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No. 37236

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1958.

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Of The GIGANTIC U.S. ATLAS IN ORBIT

Day

Bulganin Confesses

Housing

is perhaps rash to pass |

I'm

To His

แ a day on

report which experts will } take months to digest, but The Housing Committee's findings tabled in Legis- lative Council on Wednes

uy invites one framed late That is the low commoral.

Klum which clearance ant rehousing generally have been given i fu the proposed allocation of public funds.

priority

vale

'Crimes'

Moscow, Dec. 18, The former Soviet Premier, Nikolai Bulganin, admit- ted today that he мир. ported, and was nominal leader of the Anti-Party group of Kremlin leaders who were Dusted from top Jobs

Balganin suld the Anti-Party "criminal Ira Ungaged group

He what activities.

salt members had met in his office while he was still Premier

Possibly much of thin work can be undertaken by pri- what capital bui Government will need to do! in any propose ten-year

to outline plan is neella to br done, having assessed the combtunity's Perix and the BOUIT CA Bad eapital available, and either take un itself

Vision

ur

make other financial pre- for what private capital is reluctant or up-

able to undertake

A Danger

Balganto made the adulaston before top Soviet leaders at a meeting of the Central Com- inittee of the Soviet Cominunat Purly here,

The Calssed

'I Joined...'

gonteed Bulganin,

315-

from the Premiership Inst spring, conceded that ait

HAT the Housing Com-thai Premier Nikita Khrushchev

WHA

mittee regards as most

and sold in his bitter criticism

of the

Anti-Purly group

been true,

of

Important is the develop ment of new Innd and the further

hud

Bulganin said that as Pronter Anu-Purly

he had joined the development partially built-up areas group of former Foreign Minis- coupled with the provision | tess V. M. Molotov and Dmitri or extension of communal services to these Breas. This is understandable for what is involved here is the apadework for projects like satellite towns and major housing schemes but there is n danger in trying assess relative importante said. that work which has been

"I supported attention for wine their crying for

will, by Ingk of compilce years

former Sheptov,

Prender Georgi Malekov and Presidium member Lazer Kaganovich, the Soviet News Agency felol Tass disclosed.

capital,

initiative. lected.

1:1

and PURDU FEE

continue nux-

What |L 19-year trousing scheme ought to conceru It- sell with is clearing up the accretion of dwellings that

activities of Mulenkov, Kagan- "When in 1857 the Anti-Party ich, Molotov and Shepilov de- valjasti. I je them,"

ho

them and ben partisan und ac Being the chairman Council

Ministera of the (Premmer) { not only became their

aisu accomplice tamically their leader,"

المنيا

'I Opposed...'

"The members of the Anu- persistently op- Course which was 20th Party proclaimed by the Paint, Shamshuipo and even Congress, and which was BO parts of Central District successfully implemented ก into

vast sprawling filthy life he said.

after decades have turned Party group areas like Wanchal, Westposed the

tenement towns. And if Malotov Wils described Dy our main effort cannot be Bulgarun as ama "estranged directed at these districte from life and the peuple, who nothing of industry and they ought to be given an knew equivalent priority with agriculture," schemes to house the new

industrial un adept at the phrases, who growing and communities in the Terri.cupied

torics.

There

is He the squatter resettlement programme which has been absorbing large part of our general housing expenditure and effort for years.

There is

TIU Case for relaxing this

fine achievement

larly

particu

AR homeless im-

I'

Kaganovich he described as a

Designed To

'Talk Back'

To Earth

Cape Canaveral, Florida, Dec. 18. The United States Air Force launched the biggest Earth satellite of the space age tonight, an 8,000-pound Atlas Inter- continental Ballistic Missile, more than twice the size of Russia's Sputnik III. mighty Atlas, which only last month was fired at its full 6,300-mile missile range for the first time, is designed to "talk back" to the Earth,

The

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"You know I've a nasty feeling that sooner or later one of those gold-plated fistle tabs from Cape Canaveral isn't going to burn up on meeting the earth's atmosphere and it won't be over N. Africa,"

Partition: The Worst Solution For Cyprus

London, Dec. 18.

