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IXTY-one students of the

new

Chung Chi College were presented with diplomas by Mrs. G. Morkan, wife of the Acting Director of Education, at a graduation ceremony this week, and must people who visited the ground of this foundation with Its buildings and wide campus will on the Talpo Rond have been impressed with his educational Institution. Yet in no speech winny mention made of the cur. rent problem which faces Hongkong Educational authorities and the post | secundary colleges working In the Colony,

The problem was examined at length at the end of last year in series of articles Professor by

presented Priestley

of Hongkong University, and a careful study was followed by his recommendations which were, broadly, that Hongkong University wa faced with a greater prob- lem than it could handle, and that the extating post accondary colleges should

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CHINA MAIL

No. 37098

Convent

Nicosia, July 10.

Greek Cypriot suns ran screaming down hillside in all directiona as men armed with sticks and knives mounted a sudden attack against their convent in south Cyprus inte tonight.

R was officially announced later that the bodies of one aun and one monk, both Greek Cypriots, had been found at the convent. They had been killed by Sten-gun bullets, and thero wara also kalic wounds on their bodies..

There were 17 nuns in the convent, and in the monastery wing a

quarter of a mile away there were three monka. According to the Investigators Sister Agathonik was feeding the hena in the convent grounds in the gathering dusk when she was attacked, Shots were fired and she fail amid the crackling hona.. She was then stabbed to death.

Tidal

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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1958.

Outrage

In

He too

At about the same time the monk was loading a truck.

wis sprayed with Sten-gun fire and then stabbed. Other nuns within the convenit screamed the shots were heard, Beveral Groek villagers within a short distance heard the shots and ran into nearby Aradippou village calling for help. When help camo both the nun and the monk were lying dead with wooping nuns around them. There was no sign of the attackera. The official account said nothing about the identity of the attackars

merely saying the mask and the nun were murdered. Greek Cypriot sources claimed the attack was made by Turkish

Cypriota.

The attack was launched on the Metamorphosis Convent, belonging to the old Calendarist Movement, which maintains several monasteries throughout the island,

it olimaxed a day of renowed communal clashes, shootings, stabbinge

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and a bomb Incident in the Island colony, which ataimed at least five other Ives, including an 11-year-old Greek Cypriot shepherd bay.

For the second successive night, the walled city of Nicole, and its

suburbs were under a full houes curfew. This was clamped down again today after a bomb Incident In the old cily had injured three Greške and two Turka and several shootings

It was near the village that the shepherd boy was found dead. An adult Greek Cypriot shepherd with him, admitted to hospitai with stab wounds, sald they were attacked by three Turks. Amid heightening tension, British troops mounted large-scals opera- tlone in several regions of Cyprus. They averted a clash between Turklok and Greek Cypriots, carrying sticks, stones and knives in fields near Paphos Router.

Wave Danger In Pacific Recedes

ALASKA EARTHQUAKE LATEST

Death Toll May Paris Official Says:

Be Five:

250 U.S.

NUCLEAR

EQUIPPED

PLANES IN FLIGHT EVERY DAY'

Island Swamped PLANES

Anchorage, July 10.

be 1egrated is a general. A powerful carthquake jolted Alaska today

ly British form of "edsen- tion.

These recommendations were

and tidal waves started by it killed at least three people and almost ob- literated an island,

Paris, July 10.

The United Styles Strategle Air Cuminand had 250 to 300 nuclear bomb carrying air- craft in the air 24 hours a day throughout the world.

.M.

Cherloy Hernu, Radical Secretary of the Franch National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, was quoted as saying this today.

erican popular wAt least two other people were missing This force would be griset te

officials

the of

Accundary

who colleges maintained among other

and feared dead.

things that Professor The waves tossed fishing boala j Priestley misunderstood the Bike carks and cracked off

purpose of a University in huge block of ice from a glacter a Chinese Society, and that end tumbled it into Liluya Bay. Chinese

suitablo A tidal WEVE

廷 Was

alert caused 10 many families leave their

medium for higher educe-emen in beach areas of Hawai tion in Hongkong.

