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Comment Of The
Day
WEEKEND CROSSINGS
TR Gerald de Bonto's com-
Mments on the vehicular
ferry in yesterday's China Mall will be widely en
dorsed. Despite the d mentary service,
earlier this year, CATA still have long wafta to cross to Kowloon and Hong- kong at the weekends. Per- Hong haps they are not
as bad!
as they were, but the point Mr Basto makes about
restricting trucks to
rush hours will be widely supportent. It is not a new suggestion: more than £
Moderate southwest winds, becoming.light.thic
THE WEATHER | evening. Cloudy with fair porlods this afternoon.
Noon Temp: 79 degrees. Hom: 68 percent.
LATE FINAL
CHINA MAIL
No. 37608
Established 1845
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1960.
The big drought-the
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
A huge air mans hovering over the entire area of South China is responsible for the present drought, an Ob- servatory spokesman said today.
Only driving winds could move the mass of warm air and
at this stage no immediate relief is predicted. Farmers are suffering the worst drought conditions ever
recorded.
In the last five months since October 1 last to the first of this month only 0.86 ins of rain has been recorded
Prico 20 Cents
reason
PAN AM
JET CLIPPER CARGO
PHONE 37031'-
FASTEST DRAVERY 10 LEADING MARKETS
OF THE WORLD
why Soviet
at the Royal Observatory. The average for five|"This has not happened and the expected rainfalls have months from October to March is 10.42 ins.
Previous lowest figure for the same period was in 1916-17
when 1.63 ins was recorded.
The Observatory spokesman said that the stationary air mass over South China "was extremely unusual,“ "There is usually some wind activity from Siberia which sweeps down during the dry season and moves the mass of air along,
not come," he added.
Professor S. G. Davis of the Hongkong University said that the present dry spell is not particularly indica- tive of future trends.
he said.
"It is very typical of South China's variable conditions,"
"Many people come forward with theories that this part of
the world in either becoming latter or drier. "This is not so. Next year may be extremely cold and
wet," he added.
Two big factories for New Territories JAPAN-HK TEXTILE MILLS
TO BE SET UP Allegedly gave secrets
By a China Mail reporter
year ago a similar proposal Two-and possibly three-new textile mills, plan to start up
was made by an Unofcial Legislative Councillor in the budget debate. But it still looks the mat appealing solution.
in
The complaint of delays by Sunday motorista is reason- -able. Most people observe this day as a holiday. It in the one time in the week that the motorist can take the family out and visit the
CH, or if he lives
the popular island beuches. Yet it is then that the ferry in busiest and the crossing
dificult. Many have been put off u weekend jaunt because of this. This therefore requires the forry company's special attention.
must
NOTHER suggestion
A made by Mr Basto is a
an
very soon in the Colony, the China Mail learned this. morning,
All will be joint enterprises run by Hongkong and Japanese business-
men.
The Arst сле the New Lki.. Territories Textile Mill will be located in Tun Wan.
MONEY I will have it total spindlage THE CUBANS
TO
SPARE
of 30,000 and several hundred loonis.
All machinery will be im- ported from Japan,
Technicians
Flong-
About 12 Japanese technl- elons and management ex- perts have arrived in kong and over
Chinese employees have been sent to Detroit, Mar. 8.
Japan for training.
Covering a total area of 70,080 Stephen Krysiak, a. 47-year-! square feet, the plant will ge
old factory worker, was into production In the latter ! the most popular man part of this year. here
The second factory, also to be afler- yesterday
situated in Tsun Wan, will have; naon.
a capacity of 10,000 spindies.
In both factories, the Japanese interests will hold 40 per cent of the capital white the remaining 80 per cent will be held by Hongkong.
in
good one. That is to put up Indicator in Kowloon મારૂં Hongkong
He walked along a street showing estimated
time blithely strewing $100 bills waiting Linie.
of his path, le shredded other There is a further cause
which $100 bills into confetti and tess disatisfaction rankies with many motorists ed the scraps at passersby.
