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COMMENT OF

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Let's Get A Move On

THONGKONG

H took its

yesterday second Bome- What turdy step to encour. age # greater flow of tourists to this Colony. The Tourist Annuciation ordin- once had its first reading in the Legislative Council.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1957.

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HOROKONG

KOWLOON

TYRE SLASHING: YOUTH IN COURT

Admits Do Drugs Damaging Produce

10 Cars

A Chinese youth, who

The bill when passed will had been knocked down three

set up

vialtors

overacka,

cars

slashing

Wah-hon,

organisation by motor an which will have six fane: times, decided to take tions: step up the Row of

by the Colony, revenge to develop Hongkong E aj tyres. tourist resort, promote and This was revealed at improve fucilities, publicise the Colony

co-Central Court this morn- ordinate tourist services ing. and recommend ways and

The youth, Tsui of promuting tour 20, a shop merna

fold, of New

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Market Street, ground floor, admitted that he had damaged 10 vehicles by slashing tyres, The damage

asses at $2,036.

faced 11 charges of malicious damage to property exceeding $25, and charge for possessing an instrument at for on unlawful purpose, before Miss B. K. Scarle

THREE CHARGES

has

The bill itself has taken

long time to come before the Council. A year passed since the 12-man Government appointed com- mittee completed its report, And in the first page of this document it was stated that the tourist Industry had held a position of first- rate importance for four or five years and that official study as early us 1963 revealed that 30,000 tourists in that year hatt apent about $72 million.

I

ad

IN the same year Mr Eric

Halpern suggested Government Tourist Bureau

that

The

was

defendant

a

Hidden. Chief Inspector J. prosecuting, told the Court he was proceeding with only three of malicious damage charges and the charge for the possession of an Instrument fit for unlawful

purpose

The other eight charges were to be taken into consideration, suld the Inspector,

Hidden Inspector

للعاما

the

#le

was one of the Colony's Cours that at 7 pm, on Tues greatest needs. It was not day a man, Wong Yat-sun eft of course to be expected his car, No, XXD782, at Whitty would Street and went to the Tal Fing Government

the 7.30 show. promptly adopt this sug-Theatre gestion, but Government was accompanied by a lady.

At 9.20 p.m. the same evening was obviously aware of thei he relurried to his car and found potentialities of the indus- the rear nearside tyre had been try a good four years ago. deflated and the front nearside

tyre punctured. Now in 1957 Government is setting up an association" which many feel should have been established_long ago. In 1955, Mr F. C. Clemo reported the tourist rate had

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He went to a nearby shop to make a telephone call for assia- tanee while the Indy stayed la the ear.

Inspector Hidden said the de- fendant cante lo the lady and

only

risen to about 200,000 told her that the front nearside

that they had tyre had been punctured year. and

and that the rear nearside tyre figure could be filled with air.

- spent about $150 million

To increase

thi

substantially entails much The defendant then produced developmental work, And it the pavement near the car.

a. valve and squatted down on is in this respect that Hong- kong is drugging its feet. More hotel accommodation

WALKED AWAY

Wonk

has been provided in recent At 9.55 pm. Wong returned years but obviously more is to his car and the lady told hun needed and particularly what the defendant had said. the kind that will induce The defendant at this time goi big spending lourists to up and walked away. stay for longer periods

caught up with him than a week-end stopover, and took him to Western Police

Station,

Inspector Hidden said the defendant was questioned in the Station and admitted that he had punctured and deflated the tyres.

4-Minute

Miles?

New York, June 5. The American Medical Association today ordered an investigation of a charge that the recent flurry of four-minute miles may have been due to the use stimulant drugs by athletes.

to

of

Charges also were made be- fore the AMA that there has been a "shocking" use of stimu- lants by other athletes, eluding -school

children

Improve their performances.

The AMA's House of De- legates, governing body of the powerful organisation, instructed the AMA Board of Trustees to determine the extens of "in- discriminato" use of atimulants.| that could produce "anti-social behaviour" and cause serious physical and mental changes,

NO COINCIDENCE Dr Herbert Berger, New Yorke City. chairman of the New York State Medical Society's Committee Narcottes

on Alcohol Addiction, told the AMA:

and

"The recent rath of four- minute miles is no coincidence, four-minute mile was When I was a college boy the likely as lying to the moen."

as un-

mile had been run more than 12 times during the last two years. "This is поге than coln- cidence," he said.-United Press.

