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Comment Of The Day
JARGON
T times we think that
AT
jargon IA R greater menace than the H-bomb. One
describes
dictionary
jargon as "confused talk." Another aptly defines it na "confused, unintelligible langungo or utterance." How
true it in The bomb might not be needed if one half of the world know what the other kalf was talking about, Both are in a fog of nonsensical talk.
A récent report said that "it
is the liquidity position as a whole upon which the monetary authoritles must
net
*
If the report hnd said that
the Treasury must base its policy on the amount of
money in circulation one might have had a better idea of what was meant.
H
Champion
TTERE is a gem gathered by the champion of plain English, Sir Ernest Gowers:
"Tho actualisation of the motivation of the forces must to
extent R great be a matter of personal angularity," And another
"The reckonability of a former temporary service form higher leave entitle- meat." Reckonability! What a twist for the tongue. There is also jargon of art which leaves us speechless. "His formalisations, trans- formations, additions
aro
the result of transplanting
forms from other contexts into the context of the object signified." After nome research wo came to the
conclusion that the writer
meant that the artist put things in their wrong places. Diplomatic jargon is almost out of this world. Thus: ""Tho tripartito powers reached unilateral decisions for international aiming at a supra-national detente."
HERE
THE
Others
THE WEATHER
Light sea breezes, dying away tonight. Cloudy, warm and humid with fair periods this afternoon. Nova Temp: 81 degress. Humid:"77. par.conf.
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Cloud of dust hangs over what was once a town THOUSANDS KILLED IN QUAKE Former Hongkong Parts of secret
Iranian city of 40,000
totally destroyed
Teheran, Apr. 25.
Several thousand persons were dead or in- jured in yesterday's quake which ravaged the southern Iranian city of Lar, the Iranian Red Cross said last night.
A heavy cloud of dust hung over the city of 40,000, long
earth- after the quake hit, early reports. reaching here indicated. Rescue teams were being
rushed to Lar from near- by towns, while additional help left Teheran at dawn today.
Lar is located not far from the Persian Gulf in a zono of earthquakes. Barely 10 years ago the town was in large part destroyed by another earthquake.
The quake occurred at 4.15
p.m. and rocked the city and its suburbs. The re- ports said tremors were so heavy that the city be came dark "because of dust."
First reports received by the Iranian Red Lion (Red Cross) said many houses collapsed.
Chiang's
party suffers
setbacks
Taipei, Apr. 24. President Chiang Kai-shek's ruling Nationalist Party suffered two setbacks in local elections today. The more serious one was at
Kechung, where an Independent became mayor after peemingly being assured of defeat,
Li Fen-wan polled 43,174
An hour after the quake rocked the city, the Shah of Iran received an official report which indicated the votes against 36,279 for Li Kuo- quake caused heavy chun, a member of President damages and casualties, Chiong's Kuomintang Party. The Shah immediately or- The Kuomintang Had its other dered the government to setback when its candidate for magistrate of Kaohsiung coun-
UNCONTESTED
do everything possible to ty, in southern Formosa, Tal help the victims and find Liang-ching, was beaten by Yu out the exact number of Teng-fa, an independent. casualties, a Royal Court
But the party won spokesman sald. accord
This source said the Shah mayoral race in four cities, in- cluding an uncontested race in urged that immediate help Kaohelung,
are jargons of sclence, politics, medi- cine, war, trade unions- Indeed in every human activity. There is jargon for. jargon's sake, or the meaningless use of poly- syllables. Many Americans are prone to it. Here's one: ""This form of now com- munication is 'sensational' that is, it involves response Di the Bensory nervous system as well as menta- tion" The answert Bold headlines are exciting, Psychology and psychiatry a rich field for provide research. A generation ago nobody had a "complex," "repression," or "Axation" of any kind. Now everybody has them, and most people don't know what they are.
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The worst
THE worst Jargon is that To Communism, with its "dialectical matorialism," contralism." "democratie : and the rest. The tolling masses of Russia
сал
nover have
under-
the
be sent to Lar before Kuomintang candidates Won waiting for details of the 15 other county magistrate casualties.-AP and AFP. posts, four of which were un-.
contested.
