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No. 37318

Comment Would

Of The

Day

THE FUTURE

FOR FERRIES

WHERE will be widespread

disappointment

that

Hongkong's second vehi- cular ferry service will not come into operation before 1961, particularly as it pro- mipex to provide only

relief. partial

the

The in- erensing density of traile on the existing service can only mean that by the time the new piers are in opern- tion, conditions nt Connaught Road terminal; will not be very much better than. folny. Aud probably lung before the second ser- vice begins, there will he demands for a third with the prospect of another

between

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Would Infringe India's Neutrality Says Menon Chinese SHOCK BAN ON ROCKET Search Nehru Refuses

Transit Visa

To Blue Streak

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

London, March 30.

The Indian Premier, Mr Nehru has refused to allow British planes to take the Blue Streak rocket through India on its way in the. Woomera firing range Australia.

to

trvo-and-a-half year delay Look Who

the Lime the

dealsion is taken and imple-Was Here?

mented.

The seriousness of the cro98- harbour transport problem is not new. More than four years ago, the China Mail called for a tunnel linking. leland and mainland. Since then Mr Lawrence Kadooric's tunnel proposal and the bridge scheme pro- posed by Mr K. B. Alipurt have been widely debated. The bridge has been the subject of preliminary in- vestigations. An even later Mr Кон euggestion by Watson is a causeway link- ing Kowloon with the island roughly along the line of the old harbour defence boom. In the budget debate, Colonel Clague called atten- tion to the Inadequacy of the vehiculur ferry ser- vices and urged Govern- ment to consider further steps to cope with the long- term problem.

EFORE Hongkong decides

Bo spend any more money

on vehicular forry piers we should decide now whether we are going to continue to

pour millions into new ferry development or whether our cross-harbour communica- tiona dennd something

her bigger and more! altogether emcient.

The need for an early decision should sure-

ly be clear. The ferry com-

pany cannot be expected to

T OOK who Was in

Hongkong last e week. An unfamiller face with a very familiar He is a famous namo. playwright, who wrote film the score for o which drew big crowds in Hongkong, "The

Prince and the Show- girl" starring Sir Law rence Olivier and Mari- lyn Monroe.

W Page 2 to read TTH01 họ? Turn to

Joanne Blair's report in "The Local Slant", a special Tuesday feature.

Tipsy Bandits

build new vehicular ferries Fo

If this kind of Transport is

to be scrapped before they

have had a chance of re

Get Away

There are alternative With $5,000

along which the ferry com-

.

pany might develop.

One

way, we suggest, is a fleet

of fast water buses running between Shaukiwan

and

1

Miami, March 30.

Backed by the Defence Minister, Mr Krishna

Menon, he insists that since

the Blue Streak is a weapon intended to deter Russla, it

would infringe Indian neu-

trality if it passed through his territory.

This is one of the chief ren- sons, engineers are extending the RAF airfield at Gan in the Maldive Islands, south-west of Ceylon..

Can is to become the main staging post for missiles going to Australia.

Ferried

They will be ferried there in giant transport aircraft"""Which' the Australian Government- hás brought from America,

After diflevik negotiations. Nehru has permitted the smaller Black Knight rocket through India because this is "'a research vehicle," not

weapon.

The Blue Streak is designed to deliver the. H-Barb 3,000 miles.

But as no warheads are to be Bent to Australia, no danger is attached to the transport of the rockets, London Express Ser- vice.

DRUNK SETS

FIRE TO HIS WIFE

El Paso, March 30. Police said today Airman „bletal Leroy Olodgett, 34, ... had confessed setting his

wife on fire.

was

Omeers sald Blodgett signed a confession that he splashed a Three bandits, two of them Blodgett 22, while she

Mrs drinking glass of fuel ca

tipsy, hold up a savings sleep era a couch in their trailer and loan association today home last night. Their 13- but

lay in his crib forgot month-old son apparently where they parked their He flipped open his lighter getaway car.

and Ignited his wife. They got away with between and $8,000 - despite the confusion, the Federal Bureau

either Belcher Bay or the new resettlement area at Mt. Davis. There could be stops, consisting of omall piors, at a number of points North Point, East Point, Wanchal, Central, Salying $5,000 poon. Another fleet could

operate between Kun Tong of Investigation said.

nearby.

