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CHINA
No. 37660
Established 1845
MONDAY, MAY 9, 1960:
LATE FINAL
Prico 20 Cents
PAN AM the way to go to
PARIS.
and all Europei
Money paid for non-existent piece of land
Of The COMPANY DIRECTOR JAILED Falsely Wreckage of U.S. 'spy' plane Mr K
Day
PAMPERED
PEOPLE
O people in the world are дз badly pampered by servants us We are in Hongkong. But a warning by a local industrialist last week reminds us that the days of being waited on hand and foot are coming to
end. an
More and more Amahs and Boys are turning to factory work and Increasingly Master and Missed are going to do the cooking, washing-up and housework themselves. Why the changeover? Amahs
Prefer the
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better wages and greater freedom they receive in industry. Ser- vants wages are rising but not furt enough to keep them in the home.
More-
over to add to the shortage, servants are not being re- placed by young "make learna"
from the country. side as they once were, and the modern Hongkong miss Ande little In the long hours and drudgery of housework to attract her. In addition many servants are finding better and more remunera- tive jobs in homen and restaurants elsewhere in Asia.
A cocktail
t
CONSTANT topic of yossip these days is the turnover in Ber- vants, their manners. ability and salarles. There is no doubt that they are in a decline both in quality and quantity. in 10 years time the Shanghai boy will
|
obtained
cheque
sen-
Chan Wan, a company
was director, tenced to two years this morning by Judge B. J. Jennings at the Victoria District Court when he was convicted on a charge of obtaining a cheque for $59,660 by falsely pretending that he
had 250 tons of iron bars to pledge for a loan.
Chan was nequitted on another charge of obtaluing money by false pretence, in which he was alleged to have caused a money Investor to pay $60,000 into a tending that he had a piece of solicitors' firm by falsely pre-
land lu Tsun Won to mortgage for a loan.
a mitigation plea, Mr Gerald Basto, defence counsel, submitted that it Was Lom Chun-kit, a former clerk in the soltellors' firm, who had "moti- vated" the accused to comrnit the offence.
(Lam is now serving a Ber- |terice for fraud.)
Very foolish
"My client very foolishly and stupidly consented to be a party to this deception. He was not In a duciary position as Lam was, Mr Basto said.
be a thing of the past and Speaking of a sentence a8 A there will be only a few olderment, Mr
s
Basto said result of the wide publicity
amahe who will want to go given to this case, the accused "Canton
far" norc
10 would have great difficulty in spend Chinese New Year or conducting any transaction Ching Ming.
this type again.
or
The Indications are that if He said ing accused would be industrial expansion con- such a man who would respond Unues at its present rate, favourably
in- by the Court.
despite population
to any Lenancy
creases the nutaber of new Passing sentence, Judge Jen- amals and boys coming ing said if accused was let off into service will be at a furistly, others might be
сп-
couraged to
similar commit lower rate thun in the past. offences This shortage is going to ls Honour noted that the cause servants* wages to accused had a previous convie- rise and the average home- tior fur similar offence la owner who now employs 1962, for which he had been retinue will probably be fined $100 and bound over in able to afford or to find no
$1,000 for one year, more than one or two, whilo others will have to do with out entirely.
Коси
hongs will lose their
Mr J. Bodlily, Crown Coun- sel, prosecuted, assisted by Det.
Insp. Lai Kim-man,
Mr Basto was instructed by
Mrs. Ng Quinn; and Mr A, bost secretaries as wives Zimmern held
watching brief
stay hume to do the jobs on behalf of the money investor, they do everywhere else in Mr Ma Shiu-poon, on the in- the world. And in all probstruction of Mr P. H. Sin.
ability servants will chooso
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their employers as careful-
ly they were once chosen
by employers, They are
elready inclined to favour
families with no children, Noel
Fleming trial
The case
in which Marect Andre
20, Fleming, or mahjong but with businessman,
Is charged with cars, and uir manslaughter of Inspector Si
tioners. In the future Wal-ming, will resumo in the
they may insist on a TV Criminat Sessions this afternoon set in the home and time when Mr Justice Blair Ker will off to watch it as well
commence his summing up,
On the Suzie Wong' set
MANY HONGKONG 'SHOTS'
FILMED IN LONDON
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER Thousands of pounds were spent on building Hongkong scenery in London for the filming of "The World of Suzie Wong," producer Ray Stark revealed today.
Ferry overturns:
27 drowned
Rangoon, May 8.
A total of twenty-seven peo- plo were feared drowned when a ferry boat capsized today in a storm 200 miles north of here on the Irrawaddy River.
