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Comment Grantham Opens Drive Lancashire Turns To Aid HK Refugees Down HK Bid For
Of The
Day
A REPRIEVE?
THE news that Hongkong
cotton men are beginning
to feel the pinch of their self-imposed cuitings on exporta to Britain will}
Jittle surprise,
chuse
especially since the news that orders for 30 million; square yards of piece, gouds
from Britain have had to Sir Le rejected. When the Hongkong undertaking was announced at the end of Inst year, we believed it would months before local be 18 manufacturers reached cell-i ing figures. We reckoned Sir without. the tremendous growth that has taken place In the industry since then.
In this reason for pride, or
Herious concern?
'See It Yourself”
Exhibition
Held In London
?
By COLIN RICKARDS
London, Aug. 14. Alexander Grantham, Hongkong's former governor, today throw a £5 note into a battered oil drum-and started off a £50,000 drive for funds to help Hongkong's refugees. Alexander was opening an exhibition, part of which depicts Hongkong refugee life, in the courtyard of St Martin-in-the-Fields Church just off Trafalgar Square,
No doubt Hongkong has the The exhibition's centrepiece money and time and lots of right climate for industrial 12 a village of hovels built from both. We must start building investment. And
is rubble dump semps by thirty right from ground level and very scouts. It Is being extensively in order even to gratifying to know that boy
nised by the inter-Church start to help."
kap.
centre of investment.
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local production and exports Aid and Refugee Service who are booming so tremendously topr raise £50,000 to build for they imply that there a vocational training centre for aro more jobs, that more are refugees in Hongkong. sharing in the Colony's More Than 100 people heard growing prosperity, that Sir Alexander speak of the need our manufacturers are help to rehouse Hongkong's hundreds of refugees and ing reduce the visible trade of thousands
the exhibition 124 and that all this in dererive turn is adding to the atypical but cleaner than you
would find in Hongkong" traction of Hongkong as a He said it did not give him | pleasure to open en exhibition UT we have made an of sancthing is scrivus to this
Lan- but he was glad it had been andertalong with cashire and we have said arranged to bring home the that it help them out of light of thousands of Chinese their difficulties we would in the Colony. restrick exports fo stipulated have fled their own annual figures for three to seek sanctuary under the British Bag and we must years, We should not go help them now. They have back on our word. It will be come with only what they could recalled that for years kral carry In a pocket handkerchief Industry has been advised or on their backs and now they to diversify production, must reshape their lives," Sir looks very much us if some! firms have ignored it. Nor do we seem to have done much about Bring new
markets, America a
to be nuw Hald seriously conevried
about the rate of imports from Hongkong and the time may rextric- come when Goku tions are enforced against our exports. We hope it will not be necessary but if{ it is, it will look bad If wel toe the line with Ameries An because we have no alterim- tive, yet continue to badgeri Lancashire for a reprieve. The textile industry has made
undertaking voluntarily. And it should
do ita utmost to live up to
it,
Alexander Salu.
After the opening he told me, The only thing that will solve Hongkong's refugee problem is
Also at the exhibition was Hengkong's Chief Fire Oficer, Mr W. J. Gorman, who is here
on leave.
Mr Gorman said, "The Hang- kong Government is doing all I can.
"It is building seven-storey blocks of flats but it is a ques- tion of money. They have done extensive rehousing of the re- fugees and while about 300,000 still remain there are also about 300,000 slum dwellers who need accommodation."
Attempt To Recover
Space Capsule Fails
Washington, Aug. 14.
The Air Force today falled in Ita attempt to recover the capsule from the Discoverer satellite.
The Defence Department an- nounced tonight that the capsule separated from the satellite at 6.42 p.m. (2142 GMT) and headed back through the atmosphere over the Paci fic Ocean
Laos Asks For UN Observers
Vientiane, Aug. 14.
Neither aircraft nor ships found the re-entry vehicle, which weighed 80 lbs,' and "there is little hope" now that it will be found, the Pentagon said.
The satellite capsule was supposed to emit a signal which aircraft could "home" on and attempt to snatch it out of the air as it dangled from a parachute.-UPI.
Missing Bomber Crew Mystery Still Unsolved
The Laotian Government is
Washington, Aug. 14. · to ask Mr Dag Ham- The United States Air Force is to make "one last marskjold, the United Na-
effort" to solve the myster,' of what happened tions Secretary General, to send
to the nine-man crew of a B-24 bomber which one or two oh servers to the troubled). came down in the Libyan desert 16 years ago,
Vietnam Laotian - North
After having been presumed border, I was announced] lost in the Mediterranean, the He said that in relation
here today.
bomber known as the "Lady Be this he was visiting New York
A spokesman at the once at Good," was found last May by and San Francisco later this the prane ntalster, Mr.Busan oil exploration team 483 to study multi-story Santubat, said the request miles southeast of Benghazi, on mouth
would be put by a speciat a plateau in the ma fire regulations
Mr Goman added, "The re- envoy, Mr Ngon Sananikone Colanzio. fugee stiuation will remain un- the premier's brother, who is solved in Hongkong unill re-expicted to leave tomorrow for settlement is completed. While New York, there are squatters we will have fires,"
The plane had taken off from an air strip 28 miles southeast Lavs has already sent a letter of Benghazi on April 4, 1943-us to the UN, claiming that North part of a bombing mission over huts have The exhibition's
Vietnam was involved in re- Naples. been sprayed with fire resistant cent rebel attacks on the north- chemicals.-London Express Ser-east frontler provinces of Sam vlee and Reuter.
