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Nine-Storey More Hongkong Students CHINESE CHECKERS:

Building For Laichikok

Plans for a nine-xlorty block building in Fuh Wah Street, Lalchikok which would cost about $782,000, were revealed In an exemption ease heard before a Tenancy Tribunal

(President), Mr P. M. Mans

feld and Mr G. M. Davreux,

Go For Schooling Abroad Is This

by Andrew Sloan

China Mail Reporter

comprising Mr John Way An increasing number of Hongkong Chinese students are leaving the Colony for universities and schools in Canada, America, Australia and Britain, according to the immigration offices of those countries in Hongkong.

this morning,

The cos! would Include demolition of the existing build- Ing.

The premises concerned are eight three-storey buildings el Nos. 72-80, Fuk Wah Street, Applying for the exemption ste the owners, the Mom Yu Enter- prise 1d., who are represented by Mr Lesle Wight, instrueles by Mr Peter Mo.

Mr Wright fold the Tribul that the present buildings were about 25 years ok amel were without sonitation facilities,

The stars were steep and dark, The front part of the ground floors Wus used for bustness was a smaji purposes, and to

portion of the upper tours. the premises were a paperwa factory, knitting and

and also

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taikuring felony

rewing factory.

Eight Shops

On

Schools and Universites Australia

are

"If we can impress upon them, knowledge of Bucat that, a English is necessary, [ will prevent a lot of minceessary heartbreak. Not a large num of applicmits are turned down, but they Ace the ones who

and America taking the largest number of Hongkong boys and girle Since 1st gear, the aggregate of students leaving Hongkong for Australia has increased by more than half, and Americaenuse us conect," is taking nearly u third more than last year,

The Canadian immigration oillee states that the number of Iur Universi- students leaving ties in Canada is "pretty well Just year, If

#the

lightly higher."

same as

Steady Increase

of

to

This is done, he said, determine whether they will return to Hongkong after com pleting their courses in Ameri- cal, "If they do not plan to eiurn then the value of the programme is lost." The end- ing of Chinese students to America makes for better East- West relations when they T- turn, according the official,

If an applicant has no family in Hongicong, then he is not ecc- sidered for a staklent visa.

From, Formosa

Chou's Game?

in

Berlin, Sept. 7.

to

By Edwards J. Shields

STERLING SILVER TIP

From the Files

25

years AGO-

LANE Crawford's beat Hong- kong and Shanghal Hotels by B0 games to 43 at the KCC Courts, C. Balman and H. Bursen (LC) lost to P. H. Suckly and R. S. Capell, 3-8, beat W. H. Brown and E. O. Murphy 7-4, beat E. H. г. White and Kirlovsky 9-2.

Two KCC batsmen F. A. Munn and D. H, Munroe made impressive debuts in the Club's Arst trial watch of the season оп Saturday. Muna batted appressively for 31 including Avu boundaries, Munroe (who scored 20) is a left-hand batz- men who plays himself in care- fully and becomes attractive to watch once he is set,

Peking's proposal

with negotiate

the United States on For-i mosa may be part of a

as slage setting for reopening; rute of the Islands was swept out complicated game of or khe fon-stalled Sino-by_postwar revolution.

American talka. held in Geneva The Chinese made no im- "Chinese Checkers,' in 1955 and 1950.

mediate moves to contact Mr These falks between the Beam, or accept his nomination, This interpretation, current Peking Ambassador, Wang authoritative diplomatic sources among Western observers Ping-an, and the then U.. said, although the Chinese nego- Warsaw where the Ambassador 10 Austria, tiator, Wang Ping-nan, also is

Thompson, were stationed in Warsaw. talks would probably be Llewellya,

broken off alter 73 meetings Theu came Mr Khrushchev's held, sces the short- which resulted in repatriation of dramatic secret flight to Peking, range Communist goal as all but three or four Americans and the revival of Chinese at- bringing the U.S. to the held in China.

tacks on Formosa's offshore conference table, and the The remaining item on the islands. long-range aim as admis- agcuda was "other matters of Interest" to the two countries. sion of China to the U.N. This bogged down on U.S. 1-

Emporium, Hongkong's With the threal established TOUSANDS packed the China

and A

* sistenco on its Tight le self- through ahellings

troup newest departmental store in defence in the Formosa

movements on the mainland near Queen's Road, when it opened Chinese and the Communists claim

to Quemoy, Chou En-lai apparently is doors for the rat me for pressure on Formoso was widely freedom to work for "peaceful

a crisis atmosphere was business on Saturday. A dense

would

of mass Soviet liberation of the Istarkt from being established which

humanity struggled lead to speedy re-opening of the through from floor to floor up leader, Nikita Khrushchev, me! Chiang Kai-shek's government.

