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PEKING REPORTS TWO MILLION

MILLION HOMELESS

8 from TOKYO »

5: from MANILA

PAN, AMERICAN

BAN AME

JOHANSSON

Of The 187 DIE IN FLOODS FACES BIG

Day

THE SEAWAY

THE

E new, proud St Law- rence Seaway which the Queen and President Elsen-

hower jointly open

נגנן

Friday promiser ZLM pro-

found a revolution for the

industrial and agricultural

Great Losses Caused

Near Canton

Peking, June 24.

heart of North America as One hundred eighty-seven Chinese have died

the opening of the Suez

Cunal provided for the Far East and its trade with

Europe. This much seema cartain from the first few weeks of its existence. For now ships of all nations,

ESCAPED LABORATORY - Queen & MONKEY SHOT DEAD

ON GOVT ORDERS

London, Jane 23. MONKEY being taken to a laboratory for experiments Khof and was escaped today dead on government orders.

of Supply spoken. denied earlier reports that the monkey was Infested fra previous experiments on germ warfare.

in floods this month near Canton, capital a Ministry

of the South China province of Kwang- tung, it was officially reported here to- day.

have a direct access to one Incomplete figures also showed 20 missing and

of the greatest industrial areas in the world on the ahores of the Great Lakea. Britain had similar hopes - and fours when the Man chester ship canal spened; for business. The great ports of London and Liverpool, it was said, would be eclipsed as pensants. by the new inland port! situated in the industrial victims was

204 injured, the official Hsinhua News Agency reported.

The agency said the 187. killed included Communist who had party, officials

North, But if this threat

failed to materialise to any

helped to fight floods as well

I raid the total number, of about two inilion.

Marooned

who had

significant extent in the Observers took this figure United Kingdom, it would including people be short-sighted to predict been

marooned or where

such future for the Somes, crops and other property Lawrence SeaWAY,

Distances being on such

scule greater

in North America, the Seaway pro- mises to cut transport costs eliminate ppreciably and

i much

had been damaged or lost,

The Ageney said that homes destroyed by Hood amounted to "marc Than 200,000 rooms" bul did not specify the number of houoc# Jost, (Observers naid the average peasant's home had about two or three rooma). In today's Peking newspaport,

-The "agency" report,' published" will thus be facilitated and aid the foods, along the valleys America and Canada will of the East, Taeng and Liuhsi send exports from Lake rivers east of Canton, were the ports-direct to the markets worst for ten years and coused of the world. Imports too"great losses."--Reuter,

overland haulage. The carriage of bulk urc and grains along the seaway

will be carried straight to

the vast centres of pro-

duction.

The economy of

the ares will be transformed £100 ONLY

New docklands will grow up. Road and rail transport will

be affected. And the bizi

of ports

the north-east const will receive a smaller share of Incoming and out- going cargoes.

THE Seaway opens at a

Tume of acute unemploy

once

FOR UK TOURISTS

CHINESE

WRITER'S LIBEL ACTION

$112

The

He said it was not infected in been any way and had not used for experiments.

Ministry warned police that the animal was dangerous and farmers and police in the area of the south coast town of Worthing set out to search for it. Farmer Peter Bast- abic, 24, spotted it in a tres

and shot li dead.

The monkey, which weighed 20

pounde and was seven-year- uld, was

from

being taken

at

Duke At Home

To Press

the Ministry's micro-blological Quebec City, June 23.

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh

research establishment Salisbury to an animal farm From there near Worthing.

It was going to a university. It escaped when doors of

truck New open,

*

The Ministry said the monkey was dangerous to the public only in the sense that any wild от undomesticated animal was dangerous

covered The body was

and guarded, after Bastable shoi it, until Ministry pificialN collected -UPL

SEARCH FOR KIDNAPPED MAN INTENSIFIES

A Chinese freelance writer today suad the monthly magazine. "China Seroon Pictorial" and its editor The

for the tum of $5,000 for having published in in November, 1958 edition, an article which, it is claimed, coused the writer serious injury to his character credit and ro- putation.

