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'A VERY RARE CONTRIBUTION TO LAW ENFORCEMENT' Mr K Grants
Of The CHIEF JUSTICE'S
Day
VOICE OF THE
Louey Shooting Waterspout
Case Appeals
FEDERATION Are Dismissed
Tto be made by the topThe Full Court this afternoon paid a public
kong Federation of Indus-
trien on a tople of major industrial importance-the
Lo
electricity commission of Inquiry was published cartier Chia week. Its Authors deserve
be complimented bermuse it i succeeds in vesting this nascent organisation with. combination the
of
authority, responsibility and dignity so clearly essenti
in ita role as the repre- sentative of industry,
son
tribute to Mr William S. T. Louey, his and the members of his family for their "very rare contribution the enforcement of law and order on Hongkong" by foiling an armed robbery attempt at their home last December.
to
"They tackled this heavily armed and determined gang, which in the circumstances was a brave act," "Had said the Chlef Justice, Sir Michael Hogan. this enterprise been successful, not only it would have been possible for this particular gang to have continued activities of this kind but others. might be tempted to follow a similar course.
The
and resource shown by Mr Lauey, Mr Ronald cuey and other members of the family that morning have made a very rare contribution future and a to the enforgement of law and
it when
unexpected slate. ment since the Federation be not yet in being--but thei comments
it made show that not only does the Working
Committee have
h very secure faith in the Federation's
courage
clear idea of industry's order in Hongkong." needs but that it is not to
he deterred by any fear of appearing premature from! giving its views of *uch subject interest to manufacturers.
411
a direct
Police Lauded
The Full Court also endorsed the trini Judge's tribute to Insp. . E. Monnington, who wrested Lee Cheuk. one of the robbers 121 the unsuccessful alten: lowing full well that Lee was armed.
The occation on which the police party went to appreh:no
Mother Chuur, must have been very
has
TORE clearly than any
publisked recently recommendations, the Work ing Party of the Federa-! tion has succintly listed the main issues. It has boldly
dangerous, and Inap. Monning- on acted-guliantly afd without heeitation, Sir Michael said,
It was a brave net, Sir Michael went on, and Insp, Monnington had uphold the high traditions
supported the idea of statue of the Putty Burt is
urged
The Full Court made the re-
the conviction
Substitution of bankers marks when it dismissed an guarantees for cash appeal against leposits, called for pre- brought by the three men found in-guilty of the attempted robbery the at Mr Louey's December,
ferential
for
rates dustry,
emphasised fallacy of permanent meter rents, suggested investiga-
residence last
Increased
tion into the surcharge and j Tre Full Court also dismiss- demanded mensares to avoided an aptent by Lee Cheuk long power interruptions. against a 12-year sentence, The Working Party also With regard to the sentences arges the electric companies imposed on the two other men, to foot all their own servien Lee Tok-sun and Lee Wing-yan, charges irrespective of the the Full Court increased location of the customer,
And it closes on a note which many others have rather unfairly
W. S. T. LOVEY
TIBET TERROR FOR INDIANS
Shernthang, Sept. 23. the The Chinese are terrorising Indian businessmen In Tibet in an effort to drive them out of the country, refugees from Tibet sald today.
sentence of four years to one of six on the charge of attempted robbery, and ordered that the for shooting sentences Imposed
coneur- and wounding to run rently with the other penalties. Ignored In recent As a result, Lee Tak-sun now months-and that fa reserves six years instead of the cognition of the efforts of original eight, and Lee Wing
criginal the two electricity com- yan
still serves the
panies to keep pace with sentence of six years.
Hongkong's growing de-
mands. The public's feeling
is probably one of
that their
own views
да clearly
not been concisely presented. The Commission itself, faced with the considerable task of synthesising the various submissions, might also wish that this hud been the pattern followed by all.
Bhan
any
the
Couldn't Do
It With
False Teeth
Melbourne, Sept. 23.
Patrick Joseph O'Rourke, 35.
Li
The informants, who were on to India, said the their way
have touched off Chinese campaign of murder and rob bery of Indian businessmen to force them to close down their businesses In Tibet, thus erent- ing дл ecenomit vacuum favouring Chinese immigrants.
A notorious pro-Chinese Tibeton raided an Indian's shop
arki in Yatung on Monday stubbed the owner to death, ont informant said. The ineklent occurred in broad daylight, almost within sight of the thou cands of Chinese troops in tho town.
