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Moderate northwest winds, becoming fresh by the affemea,
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OUTLOOK ?
Is Hongkong the cultural
wilderness that so many people claim it is? Is it only interested in money- making, and has it no in- terests beyond the of commerce?
claims
Judging by the articles and
news reports written by tourists during the past few months, it would seem that Hongkong is a place utterly lacking in appre- ciation of the finer arts.
In one sense this is true, but in another sense, untrue, it depends entirely upon the viewpoint taken.
Anyone coming casually to Hongkong and taking a superficial glance
at the
Colony could not but be overwhelmed with the com- prominence given to
merce.
【NTIL quite recent years,
UN
early tomorrow
Signal No. 3
Strong wind imean wind speed 22-33 knots! expected.
Tropical storm Agnes is heading for Hongkong and if keeps on its pre- sent course it will pass "fairly close" to the Colony early tomorrow morning, according to a spokesman for the Royal Observatory,
during which Hongkong At noon, tropical storm Agnes was 170 miles east
established industries of
her own, Hongkong's economy commere.
based on WRE
It is not to be wondered then that her leaders, her advisers, her consultants were business- men and tycoons of com- merce.
Their outlook has at times been ridiculed by popular writers and smart epigrams created based have been
upon what outsiders look- ing in on the Colony sup pose they have noticed. For instance, "Hongkong is a first-rate place for second- rate minds" sounds quite smart until you find it was said of Singapore, Shang- hai, and Penang, and pos- sibly of other places.
the other hand, we
O to the fact
that until the City Hall Is opened, we have no public museum, no library, no concert hall, or any of the amenities which contribute to a locul culture. If then. we are called a society of morons, we can say little in our own defence,
of Hongkong and it is heading for the Colony
at 10 knots.
Government
of Laos
resigns
Vientiane, Aug. 14. The Tao Somsanii Gov. ernment of Laos resigned today.
Mr Somsanith who in Luang
Prabang sent a wire tendering bis governments resignation to Vientiane, now held by the "re- volutionary committe" set up
Its
speed
slackened hes slightly. Centre winds are not yet known.
A spokesman
for the Royal Observatory told the China Mail about I p.m. that if Agnes keeps on is present course, it may hit Hongkong between 3 a.m. and 4 am, tomorrow,
Ferry service
•
Star Ferry and the Vehicular Ferry are still running. but the latter said their service to the outlying districts
may suspended at any time.
be
The Vehicular Ferry 4111-
DOCKERS THREATEN
nounced at 1 p.m. that their 2 pm, and 4 pm, sailings to Tai O will be suspended today. An
Hongkong-Macao ferries, the Talloy, Fashan and Takshing, are still running.
"But we will have lo stop the Mr Somsanith said in the tele-service at night if the storm hits gram that he would confer with Hongkong," they said, the King, and that he planned to arrive in Vientiane tomorrow morning with all of his minis- ters.
see
CANDIDATES
+2
Souvanna Phouma, President of The candidates were: Prince the National Assembly, and Boum Oum, Prince of Cham- passak
There have been no disrup- tion and diversions of fligh's
at Kai Tak airport according to Mr O. F. Hamilton, Airport Commendant.
Precaution
TO JOIN UK
SEAMEN'S STRIKE
Liverpool, Aug. 14. unofficial seamen's strike which has been hampering British shipping tonight showed no sign of reaching a settlement.
Man catches boy as he falls 25 feet
New York, Aug. 14.
Instead it, threatened to snow. ball when a meeting of 800 Liverpool dockers warned that they, too, might stop work,
According to tonight's figures, the four-day-old seamen's strike is holding up 89 ships in Brilish ports'..
The seamen are striking in dissatisfaction, with a pay-and- hours agreement awarded them. last week. They want a 44-hour week and £4 a month pay in
Fire Brigade, Marine Depart- ment, Marine Police and the
crease, Lake necessary airport would precautions as usual.
Forecast for the afternoon: "Moderate. northwest winds be coming fresh in the afternoo and strong later. Cloudy with
Isolated showers becoming more
frequent and heavier later to day!"
