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CHINA
No. 37897
Established 1845 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1961.
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Counter-espionage agents raid London homes
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What's the use?
TT is almost with a note of
what Bse it' is Government spending millions of dulkers on improving roads, in- stalling safety precautions, and posting policemen abouting information
the use and abuse of the rends, if their strictures
Large amounts
of money found
London, Feb. 8.
and Information are treated British counterspies today told where they
with woll favoured COM- tempt?
For contempt it is. It is of any -informed or kindly
no Use Visitor
intern- tioned resident trying to any that people do not know how to use the reads. Government has placarded the danger zones; held road safety exhibitions to which the public and the school children
invited: placed poliermen at nccident black spots; and has tried in a hundred different ways to arouse civic responsibi lity.
were
to
The point about it is that
Government is trying Rave life, not impose an irritating, meaningless C striction Un Hongkong's citizens. But the response is sheer contempt.
OOK at Nathan-rond, At
Look at a trou Ex
pense and labour, this main artery of Kowloon has been levelled and down its centre
railing forbids heedless crossing of the rond, while controlled trafic crossings the pedestrian's
ensure
safety.
found evidence against three men and two women accused of stealing Western naval secrets for Moscow.
Scotland Yard Special Branch'n navy plan were found at his ofleers testified during a pre-home, poller said. trial hearing at Bow-street Police testilled Miss Gee court that they uncovered tools shared a house with a' 76-your-
uncle,
80-year-old of the spy's trade in n Bibi old
mother and an 80-year-old aunt. under
The counterspies said Miss Gen, who was paid less than £700 a year, was found to have securi- Hles and cash worth about £4,000.
a trapdoor beneath kitchen sink, in an almos, empty box of matches, in the leather of an old belt and in a bog
garden shed.
X
55.
und
They said they found the evi dence at the homes of the live defend nis-Gordon Lonsdale, 38; Henry Houghton, Ethel Gee, 40, bath Admiralty silver-haired employees; bookseller Peter Kroger, 55, und his wife Helen, 47.
and
that
During the two days of hear- ings in Bow-street court, the
alleged prosecutors Houghton and Ethel Gee stole ftert orders, communication scerels, anti-submarine research data and other Information from Britain's Portland naval base,
Spy bank
Lonsdale, whom the prosecu- tluti
bo a cald "seems to Russian",
recruited ullegedly and took them
their stolen Kroger's neat Bitle bungalow near the U.S. Air Force base at South Ruislip. The Kroger home, according to the prosecution, served as the spy radio station to Moscow and
a spy ring bank
Go down Nathan-road
any time you 18e and you will see the heedless pedestriansecrets to the jay-walking in the road and vaulting the rail, landing them stumbling in front of the oncoming traille. The unly purpose this ruil has served is that the erstwhile oaf behind the wheel is now unable to execute his erratic U-turns.
The rounterspies said in the Kroger home they found!
Microfilm in a Bible.
A Ronson table ★
cigarette lighter with secret compartments contain- ing negatives.
A powerful radio hid- den In a shopping bag under
trapdoor beneath the kitchen sink.
room.
D
Headphones and **k* other radio in the living
Money, cameras and a long aerial in the attic.
A talcum powder can with secret compar{- ments In. the bathroom cup- board.
Onl the roads leading eff Nathan-road to the airport, roundabouts have been constructed approached by triangular intersections, constructed by an over- optimistic department of Government, with the ob- vious intention of foreing the driver to approach at controllable speed, and the pedestrian to co-operate by erossing at the clearly in- dicated zones. Whatever the good intentions, the results are alarmning. The oaf who would sooner wreck his car or risk the lesser hazard of breaking his neck approaches these obstacles at a breakutek speed as if they were placed there for his delight, while | alleged master spy's dat they the pedestrian weaves his found: US$300 in US$20 notes fatuous way in and out of hidden in a secret cavity in au the traffic.
old belt; a talcum can with a secret compartment holding microfim pictures of
secret naval communication plans; 4 flashlight with a false battery; a magnifying glass in the bath-
A miscroscope, film, slurs. and 200 five- pound notes in the bedroom, Lonsdale's luxurious uport- ment In London also contained a hoard of money, according to polles. They testified that in the
TN a more restricted sense. the same contempt for authority exista in Queen's- rond. All day long irres- ponsible people are leaping room cupboard; US$300 In a the rails. While to stand Chinese scroll over Lonsdale's bed, and a leather bag full of | photographle guar,
at the two controlled cross-
inga and se these free- Police said Houghton booters ignore the policemen paid
was
The court continues the hear- ing tomorrow-UPI.
FULL WATER
SUPPLY FOR 8 DAYS
A round-the-clock supply of water will be available throughout the Colony over the Chinese New Year
the holidays.
Water Authority
to. announced
Jay.
Au uninterrupted supply of water will be given from
6 am on Tuesday, February
X until i am on Wednes-
day, February 22.
