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of the YUNG WANG GOES TO PRISON
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Parking plans
HE Colonial Secretary's
Taterent that be cal
not hold out any hope that There would be a solution: fully
satisfactory to those!
motorists who felt that they should have obstructed passage through the centre of the town as well as sufficient parking within it, was the *paces reply to be expected by all who are aware of the pecaling ditheulting
einted with Hongkong. The fundamental problem is that the city of Victoria was not planned originally but just grew. Its narrow winding streets trace the original waterfront where the horse and sedan chuir made their way a hundred years ago. And now we are trying to plan, im- provise, and adjust these streets to the requirements- of modern traffic. In short, our problem is the problem of all town over 50 years of age.
what
EVERTHELESS
N the public asks is this:
If
If not, why
Drama CHINA MAY
sea
chase
related
A Chinese drugs rac- keteer who drama- escaped tically
HAVE NUCLEAR ARMS SOON
London, Nov. 24.
A grim warning reached the West from behind the Iron Curtain this week, Allied diplomats reported tonight. It was that Communist China claims she can become a nuclear power very soon and even Premier Nikita Khrush- chey is deeply worried.
Train tragedy
DISASTER IN WALES
Port Talbot, Nov, 24, Two trains collided head on
tonight on a
narrow rock sholt cut out of a cliff high over the Avon River, The driver of one train and fireman of the other were killed and about 30 passengers
rushed hospital.
to
A LARGE WATER WORKS PROJECT FOR SHATIN
Hongkong's largest treatment and filtration works, made necessary by the integrated water supply scheme for the New Territories, will be built in the Shatin Valley.
the
The new works, covering an Valley immediately below brea of about 800,000 square exlating Jubilee Reservoir. feet, will be capably of treating
Sie formation for the new and filtering 120 millon gallons
treatment works at Shatin, to- of water a day.
gether with drainage works. water supply will begin in the near future. The integrated #cheme envisages the linking of Tenders for this work are called today's Government from the Chatham
the proposed new reservoirs at for in The front part of the three-Plover Cove and
Actual Hebo Haven Gazette.
construction Road Detention
The boast by President Lin other world issues with the carriage diesel train was twist-inte a single waterworks system work will start some time next
telescoped Presidented and
into the which will produce an addition year. authoritatively administration of WILY Camp in July, was Ship-chi
steam engine of the other, 2 100 million gallons of water said to have Len made during John F. Kennedy,
A fallure today jailed for the two-week-old.
to achieve these freight train, heading towards Communist
a day by 1998. at- goal would give Peking time lo Port Talbot. Cars were derailed!
The scheme, half summit parley in Moscow
the mola build and test its nuclear wea- and led on top of each other.
The building programme will tended by lenders of £eatly 80
features of which are the pro-be carried out in two stages, parties around the Communist
pers as a preliminery to brand-
water lakes at Each of these stages will be CRUISED
posed fresh ishing them. world.
Plover Cave and Hebe Haven, capable of troaling 00 million This
works on gallons of water a day. On involves engkanering
unprecedented scale for completion of the second stage, an
the Shatin treatment works will Hongkong and would cost ever $600 million by the time. it is be linked with the Plover Cove Anished.
project.
two years.
and
a
with
by
Yung Wang, 39, was re-
claim, coupled captured carlier this: Peking's public demands for a
more revolutionary picy week after a sea chuse Communists everywhere, úlaini- in which shots were ed Mir Khrushchev and other fired off the Ninepin Communist rulers, Islands southeast of Hongkong.
"Can we expect an improve- ment in parking facilities within a reasonable distance of the shopping und enter- tainment area of the city?
Yung was charged with escap- so, when" not?" Mr Burgess replies long from lawful custody and for a breach of a deportation order, that in this way: By the But his plea of not guilty to a end of next your a guvage | charge of possession of heroin on the site of Murray was accepted by the Police, Parade ground for 700 cars as well as generis aprue
dockyard is on the
pro mised. It is also suggested that a multi-storey garage will be built each following year. So far, so good. We now come to the
sug-
gcution of underground parks, following, London's | lead where it is propwENCË that an area for 1,000 ears be laid out under lyde Park. The possibility in Hongkong of parks under neath the Cricket Club and
• Statue Square is to be examined afresh. Schemes like this which make no de- mand on costly, valuable land offer the best nuswer 10 our problems and the hope is that they will prove fonsible.
Deadlock
Even before the
- Teasse53- ments, Western Authorities had been estimating that China probably would be able to test her irst nuclear devices by the end of 1901,
worries
of service
RM-
A shuttle bulances manoeuvered around lonely and lortuçus mountain curves to get the Injured 10 hospital
The picture of 600 million Chinese, reinforced by niomie Firemen struggled with oxy- acetylene equipment to remove evidently weapons, Communist powers as much as the body of the diesel engine Western nations. driver. The fireman died when
I he tried to jump clear.---AP.
