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BILLY BUNTER COMES TO GRIEF
Prime Minister BILLY
THE DUKE AND Resigns From
THE TEACHERS
A
S a class, school teachers
are generally well mean-
ing, but at times they can
be awfully silly. Take, for
instance, this business
of
Ruling Party
Colombo, Dec. 7.
the English school teachers Seventy-two hours after the sudden dis-
secking to ban the Duke of Edinburgh's film, which is anfd to "misrepresent Hang. kong."
We are told that "One of the
teachers main objections is. the film's portrayal of makes The Hongkong. It
Colony look like a wonderful place. What could be further from the truth?"
solution of Parliament, Premier Wijay- ananda Dahanayake today sprang another surprise by resigning from the ruling Freedom Party "because I don't, want my throat cut.”
Premier Dahanayake an- nunced he planned to form new party.
that ile said he had heard They then go on to tell U19
three members of the outgoing something we already know. cabinet were aspiring to The That tuberculosis is ragings, presidency the Freedom
of and that refugees are living, Party and that he did not want i sleeping, and dying on the to stand in their way. streets.
0
A Pose
I
HK Singer
Given Lead
"I hope now that I've resign- In London
cil, things will be easier for
them," he said.
referred 10 certain
of opinion
F course, the whole of differKS
their adverse edict is a old cabinet. pose, a fashionable pase atj
He was "dead
in the
against"
the moment of these wheatlocalisation of British owned
are more concerned with the tea comparison of figures,
a rubber estates come may be for nationalism- the Hon," he added,
drawing up of pamphlets, and the rest of the par- phernalia which strikes an attitude.
The Premier
NO
said he
was
Musical
London, Dec. 8. "but A Hongkong singer, Miss Yang Linn-shin, has been chosen to play the part of The scamstress heroine in the Rodgers and Hammer- stein musical, "Flower Drum Song." It will open in Britain next March following its success on Broadway.
at1 a state Jakeover of religious schools without the consent of those concerned. But others, he said, favoured their complete takeover.
To these silly people who
claim, without authority, to! The Premier said he was op- speak for the whole teacher posed. too, to implementing grotp of England, we say, proposals to reform the Budd- come and see for yourselves, hist clergy against
the wishes
|of certain Buddhist high priests. For instance, come and visit! He was also against granting these huge blocks of apart-trone union rights to public
where such ments which house thou-! servants
who have would affect the public. sands of people
no claim upon us save that! they arrived poor and penni-: les, and were fed, housed and clothed at the expense of the people of Hongkong.
Sought Asylum,
ET them have
a look at
Opposed
right
Finally, he was totally op- posed to permitting strikes in essential services.
"In all these matters," dee- lared the Premier, "there was difference of opinion."
A Japanese girl, Miss Sonya Hana, will be the leading dancer In the show.
а
Miss Yang, who is 25, moved from Canton to Hongkong with
She was her family when child. She came to Britain to study singing ol the Royal College of Music.
Sho continued her studies at
the Paris Conservatoire and
private
teachers. Miss
Billy Bunter throws his jockey A. Freeman at the last fence but one in the Barcombe novices steeplechase at Plumpton, Sussex, on December 2., Billy Bunter was out in front whòn "ha went down-AP Photo,
ITALY'S PARTICIPATION
AT SUMMIT TALKS
London, Dec. 7.
The British Government is cool towards Italy parti- cipating in an East-West summit conference with the Soviet Union under existing circum- stances, a usually reliable source said here to day.
with Yang has since made a name for itself as a singer and an actress in films, on radio and in Earlier today several minis-
the theatre and was a notable ters o! the outgoing cabinet
windomo
tele- Butterfly" on indicated they would make every vision. the hospitals and institu- endeavour Yo persuade Mrs
TRANSLATION
refrained British spokesmen Recently, tho has added an-
from formal comment on Rome reports that President Eisen- other side to an already varied career by providing a Chinese hower was in sympathy with
documentary translation for a
Italian desires to participate in "Gateway to the!
conference ir dis flm entitled
a summit armament was on the agenda, Future,"
"I am very happy about
that he would bring up and the question of Italian parti pari in Flower Drum Song: it will be the Drst time I have acipation when the Western peared on the stage in a large-
heads of government meet in scale musical," she told a cor- respondant of Laudon Press Ser- vice. "I have 1 in my blood to be an actress and a singer anxi I am very glad when I can be both at once."
Bought Colony.
tions erected at the expense Sirimovo Bondaronalke, widow of the Hongkong taxpayer, of the assassinated former pre- for the welfare, in the mles, to accept the party pre
who have sidency. main, of thuse
After the Premier's announce- asylum in this
ment a
meeting of ministers and junior ministers of the old resolved they government would not let the premier's re- signation hamper their efforts to rcorganise the Freedom Party which the founded.-AP.
Let them look at their own Blum areas and then start cleaning up the blots on their own landscape before Indulging on a campaign against the Colony. We ask quite modestly, where Is there in the East a town that Can compare with Hongkong for rapidity of growth; ready tackling of problems which arise daily or an expansion of atilities which are stretched to breaking point to
deat with a growth of population: so fantastically huge, as to
be overwhelming?
Done Something
IT
is, of course, simple to
see that these silly school
teachers are fifty years be-
hind the times in their
former
premier
EMBEZZLEMENT
See Back Pugo
my
Miss Yang, who often visits her relations in Hongkong, is married to the British actor John Stone.-LPS.
