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PAN AMERICAN
FBI CRACK GIGANTIC CHINESE NARCOTIC SYNDICATE IN U.S.
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Of The HK MYSTERY MAN SOUGHT 4D Jones
Day
TIGHTENING
THE LAW
ESTERDAY
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junk cox. awain and three of his crew were fined in total of $11,000 for being involved in an attempt to smuggle 106 illegal immigrants into Hongkong. Fares paid by the immigrants for the crossing from Macuo totalled $11,240, So after paying the fires the junk captain made a profit of $240 for one night's work-not a bad
effort, considering he was
caught. The question this : prompts is: does the law provide strict enough penal- Lies?
For if our growing population is a matter of auch serious concern many say it is, we ought to take more drastic steps to deter those who bring in these people by the boatload.
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The trouble is that although the police usually apply to have there junks confiscated, rarely do the courts grant the application. So the junk captains are invariably free to return to Mucso to pick up a new load of passengers whenever they want, as scOR as the fine has been paid. And the fares they are charging clearly enable the bigger junks to do just that.
Make It Risky
It is not clear why for law
Local Police
BEA ORDER REMAINS IN force
Egypt, UK Patch Up
Working With Hemline Deadline Differences
Americans
The Hongkong Police are looking for a "high- living mystery man” in the Colony, said to be connected with” an extensive narcotics ring operating between the Far East and the western seaboard of America.
The mystery man was named as a co-conspirator by American authorities when a Federal Grand jury in San Francisco indicted three men yesterday in what was termed as "the biggest Chinese narcotic syndicate in Ameri-} can history."
A senior ofeint of the Hong-| Tokyo and Hongkong in a con- kong Police told the Ching Mall | spiracy headed by a man, des this morning that they had scribed
"high-living
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been in communication with the mystery figure in Hongkong," American authorities in con- The heroin was taken into nection with this case for quite Amerien through San Fran
cisco and passed through a long some time.
He added that they were pur-chain of operators cad peddler's sung inquiries in the Colony, in Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles an attempt to And the and other Californian cities, he mystery man and four other said. Hongkong Chinese, who are also alleged co-conspirators la the case.
On Bail
The
Indicted threo men yesterday, the cable sald, were In-
between
I
270 lbs. Of Heroin accused specifically of
International cable
According to a United Pressporting only a small quantity of
1953-57. from San heroin Francisco,
the drug ring is convicted they would be liable master-minded in Communist to maximum prison forms of 20 China
Years, Tacy were set free on Books seized by U.S. autho-ball of US$25,000 each.
11 appeared the ringleaders
rities when
tha!
numerous
of heroin would have involved many persons,
is not clear why for law were arrested, indicate that at rrests in the case might be made least 270 pounds of heroin in several West coast cities. Dis- have
distributed alongtribution of such large quantities bcen the American West Coast in the past eight years.
Federal agents claim that at the present rates, this have US$2,000,000 wholesale
it had been But by the time adulterated, It could have reached a value of nearly
A fine to a prison term. Can't it be changed to provide only imprisonment for offending junk captains? And why aren't the junks
amil always seized
fines Increased lu make this business prohibitive? Recent
amounted
figures supplied by the S$100,000,000,
White said the syndicate had two men would been broken when
were convicted of selling heroin to a Federal Agent, Larry Kaiz, of Los Angeles, the cable said.
ncarly price.
Commissioner of Registra Col. George White, Federal tion of Persons showed that Narcotics Director in San Fran- Immigrants arrived at the cisco said payments were clear-
rate of 275 a day in 1957-58.ed through Canadian banks to
A large number must have come by sea,
Red Chinese sources, the cable sald. The heroin is said to have originated from near Chungking. Indicted
Is there not nome way не could make this business
for the junk Named in the indictments and more risky owners, particularly when their approximate ages were:
Fred Moc, allas Voepim, 42. large numbers of fishing junks laid up because of perator of the New Cat Cafe recent clashes with Cum-end Restaurant, Periland, Ore-
38, Portland
munist patrol buats may be on; Lee Dean,
Drocery atore operator and tempted to a night or George W. Yes, 45, San Fran- two of smuggling to make cisco Chinatown clothing mer- up for losses incurred. chant and former President of
7
try
If seizing junks is not the the Hip Sing Tong.
remedy and the gaols are too crowded for straight prison terus, the magis. trates should be given the
to power Anes,
White said the herein was
smuggled through Singapore,
impose stiffer UK CROWN
All Must Go
THE reason for this request
oes far beyond an attempt to spoji a lucrative racket. The majority
these of immigrants are poor. They contribute
Colony's well-being
to
the
JEWELLERS
RAIDED
London, Jan. 14. Burglars broke into the Lon- dan West End premises of the Carrard Company, the Crown
Jewellers, during the night.
