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EQUIPMENT
FERRANTI GILMAN'S
Comment of the
day
NO WELFARE
STATE HERE!
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THERE has been much talk in recent months about taxa. tion in Hongkong and there is butler current among busi. nessmen that if there are no Increases in the next budget thera definitely will be 1982. Unlike the focal Quakers. we cannot honestly welcome! A the idea but the object of get ting in a comment on this subject two or three months balora Mr Arthur Clarke introduces what is generally believed to be his last budget, Je to toll him that there is absolutely no case whatever for any swingeing increases, however great the pressure! from Labour MPs, Quaker, welfare groups
hiph Government officials out to
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King and Queen cut short Spanish honeymoon BAUDOUIN TACKLES CRISIS
Former U.S.
defence employee
arrested
Washington, Dec. 29. former employee of the United States Defence De- partmant was arrested to- day in Columbia, South Carolina, charged with stealing top secret docu- ments, it was announced here today.
He was lentilled as Arthur Rogers Holdey, 38,
An announcement by Mr J.
bulld bigger and better Edgar Hoover, Director of the empires.
Federal Bureau of Investigation,.
One of the
Impressions which said Ruduey was accused of Labour MPa give is that taxa-stealing about 200 official docu- tion in Hongkang should ap
ments. proximate that of Britain.
Thle le utter nonsense. Hang.
Many of them carried security
kong must strenuously realat classifications ranging from "top attempts to Introdues a wel svere to "conndërtial.”
fare state which has com the
the
The Arrest was made on the
DE
British taxpayer so dearly and basis of a complainted by which at the same time has the FBI charging Roddry
three counts of fraud and two sapped the vitality of
government people and produced a sense counts of theft of of indolent, over-coddied self-
property. catisfaction.
Disastrous
NOVERNMENT'S alm must be to encourage those who are
willing to share the burden of providing social services, education, medical care, hous Ing and Essential community services and giving them as much freedom to operate and ccope for Initiative as possible, it would be disastrous to de
Mr Hoover sald Hoddey had top-zerel clearance and access to highly-classified documents during his Defence Department employment.
TERMINATED
He said, Roddey's employment was terminated last August be- cture of a "reduction in fore," then Rodey to alleged to have! executed false affidavits about itis retention of classified docu- m
Later he was found to posses otherwise. Government he highly-aceret defence papers and itself given the public soma a valuable government tape re- Idea of the cast of compulsory coxtor.
for buildings.
free education-1533 milion a Roddy will be arraigned as year as well as $477 million soon as possible before a U.S. Contract this commissioner and it convicted on each of the five counts could rocvive a maximum of 28 years
all, a $42,000 fine or both.
A
with the tolerably good system of education
we have today and which is expected to coat. this financial year about 346 million, and there is really no need to think twice about welfare state for Hongkong. Only one other finuro la
necessary expose the ab. surdity of the welfare state idea. Our total planned ex- penditure this year is only $935 million-or $76 million less than free education for the first year. The Important thing to remember, moreover, is that part of the reason for Hong- kong's Industrial success is the sant and tolerable levels of laxation
which make the
Reuler.
Katanga
sticks to
story
Elisabellville, Dec. 29. colony an attractive place to The United Nations here to Invest in and give the inves-night described
reports of
for the assurance that he will massacre of train passengers by to able to roup a fair ward for his enterprise.
No changes
Attempt to solve
situation
Brussels, Doc. 30.
King Baudouin today faces a packed day of crucial consultations with strike-torn Belgium's leaders in an attempt to solve one of the worst outbreaks of anti- government violence in the country's history,
HOLIDAY
PAPERS
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There will, however, be valy one edition on Mon- day, January 2, a pubilo bollday. This will be pub- Hibed between 10.30 and 11 am.
The Sunday Post-Ilerald will be 'published an usual en January 1 but there will be no edlion of the South China Morning Post on January 2.
of
The editor and staff ike China Maki wish readers a prosperous and
happy New Year,
Blaze on the Thames
were
London, Doc. 29. Twenty-two familias
evacuated from their homos with their dogs, cots, conaries and other pets when fire today turn- | ed a high stacked Thamos sido timber wharf into ɑ raging sou of flame.
