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CHINA MAIL

No. 37232

Established 1845

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1958.

Price 20 Cents

TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT'S PILOT SCHEME FOR PARKING

Of The 200 Meters For Central

Day

Question Of

THE

ET!

Remedies

United Kingdom

To Be Installed

In New Year

Exact Sites Not Chosen

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

Government are banking About 200 parking meters will be installed

sunshine the

of

prosperity and if the public

uver

are

opinion polls, taken the past six months correct, they will win the next election despite labour troubles. The main reason for this is high standing of the Prime Minister, who is pursuing clear, consistent

in the Central District in the New Year, it was reliably learned this morning. This is a pilot scheme by the Traffic Department.

Unconfirmed reports say that 2,000 meters have been ordered For Hongkong.

The exact sites for the melem

policles at home and have not yet been chosen, abroad with the result

that the country feels that i it has found a lender again.

But almost as important

the demoralisation of the Socialists who are set only divided among themselves bat divided in their Own minds. Their statements of policy, culminating in the Plan for Progress, have gone off like the click of an unloaded gun

They have made no impact whatsoever, This is because they con- tain nothing of a positive nature The Socialists do not even offer Socialism.

Like Crabs

I

not

they believed in nationall- would not sation they approuch it aideways like crabs. If they did balleve in it they would not demand the nationalisation of the iron and steel indus- tries. The two attitudes do not make

to sense

the ordinary man. who likes to know where he stands and what he is voting for.

Two Types

At this year's traffle exhibl. Elen two types of truffle meters were on display.

In Just Friday's Government

135-year-old Tin Of Meat Pronounced “Edible”

London, Dec. 14.

Gazette, it was revealed that in

new Vehilele and Road A scientist who tasted a 135-year-old tin of meat Tule (Parking and Waiting) Regulations, provision was made

preserved for the

of parking erection meters.

The section referring 10 meters stated that they will be erected for

the purpose

01

of

from a north- west passage expedition today pronounced il edible.

Hearne,

principai

Mr J. charging for the parking of scientile officer to the Ministry

Agriculture, Fisheries motor vehtes between 8 cm und 6 pm from Monday to Fri-Food, mace day and between 8 am and 2 British pm on Saturdays.

ESCAPED

GUNMAN

CAUGHT

Washington, Dec. 14. Police said today they had captured a gunman who a hail of escaped under gundre while three ac complices down in a foiled kidnap robbery attempt here on Friday night.

were

und

dustries

the the test al

In- Manufacturing Research Association establishment of Leatherhead,

Surrey.

Research scientists who have analysed the contents of the un say it is veal.

The NA

was among the stort taken

by Admitar Sir Edward Parry when ho left r. the Fury und Heckla on 'n voyage to discover a nortit- west passage in 1824.--Router.

Foster Dulles Is Feeling Fit

Paris, Dec. 14.

Mvir John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary ok

TANKER DEMOLISHES HOUSES

Trans-Atlantic Balloon.

Making Progress

Santa Cruz, Dec. 14.

A balloon carrying three men and a woman on a

history-making trans-Atlantic flight

WON

Six 'died when a U.S. Navy A.J. twin engine tankar domolished four houses when sit · crúsked into a busy section of Nor- folk, Virginia, on Decem bet 9. Four crewmen and two infants were" killed. Hore firemen dro soen put- ting foom : on one of the houses as the tail' section burns in the back,--U:P.I. Telophoto.

estimated today to be about 600 miles south | 60 HOPEFUL

west of the Canary Islands.

Sources close to the promoters The balloonists are contacting HEIRS

state who was in hospital in of the

in ony every 12 hours expedition--who bave innd shot Washington a few days before

is feel clamped tight secrecy around order not to depicte the power tying here yesterday,

ing "

the in their batteries.

Only the promoters of the expedition know what the coded

3p-

Do the General Council of the TUC, for example expect him to believe what they say in their annual report

all communications with --that the Bank Rate in-

Sources close to Mr Dulles, balloon suld everything creases Are largely

in-

who is accompanied by a doc-peared to be all right with the effective in regulating the

Lur colonel, Bernard Sullivan, balloon "Small World." The British Deputy Police Chief E. E.

IN CODE economy?

