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COMMENT OF
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Studios' Plight
ANY Hongkong people.
Mwho have enjoyed the
Mandarin dialogue pro- quetions of Hongkong.nlm studios, to say nothing of millions of Chinese in Southeast Asia, will bri
that alarmed at the news the industry is faced with bankruptcy. The latest
crisis may yet be a mortal blow and there is good reason for the anxiety with which the companies con- cemed look upon the new Formosa currency regula-
tions.
To begin with a good Hong-
kong film earns up to abouti
a third of its total income
rest
from Formosa, the coming from this Colony and Southeast Asia. The! new Taipei law is said require the purchase of a. premit costing $ Taiwan for every US$1 leaving the
island. Which means that
Established 1845
SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1955.
HK Blamed For Delay In
Release Of PoWs Anxiety
Mother's NO PERMITS
Fight For Son
Danger Of Being Sent To Formosa
San Francisco, July 8. A woman sought an order hare yesterday to prevent her, son from being taken to
Formosa by her former hus at the current rate of ex band who she claimed was a change for every HK dollar come there and sent back £230 a week "dare-devil" to the Colony the film pilot whose duties included studios have to pay 39 HK flying Nationalist guerillas cents the Taipei Trea-10 Communist China. sury.
This is a severe impost. Even
Tho mother,
Mrs Natalie Watts Boyson said her father,
Mr Harold Gil was British vice-consul in Shanghai,
allowing for the argument that stringent measures are
Her complaint, filed in the necessary to conserve ex domestic relations court here. enange, this law must act said the boy's father, Mr Roy unfairly on a wide range Watts, was now married to a of legitimate remittances, niece of General Chiang Kai- Similar restrictions in In- shek.
FATHER'S THREAT
dunesia and indirect stric- tures in Japan have made serious inroads into their earnings and the studios now make less than a third.the number of films 4* <li>I in their peak adventurers
years, 1950-1952.
She said Mr Watts has threa- tened, to take the five-year-old bay, Gary, to Formosa by force. Mr Watts was described as "a member of a group of
and darc-devils whose concern for their own
HE new Taipei law means personal safety is subjugated to that Formosa earnings their desire for adventure, ex-
RECEIVED SAYS PEKING
Over Laos Fighting
State Dept Awaits Further Reports
Washington, July 8. The State Department was today anxiously await- The departure of three American prisoners of ing further reports of the war from the Korean War who renounced their scale of fighting in Laos as
London, July 8.
earlier decision to stay in China has been "post poned" because they have not yet received "permits from the Hongkong authorities," the Communist New China News agency reported today.
Griggs, William A. Cowart and Otho G. Bell
The agency said the Americans Lewis W were still waiting in Canton for permits to enter Hongkong."
attackers were making a
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China Mail Feature Highlights -
Here are some of the highlights in today's feature aption:
P.5: Flight To Glory, our
new serial begins.
P. 8: Gideon Goés To: War, part three, by Leonard Mosley
P. 1: Did It Happen, by Ernest Dudley; Sherpa Tenzing's story of
the
ascent of Mount Everest. P. 8: Not all famous men are from Elon, by Jean Craigle
P. 9; Week-end Woman-
sense.
P. 13: Sir Beverley Baxter's
article.
P. 16 & 17: Local and over-
sens sports reviews.
an indication whether the Einstein serious attempt against the Peace Plan Laotian Government.
A United States official, not-
"massive" and "severe", Aght- ing, said: "Thess
be only
that reports had mentioned
relative to the size of the forces terms may
involved. But if the sucking Communist forces are in any way sizable, it may mean that
Q
serious situation has arisen
To Be Disclosed
London, July. 9.
The agency in an "interview: with "the Red Cross Society of China said up to 6 p.m., today (Friday) no
A plan for peace sponsored word has been received from the Hongkong author with the vicininn Communists by Dr Albert Einstein just ties granting permission for the Americans to enter from North Vieinama assisting before his death last April Pathet La will he revealed to the world the "colnoy "and consequently the departure of the the Communist three ex-ÚN soldiers had to be postponed."
group in Lhos in sezing con- here today. trol The Americans were original | A formal report from Mr Yaust, the United ly scheduled to arrive in Hong-
States Envay to Laos, is ex- kong on Saturday,
pected to raceh Washington from the Laotian capital of Vientianed British ph later today.
Austria To Get Back
Oil Fields
Vienna, July 8.
The Austrian government
Soviet negotiations in Moscow
ex-
The New China News Agency said the Chinese Red Cross yesterday cabled the Indian and British Red Cross Societies plaining to them the reason for the cancellation of the of the arrival "scheduled date, of the three men at the border as originally proposed."
The agency sold when the
Charles
VULNERABLE
Laos is officially regarded her as one of the most vulnerable points to Communist penetration in the arta covered by the Southeast Asian eight-nation Defence Treaty.
