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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1961.

SHEAFFER'S Imperial II

ballpoint with "Reminder"clip

SOLI AONMYST UNITER PAPER DO, ETA

MUSEUM DESIGNED TO DISCOURAGE WAR

PICTORIAL PARADE

Alerted for possible active duty as a result of the Barlin crisis, these Lockheed F-104 Starfighters of the 151st Fighter- Interceptor Squadron, Tennessee Air National Guard, fill the flight line at McGhee-Tyson Air Force Baso near Knoxville, Tennessee. Flown by ANG "weekend-warrior" pilots, the 1,500-mph Starfighters ore on integral part of the nation's Air Defence Command. Civilian pilots and maintenance crows of the 151st FIS stand ready for a call to active duty during periods of national emergency. with the 151st FIS are single-seat F-104As and two-place F-1048s.

DETECTIVE TELLS COURT MAN ADMITTED KILLING IN CAUTIONED STATEMENT

A detective this morning read out to the court a cautioned statement he said a man accused of murder had made to him.

Jailed two months

for molesting 14-year-old girl

to

two

Island early on the morning 3 June 6.

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On trial is Lee Chun-cliven, accused of murdering

Words

It amuses me that Mr T. N. Wow persists in arguing away from my polut, I said that "science always presupposes its specula. tions car be testified by physical evidence." Did I say or suggest that it is "merely with 'Individual concerned evidence"." or that it is "not concerned with the meanings, ck."? Since up to this point we follow the same line of theorising. where 13 the "distinction", and why is my opinion "not true"?

and

The cautiuned stalement was Tead out by Detective Staff Sergeant Lul Luk, who said he interviewed the accused in ao unnumbered but in Lammar Wow, however, should recog

between nise the distinction Cif

philosophy

setence. Science, by fis nature, must be specific. A solence like blology. for example, does not cover the field of psychology от paychiatry. Good selentlats always recognise the limits of Rcience, and only deal with chosen aspects or areas of Why are human experience, there so many branches of science, and why are scientists always specialists?

Is father-in-law, Tsun Kang- kwong, with a hammer in Wong Tai Sul on May 15. He pleaded

BC1 City.

A 40-year-old unemployed man, Wong Chung-per,

Syl Lu Luk said that early Was sentenced

on the mening of June 0, he months jail by Mr J. T.

went with a police party to Williams at Central Lamma Island and found the

a rattan bed Magistracy this morning accused asleep on

for indecently assaulting in stone hut.

Sgt Lui Luk said..e then

a 14-year-old girl.

cautioned

When scientific investigation becomes Roncrailsed and comprehensive, I leaves the territory of science and enters that of philosophy. Philosophy,

the accused and the Pellee said defendant motested: accused made a staternent.

In the statement, the sergeant the girt at a watch-repair stall į

house in Hollywood-ald, accused said that he had

by come to Hongkong with his father-in-law in 1956 and they

road on Tuesday night, She shouted, and be was caught by i later disagreed with each other. her brother who went to her

His father-in-law, the statement assistance.

went on, had

written home "falsely stating that accused

over to

two auxiliary policemen on duty had died and had told accused's

Wong was

handed

rearby.

Murder charge

wife to marry another man.

"Later 1 stole an iron hommer lo strike him to death," cused was alleged to have sold.

ac-

i

: "Later I went to Tsing I and there jumped into the sea. I WDS rescued by boatman. therefore went to Lamma Island to work." the statement Con- Alnued.

Lai On, alias Lai She-on, a

Hearing before Mr Justlec 30-year-old man charged¦ W. A. Blair-Kerr is continuing. with murder, was com- The neru!cd is represented mitted by Mr D. Cons at by Mr E. C. K. Tone, instructed Contral Magistracy this by Miss Rose Na-Quinn of

Messra

Brution and Co. Mr morning to stand trial at itsrold Hobson, Crown Counsel, the Supreme Court in the s prosecuting. next Criminal Session.