Critical

PRIME MINISTER RELAXES WITH FAMILY

Liner Nearly

Capsizes

In Storm

New York, March 30. A damaged Argentine Ener returned safely to port today with 99 safe but terrified passengers after a' 48-hour battle against a monster storm that caused the ship to list ns. much as 60 degrees.·

The Argentine State Lines re- ported that nine of the 11,300✅ Lon Rio Tunuyan's passengers and four crewmen were in-

After reporting to the House of Commons on his trip to Paris, Bonn and Washington, Mr Harold Mac. millau dashed back, to Downing. Strect to collect kis family and take them to the Yaudeville Theatre for a visit to the long-running' 'musical” “Salad · Days.” ~Sitting-in-the stalls, he is flanked by his grandsonai, Adam Macmillan (left) and Mark Faber, ---- London Express Photo,

Now, Air Girls Accused Of

Being Unwashed'

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London, March 30.

SEARCH FOR

MISSING PREMIER

Bangul, March 30. Planes and search parties to- night soarched denso equatorial Jungle wost of here for a missing aircraft and its nino ^ passangers,` who includo M. Borthe-

For Dalai Lama

Kalimpong, March 30. Chinese Air Force fight-

ers have been search. ing rebel-held south- eastern Tibet for the Dalai Lama and his party during the last few days, flying low over all possible escape routes, usually reliable sources here said. The party is believed to have passed Samye Monus- tery для crossed the Brahmaputra River a big obstacle but confirmed reports say their progress is slow because many cabinet 'members travelling with the Dalai Lama are old.

J

Guarded

un-

Meanwhile life in Khasa, the Tibetan capital, is still for Irum normal.

India's Consul-General was still confined to his consulate grounds which were strongly. guarded by Chinese troops, they. Bald.

When he wanted to visit the Chitose-Foreign Bureau, ho went in a Chinese car driven by a Chinese chauffeur, instead of his own transport-Beuter.

STRAWBERRIES FOR LUNCH

Genoa, March 30. A basket of strawberries will April 8 lomy Begando, the Cen-be flown to Tokyu en

toy Crown Prince Akihito's trai African Republic's wedding luncheon, it was an- Prime Minister.

nounced today

cam-

The plane disappeared last night during a flight to Bangul from Berberati, 200 miles west of here, M. Beganda, 48, most nowerful political leader in the

been Republik, hoct palgning in Berberall for next

Wreckage sighted along the plane's route was reached by scars today-but they found it to be the remains of an air- craft which crashed 10 years 180 is afternoon, the searcht had to begin all over again- Reuter.

jured, none of them seriously New CP For HK shadow and nail polish because Sunday's general election.

Do the vessel fought for sar- vival about 600 miles of the coast of North Carolina. The ship was en route from Now York to South American ports.

Seaworthy

Cant Jose Maria. Noders. ald-be ship Wasesworldy at all times," "but a list of * few degrees moré than 60 could bave caused It to capsize. Dodero turned back Saturday night when winds rose to more than 100, mies an hour, waves of more than 60 feet engulfed the ship and the weather ahead looked even woTIE.

Meanwhile in Scullampton,

The state-owned British European Airways was feuding again today with its ground hostesses, An order was handed down to the girls to lay off eye

It makes them look unwashed," The last time Bea took Isue with the girls came when the wife of the company director Fald the girls looked dowdy" because their hemines were too long. The dresses since have boen shortened.

Tomorrow

|_ MP^II" W.-E.^ Heath hat been appointed to not at Commisioner of Pollos

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Mir

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"WIII"tekeover from A. C. Maxwell, nounced Inst October.

Mr Maxwell is retiring and

leave expects ‘do Hongkong on April 12.

JORGENSEN

Cosmatic Ban But this time, the hostess weren't taking the cosmetic ban lying down.

"Unwaslied." muttered one grey-costumed receptionist at the west London air termina). "Just because the airline bas prehistorio ideas about beau-

the Cunard liner Queen Mary TO MARRY eye-shadow at a customer and

Now York, March 30. Christine Jorgensen' who was

TUM

Her words trailed off as, sho lurned to smile through her

offer her services. She wearing red nall polish and she definitely did not look washed.

