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Demonstration over flats that never materialised WOMEN PETITION GOVERNOR
Over one million
CORRUPTION paid for
"ESTERDAY'S statement by
YEST
the Attorney General on
corruption clearly outlines the
difficulties Government facer
building
In its bid to stamp out corrup. A group of 150 principal
tion. And he 'did well to emphasise how necessary it la for the public to give fuil co- operation if the campaign is to be a success. We do not wish to prejudge the value of the new committes, operating an
д .co-ordinating body, but yesterday's statement clearly Indicates that the Government and the
Anti-Corruption
tenants of Peony House, a new building in Kowloon, held a demonstration before the Government House this morning.
They claimed that they paid branch of the Police need to over a million dollars for flats be armed with wider powers in the new building over u to defeat this evil
The chief difficulty, a the Attorney General pointed out
is getting people to provide
period of six years but they sald the building had still not been completed and the owner had disappeared.
The demonstrators, mostly
evidence on which the au- housewives and amals, were thorities can act. Obviously petitioning the Governor for no party to a conspiracy to help.
brike or the venal person who
@
the assembled before
accepts bribe is likely to They confess, and it would take a Supreme Court from 9 a.m. By dedicated and highly con- 10.15 am, they marched slowly scientious officer to go to the along Garden Road up to the trouble of reporting a corruptį Government House where they offer and securing evidence for lined up on the pavement court action. Even this poses opposite the main gate. · difficulties because the most scrupulously honest official is
sometimes averse to employing methods to secure
pojice evidence.
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Holden saves life RAF ordered to
of snake charmer
Actor Bill Holden yesterday saved the life of a snake shurmer when he wrenched a 10-foot python from around the charmer's throat.
The snake charmer Was showing Bill Holden the python when it suddenly called around his neck and tightened its grip.
The terrified charmer fought desperately to free himself hat was powerless.
Holden immediately grab- bed the python's head and unwound the snake from the charmer's throat.
The charmer dazed and semi-conscious $23 given first-aid treatment by
film company's nurse.
Holden, the star in
the
the
BILL HOLDEN
"The World of Suxle Wong".
was on location in Temple Street, Kowloon when the in- eldent occurred.
Halden said later the man probably would have died within minutes.
"Most of the people stand. ing around though; that it was a stunt but my experience with makes told me different-
13.
"When I knew he was in trouble' I noted as fast as I could."
Holden who has a deep in- terest in snakes said that he has no fear of them at all.
After one movie in Ceylon, Holden' wanted to take a cobra back to America with him.
However opposition by pro- ducers and directors deterred him,
Moscow Russians takes U.S. musicals
off air
London, May 18. Moscow radio's, home ser- vice has scrapped a broad- American cast of the
musical "My Fair Lady"
American programmes la
the past 24 hours.
spied
while Mr K
talked of
peace
Washington, May 18.
and two other scheduled The US State Department spokesman said tonight that Mr Vadin A, Kirilyuk, a Soviet citizen, was engaged in espionage activities last autumn in the United States while he was employed by the United Nations.
Two women unfolded a ban- IME and again—and this is per on a bamboo pole. It was what gives rise to beliefs inscribed in Chinese characters that corruption is widespread which read: "Paid for flats over in the Colony allegations of six years. The landlord pocket-
The ed the money and disappeared.
programmes had been bribery are made but the
of of the West billed. in the purrett issue moment it is suggested that a We, the buyers report be made to the Police Block, Peony House, petition the the Moscow weekly, radio pro-
for help, and solicit gramme. the informer backs down. The
from the The radio version of "My Attorney-General has tried to righteous support
Fair Lady" was to have been society." give, assurances of protection
broadcast at peak
listening hours last right,
Governor
for Informants and to open as Three delegates, Wong Sul, a many channele for reporting man, Lam Pui-yu, and Ching information to the Government Lai-ying, both women, present as possible. This le sansible for where an informant may ed their bilingual petitions to
Superintendent Police not care to make a report to one branch of Government, Yick-fal in the Guard Room of
he may be prepared to divulge! his charges to another.
Fong
Goverment House,
Superintendent Fong received the documents and said he
The Attorney General's commit. would submit it to the proper tee says it will not normally in. authorities. He assured the de-
vestigate individual cases but monstrators of a written reply exceptions must be made. We in time.
refer particularly to the case
of Mr.G. N. 8. Burns who is
well known in the Colony for
his prolific correspondence and
his castigations of corruption
Dispersed
in the community. We are By 10.50 am. the group dis-
not interested in the motives persed quietly in small batches.
of and
which prompt people to make charges but for the sake exposing corruption punishing those who practise It a full investigation of his Cand is essential.
