1958-01-08 — Page 101

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958,

THORNEYCROFT CRITICISED: RESIGNATIONS UNNECESSARY

SAYS MINISTER

Temporary

London, Jan. 7.

Headquarters Several British Cabinet Ministers spoke in different parts of

For Little Europe

the country about the resignation last night of Mr Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and two of the top aides in the Treasury and all of them wero critical of his action,

rest of

_

won many battles Mr R. A. Butler, the Home must have Paris, Jan. 7.

Secretary - who w stand in, with the spending departments,"

Premier,

Mr Nicholls added: "On the Foreign Ministers of the for the

Mr Harold

other hand, of course, it is six "Little Europe" na- Macmillan, while he is on his

open to wonder that the rest tions named Luxembourg British Commonwealth four- Mr spilt between

of the Cabinet thought it to Auld the and Brussels today JUN

cavil at a further £50 million and the Thorneycroft the Lemporary head-the Cabinet arose from his de-reduction in a £4,000 million quarters of the European mund that they x Government budget,"

Lurd

Mills, Minister of Common Market, Atomic expenditure at last year's level

before the Prime Minister left Fower, sald in a statement that Pool and Conl-Steel Pool.

on his Cominonwealth tour to the

"application of the rigid formula isisted upon by the Italian Foreign Minister day.

Chancellor at short notice Ciuseppe D'ella, who presided

would have taken us beyond over the two-day meeting, on-

whit the TCSË. of us thought nounced when it ended that the nations--France, Germany, six Earlier reports said direct air service intween Makassar and Italy and the three Benelux eriment cannot exactly foresee countries wil decide before June Arst ot # permanent capital of Europe.

AIR SERVICE

Menndo had been suspended.

Manoppo said in his broadcast that the province of North

The Ministers "unanimously Celebits was a reallly for which there will be no bargaining." devided on the principal of a He claimed the separate status common

headquarters,

Fella

Bluntly

CHILDREN INJURED IN ACCIDENTS

Two Chinese children, a boy and a girl, both aged eight, were injured in suparate traffic accidents yesterday.

'F110 lad, Chau War-yuch,

Mr Butler added: "A gov-pructleal and so, to the regret of ❘ving at No 3, Un Chou Street,

all, we had to part company.

until the estimates are presented to them and these were pre- sented only at the turn of the year what its

commuments will be."

"It is said this is a struggle between those who are poli- and eally hesitant and weak been stid. But national rivalries had hod 10 province recognised

Central prevented them from doing so by the Government which Just July today, sent a mission to the area.

com.

UNANIMOUSLY

of

what is described as the tough line that the courage Is all on une side.

Mr

"1 would like to say quite Djakarta was silent on the

plainly and bluntly that other 'the retiring developinenis in the Celebes.

people besides The Ministers, however, in-

Chancellor of

the Exchequer region's military The

high appointed

their own con- mander, Major Sumbia, is in animously Djokeris sow far talks with the officials for the European Com-are entitled la

victions, and their own parti- army Chief of Staff-United munities as follows;

etini brand of courage.'

One

junior Minister, Press,

Hamar Nicholls, asserted that all the Cabinet and the three their "rebels" should "have heads knocked together."

Mr Nicholls, Parliamentary Secretary

to the Ministry of Works, sald

resignations the were. unnecessary.

Two

Bus Crash

bus

Euratom-Louis Annand France, Chairman of the na- Bonalised French railroads.

Euromart-Wailer Hallstein, West German Deputy Foreign Minister.

Coal-Steel Poo)-Paul Finci, Christian Democratic

London, Jun. 7.

were passengerS killed, and 21 others were in-Belgian Jured tonight, when two double. Labour leader.

He said that if Mr Thorney-

ground floor, was struck by a Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister a lorry in Wing Lung Street, of Defence, told a meeting that near Un Chau Street, at about the question which divided Mr 4.35 p.m. He was admitted to serious Thorneycroft from his Cabinet Kowloon Hospital it

was condition. collet gues was whether it right to slash the social services to clore a relatively small cap in expenditure.

Wage Demands

He added: "Quite apart from the mural aspeel, we felt that such action by putting up the cost of living, would inevitably stimulate fresh wage demands

the which might well cust national economy at least 10 times as much as the sum which Mir Thomeycroft was seeking to save,

"It was a case of failing to Ece the wood for the trres."— Router.

decker buses · collided at Nor- European Investment Bank croft had succeeded in keeping DESPERATE

abby, neer Middlesborough.

One of the Lures turned over. - France-Presse.

Pietro

Contills, chairman

of

the Bank Reconstruction of Southern Italy.--United Press.

estimated Government Ex- penditure tu within £50

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7.30 nm. The child is receiving treatment at Kowloon Hospital. The Police are looking for the driver who failed to stop after the accident.

