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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1958.

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DISASTER AVERTED

AVERTED BY MATTER OF SECONDS

Fly to

79

lands' the

world around

with

PAN AMOBRIGAN

U.S. Gives

Of The FREAK AIR ACCIDENT Chiang A

Day

"Old" at 55?

WO retired men have re-

TO

turned to the East to take up new posts, One is Mr Normau Frazer, former Director of Criminal In- vestigation in the Police Force, who has taken the A unprecedented step of com- ing back as a cadet officer to work in the New Terri- The turies administration.

other is Mr R. E. Rodger, formerly with the Standard Vacuum Company in Hong- kong who after a short spell of retirement in England,

Stalled Jet Derails

Diesel Train

El Toro Marine Air Station, Calif., Nov. 19. Marine jet fighter stalled on take-off today and skidded into the path of a Santa Fe passenger train, derailing a diesel engine and five or seven cars in a "one-in-a-million" freak acci- dent.

The California highway putrol and Marine authori

moves to an executive post ties said the pilot of the jet Fourth Youth

In South Kores.

Both

plane, not immediately iden- tified, was in fair condition after being pulled from the

deserve appointments commendation. Many men

are today compelled to re-wreckage. There was no im- tire long before they want mediate official report of to or need to. Some Arms Casualties

Among

the

the East before the War estimated 100 passengera. retired staff at 50. This is But a highway patrolman an absurdly early age to said one woman may have

suffered a broken leg.

stop working. And the idea

of retirement at 55 or even 60 ovokes hoots of derision from

A sprightly muiny young man of that age who points to men like Churchill. a Prime Minister at 80 and Adenauer, still Chancellor of West Germany at 82.

Ructions

Bounced OH

said uli ive crew Santa Fe members of the San Diego-bound truin escaped injury.

The plane, a Navy F4-D Sky- raider, bounced off the runway, skidded scross the field and onto the trucks near the Irvine course this argument of crossing about 35 miles south of

Los Angeles. Oletting a man go on work-

ing until he feels like re- tiring inevitably causes ructions lower down the ladder. The ongry young men struggling for porfer- ment may fairly complain of the bottleneck at the top. And it is hard to avoid a compulsory retiring age. But what could be done is

wna

A worse disaster apparently uverted by a matter of seconds, since officers speculated the plate might have hit the train, broodside if it had passed the point of collision seconds earlier.

The truin which left Los Angeles was en route to San Lego -U.P.I.

UK Bid To Settle Cyprus Problem

this: retire men at an age where they can xu off nud enjoy a well-earned rest if they want to, but let us also recugnise the value of their long years of experience and Bervice

offering by those who

stay want to

for re- opportunity employment, in a way that will not hamper promotion. This would suit most retired men splendidly. On the whole they do not want as much responsibility would welcome Homething that would keep them moderately active during The British delegation sub- the day without the worries

United Nations, Nov. 19. Britain proposed today that

the United Nations dorse British and

cforts settle the Cyprus prob- lem.

CTI-

Lo

Recaptured

The fourth youth who

Cape escaped from the Collinson Training Centre on Monday morning, was recaptured br a Folloo patrol in Eastern Districi al i am today.

On Monday morning, four youths escaped from centre, and the training later, one of the staff was Altch found dying in a with serious head injuries. Three of the four souths,

caught Wore following

widespread search carried out by the Police all day after the breakout The three youths were charged on Tuesday with the murder of the staff member,

BRITAIN RECOGNISES NEW GOVT

IN

Omdurman

SUDAN

(Sudan)

London, Nov. 19.

Radio United recognised the

said tonight that the Kingdom had

new regime set up by General Ibrahim Abboud,

Washington, the United States has decided to recognise the Sudanese Government, official sources said today.

regime The new Sudanese

PHENOMENAL RISE IN REGISTRATION OF CARS IN HONGKONG

UE number of private cars, There

registered in Hongkong has almost doubled in the last to four

according years, Agures which have just been released.

In the annual report of the Commissioner of Police, Mr AC. Maxwell, it is reported that 1957-88 showed the greatest increase in vehicles registered on record,

The

figures show that there were 22,043 cars registered In the Colony in 1957-68 ugair:st

12,747 in 1053-54.

There has also been a big jump in the number of motorcycleg registered-1,111 in 1953-54

lo 2,084 this year.

wore a more buses, One alarming figure which the more lorries and trucks, more taxis, more delivery trepetes and government vehicles.

to show o The only category

decrease was the old-fashioned rickshaw.

Staff Reporter

These are the figures behind the mounting traffic problem in Hongkong's main streets which only the other day a prominent local resident recently returned fiom America suid "was as bad in the rush houtra as in Now York."

report gives is the number of new trucks and lorries on the Colony's reads. This has been steadily increasing in recent years. Now the number jumps from 3,916 in 1950-67 to 6,241 in 1957-58. In 1953-54, the number was 2,602.

