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FRIDAY, JULY
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LAST MINUTE HOPES OF AVERTING NEWSPAPER SHUTDOWN
Of The NEW BID TO END DISPUTE
Day
Pilgrims Die In
TRAFFIC
SIGNS
Charlesworth in i
Drecently released report
on traffic touched on one small point perhaps better appreciated by a learner driver or a new arrival in the Colony than an perienced Hongkong driver. This was the need for more prominent and distinct traffic signs.
ex-
At night It is almost im-
possible to see them, even when they are pointed out, and it is only familiarity with their approximate
position which comes with months of driving, that the road-user is able to detect them.
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DOUBLE
SCHOOL
Truck Tragedy
Taipei, July 2 Eighteen religious pil-
grims who had just been blessed at the temple of a girl god. dess were killed yes terday
when
their
truck plunged into a ravine.
Twenty-three other persons jammed into the vehicle were injured.
The truck was returning from a pilgrimage to the mud temple of the Goddess Chang Yu-ku when a Almay wooden bridge gave way under it near Nantou In central Formosa.
At least three other persons
TUC Submit
Peace Plan
To Govt
London, July 2.
The British Government is tonight consider- ing a peace plan in an effort to avort the biggest newspaper shutdown since the 1926 general strike.
But it was impossible to say whether the shutdown
will take place on Monday as threatened.
The First
Raise In
134 Years
London, July 2.
died earlier after consuming The pansions of English High
ashes of Incense burned before the goddess,
Mud Shrine
More than 10,000 persons have flocked to the mud shrine since a report was spread two weeks ago that the goddess's spirit was living in the temple.
not really good Despite the Colony's small mileage of rouds there are many that the average driver would only once or twice A year, many more that he would use less than a dozen Umes and it le unregson- The mud temple wax, built.ta able to expect him pacify the evil force which took remember the existence of her life-UPI. poorly displayed aign, or one that tends to blend with its surroundings. This Is often the trouble on the main roads. So there is a good case for making them as clear and prominent as possible.
Police have attempted without success to keep large crowds sway from the temple.
Chang Yu-ku, now the shrined goddess, was a young girl who drowned in a stream five years ago,
to
Not only are road signs often unnoticeable at night, but in the maze of coloured neon that has spread over the main roads of Hong- kong and Kowloon, trafle
lights are sometimes difficult to spot and it might be helpful
more were situated in the middle of the road and the existing ones at the sides made supple- mentary.
The old grumbles ihat used to
Court judges are to be raited for the first time for 134 yours, the government announced today.
The Lord Chief Justice, with a salary of £10,000 a year, gets
pension of £4,000.
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Other English high court judges get a pension of £3,500 Their salaries range from £9,000 to £8,000.
The Lord Chancellor, Vis- count Kitmuir, told the House of Lords that high court judges in Scotland and... Nother Ireland would also have, their pensions raised-Reater.
INGRID IS A
BIGAMIST...
ACCORDING TO
ITALIAN LAW
Rome, July 2.
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The plan was put to the Minister of Labour, Mr Iain Trades Macleod, by the Union Congress at a 30. minute meeting earlier to. day.
Main point of the proposal wat referoe that an Independent should be appointed And a basis for negotiations de- tween the parties.
to try
He would be an independent concillator between the parties to the dispute.
Morning Fire At
Parisian Grill
the Mr Landay sold that he did not want to put, water on the fire, because he was under the Impression that adding water to an oil fire was dangerous. Shortly before 11 a.m., after the firo had been burning
Fire broke out in
kitchen of the Parisian Grill in Queen's Road this morning, but little damage was caused, and the restaurant is able to continuo normal business. Mr Emil The manager,
Landau, said that the fire broke out at about 9.30 a.m., in the diesel oil stoves. He believed that during the night, diesel oil had seeped down the pipe system into the bottom of
the stover. When the stoves were lit this
morning, and enough heat was gonerated, the oll caught fire. He said they had used five foam extin- guishers without any real succost.
for an hour and a half, the Fire Brigade ware called in and seven minutes later, the firo was out, accord- ing to a spokesman in the Fire Brigado.
Libel
Suit
Billowing Against
Skirt Troubles
Queen
Hamilton, Ontario,
July 2. The Queen had trouble
today with an unruly skirt, which billowed above her waist in full view of 15,000 people. The Queen took it in good part,
apparently unconcerned by u burst of laughter from some of the crowd.
