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Of The Day

LATE FINAL

CHINA MAIL

No. 37385

Batista

Established. 1845

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, -1959. -

Escapees

Take Over Plane

Airliner

AFTERMATH OF Ends Up

IN

THE RAIN In Miami

terms of gumage done,

lives lost and

general

Miami, June 16.

hardship, the deluge of Six former members of

the last four days must

less

bu reckoner Hongkong's biggest postwar disaster. Even big typhoons have scarred the

Colony severely. Newspaper ports and pictures have graphically described the magnitude of the calamity

12

It is only a pity that fuli

President Batista's army, commandeered a commercial airlines plane at gunpoint late today and forced the pilot to fly to Miami.

About 20

credit could not be apportieved

passengers

Were

to be aboort the

tioned at the time to the Cubana pinne, which landed at various voluntary organisa-' Minmi tions

International airport.

Government, No one was reported harmed.

The FBI said the six Cubans haurried the plane af Havana n

Cuba, and then to Miami.

1 to Varadero Beach,

They took over the plane between Hayans and Varadero and forced The erew to fly directly to Florida.

departments who performed so splendidly. But. it would be unchivalrous

to puss over their achieve-i ments without acknowledge- ment. The Polive and the PWD had a tremendous task keeping the Colony's cum- The six bijackers included two munications upen. The formpr Army Heutenants and speed with which all but for enlisted men in the ammed the most badly damaged trees of ousted Cuban ka roads

dent Fulgencio Batists.

were

restored

Immigration and FB! efficials men into custody

evokes widespread admira- took the six tion. Anyone around the Colony

wit drove for questioning when the plane

during Innded.---UPI.

the height of the storm' could not fail to notice * admire the workmen moving bouldera, manhand- ling upronted trees clearing silt with far more eheer than many try-shod

office-going folk displayed.

Tyrest debt to

HE Colony again owes ጊ the fire.

fighters,

IS SHE MARRIED?

THEY ASK

* Pans, June 16.

ambulance wurk-Brigitte Bardot played guess- ers, first aid groups and the

ing games today with ra- Civil Aid Service.

The appalling death toll might

porters 'trying to pin down zumours that have

the had bren considerably higher but for the services

secretly married her hand- these men and women pe

somo now loading man, formed. Mention must also Jacques Charrior. be made "f

"Yes, we are nurses and

married," the doctors in hospital emer-afternoon, Churrier backed up French star told reporters this those aid gency wards,

her alalement and each was responsible for keeping wearing a wedding ring as they public transport going, snelled through Salt Tropez those who had to maintain on the French Riviera. public services like light und| Hut Miss Bardot refused power, telephone, gas, water, say where when the wedding and those who had to make hnd luken place and careful

essential fout deliveries in the face of frightful difficulties.

Nor should the

pour house-

wife be forgotten-partien-

throughout

to

Storm Sequel

Although the rains have stopped there i^atili much work to be done in clearing up the debris left after the sform. Above are two workmen atop a bare boulder which crashed down on to Chatham Road opposite the Hunghom police station at the height of the storm-China Mall Photo,

HK

GIRL

ORDERED

TO GO WITH FATHER

London, June 16.

search of town and village halls A high court judge today rejected a mother's plea

and ruled that her three-year-old daughter.| should be allowed to fly to Hongkong with her father on Monday.

southern France failed to reveal any trace of a itaarriage, ceremony.—Reuter,

larly these Is badly Hooded COUNSELLORS

districts like Shaukiwan

and West Point who went

on with their housekeeping and shopping in terrible circumstances. It is a trial

in conditions like this

to

OF STATE

He had been asked to dreide Sad Mr Justice Denskwerts: which of her two "devoted" "Normally one has no doubt parents should keep her-herthal a child of this age should i-year-old architect father, Mrremain with her mother but A. John Brand, who is retum- ere it is really the mother who g to his longkong præelied on has deputed from the famliy." Monday, or her 28-year-old

He was told that the Brandts married in July 1955, and went to live la Hongkong.

mother. Mrs Norma

London, June 10. The Queen Mother, Princess artist keep a big city going but Glueester have been appointed

Margerel, and the Duke of Brandt, who is remaining in

it is an even greater and Counsellors of State during England.

moro personal trial to keep) Queen Elizabeth's forthcoming After n 45-minute hearing the home in working order. four to Canuda to open the the judge granted an applica