It had been billed as a routine. test firing. But a large number et bigh ofetals were on hand to watch.

Two hours Ister. President Elsenhower, informed during a White House diplomatic dinner, ised the dramatic announce- ment that the Atlas was in orbit.

The newest U.S. satellite in equipped with a new nose cone containing a special commun- eating system to send back space date to earth

The Defence Department

Washington

hinted that

in

- ย

Elsen-

cording of President hower's voles may have been

10 transmitted

A "memory" device in the misalle.

High Point Preliminary data indicated the new satellite is bebiting the Earth once every 100 minutes at a high point of 920 statute mules. Its lowest point in orbit

was about 116 miles.

orbit

BIG RUSH-HOUR

TRAM HOLD-UP

By CHINA MAIL REPORTERS

Thousands of people were late for work this morning when the wheel-centre of a tram - car collapsed during the rush-hour, causing a 40-minute disruption of service. The accident occurred just past Metro Cars Garage, North Point.

SPACE MONKEY

SHOWS MAN CAN STAND SIMILAR TRIP

This is the worst frame delay the Hongkong Trumways have experienced this year.

Office-workers who have fr travel trom North

Point Central every morning, were forerti 10 leave the tramTI- cars and bead for the nearest Lus-stop.

Long Queues

today

Soon long queues were form- Ing and later it was almost in- possible to get onto a bus. The

axi-cats were

on the next Washington, Dec. 18.

scene, and within minutes it was Two space scientists said to just as impossible to hail a text. day that data gained from As more trums were held up, a rocket which carried a the crowds awelled and the air was led with frustrated com. live monkey into the

The plaints.

tramways com fringe

last space

puny

stop trams Saturday indicated that coming from Shouktwan, ut the man could stand up to a North Point similar trip.

of

The information was relayed back to scientists on Earth from the rocket which carried Gordo, tiny squirrel monkey, 300 miles high-to the edge of outer. space.

ม

HARD LUCK

began to

Terminus,

and

more crowds formed,

The bus services were over- crowded until well after nine o'clock when the trams re-

sumed.

of

Collapsed.....

Mr C. S. Johnston, Manager the Hongkong Tramways,

rivar

It is expected to remain In The scientists, Captain Nor-told the China Mall this morning about 20 daya-a_re-] mun L Burr of the United that the accident occurred when wheel-centre of 1 tram latively abort Iffe span, but states Navy and Colonel Robert the

coming towards the city Its value is expected to be Holmes of the Amy, told re-

Саг Metro "hard Jack" { collapsed, great.

porters that only

of the Garage, North Point, prevented the recovery

Tramway engineers worked rocket's nose-cone and its non- key passenger from the south feverishly to clear the line, but shortly after the tram was on its way to the Depot, it stopped This time it Was again.

now

This successful Jaunching curalitutes a major step forward in space exploration and opers avenues for the United States and all mankind in their efforts to explore the peaceful uses of outer space," the Defence Department said.

Entire Vehicle

The Atlas, which the Defence Department suld already has proved its operational capabilities

that of carrying

hydrogen

الله

nided recovery of derailed.

t

Iram-

'Cotton Town'

Five

Mayors May March To London

CHA-CHA BAN AT No. TEN

'Wouldn't Stand

The Strain'

London, Dec. 18. Rock-and-roll and the cha- cha are to be banned at Christmas Party for

n

150 teenagers at Number Ten Downing Street to night,

The

reason, according to newspaper gossip columnists, is that the notoriously creaky £tate of the British Prime Minister's residence would not stand the strain.

Walls Out

Surveyors

have discovered that Number Ten's walls are out of plumb, that the floors are weak, that there is beetle in the

London, Dec. 18. Lancashire "cotton woodwork and the foundations

An architect's plan for the re- ot 10, 11 and 12 march on London to pro- Downing Street at a cost of test against the Govern- £400,000 is now under Govern

Imports

town" mayors will probare shifting. ably stage แ 200-mile construction

ment's

policy.

textile

ment consideration.

