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Comment NOW NEW KING'S THEATRE 15-year-old
modernisation to
Of The
Rebuilding and
begin next year
Day
STOP THAT
NOISE!
TNARLY last month the
The King's Theatre Building will be rebuilt
in the summer of 1961.
House of Common In its place will spring up a 14-storey structure
heard that fo is getting
noister und noister, AL
dawn on Saturday morning
the Minister for Aviation, Mr Sandys, had the fact im- pressed upon him when a number of frato Londonors got him out of bed. Their complaint was the
to be built in two phases.
May be
warmer
noise of jet aircraft inking tomorrow
off and landing at London Airport. One Can hardly blame the demonstrators for trying to make their point, a point which is be roming increasingly more important As the 20th century nears the half-way mark in its third quarter. The world has been getting noisier every century. The lest ona brought to an end the epoch of vintter.. The clatter of horse traffle, Iron- shod wheels on cobblestones, the clatter of new-fangled rallway'engines and factory machines.
ALL
thut has now crescendoed Into the
rouring, whining, pulsating din of the second half of this century. What the next hundred years will be; like we shudder to think
unless someone screams out ***Quiet!"
Fortunately there are a few people who are nlive 'to what is happening. Not long age supporters of any move to lessen the racket In the world would have -been branded cranks. Now the cry for quiet is being heard in earnest.
It is gradually dawning on
people
that while tho scientifle
of akills human race press on relent- lessly towards higher standards of living by inventing bigger and better machines, 80 does the capacity increase for get- ting on each other's nerves.
Hongkong is still in the grip of
a cold snap.
Today's minimum at 8 am, of 56. was still well below the April average minimuSTI,
However the Royal Observn- tory predicted WUTINCT and faer change tomorrow,
The
Hongkong last Thursday was cold snap which hit
due to a north easterly monsoon intensification, the Observatory
reported,
The inonsoon which swept, down the const of China is now weakening and higher tempera- tures can now be expected.
The present building consists of tix Boors,
The first phase will be'demolt- tion and reconstruction of the theatre..
The second phase involves the construction of office space. The new building is expected to be completed in 1962.
The theatre will be altuated on the Orst and second floors.
It will be modernised and cn- larged to seat 1,500. At present
holds 1,400.
The ground floor will accom- medate shops.
Other floors will be for offices,
The King's Theatre, opened for busiess in 1931,
The directors of the theatre Have been discussing reconstrue- tion of the bullding for quite cometime, according to one li formant this morning.
He refused to disclose the cost of the project.
Spring floods
threaten
U.S. Mid-West
Chicago, Apr. 3.
theThe mighty Mississippi River began to burst through its banks today as spring rains and melting ice and snow swelled its waters in the middle west where thou- sands of people struggled to stem ad- vancing floods.
British Government
Twas first driven to act Emergency calls went out for Min Luton, Nood compit
In Minnesota, North Dakota same 20 years ago and police and National Guardsmen cations were expected with the committee was given the territorials) in low-lying com- melting of yesterday's frush tisk of inquiring into the munities in Illinois as the river snow. The snow tapered off in cause of noisy motor-cars.
surged through a three-mile most sections replaced by "light This body set certain crack in the levee in the western snow and drizzle in northern
standards and suggested a oyetem of checks to mak
part of the state flooding 15,000
acres of land.
Rure they were oboyed. But Swollen streams
by the time the Govern-
The last of about 1,000 re-
communities were this morning.
evacuated
ment had digested the factssidents of Meyer and Warsaw the need for action had largely passed. Vehicle manufacturers. had takon the hint. Motor-cars became quieter and now the hum of the modern engine is the least of the worrica.
car
Instead we are faced with a sudden outburst, the reck- less roaring of motor-cycles and the din of jet aircraft.
A
On the opposlle bank of the river, half of the 2,000 resid- ents of Canton, Missouri, were ovacuated and the 631 reald- ents of Alexandria; “further north, fled in face of'smoiber threatened breakthrough river waters.
of
Crests of 25 fest were predict-
ed for the Mississippi in the
Michigan.
The east and southeast came
of the wet sharo in for their weather today, from Alabarna and Georgia northward into Pensylvania and southern New
York Reuter and AP.
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Kim will become an Englishman
Governor enters hospital
SIR ROBERT BLACK The Governor, Sir Robert
Black,
entered Queen Mary Hospital- this morn- Ing in preparation for a spinal fusion oporation.
tive Council Chambore at
Cafoniat
__Mr_and_Mrs John Watkins with baby Kim Fung-quen, coon after the child's arrival
at London Airport last Wednesday.
Chinese boy
First Chinese
to be adopted in UK
By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT:---
London, Apr. 3.
