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CHINA
No. 37114
Noon
Established 1845
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1959.
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents
COMMUNIST ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER KIRKUK
Of The IRAQ REVOLT CONTINUES
Day
THE ELUSIVE
THE
FLEAS
THERE is a Chinese saying
that "if
person use
his ten fingers to catch ten
Beas at the same time, then
It is quite possible that hel
Rebels Shell Women, Children
In Fortress
Beirut, July 20.
Fighting in Iraq is said to be still going on and the Iraqi Air Force was reported today to have bombed rebels in Kirkuk.
will not be able to entrh News agency reports say that the biggest outrage
even one of them." How
true this is, recent events in China have only tus clearly shown. Pekhig has calbel for expansion in wilde
A
so far in the current revolt was the bombard- ment of a fortress with women and children.
Travellers from strife-
front to boost the country's communist-controlled at- reconstruction but the effort has proved to great. The tempt to take over Kirkuk process of establishing com-last week.
torn bag today, described a
has
muney
had to be retarded. Agriculture has
They
ald the outbreak was suffered in the Kigantic the next serious since the abor-
uve Mosul revolt last March,
changes that all this up heaval has involved.
Mane Than 500 khaki-clad
Now the Bir Leap Forward, and armed members of the pro- which was going to give onunist Prople's Resistance Chinn
s:ded with Communist eronummie Parity Forge
with Britain by 1975, sh army troops in a pitched as if it will fall strest battle that took between 20 and
of this your's work.
The basis of this
"Taps"
was to have been the big, ution-wide steel drive. The
news in yesterday's China
60 lives.
Pamphlets
Two light planeg showered
the city with pamphlets calling Mail was that with the for popular support for the National failure
of so many of the Commankt bocked small foundries established on Front during the outburst that began las! over the country, the of violence
importance of agriculture)
has been re-emphasised with
yet another slogan, exhort-
ing the people to “return to
the village."
Lower Gear
ND
Tuesday.
shrils into
fighting During the
the Comtatinisis fred morlar fortre in the centre of the city where the Women and chlidren of Jurkomen tribesmen Bod Rough sanctuary.
The fighting broke out during
the great jog-the height of the July 14, frat
A permit of
munisin grinds down into a Kasarma's regime, the travelers lawer gear and resuTACA
progress on a new and more Refugees reported that there realistic
course--a
timely had been three days of savage
move In view of the wide- | dghting.
pre disruption to 10
comtryside caused by the
recent rains elles
Feeding its own populace |
(112
Cadets Dismissed
Sources said the bitter fight-
Two Million
Die In China Floods
Belgrade, July 20. Communist Party newspapor Borbe carried
Tho
a roport from its Peking correspondent saying that million people died
two
In flood waters that swept across China this уваг.
The newspaper's corros- pondent sold more than 200,000 dwellinge were with destroyed together 28,000 bridges.
In many provinces
the
rains began last May and ware still continuing In- tarmittently, the papor reported.-UP),
Religious Ban
Upsets Beauty Competition
100 Malayan Pythons In Four-Hour Battle-
left 60 of their number dead
the or dying on ground before the survi- vors crawled away.
Singaporo, July 20. More than 100 pythons, each sight to ten foot long. fought a four-hour battle crook in the around a Singapore district of Tom-The ponis today, according to Malayan villagers.
The giant reptiles, como It thicker than a man's arm,
villagers living in the area said they thought at first that they were tooing a big mating season sprec. was only when dying snakes began to crawl out
SUIL MOR
TUR.
WED THUR FAL
DAI
SERVICE
TO / TOKYO'
RAN AMERICAN)
Bid To Beat Hotel Touts At Kai Tak
By A STAFF REPORTER
of the wriggling mass that Eighteen travel agents are in the process of form-
they realised that a battle was being waged. Newspaper photographors took pictures of the dead snakes before the villagers carried them away to eat. The Malays predicted that the snake battle was an
ing their own company with the object of cleaning up the present system of hotel book- ings for passengers arriving in the Colony from abroad.
Within the next week the Association of Hongkong
omen of a big human Travel Agents will have 11-YEAR-OLD
clash-Reuter.
CURTAILS PART
QUEEN
OF ROYAL
TOUR
Whitehorse, Yukon, July 20.
their own limited company registered with Gover- ment, and ready for opera-|| tion,
Their first move will be to set up a hotel booking agency in the temporary air terminal at Kai Tak The office opening will take place once the new ter- minal is completed, probably in carly September.
This will mean that no travel agent will be able to work In- dividually at the airport if he is a member of the HATA. In this
CHOPS 12-YEAR-OLD
An 11-year-old boy who pleaded guilly to assaulting another boy, aged 12, with a chopper wan scatenced to four strokes of the cane by Mr J. E, Dargan at Kowloon Juvenile Court this morning. Sub-Inspector Lau Sik-lun
said that on July 16 at 7.20 p.m. the public water pipe in Filth louts who waylay passengers dcfendant was taking a bathi at
Street, Homuntin.
