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Mystery Of Comet Crashes Believed Solved

London, July 11.

Circles close to the British Admiralty said to- day that experiments in a Comet 1 airliner had revealed that a structural weakness caused by excessive pressures caused two Comets to explode in mid-air.

They described this fault as

or majestangaza falagtre

Admiralty Parches said that a Comet named "Yoke Une-le- was given underwater pressure tests at the Naval Att Resturch slation at Parishor sagh and that after K werkt Bes plans fuselage explodes!

The ciroles sakl that "Yake Uncle was suerifier by naval roxarch workers to discover what th: fault was that caused the two Cornet i alreraft to blow ip in mid-air after doing approximately 3.000 flying time,

OUTS

of

"Yake Uncle" was Inumerzod in on artifelat luke al Furt- borough and was given the same [35Å*49?⌘! effects

hie experienced in normal Sight.

"Yoke Uncle" had done appro ximately 2,000 tying hours and exploded after a further 1000 od hours of underwater pres SUC

Navul engineer

were (run) -

vinced that they huil thiservernd the fault

Havilland -n the de

Comel i Qucenfi,

Their

on the Farn

bogh test. has been handed

to the Ministre of Supply, Mr

Duncan Sandys,

who was ex- pected to make a statement on

Rain Helps Hongkong's Water Supply

rains

IA

The heavy Hongkong since last Thursday have added a total of 533 million gal- lons to the Colony's water supplies, it was announced today.

This means that Hong- kong's water supply now stands at 3.010 million gallons or more than half the total reservoir capacity.

Black-Out In

Hongkong

A fault in the high tension

the subject before the House of cable at Queen's Road Central which supplies the Wing Kut

Channels in the near future.

Ite:wopch મ continuing to muk double sure before a final report IN suirit1ux to The Ministry of Transport and Civil

Aviation,

Street Sub-Station, caused black-out from

a

Connaught

Road to Queen's Ioad, west of Strand East and the Man Wa

Street Polinger

frum Lone

Experts explam that the hugh degree of pressurizations. inside morning.

Bonham

10.10-11.35 this

An engineer from Distribution the let murine; ta enable it to operate at great altiturs up to of the Hongkong Electric Com- at present the more than seven miles high-pany stud

That

may have set up unexpectedly company was making texts 10 the super-locate the exact position of the

sev ve pureRSEI

Almte ure.

Prec

Reutes

1

France.

Mail Notices

The latest

timon of posting shown below are those for uni registered correspondence posted at (1.1.0. Stongkong. The latest pasting throes elsewhere which, in general, aro earlier than the G.P.0. times can be ascertained by enquiry at the local office.

The latest posting times for registered articles are generally one hour earlier than the times shown below. Particulars, regard- int parce mails can be ascertain - ed by enquiry at any post office,

MONDAY, JULY

By Aur Japan, Korea, ŭ p.m. Thailand. Malaya, Indonesia. tralia, New Zealand, 5 pm.

By Surface

Maran,

12

fault. For the time being the Wing Kat Sub-Station was being supplied by a stand-by cable.

While

ther vables. connecting

if the tripping

of the

an accidental

switches tartaseri

lights

NOIK

fer

cast of Pollingor Street to flicker and

go out In minutes. birt that Was temnejet.

Failure Of Peking's Farm Policies Alleged

Washington, July 11. The United States

ment information agency inday Peking's

Jarni

CHINA MAIL

Established 1045

MONDAY, JULY 12, 1954.

Accident At Police Demonstration

F.A.O.

FISHERIES TRAINING

CENTRE OPENED

Twenty-four fisheries officers from a number of South-East Asian countries and territories were officially welcomed by His Excellency The Officer Administering the Government, the Hon, R. B. Black, CMG, OBE, when he declared open the Fish Marketing Training Centre at a ceremony in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre of the University of Hongkong this morning.