Destroyer

Taipei, Nov. 20. The U.S. will give Nationalist China a naval destroyer early next year in another step to bolster President Chiang Kai-shek's fighting power, au- thoritative sources said today.

The warship will increase the size of the Nationalist Navy to 14 destroyers and destroyer escorts but will not overcome Communist China's edge in sea power. The Communist Chinese Neet includes one light cruisex, bigger warship than any salted More traffic and of course more mated 13 submarines against by the Nationalists, and on es-

accidents.

In 1957-58 the number was 12,043 against 11,766 in the previous year and only 7.920 in 1953-54.

Despite the increase in

idents, fatalitles were

EKÇİ-

nono for the Nationalists.

a

Benson

Class

Reliable

intelligence reports

list"

Mao's Words Doubted

In China

Peking, Nov. 19.

four destroyers for the Some members of China's Communists and

the six for Nationalists. The Communists down also

have

ari estimated 18

by one on the year 122 destroyer escorts compared with

against 123 in the previous

year.

MONTGOMERY HITS

OUT AT OLD CHIEF

seven

for Chiang's Navy.

Generalissimo

Highly reliable sources said the U.S. will turn over to the Nutionalists a 2,000-ton destroyer of the World War II Benson Class,

Calls Ike ‘Chairman Of Committee Type' ||

Landon, Nov. 19.

Outspoken Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein hit out again tonight at his old wartime chief General Eisenhower, referring to him as a “chairman of com- mittee type," who, "had not done a lot of fighting" until the Allied landings in North Africa.

OF

TOMB

CHINESE PRINCE FOUND

Poking, Nov. 19.

Ennounced this evening that it The tomb of Prince Yichuang of the Ming Dynasty which ruled Chind for nearly 300 years has been unearthod in the Kiongsi Provinco of southeast Chino the Kwangtung Daily reported today.

will full all Sudan's obliga- Lions towards the United Nations and the Arab League. It will also accept all conven- tions and agreements signed by mitted a draft resolution that the Sudan since it achieved in- would invite "other parties" to dependence on January 1, 1968. that gave them ulcers when

with the United--Reuter. they

managing co-operate were directors, secretaries ur Kingcom Government in finding

a solution chief accountants.

Can't Leave

It also would call upon all

Deputy Montgomery, former

Allled Commander Supreme Europe, was speaking in a BBC recorded programme which is to be broadcast on Thursday.

Field Marshal. The British

CTI- who has already, sharply ticised Eisenhower, formerly Supremo Alited Commander, in

published his recently memoirs, sali in reply to ques- tions that he considered opera- tions during the last War

war

I

quired a tough commander, "and not a chairman of a committee. which I often thought Elsen-

nower to be."

Persuasion

He added: "He wanted to try

was when he landed In North Africa in Operation Torch."

as

During the interview Mont- gomery spoke in praise of Mar- shal Sir Claude Auchinleck, his Commander of predecesspr the British Eight Anny, This with was in direct contrast Blicgations In his controversial memoirs, that Auchinleck was contemplating a retreat to the Nile on

of the El the eve Alamein battle.

Auchinlock promptly publish- ed telegrams to prove that in fact he was preparing the El Alamein offensive which hc was unable to put into opera- tion owing to his appointment tou new command. France-

to get people to do things by Presse persuasion and not by giving them order"

Asked by his interviewers how it was that he had falled

Benzon class destroyers carry teur five-inch guns and four 40-millimetre guns. They cruise at more than 35 knots and are 348 feet long-U.P.I.

Historic Find

In Africa............

London, Nov. 19, Tarquia Olivier, son of actor Bir Laurence, Olivier, is reported today haye discovered the - anonogram" of Dr David Livingstone carved in the hollow trunk of a giant tree In Porin- guese Enst-Africa,

The Dally Express, re- porting this, suggests it 19 the "only, known mark left by Livingstone in the Continent of Afries, which survives".

Mr Olivier and a friend, Quentin Keynes, recently returned to Britain after a three-month expedition up the Zambesl River following Livingstone's 19th century explora- tions.--China Mail Special,

All Quiet On Quemoy

Communist lodny lapsed

Taipei, Nov. 20.

Chinese artillery

archaeologists to get Elsenhower to accept his 8 Bodies Found into its alternate

countries to help put an end to Britain Won't Stop village in Nancheng county.

ictoriam und violence In

Cyprus. many just

The fact is maar me list Debate on the expres

They just ennnot retire to the garden and after one long holiday ache to be back at the dosk. Just look at some of the jobs one retired Hongkong Police officer (Mr A.N. Reynolds) has had in the 25 years since he left the force: police court shroff, school curetaker, alore-

apartment keeper, visor.

Many retired men have to take work because their pension will not give them enough to live and Anigh educating their

super-

Cyprus Issue next

week in the General Assembly's main political committee with Britato, Greece and Turkey as the countries most interested.- U.P.I.

VACCINE TO

PREVENT TB?

