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COMMENT
THE DAY
OF
Today's Election
F today's general election
I'
in Australia could be decided on a strictly per- popularity voto
between Mr Menzies
Dr Evatt
and
there is Jitio
doubt that the Liberal and
Country Party of
which
Mr Menzies is the leader, would be swept back to
the Even
power with substantial majorities in both House and Senate, umong the Socialist voters, Menzies has his admirora, whereas Dr Evast, sufpect- ed and feared by all but the left wing, is also today section estranged from a
of
his own
ENSOciates.
Oddly, perhaps,
political
CHINA
No. 36304
·'Established' 1845
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1955.
RELAX IN
DAKS
IN AKTIIN TROMBERS
Whiteaways
Price 30 Cents
KOWLOON
SKYSCRAPER HOTEL FOR TODAY'S RACING
THE COLONY
26-Storey
Building On
On The Waterfront
BY ALEC CREAVES
China Mail
Feature Highlights
Here are some of the high- lights of today's feature section:
.P. 4: The Hongkong pro-
duate oxhibition
pictures.
P.
ה
5: The Agapemonites and the Bogus "Mezish” by C. D. 1. Uaker-Curr; Wall, What d'you Know? A new Korica begins
tho China
Hongkong is to have an up-to-date, 26-storey skyscraper hotel on the waterfront which will rank with the best in the world. It will stand on the site comprising the present Butterfield and Swire
Mail. any building and the adjacent lot formerly occupied by
the now-demolished Oriental Building.
Australians
do not seem to have
particular desire to have flamboyant personalities as their Prime Ministers, And Dr Evalt is undoubt edly flamboyant the
antithesis of his predeces sors, John Curtin and sen Chifley, and, of course, his opponent, "Bob"
Arrangements for the sale of the Butterfield and Swire building were completed yesterday. The price paid is over $8,000,000,
The buyers are an international hotel syndicate both here and abroad. They consisting of investors have commissioned Mr Eric Cumine, FRIBA, to de-
new building, which sign the
in estimated $22,000,000.
1. 6: Men in 'setted cities. Concluding "A Journey to the stars".
P. : The Great mind-plil
phenomenon, by
Chap- man Pincher; Dylan Thomas, the legend and tho book, by Evelyn Irona; Paris Newsletter
from Bam White. Menzies
This could be reflected in today's polling.
The election campaign which
ended
Thursday been described
on
AH
the
to cost
P. 8:
t
relax and be entertained by top-
notch bands and performers.
Restaurant facilities will in clude both European and Chinese cuisine.
Plans
Brst-clas of the
include Apart from being one building
night club en has biggest
development restaurant and "dull" projects in Hongkong's history, the topmost floor, where Hong-
will provide
and visitors can kong residents the scheme and the electorate "apathe Colony with much-needed hotet tic." The probable reason
accommodation and facilities is that, at least in the which at present are considered domestic field, the issue adequate to cope with the has been at extremely growing tourist trade. simple one. Mr Monzies is seeking an unmistakable mandate to continue policy which he claims has brought a record degree of prosperity to the country
200 ROOMS
200
hotel The
will have rooma, one-third of which will be
and two-roomed
three- All rooms will roomed suites, have baths and the other
Construction of the new building will be in two stages Work on the Oriental Building part of the site, now cleared, will start in about six months When this is completed, Messrs Butter- fold and Swire and their 0890- cisted companies move into this It is a false prosperity, part of the new building. founded on economic quick-Demolition of their existing sands, may be supported by offices and buliding work the national hotels
rank. the majority of their upon will then proceed. porters, but is not likely The entire building is expect.
The Socialists Insistence that
will from now.
NOT YET NAMED
choose London's lovellest
diplomatic hostess, by Eileen
When a Astrofi
Duko siepa out, by Peter Dacre. P. 13: The strange story of
commercial TV. by Sk Beverley Baxter, Mr. P. 10 & 17: Local and
overseas sports reviews.
THE TITLE IS EARL ATTLEE
MARSHALL IN
LONDON: SOUNDS
A WARNING
London, Dec. 9.
SELECTIONS
By "Rapier" RACE 1
Brivisto Desert Gold
Fortuna
f
The Chief Minister of Singapore, Mr David Marshall, arrvied in London tonight by air from Beirut for exploratory talks with the Colonial Office on the future of Singapore.
Mr Marshall told pressmen on his arrival at London airport tonight that he was bringing to the British people a warning of the serious poten- tial danger of the Singapore situation. He said: "There is no threat implied by me; there is just a keen desire to raise a warning of a great potential danger."
In andwer to questions, Mr Marshall said: "There is a basic sanituds between the Singa-
pore and Cyprus problems,"
He said that in both cases, the people have been dented the right of self-government. "1 feel that if the people of England had known more about the Cyprus problem, the stun-
Negroes Stage A Boycott
Montgomery, Dec. 9, Transit officials today re-
tion would not have reached | jected "first come, first ser-
the point that it has now."
