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STRING OF BURSTING CRACKERS, FELL
ON HIS SHOULDERS
.. and
Up went a string of bursting crackers into the air.
down they came onto the shoulders of a passing pedestrian. In court yesterday, Tsui Pak-hoi, 27, painter who threw the crackers,
was fined $30,
DANCER'S ITCHING POWDER ORDEAL
London, Feb. 9. Georgina Moore suffered in-
tense irritation when
doing her cabaret striptease net al the smart Embassy Club be- cause someone had put itebing Powder in her chiffon wisps, tho Daily Mail columulat Paul Tanfield, reported today,
"Georgina, who stood in for- Princess Margaret when Anni- Hund was painting her portrait, was appearing in a number call ed Facing The Firing Squad," the paper said.
"For this she stands behind a plate glass rereen while suction darts are fired at her wisps, Anything hit comes off.
"It was an artist's abditrate" sald 21-your-old Georging and shuddered at the memory, "Sud- denly I fell a tekle become an
tch couldn't move,
The firecrackers scorched the man's jacket and
Tsui was ordered to pay $14 compensation.
And when Leung Ping of 230 Queen's Road East, ground floor, ret light to a cracker it was to cust lim $50,
Burnt His Leg
For the cracker shet out into
of a the trousers
passing in pedestrlam, burting a hole them and burning the man's kyr.
Leung was ordered to pay a $10 the und $30 compensation,
Taul and Leung were two of
17 people who appeared before Mr K. A. 9. Phillips at Cen- tral yesterday on charges of:
unauthorised fleung Di
crackers,
discharge
of
neligent crackers, and setting crackers off to the danger of the pub le. Fourteen pleaded guilty and nes ranged from $10 to $30.
Three who pleaded not guilty were remanded for two days for further inquiries.
"Thin it became unbearable. Boy On Indecent
Ilud on lich in every stitch and just had to scratch. The more
I scratched the moru il Irritated. Soon I was jumping over the place.
I "People kept shooting and couldn't keep pace. Things were falling down all over the place."-China Mail Special.
Swiss Postal Official Leaves
Mr E. Buzzi, Manster, Inter- national Services, Swiss Postal Administration, Berne, and Dr E. Jaeger, General Manager, Cargo and Mail, Swissair, left this morning by Swissuir for Zurich, They were seen cft by the Prsinaster-General, Mr A. G. Crook and Mrs Crook,
Cataldiak: 1849
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1959.
Mr And Mrs Heering Arrive
Holiday-Makers In
Big Station Jam:
Extra
Police Called
Extra police were called out to control the hundreds of people who packed Kowloon railway station on Sunday morning. Railway officials said it was one of the biggest crowds they had ever
seen at the station.
French
Violinist
Assault Charge In Colony
A 14-year-old boy wasi chorped before Mr D. Benson at
Central Juvenile Court yester tay with indecently assaulting o 10-month-old girl in Wanchal last Saturday.
He was remanded for three days for further Inquiries,
A Moment
Of
Suspense For
The Crowd
As the clown balances pre- carlously on his head blowing a trumpet high
the above crowd; faces look up... but for one the spectacle is just lite too frightening to watch. These shots were taken by
n China Mall cameraman at the circus over the New Year,
Queues of people, bound for the New Territories and Can- ton, started to form shortly be forem, when a three-deep lae stretched from the station, up Salisbury Road, and past the Peninsula Hotel.
As the throng packed into the station, polica from Kowloon and Tsimshatsui stations, arrived in Emergency Unit waggons.
Megaphonos
FILM STAR LEAVES
The Mandarin
31m actress, Misa Linda Lin, left for Taipei by CAT en Sunday 10 spend
season The festival
with her family in Taiwan.
MrP F. Recring, cole owner of the 140-year-old company which produces the liqueur, "Cherry Heerin" arrived in Hongkong by PAA yesterday for a 10-day holl- day-business visit.
