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PAN AMERICAN
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY
CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS INVOLVED IN HORRIBLE
TRAGEDY Body Of
Of The 98 KILLED IN STORE FIRE HK Man
Day
Bus Drivers
with
ET ༥ begin
compliment to the bus drivers of the Colony. Their Tusk must be the hardest there is among drivers of transport Knywhere, antrow
streets cut out of sheer rock; the overcrowd- lar ed
they Jane
Inve negotiate: the Day walkers
bormay who
their egimony to the City streets, all make for nerve racking In the hours at the wheel, main then we agree that under the
Dead Include 83 Women And
Eight Children
Bogota, Dec. 16.
Tural An official announcement said tonight that 98 persons had been killed in the fire of the Almacen Vida depart- ment store. The dead include 83 women, eight children and seven mon, the announcement said.
circumstances,
our bum te do the job.
Yet we feel all is not well.
true
thel
With every cliche, there is 1 The exact cause of the fire was not immediately deter
grain of truth, and is
mined although some persons who escaped from the demonstrably
store, jumping from a window to the roof of an ad- "familiarity breeds
joining building, said they had heard it had been tempt." Bus driving is ke
caused by a short cireuit or an explosion in the stove Doing the every other job.
It was not known whether of the store's restaurant. same thing, day in, day mul, sel up a kind of routine. We perform Qur tasks, almost anware at times, af what we are doing.
But driving
a bus alak
crowded streri
JE
task is t
thni begins anew day.
every
The bus driver dare not become familier f the sense of what happened i yesterday will happen to- day. He is not omniscient. The pattern of the road in ever changing. He should be always alert. UR trities ins
that
it was a gas or a gasoline stove.
MAO TO Sore Throats
RESIGN
IN
MARCH
Tokyo, Dec. 16.
Mao Tse-tung will resign as Chairman of the Chinese Government in March, a high diplomatic told the United Press
souice
from
In Hongkong Not Asian Flu
by ANDREW SLOAN
China Mail Reporter
International today in Asian flu is on the rampage in Asin again, but the telephone call
sore dry throats so many are complaining of in Peking.
Hongkong has nothing to do with it.
But Mn who is 65 years o'd na leader of thay will continue Chinese Communist Party and thus will be the real power on the Chinese mainland.
*
Too Much
source with plume whom the United Press Interna- tional talked discounted specula-
The fire quickly spread to the tion that Mao was being forced section seting Christmas, out of his largely figurehead job as chief of state. The move, he Tuđe of inflammable straw and 19 such
said, is purely voluntary lar an i can fear11,"
"Mao," he said, "just found that he has too much bands."
West's First ungers Operational ICBM
'A Success"
Vandenberg Air Force
Bose, Calif., Dec. 16. familiarity with the bus The U.S. today successfully
our
ni
a
materials super
Cautious authorities did not The Coors of the explain why Klore were closed shortly after the tre started, locking hundreds
Persores inside.
Doors Closed
01)
his
From Belgrade, it is reported Mao's withdrawal from chair- manship of the Chinese Repub-
clear evilence lie follows the disagreement between Russia al first 10 111- aid Chitia Over the Chines portance was given to the fire People's conumunes
Twever, survivory sald
SUNK
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and
the
and that I had been reported general of Chinese foreign
and the doors had been cursed Bolly trending to Belgrade
The wards of the San Juan De Dios Hospital, where most of the injured were carried, were tonight a horrible sight as bodies were heaped many injured moaned.
ant
Friction
But they said it was too early to say Mio had been ousted by Russian influence, though there was evidence Sino-Soviet fric-
on would continue.
launched a 10,000-mile-uy order of the store's manager sources. Jus made too many of our local bus drivers over-
an-hour Thor misälle provent looting. confident. They negotiate
the West's first apício. streets narrow
tional long rongo ballistic speeds which are at times
missile in the tenso de- positively dangerous. They
but of this new air base. rely upon their brakes, and
Thor
In lifted The their reflexes to get them
as it elimbed tremendous rout out of tight spots.
from the
launching pad 3% But all they need a greasy
Louis indund schedule, patch, a failure to antic-
Air Command The Strategic
The store was located on the 2411 41 pate a new hazard.
that the (SAC)
muin Bogota thoroughfare, und there is an evident. And Autosching-first of a ballistic
missile from the West Cousthough it was an old building
"hid
been reconditioned re- was "successfully conducted."
where there 19 an accident,
more
there is often tragedy. W
could be feel
-
complished
by
II)-Grit.
Ranced
Bernard
58
50
One doctor said the condition
of the Injured was serious that most of them would probably not survive.
A
cently.
The sources found it difficult to believe that Mao voluntarily gave up the highest state post-
might to
it Whe wish to dostrinul
1190 brut admitted possible he devote himself writing.
This would be in line with a reported Chinese aim to rival Russia dr the formulation of Communist ideology, they said.
