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Comment Mutineers reported to have opened fire on Moroccans Of The UN TROOPS KILLED IN CLASH
Capture of Leopoldville Macmillan's bid
Day Bitter fight
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A
MATTER?
correspondent takes issue with education policy | because, he alleges, Government places greater emphasis on building schools than improving the
for Congo's
only port
Luanda, Angola, July 18..
standards of teaching. He United Nations Moroccan troops have
is disturbed because our youth speak with a Hong- kong accent. He calls for more British teachers and aaks Government "to get the best available regard- "less of cost."
This is a counsel of perfec- tion and one which many parents would like to see adopted. But can Hongkong afford it? Government's policy which has been con-
The
entered the Congo port of Matadi after fierce fighting, according to a telephone repart from the village of Noqui on the Angola border,
report said that both sides had suffered losses and indicated that the Moroccan troops have not yet occupied the harbour.
sistently praiseworthy in DISCONTENT
the field of education is to provide primary schooling for every child in the Colony. This goal is within sight. Now that it has boosted primary schools to such a spectacular extent it has to provide more secondary schools which
have been established at a much slower rate.
ATURALLY every parent
Nwants the best educa
tion possible for their children. But is it right that some children should receive a specially good education while others re- ceive none at all? Because to pay the wages that would attract top-notch teachers to Hongkong would mean making cor- responding economies some- where else, and that would 'probably have to be in the number of schools built..So while some children would have the benefit of being taught by perienced teachers, others would be deprived of an education altogether. 'This
we
more
ex.
prompta us to nak Another question: do ac cents matter? In the world of U and Non-U, they probably matter a great deal, but in Hongkong the anobbery of speaking per fect English is a conceit car ill-afford to cultivate. Suffice it that everybody who wants to learn English should be able to. Suffice it that they can make themselves un- derstood. There is no place in Hongkong for. Professor Higgins who would have people hung for the cold- blooded murder of the English tongue,
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a matter of fact there British
A are many
teachers. in Hongkong
teaching English who re-
tain their county dialects,
or else speak with
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Scots or. Itish brogue. Some speak Australian, others Indian and others American. If the Education Department, is to become the champion of the Queen's English, many of our teachers must perforce be re-taught.
Many people admittedly dis-
like the Hongkong accent
but the reason it exists is
that those who speak it
GROWING
IN CONGO
Leopoldvilie, July 18, Conga Senate speaker Mr Joseph Ileo, warned that. "grave social threats are building due to the increase of unemployment in Leo- poldville from 23,000 on independence day to over 70,000 today."
He said "discontent is seething amang the masses........., and the population is tend- ing more and more, to blame the government and parliament for this situa tion.
"This maex may march
any
time on the govern» ment seat. It is vital that urgent measures may be taken to give them some satisfaction." he said.
Mr Ileo mid, “The fov, must be re- ernment shuffled." He said a comER= mission had been named to discuss this question.— UPI.
Millionaire's
family appeals
to kidnappers
· MR C. K. TANG
Singapore, July 18.
have Cantonese or Man-The family of a Chinese darin me their first Jan-millionaire today made
guage or Portuguese as
their second. But surely what is more important
1
No confirmation of this re- port has been received.
An earller report by the Bel- gian Radio that African soldiers fred on UN Moroccan troops in Thysville today and killed several Moroccans was however discounted by UN officials,
UN Assistant Secretary- General Dr Ralph Bunche to- . day said he knew nothing about the reported clash' in Thysville, Reports from Dr Bunche, head of the UN mission to the Congo have indicated that the Congo population gave UN force soldiers "a greeting whose warmth was heartening."
the
A Brazzaville report said Congolese mutineers in Inkisi area-south of Leopoldville today fred on a United States helicopter which was bearching for a Belgian helicopter-missing-- over the area since the week- end.
The American helicopter was hit in come places but none of the drew was injured and the machine, piloted by Lieutenant George Crawford, limped back to Brazzaville.
Besides the helicopter, a.Bel- glan Harvard is also`myssing.
Both aircraft set off on Sun- day morning on a
refugee rescue mission in the prea southwest of the capital.
Since then nothing has been heard of them, despite an inter- sive search by large numbers of small planes.
FIRST VICTIMS
With the pilot of the Belgian hellcopter was 33-year-old Andre Ryckmans, territorial adminis- trative officer in the Madimba area of the Bakongo district. Ryckmans and his wife were among the first victims of the recent revolt by Congolese soldiers in the Thysville dis- trict.
A Belgian official said today Ryckmans had been brutally treated by the Congolese and
his wife, now safely back in Belgium. had been repeatedly attacked by mutinous troops,
Byckmans was flying in the helicopter. as an observer, be- cause of his thorough know- ledge of the district.
Two Belgian Air Force per- sonnel were reported to have been in the escort plane when
it left Leopoldville.
A Belgian military officer, said
it was possible the helicopter
had picked up refugees before all trace of it was lost.
He added It was believed both planes were shot down by machine guns manned by mutin-. ous Congolese soldiers.
Several of the search planer. were fired at on Sunday by Con- golese troops None was serious- ly damaged but two returned to base with bullet holes.
