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Established 1845 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1960.
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Comment 50 dead, hundreds injured, many trapped in debris
of the BLAZE SWEEPS GIANT WARSHIP
day
TALE WITH A TAIL
THE time has come, we think,
to say something about ourselves, or our collectivo selves, under the heading of the China Mail. For wo are very old, 118 years, como February 20, 1901, which make up only four year younger than the Colony. When we first saw life, there were already 1wo Englah language papers In the Colony, The Hongkong Re gieter, and the Friend of China,
latter published the according to circumstances elther at Canton or Macao, It might be thought strange that with only A tow hundred
European In the Colony, that we had any place at all, but we had. There was a purpose to serve, and we started up with the Idea of serving that фиграва.
A
continuation
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Brooklyn's 2nd big disaster
in
three days
Now York, Dec. 19. Fire raged tonight in the 60,000-ton missile-carrying aircraft carrier Con- stellation, one of the largest warships in the world, killing at least 50 civilian workmen, injuring hundreds and trap- ping an unknown number below the redhot dobris.
THE USS RANGER—À sistar ship of the Constellation. Both are in the Forrestal Closs, although the Constellation measures 1,0471⁄2 feet in length-half a foot more than the Ranger. These carriors are of 60,000 tons displacement.
One police officer estimated the death toll would PLANE WAS
reach more than 100.
com.
Tonight at 2200 GMT with the fire still raging seven hours after
swept the 15 per cent picted ship from bow to stern, faint tappings were heard deep inside the ship lying in the US Navy's Brooklyn dockyard,"
For the other papers had their causes, the Hongkong Heglater Was
of the Canton Register which was started up by the Mathesons And characteristic of that family,
In Brooklyn's second major a hard hitting paper, tremendously blated
disaster in three day, rescue towards the merchants,
from the King County frews that when its editors pursued Hospital-theme men, who Lheir tactics
sawed at the street rubble to extricate bodies from the air liner crash last Friday-led the new rescue operations just two miles away,
in
Hongkong they becama; fram time to time, guests of Government, Fadged with some coneldara · tion in Victoria Jali.
But even the merchants them.
selves became a lttle tired of i slanted raporting. and the China Mail was launched under sort of slogan which might he read as "With wer-i vice to all, and with pro Judice to none."
But it was of some danger to be without prejudices in those days. Government awarded the China Mall its official notices, and under its Editor, Mr Andrew Dixson, the 'China Mail hogan to lead the field. With the passing of the years, Government began to get a litle heady, and following its policy, the China Mall rapped Government'e fingers
good and hard. Later, the China Mall was almost put put of business because, although it reporting was fair, It did not rult the purpose of a certain community in the Colony, o followed a boycott. The Ching Mall got over it, and hera it is today.
moral in thie Our polloy today is the same policy of 115 years ago.
But
there is a
•
We
are here to serve those who require unblaned
reporting,
and that means we do not want "No comment,"
avery
time we ft the telephone and
ask for information to which
wa and the pubile have right.
B.C.
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UNDER CONTROL
New York, Dec. 19, The Navy announced to- night that the fire aboard the aircraft carrier Con- stellation had been brought under control at 8.30 pm EST after raging out of control for 10 hour-UPI.
the bows.
York
Job
Other
by jumping into the icy waters. They were picked up by lgs which oped and Ashing bonts full steam to the scene. men scrambled up gang-plankt and hawses. Several were hoisted ashore like cargo by the huge dockside cranes.
Others were carried out by rescuers wearing asbestos sults and marked against the tunicy and smoke.
But many others- most of them civilians never reach- ed safely, One body was in a grotesque cilmbing position when recovered. The man had apparently been climbing a indder towards safety when ho
Many men acrumbled through pertholes. One plump workman gol jammed and had to strip all s
clothes off before
he could rees through the nar- row opening.
ELECTORAL COLLEGE ANNOUNCES RESULT
OFF COURSE Kennedy
OVER
NEW YORK
Washington, Dec. 19. Federal aviation chief Elwood
is formally
elected President
New York, Dec, 19.
