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THE WEATHER:
Fresh or strong gusty E. winds. Cloudy with patches of rain and fine intervals. The strong monsoon signal, the black ball, was hoisted at 11.30 a.m.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1959.
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ROYAL YACHT PLAYS 'DODGING GAME WITH TROPICAL STORM
Of The BAD WEATHER HITS BRITANNIA
Day
THE ROAD TO
CASTLE PEAK
A
BIG drive to improve the
Colony's roads Bystem
was revented in last month's!
badget speech. The mater
Cable Sent To Buckingham Palace
London, March 12.
project will be conversion The royal yacht Britannia, now on passage
of the Kowloon-Castle Peak
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Road into a dual carriage. way for its entire length. This is regarded essential preliminary opening up the territories to the development
satellite townships, Tsun Wan has already shown the need for wider ronde to
link this major industrial
ures with the wharves and godown of Kowloon. And as industry spreads to new areas and na towns
Krow
เม alongside them, first class communications will be re-i quired, The Castle Peak) Road is not the only major project Government អ undertaking. There is the new 120-ft wide highway which will run from Kow-i loon City out to Kun Tong where a natellite town for!
million
quarter of Is people is being plained. Work on this rand began this your.
Railway Too?
with the Duke of Edinburgh between Hongkong and Gizo in the Solomon Islands, is having trouble trying to dodge a tropical storm nicknamed "Sally," according to a telegram re- ceived at Buckingham Palace today.
"We are The message from the yacht said:
plunging into strong winds, fairly heavy seas, and occasional tropical rainstorms."
Earlier the telegram said: "The burning question in
UAR Blamed everybody's minds in Britan-
For
Iraqi Revolt
Bagdad, March 13. The official Bagdad Radio the last night accused United Arab Republic for the first time of engineer- ing the recent Iraqi plot. nternal security of the Iraqi state," the radio said in reply-
THE estimates show that in |
ture on the Calle Peak Road, may exceed $13 million, and the entire project is design ed to luke a number of VAR. years. But as the Governor
ing to a speech earlier yester-
day by President Nasser of the
Earller on radi spokesman Sir Robert Black said, even i dented charges made by Presid- though capital expenditure ent Nasser that Iraqi aircraft is heavy projects of this bad strafed a Syrian village on kind are necessary in our Tuunday. general economic interests.
Not Over Yet
The Damascus newspaper Al Should the railway branch
out to Castle Peak, as well am today quoted reports that the Iraqi revelt was net yet over, Experience has shown that and that the rebels were taiting good FOREN claim Grst in the mountains to resume their priority. Smaller indus-fight.
nia as she left Hongkong was how to avoid the atten- tions of Saily.
The Problem
"Sally is a tropical storm that Is making its way slowly west- wards between Britannia and her destination in the Solomon Islands,
"The problem is whether to pass in front or behind Sally.
"So far, it has been rather like two people trying to avoid each other in the street." The Britannia
tinued:
message con-
"First, Sally slowed down and we thought we could pass nhead, then she speeded up so we turn- ed to pass ostern. No sooner was that done than she started to turn towards us.
Unexpected
"We are now on Sally's out- skirts about 200 miles from the.
centre, steering erst at 17 knots, while Sally moves sedately St ten knots towards the north- west.
"Unless Sally does, something quite unexpreted in this state- ly minuet, we ought to slip past
tries and farms in the Taipo The reports added that behind her some time area, for example, find it thousands of Arab nationalisis morrow,
cheaper to transport by: read all the way than by rond to the nearest goods yard, then train to Tsim- shatsui and then read again to wharves or markets. This will almost certainly prove to be true elsewhere.
Less Remote
BUT
►
+
SUCCESA
UT if the satellite towns prove to be as great à some of our planners hope, public trans port will have to be sub. stantially improved and bus services may not be enough, Government should think abost a loop railway line running from Sheung Shui (or Tuipo), to Sek Kong, Kam Tin, Yuen Long, Castle Peak and back to Kowloon if it succeeds in persunding people to move out to the Territories in a big way. In the Government's scheme
of developmelit, a loop rall way clearly rates a low priority now! Roads, re- clamations, Rito development and all the casentlul come. munity needs are more im- portant
establishing
. towns In the New Terri- torius, but good public transport Inking Kowloon with the outlying areas wil play an important part fo fostering the growth outlying areas later,
of
The need is to make the ferri- torics less remoto and there- fore more accessible. Towne- people need to be nasured that they are not moving. hopelessly out of reach of friends and familiar places in Kowloon, Shatin, Taipo and Shoung Shul have good road and rail links with Kowloon and their prosperl- ty shows how they have benefited. We ought to bear this in mind when planning our development in other parts of the territories.
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were being hertied into specially- built concentration camps, the old
were already CHOS packed.
