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CHINA MAIL
No. 87306
Established 1845
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1959,
Prico 20 Cents
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THE LEADER TO 79 COUNTRIES
HK TRAFFIC POLICE TO START PILOT SCHEME SHORTLY French Of The PARKING METERS HERE Reds
Day
INVESTMENT
IN ASIA
THE Hongkong and Shang- Thai Bank's annunt report
more than of local interest. It deala with events of the past year throughout the East and la a pointer to possible events to come and their effect on the economies of Various countries within Bank's the orbit of the. realm. The year, as the Chairman polats out, has not been ton favourable for some
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these countries, but he ex- prosses the opinion that the Tature holds better pro-"¡ specta
there and that should be many opportuni ties for investment of pri- vate capital as opposed to domestle loans and assistance from the various
International agencies whether linked to the United Nations or other- wise.
Great strides have been made since the end of the war to- words assisting the under- developed countries of the
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to
Far East by the application of vast sums of money, But there
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limit A which the Western nations can contribute this type of capital
there and
Arc
already indications that I nów becoming short,
Down The Drain
Puficient
ARTLY this is due to lack
of
political
Base-Poles
Already Erected
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Hongkong motorists will soon have to pay for parking their vehicles in Central District.
Base-poles for parking meters have already been
erected in some parts of Central, and a Traffic Branch officer said this morning the meters will be in operation "shortly."
UK Thors
Ready To
Be Fired
Washington, March 15. The first Thor missiles based in Britain are considered "opera- tional and ready to General be fired," Thomas E. White, U.S. Air Force. Chief of Staff, said in testi. mony made public to- day.
In evidence before a private
stability which is dis- session of the Senate Prepared- couraging Western invest-ness sub-Committee on Thurs- Tent. The situation in day he said Europe could not be with conventional Indoneels, for example, is defeated far from satisfactory, Not forces. only is there internal strife,
There was no amplification of but, seizure of foreign this point in the heavily censor- assets by the Government ed version of his testimony re- does not help to allay the leased today. General Maxwell suspicion that it could also Taylor, the Army Chief-of-Staff, had told the Committee earlier happen in the future. The
in upheavals Ceylon that the West could wage con- a warning ventional warfare in Europe it have also had
while
Singapore, only "satelli" divisions and the verge of Belf. government, gives every Indication that it will be far too unstable for invest- ment. The Singapore Minie-
effect,
on
not Soviet forces were commit- ted.
Operational
Referring to British Ther ter of Commerce and missile buses, General White Industry on Saturday night said "The Beliish have their admitted that the Island's fist aquadron the early economy was "slowly going stages of on operational capa- bility I mean by that they _down-the-denin Zanim
have the first of their miselles on launch pads which they con- sider to be operational and ready to be fired."
New Markets
VEN If
stability is
E achieved there still re-
bo-
He said the Air Force iloved the "declilva stage" of a nuclear war would be over in two or three days.
Не wis, sure the United
He added that Government would be making known details concerning the meters in a "doy or two."
The base-poles have so far appeared on Connaught Road, Chater Road, and Douglas Street, off the waterfront.
200 Meters
Last year a Traffic Branch spokesman said this was a pllot scheme, and that 200 meters would eventually be installed in Central.
Unconfirmed reports say that
Government has ordered a total of nearly 2,000 meters.
Once installed, motorists will have to pay for parking between sm and pr. on Monday to Friday, and from 8 am to 2 p.m. on Saturday
Nato
THIS IS IT!
:
TV STARS Nineteen
SOCCER
Negroes (16 children
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These are two of the base-poles for Hongkong'a first parking meters erected in Connaught Road. Others have been oreeted in Chater Road and Douglas Street off the waterfront-China Mull Photo.
Allies
Allies Want More For Europe: Taylor
Men For
Washington, March 15.