Mr. Landau said that they had only been using the oil stoves for about six months. If the kitchen had boon put out of commis-She was reviewing_the_Argyll
and Sutherland alon, he expected to foso
of Canada ot a colour treoping eremony. about $2,500, which is the normal lunch trade, ha. said.
The British Press is currently It Rivalled Even Mike Todd's Party!
hit by the strike of one union employed by printing Ink mDIALE- facturers.
Monaced
In the
The TUC intervened printing dispute yesterday following an unsuccessful bid by the Ministry of Labour on Tuesday to being the two sides together.
TUO chiefs une concerned at the spread of the stoppage which mentors the Jobeef thousands of workers vtilifde the zilspuld including Journalais, engineers, eleg-
'Ferry To Hongkong'
Given Exotic
Send-Off In
Chinese
London
London, July 3.
tricians paper-mill workers London's most fabulous party since the late Mike
and' transport mez.
The Dally Herald (Labour),
in a definitely optimistic mood, declared in its early editions of July 3: There is still a last- minute hope of preventing the
of the spread
newspaper sloppage, which would certainly be iragic for the unions, the employers and the community at large.
"Great credit for this break in the clouds which has been darkening so seriously in the previous 48 hours must go to the members of the General Counell of the Trades Union Congress."
Cassandra
4
The leftwing Doily Mirror's regular commentator, "Cassan- dro." declared:
"Now as I write, It seems
Highlanders
A strong wind cut across the parade group at the elvie sladlum and whipped at her skirt as she drove along the ranks in a jeep.
The Queen "held A parasol against her alde to keep the skirt under control and when not work she kept this did her hands behind her back. Despite everything, the Queen seemed to be in a gay mood and, correspondents, who have covered the tour since. it began in Newfoundland two they wocks ago today, sald had sckiom seen her more relaxed and animated,
Busy Day
She spent a busy day touring western Ontario including a visit to this major Canadian steel centre, algning an his- doric. Bible at Brantford and Visiting the Stratford Shake- spearian Festival."
Todd came to town was staged early today The Bible signed by the Queen after the premiere of the film "Ferry to Hong-While the Duke of Edin kong."
London Critics
Flay
Orson Welles
London, July 2
be heard about the wearing A Rome court of appeals ruled today that Ing that nothing can stop us from The first notices from the
crossings now have little
of the paint on the Zebra
validity for the Belisha
beacons rive adequate
warning at night and day.
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Bergman and Roberto Rossellini are still man and wife although she has since married Swedish impressario Lars Schmidt and is vace- tioning with him in Sweden.
The court reversed a
lower
court decision annulling the
Berginan -Rossellini
thus plunging
marriage,
into chaos
the tangled affairs of the Swedish actress. The ruling added further complications to
a legal battle for custody of the three children. The Children Rossellini's
Robert
Parls Badinter rald
Hmade more prominent? Roschini was likely to
They could be enlarged
05
custody permanent
lawyer today
win
of the
some already have children because in the eyes of and painted in more dietine-Italian Justice Miss Bergman tive colours. They could was
married bigamously to
have "cats eyes" to bring Schmidt
The children are.
them into prominenco at Heberlino, 10, and twins Isabella night and where possible — and Ingrid, 7.
ly on the island ~!
be suspended over roadways from standards, height of a above the bus. A better -- but also expensive plan would be to outline the most Important signs, in flashing coloured neon or fluorescent lighting.
more
on
A Rome court annulled the Bergman-Rokstilini marriage
It. July 19 last year. accepted Rossellini's theory that under Swedish law Mias Bergman was still married to Peter her first husband, Dr Lindstrom, when she married Kossellini by proxy in Mexico La 1030.
Therefore, the lower cour! said, the Mexico marriage Was The part played by signa in not valid. Miss Borgman did not went on ensuring a smooth flow of contest the suit and
and
'to marry Schmidt, traffic
eliminating
Italy's Catholic Press violent- accidents cannot be too ly attacked the annulment and strongly stressed, How the tinte, prosecutor appealed many, we wonder, who know the verdict, about the 20 mites an hour speed limit in Queen's Road East, respect it regularly? foel many more would sufficiently.
bold There is no point in clutter ing up the roads with too many signs, but if thora -wolk have already, care. to be fully effective, they have to be outstanding;
Swedish Law E The court of appeals under Judge Silvio Tavolaro today by reverted the annulment les a then, moant the ruling.
