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Murray Hotel
THE sale of the Murray
Barracks site yesterday
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LATE FINAL
CHINA MAIL
No. 37679
Established 1845 TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1960.
Price 20 Cents
BOAC SECURITY INVESTIGATOR SAYS
PAN AMAs the way to go to
PARIS
and all Europe
Body on
HK GOLD SMUGGLERS' CENTRE Everest MAY STILL BE RUSSIAN Monty leaves poses a
FLOURISHING
London, May 30.
to an American hotel grup The man who rounded up Boac's gold smugglers believes the
will bring widespread controlling satisfaction to Hongkong. Government may
organisation in Hongkong has not yet been
crushed, be R
little disappointed that the sale was consummated t $14 million for the rute of $365 per square foot which the successful bid- dera ure to pay, is almost a third lower than the price obtained for a city site half a mile away. Had there been greater interest in the Parade Ground site particularly from oversens - interests, the price might
have been higher.
But there can be no cause for dissatisfaction. Government fn effect bought back from the Army, Murray Bar- racks, the Parade Ground and the Detention Barracks as well as part of the Shamshuipo camp for $17.2 million. And it has re- covered more than three- quarters of this amount on part of one of these pro- perties already.
Q
UITE
apart from the revenue it brings, how- ever, there has been much said in recent weeks about the shortage of first-clasy hotel accommodation. It is
that a gratifying
widely hotel-chain experienced owner has bought the site and that the company 18. conversant with American tustes. We are going all out to woo American tourists and it is right that there should be more than the two or three existing hotela which up to their high
measure standards.
There have also been disturb.
Ing reports recently about shortage of top-class ac- commodation in the Colony's hotels. Not all of them are true, but Hongkong must keep up with the increasing number of tourists who are making their way
to the Far East.
Local investors, with one or
two exceptiona, seem reluc tant to commit themselves to big expenditure. We have said before that this reluc- tance is understandable, but It obviously points to the need for financial assistance from an outside source, either from an overseas hotel firm or from an organisation like the Colonial Development Cor- poration, or even from which Government itself could well follow the lead given by Trinidad.
I'
is pleasing to know that the Colonial Develop ment Corporation is in- terested in a local hotel project and it is to be hoped that the Hongkong com- pany which was promised considerable funds" from for them will search Fanother site, The CDC grant would be more than a good local: investment, it would be a gesture of conâdence in Hongkong, i
·
Finally the Murray Parade Ground sale brings nearer the work that must be done on the multi-storey park behind the hotel and on the busy traffic inter section of Garden Road-
car
He is Mr Donald Fish, Boac Chief Security Officer.
TALLEST SO FAR
The tallest apartment build-
ing in Hongkong, the 23- storey Continental Man- sion; will go up in North Point at a cost of $13
million.
Featuring a private car park on the second floor and corner flots on the upper floors, the building oc cupies an area of 20,000 square feet across King's Road from the State -Theatre.
On the ground floor, there
will be a shopping arcade
and on the first floor, a - modern restaurant. From the third to the 23rd floors will be accommo- dated residential flats--- 280 of them altogether. Rock blasting and founda-
Ruling on
newspaper
reports asked
•
In
libel suit
London, May 30.
A high court judge was asked today to rule that British newspapers could publish accurate reports of public trials being held in any foreign court with
"I must be very careful what I say about the Hongkong end of the affair," he added, "but I would like to say that the Hong- kong police from the Commis- sioner downwards were wonder- ful."
Mr Fish has described the smuggling as "the biggest in- ternational operation that I have ever run-up against."
"Although Boac are no longer involved, smuggling could con- tinue as long as the selling of gold in India and Pakistan is
AUTHOR
DIES
Moscow, May 30.
poet-author Boris Pasternak,
whose novel "D; Zhivago" be- came a best seller in the West and brought down the wrath of the Kremlin on his head, died in his sleep tonight in his country home. He was 20. He had been 1 for three weeks. He suffered two heart at- tacks, developed pneumonia and also had cancer. Pasternak's
novel,
"DT
Zhivaro," incurred the ire of the Kremlin because of the obvious disenchantment with the revolution and the Com- munist regime expressed by the hero,
profitable" Mr Fish told me to X-rays taken last week showed day at London airport,
Interested
"I do not know whether the organisation in Hongkong Can
be broken up. Although I am still interested, I am no longer icking active part since BORC dirmissed some staff."
Mr Fish 18 63 and a former Scotland Yord delective,
The clue that fed to the dis- missal of some Boac stewards was a mysterious city bank Account from which more than £17,000 was paid in only eight weeks to the airline staff.-Lon- don. Express Service,
Lloyd: 'not
much chance
of another summit yet
London, May 30.
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, British Foreign Secretary, said tonight he did not think
the chance of another summit meeting in the near future was "very great."
The objectives would have to be pursued by other means→→ diplomatic channels, foreign ministers and meetings within The United Nations framework.
He was replying to a HousP debate on the of Commons summit conference in Paris.