The Queen, still suffering from an upset stomach today, was forced to fur-way, the group plan to beat the ther curtail her royal tour of Canada, cutting out flying visits to coming off aircraft at Kal Tak Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories and Uranium City, Saskat-and lake them to hotels other chewan.
in
Mr Butler added: "Although He said he was unable to rto fire! decision 68.n be find out whether the Queen mad taken before the morning, telephoned home to Bucking-
feels that the doctor
ham Palace. the Queen will be able to resume the programme tomorrow."
Earlier, Michael Adean, the Queen's private secretary,
The
than their original booking.
Temporary Office
to
A 12-year-old boy came up to defendant and told him that he has no right to take a bath The Queen, who earlier
there. A quarrel started. was reported to resume her
The layout of the temporary Defendant went home, got a
is terminal, 12 rigid and exacting schedule!
understood, chopper, returned to the site should make things very dif- and attacked the other boy with in Canada's northland, was
13 More Days
cut for the faults. Passengers it. ren "better, but not fully
coming off aircraft will pass Two detectives who were in covered". from
the indis-
customs and unnouncement of the through
directly the vicinity arrested defendant. position which kept her sent the second reassuring Queen's indisposition-offefally enter the main terminal hall. The Injured boy was sent
to the heat and
where the HATA office will be Kowloon Hospital where he atuated, bed most of yesterday, ac telegram in two days to Prime ascribed
Minister John Diefenbaker in uredness-brought disappoint-
stayed for four days, cording to her press officer Ottawa. It said: "The Queen is ment to this Yukon captial on Esmond Butler.
more restod but in low Sunday and for a the Jet to Surgeon Commander D.D. heavy programme today, Cmdr fears that the remainder of the Stecle-Perkins, the
Canadian tour which Queen's Strelo-Perkins has advised 45-day
bogan on June 18. mie be Voctor, said the stomach upset, direct light to Edmonton. * ħad Boun "ailŝöd by food und Mr Butler said that no official curtailed ne over cancelled, aggravated by Intigue."
Ahend lie messages had been sent to the
13 grueling days Queen, and, as far as he knew, before the Queen and her hus
no communications have been band bid farewell to Canada received from members of her from Halifax on August 1.-ings, thus ensuring they 10 10 family."
He said however the probably would be able to resume her 45- day Canadian tour at Edmor- ton, Alberta, tomorrow,
No final decision could be taken before tomorrow mom- be ing when the Queen will aboard her special train at Ed- moston,
Left Alone
depleted stocks is onling did not appear to have had Sue Ingersoll, New Mexico's house near the end of a runway
national political significance,
one headache for the Chinese although Abdel Karim Kaggem, Authorities. Vilal furel; the
Tragi Premier. declared
account these who
Long Beach, July 20.
entry in the Miss Uni- verse contest who said she would defy
Roman Catholic ban on bathing boouty contests, withdraw from the pageant today because she didn't like the way she had been treated. 200
exchange is still needed yesterday that he would bring aplenty to hance induse severe trialisation, particularly the trespassed on the freedom of the big iron-steel complexes at people in Kirkuk in particulur.
as well
In as
other
Wuhan and Photow, and villages and rural areas." to repay internatiooni kons which Chin afded
Lo
towns,
In
dis-
Dirtomatic soorten Bagdad said that about officer cadets had been missed from a reserve college near Bagdad, but it was not rirar whether this was con-
the Kirkuk nected with cient.
ngala only in February by accepting 2,600 million roubles from Russia. The extent to which primary and secondary production setbacks have eut down 98-
revealed purta was figures published only At a recent reception there, rodels shouted slogans yesterday showing that in the first five months of this demanding Communist partict-
year exports to
in
Hongkong
some
pation in the government.
was
called
3
fell by between 20 to 25 per
In Cairo, preis sources tonight compared with the quoted what cent previous year. For foreign clandestine free Irq radio re exchange-hungry China this port saying that fraqi army tells its own story. On top units had clashed with groups of of this indebtedness and its Conununists in the township of
Anah, west of Kirkuk.
severe economic problems, there is the ludicrous spectacle of China itself to financial aid giving several countries political purposes.
Agonising
Explosive
The reports said an Iraqi army
for patrol tecidentally
THAT seems to be the
Woblem? The violent
Turches in Peking's Ins during ternal policier
Ire.
Into
one
"I withdrew only because 1
to change rikin'! cate form of tyranny for another," the 20-year-old brunette said. "I was held virtually prisoner incommunicado and I could no longer endure 11,"
Offelais said her charges were director Pageant ridiculous. Oscar Meinhardt said:
"It is part of the policy that
we have learned down through the years to keep the girls away from certain people. As for Sue Ingersoll herself, she was given every chance to talk when- ever she wanted."
ot
her
F
| UPI & Reuter..
