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'SOCIALISM IS ALREADY TREADING ON YOUR HEELS'
Of The K MEETS THE BIG
Day
LOCAL EFFORT NEEDED
WIS Is Hongkong's year-
World
Refuger
The the
And He Tells Them:
You've
Helped Russia
With Your Embargoes
New York, Sept. 17. The Soviet Premier, Mr Nikita Khrushchev,
came to the financial heart of America today and challenged his capitalist hosts to an economic race that he said is cortain to end in Soviet victory.
Year. At the end of it re- sults will show that more has been done for our pur by the Colony's overavak friends than in any viona year. At the end of it. the poor will still be withe but let us hope that the word "refugee" disappears. because among Hongkong's sorry mass of down-nal-outs there can be no distinctions. Mr The refugees and the Toenis make up one problem. And
it is time we stopped re Karding immigrants transients,
Khrushchey began his 45-hour visit to America's largest city by warn- ing capitalists that Socialism "is already treading on your heels.”
tion the Moscow subway.
"We were grateful to your specialists for that co-operation not to speak of material re-
Ife then told 1 dinner : He met Mr David Sarnolf, Chair» Į grad and Kharkov, Americans, as audience of distinguished man of the Radio Corporation of along with the British, acted as American Industrialists and America. And he was intro- consultants during the construc- economide leaders that the US. dueed to the biggest Soviet Properly Government hus in- Sad helped the Soviet Union, bogry nith of them all, Mr G.
sisteri
or rather than hindered It, by a Keith Funston, President of the no special 071 distinctive trentnient for refusal to trade freely with the New York Stock Exchange.
Mir refugees in its "shopping immunes.
Khrushchev #ve his muncralion." list" of projects offered to
dinner audience a lesson 017 Mr Khrushchev's dinner au- Suvlet economles contributor
in which hedience was brought together by boasted about how well hi the economic club of New York. whatever way the Colony benefits from this Year our
natten had fared under Com- His address, prepared in advance, munisan.
therefore was devoted to eco- needy will share equally.
"Look what tremendous suc-nomies.
? Several nations pro-
cesses we have scored in our posing to help. In two,
cecnomy within these 10 years," three or four years time a
he said, "how our technology, | bur selence have developed.
natione.
Are
Jrt
In
manufacture of machinery
"We have had to develop the we did not have before and
ended to purchase from you," he said.
the artificial curtailment of trade with Soviet Union has rengthened (rather than weakened us,"
number of buildings should Hob-Nobbing
the
be in existence which will Mr Khrushchev, apparently
be specifically the result of spurning any association with Creative Genius
Refugee Year.
the
They
of
American
Trade With UK
He made a strong bid for irade between the U.S. and Russia, saying that Russia's trade with Britain was going well and trade with West Germany was on the rise. Good economic
relations were being built with
Communists, spent "We have craciced the scoret his entire Brst day in New of using hydrogen energy before may bear name plates say; York hot-nobbing with ing: To the people
the you did. We have developok a rich and famous, some of whomballatie intercontinental rocket Italy, he said, and relations Hongkong from the people often have been
attacked In earlier hun you which you in with France are not at all of America, or Britain, or
faet do not have to this day. Australia or Canada.
Special Occasion
will look Ind if the
Ievietokone
nothing special. may be argued that the tax- payers have been abould- ering
This burden-which now exceeds an mual $200
million for the last nine
years. But this is a year)
Lin-
bad"
Moscow.
The bouncy le chirt of | And a ballistic intercontinental **Why...then - must America world Communism shook hands rocket is indeed a condensation remali apart?" He asked with Mr John D. Rockfeller 111. of creative human gontus."
Mr Khrushchev, In con heard of gesture of generosity to his hosts, acknowledged that the
Finl Ruglans
invented everything.
"Ford helped us to build the car works in Gorky, he said. your engineers helped us to build tractor plants in Stalin-
K TRAPPED
IN LIFT
New York, Sept. 17.
of special effort and as Mr Premier Nikita Khru-
001
K. L. Stumpf said at the Press-Radio luncheon Wednesday Hongkong must give its support. And in a tangible way.
shchev's $150-a-day apart- ment in the Waldorf- Astorin hotel became a five-flight walk-up today. The premier's lift stuck just below the 30th Boor. He mounted stool towered through the jeet. We have had funds for elevator door and then walked bumbers for Britain, floods, up ve lights to s 36th floor typhoons, Chinese New presidential suite,
A fund should be set up for
some specific welfare pro-a
"A great capitalist malfunc-
Yeur. We make special en, Bir Khrushchey said as he
all made the long climb.
It Christmas,
efforts over and above our ordin- With Mr Khrusbeliev
to the
not
Then he warned Americans not to forget one thing:
"It sometimes happens that bride will walt too choosy a Loo long and find herself un old mald..
. we also have a rather good provert to effect: he who comes late must be content with a picked bone".**
UPI.
