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LIBRARY, SUPREME COURT
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THE WEATHER
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CHINA
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Established 1845
LATE
FINAL
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1960,
Premier claims army
Price 20 Cents
now behind him
Only on Pan Am
JETS
ON EVERY FLIGHT
From Hong Kong
• Phone 37031
Nationalist
ambassador
Of The CONGO ARREST BID FAILS leaves Cuba
Day
NO DIVISION
IT
is not at all surprising
that the real statesman-
ship remark of last week
Australia.
Lumumba talks
his
Political bargaining
NY battered
way to freedom
Loopoldville, Sept. 12.
in Laos
*Salgon, Sept. 12.
came from Mr Menzies of Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba, arrested earlier today by
order of President Joseph Kasavubu, tonight cruised the Diplomata here believe the streets of Leopoldville a free man, shouting "victory" to the astonished bystanders as he drove past in a loudspeaker
and
For, in the accepted order of
things, it is right proper that the younger and more vigorous coun. tries of the British Com- monwealth shall speakup more and more
for a way
of life that they nee threatened.
And with statement of real i
genius, Mr Menzles placed
his finger right on the sore spot which proves
greuter, throat to the pence of the world than
nny other.
With one brief statement, he
summed up all that Com- munist polley is trying to nevieve at the moment: divide and con-
present
come
quer. Mr Menzicu said that
what may, the free world will not be divided.
A
So
MONG people who claim
to be free and retain the privilege of expressing their opinions, there are bound to be differences; this Mr Menzies realised. but at the same time hu warned the other side that to try and exploit these differences would end failure.
far
in
so good, and we can only hope it may be so. For we are reminded that during this past decade. things have come to such a
car.
TAXI,
TRAM
IN CRASH
A taxi was dragged about 40 feet by, a tram offer the two collided at the junction of Pedder-street and Des Voeux-road cen- trol shortly ofter noon today.
an
The taxi was turning into
Chater-road whon .east-bound tram came
along.
Mr Lumumbule drive took Lumumba Dever stopped place after day of dratnej shuuting through the loud- and confusion which, I would speaker, appear, con unly lead to further drina and bloodshed,
Borlier, Mr Lumumba was 3 his home which three jeeps drew up with a screeching, of brukes outside his windows. A sergeant, gon in hand, and followed by ten soldiers, walked up to the door.
Mr Lumumba appeared in the dourway, hands in pockets.
"What have I done?" He cried as they proceeded to arrest him in the name of the President
of the Republic.
The Congolese Premier, taking his hands out of his pockets, walked to the gate and climbed into his own car, exclaiming as he went to the soldiers making the arrest;
"You'll pay for this when I get back into power."
The party then drove off to Camp Leopold,
From that time on it is diff cult to know exactly what oc- curred.
One version says that when The impact completely we reached Camp Leopold, Mr flattened the front near Lumumba appeared before ten side mudguard of the Congolese offlcers who accused roxi and twisted its fronted him to resign, Mr Lumumba him of dictatorship and order-
loft wheel.
having invoked his parlia- mentary immunity, the officers
pitch at times that these No casualties were reported, differences of opinion have! been
expressed with such The taxi is owned by the animosity that the dif- Hong On Taxi Co. Ltd., ferences threatened to be-
of Lockhart-road. come divisions,
cun
reportedly declared him divest ed of the premiership and let him go free,
| Another version said that Lumumba, using all his magical qualities of oratory, all the tram suffered miner | Subtleties of rage and passion, li persuaded his captors that scratches only.
be
The
No useful purpose
served by re-opening old wounds, but it must now be obvious to the most naive politician, that the burnstorming methods which
election carry an for a province or a state. ure methods that cannot carry much weight in in- ternational affairs, and that the best way of Infiuencing people and by making friends is not kicking an ally down stairs or waving a bank roll in the face of a poor relation.
THESE
the
to
HESE laller things are
really the divisiona which Mr Menzies re- ferred, and it is amazing to what lengths they can be exploited. But
recent tendencies have shown that the
Common wealth
States
Successful
showing of
HK goods
was Mr Kasayubu who was the "traitor"; guilty of "collusion" with the Belgians, the im. perialsty and the United Nations,
Emerges free
At all events, he emerged From the camp, followed by three Jeeps and a lorry full of his must fanatical supporters.
Then followed the extra-
the
|
The
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counter revolutionary movement of Prince Boun Oum Na Champassak In Laos is another move In
the political bargaining now going on within the kingdom.
Qum, the government
They doubt whether yester→ "I was arrested by soldiers day's "radio coup" by Prince bought by Mr Kasavubu.
Boun attorney general algned my ar- rest warrant under duress, But now the whole army is behind me," he declared,
In this way the Premier's Frocession reached Leopoldville radio station his objective number one.
