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CHINA MAIL
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1958.
FRANCE LOSES A 100 MILLION
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Heaven's above
is there absolutely nothing that we're still capable of doing for ourselves?"
UK Nuclear Power Plan Delayed
London, Apr. 15. Britain will hold up its ox-
nuclear pensivo
power programme and switch to cheaper coal-fired power stations for the next year, it was announced today. A government White Paper said that the nuclear power programme would be delayed by at least a year.
FRANCS OF FOOTBALL
TALENT
Paris, Apr. 15.
A "Free Algeria” professional soccer team, representing the rebel National Libera- tion Front, was to have been set up by the nine of France's top Moslom stars, who secretly left continental France international yesterday, causing an sensation, it was learned today. This revealation was made today by a player from the Monaco team, Hassen Chabri, who helped to organise the flight and was to have joined the nine men and others.
The muss departure had laten prepared carefully for weeks. One source suggested it had been planned for a year.
Flye of the nine went to Punista, and the other four to Switzerland. The departures coinclded with a tense purlu- mentary debate # Paris over North African problems.
Suggestions the players would tour the Mid- dle East aa un FLN team. An FLN team was previously re ported to have played in Egypt and the Middle East before, but ever with top French National
were made that
Football Club stars.
were mobilised fur military service and may be prosecuted
deserters.
are:
wns
The five nich now in Tunis Mustapha Zlouni, 30, of Monaco, best known stor of the group, who was chosen four times for the French national team and
to have played Tomorrow in the France-Swit- zerland inalch:
Buu Abdou (Monaco), Abdel bekeur. 25. Laziz Ben Tifour, 31 (Monaco), also chosen four lines on the national tenin; Amar Rouini, 20 and BekklauД, 23 Angers) (Monaco).
They declined to comment on
five
originally men
The
their Alght. Interrogated Hassen Chabel was inter-reported in Lausanno are: therogated by the French poller as nachld Mekloufi, 22, of Saint electricity, coal and as he was crossing the froniler at Etlenie, twice chosen for the
The paper, dealing with capital Investment in
dustries, said thot a higher proportion of projected stations would be cull-free ones, built at a lower caplini cost than nuclear statione
Tha
that paper revealed overall capital
expenditure for electricity in approved England and Wales for 1988-50 amounts Lo £239,000.000,- United ProSI.
Menton, southern France.
The police said that from the legal point of view, the "fugi- Live" players
violated no law if they left France under normal conditions with their passports in-order. As Algerians, they hold French citizenship.
But wo of them. Rochid Meklout of Saint-Etienne and Muhammed Maouche of Rheims,
CHEMISE STAR
The line of the hour, especially flattering in woven cotton gingham checks. Demi-belted In front hanging.free from a shirred yoke in back. Rod, green, blue. Sizes 5 to 15.
at
Paquerettes
16a Don Voeux Road.
Tol. 21-157.
French national team and a champion, Hamid Bouchout, 31, of Toulmise, Said Brahimi, 27, of Toulouse, twice chosen tur the national team Hamid Ker- mall, 31, of Lyons, and Kader Mazzous of Nimes. However, the Nimes Club denied that Mazzous had left.
Collective Flight
French football clubs have lost about 100,000,000 francs worth of talent on the collective flight. They are expected to sue for breach of contract, but it was doubtful whether the players would defend their' case in the French courts,
No other disappearances were reported immediately among the 25 or 30 Algerian Moslem French first or second division teams.
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French boxing has several top North Atrienn stars-Sherif Himla, European Featherweight Champion, and Alphonse Halimi, World Bantamweight Champion, who is not a Moslem but Algerian Jew.-France-Presse.
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CHINA FLAYS THE WEST
Denounces Release Of War Criminals
Tokyo, Apr. 16. Chine, in a bitter and lengthy tirade, today donounced the Western nations for their "nila- toral" ralooso of Japancie war criminals.
the
The tirade, levelled at release of 10 "A" closg Japanese war criminals, including for- mer General Sadao Araki, on April 7 was broadcast by the New China News Agency over Radio Peking.
