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TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1958.
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BALLPOINT TH EXCLUSIVE
STERING SILVER TIP
Anti-Dutch Measures To Continue Big Developments
French Hold
Rubber
In South
Vietnam
French
Saigon, Jan. 7. control of South Vietnam's rubber planta- tions may prohibit portation of rubber South Korea, an informed source said.
GX-
to
A Korran trade inission res vently visited Saigon. It show. ed interest In Buying Viet- Hamese rubber and umber und Vietnamese rice now purchased by Korea,
increasing the small amount of
But A source close to the trade mision said Korea would find it difcult to enler Vie:- nuni's rubber market.
Most of this Southeast Aslan nation's rubber pinutations are -French-owned. Their mujor market for decades has been France and remains so today sinouch Vietin now is inde- of French political pendent control.
ESTABLISHED
ARMY BACKS SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
SOEKARNO
IN ABSENCE
Djakarta, Jan. 6.
Indonesia today promised to continue its
anti-Dutch
campaign as
President
Soekarno departed on an extensive “rest and work" tour of Asian and African nations.
The pledge to continue anti- Dutch measures, made by Pro- anler Djuandu, and a declara- on of my loyalty out the Present off on his five-to-5)x- week trip. Soekarno is schudul- ed to visit countries from Egypt to Japan to explain Indonesia's enuse in its dispute with the Netherlands as well us to ru cuperate from the strain of his
ollice.
President Soekarno's depat- lure came at a time when new troubles Icomed abend for Indonesia. There were reports of more dissident nuvements in the outer islands and warnings of Fresh economic difficulties.
Rumours
The Socialist dally Pedoman noted today rumours of "possiate subversive movements" during the President's absence, It said the
speculating people were whether they had been led by This established trade pal the Communists or the Lunatic tern, plus Korea's shortage of Darul Islam movement, which is foreign exchange, makes Korean said to have been behind the
In Vtelnam recent rubber purchases
unsuccessful bombing doubtful, the source said.
attack on Sorkar, Prezident Ngo Dinh Diem's An army spokesman dechred Government has permitted the military would be loyal to French rubber planters to the touring President in his operate without any suggestion capacity as Supreme Commander of seizures as against the Dutch of
in Indonesia.
In the past year
the armed forces. At the same time, the army said it was
or two a "constant alert" for any
several Fronch plantations have attempt to overthrow The planted new trees for the Brat Government "either during the time since the Indo-China war, absence of President Sockarna suggesting French considence in or at any other time."-United their futuro in their former Press. colony-United Press.
Reaction To
Hillary's Suggestion
London, Jan. 6. The Chairman of the London
to
Vehicle Thefts
Two thefts from parked cars have been reported to the Police In Hongkon
In the first case. the wing mirrors of a private car pukeu In Castle Road, near Robinson Road, were stolen Inst night, and in the second cuse, side tights were removed from u privac car parked in Clevorty Street carly yesterday morning.
Boy Dies
Committed managing the Commonwealth Trans-
A five-year-old boy, Chan Arctic Expedition told the chat-nam, of 264, Aplin Street, New Zealand Committee fitat cor, was Istally injured af which Sir Edmund about 10.03 am. gesterday when Hillary reports that it is he was knocked down by is lorry near Is Hillary's job to get Drin Tung Chau Street,
junction with Kwellla Street, Vivian Fuchs, loader of the Shamshuipu British group to Scott Baso The boy died on the way to this season,
Kowloon Hospital.
The message, which went as a cable from Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir John Slessor to II. C. Bowden, Chairman of the New Zealand Management Com- alttee, is apparently a severe reaction to Sir Edmund's sug- gestion that Dr Fuchs might be well advised to abandon the attempt to lend the Arst Dver. land trek across the whole at Antarctica.
Slessor's message said, "Cin- phasise as previously
that
Hillary's primary job is to make as certain as humanly possible that Fuchs reaches Scott Base this season."--United Press.
Probe Into Tragedy Of Pamir
Luebeck, Jan. 6. Captain Hermann Eggers, Wie regular Master of the 3,020-ton West Gennan four-masted sall- ing ship Pamir which sank with the loss of 80 lives in the Atlantic Inst September, sold a court of Inquiry here today:
"I knew this ship. I loved ber, and I was fully convinced of her refability."
Captain Eggers, who missed the barque's last trip through illness, was giving evidence be tore the Maritime Board here which is trying to find out why the vessel rank in an Atlantic hurricane with the loss of 50 cadets and 30 crew. Only six men were saved.