Face UN troops Here however, his arrival brought a detachment of Ghani 100ps wearing the blue helmets force of the United Nations troops took up their positions or hurrying on the scene. The UN each side of the road leading to the studios.
Inspector-General, will touch
off fighting.
The princo said in a broad-
cast that he had seized power by abrogating all constitutional rights of the government,
NO GROUNDS
by 80mph hurricane
New York, Sept. 12.
One of the biggest hurricanes in living memory battered New York City today with 80 mph
winds..
The eye of hurricane Donna passed the tip of Long Island 100 miles from the city with winds up to 130 miles an hour at the centre, and moved into Connecticut as dusk feil.
The hurricane toppled signs, smashed windows and snarled traffic.
The neutralist Royal govern-
But residents of shore areas ment in Vientiane, administra- tive capital of Laos, promptly had been evacuated during an that there were no sil-night alert and there were retorted grounds to justify a coup d'elat.no immediate reports of deaths.
The government is headed by Prince Souvanna Phouma, who Island and up the Sound past Along the shores of Long sook office on September 2, after Connecticut, thousands streamed the country's
previous pro- to higher ground, taking refuge Western regime had been ousted in schools, churches and build- shoot," in a paratroop coup last month, we
ings more substantial then the Prince Souvanna Phouma has trail summer cottages which dot their officer told Lumumba, and
Lumumba already sent a message to Prince the beaches. for 1643 miciūtes dithered at the approach to the Boun Oum asking him to come to the Royal seat of Luang Then he turned round radio. and drove back to his residence, Prabang for talks. leaving a posse of obviously nervous Congolese soldiers on guard outside.
"If you move,
Back at this station, the Ghana troops went on digging their fox-holes and draping a further cordon of barbed wire
Diplomats zaw Prince Boun Oum's move as a sequel to the stiff terme made by the pro- Communist Pothet Laoin
up their change for giving guerilla fight in the jungle.
The Pathet Lao has 29ked
just three hours round their stronghold. It was Prince Souvanna to eliminate after Mr Lu-all pro-Western ministers from mumba's, arrest and another his cabinet,
There has been no indication chapter in this fantastic Congo of whether the Pathet Lho is
ready to compromise,
story was ended.-AFP,
CONGOLESE
TAKE OVER
LEOPOLDVILLE
·
AIRPORT
MORE TALKS
One diplomatic source said that two top-level Pathet Loo leaders, Phoumi Bongvichit and Singkopoj the commander
of
the northern region guerilla forces, had come to Vientiane for talks with the government, but there was rio confirmation of this.
to
Western embassies were un- derstood to have been urging General Phoum! Nosavan come to Vientiane and take up his post as Interior Minister, thus bringing the cabinet crisis to an end. General
Minister in. Western
Phoumi,
Defence
pro the former
炒り government, set counter-revolutionary group following the paratrooper coup
London, Sept. 12. ordinary cavalcade through the The British Broadcasting Hongkong's participation in streets of Leopoldville, with Corporation said tonight
the St Erik's Trade Fair Lumumba shouting L
Congolese troops have in Stockholm has been a virtually hypnotised bystanders:
taken over Leopoldville but later reached agreement "highly successful ven-victory-and tomorrow. It will
airport from Sudanese with Prince Sovanna and was ture," said Mr J. D.
vice-Prumler and UN troops who refused to appointed of the
Interior Minister-Reuter, Clague, leader
fire on the Congolese. Colony's delegation at the conclusion of the Fair last night.
"Increased trade with Sweden would
seem a certainty once sufficient Lime has elapsed for and the United new business to be consum- is a partnership mated," remarked Mr Clague. that is moro profound Nearly 210,000 people. - than the braying of silly record number-attended the and over 300 serious asses on both sides of the Fair Atlantic would allow. First, and by far the most
business enquiries were received at the Hongkong Pavilion, oc
be war."
GAITSKELL 'MAY QUIT RUMOUR
New York, Sept. 12.
Later the United Arab Republie nnnounced St HGO decided to withdraw 1ts paratroops baltallon trom the Congo because United Nations
the forces had deviated from mission
them entrusted to REFUSED FIRE Calro radio said UAR and Sudanese troops refused to fre
TO
on Congolese troeps who seized
Newsweek magazine says Leopoldville airport today..
Mr Hugh Gaitskell is telling
Col Sand Elshazli, commander
it is a real re- cording to a telegram received his friends that he will resign of the 550-man UAR paratroop
Tho
as Labour Party leader "battalion In the Congo, informed United Hongkong this morning.