Informed sourcea said SEATO defence planners have recently devoted much me to planning
Death
HK
SAXONE
Shoes for Men Whiteaways
MADE IN SCOTLAND.
KOWLOON
Of Prominent Businessman
MR HOLGER DREYER
By the death in the early hours of this morning of Mr. Holger Dreyer, Hongkong lost an old and highly respected resident.
Mr Dreyer passed away at the Matilda Hospi- tal where he had been since July 1 following serious accident at his home.
Mr Dreyer, aged 69, and Managing Director of. Dreyer and Company, was one of the leading members of the Danish community of Hongkong.
Before coming to the Far East, Mr Dreyer was an officer in the Royal Danish Guards.
He arrived, Hongkong in 1912 to foln of Skott. and Co. He was in North China for a time and later joined Shewan, Tomes and Co., Ltd. In 1948 he founded his present Arm in the Colony,
Mr Dreyer was a keen sports, man, being an Interport rower and yachtsman. He stroked the a Royal Hongkong Yacht Club and the Victoria Recreation
Club crews on several occasions, Prior to the war he was a gunner in the 2nd Battery of the Hongkong
Volunteer Defence Corps. He fought in the de fence of Hongkong and during the war years was interned Shamshuipo Camp,
in
M: Dreyer
In March, 1952, Correspondents from many countries will crowd a public had the unusual honour of being Knight of the Order of hall to hear the final views, of created e the great, scientist on the atom Dannebrog by His Majesty King Frederik of Denmark. Very few and Lydrogen bombs.?
Bertrand Russell, the 32-year- people outside military or civil rank ́ have received the philosopher, has care.
service Quily chosen the moment for Order, which dates back to the
17th century. divulging the contents of the document-the eve of the crucial
Mr Dreyer is survived by two "bly four raceting at Genevssons, one of whom is in Copen between Russia and
Westernhagen and the other in Rio de and be.
Janeiro.. powers.
old
He will announce plans for using the statement-signed by Einstein and seven other scien- ists of International fame as
MR DREYER
Woman Hatches Out Chickens
Pavia, Italy, July 8. A 38-year-old peasant woman of today hatched out a nestful chickens in her bed?
The woman, Angelä Livizzi, distressed that the death of a ten thould result in the loss of potential chickens, decided to
Killers To Die hatch the eggs herpell
would he cut by about two. citament and fabulously highannouted tonight that Austro-hinese Red Cress. Tearned for the eventslity-ofs#tempted the fourSAJA DI A.Dey Frankfurter refused today to lay down beside them, careful
fifths und total earnings pay."
in earnings assumes the granted pending a hearing for a proportions of a major permanent decision-Reuter. crisis. That they have sur- vived the vicissitudes
of
An
of
to
from
their transit
It
recent
.
formula.
She placed them in the centre Washington, July 3. Supreme Court Justice Falix of her win feather-bod and ́stay the execution of three not to criish them
scheduled to die 10 Angela sayed "la" bed- wilh - morrow night, in the Sing Sing eggs, hardly moving, for a electric chair. Lawyers for the doomed exhausted
killers
| bezide" ber-France-Presse.
CASABLANCA INCIDENTS
GREAT INTEREST roughly by two-fifteenths, pay of $2.000 (2714) a month.
He was raid to be receiving { for the return” of Austrian- oil from the Indian Red Cross the Coltimerist subversion! In Laos.
The Fremier of Thailand, Field The world-wide interest Considering the costing Mrs Boyson, who said she
Beids controlled by the Russians United States authorities would Marshal Phibul Songgramaroused has been so great that had been completed. Chinese film had been ferced into an earlier system of
permit the three Americans to crit his
visit to the philosopher has been forced studios this loss would joint custody agreement, was
be return home it "contacted the Washington, estimated that if to hire a much bigger hall ther
trio said they have week, then today, as she dozed, agreement would a temporary custody signca next Monday, hare serious effects. They granted
Communists attempted office of the British Charge the
the one originally booked.
their possibilities she heard familiar sounds, and further expansion in Southeast work on a shoestring bud-order. A temporary order pre-
Though contents of the state here and are returning to New shortly afterwards, a batch, of get and the smallest slump taken
venting the boy from being The negotiations also dealt d'Affaires in Peking on July
Ada. they would probably movement are so far secret, it is York to decide on their next sturdy chicks were uttering. outside California was with the handing back
arrange for of
agalist Laos.
likely its aim will be to impress move, PA A former German assets in Austria through Hongkong."
First press reports said that on world politicians the view of Justice Hugo L. Black had seized by the Russians and the
officials in upwards of three batalions of the scientists that war can ng refused a stay earlier in the British in which payment After
Communists had attacked in the
Longer be
be an instrumen of day. There are no other should be made for their return Peking expressed the beber that
of Sam Neus, long policy. provicce
Supreme Court Justices in the Hongkong to an Austrian delegation which a reply
dominated by the Pathet Lao.
