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No. 37499
Established 1845.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1959.
Price 20 Cents
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STEP TAKING TO CUT DOWN ALARMING OUTFLOW FROM RESERVOIRS
Of The ONLY 4-HOUR WATER SUPPLY
Day
THE BOOM
GOES ON
THE changing face
of
the
Hongkong is no better exemplified than in figures which show that build. expenditure on new ing in the last nine years now exceeds $1,250 milljon. By any standards--Asian European cr American this is fantastic. That it hos occurred. and continues to occur in a territory the Nize of Hongkong with *: future chock full of im- ponderables, may be taken as evidence either of madness or profound faith, The result is that Hongkong today ranka as one of the must prosperous cities of the East. Possibly only Tokyo out-glitters us. Not all this vast wealth that continually adding new features to atr
mass
79
skyline originates here. Kampani
nationalism and the growth
of communism
bouring
capital
1
เน
neigh.
sent fur
scurrying
security and Hongkong has
been handsomely compe
sated for staying a Colòng. THE total cost of únikilig,
in-
OWN bnost
Tin the postwar years eluding Government's expenditure would the nine-year figure quoted) above to perhaps more than $4,000 million. But the same security which hins attracted 80 much money from Jittery Asin has also made this city a haven for hundreds of thousands of people. And the tragedy is that in Hongkong auch ex- {remes of wealth I poverty exista poverty so wretched that many tries contribute fands and food for the well-being ย our poor.
coun-
Zoning System The Butlers On Honeymoon
Will Be
Reintroduced
BY A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Government announced this morning a
It
severe cut in water supply hours. As from Friday, Hongkong will get only four hours of water instead of the prosent eight.
has taken this step to cut down the alarming outflow from the Colony's reservoirs which, if allowed to continue at the present rate, would mean that water supplies would be exhausted before the end of March next year- with no guarantee that summer rains would have begun to replenish them by then.
Himmler Warned
De Gaulle
Paris, Oct. 27. General de Gaulle's Just volume of war memoirs reveals for the first time * curious document addressed to de Gaulle by Heinrich Flimmter, the Gestapo Chief; at the time of the German sværender in May 1945.
Himmler said that if he Jeaned
the Anglo- Saxons they would treat kim as a satellite and de- prive him of his honour, and if he went with the Russians they would com- munise France liquidate him.
And
He suggested that the only way which could lead Last week's statement, an
France to greatness ro.
and Independence WAN housing
by an The shows that
understanding with the whale brunt of accom
vanquished Germany, modating by far the greatest portion of our pupulation-those earning 3000 and les-has fallen on Government. Sp there is no reflection in the sensa- tional building investment figures just published of how the overall housing problem is being tackled. THE taxpayer will regard
T
cio of
it as unfortunate that private finance has played auch a negligible parti the vast low-cost housing ventures. Could it toore? The pattern building investment in re- cent years shows that pri- vate capital recks quick returns
jong: whereas term loan finance is needed for resettlement and mass rehousing. And as long as demand for office space, factories, flats and houses
General de Gaulle writes that he made reply to this message written from the edge of the tomb, but adds that Himmler's look into the future undoubled. ly contained elements of truth-Bouter.
Special Courts
For Cuba
amend-
linyana, Oci, 27. The Cuban Cabinet adopted to
day a constitutional ment to bring back revolu- tionary courts throughout
the country. The special courts will deal
crimes"
Govenment also egnouncel this morning that the zoning syview of supplying water will be reintroduced, mainly in Kuw- Tron, to give better pressures.
New Hours
An announcement
on water supply areus in Hongkong and Kowloon will be made later 10- day.
Zeming arrangements are ex- pected to be the same as those which were enforced during the last period of severe restric-
tions.
The new bourn will be MORNING-6 am to 10 am EVENING-4.30 pm, to 8.30 pm. Hongking will get its usual night-hour supply tomorrow,
The water crisis has been precipitated by the fact that consumption during the eight- hour period introduced after the 13-hour summer supply hours ended, did not fall below 60 million
the last day or two.
A
Following his marriage recently to widow Mrs Courtauld, Mr R. A. Butler, second most Important man in the British Government whose offines Include that of Home Secretary, Chairman of the Tory Party and leader of the House of Commons. In pictured on the beach at Ostla near Rome enjoying a honeymoon paddle with his bride-Express Photo.
Hunghom The Triads
The Tiger Of
Disowns
notorious Triad official known asĮ "The Tiger of Hunghom," recant- ed in court this morning and advised people not to join Triad He societies.
gations until only His reason was that joining these societies was a bad influence on society itself.
And this was despite a worn-
ing by the Water Authority. Mr He made this statement when he A Inglis, ten days ago that drastle restrictions would be imposed consumption did not fall immediately.
Consumption
Hongkong has now less than
9,200 million gallons to last the rest of the autumn, winter und spring a period of about six months.
Consumption must be cut to below 50 million gallons a day to enable the Water Authority to feel perfectly confident that the Colony's water supplies will last during the dry season.
