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LIBRARY, SU
SUPREME
LATE FINAL
CHINA MAIL
No, 37802
Established 1845
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1960.
Price rise in London causes
Price 20 Centa
COURT
Only on Pan Am
JETS
ON EVERY FLIGHT
PAN ANNI
From Hong Kong Phone 37031
sharp reaction
Of The CHAOS IN HK GOLD
IN HK GOLD MARKET
Day Wild
This muzzling bids
must stop! stop
TF anyone in the Hongkong
the one Government depart ment with whom it enjoyed the worst passible relations. the answer would be animously
titi.
the Police, The
Intest case in which the
trading
Senior Superintendent of The sharp rise in
Truffle has-been-involved-ip-|- -London-gold-price-
A trafle mishap Illustrates
this most clearly. No one wants to gloat over his mis- fortune or the land luck of any driver involved in un accident.
But the argument - if that Is what it is that the names of all drivers must be withheld pending inves. tigations which may result in court proceedings is the lument possible excuse which simply does not huld water in 99.9 per cent of the casos. The only possible exception la when the Police are investigating 2 hit-and-ruh necidont and are still looking for the ear and driver.
And to stake his defence on a legal quibble an the Com- missioner of Police did to- day in defending his department for not reveal- ing Mr Morrison's name is sheer humbug wrapped up In a confusion of legal red tape.
HE Press have asked in
Tuntless cases not neces
sent the Hong-
kong market into' a chaos this
morn-
ing. Bids were so wild that the mor-
Kaitak's new air terminal
多
ket was suspended CONSTRUCTION
shortly after open- ing.
ence
An emergency confer- held
among members of the Ex- change about 10 am resulted in the suspen-i sion, fixing the price. at $270 per tael.
A
standing regulation of the exchange stipulates
OF AIRPORT
BUILDING TO START SOON
suspension whenever the price Hongkong Airport's new modern passenger ter-
rben by more than $12.50.
The market opened with wifd. bids ar beyond a rise of $12.50 but there were few transac- tlons.
Since Korea
sarily for the name of the
A few deals were concluded driver but the name of the
the market at $285 outside This has been compared occupants.
with yesterday's persistently refused, even closing price of $257.
rush" when decapants of the car
frantic "gold The involved have been injured. abroad has sent the local price If the Press's problems soaring from Tuesday's $252 to caded with the reporting of ¦ today's $270.
tr nceidents, there
The exceulive and supervis
minal building is expected to be ready for use early in 1962. Construction of the permanent terminal building, designed for the efficient and speedy handling of passengers in maxi- mum comfort, is expected to start in about two months' time.
Restaurant
-Prevision is made for acconi- Emphasis of the planning of the new terminal, which will be modating 550 passenger and including 1,900 others, capable of expansion at short about
the penk during cope with future re- sightseers, notice to
The main restaurant on the quirements of air trafle, is an hour.
two-and-a-half levet system designed to segregate outgoing Brst floor will seat 220 people. The Colony has never ex-
passengers from arrivals by the The basement of the bullding be less cause for this perienced such a chaotic mar-
will house the Airport's main stores, vehicle workshops, comment, but the truth is ket except during the Korean use of two floors.
War period," comungated one
battery charging areas and a that it extends to practical-
air conditioning subsidiary Baggage conflict with pas- ly
every branch of Police trader this moning, work,
sory committees of the Chinese sengers is avoided by the use of plant.
Passengers arriving at Kaitai We must make an immediate Gold anel - Silver Exchange the basement floor.
Outgoing air passengers will will either walk or be taken by! Society
i special exception in the case
the from the aircraft to various police ofleers who meeting lunight on the opening be accommodated
floor while the ground fluor will covered apron piers, where they of market next Monday, have given us facilities in
Many explanations were. be used mainly by air passeng-will walk up the ramps to the the
report past to
health examination hall, then by.
ers arriving at bankers and
the Airport. local given activities, like anti-quid dealers for the rocketing The planning also takes into through Immigration control be- account the peak hour traffe fore being processed through rcotics or the trinds, but gold prices abroad. in each case the Police
Luid the barker
Chine rather than the overali dally air Customs.
(Contd. on Page 5, Col 4) Mail this morning that I could traffe muvement, wanted the publicity us
be because: much as the Press, and we have no reason to believe they were bending back wards to break a precedent.
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of
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[car
will hold
ན ་ The Americans lack con-
Adence in the guid dollar, and That devaluation of the dollar might be made an issue in the election dumpalg--and later put hito practice if the accident, a supporter of such a polley wins
Jack con-
whether
B motor
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burglary, a Police raid, the election,
a shooting or a
murder]
Americans
hunt, the Press is fuble fidence in both the gold dottar their Industries which
explain the of the
off with the minimum of and
ogleni details.
As a responsible might
phenatonon
drop la prices of industrial shores. These should have gone ир
newspaper it is not Ctr practice or our desire to Tiny
constable !!
in with the gold prices.
