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TANDING KENG

Comment SIR HUGH'S TALKS WITH HK GOVERNMENT Of The The Army To Return La Salle?

Day

A Difficult Junction

E Bowen Bond junction

Twith warden Hond, w

yesterday T CRI turned over on its way up the hill. Is a dangerous section for

traffle.

As more and more

new flats go up in Bowen Rond the trafle density at this branch-off

creasing. The Bowen Road entrance itself in narrow, barely wide enough for two lanes of traille. Taxls with

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through permit stop there to discharge passent- gers. Waiting cars for the Commodore's Ifoane are forced to park on the

corner. Then there is the up and down trafic ол Garden Rond itself. Drivers coming out of Bowen Rund have to look back to watch for down traine. Up trafe is not visible until

levels off on the bridge only

Developments

Of

As Result

Conferences

by a China Mail Reporter

La Salle College, which has been used by the Army as a military hospital since 1949, will be de-requisitioned within six months, according to a reliable source today.

The news could not be confirmed officially. The China Mail was told this morning that the

new CIGS, General Sir Francia Festing, formerly Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, had asked for the school's de-requisi- tioning soon after taking up his new appoint- ment.

it clears the creat and The Army's attitude in the past has been that the school would be de-requisitioned as soon as the hospital could be moved to other quarters.

25 yards

from the entrance

of Bowen Rand. And on this Iovel stretch of road cars generally accelerate for the

This picture illustraten the today's azca discussed in Comment. On the left in Bowen Road, on the right, Garden fload. The granite wall which we urge should

the be moved back in In

centre. On the left, outside the picture, is the Comino- modore's louse.

elimb alead. There have

The BOAC Strike

lan Macleod Ordered To Step In

London, Oct. 16.

On the Instructions of the British Cabinet, Labour Minister, lan Macleod, tonight intervened in an offort to settle the £100,000 a day unofficial strike at London airport, which has brought the British nationalised BOAC airline to a standstill sinco Monday night.

The strike was touched oft by e dismissal of dive mechanics who refused to do overtime. The strikers are also demanding higher wage rates.

AN END?

Minister Macleod was 10 suu

been a number of secidents delegates

but state-run

Df the employers, on this junction, fortunately trade unions and directors of the not serious UNES,

airline in separate at the Ministry of Muficient, together with the meetings general difficulties of Labour tonight.

Earlier today, an end to the driving in this area, to war- runt the attention of the conflict appeared to be in sight, unut trade union leader, Jim Traille Department.

Matthews, reported a stiffening We suggest widening the rn-

of altitude on the part of the trance to Rowen Road. The directors. casier way would be to cut

Relations between the staff

And while there have been Informal suggestions from time to time that the Naval Hospital on the Penk might be amalga-. mated into an all-services hospi- tal, the Army's atitude has been that it needs a hospital on the Kowloon side of the har- bour.

The Army hus a hospital on Hongkong already-the BMH in Bowen Road. -

Understanding

be

When La Salle was requisi- tioned it Was on the under- standing that it would returned within 18 months to two years, once a permanent military hospital was erected

If the report that the hospital will be de-requisitloned in six months is correct, this would imply that the BMH Kowloon, formerly 33rd General Hospital, will

move to some other building.

So far apart front the Naval 110spital, there has been ao intention of any alternative cution for the BMH Kowloos. It was learned also that General Sir Hugh Stockwell,

War illitary Secretary to the Office,

who arrived in thu Colony on a "brier routine visil on October 14, held talks with Government 60icials and Army officers connected with the hospital, It is understood that Sir Hugh will report back the results of these talks to the War Office,

scheduled Sir Hugh is leave the Colony sometime lo-

day.

Surprise

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Brother Felix, Director of Xa Sullo College, which is now

off about five yards of the and directors have been poor for granite wall separating the some time and there have been two roads near their june-several lightning strikes recent-housed in a series of wooden tlon and posting a trailey following sunitary dismissals ush by management.-France-Presse. at rush policeman there able for the road to be

hours. It would be prefer-

widened on the side of the Winter In Warsaw

but

Commndaru's omplicatud

this would be

Warsaw, Oct. 16. ancroach on and would

Snowfalls of up to nearly two Naval property. Considera- fect and sub-zero temperature to the tion could be given to this have brought_wlater

southern suggestion if the first fail Tatra mountains in ed to remedy the position.