The death toll in Merul, the northern oil town where the re- volt started, the newspaper add- cd, was "more than 2,000"-most of which was caused by the 24- hour rocket and
accodiary
10-
"In the meantime, we are plunging into strong winds, fairly heavy and occasional tropical rainstorms.
Seas
kinds
"In the afternoons all of dock games and P. T. are in full wing between rainstorms, but thechurching deck demande venomment by bre"Tengan added akil, while the wind Air Force Reuter,
makes the fight of the quolt BLOOD BATH IN IRAQ unpredictable."
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ROBERT TAYLOR SEES MAN DIE
Nairobi, March 12.
As Robert Taylor and other stars of the illm "Adminson of
watched helplessly this evening Altica," being shot at Mombasa,
away by breakers and drowned, an "African" extra was washed
The African was one of 20 hired to play the part of stoves thrown overboard from an Arab dhow as a British gunboat on anti-slave patrol in the year 1895 opened are.-U.P.I.
Britannia left Hongkong on "Sunday" card=1200 IRK
Solomons next Wednesday.
Redter.
Punished For Cyprus Fracas
Nicosia, March 12.
All but one of 21 Royal Ulster Riflemen arrested and charged with causing a disturbance Ist Sunday in the Turkish Cypriot sector of Famagusta, have been dealt with by their commanding efficer, a milliory spokesman anounced hero todayChinu Mall Special.
SALLY IS CHASING HER
Bear Hunt To Keep Guardsmen Well-Dressed
Timmins, Ontario, March 12.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
M
HK & SHANGHAI BANK MEETING Asia To
Shareholders Europe On
Hear Of Mercantile Bank Takeover
The Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Mr Michael W. Turner today told shareholders the whole story of the two-year negotiations to acquire the share capital of the Marcantile Bank.
5,000-Mile Highway
Brisbane, March 12. A plan for a 5,000-mile highway across Asia linking Saigon with Teheran was approved by the committee of the Economic Com- mission for Asia and the Far East meeting at Broadbeach, near here today,
The proposal will go be-
In the course of his printed pany domlelled oulde the report the annual meeting | United Kingdom. This time the fore the full commission on this afternoon he said this was negotiations were successful and March 14 and is expected to "the most important event since
the basis of our offer was sub-be approved. our last meeting, from our own domestic point of view."
He revealed that on March 0 the Bank held 07.5 per cent of the total issued capital of the Mercantile Bank.
mitted to the boced of Mercan- tile Bank Ltd. on December 23, and announced in the press both here and In London the next day.
staff of
Ecato is an
advisory body and can only recommend a pre- posal to member countries through the United Nations.
Detailed Survey
The Highways
Committee
put up the plan after making a detalled survey of inland of under. transport noeds developed Asian countries,
The ohlef of Pakistan's transport diviston, Mr M. §. Ahmad, zald that in the plan each member country woul bear the cost of the section of the road through th
I have felt it right to make Early in 1957 an indication pubile the history of these nego- reached us from the holder of titions, not only for the in- a large block of shares that he formation of our own share- was looking for a purchaser and holders, but to make it clear to
and he wondered whether we woult the constituents be interested. This approacis Mercantile Bank Ltd. that we came at a time when it was behave taken over this bank as a coming more and more clear Ecing concern and that--we in- that, in British exchange bank-tend to keep it as a going con- ing as in many other activities, cert, I am sure that the step we the tendency must be for con have now taken will prove to solidation, по!
be in the best interests of o because only larger units tend to become own shareholders. In addition, 1 stronger and can operate more am convinced that it Will
govemuments would effectively, but also because they tish banking as a whole in the top they would use in their
strengthen the position of Brt-decide what type of construc
both banks have been casociated eastern territories with which own soctions.
for so long.
are less vulnerable to take-over bids from parties who wish to make a profit by obtaining con- trol of large liquid assets.
The Reason
In this case we did not wishi
of
Full text of report on page 9 and 10, Annual meeting on page 11
country. Member
*
Branch highways would link} Singapore and Inkilan clues with the highway and existing roads between Teheran and Turlary would give eventual road link to Europe, he said. Router
DULLES MAY ATTEND TALKS
Washington, March 12.
All sportsmen with hunting licences have been
"called up" for a bear hunt on Saturday to Mercantile Bank Ltd. to fall provide bearskins for Guardsmen on duty at into other hands, and certainly
not into hands where the polley ROYAL EAGLE'S Buckingham Palace, in London, following re-might be to liquidate for the cent complaints that their traditional head-thrombin DEATH BATTLE gear was beginning to look moth-eaten.
