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TB IN NAURU

THE charges made in what

TH

appears to be a ministerial report on Australian trust territories concerning the high incidence of tuber- culosis in Chinese workers from Hongkong ut the Nauru phosphate works is surprising for a number of reasons: The authorities in Nauru are aware of the conditions

under which

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NOHUKUNG G, KOWLOON

CANADIAN PLANE DISASTER

47

79 Killed In

Atlantic Charter Flight

Quebec City, Aug. 11.

Hongkong labour is recruit- A TRANS-ATLANTIC airliner carrying

ed and medically examined

for employment.

One paragraph

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MOUNTAIN WIFE BEATER BLOWS 122-Year-Old

RESCUE

ATTEMPT

FOILED

Grindelwald, Aug. 11. Alpine guides faced by a violent storm on top Mount today postponed s тезу effort to rescue in- jured Italian climber Stefano Longhi, who has been lashed to the moun- Lain side to prevent him from falling

Elger 79 persons on a flight from London the crashed in flames 18 miles southwest of quoting here today in undulating countryside, minister says: "In future killing all aboard.

report

an Australian Government

all newcomers, irrespective of race, would be" chest

The Baming wreckage was X-rayed within 24 hours of spotted by on aircraft belonging i landing at Nanru. Suspecta Nordur Transport, a affiliat would be sent back by the Muriline Central Airways, ship which brought them."owner of the four-engine DC-4. The pitet radioed that the to have uest on a charter flight, was all burning when he spotted near the mall community of Jascuder, Lee miles east of Laurier, Quebec.

Hongkong workmen aret big plan, believed

already examined after ar- rival. Those found with tuberculeris AN elther trented in Nauru or turned tu Hongkong and sent to a tuberculoals clinic here.

LATENT

e-

TN this respect it is worth I describing how Hongkong

WON

LIONESS MAULS

TAMERS

The plane, chartered by the Imperial Veterans of Toronto,}

Milan, Aug. 11. carrying Canadian war A lioness gave birth pre- veterans and their wives from London, where they had been maturely to a still-born cub at the Orfei circus here last altending ceremonies,

The plane carried 13 passing- | night, and then attacked ere and a crew of six,"

WORST DISASTER

Canadian

The

labour is recruited and how it is virtually impossible to detect latent infretion under the system of recruiting at present in operation. Workers are engaged by Gibb Livingston Ltd and are sent to a firm of local doctors of high repute for medical examination. They are given only one X-ray for TB which, Government

The DC-4 had been scheduled officials say,

cannot possibly

to land at Mcatred at a p.m. provide 100 per cent prouf but was last seen over Quebec that the worker is entirely | City at 2.07. Shortly after that, free of the disease.

foria gontact with the airliner Authorities in Hongkong say went dead.

*that infection could only be detected after X-rays at regular intervals of months.

and wounded wo tamors who had helped her in the

It was the worst crash In difest delivery.

Aviation history. East major crash !rt Canada occurred last Deerm- ber, when 02 personis werd killed in TACA North Star which crashed an Mount Slave Columbia's coast range mountaina,

when negative evuld be compared and would be unthinkable to engage men in Hongkong and hold up their departure for six months so that an- other X-ray could be taken hefore they left. Admittedly the incidence of

tuberculosis In Hongkong's | overcrowded conditions is very high. And it can only be assumed here that where signs of tuberculosis were not visible at the time of screening in Hongkong. Intent infection hax developed

crash reen. ecrvivors. A

The guides were about to make the new attempt after moving the winch operating the rescue emble when the storm broke out.

French muide Lionel Terray, who was forced to abandon an earlier attempt to rescue Langht when his radio equipment failed, had advised the switch in the position of the winch. The gulles dzelded (o Await better weather con- ditform before making new sitempt.

VICTIMS

A

Meantime, hope dimmed for two German members of the mountain climbing

stranded on party

the north wall of Mount Eiger when Claudio Corti, the only member rescued so

ho feared his Jar: salj twe companlotts "were the victims

asi ac-

clátni."

Lion truners Orlando Oriel, owner of the circus, and Dane Swind Erwey luumed into animal obstetricians when the Dunes went down pacaturely with labour pairs. After con- sulting frontically by jug- distance telephone with the

on Fri- Corti said that Director of the Taurin Zoo, they

violent decided to step into

day, the night a the cag

storm broke out, the two and speed up the delivery.