Belgions, meanwhile, face the threat of no gas or électricity, after the nation's private gan! and electricity
company, Gazelco, last night announced it would stop production unless provincial
enforced governors adherence 10 regulations on. supply cuts.
The 30-year-old monarch, who was married only two weeks ago and was not due back from his honeymcon with Queen Febiola for another three weeks, began consultations last night three
hours after his return to Bel- glum from Spain, when be re- ceived. Mr Gaston Eyskens, the Prime Minister, Palace.
in Laeken
Extended
Royal consultations br usually extended to opposition Leaders at present the Socialista
throes of a cabinet
GOVERNOR K wants top-level ANCIENT
GOING TO
SINGAPORE
The Governor, Sir Hobert Black, will leave the Colony by air on Tues- day, for Bingapore attend the conference of Governors, administrators
to
of British territories, and British Ambassadors foreign countries in the Far Exit, which held every year and to attended regularly by the Governor
of Boughong.
Sir Robert will return to the Colony on January
8.
BONNIE BELL
THE DING
DONG GIRL
London, Dec, 29. .
A striptease artist was today alleged to have worn a G-string with a_boll__at- tached to it and to have invited customers to ring the ball.
A police sergeant sald the girl was mown as "Bonnie Bell the Ding Dong Girl,"
The sergeant was giving evid-
Paul Raymond,
talks at
United Nations
· London, Dec. 29.
Mr Nikita Khrushchev has passed word to the West that he seriously wants summit-lovel talks at the United Nations next year on halting the world
arms race.
Diplomatic authorities, report- ing this, sald the Soviet Premier also stressed Moscow's resolve to press for an East-West solu- tion of the Berlin dispatch during 1981,
These attitudes, were said 'tu have highlighted Mr Khrush- chev's 10-minute walk last Mon- day with Britain's newly-arrived ambassador in Moscow, Frank Roberts.
Restrained
the
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Gaitskell's
message
to party
London, Dec. 30.
SHIP FOUND
Sydney, Dec. 29. An' aqualung diver off the Queensland.coust.sudden- ly found himself staring at the well-preserved wrock of a wooden sailing ship which may be that of the British frigate Pandora, The frigoto went down in 1791 when taking, 14 mutineers to Britain for triol,
A.
Sydney
Donald Smith, yachtsmin, who made the dis covery, brought the ship's" "bell to the surface.
ahri
Today Dr Colin Roderick, Australian author and historian, said the bell's Inscription the size of the chip indicated that it might be the "hallship” Pandora,
The mutineers aboard (tho ship were put in lege, irons and cruelly treated. Four of them went down with the ship, when officers refused to remove their miracles.
Mc Khrushchev appeared restrained during
dir.
Mr Smith, who know ensions perhaps na si-after-Mr Hugh Gaitskell, leader of math to his recent. bout of
making arrangements to salynge the Labour Party, today the hulls, made his lucky, dive influenza.
called for talks to bring last month to free the anchor China into the United or a loop. Nations, in a New Year
OLD DESIGN- message to party members; He describes thẻ": "ship' as "g After hitting out at the Con-wooden vossal of old design in a remarkable stato of preserva- ing silence" on foreign polley
Its bell is two feet. long, and. | Me Gaitskell' declared: "Now 15
But, Informants said, while la manner socmed rubdued ond even friendly he gave absolutely no groundɔ for supposing that the Soviet Union at this time is
Issuce
this
when the country in the fence in a magistrates court where ready to make any concessions i servative. Governement's “deatention."
crisis nud
the King arbitrates at cabinet- forming
The Catholic-Liberal Cabinet
on the blg diplomatic proprietor
dividing Fast and West,
Some authorities in
of one of London's largest sirip
a disorderly house.
clubs, was charged with keeping | capital have formed the imprig, the time when we should be weighs 40 pounds. It carries an
Raymond, otherwise known as sion of one of Mir Khushchev' wessing our allies for a new ascription Indicating Hind it of Mr Eyckens not being con- Geoffrey Quinn, pleaded not
was cast in 17711. motivea in urging carly, die pooch,
Mr Smith's Elduayod immediate danger, guilty and reserved his defence,mament: talles between heads
sidop, with the "We should be realistic onbell on beard under guard, is the King would therefore norite was released on bail of £100 of government at UN head-defence, but this is not enough, now at Thursday Island, Just mally confine consultations to until the next hearing on
quarters is to create a setting hic ministers and majority Monday.
for informi exchanges parliamentary leaders.
