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Comment CUSTOMS MAN TELLS OF Panamanians Tear
Of The BIG GOLD SMUGGLING BID American Flag
Day
A
LECTURE
FOR ALL
Tool were treated at THE pupils of King George their Speech Day or Mon- day to a lecture on modern Ilstory such as they have!
never heard before. It was, a lecteure on Hongkong delivered by Mr Claude Burgess, What he told them is a story which Hongkong should know well enough by now, except that it was told' with a cliche-free freshness ! which impressed parents a much as children, and gave even diligent students of local problems new food for thought,
Fallis Aimed At $100,000
Profit' He Says
New York, Nov. 3.
Special agents who today arrested a film producer from Hongkong and his Japanese Hawaiian dancer wife on gold smuggling charges alleged that the man had bought 2,400 ounces of gold in Hongkong at US$30 an ounce and was aiming to sell it in India at almost three times the price.
Customs Butent special agents said today that the gold
Fallis was pus bought by aboard the ship President Polk but the plan
did not succeed because Indian Customs officials discovered And confiscated about anmo
500 ounces when the ship docked ut Bombay on September 27.
His wife won ramed Tania Cruin. She is known as a pro- feelerei exclle dancer who goes unde: Kaimai.
of Gladys
The ran was named as Her- One conclusion that DECUPS! DET Elmer Falls, 55, described immediately is that the con-es a xcedent of Hongkong. He tribution of the World Re was sold to be Canadian-born. fugee Year, however vnlu- able, will not even scratch the surface of our needs. Mr Burgess also stresses that ours is no longer a re- fugee problem. What we are dealing with now is the impact this problem has. made on the Colony. He stresses also that we cannot speak in terms of solutions
--
for they presuppose a fhality. And at what point are we likely to be able to call a halt? It is better 10 believe the problem interininable.
TOREOVER
it
1y
one IN
Ben-Gurion's Party Leads
In Election
Jerusalem, Nov. 4.
Mich the Colony will Premier David Ben-Gurion's
continue to have to bear alone and in 1959, ten years after the exodus of refugees from China began, there is no sign of our task
Highter. In fact our
The rest of the gold was not decovered and the President Pok made her way through
the Mediterranean 10 Jersey City where she docked last Sunday.
by
Fallis and his wife travelled plane ahend of the ship
from port to port and landed last Saturday at New York in- ferntional airport,
Found In Hotel About 600
ounces of, rest
maining gold were found in
蒜
Special Customs Agent Law- rence Fleshman estrated that
would have made al Fullis 715$100,000 prof it he succeeded in disposing of the gold in India.
Fallis, be said, had been arrested for smuggling in 1954 in the Philippines.
moderate Mapai Labour Fallis' hotel room, the rest be- Party took the lead today hind a steel bulkhead in In early returns from steward's cabin. Knesset yesterday's (Parliament) elections. Observers predicted the trend commitments and our ex- in favour of Mopni would con- Throughout the vote penditure are annually in-unue creasing. And the reason counting.
With returns in from 200 of for this is that refugees to-
2,000 polling stations, day are no longer distin-rael's Kulshable from any other Mapal won 12,780 of the 27,083 Noor person in Hongkong valid votes counted. This
presented 47.8 per cent of the moved to Hongkong. has been total.
and his wife whose
Fallis plight
earlier today for arrested PREDICTIONS aggravated by the refugee influx. Our job is there-
About 80 per cent of the total alleged large-scale gold Smung- fore to help all.
of 1,200,000 eligible voters casting operailuns.
A third defendant, Abraham batlols.
Block, chief steward on the President Polk, was arrested when the strip docked at Jersey City.
The World Refugee Year is
year of special effort by
then He was acquitted
but
were
Michele Mok, Mies Hongkong, pictured on her arrival at London Airport last Saturday to compete for the Miss World title on November 10-Reuter Photo.
Michele Intends
To Buy Frocks
From Lancashire
·
London, Nov. 3.
re-had to leave the Philippines and Miss Hongkong, 17-year-old sloe-eyed French- Chinese beauty Michele Mok here for a bid -aims to at the "Miss World" beauty title buy some Lancashire cotton frocks.
