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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1959.
PICTORIAL
ABOVE: The
Manufacturers tion trade
Chinese Associa- delogation
which loft by air for Singapore this week, fed by Mr Yan Man-leung, friends for with posa
our photographor at the airport,
RIGHT: A member of tho Tai Hang West Kal- Association dis- fong tributing a CARE parcol to a poor woman yester- day.
LEFT: Today is the Mid- Autumn festival, and it
is estimated that some worthr of $10 million
con- mooncakes will be sumed in the next week or so. Pictured is one of the many Colony moon-
doing cake shops soaring business.
ABOVE: Mr and Mrs Wilfred Wong Jr seen wedding at after their
St John's Cathedral last weok. The brido is the Gloria formor M Chan.
LEFT: Film star Lin Dai says goodbye to friends shortly before leaving by air this wook for Lai Angeles and Honolulu for a holiday, Mr Robert Chung is on left.
HANS BEUKES ESCAPED FROM S. AFRICA
Capetown, Sept. 16.
writes fashion saus" HATE VOGUR,
NEW
Lady Sheaffer
AKAPASIT FOUNTAIN PEN
UNITRO PAL DE PE
From the Filos
PARADE 25
RIGHT: Smile, please! But will he? The little creature up the trop is a coati-mundi, a native of South America, at Chessington Zoo in Eng- land, and small wonder that he looks a bit dubiously at BBC cameraman john Turner, who is Filming him for the Children's Newsrool shown on DOC tolo- vision, With Turner, looking Gyen
dubious,
moro
is the head
keeper of Chessington
Zoo, Mr Englor.
*
RIGHT: Using his garden
3 a 17 amateur astronomer George Alcock
observatory,
of
Broadway. Farcot, noar Paterborough, has dis- covered two ROW comots, His discovery follows A 560-night watch. Mr Alcock. 2 schoolmaster, has
ported both comets to the Royal Observatory. He used a £200 105mm binocular telescopo. Astronomy has been his hobby for 30 years.
**
LEFT: Princess Beatrix, 21, daughter of Queen Juliana, and heir to the quiotly Dutch Throno, stopped into England for 75 minutos the other day, Tho blonde Princess ica pastanger aboard the linor Rotterdam, called at which Southampton on her Now maiden voyage to
Princoss The York. asked to have a_quick look
the English without countryside fuss or coromany.
at
ABOVE; In London Eton's most distin- guished new boy, Crown Prince Birendra Shah, next King of Nepal, The Prince has been to board- ing school in India which was run on English lines.
CHINESE GOT TO THE
MOON
BEFORE
'LUNIK
By David Lan, China Mail Reporter
THE Chinese got to the Moon much earlier than the Russians. Sheun Ngor, the Chinese Queen of the Moon, landed there over 5,000 years ago, according to the legend-starting the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is cele- brated today.
The drama and mystery which has surrounded the name of Hans Beukes in the headlines of the world's Press since June when the South African Government withdrew his passport, has directed publice attention to Rehoboth, a "state within a state" in Southwest Africa, which was his home, and to the unique community that lives there.
Since then, the Basters have
It was in the pre-historic time when a king in China, a great archer, registered as Then the envion Swartbooi and coloured, birth they are Hans ettes, EL
Afrikaner awept through Reho-been given an calvizory board
searched for the "essence of youth" for years without much success. student al Capelówn University, "Rehoboth Busters."
Their "site" comprises about beth, but were driven back. The which though it was originally
Moon-later cele-Ming dynasty and the had been granted a three-your
the best Basters were now firmly estaba nominated body, they now
elect themselves,
Finally he got it and stored the eighth achukarship to study at the 5,200 square miles of
the Mid-Autumn cakes are handed down to this The
constitutional position it away one day before he left brated
with the day together Festival university at Oslo. He arrived sheep and cattle farming con-lisher,
board try in Southwest Africa. The in Port Elizabeth 10
In 1888, the Gerzṇan adminis-has been reviewed from time to the palace for a conference.
2 It is a time for family reunton Autumn Festival. a population
extenderl to them a time by several government The queen, Sheung Ngor, ship to Norway but the security area contains
about tration
lady, beautiful
found the for then the Moon shines tull police made a sudden swoop and about 8,000, or whom
of treaty of pea and protection, commissions. In the town from 1.500 live took his palsport
title to the away
recognising their
The last of these, the Staples- mystery drug and drank tall and brightest in legend and
of 1950, in the absence of her husband. in fact as well. him. No official reason for tho Rehoboth.
The farming comists mainly land and their right of self- Du Toit Commission
recommenied that the Basler's withdrawal of the passport was
Up And Up Volksraad (Cssembly) of sheep and cattle raising with government. BiVOTL
subsequently the Ger-stored to them
with limited
Speculation
are scarcely
of
ony
Descended from unions be European trek farmers a hearing. But while specula and natives, the people are light tlon continued as to how he was skinned. The men are lean and Their dress, customis going to overcome the passport sinowy. dificulty in order to go to New speech are similar to thst of the origing1 European settlers York, he disappeared.
to be in of this land. The women have He was reported British Bechuanaland but, apart adopted modern dress, but they from a singlo attempt to gain retum an old-world shyrests. entry to Southern Rhodeslu, he has remained out of the mibile eye ever since.
The history of Rehoboth whose international status hao founded the brains of sune
Fearless
But
be ro
$10 could have remained
Junor
future relations between Reto- He promised them that some BBC PROGRAMME
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When the Festival came to the Yuan dynasty, the story of the mooncake took place.
Mooncake Story
was
rebellion smouldered Finally under the unfair rule,
a little vegetable growing.
