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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1959.
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WOSŁO
Comment MORE DEATHS REPORTED IN Russia Now Has FRENCH DAM DISASTER 100 Missile Bases
Of The
Day
NEW PHONE
NUMBERS
Fon
several days Hong-
firms have been
changes
the
Wall Of Water GERMAN
Sweeps Down On
Town Of 13,000
Marseilles, Dec. 3.
of Many people are believed to have been killed when the Malpasse Dam on the Reyran River, north of Frojust (south Franco collapsed on Wednesday night under the pressure of flood waters.
Advertising telephone numbers in newspapers. Perhaps therį are some methodical tele- these! phonists who collect notices and arrange them;
irz serap alphabetically
books, or make corrections to existing directories, but to the maur
who make
their own calls, the absence
of an up-to-date telephone : buok
IN FIIN
nuisance.
The
Tels phone
irritating
Company
revealed yesterday that the supplementary book will be
sometime available
ath and the new
book!
will not be issued until
later in the
year. I
Johnnie Ray Acquitted Of
Morals Charge
Detroit, Dec. 2.
possible to sympathise with Singer Johnnie "Cry" Ray
the company when it
Bel a huge backlog of de- mand to catch up on be- cause at the
rate new
in-!
stallations are being made,{
new directory is apt to be out of date before published.
W
ia
A provisional
death-roll
given as 20. ten of the bodies being recovered from the Blood i waters near Frejus carly this | morning.
Authorities in the region de ribed the dim break ay D Parle suct "catastrophe."
valley
tha through the
city of 13,500 Mediterranean people.
seun
and
Some 2,000 poldiers in bar. racks Frejus joined the Fe
workers. Firtan from ellies along the Riviera rushed to the scene along with national security forces.
One witness sald when the adam broke "we thought several roaring down the trains were tracks at once."
was found innocent on morals charge today and promptly fell off the pri- soners'
bench in a dead faint.
bedlam of Revived amid 3 applause and cheers, flay told the all-woman jury in court:
"It's the nicest thing i could hear."
Itay was accused of accoчting reund solleiting here on November
PROPOSAL
THERE phone numbers of
private residences
of concerned the change number and the allocation of new numbers have to be accepter but surely when the telephones of big offices which have hundreds of are involved. calis a day something more helpful than the present system can be devised.
21.
Patrolman Eugene Cavision of the Detroit Police vice squad testified that the singer made on indecent proposal to him outside
Lar
The 12-women jury acquitted him on the second ballot after 50 minutes of deliberation, The only two men on the jury panel Were dismissed from duly on a defence challenge.
As the verdiet was announced. men spectators outnumbered men in the courtroom.
A wall of water, reed by the treak first awept away a hydro-electric plant plunging the valley and Frejus into darkness.
flood muddy
waters Then poured into the low quarters of Several home's were Frejus. swr away and a merchandise warehouse wrecked.
Cars and trucks were tossed
Lac over by
roaring water. Trees were uprooted and paving stones for away.
the
The victims were mostly people washed away in Valley, north of Frejus, the dam gave way.
after
were listed Two passengers as missing after the Marseilles. Nice autorail train plunged off the rails near Frejus last night. it was reported here,
The rain was deralled at a point where the line had been
by washed away
the food waters.
Why can't the numbers in the central district of Hong kong and, if possible, the main business sretion of
Cut Off Kowloon be changed all at
Ray, who pleaded guilty and once and a supplementary was line 25 dollars on a similar
communications All
with directory giving the new charge in 1951, took the stand
Frejus have been cut off by thei numbers he published be for 40 minutes on Tuesday and
flooded railway Pust offices denied foreland?
the police
officer's disaster, which lines
brought and Caviston and telephone companies accuation. He said
trains to a hall. Latest reports in other parts of the world esked for his autograph in the
reaching here said that Frejus) was plunged into darkness last manage to produce direc-bar and then Ray invited the tories that are reasonably new acquaintance to a party at night and that the streets were
flooded. The water had up to date or which at least his hotel suite, -AFP. precede extensive changes,
and it should be possible to
a much greater extent here.
Car Parks Under
The Reclamations
EA
the
PI Deporting
American Sportsman
ARLIER this year,
China Mail urged to build an Government underground car park IN An American
the Naval drydock.
apparently plans had
But
been
made long before to fill it
up and this work began
shortly afterwards.
