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Life Becomes A Burden

E suicide of Dr William Sherwood, described as a "brilliant" United States scientist, just before he was due to appear before the House Un-American Activities Sub-Committee

raises serious doubts about the ethics of the procedures adopted by un- doubtedly zealous but some-

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DAKS Whiteaways

THE RAJBIES SUDEPART IN ACTION TROUSERS

CHATA NA DON

CARS, CARS AND MORE CARS

Here's The Latest

Picture

Of HK's

Traffic Headache

More and more cars are pouring onto what insensitive Congress Hongkong's already traffic-saturated roads. men who have apparently given very little calm in the first five months of this year vehicle licences were issued at the rate of almost

thought to this question of examining men in high places with past politien recorda,

was alleged by a Asb-1 committee witness that in 1988 the late Dr Sherwood

300 a month a total of 1,430 licences

were issued in this period.

The Superintendent of Traffic, Mr A. S. Morri- son told the China Mail this morning that this did not mean that there was that number of new cars sold to local residents by the motor car agents here during that period.

was a "Communist Party functionary" and he had invited the witness to take part in a Communist discus sion group. Eighteen

While the majority of the months ago Dr Sherwood licences were for new cars,

were was subpoenaed to appear some

for second-hand before the sub-committee. vehicles brought or imported By his own admission it is into the Colony.

RECORD INCREASE that this apparent pleasant prospect weighed on Dr Sherwood's mind and eventually forced him to take his own life,

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IN 1988 Dr Sherwood was probably still at university and in that decade it could be said that most students werd Interested in other {deologles nk well as democracy in their search for an ideal. Charges of Communist affiliations could, therefore, easily be levolled against practically every student who ever attended a university anywhere in the world...

Surely there ought to be

limit to this witch-hunting which occupies so much of Congressional time. Is it not after all a more respectable but equally insidious form

may

There was a record increase of almost 4,000 cars on the Colony's roody in the 1958-67 financial year, Mr Morrison said,

And at the present reckoning Hongkong has 64.4 care per mile on its roads which is the highest traffic density known in the world.

The figure is well above that of the United Kingdom the second highest in the world, which has 30 vehicles per mile of road in the British Isles.

The 4,000 new cars

the

total

number

GURKHAS PREPARING TO FAMOUS JOURNALIST DIES LIBERATE RED DİSTRICT | FORMER EMPLOYEE LIBERATE RED DISTRICT Communists Defy Government OF MORNING POST

Rautahat, Nepal, June 17.

Two thousand crack Gurkha troops and some 1,000 armed police today are preparing to free a tiny foothills district in Nepal from Com- munist rule.

The Aga Khan Convalescing

At Geneva

The

In 10 years' time will be 70,000.

Geneva, Juno 18. Or statistically speaking. Mr

80-year-old Aga Morrison adds, if that increase Khan, who arrived here to representa 14 pey cent of the night from Paris after suf-

of vehicles already leensed, a progressive fering a serious setback in increase each year would bring his health, was carried on a the total number of vehicles in stretcher from his charter- Hongkong to 130,000 in 1967. ed Viscount turbo-jet air- liner into an ambulance waiting on the tarmac of Geneva Airport.

Relaxation Of

Restrictions On Trade

Washington, June 18. United States oficials to-

coun-

last financial year, together with the new cars that have Kone on to the road is the subsequent two months to the day said that other end of May brings the total tries were following –Bri», number of private cars on the taln's example in relaxing roods today to 20,489 and the trade

restrictions.

with

overni total number of vehicles China because they did not or all descriptions to 30,448,

And this figure does not in- want to be put at a dis. clude the large number of mill-advantage. tary vehicles of all kinds using

They were commenting on the the Colony's 450 miles of roads. announced readiness of

West Germany to follow the example of Britain, in abolishing the differential he ben of goods to China

He was driven to his lake- side mansion "Baraicat" Versoix, a few indica Geneva.

at

outside

Security officials Bald that Communists who set up + miniature "People's Republic' in a 16-square-mile farming dis- trict within 60 miles of the capitol, Katmandu, ́ had seized an estimated HK$600 million of property from once-wealthy landlords in three years.

triat

Since 1956 about.30 landlords who refused to go along with directives of a Communi "gov- ernment" 'made up of inflra- tars in the remote Rautahat dis- were reported to have been tortured by the Reds.