It seensed the Unlied. States and Japan of intensified ac tivities to "accelerale the re- vivai of
militarist Japan's forces",
DIEHARD
It sptelally blasted the United States, charging that the pur- pose of releasing the Japanese war criminals was to select the dichard militarists frem among them" to be US lackeys in thế Far East,
It Bald Premier Nobusuke Kishi was one of the "favourites" of the United States,
Premier Kishi, the New Chino News Agency broadcast said, as a holder of a number of high offices in the "puppet Manchukuo regime" and in the wartime Tojo Cabinat was responsible for the "plunder of the resources and wealth of Northeast China,"
The NCNA mordover accused· Klabi of having "promoted the Japanese · wynr મમ aggression against China and the trans-
Printed and published by PETER PLUMBLY for ant on formation of Northeast China behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Btreet, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong.
into an anti-Soviet base," United Prem,
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
дальнай вы
4.7 T.MARU. PAL, ON,
"We must be going! Chaser's hungry and there isn't much nourishment in that plant!"
BRITAIN'S ESTIMATED REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE FOR 1958/59
London, Apr. 15. The following is a statement of Britain's estimated re- venue and expenditure for the 1958/59 flazdelal year, com-
pared with the Agures for 1967/58:
ORDINARY REVENUE
Income tax Burtax
Death duties Stamps
Fronts levr. other duties
Total inland fovenue
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE
Customs Excl*e
Total customs and excise Motor vehicle duties Total recripts from taxes Post office fnct receipt) ... Broadcast receiving Keences Receipts from sundry loan Miscellaneous
Total revenue
Eximated 1038/39 (Sterling) 2,312,500,000 163,000,000 103,500,000
56,250,000 275,000,000
1957/58 Yield ((Sterling) 2,208,260,000 157,400,000 170,600,000
63,700,000 255,700,000
£2,070,250,000 £2,855,666,000
1,207,452,000 942,360,000 2,149,812,000 100,736,000 6,106,212,000 7,285,000 30,700,000 32,168,000
1,250,040,000
D32,310,000 2,188,250,000 104,000,000 0.263,500,000
2,000,000 34,000,000 30,000,000 110,000,000
165,720,000
£3,439,500,000 £6,342,585,000.
ORDINARY EXPENDITURE
1057/68 Spending (Sterling)
Estimated
1958/59
Interest and management of
national debt
Staking funds
Payments to Northern Ireland
Exchequer
(Sterling)
$95,000,000 38,000,000
73.000.000
Other consolidated fund ser-
vices
Total
10,000,000
816,000,000
602,068,000 37,540,000
71,031,000
9,004,000
781,803,000
SUPPLY SERVICES
DEFENCE
Army votes
Navy votes
'Air votes
Ministry of Supply (defence) Ministry of Defenen
Less contribution to peal
costs in Germany (appro- priated in ald of Defence volca
Leas➡ receipis from United States and Germany ap- propriated in aid of Don fence votes
441,400,000 431,773,000 339,400,000 333.150.000 474,550,000. 480,141,000 193,350,000 10,750,000
290,650,000 14,150,000
47,090,000
57,102,000
£1,418,450,000 £1,429,700,000
Net total
Central
Government
and
finance Commonwealth and foreign. Home Department, law,
Justice Education, broadcasting Health, housing, local governm
ment
10,800,000 80,700,000
29,215.000
620,817,000
*770,002,000
Trade, Jabour and supply Common services (works,
70,061,000
stationery)
79,088,000-
Agriculture and food Transport, power, Industrial
300,002,000
research
221,006,000TM
PENSIONS, NATIONAL INSURANCE
National Customs
asistanem
and excise and | inland revenue votes Total citu votes Total expenditure
Burplus
*843,975,000
$1,825,000 3,719,306,000 2,708,010,000 5,075,584,000 4,019,582,000
A 303,016,000 £ 423,003,000
--Reuter.
Sale Of
SHEAFFER'S
NEW BAR DA? Lett.
WITH
MAANAMAN AT ALL
• STDERS GOOD #
Of Land
Land Action Dismissed In Supreme Court
The Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice T. J. Gould, at the Supreme Court this morning dismissed with costs an action for specific performance of an agreement for the sale of a piece of land in the New Territories.