Neua and Phong Saly,
Climber's Three Day Ordeal Ends
Bolzano, Aug. 14.
80-hour ordeal ended today for Tony Mase, a moun- tain climber stranded on an Alpine ledge since Monday, but rescuers found the body of Glullo Gabrielli hanging by, an ankle from a rope. He died yesterday when spurred to a desperate attempt by the knowledge that the rescue team was nearby. Mare raid Gabrielt had al- sheer eliff when a rock, Jarred most svercoded climbing the loze, and struck him on the head, He fell hend Arst but
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his fall was broken by a rope attached to his ankle,
Hestuers wrapped his body in
a tarpaulia Bridled it to the
ledge. They were to ity to pull It up tomorrow for burial,
Mese, suffering from exposure and starvation, was taken down into the valley. He was described 1 in a state of extreme fatigue but his conditiona was "not alarming.
The spokesman said the obj servers' only mission would be to go to the frontier to report on what they saw.
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A
'Quota Holiday'
London, Aug. 14. The Lancashire Cotton Board spun a protective cocoon round the sudden request by Hongkong weavers for a "quota holiday" temporary increase in ceiling of exports to Britain. The request made by the Weavers Association Chairman, Mr Elmer Tsu, sent Cotton Board executives into a huddle in Manchester today. Finally a spokesman said Mriments if they are not golug to Tau's request was unoMetal and keep them?" declined to comment.
Countering Mr Tua clalm that it was now Lancashire's Mr William S. Winterbottom, turn to give Hongkong sonte head of the multi-million ne help by granting a "holiday", spinners and doublers combine Mr Winterbottom said, "It would and member of the Cotton Board, said This is an ex-be a blow to Lancashire if the agreement were suspended and traordinary move by Hongkong1 do not think we will agree to manufacturers - and most cel auch a thing. The idea of the fish. It astounds me."
agreement was to bring con- "What is the point of giving fidence to Lancashire's industry." undertakings and making agree-London Express Service.
HK Seamen In
Mid-Ocean
Rescue Drama
Three Chinese crewmen of the cargo-liner Ben- rinnes were involved in a mid-ocean rescue drama last month when the ship went to the aid of a stricken Italian vessel in the Indian Ocean.
This was revealed today by a one from Benrinnes, but the spokesman for the Ben Line. boat crews were not hurt,
In the midst, of... n. gale, the Benrinnes eventually, had to Master, Capin Seaton Murray leave the stricken ship when her
supplies ran low. of the Banrinnes got a distress London, Aug. 14. call from the sinking Italon 35-year-old man was] camar, Avior, Aned one pound today for klasing
policeman's
horse,
The unusual affair took place in Gavan, Scotland, as The plane's radio still worked the man, whose name was given as Marshall, was walling in when the exploration
tenline to enter a football stadium. found it. The guns were loaded Suddenly Marshall left the line, The number of observers sent. but unfired and the
ran toward mounted police a matter for Mr Ham-flasks were still half filed with man, and threw his arms around
but there the horse's neck. marokjold
decided,
water and coffee, spokesman sold-Reutor.
was no sign of the crew.
Subsequently 18 mites fren the crash scene, cicht markers made of parachute strips were Weaverville, Aug. 14.
found painting north, as w Mrs William Sydney Porter, as an abandoned pair of flight widow of the short story writer boots, night helmet and known as "O. Henry, died to-fe jacket, but this trail ender day at the age of 91. Her hus-in the edge of the sand 625- band died in 1910-UPI.
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O. Henry's Widow
Torn away from the object of his affections by several police. men, he then defied the mounted agent to come down and fight him.
A witness to the incident said.
"He seemed to show □ great affection for that horse, I is not common for a man to kiss a horse. Ho must hayc been drinking"-AFP.
'Crocodile Men' Sentenced
Stanleyville, Aug, 14. The, tribesmen were found to blood-thirsty gang hid tearned The blood-curdling activities have killed considerable to make perfect Imitations, of
crocodile frous of African tribeiseen number of Africans from a rival these
teeth-marka as niibis į tribe for ritusi purposes there with a small pointed knife. who used crocodiles
The courte verdicts were for their ritual murders ended were even strong hints that
and prison cannibalism Was involved as į Kovero, úve of the "crocodile a death sentences
for the offenders is a ·well-and-to have faked the men" were sentenced to death. terms
deaths us "crocodile accidents." Three others received Hfo -Men- Belgian Congo court today.
tences and several others were The trial of the" "crocodile.
"The remains" of "the victims centenced to long tering of hard worn always found on a river labour. The full number of bank, mutilated by what looked their victims' was never deter-, like crocodile teeth-marks, Tha | minod--AFT..
HE told his rescuers thut men," which opened a fortnight Gabrielli was driven to his {1= | #50 at Ponthierville, near fated attempt when he heard the Blanleyville, has caused a son- voices of the rescue team-AFP. sillon in the distelok
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A Spanisit and German vessel escorted-the sinking-Avièr towards “Aden. She sank soon after and 22 of her crew were picked up..
Captain Murray commended at- the lifeboat crew for their tempt to take off men from the Itellin ship.
The Bentinans arrived in The Benrinnes put off a life- boat with a volunteer crew con- Liverpool from Hongkong
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