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RELAX IN
CHINA MAIL
FOILMAN & CS-1,70, Duaner Arials
No. 36774
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
TOW
in Hongkong to
Hvert the nightmare
prospect of 70,000 vehicles on the roads by 19677 By which time incidentally the Hongkong Family Planning Association estimates our population will be up to four million. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that total motorable road mileage goes up by 75 to 500 miles in the next 10 years, After all, 10 year ago when the number of licensed vehicles was about 7,000 total road mileage exceeded 400-
though perhaps not a
was motorable. So there
Established 1845:-
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1957.
Cars, Cars And More Cars Here's a glimpse of a busy part of -Hongkong round about rush-hour time. 30,000 vehicles on the road today--and 70,000 estimated by 1967. The China Mail discusses this problem In column one.
Price 20 Cents
EDWARDS CASE RESUMES
Complaints Against UN
Legal Profession
And Govt Servants
FURTHER arguments to show cause
why he should not be dealt with for has been very little real contempt of Court were put forward by increase in that time. Mr W. S. Edwards, former assessor of TODAY
vehicles or 64.4 to the the Inland Revenue Department, before Superintendent, Mr A. s. the Full Court this morning.
there are 30,000
mile. In 1970-if the Traffic
Morrison'a catimate' ever materialises there will be 140 cars to the mile. Or, nightmare of nightmares, one car to every 12.5 yards of road. Nut all will be using the roads at once, but the majority will at rush- hours.
Mr Edwards
was appealing |- He said the other side did not yesterday morning against a call any authority to show that decision of Mr Justice A. D. this could not be done, and the Scholes, who dismissed his clalm Judge ruled in their favour.
Mr Edwards suid ho sub- for damages brought against Mr
3. M. Alman, Assistant Comsequently sought legal advice to missioner of Inland Revenue. see if he could subporns the During the proceedings, Mr Colonial Secretary. His solle Edwards
by the tor told him it was not possible was ordered
a witness for the Full Court to show cause why to subporna
but he found later he should not be dealt with for other side, contempt for making statements that this advice was not accurate.
of motion and in his notice
In Person aidavit, which were allegations against the Trial Judge.
The Full Court comprised the private Chief Justice. Mr Justice M. 3. Hogan, and the Senior Puise Judge. Mr Justice T. J. Could with the unrollability of come Asked For Guidance
On top of that there is the prospect of another 11⁄2 million people in the Colony by that time-all of whom time will be pedestrians and some of whom public transport users,
at Aome
or
IT is a frightening thought. And it is proper to ask in the light of this if there is
plan save Hongkong roads from
any
that
could
C.
The respondent, in the appent, endless traffic jams and the Mr Alnao, was represented by severe stratu "of carrying | Mr Arthur Hooton, QC, Solicitor- ten times the
and Me J. amount of General,
MeRobert, Crown Counsel. cars they were meant to. We must also ask whether 75 more miles or motorable
Mr Edwards said this morning that in the course of the trint of
the case, he had asked
roads.com be built in the guidance from
for
CL
not
the Court next 10 years in those parts some occasions, but he did of Hongkong and Kowloon get any assistroen, where apparently they will On one occasion, he said, he bo most needed-Gamely the had asked for an adjournment city areas without a because he had been on his feel time and was' ex- massive decentralisation for a long policy being put into effect. hausted. On the record, it was otatod that his application was
"So here I had to content not only
the with members of Government service, but alse
members of the legal profession, which may explain why I am appearing in
Mr persofi," Edwards stated,
He went on to quote from many textbooks in support of his contentions,
Hearing is continuing.
HOPPERS DEVASTATE VALLEY
Chico, Calif,, June 20.
A horde of, voracious
THE chances of this cem granted, but actually it was re-grasshoppers invaded the
remote-but then so fused at first,
the prospect of 70,000 vehicles. Many will have
fertile Sacramento Valley devouring frails,
Mr Edwards said that only today,
found motoring intolerable when he objected vigorously and { vegetables and range grasses
ia many parts of the town long before then. And this may be the answer to the question we posed at the
outact.
It seems then that the best thing Government can do in to accept realities, make what
plans it correct the worst of the trafe problems and trust
can
to
asked that his objection
be
recorded, did the Judge reient in the worst infestation In
and grant an adjournment.
