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CHINA
No. 37919
Established 1845 THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1961.
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Comment U.S. President hopes for lessening tension with China of the NO SURRENDER SAYS KENNEDY
day
A new deal
announcement by
Government
that
no
additional funds than those already promised, will be nilocated to the Housing Authority and the flousing Society will eatise few regrets. Both
tended to
Extremely belligerent attitude
Washington, Mar. 8.
cater for an income President Kennedy today expressed the
which might reasonably hook to private enterprise to meet their meds and both types of housing were inclined to be costly and This How to materialise. ran counter to longkong's low-cost needs. Government's funds are in- stead going to he concen- trated on squatter resettle- ment, which will continge to receive top priority, and an improved version of resettlement building deserving tenement dwellers. Judging by the speed with which resettlement has been undertaken this seems a be ናኒ realistic decision. only hope is that squatters and tenement dwellers will be given equal priority for Housing.
For those who i
bod have had to live in spaces and cubicles are long overdue for a new deal.
are
for
Our:
Moreover we are well on the way towards breaking the back of the squufter prob- Jem. More than 350,000 Ad- have been resettled. mittedly there
still G00,000 on the waiting list, but it seems that a good many of these are squatters by choice who have deli- berntely moved into shacks in the hope of qualifying for resettlement accommo- dation. Equal priority for the two schemes will mean a slow- down in the .rescitle- ment programme, but we feel it is necessary. It has to be realised that the squatter who has been a familiar part of the Hong- kong scene in the postwar year, will continue to be for the next ten or 20 years, And however ugly, unsani- tary and dangerous these huts may be, we have to:
with be satisfied
their gradual elimination. The one real regret that the
decision
discontinue 10 loans to the Housing Autho
Housing rity
thu and Society
that provokes is they were a far superior type of housing, well de- signed and patterned on the desirable Western standards. It is the kind of would accommodation We have preferred to the re- settlement estate but Hong- kong has to learn to cut its cost according to the cloth. Past and present Housing Authority plans will provide fints for a total of 105,000
three people, with schemes to come.
Hino 'Society hRS
more
more The
helped
a need for a better class of low-cost accommodation but neither offered a basis for an expanded general acheme such as Hongkong rapidly requires for popula- tion on the lowest income level.
hope that there would be a lessening of tensions between the United States and Ching, but added he was not prepared to adopt a policy of surrender to get it.
SEARCH FOR
THIRD MAN
IN PEUGEOT
CASE
Versailles, Mar. 8. French police today began a Europe-wide search for a "third man" in. the Peugeot kidnapping case as a magistrate hare sent fivo persons to jail. Puller said they thought the "hird mon" had taken most of the
Peugeo! "hat
tunsam
|
they
and exchanged it for ! "safe"-registered-money.
Mr Kennedy had been asked
at his press ecnference here to j define his attitude on the China Issue in the light of the meeling; in Warsaw yesterday between U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Mr Am- Jacob Brum and China's bassador to Poland, Mr Wong Ping-nan.
10
of
At this meeting (the first of! its kind since ir Kennedy took oftec) the Chinese Ambassador said big government was not prepared to consider either the adulssice of Alean
news. papermen China ur the liberation
Ave American demined in Chinese Communist citizens mustly
Inissionarics, prisons for almost 10 years,
he had Mr. Kennedy sald hoped to See tension between the two countries diminish butt that this hope was "becoming dimmer.
Belligerent
He also referred to the ex- Reliable scuress reported the tremely belligerant attitude of yuenay, mor than 25,000,000 China, which he said, unceasing- franes, was exchanged in Cerly attacked the U.S. many, probably in or Finnkfurt,
Dusseldorf
Mr Kenned. added that the It was also sald some of the leaders of Ching were aware muney was exchanged in that the US. won resolved to Spain, Switzerland and Copen-respect its promises to coun- tries with when I had defence treaties.
hagen.
Police said they have found about 57,000 new franes of the originat 500,000 new franes ran- som meney in a big inside a white Fint car parked in a París garage.
WARNINGS
It was then that he expressed his hope that tension between the two countries would be re- laxed, particularly with regard to an exchange of journalists, but without surrendering to cb- tain this relaxation of tension.
On other issues, Mr Kennedy
The salda petty crook, Pierre "Handsome Serge Larcher, and playboy Raymond Rolland. under arrest for the Peugeot raid: kidnapping, said that this was
"two сав
all that was left of the original → Boycutt threats against ransom money.
Import competition which have But police sent out warnings been made by some United to German and other police States unions are the wrong
But for a approach because force to watch
"third man"who play at that stispected
game" and other indy have entered the picture ccuntries unions could retalfute only after the kidnapping toby refusing to handle US, put the bot meney into circula- tion.
