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CHINA MAIL
US POSITION
Launching
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1958,
STRENGTHENED
SIDE GLANCES ·
By Galbraith
Of Satellite
May Help Preparations For Summit Conference
Washington, Mar, 17.
With the launching of the second American "baby moon" to- day, the position of the United States has been consider- ably strongthened at a time when preparations for East-West "summit" conference are entering on their crucial phase, observers in Washington said today.
SYNTHETIC NUTRIENT FOR
SPACEMEN
The majority of observers here believe that the American success in getting the Vanguard satellite into orbit might help to remove certain scruples in the minds of American leaders who were hesitating to commit them- selves to conversations with Moscow before having caught up with the Rusalans in the field of spatial exploration.
Today's success was greeted with lively satisfaction in Wash-
Eating & Drinking ington
Unnecessary
Chicago, Mar, 17. Space scientists are trying to develop a "synthetic nutrient" which will make eating, drinking and breathing unneces- sary, it was revealed to- day.
even
It would have been stili greater if two earlier Vanguard satellito launchings had not ended in failure on December ( and February 6 in the midst of a blaze of publicity, thus innieling two humiliating set- backs on the country.
Three Points
an
Queen Mother
Welcomed Home
London, Mar. 18.
The City of London, with pomp and ceremony, last night welcomed the Queen Mother home from hor 35,000-mile Australasian tour.
At a banquet given in her Experts here stressed three honour at the City's Guildhall, of her disappoint- poinis in comparing the four she spoke satellies-two American and ment at being unable to finish her homeward journey in the Qantas Super Constellation which Was dogged with mechanical trouble.
Dr James B. Edson, assistant two Soviet-which have been
to the Army's Director of Re-successfully placed in orbit, search and Development, cald These werO; the "nutrient" would be injected Into the bloodstream al pioneers of the future,
space
The Vanguard satellite weights only 1,400 kilograms, nearly 10 times less It would enable them to sur- than America's first satellite, vive space journeys and live on the Army's Explorer and only other planets without the neces-a fraction of the weight of the sities of human exiglenco G8 two Soviet sputniks, we now know them, Dr Edson said.
SPACE SHIP
He said "the space medicine people" were working toward development of the nutrient,
Dr Edson, writing in the bulletin of the Atomic scientists, would be predicted that man able to send unmanned space ship, possibly equipped with an Atomic bomb, crashing against the moon in four years
monn
second
The Queen Mother, who was accompanied by Princess Mar- garet, said that in those lande she had left "a part of my heart." Her journey had taken her nearly 35,000 miles.
The Soviet Union's Sputnik weighed 508 kilo- The Queen Mether sald she graines and carried the dog had been impressed "less by the Laika as its passenger. This contragte than by the similari- is an exploit the United States, ties in these widely separated may not be able to equat this citadels of the Commonwealth. year.
Though parted by thousands 2. The Vanguard satellite of miles, the British way of life contains tew precision showed everywhere strong and Instruments. With Its two rudlo | unmistakable, she said. transmitters it is designed mala- ly to solay information on the temperature of its surface,
of
CONSISTENCY
The instruments of Explorer 1
"I found this consistency very are much more numerous and are giving Information to world stimulating, and I had the feel
ing that what I was beholding scientials in the intensity
complete and stalle cosmic rays, on the erosive effect pleture, but only a stage in a of milero-meteorites and on the be
long and unfinished ProCCES outside and ture
Manned trips to the will follow, Dr Edson Bald, and spacemen from carth will landing on Mary and other planets within 10 to 15 years.
moon
SPACE PIONEERS
was not
2-27 TM. Mg Va Pam Ort.
© THEMA Barvien dan, |
"Mom, I'm sure this report card would make Dad feel pretty sad-if we don't show it to him we'll do him a big favour!"
