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MAN SET FIRE TO MOSQUITO RUSSIA ASKS Of The NETS, GAOLED FOR 5 YEARS CHINA FOR
Two Women And Hongkong Owner's Big Race
Day
More Fish From
The Ocean
10 men like Mr Wong For-
the blindl
HILE Whe
Ty
was given a new shuring boat yesterday by the Suciety for the Blind, the
of a new sheries| vested for Be
kung may
men little nothing. But the Cupe S
herself a gift to the Hongkang Cavernment, and the subject of a vote in the Legislative Council Wednesday, promises to be the un important aid to Colony's fishing feet
generally, though obviously its size range and past re- cord suggest it is going to be more help of drop-sen
Hongkong's fishery
than in share fisheroblems
have Jen clearly
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phasised in the last two yeare, Not only is demand growing with the incressing number of mouths to feed, but a year or two ago China Ashing difficult in waters our fleet has tra elationally used. Chiefly affected was the Colony's inshore deet which was confined to the already over. fished local waters. There is therefore a need to en- sure supplies by placing greater dependence on more }) reliable areas.
UT this will have to be Ddone gradually to avoid
upsetting the locul industry." Most of Hongkong's fisher- men are inshore men and their craft likewise limited Their
sphere
er we scale of operations.
earlier this year the
zure
and
re of scholarships to
convert the most enter- prising inshore junk cap, mechanised
nins
in
Five Children
Trapped By Blaze Triumph
£1
A man
who set fire to mosquito nets By A China Mail Reporter covering sleeping people in a house The wife of a prominent business- in Taipo was
Hongkong sent to gaol for five
scored man has years in the Supreme Court today.
major triumph. A a second charge of assaulting a woman, Mr
horse she owns has - Justice A. D. Scholes sentenced the man, Tam
Won the famous Yuk-tin, to six months in gaol.
Gimcrack Stakes.
On
'DIED' FOR FOUR
MINUTES-LIVED
London, Aur. 20,
A patient In Glasgow four hospital "died" for
alive วงการพ and came arain without ald, the Hellish
Journal Medical revealed here today.
The 8-year-old "dead" {} patient had undergone hernia operation, and in- mediately afterwards heart slopped beating.
Fix
But the next morning he was in good health, with
all bl physical faculilen
intact and with no signa of brain Injury, wilet frequenily results when fie heart stops beating during an operation.-AFT',
Failure To
Recover Satellite Capsule
Vandenburg Air Base,
Aug. 20.
recover
The Air Force failed today a 300-pound capsule elected from the Discoverer VI satellite,
from earlier
Two previous recovery tries Discoverer sutel-
It is only the second time in the 103-year-old history of the race that a woman owner has won.
Mr D O'R. Mayne, Senior Crown Councel, to the court that a woman. Law Chun, who Employed Tam had priminded ii ad threatened to fire him, und Unt motivated the offence.
Yesterday's winner was Mr At about 3.50 4.1 on May R. Mullion. wife of $15 31 at 5 lei Yuan Street, Talpo Chairman of Hurley, Mul How market, there were three peoplest Co., ship
managers and beside Tam sleeping on the
vuluers of Hongtong, and floor of the building, director of a number of leading ground and seven people, including Ave Hongking Brna.
ren, sleeping in the cock-
All were covered by mosquito nets.
Ed
MT Mayne said Tam, using blazing Newspapers malehes, set fire to the inos- quito nets on the ground floor,
The alarm was given, and the #leepers escaped.
Cockloft Blocked
Momwhile, Tam had ConC upstairs to the cariciafl where
avith her
children.
sister
The Mullions were at York to see their fily Paddy's Sister Tomp home to a three knalis in a field of fer two-
The race is regarded as one of the most important two-year- old events of the season,
PRIZE MONEY
The win means a prize £4,625 for Mrs Mutuon.
of
Mrs J. R. Mullion, successful race-horse owner, pictured with her husband and family photographed earlier this year going on leave.
It also means that she will be The only other woman owner guest of honour п! the to win the six-furlong race Lan, his employer, was steeping, Gimcrack Club dinner in York was Mrs Els. Foster, of Eng- she land, whose Dudachon ccored five on December and
15 where will, make 11 speech. If she in 1956. follows the usual procedure this The race is named after the will meare a discussion of "turr great racehorse Gimcrack who covered 221⁄2 miles in an hour Reuter quoted Mrs Mullion In France in 1776. afler the race as saying: "This is one of the greatest days of my life",
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He closed the trapdoor cover- ing the stairway and put heavy sack of rice on 11, block-politic'. ing the entrance and exit from the cuckloft,
in
FAVOURITE
Mrs Mullion's horse Wos
LABOUR AID
Distributors Want Films Certified
By ANTHONY FULLER
China Mail Film Correspondent
Hongkong film distributors are expected to meet the Hongkong censor board shortly and ask that films to be shown in Hongkong be issued with certificates similar to those of the British Censorship Board.