11
was,
a pity this great basin could not have been put to better particularly as: has since had; Government
to earmark valuable
land
Was
STARS ARRIVE All Over Europe
These three beautiful German actremes arrived by ale in Hongkong today with a dele gation of German film artists and directors. They had just completed a seven-day alay In Tokyo where they took part in a special German Film Week Festival. The party will leave Hongkong on Sunday. Pictured from left to right are:-Anije Greck, Ruth Niehaus and Eva- Ingeborg Schols.
21
OF
SUSPECTED
CASES
FOOD POISONING
CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Nine more people complained of poisoning after eating food containing vegetables yesterday afternoon, bringing to 21 the total number of eases this week.
Six men, two boys and a girl were treated in hospitals and clinics and later discharged.
Cauilous buying by the publie caused a sharp fall in prices of fresh green vegetables but frult, turnips, potatoes, Tomatoes and bean sprouts have gone up.
Pamphlets on how to use insecticides and sprayers were distributed to farmers hr the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foresiry yesterday.
The Government warning on vegetables sprayed with polsonaus Parathion Insecticides, is silil in force.
However,
spokesman sald that Government hospitals and clinics treating apparent cases of poisoning found no signs of Parathlon.
New FM Radio
Sets Appear
On HK Market
The
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
main-Une Radio sets with a VHF-FM wave-band are begin
ning to appear on the Hongkong market.
Each radio owner had to pay Jaw FM (Frequency
$40 to the landlord Modulation) receivers will enroughly
ble Hongkong listeners to pick who arranged for wiring to the up Radio Honkong's high fre various ilas. Once they ard quency transmiss'ens which are installed they become house Fcheduled to begin early next fixtures. year.
rison
to a height of over three feet in some parts of the town.
Latest reports reaching Marseilles early this morning Onal death- suggested that the
con. roll would prove to be siderably higher.
The Frejus region without electricity telephone and linking it
is and
now the
Wednesday on
|
London, Dec. 2.
An unofficial British defence study group reported today that Soviet Russia now has about 100 principal missile bases tanned, by about 200,000 men.
The bases were said to be njoy the Soviet Union's Baltie const, in East Germany, in the southern Ukraine and amid ing Carpathian muunteins.
д
The report was issued in pamphlet by the Institute of Strategic Studies, a non- governmental body sponsored By the Ford Foundation. Its COUTCON of formation WCTL not given.
Cin
us
MAIN WEAPON The pamtilet Hirted the main
und to ground weapon played on the Soviet bases The T-3 Intercontinental Ballistic Missie rocket with a Fanke
than 5,000 of more miles.
Other weapons named Why
range missiles with range 1,000 miles and 1,000 les re-
Found Not the 5-2 and the 5-4, intermediate
Guilty After
Confessing
of
British Defence Ministry refused immediate comment on
Institute's Andings, Sume 200,000 men employed on the missile altes, said the pamphlet, are under
A Briton's Finest Tradition
The
Olizwa, Dec.
Defence Minister, Mr Grorge Pearken gaye farther evidence of Sir Winston Churchill's resent exNetwo of his famous wit, Me Fearken told a Con- servative general meeting
that banquet
when the famed statesman was In- formed
Field
Marshal Viftunt Montgomery's **molts" earned a quar- ter of million more than Bir Winston's "IIistory of
English Speaking people," he replied:
"Lyn not
prised the com
To Murder mat of an Engineer-General
Richard
of
weapons
who controls
the manufactur nucicar
and ockets as well as all the testing diles.
London, Dec. 2.
Hodson, 28, an Irishman who allegedly confessed to a three-year-¦ potential
WEST'S STRENGTH
The
the rocket
SEVEN
range
as four
pamphlet isted Western old murder, then pleaded strength in Europe not guilty at his trial, ses for Intermediate
pissiles. the acquitted on
Those were named Thor rocket bases charge here to-
$12 Britain,
Was
murder
day. He was accused of murdering ja fellow-Irishman, John O'Shea, 44, in London on April 27, 1958 by hitting him on the head,
Mr
Justice Cassels told the jury: "Probably never before has a triat gone through right to the end which has been founded, so far as the prosecution is concerned, on a full confession by the accused, and the defence saying I did not do it
IMAGINATION?