U.S. Congressman Described As 'Irresponsible'
United Nations, Dec. 7.
idons. To them, the colonial The chief Philippine delegate to the United Nations
is someone who exlsts in the
early stories of Somerset)
Maugham;
Bame fantastic]
figure who parades his ignorance under a cloak of arrogance.
described U.S. Congressman Phil Weaver. to- day as an "irresponsible politician" who speaks of Philippine-American relations through "sheer ignorance.”
་
Mr
Dr Francisco A. Delgade, and that US troops in the They seem undware that
subject to looting. while they have been grovel chairman of the Philippine dele islands are
gation, replied sharply to the extortion and ascault, ling among figuros, we have second attack on the Philippine De Delgado in reply to metaphorically taken off our Government in two weeks by Weaver's speech sald
"I have wondered whether it coats, and done something | Congressmum Weaver, a Re-
1s proper for me to condescend for these refugesa.
publican from Nakwaskin.
Mr Weaver renewed 'charges to the level of Congressman We have fod, clothed, and that the Philippine Government Weaver."
(of “In hám Hatest tement, fn healed the refugee, while as tolerated harassment
stationed in the which he Bubstantially reiterated such people as theso teach-Americans ers have sat in committee island and proposed forming a hie, lies about conditions in my non-governmental investigating country, Mr Weaver had, only succeeded depicting himmelf Mr Wonyor, as a subedetmittemman krvesponsible · politician member, spent three days in the who is brit on acquiring par Phüppines Awet month. He re- sonál publicity at the gilerio of turned to probest that the Philip- plomo Filippine Aanesioun ED]R+ pine government la graft-ridden / Bons"-AP and UPL
on the world's probleins. teamkala Now if they would like to pass.
round the hat, the smallest contribution would be re- ceived gratefully.
*
us. Senator's
Son Killed In Plane Crash
Over 50 Killed As Gales Continue To Lash Continent
London, Dec. 7.
Winter storms raging across Europe today killed
a path of
an estimated 56 persons and left havoc across half-a-dozen nations.
too, but did no damage.
Austria, Germany and Italy to have escaped the appeared worst of the storm. The Alpine were passes in northern Italy blocked, heavy mow fell in the Austrian Alps and high winds lashed valleys in the central and eastern Swiss Alps.
Blizzards, hurricane force winds, floods and heavy snow. falls hit countries from Britain to Greece-1,300 miles apart.
The
ԵՐԸ fury of stormy
Others ships sank claimed most victims. Four anxiously radiood for help as mighty Dras battered Lan. Scores ran for the security of sheltered harbours,
Across the entire Continent it was bitlerly cold.
ol foods,
SNOW DRIFTS This was the picture Europe awash with buffeted beneath snow drifts.
Oft Britain's eastern shores, 14 men were feared drowned in the splintered wrecks of two little dipo sunk by the aform,
by gales, buried
The entire crew of 12 of the trawler George Robb died us the vessel was smashed ashore un the Yorkshire coast, its back broken.
Two other men died aboard a dredger driven ashore of East Anglia.
On land, the storms brought floods. Many roads were II- passable. Flood waters invad- ed homes already damaged by 70 mph gales,
Off the Portugues port of Leixoes, the tug Marialva went down and 17 crewmen
Were feared drowned. Violent gales swept the northern coast of the country.
The Scandinavian countries caught the full force of the ley blast,
BLIZZARDS
Southern Sweden cowered under one of the worst blizzards In living memory and the death roll climbed to five, Washington, Dec.
The storm wrought havoc to Omcials said two men in-road and rail communications and Den- cluding Senator George Alker's on were found dead today in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in a forest,
One of the men, the pilot, sur-
A search party that tramped deep into the woods went back word they found the bodies of Howard Alken, 39, son of the Senator, and Arthur Tobin, 30. Norman Paulhus. The pilot,
Paris on December 18.
Mr Robert Murphy, U.S.vived the crash. Under-Secretary of State who is travelling with President Elsen- hower, was quoted as the source of these reports.
that It
understood Whe spokesmen here were doclining comment pending Information as to what exactly Mr Murphy said and implied-Reuter.
walked out of the woods carlier
today-UPI
in Norway, Sweden mark, swopt the Baltic clean of ships and sent them scurrying to strelter.
A Danish and a Swedish ish- ing vessel radioed they were in distress off Bergen and two Norwegian rescue craft battled
Rain poured down on the dis- mal għast of the town that was Frejus on the French Riviera.
With the dam gone, the low parts of the town, already hard hit, were in danger of floods if the gales contused.
hicanwhile. an exceptional cold wave which struck Moscow. yesterday has sent temperatures. tumbling below zero, only the fourth time in the last 78 years that such low temperatures have been recorded here so early December.
At Volkolamsk, north of the capital, temperatures of 30 de- green below zero were recorded today.-AP.
PC On Drug Charge Gaoled
A defective attached to the Kowloon City Polico Sta- tion
this morning was sentenced to two months gool by Mr la M. S. Don nell at Kowloon Court for possession of dangerous drugs.
The defendant, DPC 204, Lut Wui-yick, 30, was guoled when he admitted having 1 gramine of morphine (a salt of heroin) and gramme of barbitone, an
ingredient used in the manatic- tire of heroin.
Insp. Lo Wing-fong maid he was instructed to search the defendant's belongings in the station barracks on December 8, when the
smoli dings in ax
Defendan! said he had been Packages were found. a policeman for over 10 years d explained that the packets in the
courte of and lett among his The storm Lashed at Holland belongings through negligence,
were
mountainous seas to reach them. In Greece, a ferry boat over furned in an artificial insku swept by squalls and 20 men
то drowned.
the north, in Yugoslavia, gales swept country.
the
were stizal his work
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