Poland-Reuter,

What's In Store For The

Sceptre?

Halifax, Nova Scolla, Oct. 16. EMBERS of the crew of the

Britain's defented chal

lenger for the America's Cup, which was damaged after breaking loose from her cradle on the deck of a freighter bound for Britain, talked to reporters here tonight about the yacht's future.

The 23-(on sloop slammed against a ven- tilating shaft whilch pierced her hull. She had been placed to a specially-bulli cradle on the deck of the carga liner Manipur when she left New York last Sunday.

Reporters asked the Sceptre crew whelber she would ever race again.

Keith Massett, from Tollesbury, Essex, replied: “Who with? And what for? We didn't win anything."

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None of the crew was able to give an extimate of the damage to Sceptre. They said they did not think the hull had bern twisted out of shape, though some damage had been done to the rudder section.

added:

Cecil Gupe of Bouthampton, said: "It could have been worse." But he "If she's ever raced again, alie'll have to be completely gutted out." He said this almost com-

would mean plete reconstruction,

Another

member of the erew, Harry Eales, said: "1 don't think she's badty buri, "The syndicate will talk it over when we ret back. They'll deelde whether whe should be overhauled, ΟΙ scrapped in favour of at- other design. Maybe they'll move the mast aft two or three feel. That would help. her."

Crew members sald the Sceptre will be taken aboard the Manipur when a new

built and cradic has been

continue back to England. Reuter.

Taiwan Planes Continue To Fly Over China

Taipei, Oct. 17.

Nationalist Chinese reconnaissance flights over mainland China are continuing despite official denials, according to highly authoritative Nationalist Air Force sources.

He sold reports that these Alghts had been stopped in- Geßnitely were wrong,

"Of Necessity"

Amoy was blockaded by Na- These sources said reconnais-night that, there had been no sance flights were less frequent reconnaissance Nights since tionalist patrols in the Fermosa thun in the past.

the No Straits September 23 beruuse

and guns Dr Quemoy The Nationalist Defence tionalists wanted to evold "pro- Island. Admiral Llu said the Ministry spokesman, Rear-vocative actions."

Nationalists previously followed Hoh-tu sald Admiral Lu

to-

the policy of port closure be- cause of strategic material go- log into the port would help the j Contmunists build up military potential "right in front of us." A high-level American source said the reason the blockade had been stopped one monil before the Communist bombard- ment of the Quemoys began was 1he Nationalists felt the tension was rising in the area and did not want to be accused of starting the conflict.-Reuter.

MASKED MEN

BURN

BUNGALOW

in suts

Perth single-storey

Kowloon, expressed Street, complete surprize when told of these latest developments,

The Director told the China Masked Mall he was very disappointed

e had received no word from the Colonial Secretary, as he had been promised 庭 few months ago.

At that time, Brother Felix said, he had been informed that the Army would be moving out of the school building probably ++++) in September, and that the Army were doing their best to hurry things along.

In Your Saturday's Mail That was the last definite

THE popular CHINA MAIL exclusive feature, "Let's Take Hongkong's Word,” comes to a The close in tomorrow's 20-page weekend Issue. author, Mr R. W. Thompson of the University of The Hongkong, has sent in his last instalment, articles published in the CHINA MAIL may later be compiled into a book.

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news I had, and that was a few months ago," Brother Felix said,

Nicosia, Oct. 16. men tonight set fire to a bungalow owned by a British civilian at Kyrenis, North Cyprus, it was officially stated. Considerabic damage was paused, officials said.

In cast Cyprus masked gun- men set fire to a government pgricultural station building at Akhyritou,

An army fire engine sent to Agh* the blaze was domaged by o mine. There were Do casualties. Reuter,

Whether they would be re- sumed would be "dictated by milltary necessity."

Nationalist Air Force sourcės said they could not my whether RB-57 twin-jet reconnaissance bombers were being used on these missions,

In the past, F-80 Sabres in a stripped-down version, had been used on mainland photo-

graphic missions, these sources

sald.