TWO STAGES
The two fresh water lakes
At first, wator will be co- would be linked by means of a veyed to the treatment works at pipe- Shatin by means of a system of network of tunnels and
to smuil lines with a subsidiary reservoir tunnels corrected to be built in the Shing Mundams which will be erected to inpound stream water in the | Shatin and Talpo districts,
Another fairly large dam will then be constructed across the Shing Mun' River, midway be tween Sholin and Jubilee Reservoir. "Water Impounded by this dam will also be fed into the treatment works
HOW TO AVOID ELEVATION TO THE LORDS
A definite expression of this it does some anxiety was conveyed inform-AP. ally to a responsible_Western .by a European nanbassador Communist loader in the past Informants insisted few days. the names of both men must be kept secret to avoid embarrass- Lunging them. - Another
to 28, pleaded guilty kong, help Yung Escape possession of heroin, and was sentenced to a sne of $500 or on the Arst and three months two years jail on the second charge.
man, Hul
He helped
The Soviet Premier himself and to has publicly reflected the con- cern of Russia and those other Communist parties which back the
stand Khrushchev "peaceful competitive ence" with the West.
for
conxist-
Mr Khrushchev, seemingly out of the blue, mude a new bid to break the East-West dis- armament deadlock in an inter-
Si Ting. 34, New Territories view with Pravda on Wednes- also pleaded guilty to helping farmer, and So Cheung-fuk, 29. day.
He told the official organ of Yung escape, and were lined the Soviet Communist Party he $500 or three months' jail. would accept "any kind of con-
Superintendent W. Scraggs, trois" proposed by the West — for the Crown, told the Court if the West agrees on "general that Polive had spent a lot of and complete disarmament and money tracing Yung after his the destruction of weapons."
Allied authorities seid Mr sepe in Macae, and in various islands in Hongkong territorial Khrushchev has been jolted by | waters.
Liu's beast.
On the Thursday before las!. a party of Police officers was hidden in a versul olf Ninepin
TAKING it all round, the Islands.
replies of the Colonial Secretary leave island re- aldents with the impression that something is being done.
It is the Kowloon motorlat who feels neglected and uu→ considered, for except for a passing reference, nothing WIS said of their ever-
prob Increasing parking lemn. For Kowloon is the only district which can still expand, its rapidly develop ing suburbs offering the eity worker somewhere to live. But the Kowloonite Ands there is very
often nowhere to park his car by the time he arrives at the ferry on the way to the office. On the other hand,
he is exasperated to see an ideal site for a multi-storey garage at the side of the Peninsula Hotel. But not a
AL 6.30 am they saw 11 motorised fishing boat signal- ling to a sumpan. The Police bont set off in pursuit firing
light cartridges
very
the sites and over the top of the fishing boat,
Dispute
Randolph tells reluctant
peer to commit treason
London, Nov. 24.
Britain's "reluctant peer," Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn, was advised today to commit a "nominal act of treason" by making improper use of the Queen's
The
coat of arms.
advice came In 旮 letter 10 The They believe he fears that a Clinu armed with nuclear Times from Randolph weapons migh! chake off the Mr
son
shackles of Soviet restraint und Churchill, embark on ventures that would Journalist imperii, world peace in quest of of Sir Winston
Mr international aims.
Wedg- In London's view, therefore, wood Benn, 35, Mr Khrushchev may believe succeeded to r that only an East-West pact peerage on the recently
The Poilee caught up with it Ting on board and a number avert so explosive a situation.
and bearded it, and found Si halting the arms race could death
of his father.
The British have long orgued Lord Stansgata of others. Bui Yung was no
That made In private that Mr Khrushchev There.
wents disarmament, him a member nearby genuinely
of the House Prime Minister Macmillan has sald the Soviet leader, desplie of Lords and his publie Bamboyance, can be involved a reasonable man In private,
Tonight Western
After a search on islands, the Police found and arrested Yung Wang, Huf was loter found on another Island. Superintendent Scraggs said the Police suspected that Yung und Iful intended to escape to Taiwan. and were in a sam pan but returned to the island when they heard the firing.
WEDGWOOD BENN
his automatic dis- qualification from the House of diplomats Commons, where he had sat as for South-east in this capital were saying tha: the member Mr Khrushchev may well be Bristol.. racing against time.
to the Lord Cherblain Buckingham Palace,
at
Mr Wedgwood Bean also told reporters he planned to petition the House of Commons, through to another Labour MP, asking. considy-new arguments why he should not be disqualined from remaining o member of the lower house,
Today, writing in The Times, Mr Churchill asked what "all the fuss พร about" and declared that there was a "per; fectly simple expedient for the young Labour MP.
Head too
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
THANKSGIVING
ROAD DEATHS
New York, Nov. 24. l'Americans streamed onte UB highways today the first full day of the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, The death toli mounted in trafe rmssh- ups.