Engineer
Charged
With Disorderly
Conduct
Nicholas Nicholas Colan, 53, a Chief Engineer of Butterfield and Swire, was this morning cau- tioned and bound over in $100 for one year by Mr. A. L. Leathlean at Central Magistracy on two charges of disorderly conduct. Inspector N. Reynolds said that the defendant boarded a taxi out- side a bar in Lockhart Road, at 11.40 pm. yesterday,
The driver started the taxi and asked the defendant where he wished to go. Defendant repiled "the Sky Room Har." The driver realised that they had just loft Bar and he immediately the turned his taxi round and stop- ped opposite to the Bar.
At this stage, the taxi moler
defendant
internal tempera- from which even greater thlogy read $1,50, The driver told the
the satellite itself.
hot sun, cold nights, cosmic rays Two Rockets
and meteors.”
In time, Dr Edson cald, man may be able to live on so many planets that nuclear
a would no longer have the same terrible potential as it does to- day-United Press,
The
Among the 800 guests at the reception were Mr Harold Mac- millin, Prime Minister,
is to cul- programme warminate with the launching prob- ably in the spring of a 21-pound
More highly developed Lady Dorothy Macmillan, mem- and
bers of the Parliament and satellite,
The United States now pos- Commonwealth High Commis- seases two rockets capable of sioners. Reuter, launching satellites into Брасс -the Navy's Vanguard with its highly
mechanism complex
Underground Atomic Blast
which is a purely scientiñe mis- sile and the Army's Jupiter-C which is strictly a milltary rocket.France-Presso.
Shouted
then
WOMEN STORM GAOL
Belfast, Mar. 17.
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CLAIM
REDUCES DIVIDEND
Sino-Japanese Price War
A price war between Chinese and Japanese suppliers affected the trade possibi- lities of the Green Island Cement Co., Ltd during part of last year and conse. quently the Company's net profit suffered an "unpleasantly large re- duction."
This WOO disclosed at the 65th annual general meeting of the Company held at noon to- day.
AGAINST
SHIP
WINS
An ex-parte claim against
the sa Rosiin for $5,409.03 being balance of cost of repairs and materials sup- plied to the ship was brought before Mr Justice C. W. Recce, Senior Pulsne Judge, in the Admiralty Court this morning. amount claimed was awarded Judgment with costs for the
to tho
Kingley plaintiffs
"I am not going to be so rush as to make any prophecies, but raw materlots will this year cost us substantially less, and will Mr D. Beason, Chairman of largely offset the lower prices the Board of Directors, sald he at which we are selling today regretted the Board could only as compared with last year. At recommend a dividend of $3 per any rate, shareholders will be share instead of 34 as in pre-glad to hear that both locally Engineering Shipyard Co., Ltd
of 36 Jervois Street, vlous year, and a reduced bonus and in the export market we Mr Victor Gitting, instructed to staff.
have made a favourable sort,"
In his report to shareholders, Mr Benson said;
Short-Lived
"In my last Statement I sald that at that time, after a year of considerable pressure, both the cement market and profit margins seemed to be reasonably alable. I sorry to say that
Appeared
that
Counsel told the Court
or Intervention
The Chairman then proposed by Bratton and Co. the adoption of the statement of for the plaintifs. accounts and the directors re- port, together with the Chair-no appearance Tape seconded, man's statement. Mr B. Wong was fied and leave was granted
by the Court to proceed proposal The was carried unanimously.
parte,
*~
He said that this was Mr Benson and Mr Li Fook-
claim for wo were re-clerici Directors, on straightforward
a proposal by Mr Lee Yat-ngok, repairs and materials supplied seconded by Mr Ng Man-kwong to the ship.
Messen Lowo, Bingham and
Inspection Matthews wore re-appointed Auditors on a proposal by Mr Hudson Chen Wood, seconded by Mr Fung Kwok-
Present
Present at the meeting were:
Mrs Wong Fok Slu-look In evidence said she is the man- sping director of the plaintit?