President-elect John -AP.
In view of the agreed gravity ACTS DESCRIBED
of the situation, however, usual-
ly well-informed sources said it The sergeant
sold that
"was not excluded" the King male dancers hod appeared would receive the Socialists too, in the mude at "Raymond's Harassed by power cuts, and Revue Bar" and he described reduced train bus, tra and several acts. postal services, Belzizng face the
In one act, he alleged, a tenth day of the strike today naked woman was whipped by and
mounting Wave of sporadie violence.
Some sectors
It took 300 Bremen eight strikers hours to control the blaze at Barking Creek, near here,
As Government and Catholic FLUTEES reported an increased return to work in some sectors Socialists Increased ~ and absences un estimated 15,000 yesterday marched through Brussels blowing whis- tles, hurling thunderflashes, overturning
smashing cars, windows and' shouting for the Government to resign.
AL
Were charged
one point, they
ombre-flashing by mounted police and gendarmes with rifles at the ready,
fcmus, warehous and the ztcargo tanks of three oil com- panies were threatened ng Names shot 100 feet high despite the wuler being poured on to Baluba tribesmen in the Congo's the fire at a rate of 15,000 Katanga Province as "complete-gallon a minute. ty contrary to ecality."
The evacuated families were
In Antwerp, police húried tear The statement
lssund
gas bombs into demonstrators sponding the night on camp ifter
Colonci Henry Byrne beds in u school rest centre set strikes when the crowd tried to for the second time during the Irish U.N. Commander" in
up by voluntary workers.
storm the rallway station. Elisabethville had made on on- the-spot investigation
In Ghent, Socialists reported alleged incidents.
overal strikers and been in. Jured by police rifle butts during a prolonged clash outside Socialists' headquarters,
Was
of
In saying this we have no brier for big business, but simply
the Employees in a nearby office recognise the Important con-
escaped down ladders when the tribution it is making to
But the Katanga Government building was engulfed by the Hongkong's
economia pros tonight stuck by its
original flames. perity. The question of story that the train, on its way When a blazing barge broke whether any increase in taxa.. from Elisabethville to Kamină, ¦ its moorings and swung out into tion is necessary cannot be de. 250 miles away, had been af- the river towards the oil Lanics elded until the Government's tucked by Balubas at three a river police launch raced to proposals for the next financial places — Bukama, Nukulakulu | the barge and pushed it back to year are known. There have und Luca.--Reuter.
the whark.-Reuter. been no changes in taxation #ince 1980-51. And in the same perlad Government has in- creased taxation revenue from atmort $02 million to mare
than $193 million.
Certainly no reasonable
son
per.
can expect Govern- mont to. Do on
ing all the money it neede from existing Bources of revenue. And as ws appealed yesterday for a greater effort In rehousing and resettlement, It is logion that Government should be given the moans to sitempt big And ambitioun achames and at the same time bulld the ronde, hospitata, clinics, schools and reservoirs that a rapidly growing popula- tion neede But this has got to be done without bowing to As demands of those who want to seo Hangkong taxed to the hilt. The pubile will be looking for this recurence on budget day together with, the promiss that this will remain the cornerstone of Government potley for an ting an eanditione pilaw.
Siberian cold wave hits Colony
Sharp drop in
HK temperature
Hongkong experienced 'the coldest temperature this winter at 8 am today when the thermometer reading planged to a new low of 47.3 degrees Fahrenheil
This represents a drop of 3.5 · degrecs from the 55.9 dortees recorded at the same timo yesterday, and is 3.2 degrees lower than yesterday's Iminimum of 50.5 at 10 pm. A Royal Observatory spokesman told the China Msit This morning that today Hongkong is going through the peak of the cold spell caused by the cold surge from Alberis.
It will warm up a lille during the day but by night the temperature may drop a fow degrees further as the crest of the cold wave passes through the Colony.
As from tomorrow, the temperature la expected to riso slowly and gradually.
Forconst for today: Fino, Fresh gusty northerly winds. Cold and cloudless.
Red belt
the
a man dressed AS pirate. When asked what kind of emo- tlon the woman registered dur ing the act, the sergeant re- "Satisfaction.”—Reuter, plied:
Differences over Laos situation
Washington, Dec, 29.
