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Established 1845 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1961.
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Comment Red rocket more than 100,000 miles from earth
of the SPACESHIP ON WAY TO VENUS
day
Rockets galore
DEGINNING with a timid
B
bang and answered by a Balvo of crackers, the Chinese New Year will be ushered in. From then on, the Colony will rock and roll to the crepitation
julbs and the
detonation
thunder-inshes, So,
since time immemorial fave
Soviet Union three
years ahead
in planet
race
Moscow, Feb. 13.
the Chinese heralded their The Russian spaceship which was launched on Sunday is now
New Year.
In the ancient day, when
China was at leisure and
more than 100,000 miles from the earth and if all goes well
it will approach Venus about May 15.
the Dragon throne held the This will give man his first contact with the other planets.
country in feudal bondage, such ancient customs weie well adjusted to ancient usages, but since China has awakened from its ler, sleep, i hus frowned upon the iniliscriminate use of the festive firecracker in
modern surroundings.
We can well recall ourselves
the frat Chinese New Year celebrated under the new reginw. and with Chinese friends felt a little
sad to see the passing of an old eustoin, yet respect ing the wisdom of the new Kovernment who banishes entirely the firework from the highways where a care- lesuly thrown cracker i would endanger life and Ilmb.
ȚERE, Ja Hongkong,
GAS SUPPLY
AT REDUCED
PRESSURE
The overall gas supply to Hongkong island is being maintained today at re duced pressure as a result of a burst gas main in
The Soviet Union orbited a new "heavy" sputnik carrying a 1,415-pound piggy back spaceship which was detached on command from earth and sent on an interplanetary flight to Venus with a Soviet flag in its nose on Sunday.
The formal Tass announce- [. Apart from the moon, the meat was, mude when the planet Venus is the nearest to spaceship was almost 100,000 earth. It can appreach to with- miles from earth.
It was an unprecedented shot, made three years ahead of
planned US, planes probe and it
won cheers from Western seient-
Ists as a fantastic demonstration of rocketry."
25 million alles in its orbit round the sun, while Mars is of- ways more than 34 million miles away.
Vénus-the "evening star"
is currently on one of its closest approaches to the earth.
This could be a bid by the It is closer to the sun than the Soviet Union--which has al carth and at its most brilijant ready photographed the hidden i la far superior to any object Queen's-road East near side of the Toon-to photo in the sky except the sun and Gresson-street,
graph earth'a mystery neighbour, mocn. The gas mala sprang a leak always hidden behind a veil of! shortly before 11 pm yesterday clouds. and caught fire,
The was said to have
Here ancient customs been caused by a street urchin
And
been
is
Near future
future" Lo
The question of whether there
in ice.
Failed
Probing the universe
BELGIAN ENVOY
AND WIFE
ESCAPE INJURY
is life there has long perplexed scientists, Many astronomers believe that the planet is a hot rub elbows with modern who let off a firecracker nearby. A Moscow broadcast said in dusty desert without a scrop of
The moving aerial and elvilisation.
that Ruslan molslure. Other views are that authority is Workers today began repair-December 1959,
the entire surface is covered #bilway tracks of the radia scientists hoped "In the very with water, or that is covered star interferometer, or aarial, Fouth
lo interfere withing the burst gas maln
A spokesman for the Hong-near
photograph cherished usages, but at the kong and Chint Gas Co. Ltd. Venus and Mars.
at the Mullard radio astro- same time both the Chinese
said this morning the
did The Tass announcement repair
The only relatively definite in-nomy observatory in Cam- the Europeans are
work is expected to be com- not give the weight of the heavy | formation has come from inves-bridgo, which was used by a agreed that suine control pleted within 24 hours as from satellite orbiting the earth-but must be observed in the
it is believed here that it might tigations of the atmosphere sur-team of six scientists to noon today.
rounding the planet.
probe deep into the heavons interest of personal safely. A Government spokesman have been a sputnik like the one a week age. Little It is somewhat amusing to sald the cretion of the
road launched
in searching for evidence of editorial affected is now
has since been said of that space look back at an
open to west-
how the universo began. The probe. written by the Friend of bound traffic only.
These investigations have so scientists, led by Prof Martin This trafic restriction
far failed to detect water va-Rylo, FRS (betow), 42, China over a hundred years
keily
continue for the next
have Professor of Radio Astro- sgo in reply to an indignant
atmosphere few days until damage to the
pour or free oxygen but shown that the
University European who had
gas muln has been repaired."
Is extremely nomy round the planet thrown from his horse in
rich in carbon dioxide gas. of Cambridge and Director Queen's-rond, after the poor
Mullard radio This gives weight to the benst had been frightened
"greenhouse" theory" with the astronomy observatory, have string of
crackers hy a
sun's heat blanketed in so that been researching for mine The thrown under its feel.
the surface temperature of the years. They claim they have Writing on February 7, 1849,
planet would be very high. the Editor said that the dis- wa3 charge of crackers necessary to secure good fortune, but went on
..but the abune say
Df is different. We witnessed personally a mass of burn- Ing crackers thrown the whole width of Queen's- roud so as to alight in front of a rider."
complained
to
The fire was put out at 0.24 am today, he mid.
