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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
REFUGEE AID
WITH the United Nations
WGeneral Ansembly met
ing Inter this month it is a fair request before well- meaning people in various party of the world get down to the thorny problem of how best to help Hongkong i refugees that Britain sintes what arsistance it is pre- pared to accept.
Meeting in Geneva today Is the Worli Federation of Valted Nations
THE WEATHER: Moderato ESE. winds. Cloudy with ́sc=" cazional showers.
CHINA MAIL
No. 36837
Established 1845
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1957.
Price 20 Cents
RELAX IN
DAKS
THE FAMOUS CONFORT IN ACTION TROUSERS.
Whiteaways
1019 2023 BAGG
& KOWLOŏN
BIG SCHOOLS EXPANSION PLAN
100,000 More Places
Children
The Cane
For
For
By A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Associn The Director of Education, the Hon. D. J.
tions. High on its agenda IN
the Colony's... refuger problem. This evidence of cancern for a problem that All recognise hne bien : thrust Upon Hongkong because of its proximity to Ching, welcome. Aud people in this Colóny have been clumouring for many! peare to have the refugee problem recognised "as al world responsibility. NOT ENDED
WORE than seven years
Mo
have elapsed since this mags immigration started- and it hun noi ended yet. United Nations investiga-| Lors have visited the Colony and varioua technical obstacles have resulted in long procrastination over the provision of inter-
national aid. The result is that Hongkong has borne the burden itself.
Latest reports suggest that this year there is better
A
chance of agreement on ald of Home kind than ever before, but there seems to be growing opposition here A to the idea of a United Nations team of
experts
coming to the Colony 10
S. Crozier, has told the China Mail about "our aim to give every child in Hongkong a basic education" in- volving a massive building programme which will give the Colony another 116 primary schools in the next fow years, and places for almost 100,000 more children.
total of 48 new primary schools
enough to
take another 27,882 children will be com- pleted before March 31, 1958, he said. Thirty would be rural schools.
Shepilov's
Appointment Unknown
London, Sept. 2. Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman here said "wo know nothing" of reports that Mr Dmitri 'Shopilov,
administer ny schema-member of the Kremlin That may be devised. Those who clamour for aid, seems, would like it on the universally popular terms of "no strings attached". WHY NOT NOW?
ND surely the Hongkong Government has shown
A
A record number of children will be in school after the summer holidays by the middle o[ this month. Many children have already returned. The total number attending. school this term is not yet known. But expansion figures are.
These show that in the two youre to September 30, 1950, a total of 57 new schools and ex- tensions to 21 others provided places for almost 30,000 children.
Looking Ahead
Not counting new schools in
Prince Charles
If Necessary
Eight
London, Sept. 2.
year old Prince Charles will get the cane "In the customary place" if he misbehaves at his new school, Cheam, near Newbury, Berkshire, the headmaster said today.
Cheam school, where Charles"
father, the Duke of Edinburgh, weni, invited reporten to look the place over today and naks questions. Mr Mark Wheeler,
54, one of the joint headmasters, was asked if Prince Charles was liable to have the stick.
just the same
He said: "Hg will be treated
But
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other boys. many go through school j
the
without it,"
The 10 boys at Cheam get up 7.15 am when the bell rings, 20 down for
prayers an second boll at 7.50, then le past the headmaster who shakes each boy by the hand-on the way to breakfast at 8,
WORK STARTS
Work starls 111 40-minute periods from am unwords, with milk and buns break, then there is the rest perlod known 09 "digest" which Prince Charles will spend on his
older he is
"anti-party group", had adapted premises", at Septem- bed. When he It
been appointed a profes- ber 30 this year-it is estimated nine in Novembos he can spend
there will bo
it at his desk reading books, but places sar in the Soviet For East. that
available for 237,015 children, not comles Another spokesman, for the which amounts to an Increase State Commitee for Relations of 21,821 on October
1, 1956. with Foreign Countries, sald
increase, 20 "he may have been given this To cope with this
new schools have been
built job but we are not interested in
and ninc
These consist of
sub-
Its resourcefulness and its thorough understanding of
this question."
Soviet polley, as when Mc
dised and private schools, Aulenisov Georgi
Was made
Looking ahead, ME Crozler of an Aslan
hydro-
revealed an interview at the Lazar Education
that Deportment
build 53
the refugee people's plight. director
IL
khut som
It does not need alvice and electric slation and Mr
probably feels refugee ald could best begunovich became director of there were plans to
cement works in the Prats, administered without other that these are routine minor scheels (including 27 arbant
spone.
debate
Ditworthy of
world
These
UTC
The next
whien anthorities imposing them-appointments
provide 58,857 places.
approved selves on the scene, albeit publicity,
primary school projects not yet un allen and complicated All three, with Mr Molotov, under contruction but for which former Foreign Minister now sites are available, which should The British Government's appointed Anibasador to Outer
"feeling
wait Mongolin, were stripped of their be completed within may be to
two year until the United Nations ministerial posts last July when
In addition, another 16 primary the "anti-party group" was de- ол this question
school projects, with places for nounced. begins before expressing Meanwhile the Moscow metro 12.202, have been approved bul Its feelings; this would be station noted ufler Kaganovich sites are either not yet available the proper course, but in has reverted to lle old name of vlew of the fact that the "Hunters Row." No formal an- subject of Hongkong ouncements have been made refugees is already the sub but the necessary changes to the ject of much dlacussion and metro signs are already
various serried cul-Reuter, planning
by
interested organisations, would it not save time and
effort
everywhere
if it
declared its attitude- now?