As
Ike and
De Gaulle
decide on strategy
Washington, Apr. 24.
expected, Kuomintang member Huang Chi-jui was re- elected mayor of Talpel. He received 316,000 votes against 54,088 for his opponent, medieaf doctor Lin Ching-un, A BLOW
The fact that Lin got this number of votes
was a blow
to Kuomintang prestige.
In the 1957 Talpel mayoral election Lin palled only 1,559 vetes against 176,238 for Huang
Lin last week announced his withdrawal from the contest, but did not comply with
procedures and nccessary
the
50
President Eisenhower and was sifil technically in the race President Charles De against the incumbent mayor----
Gaulle of France said in a AP
joint statement tonight
In
that they were in agree- ment on how they should proceed at the East-West
conference summit Paris next month. "We have defined our own thoughts, clarified our thinking as to how we chatt proceed at the summit meeting," they said In the statement, which was read on their behalf by Mr James Hagerty, the White
House Press Secretary.
Own
Earlier President Elsenhower showed President De Gaulle his form and the Gettyrbung Battle- stood these arid phrasen, ; feld and then the two statemen Yot thoir lives aro hold a lengthy wre-summit con- ruled by them-and ours ference on strategy for dealing
been Influenced by with Russin,
AT GETTYSBURG
have
them too.
It is said that the specialist la a man who knows more and more about less and loss. And, we would add whose words become longer while his meanings become more obscure. Yet everything one man dis-
cover
or invants other men should be able to com- prehand. Most of us could do so if only the speciallate would explain their work in positive terms instead of abstract phrasOS.
The two allied lenders flew to Gottysburg by helicopter, this morning siller attending church
services of their respective faiths.
Photographer
claims Brynner threatened
to kill him
A newspaper photographer
Mexico City, Apr. 24. who alleged that actor
Yul Brynner threatened to kill him, has asked the Court to atop Brynner leaving the country,
· Rainet "Anoyn complains that the octor, producing The Magnificent Seven" in Mexico,
A
editor dies
former editor of the Morning Post has died.
South China
He In Mr George T. Lloyd, who wan General Manager, Secretary and editor of the Morning Post before and during part of World War L
He came to Hongkong in 1904.
He later weni to Shanghai,
After holding executive posts in news- papers in Shanghai, he took up the post of General Secretary of the China Coast Navi- cating and Engineer Omfloers' Gullä în 1947 in Hongkong.
Mr Lloyd, who retired in 1954, nettled in Brisbane. He died there on Good Friday, according to news received today.
Before leaving the Colony, Mr Lloyd re- called the part that he and his editor played In the Battle of the Tsushima Sirait in 1904 when Japan defcated Russia in a bir Naval engagement
Ai that time Britain was allied to Japan and Mr Alfred. Cunningham, then editor of the Morning Posi, was ordered to sail by junk to Kamranh Bay where Admiral Rodjenyensky and bis Russian feet anchored after leaving Madagascar.
He reported back that many members of the Russian crow were seasick and they had never been to ses before.
When the Russian leet put to sea on its way to engage the Japanese, their movements were transmited to the Japaneso Admiral Togo by almost every ship in the victoity.
Meanwhile in Hongkong, Mr Høyd filed stories on the movements of the Russian feet and the actual battle of the Twushima Stralia to American newspapers. This earned him as much as US$500 a month. He was sÉ one timo representative of the Amerişan Amo- cisted Frem in Hongkong.
Mr Lloyd recalled before leaving Hong- kong that he bought the ground upon, which the original offics of the BCM Post slood in Wyndhẩm “Strest. Before that the Morning Post Office was on the waterfront where the present P and ✪ Bullding now stands. He
also said that the Morning Fost was the first to install the Inotype In the Far East,
"A thousand memories flood one's mind of the Hongkong of distant days, when the Clock Tower halted traffle in Pedder Hireet, and convicts wat in pillory in front of the main
GEORGE. T. LLOYD
door of the Hongkong Hotel, with an Indian as guard," he said
After leaving Hongkong in 1916, Mr Lloyd went to Shanghai where he took charge of the Shanghal Times and later the Shanghai Mercury.
Mr Lloyd controlled two Chinese news- papers in Shanghal and was Chairman of Directors. Their legal adviser was Mr J. E. Jones (how with the Hongkong, and Bhanghai Banking Corporation). At that time, Mr Lloyd was adviser to the Nanking Government. Mr. Llord still found time to contribute articles to the China Press.
