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GILMANS GLOUCESTER ARCADE,

COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Industrial Sites NEWS

TEWS that Government

will soon begin the new Kun Tong reclamation pro- Ject to provide new sites for industry particularly

welcome.

Eventually the

area will provide 140 new acres of land-about three times the gize of the Causeway Bay project. The commencement of the Kun Tong scheme has to some extent depended оn pro-

gress made with the Tal Lam Chung reservoir for one of the major problems associated with establishing community

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industrial

RECLAMATION

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in this district in a serious water shortage. The com- pletion of the works pro-) gramme for the initial 78- acre site will take about three years, however, by which time Taj Lam Chung should have been completed.

ia doubtedly a costly under- taking but to a land-starved city such as Hongkong it is an essential expedient noti only for the growth of the city proper but also for new houring and recreation areas. Even After the re- occupation of the Colony in

1945 it was probably never considered that local - dustry would be destined to play such a large part în the Colony's economy in future years. But with the decline of the entrepot trade In 1950, #t evident that

CHINA

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Established 1843

MONDAY, AUGUST 28;

∙1954.

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THE WEATHER:-- Light EAE.-winda. Oloudy or overCHES, with occasional rain.

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

Latest Developments On Missing Launch Mystery

- Calculator

Plombers in 1876 −22447)

still in the front to-day HONGKỎNG TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE

· @ D'Aguilar; St Tel: 21433.

POLICE CREW SPEND NIGHT AT HOME

Malenkov To Visit London?

New York, Aug. 22. Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist, ported today that Mr Attlee, the British Labour Party leader, had invited Mr Georgi Bflano. Soviet Prima Minister, la vizit Britain.

invitation

said the wks mada during Mr Attice's recent vizit to Moscow and was on behalf of

British Labour

the

Party.

The Soviet Premier had not

definitely but had said ho might con- sider visiting London szext spring. Pearson sfd... Reuter.

Questioning Continues

This Morning

The Commissioner of Police, Mr A. C. Maxwell said this morning that the eight members of the Police launch No. 28, who were returned to the Colony yesterday on board Police launch No. 28 were allowed to go to their homes last night after question-

ing.

Inquiries into the death of Corporal Cheng Tin-cheung, whose body was found in the sea after the launch had disappeared, continued this morning.

Dramatic Fight With Co

Gangster

Mr Maxwell added that so far, no charges have yet been preferred against the crew members.

Police are examining a theory that per- Atlantic City, Aug. 22. A

21-year-old guntan sons other than crew members were in- captured was was

under a volved.

Hongkong rooming house bed today

could not support

the after a 30-minute crime

The police launch and eight of the

greatly swollen population spree in which he held up a crew which disappeared from its moorings (which must now exceed hotel, wounded a milkman, in Saikung in the early hours of the morning 2 million people) unless disarmed It developed its focal indus-

two policemen, of July 29 were returned by Chinese Govern- tries and found new mar- slugged a girl vacationist kats for its products over and fred at police as they ment representatives to Hongkong authori- ties in the open sea to the south-west of Bons. The industrial growth closed in on him,

facilitated by the flight of both capital and thout ball on four charges, in Lantao at 1 p.m. yesterday. ··

WES

Arena

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held

Charles

skilled labour from the Police awaited the outcome of

olding

An attempt to kill. Chinese mainland in 1949.

wounded milkman to

When the Police Launch was moored at were believed to be on board.

Crashed Into An Iceberg! EDEN FLIES HOME

The twisted steel plates of the 6,000-ton motorship Anna C. when she arrived in the Thames. On her maiden voyage, carrying wheat from Canada, she hit a 150 ft. high Iceberg in thick fog off Besokition Island.. crew was injured.London Express Photo:

ODAY there is a now flow seriously operation on the Sajkung, ten members of the Marine Police force she was holed above the water-line: bat noise of-the

also from Chinese residents

an

of capital into the Colony determine whether they would chiefly from Indo-China and press further charges.

