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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1958.

Historic Chinese

Chinese Stone

Now

Overlooks Airport

CELEBRATED and It was announced that the of Canton. The date of this

During the Japanese occupa-

stone would be preserved in an historic Chinese appropriate setting and that stone known

been prepared and as Sung plans had

funds allocatect for the construc- Wong Toi, which was tion a garden, in which the moved from its original wribed portion of the stone

would be placed. site during the building of Hongkong's new in- ternational airport at Kai Tak, now stands in the centre of a small public garden at the junction of Tam Kung

A

restoration is recorded separate Inscription, the characters of 'which ranged perpendicularly.

the mouth of the West River There he was uimately deleated in a big sea battle and was

drowned. uro ar

However, there is mother ver- sion of the legend, one that more populer. This is the Sung

The Stone's Story According to legend, about the

tion of the Colony in the Second year AD 1278, when the Sung World War, the hill on which the Dynasty was overthrown by the stone stood was largely demolishing under Kublat Khan, the ed and the boulder Half was jast Emperor of The Sung Dynasty, Ti Ping, then a lad of split into three parts,

Road and Sung Wong by a Special Correspondent

Tol Road adjacent to the airport.

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The stone is huge granite boulder on one face of which is inscribed the three

"Sung characters Wong Toi" (literally trans Inted as the Terrace of a Sung Dynasty Emperor) This inscription is believed to be more than 600 years old.

In The Way

the

The small hilt on which boulder originally stood was la the way of the Kal Tak Airport development scheme lying more or less directly across the northern end of the new run- way, and in 1955 the Hongkong Government decided to pre- serve the rock

As the portion of the boulder bearing the inscription itself weighed about 1,000 tons, mak- Ing its removal extremely diffi- cult and costly, it was decided to split the stone yet again and to re-creet it in the new pubile garden, easily accessible to the public.

Genuine

It is not known when pic. elsely the three large characters "Sung Wong Toi" were carved on the huge granite boulder, but they are believed to be a genuine inscription of the Sung period.

The characters, having be- come nearly defaced in course of time, were restored at the as another of beginning of the 19th Century by order of the then Viceroy

the Colony's historic sites.

RUSSIANS MAY TEST

SUBMARINE ROCKETS IN ARCTIC

MANOEUVRES

Paris, Sept. 12.

The USSR, alorted by the success of American atomic submarines, is ex- pected to test its submarine-launched, rockets with nuclear warheads as well

Wang Tol was used by the Sung

Emperor TI Ping es a place of refuge when Mongol warriors of

M

Kublai Khan swept down from the plains of Central Chira

The fleeing Emperor seco

and his, Royal entourage.

Large Crevice

The story is that the Emperor, with his retinue, succeeded in eluding capture by hiding in o large crevice under the huge granite boulder while fierce- looking Mongols scoured the hills and fields of Kowloon. The inscription was later placed the rock to cornmemorate the Emperor's flight and escape.

on

about eleven, was driven with the Imperial Court to South China and finally compelled to take refuge on board a ship on which he continued his flight,

At. Shatin, on the other axe accompanied by the remnants of the Sung feet.

of the Kowloon Hill from Ku Salling from Foochow, he Tak, stands yet another historie eventually reached the waters renunder of the Sung Emperor's of Hongkong landed in sojourn in Kowloon. It is the

Lod Kowloon Bay near what later Che Kung Temple, reputed to became the village of Ma Tau have been erected in memory

Tradition Chung.

Bays that of

0 Marshal Che, favourie the Imperial troops camped for of

Was the Emperor, who time, probably for almost killed in action during મ year, on the hill on which the battle in the New Territories stone stood, whilst the Court between the Sung troops and lived in a roughly-constructed the Mongol kivaders. wooden palace crested

a short distance away.

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Then when news was received that a Mongol fleet had set sai for Kowloon, the Emperor and his own fleet moved onwards to

Another loyal follower of the Emperor, the Marquis Yang, also lost his life in the field of battle and today, in bis memory, stands Hau Wong

He's

Kurt Peters-Chipa Mall Photo.

Making The Most Of His Eyes

By ANDREW SLOAN

Temple at the end of Grampian A veteran traveller who is rapidly going blind,

Road.

Unexpected Golden Wedding

Gift For Churchills

London, Sept. 12.

Sir Winston and Lady Churchilt received an un- expected Golden Wedding present at the Doncaster races today,

It was the first prize in the Portland handicap, the big race of the day to which £3,000 had been added in prize money.

Sir Winston Churchill's Welsh Abbot ridden by Stan Clayton won at 100 to alne.—-China Mail Special.

as the "anti-radiation" equipment of Prize Fight

its warships in Arctic

later this month.

