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Comment BIG POLICE DRAGNET FAILS Two More Of The TO CATCH ARMED ROBBER Chinese Held
Day
THE PRISON
INQUIRY
Woman Stabbed In Morning Hold-Up
T is a pity that the inquiry A I ordered by Government
into alleged malpractices ut Cupe Collingen Training Centre does not go a little At farther and take in other sections of the Prison Department's administra tion.
Because there have been reporte of a number of disquieting incidents in the Colony's prisons which neCŮ
thoroughly br
to
vestigated.
In-
Obviously ramours tend to
make
thun them worse they really are, but there la one charge most frequently druk heard concerning
trafficking in the prisons and it would be a pity if to in- the opportunity vestigate it were missed.
Not The Worst
Nor the irregularities that
big Police dragnet failed to catch a rob. ber who had attacked a woman with a knife in Kennedy Road this morning. 10.40 a.m., the robber jumped on a woman who
was returning from Wanchai Market.
Peace. Talks Now
In Printing Strike
Britain's
London, July 1.
massive printing
He intercepted her as she was walking up the path adjacent to Kennedy Road at the junction of Queen's Road East,
Bank Shares Reach Four-Year High
Hongkong and Shanghai
Bank their remarkable rise on the Hongkong Stock Ex- change this morning and prices are now the highest for four years.
shores continued
Not since 1955, when the shares sold for $2,200 have they been as high as they wore this morning.
double their present valua.}
a share split Since then has reduced the price by half.
Safes today wara two lots of
ten at $920. A further ton sold for $925 and then a lot of 47 sold for $935, cquivalent to $1,870 of the old rate,
The 1955 peak was establish- | Bank shares are sold to be ed when the shares were rleing in conformity with
the London rogisters. London registers have tack- od on gains as a result of
the overall improvement of the London stock market.
thoro
And for the last few months
the Hongkong market has been at its most buayant level for saveral years, according to
observers.
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Mountain Village Wiped
The robber, armed with a his made knife, successfully getaway with $120. He stabbed the woman in the arm before Heeing.
Police threw 11 big dragnet over the whole of the Wanchai-Happy-Valley
orea.
Police vans were stationed at every important road junction. Fast Poilee also helped in the search.
One resident who was passing through Happy Valley and Wan- unions tonight announced chai sald: "It was the biggest they were ready for un-number of Police vans conditional peace talks to seen in such a and a nationwide printing roud. stoppage.
TOT that this is the worst
The Printing and Kindred have come to light in recent Trades Federation (PKTF), re- 150,000 striking months. There were the two presenting deaths at the special drug printers across the nation, an- nounced it was ready to "accept
have short stretch of
A Police spokesman said this i morning he could not yet esti- mate how many men had taken part in the dragnet.
At the time of going to Press, no one had been detained In con-
Second Attack
Another stabbing
addicta prison at Tai Laman invitation" from the emnection with the robbery, .. Chung which were recently ployers to reopen unconditional the subject of cornners' in- peace talks.
The announcement, after a quests at which the Prisons!
meeting of union eri-three-hour was administration ticised for not providing chefs, came on the 14th day at reported from Tsun
wage and working week morning, when-a-man and his medical attention
stoppage which hatted Britain's wife were attacked by nou une enough.
provincial press and publishing: identified man wielding a knife. houses and threatened to stop.
capital's mars-circulation the
80031
Out By
Sudden Flood
Ibaque, Colombia, July 1.
In Sydney
Far
Sydney, July 1. Federal investigation officers seeking
from three stowaways
the Eastern trading ship Taiyuan early today arrested two Chinese in Sydney. Both men, together with another Chinese found
hiding in the loft of a suburban market garden yesterday, later appeared in court,
They wero ordered to be. "detained" for seven days by the Minister for Immigra tion, to decide whether they are illegal immigrants.
Admission
Immigration officers told the court the men were not the three Taiyuan stowaways they were seeking.
- Hor
But all three Yuc-sang, 29, Leung Wah nline Fock Wa, and Sun
Mystery Submarine
Chased
Fai admitted illegally Rio de Janeiro, July 1. entering the country, they Brazilian warships "sha- said.
