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IT WAS A.
25 METEORITE
years
-AGO.
AFTER ALL
Moscow, March 17.
Soviet Professor Louzki of the Moscow Planetarium said today it was a meteorite, and not a space ship from Mari which landed in Siberia on June 30, 1908.
The Professor thus binsted a ↑ Knzantsev's theory had been
AN editorial in the SCM) Post said: "The Sanitary Department wins
for
the congratulationis action it has taken to check the deplorable overcrowding of Hongkong tenements. At different times, in calculat- the ing the population of Colony, an average is struck by erities, who conclude that ten persona per floor is the probable average for Chinese dwellings of the poorer sort.
inetal These, when analysed. "These crities will have been proved to be meteoric ton such astonished to note that in the as has been found in all the case of one tenement, no fewer known the1orites, Tham 29 adults and 16 child.on were found, and in another 24 adulla and 11 children.
theory But forward recently by that Martions had crashed in Soviet writer, Alexander their space ship, after travelling Kazantsev In hig book "A to earth witho stopover on visitor from Space",
Venus. He maintained their
Lourki said that Kazantsev's ¦ fuel exploded before landing. theory of a space ship which
crashed 121 1tat date WA No Authority
"This gives a total for the Tun ; flours of ghty souls. Ocuating! two children ns the equivalent of one aduit, there were 60 adults. The regulations permit for the two floors of only 13 adults.
"We in Hongkong should be able to avoid instituting ce iu- viting painful remedies, The provision of new housing bes been tried and has failed to re- Heve overcrowding. The x of a base wage is, reasonably, sliked: it is doubtful whether it would make much difference. Chinese familles have so many cominiuments and so many por relations in and from the coun- Ling
The third remedy is decen- tralisation of industrini establish- ment, and this seems to offer the best prespects. It can
be
done by registration of factories and limitation of the number of them in ench urea, The same plan should apply to wharvet which end to every enterprise attracts population. This wil 19– flonalise the provision of new houres,"
☆ ☆ ☆ Gangsters rushed a maury changer's shop in Shanghai Street, Youmali, just as it was closing down for the night.
without any scientific founda. tion.
He is that samples of earth taken from the spot where the explosion occurred in 1008 saowed microscopic particles of
Christopher
Wrote To
Mr Dulles
London, March 17. The kind thought of a freckle-faced, nine-year- old schoolboy has got its reward.
Whille Christopher Westley was
in bed at Gurry-way. Rom- ford, Essex, with a bad cough he read that Mr John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of Staic, was II) too—and with his 21st birthday dur)
So Curlstopher wrole a letter: "I hope you have a ule: birthday and a nice cake..
I am sorry you have been no }."
Back came a letter written by Mrs Dulles from 2748, Thirty Washington, Second Street,
D.C. I said;--- Your nice letter brought a note
of cheer to Mr Dullea's birih- day, and he has asked me to thank you for your thought- fulness,
Armed with revolvers thes oflice staff and I had a little herded the employees into t
birthday party for him at the back room
hospital. We had a beautiful cake aud Mr Dulles liked
much. very
and then exenpoti taking $4,000 with them.
It
C. DALZIEL, a former pupil of We are clad that your bad cough
the Diocesan Boys Schcol,
suffered injury on Sunday when
has now left you. -
Sincerely yours, Janet Duiles.
he had n marly fall while Fancy Mrs Dulles writing
Rd.
Hiking with a party of school. boya near Shatin. He was milled to the Kowloon Hospital, suffering from a deep gash his head and facial injuries. He is reported to be moking good
progress.
in
to
ME Christopher said. Today he takes the letter to show his teacher and his school friends.
But I will be a copy. The treasured original musi not ket dirty and dog-eared,
With a nice long Easter week-end
An examination of the arca where the explosion occurred- In Siberla near the Podkomen- Pola Toungouska River-disclos ed neither eraler nor any re- mains of meteorite but only an eliptical zone several dozens of miles In extent, completely de- vastated and strewn with trunks of uprooted and burned trees.
However, Professor Louski
naid
the writer, who had filled his book with selentifie annotations, was no authority In space matters.
Louzki said he annotations and his whole theory of Mor- tian travellers were simply matter for
fiction.- science France-Presse.
ESSAY ON A RICE GRAIN
By DAVID T. K. WONG
An
Johore Bahru,
March 17. exhibition of microscopic carvings by Hongkong artist Wong Lo Feng has just been opened at the Johore Chinese Association here, just aeroas the causeway from Singa-
pore.