LEAVING
As a result, Indian business-
today was reported recovering men who already were pre- from A snake bilo suffered paring to leave Yatung but were
when
Near 9 Pins
CHINA MAIL REPORTER
A Hongkong resident gat a rare photograph last Saturday when he took a picture of a waterspout. Mr J. W. Devonshire, n ember of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, sold that Saturday while returning from a launch plenie at Cascade Bay he and his friends saw heavy roin clouds..
on
Triu
As they were passing between the Mainland and the Islands, just part ClearWILLY Bay, they saw the spout forming in the elouds.
GREW LARGER
to
As they continued back Hongkong it grew kirger. After about 15-20 minutes they saw.
to the sca the spout descend near Northern Nine Pins Island. Three of the people
on the inunch, including Mr Devon- shire's
doughter had their comern's out and were able to
hulograph !!.
This photograph was taken by Mr Devonshire at 1/100th of second on F/11. His daughter was also able to photograph the "spout" but her film has
as not yet been developed.
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NOT INFREQUENT
Observatory spokesman sold this morning that water- spouts were not infrequent in this area but rarely photo- graphed.
Waterspouts.
he
пос said, vortices
from extending
the cloud base (clearly seen in the photograph) to the surface of the
the aca. They form on lower side of heavy shower or thunderclpuds and the rotating vortex sluwly descends to the
water surface.
The humid nir below the cloud base within the vortex condenses into a cone-shaped cloud, whereas near the surface of the sea the wind churns up sea spray.
Are
There is often a clear Kap between the sea spray and the cone-shaped cloud in the upper part of the vortex. They quite common In the tropics and they occur in Hongkong quite frenuently between May and October.
to
TRIBUTE Parents' Plea
Photographed
The photograph of the waterons taken of Nine Pins.
Iraq Slipping
Toward The
Communist Bloc?
London, Sept. 23.
They usually last between two The uneasy situation in Iraq heightened
minutes, and usually average 15 minutes. Their dia- meter may range from 20 to 200 feel.
20 DIE
IN AIR CRASH
he feled to bits the forced to stay on because they Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sopt. 23. head off the repila thai at- | were not permitted to take any tacked him yesterday, O'Rourke sak he bli "the heads off hundreds of snakes
the war bulkan
le serving in Burme during teeth then.”
my own
A Brazilian plane carrying 16 passengers and a crew of four crashed in flamoz tonight.
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fears here today that the country was moving farther away from the West and slipping toward the Soviet bloc. Diplomatic reports cautioned that iron-fisted
Major General Abdul Karim Kassem was apparently fighting a losing battle in his efforts to balance the Nationalists against the Communist forces.
Some diplomats believed that | Britain has, until recently at Kussein, who has proved him- least, taken the line that Iraq self a master of Internal was no means "lost" to the strategy in the past, might still West and that to all appear→ be able to hold oft major ances Kosam was steering a showdown.
coullous stani-neutral
A Sop
Course
But latest developments have caused fresh double and anxiety among Westem diplomats na to whether Kassem would be able to continue his balancing game and for how much longer.—UPI.
UT for one reason more other the statement is welcome. It
or goods money
with them, serves to show the Colony's
But the immediate develop that sought to keep the cour have been thrown into that
Panic
try out of the clutches of com- manufacturers
ments were held to signity a like
and are closing down. organtuation
in marked deterioration
the munism. Six of Yatung's 'fifteen big-
of the Federation has an essential
precarious situation Kest business house's All
two-engined country. The plane, place in Hongkong today—
Indian owned - have closed Swedish mado Scandia, crashed this has not been as widely "When the nake attacked and their ownces have left for n tew seconds after it had left realised as it should have me yesterday, I used to bite its fradia after signing decibrations Congonhas airport on a flight and that industry has in the nead ett but my lower false teeth that nobody ced therm ony to Rio de Janeiro. There were Federation a body that is slipped and the snake bit my money. Actually, they for- no survivors.
felted huge debts owed by their The aircraft was leaving the not in any way backward tongue-false teeth are no good about recognising its ob- for this sort of thing," he said. Tibetan and Chinese customers runway when the motor falled. O'Rouke was bitten by a The Indian Government Trade The plane suddenly lost al- ligations, or coming to grips venomous tiger snake. He kill Agent arrigned to look after the titude, crushed and exploded with them and dosling ed it and tried to continue Indian business community's throwing a shower of splinters with them in a thoroughly working but collapsed. He was Interests in Yatung is helpless and bodies for a radius of 600 commendable way.
taken to hospital.---UPI,
In the situation.-UPI.
feet, UPI.
