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PAN AMERICAN
YEAR GRANT: HONGKONG'S INITIAL REFUGEE YEAR
HONGKONG'S REACTION
Of The COLONY'S THANKS TO BRITAIN
Day
DANGER OF A
BAD NAME
ONE prevalent and
per
sistent misconception about Tiongkong and ita needs
Overseas
trade
scotching: it Arose agenini during the Kearns talks!
Dr Stumpf Says: POWDERED MILK AND
"Disappointingly
Small Donation”
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
with local garment makers, Hongkong residents concerned with the|
not for the first time, and i perhaps not for the last. Many people believe that! Hongkong, because of its j refuguce problem and the widespread poverty here.. should be given preferential. But
treatment in trade. But no:
has been able to ex- one
plain why.
Hongkong is not the only pour
World Refugee Year fund drive today said "thank-you" to the United King- dom for its initial grant of £129,000
or more than HK$2 million,
a Church leader in Hongkong said this morning that the grant was "disappointingly small."
territory which is trying CANADA MAY
to expand experts.
There
are many others, some with
far poorer
resources and
facilities than ours.
hmy
And
anyone can argue that neceptance by America Hongkong- of a flood of
made garmenta in any way helps to ense hardship and poverty here, is beyond us Surely the chief bene. ficiaries in that ease are the garment
manufacturers
themselves and their share- holders. If we could bonst about pay and employment conditions in our factories generally, the plea that our. workers so benefit might! have a real and substantial basis,
NOR there is no doubt that the garment export txxom
has led to a terrific growth of the industry. And it is assumed that its expansion was prompted not by hope of charity
American in the market but in response to genuine demand. America under no obligation to more than she feels markel can absorb
is
fake
her
without jeopardising own industry.
hast
This is a polnt Mr Kearns made last week.
We may disagree with the effect of our exports, but the decision tu curb importa is one for America alone to make. And it is unhealthy to believe that any country
with which we trade mount do so with the idea of help- ing us. Surely the strength of our industry can only be tested by the fair demand; for our products,
FANY
of the complaints - heard!
Mwhich
during-
came
were
Mr Kearns visit
from manufacturers opposed to the "past per- formance" method of fixing a quolas. They include some
GIVE $300,000
CHINA MAIL REPORTER
A Canadian World Refugee Year committee Is expected to send a grant of not less than IIK$300,000 to aid Hongkong's refugees, it was learned this morning.
the Council of
Mins Madre Newcombe of Social Service sulil that through and contacte personal correspondence, she bad been able to bring the Colony's refugee problem closer to the Canadians.
The response from the Social Planning Connell of the Toronto Commitee for the World Refugee Year. amounted to a promise of than * grant of not less Can.$50,000.
MILAN
Bald Newcombe full details of the that grant are not yet available.
REFUGEES
SHOULD BE
CONSIDERED
London, Nov. 24. The Daily Telegraph said today that Hongkong's urgent appeal for finan- einl ald to combat its serious refugee problem
Dr K: L. Stumpf of the Lutheran World Service said, "When I frst rend the report of the grant, I thought we should feel grateful. Then on the other hand, it is just a token amount. Hexpected we
more.
should Teceive
"I had hoped fributioni made by government
that the con- the UK would be
Jarger. Being a British colony, and the UK knowing all the problems faced by the UK government. I think the UK government should have contributed a more signi- ficant noun!,"
A bigger grast, he said, may countries to encourage other follone suit. Already the Ameri can government hus granted a ital of US$700,000,
He believed that there were in the Colony from Texurces which at least HK$2,000,000 could be
1 feel that raised. these resources have never been property tapped"
Very Useful
But there is still a few months more, and hope that another grant will be forthcoming dur- in this time, he suid,
However, he said, the grant
is very useful and can be put to such as the Many good uses,
Black, Governor, Sir Robert outlined in his speech yesterday. Summing up his reaction te soit 21 feel disappointment that the grant is so small; grate- ful that a grant has been marie; and hopeful that a further grant is forthcoming"
Cheong-leen, Hilton
Urban Councillor said that news of the grant was certainly welcome.
With this HK$2,064,000 we should be able to buld at least another large community centre, a resettlement estate or another secondary or trade school."
PAINT A MIX-UP
Naples, Nov. 24. Police and railway officials continued their search into the night for eight bars of while paint believed to be mixed with a shipment of powdered milk from_Canada.
