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Exiled general claims he masterminded plot
of the REBEL SHIP ELUDES HUNTERS
day
Three decades
I Wally known that the TT was generally and regret- j
bust
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Direttor Education, Ar D; J. Crozier, would be retiring this year, somehow, seeing it in cold unsentimental print brings the fact, with all its im plications, right home to us. For Mr Crozier Apent thirty years with the Hongkong Education De- partment, the last ten Director and these 30 years divide into three important; decades, bound up with the history of the Colony. The end of the first decade
say all shat Mr Crozier i and his colleagues tood for destroyed, for an alien conquerer systematically set out to destroy all the democratic procensess western culture so closely knitted to Chinese tradi- Lion, and to substitute in Its place a pseudo Teuton philosophy of the master
of Mr
race.
THE first years
af
Crozier's second decule welo spent under the humillating circumstances of a prisoner-of-war, an embittered by experience the fact that beyond the confinés of the prison
coun camp,
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martial education ists, drunk with self glory, were gloating over their victory, not only of arins but of culture. Halfway through this decade, the tide turned, and the Colony minus everything but the determination of dedicated men, was handed back. The road back was hard.
Short of equipment, room, of schools, of even the everyday necessities of achcol life, the Education Department began to re- build itself. Then, as the goul seemed within sight, the Education Department received its greatest chal- lenge which coincided with the
Мг appointment of Crozier as Director. NTO the Colony in their thousands poured refugees who sought to Bud a way of life amid the democratic Institutions of Hongkong. and with them came their children. But this chini- lenge was met by the right man In the right
place. Heedless of the ill-informed clamour on one hand, and ignoring the carping critic jorn on the other, Mr Crozier planned not only for immediate needs, but for the years ahend. Ilc aimed his sights high, but his aspirations did not exceed his abilities, and the China Mail had cause to run a complimentary | leader a few months ago, not because the Education Department had met its target, but because it had exceeded it.
E should imagine that Mr Crozier must have found these last ten years the most gratifying of all the thirty years he has είναι to the Education Department. He has laid the foundation atone of educa tlonal expansion well and truly, and his planned polley is the design from which the future of educa tion in this Colony can. develop.
Also at this early hour, we congratulate Mr Donohue, the Director of Education cloct,
He comes to his formidable task, rich with not experience gathered only in Hongkong, but in Trinidad. He la cognisant not only with the problema of education peculiar to this Colony, but with the prob- lems which face education everywhere.
This not the moment to say gither forowell or wel- come, but the China Mail takes this opportunity of offering congratulations to Mr Crozior for past ochlovements
and winhos to Mr Dogohue for future success.
Naval and air
search
of Caribbean
San Juan, Jan. 24.
The luxury liner Santa Maria, seized by "patriot pirates" trying to overthrow the Portuguese Government, vanished with its 600 terrified passengers tonight | in the Spanish Main.
The US Navy Caribbean command was stumped,
British polled at Port Castries, St Lucia, in the Windward Islands, speculated that the master of the 20,000-ton Portuguese cruise ship was sailing at machinegun-point either to Cuba or to Brazil, seat of a Portuguese exlle movement against Lisbon's strongman Premier, Antonio de Oilverira Salazar.
Henrique Malta Galvao,, the 65-year-old anti-Salazar leader of the group which took over the ship after an armed battle with the crew, Iagued one radio message saying his aim was "lo free all of Portugal" and praising Brazil, where
he is sald to be heading.
All normal
He said all was normal aboard and the 600 passengers weil and mostly "enthusiastic" at his move.
In Lisbon, where hundreds of anxious relatives of the Uner's crew gathered at the owners' offices, the angry Portuguese Government issued a statement condemning the rebels as "not politicians or idealists... just outlaws."
Portugal turned out extra police patrols and the Portuguese Navy ordered warships to rurround Atlantic island possessions to prevent any breakthrough by the Santa Maria -named for the little vessel of Christopher Columbus which discovered this part of the world,
In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the exiled Portuguese opposition leader, General Humberto Delgado, said he masterminded the plot, which had been hatching; for five or six months. He said the 70-odd rebels "would not be responsible for any blood spllled" if wae- ships tried to stop the Santa Maria, He denied reports that the ship was headed for Cuba. He appealed to Britain and America
10 to Interfere.
Apparently blacked-out and under total radio silence, the ship was churning across trople waters while Ave US Navy radar- equipped planes probed for it.
Got head start
Traffic chief tells of accident
Alexander Morrison, Senior
Superintendent of Polico today told Contral Magis- trato Mr I.T. Morris how he became involved in an accident on his motor- cyclo.
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Was
Al Causeway Bay Court said that at about 2.05 pm, unl October 14 last year he driving his motor-cycle west- wards in Queen's-rond East ap- proaching Wanchal Market.