The use of hydrogen bomba Washington at present-Unded arrived in Moscow on June to authorities could be had in
was unofficially estimated will be disastrous to all sides Press. work out details following sign- few days the Chinese Red Cross here that the Laotian Govern and can mean universal death ing of the Austrian independence "made speelle arrangements and ment, led by Mr Katah Sasorith, for the human race.
in Vienna by the Big scheduled to send them to the could field only about 25,000 treaty Four powers in May.
border on July 9. It also fighting men and would be hard quested the Indian Red Cross by pressed if the well-trained Agreement to hand buck the cable to ask the British Red Vietminh forces lent weight to oil fields, the former German Cross Society in Hongkong to ascets, and the Danube Shipping receive them at the border at Company's properties in Austria, the scheduled time."-Reuter, was made
in April
when Julius Raab. Vice- Chancellor Chancellor Adolf Schaert, and Foreign Minister Leopold Figl
the conferred with
Moscow-Reuter. goverment
the last three years ish credit to their determina- tion and ingenuity As AC- contants and producers. The dangerous implications underestimated. cannot be If the
Indecent Pictures
-Seized
Melbourne, July 8. HK nudstry col}
Customs officers here disclosed lapses. the vacuum can only today that they
had seized be filled adequately by Ban quantities of negatives and darin films from Red China prints from Japanese freighters which have so plain
an as part of their campaign to ideological twist that it suppress the importation or sale could be missed only by a of indecent photographs and cretin. Formosa must be literature, « aware of the inherent dan.i
An officer said the Customs
gers in this position, Some also seized nearly 1,000 prints special dispensation ought and
more than 500 megatives
to be made to help the HK from one German migrant.
studios. For it would be al
Other articles taken from
migrants included pistols, calamity if they were knuckled-knives and whips,
China Mail Special.
forced to close down.
Thirsty?
take the necessary
So Britons To Pay
More For Coal
the attack,
war.
ruin
Boy Meets Girl
Casablanca, July 8.
- Two persons were killed in a scrity of incidents in Casablanca Lahore, July 3. A centenarian in the little today, An agricultural labourer, town of Shadiwal today mer23 S Ahmed Caid Madant was a man ten years her junior.he dead in the new Medina, Grandchildren and grand-in- laws attended the wedding. whil bomb exploded under a
this
LIKELY PROPOSAL One proposal for peace which Bertrand Russell - will probably put forward that two neutral nations such
and as India SEASONED OFFICERS Sweden should investigate and Oficial Intelligence reports draw up a detalled report on from that area recently have said the
which would be
The bride a widow for the lorry in the middle of the that seasoned Vietminh officers brought about by a third world last 50 years was 100 years cld market at AB this morning, '
been training and now
when one person was, kuled while her much-married bride- probably commanded the Pathet
erveral wounded. his Copies of the report would be
groom--this is Afth marriage Lao units.
afternoon in forwarded to all governments |--was 90.
the Diplomalle sources here
A band attended the cere-new Medina at Casablanca, a membered that at the Afro-likely to be involved in a waz
and shpps remained Moroccan challenged by the Asian-conference
dung and they should be invited to mony, at Bandung,
closed all day. The entire town police attempted to fee the Vietminh Foreign
Minister, concur in its findings. Mr Phan
Van Dong, had given This plan is known to have celebrated the London, July 8.
the Laotian representative as been in the forefront of the well as it might Shadiwal The price of ecal for domestic surances that the Vietminh would philosopher's mind for the fast English Le Havre, July 8.
use, in Britain will go up by not interfere in Laos internal year. He has been in touch marriage"-France-Fresse,
affairs, which the Vietminh con- with world. scientists cabout, it The public prosecutor here 18 per cent on July 18.
ceded
to include
with the King of problem of and also The Ministry of Fuel made has sent back the 1954 birth
Sweden and the Prime Ministers registers to mayors of village, its announcement on Friday as the Pathet Lac group. under his jurisdiction with a sun was shining brightly Further was recalled wider of Sweden and India. China sharp reminder that they were and temperatures were climbing the Geneva armistice agreement Mail Special
iz the 's That's hot in fending the Indo-China war, the breaking a Napoleonic law by
Vietminh recognised the Katah authorising Christian names not England.
the calendar oľ
increase for ernment as the ruler of The average taken from the bible or ancient henta coal per ton will be history.
12/8d..
Napoleonic Law. Broken
chosen from
rush to
the
Therefore observers here were inclined to believe that Vietminh 'would not openly, at
The law has aver been re- In London, new prices will this time, fing its armed weight. pealed but there was no greater range from
£9-6-0 per on Into an effort to put the leader change names. Napo for top grade coal to £5-12-10 of the: Pathet Lao, Prince leon's Law provided no legal for the lowest grade. Assa Soupanna Phong, into power in penalties.-China Mail Special. ciated Press.
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