Stales Army of the United reported thot officers Medical Corps, said that he was

The sources people have seen their coun. Scott

ordinary sald pulled 19-year-old Lorcazo "perfectly alright" and only try climb out of a severe

were being sent by messagus currency crisis in

Jackson from his bed this morn being careful about his dict.code, but they pointed out that

should Song and that he admitted being Reuler.

tho balloon encounter ta trouble, forcing it to ditch how can anyone any that it the fugitive. is "ineffective"?

the ocean, radio calls for help would not be sent in code. They said no news was good news in this respect,

u year

through this device.

Devaluation

Scott said

Jackson also Ls wanted in connection with

$30,000 robbery

New York, last spring.

A

Butzalo,

Nationalist Warning

Police found his name among General

the

that

Taipei, Dec. 13. Llu An-chi, Com- THE currency criste of 1967 the personal effects of the three mander of the Kinmen Garrison Tas the same as that of whom

Chinese other gang members, one of Furce warned

was killed and two Communists

the Na- 1049 although the causes seriously wounded In a pollca tionalist artillery will fire and were different and look what trap when they tried to kidnap attack the Amoy Railway happened then. The Social- and rob Felix Marchegiani, G station if they fire on their air- ista, who would not change 62-year-old building contractor. port and wharf, it was learned

Bank Rate, had the

to-UP.I

today. France-Presse. devalue the pound. The Macmillan Committee called the Bank Rate "delicato and beautiful instrument for regulating the monetary system. But the TUC do not agree. They call it a blunt instrument. But what could be blunter than de- valuation?

That sort of thing could occur again under a Socialist -administration with its atrangulating, straitjacket

economy.

Confession

THE TUC, who usually havo" their feet on the ground, should know better. They should remember the honest confession of Sir Stafford Cripps, the Socialist Chan- cellor, who said: "We have tried over since the war to overcome our difficulties by a series of expedients which

·lel to a crisla : as each : ex- pedient became exhausted." That is what happens when the mechanlam worked; out! by centurion of financial and economla exports Is contemptuously brushed aside. Polley is reduced to oxpedients and each one an it comes in apt to be mHOTO desperate than the last.

The balloon took off from here on Friday. Its flight is the Arst recorded attempt to cross

the Atlantic in a free balloon. The balloonists expect to comTA- plete the 3,000-mile fight three weeks.

in

The Arst message was. re- celved here yesterday, saying only that all was going well.

ROOFS COLLAPSE UNDER SNOW'S WEIGHT

Damage ran to more than a million dollars as buildings continued to collapse in Oswego, New York, on Thursday under the weight of 68 inches of snow, almost all of which has fallen since December 6. The roof of this garage buried at least four cars-U.P.I. Telephoto.

meninges Bay,

Sources close to the promoters said the balloon was believed to be on course and there were no us for the crew. They said the balloon messages indicated had found the easterly trado winds as anticipated U.PL

SURVIVORS IN

ANTARCTIC

FIND FORTUNE

MISSING

79

fands the

world around

with

TAN AMUJRLENIN

Follow The Mail's Race Tips

|Chino Mail: tipsters did it ""Turf" also gave a correct again in giving the best double in Eunice and

Golden Nugget.

...

raco according to Turf's tips would, hava- given a backer a clear profit of $31.80.

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tips for the first day of the Fifth Race Meeting at A $5 win bot on every Happy Valley on Saturday.

{"Turf" correctly forecast five winners out of the eight races and was the only tipster in the Colony to have tippod Red Light for the main race of the after- noon.

Police

China Mail's Raptor tipped

Inspector (

Dies In Gun Fight

Blackburn, Dec. 14.

A detective inspector died late last night from a bullet wound received during a three-hour slege of a house here.

A woman was also killed and two other men wounded in the alege.

Inspector James O'Donnel, 47-"| year-old head of the Blackbur C.I.D., died after two operations to save his life.

Police were called to the house following a disturbance early yesterday.

WIFE DEAD Inspector O'Donnel and an- other policeman were shot and wounded.

Police who entered the house later after, hurling in a tear- gas bomb found Mrs Shella King, 27, dead on the floor. Her husband, 27, was wounded in the side?

In the passage, the couple's six months old son was asleep In a pram-China Mali Special

Mercy Mission To Iron Curtain

and

Berlin, Dec., 14.