Arrested with Larcher and Rolland were Ingelise Bodin, 19, who represented Denmark In a "Miss World" competition in London: Rolande Niemczyk, also known as Nicole Grass, and a medical student
named Jean Rothmann.
goods.
Boycott
Reporters DUKE OF KENT TO WED ELECTRICITY
didn't
know
Scarlett
O'Hara
Vivien Leigh
New York, Mar. 9. British actress Vivien Leigh angrily walked out of a press interview on Wed- nesday night when
could reporter
recoll what role she played in the film "Gone with the Wind."
no
The 47-year-old actress, who recently divorced Sir Laurence Olivier, arrived at New York's Idlewild 'Airport on д Bonc planc
roule cn
to Atlanta. Georgia, to attend the 21st anniversary of the first show-
YORKSHIRE GIRL
London, Mar. 8.
The dashing young Duke of Kent is to marry a fresh-faced country girl -who didn't bother much about boy friends until he first roared up
in his sports car.
SHARES
STILL RISING
The girl who caught Britain's most ellgible bachelor Katherine Worsley, daughter of SU Wilam Worsley, Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire County.
News
the of
engagement came tonight from Kensington. Palace,
offlelal hone of the Duke's widowed mother, the Duchess of Kent,
The 25-year-old Duke, eighin 11) line of succession to the Lhrone and a cousin of the The big demand for shares Queen, first met Katharine four
continued on Ice House- | yours ago. Then,
carefres
street today when the young army offlear with a diary.
ALLI
of dobutante dates, be moved north From London's bright lights to Yorkshire with his cavalry regiment.
of volume
business amounted to $11,800,000 this morning.
This is a jump of more than 20 per cent on yesterday's all- time record for 21 morning session of $0.7 million in busi-
ness.
Hongkong Bank shares re gistered a good gain, probably In sympathy with the one pound the London overnight rise on merkel (£04).
Kept calling
When he first rode up to Katharine's mansion home, the local villagers said:
"She never seemed to take much notice before.".
of yomg inen
The tall young duke, with a
Banks closed here this morn- Ing at $3,045 after reaching a high of $1,006. closing price was $1015.
Waisons gained $2, at $52. his deep-throated spouts Other chares were steady other fair hair streaming in the made small galus.
passion for fast cars, jazz and Yesterday's rock 'n' roll, keat on calling.
He took Katharine around in
саг,
Preference
statement mistake
London, Mar. 8. An official at the Department
Excise
of Customs and ing of "Gone With The Wind." Miss Leth somewhat reluc tantly entered the pressroom at the airport for the,, interview. She sat on the edge of a chair and impatiently waited for the Brst question.
no
Wind.
to
the Queen.
Last year he introduced-her
husband-to-bi
Katharine is. .older than, her
She
was
20
917, she
ly menth. She is tall, aristocratic 100king and call him Edward, or Eddie,
She will became Duchess of Kent when they wedat a time and pluce not announced yet,
Then tho Duke's mother
Will become the Dowager Duchess of Kent, the title given Duchesses displaced in this way. The Duke inherited his title at the age of six, when his father was killed in a flying accident while on war service
here said there was basis for a Hongkong re-in 1942. port that Hongkong plas- tic flowers may be de- prived of Commonwealth preference because of the
dubious origin of raw
materials.
the
new
by
Country estate
As well
r
as the tile, its trappings, he inherited a lovely country estate, Coppins, Hertfordshire, where he and Katharine will live when they are wed.
The Duke of Kent
UN MUST USE
ARMS
IN CONGO
-Nkrumah
COMPANIES
WORKING
TOWARDS
SOLUTION
Mr G. T. Tagg, Chairman
of the Hongkong Electric Company, said this morn- ing that in view of the Government's rejection
for-
of the proposed scheme of operation put ward proviously,
the
company was now work- ing towards a solution in conjunction
with
the
China Light and Power Company.
Dotails will be disclosed when an agreement in principle 19 reached with Government,
The chairman said that in re- gard to the Commission of En- quiry recommendations. ho would like to emphasise that the company, had passed on a fair proportion of benefits resulting from expansion in the form of reduced rates to consumers, during the postwar period.
"We have tried to apportion increased
three profits, into parts, one to consumers, one to shareholders in the form of
and increased dividend
ploughed back into the part company for expantion. This scheme was fully explained at the commission's hearing, but I do not think it received the attention deserved.
