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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1960.
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Comment Arrangements for Royal burial announced
Of The KING OF MALAYA DIES
Day
CANCELLED ORDERS
(AVING watched with
HAV
ad-
miration Hongkong Indus-, try's rapid growth in recent
years, and having taken prido:
in the soaring figures of CK-
ports which have accompanied
it, the latest news about can.
to
Federation go in mourning
for 44 days
Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 1.
cellation of garment contracts The Yang di-Pertuan, Paramount Ruler of
to
tune of $80 million
must come as a great disap pointment but we should add, not an
Malaya, died in his sleep early this
morning. a great surprice.
The reason given Τα sub. standard quality, ari old com plaint with this Colony. Perhaps the only good that will come out of this is that such costly loss of business | will make manufacturers more careful In future, both In production methods sub-contracting.
and in
Was Un
It may also be argued that can- celtation of big contracts by American buyers will to some extent quell the shrill voices being rilaed In the United Stater textite Industry for protection. Last year's Fantas- tle increase in textile exports from Hongkong doubtedly Inflated by beat. the restriction orders placed by American buyarı and a concerted drive by local manufacturore to build up this markat before callings were imposed. Bo that if the U.S. Tarift Commission
hearings
have been Instigated largely by the rising tide of Hongkong Imports, a recommendation to Impare
restrictions
foreign
AS
on
textiles may be even more likely now.
QUT it would be A pity if
BUT
Hongkong were to write off this loss philosophically and take comfort from any..com.
A
pensations, Because nere te another illustration of the untidy way Mongkong indus- try le growing up. The gar mont industry consists number of big factories and a sarim 01 mati back alley shops, fly-by-night ventures which can make garmenta lo. day Just as taully an they mado preserved ginger jars, rubber shoes or thermos flasks five years ago. We know of one proprietor who turned hla restaurant into a tailor shop overnight.
The combined output of these TZAT! shops 12 considerable and they help the larger and reputabis factories to fulfi orders which would otherwise bo Impossible. It la these same establishinents which will disappear once the textile bubble has burst and reappear in some other form. Certainly this metamorphosis amounts to diversification and there are good arguments for feaving fluctuating permanent, fringe of industry to adapt itself to the needs of the day.
BU
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smail
OUT to do no means that Hongkong Industry will forever be dogged by charges of producing substandard goods. Because these organisations, mass-producing. skimping and saving whorover paasible, and com pletely beyond the bounds of control,
the are ponerally worst offenders. They also
A later statement said there would be 44 days of mourning throughout the country. All flags would be flown at half mast.
The King, aged 65. is to be buried at Sri Menanti, capital of Negri Sembilan.
He was Paramount Chier of Negri Sembilan as well as being King of Malaya.
Under Muluya's unique con- stitution the rufers of the Malay States reel one of their number to become Paramount Ruler for five years.
New election
A new election must now be held and the deputy Paramount Ruler will ne the Kinga duties in the interim.
Guns salute to the dead monarch today as crowds of elly work-
Were booming 131
The Yang di-Pertuan
to
ers were on their way their offices. Most of Buem were unaware that the King had died.
Mur Charles
Bennett, New
pay the lowest wages, work Zealand
High Commissioner, Uic request of
their employees for long hours coid that nt
Me Nash was due to have arrived on April 4. He is now copted to mate the visit after the Commonwealth Prime Mini- ster conference In London in
May.
Burial date
A further government stalc- ment said the date for the royal burial had been set at April 5.
The statemont said a visit to
have been made this month to Japan and Formosa by Tun Ku Abdul Razak Bin Hussein, de- puty Prime Minister, had been cancelled.
04-
All games being played in the Aslau junior football compell- 4102 liere had been poned until after April 5. No. date was sel for their resump- tion-Retter.
(See also Pi)
Guillotine
for young Frenchman
Paris, Mar. 31. George Rapin, 23-year-old son of a wealthy French family, was sentenced to death by a court here to- day for the murder of a Montmartre nightclub hostessa and L garage hand.
