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TITLED BEAUTY SECRET IS OUT
Royal Academy
finds
a new
Annigoni
By BROMLEY ABBOTT
London.
FOR days the
world
has
art
been
guessing about the pic-
ture of the year.
The questions on everyone's lipa:
Wito
painted the portrait
which wort the
Academy's first
in 20 years, and
Royat
"A" wurd
WHO is the titled woman of great beauty" who was his model?
The artist will not be told -
ogielally-of his success lor another week.
The identity
of hla
famous
moctel will be A secret- ogically-for another fort- night.
It's technically
perfect, they said
But I can reveal that
THE ARTIST
Jn. 14-year-old
Lt-Colonel John Ralph Mer-
ion, who
Jives al Enford,
Wiltshire you
THE MODEL is Jane, 20-year-
old Countess
of Daliceith,
farnierly Jane McNeill, Д Hartnell model.
(She is the daughter of Mr John McNeill; ~ QC, well-known
local barrister, and Mrs Me- Nelll).
Colonel Merton, who is being hailed as a genius, and may
In soon be the £10,000-a- picture bracket,
spent 1,500
hours on the portrait. Не woriced until dawn on the day!
It was submitled.
*The 15-man
Selection
Corn-
to
mittee of the Royal Academy took exactly one minute decide--unanimously--that it was, technically perfect, and deserved the very highest award they could offer, The "A" award means that
Lady Daikelin's
portrali
MUST be hung in the Sum- mer Exhibition-irrespective
of the views of the Hanging Committee.
It's a wedding
present
When I broke the news to the arlist on March 29, he said: "It's very exciting, I'm thrilled. I did not know there was such a thing as a 'A Experts say the poriralt is more like Aunigol then Annigoal himself.
Sail Colonel Merlon: Thal's very Battering. Analgoni is a great craftsman and I admire hts work." The portrait--five feet by four yas commissioned by the Earl of Dalkeith.
It is a wedding present
friends and tenants
Elidon Hall, Metrose, burghshire, estates.
Lady Dalkeith-ex-Hartnell model and daughter of Mr and Mrs John McNeill of Hongkong.
WIFE SAYS SHE
CAN'T BE COURT
MARTIALLED
Washington, Apr. 7.
The wife of an American civilian in Okinawa asked
the US District Court here today to rule that she cannot be tried by court martial on charges of smothering to death her six-week-old child.
She asked for immediate re-part of the military establish- tease from milliary custody. iment and could therefore be The woman, 28-year-old Mrs. tried by court martial-United. Mulelyn E. Hitt, is the wife of Press. an electrontes expert, Terrence
HI, 28, of Plymouth, Michigan. Hit is employed by the Philco Corp. on a govern- ment contract at Redena AIT Buse in Okinawa. The couple.
live in a housing project near the base.
Mrs it was accused last
INFILTRATORS ATTACK
Tel Aviv, Apr..7...
month of killing the baby after Arab infiltrators have stepped from Brst reporting the child kid-up attacks inside Israel over
on the napped. The Hills also have an the past few days, it was an
Rox-older child.
The portrait shows Lady Dal- kelth standing in an archway,
JURISDICTION
with a pair of columas 011 Mrs Hitt's case is the fret to either sido anci
the Elldan raise the question of jurisdiction Hills In the background.
involving the wife of an em-
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1958.
ALLEGED MURDER
Baby Son Said Thrown
Into The Sea
A 35-year-old cardboard box maker, Tse Wai-yee, who allegedly said that he had thrown his six-week-old son into the sea following the disappearance of the baby in February last year, plead- ed not guilty to a charge of murder before Mr Justice J. R. Gregg at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
Tse was alleged to have mur- | "The Police naturalty looked dered his son, Tse Wah-lai, on through the files and records, February 22 lost year.
and It was without any suc- ccns," Mr Collier said.
He is represented by Mr Richard Winter and Mr K. 5. Gill, both instructed by Mr D. L. H. Roberts, of Hastings and
Co.
Mr W. S. Collier and Mr D.
Counsel said there was certain amount of evidence alleged in the Court below with regard to the body of a child of about the after careful
same age, but
G. Wills, Crown Counsel, pro-consideration, the most it would secuted, assisted by Det. Sub-mount to was that it might or Insp. Moss.
