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WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1959.
SHEAFFER'S
Skrip
Voluntary Ceiling Open Day At Grantham College Pointing
On HK Garment Exports To US?
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Hongkong is probing the possibility of a voluntary ceiling on garment exports to the U.S. as a goodwill gesture to keep the promise made to Mr Henry Kearns during his visit here that "we'll find some solution to the problem."
One of the leading garment manufacturers said this today.
BRITAIN PLANS BIG EXPLOSION UNDERGROUND
London, July 22.
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority is reported Today to be planning to explode 18 tons of TNT under- ground, probably in Earnwall.
The Daily Berald's defence enrrespondent, reporting this, says It will be one of the biggest explosions ever known inz Belain.
it aim, il correspondent says, will be to And out ir 20 atomie bond could be exploded underground without anyour noticing it.
The currespondent adds:
The result of the experiment
will be reported to the Geneva confecrarr of atomic selentets now considering a world-wide foretion plax To check further nuclear tenis.
"An old in mine la Cornwall Is, at the moment, the most
favoured rpot for the cnt.
"When taken plaer, ulmerver stallons throughout the
country will record it on speelal Instruments. "The authority may later consider small-scuir nuclear ex-
plosions in commonwealth countries for the same pur- jose.tenter.
Burglar's Conscience
Adelaide, July 21.
The sub-commit'er under the Hongkong
Manufac Gurment turers'
Union was appointed" Ly the General Committee of the Union some two months ago 1.ady the problem, he said.
Teensidered this a wise ve to make in view of the fact that Hongkeng is now ex- porting more garments to US. than Japan.
During the first six months of 1950. Hongkong exported about US$30,000,000 of gurments to America. A total of US$80,- 000,000 is expected to Io 10 USA this year.
In 1958. the total of Hong- konk Karments exported je America was worth US$18 million.
The Sub-Committee of the Hongkong Garments Mani- facturend Union was not the
nly one at its kind, he said.
This
Hongkong General
Chamber of Commerce Had a Jab-committee formed long ago
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Under Fire
Sir-Just a few lines to in-
to study, the question of Hong-Term Mrs Church that my first keng exports to America after letter was duly signed and The visit in
Petroary by Me had never sy intention of con-
can
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| Henry Kearns, U.S. Assistant
cealing my identity under Secretary of Commerce.
nom de plume, therefore the This sub-committee embraces! question of cowardice do NOL
ather than garment! Libe, only you Mr Editor ¡ industries
manufreturars, but it Is not explain why my name was not known what progress they have published.
disputed made.
her I have never The Sub-Committee of the right to ask questions, she has Hongkong Garment Manufue- free to query as she is fren turers Union expects to let the jump from the roof of Marina public know what has been de-House but as a student of pay- cided upon in one or two weeks" chology, it is not hard for me to time, the manufacturer said. sce at once that she is suffering fran a fulte de grandeur, as BASKETBALL every human's behaviour is either motivated by envy/ University The
San
folle de grandeur, team will jealousy, or Prancisco basketball play the All
therefore I have with charity Hongkong stars:
her qualified
superwoman's team at the Southor Play-ferts as "grand madness". He said "Watch out. ↑ don't | jiyrite jammed into the lark. ground of 630 p.m. today. Walt lo kill anyone. I tried to An expert said Infer a key turn- Ape Af..
ed in the lock might have caused arrived last Saturday will stay that funds placed at the disposal explosion.-China- Maiunt Friday or Saturday before the Tourist Asociation are cither misued cr embezzled leaving for home.
when she wrote guns Arc unaccounted for in the balance sheet",
Polier went to the city in A conscience-smitton burglar Mitance office the burglar men- tioned and unhinged and un- who fumbled an attempted the Tao of the 6-fost to blow an office strong steel door of the strong room. room with gelignite carly
Working under the guidance today telephoned a warn of explosive experts, they found ing to police.