Sixty Feared
Killed In
this
House Collapse
Barletta, Italy, Sept. 17..
ary giving. Here is another stailed lift were Mr Henry Cabot The death toll from the collapse of a new, special arcusion. Whether Lolge, U.S. delegale to the
the fund can be supple- United Nations and Mr day Khrushchev's offein! escort on
mented
appeal
مورد
flag 13
ur some other
his American tour, Mr Joseph P. Blas, the Waldorf's General
omeial
scheme for mass donations Manager, another hotel
is
a question the local and two Interpreters.UPI. World Refugee Year Com-
mittee must consider.
Not The Few
I that
important however!
wealthy-should give some- thing.
We have urged Government in the past that whenever tux increnges have to be considered, spreading the burden among the entire population is the Arst essential. Not, because eufficiently the rich are taxed already, but because keeping the community go- ing is everyone's responsi bility and all should be made to feel it. Lewiso the wolfare of our less privileged people
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burden to be shared by as many as possible. Nor should this proposed
contribution by the people: of Hongkong be thought of just as 1969's special effort. When the community centres, the rehabilitation hospital and the schools are built they will still have So this to be maintained. year should really be thought of as the beginning of now obligation. This should help us to remember that Hongkong as we want it to: be, can't be built in a day or a year, but only by con- tinual striving.
apartment building rose to 48 today, including an elderly man who died in a hospital after surviving 36 hours under a huge jagged pile of rubble.
Jodrell Bank Tracks First Moonship
This picture shows: Professor. Bernard Lovell, director of the world's biggest radio-telescope at Jodrell Dank, notr Manchester, listening to the final bleeps emitted by the Ruslan moon-rockel ng it neared the Moon's surface, Ho wald afterwards; "Tho siguiño anco of this achievement is u Brilliant demonstration of the advanood stato of Russian science and technology ., „ono's mind - Just bogates."...... London Express Servies,
The authories feared possibly 80 persons died in all.
Lagi Luperki, 60, was dis- nearly covered this morning, unconscious, moaning weakly and embracing the body of his dead wife.
He's Talking!
Di
At the sight of film, one. the 'army engineers digging through the wreckage stood up and yelled, "He's talking".
BIG TYCOONS
of the
The Electricity Commlision this morning vislied offlers and power stations Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. Mr W. Bloker (left), General Manager, is seen showing an index system to Mr C. 3, M. Bennett, Chairman of the Commission-China Mail Photo.
Typhoon Sarah Leaves 138
Dead, Missing
Tokyo, Sept. 18. Typhoon Sarah swerved away from northern Japan today and rumbled through 20 Japan Bes 10ward Boviet-held Sakhalin with 05-mile-per-hour winds.
Behind it, the storm left trail of 138 people dend and missing, wrecked subkon ships and fooded and damaged homes.
Br
The storm hit Miyako Island, south of Okinawa un Wednesday and left it a shambles.
Hardest bit Southera Korea
Brea
wan wilero police reported 04 dead and 22 missing. Seven were killed on Milyako and 16 in Japan. Thirty more are missing 1 Japan.-UPL
17-Storey Kowloon
Building
Hongkong Electricity By Company Visited
Inquiry Commission
Members of the Commission investigating the cost and distribution of electricity in Hongkong, this morning inspected offices and power stations of the Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd.
The Chairman of the Com- mission, Mr J. H. Mould, sold that although he would like to
about make a comment company, circumstances did not permit him to do so.
the
the
The Commission, which in- cluded. Mr C. J. M. Bennet, the j Hon, Dhun Rutonjoe, and the Secretary, Mr David S. Whit- legge, were conducted on tour of the power stations by the company's Chairman of Dire fors, Mr G. T. Tagg, Mr G, M. director, Goldsack,
Mr W. Stoker, General Manager, Mr J. F. Barron, Deputy Manager, Mr F. . Full, Secretary, Mr J, H. Mayrock, and Mr E. Poulsen, enginours,
NEW STATION
Mr Togg sald that last year the company produced 122,500 kilowatts of power, "At present
ore constructing a new station, which, when completed, will enable us to almost double our output he said.
"We expect this programme
A new 17-storey building is to be completed in 1965,"
to appear in the busy area of Tsimshatsui, Kowloon.
The new block will bo situated at the site of the pre- Nathan Road smal No. 41-71 and 22-28D Lock Road.
"One of the new generators of 30,000 kilowatts capacity- already in operation and the second will start next month. A third of a total of five units should be producing by June next year," Mr Togg zaid.
"Our station uscs British There will be #2 shops
on equipment almost exclusively," the ground floor and a total of he added. 236 domestic
the Hats, and bullding is to cast about $3,000,000.
EXEMPTION
}
A wave of sighs swept This morning, the Govern through the thousands of on-ment Gazeite notified The lookers who had gathered at exemption of the present houses Die disaster site.
from the further application of
to
Film Stars To Marry
Hollywood, Sept. 17.
European
Not Guilty
What's this election about
anyway?
8
October WITH
looming. a few weeks away, the Con- servative and Labour parties are rushing elaborate preparations for the debacle that will decide the next govern- ment of Britain.
In the big, feature- packed issue of the CHINA MAIL tomorrow, reporter and political commentator Donaki Edgar scrutinises closely the issues that will be aired in the forthcoming election campaigns....and gives you his starting con- clusion.
