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Unade it plain that the
TRBAN Councillers have
Httle that remains of King's Park should stay parkland, Two new hospitals will be encroaching MOON the
"Queen Elizabeth"-and then-
the new
Army Hospital
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ICY SIBERIAN WINDS REACH HONGKONG DURING NIGHT 140 Lost COLONY SHIVERS AT 44 In Dam
More Cold
Weather Predicted
By STAFF REPORTER
after La Salle has been Icy Siberian winds spread across China given up. The need for
hospitals admittedly
argent
nites
are
and
few kred available but while Kowloon is growing day by day recreation areas Are shrinking. What is the answer?
and reached Hongkong during the night sending the temperature below 50 degrees for the first time this winter.
The minimum reported by Once the HK Cricket Club the Royal Observatory was 474 Ground was a public park, degrees at 4 am. But a Bowen but t ነዚ coveted by: Road resident telephoned the cricketers and eventually, Chiro Mail this morning to y
A thermometer en Jenaed to the club. Granted that it owes its survival balay verandah showed a temperature space in the 44 degrees at o'cicek this as an open
merofag
And
centre of a heavily built up area to the existence of the club and the popularity of the game. But this shows that parklands have to have a good reason for existing to survive, If the TERSON obvious and their
pro. tagonists are not firm, they lisappear under such well meaning schemes ns housing and hospitals.
not
h.s
The outlook for Hongkong, is more cold and cloudy weather tomorrow with hot much change in the temperature.
The Reason
The Director of the Royal Oh- Dr L. E. M. Watts servatory, told the China Mail this morning that the lower temperatures were because of an intensification of the Siberian anti-cyelene.
peralure
As the Chairman told Wednes
day's Urban Council meeting, after the two hospitals have "This causes us to get a fresh
thrust
from of northerly air of been built very little King's Park will be left for Siberia across China," he said. the Public. Government Yesterday's minimum tem- therefore owes land to the community. Thi land exists but it will take a bold official or perhaps a deter- mined Urban Council-to claim it for that purpose. Two alternatives are open; the Chatham Road detention camp can be demolished and the site used for the
new
50.6 was
degrees which equalled the former low mark for this winter. Yesterday's maximum was 64.7.
Tiger Bones?
Tokyo, Jan. D. Army hospital, or else King's
Japanese geologists speculated Park can be used for the
the detention today that tous specimens un hospital and
last for camp site turned into a tarihed during the
months to limestone quarry south of here may be the fangs and bones of tigers and leopards fint roamed Japan 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.-UP.
park. Chatham Road camp has no right to be where it is. Ita inmates need to be kept out of town-preferably come- where remote in the New Territories. The site they are occupying is valuable. The Urban Council should see to it that the terms of their motion are carried out. If the Army hospital elte is to remain in King's Park, then give the people of Kowloon compensating space. Or else find a new site for the hospital,
New Term
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velopments, United States as- tronomers have suggested the onteina adoption by the Interna- tional Astronomical Union of a
new
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FRANCE'S TOP
TEST PILOT
KILLED
Marcelles, Jan. 9. Koper Carpentier, One of France's top test pilots and the the art Frenchman to break sound barrier, was killed today when a military prototype he was testing exploded in flight.
Carpentier
two techni clans were testing the Voltigeur X-116, a twin-engin:d turbojet raison und attack aircratt.
Eye-witnesses said there was
lest one wing. All three mea were killed-Router,
an explosion and the Voli
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British
MIKOYAN DISAGREES WITH
IKE'S
Soviet
MESSAGE
Burst
Kidnapped Disaster By Flying
London-World's Ship Crew Wickedest City Says American
New York, Jan. 9.
Earl Wilson, New York Post columnist, told his readers today: "London today leads the world in lust.".
Chicago, Jan. 9. 'Deputy Premier, Anastas Mikoyan today expressed disagreement with the comments in President Eisenhower's State of the Union mes. He said the British capital earned the reputation sage on Communist dis-had
among American tourists for regard of international being the
world's "wickedest treaties.
city.""
A
No Longer
"Everyone knows that," he Mikeyan, arriving here for a
American tourist 24-tour visit, was greeted by quoted one sign-waving, egg-throwing pic-ns saying. kets at Chicago's Midway air- port, and by still more pickets at the heavily polleed Conrad Hilton Hotel. Eggs were thrown at the Mikoyan party when i left the hotel, and when it en
tered a club for lunch.
QUEEN'S FATHER
WAS A
Saucer?
Wellington, Jan. 9.
A bottled message purport- ing to describe how the passengers and crew of the Pacific island trader to Joyita were forced board a flying saucer was revealed today.
Puebla De Sanabria,
Jan. 9. Rescue teams working from boats and rafts were to- night carrying out the grim task of recovering The bodies of about ' 140- people missing after a dam burst devastated the tiny Spanish village of Ribadelago near here.
rescue
One
werker Senor Augustin Tejedor, of the Spanish Socint' 'Services; cald: The message was found in a "On the waters of Lake Sona- Australlan hrin, which in cummer is used barnacle-encrusted wine bottle; which had been (for swimming and boating by washed
dead bodies, asliore right miles holiday-makers, north of Wathi in the north dead animals, tables and chairs. island of New Zealand.
aro floating."
The nota
ship. Strange circular metallic
said,
"Abandoning
aboard
cbject forcing us Help us. Stewart. Joyita."
ject was Included.
He added: "The situation was
when I arrived here. It. terrible
Several hundred people were hungry, terrified and wqt
BACKWARD small diagram of the flying ob through."
Britain no longer rules the waves," Wilson_wrote, "but she waives the rules of conven- tional conduct and decency, I recently visited once again our so-called mother country-after Sir which I denied all reletionship.