2,000 miles away but they re- turned when waves did not ap- pear.

Indigenous Schools

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The quake shook up Juneau but enused no damage ur in-

juries. It caused a strong ildel wave at Sitko, but apparently s strength dissipated as it moved south and west over the Pacific.

U.P.1.

Australian Tour

Strawberry Picking Peter May

Season,

Yakutat

Bob Welsh RIS views requires some

of Bellinghaun, |Washington, who was ut qualification. While it is Yakutat for the salmon true that the Indians hope telephoned Bellingham to tench mechanics in port that his mother, Mrs Jean Hindi, and the Chinese Welsh Walton, and two Opvera- already tench medicine in ment employees n Chinese, and even in Singa.identified only us "Mr and Mrs two Tibble disappeared with part pore today there are Universities, one of them or Khuston island. feaching in the language of A part of the island about long crumpled Into the Malays, there is in each five miles

is waves Yakutat Bay situations these

and the local over it. Mrs Wallon

Tibbles were on the island

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society to absorb the pro- pick wild strawberries, MI ducts of their Indigenous Welsh said schools.

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To Lead

MCC Team

Lordon, July 10. l'eler May, the Surrey and Eng- land captain, has been chosen to lead

team to the M.C.C. tour Austraila and New Zea- land this winter.

Two coast guard vessels and Tils was announced from Lords

amphibious plane were

This situation does not exist searching Lituya Bay, about in Hongkong. It is not a 150 miles west of Juneau, for British plot that people in the fishing vessel Sunmore.

The Summøre, with

two

БОСА

Hongkong find it difficult persons aboard, was last to make headway in business going over a 40-foot land spit" or professional life or to the grip of huge wayes, take a prominent place in Hongkong soclety without

Terrible

the knowledge of English, Frank Neumann, University The Hongkong government of Washington seismologist, sall In fact, has gone so far in it was a terrible earthquake." the other direction that this it had a Richter magnitude of 8. colony has been preserved The strongest

8 an oasis for the almost hure was 8.6. extinct "Cantonese,"

today. Since taking over the England

captaingy in 1955, May has led the side in 23 Tesis, len against South Africs. Ilve and each against Australla the West Indies, and three so for against the New Zca- landers is simmer.

to 200 aircraft by of the year,

re-

aircraft were under the sponsibility of three men. It was understood that a nuclear bunib could only be dropped with the full agreement of these three nien and that in any case the nuclear bombs would be primed only after their passage of the "Red Linethe Soviet frontler, The crews of these aircraft schno!" underwent "survival training to resist possible tortures on "enemy" lerritory. 9.A.C. Hernu described underground headquarters with' its giant screen on which all movements of the Reprizal Fores could be followed all aver the world. He was

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M. Hermú was, reporting to the Committee on his recent four of the Strategie Air Com- mand's Headquarters Ja Nebraska, sources close to the Committee said, SAC's 2,300 strong reprisal force aircraft of B-47 und B-25 would by the end of the year be gradually replaced by B-58 jet aircraft capable of flying three times as fast as sound. M. Hernu was quoted as saying that Strategle Air Command's

quoted as saying that only President Eisenhower, who also followed these move- ments on a television set, the White House, could give the "fatal order."

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M. Herns was reported as say - ing that the Americans were

"Pearl Harbour" ecnscious and were persunded that If one day they they were attacked. would know about it through the explosion of the Brit bombs on their soil. That was why they had constituted! powerful retaliatory force. in Washington, General Curtis Lemay, Vice.Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, sad that the "ready" systém for sending hydrogen-bomb equipped Strategic Air Com- mand planes

the towards Soviet Union in answer to a possible Russian attack had never been put into effect "and I don't think ever will be on a falso alarm basis." Ho added that there had never been an alann which had been flashed to Strategle Air Command plants.

"It may be that when the real thing comes we will launch the force before the President has made up his mind that

Increased Sentences Demanded For 100 Hungarians On Trial

in-

Washington, July 10. Hungarian courts have demanded increased sentences,

cluding the death penalty, on 100 citizens put on re-trial for "revolutionary activities” during a recent 10-day period, a United States State Department spokesman said today.

