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CHINA
No. 37575
“Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 27,
LATE FINAL
1960.
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Comment Non-stop business-and demand for money is double! Of The BIG CROWDS AT HK BANKS Record rush Sedan chair was faster French Cabinet
Day
Control for
beggars for New
Many
HIS evening Hongkong begins celebrating the Lunar New Year. Chinese people will bo getting double pay And Incky red packets are passed around freely. The season of Kung Hei Fat Choy in AIRD a time for charity.
Chinese people give more generously than at длу
other time of the
That is why the he year.
and byways of Hongkong will be lined with an exceptionally large number of beggara cashing in
the
on
good old Chinese custom which decrees this a time to share one's blessings and to make sure that your poor neighbour has as happy a now year as you have your Belf.
It may therefore have seemed unkind of Government to have announced in the Legislative Counell last week that not only did it support the scheme of the Council of Social Service chcouraging people to hand out cards to beggars direct ing them to social welfare agencies but also to bring in a bill to increase the maximum aentence for begzare asking for money in an insolent or threaten. ing manner. Despite the
however,
Govern- ment is to be complimented for taking this action.
+ Benson
beggars
Year
withdrawals
A
by China Mail reporters Thousands of people crammed into the Colony's banks today in the biggest Chinese New Year rush on record. survey of the British banks indicates that people this year have withdrawn twice as much as
last year.
Hong-
A spokesman for the kung and Shanghal Bank sald that business had been slop over the past few days.
non-
Officials of the Chartered Bank and the Mercantile Bank said that this year's withdrawals have been an all the record.
At the main branches hun- dreds of impatient shoppers and businessmen stood two deep for up to periods of 40 minutes to have their cheques cashed.
End of month
The rush on been' accounted": for by the fact that Chinese New Year this year falis at the end of the month.
As a result, Government and practically all local businesses have paid salaries early to both Chinese and European slats.
Tucre is also the added elamour of the new "lucky" Honey the smaller sized banknotes,
Quite a large number have
inestly
THE begs have been a been distributed mos
up value has been done for them. The scheme which Government is now support Ing promises to do
anuch
to now little of real
to
Heavy rush
Chinese
banks
have
perienced a similar rush.
of
ex-
The Bank of East Asla. the the United Chine.e Bank and Bank of Canton all fold a China Mall representative this morn- ing that business had been heavy,
Eden's memoirs
start
a row
Lóndón, Jan. 26. New Labour demands arose tonight for an official probe-into-the-Suos crisis- after Sir Anthony, Eden accused America of cynic- ally deceiving Britain in 1956.
The ex-Premier has kept up a non-stop assault on the late Mr John Foster Dulles in por- | teular and U.S. polietes in gent- eral in his copyrighted menioles of the canal crisis published by The London Times,
Sir Anthony's Instalment today told how the present Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary
Mr Harold Macmillan and Mr Selwyn Lloyd-were supposedly tho misled by Mr Dulles as to
attitude
American
on various
Its chief merit is that it will direct the moat deserving cases to organisa- tions with staff that are qualified
investigate their background, and to The spokesman for the Bank aspects of the situation Ave recommend measures of aid of East Asla said the rush start-weeks before the vain British- and rehabilitation which do ed 10 days ago and had been French venture against Egypt 38
The bank months ago. more good than the otting steadily.
prepared for it a month ago. ten-cent coin Occasional which falls into their begging bowl. This seems to be one occasion when been kehanged for old private or individual enter-since the rush started
for
prise should be replaced by a system of state control and the necessary public co- operation to make it work.
About five million dolŝora" worth of new banknotes have ones
The emphasis
Strung along
"We had been strung along (by the United States) Over of negoliations many months on the now from protext to notes 13
pretext from important? Die Chinese like to pass the Near device to device and from con-
trivance to contrivance," Year with something new," sabi
wrote. the spokesman.
Peak yesterday
he
In the wake of Sir Anthony's disclosures, three moves by the Labour Party were reported.
...
Two Fleet Street editors recently sellled an argument over the speed of London traffic. It was decided to organize a race between a two-man powered sedan-chair and a sports car from the steps of St. Paul's to a house in Fleet Street. The wedan-chair won. Picture shows the chalk crossing the finishing line.Express Photo.
London
traffic chaos
as cabbies protest
London, Jan. 26.