Consured

un-

:

Section, leaders already have-

too deeply into their vanity boxes and cosmetics. One girl' atd they were told the com- any soon would publish a ful! [report on--just how the smart-

decked today with tales of a gigantic freak wave which strick her mid-way in her Mrs Blodgett was in very passage from New York. and the new satellite towns

entical condition in an El Paso

| Capt Andrew McKellor, said transformed from, a man inte The FBI said witnesses overhonsitat icday flowing the being planned in the Castle

the wave pilobed his 189,000-a woman in a series of operations Feak area. The intermediate cord one of the tipsy robbers fire that burned her over her

tom lines 22 degroes to one in Copenhagen today applied censured three girls for dipping entire body. The laby boy was stops could be Taun Wan, you remember where we left listed in good condition.

say Bs they were leaving, "do

In the

side, and then 18 degrees to for a marriage licença at New Lalchikok, Shamshuipo, the car?"

the other.

York municipal building. The witnesSCH Faldsam hospital. Yaumati, Hunghom.

they did not hear the answer. Mrs Blodgett run scroaming,

Miss Jorgensen, a former U.S. A few passengers were, cut froin the traller with sier and brulind, and even, veteran soldier, and her intended But apparently, they eventual clothes are:

statistician of Waukegan, Il- Krols, did not get the marriage thrown on their foot

because McKellar said westerly galessence immediately had followed the Scan Mary Knox did not have a copy at. all the way from New York, his divorce decree, with fira. but the ship's sinbilisers kept Knox salt he would obtain her stoody except for that one the requested copy In Chicago tremendous roll-U.P.I.

on Tuesday.U.E.1.

TTARBOUR Rervices likely found it because they disage "I was drunk at the time it members of the" "drety-wire husband, Howard J. Knox, & ground. hostess should look.

these aro nceded

to peared in a non-cay rush at a happened," police quoted Blod supplement bus and tram Hialeah shopping centre. geit as saying. I don't be

lleve anybody would do what were in their I did if they right mind.

servicen.. The. New Terri-| U.P.L.

tories water. bus · servica

would niso be a useful alter-

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native to the loop railwayTWO DEAD IN

BIG PILE-UP

I love my wife-It was be cause I was drunk, "-U.P.I.

HIGH SOCIETY BALL FOR MARGARET?

we suggested earlier to serve the Castle Peak area, An officient fleet of small fast ferries could niso relieve the growing strain the Colony's main roads,

London, March 20 but. It is important that TTWO motorcycle · spoedavay · Government Indientes now racing riders were killed in a

Rome, March 39. : [{ how the

plie-up in the 1,000 The Colonnas. Roma's grandest should ~ dovelon company marily

help ce race at the Crystal ~ Painee - family, hope to stre›n bült Kir to-

Prinoom Margarat whozi: abe Hongkong with its public here today. Two of the riders

vistie Home with the dueA transport problems. It collided in a bend and the rest *would be foolish and of the field piled, ou top of them.

Mother in April, it was learn ved today, ...wasteful to contious to The track was cleared and va

apply patchwork solutions the meeting continue France, Don Asprano, Dekuna, who to this problem.

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Presse

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Throbo'stands - on the right! hand of the' Pune

wife Marin, of the Del, Drago.

family," met Pitarém Mar. Kares when attoreisited Kaly “In

flu not yet kuigi

A company spokesman sali there was on new ruling Con make-up but “a long-standing. company rule, forbudo the around staff to enʻoyasha- dow or nall polisi.

He said the ruling was intro- duced because... Kie make-up made the girls look

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washed" - but he declined to thele out ony of the furent unwashed for, specitis coriment - Baid a Eca-pilot: = "Oh, my. Here we go agada."--UPI.

Birth Control

Ann Arbor," March 30,

"one,mit!:'o120

survey bys

No Miihiranging

now you

The mayor of the nearby tuviera resort of Arenzano, said the strawberries will be a pre- sent from the people of his town--U.P.I.

To Visit Colony

Manila, March 31. The presidential yacht Lapu Lopu loaded with native 'pro- duels, a constabulary band "and #folk darite troupe, leave here April-gym mal7-day joodwin= tour "Arion elties, including Hongkong. UPI.

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