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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Houses For HK
THE Introduction on
TWednesday of a Bill to
establish a statutory Hous- ing Authority was, without doubt,
of the
one
most
CHINA
No. 35787
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AIR DISASTER: 37 KILLED Caused Crowd
W. Europe
important legislative steps Defence
taken in the Colony'K history. It is significant for two things: frstly it representa
new JL
official
evaluation of our housing
Forces Up
problem; secundly it brings To Size
Government into that re volutionary position (for Hongkong 1 of being 1 landlord in the fullest Buth of the word. developments enn be wel comed. Private enterprise has certainly made ♫
Henke
over
Washington, Apr. 8.
A Defence Department official said today that Western Europe's defence forces have just about at- tained the size which WILS planned when United States
Major-General George C.
Stewart, Director of the once
Transport
Plane Rammed
In Mid-Air
NO SURVIVORS
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Apr. 8. rearmament aid was begun. Thirty-seven persons were killed to- day when a student pilot's training plane rammed a four-engine airliner whose pilot tried in vain to avoid the crash.
of Military Assistance, predicted Cat there will nol be any further major increases in the rize of Europe's forces,
WEIZER
contribution towards solv- ing part of the Colony'a housing problem, but, as it has frequently been argued In the past, only Goveru ment with
its financial resources and ability to spread returnOS on capital outley
lengthy
Thirty-five of the victims were aboard period of years can really
the Trans-Canada Airlines transport. The tackle Ol
an appropriate
General Stewart testified in student pilot also was killed when his scale the question of pro- viding reasonable
giant balloon was forced down to earth time and time again. a golf course and a Committee hearings on the new plane crashed on healthy accommodation for bill to authorise approximately the under-privileged and | $3,497,000,000
military, cleaning woman died in the house hit by lower-income classes, The cemonte and technical aid for the falling airliner. functions and objectives of the Housing Authority
"I think they have just about reached the size at which they
he said. will level off.
Houso Foreign Afairs And the
and
commend themselves, the responsibilities which they carry will be
the
Int
the free world during the com- ing year.
make
such дл
AID ESSENTIAL
"If we wanted just with draw and leave them on their own to maintain these forces, we could stop it in a couple of
ho years"
said.
Asked by Committee bere how long he believed the infiltary assistance programmes would have to be continued challenge to the aptitude General Stewart anid that he and practical effelency of could the Urban Council which estimate. principally constitutes Housing Authority. The neressary funds are avail
so to the technicnt able, facilities. It will be wholly up to the unsing Author- ity to get on with the job. that And it is suggested the best results will be obtained if its members concentrate on policy and leave administrative and construction details to the The public's con- experts. Adence
the in
housing scheme will depend entirely on the Housing Authority's ability to give it rapid im- plementation.
the
Dew
re-
The
The airline pilot saw the tiny plane bearing down on him, tried to manoeuvre his huge craft to safety, and seconds before the crash shouted into his radio: "I can't miss him.”
Those were his last words before the trainer slashed into the tail of the "North Star" and sent the airliner crashing into a house only a block from a school where 400 children were attending classes.
The residents of the house were away, but a cleaning woman, hired only this morning, was ofound dead in the charred ruins of the building.
four-engined 11 The
plane, was trying to make En struck in the tall, spiralled Into emergency landing alter the the house at the edge of a golf collision but he was, unsulbesa course, setting the house on fire ful and crashed. He was found and scattering wreckage over a dead in the wreckage. two-block area. The homes on An eyewitness said the Har- atruck the North either side were heavily dam- vord trainer
Star in the tail. A wing of the aged,
and the big airliner fell oft
to
To Panic
Troops and onlookers hang on to the world's largest balloon when it defled all efforta to make il ascend at Bellahoj, Copenhagen, recently, The wind was no strong that the A crowd of 50.000 word panto-stricken sa it was thought that the balloon might explode-as it contained 2,200 cuble metres of gus. Troops were brought in to control the balloon but eventually it bad to be rapidly deflated before it was considered safe,—London Express.