Their intervention saved the

Germano, Nordihiduett and

their Meler, left

make- life of the lioness. But when

shift camp in search of a they turned to pave cage, the pain-crazed animal

path to the summit. assaulted

Meantime, it was legni. ed that chief pilot II. the Swiss Alr Gelger of Guard tried to land alap the mountain to deliver equipment and to remove Cort but could not land because of strong winds and for-France-Presse.

FIRST AID

A two-man purn-rescue team them clawing Orfel's hands and from the Royal Canadina Airbiting Erwey in the o. Fee base In Trenton, Ontario, dropped over the and reled no ground party of Quebec Provin- el Police and Royal Canadian Doctors at Scremo Horpi.al, Mounted Police cut their way where the two men werd for a dose bush, 11⁄2 check-up after receiving first old through the miles from the nearest road, to at The circus Ginemary, sald reacht the burning wreckage. their condition was nol serious. They also reported in survivors,

and Orici Erwey

look thi -United Press,

Incident ghtly. They are 80 familiar with lions that last

POLITICAL March 12 they had their baby

ASYLUM ASKED

London, Aug. 11.

A Home Office oflclät dis•

Nauru Authorities point out that where the disease tourishes closed tenight that M: Istvan in this Colony's overcrowd-Adam, the personal secretary to ed conditions, in Nauru the Hungarian Charge d'Aftaires

In Londen, had asked for pull-

much better working and cal asylum in Brilan living conditions exist.

SLAPDASH

HE statement that there

THE

If

The oell said: "Ile usked for permission to stay here but

no decision has yet been taken." Mr Adam was known to have

is an "exceptionally high left the legation a week ayo. tuberculosis) but At that time Either the among Colony workers in Home Omee

rate" uf

or the Fortiga

that he had asked for

daughters baptised in the lion's

cage.

The ill-fated whelping was the day's seconi, Earlier un- other lioness gave birth without accident to three cubs in the same circus.-United Press,

FRENCH

LEAVE

CYPRUS

IRA Attacks County Office

Belfast, Aug. 11. IRA terrorists tonight blew up

the offices of the Northern Ireland Govern- Electricity ment-controlled Board at Newry, County Down,

Follee reinforcements and fire- men were rushed to the scene of the explosion heard over a wide crea. According to Brst re- ports no one was injured.

It was the second time the ofiées had been attacked. Some a bomb hurled @go, through the window of the

Nicosia, Aug. 11, French forces bade an months

where- official farewell to Cyprus building failed to expicde.

asylum.

Mr Adam's present abouts is unknown. — Reuter

Naur therefore needs to Omer would comment on be clarified. The charge ports that Hongkong's screening

have arrangements

not succeeded" appears to he Homewhat slaptash. Per haps in condensing Mr-Pant Hasluck's report, the news agency has omitted other points or qualifications of the remarks

yesterday's feed in 1

necessary,

Harry Wunderlich, Director of the

at a brief ceremony in Limassol harbour yesterday second in Northern Ireland to- Tonight's incident was the almost exactly 12 months day.

Egyptian invasion.

Reconstruction after their arrival for the

Of Imperial Palace

leave the isled

EARLY INCIDENT

AND

UP SELF

THREE OTHERS

Yreka, Calif., Aug. 11.

A 47-year-old mill worker blew up himself, his two children and a son-in-law today when he attempted to throw

a home-made bomb at his wife who recently has him gaoled for beating her.

BRILLIANT

LANDING BY BOAC PILOT

London, Aug. 11.

told

the

The dynamite bomb literally an explosion, she How its moker, Wilbur Smith, I sherif, to picces. Killed instantly with Smith in the thunderous blast The blast rocked the town were hit 18-your-old son, Ted, and was heard and fell at least and his 24-year-old son-in-law, two miles outside the town Douglus Sturges, Charlotte mits. The force of the bomb Sturges, 20, Sinith's daughters scattered pieces of its vielims was dead on arrival at Siskiyou over a 200-foot radius-United County Hospital.

Press.

Smith's wife, Clara, was In hospital suffering from hysterics. The tragedy took place in the driveway of the Sturges home in this small community in the Northern California puntalos,

Sheria Al Cottar sald Smith, who was gooled on wife-beating charges in July, apparently was determined to revenge himself on his wife, who was at 1:tr

A British Oversets Air-daughter's home, Ways Singapore London flight plane made a flaming emergency landing tonight but there were no injuries and only minor damage,

The four-engine Constellation circled London Alsport for an hour, unable to get its landing

gear completely" "down.

The plot, F. K. Bainbridge, attempting to bring the liner In with the wheela sul in their frezen position, grazed the ground with s left wing. An orange flame snot out from behind as the plane touchri down.