Parties at 10 Downing Street arc normally restricted to a maximum of 200 to 250 guests. Tonight's guest list has been cut further to the 160 mark bo-

One of the mayors concerned, Councillor James Bradley of Oldham, stormed out of a one- day cotton crisis conference | cause they will be young people which met In Rochdale today, and there will be dancing. declaring that he and the other

Fox Trots four Lancashire "eation" mayors, were not going to He down and let the government get away with what is happening to the country" as a result of the government's polley.

ia

SHALL PROTEST Councilor Bradley, who Culinan

the of

Lancashire Mayors' Committee, represent-

Nelson, Burnley, Blackburn and ing the cotton towns of Oldham,

Todmorden, continued:

"We shall protest in no uncer- tein manner, even if we have to walk to London."

R. W., joint secretary of

commitice which called the con- the Rochdale cotton crisis action ference, in a speech deploring the mayore' walk-out, said: "I cannot ace the use of five mayors walking to London. We want the full support of the Lancashire textile workers, and then you will have a march worth seeing."

Antte where it feil

The loss was due to fallure of some intricate devices which would have the nose cone,

"We estimate that in all there Asked by reporters whether was a delay of 40 minutes.

the basis of the monkey's was the worst delay this year," reaction to the light they be-Mr Johnston said, levert man, too, could withstand Buses On Road the rigours of rocket travel, the

Another official of the two scientists replied: warhead more than 6,000 miles "From this information you waya company sald ho could not

is the US.'s only tested Inter- could be

tell how many tramcare were continental Ballistic Missile. The would."

beld up until he had received all red into orbit tonight was

They added that the physteal the reports. the 10th Ared since June, 1957,

The Traffle Manager of the-France-Presse. requirements of a man to make The entire vehicle of the

China Motor Bus Company said fight needi not be Aliss, all of its immense bulk

this morning that as the acci- booster except

Focket ед-

dent had occurred during the LITTLE CHANCE gines, was put in orbit.

peak hours, the

company had all its available buses on the roads. These number some 180. There were no extra buses put into service.

vne

it was the Sith Earth satellite himself by hindering Premior Harold Macmillan

put into orbit by the US. Russia the work of others and making told the House of Com- has orbited three Sputniks. The long and confused speechea.

Bulganin called Malenkov "an

mons today that his Coy-U.S. has put three Jupiter misile Explorer satellites and a Navy ernment regarded parti- Vanguard satellite intriguer capable

dirty of any

Into orbit, trick and any abomination."— tion "as the worst posible | Stili aloft in addition to the Allos UP.I.

solution" for Cyprus, are the US's Explorer 1, Ex- plorer IV and Vanguard 1, which may stay up 200 years. Sputnik is the only Russian satellite sulll in orbit.

Drowning Disaster

Adana, Deɛ, 18.

others

some 300 feel into a river from

Mr Macmillan added, how- CVCI, "but it is onc which might be forced if nothing che can be done."

Mr Macmillan said that in migrants from China Thirty-three persons were

Cyprus Britain continue

was searching add to our drowned

ciglit and

for a pian reconciling all the dimculties. Here is the third seriously injured when pas-

different points of view. main feature of our housing senger-carrying lorry plunged

He said it was а solution this also

where Everyone gives an equal clarity a precipice near here.

The eight injured passengers something and where thero with_re-housing and land

had succeeded

throwing first a provisional settlement if themselves from the vehicle be- final one cannot be got, but fore

the plunge.-Trance-ultimately by a final settlement Pressc.

which is fair to all”-U.P.I,

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Raising Capital

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Houtine for an overall

plan. It has been proposed

that

A separate Housing Department supervise it. Whether a now department

or an extension of the PWD into a Department of Works and Housing in best, can he settled inter. The committee makes a number of good recommendations on ways and means of raising capital for building. It is not that the Colony is threatened with a "censation in nctivity of private capital to finance housing expansion" so much as it cannot ensure that private capital will be devoted to the most needed ¿chomes.

