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CHINA MAIL

No. 37269

Established 1845

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1959.

23-Year-Old Conservative

Elected

Of The Tories Retain Seat

Day

ORIGINALITY LACKING

THE biggest

complaint

about the Duke's forth- coming visit to Hongkong

this is probably

echoed all along the route of

his world-girdling tour

But Majority Slashed By 10,000

is that he is nut slaying The

long enough

that follow

to do more

the

set

routine to which all visit

of this kind must conform.; in many ways this in pity.

So much that would genuinely interest the Duke Loth as a sightseer and as connort of the Head of the lius been Commonwealth

mitted fron his pro-

gramme.

ane

Considering this is the first visit by a member of the Royal Family For 70 years the programe for his 50- hour stay leaves little scope for variety. The planners have tried to stroas theme youth and pro- Vile some local flavour with a restaurant banquet and a display of Chinese dances. But we could have done hetter. Our Chinese enter-

the tainment

Name stereotyped stuff we trundle out on most big occasions. As for the youth theme, need that have been so heavily stressed? After all, the

Southend-on-Sea, Jan. 29. Conservative (Government)

Party

retained its Parliamentary scat in a by-election polled here with a slashed majority.

Australia

Score 81 For

No Wickets

The result of today's polling. motinged tenight, was;

Votes

Mr Paul Channon,

Conservative

14.493

Mins Heather Harvey,

Liberal

6,314

4.280

8,170

Mr A. Pearton-Clarke,

Labour

Conservative majorly

The Conservative mujority in the 1955 general election was 1850 in a three cornered con- ten with Labour and Liberal opponents.

Disappointment

Adelaide, Jan. 30. Australia had scored 81 for no wickets after lunch in the first duy of the Fourth Test match hereservative majority by more then

today,

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The regalt cutting the Con-

helf and dropping the Labour candidate to the bottom of the poll, wns a sharp disappointment to the nation's two main poll- tical parties.

Sent in to bat after Peter Any Ind won the loss for England, Colin McDonald and Jim Burke

58 runs before It suggested that the slump in knocked up lunch and

popularly which as play progressed Government Duke will get that every went from the wicket.

the resumption ofler

all began about the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis has not yet ended where he goes. With more

that the Labour The crucist fourth Test, which but equally imagination we could have devised a more interesting England must win to retain the opposition has not captured the and favour of disaffected Conserva- Ashes having lost two programme. WHAT it lacks is variety.drawn one-cpened with what tives.

commentators described as two Certainly the Duke will surprises. May sending Austra- not leave with a hosĹ of in after winning the toss for fleeting impressions, But the fourth straight time and the it must be doubted whether mission of Jim Laker from the the present programme will England team, leave him with any solid and worthwhile impression of Hongkong, the Colony, at

The Conservatives' share of votes cast fell from the total

the general 64.3 per cent at election to 55.50 per cent. The Labour vote dropped only frac- tionally from 20.8 per cent to Liberals the decision to omit Laker was / 20.24 per cent-while

24.20 per cent of the his took partly due to the fact that

compared with pinning Anger had not yet fully

15 per cent in 1955.

Later it was explained

all. What could have been recovered from done? The CMA couldį Router, have postponed their ex-

hibition of loral products

- it is

big pe of our events to coincide with Duke's arrival, the

of rigged up a special mall- scale bazaar for the occasion.

Instead of a youth display, the Duke should have made a short visit to a Chinese opera-something genuine. And if we had to have a lion dance it could have been

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injury..--

Doctors Scoff

At Khrushchev

Illness Report

Toronto, Jan, 29.

vole

Foggy Weather

Luckiest Man Alive

First Officer, Francis Schremp, 67, of the 7,000- ton U.S. freighter John Lykes was swept overboard by a wave 180 miles off the British coast in the Atlantic and then hurled back on board by another. Says Schremp pictured here in a Liverpool hos pital, where it was found he had no broken bones, only bruises: "I guess I am the luckiest man alivé." ---Express Photo.

London Smog May Be Another 'Killer'

Politicians recognised, how- ever, that this, particular. by- election result may have been The materially affected by forgy weather, which presumably kept many volers from the poll. Only 42.5 per cent voted compared with 74.13 per cent at the 1955 general election, when the local voters' roll was fully 3,000 fewer than now.

in the streets of Kowloon Toronto doctors today scaffof the

in the vicinity of a resettle-

he

We

ment area where the Duke could also have seen how almost one-tenth of our

Also population live. likes malling: couldn't bring him back to Hong- kong from his visit to the Technical College in a junk? DECENTLY th China Mail

Red a two-hour hell-

copter flight for the Duke, Not as an additional item on the itinerary, because rush and strain have to be avoided. But the object of a short

fight over the Colony-in

place of say the motor-trip

ed at Now York roports that photographs of

Premier Russia indicato he may be suffering from hardoning of the brain arterios.

