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CHINA
No. 37593
Established 1845
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1960.
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents
PAN AM
JET CLIPPER CARGO
PHONE 37031
"Sheer miracle no one was
was killed"
0710
FASTEST DELIVERY
LEADING
MARKESS
QANE
THE
WORLD
Of The RUNAWAY TRUCK DRAMA
Day
Buttons, now!
now Hongkong ta so torrent
of complaints and often abune that is experts arouse that the campaign launched by British button makers will have surprised na one. The measures
ures being
Traffic policeman leaps for his life
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
taken against Hongkong, A police constable leapt to safety only
however, are, for a a change, almost beyond criticism: no boycott is proposed, no ban is sought from the Government; merely an appeal to British button users to buy the home pro- duct.
But it must not be forgotten Clint British button makers are traditionally pessimis- tic and resent competition strongly. Some among us may recall the outery in 27 when there was actually n demand to the Board
Trade for a duty on importa, It was the same story then, factories closing, thousands being thrown out of work. Now the suggestion in that the industry is faced with collapse.
Is fear seems to be
THIS
exaggerated though Igures indicating that the Colony now supplies quarter of British require- ments may be true. There appears, however, to have been no sharp increase in from Hongkong the button
A
makers suggest. In fact, amcial statistics indicate a decline during the last three years from about $8 million worth in 1967 to about $6.5 million worth last year. Hongkong's exports consist of plastic buttons are presumably what British manufacturers are complaining of most. No indication is given of the price difference but the Hongkong, product must be undercutting heavily to have made such a large in- road into the British market.
The
FLIL
button makers are ancient and honour- able fraternity known in
Birmingham L
hoth
are
London. How much they still governed by their great traditions and
and colourful his. tory it
la impossible to teil.
But no manufacturer will forget that the son of Matthew Boulton the older his produced buttons in Soho works at the fascina- price of 140 guineas a 300 admittedly Kross →→ years ago. Clearly we are not discussing the same kind of button now. But
the
question
arises:
split second
before a huge driverless truck crushed the traffic pagoda on which he was standing, in Queen's Rd., Central this morning.
The truck ground the box under its wheels and careered another 15 feet before crashing into a parked taxi at the intersection of Queen's Road and Ice House Street.
CONSTABLE NG KWOK-HUNG
..... he nearly copped it.
Through a sheer miracle nobody in the crowded section was injured.
The police constable, Ng Kwok-hung, was directing traffic at the intersection at about 10.30 a.m. when the accident occurred.
The truek had been parked on a steep incline in Ice House Street near the Colonial Secretariat while the driver was delivering goods to an office.
About a half minute after he left the truck it slowly started to roll down the incline.
Dozens of people leapt for their lives as the runaway truck gathered speed and lumbered towards the thickly crowded intersection at Queen's Rd.
The driver and several pedestrians, hands. waving, ran down the street ufter the truck frantically shouting a warning.
Four
cars travelling slowly along Queen's Rd., screeched to a halt as the truck zig zagging out of control missed them by a few fest.
Warning Screams
Police Constable Ng told the China Mail he was turned aide on to the approaching truck when he heard several people 'screaming a warning.
He said: "I looked around to see the truck coming straight at me.
"Without hesitation I jumped as far
as I could only a split second before the truck hit the traffle stand," he added.
The truck turned the steel and wood stand into a twisted mass.
It then careered onwards and crashed into a parked taxi.
Impact of the collision smashed the front section and shattered the windscreen of the taxi. The driver however, escaped injury.
Traffic in Queen's Romi and Ice House Street was soon snarled by a huge crowd of curious onlookers.
Police cleared the crowd and later towed away the wrecked vehicles.
FOUR PLEAD NOT
is the industry unwilling to GUILTY TO
do more than appeal to the
patriotism and sympathy of
its customers in
An 4:21"
deavour to survive?