The fishery experts have assembled in the Colony under the auspices of the Hongkong Government and the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Na tions to take part in a six-weeks fisheries marketing practices.

training

course on

During police sporta day hold in Hamburg. " police sergeant demonstrated a radio- controlled motor cycle with a sidecar of his own c011

construc- tion. Everything went in order at the start-starting, lighia on and off, signals turning, etc.. but at the

end of the de- monstration something went wrong and he couldn't control the machine, which drove into some of the spectators, injured

this child.— some, including

Express hole.

High Court Action

On Lockwood

Melbourne, July 12.

The High Court here to- dny dismissed a writ asking tt to restrain the Royal the Commission on Espionage Mr Black was niet by Mr undernourishment amongst

and from questioning Mr Rupert J. T. Wakefield, Director of world's population today.

that this state

Wis of affairs

Lockwood, His Excellency

un Australian Marketing.

the fact that aggravated by to introduced

Mr these

in journalist named as author were popatlutions

WIS

(. Reever, Economist of the greasing" épuce. Any effective of a Communist document. Fisheries Division. F.A.0.; Improvement hi living stanchards

Dr

had to take account, therefore, C. Miles, Regional

of the demands of a growing Fisheries Officer for Agiu population. and the Far East, F.A.O.;

ed a cordial wilesine to the PST-

the Government

sub

of

of

the

The latter aim

נן

fer Lawyer

Mr Leckwool contendej thal the continued sittings of the Commission con- stibuted contempt of the High The FAO was tackling this Court in view of a libel writ nud Me 0. 1. Dawson, Chief task, as he saw it. In two ways:

out by their client lost to promota

Tuesday. the production Regional Economist, F.A.0.

Mr Lockwood is claiming ine: fo Improve Addressing

food the 100

or 50 methods whereby any increased £A10,000 (£8,000 sterling) people present. Mr Black extend-

libel against the was distributed to damages for production pants in the Training Centre, clearly seinted

im Commonwealth Government and to the problem Mr W. J. Windeyer, chief Corn- | He Govern- Hongkong was mos happy to net which was the principal subject monwealth counsel on the Com-

for examination at that Centre salon. host for this Centic, namely,

TILD

Mr Windeyer 103 named Its marketing since

the Colony's

as author of docu- Lockwood many aspects. such perishable,

which he said con- 85 fish

To assist in this examination, ment

series of criminal libels and was written in the Organization, lecturers had been provided by tained

by varicus00

the sanctuary of

Sovich Em- apartments of the Hongkong Government and

and by the Univer- bossy in Canberra,

Mr Lockwood has already sity ot Hongkong he went on.

hape that the deliberations made a brief appearance before of this Regional Training Centre the Royal Commission, set up diplomat Vladimir In Fish Marketing may

be after Soviet

and Third

Secretary Mr Petrov. altended with SUCCESS,

M.V.D. (secret police) chief et the addresses

deserted to Aus- Embassy, Short explanatory

the training centre was trolla inst April. given also by Mr Wakeleld and

On Friday he refused to iden- tify a

signature on a passport, claiming his answer might be used in criminal charges against him. Realer.

palleres marker of "are meeting with failure, Just but vital, commodities as Moscow's have."

After seven months of ferret and vegetables, which was first sale of rice and other grain to introduced in Hongkong at the the

state at low prices, the end of the lust War, was unique oversens In the region.

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the

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agrney saad broadcast. the Chinese Com- le said the special circum- Aus-munist

which ruled in the early press

admiting stances widespread peasant discontent days offer the War, enunted with the limited geographical area of United Press.

this territory made it likely that the methods adopted in Hong-Black said. in conclusion." kong would not necessarily be the most suitable in the ferri- other participating tories governments.

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"You don't have to tip ma, Mr. Dùnicp-I'm telling you this just as one businessman to another?”

Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GRINNAME for and on behalf of Bouth China Morning Post Limited at 1-8 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong,

While the Hongkong marketing authorities would spare no peiris to demonstrate what has been done in Hongkung, he went on, would nonetheless be neces- sary for the participants con- in mind the stantly to bear extent to which these develop- their mints are applicable to own country.

