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Obvious Course HONGKONG went back to
u dally supply of water yesterday after three weeks of what must be described as fairly alrict and, in the case of some people, harsh ratiuning. But there should Le
criticism f 1 he
Water Authority's rousers vative outlook, just as there should be
misgivings
that it is anw to permit a greater outflow from the reservoirs to the extent of four to six million gallons
n day more,
arrangements
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PLANE DROPS MIGHTY H-BOMB TODAY'S RACING
"Magnificent And Appalling Spectacle"
VIVID DESCRIPTION OF
THE EXPLOSION
Aboard USS Mt. Mckinley, May 21.
The first hydrogen bomb ever dropped by the US Air Force burst over Bikini before dawn today with the brilliance of a thousand suns and the power of 10 million tons of TNT.
The Colony can Approve its
The bomb was unleashed by an eight-jet B-52 flexible approach to ration- ing and its ability to make: inter-continental bomber from an altitude of about adjustments to the supply 50,000 feet as the bombardier peered through his whenever sight at an illuminated bulls-eye on tiny Namu possible, even to take risks. Island. But while one is naturally
A minute later it exploded at about 10,000 feet, careful underline the
a sheet need lu
excessive rending the predawn blackness with
dazzling light followed by a cosmic thunderclap,
[
avoid
usage now or at any time, and to cundemn waste, the "risk" that Mr Bowring spoke of on Saturday does not at the moment appear to be a grent one,
JOVERNMENT
GOVE
M
in
position to know at what point the emergency restrie. tions if the one-waterless day system described-should
may
NO
be be re stored. if DECEMARTY Granted the mainland reser- voirs appear to be at surprisingly low level, but the streams are now pour- ing a fairly steady flow of water into them and with the ground in
fairly EL sodden state, one substan- tial full of six inches on
of
As a spectacle, this historic airburst was at once magnificent and appalling.
ал
Fists Shaken At Lord Lloyd
BROU
Aden, May 20. Hundrede of Aruba shook their fiata and shouted anti-British slo- today when Lord Lloyd, the British Parlia- mentary Secretary for the Colonies, left for British Somaliland, leaving be hind a Colony convinced that Britain intends to stay.
Businessmen in Aden purt, one of the world'n busiest, were relieved at Lord Lloyd's firm state- sonver milles seeming to Fifteen women and 10 civil 100
ment to the legislature this over 'Whils observer ship. observers aboard defence
But it was that first flash of on Saturday that Britai ship 39 land nules from the ex-
in- will not give
hor up momentarily light accompanied by plosion 12
responsibilities, in this stunded by the brillance of thestantaneous heat that symbolized
Culony. bomb's weird, unearthly light and the magnitude of the the
They feel that there rebull, These
will be a return of the confidence that dwindled with the recent atrikns and the growth of Arab nationaliel groups-Ren-
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abservers hnd been
power. This
was clemenia)
nuclear
force
on
113 wot bul 10 post- force the same kind of pants of the close winds that energie's the sun and the threatened to wait the deadly stars and all the galaxies.
the When the офистусть дия racūkametive shower Over
the Mar- their nearly-opaque goggles one inhabited islands of
the minute before shot me, shall group south of here.
The Task Force leaders went night was pitch derk except for
A dork Cxemes to avoid
au sprinkling of stars. to repetition of the 1954 incident mass of cloud obscured a por- when a bostland of Japanese ton of the horizon in the direc- Öshermen und a number of US ton of Nonu. servicemen and islanders were caught in the fallout
the mainland should be Thirty minutes
the
IL
A tape recorded voice, trig- gerred by radio as the bonb the plunged silently down from its after sufficient to
trust, remove
B-52, began a pink and best beautiful
In the
court down 10 threat of drought for the peach cloud had soared toward mechanical
maximum height of .26 miles, seconds before the blast,
of wedge vast
Precisely at zero it seemed as Like
sun had exploded in top spread though a
summer.
