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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1959.
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LINER LIMPS Britain Has Plan To Solve Its
TO HER
HER END
Tokyo, June 15.
The battered, though still seaworthy, former luxury liner Ile de France, will limp back to Osaka port today where explosion scenes for the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film "The Last Voyage" will take place." During the past two weeks the 41,356-ton liner has been anchored 2,000 feel off shore at Sumoto, western Japan.
In that time the ship partly "exploded, had une futine! blown off and "sunt" while panic atrieken posseBgets leapt into lifebots leaving the ship to her doom.
The captain was "lled" When
60-ton funnet
in one of the boiler rooms anal in the ship's holds.
He said the explosions would take place while the ship was. nnched about a mlie and half out from Oseka harbour,
The spokesman sald some maller explosion would probably be red while the skip was in the harbour.
After the Als company has with blting and king" the liner, It will be
by the scrapped.
Okadunumi remained Salvage had
Company in Osaki
Anished the
crashed in to the wheelhouse
where
refusing to leave his ship.
for the cam= A pok man Daby, speaking by telephone from Osaka last night, said the Alming of the Bluer off Sunota and been completed.
The ship which was sunk to a maximum depth of about 40 lapped feet so that the water along "C"
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He almost convinced himself hè Brus innocent in the proecks.
The Alm company now plans to lo explosion scenes with the e de France is near Osika port.
Scrapping
The pokesman said four or five exploskans would take place
He wrote eight – lines of ex- planation, then crossed them_out and said: "Please, excuse the above. I had exonerated mys self so completely i-was-OVER beginning to believe it-K was tied 22-10-8-UPL
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Singapore Juke Boxes To
Go High-Blow?
Singapore, June 14.
Singapore juke box operators today offered to
play only classical music.
The new leftist People's Action Party government of the Island banned juke boxes and gambling machines on Fekday..
Khrushchev Gives Gromyko New Instructions
Yesterday at a Press con- ference, the Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan-yew, Baid if music was played quietly "and you get records of music by Chopin, Beethoven and so on by all means let us have juke boxes."
A meeting of the Singapore Amusements Service Associa- tion the juke box owners organisation said associa- tion members were willing to play classical musle if the Government would lift its ban.
Moscow, June 14. Mr Nikita Khrushchev,
The association sald 4,000 the Soviet Prime men would be out of jobs it the Minister, and the Com-ban stayed on.
The Association has pick- munist Party presied a leading Singapore barris- dium are drafting ter and former Chief Minis- fresh instructions for ter, Mr David Marshall to the Foreign Minister, represent it.
Meanwhile bur and coffee Mr Andrei Gromyko, shop owners are still supply- customers with at Geneva, diplomatic ing their
sources day.
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New Liner Gets 'Eyes'
The Holland - America Line's new flagship, Rotterdam, is fitted with her radar tower at the Printe Bernhard Dock, Rotterdam.
The ship, of 38,000 gross fous, is the first major trans-Atlantic liner to bo. built without a funnel.
She makes her maiden
to Now voyage
York on September 4 with Princess Beatrix on board-Regter- plako.
Child Burglar
Fifteen Robberies Reveals
His Secret
Parts, June 14.
A veteran thief respon- sible for some 15 rob- beries-although he is only 13 years of age- was caught by police today because he could not resist the childish delight of setting off
firecrackers. here said to music by radio gramophone
There was no indication of what the Instructions would be, ut the sources believed that the Soviet Government con sidered that the Genova For- elyn Ministers Conference was entering Its final stages.
con
Mr Leo -150
sald
the
pickup. people of the island would start to get the benefit of the planning of his party in about two years.
The boy, whose name being withheld, escaped from a reform school and carried out a number of daring burglaries. In Rennes, he entered shops and rifled the cash drawers, taking advantage of his small Не size and great agility,
in Caen and Le Mans,
He told the annual mooting of the Singapore Traction carried out further robberies Company Employees Uniun that there would Lher be more factories on the island, and more chances of employ- ment.
One diplomatie source sald the Presidium und also sidered the outline of the com- munique expected to be issued next Friday at the end of the visit to the Soviet Union of -the East German Government ard Communist Party delegathreation drive. Bhav
There would also be an $0 that the
people would not be fooled.-
The delegation is duc to Reuter.
arrive here on Thursday after
* Visit to Gork. After two
days of talks with the Soviet
leaders. the East Germans will Three Die In
leave for home on Saturday.
There was speculation whether Mr Lloyd would return with instructions train Mr Macmillan to try to keep nogollations going-Reuter.
Bank Strike
Shooting Spree
Richmond, Va, June 14.
