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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1957.

NEW! SHEAFFER'S

LUXURY CRUISE LINER COMING

Tourist Shops Expect

Good Business

by a China Mail Reporter

The ss Orcades, post-war luxury ship of the Orient Line, is bringing 1,200 Austra-

fians to Hongkong for a visit at the and Woman Tells How ICE HOUSE ST Army Motor

of this month.

A vessel constructed to provide the maximum com- fort to the passengers, the Orcades is on a cruise to Rabaul, Yokohama, Kobe, Hong- kong, Manila and Port Moresby.

the third vessel to

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Sho left Sydney lust The liner sailed on her Saturday and is expected to malden voyage in January, berth alongside No. 6 wharf 1049. The present steamer

bear the at Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, on September 30.

was

same name. The Orcades II, which was bullt in 1937, sunk during World War II.

NO MAST

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and not

She Borrowed Husband's Money

A woman said in Court today that she usually gave reasons for borrowing money from her husband but when she was in urgent need, she would tell her husband the reasons later. The woman, Mrs Keung Chi-ching is a prosecution witness and she made the statement under cross-examination today in the Victoria District Court.

She said her sister had ac- companied her to the hotel and to Shu's home and had heard and seen the operation on Slu, but she (witness) had not told cross her sister what the matter was.

Hearing I continuing.

Mesars Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Co., agents for the Orlent! The Orcades III set the style

this morning this of merging funnel, mast Line, sald would be the first visit of the the bridge into one unit, Orcades to Hongkong and tunlike a

now warship, which

The case involves corrup-} the step further with might possibly be the beginning | focs

of the masttion charges against two of annual crises to the Colony, disappearance

altogether,

Police Constables, Mr V. L THE HARD WAY

Without the masis, there la more room for the games decks. J. D'Alton Defence Council, The Orcades in a passenger: A

his of concluded timely underlining Jiner of about 28,000 gross tons, maritime progress on these lines examination this morning.

The Accused are represented by She is commanded by Captain occurred when to the Orient The accused are Hul Chl-Mr D'Alton. Instructed by D. L.. C. K. Blake, OBE, veteran (Line

accorded a great shuen, 23, and Ko Pun-kit, 27, skipper, who learned scaminhonour for so small a fleet. The They Dre alleged to have ship the hard way.

Orcades was chosen to lead the solicited and received money on He was trained in a four-Merchant Navy vessels through various

occasions from Mes masted barque before the First the Floct at the Coronation Keung ag д reward for for- World War.

bearing to catry out their duties in respect of abortions committed by her.

פפֿער.

Review. The Orcades can accommodate Many wealthy Australians 770 Aral-class passengers antara travelling on the Orcades the cabina are all air-condi- including retired professional tioned to dve comfort for men, business men and sheep travel in the tropics.

farmers.

Local shops are expecting to do roaring trade with the Australians who are regarded locally as people who spend on the same lavish senle as Ameri- cais.

The lounge and restaurant in the first class compartment are also air-conditioned for added comfort.

She has facilities to cerry 620 passengers in Tourist Class.

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Told Him Later

Lam and Co. Chief Insp. W. F Apps is prosecuting, assisted by Det. sub-ip. D. G. McNeil of the Anti- Corruption Brancha.

Man Falls

Off Ferry

HOLD-UP

About six cars were held up along busy Ice House Street this morn- ing by a collision in the narrow roadway between a private car and a taxi. No one was hurt and only minor damage was done to the vehicles.

Bigger Than

Ever Leper Fair This Year

Cyclist Badly Hurt

A motor cyclist, Chiu Tak- kao, aged 26, attached to No. 82 Independent Squa- dron, Royal Engineers, Shamehulpo Camp, was seriously injured as result of a collision be twoon his cycle and a private car in Castle Peak Road, near the six-mile stone yesterday evening. Chiu is receiving treatment at the 33rd General Hospital.

A private car knocked down ten-year-old Lam Sau-yuk in Ma Tau Wal Road yesterday.

The drl was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital a serious condition.

A Chinese woman, Lee Kla,

aged 33, and a six-year-old girl, Lau Shing-kam, received serious This year's Christmas injuries when they were knock- Fair, to be held on Decem-fed down by a private motor van bar 7 at the Hongkong De-which mounted the pavement fonco Force Parade Ground in Castle Peak Road, near Chung

Shan Terrace, shortly will be "bigger than ever,noon yesterday..

after the Chairman ur the Two other pedestrians who Marianne Reichl Aid to were knocked down at the same Lepers Group revealed this time were uninjured. morning.