They were stripped of their flowing moustaches hair by hair, and ostracised by peasants who daily rice rations and rough shelters in the rainy season.

ango relied on them for their

Task Force Alerted

in, probably few weeks.

UN TRUCK BLOWN UP BY MINES

Gaza, June 18.

A double mine explosion killed one member of B United Nations Emergency Force patrol and seriously wounded four others today in the second fatal border Incident reported in 24 hours.

Earlier today UNEF Head- quarters announced that a patrol of Scandinavian UNEF soldiers shot and killed two Arabs along

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Colchester, June 18. ONE of Britain's most famous news-

papermen, Mr Tom Clarke, who once served with the South China Morning Post, died in a nursing home here today at the age of 73.

Mr Clarke was formerly Editor of the News Chronicle, but was probably better known as Lord Northcliffe's right hand man and also as a broadcaster.

Windsors Asked To 'Dry Up'

London, June 18. A London noWEDEPOT columnist said today he wished

Duke and Duchem of Windsor would "dry to” about the reasOnS the Duke ELVO up the

throne.

The Nepal Government alert- ed a task force of Gurkhas and sharp-shooting police to move

the Egyptian-Israeli border.

"He's written a within

the next?

book about it Shời written i The last incident occurred Some 30 Communists

book about 11," columniat were this morning when

UNEF arrested as a preliminary to the truck carrying Yugoslav

John Holls engl-

wrote in tha Army crackdown on Red re-, neera struck two

Daliy Mirror. "Assorted gimme that rode to power in days mines along a road south of

writers have written books of drought with pledges to turn Rafah near the frontier.

About it. idndowners* riches over to penniless pensanta.

anti-ignk

· DELIBERATELY LAID

One

Yugoslava was

But the Communist -rule, which started when the Party was banned in Nepal and went killed and four were wounded, a

of the underground In 1965, came into UNEF announcement said. It Ko open, last year with the old, the motorised patrol was dictional pro-Cantantsi Pre-returning froen arteanaissance nder Tanks Erasmi Acharya,

Since then the Communists have ruled in defiance of govern ment orders. They have kid napped government officials who came to the Rautahat, dis- UNEF officere said it appeared trict to

some Investigate. — United] that

mines are lald Prossi

deliberately to troops,

Ike And Kishi

Tee Off

Washington, June 18. President

along the bortér wheri 11 ztruck the mines in an area that had been traversed cafely way out.

earlier, they sold.

harm

the

on the

"In the meantime ́two monarchs Zavo boox crowned in England and have got on with the job of working for the future of the British Common- wealth. Must the

Wing-

sors knep on talking about the past I wish they'dˆ dry up.'-United Press,

Sino-Danish

UNE Trade Talks

Tho

He was Chaliman of the Near and Far East News,. Lid and a Fretmast of the City of London.

From 1888 until the outbresk of war Mr Clarke was Director of Practical Journalism at London University, and had charge of the diploma course as well as its organisation.

fle was with the Bouth China

Post in 1903, Morning

Was "Dally Mall" special correspon dent in Indo-China during the cruise of the Baltic Fleet in the Russo-Japentae War, and visit ed China, Jepta, Korea, Siberia and Russia.

FOREIGN STAFF

In 1909 be became London News Editor of the Daily Sketch then not yet bazėd iti London.

In 1911, he was appointed to the foreign staff of the Dally. Mall,

He was Night Nows Editor whon the first world war broke out and after a period of service returned to ~ the “Daily Milk In 1919, he was appointed News Editor.

Lord NorthellITE,

proprietor of the Daily Mail and The Times,

sent him to the United States and Canada to studr newspaper methods.