Lal, living at 30 Suunton- street, second floor, Central, 197 alleged to have murdered Chan Hunk, a foki of the Wun Lay Mahjong Schoul on July 24 oui side the school 44 Gage- street. Central.

nt

Pen friends

I um 12 years old and I'm a boy. My interests are collecting |

bike ond mampaxing my playing football, The name

of

8 Chinese artists display works

An exhibition of the works of eight well-known Colony artists was opened at St John's Cathedral Old Hall, Garden-road, this morn- ing.

On

display are 80 works in my sc. ool is The Tweed River: ells and water colours, as well

High School. A boy pen friend is required.

JOHN BOYD.

Main-street, Fingal, Tweed River C. NSW, Australia.

£60,000 pub

A 100-year-old public house, bullt for £200, in t Peter's- street, St Albans, Hertford. sture, has been sold to a of radio debiern for £00,000 London Express Service.

Grm

AN Chines engraving coloured pen-drawings,

and

The eight artists, all of whom tavo had more than 20 years' experlenco in painting, are Messrs Wong Chiu-foon, Chan Hol-ying, Lo Lan, Wong Ching, Lo Kul-chun, Ng Lit, Leting Fung and IIo Lut-ling,

The exhibition will remain open until 1 pm on Saturday.

Going to Sydney

Mr D. de S. Carey, Madager of the Chitin - Navigation Co.. I4 expected to leave today by CPA | for Sydney.

nature, .must be comprehensive. There may be many philosophies, but the object of their inquiry is the of same: the total meaning human existence.

It seems slightly hilarious that Mr Wow talks to about what, from the scientifle polai of view, an ideal is, but ignores the all-Important question: what is its value in human life? There is no value in all this expialuing " it does not lead to an assessment, Le, un assessment of its human value. Mr Wow merely discusses its scientile nature (what it in), which, if unrelated its human value (why does concern us),, is valueless.

to

It

tawa

human we assess M Value? How do we know this social altitude is of greater value than that? The ques- then is obviously a moral, and therefore philosophical ane: human value has to be evaluated in moral terms and a moral evaluation eventually leads to a test by our basle feelings. At this paint no explanation in possible, and the only criterion we can use Is the common element in

nur human experience, baxis of all philosophy.

the

Let me illustrate: one can say

11 is good for the world to be one family because it is good to love each other. But why Дя lave good? One has to explain the goodness of love, But why Is goodness good? One has to explain the good- ness of goodness. When one I roaches another stage of ex- planation another quotilan will arise. Try to explain such bento concepta "honuly," "truth" and "good- nom" by the selontiflo method, Mr Wow.

And please read my "falizoler" carefully before you "prove" them, Mr Wow, To say Imagine an ideal as "a" my= sterious enfily, zia.” is sheer fantasy: I said it was based upon the imaginalivo futer- pretation of.

KEWALESLIE

In service

dear sir

perlence." and emphasised its "practical

and theoretical value," This does not in any way Burrest it is not a social attitude. A bellever in ideals

tus distant from a bellever in myths) does not confuse im- agined realities with existent realities,

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A GIGANTIC COLLECTION

OF ARMS

Rome.

A museum containing one of the world's largest collections of arms is due to open here later this year with tho declared aim of discouraging war,

The collection was begun some 40 years ago in Trieste by a boy, who had some ne arms belonging to his family, which came originally from Portugal and had been connected with the military profcasion, for right centuries,

Koen

dozen research workers are at work,

Al interesting side of the Ilearlquer Foundation is that It is not only concerned with

the warlike activities of human beings, but also with the "hosties" of microbes, animal or plant.

also included,

A psychologient section is

From the Files

25

years AGO

September 1936

ONE of

London. the minor

changes in social habits

which must gratify the Ministry of Agriculture and the Milk Marketing Board is the increased consumption of milk due to the growth of milk bars.

How much it amounts to cannot be computed but it must be hundreds of thou- sands of gallons. The idea came from America.