Hall the shipment from the vessel "San Sebastiano" was found in rali cara here—but it was all milk.
The other half was on a way to Milan by rail, and police there stood by to search the boxcars as soon as they arrived.
The powdered milk, undersinod to be a consignment from the Canadian Government for distribution to underprivileged In Italy, was contained in sacks almost identical to those in which paint was shipped.
No one knew quite how the paint was mixed in with the milk, or al what polni along the route.-UPI.
Eleanor Powell and Glenn Ford.
THE GLENN FORDS
DIVORCED AFTER
16-YEAR MARRIAGE
Santa Monica, Calif., Nov. 23. Former screen dancing star Eleanor Powell, 47, won a divorce from actor Glenn Ford, 43, today after charging he was "anti-social" and "just doesn't care for people."
charged mental cruelty. British Film
In her suit, which was not the contested by
actor, she The couple, married 16 years, have agreed on ■ $350,000 property
that
Mine settlement
gives "The United Kingdom World Powell $40,000 B year for six Refugee Year Committee de- years and $30,000 a year for life serves the highest praise for its after that. She also received on behalf of our re-half of the community property efforts
and support for Peter, their 14- year-old son. fuge." he said.
It is also a timely reminder that we in Hongkong should not be left behind in supporting our fund, own World Refugee Year he added.
deserved to be considered Overcrowding
by the British Govern. ment.
The marriage was regarded as one of the happiest in Holly- Miss Powell said wood until last May that they were part- ing.
ANTI-SOCIAL
Commenting on the Gover- nor's speech, he said on the The Conservative daily caid in question of Chinese refugees being keer on slaying in the leading editorial: "It is sad to see the Governor | Colony, "Not all of them are keen on staying here in Hong- not exporting to the United of British Colony having to
added: for kong because of the overcrowd- cern beg publicly in London States at all. Their concern
case money to houre and educate ita is for the future in case
This is what, to put it bluntly, Sir Robert Black they should want to enter cpulation
to
the American market later. is having to do for Hongkong. But it should be clear that "He is asking for £2
million from a country which America is not going allow unrestricted imports has so far committed itself to no more than £2 milion for to continue. And our only
World second the whole effort of the hope is
that this visit of Mr Kearns succeeds, where the first failed, in Impressing an industry the leason of diversification. The decision
of the breuk- away group of the Garment Manufacturers Union
limit exports, Was
Refugee Year; and so far as the British Government is con- cerned he seems to be asking in vain. His problem is, it is true, pecial in chameter.
UNLIKE BERLIN "Hongkong's refugees from to China, who form a third of the un- population, have been imposed
on it by the
Communist re-
avoidable. It is difficult, to volution. feel much sympathy for the "It is an escape route com- nowcomers who in spite of parable to Berlin, but Hong- warnings of restrictions, kong, unlike Berlin, has found have crashed Inte
the no way of passing westward and market and pre- those who seck freedom
by action
safety there. The vast raajority Washington. Representing perhapa 80 per cent of the stay to live in squalld, insanitary horrora called huts, there to Hongkong exporters garments to the U.S., the red the population for future
breakaway
group
of
slumas, seems "The effort made to build likely to be able to devile nuts for the Brat 300,000 and mutually satisfactory now to build more fints and satellite towns has been herow.” undertaking. We feel is necessary because there -Reuter.
[Hongkong, it is rellably is a real danger that if complaints about the volume learned, is not asking for 2,2%
million (or HK$40 million) from) of our exports continue, Briain. This is the overall Hongkong, wil ond up with figure she is hoping to receive as bud name júst as Japan a result of donations, government had in many countries be- and private, from all over the
world. fore the war.
She testified in court today that
Glenn Ford was
"very moody and anti-sociat.” She "He made me very
embarrassed, me nervous and If
countries
considerably. I had to be under more
were
nervous- care for willing to take some of
a doctor's cut refugees, and
CSS," many are keen abroad, it would to re-setile
ing.
be a welcome step in helping us scive the problem of over- crowding."
A
Runs Into Difficulties
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Adrift
London Manhunt HK Ship
For Second
The Ripper
Jack
London, Nov. 23.
"Scarnosed Mick," a criminal descendant of Jack
the Ripper, was still on the loose today after cluding one of the biggest dragnets in London's history.