He said that Hongkong wad aware of the great extent of

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dr Miles.

Mr Bluck was then introduced to all the participants.

Radio Hongkong Polish Tanker

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Crew Repatriated

Taipei, July 12. Eighteen Polish crew mem- bers of the 8,000-ton Polish tanker Preca, seired by the

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Nehru Speaks On Dangers Of Geneva Failure

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From the Files

100 Years Ago

ment upen Allahabad, July 11. The Prime Minister, Mr Nehru, today said he hoped the French Premier, M. Mendes-France, would succeed in fulfilling his pledge of bringing about a ceasefire in Indo-China,

Mr Nehru who addressed a public meeting, said if the Indo-China war was not stoppel and allowed to spread "then the world would be in grave danger of facing near annihilation through a full-scale atom and hydrogen bomb war."

Mr Nehru recalled about the time the Geneva con- ference began in April last that the world was about to intervene in the conflict in Indo-China

time. at thut American ships had nearly reached Indo-China waters It was a real hair-breadth escape for the world that nothing happened to enlarge the Indo-Ching war.

Gruenther's Warning On Russia

As we have on 100 many occasions had reason to com- the dilatorincas of our (to BLY nothing of the American) naval officers in pur- suing the pirates, by whom the coast of China, and especially the estuary of the Canton River, is infested, it is with the greater readiness we record a late in- stance of promptitude on the

Captain part of

Sir William despatching an ex- Hoste, in

the two junks pedition after which committed the dastardly allack on

воларот, and murder of its owner, reported in mother columm.

On Information of the *C- currence reaching Sir William, he sent Lieutenant Morell with the culter of the Spartan and some nien in a China bost, but, strange to say, without a single large gun, to the Cap-suy-moon, in search of the pirates.

The

a

་

proved unsuccul

however, and the

party were returning to Hong- they kong,

when, of Lintin, were fired et by a large pirate fleet of twelve or fifteen

attempted to surround

the boats and in and capture that they would have succeeded but for tho

tinely appearanço

of the lerche Anonyms, Captain Boyle, which bore down to their assistance.

Washington, July 11. General Alfred Gruenther, W Mr Nehru declared that Mr Krishna Menon's presence in Supreme Allied Commander which Geneva had helped much in the in Europe, has warned Con- Geliberations between the parties gress that Russia has great concerned. "I do say at one timely increased the striking there wad the possibility of unother wur breaking out

but power of its armed forces this was

India's averted and

particularly air power-and counsel in this matter was heard

is stendily improving the with respect".

Mr Nehru added that while a

Rod satellite armies. would not ceasefire by itself

At the same solve all the problems in Indo-

Arthur Radford, China, it would "lessen the fever

the Joint Chiefs affecting peoples' minds involved

clared that tho in the war.

new

A

FURTHER SOLVING "If the wor stops through a ceasefire then ordinarily fighting does not take place and the ground in cleared for further solving of the issues at stake peacefully".

Mr Nehru referred to Marshall Islanders appeal 10 the

United Nations to prevent

con- botub Lests and

the United States from ducting hydrogen near the Marshall Islands

a highly improper said "it is and utterly wrong thing to ex- periment with hydrogen bombs

which In these islantis handed

as a trust America."

trusteeship These are

areas and cannot be destroyed by hydrogen bomb testa-Reuter.

over

A Russian

Invented

were

to

The Helicopter

in

time.

Admiral chatźman of of Staff, de United States

THROUGH THE THIGH

re-

junk

↓

As it was, one seaman ceived a matchlock ball through the fleshy part of his thigh, and the boat was struck in thres places Llout, Morell returned could not "afford to permit

to Hongkong to report the cir delay

French and Italian

cumstance, and Blr. William

the rolification of the proposed nixx-

Houte at once despatched

ta Tartar P. & O. steamer nston European defenes force.

