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MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1961.
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East Berlin turned into giant military camp
of the E. GERMANS USE TEAR GAS
day
CITY'S NEW
LOOK
HE customer, it is
THE
maich,
is
always right. The tourist
will certainly be
prested by the
area when he sees
greatly im
new central;
It frans-
formed into reality. It will
present a waterfront-no doubt |
less spectacular
Manhattan with
than that of Great
forest at akyscrapers-taking rank with the most striking to be found anywhere elec.
them!
But the Hongkong residents have
to live with it, and for
much wilt depend on how thr plan worka out in practice. Certainly its Aesthetic
pro
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800 refugees manage to elude guards
West Berlin, Aug. 13.
East German police twice used tear gas to- night to break up crowds on the sealed- off boundary dividing East and West Berlin - closed early today by the East German authorities in a determined move to stop East Germans fleeing to the West.
perties should be appreciated, even by those intensely hostite to the "UN block" of the City:
in Hail,
the second Nor shall we hear
incident, the | East German police threw tear much in the future as in the i past about the Inngth of the Rus betabs at a crowd of about
West ferry piers, The assumption 2000
Berliners moving reasonable that the close to the boundary In the architect who resigned them Adalbert, Strasse after youths kept to mind all the time the bad muie "provoking remarks," potentially Impressive and according to a West Berlin polter spacious central area with ta oficial. open spaces into which the ferry piers would lead.
seems
Controversy about this or that feature of the plan must be expected. It would imply otherwise. Esuit especially all Hongkong
Indifference
or one thing muct
agree-na
plan has ever been given such long and thorough considera. lion by Bn wide a variety Institutiona and interests.
of
But about 800 refugees have xtill succeeded in slipping through to the Went tulay despite the tightened pre- cautions, Herr Willy Brandt, West Berlin's Mayor, told the
elty parilament tonight.
One young couple sw'DITI through a canal, with their three-year-old child fled to lis father's back. East
Berlin looked
like a
Several very important bodice, giant military camp. Thousands Tram the General Chamber ef blue-uniformed police, mill- And the Federation
of indus. tries 10 the Society
Architects, devoted
of
tamen in olive-green battle dreas and soldiers of the Com-
. great munist People's Amy guarded squares, inter-sections
deal of time to consideration! major
of the problems presented, i and the rillroad, elevated train
The list of those consulted and subway stations.
almost as comprehensive *3
the societies represented On
-the original City Hall Com.
mittee.
Saveral of the most modern appurtenances are embodied
In
in the recommendations. "Thera In A distinct fondness Hongkong for the ntw
2nd
the novel and Hongkong and the Chinese especially will feet; that we are keeping up with ather Pacific cities
now that:
two flyovers are to be intra. duced-one at the junction of Queen's-road Central and Garden-road and the other at the Junction of Queen's-road
East and the new road to built parallel to Garden-road, on the wast alde of Murray
be
Dr Heinrich
van Brentano, West German Foreign the
the three Minlater, is calling
cun- Western Ambassadors for sullations tomorrow.
Meanwhile, West German Ambassadors in Lindon, Paris, Washingum, Moscow and al Nato headquarters have been ordered to remain at their posts.
Throughout the day the East German maws agency ADN re-
resolutions
Passed by ported workers in various lows ex-
with the pressing satisfaction East German measures,
Of the reette in Berlin it said: Berliners in their Sunday best welcomed will applause and
the cheers units of
National
People's Army here and there
in the capital as they drove through the streets of the city centre with armoured cars and lorries.
I reported, for the first time Tonight, some opposition to the sealing-off measures. Two "youths in leisuré "Jackets" had
The security measures, it said,
Moscow's view expressed their displeasure at
From Muscow, the Soviet news agency. Tass, said in a report from Berlin that "These measures have been taken for The purpose of guarding the workers of the German Democratic Repub le from the hostile-activity of the revenge-seeking and - militaristle forces of Went Germany and West Berlin." -Reuter.
Tanks
On the Western side scores of West Berliners Irampled down a burbed wire barricade at one pain! Across the sector border-lo be faced by East German police with fixed bayonets.
Succeed
West Berlin pollee succeeded in driving the crowd back to West Berlin
territory. Buz Inter thousands of people, held back behind rope barriers at!
and armoured cars
were stationed at focal points, angrily at
THIRTY-FOUR SCHOOLBOYS DIED HERE
The wreckage of the airliner, "Papa Mike," standing stacked like charred scrap metal on top of a mountain near Stavanger, where it crashed in a storm with 34 schoolboys and five adults on board, There were no survivors.—AP photo,"
DEATH PLANE
FLEW TOO
TO EAST.
