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GILMAN & COLITD,
Comment Of The
Day
Growing up
the right way
COME kind of plan
have to
wifl
be devised this year for the future
Hongkong industry. That much, at lenst,
Can be deduced from the recent *budget speech by Mr Arthur
Clarke, the Financial Secre
hope that this
tary.
'Most
can be accomplished without
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Mail reporter tracks down Tibetan treasures Jodrell
A Chiun Mail reporter yesterday found eight curio shops which has sold Tibutan ornaments, paintings and other treasures last year.
A report from London yesterday anid that treasures which the Dalai Lama bad brought out from Lhasa to Indla Inst year during his flight from the Chinese had been sold in Hongkong.
The report said there included gold and silver ornaments
and paintings, China Mall reporter, Davki Lan, yesterday traced eight shops which had sold ornaments and paintings like this. These included "dozens" of gilded Buddhas ranging from six inches to two feet, coloured Tibetan paintings on
cloth, seven to eight feet long with Buddha figures, 18-inch head-dresses for women and bracelets of colouro coral.
Also on sale then were six-foot-long yak skin belta studdexi with silver ornaments, silver holsters for holding Chopsticks and knives, leather flint pouches with broad steel rims, bowls of root wood, and hammered silver necklaces and ornaments with Buddha emblems. Semi-precious stones, turquoine, lapis lazuli and other
precious articles all from Tibet were also sold. The sales were made in mid-July last year. The value of the treasure, scattered in curio shops on
both sides of the harbour, could not be estimated. The six-foot yak skin belts sold at $12,000 n piece and
Buddha statues, from $120 to $12,000 each,
Stones and other precious articles were taken off belts and
bracelets for separate antes. Mrs Charlotte Horstmann whose shop sold some of tho articles last year told the China Mail yesterday, "We had just a few Items. And some Frenchmen bought them.
She regretted that that was the first and the last shipment
"we have ever got.” One well-known curio shop on Hankow Road was sold to have had one room on the upper floor filled with Tibetan treasures and they were all sold out, Another curio shopkeeper told the China Mail that there was a trial shipment last year from Ching but as people regarded the jewellery and ornaments as "loot," there were no further exports from China.
GAITSKELL FACES CRISIS
Richard
resorting to a stern list of Crossman
Thou shalt
nots"
Mr
por.
resigns
Clarke spoke of the sibility of having to "guide, direct, regulate and control the economy". But far from encouraging industry to ex- pand in the desired direc-
controls
London, Mar. 15.
completely hamstring and The Labour Party was
the
upset development taken place during the last 10 years and which has alven the Colony the virile and successful industry il has today.
spontaneous which husi
In a comment on this subject after Mr Clarke's budget speech the China Mail ex-
vest that was neces
the hope that any
Hary
Loday faced with a new crisis following the announcement that Mr Richard Crossman, Labour spokesman and member of the "shadow cabinet”, had resigned.
The Announcement was made
might be undertaken by Labour Party headquarters.
- Mr Crosamun's resignation became after Mr Hugh Gaitskell the had requested him to withdraw to the Brilisb
by the banks. By granting last night. loans selectively to new dustries the Colony could
of
H-bomb.
asured present heavy opsidedneer his opposition But this alone will not be sufficient. Hongkong has no government-controlled
Mr Crossman
will continue.
run however; as a member of the. cen-
tral bank and it is doubt-Labour Party Executive Com
fut whether the smaller yet
mittee.
flercely competitive Chinese
bunks would fully comply
Abstained
with a Government direc The main Labour spokesman
tive.
un pensions and national in-
N Industrial Bank or De-surance. Mr Crossman was une
of 43 Labour MPs who abslain-
velopment Corporation might have been
more oppositiun amendinent opposing successful but it seems that Government defence policy, neither Government
In a speech during the dobite
ed from Yuting for the official
local bankers are partien-he criticised Labour polley for larly interested in the idea.supporting Brida's possesion What else can be done with of nuclear weapons, out resorting to controls He said that while recognis- and regulations?
ing the need for a Western last deterrent, "partly nuclear, partly
grave year that industrial com-conventional he had
The China Mail urged
missioners should be
ap-
doubts" about British nucler
to visit the leading strategy and the role of an in-
He claimed that by sub-
polite of the West in the dependent British deterrent, hope of persuading ITH521-
weapons for facturers to establish branching nuclear
conventional forces Britain was or assembly pointstar weaker factories or
today than when In Hongkong. It would be we marted on this defence
policy four years ago."
the rulers task to
Hell
Mr Crosman was one of two
Coupled with it. 1 plan members of Labour's National
should be devised to
affer Executive Caminitiee vivo
free or very cheup factory abstained during the debate: sites and tax holidays" to The other was backbencher Mr the right industries. The Tom Drierų.
Federation of Industries #hould
and Government decide on the categories of
needed manufacture direct the commissioners to make offers to firms only within this range.