Adiniral General Gruenther,

Lintin, manned by 40 seamen Govern-

the and having Radford and other top

and marines, testified

Spartan's launch, pinnace, and ment officials recently

Re before the Senate Foreign

two cutters with their crews, lations Commitico on President in tow the whole under the

ald foreign Elrenhower's new

Lieutenant Pal- cominand of Their heavily ser; but the pirate fleet had programme.

was made i 27 censored testimony

disappeared, and the expedition returned on public today.

Monday night, with them The Committee hopes to fako bringing final action tomorrow on ila seized on murpleton, samed with bill

$3,100,000,000 | eight guna authorising

crammed with The stinkpots and gunpowder the for

programme.

to jars, and having no papers. She measure would end all aid

they was commanded by a France and Italy unless

In the formerly a boatman railty the Army pact or an ac-

Decem- employ of the Harbour Master ceptable substitute by

of Hongkong.

Lieutenant Palliser received a

from contusion,

being jammed betwixt the launch's gun and some heavy spara Jashed alongside the junk,

What makes the failure of both

these expeditions more provoking is, that, during their absence, the junks of which the first went in search are now known to have been quietly at anchor,

at least for one night, back of Stonecutter's Island, almost within sight of

ber 31.

General Gruenther told the Committee on June 14, "In the past three to four years, there has been very little numerical irærease in the Soviet strength," But he said there had been "a

Increase in very material

the effectiveness of Soviet forces".

GREATLY IMPROVED

He Bait Russiry airpower has

land "greatly improved", divisions are "more mobile" and

So Moscow Says better equipped and the size of

London, July 11. Moscow Radio said today the Russians invented the helicopter 200 years ago.

bulld

@ machine

the Soviet Navy has increased substantially.

of the 1963

stvere

at the

two

the man-of-war.

STIKU

com-

tion be correct, she is more nen-whoreas, if our informa- likely to be found in the neigh- bourhood of the Pratos Shoal

A LETTER

HM. frigate Spartan has of late repeatedly gone eruising He said the Sovieta also have about; and the US. brig Por- put a "great deal of effort" in-

polso, though hitherto unsuccess- to building up armed forces in

ful, has also been assisting in their satellite countries with u

the quest after pirates. In con- The Western world has "mutual security programme of generally failed to credit any their own". He said these sequence of her long absence

from barbour,

Bome Indeed, body for the helicopter, The troops were not "first class"

fears

of are entertained

An for! now Encyclopaedia Britannica,

but would be in a few

accident to the latter vessel, on example, says simply that years.

the supposition that, In belongs to the "ares-old Other testimony: literature of flying".

pany with the Portuguese armed Gruenther 1. General

pre- forcha Amazona, Lieutenant Moscow Radio ended the dicted there would be To

Carvalho, she had gone to Hal- fat repetition mystory today with the announcement

anti- "Tomorrow is Communist riots in East Berlin, the 200th anniversary of the He said the Russians "learned demonstration by the Russian their lesson" and now had the scientist Lomonosov of the situation "under control", "They world's first hellcopter.

are not going to let it' be "A group of Leningrad scien-

repeated," he said. tists has boen studying the 2. Admiroi Radford cald After the above appeared in minutes of the meetings of the "militery men" wars opposed to this morning's Overland, the Academy of Sciences for 1754. U.S. trade with Communist following extract from a letter One of those minutes, dated nations. He made the statement dated Cumiingmoon, ́6th July,. February 4, 1754, deals with altre Sonatar. J. William Ful- has been sent to us:---- Lomonosov's first proposal to bright {Democrat, Arlosnana) "We had in here last night 7 for taking remarked that some poople in boats of the same description as various scientifi Instruments the

the Administration thought it the one I saw in tow of the Into the mir," the broadcast might be to the "net advantage" Tartar, and there is not the least went on.