Ten blocks and about $13,700 and that is the distinction later, off-duty
patrolmen Nor- between big and small cars.bert Jablonski stopped him, to There IN 0 necd for this the chivious dismay of many difference,
The only dis-
dia the huge crowd which was gone tinctions which should existing up the money in Krysink's are between motorcycles wake. and scooters, ears, small. Krysink told police he passenger buses and goods "just having
(un
with
was my
and lurries, And in money." Vans,
He still had $5.700 in $100 the meantime the company
bills plus the shreds of another should abolish big and
$300 to $800 in his hands when Amall car queues so that he was stopped. the first to arrive is the first to get aboard.
for
One tenth
The total spindlage of the first two factories. 40,000, is one tenth of the Hongkong total capacity, 403,000.
The biggest Hongkong textile mill has about 37,000 spindles compared with the 30,000 of the New Territories Textile Mill.
A third Hongkong-Japanese textile mill is reported to be The site under negotiation, may be in Kun Tong
A local manufacturer soid these fact*ries were being set up with th alm of exploiting cheap Hongkong labour and the Preference system which enables Hongkong
Krysiak Bald he had $20,000 when he started out. He said he look the money from a safe deposit box at his bank because he was worried that something Imperial
night happen to it.
with his mother.
to
A bachelor, Krysiak lives market its products without Mrs Krysink told police her paying duty in Britain and the son had been under treatment Commonwealth
It is to be hoped that the management of the Hong- icong and Yaumati Ferry Company is looking
ways of improving new the service. The supple- mentary ferry was a good for a nervous disorder. idea and it should at least Police turned Krysink ensure that if no very satis. to his mother and appealed to factory improvement is pos- persons who picked up money it is anving the service from the streets to turn it in al from worse delays, But police headquarters.-UPI
it is too long to whit
untli
unk
next year for ན་ accond full-time service to remedy mattera. The com- pany should take up with trucking companies the question of reducing their weekend trips or restricting them to intervals between
Ben-Gurion for U.S.
over
Tel Aviv, Mar. 7.
Mr David Ben-Gurion,
the
the rush-hours. This would prime Minister, left by air to-
mako Sunday motoring night for the United States across the harbour more where he will have unofficial 蟲 pleasure
the talks with American lenders and
degree-Reuter.
than
tiring, annoying frustra-receive an honorary university
tlon it is today.
Businessman wants
an executive jet
London. Mar. 1. aircraft to lako himself abroad A London consulting engineer but had now sold 11.
Ad. "Huppose you want to alp a negotiating with the
krally to buy a Ses Hawk fel across to Africa a bit sharplek, fighter in order to go on busta light aircraft would take you ness: missions at 500 miles an │sil day--a jet just a couple of hour.
Lure," he said.
"If you have got in gat from
Me Harold Best-Deveroux, 49, hero to, may, Gibraltar. la a wania "an acroplano with speed which
Ballroom
door allegedly set alight
I
FIND
A CLUE!
Havana, Mar, &. Cuban officials say they, found a
detonaung device an
of British jet
to the
Russians
London, Mar. 7.
A security service officer told the Court today.
that a RAF jet pilot told the Russians about the operational performance of a Hawker Hunter jet fighter.
The cikt was Anthony Wright, 28-year-old ex-Royal Air Force jut, pilot.
The allegation was that white In Russia Wraight received 1,000 roubles a month from the Russian Red Cross, a free room and a further 1,000 roubles for teaching.
QUESTIONED
Thennamed ·witness sald
Attested after his return, from Russia last month, Wraight appeared in chuirt today charged with communicating to a person unknown in the Soviet Unfor Information which might bay Wraight admitted when ques ban uschii to an enemy. the
tioned that he told the Russians There were two alternative in writing that the maximum charges-giving Information, #s cruising speed of a Hawker im. officer, to any unauthorised Hunter interceptor Jei was 85
and ondan zeting Person
themach (83 of the speed of sound) who safety of the Information, charge of inflitary forces clean-
and that its absolute ceiling was €0,000 feet. ing up the dock area near where the munitions ship exploded on Friday, they said,
wharf, beside the shattered French freighter La Coubre. It was picked up by Major Regine Camacho
UNNAMED. WITNESS
An unamed witness, an officer! Maj. Camacho sald' the device of the security service, told the was two to three inches in size, court that when Wraight was was burned out at one end and Interregated he said he gave the had a diamond shaped identi-
Russians a general description of #ention mark which could not the RAF mobilisation tablos be deciphered Immediately. which revealed which squadrons
Whether the detonating de-
were where in peace and war; vice came from one of the ex-
The case for the prosecution ploding grenades in the ship or was that Wraight, on his own allen to the cargo was not im-admission, wrote to the Society mediately known.-AP.
for Cultural Relations with the USSR about January 1958 ask- ing for Information About the
Photo Russian Institute for
where he wished to
China water phy
for Macao today?