When the court opened, Judges and spectatore stood in
lance for ono minuto memory of those lost. ---Regler.
in
SEVEN HUTS DESTROYED IN FIRE
Beven huts were destroy. ed in a fire which broke out in a equatter area at the Junction of Nanchang and Tung Chau Streets, Sham- thulpo, early this morning.
Twenty-eight people were made homeless, and these have been registered by the Government Gacial Welfare Department for The fire Emergency relief. victims were supplied with hot meals at 11a.m.
Used clothing supplied by the British Red Сгода Society and CARE blanketa will bo distributed afternoon
thin
THE BIG CLEAN-UP
IN TEXAS
Edinburg, Tex., Jan, 6.
A massive storm that crip
pled a 700-mile stretch of Texas with heavy snow,
T... UM, PM. Of.
"Just wait! One of those days the big boss will say, Jackson, your natty appearance is paying big dividends--you're a born teader of men'!"
More US Propaganda
Needed Abroad Says Congressman
Boston, Jan, 6.
The only Asian in the US Congress returned home today from a round-the-world trip and said the United States should do a better pro- paganda job abroad.
DECEMBER WARMEST SINCE 1948
December 1957 was ex- ceptionally dry and sunny and was the warmest since 1948. The rainfall for the month was only 30 per cent of the normal amount and
Going On In China
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER Tremendous development is going on everywhere in China and both heavy and light industries throughout the country are forging ahead at a terrific pace.
That is the opinion gathered by Mr P. J. Alley, a ctyli engineer, after a 70-day visit to that country following a to
lour was entirely confined of Soviet Russia.
days. During the
Mr Alley is a New Zealander Colony Was and a
senior lecturer at the influence of a Canterbury University College, persistent anticyclone cen- Christchurch. tred over north China,
three month,
the
under the
He left his home country in
which, with only a few June last year, representing his college at an internallonal civil Interruptions, maintained engineering conference in Lon steady NE monsoon alongdon, Then he went on tour of the south China coast.
Europe and visited most Euro- pean capitals until early Octo- Al the beginning of theber when he toured the Soviet month, the weather was fine Union, His visit to Russin was and
pleasant with predo- at the invitation of the Society minantly northerly airstream. of Closer Relations with Russia, On the 4th, a small high pres- which, Mr Alley said, is an in- sure cell brcke away from the ternational organisation.
parent anticyclone over China and moved into the Pacife, coustry: warm moist air to reach cast and |Hongkong from the
resulting in a warm spell with claily temperatures well above
Lermal. The
maximum temperature for the month (77.1 degrees F was recorded on the 12th and 12th.
Potential
through the Seeing China eyes of an engineer, Mr Alley said he was able to form an
there opinion that
Was tremendous industrial potential. He visited the universities and
al marvelled he
the well- equipped laboratories and up- On the 14th, an intente cold to-date instruments, surge from the north brought In his 10-week-tour, Mr Alicy rellef from the warm and and his wife were able to visit humid weather, and tempera- as many as 15 cities and he was ture fell rapidly to a minimum atruck with the tremendous de- of 52.4 degrees F early ob
the velopment that was going on, 15th,
PRESSURE ROSE
he sald
Не was informed that the hydro-electrle plant being bullt at San Men would produce ono days, million kilowatts. This is only
During the next three pressure
rose stendilly southeast China and winds Alley said, Ho did not think
gradually freshened from
cast over the Colony.
Inland Revenue Wins Test
Case
At Central Magistracy yesterday Clan Pan, of 10, Eastern Street, ground floor, was ned $500 by Mr F. G. Nigel for having given false Information to the Business Registration Office of the Inland Re» Venue Department when applying
remission
For
A
of the fee of $209.
Chau, who is the pro- prietor of the Fook Chan Salt Fish Shop, was staled by the prosecutor, Mr E. 8. Jones of the Inland Re- venue Department, to have
business turnover $137,839 during the
of
past
10 months instead of the $3,600 per month claimed by the defendant.
