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No. 37403
· Established, 1845 WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1939.
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents
FLIGHTS WEEKLY to the U.S.A.
9 from TOKYO
5 from MANILA PAN AMERICAN
KHRUSHCHEV USES BLUNT AND BRUTAL LANGUAGE
Scissor
Of The China Gets Soviet Rockets Attack
Day
QUALITY FILMS
N Monday, the China Mail:
a
the indefatigable Mr N. T. Chow. He asked, Among other things, why Hongkong. is not permitted to see the world's best films.
First, no commercial distribu-
tor in Hongkong will handle thom. Secondly no exhibi- tor will show them. In short, the world's best films are considered to be "risky" box office, in spite of the fact that often they pack clemus specialis- overkenk
cinema creations, for weeks on end.
Ing iz!
Masterpieces
ERHAPS Mr Chow has tu
PERHAPS
t
Enough Power Alexandra
Alexandra Plane Leap-Frogs Hongkong
To Destroy Seventh Fleet'
Washington, July 7.
China had enough Soviet-supplied rockets to bombard Formosa and enough firepower to "destroy" the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the For- mosa Straits, the Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev told Averell Harriman in Moscow recently.
Royal Visit
Cost Chicago $50,000
Chicago, July 7.
mind such Alms as, "The Cranes Are
Flying," the film which crashed | Private Soviet the trembling barriers of Mocialist unrealism
tu
reassert the rights of the individual. This flin, long boralded in London, had the "House Full" notices up at the
Curzon. Incidentally,
it picked up a Grand Prix Award at Cannes,
Or perhaps the writer had in mind, "Wild Strawberries," the beautiful creation of Sweden's Ingmar Bergman. Then again "The Seventh Seal," also the work of Ingmar Bergman, is a film! that had critics hysterical with praise.
The point is, we do not see
these
at the fima, and moment, it seems unlikely that we shall. It is indeed
rather Astonishing that
some local exhibitor is not
contributors
paid for the $27 per head lunch and the even more expensive
This was reported in the Life: Magazine in an interview with the former New York Governor on his folks with Khrushchev.
Will Aid
Governor Harriman said that
hod the Soviet Premier
used "blunt and brutal" language during the interview.
Khrushchev also was quoted as saying the Russians wil come to the aid of the Chinese "when and if they decide to "even if it strike Formos means war." Khrushchev told
Harriman
that if the United States sends
in tanks
to maintain its pasi-
ion in Berlin "they will burn
and make
no mistake about it,
A
To Pass
Through Colony?
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Government spokes- man said this morning that there is no in- formation on whether Princess Alexandra of Kent will stop over in Hongkong on her way to Thailand later this
year.
A report from Londen today mby sold Princess Alexandra
this year visit Thailand later
er her tour of Australia in September.
the Thai But according to
Hongkong, Consul-Ceneral in Mr Thawan Kimangsawat Prin- cess Alexandra will visit Thai- land.
dinner for the Queen it you want war, you can have visiting our country," he said.
and some 1,800 guests here yesterday, Mayor Richard
Daley dis-
closed today.
Asked about the cost to Chi- go of the Royal visit, he said officiul estimates were that ex- penses ron to about $50,000.
INCLUDED
This included $8,000 for the special landing dock where the Queen and Prince Philip stepped ashore from the Royal barge;
$20,000 for new paving und gutters along lakeshore drive, fronting the landing area;
enterprising enough to make That Visit To
A bid for sutne of these masterpieces.
The
more
so, when we are reminded that with the present dearth of Alms, due to slackening of production in the major English-speaking studios, local exhibitors are Anding it difficult to their playing bills.
Worth Study
N the other hand, is there
ON
room
for another kind Hongkong,
of cinema in
where prestige Mms could
be shown exclusively?
It
seems that this is u
pro-
posal well worth studying
by an enterprising exhibi
tor.
The Dentist
Chicago, July 7.
The dentist who filled the Queen's troublesome tooth last night wald today "she
Was
and of the calment patients ever had."
Doctor Norman Olson, said the Royal
"terribly routine."
visit
was
"called her 'Your Ma- "We ex. jesty," he said. changed greetings and from then on it was just 'open' and 'close',"
The Queen certainly has
A wonderful smilo and a marvellously healthy set of teeth," he said Router.
་་་་་་་་
it, but remember it will be your war. Our
will rockets
automatically."
