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Countess Mountbatten's sudden death on Sunday morning was received with shock
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WATERS AND RECAPTURED Desperate bid to Burning match Tragedy hits
flee mainland
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
An armed Chinese boat chased a flocing junk across Mirs Bay into Tap Mun waters, recapturing about 30 fisherfolk at gunpoint early on Monday morning according to local reports.
The Communists followed the fleeing group and landed on a beach opposite Tap Mun island at Toló Har- bour entrance,
They rounded up the escapees at the point of sub- machine guns and rifles, towing them away in a three- masted fishing vessel. The search took about half an hour.
Locul shermen going out to
and sorrow in many parts heart a series of gun charts
ties
on.
of the world. Hongkong at about 9 am. They made it been quick to associate
report at the Taipo police sta- self with the condolcrices offered to her family for
well-known she was
and well-liked here. She was a remarkable womna in many and ways and the vigour stamina she displayed in
her many world tours were
Two of the escapees, a fisher- man about 40, and a boy about 10, who successfully avoided the Communist search by kiding In the hills, were brought to Taipa
day.
police station at midnight yester
The Asherfolk trying to flee
widely admired and unvied. from China included women as Lady Mountbatten demon-well as children.
strated clearly that
she
her work as super
regarded her
intendent-in-chief of the St John Ambulance Brigade
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no sinecure. Nor was ahe contout
merely to
Traite
On
appearances in her distinc- tive and handsome uniforms though as Hongkong knows she cut a dashing figure, parades
inspection tours. She knew her jub thoroughly and set high and
very demanding standards.
And the Brigade diviously
Tried to help and
was hit says clerk
owes much to the supervi- A Chinese clerk alleged at
sion she has given it,
COME pointer to her ad-
venturous
forthright
spirit and
character is
!
Central Magistracy this morning, that a man he had tried to help had as saulted him and chased him with a chair.. She was an heiress, yet Chan Kar-chuen, a clerk of Mandarin Textiles, Was chose no easy path to social the fame and distinction. She testifying
provided by her biography,
L
Four cars
and bus
in chain collision
Four cars and a bus were
damaged and two sengers injured
pus-
in
A
chain collision-in front of Vietorla Barracks in Queen's Road East at 11 p.m. yesterday.
Involved were two private cars, two taxis and a bus. They were all enstbound.
The accident happened when the first private car braked all of a sudden to avoid knocking down a pedestrian darting across the
sirect from under verandah,
HIT TAXI
A
before Mr K, A. 5.
The No. 10 bus, bringing up has travelled widely hut Phillips in the ease against
Werner hear, first rammed into the tall of a preceding taxi which was severely damaged.
30-year-old German,
again she shunned the com- Jannings, of 23. Cooper load. fort and luxury which ber
Junnings W charged with hugo fortune entitled her common assault, malicious dam- to.
age and resisting u police officer Her most during and perhaps, in the exccution of his duties,
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rear
Two pawengers in the seats of the taxi suffered injuries from Sying glass.
In the
car
f
starts freak again at the
blaze in lift
By CHINA MAIL REPORTER
A caroless flick of a still burning match started an unusual fire in a big city building this morn- ing.
An
off-duty telephone operator on his way down in the lift from the fourth floor of Tele- phone House, struck a
match to light a cigaretto.
He threw the match away. It became lodged in the slot of a ventilating panel in the lift. An office worker in Tele- phone House Laid: "Either because of the lubrication oil outside
the panel or for some ather unexplained rea- son, the blaze spread quickly.
"A lot of smoke went up the lift wall and we had to smash the glass panel on the rooftop to let it out.
The liftman stopped the lift and fought the fire with extin- guishers. With the help of passengers who also used extinguishers they put the fire out in ton minutes.
Three people were inside
the lift when the blaze
started.
Plane blown
up by charge
of dynamite
Washington, Feb. 23.
Mountbattens
LOUIS' COUSIN DIES
I
London, Feb. 23. Tragedy struck again at the Mount-
batten's today -- at the proudest period in the family's history.
For the second time within 48 hours, a leading member of the family died, clouding the cele- brations over the birth of a second son to the Queen läst Friday.
Today the 73-year-old Mar- quess of Carisbrooke died in his sleep. Just as Countess Mount- batten, 58, his cousin by mar- rloge, did on Sunday morning in Borneo.
