THE WEATHER
Fresh easterly winds. Cloudy. Noon Temp: 13 degrees. Humid: 81 per cent.
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Baby Burco
5 Gallon Electric Boller
· for the small wash
CHINA
GILMANS Showroom: Gloucester Arcade
No. 37662
Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1960.
LATE FINAL
PANAM is the way to go to
ROME
MAIL F
Price 20 Cents
and all Europe
Comment Heavy buying results in $6,577,000 turnover Protest
Of The STOCK
Day
FLOOD AID
NEEDED
NOR the world, the first
FOR
four months of 1960 have i been marked by a success- ion of appalling tragedies. Hongkong has had its share and now that the record rainfall figures are known it is perhaps not surprising that last week's downpour and the flash floods-it pro- duced in the New Terri- tories caused such heavy loss of life and damage. The Colony's farmers working their patchwork: paddies and terraced gar dens have been grievously smitten by the depredations of the weather in recent
Trading
biggest
ever for
half
day
The biggest ever volume of business for a half- day session was re- corded at the Hong- kong Stock Exchange this morning with an approximate turnover of $6,577,000 register. ed up to noon?
years and there will be A sharebroker said there
widespread sympathy for
them in their latest aster.
dis-
The way officers and men of regiments stationed in the Territories joined the Police. Fire Brigade and Government staff and theerfully and promptly waded into the task of rescuing marconed people and salvaging their belongings, merits the highest praise and it would be remiss of us to allow this occasion to pass with- out saying "Hats off to the Army"!
OR the Colony as a whole, however, the same rains
was pandemonium in the trading hall. He said that there was no particular reason for the exceptionally heavy trading except! --that "people got very
excited".
:
The demand for bank shares was described as the "biggest for a long, long time.” There were also very heavy demands for hotels and cement.
which brought death and Dairy Farms and Elec- destruction also brought trics also did good
the business.
welcome relief
to
dwindling water supply. There were price in- The level at Tai Lam Chung
rose a staggering 18 feet
а
in two days and over week there was a big gain of almost 1,500 million about one- gallons - or
Beventh of the Colony's total reservoir capacity. The hope is that now the severe winter drought has broken the abnormality of. the weather pattern will give way to Formal summer's rainfall.
a
A statement by Government yesterday indicated that paddy and vegetable crops were not nearly so badly affected
first thought and there will be considerable relief that a
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way
creases in banks, hötels and cement.
Closing Stock Exchange pricei will be found or Page 7
90-year-old
woman gets $10 fromTM magistrate
quick recovery is expected. A 90-year-old woman, who
admitted begging for alms was cautioned and given $10 from the poor box by Mr K. A. S. Phillips at Central Court this morn- ing..
MARKET
According to the Russians, these photographs show the pistol and ammunition and
a suicide pin containing poison found in the American plane stiet down over Boviet territory on May 1-AF Photo.
HK's FM MYSTERIOUS WINDS
broadcasts
start on June 1st
Radio Hongkong will start 17-hour FM (Fre quency Modulation, broad- casts on June 1
This was announced to- day
of by Controller Broadcasting, Mr D. E., Brooks.
Mr Brooks said that it was originally planned to start the broadcasts muck earlier in the year.
However delay in instal lation of the transmitters caused the opening to be postponed.
He added that Radio received the Hongkong
transmitters about four months ago and technicians
have been working at tap speed to have them ready by June 1.
will be Transmission made from the Peak, Mr Brooks said,
Decimal bill to be
introduced
MAY HAVE CAUSED
AIRLINER'S CRASH
Evansville, Ind., May 10.
FRENZY against West tells pools
of Soviet
spy planes
Washington, May 10.
Soviet planes have been flying high altitude reconnaissance missions over Western Europe for several years, diplomatic sources said here today.
They said "the Soviet planes
have been tracked by Western radar stations on flights over Britain, France, the Low coun- ! tries and West Germany.
This disclosure confirmed a statement made by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that Soviet today. " know planes are always photographing, us," Dr Adenauer said.