America to engage in some doubt that they belong to the meeting decided to kinds of trade.

same gang. They all cleared out build such a machine. On July 3. Admiral Radford testified this morning, but were signalising 12 the same year, Lomonosov that India had "great Internal with other boats and the shore demonstrated this model hell trouble" and was not really all night. I and sure their hiding

today's copter, prototype of

to join in any anti- prepared"

somewhere hereabout.... place machines.

movement "outside Communist Moscow Radio did not say their country"

not very far off either." Senator Ful-

It is to be hoped the Spartan, on Friday, your scientine cor- My First Novelonund Leh

whether Lomonosov's helicopter bright had commented, colleagues

"Our respondent, Chapman Pincher, mann gives the third talk in this are remaining here, having been ever got off the ground. United Government and the people in which again left the harbour made reference to a new paintories: 150, Weather Report

Government spend a lot of time yesterday for a cruise, may fall so hard that children

in with the pirate feet. cannot Time Sigual and World News on ranted political asylum by the Press

don Relay); Bảo; News Talk Metricon

Chinese Nationalist Govern

Insulting Andia, about once specjal anouncements;

week." ment. nor hobnailed boots scratch it 8.10

Joys, and Aribulations of the

ĈEA BUT FOR U.8. AID Mr Adam Lewandowski, poll- Successful Flight

... (From 'our, Overland Edilion.) off concrete, and which is so

Randomab in Hongkong, Bertal Pleytical officer among the departing

By the Burgo, which arrived 1ough that when cans have been by end ordered,Hand group, sald they wanted to go

4.Maj-Gen. George Stewart, on the 22nd June, the 59th coloured and lettered with it Shephard (Recorded);

head of the military,aid-pro- | Regiment received a roin forces they can be squashed fat and across the keysFrankie Frobag 8.45, home "because it is too hot.

Opening of the Flay" Markstiny | here."

A 62-year-old woman pilot, sramme in the Defence Department of 111 omears and men reshaped",

Training Centre, by Hila Excellency Officer Administerium

When asked for his impres Mrs Marlen Hart, landed her ment, said, Indo-China would but though they have- arrived The Your readers may be interest-The

Itecorded Epeeches sions of Formosa, he

single engine plane hare today have fallen to the Reds mome in the heat of summer, the

Very paints government, ed to know that these

from the Hongkong University had nothing are made from resins their nine months on the island25 countries of Europe, Asia and US. help to the

to say as during ofter a 30,000-mile trip through time ago if it had not been for worst season, the list of Sick

anti-Commu- thanks to

Providenco known technically

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Zimbler he and his colleagues were con- Foan (Piano) with the

Their Africa. resins.

sins. We may shortly

Atring Binfurlatte: Piano ConDayto

She left London on Wednes

crassode The folat number in day with an auglish copliot, Me sixistant Secretary of State not been as yet. Bryan Neely, and made stops at sald U.S. military preparedness Hospital yesterday morning was aware of the Labrador, and Boston. Prestwick, Icoland, Greenland, In Japan was the only major 470,18% of whom

deterrent" to Communist aggrer, soih; and of this : 3. belonginlas Noely, aged 29, 14 Mrs Harision there. He said "there" is to the new draft were, Kargica handled the mane most of the illo question" but that Japan cases. The Death hi Marrio way across the Atlantic. Reu-, is a major target for Redance the lif cuf January, have

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been 15

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the drama. Edited and Introduced Chinese Nationalisis last Octo- by Timothy Birch, Books: Reviewed ber, Jeft by Bir today for by Charles Lowe, "On the Air" A Bludy of Broadcasting in Sound and Bangkok en route home after Television by Roger Manvell," "Bri-} nine

detention months

in An official handbook que Formosa. by the Central Office information,

kick it off the kitchen furniture, Relayummer Lightning" (Part 11)

The

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to- and products available in No in D minor. On to trubin. And aboard ship for six months a school building for Hongkong similar to those destein riedrich Wuheer (Piano) and in

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of last "Turiday's advance sampics

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