Mick is the name Scotland Yard has come up with for a
man
heavy believed to be a drinking Irishman, who is the "Lost Weck- prime suspect for end" assaults on-and possibly murders of-London women.
area
Before dawn today London police got nearly 800 personis out of bed in the Chelsea after a weekend robbery 20 1 up that a man resembling Mick's description neighbourhood.
was
seen
Scaled Off
The
While approximately 500 apartments were sealed off and searched in five-hour rald almost until daylight, there was no trace of Mick,
α
Pollce believe the man who committed the weekend robbery had a few drinks at the pease of the flat owner and is in possession of unusual type of silver cigarette lighter, In- scribed with the words, "Texas Sulphur Company.”
More than
Tipe meanwhile kept ing in.
pour.
Hongkong's 15,000 "L" Drivers
CHINA MAIL, REPORTER
There are now 15,000 learner - drivers wait-
ing to take their driv- ing tests, a spokesman of the Traffic Office re- vealed this morning. Asked whether pefority given to car owner in taking
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a test, the spokesman said that this was so insofar as the first test, but should the appleant tall he or she would have to wait their turn,
But Not
In
.
Danger
A Hongkong ship, Sze Seng, yesterday reported in dis- trees off the south-east coast of Mindanno in the Philippines, "is in immediate peril." The captain said this in an SOS message.
no
The Sze Seng, owned and operated out of Hongkong by Wallem
and Co., yesterday sent out an SOS to the effect that both her balles were out of commisdon and she was drifling westward at two knɛ is.
This morning the agents in Hongkong said they had received no further news, but that if any assistance was to be sent to the Sze Seng, it would be done from the Philippines.
FIRST SOS
The first SOS was picked up of by the Radio Corporation America's marine station in the Philippines, and it said the vessel WAS having great difficulty in establishing radio contact.
The
Exceptions are made, how- over, in certain ensky where the
skipper reported the 100 plainclothes-upplicant is a doctor or a person first trouble some $7 miles east men are combing London for for whom a car is an absolute
the of Cape San Agustin, in Mick
necessity.
Southern Philippines, at noon It was, however, not necessary | yesterday. Both boltors, he re- to wait a year in order to take portes were out of acilon, but a second test, the spokesman that crew members were work- said.
ing to repair one of them, while Over 80 tests a day were con- the ship drifted west at ducted in Kowloon and Hong- knots, kong and the waiting list for tests at present streiches up to Mic is believed to go on the six months in Hongkong and rampage after deling heavily about 12 months in Kowloon,
weekends.
Urgency is the order of the day because police believe his next strike will be murder if he hasn't killed already.
A Scar
The description given by a woman who recently was as- saulted and the few clues left behind have led police to look for Д man who talks with an Irish accent, and has a scar on the right side of his nose,
The official description also says that he has reddish-blonde or ginger hair and that he likes to dress in loud windbreakers and shirts. He is believed to be five feet nine or 10 inches tall.
All assaults and housebreak- London, Noy, 23.
to Mick have British producer who ings attributed wants
film "The come on weekends,
A mother in the Fulham dis- Charge of the Lighttrict was nearly strangled in her Brigade" at the actual home with silk stockings on an Russian site of Balaclava, October weekend. The follow-
ing weekend has run into difficulties,
woman was battered Reason?
Balaclava is scious.
One of the last swoops be- near the atomic sub-base
lleved to be Mick's handiwork of Sevastopol and is
was on October 31 when a Lon- restricted area, says the don lawyer's home was broken
into. UPI. Daily Mail.
If the Russians refuse, Mr-
can be
#
71-year-old uncon-
made in Yugo- Wanted Man
slavia using his cavalry IL- giments.
Miss Powell sald sometimes shal Tito has promised that the he would just get up and walk Elm out at social affairs.
Recently she has said: "My "Chinese refugees in Hong-
have lasted kong," he said, "have a strong marriage wouldn't cultural affinity to their this long except for my religion mutherland and they hold and my feeling that I should certain amount of admiration, keep the marriage together." She is now a Sunday School (Conti, on Back Page, Col, T) teacher.Reuler,
The Mat! said "the cast would include Rex Harrison, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sit Alec Guinness, Tony Curtis, Deborah Kerr, Petor Ustinov and James Mason."UPI,
WHY MEN GO TO THE ANTARCTIC
Buenos Aires, Nov. 23. Nazzing wives, impossible mar-
riages and tiredness of "keep ing up with the Jones's”—these are some of the reasons why man go to live in the frozen wastes of the Antaretio, Ba Australian doctor with years of polar expeditions anid Loday.
