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ROFESSOR S. G. DAVIS
of!
Prof the University
to
Hangkong, during the course of his address to the students of King's College last week, made reference i
# danger which threatens not only the students of Hongkong, but students everywhere. The danger is the over- scientific specialisation in
subjects which is
taking
place in secondary schools and Universities all over the world.
It is obvious, of course, that
in this age of nuclear re- search and space travel. young people are not going to stand aside. Their future well being econo-¡ mically is drawn towards
offer subjects which
not only fame but the possibi- lity of renumerative posts. But as Professor Davis said, "There is a danger that
of
being tricked into assessing the greatness of a nation by
some
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are
its military and technical achievements alone." This timely warning of Profes- sor Davis receives our wholehearted acquiescence, i but as we see it, the danger is more profound than the acceptance of human greatness in terms of scientific achievement.
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of illiterate literates. that is meant, we are well
informed in the profession
U.S. sets off 5th blast
Washington, Dec. 3.
The United States today set off another small nuclear explosion e
underground ot the Nevada proving grounds.
Today's U.S. test WAR the firth American nuclear detonation sings the U.6. resumed atomic testing in mid-September.
All the U.8. explosions have been in underground chambers designed to trap radioactivity.
ESCAPED
Nuclear talks
in Geneva
at standstill
Moscow, Dec. 3.
Tribeswomen boycott the royal tour
Bathurst, Gambia, Dec. 3.
Wollof tribeswomen, who rank among the best-dressed in Africa, appear to have boycotted the visit of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to this tiny capital today.
The Soviet Union tonight repeated its warn- ing that it will hold new nuclear tests if the West continues underground testing.
security, the A government stalement dis-, safeguard tributed by Tass, the official USSR will be compelled to hold Soviet news agency. said that such nuclear weapons tests as it deems necessary for con- the step would be taken in the interests of Russian security.
solidation of its defence capa-nissing.
the slatement said,
city" Energy
But the Atomic Commission said last week that a small amount radiation escaped into the air from one of the under shoto in ground
the cur
rent series,
Today's detonation was described as of "how yield." meaning that the power it unleashed was measured in thousands of tons of TNT or kilotons-UP!.
It said "one cannot help being alerted by the American state- ment at the Geneva nuclear test week that U.S. ban talks last underground testing may con- Linue,
Firm
"The Sovlet Government de- clares firmly that if the West-
Powers
testing continue their nuclear weapons-onder- ground included in order to
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DR HSU NOT
MISSING,
FRIENDS
SAY
we follow, but elect to Two colleagues of Dr Blondel Hsu, who is said to
re-
muin ignorant of every-
thing else. For what shall
a young man gain if he
gives his life to nuclear
bumb
be missing in Japan, said reports of his dis-
t appearance were untrue.
Medical College and fellow lecturers at the that
refused Hongkong University, นี to disclose their Identity.
many
The two doctors, who were tries without carrying so research, if after years of fellow students of Dr Bsu at valuables.
A government spokesman said labour in a physica labora-Peking Union
disup- no report on the tory, the end is a
pearance of Dr Hsu has so far devastate which wil]
been received by the Hongkong continent, und end the
police from Japan or locally. civilisation he set out to As far as they knew Dr Hsu, serve?
on a tour of Japan, America This is no fanciful fight of Japan by now according to his Europe, should have left imagination
part.
Hinerary and should not be con- Years ago, this paper sidered missing at all.” published a photograph of
UNLIKELY an eminent scientist -return- ing home after the success-
on our
and
ful detonation of an atomic They also discounted the re- bomb in the Pacific. The port that Birs Hsu was swindled of an estimated $1 million worth
shares
They believed it was unlikely that the couple would carry 50 much money and valuables on a round-the-world tour.
photograph showed him step in jewellery, American ping down from the plane, and travellers' cheques. his face wreathed in a smile of satisfaction as be greeted the newspaper reporters. One does not, of course, belittle or begrudge a scientist the rewards his self-sacrificial work brings him. Neverthe less, such an attitude des cribed above cannot but lead to the conclusion that would have transferred his as the scientist's education, sets to either of the two coua- removed from everything
but the pursuit of one sub-
his
ject, shows that imagination does not ex- tend beyond the narrow horizons of his laboratory.