The court was told for had admitted
Sydney coming to
Beyon years
BRO.
A gudden flood struck the mountain village of Junta early from Hongkong
yesterday while its inhabitants slept, and killed every person and animal there.
Birth Control
Controversy
In Commons
to be
the com- Only today was
pleteness of the disaster All- becoming known. thorities said 80 bodies had been recovered and. that helicopters were try- ing to find other traces of the 150 persons who lived in the village.
The full carubity to may known. The flood never be caused by heavy rains struck at
a.m.
devastating with swiftness and swept entire fami- Hes and their livestock down he Combelina River.
No Trace
Almost po trace of Junia re- mained.
London, July 1. was The British Government to 2.30 case
a to ban Won this day refused
speech on birth control by the Church of England Bishop of Southwark, Dr The Chinese couple
Mervyn Stockwood, were attacked at 8 am. at
The speech is due
British 28A San Pin Village, Tsun made on the These may be only isolated cational newspapers this week-
cases but they tend to bring end.
Wan, Both were admitted casting Corporation's the entire Prisons
The printers have no dispute
to hospital with knife on August 23.
A, Conservative, Mr. William ment into disrepute.with the 18 million combined
wounds,
Teeling, a Roman Cathoße, had urge dally circulation London press. That is why we
But they were threatened by
ሌ። a result of Pollee objected in the House of Com- inquiry. genora!
walkout of ink makers after investigations, moro
Chinese man has
nons to the Bishop making on Government's decision employers served distrilssul
been detained.
appeal for money on behalt hold the hearing in camera ice as a result of the generat
the Family Planning Association is regrettable because stoppage.
in programme called "Tho excites.
Huspicions
Week's Good Cause,"
Depart-
to
11
that
The PKTF announcement to-
might not altogether night "regretted the threat to bo justified. The com the nutlonal dailies evening and
munity will, however, ex- publication of the pect final report and this should
not be refused.
Severe Strains
prisons
Sunday newspapers, but blamed the manufacturers for the Int dry-.—UFI.
Warning By Peking
HONGKONG dergone nevere pour nous, that it lays claim
strains and stresses in re- to
its
Tokyo, July 1. Communist China served new
the strategically Located
FRESH VIOLENCE
IN KERALA
Trivandrum, July 1. Police charged demonstra- tors with lathis today os violence erupted in several | places in Communist-ruled Kerala stato.
Broad
network
of
He said the subject of birth control calised controversy and rezentment in Christian circles.
Although the village is only-eight miles from this city of 130,000; the bodies of men, women, children, dogs, cats and cattle lay in eerie silence for nearly 10 hours before the first word of the catastrophe began to trickle in..
A rescue operallon began im- mediately but after a few hours
Mr Ernest Marples, the Post-word came back that there was
no life in the area, master-General, who 13 rc-
The villagers had been caught Parliament for sponsible
thatched-root in their broadcasting in Britain, said he sleep
huts, easy prey for the roaring thought it better to leave matter to the governors of the torrent. BBC.-Reuter
the
HUSSEIN PLANS
No Warning
When the waters began to re- cede late yesterday they exposed a desalote valley strewn with corpses and debris.
Some of the bodies
ARAB SUMMIT brought back here were
At least six persons were re- cent years with the Influx Paracel Islands on the shipping ported injured, including one
Hongkong and policeman. of immigrants from Chinu. route between
Anti-Communist picketing of Like ather Government Salgon, departments,
fucili- The notice came in a "serious schools, government bulidings King Hussoin was reported
con- bus transportation ties are inadequate and in Warning" issued by the Chinese and
Peking tinuod.
Authorities reported that the the rapid expansion of staff Foreign Ministry
against what it called an act of
of Trivandrum was
con-
Amman, July 1. today to have proposed an Arab summit Farance in the Jordanian necessitated by the newmilltary provocation" by a residence of the Roman Catholte
sactor of Jerusalem. large prison population, reus. Navy patrol plane. It said Bishop
The king, was learned, has cruiting standards seem to the plane flew over Yungshlung stoned.
