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FORMING A NEW STATE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Tunnel Under
Of The SINGAPORE GOES TO POLLS
Day
ANNOYING
Lee Says We'll Win At
CORNERS Least 40 Seats
pedestrians and! ·
M motorists
are familiar
with the difficulty uf
Singapore, May 30.
negotiating the crossings in Polling began in the Singapore elections
the area of the junction of Queen's Rond and Pedder Street. The proximity of the three crossings. oftea mean annoying unnecessary: holdups for both cars and pedestrians.
The corner could be simplified
if all three crossings were removed and the entire area of
turned the junction
into a pedestrian crossing
today when the first of 600,000 voters cast their ballots for the now State of Singapore's first self-govern- ing administration under the constitution.
new
Widely tipped to win is Lee Kwan-yew's People's Action Party. His party is contesting all 51
seats.
He said Inat night his, FAP
from
the
Communist
controlled by Police daring party would win at least 40 stranglehold. the day.
Krea
This is also the reluctant consensus of many other political observers,
The crossing seats. would be bounded on Shell tho one side by the building frontage in Queen's Road, Include the Bluebird Cafe and Hongkong Hotel corners and a small length of Pedder Street.
Another Problem
Wferred to mother prob-
Here the
Not Split
Not only is the PAP con- testing all sents but it is the only major group not split by diskensions. Last minute tempts by the People's Alliance and the Liberal-Socialists to heal their quarrels falted.
Cumpatming has been veng→
midus.
The PAP has accused Gov- ministers of being ernment
brothel keepers in foreign pay,"
The party has also brought tho threat of a constitutional crisis to the city before the elections, by declaring it would not take power until some of ita extremist inernburs now ignol are re-
E have previously re-
lem corner the Ice House with Street junction Queen's Road. compllention is that there in nothing to stup pedes triank стонни Queen's Road from the open mouth of Duddell Street. One leased. suggestion is that another pedestrian crusning should supporters in he Inid
Queen's rally: астова Road just to the west of Duddell Street. But there may be a better solution.
Last night Mr Leo told his Д inal election
Free Run
"We are winning because no une can stop us."
of
He explained why the British
free run bad "given us a Singapore"
"We gave them a chance of breathing democratic air and of the Communist, Eetting rid tiger. But evenis have shown the PAP is still riding Uger."All agencies.
Cuckoo Shuts Down Machine
this
London, May, 29. Oxford
University's high has energy, accelerator „boon shut down by a baby cuckoo that fell out of its nest,..
One of the operating scientists, H. Metz, reported to the London Timea that the baby bird fell into a basement "out In the open, where we usually direct the X-ray beam. We dare not run the machine for fear of harting, the bird..........but," who knows, maybe the X-rays would Induce mutations which might make the wretched bird build its' own nest in the future?"
The cuckoo lays its eggs
and leaves noats them to be brought up by the original nester. This cuckoo, Molz reported, is being fed by a blackbird.-UPI.
The entire lee House Street- Queen's Rond junction be-
He said "They are playing a tween Duddell Street and Battery Palh could also be long-len game. They know other birds
that the People's Action Party made into one big peder is non-Communist, The lesson trian crossing. The period in has been brought home to them which traffic uses the cross that beside the Malayan Com. inir during the day can be munist Party, the PAP is the divided so that, the Ice only coherent party here. It is Houne Street flow does not the only deterrent force1against· clash with that of Queen's the Communists."
If this corner and Road, the Pedder Street corner
Red Tigor
were regulated inteligently yow-hock, who
The Chief Minister, Mr Lim
by Policemen who would be
PAP members
gabled some for subversion, in sight of one another told a rally of his moderate and therefore able to see People's Alliance, the PAP was each other's signals, the "still riding the Communist workt anomalies would be ther removed and traffic flow He said, "Records will show that at one time we saved the
considerably speeded up.
G.E.C.
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Duke In Notting Hill
On his visit to the boys clubs in the race riot area of Notting Hill, West London; Prince Philip talks to judo instructor Bill Simpson (who holds a Binck Belt at 20) and Peter Russell and Robert Franklin -both 12-Express Photo,
Channel In Six Years
London, May 29, Conservative Member of Parliament, William Teel- Ing, said today in a letter to the Evening Standard that a tunnel under the English Channel will be functioning in about six years tline.
Security Purge In Soviet Embassies China Mail
London, May 29. The Daily Mail reported today that Capt Alek-
To Publish
sandr Dmitriev, form- Noon Edition
er assistant Soviet Naval Attache here| was packed off to Rus- sia by the Secret Police because he had too many British friends. "Hin arrest by the NKVD. the Russian secret police, is the latest move in a general security purge b Soviet basks in every capital in the world," the Mall wild,
on.
The report recalled the case of Col Mikhall 1. Suygulae, Soviet Military „Attacke In Burma, who was shipped off to Russia under guard after he had first attempted suicide, and then iried to escape by jumping out. of a hospital window Father than returns to his homeland.
Dmitriev's wife romained in London after her husband'a hurried departure for Mascoś Wednesday night. British
or
| authorities”- Bald" she probably will remain here as a routine foreign visitor rather than an a refugce-UPI..
