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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959.
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PICTORIAL PARADE
RIGHT: Donald Milno (first from loft, front row) with friends who. hotped celebrate his sixth birthday on Satur day.
BELOW: At the cocktail party for the Camto de ta Briore held yesterday' -(1-7) the Comte, Mr Yee K. Kam, Mr E. A. Whiting and Mr Kon Kwong-shun.
ABOVE: At the Thai National Day raception Mrs yesterday {[~t} Teesdale, Mrs Thawan, Mr Thowan Kimang- Sowat and Mr E. B. Teesdale (Acting Colonial Secretary).
LEFT: Soying farewell to Mr H. A. Angut, (standing), Director of Commerce and Industry, are (1-r) Messrs B. 1. Barlowo and W. E. Man-
son.
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EXTREME LEFT: Mr W. C. G. Knowles pro- sents a cup to Mr W. Yan Dergoes at the Yacht Club Regatta prize-giving yesterday.
ABOVE: UAR Vice-President Abdul Hakim Amir (third from left) welcoming Rus-
•slan exports arriving for Cairo conference on building of the Aswan High Dam.
ABOVE: Barnard Breislaw, London film star, recently announced his engagement to Palladium dancer Botty Wright,
LEFT: Soviot Defence Minister Marshal Malinowski watching manoeuvres by the Aus- trian Army. Afterwards he said: "Russia wil ΠΟΥΟΥ violate Austrian neutrality,"
BELOW: Indian Prima Minister Nehru prosent ed with statuette of elephant at the Kath- mandu
civic recoption which climaxed his visit to Nepal.
BID TO STOP PIRACY Jaycee Members Leave JUDGE GIVES MAN
OF ENCYCLOPAEDIA
Taipei, June 24.
have
The American publishers of Encyclopaedia Britannica
taken the first legal move to stop piracy of the encyclo- paedia in Formosa.
Mr James M. Lee, the publishers' attorney, hutt paid registration fee to the National 1st Government of US$3,730 to copyright i In Formosa.
Nationalist Chir dour Trent betongs
10 the International Copyright Union and does not recognise copyrights granted in other countries.
Price Differences
Two local book publishers have reprinted about 3,000
sets of the 24-volume encyclo. pzedia--and -are-selling them "like hotcakes," according to / one source.
The source said the original work is Incorrect in calling Outer Mongolia an independent nation and claiming that oplum smoking is a Chinese hobli
Misleading
The original work also con- tains
misleading information nbout
Communist Chinese party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, he said.
The allele on Mao is de- leted in the Talpel reprints, leaving a half column blank Apuce.
Itsluo Meng-neng, director of one reprint Arm, Book World Company,
sald Chinese law
A set of the local reprints is does not permit copyrighting of
3 YEARS FOR
ROBBERY
Thirty-seven-year-ol Poon Chu, found guilty of robbery will violence was sentenced to three years imprisonment by June A. A. Hugging at the Kowloon District Court today. The accused, who had several previous convictions for theft, was also sentenced
to three menis der breach of bond.
Foon, who followed a woman Wong Kwai-lam, as she was
priced at the legal exchange any book which has been in returning home to 438 Maujou
quivalent at US$60 for cloth
biding and US$75 for leather binding-compared with the, US cost of $200 and $373.
(The encyclopaedia are ported to be selling by mali order in Hongkong (for about 100$300 as against a list price of $1,000).
The Interior, Foreign Affairs and Justice ministries are sche- .duled to start screening the encyclopaedia next week for copyright consideration,
But the baille to stamp cul the piracy La coing to be a hard one.
'Into Chinese
focal circulation for more than
20 years without registration.
He said the Encylopaedia Britannien has been sold in China for more than 50 years. ----UPI.
REPORTERS ON
FIRST FLIGHT
Three Iscal newspapermen
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Mr Y. C. Hui (left) and Mr F. J. Chen at Kat Tak before their departure this morning. China Mall Photo.
Two members of the Hongkong Junior Chamber of Commerce left this morning by PAA for San Francisco to attend courses in -commercial and industrial management.
Mr Frank J. Chen, and Mr Y. C. Hut will attend the three- ! month International programme in small Industry management. This course will be conducted at the Graduate Belicol of Business of Stanford University, California,
FOUND WITH
DRUGS A CHANCE
A 20-year-old man, Yeung Shiu, who had been sentenced to six months at the Central Magis. tracy for possession of three packets of heroin, was given a chance and released when he appealed against the sentence before Mr Justice R. H. Mills-Owens at the Appeals Court this morning.
25
years AGO
YEARING a beautiful
Wivory satin gown Miss
Muisie Martin was married on Saturday at St Andrew's Church to Mr Herbert Wil- ham B. Muskett, only son of the late Mr and Mrs Muskeft of Hongkong. The Rev. J.R. Higgs officiated. The bridegroom who is the brother of Mrs J.R. Sulter, is attached to the office staff of Hongkong Electric Co.
A
題
wedding of interest was celebrated quietly at the Union Church, Ken- nedy Road, on Saturday morning when Miss Eliza beth Alcock, formerly nursing alater at the Kow- loon Hospital, was married to Mr Norman Ellis, who is member of the staff of the China Light and Power Co, Kowloon,
The bride arrived from Home the Blue Funnel liner, Petrocius on Friday.
on
The duties of best man were undertaken by Mr J, C. Gill, Mesdames E. G. Powell and F. C. Clemo were Matrons of Honour.