Out of 40 passengers and crew on board, only 13 had yet been rescued.
The boat capsized after having been battered for an hour by the storm.-AFP.
Grandma's first and
last soccer match
West Bromwich, May 8. Mr Ethel Cross in OTORA KA can be. She got locked in a lavatory. Bhe was there from And Tuesday to Wednesday, nobody knew she was there, It was a men'« invatory. And
she never did get to see the second half of the MODCOY maich,
Bo she's writing to the directors
of We local soccer etadine and sending a bit for £5 15. damien.
Her strange request for com- peration is bot to 1000m- peter for the 18 hours Aho was locked In the toilet whin the böln-klot · jammed
the door, she explained,
#34% 'really for my husband,
three sons and * daughter-
fn-law who esch lori a day's
Wages through ́laking time off
to search for me" explained Bas. 31-guar-old grandmother, |
It happened when she went to
her first BOGGET malch
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didn't think
of looking Into the men's room,
Tuesday to watch her 25-Mrs Cross, meanwhile, had lost
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the
year-old son Leslie play
her voice crying out for help local cup match. In
in the emply stadium. interval she went to the Next morning, her husband
by Invatory and
mistake organised
family search walked into one reserved for
party. gentlemen,
is
She entered a closet and closed
the door behind her and jammed. Sho was even more embarrassed when she heard mon talking outside the door and didn't daro shout Iar help.
the
MOCOOT
1er 29-year-old son Ray went
back to search stadium te woon as it opened 1 .. He heard a faint cry for help.
The door of the cubicle WAS stanabed 'open and there was MDrg ·Crong-unto ; but fired, qalā med vorZ ERDAG.. !!
Ifer husband thought she had rejoined other members of the family elsewhere the she never did get to co Cho #boond half of the match. But Pinho didn't care.
mia diuen.
But when he re- turned home at 10 pm, ANË found she wasn't there, ho ro- ported her missing. ' Police searched
the stadium, Even the ladle lavatories WEES checked.
But they
"I never want to go to another
soccer match (sä, long
隐婚
live,” the mid with a Wry smile,AP.
The scenes were, so intricately designed that observers say they cant tell the difference from the original setting.
A replica of the top deck st the Star Ferry was built at the cost of £3,000.
Builders of the gel observed every detail, including the brand of paint used on the originat ferry.
Producer Stark also had the
One man missing as tug capsizes
A tug capsized short- ly after. 9 this moming while towing a ship into Taikoo Dockyard.
A number of the tug's crow were rescued but on engineer who was, working down bo- low is still missing.
His name is given as Leung Kwai,
According to reports three tugs were towing the chip, Lucky Fortune, when one of the tugs, the 50-foot Taikoo Fu which was at the stem of the ship, suddenly copsized,
The reason for the
is not capsize
yot known, fur
Nam Kok Hotel bulit in London.'
In the film building in Hollywood Hood was used the Nam Kok Hotel.
a
Cast and camera-men Con- verged on Hollywood Road this morning to start the second day of reshooting
NO DIFFERENCE "Even Hongkong locals who have meet the first shots of the constructed copled cets in Londen cannot Lell the difference" Stark sald today.
Eurasian beauty and Hong- kong born Mins Nancy Kwen apporod fresh and ni despite an illness earlier Just week in London,
Bit Holden pected to be
slightly affected by his illness
Last week.
Dozens of police were needed
Six crew members wore picked up and taken to hospital.
This picture toproduced from a Soviet nowspaper allegedly shows the wreck- age of the U.S. plane shot down by the Russians on May 1-AP Photo.
Jodrell Bank
sets space
signal record
Washington, May 8. American space experts said today that the Pioneer V space satellite launched on March 5 was now mak. ing ita Arst orbit of the. sun with the larger of its two radio transmitters switched on for the first time today.
The transmitter is believed to
HIC
be the largest over operated in simais
being space. Its picked up by listening stations at Jodrel Bank, Cheshire, and South Point, Hawali,
The radio contact today was Tha tug has been
the antellite towed back
the Arzt between into the
and Jodrell Bank since April 20 dock where it is now
when the Pioneer was six mit- lying partially on its
lion miles from earth. vido.
Kidnappers release millionaire
Singapore, May. 8.
to control the milling crowds The Singapore Chinese mil- in Hollywood Road this. morning.
After several streams traffle hindered the organisation. of shooting, the pollee blocked off a section of Hollywood Road,
In switching on Pioneer V's irananitter today, Jodrell Bank set up a distance record for transmitting signals from earth into space.
