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CHINA
No. 37280
Established 1845
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1959.
Price 20 Cents
PAA
THE LEADER TO 19 COUNTRIES
HK CHINESE PAPER FOUND GUILTY OF LIBEL Visiting U.S. Trade Official Says:
Of The H.H. KUNG WINS SUIT
Day
Out Of Touch?
I'
JT is refreshing to find that opinions about Empire 25 years ago were Bot nearly so mistreen as contemporary erities munke aut. Hongkong has been spared the brai
less vubble-rounding futming. tions of "freedom fighter" which live afflicted" sister colonies like Singapore asi they career recklessly to
independence. wurds
So pertapa the point made! by General Sir Samuel | Wilson, Permanent Unders Secretary for the Colonies, in our column 25 Years Age, will be more widely up- preciated here than else where.
گردم
He said: "I personally vatnal foresee the day when any * 'smaller overseas territories will be so If- contained a to be in a position to stand entirely alone." The development of the idea of federation has.
$10,000 Damages A Famous Figure Relaxes
Awarded At Supreme Court
Dr H. H. Kung, a former Prime Minister
and Finance Minister of the Nationalist Government of China, was awarded $10,000 damages this morning in his libel action against the vernacular daily, Sing Tao Jih Pao, Ltd., and its editor, Chen Mon-ying.
Accused Of
Killing Wife
of course, given all but a With Germs
few isolated territories the
chones of choosing indepen- j dence if they want, but the i observation made in 1934 js essentially us true today as
it was then.
no
NOTHER conunent by this shrewd, sensible oleial was: "Having met people of many races and cries that bwe allegiance to the Crown, I am more than ever con. vinced that
Επ there truer saying than that the love for our King and Queen and Royal Family is the strongest of all inks that hok our Empire together." Only yesterday, the papers reported that the question almost every Pakistani naked Edinburgh the Duke was: "When is the Quren coming We are perennded to believe by modern Commentators that material advantage is
Bod
of
Goettingen, Feb. 12.
Cilving his written judgment in The Supreme Court, the Senior Pulene Judge, Mr Justice C. W. Recce, held that one of the two articles complained of "was cap- able of a defamatory meaning"
He held further that the words I used were "libellous and most damaging to the reputation of the plaintif
Reputation
The arcles were published lu the newspaper on November 25, 1950,
Dr Kung had clained onspecified damages, malutain- Ingat as result
Police were busy today un articles he had been
of the
greatly
and re-
injured in his credit putation,
The plaintiff, who is in the did not attend United States, cases
the hearing last month on ac- count of illness.
ravelling one of the strangest and most grue- some criminal
in the history of Germany, murder with germs.
When Mrs Gisela Worltz died on July 20, 1957, the corener wrote in his repert that the cause of death was tetanus.
He was right, poller sald to- day, but it was not a simple case of the woman's contracting a disease and dying of it.
They said Mrs Woritz Was murdered by her husband and his weapon was the deadly tetanus becilli.
Dr Hermann
Woritz, an eminent bacterialegis, was arrested three days spo.
SUSPICIOUS
His son, Mr L. K. Kung gave evidence,
The
Fair Comment
And this is how Churchill best loves to relax with a few square feet of can. vas, an easel, and the changing play of light and shade on figure and land. scape.
defence had pleaded Ukilt the articles had not re- ferred to the plaintiff, and that did, they asswning that they
and could were not libellous be said to be fair comment.
Mr Justice Recce said he had no difficulty in coming to the conclusion that the articles complained of concerned Dr Back Kung, as his name was men- tloned repeatedly.
He said there had been no evidence by the defence to show that it was a matter of public interest or that it was a question of fatr comment.
Fell Short
There was something suspi- con about Mrs Worlt death the only reason for the concam thus stert, police said. la Linued existence of
the first place, there were no cuts. Commonwealth which in sores on her body through cludes republies like India which tetonas normally might As to damages, the Judge sald
Pakistan,
that an article dissidents have entered.
published sub- like Ceylon
South And seemd, only a month sequently which purported to he and apology, in Africa, rebels like Cyprus before she died, Mrs Wort a correction and British Guiana, in (30) mysteriously contracted fact fell far short of what could dependents like Chan and thrax, a disease contaon in be considered as such.