OVERNMENT will un-Saint Lawrence Seaway,

The Royal functions are to doubtedly be considering how it can best help those two of then jointly.

be extrsized by not less than who have been made home-

The announcement, made in ur dispossensed of the ofictul Londen Guzclic, cropa. Monetary aid to re- said that neither Princess establish stricken farmurs Alexandra nor the Duke uf and priority for rehousing Kent would be able to act as the most destitate victims they would be out of the coun would

be a fine gesture, try during the visit-Reuter, International aid received

for the Refugee Year might

be partly directed to

this!

the

end. The Colony'a sympathy, is with these people in their sod plight, but even public donatione now being generously made can help only to a limited extent. The loss of loved ones, belongings nequired in a life-time is beyond replace- ment.

or

if

A word finally for those like the driver" "In the middle of Queen's Road who refused to give way to an ambulance at the height of a downpour: times like this are miser- able for everyone, even, the luckiest escape with nothing worse than feet. But. It is an occasion when people should try to bo most thoughtful and considerato for the

wet:

many

who suffer grievously. The Ane example set by those whose job it is to keep the Colony going. In an emor- gency, is the true spirit of public service with which all should be imbund at times, like this.

They returned to England on

los! December

Leave Bon by the father for the con- child nach directed trol of the that she be allowed to accom pany him on Monday and then cease to be'a ward of the court.

He rejected a plea by the mother that the child be allowed to stay in England with her. The child had been made a ward on the mother's application.

Britain's

On WRicre

and over the

of the Solent,

Mrs

Brandt then took a separate ree in Banstead and said she didn't intend to live with her husband.

In a statement

read to the

Price 20 Centa

FLIGHTS WEEKLY to the U.S.A.

8 from TOKYO

5 from MANILA

PAN AMERICAN

WEST WAITS FOR SOVIET ANSWER

'Geneva, June 17.

The fate of the Foreign Ministers' Conference hangs on the Soviet answer this afternoon, to the West's "final offer" plan for an interim Berlin settlement that would pave the way to a summit meeting.

Racial Storm In Commons

London, June 16. Labour Party members tonight accused Prime Minister Harold Mac- millan's government of adopting separate police methods for blacks and whites in

Africa,

In

The racial charge erupted in a House of Commons debate on the government's handling of le. fatal beating on March 3 of 11 Mau Mau terrorists Kenya's Hula prisim camp.

Labour party spokesman Sir Frank Sosider said, "It a boy with

skiri had been a while cuffed by a police officer, we would have had a full inquiry." Full Confidence

The former Labour Party Government Attorney General said, "We should do no less when 11 men with black skins

In a crucial private meeting Mr Selwyn Lloyd of Britain, Mr Christian Herter of the United States, and M. Maurice Couve de Murville at France will hear Mr Andrei Gromyko give the Soviet reaction to their proposals.

Mr

Western

sources expect Gromyko to reject the Western plan as a basis for discussion,

bringing all thus

effective negotiation. here to an en in full disagreement.

Soviet Threat Failing acceptance of plon, the Western ministers

the

were reported anxious to have the 30-day-old. talks adjourned a possible, however breaking off the pro- eess of East-West negotiations.

os soon

without

Moscow Parks

Not Like

Rail To Canton Under Water

The Chinese railway nu- thorities have inform- ed the management of the British sector of tho Kowloon-Canton Railway, that owing to flooding af various

London's Says points on the line be-

Billy Graham

tween Shumchun and Canton, all traffic from Shumchun has been temporarily suspend- ed.

Paris, June 16. American Evangelist Billy

Graham flew in from Mesto visit China are therefore ad- Hongkong residents intending cow today full of praise for vised not to set out until services Bel an authoritative US the "moral purity" he on the Chinese side have been source said last night that an

found in the Soviet capital. resumed, a Government spokes-

men said. interia Berlin settlement was

"In the Moscow parks, I saw a "prerequisito" of a summit thousands of young people," he

Cleared for conference.

the West aald. "But I did not so a

The rallway tracks would not to to the summit single couple locked in an' em-Kowloon - Canton

near the Hailway's with Sovici threat of brace."

workshops in Hunghom have unilateral action on Berlin Graham's observations con- now been cleared of the huge hanging over lis head.