FAR TO
EXPERTS SAY
Stavanger, Aug. 12.
Barracks, for ophlil traffic. with machine-guns mounted the Brandenburg Gute, whistled Norwegian experts investigating Wednesday
The new city centre
is to be one "for people rather than
an Eas! German between
Up until midnight, thousands of armoured car placed
for machines." Even the East Berliners milled around two of the massive columns of
the main streets and thorough- The stone gate, Is to remain
Cricket Ground
free from Impious hands at fares.
On the other fences and barbed
side
of the least for the present. At one
wire moment in their reasoning the į Board asemed to turn thumbs tanglements, tens of thousands
it, but
Germans bourd and of West many people could become
the very hissed
Communists
down
upon
touch
i
L
vocal on this score, and in the guarding the border,
There were shouts of "swine" and they waxed quite eloquent on the colour and character of from the West Derliners. They the presence of the Club there isn taunted the soldiers with for well over 100 years.
chants of "Down with (Walter) It is also a typical
of Ullrichr" the chief of East santimant that urges the ra Germany, and "Free the zoner
Queen menning East Germany. turn of the statue of Victoria from her wholly dis- The West roarted swiftly to regarded "exlia" In the now the new East German measures, Victoria Park at Causeway.. in Washingtum, Mr Dean Bay to the very heart of the Itusk, Secretary of State, said new city which, like the newja "vigozous protest" would be park, bear her revered name. There may well be some caustic correspondence on the further spreading of the bureaucracy to the former military lands on the eastern side of Garden. road, But the idea of decan- tralisation by making greater
made..
Consultation
night's school plane disaster here reported today that the Viking airliner had passed Sola airport and was flying too far to the east when it crashed into a mountain top.
Went Berliner Was A bayoneted in the leg by an East German policeman" this
"As far as the commission can afternoon, and an East Ger
establish the plane, coming in man policeman was beaten up by a crowd of West Berliners, from the south for landing, had followed a normal course in the At Oldesloe, Schleswig beginning," the investigators Holstein, tonight, the West said in a preliminary report. German Defence Minister, Mr Franz-Josef Strauss, told election meetinut he thought there would not be a war over Berlin.
in
ESTABLISHED
PROMOTION
Macao, Aug. 14. Mr Carlos de Amorim Cordero, head of the Treasury Department, has been promoted a terior Director of Finnace and transferred to Mozambique. Mr Cordeiro is leaving shortly for Africa to take up his new post.
Meanwhile Mr Jorge A. Debarros, has been appointed to the past left vacant by Mr
"After passing Solu "airport near Stavanger) on a northern Eeourse, it has been established "Krusehey can neither want that the plane had come too far nor use a war, which would to the east and during its fight only destroy the work of ftus- crashed Into Holtchels Mountain slan communism and his plans at altitude of approximately and nims," Mr Strouss declared. 300 metres," the commission's Cordeiro, und la expected
Onelals at the major East-first report said,
(arrive here soon-AFP, West German border crassing at It stressed that the crash in- Helmstedt said today that traffic vestigation, had been made very was normal in both directions. difeült because of the severe The closing of East Berlin has destruction of the plane and it not affected this travel of private might, therefore, take some time
to be completed. and Western military vehicles to or from East Germany, border In Bonn, Dr Adenauer. police said, West German Chancellor, sald Travellers reported Bering the "necessary
tanics counter mea- many Soviel
and other sures" would be taken in a military vehletes, especially be-
Potsdam Enciation with West Germany's tween
and Berlin, police said All Agencies.
In London, the Foreign Ollier branded the restrictions as "illegal" and said Britain is! urgently considering the deve
pments "with other allest gov- ernments."
use of Kowloon Ignores not only the value of contlully, such as the alte opposite the prosent Secretariat would give, but the growing expan- sion and significance of the mainland part of the Colony. There can never be real auto-nilles,
nomy, of course, but it is ob vious that Kowloon and the New Territories will require a
good deal of accommodation for their own administration. They are almost two to ond new.
The commission said in task was to establish the cause of the air crash and it would also investigate radio and radar facilities and the landing pro- cedures at Sola airport-China Mall Special.
THIEVES STEAL US$2M WORTH OF PAINTINGS
Aix-en-Provence, Aug. 13.