This assumes, of course, that
At
媳
cauliflower,
the Bhink Mun reservoir laterally toward a maximum of the heavens!
will beneßt, This is not too much to hope for. Indeed the Colony must consider Itwelf extremely unfor-
Unearthly Light
ter.
RACE TRACK DISASTER
4 Killed, 21 Injured
Chimay, Belgium, May 20.
Two speeding autos locked wheels on a race track curve and plunged into the screaming crowd today in motor racing's worst spectator disaster since 82 died at Le Mans one year ago.
Police reported at least four persons killed and 21 injured seriously enough to require hospital treatment in the flaming wreckage.
SELECTIONS
By "Rapior"
Cover Girl
RACE 1
Atomic Cacsar
Free Success
Outsider: Dutch Courage.
Evergreen
Laddle
Manx Penny
Good Girl
RACE 2
Outsider: Spanish Fan
RACE 3
Attoractive Power Easy Slam
Outsider:-Begonia, RACE 4
Thunder Sky Rowanglen
Quizette
Outalder: First Lady.
RACE 5
Sultan Flying Dutchman
Outsider-Hammer Mill.
RACE 6
Ma Cherie
How Do I Know
Full Ahead! Every Day
Outsider: Easy Money.
RACE 7
Both drivem, trying for Bel- 180 persons. Two cars collided gium's "grand prize of the jet high speed and smashed the Chessington frontiers" escaped with their Inadequate protective
barrier Diana lives-ong dragged free of nis plunging in flomes Into the Fighting Spirit blazing wreck by onlookers who
Outsider-Santa Maria, suffered severe burns in the
RACE 8 rekcue.
And the race went on, just like the June 11, 1055 disöster
al Le Mans. Frames
The Le Mans disaster killed
82 and injured between 100 and
Drifting Yacht Sinks After Collision
New York, May 20.
The helplessly drifting crippled yacht, Escape II, collided with a tanker and sank in the East River today while thousands of persons watched from the shore.
Police said one of six persons aboard the 3-foot cruiser died despite the efforts of a doctor aboard a rescue vessel to revive her.
cabin
The Ave others aboard the ill- Tated Escape
were
rescued,
spectators,
It happened again today at Chimay, a tuo village in the Ardennes forest of eastern Be)- glum barely Ave miles away from France,
The
"Grand Prix des Frontieres" had Just been
Phoenix Tony ber Chinese Mackerel
Outsider: Never Forgat,
RACE 9
flagged off and the racers were Bluegrass roaring along at mid-speed in City of Victoria the Lisual scramble for rall The Cherub position.
Up
Outsider:--Sincerely Yours.
RACE 10
RACE 11
loomed the well-known Salles Bend, a sharp and narrow Carola speed trap a few hundred yards Kelple down from the starting line. Mak Süller
Charles H. Threifall of Br- Outsider:-Caravelle, lain, driving a Bristol, and Switzerland's Caillet, aboard an
L'are Triomphe Italian Maserati, picked each Tom Thumb other out as potential challengers John Hallfox and gunned into the curve abreast
A
policeinen among the crowd
at the bend he wouldn't give his name-told what happened tben.
"They were racing neck and neck around the berd when their wheels seemed to lock and they went into a long skid.
"Calliovs car appeared to catch fire and plunged into the crowd, dragging the English.
one by a 20-year-old sailor who Attempt On Eden's man's car with it."