Eventually in 1923, he left the of McCarthyism? The Con- BECOMING SATURATED

Daily Mail to become Assistant gressmen involved

The fact that the mines ex-

Fililer of the Melbourne Herald. Copenhagen, June 18. In the Colony's last annunt "China покаева little of the

ploded under

Yugoslav Denmark wli open economic

After three years he returned report it was stated: "The traffic, Ion export demagoguey of their late both vehicular and pedestrian, which are permitted for export

truck only on the way in ap- negotiations with China shortly, to Fleet Street as Managing predecessor but the stench carried by all the roads, is now

News and peared to indicate they had no: It was learned in Copenhagen Editor of the Dally to other Communist states.

been there when it first passed today.

lator Editor and of the inquisition is still so much greater than was ever

Director of They said that all the coun- there. All

negotiations will free-thinking expected before the war that not

bo the News Chronicle, resigning tr/s concerned wonted to Amorleans miglit well have only are most ronds becoming | obtain

His who the Begum and unanimous arrange-

The names of the dead and aimed at tiso Eisenhower

conclusion of an because of "divergence of viewe French heart specialist, PTD-

wounded soldiers were withheld economic Agreement between in 1933. cause to rebel against the saturated but they are also res ment regarding quotas. All

and Mr Nobusuke Kishi, pending ressor Antoine Laporte,

who

the notification

two of the

countries.--FIANCO» irresponsible investigations quiring uneconomical

were cognisant, the US oMcials

SEVERAL BOOKS came from Paris in the

same

Presse. the Japanese Prime Minis» uext-of-kin:—United Press, the responsibilities aircraft, as case after chae has been tenance."

added, of

travelled withi

· But the story does not end that members of the Chincom Khan in the ambulance. His whose favourite recreation thrown out of court.

Agator, two national lenders there. New cars are coming committee had to contribute to

also came from Paris, travelled is golf, will les off for a younger son Sadruddin, who

gamo tomorrow at the Burning

Club in Tree nearby Maryland,

The death of Dr Sherwood has a paralle! in the cir- cumstances that surrounded the suicide of Mr Herbert Norman, the Canadian Am- bassador to Cairo, just over two months ago. Three

main-

onto the roads at such a rate the security of the free world, that Mr Morrison predicts | -Reuter. that, taking the record In- crease of 4,000

vehkles

A

year an almost constant, the number of Bernsed vehicles

weeks before his death a QUEEN DINA

United States aub-com- mittee had published the transcript of a hearing at which an American diplomat had been questioned about Mr Norman's political views. The diplomat said nothing

to his discredit,

WANTS AN ANSWER

Kid Gavilan

Escapes Injury

Jersey City, June 18. The ex welterweight champion, Kid Gavilon, es- caped injury last night in a three-vehicle accident after losing a 10-round fight to

bo Versoix by car.

the

Profesor Laporte sald Aga Khan had horne the jour ney well, and Sadruddin added that it was hoped that a good rest would soon Improve his father's state of health.. Router.

3 Tons Of Razor Blades Stolen

Cairo, June 18. but the published record Queen Dina of Jordan has

Sydney, June 18. Two bandits knocked out included a repetition of gone to Bagdad to consult allegations made-and later King Feisal on her divorce Vince Martinez at Roosevelt a watchman at a factory in refuted several years ago from King Hussein, a source Stadium here..

the outer suburbs today, that Mr Norman bad Com- close to the Queen said to escorting Gavilan and his man-copper wire to a machine, But a motorcycle policeman lashed him tightly with munist connections before day. the second world war.

bger, Manuel Fernandez, back She wants to be certain that to New York suffered Ave frac-sealed his mouth with stick- was taken to ing plaster, and robbed the Hussein has granted the divorce tured ribs and

factory of about 21⁄41⁄2.million Police said motorist John razor blades weighing three and the State Department five of both Dina and Hussein. Santun, 30, ran into the motor- Armly disclaimed any When alte le certain about the cycle's path and was struck by tons, and valued at A80,000

ย ear carrying. Gavilan ond] (HK$390,000). responsibility for the sub-Anality of the divorce, il was Fernandez-Unlied Props,

.