Thioves broko into the Pavilion Vendome early today and stole aight paintings by
the impressionist master, Paul Cezanne.
The pavillon has been giving į Officials said one of the paint-through a window, then upest- an exposition of the works of ings taken lodny wna Cezanne's Ing it and door. They evident- Cezanne, who was born here.
The complete agregation of padestrian and vehicular traf. 10 is, it is argued), neither TIOCOMARY Mor convenient just yet, but the scheme is kalú to be flexible enough to enforce Tuli segregation when required.
Pollen were unable toy The ring road system should
mediately to give an estimate of work almost as well as a one- WAY Bytom in view of the the value of the paintings which difficultion the Board mentions; would, however, be very high.
This is the latest in a series of and the re-alking of the Gua terminus should remedy the uel al thefts in southern Incredible chaos of every con. France. Recently, thieves broke into a museum at Saint Tropez colvable kind of traffic at the
and but made exleting vehicula?
away with many atetiano.
; paintings of great valus,
Wit
Inthous "Les Joueurs des Cartes" }ly were very quiet. Two armed (The Cordplayers) which had | guards in an adjelning room, been fent to the exposition by asleep or dozing, "heard nothing,
The pavillon's director, the Louvre Museum.
Like all auch formed and liver in the game building, heard valued paintings, ils would be nothing either.
dimeult for the The loan was clacovered In extremely thieves to dispose of te renline the morning as the pavilion was any money from the theft.
being readied for opening. Police Rall the thieves gol Oficials estinated the loss at into the pavilion by cutting | U887 million--AP.
never you near
ane infer bottle!
to
Six boys
escape
from Cape
Collinson
Six boys forced apart the bars on their bed- room window at the Cape Collinson Train- ing Centre early this morning, and escaped.
The polico wore clorted immediately their absence was dis- covered. Polico portios, accompanied by tracker dogs, aro at prosent sweeping the whole of tho
Collinson Cape area in AA extensivo scorch.
The bays had pro- viously been released after a parlod of train- ing at the Contro, but had been rocalled for further training when thay again got into trouble.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TOOT AND A TOOT...
Tondon, Aug. 12. The Dally Malt tostay submitted that while French motorists are an-- noyed If a driver doesn't "looi" his harn when over- they taking, "In England sometimes shake their fista If you do,"
Englishmen only toot "In the direct emergency," said the Daily Mail. They had "the ridiculous attitude that a toot is tantamount to creating a scene."
Distinguishing between "Loots and toots," the Daily Mail said the polite,
"should short
be toot tooted-even at the cost
of being un-English.”— China Mail Special,
On a ‘zeal”
strike
Paris, Aug. 13, day running from the zeal of French customs officers, who yesterday began working to rule in a four-day "zeal atrike' for higher pay.
For the second turists suffered
THLIU were half-hour waits at Orly airport, and passengers had to queue while custome mell, normally Indulgent with iurists, went through
every piece of baggage.
At several of the frontier posts linking France with Ger- many, Switzerland, Haly und Spain long queues of cars bulit up.-Reuter.
Why did the Sultan demote his son?
Johore Baru, Aug. 13.
The President of the Council of the Johore Royal Court today denied that the Sultan of Johore had demoted his Crown Prince son, Tengku Mahmud because the Princo wanted to divorce his British wife ond marry a Malayan beauty queen,
Yunus said
Dato Haji Hassan Bin Hajl
Prince Mahmud Yunus, doclined, however, to had been given several warnings say why the Sultan last week before his removal ad Crown named his other son, Tengku Prince, but declined to reveal Abdul Rahman, help to the their nature. throne.
DENIAL
R
Dato Yunus niso denied Singapore newspaper report that Tengku Mahmud had al- really divorced the former
The reigning Sultan, whose Jate playboy father wus often in the news, la reported to have sided with Josephine.-AP.
Josephine Trevorrow, an attrac- STOP PRESS
tive British girl, In order En marry Mlsa Malaya of 1960, Zanariah Binte Almah. Jose- phine and the Prince have four children,
Under Moslem law it is per- missible for a man to have four wives.
The marital tangle was dis- closed some weeks ago
when Tangku Mahmud's wedding re- ception was called off, apparent | ly on orders from his fabulously
wealthy father.
Mikoyan in Tokyo
Tokyo, Aug. 14, Mr Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet First Deputy Pro- miar, arrived in Japan for the opening of the Russian trade exhibi- tion. Rautor.
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