Allied military commanders in Europe have asked for more men and up- to-date tanks to meet the Berlin crisis, according to a newly-released secret testimony by General Maxwell Taylor, the U.S. Army Chief- of-Staff, to a congress committee,
MAIL-HAULING ROCKETS THIS YEAR
Washington, March 15.
the
He told the Senate Prepared- nes sub-committee lest Wed- nesday
General that both Lauria No:stad,
Allle1 Supreme Commander in Europe, and General Henry Hodos, Com mander of the United States Atiny in Europe, were anxious to gel more troops.
Evacuate
Government
Mennwille, Avsistant - Senate- The Post Offico Deportment Democratic lender, Mike Mans-
expects to fire its first deld, urged the experimental-mail-hauling today to evacuate U.S. rnitary
dependents from Berlin rockets this year, the American forces there will be publication Washington ready for any showdown with Science Trends said today. Russla.
Arthur E. • Summerfeld, has
It said the Postmaster General, The Montana Senator said naked the Defence Department the continued presence of mill- to let him use obsolete Regulus tary wives and children in the Communist-ringed elty created or Snark Missiles for the tests,
The publication quoted a post "hard situation for American
forces.
Sens. Paul Douglas (Democrul- Illinois) and Wallace F. Bennett Bold today (Republican-Utah)
have giving the United States would
the trouble raising money to pay for a war over Berlin because of the huge national debt,
mains the important fact that in establishing indus- tries there must be an cut- let for the manufactured States bed a preponderance of office spokesman as saying the goods. World markets are strategic forces over the Soviet Arst flights were expected to be
aud that American launched this year. highly competitive as Hong. Union, kong knows only too well bombers could attack Soviet Mr Summerfeld had said pre-
up targets successfully. He believed viously, that he *35 and with China stopping up Russia greatly feared the U.S.serious consideration to her output of goods at low stratezle Air Command-Reu-possibility of transporting mail production costa in compe- tition with the Colony and Japan the effect on the economies of the Southeast Asian countries has been very marked.
So if stability can be gained and Investments guaranteed be necessary for the
will
Investing nations to accept
more
at Asia's output,
As the Bark's Chairman coys
ho does not underestimato
tor.
DULLES
SICK
by rocket.-U.P.I.
VISITS HIS
POODLE
Washington, March 15.
War Finance
ONE TWIN
GIVES HIS
KIDNEY TO OTHER
Boston, March 15,
A life-or-death diagnosis for two 47-year-old twins will hang in the balance for some hours more, doctors disclosed yester day.
MATCH CHAOS
London, March 15. Several people were in- jured tonight when 15,000 people crammed a London arena to see 11 television stars play a charity soccer match with the Trade Musi- cians Guild.
Police reinforcements had to be called when -50 teen- agers clambered on to the
Of Them
Die In
Fires
Cross Hill, S. C.,
March 15.
Nineteen negroes, 16 of
Suffer Bad Losses
Paris, March 16. France's powerful Com. munist Party suffered severo losses today in the second round of balloting - Tor town and village coun
ells.
Early returns Indicated them children, died in that pro-Gaullist and anti- Communist coalitions had two early morning jostled the Communists out house fires in the of council seats all over the United States today. country. Defeat followed.
defeat despite the fact the Communist share of the popular vote appeared to be running over 20 per cent,
Popular Fronts
In one fire at Cross Hill,
roof of a stand in which 11 people were killed, 10 of were 500 people.
them children, when a fire While police and park at-destroyed a five-room house. tendants tried to get them off, about 30 ambulances circled Eight members of another the ground waiting for an family, including. Alx
children were killed when a counted,
emergency,
Panicked
to
They were warned not approach the ground ka LISO the crowd panickod.
A man and four children were taken to hospital for
of the first 637,283 votes unofficial tally
fire awept through their showed the Communists bed north Philadelphia" home.
garnered 212,883.