Meeting Mr
Mfrs and Heering at Kal Tak were this Hon. I. D, M. Barton and Mrs Barton. During their stay in Hongkong Mr and Mrs Heering are staying with Mr and Mrs Barton at Shek 0,
The
show above photo from left to right: Mr Barton, Mrs Heering. Mrs Barton, Mr Icering.China Mall Photo.
Two Charged mulher, Mr Wone With Theft
Of Cable
SHEAFFER'S
JEW MALUJOIN WITH G Crit
AVLIBABLE AT ALL
ATOMIC POWER EXECUTIVES GO TO TOKYO
Faur atomic power industrial executives bound for Japan da A high-level sates mission arrived here by Swissair on Bunday, morning and hit A brief stopover at Kal before leaving for Tokyo.
Tak
They were Mr W. Wadkin, Chict Construction Engineer,
Atomic
English Electric Company, Ltd.,
STERLING SILVER TIP
From the Filoc
25
years
∙AGO.
Chinese constable
Was
and Co. is mentioned in the
Power Division, The A MISHAP in which a Mr J. Cameron, Commercial knocked down by a motor Officer of the same company, Mr car driven by Mr C. E. J. M. Bazin, Export Manager, Holmes of Messra Dodwell A.E.John Thompson Nuclear Company, LAG., and Mr. 17. A. J. Ballinger, a Director of Taylor latest list issued by the Woodrow Construction Ltd. Trafic Office in connexion Mr Bazin sald the visit to with the Safty First cam- Tokyo concerns the nuclear rower station which the Japan Atomic Company proposes to construct on a slie at Tokat
Mura, north-east of Tokyo.
It is to 12 at-cocted, graphic-moderated power is tion of 150 megawatts capretty and will be similar to nuclear power stations erected in Britain and to be, constructed south of Rome, although of
smaller power output.
Negotiations between British nuclear power concerns and the Japan Atomie Company had been proceeding for "á con riderable
sold Bazin.
Belos: Left to right, Mr Wadkin, Mr Cameron and Mr Barin, intplar photo.
period",
Mr
PROFESSOR TO VISIT CHINA
paign.
от
the Commenting on
Safety First campaign, a SCMP leader said; "The campaign may may not have accomplished ca thing, but it was a worthwhile effort.
03
Ourselves confess we ace little improvement, Vehicles uppear to proceed as fast as before: drivers seem to be as thoughtless and pedestrians non-co-operative. This opinion lons: perhaps a careful survey is the cault of casual observa- would
thie show that both motorist and the pedestrian are the more careful for the fort- night's admonition".
F.
D. Pereira was not out 83 and his team scored 203 for six wickets playing against University who were all out for 78. Top scorer for the HKU was extras (20), then A. M. Rodrigues, 13 and G. Wind-
sor 14.
Harry Owen Hughes knocked up 82 not out and G. R. M. Rielretts, 50 for KCC in their drawn match with KCC. for whom Victor Gittins scored 30.
Playing for Craigengewer, E. Zimmern scored 49, A. T. Lea
Mr Tibor Mende, Professor of 20 and F. K. Lee, 24, in their Political Science at the Unl winning Innings of 150 ngairist
The 30 uniformed men from Travelling together with her 'Tsimshatsui, and six from Kow-j were her G. Yun-lung.
the Chairman of Madame Brigitte 11. de Beau-loen, under Sub-Inspector
Movie Workers' Union, fond. famous French violinist Marin, began marshalling the Free
• arrived in the Colony on crowds, some using megaphones. Hongkong, and Mr Wu Mien- Sunday in the course of her
After the first train left for chi, Public Relations Officer of Lowu, nt 6.37, Roventh around-the-world
ned out a little, bul scores were) trip.
strriving every few minutes, Harassed rallway omelain tried to keep all passengers for various trains on separate pist- forms ro they would not be confused with arrivals.
