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MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1958.
APPEAL TO French Foreign Minister YUGOSLAV Leaves For Seato Talks
EXTRADITE
Belgrade, Mar. 9.
A resolution passed unani- M. Christian Pineau, the French Foreign Minister, who arrived
mously at a plenary acsalon of the Yugoslav Barristers Union today appealed to United States Courts to extradite on alleged wor criminal, Andrijo” | Artu- kovic, on the grounds that ho was personally respon- sible for the death of many thousands of man, women and children during the War.
here yesterday on his way to Manila, left by air this morning
to attend the Seato Council of Ministers mooting opening tomorrow.
The French Foreign Minister met the Press at the airport be- foro his departure and said that he was happy to enjoy the few hours in Hongkong before travelling to Manila to begin in earnest considering the whole of the problems cou- fronting Southeast Asia, cept- cindly that of its security. Its
The resolution said that the Yugoslov Government, in request for extradition in 1951, offered solid proof of Artuko. vic's crimes in Yugoslavin dur- Ing the German occupation.
for The Yugoslav request extradition Was based on the extradition convention of 1002 between Serbia and the United Stoles which is still valid,
re- his
of
Artukovic's crimes, the colution said, consisted of orders for mass liquidation thousands of unarmed civilians, which under the laws of 11 civilised countries, represents a crime against the lives and pro- people.-United perty of the Press.
lfe added that apart from these major questions, under no circumstances should the ruyflect the economic agricultural problems
also important in this were part of the globe.
Preparations
and which
The French Foreign Minister rak that while at the meeting, he would also discuss with Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Britain's Foreign Secretary, and Mr John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State, problems that might be brought up in the proposed "summit" conference.
M. Pineau said that white everyone was expeeling a sun- mit conferEDLCE to take place, there were
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many problems in 20
the preparation.
Speaking of his tour, M. Pineau said he regretted he could not neccept an invitation to visit Japan, adding that the in France were of problems such urgency that he could not remain away from his country for long.
The French Foreign Minister was
seen off by M. Gerard Rooul-Duval, French Consul- General in Hongkong, and many friends.
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Lord Rennell
a
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LEVIES KILLED?
Cairo, Mar. 9.. Omani Nationalista in Damascus announced that they
Leyles Muscat killed 20 British-commanded troops loyal to the Sultan of Muscat and Omen-the semi-official Middle East News Agency reported here today.
The Nationalists said that the nightlong battle took place in the Djebel El Akhdar area yes- terday,
The
Mena report said the Oman Nationalists claimed th.st they took many prisoners and captured Jorge quantities of
arms.
It added that Britain was re- ported to have decided to launch to destroy a general offensive centres of Nationalist resistance. -United Press.
We Defend UK As Well As Germany
Washington, Mar. 9. Herr Franz Josef Strauss, West German Defence Minister, said in a tele- vision interview, here today: "We defend Great Britain as much as we defend Germany.”
He said the stationing of Bri- lish troops in Germany, which has led to recent disputes' over the cost of their support, was not an Anglo-German problem but a problem for Nato,
"I hope the British will accept our last offer (on support costa) er at least re-start negotiations," be said.
If the Red Army succeeded in marching to the English Chan- nch a dificult situation for
China Mall Special
A 'Secret' Film Is Shown
New York, Mar. 9. FOR the first time tonight'
FOR
the American pubile saw a film of the launch- Ing of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima Up to now the flim has been clared as "secret" and has only been shown to specialista.
The fìm la in three parts. The first shown speciel training followed by a group of 0-20 bomber fore. The second shows the bomb being transport- ed piece by place to the island of Tinlan In the Pacific. The third shows the rald on August 6, 1945.
The training of the nying team is followed stop by stop and rendered como- what bizarre by the fact that the men to be in- volved on this
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
Bandleader Brings Breach Of Contract Action
A Filipino bandleader brought an action for alleged for $13,500 damages breach of contract against the Cafe Riviera, of Causeway Bay, before Mr Justice A. D. Scholes at the Supreme Court this morning,
The
From the Files.
25
years -AGO-
[WITHOUT any show to mark
plaintiff, Benny Con- From August 10, continued stantino, or Model House Block Mr Cheung, his client tried to "B", Flat 1, third floor, King's find employment elsewhere. Ha Road,
is represented by Mr did not succeed in doing so until Oswald Cheung,
a to travel from Hongkong instructed by December 14, and only as Mr J. C. Stewart, of Stewart member of another bands and Co. Mr Patrick Yu, in-
structed by Mr F. W. Ko, of Lau Chau and Ko, is represent- ing the defendant, Lau Tai-wo, trading as the Cafe Riviera,
The amount claimed is in re- spect of three months salary, at | $4,500 a month.
told the
defendant signed- a historic
minion had no idea of Its real nature. shows
flights
In English
Taking into account the cus- toms and usages In Hongkong. he said, it was sun! for bands to be employed at a six-month stretch.