In his warning ten days ago, the Water Authority spoke of the possibility of a reduction from eight to five hours, and thus today's announcement of o four-hour cut comes as a sur- prise.
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Hurt In
continues to offer attrac- only with "counter-revolutionary Train Crash
tive returns, Government must continue its role of the poor
poor man's landlord, This is,
is, however, the summe alsewhere.
picerity
The consolation in that the million spent on pri- $268 vate building last year the highest on record contributes not only to the of the Colony's but tu the Atrengthening of our basic' economy, to the increase of employment and the expan sion of trade. This is a very real benefit in which Government, no less than the entire community, shares.
Drain
The Cabinet will meet tomorrow to ratlly the amend- mant and enact it as a low- UPI.
Polish Cabinet Re-Shuffle
Warsaw, Oct. 27. Poland, facing a looming food
crisis, shuffed its cabinet to-
| night, dismissing former Com- munist Jender Edward Ochaiy as minister of agriculture less than two weeks after he returned empty handed from the United States.--UPI,
It must therefore be a source of continued pride and satisfaction that the boom continues. What it shows RARE UN is that as the years pass there is not a diminishing but a growing recognition
ACCORD that Hongkong is a a place of considerable
opportunity.
United Nations, Oct, 27. Looking around Asia, we Western and Soviet deloga-
Wakefield, Oct. 27.
appeared before Mr B. V. Rhodes in Kowloon Court this morning, charged with being a member of the Lucn Hing Triad society. Defendant, Lee Wun, 28, of 13 Win- slow Street, second floor, pleaded guilty to the charge and the
Boac Plane
Damaged
In Collision
London, Oct. 27. A British Overseas Airways Corporation Britannia alz- liner, bound
tor Bahrein,
collided at London airport to-
night with a
plying
generator sub- power to 遍 Pan- American alrtizer standing nearby.
A Ministry of Civil Aviation spokesman said there were no Twenty passengers were in-casualties. The collision did not jured in a train crash at nearby Ardsley last right. None of the injuries was serious,
A British Railways spokesman said that a train from King's Cross, London, to Leeds was in collision with a light engine, Reuter.
„Clcricre with other serviens,
There were no passengers in the D.C. 8.
A Boie spokesman said later that one of the Brianula's pro- pellers was badly buckled and another slightly damaged. - Heuter.
magistrate said although his plea was made with good intent, he had to send defendant to gaol. sentenced Lee to two years' im prisonment. Det. Insp. W. P. Morgan, prosecuting,
said the defendant had joined the society in 1953 and was imme diately promoted to the rank of "fighter." Since then he had re- cruited 30 followers and had been running street gambling. Defendant, he said, was a well-known
triad official who went under the name of "The Tiger of Hung- hom."
ICE BLOCK
FALLS
FROM SKY
Rome, Oct. 28.
A block of loc, weighing over 60 pounds fell from the air without any plainable reason
OB
ex- the
mnali village of Acala to- day, throwing the Focal Inhabitants Inio great excitement.
At the time the block felt the sky was cloudless and no sircraft were fly- ing over the ares.
The block nude a ̋hole In the ground about ' nix feet in diameter,———AFP.
No More 'Pretty' Ferdinands
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London, Oct. 21, Ferdinand, the gentle ball the
authorities condemned "Loo pretty" for breeding par- poses, today had an operation which will prevent him ever becoming a father,
His new owners, the Dally Murar, newspaper, who wern obeying a "contrato or kiu”. order from the Ministry of Agriotittare, said the operation Look 17 minutes and entirely succo del,” Ferdinand was given a tran-
quiliser drug and a 19081.
Con surely say that for this tions rouched a rare second to there is much to be thanks-night on a draft resolution to fut despite the evile submit all current disarmament that extreme wealth breeds proposals to the now, ten-power and, which aro manifest in Geneva Committes, whlen wili; our midst.
begin work next year.-Reuter. anonthetic.
WIL
he must be the búti #laughtered,
The London Dally Mirror,
which purchased
“dottored”
or
Hongkong Ice Cream Commended
MAGISTRATE'S COURT TOLD
'American Tried To Cross Into China From Lowu'
| A 30-year-old American who tried to cross the Lowu border into China on the Tuesday before last, was today ordered out of Hongkong in 24 hours.
He will leave the Colony on the President Wilson
tonight.
He was Charles Garland Hopper, who appeared before Central Magistrate, Mr I. T. Morris this morning and pleaded guilty to over- staying.
He was seen by Police on He produced a valid passport Tuesday, October 20 "making | which was endorsed by the or attempt to enter the main- Immigration Offeer at Kai Tak, land," Mr Morris was told this and was allowed to stay in the morning.
Colony for 14 days as a visitor.
On September 30,
The two policeman on duty a; Lowu asked him to show his permit,
NO PERMIT
He produced his passport but was unable to produce a "closet area permit" and he had no per- mit to enter China.
He was then arrested and brought to the Immigration Office.