The plaintiffs were Chan U Trang Cheung, Char Kwok leung, Chan Tung and To Kam- hung-
They were represented
by Mr John McNeill, QC, and Mr Leslie Wright, both instruct- ed by Mr R. E. Lowe, of Wi- kinson and Grist.
The defendants were Wong Hing, Li Kwal-ming, Li Wong Chestuen and Li Pak-kat, Hon. Leo d'Almada, QC,
The nad
Mr Oswald Cheung represented the first third and fourth de- fendants, Instructor by Mr D. Q. Cheung, of F. Zimmern and Co.
Bir Brook Bernacchi repre- sented the second defendant, instructed by Mr Peter Chan, of
Ww.x
Lau, Chan muri Kv.
The agreeineri in question for the sale of land in Demarcation District No. 449, along Castle Peak Road.
Alteration
STRING
QUARTET
TO PLAY
HERE
STERLING SILVER TIP
From the Filos
25
years AGO
N article in the S.C, Morning
A Port this week regarding a combination safe that would not
open has had an amusing requel for the owner, Mr J. Cassel, of the Perpetual Trust Co. Int- mediately after the article ap peared in
Mr the newspapar, Cossel was besieged by would- whom be safe-crackers, all of offered to open the safe for or without a consideration. Despite their assistance, the safe rew maine locked and Hongkong's cracksmen have gone another peg down in the owner's estima- Mr Cassel tica. It seems to that Hongkong is the only place in the world where a good strong safe Is proof against burglary!
At tomorrow's (April 18) meeting of the Rotary Club
a member The Amadout String Quartet (Hongkong),
will arrived here this morning driver what he terme a voca
fional address on "Living by by BOAC from Japan one's wits."
after successful perform
ancos in Tokyo" and at
the Qaska Musical For- tival.
FOR the first time in the his-
lory of local aquatics, In-
A feature of the case was an airport by Miss
They were met at the Kal Tak vitations have been sent to Maple Quon, Shanghai in regard to an inter- niteration in the document of
the Musicport contest this year from two agreement, by which the word Vice-Chairman of
Mr different awimming organisa- "purchasers" was changed to Society of Hongkong and
lons. This fact was Van Össelen, a director of Royal
Tevealed "vendor" (the vendor of the pro-
at the first council meeting of perty being the first defendant). Interosson Liner who will be
The passage containing the host to the vialtors during their the new BK Swimming Asso
ciation Gay Tuesday evening alteration was in
Colony. Members connection stay in the with the responsibility for level of the quartet were afterwards (April 13), when it was stated that the Association had writ- ling the site in question as taken to Queen's Pler by launch
len to Bhanghai inviting them condition for the sale and pur- from Kal Tak
to send a team to Hongkong. chase,
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In the course of his 07-page | Mr Norbert Bralnin, leader of At the annual meeting of VRC judgment, Mr Justice Could suld the quartet fold reporters recently, it was made known it would be seen from the that it was a "wonderful ex- that the club, which la ruining Association pleadings that the main factual | perience" to play in Japan. The independent of the
I had already extended a similar Issue between the pariles was resetion of the audience whether the Jrst defendant Tokyo
Schidlof Mr Peter consented to the making of the lend Osako was "fontas invitation to Shanghai..
another member of the group..
alteration.
3
The plaintiffs claimed the word "purchasers" had been clerical error and that "vendor" had subsequently been inserted In its place with the consent of All the parties. This consent wan denied by the defence.
INTERNATIONAL
According to Bir Brainin more than 12,000 people attended the four concerts given by the quartet at the byla Hall in Tokyo.
Mr P. A. Cox, gesistant Oriental manager
the of Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. at Shanghat, has complained to the harbour ogice tha: s Chinere junk, swinging under the stern of the Empress of Canada, swept of her flagstag valued at G$30,
In the course of his review of the evidence given by the many In Osaka one of the two con- witnesses on both sides, Mr certs given there was broadcast,
According to Mr Cor, Justice Gould raid he discarded Mr Brainin also described the the incident occurred on March 20 but as he has been unable to as fantastic the suggestion that Festival as "truly Internatiorini,"
obtain damages from the typisk for some unknown rea- The quartet which is visiting son should have typed one Hongkong for the first time owners of the junke, he had re-
will leave original containing the word
fo: New Zealand quested that the harbour office "yerdor",
another and thence typed
to South Africa asist him. original and carbon with "pur- after their two concerts here chasers" in it, discarded
scheduled for tomorrow night accond original and then used and Saturday at the Loke Yew the second carbon.