Castro To Go Slow
- Hevano, - May 29, Prime Minister Fidel Castro, fearful of crippling Cuba'i economy, has decided to post- pone for a year his plan to carve up large holdings of sugar landa. The decision, announced · hist night by Labour Minister Manuel Fernandez Garcio, come 10 days
after the Castro Government hud moved to introduce a sweeping land reform programmė-UPI.
Million Dollar Cutlery Factory For HK
American design sent there by the National Silver Company,
By A China Mall Reportar
MERICAN ilustrialist, AMER Corn Bernstein, copied the machine and added yesterday talked of plans their own know-how, they came for a HK$1,000,000 cutlery up with a better machine than
we had." Mr Bernstein cold. factory in Hongkong, which
The Imported steel would be
On Monday, tho Chino Mall beġinu püb-- fishing a noon edition,
It will be on sale in district. and central Telmikatzul soon after mid-day.
Like the existing daily edition of the China Mall it will have 10.pages...
The noon edition will' Include the latest focal and overteds general, sporting and financial
nows.
- There will also be a wider pictorial coverage of Ipcol; and overslas nows and this edition will also includo all the regular China... Mail features.
- All these features will. be included and brought up to date in the second (Rate 2 Final).... edition, which will be available es; usugh, during the
afternoon.
To make sure of get- ting a noon edition, an order "should" ba
the China' placed at Mail office, 1-3 Wynd- ham Streek, or by tele phoning 26611 and osking for the Circula- tion Department.
Money Sent To China
Singapore. May 20.'
Teeling said that present plans provided for a railway tunnel only. "A.road tunnel as well as a rall tunnel would |cost so much more in pro- portion to any increase in traffic that it will not at first be attempted. But every- thing will be designed to make it easy to build the road tunnel a few years later, if traffic demand justi- fles It," he added.
* World Bank
Teeling, who is a member of the parliamentary commitice which is urging the building of the channel tunnel, said that "Swiss bankers tro greatly | interested and so, It is believed, will be the World Bank" in the present plans for the tunnel..
Boundings were being made on the bottom of the English Channel, "and, so far no image have been encountered, and what the engineers of 50, years ugo said is proving to be correct, but we want to be absolutely ocrtain," Teeling sald, -
He said that the building of a tunnel for automobile traffic would pose very difficult prob- lems of air and ventilation be- enuto, of the goads caused by the exhausts of the cars. He said this problem was not in- soluble, but the necessary. equipment to cope with these problems would be very expen- | give,
For this rosson, he said, "plans were only drawn up for the construction of two eléctric rali- way, lines which would be able to carry special trains provid |ing, for, the -- transportation of | cara and-trucks.—-AFP.
Audrey Hepburn Recuperating
Hollywood, May 29. Audrey Hepburn, currently living in Switzerland with husband Mel Ferrer, has suffer- ed a miscarriage, friends hero
ald today,
Amociates of the couple sald the actress was unhappy about the loss of the expected baby, Miss Hepburn's doctor advised lier to rest before resuming work,
A total of $1,014,034 was pro.
The actress was scheduled to sent to China in family remit- make a picture for
Alfred fances during April, recording | Hitchcock but production plans were postponed when her pre- to a government statement..
In the same period $800,938ancy wäs' announcòd' recently, was sent from Maleys--Reuter, |---UPI.
with one another and often ex- |Others buy the cheaper change Information. We could duct." form a sort of combine and set “We do not plan to sell the up a big plant in Hongkong." Hongkong made cutlery cheaper Then, as the thou ht struck | than the Japanese counterpart. him, he said, "If only the gates We will sell at the same price,
{to China) were opened, this but the profit will be bigger, We- he announced after arriving pressed; rolled and finished in So far, his company have power situation, even after los- eculd be the biggest city in can produce here cheaper thar ABO
in_Japan because. of the man- in the Colony on Thursday.Hongkong, "For the first year, I'
plants, who are
As President of the National units we should form out-placed investments with sixporting the steel
US$1,000,000
worth of Japanese Silver Company of America, he about has returned to Hongkong for flat plate cutlery. Of this; a the second time to look deeper good, substantial amount will be into the possibilities of setting clear profit." up the factory. He was last in the Colony two years ngo.
He said that when the fac- tory, presuming all goes well, begins operation, stainless steel will be imported from Japan. Machinery will be brought from
turning out their cutlery range. The factory, with an infila? Last year the Japanese ex-capital of US$150,000 (HK$900,- ported some US$6,000,000 worth 000), will be, if plans Bro of cutlery to the US. So both finalised, built by National. SII- the American and Japanese ver and a local import-expert We plants are producing the same firm, Herald International,
product and selling them af Mr. Bernstein, originally, from different, prices.
New York, lo now conferring
After this, he said, "the scope should be unlimited, once. break the men in and teach them the ropes."?
He explained another plan he "There you have a paradox. |as to the possibility of a site had in mind. "I was thinking | There are always the Americans and other problems, while the of getting together with some who buy only the American Chairman of
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the same place, The Japanesect our competitors in this goods because they feel that the America holding conference machinery was copied from on business. We are very friendly | American product is better. there.
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