No mention was made in court of how Hopper got into the res- tricted area, forbidden to all but permit holders,
Prosecuting. Chief Inspector C. Smith told the court that
earlier he had been named as a "wanted man" in the Police
Sub-
and | Inspector H. E Pike
N party, of officers of the Allen Offico were checking on allena In Hongkong and found Hop-
PCT was dill in the Colony.
The Police tried to find him but could not.
Twenty days later he was seen in the Lowu 100 49 he tried to enter the China Main- land.
PASSAGE
Inspector Smith said Mr L E. Lawrence of the American Con- sulate General had arranged a passage
Hopper and would leave the Colony on the ss Prealdent Wilson at 10 pm. today.
for
ho
Mr Morris asked Hopper whe ther he had anything to say,
He replied that he was very
by the prosecution.
Gazette for overstaying,
Outlining the case, Inspector Hongkong by air from Japan on satisfied with the facts produced Smith said Hopper arrived in September 15.
Learner-Driver
Disqualified
For Ten Years
A woman learner-driver, was disqualified from driving for ten years and fined a total of $1,250 this morning when she pleaded guilty to five traffic offences which involved three accidents.
The woman,
Chan Lin-fan, ; record, I have decided not to
send you to gaol,
consent,, driving without third
| 25, of 44 Cameran Rord; nighth flour, appeared before Mr W. F. Pleitering at Kowloon Court on "It seems that it is my duts charges of dangerous driving, London, Oct. 27,
to protect the public from 701. I am going to protect Entries from Singapore and driving a car without the owner's
them from you very effective- Hongkong were highly party insurance, driving without ly. You are disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving commended at the open- Jan "L" plate and causing damage
Hence for the next 10 years. Ing of Britain's annual to private properly.
"In addition, on the dangerous four-day dairy show here
The prosecution proceeded driving charge I Ene you $1,000, today.
with charges of dangerous drive and on the second, causing The Dairy Farm of Windsor Ing and causing damage to ori-damage to private property, I
The House, Hongkong and the Cold vate property.
other fine you' $250." Storage Creamiers of Singapore offences were taken into consi- were, highly commended in the deration. class of unflavoured or vanilla-
•
flavoured ice creams made in a Lethal Weapon
horizontal freezer.
About 350
of Britain's finest The defendant, it was said, milking cows paraded before drove a Chevrolet car in the Judges OT a 14-acre indoor early hours of the morning of showground.
September 3, into Un Chow Hauksinen, anxious to win Street, Kowloon.. the collided sems of the top cattle prizes in first with a Hillman. She then
country, spent the night drove into
street, beside their entries in a spacious onto a pavement and across a improvised
house inside traffic island. Olympia, London's giant-cover- ed exhibition, arena.
the
cow
This year's show is the lar- get in the history, of pag of Britain's oldest and most im-
from his owner, farmer - Wil-His former owners, did not be-portant industries-Reuter....
liam Tileumb, and went him
out to pasture, broke the news gently to its readers,
simple matter" the Mirror, explained. “Nothing to make Fardy Tew happy than he was yesterday, tee He will fake life quietly for the next_féw, `days and then - he
Hève in "doctored", animats on à ferm, tried to find a home for Ferdinand, rosi nam Brook Mandore, in the United Sistes,
But would-be hayers there were stopped. by U.S. regulations sakinat the import
TRAPPED
Lillehammer, Oct. 27.
1 one-way
Defendant was represented by Mr Edmund Cheung of Peter Mo and Company. The prosecution was carried out by Insp. Kora Yiu-ol
HK Government Officer Receives OBE
She reached the Junejion of Prince Edward Koad, crossed *'red light maid collided into an airline bus, · The can then continued sorom iha jinsilon and ended up' in the window of a radio 'shop 'and '15.979 worth of radios were smathed Mr E. G. A. Grimwood, Hong- in the mishap.
kond Government officer in
Bumming up these facts, Mr
London, Oct. 27.
London received the OBE from Prince Phillp at a Buckingham Palace investiture today.
the
..
Mr. Grimwood was awarded
OBE 15
the
Birthday
A 20-year-old Norwegian was Pickering said: "In your handa, taken to hospital with injuries the car in which you throve was and shock today after a folding a lethal weapon. It was lucky of live cattle.
sofa bed imprisoned him and that on one was injured. probably will be more gentle-So animal-lover's in Britain and another man for five hours last This factor is one of the two Honours List for services to the
·övérness breathed n/sigh
in your favour. The other in Hongkong Government.! relief when the Daily Mirror sight at a hotel,
The night watchman found that you have never boen in After Lin ceremony, Mr Grim- stopped in with a £350 offer them locked inside the bed early court before.
Bgwood said, "Princa Philip" "was for the chocolate-and-white today and broke it open with "Bluep ou are not 'Bull-Roster, andȚUPE.
* axe-Reuter
habētual, criminal and
natured than over Mi The playful, 12-month-oid" „Agribire had been declared
too - fotbalne to brand, th Ministry, offelals, They ruled
anvery interested In Hongkong." have no 1-Landon Express Service.