109 HOURS DATA
Melais of the National Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration said that to date the probe had returned mare Honaire
and onan 109 hours of dela
months... kas April 27 has been released in two short
well-entrenched after payment of a $50,- theories of outer space cond 000 straits dollars ransom ons.
kidnapped
It was learned today.
overturned
The big transmitter lin
may release U.S. pilot
Moscow, May 8. Diplomats here today indicated that Russia might be planning some “grand ges- ture" involving the pilot of the American plane shot down last week. despite Mr Nikita Khrushchev's earlier suggestion that he might be put on trial.
there
Though
has been, converations with Americans nothing શ્રેણીnite im official which "greatly impressed me" statements one Russians in- and add; dicated that the pilot, 30-year- old Francis Powers, might be released.
"Even now I think that those who met me desire peace and good, friendly relations with the Soviet Union. But obviously Observers said that with the the militarists of the Pentagon. Paris summit meeting only and monopolists who are con- eight days away and in view of [nected with them cannot stop the projected · Ruslan 'visit by themselves and continue work President Eisenhower nexting for war." manth, such a move would have obvious diplomatic and pro- paganda effects.
Defensive
There was no doubt in the diplomats' minds that D -----Khrushchev - would be: going
The Implication was Jeft here of a Khrushchev in roll charge he personally gavo, the order to shoot - and an Elsenhower who though a man of peace was unable to curl those who the Soviet Premier claims have aECTOS- sive designs against the Soviet Valon.
Meanwhile. Soviel news-
to the summit feeling be 'will have the West on the defen alve and that he now bad a strengthened bargaining posis) papers today gave accounts vi tion.
[the.capture of the US, pilot who Mr Khrushchav said had supporting the "grand been shot down on May Day gesture" theory they pointed to more than 1,200 miles inside The feels that Mr Khrushchev Soviet territory on a mission to had only hinted that Powers photograph missile and might be tried and that the defences.
But
Soviet leader had been careful
to put the blame on the United States military authorities,
Photographs
radar
They also published photo- It was noted that when he
tive Ennounced
pre-summul graphs_shown to Soviet deputies US banditry" before the yesterday by Mr Khrushchev (Parliament) which he said. had been taken
Supreme Soviet
un
last week Mr Khrushchev had from the aircraft. They includ stressed that President Esen- ed places drawn up on hower would not have known airfield, money and watches about the incident.
which Powers was said to have
the
He said: "I fully admit that been carrying.
know President did not
poison
Also shown was a noiseless that a plane was cent beyond the pistot, a
pin and rings Soviet fronilers and did not alleged to have been found) on return." He said he recalled him.-Ratcer,
Former HK Dean
at Royal wedding
First" nirmalt · plotures of the Princess Margarot-Antony Artrong-Jones, wedding show the former Dean, of 81 John's Cathedral, the Rev. F. 8. Templa (see above) łąking part lii the 1o. Westminster Abbey 'ceremony, Ong Chen Blong, 44, chairman output of 150 watts. Power for Mr Temple is now, cenior chaplain to Tir Geoffrey/Fisher, of the Board of Directors of the it la provided, by" solip cells- Archbishop of Canterbury who married the Princom and Mr
Singapore's leading transport converting I
One picture shows Mr Temple standing sliablly to the 'right. pesvieda was released two daya
and Just behind Arebbishop of Canterbury, during one part of Url recently radio eignals the worvice wille anelber picture shows him standing noxi to the The kidnappers originally de.. were sent back to earth by a ¦ Archbishop's cheen-bearer in front of the Archbishop of Callées
Royal wedding anden Bus Company ofte 01 | taking the energy of the sun and¦ Armstrong-Jobes, 11th 20EN
photos on back page: more HK one toner une five-watt transmitter the try and the Dead of Westminster Abbey as the Princess and
but finally settled for one tenth officials said the latest trang, her husband leave the Abber, ung of thin.. During his nine ikys of mitter was lured on when lie Over his surplice, the Doan wore a cloak with the Aamus of captivity- Ong - yun kopt: blind-satellite reached the 8,001,000- Canterbury emblazoned on the side, folded in:n chicken.coop, soma, málo snark on its fournay, from '«: šie said' curilor in 'a letter to a Hongkong friend that he where in the Bingapors subvatis, the earth to an orbit round the would have no speolite duties at the wedding, but hurt so sopori- wokinta | AFP.
-Reuber.
pany the Archbishop and “be Evillable · if needed.”
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