Firo Trucks immediately smothered the plane with foam, preventing any possibly major fire.

Passengers tefl the only slightly-damaged plane unhuri.

Full

emergency measures were put inte operation at the airport after the Constellation's sidpper, Captain F.K. Bainbridge, signalled that the under-enrriage would not lower,

SEVERAL RUNS

The plane made several low runs over the airport as the crew struggled, manually, to

wind down the wheels,

he

A spokesman told reporters, during this operation, that Capt, Bainbridge had signalled was not "unduly worried, and has asked for a tracing to tow the plane in atter lending."

Subsequently, the Constella- tion was diverted from the main runways. While it new around the crew continued to lower the wheels,

Spotters In the main control tower reported seeing the nose wheel of the plane half down, but one of the others had lowereri..

the

CLOSE TO CHEST

Coltar said Sturges and young boy must have tried to stop Emith frem entering apartment house where Mrs Smith was staying.

the

Tax Debt

Rome, Aug. 11. Elephants and the tax collector never forget, The inx collector Cagliari set out today 10 rot his Handa on a Lax payment now 122 years overdue.

Jocal

The original Judgment WAS

rendered against a resident, Cosimo Cugui, in 1835 Ho N- fused to

pay

up для handed the bl to his son

when he died.

Through the succeeding ecatury, the bill ́has para- od from spa lo són, with each generation of the family

turn.

fighting it in his

Today, it was up to the latest In the Ilne of Curula,

The amount involved is 100 Ire

12 Gents (HK$0.72) In today's currency-United Press,

NZ PREMIER

RETIRING

Wellington, Aug. 12.

Mr Sydney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is resigning it was announced here today.

Cottar caid the condition of M Holland has been suffer- Prime what was left of Smith's bodying from a back disablity for indicated he was holding some about 10 weeks and there have kind of home-made bomb close been persistent rumours recently to his chest.

that he would retire,

A withers to the explosion, Pat Swickard, 16-year-old

of daughter

The apartment hour landlord, said she saw Charlotte struggling with Smith and that the two men came up to help her. Then there war

A Machine

That's A Genius

London, Aug. 12. British industry today announced the production of { an electronic digital com- putor which can do the work of any electronic brain in the world.

The new brain, which solvea problems up to 50 times faster thum any other computor made in Western Europe, is known as the Ferranti "Mercury,"

Its key feature is a new type of memory

nerve cell, the centre of an electronic brain.

MR SYDNEY HOLLAND

Mr

Helland

will

Minister in

December, 1948. For his first five years as Prime Minister he held the finance portfolio as well-Rou- ter,

Mount Fuji Reported Active

Tokyo, Aug. 11.

A Lenin of Japanese scien- lists today began cilmbing Mount Fuji, Japan's 12,819- foot-high sacred mountain following reports one of Its craters was showing signs of activity.

The volcanic mountain which has become world famous through song, film and post-

formally card last erupted in 1708, annovare his retirement (INTEL A spokesman for the politics to the National Party Meteorological Observatory and confervace today and nominate large jels of black smoke were Mr Keith Jack Holycake, the observed spewing out of the deputy Prime Minister, as his horizon crater 'near the summit mountain carly this

successor,

of

Mr Holland's intention is to

The "Mercury" celi is a tiny retire from polities at the end magnelle ring, which not only

The present parliamentary increases the range of problems sessizu, expected about the end which can Le solved but is of September. also largely responsible for the brain's greater speed, the makers said.

the

now

European nationg ajrendy have places orders for "genius." The nest export model WIL te shipped to Norway within a few weeks. Others are

order for

France and

Switzerland.

7 FOR GOVERNMENT

programme

The men were from the 2/701 Eatlier, police ot п Ionely

Crowds standing on the top of Air Company stationed el stallon ni Cranagh,

County the airport buildings cheered as About 200 me selte- Tyrone, Akrotiri,

in the heart of the

the plane touched down. duled to Tokyo, Aug. 11.

On Sperrin Mountains, fired at men Wednesday. Tuberculosis Division of The Imperial Household

who failed to answer a sentry's way along the runway.

