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FLASHBULBS
THE DAY
OF
Co-Existence
CHRISTIAN
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No. 36468
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FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1956.
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``TEIN KIRJEDAN KOMERSET EN ALTEROS TULUMSERA
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NEW HARBOUR BRIDGE PLAN
M. the French Double-Decker
Pinan. Foreign
Minister, developed bin theme #f peaceful vo- existence between West and East with admirable clarity when he addressed the National Press Club in Washington this week. His speech deserves enreful pinal by everybody interested in the problem of improved international TE- lations.
The importance attaching to the speech is that M. Pinen was not merely ex pressing personal opinions, bul was enunciating the views of the French guvern- ment. This provides massive weight to his line of argu men which must be evalued accordingly.
M
Pingu's Isasie approach is that if it Is generally accepted that international
differences cannot be seitled
by war, then all the nations can place themselves "with the framework of n possible peaceful Hettie- mer of our problems and uf co-existence between different political, economic and ideological systems." The proponition requires some qualtention, chief of which
In the continued main- tenance of the free world's defensive safeguards against physical encroach- ments by the powerful Com- munist bloc. But fow will
the logic question
of M. Pineau when he declares that If the Soviets and ber satullites are prepared to withdraw the iron curtain to permit the practice of co- existence, the democracies conuul, on the basis of their principles, attempt to draw that curtain between them-
selves and the East.
la on the question of the sincerity of the Russi overtures for peaceful co- existence that the French Foreign Minister adopts un almost startlingly novel attitude. To him the alneerity or otherwise of the Soviet leaders is something "far removed from reality." Facts modify intentions and to M. Pincau the RussĪBAS
arc
now confronted with 1 facts and factors to which they recognise they must adopt their thoughts and their actions,
One might be tempted to scoff
•
To Cost
$152 Million
FIVE 900FT SPANS
A HONGKONG FIRM HAS SUB- MITTED OUTLINE PLANS TO GOVERN- MENT FOR A $152 MILLION FIVE-SPAN DOUBLE-DECK TOLL BRIDGE TO JOIN HONGKONG AND KOWLOON.
The firm, Harriman Realty Co Ltd. suggests setting up a semi-official Bridge Authority to be responsible for its construc- tion and administration.
The report suggests Government might be- come a partner in the project and the sponsors hope the bridge will eventually be owned by Gov- ernment and become revenue producing for the benefit of the Colony, But it says construction can be financed "without affecting Government's financial structure.”
The sponsors think an international Common- wealth lending or development finance the project and a bond issue could be made by the Bridge Authority to raise the necessary
money.
How The Harbour Would Look, Spanned By A Bridge
An artist's impression of how the harbour would appear with a bridge running from Taimisatsui to Wanchai. Notice also the new airstrip which is now
in the course of construction.
Of A
agency might Comparative Factors
Tunnel And A Bridge
In this way local concerns can participate.
So far, the sponsors have con- harbour as readily as it now fined themselves to a study of travels down Nathan Houd possibllitics. And they say: "Hennessy Road. It is considered specific propical for the bridge that this cut s impossible and final estimate of costa could achievement by purely
involvin palliativ be formulated after discussions mousures
and elher) Lorry and been held with ati interest- (vehicular
services are that the following ed partles."
conditions would have to fulliled:-
of
The bridge would consist five 980-ft.-long spaims, each span about 170 feel above the muxi- mun high life level and could be bulit in Ive years,
This would mean that the biggest American and British warships calling at Hongkong today could
under it, And all merchant ships and troopers calling at the Colony with the exception of the Cunard her RMS Caronia......... an annual visitor-could pass
under.
To
raise the
TRIPTIZA
Here are the relative factors appropriate to a harbour tunnel and a harbour bridge:
ur
Tunnel
of
Length Carriageways
2.02 miles
by If in
one road.
be
Traffic ines Provision for cycles Provision for
one each way
No
No
coni -
Ycs
$101,000,000
The
of murication Itself, whilst designed with adequate capacity. should be cop- able of some reasonable expansion, (4) The toll charge should
be suitably low.
Island (Hi) The
capable of handilug the resultant traffic.
be
Two means of communien- tion could meet thent require- Or nbridge. the
spanis high inents tunnel
proposed though to char the masts of the The tunnel biggest liner in the world today Consultant's Report has severely 205 limited capacity and in view of
high annual mul son
**** and
away such a line of reason-1 would mean having spans ing if it did not come from feet above the maximum a statesman who has recent - level "which though practicable tenance cost it is probable that ly had the advantage of first- would put up the cost and ex- the toll charge hand discussions with the ter et the approaches."
It would affect aircraft using ico, Soviet hierarchy. It is quite)
new clone that what M. Pincauthe
lension
heard and saw
during his vixli to
Russia convinced him
thint the Russian guvernment really wants to establish new relations with the Western world and that
Kaj Tak airport ex volume af trafic it could carry inight well
pedestrians Bity services Cont
Maintenance
Vehicle capacity
(maximum)
$580,000
1,250 per hour int one direction
Bridge
1.60 miles
the other three each way “
Underworld Leader Arrested As Commons Debates Gangsterism
London, June 21.
