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SHOCK FOR SYDNEY
Torrent Of TOWN-PLANNERS
Words
(OPHIA'S
From H. KING WOOD
Sydney, Feb. 13.
י
hair| The NSW Department of Local Govern- Sooked na though a boyment threw a bomb into town-planners had been at work on it with scheme of things last week when it tersely some constructional toy, 1
announced that North Sydney Council's plan for a twin city was 'out of all propor- tion to reality".
so
latticed WAS
with metal hair-grips that held it tight that no errant strand could escape.
£
Her mouth, as she came into The Clerkenwell court, was thin, tight, line, loo, as though it were held in the lock of some other device. Grunty, she faced Mr Frank Powell, the magi strate, as if she did not trust herself to speak the anger that she felt.
I don't steal, but....
"You
66700 are charged," said the learned clerk, "with steal- ing from a shop i 1obacco- pouch, #bar
After the first shock of this announcement had passed, town planners, estate agents and business men began wondering why the department had waited 11 years since the war to make up its mind on this point,
its
In these 11 years, Sydney, managea to Attract 10,000 bursting at
SCUITS spread spectators, acroUS The Harbour Bridge to In Sydney this weekend the the northern
Courts have foreshores where White City
bern the North Sydney Council, packed for the finals of the witely seeing what would hap. Ampol Tournament
in pen
the future, planned its Lareu on a twin city scale.
par-
and there
is no doubt that his Australisa tour has been so successful that In the last few years,
Kramer will be back. parti- big business has flock-shown that the Australian pub- cularly now that it has been ticularly, of soup. tweel to that side of the harbour.
He will pay big money to see What is claimed to be the An Interpreter translated the biggest office building in
top class tennis, particularly words into
the the power-packed alion. The flood-
sort turned gate that had held back Sophia's Southern liemisphere will be en by the professionals.
ozcupled
scarves, some pina
by more
than 3,000 broke. A torrent of words fury
BACKROOM BOYS came.
them. People by May. It is nearly five To emphasise Sophia shook her head so vio-
yours ajo that
Insurance One of the inost successful company
erected over there a organisations ever founded In tently that it looked as though the hair-clips could never hold, huge building to which
about to how inaking additions, As though she were take her hair down
Scores in the literal sense.
The Interpreter waited for a pause, then "She says I don' steal them, but as they were in my possession I shall pay for them," he reported.
"Tell her I'll enter a plen not guilty," said Mr Powell. No answer
ut
torrent
of
it is this country is, strangely
tough,
jastru- a government
with commercial firms mentality
the higli- wealth Selentille and Industrial sounding title of "Common-
Research Organisation," but far better known and more easily sate as CSINO.
have paid big prices for land and are in the course of building or about to, and there is not the slightest doubt that within the next few years much of the corn-
mercial life of Sydney will be transferred over the Bridge. SOME OPPOSITION All this dict
not happen, how- aver, without some opposition from residents who were losing their homes in what
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1957.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith RIOTING
1.9 T.M., U. Pat, Off,
© TITS HEA Berries, fi
"I'm a non-combatant, boys! Can't we negotiate a cease-fire without going to the United Nationa?"
Flagrantly Disobeys Court
venes, it has managed to attract Into its orbit over the last 10
the cream of Australian "back- room boys" In practically every brunch of nelivity, terested
It has In-
Alagrant dis- itself
everything obedience of a Court order from the seabed to the highest would be difficult to
"A
more
Another Record For The Viscount
NEW! SHEAFFER'S
Feathertouch BALLPOINT
DESCRIBED AT TRIAL OF 19 MEN
A graphic picture of the behaviour of a mob in the Tsun Wan riots last October was given in the testimony of Det. Staff Sgt Chung Hon at the 'Criminal Sessions this morning. On trial before Mr Justice C. W. Reece and a Special Jury are 19 young men, accused of taking part in the riots.