the crowd thin-Shaw's Organisation, HongkongTwo unemployed Chineze. veralty of Paris and a graduate Civil Service who could only
da
Rosary Church Marriage
de Beoufond who Brigitte begars to learn
playing the violin at the age of five was ¿warded Arst prize from the Conservatoire National
As other trains left, at 7.44 Paris at the age of fouricen.
and 8.55, with passengers jam-
Miss Mary Chisholm Winyard Since then she worked with med into them, the station bc-
Mr Wallace world famous violinist Jacques came less congested, and after was married 10 Thibaud whem the even rc- the last morning train left, at Leslie Landolt at the Rosary plaeed
night at
the station returned to Church yesterday afternoon. the 9.0, Bruxelles Palals
The grown is the son of the des Beaux normal.
Mr and Mrs Joseph S. Landolt and the bride, the daughter of Mrs Mary Winyard,
Arts.
one
Brigitte de Beaufond often plays a soloist in Paris with
Early Start
Sub-Inspector Martin sald most of the people were prob.
Dr Rabert Bares was best
the Societe des Conservatoltes ably eager to get an early start man. A reception was held, after do Paris under the direction of to travel to Canton to visit the wedding at the KCC. Charles Munch. She has also relatives for the Chinese New performed for the BBC in Lon-Year festivities. Others, carry- ing big bundles, were going to sell goods,
don.
She is on her way to Japan ofter having given concerts in New Dehli, Colombo, Bangkok, Saigon and Phnom Penh.
Harry Odell last night fold the China Mail that he may ergo a concert with Brigitte do Beaufond.
The rest would disembark at Lowu and visit relatives in the New Territories.
Thorneycroft Off
To China
Free Concert
Joel Rosen, the visiting pianist, will give a concert to- day at Pui Ching Middle School, Waterloo Road. It wil be a free concert and all are welcome.
MACAO WINS
Marno won the redwing in- tesport regntia against Hong- kong yesterday by 03 points to finlabed
The Rt. c. Peter Thorncy-51-after Hongkong croft, MP, left by train for Ch strongly by sweeping the board ton en a private viall to China in the second leg by coming in yesterday.
Arst second and third.
This Funny World
charged with the theft of
Playing for Cralgengover's
of the London School of Econo- reply with 147. J, E. Richard- a length of cable, valued mics, arrived by Swissair from son was run out for 41 and
Zurich this morning.
A. E. Perry scored 40 for the at $3,604.70, from tho Mr Mende, author of several Civil Service, Hongkong Electric Com- books on political subjects, Is pany, Ltd, were remanded going to Chins seeking material for three days in Police for future publications. fed custody by Mr K. A. S. planning to visit Canton
victory over the Civil Servlet Peking.
second team. Top scorer was Phillips at Central yestor- His last visit to Hongkong. F. Westlake with 82.
For day.
was in 1835.
and
second XI, George Souza scored
81 net cut to help his team to
He is staying in the Colony for i Craigengower, W. Sparrow took Delendents, Luk Hai, 26, and Law Ngau, 34, are alleged to a few days and hopes to meet six wickets for five runs, ofter have stolen the cable at Bonham members of the
Economics men.
scoring 40 runs as opening bats- Strand East lest Saturday. faculty of Hongkong.
FREE BLOSSOM AFTER THE FAIR
Blossom trees are always a feature of Chinese New Year In Hongkong. And people sometimes pay fabulous prices for them - same cost several hundred dollars but others just a few dollars,
After the Now Year fale at Western reclamation, hun- dreds were left unsold.
They were left for whoever wanted them and this ple. ture by a China Mail cameraman shows people hunting for branches with a mall—and proplilous — show of blossom.
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Lady Peck, accompanied by Capt R. F. Walter, was among the 270 guests who attended the annual ball of the Royal Hong- kong Yacht Club, held in the Roof Garden of the Peningrila Hotel last evening. Other guests included Commodore Frank Elliott, RN, and Mrs Elliott, and the Commodore of the Club, Mr A. L. Shields
Mrs and .Shields.
GoGoN
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