It was understood that only
a small number, of gold neck-
but inces and rings of a total of
only add to the aggregate less than £1,000 were missing.
hardship. They have to be housed, clothed,
their
children And surely
Garrards are responsible for
'LITTLE MO' HAS A GIRL
San Diego, Jan. 14. Maureen Connolly Brinker, known as "Little Mo" when she was a champion tennis player a few years 280, KAVG birth to a seven-pound, three- ounce daughter Isat night at Sharp Memorial Hospital. Mother and lafant reported doing well.
The Brinkers have another child, daughter two years old.--U.P.L.
werd
Lady Dongas measures where she thinks the hemline ought to be-Express Photo,
China - A Bleak
Girl Flees Britain
is
Cairo, Jan. 14. Text of an Anglo-Egyptian
financial agreement being sent to London to- night and can be signed as soon as British Govern- ment approval is received, Egyptian official Bources here said tonight.
After a four-hour meeting of London, Jan. 14. the two delegations today. Dr Lady Douglas, wife of the Abdul Moncim El Kaissuny, VAR Minister of Economy, told British European Airways reporters: "There has been big Chairman, "fled" the progress. The agreement will country tonight on the be signed eve of the "Hemline Dead-after tomorrow. line."
The former fashion model ac- companied her husband on a fight to Barcelona, Spain, to at tend an air research conference. But the company order she in- spired remained in force.
It required the airlines 700 stewardess receptionists and women clerks 10 raise their drooping skirts to 11 more fashionable level "two to three inches" below the knee-by 10-
MOTTOW.
Dictatorial
Some of the BEA's uniform- ed women inployees greeted the
elther tomorrow ar
"Sir Denis Rickelt (TreaSUT”? official and chief British dele gate) will contact London to- night and after this contact wo chall fix the Eme for tomorrow's full-scale meeting."
we may
sign
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May And Cowdrey Save The Day
SMALL POINTS Earlier, Dr Abdel El-Einary, Governor of the UAR National Bank Bad a member of the Egyptian delegation, had said, "It is possible tonight." But this was follow- ed by an Egyptian disclosure that the legal sub-committee Peter was tonight still discussing "one DT two very small points." ! Sir Denis Rickett's cum-
"We're
making ment was:
There will bo: a progress. further full-scale meeting to-
urder as an emancipation pro-morrow."-Reuter. claration for their shapely lewer limbs, But a dissident majority loudly protested it as dictatorial..
Both Lord and Lady Douglas refused to discuss the issue before leaving London airport. A BEA spokesman said Douglas "docs not want to discuss hemlines
any further and he doesn't want his wife to, elther."--U.P.I.
Problem
For World, Ike Says
Washington, Jan. 14.
President Eisenhower said today that China's drive to mobilise its vast population and become a great military and industrial power presents a "bleak problem" to the world.
He refused to attempt think that if they continue in Mr Eisenhower sald the most direct answer to a reporter's that line, with no change In that could be expected from question as to whether China is objective, doctrine or method, his talks with Mikoyan was that a potentially renter threat to then we must indeed be watch- they would each try to discover the free worlẽ than Russia. ful and not only for ourselves what the other was really
"I don't believe in
the but for other people that are thinking. measurable time, that on this friendly and who live close to
He guaranteed Russia'sgainst you could make a really worth China," the President continued,
But, of course, we would any military threat from while conclusion or prediction,"
tho instinetivo unified Germany. he told the National Press Club, hope that ag
urge of men for freedom, for the right to walk upright in the world, that begins to have to create-a ferment not only
THEIR METHOD
But
WON'T-ACCEPT
д
"There is no question that
the President made it the leaders of China are deter- in the more Western section of clear that the United States will mined by methods with which the Eurasian mass, but over in not accept Russion unification we are all too familiar, to be- China well-and that, in my proposals. He said they would camu Ar industrial power, humble opinion, is something demilitarise and neutralise Ger- which means that behind it, so that must occur during these many and make it a "vacuum far as we can see, they want to years I am sure we will have in the political world,” be a big military power, and to Uso they are going at that Just
more mechanical
as methods, nore material means
It
Mr Eisenhower sold that hard as they can," Eisenhower of assuring our own security, would be futile to try to isolate sald,
"Until that happens, we have "people as strong, and virilo an
bleak problem the Q Indeed got
Germans." —UPI. France-Presse. that must be solved."