Mr Marshall added: 1 do not want the same thing to happen la Singapore. I have come here to try and explain to the people
ved"
demands of Negro leaders as their price for calling off a boycott of city buses by Negro riders.
as simply as I cart the simple Negroes, who have refused ficts of the situation. Frustrated | for almost a week to ride city nationalism is a very explcsive | buses because of alleged dis- fores and it is very dangerous crimination, continued walking not to recognise it."
or hitch-hiking to work today.
MAKING NO THREAT Asked what ho meant by this, London, Dec. 9.
Mr Marshall said; "I make no I am a mass, a leader Mr Clement Attlee, creat- threat. modern conveniences i com- ed an earl following his re of peace. It is a warning from distinguish inter tirement as British Labour who is close to the facts
Party Teater, will be known and who knows" as Earl Attlee, his wife said tonight.
forts
that
of the frant.
present talks were to break Mr Marshall added that if the
A committee of Negro Jeaders and officials of the bus Hno failed to reach an agreement to end the boycott
The Negro committee wha appointed yesterday by Maybe W. A. Gayle and it made, threo proposals to the bila 'company”
TURNED DOWN down, the albustion would be Mr Attlee's son's title, she serious. He added that if he ·Company attorney Jack Cred- said, will be Viscount Prest-failed at the constitutional con- shaw turned down two of the wood of Washamstow (Mrference next April somebody proposals rejected a. su- gestion that the bus company Attlee's parliamentary consti- else will have to carry on..
hiro Negro drivers for routes tuency). old
Stressing that there was at through predominantly Negro the present moment "a state of sections, ferment" in the colony, Mr Mar- shall added: "There has been a for self-government__in Singapore for a long time. This visit has been long overdue,"
A
The land area which the new to convince tho floating od to be finished in 44 years buliding covers ia over 24,000
feel. EQUATO
The prevent vote, any more than
Swire building Dr Evatt's
Butterfold and arguments against sending Australian
covers 10,000 square feet. forces to Malaya.
The
Oriental Building, The new hotel, 内 yet un- formerly Japanese-owned, was
Mrs Attice said the necessary Perhaps it will be the house-
named, will easily dwarf the used as Police Headquarters for investigations had been granted wives who will have the
and the Queen's consent given tallest building in Hongkong at
many years aer the war. deciding say in the election. the present time. The architec
auction last year "It has all gone through." was sold by That Australia today tural plans are being prepared
for $3,630,000.
said. highly prosperous there can according to the provisions of be no denying. But it also the new Building Ordinance, suffers from inflation and which has not yet become law, fill it is the budgeting house. but it is learned that wife who most appreciates advantage is not being taken of the real extent of that in the liberal scope permitted under
be
fintion.
indifferent The
Eight floors of the new build- purchasing power of the ing will be rented out as offices. Australian pound possibly The hotel will occupy the rest, may be the single factor On the ground floor w/D that will prevent the gov- the main hotel lobby, shops,
promenades and offices. vrnment from
The main ballroom, dining turned to power.
ather public rooms On the other hand, if there will be located on the first floor. cater for the most elaborate
being
re-
rooms and
Plane Hits Hospital
A
Sheffield, Dec. 9. woman patient
It
was
killed and five others injured
when a United States Air Force F-84 Thunderstreak crashed into a hospital near
is a landslide, it is fair toy will be spacious enough to predict it will be in favour social functions, one room having here after the pilot baled
of the Liberal and Country on uninterrupted span of 100 x Party.
HONG KONG
TOKYO
San
Francisco
3 Flights
MON, WED, FEL
100 feet.
JAL
JAPAN
Weekly
LINE
out.
The pllot, who abandoned the plane at about 3,600 feet, was reported unhurt.
she onse
Mrs Attlee said tonight that her husband's title would be simply Earl Attlee. There would be no place name in the title.
"We have been into it: there doca not have to be a place," she said.Reuter,
8 Dismissed From
Party
Paris, Dec. 9.
M. Pierre Mendes-Franco to- night announced the expuiston of eight leading members from the Radical Party for refusing from a rival body to resign headed by the Premier M. Edgar
Paure.
M. Rene Mayer, chairman of The hospital, Lodge Moor the European Coal-Steel Pool Hospital for Infectious Dis- Authority and a former premier cases, is about five miles from was one of them. Another was the densely populated industrial M. Martinaud Deplat, former
or Minister
the town of Sheffield,
Interior. administrativo President of the The pizne, reported to have Party till M. Mendes-France run out of fuel, gilded down ousted him from office at a fllently with its engine off, stormy congress last May... plummeted through the roof of M. Bernard Lafay, a member)
long single storey building of the Faura government and silced
through several turned out of the Party on the cubicles containing worden and grounds that he refused to quit ebijdren patients China Mall office when the Party Executive Spicini.
told him to resign.--Reuter.
was
also expressed
Mr Marshall surprise at the unfavourable comments that some of his state- ments in New Delhi had aroused In Singapore. He said the people should not reproach him for try ing to learn from such a great mán as Mr Nehru.