Berger said the four-minute

MUSLIM LIVED WITH CHRISTIAN

Ipoh, June 5.

A judge said in the High Court today that a Muslim woman had been held

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US SHIRT MAKERS WORRIED OVER HONGKONG IMPORTS

WANTED: LEADER FOR FRANCE

Paris, June 5.

Radical Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, Minister of Defence in the old Mollet Cabinet, agreed to try to form a new government after Christian_Democrat (MRP) Pierre Pflimlin gave up.

Primiin, 50-year-old president of the left-centre Popular Republican Movement (MAP) gave up the task of rescuing France from Rs 15-day-old Cabinet crisis in the middle of the afternoon.

Pilimlin had been trying to form a government for five days. For while it looked as though he would suretec Tien this morning the key Socialist Party voted 74 to 22 against Palmin its support.

else,

Coty immediately turned to the task of finding someone Bourges-Maunoury, 42, was the third person ho had asket during the afternoon.

De Gaulle?

★The name of French wartime leader, General Charles de Gaulle was being mentioned increasingly in French comment on how to extricate France from her mounting

difficulties.

Two big Paris dailies mentioned de Gaulle today as the two-week-uld government crisis appeared no closer to a solu tion than when it broke out on May 21,

Jacques Fauvet, parliamentary correspondent for the in- fluential Le Monde sald thal attention was turning "toward General de Gaulle, who may appear to be the last resort, not of the Assembly, but of the country.”

But Fauvet added that "there is less of a majority in the present Assembly than in the preceding Chamber to approve on even Kmited delegation of powers to the former Free French leader.

The large-circulation Paris-Presse noted that "the name of General de Gaulle comes up more and more frequently" in ́conversation amang parliamentary' groups-United Press and

France-Presse.

RENTS BILL PASSES

FINAL STAGE

London, June 5.

The Conservative Government's controversial rent up bill passed its final stage in the House of Commons inte to the public guze as a com- tonight. mon criminal because she lived with a Christian as man and wife.

Mr Justice Good cautioned ond di charged the woman who unicker # had been charged rarely applied Muslim law with having been found in "suspicious proximity" with a non-Muslim of the opposite sex

not

The woznian pleaded guilty but admitted having lived with the man, a Christian, for 30

I would seem that improve

ment in second-class hotel accommodation would help to solve part of this problem initially but as yet nothing In answer to a question, the months. She had turned to him continued, the dealer her husband died when done to mobilise Inspector

And co-endant said he had no intention she was pregnant. resources

of slashing the tyres.

has been these ordinato them with the air. lines and shipping lines who must be able to prospective tourists

assure

that there is quality accom modation available.

"It Wis # moment ot mistake," he said.

SECOND CHARGE

In rega:d to the second And charge, Chief Inspector Hidden hotel keepers also need thef said, a report was inade to the Assurance that their rooms Western Police Station at 10.55 are in be filled if they are p.m. the same day that between to undertake expensive pan, and 0.10 p.m. alterations to cater for this ciientole.

Low

Lang-hing, the owner of car No. AA3095, found a rear tyre of her car had been sinshed.

The car was also parked in Whitty Street.

Nothing has yet been done to provide a suflicient number of official tourist guides. fendant was questioned about

Chief Inspector said the de These men need to be care this mailer and admitted the fully picked, trained and

offence. Cautioned, the defen then examined on their dant also said he had no inten- ability to conduct tours and tion of stashing the tyre. take Visitors alopping. "It was a moment of mis- They

also need to be tako," he said. authorised by a recognised The defendant also admitted tourist organisation. It may that he had punctured five tyres be argued that this would of a car, No.

AAZ098 parked be putting the cart before (Contd, on back page, Col 3)

the horse, but why could

there not have been some

CONSIDERATION

British Suez Clearance Claim

London, June 5.

The bill abolishes the rent ceiling on about 800,000 houses and fats and will eventually raise the rents of more than four million other dwellings.

It now only awaits the Royal asrent, expected to be given be-- fore Parliament rises on Friday for the Whitsun recess.