[AN cannot do more than can. He cannot escape hia nge except by becoming a hermit or
Mhe
a
Another doctor said that Dr Hsu was preparing to transfer his practice from Hongkong to either America or Canada,
If this were true, Dr Hsu
Top Red resigns
London, Dec. 4.
announced today that one
recluse. And he cannot work The British Communist Party along a single narrow path removed from his kind and at the same time serve humanity. We would stress the operative phrase, "re- moved from his kind," for we are reminded of Sir! Alexander Fleming in his Impoverished laboratory at St Mary's Hospital, where
of its most "conspicuous members, Mr Frank Haxell, former General Secretary of the big Elec- trical Trades Union, has resigned from the Party. Mr Haxell was replaced, as
he pursued the microscopic General Secretary of the ETU enemies of mankind. He was last August by the Supreme of this age, but Inclusive Court after a long hearing of
within the family of man- kind, in that he served man- kind
alection in which Mr Haxell churgos of ballot rigging in the
won the post.
But the danger is of studies
ANTI-RED which take men outside the Mr John Byrne, an anti- human family, whose end la Communist runner-up in the not the destruction of the voting, was declared General hutian race, but rather the Sceretary of the powerful union. hugo inferno they achieve It has a membership of a quar- with a successful experi- tor of a million.
After the Court's decision. ment. They lack vision, and the whole ETU was suspended Jadiding vision they die. But from the Trades Union Con- unfortunately, they take gress, the national nascelation the human race with them, of labour organisation,AP.
Friends of Dy Hsu also con- sidered it unlikely that Dr Hsu would be far more convenient had left for Chine, because
to get there from Hongkong
According to sources close to Dr Hsu's family, Dr Hsu had entrusted his car to a motor company on September 13 prior to his departure.
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Crowds lined the streets to Gambia is Britain's jast welcome the royal couple as they colony in West Africa and landed from the yacht Britannia, the oldest and smallest of her but government officials sald
African pussessions. Wollof
were women
largely
may
The territory becomes inter- nally self-governing after elec- dens next May.
Tass said the Soviet Govern- It is thought that some ment "notes with satisfaction" have dressed in European that the Russian proposals for clothes in pique as they did The Queen, wearing a white an uninspected moratorium on not wish to be made
piped spectacle ilk oress
with navy testing "have been giver their even for the benefi of the blue and a white breton hat, due by the peoples
and the Duke in an Admiral's of th:
world
It said the United States and Britain are expected to receive the proposals positively,"
Queen
Provocative
there
uniform were met by Governor A Sir Edward Windley when they arrived from Sierra Leone,
President Kennedy and the
The Queen and the Duke British Prime Minister, Mr
The Wollof tribe comes from drove in an open car through
the
decorated Senegal and their women wear
streets
with Harold Macmillan, both have
to the recently
-provocative high-waisted Iresses clouds of Union Jacks "admitted that
square where worn by Frenchwomen
five thousand tional means of nuclear
some 160 years ago.
schoolchildren welcomed them. plosion detection are perfect- ly sufficient” to provide safe- guards for checking tests in the atmosphere, Tass said.
Agreement
OX-
This gives grounds for an early agreemenį at Geneva, the statement added.
(in Geneva, diplomatic sources said the Soviets appear to be blocking the nuclear talks through their tactics and have left Western observers certain that the Kremlin does not want a nuclear test, ban treaty now, but merely an uncontrolled test moratorium.
(A close study of the Soviet "new approach," these sources
said, shows that the Russians are making sure no treaty is possible, with or without con- trols, thus keeping their hands free to test).-UPL
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LOST PROP
Lisbon, Dec. 3.
A Super Constellation, with 55 passengers and 8 crew, lost propeller while flying be- tween Bissau {Portuguese Guinea) and S. Thome Island on Saturday, 17,500 feet above the Atlantic, according to Lusitania news agency report. -AP.
The government officials said the women demanded a pay ment of five shillings each when a group was asked to go to a hospital to add colour when it was visited by the Queen.
FOUR DEAD IN AIR CRASH
Rome, Dec. 3.