A PROBLEM
ont
"One of the main problems of the electricity supply industry Washington, Mar. 8. President Kwame Nkrumah is to obtain the large amount of of Ghana said today after capital required to finance pur- chase of plant sufficient for in- a 90-minuto meating with creasing demand. At present, Prosident Kennedy that our sales are doubling every the United Nations must five years end each kilowatt of use force in the Congo "if demand required a capital out- lay of approximately $1,800. Our force is necessary."
planned capital for the period is $144 million. Mr Kennedy, who personally from 1901 to 106
electricity rates greeted the African leader at the airport, called their discus-charged by the nationalised elec
tricity supply industry enable Eon most fruitful.”
them to nence 48 per cent of
"In UK the
Mr Nkrumah got a red carpet their capital outlay from con- welcome upon his arrival hare SUTICTS.
ID
the Casc of the two from New York in an air force
Hongkong companies the ob- planc.
jection to this course lies In The two
the fact that shareholders will lcuders issued a dis-
rcap part of the benefits from the communique in which they the useful employment of the the con- Is "recognised the central import funds provided by
said Mr Tagg Nations in Africa and the im-
It is within commuting tance of London where Duke,
now, stationed,
Last month he left the tanks
#
captain
ance of the role of the United | rumers, directors cannot solve
leaders
A reporter asked what
Dart she played in "Gone with the Wind,"
she asked haughtily, "Have you scen the picture? Have you read the book?"
The omelal said the erroneous NOT INFORMED
report may have stemmed from the fact that a slightly tighter The reporter replied, "No,"
Bystem of control over the carti- She then got up and said: fcate of origin is to be imposed "Since you are not informed, starting on April 1, gentlemen, there is no ronze in
The oficial continuing" She walked out of regulations
said the room.
meant simply that of his regiment, the Royal Scots portance of African countries this basic conflict of opinion the certificates of origin now Miss Leigh
their Greys, took a desk Job in the and played the part have to be counter-signed
working | between Government and the Wor Office as an assistant to together for the of Scarlett O'Hara, heroine of the Department of Commerce the Chief of the Imperial
peaceful two electricity companies but the book which was a runaway
Gen- development of that great cou we are ready at all times to
tinent." best seller in the United States, and Industry in line with the ersi Staff, Sir Francis Festing.
negotinto with a view 10 for most ether and exchanged his army ep for
reaching on picked for the role requirements
equitable settle- as a relatively unknown actress
exports from the Colony.
a Bowler and rolled umbrella.
ment," he added. after a long search when
The regulation appiles the
Sir Phillp Hoy, Private Secrr-
In addition to the Interim Alm was being cast.
shipments made on or after try to the Duchess, said. "The They called for "unfagging dividend of 60 cents per share The book dealt with life In April 1, 1901, except for rattan-
Duchess of Kent hos known and
support, both pald. on September 21, 1960, the Southern slates
and of the ware
straw ware, Miss Worsley for some time now moral and material. of United the director now recommended United States during the which the regulation applied on and is naturally delighted by Nations efforts to bring peace the payment of a final dividend
to the people of the Congo" of $1.10 per and after February 24,--UPI.
share costing Miss Worsley met the Queen and
all $0,000,000. Another appropri last sumner at a private dance Africa.
Lion was the
transfer w given by the Duchess at Ken- Mr Kennedy
of $8,000,000, told reportera general reserve Fington Palace for the King and he assured Mr Nkrumah the he said and the balance of Queen of Thailand,
would United Stuter would do its part $4,357,535
te carried The Duke, is due to represent towards economic advance- forward to 1981.
ment of Africa,
She was
The main boycott threat recently raised
19 the Amalgamated Clothing workers threat to stop cutting Japanese fabrles from May 1 in an effort to force Japancre sult expor- The examining magistrate, Mr
Ers to restrict their sales to American Civil War.--AP, Michel Renard, charged Larcher the US market to about one. and Rolland with having kids tenth of one per cent of total napped a minor under the age of | U.S. suit production. 15, and the others with plicity in the kidnapping
und pronting from the ransom,
PENALTY
comTM
The United States and other nations are consulting en new approaches to a peaceful solution of the Laos war crisis
Police cources said the penalty which would ring stability to for the kidnapping, since the Laos, permit it to maintain its
child was
returned unharmed, Independence, and bring peace
ld be 15 to 20 years in jail. to the area.
Today, police were expected |mination."
to search a villa at Grisly-ics-
Plaires near Pontelse, northwest
and self-deter-
#
very
He said these were
The role of private buildings
deserves ereditable men- of Paris, where they suspected dimeuit Roals but we are The Peugeot child was held until now continuing to take every tion also. In the last five
his father paid his ransom. The stop that we can to achieve that years, 432,000 people have
Surele said the burned-out goal." He gave no details of been rehoused. This means
wreck of a black Peugeot sedan the possible new approaches. that since 1953, private, found on a road near Joigny in Government, employer-built April was the car used in the
assisted fetime. UPI. and Government schemes have provided new
well over homes for
扒
million people. This is a
comntendable achievement Baby for Narriman
but at the rate the popula
tion is increasing, Hong- kong has to do even better.