In Budapest, a Hungarian Government spokesman

denied

reports that Mrs Jula Rak CHAIR THROWN AT PRINCESS

widow of the former HungaTIEN Interior and foreign minister, had been executed after a secret trial.

If he leads the side in all five Tesis this summer, he will equal the record for any Test captain. W. M. Woodfull cap- tained Australla 25 times from ports were "lies," 1930 to 1934.

Freddie ever

rreorded

"It lasted for eve hours," Mi Neumann said, "ami was so strong that it knocked out some

Hongkong's pust secondary or our equipment."

colleges pose the question ... One coast guard vessel found "whether these institutions a swamped cabin etuiser in the

and are to be given officini Yakutat Day area recognition for the work guard headquarters at Juneau they are actually doing and received an unconfirmed report

people were receive their fair share of that four

who the quake struct

public support, or whether their development fa to be retarded indefinitely by lack of funds and their graduates confined forever to academic limbo."

Hongkong's Need

Bomo

UT the Professors of theso

BColleges are the first to

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describe themselves "exiles. They are ого- fessedly anti-Communist. And though it is the purpose. of a University to train the mind and not just give qualifications, yet it fails if its graduates find themselves incapable of useful employ ment.

There would appear in Hong- kong to be a need for more than one place of higher education. But the purposa neoda of that education defining, and the form It `should take, is obviously not

yet clear."

former Brown, the England caplain, And the man who managed the M.C.C.

The spokesman said such re-

Supporters

cot-

Bul Reuter's Budapest on their last four of South respondent reported that rum- Aften in 1056/87, is named as fours of the Rajk trial have been circulating freely in Budapest manager.

during the last few days.

year.

E. D. R. Exgar. Becretary of the Hampshire C.C.C. and until tha lat contr

explain of county side, will be gaining his first experienes on an MLC.C. iour as Assistant..

manager-Franco-ProESO.

aboard

In Tomorrow's China Mail

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ON'T miss the next instalment of "The Rac Johnstone Story," appearing in tomorrow's Creature packed weekend Issue of the China Mail. 'n the second or this exciting series, the famous ex- jockey tells everything he knows of "Oxing" a race and relates with brutal honesty his part in these horse-racing deals.

"Doctor No," Ian Fleming's tense, fast-moving serial novel of secret agents, beautiful women and murder coniinues in tomorrow's Mall, reaching the half-way stage in the story with the plot rapidly, building up suspense.

Other highlights in the big 20-page issue ore;

"The Legacy of Liu Pui".... A moving short story by a fast-rising liongkong writer, David T. K. Wong; Let's Take Hongkong's Word .... a study of pidgin English and local colloquialisms by R. W. Thomp son of the Hongkong University;

Two full pages of local news pictures... by China

Mail photographers.

Also: Show, Business, a fall page of Insido stories of filmdom by top reporters in Hollywood and Britain; your favourite cartoons and comics; film, book and record reviews; and all the latest foreign and local now and viows, · Tako home a China Malt temorrow!!

Most reports have ogrend that Mrs Rajk, whose husband was executed for Titolsm" in 1049, and four others have been on trial as Supporters от close 2330ciates of Mr Imre Nagy. Premier at the time of the 1950 uprising. Mr Nagy was executed last month.

Reuter's correspondent said well-informed Dources Budapest tend to believe that reports stating that Mrs Rajk was sentenced to 10 of 12 years imprisonment seem the most authentic.

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Meanwhile, 14 people accused of smuggling fallow Hungarians across the border during the 1086 uprising were sentenced at Cyoor, Hungary, today to prison terms totalling 22 years,- Reuter.

Prindess Alexandra

MOUSE ROCKET

SIGHTED?

Cape Canaveral, July 10. The United States Air Force' gald tonight that the nose cone ot the Thor rocket' carrying o

New Space Rocket live mouse which was fired from

Engine

Washington, July 10,

here yesterday, had been sighted by two planes and two ships in the Ascension Island impact arca.