ALTHOUGH the Presidential, it was ex-hospital.

plaires, Feisal is a close rela-

++

conduct

committee's

ile added, she would seek custody 10-month-old best they could do was to of her daughter,

Princess Allo, who is at present place emphasis ΟΥ the United States division of staying with King Hussein, constitutional powers.

Dina left Hussein lust auton and came to live with her par- ents in a suburb of Cairo. She was 'expected to return here

The watchman at the Gilletto Razor Company, Brian Healey,

EARTH TREMORS | 27, was discovered 2% hogar

Manila, June 10. Two slight earth tremors shook Vigon, northwest Luzon, fast night.

The first tremor occurred

and the second mite later-France-Presse.

Unfortunately for American from Bagdad late this week. 1120 GMT

citizens and for others who | United Press. happen to be dragged into

the cesspool of political skissinomininas mud-raking the Administra- tid, has no method of improving congressional be-| haviour.

The anger of the Canadians the death of their over ambassador was understand- able and they made no bones about it. With tho death of Dr Sherwood #asanssination by Innuendo" is on the doorstep, and it is to be hoped that this kind of arbitrary "Justion" will be outlawed by publio ao clamation.

later by a security patrolman, Delirious with pain and moaning "My legs, my legs....I can't feel them" he was taken, by police car to hospital

Doctors fear he has a trad atured mill. Ho is in a serious

condition-China Mas Special,

at

•AXE-SWINGING MAN REFUSED

Sydney, June 13, WHEN · refused 14 loan of

A£25,000 (HK$325,000) "newy · Australian" con wlid with an axe in a city bank 10- day.

Customers dashed for cover as the crazed many smashed tellers' windows and threatened any. one who approached him.

A bank mkasenger, R. Lockwood,

35, gemely challenged the man

BANK LOAN

and forend him, at gun point,, Shouting "Give me the money", into the bank's' strongroom, he ewung the axe at O'Don- Where he was' subdured,, .

noll's, beat. The new Australian-elitket and

The teller ducked and sinched powerfully bull-vilked into

for his gun in a drawer, but the Commonwealth Bank about

before-ho would grab. If the 11:am

new Australion smashed the He went

to. eller Manua use at cach 'teller.. O'Donnell and asked for a He mised their heads, ⠀⠀ buti loan of A£20,000,

their windows,

+

When O'Donogh tohi, him, that | aboworing them with glai.

wad, not “posible, the man Later a man was charged with kbhiyan, "83x0. tròin, a stugar í being deemed moant-Chilos

Mali-Goodal

bag.

problems at an informal lunch After talking over world

at the White House, the Pre- sident and the Prime Minister will play in the first of two foursomes

composed of mein- ders of the visiting Japanese party and United States officals and congressmen-Reuter.

VA

He published several books, The years with Lord Northcliffe

Economy Hint From Nehru provided him with material for

LO

London, June 19, ORD Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. Jaki today that officially chauffered govern- ment Ministers should alte automotive economy hints from the Colonial Secretary, Wit Alan Lermox-Boyd, and The Indian Prime Minister, Mr Jawaharlal Nehru. The Standard said Mr Lennox- Boyd drove his own blue con-

his brilliant Northcliffe Diary.""

vertible, top down in this His editorship of Liberal news- sunny weather, to work instead papers inspired friendship with of going in one of the 137 Lloyd George and a second official cars in use by gove - "diary."-Reuter. ment officials In London,

It pointed out that Mr Nehru was

Cairo, June 18. learning to drive a motor cycle Three Soviet zubinarines pur-. to keep from using an official chased by Egypt have joined the Umousine, and added: "This is Egyptian fleet, the Egyptian one case when Reitain can Government-sponsored Middle

from learn something

Mr East News Agency said tonight, Nehru.”—Unlted Press,

-Reuter

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