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THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1959.
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CONFERENCE TODAY
LAND SALES German Re-unification Aim
nouncement
that innd
ndles in the first quarter of the your realised more than $7.5 million draws attention Again to a pulley that has been the subject of grow ing criticism in
recent
months. The chief cause of
Genova, May 14..
The West will today present the East-West Foreign Ministers conference with a three-phase "package plan" combining
a German settlement with big reductions in United States and Soviet armed forces,
The plan was drawn up in the form of a preamble followed by three suc-
cessive phases,
complaint is the difficulty of At the end of these phases a peace treaty would be signed with a re- united Germany and the forces of the United States and Soviet
getting industrial nitesi,
But it does not end there. Land is dear and conditions
of sale restric!ive.
The Colony Is now growing
rapidity. New factories formed with both local and overseas capital are.
suck- ing sultable sites all over Hongkong. Properly, they should be given every help and encouragement if i dustrialisation Is to keep
the pace with Colony's general growth. But the present position is far.
from satisfactory.
Given Away
EN other parts of the world
to
form of giving land away free to sound industrial In our cramped projects. conditions this may not be a feasible
policy advocate, but there are a number of ways in which the general land sales policy can be eased particu- larly to assist the develop ment of local industry.
Land sales for the first quar- ternetting 87.5 million
M are well above the figure anticipated by Government in the budget. Estimates for the whole year are only
$17.5 million against revised estimate for the last fonncial then $26 miller of more
But i
must be admitted, Colonel J. D. Clague said in his budget speech, that the revenue angle is com. paratively unimportant.
What must be avolded and this will require the enuncia- tion of a new sales policy is the high upset prices and, where possible. stifling conditions which forbid the
use of land by certain in-
Union would each be limited to 1,700,000 men.
Rub-a-dub-dub
A
3 Men In A Tub!
Montreal, May 13.
Three roucks two French and a German -- who will sall from St. John, Newfoundland, at the end of this month, In a steel barrel in an attempt to cross the Alinade Ocean, with the aid of winds and the gulf stream, 'today saw their craft loaded aboard the freighter which will take 1 from Montreal to Newfoundland.
The strange vessel was designed by its three sailors, Albert Barth, Richard Meirnach, and expedition chief Roberi Franix.
It is steel barrel christened "Diogenes", painted yellow and white, about 614 feet in diameter, and about 20 feet long. It is equipped with a nai), and carries a ballast of cement, The barrel aise has a rudder and a "schnoekiel" tube to ventilate its interior when the batch must be closed in rough weather.
The irlo, armed with a three-month supply, of food and 130 gallons of drinking water, plan to spend their time fish- ing, observing, the voest, and - writing a 'Journal; of the 'first' Atlantia crossing in a barrel, which they hope to sell for pubilation.---AFP.
JUNKS REPORTED
SEIZED
BY CHINESE TUG
lug entered Castle Peak Bay from Chinese waters on Tuesday afternoon and towed away two junks anchored in the bay, a Government spokesman confirmed this morning.
Local reports said that three chlidren were aboard the Junks Thetr
hock parents
Uscaped ashare when they saw the tug approaching
The junks were reported to be two of the four that bad arrived from TAI Ping, Kwangtung, cariler In May, currying a load of bricks and 20 people.
The four junks, it
was re-
First U.S. Car Make Dead
Phoenix, May 13.
dustries. The him should be ported, sailed into the Castle
Peak Boy on May 5, dropped (The man who built the first China
to dispose of land us
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11 preamble contained statement of principles, such as that East and West should not Uce force in the settlement of international disputes.
Sources described the phases. as follows:
PHASE ONE: East and West Germany would set up a bipartite council, consist- ing of 15 West Germans and ten Enst Germans, crel1 nominatedÍ
their Govern- menta,
by
They would have the task of expanding administrative and technical contacts and would take decisions by, a three-quar- ters majority decision.
After two and a half years a plebiscito would be held throughout Germany to, de- find an 'elzotoral law for later free all-German elections to reunify the country.
In zone`yet to be deter- mined in Europe, ground control and Inspectiori of both sides" rmed forces would be institute.
Pilot Plan
Free elections would be car- rled out in both East und West Berlin, as a pilot plan for later German reunification.
During this first phase, the sources said, the United States and Soviet Union would each limit their armed forces to two and a half million men.
PHASE TWO in this phase Germany would
of 1
be reunited on the basis free elections to be controlled Unied States, Soviet either by the "Big Four"- Union, France and Britain...or by neutral powers, or by the United Nations,
The reunited Germany would have the choice of joining either Nato or the Warsaw Pact or of remaining neutral.
