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Education
MERICA is worried about
Russin's lead in educa- tion, particularly in science, And Britain would do well tu follow her example and worry a little too. Our wo com countries have attempted to
for all an equin Pravide
in
start in life and a more or Jess equil
opportunity the world afterwards--- most regardless of qualifica-
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CHINA MAIL
No. 37068
Marine Patrols Stop 165
From Entering
tions. The rich live a life It
not different from that of the so-called poor, and the progress of the bright buy at school is often Reared down to the speed. of the slow or dull.
This is the situation that one
should expect in a Com- munist land. Uniformity was the great argument of the Communist agitator, and the one which most alarmed Conservative opinion. It the Communist who WIN preached this levelling offi most fervently. In fact,
however, Communist Governments have flown in exactly the opposite direc- tian.
Selective
CHINA today, it is true, bu
C'
a programune to wipe out iliteracy and has pr gramme for wide education
Are
at a low level." _But__in Russia, and in China also! above this level, the Com- | munist system is ruthlessly selective. The brightest braizes
ht
out engerly. No cost is spared to give them 'training of the highest available standard. And the richest rewards of the land are held war to those who get to the head of their field, To a certain extent the British Public School system was selective, Schools would
get a reputation for a parli- cular kind of success, "Boys: from Eton did well ine politics: scholars
By A China Mail Reporter
was revealed today that Hongkong Police marine patrols have stopped three junks bringing illegal immigrants to the Colony in the last two days.
total of Yesterday, a junk captain was fined a
$3,100 for trying to bring in 58 people in al Junk equipped with secret compartments, when it was licensed to carry only seven,
AUSTRALIA
RESUMES
WHEAT
SHIPMENTS
TO CHINA
About
Porth, June 5.
And оп Wednesday, }, junk
fined captain was $1,150 for trying to bring in 96 illegal immigrants from Mucao. He was stop-| ped off-Nine Pins.
un-
Marine Police patrols, it WAS learned, stopped other junk trying to enter Colony
water yesterday 11 people morning with aboard suspected of being
ilegal immigrants.
This means that Police patrols have stopped 165 people from entering the
in
Colony the last two
days.
Earlier this week, a Govern- ment spokesman revealed that
about 42,000 Regal immigrants
10,500 fons of entered the Colony last year. Western Australian wheat. This works out at more than will be shipped for Free-100 2 chary. mantle this month direct
Police are trying to check this with night- continuing inflow
to China, the Australianong marine patrols. Wheat Board chairman
Sir John Teasdale said ...COURT-DRAMA.
today.
I wout! be the
first ship Man Throws
menil to Chinu "for some-yours”
Charterhouse neared.
were the most t The Norwegiat freighter brilliant boys in England; Kostin Bakke is loading 2,000 Marlborough passed an unas for China and 2,000 fons for commonly high percentage Hengkung.
The freighter, a
into Sandhurst or the Civil will lead out Service; and rach year the china later this school's results were pub- tur.
ished with pride. Thus, in
a scholarship school, the
brightest boys were crammed
in their best subjects by, the best teachers. The system looked well on paper but was hardly fair on parents of duller boys who received in class only the drega of the school's teaching effort, yet pald their fees in full. New Approach
THERE are
TH
Sierro. 8.500 tons for month,Reu-
Unemployment Grows
-In Britain-
London, June 5.
han many orgu- Unemployment in Britain
elimbed to its liighest point In almost five-and-a-lif Уелек, governmen figures disclosed tonight.
ments in favour of system by which those who need the most help get the most help. But it bus
renched a point in Americanistry of Labour sald that
today where it is said that the fluest educationi establishments in the load are provided for congenital Imbeciles only. While the Russian system is a curious fruit for Communist theory to produce and the humane Democratic system has much to commend it-yet
448,000 people were registered an unemployed on May 12, the latest check date,
This VAN The highest Beure recorded since January, 1353
the
Shoe
At Detective
After being convicted and sentenced to threo months' imprisonment, an unemployed man who cought the guard un- awaros, suddenly picked ahoo inside up a loather
the dock and throw it at
Q
detective who
arrested him,
The detective
had
was then standing near the Press gallery. The shoe missed the detective, end a guard standing inside the
the dock grabbed
Sand handied him down to the cells. The man, Yu Shui-ning alias I've al Por (Leather Shoe Por), appeared on a charge of suspected tollering before Mr Hin-shing Lo
Central Magistracy.
The Prosecution stated that on May 22, the defendant was
Established 1845"
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1958.
TWO DIED IN THIS ROAD TRAGEDY
Police and rescue workers slowly haul from the River Avon negar which had plunged down the bank into 21 feet of water after swerving to avoid a motor 'T'wo cycle on the Bath Road at Bristol last week. men, who were trapped inside the car, were drowned.- Reuterphoto.
Archbishop Of
Canterbury Coming To HK
height of a textile found lottering in Queen's Road By A China Mail Reporter
recession, when the total was 452,000.