Sing-American talks, with China to the Chinese tea garden and Tre-lung and other When Mr Thompson secondary with Man

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position of strength, named ambassador to Moscow.in

beamusement resort on the roof education in the Colony and who Chinese leaders Just month. normally Hve here.

On the Soviet side. The re- -There are

mid-1957, the Chinese called for cording to Western interpreta of the six-storyed building and from the vival of threats to Formosa re- the US, to name andšer nego- not many graduates

then down again, and so it con- Screening

attention University of Hongkong, seccrd- | moved

from the | dator of ambasadoriai rank, but

11 the negotiations break tinued for the greater part of

15 down, before, Communist-the day as Hongkong satisfer American displayed no great, enthusiasan oficial

who Interviews ing to the offcial. He said that Middle East, where

pressure for United its curiosity on the values of the Chinese applicants for student this year there has been en la troop landings temporarily cut for re-opening of the talice until nurtured

Nations action could prospect of costless pront | early this summer, visus

be ex-one hundred and ons lines of said, "It they can nel rease of nearly 30 per cent in the | the

In July, Washington nominated pected. And China then could goods carried by the modern 15-minute interview number of students going to the fur Russian influence, according through a

to this interpretation. year without an interpreter, then U.S.

foot in the departmental store. The official the U.S. ambassador to Poland, legitimately slip

Henry The ofciul for consider

believes this

cluding Sir their knowledge

For the Chinese Communists, Jacob Beam, who had been sla- N. door which the U.S. has guests

Pollock and the Hon Mr R, H. Of English sufficient”

gradual increase is because the It was regarded, at least in part, tioned in Indonesix when Dutch !eng barred.-U.FI. From January 1, to August situation in Hongkong

Kotewall were received by the Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, chair- man of directors.

M: White added: "I have a talk with. Those who urs not English and ex- 100 fluent in plain the situatica. When they the following your come back

improvement In their the

And speech

knowledge Engush is reinstable,"

July and August prove to the busiest months. Mr Waite Over the last three years, there said, alter the results of the has been a steady increase in the school and Universiy number of students going to Bri-uninations come out. teln. v. 1955-50, only 200 On the other hand, the Ameri- students registered for British can Consulate are not Íschrels sud universities The corned with a Chinese any or following year saw an increases ability to speak English of 50.

Buently. This your 353 Hongkong bays

An

ex-

So con

of

the

Acer the screening student is called to the Consulate for an interview.

Forces

An Increase in

the

Quite a number of university graduates come from to Hongkong to

obtain their predicted when visus but these are students who have received their

be-

The pans for the new build-and girls were sued with Bri-

there would ach slident visas, ings showed that

Mr G. E. White at the be eight shops on the ground

Immigration

Ollec, door and 9C dats for domestic Canadian Use The new block would reports that the office receives

some 250 applications & pravice 60,000 square feet of covered area as compared with frum, Hongkong students vists to study s Canada. the present 28,000 square feet.

there about 175 are eventually Regarding the Itnancial posi- tion of the applicants, Mrmed with visas,

31, this year, 390 applications coming more stable and parents Wight said the Company had "The biggest problem of were received for student visus,are carning sufficient to send obtained raclities from the

GO per their children abroad to study. we And is the number of and of these, at least

who students who apply, and

Teent were made in the three Hang Swg Bank amounting to

For Australia $800,000 on the Security

carunt speak and understand months from June 1. of

It is a bitter buk

In English fluently. mertgage site.

them and their addition, the Company had blow, boli to

have probably rprets, who $420,000 in is current accoun with the Bank.

been planning for years to send them abroad to study, to be re- fused visas on these grounds.

Hearing is continuing.

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After a student makes hla or her application, "we then begin in screen the applicant, looking to their family background and school He," the official

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Almost 450 students visas, oul

of a total of 730 visns, were issued to Chinese for Australlu, The big universities at Sydney and Melbourne take the bulk uf students, while others are spread around the Australian continent. According to the Australian Immigration Office, the increase this year has been almost 50 per cent over last year,

The Education Department sold that of 953 students who' informed the Department they were going to Britain to study, 110 turned out to be student Kurses, The remainder went to British high schools, technical institutes and universities to further their studies.