Inflexible
Ay
I
Harriman Toported that Khrushchev indicated the Rus-
gions will be as inflexible and stubborn as ever on Berlin when the Foreign Ministors resume their meeting in Geneva next Khrushchev warned Monday. Harriman that If the United States does not agree to a settle- ment he himself will unilaterally terminate the West's rights Berlin.
In
of
as- The Communist leader Bured Harriman that he will agree to no reunification Germany "which does not provide for a Socialist system." Life reported.
Harriman
calculating
sald
Khrushchev
jacks both the caution and
the
And while she is there she will stay in Suan Kurarb Police, Bangkok.
"We are very glad to have Princess Alexandra of Kent "As far as I can recall she will probably be the first Princess to do so,"
The Government have been busy for some time making arrangements for the visit, ho addled
British
(Princess Alexandra has not yet visited Hongkong though her the Duchess of Kent mother,
and her brother, the Duke of Kent visited Hongkong In 1952).
Chessman Likely
To Die
Over Highway Cars
St. Albans, July 8.
Truck driver Peter Goydon-Smith glanced into his rear-view mirror yesterday and saw a twin- engine plane roaring up behind him at ground level.
Goydon-Smith
slammed
on the brakes, leaped out of the cabin and dived down a bank.
An instint later the plane hit the truck and exploded in a bali of fame,
"saw men jump off the plume," Goydon-Smith said. "One ran down the road with his hair in fumes. We could not get near the blaze.
- in 10 over ali Wis
"IL minutes."
One Dies
One of the men aboard the T. J. plane-County Surveyor Livesey, 39, died in the crush, Four others in the De Havilland Rapide airerat escaped.
by
The plane had been chartered
oticials
Fi of
Tood- building Arm to inspect work on the new St Albans bypass 28 city, leading around this
It had been given permission miles northwest of London. to land on a completed strip of the roadway,
But as it touched down, tyre burst. The pilot tried to take off again. He didn't quite
make .
Bounced Off
hc
In quick muccession, bounced off the roof of a small green van, nicked the top of a Ford sedan, snipped off the upright exhaust pipe of a bull- dozer, then stracted into Goydon-Smith's truck..
Dozens of men working on the road ran for their lives 89 the plane headed toward them shoulder-high.
Two hours after the occident there was nothing left of the plane but a chorred and twisted San Francisco, July 7.
skeleton lying across the new of The shrewdness
California Supremo roadhyay. Behind
was Court today unanimously Goydon Smith's overturned affirmed the death son- truck. There was much more of the truck than of the of author-rapist jet tanco
salch Stalin. He
that while Khrushchev's claims "must not be underestimated" Gie Just
from repeting refrain sharply to his more "amboyant arrogance."-UPI.
Rainmaking Canadian Soldier
too
HK Girl Fined
In Calcutta
Calcutta, July 7. British Overseas Airways Corporation Assistant Stewardess. Jenny
today Wang, pleaded guilty to at- tempting to smuggle a gold bar into Dum Dum airport in her handbag on May 2.
The gold fur was valued at £135. She was ordered to pay a fine of £112 10s or go to prison
AFP. for a month. -
On Island
Dams Overflow A man and woman and
All reservoirs in the
Colony
Tai
except
Lam Chung were full to overflowing after yesterday's rain,
As a result, Hongkong gained
their son were injured in a scissor attack in a wooden hut opposite the Aberdeen Fish Market yesterday afternoon.
The wife, Hung Hung-sheung,
in
of fresh
water, bringing the the hands and chest while. her total of 63.61 million gallons 30, was seriously wounded total storage up to 10,381.11 husband, Li Tin, 40, and her 14, received million gallons, according to a eldest son aged
and' prin- spokesman for the Waterworks: cuts on their hands
The reservoirs were 99.2 per pits. eent full while Tal Lam Chung reservoir was 9.5 Inches short of Its maximum storage capacity.
Two Roads
RESTING
room
at
The couple and their daughter were resting in their about 4 pm, when a man arm-
pair of scissors ed with a
and attacked tho
Two roads closed because of
a landslide fol- broke in aeave-in and lowing yesterday's rain were woman. reopened to traffic at 12.45 p.m. today, according to a Governed at the man
attacked ment spokesman.
Li stood up in bed and kick- but was also and injured.
The
a
Ice House Street was fenced couple then shouted for help.
