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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1958.
Fraternal Visit By Cruiser's Captain
Capt. F. R. Twiss of the
cruiser
HMS "Ceylon".
paid a formal visit to the ship's affiliated regiment, the First Battalion rho Groon Howards at Stanley
Fort this morning.
It is a cruiser first visite Hongkong.
After inspecting a veremadal Guard
Cap Tiss visited the
Cicers Mess with his host, 14
Col W K Pyke.
and lunch.
1 Es estonttiry
Navy Ships, seruisers
Later they
for koval
and bi-
Ker ships to be affiliateri rome regiment of the Army.
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Boy Killed, Man Hurt In Road Mishaps
A six-your-old Chinese boy was killed and a cyclist was injured in two traffic accidents on Hongkong Island yesterday.
1 then you of 45 La Garden Road, grooms Hoot,
Wie kannekeså down aml fatally
ingered by a private
home
11
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taken to
Que Mury Hestatal for treat- theut but was found feed rati has arrival.
mad, 28 year-old
Block
Wong
J Arth
Heseliement
Che-ko of 356 "J"
Cheng Uk
collided with a
was injured when
Copteln Trelas inspeci a Ceremonial
Quarter Guerd
formed by the battalion's "A" Company under the eximiand
So. F. Cash.-China Mail Photo
INDECENT FILM: MAN GAOLED
setiten- | conviction
For
simbar
Wong Ming, 29, was his rvele red to three months by Mruffence, was caught in a house
at Kowloon 1. Jordan Road yesterday. post in M. 8. Donnell Jump
Magistracy
this
Γενν morning
Four rolls of Alm seized in Island Road near Chai Wan.
the raid were ordered to be Hc was admitted to Queen showing indecent films.
Wong, who had a previous confiscated. Mary Hospital for treatment
Compliments
of the Season
from
B.O·A·C
BRITISH OVERSEAS.
AIRWAYS "CORPORATION
Magistrate Rebukes Pickpocket:
Man Gets 18 Months
"The offence of picking pockets has been known almost as long as human beings have worn clothes and possessed pockets and I feel I must punish with severity this im- pudent theft which was committed in broad daylight and in a thickly populated district," said Mr L T. Morris at Central Magistracy this morning.
Mr Morris was giving judgment in which 42-year-old unemployed Ng
Shing was charged with theft.
Sentencing Ng to 18 fonths' commented
gork Mr Morris that "offenders of this type are a real menace to the community and exemplary punishment must follow this conviction.“
Insp. J. A. Dempsey told the Couri that on December 24 detective Chow Tong oticed Ng following a Chinese woman In Yee Woo Street.
Later he sOW NĄ put his hand into the woman's overcoat pocke
purse containing $4.05.
and take out a
The detective arrested Ng.
Commended
Insp. Dempsey told the Courl that Ng had 14 previous con- victions. two of them of sunilar nature,
LI
In his judgment, Mr Morris said that he pinced on record the action of the detective us deserving of the highest com- mendation and "I trust that
his part in this Investigation
will be brought to the notice of tils superiore,"
"But It
Won't Bring Peace
SIXTH
CRUISE
TO ORIENT
Mrs James Scott, a widow from San Diego, Call- fornia, making hor sixth cruise to the Orient, arriv- ed this morning on board the Prosidont Cleveland.
This is tho Sfth Christmas cruise the President Cleveland has made to the Far East, and Mrs Scott has travelled on them all She has also made another cruise on the Cloveŝanch.
Mrs Scott, who Ulved in Cebu! for seven
the years before war, said she was very fond of travelling and Wed to spend her Christmates abroad as she had no family in America.
She said that the cruises to the
brought Far East
back many memories of the For East which she knew before the last
war.
A spokesman of the American President Lines said passengers were given a deduction in fare
round-trip for a complete
the Christmas cruise.
оп
Over Christmas, special enter- tainment and festivities ww'e
99 provided.
Bonn, Dec. 30. American achievements in
rocket development
can-
not solve the East-West political problem, the leader of West Germany's opposition Social Demo- eralic party said today. Erich Ollenhauer sald there is no milltary solution 10 the present political situation that the New Year should ser
in dis East-West negotiations
security armoment, European and German reunification.
The greatest task for 1959. Offenhauer said in a New Year's article in the Socialist party press service, is to retain the freedom of West Berlin by poll- tical means.-U.PL
PARACHUTE|
TO FIT IN BRIEF CASE
A
Manchester, Conn.
Father Was
In China Before 1914
Countess
Moria Moniko Praschma, Secretary of the Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany in Tokyo, arrived this morn- the ing from Japan on President Cleveland, The vessel is making a round- trip holiday cruise.
Comtess Preschms, duughter of the late Count Cai Praschma of Sliesa, East Germany, joined the Embassy in June 1937.
She said her father had been in Chine for 12 years before the Arst World War, and was military instructor in Nanking for some years;
New Post For American
Lt. Commander Harry
I
PARACHUTE which Lucbbe arrived from the United would fit into a stand-States in the President Cleve- tand this morning en route to Card brief case was ready to
Bangkok to take a new post as go into production at the Supplier in the US. Navy Joint
Assistance Ploncer Parachute Co. hero. Military
Advisory Group in Thailand, Announcement of the new design in parachutes was made
He was accompanied by hi
in New York by the Reliance wife and three children, Mfg. Co., owners of Pioneer,
The 'chaute iscs the basic
N.NL.