The Working Party's state- ment should do much to
and op convinco critics ponents that they have Beriously underestimated the value of this new HAB anguclution which
shown by ita state- ment that it la the
not of spokesman
'Chi-Chi' Is Not A
A Female
London Bopt. 23. 14 has Lakon Shroo eminent
schlogists and heat of diagrams to prove that tho дву
London Zoo glant panda sectional interest but of big. "Oki-Chi" la not a female. and small manufacturers Chi-Chi, the Dally Bail reports alike. The Federation has today, fooled everyone,
first His first owners, Oxcelfont
the Chines mado an
Government, scoepied him an Impression.
a femala.
So did Austrian animal trapper Mr Heini Dommer who sold Chi-Chi for abol £12,000
last year.
The Zoo srcepted without ques- tion that he was a fagnate and the name given him means "Baughly, mischievous ite
But doubis, started to grow when Chi-Chi began throw- weight ing bis 15 stone around the cago, knocking the out of largo rabber shifting tyros and plurbalis. Bo the three woologists were called to for a close examina- Lion, mocording to the Dally Mail-Chien Mall Bposlai, į
Western sexdolles were set off by the reported fragt snoot- Ing last weekend officers and mominent civilians for their part in the revolt in the Mosul oll Nolds last March.
The move was considered a blatan!
CONT- "sop" to the munists who opiller thig sum- mer had been rebuffod. by Kaseem,
For weeks past
Kastem has
Malaya's King
Has Good Day'
Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 23,
! Medical advisers to the King
been successfully playing off: Communists VCTSUS ultra- of Malaya. Tunku Abdul Nationallats. He, curbed Com-Rahman, reported tonight that munist activities and influence the 4-year-old monarch "has a time when they threatened a good day and is gaining to gain the upper hand in the strength, following percarious struggle for supreme attack last weekend.
The British-educated power.
however, has been advised to take a Tho
latest, move, appeared dealgned to appease complete restifer, two months,
It was announced cariler. Communist pressures;
Western diplomacy has been divided for some time in its ap praisal of the Iraqi altuation,
π
acart
Tunku
A deputy ruler would be
for this period appointed
Reuter,
Children To Join
Them In U.S.
Des Moines, Sept. 23,
Mr Nikita Khrushchev today ordered the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Gromyko, to arrange for two children of a Chicago couple to be allowed to leave Russia.
The Soviet leader had a five- minute interview here with the parents Mr and Mrs Paullus Leonas, who came to the United States from Russia in 1944.
He then granted their plea that their two children, a 20- year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy. be allowed to join them In the United States.
A PROMISE
When Mr and Mrs Leonas asked him to help them Mr Khrushchev stened closely to their story. He grasped their hands, touched Mrs Levnas' check in a gesture of gympathy and promised to see that the children be allowed
join their parents,
lic called on
to
Mr Gromyko and told him: "Toke care of this,"
Mrs Leonas wipt as ahc
He thanked Mr Khrushchev. Emiled and shook their hand again.
Mr and Mrs 'Leonas told re- porters Inter that they hnd fled from Litbusnin on bicycles as Russian troops drove out
the remnants of German forces in the last year of the war.
TOO SMALL
"The children were too small to bring along when we fled," Mr Leonas said. "They have been living with their maternal grandparents."
He said he had written letters to Mr Adio! Stevenson. vice-President Richard Nixon and Mr Khrushchev asking for help in getting the children out, and had suddenly decided to ecme and see the Soviet leader face to face about I,-Reuter,
Quake Rocks Japan Coast
Tokyo, Sept. 24. An earthquake of medium Intensity
abook Japan's main taland of Elonstu along a 200-mile front 10- day.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casual- tics but the entire Paello seaboard of central Honshu from Nagoya and Gifu in the south to Utsunomiya in the north was reported to be affected. The city Funi, seeno .of. disnetrous
earthquake 1948, also felt the shock.
Tokyo. buildingw shook for 20 seconds.
of one
Government seltmalo- wald the quake originated around 12 miles below the surface 50 miles wesl of Takyo.
The heaviest shocks of · what
was described AS "medium" strength cracked wails and sent inhabilents scurrying out of their homes In most okies of Hanshu-UPL....
RESIGNS
Ottawa, Sept. 23. Maj.-Gen. George 8. Hatton, chief of Canada's Civil Defence organization, announced today he was resigning because of disagreement willa Inders! government policy.
The 60-year-old British army veteran said he was leaving over "a matter of principle."-UP.
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