In one Incident, an 11-year-sent invitations to certain Arab Also there Island, one of the larger of the Zallen. have been experiments with Faracel group which the Chinese, old school pupil was reported rulers and leaders. He was ex-
to have had both legs broken, new kinds of prison institu-call the Hsisha Islands. UPI.
have
“tions which have obviously
not yet been perfected since
both Tai Lam Chung and
Cape
Collingon have been subject of
the criticism.
recent
Nevertheless there can be no
to
or
exact
excusing individuals who exceed authority and resort
terrorism to obedience
descend brutality to impose dis- elpline. There are prison warders capable of action this kind all over the world, as recent headlines have only ton clearly shawn. To learn that our prisons are not the places we expect them to bo, may not therefore be very aut prising but a
of
STOP PRESS
badly mangled. On others there was not a mark. The village obviously received not a shred of warning of the flood. Helicopter
reported Crews finding the bodies of 10 police- men at the site where the pollee station had been.
Officials believed
one
of
pected to send almilar messages geveral dams in the area may More than 200 persons wero by special Royal delegations have burst, making the food arrested, although some were) next week 12 Libye-Tunisia, worse.
There Morocca and Eetation
was no way" "15" FEICH released a short time later.
It was understood here that Junta except by helicopter. Police arrested or "removed" nearly
25,000 anti-government eight Arab states have agreed Flood waters blocked the roads.
attend a
The flood also damaged a meeting of the demonstrators between June 13 to axi 30, the government stated Arab League Council, proposed power plant supplying Inaque, the League's Secretary-plunging the city into darkness today. Of these, 5,820 had been by Louvleted and gaoled-UPI and General. No date or place for for a while and cutting wire
the meeting has been set-UPI. communications.-UPI.
Reuter.
Lancet: Airlines
London; July 1.
The Lancet, a leading British
medical weekly, has accused al-
line operators of being more
Shipping
Magnate
Foils
Marriage
Edinburgh, July 1.
An objection lodged in Southern Creetown, Scotland, today by the father of
runaway
The other Chinese, it was al- leged, had deserted from ships and had been in Australia three years.
Leung Wab,
aged 37, had claimed he was Hongkong born. He had been the quartermaster on the ship Nieuw Holland and had deserted in 1950.
Immigration
officers alleged Sun Fal had admitted deserting ship while employed az cook.
Charged
dowed" an unidentified submarine for 30 min- utes yesterday off the port of Salvador, about 650 miles south-
the east. of
U.S. missile-tracking_sta- tion on Fernando de Noronha Island, the Navy announced to- night.
Although unconfirmed reports said the ships fired on and per- haps Bank the 'sub, a Navy com~ munique said the submarine was not attacked, becatio of “lack of three opportunity.
by
the
The search for the
has followed stowaways anding in Sydney harbour week ago of the bodies of two Chinese, wrapped in eplico and bound with rope.
A task force commandied Vice Admiral: Gilmar Araripo Macedlo sighted the "non- shortly Brazilian periscope"
before noon yesterday. Araripe. Seven crow members of assigned two sub-chasers to fol
Taiyuan, a British-low the submarine and fire it it the owned vessel which traded refused to identify itself.
The chasers Babitonga and between Hongkong and Baurus could not and an occasion Australia, have sub-to shoot, although they
main-
contact with submarine by radar and sonar for about 30 minutes, the communique said.
When the rub was sighted, it was travelling just below the surface at a speed of about four knots.-UPI.
sequently been charged tained and remanded. All seven have been charged under the Immigration Act and English shipping heir-three also face charges of at- lempting to conceal a body from ess Katharine Dow-the coroner.--Reuter. sett has foiled her plans to marry 27- year-old man-about- London Edward Lang- ley, the Registrar said here today.
Mr Harry Dowseit travelled to Scotland overnight from Eon- don to lodge his objection to the banns posted in this village last week by the run- away couple.