The death penalty in France is curricul out by the guillotino, lic was alleged to have cho! The hostess, Dominique Thire), and burned her alive with pelrol and to have shot dead the garage hand during an argument over spilt petrol,
MICHAEL'S
HAIR CUT CREATES A
PROBLEM
Nantwich, Mar. 31. Fourteen-year-old Michael Williams was turned nway from school twice ofter having his hair cut in Red Indian style.
Mr W. K. Thomson presents the millionth post-war birth cerifficate to Lo Mari-kam
at the Central Government Offices, west wing, this morning. Holding the baby is his mother. Hu Fother, Mr Lo Chun-woon, looks on—China Mail photo. (Another ploture of the baby appears on page 10.)
HK's millionth
baby
*FASTEST
DELIVERY
ro LEADING
MARKETS
OF THE
WORLD
Africans stone trams
Johannesburg, Mar, 31. Palles fired overal shole tonight to disperse a crowd of Africans who aloned irams in the Afdown town- ship of Western, пект Johannesburg.
One African was wound- ed and inken into custody. At railway ntation near the Government-con- trolled Meadowlands town- ship two Chinese in a car wore attacked by a crowd of Africana.
Railway police after warning the crowd fred shots and arrested two Africans-Reuter.
HK's COLDEST
APRIL MORNING SINCE 1939
Hongkong returned to pull- overs and overcoats today as a freak cold blast swapt across South China.
This morning's minimum is only three decrees above tho coldest April reading laken in 1939.
Coldest reading was at 7 am when the mercury dropped to 53 degs.
This is 14 degrees lower than the 67 degrees average minimum temperature for April.
The sudden drop in the tem- perature according to the Royal Observatory is because of a de- pression over Japan,
FROM SIBERIA Cold northerly winds have also awept down from Siberia adding to the freeze.
A spokesman of the Royal Observatory sald this morning that the cold break would prob- ably continue for "at least another few days."
gets birth certificate Sun spots
Tiny one-month-old Lo Man-kam, the millionth baby registered in Hong- kong since the end of World War II, received his birth certificate from Mr W. K. Thomson, Registrar General, in a ceremony in the Central Government Offices this morning.
Warmly wrapped
But he was allowed hilo class yesterday on condition he
up. Man- five minutes and most people (though he was a poor man who wore a hat all, the time.
kam received his certificate lying now realised the importance of earned a ilving on a walter in a in his mother's arms. His eyea registering the birth of thele cofe, he said, he would do Michael's new hair-style, sparkled as Mr Thomson ex- children and obtaining birth everything possible for the baby.
from professional tended the rolled certificate to certificates. copied
saw on television, him.
He asked if it would be wrestles be involved having his head shaved
"However, there are still some possible for Government to The baby, who has the people who do completely except for a four-
not svem to grant a scholarship to the baby a former iner wide strip from his fore- same name as
die realise the importance of rugis- when he grew up. tinguished resident, also re-tration, and I should like to re- head to the nape of his neck.
Man-kam is the second child ceivest from Mr Thomson a mind these that it is the status of Mr and Mrs Lo. Their first After his parents and edura-peach-shaped gold pendant in- tory duty of the father or
child, Suk-tong, a three-year-old tion octala decided on the scribed with the character "sau” mother of every child bom alive girl, was also at this morning's COVET-up rule, he was sent to mearing longevity, and some in the Colony to register the Rapin ly said to have confess the barber's again to have the clothes, a present from Mr birth within 14 days.
No fee presentation, ed to the two murders in pretail of
bis remaining hair Thomson himself.
is payable if the birth is ro- minary hearings by
an ex-shaved off, so it would be less
gistered within that period." amining magistrate.
conspicuous. China Mall The court here has been told Special.
Man-kam was born on March that he also "confessed" to 11
at the Kwong Wah Hospital murders Other
but that no evidence could be found that he
"To the baby boy, I offer committed them.-Router.