IT must also be asked whe
ther Hongkong really is
the cause of 33 button
$90,000 ROBBERY
makers closing down and 16 Four men pleaded not guilty to four robbery
stopping. production. The mass-produced
low-price shirt for which there is a big demand everywhere to- does not allow many- day
bo too about
facturers to
criminating cholco chenpent
the
dia-
Lau
charges involving $93,734 worth of gold, jewel- lery, ornaments and cash, at the Criminal Ses- sions this morning.
and
They were Chang Chin-pang, their
Tung Wing, Lau The Cheung Fel,
bultonя.
undoubtedly best providing they
aro
Crown Counsel, Mr D. N. E. to Rea told Mr Justice K. R however, that the Macfee,
are reliably strong. And this extent the Hongkong
is only meeting Crown was not offering any
evidenco against the demand which the, British
fourth accused, Cheung Fel,
button industry clearly can not satisfy.
None but a button expert -
They
шего charged with
and they are all too rare in robblog: this Colony could tell us
whether Britain is trying Chan Kwok-mel of $7.210
Influx
ornaments
of fold with April 29, 1080; Hongkong
to
Sight the
from
the pearlsholl product or
the once familiar cattle-
10
British
Hut Wing-shu
оп
of, gold or naments worth $19,900
hoof buttons. But it is to January 3, 1959:
hoped that
have not manufacturer forgotten the lesson of his tory. It took an exiled Dano, one Banders, to work Rrevolution with the matal
button in 1807. It may tako
UNSUITABLE
London, Feb. 18. -
A woman has refused, to
Arrested of drug ring
Kobe, Feb. 19.
the
The JapanEDG narcotics control
acction reported today 'arrest youterday of a Chinese suspected of heading smugglaz ring.
*
The end of the journoy—a runaway truck lands on the pavement in lea House Street aftor knocking down a traffic constable's pagoda (part of which is seen on the left) and colliding into a parked taxi scen in the foreground.-
China Mail photo.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE
GESTURE TO CROWD
London, Feb. 19.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman told a crowd waiting outside the Palace last night that there was not likely to be any news of the birth of the Queen's third child during the night.
1: Mr John Peel, the royal gynae-
Pink and blue cologist, remained at the Palace
A.
cocktails
London, Feb. 18. **pink-for-n giel,
..
to continue an; overnight vigli near the Queen's bedside.
The dwinding crowd at the Palace gate discussed a rumour that the Queen was in labour bul the Palace spokesman said. " have absolutely no word of the Queen being in labour."
thre
last
Fattier Mr Peel and the two The Chinese was identified as blue-for-a-boy" cocktail wil be other doctors—Lord. Evans and Kuo Chin-hsini who
Weir-paid was served at London's exclusive Sir John suspected smuggling herplp Savoy Katel when the royal separate vistis to the Queen,; or worth about $5.5 million into birth is announced.
All three dined there Lau Stu-lok of gold
worth Jopan over the past Ave yeATR. Baments and oach
night. Two other members of the The barmanI, Joe Gilmore,
the Throughout
evening $12,834, and Yeang Chi-kwan
alleged zing were arrested said here tonight he has worked
growing crowds outside Lhe of $2,000 on October 2, 1958;
carlier.
out alternativo recipes to pro- Narcotics
agents said the duce the desired colour-which-move iron gates of the Palace Cheng
Wah-kin of
herels was shipped from Hong-ever it turns out to be either watched the comlags and goinga
excitedly. leather
called "Royal containing kong to Kobe and then sant to way it will be bag
Told to go $52,000 on April 6, '1889, Tokyo-UPI,
Arrival."Reuter.
Tho Two Paliec officials, Major Milbank and Commander Colville, came down to the rail- Ings of Buckingham Palaer to advise the crowd of nearly 300 that they should go home,
"No news tonight," they shouted through the rallings. Nothing måre le expected now unul temoTTOW."
HK
man disappears
on way to Macao
A Hongkong men disappeared
mysteriously from a Macao
steerage when the boat wan pulling Into Mseso.
furry carly yesterday, leaving The man was identified as Chu behind a pair of leather shoes,
a letter, a Hongkong identity.