He went almost immediately into a news conference, where he was asked about thai portion.{****
including shivering teenagers frem the country, quaising in thin sweater and skirt outils needing their person and per- sonallty
of Eisenhower's message whereln "Picture 10,000 naughty girls' the President said. "we have learned the bitter lesson that in- ternal agreements historically considered by us en sacred are regarded in Communist doctrine and in practice to be mere scraps of paper."
-PROPOSALS
through those cold, Toggy streets of London's West End. They make the Faris Champs Elysees seem like Sun- peakmi cedar school...".
BOY
Disappeared
Nothing has been
heard oi
Samon,
Crumbled
There were about 500 people London, Jan. 9. the 12 persons aboard the Joyita in the village when the Vega Del James Dulf, vice since the vessel was reported Tera Dam crumbled about mold- chancellor
Durham overdue at Apla, of
on night and
raging 10Trent
and University, claims that October 7, 1955. The vessel - brought terror death to
self was found abandoned a Ribadelago... the late King George VI, | month later, and hes now been father of Queen Elizabeth, refited and returned to the
island service. was a backward boy,
Mr and Miss H. Tanner and He was backward, he said, for
who, several reasons which must the B. Walnutt, of Auckland,
message yesterday, failure found the Enuses of
to the Auckland at educational examina- took it tions for the young," kindly Museum. They said they believed but over-anxiour and impatient it was a hoax
Auckland Museum concholo- father, an unskildu teacher, an
W. Powell said the size gist of the barnacles showed that the bottle had been in the son at least two years.
common
The Civil Governor of Zhanora Prevince, Senor Don Juan Nurlllo, cald tonight that 300 people were safe, 140 were still missing, and 17 bodies had so far been recovered.
General Jorge Vigon, the Spanish Minister of Civil are doing cur best to remedy the effect of this terrible tragedy."
The dams at Spain's big hydro-electric works, under construction on, the Lake of Sanabria near the Portugues? border-Reuter.
Works, sald: "We Wilson said London's "dail "I have not read the state-girls" had become "car-girls" older brother eleverer than him- ment," Mikoyan said. "If it has operating from cars and oc-selt and a stammer," been made, 1 cannot agree with casionally asking
their CUB-
it. But he did not elaborate. | toracrs: "How about an extra
bob for the petrol?"
In Washington, cfficial sources sald today that Soviet Deputy He added: "Something nude Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan has has been added-daytime strip Asked Secretary of State John, tense, clubs w we some gris
ore 14 or 15."
Foster Dulles for counter pro- posals from the West on solving the Berlin crisis.
Mikoyan made the reavesi on Monday in handing Dulles a the Berlio memorandum on problem.-U.P.I.
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But later King George, Judged by his own words and locais, became a very chrowd people and situations, and with.
with good judgment of
man
remarkable powers of express
or per- ing himself, forelbly suasively as occasion required." Sir James Duff was address- ing the annual meeting of the
Association amateur strip- į incorporated
of tcase contests for cooks, sales- Headmastera. girls and housewives were fen- He rid he had just been tures of these "private members' reading the late King's blo- clubs" which were "about as graphy-Chilna Mall Specl31. exclusive as the Jehovah's Wit- Convention at Yankee
Dulles May Notes
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Foreign Secretary, locay left Secretary the Londen Heepital where last to
Stadium."
maid Wilson
that one such club with two floors had 35,000 nimbers.
Tengku's Plan
Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 8. Tengku Abdul Rahman, Malaya's Prime Minister, today in a cable Informed President Carela of the Philippines that he was going ahead with a plan for an economic and cultural between Southeast Asian countries.-Reuter.
Washington, Jan. 9.
Wilson said that among Mr John Foster Dulles, the
the of State, is unlikely things recently exposed was a attend the Bagdad Pact winter nudist movement in week he underwent a successful meeting in Karachi, Stale De- which London nudists meet operation for tonsilitis-China pariment oclals said today, cach other's fiats and disrobe for alliance
dancing and games-Reuter. Mall Special.
U.P.I.
He Wants The MCC Nationalised
London, Jan. 9.
TR Foot, editor.
"John Marullus," he de- clared:
have in charge at Mel- bourne.
Michael Fat color "The deactionary, self-up- "The lesson of the first nine
left-wing weekly, today that the suggested Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) should be placed under alate control. Writing in a column of the
journal. under. the name!
pointed junta controlling England's Test team have continued the Tories' taak of lowering Britain's prestige.
"Macmillan (British Prime Minister) in person might
days is clear. At home and abroad, in politica and sport, Britain will do better without the Torica and
of their friends Marylebone Cricket Club. "Twenty years ago Tribune
first made the demand that the MCC should be nationalised.
"Now everyone can see the window of our policy. What is the national executive (of the British Labour Party) waiting for?" Mr Foot concluded. -China Mail Special.
None of the Joyila's crew or passengers was named Stewart.
U.P.I.
PRINCE PHILIP TO RECEIVE DEGREE
New Delhi, Jan. 9. Delhi University will confor" an
honorary doctorate of clonce on Prince Philip during hie Vlait to India this month, It was announced today.
in due The Prince
bere en January 21 to attend the an- nual Indian Belones Congrese on behalf of the British Asso- olation for the Advancement of Science He will receive his degree the following day. Dr V.K.R.V. Rao, chairman of the reception committee of
Science Congress, Ezid}
tho
today Prince Philip would ba the only person out of about 3,000 delegatas ettending to be 10 honoured by Delhi Univer- alty.
The Prince, who will tour India before leaving for Pakistan on February 4, will be the first member of the British Royal Family to vialt India since independence apart from his uncle, Earl Mountbatten, who Wat the [cat Viceroy and first" Governor-General—÷Reu- tor.
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