1959-01-26 — Page 1

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Nothing beats a

Baby Burco

3 Gallon Electric Boller for the small wash

GILMANS Showrooms Gloucester Arcida)

THE WEATHER: Moderate -winds, becoming light and variable this evening. Fine and hazy with

1er fog-developing tonig.

CHINA MAIL

No. 37265

Established 1845

MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1959.

Price, 20 Cents

ARMED ROBBERY SUSPECT

SUSPECT FAILS TO

FAILS TO STOP FOR POLICE

GUN

Comment Of The

Day

KESWICK HALL

Nassociation of 100

Avents with the Colony is

a distinction which few families of any nationality in Hongkong can boast of. And It is an occasion which deserves to be appropriate ly commemorated. The Keswicks and their friends in Hongkong and Shanghai have raised a singularly apt and useful monument

to this long and distinguish- ed connection.

Apt because the Keswicks

and their interests have from the outset been con- cerned with the growth of Hongkong through trade and Industry. Indeed the history of Hongkong, the Kenwicks und Jurdines mergo frequently during the last 100 years.

for the use of this fing Koswick monument

Hall Hongkong has long been known for the practi- ental, and beneftelal way in which its great men have asked to be remembered,

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The new Technical Collec itself a product of

Aubscription, is contri- buting to the specific needs of industry today. But it has acquired Buch pro- portions and kindled such Interest among our youth that a distinct college life needs to be developed as an essential adjunct to the technicni training provided there.

Mr

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landa the work around

Hongkong

BATTLE IN KOWLOON Has A

Detective Shot In Running

Street Fight

By CHINA MAIL REPORTER

Two detectives and a suspected armed robber exchanged shots in a brief gun battle in Hunghom this morning,

At Friday's opening,

Crozier spoke of the new hall na "foeun of every aspect of college life contri- buting to the strengthening of an esprit de corpa Six among students". So here la the fulfilment of the Institution as present-day needs have dictated.

COLONY'S

118TH BIRTHDAY

Today

1bo 116th anniversary of the found- ing of the Colony,

Old records set January 23 as the date on which Britain's representative, Capi, Charles Elliott, RN, seok formal possession of the island in 1841.

Today is therefore taken as the actual day of the founding of the Colony, although a landing on the island by a British naval force, and a preliminary declaration

Queen Victoria's suzerainty, Is reported to have taken place cas Jatiuary 25,

of

No celobrations aro being held to commemorate the event.

HK Girls'

Cheongsams Add Fuel

To Airline

Skirt Row

London, Jan. 25. Chinoso airway traincos flew in here today adding fuel and fury to a local battle over how much of a hastess leg the passenger should sco.

The Technical College is by

The Chinese girls from Hong- announced that during any standard Hongkong's kong

training, they will most important centre of six weeks

hold fast by home. traditions industrial training. And

and wear graceful cheongsams, grow with the slit in the 4ght skirt

it la destined to

bigger in the years ahead showing more of the leg than

seca on

na industry becomes more the European normally diversified and the economy an airline hostess. expands, The Keswick Several hundred airline girls family and their friends employed by British Eurореал have therefore associated Airways are already embroiled themselves with the future in a row over a company direc

live that they must shorten the

growth of the Colony in a skirt-length of their grey duty most imaginative and valu- clothes.

able way. The thanks ex The row flared up when the pressed by the College echowie of Bou Ak Chief, Lond community's gratitude Douglas, criticised the present-

unsightly

for this fine gosture as a length memorial to a great and U.P.I. colourful past.

skirt CB

THEY FLUFFED IT IN '58

PEOPLE

Then the armed man escaped Into a nearby building and a big manhunt began.

on

At about 8.30 this morning, the two detectives wero patrol in Wing Kwong Street, near Molouwel Road.

They saw a man who looked like a ruspect wanted by the Police in connection with a re- cent armed robbery In the Colony.

They called on him to stop, Fired Twice

But he produced a gun ami fred twice at the detectives,

One of the detectives was hit. And ny the gunman fled down.

a side lane, the detectives re- turned the fire without ap- parently hitting the man.