·
Circumstances
such an important event, Hongkong's first vehicular ferry service commenced at 7.85 yes- terday morning. Tha com- mencement of the service was not generally known and the morning's business was poor, A public car was the first vehicle to Yaumati and an Air Force car the first to come from Yaumati to Hongkong. The Kung will be used to Mon maintain an hourly service for the present month. The Man Kim will then be brought on to the and a half-hourly ser- vico.commenced. No passengers were carried yesterday, 15 A
vius
run
Run
over by a hand truck while playing football in Con-
GETZ BROS boy, aged 9 years; received an
naught Road, Central, Chinelo
PRESIDENT
injured right foot and was sent to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment,
Mr Oswald Cheung Court that his client and the In considering the construc- | lleonce has not yet been granted. contract tion of the contract, Me Cheung Officials of the Company hope which took effect as from May submitted, His Lordship was en- to have full licence for vehicular the nean take these background and passengers in 15, 1057. It was a contract for titled The im
future. them on training
six months, but on July 28, the circumstances into account defendant
Hearing is proceeding, Tinlan
wrote the plaintiff above
he would Island base with a single
suying
not employ him after August 15, bomb In the aircraft. After experiments in the new Mexican desert, tho bomb
being transported to Tinian. Some parts were loaded on to the cruiter Indian- spolla which was sunk by Japanese submarine three days after it had put its atomic cargo Eahore. Finally, there are cons of the the rald Itaalfon morning of August 0, 1945. In the course of the raid the bamb
Eccording to armed Instructions received, the detonator being put In place.
in the
piloted
B-29, film, the by Colonel Paul Tibbets, arrives above Hiroshima, the bomb is launched and an enor- mous mushroom of smoke rises from the ground. France-Presse.
GARDEN
ROAD
ACCIDENT
Britain would arise, he added A Chinese woman, as yet unidentified, was injured when she was knocked down by a private car in
Mr Cheung pointed out at this stage that his client was o Filipino, and the defendant was Chinese, and the contract was in English-and there appeared to be some odd bits of grammar and expressions in the contract. The contract, he continued. provided for the plaintiff to play in the cafe with his three-plece band for $4,000 a month for the Arst three months of the con- tract, and for $4,500 for the re- maining three months.
Mr
DIES
N event of high importance astronomical observations in the In the development of
Far East was signalised recent- W by the arrival in Nanicing of a
Mr Rene A. May, President of Getz Bros and Co., died In San Francisco on Fri. day after a short illness. new 24-inch Kelsa reflecting telescope. The instrument is to May's entire business be installed in the observatory Counsel said the defence was career was with Getz Bros who on Purple Mountain, Nanking, that the part of the agreement as are one of the oldest and largest
of the National Research regards the period from August American export and insport Institute of Astronomy of the 16 to November 14 was only arms with 30 branches through Academia Sinica. Costing morá
out the world. Mr May and his on 120,000 Marks tentative, and would depend on the state of the cafe business. Arm have always been identiñod Mr Cheung said his answer to with the Far East, in which area this was that the contract was most of the firm's offices have definitely for employment for six { long been established. months, and that the parties provisiónally agreed on the salary to be paid for the last three months, reserving the right to vary at the end of the first
three months.
But at the end of that first three months, he went on, the parties did not in fact come to any agreement to vary what had provisionally been agreed upon.
Higher Salary
Lo
the new
telescope is the first large one to be erected in China, and is the largest of its kind in the Far EAT.
The
Mr May Arst went to the Far East when 18 years of age and
18th anniversary of St had charge of the Company's Paul's Girls' School will be business in Japan for some three celebrated in the Lee Hyran years. Shortly after his return Hall on Monday, March 20, av to San Francisco he was made 4.30 p.m. Mra O. C. Borret, President of the Company, and wife of the G. D, C., will disa continued in that capacity until tribute the certificates, his death.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs Jonine May, and daughter Marilyn, both residing at 2100
Mr Cheung said the defendant Jackson Street, San Francisco, did not actually start his bus-Vivian, who now lives in Now end by a married daughter, ness until shortly after May York. 15, and the cafe was opened the public in the beginning of July. The plaintif went there to play nightly with his band, but on July 28, he received a letter saying that the contract "which terminates on August
BOAC Hostess Garden Road, near the 15, shall not be renewed."
To Visit
Hongkong
London, Mar. 9.
Miss Faith Sisman, BOAC's
Л
Europeans Detained
!the offence.