tunate if there is only one heavy fall of rain this sumi-
The unearthly light seened and pink as it crupted skyward mer in fact, It is almost
to til the universe, making the bearing hundreds of thousands of tons of Namu's vaporised impossible to imagine. But turk goggles painfully transS-
And making the black coral and mingled with other if there is a risk that the parent
bright tons of water water of the Pacific as
sucked up from right kind of rain does not
the sea ond lagoon. as polished silver, materialise soon, is it not
itself The firebal
Tasted
off his uniform ond fair and indeed more logical The light was hot on the face several seconds. As it subsided, ripped
An 18- to weigh the other possi. ad on hands gripping the ship's the cloud stem shot toward the plunged into the water. bility, as Government has
jumped into the As suddenly as it flashed this stratosphere, piercing a fat rain year-old giri
could ke giant spear. done, and hope for a turn super-solar light disappeared to
river to suve a dog. When
above for the better, if not the be followed in a split second
It reappeared the cloud, it had expanded into Three persons were picked up beat?
by the Areball,
mushroom shape-irade
two by the yacht An-Ge and While the light lasted, the the
mark of the atomic ate-thut
Dr by the yacht Sea Gate. temperature at its core was in
grew furlously second hundreds of millions of degrees.
Frank Miller, a member of the staff of Bellevue Hospital, per- formed in emergency operation
rafl.
by
the other end of the argument. if the worse Comca to the improbable In a thousandth of a second, second. Two minutes after the the mushroom was wort and very little more the freball began surging from burst, rain falls, the waving of a point in space เป a maminoth shouldering into the clear sky,
an the 30,000 foot mark even 100 million gallons in incandescent globe at least three passing
and fading in colour to rosc. miles in diameter.
of electrie
the next month is not going
to make the drought and the
to the experts, the surface team violet, At its maximum, according ceriso
T a sort
consequent hardship very perature of this Bery bull
bult was The shock wave sped the in- much less inevitable. And more than 13,000 degrees. The tervening miles in two minutes
in that event we have not much to lose. So Govern ment has taken what is to minds the obvious
our
course,
Refugees
the throat of Mrs Ruth Notiles aboard the Sea Gate and she was given artificial respire- tion for an hour but all efforts to revive her failed.
ENGINES CO DEAD initial heat
have Bash would
end washed and 63 seconds
and across the Task Force ships with inflicted third degree burns on
The day was bright exposed skin 15 miles away. a rushing sound like a squadron
jets were passing sunny and a number of pleasure Sunultaneously with the ex-
of invisible
craft were plying the East pansion of the fireball it began
overhead. It hit the cars
River off Manhattan. The Enst horizon while
watchers to rise off the
an with
River drive was clogged with
of
almost-
the river were filled.
surging upward from below painful pressure that last for Sunday motorists. Parks along appeared the giant stalk of the several seconds.
The shock was accompanied now-forming bomb cloud.
This stalk was a violent red by a roll of thunder like United Nations High at rst, changing slowly to rose voice of an angry god.
IN its weekend plea to the
Commissioner for Refugees, the China Refugee Inter- national Council is doing no more than jogging dilatory
memories in Geneva. It naka
L
-on
Speeds To
the
Safety
Experts estimated that any- These planes included
seen
on
the which was assigned to get in
The Escape was chugging North and the small tanker W. 3. Derby was carrying a load of fucl south, Suddenly, the went dead. Escape's engines Before a signal could be given, the cabin cruiser had drifted into the Derby's path.
Life Feared
GUARDED BY ARMED POLICE
"The cars threw protective bales of straw aside and there were yells ant screams að flam- ing gasoline and pieces of the Swise car spread among the crowd," he said.—United Press.
Outsider:Super-King.
RACE 12 Golden Bruzzich
Batic
Resurrection
Outsider:-Knock-Down,
By "The Turf”
RACE 1
Atomic Caesar
Free Succes!
Cover Girl
Outsider:-Invincible.
Evergree
Laddie
Spanish Fan
RACE 2
Outsider:-Turt Heroine.
Good Girl
RACE 3
Attractive Power Marine Charger
Outsider: Bogonia.
RACE 4
Green Velvet
Quizette
Rowanglen
Outsider:---First Lady.
Matador Sulton Hammer Mi
RACE 5
Outsider:--Marianne.