Chapel Hill, NC., Nov. 19, A team of North Carolina research scientists who have tested 1,000. persons since 1954

Immigrants

eight

at

nion Communist parties voiced doubts recent meetings on whe- ther the American "Im- perialists" were really only "paper tigers" - as

Chairman described by

Mao The tung the Kwang Ming Daily sald here today.

The newspaper, which repre- sents the non-Communists said the doubts

dis- emerged in cussions and studies by more than 1,000 members of non- Communist parties on the re- cently pubilahed collection of -articles by Mao entitled "Imperialismi and all te- actionaries are paper tigers." In this. Mao defines a-paper Üger 43

"frightening "in someone appearance but whose strength In really is not, so great."

Arguments

The Kwang Ming Daily sald that in the discussion the seep- tles sald:

"The Americans have atom bombs and, a powerful navy, Their industriɔl production lenda the world. Therefore they are paper tigers only politically- but not militarlly nor economi- cally."

Some believed that all de ponded on arms "but in the dir- cussions it was those argumenta which collapsed Arct,” the news- paper sald.

لله

After the discussion realised that they must bear in mind Mao's Instruction not to overestimate the enemy nor to underestimate "our revolution" the newspaper added.-Reuter.

STRANGLED THEIR

NEW-BORN

Rotterdam, Nov. 19. Police said today that

and his wife Dutch "plumber

confessed have

that they strangled four of their new- born babies during the past seven years. The couple has six

It Raid that

Nationalist-held Quemoy lelands discovered the tomb which was single-thrust plan for the Nor-

with a relatively low 530 shella Charlevoix, Mich., Nov. 19. bull In 1657 at Changkuang mandy campaign Monty said it

was one of the mysteries of his Two survivors and the bodies yesterday.

of eight crewmen who died when Since November 1, the Com- Inside the coffins of the prince career.

Declaring

have bombarded the that Eisenhower their Carszo

Carl municts ship, the

lelands only on odd-living children, and his two wives they found

gold and fade had not done a lot of fighting," D. Bradley foundered in a wild thoro more than 200

Police identined the pale "The Brst storm

Northern Lake, sumbered days of the month objects. In the tomb they also Montgomery said:

withholding fire on the Gerrit Schaeffer, 36 and his even-numbered days-UPI. wife, Lina, 38-UP.I.

Entering Country found many earthen and por- time that he ever saw a shot Michigan, were brought ashore wille

celain Vessels and hundreds fired in anger in my knowledge late today-UP.I. of earthen figures of singers and London, Nov. 19. musicians the newspaper sald Tho British Government Reuter.

mude

cloar tonight| thor it would make no

move to control immigra-UAR DENIES

tion from the Common- wealth

nor try by act of Parliament to solve the discri- problem of racial

mination In Britain. But it relterated that it was considering taking

Power

MURDER

Cairo, Nov. 10.

The United Arab Republic to- to night denied Israeli charges that pher Doran, wife of the British

children. And University reported today they belleved deport immigrants who were Syrians had killed Mrs Christo

can often be the most ex- they had found a anto and effec- criminals.

of. the tive vaccino ponalve part children's education,

This plea that retired men

tuberculosis.

10 provent These points were given to Air Attache in Tel Aviv.

the House of Lords by Lord The allegations were dentell The Getentists emphasised Perth, Minister of State for by Saada Atza, UAB information that thefr

and Lord chief here.

tests Colonial Affairs, four-year should be found other Joba-should continue for at least alx Chesham,

a Lord in Walling, Mrs Doran was found · shát

is one that the Colony more years before the vaccine's to junior minister) during a dead in the Sea of Galilee area con- effectiveness could be sulent!-acbate on colour prejudice and today after being missing for. particularly needs to

violence in England.--Reuter. two days-Reuter. sider. A number of firms feally evaluated,U...

havo reported meulty recruiting staff from over- nens from time to time. And Hongkong in notorious for pushing men on to the bench Lofore it, in really necessary. Wo need men of experience Here. We need men who have been tried and proved in their work. Above all need the men with knowledge of local condi tlone. It would be good to read of more appointments Ilke Me Fraser's and Mr Rodger's.

we

KILLED WIFE TO GET HUSBAND?

Cincinnati, Nov. 19.

An American woman nimed Mrs Klump, twtos divorced and the mather of four children, was held by the police today, en charges of having murdered a woman and trying to burn the body, because she wanted la marry the victim's husband. One of the dooiers solifring wi the inquest en 22-yanr-old bar

bad Bergen, who

suffered serious head injuries, asid the body may have been drenched with oil and set an' Are, even before the violini was dead. Me Klump admilled meeting the victims on Datoher 10, and taking her in her car to a ctr- Jain spot. There," she said, : Bir Bergen was injured --- without revealing how the

injuries occurred.

She put the body into the bodi of her car and returned home..

then She cleaned up. went off to teach hier, vistar)' clam in nowing. The polico

think that next day abu took the bady to the shore of a nestby lake and tried to burn! ft.-Brano6“ “

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there's

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