Of those registered on the check date, 389,000 were wholly un- employed and 50,000 tem- porarily stopped from work,
If we of the West are to Expressed as proportion of
keep up with Russia a more selective and rewarding
approach to education seems indicated.
the total number of em-
ployees, unemployment
May TYDS 2.1 per cent. Keuter.
In Tomorrow's China Mail
Hongkong's top Chinese star gives a full account of her impressions and experiences in the film capital of the world in tomorrow's feature-packed Chinu Maji. This is only one of the many highlights in the 24-page weekend issue. A new Hongkong short- story writer Jean Gordon is Introduced with a gripping tale of an amah's love for her employer's child. This story has an unusual twist for an ending. Read "An Amah's Farewell,”
The second Instalment of Clemens Forell's thrilling true-life adventure, "I Walked 9,000 Miles To Freedom;" will be found on page six. Here the author tells of his first contact with civilisation after escaping from a Communist prison in Siberia
Other articles for your weekend enjoyment are:
Sensations of Sport by John Cottrell;
Pidgin English-by R. W. Thompson, Hongkong University;
A full page of behind-the-scene reports on filmdom
by top reporters in Hollywood and Britain, Also GILES, FRIELL,' authoritative and enter- taining book and record reviews, three full pages of nows pictures, and all your favourite reading for the week-end.
In
Central with intent to commit 1 felony.
Rhodesian Premier Returned
Salisbury, Jung 5.
Sir Edgar Whitehead, Prime Ministar and toader of the United Federal Party, was returned to Parliament in tho Southern Rhodesia general alection today. Earlier, the first result an nounced in the election gave victory in the Rayon constl-
tuerky of Bulawayo to Mr T. Pinchen, Dominion Party can- didate
With nine results to come the United Federal Party had won 14 seats-two short of an absoluto majority--and the Dominion Party seven,
The United Rhodesla Party had still not won a seal-Reu-
tex.
The Archbishop of Cantor- bury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, will visit Hongkong next April.
He will stay in the Colony four days from April 18- 22.
This will include a Sunday.
Dr
Fisher will visit the Colony in the course of a visit to Japan for the con- tenary of the Holy Catho- Rc Church of Japan which is a branch of the Anglican Church.
Dr Fishor's itinerary in Hong-
kong is not known.
Tho Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall, Bishop of Hongkong, will have discussions with Dr Fisher while he is in Lon- the Lambeth don
for Conferenco.
Eoka Threat To Resume Violence
Nicosia, June 8. Ecka today threatened to re- sume its terrorist campaign in Cyprus unless the government utope Its hunts for terrorists, In Famagusta, today the Foka
loader, Dignals told Guvernor i
meint
Sir Hugh Foot: "You asked for peace until the British policy statement on Cyprus is made and in con- sequence I discontinued any action against you. But while I am doing my bit to create
a peaceful atmosphere, you are not doing yours,
"If your security forces continue erarches and destruction of properly, I shall be forced to rotollate"-France-Presse.
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STRAUSS RESIGNS FROM AEC
Washington, June 5. Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, whose nuclear policies have come under slurp fre in Congress, bowed out today as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Com- mission.
The 62-year-old official, whose renum/natin would have faced Stiff Senate opposition, decnned President Elsenhower's offer to re-appoint him.
He chose instead to retire on June 30 upon expiration of hiệ five-year term. But he accepted 11 appointment as special Presidential assistant to promote Eisenhower's cherished "Atoms For Pence" programme.
NO REASONS Strauss offered no specific reasons for stepping sites | except to tell the President that "elicumstances beyond the con trol of either of us made change in the chairmanship of the Commission udvisable,
However, a Republican Con- gressionni source add the "real was that Strauss wanted to eiti the "foud" be- tween himself and Sen, Clinton Antlerson {Democrat-New Mexico), Vice-Chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Com- arilttee.
P.
This source said Stamus fell The "present constant bickering" was not good for the country, particularly in view of the fact that Anderson is slated to be- come chairman of The Coa presional committee next year it the Democrats keep control of Congress.-U.P.I.
GUIDED MISSILE
RETURNS
New Appointment
Mr
For Morrison.
Alexander Morrison, Superintendent of Police, has been appointed to the rank of Acting Sonior Superintendent of Polico it was announced in the Government Gazotto this morning.
MACAO CHURCH -FIRE-
Macao, June 6. A fire broke out in two places under the roof of St Augustina Church yostor- day.
Firemen, summoned to the scene found a Chinese male [hiding under the root beams,
New York, June 5. The US. naval air test sen- tre today launched the first of observatten.
Reguius
back to a
1 guided misslice,
The police placed him under
bring the controlled missile The church, which is used by successful landing the Shanghat refugees as their inland after a supersonic flight parish church, suffered only aver the Pacific Ocean.-U.P.I. alight damage-France-Presse,
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