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Comment SOLO FLYER BACK AGAIN MACMILLAN:

Of The

Day

275 A Day!

TOR years Hongkong hay

Fo

been moaning about its i

Leaves, & Then Trouble

Develops

refugee burden. The Captain Chuck Banfe's

700,000 who flocked

into

the Colony after what is ironically called the "Liberation" of China-and whom the world has refused to help are no longer the main part of the problem. Many have been housed, some even wholly or partly halt, the employed; the

blind and the sick have under the tender

come

hand of Welfare. We would prefer them still in Chinn but for better or worse they are here and we have accepted them. They are virtually Hongkong citizens,

But this does not mean that

Hongkong us abandoned { its claim to international aid. In fact, quite aport from the second generation of the post-liberation refugees, we still have immigranta

pouring into

Hongkong at the fantastic rate of 275 a day, or at least 100,000 a year. And if the figures of the Commissioner of Registration of Persons that show anything it is this rate is not dwindling.

Fantastic

Ainux

we state, the current amounts to more than our annual birth rate. This is the fantastic problem which Ilongkong is faced with and this why our

ever.

claim for world assistance on a huge scale four direct and indiret expenditure on refugees is sald to be $200 million # year is more urgent than Obviously the Hong- kong taxpayer eannot ron

such n to shoulder tinue huge burden alone. Bishop Hall has told British people that Hongkong is not faxed sufficiently. Île right. There is a good case

is

attempt this morning to continue his solo!

around the flight

world was frustrated again when his plane developed engine

trouble less than 100 miles outside Hong- kong.

The PAA pilot hud to re- turn and he landed at Kai Tak at 9.24 o'clock this morning, less than an hour and a half after his take-off at 7.56 a.m.

CAPT, CHUCK BANFE

Specials and engineers are working of the plane to put it right but it is not expected that the aircraft will be ready to take off again today.

Was

Captain Chuck Banfe forced to land at Kal Tak lour Monday when his plane, n single-engine Mooney MK 20A,

developed engine trouble curing A

the flight from Bangkok to Okinawa, his ninth leg in a round-the-world flight.

Running Rough

Repairs were effected on the plane and this morning Captafra Bonfe took off from Kal Tak airport at 7.66 am. About 30 the engine was running rough minutes later he reported that

THIS MAY BE CHINA'S FIRST BRITISH SHIP

BRAVES

DO

IT AGAIN

Milwaukee. Oct. 2.

THE Milwaukee

Braves today de- feated the New York Yankees 13-5 in the second game of the 1958 world series, and 2-0 lead in took games.-U.P.I. (Full Report on Page 7)

.

A recent picture of the 10,850-ton British Liberty ship, Springbank,

ÚK

TO SELL FIRST SHIP TO

TO CHINA

Springbank Now In HK

The sale of the first British ship to China has been approved, and the ship is now in Hong- kong. She is the 10,850-ton British steamer, Springbank.

CIVIL

SUICIDE PILLS FOR UK DEFENCE MEN?

Scarborough, Oct. 2. speaker at the Labour Party's annual con

ference here today shocked delegates by alleging Civil Defence workers were to be issued with a store of lethal pills.

The purpose, he sald, was 50 is that rocket bases in Britain that people not quite dead in are strictly British Air Ministry un H-bomb explosion could business.

take the pills and commit An Air Ministry spokesman

Force

This was revealed today in a France-Presse opble from Lon- don quoting loy's list and shipping. Gazelle,

According to the report the ship is to be handed over to her new owners in the "near future." It is understood that the Chinese paid £45,000 (UK$720,000) for her, but these Tarts could not be confrmed locally.

Not Finalised

to According

sources Hongkong the cale has not been finalised,

In

The Springbank was one of the "Sam' shups on icuse-jenú

y

to Britain from America, short- after her completion in an American shipyard in 1944. At That time the name on her bow was Samspelga.

for spreading the tax burden so that more people contributo to the Colony's needs. There is also much

suicide,

said, "I confirm this. There are

She arrived in Hongkong from to be said for putting addi

but decided to carry on.

But a Home Ofice spokes-no United States Air

Yokohama on September 21, for tional imposta on things However Uhe Krouble be pian commented tonight that rocket sites in this country and like cinema and Chinese came worse in

the speaker, Mr all civilian employees at these repairs to her crankshaft. She the next 10 he presumed opera senis, liquor and minutes

being sites are Air Ministry employees. Botton to list on and Captain Banle Peter Cadogan, was

opart from contractors Inbour in Kowloon Docks on Sunday. tobacco and taxing res decided to return to Hongkong, facetious."

