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CHINA
No. 37565
·Established 1845
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1960.
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FINAL
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Comment TWO BIG SQUATTER BLAZES
Of The
Day Over 70 huts destroyed
THE MOVE TO HUNGHOM
the days when China was
en lit
volume
om
IL far greater from of trade Western nationa the shipped through longkong. the logical place for the Kowloon Canton Railway was near the major dock Aren.
Today the railway plays a greatly diminished role in this trade and the retentim of the terminus in the busy and congested Tsimshatsui arendang | longer he justified,
and 700 left homeless
Two big fires raced through dense squatter areas in Hongkong
and Kowloon this morning.
The fires destroyed more than 70 huts and almost 700 people
were left homeless.
Fire Brigade officials said that both blazes started in squatter huts from careless handling of fire. Both outbreaks were brought under control in about an hour..
ΤΑΙ HANG FIRE
A fierce blaze swept through a vast area of squatter huis on the Lin Fa Kung before hill, Causeway Bay, shortly mid-day today.
The fire destroyed at least 30 huts and more than 300 people were left homeless. with At 11.55-1.m. Chief Inspec-f
Andrews radined
For these reasons there will
be
dispute little
the decision to move the tur
all
KOWLOON FIRE
More than 350 people were made home- less, a woman and a child injured, and forty huts razed to the ground when a big squatter fire broke out on a slope in Tai Hang Sal, Kowloon, this morning.
At 10.05 a.m. when most of the inhabitants were out
railway station to Hang jurgent appeal for additional Chimney's end
hom. Government seems to police and tire-brigade as- have given up the idea of sistance. · the railway playing any m Jortant part in the Colony's internly transport system. It is staking its faith in
At the time he appeal was
the e, fanned by ande
ronds.
strong
whul, had spreadi tu AU- In pecker Pals Naby drews wait that it was first
feared! that if the wind increas-
It is encouraging industrial there would devastate the
cuthe hillside.
expansion o the coastal
The whante of the hillside Aras and sees little chance
Road was Tas Bang nf Skutla nud Taip akce
as are- the BANIC developing in
evacuated at mid-day
three frem
brigades wey as Tom Wan and Kun mea
the spread- Tong Besides the indus-thegrately fought tries that have grown up in ing blaze. The Colony's "interior" seem to be better served by road thun rail transport, And to improve communications between Run Tong and the Tola Harbour area, Guvernment is now building the Kowloon Foothills rund.
THE decline of the railway
must ViewId with
gret however. We still bileve i has a big role te play
when the teline townships come into being and we have previously urged construction of hop line linking Kowloon, Castle Peak and either Fan
Taipo. ur
Ling
City dwellers, we argued, are not easily going to uproot themselves to live in the country. Some dependable link with the bright lights is essential. Bus transport is grossly inadequate and the only other hope of im- proving contacts between the city and the outer town- ships is the furry service, Unfortunately the loop line is
a plan for the pigeon holes
at present. The only hope
shely The tire troke citit after 1 an.
ou break, Minu.es after the
squзits sweaned down U hillside as a hug: bet of fame cut a llery swath nur the panele of the hil
neres
mute re
Within a few trigade had m.ived on the s2, and fromeu na keveral has to th Fiz. Firemen were in- world by the hilly and ere will
. They were further ha dered by lark of water pruss.cz. Polite and vǝhmt.ers purbed eats along Tei Hong Road out at danger from dying and sparks.
c'adera
The catire aren narrown the hill was scaled ett to tame and pedestrians.
At last a further 40 homes by water from were damaged
he Bre has.s cascasin irom
the toy of the hall.
At 12.15 the fire was stilt burning but under estrel,
Actress
fined on
tax count
Is that too much dust is not Miss Pearl Au, a well-known
allowed to settle on it and
that it will be re-examined when the satellite
have a
more
towns permanent place on the Colony's map. There is one final request
with connection
in
removal of the station.
Part
the
of the space it now
accupies should be car-
film actress of Ocean View Court, Chatham
Road. was fined $30 by Mr P. F. X. Leonard at Kowloon Magistracy this morning on three counts furnish of failing to business profit tax return. Mr S. E. Cunningham, of In-
marked for a large multi- tend Revenue Department, sald
yeur, three
her to
1050-57, the years
OB
Vicir jota voke started 10
of No. 7 but Cmerge out where a darnestle industry DI | rattanware was carried on.