Mr Ewell, Nearly 200 taxi drivers drove up to the Parliament today to protest
against, new regulations designed to speed up traffic.
The
THE card scheme could be Bolution Lo the
The United Chinese Bank has beggar problem but the exchanged more than $2 million Defence Minister in the postwar campaign for support worth of new notes for old ones Labour 'Government, served -the peak being yesterday (notice in Parilament he intends should go beyond the focal population. All incoming when $1 million worth were ex-questioning Sir Anthony's right.
to reveal state secrets. Mr Shin- changed. tourists should ba
given & leaflet published by the Lines of people in this bankwell protested in u atctement to that Mr Macmillan Council of Social Service walted three-deep to withdraw newsmen
seemed to have favoured. Sir telling them how best they money.
Anthony with preferential treat- can make their contribution
nent on the question of publish- ing state documents,
to
The Bank
of
new
of Canton's head solving thin Hongkong olce in Central District alone
has given out a total problem. Clearly it la
more than $1 million in practical to give them cards
notes and coins. Branches of to give to beggars but they the bank all over the Colony
not
worth, said the spokes This bank also reports that,
could give a cash donation had given out another millen to a charity instead and dollars they could be advised to coman operate by not tipping apivs or giving to beggars.
COT1-
As for Jocal peoplo participating In this scheme the dollar that they pay for each card is hardly likely to go far in meeting the expense of, those organisations catering for and other poor beggars people. And the success of this Imaginative scheme may well depend on the ox- tent to which tho munity supports this work with regular donations.
welcome resolution most uny Chineno person could would make this now year, be to send his red packat with a generous cheque to one of those charities which are trying to give many poor people not only a happy new year but a new start in life.
The
is counters were Hond with people three-deep,
HOLIDAY
PAPERS
The China Mall 'will, not. be published tomorrow ---- Onlinese New Yeaṛu day... or on Friday.
be
But the Saturday, Mall will be published as' negai;
The SCM Pont will pablished tomorrow, but there will: bo na lancé an Friday or Saturday, and
The Bunday Korald whit #DDCAS, AN-STUSENË, PRANA
The editor and staff of The Chitia // Minik, twisti Chinese renders a VETY happy, new, YOUR
Mr Richard
CTOSETELI,
Labour MP, said he intends de landing a parliamentary inves tigation into all aspects of the
z
crisis to balance Sr Anthony's version which ho labelled "a one-sides presento-
tion of the Conservatives' case,"
A cool £100,000
Mr Crossman' asserted that if any government servant had related the official secreta dis- closed by Str Anthony "ho would have been jailed" But Sir Anthony, ho added, háa re- celved "A coo£ £100,000 from The Times for the seriallsártion rights of his story,"
This, Mr. Crossman and, was "an outrage."
• The shadow cabinet of the Labour Party is planning to cate sider what! - protests; it. should make in the House of Comfimonia agalint the publication‘of : the momoli's,
The Bark of Home, Boerstary, of State for. Chromowealthy "Rolations, - amurod the House of Lorde tonight;"Sir." (Anthony 'bue ·had no different facilities given to him from what WOSJEL be given to my, peizen: writing
HIS LIFE HUNG BY
A STRAP
New York, Jan. 20. Window cleaner Fer." dinand Ekberg hung for 12 minutes 13 Doors above fashionable Park AvĒDING Today after his safety harness broke,
screams RE ho dangled by one 'strap ki- tracted the sítention of the occupant・ of the flat, Hirs 'Elly Chadbourne, who called for the build- ing superintendent.
The super came, faster". ed a rope round Ekberg's fook and pulled him, to wafely.
-When
he was rescued
he took a drink of Boblefr in the fat whose windows he had been** eleaning-- und went, wiraight back to work.---Beuter konse
Heat wave toll
Sydney, Jan. 26. Bix people collapsed and find today.rading the death toll from
wave to eight AP.
in almitor (circumstances,” am | the two-day Australiah .......... heal-
AP
||
The result was
chaos. No ather traffic could get through Parliament Square,
Extra police were brought in to untanglo. the traffic, but the black box-like taxis stayed, stretching as far as the eye could БЕС.
Eixe-
Not one was for hire. where on London's streets cabs were as searco.
ANGRY DRIVERS
The angry drivers went into the Parliament lobby to see their | Members. They were there more
than an hour.