A Jury of five men and two women was empanelled.
Unusual Way
body of the might not be the baby in this case, "because it would not entitle us to say that that particular child was the one we are concerned about in this indictment."
Mr Colller told the Jury that the case was being presented to Mr Collier said that he would them in an unusual way. The therefore not bring in any Jury had probably heard in a ovidence with regard to The murder trial of evidence of find-body of the child. ing the body of the deceased person. Ja
cuse,
this
the person allegedly murdered was a very Amnil baby of about six or seven weeks old. He was last seen in the custody of the accused, his father, in February last and was never seen again.
When acked by his relatives of the whereabouts of the baby Mr Collier sald, the accused
allegedly said, "I have thrown
it to the sca,"
The relatives did not belleve him and thought that he had given away or sold the baby. In the succeeding months, they persuaded him to tell where the baby was and eventually the accused and his wife went to the Social Welfare Office trying to get some assistance, Counsel
Match
Mr Fan Yuen, the accused's brother in-law, said his elder sister and the accused had been married more than 10 years. The couple had two children, a nine-year-old son and another on, Tse Wab-lal, born at the end of December, 1950.
Fan-sald-he-and-the-couple had worked in a cardboard box
in 'Sol factory
Yeung Choi Street, and between ninu and 10 p.m. on February 22, last year, he saw the accused leaving the factory with the baby boy. He had not seen the baby since.
A few days later, winess saw the accused at the latter's house in Fa Yuen Street. There he
asked the accused where he had A token the child.
"At first, he
said the child. had disappeared Again to the Social Welfaro and was no longer in existence, repeated these sentences offers the accused said he had He
over again," wilness thrown the baby into the sea, Mrver and Collier said. The officers there said, upon reported the matter to the Police.
No Reply From Moscow Yet
Nationalist
Aircraft Leaves
The Chinese National (at military aircraft which made an emergency land- Ing at Kal Tak Airport you. terday morning, took off for Talwan at about 8.30 am. today, the Public Relations Office spokesman said this morning,
As has boon previously stated, it la normal intar. national practice that, if a military aircraft infringen the air space of another country and lands there in the absence of hostila inter- tions towards the latter, or of recognition of a state of belligerency, the aircraft and crow should be allowed to return.
In accordance with this practice and with the 'ap. proval of Her Majesty's Government in the United
Nationalist Kingdom, the alroraft which force-landed at Kal Tak yostarday was atlowed leave with its full crew early this morn. Ing after Inquiries during the course of yesterday had shown that the fight on which it was engaged. was * genuine navigational training fight of an inoffen- alve nature between' Taiwan and the Paracels and that the landing at Hongkong WES due to mechanical fallure.
The aircraft, when it force-landed at Kal Tak, was entirely unarmed and no camorra or paraphernalia for leaflet-dropping carried.
were
Confessions Termed
As A Hoax
SHEAFFER'S
JI
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
Confusion Over Replacement Of General
Paris, Apr. 7. The Defence Ministry today denied widespread re- ports that General Raoul Salan, Supreme Commander of French forces fighting the na- tionalist rebels in Algeria, would be replaced soon by a "more aggressive" general,
A spokesman called wide- spread predictions of General Salan's dismissal "absolutely false,"
Recent press accounts have reported a French decision to "switch from defensive to offen- sive strategy in Algeria." They said the switch would bring about General Salan's replace- ment.
Some reports even named General Rene Cogny as General Salan's successor. Last week General Cogny was relieved of his duties as Commander-in-
Chier of
Morocco,
French
forces in
But today the Defence Minis- that there won any ry, denled basis for any of the reporta about General Solan.
Overall Switch
It said the accounts of an overali switch in French strategy resulted from reporters" "con- fusion" about certain measures French defence leaders had de- elded to take in Algerin.
During last week's inspection tour in Algeria by the Defence Minister, Jacques Chaban- Delmas, koy decisions were reached on how to improve Fronch fighting methods against the rebels, the spokesman mid.
One of theso was definite assignment of much-decorated
Colonel paratroop
Marcel Bigeard the job of teaching Junior
offloors le "ecmter
|POCKET CARTOON
by OSDBRT LANCASTER.
