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THE COST OF With
IT ALL
first impression that
Tstrikes any
newcomer to
is that it
Hongkong in swarming with people, Tell him that in ten years time there may be half as many people again and he will agree that the Colony Hot an outsized problem finding room for them all. But The realisation that this impact of population wv|]] enst 44 in terms of low-cost housing, water and reclamation at Теля $660 million in the next five years is enough to make visitor glad that this tiny
is not his problem bust Hongkong's.
Taxpayers may well nok how accomplished.
it is to lượ
And it 19 doubtful Government itself knows the answer. Mr Arthur Clarke's
suggestion in his last budget speech war to leave it to the sing Keneration, but clearly an expenditure of this mag- nitude involves serious budgeting problems which today's Government must
· tackle.
Existing revenue raising
measures
pro-
Are
M
ducing about thelp maxi- raun. In five years, if not sooner, expenditure of $1,000 million a year may be necessary. What Govern ment must reckon is how it can produce such a revenus without inflicting ad- ditionni imposts on those already paying.
UR
annanl
revenue
ix
of
in the region
$600 million. Salaries and
probis Lax contribute
$100,000 Robberies
A
Armed
Police Officer told Central Magistrate, Mr K. A. S. Phillips today that a man ac- cused of armed robbery in Kowloon, was still at large after escaping from Police custody.
The Police officer, Detective-Inspector J. W. Currie,
made this statement at the committal proceed-i ings which began today against four men charged with a number of armed robberies in Kowloon involving over $100,000.
The accused man missing from today's proceedings was Cheung Fei, aged 34. who escaped from Police cus- tody on September 10 while being transferred from the Victoria Remand Prison to Kowloon Magistracy.
ALLEGATIONS
On June 30, Cheung with four others, Cheng! Ching-pang, 30, Lau Wing, 32, Lau Tung, 32 and Lij Ping, 32, are alleged to have robbed Chan Ming-fong of 132.812 taels of gold and jewellery while armed with revolvers.
•
On April 23, they are alleged to have similarly robbed the Shun Kee Goldsmiths, at 670 Nathan Road, ground floor, of gold ornaments valued at $17,210.
On January 9, they are alleged to have rob- hed the Hang Shing Goldsmiths, at 568 Shanghai Street, of gold ornaments valued at $15,000.
• On October 2, 1958, they are alleged to have robbed the Hongkong Jade Centre, at 20B Carnarvon Road, ground floor, of Jewellery and cash amounting to $14,634.
Cheung Fei Wah-kin of Street.
•
On April 6, Cheng Ching-pang. Lau Wing and
are also alleged to have robbed Chenk cash amounting to $52,000, at Portland
Three other defendants, Yim On-nei, 40, housewife, Yim Chiu-hoi, 24, and Chau Tim. 30, are alleged to have on July 7, received a quantity of gold ornaments, the property of Chan Ming-fong, knowing the same to have been stolen.
Yim Chiu-hoi and Chau Tim are represented by Mr
Proceedings are continuing.
ittle more than a sixth of C. P. Lai of Peter Mo and Co.
this, but in this city of
shopkeepers, merchants, businessmen and, more re-
cently, industrialists, population of three million in all, a few more than 6,000 pay profits tax and about 15,500 personal Assessment and
tax.
How
Kuess
mary
PRCADE
salaries
their
obligations is anyone'a but Government must begin an all-out drive to round up defaulters who are depriving the Treasury of millions of dollars year. Higher indirect taxes!
are also necesanry falling direct taxation of the lower Wage group because all must be made to feel that they are playing some small part in the upkeep of Hongkong.
P
Chin
A scene from the London play "The World of Suzie Wong' in which Hongkong's Taai (above) plays the leading part.
'Suzie' Is Terrific - The Play Poor
.1
London, Nov. 18. London's theatre critics TOW
"The
World of Suxie! Wong" last night-and come out bursting with praise for the 20-year-old Hongkong "unknown" Miss Teal Chin who plays the nama part..
But with that one exception they did not like the play. They said "accomplished"¦
"fascinating"
-
"she
deserved better' "if only her role had matched her ability." "She brings to the play the checky sweetness of o
cream faced kitten," says Daily Mail's Cecil Wilson. And Daily Herald's critic sold she was "the sole feature that I could raise the least bit of enthusiasm over."