A newspaper reporter and the police had tested that Hodson told them he killed O'Shea,
Said The judge: **Were his confessions the imagination of a drunken, drugged Irishman, or were they the confessions of a man who, for the good of his soul, wanted to get it off his mind?"
There was
no burden од Hodson to prove his innocence. It was up to the prosecution to prove beyond reasonable doubt thai Hodson was the murderer.
Two Dublin men, Patrick Dunne and Peter Byrne told the One agent for a big British court on Monday that they had company said, regarding the seen the accused nearly every
trade-ins, possibility
"Iday in Dublin between April 28 definitely think we will consider and May 1, 1956.China Mail
Special. part exchange."
Cenerally the price is slight- ly higher than conventional sets, and German radio Brush ts, which can tune in to both rallway lines the present wave bands and the
outside proposed with the
band, ore new FM cut by
soon be on sale the now, or will world have been floods. Rescue squads have on the local market, been dispatched to the scene of
German sels are on sale at the disaster. Many buildings
between HK$100 to Manila, Dec. 3. In Frejus and in the Reyran prices
HK$1,150. But lake the word swept away Valley have been sportsman,
of expert radio engineer, by the torrent. Lewin, Theodore
it is best The Malpasse dam, built eight "For good listening, arrested
from the to buy an expensive FM re- years ago, collapsed after a four-point charge pressure of flood waters follow-ceiver." had been filed against ing a three-day storm which him with the Philippine has lashed the South of France. Deportation Board, National Bureau of In- vestigation announced to- day.
the
in Murray Parade Ground The NBI director, Jose Luk
for a multi-storey
park,
land which it could other wise have sold for several
ban, said Lewin had been ac card or being "an underable alien" for alleged foreign change transactions, gambling
ex-
hundred thousand dollars. den cperations, 1 gambling
But
AFP and AP.
Crippled U.S.
conviction in 1946, and giving knowing Government's false festimony,
Lewin remained in gaol to- anxiety to get on with the, building of the Connaught day. A 25,000 peso (US$17,500) Road-Gloucester Road link, bond pooled by his invwyer was its reluctance to hold up the turned down because the boda demolition of the dockyard company had previous un- paid obligations to the Govern- was understandable. There ment. are, however, two alterna- "I've been recommended for tive sites for underground deportation," Lewin parks--in the last two "because I was arrested shoot- stages of the central re- ing crops in 1940."
Lewin was arrested at clamation, and it is to be hoped that before filling up suite in the plush Bay View these areas, the PWD wil Hotel here.UPI.
make a thorough study of
the proposals made earlier
this year by the Automobile Association to see whether parking space can be pro- vided under them, instead of occupying valuable land]
on top
swal,
BROWN RETAINS
WORLD TITLE
SEE -P8
his
Army Plane
Lands Safely
The Japanese radio manu- rol been slow, facturers have
ot
Britain Not To Share A-Weapons
London, Dec. 2.
and a new model transistor set, The British Government does not for the
with an FM wave-land wili toon be on sale here at about HK$250.
The ret is in the Colony new, but not yet assembled it is ex- pected to be on the market early next year.
a seven-valve conventional st
How en she at $345, would cost roughly 15 to 20 per cent
MYCING.
time being at least intend to share its atomic and nuclear weapons with its Allies in the Western European Union an authoritative source said today.
Responsibility for the de-
now ready two bases for italy and one projected Jupiter Jupiter missiles being built in
tase in Turkey.
The pamphlet also cast-doubt have on Soviet claims to reduced its military manpower by 2,000,000 men in the Past present Soviet strength at about two years and estimated the 3,900.000 men.—AFF.
U.S. Carrier's
A
Cargo: A
HK Junk
San Francisco, Dec. 3.
That
lived
the
ai all SEX- Field
to
the finest tradition of goflishmen, by selling his U as dearly as possible,"
UFI
Reporters Barred
From Assembly
Bridgetown, Dec. 2. Reporters working for the Irland's daily paper, the Barbados Advocate, have been barred from the 24- member House of Ax- embly after ⚫ disputa with the Speaker. Police and the House Marshall saw the reporters who also for other Wat Indian off the premises yes-
work
paper
ierday
on the instructions of the peaker, Mr Kenneth Hus-
three masted Chinese band. He said that remarks he junk sailed through the ber 7 had been omitted from Golden Gate yesterday on the Advocate's report. the flight deck of the air. craft carrier U.S.S.
mde during a debate on Novem-
Lexington.
and
The junk was purchased in Hongkong by the carrier's pavigator,
Cmdr. Clifford B. Curtis,
of was one thousands of Christmas gifts bought in the Far Erst by mom bers of the crew.