THE new committee is certain and in the course of its work that only by recourse to
Peony House located in Fu Kwal Street, Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon.
The construction of the build- ing is only half way through.
On the site today, there is a skeleton structure without partitions or rOGG..
$1,600,000 in advance commodation,
for ac
a number of extraordinary Över 200 people have paid up maasures will it be able to maka headway against this problem. We urge Govern⚫ ment not to allow the sanctity of Colonial Office regulations to stand in the way. For example, Govern. It can- ment feels that not deal as drastically with pensionable clyll servanta as private enterprise might deal with an employee sus- pacted but not convicted of a serious misdemeanour. If necessary Government must change the terms on which it employs its staff to do Just this. Kid-glove measures will : not succeed In eliminating
ruption.
It is necessary to point out again, that the most Inadequate wekpons with which to fight corruption are this Colony's existing laws and regulations. Perhaps they can, be impṛoved following an inquiry heró and based an recommendations measures adopted elsewhera in Adla, What we are dealing. with, in something secretive accompanied aften by subtie prossuiron, carefully and Kolavarly mamanked. benentia”, financially both parties in the DEMOLIN AND Crusing Injuries to others and the community a whole only indirectly,' It in the most insidious and per migious syl) in our midet ånd We urge Government not to take this problem too tightly or understimate the hold it has on Hongkang,
It was replaced by a pro- gramme called "Soviet man will be first to go into space."
A programme of the American teror, the late Mario Lanza, scheduled for lunchtime today, was replaced by a recital by Bulgarian tenor.
It was announced that a radio version of the musical "Oldahomu" was to be replaced
a state
of
'full readiness
London, May 18.
Britain's fighter force was ordered to a state of "full readiness” four days ago and the alert is still on, a Royal Air Force chief
disclosed tonight.
But Air Marshal Sir Hector McGregor immediately added BA-assurance it has no connec- tion with tensions generated in Paris by the summit meeting.
He told correspondents at the start of three-day Fighter Command exercise that
the alert was ordered from the afternoon of May 14.
2
"The exercise was arranged
a long time ago and it was not that our crystal ball showed the outcome of the summit meeting," he declared.
Not tied up
"Our state of readiness that we are maintaining is in no way tied to yesterday's events" (the breakup of the summit meeting),
In the jittery efmosphere of a service news conference follow- the Faris failures, Sir Hector was closely questioned on the
purposes of the alert,
He repeatedly stressed that Fighter Command could not have anticipated the outcome of some of the the summit talks as long ago as Saturday while
The spokesman, Mr Lincoln and were an abuse of the pri- White, made this announcement vilege of his residence in the UN
main participants had still to when asked for comment on a United States under the
arrive in the French capital. statement
Vice-President headquarters, agreement. by
Sir, Hector, Air Officer Com. Richard Nixon that two Soviet
Commend "Consequently, when these manding Fighter agents were spotted in Massa-
was designed chusetts last September
while facts were brought to the atten- said the exercise
the efficiency M Nikita Khrushchev
was tion of United Nations authori- primarily w test making a plea for peace în
ab ties with the request that his of British Afr defences in the of "very intense enemy address to the United Nations employment be terminated and face in New York.
that he depart from the United raids," States, that was done."
U.S. REQUEST
After he had read his prepared Mr White said that the statement Mr. White commented tonight by a light opera by United States government gave that Mr Nixon had made his an-
the facts to the United Nations nouncement Soviet composer.-Reuter,
"to compare the authorities. requested that his calm way we handle this ques- employment. be terminated and tion while Khrushchev was here that he should leave the United with the way Khrushchev States, and "that was done." handled the U-2 incident.”-
Reuter.
Jamming of BBC Soviet services
Mr White gave no further de tails and made no reference to a second Soviet agent mentioned by Mr Nixon.
London, May 18. Jamming of British Broadcast-
The State Department spokes- ing Corporation Russlan
into man said: "I cannot go services continued today and detalls (of Mr Nixon's state- reached the highest level since ment). However, Vadin. ́A. | early this year, when jamming | Kirliyuk did engage in espionage virtually ceased for the first activities while a United Na- time in eleven years.
tions employte A-BBC spokesman said the larger part of each broadcast had been jammed.-Reuter.
"Such activities were COM-
Airliners collision finding
Los Angeles, May-18.
Large numbers
He said the "raiding" born- ber forces would be larger in numbers and higher in per- formance than in any ercise since the Introduction of the jet. They would in- clude warplanes of the United Siries, British, Berlan, Netherlands, Canadian French Air Forces.
and
The air chief said the Royal
AUTHOR OF
DR ZHIVAGO
STRICKEN ILL
Moscow, May 18. Boris Pasternak, the controver» sial Soviet author who won à Nobel Prize, and then rejected it under official' Soviet pres- sure, has been-stricken · with a serious heart silment and stomach complicated by a hemorrhage.