Cairo, Mar, 0.
He will make a major US policy on Latin American affairs on Monday at a recep-. tion for Latin American dipÏo- . mais,
RB-47 flyors
He would not gay whother Former Queen Narrian of the RB-47 aerial reconnaissance The plans announced lust Egypt is expecting a baby, heretid mapping flights, such as one welcome Cambridge-educated husband. which was intercepted by Soviet week como 29 ovidence of this intention Dr Adham El-Nikib, said today. Aghter planes over the Barents and many will look forward archmad had a von In 1952 by Sea last July, zre being to the progrossivo elimina-ex-King Farouk.
tion of the oldest and worst Tenement terraces and their replacement by something Latter.
oun-
tinued by the US. Air Forch.
con-
not
She married De El-Nakil fol- (Two BB-47 titers released by lowing her divorce from Farouk. Russia who held a news Dr El-Nakib said the delivery ference last week afd will take place at a Greek hos answer la question)AFP & pital in Alexandrio,......UPI,
UPI:
Officer put in mental home by accident
Oslo, Mar. 8.
A British officer who went out training in only a pair of running shorts with snow sull on the ground was promptly locked in a- Norwegian mental hospitai as pu escuped patient, the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet reported.
And the officer's indignant protexis In English wero staled by the newspaper to have further convinced Iwo hospital attendants that, he wad A mental pallent,
This is the story of the officer's interrupted run, na" told by Dagbindet; The offfect, attached to the
Nala
-headquarters for
to
for
Northern Europe at Konas, near Oslo, accidentally strayed Into the hospital ground. He turned about and was sprinting out spotted by when he was two hospital attendants. The sight of a man wearing was only running shorts too much for them. They jumped into a car, chased and caught the officer and locked him in the hospital, had re- convinces they captured a patient. The olloer's protesis went unheeded. 16 wad until the ofjoer met a psychiatrist that his Identity was tabllabed and ho, was re- lenaed.
China Afalt
Special,
this news."
the Queen at Sierra Leone's in- dependence celebrations in April.
BRO
GENUINE SUPPORT
to
genuine
in maintain R
ADOPTED
Dircolors supporting Me To t of shareholders held in the com the 68th ordinary yearly meeting until | pany's registered office in the P & O
uuilding, were Bir Tun-bin Chau Mr W. A. Stewart; Mr G. 1. Goldsack: Mr H. D. M. Barton; also Mr W. Stoker, General Manager: Mr F. Fell, Secretary and Mr D. Black representing; Pest, Marwick and Mitchiell who were re-elected Auditor for the year,
Mr Nkrumah, at a news con- Tumours of an engagement ference after the meeting, re- between him and Miss Worsley pealed his view that bagan, more than two
years Belgian militery officials are but died after Mas withdrawn, "there can be no Worsley went on visit to kolution in the Congo?-UPI. Canada and the Duke devoted himself to his army duties in West Germany.
It was reported then that the Duchess of Kent has asked her con to wait for a time be- fore marrying.
Remain in army
I WAS A GREAT PRESIDENT ~~Truman
Washington, Mor, 8. Thero stlli is no love lost Presidents
Then last month, it was between former reported that the Duke, on Truman zrul Eisenhower. leave from Germany, had spent two days quietly at Hovingham Hall, the Worsley's family home. It was understood that the Duke would remain in the army after his marriage.
Mr Truman, addressing nu AFL-CIO gathering today, said his study of US history in-. dleated that the nation's great Presidents Arc
followed men of lesser ability.
العراق
Goldsack, retiring on rotation. ware ra-eiucted Directors on the proposl- tion of Mr B. Wong-Tape, seconded by Mr A. 'Abbas,
The report and accounts for 1900 wris adopted on the propuzal of the chairman, secunded by Mr Leung Fatiin.
100 INJURED IN VEHICLES
Boan, Mar. 8.
He has no income from the Blate his father's official in-
when he
"As one of the great ones 1: Over 100 people were injured come ocasİNİ
WES killed, but his grandmother, the can make that statement," he in a nerica of emakru in thick late Queen Mary, Is believed added.
Log on Wast German motorways The labour audience gavo Mr today, police sold. Damoġo - la to have provided for the Kent children in her will. - AP & Truman a standing ovation — | cslímáted at 'abcut £00,000.
LUPI
Reuter.
Router.