The woman and girl are re- ceiving treatment in Kowloon Hospitat

Mrs L. H. Warne, Chairman, aid the fair will be opened by Mrs A. C. Maxwell, wife of the Suspect Arrested Commissioner of Pol

Police. Father Christmas will be A Chinese has been detained there as usual. There will be following the attempted theft many articles suitable for pre- of money from the peelect of a sents as well as Christmas pud-man in Hing Fat Street yester

day afternoon.

Cross-examined, Mrs Keung was referred to the various in- terviews she had had with the She Anti-Corruption Branch.

had told the AC said she officers that she had offered A Chinese mun fell off the

accused on the money to the

Star Forry, Colostial Star of first day

her interviews,

at about 11,20 this That evening, she said, she in-i formed her husband of the

morning and was picked up in an apparently ex- operation,

hausted condition by a passing motorboat, The man fell from the ferry's from her lower deck. He was described dines, mincemeat etc. husband on the day she was a man about 35-40. The ferry Arst allegedly threatened by the was travelling from Kowloon to ocensed, Mre Keung said she longkong at the time of the

Incident. told her husband that

When customer" had requested to

the ery "man over- borrow money from her, board went up the ferry stop- She continued that she usually the man fall overboard told the ped A passenger who saw gave reasons for borrowing money from her husband but China Mall Later: "I saw him about swim quite strongly for

motorboat names

Questioned about she had borrowed

the $100

when she was in urgent need, she would tell her husband the 80 yards, reasons later.

"Then u

She added that on this George Binig, No. 9, came to the occasion, she had fold her rescue and picked him up. husband later of a blackmull in "The last I saw of the man connection with the girl, Sia was that he was lying exhausted Fung-kwan.

on the deck of the motorboat".

Christmas acals and tags--it new feature-are being sold by members. They can also be pur- chased at the Mission to Lapers office in Beaconsfield Arcade.

Money Stolen

A Chinese

woman reported

to the Pollee yesterday that her coat pocket had been cut and money stolen while she

| wolldog, in Castle Peak Road,

near Praias Street,

China's

Jeep

The first Jeep bullt by Communist China was 44- sembled sa put on the roads in Shanglink yester- day.

WIS

The New China News Agency says that the jeep built entirely ok Chinese IVAN

manufactured materials and destru. Oll consumption

lower WWE than the American model but the engine was more powerful insplis of the fuel economy. The body WES wider and longer, stylog the Hiders added comfort.

SOLDIERS GIVE 22 PINTS OF BLOOD

Twenty-two

British Bolaires from Headquarters, Land Foros cach donated a pint of blood to the British Red Cross Blood Bank at Victoria Barracks this morning.

In charge at the donation contra was Mis C. IL IL. Coles, of

the British Red Cross. Sho was assisted by ihres Ked Cross volunteer workers, Mra J. Montague Ebbs, Birs M. V. Green and Mrs E. D. Moth.

blood donors were Srt E. 31. Stewart, Pie E. Cornes, Pie J. Ahe

. Harrison, Cpl B. Drain, Pto K. Kirkham, L/C P. Bontain, QM8 9. W. Williams, Pte J. Birt, Cpl W. A Blagins. LỰC C. T. W. 'Keeling; CFN A. D. Brockwell, CPI I. Gregory, Cpl D. Sherrat, CFN 2. V. quick, dgr w. munto, B/BIL G. Mackensie, Pls E. Wheeler, Trp N. McEwen, CFN_J. Norton, CYN J. Murray, Pte A. T. Boals And CFN F. Michonald,

Private J, Birt gives fils pint of blood at the Red Cross today. Attending him is Méi2.

M.V. Great-China Stali · Photo.

SIDE GLANCES

LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

Baby Boom

Feathertouch BALLPOINT

From the Files

25

years LAGO-

Henry Charles Merriamara LLB of Meara Deacons was readmitted to practise or barrister-at-law in the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C. this morning,

RAD weather yesterday upset B the plans for the third nudist outing to their stamping ground at Lock Pick Sheung, no members of the cult wurning up at the Kowloon Railway Station. The river, which han to be crossed and re-crossed to reach the plot of land rented to the cult, was higher than usual owing to the rains of Saturday, Despite the approach of colder weather, members stale that they will continus. their Sunday outings..