A 35-year-old man killed his son, mother and sister early to day and then took his own life in an early morning shooting spree near Rietmond.
mecient Hanover County
sald William Alfred, an-officials
Thorpe shot all three of his victims in the back of the head With a 125 calibre foreign=make revolver.
Rome, June 14. Italy's
bank clerks nounced tonight that they will be a strika tcm-tomorrow for higher pay.
The Bankers' Association sald
The dead were identified nj that all banks will remain open throughout the strike and Thorpe's two-year-old son, senior staff, not expected to Timmy Arnold; his mother, Mrs strike will serve behind the Selly Thorpe, 60, and his sister, counters-Reuter.
Mary Ann Thorpe, 34.--UPI.
Today, in Rennes, he was doing nothing worse than setting off fircorackers when pollos questioned him. But he looked so frightened that the police investigated farther and found that he was carry- ing 25,000 francs in hla pocket,
Ho
confessed his lito
of
crime, relinquished his Are- crackers, and was taken into custody.AFP:
Not So Fast
Atlanta, Ga., June 13. You'll have hard time con- vincing Georgia Gov. Ernest Vondiver that "missile mall" is than conventional' alr faster mali.
Vandiver received a letter Jacksonville, Florida, from yesterday 96 hours after it was sent by Postmaster Gen- eral-Arthur-Summerfield in » Regulus missile drod from submarine to the Mayport, Florida, Naval station.
Jacksonville is only 350 miles from Atlanta less than two hours by air----UPI.
Russians Smitten By
Moscow, June 14.
A willowy English" beauty. sald today Ruslan men scom to be amijion with a group of models who are showing Muscoviten the latest fashions from the Parla House of Dior."
Christine Tidmarali' wild the
French
Models
"We're too busy to get to Russian men ne up outside know any Russian men but
the big House of Labour, where they seem very nfee," the model
the shows are presented each remarked.
day, to put in their bids for
dates with the models,
d
-- "I appose men are basicsBy:
the same `evarýwhere," Miss
Tidmarsh remarked, y
Mim - Tilgarah is among 12 models which the famed Parts
Franco-Bovlet changes.
cultural qu
The models bave been giving two and three shows a day in the House of Labour where boen Russian women' liave packing into a hall to watch the shows
"When
we leave after the performances, people wait for ua on the street and give flowers and souvenir pins," Miss Tidmarsh said.
"They even peor. Inside our fashion house wežit to Mondow taxicabs and smile and look Inkné littérésta "if : "Spartina | very pleased," she said. "UIT,
Race Problem
London, June 14.
The British Government has decided to disperge the coloured populations living in Britain's big cities, the newspaper Sunday Graphic said today.
Purpose of the scheme, the paper said, was to put.
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an end to race strife in Britain, whose coloured DUKE SAID population of 250,000-half from the West Indies, one third from Pakistan and India and the rest from West Africa-has doubled in the past five years. Home Secretary R. A..Butler |
will soon submit to the British cabinet, the paper said,
decentralisation)
ก
'the' conclusion that only
an effort on the national CAMPAIGN
level could solve Britain's colour-immigration prob-
lem.
More than 100,000 or Uri-
plan for Britain's colour- ed communities which would be broken up and tan's coloured tmmigrants have directed to towns in the settled in the London area and another 30,000 around Birming- provinces and in the coun-ham. try.
New dwellings would be pat at the disposal of these new cigrants by the local countles and rural districts.
Strong communities of coloured people have also been established Liverpool, and Tyneside.
Cardiff,
Manchester, Bradford
Landon, Juna 14. The Sunday Pictorial sald to-
day that the Duke of Edinburgh was behind a reported "Be Kind to Motorists" campaign launched by the British police..
The mass circulation Sunday announced in a The government plan would newspaper establish the new coloured front-page story that the Duke's communiles - In Cheltenham, motorist friends said the new. Harrogate and Bath, the paper police attitude was the result of sold AFP and China Moll direct approaches.
"So instead of a quarter of a million coloured people being crammed into a few areas of decaying Houses-they would be altered among the 50,000,000 Special. white people in the country?"
PM Approves
plan
"My Butler whose come before the Commoris soon whit ask the councils to earmark some of their new houses for the coloured folk" the Sunday Grophie said.
Hyde Park Crowd Scattered
Londen, June 14. Flve people ware injured
"It is believed that the Duke suggested that the best way to 10 take encourage motorists more care was to launch courtesy campaign," the Sunday Pictorial said.
The Duke, who often drives himself and the Quean, is presl- dent of Britain's Automobile Association. Yesterday it was announced he had accepted an Invitation to become patron of permanent Commonwealth
conference. China, Moil Special.
The plan was said to have received the approval when a horce galloped into a at Hyde Park's large crowdl of Premier Harold Mac-famous Speakers Corner here motoring millan, who had come lo today.--Reuters
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