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CHINA MAIL
CILMAN & CO.LTD.
No. 37341
Comment Of The Day
CHANCE FOR LANCASHIRE
VER the past ten days,
Our
that the British Government intended to take steps to
aid the Lancashire cotton. industry and pull it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk.
The plan, which
was officially antiounced on Thursday, was No closely akin to the rumours that it must be concluded in the "leakago" of information
{
was aimed at snooding our i public opinion and reaction from the industry itself. This reaction bus been both strong am! caries, but the general consensus of opinion is that it is a favourable
A statement
hive.
made
Established. 1845
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1959.
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CPAN"AMERICAN
CHINA LIGHT SHARES DIP Rebels' Ultimatum
Reaction To News Of No
Increased Dividend
China Light shares reacted sharply to the weekend announcement by the company that the dividend would not be increased, and fell more than a dollar from Friday's -high, in morning dealings on the Hong-
kong Stock Exchange today.
However, trading slackened off sharply. On Fri-
day 114,000 shares changed hands. This: morning transactions totalled 16,300 shares and total market turnover fell from more than $2 million on Friday to $835,000 this morning.
SHOCK
REPORT
by the former Labour Presi- ON U.S.
dent of the Board of Trade: Mr Harek Wilson, that it "is a condemnation of the Government's failure over
to solve the
KUVER
problems of the cotton dustry shows that there is
YOUTH
Washington, April 26,
no serious talar obfection The Senate Juvenile Delin-
to the proposal. Mr Wilson also chooses to ignors kl. awn guverntent's restavai- bilities in the matter. How. ever, the root of the problem, lies squarely in and with Lancashire itself.
At Its Height
1
Sub-committee quency estimated today that one- fifth of America's male
On Friday, China Light sales Fanged from $19.20 to $10.00.
Torlay they opened at $19.10 and closed ai $13.80. This morning's bigh was $19.22 and the low was $18.70.
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Ching Light announced Tharsiny thất it was nominally | revalulug its $5 shares hel making them: $10 shares by n une for one bonus issue which
I would immediately be consoli-
dated with existing shares, It! shareholders agreed.
The action was taken follow- ing Government's decision to set up a commission of Inquiry into the two electric light and power conipantes,
Ju
More Realistic
The weekend statement the company's secretary, Mr youths between the agos A. A. M. Onslow said the board of 10 and 17 already have considered that a more realisti
a court record for mis-presentation of the volue of the bohaviour.
company was desirable.
In a report u the Senate, the Sub-cennikier said 12 per cent of the total youth population - THE cotton industry was both girls and boys Tits weight before World xared before a has ap
court and thu War when it exported over number of ys with delin 7,500 million yards of piece, gooney records exceeds 1,700,- goods. Since then the 000.
been a decline and last year
It hit a low of 384 million yards.
TH-T
have.
It estimated that the num
•
future,"
"In consequence (the board) recommend Q rverganisation whereby the issued csplisi will bear closer relationship with the value of the fixed assets.
If the resolutions to be pul before the meeting on May 0 are passed, issued capital will $110,100,000 compared with
assets ul
fixed
about
capitalisation
value of The company's assets or increase its earning power d it should nat be construy! BS any Indication nr intention to augment the total amount to be distributed by way of dividend."
A Smile From Margaret
Princess Margaret
Attends
Embassy Dinner
Paris, April 26.
a cold and sore throat carlier today, got up to attend a dinner at the British Embassy tonight.
ber wil exceed two rallion $118,000,000.
the not too distant: "The proposed
dres not change the actual Princess Margaret, who was in bed with course, been a number of apsurges sin 1943, but Uniors the rising trend 's nothing to ropipare with its memed, The Be-committee former glory.
safe, ww Pall expert a life Iamshire has been living tou ever one million children to ap
courts in 1965 long in the past and with pear before the
and pursibly 1,400,000 in 1970," few exceptions there has
IL emphasised that these been little or no affempt tof
truly represent gures do not look ahead and combat the; the serious nature of the prob- increasing output of other em Ink that many de- nations and process within inquents are never detected or the Commonwealth. Possibly, uzcught into court.—UJ.P.1.
Lancashire placed far
U much reliance on the
Lie
$500 Reward
A $500 reward has been an-
black
campaign launched during! the thirties which exhorteri
world to "Buy British It's Best. The slogan was god one and it served a cunced for the return alive of useful
greyhound but the purpose, course it was not enough caped from the Jockey Club
stables Saturday morning, the
pressure from
ameed. this AMD APPED MY 11 M. Howell 'caused serious concern. Secretary of the Hongkong So-
and
which
The Princess rested at the Embassy this afternoon wille the Queen Mother-her mother
friends met family
outside drive in the
Boy Swept Over Paris during
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls, April 26.
Bradbury,
Thomas
WAN
swept over Niagara Falls 10- day minutes after he slipped into the swift river about a quarter of a mile above the cataract
Thomas was playing with his six-year-old brother Albert and
two other friends.