HOTEL SURVEY
belag
Highlander
NE of Hongkong's biggest Dies At 104
tourist problems is the
Durban, Sept 2.
or not yet granted,
Not only is Government build-
ing schools as rapidly as finance and construction permit, but it has plans to step up considerably the output of teachers without reducing standards.
The bell goes again.at 2.15 pm when the boys change for quines from 2.30 until 4, when they take a shower and a glass af milk before afternoon school from 4.20 until 5.50. Then comes high tea at 6, and bed at 4.30 for the younger boy5. Acuter.
Mile-High Buildings Advocated
HIGH AND DRY SUNFISH
The look of surprise on this 6 cwt Queensland, Australia, sunflah — was almost matched by the looks on the faces of these early morning bathers who found it high and dry at Bronte. Frolicking around at high tide, it got into Bronte rock pool and was trapped when the, tide receded. It fought for three
`hours to get over the rocks to deep water. — Keystone Photo.
JAMAICAN RAIL DISASTER DEATH TOLL RISES TO 175
400 Reported Injured
Kingston, Sept. 2.
Morrison Hill Bones Identified
The human bones found at Morrison Bill last week have boon identified, it was officially announced this morning.
They were identified by the Government forensic Patholo- gist, Dr T. M. Teoh.
*
The bones were found to belong 10 people of
Chinese raur.
And that they were the
remains, nut of six but
25 people.
Also the bones of a num- ber of children Werc found among them.
Dr Teoh's findings therefore Cisprove the theory that the bones belonged to Indian troops, allegedly massacred near Morr- ton Hill by the Japaneso 'after they surrendered in December, 1041.
At one time the Police were considering asking the Army's Special Investigation Branch to 500 if they could identify the remains, but Dr Tesh's findings obviate the need for this,
CONTINUING
A Government oMelaj töld the China Mait this morning thai Dr Teoh was continuing his investigations.
He was now trying to as certain how these people met their death.
It is believed that this part of Morrison Hill, now being excavated for the.construction -of-e-school, was a burial ground during the Japanese occupation of Hongkong.
As soon as the mystery of the bones has been solved the remains will be handed to the Sanitary Division of the Urban Services Department for burial.
MURDERS INCREASE
IN BRITAIN
Nine carriages of a 12-carriage train carrying 1,500 persons on a weekend Roman Catholic tourist excursion plunged into a ravine last night. Officials said 175 were killed and about 400 injured. The excursion was led by two American-born Roman Catholic priests but all others an the train were believed to be jamaicans, the spokesman echoed public anxiety at the said.
Major David Smith, aide. to the Governor of this British West Indian
Island in the Caribbean, said it was the Repatriates
worst train wreck in Jamaican history this morning. "It's certainly a major disaster,” Smith added.
New Delhi, Sept. 2. Up to August 1 last, 73 Chinese eltizens had been repatriated to China from the United States
London, Sept. 2.
The Daily Express today
growing number of mur- ders in Britain.
Seven in as many days is 100 many, said the paper,
Recalling that there were 17 murderers at large in the country, the paper said that there had been 90 murders the date at since March 21, which the new law on murder came into force.
Under this law, only certain He cald some of the injured policeman and volunteer rescue through the good affees of the
murder carry Indian Embassy in Washington, categories of worker could pull them free. were not expected to live.
punishment, Franco- It was officially announced here capital All of the dead and Injured
Presso. The train was carrying a tour were removed, Major Smith today-France-Presse. In a television interview over Charles Joseph Eberle, 59, of brought to Kingston, but most sroup organised by Father aald. Some of the injured were weekend, Wright urged
New York, Sept. 2. Famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright has proposed to replace all of New York's present buildings by two mile high skyscrapers.
