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CHINA MAIL
No. 37232
Established 1845
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1958.
Price 20 Cents
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT'S PILOT SCHEME FOR PARKING
Of The 200 Meters For Central
Day
Question Of
THE
ET!
Remedies
United Kingdom
To Be Installed
In New Year
Exact Sites Not Chosen
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Government are banking About 200 parking meters will be installed
sunshine the
of
prosperity and if the public
uver
are
opinion polls, taken the past six months correct, they will win the next election despite labour troubles. The main reason for this is high standing of the Prime Minister, who is pursuing clear, consistent
in the Central District in the New Year, it was reliably learned this morning. This is a pilot scheme by the Traffic Department.
Unconfirmed reports say that 2,000 meters have been ordered For Hongkong.
The exact sites for the melem
policles at home and have not yet been chosen, abroad with the result
that the country feels that i it has found a lender again.
But almost as important
the demoralisation of the Socialists who are set only divided among themselves bat divided in their Own minds. Their statements of policy, culminating in the Plan for Progress, have gone off like the click of an unloaded gun
They have made no impact whatsoever, This is because they con- tain nothing of a positive nature The Socialists do not even offer Socialism.
Like Crabs
I
not
they believed in nationall- would not sation they approuch it aideways like crabs. If they did balleve in it they would not demand the nationalisation of the iron and steel indus- tries. The two attitudes do not make
to sense
the ordinary man. who likes to know where he stands and what he is voting for.
Two Types
At this year's traffle exhibl. Elen two types of truffle meters were on display.
In Just Friday's Government
135-year-old Tin Of Meat Pronounced “Edible”
London, Dec. 14.
Gazette, it was revealed that in
new Vehilele and Road A scientist who tasted a 135-year-old tin of meat Tule (Parking and Waiting) Regulations, provision was made
preserved for the
of parking erection meters.
The section referring 10 meters stated that they will be erected for
the purpose
01
of
from a north- west passage expedition today pronounced il edible.
Hearne,
principai
Mr J. charging for the parking of scientile officer to the Ministry
Agriculture, Fisheries motor vehtes between 8 cm und 6 pm from Monday to Fri-Food, mace day and between 8 am and 2 British pm on Saturdays.
ESCAPED
GUNMAN
CAUGHT
Washington, Dec. 14. Police said today they had captured a gunman who a hail of escaped under gundre while three ac complices down in a foiled kidnap robbery attempt here on Friday night.
were
und
dustries
the the test al
In- Manufacturing Research Association establishment of Leatherhead,
Surrey.
Research scientists who have analysed the contents of the un say it is veal.
The NA
was among the stort taken
by Admitar Sir Edward Parry when ho left r. the Fury und Heckla on 'n voyage to discover a nortit- west passage in 1824.--Router.
Foster Dulles Is Feeling Fit
Paris, Dec. 14.
Mvir John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary ok
TANKER DEMOLISHES HOUSES
Trans-Atlantic Balloon.
Making Progress
Santa Cruz, Dec. 14.
A balloon carrying three men and a woman on a
history-making trans-Atlantic flight
WON
Six 'died when a U.S. Navy A.J. twin engine tankar domolished four houses when sit · crúsked into a busy section of Nor- folk, Virginia, on Decem bet 9. Four crewmen and two infants were" killed. Hore firemen dro soen put- ting foom : on one of the houses as the tail' section burns in the back,--U:P.I. Telophoto.
estimated today to be about 600 miles south | 60 HOPEFUL
west of the Canary Islands.
Sources close to the promoters The balloonists are contacting HEIRS
state who was in hospital in of the
in ony every 12 hours expedition--who bave innd shot Washington a few days before
is feel clamped tight secrecy around order not to depicte the power tying here yesterday,
ing "
the in their batteries.
Only the promoters of the expedition know what the coded
3p-
Do the General Council of the TUC, for example expect him to believe what they say in their annual report
all communications with --that the Bank Rate in-
Sources close to Mr Dulles, balloon suld everything creases Are largely
in-
who is accompanied by a doc-peared to be all right with the effective in regulating the
Lur colonel, Bernard Sullivan, balloon "Small World." The British Deputy Police Chief E. E.
IN CODE economy?
