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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1959.
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
Mr KEARNS FLIES OFF
OFF TO JAPAN AFTER COLONY SAYS 'NO'
From the Files
Textile Man Talks About Tourists 25
A
Special AND HE SAYS Microphone YOU HAVE A
For The Duke's Visit
special microphone has Ecen flown to the Colony by
Former Hongkong Singer Killed
GREAT FUTURE In Singapore Fall
Mr Henry Kearns, visiting American Com- morce Department official said today Hongkong had "a great future" as a tourist contro.
He said this before his departure for Japan by JAL this morning. He came to Hongkong to discuss textile exports to America and general trade questions.
The
Chinese Manufacturera Union yesterday refused to con- sider restricting exports to
the U.S.
U.S. tourists spent hundreds of millions of dollars in "the receptive areas of the world" and tia source of income was potentially even greater than that of direct exports to the U.S., sold Mr Kearns.
However There are problems involved in fully ex- ploiting a potential of the tourist trade in Hongkong," he said. They were:
Bome
The need for a full schedule of overseas airlines flights, especially those bringing Americans.
The need for adequate hotel facilities as soon as possible to provide for thousands of tourists" who "will be arriving in now Jots. Realisation by manufac-
turers bd merchants in Hongkong that - American tourists spend money on all types of goods.
"I am enceiraged by the attl- fude of your business and gov ernment teaders and believe that
Redifusion for the Duke's they have far-sighted views and
visit.
Intentions that will make the fullest possible use of the grow-
nesi."
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Mr and Mrs Kearns
before their departure
What The
Complaints
Are About
The five imports which U.S. manufacturers are commolain-
about
brassieres, are: women's pyjamas, play clothes, flannel shirts and white #hirts, sald Mr
Kearns.
It belongs to the Redifusioning potentials in icurist bus "If the manufacturers of these Group and has been used all over the world when members Other points made by Mr
of the Royal Family, or their representatives,
have been
making important pubile“ ap- pearances,
Kearns at a press conference:
Hongkong has a very sub- stantial production capacity.
goods do not diversify thele products then the US Govern- ment may have to apply re- strictions." He added how. ever that this was not fore- zone conclusion.
On July 26, 1952 it was used Our assets are very substan. He also said they had no objec-
by the Duke of during his address
Gloucester,
to
Mark
the Centenary Celebrations of Victoria College at Jeracy in the Channel Islands.
From there, it was flown to Hoapkong and on October 28 and 20 was used by the Duchess of Kent, Arst at the opening of Tian Yuk Maternity the new Hospital and on the next day when she spoke to the Chinese community.
It has also been used by the Princess Royal, Princess Mar- varet and the. Queen.
Below the microphone is a silver scroll listing the occasions on which it has been used,
The chromium microphone has not travelled thousands of! miles by land, sea and air to be med when important spreches are made.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
All Of 'It
tin, including "exceptional skil on the part of the workmen, initiative and energy on the part of busi- ness leaders who are estab- ishing a cubstantial Indus- try in this area; capital that le available for the future development of industry."
The opportunity to discuss trade and manufacturing problems with many Com- munity leaders had made it possible to develop an even greater understanding
of
the problems of Hongkong, uch as refugees, the need
flon in sharing their market
By. DAVID T. K. WONG
A 29-year-old ex-singer from Hongkong fell more than 100 feet to her death from the tentla door of the Insurance Building at Finizy- BOTA Green, in the heart of downtown Singapore, Jast Thursday.
عليم
Sho WRA Irene Που, the daughter of ex-Chinese Army general Hou Soon Yin, now believed to be a busintaxitan In Taipei.
The Police have recovered A number of latters left behind,
Irene, who used to sing in Can- tonese operas, came to Singa- pore a number of years ago together with her mother and a brother and sister. Her mother has since died and her later have left brother and
the Colony,
saldi
She lived alone in a room in a house in Telok Ayer Street.
A Fellow tenant thera
she had been depressed lately and that three days before her death she said she was fed up with life and intend- ed returning to Hangkong.
It belloved that she had been heavily involved in a finan- ciai venture which falled, RIGHT: IRENE HOU
MURDER OF TRAINING
CENTRE LEADER
Committal Proceedings · Against
Youths Begin
with Hongkong ather Six
end
countries but they do not in- Lend giving their markes in total. We have
lo maintain our economy, otherwise we will be pour market for everybody." Asked his opinion of the state. ment issued by the Honkong Manufacturers yesterday, in which they refused restric- tions, voluntary or otherwise on Hongkong's textile exports to Amerles,› Me Kearns re-
plied that he was not in the
• Tesat surprised.
for continuing employment, le added he would have done
and
the Colony's depen- dence on trade. "We
Our hope
two-way discussions wil resuit In greater understanding of inb US problems by Hong- kong and that thoughtful will be given to alicntion the development of a broad production pro- коре ducing substantial sales in the US market.
of
"Such steps should anticipate steps to avoid concer:iration on the production and sale of a limited number of special items
which could bring about a request for import restrictions by US industry."
