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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1958.
Bring Back ALL FACILITIES FOR The New Headquarters
· De Gaulle
Call Made
Paris, Fob. 26.
A call to bring General Charles De Gaulle, War- time Free French leader, from his country retreat to "save" France, was put forward in a note clrculated today by the National Centro
of the Republican
Rocial Fatty (ex-Gaullist group in the National As- sembly).
Tho nole, written by Roger Frey, a Councillor of the French Unton, said: "France is in danger of death. There is time, junt time, to give Charles de Gaulle the temporary
will
power which
savo
Franco of tomorrow by ayolding the traps which
haunt weak regimes."—— France-Presse,
UP-TO-DATE
TELEVISION SOON
By JOHN LUFF
Sitting at home and watching your Television screen, you have no idea what difficulties the technicians tabour under in the prosent T. V. studios. I have heard it said at times that the camera connot lio, I should say on the contrary that the camera is the biggest liar in Hongkong.
grammes
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Before leaving the subject of of view, I will add studios from a construction point that there gallery con↔ will be a public structed in the main TV studio
In these, any type of When I see the spacious (in area.
production shots it sends from the Re-undertaken In Television pro- normally |diffusion studios, and com-
can be accomplished, pare the picture with the third studio, smaller in size, fact of cramped surround- is provided for such Items
End such Jings, I know the camera is takes, news reading,
lying. If you don't belleve special demonstrations as might
arise from time to time. me, go down some time and
The remaining space on these how a yard or 80 of floors is reserved for TV opera- televise a show, you need not
so that a selected audience cas enjoy the show being telecast
from the TV stage,
Having already an idea of the necessary to powerful lighting
Rice Dealstudie space is turned by the on-rooms for storing equip- be told that the batteries
Approved By Garcia
rooms,
camera into h spacious mcnt. | drawing room, and then
give your opinion.
However, that in all to end, for you must have read the news earlier this week about the new building that should be ready at the end of the year.
The Studios
Pier.
of considerable emit control
tists spotlights госп make up rooms, and heat, and as the Hongkong sum- rooms for storing scenery and mer needs no co-operation from TV studios in obtaining a highly uncomfortable temperature, you will quickly appreciate that something in the way of air con ditioning is necessary.
props.
Other Important sections on these floors are projection rooms for pre-viewing all films, also the editing and capiloning de- partments, with the associated camera units and dark rooms, development laboratories, and various offices for
the engineer
Those of
do
aty of
The purchase, to be made with dollars, comprises 30,000 tons of Vietnamese rice at US$125 per ton c, sed f, and 12,000 tons
the ut US$124 cf Cambodian rice
Both rice shipments per ton. will be 40 per cent broken.
The transaction Hongkong Am was
Manila, Feb. 27. President Carlos Garcia's Cabinet last night up-
This will be in Gloucester proved the purchase of 12,000 tons of rice from you can see a drawing on this
In charge and his staff. Rox opposite Fenwick
who you Vietnam and Cambodia to page of what the finished block camera works at all will ap-
the necessity make up for the collapse will look like, and doubtless preciato of a US$6,000,000 rice-you will notice the roof line, adequate lighting. It will help to local you to understand the difficul- copra deal with Hong which is a concession
ties encountered in the present architecture. kung.
The building is to be of studios at Arsenal Street, With cement concrete with brick audio radio, this did not matter co much, but when young the majority panel walls, and of internal partitions, and brother Television came to live quarters, floors are to be sound-proof in already crowded This is achieved by constructing
tun grew fast and furious. the studios with a'r se special half dozen or so cameras a fu
Imagine a crowded studio, e ad packing them with
feet from the sound absorbent materia).
performer, and overhead
ballery of Having shown you an idea of Just the building in general, I wish
powerful lights blistering the to deal with that part which is
back of his neck. concerned with Television. The The lufty new studios have TV
department occupies taken care of that, Suspended sixth and seventh floors, where twenty feet above the floor will there
iwo bre
main studios be racks of lights, with reaching through two floors in variety of spot and flood lighting height, both well over 1,500 feet units.
the with
cancelled by President Gatela when the In allegedly increased its rales.