CHINA MAIL reporter Andrew Sloan, in another vivid and dramatic article, continues his series on his- toric Hongkong typhoons with a description of the 1923
storm. Read "The Hour of Devastation...."
Leonard Moniny brings to an and his absorbing series "That Astounding August" tomorrow with a
up to
when
chapter that brings us that day 20 years pence was meamised in Chamberlain
minutes, when gave Tilller
execily two hours o!
to call off his
поровли
Poland. ,and when, sudden-
ly, it all became verious-a matter of lives, OUR Byes!... Also in the weekend Mall
Are:
Of Driving Are the
Charge
R. W. Clogg, Wiroloss Superintendent of tho China Navigation Co Ltd of 31 Stanley Court, Ston- loy, this moming found not guilty of Con- tral Magistracy when he
Was
Gospels Truc? ...the last chapter in the provocative serice bu Geoffrey Ashe;
★Bricin's
Beatniks .... torites
Thomas Wiseman
on the latest American jca in Britain, and dez- cribes a fin being madě on the subject;
And all your favourite comics, cartoons, puzzles, the best in sports news coverage, special pages for
appeared on a charge of the housewife and glamour
dangerous driving.
He appeared before Mr A. J. Sanguinetti.
girl, articles for children, latest news and all - the
especially
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It was alleged that he overviews...among many other took a car in such a way as to highlights cause a third car to swerve and your reading pleasure. Tako home a CHINA MAIL to-
run into an embankment.
at
Mrs M. N. Clegg, wife of the murrow! accused, said that on July
a.m. she was sliting as
а
passenger in her husband's cor. Maria In
On Wongnelchong Gop Road her husband attempted to over- take a slow-moving sports cur. As he did so, he horn.
sounded the
ACCELERATED
As he drew level with the
sports саг, 1's driver looked
around and accelerated.
She said her husband
A Morris Minor come
Im-
along
car
For the tired dirty crews the Landlord and Tenant Or- Red Stelger and Claire Bloom,mediately braked to draw back. who had been working in the dinpare and -compensation who were co-stars in the broad- wreckage cinco dawn yesterday, mounting $700,000 WDS way play "Rashomon," fook out in the opposite direction.
the time it was level with the the discovery of Luperti pre ordered to be awarded to the a marriage licence today.
Stelger, 34, and Miss Bloom, sports car, her husband's sented new hope of finding more tenants, including Lane, Craw- survivors.
was back on the left-hand side ford and Co. (which gets who made her screen debut as a Besides the dead, 13 injured | $100,000), a number of silk proleges of Charlie Chaplin in of the road. were found in the ruins of the stores and a school Lock "Limelight" said they
Mrs Clegg said she did not hear the sound of braiding. Ave-storey building which was Read.
merry.in few days.UPI,
built only six months ago. Not
a pillar of it was left standing.
Spoke To Injured President Glovanni Gronchi talked with the injured in hos- pital today and also visited the courtyard where coffins con- taining the bodies of men, women and children lay un- covered in state,
Jn
would
The Duke's 'Cycling Mishap'
London, Sept. 17.
A light cycling ́mishap'' in.; volving the Duke of Edin burgh a reported by a Lon. don newspaper. According to tho newspaper's hur- columnist the Queen's the
Signor Gronchi and other government representatives promised
action to prompt lighten construction regulations 130 Insure no repetition/ of
collapse. Theyi pledged quiek punishment for any persons who might be responsible for yoster- day's tragedythe worst auch
Italy's dianalerin
postwar history-UPI.
and set off wiik around a courtyard.
cathustasın
br
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Spain For Concert
Spain, Sept. 17.
By Opera singer Maria Callas arrived today from Athens aboard a specially refitted DC-3 Skymaster owned by Greek shipping Mr magnate,
Aristotle Onassis. He did not accompany her here. Mias Callas came here for a sell-out concert performance at the Collaro Albia Theatre Lo- | night. · Unill her arrival, there were fears that the American- bora soprano would not show up.
number
of
of lookore the Princoss loat ber bicycle, and the Duke a little digulty.
Mies Callan's name has been inked romantically with that of Mr Onazala in rpdie of their dentats that they were anything more than just "good friends.""
Miss Calics had accompanied Mr Onassis to Athens aboard his luxurious' yacht Chriolin. Mrs Onassis remained in Paris.
Reports from Athens muld the tofurnished for the
The writer adds: "bal he had account fallied to take into that, although the bloyelo was
"I im happy to report that the built on sturdy lines, it could
Princess, nt lens, did not hardly be expected is take
suffer her loss for long. band, was waiting for men-
the weight of a grown man.
"The remains of the bleyelo bern of a shooting · party t Balmoral Castle. the BoysThe invyitablo happened. The were sent to a repair shop in
frame collapsed.
nearby Ballalor where a Dow Family's Boottish' residence.
borrowed "In októ brief moment-greetod | ~ frams, sa rwifily filled.—| DC-3_3vas Joke, he
with considerable Princess Anne's red hicrole
Milarity China Mall Apecial, il night,-UPI.
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