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AT GILMANS

Radio Dept.

COMMENT

THE DAY

OF

Gloucniter Arenda

Water Supply

NHE hints that have been

dropped from Lime to time that the Tai Lam Chung reservoir scheme, oven com- plete in all its phases, would not provide the Anal solu- tion to the Colony's water problem, have now been given categorical confirma. tion by Government.

Yesterday's announcement by

the Director of Public Works that engineering In- vestigations were Iramediately of a site on

to start

Lantao for a reservoir that

will add another 30 million

gallons of water a day for general consumption whil be received with mixed feelings.

The prospect of ultimately

obtaining

CHINA MAIL

No. 36250

- Established 1845

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1955,

Prico 30 Cents

CONVICT RUNS THRIVING China Mail

BUSINESS FROM

GAOL

Obtains Japanese Mystery Death The Foreign

Bicycle Agency

DAILY PHONE CALLS

Stockholm, Oct. 7.

A convict in Stockholm prison has built up a substantial importing business with Japan, the prison director Mr R. Rudstedt disclosed today.

Taking advantage of Sweden's easy-going penal system the convict, Sven Bohlin, has obtain import licences for 500,000 crowns (about £33,500) worth of Japanese bicycles, chains and lampa.

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His principal Japaness client, the Asia Machinery domestic supply of water is Trading Company and others, have provided Bohlin alluring, but the community with samples worth an estimated 30,000 crowns will await with some anxiety, to know what demand this (about £2,000) to help him sell their goods.

project is to make on the Treasury.

That the undertaking.

and

if

Joblin ever, arranged a stand

for himself at a Stockholm trade

fair last August but the stand LORRY KNOCKED

was removed

when the tried to 3/12

orga-

Japanese

a practical possibi-nizers proved lity, will win public approval businessmen in touch with him may be taken for granted.¦and discovered that he wits Water the Colony must serving a 12-month sentrace for have,

In suficientmbezzlement quantities, Throughout

Bohllo was able to conduct Hongkong's history, there

his business - Oman.ed from has been an inadequacy of en inheritance-because Swedish water to meet requirements, law allowed him to make up and It ін necessary to to 20 phone! calts a day from! acknowledge that with the prison. Colony's continuing growth

CAMOUFLAGED

ADDRESS

OVER BY TRAM

A

VAU

commercini lorry knucked off its balance and fell on its left alde in an accident with ramcar outside the Cen- tral Market In Des Voeux Road Contra) 8.15 a.m. today.

Fortunately no one

was in-

Jured.

of population and the rapid His typed letters were hended

The Korry rusted across the Nine" the address tramitaes, blocking trum traffic expansion of industry, there "Stockholm

are allowed to use

for about 20 minutes until the fact they are in

off by a saiyap signed the

letters WA pulled

truck.

Ев по chance of demands prisoners

to hide

being met unless water stor" gnol. He

age facilities are ati fur-Sven Bohiln, Managing Direr- ther increased.

tor

It

The tramcor was slightly

He also had 72 hours have a damaged. The island has no further use-month for good conduct and

ful catchment and reservoir) unod this, time to give business areas to offer, and to rób lunches

In fashionable restau-

import

Kowloon of any more terri-ranta, visit overnment offices to Reds

licences and attend receptions at foreign em- bassies.

return

tory would interfere with obtain agricultural develop- ment. Which leaves only Lantao for exploration.

A

Sometimes he would with his pockets stuffed full of

un!!!

Of Hitler

Disciple

Formby Lanch. Oct. 7.

The disappearance and death of James Larratt Battersby, a "disciple" of Hitter. whose hendless body SPALA washed ashore here, went on record as an unsolved mystery today.

At the inquest

coroner

C. Bollon decided that it was impossible to say how. when und where Battersby, a 48-year-old author, died. returned an open

verdict.

Battersby, member of a famous family of hat-

makers, disappeared from his lodgings in Southport, Lancashire. Just before he left he wrote to a news- paper reporter: "My work hero is complete. I follow the Fuchrer to glory and eternity, Through the sherifice of the martyrs our world victory Lory assured. Hail Hitler."

Is mutliated body was wathed ashore by the tide hero last week--China Mali Special.

Floods Take

Toll Of Life

Office Corrects Its Chief

London, Oct. 7.

The Fereign Office tonight tock the unusual step. of Issuing a formal correction: to a statement made earlier today by the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Harold Mac-- millan.

Mr Mcmillan had told the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth; **། Am Бите that we can formulate plans which the world will feel-and I hope the Russian government will feel-give full protection to Russia against any threat which might come from a reunited Germany whether it choosts to Join NATO or prefers to remain neutral.”

MISREAD NOTES

thot

spokesman Mr MAC-

Feature

Highlights

Here

are some of the highlights in today's featurn' arction:

P. 3:

P.

5: Russell Spurt says

that everything strikes in Singapore except the matohea

Adventuro on Shoestring: our

new story begins today--about two Britons who went elimbing in Nepal.