KIDNAPPED
BANKER:
has The Пying space station on board pennants with the em- blem of the Soviet Union. These are presumably similar to those en the face of the scattered
flight le special in the So-
moon.
The space station's being observed from a centre somewhere viet Union.
Tass sald that the 1,420-lb space station will carry out a programme of physical observa- Hons in outer space."
Tuss said that the station will also:
*
1. Check ways of put-indicates that Quite LATEST NEWS
TE would suggest that
There is no further news on
the Palico scorch for the kidnappers of the missing Chinese banker, Mr Wong Sik-pun.
W the position is much in Reports that a letter demande
ting space body in
com.
of
Photo.
the
at tho
This would also indicate that proof to explain how the Tho now planet life could not be abun-universo began. dant in fast there is no proot evidence points to the uni- that plants exist at all.
verso having originated from Also the
evidence colossal" explosion.—AP present
not men could exist on Venus and animal life An Inter-planetary trajectory; in any form would appear out
2. Check radio
of the question. munications over
Generally It is felt that distances" "uper-long
and the guiding of a space station, Venus is a world where Ilfo has no developed though there uad
is always the chance that if the *
water theory is correct the oceans of Venus might contain primitive creatures of the port which flourished in the earth's own scas more than 500 million years ago.
3. Check more exact- ty the size of The solar system. The announcement hailed the blazing the first nunening as
of the solar "The Govern- rath to panels ament knows nothing about the system."
the same today, save that family before the kidnapping the danger of exploding met with the following official fireworks upon our high- jecmment today:
has increased thousandfold. To throw n alleged Jelter."
whys
The remainder of the
Wong
Normal
I said equipmutt on boatd
lighted cracker in her family are reported to have son's face is not celebrating evacuated their residence at 13 the arrival of the New Perkins-road and have left only the station, Inst reported to be Your, it is the action of aan amah behind. fool and a criminal fool at Meanwhile, Mr Wong's that.
through the
motor action,
car is
and
any
2
Long time
The advantage of firing the Venus probe from An orbiting satellite instead of direct from nearly 9,000 miles cut la space, tnth was functioning normally." It earth comes in the nature of the son, Wong Yim-shi, editor of a ald the station was closely power drive that can be used. To fire a heavy object from initiat earth requires a vast To throw a lighted cracker small town newspaper in Amer following its planed path.
ea, is said to be returning to]
year Professor Nikolal power surge to counteract the Last window of
control Darbashov, Soviet astronomer, effect of gravity. Because the a criminalongkong to take over ut the family business.
wrote. In Soviet journal that fuel used is itself part of the cannot we
recent discoveries appeared to load to be raised, this has to be responsible
show Venus WEB HOW in the shortlived burst of terrific stage represented by the carpower. boniferous period on earth, and But to direct an object on a that fe might be just appear journey away froin a body al- therefore curth.
free from gravity, only a re- latively small mount of power is needed. Thus an object fired from satellite can Hiven a
imagine
person whether
in Hongkong.
Chinese
New post for
European, having IL other
wise.
And ns we celebrate one an-
Duke of Kenting there in forms unknown on ready in orbit, and
London, Feb. 12,
This confileted with a report the American Association
in December 1959 which said gradual, and correspondingly
This ability to remain
under power for a long time, even if at
other's customs, we find that the faults are by no The Duke of Kent takes up a to means one-sided. If the poet as amistant to the Chief for the Advancement of Salenc back streets of Victoria, we of the Imperial General Staff. find the oaf dropping a Field Marshal Sir Francis Fest-Venus was far too hot for life-longer lived, power surge,
any lakes or seas on its surface cracker in a car, so we finding, tomorrow after two and a
half years as a captain in the would be of molten metal. ant
Roval Seats Greys in Germany. throwing indiscriminately China Mail Special. at the bus drivers in Kowloon Tong, or running short of buses, amusing themselves by frightening
the young foreign
loys.
Fatal
America has tried and failed to send up Ploneer satellites to orbl Venus,
thon
Lion kills
trainer's saviour
Jon
Cairo, Feb. 12. Ambassador
Iweins Belgian
Maurice Deeckhouette and his wife narrowly escaped injury and possibly death today when a mob of pro-Lumumba African students hurled heavy stones through windows of the Am- bassador's office.
About 300 pro-Lumumba African students attacked the embassy with stones and over- turned a sentry box in an ap- parent protest against the rumoured death of Congo Pre- mier Patrice Lumumba in dissident Katonga Province.
estimated the Bystanders crowd at ranging between and 300.
50
The students marched on the embassy this morning shortly after overturning the sentry box before the
They front gate. stoned the embassy with stones nearly half the size of a man's head and tried to climb # grilled fence surrounding the compound.