*

The

Hongkong

Interport

Sir--The news of the Com- munist flop in their efforte for Bowls team arrived in Shanghai a "baby boom" is significant, yesterday and were immediately For the last quarter of a taken to the Palace Hotel in

countries

the afternoon the team were went century some into vast expenses in order to given a preliminary practies on increase, some others to reduce the SLBC green and all gave a very favourable display. UM. the number of childbirths.mar, the senior interporter, in | There

nothing the There was, however,

particularly new about such

experiments, steady, and showing that the Far back in history,

trip North had not affected him Pharaoh of Egypt had under-in the tedat. H. Hampton tas taken cruel yet futile effort to decimate

the

the

zide,

teas

not so steady, his injured hand the children of appearing to give him trouble. centuries later, Emperor Augustus was equally unsue- cessful in his laudable attempts to halt the falling Roman birthrate.

to

Jackie Cooper and Charles "Chic"" Sale were playing – in When a Feller needs a Friend” at the Queen's. Lupina Lane was playing in "No Lady at

Is it not time to realise that the regulation of the periodical increase or decrease in the po pulation figures of the various the Star. countries is best left to Mather

that

Nature? If we were to learn money best spent is to ad- just ourselves to natural trends Instead of trying to reverse them, mankind would be the beller off for it!

GEORGE A. FLORIS.

an

something be CIR-Connot

dono to stop hideous noisca made by the thousand and one urchins celling Chinese newD-

the papers in

streets. This in becoming perpetual howling

unbearable nuisance. It our homes and our offices and is nerve-wracking. The cry is of such on ear- splitting nature, and its awful Miss Dorothy Knowles was monotony is depressing to an declared tho. Winner of last extreme." Surely something night's Rediffusion TV "Talent could be done by the Powern Timo" (Third Edition European that be?. Yours ele, "SICK OF Section) with 85 marks. Sho IT." now goes forward to the All Winners final.

Dorothy Knowles penetrates

Scores Again

Second was Tom Steel with 84 marks and third were Christopher Coleman and His Group with 82 marks,

CC tennis results: E C. Fincher beat A. E. P. Guest 6-4. Men's Juntor 6-3, 6-2, Championship, P. O. Duano beat G. A. White, 2-0, 4-8, 0-2,

Watch Snatched 6-3 6-3 Ladics Champion-

ship: Mrs McTavish beat Mias A Chinese snatched a wrist- & Grimths, 6-2, 6-0,

Men's watch from a wopton podestrian Handleop “A”, S. A. Gray (-15) on the staircase of No. 3, Swatow beat W, C. Hung (-15/3) 8-6, Street, yesterday.

0-4, 0-3. Mixed Doubles, E F Fincher and Mrs MacTavish

Umbrella Stolen beat E. C. Fincher and Miss O.

An umbrella was stolen froin a private car parked at the |Queen's Pier car park yesterday

evoning

By Galbraith

T3 Rp VA, PA, OK

*Raining again today? Bay, this is the best vacation 'S'yo ever had!”

Dalziel, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

On the same day, Ellaworth Vines, the Wimbledon champlan, defeated the redoubtable Henri Cochet in atraight acts to win the American National Singles Championship for the second year in succession. The scores were 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

LAWN Bowls: Craigengewer

are to be congratulated on their splendid consistency and on the setting of a precedent by winning both League honours. With three of their players in the Interport tenn Messrs B.W. Bradbury, U.M. Omar, and

GI Buchanan, the Colony's hopes of returning from Shanghai with the fing look very bright. Recreio, 100, have achieved a double honour. By sterling play they won the Spey Royal Cup for the firat time in the history of the Club, while LA, Gullerrez lifted the Open Championship on Thuris – day fast when hơ・ dolented H. Nish of the KBGC whilo R. F. Luz gave the. Portuguese club third place.

farce

From October between Hongkong and Shang- hat via the White Ampresses": will be cut by half, Fares: Firat Cines $90, Return $162, Tourist. $50,- Return 800. These special rates should prove very attračište for those wishing to visit Shanghai for the AutumTIJA. Race Meeting which takes place on November 5-9 and 12,