Stales Army of the United reported thot officers Medical Corps, said that he was
The sources people have seen their coun. Scott
ordinary sald pulled 19-year-old Lorcazo "perfectly alright" and only try climb out of a severe
were being sent by messagus currency crisis in
Jackson from his bed this morn being careful about his dict.code, but they pointed out that
should Song and that he admitted being Reuler.
tho balloon encounter ta trouble, forcing it to ditch how can anyone any that it the fugitive. is "ineffective"?
the ocean, radio calls for help would not be sent in code. They said no news was good news in this respect,
u year
through this device.
Devaluation
Scott said
Jackson also Ls wanted in connection with
$30,000 robbery
New York, last spring.
A
Butzalo,
Nationalist Warning
Police found his name among General
the
that
Taipei, Dec. 13. Llu An-chi, Com- THE currency criste of 1967 the personal effects of the three mander of the Kinmen Garrison Tas the same as that of whom
Chinese other gang members, one of Furce warned
was killed and two Communists
the Na- 1049 although the causes seriously wounded In a pollca tionalist artillery will fire and were different and look what trap when they tried to kidnap attack the Amoy Railway happened then. The Social- and rob Felix Marchegiani, G station if they fire on their air- ista, who would not change 62-year-old building contractor. port and wharf, it was learned
Bank Rate, had the
to-UP.I
today. France-Presse. devalue the pound. The Macmillan Committee called the Bank Rate "delicato and beautiful instrument for regulating the monetary system. But the TUC do not agree. They call it a blunt instrument. But what could be blunter than de- valuation?
That sort of thing could occur again under a Socialist -administration with its atrangulating, straitjacket
economy.
Confession
THE TUC, who usually havo" their feet on the ground, should know better. They should remember the honest confession of Sir Stafford Cripps, the Socialist Chan- cellor, who said: "We have tried over since the war to overcome our difficulties by a series of expedients which
·lel to a crisla : as each : ex- pedient became exhausted." That is what happens when the mechanlam worked; out! by centurion of financial and economla exports Is contemptuously brushed aside. Polley is reduced to oxpedients and each one an it comes in apt to be mHOTO desperate than the last.
The balloon took off from here on Friday. Its flight is the Arst recorded attempt to cross
the Atlantic in a free balloon. The balloonists expect to comTA- plete the 3,000-mile fight three weeks.
in
The Arst message was. re- celved here yesterday, saying only that all was going well.
ROOFS COLLAPSE UNDER SNOW'S WEIGHT
Damage ran to more than a million dollars as buildings continued to collapse in Oswego, New York, on Thursday under the weight of 68 inches of snow, almost all of which has fallen since December 6. The roof of this garage buried at least four cars-U.P.I. Telephoto.
meninges Bay,
Sources close to the promoters said the balloon was believed to be on course and there were no us for the crew. They said the balloon messages indicated had found the easterly trado winds as anticipated U.PL
SURVIVORS IN
ANTARCTIC
FIND FORTUNE
MISSING
79
fands the
world around
with
TAN AMUJRLENIN
Follow The Mail's Race Tips
|Chino Mail: tipsters did it ""Turf" also gave a correct again in giving the best double in Eunice and
Golden Nugget.
...
raco according to Turf's tips would, hava- given a backer a clear profit of $31.80.
•
tips for the first day of the Fifth Race Meeting at A $5 win bot on every Happy Valley on Saturday.
{"Turf" correctly forecast five winners out of the eight races and was the only tipster in the Colony to have tippod Red Light for the main race of the after- noon.
Police
China Mail's Raptor tipped
Inspector (
Dies In Gun Fight
Blackburn, Dec. 14.
A detective inspector died late last night from a bullet wound received during a three-hour slege of a house here.
A woman was also killed and two other men wounded in the alege.
Inspector James O'Donnel, 47-"| year-old head of the Blackbur C.I.D., died after two operations to save his life.
Police were called to the house following a disturbance early yesterday.
WIFE DEAD Inspector O'Donnel and an- other policeman were shot and wounded.
Police who entered the house later after, hurling in a tear- gas bomb found Mrs Shella King, 27, dead on the floor. Her husband, 27, was wounded in the side?
In the passage, the couple's six months old son was asleep In a pram-China Mali Special
Mercy Mission To Iron Curtain
and
Berlin, Dec., 14.