Wan polico station with Insp. V. O. Moss and re- turned with three sections of
The accused are Wong Shele- St Chung said that he went chun, Leung Yuk, Chong Shek-to Trun slinn, Lau Wal-keung. Yuen Wing-sum, Ko Pul-kong, Yiu Chung-fal,
Yuen-pak, Police. Chung Lam Pui-tao, Mau Man-keung Cheung Yu-yin, Leung Chee hung, Yip Kam-hung, Chlu Sung-foon, Chong Tung, Leung Chung, Tsang Yiu-man, Chin Noi and Chan Sal-hung.
eceded no further, he would ask the crowd to disperse.
The first accused also pro- mised to tell the crowd to move to both sides of the road if the soldiers and the police went no further, the witness said.
The crowd was still there and had incrersed in numbers. Some were throwing stones factory.
at the He said that he passed these Raising their nists, words to the Army offleet com- many shouted "Bum il! Attack!" | manding and the latter said he
The pollee carried out baton
would
accept these terms, Fo charges and managed to post relayed this to the two necused. one section
in front of the
crowd then The
split up, moved closed gates of the factory, back to both sides of the road
By this time with
a motoy cycle and left the middle clear. came along Castle Peak Road, As it neared the mill, the mob stopped it and beat up one of the two men on it, Ho Was rearved by the police.
MOB CHEERS
The first 15 are charged with rioting outside the South Tex- tiles Metory on October 11.
All the accused, except Leung Chec-hung, are charged rioting on October 11 outside the Pao Hsing cotton mills, The first alx accused further charged with rioting on October 12 outside Tsun Wan police station.
ane
The meet
the
soon
Sgt Chung added that after they met with this crowd, he saw a man Inside the South Textiles factory pass a piece of paper out to another man out- side the gates. This man read the document aloud and the crowd applauded and shouted
We agree."
"I saw the fourth and fifth
there
clapping accused
their hands," Sgt Chung said.
The following day about 500 to 000 people in different groups marched up to Tsun Way police station, he continued. A nuan carted to the police station. ber of people were being es-
་་་
The accused Chang Tung and
who had put for Leung Chung are also charged ward the three conditions earlier with rioting outside the South ou, now got to the front of the Textiles factory on October 12. crowd, faced them and said "If
Tsang Yiu-man and Chiu Not the factory does not hoist are also charged with rioting on Bag immediately, we will go in October 12 outside the Kowloon and burn it down." Textiles Corporation factoren
The mob cheered and echoed Mr V. L. D'Alton is defend- "Buit it down Burn it down!"
ninth, ing frst, second, sixth,
Sgt Chung said that he went 18th 15th, 16th and
accused into the factory and saw in the instructed by Mr P. L. Lam, of compound some cotton which P. L. Lem and Co., and the 10th looked as though I had been
He identified the first accused accused, on instructions of H.K. burn. He spoke to the merger stick, and the second, fourth and as one of the escorts holding a Woo and Co.
again and then went to the entrance to speak to the repre-fifth accused also na escorts. sentative of the workers,
CROSS-EXAMINATION
Mr D.N.E. Bea, Crown Coun- sel, is prosecuting, assisted by Hongkong Airways' $350,000 | Divisional Detective inspector Viscount Jet-prop plane con- M. O'Brien, tinued its record breaking times in the Far East by setting up a new ume for the Hongkong-
Manila flight this morning.
CHANTING WOMEN Sgt Chung said that events began when a group of about 50
outside women gathered
the
North mountain, from taking wax out imagine," stated Mr L. T. pleted in two hours 18 minutes Pao Hsing coiton mills in Tsun "Born it Burn it!"
of wool to making rain, from
to
parasites
The 741-mile trip was com which is 22 minutes faster than any previous time by a civl The Viscount left the Colony
alzeraft.
on
In
on
a
The same man who had ad- cross-examination, witness dressed the crowd before again told Mr D'Allon that he knew faced them and shouted "We some of the workers by sight. will give the factory five minutes
On October 10 he accompanied to holst the flag, otherwise we Inspector Mass will go in and burn it."
general patrol of the area. They went to And the crowd again echoed a tea house where a stremony was being performed. He did Wan 4.30
October P.m.
