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CHINA
No. 37471
Established 1845
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1959.
Comment PLANE CRASH
Of The
Explodes
Day
After
CORRUPTION Take-Off
THE timing of Govern
Bordeaux, Sept. 25..
new measures to cumbat A French airliner crash-|
corruption In the civil ser-.
více has not been adequately It comes out of explained.
the blur, yet disclaims any suggestion that it is linked with a known Increase in the number of venal officers.
What then has prompted Government to
take this new step
against a viru which is deeply embedded in
ed and burned shortly after takeoff lust night, killing 48 people. Airfield officials said the
other 12 passengers and crewmen aboard the air- craft were injured, some "gravely."
The aircraft was & DC-7 of Interco-
the character of the people Transport Acrients and is an obl as the Colonytinentaux airlives, Itself?
The suggestion is that Gov. crement la merely tighten- ing up regulations with no more significance than that, but it seems rather that the new measures are the result of a belated recognition that too
many people neej
The officials said the four- engine plane had been aloft only about 60 seconds when it was shaken by a "tremendous plosion."
X-
They sald the airliner, en rule on a flight trem Parts to Bamako in the French Sudan, appeared to have luid engine trable during the takeoff.
French Air Force offlecrs getting away with too much stationed at the held reported Too blatantly. That the the stricken sirerofi, following Civil, Service employees the explosion, dived into El associations should Hupport
nort: clump of pine trees, about three Erbilerse the end of the run- Government's
action iЯ perhaps
a promising sign way. that they are as concerned 'ROARING FURNACE' As the general public about The exploding adrezart mowed the circulation of reports down about 50 trees when charging corruption, But struck earth,
then they could hardly have done otherwise.
REIR chief feur-and it
THE
1:
12
Fimes bolchred from the broken fuselage. The Are spred to nearby undergrowth, block firemen and rescue sigauds.
nut without founda- Once they broke through the tion-must be that witch- taming
underbrush, rescuers
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KILLS. 48
Car Crashes Into Shop
Woman And Boy Injured
word
A Chinoso woman and a Chinese boy sustained slight injurios at 8.30a.m. today when they knocked down by a private cor, Licence No. HK9605, in Hollywood Road near its junction with Old Bailoy Streat.
bunting could develop, even were halted by gasoline-fed The car, which was coming though this is clearly not dames engulfing the twisted Government's
intention, wrecknge.
Special care will have to be
Veteran airman Jean Peylet,
taken against this. It isne of the first rescuers at the obvious that the Governor eene, sold the airliner "turned
is no desire to turu him- a rouring furnace,"
He and other eyewitnesses self into an Orwellian Bigid the only survivors were up. Brother, but he will have to parently those revive infmmation from crewiner flung from the plane someone in the department when it hit the ground.
passengers
or
in which the suspected in.! The airliner had stopped here dividual works before he to pick up 20 passengers and
rufuel. can call a person to account, director of a the
Nor can
Airport and local aviation officials Immediately began an investigation of the cause, Crew- pected to pinpoint possible found a badly burned-teen-
department always be
offenders. Reports will have
age girl standing weeping at the
to come from subordinates, edge of the faming wreckage and therein lies the danger. arca.
Many Government em! The girl, tentatively identified |
ployee knows or suspects e Calella Paoletti, 16, cried,
h colleague to be involved, Alamo...Mama...Mama...
in corruption. And far from
down. Old Balley Street, went out of control ond
smashed into the show A window of No. 25 Holly- wood Road. destroying samo pottery.
The injured woman and boy
werd treated at Queen; Mary Hospital but wore not detained.
LUNAR
PROJECT
Revuers said it was believed SETBACK
pure and upright motives her mother was killed may prompt him to disclose crush.
in the
Wreckage was strewn hua-
Washington, Sept 24. Amundreds of yards around the am The destruction of the roc minor despota there pact spot. UPI.
this information. some
is even the danger of black- mail developing.