"I saw standing
Chinese woman on the double-white
ines with her body facing to- wards the market," Morrison soid. "She was looking to her left In the direction of оп- coming tramc. I was travelling 21 the speed 15 miles per hour." She was over 30 feet in front
of him, Morrison continued, and was stationary.
Stepped back
was so un-
*When 1 was about 15 feet from her, she suddenly stepped back. H action expected and the distance be- tween us was so imited that I was unable to take any avoid
and to apply my
og setlon
brakes.
"I struck her, or rather the of my motorcycle headlamp struck her on the right side of She was carried for- her back. ward on my motorcycle for a few feet and then she was flung
straight forward.
This photo shows the s* Baudouinville which is one of two ships bought by P & O. for their Far Eastern route. She will be renamed Cathay.
CARTHAGE & CORFU
BEING REPLACED
Two well-known P & O liners, the Carthage and the Corfu, are being withdrawn from service and replaced by two new vessels, it was an-
nounced today.
The replacements will be the Chitral and the Cathay. tons and the
The Chitral, of 13,790 gross Cathay, of 13,922 Grosa_lons, were formerly the sa Jadotville and as Baudouinville respectively.
The new ships will come Into service at a time when P & O Orient Lines extend operations
Japan.
beyond Hongkong
The Jadotville and the
"She struck the ground with her head and slithered forward to a point in the roadway which was, directly in a straight line with the path of my molor-cargo cycle," Morrison testined.
He said he dialled 999 calling for an ambulance and the police
Jured woman,
"We have no theory as to what action the ship may be and then returned to the In- taking," a navy spokesman sald here,
"Once you've got a head start it's pretty hard to find you on the ocean," he said.
American and British warships patrolled the Windward Is- Jand chain. But like a ghostly galleon, the big grey ship had Kiven them the slip, cruising at speeds around 20 knots and with
enough fuel to last for a trip of several thousand miles and enough fuod for 20 days.
Unconscious
"She was unconscious bul recovered her consciousness within
She few minutes. wanted to get up but I did not allow her to move," Morrison
said.
It could be anywhere within an area of 800,000 square miles, police constables arrived on the the Navy spokesman said.
Col David McGoun, 57, police chief of St Lucia, said the ship headed in a north-northeast direction" after stopping there yes
terday to unload a boatload of eight crewmen.
In London, the, full story of yesterday's cal-and-mouse game In the Caribbean emerged today.
This was the reconstruction of the drama, built up from a inass of cables flooding into the Admiralty and the Foreign Ofce from the area;
It was nine o'clock in the morning. Commodore Colln Shand, 45-year-old Senior British Naval Omcer in the West Indies, was with the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, administrator of St Lucia, when the Santa Maria was sighted.
The two British officials Iooked out of the window of Government House to where the luxury 20,000-ton cruise ship was sailing by on a north-easterly course towards Martinique.
All
very ordinary
There seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary. Then
at 9.30 the Santa Maria cast anchor. Later a life boat put
He sold when Sub-Inspector Tang Wal-poon with four other
scene almost immediately after The accident, ho instructed Inspector Tong to look for wit nesses.
Then the ambulance arrived and the woman was conveyed to the Queen Mary Hospital.
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Baudouinville, both passenger- Ilners, were recently purchased by the P & D Steam
Navigation Company from the Cle Mariume Belge (Lloyd An on- Royal), SA. Antwerp. nouncement was made in the Chion Mail last week.
Chitral will begin her first voyage for P & O-Orient on March 1 when she leaves London (with a call at Southampton on March 3) for the Far East, re- placing the Carthage.
First sailing
Cathay's first sailing from London will be on April 12, with departure from Southamp- 10р оп Арті 14.
When the callings of the two new ships are fully integrated in the schedules, they, together "I told Inspector Tang or with P&O cargo liners, will rather I pointed out to him the offer a fast, regular service to skid mark made by my motor- the Far East, providing a calen- cycle and the position of the in- dar month service UK-Japan- Jured woman when she finally UK. fell," Morrison went on.
"I
Investigated
Chitral and Cathay will each 1 also pointed out to him the carry approximately 240 passen approximate point of Impact.
gers in first class only, The tourist-class trade, which w23 by the two-class covered
Corfu will be Carthage and carried in other ships of P& O-Orient, either homeward bound from the Pacle or call- Mr. H. Caine of Messrs John- Ing at Bombay en route to and son, Stokes und Master, repic- from Australla.
told him the accident would be investigated. I then got on my motorcycle and returard to my office."
in at Castries, the Island's main part, under the command seating Morrison, asked, "You of the Second Purser Jose Reis.
Laid you rode back to
your
With Rels were eight men, Including a wounded officer Juse offlce. Do you as a police offer Souso, and a dead officer, John Costa.
conder there is anything
The sailing of the Santa Maria was delayed while the Earl, wrong?" the chief of police and the commodore conferred with Rels.