Mok's She said today "I want to buy lots of things while I am ambition is to become a linguist, here, and especially some Lan-Already she speaks fluent Eng- cashire colton frocks."
lish, French and Cantonese,
Now she wants to learn Ger- man and Spanish.
Several persons were Injured.
Pre-election predictions were Ben-Gurion and every nation which wants to that Premier
returned to help but it is only one Mapat would be year, and when it comes to power with a reduced number an end the great burden of of Knesset seats. roatinuing all that has been
in a clash and at least two started both during the
olvers, including a rabbi, were Year itself and before, falls arrested yesterday in scattered back en Hongkong, It is incidents that murred an other
itwise quiet election. right and proper that should. Other nations have Many voters swarmed to the their own special probleine polls in taxicab fleets mobilised which they tackle with by rival political fnctions.
92-dezra? heut raiuced the turn- Hittle outside help.
H18 year alone there have out only slightly.UPI,
T
been earthquakes in Tur- key, floods in India and
Formosa, typhoons in Japan and Korea, and calamities of one kind or another all over the world and if Hong- kong has done anything to case their suffering it has necessarily been slight. It
may be reckoned bad luck have been inun- that We dated by such a consider- able human tide whose devastations are more per- manent than nature's worst, but there are also the material compensations and the sense of challenge this has evoked in situation many people. And we are the richer for them.
Mr Burgess's speech deserves)
+
a far wider circulation than
got. As an appeal for
funds in this Refugee Year
to schoolchildren in Hong-
The
Held On Bail
"We can, of course, buy them In Hongkong. But I think Fallis, as the alleged master- mind of the scheme, was held there will be a better, selection in US$50,000 ball. His wife in London." was held in US$1,000 ball on a charge of reting in concert. The
had couple
married
อ few months ago in Hawali,
Ball for Biock Was set $10,000.
They will have a hearing Navember 17.-UPI.
Drug Traffickers
Deported From Colony Secretly
by a China Mail Reporter
on
But shopping In London will be just one item of a week's merry-go-round of posing and parties for Miss Mok before she Ines up with Some 40 other national beauties for the "Miss World" competition.
COMMONS VISIT
Win
or lose, Miss
Jet Collision Kills Three
Bingham, Nov. 4.
Two United States. Air Force jet planes collided in midale on Tuesday noar here. All three men aboard the planes WORD killed...
AFP.
Co-Pilot
Blamed
For Jet's Dive
Washington, Nov. 3.
In Anti-U.S. Riots
Panama City, Nov. 3. Steel-helmeted United States soldiers with fixed bayonets tonight guarded the Canal Zone from swarming crowds of Panamanian youths after day-long riots had badly strained U.S.-Panama_rg- lations.
Between the exelted crowds and the battle-ready infantry- men stood one Panamanian Na- tional Guard Officer and four enlisted men doing a yeoman job or talking their excited countrymen into staying on their own side of the frontier.
American police carller umed teargus, fire hoses and truncheons at several points along the Canal Zone to drive stone-hurling, cursing Panama's
back
youths
celebrating
Independence Day.
police
At least six American were hurt, and two Panamanian youths were arrested.
Set On Fire
A train coach was set on fire i
Panama Cly and by mobs
American flag Wis tom The Civil Aeronautics Board the
down from the US. Embassy, enid today a Pan Ameri-
The outbreaks were part of a can World Airways Jet) planned "peacefuj Invasion" of airliner fell 29,000 feet the. Panama Canal Zone by former Foreign Minister toward the Atlantic ocean!
Aquilino Boyd In connection last February 3 because
observances of of the co-pilot's lack of attention,
The Boeing 707 jet plane carrying 110 passengers from Paris
New York dropped from 35,000 feet to 0,000 feet before the plot, W. Waldo Lynch, regained control.
The Board's accident report said the pilot was not in the cockpit and the plane was on automalle pliot when i went into the dive.
