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LATE FINAL
CHINA MAIL
No. 37529
LAWYERS'
Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959.
PAN AM
JET CLIPPER CARGO
PHONE 37031 ·
Price 20 Cents
FASTEST DELIVERY
O
TO LEADING
MARKETS
OF
THE
WORLD
ILLEGAL OPINION: MAILING OF COUPONS NOT
Of The FOOTBALL POOL DISCLOSURES
Day
Ties With U.A.R. Resumed
BRITAIN
RITAIN and Egypt have! resumet diplomatic ties.
This marks the end of ene of the most bitter and con- Bri- troversial periods in tuin's relations with the! Middle East, The wounds caused initially by Egypt's i seizure of the Canal and later by the British assault | on Port Said have far from i healed. Nor is there any kelihood that they will heal completely before
passing of this genera
But the decision
the
tion.
to
appoint diploma.
tic representativer to each
other's countries will at
Local Charities Panamanians Burn 'Uncle Sam'
Would Benefit
If Laws Amended
The plan to operate a football pool in Macao was more fully described at a press conference today when senior executives made these disclosures: Leading Hongkong lawyers had told them it was legal to send coupons through the post. It was possible for a person to win HK$100,000 for 10 cents.
•
If Hongkong changed its laws to allow pools, Asian Football Pools would "follow the flag" to enable local government to benefit by taxa- tion.
made
These disclosures were least help the implementa today by Mr A. F. Moote and is tion of the Anglo-Egyptian Mr N. Fleming. Mr Moury
diretor of Asian Football Pools. financial agreement made
air Moore told reporters that earlier this year under h understand that if the Pool which seized British pro- operated from Macao, Hongkong perty was desequestrated, Government or made the subject of competion. pensation.
This will mean the reopening
would
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Asian Football Pools revealed. on Monday that they had been refused permission 10 start operating in Hongkong, because contravened n this would have
of British business houses іль Egypt-though
greatly reduced scale. Local locat ordinances. British residents will once
The pointed out that the Gov-
again be free to live andernment does not receive any work In Cairo and other money from the pool which is parts of the United Arab operating at present, Republic. And it may not
"Whereas under the laws of a
be long before Boac resumes tegal pool the Government would flights to the country. From autematically receive 124% In
h commercial standpoint, taxes," he said.
the ending of the long
.Mr Moore stressed that the period of hostility will be welcomed-in spite of pre- promoters only received three-!
vailing dissatisfaction
the financial agreement. As far as trade is concerned. alternative markets have been developed by both countries and it may take years to recover.
and-a-half r cent of all monies received.
For Charity
"We feel that we are being ! fair, we are not doing anything! wrong win! 1 feel that there theen untsazanelle diseri- mination in the whole inatter."
In a relear given to the press the Aran Football Pools munic it lear that they had felly an earlier charge meesligated that of would be igal to send ; football pua coupons through the Hongkong Post Office.
The release stated that legal authorities in their investigations. proved unanimously that Heng- kong Officials cannot, except in
special very
LASCS. interfere
with letters mailed through the Hengkong Post.
The "very speciał gauca" atost when the afety of the Colony was concerned,
Statement
1 The statement this morning
added:
"IT the Preas Release from Asian Football Pools, (of Novem- ber 30) reference was made ai follows: "It is known that Royal Commission was appointed to study the gambling laws of It is regretted "Of all the money collected. Hongkong...........
is consumed 171 prize that the adjective "Royal" was CG manry, 166 Zoes to charity and used to qualify the setting up of another 14% is taken up in the commission-of which the promoters were advised and "With this present refuge, placated as long ago as Septem-
percentage would; when challenged, that the Goy- ernment spokesman states, "The
NE request which Britain her taxes," he said. ONE need the press fund one could imagine the helps placed or as
in the release of Mr James the charity Zarb from prison. To the a
British people this is one He said that if laws in Hong-Committee is expected to report of the outstanding griev-kong changed to allow
ances stemming from
Suez campaign. Zarb
the
these his organisation the pools,
would long."
the and follow the flag" and start
that the pool in the Colony so
believed
James Swinburn We Government would benefit from charged with spying for the 122%. Britain. Nobody
Mr N. Fleming Dlso an offtela) Egyptian story and of the Asian Football Pools who the conference said accepted conventi the commonly
inter- there was any view is that they were that if
ference with the mail it would seized and imprisoned after
be "trespassing on the freedoms show trial
of the people.” Swinburn spite. released earlier this and the release of Zarb is now an essential first task for Unr new churge d'affaires.