Rice is badly needed in the Philippines because of the poor harvest caused by droughts and typhoons-France-Presse,
Taipei Refuses
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Manila, Feb. 27, President Carlos Garcin last night declared that he doing his "level best" to deport 2,400 overstaying Chinese hero to Formosa but had failed so far because the Talpel Government had refused to accept them.-- France-Presse.
Assistant Dead
the
a
Radium Needle
Girl Welcomed Home To. Putten
Putton, Holland, Feb. 26.
A family of seven returned to its once radioactive home in rural Putten today after spending more than five wooks under observation in a Utrecht hospital.
Washington, Feb. 20, Mr Frederick Dearborn, a special
to President assistant Elschhower for co-ordination
operations,
Five-year-old was of security found dead in his home today, Police said his dcath was
duo to natural apparently causes. Reuter.
SIDE GLANCES
a
Perfect Quiet
The difficulty about this is, a TV sound studio must have
The perfect quick.
modern microphong is a most sensitive Instrument. Once it is on you dare not even flick your lighter to light up a cigaretle should you be watching a show. From that you will understand that an ordinary air conditioner with its quiet hum would come over the air ke rouring sea.
Rediffusion
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
TSUN WAN MURDER TRIAL
Textile Worker On Friendship With Dead Woman
The defence in the Tsun Wan beach murder trial commenced before Mr Justice A. D. Scholes at the Criminal Sessions this morning when the accused, Leung Kwai-wing, 44, a textile worker, gave evidence on his relationship with his alleged mistress.
to Talwan. The
Leung is alleged to have piled to murdered Ho Ah-kwan, a deceased took his Taiwan entry permit and kept it until it had 32-year-old married woman, expired.
on November 25 last. The
At that time, accused sald, his body of the deceased was colleagues suspected he had found by the police on the helped deceased with her wages seabed about 40 yards from by exaggerating the amount of her watt As a result of their an embankment in Tsun complaint, accused lost his fore- Wan early on the morning man's post and deceased was of November 26.
reinoved to another department
Mr Terence Shurlock, in carning much smaller waga. structed
Од by Mosers Deacons,
October 24 last year, appears for the accused. Mr accused went with the deceased WA. Blair-Kerr, Senior Crown to a hotel. While they were it Counsel, la prosecuting, assisted | 4
husband
deceased's room broke in Accused
said he by DDI G. Fergus.
The accused testified that in promised deceased's husbaud 1953, ho was a foreman in a not to go with deceased to aby factory in Trun Wan. In hotel again. March that year, the deceased On November 24 last, he at-
SENOR CHA CHA CHA SHANIK joined the factory as an inspec- tended. a cinema performance
Unofficial Envoy
Of Goodwill
By ANDREW SLOAN
He was in the real-estato business for 20 years.
generation
for
the
tor of defective doth in his in Teun Wan with docensext and department,
a Mra Choung. After the par-
the
He said they became friendly formance, deceased gave him and he often visited her home a parcel and asked for an ap- or went to cinemas with her pointment. Accused said it was In October that year, they had too late then and suggested
meeting intimate relations, he continued, a
following and since then she frequently morning. They finally agreed borrowed money from him.
to meet each other at 8 pm, the In March the following year, following day, he said, their relationship was discovered by deccanoc's brother-in-law, Yeung Chit a letior to the who wrote deceased.
MONTH'S LEAVE
When informed of the con-
Hearing is continulag.