Thereafter the Colony will revert to the present 10 hours supply.
SHOCK FIND
IN TRAIN
FROM CHINA
to
Nine Chinese men were
Found almost frozen death inside a refri- attached gerated wagon
to the KCR train which arrived in Tsimshatsui at 3.58 pm yesterday from China,
Porters unloading frozen meat iren the refrigerated warsa were shocked to find the lac men lying pals nd rigid in sub-zero temperature.
The wagon was attached to the end of the train which was said to have arrived direct from Croton.
The young men, cll aged un- der 23, had been in-derp-freeze dor at least four to five hours before they reached Tsimshat
sti.
They were unconscious when faken out of the wagon.
im- Police and rescue team mediately scf about reviving them. They were inter placed in police custody.
About £740 a yeng but and grin with contempt us had £1,150 hidden at his home they weave through the in a cupboard and in a garden trable is to wish that they shed. Naval maps and a match A government spokesman said
box containing four matches and 'enquiries are proceeding.
could at least encounter a painful brush to knock some aense into their heads, Queen's-road East is a driver's nightmare. Not all the crossings, or the patient constables shepherding these irresponsible hoeplika residents seems to be of any use. We are loathe to advise, and we are sure Government is anxious to avold, elvic chastening for civic offences, but the time is well past when a sort of punishment to At the crime was imposed upon the spot. Wo might suggest n sort of pound where impatient folk could cool down for thirty minutes; and in the case of motoriste tho Iminodinto confiscation of their licence for. n fortnight or so,
money
Qantas BUFFER STATE
MONGOLIA
PICA
RUSSIA
CHINAME
KENNEDY MAY RECOGNISE
THE LAND THAT REDS
ARE FIGHTING OVER
From RENE MacCOLL
Washington, Feb. 8.
The possibility of setting up diplomatic relations
theft
the
San Francisco, Feb. 9 Two men arrested for theft of $100,000 shipped from Hongkong to a San Francisca bank were indicted yesterday by the Federal Grand Jury.
PORTUGUESE OPPOSITION PUBLICISED
James L. Chapman, 20. a cargo agent for Qantas Empire Airways, was charged with All
taking the money on January 20 from a Qantas sate at San Francisco international airport.
Lisbon, Feb. 8. four Lisbon evening newspapers published to- night the full text of the communique of the three opposition leaders who on Monday urged President Americo Tomas to restore "funda- mental liberties" to the nation.
Thomas J. Darling, 32, à San Francisco insurance clerk, was charged with possession of some of the money and also with failure to inform officers of his It is a long time since the The spokesman added: "The knowledge that I was stolen, people of Portugal read in their Government does not consider Virtually all the money wna hewspapers such outspoken cri- the interview granted by the recovered. It had been con- tfelsni of the Government of Dr President to be of any particu- signed to the Crocker-Anglo | Anlenta de Oliveira Salazar us lar importance. The three visi- National Bank.-AP.
tors they did tonight.
received only 05 private citizens, and not វាទ the oppos!- representatives of
on.". The
Diario 10aight
Felt better
Weru
lustrado
An official spokesman said: erhe Government considered to be its duty to give the highest
Independent Bonn, Fob. 8. publicity to this communique,
commented A man who threw rocks from because it will provoke a healthy
thurt the raising of politics) ques- a motor scooter ut women and reaction of public opinion." young girls because he "hated The spokesman said the fact tions at this moment could only and confu- nil healthy people"
was that three of the Lisbon evening lead to divisions eight years senienced
in newspapers and three.
Oporto sions."
Meanwhile, the Lusitania newn prison today.
newspapers published, in nd-
today in a report Ludwing Ries,
the 25, Wits dition to
communique, agency sald
at from Angola, 100 people had critical counts of editorial comment attempted murder and several the communique, conarmed the been arrested in Luanda in can- lesser charges,
to
convicted on
four
"I always felt better after between the United States and Outer Mon-ward," he said.-UPI. golia is being considered by a group of Presi- dent Kennedy's State Department advisers.
that nection with three attacks on a police posts on February 4 in which 18 persons were belleved killed.--Reuter and AP.
Government's publication "healthy reaction."
view
cause would
Outer Mongolis is a 200,00 power struggle between Rusia Government wins Marilyn ill
square mile mesa of grassy up- land, inhabited by about 5,000,- 800 Nomadie Asiátle cowboys.
The importance of the Mongo. lian People's Republic is two- fold:-
1
Its position-with the Siberian provinces of the Soviet Union to the north, and the Red Chinese province of Sinklang to the scuth.
On the east it borders Man- churia, and to the west, the Turkestan provinces of Russia.
and Chinc
Their agents vle with one another in increasingly strenuous rivalry In the capital of Ulan Baloi "City of the Red Knight." Back in 1924, the Soviet Union recognised China's suzerainty cvor Outer Mongolia, But by the Sinc-Itussian treaty of 1945, Peking recognised the county's "complete independence."
thus The country "autonomous" in name at least.