Senator John Kennedy was formally elected President of the United States today by the 537: members of the Electoral College:
Quesada said today that preliminary investigation shows the United Airlines transport involved in the "collision" rover "New York"|-· failed to stay in a holding pattern and had reported one of its two navigation receivers was "out of commission."
All day a pall of yellow and Mr Queenda, made the state- brown smoke lay across the ment after he and Civil scene. A short nowfall an hour after the fire started made the work of fremen and disaster squad: more hazardous.
Some
Holocaust
New Every available
Their chiar, firemen was at the scene,
Commissioner Extward Cavanagh, mid it would be im possible for his men to take part i In the rescue operations for many hours-their malai
of the victims were was to control the flames which drowned in the near-freezing by nightfall, were centred
in water.
Others were suffocated and were found still clutching Admiral Schuyler Pync. Commander of the Yard, who their throats in agony.
Shortly after the fire burst out directed rescue operations, the cry went
up: "Abandon told reporters: "We haven't
Ship" any idea how many people are down there, The men The holocaust was started keep going down the side and (when a container of inflammable bringing people up. We just liquid was punctured. Suddenly Con's know how many more it came in contact with metal,
hot from welding operations,
John Phelps, one of the -neatly all civillan. shipbuit rescued workmen, told reporters ders with a handful of Naval that he grabbed a experts--hundreds left the shipguisher and almost had the fre jout when the extinguisher be-
came exhausted.
of them there are."
Of the 4,200 men uboard when the fire broke out at 1500 GMT
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were
The members, who chosen by the electorate in the November 8 presidential elec- tion, met separately to their 50 state capitals to cast their votes for the President,
Aeronautics Board Chafenon The convening of the electors Whitney Gilland gave Presi- is a phase of the American elec dent Elsenhower an hour-long tion procedure which normally
preliminary report ол the New York collision which elalm-
ed at least 134 Ilves lost Friday.
passes without notice.
the
But ft attracted widespread Mr Quesada, head of the attention today because of Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), | closeness of the popular vote in
the election. refused to make any conclusions as to blame for the tragedy, other than tell newsmen he was elting the "facts" of the CAB's preilminary, investigation,
MADE CLEAR
The facts as Mr Quesada told them made it clear the jet trans- Port uns off course and had not followed customary procedure of elrelling for further instructions when it got to the Preston, New Jersey, holding pattern to which fire extin-it had been directed,
The blazing liquid then cascatod along the main deck und, In the words of another survivor, "Inside seconds the whole deck was covered with fire."
To date 04 out of the 127 persons aboard the two
ners have now been positively
alf Identified by their fingerprints.
Most of the bodies, wero
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or charred as to be un- recognisable.-UPI and AFP.
Sen.
A chance
Kennedy defcated bla Republican opponent, Vice President Richard Nixon, with s margin of only about 113,000 votes out of a total of nearly 60 million cast. It was" the closest election in 76 years.
ak
There had been a chance of weck's upset until last failure of a Republican challenge to upset the harrow Kennedy celvably could have victory in Minois, which con- switched that state's 27 electoral votes to Mr Nixon.
That, plus the defection to Mr Nixon of some Southern clectors who have only a moral, no a legal obligation to vote for Mr
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Gold coins
missing
Toronto, Dou....1#. Police said today they were investigating the disappearance of $10,000 in gold coins on a Trans Canada Altlines jet fight from London. ::
The
SECURITY
CHIEF'S
CORPSE
HANGED
Addis Ababa, Dec. 19,"
corpse of Ethiopia's - former security, chlof" was publicly hanged in Mene lik Square today. Lieut-Colonel Workinch, one of the leaders of the abortive rebellion, had been shot on Sunday night.
Ethiopians flocked into the square the captial's biggest
to see the hanging. Meanwhile, an official funers! was held for ministers and officials massacred by flecing rebels. Commoners also burled their dead in traditionay Ethiopian public funerals,
tha
The army continued, searching homes for rebels hiding out in the city, and on-all-out drive. to wipe out rebels who have fled to the hills was expected trdny-AP
Detective found dead
a
A detective, attached to the Special Branch, was found dead
with
- gunshot wound in his neck in a Kowloon hotel room early this morning.
