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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1957.
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
MPS SAY GOODBYE TO HK PLEA FOR TENANTS
Parallel Drawn Between Us And West Berlin
Two Conservative Members of Parliament
leaving Hongkong today said of China's complaint about the eviction of people from Wong Tai Sin: "Rarely could a Communist complaint have been
more ill-founded.”
The two men, Mr John Hill and Mr Robert Mathew, visited Wong Tai Sin where about 7,000 people have been asked to leave in order that resettlement blocks to house about ten times that number are to be built.
Taiwan
They also saw other re- Hongkong and China, settlement areas, housing and the Philippines, they said that, having seen various sites farming in the New
schemes These places, they Territories and the Tai Lam had no doubt that Hongkong's Chung Reservoir.
jeffarin in similar schemes were Mr Hill and Mr Mathew" ilrsi-class rucceES. left by BOAC plane for London this morning after a fact-Anding tour of the Far East. They went to mainland China in Septem- ber last year, but their tour wus cut short because
They were very encouraged to see the efforts being made I Formors, said Mr Mathew. The agriculture ord Industry remarkable thing here was that this progress had been carried out with humane and przetiral methods. There was not the persccution or terror which was the Suez crisis. They con- so and a feature of the main- tinued their tour this year, i land.
Perfect
of
Hongkong to them was "the perfect start and Baish" of their four and they said they were; very kindly received here.
Specking for his colleague a well, Mr Mathew uther
Mathew
Mr Philippines
the sold that Was R naturally
fertile region, but the Filipines | hud not been under the same pressure make themselves
completely self-suffieint in food.
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place in the world had faced such great diiculties so Successfully as Hongkong and the only parallel they could draw was the spirit of the people of West Berlin.
They saich ther
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Killed After Fall
From Lorry
faselhaled by the agricultural¡ A 32-year-old Chinese, Chung
methods in the New Territories, i It was just beyond their com- farmers pretension how the there could "shmbly Take the vard, old son? Teriliser and produce eight crops of veget. ables year,"
120 MPg Jour included Taiwan and the Philippines. Drawing a comparison between
Fat, received fatal Injuries when he fell from a lorry in the Wong Tai Sin Rescille- ment Area yesterday.
A torry knocked down and seriously injured Yarn Gun, aged 28. In Connaught Rozd West yesterday. Yuen, who lives at No. 28, Centre Street, first floor, was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital,
Flags At Half Mast For
Flags
King Haakon's Funeral
Government House,. Government bulkings, Con- ! sulates and Royal Navy ships
at hair must today observance of the funeral of King Haakon cf Norway who died in Oslo on September 21 of the age of 83.
The funeral will take place at non today in Norway--about 7 p.m. in longkong. King Haakson's wife, Queen Maud, who died in 1938, was
the grand-aunt of Queen Elizabeth, being the drughter of King Edward VII. All Royal Navy ships
HMNZS Royalist dew ensigns
and
At half mast will: Norwegian
legs ut half most from the
jibs. The picture below shows Bags
# half most outside the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank. contrasted with the bunting on the Bank of China in the background,
General Standby In The Colony
But No Incidents Reported:
These pictures, taken by the China Mail photographer this morning show. a Police unit standing by la the compound of Western Polles station, The picture below shows Police moving through a crowded market lano in West Point. The picture below that shows a Police patrol walking down a Kowloon Street, and the one below that shows that ali is calm at Chuk Yuen, Wong Tai Sin, where the Police were informed yesterday that there may be trouble today”
Heep Yunn School Bazaar
Heep Yunn School, Ma Tau | school.
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All Quiet
(Continued from Pags 1) People's Republic Nailonal. Day,
The Pollee, auxiliaries and Kone Army units were called out but these, stood by and only small squnds of police patrolled the airbets.
MADE AT TRIBUNAL
Asking for sufficient compensation to secure alter- native accommodation, so that tenants of exempted buildings, are not relegated to the streets, "squatter areas and roof-tops, Mr F. H. B. Wong told a Tenancy Tribunal today that poor people have great difficulty in find- ing places to live, especially if they have children.
Mr W. F. Plekering, Fresident of Tenancy Tribunal comprising Mr Wong Peng-cheong and Mr Jorgen Eltzen, said
that the case, concerning premires Nos, 13/16, Sing Wo nord, afforded the Tribunal some diflculty, 36 A reporter who took a No. 2 and there was a wide gap be
no settlement had been reached. bus from the Star Ferry to tween the offers made by the Shemshulpo Bround mid-endlord, and the demands of morning reported
seeing only the tenants.
eleven polle men in Nathan Road including two groups of Mr F. 11. 1. Wong of MessrJ five. All had steel helmets sluag C. Y. Qwen and Company. over their shoulders and one appeared for several tenants, man in each group carried what including coo who taked for appeared to be a Greener in-accommodation in
the new building on a Ave-year cose,
More Crowded
was niore
Laichikok Road crowded but Shamshulpo, the
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Compromise
W. S. Winter,
PONY DIES DURING GALLOP
The
II-year-old Face pony, Santa Claus, col- lapsed and died at the Raco Course in Happy Valley during, a training gallop early this morning. Mr M. Samareq, who was riding the pony at the time, WIE not burt,
Owned by Mr BertramE
11
To, the pony was a 1952 subscription griffin, brown gelding, 15.1 hands
Santa Ciana palil Fome fairly Food dividends when' It WIS riddan by a novice jockey, Mr U Tum-lun.