Leading Seaman Bound Over For Stealing Paint
Shanik is known to many famous and talented American Bible for both of them accused years by Mr G. R. Sheath it -
range of testing equipment traveller in a restaurant in Kow-
be
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that of
bound over in the same
The Court ordered the paint to be returned to the ship's
At the was introduced to this dish, and Johannesburg, Capetown, Dur-neckioce advised her to return agents, Mesars Butterfeld and
This gives you a reasonable picture of what is happening at this stage of development, but, of course,
ta
five months travelling, having covered 10,000 miles, he will return hig home
town. Brooklyn.
A LITTLE STORY Before I left him, Shanik told little story, with a moral added by himself.
THREAT TO SUE
a
Swire, and the money paid for the paint to be seized by the pollen bedore the ship leaves The Colony this afternoon.
Prosecuting Officer DST L Ross told the Court a Police Sergeant saw the drums of a paint being lowered into
mpon from the stem of the Agapenior at 10 p.m. on Wednes- on board the day. Yip was
the time. The Officer Identidad
But now The way the TV people get
he says, "I don't want to be the richest man in the out of this difficulty is to pass
So comotory." over the past few years he has contract the buck along. The calls for sound-proof studios, so appointed himself an unofficial ambassador of good-
will, the way the architects and en- gineers get over the dimeulty of zoning.
Ronald Murray Shanik is the ever, he has not turned to the tents of the letter, the accused told decensed that they should air conditioning is by
now separate, Deceased, in The cool air is sent into the name. Through music, a medium younger
he has brought of an reply, told him "not to be afraid" Leading Seaman Michael studios with a special plant for which knows no language bar- record
As far as I rlers, he is able to spread example of jazz.
and said the would be respon- Nugent, 44, of the my Agapenor, very The record is by two the TV suction.
was bound over in $250 for two understand this kind of thing, friendliness, his main aim.
In July 1956, the Bassey cound baffles will be placed
and the world as Negroes-Count people around
Baid, deceased wanted to go to Central Magistracy this mom- along the air ducts.
Cha Cha Cha. In Jimmy Rushing.
Shanghal
She took a month's ing when he pleaded guilty to Lower down the building will Senor be the Television workshops. America, however, he is called
Those two sing some really leave from the factory and stealing seven drums of paint unofficial ambassador of cool blues on this new record,
from the ship's store mid selling borrowed $300 from him, They are provided with fully the
he said. "Incidentally," he said
The equipped tealing benches, "soak-mule and plctures.
necused sald deceased in them to a marine store collector.. me, 224 ing" racks, and complete met this jovial 220-pound standing up, "look
fact never went to Shanghai, for $350. pounds. But beside Jimmy I look When asked, she said her hus The marine atorc collector,
bard would Space is provided for some fitly loon the other day shortly after skinny, Roly-poly Jimmy Is
not allow her to Yip Kwan, also pleading guilty technicians to
心 constantly his arrival from Tokyo. The something like 350 pounds. But
She further sald the $300 she had borrowed from to receiving the drums, was engaged in unpacking, testing, first thing he did was to order ho sings great."
of cabbage When Shanik leaves Hongkong him, $100 had been spent in amount for two years, issuing and repairing Television borsch-that dish sets to meet the maintenance soup with the meat in it." When on March 4, he will fly to Istan-gundry expenses and the remain- and supply requirements of the he last came to the Colony he ful, Israel, Athens, Nairobi, me $200 had been spent on a Vision subscribers. moment, there are over 2.000 of ever since he has had an in-ban and on to Brussels, where he Accused them, but the number is in-dllaation for it.
will attend the World Fair. to the factory since she was not Day March 1, he will be cale- Then he will stay in London going to Shatighal, but she said creasing dally. The new work- shops are
designed to handle brating his birthday. On that for a little while. While in the preferred to have a rest as up to a 10,000-subscriber level, day he will be 21 plus plus Britain he will visit Scotland, the weather was hot, with ample space for further what? well, your guess is as Ireland and Wales. Then after
He wouldn't tell good as mine. development when required.
me.
