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CHINA
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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1960.
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents
PAN AM in the way to go to
PARIS
and all Europe
ไ
Friends and diplomats shocked by news
Of The TRAGIC DEATH OF ALY KHAN
Day Killed while
RED CARPET driving in
TREATMENT
PAKISTANI minister
comes to Hongkong to
ask businessmen to in-
vest in his country, It
makes people smile to think
Paris outskirts
Paris, May 13.
that a country as big as Diplomats and friends of wealthy interna-
Pakistan-just about 1,000
times the area of Hongkong,
with 81 million people!
could make an appeal to a small, almost insignificant place like this. But then Hongkong is said to be one of the most prosperous cities in the Far East to- day.
The local share boom, the building boom, the trade boom and the industrial boom are 'being watched enviously by many people
He
tional playboy, Prince Aly Khan, today expressed deep shock and distress at the news of his death.
was killed last night when his Lancia car col- lided head on with another car in the outskirts of Paris. Injured was his long-time man- nequin friend, Bettina, who was pulled from the wreckage of the car wearing an evening
Prince Aly Khan pictured with former mannequin, Bettina, who has been his constant companion in recent years.
dress with blood streaming from a head injury. Conservatives sweep
Her condition is to not serious.
Prince Aly Khan's chaffeur and association with beautiful
Aly
in Asia. It is only nawas sitting in the back of the women.
Khan was named tural that they should come car and was only slightly hurt. here to try to persuade our
The Pakistan Foreign Minis-Pakistan's chief delegate to the in United Nations on February 6, capitalists and industrialisty ter, Mr Manzur Qadir, said
London where he is attending 1958 and after a few weeks in
Commonwealth Premiers the post made an impression as their country and to start Conference: "I have been sunn- a hard working, salous minded up factories there. And to ed by the news. In him Pakistan Ambassador,
to
take up residence
in the
make it worthwhile, at least two Asian territories are offering special incentives like tax holidays to certain categories of firms known as "pioneer industries." We
has lost a very able, loyal and
He was born in Turin, Italy, devoted ambassador, and the June 13, 1911, the son of the world has been deprived of a Aga Khan III by the second of charming, lovable and colourful his personality."
UN Ambassador
belleve Hongkong needs to Prince Aly Khan was Pakis adopt a scheme like this, tan's permanent Ambassador #1 not for the purposes of the UN. developing industry, but
an
four wives,
Italion ballet dancer named Theresa Magliano.
He was an officer with the French Foreign Legion, then was with the British Army, and during the latter part of World
Me Noel Murless, the New-War II was attached to the
diversifying it. What are market trainer, said: "Prince Aly American Army. He won the we doing to attract manu-was a man I liked very much, Bronze Star, Croix De Guerre facturers from overseas?
If any criticism is possible it cannot be that Hongkong has done nothing, only that it has not done enough. For example, there
are
ап
obvious advantages in setting up industry here. Taxation is low, there is freedom to remit profits abroad, and there is an absence of frustrating re- gulations. Wages are low and there is no labour
is unrest. There
And abundance of capital. despite the chronic land shortage, Government. is pushing ahead with re- clamations in Kun Tong, Gin Drinkers' Bay, Tsun Wan and Cheungshawan to accommodate new factories. NLEARLY these are strong
very much indeed. He was a very slaunch friend, a grand sports- man end a wonderful inser."
At Cannes the news of the death of Prince Aly Khan spread like wildfire,
Prince Aly was one of the best known socialites in this Riviera
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Aly wrote
life story
New York, May 12. Prince Aly Khan, who was killed in a ear RC-
cident tonight in a Paris suburb, had just finished writing his autobiography and was due in New York this coming Sunday for final conferences-on its publication,
This was disclosed to- night by Charles Torem, Aly Khan's lawyer.
"I am shocked by the news of his death," Mr Torem said. "I was with.. him in France only last
he And week. coming here this Sunday to confer with me on final plans for the publication of his autobiography."-
AP.
W25
and Legion of Honour.
Married twice
Prince Aly Khan had been
Joan
borough
elections
London, May 13,
Conservatives swept into power in yesterday's borough elections in Eng-
land and Wales, late returns showed here early today.
U.S. DENIES
AGGRESSIVE
INTENT
Washington, May 12.
married twice. His first wife was The United States today
Yarde-Buller Guinness,
emphatically denied in a daughter of an English nobit
note to the Soviet Union man. His second was actress Rita Hayworth. Both marriages ended in divorce.
Rita
After his marriage to broke up, he was seen with a succession of beautiful women, including actress Gene Tierney and Joan Fontaine, and Bet- line.
With almost complete results the Conserva- now available, tives said that Conservative supported and Conservative candidates had 1,728 seats. gains 468 with losses of 58; Int dependent. 439 seats-44 guits with 40 losses; Labour 1,119 septe 39 gains with 500 Loga Liberal 128 seals-64 going with 17 losses.
Dr
In three cities-Liverpool, Birmingham and Cardiff-Com servatives
anti-Labour parties now stand a chance of gaining control from Labour a the xt aldermanic election.