"The crew had a saying," Curtis said. "The Admiral has the barge, the Caplata his gig and the Navigator his junk.”
Curtis named the 30-foot, wo-ton junk "Teak for Two, ---UPI.
Australian Concession
To Student
One agent in Hongkong esil-
A proposal to this effect, con- ! mated that the new FM m dei ftained in a report by a Labour fence of the W.E.U. countries Member of Parliament; Me Fred lay with Nato and a decision to
Canberra, Dec. 2. Mulley, to the W.EU. Assembly set up a W. E. U, striking force The Commonwealth Gov. meeting in Paris presented Mr might split the Atlantic alliance.
ernment has waived a Mulley's personal views only, the
The Angio American zource said.
ugreement on the exchange of charge of M$5,400 for Honolulu, Deg. 2.
AERIALS
atomic secrets barred Britain Meanwhile the Foreign Office from communicating them to a
which it previously billed crippled military Super Don- stellation with 87 people
Aerials are not necessarily re-spokesman refused to comment third-power.
a Singapore architecture aboard laudest sately here to-fquired, but can be used. A radio, on the proposal on the grounds The Brussels Trealy, re- Bludent Anthony Lam, day on two engines.
eriginber said that the internal that the WE.U. Assembly devised by the 1954 London agree- 24, for treating him for The pirliner," with threeneriat provided should be enough. ( bates had not yet ended..
ments, forbade West Germany
tuberculosis. women and five children among He felt that the power output He added that in any case the from manufacturing atomic
The Extemal Affairs minister, the 70 patsengers on board, had planned by Radio Henricong Assembly's "recommendations" arms. been on its way from Hawall | should be high-coough - to make { would ultimately ve studied by
fichard Casey, sald payment had been waived in view of th to Tachikawa, Japan.
the W.EU. ministerial council. British policy was the Passes special circumstances of Lin's About 300 miles out from
* An interesting point was Hawaii, the port engine cut out, The pilot leathered it and turn raised regarding aerials.
the ed. back
Groups of 20-24 radiog can to Hawall, but
Kane VHF-FM stopped be fed off the second port engine
aerial. A group of tenants
almost simultaneously.
an aerial unnecessary.
fn
The plane dropped from 10,000 the Java Real Estates in North to 2,000 feet and then to 1,300 Point, gut together and through on the return night, but made their landlord were able to the airfield without further have one of the new acrisis in mishop-Reuter,
stalleri,
• A basic element af
sion of “an Independent British deterrent and no change, in Ch
Reporters claimed that his words were inaudible, portly becse they were spoken in a Iow Voice and partly because of markers later,
the
the
APOLOGY WANTED On November 24. Speaker declared: "I am going to write to the editor of Advate und tell him that un- less he apologises no reporter of the Barbados Advocate will
This this House. enter
on
goes
from today."
He later wrote to the editor say the permission to por debates would be with- held from the Advocate's staff.
Commenting
this, the paper said in an editorial that the Speaker did not allege that the report of the proceedings was unfair." Hls objection, is that
clld not get publietty."-Chino Mall Special.
he
some
Time Bomb Explodes
In Macao
Macno, Dec. 3. A home-made time bomb ex- pled inside the lavatory of a teu-house on the ground floor of what No. 16.
The explosion slightly injured woman. Lule damage was
done to is pulley was presently con- Australia, spent seven mouths to Mr Fu
Lim, private student in the whar self. It belongs Tak-yum, Mocpo derod.
gambling concessionaire.
At one time the Hongkong- Meno ferry. Tal Loy used to beth at this wharf.
Government circles Bald the Idea..of equipping the WE.U. an Independent nuclear with striking force, attractive as it
in the Victorian sanatorium. Barring mejor · changes was in certain
in respects, wOS
entilor. his Lim, who said Inspired by the British British policy and in Present not
treaties, it was highly
- Parents with 14 other sons and | Government,
Authoritative sources said probable that such a suggestion daughters would be unable to such a suggestion would run up would be accepted the sources Pay the bill, was delighted with
Bgainst Important objections:
the decision.AEP,
Eid-AFP.
No arrests have yet been CSGO,--AFP,