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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1959.
Southern Formosan City Wrecked By Earthquake
By Charles Lówċ
Hengchun, Formosa, Aug. 16.
THIS city on the southern tip of Formosa looked like a battlefield today. Twenty separate earthquakes last night and today destroyed or damaged about 80 per cent of the brick and stone houses in this city of 508,000 population.
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A series of violent earthquakes, are living under make- tents rather than at- ahocks struck this city of fruit shift orchards yesterday aftertioon tempt to find shelter behind the tilting and broken dangerously and continued today.
walls of their houses.
Itoofa colinpet and the brick and stone walls exploded out- I stood amid the wreckage
ward as if hit by artillery fire. and watched the casket of
Bengehun, the city's name 19-year-old girl past behind
mema "eternal spring") had es- funeral and, the musicians
week's floods in wearing
tennis shirts cuped fast rly
which of Central Formosa
left salvaged from the rubble
nearly 2,200 persons dend, mix- their homes,
sing or injured.
Tin schoolgirls, nembers of her class which had just been graduated, followed the coffin, their heads bowed in teurs.
But the city dropped in ruins today.
Chy officials told me that 10,000 residents, fearful of more
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Sleep In Street
I asked two boys wandering almlessly among the ruins where they will sleep tonight, "In the street," one replied, A tremor shook the city this afternoon nearly 24 hours after the first destructive quake.
Two young men were injured by falling walls in the latest shock, bringing the total num ber of injured to 01.
I flew the 200 miles from T- pet to the earthquake elty with one U.S. doctor, three, novy nurses und four hospital corps-
men.
The American doctors helped focal doctors ndaninister first old to the injured.
A few miles oulside the city
the earth broke open a six-inch wide crack.
The nearby villages of Man- chow and Kinkow, looked as it a wrecking crew with a clase and swinging steel ball had passed through,
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Arab Pressure
Delays Ceylon
Taking Over Israeli Ships
Jerusalem, Aug. 16.
Temple DestroyedARAB pressure is delaying the takeover of twe Israeli frigates purchased by Ceylon, it was learned today.
ed 850 houses destroyed and 1.198 badly damared. Three grinde tehools and one Buddhist temple wete destroy-
eck
No one entered the temple to reclaim the Buddhist images from the wreckage, apparently because of fear of the gods.
Provincial police said 16 per- FORE were killed in Pinging county, most of them in this elty of eternal spring-UP),
Eisenhower Enters The Fray
Washington, Aug. 16. The Washington Post today editorially discussed what
it described as "the re- markable change of pace at the White House these days,"
commented: months now
"For
some Elson- exhibiting
President iwer Jua been what seems for him to be new kind of vigour and butla- tive. He has often abandoned his old above-the-battle tion to speak out and mix into political issues. He has taken
role personal affairs. His one time
a
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post-
foreign concept
that leadership consisted merely
of outlining what he wanted
Tac 1,040-Jun Ceylonese minesweeper, Parkarama, carry-
COSTLY MISTAKE ng more than 100 Ceylonese
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Glasgow.
Wrong
man given the sultcase by mistake at a central Glasgow railway left-luzgage offlee found It contained £5,000 in canh, police said here,
He handed it in and the police believe the money of a is Dart
haul of £38.000 kichra by bandits last April from N elty bank,
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Two men and one woman arrested last May are
awalling trial' in contoo. - tion
with the raid, China Mall Special
British Legal
System Better
Than American
New York, Aug, 16.
appears to have been discardea An American Federal Judge,
Whether or not the direction
of his efforts has always been
Με wise.
Eisenhower has exeried a much more muscular has kind of leadership. He
the made a broader use of powers of his office, including the veto. He has enjoyed con- siderable success in persuading or forcing Congress to his views. "Mr Elsenhower now seems to be more aware of the political lever he has in his continued personal popularity."-Reuter.
Mr Joseph C. Zavati, said here at the opening of a weck's lecturo courao on British legal procedure and practice that "the 100 yours "English aro ahead of us" in court arrangements.
navy men, I was reported, has been held ua Aden since August 4 and informed sources said the official reason for the delay-engine trouble-ls only ostensible.
They said that the United Ards Republic arki Saudi Arabia were protesting the passage of the Partarama through the Straits of Tiran en route to the Israeli Red Sea port of Eilst, where the pur- chased frigates are berthed.
Dislodged
In sheikh's regulia, the Aga Khan drives from Nice airport with Tracy Pellssler, 18. step- daughter of Sir Carol Reed, British Alm direc tor. The Arab dress wan 10 shake off sightseers when he went to welcome Tracy, who is joining his Riviera house party. Express Photo.
Warning Against Thuggery
Kota Bharu, Aug. 16, Police here tonight warned against "thuggery" in the for present campaign gonoral olections ΟΠ August 19.