In office The ambassador and wife were in his office fronting the street windows.
The hall of stones barely missed the ambassador and his wife.
Polier eventually persuaded the studenta to leave the em- bassy premises.
Handless
driver
passes test
London, Feb. 12.
A man with no hands passed his driving test at the Best attempt in D modifled car.
HK man seeks Japanese who helped him
A
Tokyo, Feb. 13. HongkoDE business- man has asked the Maini- chi newspapers to help him find a Japaneso who cared for him when he
striken with an almost fatal World Ulness during
War II.
Chang
nasistani Hongkong
Chung chant. manager of + textile factory,
kald Asao Kawashirin. Bayed his life by geiting him into a Japaneso Army Hospital and supplying him with food and mediclue.
Chang vialted Japan on businces recently. He saidh Kawashima was a civilian employee of the JapanESS occupation army during the war. He said he had been looking for the man since 1945,--UPI.
Dynamite suicide
Tokyo, Feb. 13.
A Japanese lumberjack and his sweetheart used dynamite to commit suleide during the night because they couldn't get police reported on He was Mr Bert Young, 40. į married,
They sold of Tormarton, Gloucester, who Sunday.
Kyozo since birth has had not left Miyazawa, 23, left a noto ex- arm and a 12-inch slump for a plaining that he and Miss Alko right arm.
Noto, 19, farmer's daughter, He had 29 hours of instruc- were dying together because tion from a driving school be- their parents were opposed to fore taking the test,
their marriage.
The
Was
One Egyptian source said the
steering wheel pailee arrested 15 demonstra- adapled to At his stump, and iora, visibly shaken by the in- gears brakes and Ignition were eklent Ambassador Dreckhoutte modified. received three reporters after
Mr Young has played cricket the troubles and showed them and darts, and delivers news- his shattered office,
a bicycle.China papers on Two
was in
Strip hoax
The blast shattered windows and the door of a second floor bedroom in Kyozo's elder brother's home.-AP.
Dishonest
full length windows Mall Special. Bordeaux, Feb. 12. facing the street were shattered A young lioness, "Rita," who and the office floor was littered a low rate of acceleration, is particularly valuable for chang-saved her trainer's life last year with broken glass and stones.
when lic was attacked and Showed scars.
Bristol, Feb. 12. ing course and chrnging speed.
Disbelloving thieves saw A On long journeys a continuous mauled by a 14-year-old
Even walls on the opposite
Middlesbrough, Feb. 12. small Increase in acccicration named "Atlas" during a circus Earth's twin
aign outalde a mineral water "You are pollo contacts," sald | factory here reading: "Notice to Ing. "I was sitting at my desk Venus, often called the earth's can produce a greater final speed performance, has been killed by aide showed scars of the ston
The cultured voice on the telo | intending - intruders. Do not a sharp but brief Initial Atlas.
working and my wife twin since i is nearly the same surge. UPI & Reuter.
the ambasador phone. "Planze take off your waste your time and enery This must not be.
The Hon pushed through a that chair," We urge
South Charleston, Feb, 13, Rize and comes closer to the
chair clothes and wall for a visit brosking Into these premises. Wo gate between their enges which explained pointing to the polico to
Mr James Franklin Cobbs, 82, | earth than any other planot, has
tank all cash dally. No cash in prosecuto
had not been properly
locked with its back to the window, from a medical ofBeer," theso people with
At least four of the women left on the premises overnight." the minister of the Church of Christ, tong been one of the most puzzl
and killed tho Windsor, Feb. 12.
four-year-old The chair was covered with Was stricken fatally by utmost neverity,
aning of the heavenly bodies. By nil
glass and
on the who answered the phone last stones and
The gang broke in and this attack as bo. The. actual surface of the Prince Charles, 12-year-old lionese,
beside it QUIDE n heavy night stripped and mat walting morning it was discovered they manns let there be salvoon Afferent heart
hidden heir to the throne, is convalCRO¬ Circtis offelals said they be- floor
until it began to dawn on had driven off in a lorry with a of joy within the curfew conducted a funeral service on planet is permanently
Sunday,
an all-concealing atmog-ing at the Royal palace here loved Atlas had hated the store.
"I have asked for a meeting them that the call was a hoax, two-and: halt hundred weight period; but
Jioness over since she had saved the indis- Mr Cobbs' Inat words, accord-phere and what knowledge has after an ollack, of measles.
the caller was not the sate containing about E70 and criminate discharge ofing to a funeral home attendant, bes obtained Ja very Irag- He arrived here from his the trainer's life and had taken with the Foreign Minister and and
nisistont medical officer, as 20 021 the employees' Insurance crackors must not be per- were: "We` nover know who mentary--though there are school at nearby Cheam yester- the first opportunity of revenge, naturally shall make a protest,"
the ambassador vali---ÄP. China Mall Special.
aald he was-UPI.
carda.--China Mali Special, slay-Reuter. mitted.
might be next."--AP;
many conflicting theories.
by