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HANA has become inde- will
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THE WEATHER: Modern W. to BW. winds. Cloudy with rain and scossional thundery showers, flowly improving.
Established 1845
MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1957.
TELEPHONES
Big Expansion
Plans Announced
By Company
in motion. karoc PLANS to increase Hongkong's telephone
must be naked: Is Britain
Aure all these territories are really capable of respon sible government yet? Obviously no one answer
can be given for all these
service by 22,000 lines to almost 90,000 in the next few years were outlined this morning by the Managing Director of the Hongkong Telephone Company Ltd, Mr T.
territories. Some have shown S. Pugh. capabilities of Hound self-
administration but others There will be 12,000 new lines in definitely have not. Malaya Hongkong-divided between Central and
one that has though there In
Western districts-and 10,000 in Kow- loon.
nut unanimous
the
agreement Among population that Britain
These new numbers
Two new exchanges are also planned for Kowloon
These will be built in Mongkok and Kowloon City
and will have about 6,000 lines oach. They are in the planning stages now.
has dione the right The first stage of this expan- ₹ 8.260 in 011 — are in the Western thing. In Nigeria there lesion will be the opening of hail district. not unanimous agreement the new $12 million nine-storey will be in the new telephone between the three regions West Exchange in Des Voeux book to be issued at the end of that immediate self-govern-Road West at the end of next next month. ment la desirable though month.
"This Exchange will be finish. all agree that independence ed and in full operation at the by 1959 should be the
Hend of the year," Mr Pugh told And in Ghana, a newly inde- the China Mall today,
pondent Commonwealth This is how the West Ex- country, there are already change will be brought into distressing signs that demo-operation: cracy as a concept is not clearly understood by the present Government. Serious charges have boen levelled at the Prime Minister, Dr Nkrumah, which go far bo- yond the allegations of disloyalty to the Queen made last week by Mr Joseph Applah, THE idea of substituling the Queen's head for hie
own
Exchange
In
By the end of next month, the "Specifications are now being Telephone Company plans to prepared for new exchanges and change 3,000 lines from its Cen-onders for equipment will be tral
Telephate placed shortly," Mr Pugh said. House to West Exchange, New services will also be connected oz fast as possible, Mr Pugh rail
The first stage of this switch has been planned to coincide with the publication of the new telephone book which will con- tain the new numbers of tele- phones formerly connected to the Central Exchange but now connected with the Western Ex- change.
ANOTHER SWITCH
stamps on
and possibly coins and érecting a statue to himself are not decisions that can be dis- missed lightly as chlidish- conceit; they are tant
Before the end of the year, Amount to
B flagrant the Telephone Company plans usurpation 01 authority, to switch unother 3,000 unes And apart from Ghana there from Central to West Exchange,
is the vexed question Singapore, Hongkong
feel
of in
it is
When it is fully operating We Exchange will have about Many,
12,000 lines, 6,000 transferred quite unprepared for self-om Central district, and 6,000
new lines. government and that its "The new Exchange wit meat only future lies in merging existing demand in the Western with an independent district and by Teigen wisely change-over of 6,000 lines from
virtue of the
NEW LOOK PHONES
These revolutionary New Look telephones are in Hongkong
already but the Telephone -- Company I imported dily a few to woo Et they are sullable.. for Installation' ha Colony.
The telephones consist with the of just one unit dialling mechanizm in the Вадо,
The whole instrument is lighter than the bandati on telephones in current UK, They will be available in a number of colours,
West
was
[New XY
Abdul Rahman will Central to Westem (leaving The Hongkong Telephone have nothing to do with 6,000 available for re-allocation Company's
Exchange completed last. his volatile and unpredic- In Central) we will be able to bulking
meet existing demand in the month The Installation ot Lable neighbour. Doubtless the issue in the Central district also," Mr Pugh equipment--all of which is on
suld.
the first and second floors case of many colonies bolls
When the new Exchange goes began last August as the build- down to this: if self- Into
go to work. The Telephone
government is not granted at operation, automation willing was under construction.
in its The West Exchange will be with emergency unrest may occur. But if Central Exchange changed num-equipped
equipment which Britain is anxious only to be announcement equipment generating appease local sentiment in which does the work of 40 tele- will operate the telephone ser the hope of preserving phonists answering people who vice in the ovent of a power friendship it is not dis-diat changed numbers, charging ita reponsibilities
Berlous and embarrassing Company has installed.
ure
will A tape recorded voice
a) as a colonial power which say in Cantonese; "This is
The number ure to prepare the peoples recorded message.
dialling has been of its many territories for you the large lask of making new telephone directory."
