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VULCAIN

SWISS MADE

COMMENT OF

THE DAYN

Bathing

CHINA MAIL

No. 35318

Established, 1845

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1952.

Film Studio, Squatters

Sheds Huts Involved In

reaction to

Government's latest pro- posals for developing the Colony's smaller bathing beaches will probably be mixed. The idon is that people shall apply for sites on benches selected by .Government for which they

will be given a five-year lease on certain conditions, principal among them being that the lessee must erect a permanent one-storey build- ing, covering abot 300 square feet; must keop It properly maintained; and must hand it over intact to Government together with fittings, at the end of five years. Thereafter theso beach huts will go into the general ballot held annually

for the allocation of bath- From Govern- ing sheds.

ment's point of view this is

11 simple and uncostly method of ensuring that the smaller beaches will, in due

course,

K'In Fire

ICE CAP RESCUE

ALL

EARLY MORNING 12 MEN

BLAZE

A Chinese film studio and a number of nearby squatters huts were involved in a fire which broke out in Kowloon City shortly before 5 o'clock this morning.

Firemen, with four engines, fought the flames for an hour and a quarter before bringing them under control, and the fire was extinguished by

7 a.m..

The outbreak occurred on part of extension to Grampian Road and near the Howe Temple.

Forty to fifty squatters huts, in an area of about 300 by 200 feet, were destroyed either by the flames

be provided with or through collapsing. what it considered appro- priate bathing houses. This is probably regarded by Government as the chief merit of the scheme.

But

the proposition is not whol- ly meritorious. On the con- trary it lends itself to criticism.

ONE

NE objection which might fairly be raised is that the plan invites and on-

Ships Pay

Tribute To

SAFE

Newfoundland, Sept. 26.

All 12 men from a Royal

Air Force transport which crashed on an Arctic ice cap of North Greenland 11 days ago, were tonight safo

and under observation in hospital at Thule, the big American air base in Greenland.

mine

Details of the Anal rescue of

of

British- them-all

The other three, who had

reached here today.

Nor

Price 30 Cents

On Official! Visit Here

The Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Simon Wing- fleld Digby, 'MP, arrived in Hongkong yesterday on an official visit... He will inspect the naval and dockyard establishments. This picture of Mr Wingfield Digby: was taken just before he emplaned for his Far East tour. Reuterphoto.

under the direction of Deputy operation was carried out with Submarine

Shortly afterwards

Chief Officer C. W. Brand.

Officer W. J. German Toulon, Sept. 28. In a last moving tribute to

courages exclusiveness. Only the submarine Sibylle fort with "as to Kowloon and the fire Dakota and the other acting as

was then

a relatively few can afford all hands on Wednesday mom-direction,

fought under his a

TODAY'S RACING SELECTIONS

been injured in the crash, in- clutiing an American Air Force officer, were picked up on Wed- nesday by- zn Albatross Amphibian

jet plane with The stage section of the Unl-assisted take-off equipment. corn Film Studios and adjoining The latest rescue was carried offices were also destroyed by

out b

by a Dakota aircraft filed the fire,

with skis and also with jet- When the call was received assisted inke-off equipment.

Under the direction of Colonel at 4.45 a.m., the Kowloon Fire Brigade

Balchen, famous despatched tour Bernt engines, two ambulances and an wegian Arctic expert now in the emergency tender to the scene United States Air Force, the

the assistance of

other of two Chief aircraft one providing naviga- went tional hesistance to the rescue

rection guide

half-way the ice cap and the to bear the cost of building ing, the French Mediterranean There were the casualties, but American air Lase

Reports received from Thule and maintaining perfect steamed past Cap Camarat manent bathing

house near here today with guards of

today said that the rescue air- trom there at of a type envisaged by honour at the solute to each

craft took off the homes of the homeless.

a.m. yesterday and took Government. The project

Those who have lost their three hours to reach the scene therefore caters only for a As the long line of warships

I stayed on the ice cap for Golden Boy minority, and steamed past the scene of the homes will be given temporary of the crash 400 miles away. privileged

an-hour-and-a-half pleking up alienates the smaller beaches. disaster led by the feet flag-accommodation in the Kowloon

cruiser City refugee camp, 7,000-ton "the

Direct cause of the blaze has the maroaned airmen and pre-Home Sweet Home

Outsider-Beylight. No complaint can be levelled ship,

Montcalm, a petty officer in against the objective of each ship flung a wreath of re-not yet been established, but it is pating for the tricky take-off. without

RACE 2 trouble. equipping our beaches with membrance into the slowly disbelieved the fire originated in the It returned to base

Ringstend bathing sheds that are persing lake of grey oil which flm studio.

The rescued men had been Happy Returns the

living in the fuselage of their pleasant in appearance and still marks the spot where

Heliophyte lost plane since September 18. permanent in construction. Sibylle made her last dive.