The provisions of the bill with come into effect one month after the Royal steni,

The mal otage of the bill in the Commons tonight WIS Minister of State David | reached when four amendmenta Ormsby-Gore told the House sent down from the House of Mr Justice Good urged Muslim of Commons today that Bri-Lords were disposed of by votes religious authorities to give tain has submitted sympathetic consideration to the tailed claim to the UN problems of Muslims living aa man and wife with non-Muslims, secretariat for British help

now the

Serious Threats

Will Be Dealt With

New York, June 5.

makers

ANGLO-US

ATOMIC AGREEMENT

Washington, June 5. British and US atomic officials reached agreement today "on a wide range of subjects" involving peace. ful uses of nuclear energy.

The Atomic Energy Commis- aloa sadd the agreement con- cluded discussions which have American shirt

I been going on here between. Sir con-Edwin Plowden, chairman of

tho cerned over skyrocketing shirt imports Authority, and AFC

United Kingdom Energy" chairman from Hongkong.

are

At a recent meeting with Assistant Secretary of Commerce Mr H.

Lewis L. Strause.

the

The announcement did not detall the "subjects" on which agreement was reached. But it sald the "agreements covered the exchange. of inf

information

on

C. McLellan, several leading US shirt Calder Hall," the big British

There have been complaints

makers forecast a "100 per cent increaseanic power plant, in imports from Far East is possible." in Congress that the British

were holding back information Seymour J. Phillips, Pre- He added that if circum-Jaboat Calder Hall, the world's skicrt of Phillips Jones Corp., stances change enough to pose a first big-scale nuclear power said the American shirt makers serious threat, the Commerce station. It went into operation. had gono as high as 200,000 Department stonds ready to take last autumn. dozen in their estimates of the "appropriate remedial action."-- volume of Hongkong imports for United Press. 1937.

There is. reason for concern because of the rapid rate of in- crease of Hongkong shipments.

Hongkong sold 37,500 dozen shirts in the US last year, ship- nents of more than 20,000 dozen poured in the first quarter of this year alone while orders on luund ot the close of the first quarter were another 30,000 dozen, Phillips sakd

LIMITATIONS

According to the Assistant Secretary

of Commerce De- partment, Mr McLellan, there aro dennite imitations shirt making expansion in Hongkong.

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He said they include a short- age of plant, a lack of sufficient- ly skilled labour, and restric- tions imposed by the Japanese on their cloth sales to the Hong- kong shirt makers, Shirts for the US market are made large-

from Japanese cloth.

McLellan assured the Ameri- can shirt makers that the Com- merce Department is keeping an eye on the situation, Ho said the Hongkong trade does not represent a serious threat to the domestic industry, "at present."

RUSSIAN SUBS IN CHANNEL

London, June 8, The Admiralty early to- day confirmed a report that three Russian submarines had

passed through the Channel beaded

in which the Government's

Engilsh a de majority ranged from 69 to 74. Mr Harold Macmillan's ad- ministrallon regard the bill as

the first step towards the com-

control.

It was a strange and unhappy in clearing the Suez Canal.plote abolition of statutory rent situation, said the Judge. The "bad" turned to a man woman who had been kind to her.

"And then out of the blue this provision is brought to operation against them and the woman is held up to the publie gazi as a common criminal," the Judge sald.-Neuter.

In a written reply to a Con- servative question, Ormsby- Coro said that

UN calvage fleet had been with drawn UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold would nol doubt be reporting on his ad- Vonces raised for clearance operations which had been used and on their relinburse- ment,

This report would be con- sidered and discussed with Katmandu, June 5. other govemments

Peak Scaled

*

The Opposition has dubbed the bill the "Landlord's Char ter" and asserted there wilį, ba wholesale evictions and pronteer- ing.-Router.

AIRMAN PREFERS

Concerned, THE REDS

Dr Charles Evans, the Liver-Ormsby-Gore added. pool Gungeon, returned here British salvage ships took today with the news that he part in the clearance operations and a fellow climber had scaled || although Egypt refused to allow work in Royal the 24,600-foot Annapurna 4 In their crown to Western Nepal-Reuter.

Naval uniform,-United Press.

RUSSIA STIRRING UP TROUBLE

IN THE LEBANON

From DEREK MARKS

London, June 5.

PUSSIA is starting a new

ad hoc committee set up to begin doing something con- structive on these details?