Tak Cheong. Mau, 18, o Bireet, second floor, Kowloon.
card and re-entry permis Alotter, addressed to his mother on deck...
at 11 Jubilee Street, third floor, Hongkong, was said to bavo beba found. ai. The mother is nu áhaf Hongkong alled... from
found the... Man's Chu le belleved to have been betonglors on the starboard discharged from hospital · sen.
an exiled Chinese in Honge rent a house in Lincoln because Beamen of my Tak Shing which kong to work another with it doesn't have, an extra bed-i humble plastic 160 years room for her dog, The Dally
Mall reported today-UPI.
Tater, .',
days ago.
This unpreciadenied gesture by Royal household officials was greatly
by tho appreciated his crowd, tocils-chattering in the nene freezing temperature. A woman "crfed: "Thank you. now we can all go homo.
Most of Wien. Immediately started to moke their way to
autumn, he told Last
"mother 'he' kad acquired some and planned; ・ ・ to money
10 purchase an pid godown West Point
Alle for a construction fint, Shortly after, the moitier found the last buson, and undergrouxt hint depressed, and he told trains, but a fow, noore stayed
for a midnight - vigi). ber that the construblion firm behind had gone. bankrupt, and was "Just in case."-UPI, and "Reus, owing ever' #100,#00.
Chessman asks for
reprieve
Sacramento, Feb. 18. Governor Edmund Brown has agreed to meet tonight with Caryl Chessman's attorney Miss Rosalle Asher, who delivered a now appeal asking a 30- day reprieve. Da Caryl Chessman mode the ap- peal in a hand-written letter,
The messago was telephoned to the Governor from Francisco by Miss Asher..
San
It is the first time the con- demned man has personally ap- pealed to the Governor.
Chessman asked for the re- prieve to provide information about the grimes for which he was convicted and condemned in 1948.
In the letter, Chessman again. insisted he is innocent of the "Red Light Bandi!" crimes,
NOT SPECIFIC Governor Brown's press recrC- tary, Mr Hale Champion, Bald there was nothing speelfle in the lotter to indiente what Inforna- tion Chessman wants to gather to present to the Governor.
He said Chessman asked the contents of the letter to be kept in cenderec and "we will rea- pect that."
The_Goxrinor did not say what hit action, would be, but said his secretary. would meet with-Mifa · Asher, later to discuss: evidence she said she would. bring him
A final inove lo save the le of the criminal falled late' Yes- terday.
For the second straight day,
the State Supreme Court voled 4-3 against clemency and sealed the door by saying "this order is final forthwith.”—AP.
Thief's big haul in cemetery
Manila, Feb. 19,
An unidentified thief has stolen
More then 1,500 стовре marking the graves of Ameri- cans and
stolen
PBipinos in the military cemetery at the U.S. Clark Air Force Base. They said the crosses from the cemetery wero of cast iron type of about 8 lbs each and that the thief "apparently was Interested in metal for scrap."
Clark Field investigators, said the thief mado no attempt to
steal the crosses marking, other graves in the memetery made of concrete or steel-UPI.
The 'Oriental Look'
sweeps Europe
The "Oriental Look" in cre make-up for women WAS sweeping Europe and wil Western countries, a world authority revealed today.
Ho is Mr Monanhs Politi, Vice-President of the International Divialar of Max Factor Hollywood.
Mr. Politi, an Italian-born American said the trend to- wards the niyle, developed by Max Factor, was "simply amazing".
The "Oriental Look" festured the' accentuation of 'upswept, eyebrows giving
the wearer;-
genuine orleníst appearance.
"The males all over tho world ha really been Str Poll told a omasing." China Mall reporter,
"The now oriental look was only ́released on the market fast year and every- where a buon rushed,
"Oriental women may well have been the pause for a revolution, In oye mako-up,”. he added.
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MR MENACHE POLITI
Mr Toliti said that bocageD of the incrensing 'amphania on eye make-up Max Factor and Co...luve perfected 'an "070 Hner" which
;} simplify beautification.
"But I can't, say too much about that ad it fa, ■ fàp secret, until its release." TE Mr. Polli le on a world tour of hiax Factor branches and will return to the Unlied Staler after making
·Intensive survby,