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Deep grief
The two deaths have brought sudden shock and a deep which only
grief to a family
lour days ago was celebrating the birth of the first "Mount- Lotter-Windsor:"
sur-
That is the "hidden" name which the second son of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will bear.
He will not use it during his Ilfetime as he will have the title of "Prince" and probably be created Duke of York. But any untitled grandchildren he has will be known as "Mr" or "Miss" Monilatten-Windsor,
The Queen made this decision 11 days before the birth of her third child pa a compliment to her husband, the former Frince
The Civil Aeronautics Board said today that a
dynamite explosion caused the crash of a Philip of Greece, who took the national airlines plane near Wilmington, North surname Carolina, last January 6 with the loss of 34 1947. lives.
Mr James R. Durice, Chair-
man of the CAB, in an interim report to the Senate Aviation sub-committee, said investigators fts had evidence indicating that the explosion was started electricni- dry cell battery and cccurred in the passenger cabin The leading private car suffer- near a seat occupied by Julian ed minor damage to its rear Frank, who died in the crash.
Chun testified that at about interesting also mosi
middle WAS 10.15 p.m. on January 20 he was 'private
had which passage wa
Lot hood dented. member of a copra schooner on the first flour of the
Yuen Teahouse at 142 Queen's ; Roud East, when he heard
Second in the line, anotherly by o taxi was also omoged, commotion downstairs,
on a churting expedition in the South Pacific. ad dition sha has motorcl through the deserts of the Middle East travelled in Russia and China, and flown in mail plases long before
regarded as
He went down to investigate and saw the defendant making u
telephone call. He asked de- fendan: whether he needed help he was and defendant raid looking for his girlfriend. Chan sald, when he told Jannings be
did not know where she was, the latter assaulted him and chind him with a chair.
Chan said he later saw Jan- nings smash some wine bottles. Witness said sometime later the police arrived and took de- fendant away.
they were safe and convenient mode pf travel. As the wife of the last Indin, Lady Viceroy of Mountbatten endeared her
the Indian people aelf to during the difficult period of transition from dominion to republic. Mr Nehru and many of his countrymen re-on member her with affection and respect.
THE China Mall published yesterday one of the Inst photographs taken of her, It was a characteristic shot showing her in tropical uniform, smiling cheerfully at a young patient in a hospital. Tt. Singapore illustrated that charm, enthusiasm and genuine in- terest she has alwaya given to her work. And the medal ribbons she wears are testimony
to her wide: Aucccau In many assign-
ments.
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to
Lady Mountbatten WIS
have arrived in Hongkong day afternoon on yet tour of inspection.
The nows of her passing тудя
more poignant
Mr P. J. Grifths of Wilkin- and Grist is appearing for the defendant. Detective Sub- Inep M., P. Groome is prosecul- Ing.
Hearing is continuing.
Asians not
invited to summit talks
London, Feb, 23. British officials said here to
day there was no chance
bumper.
LONDON
GANGS
DECLARE
WAR
Investigators checked the of- falis of Frank, a New York lawyer, when it was found that he carried accident and Ufe in- surance of more than £357,000. INCOMPLETE
Mr Durfee said the Govern- of the investigation ment's crash was incomplete, and that
SECOND
MURDER
SPARKS
BIG HUNT
Mountbatten on assuming British nationality in
Special pride
The Duke
wears a
black armlet
****** London, Feb: 23. The Duke of Edinburgh
tore
a black armlet in tribute to the late Countess Mount- bailen on the sleeve of his Admiral's uniform today when he presided on behalf of the Queen at an official investiture at Buckingham Palace.
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the
But despite mourning for the
death, it was Countess's
occasion, with cheerful Welch Guards' band playing selections from "My Fair Lady" in the State Ballroom in honour of actor Stanley Holloway, one of the 178 people decorated.
Mr Holloway and the Duke both grinned broadly as |octor în immaculate morning dress walked up to receive his be no doubt that award to the tune of "I could There can the birth of the fret have danced all night." "Mountbatten Windsor" gave Mout.. special pride to Eari
"They are playing the right batten of Burma,, uncle of the music too," said the Duke pre- Duke of Edinburgh and the best 】senting him with the OBE.--- known member of the family. Reuter.
On Friday, the new Prince brought fresh pride and a hope of perpetuating their name lo the Mountbattens, who them- ecives have had only two daughters.