Many of the visitors to the the Party's Scarborough con- maltary chief in the Congo an
Gen Carl Van Horn, the UN and the Common-
Hongkong Pavilion expressed feronco next month comes Saturday that the VAR was bondy ure tied by
surprise at the wide mange und out of blood.
overwhelmingly for withdrawing its tror ps from his the good quality of the Hong unilateral nuclear disarma- command, Secondly, there is, beneath
on display, niid kong goods all the squabbling, a com- described the Pavillon as "the mont." mon ideal
which, when meet colourful and interesting" threatened,
the of all the stands at the exhibi- unvites people of the Common- tion.. wealth and America.
THIS group of people, au
mited
provides
the
most obstinate barrier to
the cynical ambitions
of
the most ruthless tyraut,
L and before he can succeed,
he must remove it.
To do so is too
much for even the folly of the most ambitious dietator, there- 1. fore, diyldo and conquer is
the method.
It needs no proglist to pro- diet that should such an occasion occur, that would be the end of the world as we now know it.
Mr Monzies, apooking for us all, sold that nothing shall divide us. And so say ali men of peace and goodwill
at.
At the same time, Col Elshazli told Gen Van Horn that UAR
It said party leaders now troops at the slmeld would not
fro are seeking "a compromise Patrice Lumumbo's
on Congolese. Premier The Fair opened on August that will keep everybody they attempted to regain contral
happy."AP.
of the field-UPI,
troops if
THE UNEMPLOYED COURTIER'
He holds a Royal crown' upaldo down as though, asking" for alms and has a rather bored smile on his face.
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Moscow, Sept. 12. The Moscow ovenleg newspaper Inventia has published a bar. toon of Mr Antony, Armstrong- Jones captioned "tha - employed couriler and jeered The accompanying article. 171: "The number of unemployed has
gone up in Britalo by “at legal one. A highly skilled photographer, is reglatered: at the Labour Exchange, an husband... of sign
--English Princess."
at the British Prets for 'la ro. porting of his quest for a job, The cartoon depleted Princess Margaret's husband in evening dross, standing by a portrait photographer's Ommiera. " Ho is wearing a plaused "fooki
Tór, work" around his neok.
Investia, which is edited by Mir
Security
Council
3.1.1
adjourns
United Nations, Sept. 12. The Security Council, upon the motion of the United States, today indefinitely
ita adjourned
crisis Bcasion on the Congo pending clarification of the "confusion" in the coun try.
RD-
Opposing delegations pointed by President Josephi
Patrice and Lumumba, the Prime Minister en route
Kadavūbų
he had ousted, were here..
The molião of the U.S. Ambassador, Mr James Wadsworth, to adjourn carried by a D-2
SUSPENDED
The New Haven railroad suspended all Boston-New York. service because of the danger of truck fooding.
School opered for New York City's 1,400,000 pupils. But by mid-morning, authorities urged
students to stay home. Those on a morning schedule were kept in school until the storm abated.
Teachers foraged for lunches for the children iz nearby groceries.
The
Havana, Sept. 12. Nationalist Chinese Ambasandor, Mr Ldu Yu- wan, whose government has broken off relations with Cuba, today turned over all property of his Embassy to the Fidel Castro Government for safe, keeping,
Then he bundled 25 fellow 'notionals into a chartered piano for a fight to Miami, Florida,
Nationalist China broke off diplomatic relations with Cubu alter Premier Castro said, nine days ago he no longer recog nised the Chiang Kai-abel gov ernment and would establish diplomatic relations with Com- munist China.
BANK OFFICIALS With the Ambassador .went three Embassy officiala azad alx officials of the Bank of China here which has been taken over by the Castro regimo.
Major highways on both sides of Manhattan were flooded at several low-lying points unti
It is presumed the Castro water gushed into the basement government will hand over the of the press room of the World Nationalist Chinese property, Telegram and Sun, delaying including the Emboary residence
$10-million printing of the late afternoon and
bank edition,
the Communist Government, as
the branch. bo Chinese
soon
The press room covers a city as Cuban diplomatic relations bock and a third of it was cover with ed to a depth of two feet. Page plates had to be rushed to the company's Brooklyn printing plant.
ABNORMAL TIDES
he
Peking pro formally established.
Ambassador Lau sold would continue on to Tulpel, to`report to his government.
Members of his staff will he reassigned to Chinese embassies Liz other Lalin American
Ferry services to Long Island countries-AP. were hålled for several hours by tides running eight feet higher thon normal and underground trains on several lines stopped dead when water poured through pavement gratings and fouled the electrified Ines.
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The normally crowded pave-" ments of the city were hare, as pedestrams fed to shelter from the lashing wind and rain Wind gusts in the city reached 80 mph.
Inquiry
Los Angeles, Sept. 12. The US Coast Guard XO- ported today, that, a hearing will be held this week to deter- mine responsibility for the collision of a British tanker and
a Greek freighter.