Samuel Peters
the'
Had co-pilot paid proper attention to cockpit instruments, it said, he could have taken the controls after the automalle pilot die- engaged and prevented the dive, GROUNDED
with Fanamo's Independence Day.
He urged Panamaniana to cross into the Canal Zone, and to stand there briefly holding the Panamanian flag 10 reaffirm Panama's sovereignty over the
Чове
Camera Takes 100,000
Pictures
Per Second
London, Nov. 3. British scientists have de-
veloped a
camera which can take 100,000 photo- Kraphs
second --- per that is, 4,000 times faster than ordinary motion pic- ture cameras..
They planned to perfect the new instrument to such a point that it can take, 200,000 photos per second.
The camera is used at the Fort Halstead (Kent) Army Re- search Centre, for bellatio Late tonight the American studies. The camera can follow In delali the course of projec. Government delivered a strong tiles. The use of colour films en note of protest to the Paria= manian Government over the ables the experts to tell the de- destruction of the flag and gree of heat caused by the fric- warned that the incident
Bon of the air on the pro- "seriously
endongerlag" rela-jectile. tions between the two nations.
Protest Note
of
was
U.S. Ambassador in Pagama, Mr Julian Fisk Harrington said in his note that he was protest- | lug against "the unwarranted desecration that took place today of the American flag flying at the ChanOSTY
the U.S. The Federal Aviation Agency | Embassy in honour of Panama- grounded Peters, a supervisors | ntan Independence Day," pilot, for
Рап six months. A
Mr. Harrington reported that he a crowd of about 100 towered American spokesman said
the U.5. Lag from the staff in The FAA levied a*$2,000 £ne | front of the Chancery building has retired on pension.
now and tore it to pieces after sub- against Lynch, then and Pan Am's Vice-President for stituting the Panamanior flag, Communications.
They stoned The Embassy Lynch was flying the plane windows and left, carrying the Pan Am's remnants of the US. Bag with because at the time regular pilots would not take them--Reuter and UPI. She said today. that this aim up jets until they settled a dis- might be stage nearer fulfil-pute with the company over jet ment through her becoming pay. Hongkong's most beautiful miss. "may be staying in London. I hope for about a year," she said today..
Д
MAY STAY
"Back home I was taking commercial and shorthand course and was about a quarter of the way through it
Tomorrow, wearing her black will and red cheongsam, she
"I am hoping to spend some visit the House of Commons for lunch with Members of Parlie-time at school ure, finish my course and begin languages at ment.
the same time."
The
follows
whirl of 1 Meanwhile, she is posing for fashion shows, cocktail parties, hosts of press photographers, press receptions and perhaps, looking very, very pretty, chat-
a television appearance leading Ung like a cheerful diplomat up to the "MLES World" anale and enjoying herself Reuter.
on Tuesday night and a stake
in £2,000 prize money and awards
For the black-haired, brown- eyed, slim figured (35-23-34) girl from Boundary Bircel, Kowloon, the idea of being Hongkong's Boodwill ambas-
More than 60 local drug traffickers have been de.sador to Britain is not being
ported secretly since the beginning of this year, it was learned today.
This figure includes
kong, it would make an ber of ame
mum-given the special flying outfit to who are in the the operator.
Another perenn, a narcotics
admirable illustrated circu- process of being deported....
}
was exported
1
The "expert" had been arrest.
taken too seriously.
Stassen Loses?
The Board also found that mechanical dimculties contri- buted to the mishap. But placed the major share of the blame on Peters--UPL
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Russia Claims
World Air
Speed Record
Moscow, Nov. 9.
а
A Soviet pilot has attained speed of about 1,493 miles an hour in a single-engine Jet plane, and Russia has applied for this to be recognised as world record, the Soviet news agency, Tus, said tonight,
(June's All The World's Air-
the craft gives
present world record E. speed
1403.15 miles an hour, by Captain W. Irwin, United States Air -Force, flying a Lockheed FID4A Jet starfighter.]Reuter.
Washington, Nov. 3. A former adviser to President Elsenhower, Mr Harold Stassent appeared to have been Ikaton by a Democrat for the past of Governor of Kentucky today-UPI.