During the Pacific War. Mr Lloyd was interned by the Japanese in the Pootung Camp. Mr. Lloyd was ». Freethason. ito was married and his daughter, Miza Gwen Lloyd, resides in the Colony.
Uproar over call for
corporal punishment
London, Apr. 24.
A storm of protest, led by political and church leaders, today greeted a call made by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker, for a return of corporal punishment in a limited form.
Resignation accepted
Seoul, Apr. 25. The National Assembly accepted today the signation of opposition Vloo-President Jolin Chans.
M.
The resignation was re- ported from the DOT B
AS tho Assembly Soc
Democratic opened and Party spokesman urged its Receptance.
Inst
Chang resigned week in profert against the alleged
elections
whleb
frandulent
15,
on March sparked the demonstrations 19.-UPL
STYLE
ww April
Jewish Cemetery desecrated
Fuerth, Apr, 24,
cemstory
at this The Jewish
Bavarian town was desecrat- ed during that Wednesday night, Hitler's birthday, threatened and attacked him
A spokesman of carlier this work on a studio Jewish community told a press pet, when he tried to take pleconference today that about 50 tures of the star.
tcmb stones were toppled over *Pll kill you if you ever try in the 400-year-old, comotory,
Fuerth's
They inspected the farm and then decided to inspect the civil wer battleground.
Afterward they again took to am lines and How to ta photograph me again, one of the older Jewish busy Camp David, the President's rate actor was alleged to haveing places in southern Gor hideaway in the Catoctin moun- shouted at the time,
many, which has not been used tains where they spent two Anara sued Brynner two dy for the last 30 years, hours and 40 minutes discuming | later but now, he said, he wants their forthcoming meeting with. to make are that tho actor dom Police, sald playing children Nikita Khrushchev, Beuter not try to alude the justice by might have been responsible. and UPI.
"Vardabing" fedtis Mexico---AF. | -Router.
Lord Parker told the annual conference of probation officers ot Margate yesterday that if corporal punishment took the form of birching or caning for young offenders under the age of 21 it could be used as "yet onother weapon to deter the potential criminal.”
Politicians and churchmen *today called the Puggestion "monstro", appalling and absolute, Bonsense."
'MONSTROUS'
Sir. Lesile Plummer, a Labour MP Bold "this is a monstrous suggestion,
"It seem to me that Lord Parker has not studled statistics which show clearly that birching 'and flogging generally have noi
been a deterrent,
"In many ways the probation officers are more competent to decide on this issue than even the Lord Chief Justice."
Recalling that the last time Lord Parker spoke in favour of corporal punishment, there had been an outery in the Commoris, Sir Leslie Plummer said he did not intend raising the question in the Hount.
"I nan sailsfled that the Home Secretary (Mr R. A. Buller) is
Generally speaking the move to reintroduce birching само from ex-public schoolboys who had been flogped at school and saw no reason why other young people should not be given the same treatment, ho said.
An official of the Prison O#cers' Association said the Association was split on the question.
"But I think the majority would agree that in certain cases it should be reintroduced, particularly with difcuit young people who are responsible for
crimes majority of violence."Reuter,
the
Kidnapped Singapore
tycoon
of
found dead
bomber fished out of the sea
London, Apr. 25.
Police sealed off the salvage ship "Tywford" when she docked at Pembrokeshire Port off Milford Haven yesterday. And the ship's crew were warned "Do not talk about what we found."
That And was an 18-foot tailplane assembly of top-secret Victor II bomber, which vanish- Ob D test flight from Boscombe Down on August 20.
ed
It was fished out of the sea off the Pembrokeshire Const at the weekend. And the tailplane -largest plece of wreckage found sinco the crash---may provide the first real evidence of what happened to the £2.5 million supersonic bomber,
Naval Experts WETO *x- strining the wreckage yester day and today an RAF road transport will take it to Farn- borough.
The
SPOTTED tallplase
was spotted from a diving bell in 380 feet of water and the "Tyword" used huge mechanical grabe to raise it.
· Arnaval spokelman "said "the sen-bod at this point la littered with bombers wreckage. It is sentiered over an area of half a mile."