Demands that the Government clely for the Prevention of. The boy's body was not re-
imposed restricting in Crocity to Animals,
the import of "LONION- wealth cotton materials andi
will
goods in recent years have been rejected, and rightly: 10. Any deviation from the Olliwa asteements and the! Imperial preference system only result in economic atrife which will affect all facets of. Brilish industry as the Commonwealth nations would not be prepared to let Britain have trade ni hert own way.
Fact Ignored
ANCASHIRE also choosES
Government
although the lins already gone a long way in asking member nations lo
voluntary quotas, have the greatest
impose
pathy for Lancashire, but it In time that the industry took steps to put its owni house in order and this is: what the Government is Gove
18 try ing to impress on both the industry and the unions.. The chance has been offered with the assistance of public funds. The mills ,cleared of out-of-date ma
chinery; the industry can be modernised and streamlined to such an extent that Lan- cashire can come back into own as a producer of Arst grade material and compete once again in world markets.
can
be
covered.-U.P.I.
EXPLORER TRAPPED
420ft UNDERGROUND
London, April 20.
A young man WILS trap-
inside ped 420 feet mine near Castleton today while exploring for eaves. Thirty experienced "polholers" were reported fighting to reach him. The mine 13 about half a mile from Pesk· Cavern where young A
Oxford student, Neil Moss, WAE trapped
Buffocated and last month. The newly trapped man
WES Idented
Jelin
дя
Keens, a member of a cave Mem- explorers berhal
been prowling
tie mine in search of saves for which this mid- fands area in faxed. Keens
Tying along the edge of a deep chasm along which only three
could
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time. Police and firemen
standing by. A police #pokesman said it might take "several hours" to get
Keens out.-U.PL ·
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country.
Princess Margaret looked pate and very Ured when she attended morning service al EL George's English Church early today and she dropped plas lo Jola her mother on the trip into the country.
She was unable to attend a the luncheon as the guest of Marquis Hubert de Ganay at Courrances because of---Anto
throat,
Looked Splendid
But the went to the dinner tocking splendid in an off-the shoulder dress of wildte taffeta and corsage of red roses.
Princess Margarot com- plained to Romo's pross photographer thot tho couldn't seo the sights be- cause they were always in the way, when she went, sight-seeing on her first day in the Italian capital last week.
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Hora Princess Margaret turns to smile as a group of photographers moved on by ono of her escorts. The Princess and the, Queen Mother, who loft Italy for Paris Saturday roturn to London today. London Express Photo.
on
THE TOWN COUNCIL
SAYS: SORRY,
A SLIGHT MISTAKE!
Aldershot, April 26 Demolition workmen hired by the city trooped into a house, piled up a huge bonfire of furni- ture and started ripping off the roof before they discovered they had the wrong house, it was 'revealed yesterday.
n
Among the 28 guests were the French Priime Minister, M.
"A most regrettable incident, Michel Debre, und Madame De-
mistuke in a millor," a bre: the French Foreign spokesman for the Aldershot Minister, M. Maurice Couve de Town Couneli admitted. Murville and his wife; the "When I reached the house 1 former Presideni. M. Rene Coty: Just couldn't believe my eyes," the United States Ambassadorsald Mrs Gladys
Hatwell,
to France, Mr Amory Houghton; whose auntved in the and the French Ambassador to house. Her aunt was away London, M. Jean Chauvel. [staying with relatives.
Princess Margaret is due, to "There was an enormous fly back to London tomorrow bonfire in the garden. Work- morning. The Queen Mother is Visiting the international Flower Show in Paris before lunching 08 the
President guest of Charles de Gaulle at the Elysee Painee.
She will see an exhibition of 18th century furniture at The Louvre in the afternoon before leaving by air for London.
The Princess and her mother are weekending here after their visit last week to Rome.-- Reuter.
23 TRAPPED BY TUNNEL COLLAPSE
Tokyo, April 27. Twenty three workers were trapped in a tunsel at the site of the Mibro Dam .125 milea north-west at Tokyo last night when the upper reaches of tho turnel aud- denly caved in.
The men were digging about a mile inside the tunnel con- necting two points of the dum
when about 50 yards of the wall collapsed trapping the
mun..
A
More than 100 rescuer workers were immediately mobilised. and, they succeeded in driving small pipe through the collapsed walls to the place where the men were trapped. The trapped men told rescuers
through the
pipe that
To Tibetan Ministers In India
New Delhi, April 26.
The anti-Communist Khamba tribesmen still battling the Chinese Army in Tibet have given exiled
government
an
ministers with the Dalai Lama
ultimatum:
Either they formulate a course of action in two
weeks or lose their authority.
According to reports reach.
In New Delhi, thie Khambas liavo stmeiert arms and ammunition to continue moun- tain fighting for years.
They would probably wako Algeria-style guerilla war in their own if the three ministers
ihe Datal Lama at Mussoorie, India, foil to assert their leadership.
3t way reported that the Khambas would give ministers Surchang, Shasur and Llushai only two weeks to decide on an active policy against Chinese rule in Tibet..
Transfer
Observers snjd that if the ministers cannot or will not act, all power would be transferred to provisional government in Tibet formed shortly After the Dalai Lama fled the capital, Lusa, for India on March 17.