The sources did not offer any explanation why the Western powers never publicly protested: against such flights, or why no known-attempt has been made to force down a Soviet plane.
E. German based The Soviet spy planes ap- pear to be based in several areas of Eastern Europe, but most of those flying over Western Europe lake off from zirfields in Soviet-occupied East Germany, according the sources,
U.S. FLIGHTS
Jl.
APPROVED BY
WHITE HOUSE
soccer
The Hongkong Christian Council, representing the majority of Protestant Churches in the Colony, today released the text of the letter it recently sent to unofficial members of the Legislative Council on the subject of Football Pools.-
The letter, signed by the Chairman of the Council, Mr. S., C. Leung said:
Notices and news in the press have led the public to suppose that the Legislative Council has already agreed to the setting up of Football Pools. In the, Colony.
We understand, however, that this is not so and we are there fore attaching herewith the formal protest which we have rent to the Colonial Secretary and would plead with you to give your vote against allowing Football Pools to be run in the Colony.
We can well understand
that the
Washington, May 10. Mr Clarence Cannon, chair-
man of the House Appro priations Committee, said from many points of view
Pools are an attractiveTMpropoxi- today the U.S. 'spy' plane tion to the Government since the downed in Russia on schema seems to offer good ra...”
on one of a venue with May 1 was
little foresecabio series of flights approved danger..
་
by the White House and It is our contention, however, known in advance to key that it will help to an even members of Congress. greater lowering of the moral Mr Cannon told the House standards, of this place. that, in addition to turning up essential military information, They said une such airfield be. Aights completely, disproveo people of the Colony and it is Russia's claimed ability to stop American bombers at her bor
to
from which Soviet bigh altitude reconnaissance planes ders. operate is located near Magde- bung in East Germany.
It is only about 350 miles by air from there to London, and a little more to the French Atlantic Coast.
Thus, a Soviet plane flying at
Mr Canton also raised a new question about Russia's claim to have shot down the U-2 high- level observation plane with
remarkable" new rocket.
ENGINE TROUBLE- Mr Cannon said the fact was a speed of about 500 miles per the plane "developed some un hour could cover most of
foreseen and unavoidable
i-fect"
Western Europe within three mechanical or physicological de-
Clear air turbulence-mysterious wind current
strong enough to tear an airliner apart-hours flying time, knocked military pilots from their seats the day a Northwest Orient Electra went into a death dive with 63 persons aboard.
Queen Mother
leaves for
Rhodesia
London, May 10.
air of the The presence furbulence and Its possible con- Sequences were revealed-today- at a Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) hearing into the cause of the St Partick's Day crash of the Chicago-to-Miami. airliner All over Tell City, Indiana. persons aboard were killed.
Mr Charles R. Snyder of the U.S. Weather Bureau, Chicago, safd that je streams over the Ohio River the day before the crash might have left clear alr turbulence, but "the art of fore- casting clear air turbulence is in only
we are
its Infancy and making a beginning.
DRAMATIC The most drumatic testimony at the opening of the two-day gone hearing came from Lieut-Col Daniel F. Shea and Capt. Joha M. Karibo. Both area at about the same time as the doomed Electra.
The stoicism of the New Territories farmer Has been severely tested by typhoons, deluges, land- slides and wasaways and heavy destruction at this time of year might well have persuaded many to Mr Phillips said, "Last time seek a more remunerative when you appeared before me, and less precarious form you told the that if I were to of living elsewhere. So far let you go, you would go home.
London, May 10. this year there has been a Now you are arrested again"
A Conservative MP said w- Turning to the Prostouting prolonged dry spell follow.
officer, Sub-Inspector Ip Tai-day that he would introduce in the House of Commons on Fri- ed by the deadly, laryngo yau, Mr Philips said, "It's no
day a bill to set up a decimal. tracheitis epidemic in the use arresting this woman be-
Flood cause she is so old and that she money system in Britain, poultry industry.