INGRID BERGMAN . Her matrimonial affairs are in a tangla
from
closing down, and the milan- chaly strife that has engulfed the whole printing industry will
| do what Hiller's bombers were
never successful in achieving: shut our lively trap.
Nearly 1,000 people, in- cluding most of the big names of show business, attended the frolic in the Royal Festival Hall, beside the Thames.
The Renk Organisation creat- ed an exolle Oriental amos- phere for the occasion with stars arriving by rickshaws and hundreds of Chinese lanterns tetting the scene.
The Food
Other guests
were ferried
burgh How to London, Ontario -was presented by Queen "Her Annoin 1713 for
of Majesty's Church
the Mohawks,"
It had been signed in 1939 by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and by the present Queen and Prince Philip in 1951.
Before she left Ottawa, the Queen expressed her thanks and regrets to the soldiers who stood in heavy rain fast night to line the route of the Royal procesalon from governs ment house to union station. --Reuter and UPI.
London critics of "Ferry to across the Thames from Charing Milked Cow
have
Cross pler to a party which Hongkong"
not rivalled the send-oir which been Hattering, with | Mike Todd gave his "Around Orson Welles the main The World in Eighty Days" target of criticism.
Chronicle The News
crille
"Civil industrial war is ap parently more deadly than In-Paul Dehn said: "The fact that ternational war when it comes the film's background was shot to the vital business of new" realisticnily
and views."--Reuter.
in
Inside tho ultra-modern hall, zoals helped themselves from buffet tables heavily laden with Chinese fore with location
English food for a minority. BU!! Hongkong exposes
more of its starkly the unreality
Hundreds of bottles of cham- who are Gramatis personte,
pagne were consumeti as guests figures now of farce, now of told the Rank Organisation's
or John Davis, that. Todd's
mantle had fallen shoulders.
Not Guilty Plea comedy, now of tragedy, now shy difdent Managing Director,
To Smuggling Chinese To U.S.
of melodrama, and, once twice, of pantonime,"
Dehn declared that Welles "by outrageously parodying the part of the ferry boat's skipper for felts our bellef in the reality of the entire vessel, lis passengers, Now York, July 2,
ita crew and its finaf triumph A-Chinese-born-restaurant Lover vicissitude."
operator pleaded not quilty in foderal court to Conway said that Welles gives day to charges of smug- his "worst-ever. gling Chinoso allons into which "nearly but not quite the United States for wrecks the picture. $1,500 to $3,000 each.
The Dally Sketch's. Harold
performance"
CLOWNING
on to
hls
As guests arrived, they were presented, with chopsticks by Chinese hostesses.
Admission was strictly by in-
strlet
security vitation and checks were held to make sure there was no gato-crashing.
The Stalls
And Hit Watchmen
who
Grant
Hollywood, July 2.
Cary British-born actor
Grant was sued for $500,000, damages for libel today in a suit led in the superior court here by Joe Hynms, a syndi- cated newspaper column- ist.
Was
Hyams alleged he
libelled in a letter by Grant to the Los Angeles Times last
April 20
in which the actor "falsely dented he ever had an interview with Hyams in which he said he had undergone pay- chiatric treatment:"
In a series of articles by Hyams, Grant was quoted as saying he had been under such treatment In still the past and was
undergoing it. Hyams, in his sult, said he met and Lalked with Grant In Florida Inst February and that the actor freely gayo him the material used in the series. **Publication of Grant's denist," Hyams com- plained, “has injured - the plaintiff's reputation In the dyes of his readers, of celebrities, editors and publishers and has dimi nished his opportunities
· for earnings in the news- paper fleld."--Reuter.;
Mystery Fire In Pentagon
Washington, July 2 The mystery fire creep- ing through the walls of the American Pen- tagon has alrendy destroyed several thousand irreplaceable "top secret" tape re cordings, Defence De- partment officials said here today.
A 38-year-old man
went to one of the Dairy Farm Ico and Cold Storage the early cow 'pons in
Damage, estimated at mom hours on Tuesday, milked than $8,000,000 has so far been one of the cows and then done, mainly in the Air Forca assaulted two watchmen "Command Post", the Pentagon nerve centro from which, in the who tried to grab him, was event of an attack against the sentenced to 16 weeks' United States, the
.