HANGING REPORT Reports reaching Leopoldville public appeal for his kid-today-none of which could be confirmed aid the helicopter nappers to return him.
*pilot and tyckmans had been hanged by Congo soldiers, Others
is that they can make Mr C, K. Tang, Singapore's said they had been shot 7
themselves understood, biggest and best-known curlo The most current i report in Which is more than many dealer, was abducted on Satur- that Ryckmans, and the pilot Englishmen can in Can day by armed thugs who pushed were seace by rebeling troops tonese, him into a car outside his home after their machine was shot and escaped, despite a police down, The Dar were then taken \view of the numbers clamouring for it a utility draget set up within minutes to Thysville where they were type education is all that is In the appeal today: Tang's held in a room at the Congolese possible in Hongkong. We daughter Katherine told news military camp. After being de- would not want it thought men her father had not been tained for hours the phot
well and the family was out grabbed a run
that we are against slang seriously concerned over htt teachers salaries of Im health
teachers trainin olleges. Mr Tang is the girth Singa- pliat and But if it can be ld with pore Chinese millionaire kid form
hout encouraging.com napped this year,
placency, we feel that with Police have complained that the funds allocated to "frightened familje deal "private"
education, the Departament d' and pay heavy, ransoms to the is doin commendably well, kidnappers-AR
airport pictures
Belgian troops restored order at Leopoldville after rounding up Congolese army mutineers. The pictures above show: (Top and centre) Belgian paratroop ers round up prisoners after taking Leopoldville air (Bottom) Nuns take shelter while bullets fly during the airport skirmish.
54 hurt in train crash
St Paul, July 18. [ber out of the seat of her com- raffroad- pokesman said, the train crashed into a semi-partment in one of the last two train was travelling about 60.
did not leave the miles per hour,
The truck river, Dick Kens people were
Ter 81, caped" injury,
"This was
truck
an: Un
near.
12. to
to improve Britain's trade
London, July 18.
The Prime Minister, Mr Macmillan, called together 400 of the nation's top industrialists in an un- precedented move today and tried to breathe some fire into Britain's low-gear export drive.
Mr Macmillan called for an "Exporting is fun," he export offensive by old estab- | asserted.· lished firms and for new firms Emphasising each word, Mir to come forward by the thou- | Macmillan called on British ex- sands in a bid to crash overseas porters to push the "hard sell," markets.
develop. "eye appeal for their He toki the assembled products, and operate well magnates that a "great band of thought out publicity campaigns merchant adventures" is needed which make the buyer ready if Britain is to maintain its to accept what we produce.”...... place in the world and its AP. standards of living at home.
CRISIS
Mr Macmillan said the pros- pects for expansion were good. on the west coast of North America, particularly in Cali- fornia, where the population has doubled in the last 20 years.
A sense of crisis hung over the meeting. No British Prime Minister in living memory has called the nation's industrial leaders together for a similar talk in peacetime.
Mr Masmlilan's speech was made against the background of Britain's recurring problems.
Woman who cut son s throat found
insane
economie A woman who cut her son's throat with a chopper was found guilty. but in- sane today on a charge...
wounding with intent to murder.
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The government has been shaken by the national export]: racord in the first quarter of 1960. Britain's exports rose by only 18 per cent while the six nations of the European Com-
mon Market registered an in-† srease of 37 per cent,
⠀ At homie, Industry is troubled
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Chan Sheung-oi, 52, ardored by Mr Justice Resce to be detained until Her Majesty's pleasure is known. -
by aliding prices and falling She hacked at the throat of sales after new 'anti-inflationary Wong Wai-kit, 8, as he slept measures Imposed by the gov-last October 12, then cut her ernment last April
own. Both were treated for Many sections of industry ¦ severed windpipes.
Evidence was that the woman have been openly critical of the government measures-including was swindled of $100,000 and her new restrictions on credit-house at 9 Pratt Avenue and which they say are harmful to feared her son would starve. So ‚an expansionist trade policy. she tried to kill him and ber- self so they would be together
EXPORT JOY
"We need and we are going under the ground."
of
to have an aggressive selling Mr Justice Recce asked the polley," Mr Macmillan said. Criminal Sessions jury of six "We must all be in this export women and a man to take note game. That is the only way to of expert testimony Dr maintain our standards, play Chung Cho Man, of the Govern our parts in the world and keep ment Mental Hospital. the strength and power of our The doctor testified that the country."!
woman. had been unaware\. of
A little sadly, he noted “that what she was doing when she our German friends have coined attacked the child and was dri
word "exportfrendictkelt” or fact insane.
roughly "export joy "?"
Mr Macmillan said he wished.
a little of the same attitude
could penetrate British I dustry
Eichmann tracked through his wife
New York, July 18. Two Israell journalists said today Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was tracked down in a pains taking 15-year search that his wife finally unwitting." ly provided with a suc cessful ending.bukagat Zwyaldouby, and Ephraim, Katz, writing in Look Magazine, sáid Mry-Veronies :Eichmang
her husband's fate whe
their Argentine.
to Austria
passport renewed
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