Among the exhibits is a carving of a deer between whose antlers is
cigarette-sized
glass tube containing an ivory grain of rice. On the grain of rice. is engraved a 540-word "How essay entitled:
in mind,
Paquerettes
. are presenting
to Run a Family."
The price of the deer exhibit is $M10,000.
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Taxi Driver's Plea
A car-cleaner told the District Court today he heard a taxi-driver say to
a policeman accused of corruption "Inspector, please give me chance."
This had occurred outside the Princess Garden night club carly one morning last November, the cleaner, Lau Jip, told the court.
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Mr A, Sanguineiti, Crown Counsel. is prosecuting, assisted by Delective Inspector 1. M. Torayin, at the
City police station. Mr C. Wong. Instructed by Bastings and
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Tong said he had asked Wong for a chance. Wong had then asked him if he was prepared G. Hampton defending to buy him six bottles of brandy, The policeman, Wong Yuk-lun Tang had then given Wong hos pleaded not guilty. to a $50 from tils pocket and bor- cited six bottles of brandy and mother which he also gave him. charge of having corruptly soli-roved another $100 from his
coruptly received $150 from the taxi-driver. Tang Chiu- hùng on November e last year. Tong xave evidence that he had taken Wong 16 the night
club from Nathan Road at 1.15
H..
Gave Two Dollars
On arrival Wong had given him $2 for the fare and re- ceived 80 cents change.
Targ said Wong had asked him why he did not operate the taxi meter, and he had re- plied that he had forgotten to put the ag down.
Wong then told Tang he was a police inspector, that he was going to arrest blm, and that he would lose his licence.
Cleaning Cars
Lou told the court he lived on the staircase at 300 Prince
Edward Road, Kowloon.
In the early AUAT of the morning lust November he had been cleaning cars outside. the Trincess Garden night club when he saw a taxi pull up with Wong and Tang inside.
"As I was going to open the (dzór I heard the driver say to the customer Inspector, please give me a chance," Lara maid.
Wong faces alternative charges of demanding, six bot-
les
and of brandy
simple larceny of $150 from Tang, with intent to steal.
The hearing is continuing.
New Child Guidance
Centre Opened-
Lady Black and Professor Priesiley at the University this morning, prior to the opening, —— China Mall Photo.
Lady Black opened the new block of the Arts Faculty and Child Guidance Centre at Hong- kong University this morning,
The Child Guldance Centre, | which is situated on the roof of the main building, was com- pleted last year and has a full- ume staff where parents and children can get skilled psycho- logical advice.
The Arts Facully, which comprises nine Departments has -pecorikigeudanamudiooralodiumdilia furnished and made bigger with the addition of several new rooms on the roof,
Prettszer K. E. Prica:ley, Hrad of the Dept. of Education, sald before the opening:
"Until the University Child Guldance Centre begun to eper- ate there was no way i Hong- kong in which parents or fetch- ors or probation efficers could hope to get akilled psychologiezl advice.
Trouble
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com
"The children in munity who fall into dimeulty or trouble in our homes, schools, and streels, generally through no fault of their own, may either tum out to be a loss or even a donger to the community, or they may be helped towards a purposeful personal lite and to wards taking their proper share in the rights and duiles of any good citizen.
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COMING TO HONGKONG
Above
ها.
pleiuro of Thomas Scherman, conducter
An office bearer of a trind He threatened the hawkera society was sentenced to 18 with nasault if they did not join months hard labour by Mr T. the society. The hawkere gave Creedon at Kowloon Court this defendant $10 as "tea money." morning, when he pleaded guilty The Inspector aald defendant to charges of being a member of had two previous convictions. Wo Shing Wo trind society,
Leung Slu-feng, 98, ¢ *,. of number 10 Main Street, Hokla So Por, 20, dener tiving, in a
a vegetable gar- Village was sentenced to 12 It in months hard labour this morn- The Hon Wong Tai Sin resettlement area guilty to being a member of the
Village,
ning, by Mr T. Creedon at Kow- spute with two hawkers in the loon Court, when he pleaded
over hawking spaces on March 1.14K Triad society.
had
HONGKONG MAN'S LIFE OF ADVENTURE
IN THE BRITISH ARMY
by David T. K. Wong
Singapore, March 16.
Regiment left for England yesterday after nine long years of fighting Communist terrorists in the Malayan jungles, a Chinese
paratrooper went with them.
When the 22nd Special Air Service
He was 38-year-old Corporal Ip Kwong Lau, the son of a Hongkong
businessman and the only Chinese in the regiment.
