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THE WEATHER
Moderato · guity' south-west winds. Cloudy with Isolated showers and fair periods. Noon Temp:
·86 degrees. Noon Humid: 60 p.c.
LATE FINAL
CHINA MAIL
No. 87984
Getabilskod: 1845,
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1959.
Price 20 Cents
"HOW
STUK. (WIDA | THUR:
DAH
SERVICE TOKYO'
OVER TO CENTRAL CHINA
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES
MOVES OVER TO
Of The HK RETURNING TO NORMAL
Day
A CLEAN-UP
NEEDED
HURCH leaders
havo
called for stricter control
of obscene publications and pictures In Hongkong,
Damage Is Estimated Search For Landslide Yaumati
At Tens Of Millions
By CHINA MAIL REPORTERS
The four-day deluge which has drenched Hongkong with al-
most 30 inches of rain and claimed 40 lives may be over.
is a timely call. Never has the undraped female form been more blatantly fea- tured in newspapers, colour The magazines and cinema ad- vertisements and their dis-j play in Hongkong streets is
an affront to the public
which Ins gone unchecked
too long. Victorian in-
Royal Observatory reported today that al- though isolated light showers were likely this. afternoon, the trough of low pressure which caused the deluge has moved over central China.
hibitions about sex have Skies remained overcast but the Colony had short periods
given way today to a shame. less exploitation. The moral dangers should be clear to all, but whether Hongkong should follow the extreme measures taken in Singa -| poro is debatable."
of weak sunshine during the morning. There has been no rain since 9 p.m.
Landslides and house collapses are still occurring and the Fire Brigade and Police are standing by for new emergency calls.
A Thorough Survey
Damage is estimated at tens of millions of dollars but a
reliable estimate is unlikely for months until thorough survey has been carried out."
The danger of wholesale pro
hibitions in that they tend to create rackets. Addi- tionally they are difficult tof police and as deterrents they It are rarely effective. And there is no point having a luw on the statute booka unless the authorities in tend to make it work. But more could be made of the powera possessed under existing ordinances to die- courage a practice that is
a
is now established that at least 60 people have died in.
the recent floods, landslides and house collapses. Another 20 aro missing and are presumed dead, while 66 people have been injured, according to the latest official casualty figures.
Nearly 9,300 people, many of them made. homeless by floods, landslides and house collapses in the past few days, have been registered for emergency feeding by the Social Welfare Department.
giving the Colony a bad It name and Government a reputation for tolerance.
ensy
OR offending newspapers,
Fo
was announced this morning that 8,262 residents in Kowloon and the New Territories and 1,007 residente on. se on Hongkong Island are receiving this assistance
Anes, imprisonments and The four-day period of rain is the second highest on ro
even suspensions for re-
peated breaches
tha
cord. In June, 1889 the Colony had 84.27 inches in aro pro- a four-day period, vided. There fre alan All provisions to permit Police to take action against hawkers who dis play offensive pictures and against einemus whose ad- vertisements are unnecca sarily lurid or suggestive. But again we would counsel caution against swooping
over the Colony workmen are busy today clearing up.
the debris left by the deluge.
measures. The clergy's in- dignation will be shared by many but what needs to be determined is the beat way to approach the prob lem.
Concern is properly expressed
for the Colony's young. The difcuity is that if they
Peak Tram In Service
Hongkong is slowly returning to normal. The Peak Tram, knocked out by a landslide on Saturday,
resumed services this morning.
Partial train services are running. The railway line near
At
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want to read dirty comic Mr books, no amount of publis libraries are going to keep them from it. Nor is it possible * stop from patronising comic atalis, put away those who encourage them to read titin trash, or effectively curtail importa from overseas. There is no simple Rolution
to this problem because as the clergy point out, most hawkers who make a living from peddling questionable literature allow for fines in Grol Ben-
their budgets. tences might deter to some extent, but there is a danger that in making this kind of recreation risky we may also be making it more appealing to its young sup porters.