THE DUKE AND
PRESS HEAL DIFFERENCES
Follet on
be duty will stationed near the passenger exil, ready to plek up anyone suspected of tonting, it was Tearned.
The HATA also plan to make arrangements to collect deposits from passengers for hotel book-
the hotel they are booked in. This system is already in force In the UK. and Europe.
I a passenger from Hongkong wishes to book into the Regent Hotel in London for example, be has to pay a deposit to the alr line he is travelling with. Ол arrival in London he is taken directly to his hotel.
Hotel Association
Libel Suit Withdrawn By Writer
Counsel for 8 free-fanco writer today withdraw a $5,000 libel suit against the New Life Evening Post Ltd, its editor and printars, Tre writer, Chlang Yam-ng, alleged that an article published in the newspaper on October 8 last year seriously injured his character, credit, and repala-“? Ilon,
The 33-year-old Queen spent yesterday and today under doc tor's eare in an Air Force guest
on the Whitchorse Air Base, Philip, Her husband, Prince travelled alone to Dawson and Muyo in the Yukon yesterday and left without her today for yellowknife in the Northwest Prince Philip and the Press have healed their Reservations Centre, Lid, if this costs to the defendants.
Uranium City, I Territories and Saukatchwon.
there.
п
16
differences.
Whitehorse, Yukon, July 20.
Until a few months ago
he maintained what amount.
ing
ed almost to n feud with New BBC Head their own association. newspapermen,
and 04-
In the Victoria District Court But according to Mr CJ.B.today, Mr 1. R. A. McCallum, Thery, Chairman of the Work-representing Chiang, asked per- Commiltec representing mission to withdraw the action. shareholders of HATA, Hotel Judge B. J. Jennings awarded system is to work with 100
Mr Brook Bernacchi and Mr per cent effectiveness in Hong- Gerald Basto appeared for the The Queen, travelling in
the kang, the
editor hotels in Hongkong newspaper,
and separate plene, was expected to
aust got together and form publisher, Henry Chang, and rench Edmonton About
the printers, Shen Kee Press. roinutes after Prince Philip gets
Then they will be able to
They were instructed by arrange for a scale of deposits Hastings and Co. London, July 20. Press Secretary Esmond But-
(Yesterday ler issted Inte today the sixth pecially with photographers. Hugh Carleton Greene, brother which will be entered in airline
Grahan mail when a passenger dismissed with Brilish novelist bulletin on the Queen's condi- He often lost his
temper of when he saw them around, Siz Ian Jacobs
will replace General In London or New York asks libel action brought by Chlang Greene,
magazini Chinu tlon in two days,
as head of the for a reservation in a hotel in against bulletin sald: "The The doctor states that the stomach and on several occasions British Broadcasting Corporation Hongkong, he will have to pay Screen Pictorial, on
into them
a deposit to the airline. upset was caused by food and tore
with at the end of this year, it was Serravated by fatigue, Helanguage that was more ex-announced here today. does not know which food may have caused the trouble. The Queen has no tempera- ture and has responded well to treatment. She has taken some symptoms medicins and the have almost disappeared.
Decision
The Queen had a light lunch in bed yesterday; light tea also Earller the Archbishop in bed in the afternoơh und got New Mexico had warned ran
dinner in the up for a light Communist forces holding Anah, that she would be refused the
evening. The Queen came down to the- Syrian sacraments which is close
of the Nomun
for a light breakfast with the berder. The Communists fired Catholic Church if she con-
Take of Edinburgh in the dining on the patrol, who returned the tinued
show herself in
room at the guest house this public in n bathing suit.
morning and had a light lunch Cownstairs. Another
Roman young
"The. Catholle beauty contest,nt, Miss
spent the Queen has Omaha, had also given up her morning reading and resting," "According reports reach place in
The doctor states that there her contest after the
return ing me. the situation in. Irau: Fellgous
of her has been absolutely no authorities is explosive.
diocese had raised objections.of the sinusitis which the Queen UII.
had last year.
Questioned by reporters to night, Mr Fayek el Samoural. said: a former Iraqi envoy,
the Inst three years reflect serious miscalcula
"...the Communists am tions, na un American writer observed earlier this month, struggling against Nationalists. But the chief difficulty seems No one can yet forecast the out- to be that in setting its come."
targets, the Chinese leaders
are doing precisely what
the
sages of old have forbidden:
they are trying to tackle ten
the
grounds),
Mr Thery said that after a
of
HATA operation,
how many
Sir Ian said it was time for your pressive than polite.
