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CHINA MAIL
Sole Ryanto GILMANS
· No. 37096
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
UN Must Act
HERE İS -。 surprisingly
Tarked contrast between
the report
of the UN
observer group ол the Lebanon rebellion and the charges made not only by the Lebanese Government but by Britain and the United States. The West hna been emphatic that widespread Syrian infiltra- tion has taken place, But the UN observer group. without refuting this claim, fails to substantiate it.
Established 1845.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1958.
RN Minesweepers In Cheung Chau Rescue
Price 20 Cents
RELAX IN
DAKS
"THE HANNON COMIZERY
IN AKTIEN TULUM ÚRIES.
Whiteaways
HONGKONG Fr KONLOD N
BRITISH JET
SHIP AND JUNK COLLIDE SHOT DOWN
Child Drowned
And Two
Are Missing
If the observer group has done Three Royal Navy Minesweepers of the
its job properly-and very;
little has been said to discredit its findings it mny do much to deflate! Lebaneso demands for au International Police Force: and the Western caso for: Intervention, even though It may not allay the widely- The held suspicion that in the rebellion, the hand of the, predatory Egyptian dictator cun bo discerned,
It may be argued that a siton- tion like this could be resolved by an appeal to "world opinion" but since this only involves trying to persuade uncommitted nations to commit them- selves and in view of the non-committal attitude taken by the UN group there is no need to-there is little this point in
approach.
verdict in this
Tunhappy affair therefore
may
not
ba Metiled by the process of impartial investigation, or by a search for the truth (which the first report of the UN group] has shown to bo difficult enough; but by the number of votes each side can muster either in the Security Council or General Assem- bly.
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Beema
This is a process of arbitra- tional too familiar in the postwar years-which can hardly help to restore calm and order. It is indeed n procedure which if carried to the ultimate, is more likely to result in a world
thing Q10 certain: the Lebanon rebel- lion cannot be left to the major powers to decide. The United Nations has been called in, and has a greater responsibility than purely to observe and pass super- Neial comments of the kind that it has made in its first i report.
It has been said that Mr Ham- marskjold and his stuff have
responsibilities
other
no
than those conferred upon them by the member nations themselves, so the UN cannot fairly be blamed for inaction. Instructions must come from the General As-1 sembly but it is unreason~ able to expect Mr Ham- marskjold to be guided by any one faction, however powerful its support.
MA
AJOR developments may the be
expected in Lubenon in the next fort- have rebels night. The
decided to boycott the forthcoming Assembly elec.
tion of a new President, if persista with this attitude,
It
of
Hongkong Flotilla which were on patrol in the waters of the Colony, yesterday want to the assistance of the junk Kam Lee which was sunk in collision with the Chinese ship Nan Hai 159.
RN craft cancerned were One young boy of 0 or 7 years 1.M. Ships Davenhum tad was picked up but found to Damerham which were eut- be dead. missioned last week and H.M.S. Dursham which will be formally commissioned at the end of July,
Off Cheung Chau
about The vellsien recurred
two miles South of Cheung Chau al about 4 par.
n bourd Or the people
Kom Ie at the lime of the acci dent two men and two chlid- ren were rescued by Royal Nuval vessels.
INQUIRY
INTO
SOLDIER'S
DEATH
The Police are making esnjunction inquities In with the Military authori iles Into the death of a British soldier, according to the CID this moning.
The soldier, Private A. Hawkes, 20, of the 13t Battalion, The Green Ho wards, was buried yester- day at the Colonial Ceme- iery, Happy Vallós.
The soldier, who died on flic at Sunday morning. British Mitary Hospital, was buried with full MIE *tary honoru.
UN Chief's Threat On Lebanon
New York, July 8.- United Nations Secretary- General Dag Hammarsk- jold intends to resign H the United Nations votes in favour of armed inter- vention in Lebanon, the weekly magazine, "Newsweek" reported t day.
Journal
Mr said Hammarskjold had made! known his intention in a private talk with a pro- Western Arab delegate to the United Nations, - France-Presse,
the mere disappearance Chamoun does not by itself
to bring the In- The promise surrection any nearer to an end.