Then he began to tell me about his travels. From a silm it is certain that black case he began withdraw- Joke Haans-home town together with her choten, the girl who carried the parents and four brothers and various lentes will crop up as ing what seemed to be a never the building begins to take ending number of sheaves of broken-off top of a rudium sisters.
stiff paper on which were pasted netdle in her nose for several
of mementoes
pictures A a of flowers, donated by shape. hours, came back to her tiny neighbours, the town adminis-
people met and places seen.
It is the story of a man call tration. Health Ministry work-
HIS SHOES crs, defence experis, hospital But as my job is really the
ed Bob, who was suffering from workers and all those who had
see I can programme angle,
Turning from these, he looked a heart ailment. Bob went tho "live" co-operated to curb the radio int
programme down at his feet with pride and see Doctor Brown, from whom activity
danger and undo the should improve immensely, and damage done by a hospital sc if our local artists get down to sald, "Look at my shoes. Last he was able to receive free year I brought a pair of 3D treatments, the doctor belag a soft-hearted man. After a while, client, awaited the Hoansche-it, they will have: an opportunity tens at their completely re-against the world in working in hoc. Now I have a pair of
Alan Murray Custom-bulit however, the Doctor began to novated little house.
surroundings equally as good as Air-conditioned Space Shoes. cow tired of Bob's many non- In January, when Joke was those at Lime Grove in London, Nothing to beat these for com- paying vialls. undergoing a medical treatment and the up-to-date studios in fort," he added with a smile, Bob's friends learned of this
The Bochiku Revue, one of the best known theatrical groups in in the University Hospital at the States.
In order to have those shoes and decided, without his know- Utrecht, the top of a radium
with his ledge, to place some money for It would be a shame if hav-made he had to alt
Japan, is coming to Hongkong needle broke off without any-ing such space and equipment, feet in a bath of
plaster of him on a horse in the Irish
early next month for a two- body nolleing It.
the best use is not made of it. Paris, so that tho footwear Derby. It so happened that
week engagement, By the
time the needle top However, let that be na it may, specialists could retain a perfect Bob's horse won, and, un-
The troupe, which left Japan was missed, Joke had gone Hongkong has done
won $140,000. to Red Cross working parties it again, mould of his feet. The shoes knowing, Bob home. The entire Haanschoten with a Television studio that were then made
around the Bob's friends didn't know how was made by Lady Black this in December last on a tour, is family
back was rushed
to can compete with the world. mould. "Quite an order.
: But to break the news to him. They turning when he visited the now completing a three-week engagement in' Bangkok. It will ong at the Taikoo Dockyard. Utrecht and Isolated in the The architects are Messrs well worth it," said Shonile. went to the Doctor,
Grooting Lady Black on her arrive in Hongkong on March 0 hospital.
Munitti and Partners, with
He said he would inform Bob. On every trip he takes with
commence performing at The house and garden were | Associated Architect Donald T.him a number of gimmicks, be- | That same day Bob came into arrival was Mrs M. W. Turner the Queen's Theatre on March. decontaminated thoroughly dur-
couse," you lock a gimmick the office for treatment, Doctor and Mrs R. Bell, who is super-
8, giving two performances a ing the past five weeks. The
you are nothing." And so on Brown quietly asked Bob what visor of the Talkoo section.
Introductions to members of day. Each performance will be stove was dumped into the sta
this philosophy, he keeps well he would de supposing he won the working party were made by a full two hour show. by a Dutch naval vessel, the Zeta On TV up with the modern advances, $140,000.
Mrs Bell, who explained how.) The troupe comprises 36 chimney was
Without any hesliation Bob the group of 16 torn down, the
One of these gimmicks is el- furniture destroyed.