Two years old and tearful, a Chinese boy started a new life in England, when he flew into London Airport on Wednesday after a 7,950 mile journey from Hongkong.
Little Kim Fung-suen is being adopted by his Chinese-barti aunt, Mrs Anne Walicing, who lives with her husband Johri at Farley near Salisbury,
Him was brought to England by Miss Joan McGillivray of the Ellim Mission in Honglong, She was travelling home on leave. and was asked by the Inter neifonal Social Service to bring: Kim with her,
After nearly an hour in the customs ball, Kün toddled out holding
McGlilivray's
Miss hand to where Mr and Mrs Watkins were waiting to meet him, Fighting back tears, Mrz Watkins hugged and kissed the boy.
NO-AVAIL
...
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Upper At a ceremony at the Execu
12.45 pm today, the
Then it Secrotary Mr
was Kim's turn to Claude B. Burgess took cry as photographers flash-bulbs went off. Tears streamed' from the Oaths of Office as his eyes.
Chocolate and milk Officer Administering the were used to coax him, but 10 Government.
no avail,
Finally it was a cup of coffee The Oaths were administer-that did the trick.
ed by the acting Chief Mr Walkins, a, dairyman, said: Justico, Mr Justice J. R. "We have been trying for 18
months to get him Gregg
over here. My wife hasn't seen him before becmute. she has been living In England for the last seven years, His parents are dead but how they died is all a bit of a my- ¿lery.
Mental patient runs amok
Luanda, Apr. 3.
Six patients were killed anel
Quincy, Illino, sector lite to five others seriously injured at doy, eight feet above flood stage. Vila de Ballundo hospital when For the Skunk River at Burlingamental patient went berserk ton a crest of 10 feet above fled last night, stage exported on Monday would
of
LADY DOROTHY'S MOTHER DIES
The
Mr
PRIVATE member's Bill in the House aims to
London, Apr. 3. The killer, a native, had been Rive polles and other au break a 103-year-old record.
Prime Minister, thorities greater powers to Elsewhere in the midwest, under treatment for three years Macmillan's mother-in-law, the
streams uwollen
showing offenders smaller
by without
signs noisy
Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, prosecuto
recent violence Last night he had a
died at her London hano on and a
Government Inquiry melting ice and now in
was 80. It days poogd less and less of a fit and before he could be over-
Saturday night, She is also under
way.
knifed Mr. by nurses
Macmillan's wife, Lady intenis
to study the effect menace. In south-western and powered
central Michigan, food cond!-other patients as they lay in Dorothy, is the Duchess third of
their bedsAP. Boise on health and
tions cased.
daughter AP. efficiency.
It is to be hoped that the in-
quiry is not merely
an
excuse for Inaction, and the findings are passed on to this nolay Colony, There is already a hint that present landing and takeoff restrictions on big jet planes will be lifted at London Airport this sum- mer as the demands of the airline operators increase and it is not unlikely that this pressure will overrule public protesta as happened in New York.
Mrs
A procedent has been not:
London might well follow {'!! and Hongkong could be next] «g and the Director of Civil Aviation might need A *'ilent line.
Missile man tried to
1
put her into orbit
Hollywood, Apr. 3.
Florence Andland, the
to keep his hands off my baby,"
Toa
'abriost put me in orbit
going to see to it that Beverly dates only, doctors and law
Bla jefused to identify her
"It has been living with a great aunt and
i was only after
some difficulty she allowed him to come, She is in ber seventies and wasn't abla to look after him pro- perly." The boy had been living in Kowloon,
In a heavily accented volce Mrs Watkins whispered: og don't know how I felt when I (saw himi-just good, very good, I think he will setile oil right In England"
GRATEFUL
Mr. Watkins said he and his
| wife were, very grateful to the International · Sncial Servles for all their help. "We can't thank them enough," he added.
What plans and they made for Kim? "Well, we've got a room smiled Mrs ready for him, Watkins, "but no toys yet. Ife, will go to mil English school)
Africans
burn
down school near Capetown
Capetown, Apr. 3. Africans burnt a school and a bag full of passes
today at Paarl, 30 miles from here.
boy shoots parents
San Antonio, Apr. 3. Polloe here today held a 15 - Jaar - old schoolboy alleged to have shot had killed ha moirer. and father, splits a 22 calibre rile as they watched telo- vision- hat, night,
Richard Sawyer, Follon claimed, had admitted under questioning: Bring five shot and killing" bla parents because they had been "riting aftor hum” because of hle poor school record.--Reuter.
Dr Banda promises followers their own Government
Blantyre, Apr. 3.
Dr Hastings Banda, Nyasa- land's African nationalist leader released from jail after 13 months on - Fri- day, told a crowd pafalde his headquarters at Limbe tonight that if they lis- teneɖ to him he would get them a new constitution and their own govern. ment.