Berlin border
Berlin, Dec. 3. Thirty U.S. infantrymen set up two machine- guns and an anti-tank gun on the Berlin city border tonight after the Communists be- gan new construction work to strengthen their wall.
The United States protest- ed to Russia against the East German aetion.
The U.S. infantry platoon took up positions 25 yards from the border on the north and south sides of the Friedrich- stasse checkpoint.
The Americans erected sand-
and bag pillboxes
set machineguns behind them.
A bazooka, also protected by sandbags, was put up behind the US. "Checkpoint Charlie"
border.
Narrowed
United States Air Force, about eight yards from the C-47
transport plane crashed in flames tonight into a mountain side about
In East Berlin, about 200-Com- 20 miles north of Aviano,
East German border. munist Italy, according to on Air guards were moved up to face Force spokesman.
the Americans, but later all but The spokesman said it was 50 were withdrawn. They carrying belleved four men were aboard stood side by side, the plane.
machine pistole. About 50 yards A rescue party of moun- | separated them from the US. Bathurst, on the estuary
the aircraft infantrymen. taineers reached of the River Gambia, is the ad- about 11⁄2 hours after the crash ministrative centre of the terri- and reported four bodies near tory stretching along each side the still-smouldering wreckage. of the river for 300 miles with
The Air Force said no further information was available at present. Aviano is about 40 miles
મહ northeast of Venice.-UPI.
The Queen then attended a service in a tin-roofed cathedral here and visited a hospital,
The demand was rejected, and only about flye Wolof womenan African population of 300,- 000 and 220 Europeans. Reuter, appeared at the hospital,
Leaps
from the
Golden Gate and
survives
San Francisco, Dec. 4.
Francis Patrick Kennedy, 20, jumped off the
Golden Gate Bridge and survived-the second
person to do so.
He was in a critical condition last night.
said Hospital spokesmen Kennedy, a shipping clerk,
LEONARD LEFT WIFE BUT DIDN'T GO FAR
-
·
Blackfield, Dec. 3.
Leonard Menhennet, 53, left his wife five years ago ---- but he didn't go far.
Leonard walked 30 yards to a
hut in the back yard and has lived there ever since. And there he wants to stay, Menbennet's ex-wife, Alma, 50, went to court last Friday to claim possession of the but and to seek an eviction order against her husband, who finally divorced her last year.
never goes mean
an inte Bottle!
"He went down that garden five years ago and he is still there," she said, "It is not very nice having him 'around and I feel I want to get the place tidied up and to have some peace of mind."
Menhernet, who gave his ad- dress as the "Hut in the bot- tom of the garden," said he
had papered and carpeted the hut and had electricity put in. He said he wanted to go on Elving there.
The judge adjourned the case until the first of next year. He said: "This gentleman has been living in the hut for so long that a little more time won't affect him unduly." UPI.
suffered chest and internal in- juries and two broken
arms. Doctors said it was a "relative miracle" he was alive.
Kennedy landed on the ground 200 feet below.
SPONGY
Doctors said the sponginess of the ground, wetted down by heavy rains, was a factor in his survival,
On September 3, 1941, the only other
person to live through a leap from the Golden Gate, Cornelia van Ierland, then. 22, vaulted over the railing and landed in the water 220 teet below.
She was in hospital for two mths. She said she jumped
Irresistible Im because of an pulse.
Bridge records show that 215 persons are known to have died in leaps from the span--AP
NEW
Lady Sheaffer
"writes fashion news
· SAYS VOGUZ
Santiago, Dec. 3. Fist fights broke out today after Castro sympathisers threw
The American protest came. after the Communists narrowed the Friedrichstrasse passage to one lane. The border crossing, called "Checkpoint Charlie" by the U.S. military, is: the only one Allied personnel may use enter East Berlin.
At least five large
smoke bombs into an anti-trucks were moved Castro meeting at the Italian crossing.
theatre in the centre of Santiago,
Chile.
Police quickly broke up the West Berlin. fights and ejected
to
crane
up to the
The line of soldiers faced At their backs, militiamen the pro- Communist factory Castroltes from the meeting. moved up, in a scene of feverish About 2,000 persons were pre-activity sent.-AP.
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