Another weakness of the new regulations Is that they will forca corruption intol
chan- over more secretive nels and its gains will be more and more carefully dis guised. The man who now buys an expensive car may in future remit his excess cash abroad-or tum ft into jade or jewels for his But he is obvious- wife. ly going to ade Govern- ment's now measures 4 A challenge and take ale to concoal whatever mischief ho has been up to. THESE observations are Tot intended as criticism
of
Government's decision
'Flyers For
Laos' Report Puzzles
U.S. Consulate
CHINA MAIL REPORTER
$3
Tories Worried
Over
New
Election Issue
Financial Deals That Went Astray
By FRASER WIGHTON
Routers Political Correspondent
London, Sept. 24. new and unexpected issue has cropped up in the General Election campaign big private financial deals which have gone wrong and worried thousands of small investors.
Trouble
over these
10
trans-Act, the last review was actions involving millions of years ago," the spokesman said. pounds has pushed the cloe- tion off the front pages of the newspapers,
Meanwhile today both the Prime Minister and Mr Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour Party Police Muud sqund investiga- leader, stomped the country to fors held a big craference at rally the faithful of their res Scotland Yard today on the pective parties for the October affairs of a big building society '8 contest.
which advanced leans to a
group of companies controlled
by Ananeler, Mr Harry Jasper.
Hockled
The society has siner anounced On the way from Birmingham
that 43.9 million is outstand-to Swensca Mr Moemilan" was ing.
aa
spiritedly heckled on old age pensions and other topics at Tbour Loliticians arc now Bromsgrove, elting these transactions
Mr Gaitskell had a tranquil examples of what can happen
his East Anglia under the Conservative policy of opening for
icur today. There was not a free enterprise.
single heckler
ho when nddressed a 300-strong crowd at Harlow, one of London's new "overflow" towns.
A Plodge
PAN AMERICAN
HUME RELATES HIS CRIMES AT MURDER TRIAL Why do
Tells Judge ‘Get Lost'
Winterthur, Sept. 24.
Donald Brian Hume, on trial for the murder of a Swiss taxi-driver, told the court here, today he robbed the Midland Bank in Brentford, London, and shot a clerk.
He also admitted killing, Stanley Setty, car dealer, out of Jealousy, sawing off his limbs and making them into parcels to be dropped from-a plane.
(He served eight years of a 12-year sentence as an accessory after being acquitted of the Setty murder to which he afterwards confessed in a Lon- don Sunday newspaper).
In a series of court outbursts. the 30-year-old ex-convlet told the judge to "get lost," und suld
he would "rip h to
bits."
ANSWERS
To questiona by the judge, Hume, being tried" under the home of Brown, sald he
а British aizenal "for
Ireland":
of the story ★Sold his
Setty murder to a news- paper for £2,000;
they
hate
CORRUPTION: this 'THE PUBLIC
MUST CO-OPERATE
CHINA MAIL REPORTER Unless the
woman
T this year's splendid
and colourful royal. in Brussels
A1 wedding
there was one woman for whom the Belgians
public co-hold Ettle love.
in
wife of ex-King Leopold, and the step-mother of the groom, Prince Albert.
bride-
Ever since dur wartime mar- riage to Leopold the princess
operates with the new Stole machineguns from
Government Order re- Princess Liliane do Nethy, lating to the prevention of corruption public service, the order will be worth no more than the paper it is written on, a Civic leader sald this morning.
Hilton Cheong-teen, member of the Civic Associa
Urban Council told tion and
Photographed an airport In Maine, U.S., and sold the 'pletures to the East Ger- mans;
Carried
Mr a message from ht fellow-prisoner Dr Klaus Fuchs, the atom epy, to
father Inst Gramany.
Hume, brought to the court- house in, chains, grinned and returning after the lunch recess
winked at pressmen but when
DONALD HUME
the China Mail, "The com- munity expects that the general
order will be applied vigorously
when it is warranted, but not.
as already stated, for witch
hunting."
Government announced the
has been the subject of bitter controversy,
now pre-
This wig fanned to a fury by the events that coded the wedding,
zed which embroiled the Belgian
monarchy In so grove a criels That many wondered if it could survive.