Dr John

London, Jan. 30.

thick blanket of fog that clamped down on two-thirds of Britain on Thursday may prove to be another "killing smog" on the pattern of the 1952 fog.

Scientists of Greenwich 0- servatory revested on Thursday

night that the average quantity Brando May

Mr Channon, 23 years of age of toxic particles in the air (13 become the youngest member milligrammes per cuble metre)

House of Commons,

were already comparable with in the aft in During the campaign he was the

those contained target of

criticism opponents'

1832 when dense "smog" killed because of his alleged Khrushcher of Inexperience, There were also olmost 4,000 people in four days. complaints by his rivals that the About 80 per cent of the victims

West, were aged over 45 years old. Southend consilturacy,

family becoming il

BAD TO WORSE monopoly, as Mr Channon, it

feared here was Armstrong, elteted, would be the fourth Director of Canada's National successive member of the well- atmospherle conditlons In Bel- would go from bad to Heart Foundation, said he could known Guinness brewing family tuin

werse in the next few days. a forth to occupy the sent in Commons. no evidence of REL

Mr Paul Channon is the son

London hospitals have been coming stroke in the Russlan

placed in a state of emergency to deal with the expected smog

leader's face.

B.

Wns

It

that

of the previous holder of the Er D. P. Murnaghan, heartbeat, Sir Henry Channon, who specialist al Toronto General came of Hospital, sald it was not fair family. Eir Henry's grandfather there are no effective preventive

an Anglo-American victims, but E appears that

to predict illnesses from the emigrated to the United States measures to be evidence of newspaper pictures. nearly

100

taken to beat years ago. His the rm5.

descended from

Sinug becomes harmful to the Two New York doctors were mother was

18th Century Engilsh settlers,

bronchial organs "through the around the island-was this:quoted as saying Mr Kheush-

Henry himself returned

intration into the air of toxic with the Governor at his chey looked as though he might Sir

from beating side, he could have been have cerebral hardening of the from the United States at an particles coming

early age--Reuter.

apparatus, cur exhausts, etc. - given a good idea of the

France-Presse,

arteries..P.1.

bustling activity that goes | P44447ZI+S+++++÷I

Into making Hongkong one

of the most talked about In Your Saturday

territories in the Far East. Also it is a project that would appeal to a man who is both air-minded and interested in industrial development. And above all, it would only Ruit the Duke-no other member of the Royal Family. For the Queen, Princess the Queen Margaret or

Wo Mother, whom

may expect later, such a pro gramme as has been mapped out would be ideal. The criticism that stands in that we have not tried to deviso an itinerary specifically for the Duke. It is just another And as wo are royal visit. unlikely to have him here Again for many years, wa Q littlo could have been mora adventurous priglasi.

and

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Play Role

Of F.D.R.

New York, Jan. 29. Film actor Marlon Brando may play the role of tho late Procidont Franklin D. Roosovalt in a film soon to bo mode of the hit play "Sunrise at Campobello," dealing with Mr Roose- velt's polio attack and rise to power, the Now York World-Telegram and Sun reported today.

The

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Commons Agrees To Gaol Prostitutes

London, Jan. 29.

The House of Commons tonight agreed that prostitutes should be sent to prison if convicted of soliciting on the streets a third time.

Woman Minister Told

This is one of the main pro- | FA posals of a government anti-vice bill aimed at cleaning up the streels of large elties, particularly of London. There, Mr R A Butler, the deme Secretary, sald come areas were "30 thronged with prostitutes as to create a feeling of revulsion."

The bill cleared Its first major hurdle in its journey through Parliament by being given a second reading agreement in principle.

Free Vote

An amendment to reject the bill by a group of Labour mem- ber-the opposition did not take i an official line and left its mem- bersa free vole was defeated by 235 votes to 88-a Goyem-

ment majority of 147.

thal

THE

To 'Clear Off On London Street

London, Jan. 29. E prosilipte-came up close to the wonian Government Minister and hissed In her ear; "Get the

hell of my beat."

The Minister, Miss Pat Hornsby- Smith, was waiting in a Lon- don street for a taxi after working late at the Ministry of Health.

"Do

This group contended moving parading prostitutes to She told the prosillute: over-crowded prisons was the answer to the problem.

not

you know those two white buildings in Saville Row?"

Mr Reginald Paget (Labour), "One is the Ministry of Health

who moved the amendment,

said in New York, prostitutes had been got off the streets, but there were reports that presiilu- such n tion was becoming: standard cost Iton for big business

that some concerns companies kept call-girl on their pay rolls to please their customers.