Bthat other sections of
A challenge
and Coming some 40 hours before an Important meeting of the Labour executive committee, Mr Crossman's resignation may be taken as a challenge to the party UT it is to be hoped leader, Mr Gaitskell.
Politieni circles consider that! industry will In the Mr Crussman's resignation will do little to strengthen the meantime be allowed to
Labour Party lendets position continuo to develop anwhile at the same time he will hindered because there are be losing the services of n
that diversification is shrewd signa achieving results. Mr feared by the Macmillan cabinet Michael Turner mentioned in the House of Commons at the Hongkong and Shang- debates This incident, follow- hal Bank annual meeting Ing as it does suallar ones, is the plastics industry and causing many Labour members ship-breaking..
not to question the way in which may taking place as quickly the present Labour chief is con-
It
parlamentarun much
as we want it to, but what ducting the opposition's affairs,
hag
occurred in a promising
Government's chief concern about unbridled develop- rent
fa possibly that severe restrictions affecting the textile industry imposed by one could have a Berious
real
moat and
This is a very real It will perhaps its to agree to voluntary at the ond
ports to Amermont ex-
of last year was dictated by this consideration. How ever this free enterprise Colony will hope that por kunklun and encourage- mont, rather than regula.
and
control
Lion
AD
the means, by which Hong- Kong's industrini futuro can be said.
Reuter and AFP.
RICHARD CROSSMAN
Churchill on cruise French
Sir Winston and Lady Churchill left London Airport for an Atlantic cruise aboard millionaire ship owner Aristotle Onassis's yacht Christina. Churchill was due to board the yacht at Gibraltar but because of bad weather the plane was diverted to Madrid. Conditions were bad there too, so it went on to Tan- gler. Mr Onassis sailed for Tangier to pick up the Churchills. The above picture shows Sir Winston at London Airport.-Express photo.
COOLER AND MORE
RAIN
Cooler and rainy condi- Elon will continue for the next few days, a Royal Observatory spokesman aald today.
He added that Hong- kong was still in the cold front which swept down fram Biberls over tho weekend,
· Lowesl reading was re- corded at about 8 4,113. when the mercury dropped to 03 degrees.
Coot north ensterly winds will, continue dur Ing the day.
INCENTIVE
PLAN FOR MALTA
London, Mar. 14. The Colonial Secretary, Mr lain Macleod, today launched an Incentive pion designed to attract industry to Malia.
The scheme will exempt new industrial ventures from Income tax for up to 10 years and offers jouna and grants of up to 80 per cent of the cost of fixed Capital assols,
The incentive schemo is run- ning in conjunction with the Government's development plan for the Mediterranean Colony- UPI.
pipe
air passenger
with opium
is fined
$5,500
A Frenchman who arrived in Hongkong last Saturday by air was found
to have an opium pipe and 1.3 oz. of prepared opium when he was searched in the airport by Revenue Officers.
The visitor, Jean Pierre Lachoche, 35, said to be the
HAIRDRESSER Managing Director of a French
WINS £1,000
IN 900-MILE
MARATHON
Londs End, Mar. 15. Wendy Lewis, a slim 19- year old hairdresser, staggered to victory at 4 am. today at the head of the women's section of a 900-mile marathon walk- ing race.
She
was dazed, could hardly speak. and feet were swollen.
exhausted, Her lega
Six weeks ago Wendy d'd the came walk-the entire length of Britain from Julin O'Groats, cotland, to Lands End-just for the love of it.
อ
Tonight she completed the course in 17 days to win £1,000 prize offered for the first woman home in a walking race organised by Mr Billy Bullin, Britain's holiday camp "king."
1
The first men to complete the race arrived on Sunday.
Wendy Mr Butla greeted with
handed st embrace and over the £1,000 cheque. She had covered the 900 miles in 17 days and seven hours. Her previous trek took 24 days, - Reuter,
magazine on animals, morning admitted three charges of importing drugs without a licence, possession of oplum and the oplum pipe.
He was fined a total of $5,500 or four months by Mr I. M. S. Dennell at Kowloon Court,
Mr W, L. Stone, Sentor -Re- Venue Inspector, sald Lachsche arrived from Bangkok' and when arked sold he had nothing to
declare,
His Suitense was then the oplum and searched and
THE
BLONDE
AND
THE
WOLVES
London, Mar. 15.
the pipe which was dismantled The neighbours never really lu two halves were found in a liked Mrs June Flytche's false bottom.
SEARCHED
Lachoche, was then searched and the oplum pipe head was found in a breast pocket of his jacket.
Mr G. S. Stevenson of Messrs Stewart and Co,, said on behalf of the accused that Lachoche was travelling to gather materiai for his publication.
He was not the usual type of snuggler.