A zone of Inspection would be st up, covering the arca proposed in the Polish Itapacki Plan-East and West Germany, Poland und Czechoslovakia..
Tello els and the anchor and did - opi-rewmg † American--com-diod=huzamelings
a number of unsold
sites which industries are
unuble to afford is no eredit
to 11 government which
publicly
Jumped Into Soa
At about 3 p.m. on Tuesday, accepts the need
for rapid development and increasing output.
New Policy
yesterday, it was learned today.
person.
He was Edgar Landon Ap- 59, who built the there came into the bay a tug vehicle in 1803 with his elder with sampan in tow, the re-
brother Elmer in their work- ports said.
shop at Kokomo, Indiana,
Transferred
Two London students walked into a big newspaper aloe with an undeveloped film last week. "We think we've just photographed a fiying saucer over the Houses of Parliament," they said. On one of the framien was this plo- ture Photographie ;experta: ›failed to find any lechnical evidence of Inking, but the wind direction shown by the flag, and the 'ciona ·formations: failed to, malck with those notutally" the. caso,AL Use - than they claimed to have taken its And. atlas, thres pouts oĽ cfour questioning, they finally admitted it wasła; hoax — Kasigned to pubiloles their col- iere rag week in which they hoped to raise £1,000 for an olá folks' home. The bloture turned out to be a double exposure-London Express Service...
Explosion On
ed
Cord
Pull Ends
In Crash
New York, May 13.
A rush-hour subway train, stopped by a 'womun pas. senger who pulled the emergency cord because a youth struck her, wag
SERVICE
TO /
TOKYO
PAN_AMS PRICIAN,
Kim Novak
rammed by another train KIM NOVAK
today.
Twenty-two people
were
injured, some critically, in the collision.
The accident took place in a
Brooklyn Station where the line is elevated.
The first train, bound for Manhattan, was brought to a jolting halt in the station when Lucille Lo- blanco. 43, pulled the emergency cord.
con-
the
After the train halted, she
complained to the ductor, Irwin Dickstein, that youth about 17 years, old had struck her.
Dickstein called the Police
while the boy and woman waited. But nine minutes later, the second tram rolled into the slation, past an automatic- halting device, and ram- med the parked train.-- UPI.
Sun Was
Biggest Ever Recorded
Alamogordo, New Mexico, May 13.
A veteran air force observer today described Sunday's massive
STAYS IN
PRINCE ALY'S
CASTLE
of
Paris, May 13. Kim Novak enjoyed the luxury
of the Chateau Horizon Prince Aly Khan today. The movie actress became the newest addition to the chasen few-mostly beautiful women -to have the privilego - f using the Prince's chalcau here.
with She moved in yesterday.
her mother and father, Mr and Mrs Joseph Novak. The Prince, now Pakistan's dole- United Nations, gate to the was last reported to be visit Ing his stables in Ireland. They're just good friends," was the word from the white villa where the Prince honey- mooned with another film beauty, Rita Hayworth 19 yours ago.
"She was coming here for the Caprica film festival, the housa was empty except for the staff and Aly Khan kindly Suggested on one of their dates that she stay there in- stead of a hotel That's all," sald a friend.---UPI.
Lennox-Boyd Leaves
London, May 13. The Colonial Secretary Mr Alon Lonnax-Boyd Лен to Nigeria from London today to In the forthcoming l'independenco day celebrations
19012.---UPI.
solar explosion as the biggest solar flare ever recorded by take part
man..
The explosion, which knock- cul radio, television and long distance lines, was "at least 100,000 miles long and 50,000 miles wide."
half an hour after the flam- ing finger slabbed out from the sun's surface.
Mr. Ramsey said at one stage
Mr Harry Ramsey, chler ob- it was nearly 20 times brighter server at the Air Force Sa- than the rest of the sun's sur-
ince. cremento Peak Observatory said) the flore lasted about thirte hours.
Clear Look
..
explosion
brillianco
Sacramento
Prak's flure ob- servation was on a "hydrogen- alpha wave length and come through in the form of X-ray
Northern Lights
and ultraviolet activity which Mc Romsey said it was the knocked out-rudte communica Targest tom nure spotted since tons on the sunny side of the In this area ceilings would "the flare patrol" observatories earth. be imposed on the size of both were established in 1950, sides armed forces.