The move followed the recent damage therefore needs to behaves just like a child" be met with speedy relief.
Yuen Ho, was publication of an official com- The Queen saw her mother off The woman,
recommending at the airport with a cheerful! scen begging for alms outside mittee report Government's house 215 Hennessy Road on adoption of such a system
Britain.-AFP.
Testimates of losses up Sunday.
ear-
to now cover only livestock and crops and about
has been $200,000 marked from the Kadoorie Agricultural · Aid Loan Fund. But an unofficial figure-submitted by the Chairman of the Yuen Long Flood Relief Coommittee→→ puts damage at a possible $10 million and clearly the amounts lent by the Fund are not by any means going to meet the New Territories people's needs. Public, appeals have already been launched but with the competing claims of other charities as well as the' World Refugea Near special appeal it is most unlikely that sufficient donations of clothing-or money will be made. The plight of about 7,000 homeless people re- quires immediate atten- tion, and we urge Govern- ment to provide specdy relief for their perma- nent rehabilitation rather than temporary comfort.
Death sentence commuted
London, May 10,
"Gipsy" Jim Smith, 26-year-old Londen scrap dealer, sentenbed to death for killing a policeman, had his sentence commuted in the court of criminal appeal today to 10 years' imprisonment.
Smith had been found rulity at his trial of capijal murder murder of a policeman while resisting arrest for driving his car containing stolen property unti a policeman hanging on the bounet was thrown off and killed.
Constable Leslie Meehan, 34, slopped Smith's car in a' London suburban street.
The prosecution ezid at the trial that Smith then sud- denly accelerated. The policeman hung on and was eventually "INFGWA"off and run over by another car,
The whole incident' took nine seconds.
Smith, who pleaded not guilty at his trial, maintained before the three appeal judges that his foot went on the accelerator by mistake and he never intended to harm the constable. The killing was entirely unpremeditated--China Mall Special.
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother flew off tonight for a goodwill visit to the Central African Federa-
.She tion.
had through with her plane despite outbreaks of Afri- can mob violence in the northern copper belt areas there.
in
flew in the
Shea, Blying in a P-33, said he was "thrown out" of his seat by the turbulence and had to cut his speed
he flew into Karibo said
A
not
It is believed that these partim
"He (Khrushchev) was cular Soviet planes may Byble to hit it or overtake it al above the range of the like his cruising Height of 70,000 Ajax anti-aircraft missiles, pos-feet," Mr Cannon said. "And in sibly at 65,000 to 79,000 feet. order to leave the impression UPI.
Chinese regarded
as
Chinese
whites
and
Capetown, May 10. residents visitors in South Africa should be regarded as whites in relation to the liquor laws, the South African
Liquor Council said in a report tabled in the House of Assembly here today.
Asians should also be allowed to drink in approved hotels and off-con- have a permit for sumplion.
that he captured it he distri- buted a picture of a pile of rub- bish which those who know the plane recognise as spurious."
Mr Cannon said the downed U-2 plane "apparently" was taken undamaged by Russia. He said this fact completely destroys" Russia's claim of in-
The gambling fever is affecting ar Increasing number of the
unfortunately true that the greatest loss falls upon the poor.
We hope, sir, that for the sake of the moral life of the Colony, you will do your utmost to pre- vent Football Pools being started
here.?.
NOW IT'S
*BULLS
AND
BEARS'
POOL
London, May 10. vincibility against American alr A new kind of pools com-
attack.—UPI.
Unidentified aircraft over Japan
pétition in which entrants predict the behaviour of stocks and shares instead of the fortunes of foot- ball teams will start in Britain on May 26.
BTC
those
The new pobzi will be known us "Bulls and Bears"-in stock
"Bulls" market circles, Tokyo, May 11. speculators who hope for a rise Japan's Defence Chief re- prices and Bears"
who expect to profit from a ported today that un-all. identified aircraft have been flying near Japanese] Competitors will
the air space two or three shares out of 50 listed on
The winning times. a week for the last pools doupon.
which selection will be that two years.
shows the greatest percentage Mr Munenori Akagi, Director rise over a two-week period.