What needs to be done frat, however, in to conduct a population confund housing aurvoy. These are two essential prerequialtes.

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Armed Forces

The Auns satelite was named "Project Score."

The Defence Department dia- closed

to orbit that

WGS Redeved with the Atlas' normal full complement

three quid fuel rocket engines,

Two booster engines fell off after their fuel burned out. The sustainer engine remain ed with the missile as part

of the satellite. This welshed

neprly 8,800 pounds.

such

11

almost certain

extraordinaty.

he

to ex-

They said that for brief inter- vals during the rocket's take from Cape Canaveral and dur- ing its downward plunge the monkey was subjected treme gravity force, as high as 40 times

the normal pull of gravity at one point.

But Gordo, the two ncicntists sald, had shown little change in condition, and his respiration

He added that on the North Point run, there was a bus

roughly every one and a half

minutes.

and heartbeat, which increased PEOPLE'S CONGRESS

in tempo at take-off, quickly became normal during flight. Reuter

Lloyd Back

In London

London, Dec. 18. Mr Selwyn Lloyd, returning

to London by air tonight after

TO MEET IN MARCH

ap-

Tokyo, Dec. 19. The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee parently has deelded to delay Convening of the People's Con- gress two months.

The Congress originally was this week's Western consulta-scheduled to moet early in. ions in Paris, denied that last January, but all indications are Wednesday' meeting with now that it will not meet unti The successful launching of a General Charles de Gaulle had March satellite by the Air Force com-been "ay cold."

It la the congress which will pleted the satellite cycle for the The Foreign Secretary left elect a new chief of state to Armed Forces. The Army did' London last Saturday and at-replace Mao Tse-tung, who will. It first, then the Navy, and to- tended the Nato council meeting not seek re-election as chair- night the Air Force.U,P.I. in Paris-Reuter::

man-UPI

Newborn Baby Said Sacrificed'

In Black Magic Ceremony

Brighton, Dec., 18.

The Chief Constable of this south coast holiday resort today ordered an inquiry into allegations, that a newborn baby was recently "sacrificed" at a black magic ceremony in neighbouring Rottingdean Village.

bo cor-

The allegations were made covoral weeks ago but after in-ed serious, ho adder.

ht it could not

Pollco

not last night by Mr. Lesile, Roberts, quirlos

normally in black cuthor and authority on witch-roborated and was dismissed as interest themselves confi, at a local society teturo. fantastic,

magle unicas this ritos broke the Now int Mr Roberts had law. If the present report was The Chief Constable Mr Amado n further public state-truo: a smirder had been com- ' E. Rowsell, and that Mr. Roberts ment a full investigation would mitted, Mr Rowell said. told detectives 'about the story be made and the matter treat-China Mail Special.

The party is being given by Lady Dorothy Macmillan, wite of Mr Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister,

Her eldest daughter, Mrs Ann Faber, mother of a teenage son and daughter, is quoted today as saying: "All the dances will be very sedate-fox trois and the like.

"Definitely nothing of the rock-and-roll type. I should think the place might fall to places If we tried anything like that."

Dancing will be from 8.30 pm. until midnight and five of Mr Macmillan'a 13 grand-children will be present.-Reuter.

Missile Plan Scrapped

ed

Washington, Dec. 18.

The U.S. Regulus Two guid- missile programme Was

cancelled tonight.

an-

Paris, Dec. 18. Mr John Foster Duilles, United States Secretary of State, left

The Navy Department, here by air tonight for Jamalea, nouncing cancellation of the for a week's holiday in the sm

the $78 million project, said before returning to Washington | decision was made in the light after the Paris Nato meeting.of rapidly changing technology Reuter,

in the missile field."-Router.

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