At Liverpool eight servative and two Independent
Con-
the
Village chief
burned
to death
Seoul, May 12.
Kaifongs voice their objections to soccer pools
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER Virtually all the Kaifong Welfare Associations in a Colony-wide opinion poll voiced their objec- tions to the setup of football pools in Hong- kong.
Twenty-six kaifongs which ↑ Causeway Bay, Central Dis- made inquiries among residents trict, Cheuk Yuen, Chai Wan, In their districts all over the North Point, Aplichau, Homun Colony, landed in their written tin, Kennedy Town, Lalchikok, opinions to their research com- Happy Valley, Stanley, Sookun Imittee before noon yesterday, poo, Mi Davis, Tai Hang, Aber- None of them agreed to the deen Tai Hom, Shanshuipo, idea of football pools in Hong-Ngau Тац Kok, Tsimshatsui, kong.
Yaumati, Kowloon City, Mong- kok, Hunghom, Western Dis- trict, Tai Hang Sat, and King's Park.
...
The research committee held a meeting at the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce at 5 p.m. yesterday presided by Mr Tse Yu-chuen.
The meeting passed # resolution that "It is unsull- able to set up football pools 'In Hongkong and it is hoped that the Legislative Council will rescind the bill concern- ed, to meet pubile opinion." MAIN OBJECTIONS
Pool bill 'shameful'
"The football pool bill is the most shameful one over intro- duced into the Legislative Coun- cil," said Mr Robert Derr, Pre-
The main objections to foot-sident of the Kowloon Chamber ball pools were summarised in of Commerce. the following paints...........
H
• Pools gambling will tend to aggravate poverty and courage criminal elements;
en-
"The encouragement of gambling will take people's minds off the pursuit of honest work"
Sixty per cent of domestic quarrels and disharmony
Mr Der was speaking before. a joint Executive and Super- visory Committees meeting of the Chamber yesterday,
The bill, in his opinion. would "stigmatise Hongkong's reputation as "The Pearl of the Orient,"
(See also P 5}
are
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ball pools will influence homes and familles adversely;
Moscow's charge that the gains reduced the Labour ma- About 70 Kochang villagers attributable to gambling. Foot-
jority from 48 to 26. American spy plane At Birmingham seven Con- flight had any aggressive servative gains reduced intent or was aimed to overall Labour majority to eight
next prejudice
week's and at Cardiff the Labour ma-
jority of eight was halved, summit meeting.
At Nottingham Labour's over= When the old. Aga Khan died
"Indeed, it is the Soviet Go all majority was reduced from in the summer of 1957, Aly was crnment's
treatment of this 17 to one with one vacancy to
be filled-Reitter. passed over as the new Imam, case, which, if anything may or spiritual leader of the Ismaili raise questions about its inter- sect of the Shiah branch of tions in respect to these mat- Islam, in favour of his Prince Karim, then
san ters" the note said. Harvard
it The note, handed over University student in the U.S. Moscow, repiled to
a. Soviet
The Ismailis are estimated
at
up to 20 million believers in India, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, East Africa and elsewhere.
Appointment
PI Marine
which runs amok,
nate two days ago threatened retaliatory measures:
if the US. intelligence flights continued.
Aly Khan had been scheduled shorter
Today's US, message, much than the Soviet note. threat of retaliation
to go to New York on Sunday made no reference to the Soviet
to spend three days en route to Buenos Aires. He had just been appointed Ambassador to Argentina in addition to his U.N. assignment. He was going
weat to New York last March
WILL CO-OPERATE
But it said: "For its part, the United States Government will
necessary issues of this kind."
com
shoots four
·
Manila, May 13.
A Filipino Marine sergeant who last night ran berserk and shot and killed a Navy officer and wounded three others surrendered to the Philippine
Secretary of Defence on Alejo Bantos, today. Sgt. Cristobal
Lubao
favour, but in what way have we tried to advertise them? Undoubtedly Govern- ment officials and business- men have mentioned these advantages in their dis- cussions with industrialists
gave to the Argentine capital to pre- participate in the Paris meeting himself up more than six hours overseas, but casually and
sent his credentials and attend Informally, not as part of à
on May 16 (the summit confer- a celebration of the 150th an exce) and is prepared to
after he ran berserk and fatally! definite campaign to make sure that the people and
niversary of Argentina's inde operate to the fullest extent in shot Ensign Marcelino Lorca the firms we want out here resort town, and
one of the pendence.