THE CHARGES I
order yesterday, It provides AGAINST HER
that any officer who is obviously Hiving beyond his means may have to face a tribunal of in-
Why do so
quiry to explain how he is able hate her? Failure to provide a
to do.50.
reasonable
• THEY
many Belgians
BLAME HER jor
explanation will marrying Leopold during the
result in dismissal or
com Gernian occupation of the coun-
pulsory retirement, subject to try- approval,
SUPPORTED
Jor THEY BLAME HER taking the place of the much- Mr Cheong-teen sald. "Govern-loved Queen Astrid, whore por- ment is obviously taking deter-trait is still in many homes. mined steps to stamp out core ruption is the Civil Service. This ● THEY move is warmly supported by the taking the title-Princezz de
ured public, and the Chinese Civil Rethy --- sometimes Servants Association should be Queen Astrid, when travelling commended for supporting it incognito,
BLAME. HER
for
bu
100,"
for
оть вен
He added, "The co-operation ● THEY BLAME HER of the pubile is absolutely neces-king-making ambitions he lunged at a photographer.ary. If they do not co-operate half of her son by her marriage
the General Order will be worth with Leopold, no more than the paper it fa. Most of all written on."
One of the guards jumped be-
tween themL
ket which the United States hopes to send to the moon next month de- pressed Washington today, The timing of the mishap
Conservatives, alarmed at the
A five-count indictment ac- effcottis coukl not have been more un-
new development Labour's second big gun, Mr
cuses Hume of murder, at- fortunate. ometals acknow- might have on voters, quickly Aneurin Bevan, was meantime
Tempted murder, armed robbery that if returned to Aring heavy calvos at the Con- of a Zurich bank, threatening ledged, occurring as it did on the pledged
look into servatives in Lancashire, where people's lives and breaking the eve of President Eisenhower's power they would week-end talks with Mr Nikita buses in the company system.
well-attended open-air Khrushchev at Camp David.
meeting in Widnes, he attacked allens regulations, Mr Morgan Phillips, Labour government polley over Suez, The total destruction of the Party Secretary, told a presa Cyprus and Africa. He said! rocket on the launching pad ot conference today that take-over Cape Canaveral
believe we ought to tell has sel back bids could easily become a real the world that the British president, Dr Hans. Gut, told social evil, because their alm people have understood what the 12 jurors that Hume had was quick profit, not economic has happened and that they are apologiad to him for his be the development.
haviour, and he had accepted this.
the US. lunut project by t least a month.
Washington Driver Who
at u
anxious to
And some more
Mr Phillips commented: "this civilsed- way of settling. our so-called free economy is under differences."--Reuter. the searchlight at the moment
CASH AWARDS
•
FOR YOUR
APOLOGISED
After the recess, the court
"It is just as wrong to tempt a Civil Servant with bribes pa is for them to accept It," he concluded.
CAMPAIGN
THEY BLAME *HER for the power she is said to wiefd 14 the Belgian Court, and the influenco lt is afteged the exerts over King Baudouin.
Mr Brook Bernacchi, Urban NOW, THE Councillor and Chairman of the TRUTH!
Reform Club, suggested, the In- stitution of a moral re-arma- ment campaign similar to the
What Is the truth about Urban Council's Health Educa-
this
much-maligned prin. tion campaign, as a bosio for educating the pubile that offer-
czes?
What role dons she really Hume, who wore a fawn suiting bribes is wrong.
This would be building up "a play in
last and appeared in court smiling, sense of moral guilt in the giv- Roman Calliolle monarchy
maintaining this began with buck-answers to the ing and taking of a bribe. This Europe? judge's preliminary questions is almost completely absent in as delivered through Dr. Wach, Hongkong today," he added. • TOMORROW the China Mail the court interpreter.
"We aro encourajoj that begins a fascinating serier which Asked whether he was named Government has at last taken provides authoritative and Brown, formerly known as substantial and unprecedented astonishing--answers tp these Hume, he replied "you ask a allly steps in their endeavour to questions," question and you get a silly stamp out corruption in answer," and told Dr Wach to Government service. "gel a pair of thicker spectacles." "The position has reached the He then said he objected to etage that to my knowledge one one of the jurors, who told the department of Government has court he had never seen Hume not always been able to accept before.