If this is agreed to. It will mean that all Hongkong Alms
be will
maricel "U"-for general exhibition, "A"-for Adults only, and "X" for horror. Arbitrary decisions taken re- cently by the Board has puzzled locul film distributors,
One example="Love Is My Profession".which has been
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shown and been well received in all the capitals of the world.
"Yesterday's Enemy," Reuter's correspondent de.
powerful anti-war film, made scribing the race stated that the around an incident of the World Ally coasted home in effortless War II Burma campaign. has style to win from Newbus and now been released for distribu- Oak Ridge.
tion to the Hongkong public. following ban koposed by fite, Hongkong Censor Board,
The Mullion own a number of horses in the United King- dom and friends in Hongkong sold that Mrs Mullion had had other victories this year,
They at present in the
Rome, Aug. 20. |Russia has asked China for 100,000 Chinese workers to help speed up the lagging Soviet seven-year plan. An Italian News Agency which specialises in Communist affairs said this today.
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Tho Agonzla Continentalo soid that despite Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- chov's claims that ocone- mic and industrial normES ware ahead of the plan, the programme is actually logging.
Quoting "reliable sources," the agency sald Moscow had already asked Peking for 100,000 workers and that the figure might be increased to 500,000 by the spring of 1961.
PERSONALLY Negotiations on the labour force will be corried out personally by Mr Khrush chov during a forthcoming visit to Peking, the agency said.
Preliminary indications wore that the Chinese would bo reluctant to lot that many workers go to the Soviet Union whare conditions are comparatively better, the agency said, because on their return to China they could be a source of trouble. UPI.
she trained by Mr. Paddy Prender- United Kingdon on RAF JET BOMBER SEA CRASH
"The net downstalia was still burning, and the whole building
could easily have gone up
She said that although und her husband would be is flames," said Mr Myne.
Tam struck Lou with his Hongkong during December, they would certainly return to fsts and she rebleed n two- inch wound on her
forehead attend the dinner,
and a badly bruised left eye, raid Mr Mayne.
Tam then set fire to the netting covering the beds in the rock loft,
"The children were awakened | urul jumped out of bed, but they i were still trapped in the cock-
were two
of said Mr Mayne, "So here house, one upstairs and downstairs."
tres raging in the
Escaped
Western-style trawlers. But whatever scheme the Colony adopts, the role to be played by the Cape St Mary will be important. She will be used by University scientists to locate new fish- ing grounds in offshore waters. She will probably also survey deep-sea fishing grounds to determine the arens in which the various fish esumed in Hongkong are to be found greatest abundance. The present re- search vessel. the Alister The Defence Department said Hardy will in all probability the capsule from Discoverer VI hunded over to Govern- Was successfully ejected as nient to relate research to the new of the needs of local flahermen waiting
planes and ships building. to retrieve as t
Soon after, police and the fire ASSUMING Hongkong de prachunted down in its rudio
rides in future to place it visually or pick its radio brigade arrived and extinguish-
be
es also falled.
scheduled over the Pacile but
greater emphasis on fishing signals.. with modern Western-style
-Therefore it is unlikely that will be recovered
trawlers, one of the tasks the capsule which Government and the though the search will be con- University hould set them-timed for a number of hours," selves
Is to work out the the Department statement, re- kind of trawlor most suited leased in Washington, for fishing in the nearby UPL
Pacific Ocean. This is not
as ensy as it seems;
complicated questions
anch
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the di-tance between ocean rullers has to be determined before its
Keneral dime
alons can be laid down. On top of this Hongkong has not had conspiencas success with trawlers in thet past. Experimental models
Lau escaped by Jumping over the railings of the corkloft, and people from the preund floor Amally forced their way into the cockluft and rescued the children.
Mr Mayne sold Tam Tun downstairs and our
the
ed the blaze.
gast in Ireland and was ridden by Australlan Jockey George
was a BITY Moore. The horse favourite al 11 to 4 on,
Major Outbreak Of Fighting In
Laos
Predicted
Vientiane, Aug. 20.
The Laotian Defence Secretary, Colonel Phouimi Nosavan, told reporters tonight that fighting with pro-Communist rebels was raging daily at Phaphet, only 18 miles west of the town of Sam Neua, capital of Sam Neua province.
holiday trip and expect to return here in about a month,
They live at "Blue Echoes," Black's Link.
Bride
Kidnapped Before
Wedding
London, Aug. 20.
A 22-year-old bride, Rose- mary Gray, was whisked away by two unidentified men in a black car this
morning as she was about | to enter the church for her wedding.
Only the best mun saw the
Police arrested Tam at 6.30 the same morning.
What could have been a very serious and tragic matter indred, was overted." Mr Mayne added.
Sentencing Tom, the judge He said the Government could The communique added that saldFaid he had committed a very
continue to hold the town of rebel guerilla nction might bride being kidnapped, but heinous und grave offence,
Sam Neus, but the Communists spread throughout the entire his warning crles went You might well have caused were making strong progress, Laos kingdom and listed three hooded by the. wedding party the death by burning of a um- The Army Deputy Chief of southern provinces two bor- and gunsts, who thought he ber of people, meluding ehiki- | Staff, General Amkba, who is during on the western side of
the provincial commander, is re- South Vietnam where rebel was joking. By the time they
had already The sentebees are to run con- ¦ ported to have told a group of | nelivity
that the been renused
bride had currently.
really disappeared, reporters who visited the town reported.
It was loo yesterday that the rebels were
Meanwhile at UN Mr Dug late, to help. The bridegroom, Throwing a ring round the pro- Hammarskjold, the Secretary-James Waddell, 25, fainted. vince, and were on the move General, was asked to sugges: round the entire perimeter ex-ways and means of providing Later today Miss Gray ap cept. for a gap in the southwest, a peaceful settlement of the poured at the
REBEL OFFENSIVE
ren," he
Typhoon Iris said.
Will Bring
have failed to live up More Rain
expectations, And
to
the
Japanese trawlers now he Typhoon Iris, now Ing employed, contmercially
do not suggest an prototype.
ideal
Diplomatic
Jorduri
Ties
eltuation in Laos.
Her
Resumed
polleo station and recounted her adventures Jerusalem, Aug. 20.
A letter from the Laotian to the police for an hour. today resumed
An Army communique today Government requesting this story was not revealed, relations south-diplomatie
delivered with the predicted that Communist rebais was
personally to United Arab Republle for the would
before mid- probably unleash cast of northern Luzon, is first time since the
A few minutes Mr Hammarskjold by a spocial aftermath
envoy major offensive to retake the
from Laos, M. Ngon night on Thursday night Rose- expected to cross the of the Iraqi revolution, lost two northern provinces of Sam Sananikone, the brother of themary Gray was married to Philippine islands into summer.—UPI,
New and Phong Saly.
Premier-Reuter.
James Waddell by a Protestant the China Sea tomorrow
clergyman in the drawing-room of a private, house. morning, a spokesman at the Royal Observatory wлid this morning.
There are some who think théi
Colony should rely Jopatiese trawlers in the uvent of an emergency. Further experiments may justify This view. The Hongkong fisherman ix beginning to accept the bear and speed
If iris remains on her present west-north-
that he must have aboard glit knots she will
prend to the south of the Colony his vessel a properly train;[in Burday night. ed crew, but there are still
Plan To Prevent Flooding
夏目
New Territories
channels. The nullah will have
an average width of 35 feet,
The police way pursuing their investigation, but had not yet discovered who had kidnapped the bride-AFP.
Formosa Tragedy
The Government today GN={ The now water bourso will many who would prefer to repetal winds of up to 05 knots Jeconnaissance aircraft have
nounced plans to prevent flood-, replace the old winding stream
Talpei, Aug. 20. fish in the traditional way, near Hi enire, while ships have
Log int low-lying part of the which became elogged with silk
Chen Kuan-jou, 17, escaped with a family aboard andrepostedt whics of up to 60 knots
New Territories badly hit by and sand during the beávy The prevent contract also calls
from his fooded village in Cen- hravy rains and floods in re- rainstorms in June.
for the building of 5,500 feet of | teal Formosa two the predictable decking of a
weeks agu- However, the spokesman cuid❘ cent years.
* As a result of the allfing, main road running parallel with.),and came to Tafpel to Ilve with Chinese Junk beneath his|
Thero that de weather should clear
widespread flooding occurred in the new stream course,
relatives. fest. Certainly this type of sightly this afternoon. Saturday Shatin valley is bo baya the area.
will be footpath on one sida..., man and vessel will con-is uxpected, to be fair or fine, trained walor course extending Today's Govorument Gazette: In addition, 2,200 feet of foeder He went swimming on Mon- tinue to form the basis of with a gradual deterioration on from the railway bridge near calis for tenders for the consigue roads will also be built to con- day in the Tamaul river. Police the local fishing industry Sunday, probably with squally Keng Stau acrom the valley to lion of 5,000 feet of open nullah neof the new main road with recovered his drowned boly for many years to come.
the thing-hun river.
and EQ,000 foot of irrigation {' nearby villages.
- Í yesterday—UPI,
London, Aug. 20.
The plane was believed to
A RAF Victor jet bombor have come down in the Atlantic
crashed into the sea with off the southern coast of Ireland, where distress Bares were spot- five men aboard, it was
led. No survivors or wreckage reported in London to-were sighted by rescue plones. night.
AFP.
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