Quoted Authorities
20 years,
On the other hand, he con- Butte County agriculture Unued; when Crown Counsel agant Fred Platt warned that asked for un, early luncheon crop damage in Butte, Tehama adjournment the previous day, it and Yuba counties could reach was granted to him straightaway.
10 million dollars if the hop pers were not checked.
sald, damage Already, ho exceeds one million dolinas, food for their animals.
Cattlemen, have had to buy A spray plane covered a 19,000-acre area with potson that the Colonial Secretary, or the hardening of the Colony's arteries. There is be brought into Court for ox-were spreading over a much even a Minister of State, could yesterday, but the grasshoppers not much else it can do. amination.
larger area than tho piano could cover-United Prem,
Mr Edwards said that during to the sanity of the public the case he had quoted from to find its own cure for many legal authorita to show
In Saturday's Mail
The China Mail's 20 pages tomorrow will be packed with the world's best features, pictures and news. Among the feature stories will be:
Who's Wire Tapping in New York CHRISTOPER DOBSON,
by
One Killed
In Train
Crash
Rio de Janeiro, June 20,
: One person was kill ed in train-crash today near Casimiru do Abrou, between Rio de
The Art of Making Money by ALEXANDER | Janeiro and Campos, Cali THOMSON.
★ Secret Terror in Paris by SYDNEY SMITH." And Nows from Britain by Les Armour, Up Country Thurlow Oraly, A. Machine that Wribes Music by Janet Malean and Putting on Weight? by Cedric Carne, (
Two carriages were completo. ly destroyed when täna exprões |train,, which left here this mord-
ingy Jumped, the ralla, man
TO REARM FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA Countering Red Build-Up
Washington, June 21.
THE United Nations Command served notice on the Com- munists in Korea today that it no longer would abide by a provision in the 1953 armistice barring increases in military strength by either side.
Boy Falls 72
Feet Into
Man's Arms
Singapore, June 20.
The United States and its allies nullified the 1958 Korean armistice agreement and said they would move immediately to counter an "enormous" Red built-up in North Korea.
Danes Buy UK Reactor
DAKS
· EDI ARTERIN-TILENTERE
Whiteaways
HANG KING b
RUSSIANS DEMAND
REMOVAL OF
BRITISH OFFICER
THE
From HUGH POND
London, June 20. THE Russians have demanded that a senior British officer be removed from his post. He is Brigadier Charles Wynn-Pope, chief of Britain's Military Mission in East Germany.
Statue Square
Hut To Be Demolished
Government has decided
to pull down the hut on the southeast side of Statue Square. The hat was erect- ed after the war to accom- modate temporary govern. ment offices,
Tenders for the job have been called in today's Govern- ment Gazette,
|_ The" seasons given--by - the Soviot Commander - In - Chief,
•Marshal Grechko-are so trivial that British Armý chleta are moking:. "Is this the start of more Russian pin-pricking and abuse?"
The_62-year-old brigadier in charged by Russions with viole- lion of traffic regulations and rudeness end unseemly be fowards Rusalit
haviour
officials.
CHARGES REJECTED
A letter ttom Marshal Grechko was sent to Deneral, Str Dudley. Ward, Brillah Commander-in-Chief, - many'. HP replied imponedl xiety, rejecting, the charges bocsino
Get-
no convincing evid- enos had been produced. General Ward said he retains full confidence. In the brigadier whose conduct has always been' sorroot despite considerable pro- A government. spokesman vocation by Russian authorilles said this morning that he was for a long time. unable to say whether tho But General Ward is acceding area bordering on Wardley
to Russian request - because în Street opposite the Hongkong the circumstances the brigadier and Shanghai Bank would be will not be able to carry out his made into a car park or 6 duties satisfactorily.. garden.
No date has been given to Russians for the withdrawal of "The plans have not been Brigadier Wynn-Pope. The Bri-
100 per cent perfected at this tlah Army will do it when it is stage," he said.
However, an informed sourég told the China Maft that a do cision would probably be reach- ed in about 10 days.
government
convenient.
American Detalned By Cairo Police⠀⠀
Catro, June 20 The eastern half of the Square
Police at Cairo airport today property and detained Me Charies Arthur
Muses, 38, an American, be cause, they alleged, he planning to love Egypt with
Reuter.
the western half belongs to the
Bank
The Bank reconverted
the
sthe Assistant Defence northwest part of the Square valuable Egyptian antiquities, Secretory, Mr Murray Snyder, into a garden in 1956. said powerful new jet bombers and fighters already had been alerted to go to South Korea. Ec said tanks and other modem equipment also would be sent to the two US divisions guarding the armistico line.