Police today arrested Jack "Spot" Comer, self-styled "ex-king of the underworld," on a razor-wounding charge as Parliament anxiously discuss- ed flaring gang warfare in London's West End.
Comer himself the recent victim of a vicious razor attack by thugs was charged with slashing Thomas Falco, a friend of Billy Hill, a-rival "ex-king of the underworld.”
Both Hill and Corner were 2 by 2814 ft, 030
House Of mentioned in tho above entriageway
Commons, where Mr Anthony Greenwood, Labour, demanded: "How long have the Govern- ment to wnit before the nclivities of these
squelet, cowardly, small-time hoodlums liko Comer and HIN aro cffectively curbed?"
Yes
Yes
Yes
$152,000,000
5000,000 (including
administration)
4,000 per hour in one direction
TURKEY OBJECTS, SO ...
Cyprus Constitution Announcement Is Postponed
London, June 21.
relatively high. It is
that even
the
would remuin suggesteel, ilmited
ciruse appreciable
the point selected
of serious con-
the
Turkish opposition to Britain's new Cyprus com There would
be two road congestion at decks.
one above the other, for its entrance on the Island promise today caused an eleventh-hour postponement Island-bound
would with the risk traffic
following simple of the government's plan to offer self-rule to use the top one and Kowloon- eequences bound traffic the lower.
ombattled island Colony. traffle breakdown or mishap in
Each "deck" is 281⁄2 feet wide the tunnel itself. On the other
hand it is submitted that
suffi cient for three lanes of trafik
bridge would
effectively
Mr Greenwood Bald there was mounting public disquiet,
in three recent cases, there
After one
hact been "bistant perjury."
of them, the judge had had to be given a police scort.
Gangs of 12 ce mote men had paraded up and down outside the Old Balley Central Criminal Court while cases were being heard.
POLICE ON ALERT
The Home Secretary, Major Gwilym Lloyd-George, who 15 for Parliament responsible to
the police and crime prevention, maintated that the police were on the alert. The men who at- tacked Jack "Sput" Comer were gaoled for seven years.
intent The announcement of n re-declaration of It is prepared to modify its
offering liberal self-rule and eventual self-determination policies for that purpose,
to the strategic Mediterranean Colony was envisioned for would particularly
today.
The West, and
The United States, cannot
between keths, which is
fun travelling in the same direction, the three conditions enumerated
Two lanes would be enough
shrug Away Buch con- for the tralie, and the third
victions.
If
can be made
co-existence d
bed as a "breakdown
would be
world. But it is a form of carried on cantilovers International relations which the main gliders.
Utily services
cannot be rushed into effect use of the bridge. It must be gradual and
treated in the first place us
an experiment.
M. Pinean pleads that the)
could
110
outside
above.
Shortsighted
be
But strong Turkish opposition against Niujor concessions to the Cypriots caused Sir Anthony Eden and his close advisers to "pause while,"
[
sources slated,
RUMANIANS
take
"While these men are known to the police, it is not possible to dogs stray just to ound them up like you
Home," Battersea Dogs'
Major Lloyd-George said.
have scen responsible newspapers saying it is my duty to put them out of harm's way Am I to put them out of harm's way without charge or trial?"
Lieutenant Colonel Marcus
Informed SENTENCED Lipton, Labour, declared:
Berne, June 21.
The Report needs of the future. This argu- racing cgalust ume to forestall Legation in Berne In
Continued development
"RIDICULOUS"
"If
n reality it! lane."
It might be argued that the The footways must nasuredly make a con-
lor cross har- tribution to the pence of the either side of the lower deck present demand
bour transport is very limited, nod that the tunnel scheme
1.
is ugly situation gets worse, itself
limited
would make though
the public will lose confidence have # much greater capacity
However, the delay was ex- Four Rumanians, who forord in the police force, then the ferry, and would
the foreseeable pected to be brief. Brital is their way into the Rumaniası Rdequate
February and held it for 42 inent would be shortsighted. the arrival in Athers next week last year,
"It really drastic instructions Here the report prepared In the Tunnel Report it is esti
hours, were today sentenced to οι Soviet Foreign Minister varied terms of imprisonment were given from the top, this West should try the experi- by Mr K.B. Allport which has mated that the peak trafic
whole 8lthy business could be ment in the full under- been submillted to Government would
Drallri T. Shepilov on his re- by the Swiss Federal Court. soon reach 000 to 700
Ollylu Beldeanu, lender of deared up in a few weeks." standing that If it should
in vehicles an hour and would in- tum from the Cairo independ-
The Home Secretary sald it the group. was contenced to fall to achieve its objective, business and industry both on crease thereafter. The maximum ence celebrations.
four years' imprisonment, eight woo ridiculous to say the pubile the whole problem would be the Island and on the Mainland capacity is about 1,250 vehicles The reconaldered.
