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ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN

AMERICA'S 'GREAT INTEREST' Man's Account Of What IN TRADE WITH HONGKONG Happened On The Night

Consular Official's Report On Lecture Tour

A Language They All

Great interest in trade with Hongkong Was shown by the American people, said Mr Guy O. Long, Economic Officer, of the American]

Understand Consulate-General, who

Mr Patricia DeCleene, New Zealand housewife and grandmother, has spoken to people of 40 different mo tionalities, none speaks English.

returned from a lecture tour in the United States in the

President SS Cleveland this morning.

Mr Long delivered many of whom lectures on trade promotion between the United States Icelanders, Arabs, Spaniards and Hongkong in the last Czechs, Chinese, Germans, they five months in San Fran- all converse in Esperanto, the

cisco, Los Angeles, Port-

World Auxillary Language.

Now Mis DeCleene is on her Jand, Seattle, Chicago, New way to Japan on a lesture tour Orleans, Huston and other in Esperanto.

She arrived in Hongkong on

cities.

the ss Changte from Australlo AFRAID OF

on Sunday. She is to-

SHORTAGES

Mr Long said that the Ameri- can people thought more trade could be done between the two countries,

inorrow and will be staying in | HOTEL Japan for six wecks during which she will four the entire country giving lectures and showing lantern slides of life in New Zealand, all in Esperanto.

Speaking no other national kuguage except English, Mrs

Mr Long said he believed thai DeCleene took up Esperanto 23

touris! travel

Hongkong 1 realise! year ago "bresúse there was a need for rn inter- would be increased substanilaby, national language which would but added that many potential

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help to promote better feeling afraid" that they could not get American travellers • were between peoples countries."

different

hotel tecoinmodation

*Easier Than English'.

in Hong-

She says she can understand Mr Long returned with Mrs it as clearly and as easily as Long and their son and daughter,

she does English. In fact, in·

Jongkong, meeting unother

Esperanto expert, Mr L. K. Wong, businesanan, she found It easier to converse with him in the world language than in English which he also spoke.

In 1950 she took part in use Dia International Congress of Esperanto which was held that year in Paris. There were 2,300 people there from many different countries and they all understood one another perfect- ly without the 115c of preters.

According

inter-

100,000 FLU

CASES

IN MALAYA

cases

Kuala Lumpur, May 20, Influenza lo Mrs DeClerne,

Malaya in you can learn enough Esperan-climbed to nearly 100,000, e- to "to get by" in six months, cording to figures released to. but of course, you can to on night by the Medical Depart- learning the language for ever.

times as

ment.

more

"I is at least x

The Department said easy to master as any national language," she mays. Many than 91,000 nu sufferers had books, theluding the Bible and sought treatment as the epidemic the Koran as well as Shake-continued to spread in the rub- speare,

translated ber and tin rich peninsula. have beep ino Esperanto.

disease,

Doctors believe the which brings several days of Teverish colds and body pains, was brought from Hongkong to

1hrough the Malayan Peninsulo. PASSENGERS

Woman And Singapore and thence northward

Child Hurt

In two accidents yesterday a woman and a Chinese girl were injured.

The disease was brought by travelling between BSSCBLETS the territories.

Jufluenza van be spread by droplets on the breath.

The Malayan Government has proclaimed the fự m nolidoble direuse,

The woman, Leung Yan-kit, 28 of 574 Canton Road, second floor, was knocked down by a private car in Canton Road near Shantung Street. She was ad- milled to Kowloon Hospital for treatment.

In Singapore today, following The girl. Mak Miu-ching, a decline in the

44, Ma Shon schools aged 1 uf Hut

282,000 reopened to Village was knocked down by a children afler An enforced weeks. car in Main Street West, Shau- closure of nearly two khwan and has been detained in Attendance was almost normal, the Queen Mary Hospital.

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JAPANESE PREMIER

SPENDS TWO

HOURS IN COLONY

Mr Shichizo Teuruga, Japanese Consul in Hong- kong, accompanies Mr Kishi to the VIP room at Kai Tak. (Staff Photographer)

And he shakes hands with the Governor's ADC The Japanese Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Nobusuke Kishi, spent two hours in Hongkong this morning which included a tour of Kowloon,

He arrived here by a charter- ed Japan Airlines DC 6-B on. the first leg of a two- week tour of Southeast Asian countries. He was

His Boss Got A Shock

Lit Kwan, a 30-year-old wine shop assistant, said in evidence at his trial in the Criminal Sessions this morning that he remembered he had been holding an electric-wire which he found in the shop's showcase early on the morning of March 2 last.

Accused snid he coulé no! my whether he was drunk or not and, half in a dream, it appeared to him that someone was fight- ing I felt that I was holding something, and this something may be the electrie-wire," he salt.

Earlier in his evidence, accused said that at a meal with two friends he took some wine. When he returned to the shop and could not sleep, he took some more wine.

Lit is on trial before Mr Justice A.D. Scholes and Jury of two women and five men with altempted murder and alternatively with assault oc- casioning bodily harm.