Tals was poon followed by a big outbreak engulfing an arcu 150 feet by 100 feet on a hill-
ide. Shortly after, sil that remaind WH
rubble 3 Burnt relics, skeletna o2 from beds and sewing machines with their Tops gone,
of
Four re eugines and an am bulance arrived on the secre zoon after.
On the spot was Mr V. C. Seymour, divlstunal officer, direct'ng the operating of the Fire Brigade,
Comparing this are with the one nearby not long ago, Mr Seymour cald:
"The fact that the fire was on the leeway and nearer the hydrants then 1500 feet away) than lust time, made the fire fighting a straight job this time. "As usual the greatest handi- was the squatters them—'
כ
selves.
"They tried to rush out as we tried to rush in It was
like a handicap ruce for both oides."
The fire, however, was brought under control and soon put.cut at about 19.45 am.
Round the
world in
51 hours
San Francisco, Jan. 15. Milton Reynolds, retired ballpoint pen manufactur- er, arrived here tonight after circling the world in 51 hours, 45'minutes and
22 seconds, a new record
for a commercial traveller. | Reynolds, 60, flew aboard Pan American jo, planes and broke the record of 60 hours, 54 minutes and 58 seconds held by two Japanese, Ayako Sono and Shizuo Terishige of the Asahi newspapers, Tokyo
He left San Francisco on Tuesday and travelled by way of London, Istanbul, Teheran, New Delhi, Bangkok, Hongkong and Tokyo. His plane flew
exhibition hall in on March 24, 1861 storey which the Manufacturers separate notices were sent to de-
requesting Association, the New Terri-fendant forles farmers, the Inter- furnish returns for business pro-
A famillar landmark the from Tokyo today in nine hours national Gift Show, the fit tax for
Royal Navy dockyard chimney and 13 minutes at speeds up to Police Traffle Department, 1957-58 and 1958-59.
Three reminders followed but being demolished in com 700 miles an hour, Council
circied the Urban
Reynolds once the defendant ignored them and function with the diamzailing of others
hold can
the summonses were taken out the yard. The 150-foot high world in his own plane with the annual displays.
on November 27.
chimney is now encased in lato Capt. Bill Odom as pilot. converted B-26 Miss Au said she was in bamboo scaffolding and will be The plane, a
bomber, flew from New York to America last
New York in 72 hours.—UPI.
and their
the year when notices were lasued.
THE thought of a famous Landmark like the Rail- Station, clocktower Way
all these passing after years will, of course, bo regretted but so much else of Kowloon that was old and admired has been swent away that the clock can have no special claim to The qur, affections. But it fills a need and its disappearance will moan more than just
passing of a
familiar
on the way down shortly. *** China-Mall photo.
Freighter sinks in Pacific
Tokyo, Jan. 15. Parmanin freighter Gambler sank yesterday in the Facile 800 miles east of Japan, Dodwell and Compány, the ship's agenia, naići today.
La Kately transferred
When the Gambler ran out of fuel and began taking walor In the pild-Pacific, the Cana diantur Cambriazi Balvor met out frum Yokehámia yesterday to her rescue,
talebinctive feature of All the ombers and ere were on the trival at the midn
.and
the Kowloon skyline. other clock Perhaps the
In
An-
"Forry
Star could duplicate the tower which stands above the Ibagkong plers. And if it
the
Canadisti fngboat Cambrian
Inic
Balvor, according to Age received by Dodwells.
-
11. was bollared they numberod
about 10, KAKA
of the distressod skip,- how-
ever, “sho' was so fhr KONG that there was to the fur
the
Despite heavy seas the Balvor
managed to put pumps, faol and food aboard the vessel. Bat
a message.from the tug Inst
·mlafat-maid--- the wondition» af sho Gambler was serious, Her foredeck was under two feet of Water and she was
· fuking water in her mid- lanka,
[could do for her” repensent.
ativer of Cambrian Salvor: Thổ, Balvor sailloed this, mern- mali.
chimes it would be a dis.The 800-ton Cambler, was en “She was out of food and fuel.
tinct Improvement on its
predecestor.
routé
From Balimora・・ to "Kobe' with 9,000 tons of forep
iroti
Because the, shận could... mot)
ing that the, obaw, abandoned
the Cambioj “kround 19. ABL yesterday" and the ship csak
Pictures taken at the height of two squaller üres which broke Dat Kizzost simultaneously this morning on opposite sides of the har- bour. Top. picture shows the Tai Hang Sai squntier area in, Kowloon, and the lower ploš fure shows the Hongkong blaze on the hillside above Tal Hang Road-China Mail photos.