Today the Earh chief of Bri- tain's defence staff and former Viceroy and Governor-General of India, is mourning the loss of a wife and cousin.
Coincidence has
heightened
Collapsed
to
Only family to attend Countess' burial
A
in the 'Murder Mile'
Nicosia, Feb, 23. bomb exploded on Nicosia's infamous "mur- der mile" tonight as the British Colonial . Office Under Secretary, Mr Julian Amery, arrived for more talks
on, the Cyprus deadlock,
The bomb, which shatterød shop windows on the street where terrorista cut down Vic- Km after victim during Cyprus' front for independence, Was the first real outbreak of vio- lence since the Zurich agree- ments plodging Independence were reached,
First reports mentioned casualties.
no
Mr Amery few into Cyprus for a renewal of talks aimed at bresking the deadlock which
already has postponed the date of Cyprus independence.
AMERY: "ARRIVES
Mr Amery was understood lo be planning to meet the Gover-
nor, Sir Hugh Fool, tomorrow,
no
Sources close to Dr Fazil Kut- chuk, Turkish Vice-President- Elect, sald there were arrangements for join! talks with President-Elect "Archbishop Makarlos before Thursday.
The bomb was touched, off in central Nicosia at almost the seme moment as Mr Amery's Royal Air Force Comet touched down at Nicosin airport,
Another bomb exploded in the city of Paphos, heavily damag- ing the Mayor's home. Polize declined to corment on whether the bomb-the second attempt against the Mayor's house in two weekp-had poillieat sign- ficance, UPI.
Liquidation? No, sir, evolution!
London, Feb. 23. Mr Harold Macmillan, the
Prime
Minister, today contested the opinion of a former opposition Labour Colonial Secretary, Mr Arthur Creech Jones, that the British Empire was being "liquidated."
Mr Macmillan told the House of Commons he did not know whether that precise aspect of the "graduat evolution towards self-government" should pro- perly be described AS the liquidation of the Colonial Empire.
wha
his
"I would have said. moving, on through progress 10 a position which had long been envisaged and had always been our objective," he added. London, Feb. 23, Mr Creech Jones made
remark when commenting on company the Wakeful when suggestion by Mr Charles Abe carries the body of Fletcher-Cooke, a Conservative, Coustea Mountbatten for that the Colonial Secretary burial at sea from Portsmouth should have an official residence en Thursday.
- distinct from his place of work.
The funeral at sa will be at- tended only by Lady Mountbat- ten's family and the Duke of Edinburgh.
the shock of the two deaths for Southampton, Feb, 23. he was giving the Senate sub-The hunt for the maniac this ancient and wealthy family. A Royal Navy frigate will se
On Sunday morning, the commitice a synopsis of facts knife murderer of nine-
younger daughter of Earl and formal de- developed and not
year-old Iris Dawkins be- Countess Mountbatten, Lally termination of probable cause.
The formal determination came still more urgent to Pamela Hicks, 30, returned would be made by the CAB at
day with the fatal slab. London from a Caribbean honey- the end of the Investigation.
bing of a widow only 16 on to be told of her mother's
sudden death, ' miles away. Mrs Phyllis Pearce, 40, Д widowed barmaid, was stabbed Today, Lady Iris Mountbatten,
veral times in the back late 40-year-old only daughter
An appeal has been issued came from all quarters of the sald. last nigirt as she walked home the Marquess of Carisbrooke, ar-here that, instead of flowers, zlcbe, Mr Fletcher-Cooke along a deserted street in the rived at London airport for the donations may be sent to the St. Was not right that the town of Gosport.
funeral of the Countess.
Secretary should be John Ambulance Brigade or to Colonial Irld's body was found in a
She almost collapsed with the Save the Children Fund, on expected to entertain them in a Southampton park on Saturday grief when told that her father whose behalf Countces Mount-relatively small flat with rela- with 30 stab' wounds in the had died early this moming baiten hnd undertaken her Fürtively little domestle help in back and chest. Police said while she was flying across the Bart tour----AFP.
the cold splendour of Lineas- some of the wounds had been | Atlantic."
tor House."
The aircraft, a DC6B, carried London, Feb. 23.
20 passengers and a crew of five. Smouldering hostility be-
Mc Durtec announced that a tween London's gongs pubile hearing would be held at
March erupted into open war- Wilmington
22. fare again last night and Reuter. early this morning.