There Thion from New York, came wealthy farmers in the Rehoboth broke the treaty, fellow-powers as an experiment. But beauty on earth up to this day
ing the death of Hermanus von the Executive Committee of had she not drunk so much.
The Yuan dynasty Wyk, which marked the decline | Southwest Africa rejected It. the news that the United Natious community,
The result was not what she of the Rehoboths.
Rehoboth peutioned the
exported the had
became Mongol. The Chinese. rebolled Committee on Southwest. Afrien
Betrayed by the Germanis, the had agreed to give. Mr Beukes tween
the the United Nations in 1954. asters at the outbreak of World League of Nations in 1928 and lighter and lighter, ascending against the foreign conquerors
Moon in secret.
The Mongols were a lazy War I transferred their loyalties
The United Nations came to until she reached
Palace. to the Allied side and served the conclusion that the present with distinction then, as well as set up is not in acordance with
She had brought along her people. They did not work bui companion, the Jade depended on the Chinese for n in World War II.
the 1923 agreement, and called only From 1923 onwards there was upon the South African Govern-
rabbit, and both have remained living. That was why every Chinese fumlly had to support in the Moon Palace ever since. misunderstandings, ment to ret matters right. series of
at least one Mongol. In the The date 1950, the resulting in strife and discard, In September,
The In that year the South African Baslers appealed to the admini calendar was the 15th day of Government offered Rehoboth rotor of Southwest Africa to Angered by the attitude of an agreement controlling the improve their position. European Remors in the North
Basler families both and the Southwest African con- cen Capr, 20
of under Hermanus van Wyk trek administration.
River Nahoboth got oxtain richts the foremost constitutional ex- kod across the Orange perta, is the saga of a small and into the arid and hostile Innds but had to agree to ocoop! South bimple-hearted but obstinate of Southwest Africa in Novem-African and Southwest laws as
well; Most of them refused to The South African Prime ber, 1868. and courageous people.
There they nurvived not only agree to this.
Minister, Hendrick Verwoerd, Few people outside South- west Africa and not so many the ordeals of their auduous trekt, In 1925, a group of farmers has ordered an investigation and
anything but also the onslaughts of the refused to obey a summons to huu received an official repo.2 in Southwest-know
night of the Libesmen and various appear before the magistrate for Meanwhile, the Rehoboth are about the origin and nature Ngan
bands of Hottentots.
failing to brand their cattle in wondering whether Hans Beukes listeners here for the questions was tho bloodiest of all Mid- the Itchaboth Busteru,
Having earned a reputation terms of a Southwest African intends ploading for them to the in this edlilon came trom Wah Autumn Festival celebration for Some South Africans say the
Yan College in Hongkong, and ages many Mongols diba by white,ns tough and fearless fighters, law. They successfully realsted United Nationa people of Rehoboth are
treatles arest by taking to the moun- Recently the majority of them they cro answered by the well knives, some say coloured, and other they negotiated peace
The Mongols searched for the with their neighbouring tribes, tains.
Inoued a statement saying that known sports commentator John call them nalivou
As a result of the action all Hans had no status to plead for Ariest, Dr G. Wadsworth of the leader of the rebellion but no The Rehoboth people them-nnut bought the title to lichoboth
Hottentot rights to self-government were the ceramuilty as a whole, but London School of Ilygiene and Chinese family told them
Medicine, End solves reject all three classifies from the Swartboal
and a European j'anty for himself on the with- Tropical tions and insist on being called tribe led by Abraham Swartbool, taken away
The result? .. Mongols The Basters converted the magistrate was set up as incir drawal of his passport-China Michael Shanks of the London Bast name of which they
osaled to mice were Financial Times. Mail Special. country, leader. are very proud. Officially at area to habitable
thing would be done. But ho said they must not be impatient na it might take a your or more.
Investigation
ON HONGKONG
In "London Calling" at 7.30 this evening Radio Hongkong is rebroadcasting the BBC's "Qu03- tlon and Answer." This pro- gramme la of special interest to
a leader thought up a plan to start the upheaval. He put Hóter la small round cakes and circulated them, in the people.
On the notes were inscribed the message. "Kill the Mongol in your home on the Mid Autumn Festival so that we may see the sun again."
The Bloodiest
That
by truth.
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TR J. H. Shaw of the
Power Co Ltd who passed his final examination for the Chartered Institute of Secretaries In December last, has now been admitted as un Associate member of the Institute.
MR China Light and
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TH THE public interest in
the Court proceedings against G. W. Sewell, A. L. Sullivan and H. C. Mecke, summoned for having at No. 286 The Peak on August 81 to be mude
or permitted made a noise calculated to disturb the public tran- quility was ao great, that the Court room was crowd- ed with Europeans when the hearing was commenced before Mr E. W. Hamilton at the Magistrney.
In the evidence led by the prosecution it was alleged that Scottish Stu- dent songs, shouts of "We Want Southorn (Sir Thomas)" and calls for the "boy" had all emanated from No. 286 The Peak where apparently a party was in progress, and that Mr T. H. King, the Deputy Inspector of Police had finally to send an officer with a request that the noise cense.
Inspector King said he heard songs such as "John Brown's Body", "He's A Good Fellow" "and Jolly "Daisy, Daisy," but Sewell when he gave evidence denied this. He himself
sang "The Indian Love Call", while a guest sang a gipay song. But they never Bang "John Brown's Body".
Sewell said he suspected that Lady Southorn had, sent the police up to hiá house and he said he resent- ed this.
"I did not receive any message by telephone or chit from Lady Southorn. The complaint defames my character, and has been. publicly broadcast, I am from a well-known con- pany, and am a representa- tive of the British Federa- tion of Industries, and to mo it was just as important as to anyone else in the Colony."
He said he never heard the shout "We Southern".
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