GENERAL MOBILISATION
IN CAMBODIA
Hepper Pleads Memory Loss
Have, Apr. 8. William Sanchez De Flar Hopper. 62-year-old artist charged with mur- dering an 11-year-old Lon- told Spanish giri, don
Who prrested him in
that he had, lost his memory, it was alleged at a preliminary hearing, here today.
of
Подс
Mr
"The futuro depends al- together 013 how tust these
point countries reach being able to provide their own replacements and so forth. would be too bad if we cut the programme too soon, so that all would that we have built up just fall
apart." In his prepared statement
Hepper
in accused the Committee, General Stewart
killag said that the programme has
Margaret The TCA plane carried 20 re- been, is today and will be for
Spevlok between February venue passengers, five company
3 and February 7 craft spiralled into the house. dme to come, essential to Kome
and a crew
the plane's occupants of Uniu staff members the security
Many of the
of
four.
A dismembered. were States."
The pilot was
porter counted only six whole Coplain Jan General Stewart listed the
who a veteran
had bodies in and near the blacken- following as concrete results of H. Bell,
debris. 2,000,000
The and accident-free ed wreckage the milliary aid programmes of flown
wenther was clear, _with__un- the past few years:
++~||~||~||~|~||~||~|~||~imited visibility-United Press.
JET PLANE CRASHER
Tunis, Apr. 8. One British Army jet plane
afternoon and crashed this second British jet of the Gloster- London, Apr. 9. Meteor type made a forced land- British Overseas Airways ing when they were caught in a storm. Both pilets escaped with- out injuries,
"Threatened oggression against
Turkey has not materialised. COMET PLANE
OVERDUE
NE
of Navc legislation is to give cognition to the fact that resettlement and housing are inter-related problems, and that they are to be treated 218 Auch by the Housing Authority WAN Indicated by the Hon R.R. Black when he declared that the "reselllement und will housing programmes clearly have to be closely co-ordinated, so that when
"Key forces of Latin Ameri- a suitable site for housing
can countries are being equipped The plane was believed to be is cleared of squatters, and trained to
assist in the enrrying 14 pastenffers and a permanent development is defence of the Western Hemi-crew of seven.
started without delny." This is one logical reason why The Urban Council, already
Can
responalble for
a few
Armed aggression against Greece was decisively defeated. The military strength of Japan, Spain and Yugoslavia-to men- tion
countries of great Importance
the defence 10 | the free world-is now aligned on the side of the United States and its friends; others are tak- ing steps in this direction,
of
Corporation announced early today that a Comet jet airliner, on a flight from Rome to Cairo, is three and a half hours over- duc.
To-
G
The first jet crashed this after- noon about one kilometre north- east of Enfdaville (in the Soussa plane area) while the second landed successfully
Sidi Daoud. The planes were flying
at
sphere. NATO nations have in- The crew are South Africans. together.-France-Presse. creased their military strength-Reuter, by at least three-fold.
"Other countries such as fran, kujutatujajukujonfreforfofu the Philippines and Thailand
The French
were
aquatter resettlement, have developed sufficient mill- miles for TCA. It was the com- pany's first fatal accident $53 should constitute the Hous-tary strength to maintain in-
ternal order against subversive seven years. ing Authority. One ques-
Captain Bell, the first officer, elements. Lion which may, in due
L Guthrie, Steward Unloa forces D. W.
Penner and course, be worth the atten-
Stewardess M. L. continue to fight in Indo-China tion of the Authorities (8
from to preserve that area from Com- Quinney
Vancouver. to what extent, if any, the
The names of the munist domination. The con-
released passengers tinuation of
were not redevelopment of slum areas
this struggle 19 be allied with the possible only as a result of the immediately.
Witnesses said they belleved the It would assistance received from housing project,
the pilot of the trainer require the most careful United States,"United Press. consideration because it would be highly undesir able to adopt any policy .capable of frustrating the prime objective of the Housing Authority that of building low-cost dwell- ing flats in the quickest time possible. Slum. clear- and rational recove-
That Woollen Gloves
Canard Again
London, Apr. 8.
Guilty Of Ill-Treating Prisoners
Boners.
The
prosecutor,
Thomas,
stated Ryland that Margaret Spovick was strangled and sexually na- saulted од the bed Hopper's one-room flat in Ilove. The pillow bloodstained.--China Mail Special.
AGAINST A-WEAPONS
There's Only One Defence
ot
Sydney, Apr. 8.
ΣΟ
King To Appeal
United
To Nations
Pnom Penh, Apr. 8,
The King of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk, today decided to appeal to the United Nations on the Vietminh aggression against Cambodia and to proclaim general mobilisation, it was announced in a communique issued today.
with the
Tel. 21433.
KIKUYU TAKES OATH TO SLAY
•
CHILDREN
Nairobi, Apr. 6.