Mr Churchill wrote: "He bas merely to commil some nominut act of treason, such as impuling the royal coat of arms,
"He would then only have to four-day Last night, however, he said Ideological dispute with the he he executed an instrument persunde the sovereign, acting
and upon the advice of her, minis Chinese would give him time to renouncing seek accords in disarmament and had returned the letters patent ters, to bring forward a bill of
atlainder, against him.
in his
A patched-up truce Polter
(Contd. on Back Page, Col. 3)
the
proroga
This bill could easily bo
Parliament and receive the royal assent,
word was said about that World may be ruled by race of super-women one day pushed through both Houses of
on Wednesday,
L ET us conclude by saying
that the solution to our
traille and parking problems 'NO REAL NEED FOR SO MANY MALES'
does not lie in adopting extreme menkurca Ruch as restricting ear imports,
of regulations, Anicky policing
London, Nov. 24,
The British Medical Association's magazine said today that the time may come
when a
race of supor-woman will rule a manicas world.
Indie- criminately installed park-
tax- "It lug metem, or in
raining Ing petrol and licenco feas to prohibitive
lovele. The motorist does not expect priorities Br extravagant schemes but simply asks that his needs are under- stood, his problems. con- sidered and that reasonable provision is made for him no for any other group tho community by those responsible for the wine ordering of the Colony.
selected females to produce a j race of super-men." Burton pointed to honey bees, saying a live contains many thousands of them, but only a few are males,
warned could happen," "Family Doctor," a monthly magazine pubilshed and edited by doctors. "Biologleally speaking, there is no real need for auch a large number of males in tüe population as we have today," wrote Mr A. J. Burton, A biology researcher,
He quoted a Nobel Prize witi». In
ner, Dr H. J. Muller, as say- ing that aperm thould be taken from geniuses, frozen for 30. years, - and then administered to carefully
STEP FURTHER
The act of attainder would,
of course, involve not only the
The Associated Press counted 58 highway deaths since the weekend began on Wednesday,
Fires had claimed seven Ilves mis- celicneous mishaps took four
four in one blaze while more, for a holiday toll of 72– AP.
CAPT ROBERTS
loss of his peerage, but of his ON WAY HOME
head and of his estates.
"However, by an act of royal}
clomeney, not unknown In FROM CONGO
history, the last two would be restored to him
"And he would then be in shadowed by Dr Muller's both a physical and financial suggestion," said the article. stale to stand again for South
cast Bristol, of a race of super-
which became "He talks
men, but may it not be more vacent on his succession to the probably a race of super-peerige."China Mati Special. women?
"All that would be required In
Leopoldville. Nov. 24, John Meredith Roberts, the 23-your-id Englishman who led bank of Baluba trivetimen, a flew into Leopoldville today on tle way to Europe.
He had been held in Luu- "sbourg,' Kasal Province, for
month by the United Nations,
such'a scleritinually planned SEARCH GOES ON He is expected to reach Europe
cft-rociety woul
He took this a step further
ing green fles or, aphids. | 1| The green-ftica have banished males from their population for all but a short season of the year.
"Such a reduction in the numbers or importance of the to be Lorem males seem
bo Blew selected males to keep up the stocks of the, frozen sperm, fri the sperm banics, "The world could be rutog by a race of Amazonian women, of whom only the fittest in dividhtals would be allowed to reproduce."AP.
Mantia, Nov. 23:
lombrrow.
The Unlind Nations authori-
Philippine and US Air Force ties flew him here in a special planes resumed, today the roarch charter pinne and he was met for the DC-3 Philippine Air at the airport by a Jeep-load of Lines passenger plade mising soldiers who bustled him away zince Wednesday night with a refusing to allow, him to meet
the-Pres Réutér. paikengers and crowUPI.
Statin..
-
at
that water It is also kely from Shum Chun and from the Indus River will be directed to the new treatment works.
WILSON KEPT
London, Nev. 251 Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell is retaining his op- ponent Mr Hareid Wilson £3 Party
spokesman on financial cffairs in the Shadow Cabinet, it was learned tonight,
The Party onder names the 12 members of the Shadow Cabinel,
Mr Wilson
was the defeated Opposition candid; to in the
SENTENCED TO DEATH
FOR MURDER
Kwang Kwong 33 and unemployed was sentenced to death at Criminal Sessions today for the murder of Chan Suct-fong, a 41-year- old married woman.
Ho, stabbed her 32 times in hor. home, at 25, Graham-strect_on July 21 and then tried to take his awn life by slashing his throat with the same knife.
The jury of three
mon and four women waro unanimous in their verdict of guilty. THE BURDEN
Mr Justice W: A. Blair-Kerr told them in his summing up that the burden of proof of insanity was on the do- fence.
It was not for tho prosecution ta prove that the accused was sone and an accused was presumed to be sane until the contrary was proved.
Mr Henry Hu, do- fanding, had earlier 'put it to the jury that Kwang was mat sane at the time, of the stub- bing and did not know he was doing wrong.
RUSSIAN
TROOPS
Helmstedt, Nov. 24. Unusually heavy troop move- ments by the Soviet Army In East Germany were reported today by travellers on the highway lifeline between Ver- In and the West,
are
Allied military sources at- tributed the activity to autumn manoeuvres, which
later than usual this year.
The Soviets have in estimated returned Mr 300,000 to 400,000 men in East Party leader- Germany, organised in 22 divl-
sions.-AP.
elections which Gaitskell to the ship last month-AFP.
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