Sgt Chung said that he told not know any of the reception The women 1.
were all this man that it was wrong to committeemen end did not have chanting Later they were incite the people to burn the any conversation with any of Joined by a lot of men, most
would
Witness said he could not re- He noticed that this man had fourth, fifth and eighth accused kerosene tin by him contain were
ho saw wearing when ing liquid.
the night of October 11. He remembered second recused wore a khaki shirt.
Existing On an annual hand-177 Fuk Wing Street, third this morning on its first proving of whom were in khaki shirts/ctory and if he did so he them. Strangely enough, one of the hent and occasional distresslug, door, to nine months for to Manila prior to begin- and trousers, and carried Na- be held legally resporumber what clothes the first,
on the head.
Federal Govern.
| NOTHER surging
from Sophia. "She says Sydney Counell had designated plead guilty." the Interpreter
as commercial areas and in the killing rabbits and raising feas Morris at Kowloon Magis- said.
Last municipal election quite a "Ask her it alte knows what number of
and trucy growing candidates stood mining minerals.
this morning when stealing means,"
whose policy was none other
sentencing Li Yuk-tong, of The interpreter did. Sephia than to knock the twin city planul from the Answered--at length. "She says she never did such a thing, but sho
is very sorry she is guilty. The pollee told briefly Sophia's arrest. "She's a mar- ried woman. She had £28 on her when she was arrested, they
sald. "She's of perfect character, previously."
of
Sophia was discharged abso- lutely, but ordered to pay LS people who bs, costs. A fresh flood of words come. "What was that?" asked the magistrate. "She says Want shall 1 suy? said the Inter- proter. No one volunteered an answer,
she
ly small
and
dis-i Philippines on Mance to the tionalist Chinese
of
2.
R.
S.
118 regular
Piloted by Captain Colvin, Operations Manager and Chief Pilot of HKA, the airliner
took off for Manila at 8.09 01.
The
flags. nen stuck these flags into the earth butside the factory gates. They then demanded that the factory
hoist the Nationalist
flag.
Sgt Chung said he went into the factory to speak to the man- Ager, and then returned to speak
The man answered him "Wo are not afraid even to die. We would die for our country,"
YOUTH GIVEN TIN A group of about ten men then tried to
rush into
the
them on
Both Inspector Moss and himself had warned the crowd mills outside the Pao Shing that if they did not disperse the Witness said that he went along to the South Textile milla The spokesman then quickly with the combined military and
also carried four ocials of the laken down the flag in the first / Dassed over the kerosene tin to police force, There he saw the
a youth, saying "Bum it." and first and second accused. management the youth darked away with it did not they should hoist it towards the factory. Following violence there.
Philippines Administration.
Не
form of
any, Hearing is proceeding.
leaders In this and one who
cheques from private traffle offences, and enterprise it has in the last 15 qualifying him from driving must now be getting some con-
years cost the Goverment £30 siderable satisfaction, is a quint little woman, Mrs Hilliard, (t
million but mande direct gains of for two years after serving £60 millicu
his sentence. indirectly, was five years ago that she dis-
its aid to Through
agriculture, | covered that her home was in a
Li had pleaded guilty to driv- many more millions. comanetejal area and that soon-
ing a private vehicle for pur-The aircraft and crew iceceived Recently. it came er or inter she, and many more
across pose of hire, driving without a
rousing reception in Manila, ሕ process for producing pure owned
this being Manila's first look at valid licence and without third similar homes, would have to move,
vital metal in some zirconium,
a Viscount. risk
to the crowd, He told them that factory, but he managed to stan Police would open fire, parly
Insurance on
from Apart which In those past five years Mrsatomic reactors.
it has February 14, A charge
three Hongkong the management had no objec-them. 10 United States driving without the car owner's
Department of Civil Aviation tion to them hoisting flags as Hillard has worried everybody Dow sold
officials on could worry.