Full Ahend
RACE 6
How Do I Know
Bengal Lancer
Outsider: Eary Money.
Chessington
Diana
RACE 7
Fighting Spirit
Outsider:-Amusement,
Phoenix Gladste
RACE 8
Chinese Mackerel
Outsider:-Bashful Beauty II.
Bluegrave
RACE 9
City of Victoria Nora King
Outalder The Cherub.
Càroin Mak Siller Crevellé
RACE 10
Outsider:--Escalator.
RACE 11
Tom Thumb
L'are Triomphe
Super-King -
Outsider: Sportsmanship.
RACE 12
Raja
Johnber
Golden Brunch:
Outsider:--Resurrection.
TODAY'S TEASER TIP
for the 8th race
You don't have very far to look to find it.
Saturday's teaser lip was Happy War- rior which was unplaced,
Hefty Schoolgirls Attack
British Soldiers
Nicosia, May 20.
A band of hefty Cypriot girls in cymmulta challenged· British soldiers to a pitched battle today and the gallant soldiers retired in blushing defcas
London, May 20,
Yord Scotland
today issued pistols to British policemen for the first me since the Irish Republican trouble in the 1920s, in
machine guns, swift security measures to The Tommies had loaded sub- Eilly clubs head off feared Cypriot
and tear
But ERE.
their than rullantry was stronger assassination attempts,
their valour and they look a rain of blows from Bat- and wwinging, club-towing
school, giriş stone-throwing without' fighting bäck.
Uniformed police in Britain do not normally carry firearms. But Scotland Yard passed out pistola following reports that Cypriot extremists might try to avenge the execution of two In Cyprus extremist gunmen two weeks ago.
an attempt. was feared
be made against the Minister, Sir Anthony and merabers
of his
It
might Prime Eden,
Cabinet.
for a decision-long overdue body within a thousand miles of F-1al-A twin-jet Voodoo fighter,
Motorists pulled to a halt and the Hambro report. Namu would have And what UNREF must flash had they been looking in position directly; above the burst watch the collision, Cars were decide soon--and the sooner the right direction. The cloud when it went off to beat the parked bumper-to-bumper in a
jam whlie occupants A special 12-man squad had the botteria whether to was visible for at least 100 effect of the blast and heat on traffe
Ministers approach the problem of miles.
the aircraft. This was considered watched. Other people watched been issued with firearm, it The bomb, Hongkong's 700,000 Chinese
first hydrogen to most hazardous assignment from apartment windows and wes reported today,
parks. refugees realistically or else weapon ever delivered by the of the test.
US Air Force, was unleashed
mway.
ou!.
dodge the issue by taking by a B-32 painted a ghostly The "bid shot" was at least The Escape immediately be. of US gan to sink and all aboard. cover behind a shield of white to reflect the terrible heat the 67th in the series legal technicalities.
water. The nuclear explosions which be- leaped into the it was to turn loose,
As the bomb burst, the plane, gan in the New Mexican Desert sedlo, Rupir Wat, rushed to the Dr Hambro agrees that the
nicknamed the Barbara Grace, on July 10, 1845 when history's river's edge, pulled off his uni "refugee" status of many may be doubtful but urges was speeding to safety about 15 first atomic blast was detonated form and shoes, and plunged in
milen
Auhough the
That one was followed by the He pulled one passinger that: there should be inter escape maneuver of the atomic A-bomb dropped over Hiroshima At the same time, the Sea Gat national assistance to over- bomber was secret, observers three days
on August 0, 1945, and Nagasaki arrived on the scene and picked Inter, hastening up the other five passengers.-- come what the China Re- could assume the big plane
In World Undied Press. fugee International Council would cut loose the bomb, when Japan's surrender
War II. describo na "one of the in a diving turn to race. to
off touched major social problems of safely at near supersonic speed.