A sanitation worker raced
UN takes over control of Katanga province
Elisabethville, Aug. 14,
The Belgian Army formally handed over the control of Elisabethville today to the United Nations forces in a military ceremony at the cenotaph in the main square of the town, Place de L'Etoile, Hundreds of Belgians and, representative n. Katanga, Africans watched as the Belgian wiped his red, molst eyes with military commander in Katanga, a handkerchief General Gheysen, addressed the..
United Nations Commander, The Belgian commanders then General Von Hom, telling him said farewell to Mr Tshombe. he was relinquishing respons)- bility for the town.
Two companies of Belgian infantry and three armoured cars were drawn up in the square waiting for the arrival of top military commanders of Belgium and the United Na- Hons.
The crowd shouted *Vive l'Armee" as Gen. Gheysen - rived and inspected the parade.
There were no cheers for the United Nations commanders when they took their places in front of the cenotaph,
The
United Nations
They matched in to control Segretary-General. Mr. Dag the crowd in moet unmilltary Hammarskjold" (centre), plo», {formation and completely put of Iured in Jovial mood as he step
And
chats with his nexistant, Dr Ralph Bunchs (left), Generi Carl Van Horn of Sweden,..commander of the before UN Congo forge, leaving. Leopoldville airport on August 12, for Elisabeth- ville. They were at the air- field te soe the U.N. Chief-on on hi mission,--AP Photo,
Four-year-old
boy kept
.4
prisoner in his home
Joliet, IL, Aug. 14. Police answered a complaint about a child crying last night and found a four- year-old boy a prisoner in his home.
Police
Mr Oune Sananikor, brother of former Laotian Premier, Phoul Sanaalkone, who was to head a National Assembly de- legation to the King in We can, of course, refer to Luang Prabang, sall before Gur drama groups, our leaving here today that his local musical societies, our delegation would propose two
The new agreement, they say, small struggling cultural candidates for the post of
30 feet with his arms means a 52-hour week and £2 groups which hang to the Premier.
outstretched today and 10s a month increase. frayed threads of an exis
Tonight's unofficial meeting of broke the fall of a two Liverpool dockers passed a re- tence, but their influence
year-old boy from a win-solution giving 21 days notice
said the youngster, upon our cultural life as
dow 25 feet above the of strike action if their claims Anthony Escamilla, son of Mr a whole is negligible.
ground.
for improved pay and hours are and Mrs Rudolph Escamillia In a dark room, was locked Who then is to blame?
The temperature is not ex- The worker, Farro Vitale, 38, not met.
malked and with only a rug to peeled to drop in, the afternoon was filling his water truck frum
DEMAND One must admit that in many Yesterday the National
na winds off the mainland willa hydrant when he saw a
They are demanding a 25 shil- sleep on. ways the Colony is old Assembly unanimously passed warm up the weather slightly screen fall from a window in anings a week increase;a 40-hour Police said the youngster ap- fashioned in outlook. Any- a milion of no condence in before it becomes cooler tonight, eight-storey tenement building week and an increase in their parently was fed from a small
the government
be anyone even
The heavy showers thortly Then thing or
spotted Title fall-back rate of pay.
milk pan which was slipped Somanith's governsent. Mr after midnight last night did not Jose Ferez teetering -on-the- The meeting also called on through a slot in the door. slightly artistic is held to
Sanmikone's delegation
will be suspicious, and written orally inform the King of
yield as much water na expected. window ledge.
the 14,000 dockers on Mersey- Between midnight last night Vitale started running. He side to stage a one-day taken The room was in a deplor off as being perhaps clever
and 8 am. today only 0.08 of arrived just in time to catch the strike next Tuesday, when they able state of Blth," but otherwise useless.
Mr Sananikone said that as ап inch of rain fell in the boy. Both tumbled into would join a demonstration George Hendricks said. "But the an exceptional meaare, and Colony.
cardboard box filled with march organised by the striking rest of the house was neat and
clean." The Korean National Day re- | garbage. THE "utterly uttera" are because of the gravity of the Tinned to toren small situation, the two princes might ception at Repulse Bay Hotel The child apparently suffered Two leaders of the unofficial
hold the post of Frenier joint reciprocal admiration ly, if the King preftred this groups, content to be exullon, “AFF. clusive in their arty crafty way.d
But apart from external or Internal criticism the fact remains that Hongkong has not, up to the moment, pro duced anything or anyone who has made any con- tribution to the cultural life of the Colony in particular or society in general.