Leaves For
Europe
the same thing himself.
Triad Men Planned Private Car Hire
Police who raided a Triad so-
months
Committal proceedings against six youths charged with murdering a camp leader, So Shiu-bor, at the Cape Collinson Train ing Centre last November 17 began before Mr E. Corbally at Central this morning.
Accused are Yau Kin-wah, 20, Ng Tak-wai, 21, Chin Siu-kai, 20, Choi To, 19, Lam Yue-yiu, 19, and Chan Fai, 19,
Mr Desmond Mayne, Crown
He said he found no Injuries Counsel, is assistell by Detective joh the body other than those Sub-Inspector W. Boxall.
on the head and face. His blood was group A.
WARRANT FOR WOMAN'S ARREST: CASE HELD UP
years
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I
Remarking "I want to get cool" Ha Shun-chi, 10-year-old student, throw himself over the side of the ferry Golden Star last night and was saved from drowning by the narrowest margin.
for
To meet the pubile demand "Jungs in residential areas, the Gonument have levelled up two pieces of open ground in Kowloon and two in to con- verting them into pubile pinying
Thes
grounds are in Tong M Road and Shantung Street
Hongkong preparatory fields,
A Bench warrant was issued this morning for the -arrest of Mrs M. Geoghegan, of 10 Observa- tory Road, fifth floor, whq failed to appear in Kowloon Court as a subpoenaed witness to (Kowloon) and Blake Gardens testify against a man charged with larceny. The subpoena was issued by the Kowloon Court Magis-sun and rain.
trate, Mr T. L. Yang last week, summoning her to come to court this morning. The witness failed to attend court last week when the case WAS to be heard.
and Wanchat, The Wanchal ground will; have a,cholter from
Today when the witness did not appear the Magistrate lots on a scale unknown since
Issued a Bench warrant, but stayed its execution until 11.30 a.m., when he was assured the witness was absent.
The case in which Mrs Geoghegan was to testify, con- cerned a 29-year-old man, Chan Lai, of 290 Reclama- tion Street, ground floor, who is charged with larceny of a handbag belonging to Mrs S. Thompson, in the Dairy Farm, Manson Building, on Feb, 6. The case was adjourned until tomorrow afternoon.
COOLER WEATHER
THIS EVENING
The cold front which is expected to bring cooler weather with occasional showers is moving slowly south, and should pass through Hongkong sometime tonight.
The front passed through Canion at 11 am, according to
spokesman of the Royal Observatory, Yesterday's maximum temperature was 80,8 degrees. This inorn- ing the minimum temperature was 72,5, and the humidity has been between 85 and 85 per ceni alt morning,
MURDER TRIAL
(Continued from Page 1)
tween members. was not on good terms,
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Shoppers' Paradise-
Wilhelm Braun, Manager
of an industrial company mar keting chemical
the storming of the Bastille are rocking Parla to the very foundations,
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The gutters in the cliy's historia
streeta have
red with blood following clashes be- tween 00,000 rioters -and Jinantly
armed troops, pollée and gendarmZVEEL. Gathering strength and con- fidence since the sigaatio Slaviaky fraud revelations, opposition to the Datadler Government reached a climax 00 Tuesday night pad the Cabinet resigned to put an ́end to the bloodshed, -- Thá Pláce de La Concorde re-
sembled a battlefield,
Mrs P.W. Cameron ond Miss
the N. Cooper were complainanta before Mr Bal- four in the Central Police Court in a sunimonя against two sedan chair coolies for allegedly using insulting language at Bowen Road,
THE name of Mr L. A. E.
Leong, of the
China Dispensary, has been added
products In The famit
Europe, left by Swissair this to the register of chemists. morning for Zurich, following aand druggists. business visit described his brief stopover in Hongkong as "fascinating....it's a shopper's paradise,"
His father decided to separate the family, and installed Chan in a cubicic at No. 1 Berwick "He intended Street, let Boar ta sublet the other two cubicles.
After the deceased and her family moved in, the third
WAB
concubine who also on
the premises forced the Maks to look down on him.
"They would all laugh at me in my presence. Whenever I walked past Mrs Mak the
would cover her mouth and laugh, to irritate me and make me angry," the statement read.
"This became.a regular.prac-. tlce over the years.” Placed before the court was a
-Chan had chce told Mrs Mok, large quantity of articles, docu- The cause of death was frag-If you laugh at me again I ments, maps
plans ture of the skull and injuries To will be angry and kill you," and eventually to be produced as } the brain.
but she took no notice. exhibits. They included
The statement continued: aerial model of the Cape Colin-
Yesterday (October 22) I met con Training Centre site, and a
Mak twice Mrs
and she model of barrack No. 17.
covered her mouth and laughed at me in the same mannor.