Mr Lloyd
British said the Government hoped conditions. would gradually evolve to make possible peaceful co-existence with nations of different social structures living side by side,
He hoped it would be a pro- cess of mulust concession. There
was nothing more wrong, in dealing with the Soviet Union, than to make one-sided con
negotiations
to report judicial proceedings There was no vote.-Reuter. publlely heard in foreign coun- tries.
he had lung cancer which
apparently spread to the stomach
Born In 1890 inte
趄
wealthy
father.
family, Pasternak travelled in
artistic circles. Hila Leonid, WALI F celebrated painter. His mother, Rosa, had been a conotri planist.
His poetry made him a terary darling of the 20's but, during the Stalin era of the 1930s, he fell into eclipsee tu Rumis and his works were not published by major Soviet
houses,
publishing
He burst on the world agnás in 1957-58 with "Dr Zhivago.” which was not published ̈ ̈ui the Soviet Union but which became
an instant hit 'In America and Europe.-UPL
Lord Montgomery and Gen. Sir Richard Hull. Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery returned to Eng- his visit to land this morning by Bosc comet following China,
He arrived at Kai Tak airport by launch and boarded the plane two minutes before the aircraft took off.
looking Montgomery, Dressed in grey suit, Lord bright and cheerful, waved to the handful of pressmen as "he boarded the plane."
mystery
London, May 30,
The body of a British climber found on the upper slopes of Mount Everest is... posing one of the biggest mysteries in the an nals of climbing.
It could be one of three men: Mallory or Irvine, the British climbers who disappeared in a final at- tempt on the summit of Mount Everest in 1924, or a religious fanatic named Maurice Wilson who tried to climb the mountain alone in 1934.
Sir John Hunt, who led the successful Everest expedition in 1953, said he thought the body found by the Chinese Everest expedition was most likely that of Wilson, a former British Army Captain.
His aim in climbing the moun}< tain alone was to draw man kind's attention to the doctrines. He perished at about the height. at which the Chinese climberg found his body,
Body found
by a British Lt-General Bir
off, was Among those who saw him Richard Hall, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, pictured on the right--China Mall Photo..
Britain doubles her
refugee contribution
London, May 30.
The British Government's contribution to the World Refugee Year Fund is
to be doubled from £200,000 to £400,000, the Prime Minister Mr Harold Macmillan, announced tonight.
Bid to kill
ALAY
Sheikh of Qatar
is
20-
The extra £200,000 which subject to parliamentary proval, will bring the amount raised so far in Brlain to £8 million
This is twice the fund's pre- the sent target and four times original target.
Mr Macmillan, who made his announcement at a ceremony to mark the finale in London of the British World Refugee Year programme described the result as magnificent."
On the
the way,
In
READINESS
•
Beirut, May 30. An attempt to assassinate the ruler of the oil rich
He said: "In a world too, full sheikhdom of Qatar was of selfish indifference to the tion work took up the past
officially reported here miseries of others, our people five years. And now con-
have again shown their readi- today. out fear of libel suits. struction on the building
Mr Gerald Gardiner, counsel
The report said the ruler'sness to respond to an appeal, to itself has been started.
for, The Times Publishing Com- cessions.
cousin, Nasser Ibn Hamed Al human kindness," The structure is expected to pany, Ltd., made the submission. "I think we have got to try Thaul opened firs
Earlier, Mr Christopher Chata residence in Sheikh's
a Conservative MP and be
in 20 He asked the Judge, Sir Colin to establish completed
resort of promoter of the refugee year months time.
Pearson, to take judicial notice which equivalent concessions Lebanese mountain
announced Agures for of the fact that had for years will be made by both sides," he Aley and that the Sheikh's car had
came, parked there was hit by money collected. This five bullets,
without government contribu been the practice of newspapers said.
The strelich was not in the tum, 10 £7,735,723. Of this
£5,934,088 was in cash.
aiso referred Mr Macmillan Rellable informants said the incident was the result of un- to the likelihood of more re settled financial differences be- fugees coming to Britain. tween the ruler and certain sold that after the defnition of handicapped refugees which the members of his family.
Police arrested the assailant government was willing to ad- and three other persons from mit had been widened, a selec- Qatar found at the assailants tion team had been sent to Aus- and would shortly visit tria house after the shooting
Germany. Incident.
LARGEST Police selaed an automatic rife, a istol and ammunition Princese Alexandra. 23-year- from the house
old cousin of the Queen, also The Sheikh owns a house in spoke at the ceremony, Aley and 'spends part of each summer here,AP.
Mr Ma Kam-woon, Man-
ager of the Tai Sang Bank Ltd, the owner, said he expected to get back the capital invested in two years time after pletion of the building.
The issue arose in preliminary orguments arising out of an com- | action of bel brought by Mrs The Cynthia Webb against. Times. Mrs Webb, formerly the wife of Donald Hume and now' a widow, claimed she was libelled in a Times report of Hume's trial for murder in Zurich last year.