Lloyd's List and Shipping taurant and club meals, Emergency facilities at Kui He said: "The story thaters who are engaged individual-

Gazette, commenting on the sple and hotel bills, But having Tak were alerted but the air-death pills are to be issued to ly;

said: "In addition it has never been veryone thoroughly craft landed safely at 9:24 am the Civil Defence is absolutely the practice of the Air Minisiry

"With the vast industrializution At the moment, specialists nonsense,"

of China now gathering momen- suggestion

to inquire whether a man is a angry by this

and engineers are giving

My Cadogan said that since member of the Labour Party or

tum, it seeme, only a matter of be added that our

to an cust England

before # large-scale refugees still need inter-gine a careful check and will march

not and such membership would time before rocket base nake extra

the Americans, repairs national aid-and in a form Captain

not influence his employment.development of her merchant Bonfe's next hop to alarmed by the demonstration,

fleet will be necessary. more substantial than $600 Tokyo to continue his globe- have "given certain English en- cheques and frozen fish gizding four.

ployees to understand that t from the Eskimues.

they want to hold their jobs they cannot be members of the Labour Party

runde

must

Inflation

Hilton Cheong-leen

Mrecently

the

To Be Registered In Hongkong

cargo-passenger

H

AIR MINISTRY This was not speculation, he added. The first resignation In American East Anglia under

had already token pressure place.

reported 01 A combined steps being taken abroad to press for an International ship is to be built in Norway by Refugee Year. With the Jebshun Shipping Company for registration in Hongkong, ac- current crisis in the Farcording to the annual report of East the project has fallen the Director of Morine. into the background, but as tension subsides alightly +++++~|~||~||~||~||~||~||~|▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

(and we hope pormuently) In Your Saturday's Mail

time to

claim that the passing of time makes more pressing than ever, Something else will have to be considered: not all the economle aid in the world can stop this Colony from being overrun if the refugee Influx continues at the eur- rent rate, or Increases, The spectre of a six million population raised recently

Professor Kirby by

not at all far-Katched. He says we ought to plan for this

eventually. Ho la right,

but

we also nee

somo

more elaborate and effec-

tive measures to stop

galloping

this

of humanity.

inflation

io

This the problem to which we need to, address ourasives most seriously for it in- volvos Hongkong's survival as a British colony.

Reuter.

Churchill Returns

Chartered

"As an interim measure, China has been particularly active this yeur in taking deep sea tonnage en. time chatter and over 100 vessels have been charterexi in recent months.

A fair proportion have been Dritish ling ships.

SAVINGRANA

Ban On 1959 American Cars

St Louis, Oct. 2. Some of the 1959 model American cars have been barred from alx car parks in St Louis because they are "too long, too low and carry too many expen- sive gadgets."-Reuter,

Eoka Greets

Russia She Explodes 2j More H-Bombs

Wants Test Ban

Moscow, Oct. 2. Russia announced tonight it has resumed nuclear weapons Lests but re- affirmed its desire for the "Immediate and universal termination for all time of the tests of atomic and hydrogen weapons.”-

The announcement, carried by the omelal Soviet news Agency Tass, blamed the Unit- cd States und Britain for fore- Ing Russia to resume weapons testing after it had announced on March 31 it would nuclear explosions.

Arms Race

halt

Hrliain and the United States by continuing testing "are in cet intensifying the arms race in an altempl to win mil- tary advantages for the realisa- tion of their polley of milliary threats,

"Considering this, the Soviet Government cannot allow the security interests of the Soviet; state to suffer because of such actions...."

atorc

A Washington cable said Ruscia today exploded two nuclear weapons of "moderate" size at its proving grounds north of the Arctic Circle, the Atomic Energy Commission announced,

The tests were the third and fourth reported in the last two dry-UPI-

NO WINTER ELECTION

London, Oct. 2.

Prime Minister Mr Harold

Macmillan, said tonight he had no Intention of having a general election this winter.

The Prime Minister was television speaking on after his three-and-a-half day "meet the prople" tour of the English Mid- lande.

his Asked if anything in

tcar made him more in- clined to hold an earlier general election Mr Mac- millan replied: "I have no intention of having it this winter."