The eldest son, watching off when a big subsidence, 15
feet by Ave feet appeared yes- mahjong game in the sitting terday morning at its junction room came to their rescue and with Lower Albert Road, cutting | struggled with the attacker. off traffe in and out of 19 en- Irance.
Shek Road near Windy Gap was blocked because of a land- slide. After clearing up the earth and rocks this morning. the authorities opened the road to single lane traffic.
16-Year-Old RELIGIOUS
Became A "TV Zombie'
London, July 7.
A 16-year-old boy described by his father as a "T.V. Zambio" was parted from his home television set for o long time today when magistratos here ordered him to an approved school until he was 19.
FAITHFULS ARRESTED
Worow, July 7. Some 20 persons were arrest- ed ond scoros Injured when police charged roll- glour inhabitants Kratnik Fabryczny, small industrial city south west of Lublin,
of
0
Tear gas was used to disperse The father said his son had
the crowd on June 20, after not worked for 18 months but locked himself up in the house citizens tried to stop the authori all day watching television and tics from taking away a cruel- crept about the house all night.fx, a temporary, chapel and
Questioned, the father said he tatue of the Virgin erected on Catholic was so terrified of his son, who a square by Roman Caryl Chossman who has plane.
All four of the men who had threatened him with a faithful, a reliable source paid. successfully avoided San escaped from the crush were knife, that he barricaded h
Quentin's gos
for 11 years.
chamber slightly injured.
were self in his room They pilot Eric Ashton, county high- China Mail Special. ways official Ralph Pocklington mark
Lid executives Martin and Hedley
Today's decision may
the end of the road for 37-year-old prisoner who
and Tarmac the
Robin has
already carried his case to the Richardson~~UPI. U.S. Supreme Court Sevca times.
<!-
Deputy State
Allorncy- Gentral Arlo E. Smith said last week that Chessman has hausted almost every possible ground for an appent since his conviction on 17 felonies, in- sweltering in a houtwave cluding two kidnap-rapes.
Among
Bonn, July 7, Canadian troops
in North Germany Was Privata John A. Goodwill,
unit
Bonn To Borrow
Destroyers
Bonn, July 7. A West German Defence Ministry spokesman said to- NEW DATE Chessman was sentenced to night that West Germany had to borrow six des. $5,000 to dredge a berth off
who also happens to be a death for the two convictions of arranged navy pler for the Royal yacht
chief of the Sioux Indians. kidnap-rape under the state's troyers from the United States Ho for a period of five years each. Britannia;
Enough is enough he thought "Little Lindbergh Law." The films we liave mentioned, i $0.000
built-up for a new
tabbed the "Red Light-Reuler. was as the sun blazed down on Lie together with Festival section at a road crossing near
Bandit" by Los Angeles head-
Washington, July 7. Weeks, could cnally keep a the luke: and $1,000 for paint-shooling range where his
was awaiting cooler weather Ilne welters for prowling lovers"
The United States sucd tho busy amail cinema fully ing traffic signals.
lones posing. as a police offeer. said that before moving off on exercises. Chiengo officials
Johu, in full uniform, began The next move in the state's Soviet Union in the International Justice today for occupied during nifty-two weeks of the year. Or should most of the repair work,
be for the Los Angelea superior-$756;604:09-for-damagoa..as a we suggest that Government dredging and painting would form-his-tribo's-traditional bid to execute Cheeman will Court of
to set
execution result of the shooting down of cour! It began raining half an hour
date. Under law It must be not an air force B-20. In 1954 over "I have merely done what s than 30 days nor more than Japan.
The plane was destroyed by my grandfather has shown me," 90 days after official notification
One enlisted mali be explained to his stariled of the Supreme Court's rejce Soviet Migs.
was killed-UPI. comrades. China Mall Special. tion of the appeal➡UPI.
have had to be done
anyway.
take it up? After all, the and it was only brought forward culture, as well as the wel- little. fare of the people, is Government concern
of
SUNGLASSES While in Chicago, the Queen did little holiday shopping
bought an item familiar to sightseers everywhere: u poir of sunglasses.
The City Hall?during her one-day visit here,
A
ND we should not
pose But Her Majesty's selection
the question if the answer had little in common with were not readily to hand. gaudy colours
to be provided, pers here. Why not fit it with à pro-
to
"Dance, of the Rainmaker",
Inter..