He asked his listeners to give the Colonial Secretary, Mr Tain. Macleod," an opportunity "to do In Nyasaland what he did in Kenya."
Although the emergency laws prohiblung public meetings pre
sul in force in Nyasalands pollee have not been interfering
of
with gatherings Jubilant supporters outside Dr Banda's | headquarters since his release,
PRELIMINARY TALKS -
Dr Banda announced to crowd of about 800 people that |he will resume preliminary.talks. On a new constitution for the protectorate with Mr Macleod at Government House in Zomba to-
morrow.
the
He said he would be, accom- panied at the talks by two of his Heutenants, Mr Orton Chirwa, President of the Malawi Congress Party, and Me Aleka Banda (no relation), the General Secretary of, the Congress.
Dr Banda· had a 90-minute preliminary meeting with Mir Macleod yesterday, also attend- ed by the Governor, Sir Robert Armitage, and four members of the Malawi Congresa,
A Government spokesman said afterwards the talks had
The school. In the African suburban church here today
ed to the Dutch Reformed. Mis-
cation" of Mbekweni, belong and has left the city,
The Archdeacon of Johannes- on Church.
[burg, the
Venerable Ernest "gone well" on fire was folled by an African enjoying a few days rest in the An attempt to set a shop there Walls, said the Bishop was
NO VIOLENCE - watchman. He heard an explo-country. He was due for long slon and sew Africans running leave, and after the strain of the has appealed repeatedly to his Since his rélcado Dr Banda sway after throwing a bottle of past few days his staff felt he followers to avoid all violence petrol through the shop window. should enjoy a short rest "to and to keep
The watchman
calm and obey, other collect his thoughts." Africans employed by the shop į put cut the flames, -Damages
were estimated at 400..
and
him, The Bishop, an outspoken
The police have been leaving critic of South African Govern-control of the crowds at Limbe ment segregation policies has, to the Malawi Party itself, and according to the Johannesburg Europeans mingling with them Sunday Times newspaper, been have reported that the Africans legally advised to make no were friendly and "bubbling
BISHOP CENSURED?
The bog filled with passbooks, was burned by an African crowd" further statements for publica- over with goodwill"
behind the magistrates ecurt in the centre of Pearl.
The crowd first poured, petrol over the bag and then set ofire
on for an indefinite period.
This particularly applied to the Sharpville events which it were rub judice, the paper said. He would leave his house only crowd to preach or on essentiai church
business,
The police dispersed without using force.
Meanwhile the Anglican Mrs Reeves sald she and her 31shop of Johannesburg, Dr husband. intended to sail for Ambrose Reeves, cancelled an England later this montii ---- engagement to presch in a Reuter,
(The Mulaw! Congress Party Dr ix a caretaker organisation. for Banda's African National Congress, which is banned under the emergency).
No Incidents were reported in any part of Nyauland today,
A new, house is being found for Dr Banda, in Limbe and he 10 is expected
hia medical practice soon,Heuter.,
TCSUme
of African
couple of talking
parrots
Two African parrots who arrived in Hongkong today are in store for a
legal education they never bargained for.
The only problem lies in what sort of language the two par rots are likely to pick up.
mother of Blonde 17-year-old { She fold” reporters: "This new Beverly Aadland, protege of
why.
Their new owner in Uganda for the past 14 years, "They are an extremely in Gay, he's trying to be in loto the Errol Flynn, entered hou».
when he is old enough and be the ex-Judicial Advisor of carried the two parrots In a telifgmt true of bird, with my baby, but this is a plish today to have her jaw lot of shly suff. k18 bouldn't Ƒ/ deughters boy friend, but said come very English."
Ugenda In Africa,
cage from the pland examined.
afford to buy Beverly, tooth-
the it was not, the same one Mr and Mrs Watkins have no He a Mr E. 8. Haydon who Tise parrots, a gift from two whe had dred a charge of children of their own
arrived with the parrota thin African chiefs can talk STRA hirishot at hér Inat, mouth „The International foelal Ser-morning by Air India to take up but only (. Undan... "I don't After she hid intervened in vice trollove that Kims is the an appointment as a magistrato think it will be long before the neighbours will remat jt. they smother of Beverly's romances, first Chinese child to be Nown with the Hongkong Court, K. |Have them talking fluently, the hear "fined" -- 130" - continually
Renter.
to, Britain for adoption,
....Mr Haydon who› high boên In Haydon - said on his arcivil, acrésched at thein,
· pante for a month.” think it's besko,” she said, claiming that Beverly's fatori |D[ru Aadland mid that her own boy friend, xged: 19," "bROR" 'boy friend had kinở bit her. handed me when I told him 1, PHCELA mladinkan, kad ha
There is no guarantee how
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