He declined to

comment about British policy in the Far East but agreed the situation there was now "more" hopeful. "Reuter.

Cyprus Plan DID HER FACE STOP A CLOCK?

With Killing

Nicosia, Oct. 2.

New York, Dot, 2:

A plastic surgeon in expected to testify In a divorce muit horo as to whether Mrs Ber- nard Simon has a face that stopped a look.

aattio a difference of opinion

Eoka gunmen replied today The surgeon is to be called to

to the inauguration of Britain's "partnership"

plan for Cyprus by kuling a British civilian.

The

slát seanssina

radio technician John South In a main street in the quiet town of Lanatea.

South,

age about 35; was

standing outside a drug alore when the gunmen blazed away from a passing car.

que

The chooing occurred day after Britain's plan for governing this rebellous Ikland in

with Greece consultation and Turkey went into its prst phase.

SEARCH STARTS

British troops cordoned off the town, imposed a curfew and began an exhausting search for the killers.

Two members of the Cyprus security forces, one British and

"New ships for drep trading have been built in the et other Turkish, were re- last year or two and are on

ported to have been injured order for Chinese ownership in tonight in an explosion. u number of Communist bloc Cypriot hotel in massol. The countries, principally Poland explosion occurred. on the

and Eastern Germany, but they have been limited in number.

London, Oct. 2. Sir Winston Churchill, accom- A United States Air Foree unnie by Lady Churchill to-i spokesman in London said to-night nrrived at London airport night "I categorically deny this after

long holiday on the for severni obvious reasons, one French Riviera. He fley In

from

Gibraltar, following a Mediterranean cruise on Greck millionaire, Aristotle Onassis's

Wearing a fell hat and smok- The United Kingdom may ing one of his tradlilonal cigars,nów sell new or secondhand the former Premier looked At. ships of any size to China pro- Ne posed for press photo-viding their speed is restricted no stato to 20 knots in the case of dry graphers but made

cargo ships, 18 knots for tankers and 17 knots for fishing vessels. The number of vessels under the British Dag outside these speed restrictions is inünitesimal -France-Presse.

TOR three centuries members of a vicious secret

society roamed the countryside of India, mur- dering more than a million people all of whom vanished without a trace. Their names were Thugs, and they worshipped Kali, the goddess of destruc-

tion.

Tomorrow's CHINA MAIL siaris a new and exciting series on secret societies the world over with an astounding article on India's fanatical worshippers of Kall, the Black Mother.

Included are:

Another chapter of "Inside Nehru's India"....by Drian Gardner;

★Show Business....Inside stories of filmdom by top

reporters in Hollywood and Britain;

Let's Take Hongkong's Word....a study of pligin English bu R. W. Thompson of the Hongkong University.

Also all your favourile comtes, cartoons and puszine, two. Dages of local news pictures by our own photographers, and all the latest news and vlows, Take hottie a CHINA MAIL tomorrow.

ment.

He left in his car, which bore his personal Insignia of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, for his London residence. -France-Presse,

at o

verandah of the hotel, where members of the security forces were sitting.

110

Another explosion took place tonight near the Turkish sector of

caused Nicosia, but casualties. A British Army patrol car opened fire on a ent whose occupants were thought to be responsible for the attack, and pursued 1 unsuccessfully UPI and France-Presse.

DARING LONDON £16,000-ROBBERY

London, Oct. 2. Bandits used a stolen taxi to plek up two bank officials in central Lendon today and rob thom of

£10,000;

The taxi was waiting for the two man as they left the Apa falda fruit market where they had collected the morning'a takingu,' it drove them into a

nearby derelict yard where ¦ they wore attacked by four masked men armed with ford cosbus.

Before they faft they bundled the two bank man into ■ cupboard under the outside stairs of a -warehouse and looked them in.

out

men

The men wrenched open the der | After smashing their way

doors, leapt inside, cut "the

through the door the leather stray holding the

ralped the alarm. money.bag to 'ona olark'a wrlit | The tax) whoon' driver wore, a and made their getaway in a patch over one eye wan_abas=" waiting var.

doned China''Mall' Opecial:

between Mrs Bimon, who says she got a scar on her face when Gimon threw an alarm clock at her, and Simon who says he didn't throw any such thing and that the had the scar before he married hot-

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