Following its inauguration the Association could then have had a working agenda with some of the problems already Ironed out and recommendations for bigger schemos ready for con- sideration. So much for lost opportunities. Now it's time to get a move on. hoped the bill before the Counell will be given Д speedy passage and the Following the decisive Interven- Tourlat Association quickly 'not up. Much work has to be done and the Colony .. looks forward to positive ro-"

sults soon.

baltic to regain the initia- tive in the Middle East by seeking to establish It is

a pro- Communist government in the Lebanon,

tion of the United States (th Foot at the time of the Joe- dan crisia the Ruslans are waking their revengy. According to Intelligence ro. *porte, resohing London the

Sovlet Embassy In Beirut has poured out the equivalent of *£250,000.

This has been backed up by £15,000 from the Egyptimis and a consignment of Czech submachine guns shipped in via the Egyptians from Syria. The aim of the activity is to estabilah a new power bloc in the Mikkle East Inking the Lobanon, with the Charmmunist Government Syria.

If it succorded the balance of

power in The Maidia would swing violently ágnácsot.

the West.

nouth

An Admiralty spokenman said: "TO submarines' passed through the Channel yesterday, as they are per- pecily entitled to do,”

Asked

where the sib- marines were this morning, the spokesman

said "pre- sumably somewhere in the Bay of Biscay." He had no further detalle-Boater.

FIGURE TOO HIGH

The Secretary of the Hong- kong Chinese Manufacturers' Union said this morning that ha doubted if the figure was correct. He added that it was much too high.

Most of the Hongkong shirts are sent to Europe and South- cast Asia, the Secretary sald,

BRITISH PROBLEM

One of the problems which existed si the opening of the talks between Sir Edwin an Ma

Straum

Bellan's was reluctanos to pass on techni- cal data, which the United States Government, under. ita established polloy, might give away free to private industry,

(Contà, on Page 8, Col. 2)

WEST DREAMING OF

WEATHER BOMB!.

SOVIET

London, June. 5.

chaion."

professor today | He sṛld the problem. itself of A secured the West of today

natively interacting the www.ther We an Interesting one to geophysicists "on the borderline between fantasy

ing of meteorological bamb to wa.go + weather WET, "causing droughts or down- pours on allen terellory."

The professor, In an article in the Boylet weekly Ogostek, quoted by Moscow Radio to- night, declared that arunda a Wespon WAS "Edle talk... based on a

premature con.

and fact," Adding a warning, he said: “IE

some country should attempt to cause rain or drought on the territory of Its enemy it might get 100 times the effect at home.” ---- China - Mall Special.

more

people are

smoking

Unrehearsed du MAURIER

Rope Trick

man

A

Washington, June 5. The Air Force today 'dis- charged an enlisted

New York, June 6, who said he wanted to re dangled head down with a 35-year-old painter

turn behind the Iron Curtain because he thought above Times Square today rope around his neck high Was "more

opwhen his scaffold overturn- portunity" there than in ed. He was rescued minutes the United States.

there

The enlisted man, Airmau

later by firemen who raised

at

2/C Peter Bondarczuk, w an aerial ladder, quoted last week so saying be The painter, Milton Hinden, wanted to go back to his home

was working about 10 storeyn For throughout the crises of in Russia, Air Force records up on the Astor Theatre

the last few years the Lebanon show he claimed to have been Droadway and 48th Street when has acted as a moderating in- | born in Pojanti,

one of the ropes holding his duence in the Arab, world. Bondarczuk's discharge was scaffold allpped. Western diplomato recognise recommended by the Physical

Board, The

When the scaffold flipped over, this is a much tougher silua- Evaluation

Air tion to tackle than the one Force amid he was discharge hurtled into space. The rope Hinden grupped for a rope no that existed in Jordan.

"under honourable conditions." There are no serious open riots

Licin from outaldo,

other

The airman told the Washing-twisted around his neck as he nor threats of dietes interven-ton Daily News last week masak loolood him in on

the Air Force was "gialling" on Firemen summoned by

upaido-down position. There is only an attempt to be application for discharge. He works from a nearby atation, corrupt the general offction asked last December to be re- quick recued him. Halen Lebanon which begins on and from the service United, was treated for rope bun.- Bunday.

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