The good book, the particu
lar plece of music, work of art or the scientific com- tribution has yet to be offered.
at
This does not mean to say that it might not yet come, but taking current titudes into consideration, it seems a very long long way off yet.
this fact.
30
Tiao
storm.
seamnen.
this evening has been cancelled only a bruised hip, Vitale was seamen's strike addressed the because of the approaching unhurt and continued his dockers meeting and asked for
work UPI.
their support. The dockers and the seamen had a common enemy in the shipowners, one of them declared Reuter,
Doctor summoned too
too late
to save poisoned baby.
Padena, Aug. 14.
a baby girl died of polioming to- day--and her sebéng mother sald she hesitated for homes before calling a dodor because of religious beliebte The doutor came this morning..
three hours after 21-month-old Lorello Christine Kay had
Through...” our parers
believed. Lorella wald be sil Tith Mrs Ruth Jan Kay, 41, the mother, seobod.” “Iya Bin't want to-belere alo' was
As the time passed, we noticed she was becoming wesker” the mother mid. "We felt it, we prayed and moditated, she would be all rights Several Limes
She said she and her husband are Christian Scientista, S Mrs Kay told polles she, her Inusband William, 42, and Lorelle were shopping in a plant Nursery on Baturday, afternoon. ‹ Lorelle: wanderest off. A few seconds later, she war seen drinking from t cegumio * pot. * · Nearby" was "w Inge can of weed killer, Mry Kay stuck" a "finger, down
the, litle girl's throst, Lorelle Af started yomailing. The fand drove home: aid Lareille wee put to bed.
PI
Sherif
- ཟླ་
FATHER ARRESTED
Anthony was taken to a hos- pital; suffering-trom malnutri tion, His father vas taken to the enty-jail and booked on disorderly conduct charges. The mother was allowed to stay home to care for her three-
TOWNSoung daughters, police sald.
FLOODED
Police said they found the boy after neighbours called and complained of a baby crying. Police sald when they arrived Menila, Aug. 15. at the Escamille home no one. Roaring floodwaters from the W there and they had to break down the door to get in. swollen Pampanga River north of Manila smashed through Its They found the child in dyke yesterday, flooding 10 towns back room on the first · floor. and causing widespread damage Neighbours told police they parents phoned a Christian to lives and property, that
were not aware the Escamilla's The Philippine constabulary had a moun the said It could not immediately by
fried to: somi
estimate the exact damage but Authorities add described it sa heavy and templing to determine why the Lorelle maldamointing to millions of do- boy w locked in the 20000
diare It also said there was still
died, "Her mother told polles AP
“ari: undeérinfried number of casualties UFLE
Tshombe cheered
the
of
As
handshaking which there was plenty-finish- ed, the Katanga Premier ar- rived in the square,
Most of the cheering, however, seemed to come from the whites. A military band broke into favourite anthem Katanga's "Vers L'Avenir as Mr Tahombe walked past the Belgian troops inspecting them all, including an officer who chewed gum throughout the ceremony.
Mr Tshombe was presented to the company commander and then to the United Nations and Belgian commanders.
The Belgian troops moved up. to the cenotaph to lay a wreath In honour of Belgium's dead in the two wars for the last time in Elisabethville.
As they did this, many Bel- gians wept and Count D'Alpre-1 mont Lynden, Belgian chief
COMPLIMEN
Gen. Gheysen said to Mr Tshombe "good luck" and then the Belgian troop commanders and armoured cars left the square--AP.
ORBITING
BALLOON SEEN IN HK
Hougang residents Isal Might Walked the Ameri
can communiesHans gatal- |·lite pass over: the Colony, Sahl Father. §. Priestley this: morning:SED, twil very clear, very dislinet and moving very raplilly.”
"We watched it from the : headquarters... of the Fran- ciscan Fathers in Waterloo Road. There were about six of us and we saw It`maying- obliquely across Waterloo Road
"It was' slightly larger than one of the surround- fug stars."
The satellite is an Inflated -plastic balloon and desrit. ed "as large as a 10-storey building."
It la aluminium coated. It was launched into jrblk- by an American Thor-Delta rocket on Friday, wakakage
Soon after. It went into orbit, -a message from Pre- sident / Eisenhower *W** bounced off the balloon and relayed to radio listeners la Americs
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