The weapons will go only to
A three-year-old Chinese boy fell 12 feet frames a window of the General. Hospital yesterday into the. arma of a man.
Chintong, Wonr patient in the '3rd floor of. the hospital was already on the window sill when clerk, Indian a. North
Narajan Singh,
gineering saw him perched dangerously on the' material edge. Bingh rushed for.
reactor. out. ward with his arms
The Arm, Head Wrightson stretched and caught the
Processes,
said today it was came hurtling bay as be dowIL
London, June 20. The Danish Atomic Energy Commission has US forcos at first, but officials sald consideration also was placed an order, believed being given to re-equipping
The child escaped with 'minor injuries but wrap Immediately X-rayed to
find out if he had any In- ternal Injuries, United Press,
a
firm
to ba worth about £1,000,- Bouth Korean forces, Neither 000 with British en the US nor South Korean forces will get any atornic weapons or guided missiles, for the present atomic at least. testing
FLAGRANT DISREGARD
planned
for
A
The Defence Department smi
WIDOW FILES SUIT FOR WRONGFUL
THE
DEATH OF HUSBAND
San Franciscu, Juna 20.
of a Blanford THE' widow
cancer researcher who took his life rather than appear
the before
House comunities on. Un-American Activities
nied today
death"
$500,000
sult winst members of the Committee,
Scherer
Ovinmittee counsel
Frank Taycaner, and Com- mittee investigator Willäm Wheeler,
Bub-Me Herwod's husband, William K. Sherwood, took, polson läst Saturday night. He left a note maying "My life and my livell- hood are now threatened by the Home Comelites” before which he had been sub- pocosed Boberer, served nelios, of the kult, kuid "I will ignore 11, To ack otherwise would be s mitting their right to sue.”— Unlica Prem, “
Mre farbars -Sherwood
suit in 8an, Francisco Superior Court naming Subcommitice Chairman Francis E. Walter
members Balph and · Gordon
McIntosh
to complete building the action was "necessitated by the reactor at the Danish atomic the flagrant and long-continued research ventre at Riso before regard by the Communist side of its obligations" under the the end of 1959.
and armistice agree... The reactor will enable essen-four-year-old tial research to be made on the ment. testing of matèrial under the The announcement came as the effects of irradiation. China North Korean Communists were Mall Special
asked to attend a showdown meeting in the truce city of Panmunjom in, the neutral zone separating North and South Kozen. They will receive forma! notice of the UN action then.
US Relaxes Controls
On Exports To Communist Europe
Washington, June 20.
The United States today announced a further 200 non-strategic commodities which may now be shipped to the Soviet Union and other European individual export licence applications, Communist states without the necessity of filing
Lg} photographie and projection
Under the terms of the armis- Lice agreement, neither side was supposed to bring new fighting equipment into Korea except to replace worn-out · wespons and materials. Such equipment was supposed to be of the same effectiveness and type as the original material--United Press.
Government Appoints Doctors
Thirty-one doctors, in- cluding soven ! Woman, The Department of Commerce, tures; certain Industrial ong announced that this was in line facturing and service-industries have been appointed medi- with the policy to case-export machines;- phosphate Tock; cal officers of the Hong. controla wherever, consistent specifieti molion picture pro kong Goverriment on with the national Interest jects, film and vérialn other agreements for three This announcement simphasised goods; and dental, surgical Years, it was announced in supplies and the Government - Gazette this morning. n'atiother action; cftochve 90|||A. Governement spokesman said Juno *27; the Department's thes chose doctors, who do not Bureau of Foreign Commerce, tave British, cedical degroes, removed several lieme from the have been employed, by goyern- ment on topdieery basis for The commodities which now so post doim yesus, and having requito l
Licences stovech --matisfactory), have been This Department said the ade] for Comumurileleg countrios, given three-yperT POPÉTÁCIE,
The ditions
included | Linludo Probber kinda d'ofipinow, Hooda bnd
that the action "in no way re- and medical Bects: Chaoge in the polley of apparatus. barring strategic good to the Soviet bloc, or in any way affects
complete embargo hiptheats to Chiha
......
The Additions
The reason for the crash was cattle not karinetrain was domcally bound for Campos, Fabbur - 160 specified infies northeast of here:
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