Police headquarters to give us news tipa or detalls of inquiries. We claim
is our right to be in
11
A slump
of a
slump in
on the
92
bus
Guilty of tax evasion
PROMINENT HK
BUSINESSMAN FINED $11,800
He said the latter might in- A prominent businessman, who is a director of formed as fully as possible dicate the fear and to be given as full an industries. Recount NA possible of
Another informant told the
whatever is the subject of China Mall that "everything Inquiry.
has gone ap three times in value since America fixed the gold One point must be understood i price at $35 an ounce,
clearly.
"And the gold price is the The Improvement
only thing that has not gone af Press-Police relations toer not depend on
Pent
Oven
the
'WHY I
LET MYSELF GO AT: UN'
PENGUIN BOOKS PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN TEST CASE
Lady_Chatterley_on
trial at Old Bailey
London, Oct. 20. "Lady-Chatterley"-one of the most passionate women in fiction-went on trial here today on a morals charge before a jury of nine men and three women.
in
and attack the book in the greatest detail, leaving which David Herbert Lawrence, nothing to the imagination.
The tubercular son of a calminer, wrote a few years. before his death 30 years ago..
Mr Grimth-Jones told jury not to approach the mat- ter "n any priggish,
high mid- super-correct handed, Victorian manner." If they Gardiner,
The famed number one cour defend of Londen's Old Bailey Central Criminal Court was crowded for Canberra, Oct. 20.
a test cabe which will decide Mr Robert G. Menzies, whether the 32-year-old publi- Australian Prime Minis- cation ban on the novel, "Lady
hare
tonight Chatterley's we will at inst ter, said
Le lifted in this country. that he let himself go
Books Limitea Penguin before the United Na-
of pleaded not guilty to a summons tions in the face
alleging that they published on Mr Nikita Khrushchev's obscene nrticle. efforts to bully and taunt | expargeted version of D. H. people.
Vr
of
Menzies was giving an account before the House Representatives of his actions at the General Assembly in moving an amendment seck- Ing a four-power summit con- ference,
"In my speech.
BULLY
...d made up my mind that if Khrushchev was to bully people, taunt people, thump things on the table, in- cluding his shoes, it was high time that somebody, speaking for 10 million people, that is all, should make it clear that we were not frightened. "I therefore let myself go." The Prime Minister said
"cager beavers" had
that been
saying he made a fool of him
self in the UN. "When I make a fool of "this country I hope you will expel me," he said. ;
He came away from the UN with the feeling there would be a summit conference alter next month's American Pre- sidential elections.-Reuter.
DRIVER FLED
Lawrence's book.
an
Secret names
tn-
the
found the book was obscene they would have to go on to consider if publication Was justified for the pubile good in the interests of science, lliera Lure, art or learning.
The Prosecution, The Prosecutor, Mr Mervyn would invite the fury to say Grinth-Jones,
that the book tended to induce toid She
Jury lustful thoughts in the reader. they might' think the novel was "a book of little eke but vícions indulgence In Bek und EXT- suality."
He asked them: "Would you approve of your own song thin and daughters reading book? Is it a book you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book you would even wisle your wife or your servant to read?"
Of the frankly-written book about a well-bred woman's love affair with her impatent hus- band's gamekeeper he added:
"It sets Ubon * pedestal promiscuous, adulterous course, and it commends and sels out to commend sensuality
inter-
almost as a virlue, and encour- ages and advocales vulgarity of thought and language."
Each member of the jury was handed a copy of the orange-and-white paper-covered edition which Penguins pro-
to publish. The pose
Arr- pioneers of good-quality paper- Lina, Oct. 20.
back fiellom--deliberately court- Thirty-one people were killeded the charge against them as and 36 Injured when an over- loaded truck turned over A curve He was ordered to pay $11,800 | Mr Darby asked the Court to while speeling around
road from Cuzco to the case, on the in fines and tax penalties when take a serious view
several well-known firms in the Colony, was this morning fined by Mr A. Garcia at Kow- loon Court for tax evasion.
he pleaded guilty through his He said that the fact that the Ureos, The driver, who was solleitor, to three summonses address given to his employer hurt, fled the scene, survivors pccusing him of Wifully omit as that of the residence of Chiu sald-AP.
in sums of money he had re- Wing-kwak, was not an address
ceived In his tax returns,
up. People probably think it had to go up some day. So of Another
they converted their dollars relations officer, or
at which mall was expected to into gold."
The defendant is Chiu Shul- reach. "Indicate that the do- # group of them,
"Americana think they are though that may
make ROMA
pasting through a light recesiun, ellas Chiu Wing-kwok, fendant had planned to receive improvement to this lament- sion, and an increase in the fold who gave his address as No 34. the income in secret." abis and infuriating Press
price will have the effect of in- gap
which
the Polico ftation which may tend to operate. What it requires is counteruel the recession." a change of heart on the part of the Commissioner and the Government.
because u
L, Draga Cireult, second floor.