2,000 FACE STARVATION IN
The Reglatrar said the couple could challenge the validity of the objection in a Scottish An court or could give notice of their intention to marry al sane other registry ale in Scotland.
Objection
NEW LAND
Salisbury, July 1.
estimated 2,000 African tribesmen face starva.
tion in a new territory they have been moved, to by the government, a Methodist missionary said today.
The Rev. J. MacCormack sald men, women and children of they the
tribe primlilve Tonga
moved too late in the season to plant new crops in their home.
But in the Jatter case,
would have to reside for 15 days in the new area and Mr Dowsett could, lodge another objection if he chose,
1
Blonde Miss Dowsett, 20, a word of the English court, first eloped IJ Scotund with Mr Langley in May but later re- turned to England'
months and able to marry in The heiress will be 21 in six England without parental con- sent China Mall Special.
Interested In Making
More Money Than In Safety
interested in making money than sengers is inadequate because it whose shoulder
own
in safety.
general
inquiry could do much to put matters right. There is however
Cause for
Bome satisfactioni that the most poribus and persistent allegations are to be proper-] =
Investigated.
were
The tribesmen were moved their age-old home, when the from the ferlife Zambos! Velloy, Lake Karibs begon backing up from the huge new Kariba da The dam is being built to boost electric power in the nation.
MORALITY
the
The missionary spid Tanga people were moved to
the Synkatuba Bren, on
French Trawlers
Arrested
London, July 2 British patrol shilps last night suzed two Trencir trawlers the Notre Dame de Liesso and Providence Dieu, for fishing within three miles of the coast of North Foreland, Kent.
The trawler were escorted the Into Romagate, Keat, where
court this
other side of the dam, in-north their skippers have been order- Ithodesia. Since then the childed to appear in mortality rato has steadily morning-AFP. lecreased. Cattle, I
| source of wealth for the tribes-
дго men,
Also dying off, he seid.
Douglas-Home To Marry Model
{ operators since it reduces the
The Methodist missionary payload of the aircraft."
said there is no grazing land The editorial said that since
for the tribesmen and the ind the Second World War, the
wood
London, July 1. la infested with a root had Atted
Mr Robin Douglas-Hame, who that defies cultivation even harness was Royal Air Force
war suiter of Sweden's Princess not secured died shortly after backward-facing passenger seats
intil · last : gumde, mid the Margaretha ད
does not restrain the trunk.
Mr MacCormack
In to TASTY 18-year-old "If there In
is a widen stop, one crash, while the plot, who all le transport eamanand with mechanised equipment. editorial on
urging
Survey conducted by the RAF primitive Tongs people have
model, Miss · Bandra the the head, trunk and lower limbs was tightly strapped to his seat, and charter alrerati. seats,
only hoinemade hoes to combat Canhtëri backward-facing.
the weed and there is even too Paul, here on July 9. Lancet declared: "It is dificult are thrown forwards and down- escaped with trivial injuries.
The best stripping would be and in the United States showed that passengers · had no gro-
The wedding will tako plačo little land for the people. to escape the, eonclusion, that, wards and are liable to strike where there is no strong pubile the seat in front and be direct ineffective. If the seat or a ference for facing forward.
The minister said, the Tone in St James's Church, Frocadily, anchorage туда
strong not
But the International Civil opinion, the world's airliner arely injured.
first safety Aviation Organisation had twice
people were being forced to Londonuts
Mr Douglas - Rome, aged Tho, narrow ball, itscit could enough, so
pend: money, given them by Influenced more by economie
DITI advertising also produce severe injuries' in requirement wie b strong eat rejected -British proposals to than by safety factors."
backward-foeingreats the Government as resettlement 26,, works in
Buy away. He has been 's, night The editorial also said that a cruoti as a great load would be and mounting
ails involves extra" welght, compulsory China Ma compensation, " order to
clubs pianist-Reŭter. food,-UPLOA the single, abdominal safely thrown on lo a small aren.?
is difliked, by zircraft | Special. The Lancet said a second pilot, which belt now used for airline par
the
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