He had spent the first part of seeking agreements designed to and wounded navy Lt. Antonio are fully informed about best liked.
reduce tensions, Including effed Javier with a rifle,
He also wounded Cpl. Cristine The Begum Aga Khan, wife the past year in Europe and tive safeguards against surprise "the prospects of establishing
Con Robas and Plc. Arturo themselves in Hongkong.of the late Aga Khan III, was at We believe this is essential. the Cannes film festival palace for UN. consultations. He left attack which would make uneras, He had quarrelled with here for Paris on April 26. He
The United States. said that the two earlier-UPI, when the news broke.
its policy of collecting She was told of the death of had been attending horse races At present only textiles are
getting publicity and Prince Aly shortly after mid-la Europe and had planned to intelligence about the Soviet Japanese firms have ex- night and broke down in tears. return to Europe after his Union by using American air- "It's terrible, I see now how Argentine trip, go back to New craft was "for purely defensiva pressed interest in starting much I loved the Prince Aly York in July and spend August purposes."
ailed in Deauville, France, with his here. This is defeating the Khan" she gasped,
Prince Aly died on his way to daughter Yasmin, He purpose of diversification. How can we get the right hospital. Bettina, covered with planned to go back to New kind of industries here? blood from a head wound, was York in September for the UN.
General Assembly session, Malaya has appointed in- by his side, dustrial commissioners to visit leading manufacturing centres and Pakistan sends no less than its Minister of Industries on 1 similar mission. We urge Govern ment to follow this lead, to determine the kind of
Industries Hongkong needs,
Man of the world Reuter and AP.
The 48-year-old Prince Aly,1 son of the former Aga Khan, built his name as a man of the world with a liking for parties nrd beautiful women.
He was a great patron of the turf. He maintained stud farma
U.S. The
reply had nothing ден 10 what has already been made public on. the facts of the U-2 plane Incident of May. 1 Inst
Reuter.
PLANE HITS 'AIR BUMP'
Miami, May 12. Capt, Reed Knight, a veterán
10 South America as well as A DC-8 jet airliner coming of 24 years flying, said the
in for a landing hit "one plane was approaching, for a big bump" of air turbul- landing and was descending ence today and injured through very thin Bercy clouds 11 of the 55 persona 41 10,000 feet when it hit one
big bump." aboard, Delta airlines re- *ported.
The turbulence throw, several revea loven of the of passengers of the passengre and aboard were taken to a hospital few menkers abo The former playboy and for examination after the plane floor. The warning horseman son of the late Aga landed. Hospital attendants said sent belts had not yet been Khan III would have been 48 only one of them, 19. Lanaulti given, Capt Knight "sald," be in June.
of Miami,, appeared, to be injur, cause the plane was dying He had turned to serious ed seriously. He sutered frace through clear, amonth weather diplomary
at earlier tures of bed wrists and possible and was about 80 miles out us
| MIRMI career of international roving head and internal injuries."
Europe. .' His thoroughbreds to agree to incentives such
were well known to the world's as Pakistan and Malays tracks and he kept close super- offer and then to send a vision over the famed stables, senior Government official left him by his late father, the around the world to invite "Aga Khan. Last year his stables them to come to Hongkong, were the leading money winners We cannot expect diver on both British and French sification to come about on its own. We have to en- courage it, even to the ex- tent. of giving red carpet treatment to the industries which can help bring. It about.
tracks.
on the
football
in south-western Korea last night burned to death ⚫ Pools are a bad influerce their administrative chief on the younger generation "and- out of revenge for his the peace and order of society"; ⚫ Pools will have a more refusal to save villagers degrading influence during the Korea war, a public than slot machines and press report said today. Chi Fa lotteries. The report said the villagers took Pak Yung Bo, 53, to the pool is to legalise gambling and cemetery where the massacre Hongkong is a place where victims were buried..
him with They attacked stones, and burned him while be was unconscious but alive,
• "To legalise a
gambling is prohibited."
RESOLUTION
The Committee finally adopt-
Tho attackers, it added, elaimed that in 1951, Pak hadd a resolution to petition the refused to testify that villagers authorities to revoke the foot-
ball pool bill. had not collaborated with
A committee of five was elect- Communist troops.
ed at the meeting to draw up the South Korean Army troops petition which should be ready killed suspected villagers from by tomorrow.
villages including three Kochang.
The report said an investiga- tion had begun but no arrests had been reported.Reuter.
PI BLAZE
MAY BE WORK OF
"TONG"
Manila, May 12. Police were today investigating the possibility that a Chinese "long" had started the fire which razed three-fourths of the business district of Cavite City near Manila last Tues- day.
"Tongs" are similar to Chi- socleties or triada nese secret in cities like Hongkong and of Singapore
the
the
Next Thursday, chairmen the Kaifong Associations ali The fire which caused dainage over the Colony will sign
estimated at three million pesos petition before it is handed 10 (£635,714) was the biggest in to the Secretary for Chinese Cavite City since 1922: Affairs for transmission to the
from The fire started authorities,
Photostat.coples of the peti-warehouse of a Chinese busi- Parliamentary sources sald tion will be made and presented nessman who told police some to attack him recently after he had refused 10 had abandoned tentative plans lative Council
The research committee re- give them "monthly contribu- tonight the French government to all the members of the Legis men had tried to stage an underground atom
opinions from Lions". bomb test in Corsica because ofceived written
He refused to identify the the Kaifong Welfare Associa- tions of the following districts: men.--Reuter. vigorous opposition in Corsica,
Reuter,
Paris, May 12.
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