.
INJURIES
ал
CONSIDERABLE · Witness added that the in- juries were consistent with those inflicted by come heavy broad
object and the force necessary 'I Must Kilr
to cause them was of rome con- siderable degree.
for
to Talpel He
New Street Lights For Waterfront
A new de- sign of dual- carriaga- way troet lights will be
Irt operation soon. The Arst of these now lights was
raised
Mercury
Сод-
House, naught recently.
Bond
tranquiinsing After
The hearing is continuing.
•
A large number of witnesses
"I said to my wife I will not ciety merling In the New are scheduled to testify during
De Pang cald he received 14 tolerate her insults, I must kill 'Territories' on Bunday night the committal proceedings, which
those are expected to last two weeks. sealed packages from the police | her." said in court today
these "I took many Among analysis. Among arrested were discussips the
witnesses the
this morning use of private cars for hire,
AVES Dr Fang Tg. packages was a brick weighing pilis and a chisel.
5 lb 14% 02.
ho The blood forensic
stabbed her I took two more In Kewloon court today were cheong, senior police
found, on it belonged to group tranquillising pills." 14 men. All pleaded guilty to pathologist.
A. being members of Triad societies Di Pang said he perforined and were each sentenced to nine an autopsy on the body of a
gol by Mr P.FX man, identified to him as that.
of So Shiu-bor, on November 17. Two, Tam Ngau, 25 end Among the external injuries he and Cheung Wal-man, 32, who were found on the body was a broad a two months on a $500 bond, were additional- fiat bruise on the forehead with He was ly fined $500 or two months. multiple fractures underneath, be led by February 20; at least stay in the Colony.
seen off at Kal Tak by her non-) ́A ̈ Police' party acting on in- |The hose, loft check, chin and one airline will have filed an objection. And why not?.. Wilo | in-law, D: Klaus Terfleth of the formation, went to Rodo House both eyes showed bruising and [n] at Tripo` Road on Sunday night, |the nasal bone fractured. There wouldn't try to protect a nice German Consulate-General
defendants were was a split wound 14 inches munotoly protected, golden goose Hongkong, and her daughter," where the
found.
long on the top of his head. org operation!
Sir,Objections to the licens
Mrs. Maria Bley left this Leonard, ing of the three private. British morning by Swissair for Europe.
Geneva, Frankfurt Airlines, who are ready, to serve vis Hongkong with low fares, must, Bremen, afler.
Mrs Terfloth.
the public esking too much
to have these objections printod
in the Press; and, sut
|
Mr M. Morloy-John, Crown Another package contained broken bricks, one of which | Counsel, is prosecuting, satel had group A blood stain, by Mr P. J. Claney, Acting As- Several others bare thin hamon | diétuat Superintendent of Police. blood smears Insuffelent for MP V. L. J. D'Alton is defending grouping, said witness, Hearing continues.
-Carrier Force In Colony
Just the Government Gazette AMERICAN TAX MAN COMING TO GIVE HELP Home Richard, accompanied
they do sppoerthers
This is a patter of grave in-
portance to many of us hade 'and.
if there is going to be in getalle ing, we'd like to know all about
In the
The US aircraft carrier Bon
by three destroyers, the Maddo B.N. Moore and the Brush, An America Inland Revere, do not pay American income tax; The official will answer ques-: krrived in port thià mårning; on
à recreatiogiai vážit, v ́A opcial is coming a Hongkong although they die returns each tions, by appointment only. He to help members of the Ameris | year as required by a recent will not help all out forms, The Bon Hobime #chard“ - is din/community. With taxation | rufing:.
But particularly "dimcült bying's the 3 dag Instead, they pay Jocsi lax.. problems which might take-up | Admiral W. A. Bcholohy Come A USIS spokesman mid, the too much of the official's time mander Curried. Division, 33 "Ammoins in Hongkong earn- | Inland: Reversia official was will have to be referred to 10rne VIKEDAGE WRERNUDE ing Less than U3630,000 a year i comming, to help busineserien, Washington.
Chan,
Death Sentence Carried Out
*** Cheung Yue-wing, savd 59:rence, who was convści. ‚ed- of the, zuurder of -Chan: at the Suprime Court on July 4, 1956, and
hsäged 'si Hakley- Friowa
A China
Mali photo- grapher took this plotura yester« day showing the new light, sad the old gan - Intop. #, will replace.
· X · in plaat-' ned
to mo
these dual- (oarriage= way Ugha 1 m all the way along. Con-. naught Road. A similar street light: Le (now in me-In / Tank WAR, bul: this. 4. their Arat aDE A
Dearance
town.
Fristed Wild÷pülkadib” for and on bila? "asc"õTEN Wyndham Strutt Clarit
His Excellency the Governor has appointed" provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, the Hon. Sir William Shenton, to be an unofficial
tlie member of
executive council for a further period of five years,