The Defence Ministry spokes- man claimed a nine-year-old Nationalist blockade of the port of Amoy had been stopped since the middle of July.

Admiral Lia said: "We knew the Communists would cem- ptain loudly about our stopping their ships carrying wur material and we did not want to get world opinion confused."

Bid To Beat Pacific-

ADVENTURER DUE IN HONGKONG NEXT WEEK

AN

Manita, Oct. 17.

N. Englishman, who will try to cross the Pacific Ocean on a frail sailboat to falņi, a boyhood dreaiz, said today he oxports to sail for Mongkong next week en route to Canada, his planted destination,

Brian Flatt, £3, arrived on Saturday in_Manila completing a four-mouth voyage which bo begua alone la Bloggpore. He "trog-leaped” from port to port in British Horneo and the Philippine to 'rosch Manila.

Flats said he plans to sali via Japan serons the

Facile north of the Hawaiian ‘Islanda. Platt expressed confidence that his 27-food

"Chcmpske" cutter which is equipped with

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a low-powered radio and koma té-saving devices would take him safely to Vavosuver, Canada, sometime in March.

"I shall take a job in Canada and sell my boat

upon reaching my roal,” Pixjt said,

Pisit, a graduate of Oxford University, resigned an administrative officer in Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service district office in Kuala Lumpur, to go on this voyage which he has dreamed of making oven as a chiA,

1s adventuro parallels that of a Filipino,

Kolreniian, who crossed, the Pacide DoMA alone in 1950 from Hawaii to the Philip. pints—U.FI

Chuck Banfe Takes Off

For Miami

Tokyo, Oct. 17. Pan American Airways pilot Captain Charles Banfe took off from Tokyo today for Miami, Florida, in an attempt to make o new trans-Pactile world re cord for a non-stop, solo llght. The previous record for a

"I Was Terrified"

QUEMOY REFUGEE REACHES S'PORE

Singapore, Oct. 16. Four refugees from the shell-torn China Coast island of Quemøy today arrived in Singapore. They are a 35-year-old woman, Quek Poh, her son, Low Lian, 8, daughter, Low Hin, 9, and a neighbour Tan Pau, 53.

They came to join relatives

in Miyu as soon as a cense-

Pre was declared

mosa Straits,

in the For-

Quck Poh sald she and her children had spent seven weeks

in a shelter.

Big Surprise

"It was just as though we were living under the barrel of

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a big gun," she said.

"Some

Elmes I thought tre Communists had moved their guns up over our shelter.

"The bombardment came 19 frst big surprise. On the day we did not think it would be serious, People joked that tire Communists were trying out new guna."

of our

Quek Poh sald: "But soon we realised it was not practice.

"Near our house there was o slwelter, and with some neighbours we moved into 1.

"At Arst there were len of us, but when the ceasefire came only four were left.

Most of the others were kill- ed when they went off to get food

during lulls in the bombardment."

She

they

had

lived

strict

*sald

the bombardment potatoes and `rlee. "We had lo practise rationing, because though there was lots of food on the island, we dared not leave our shelter," "I was terrified," she said. When the ceasefire came, she said, they dared not leave the shelter. "We waited for two days before we came out. Then with the help of some Red Cross oficiała we went to Formosa."--Reuter.

at

single engine plane was set by Exclusively Captain Marion Boliny In August, when ho flow 6,872 miles from Manila' to Pendle- fon, Oregon.

Banfe hea stripped his HONGKONG Mocney Maric-20 plane down

British Boat

Flew Soviet Flag, Moscow Complains

Moscow, Oct. 16, THE Soviet Union

has protested to Britain that a British trawler illegally dew the Soviet flag helde the 12-mile limit which Iceland has set for her territorial fishing waters, the Tass news agency night.

reported

to-

A Soviet note, sent lo Britain today. Kald the British

trawler, Cape Palliser N-354, flew the Soviet flag on September 20 and 30 and October 1 Inde

the Iceland' dabing water imita,

The note described the not as "provocative", PRE- ticularly so,; the Sovlet Government said, because the U.S.S.R. has supported Iceland's position on the territorial waters question and has pledged to ob- serve the 12-mile limit.- France-Presse,

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