Mr Jones told the 'Court that this type of offence had become very prevalent amonget business firms when applying for remis- sion of their business re-
gistration fees. Ho
sald that the present camo had been brought before the Court as "test" ease.
over second to the Soviet Union," Mr BOY SENDS
even the United States hat such
huge dem that would produce
The Strong Monsoon Signal such power. was hoisted at 11.40 am on the
M-
this
CABLE TO
DR FUCHS
Oakville, Ontario, Jan. 6. A 17-year-old boy has sent
a cable to Dr Viviani Fuchs urging him to come! plete the trans-Antarctiq Journey.
that Mr Alley added 18th and a maximum gust of 30 gineers were surveying the knots was recorded on the same famous Yangtze gorges to dem day,
the waterways and when On the 21st, • weak surge was completed, the power de-
through the passed
Colony rived from this hydro-electric giving traces of light drizzle, source would be the biggest in
However, there was Representative Dalp Singh, and the Little Rock school In-
no ap-the world. He quoted the preciable fail in lemperature figure 4,000,000 kilowalls as the downpours and flash Saund {Democrat, California) tegration situnilon.
arrived at Logan Airport with,
and weather improved rapidly electric power capable of being He said he spent much of his floods cased up chough his wife and their 20-year-old time explaining that President after passage of the surge. produced by the harnessing this today for somo of the daughter
Between Elle.
had Eisenhower's action
the 24th and 26th | swift-running river. They
in sending 1,500 homeless to start vistled Rome, Paris, London, troops into Little Rock was a
an intense trough in the upper
Tony Myrans may be the first level westeriles moved eastward 30,000 Lorries straggling back to clean Israel. Honolulu, Japan, Viet-determination to
person to send à commercial carry out
south China
causing
cable to the South Pole-where up the mess.
nam, Hongkong. Singapore, court-ordered school
desegra- actu Manila, Rangoon and Saund's | tion.
widespread overcast and rain. Mr Alley also said that the It will await the arrival of the
The rainfall recorded at the motor car plant that was recently | expedition-and it cost him Helicopters rescued at letest native India
The Congressman said that Royal Observatory between set up by the Government could | $2.76. In- 11 persons in south Texas. rhiding two men stranded on a Air Sound travelled as a one- after his explanations of Ameri-3 am, and 8 am, on the 25th manufacture 30,000 lorries next
The cable presented Canadian pealt north of El Paso during mazi
the can foreign policy, his audiences was 7.1 mm (0.28 ins.), being year and that not long after this,.
would the the factory seemed satisfied.almost 90 per cent of
be able to Paciile
with Telegraph Com- generally
total for the month,
make private care for the people problem. They had to check He said his report United Press.
Thereafter, temperature bo- of China.
with the Unlied States Navy would contain a suggestion that
Talking about the United States should do
gan to rise again as the con-
olt redneries, ¦ to and out if it could be done--l esta- and the Navy agreed to pass the tinental followed better job of selling its view-
anticyclone extended Mr Alley said the plant
and blished in Taal Dam was capable cable to its South Pole base. "f Kap 10 eight points to the rest of the world,
eastwards
Japan downpours Inches of rain hit the Rio Cinde Mr Saund sald he W-15
weather was mainly fair with of producing two million tons of Valley, southwest of Corpus besieged with quesilons at
sunny afternoons and cloudy oil a year. This plant, he added, was closely followed in efficiency Christi. More than 1.200 per stups on his trip. The most
nights. rons fled their homes. in that often expressed concern, he area alone.--United Press.
said, was about II-bomb
sub-committee
the weekend after repiring House Foreign Affairs Civil Aeronautics Authority mittee. radio and radar equipment.
that Flash floods
of
ROTARIANS OFF TO TAIWAN
Three Hongkong Rotarians left for Taipei by air this morning to attend an oficial conference on Rotary affairs.
The three were Mr Fung Ping-fan, Rotary International's Administra- tive Adviser to the 16 Rotary Clubs in the China-Hongkong-Macao area, Mr Henry Chang, a past President of the Rotary Club of Hongkong Island East, and Mr R., Y. Cheng, Hon. Secretary of the Rotary Club of Hongkong.
Before leaving, Rotarian Fung Ping-fan told newamen that they would be away for 10 days and hoped to visit all the 11 Rotary Clubs in Taiwan.
The main object of their visit, he added, was to hold two one-day Institutes to discuss Rotary affairs there,
Left to right, Robert Y. Cheng, Fung Ping-fan and Henry Chung, photo- graphed before leaving for Taipei this morning—(China Mall)."
Lests
Communist Congratulation
For Hillary
London, Jan. 6.
This fair spell ended abrupt by the rennery in Kansu. ly on the 29th when a fresh surge of cold air arrived from the north bringing small amounts of rain and cooker conditions to the Colony.
No tropical disturbances de- veloped over the Western Pocitle during the month.