11cw
'China's Economic Gains Exaggerated'
oppear
to
be
the
the
New York, July 7. bers to raise their own pigs, continue to grow, but the rate of growth remains to be sven. claims of and duck flakt | CHINA'S
great was recently announced.
"On the Industrial side 100 The violent lurches in Peking's gains in 1958 In the now City Hall, a preferred by most sun worship-economic
been internal policies during "wildly there appear to have theatro fa
last three years reflect various Peking reneged on Newsweek troubles. The Queen chose translucent exaggerated,"
miscalculations. seme barter contracts, and ox-
"Ruthless and arrogant, the jection room, and wire it frames with a pearl grey cast magazine sald,
ports of consumer goods, which for sound, and during the and a "mild" uptill at the im-
hrd been flooding Southeast Rod masters are also obviously
capable
mistakes. of stupid a senior Ernest K. Lindios,
Apla, suddenly dwindled. Back- theatro season, place these ples, a spokesman for the manu- facturer (House of Vision) sald,
yard steel production, touted as Almost certainly they would faint pray editor of Newsweek, said in a the The lens have a
from Hongkong a spectacular success, seems to have been ousted before now to hide special article our tint, not dark enough
that careful analysis in that have been abruptly abandoned. If the great moss of the Chinese the wearer's eyes, but of a new
people could assert its own will. manufacturer's Lechnique which cly supports that conclusion.
Instead of more food (in "China la making economic The only hope for the libera
nevertheless intton of the alaves lies in a mainland China) there appears advances,
the Communist- Mr N. T. Chow is right. eliminates 30 per cent of the
structure. ro-to do ke-the bags ruko has transportation, industrialisation, schism
power Jongkong should see what cun's glare, it was said.
natural recontrolled fused permission to make a gift been reduced and supplies of development of
None la visible now, but the "It must. ing individual commune mem-] China's economic strength will should not be ruled out."--UPI.
prestige Alma among shows given by amateurs?
is best in the film world,
The manufacturer was
outside the flow of commer~{ of the sunglasses, 40 a bill for pork seem to have fallen," he scurces...to ‘amurned that posalbility that ono will develop
cial Alma which Rood into 317 will be sent to Buckinghain wrote. "A plan, for encourag-
Prince-Reuter and UPL` the Colony,
ot
A
BROKE FREE-
man
The
also boy
reccived wounds during the Sght. In Spite of the three people who tried to selzo him, the broke free and ran away,
Li tren staggered to the Fish Murket telephone in the with the assistance of neigh- bours and reported to police."
On arrival, the polleu found in the premiere a pair of blood- stained scissors wrapped in pics of cloth.
A
Later suspect was presied in the vicinity of the hut,
The three were sent to hospi- tai but all except the wife wero discharged
treatment. ater
Counterfeiter Wanted Bail
London, July 7. Artist Derek Forbes, 25, was refused bail yesterday because the court was afraid ho'd go out and make money?
Forbes WAS
counterfeiting.
arrested
for
"I have seen the one
pound nates," sold magistrale Seymour Reinforcements were rushed | Collins. "They pro so expert night from Lublin to cope with the that I cannot agree to grant
demonstration.—AFP.
bail."-UPI.
For
£36,450,000 Bid Harrods By Scot H
Hugh
Fraser, the... Scot master draper.
London, July 7.
Harrods, the world-famous London department store where Queen Elizabeth often shops, today received another takeover bid.
It
was made by Mr Hugh Fraser, the has extended Scottish draper who
his drapery store empire by success. fal takeover-bida-up-and-down the country.
Mr Fraser told reporters tonight that he was offering £30,460,000 for the share capital of Harrods. He added that the House of Fraser, of which ho is chairman, had now made its first formal offer. What had been said before had been proposals. On June 22 Harrods rejected merger proposals from Mr Fraser.
Higher offer
He estimated that his offer was about £2 million more than that offered by United Drapery Stores and about 4 million above that of Debon-- hams Limited.
A week ago, Sir Richard Burbridyo, Chairman of Harrods, and his fellow directors, ed- viscd shareholders not to act da any offer before hearing the board's comminents.
FA
HARRODU
The fameus
Mr Frayor såld tonight that Sir, Richard was being informed of this later move in order for discstasion to afford the opportunity bofore documents are posted direct to sign above the sharetrolder-Router;"
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