An official at the Education Department sald that he be- Heved the increase was due to the rising population and

of schools. In

shortage

Colony.

the

Campaign

Against Diptheria Begins

Today, the Medical Depart- mont began their annual anti-dipthoria campaign,

which will continue right up to the end of Novem- bor this year.

In the present campaign, the Melical Department officla's plan to munise as many young children

possible against o disease, which is ¡most dangerous among growing

children.

The Medical authorities have made extensive plans for mobile teams to tour the Colony for this year's drive. Im-

A laboratory assistanı amiles as Lady Black peers

through a microscope during her visit of Kowloon Hospital this morning. In the background is Miss Kathryn Bląck.—

China Mali Photo,

LADY BLACK VISITS

KOWLOON HOSPITAL

munisation is the any cffective Lady Black, and her daughter Miss Kathryn Black, this

preventive

measure, and the morning made an extensive three-hour inspection of

Modical Department have made Immunisation availabio

ut all Government clinics and health offices,

Kowloon Hospital, Argyle Street.

Tel

Dr the Hon. D. J. M. Mae the New Territories are taken Earlier this week a spokesman Kenzio, Director of Medical and care of. of the Medical Department said: | Health Servires Recomponlod At the main hospital bulld- "Although anti-diphtheria im-Lady Black. to the Hospital. Ing. Lady Black was mot by. munisations ure available where they were welcomed by Miss J Brown, Matron, and throughout the year in all Go-Dr B. L. C. Phillips, the Act from there proceeded to tho vernment clinics and health ing Medical Superintendent, Blood Bank and Pathological offices, it is especially important Miss D. C. Schofield, Principal; Laboratory. that 49 many susceptible Motron, Sister D. M. Norman, Otter sections which Lady children as possible should re- Sister in Charge, of Dul-patients | Black visited Included tho celve this protection before the Department and the Hospital Physiotherapy Department, this winter moniks. when the Gecretary, Mc B. Ai Edwards, Dispensary, the Operating disease showe its highest in-

Theatre, and the 'Children's cidence,

The visitors were first taken Warda.

་ people who to the Casualty Department, the Before leaving - the hospital, imaiunised busiest section of the Hospital Lady Black saw patients in, the died out of where surgical and medical Surgical and Maternity Wards; emergencies from Kowloon and and later inspected the kitchen.

Last year 120 trad not been

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First Lord Visits

The wedding was solemnised quietly at St John's Cathedral on Saturday by the Rew N. V Halward of Mr A. B. ("Bertie") of the late Mr and Mrs R. Hansson of, Leighton Hill Road, and Miss Edith May Wood, eldess

HMS Tamar Hanon, elder on

Ad- The First Lord of the miralty, the Earl of Selkirk visit- ed HMS Tamar this morning.

Before hds' visit o 17-gum salute his honour thundered from the Navy's shore-based" es- tablishment.

The Earl of Selkirk, who arrived in the Colony on Satur day was met at Tamar by Com- modore G.D.A. Gregory, Captain J. S. Milnor and Commander B.W.K. Hewoon,

daughter of Mr and Mrs C. H. Wood of Swatow. The bride. groom was a well-known weal at Truro sportsman, educated Collage, Cornwall, He played Mr cricket for Craigengower. J. R. Luke, who was at Truro College with the groom, was best man,

Later he inspected a guard of EXTRACT frem SOMP leader;

under Lieutenant E.

honour

Quenoe.

The First Sea Lord was 60-

The appeal for funds to erect a Cheero Club for service- men is one which the com~

companied by Rear Admiral JG,munity will have no hesitation Hamilton, his Naval Secretary in supporting. In

.and Mr P. B. C. Moore,

Principal Private Secretary.

Lator the Earl of Selisirk visit- od Headquarters, British Forces to meet senlur Army officers and returned

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to tour the establisdumont, Be Lore lunch he visited the Petty Officers' Mess,

Triad Suspects

Arrested

the British population especially the move- ment must arouse sympathelle response, The fact that lead- have ing Chinese geallemen come forward to co-operate and that one has headed that list with a donation of $1,000, is a

friendly challenge.

The newly marketed HB beer. was causing a small "beer war* in Hongkong. Gimmicks design. ed to popularise' the bear included advertisements of frea 'Yesterday evening the Police beer to patrona of well-lendun detained five Chinese men in local restaurants, while Cald- The Mai Kong Restaurant, Persi beck Macgregor advertised civel Streat, The men are sus "very substantial” reductions in pected of being members of out- the price of the "famous Shang- Jawed Triad societies.

hal UB beer"

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