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But the men escaping from wife trouble wero net usually good (workers, while aggressive men
were a HOMINCE.
Inlo modern society often became happy *nd secure in the Antarctic where there WAS-W completely clamless coglyly
Others who did not go
with no money worries and no concern for social status. Dr. Philip Law, who ̃his Ied many Australian expeditions La the Great While South, indings of, his gave these study of the motivations and
behaviour of 500 men in the
Now Reported Camouflaged
'MONTY' IS
CALLED A BLITHERING IDIOT
Fiek
London, Nov. 23. Marshal Viscount
who
Montgomery,
ге
marked recently that any-
ото
who voted
fabour
two
The Sze Seng, of 5,025 tons, was formerly the River Hunter, owned by the Australian Depart ment of Shipping and Transport. She was buil! in Sydney, Aus- Iralia in 1940. Wallem and Co., look, her over in September this your.
Old Woman With $1600
Fined For
Begging
should be locked up in a A 95-year-old woman asked lunatic asylum, was lam-
basted as a
idiot" by
Socialist today.
"blithering
angry
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Backbencher, Mir Norman Dodds applied the epithet
who art another “Monty" allegedly had made the same remark about people who voted Labour.
Central
Magistrate Mr
T. L. Yang this morning to return her a sum of $1,687 which she said she had saved to buy herself a coffin.
Ng Mul, of no fixed address, was found with the money in her possession last Friday when for a detective arrested her Mr Dodds outburst followed begging at a house in Shan
porcinder by the Health Kwong Road, Happy Valley. Mayter, Mr Derek Walker- Smith, Kat lunatic asylunte Ng appeared in court
this
When her name was called out by the court interpreter. Ng walked out slowly trom the Public gallery with the old of a stick, and wis allowed to sit by the Magistrale.
now are resized to oficially morning on $50 ball, pleaded not and na "hospitals' in Britain.
gulity but was convicted fined $10 after evidence given by "Have you told this to those two blithering idiota in the the policeman. House of Lords-Loni Mont- gomery and his Right Homcurable friend?" Mr Dodds The gunman who shot asked. The constable with a snatched
speaker, Sir: Harry revolver and escaped was Heaton-Forter, rebuked him, "I reportedly sighted behind members in seeing that ques
hope I shall have the assistance the Grantham Hospital in Lions ary conducted in Wong Chuk Hang, Aber-orderly fashion"—UPI, · · deen, yesterday.
women. Dr On the absence of
Law said: "It is not merely s question of tacking sexual
Ilis body was camouflaged Intercourse, Sexual depriva-
senses is with leaves and twigs. He was tion in the narrow
Been by a hospital amah. As not nearly as hiportant
was then crawling from east many people might expect.
to west in the hillside. was 3.15 p.m.
Antarctic when he addressed "The lack of femate companion
2 12-nation international geophysical year symposium.
The police were ship in the wider sense is Felt
Men accept greatly.
the absence ile suld the Ideal Antarctie
sex realistically workers word "men.
with with there's nothing you can Therefore the pride and ambition that pro- do about it, vide a driving force to forge lows you think about it the shead when
better.*"* the going to
buil longbest ***
this
should go hand in hand with Ou homosexuality he said, “I cases · but found no overi ... Humble spirit and a Kėli»
noticed tendencies."--Bouter. crtuesi outlook,"
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That
Boy Stabbed With
Informed Pocket Knife
WNE
and, immediately conducted a. search of the area with, the
Olathe, Kan., Nov, 22. help of tracking dogs,
The march which lusted from An oight-year-old boy 5 p.m. 10 p.m. was frukt- found dead in a rough field tom day stabbed more than 50 times Jews.
Government spokesman and to-night a 13-year-old A
boy admitted doing the stabbing with a pocket knife.-Associat- ed Press,
said this morning that the search is still on. No arrest had been mode so far.
DID NOT BEC
In the course of the hearing, Ng wiped tears from her
eyes from time to time.
Is an un-worn statement, she said that she did not beg be- cause she had so much monest tube She added that she just sat outside a house at Shan Kwong Road and some chlidren pregood the doorbell.
Asked if she tui cnything to say when she was found guilty, Ng asked the Magis rat, 16 res amber the money adding that the weeded it to buy her coin
beruse she had no children.
Mr Yang graded her request,