A service revolver and a tet-
ter were found near the body.
The descased, Li Wal-hel, bocked a roam In the Honour Hotel. Pilkem-street, Kowloon, at 10.30 pm yesterday..
Ho left word with the room boy to wake him at 6.30 am
The coins, consigned to the Bank of Nova Scotin bead office today.
in Toronto, were shipped on When, there was no response Dcember 9 on a Trans-Canada | to the boy's knocking this
President-Elect John Kennedy DC-8 Jet. The package vanished morning, he opened the door and before the plane arrived found the deceased lying in bed, here, police said.
his body stained with blood.
Li was only about 25 years of A TCA ¿pokesman said the age.
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The American people do not vote directly for President, but for the electors, who are coins were to have been used - Palice investigations are pro prominent citizens In
display purposes by the ceeding, a government spokes- eack for state representing one or other bark office-Reuter. candidate.
Missouri vote
Mr Kennedy was
formally elected tonight when his total electoral vote passed the required 209, with the casting of 13 bal- lots for him by 67 Missouri's clec- tors. At this point he had 271 electoral votes, with ballots still
their stales in the popular vote to be cast by the electors in five
had put a Nixon victory with states.
The flames rose 180 feet in UK ROADS CLEAR Kenney because he carried the ar as the fire began ta sweep the whole of the Con- stellation's 1,049-foot length - the longest ship in the world and as tall on a 25-storey bullding
London, Dec. 10. All main roads in. England and Wales were clear of Boods tonight for the first time in two Soon the inferno had mado months, the Automobile, Ass the decks a hell of red-hot steel. I ciation announced China Mail
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in the realm of possibility.
But the Illinois challenge fall
By the time the electors had! finished their meetings in 49 of ed and there was no doubt that, the 50 state capitals, the elec Mr Kennedy would win after toral vote stood:
the separate Electoral College Hermenty 300, _Nixon 1219, ceremonies were completed. Senator Byrd 15.-euler,
U.S. RESUMES ARMS SUPPLY TO LAOS
Washington, Dec. 19..
The United States hos de-
cided to rosumo military
as well as economic alá
to Laos, authoritativa
sources said tonight.
The
decision was sold to
DECISION
REACHED
IN WASHINGTON
Mr. Baird said there had been on American military, build-up in South Vietnam and Loos för years.
"What right, have the Ameri- cans to be in Indo-China at all?” he asked.
"There were 2,000 American technicians In South Vietnam and the United States.
military equipment in Bouth Vietnam at the present tuno,
Was
have been reached following the 1lon authoriiles Inte todry, Control Commision, which was capture of the Laotian adminia While the precise nature of the set up in 1954 and was ad- Irative capital of Vientiane from military equipment to be pro- journed indefinitely in 1958, he ending $200 million a year of pro-Communing rebels by the forces of Goneril Phoumi Nosavan and Prince Bon Oum, the Premiers,
No tanks
vided was not disclosed, oficials said. sald It would conslet mainly of, light arms and would not in-
Ho added that the "Govern-Now they were going inta Laors clude tanke or howitzers.
hont felt there maht be merit as well.
In London, Mr Jerech od-don if proper agreement could in soconstituting, the commis
The ald shipments had been ber, selgn Under-Secretary, be obtained.
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1 Mr Godbor Wor speaking In a}}
Distorted.
Mir Godber said Mr. Baird was giving a distorted' plature,
The Americans » had boer
| suspended last November 30 at said tonight he did not see any the request of former Premier point in "eposting, thơ : Geneva Prince Savanna Ploums, who conformen on Indo-China to House of Commate, dobate in supplying arms at the request of has ance fed to neighbouring dest with the situation in Laos, which Mr John Baled, a Labour the legitimate government la
-The British
-Güvernment | member, who'.... hao - vidted vach case. The Communiata United States: officials- anid thought the most useful thing, Todo-Chine, had urged the re- had been supplying them to the that the decision on resumption | It calaide help was to be given, epovaning of the Geneva con- rebel insurgents. That was the of kid was conveyed to the Exo-wee through the Internetobal | ference.
ference.Reister,
Cambodia:
inen said.
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