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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, ∙ 1954.

U.S. PLEDGE TO HELP GERMANY

Loose Bolt Found On Comet

London, Oct. 28,

A court of inquiry was told today that on the day before Comet airliner

A

crashed in the Mediter ranean last April 22, quar- ter inch balta on its port wing were found to loose.

The panel to which they were attaches had been taken off during a routine check at London airport Just over a week before. The panel had not bren Mr Erte properly refilled, Newton, chief Investigation

pfinistry officer

of the Civil Aviation Accident Branch, told the inquiry,

The

found

Iloine

of

were

al

bolts loone

an engineer by

airport where the panel was correctly crsityed took off before the plane

to disaster.

British Overseas Alr. taken dl- WAYS

had ciplinary action against the traintenance and

insper.

tlon personnel responsible for the loose bolts,

The inquiry, oni its six4]1

day, is investigating

ihe

loms of two Comets in the Mediterranean this year. which led to the fleri belug grounded-Reuter.

Eisenhower. Adenauer

Issue

Communique On Talks

Washington, Oct. 28.

President Dwight Eisenhower and the West

| German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today hailed the recent agreements between West Germany and France as a particularly encouraging step toward Jasting peace.

The two government chiefs also expressed agreement that the reunification of Germany must be achieved by peaceful means,

Federal There were two of the points, United States and the

Jousit trade i

communique | Republle of Germany Together of the the Rovernments Issued afte talks between Elsen. I with

wine is Adenauer, hower and

Valte Kingdom (Britain) and 4221 2021 official «tot, visit, France. Other fighlights of the ente malaque were

the

EXCHANGE OF VIEWS

43 1715- Putinection we The President assured Dr changed views

Jalest On the Adenauer

the 1141

United

Soving note it is our initial view Sties would support efforts to that the toes not stein to offer oblalu beralkon of the greatest

Teat any new proposal on the part of membe

German of

Union-It appears Suviri military and vivilian prisoners till held in the Soviet Unior. Essentially sa reiteration of the i

taken

y Mei MN position. and theXPANDVER President The

Molotov (Vyncherlay!

the 1 Choucolle exĦunset views on

conference in Bettin regarding the latest Soviet note concern -

¡Germany and Europeau security, ing European pecurity und the

nee-Pe**** thimin and Austrión questions. NERIOUS SITUATION During this morning's vestors,

1. ed the

11..

W:

470703-

are i

convinced that with the coming Ilo effect of the ngreements weekend, the U.S. Comment Onged this past

rom! Lowarkis 根 strong Vietminh Action Furge

Min

paved. "We

We view

and

will have been i

The understanding

the

govern-

Washington, Oel, 20. reached between United States declared ments of France and the today that the Communist Federal Republic

of Germany milltary regime

North as a especially encouraging | V

would be guilly of step tonvard lasting peace in retrum "dagrant violation" of the Indo-continental Europe, This under- Chinn

greally furthered truce it forced the standing was

Borrmmen Nevyifat ✔

The dotted lines show the

course the ears will lake of Grand Prix on the Mação

George Liu, our special representative cover- ing the event says:

Hunday.

History will be made Sunday.

M. Espartero,

when

Admiral J.

Governor of

on

Itear-

Macao, starta

of

Lo

19 car on the first lap

the Macao Grand Prix-the first molor

race

ever

be held on the China Coast. In afternoon Tomorrow

Macão.

24 drivers

with

Hongkong 'Nylon' Shirts Were Rayon: U.K. Firm Fined

A London firm, which sold

London, Oct. 28.

rayon shirts United States Consulate in by the cominlinient on the part bought from Hongkong as nylon, was fined £25 of the United Kingdom to main-here today and ordered to pay £100 costs for Hanoi is in the northern part the use for a European com- applying a false trade description to the articles.

Huo

10 lose

which

of Vietnam uccupied by the Communists.

now

continent.

<n the tain forces

munity bus thus been establish-

Mr Henry Suydam, State 'ed " Department Press officer, said

Conued inferts' in any by Consulate in support of this community American the

asked the United States was reiterated. Hanoi hnd not yet been

Germany,

The firm, the Pollshon Trading The suminonses were brought Company of Wardour Street, by the Retail Trading Standards four Association after they received pleaded guilty

a complaint accompanied by # summonses.

pro-shit bearing the words "nylon"

Mr Michael

All

Eastmon.

prevalent

in the case or

by Communist Vietminh forces Together with the strength ed seculing, said "misleading trade and "superior quality." North Atlantic Treaty Organisa descriptions are very

NO NYLON WHATEVER to leave,

"he said, "It is obvious, tion, now to include the Federal at the moment

Mr Eastman said the yarns of But

the Far East and the shirts were discovered to be we cannot maintain it if Republic of (West) that

in North theer new agreements will, we 50cds from the military regime

other countries."

"There was a type of myon. rein- serve to we convinced,

whatever" Vietnam forces us nut,"

absolutely no nylon the Free force the defence ot

in them.