Firemen
order
to
an effort to
imprisonment by Mr T. L counter-attack would go forth. Yang at Central Magis drills are boring holes inib walls using Encumatle tracy this morning.
and ceilings In Wong Cheung, of hut 12 reach the seat of the fire, but Pokfulam Villago pleaded
ika smoko.is.so dense that they guilty to stealing milk from the have had to work in relays to Dairy Farm, and two counts of
avoid being asphyxiated. common assault,
Pentagon tricials consider it scen by a watch will take five to ten years to Wong was Later in the morning, there man, Hon Bing, emerging from attempt to replace the material was to be a fireworks display, in cow pen in the Foldfulam which has been lost-AIP, Rickshaw rides for all and farm, carrying a pot which was
There Oriental cabaret nots.
Inter found to contain a quanti- was
milk.
Arthur Lom, 44, owner of the Conway wrote that the Hong-terrace. Chungking Royal Restaurant in kong settings were Hempstead, Long Island,
New
mood a
The watchman caught hold UK Naval Base In Singapore To Stay
Flood Relief
dancing on the floodlit ty Mexteau divorce from Lind
"magni-
pf. defendant. A iocond watch- cord- on February 7, 1959,
Among the novelly attrac-man Lee Ching, arrived, "Only Mr Welica, and therefore was free under York, was scheduled to be tried cent" but went on to
Blous word a Chinese wwool- Defendant assaulted Нол mat stall, a fortune teller Bing and hit Lee Ching with Mexloan law to marry Bommel- on the charges on September 21, ment: link in. that' country ́nd, sho
His wife, Rose, and Chin Sule clowning and hamming
booth Where racal Horr's flashilght, and ran away. did.
wore Taviled to have their tung, laundrymen of Bethpage, threatens to sine his foxy-and-
Defendant, was arrested on namos written in' Chinese, Lawyers for both Miss Long Island, also pleaded not the pleure along with it in
the very Best recL"
the same day at 10 am
·One · ‚noloblo · absentee wad Bergman and Rosselin saidullty.
Prosecutor, Kenneth C. Stern- Jympson Harman sold in
Orson Welles, star of the Alm. they would appeal today's ruling
Invited Nathaniel A. Evening Nowa
that the to en even higher court. Neither berg
But the other stars, the Ger- Bila Bergman nor Rossellini Kahan, Defence atlommer, to eccentric, unpredictable Welles
up with.. (anation" | man male “love interest"; Curt were avaliable for comment. appear before'u grand jury or comes
Paris, July 3. Federal Bureau of In- arotesque idep and nearly sinks | Jurgens, his leading ladt, Gyl-
China's Stató, Council - haz She was vacationlog at a teletho
Vivin Syms, Jeremey Spenser and phoneless Island 300 miles from vestigation to prove his state the ship.
ment that the government had
This critic also praised Noel Purcell were all there to appropriated 10,000,000 Yuan Stockholm?
US$25,000,000) and by Communists Jurgens as "more successful sud celebrate one of the most ambl (about Rome and Paris courts do been tricked
rellet in Kwangtung province. rongest linn la the rosi Hong,
Earlier they had attended the In addition, further appropria= kong (location." A
John Waterman id in the premiere at the Odeon Theatre, tons have been earmarked by Evening Standard Thap Woller. Leicester Bquare, which was in the central authorities for rus the Habilitation in regions which burbequed the part and called aid of prose clarity, ij this?'a great pity."Router. Newspaper Press Fund Reiter had been flooded AFP.
Landon, July 2 Heliain has rn intention of ovaquating the .../naval; baso...: o£! Singapore, following the specogs of the parties of the extremo, |·left at the last elections, it w
In Informed stated in
circios hara todeo
Rumours circulating fra\Lo
which Brilato vras, considering transferring her main daval base. of the Far East from Biora bora to Darwin, store without foun cation, the mana
If they wore Bergman-Schmidt marriage was cided temporarily earlier this † kjo: prosecuting, Lam. Casier! and said the film's tious British Alms for years, e36,000 tons of rica for flood Australian press,, according to
null and vold by Italian law, year to give custody "or the
The indictment charged
The appolalo court ruled children to Mies Borgan but Lem conspired to jobvirust ju tims Owedian law WES FOL - said Hossellini could inku Chein | fice and to commit: perjury,
and harboured illegal Chinese Aliens Tovant in the capo, but last with him on Woekends * Merican Law was 11 sala during part or the summer and made false claims to US oftiziobIDYLLUPLE moons -Mign: Bergman-had-won on vacation U