"Has Mr. Hagerty said anything set about the much bigger one that the Americans have got
the stocks?
on
ADMIRAL
LEAVING
guerilla techniptie, be sold.. FOR JAPAN-
This asignment and other
sirps designed to
increase
French combativity against the Admiral Bir Gerald Glad. rebels were "misinterpreted" by stone, Journalists as a basle change i French strategy, secording 10 the spokesman.
Speculation
Key West, Apr. 7.
press There has been same
that Colonel sailor's confession of two speculation Alabama murders, includ-Blgeard's views came into direct at his with those ing that of Atty. Gen. confict
Auperior, General Salan, at & Nominante Eugene Patter-top-levei milliary conference in son during the Phenix Algiers last week. City vice trials, has been termed a hoax.
1
the
Turner told them that the Chly reason he could give for the false confessions was that they followed an argument between Key West and Birming- had with his wife by telephone
Commander - In - Chief, Far East Station, accompanied by Lady Gladstone- and daughter," is leaving for Yokosuka, Japan, in his flag ship HMS Alert this after- noon.
HMS Alert arrived here with a combled fleet of 11 Common- wealth warships and threa auxillary vessels on Thursday after exercises on the passago from Singapore,
HMS Modesto is to accom- pany HMS Alert to Japan.
Admiral Gladstone will attend a ceremony held by the Japanese Some observers saw Colonel on April 14, at Yokosuka, on the anniversary of the death of Will Bigcard's new training usalya- Also Present
ment as proof that M. Chaban-Adams, in 1820, to honour the man who is regarded as the Army Delmas and other top Joe Smalley, Chief of
originator of Japan's influence backed the criticism leaders 1-kept-en-pressing him. Ho Alabama Highway Patrol, sald suld in a vague manner that the he and the four other Alabama Blgened was said to have level-as a sca power. child had been dropped into the omcers were
led at General Salon, returning home Tho conclusion was drawn sea and that the child had. dis today, leaving the sailor, Donald appeared end was no longer in Turner, 27, in the hands of the be repinced.
that General Salon would soon He has been existence. I kept on asking Navy.
commander-in-chier in Algeria him but he appeared me to have received
mince lato 1956. a great shock
General Cogny, who won a and his manner was very vague ard confused," Fan sald
reputation during the French *Indo-Chinese war as an aggres- Washington, Apr. 7.
Witness sald State Department said was also present and kept on
a logical successor accused's wife
sive combat leader, was seen as to General today that no reply had crying. She asked the witness ham, Alabama. yot been received from not to believe the accused.
He said he was "very upset" About a month later, the wit-after the argument and "I think the Soviet Union to the ress said, he again asked the ac- that is what made me tell the western request for procused following.. a quarrel betales summit diplomatic nego-tween the latter and his wife. tiations to open in Moscow ("He persisted in saying that the this month..
child had been dropped into the agreed that he could not have Britain, Franco and tho sea. I told him I did not believe had anything to do with either murder in his confessions, United States joined on March him," Fan said."
Smelley sald.-United Press. Hearing is continuing. 31 in sending similar totes to Moscow suggesting that these talks should begin in the latter half of April.
The
Soviot
Both the State Department and the White House "last Fri day issued statements designed 1 to try to prod the. Foreign Ministry into answer- nounced today.
ing soon, Inaltrators from Jordan to At his press briefing today, day sabotaged a water. well in Mr Lincoln White, the Stata the Lechish area where Jordan Department spokesman, infiltrators küled two Taricils Armed that no reply had yet three days ago, Israeli of come from Moscow.-Reuler.
Lady Dalkeith sat for the por playee of an overseas military clals said.
troit in Colanci Merton's contractor. studio-burn over a period of Dine days.
The Air Force said It has not decided yet whether, to claim
Infiltrators from the Gaza penetrated. Into the Eshkelon and Nitzana areas
ful," he said. "I think it is 1er by court marlinl. In the of the Negev yesterday and
HOLIDAY ARRESTS
"She is exceptionally beautfurisdiction. In the case and try
probably the best thing I have meantime, she is being held in today, and opened fire twice ever done."
on civilian Israell cars. There Nineteen casualties---France-
Communist Objections
Amritsar, Apr. 7. India's Communist Parly today
were ΣΟ
military custody on Okinawa.