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"It's loaded whh gelignite and an
a detonator which didn't go off."' Special.
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I hope he is not suggesting
I reiterate my conviction that the Tourist Association is doing a fine job in selling Hengkong overseas in spite of the many petty criticisms, perhaps If Mrs Church were entrusted with the job of publishing the Assocla- tion's guide books, she would have then viewed the whole thing differently.
the
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cver-
bark. Let the doga curavan shall res, this should
the molto of the citicised tourist ensuciation.
LAU TAK WAI (A GLOBE TROTTER) [We Assumed
Globe "A Tro ler" YUNA meant 15 Q pseudonym.-Ed.)
REPLIES
To Mr C. C. Lau: The sub- ject was closed yesterday.-Ed.
Fined For
Razor Slashing
A 41-year-old barber, Choi Tin who pleaded sullly to assault- ing a fellow barber with a razor was fined $50 or two weeks gaol by Mr T. L Yang at Central Magistency tlila morning.
As he was about to leave the dock, he threatened the com- plainant. He was called back by
It was open day at the Grantham Training College today. In our picture above, Mr Wong Tse- kong (second from right) joken over one of the exhibits with Miss Bernadette Ng, (left) Miss Chung Yuk-ying and Mr W. M. Cheung, the principal (right).
China Mail Photo.
Gaoled Youth Can
Go To Sea:
Chief Justice
Sentence In
Cuts
Half
The Bone: A Doctor 'Cures' It
Alice Springs, July 21. White man's medicine finally has triumphed over black magic in the desolate Northern Ter- ritory of Australia. Dr G. H. Tippet, a Govern- Punt Medical officer, sald "cured" an aborigine who was about to die because an enemy hod "pointed the bone" my blm,
This is 1 common ritual among the nomadle stone-nge tribes
hy
From the Filos
25
years AGO
Yesterday
was the hottest day of the year, the temperu- ture as recorded at the Royal Observatory reaching a maxi- -mum of 91 deprces.
A
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IL
MEMBER of crowd of miners hurled at empty beer bottle at the car carrying the King and Queen to Holyrood Palace
it was passing the mini-
village of Harthill.
The driver Becelerated. The The King and bottle missed. Queen did not notice it and the miner, who was believed to be drunk, was arrested.
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Bishop R. O. Hall preaching at St John's Cathedral epoke of the peculiarity of mankind to delight in turning words of religion auch as "God", "Good
No one knows how or why It Lord" and "Jesus Christ" works. A witch doctor points a into daths yet it was not bone-usually a kangaroo bone strange, he said, but rather
is -at a
vletim and mumbley a further evidence that God curse. The victim dies. Au- and that God is love, topsies never dizelase cause of deuth.
PSYCHOLOGICALLY
know the
F
OR sale: Morris Minor, two seater, new, No- curse veniber. 1933, licenced in- works. The victim believes the sured, any trini $1,100. Or bone is passing through his body would consider exchange for and reaches his heart to kill him
Physicians
He lies down and dies, psycho-American Car. Owner being transferred to Manila, Beck, logically killing himself.
Yet cases
have been known | APC. where a native has died while a
bone
curse was being made
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against him unknowingly hun-AID the Singapore Free dreds of miles away.
at.
Tippet said he found a native
Press of Hongkong:
at a bush settlement who was "There is little in Victoria to dying after having been pointed attract the traveller bent on local colour. Its public build- The doctor told the native he ings, churches and schools could cure him by surgically removing the bone. The native may be seen in any Western city, and the general run of Its houses and shops though CHLOROFORMED
modified to suit the place Tippet said he simply chloro- are distinctly Western in
but did type. formed the nalive, nothing eise,
"Nothing is here to be seen of When the
artistic aborigine recovered conscious- China's creative and
agreed.
ness, Tippet showed him a wet side; all is business, buying and stone and said the bone had sciling, not only in
turned to rock and he had re-
A 21-year-old youth, Yung Chung-ling, who had been sentenced to three months for exhibiting indecent pictures had his son-moved 11.