There are now more than 150 milk bars throughout to deal with the country, of which 100 more concealed aspects of

are in Lonion. New bars

The boy, Diego De Henriquez, found many pieces to add to his collection on the battlefields of World War I, only a few klo-human pugnacity. metres from his home Lown,

Signor De Henriquez Is, par- are being opened almost

which are

His interest became so keen Licularly proud of his collections very week; they cater for that by the end of World War of Japanese, ancient Indian and both a summer and winter II, he had set up a muscunt: Chinese arms,

re-trade, and the movement is containing some 100.000 objects, garded as the largest in Europe, sufficiently important to whose estimated value today la Roman, Elrusean and Mediseval | 4,000 million fire (about £3,- weapons are also well repre- justify the Milk Marketing

having A Advisory Department.

500,000).

sented.

Housing

Board

A

Milk

50 YEARS AGO

The collection kept growing rapidly and soon overspilled the

The difficulties of housing 10,000 square metres on # auch muscum begin to be Trieste hill where it was kept. fully appreciated when the see-

A proper display of the ex-

tion named "world naval his- hibita would have entailed euch tory" is visited. There, one is high maintenance costs that De confronted with 12 real ships, - Extract from SCM Port 25 Henriquez could not afford to four of them submarines. years ago columnr. open his muAcum the public. The most technical part of

Then the Italian Ministry of the exhibition is perhaps that "Hongkong's annual cross- Education, which looks after connected with telecommunica- harbour swim took place last the country's publle galleries, lions, a bulky feature of which evening. museums, and monuments, de- cided that the bulky. De Hen-

should

paratus, be collection riquez moved to Rome and opened in the public to convey the mes- sage that their energies and re- sources would be better used for the peaceful conquest of the universe that for the destruc- tion of their fellow men.

while, at the same time, pre- tending that Soviet Russia can do no wrong, not even her nuclear testing which, after all. was forced upon her by the United States! However, the "neutralist" lenders were voolicrous In their con- of Western-type demnation because he knows

but colonialism

then, of they are imagined realities,

Ruslan-type course, Finally, please answer the all-

neo- colonialism is quite in order important question, Mr Wow: does an ideal, or

and not worth talking about. socls1 atlitude, have value or not?

time I think it is high

the N. T. CHOW.

Western nations, the United States in parileular, stopped worrying about so-called "world oplulon" and set about doing what they should to preserve their freedom re- Eardless of what the "neutra-The Fist" leaders may say or do. When all is said and done, "neutral" countries may con- tinue to remain truly neutral so long as the Western nations can stand up to Russia, and no one should lose sight of this important fact

MAJOR VICTORINO.

dear sir

All take and

no give

Congratulations Mr Editor on your leader yesterday entitled “All Take and No Give

What you write is exactly how by far the majority of att Swiss fect about the obscure policies followed by the 10- called "neutralists" who portray surprising signs of political Immaturity and total lack of knowledge of Communist alms and policies.

Leaders of countries who portray

such attitudes may appear as shrewd politicians for a short time but they are no siales- men. Tids, in the course of time, will prove to be dis- astrous for themselves and for their own countries.

A SWISS RESIDENT,

dear

I subscribe in full to your time-

ly "Cominent Of The Day" of September 13_ entitled, "AU Take and No Give", which is na absorbing as it is thonglit provoking, and 1 feel that any one who appreciates the true meanlug of the word “neu- tra!" will likewise concur with the views propounded by you.

If I had had any doubts bo- fore that a genuine neutral, non-aligned or ancommitted nation in non-existent, stel doubts had been completely dlspelled after digesting the Pres reports on the recens Belgrade conference.

dear sir

Critics

Although it is well known that poets are often poor erities, as well as muddle-keaded thinkers. I still wonder why 2 certain budding (ani modestly anonymous) Amos Coltle names the charming notion that other readers are of the same reading taste as he ("Your lengthy words be- gin to bore us"), and con- inues to read other readers' correspondence that bores him ("I'd rather read Rogot's cll-

Thesauros") under compulsion.

N.T. CHOW

U.S. scientist

expected today

Dr Paul C. Aebersold, Direc- tor, Office of Isotoper Development, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.. is scheduled to arrive today on

brief unofficial visit to Hong- kong.