P. 7: Who was, the man in the iron mask? Gerald Bowman tells another, of the world's strangest storics.

P. LG. Pine, editor. of Burke's Peerage, looks at some of the princely titled of the world, and says not all are genuine. P. 13: John Mokenis examines the career and personality President Elsenhower's right-hand man, Vič- President Richard 'Nixon. P. 16 & 17: Latest local and'

oversean sporta reviews.

Rebels Make It Tough For French

Fez, Morocco, Oct. 7. A Junkers troop carrier A Foreign Office tonight cald

today parachuted supplies millan. had misread his notes, to the defenders of the What. the Foreign Secretary French military post of had meant to say was that the Tizi Ouzfi,. vital streng plans

full pro- would "give

swept Northwestern India, guarantee if

dhese to remain Most Bribe

Tried To

Courier

of the deaths were

an

de

11

SAXONE

Shoes for Mon Whiteaways

-MADE IN SCOTLAND

FK OWL DUN

See-Saw Debate

On Morocco In French Assembly

GOVT POLICY SUPPORTED

AND CRITICISED

Paris, Oct. 7.

A long list of speakers and Deputies wishing to raise questions heralded the continued debate in the National Assembly on the Morocco question, that was ex- pected to go with night sessions tonight and tomorrow.

on

Louis Vallon, unaffiliated with any party but voting usually with the Socialists, assailed what he called "intrigues delaying the application of the government's policy" and he criticised "manoeuvres of high military figures."

Pierre Aumeran, Independent | Independent, warss recent in- Republican, criticised ex-Sultan | spection mission In Morocco Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, was cut short by the govern— now in Madagascar, and de- ment when he publicly criticised plored the lack of support by the government policy. the French Government for

Mr. Faure told the Assembly Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben in reply to a question by Montel, Arafa, who left the throne for that former Sultan Ben Youssef, Tangier.

now residing in Madagascar, re- Aumeran assailed Pierre ceived 5,000,000 francs (about French $14,000) a month in income from Воуст

Do Lutour, Resident-General, charging that his sequestered fortune for the he used "pressure against Berupkeep of his 28 member family Arafa. He feared a Regency and entourage.

The debate was recessed for Council would be a step toward dinner.--France-Presse. YousseÍ.

preparing the return of Ben

WANTS PROCLAMATION Aumeran urged the immediate

throughout

Africa

to

MUTINY

BY FRENCH TROOPS

col

tecilon to Russia against any point in the Riff mountains threat which might come from where Moroccan rebels are a reunited Germany It she fighting the Foreign Lo-proclamation of a state of aloge chooses to join NATO.

North She gion. may, of course, prefer to rẹ--

Meanwhile French armoured stamp out terrorism. main neutral."

Another right wing Deputy, columns struggled to keep the New Delhi, Oct. 7, The corrcelon sa diplomatic roads open in the triangle form Plere Andre, of the Indepen

dent: Republican Party, said the More than 100 people have observers here guessing.

ed by Boured, Aknoul and Tip

government's

mment's policy would lead been killed and thousaniah Foreign Office spokesman Ouzil but were harassed by

declined

to automatic won- to say whether the snipers using

the loss of North “Alrica and rendered homeless in "three change meant that

the West pens equipped with telescopic oventually of all of France's days by floods which have would not give Russia a security

African territories.

Rouen, France, Oct. 7. sights,

Special security police area. rcunited Germany France's troops are deployed He expressed surprise at re-

outside the along a 50-mile front as black- ports that sentences against ter- tear-gas bombs today to driver latest figures showed today. western elliance.

robed tribesmen wearing Gerrorists were not being carried of French factory workers demonstrating in front of a Such implication night in man-style steel helmets dig in out caused by the collapse of houses the view of many observers not and, regroup after the

Pierre July, Minister for barracks full of mutinous SUCCCSJ under torrental rain.

Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs,st night about 500 young affect the Soviet attitude to of only

assaults their "commando" London, Oct. 7.

The rain has now stopped, Germany's reunification natural inclination is to re- cigars to give to fellow prisoners.

whose right-wing ARS (dis- Soviet agents offered a Bri- but large orcas remain cut off. seriously

but earllor, this week.

drafters rocalled to the increase the West

sident Gaullist) parliamentary Boyer General Pierre gard Lantao as being tool Bohlin's main Japanese dient 1sh diplomatic courier a small

The River Jemus, which has German government's difficulties

Latour, Resident-General, to- group decided to expel him cura tore rank badges off their officers shoulders and barri- far away to render it a cld not learn of his true "occu- fortune in dollars in 1952 to let

been

rising steadily for the in defending its policy of usio-

that of 30 ter ended themselves in Richopanse today, replied day returned to Rabat from steal representative them practicable site for a reser-, pation"

a diplomatic bag pasl three days early today cinion with the West against, tour of the front line.

rorists sentenced to death, 13 voir, yet it is likely that the came to Stockholm and phoned in transit from the British Ean burit its banks flooding acres of its critics.

have been executed thus far.

barracks to protest being sent to Strafing Attacks

North Africa. length of piping which will, blm-only to find that he was bassy in Moscow, the Foreign