A Kikuyu farm worker, accused of slashing to death the four-year-old son of a Royal Air Force officer, said he had taken the Mau Mau outh and sworn to kill any European child he mot, prosecution witness said at his trial here today.
The accused, 20-year-old Gachuho Kamoni, told the court: "I know they (the Mau Mau) spoiled my head and bo- cause of that I went and killed
European child"
Kamon
charged with murdering Andrew John Stephens in the grounds of his parents bungalow near Nairobl last Saturday,
When the charge was read out to him, he replied: "k- od him." But the judge ruled that a plea of not guilty should be entered.
African witnesses sold they had seen Kamoni, 11 blood- stained pangn (chopping knife} in his hand, chasing children.
African
Peter Donovan McEntee, a Klambu
magistrate, Bald Kamoni mado a voluntary statement to him saying: "When I was on the road, dn't know
I would! danger and If I have made a mistake I leave it to God to decide.
aneet
"I intended to kill the child of this European (Flight-Lou- lenant Horace Stephens, of Cornwall) and therefore I have nothing more to say.
MUST KILL IT” "I forgot something. After I had taken the Mou Mau oath, I was sworn in to the effect that if I were to meet any European child, I must kill it and not let It go free,
"I was sworn in again that even if it ware my brother or a Kikuyu who had not taken the
Mau Mau oath, I must kill it. mother, also if I had a single not taken the oath, I must kill member of my family who had
"Even if it were my father or
"
In cross-examination, witness
sald that the statement was not
The decisions were taken after the King made in bravado. Accused ap- had conferred yesterday
French peared to know he had done wrong and his mental condition Commissioner-General, M. Maurice Dejean, and seemed perfectly normal. the Commander-in-Chief in Indo-China, General When
began Henri Navarre.
The communique onnounced the following décisions: (1) the country will fight Vietminh ng- gression by all possible means; to (2) Cambodia will appeal
Nations the n
and Untled countries in the world on this foreign aggression; (3) general mobilisation is decreed in order
tion is
to allow Cambodia to assume at The
Lomaximum its own defence
the
would
to
King Norodom Sihanouk to- day also received the United in the future States Ambassador, Mr Donald
STOP
PRESS
Comet's Last Message
the
hearing
Kamoni told the judge he did not want three Kikuyu assessors sworn in to hear the evidence.
"I do not know anything about From their eyes I can them. judge I do not want them,” he sald.
father,
Flight Andrew's Lieutenant Stephens, was the first of 20 witnesses to be called for the prosecution. He said he had found his son with his head practically severed.
Flight-Lleutenant Stephens, who will leave Mombasa for Britain with his wife and other theson tomorrow, was posted in by the RAF last
The last message from overdue Comet airliner received Kenya at Naples airport said: "Over September Naples still climbing.”
An African servant said he It is officially announced that saw Kamon! "catch" Andrew on Sir Miles Thomas, Chairman of the neck with his panga.
1.
He called two other Kikuyu and they all chased. Kamonl, who had blood on his mouth, shirt and feet. He looked like a madmon, the herdsman seld.
Another African sald that in the six months he had known the accused. Kamoni had behaved normally.China Mail Special.
Good cooking is easy
without appealing friendly powers; (4) French operational force stationed In regions threatened by the Vietminh will henceforth be placed under Cambodian command
The
the United appeal to The only defence humant- Nations should be interpreted ity can have against atomic as an appeal to universal con-
than an actual the BOAC, has ordered the A Kikuyu herdsman sold ho weapons is to live, work and selence rather
in the suspension of all BOAC Comet heard Kikuyu chlidren crying. lodged complaint food grow
underground,
the world He ran to investigate and 'sav Security Council, well-informed services throughout Professor Marcus Oliphant sources said here today.
pending further information on Kamont chasing them. said tonight.
The communique said an ap- the missing airliner, Reuter.
be made to the Principal of the School of peal
concerning Nations Physics
the Australian United Bonn, Apr. 8.
aggression against National University, Canberra, Vietminh William John, Thomas, a Professor Oliphant was speaking Cambodia. plane Royal Air Force Police to an audience of 4,000 in Sydney
Flight Sergeant with 22 Town Hall.
only war years' service, was found becomes so immoral that both Heath, who came on a special guilty today of four sides in the conflict must realise visit from Saigon to study the
under charges of ill treating pri- that
circumstances situation.--Franco-Pressu, must it ever begin," he said.