He contended there would certainly be more organised - vice the fire market was closed. The police were dealing with girls infinitely richer than them- relves earning £5,000 to £0,000

year. If

threatened their prison livelihood there would be Incentive to enormous corrup

tion.

Deterrent

an

where 1 carn an honest living.

The other is Savlite Row Polfer Station where you will end up it I don't have less of your check." Red-haired Miss Hornsby-Smith told a meeting this yesterday in Sideup, which she repre- Rents in Parliament. She was then Parliamentary Svecetary to the Ministry of Health. Now stio is Under- Secretary at the Home Office, Miss Hornsby-Smith also told the meeting of her inventigo- (lon into London vice on bc- half of the Home Oflec, Reuter,

AUDREY HEPBURN

:

BADLY HURT

IN HORSE FALL

Hollywood, Jan. 29. Actor-director Mel Ferrer, husband of British-born actress Audrey Hepburn, left here today with the family doctor to go to his wife, who was badly hurt yesterday when she fell from a horse during the shooting of a film at Durango, Mexico.

The young actress has been in Mr Builor, defending the prl-

Mexico for several weeks son sentener, said it was ncers-

the fim **The sary as a final netion and de- making

Unforgiven," with Burl Lan- deal with 1 very

enster. terrent to

she Yesterday

Ris serlous nuisance.

Thrown. from a horse she was Before a woman was charged riding in a scene when it rear-

for the first time with solicitinged up. Miss Hepburn broke four ribs and Injured her leg in the fall according to diagnosis.

she would have to be warned on at least two informally

eparate becasions.

Mr Butler sald that over the past two years, more than 12,000 women were charged in Loudon's West End and not one pleaded noj gulity.

Those figures, he said,

went

a long way to show that the police did not make mistakes and charge respectable women with these offences.

the

first

Later a public relations man for John Huston, who is direct- ing the fim, said that Miss Bep- bum

"A had

back severe but declined to injury," elaborate, though there are re- broken may have ports she

several vertebrae.

The producing company,

techt-Lancaster

spokesman

Productions,

Sir Reginald Manningham-mid fling would be halted for Buller, the Attorney-General, several weeks to allow her time" rald there were possible risks to recover.

A

for Hech!- and organised of cerruption

at be į Lancaster Productions vice. But these had

Miss the

said Mexico, weighed against

present Durança, was ot evil, which

a con- Hepburn might be able to walk again in three weeks.-Reuter. siderable magnitude.

The Reasons

He said some of the for prostitution might be Laziness-It WAS easiest occupation drift into.

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Heredity.

Hard money.

Audrey Hepburn

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There were none left of the

Fanny by Gaslight" type, he

Balch.

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"The modern prostituts is said that hard-hended girl who known newspaper Warner Brothers, which had what her value is and will not paid $500,000 for the film rights lower her price."

He elted the case, of one, girl of the play, by Dore Schary, was reported to be negotiating who told him she worked front 5 p.m., Monday to with Mr Brando, but that no 9 a.m. to

trade union

COMET 4 SETS by Ralph Bellamy, who has total of £125 a week.

NEW RECORD

The Boac Comet 4, which arrived on. ü proving flight

contract had yet been signed. Fridays-regular

The role of the late President hours and charged £5 per man and had five men per day-a has been played on Broadway

She occasionally, took one man been quoted as saying that he would look too old for the for a week-end for £100 inclu- part on the screen 1e la 4, tive making her annual income and at the Urne of the play Mr 20,000.

"She told me she did not pay Roosevelt was supposed to bo

Income tax because it had been about 40-Neuter.

psit by those who gave her pre- sonis," he added amid laughter, The Effect

yesterday, smashed the existing ASIAN FLU SWEEPS

record for the Hongkong-Tokyo by nearly an hour, this

morning.

The Cemet left Kal Tak at: 1.48 m.,and covered the 3,070 miles in three hours and 40 mimules, at an average speed of 537 mph.

Sho touched down at Tokyo two Airport International minutes before 11.30 .2

The previous record had been set by Canadian Pacific Airlines Deltianfa 814, at hours and 33 minutes.

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SOVIET UNION

1

The Attorney-General said he had!

asked the Chief Super- Moscow, Jan. 20. Intendent of the West End cen- An epidemic of influenza, trot police station, London, for brought on by a virus similar his views on, the possible effect to that of Asian flu was sweeping of imprisonment for prostitutes. "He told me ha find spoken Moscow and other regions of

to a number of common pro- the Soviet Union today.

The line was characterised stitutes about it. It may or may by high fever during the first not be true what they said, but

wilds A two tinyn

risk of he told me they mid they would subsequent complications affective this occupation. It wIR ing the eary, and eyes-France- the threat of imprisonment that

Imade them do that"-Router.

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