It appeared here that this is what might happen. It was believed that the Indian Govern- ment would not allow the exiles to direct the Tibetan revolt from India.
Meanwhile, large numbers of Tibetan refugees are cross- Ing over into India as Chinese foreca Intensify their efforts to wipe aut rebel strongholds In south-east Tibet, sooor ding
to reports reaching New Delhi tonight.
Refugee Camp
Most of the refugees are cross- ing by the same route as that taken by the Dalal Lama-over the 14,000-foot pass between Tsona Dzong in Tibet and To- weng In India's North-East frontier division.
A refugee camp is being hur- riedly constructed for them at Missamari, about 26 miles from Tezpur, Assam, and close to the Himalayan foothills where tra- vellers come down to the plains.
were
JUST FANCY THAT
Slough, April, 20. Esther Nicholls and John Sharland went to the same school after their fathers took jobs in Malaya. They did not meet.
A teenagers, both lived In the same city in Austro- la. They did not meet.
When thetr Jamilies moved
both
back to Britain, tourd to Oxford. They did not meet.
Last year the two fami- iles, still strangers, moved to villages near Slough,
John, 24, met Esther, 23, at last.
They will be married to- morrow..-U.P.I,
Death Of Lady Beveridge
Hexham, April 26.
state
Lady Boveridge, wife of Lord Boveridge, the "father of Britain's welfare schemos, died in hospital yesterday aged 82, it was announced tonight.
She was secretary of the Lon- don School of Economics for I years and one of the first women graduates of St Andrew's Uni versity, Scotland,
Some of the refugees arð reported to bo Khamba Lady Beveridge received tribesmen who
die Order of the British Emphas armed on entering Indian after the 1914-18 war for her territory,
work in the preparation and ad- Arrangements have been ministration of a scheme for made to treat the slek and In- food distribution. jured among the refugees and Lord Beveridge, who is 50, is apart from the government Vice-President of the Liberal... kamp.com non-official organ Party CA
et stoga in the area. UP1 print for Billain's welfare state sations are also planning re-
His Beveridge Report"-blue and Reuter.
-appeared in 1952,--Reuter,
CENTRAL COURT ACTION
ECHO OF SPANISH DIAMONDS
SMUGGLING CASE IN HK
men were stoking it with my At Central Magistracy this morning, the wife of a diamond. broker and
Aunt's furniture-armebatre,
A
table, a radio, cupboard, the wringer......
Compensation
0001
her stepson admitted staying in the Colony without permission and giving false information to the Police.
and The broker, Yuen Chung-1 of Portuguese passports
with the registered "Other men were on the roof kwong, was arrested by Spanish were
Office. Hongkong, tearing up slates, some wero Police at Madrid airport on Immigration digging a big hole
for the February 22
trying toos aliens. cmuggle currency and a large Mrs Yuen, on her arrival 1 hedn't gone to the quantity of precious stones into from Manila on September 24, house when I did it might Spain. He was fined 32 inlllton last year, was given permission have been pulled
of the dia-to stay in the Colony, until down corn- pesetas, the value pletely," Mrs Hatwell said. monds and currency, on March December 24,
garden.
"T
City officials promised Urat 1.
the house's owner, 30-year-old Defendants were Li Sal-fan,
Left For Macao
On December 25, Mr Rea
Crown Consol sold both defendants had made no appil- cation for an extension of their stay in the Colony.
In
respect of the second
charge, Mir Hea ald; the first and second, defendants were the wife and son of a diamond
broker.
In the course of his business,
Mrs Ethel Gardner, would be woman, 34, and Yuen Pak- "fully compensated."--U.I.I. wing, alias Naslo Yuen, 20, said, the lett for Macao but re- during the months of January both residing at 1 Kotowall turned the following day. She and February this year, the was in possession of a re-entry in Hongkong diamonds to the broker obtained from merchants
Magistrate
On Leave
Road
Mr I. T. Morris at the Magla- | permit, iracy this morning fined each of On February them $1,000 on the first chargo | arrested, and $250 on the second,
:
25 she TELA
value of approximately HK$2
million.
Mr Rea cold the stepson
He booked a single ticket by
A charge of conspiracy against arrived from Tokyo on Septem- air for Rome on February 10.
electric lights were silil on And none of the men were injured. 'They mid thero was no danger of flooding.. This i tho becond time workers in the same tunnel
both defendants was with Der 28 last year. On his The evening before, Mr Rea were trapped by its walls
Mr Derok Cons, Magistrate, drawn when the Prosecution arrival tho Immigration Office said, the broker went to tho breaking down. On June 17 accompanied by Mrs Cóns, sall- nccepted their plea of not restricted his stay to October cinema with the first defendant. last 31 men were similarly ed in the Italian Finer Asia to- guilty and offered no evidence 28. He loft for Macao on Octo- The next day he left the Colony trapped and
miraculously day on leave. Mir and Map Cons: against them.
ber 28 and returned the next by air as arranged, resumi aflar 43 hours-are due to return to the Colony Me Nea for the Crown said day, fle was niso in posses-
¡next January.
| both defendants were holders' síon of a re-entry permit.
(Contd. on Back Fafe, Co), 4)
the UPI