The fire sproud so rapidly and by educating Striever, Onnmander of the Air
there was such chaos inside the Force Halliste Missile Division. our bus drivers, than
few persons are ai vuly New York thai the worrying them with tighter add 12
flight was the "payoff of three could give some account of how-U.P.I. and Reuter, legislation
years of research, developinett the agedy happened,
The bus driver is a valuable public Hervant. We feel if the companies
with road transport could give a purse not only on driving, but v ritizenship
Maty survivors were so stunned they to achieve opera-
Others Sani of the Ther." could not speak,
they had only thought of saving themselves.
mud westing and raganality U.VI.
and public duty, much count Brandt Returning
be accomplished. There is
much to be said to for
more rest periods and re
Ground Floor
Paris, Dev. 16. Herr Willy Brandt, Mayor of volumn of
1rom the bullding.
freshment during the day. West Berim, left here by air A combination of the two today to return to his crisis city. may make a difference.
-Reuter,
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A crowd of 10,000. M:ISONS made it diflcult for remen 10 Harus while a huge night the
black soke rose
Many of the victims were trapped on the ground floor. When the doors were closed they went to the rear of the store, Arcing from the famies, and there the firemen found
them unconscious.
Family Of Six Asphyxiated
Monticello, Ark., Dec. 16.
+
contactes!
number of | doctors yesterday and all agreed there was no danger of another
LONDON HUNT afluenza epidenne.
FOR SLAYER OF THE
'GENTLE
POLICEMAN'
London, Dec. 16. Hundreds of police and de- East tectives searched London today for the killer of 23-year-old policeman Raymond Summers stab- bod to death on his beat on Sunday night while try- ing to break up a teenage fight.
Summers, six foot five inches tal and shortly to be married, was known
the *Kentle policeman".
03
They said the dry weather of
last few
the wreks was cause
use of the increase in
the
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Unlicensed Found In HK Radio Harbour Station Used
By 40 Firms
Operator Fined $3,000 By Court
An unlicensed radio station, part of a big organisa- tion broadcasting be- iween Bangkok und Hongkong, was raided by a party of detectives yes terday morning in Wan- chai and a than way ar- rested.
complaints of sore throats.
EARLY XMAS One doctor added, "Another reason could be that many peo- ple have suurted spirit a little early, which meats (96)
und more fate nights
smoking.
Buld there
Another medical
• The man,
Leung Wai-hung, 33, of 400 Jaffe Road, third floor, pleaded sality before Mr Hu-stung 1.U "L Central Magistracy 'ነዚ munting to the Christmills operating a rady station with-
licence and A
being in possession of radio communica- tion apparatus.
more
practitioner connection was no
with u germia.
He explained, "If some people have a slight cold in the nose, the
Masal
become passages blocked and so they breathe through the mouth, and in this dry weather, this causes 'pruit throats."
A REMEDY The remedy he offers is usually a weak gargle,... or . 4. saline gargle. He said the Chinese have their own remedy for dry threats.
It is
A
ten
Chinese almond (Hang Yan Cha), "and it is vory effective," he added. The lagredients for almond tea, arc the almonds of course, crushed into a paste with a little reo. Chinese rock suger is then Police in an all-out hunt to judded, and the resulting paste And his murderer have already is then added to bolling water. mude
inquiries thousands of
third doctor said that a and visited nundreds of houses, number of people who had come amusement centres, cafes and
to him thought they had còn- lodging uses in the area, tracted flu, and he had to ex- plain, thut although the throat for whom Scot- Two girls
soreness is the same as in Jend Yard Issued an appeal
had been reported #ter they dressed in dance frocks kneel- ag beside tue dying constable
went to the pavement
their story.
a
police station last night to tell Their names are being withheld. China Mail Special.
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a high fever is in evidence in cases of influenza.
MORE THAN USUAL
Most dociens said they had more people than usual coming
to them with sore throats.
Footnote: Statistics show although
He was fined $9,000 with the alternative of eight months' unprisonment.
Apparatus seized by the pollee wus orderve to be confiscated.
Leung was caught almost red- handed.
He Fled
A.
Detective Sub-Inspector Crosby sald-there won an lion- bar door between the third and fourth floor, but they got in offer showing the principal tenrust the warrunt.
Leung overheard the noise and immediately ran up the stairs to the rooftop. But he was stopped by two detectives running downI (Contd. on Back Page, Col. 5)
The body of a
man, found drifting off Lai- chikok beach yester- day with hands and legs tied, was identi- fied this morning as Mr A. M. Kadir, a staff member of the Union Insurance So- ciety of Hongkong. Mr Kadir, who was 36, was a well-known member of the Malayan community. Educated in Hongkong, at St Joseph's College, he had been with the Union Insurance Society for 18 years.
He is survived by his wife, three children, his father, three siatery and two brothers, one of whom is Mr Slawes Kndir, Hong- kong's interport hockey goalkeeper.
Mr Kadir was a keen lawn- bowler, and had repre- Indian the sented Recreation Club at this sport..
Eden In NY
New York, Dec. 18. · Sir Anthony Eden, former British Primo Minister, árrived hero by Cemot airliner today on his way to Mexico for a holiday ordered by his doctors-Reu- ler.