New Star

At Restaurant

With the opening of the

Golden Phoenix” Restau- xant in Manson House,

Kowloon, a new star has

venture_on

tc-

SIDE GLANCES

SHEAFFER'S

NEW HMA ROADS

WITH E NAZI COAN

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STERLING SILVER TIP

LEAS

By Galbraith

From the Files

25

years -AGO-

THE long expected clash at

Shamhallcuan has now curred and it is alleged that Japan is carrying out her plan to occupy Peking and set up puppet government there, while at the same time isolating Jehol and cutting off supplies from the Manchurian volunteers.

B

12-13

TIL, kg Em Pal ONL 186

Berthur, be

"Could I eat my lunch white working this problem. Miss Blair? That always helps me with my homework!"

Cheque Said To Have Been Dishonoured

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Shanghal; Many people wer hurt in a serious riot betiocen French and Italian soldiers and sailors during New Year

afray. The fight started in front sie Franch of a cafe between soldiers and two Italian sailors and spread to the French Con- where the fighting ccasion, stopped when guns were pro- duced.

DONSIDERABLE consternation was created among the din- ers at the Tkachenko Cafe, Avenue Joffre, 'Shanghai when од the police closed, the doors

the the order of the court, st insistence of the Chinn Finance Corporation who demanded pay- inent of interest overdue an

week previously mortgage. there was trouble in the same

FL

Hearing was resumed before Judge K. R. Macfee place as the result of an effort

of members of the firm of Reu-

in the Victoria District Court this morning ter, Brockelmann and Co., at-

Much klass was broken

and

done whona, the

of a claim brought by Tong Wah, of Wah tempting to remove plate glass. Hing Ho of 94A Island Road, second floor, for other damage $4,392.41 being a debt in shrimp transactions staff resisted. settled in the form of a cheque on the Wing On Bank Ltd, which was alleged to have been dishonoured.

The defendants (the Asia Co. of 200 Raw Materials Connaught Road Central, rgt floor, and Mar Kwong, a part-

her) were represented by Mr

L Holland-Roberts, Haglags und Co. The Wah represented by Mr G. E. S. Stevenson, Stewart, and Co.

into was

of

A counter-claim was lodged by the second defendant for $3,328.04, alleging that plaintiff had

reeclved oVCE NA

failed to deliver 725 shrimps and falled to return 320, aluminium holders lent to him.

been added to the galaxy of first-class restaurants and night spots which abound in the Colony.

which A desperato appeal from an This restaurant,

entirely new Italian alpine soldier, who presents

the part of The claimed he was prisoner of

by the Russians in Siberia, Day Fatm, will be run

Mr Lal Che-san who is already was found carved on a fir well-known to practically every tree which arrived in al party-giver, in the Colony. lumber yard at nearby Mr Lei, who has had 32 years Villasantina in Italy today." of experience in the restaurant

Mr Keu Lam, an employee of was found by business, went to Europe last the plaintiff firm, testined as a workmen unloading a trak of year to study the latest develop subpoena witness. He said that he first knew the second de- 140 fir trees shipped from ments in haute cuisine so as to

that The Golden fendant In September last year. last ensure Russia via Czechoslovakia

will be up to the He also know of a verbal con- December. They

the Phoenix Italian frontier station of standard of the finest restau- tract between plaintiff and

rants in London or Peris. Tarvisio on December 29.

The

message

entered

The message, in Italian, said: "I have been a prisoner of the Ruslans in Siberia for 15 years. I am an alpine soldier. Help me."

on the tree was

The name unreadable

as it had been de teriorated by tree, but it appeared to be Giuseppe Pischiasis, United

the resin of the

Press.

FORTUNATE

The Golden Phoenix has been fortunate enough to be able to present to the Colony's dinners und dancETS an entirely fresh combination made up of the best musiclans in the Colony.

Under the inspired leadership

Freddie

Abrahum At the plano, there will be Connie Gregorio on tenor sax and Frankie Fonseca with his

of

vibes,

BROKE HIS rutar, George Pearson on the

PROMISE

double boas

drummer

and the hottest

Verbal Contract

defendants whereby second ttefendant agreed to purchase plaintiff on cer- shrimps from tain terms,

It was agreed, witness, elated. that plaintif was entliled to $5 from

'A LIFE OF BLISS'.

At 8 o'clock (Lis evening Radio Hongkong will bo broadcasting the first in the new series of "A Life of Bliss." This popular BBQ transcription programina deals with the adventures of the young bachelor David

Alexander BILS (played by the well-known Alm actor George Colo) whose life is made plea- santly complicated by his all friends. The parts of his sister and brother-in- law. Aune And Tony taken by Fellows, are Diana Churchili and Calln Gordon. Percy Edwarda Invests Payche

dog the almost buman understanding: w bile Petula Clarke appears Penny Gay. David's favourite girl friend,

with

every $100 worth of SPC

shrimps purchased from the market on defendants behalf. Witness added that his employer based his commission on the purchase price and not on the weight of the shrimps supplied.

Hearing is proceeding.

Lecture of them all, Ric

Flores, who have been ・ prac- ising secretly together to give you the best musle in the Orient,

Bury St Edmunds, Jan. 7. A 27-year-old Irishman, gaol ed today for breaking into a "Freddie Abraham and the faundry, lamented to the judge All-Star Rhythm Rockets" will. that he had let down "the be the one band that no dancer governor of Maidstone prison, between 5 and 95 will wish to the best in the world."

miss.