This is where the United Nations might offer effec- tive
Ir assistance.
the
Opposition cannot agree to
an Assembly voto on
the
new President, might not u
UN-conducted plebiscite on
tho basis of existing TUNKU HAS
electoral rolls, produce
result witch would establish
conclusively the claims of
one alde or the other.
It is admittedly hard on
籍
ennstitutionally established
payerament to have to sub-
mit to the public docisions elected to it has been make for further confirma- tion whenever the Oppos!- tion begins to object with bombs and bullets, but the Government's authority asserted, It thereby acems to offer a possible solution to an otherwise Insoluble conflict.
X-RAY
Kuala Lumpur, July 8.
The Government announced that the Prime Minister, Rahman; Tunku Abdul
today had a chest X-ray. The X-ray plates were clear, com come benchial in- fection,
The Prime Minister
contracted bronchitis on his rocent pil grimage to Modca,
Ho bar been rewür in bad since his retum to his copital |dn|Baturday,-Rautel
Two persons, a youth of about 10 and a woman of about 00 are known to be missing and no trace of them was found despite lengthy search in the vicinity.
The survivors and the body of the child were landed at Cheung Chau late yesterday evening from H.M.S. Damer- ham. Later the wreck of the Kam Lee was towed in by IIM.S. Darsham,
The Nan Hai 159 which was on
to
from Passage
Haiphong Hangkang was detained for a period to allow the Master and others to make statements
to the Marine Police.
It is understood that the Marine Department will hold an en- quiry into the accident.
THE ATOM
BOMB LETTER
the setter periant
My Mulik Mariel Fimbassy wrington Father & da
London
trange
"I intend to drop, my deadly load: dering one of our rooling Flights. My target will be some point in the Worth sea, not very far from the coast of Ene- land but far enough so that for many,
people won't be killed. Der D. Day will be sometime after July the first:
"Flaming Objects"
Still A Mystery
Nothing defiulie has been learned of the two bright flaming --oblecia which were sighted in the Colony's skies last night. Theories are numerous, but facts are few.
A spokesman for the Royal Air Force said they had received quile a number of reports about the "freballs" but all of them were "rather varge." He said they were sill work- ing on the mystery, trying to find a reasonable explana- tion,
The Royal Observatory made no comment this morning o
the subject.
Last night, inside two hours, there were numerous reperts of sighilngs of two Blaming objects, one which was kald to have fallen over the western part of the harbour it about 9.25 p.m.. and another at 10.45 pm, when a second object with a long glowing tall was seen streaking teross the sky, disappearing in a few seconds.
A resident living in a fist in the mid-levels of flangkong told the China Mall this morning that he saw one "flaming object" which was surrounded with a "bright, quivering halo of light."
He said it burnt out about the level of Queen's Gardens. If could only have been a flare, although at Drut I thought It was a meteor."
Bogus Bishops · Evicted
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Austin Broška or: Képilnglon (saller) and, Barry Lawn "ot" Blokinonductoss the rows in Parliament Square-after they had been evicted" from the Lambeth, gonference, which, they gatecruited
Above is part of the letter received at the Bovini Embassy. alleged to have been written by a United States Airman- stationed in England, is believed to be a fake by U.S. authori ties in London. The letter said, that the wrlier and his crew would soon drop an stom-bomb in the North Bes near the English_conni.... They will then :--Recording to the, letter. Ny thelf aircraft on to Russia and land and seek refuge in the Soviet Karstone.
Dangerous Lunatic Breaks Out Of Broadmoor Asylum
Wokingham, July 8..
Yemen Gunners
"Chance Shot"
Aden Protectorate, July 8. Machine gunners in the Arab state of Yemen today shot down a British plano in flames inside Yemeni territory in a ground-aorial battle,
Yemeni sources charged the Venom jet fighter- bomber violated Yemeni territory. They said the plane was destroyed and its pilot killed when it crashed to the ground.
A
Magnetic Storm Hits HK Cable Traffic
·BOVORO
magnetic storm which has affected almost all parts of the world has! disrupted radio communi- cations between Hong- kong and the rest of the world.
~~~It has held up a number of outwards cables being sent from Hongkong to other parts b› of the world.