Police said the one-man crime in other parts of Southonst when famed report began Asia. But this capital has em not so far found its way into at unpoint into Senator Hotel

The

The body of Police Corporal Cheng Tin- cheung was found floating in the sea near Sharp Island, Clear Water Bay, by a yachting party on August 1, and Police suspected foul play.

One other member of the crew (Police Con- stable 3628 Yiu Tak) is still missing. Police in- Tvestigations which began immediately after the crew were brought ashore at new Queen's Pier yesterday afternoon made the absence one of the first points of inquiry.

Archa herded

gunpoint into a back room industry-certainly not to and took more than $200. any appreciable extent. The employees called police as Arena

fled from the hotel and Investments chiefly favoured

through parking lot. land and well-known Milkman Louis Slusarski, saw gilt-edged securities on the Arena running with a gun in his stock market. As a result hand and tried to stop him. land values today are about Arena shot Slusarski in the as high as they have ever stomach. been. This fact alone con.

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DISARMED THEM There he encountered two atitutes a barrier to develop policemen and disarmed them. nent of medium-sized in-te fied

down the boardwalk

dustries; the provision of and paused several times to fire such a large area of new at them. land at Kun Tong is there-

fore very welcome. It has

Police said Arena entered

A

boarding house. He broke down

the door to a third floor room

been said that in the last occupied by Gloria Squires and

four years our local in- Polly Holloway.

dustries have saved the

Misa Arena struck

Squires, her Colony from

unconscious. He bankruptcy. knocking Their contribution to our book $20 and a wrist watch and Holloway how to exports has been maintained asked Miss

the

escape from the

Day Of Disasters In The World

reasons for his 2 Trains, 1 Plane Smash

Labour Visit To Red China

NYE

FOR URGENT E.D.C. MEETING

London, Aug. 28.9

The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden has cut short his holiday in Austria and is flying home today to join the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill and the French Premier, M. Mendes-France in urgent talks on the future of EDC.

This follows yesterday's failure of the Brussels conference of the six signatory nations to agree to the compromise plan sought by the French Premier.

United Press said Mr Eden's giving West Germany near In- flight home. mcant that dependence separately if the momentous decisions may be in EDC treaty, is scrapped. the air. He was 'not' scheduled

to return frum his holiday until later this week;

The West has

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BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT

Fuldiment of the Bonn treaties was linked to the set- Д roached

the ting up of the European Army, has

States agreed earlier this year But Britain and the United

crossroad. Nover future of the European Army appeared darker, and Western polley has long been based on that project. There must decisions on where to go now.

to separate the two if the EDC the. Bonn plan failed so that bo

the Republic could throw off Ailled occupation.

M. Pierre Mendes-France's flight to London; indicates the seriousness with which Britain regards the European Army

Government quarters: here, bitterly disappointed at the failure of the six EDC÷Minis- ters to reach any sort of agred-

crisis, diplomatie, sources cald. ment on the treaty text at their Bir Winston Churchill Invited thing now depends upon what Brussels meeting, Bay every-

the French Prime Minister before M. Mendes-France, decided the fateful Brussels conference ask the French Assembly to of the European Defence Com vote for, during its critical munity partners begun at European debate noxt Betur Thiruday 2

day.

MORE URGENT

Paris reports pay M. Mendes-

But the fallure of the cone Franco will put the EuropeaD

4 voto Army treaty to ference to reach any agreement scheduled in the National oh"the proposed: French nunend- Assembly rathar than seek stil ments to the treaty mats another postponement of France's Anglo-French consultations Avital decision. the top level even more urgent.

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Deputies who, have boen, 101 The two Prime Ministers, who holiday, began flocking back to arn expected to meet at Bir the capital for the final round Winston Churchill's

Country

in the argument. which has home at Chartwell, will discuss divided the nation for

W lycra.