"Ther are many limiting factors not enly things like dinance and building, although they are very important, but the
there is the need to preserve spectators to imagine what a
St George's College, Kingston, were taken to and improve teaching standards. beautiful place New York would and Henry J. Malette, 38, pastor
to Al
hospitals in
Blood Donors
An island-wide appeal was made for blood donors to help in the emergency.
officials
It's no good, having a whole lot be, if it were merely gross and of St Ann's Church in Kingston, towns nearest the wreck scene. of new schools; you have to two mile-high skyscrapers. Bad trained teachers
The two buildings would hold Jack of first-class hotels.
them. The limiting factor is all of the city's population, he Many projects are in the
we Hugh Fraser Ross, the the number can actually said. course of planning but it
train." oldest surviving ex-servical would be interesting to know whether 11 would
member of the be possible ikh assess
the Highlanders, died in Dur. amount of accommoda- ban today aged 104. tion needed. One report Only nine days ago hẹ sat up
tourist traffe in in bed ut hospital here and BOYS Europe and Pacific is in-demanded chainpagne to cele- "recovery" after weeks
brate
Gordon
Old soldlers
creasing by 30 to 40 per at falling health. cent every year but rather "Dead?" he declared then than airly declaring that of course not. potentialities here are Dnever die." limited, would it not be Hospital authorities decided better to work out a target he was not 01, amugh for figure for say, the next two champagne, or for the chewing
tcbacco he requested. years? NEEDED
Teacher Training
"We are now about to rebuild the Northcote Training College and increase its enrolment from 100 to 400," said Mr Crozier. "In fact we are starting with an la- creased enrolment this month.
"Plans for the new building are well in hard and we hope the college will be turning out about 400 teacher graduates. by the end of 1950.
"AL Grantham Training College we have trebled the He was unable to return to cirolment since last year to 320 hig own recipe for Food full-time day students, the Colony's Tourist Aenlth-three plats
"By 1050, we should have & a day,China Mail Special. #ociation could virtually
total of 539 corning out of both schools every year. guarantee that this де-
of
stout
commodation would be taken Helen Haye
up at least it would suggest obvious channels for invest. ment both to local Anauclers
and oversens operators.
Can
a survey
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made of accommodation showing
Dead
As un
London, Sept. 2. English actress Helen Hayo exactly what is available rated fast night in a London various grades, what is clinic after an illness of only being built and what is three days, it was learned today,
She was 63 years old needed? And for the benefit of existing hotels wishing instructor of the Royal Academy Arir, she trained Sir visiting travel exports or
Robson, Gielgud, Flora qvorsens hotel proprieters many other stage and provido essential informa-stars,
to make improvements could of Dramatic
Charles Laughton,
(Contd, on back page, Cal, B)
The 43-year-old architect has already made a similar proposal to the City of Chicago.-France- Presse,
HK Consul Named
Tokyo, Sept. 2.
Father Eberle formerly lived in Boston. Malette is a native vi Springfield, Massachusetts.
Father Eberle escaped unhurt. Но was Malette was injured. faken to a nearby hospital.
Smith said the excursion train had gone from Kingston to Montego Bay and was en route to Kingston when the wreck occurred at 11.15 o'clock last night about a half mile from Kondall.
back
Telescoped
Police and other worked throughout the night and day 10 compilo casualty
sta..
The number of known dead and Injured continued to mount during the day, and survivors began to tell stories D their
night of terier,
The scene of the wreek was
He said coaches smashed into several hundred yards away from The Foreign Office today
onc another, telescoping and the mains road to Balaclava; named Yoshimitsu Ando as the trapping most of the victims in where the island's previous worst now Japanese Consul-General the wreckage. One coach rail tragedy occurred in 1038,
Hongkong.
climbed up.
embankment when 80 persons were killed. Ando was a Counsellor in the ena side of the ravine.
Witnesses said, the trait, Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Some of the cars were smash, hauled 'by a diesel focomotive,
he was given ed. Bureau before
But Major Smith aald was travelling at on unusually many of the passengers in the fast cilp and was swaying as it the Hongkong post.
Previously he served with the telescoped cars were trapped approached en "S" curvo near Japanese Embassy in Washing with broken arms and legs unil Kendal. ton-United Press.
every available doctor, nurse,
-RUSSIAN AND NATO FLEETS-
יי
·WILL CLASH-
Suddenly, there was a jerk and a crash, which observers
uld sounded like Dn
carth- quake.
Diesel Detached
A
detached tistit some distance
the couches fell and
The diesel London, Sept. 2. arers, where it said the Soviet
"Operation manoeuvre, Strikeback", with more than and slopped manoeuvres would be held DUSSIA reinounced tonight it
were would begin massive naval
from September 10 to October 150 ships taking part, in the ahead, but 15.
Piled North and Norwegian 203 derailed. Five next manoeuvres
In week Arctic waters off the coast of The Soviet brundenst warzed
from September 19 to Septem. | UP_in
fully that, Russian ships would be l bor 28.
Two coaches were reduced, to "different types
matchwood, while others were of using modern weapons” ki the big The Soviet. Defence Ministry | gutfod. Two other couches wäre Arctic. manocúуrca,
warning of the Impending trapped la A narrow, rocky manoeuvres was broadcast in abutment where one was de- both Swedish and English- | molished and the other had its United Press
sides; tom, off-United Press.
Western -pawers are to hold sen exer-
Norway where
John and
cises at the same time.
screen
tion on the standards ex-je Miles'. Haye made her stage pected by overseas tourists" | debut in 1000,-France-Presse,
Moscow Radla broadcast a win-Naval forces of North Atlantie ing to shipplog to slay clear Treaty Organimation members of the Barents and Käru Bes Are planning to hold
a
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