British plan lil, le to years loss of civil and political were losing confidence in the Much will makes the need for an effective per hour which the capacity
to exclusion from police. means of cross harbour depend on American goli munication ever
com-of a single lane of slow moving for the compromise settlement rights and
Jack "spot" Comer will ap- more pressing vehicles. It tical and public opinion, but The cbject of such a means of a greater demand than this if Shoplov's arrrival in the Greek
easy to envisage of the Cyprus conflet inforo Swiss territory for the
period.
pear at a London police court it in a proposal to which the communication must be to draw cross
Stan tomorrow charged with "causing three co-accused, communications harbour leaders of the West should together the two halves of the were effectively to fuifl
their capital,
Codrescu received -a term of grievous bodily harm to Falco, Colony so that traffle crosses the role, and prove adequate for all
three years and Blx apply thoughtful study.
months. who was attacked after leaving Turkey's stern warning sel
nightclub. Falco, 34, was +||~||~||~|~|+|++++++ [forms of traffic including Bus
John Chrila, two years and six Services to and from the main off anxious behind-the-scenes months and Dimitriu Ochlu, one named as an alibi in the trial
moves to clear the
of the two men who, assaulted unwise to incur such a heavy latest obstacles to the Billish your and four months.
Those three, who are all in Comer.
The feuding gangs perturbing potenticides, when tin, the sources disclosed,
centenced to five youre loss of limited
all concerned. in horsarace alternative proposals were avail-
civil, and political rights and betting. Ching Mall Special, Turkey made it clear able which could offer facilitics either on the same scale or on Britain that she wil oppose expulsion from Swiss territory.
The Court acquitted self-diermination for the Band Codrescu, of the charge of the Colond which of
at present
legation Lantomount to undon with mander of various altings, spans and Chideo Lact that the wants who was fatally shot during the He Didn't Say It
artigo to cross the harbour, equal rights for her minority in act him that clos bridge
found
guilty of
Moscow, June 21. These studies have only been in any self-ruid telup,
grievous bodily harm.
The Soviet cows agency, Tuse, out to illustrato the Liko Greece, Turkey is a The time the accused have todogs. Inutseddenini that the suggestions that a bridge would member of NATO, but he is already spent in prison will be pay
Secretly, Mr. Nikita be the
boat #olution of the al a vital member in the deducted from their sentences Khrushchev, had expressed the problem. A specie proposal for Baghdact alliance for the This means that Ochli, view that it was better to haun the bridge and mal estimate of chice of the Middle East, tenoot: to one year and four 17 mation Cerrone in the Soviet cost could only be formulated Britain, thus cannot afford to months, will be freed Inmod-bloc times 70 million in a united after timounion had been held | dengard, her views on the ntoly and expelled from Swit- Germany even if it were neistral-
(Could on Part E. Col. B)...... Cyprus Inter-United. Prosa, d |morland.----France-Pressn.
Bod-Router. ?
MURDER AT INTERPOL It would therefore seem diplomatie
· Master detectives from 53 nations have been mooting în Vienna' capital outlay on a scheme with i plan for liberal Cyprus 28thoir twenties, were each also public, politicians and police are
for the conference of Interpol, the international police organisation, That is the background to "The Big Wch."
No conventional thriller this. Fact runs side by side with fiction. It is murder right inside Interpol. Murder from the wort go of instalment one. And that starts in tomorrow's week-end Ching Mail
of it, including:
The serial has been written on the spot by Percy Hoskins and Leonard Mosley,
Besides this there is plenty of other good reading 20 pages
This Could Be Ike's Farewell, by Douglas Clark, The Pass That Loft Arsenal Standing, by George Whiting The Facts of (Swedish) Life, by inne Sharpley. Regular festures includo Cyril Simpleton's record column, Jand Roberts on films, George Malcolm- Thomsen on latous books, and carlvons by Giles, Cutimings und · Low.
an appreciably greater scale.
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FRANCE MAY MAKE
ATOM BOMBS
Paris, June 21.e
The Council of the Republic, Upper House of the French parliament, today adopted a proposal intended to enable France to make atomic bombs.
It approved by 226 votes to 88 a bill to set up a military division in France's atomle energy commission,
The
by
bill, tabled
eight senators including three Radicals
two and
Popular not so far Republicans, had been discussed by the National Assembly (Lower House.)`
The
Floods In Japan
Tokyo, June 21. Two prefectures in northern were today fooded by Japan heavy rzin. Fising rivers brought warnings ot moro ficods to other areas,
M. Georges Guille, Secretary of State of the Prime Minister's office, called the proposal "premature," and said:
A heavy hailstorm in Alchi government has not yet drawn up in the Council of Ministers prefecture, southwestern Japan. at loust 16 përsona it's definitive
this injured position on
police said here today.-Reuter, point."
M. Edgard Pisano (Radical) rapporteur of the defence com- mittee of the council said he estimated that with 80,000 mil- three years, France would be a ton on franes, and in a period of capable for producing and half of uraalum 235.
"With 100,000 millions invest
make 100-150 A-bombs a year which cd, France then could. would assure the Eecurity."-Reuter.
country's
Nehru In Syria
Damascus, June: 21.
India's Primo Mr Nehru, Minister, flew here today à to begin a crowded programme of talks 'andi receptions with Syrinth before government, leaders lying on to Europe moon after down tomorrow-Reuter
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