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of the day
TIME TO
THINK
a hard to recall a time
I when so than words use
and
been bandied back forth over an internationi affair as at presont.
President Kennedy, Mr
Kruscher and the North Atlantic Treaty Organis tion are using the same words over and over again without making any head- way.
It would be gratifying to re- portlight, however dim. <}}} the dark horizon, but this is impossible at the moment.
The situation, if anything is worsening with the appear- ance of Murshul Koniev
on the scene and rumeurs
of a Franco-American split.
Su fan't it time we all began
to face realities over Berlin
and East Germany?
The appalling prospect, facing
us today is a global war, at
holocaust that would utter-
ly destroy Europe and much
of the rust of the world.
The nations have been brought
to the edge of this precipice
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COMEDY OF Town Planning Board's The row in UK over these
of self-destruction because ERRORS
of the existence of the Communist German Den cratic Republle (East Ger- many) and the perpetua
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tion deep in East Germany of
hermaphroditical. part-Communist, part non- Communist Berlin.
USSIA insista that East
Paris, Aug. 10. The arrival in Paris today of Mr Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of Stato, was marked by a comedy of errors.
While the greeting entourage made up of Mr James M. Gavin, Ambassador here, Mr rate state, The Western Llewelyn Thompson, U.S. Ain- Powers, led by the United bassador to Russla, and Mr States, demand that Ger- Charles "Chip", Bohlen, Special many should be allowed to Assistant to the Secretary
to one end of the work out her own destiny, State, went
replane, M: Busk emerged from if necessary through
the other.
R Germany remain a sepa-U.S.
unification.
By the time Mr Rusk learned of the error, the greeting party inside the aircroft. Turning around, Mr Rusk re- entered the aircraft by the rear floor ns the greeting party cranr from the front door.
The matter was solved when Mr Gavin re-entered the air craft and shook hands with Mr
Rusk ride.
The non-Communist half of
Berlin is still occupied-16 gone yours after the end of the war-by British, American and French forces,
Russia
wanta the Western forces out, and has offered to guarantre Berlin as a "free city" within Eux! Germany. The Western Powers refuse to remove their forces from Berlin, refuse to recognise the East German Republic, and demand a plebiscite on the future of both Berlin and East Germany,
ND because of this in-
A passe, war looms closer
as the mouths roll by to what may โป St futeful November.
. But what
Arc
the stark
realities of the situation? Rusala will never agree to ar united Germany. She has auffered too much in the past-far more than any other nation-from the
that has always turned it! face eastwarda.
Mr Rusk was making a short stupover here on his way back to Washingtun from laly Reuler.
report released
The Town Planning Board has assumed that a cross-harbour link-bridge or tunnel-might be built, and has planned accordingly.
The Board issued its long-awaited report on the reconstruction
of the Central District this morning.
A
draft layout plan for the long-term development has been prepared for submission to the Governor-in-Council and will be on exhibition
at the Crown Lands and Survey Office, PWD, for two months, start- ing today.
Among the recommendations, ways and
are a City centre, parking forį atores, restaurants and offices, is 2,000 cars, a new Post Office, envisaged by the Board. Marine Department, City Police Station and ring ronds. City centre
The Peak Trom, the Cricket Court Club and the Supreme will remain, and the Statue of Queen Victoria may come, back
to the elty.
The following commendations:
are
the re-
A two-level City centre, com- plete with truffle-free pedestrian
DEATH PLANE CRASHED INTO
MOUNTAIN AT
FULL THROTTLE
Stavanger, Aug, 10.
aggressions of a Germany The Viking airliner, in which 34 British school. boys were killed here last night, drove into a storm-swept mountain peak at full throttle as the pilot apparently tried to pull it up and over, investigators said today.
Her refusal to risk another i
invasion is, to the impartial onlooker, perfectly under-j standable. So the fallure by the West to recognise this is the first unreality.
THE second is the insistence
Tof the West upon main-
Zainting
completely arti Acial Berlin in the heart of East Germany. President Kennedy ja no doubt right in vastly increasing the American armed forces, no that he will be able to negotiate with Mr Kruschey from atrength.
But surely the first requisite In a willingness to negotiate. Negotiating from strength, not from wenkgena, In not But sheer Apperadment. obstinacy can be nothing but tragic in ita quelicen.
COBAD
A HOUSEWIFE'S REVENGE
El Centro, Catif, Aug. 10.
Ratting battles in the wee hours is not the only way to disturb 'customers, amikman learned upon reading a noto left by an irate hourdwife.
The note aki: We Are
going to have pupples, dear Mr Milkman, and they're all yours,
"Our dog in a reghiereil Dachshund, You left the Tala open and now we're expecting puppies and IỪN your fault.
"TB — I hope yen havo many frienda,”~UFL.
girls continues
London, Aug. 10. British Overseas Air-
ways
Corporation's stewardesses tonight protested against the Corporation's prefer- ence for Asian ste- wardesses on some of its routes.
containing shops, It will be large enough to be
attractive both to tourists and residents and in arranged that there will be easy Access Designed as a two-level pede- to vehicles Di parking areas, striot precinct, the proposed below. City centre will consist of two a vast 19-foot high Lestions of pedestrian pidium or platform, The Board Eungesta that from which will rise multi-vehicular and pedestrian access storey ollee blocks and Te to the Dockyard development New York route. sidential buildings.
Parking
area should be from adjoining roads.
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The Board states that the area of the Central Reclamation be- tween the Star Ferry and the Vehicular Ferry pleis one of levels. The he two pedestrion precincts will serve as a major inter- chonge point for passengers using public transport.