Capt Bainbridge, who was

The British Government has the Australian

the challenge. Depart Board here announced that two A yesterday's prcade ment of

Treeps were called in to join taken by car to meet his wife ordered seven of the computors Health nowy designers attached to the Im-RAF Middle East band played

in

who saw the landing, said: "The at £100,000 cuch. Hongkong could be asked perint household are to visit 14 the British and French netical in the search for the intrudiCTS

They will be ured to speed ... to

insport

look" European countries this year to anthems as the unit marched but they escaped in the dark-porr on the hydraulic system screening

went out of action after leaving up Britain's "new gather ideas for the planned re- past the Cyprus District Deputy ness. arrangements here, though construction of

Frankfurt, We tried to get the fence

for atomic the Imperial Commander, Brigler Rupert It is almost certain that he Palace in Tokyo,

Earlier this weekend, an IRA emergency grar operating with research and in universities, Elstone.

manifesto poaled up on trees hand pumps but it didn': work

*This new computer puls will find them virtually the

They have never taken part and walls, called During a three-cath tour,

Britain among the leaders in Aame uk those in. other the two men will visit the Vail-in unti-terrorist relivities and volunicers and insisted that the 23 we had hoped,

<lectronic computor manufac parts of the world. But he can, the Palace of Versailles, have moved freely through the Aght against British

ture, raid B. W. Pollard, head can at least provide his Buckingham Falace and other towns, favourably received by Northern Ireland would con-

of the computor department of Government with the palaces and public buildings, the Cypriots.

the Ferranti Company.

It is

essentially for larg:- stale research work which could previously be dono only by a few very large and expensive computors In the United. Statcs," he said.-United Press.

the

crowd A large

of dock of labourers who watched the do- nlr parture ceremony responded to

assurance that the greatest Reconstruction work on caro is being taken to select Imperial Palace here, parts workers from this Colony which were destroyed by for work in Nauru if this raids during the war, is due to the three cheers offered by the

begin in 1081-Reuter. assurance is required.

French-United Press,

"We Can Change An Egg's Sex,” Says Firm

A

London, Aur, 11.

FIRMI claims to have found

> way of controlling the sax

of chickens so, that out of any balah of czas 00 per cent will be cockerris,

An averago batch of eggs pro- |

duces hens std cockerela lo equal numbers. But by dip ping the en in a hormone preparation the Crown Chemical Co. of Lamberhurst. Kont, claims that the female eggs become male, There are 22,000 cockerels in

true.-Reuter,

for more

rule In

CAT Fined

MADE DECISION

"We got the starboard wheri the down but we couldn't get other one lowered. We managed to get the nosewheel unlocked. "Al last after trying for two hours I made my decision- rathor than Innd in complete

Rossellini Leaves

Manila, Aug, 12. Civil Air

Transport darkness I would have a go on has been fined 500 ane wheel. When we did lasid one Kent and Sussex whose sex cutting on wastage.

wing Up was damaged and the pesos (about HK$1,500) outer port propeller bent. has been influence by

clutch this "In any

of 300 case for transporting a Chinese preparation-ns yet unnamed. about 100 will not hatch.

Formosa Hatching experts, food manu- "If you can put 300 treated eggs from

"I warned the

passengers after we left Frankfurt that we facturers, and poultry renrers Into an incubator and be sure Philippines with outdated might have some trouble. They

New Delhi, Aug. 11. have collaborated.

of gelling nearly 200 cocitcrels, papers, it was

Hallon Alm director Roberto announced were magnificent," the cost of poultry will go

Rossellini quietly left hero for down."

Ha aclod: "We tried every-Bombay today, He checked

Mr Arthur Garton, chick hatch-

er, of Sution Valence,

who

to the

today. has treated mest of the eggs A representative of tho company The Immigration commis- thing to get the emergency | out of his hotel, suddenly and treated stoner, Emilie Galang, also an- car working. We rocked the arrived at the airport ́just in

nounced that the passenger, plane. The engineer went down time to board ja planes. Macario Velalco Co, had been into the nose of the aircraft to It was an apparent bid to ordered to return to Formosa ay to locate the stoppage. But avoid reporters, and a crowd, and obtain proper entry papers, he kept being overcome by who did not this time take any ---Undled PCR,

fumes--United Press & Reuter. | notion of him.---Unávod Prest,

used in experiments and who has reared thousands of the birds, said: "Cockerels fatien anuch faster than heng and their meat is superior. "This hormone properation, la

sald that these ecclitrols, were intended only as table birds. They keep their male characterlatles for the fallening of 10 to 10 weeks, when they are killed.

Mr Holland, now 64, untered Parliament in 1935 and became

of the morning.

A National Railway and Bas Company spokesman bald thousands of tourists were con- verging on the mountain from. all over Japon in the hope it would 'crupt.-Reuter,

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