Macao, Mar. 8.
Macao la due to begin re
The plane in question.
FL. LT. WRAIGHT,
subs
for Nasser
London, Mar. 7.
Nine Soviet submarines are now working with the United Arabi Republic under President Nasser's control and Egyptian crews have been trained, Mr Ian Orr-Ewing, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, said today.
The number of Soviet sub- marines based in Albania Hncreased, fo added.
had
thero
There were now eight and their shipbornic support had been strengthened by а modem submarine tender which was recently teen salling into the Mediterranean
pas Gibraltar, he said.
"I am not surprised at this," he went on.
"What is a little surprising is that there has been so litto
this autery against
further example of Soviet busca over- БЕДЛ
Nato's 'shield'
Mr Orr-Ewing, opening a de- bate on naval affairs, said it was because the Nato "shield" was effective that the Soviet Urilon was deploying consider- abic effort to strengthening some of the countries on Nato's dank. background, polities, attitude lo
to Their polley has been provide Soviet instructors, So- socialism and their views on vict technicians and Soviet Soviel polles.”
armaments to their satellites Russions a certain minimum, contiming in the naval sphere."
He fell obliged to tell the
is and friends. This
process
get asylum.
Mr Orr-Ewing estimated at
Wraight also stated:
The security officer sald 500 the total number af Soviet
which
posed "They submarines
West's were interested in black boxes' potential threat to the
In the workt's in bombers, the system whereby supply lines airspeed and height, are fett Info occans. these boxes for calculation of bamb aiming. I knew some thing about this and I told them all I knew."
but not à certain maximun" lo
HAD PASSPORT Cross-examined by Mr A. E. Cox, for the defence, the secur- ity officer said Wraight came to his offer qulte voluntarily. Ho was in no sense a prisoner ot
that time. He had his passport and had himself applied to come to Britain.
Д
This was more than Nazi Ger- many over possessed at the penic II U-boat of the World War compaign and more than eight times the size of the U-boat force with which she entered the war.
UK's A-sub
Britain's second nuclear sub-
the
Royal
urine would be entirely Bri- tish-built, unlike
Arst Navy's
atomic-powered submarine, the Dreadnought, "It was quite obvious," asked which He also said It was equipped Mr Cox, "that he was not doing American propuiston unit, Mr is to be fitted with an with radar, but did not know everything he was what kind.
told Orr-Ewing said. The He was arguing with
reactor
of cara The security officer said that them about many things?" On December 3, 1050, Wraight Wraight had admitted he told
second eubmarine would be: The Pecurity officer agreed made Fri Britain and Ita next day the Russians that Britain had that was so on the information machinery would be of British Aow to Berlin and went to the Eastern sector of guided missiles horning on Wraight hud Elverk Wraight design and manufacture, ho the city and made contact with infra-red systems, but explained aise sald the Soviet authorities,
study.
Eight
die in
ceiving fresh water from mine: disaster
Communist sources to- day, according to Chinese, reports.
Johannesburg, Mar. 7. Eight African miners word Promptly at noon, these relied and another man was ports said, water would begin trapped by a fall of rock today flowing into this water-short in one of Johannesburg's oldest which has been Portuguese colony through a goldmines, cross-harbour pipeline from two worked for more than 70 years. reservoirs recently completed on nearby Lappa Istand,
Rescue workers brought four Chinese businessmen who miners to safety and are digging An arsonist is believed to have negotiated with Communist through tons of
been responsible for burning |ulïhorities for the water re trapped man-Reuter, the beautifully decorated door fused today to comment on of a ballroom in Wanchai | Hongkong nowspaper reports early this morning,
that Macho would pay half a At 4.45 am.. the door of the million dollars Silver Dragon Ballroorn, Percival Sircet, first floor, was found burning
rock to
the
Wanted: a mate
a year to the 24 Communists.