[women mal members of whom 45 are girls, - The Rediffusion Television ways a source of never-dying replied that he would give the weekly to roll bandages and help Service announces that through interest. I am speaking of the Doctor $70,000, whereupon the with equipment for the Sandy WELCOME
the co-operation of the Gover-Polaroid camera, which treated Doctor collapsed and died of Bay Hospital, ment Public Relations Officer a lot of interest here in 1955. berrt attack When tile Joko returned to- there will be a special edition
Taking a subject, Shanik can The moral: enjoy yourself and day and was welcomed by the of Commonwealth Teleview at produce a print fn' loss than i hava fun. entire population of the ad-9.30 pm. today, joining kindergarten, sho en- This feature has been flown minimum of effort. tered an almost new house with † from England and deals with
By Galbraith
gall with
6/
©1918 by KKR Barrier, Bre
brand new furniture shining now hearth.
and
The Putten Town Coundi
hark paid for all this.
Improvement
Waters, LR.I.B.A.
D
the development and ficance of Zeta
F. Quarles van Ufford and
Putten's Burgomaster, Willem
ancials of the Health Ministry, welcomed the seven Hannschö-
aight-
Lloyd To Lead
London, Fob.” 20. The Foreign Secretary, Mr
and
*
five minutes,
with and
That camera is a story in it- self, and it would take more mace than I am allowed to delve into the intricacies of the many and varied parts of which it is mada,
JAZZ POPULAR
ma
3000
to
At subsequent meeting. deceased bccused again told that their relationship should end, whereupon she threatened to suo han for damages to her Accused explained reputation. that their relationship had been chip's Chlet known to all his colleagues, who the drums and inquiries led to blamed him for his act and he Nugent's arrest, was feeling mast uneasy.
mind
In October 1958, areused con-
to leave the deceased and. ap- tinued, he made up his
Lady Black Sees Red Cross Work
The fourth in a series of visita
LONDON-WARSAW AIR SERVICE
sampan at
Japanese Revue Coming Soon
and
Knocked Down By Van
An eight-year-old girl was seriously injured when she was knocked down by a commercial
LAIKA ON A MATCHBOX
Warsaw, Feb, 20. A now Warsaw-London airvan, outside her home in the Moscow, Feb. 27. service, Jointly operated by Tal Hang Ting Resettlemet Lalka, the ploncer space dog,'| British European Airways, and Arça yesterday morning The will be enshrined on a the Pollak State Airline, LOT, girl, Lo Kwal-ying, is receiving As an ambasador of music, matchbox covor.
will start on April 9, the Polish, treatment at Kowloon, Hot- tens with short speeches ex Selwyn Lloyd, will lead the pressing the hope that Joke British delegation to the meet-Shanik is ever looping up with A. Soviet match factory has official news agency reported pital,
Ho Wing-put, aged 11 of 160 will suffer no after-effects from Ing of the SEATO Council, the trend in popular music. announced it will produce tonight.
There will be two Telur Fa Yuen Stroot, ground fobr the accident.
which is due to begin in Manila He says that. In America at matchbox cover, showing Laika
136 Joke paid very Bttle atten- on March 19. It is understood pronent, jazz music is slowly peering into space against a fights each week by each air suffered a broken log when tion. Her oyes were glued to that Mr Lloyd will fly to Muniin gaining nation-wide popularity background of swirling comets, Uno, LOT will use American- fell from his bleycla in une
"Jaza is gradually drawing planets and stars. The caption built Convale aircraft,
Chol Street yesterday afternoon, Argonaut Printed and published by PETER PLUMBLY for and on two enormous baskets of fruit- next week aboard a special
Airliner, many young and, talented per-rende: Laika, the first Sputnik Planes will dy by way of Zo is detairied in Kowloon, Hon
Berlin and Brussels. Reuter. formers into its ranks. How passenger?--United PreRE, behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham presents from the town and the BOAC
pitalu Mam Health Ministry.-United Press United Press. Street, City of Victoria In the Colony of Hongkong.
"Didn't you tell your folks about those young guys who get $60,000 bonuses for signing with the big leagues?”