Already
Over tons
A
search has cost
a million pounds. Four of the Victor's wreckage
have been lifted and a thousand pieces so far 10uvered_haya been pieced togefirer at Farm- borough.
Experts have ruled out the possibility of a_mid-air ex+ plosion, They believe now that something went wrong In the exbin að 60,000 feet and that the Victor disintegrated when it hit the water,
NO OBJECT
They have
bean
Wedding gift protests
London, Apr. 24. Roynolds News today gavo front page pro- minonce to a' story about criticism in Hongkong OVOR a wedding gift £3,125 voted by the
of
local Legislativo Council.
The newspaper
sold
thore were protants avor the amount as excessive in view of the poverty in the colony.--UPI..
No typhoon
rain
for Colony
CHINA MAIL REPORTER
ordered
of
Typhoon Karen is not now likely to bring drought. breaking rains to Hong- kong.
time and money are no object -you must and the causo the crash"
Trawlers also netted parts of At one time yester tiny and the bomber's engine and under- | carly this
Water morning. carriage at the week-end. Authority, officials were hoping When the giant H-Bomber) the typhoon, which struck vanished with its five-man crew Mandia yesterday, might pass last August it was en radio near enough to Hongkong to blackout. The cause of the bring, heavy rain to the Colony, crash must be discovered to avold a whole series of probably
unnecessary London Express Servicos,
modifications,
A
FROM ROCK
TO BLUES
London, Apr. 23. man who wrote a pop song called "Rock Around the Mailbags will soon be sewing mailbage In prison.
WOS
But latest news is that though the typhoon has intensified it has recurved in an arc which may Lake It through the Luzon Straits on an easterly course.
It is now moving at 10 knots and maximum centre winds aro said to be 70 knotą,
WATER SUPPLY
The
has Water Authority warned that unicoN heavy ratne fall on Hongkong may be put on to an every-other- day supply." It is already on a three-hour-a-day supply,
Hongkong's rainfall how stands at the alarmiing figure of 3.69 Inches. The end-of-April · | average is 11.23 Inches.
Troughs of low pressure have brought far below the usual amount of rain and those that are rain-producing are bringing rain to the wrong areas.
Private Tony Roy Adams, 22,
A minor trough passed Hong- was yesterday sentenced to nine months imprisonment for deser kong on Saturday and although Singapore, Apr. 24. going to resist all the pressure The body of Lee Gee Chong, tion from the British Army. He appreciable rain fell over the aiso discharged with north and south of the Colony only .01 of an inch was recorded put on him to refnitroduce cor-
49-year-old biscuit king ignominy. poral puntalunent," he nuded,
kidnapped last Wednes- Adams told a court martial at the Observatory. day, was found today. It that ho did not desert. He said
ho went abecast without lenero in was wrapped in a blanket order to earn enough money by Not only is Hongkong 'Buffer- and abandoned among writing songs to buy himself outing from the prolonged, drought. tombstones of a Chinesa of the army.
He formed a singing, group Cemetery.
and
APPALLING
Canon John Collins, pre- oenior. of St Paul's Cathedral, -guld that' from the point of „view, of morals and deconoy !
would be "appaliing if cor- porn? puntsfit:ant were re- Introduced.
"It will do endiens harm on
in the nation," he said.
CHINA AFFECTED
Peking Itadlo sold large areas
show was arranged in of Chind had been affected London. But before it could bo
About a million peasants in stagad, he was arrested.
Last night singer Terry White, at water conservancy projects Share province were working
though
for "Rock Around tho
who helped Adams write the trying
Couro
The head was baltered. His banker-father, Lee Chaon letter to the bicult factory after the kidnap, saying Leo was being held captive.
The letter demanded, no xan- an-!
som and the family were walt ing for further word when the fle subject to confirmation-dry spell which did not affect
toen who are responsible for Ale to acuministration, and it will tet loose everything that is madlatic
Mr Bidney Silverman, other Labour MP said: “I think Lond. Peker's attent "absoliute 'nonsense.
Mailbag sald how that Toor water for the spring sowing. is in prison, to will probably
However, Peking · "radi write something called Mailbage the Chainese
-radio'said. Blues" The sentence on Adams "beating on the effects of the pogradite WITO
the winter wheat crop,
body was discovered,a=AP,* | China Suit Apseial,"