At the beginning of
Sacramento Peak, at 10,000 this
foot elevation, is a master phase, it was reported, the
atation for tho worldwide armed forces of the United
network.. Its nititude enables
Magnetle effects of the fare Stules and Soviet Union, would each be limited to 2,100,000.men,
observers to get a very clear began disrupting communico- to be reduced later to 1,700,000,
look at the sun and other astral tions cables on the earth's sur Later, with financial support
bodies.
face late on Monday afternoon Tho millionairo
then caused a Northern trom
Elwood
reached. and PHASE THREE; Main When about 50 feet offshore, Haynes,
maximum they
formed the
phase feature of this
about Lighle display that night-UPI. eight people were transferred "Haynes-Apperson" cor com- was stated to be the signature
salted near the four age of 18,000 annually up to unlied Germany.
of a peace trealy with the re- 1924, when Edgar sold the com-
The DELCO treaty wrots.d define Germany's final -frontiers. Though the plan did not mention where thean.
should be, I was understood all the WCHOIT powers were prepared to no- cept the Oder-Neluso no as Germany's border in East
HERE have been cases from the Trendy of unearths which fug to the sampanpany, which produced an aver-
delays in factories getting jurks. land for expansion, and All the people on the junks pany to a financial group.
water and others of overstaa Investon jumped into the
svom ashore as they saw the Kiving
up Industrial pro-sampan. approaching them, Jecta altogether
frontie It was further reported that sites aro either prohibitive in the rush to get away, three ly dear or hedged around children were left on board the with conditions or delays two junks which the men in which make prompt use im- the sampan boarded. possible.
because
They attached ropes from
the fur to the Junks and the tux steamed off. The
Government spokesman
that on one or two occasions said "police investigations are
Colonel Clague has mentioned
1
for auction has failed to
E-
'tract buyers even at the up-
recently crown, land put up still in" progress."
Eliner Apperson died in 1920. The original car, the brothers built is now in the Washington Smithsonian Institute,—AFP,
Three Jets Crash
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
U.S. Air
* May 13.
Former HK Resident's
•
Sentence Confirmed
Manila, May 14.
the 'The Philippine Supreme Court today confirmed a
Observers belleyed there was little chance of the Soviet Western Union accepting the "package plan."
Soviet Attitude
The Soviet press and radio in
- decision which found a Canadian gullty of attempting to smuggle gold bullion out of this country.
•
The decision carried withi Four gold'
bare worth a sentence of one year imprison--| U.S.$17,862,79 were found.
William |ment against
Ernest hidden under his shirt.
set price. It is not enough Two Die Afterday that there Super Sabre fet recent weeks has declared soliste Canadian subject and The lower court found him
to ask for a more flexible
approach to this questiod. A denite revision of
•Folle
is needed which will ensure
Aproval
In
"of onem
tho
жду
Betrothal
fighters crashed during a pre- would reject Westem proposals aident of Hongkong, for viola-gulity of violating a Central' down exercise this morning, tying the problems of peacetion of the low regulating ex-Bank elreular which requires any person desiring to export treaty and Berlin with that of portation of gold. | killing their three pliots. Beirut, May 13.
Gesman Ceunification. There was no immediate ez-
He had boon trade cozamis- gold in any form including a licence Police in armoured cars today pienation der the accident,
The Soviet attitude is that aloner for Canada in Shanghai Jewellery, to secure an
from the Central Bank, rolled into a southern Lebanese Air Force pokerman said.
German reunification is a matter |; and Hongkong unili 1948.
Findings of the Rizal Pro- The court found Jolife had Witnesses mid there appeared for the East and West Germans of manufacturers planning village stirred by a Romeo and
vince Court of First Instance: no such licence and sentencat either to expand or start up Juliet style clan feud that has to have been no mid-air coll-alone to decide
claimed, at least two lives. Ition between the planes which Mr Andral - Gromyko, Soviet ; said Joliite was held by customs him to one year, imprisonment factories in Hongkong was touched off by the engage- crashed into the Ailantic Ocean Foreign Minister, reiterated this agents at the Manila Infarna and to pay a fine of 11,000. Government noods to give ment or a boy and girl from one after another, exploding as at today's conference session —— toriel airport on December 7. Jolifte appealed but
WILE Immediate attention to these the town's two warring familites, they hit the water's surfage, Reuter.
2952 wille about to board over-ruled by the duperme 'complaints: -9.
UPIN
(See also P. 3),
Court today.UPÍN
AFP.
planie for Hongkong.
Julie Was Late
For years and years, þer sjagu Isiker (8tanley Holloway an Mr Doolittle) has been Ináŭlly alhatna”, "Got me to the Church on line.". Bat Siili „Jalle' Andrews managed to’be late for her wolding to costume designer Tony". Walton, But 11- war' partiy his foullio 12. batons down Cas back of her dress, which he designed, "Were
one of the rossums showin late," "Inaldunially, me of the augsta 2, --keps waiting was, naturally enough, Blanley Halloway, - Chur plotura abotrs, Tony and Julie,, childhood – syzetbeurt, just after their marriage on Monday. Londen: Exper