Please consult your changed. their own way in life and
PLANNING STAGES to confer upon
them
failure,
There
batteries of are two 1,200
ampera-hours espacity which are capable of running the exchange completely for a period of six to eight hours.
Two motor generators, power- ed. by the Hongkong Electric Company, are charging these batteries continuously. At nigh the charging is done by a reetliter,
ultimately responsible The reason for the preamble government. This is the This is a recorded message" is principle Britain often pro- to save callers answering the fesses to follow. But in volce back. And it is only in practice it seems to work Cantonese because about 90 per All the equipment is British- most It is the Gut differently,
tent of the changed number-made,
-modern available to delephone
exchanges anywhere
the world. The tone of the dialling and engaged ring is clearer and sharper than on phones con- nected to existing exchanges.
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Above the exchange are 56 fats don Hongkong Telephone Company Chinese employees and a star canteen and medical clinic. The flats were awarded to man with long service with the com- pany and diligent and conscien- tious records.
The new phone, showing the dialling mechatifzza' in the base.China Mail Photo,
Exchange
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HOWLOON
FOR COLONY
IT'S JUST THE MONSOON
Observatory Does Not Expect New Deluge
THE heavy rain that started to fall this morning and continued for several hours is not an indication that Hongkong is in for another abnormal rain period or deluge like the one at the end of last month.
A forecaster of the Royal Observa- tory said this morning that the Colony New
was now
experiencing the
southwest
monsoons which had just set in, with the accompanying wet weather.
Blood
Bath In
Haiti
Though the skies were were filling sandbags and piling darkened with minclouds them against the hill slopes Da walls 10 and the rain was coming temporary retaining
prevent further landsides. down continuously, the inquiring at the Sham- Port-au-Prince, June 16. forecaster thought that the shiupo Police Station £5 to
The Army and supporters whether Talpo Road weather would clear some-
would
of ousted provisional Pre- traffic because of what in the afternoon. "We be clad to
Daniel Fignole the new damage, a Polloo oftorr sident get these thunderous storms said "all's quiet.”
clashed in a 12-hour blood the quite frequently in
Meanwhile, in the town areas, bath in the slums of Port- monsoon period, especially the junction of Garden Rond au-Prince today that left at In the morning," the fore- and the tramline at the four of
least 50 persons dead and Cheerlo Club, was flooded, caster said.
Queen's Road and Des Voeux hundrede wounded. Road were partially flooded at (Conid, on back page, Col. 3)
Two people received minor Injuries and had to be treated 01 Kowloon Hospital during the Theight of this moming's storm,
The Police report that a wall collapsed in Boundary Street
HEAT WAVE near
New York, June 16, The temperature ross to 402.6. degrees (Fahrenheit) at noon today, the highost reading in New York City thus far in 1957. The Weather Bureau said the hot, humid weather would continue until Wednesday ht least. Reuter.
The tape-recording Instrument which tells people who been changed.--- dial the old numbers that the number has China Mall Photo,
'MAO COULD BECOME ANOTHER_TITO”·
Washington, June 16.
United States Democratic Senator William Ful. bright said today it was "quite possible that China's Mao Tse-tung would become another Tito,"
Senator Fulbright, a member, vision of the US Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee, in a tele
FAMILY FEUD
the Shamshuipe" School. The rubble fell on some huts below resulting in Injuries to two people. Reports of huts also received collapsing were from Li Cheng Uk Village, Shek Kip Mei Village, and Wu Chal Upper Village, Kowloon, For- tunately no one was injured in this case
MAY SEE THE SUN
Jordan Closes
Embassy In Cairo
The weatherman said that
Amman, June, 16. though it was pouring in the The Jordan Government morning, there was "no reason has decided to close its Cairo for it to continue.” With a bit
Embassy and withdraw the
The death toll was expected to run much higher. Hospitals and the Port-au-Prince mörgue were filled with bodies,
The Army turned three slum areas of the capital into a shoot- ing gallery, fring machineguns and rifles into rioting crowds in the streets and dropping dyl- Jiana by the, acoro,
Machinegunnery stitched bil- fets through the sides of, flimsy shacks crammed with people, ve An estimated,1,000 |~ pārmans were herded into trucits al bayonet point und' carted off to good.