company for $230,000. has She
consent was
board, the aircraft they liked, but since they had taken into eon- learned alt she could possibly
sideration. The process, developed by an
Civil
instance, Aeronautics
the learn about town planning and ficer of the CSIBO Division of about town planning laws until Industrial Chemistry, consider
thought she became an authority onably reduces the bat of separa-
The plane is expected to re-again.
him were about 100 men, some the subject
person to ting Hafnium,
turn to the Colony this after- unwanted
One of the group then said: carrying whom many others turned for
noon with a full load of guests "We want the management to others armed with sticks and their housing unch
Philippines. Among consent to three things-to poles and stones. eviction problems.
oft fre- holst the flag, to est them will be Mrs Paul Magna-nckers and to apologise to the after the youth,
Sgt Chung said he chased lapus, wife of the Philippines
Catching up free workers. Foreige Affairs Under-Secretary,
If the manage- with him, he gave the kerosene Mrs J.V. Cruz, wife of the Pre- ment does not comply with these in a sharp dek. This sent it and dying out of the youth's hands idential Pre Secretary, off-conditions, we will go in
the factory," the and as the liquid spilt on to the cials of the Civil Aeronautics burn down Li on the
Administration, Civil Aeronau sergeant testifled.
ground, he could smell kerosene, les Board, Customs and im.
TRIED TO REASON
However, some of the crowd migration.
break into the fac to managed
Sir, I notice in Saturday's tory. They overturned a ear in China Mall, under the heading the
compound and when its Concours d'Elegance and Motor lighted matches to set it on fire. Union Jack as a starting dag. petrol leaked, out, some threw Rally, on official using thu
DORMITORY RUSHED
Treasure Hunt help in
Under Tower Of London
Jewels are kept,
The Ministry of Works issued
Sydney
of
reality
Hils-that the
There are
fed that it
A8
202
metal element from zine,
cur
It was revealed that on Janu- nry 18 Li had been convicted by Mr Morris for driving a private
for
of Mire and purposes driving without third party riskle Zirconium, Incidentally, is one insurance and had been then dis- of many metals of striking im qualifed from
driving
for partanes found in large quanti-welve months. ties on Australian beaches.
A second defendant, Lai Wal- mah, of 58 Mo Lan Village, Kowloon Tong, charged with aiding and abetting charge of driving a private car for hire, was fed $500 or four months' imprisonment.
from the
The aircraft will do a second proving flight 10 Manila Thursday,
Pickpocket Victim
打
He said with the crowd
Was
that he reasoned that it not as if the management re-
fused to allow them to hoist the flag. but since they had taken It down, they should put 11 up
told thein again.
Cyprus Debate: British Delegate Hits Back At Greece
New York, Feb. 18.
Commander Allan Noble, British Minister of State, told the United Nations political committee today that "havoc" had been caused in Anglo- Greek relations because Greece pursued the ambition of the Union of Cyprus with Greece.
Nationalist
flags,
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR
A Protest
Surely. this abuse of the A portion of the crowd rushed British national flog is had upstairs to the workers dormi-taste and quite incorrect. fory. They smashed the windows The Union Jack, to the best with poles and stones and soon of
knowledge, is the my he saw smoke coming out from national fog of the Brillish, a window in the first floor,
Sgt I be an Englishman, have no Chung stated.
other dag except possibly the nag of St George.
#cond
no-
He said that it was about 7 p.. when, on Instructions; he Between the two world ward returned to Tsun Wan police I remember a British merchant station. On the way back he saw ship which had reason to fly. a car burning in the read by the the Brlish Consular flag. factory next to Pao Hsing.