the
Hail,
tralia and South Africa.
of the
ONE of the principal tenants Their tour of Asia is Dan-
magnificent new No typist or conveyancing sored by The Musica Viva National Commercial onut Say- department clerk has been Society of Now Zealand, Aus- Inga Bank Building on the corner of D. V. Rd, Central, be and Ice House Street,' will Mossra Shewan, Tomes and Co., Lid, who will move into new office on Tuesday '(April met la 18). Since September, 1904,
Messrs Shewan Tomes and Co.
called as a witness in an en- deavour to substantiate this contention, His Lordship said.
The Judge said it was not possible for him to hold that the plaintiffs had discharged their onus of establishing their
case,
Idle To Speculate
MET IN LONDON
recond
the
The four musicians London and decided in 1847 to form themselves into a periaali- have carried on burless in their ent group. Before that, they present offices in St George's had been performing_Individual Building. Previous to 1904 the ly, according to Mr Brainin.
frm was established in Hussell The group comprised Norbert end Compárry's Hong on the site Brainin, first violin, Siegmund now occupied by Exchange Nissel,
violin. Peter Building, Messrs Russell and and Martin Co. being the predecessors of the present Arm. The Arm is probably one of the oldest in I for, under the title of Messrs Samuel Russell and Co., it was established in 1819, over 20 years before HK became a British Colony.
He went on to say that 孔 would be idle for him to specu- late upon possible reasons for Schidiot, viola, the substitution when the fact Lovett, cello. of it was denied by the plain- 1iffs,
The Judge said that it was not
beyond the bounds of possibility
TRAFFIC
that there could be an explana ACCIDENTS
tion for the substitution,
innocent, yet not inconsistent with the first defendant having
consented, as alleged, to the
A 21-year-old boy, Lee Ngai-
alteration, but no such explana-stlu, of 37, Aberdeen Street,
Effective from June 1 to July
flon had been given or relled was injured by a private car in 31, the Canadian Pacific will upon by the plaintiffs,
Thefts From Lained by a 42-year-old man at
Private Cars
Taze
about stue special excursion fares Queen Victoria Street at
ad from Hongkong to the Pacifie 12.30 yesterday. He was mitted to Queen Mary Hospital Cost and return at:-ist Class, G$423; Tourist Class, G$260 in a secious, condition,
Serious injuries were also sus- and also special low fares to
Honolulu. (Exchange approx. G$1=12), 5.45 pm. yesterday when he was knocked down by a com mercial van in Main Street, West near the Shaukiwan PolleoCREEN Grid tells the Lia- receiving tenere Club-Mr Winston
An electric fon was stolen | Station. Ha:is now from a private car parked in treatment at Queen Mary, Ho Lockhart Road on Monday pital -
evening. A camera was stolen from another private car park- ef oulakle the Goldßsh Restau- rant, Pennington Street, night.
Man Falls
5 Floors
Inst
ST BRIDES BAY RETURNING
Churchill is to broadcast on April 24, the day after St George's Day. He will then propose the toast of "England" at the annual dinner of the Royal Society of St George and, as is the custom with actor dinner speeches, his remarks HMS St Brides Bay (Com- will be broadcast without sub- mander J. Groom, Royal Navy, mission of his manuscript to the in command) arrives at Hong- BBC, kong tomorrow and sails, for Japan on Saturday.
A man fell from the fifth floor of "P" Block of the Li Tseng Uk Truen, Rebettlement Area early this morning. He was dead on arrival at Kow-the loon Hospital.
The Police are investigating.
BOY DETAINED
The annual dinner of the A.S.C. Cadre of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corpe, kolli
be held tonight (April, 23) at
A 12-year-old Chinese boy the Sports Club, Speeches taill was arrested yesterday following be made by the Hon Mr-W-T theft of a wallet from Southern. Col L, G. Bird, Major another boy in Castle Peak [C. M. Manners and Mr C: Rood, near Tonkin Street. Champkin,