Jim to retire. He is sixty years Hotel Reservation Centre should But since the current Canadian old.
be able to tell
Hongkong, what four started, a "new" Philip
Greene, whose appointment tourists visit has emerged.
was a surprise oven to himself type of rooms are in most le- The Prince who not so long is 41 years old and has been the mind and how
much tourists ago scowled at reporters and head of the B.B.C.'s News See are willing to spend for hotel photographors doing their Jobs vices.-AFP.
accommodation when they come
new goes out of his way to be piensant.
He seems to reserve a special Thames Tragedy |
wave and grin for groups of correspondents he recognises as he walks or rides past with the Queen,-UPI.
Isleworth, July 20, Four Boy Scouts watching 17- year-old Tom Lowry gasping and struggling in the Thames yesterday thought he was a great They laughed and whooped at London, July 20. This struggles and shouts until There were fower divorces in Lowrey went dow for the Britain last year. Civil judicial second time. By the time the statistics published today show Scouts decided the joke had that 20,444 matrimonial petitions gone too far and dived in sfier Were Aled during 1968-a de-film.
drowned. Lowrey had crease of 1,010 compared with Palico found his body five hours 1957.--Reuter.
later.-UPL
Fewer Divorces clown
Imam's 'Missing Concubine Is An Italian Dancer
fleas with ten fingers. The nouneca that the celebrations of A claimed to have today f
duo en
before this year is out therestory period the country is go- imam of concubing, of the his three-month health cure
Reports reaching Cairo indi-
The original report on the Imam originally left the hotel Linuing.
Rome, July 20. sulle and decided to marry that the fighting is con Bagdad Radio tonight an- ROME newspaper today him and embrace the Moslem missing concubine came in a to return home by air last news story from Aden which ¦ Tuesday, his sulte was billed dungens of this policy do the anniversary of the Peoples
A frequent visilor at the borders the Imam's Arabian 3,900,000 lire (US$6,240), but the Imen's treasurers agreed not yet seem to be fully ap- Court
Thursday this the mystery of the alleged
of the Imam's various villas during peninsula kingdom.
Meanwhile, the manager of to pay only 1,050,000 lire preciated by Peking and were had been cancelled be disappearance
Hotel there are
Villa Suizzera (US$1,089).^ indications that cause of "the extraordinary trai favourite
in Rome, the girl recently the Yemen.
where the Imam and his 30 The unhappy hotel manager The newspaper Il Messag disappeared. will be a ugoniaing re- The Bogdad Peoples Court
This, I Messaggero sald, or 40 member Bulte are now said that the earlier blil still gero said that the "missing appraisal of Chine's lang has been trying 21 Iraqi army.
is actually an' gave rise to the report that staying complained that he has not been paid fully and term aims. But at least it officers and civilians on charges concubine"
is running up a new onc should reduce the speed of of alleged complicity in the rotation red-haired nightclub one of the Imam's concubines was being shortchanged on meanwhile the Imam's party
The manager wald when the UPL anfer and rent uprising at Moral-UPI dancer who became friendly had fled. Il Messaggero in his biila. progress to a
and Reuter.
with a member of the Imam's not senaatiota) newspaper.. more sensible pace.
Ing through."
here.
(See also Lotters to the Editor, page 2).
HK JUNKS SEIZED?
Judge
Jennlage casts a $5,000
slmllur
Airliner Noses Over Landing
Boston, July 20.
An American Airlines DC-6 with '69 parsons aboard nosed over while making an instrument landing at fog-shrouded Logan Air port tonight. One person was injured in the mishap. Airline officials gold a passen- Junks ger, Michael Ramos, 22 was the Bix Hongkong fishing
Hospital were seized by Chinese gun- only person injured. boats in the Lau Fan Stan | officials sald Ramos suffered a Watera sbout noon yester- possible fractured leg when he day, arcording to an uneon-jumped from the forward cabin Armed report today.
door after the crippled plane The Inculent was reported to skidded to a halt. 12ve occurred when
20 odd
Ometalu said it was believed on the night junks were fishing in the waters the nuse-wheel northwest of Castle Peok, near from New York Cily collapsed Chinese territorial waters.
sa the plane touched down on On sighting the Chinese gua the runway at Logan.
American Airlines sold the boats speeding towards them, the thing vessels at once tried (plane carried 64 passengers and to exape buy six of them log-a crew of five.
rounded up
Rio de Janeiro, ing behind were and escorted
by the Chinos Brazilian afritner carrying forty gunboats in the direction of passengers made an emergency landing with n damaged Chinese waters.
The report also mentioned landing gear here today, after thug euriler a colitary fishing circling the airfield until its fuct Junk working in the Lau Fall was almost gone. Shan waters had been chased Exponenty crews and equip- entered Hongkong waters. The sirfold, but the plane made a Junk escaped,
sato landing-LUPI and 'AFT
by a Chinese gunboat which had mert were standing by at the
a