The total
stakes wom by Banta Claus was $26,- 760.
Icene of last October 10's Acree Mr R. rioting
high. completely calm instructed by Mr I. Wong of this morning. All but a fow Messrs Deacons, represented the shops were open. Those closed applicant, Mrs Wong Yuk-ying. were decorated to celebrate the He said that the usual term of Chinese People's Republle an ease of this fort was three tional Day.
The resettlement blocks on willing to leave the matter of years, and the applicant wus Taipo Rond were crowded.
Assessment In the hands of the Children few kites from bal-
Tribunal. contes. Women went
About their household chores. Men erotched in the leg of "cóol wind smoking. There was no algn of provocative
posters or stickers on the walls,
Across the road, bakers in tall white caps could be seg at work in the Garden Bakery, gutted by fre in last year's Double Tenth rioting.
casc
Mr Pickering observed that ba there was a number beliveen three and five, a compromise might be reached In the mailer of the termn lease, and the deliberation en
was adjourned for the rates of compensation,
The three-storey dwellings An army larry streaked past concerned are planned to be -carrying, furniture. But replaced by a modern six-storey jeep passed by with heavy wire structure derigned by MS screens up.
Faitfone Wong, architect, sta cost of $127,000.
No Tension
Our reporter summed up his impressions in this way: "There
I
no tension in Kowloon. I walked right through, the worst
of last year's trouble areas. "If I hadn't seen the
Com-
- munist flags, which were more abundant after Boundary Street and in the Taipo Road area, and the hellcopter, it would be im possible
to tell the difference between this and any other day. "The Commissioner of Police, Mr A. C. Maxwell, visited Kowloon headquarters Inter this morning where he mrt sentor Police ofeers."
Meetings were held in Kow- loon last night, and more aro scheduled to be held tonight. The big Kowloon rally will be held At the King Wah Restaurant.
Tsun Wan Report
LETTERS
Carpet Stolen
A carpet was stolen from a private car parked outside the Butterfeld and Swire building in
Connaught Rood Central yesterday. The ear doors were not locked.
Loses Wallet
A Chinese woman reported. the Police that she lost a wallet containing some money in Mart ket Street yesterday morning.'
TO THE STOP PRESS EDITOR
Gloria's Debris
Sir, An article appeared in the China Mall regarding the clearance
of debris caused by Typhoon Gloria. There was a lot of trumpet blowing about the speed in which clearance would be effected but seven days after Gloria vizited LIS, Kadoorie Avenue sill has its pavements cluttered with fallen From Tsun Won, it was re-branches, In future It may be ported that "Everything is better for the trumpet to be hormat except for the security blown after the work has been precautions. Small squads of completed.
streets,
police patrolled the armed with tear-gas and riot guns. Standing by at the police station were a police vehicle, a fre engine and military ambu- lauce unlis. In the
compound, soldiers were sitting at ease.
Shortly after 11 am, ole of the two RAF helicopters flew in
circle low over the police: station,
a
Factories in this Industrial suburb were working as usual. I None of them displayed flags or : litating or list decorations of tny sort.
But several restaurants were decorated for parites to be held Inter in the day, as were several homes.
Mass Meetings
The Joint mass meeting, spon- sared by somo 200 Chinese organisations in Hongkong to celebrate the 8th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, was held this morning at the Kom Ling Restaurant,
£t.
Almost 8,000 people attended
Many speakers outlined the success of the first Five Усат Plan, which ends this year.
Mr Shou J. Chen, Manager of the Bank of China, In his speech revealed that the Goverment would give more considération to the light in- dustries, cpecially for con- sumer goods, in' the next Ava year plan,
There was no sign of tension In Chuk Yuco, Wong Tal Bin, The bazaar will be opened by and the market was open and Wai Road, Kowloon, wiit hold a The main stalls will be in the Mrs W. S. T. Louey, wife of bustling, as usual,... bazaar, on Friday from noon to Big Hall of the school.
M= Louey, a member of the d
|0 pm: el the school premisss,, Besides, there will be various Hep Yunn School Council, and It was reported yesterday that
The purpose of this bazaar is booths for games and amuzć-
A. B. CLARK.
SIDE GLANCES
BROTHERS DUEL
Manila, Oct. 1.
Two brothers fought a knife and club duel laže Lan!. night in Manila's Pandancan district over a halrout, re- salting in serious injuries to both,
The brothere arrelfed when the elder one returned home with # new haircut · Inst night. The younger brother, a barber, resented his kin having his hair cut : by another man-France- Prent,
By Galbraith
"Eddio says he hates to ask me to walk to the freshman get-together, Dad-but he hit a fireplug with #his family's car!”.
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