But of the play they said
"limp vulgarisation" "trail and trite." Last night's "first nighters" however, many of whom arrived in rickshaws with their wives clad in cheong- sums, enjoyed themselves and at the end applauded warmly.London Expres Service.
POLICE INTENSIFY Ferries, Not
HUNT FOR GUNMAN LSTs, For
A grim game of hide-and-seek between a runaway fugitive and
the police was still on early this afternoon in the south of Hongkong island.
The fugitive was said to be, have mobilised the
same con-
a marksman and the revolver tingents responsible for the cap- which he took from the pollee-ture of Li Cheuk, the gunman
Vehicular Service
Even tombs were not spared. At dusk the search was sus- The
the pended for a while then
inan he shot on Tuesday is involved in the William Louey party spread over the hills in still loaded with four rounda. shooting some time ago,
The
police search parties
tour columns to "advance" on
The police are apparently Stanley and comb the adjacent have been issued with bullet-adopting a "starving-out" stra-hillsides. pract vests.
Early yesterday morning a villager in Chung Hom Kok, Stanity, sawa a suspicious man with injuries on his face loiter- ERHAPS Government
ing in the wooded hillside near could indicate how the 100-year-old pirate cave. vast expenditure that our The cave, called Cheung Po development
will Chai Cave, was the entails be met. No one can hideout of the pirate Chrung discuss figures of $100 Po Chai,
million a reclamation, as The Mr Claude
Burgess did
Congrgation,
famous
Gunman was also re- ported seen in Wong Cheuk yesterday at the Univer- Hang, near Aberdeen.
with. Police had searched the Wong sity
area yesterday out wondering where it is Cheuk Hang coming from. If Hongkong without success. has to spend at this rate, we should be sure that re- venue, loans or reserves will cover there -ever- increasing commitments.
Up to the time of going to press, the escapee had been at large for 48 houre,
Meanwhile, beginning froen morning passengera yesterday
from Heembarking at Macao Hongkong-Macto ferries were However, so far nobody has gifted with the ability to
by the
Mnedo convey the full traplications been arrested of our various problems: Police. His Congregation. address
Mr Burgess is singularly checked and queried.
Police,
Same Team showed us more clearly
belleving the fugitive other, any prospect before us. It to be in the hulls south of the
than
was island, have sot, up headquarters A klimpar Into the crystal at Stanley Police Station where ball but the impression one reports are continuing to pour guins la that Hongkong is a going to need not only enthusiasm
from helicopters, police launches and tracking units,
The Stanley-Aberdeen hills and self-where the man is believed to ha confidence of a high order hiding, i densely covered with był something of a Midas email trees and bushes" making touch to survive the the search even more difficult, coming decade,
isunderstood the police
It
a
supplementary vehicu
which lar ferry servico will be introduced as stopgap measure until the comos second service into existence will em- tegy in an attempt to drive the At 0.30 p.m. the searchers met
Station at Stanley Police
for
normal car ferries, ploy fugitive from the hills.
Yesterday four squads GI
u Test,
not Army LSTS. police numbering about 200 led Detectives were also mobilised
This was made clear by a dogs and armed to watch for any suspect appear- Government spokesman yester- by tracking
stores for with light
food machine-gunsing at village
day. searched every village hut in supplies.
Yesterday's China Mali report Meanwhile Kok somewhere
had dis- police Chung Hom
and South tributed between Stanley
photographs of the of the University Congregation Bay
wanted man to villagers yester- said LSTs would be used. day.
The man was reported to have yesterday. appeared four times
he Each time
managed escape detection.
Once he appeared in Chung Hom Kok in a blue jacket, black pants, with a pullover around his shoulders and coffee-coloured felt hat pulled low over his eyebrows.
He was reported to have ap-20-minute proached a sherman Ng Lal- kee for food.
Wanted by Polloo far Questioning in connection With the shouting "of'con-
sable Yung Yu-hong-
Immigrant
to
The man told Ng he was an
from illegal immigrant
the mainland.