The famed author of "Doctor
Zhivago," who is 70; is lying helpless at his home in the village of Peredelkino, outside Moscow.
Air Force was mindful of Mr He is unable to read or receive Nikita Khrushchev's
racent disclosure that the Soviet Union to rocket had switched over
as the spearhead of weapons Its armed might,
"But I would like to phasise," he declared, "that
en-
pietely outside his U.N. duties A Federal Grand Jury here while the ballistic missile threat lato yesterday found that
is mounting, it is.not the mafor Trans World Airlines threat today.... partly at fanit in the 'collision
without a defenice "To do OVCT The of two airliners
against the manned bomber Grand Canyon, Arizona,
would be to....inrite an enemy. June 30, 1856, in which 128
to attack with simple aircraft persons were killed,
in far greater numbers and and cheaply United Airlines, owner of the more effectively
possible with other plane, was cleared of than would be blame for the tragedy.
missiles."-AP.
Some of the damonstrator pictured outside Coverment Houss⋅ with their
banner petitioning the Governor's aid in recovering over a million
yosted in a block of flats”
Mail photo
The Jury awarded $295,000 (about £105,000) to survivors of the plot and navigator of the airlines plane.
The judgment was awarded! in the first court, action brought by survivors of crewmen killed, in the crash Other nuits brought by relatives of dead passengers. are pending. Reuter:
U.S. servicemen ambushed
in Philippines
Subic Pointy Ply÷M
Fixa Ameri.com. officers wereƐamb unidentified today near base and two. hospital
Verwoerd is confident of Commonwealth membership
Dr
visitors.
The stomach hemorrhage, oc
curred last week but Paster- nak apparently has passed through the crisis-AP.
WOMAN
KILLED
IN ROOF
COLLAPSE
St. Helens, May 18. One woman was killed and at least 17 other people injured today when the roof and front of a grocery sfore here caved in on them.
I way not immediately known how many others—if the any--wers trapped in debris. But it was thought that' everyone involved was now accounted for.
The store had been in the process of modernisation work when the accident occurred.
Among the injured were ́s number of workmen rem making the front of the store.
Most of the injured were firen to hospital and treated for cuts and shock, but one 40- year-old man was detained.. Reuter,
Three hours of summit talks cost £434,000
Paris. By 18.
statum.lt
·Preparations for the
conference cost an estimated £434,000, French officials salá today.
Renovation of the Palais De Internik- Chaillot to serve as
tional prass headquarters for about 3,000.newspapermen, mod
Soviet note newercel, radio, and television
to UN, on
spy-plane
correspondents,
alona cest £290,000 they said.
Facilities for the visiting delegation cost an estimated
£144,000.
The Big Four: spent a total of three hours at the Elyseo Palace on the opening day of the conference--and the Russians refimed to comider it The Soviet Union asked to-as a proper summit session
the U.N.Reuter,
United Nations, May 18.
day that
Security Council meet
urgently and take mea-
sures to stop United States U.S. tourists fights over Soviet ter
rilory.
The Soviet Foreign Minister,
Mr Andref A. Grompito, cabled the request from Paris, where the summit conference broke up yesterday over the 17-2 spy Cape Town, My 16.
plane incident of Máy in h South African Premier
Hendrik Verwoerd · said in a Mr Gromyks sent the cable statement rend for him into Sir Claude Cores of Ceylon, arflaasent: · · fonight that his President of the 11-nation government felt South Africa Council this month, with n Fould be approved as a copy to the UN Secretary- endor of the British Com Gezeral Mr Dag Hammarbicjöld.
def 10. become a republic.
Me Gromyko said fights of
cancel trips
to Russia
New York, May, 18. “ American tourists were
ported "today to be cancelling planned summer, trips: ta tha Soviet Union and some tzável agencies were, sotusily //nde vising
travellers not to go
Travel agents, questioned in R
the
the fest public states Krediet troliga verna intimcelled Soudet ripe, were either ment made by De-Verwoerd since to universal peace. He *** || outraged ⠀⠀ or alarmed by he was, wounded in an assassina- pressed the hope that the Coun. sumenit developments in Farle, tion attempt more than five cil would twice the peony Despite the cancellaticas,
mesmures to halt the unheard travel experta aid
weeks ago.......
The statement was read to the of provocative actions of the 13,000 and 20,000; House Finance
by the Minister fat United States of America. – wolld vhit Rücke
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