Tho woman's Washington Lawyer, Hyman Smollar, do-Presse.
immediate release
manded her
today on the
grounds that the
to
Tense Border
Air Force has no right chargo her under the uniform codle of nitary justice,
Judgo
John L. Sirica scheduled a hearing for April
18.
Last June the Supreme Court
persons Word arrested by the 'Polico over the Easter holiday pariod for thefts from parked cars and for pické pocketing or snatching. offences.
Managua, Apr, 7. Two persons received serious Nicaragua Air Force units injuries in separate traffic accl- patrolled the Nicaragua-denis yesterday. Honduras border today following
published a resolution demanding ruled that wives of US service reports that Nicaraguan revolu the nationalisation of big banks
of the
The first seeldent occurred on Island Road, hear the Chai Wan men accompanying their hus tionists were concentrating on Police Post. A 34-year-old man, and effective state control over bands overend could not be the Honduran sido British and Indian menopolies,
The resolution, to be debated given military trials to death frontier for a possible attack. Laung Pul of 4, Shek O Village, ot a special congress of the Party Fenalty cases taking place here, also calls 'for
ground floor, fell from a moving At the same time, arrivals lorry and was removed to Queen Since then, however, a federal oppesition to the penetration of judge hat ruled that civilians from. Costa Rica sold unusual Mary Hospital, American capital. Into India.trocity employed by the armed anxiety in that country and led year old ereli, Tsang Wan, of military movements were causing In the second accident, 218 Rouler.
forces overscan ano a necessary to reports that an ùrmed ex=| KIL 1104, "Shunning Road, was - pedition had been seat out, taken to Kowlegg Hospital after
* Printed and published by Pezen PLUMBLY for and on probably to assist Cuban rebels his bicycle had collided with a behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham | fed by Fidel · Castro-United | lossy, In Castle Peak Road, noBT Street, City of Victoria In the Colony of Hongkong,
Freak
its junction with Praise Road.
SIDE GLANCES
Officera questioned him
and
By Galbraith
shopo'a - really not a thing to worry about--just á
good eles of nerrsal How are your five daughter these days?!!
Salan.
Rumours
Tenancy Tribunal
When he was relieved of his War Damaged
duties in Morocco,
strengthened rumours that a reshuffle was due in France's top command In Algeria.
But the Defence Ministry declared today that "there is no question" of General Salon's being replaced by General Cogny or anyone else-Unitedi Press
Constables
Get 6. Months
Property Application
Promises which were badly affected by three bombs dropped on a neighbour- Ing house during the war were involved In exemption application this morning.
an
A Tenancy Tribunal, presided Two police constables accused over by Mr H H. B. How with: of conspiracy to demand money, Mi E. A. Noronha and Mr Fung with menaces were sentenced to | Hon-chu, were hearing an six months' hard labour by Mr | application concerning Now D. N. E, Rea yesterday.
204, 208 and 288 Chatham Road, Mr S. C. Yue, an Authorised Architect, described the existing premises as being rendered un- three bombs and mofo by the
columns are silik. beams
The constables, Chan K&- chung and Lo Poon, were alleged to have demanded money with menaces from persons allegedly connected with brothels and other establish menia
:::, Detective Sub-Inspector R.E Bayless of the Anti-Corruption Branch prosecuted."
British Council Lecture
defective.
PROPOSAL
It is proposed to replace the existing four storeyed, hours with a nine-storeyed block comprising 54 apartments, with modern saltation' and, to be „strvéd, by a lift Cost of ihn. structure will be, about $400,000
Mr J. C. Jones, Educational and it awili, tako 19 months, to Adviser for Technical Education complate.
to the Colonial Office, who is
now visiting the Colony, will The applicants, Mr Tang Chi-
Eve
pubile Jecture on har and Mr Lo Fook, are repre- "Industry and Education" for sented by Mr
the British Council today at PH Sin and Co 5.30 pm. In he toading Room Mr. Gereld de Basic,
Cheung of
instruct
In Gloucester Buliding, but ed by D'Almásdiqui Malory (T
Mr. Wong Tak-mu, Montging repersonting all opponents, Direcion of the Amoy Camming Corporation, Wilk be in the Chaity
Tho, hearing. Ja to continko after-Man 20 miljourriarent Ma negotiate/compersation-lUCINA