Bolween May company.
and August last year a Mr Chor Yau-leung and a Mr Chu.
state of affairs proved to be only too short-lived About the be ginning of June, a, price war began to develop between Chinese and Japanese suppliers, and grew in Intensity through- out the summer and autumn, unt by November their prices were approximately $20 per ton below
what they had been in Mr D. Benson (Chairman), Mr known to her as managers of May. Although we had no part H. Kadoorie, Mr H. R. Cicland, the Cartung Shipping Co., Ltd, the owners of the sa Rosita call- in this affair, our own domestic Mr Lil Fook-wo (Directors), Mr selling price had naturally to J. S. C. Neel (Managing Diree-ed at her office and as a result be reduced in stages by tor); the following shareholders, of the visit, the plaintiff.com-
made an approximately the same amount. Messrs Lee Yat-ngok, Hudson pany's engineer Fortunately
by the
end of Chen Wood, B. Wong Tape, spection of the ship to ascertain
what repairs were necessary, November both our: com Fung Kwok-sun, Koksan petitors had realised that this Woo, Ng Man-kwong, Lea Shin- Internecine competition was not chung; and Mr L W. Gordon to the advantage of either of (representing the auditors), them, and at the close of the year their prices had risen from
enabled us to
their low points by some $10
which per ton, readjust our own prices to main- tain the price differential which usually obtains between our own and other brands, At the
same time there was an over- due reduction in the volume, of Imported cement, which is just as important a factor as price in maintaining reasonable stability in the markel.
J.
UK CONSUL
TO TAIWAN ARRIVING
Mr
nowly
Allan Veitch, appolated UK Consul to Taiwon "Profits for the year in the and Mrs Veltch will arrive in Hongkong market were there the Colony tomorrow morning Funnel Line ship fore disappointing, particularly on the Blue
ก
was
Export Market
in
The ship's owners, she said, accepted the engineer's recom
mendation
for repairs which were subsequently carried out by plaintiff company.
The sum claimed represented balance of cost of repairs and materials supplied, wllness added.
!
BIG GAME HUNTING
ON TV
our salos-excluding de Fatroclus en route from London
Dr Lee Shu-fan the big game liveries to the Tai Lam Chung to Talpel to take up his now
hunter who recently retumed to Dom which
practically post. completed during the year Mr Veitch is well-known for the Colony from safari les Africa the will be the guest on "Chinese were higher than the year be- his long experience with
UK Consular servico in China Calling Card" at 8.43 tonight in fore.
where he served in Chungking, the tediffusion Television Ser- Nanking and Shanghai for vice. Fifty women, wives and
Mra During the interview Dr Leo years, Mr and mony mothers of Irish Republi
"In the export market, the Veitch will be remaining in the will show alldes of his various story was much the same: in- Colony for a few days before / activities in Africa and will ex- Internees, tensified Army
competition, which stormed their way into received an additional boost embarking for Taiwan, Belfast gnol today in a from the reopening of the Suez St Patrick's Day demon- and in Malaya unfortunately a Canal, reduced profit margins
can
GATES OPEN
WOMAN KILLED
plain something of the di- culties of calling out a big gamo hunter.
The programme will Cantonesc.
bo in
JAL To Cut Pacific Flight Time
that they were 3 The three pound may come."
already at the Sky Room Bar. "grapefruit" satellite. Speaking of the ties between Defendant alighted and look 40 launched by the Vanguard Britain and the Commonwealth, cents and flung it on the seat
la in reality only rocket
the the Queen Mother said: "There beside the driver and left. The The space pioneers will prob-pilot of the United States is another which, I believe, driver alighted and approached albly maire cave or drep
defendant saying "Not for parti transcends them all it is an the fissure the headquarters of their original programme
loyalty to the enough. One dollar afty." Defen- expedition, the scientist cipation l the International unshakable
stration. the driver ', anti Crown and I know that it was dant pushed
sharp reduction in sales, while from Geophysical Year, sald, to gain "protection
as a symbol of the Crown that tried to kick him, Insp Rey- Their menfolk are among about | there were no sales at all to 170 held in the prison under Korea, which took no less than I received a loving welcome,nolds said,
Northern Ireland which still warms my heart."
emergency | 10,000 tons in 1930. In our re- legislation permitting arrest and maining markels in Southeast | A Chinese woman was killed detention without trial.