conclusiona of fact already Askot if he was married and reached by another." had a child, Hume replied "yes, "On the other hand, regula- individual Yesterday's front page ple- but it was not mine." The tions to enable the apparent dis- of the waterspout father was Stanley Setter (Hume play of wealth by a compara- sont in by an amatour divorced his wife Mary, neetively, Junior govènument ser-
Wright, In 1951),
voht may only result in the tho
He said there had boen corrupt official, emliting his cash "hokey-pokey with my paper" illicit gains out of the Colony
He thought the disciples of the so-called uncontaplled tree enterprise, leave-everything-to- | tho-individual" were really tɛcing a situation where they were asking for complete power not only in their own enter prizos but over the mean ul resources of the
Oficials asserted that delay would not seriously interfere with the space probe programune, but they acknow lected the psychological effet of the further widening of the think it fair to say the A spokesman for the American | gap between U.S. and Soviet whole question of those take-
Consulate-General here, sald scientific achievements.
over Didy does merit some! this morning
The blow tiey ind
to U.S. hopes oc- serious consideration. The in- ! so much as an attempt to crived no word from America rurred shortly after President terasts of minority shareholders about an American allizen's | Eisenhower had met his chief and small Investors must be point out some of the dif-
plan to found
volunteer diplomalle nuvisers for a culties, Government's feeling
two- adequately protected." organisation to supply aid to hour review of the problems Is probably that their chief
Laos,
expected to come their lles in Importance
up at the The spokesman added they had Comp David talks-Reuter. power of deterrence. And the public, while recognise no news of the activities of this
"group." ing the dangers, will be pleased that they signify moro determined action. Most people, are inclined to be very cynical about the extent of corruption in And their Hongkong. personal experiences counted endlessly give the
Yesterday a Hongkong news- Impression that the Civil
paper carried the story of an Service ds, riddled with bad American civil airways opera- and greedy men. If Govern- tional specialist, Mr Curton ment means these measures Speer, of Texas, who planned to the found an organisation to .be to bo used property public' deserves to know the known as "American Flyers for results.
A man who has Laos." taken bribes cannot on the "Flying Tigers" institut pect to be shielded on his ed-by-Claire Chennault to aid way out of the Colony. Ex- the Chinese in their fight against posure is the most shameful the Japanese during the last of all punishments.
According to 0 cable, the State Department spokesman, Mr. Lincoln White, said "We have seen this report.
We know absolutely nothing about it.
"We are querying Hongkong on this question to Bad out precisely. what this man is talking about.
The group is to be patterned
war.
Tried To Avoid One, Hit Seven
minority shareholder, who was unprotected
Review Of Law
A Conservative central office apokosman replying to
Mr
A driver who swerved to avold | Phillips' comments on take-over
a nisu on a road and knock- bika, sald the answer to the
NEWS PHOTOS
1
turo
comoraman won
photographer A award.
the
ruption sqund of the Hongkong Pellce be a separate body,.
Bernechl odded, "The Reform Club feels that the time
Mr
PRINCESS
IN PILLORY
The
bagins tomorrow.
Success
and that a Scotland Yard report and keeping them for a Inter Exercise A must have ́ ́ been · propared by date when he decides to retire.” Your spot news pictures are "some inspector who wants to He also urged the anti-cor» alto worth money,
blackten my flame," ed down seven people, was whole, mibject was contalited in
When Dr Gut asked where Bring your negatives or even | fined $600 br Mr A; I- the Conservative manifesto,
Hume caused undeveloped Atma of pictures Softy WOLB, Sanguinotti at Central Mágia- "It would appear Mr Phillips which will make news into the laughter among British Journal
is suddenly aware of it, whereas China Mall office, second floor, lato with the reply he is not The defendant WILI Lam we have always been conscious 13 Wyndham Street Hongkong around any more." Wing-un, 34, of Carmaught of a need to keep under review Road, The accident occurred on the law relating this part- If used, it will win you Shnuichwan Rood on May 6, cular kind of aclivity. Wo have
cash award. Dolendunt pleaded guilty, Hould we shall appoint a commil- was -disqualifled for a year; tec to review the Compenıler |
tracy this morning.
combined Polled and of a strong committee to inquire claw last night had been most has come for the appointment Military internal security exer-
Asked how Betty dled, ho sold into the whole position of cor successful and had provided a "violence," adding that he wan ruption In Hongkong — in valuable training and close willing to give. The facts if he camern if necessary — to make | linisòn between the Follee and
positive recommendations to the Services, nofcial... an
Government."
nouncement mid this morning,
(Contd. on page 2, col. 5),