M. Mendes-France's next move

three

in the EDC. situation, Diplomatic say everything now sources

Their 10-day rocess enda - on depends upon what the French Tuesday and the showdown Prime Minister decides to pro- | ballot

on the project --- for sent to the National Assembly in establishing A European Die the critical debate opening next fence Community will start, on August 28 and continue unifi the 31st..

It was a day of disasters in the world yester-Saturday. day.

In Macomb, Illinois, the crack Sante Fe Chief express jumped the rails near the small town of Lomax. Four passengers were killed and more

than 44 were injured.

In Seville, Spain, heavy casualties are feared in a crash involving the Malaga to Madrid Express.

BEVAN AND SAM WATSON GO DOWN A MINE.

In the last 18 months at Police had surrounded roughly 30 per cent. With rooming house by that time, and an indefinite embargo on Arena began firing at them from

From Fraser Wighton of Reuter's And Rene Mac- trade with

Officers closed in on Communist window China, It is essential that him and as they crept down a Call of The Daily Express.

dived under a industries be en-hallway, Arenu

bed, where be was seized.-

Jocal

couraged to the utmost and United Press. there is obvious room for expansion and modernisation

particularly in the larger in Hongkong Mystery

dustries. It is to be hoped

therefore that much of the Man Found

"Idle money" existing in the Colony today as well as the continuing influx of now capital can be channelled Into the more profitable] fields of investment offered by our local industry. -

Dead In Pool Of Blood

Tangshan, Aug. 22.

Sir Winston Churchill is on- pooted to tell the French Frime Minister bluntly that if the EDC projects falls completely, Britain will press strongly for the arm ing of Western Germany insane other form, probably within the

14-nation Atlantic pact.

It is no secret that M. Mendes- Franco is convinced that in the prescut circumstances the Na- tonal Assembly in Paris will

ratification of reject

the European Defence Community treaty. His treatment by the

He is also expected to ask M. other EDC Ministers in Brussels Mendes-France to Join with will, he is convinced, only Britain and the United States in strengthen their anti-EDC 10000.

In Masson City, Iowa a plane carrying 19 Implementing the Bonn treatles-Reuter and United Press passengers crashed and at least ten people were

Macomb Ilinols, Aug. 23. Reports say that as the express were killed was on a downhill run the engine Four passengera and more than 44 injured when became derailed and severni the crack Santa Fe Chief ex-conches were telescoped on top press

Mr Aneurin Bevan, and Mr Sam Watson, both jumped the rall near the of it. The accident occurred

town of Eontax' inlay, late inst night. former miners, today went down a 2,100 foot deep Chinese coal mine here, once owned by a British

firm.

tish mines,

Coaches were thrown off the

track some colliding with re-

IOWA 'CRASHI Mason City, Iowa, Aug. 22. frigerator cars on an adjoining A Branif Airways plane line-but the locomotive and a ƒ carrying

crashed 19 persons mall coach stayed on the rails. about 20 miles south of here Mr Clement Attioe, Dr Edith be more than a mile to the coal Most. casualides wero in a | tonight and at least ten, persons Summerskiji and the other four fabo,

coach which skidded onto its were killed, the police sald.: members of the British mission, The scam inspected was not side.

The police added that more which had stopped on its equipped coal A hospital train, with doctors persons may have way back to Peking from Adan cutters, Mochaniastion in this and nulla, was rushed to the wreck of the plane, which was churia, were entertained. to park of the mine was confined to scene from Chlengo."

"completely died."> lunch by the

small drills and the convoyar

PASSENGERS TRAPPED Oleinis at Mercy Hospital Mystery surrounds the death The mission low hero from belt.

The Santa Fe Chief, one of salf they had' admitted alx in- the mine, which Ventilation appeared to be of a foki in the office premises | Muiden 'to seo w to the Bri-good and the coal face seemed to America's most famous trains, jured

#nd

ambulances WITH any increase in the in the Colony's busy business originally belonged

over Formosa, the district this morning.