IN
!
IN 1898, the big talking
point was the forma tion of a Ratepayers Asso- ciation which according to one of its principal pro- tagonists, Mr J. J. Francis. QC was to investigate and tudy the best methods of improving, and popularising the form of Government in Hongkong, amongst other things.
Recalling this in his column "Old Hongkong." "Colonial" reported that Mr Robert Fraser-Smith, Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph. was an enthusiastic supporter.
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Mr Fraser-Smith made 10 open attack on what he termed "Melai imbecility.
What was needed in Hong- kong was either Municipal Council or a preponderance of Unofficials in the Legislative Council, men whom they could trust and men elected by popular suffrage.
The Colony had enough of business of electing the talpan of this or
this second-hand
that Hong to the Legislature, no matter what his ability. had paid expensively for their experience and now they in- tako stepo to mend
The ratepayers of Hongkong
tended to
matters.
The other appellants whose appeals failed were Wong Yuk, The Government is, we un- sentenced to nine months; Tanz durstand, to appoint a Com- Poon, fined $1,000 or six months;mittee for the purpose of in Chan Shu, entericed such a
Yiuvestigating the possibilities of months. Au Hong-kwong,
and poultry. Chung and Tang Choi, each pig-breeding
raising in the New Territories, sentenced to nine months.
Mr Justice Mills-Owens sald he teck into consideration that this was the appellant's first offence, and ordered that the sentence be reduced to period as 10 mean his im mediate release.
Yeung said the packela were not for sale bat for his Uo consumption. denied he was an addict.
Mr Jusilec Mills-Owens also dismissed seven appeals against
It will consist of an eight-week seminar in the management | sentences and one against con- of small industries followed by four weeks' practical training inviction brought by eight drug industrial plants.
wrt Read on April 14, orclock Art Exhibition At Cathedral Hall
addicts.
Ng Tong, who claimed he had been wrongly convicted, asked for an increase of arntence wher: her at the stairway, turned
his appeal against conviction round and struck her. He then An art exhibition given by than 30 students of the school failed. His application was re- rabbed her of a purse contain the students of the International | are exhibiting their ing. $2.30.
works, fused. Art School, was opened at St which includă Chinese painting Ng had been sentenced to The pecused ran down the John's Cathedral Hall at noon and calligraphy, Western-style ang year for drug possession at stairs into the road but was today. The exhibition will re-painting, designs, photographs the Central Magistrocy. intercepted and arrested.
main open until June 27, More, and commercial art.
TAI LAM CHUNG NEEDS ONLY 68 MILLION
felt the Colony this morning The
GALLONS TO BE FULL FOR FIRST TIME
One source said that to meet legal requirements the 24,000 pages would hove to be of the South China Morning Yesterday morning the water Authority said this translated into Chinese- task Post, Mr Kong Yue-cheong, of level was seven and B hall that yesterday's
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Illness Another appellant claimed that ho smoked heroin to cure his stomach Illness.
to eight
This Funny World
"Don't
It is you know detrimental to your health to aroke herola?!! Mr Justice Mills-Owens usked. He Į
apprat reservoir ni Tai Lam
spokesman tected Yiu. Chung's by JAL for Tokyo to join the Chung-the Colony's
Total storage in the big rejer- Royal Observatory
ugainst nine-month sentence. airline's inaugural night be-
biggest voir this morning was 4,433 mil- | tooking at the weather ahead needs only another 08 million lion
Tsul Kam, who was caught in gallons. Tho
maximum mold there was little likelihood tween Tokyo and Seattle vla gallans to be brimful, t
an oplum divan the day he was capacity of Tal Lam Chung is of rain. the Circle Route through Alaska, leamed this morning:
4,507 million gallons.
stepped out of the Prison afler They are Mr K. C. Wang,
of im- The total rainfall since the having served a term A spokesman of the Water
morning boginning of June is 34.79 inches, prisonment for drug possession. total storage which is more than double the said he did not go to the divan that would require decades. Wah Klu Dully News, and Mr inches from the top of the rew was the highest since the reser
normal for the month of June to smoke oplum but to look for claimed P. F. Chan of the Hongkong servile wall, but the amount of veir was opened. The first time The normal, the spokesman said, his employer.
He asked for a reduction of encyclopaedia cen- Tiger Standard.
water drawn off for consump water was drawit off for con is 15.20 inches.
the sentence of six months in tains CTROTS from the The flight will leave Tokyo at amount that went into the dem.nctual
tion was slightly more than the
sumption was in 1957, buk tha' Since January 1, the total the present appeal. Nationalist Government's point 8 pm. on Saturday and after a
scheme was not com- rainfall figure stande at 89.58 Rejecting "the appeal, Mr of view and thus would not stop at Alesia will arrive in The result was that the water (pleted until early last year. diches, which is also nearly Justior Mitts Owens zaid Teul be accepted for Chine copy- Seattle at 7 p.m. on the sumc level dropped a further quarter But there has been no rainfall double the average up to- this had hed 12 previous convictions fer and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited or 1-3. right.
day (US Paelde Coast time), Tot an inch during the night. Isince @ am, yesterday, and a 'time 'of the year=$9.02 ́ inches. | for a similar offence,
Another that the
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