The tanker mv. Athelbeach Warnings went out through-and the freighter Atlantle out New England that this was Glory collided last Saturday likely to be the most destruc- outside Los Angeles harbour, live storm yet and the area | There were... no...Injuries and almost came to a standstill.— damage to the two vessels was Reuter, and AP.
believed negligible.-UPI.
Pratt's mental health
questioned at trial
Court agrees to an inquiry
Pretoria, Sept. 12.
The private secretary of Mr David Beresford Pratt, wealthy farmer ac- cused of attempting to murder the South African Prime Minister, told the Supreme Court here today that Pratt on one occasion told her he felt he could move mountains,
J
of
Describing
*feeling euphoria," he told her he heard beautiful music and everything eccmed 10 be casy, decrotary, Mre Radsten, sold.
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the Mentally Disordered Per- Under cross-examination, Dr. Friedman said Pratt had had sons Act, After the application was "quite a hosting up" when ha the granted, Dr Jick Friedman, saw him but he did not think Elizabeth senior district surgeon and pro- his calmness was due to being
fessor of forensic medicine at dazed,
She was giving evidence on the first day of the trial of 53- your-old Pratt, who is alleged to have ahot Dr Hendrik Verwoerd in the face at a farm show last April. The Prime Minister was in hospital for a month and inter returmed for an car operation.
AGREEMENT
|
Witwatersrand University, testi- An African watchman cm- field that he examined Prait on played on Pratt's farm told the the night of shooting and was court that long before the shoot- struck by the accused's air of ing he saw Pratt one morning detachment and unconcern. on horseback, and later saw a riderless horse bolting and found Dr Friedman said Proft tola Pratt lying on it, dead" with into Dr same white substance" coming hun be fired a shot Verwoord's face. but hla object from his mouth was not to kill him, only to put It was an hour and a half him out of action for a few before Pratt' was on his foot weeks to give hún time to think ; again, he said. things over.
Throughout today's provved-
Dr. Friedman said. Praits Prait sat quietly, occasional- by looking round the crowded had said he became concer-court whh interest.
ed on the day before the Susan Pratt, hid": "22-year-old shooting when he passed daughter by his fret marriage,
prison And **w was also in court.
ADJOURNED
The trial was adjourned util tomorrow,
some people'· being 'removed from there, He told Dr Friedman he felt he had to do something about it and next morning - Look - hiz .32 pistol with him though bo
Although the court ordered had not formed any definite
...an inquiry in the toma of the platia. He then went to
mental disordern not, Prati_la “hear »ça'
́at present", "nill' on trial · for pooch made by the Primpted murder. Minister at the farm show and
At the start of today's peo- ceedings ile judge. Mr Justloo Frans Rumpft--who is Riso presiding judge`at the recessed trenson (cialsgroed, at tiso defeneo's request to order an present Inquiry into Pratt's mental,” condition, is a pro- liminary lasts of the trial -Pratt's », counsel, Bir Israel Malmis, QC,, aoid Pruit, might also have been mentally' defac- tiva al the time of the shooting J.but that was an issue which
could not be raised,
Earlier Pratt had announced Khrushchov's son-in-law Mr Savjet Deputy Foreign Minister through his counsel that ho Alexel Ashubel, goes on,
Valerian. A. Zoxin and preferred to be tried by a judge Polish Ambassador Mr Bobdan and two ameziora rather than was struck by the unconcern of in an exchange between the "The English press to which de- Lawandowski opposing 1,
a judge and jury."
the public regarding pollileal Judge and Mr. Molsur, the judge MAEGET, IN Bos: unknown, plo Following the adjournment
Mr. Rudolph Bain, QC, pro- | events. If somebody had dona | raised the question of whether, tures the former photographar motion, Ms Zotin sought to move sequined said he was empower scenothing even raised a boo if a court ordne comunita a pers almost barefoot walking along that the courci be convened
ed to stala the shooting, wag, not he would have boers entleged, son to Jali that ends the prosccus London streeta"-wiść''a-amall - | intor.
they did not and he felt tion, Malai, applying for hire Lurn had done to do soir Salsely pointed out that thm," ingniry-indo, Priva | thing...***
"In texans of the criminal proe V montaj | mond1216 1,45 To then, moved "towards the cedure code, a person can be **ersation would, establían that Verwoed and fired a shot Inin | brought before the court...and may be indiated again...Reuter,
vote,
withs
'wooden pieverá "izoking for But Mr. Wadsworth instated disputed. work, look, ery the news that the meeting had already Apapers,, bera' lu mtičk, a highly been adjourned and the Council
placed person bearing an equal President Mr gidip Orions of share foot puslattering("--China | Turly, upheld the 15% coxifen. HALL, BİN
tion UPI.