My best wishes for a vers happy and prosperous long life; to his parents, I offer my hearty congratulations, and say "Kung Hel"
CONFESSED
Lady Mountbatten
successor
London, Apr. 1. The Countess of Brecknock
and in poor conditions. And Tunku Abdul Itshmian, the has been appointed new Super-
If Hongkong has to decide one Prime Minister, he hut asked intendent-in-Chief of the St his government to postpone a John Ambulance Brigade, in state visit by the New Zealand
thing it is whether its industry should be stable, reputabis and firmly established or specula tive, opportunist and to some extest disreputable. Our critics fasten on those amali and shabby establishmanis timo and again to Blue. trate their charges of aub-standand conditions of employment. The fine fac. tories in the New Territories are ignored. What Hong- kong must do if it wanta. to have an Industry that will
be respected the world aver and
for quality, prompiness prios, I to discourage the
succession to her cousin, the
-
Yul Brynner married
New York, Mar. 31. Slaven-headed
actor
Yul
Brynner was married "today in Mexico City to Miss Doris Kleiner of Santiago, Chile, according to his new agent.
Brynner, von making the flim,", The Magnificent Seven," in Mexico, was divorced from
Prime Minister, Mr Walter Nash late Countess Mountbatten of his first wife, Virginia Gilmore,
Burma-China Mall Special. Last week.-Reuter,
to Malaya.
Articles on
on sex life
of stars criticised
London, Mar, 31.
growth of small factories and Tan Press Counc}f last night at-
encourage mergers batween thom already 'existing, offering financial Help, врасо and equipment They should be
given the same help, short of Enx relief, no pioneer industrios coming from overeses. In any plan for the development and diverification of Iook) industry this must be
cardinal
tacked articles appearing in Bunday noWIDAPETA on the Bex Ilven of Errol Flynn and of British Bim star Diana Dots and her late husband. The
merier by Diann Upr
published by Ute Sunday Iictorial Tho Errol Flynn atory was run by The People, All tires are newspapers read
by millions of readers. The Press Council, voluntary
watchdor of British news paper 6thles maid;
curvaceous . platnum blonde, "In the opinion of the Council
has boom appearing in the
New
of the World Articles
about ber Inte husband,
Dennis Hamilton,
these articles sank below the accepted standards of drodnoj, and the Dors and Hamilton articles, in particular, contatu-~-
ed material that was grossly lewd and salacious". Baylor a general improvement Had been noted in recent years In press treatment of sex, the Cornell added: "It is all the more to be deplored, there- fore, that tho newspapers named should now have per- mited their standards to be debsacă to a level whloh is a disgrace la British Journa Ilan”—Router, --
IMPORTANCE
In return, the proud father, 3, Mr Lo Chun-woon, presented Mr Thomson with bag of red eggs, i ịa sign of good luck.
ย
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In presenting the birth certi- fieste to the baby, Mr Thomson stressed the importance of auch Certificate in the child's
In reply, Mr Lo pledged Hongkong, Mr Thomson bring the
of boy up to be said, a baby was born every service to the community.
future. In
Churchill gesture for refugees
London, Mar, 31. Sir Winston Churchill will open the grounds of his homo at Chartwell, near Westerham, to Kent, to the pubile on May 10 in aid of the World Refugee Al-fund-China Mall Speclat.
hit radio
reception
Bad
reception has plaguing the radio
boen
Colony's communications since last night because of sun spot activity. Communications across the
Pacific well as from London and Paris were blacked out.
A local observer yesterday evening saw four very large spots in the centre of the sun. MAGNETIC STORM
The sun spots caused a severe magnetic storm affecting radio waves all around the world.
"Radio disturbances began at 20.m.," said the spokesman, "and continued up to 7 am. to- day when condlilon started to improve."
Local radio conditions STO normai."
He could not predict when sho disturbances would end but "as long as the mm spots are there, the radio will be affected by them,"
Press services were particular. ly affected.
Qantas, Air-India and #QAQ
three flying partners aPO WO from today wo've agreed
-to quit all foolin'
and do some poolin' Instond?
AIR-INDIA