Mr Suydan made his state-

Juent in answer to questions Workt. about news dispatches that the Red-led

Vietminh

in Hanol had refused to re-

In

particularly to the

We

are agreed chamber music shall be

question of

We

are con-nounced

dis

and

A represenalive of the whole- salers responsible for the ddressed Appointments And "W. authorities ourselves

Bell tribution Messrs The Promotions Nicholsen of Cardiff-aid it was Germant reunification. cognise the United States Con- demand for a reunited Germany

the first time they had bought sulate in Hanol-United Press.

freedom is viewed by the H.E. the Officer Administering nylon shirts and they relied on United States as the legitimate the Government has appointed the label. They were big im- Last Night's Concert demand of the Gennan people. Mr Henty Harris and Mrs porters of many arteles and in 1963 they received an offer from. that this atm Kwong Lau Lai-yin, to be In- The Sino-British Music Group

firm in Hongkong of men's achleyed only by spectors of Schouls, it was an- have it feat

in

Government nylon shirts. the concert of the season last night pac.ful means.

A certificate of origin WAB the Grantham Training vinced of the necessity of con- Gazette today.

forwarded from Hongkong say- inued efforts towards this goal Other appointments were, Mr College.

such Alan Hugh

Missing that the shirts had been load- Sainsbury, are agreed that A crilique will appear in to-and we

ed as nylon. The firm thought made by the Ritu efforts will be

Mr Henry Digby and

very good morrow's China Mail.

Harris to be Education Officers, they were getting a

bargain. (the firm two

probation), on

For the defence, it was stated Roberts Mr James and

that the retailers had acted Public Whitaker, no Engineer,

throughout in good faith. They Works Department.

had a document describing the shirts as nylon and had been deceived by that.-Reuter.

at

Another New Shipment

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Mr Stanley H. Marvin has been appointed an Electrical Inspector, Class 1, Dr H. S. Rasalm, Acting Senior Radio-

logist

Plot Ofcer J. W. Ferris of the HKAAF has been promoted to Flying Officer with effect from September 9.

The

fly

looking for

Excellency has approved UNUSUAL confirmation of the following and DIFFERENT and NEW In

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PORTO

An

Sheaffer's SNORKEL"

Macao Grand Prix Course

EXTERIOR

participate in the Speed Re.

Trials, zularity

event patterned after the Elimina- Han Trials in the Monte Carto

Kallica and Lisbon the Hero

will be cars started off in groups of six, after a preliminary circuit of the trick the drivers will roar around four more times as fast as they can,

The winner of the S.B.T. will be the driver who not only maintains the fastest

speed, but also the one who can keep

A пр constant speed in every lap.

Lattimore Case

|British PCs

day

DID Help U.S.

London, Oct, 28. The Home

Secretary, Gwilym Lloyd George, told the House of Commons to- that British pollos, acting on their own, had helped American officials neck evidence here in the Owen Lattimore

CASE but that it would not happen again "In any comparable ORGE"

without "high-level" clearance

of

Replying to a question

several Members by Parliament who wanted to know how much the British police had helped the US government pre-

perjury

proseci paro tion against the American professor. Mr Lloyd Goorge said help had been given.

London

The

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RESERVATÓRIO DE ÁGUA

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Promptly Sunday, the 12 cars 17 of which are Hongkong en- tries, will scramble away in exciting Le Mans type start from the white line of the four-mile Gals Circuit to begin a greulling four-hour

race.

GP The winner of the will be the driver with the most miles to his credit after that time, He will be followed by class winners- BO- classes being divided cording to the cuble capa- cities of tho engines,

On Sunday evening there will be an official ball and dinner, when the trophies will be presented.

Those in Hongkong who would like to see the Grund Prix

are rendnded

that a special sailing there is schedule on Sunday. The si will sail for the Fatahan Portuguese Colony at 8 am, and the * Takshing make the return trip at 0 pm-thus giving the public ample time to ace the rate return home for the and night.

Partner Firm And Declared Bankrupt: Debtor Absconds

A petition that Weaver Woo and Co., and Weaver Shojee Hsu, partner thereof, be adjudged bankrupt was granted by Mr Justico T. J. Gould, acting Chief Justice, in the Bankruptcy Court this morning. The Court was informed that the debtor had absconded from the Colony.

The pailtion was made by Mr. dismissed from the petition, W.K. Thomson on behalf of Mt Thomson declared that the Official Receiver, Mr Thom-the first act of bankruptcy com- son said the matter before the mitted was on September 13, Court had been long outstanding 1947, and the other five partners and in fact dated from 1947; of Hsu had retired from the partnership on August 1, 1947, and gave notice of this in the Government Gazette on August

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He submitted to the Court the Official Receiver report of the which mentioned, inter alla, that 8, 1947. Metropolitan

a recalving order had been mede

His Lordship observed that a Woo and Co Against Weaver and Weaver Shojee Hau on receiving order had been made 1947, and at the against the other five partners, October 20,

on November 15, first meeting of creditors held by consent,

1947. on September 28, 1948, solution was passed that a sum of $17,000 offered as a com- promiss by the partners. (former partners of Hsu who had retired from the partnership on August 1, 1947) be accepted.