Asla we sold rather more, but when she was knocked down by The women, forbidden to see overall there was nett reduc-a private car in Clear Water end A European Inspector, who the internees since the discovery |tion in our oversees shipments Bay Road, near Wong Tai Sin
was on plain clothes duty, ap-of an escape tunnel in the gaol of some 20,000 tons.
Road, shortly aller 4 p.m. proached the defendant and last week, gathered outside the **ኢ
to brighter side Our yasterday. The victim, who has found the defendant was under prison to shout protests.
picture was provided by our not you been idestined, died a the influence of drink. The
production Agures, which ex-few hours after she was Inspector asked him what was
Japan Afr Lincs will coeded those of any previous admitted to Kowloon Hospital. the matter. Defendant
Then the gates swung open year in the Company's history A twelve-year-old girl, Lee inaugurate a fast Trans-Pacific shouted at him, saying that he to admit the prison Deputy in the amount of cement clinker Kit-ing, of No. 516, Shanghai service on April 1 with the was not going to pay the driver Governor and tho crowd produced. I am sure you will Street, second floor, was injured latest DC 7C "Super Courler
more
he had only travel- stormed into the courtyard, a short distance.. "At
agree with me that this reflects by a private car near her home planes dying between Tokyo this Prison staff swiftly closed the greatest credit on the Works last night.
and San Francisco via Honolulu,
cod with the help of other be
shou Ling
A boy of seven, Chan Hop-four days a week. and only unfortunate that sales could ohal, Hiving at No 8, Sutherland
Together with continuation of polloc, defendant was taken to demonstrating inside the guol.
not keep pace with output, no Street, first door, was knocked the present DC 6-B Pacific Enstern Police Station.
There were shouts of "Down that at the end of the year we down and injured by a private Courier service three days a In the chargersom defendant with Brush Tyranny" and "Up had unusually high stocks of car in Queen's Road, West, week, a dally flight schedule again acted in a violent manner, the Irish Republican Army" comment and clinker on hand, yesterday.
between Japan and the West and shouted loudly, He Wad The IRA, outlawed in both and correspondingly low cash
Coast will be mainininođ. later put into the chargeroom the North and the Southern balance the bank, One of
The new planes will cut mix age, but all he acted violent Irish Republic, is trying to force our tasks to the current year is
hours 10 minutes off current Ban the unlication of Ireland by to reduce these stocks as far as
Francisco-Tokyo flight time and Sub-Inspector, M. R. Atkinson force.
houra five
Tokyo-San posible, and I am glad to say. then entered the cage and asked A large crowd gathered out that up to the time of writing
Francisco run making it possi» the defendant to be quiet. De-side the gaol and eventually awe have made some progress in
ble to have dinner in Tokyo an shoulder and a struggle ensued feminine "Invasion force was fendant pushed him the small rate was opened and the
this direction, resulting in a
Sunday night am curly barnic- material improvement in
料 fast in San Francisco Defendant received a blow over. ejected one by one-Reuter.
cash position. hia left eye and Inspoolor
Bimultaneously schedules will The Agency sold it was mak-Atkinson was grazed on his Forty-five Malay students ing the move because of "popu- right knuckle.
be increased on the Tokyɑ« A Chinese woman who was South routes, so that Hongkong at the Pasir Puteh secon-} int demand."
to say, an unpleasantly Defendant was later sent to
reduction, and allows us to re-watching proceedings in No. 1 will have four flights a week Queen Mary Hospital for treat-
Court at the Kowloon Mingle Pacific dary school, 22 miles from
with Courier servies commend a dividend of only tracy complained this morning Tokyo and three fights a week here, went on strike today
$3 per share as compared with that she had had her pocket service with Bengkok, 11 last year, and a reduced picket of 14. bonus to stalt..
Washington, Mar, 17. An American underground atomic blase last Septem→ ber took place without fallout any radioactive
and holds promises of now techniques in mining and oli extraction, it WOS officially announced to.
day.