The native leaped to his feet. tence reduced to six weeks in an appeal before the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Hogan, this morning.
SAMPANS BACK FROM CHINA
The είχ sampans which wore towed away by a large motorised junk whilst angaged in fishing oporations in Deep Bay on Sunday evening returned to Hongkong yesterday.
According to reports received by the Police the fishermen in the sampans were taken to Shi Hau in Chinese tor- ritory,
tho
After staying night at Shi Hau the mon rowed their sam- pans back to Deep Bay, arriving there at about 12 noon yesterday.
Overstaying
American
the Magistrate who increased Told To Leave
the fine to $75 or three weeks.
Sub-Inspector Yip Tul-you,
prosecuting, told the court that
on July 14 at 2.20 p.m. Chol of
Yung said his 50-year-old futher had got a job for him on board a ship which was to sail on August 7 or 0.
"If I were to serve the three months, I would leave the guol on August 23 or 24 and I would miss the ship."
He said he had eight younger brothers and sisters alls father was the "sole bread winner," He said he was also prepared 10 be placed under police supervision and bond.
to
Standl
"Blackfeller mogle him
Anish," he shouted and bounded off into the bush, whooping happily, UPI.
SIR ROGER'S NEW-JOB
London, July 21.
The busy
Quete's Hond but also in the parts that are purely native....
The Island has been des
the richest spot on cribed as
but considering the
carth, definition 02 real
economic wealth and the fact that ti is Ecarcely capable of producing Brything for the support of its Inhabitants, this statement is open to considerable debt."
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Mr W. W. Greenburg, a PWD overseer, was seriously in. jured in the left ankle through a motor mishap when he da riding a motor cycle in Nathan Road.
Dubliner Dies
Dublin July 21
Sir Roger Makins, 50, former British Ambassador to Washington, is to succeed Lord Plowden as Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, it was announced tonight. He will take over his When Sir Michael Hogan re- new duties on January 1 next Mr Frank A. Lowe, of Howth, duced the sentence, Yung year. At present a permanent County Dublin, chairman of the bowed and said, "I thank you, secretary to the Treasury at Irish Times and a director of my Lord"
today. £7.500 a year, he will get many firme died here Yung was sentenced to three | £10,000 (15 Atomic Energy He was a Dubliner, aged 77 months
Chino Mall Special, Magistrate.
an
June 23 by a Chairman.-Router.
Funeral Of
Murdered Detective
Detective
London, July 21. Sergeant Raymond Furdy was buried today -na *BeatfLoo" Guenther Pidolo, the man charged with shoot- ing him in fashionable 'Ken- sington, Jay In'a prison hos. pital bed,
Crowds lined the streets of suburban Surbiton for the funeral of the 43-year-old detective shot eight days ago
An American who overstayed as he was about to arrest a min
12 Square Street, Hongkong, was in the Colony was advised this in the hallway
shaving a run and accidentally morning by Central Magistrate, flats, knocked down o camb belonging Mr T. L. Yang, to leave as sCHIC
Yeung Wol. All "argument as possible urose, Then they started fight-
Ing.
Edward Ignathus O'Hara, 50. Rcom 710 of Broadway Hotel, During the fight, Chol used was cautioned when he pleaded the shaving razor and sladed guilty to the charge of over Yeung on the right arm,
Yeung reported, to the polleo, while Chol went into hiding Kowloon
Young was taken to Queen Mary Hospital for treatment but was not detained,
staying.
Defendant, in mitigation, sald he had been alck.
of a block of
Nearly 500 people crowded the church for today's simple service.
Sir Joseph Simpson; Moire- politan
Police Commissioner, was among top police and Homo Office ocials present.
About 1,000 police-uniform ed men .and ptain-clothes detectives. Ined the last half His viza allowed him to stay | mile of the route token by the in the Colony until July '13... corteks-China Mail Special!!
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