusalem tor Jericho, long agos
Film Executives
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