"Now, here is a people of 000 million people, and 1 would
and
fed and the overhaul of the Crowe Britain's 'Angry' Young Peer Slated
thero
arc
enough destitutes in town wiflicut adding to the prob
tem:
but a spokesman at the where the
Tower of London,
collection was at present in the regalin is kept, said that all the Tower-China Mail Special
Permission Granted
Hard-hearted it may seem, but we must deport all legal immigrants who are caught boing smuggled into the Colony. To allow some to
London, Jan. 14. remain is unfair. There
The British Government has cannot be privileged and
Im-ranted permission for the ex unprivileged illegal migrants. All have attempt-port of 18 Fairey Gannet Naval Colony aircraft to Indonesia, an Indo- cater the this way because they are nesian embassy official
od to
London, Jan. 15.
WO British newspapern
TWO
today criticised Lord
Altrincham over his
con-
'A Matchless Piece Of
•
Bad Manners*
"As a self-appointed marriago counsellor to the Royal family," the Daily Express declared, "bla speech was a matchless piece of bad manners."
Turning to Lord Altrincham's troversial speech yesterday
complaints that the Queen door when he suggested that
mat bound to take the advice of should be concealed, that the not live enough in the Com- Queen Elizabeth should stop local Prime Ministers.
Queen should change her monwealth thin independent "footling"
类
activities in In addition she must fear-oMetal staff, and that the Royal right-wing newspaper stated:
so in "He does
□ year the principles children may possibly have or lessly proclaim Britain and reside more
opportunity of making which Royalty will Vilt less impartially in other of the Commonwealth, as he the
Canada, Australia, Africa-East interprets them. If this brought mixed marriages, the Scotsman her into conflict with national | declared;
and Woot the West Indies, Commonwealth countries.
Pakistan, India and the British The Scotsman submitted that governments then sha muzt just;
“There is no knowing how Islands of the Indian and spit the 35-year-old Feer's constitu- sacrifice the national govern-
tional theories would be a way onts
Tat his impertinence will go.") Pacific oceans." denied the proper entry The gannets, three senter to finish the Commonwealth.
Referring to. Lord Allrin The 31-ciculation
Dally
"What empire tripe does bin documents. If they don't anti-submarine aircraft, are to
(viawn' that the word Express bolleved These theories, this Edinburgh cham's
that Lard lordship plan for 19597" the qualify for entry the legal be delivered with full 'nqulpe. Independens morning Journal "British" should be abandoned, "Allrincham's crificlayos of the Dally Express askod-Reuter, way, they don't qualify at mans, the official stateden | states, were that the Queen" pe that the fact that the Common- Royal family would win him no
head of the Commonwealth was wealth was of British origin, i public' sympathy.
here today.
Heuter,
(Sea Poge 3)
Graham Sent
To Hospital
Rochester, Jan. 14.
Doctors today ordered evangelist Billy Graham to rest for a month and then oriali his fuiure activities an the result of a serious eye alimentReuter,
GRUNDIG
Sydney, Jan. 15. May and Colin Cowdrey defied the Aus- tralian attack this mern- ing
but
lunch after English wickets start falling again. Just before seven tea England were for 286.
After lunch, Australia schloved the break-through when Burke bowled May for 03 with the score at four for 248. England Josi: the next wicket at 202- when Benaud dismissed Dexter for 11. He was followed by Swetman out for five and True- man qut for a ducie
England were then seven for 270, and Just before tea Cow- drey (89) and Lock (1) had carried England's score up to 286.-Reuter.
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STOP PRESS
England Declares
Bydney, Jan. 15.
With seven wickets down for 287 England, with a lead of 149, dealared 10 minutes before tea.
Cowdrey-made chia Con
tery..
Australia
will require
to make the 150 rang to win in 110 minutes-Router,
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