The United States has been
"We must combine it will off the northern tip of Queen- with positive proposals for relaxingsland and about 130 miles from Kennedy, tension and breaking the deada amall liland named Pandora
East-West German
agreement
Berlin, Dec. 20. West and East Germany today agreed to extend their present trade agreement beyond the Do-. cember 31 deadline, thus re- moving a potential danger to Western traffe to this city.
lock of the cold war.
INITIATE TALKS
"We should Initiate talks to bring the Pelding Government into the United Nations,
"We should propose negotie- Lions to establish a controlled zone of disarmament in Central Europe.
"We should be discussing the reform of the United Nations new significance of the countries so that its structure reflects the of Asia and Africa,
"So there is a great job to be done both in criticising the divited wealeness of the Government and in putting forward our own Agreement was reached today constructive proposals", he add- after a seven-hour session, the | od-Reuter. longest of nine sessions held between the West and Fast German representatives here on a new trade treaty,
The talks followed a West Germion announcement
in disagreement with France September that it intended
to
In
to
ond Bifials on the best policy cancel the trade agreement on Be adopted by the three | December 31 because of Easi countries towards the situation German travel restrictions on In Imos. the State Department West Berlin.
The East Germans warned pokesman confirmed today.
The
that recently that there might be spokesman sald differences of viewpoint on this difficulties with rall traffic to Issue had emerged and were Bertin
Logreement was not "cans mality
andreached.--Reuter, over
He said the three methods," Throughout the striking "red countries were fully agreed on
the •fundamental bele in the south, where mine, which was to co-operate to pre- objective, steel works and factories con- need to be idle, stricas com-
terve the integrity, independence and sovereignty of Laos, mitted further nets of sabotage, held up traffic with barricades and tried to prevent non-strikes from going to work.
In Brussels, foot weary citizens learned that tram and ine employees had opted for a 48-hour continuation of their
10 hvo two-day, strike, die ended last night-Reuter,
U.S. and its Atlanile allies over Disagreements between the
TRAIN DERAILED
New York, Dec. 20. solution" for Laos, were not ern
A 17-car, southbound North-
Profic
train passenger serious, the spofresman said. The corrying about 800 people was aunculty was to find a solution derailed. hero today, at at once peaceful and realimbic Payyallup, Washington, DC. and which guaranteed the free-Twelve people were taken to dom of Lacs and put an end to hospitals but only three were Commimist interference there, injured seriously enough to re- he added-AFP.
main there—UPI,
Man reported dead by mistake
Manckteier, Deo. ¡9. |
A nurse's error plunged a family luto mourwứng- ihla Christmas, For more than 34 hours. Mrs Mary Hughes' belleveg herself. in widow, k
lier agony started`on ́Chrislands 'Eve and way not endoă until 'the' morning of December. 20 (when she called at Withington Horpital to collent her · Buka band's death cartifienie, ·
Hughes was alive; and doing well, AZ
John Hughes, 65, was admitted | to hospital early on Christians Evo. illa granddaughter' was A nursing sister híd confused fold, over the telephone, Jater „him.with another John Hughes that night that \ho had died, in the same ward who died on Bbe broke the nowa to boula ChristionsEve... after there Roughes, 43, who, told his )........weöks în höeplial. mother.
The family spent what. they "It was tragio mittske," a onlied "a miserablo. Christ» ......... hospital, odizisi admitted. • "A
Then, calling Kí tho
heuplici
lotter, conveying our... deposi apologies has boss angi to Mrs Hughes and her family,”—AF.
מון
December 10,
they wore › told that, John i
entrance,
Tho captate of the Pandora, court-martiale? after the los of his vessel, left the myy arai retired to Cornwall where ho bullt the Pandora Inn which still maintains its 16th century appearance.
BOUNTY MUTINEERS
The mutineers nboard the Pandora were survivors of the Bounty mutiny, one of the most famous in British history. This occurred not far out from Tahiti crew and some affioers seized on April 28, 1789 when half the the Bounty and cast its. despotic master, Captain Bligh and 18 others, adrift in an open boat.
The story was told in the film "Mutiny on the Bounty" starring the lɛte Clark Gabla and Charles. Laughton-Reuter.
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