The sherman gave, the man Bore food and later offered him some money.. Some neighbours of the Asherinan arrived on the scene and asked the man for his Identity card whereupon he got up and fled into the hills.
Later when shown a photo by the police, Ng identifled the man as being similar except that he looked a bit thinner.
The wounded.constable Yung Yu-home still remains in Queen, Mary Hospital reportedly in a satisfactory condition.
This was a misreading of the words used by Mr Burgess.
The supplementary service will begin in about ten weeks from the time agreement is reached on the supplementpry
* providing suitable service
berih [Cr Army alternative LSTs can be found.
Mr Burgess said it would be a comparatively slow ferry at intervals and would be used principally for com- mercial vehicles.
The ferry will run from the RASC rump at Jordan Road concourse to the castern end of Central Reclamation near the Marine Department.
the
A GRANDMOTHER
Hollywood, Nov. 18. Actress Loretto? Young joined the grandmother ranks yester- day.
Miss Young's daughter, Judy, gave birth to a 6-pound 12- ounce girl, Maria, at St Joseph Hospital in Burbank, California.
Judy is the wife of fim exceulivo Joseph Thmey Jr, UPI.
UN Reopening Hungarian Issue
United Nations, Nov. 19.
Russia carried on a bitter fight today to prevent the United Nations General Assembly from re- opening the question of the Hungarian revolu- tion and its bloody suppression by the Soviet
army.
The Sovim
Union won the Arst round by gaining inuirfinite postponement of a meeting of the Assembly's Steering Cum- mittce originally scheduled for this afternION.
This would have taken up the request of Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, special U.N. representative on the Hungarinn question, to put the lesue on the agenda,
POSTPONEMENT
Advantages Of Light
Industries
In Hongkong
IT-
An
ol
re-
The United Nations nounced last night, after the 21-nailon commitice had been rchadultd to meet today, that the Asembly's President, Mr Victor Andres Belaunde
to Peru had "acceded quest" to postpone the mecting.
No one was mentioned, but stipulation of "a request" in- dicated that It had come from one power-Russia.
7
American magazine
dis-
eussing Investment opportuni- tirs In Asia,
Hongkong may offer a special advantage for a company in light manufacturing In- dustry.
The ragazkie, Dun's Review and Modern Industry said in its October issue: "Thero is plenty of good smart labour avaliable, and of course unexcelled trans- port situations."
Plant For Hongkong
The British Oxygen (Hongkong) Lad has of- dered an oxygen plant costing $2 million, it was announced today,
The Chairman of the qampany, Mr J, D. Claqub fold • Press Conference that the plant will more Chan double the company's output
today
He mid that the plant ordered from the United Kingdom, will be the big- gest in South-east Asia
Mr Clague said that his company ordered the new plant
with to keep pace the expanding ship-break- Ing Industry,
"We are virtaally taking . zamble on this new plant because we do not know how long the ship- breakir bopra will con- tinue," he said.
"llowever, we hope that ship-breaking will remain A permanent industry," he added.
The plant weighing ap- proximately 160 tons will be installed in the corn- pany's factory in Kowloon,
The Star Spangled Banner
In
Peking
It continued, "Hongkong businessmen, especially texulo Sir Leslie Munro, who like
manufacturers are looking hard Prince Won Walthayakon of for ways to diversify and nre Thailand, his predecessor, wes highly receptive to offers to refused Communist permission manufacture US products under For the first time since the franchise or any other arONGE-
to go to Hungary, requested yesterday that the Assembly take up the Hungarion situation ogain batan important. undi
urgent matter."-UPI,
ment that ensures them a mar- ket for a new line of products."
This is reported--In a
UPI cobic from New York.
Japan Now Top Non-Communist
Asian Air Power?
Tokyo, Nov. 18.
Peking, Nov. 18. -
Spangled
was
advent of the Communist regime, the U.S. national anthem "The Star
Banner' heard in Peking tonight. The occasion was the show- Jing of the film made by Russlan
CLANATION
Mr CL
Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S.