Early today the brother of a self-proclaimed gang boss was run down and slightly injured by a car on pavement,
The man attacked was Harry Carter, 38, brother of Johnny "Scarface" Carter, who onco claimed to be the boss of Lon- din's underworld. Both brothers have been the target of previous attacks,
A men who was with Carter
of Asian representatives told reporters that the attack being invited to the East- took place 109 yards from a West summit conference police station. beginning in Paris on May
"They came at us with every- (col, cashes and gung, 16.
Iut the guns had blankt "car- ridges. We knew they wouldn't
carlier lucident Look place in a London club, Two
They were commenting on a pall by President Sukarno of In- donesin yesterday for "The Vole of Asin to be heard in the sum-
go as far as murder.
on
A lamb with
two heads
Eastbourne, Feb. 28.
to
of
inflicted after death.
The title, Marquess of Carls Mrs Pearce managed
brooke, now becomes extinct os slugger 100 yards to her sister's cannot pass to Lady Iris or house after the killer truck, her two-year-old son. Her two but died soon afterwards,
Southampton defectlyes, who marriages have been dissolved have questioned over a thousand and she lives in New York, miulto arzd chlidren in their Heuter, Irunt for Iris Dowking' killer
A freak lamb-with a perfectly went Gosport today to res
formed body anil two perfect- Mry Pearce'a 'body,
ly formed tada each support. No weapon was found in ed on poparato nocks---was | dlifer killing-China. Meil born near here tonight, The Specia¡. lamb later died.
the because of this. And It is a reflection of the high re gard in which she was held by the people of this Colony that a memorial service is mit meeting and for the Afro-stors walked into the Chi- the lemis was born, 4eld: "It to be held in the Cathedral Asian group to be invited
to
dis-
The
the bar.
Lewis Pyle on whose farm
The Queen's reply
to Hongkong
Lady Churchill's
refugee fund over £50,000
London, Feb, 23. Lady Churchill's Christmas The Governor Sir Robert radio appeal here for world re- London, Feb. 23, Black this morning received the fugees has so far raised the re- Macmillan, following message from the cord sum of £68,904 it was on-
NOT RIGHT
Hundreds of colonial visitors
Mr Macmillan sold to vide
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more official residences for ministera ruited important considerations chiefly of he torical tradition.
sald
Mr Creech Jones then some members on both sides of the Houre had been engaged for the past 15 years at least in British the liquidation of, the Colonial Empire.
"If any official residence la called for surely it should be for the Commonwealth Relations Department," he said.-Reutor,
Lady Dorothy
of the Prime, Minister,Secretary of State for the nouneed today, contributions Budget extra The May sumanit conference, next week. The candefences which is not expected to
Chi club, in the north London was one of 00 born on our farm wite
**I am commanded | ure still coming in. district of Pentonville, and enit- tonight and in all my years of has been ordered by her doc-Colonies: of the people of Hong-
ed a men who was drinking at farming I have never even any-tor to cancel public engage by the Queen to cotiply to you
The Chins Mall will publish ments for the next two weeks, and the people
The preylout' record, all the thing like is.”
of Hongkong kong go out to Lord Mounts Aslan affairs, will be at-
television' ap- today a thiru, Kalo Fioni Exten tended by, the United States,
Herald: "Each of the twin it was learned here tonight, Hor, Majesty's and le Royal highest for a batten and his family at the Britain, France and Soviet Uniori Seconda Inter a shot, muffled
Lady Dorothy is stated to bo Highness the Duke of Edin peal, was £205,087 raiand by villion rivier details of the pawing of a devoted wife because those are the powers by Jukebox music was heard neck supported a head which
who was also which primarily defeated Get- and the man, Alexander Cobb, ad perfect features. Each end "rather tired" after her recent burgh'o alnsere thanks for your Field Marshal Viscount Mont-Hongkong budget for 1000, 1 and mother
tour of Arien with her hus-kind congratulations on the gomery last June, gise for world will be un salo soon after 4.10 one of Britain's most cut-many in the last war, the offi- 30, fell, wounded in the leg. He had eyes, our horne, and
birth of their son. band-Reuter.
refugees-Ching Mall Special, elale said.-Reuior. - standing women,
was taken to hospital-Reuter, }mouth."~Never.
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