VIETMINA LOSSES There should be no delusions He was sentenced to be about banning atomic weapons.
Hanol, Apr. 6, Vietminh attackers loft 300 reduced to the ranks and to
Personal valour and natural men dead in barbed wire 'de- love of one's own country, six months' detention.
fences around the Vietnamese Mr Barnett Janner, a Socialist, asserted in the House The findings and sentence are whether right or wrong, gave a
strange glamour to wars of the post at Khaly, 18 miles south before. French of Halphong,+ lopment of the altes is of Commons today that many gloves Imported into subject to confirmation.
Valour would count for past, Thomas
of was convicted been imported
Union troops evacuated it two much, to be desired, but Britain from Hongkong had previously
days ago, it was announced marks had been striking two prisoners, Leading little or nothing in future wars. Patriotism could not prevent Into Hongkong, where their trade would require
James
here today, Aircraftaman
Guy the utter destruction of cities, reversal of the situation removed and some embroidery added,
The Viotminh had been at- Bellamy and Signalman Alexan- industries and the large part of
tacking the post for eight described by Mr Black After that, new labels marked "Made In Hongkong" der McGarry,
peoples in a country. He was found guilty also of when it was found at the had been added.
"Strangely enough for me successivo nights end of 1950 that "capital
forcing Bellamy to expose his cold. "this desolate and ter. French High Command decided |
making a derogatory
to sand a task force over to halp Mr Janner urged Mr Peter, turers from price cutting in person,
rible picture holds great hope the garrison evacuate ft. was not being attracted to
Thorneycroft, President of the knitted woollen gloves imported remark, and of offering him a achemos for the building of Board of Trade, to prevent such from the Far East.
Regular and local Communist knife, suggesting. he cut his for prace more so than
before in history. flats which could be let at goods from flooding the market Mr Thorneycroft replied that throat.
"The
troops have started skirmishing only possible solution
tactics throughout the Delta, and rents within the means of hero to the detriment of English he had received complaints that Thomas, a 49-year-old
is a world body or a world)gov- Union troope have started a new the greater part of our manufacturers.
gloves from Hongkong were gular with two more years to Mr Thorneycroft said he had selling at lower population," in order for it
prices thar serve, had pleaded not guilty to ment to deal with all prob- mopping-up operation at Sontay, lems of international differ-25 miles north-west of Hanol---- charges. to rate as something com- ovidenco to support Mr those manufactured in Britain. all
France-Presse. This is the seventh conviction
"It should have its own police
DONATES BLOOD plementary to the official
Paris, Apr. 8. low-cost housing scheme, detalls could be
martial at Wahnerheldo air hibition, enforced by police Madame Chemian De Castries, The unfortunate truth is matter would be investigated.
Mr Janner gold that the Me Janner said that the im- base, near here, probing reaction, of weapons of war of all that Hongkong's neute quantity of Smitted gloves from ported gloves were being sold ports of mass ill treatment in northe hands of Individual wife of the Commander of the Dien Bien Phu garrison, today housing problem cannot be Hongkong was much in excels at half the price of the British. the detention barracks there. nations," the professor added queued up at a Hanol hospital rosolved within brief of the total manufactured there.
said that: Two Junior Corporale, former | Reuter. Mr Thorneycroft
to give her blood for. the The President said he had the House was not so much! guards at the prison,
go on :
wounded of the besieged fortress, in the the concerned wol- made close Inquiries. If
about the price as trini on Friday
last
Summer Time
Amonge from Hanol said gloves were made in Hongkong, whether the gloves were manu court marilal of the series.
the. London; Apr. 9.
la ono 3,000 people To date, a total of 508 days' they would qualify for Imperial factored in Hongkong or not. |
to French Foreign Legionnairos, Groat Briinita If they wore, the gloves detention have been awarded to Mr Janner later asked what qualified for imperial pro- RAF Polleo NCO by the suminar time on April 11, when Vietnamese and North Africans the Government proposed to do forenceReuter.
Welnerhalde courte marilal.all olocks will be put forward who have so far given blood,
one hour;*Reuter:
----China” Mail "Special. ** {Chino full special. protest British · manufNo-
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space of time, but the com- munity will no less come the positive mova which Government has finally made to ameliorate the position in the quickest possible time.*
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"There is no
the
he
ences,
over
Janner's allegations. It further But he added:
The evidence of malpractice in in a series of Air Force courts force together with total pro-
profurenco.
to
this trade."
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