TARSAWA million Tsariat gold roubles were recently found, buried in his estate, by a lanndowaer pour Vilnu. As the result
of inquiries, It was ascertained that this money be longed to the Second Russian Army under General Samsonov, which
was annihilated by Marshal von Hindenburg in the battle of Tannenberg. in 1914. General Samsonov committed suicide in order not to be taken prisoner and his staff buried the
Helena May Institute at Counsel said there was no 8.15 a.m. today. The question of defendant being dio- A taxi-driver was robbed of money to prevent it from failing
with the plaintifra | two fountain woman is receiving treat- satisfied
pens and $10 in into the hands of the Germans band, or that he could not cash in Canton Road near ment in Queen Mary afford a band for $4,500 a Haiphong Road at 12.30 a.m. Hospital
month, because subsequently today. Two Europeans have the defendant engaged another been detained by the Police for Ping Shi, which left Shanghai The Ningpo funk, Shin Di A 62-year-old Chinese woman band at a slightly higher salary questioning in connection with on a round-the-world trip. a sustained serious injuries when she was knocked down by
$4,500 a month. most experienced air tram in Kings Road near the hostess will be paying a function of North Point Road flying visit to Hongkong at 4.30 pm, on Saturday. this month to see the Tho woman, Ng Man-fung, training and administra. of 11A North Point Road, first tion headquarters
floor, is detained in hospital of
for treatment. BOAC air hostesses ut the Colony, run by a Chan Tim, aged 25, of 5 Hok former BOAC stewardess, seriously Injured when he fell Chuen, first floor, WIS Cynthia Arpthorp,
Lo
from a lorry in the airport Miss Sigman will fly to Hong-construction site at Kal Tak on kong after calling at Calcutta, Saturday afternoon. The in- Bombay and Karachi as one of jured man was admitted to
a team of thres BOAC offelals Kowloon Hospital,
and Far
to see
who will select Indian Pakistani hostesses for Eastern flights, She will confer with Miss Arpthorp whether the experience gained In training Japanese and Chinese girls can be applied to the new Aslan hostesses.
Thefts From
Parked Vehicles
Miss Sisman, who is the chief stewardess on the DC
7C Atlantic flights, has down over two million miles since the be came an air hostess in 1940, Sho has flown with most members parked vehicles were reported
of the Royal Family, including the Queen, the Duke of Edin- Lurgh and Princess Margaret.— London Express Service,
Bomb Thrown
Three cases of thefts from
to the Police yesterday.
In
one caso, n man was arrested for the alleged theft of two hub caps from a private car in Gloucester Road on Saturday morning.
In the other two cases, a pull- over was reported to have been stolen from a car in Bonham Hoad and a raincoat from_an- other vehicle in Thomson Road near the Oriental Theatre.
Oran, Mar, 2, One Moslem, was killed and 13 others injured when a bomb was tossed at a French. Artiy truck in Tlemcen carly yesterday morning, it was disclosed today.
The truck driver *WIL only A man was arrested by the slightly injured by the blast, Police Fosterday morning for Among the Moulton wounded |stealing a purss from a Chinoce were tiree women and a 10- | women la Connaught Road year-old boy ---- rancs-Premen, » Central, "
SIDE GLANCES
fortnight ago, was forced to re- turn due to the fact that a sud- den gale of wind broke her.
on Sunday (March 19), lier captain is Mr John Bloomfielä.
By Galbraith of. She was to set out again
*
"I want to know what the questions will be it my school exams tomorrow!”.
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vehicular
★
OINCIDING with the comic mencement of the new harbour service the Man Yeung, the third of the fleet of vehicular ferries to he operated by the Hongkong and Yauma Ferry Co., Ltd., was launched by Mrs Hole, wife of the Hồn, Cát, Ghi Holl Harbour Master, at the Kowloon Dock slipway yesterday after- A large gathering witnessed the ceremony.
пров.
Abigail- torites in Woman's World: Fashions at Home hart now are returning to Echoe dian lines in, a very algulícone way. Walsts will no longer be the what-you-wili affairs of this season They will be clearly defined m
N interesting festure in con A nexion, with the celebisyon of the coming of age of the Hongkong University, to be held on March 18, will be the open- ing of many of the déparŠEVAKKEA to the publie between 9.30 am. ntid-12.80 p.m.
GOREN
WITH a view to giving the public. better: includies, lift is proposed to extend the vehiclathe -forty serving two that tříd slašk | ferry twill · flokyo: Kowloonzent 0 p.m..and at. 7:30 p.nl ADORA Hongking; on: Baturdays, 2 MONT udays maid publie tickineS, CEME
the experimental service, ind
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