G.I. Leaving China For Home In U.S.
Peking, Dec. 17.
1
sources said.
Private Richard G. Cerden, one (He is expected to cross the
of 21 American soldiers who clected to remain in after
is
China armistice,
the Korean
back to the on his way
States, usually well- Informed звитеся satil lasi night.
(imited influenza is reported voluntarily only by some doc- fore the number of cases inst
week was about half the weekly Corden left Peking by train un
average a month ago.
per
but
ALSO, Remtive humidity has been between 30 und 50 cent, normal for autumn, well below the summer average, ALSO up to last night, rain hnd not fallen sinco Novem- ber New York, Dec. 16.
19 (when 0.4 mms were A family of six was found
today in their closed-up Newsweek said today that
The weekly US. maguziae recorded).
Reuter reports the Deputy Director of Malayan Medical house, the victims of car-gineers at the Germantown,
Services, had
Dr Mohammed Din, bon monoxide asphyxlaslaryland,
Kualn Lumpur the tion which firemen blamed conceived, on paper, a super- sald in
muper H-bomb with a power of country had had 8,000 cases of an unvented
influenza since November 1. Most of the deaths were
a 1,000 million tons of TNT. caused by
Medical experts believe Asian henter. asphyxia. A doctor
ur 1,000 megatons.
flu in back in Malaya and Sing- who had examined Su bodles
pore, and that it can be ex- said three had died from burns,
pected to swedp around the world as it has in past years.
Those who succeeded In climbing to the Arst and second floors escaped to neighbouring roots.
оп
gus
The coroner said the family, Mr and Mrs James E. Steele J.,
atomic centre
The report, sold the informa tion of the bomb came from
and all the others from asphyxia their three sons, Ted (9), Timmy directors of the Atemle Energ
bomb was new
called
or because they had been tram- (7), and Mike (2), and daughter, Commission, who indieated that pled.
Debby (4), were found about the Many bodies had the blue noon today by a neighbour who sprons used by the girls em- smelled gas tumes and called ployed in the store.--UP.1.
Inquiry Into Missing Guns
Bremen.
The compner said it wES be lleved the family died on they prepared for bed late Saturday night. Friends said the family Left their home about 11 p.m. and that the Steeles had left the beater on because of the near- zero weather.
Bury St. Fimunda, Dec. 10. An offelál milltary inquiry will be held here, tomorrow Into the disappearance during collapsed
Wob Steele (20)
in the
found bathroom.
"Bavalon."
THE
most powerful bomb tested thus far had a
16 of
megatons, érance-Presso,
ever power
Russian
Warning
Hustler Crashes
Tucumcari, New Mexico,
Dec. 10. four-engined A supersonle B-60-newest of the United Slates nuclear jet bombers- crashed near hero today on a text flight.
The three members of the crow parachuted to safety. London, Doc: 10.
This is the
that first time Russia today warned Turkey, a voyage from Cyprus ut 11 His wife, Betty (29) had fallen a strategle bosion of the Western one of the huge dela-wized revolvers from the British In a bedroom. Two boys were, defences, that it could be horded bombers-known as the "Huste at troopship Empire Fowey, It was huddled on a bed with their for trouble if it signs a proposed ler and which can travel announced today.China Mall dog. Two other children were UA-Turkish military agree more than twice the speed
lying between two beds.-U.P.I. ment-U.P:I.
wound-hs. crashed Reuter, Special.
4
of
They Drank Anti-Freeze Like Wine: Girl Dies
West Newbury, Mass.,
Dec. 16.
FEAR of being called autop
"It was no drunken brawl, 1. Carol Curry (17), the hostess | Curry, said fils daughter had la-||
and daughter, of a former town viled about 10 frlende to the nothing of the. sort. But it A crash affair," police chles, died innt night. An house on Saturday night but turned into
toplay revented the about two dozen teenagera Curry sold
·Curry, bimaolf, does not blonde high schoot girl succumb- "crashed" the patty and located "chicken" (cowardly) ca to the effects of drinking a liquor bottle diled with the drink. He said he kept the anti- caused anti-freeze to flow automobile anti-freeze.,
deadly anti-freeze in the collar. | Ireeze in the collar, adding Wat Curry l the teenagers | prowling party crashoms appar- liko wine at a teenago party, The three boys were reported killing one girl and putting out of danger, although it wen dared each other to drink. This ently sought flquor and found feared for a time that ong would who did not Ironically earned the bottle, They thought the three boys in hospital, o blind.
the juvenile, scornfut label of green liquid wog wine, or
Creme-De-Menthe,-U,P,I. polico revealed today.
Carol's distraught father, Tuell "chielten," he saidt
Sunday for Canion and Hongkong on the first leg of
homeward
the trip,
border Inta Houskour CER Friday).
A year ago Corden was report- en studying Chinese Iterature and politics at a University in Wulan in central China with two offer former American noldlers, whose names were given at the time as Harold Webb and Clarence Adams,-----
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