In a statement the police said they had received information that "strong arm tactics and thugs" were being used in elec-
tlonboring.
The statement added: "The police have not been able to take any action owing to a Inck of evidence.
"So much SD
rumours have now been spread necusing the police of taking skies.
"The police want to make It clear that the polles force is Saudi Arabla and Erypt above politics and will take controlled the narrow straits prompt action against thugs or which dominate the entrance anyone emplaying thuggery la to the Gulf of Akaba, until the electionerring campaigns and the autumn of 1950.
Then, in the Sinai campaign of that line, Israel dislodged the Egyptian shore batteries which were the instrument of effective control of the straits,
appeal to the members of the public to come forward and nssist the pollee"
MOST BITTER Elcclloneering in Kelantan State-remolo and jungle covered—has Been the most The United Nations Emer-bitter of the present cumpaign: geney Force took over control The right-wing Pan-Malayan Party won the scat of the straits when the Israelis Islamic
the withdrew after the fighting and from
ruling moderntu State there hitve been no incidents Alliance Party in the since then.
polls earlier this year.
Observers believe that se PMIP also will win most seats being contested in the elections,
Reuter.
The Saudis and Egyptians were reported to be
pressing the United Nations to prevent
the
passage of the Ceylenese ninesweeper and thus frustrate consummation of the deal which closed with hay already been cash payments.
Inconceivable
Dead-Set
Landon, Aug. 10. Charles -Spice of Worcester Park has 352 days to go before will never
As Israck Foreign Ministry the stakes which he spokesman Bald inst night see ore his in a macabre bet he is
dead-set on winning. that it was
"Inconceivable
Splce Ilves to celebrate his that the United Nations
next birthday, a local under- should have caused the delay."
taker has pledged to bury him Foreign Ministry sources said free. Spice will be 100 next Inter that the UN force is oc- [ycar-UPI.
He was speaking to a meet-upying the straits area with the of preventing I ing of 60 American Federal pase
blockade-not to enforce one. and State judges attending the Israel
no so for has made course at the Law Centre of overt move in the matter, ap New York University,
parently hoping for an early Mr Justice Karminski, of the ↑ and satisfactory settlement. — Queen's Bench Division, one of UPI. the leaders of the British dele- gation, sald that masters or registrars handled most of the dotalled work in civil actions como in Britain, before they Djakarta, Aug. 13. -- Indonesian President Ahmed Ihlo court.
Sukarno Warns
Netherlands
Sukrito wathes today that if
Judge Zavatt's endorsement
the Netherlands remained stub-ot Briush legal practices was born on the question of West upheld by Mr Emanuel Celler, Irian (Dutch New Guinea) alla Democrat, who suggested that American courts should Netherlands capital even that in the
mixed
enterprises would be adopt some British legal pro- to sprod up court Indonesia. ceditres eliminated from
work.-China Mall Special.
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Free Beer
Flows
From Fountain
elty a beer fountain on the model of a Roman fountain With four copper bowls. Eyety
flown the beer the birthday of the founder of the brewery., "
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• Luebbocke, Aug. 10.
today 20,000 people About
quenched their dirsi with free beer in this Westphalian town, where beer flowed from a fountain for suvent tours for anyone who wanted -pro-The post office here put a special vided they wore over 18 years
it
Siz yeuw ago the owner of a Heewery here donated to the
postanuri on letters to com memorate the day. It showed a symbolie picure of the foun- tain.--Reutor.
The Queen Attends Church
Balmoral, Aug. 10.
attended The Queen today service at the village church at Crathle, making her first public appearance since the announce- ment nine days ago that she is expecting a baby early in the
new year.
Several hundred people watched He arrive from ricarby Balmoral Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Royal children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne,
Last Sunday huge crowds of tourists milled around Craile church in the hope of seeing the Queen arrive.
But they were disappointed --- the Royal Fointly worshipped privately Inside Balmerui Chrilo,
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Makarios Gains More Support
Nieosin, Aug. 18. The Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios, 10- day received the "un- réserved" support af EBMA, the political or- ganisation which succeed. ed the underground Greek Cypriot army EOKA.
"We shall unreservedly sup- port Moftarios in founding the Cyprus Republic," said the EDMA distrlat organiser, Nieus Moushoutta.
We wer 10 strangle att birth every plot and exter- minate conspirators," he said,
Moushouttas' stand indicated again for Makarios in what! appenred to be a tehind-the- scenes struggle for power be- tween him and the former EOKA leader, George Grivna.
Grives recently has shown reservations aboul the London agreement granting Cyprus in- dependence. Makarioa signed the agreement, one condition af which was that Grivas should be exiled to Greece for a year.
Moushoulias today furiiented that BDMA would accept the Makarios rather than Grivas as the leading gure of the four-year struggle for inde- pendence,