GEL
uf
Was
ye
for
a person to
to the Government before very Tiongkong dollars, or shall accepted we say curritcy, Is everywhere in Maco - indeed at e Gambling Tables in Macao the tourist or visitor en bet in Hongkong dollars and if he is. lucky, be paid his winnings Hongkong dollars,
Legal Tender
in
"Furthermore, it is customary for Hongkong dollars to be uc- Pointing out how the Colony cepted as legal tender anywhere would proilt by the pools Mirin Macno. Therefore, po objce- Fleming said that the organisa- tion would employ 500 people immediately in the pools were made legal,
It would be In some carga
win It is useless suggesting that possible
British people will soon HK$100,000 for 10 cents.
If weather prevented play in shed the feeling of contempt and angry frustration they England and a game was con- Hongkong celled a bettor in have for the Egyptians and would not lose any points. the whole wretched Suez
"It's the old pool custom that affair. Likewise Egypt will if you can't win then you can't bear hatred for Britain for lose," Mr Moore said.
to years many
coma.
Diplomatic relations, how-
ever, must not be governed by national animosities and! prejudices.
F
was not surprising that
I'Mr Selwyn Lloyd's state-
ment to the House should have boen greeted by Labour taunts and jeers. And many more than feal opposition members particularly aggrieved that
waived has
its
Britain claim to compensation for the Army bases in the former Canal zone. These were worth £50 million.
Had the Canal operation
had a more satisfying end- བྱམས
ing, the spectacle of
the
Foreign Secretary eating kis hat might have
less humiliating:
been
But it is not the time now
to dwell on the past.
It
in time to swallow pride and accept the fact that we live in a world of equals in which the noode of Britain and
hor Commonwealth have to be harmonised with the needs and rights of pthers.
心に
N_C
An effigy of "Uncle Sam" is burned in a street in Panama olly, on November 28, during the demonstrations against the Unlied States occupation of the Panama Canal Zone, About 300 youths attempted la plant the national flag in the Canal Zone but they were kept back by American and Panamanian troops who joined forces. Twelve American soldiers were reported to have been injured by stones thrown by the demonstrators. - AF Radio photo.
Two Killed
In Gaza Strip Clash
wore
Tel Aviv, Dee, 1. Two Arab infiltrators
killed and two Israeli soldiers wounded in an exchange of fire today the Gaza Strip, an spokesman Army
near Isracit said,
on
tion is seen, or has indeed been
An Israeli patrol clashed with three Arabs The raised officially, regarding
Israeli territory north of receipt of Hongkong dollars in
the
Strip. The Macao or the paying-out of prize
Gaza
automatio Arabs opened CUITENCY. money in Hongkong
be mentioned here fire against the patrol, the It should that further clarification will be spokesman said, made on this point.
"Football Pool betting provides everybody with equal opportunity to participate: rich and poor alike will find this is within their means whether in (Catd, on Back Faze, Col. 1)
The patrol returned the fire, killing twp Arabs. whule
third
escaped across the lines into the Gaza Strip-AFF.
· Mr A. Moore (left) and Mr. Norman Fleming (right) of the Axian. Football Pool answering reporters' quesitous ai x specist press conference held in Hongkong this morning.
China Mali Photo.
West To Present German Problem
At Summit Meet
Paris, Dec. 1.
The West German Government spokesman Herr Felix Von Eckart said here tonight that the Federal Chancellor Dr Konrad Adenauer and the French Prime Minister M. Michel Debre had "agreed on preparations for the summit conference."
the
Herr Von Eckart was speaking to reporters at a joint press conference with
French Foreign Ministry spokesman M: Pierre Baraduc.
Pressed for details on whether the French and German Govern- ments were agreed on how the! Berlin problem ought to be dealt with at an East-West summit meeting, the German spokesman sald we are fully agreed not only with the French but wilb the British Government
also
that the Western plan (for Berlin and Germany) presented at the beginning of the Geneva Con- ference must be regarded as single package."
NOT APART
The French spokesman added: "We are agreed that at an East- West Gummit
the conference problem of Berlin must not be treated alone and apart fram the German problem Ly whole.
More Cases
Australian
Land For
HK Buyers
Sydney, Dec. 1.
Commonwealth's
Bid To Win Over World Air Routes
By PETER WOON
:
London, Dec. 1. A conference of Commonwealth airlines aimed at winning Commonwealth supremacy on the world's air routes is being planned by the Minister of Aviation, Mr Duncan Sandys.
The
conference, which wil probably take place in Londou next spring, is expected to zel up a permanent council to en- courage air transport through- out the Commonwealth.
Cheaper air fares agreed, it decessary, outside the interna tional Air Transport Association would be a keynote of the co- Common- peration between wealth airlines and is being ex- tended now.