Beyond Saving
spotted at 1 am but by the At Cross Hill, the fire was
to the time.fire-fighting equipment ar ved en the scene the building was beyond saving.
treatment when they WETO hurt in a rush on pitch as the players arrived. Several others
received treatment on the ground far minor injuries.
"At the end, rock n roll anger, Tommy Steele, was carried . off on a stretcher, but he was not hurt. It was a trick to stop his fant mobbing him.
Ап ambulance
man, who thought Bikele had been hury rushed to his assistance, but fell and was takeri nway' "with bleeding nose-Reuter,
Celebrates Her 138th Birthday
Rosefa
Yot among the 85 counalis ** represented by thei volo, the Comunista lost what scats they had held in about 20 of theim and In about half a dozen casos Communist control: Tam repianed by that of a pro- -Gaullist coalitiofi..
Dan Byrd, 82, and 'eight of 'Even powerful Communist- his ning children were among Socielist "Popclar Tronts" re the victims. The other two vived in about 50 municipalities vickitan, wers. Two small kitis, for the first time in 12 years first cousins of the Byrd proved of little avail childran, who were visiting-
at the house. ··
Byrd's wife was away at the time of the fire, visiting the neath child who was ill a Greenwood, 'South Carolina, Hospital. The, Byrd children that were burned to death range in age from seven months to 10 years.
Complications
The Interior Minister, Jean Bertheln, told reporters:
The complications of the. balloting make it Imposible to Larue concreto figures tonight, "However, it is cicar that the Popular Front alliances have In Philadelphio, the victims not been successful and on the were trapped in the three-storey ather hand coalition lists against brick building after the blaze the Communists have scored | began in Q Drst floor dining marked "successes."-U.PL
room.
Police Captain Joseph Bonner said the fire was discovered by Willie Mae Johnson, 17, who Warsaw, March 13.
was awakened by smoke. She Stankiewicz, whose woke her father, Cornell, 42, Identity card gives her date of and the two tried vainly to ex- birth as March 10, 1821, today | tinguish the blaze. celebrated what she claims is her 138th birthday In castern Polish village, Minst- mkow Stary.
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Woke Wife
The father went back upstairs But the official Polish Nowa and woke his wife and the Agency PAP eald some people others while Willlo Mae ran
mistalco has been made. Wars, occupations and frontier changes have destroyed most Old Birth feeside in the eastern regions.
She is a widow, in good health, drawing a monthly
Zloty taie pension of 800 the price of a pair of shoes, of half the average net monthly wage of an industrial worker,-- Reuter.
Brigham Hospital physician Tremor In Tokyo
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postponed until Monday any announcement on whether kidney transplant operation for Peter and Jimmio Coxey was succesful. Tho from North Carolina and Jim has had usually fatal Bright' discusé
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brothers are
"It Berlin should touch oft trouble," Bennett said, "it would an effort to save his be very dificult to start to twin, Jimmie donated a kidney Onance snother war from this of his own in a ale-hour high level" of a $200. bullon operation on Thursday, It was the 12th such operation in national deficit.
medical history, and at the "Well, that is true," Douglas ime doctors said it should take agreed.
kous to desde whether it suc→
Douglas said rational security eroded. cal difficulties for Ailing, Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, left
the political
it is obvious that proasure
will continue to be applied
on governments to givo
vo pro-
tocilon to their own indus-
trics Western Governments
the hospital för a leisurely drive to his home today and found that his French poodle had cold.