Mercantile Bank Ltd. and our- selves would be a constructive This was announced today | step leading to a powerful and
Nuremberg, March 12. this well-balanced structure in both
A royal cagle with • wing Mr John Foster Dulles, now by the town clerk of
the Indian sub-continent Lown, where the Mayor, Mr the Far East.
and pan of more
than ten feet undergoing treatment for Cancer found checked to death in its at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Leo Del Villano, began to
We therefore
take agreed to buy cage here today is believed to may be able to part in plan the hunt after reading the shares, which had been have been killed by human some menner" in the talks about the guardsmen's offered to us, and then being after
we
Aeree battle, either in Washington "or else-
where," between their approached the
President struggles
Mercantile Bank Ltd. with an They thought the killer might Eisenhower and Prime Minister ancient but balding offer to open negotiations with have been taking revenge on Harold MacmiUente US. headgear.
the object of arranging for the the cagie's owner.
State Department spokesman, M Bloodstains on acquisition by us of the
the walls of Lincoln White, told a press con- the cage mainder of the shares. At that
Indicated the three- ference.
which had In London today, it was re- lime it was clear that the offer Year-old bird, vorted that the otter by thecould have to Ur for cash, beputation for grovence, Canadian Mayer to supply the cause two out of the three types fought for its life, the
police said-Router whole Brigade of Guards with of shares of Mercantile Bank new bearskins-free of charge Ltd. and all the shares of our the own -had been accepted by
bank had an uncalled lability. Wor Office.
“You know, Prendergast, if I hadn't got a nasty hang- over I should say that that fellow who wrote to The Timerwasontosomething."
Landon Express Korvier
with
Free Offer
directors
SU
r-
police said.
a
MY
There was no indication today. whether Mr Dulles would be permitted by his doctors to travel to Camp David.-Reuter,
CUBAN WAR
by
ERROL
A retuler's letter in the This raised a difficulty, how-| E| Times of London raised the aver. as the directors of Mer- Issue which was taken up in cantile Bank Ltd. did not se0 Whilchall and the world press. their way to recommend a cush (A top-ranking Guards Offi-uffer to their shareholders er, Lieutenant-Colonel Michael without a disclosure of their O'tock, admitted that some of bank's hidden reserves position the bearskins-were not up to which, from the point of view standard and that
me were of both sides, was undesirable. Negotiations were therefore broken off
In July 1957, and Uus when reports reached the press in February 1958 that we were intending to make a take over bid we were in a position to deny it.
50 years old.
(They are not replaced often enough. Wom way are cut up and used to make new ones," he said.)-Neuter.
'Oh, Edith, You Really Are An Ass'
DAME IRENE WARD
She was ticked of
Loadon, March 12. TAXASPERATED
a
Ex woman colleague in the
House of Commons to-
night Dame Irene Ward
our) at once asked the
Speaker if it was in order
for Dame Irene to describe
Dr. Summerskill as “an ‘. 11.99,"
·
caused roars of laughter But the Speaker, who is
by dropping parliament-
ory jargon and calling: “Oh, Edith, you really are an aas."
The "ass", was Dr Edith Summerskill, former Minister in the Labour Government,
who had ticked Dame frene (a
often conveniently "deaf,” sald he did not hear theo word.
Later, Dame Irene laughed loudly when Dr Summer-
· skill got her own back by saying she was surprised she could be "go feline." (“Cutty” would have been
Conservative) off for out of order - If the
making what she con ¿sidered a long-winded, in-
terjection.
Mr Maurice Edelman (Lab.
Speaker had heard Tt).
The House, was discussing the National Health Ber- vice. Reuter.
DR EDITH SUMMERSKILL She wok the forst
Events, however, do not stand still in the business work, and by the autumn of last year it became clear for various reasons that'u further development one way or the other way inevitable, In the meantime the capital of both banks had been reorganis- ed, with the ability of the shareholders being extinguish- od, and thus it was a relatively simple matter to arrange basis of exchange of shares.
The Benefit
D
In November we reopened negotiations with the board of Mercantile Bank Lid., making it clear that, while the baris of ex- change would be a share offer, the ratio of which would, be de cided betweNEEL mur repectivo boards with the advice of their auditors, there would be tho benefit of an alternative, cash oder for thoen shareholders of Mercantile Bank Ltd who did not wish to ecoopt-out share, Or were prevented by their articles from bolding shares 'in's com
FLYNN
TITH a notebook and a brlèfcase full of vodka,
W
the most remarkable war correspondent of all flow towards the rebel stronghold of Fidel Castro in Cuba. All the way he was besieged by autograph hunters.
As each book was offered, he wrote in a large vigorous hand: ERROL FLYNN.
Then, within hours, he was among the bearded men who have taken over Cubs today.
Flynn's despatches from Cuba have been acquired exclusively by the CHINA MAIL. (They are a rip-roaring account of the Cuban rebels - and of Fidel Castro, the ex- lawyer who led them.
MY CUBAN WAB starta in tomorrow's issue of the CHINA MAIL
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