SERIOUS VIEW
said the defen- Mr Derby dant was a director of the Hongkong and. Kaumati Ferry Co. Lid and the Hongkong Shipyard. Lid and a marina
the of superintendent
laci
Chiu-huen.
Then under is allas, Chie
The Commissioner of Inland "America has been holding Revenue, represented by Mr back on gold prices," he said, w, J. Darby, Assistant Commis
rize would benefit aloner, accused the defendant And until it comes the public the Soviet Union, a great pre-of not disclosing the source of
ducer of goku,
Income he had received in 1943, cannot be blamed for put
"Ainorlen can will hold on to 1956 and 1959 under his allos. Ging the worst possible the present gold price because The defendant, who was re- Wing-Kwok was the director of Intepretation on reporta their gold stock affords some presented by Mr P. C. Woo of the United Delivery Co., Ltd. which are unnblo to dia- leeway for loss:"
Mesra P. C.
And Co., and the Eun Hop Cal Yip Li close the names of people "But this is going against the naked the Court to take into In the threo summonses bo- because water will coralderation nihe other emla- fore the Court, Mr Darby, ro- always sock its own level," he sens under similar conditions vealed that the defendant had
(Contd. on Page E, Col. 3)
in high places who are in volved in the most sketchily reported mishaps. 1...
curent,
conclunted.
Binco 1940. “E
Woo
a test case by sending coples
to the police. But it will not
however,
He said the book was about a young woman whose husband was wounded in the First Wor so that he was paralysed from the waist downwards and un- able to have sexual course,
Bawdy
Inter-
"It is about a sex-starved girl and how she satisfies that starvation with a particularly sensual man who happens to be her husband's gamekeeper."
Thirteen
passages described sexual intercourse 12 of them
MYSTERY SUBMARINE
book abounded bawdy conversation with words. -"no doubt good, old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon words" — which appeared again and again,
The Judge, Sir Laurence Byme, upheld a Prosecution objection whenk Mr Herold top barrister leading the defence, said that "Lady Chatterley's Lover" could be bought in all elvilised countries "except in Lawrence's Common wealth."
Restoration
What
other happened in countries was not relevant, the Prosecution said.
was
Mr Gardiner agreed the book
full of descriptions of sexual intercourse and of "four" letter words." But why were reputable publishers like Pen- guins deliberately publishing ( after considerable thought,
They could have published an expurgated edition. But that would not be the book that Lawrence wrote.
The book was not obscene, The author plainly disap... proved of promisenana · KOK without love,' and supported marriage except where it, was 'perfectly hope-. less and ending in divorst,; Lawrence, said Mr Garliner, believed that the remedy for society's tila lays in a restora tion of right relations between human beings, particularly the union, between man and women
Victoria, BC., Oct. 20. Destroyers and frigates of the
"One of the greatest things, Canadian Navy's Paclite Com
commenced mand today
a he thought, was the relationstilp sweep in search of a sub of a man and woman in love.
West Their union formed an essen marine
Canada's
ties part of the relationship, Const.
of
An official Navy announce which was normally wholesome be sold to the public until the ment states only: "Surface (and not something to be asham- units of the Canadian Maritime jed of, and something which case has been decided.
Eminent Illerary figures Command Pacific are Invesi- ought to be discussed openly their names still, secret-have | galing on unidentified contact jand_frankly."
sides to of the west coast."-AP. been ranged on both
Nairobi magistrate's claim.
'I SAW THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN'
Nairobi, Oct. 20.
firm under the name of Chin The Abominable Snowman, the legendary half-man- half-boost, said to live in the remote heights of the Himalayas, has been soon by a Nairobi magistrate, according to a report in the East Africon Standard today.
His descriptions of the undona Were nytesstry to what he was trying to any.
As for the "four-letter words," Lawrence was trying to remove the Victorian connota- tion of shame from them.
Mr Gardiner told the jury that the book would shock and might disgust them. But the reading of it would not harm anyone and it had no tendency to corrupt or deprave.
The magistrales Mr Alastair, "It happened in a very remota
and wexplored Crom, and his claim is made
of part In a fatter just received here. wwwtern Lahul. Unfortunately the Ught woh bad and it was raining at the time. "However, I took photographs of the footprints. The rear part astor slingly like 0
Ife and his wife Isobel, a quali- ned nure, Writ to the Himalayas to try to photo graph a "nowIYMAIL."
In his letter, Mr Cram old he wow the creature at between 18,000 and 10,000 foot running
upí a gincter tongue,
Later, the Judge adjourned the trin until next Thursday, and directed the jury to reftirn to the Old Balloy tomorrow to read their coples of the novel "I have not yet been able to in the jurors' room,China Mail
wing
human footprint.
develop the film."---Reuter,
Special.