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

nolice search for the kidnapped Mr Wong Ying-kau intensified today following official confirmation that hi's family had received a ransom note for half a million dollars from Macao.

Hongkong Pešiće were report- ed to have despatched a con- lingent to Macao,

Police are said to have ге-

have

official in-

The writer, Chiang Yam-ng alas Peter Chiang of 4 Manyen ceived detailed reports on the Rond, fet door, Diomond Hill, hideout where Mr Wong is be- Kowloon claimed in the Victorining kept prisoner, and they Distriel Court this morning that have alerted their officers and un page and 15 of the Issuedelcetives to round up gangsters of the maggine "China Sereen Petor in November, 1856, in Hongkong believed to under the heading The Now been involved in the kidnapping. London, June 23.

Star But Pink is indecently a5- British tourists will still get suulted Fultor and pub- only £100 spending lisher of the magazine. Woodrow monay a year for foreign Le and the printers King Wah travel,

Printing Company had falsely tho Government

and ibelously printed announced today.

article, the words of which Chancellor of the Exchequer meant and were understood to mean that he, (the plaintiff) hed in fact Indecently assaulted the suid octress.

ment in Canada. Fortunate- ly this is declining now,

jobless though the numbered almost 10 per Derick Heatheont-Amory fald cent of the working popul-Parliament he did not plan tu

Now It has about change the foreign tion.

exchange seven per cent, at large allowance for Brilons nt the mo- by British standards, but ment. the creation of new open- ings of employment on the maintain the present restric- tions "uny longer than nutes- sary,"

northern shores of the

But he said he

late

way

water- navigable all for

but the

would be UPI.

would hol

Charged

on

At the time of publication of the said article, the plaintif

of indecent Assauli

#pon

Lukes should benefit The Firitain's present booming lood charged with the offence Dominion considerably. prosperity resulted in reports in

in the British press recently What does the Seaway

that actress,

The charge was beard and volve? Briefly the conver-the £100 allowance would be

Mr T. L. Yang, UT that restrictions dismissed by alon of a 2,300-mile river increased

ut Kowloon Hifted altogether. Magistrate

Magistracy on November 24,

The plaintif claims that the article had kn CONSEQUENCE seriously injured his ebafaster, credit and reputatlon and brought hlm into public scandal, odium and contempis,

very biggest vessels

the world. Perhaps the

only Dues that will be x Dominicans

cluded except passenger

for the big liners, which would have no reason to use the waterway anyway, will be the giant tankers that are now being constructed, But all fright-carrying ships including the bulk orel and grain carriers will be ablo to use this step- Indder to the Great Lakes. THE

THE system of seven locks!

will carry shipping up to Lake Superior, 600 feet above the level of the At-| Jantic Ocean ut the mouth of the St Lawrence.

which passable waterfalls impeded the passage of the

Im-

Quell

Revolution

1955.

Claims

The plainun-

claims against

the defendants

25,000-end-to

damages of

The plaintin is represented

Although

formation is scanty, it is learned that Wing is being well treated by the kidnappers.

time pay-

The ransom note was address- ed to Mr Wong's father.

The letter specified the limit und procedure for ments to be made in Macão and threatened Mr Wong's life 'the condition were not met,

Last Seen

The kidnappers are demand. ing payment by instalments.

Wong, a big oil distri butor for a foreign oil

and concern

honorary president of the Chinese Athletic Association and the Hongkong and Kow- loon Basketball Associa tion, was last seen leaving] the Cactus Night Club in the Luk Kwok Hotel!

Wanchai, Building, 1-15-a.m, last Friday

at

He has been missing ever since by Mr I. R. A. MocCallum and his car was found abandoned (Wilkinson and Grist).

Ciudad Trujillo, June 23.

The defendants ore repre- Government forces have sented by Mr H. Lu, in- "completely exterminat- structed by William Wong of M. ed" a force, of invadert K. Lam.