Defence Agency here,
select 10
The report also recommends many changes in the liquor law as applied to Africans. It says in wave.. The Queen Mother will chuckhole" in his British that they be allowed to drink
weeks spend three-
the developed RB57 reconnaissance wine and beer in African beer of the Federation.
plane and was "actually thrown halls in their own areas where, reported on flights of unidenti- If there is no percentage gain, at present, only komfr beer-fed planes flying in the direc- the winning selection will be into my canopy."
were made from maize but, with a ton of Tokyo from the north as that showing the least percent-
now debate raged among Japanese age loss. The military pilots backed up by A commercial low alcohol content-can
Jawmakers over the stationing pliot, Capt Meode C. Delosche. be obtained He said turbulence in the area forced him to cut speed sharply and to ask permission to drop fren. 21,000 to 15,000 feet
European mine workers in the copper belt barlier sent a tele- gram to the Colonial Secretary, Mr Iain Macleod, warning of security risks involved in the Queen Mother's visit.
During her three-week visit the Queen Mother will open the Kariba Dam-AP and UPI.
UPL
Labour shortage
car
six months.
the
of American U-2 type planes In U.S.-bases in Japan.
been
THREE DIRECTORS
PERMIT SYSTEM The report also recommends
Akagi told the special com- Mr Matt Busty, 50-year-old a permit system for the supply
of the Manchester of liquor to Africans for con mittee of the Lower House of manager sumption, off the premises. A the Japanese Diet studying the United Football Team, is one of permit system already exists new Japan-US. Security Treaty the three directors of "Bulls and but the one proposed would be that since Japan took over the Bears Ltd," which will run the Imore comprehensive and in- operations of radar stations from
pool from Manchester, clude all kinds of drink
the U.S. forces in 1958 the un-
Each entry will cost 2 shil- The report recommends that identified planes have Asians should be allowed. 10 spotted in "sicies adjacent to lings with no limit to the one person, but each entry must drink to approved hotels and Japanese territory" two number of entries submitted by Liberal - Democratic member be 70 per cent of the total pool, purposes. have a permit for consumption three times a weeks.
Chinese, it says, should be of the committee, Mr Saburo less pool's tax and expenses:" regarded as whites in regard to Shikuma, said it was obvious the second 20 per cent and the the liquor act,
these planes came from Sakhalin third 10 per cent, The abolition of all bars be and other Soviet islands to the Mr Eric Smith, a director, for October next year is also north, but Mr Akagi himself did told the press that 450,000 dr
the nationality of culars were being sent out and recommended After that cate not give
at least 45,000 replies were ex-
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London, May 10. some lands of jewellery. Welt The booming British jeweling me for same lines is now
·lery industry is facing a The magazine's editor, Mr major labour shortage due w. IL Reco, said labour had to high wages offered by become the major problem "in manufacturers and manufacturing areas, particular- other industries, accordingly Bingham, where 40-the current issue of the motor industry and its aux the serving of liquor over planes, British Jeweller, official wages to counters should be prohibited. Mr Akagi's disclosure Wee posted..
In hotels Liquor would be made as the Socialists pushed Journal of the trade. polishers.
served in lounges and dining demands that the government "We consider this competi- As a result, sidled craftsmen rooms. Wine and beer houses bar the high-altitude U-2 type tion can give the general public has caused a delay in deliveries in the jewellery trade were should be converted to serve planes-three jets similar to the a much better knowledge of the.. almket unprecedented for this getting tewer. Potential recruits meals so that the consumption of American plane shot down over mysteries of
Special. time of year so it is now exeter "succumb to easy-money jobs," food could be accompanied by Russia are in Japan-from bases change," he said-China Mail to buy a popular anall car than he said China Mall Special. the supply of liquor-Renter here UPI.
sldjled worker, -
The Journet undid the boom
BS
the stock ex-