This flag
is the Union Jack Identifying the
with the consular sorvice badgo cused, Sgt Chung said that in the centre, and It' wos when the Police returned to holsted at the yardatm, the factory they told the crowd
Within a half hour a dispatch. to disperse or Incy would open boat arrived from a fre. The second
British decused ron light cruiser with
Instructions up to him and sold. "You tell
that this Bag must be holsted the Inspector not to open Are,at the masthead forthwith. btherwise the matter will be como very serious,"
OUT OF REALITY Lust Dezember she was ejected to the Council together with
BRAIN TESTERS (quite a lot of other people who Two brain testers now being
weren't early so
enthusiastic examined by CSIRO are to use about North Sydney being a London, Feb. 18.
artificial rain to prevent forest Four Britons received official sential area,
elty nstend
of a high-class re- fres in the valuable timber
country of Gippsland, permission today to dig for s
Victoria, And so last week came that and to extract a drug, hyacine, treasure long rumoured to better from
known as "Twilight Sicep" from hidden in the ancient Tower of Loni Government telling North the Department of
a well-known Australian
IMPORTED GOLD London, where the Crown
that its plans were out Hyorine, is used in childbirth,
Pleading guilty CSIRO scientists discovered 10 gold bary valued at $21,000, to importing pertal for digglug under the
that people who say byocine can be extracted into the Colony without a per-
A Chinese woman travelling they must not burn down the bell tower of the fortress.
move has a far greater from a shrub called Duboisia mit, Lee Ylu-kwong. 31-year on a bus in Nathan Road yes-factory, and if they did so, they torians have long believed that political background then any and if experiments come up to aid ship's cugineer, was feed terday had her jacket pocket would have to answer to the
and there are expectations the discovery may $1,500 by Mr W. F. Pickering at cut and $72 in cash stolen be- law," Set Chung said, the so-called "Barkstead" trea-praction one
Australia variously at beathers, delving into records, who make sure, valued
the world's Central Magistracy this momtween
Dundas Street and Cries of "Burn it! Burn! tween £7,000 and £50,000, was Premier, Mr Cahill. who
was the present ntjur source of supply.
Ing.
Cameron Road,
Burn" greeted his words. buried there.
So impressed is an American Minister for Local Government fem with the chances of these It was sald to have been secreted under the Tower by some years ago, approved the experiments succeeding that it
Iwin city
plan. Sir John Baikstad, a Govenor
has
maden
n grant to CSIRO so of the Tower of London, during
In any case the Department, that it can carry out further Cromwell's tule j the 17th
notwithstanding
research. the objection Century.
Mrs
Haflard
and her On the fires angle, the CSIRO weather plane has been making will find that it supporters, The new gold diggers are
going to take much more than survey at the Gippsland forest Major Charles Pogson, a former Indian Army offices and former this to stop Sydney spreading and a CSIRO official says that official
over the Bridge, and in time it could be doused with art- water-diviner for the North Sydney could house the Belally produced rain. Bombay government, and thiee ometals of the Spelcagical (Cavs commercini activities of Sydney.
PIES AND BEER There are more than a few Australians who seem to get some sort of ghum ratisfaction
In Hongkong the Union Jack from looking upon the country
Set Chung also identified the Is used to start motor cars in
In a as being inhabited by a race of
eighth accused. "I heard hini rally. shouting 'Bury it! Burn it out- There is little, or nothing, T sturdy beer drinkers.
While there may be
side the "Pao Hsing factory can do to prevent the abuse of some Commander Noble, who wes So she had fastened on the "The question of the circum when the spokesman put up the our Justification for this, ngures by outlining Britain's care in the principle of self-determination, stances in which the principle three conditions," he testined.
national flag. except protest. At a time of lagging allend-
the Australian Jockey Club for political committee's debate co which was, of course, recognis of self-determination can be food
Continuing with the events of If the British Union Jack la' calen at Sydney's main Cyprus, said one of the principal ed in the charter and accepted applied in any of the territories October 11, Set Chung said that ever abused antes, even at the top grade race courses over the last 12 objects of the Greek campaign by the British government as a
again by the matches, including State and
of a member state is clearly an months would indicate that we in support of Cyprus terrorisin guide for Its polley towards fis internal matter for that state, combined force of military and tion National Utles, Mr Kramer has
he went with Insp. Mose and a Hongkong Automobile Associa
I shall resign forthwith, are fast developing into a race was to create managed to pack the cash cus-
conditions in non-self governing territories. Commander Noble said, "It is police to the vicinity of the state my reasons and request tomers in to the extent that of extremely henrly pie-eaters, Cyprus which might "give colour
"We have specifically affirm-
clearly not a matter in which South Textiles facory at 11.30 they be recorded in the minutes hundreds of them
At Sydney's leading race to the Greek case here. at the ed our recognitices of the prin- mother state can ask the United pm. They found their way were quite
of the relevant meeting. United Nations."