KOK a start the authorition
Fosfor the other dis
approval by taking action against a few of the most blatant offenders. It possible that an occasional scare may do more to cut down the display, of offen- alvo pictures, the publica- tion of obscene articles and the peddling of dirty comics than a battery of prohibi- tionary law.** The clergy could help by forming a Watch Com- mittee, such as exlat in many other countries, which 'could advise the authorities action whom to tako Against," The Rev. Cheung Wing-ngok's idea to include artists and school teacher's a good onez The co-
the KCR workshops at Hunghom is still blocked by . several boulders. Railway workers are clearing the tracks which will then be realigned and the Railway authorities hope to run a full schedule, service on Thursday morning.
present train services are operating between Yaumati
and Lown.
survey of agricultural lands suggests that damago
may not be so bad as was first feared.
W. J. Blackie, Director of Agriculture, said this morning that damage was considerable, but not us bad as the havoc caused by the 1967 torrential rains.
The Hongkong Telephone
Four Die In Company said this morn-
Mountain Torrent
ing that there are still Some 6,600 telephones still out of order after the recent heavy rains. However, ■ spokesman of the company said that they expect to have nearly 8,000 of these re- paired by about 8 pm.. today. swept a
Four people were killed when mountain torrent, roaring down the hillside,
B
car 500 foot down the slope and flooded a village in Tele- graph -Bay, on the west coast
Phones Out
Victims Continues In Hunghom
They were still digging for bodies this morning at Vals
ley Road squatter area where a landslide destroyed 14 byte in Hungbain yesterday (top). The bottom photo shows A
of Hongkong Island at 2. The spokesman added that use boulder, which came craibing onto Chatham Road from -
p.m. yesterday,
Yip Construction Company,
was sitting in the back scat
of his private car parked at the Junction of Bassoon and Victoria Roads whilo his son He
cleaning mud on the hood of the cat, when the dorrent rushed down upon the
car muddenly.
Wie
The son escaped but the rather
was awept. 599-foot, down the sloop, slope in his one witch POTESS. PENGAħed to pinpes, '- CHA
died by drowning, The lorrent swaps on sad flood
ed out the villago in TulogtaDH | Bay, fling a slone housë, No. 79, with was sad mud, and killing three occipants, The shree were Wong Kit-ying. 45,” Iandlady of the house, Ma Lai-yeo, 3, and his Wing- chen, ..., Uỷ daughter" "and" "Hon rospoolívély of lay ecaman, Uring in the house.
the
rest of the lines should be repaired either by this evening, or early tomorrow morning.
Ban Tak Hill' yesterday near the Hungbout Police Station, Tradio bere has been divotied to Man Tan Wel: Houd China Mail Photos.
said the telephones Boac Steward
were situated mainly in Western District, Wan- chal and Tai Hang. Tho main difliculty, he ex- plained, was that many of the manholes are flooded, and it is im- possible to reach the faulta. The Fire Bri-
Fined For
Smuggling
Caloniis, Jane 15. gade aro assisting the British Overona. Airways' Cor Telephone Company
this
Entombed
In
Midilleboro, Man, June 16, CA"ghostage entombed for a
operation of all church de- BOMBER FOUND wask in the trunk of his carr
norination is of course
required: If the clergy are
and was found alive today awhile a -London. June 16 mall army de police starchod, a The wreckage of a Boviot Air swampy wood for his two cup-
anxious to make an ear Force bombor found in the for start on this problem, this mans are beyond the William Bedgowick, 4B, Phil is how they might take the Arctic Circle showed it had adelphia, & Wari sint to hospital initiatives And they can be taken part in an Prale, "Battle, fin good condition although he sure of a wide measure, of Moscow-Radio, reported, tomaht: fald, he never experientia: get public support..