Immediately Police reinforce- ments rushed to the area 'and cordoned of surrounding build- Ings. Some police were bullet- proof vests,

They began searching the buildings and questioning sidents.

ro-

"But up to 'the time of going

to press no arrest það“been re="" period.

UNSOLICITED

PASSENGER

London, Jan. 25.

A Sudanese docker who was refused permission to land from a ship at Liverpool last week was flown back to Khartoum

from London airport today. He sold he had fallen asleep while loading the ship at a Red Sea port and awoke at sea.-Reuter.

HK Buildings Have A Face-Lift

Mystery Of Murals In

Changi

Prison Camp

London, Jan. 25.

Mrs Ronald Searle, wife of the British cartoonist, denied here today that her husband was the painter of three religious murals found in Changi Royal Air Force Barracks, Singapore.

UK Pilot

Seizes German Airliner

London, Jan, 25.

A British airline pilot con-

I'm

The Straits Times, a Singh- Later, the newspaper poro newspaper, suggested reported that readers who were at cently that the morris, which Changi had identified the artist

to New depict scenes car

as Bombardier Stanley Warren Testimoni, might have been of the 135th Field Regiment, painted by Ronald Searle while | Roy41 Artillery. ho was a prisoner of tho Jopaneto in Chang during the Another reader signing him- self "Gunner""," ex-118th, Field wer.

Mrs Searle said the murtis Regiment, RA, described the un ex-commercial bad nothing to do with her painter, no husband. He did not artist from Sydney, Australia. know who painted them.

"The word went round the camp that this man was mad," AN APPEAL

wrote "Gunner" "In extremely been cold weather, he would wear he would wear all be could

"The artist

even

The Duke will ace the main buildings of the "city square" of Victoria bright and clean when he visita here in March. "As the side picture shows, Prince's and Queen's 'buildings aré enclosed in scaffolding for one of their regular face-lifts. Government House is also having a routine touch-up,--China Mall Photos,

PREPARATIONS FOR THE DUKE'S VISIT

By CHINA MAIL REPORTER

All the buildings surrounding Statue Square will be decorated with bunting and illuminated by floodlighting at night, for the coming visit of the Duke of Edinburgh on March 6,

The

Hongkong Club,

the

Supreme Court, the Hongkong

anti Shanghal Bank, Prince's A BATTLE

'Building and Queen's Building will be floodlit for the coCASION;

It was learned this morning.

Repainted

Queen's and Prince's Build ings are now being repainted, and Government House too, 15 under the painters' scaffolding. The Connaught Road subway wil stl be under construction during "March, and is not ex- pected to be completed before the Duke's arrival.

A Public Works Department spokesman Bald this morning

that work is not being speeded up in an effort to complete it before March 8. It would be

quité impossible to complete t before that time,” he said.

Back At The White House

OVER THE OLD AND MODERN

NIB PEN OR

·

BALL-POINT?

Two

Paris, Jan. 26. small children

In

are

* Bernay, Normandy,

enjoying a holiday from school here, while their

· elders fight a` battle over whether they should use old-fashioned pen and ink or modem ball-point pens for, their schoolbook hand-

Washington, Jan. 25.. President Eisenhower return-writing, ed to the White House today after spending a quiet weekend at his Camp David retreat in Maryland's "Catoctin, mountalas

U.P.I.

fessed here today he was uno of the lat may have bug clothes; in warm weather, Amnesty, But.

stubbornly refusing to re- husband In his prison cimy turn a Vickers Viking air- shows," she said. liner to its Germon owners

Letters on the subject of the until they paid up debts | Mystery Murals of Chong!

Daily Mirror.

ond.

SUSPECTED

Taste Of Spring

By CHINA MAIL REPORTER Hongkong had an early

taste of spring weather yesterday when the tem perature mared to, à 70 degrees maximum.

And today it is expected to rise even higher, occording to a spokesman of the Royal "Ob- servatory, this morning.

The spokesman said. He ex- pested today's maximum to be about 78 to 74 degrees."

The Reason.