But in the past five years Mao Tre-lung's men have made great efforts to oust Russian influence.
vote on National Health
London, Feb. 8.
became The British Government tonight defeated a La- bour motion censuring it for increasing charges to the public for the National Health Service by about $65 million a year.
➜ It has in the past few years | Huge numbers of Chinese become the scene of a silent; labsurers and "advisers" have
ESCAPE KITS
BOUGHT IN JAIL
ALLEGATION
London. Feb. 8, Prisoners from Penton- ville prison told a court here today that they were able to buy do-li-yourself cecapo kits inside the pri- son from a warden.
The warden, Woltam George Alston, 34, Also
"Tho Chewing known Gum Kid", was committed for trial on charges of hav- ing aided three prisoners to
rc- escape all were
of having captured-and given cell-key impressions to two other prisoners.
Nine prisoners testified that Alaton had sold them hacksaw blades (21), and cell key Impressions (from
13
They to £5).
Also quoted prices for master keys to a cell block as £10 and the master key to the whole fall as £25.-VPL
HK telephone tapping
in Commons
question in
London, Feb. 8.
Mr Ernest Thornton (Labour) asked the Colonial Secretary In the House of Commona to- day on how many ocoMMTOTIS private telephone lines Hongkong were tapped by thỏ
Hongkong Pollen in 1860.
in.
Mr Thorton, farther asked br what authority the longkong Telephone Company made the technical arrangements for
the fapping, of pelvato tele. phone lines, and for, how long. they had been so employed. Mr Iain Macleod replied:
Tie also seked how many record-
ings of telephone conycran- | "I. AUX
by tions were mado
this and who means, sponsible for the custody these recordings.
WILE
To-
of
advised the authority under which the Governor of Hongkong, may require 'thn Hongkong Telephone Com- pany to Intercept telephone
messages is contained in See- tion of the Telecommunlcs- tion. Orduxace of 1930, "I understand the arrangements
with the minde
company. which is a 'Pubilo company operating under a franchise granted by tho Hongkong of fong
Government,
standing.
"It would not be in the pabilo
interest to
disclose details. about the use of the authori-, 17"-Reuter.
The voting was 321-231- entered Outer Mongolla.
Government
of 80 majority The Russians, alarmed, have
The Labour mollen deplored been forced to counter Peking's constant propaganda that Outer the increases as indicating that Mongolla might like to merge the Government WIS deter- "her Astatic brothers" in Innermined to undermine the health Mongolia si a part of Red service and place heavy burdens Chira.
an those least, able to betur them,"
Disconcerting?
Government spokesman re- It was essential. to Jocep the cost of the servise,
£650
The selling up of an Ameri-plied that can Embassy in Ulan Bator -
Mr Enoch Powell, Minister of Health, promised to do some- thing to reduce the service's drug bill of about £90 million
your,
in line with the Kennedy Ad-now running at over ministration's "now frontier" million a year, within bounds, diplomacy might be highly disconcerting to the Reds.
None
the of
arguments against recognition of Ching applies in the case of Mongolia he holds no Americans pri- soner and has no expansionist or aggressive Intentions, such as Peking han displayed oVCT Formosa, Tibet, and India.
And since America already maintains diplomatic relations with such satellito countries as and Czecha- Bulgaria, Poland, slovakia, there is nothing against it in principle.
An American Embassy fa Ulan Bator would provide at the least a valuable "Itstening post" deep in the heart of Asia.
In negotiations with the in- dustry, the Government would not overlook ony genuine possibility of securing a true and economie price for drugs supplied through the pharma- ceutical service, he said.
was
Chief target of criticism by Labour members tonight the Government's decision to double the charge for each item on a doctor's prescription (from one shilling to two)-Reuter,
Bombs thrown
in London cafes
London, Feb. 9. Police launched wide- spread investigations in the Greek Cypriot aren of London today after a gang of youths wrecked two Greek Cypriot cafes with home-made bombs, knuckle milk bottles, dusters and bicycle chains last night,
X Three customers-all 10 Grecks were taken
and hospital with cuts bruises. Both cafes, in a dingy part of Camden Town, were strewn with broken glass.
Eyewitnesses said the youths threw bomby into one cafe, then kicked down
the the door of second one, only a few yards away, and get about heating up an old man who had been cat- ing his dinner.
One Greek cafe pro- prietor Bald friction had grown between "Teddy Boys" and Greeks in the Greek because Cypriot youths, had been. pinching.. their girl friends-Reuter.";
.arca
TC-
New York, Feb. 8. Screen-stor Marilyn Monroc is being treated in a New York psychiatric elinie for nervous depression following her cent divorce from playwright Arthur Miller, a New York dally newspaper reported today.
The report said that Miss Monroe, whose
divorce obtained in Mexico last month,
was
hnd entered the clinic on Decem- ber 5 under the name of Faye Miller. It added that, according
to her doctor, the star was re- covering-AFP.
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