Up to now the existence of a When he reluned from so after taso years he Chinese paratrooper in the regi- Burma, he again volunteered for end left for England. ment has not been made public, special assignment.
resigned
There he rejoined the 22nd Special Air Service Reghnent— but this ime as u paratrooper.
DISGUISED
He was sent back to Malaya in Celeber of 1953 and since
und small wender since Corporal This time to be sent by sub- Ip's duties included having to marine to Malaya to contact the dieguise himself as a Communist guerilla units operating agethst terrorist occasionally to secure the Japanese. But two months Information about the enemy. after he ad been given this
Corporal Ip, who joined the assignment, the war ended, British Army in longkong in In 1947, he was discharged then he has been taking part in 1040, has led a career as ad- from the army. But still feelag the jungle operctions against the venturous and colourful as any a thirst for adventure, he came terrorists. found in stery books,
On occasions, when the regl- to Malaya in February of 1951 He Is a friendly and quiet to join the 22nd Special Air Ser- ment encountered hostile pro- terorist aborigines, Corporal Ip man by nature and no one look- vice Regiment.
| Ing sự khm would have guessed The job of the regiment was would disguise himself as a ter- that he had persanally tiled to bring the war to the Com- rorist to secure information on more han 200 men-most of munist terrorists. The men their whereabouts. them Japanese.
would drop deep inlo the Corporal Ip la married and Jungles and make contact with as three daughters. His eldest ADVENTURE the enemy. They were 53 sue daughter is at school in Hong- Corporal Ip joined the army cessful of it that the terrorist kong at present. His wife and for adventure, and adventure high command issued an order the younger daughters have nc- came to him soon enough. His that engagements with them companied him to England.
He has another three and a should be tecond year in the ariny
avoided as far as
half years
to serve possible.
with the the outbreak of the Paclite War
However, Ip's Job at this time British Army. And he was captured by the Japanese when they overran
was that of a civil Haison officer. Hongkong and made a prisoner It did not prove exciting enough,
saw
of war at the Shumshulpo ar- racks in Kowloon,
But the prisoner of war comp did not detain him for long. On the night of January 7, 1942, ho saw a group of Chinese prisoners near the barbed wire fence.
"What are you people trying to do? Escape?" he asked them jokingly
To his surprise, they replied: Hyps
Would you like to join LES?"
He grabbed at the chance. The' group of men, numbering 20, then throw a blanket over the barbed wired and escaped.
ARRESTED
Once outside, lp made his way sa a. friendla hema in Kovulana. and borrowed $40 from him. With that money he decided to I make his way in Watchrydd
Free China, to try and rejoin the British Army.
After eight days and nights of trekking through Japanese lines, he reached Walchau, only to be arrested by the Nationalists for being a Japanese spy.
He tried to explain his cir- cumstances to them and finally persuaded them to take him to the British consul in Walchau.
The British consul sent wond to England to investigate his claim, but for reasons known enly to military bureaucrats, it took 17 months to complete the investigations.
Ip was then sent to India, where he volunteered for the Chindit special force, which was to be dropped behind the Japanese Eines in Northern Burma to attack their supply tines.
HARROWING
of the Little Orchestra which The six months that he spent will give two performances in in the Buma jungles were Hongkong nexi week. Mr among the most harrowing days, Scherman holde the New York's of his army career.
Columbia University Medni of "Wo had very fierce baiMass,” Excellence (1952), and he and Corporal Ip recalled. "Twice the orchestra have been given we had no water to drink for only a service to parents and Award for children's concerts we had to go without food for George Foster Peabody four days and on three occasiona children, It also has the duty of
three or four days.
"The Guidance Centre is not the
contributing new knowledge in la 1057 and more recently as award by the National Music the field and of stimulating In-Clubs. terest and, action on behalf of
"We kept alive by cutting jungle plants and sucking the the Colony's children in diffleui-sponsored by the American' Na-
The Far East tour has been julco. We also ale tree leaves,
"Sometimes we killed one of ties"
tional Theatre and Academy; an | the mules ebrrying our ammuni- Brusile body established to aug-tion for food. On other occasions test performing ariisis who can we ate monkeys.”
During this period Ip was ́a best represent abroad America's diversilled muslo enflure.
mechino-gunner" and 11 was
Later Lady Black inspected the various departments of the Arts Faculty, accompanied by Professor Drake.
The Vice Chancellor, Dr L. T. Ride welcomed Lady Black,
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