Artem of the Montcalm in

They had been forced to land on the -8,000-feet high-ice cap after dropping supplies to a team of British scientist explorers the uncharted wastes Greenland-Reuter

A

ship

Social Welfare Onleg workers went to the area and during this morning began reglatering

Babies Were

Switched

Court Decision *

But If Government Intends her sister ship, the Gloire. M to take possession of them Jacques Gavint, Secretary of five years after being erect- State for the Navy, stood bare- ed, the question automatical-headed on the bridge, while 48 officers ly poses itself, why should officers saluted the not the Authorities make and men killed in the diameter. Fighters of the French naval themselves responsible for air service dived low over the building the sheds, recover-

Hanover, Sept. 20. a final salute. waves

A court at Rinteln near here an- cost through ing the

In Toulon, southern France's nual rentals, and making big naval port

flags evidence that two boys, now all crew, the huts available from the the Sibylle's beginning to public ballot? were at half mast, with those three-and-a-half The scheme as it stands at on naval buildings tied with present is ill-conceived and black ribbon. makes

по

In

8.35

of North

Jericho

By "Ropior"

RACE 1

Outsider:-Straight- On.

RACE 3 Meadowbrook Hongkong 'Slutre Rose, Emmo

Outsider: Say When.

Dogs Hunt For Caesar

Terrorists and home of has decided on expert biologist

real contribu-Sibylle's crew

The luckiest member of the is Seaman Joan tion to the argent problem Brunout, who went on leave of providing bathing bench with the others a fortnight ago, facilities that will meet fell ill and was unable to re

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years

old, were accidentally switched to

Moy

RACE 4

Great Conqueror

Outsider: Hawallen Moon. Nairobi, Sept. 26.

RACE 5 Police dogs brought by air

were

tonight Ben Macdhul the wrong mothers at a mater- from Nairobi,

hunting Mou Maru terror National Glory nity home shortly after birth.

announced today|ralders, who had massacred Concord The decision means personal tragedy, for one cattle and burned down a power farmlands boy is illegitimate, the other is station on European far

near Mount Kenya. the son of a married couple.

Wolfgang, who has been cared

Seventeen arrests were made. for by an unmarried mother,

Heavy rain hampered the Frau Fiedler, is really the son of

police trailing suspects metal worker Wilheim Dreier and

a wooded mountainside. wife. Wilfried, hitherto

hat all telegraph They found that accepted as the Drelers' son, wires had been out.

Colin really the illegitimate child of

Tonight the police said that Care Free Frau Fiedler.

100

sheep and 84 cattle had some Fun The court was able to say been killed in today's Maxi Mau Outsider:-Calamity. how the switch becurred. It was

his

l

Outsider: Hurry On

RACE 6

along

Glorious Tonyber Bootsic

Outsider: Lake Success,

RACE 7

discovered only recently when raid,

But focal farmers place

social authorities ordered torts to carumties much higher-Reuter. Skylon

RACE. 8

establish

parentage of

legitimate boy.

Allled Victory

the

Court authorities then ordered Communist Plott

Outsider:-Potentiality.

an investigation of, all the

children born on the same day

|∙ity"

switch

San Salvador, Sept. 20.

RACE 9

Outsider:Beautiful Lic.

RACE 10

as Wolfgang at the same matern- A Communist plot to over-

ward, "It showed that a throw the Goverment was ro- Easy Money

today and the Fairy Feet could have occurred only ported here

im Corrib with Wilfried.

Legislative Assembly Professor W. Loeffler, chief mediately decreed the suspen expert witness before the court, alon of Constitutional guarantees wald that tests on both boys and for a duration of 20 days, parents had included the most Despite the reported plot the Teddington exhaustive blood examinations country was calm and trade and Thunder Sky and detailed comparisons of industrial activity continued as Jorrocks

usual Franco-Presso. eyes,

shape of

nos and feet..

RD.

He enld the tests had identi fled the children beyond doubt.n

The parents said they had not yet decided what to do now. They did not Infeadin mediately to take the children from their old surrounding me Reuter.

Stevenson To Tell

Outalder: Diana, Diana

Million Dollars Worth

Stolen From Toronto

By "The Turf

RACE 1:

Jericho Golden Boy Ringmer

Outsider:-Rome Sweet Home.

Ringstead

RACE 2

Happy Returna New Market

Outsider: Cinch.

RACE 3

Hongkong Slutze American Carrot 'Meadowbrook

Outsider:-Marietta.

RACE 4

Caesar Hawaiian Moon Easy Stam

Outsider:-Moy

Robin Hood

RACE 5

Hurry On Ben Macdhui

Outsider:-Desire

RACE 6.

Glorious L'Arc Triompho Straight Flush

Outsider:-Bootsie.