A report on the Nevada ex plosion, which took place on feet September 19 nearly 900 below the peak of a hill at the atamic testing ground, " was prepared by the University of California: Itadiation Laboratory Atomic and issued by the US Energy Commission.
Áll
harmful
They Prefer
Malay
To English
Kota Bahru, Mar. 17.
Of Replicas US Satellite moment, a Police car arrived, the gates and the women could Manager and his staff. It was
For Show
Washington, Mar. 17., The US Information Agency announced today that it is sending 104 full-size re- plicas of the Army's Ex- plorer satellite overseas to show the world what It looks like.
Shortly after the Explorer atellite was fired into orbit, the
17.
on
meat, Insp. Reynolds, concluded.
Suspects Detained
heard
Death Of Old Resident
Mrs
at
Our
not profit for the year
The 15.25 shows, I regret |
large
Pocket Picked In Court
Says Woman Menaloy, morning.
'.
Police officers · searched alt persons leaving the Court, No one was, arrestöd. The woman was later accom"
Gurkhas Injured
vehkls wont of the Carità Ehemals | Rond, near the four-mollestone, The two soldiers, who
In protest against the use | Agency said. USIA posts in Nato of English as a medium of nations were jammed with wal- tors wanting to know what the
Laura A. Marques Instruction.
Favourable Start man-made moon looked Uks and
Basto, an old resident of English is still the only how it was launched. One post
the Colony, died at her
Two riftemen · of the 1/5 radioactive medium in Malay secondary improvised by making a model
There is not much else to Two suspects were detained particles resulting from the schools.
of its own and others displayed by the Police yesterday on mus
home at No. 3, Liberty comment on in the accounts, pauled to the Yaumall Police Gurkha Rifes were injured yes- explosion were imprisoned in-
The unrest started when two photograph exhibits,
picion of theft.
Avenue, first floor, this additions to fixed assets repro-Station where she made her resterday when thein millary nido, a sillen stóll some. 00 foot students approached the head- The Agency decided to ship
„Ons, of the men is boing morning. She was 88. sent principally the final expenport, in radius which was forced master, Me Yeoh Gir-boo, and 104 kits, including 0%1⁄2-foot fibro questioned about the thaft of a
Born in Japan, Mrs Marques diture on the reconstruction: of from the melting of 700 tons of demanded that Malay should glass replicas of the Explorer wrist watch, from
a Chinese Basto came to Hongkong some our No. 1 klin and the purchase replies English in all cinases in to its posts abroad. The kits woman in Yim Po Fong Street, 30 years ago, t
of a now and more powerful rock in the blast.
T The temperature of the tn the school..
also contain a picture dogram near Kwong: Wah Street, Jank
diesel, towboat, which has help She to Thurvived by har altered as considerably on the stulp from a private car parked in clowed rock shell was 194 do Mr Yeoh said it was inspor- of the satcliffe showing Interior Friday.
||'Mrs' X." Figueiredo, and many grees Fahrenheit three months
Instruments a scale drawing of "The other man was arrested nephews and niecos in various ping side of our activities; 1 Old Bailey Street last night, Forty-five students then held the launching vehicio and ♬ * following the theft of a sum of parts of the world, after the exploit.
have already referred to the The report sald much strongora meeting in a nearby dold, and photographie enlargement of the money from a pedestrian in The funeral will take place to osions for the high figure Printed and-published by Preen Fruity for add-on
Wunder explómum, coula be set off safe did not return to their classes, actual launching at Cape Caun» Nolim Street, near. Nathan | day, the 'cortego
current | behalf of Souths China Morning Post Limited at 1-8-Wyndham Dassing the represented —Itouter,
vival, Florida, Unitvă" Prez. | Hoad, yesterday.
monument at 550 pm. ⠀
sewote by stocks,
Stroet, City of Victoria in the: Colony of Hongkong.
sible.
•
RADIO STOLEN
baend at Tam Mel Camp, were
A portable radio was stolen, admitted to 8ård, General Hop-
serious
pital. Their injuries are not