trasted sharply with those he boulders which had been dis- According to the sources, the erado in his recent four of lodged by landslides on Monday. Western, Powers no longer insist

parks. During that The railway authorities on formal Soviet recognition of visit, the Evangelist deplored nounced this morning that the validity of their occupation the public hugging and Kissing termal train services between rights in West Berlin pending which he said was going on Tsimshatsul and Lowu will be German Peace Treaty.

everywhere in the parks of resumed at 1.30 p.m. today. However, It

London. Was

A Government spokesman whether Mr Gromyko would "I was told by local religious id this morning, that while accept the new proposals since leaders that there LS a real the Taipo Road is closed, he was recently reported to be religious revival and a market motorists will be allowed to use inslating that the West should decline of atheism in the Soviet Route TWSK, the road leading formally undertake, to abandon Union," Grubun said.

fiom! Taun Wan to Sek Kong its occupation forces in Berlin,

Village in the New Territories. even though might keep on token tarees there.

are: clubbed to death in, the final Proposals etstody of the Kenya Govern-

ment"

doubted

London's

"I was not surprised to bear that since I could read on the Suces of the people a great -spiritual- ·hunger and sortio, svet- of insecurity that only God can

The proposals which are resolve," he said. UPI.

Sixteen members of Parila-peated in the Western plan are tunderstood to cover the follow- ment had by today signed a motion for debate in the House Ing points! of Commons deploring an award in the Queen's birthday honours 1st inst week to Mr J, B, T.

Cowan, Senior Superintendent

of Kenya Prisons.

The motion states that Mr Cowan's part "in the events that led to the death of 11 Africans at the Hola camp has been severely erliteised by the senior magistrate who conducted the inquest.”

In Nairobi, a Kenya govern- ment

yesterday spokesman expressed full confidence in Mr John Cowan.UPI and China Mall Sprell,

Ex-King Leopold In Collision

Brussels, June 17,

Offers to make improve.

ments in the existing Berlin situation, and to consider Complaints of "subversive ac- tivities in the city;

The suggested establish. ment of two four-power commissions to supervise these improvements and to supervise Western rights

access; The suggestion that these arrangements remain in forto until the reunification of Germany or the four powers reach other agreements.

One slender

its foi Gromyko

Mir

chance remains success that Would gay he was prepared to discuss the Western plan, which was handed over to the Soviet delegation last 7.ight.Reuter.

Iman And Son

Agree

A car which ex-King Leopold of the Belgians was driving through Namur, central Belgium,

Rome, June 18. was in collision with a young Complete identity of views, man on a bicycle last night, the exists between the Iman of the Belglon news agency, Belga, re- Yemen and bis son, the Crown ported.

Prince El Badr, It was stated The cyclist came out of a today in the sovereign's side road and the ex-King braked entourage. hardt but the two vehicles

The Iman who is convalescing collided. The young man was after an attack of acute arthritis silently injured.

court Mr Brundt said his 40- The ex-King took the younna ville outside Rome is year-old sister would help make man into his car and drove him keeping in close touch with his is under home for his daughter n

to a nearby chemist shop where country's affairs. He

his Hongkong-Reuter and London he was treated by a doctor doctor orders to continue

convalescence~~AFF. Express Service.

Houtor.

Flying Saucer Lands

Britain's Hovercraft, the world's first dying saucer,

America-bound today' that will soon be Queen Mary, symbol of yesterday.—Expresa,“

a symbol of tomorrow, passes the masalve bulk

of the

Lennox-Boyd's Message To HK

The

Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, has expresa- ed distress at the kr.voc and loss of life caused by the recent rains, in a cabis to the Governor, Sir Robert Tack

The message received this morning, reads: "I waS

most distressed to hear of

the loss of Ife and havoo caused by the, rainstorm. Please convey, my succre sympathy to the next of

kla of those who have died and to the injured. To hozo chgaged in their great task of reflef and restoration. I

my

warm good wishes,”.

-00

Kwangtung Province Flooded

Paris, June 17. Kwangtung province is boing deluged os mercilessly as Hongkong was in racent days.

of

The province is in the grip of "particularly heavy" rainstorms, this Peking Ričio reported

mcmning eed fleeding has been caused by "ig mountain tor-

and ints"

overflowing givers in some regions.

Abu 50,000 acres of forme land in Kwangtung are affected, the radio said. It adifed that millions of people led by Com mmist Party cadres are fighting to save the harvest.

· Heavy rain is also lashing the coastal Fukien province where

are engaged countless propi In a desperate fight to prevent or minimise flooding,—AFT.

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