Walter Geake, member of the Owner-Drivers Association, said they hoped to persuade Members of Parliament that the new ban on U-turns in Central London was a fallure.
The ban, Imposed by the Minister of Transport Mr Erniest Marples, just before Christmas, was designed to speed up traffic. Then one after another, nearly 200 nbe made a defiant U-turn and beaded back to Central: London-P
Brutal
N. Jersey
killing
North Brunswick, Jan. 26. A
surgeon's wife, two women servants and a taxicab driver were found bound and shot to death today in the physician's fashionable. home.
Police hunted a man geen leaving the house in a taxicab. The slayings occurfest in the home of Dr Francis M. Clarke, while he was performing an emerzenicypperation at a hos-
split over Algerian crisis
Minister resigns
Paris, Jan. 26.
The French Cabinet was split tonight över
the Algerian crisis as reports reached
here of rising confidence among right- wing settlers defying the Government's authority in Algiers.
Rellable, reports said Pres!- In a zlatement broadenst. in dent de Gaulle was in favour of Algeria today M. Debro said the extreme measure to settle the government's self-determination crisis, while his Prime Minister, pulley must stand at all costs, M. Michel Dobre, was reluctant
Ho did however, hold out to take such stops.
Eeveral olive branches to the People close to the General Insurgents, Informed discounted any idea of him being said In Paris,
sources forced out of office over the Al-
According to radio Algiers, gerian hsurrection.
Debre's statement "with calm" the Insurrectionists heard M
They said it was more likely
that he would bide his time and then appeal to the people of France to give him full powers for three years - enabling him to rule praculeally single-handed.
Officials from the President's. office called on M. Debre this effort afternoon in a reported
to conviner him it was his duty to remain in office and support the. General,
Rosignation
M. Jacques Soustolle,
Pro
and said it did not contain what they were waiting for.-Reuter.
31 killed in
New Year
premier and Stable to in-eve tragedy
tegration of Algeria rather than self-determination, asked the Prime Minister today to accept his resignation, but agreed to hold the matter over for another day, the reports said.
In Algiers, about 2,000 settlers Yemained entrenched behind barricadey in the area where 27 people were killed in Sunday's anti-government riots.
General
Challs, Maurice Commander-in-Chiet in Algeria, was understood to have, told M. Debre during his flying visit to Algiers early today that none of his offlecrs would be willing to fire on the insÜTTEC- tionists.
Strong words
A delegation of Algerian de pulles arriving in Paris tonight told reporters in the National Assembly lobbies that the whole people of Algeria bad rizen in order to remain Frelich,
They used such phrases "We have not come to nego- Hate" "It the government uses force, the dend will be There
counted in thousands,
will be another Budapest," and "The policy of President de Gaulle is impossible, tilcgol and legitimate,”
Their strong words reinforced the impression in Paris that the insurrection
gaining
was
strength by the hour..
!
Olive branches
were
Seoul, Jan. 27. Thirty-one persons
trampled to death and 38 injured at the Seoul rail- road station shortly be fore midnight.
Passengers were rushing to catch the Chinese New Year evo train to Mokpo, southeastern Korea,
Eighteen, of the Cead were wamen.
The 98 injured men ware taken to four bosplinis
The acclllent occurred when passengers toppled over ot a narrow staircase from an over. head stand and were trampled upon by others behind at mum- her three platformo-Reuter,
53 jailed for
smuggling goods from HK
...
Talpet, Jan,* 27.
Jall terms: ranging from six months "to" "15 years wero given yesterday by a military court, to: 53 peopls charged with smuggling an estimated 1.A.$250,000 worth of goods ints Formosa“frem Hongkong. Most prominent among the was¦¦ Trak. Ho-pao,
M. Debre has apparently re- turned from his dramatic over- night light to Alglers greatly
the virtual re Impressed by fusal of the army leaders to fire accused
on the insurrectionists, while speaker of the City Council at
who
the President apparently wants Keelung, to go through to the bitter end. years-AP.
was given aix
Passes to visit
on
London, Jan. 20..- Married British soldiers retorn-
ing home from Cyprus the Troopalilp” · Dinera, had to. apply for passes to visit their wives exbins socording to a Each pass was restricted to one
newspaper report. “.
wives' cabins
00-minute visit daily sud was, loudspeakers (“All ̧‹ married Issued by the ship's Regi-
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