He said he did not accept the opportunists like Matta. saltic and horses but But the Crown from which human beings. Woritz was un-submission that this was a case that murder al-where only nominal damages Во many are Apparently successful in desperately seceding is the impt, police said, no he later should be awarded.
rare in
injected his wife with the Crown which, paradoxically, tetanus baciti.-U.P.1. the newly independent are
so quick to hail as ther
OW!.
This Royal Family is surely a IIANS HEDTOFT
phenomenon of the age.
For see: the Queen Mother
today tours Africa. It is a
huye success. Princess
Alexandra and the Duchess
INQUIRY
Judgment was awarded costs.
with
Mr John McNell. QC. and Mr
Brook Fiernaccht represented Dr Kong, instructed by Mr P 11. St, of P. Sin and Co.
The lion Lea d'Almada, QC, and
in Marrakesh settles down to put
he
On
his canvas the blue sky. the red sandstone, the Moorish arches and the velled
of women
this avenue; and a solitary photographer captures in this exclusive picture the fleeting moment of happi- ness-happiness because as Churchill himself wrote
a quarter of a century
I'm Here To Discuss Not Negotiate'
"I am not here to negotiate contracts, or agree- ments, but to discuss with you the textile pro- duction in Hongkong and consumption in the U.S., and to seek answers to our common problems on common grounds in terms of your interest.'
This was stated by Mr lenty Kearns,
the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Inter-
national Affairs, who arrived in the Colony by PAA from Hang- kok.
A Quota?
"I have come here with 130 pre-conceived ideas
pro- posals," he said, "but with some Iden of the present textile silua- tion in America and its possibili- ties, so as to discuss with you on a friendly basis, what our com- mon problems are.”
Asked if he had a quots restriction in mind, he replied that that depended on Hong- kung.
in
prepared statement handed to reporters at the alt- port, Mr Keurma said that dis- cussions would be held with Hongtong Government officials and business leaders.
MR HENRY KEARNS
The U.S. State Department ENGLAND HAVE
had given him
most recent
| analysis of American trade with Hongkong, the statement said. The U.S. textile industry, which employs more than 2,000,000 people, had been concerned over accelerating imports of textiles from Hongkong. "Some of the
shipments seem to jeopardisc the very existence of important elements of the American in- dustry," he said.
Undesirable
BAD START
Melbourne, Feb. 13.
England got off to a bad start in the first day of the final Test match los- ing three wickets for only 64 runs.
ago: "Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lone- ly. Light and colour, peace and hopes, will keep
"Wo are of the opinion that
Losing the tow, England were them company to the end, substantial. favourable and sent in and Balley was caught commercial ties are of the first ball of the day, or almost to the end of lasting
possible if consideration is followed a short time later by the day." Expressiven to each other's problems," biry who was out for 11.
the statement said.
Photo.
UK Cabinet Fails To
Agree On Cyprus
Rumbles Of Sell-Out' In Commons
London, Feb. 12.
The Cabinet failed after a two-hour meeting to reach conclusions on the
Greek-Turkish plan for Cyprus.
The political correspondent of Turkish and 150 Greek officers
Both the Greek President and
Turkish Vice-President
the evening paper. The Star, said and men would train and equip the
Mr D. 4. 1. Wright represented the this became known this evening. n 2,000-man Cypriot Army (60❘ would have veto powers on all
Sing Tas Jth Pro, on instructions of Mr. P. J. GrBithe, of Wilkinson and Grist,
London, Feb, 12. Copenhagen, Feb. 12. The Anglo-Egyptian nancial
D5
World
So the proposals will continue per cent Greek and 40 per cent legislation passed by the Cypriot
tonight, be examined
the Turkish). writer said.
Ic
Rebellion
of Kent are getting s bik An inquiry here found today | accord initalled January 10, "Many Government sup- welcome in Latin Ameries. that there were no grounds for threatens to become 13 dend porters and possibly more than Then the
Queen goes to questionbu The seaworthiness | letter unless
Bank one minister-are uneasy about Hans Canada and Ghona later of the
Hedtoft which President Eugene Black can find like suggestion that they are
the passeruters an acceptable compromise with-giving-away
Colony, And the Prime vanished with this year. Minister of Northern aboard, after hitting an Iceberg in the next few days, diplomatic though Britain's right to the off Greenland 14 days ago.cirelos here said today.-France-bases there will be safeguarded,"
Presse. 0,000 miles to London because "I want to receive the accolade from
Nigeria, Sir Alhaji Ahmadu, ileutor
travels
WRITES Sydney Smith is touring with the
Dako: "Anyone who thoughi India's self-chosen status brutal republic, or Boverance from the British
09 a
Crown almost 11 years ago could erase
cond suffering, respect,
deavour
cut
01
C-
200 years
and growth her of the Indian and people, was badly
of touch with both of
Renson them.
for the Duke's big welcome: It was that Prince Philip came an the husband of Elizabeth
TI
of England, Head of
the
Commonwealth".