Radio "hams" and Red Cross Polish Embassy officials hive co-operated in a mercy mission across the Iron Curtain,
a Red Crosa here today.
spokesman said
|
four correct winners and a $5 bet on each winnor tipped by him would hava yielded a gain of $26.
DINOSAUR
A. Four-Ton
Modern One
SOUGHT BY
·
POLICE
London, Dec. 14. Scotland Yard ordered sur-
veillance of all porta to prevent the smuggling out of Britain by "foreign elements" of a four-ton dinosaur - ultra secret model
The dinosaur not the beast of long ago, but a just-completed cdncrete breaker worth £20,000, was being used in a London ship- yard. It was the only one of its kind in existence.
The 19-foot long self-propelled machine, 6.6 feet wido and 9.8." feet high, disappeared on Friday night.
BORROWED?...
Publishing the news of the theft, Scotland Yard added: "We have sent out a call for a special watch to be kept at parts throughout Britain, as we have reason to belleve foreign ele-, ments may be attempting to sinuggle the machine out of the country."
The dinosaur's Inventor Cedi Graham, sald he thought the maching
www "borrowed" by rivals who wished to make a copy-France-Presse.
King Baudouin In Collision
Ostend, Dec. 14. Casablanca, Dec. 14.
King Baudouin of the Bel- A message picked up in West ginns, at the wheel of his Sixty hopeful heirs turned up
Berlin from a Polish amateur sports car cocaped injury when in Casablanca to claim a wireless operator last Friday he was in collision with on- Fortune of £70 million-resulted in the delivery by a other car here today, police only to be told that neithor | relay of cara and two aircraft of reported, tho fortune nor the will a rare blood plasma needed for bequeathing It to descond- seriously ill patient in a hos-year-old monarch's father, who ants could be found.
Bybgeezer, north
was travelling with him was also uninjured. Heuter. In 1793,
Spaniard, Don Vincento Ignacio Juan Pascal Pastor Y Garcia. Marquis of La
CRASH MAKING Lions, of Chile, dies
FOR BASE
und reportedly stipulated in his will that his fortune, deposited In an English bank, should only be distributed to the 11th generation of his successors.
Today u lawyer told the would-be helra that he had de- Anitely
established the facts that the Marquis De La Llosa existed, and had Ulved. In Chile, that he had confided the Belgian plano in the administration of his fortune to Antarctic today to find a certain Don Alvarado,
hundred-year-old the crow of four had set that somo
letters confirmed that a off for a Belgian supply was made in 1793, was deposit
Moscow, Doc. 14. A Soviet
aircraft fanded beside a crashed
נפוכחם
and
will
point about 80 miles awayed with a notary in Chile, and The Soviet News Agency that the Marquis fortune was Tass, reporting the rescue bid, placed in a London banks, sold the search party, whoug
The only missing items were earlier rescue attempts had the will and the money. been defeated by bad weather, Franer-Presse found a note In the wreckage saying the Belgians had set off for, the supply point last Thurs-
day the day they crashed,
Dock Strike
The Belgians," who Include
Prince Antoine de Ligne,, son-
Calculto, Dec. 14.
in-law of Grand Duchess Char- Eighteen thousand Calcutta lotte of Luxembourg, and Cap-stevedores are to stage a four- tain Gaston de Gerlache, lender { hour
thum `sirilco ́liorrow,
of the Belgian Antarctie ex-Secretary-General of the Dock pedition, are thought, to havo | Mazdoor (workers') Union, Mr food for only another two days Diswanath Das, announced here and will have to cross an area tonight..
pital
at Puland-Reuter,
Ex-King Leopold,
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BLACK & WHIT
ENLACK & WHITT
of
very badly scarred by crevames. The strike is in support
The Soviet party is continuing demands for bonus, payments the pearch-Router,
and immediate implementation
Kurds Arrested
of the Governinent's · nssurances after the All-India dock strike
In Jund this year--Router.
Beirut, Dee, 14. Trains Collide
Twenty Kurda. have been
arrested in northern · Iraq be-
Caus
Jeremy City, Do, 14. Two Hudson of Manhattan the government "fcared | Raffroad; frklits collided negr disaffection BIONE themi,, ai | the Journal Square station'ourly Kurdish source. Boid here tos today, slightly injuring, 80. par- | day>==Neuter,
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