Police had considered it "the Investigation of A the criminal charge"

in which they tybe accustomed to alding other ho voluntarily, nations zaid.

taken by action the Metropolitan police in this case was so much re- garded as a routine ponse to a request for help from the police of country tion of a criminal charge that

the matter was

not brought to the personal noilco of the Coramis- of Police sioner

of the nor was the matter

the reported to Home Offloe," S Lloyd George, United Preas.

metropolis

In the inverte

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Mr P. C. Woo, of Messrs P. C. Woo and Co., appeared for the other five partners, Messra Woo Sung-lewol, Nin Kee, Ngau Kee, Chan Kee and Wong Tsun-ki, and applied for recision of the receiving order made against them and for their dismissal from the petition.

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\XILKIE'S job was, for a

W

long time, one that brought him often to the courts. He was a kind of ambassador- at large for places of entertainment'; in the West End. Or, to the the cruder phrase the police employ, he was a tout for near-beer clubs.

Regularly the poller, seelag Wilkie at work, noting." the annoyance of some of those hè invited to sample the club's delights, arrested him on the charge of using inmulting ‘be- haviour. Regularly ho was charged, fined, and set free again,

Then, for ♫ time, Wilkio seemed to disappear from the Scho scene. Until a recent even- ing when two policemen, who had perhaps been worrying over his welfare, had their minds set at rest by seeing him at work again.

THE

watched him

HIS COMMISSION,

THE policemen

persunde a lonely service. man into a shadowy side-street doorway that was the entrance to a near-boer club, They watched the tout emerge, look- ing pleased with himself, earn- ing the s.-per-gucat commission They heard; him he received,

ho

approach a passing group of Hey, gents, men and say: want a good club, with wonder ful drinks and women?" They heard the muttered threate Wilkie received in reply. They arrested him.

So far, events had pursued their normal course. It was when Wilkie was shown into

the dock at Bow Street later in the morning that the change CRITIC. For he from normal pleaded not gulity,

THE

DRINK AND DANCE ́ THE polico told their story to Mr E. G. Robey, and to- wards the end of it, one of them said: "In the prisoner's possession were 83 of these cards, They are all identical

The from a specimen card: "Drink magistrate read aloud and dance through the night at the Club" Ho raised his eyebrows and turned to "Wilkie. Do you want to give evidence?"

"I want

adjournment" Wilde and with dignity, 1 have an important witness I wish to call."

he asked.

an

His wish was granted, A, week or two later the caso' was resumed. "I call my witness," he said with a flourish as ho stopped into the dock.

PROFIT SHARING. YOUNG man took the oath and and that though he was no more, than an acquain- tance of Wilkle, he did remem- fish- ber sharing a table at a. bar with him on the night and around the time the police under claimed Wilkie had been,

The resolution was that this

be distributed

propar- tlonately among all creditors, dales on irrespective of the

Mr. Woo said that when ho which those debts arose. Mr was served with a copy of the that the Offcial Receiver's report he did Thomson pointed out resolution was not binding upon not recollect that a receiving observation creditors who were not premat. order had been made against The report further said that his cliente. After the receiving the earlier receiving order did order had been made against

"Now Bald Wilkle, wish to give evidence the other partners

myself" Woo and Co., and Weaver and they were entitled to be Weaver Shojeo Hsu, Counsel had "I don't tout any longer he

had said, negotiated with Mr. M. A. da Silva, acting on behalf of the petitioning creditor, Chuen Chong Hong, and it was agreed that the sum of $17,000 should be paid to him and that the five persons Mr Woo repremmted be released from the proceedings.

not effect

By Galbraith

RECEIVING ORDER

Unfortunately, said Mr Woo. his clients did not have the. money at the time and it was agreed that a receiving order should be mada zainst, then and that they could subsequently apply for its recision.

His Lordship abscryed that tho petitioning creditor win "not re- - presented" in Court and sold h 'did not think he could · go,on In his absence,

when the brief formalities were over. "I keep these cards have 100 in my pocket naw), to give restaurateurs for their customers. -For every

card that presented at the club,. I get

2s. 6d. and the restaurateur pots Thé

'He turned to the same." magistrate. "Let's say you're a restaturatour” ho- mid. " "You have people who say they want a nice time."

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THE PLUG

WILKIE drew a deep breath, Wand had tumor, towards the public gallery! "I tell you," be said, you can have a real' good time at the Club, and not- too expensive? It's ■

■ real nice

place,

"You mustn't advertise, the clab hare" the magistrate mid."

With a sigh, Wilkie, swliched Mr. Woo said he had served off the smiles-nike #dons no both Ma Silva and, the Official | touting - thất: night,” hơ Receiver with copies of his "That's all petition. Apparently the peti But the tioning creditor had not seen it proved.

to appear, but Counsel did not to he think his position would be pre too disp Judiced by his absence. In fact, who ho added, since pigment of the theo $17,000 to him, putitioning crailtor was no länger. Interested. injhis cliania,

Mr Thomson Informed, the Court that? that

the hands)

charge

Tikcia "was finød~40%"

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