An approximate, position had Tosis of an atomic rocket been obtained for search craft, engine named "Rover" which the air force announcement said. siemals nuight be able to reach any It added that radio planet short of Jupiter, will from the nose cone were too bogin at the Nevada proving weak to enable its position to.

rounds in November, American be pin-pointed, scientists disclosed in congrès- Aircraft would make a "last alonal testimony released today, resort search" boonorkow the Air

Router.

Torco said-Reuter.

London, July 10.

KONEO ON

Britain,

Yemen In Bid To Settle Dispute

Aden, July 10, Britain and the Yemen have

opened peace talks in an effort to settle their years- Jong Aden border dispute, it was disclosed officially today,

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Anglo Yetmeni peace Lalks opened today at Direcawn, In Ethiopia, in the summer palace of Emperor Halle Selassie,

In London a Foreign Offica spokesman confirmed the talks and sald they were abned at settling and Preventing disputes along the explosive Aden-

Yement border],

The British representative In the negotiations is Horace Phil- Hips, Protectorate Secretary In {the Aden Government. He flew The suddenly to Ethiopia in A seercey - enshrouded mission while the Aden Government in- dieated he was on his way to London:

this is the real thing. system gives the commander in the field a Hitle more flexi- lity nnd time to protect his

un:ll force

the President makes up his mind that he wonly some action.

Yemen is old lo_be_repre- sented by its deputy Foreign Minister Qadl Al Amri.

The talks

were reported lo

"If it ever does happen it will be the real thing and there Is no such thing 5 running these things (the planes) up have been started at the request to the Ruzian border and at the Imam of Yemen as a re- coming back. We have never suit of patien; behind-the-scenes flashed the force: We have mediation attempts by the U.S. had tests on portions of it but-U.P.I. never in such a manner that will be of any danger to any onc."

Following pubileation eariler this year of reports of the SAC "fail safe" system, the Soviet Union charged before the United Nations Security Cour- ell that the United States was endangering peace by hydrogen bomb nights over the polar re- glons towards Russia-Reuter,

Tokyo Rose Not To Be Deported

San Francisco, July 10. A supreme court ruling has saved Mrs Iva D'Aquino ("Tokyo Bloo") from deportation, the United States Immigration Ser- vite disclosed today.

Mrs. D'Aquino was released

from prison in January, 1956. months of a 10-year sentence

after serving six years and two

for treason for her propaganda broadcasts from Tokyu during The war.

Deportation proceedings against her were taken alter her release but in recent Supreme Court decision in a similar case

A 16-year-old juvenile deilu- | made it plain that as she was an Iron till a United States citizen at quent today buried ebair at the head of Princess the time of her arrest and Alexandra as she was visiting conviction she is not deportable. the South-east London-Beuter. Juvenile court-but the Prin ecks ducked and the whizzed over her head.

chair

The Princess, who is a cousin of the Queen was seated beside the judge, Mrs D. Morrah, when a young delinquent who had been sentenced for theft was being taken out of court. The boy knocked aside one of bis guards with a shoep blow, seized choir and sent it fly- Ing at the Princess's hend‚—

France-Presse.

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ARMED MEN

WHILE IKE PLAYS GOLF

Royal

Ottawa, July 10. Canadian Mounted. Policemen and U.S. Socur ity Officers made a fruit- fors search of the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club grounds while President Eisenhower played golf today, following a report that two armed men had been seen in the area.

The check of the golf course was ordered by Police Inspector H.S. Cooper, in charge of security for the Presidentini trip, after a taxi driver reported that he had let off two armed pus- sengers in the area-one it cach end of the course,

No frace of the men Wax

found by the security officials.

U.P.I.

'No' To Queen Poster

The

London, July 10, visit to a Scottish coal mine last British Safety Council week. were today refused permission to reproduce on posters a photo- After hepring of the decision graph of the Queen wearing | from Buckingham Palace today miners' safety outfit.

Mr Leonard D. Hodge, National The picture, which showed |Orgonlser for the British Safety the Queen in white boiler suit, Counek, said, he was "bitterly helmet and safely boots carrying distppointed" and "shocked" a lomp, was taken during her Reuter,

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