Hearing is continuing before which tried to start an Judge T. Creedon, ormod revolt against the rogimo of President Hastor Trujillo, military authori ties here claimed tonight. The force has been

exterminated all its members were killed" the authorities said.

famous French explores Pletely

301

Cartier more than years ago have been by. passed.

com-

(Reports reaching Port Au Prince'in neighbouring Hali

There is no waterway in the quoted a high security source world which has overcome as saying the Invaders came so many natural obstacles from the direction of Cuba),- or cost so much as the thou- Reuter.

sand million

dollarn that

has been spent on the pro-

ject in the last five year New Irish PM

It is truly one of the great

Dublin, June 23.

ongineering feats of the century

the for which

Mr Bean Lemans was tonight || Canadians who shouldered | elected Prime Minister of the burdan of the work Irlah Republ in the Dail by bavo much to be proud of. 75 votes to Olde Reyter.

the

A

on the praya near French Street, Western District, on Saturday,

Four fingerprints other than Wong's were found inside the

the Reports also suid belong to a certain secret society.

car.

thugs

Satchmo

Improves

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

were

"at home to the press" aboard the royal yacht Britannia tonight at a reception for the newspaper corps covering their six-day-old tour Canada.

LAWSUIT

New York, June 23,

A suit asking for more than $175,000 damages was filed against Swedish boxer Ingemar Johans- son today virtually on the eve of his heavy- weight title fight with World Champion Lloyd Patterson...

The sult in the federal court here was filed by California boxer Eddie Machen and the Chicago Stadium Corporation. It accused Johansson, four other individuals and two firms of violating a return bout agreement with Muchon.

The other defendants

were

armed as Edwin Ahlquist of Sweden, Patterson, Cus D'Amato, Patterson's Manager,

William

Rosensohns Enterprises, which

of is promoung the title fight, M

Yankee Stadtum here an "Thurs day ishlarid Teleprompter

They circulated among car- Corporation, respondents, photographers and newspaper

while executives Huyal Marine musiclons from Portsmouth played selections from "The King and 1 and other light pieces.

Both the main deck and the royal deck were used for the reception at which the atmo- sphere was markedly relaxed

The suit alleged that the de- fendants conspired together and maliciously entered into a scheme to induce and in fact did induce Ingemar Johansson to violple and break" a return boul agreement with Mochen.

An Agreement

Johansson

ou!

Quite Aware

knocked Machen in car round in a bout Canadian journalists who in Goteborg, Sweden before he usked the Queen what she was offered the chance to chal, thought of certain recent lenge Patterson. articles in newspapers and imagazines which were critical of her tour, said that she' was quite aware of these articles

but 'observed that the pros wis free to write what it pleased.

PHILIP ENTERS

·AIR RACE

London, June 23, The Duke of Edinburgh is re- ported today to have entered Britain's national air races next month with an aircraft designed in France, powered by A German engine and Gulit by a British Orm.

The News Chronicle says that the plane, a Turbulent, will

be the Duke's first entrant in

the races,

to be staged at

Coventry on July 9,

of

The low-winged aircraft is to

carry the Duke's cont arts and will be piloted by his equerry, Squadron Leader John Severne.—Reuter.

The journalists also asked the Duke of Edinburgh about his views on photographers and he replied that he did not, object

The suit said thai on Sep- tember 13, 1058 Machen, and Johanson had entered "into

· MIX · ARTDEMEnt: In · Goteborg in which "Johansson agreed that if he won their match on the following day he would meet Machen again during the last week of January or the first two weeks of February in Chicago.

INGEMAR JOHANSSON

Explorers Remains Found

Paris, June 23.

A British-French-Belgian ox- padition hai found # sepulchral mound on the south Pacific island of Vanikero

marking the graves of the men of tho French ship La Boussole, which foundered in 1788 aftar o raca to Australia. The La Boudaole Was benten by two days by Gov-' The sult soid it had been tablish a settlement In Aus- ernor Philip in a race to ex- further agreed that Johansson tralia.

Word of the discovery was

of

would not meet anyone 'ina" the United States, nor Patterson anywhere in the world until sent to Paris to the wife lafter the retur hout with M. Haroun Tazioff, leader of

Machen-Reuter,

the expedition which is ex- Madame ploring the island. Tazieff said the cable also re- ported the discovery of two anchors and the ballsat another vessel, identified the Astrolabe.