FELT UNEASY

It was alleged that the accus- ed attempted to electrocule his employer, So You-hel, in his Led.

In evidence, the accused said; that on the night of March 1 he felt uneasy in his mind. After work that day he went out with, two fokis for a meal, taking some wine with them.

The incal finished after 1 am, He was unable to sleep, so he took some wine and smoked a tew cigarettes,

"I cannot say if I was drunk or not, and, half in a dream, it me that someone appeared to was lighting," said It,

CLEANED HIS TEETH

He said: "I felt that I whe holding something, and this something may be the electric- wire.. It also appeared to me that I was nunuing after someone, but when I ran to A .certain place. I found there was nobody there, Then i threw down the

| thing in my hand."

Accused said he did not know what time it was then. He went to the counter and sat there for a while.

Shortly afterwards he went to the tellet to clean his teeth and wash his face.

Some coe called his me and about five minutes later two fokis (une of whom went out

Today's Rain:

Another Inch

Slightly more than an inch of rain fell this morning In the heavy downpoure which deluged Ale Colony between 9.1.

and noon.

to.

Tils was reported by the

Royal Observatory day. Together with yerlerday's .93 of an inch the total for the year now stands

at more than 21 inches agalust, an average of about 1736 Inches, The Royal Observatory reported today that more rain is expected but a spokesman

there would be an Improve-

ment In

weather "later"

the

LADY GRANTHAM OPENS HONGKONG ART SHOW

Lady Grantham this morning opened the Hongkong Art Club's Spring Exhibition at St John's Cathedral Hall,

bers.

with him for the evening meal earlier) came to the toilet and asked, "Don't you know there a great noise outside?"

Accused said he did not know, The two men searched every- where with an electric torch,

After washing his face, he sald he sat at the counter again and then "I saw that this electric wire was in the showcase,' The tokis told him that the con- plainant (their employer) had

been hurt by an electric wire.

IT BECAME CLEAR

"Then it became more clear in my mind and remembered I had been holding this electric wire," Lit said.

He saw his employer use the telephone and afterwards a de tective arrived at the shop pre- mises.

Accused raid he was taken to the police station where he made a latement, He alleged

that part of the statement was at the dictation of the detective.

the

He was brought before Court and the case was remand- ed for seven days. Accused sad Phat during the interval he spent live days in the Mental Hospital.

Hearing is proceeding.

WIDOW FINED $750 FOR CARRYING GOLD

A 37-year-old widow, Aut Yee, was fined $750 by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central (his morning for Importing 60 taels of cold without 1

The

Irony Of ‘Elijah'

Last night at Wah Yan College, Kowloon, the Hong- kong Singers gave their second performance of Mendelssohn's "Elijah.” Thó reports of the first concert were good, and those who heard both declare that last night's was an improve- ment. It was certainly the best all-round performance which the Singers have given for several years. It was a shocking night, but a fair audience presented It- self and was truly enthu siastic and appreciative,

In the past, the Singers have suffered somewhat from not having sufflelent individual volces of good quality. This has lately been remedied, and the general tone quality was im mensely better than in former years.

This was specialty true

of the soprano and alte stations. The tenors sometimes had a rather thin, hard edge and the basses would beneft by more richness and depth.

The spirit of the performance This is an was outstanding. essentially dramatic work, and the choir's imagination had been caught and held. It is not on easy work as regards the dovetailing of parts, and there were a few false entries, but not enough to be serious.

It was

noticeable that the presence of two fine professional singers gave a lift to th. whole performances, Andrew Gold's beautiful tenor volce brought some of the loveliest moments of the evening. Pamela Wool more sang with drama and In- tensity, especially in the widow's air and in the opening of the second half, "Hear ye, (srne)."

The other soloists responded lloence,

by giving of their best, und Passing sentence, Mr Lo sald Alan Sainsbury as Elijah had the offerice was very serious. some very fine passages in il

Au, Mr G. S Representing

long and exacting part. His Mesars J, C. Stevenson, of

volee sometimes has a strange Stewart and

but Co., pleaded that hollow quality,

he калд with such real depth of feeling this was one of the usual cases

and vigour that this was over- where women in poor circum-

come. stances had been carriers of gold.

used

CARRYING FEES

1.3

The exhibition, which will ideas to their mutual beneat.

Maureen Clark as the Angel close on Friday afternoon, has To this end we continue with

sang with purity and the real more than 130 works by mem-our regular weekly classes when

alto quality of roundness, Irene a model is always available and. Photographers, however, The Chairman of the Hong-outings are also arranged for

The defendant way a widow. Whiteside's short and effective were allowed

died 10 soprano solo as the youth who on the kong Art Club, Mr T, Spikins, those who like to work outdoors her husband having

as big as a tarmac to take pictures,

welcomed Lady Grantham,

and in company.

years agd, and she had to sup- deseries the cloud

man's hand deserves special In inviting her to open thei "Something more difficult to port her young boy.