The naval

manoeuvres af- nounced by the Soylet Defence Ministry this morning will be held on the edge of the Arclic Ocean, sevne of the recent ex- ploits

the US atomic

DI

abmarines Skate which North Pole.

. Nautilus and

sulled under the

The Soviet submarine Bleet, considered the most powerful in the world, is composed of more than 300 vessels, the biggest of which have a range

of about 20,000 miles.

of action

manoeuvres

"Cheap Night Out" In London

London, Sept. 12.

Since 1954, the USSR has The London hippodrome, home concentrated on building small submarines with increased re- power and equipped with inissile-launching ramps.

At the same me, Soviet ex- perta have developed bydro- acoustia buoga capoble, of de- toeling enemy submarines at great distances,

Stopped

Doncaster, Sept. 12. Police intervened at Doncaster today, to elop an alleged £500 old style fight-to-a-finish bes tween Kitlone Love 24-your-old, boxing booth showman.

REDIFFUSION

arrived in Hongkong, a few days ago on his final hike. 59-year old Kurt Peters, who, has been hiking around the world since he was 18, decided a year age, that as his eyesight was failing he would try and see as much of the world as possible before he went totally blind.

He will be leaving the Chiotry introduced to, and had a long at moon day for Japan. From talk with the Prime Minister of there he hopes to go to Sout India, Mr Jawaharlal Nehru. America to sce his brother, whom he has not even for 45 years. His brother is now mar- ried and an engineer in Colum. bla, South America.

Pelers sald, "He was a won- derful man, and very kind," re- calling the meeting.

One of the most unusual men he has met, he said, was a holy Peters was, born in Stettin,man, whom he met end had lunch now in East Germany, in 1809, with in Dewas, India. The holy and in his long career he has man predicted a third world war worked in many different jobs in 1882, and that it would begin He recalls that he even worked in India. on the siege on any of his trips. to America.

After

his

On Foot

18th

Pelers sald "I used to do ali birthday, Poters decided to see the world my travelling on foot, but now and began hitch-hiking. In all am travelling on ships. I was his travels, he has kept a faith y lucky meeting some won- ful record in a number of books.

derful Indian people during my Ave months there. But he seldom has to look at these when recounting the places visited.

tween them, and have paid my "They alsed some money be passage, first class, all the way

As quickly as I could read to Japan." from the book, Pelers reeled off As well as being Paters the countries, and the people he jumping-off point for South. had met. Already be has filed America, Jappn is a place of two of these largo 280-page hope. books with photographs, and

It is there that he hopes to A.JKE. "Cranford", Part notes. The third is well on the meet 1-Stopped Payment"; 14 Noen,

some Idrous eye- Tun Tune: 12.30 p.m. Three Men On way to being full before this specialists. "I have heard they trip ends, in the closing months had some very fine eye-doctors there, so I hope one of them Jean help me."

11.30

A Mike-Joe Willams, Məl Willim and Perk Williams; 1 Keyboard of next year, Capers; 1.30, Weather Report News and Special AnnouncONVOLITE, 1.30, George Melachsino and his Orches-

Lave and Barion were brought before the

Prairie: count alleging that their conduct was likely to cause a breach of the peace and were each bound over in the sum

£500 for one month.

of

This would be forfeited if the for years of lavish musical planned light took place, extravaganzas, was launched Jast night restaurant offering night out in town.

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When he returns to Germany he hopes to wrlle a book abatt

Colonial Scots

ura: 1. Saturday Requests-Presented his experiances. From the royal by Nick Kandail: 3 Phila Vance Bos, the veteres bitch-biker Eplode The

Cipher Murder Case"), 3,30, Paill Fago Introduces, hopes to build a hostel for young The Big Record; 4. Songs of The travellers," like I was once," he

London, Sept. 12. 4.30, ythm Parade; 5.

said.

Scottish students who want to Muse By Roth; 8, Birthday Mallong: 5.02. Melody Muale; 6.30, Meet The Met Nehru

study for nothing just cross the Star Victor Borge; 7, Fiesta Time:

border to Carlisle and join the Mantovani Memories; 7.45, Bong "I know TimeFat Beene; &, Time Blynal and world, so I want to give

how It is in the technical college where they are Now 3.09, Weather

them treated as colonials and get a nouncements and Interlude, somewhere to sleet, somewhere tree grant, the Sunday newe- interlude For Musio-The Joe Sod they Trio: 630, Voice Of Sport:cheap

can get a good meal, as paper Reynolds News reports. Parade: 20, Blukic From Biaxim's:

Norrmal as possible. If I can

Lees for full-time students at Carlisle are £80 to June 3, 1958, will remain 100 a year. Carlisle gots the night, Close Down Whiteman; 11, Daces Party: 12 Ad-Peters. For it was on that day, the

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