The 71-year-old Dulles, who observed that he had but. "un-
however should not yield to is undergoing cancer treatment fortunately, the dog has b slight these domanda without care at Walter Reed Army Medical cough": ful thought. Their invest Centre, Was accompanied by ment has done much to build Mra Dulles and a State De A nowaman then asked how up Asia, and the West must partment Security Officer on thong Dulica expects to sempio la now he prepared to assist hour and 25-minute ride.
those countclos....... whosn
economulea they have foster
the hospital
"I don't know" ho teplied. SLIGHT COUGH t "You'll have to usk the doctora" ed by epening markets to
Dulles Bald afterward that The Socratary sald, he felt thele produce. Only in this they redo through Rock Creek, "pretty good although bs Ap Yay can Asla derive Parle and then stopped at his peared drawn and had lost con benefit from the "millions
|siderable weight," residenco, "they hays been so generous- Asked if he had seen his He spent about 30 minutes, at
ly given,
French posle, Pech, Dulles his residence-UPI,
justined deficit spending and Arked about the operation, we should not be afraid, for Jimmie said, he was glad to rick instance, of adequate defence his life, adding he would do as because it might cost a billon much for me!
or two billion more."--teuler and U.P.I..
FIRST PHASE OF to
ASWAN DAM
Tokyo, March 10. A rather strong" earthquake
jolted thio Tokyo Bay area for
One-Week's Work Changed
In Six Hours
Nowcastle, March 15,
His wife, Anda. 39, threw A 25-yard long wooden fence her four-year-old daughter, Helan, dos me from these vid dow. 'She was caught by a neighbour.
Then she and her husband jumped. Arzther daughter, Glorlo, 16, also managed to
COCAPE.
When the blaze was Unguished, fremen brought out the eight dead.-U.P.I.
Border Fight
Damascus, March 13. several seconds. this morning.- One Syrian was wounded and The Government's central another is missing after being meteorological observatory, said attacked inside Syrian territory It did not believe the tremor | by thirty nemed Iraqis, 'a
fint army проксяти casualties or damage/-U.P.J. !mäld tonight-Reuter, was strong enough to cause suy Syrian
at Three-Mila-Bridgema. village near here, which workmen finished paint- ing green on Wednesday, was painted white lost night.
Today a small plastic plaque was found screwed to the fenco, It read: "This fence was re- painted in the Interests of aesthetics, by voluntary labour, March 1958.
A spokesman' Kor the local county ecinell' * 'mid: "The fence was painted stroen on the instructions of the Planning Do- partment. Now it will probably havo be repainted."
It took council workmen a week to paint the fence, Tho unknown beauty lovers took six hours in darkness,Reuter.
Soviet Youth Urged To Give Up Vodka
And Horse Racing
London, March 15. only co aim is mind-toj. ADIO Moscow today match some money,
Rurged Soviet youth to
"This dirty. gambling is spoiling, ong - young people). |«commomlog tihem to lira en
"After three or four, losses yatt ses than all running' (ATI * the improper gains of gami- over the pince looking for blink." other lowers le poot their fatter endet with a plea
The
V money with bootyro'they BATO
*RARE OPERATION This noon the Hospital and give up vodka and hores nounced that both men word in theihg. that no staternent could:" be
The broadcast did it by road--not wet enough cash for the fo Natasha Please And out issued today as expected on the ing an imaginary jetter a young nach Blake..! Astrange A among your friends there are faceres, or failure of the sum Boviet citizen wrote to his gir
WHATEVER. ROmne who spend their rights "And despite a special doorce playing cards among tobacco KOTEL
friend.
Med by the Moscow City, Soviet al- fumes, or to whom the Hip The rests were flown to London, March 15. Boston by the 1 Military Air-2be lotion le written to a siri cobalte drites are on sale at podremme haut, boome a second
the whi Moscow Radio anaoublood to Transport Command Whats Natasha Borice the Hippodrome (track),
forced'an quiing at a race trackpad. lollar contlatent e
The ¿welteri zecommended that day that equipment for the Jim condition
apne mailainent how, Nata-tity, fully support Lifefaturnaya Natasha and other yours, Bovies Savisi backed dat phase of decision to attempt, the rare construction of the Aswan Dam, operation, which has only been sha, je of a very particuler kiha Gazeta (a Sovietmagazine) citizens Lab up cho and
crop thot | Apart from a few gonina an- whichs recently demanded the Laksting during their jekurs, will be shipped from Odessa, suçovatul in the
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