RETALIATION
The Fignollsts retaliated with the alums in fire that bathed Sectric light in the pre-dawn
darkness.
of fuck, we may yet see the sun for a short while. As for to staff as n counter-measure to The Fignoliais poured into the morrow, ho said the weather Egypt's action in "expelling streets at midnight to denounce will be showery in the morning the Jordan Ambassador,'
the three-man military junta and cloudy and unsettled in the afternoon.
However, nearly five inches of rain fell in two hours between, 0 and 11 o'clock this morning and seemned the downpour which never ending caused floods in Hongkong and Kowloon roads
the Jordanian Foreign which ousted Figoly in
bloodless coup on Friday 2nd Minister, Samir Rifal, an-
forced him to exile in the United nounced tonight.
States.
Thefts From Cars
Mr. Rifal, speaking after a Ambulances carried off the four-hour session of the Council) dead and wounded. One am- of Ministers, added: "This does bulance attendent Bald be not moun breaking diplomatic counted 48 bodier, not including and caused minor landslides and relations between the two coun- those burled on the scene by. mare damage to New Territories tries."
soldiers.—United Press. highways.
King Hussein attended the Our reporter motoring from Cabinet meeting for 90 minutes Shatin to town this morning re- but left before it finished. ported that a section of Taipo On June 10 the Jordan Gov- Road was washed away by the ernment declared the Egyptian on-rush of water coming down Military Attache at Amman, from the hills. The damage Major Faud Hillal, and the occurred at a spot some 200 yards Egyptian Consul in Jerusalem, north of the former damaged site Mohamed Abdul Azls, persona where a Bailey bridge had been non grata, built by the Royal Engineers Inst month. The waten had washed a jernment to withdraw Major The Police are detaining two gap 15 feet wide and eight feet Hilal immediately.-Heuter. deep on the seaward side of the rood.
Labourers working on the old damaged sites along Talpo Road
St Laurent
Handing Over
Ottawa, June 16.
Prime Minister Louis St
interview called
for Laurent, 75, will resign to- on the negotiations
US re-morrow and turn over the Peking Gov- cognition of the crriment, saying It was reins of government to Inevitable and "the only ques- Conservative leader John tion la when and how you do Diefenbaker, It was learned
tonight.
It?
Senator Fulbright anld he Diefenbaker will accept the
18 KILLED would begin negotiations an-task of forming a Cabiret and
These flats are situated in the upper slx storeys. Some have harbour views, Others faço Wert,
Beirut, June 16. Central and The Peak. Employees drew lots for Aho flats. There are The State Minister, Yus- common laundries and bathrooms sef Hitti, announced
that equipped with invatorien, Waah 18 people were killed and
On the ground floor of the now 25 injured today in
basins and showers on each floor.
a
od at granting recognition In concentrate first on malding ar- exchange for concloud, une rangements to represent Canada of which would
Commonwealth be a Com-Jat next world's
fri conference of the in-Prime Minister munist guarantee dependenco of Formosa. London. Reater.
The only delay in St Laurent quitting omED BOOT by well- Informed sources is the need to get final approval on a Treasury Board Report, Tronury. Doard Monday meet plans to morning,...
The Treasury Board is a com- and ilipoo
of the Cabinet sessioné: exocutive officers of the Trouty, which murd parI _ OD all expenditures. It was under
building in a telephone accounts family feud sharpened by Landing On
Cable & Wireless the fact that and a large Post Offico.
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the
families, each havo a can- North didate in the Lebanon elections on June
Plane Crash 30.
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3 Engines
London, June 14.
An emergency stand-by was
on
Tho clash occurred at the called at London Airport tonight stood that I had to scrutinise Quebec, June 10. North Lebanese mountain villago after a British Oversous Cor-in detall, the pay, ralers – anim four-panenger aircraft of Miziare near Tripoll, far from poration Constellation airliner nounood last week for the civil crashed and burrid while tak- the scene of today's elections, from Tokyo had radioed that it service. ing oft fromTI
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the airport here | which were calm except for | was landing on three engines. 1. Diefenbaker earlier agreed that today, killing to man ̈and, in- | three allchlly Injured in a brawi The Constellation with 11tho payla wałacu - atonild--not be Jurring two other people. in. Bourge of Brajní village.-- | paasongeni on board, landed bold, up by the cuartal governm Houter
Reuter.
Two umbrellas and two pairn
of trousers were reported stolen trom three private care parked in Hongkong. The thefts were committed in Wanchal, Cause-
It asked the Egyptian Gov-way Bay and Central districts.
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