William Omars, of Clonmel, Tipperary, who didn't return to corrective training at Maidstone after a week's leave last May, said he "went on the drink" and broke into the laundry,

Ömera said the governor had trusted him. "I worked on the farm so I could say I was not in prison."-China Mail Special.

Opium Seized

A Chinese was arrested in the Western District yesterday övening following the seizure of 30 incls of oplum by the Police,

Snatching

!

Chemical Fumes Kill Boy Scientist

Vancouver, Jan, 7.

On Sweden

Mr Michael Meyer, the well-

known British author, Will

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During the present year number of small cars round, the 10 hp mark have made their appearance in Hongkong and the latest arrival is the Morris Ten. It has a cruising speed of 35 to 10 miles an hour and dors 365 miles to the gation.

Paris:

ILLUT!!

The French Hner, the 42,512-ton Atlantique is on fire in the English Chan- nel and it is reported that the ehip has been abandoned al- though other ships are standing by. There are no passengers on board as the liner was on her way from Pautllic, Gironde, to Havre for a reft. She has crew of about 260,

.

[JOLLYWOOD: Miss Mary

Pickford (Mrs Douglas Fair bunks) was painfully injured when a studio lamp fell from an clevated position and struck her Fon the forehead and shoulder.

Miss Pickford fell to the floor of. the studio unconscious. Thé pc- cident occurred while Miss Pick- ford was making a new pleture, Physician Boys that her injury was not scrious.

*

Centres PS (New Horizons), Visited By

Mrs Burgess

During January, the Shin Di

Junk 65-foot rebuilt Chinese recently purchased by Mr John Bloomshield of New York, will set sail on trip around the world. Built in Ningpo, the junk is a year old and has seen five months of actual service, Hong- kong will be the first port of

Mr C. B. Burgess, accom- | call."

panied by Mrs K. C.

VARIED methods were shown Johnson-Hill, Chairman of the Women's Auxiliary of in cases of persons attempt: the Society for the Profoc-ing to take their own lives on

When

middle- tion of Children, visited Wednesday.

the SPC Contre at Shauki-get Chinese was found repeat- edly banging his head against a wan this moming.

wait in Queen's Road near Well- Mrs M. Meakins, Hon. Sec. ofington Barrocks it was thought lecture for the British Council the Auxiliary, met Mrs Burgess his case was one for the mental on "An Englishman looks at on arrival and Introduced Mre specialist. Another attempted Sweden" in the Reading Room B.

L. Jonca, Branch suicide by jumping into the har

bour but was rescued, while a The routine of the Centre third took some poisonous chemi-

in Gloucester Building this Secretory. (afternoon at 5.30,

was observed as mothers were cal substance and was found in Mr Meyer, who has lived in Sweden for many years, is on instructed in the care of their a very grave condition.

short visit to the Colony and children and given food and his talk, although concemed supplementary vitamins. with Sweden in general and not

AVERAGE COST.

•

Bird's Eye: Those late ferrica

thats morning had less. of Se

its arts alone, is presented in Mr Johnson-Hiti and Mrs George and more of the drag

connection with the exhibition of Swedish art now displayed at the Bellish Council,

The father of a boy who died Mr Torsten Brundel, Consul- today after inhaling fumes from General for Sweden, will take a home-made rocket sald be the chair, would, ecck to have the deadly chemical barred from drug store shelves,

David Horsfall, 17, described

Arms Found

by his teachers as a brilliant chemistry student, was OVER-

An unserviceable .04 Te- come yesterday by fumen from volver and 17 rounds of am- a tiny bottle of nitrobenzene munition were found in a heap Ho wasusing the chemical

while trying to perfect a new of rubbish at No 16, Yuet Yuen Street, third floor, yesterday morning.

A pair of gold carrings warrocket fuel, snatched from a 08-year-old His father, Corporal H. T

The revolver and ammunition | Chinese woman whilst she was Horsfall, RCAF, said his son walking in Shantung Streat, had been bullding rockets since are believed to have been thorn near Canton Road, yesterday he was 12 years, old United for a considerable period. They

Press

were removed by the Palice. morning.

-

average cost of caring for each Meskins explained that the on baby brought to the Centres in

A 14-year-old lad was A fenced to 12 strokes of the Hongkong and Kowloon, in- cluding the overall running ex-

birch by Mr Butters at the Kow- penses was less than $2.50 per loon Magistracy yesterday for wook. This covered the special

matching

a banglo from the care given to gravely under- wrist of an 11-month-old nowished bables kept all day baby.

said he was the nursery and given driver to the act by hunger. constant, attention until up to It was stated by Acting Sub- normal weight and strength. Inspector. Tuckelt that the de- Mrs Burgess also visited the fendant had no relatives in Centres at the Southern Play Hongkong, whereupon tds Wor- ground, Wanchal and at the ship ordered him to be handed King George V Memorial Play- over to the SCA ofter being

*blrchod ground, Sai Ying Pun

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