Radio "hams" and Red Cross Polish Embassy officials hive co-operated in a mercy mission across the Iron Curtain,

a Red Crosa here today.

spokesman said

|

four correct winners and a $5 bet on each winnor tipped by him would hava yielded a gain of $26.

DINOSAUR

A. Four-Ton

Modern One

SOUGHT BY

·

POLICE

London, Dec. 14. Scotland Yard ordered sur-

veillance of all porta to prevent the smuggling out of Britain by "foreign elements" of a four-ton dinosaur - ultra secret model

The dinosaur not the beast of long ago, but a just-completed cdncrete breaker worth £20,000, was being used in a London ship- yard. It was the only one of its kind in existence.

The 19-foot long self-propelled machine, 6.6 feet wido and 9.8." feet high, disappeared on Friday night.

BORROWED?...

Publishing the news of the theft, Scotland Yard added: "We have sent out a call for a special watch to be kept at parts throughout Britain, as we have reason to belleve foreign ele-, ments may be attempting to sinuggle the machine out of the country."

The dinosaur's Inventor Cedi Graham, sald he thought the maching

www "borrowed" by rivals who wished to make a copy-France-Presse.

King Baudouin In Collision

Ostend, Dec. 14. Casablanca, Dec. 14.

King Baudouin of the Bel- A message picked up in West ginns, at the wheel of his Sixty hopeful heirs turned up

Berlin from a Polish amateur sports car cocaped injury when in Casablanca to claim a wireless operator last Friday he was in collision with on- Fortune of £70 million-resulted in the delivery by a other car here today, police only to be told that neithor | relay of cara and two aircraft of reported, tho fortune nor the will a rare blood plasma needed for bequeathing It to descond- seriously ill patient in a hos-year-old monarch's father, who ants could be found.

Bybgeezer, north

was travelling with him was also uninjured. Heuter. In 1793,

Spaniard, Don Vincento Ignacio Juan Pascal Pastor Y Garcia. Marquis of La

CRASH MAKING Lions, of Chile, dies

FOR BASE

und reportedly stipulated in his will that his fortune, deposited In an English bank, should only be distributed to the 11th generation of his successors.

Today u lawyer told the would-be helra that he had de- Anitely

established the facts that the Marquis De La Llosa existed, and had Ulved. In Chile, that he had confided the Belgian plano in the administration of his fortune to Antarctic today to find a certain Don Alvarado,

hundred-year-old the crow of four had set that somo

letters confirmed that a off for a Belgian supply was made in 1793, was deposit

Moscow, Doc. 14. A Soviet

aircraft fanded beside a crashed

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and

will

point about 80 miles awayed with a notary in Chile, and The Soviet News Agency that the Marquis fortune was Tass, reporting the rescue bid, placed in a London banks, sold the search party, whoug

The only missing items were earlier rescue attempts had the will and the money. been defeated by bad weather, Franer-Presse found a note In the wreckage saying the Belgians had set off for, the supply point last Thurs-

day the day they crashed,

Dock Strike

The Belgians," who Include

Prince Antoine de Ligne,, son-

Calculto, Dec. 14.

in-law of Grand Duchess Char- Eighteen thousand Calcutta lotte of Luxembourg, and Cap-stevedores are to stage a four- tain Gaston de Gerlache, lender { hour

thum `sirilco ́liorrow,

of the Belgian Antarctie ex-Secretary-General of the Dock pedition, are thought, to havo | Mazdoor (workers') Union, Mr food for only another two days Diswanath Das, announced here and will have to cross an area tonight..

pital

at Puland-Reuter,

Ex-King Leopold,

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of

very badly scarred by crevames. The strike is in support

The Soviet party is continuing demands for bonus, payments the pearch-Router,

and immediate implementation

Kurds Arrested

of the Governinent's · nssurances after the All-India dock strike

In Jund this year--Router.

Beirut, Dee, 14. Trains Collide

Twenty Kurda. have been

arrested in northern · Iraq be-

Caus

Jeremy City, Do, 14. Two Hudson of Manhattan the government "fcared | Raffroad; frklits collided negr disaffection BIONE themi,, ai | the Journal Square station'ourly Kurdish source. Boid here tos today, slightly injuring, 80. par- | day>==Neuter,

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