M. July added that as long A flight of four Vampire fet

the terrorists continued to

squads of security guards be required will be less than speaking to the prison.

three- fighters followed

the barracks today. support from the Morge About, 120 of the drafters. gave receive that which now feels ກ

hour bombardment rebel

can people, "it will be almost large part of the

positions in the hills dominat-

impossible"

to bring terrorism themselves up, but the rest were from the Jubilee reservoir,

ing

the Boured-Aknoul road

sitting Ught. to an end. with low-level strafing attacks,

At qulling time tonight in carly evening debato was Perhaps the biggest advantage

The most fanatical of the

factories, dozens by attacks on the gov. Rouen's

of to be derived from the pro

workers marched. ernment's policy by members of

to the by the unfounded to be put at this monta's chels, whose leaders have been

trained

SUOTE! commando posed new reservoir is that

ich barracks and shouted encourage- the Conservative parties which it will allow the island and

American news magazine, ad-rumour that there would be Four conference in Geneva

camps in the Spanish Zone

make up a large part of Premier ment to the striking soldiers, the severe earthquake in the night. had been worked out on the according to French intelligence the mainland to possess in-'

"sub-Villagers. evacuated all belong assumption that Germany would offers, come

Foure's parliamentary majority. and obscenities at the police. from the Benl

Several szumler broko out dependent water supplies,

United ings to high ground and spent do so.

Uriaghel tribe whose former

2) who are in the opposi-

expressed support for the between the workers and, the the night chanting prayers in

leader, Abdel Krih led the

government's Moroccan reform Juck-booied riot police, who the open.

He suggested that if contrary rebels in the Riff war of 1925 plans but criticised It for delays moved in with tear-gug guns. to Western-expectation Germany and 1926,

The black uniformed securlly putting the reforms White opted for newirafily this would

the Foreign Legion effect.

gunta riot squads surrounded not necessalily rule. out fought for control of the roads

One of the Conservative the barracks, carly today and guarantees for Russia. But ft

reservists-who thousand would certainly mean that the and strategic heights around aeputiez who sharply criticised arrested several

Almoul, individual terrorist

Fauro's Moroccan policy was attempted to escape into Western powers would have to attacks were reported from other zo-ex;male

Pierre Montel, Republican nearby park United, Press. the whole secury parts of Morocco. question.-Reuter,

Istiqlal Offer

the

Colony

The

managing director not available. He has a leave from the prison today," he was

told.

The prison dirve or pointed out today that Bohlin had not received any special privileges to allow him to carry on his

import busincas,

Ofce revealed today.

The Briton refused the bribe and reported the matter when he got to London.

been

low-lying land,

A continuous stream of

has

pouring refugeca across the city's only bridge for the past three days.

Villago Panics

;

THE ASSUMPTION

The

spokesman. explained that since Russia had said she A Foreign Office spokesman

would fear a reunited Germany confirming the matter in Parle in flood-siricken Tehar which joined the Allmic pac response to questions prompted | village, near here, by, a story last month in an creased

was In the Western security proposal

Was

miited today that "His talents. are on a higher magazine's story plane than these of other pri- stantially correct." object being that soner He demanded every Press. Lantao will augment the advantage he could get," he island's present supplies, added. freeing the Tai Lam Chung

Mr Bohlin

leaves gaol this

output for the exclusive use week and the prison board has Russia's Air of Kowloon. There is much rented a furnished room

hlm. He has asked them to

to commend in such an ar- find him rangement.

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London, Oct. 7. Britain has received an in vitation from the Soviet Union to send a delegation to Moscow to discuss air relations between the two countries, a Govern- ment epokesman sold tonight.

Sir Miles Thomas, Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, said last month the BOẶC was considering an oir route from London to the Far East

(In Lahore, West Pakistan, flood waters receded today after the River Ravi had fallen by seven feet in the last 24 hours.

(Several hundred people were still homeless but the city was no longer isolated. An air service was started between Latiore and 'Rawalpindi, which connects with the rest of [the country,)--Reuter.

Surprise Meeting

Nicosia, Oct; 7.

ATOMIC PLANT

EXPLOSION

London, Oct. 7.

a.t

up

The assistait secretary-generni of the Istiqlal nationalist move- inen, Mohammed Lyazidi, sald in Foz today that his Party wan ready to ask robel loaders to call the

fighting off the French government

gives us

worksollicat

An explosion followed by i polical means to

occurred at the British

Hated theso

of a

Field Marshal Sir John fire Harding, Britain's now Governor atomic centre at Harwell (Berk means" as the sciting of the island colonly of Cyprus, | shire) today, The fire, was throne council agreed La had a surprise second meeting

at Franco-Moroccan brought under control principle quickly with Archbishop little damage was done. The talks and a declaration by the Markarlos, leader of the explosion occurred in a labora governmait of ita intention to Cypriot-Greek campaign fortory where technicians were at le d'Morceed to Independence.-- union with Greece.--Reuter. work-France-Presse,

Reuter.

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