Sensational
disclosure on
Poured hot plane crash
Soup over mates
Washington, Jan. 14. some sort" caused the mysterious crash of a U.S. airliner which killed 34 people on January 6, Senator Mike Monroney said today. Voeux Road Central, picaded Mr Monroney, Chairman of a Senate sub-committee which had just heard that one of the pas- sengers carried nearly $900,000 in insurance, told a reporter:
A 61-year-old restaurant foki "A bomb of who poured a pot of hot soup over two of his mates was fined $75 or three weeks' jail by Cen- tral Mogistrate Mr T, L. Yang this morning.
Loung Cheung," of 118, Des
gulity.
Sub-Inspector T. Y. Yip cald the incident resulted quarrel..
from A
AMS clerk jailed for stealing $9,000 pay
An Auxillary Medical Ser-
vice pay
clerk admitted before Central Magistrate Mr I. T. Morris this morn- ing that he forged the signatures of AMS mem- bers, and collected $9,288 of their pay for gambling. Kwok Ling, 48, of 185 Hen- nessy Road, second floor, was sentenced to 18 months jail the explo The body of Frank
on was
three courYLİS of larceny. "I am convinced alon of a bomb of some sort was found on the beach near Fort Forty-dve additional charges
New Red Cross the cause of this disaster. Fisher, North Carolina, 16 miles of a similar nuturo were taken
Director
Mrs J. L. Marden has coeded Mrs M. W. Turner
"It seems pretty certain that from where the plane, crushed into consideration. this bơinb was carried talo the three days earlier. washroom in the plane, and
set off deliberately,
suc-
表萃
"The evidence is very strong
Dired or of the British Red that it was a case of suleido by, Cross Society Hongkong. Branch (bombing" as of January 1, 1959.
I'm All Right Jack
Insured
4
Aviation
жар
WILL
Detective Sub-Inspector M. H. SALTCES zald Groome, prosecuting sald if the that
pay crasti offendant's monthly National Airlines plane
over $345.10. North Caroline last work had occurred five animator later there probably would be no chance of determining the cause.
CO-OPERATIVE Inspector - Groome also said Kiwość was very co-operative with the police in their In-
In another five minutes the vestigation. The heavily insured victim was named as Julian Androw plane would have been over the Frank, a 32-year-old New York Atlantic Ocean on its Night froun
Major G. F Doggett, Medical lawyer, it was told in testimony New York to Miams and there beforce Staff Office, told tho by
a Civil. Aeronautics Board would have been litle wreckage Court that Kwok had been a very investigator.
27 the worker said that" ko had a
| to apivago.hita.
+
Mr Cear Bakke of the Civi food riscord during his service Mr Monroey said the Board has learned that Frank took Aeronautics Board described as with Royal Naval Dockyard be- out the insurance, naming Manual the fact that "Peare'store be worked for the AMS, S Frank as ble beneficiary, Miri body fall fan from the bodies: ta miligation, Kwok asked Frank, former New York at the other vicliros. "Hoʻold,, the Court corsa chanco-to turn modele was not aboard the It else bore different types of over a new loaf, He said bo
martile tions. plane.
had donela difficulty in sup- ind" devena
Biry Franke retured to discus the matter, maybig it was: being He said the body had been porting his wite
children bandled by her attorney in "deeply penetrated by › Denga
men med alt of mátal, New York.
wood and He admited that he lost half ofbork of the, elillan, money, lit" påmik- Mr Maubney raid authorition paint. Such
*x-|·ling, while the other half was
·Anainelal KITRIES
plosions--UPI
used for the family,
́ ́ret"'un "suddleiant... znani," the } – an hour and 4i mabintso, labka bagins: today"ön P.K'were chocking '; lato · Frakke's jogcuks,... In '·Injuries
pamps would -net-operate.”
-AP.