MASTER FINED
TELL HIM
11
The cable read: "Impossible Shackleton to slopover at Pole You cannot emulate him it you do. Good luck. C.A. Myrans.”
Tony sent the cable after telling his father that Dr Fuchs should not stay at the South Fole if he wanted to cross the
"Well,
violent earthquake which oc-The master of a motor fish Antarctica.
Soviet scientists have santcurred in Mongolia was record- messages of congratula-ed at the Royal Observatory tion on Sir Edmund Hil-on the morning of the 4th, lary's foot in reaching the
South Pole, Moscow radio reported tonight.
It said. Dr Mikhail Shomov,
MONTH'S FIGURES
The month's figures and de- partures from normal 'were:
Sunshine: 194.0 hours, 22.5
head of the Soviet Antarctic ex-hours above normal.
pedition on the Soviet Academy Rainfall: 8.0 mm (0.31 ins),
Ills father replied; Ing vessel, 44-year-old don't tell me. Tell Dr Fuchs,"
Yip Bo, was fined $150 by | China Mall Special.
·Me C. Cairns at the
Marine Court this morn-
ing for having two secret DEATH OF
compartments in his ves-
sel..
Inspector C. Y. Chan said the
Cloudiness: 52%, 4% below yesterday morning in a routine normal.
check
Sharmshiupo.
of Selencos, said: "The success 18.2 mm (0.72 in) below normal. Marine Police Intercepted craft of the New Zealand group let by Sir Edmund Hillary pro vokes feelings of deep respect amang Soviet polar explorers,"
Dr Shomov expressed the hope that research carried out by the Now Zealander's party will make an important contribution to man's knowledge about the Antarctic continent.
that the
ALL MEMBERS
Relative Humidity: 74%, 4% above normal.
Mean Maximum Temperature; 10.9°F. 2.9-F above normal,
Mean Temperature: 05,1°F, 21°F above normal.
Mean Minimum Temperature: 61.1°F, 2.2°F above normal,
Mean Dew Point: 50°F, 2F
above normal.
Maximum temperature 77.1-F was recorded on the 12th
Minimum
Temperature
of
A later broadcast reported and 13th. academician Dmitry Scherbakov, Chairman of the 62.4 was recorded on the 15th. Antarctic Research Council of the Academy, sent a telegram to the President of the Now Zealand Antarctic Society, in which he said, "I beg you to to M (SIC) Edmund convey
Knocked Down
A twelve-year-old
3418
OLD HK RESIDENT
The Police first found a compert Mrs Elizabeth Sherry, wife ment in the bow of the ship and after further searching, discovered another near the engineroom.
The defendant explained that the compartments
were there
store valuables in the event of his vessel being attacked by pirates. He added that tie didi not know it was against the law to have them.
Snatching
of Mr J. P. Sherry, former Managing Director of the Hongkong Telephone Co. Ltd, died this morning, at 6 o'clock at St Paul's Hospital. She was 63. -
Mrs Sherry, who was an old resident in Hongkong, come here early in the year 1919. She was at one time closely associated with the netivities of the Old Cheero Club, and was the com- mittee member of the Hongkong Benevolent Society.
She had been" in "indifferent health for some time antwo
I admitted to hospital a week ago. She is survived, by har thuge.
A pair of gold earrings was snatched from a Chinese wezdan boy, So walking in Fuk. Wa Street, near Hillary and to all members of Chun-lung, of 100, Shing Woo Wong Chuk, Street, at about band, two sons, Murtin and John, his expedition the contralula Road, ground floor, sustained 2.30 p.m. yesterday,
| wlio "aru. residonta: in California, The Police have detained a and a daughter Kay, who is in tions of Soviet scientists on sarious injuries at about - 10 30
man on mispicion of having Hongkong:: their
when ho outstanding success ina.m. yesterday reaching the South Pole on knocked down by a
The funeral service will be Govern- tried to pick the pockets of a tractors and our hope that the ment vehicle in Siding Wa Street at about 6.30 p.m. year Catholic Cemetery, paming, the Chinese pedestrian in Apliu held tomorrow at the Roman, ' expedition will complete equal Road, hear its Junction with
terday.
monument at 8:30 pm. ly successfully Ita trans- Tsun Yuen Street, Antarctic crossing and enrich The boy WILT removed to world science with new in formation about the Astarélic." United Press.
Queeu Mary Hospital, where Printed and pubilatied by Parin Pidvozy for and? du he is 'being detained for treat- behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndhani ment.
Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong,