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Comment BIG UK FLOOD RELIEF DONATION

Lennox-Boyd Earth & Rocks Crash Into Church

Of The Day

A SPUR TO ACTION

Sends Telegram

To Governor

The British Government has announced a dona.

IT is to be hoped that thei weekend deluge and thei havoc it caused is not writ- ten off by Government as one of those unfortunate The freak disasters-er, as un Insurance company might describe it, an "net of God. Because it not in entirely. The old tenements! which are among the first casualties in weather like this, have been standing tool long, and the Colony cannut. 4 satisfied that the worst housing problem is being romedied until a start 1 made 011 clearing these BlumA.

AWAY

Government recognises this

as much as anyone. But

tion of £10,000 (HK$160,000) towards the re- lief of distress caused by the recent heavy rainstorms in Hongkong.

money will be contributed to the Flood Relief Fund The upened by the South China Morning Post, Fund stood at $26,000 yesterday.

a telegram to His Excellency the Governor, the Secre- tury of State for the Colonies, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd says that Her Majesty's Government intend, sub- ject to Parliament's approval which is being sought, to make the contribution at once.

Relief For Farmers

Yesterday, the Hongkong Government announced they had appropriated $500,000 for the relief of Colony farmers who had suffered losses of crops and live- stock during the thunderstorms last week-end.

with the multitude of prob- Worst hit were vegetable crops, but the rice paddies came

lems which it has had to

vas!

deal with in the last ten years including the aquatier resettlement Behem, it would be carping The to suggest that not enough has been done to rehose the pupulation. Previous administrations however must share the blame for allowing this fantastic The conglomeration of filthy vermin-filled multi-storeyed hovels to survive.

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The trouble is that none of our past governments were able to foresee the terrible pressures of population that

would one day beĮ

the Colony's housing. These buildings are the blackest murk that Hongkong bears today. They are ยก inherited evil, but one that neverthe- Jess cries out to expunged,

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seating character of the tehements themselves is the

constant division and sub

division of rooms inside sul that most Hongkong people today live not in homes, or] in flats, but in cubicles and bed spreaя. It is evil which has given rise to a whole range of social and health problems. And as long as this is allowed "lo

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through the four days of ruin with surprisingly little damage, a Government spokesman said. Livo stock losses, his report stated, have mainly been limited to poultry and other small livestock. appropriate sum will be granted to farmers on the basis of hardship. The object is to help the man who cannot re-establish his means of livelihood without aid. The money will be made promptly and without strings, the spokesman said. District Commissioner of the New Territories nounced also that as from Monday, June 22, applica- tions for flood relief assistance will be accepted. After applications have been made, investigations will be carried out to determine to what extent relief should be given.

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BRITISH PAPER'S

COMMENT ON COLONY FLOODS

Manchester, June 18.

The Manchester Guardian, commenting on the misfortunes to which Hongkong has been subjected, today accused the rest of the world of adopting an attitude of comparative indifference.

This

liberal daily declared: ard ten thousand or more have continue, we are failing to "At least 80 people are believed been rendered homeless.

have lost their lives in "The damage stems to have floods and landslides in Hong- been much more severe than that

the past kung over

few days. caused

the by years ago,

grasp the biggest and splkiest nettle of all.

to

The number of house collapsos that occurred st weekend must be the spur to action. It will be recalled that It was the severity of the 1953 and 1954 squatter fires that forced

Government expedite the squatter re- settlement scheme. It can- not be said that the number of tenement dwellers made homeless by the landslides and floods is in any way comparable, but the col- lapses that

occur A did were alarming enough and clearly emphasise their complete unsuitability dwelling places.

Army Revolt

Threat In Argentina

Tons of earth poured into St--weakened

Margaret's Church, Happy Valley, on Monday morning during the tor- rential rains. The ruins

retaining

wall above the church. The wall collapsed, sond- ing earth and rocks crash- ing into and, through 'the

sido wall of the church.

Damage. hat boon 105 And Never Been

estimated at $100,000.- China Moil Photo.

To The Doctor's

$100,000 Damage Toode whe

St Margaret's

LANDSLIDE CAVES IN WALL

By CHINA MAIL REPORTER

storms two Landslides have caused an estimated $100,000. damage to a well-known old church in Happy Valley, it was revealed today,

"Inevitably the SQUALLETS, most of them from Communist China, have once again suffered

1.oat.

"Shanties Improvised from herian or tarred paper do not offer much protection againat torrential rain tour inches an hour sometimes nor against boulders rolling down the hillsider on whleb they are perched,

Is The Queen Superstitious

About Dress?

"Disaster afte disaster has overiaken one section or on- Buenos Aires, June 17.

other since the refugees began crisis to flow in, and overcrowding major political

the inadequate housing have threatened Argentino to-

made the Colony, more vulner-

London, Juno 17. night as an army garrison able than almost anywhere else Newspaper gossip writers was ropasted to have in thedunrid.

to the "Tuggest today that the "It is fortunale-and threatened to refuse to

Queen

superstitious is obey government orders credit of the Government and

about her clothes. people of Hongkong-that there unless the War Minister have not so far been epidemies TT is the calamity that the|

General Hector Solamas of the more serious diseases.

They base this on the fact Colony. has suffered

that the Queen attended the Pacheco, resigned. therefore that must prompt

A Presidential communique

opening day of Ascot yester Government to make a start.

announced

day in the same cutfit as We would not wish resettle tonight

refused to "Whatever the individual she wore on the last day of ment เอ be Buspended, government had

minister's resigna-suffering, multiplied many thou-the 1958 meeting. accept the because again the squatters tion.

sand times, the community as a It certainly brought her luck were the principal sufferers, The centre, of dissatisfaellon is whole has recovered from each because he led in her less but the hovels on the hills Cordo where' the garrison is successive blow with astonishing favoured have of the day, are hardly worse than bed- rellably reported to have de- realllence, in spite of the com- Above Suspicion, a 9-4 winner apaces in the slums and themanded the general's resignation parative indiferents of the rest in the last race. two clearance

problems as the price of its obedience to of the world must be tackled together. the government.

that the

Sole Demand A high-ranking Wor Even If re-planning of the

slum arens were started and spokesman as denied

Office wide-

a token scheme Initiated, spread reports that troops fron

garrisons infinitely provincial

were thir would be

Resilienco

Lucky Outfit

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"Indeed, it has turned the Ares to some advantage by

A year ago, on that last day, oleared land using tho

for another of her lem-favoured repetifoment by decantation.

horses Snow Cat-also had "But Hongkong is used by surprise win. now to living on the edge of The Queen's "lucky" outfit

Temon-coloured lac a volcano,

dress with matching Jacket, picture vrtillo worn wiki hak, long gloves, handbag and while shoes.

"The storms of the past week "Calm prevails throughout į have also spread over wide areas

preferable to allowing this, marching on Buenos Aires. the greatest and worst of

local housing problema, to the country," he said

alido again, for another year

or until another. calamity.

emphasises what should now

that

be olivious to overyono those

wretched buildings

ery unsafe as well as unfit for human habitation.

The spokesman "wald'・ the *Bole arm demand of the „oflects”, was tho, rosignia ilan

op the Under-Secretary War, Colonel Manoel Itelmundos.

of

of southern China, and the dam- are there may be many times, greater than to Hongkong.

There were only very alpht "But we are not likely to alterations in her appearance know much about that, and, for yesterday from Init year: the}

-The church is St Margaret's, Happy Valley.

turned of

spraying water unili It was

actual breach

not in the church wall is large, piled-up earth hus weakened about 40 feet of the whole wall. Then at the rear the earth and rocks tru piled roof-high, and until it has been Fr. L. Bolis, PIME, sold that cleared away, it will not be on Tuesday morning, a crack known if the church wall her was noticed In the 37-year-old | been structurally weakened

At the height of the was ruptured, thunderstorms on Monday into the church morning, the embankment Although the wall surrounding the altar- end of the church collapsed hurling tons of rock and earth through the church wall.

retaining wall The Police and not.

PWD-were called in but there. that could be done.. was Me As the rain continued, the crack grow bigger.

Pressure

Then at about, 9.45 a.m., the tal-weakened wall gave way pressure of under the terrifie tons of earth. First to collapse was the wall at the rear of the church. This dia mile, actual damage to the church, other than almost roof-high, piling earth against the wall,

·Minutes

later, another the retaining wall section of the collapsed. In this collapse Beme 60 - tons of earth and rook hit the side of the church, smashing the

debris piled into the The corner of the church. through A gap measuring eight feet by -12 feel Another smaller station of the wall smushed, to the left, of the main altar.

wall,

A large rock which crashed

all we can do about it, it might alcoves had been shortened through the

wall, Ianded

Costly

or

Tho costliest operation, F. Bolis said would be the repair of the retaining wall, Shielding the side and rear of the church, the wall stretches about 100 feet long, and at its highest point is about 23 feet. from the ground.

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Fr. Bolis said that the con tregallon had been asked to co-operate, but he was not whether or not the $100,000 could be raised. Hə __maid_it_will__ he many months before the church is ecmplcio ly repaired. Church services are elill being conducted in the aide chapel.

→ The Education Department announced this morning that they had received no reports of damages to schools in the urban areas. However, a village. primary school in the New Territories, has been closed down.

The school in Sop Kun Wat Villoge, NT, was closed after

wall collapsed..

The Education Department

no other damage. are continuing : to make,en"

be In another world," the Mantle and she wore three strings few fodt in front of the altar, Colonel Relmundes realgued chester Guardian ouded Reu- of pourls Instead of two-China, but onused

Mail Special.

In the landslide, - a waterpipe | quiries about ölber schools. this morning-Reuter,

ter,

Starks, Maino, June 17.

Nichols, Barlow hasn't had a doctor was 15, celebrated his birthday today-UPI.

since he

105th

Party Call

To Sukarno

Djakarta, June 18.

1,400

Leave Doomed Block

A total of 1,400 people have been evacuated from an entire block of ten houses in Pill Street, Yaumat!, Kowloon, which is being demolished today, Government spokesman sald.

The ten houses, Nos. 1-19, were declared dangerous and condemned by the Public Works Department after the back portion of No. 1 collapsed on Tues day and cracks were found yesterday in the walls of other houses in the block.

All four-storeyed old wooden structures, the buildings, accommodating residents on upper floors and shops on ground floors, have developed lenks and peel- ing plaster work on the back walls, some even showing cracks,

Aftermath

As an aftermath of the re cent thunderstorms, the back part of No. 1 Pit Street came down with a bang on Tuesday morn ing when one man suffer ed injury after jumping down into the street from the first floor. Otherwise thero were no casualties, the residental having either escaped or been evacuated in time. The Yaumati Kaifong Wel

fare Association in con- junction with the polleo are making arrangements for relief of the victims who are being supplied with food packages today.

HER 27TH

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St John, New Brunswick, The biggest parliamentary

date 17. party, the Indonesian National A Canadian farmer's wife to Party (Portal National In-day gave birth to her 27th donesia) has asked President child. Mrs Marie Cyr, 48. years Sukarno to issue a decree for old and married 31 years, was the reenactment of the 1918 reported doing well with the Consulution and dieband the latest addition to her family, present constituent assembly Roger, who weighed 7.5 lbs at Reuter,

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