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TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1961.
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Two men rescued after being trapped in hull
of the CAPSIZED DREDGER DRAMA
day
Holes Six-hour ordeal
MARRIAGE
MAZE
FTER much prodding in
recent years, Govern- ment hus now decided to
make laws "to' ense (* remove injustices or alf- omalles arising out of the confusion of laws, castonis or practices with which most Chinese marringes are conducted in present-day Hongkong." The statement just quoted is Government's apposite and concise dra- cription of the problem. i Unfortunately there is no almaple solution. Customs dating back to De- fore the founding of Hong- kong survive to this day together with those based on inws instituted during the Nationalist regime i China, and more recently by the Communists. In addition there is the de facto "murringe" of two people who have established their entitlement to this status by prolonged habitation. And further aggravation is the cabine system.
THE problem
cut in side
Wo
men
who
spent six hours trapped in an air“. filled compart- ment on on over- turned dredger in Hongkong harbour were rescued this morning after they tapped out mes- sages to
rescuers
indicating they were alive and well.
They were rescued when holes the were cut In the side of partially submerged dredger. [*1] This was the tensest part of the operallon because Fire Bri- congade ofleers feared there would not be time enough to get the men out before the dredger sank after the escape of air.
and
moored
is briefly Before the holes were cut in this: to institute a form the dredger's side, the fre of valid marriage for all float Alexander Grantham without
lighters Interfering with two ceremonies that the indivi-alongside the dredger.
The Fire Brigade had to pump oxygen into the compartment to
tal chooses to associate with it to backdate the
validity or put right the invalidity
were
keep the men alive.
The first man was brought of marriages intre in a stretcher. And the
second one came ashore
which have been so far carried out only according bant.
to customs; to provide pro- i tection for wives whose linn- ! bands take concubines; to i restrict and completely
Smeared
Although his clothes soaking.
his body black
abolish the concubine sys- grease and his facr tem ond in the meantime with blood, he was
by
vere
with sine:red falkative
Those who have read this
He refused the offer of stretcher on reaching shore.
to provide anfeguards for
concubines Atzel mainten- ance for their children.
und in good spirits.
21
lucid report will have He climbed the ralings on realised that Government the sea front of Tin Chiu-street then walked into the can attempt "no violent and und
impractical uprooting at ambulance by himself.
one blow of age-old tradi-i He was sitting upright Inside
tions." At times the report: when the ambulance sped off. appears excessively CHU! Both were taken to Queen
lous but this is under- Mary Hospital. standable. There is here
a problem that has 4154-
There were six
board a child ca
adults and when the
sunied the proportions of dredger capsized.
a maze the paths of which i
are liberally pitted with The potholes and ditches. tentative recommendations seck only to fill up the cavities before attempting to sort out the maze.
wus
Four were rescued inmediate-
who ly including a boy seriously injured and a woman, who was slightly injured.
Before going to press it could
be not
whether ascertained these people were trapped Ir. the dredger or were picked up from the sea.
There is also a report that a body has been picked up in the vicinity, bat it is rot known whether It has any connection with the overturned dredger.
HE report is an unplea Taminder of the way Li important social question has been allowed to drift over the years. And it is to Government's credit that it is now grasp ing this formidable nettle. There is a long and difficult job ahead to popularise re- gistry marriages in Hong-sized, kong and while marriage gon should entail the game obli-side. gations and recognition of responsibilities for all mem-
Survey
Soon after the dredger cap-
rescue
134 = operations for thuse trapped in- Naval trogmen and
divers Government
a made and S0011 preliminary survey
With after they made contact
hers of the community it the trapped men who tappeci on would be damaging to over- the side of their compartiront.
was
The underwater survey corspleted and the second phase
of the rescue operation began
It was found that the dredger was being kept afloat nut only by air pressure but by its huge dredging arm which was test Ing on the peaked.
throw overnight customs and practices that have been tolerated and indeed accept- ed from the time of Hong- kong's foundation. What Government has done now is to publish a 23-page report which includes sug-.
However the rescuers dechled gested recommendations, that as soon as the air escaped and offer it for public from the cumpartment, the comment. The strong point dredger would heel over. Then of the report is that it bogan the race to extract the does not seek the intoleraît trapped men before the dredger abolition of all but registry sank.
or religious, marriages, but
WVGS the
Soon after the rescuc
et completed 10.20 instend almis to make exist-dredger was
reported to have ing forms of marriage con- sunk. formable to and valid in How the dredger capsized In law, This Is as it should the first place is not known and bu. A definite time, limit is still under investigation. for this process is however The dredger belonged to Yau aceded. There is nu ques-Wing Co Ltd and was working tion of rushing, but Gown the new North Point Vehi- ernment should make Macular Ferry pier about 60 yards off share from Java-road hous- intentions known clearlying estate, It had been there and soon.
for three days.
over
TOP: One of the oil-covered men rescued from the capsized dredger this moming off North Point. being assisted onto another vessel. Photographs by China Mail cameramon Henry Mok. See also P10.
BOTTOM: The overturned dredger between a barge and the fire float Alexander Grantham,
South Africa pushed out
says Menzies
London, Mar. 20.
Mr R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, said in London tonight that South Africa was "pushed out of the Commonwealth.”
**If. Dr Verwoerd had not gone when he did, I would have been surprised" ho ́sald at an Australia Club dinner,
My Menzles stated: "I am notl Dr Verwoerd. I am not (1) apostle of apartheid-although 1 have my own immigration polley but I am bound to say that lo his place I wanki have left cortainly not inter than he did."
Mr Menzies, who spoke for
45 more than
minutes, said that the departure of South Africa-a foundation member- from the Commonwealth had beca anc of most dramatic events in its history.
Accused
with
"I don't agree
ber policy." Mr Menzies added, "but the great problem ፕኖረ! have to confront is, because you don't agree with the polley of a member you push her out of the Commonwealth.
"Those two things ought to
be kept completely distinct,
Dr Verwoerd has been ac- cused, sometimes by people who spook in the name of Christianity, of something al- most approximating to the bifler of murder." T to tell you that I form the impression, never having mot
want
Cuban demand for plane rejected
London, Mar. 20. Britain has rejected Cuba's demand for the surren- der of an aircraft and its nine-man crew accused airlifting arms to Cuba's rebels, British of ficials reported today.
of
A note from Premier Fidel Castro's Goverment two weeks ago charged that the aircraft- Identified as a DC4had been shot
'down by Cuban defence guns
air
and forcod to crash land in Jamaica.
In answering the Cuban de- mand the British Government ndvized the Cuban that most of the time, the
membery of the
plane's crew already had left Jamaica.
The British also, were under- to have indicated that the
him before, that he was stood
a man of intense Integrity and Jamaican authorities had con-
great courtesy.
suryat
Mr Menzies said he did not yeyed to evidence to -moralise about South African that the plane was Involved in Accord- policy. He thought moralising any legal activities.
for ingly the Cuban demands was a "pretty cheap thing."
the surrender both of the air- "All I'm raying is that don't think it will work," he craft and its crew to face "re- statori.
volutionary jullice“ rejected.--- AP.
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