mentiurt The double quartets Immediately after the exhibition, he said:

arango but to my way of think-

Counsel said Au accently lost

and telos

were well managed Japanese Prime Minister true artist

"It might be stated that a ing of vital importance is to have her job as an amah end for a

and the soprano in "For he shall works through the talks and lectures on matters of small sum she agreed to carry give his angela charge over landed, he and his party power of his or her laner inspira- common interest. It is surpris the gold. Ife sald the reward thee (Hilda Carr) was were taken on a tour of ilon but in Hongkong we are ing that people who can hold for carrying the gold was only standing. The intonation Kowloon in a cavalcade of not all Rembrandis or Pleass the strongest views on art when 60 cents a tacl.

throughout was good, They stopped at the and I for one, and I am sure I having a private discussion can stopped as she stepped off s Fat Andrew Gold's solos so success. One factor which made speak for many of us, em caly only be persuaded with

great Carlton Hotel in Shatin too pleased to acknowledge that difficulty to express such deus Shan from Macao co Sunday ful was that he sang without for about 20 minutes for Lady Grantham's interest is the before a full audience,

moming. In her shoes, twu refreshments.

fluest encouragement to good

packets, each centrinios four work that the Colony has to

cars,

Chinese Scrolls "There is no doubt that Hong-

another kong offers

form of

Then the party returned to offer,

Kai Tak and the plane, took off for Rangoon. Mr Kishi will spend from two to three days each in

New Rangoon.

Delhi, Karachi, Colombo, Bang- kok and Taipei before returning to Tokyo.

Hongkong Police imposed strict security measures at Kai. Tak during the Prime Minister's short visit.

accompanied by nini TEST SHIP

Japanese Government officials, nine Diet mem- bers of his Liberal Democratic Party and a group of japanese news- paper correspondents. The Governor's AD.C., Mr

R. White, the political advisor to the Hongkong Covernment, Mr R. T. D. Lodward and the japanese Consul-General, Mr Shichizo Tsuruga, were at Kai Tak to meet the plane.

Mr Tsuruga told the Press in the VIP Room that he had received a cable from the Japaneso Government stating that there would be no Press interview.

Parls, May 20, Israel sources in Paris said today they expected #Israeli test ship to be sent to the Suez Canal at the end of the United Na- tions Security Council debate on Bues

The sources safa that if Egypt opposed passage of the Israeli vessel, they ex- pected Israel would com- plata to the United NA tloim

The compialni would be against violation of the United Nations free pass- age of the Canal and non- Application of the Security Counell resolution of Delo- ber, 1952, Recommendin Egypt to allow Israeli ships through the Canal---- China Mall Hposial, --

encouragement and that is in the beauty of its avironment.

"Sucli beauy is avaliable to an almost embarrassing degree. "I am glad to note; however, that the pleures on display go beyond a stiow of the Colony' incomparable scenery and that portraiture is quite common. The me, women and children of our crowded streels provide enditas

pictorial posibilities and it is a

pleasure to note that such sub

have Diso jeals

not been reglected.

Reference must be made to the strong showing of Chine scrolls and I can vouch. per- gonally for the fact that a close study of these exacting exam- ples of Chincoo are in of in- estimable value to artists prac- tising Western methods though they may not adopt the samo techniques,

Team Work

even

"Artists whether amateur or professional tend to be individu- alists and we are proud of tho fact that members of the Club can retain such individuality and still work as a team for tho pleasure and bersent of all. I recommend this thought to thesa artists in Hongkong who are not as yet membērs."-

Hok "At the

of introducing sales talk into an address of

gure om welcome, I

Lady Grantham will" agree it possible for even individuallata to got together and exchange

***The Committee will giving serious attention to

| matter in the near future,

The Prosecution sald Au was

out-

the music, straight out into the hall, Would it be possible for he bars of gold, were found. At the soloists generally to try to this the Queen Mary Hospital, another sing more of

four bars were found.

SIDE GLANCES

© 1969 by NCA Borsó,

By

刊

Galbraith

44-9

"I won's TV set in a slogan contest, Margio-now wo

can get married!"

their parts by

even

heart? Looking

down slightly at the music takes the directness and some of the power from the volce. I know this is a difcuit problem, but perhaps it could be tackled.

The accompaniment was pro- vided by Isolda Ahwes and David Blake on two small grand pianos, which blonded very well and were throughout entire- ly reliable. The accompaniment was satisfactory only up to a point, and thero were times when one deeply missed the

Tristence orchestro, for

In the final section of Part I, when the rain comes at last and the music rushes grondly along; a fullness and richness of sound is neces- aary which twò pienos, with the best will in the world, cannot really performance in itself was ex- - tremely good.

create. However,

the

A great deal of work has gonó foto the preparation of this pre- gentation, and many difficulties -had to be overcome. The weather was particularly unfortunate on both night; li sterbed almost tronic that the singers should be praying for rain in the hill,, While outside the rain was pour ing down.

De Lindy Ride, the Com ductor and President of the Hongkong Singers, la to be coTH gratulated on these two splendid performances, It is now up to The Singers to maintain and in- prove this standard of quality which he and they have 'resched together-XX,