He explained that the reason for the warm weather of the past few days was due to the. breaking down of the Siberian anti-cyclóne. Hongkong is now bele affected by a casterly air stream from the Pacinc.

worm

But the outlook for tomorrow is unsettled.

It may remoin worm, or the weak cold front which is now bullding

up in China to the north of the Colony, may come down during tonight, and cause a drop in temperature.

Shawcross

Withdraws

Bid For

Tory Seat

: London," Jan, 25.

Mr Christopher Shawcross, a Queen's Counsel and brother of Sir Hartley Shawcross, former Labour Attorney-General, tonight -- withdrew his bid for the disputed Conservative Parliamentary candidatura of Bournemouth East, Mr Shawcross, who onta

served a Labour Member In

the House of Commons before quitting polities to return to

law, offered himself last Friday

as à possible candidate for this Conservative stronghold on the couth coast.

Another who put himself for- ward for adomion by Bourne-, mouth Consorvatives is Mr Randolph Churchill. 47-year- ok journalist son of Bir Wins- tan ChurchiI,

Centre of the dispute is Mr Nigel Nicolson, sitting Con- servative Member of Parlia ment for Bournemouth East, disowned by his local party for disagreeing with the Brilish Government's intervention policy during the Suez crisis of 1956-Reuter,

Chinese Scientist

Honoured. In America

In the

Washington, Jan. 25. Their father, M, Alex Sezull- A Chinese-born scientist `has... ion, sent his two children, Carla been selected the outstanding tian and Amme-Marie, to school figuro

engineering, with the ball-point gens he consciences in the Washington area siders appropriate in age of by the Washington Academy of electric typewriters and calculat Bolence. ing machines:

Announcement of the honour Their teacher, Madame G. Was inade by the University of Heon, said there is nothing like Maryland where Dr Shan-fu Bagtled, Jan. 25.

an old-fashioned nib and school Shen teacher rompetleni ink. Three, leading Iraqi Commu-

_engineering.... De Shea was born nisis hanged in 1949 have been, Christian and "Anne-Maria in Chinn "and was graduated granted a posthumous amnesty were sent home with a note etat- from the National ... Central clation of their services." to mark "the country's sppre- ing they were expelled for re- Univeralty. of Chlon in 1941. pealed and systemate dia He has been at Maryland since The three men were Yousef obedience of the Instruction of 1603-UP.1, Samen, secretary-general of the their teachers. S

But M. Segullion; 'who' curie n Mohammad Bawern and, lfussein nylon factory is determined to Mohammed Shibbi, bo menu ooitinue the feat for the Four-Power Talks. burs of the party's political point pen. He has sought legal

advice-Roules.

bureau,Router.

the are asking: who persuado

Foreign fluffed it in the Foreign Office to call a halt.

claimed by British erdi- appeared recently in the London he was not so mad as be made "But many of us suspected Office in 19587 Because Now Britain is out of tom.

out to be to the Japanese). Britain was caught on favour with Cuba. It is Captain, Peter Palmer told One of the tourule, was res Hedrow profiles of the the wrong foot again, by beside the point that reporters at his Ringwood; produced along with an appeal Japanese guards in the rond | Tragi Coinmunist Party, Zaki, à revolution against the Castro's regime' is not Hampshire, homo that the for information about the artist and cadred cigarettes front sem man they were support much better. than plane's owners, Transavia: of form lesinne tovaru, ariel for ou doing to then cutribut ing Last year it was Batlata's, that his "war Germany, hired him to bring dish girl living at Siglap, Singa-ed, the proceeds to men in sick

party on a charter flight to por crimes Felial of Iraq. Now it is

trials make Southend. Batista of Cuba... →. sickening reading. The At the English airport he dis-

acensation that atomik is covered certain mschanical de Ballerina Margot Fonteyn that Britain mild feels and brought the airlines the local situation, that refused to dy fit back to Ger to Blackbushe, Hampshire, wid again' others were in the many unites / Transavia (pald krlow, and the Foreign the money he claimed - from Office was not,

who was actively helping Castro's, rebela warned "Iriends of friends" in high places that the

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