Former ships
Each of the new ships has a enough to "Not at all. I had explained restaurant (large in detail to Sub-Inspector Tang permit meals in one sitting), a
spacious main Jounge with
But as none of them could understand Portuguese It took a long time for the purser to make himself understood. Meanwhile the relevant points at that stage dance floor, a reading and writ the Sonia Maria had made of.
It was about 11.30 am by the time a coherent account of an the high seas takeover had been conveyed. All ships and Morrison answered. aircraft were alerted at 11.30 am.
Off to
Brazil
Commodore Shand decided that United States ships bared
on Puerto Rico or in the area would be able to intercept | the Santa Maria if she made for Cuba.
So he decided to steam towards Brazil, where it was thought
the Santa Maria might head for asylum. But the search continues with no sign whatever of the missing ship-UPI, AFP and Reuter.
REFINERY FIRE
Houston, Jan. 24.
A heavy explosion rocked the Houston ship channel tonight am started a big fire at an all
cenery.
All available ambulances went to the sectie. One man is re- good portel badly burned.
Oll storage tanka exploded, police, saki-Ruler.
CHARGED WITH MURDER OF 12
Montreal, Jan, 24.,
for the Initial Investigation of Ing room, smoke room (with a
accident of that nature,"
bor and cafe), a large chlidren's Mr D. N. E. Rea, Crown Coun. Play room, a cinema, shop, hair- a hospital. rel, assisted by Detective In-dressing salon, and spector A. T. Shelley, of the General Investigation Depart-
ment, appeared for the Crown. Editor jumps
Hearing is continuing.
RAIN
AND SNOW
IN CHINA
to death
Hollywood. Jan. 24. Norman Siegel, editor for a national screen magazino and a Tokyo, Jan. 25. former
chiet publicity
for More then an inch of rain Paramount Pictures, leaped to and mow has fallen on many his death at noon today from the parts of drought-parched China top floor of a 13-storey build-
inco Saturday, according to a ing, police reported. New China News Agency re-
Police sald Siegel, 50, West Abel Vorburgh, 61-year-old port monitored here today. Const editor of Photoplay labourer whogo wife and 11 of But the agency cald the rain gazine, landed on the third- their 10 children were found and now were still not heavy floor roof of an adjoining bulld- dead in their fire-roved shanty enough to make up for the drying on Hollywood Boulevard,
which on homo at Sweetzburgh, Quebec, 'spell
Communist From 1940 to 1051, Siegel wna was arraigned today on charges oficials blame China's promt manager of publicity and ad- of murdering them-AP.
famine,~~UPI.
verting at Paramount-UPI.
Northern
BANKS
JUMP
$80
Hongkong Bank shares mado another spectacular leap at the local stock ox- change this morning. The highest quotation reached was $1,660 at which 105 shares were sold.
$80
This represents an increase of over yesterday's highest
Прите of $1,500 the biggest ingle day Jump ever recorded.
Following Bank's peak quota- went prices gradually down to $1.035 due to proft- taking. However, at the close there were, buyers for $1,040 but no sellers,
tion,
A local sharebroker said that the big demand for Banks was the result of the increased pro- fits and alvidend annoupeca lost night.
DECLINES
He said that there wore small declines in most other shares in the stock market this morning. He said those shares ad al- ready reached high figures and affected by profit- There is a well protected open-armed merchant cruiser on the they were air swimming pool.
Patrol. Her speed taking this morning. enabled her to overhaul almost The approximate turnover this any suspect ship she sighted, morning amounted to $0,230,000, and up to 11 ships in one day This is one of the best turnovers were boarded by her crew,"
a Wednesday half-day Within with
of a month
The for declaration of the last-war the session, the record being about Carthage.
$7 million.. was taken by the Admiralty and sent
The Hongkong and Shanghai
The restaurant, main, lounge, cinema, hairdressing salon and some cabins are air-conditioned and the remainder of the accom-
modation Is fitted mechanical ventilation heating.
+
Refitted
and
Chitral and Cathay revive two famous P & O names of the past. The Arst Chitral was built in 1925 on the Clyde, There have been two Calhay's in the The first history of P & O. was a three-masted iron-screw steamer with one funnel bullt In 1872 at Dumbarton. The accond was also bullt in 1025 on the Clyde.
over
to Calcutta to be reftled She Banking Corporation's profit was armed with six-inch guns for 1960 was $42,190,000, com- and attached to the East Indies pared with $20,402,502 for 1959. and Eastern Beels convoys and patrols.
escorting carrying out
The Jadulville was built by the Chantlers et Atlantique de St Nazaire (Penhort) and was completed in 1950.
The Baudouinville
a
Thh Bank has announced final dividend for 1980 of £2- 103. per
share, bringing the year's total dividend to £3. 155. against a total of £3 poid in 1950.
was built The Bank has also proposed by the SA Cockerill-Ougree, to sub-divide each existing and was share of $135 par value into
five shares of $25 each,
In the early stages of the last Hoboken, Antwerp war the Corfu operated as an completed in 1957.
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