Last week Beac linked up with Trans Canada Airlines on its trans-Atlantic operations and in Delhi this week the Cor- poration's Managing Director, Mr Dasil Smallpiece, is con- |cluding a similar arrangement
for the For Easi with Indio and Qantas,
PARTNERSHIP
Air
~ ~ Only · Pakistans among "innför" Commonwealth countries now remains outside the Bone part- nership scheme but I under stand discussions are going on with Pakistan,
Briah Government policy is to obtain a closer linking of all Commonwealth airlines with common farey and other operat- ing arrangements, but the Gov- ernment must tread warlly in proposing that Commonwealth
air linics should be tled to 2 "Buy Brush" airerat policy.
Many airlines have been buy- Ing American aircraft on the grounds that Britain is not pro- ducing the aircraft they need. They certainty will not be die- tated to by Mr Sandys-Lonxion Express Service.
Priests Brutally Murdered
Yaounde, French Cameroons, Dec. 1. Two French priests were
brutally
Sunday
murdered On night whea several hundred people attacked the Catholic Mission at Bafang in the French Cameroons, it was disclosed today.
Another priest and a native- born tun were injured.
The mission as well as the hospital were sacked, and several
vehicles were set on
new
The chairman of the Sarpy are. Three Africans were
ported to have disappeared,
Additional Telephone Directory
A "supplementary" tele. phone book will be issued by the Hongkong Tele- phone Company shortly before Chinese New Year. containing about 11,000 new numbers.
The new book, B WER learned from an official of the Telephone Company this morning, is to be issed to subscribers from -January-33. ·
Of the 11,000 new list. Inge, 6,000 will be totally new numbers of telephones which the telephone com- pany have been buay installing throughout the Colony during the past few months.
The remaining numbers will be those of subscrib- ers who have changed addresses. "This," the off- cial added, "is causing us a big headache for there are many house removals during the year."
In the present English- language telephons direc- tory there are more than 50,000 numbers listed, ex- cluding those of Govern ment.
On the question of the development company's plan for more telephones exchange B.THEL better systems, the official said, "We are ahead of schedula already
in she first few months. In the Mongkok Аге we will be bringing
In 2,000 more lines from December 18 onwards. These were not expecte to be ready until January.
"In another area.
telephones, which
1,000
were
not expected to be instali
od until March, will now
be ready in January."
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
IN REVERSE
Corporation, Mr G. while two burnt bodies could Whelan, said tonight that not be identified. 13
Westfield, NJ, Dec. 1. The attackers set up several his firm planned" to sell
A 50-year-old businessman about 200 blocks of land obstacles to facilitate their re-
trent without the population has fired the first that of to Eastern buyers in the informing the authorities. The
what he hopes will be a next 12 months,
police were nevertheless able to
reverse American Revofu- Mr Whelans told the entwani catch and inflict heavy losses
tion to get New Jersey into meeting of Savoy shareholders on the attackers, although these
the
Common- British today that ownership of 100 have not yet been counted. blocks of choice building land in The attackers appear to have wealth. Australia hed already been said been armed with guns, including
one automatic weapon. to investors In Hongkeng and Singapore. The land was sold in equal amounts to the two cities, and brought in a total of A£100,000, Sixty per cent of the buyers were Chinese, 40 per cent were European.
a
Of Poisoning MAKE PROFIT.
Mr Whelan'said in an inter- view tonight that his corporation More cases of 'poisoning were proposed to sell in the Eart reported this morning and the about 200 blocks mainly from total number affected is now at Victoria but some frem. New leust 12, according to a China South Wales and Queensland within the next 12 months, As Mail count.
who calches Mr Erik Roos, The slain priests, Father Gilles his train dally to and from Heberle who had spent 25 years Manhattan, is upset about Say in the Cameroons and Brother Ing the New York State income Saron, were both members of tax even though he lives here. the Order of the Sacred Heart
of Saint Quentin. Their deaths He wrote to Governor Robert aroused intense emotion among B. Meyner of New Jersey to appeal to "the Crown of Eng- the Christian community-AFP.
land for our return to colonial zlatus with its guaranices of British Justico."
Nervous Bandits.
He said that he was being Los Angeles, Dec. 1. subjected to "taxation withou; the same cry Two youthful So far there have been no land developments, were "bullt
bandits fled representation," reported human fatalities, though up" blocks held by Eastern with nearly $3,000 in cash and that touched off the American two chickens died after eating, buyers would increase in value. Jowelery from a store yester Revolution two centuries ago.
The British Consulate in New vegetables in. Wanchal yesterday. They would be able to make a day after one of them, itamor-
Svend Erickson, York took Mr Roos' announce- Most of the cases have been profit by re-velling them. Mred to ownor sent to hospial where after Whelan asid prallt motive was "hand over your money. Wormerit calmly-"we're getting rid treatment they have been die behind the corporation's piano. just as nervous as you are," of our colonies these days," n
UPL
official said.-China Mail Special -Reuter. charged fully recovered.