TERRORISED
BOY SEES FATHER SHOT
PRIVILEGE CLAIMED Hume is now serving a fe sentence in Switzerland for the
murder of a cab driver after an unsuccessful bank hold-up in
The issue to be decided was adequate whether it was an defence for The Times to claim
Zurich. New York, May 30. A nine-year-old boy watched Queen's Road. The sooner in terror as his father was this is started the better. fatally shot while struggling This was perhaps the main with a holdup man in a mid- ́its
town drugstore. reason for Government's anxiety to acquire this part
report was privileged, Under English law no action. for hel can be taken against "My daddy's a good wrestler," a newspaper arising out of a of the mlitary lende and sobbed Utile Martin Hymowitz, fair and accurate report of while both sides of Garden "I thought he'd win" The judicial-proceedings held... 1
reports are Road are affected by this father was Abraham Hymowitz, rublic. Such
privileged, work, the motoring public 45, a clerk.
Mrs Webb's counsel
Bub... would appreciate an early Minutes after the shooting on mitled on Friday that reports. announcement of intentions Sunday night, police captured of foreign Judicial proceedings together with the final James Sullivan, 26, in a four-were not privileged.
The beating continues,—AP. "plans,"
block chase-AP.
Another racing mishap
Indianapolis, May 30.
Two people were kill- ed when a crowded 30. foot high make-shift.
collapsed grandstand before the start of the Indianapolis 500-mile race here today, knock- ing other spectators off a nearby parked forry "like minepins,“
At least 50 were in- jured and rushed to the hospital some for treat- ment of serious injuring. At least two bad broken arms or legs-Kautor,
car
Medals for capturers
of U-2 pilot
**
London, May 31 Four men who helped to Je berita Gagakhiri Francis Gudty "Powers, the American pilot of the U-2, pline near Everdlový có May 1, were Modely avartled monials for courage, Moscow. radio rek
Surprise
for bank
manager
Melbourne, May 30.
However, his body was found reconnaissance party in July, 1836. His diary, and the body; was removed, buried.
Sir Jonn sald a possible ex- planation was that the body hat been uncovered by mountain .winds.
Sir John thought it impossible that the body was that of either the British climbers Mallory or Irvine.
They perished in a different area covered by the Chinese climbers, and even if they had. plunged thousands of feet down the mountain, their bodies could not have landed in the area, he
said
But," said Mr L. P. Kirwan,
director of the Royal Geogra phleal Society, which has spon- sored many Everest expeditions, "I do not think it can be ruled out at all that the body is either that of Mallory, on Irvine,"
"It is a distinct possibility that the Chinese have finally! given us a partial answer to what happened."
Mr Kirwan said final identi- fication could only be made if there was an opportunity to examine the clothing and teeth of the corpse, Since the A bank manager nearly fell Chinese reported their climbers into hole made by buried the body on the spot,
that is unlikely to happen. thieves when he opened his bank at Korumburra, 60 miles from Melbourne today.
He then discovered the thieves had chopped their way through a wooden floor into the bank, cut open a heavy steel safe and escaped with more than 2 A2,500 in notes and silver.
"
"But so far as one can judge from the available facts, they certainly seem to have helped clear up the mystery," said the 53-year-old director.
Mr Kirwan ruled out possbility that the body was that of Maurice Wison.
Fateful journey
Mallory and
any
twine, using
The thieves had covered the hole in the floor with linoleum, oxygen, begin their fateful The police station is only 500 journey from the North Col on yards from the bank. Chine June 6, 1924. Three Sherpa porters carried their loads ta He Mall Special
the highest camp pitched by the British expedition at 26,800 feet.
She said that she had been
told that the amount raised was the largest contribution made by
勉 Entain
an kuterquional appeal.
Gary Cooper in hospital
On June 8, they started for the 29,028-feet summit,
Professor N. E. Odell, how of Cambridge University and also a member of this expedida could not be reached tonight- ij But, in records of the ascenti ProL Odell described how be
Hollywood, May 30. Actor Gary Cooper, 58, to climbed toward the high camp on the morning of June 8 and was admitted 10 watched Mallory and Irvine day Cedars, of Lebanon hos disappearing upward through pital to undergo minor the mista d corrective intestinal sur climbers were seen alive. An That is the last occasion the
ice axe belonging to Mallory is the only trace of the pair sub- The hospital said the opersequently found. It was dis
be tomorroN","
covered at a height of 27,950 twice an academy feet by the British expedition award-winner, was operated on 164-1939, -
gery.
would
She went on: "It is all the more remarkable because we in this island, by the good fox- tio of our geographical post- tion and history, have been tion. spared the disasters we are Cooper, now helping to alleviate.“
"We have been spared the five weeds no in. Boston for tragedy of wholesale deportation prostate trouble. and the misery which, accom- A hospital spokesman eald panied the ruthless uprooting of Cooper was expected to be at entire towns and villages Cedars only a week or no appearance of the two climbers, Hatter
The Feking report, indicated the body was found at around 19,352 feet-considerably lowen than the final point of G
*Reuter & AT