ס

He will oddress Special Convocation at the opening of the Sixth Session of the Hong- kong Baptist Collage on Satur- was postilvoly sauneating to day, at 6:00 am in the Pul read to pronouncements Ching Auditorium, 85 Waterloo- most of the leaders of road, Kowloon according to an the "neutral" nations who announcement made by Pre- bava arrogated to them aldent Lam Cul-fung. adives the Tofty though

misleading Uite of "consciando Dr Aebersold will speak on of mankind”. God forbid "Pencetime Uses of Atomic thai mankind, especially the Energy." Western nations, should ever

be so naive is to allow them- During the week, böginning nelves to bo led up the romi Menday, Sepmber 11, more tree by this exrotimonious and than even hundred students Invingere group whore chlef have gone through registration alm and purpose appear to be procedures, over two hundred to label the Western' nations | first year students have been

• bogy ma at every turn given special orientation,

LA

Decreed

is

ה

Tommy

collection of radar ap-

Lovan won the The heavier equipment--con-premier Itumours for the non, armoured curs and tanks-second year in Bucccasion, but is balanced by an interesting he had to put in all he knew collection of small arms tolal-at the finish to beat A.A. ling 10,000 pieces, claimed by

bold Italian experts to be the world's Claxton, who made a

effort to overhaul the young largest,

Students of warfare will find in the museun

Anglo-Saxon champion.

a well documented display - The race is promoted by the The Ministry also increed

lustrating the history of the 'China Mail', who pive tha that the museum, called by its British and United States arm-prizes and the arrangementa founder "The De Henríquez ed forces.

are left in the hands of the

Historical Institute nnel War Museum." should be re-nuined Peace Institute and Museum,

Removal of the exhibits be-

G.R.

Arms from the Valigan have Victoria Recreation Club, not been forgotten. A collea tion of fine arms from the The following are the pre- Papal Guard is completed with vions results:- a shot-gun which, according to

1906: gan in 1957, but so far less the collector, has occasionally

Brotherton, one tenth of them has been used by Popes in the last R.G.A., 27 mins. 42.4/5 secs. been transferred from Trieste century.

1907: A.E. Thomas, H.M.S. Tamar, 28 mina, 50.4/6 secs.

1908: A.E. Thomas, H.M.S. Tamar, 20 mins.

than

to

the museum in Rear, situated in a former Grenadiers barracks on, the Square of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem.

Colourful

1909: C.J. Cooke, Hongkong, 29 mins. 262/5 secs.

1910: T. Logan, Hongkong. 20 mins. 58.2/5 seca.

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elaborate ceremony

The most colourful section is undoubtedly that containing The removal has been pro- military uniforms of many ceeding slowly owing to lack countries from the 18th cen- of funds, but the Under Secre- lury to the present day. lary for Education, Signor Glo- But the exhibits are not vanni Elken, has now sold that confined to objects with a it is to be speeded up so that milliary use, though there is the "Peace Museum" may be some connection with war In opened to the public before the fall of them. There end of 1061 or early in 1982. example, a

Signor De Henriquez, a tall mugs with warlike features. well-built man of 53, who Some have lids in the shapeber when Japan's new Diet speaks seven languagee fluently, of a spiked German helmet of building completed after 17 talks with great enthusison of the early 20th century, and years of work and at a cost his foundation.

there are pipes fashioned like of approximately Y24,000,- First of all, he stresses that cannon. his is not merely a muscum, 1 There are also worlike toys.

000 is to be formally is also an Institute, aiming at Shops all over the world today opened.

aludy of ways and means of are full of them, but Signor The building, a massive defence and offence, and show- Da Henriquez has arranged granite structure with mar- ing the human race how their them in his museum with the ble used lavishly on energies can be better spent. declared Intent of showing

series of drinking A is planned for Novem-

the

The museum consists of 50 parents how dangerous such interiors, rests majestically sections, cach devoted to a par- loys can be in tuning the mind on a high spot of ground ticular subject. The Institute is of the young to ideas and pro-near the Imperial Palace and based on a research centre, jects of war and hostility complete with library, film and against their contemporaries.is visible from, most parts of photographic units, where Д China Mail Special.

Tokyo.

POP by God

HERE EVERYBODY ACTS AS PART OF

A TEAM!

Phew! a Sticky Day! But now home for a

Carlsberg

Drink,

Carlsberg

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