Mr Marshall was interviewed in front of the television cameras and also spoke in Malay for the BBC-Franco-Presse.
Remote-Control Betrothal
Copenhagen, Dec. 9.
mechanic and
A Danish Chicago girl held a remote control ceremony to celebrate their engagement.
"Arst come, first served" policy He also said a proposal that a on seating was not possible under present segregation laws.
The Negroes made a third re- quest that bus drivers be more courteous in their treatment of Negro passengers,
..
Police continued to escort buses on routes through Negro districts where four busty have been fired on and where shotgun
raked blasts
>-two Negro dwellings-Blted Press.
Bulganin Rapped
Karachi, Dec. 9. The reference by Soviet Pre- mier Nikolai Bulganin to the disputed state of Kashmir as a "northern part of India" earlier re- today brought a shap primand from Radio Pakistan this evening. Tage Damgaard of Aarmis, Jutland, placed an, engagmen Recalling that Russia is IKLANE on his finger at moon | permanent member of the exactly, and in Chicago, his United Nations Security Comell dancee, Karin Christensen, got which has solemnly pronounced up at five o'clock in ung to do the mme thing at the Kashmir decided by
morn-is judgment that the future of
same time.
free and fair plebiscite," the Tage met
Karin when her radio said that Batty," parents were on hadday in paying lavish Indian Denmark. They arranged their had broken "with a flourish" all engagement by letter China diplomatic conventions--Franco- Mail Special
Presso,
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ET INDIA
hase adva
OF LUXURY, OR YOUR
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TO EUROPE
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Visit those places with
ARTE GENEVA, DUSSE
CAIRO
CUTTAY KARACHEL
ORF
a
Outsider: Vagabond King.
RACE 2
C'est Si Bon
Tamerlane
Tell-me-again
Outsider: Unicorn.
RACE 3
Straight Flush
Oceanic Sky
Ringway
Outsider: Fox Hunter.
RACE 4
Atomic Caesar
Free Success
Blossom Time.
Outsider: Pearl of Hongkong.
Misty Law
Miraclo
Old Tyre
RACE 5
Outsider: Encore.
Avion
Mo Cherle Midget
RACE 6
Outsider: Sea Ralder,
RACE 7
Dragonfly
Hiawatha
Tumblewood
Outsider: Snowy.
RACE 8
Perfectibility
Bayshore Santa Claus
Outalder: Spinning Wheel.
By "The Turf”
Fortuna
RACE 1
Brivisto Vagabond King
Outsider: Colin.
RACE 2
C'est Si Bon
Tamerlane Spanish Fan
Outsider: Unicorn.
RACE 3
Straight Flush
Fox Hunter
Attractive Power
Outsider: Outsider.
RACE 4
Dreadnought
Gallant Knight
New Love
Outsider: Atomle Caesar.
Misty Law
RACE S
Miracle
Quicksilver
Outsider: Chatterbox.
RACE 6
Midget
Zerimar
Starboard
Outsider: The Kangaroo.
RACE 7
Dragonfly
Snowy
Wise Leader
Outsider: Sultan. RACE 8
Spinning Wheel Gladsto
Santa Claus
Outsider: Bayshore.
TODAY'S TEASER TIP
for the End race
Certainly this applies to Paris
The teaser tip for the last meeting, was Winsome which placed third and paid $0.
Fighting In Northern Laos
Vientiane, Laos, Dec. 9 The royal Laotian government announced today that the heaviest fighting since last July broke out this week in Northern Lace after an attack by about 2,200 troops of the Communist-led Pathet Lao.
the Neus province in Northern two or three killed. The Pathet Full reports of the battle in About 15 troops of the royal the mountainous jungle area of Laotian army were wounded and Indo-China have not yet reached Lao withdrew leaving two of this Laotian capital, but fighting their dead on the battlefield.
believed to have died down.
don't think there is a dan-
In an interview with Reuter toger of general attack by Pathet day, the acting Prime Minister of Lao but if we as attacked we Laos, Prince Souvanas Phouma, shall be forced to defend our- said the attack was a flagrant selves, Prince Souvenna Phouma breach of the ceasefire agr resched
ire agreement declared-Reuter,. between Laotian
gov
Parla, Dec. 9.
and Pathet Lao in last October, and the had protested to the International truce control com- The Soviet Parliament has mission which had. representa-accepted an invitation from the
on the spot. tives on
British Parliament to send a A source close to the inter-delegation to visit England early national commission said today: next July, the Soviet Tass news We are very anxious about the agency reported toitation was situation".
Tazg" sald the
Prince Souvanna Phouma sald addressed to the Soviet Parlia- at least three Pathet so batment chiefs, Alexander Volcov Muong Peun, on Monday. talions attacked south -ot | and "-7 VINS Lalzis-France-
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