About the sultcase with the Me Stevenson false bottom, explained, defendant bought it tro:m a second-hand store in Paris and that it had been used as a prop, in film-making.
The false bottom was perhaps built for the making of gangster films.
The whole thing was an in- credible stupidity on the part of
the defendant rather than n deliberate attempt to anuggle. Defendant had bought the drug and the pipe as a souvenir,' Mr Stevenson added.
pels.
called
Bank
switches on space
radio
Jodrell Bank, Mar. 14. Signals from Britain's glant radio-telescope here today switched on the trans- mitter in the United States sun satellite Pioneer Y now * about
half a million miles out to space. The
"loud
Floneer radioed back and clear" information
about her journey through space before being switched oft GET exactly 30 minutes later.
The radio telescope pointing five or six degrees above the south-eastern horizon contacted Pioneer V. right on course again giving Britain the record long-distance
operating
radio,
Kor
by
out-
SMALL TRANSMITTER
The satellite, travelling wards at just under 7,000 miles an hour on her orbit round the sun between Venus and earth, was stil`uling her smaller five- walt transmitter.
tus.
This will be operated as long as possible...probably for the next two or three weeks — to proven! strain on her principal 100-watt run-charged appart-
Professor
Lovell, A.G.B. director of Jodrell. Bank, sald thać assuming the 150-watt transmitter comes on when wanted fater . he hopes to track the satellite för between 30 and 60 million miles,
INFORMATION
"It is assumed that the pay- to function load continues
"We stefactorily," he added. must remember that Explorer VI only lasted two months and Lunik III only a weak."
Already, the facilities for re-
Britain means that Jodrell Bank is receiving and recording eight times as much information from Pioneer V as is the American tracking station at Howall.
"My two dogs," she them, but at night they bayed ceiving long-distance signals in
at the moon.
n
Mrs. Flytche, blonde wife of London barrister, inally admitted that her pets are not Alsatians as everyone thought,
keep
This Information, being analysed by a joint team of Bri- "Why shouldn't I
tish and American scientists. wolves in my yard?" she said. concerns magnetic fields, the They're much lesS trouble sun's radiation and the number of dust particles encountered in space.Reuter.
than real dogs.."
Devil
The wolves, nained Face and Angel Face, are let loose in 70-yard run covered by wire netting at the back of the Flytehe house in suburban Clapham,
Air Marshal
coming
"I bought than from the| London Zoo six months ago Air Marshal Sir Walter Mer- when they were young cubs," tort, KCB, OBE, Air Member for Mrs Flytche sald. "They always Supply and Organisation (De say wolves can never be tamed, signale), wil be visiting RAF but I wanted to have a try. unita in the Colony during the
period from March" 16–20.
Sir Walter will arrive at Kal Tak at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow.
He will be staying ot Air House.
hey
could be wonderful protectors of old ladies and de- fenceless people in the streets.” '—AP.
Former Hongkong
parson
buys London magazine
An Anglican priest formerly in Hongkong, has bought over a leading
British weekly political magazine.
He is the Rev. Timothy Beau mont, 31-year-old former Assla tant Chaplain of St John's Cathedral and later Vicar of Christ Church, Kowloon Tong
He has bought the magazine, Time and Tide.
At one time he edited the Cathedral's monilily magazine, the St. John's Revlow.
No special job
Mr Beaumont left Hongkong in November of inst year after spending, four years in the Calony.
He returned to England lo of working in get experience
In English parish church" but
Was
of the founder of the journal, known in Hongkong. He
married at St James, Piccadilly Lady. Rhondda, His purchase of the magazine before coming to the Colony,
He was ordained at the saves lf from closing down. The
inst Cathedral soon after his arrival director had announced week that it would be making in October 1955. Ita last appearance possibly this week.
Pr
The magazine pubilibed in London has a circulation about 30,000 and circulates to people like cabinet ministers, bishops, members of parlia ment and riadenis.
Christian viow
He was educated at Eton, Oxford and Cambridge and had considerable private méans,
He had his theological train- Ing at Westcott College, Cam-. bridge.
Mr Beaumont
told a China Mall reporter before
leaving [Hongkong that before becoming
Mr Beaumont cald he intend- derinon ho had hoped to
Journal.
to
The
politician. The become Independent had no special job to go backed to continue the peper as an follow his father's footsteps and This is Mr. Beaumont's first boste policy will be the tame Beaumonts had held the seat of
but there will bea dennite Aylesbury for Ave generation. The Rev. Tim Beaumont venture in publishing.
**
end going to and Ho umed control of the Christian point of view
no From vlear of Kowloon there because · E · ILAYO consklerable) Do per cre may bo magasing by buying
tako..., church,...to - publisher (of-a- brothers or sisters', ka. cent of the controlling shares technical changes," he said,
Mr Braumont, who is married over "from" my father," he London magazine. from Mr Leonard Skevington,
mided. who took over after the death with two children,
was well-