Mr Pedro Hyndman Lobo, the General Manager of the Macao
London, Mar. 8. Waterworks and Mrs Lobo, let Advertisement in yesterday's Mucao on a five-month's world The Times: Attractive un- tour which will take them to attached lady dachshund seeks have contained North and South America, black. or Glock/ton miniature Europe and Africa-Reuter and dachshund, view marringe."---
UPI.
Fire Brigade men found cot ton waste and a beer bottle be olde the door. The bottle is thought
korosene,
ما
Miro Bro was put out shortly | AFP, after by the Fire Brigade,
It was said that "Fel Chala" -Chineso teddy bgya-have been causing trouble and one was thrown out by the manager on Sunday night.
Ike back home
Washington, Mar. 7, munburned and Elling Elsenhower returned
The
of the future will need."
couple of hours or logo an the businessman order worth a few ikonand
pounds. then the only way
&
to Prozent
many fights
STORM KILLED 35
Rio De Janeiro, Mar. 7.
The toll of a violent weekend tropical downpour which lashed four Brazilian statos roso today to at levit 35 dead, nine missing and · apins, 50 injured. Hundreds were reported homalots.
The storm
•
The storm lashed Rio Sa cruzaro : te about; 3.0, to to a nowy, vald Washington Paulo, Minas Gerais, ant Sonia JIK81) Mr Dest-Devereux, a qualified do it is by modern aircraft,"
caused landslides It Mr Weal-Devereux sets his today after a goodwill visit to Catarina, Authorities estimated and widespread, floods... An u- makes pitot,
Ben llaw, and is allowed to South America and a four-day list property damage would known number of homes was abroad.
I said today that in raceni fy it, it will be' Deliain's first rest in the Puerto Rican muruni into the milliómi of destroyed," communications were
"UPI...
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Russfo?
he once wait to a added. that he had had no operational dance 1 Hussin dressed дя contact with these missiles, Marshal Stalin,
Accused The Russians, Wraight added,
ฟวาง reminded "wene Interested in
until everyone custody
tomorrow he knew in the service-their Reuter,
the
Mr Orr-Ewing said that both nuclear submarines would be equipped
kill to hunt And enemy submarines and surface | warships-All Agencies,
Those bootstraps-they're
made in Hongkong!
By OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
London, Mar. 7. |Hongkong lifted her postwar economy up by her boot-
straps, The Times Colonial Suppie-'
mont said this in a special article today. ··
But although it in sama-
thing that has happened |
is
botter to travol than to arrive." Hongkong's competition
unfair because it com potor effectively and bo- cause it is the culmination of inevitable development in this docade of the 20th Century.
"no
rospondent claims one would dispute the fact that working conditions and rates of pay are lower than in the Western world”—but · there are exceptions, mainly in the textilo industry. Wago
to other countries, Hong-Of swanted labour, the cor- kong did it with this dif- ference: "Immediately after the war Hongkong had no bootstraps, she had to make them herself | before applying the pull,” The result, the article goos on, has been a mixed bag of success, commendation and vilification. "The barriers are going up. It would be perfectly un- derstandablo if the Colony
ratos are below European standards but in terms of the Far East the standard of Hving' of the Hongkong worker is high- : were to conclude, ofter or than in other countries. those years of vigour and The correspondent “baks' 'If achievement that it is far ||¦ stopping. of gormant ex-|
ports to Britain is to be Britain's major contribu- tion to the Colony's post- war economy.
"
In conclusion, ho says that if Hongkong looks back with pride and forward with determination - and screams o little when her arms aro twisted" America and Europe might wall pauso and "roffect on the virtuos of solf-help and the frustrations of
success.
"ff Hongkong has rebuilt har economy, rehoused her refugees by tho hun- dreds of thousands and not overlookod self-critic- ism, is: it not justice (or just plain common senso) that she should find an- couragement and not ob- struction?”—London press Service,
Ex-