Marshal Chu Teh, a member of China'k politburo, hended Caineso oficials in an invited audience of over 1,400,
MAO ABSENT
Mao Tse-tung, Party Choir- mun, Liu Shao-chil, Chairman of the Republic, and Marshal Chen Yi, Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister, were not present t the showing, arranged by the
tor Soviet Embassy
Chinese
Usually well-informed sources
Japan had become a first class air power in Asiazuests and foreign diplomata.
with nearly 1,000 aircraft and about 28,000 airmen.
The Asahi evening newspaper said this in an article
today.
Japan was competing with "but the Defence Agency doubts Nationalist China to become the this gure," top air power among the non- Communist nations in Asta, il sald.
"In numerical strength the Air Self Defence Force legs far behind the Soviet Far East dir force and the Chinese Com munist atr force which, accord- ing to the Defence Agency. possess 4,20) planes and 3,000 planes of all types respectively." OUTSTRIPPED
The newspaper article quoted a "high offleer of the air staff* is saying that the Air Self De- fence Force now had about 500 Pilots who could fy jet fighters. It mid: "In six years the Defence Agency plans to have an air force composed of 490 front line planes and 1,100 re-
trainer And serve. planes."
said all three were away from.
Peking at present,
almost entirely in colour, has a
The one-hour film, which 17
Chinese translation of the original Russian commentary, Cinemas in Peking and other Chinese cities started showing it this week.
K AND MARILYN It shows the Soviet Premjer
talking smilingly with President Eisenhower, Mr Christian Her- ter, Mr Henry Cabot Lodge and other American leaders; nel- dressing the United Nations General Assembly; driving with transportheavy police escorts through
American cities; touring farms and factories; patting children
flory and meeting Hollywood stats, including Marilyn Monroe.
murmurs
A spokesman for the Air Self Defener Board, commenting on the article confirmed the Agures
from There were on Japan's present air power but said he doubted whether the audience at shots of New Japan could be classified York's towering skyscrapers and first class
tår power in free laughter at the antics of press Asia. He said reports on the photographers
at and
Br air power of other nations were Khrushchev's quips at a presa
conference. Reuter. aircraft' inconclusive.-Reuter,
The article sid the Air Self Defence Force outstripped the air forces of other non-Com- munist nations in Asia. It said Nationalist China had about 500 aircraft, India 230 aircraft and roid the 200, I South Korea
re Pakistan Air Force was parted to have 1,000
Brando Describes How He
-Spanked His Wife
Santa Monica, Calif., Nov. 18. Film
actor Marlon Brando described today how he had spanked hla ex-wife Anna) Kashfl. in xa argument ever their 18-month-old son, Devl.
In documents filed in court to- day to support his sult against Anna over visiting rights, Brando mid that when
house via the kitchen. She Brando ・grabbed a butcher's knife and
started to come at me.
“I pushed her zway. She raised the knife. I told her to go ahead if it would make her happy. She threw the kalfe door and came at me on the
grabbing my hair. again, freed myself and I left."
Bad Miss Kak ho vialled his ex-wife's home Both Brando last May: "She became in- were in court today. furiated. She said "you don't Miss deserve to hold the baby.” She matched him from my arms. I grabbed her and she allpped and she sat down with the baby.
"Bhe went lo the bedroom ta call the pollen. I told her not 10. She persisted, I slapped her twice... orice uz the Inco and once on the shoulder and then I started to spank her, "The chlid: began to 177, 180`I
stopped. I started to icave the i
Kashi countered with allegations that Brando throw her to the floor while she chased bold the chud, later her Inlo the bedroom and bli her mumerous 'fimes "on
the face, arms and other parta of the body.”
On other vocasions, she said,: ha
disturbed
with her sleep phone calls during the night and ramacked. ker. boms,. paying particular attention to her correspondence,
Also sald that last August 15 at 2 a.m., while he slept in his own home, his ex-wife entered and “fung herself into the room and on- to the bed.” He tried to resist hor, be mid, and "she slapped me and bit me three times." He said he spanked her and then elected har from tho house,
When he lacked the door "she flarewa Log throtigh thin window and came back into the hours through the window, I hold her down and tied her up with a sash from a drem- ing gown. I called police."
Mins Kashif said that on August 1 or 15 the solor sɛain FR- sokod ber premises, throwing her things about. When slo protested, she said, “he bruts)- ir beat and struck me.” Reuter.