-Ono authority told the China Mall this morning that the 'disruption was "very bad." -
It affected all Cablo und Wireless circuits. But whereas the American cireule was now improving the London circult was "stil. giving trouble."
The disruption caused a vir-" tual cablo nows blackout, One news agency office in Hơng- kong reported this morning that Singapore was not re- celving cables from London.
An official statement issued by the Government office this British protectorate fold Q "chance shot" from a Yement machine gun on * houselop downed the aircraft.
The plane had been firing back at Yemcal gun emplacements along the border where warfare han florod, off and on for mere than 18 months.
After the pie was downed, BAF Verom jet fighters allock- ed the Yemcals with rockets and destroyed the house where the gun which shot down the plane had been set up,
The fighting along border has resulted from Yemar's claims to Aden territory, Britain has re- jected the claims-U.P.I.
Man Found
Dead
In London
Murder Probe
London, July 8. Butt Singh, an Indian aged between 50 and 60, was found dood, belloved mur- dered, in his night-shirt in -the bedroom of his home Two Days More
in Berwick Street, Brad- But all others have had their
ford, today. He had face, services similarly affected,
neck and hand wounds. Reception trouble began about 24 hours ago but became bad
The Chief Constable, Mr early last night, and nording to o Cable Wireless spokesman.
treated as a case of murder. this morning the troublo ir-like- for another 48
to Singh, who is believed hours,
have been In the house last "Long distance reception has night with four compatriots, been badly affected and sub- was found by a window cleaner marine cables have not been ofer Singh's wife, who had
Harry Ambler said it was being
Police warned this peaceful town today that a dangerous Junatic armed with an axe had escaped from nearby Broad- continue moor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Television and radio warnings described the man,
Frank Samuel Mitchell, 28, who was serving entirely free from this trouble," stayed with friends at another nine years for attempted murder as "especial- ly dangerous.”
Milehell, who sawed through the bar of lila celi window and openg the steel shutter with a Cupileste key, left a dummy in his, bed.
He was not missed in an cerly-morning cheek after polite reported a man broke into a houso here, about three miles from the asylum, threatened the occupants with an axe and stole clothes,
Mitchell also stolo Q car, which he later abandoned two miles from Broadmoor.
Prepared To Die
The 180-lb tattooed
Bix- footer and Another mental patient terrorised the Notting- hamahire countryside for three days last
they your. after escaped from a mental hospital. They were captured.ca.rying sawn-off shotgun and
D
Mitchell told the magistrate who sentenced him to Broad- moor: "If you zend me back 10 any mental Institution. Broadmoor or anywhere else, I can promise you will escape and am prepared to die. There is not a lock I cannot undo.
Mitchell had been held in the "Maximum Security? block at Broadmoor--China Mail Special
German Quake
NO REPRIEVE
FOR MANUEL
Edinburgh, July 8, Peler Manuel, 32, wood- worker condemned to die for seven murders, will be hanged on Friday at Glasgow, He was told lo- day there would be no reprieve,
J
The Glasgow senior magis- trafe, Baillie James Blas, who told Manuel' of the decision, said: "Manuel was sleep when I en- tered the prison cell. He was awakened and I read him the terms of the message, which he undersfood.
"He made no comment, Ha elfanged' man. Gone is all his ;debonair
manner and his loqua - clousness-Reuter,"
Higher Pay Wanted
Porthcawl, July 8.
Bad Horsfold," July/B.. Delegates representing 700,000 An earthquaka today rocked mineworkers today called for the town of Bad Hersfeld and wage Increases ranging from. 13 surrounding countryside, near the shillings to 21 chillings sterling a East. German bønder, cult of work, yks Boun
Iri noverál villages people ran The Annual Conference of aut of their houses and, into the the National Union of Mine- streak when thren sirong shocks workers approved the wage de- knocked pictures and crockery mand recommended by their off walls and shelves Router. Ieaders.Reuter;
he sald.
house, during the night had "Short distance communica said she could not get a reply. - tions with places like Tokyo, The police are making a Bingapore and Manila havo noi house to house Inquiry...
France-Preza. been affected."
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