Nations to Intervene.
blocked by a mob happy to pay up to £2 a seat orde Randwick-last year,
204,000 of 6 Ning and in a few short wecks has while the punters at, its sister been deliberately timed to coin what the Greek government had United Nations of this. funda- and stones. The mob refused to of people
AH KWAT ciple of ecif-determination in ples were Young Terrace, Bonham Road, raised much more than £100,000 course, Warwick Farm, man- elde with consideration by te done was
consumed, Major acts
carrying. Nationalist flags, sticks of terrorism had regard to Cyprus," he said. "But Any infringement by the from gate money.
let to try to make out mental principle would be "com- dhe Arst and second accused) was knocked down and injured.
them pass and refused to They must also feel a twingered to wade through 200,000 United Nations of the Cyprus that the United Nations was pletely unacceptable".
A five-year-old Chinese girl" of conscience because after half- for
At Randwick also
"On the other hand." heartedly agreeing to allow him
under obligation to secure self-
Com-
were in this mob... mander Noble went on when him that it was no business of of Prince Edward Road and Lion determination
They told by a private ear at the junction irrespective RADIO PROVOCATION to use their couris he has paldanaged to loss off 1,303,400 in addition, his licence was them more than £30,000 in hire glasses of beer and It was quite
the circumstances,” he said,
one government actively pur- sues a claim on the territory of the police or the military but Rock Road at about ordered to be endorsed.
obviously the charges.
winners who Athony radio had used the
another The Court was told
ONLY CHAOS that de-
that it was the business between the yesterday, government,
Dm fondant drove a car down. Ning recent
There were days during the malaged to dispose of 198,000 occasion as a reason for urging
creates a situation with which factory and the workers, Sgt amateur,~NSW
Cypriots to Yeung Termice on December 2pionships when the State Asso
cham oysters,
The Injured gir), Law Fuk "greater acts of
the United Nations may woll Chung gald, "In fact, the application of have to concern itself, At Warwick Farm just on 500.000 lerrorism."
yuen, of No. 62, Junction Road," He added that the second se ground floor, was removed to last year and v when making a clation had
The pur losses as high as batch and the well-lined punters got
self-determination without any mult of such a claim, particu-cused airo beer went down the left: turn into Park Road, his £250 and possibly the
Commander Noble
aid that if the Kowloon Hospital, where she is best rid of $300 cartr
said regard to circumstances would larly front offride mudguard struck attendanco at the national title
by methods Involving scldiers and the police pro- now detained for frealment Greece could Not surprisingly, hardly a fruit for United Nations sympathy if Government
not have hoped be subversive of established violence and subversion, can the offside lamp of another car, was less than 800, whereas for was eaten the reason for that, no
everywhere, and have the most causing damage to both vehicles. | one match in Adelaide, Kramer | book-maker sideboard,
doubt, being.
lamentable re that it was
she had weld openly she almed could only lead to chaos," he sulla on International relations." at the annexation of the island, desiárod,
-Reuter.
EXP Society.
Pogson 15 vice. president of the Society Dowsers (water diviners) and belleves the treasure may be hidden in a cavily under the bell tower.-United Press.
Inconsiderate Driving
HS. Mulchand.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Professional terus promoter, of Jack Kramer, who yesterday ended his successful pro. tournament in Sydney, has given amateur tennis administra turs much more than food for thought
was this morning caulfones bý Mr Thomas. Tam at Central Magistracy for driving without reasonable consideration other persons using
The
road.
This had "dangerously weakened the defences of the free world in Southeast Europe."
minters question, ho guided.
on the
F
!
Young Girl Hurt
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