HK Girl's

Trial

Today In Manila

Manila, June 24.

Pacific flight steward-

ess,

The La Boussole was cap- tnined by the French naviga- tur Jean-Francois De La Perouse.

БП

The frigates Antralnbe and In Boussole comprised exploration fleet commission- ed by King Louis XVI, of which De La Perouse was the leader.

De La Perouse was killed on the island of Vanlkoro. by the natives.-Reuter.

HONGKONG'S

who is accused "TOP OF THE MARK” of an attempted amug gling of $55,000 out of Manila, is scheduled to open today in near-/ by Pasay City,

to photographers as long as they The trial of a Cathay kept within bounds, though it became embarrassing for the Queen and himself when one photographer stepped out of line and came too elöst, All other photographers then gener- Spoleto, Italy, June 23. Louls "Satchmo" Armstrong ally followed this example.

The Duko was also quoted as the world's greatest jazz | objecting to "keyhole photo- trumpeter who was rush- graphy" which the Canadian ed to hospital here today journalists took to mean use of telescople lenses and miniature with heart and lung trou- cameras to catch such informal ble may be well enough to angles as ile hugging and nose leave in a few days" his blowing.

The province of Quebec to doctor said tonight.

night established a quarter His-condition-which prompt. [mmön döller foundation

ed his personal physician study heart disease as one way ‚'Dr Alexander Scifl to say of celebrating the visit here of

Agents of the National Bureau éarlier that Armstrong the Queen and the Duke.

Quebec must lic still for six weeks publessis told a capacity crowd burcau arrested Miss Cheuk Maurice of Investigation and the bustoms has shown "a marked that the foundation would start Inst April 30 on suspicion of Improvement" since this work immediately in the fight trying to amuggle $35,000 morning-Reuter.

against sometimes deadly heart of the Philippines.

Misunderstanding Results In A

Premier

alimentaRouter.

(SEE PAGE 3)

·KIWIS BAN ·

Dead' Prime Minister BUGS BUNNY

London. June 23. RHODESIAN Government spokesman hero mid tonight

it was possible that a de-

contained a sentence that he for Information" the spokes-}}{\ had tipped the buckel" of cement on the dam wall,

man sald.

To

Auckland, June 23. The New Zealand broadcasting service, has, wkhdrawn from the air, children's records fexturing chinractors speaking: bad gram-

"A. shookahowed (that the szenny reports mentioned the

brocket of cement.

only possible explanation Bunny.

reading of a seniorice in The Rhodesian Government Prime Minister, Upplas tho

asblo

nows

had started arraneous reports about the

death of Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Rhode. sian Federation.

· apokerjman in London mid he had been phoned by an over"The Mono Journalis; who, asked· for confirmation of reports that the Prime Minister had died. News agency roporis 'reaching { "Tala was a bit of a 'shook to us and we immediatoly .con- London of x:ceremony at the

tnoted big Kariba dam in Southern

HOWE agencies and HUWIPSDOTE in Fleck Street Bhodesia silended by Sir Ber

..

Mias Catherine Cheuk, 20, pleaded not guilty when arraigned early this month be fore the Pasay City prosecuting attorney, She was freed on a $3,000 ball.

Discovered

out

The agònia" discovered the money hidden in an EXPEN- sive luggage' which was later tmced to Min Chouk. She claimed that the luggage was given - her by a Filipino woman, She describoj· the woman as "fal, dark and about 40 years old.”

The flight stewardess, how- ever, could not furists the complete identity of the wornan. —UPI.

mar, Among them is BU "Fact Finding"

, for the wild rumour socma to A spokesman said the banned be that somebody reading the 'records had characters, which report on the tapes mla-read | spoko" syših, distorted · "yawals, or misunderstood. It' to "mean | und the stories introducgl idlomi. -kicking the bucket" (and pronunciations, boiler, the of good slang term for dying), -- accepied · standartla Router.

speech in New Zealand. UPI.

New York, June. 23.

A. purly* ́ ́of nine State; Gov- more left here today for a three-weekt "fact finding vide to the Soviet Union-Reuter.

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