Lish Kailan Mining Administra-follow the pattern of some Bri- was on its way from Chicago to were on their way with more.

Los Angeles.

The police said they believed The deceased, tentatively tien, and was Colony may again become

operated jointly

The desel engine, and the the plane hit a high telegraph for the Mecca

identified as Lam Ngal-tag, 24, by the British and Chinese for Chinese

mall car, stayed on the track wire before it crashed, but did WIZENED CHAP refugees. Certainly this was found dead in Room 401 in a ime before the Chinese Gov-

The 35-year-old manager of and felled about a half-mile, not burn. The wrecked plana the farmer Bank of China ernment took it over, not to be expected on any Building at 4 Queen's Road. Nye Bevan and Sam Watson the mine, a small wizened chap, dragging the next car along on was a DC-3, a relatively small thing like the 1949 scale. Contral.

doughtily donned bright blue with a tortured smile named its side. Rescuers were forced passenger plane with a capacity. War would bring other The Police, who aro still miners' suits, clapped cork - Yung -ming told us production to use acetylene torches to cut of 24 persons, Braniff offcials car where passengers saley sald "several persons" problems to the Colony in-investigating, Aware keeping mets on their heade and shob since 1948 had been more than into one

where a doubled daily average output of were trapped after the anash- cluding a loss of trade and silent on the possible cause of 640 yards down to,

were killed and some were befhg. clonking subterranean 4,000 tons a prolongation of the trado. of the co-tenante .. sald į train waited to take them three tona: dan compared with 2,000 a ten remaining, ears piled extricated from the wreckage |

The embargo on China. On the

awo neked for up on the right of way, with with actylane, torches Riu or that a proprietor of Room 401 miles or more to the coal face. However when other hand, the Improvement found the office door locked MacColl followed suit, his ne-a typical "then" and now" com- the third; car in line turning end United Pres. of the economies of other from the inside as he returned coutrements rather

on The parlon he mid- voice that over.

Camcials said "pandemonium Southeast Asian nations as to workc about 10.30 am. This adimpy side as there are few sounded like earnoons, playing a foreshadowed in the plans was regarded as algnificant be Chinese coalminers who are 0 megi saw with calloured real med at first but the situa so far made for the South-cause no one was supposed to ità ins and take: alex twelves. thumb that, in 1938 east Asian Treaty Organisa-sleep in the office.

INCREDULOUS After forcing the door open,

tule

aricual ton calmed down later.

production" WAD

vas 920/726 and in 1963 it was 1,297,674 tops. This tion' would eventually be to the shop foki was found dead Tired grubby-looking miners is an increase of around 368,000 Hongkong's advantage. How in a pool of blood. The Police going a duly in the other tons a year--not at all wonder

notified. Immediately over, further trade pro- were

direction come to life muddenly ful considering the normal motion should, go hand in Many visitors to the Building and shone their langs in technical Improvements « in«. hand with industrial expan- as well as office workers were credulously on the white visitors years.

unable to leave to go about) Squatting in' comply cool triclos

Il-ming their own business for about an diwwn by hectric locomotives, opinion that the ring hour after the arrival of the the Labour wire and corywoged-ition was doe hadden the Movi

sion if the Colony well baldg is to be assured in the Years to com....”

MADEIR CRASHI

Madrid, Aug. 23, Heavy casualties are feared in train crash which occurred between Casariche, in Sevilla provinca, and Puente Genil, in Cordoba province, Recording to Bret reports received from

wills early today

Tailpiece Car Smash

SOUTH

Now York, Aug. 22. An automoblie crashed into je two other.//cars^and then run down a group of policemen and spectators gathered at the scene of a wreck today, injuring = 12 persons, pollons toporbed, p

Two girls were injured in the original wreck, making a total of.14: who were take to Hob- # Pitala liambulärices" that Tush from Ma Fio Madrid"ad to the soutiensUnited PresE..