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STOP PRESS
HAREM ESCAPEE LIVING IN DREAD
"I realise I am representing my country but as the same time I am over here to enjoy myself,”
he salt with a atggle today.
"It is the first time I have home except A recent deporter was sold manufacturing expert would be been away from lar in English and Chinese, to be a manager of a hotel in deported within a few days, it for a holiday in Mauritius
Kowloon. Hongkong has been set a
end I am going to make the most of it." fund-raising target of $2 $ MILLION CASE million and the object of
He was said to have been are charged and discharged on day she has become
Since she arrived on Satur-A
a great asking even schoolchildren
other world to contributo is to make rated and deported in the past insufficient evidence but he was
favourite with few days on suspicion of
beauties: Ve everybody feel that this is a volvement in the case of Ja
She spent Sunday, with Miss) found ороганот job in which they all share. British radio
Eo far the deportees have in- Rhodesia, sală Nyamuleted, -17-) Mr Burgess carrics this with a million dollars worth ol
cluded behind-the-scenes boss year-old Milks Vivien Lentin. are. Itoman conviction. to the extent of drugs at Tokyo airport,
The narcotics were hidden of an international narcotic ring, Togather both baking children who are noi
Catholics they went to Church Twenty-six-year-old Kita Nasir pecially made and leaders of drug manufactur away inside
and trafficking - in permanently resident in the ying out and Interpol hading
the and then to a reception to markozigave this no mi explanation of the Indian Blow Your festival, why her husband carried with Colony to become young traced the maker to Hongkong, Colony,
Miss Mok's roominate is. In ** Those did not include any
him a clasp-knife and black- that our was reported,amat ambassadors so
| Wek. He had gik brown, fined great needs may be under-Interpol also found that It was Buropean or American. It was fact: Min Tricla, 18-year-olą stood in the world outside, the hotel manager who had | added.'A
re-arrested immediately) stepping out of Court;
ofi
Fleur Erckimi.
Middlesbrough, Nov. 3. dark-haired glassow girl, who claimed to have escaped from the harem of the king of ! Yemen,” said, today, she was living in dread because the Xemonks here are out to get
Another camera allows them 10 follow a missile's course even within a gun barrel. Its speed at that time is 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometres) per hour. The camera is actually made up of 12 tiny cameras operating simultaneously.—AFT.
Singapore
Cracks Down On Gangsters
Singapore, Nov. 3.
A big gangland clean-up by police began here today one minute after the Government's offer to thugs to reform expired. British troops from the Cheshire Regiment with police manned roadblocks along ging Infested ronds while armexi parties from the. CID and other polico. stations raided known
İsus' on
the secret society island.
The operation,' scheduled-until daybronk, had; no far nettech some half a dozen suspects, among them a well dressed English-speaking: mun,
SURPRISE
Under CID Chief, Cheah Teng Chocic, "Operation Clean-up" is Current progressing smoothly Indications are that more want- ed thugs will be rounded up before dawKL
Moonwhile the underground
is being talters 'there and more by surprise by this "swift anch
kere for carrying, offensive; She said she and her husband | hard hitting police.action.
·WORDSIM,
| bribed a Jeep' driver to take
them to Adem.
Many; it is believed, are res she käid she and her husband. use of the Government's offer had not made strutting ther Ahmed Musich · Nielt, were, of exonerating gungsters from going to ask for pallse: proded, “il, blame if they “surrendered"
Barbara thametives to the authorities.
"When I escaped (last year) i sold..what life was like in a harben," said : Mrs. Nasir, whe ctalin to have batzi, forcibly taketi to 'the king's "pelson when sho' andƐhne, husband were in Yemen early last year. Prosimilor Peter Boss said the "The Temen in Millontarough have never forgiven: mid for
{“My husband and I are Heing in ́terror because ·DARIO · İnd· „Skanda
HAYO SWOTA'to kill un"
Klery
Today before
the amnesty cr200r clawed," 207 thugs took advantage ut that offer.This was a re- thecord day t
total
Allogether 818 gangsters hid accepted the offer/-Heuter.
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