SHEAFFER'S
NIW HALEPORE
WITH EXCLOSKI
ALKABLE OF AAL *, BOGO STOKER
STERLING SILVER TIP
LINER BEGINS LAST TRIP TO HK SCRAPYARD
Southampton, Dec. 30.
From the Filos
25
years AGO
The 37-year-old Unión Castia linor Arundel Cpstla (19,206 tons) which made 211 voyagos to Africa and has stoomad noarly 3,000,000 miles in its life loft R Wu Chao-chu, one of
broken up.
Southampton Today for Hongkong to be M China's best known
diplomats and a most dis- Sho was sold for £240,000,
tinguished Kuomintang poli- Ships in port sounded farewell blasts tician died suddenly at his as the liner left with a skeleton crew of 70. | Hongkong residence at 3 The finar's BUCCOSTOP is Fondennis Hing Hon Road, yesterday. Castle, due to sall on her maidon vayago to Mr C. C. Wu
was a Hong- South Africa on New Year's Day--Reuter. kong boy, son of the veteran statesman Wu Ting-fang. Entering the Chinese diplo- matic
his distin- service guished career reached its peak when he became Chin- ese minister to Washing-
This Funny World
"George! I wish you wouldn't do that!"
Cold And Rainy
New Year
A break in the dry weather of the past five days is expected to hit the Colony to- morrow, according to a statement made by the Royal Obser- vatory this morn-
ing:
"A cold surge which this
morning
lying WAB across Central China to the S of Shangbai is moving SW and is ex- pected to pass through Hongkong early
morrow.
to-
"This will bring cloudy conditions with patches
of light rain and a fall
in temperature,"
Armed Robbery
A man armed with a dagger robbed a woman pedes. trian of a wrist watch, valued at $60, in a path leading from Lok Shan Road to Homantin Village yesterday,
Earlier in the afternoon, man was arrested for attempting
A
Mr O. J. Negaard, Managing to steal a fountain pen from a Iden of helicopter rotors and Director of American President Police Inspector in plain clothes has all-like cloth bindes whlen Lines in Japan arrived with his near the Dairy Farm in Nathan spin. The devies, known as the wife and son on holiday.
Vortex Iung parachute, has ex-
cellent inherent stability,
shockt effect on opening, virtually
Jow
and
or Mo opcillation
gilde characteristics.
It has less bulk and is light- er than the parachutes now being used.
Missile Explodes
• Cape Canaveral, Dec. 30. A Polarla intermediate range balilalle misalle fired by tho American Navy here today was
The chute was designed by David T. Barish, 37, New York aeronautical engineering blown up a few minutes attor consultant and Wos developed and patented with
launching when It went OK financial courso:
help from Laurance B. Rocke- feller,
Road.
Another man, has been do- tained by the Police following the theft of a jacket valued ai $25 from a private car, parked in Wardley Street,
Tourists Arrive
A group of tourists, mostly This was the third consocity | Couchers nud United States
It is now being tested by the tive time that a Polaris minelle Government. personnel, arrived armed services for mulltury has had to be destroyed after from Japan In the President paratroop and cargo alr drop launching.
Cleveland this morningi operations and misalle recovery.
A tour around the island fina Manufacturers of jot nireraft
been arranged for the tourists are also experimenting
Tomorrow, IU. F. Irvin
This missilo in designed to bo with carried on submarinos and other
· vessels.---Router,
INDECENT
ASSAULT:
BOY BOUND
OVER
Pleading guilly to charge of indecently assaulting two girls, 18-year-old boy was ordered to be bound over in $250 for two years by Mr PFX. Leonard in the Juvenile Court at Kow- Icon Magistracy this morning.
The boy's father was ordered to stand in surety for him,
The Prosecution said that the boy after assaulting two girls aged three and six years criter this month, ran away from his house.
Be returned with his elder sister on Christmas Day surrender himself.
Joe
to
ton.
☆ ☆
NUMMONED before Mr Balfour in the Central for allowing Police Court
her dog to be abroad with- vut a muzzle, Mra S. Perry, of The Peak, pleaded guilty, but added that it was de- the liberate negligence on part of her coolie, whom she discharged the day after the offence.
"The coolle has been with us for a year," sald Mrs Perry. "And he has been told every the
day of his Life to
put
muzzle on the dog. In these cases can't anything be done to punish the coollo?"
Hus Worship
usual fine of $8.
Imposed the
A similar One was meted out to Mr R R. Davies, of 500 The Peak, Mr G. P. B. Fitzgerald of 357 The Peak and Mr A. Prismall of 32, The Peak, for like offences.
From a leading article in the SCM Post: "The Hongkong Traffic Department is making a further ofort to increase the general safety by marking plainly on the roadways a warning to drivers to proceed slowly at points where danger exists. The idea is a good one and deserves to nucoeed rather better than it probably will do. Motorista become familiar with those warnings in time and forget or ignore them, while there to an indefatigable conspiracy on the part of the elements, the dual and wENT and tear, to obliterate all road marka us south
as they have been made. With general co- operation, however, the experi- ment should prove worth while, though results be invisible, since people who cecapo ac- cident leave no evidence."
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
As another year rolls by, we
wish our many friends and
their loved ones a joyous and prosperous Now Year with a big thank you for all your
favours and patronage.
Paquerettes
Frinted and published by TERENCE GORDON NEWLANDS, PRANCE for and on belief of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-58 Wyndham Street, Cily of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong