Economy Priced
THE WEATHER
KOMURA
LENS
SOLE AGENTE:
GILMANS
Comment Of The Day
Hongkong And The Election
TERHAPS no other Genernd
Election since the Colony was founded has so much interest for Hongkong the one which takes place " next month. The campaign, the policy speeches of the
leaders and the results will be studied for the implica Lions they have for this Colony,
What Hongkong hopen for, i
Strong gusty north-north-east winds. Overcast with sain and occasional heavy showers. - Noon - Temp: 77 degrees, Noon Humid: 93 p.c.
LATE FINAL
CHINA MAIL
No. 37458
Established 1845
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1959.
Price 20 Centa
NOOK NOW ON PAN AM
JETS
TOKYO to
Honolulu-San Francisco/Los Angeles
For Reservations, Phone 37031
PAN AMERICAN S
NOW THEY NEAR THE 100 MARK
RESETTLEMENT SPEED-UP
HOMES FOR 300,000 BY
END
OF 1959
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER Government are stepping up the rate
of
HK JUNK'S HISTORY-MAKING Dalai Lama Asks 10,000-MILE TRIP TO SPAIN
Barcelona, Sept. 9.
A well travelled Chinese junk sailed into the harbour today after completing a history- making voyage.
And to welcome the Rubia construction of multi-storey ** and Re Spanish crew, thousands settlement blocks, and by the and of of persons lined the dock to cheer and Wave Da officials the year will have passed the 100 mark.red welcoming cannon
however, is not the prospect, At present about 210,000 refugees are living in 92
of radical change but the confirmation-and perhaps
here and there the liber alleation
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of these massive blocks on seven re-settlement estates in various parts of the Colony.
salute.
Nearly eight months ago, on I suited from January 17, Hongkong bound for Barcelona.
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Its captain, Jose Maria Tey,
30, wanted to be the first person
existing By the end of the year another 13 blocks will bever to sail a Chinese junk into
policles. Cotton mill owners, for example, will be con-; cerned
particularly
with
completed.
This will be a milestone of
Labour's policy on cheap progress in this Government Asian Imports during the venture, unique in Asio, for period of modernisation of bousing large numbers of people, Lancashire's textile in- The people who live in 10cm
dustry, And Labour's attire mainly refugees.
the On top of
tude
to world trade In general and trade with the colonies. The Commonwealth and China In particular will be watched with Interest, THERE still a rankling
Hense of injustice
T
to
here
over the fact that of Hong- kong, India and Pakistu, only this Colony gave way!
British
pressure textile exporta last year. Resentment is seen in cur rent agitation for a quota holiday. There is also a be- hef that the British Govern ment is not doing enough to stave off the threat of American restrictions on imports, Beyond this there is the much! more important question of Hongkong's future and u clear definition of aims by the Labour Party would be welcome. The differences between Labour's colonial policy and that of the Con- servatives in recent years are lens on basic issues than details though on small there was a strong feeling once that Labour was rash- by liquidating the Empire to appease vociferous nation- nilst feeling.
.....
This coupled with the ex- of British people perience
uc-
in China at the time of the Communist take-over count for the distrust of Labour that exists In Hongkong to this day. The Colony naturally prefers the Government which re- cognises and makes Aome altempt to stand by im- pezial obligations and safe- guards the interests of its nationals.
TT should also be understood
that responsible opinion here favours Hongkong re- maining Colony, Theral are ambitious and idealistic! men who would prefer) to see un follow the same path of political evolution! as Singapore. The Lee Kunn-yew Government after ita rabble-rousing election campaign has surprised most people by the diligence with which it has governed, but whereas Singapore's
borders are with Malaya, Hongkong's are with Chinn and the political influences emanating from neighbour- entirely ing states different.
Hongkong can| only, thrive under a benc- volent, progressive colonial, administration.
Are
It is impossible in the spacel
permitted to deal with all
210,000 re-
tied in multi-storey blocks, a further 83,000 ore living in col-
tage areas and two-storey lem- porary buildings, so by the end of this year, just short of 300,- 000 enfugees will have been re-settled by Government.
Total Cost
Total cost of multi-storey re- settlement block building by the end of this year will be well over 1100 million, spent over the last six years.
A breakdown of thứ various re-settlement areas shows that the two biggest estates are at Shek Kip Mei (20 blocks) and Wong Tal Sin (21 blocks).
Gre
A further two blocks planned for Shek Kip Mel be- fore the end of the year, and another block will be added at Wong Tai Sin.
Cricketer
Dies After
Car Crash
The Mediterranean. Today his trip was over and his wish had
come true.
HERO'S WELCOME
Barcelona gave the travellers a hero's welcome. Jose and his six-man crew, which included an 18-year-old Chinese cook. hnd soiled
over 10,000 miles from the China Sea.
the With its sails furled, Rubla was towed into the har- bour hundreds of small boals escorted the 60-ton craft,
The Junk Rubia pletured as it left Hongkong harbour. Inset shows the Captain, Mr. Jose Tex receiving a priest's blessing before he salted-China Malĺ photo.
Meanwhile,
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For Immediate UN Intervention
United Nations, Sept. 10. The Dalai Lama's appeal for immediate intervention to stop China's "wanton and ruthless murder of my people" lay before the United Nations today with no member state eager to pick it up.
23-year-old god-king. India, whose relations with from his exile la Indio, ap China now have ebbed to the pealed last
to night the point of border fighting, saw no Secretary-General, Dag Ham- point in raising Tibet here as marskjold,
the long as the Chinese are not re-
presented.--UPI.
for help by
General Assembly.
Ho maid Chinese forces had massacred thousands of in-
nocent Tibetans
and were sterilising the men and women
drive to exter of Tibet in
minate the race,
Thousands
had
been dis-
possessed,' the Dalai Lama said, and presed Info milltary con- struction guys.
Destroyed
been
Public In Favour
Of Tories
London, Sept. 10.
to
the
Thousands of Buddhist nionasteries have
raze The latest Dally Express pubilo opinion poll on the General and religious paraphernalia
Election shows a 735 per cent. In an attempt to band played 6,000 feet of flim he had taken, destroyed
lead for the Conservatives, and Tags flew from nearby build military marches and trumpets He added that the must dan wipe out Tibel's religion
Latest poll replies trigs and the authorities had
sounded os a sabutę was fired. Cerotts part of the trip came culture.
Other even set up an offelul review-
"Life members of the crew during the crossing of the China
and property London, Sept. 9.
are no question as to who they would stand. It held representa- Collie Smith, the Weatives of the local Governor andere Manuel Tey, Luis Maynard Sea when they were caught by longer safe," the Lama said in vole for brought a reply of 47 Ferrer Jose Luis de Medoz heavy storms. The high point his cablegram, "and Lhasp, the Per cent for Conservatives, 3015 Labour, six for. per cent for Indian Test ericketer the Mayor, and a number
of (expedition photographer), Joa-of the trip, outside the hora's capital of the state, is now a
Libertis and one for others. Six authorities whose spine was fractured other Spanish
anqul Del Molino, Jose Gonzalez welcome today, came when the dend city.
and a half por cent wero unde- families of the
"The Bufferings which and the Chinese coolt, Joe Lui crew was granted an audience
my in a car crash on Sunday well as the
cruw.
Tse-fee.
by Pope John XXIII at Rome. people are undergoing are beelded. died in hospital tonight.
Flurcs for the two leading The local Chinese populallon TO: WRITE BOOK
Toy, said that, be had only yond description and it in. im He was 25.
was represented by Fr. Poler Jose Tey said later that he one remaining problem: he had peratively necessary that this Parties in August were Conser Yung.
planned to write a book about no idea what he was going to wanton and ruthless murder of vatives 46 per cent and Labour his adventures and that Madoz do with the Junk Rublo now my people should immediately 38 per cent. was planning to put together a that it had reached Spain be brought to an end. feature film with the more than UPI.
Two other West Indian cricketers who were injured in the same crash, Gorfeld Sobers and Tom Dewdney, were sold by the hospital tonight to be "com- fortable."
The car in which they wurd riding was in collision with a L10-ton cattle wagon near Stone,
Staffordshire,
were on
The three of them their way to London to play in a charity match when the call- slon took place.
The other estates are: Cheng Uk, 18 blocks; Tai Hang Tus, 14 blocks; Lo Fu Ngam, eight blocks; Hung Hom, four blocks; Chai Wan, three blocks.
By the end of December,, n new estate of four multi-storey Smith. 20, those full name blocks
been will have
was O'Neill Gordon Smith, was Loted
for bits infectious pleted at Jordan Valley.
Further blocks will be added enthusiasm. Along
with to present estates, and by the Sobers, he helped the. West beginning of 1980, refugees will Indies to go a long way towards have been re-settled in 105 building a side to be feared as multi-storey flats.
Yul Brynner Signs On
With UN
BRYA
VONNE [CARE
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com-
EDWARD G
ROBINSO
YUL BRYNNER ·
Nice, Sept. 9. The American film scior. Yul Brynner. has elgned a three-year contract with the United Nations as an unpalj civil servant to me a study displaced persona
of
the
much as were the Caribbeans when Weekes, Worrell. and Walcott the famous "W's" were at the top of their form.- Reuter,
(Sac also P6)
ON FIRE
Midland, Calif., Sept. 0. A friendly fire dispatcher phoned fireinen on duty at Midland's air terminal last night to tell them "there's a fire story on KMID-T3,"
The Grefighters misunderstood the message and rushed to the television station,
They
had been watching the ire story when the dispatcher called--- UPI.
After landing, Jose Tey was awarded the Cross of Naval Merit by Vice-Admiral Molins.
London Showgirl Boy Chased
To Become Nun
London, Sept. 9.
Miss Georgina Moore, 21-year-old London show. girl who was stand-in for
The
La-xile" "Mons portrait of Princess Mar-
artint garct by Hallan Phiatro Annigeni, said to- day that she plans to be-
come a nun,
Miss Moore, sald xho would receive her first Iesson in Catholicism today from the Rev. Fr. John Wingfield-Digby, a JesuLIE, at the Church of the In- imaculate Conception Mayfair.
was
Unlil a fortnight ago, she appearing scantily- dressed at London's Prince of Wales theatre.
Miss Moore said: "I know
it will be hard to give up The bright liebta, but I'm sure 1 have real vocation. Ivo modellod, I've danced, I've done strip-tease. Now I wani to do something worthwhile."-China Mal
Special,
Two Prisoners
Escape On
Court Way To
Two prisoners under escort escaped on their way from the Victoria Remand Home to Kowloon Magistracy early this morning.
with robbery with
defendanta curged. with the robbery, were remanded four
Dog Roof
By
Falls Off
And Dies
New York, Sept. 9.
The Dally ix- press published a more accurate
"It is in these circumstances forecast of the lost General that appeal to you and the Election than any other poll. United Nations in the confident London Express Service. hope that our appeal will re- ceive the consideration which it deserves."
Suggested
The Dalat Lama suggested that the Assembly's gmerat, or steering, committee, put China's
repression Tibelan
the agenda "on its own initiative," or without a request from specific delegation.
This
procedure.
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A
Fell Off Lorry Into Sea,
Then Drowned
ARE WHE
An unusual lorry Beeldent In Hongkong this occurred an unprecedented nurning. I resulted in one man being badly injured and an- U.N. experts pointed out, that other drowned, the Lama's appeal, in the nor
An aged coollo sliting beside mal course, would have to be the driver was Jolled off his A 67-year-old widow turned her large Belgian troduced by a member of the seat, fell in the sea
organication.
drowned as the lorry in which Cho was travelling drove, along circum-Connaught
Road West Western Bizert at about 8.20 this morning.
Tho lorry travelling from west to cast, then crashed into
roadalde. another larry parked by the
shepherd dog loose at three boys playing on the roof of her apartment building today, and one of the boys fell six storeys to his death in panic.
Storm Signal
Hoisted As
Depression Intensifies
Mr Hammarskjold was powered, in unusual
an item
stances, to Introduce
on his own.
The United States and the shied Western powers Tie woman, Mrs Anna other Maronet, was charged with way from raising the Tibetan homicide in the death of Jesus issue here on two grounds: Lay- hading themselves open to a charge Acosta Delgado, 18, who
another cold wat come here from Puerto Rico of making it
item and to avald embarrassing only a week ago,
Folice said that Mrs Maronet, India in its touchy relations with 'who lives on the sixth floor of China. the Bronx apartment building, became annoyed at the youths Limping on the roof.
Police sadd some witnesOUG TE- ported seeing the youth idites from the roof.
flying Another
rodd he saw then boxing.
ASKED TO LEAVE
She went up to the root with
The woman said the
boys
A tropical depression, Nora, her 11-year-old dog, Fee Wer, which had been in the and asked the boys to get off. China Sea for the past refused. Police said one of the
pebble at her. two daya, suddenly in- boga threw
The woman). then told them, tensified this morning, a
"If you don't get off the roof, spokesman of the Royal r'il fum the dog on you." police Observatory Bald this said. The boys stood their ground, and Mrs Maronet un- leached the dog.
morning.
As a result, the Colony, is likely to have poor weather for
over
youth,
The dog went barking after the youngsters. Two, of the the next two days. Overcast boys, Aniche Hommandez, 14. sidies and rain can be expected, who lived in the building, and the spokesman added.
unidentified another The following is a statement Jumpod
a three foot issued by the Director of the parapet at the rear of the Royal Observatory:
building and escaped. Ata, tropical depression: One was re-arrested while the Chih-pang, 30, broker, charged Nora, which had been in the side of the building and fell But Delgado ran towards the other is zull at large,
offensive China Sea for the past two days, over the edge of the root into a Cheung Fai, 34, odd-job black-weapon, and passession of arabut very weak, suddenly inten-emirtyard. He died two hours smith, and Lou Tung. 32, un-and ammunition, and Lau Wing, sined into a tropical storm when laterUPI. problem throughout the world employed were among the lout 32, unemployed, charged with a report of 45 knot winds was the issues in which this Colony is interested and to-
robbery of 132.812 taris of gold more days by Mẹ A. Gocels at received from a ship near the Comment will Mr Brynnes is now shooting from Lal Fung. Goldsmith Shop Kowloon court this morning.
And a film at Les Baux, souther
In Latekok Ratal €41 Ju Three more defendants, Tim therefore hoisted at 11.05 am "Lc Testament 30.
On-nel, 40, housewife, Yim
Permcola, Fla., Sept. 9.- A drug store here bought a The two broke loose all of a Chiu-hol, 24, cashier, and Chau "At the moment the storm in Mr Bryner said he was con- sudden near the entrance to the Tim, 30, shop fokl, charged with almost stationary end contred more accurately assessed the adent the displaced
about 130 miles south 1,000-pound safe after a gh- persons Victoria Remand Home while receiving stolen property, were
by thiever China
Mail will
was taken keep problem could be solved. He being
wastof escorted to Kowloon also remanded four more days.
Hongkong. Stronger ono readers informed 011
the said he would make a report to Magisuney for hearing.
Their ball of $5,000 was ex- gusty winds can be anticipated two monthr ago, - policies and prospects of a special commission of the UN.
The store reported yesterday ihla afternoon and tonight,“ Lau ww chased and re-tended, the various parties, par He will carry on his cinema arrested. Cheung is still
Between miduight and noon, that thieves managed to Lan, re-arrested this morning.
1,000-pounder ticularly those which in- work during the three-year large,
will be brought before the court a total of 1.03 inches of rain way with the
rome time Monday night.---UPI: terest Hongkong....
¡ period-AFP.
The other defendants, Cheng this afternoon, it was learnest.
morrow'a
touch
on
others.
It was announced today.
as the campaign gots under France, way and opinion can be' Dorphoe."
at
centre.
"The No. 9 storm signal was
Not Safe
The
near
driver of the wayward Irry, Wong In-cheuk, 25, was seriously injured in the head, eye and both hands.
MOST HK TELEPHONE
NUMBERS TO
HAVE SIX FIGURES
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER--
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The majority of Colony telephones will be gradually changed over to six-digit numbers, spokesman for the Hongkong Telephone Company said yesterday.
Between now and 1963, the end of the first phase in the Telephone Company's expansion pro gramme, thousands of telephones on the Island and the Malaland will be transferred from old exchanges to three now exchanges at North Point, Mongkok and Kowloon City,
Some 5-digit Numbers
The spokesman said that all the equipment in the new exchanges was designed for the six-digit system, although some of the present five-digit lines on the old exchanges would still remain "for an indeterminate number of years***
These changes are belpg made, the spokesman wald, in line with the new boundaries' introduced ro-, cently. They will make for, botter distribution. Most of the changes, he added, will mean a shorten. ing of the distance between the subscribers and the main exchanges making it more economical.
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