RACE 7

| Collin

Happy Boy Calamity

Outsider:-Sulphur.

RACE 8

Skylon Allled Victory Dixie Bell

Outsider:-Potentiality.

Easy Money Ping On Falry Feet

RACE 9

Outsider: Beautiful. Star.

RACE 10 Diana Dashing Beauty II Teddington

Outsider:Penforce

Of Gold

Airport

Toronto, Sept. 26.

Gold worth a million dollars on the black market- bound for London air- port was not missed for six hours, after being stolen from the airport here, the police disclosed today.

New York, Sept. 26.1 boxes of gold bullion,

Then a continent-wide search shed and the plane at Malton The Democratie presidential candidate, Me Adial Stevenson, part of a consignment of 10, for Canada's biggest-ever gold airport hern

The 10 boxes were on their Today weat part of the way were "fost from a shod here haul began, but the police and www to London for, transhigiment

shipment to towards accepting the Repub|while, hwaiting lean challenge to give details Montreal, by air on Wednesday officials were still bald today to a destination which onerous They said it looked as if the refused, name. An airline of his salary funday

They were not missed night

mising We have no official He said he would larue a markursday. Local gang hat worked on inside offelal saldi The gold is just statement

nt about the fund he pollon were not a fold until the tip and disclosed that some of knowledge that If we wolon

Today nyatigators auidi that hindraland as Governor of morning and the Royal Cans the wooden boxes of bullion Tigola

to supplement the dien daunted Police was not, were left unattended for three the haud we probably now SAINEICH of kay, sainte employees, called until the afternoon.piler four minutes between the Americansunderviga

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Strasbourg, Sept. 26.

New homes for millions of Europeans, protec- tion for them in wartime, old age pensions and improved. transport, were among schemes advo cated in the European Consultative Assembly here today.

182 politicians representing 15 nations voted overwhelmingly for the creation of a European "building society"-a credit institute to handle funds for financing house building in countries:where international action was needed.

The Assembly also adopted a recommendation that all member states should ratify the Geneva Con- vention of 1949 on protection of civilians in war and take "practical stops” and· ` exchange information on methods of evacuating and protecting civilians.

It also adopted a proposal | The PICMME resolution specifically concerning protece commended that the ministers don of chlidren in war time by consult within the framework of safety zones. -

the Council Europe to reach

Resolutions on social security agreement on a common policy,

of migration. suggested means whereby exist--

A second resolution asked ing social legislation and face! tice in the countries could be member states and international harmonised,

Organisations to grent priority

·Com

The Turkish delegate, Osman to any Investment project Kapani, said, that the safety of likely to encourage the integra- children should rank equally tion of refugees and of the with

the provision of military surplus population. equipment

The Council's social

The Assembly adopted a mitice reported that two in-resolution recommending that terim agreements had been ministers urge those governs Brussela drafted for giving old age pen-ments not in tho slons, workers compensation Treaty to conclude with each and similar social benefits to other :: and : with' the Brussels Europeans.

powers cultural conventions Jike thoso concluded within that treaty,"

NEABLY COMPLETED Foreign Ministers of the res

The Brussels

powers

aro

pective countries were asked to Tiritain, France, Belgium,; Hol- greements without hind and Luxembourg-Reutor.

al all members urged |

delay

to hasten ratification in their Parliaments.

The third agreement covering social and medical assistance is. nearing completion.wwe

Compensation

Gesture

London, Sept. 20.

To help consolidate European social security, the Assembly voted to create a special com- mities of social security ad-

officials to

suggest ministration means of harmonious existing Compensation is to be paid to social legislation and practice everyone who suffered in the in the 18

Jet plano. disaster at Farn- countries. The Assembly is only cansul-borough Air Show on Septem- tative but its views, formally ber 6. adopted in resolutions, now go to the Foreign Ministers of the and 28 spectators were killed The test pilot, his observer, 15 nations for positive action. and, 63, people injured, when a

can

affect about

De Havilland - 110 Jet

The results. 280,000,000 Europeans.

crowd..

di-

On the problem of Europe's Integrated and crashed into the surplus population, a recom- mendation was adopted I proposing A statement issued today by the work and resources of the the De Havilland company and Provisional Inter-Governmental their insurers and the Society Committee for the Movement of

Aircraft Construc- of British Migrants from Europe (PIOMME) tors, organisers of the show, should be expanded and extended sald that irrespective of logel for a further four or five years. liability, they would pay com

The governments of Britain pencation to those, who had Toeland, Greland, the Saar and suffered hardship as a result of Turkey were urged

the disaster, FIOMLIN

to

Join

It was announced that the PICMME programme

Legal opinion had been ex¬

of tran- pressed that the victims

hád

sporting 187,000 people abroad no remedy at law against any this year would probably be of the parties concerned. fulfilled.

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