This area, the Board
Their protest stemmed from a BOAC announcement that it planned to introduce some Chinese and Japanese girls on its San Francisco-
At present the
stewardesses
on this route are all British.
OBJECTIONS
Provision is made in the plan for very adequate car parking ground and intermediate
Lotal capacity, when fully developed, will provide for 2,000 cars,
As lur az possible, the park ing areas are to be inter-con- nectat and sợ arranged that at an early date. con-
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The girls made their objex- parking tions tonight at a meeting with trade union and Corporation officials, and A joint com- munique said discussions the subject would be continued
tipuce, "contains the main anyone entering the area by Island terminal for harbour vehicular traffic, facili- ties for the despatch and receipt of all moll to and from the Island, and a base for small craft working the Parl."
Dockyard area
|
on
Last week, the girls were re- car will be able to park within ported to have started the pro- very short distance of his teat after being plqued by Cor- destination.
poration permission for oriental to Access to the pedestrian deck stewardesses
wear nati for people arriving by car will varnish, caring's and cheong-
provided ni numerous sams.. entrances from the ground and But tonight, in the communi- Intermediate level car parka. que, the girls denied that this
The main pedestrian access TVALE the cause
their of will be from the eastern end of grievance. Chater-road.
up
Two BOAC girls from Hongkong-Jenny Woo (left), ! and Teresa Chang,
The pedestrian deck in this reclamation area is designed to
They were not "concerned" The Board says that this
the
of. enable ferry passengers lo clt-
over
"principle"
non a pellh employing rulate, unimpeded by traffic, to particular entrance will be the and from offices and shops and
stewardesses on the Corpora- one mainly used by pedestrians
flon's roules, but with "the
The cabin principle of using them rather | Japanese stewardess one Chinese part of
servico is therefore so designed as to occupy the ground floor of to the bus terminus, which will from other parts of the City. It
of all 2.offered to passengers than British personnel in the jord one British. people
gradually multi-storey car parke
altuated lend
basic cabin crew complement" shop to
But the Corporation tonight countries and they should form Piors on the Star Ferry alde..the 19-fdat level and then over adjacent to the Vehicular Ferry through an avenue of
the communique slated
gavo no sign of relenting In an integral part of the basic
cabin Hongkong-San face. of the girls' protest, the new Murray-road. into the
crew," the Corporation The pedestrian deck
Francisco ruule, cabin crews on Employment of
the will main Dockyard development.
non-British mud connect to a promenade atong Continued on Yage 4, Col. 2) Doving 707'# Include ne stewardesses was "nt Important] Router. the roof of the new publie pier. The Board Aufgests that the deck might also be extended in due course across Connauiglit- road Central to give unimpeded pedertrian access to and trom
Colonel J. K. Christie, head of The Norweglan team probing the crash, Norway's worst-ever alr disaster, and in ย broadcast there way no doubt the plane was at full throttle when it hit the mountain near Stavanger's the buildings in the City centro Sola alrpori,
Leading
on the west,
The second pestestrina precinct will be in the Dockyard aren and will be established at about Police officer T. Tollefsen, who 1 for above street level. The played a Lending part in the street level and an intermediate search for survivors among the level, at nine fect, will be used 30 un board, sald It struck for car parking and the wor- about 30 feet below the peak vicing of the buildings in the
d the pllot, Captain Phillip | area. Walls "opparently recognized the danger.
On
Use
Father drowns sons and himself
Yarmouth, Aug. 10,
A father tied his two young sons together with a dog lead and carried them scream-
ing under his arm ́into the river Yore, a Norwich inquest was told.
The
coroner, Mr James Hepwoll, described it as the most appalling crime he had ever heard of.
The bodies of 20-year-oki Mr Such
Evan Robert Doniel and blo Board buildings, Cho
two sons, Robert Malcolm, 0, recommends, should be used for comercial And
And Barry realentini
David, 4, Werd from the river at recovered Whitlinghern, - Norwich, The tury trocited, 120 Enther anurdered his sona and com-It mited suicide.
Bul Colonal Chelatle later said DUTOCAMER and form a major the crash appeared to have extension of the business, conte entirely unexpectedly for cultural And entertainment both passengern and crow. Deflillem of the City.
Police said ft looked as if the The pedlesizlan deck in th planie kidded upwards after Dockyard area will provide a | traffic-five shopping precinct. striking the ground. Heuter.
schoolboy Jack Chris Mace, 13 of all-road, Norwick, who
Da
communique.---
'No cholera in Macao, Consulate says
Mrs"There has been no case of
widow, 34-year-old Margaret Dankel was said to be too ill to attend. Se sakt fon statement to a police. women that there had been constant quarrels.
was nahing on The bank The of the river pad he saw the fathur and his two sona on the opposite, side. Ile látor saw the talk walking_to¬ wards the edge of the river carrying the boys under ule (The
arts,
1.
I thought they were playing around, I thought they had tripped and fallen in"!
was stated that a jacket was with a found on the bank nole folder. "Me and my boys are in the water.”
cholora in Macao," а spokesman from the Por- tuguero Consulate told the China Mail this morn- ing.
dead man's inother-In- Pintold, of Jaw, Mr Walter
He said that this information Gertrude-rosd, Norwich, kald that Mr 'Daniel was a 'good had been received by telephone
wimmer.
from the Maceo authorities.
Earlier news reports had said two boys could there had been three dealis Neither of the
swim and Robert, the eldest, from cholera in Macao and that was terrifed, of the water."The authorities had started China Mail Sprelal,"
Immunisation campaign.
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