Reuter
But out of thers: Alive," MUTIA
poration: steward David-Fur longer today plekded,quility to charges of bringing golá from abroad without the pere minam-et the Bank of India, thus violating tumori and _ex«. part contról under the Far elan Exchango Reptilation Aok
MESSAGE FROM
LADY BLACK
The Governor has re- ocived a cable from Lady Black In London extending her, sincerest sympathy to all re- sidents of the Colony affected by the torren "tial rains and the disastrous landslides of the past few daysi
Ship Boarded
HK-Manila
Smuggling Syndicate Exposed
Manila, June 16. ranking Philippine cus- toms official has exposed the operation of ambig: Internationál "Zamuggling syndicate between Manila and Hongkong day
* Députy customs collector at Manila iterationst mirport
Olmedo
Turns Down Offer
Los Angeles, June 15. United States Davis Cup star Alax Olmedo hos `turned down a fifty to ons-hun- dred-thousand-dollar-öffer to tum professional this
· November, -- Jack Kramer, the professional tennis circus" leader, announced hero today,
Kramer said he made this offer to Olmedo just beforu, Lie young Peruvian bom: ace left for Europe..
Olmado is at present sharpen ing up his game in the Londo Lawn Tensis Championships at Queen's Club before he en- ters as top, favourite for the Wimbledon Championship next week.
Collapse:
439 Homeless
By CHINA MAIL REPORTER
One man was injured and 439, were made temporarily homeless when the back por tion of a house in Pitt Street, Yaчmati, Kowloon, collapsed
this morning.
Shortly after 5 a.m. the back wall of. No. 1 Pitt Brent, camo down' with a bang... h
An occupant on the first floor, Leung Sum, 39, was: Injured wter he leapt onto the street below. He was sent to hospital. All other occupants of the house escaped la Uin
At 7 a... the kitchens at the back of the house collapsed; th whole.
orca
Cordoned Off
Folice have.cordoned "vff the and ordered residents of Nos.1, 3, and 5 to evacuate to Favold further accidents.--~They
iola) 400-strong. A „An
Some of the evacuees have gone la, the homes of their re- iatives or friends while majority. of them are Kult in the street.
Nos. 3-and-'have bein shered up with wooden beams. The houses, all four-storey-high; are 'old' wooden structures:
On the ground floor are three shop, a grocery, # furniture store: and a metalworkshop, On the other Spors are domestic residences,
FLOOD WATER
SUBSIDES
Water, Con Smithfield Road, flooded out due to a bust- ad underground nullah and the downrush of mountain water, at the height of the thunderstorm In the past two dayɛ, has subsided, zaido PWD spokesman this morning, 1. Work is in progress to re- -move the dit which has choked up an undetermined stretch of the drainage system; -
"We'll have to open up, the covert to And out just how. long a stretch has been chok- ed up," mid the spokesman.
NEW COVERT
We may have to bulls an entirely new covert to replace the old one, Tid existing one is a pre-war structure Hather old and can't function properly under extraordinary circum Kramer indicated that froRIDO- SLATION." one" had convinced Olmedo be
The covert had burst and
| could get $150,000 if he opened up the road surface two
into
the professional ranks, nlong with
days ago, causing.. extenNIVE
Pancho Gonzales, flooding of'several streets nearby Few Hoad, Ken Rosewall, and including Belcher's and North
Streets. Company.
Kremer, instated he had made
The Police have sandbagged
his maximum offer, adding that the area
and closed jlt tom-
Olmiedo might change his mind porarily to the traffic for safety. and pay him a visit in the not too distant fukare -ATP.
Fire Razes
A Town
LANDSLIPS
A number of minor land- Rutalides occurred this morn-
A smell landslide was report- ed from the Bay View district -hoar?Wan Bha: Istrent "just bo», Lanark, Juno 18. fore: 10 am 7: There were no Artémio Agonelllo said the, large, "A" "quick-spreading väre - đen casualties, Home, big overhang- scale" muggling has bóng medéstroyed almost half of this: tog, cocks, have been espordi possible, through the alleged. | Fanterns „Galeria towa, today, LA andalide, near: - Richmond Crow Causing damage estimated For on outo TWEE VICH the igo par more. Than two million dollara „Twuen Wan area, has sålesked And leaving some 160 pornois franchinare has the boat a cacy landslide in the New Chol Hang WallpThe fire roared out of control area Sf. BE CAUSEWAY BAY {din- A Borje for more than four main despite there was a water main
about the efforts of fan department,
sonnel, od
Af onay Mike dragora - Mid the|| bahtất, ND, 27, Lyttalion.
Gal, every | Repaira, Maza-i bain
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