Tho importance
the
}
of
Commonwealth is therefore
not to be casually dismissed. The Royal tours show that
it was no careless platitudo that Sir Samuel Wilson uttered in 1934; that the love for the Queen and the Royal Family in
one of
factor
silll polent
the most in Commonwealth
unity today.
THE FLEET THAT
HAD TO DIE
THE CHINA MAIL tomorrow proudly publishes Tthe first chapter in the most fantastic sea drema of this century. It is a story unique in the utter improbability of everything It records....It is un authentic, fully-documented account of events that shook the world....und brought Britain and Russia to the brink of war.
Read about the armada that nailed around the world fato annihilation in Richard Hough's THE FLEET THAT HAD TO DIE...................It's another CHINA MAIL 19:0657
Also included in the big, feature-Packed weekend Issue are:
The First Flight........CHINA
writer John
Lug continues his series on old Hongkong with an account of the day aviation came to the Colony; The Star Maker.... More of Logan Gourlay's fascinating account on the most fabulous рет sonality in Hollywood today.
And all your favourite comles, cartoons, pussies, puren devoted exclusively to women, the latest sporla DOWN and notes, thrée full pictorial parte, and all the news and vlows. Take home a CHINA MAIÚ tomorrow.
he wrote.
Night-wing Tories
· were
Parliament-All Agencies.
Peter Sellers Was Really 'Sloshed'
London, Feb. 12.
demanding an early explana. A comedian, who asked a theatre audience whether he was in a fit state to perform, admitted here last night that he really was drunk.
tion of ike Government's aitliude and. addetl the writer. "there may be a miner rebelHon."
Britain tonight called home
Hugh Fool,
Сургия Governor, for talks.
Sir
To Scuttle
by tomorrow
Peter Selicas, famed as a zeny Alm, television and radło ecme-
dian, thus brought to an end the WAR DANGER
24 hours of amused speculation
in London's theatreland.
On Tuesday night, Sellers, star And Mr Selwyn Lloyd is hoplog for sufficient Cabinet of the show "Brouhaha" at Lon- to be don's Aldwych Theatre, stag- approval able to call a tripartite con-gered on to the stage and stcod
unsteadily before the audience. ference on Cyprus next week. He declared he was "eloshed" First rumbles of a sell-out and asked them to shout "aye" were heard in the House to they wanted him to play the
when Labour MP
part or "no" if they would prefer the Reginald Pagel anked ir
his understudy. Government had "decided to scuttle as political authority in Cyprus."
day
over
Mr Lloyd told the House, Belial, would retain sovereign 1y
British bases Cyprusk but Turkish sources
would have Bald Britain work this question out with an independent Cypriot Govern
to
LAUGHTER
The audience, thinking it part of the show. reared with toughter and shouted back "aye."
Sellers confessed Inst night that he drank a bottle of beaujolais with friends, then called in at a party in honour of the newly kniglited Sir Alec Official Languages of in- Guinness, dependent Cyprus would be
Ho added: Greek and Turkish. There will be Cypriol-nol British passporti.
ment
A Markish-Greek Army head quarters, composed
Tokyo, Feb. 13. Japan formally decided today to repatriate Korean residents of Japan to Communist North Koren, bringing the danger of conflict with the Republic of South Korca,
The South Korean Minister. Ylu Tal-ho, was expected al- most immediately to inform the Japanese Government that Korca
talks on was severing establishment of normal rela- lons between the two nations.
-U.P.I.
Dulles Operation
Washington, Feb. 12.
Mr John Foster Dulles will operation undergo his hernia early tomorrow
"I had not eaten so I was in a fair old stalo when I got to the theatre--not
· morning, tho raving drunk, you understand, but just quietly sloshed... State Department rald today.
Router.
of 003 Chiria Mail Special,
The sharply increased At lunch the score was two
Hongkong shipments, concen- for 53. After the resumption trated in a relatively
few Cowdrey was caught for 22- liems, tend to disrupt normal Reuter, trade channels and could re- (Contd. on Back Faze, Col. 1)
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