Husala has The plane, which took off Asla". Later he urged n
possibly 30 nuclear explosiond, Endwatok airstrip. more substantial grant for re-
including the first air-dropped fugee rollef work in the than two hour before the drop,
H-bomb List Nov. 22: Great preliminary rung
Britain, has exploded three. All Colony for although, the made several
the Nam aiming point to
three atomic powers are holding Hongkong Government and a
cheek wind and
tests this your. large number of voluntary
The commander of the plane
One of the agencies have made very making the historic drop was welentials hoped to real contributions for their Mo), David M. Critchlow, 30, of
during the four-h wolfare, it is not nearly Sacramento, California,
nough, 20 Some 25 aircraft, including the
amme "deliverability" The Hambre report has been drop plane, participated in do-
from
доло
drift.
day's test explosion wad Berry
us
bore
In the hands of UNREF for Adm. B. Tial Fanlon, Fidsic from email snit more than a year, and it is surce Commander, reported that will just adomán
a fair plea that it should all of them ros, away droos the kondrog make up vita" mind, soon, shot viboub, kes
2 DIE IN FIRE
in London and in the country
on holiday were guarded closely.
·
Bulging Pocket
One policeman stood outside No 10 Downing Street wearing a loose blue raincoat in spite of the bright sun. The Pocket -bulged with the shape of an
automatic
Extra01.
waflied the
Horso
some of the girls were as big and masonlar Ra the teen- aged British drafteen they tried to battle outside the Dłutverj - Btrees girls school.
It was
one-sided that an order finally was given to fire tear gas. But the girls were ready. Reinforcementa rush. ed out with buckets of Band and - smothered the grenades.
There were no tears from these
girly.
Dozens of girls between 13 and 17 years old mælked in' their blue skirts and, whilte bloguén
residence from Legitimate issue
Guards Parado belund Downing Street, Another stabde
through the house's walled gese
Washington, May 20. The preddendal pross secre
and Lady Eden tory, Mr James Hagerty, sald
Bo Wockend at today "that" President Fin
werd
д
Hanover, May 20,
thair college in Wilshire Police hower's health would be cars, potrolled the roads leading legitimate Iame: in the coming Two-persons were killed, and 14-seriously injtired when kin
our lodge bumed down last to the country residence. mraeg at Lenhaus. In the Solling Eden did
The Prime Minister and Lady section campaign.
hot afford
church porthwestern Clermany
con
"Wo will have legitimate. Memed today (The lodgevices in the village today, | BEHWEEK. Stid complete, medical: isoleray, destroyed by the Other special armed police records to show the conditions of 11759) De Cher hand bour. were" guarding that boulon of the president at any time during ccupants of thesis rooms...who the Ministers in London, the campaign,” he said, proper
Meeping dewind Us are 8pecial flying aqunda were re cale apei iné darbesne ported standing: by: in case of
#Mr Hagerty was interviewed.
on a radio programine Route.
on their Bunday holiday out- | yard, shouting “go home, you ride the front door of the -. criminah" "go home, prosil- school. When a 'British patrol tutes," came along they opened up hurling stonen, bricks and bottles.
1
Helpless
The patrol was helpiem. Soldiers refuted to fire on the girls. The mixalles, continued flying naill reinforcements arrived, United Press correspondent Douglas Grant reported that only the arrival of more jeep
bim lords of troops, navod from a beating at the hands,
One attacked Grant, a six-footer, with a big picco of fire wood.
Finally outnumbered, the girls retreated back into the school
for
T
Troops and British · polies
turned to the school thia afternoon and arrested four- teem off the girls. The girls may turn out to be a mooret weapon - for the anti-Britlah underground here. They proved in one attack. thas the British would not fre on supposedly defencelem
leku. There was talk among
authorities here: that the army should replace tear zsa grenades with dys bombe that would Kutnously stain 'N Officers saldā Sunday dress. Thai
send might
the' 'giris home If the extremists follow up with more Amazon kitseks.
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