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LATE FINAL

CHINA MAIL

No. 37411

Established 1845.

FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1959.

Price 20 Centa

FLIGHTS WEEKLY to the U.S.A.

9 from TOKYO S from MANILA PAN AMERICAN

BRITAIN DETERMINED TO PRESS FOR REDUCTIONS AT IATA MEETING

Of The BOAC BID FOR FARE CUTS

Day

UNDER FIRE

I been a happy first year N many ways it has not

for the Tourist Association The favourable first impress Alon with which its form-] tion ዱ። greeted subsided and if there w any one way in which it gained prominence in the last year it was the number of criticisms to which the Association and its per. sonnel were subjected.

C

the whole they have been petty and most have come from self-styled

.

AIRLINE MAY

MAY EVEN LEAVE ASSOCIATION

London, July 16.

Britain is determined to get reduced air fares for Boac's Far East service at the forthcoming International Air Transport Association meeting-even if it means leav- ing the Association.

The Queen

experts Is Now A

who think they could do】 the job butter.

But whatever joy the critics get out of Mrs Beatrice Church's painted and pertinent questions at the annual meeting, there will|

Red Indian

be no shaking the majority Princess

Nanaimo, B.C., July 16. The Queen today became

an Indian princess.

conviction that a Tourist Association is what Hong kong needs and if the annual report's figures on tourist expenditure are any thing like authentie, its formation was amply justi-The chief, braves and squaws

if it

fied.

Furthermie

has not managed so far to measure up to the expecta- tions either of the geword public or all of its members, there is time to remedy that! in the years ahead. TAVING Haid all this it

H' necessary to revert to

its

of the Salish tribe inducted the Queen into their band in n noisy, bell-ringing ritual in Nanaimo Exhibition Park soon after the Queen and her husband, Prince Philip. arrived on Vancouver Island,

THE QUEEN

proceedings at the unau meeting. The questions asked were fair enough, but

the surely

Axaciation-m would have come on! of it a much more dignified light If either someone fully conversant with the figures had made the replies, or if Mr Knowles had made no attempt to answer them at! all but promised, as he! eventually did, full replies Inter. Because, as a result, of his part answers, there' must be widesproud envern -perhaps not wholly justi- fiable about the way the Association conducts affairs.

considern- There is another

tion

which

cur- indians

dresses respondent has elaborated

traveljed in A letter on the back page of this issue, namely the statistics that the Association' first annual report contains. The report states that in Murch this. year "rooms avallank for incoming tourists anointed to about 2,200 including 750 for the high-class cate gory." This tends to show, on the basis of arrivals and the average duration of a tourist's stay, that there

serious 1

is

shortage

in, the pouk seasons,

Yet

In feathered

and buckskin

head-

robes

The Association controls international air fares. Speaking in the House of Commons tonight, the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr Harold Watkin- son said British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways and the independent British airlines will go to the IATA meeting with proposals for fare reductions on the European, African and Eastern routes.

"Orderly And Sensible'.

I hope IATA will approve these proposals because if not we will have to reconsider our position in IATA and see what we can do in our own area where mat- ters are still under our own control".

Mr Watkinson said judging by the experience of the north Atlantic and the economy fare the air world was doing itself out of very big.rises in airline passengers by the IATA's refusal to have an "orderly and sensible" cut in world aircraft fares.

Mr

Watkinson said the government hopes to get a much

closer Commonwealth line-up.

It would take some time to achieve but there would be such enormous gains in it that, he was hopeful some progress would be made.-Reuter.

Now Europe

Hits Out At Our Cutlery

London, July 16.

European cutlery manufacturers had charged that Hongkong industrialists were "exploiting refugee slave labour" to undercut European prices.

to Nanaimo trom most parts of the Island in of

for the

Mr R. Viner, President

the Sheffield Cutlery David Niven

autemobiles, trucks and jeeps Manufacturers Association,,

Some ceremony. were wailing in long war who has just returned from o the a European cutlery makers

canoes off

the dock

Queen went ahore.

Braves with painted faces and with small bells tied aroundt their ankles danced in a circle while Prince Philip and red-

conference in Sweden, said this and other charges had been levelled at Britain during the meeting.

coated Royal Caridian Mount- He also said that the British ed Potter stood in the back-cutlery Industry had also been

Fround-UPL

the correspondent supplies PERFUMED SEA

figures which indiente that

this is not Ro.

NOULD it be that Major;

Co

Stanley is expressing!

alarm? The unnecessary

year, eight

SWIRLS

Hongkong

damaged by Pakistani Imports.

and

Slave Labour

"Hongkong was flung in front of the British delegallon," said.

far

he

"Some countries went 50

an to May we were ex- ploiting refugee slave labour. "A 12-hour-day and

seven-

TOWARDS UK day week at low wages, and in

Miami, July 18.

appalling living conditions are common in Hongkong.

chief drawback to hotel building here, as he muat | know, is that while good) bookinga may be expected) for. possibly four months a

"We were told that United for the remaining

£8,000 States capital was being provided there are anything.Perfume worth about

and a red dye are today to open a factory in Hongkong to from 30 10 50 per cent

swirling actoss the Atlantic manufacture cullery for export vacancies. At any rate, the.

for under the very favourable con- as a Christmas present approximation with which

England.

dillons operating between Com- it is necessary to speak Mr Charles Granville, president monwealth countries.

of the about this question only

Angelique Perfume "Its goods could be smuggled Company of Wilton, Conneo-In from China, Dalshed in Hong- emphasises the total lack

Britain ticut, who calls his publletty kong, and exported lo of reliable statistics thore

stunt "Operation Merry free of duty." are to work on. These the

Christmas England" had Association hopes to get in later years.

They could-do no better, in the care of hotels, than to set up a committee within the Association to try tol GH6C53

actual demand for accommodation. Our sugges tion was a booking agency. There are admittedly difficul about this, but I ties

It did nothing more initially! than to maintalu a atatis- tical watch on bookings, it would serve a useful pur-

110BC.

With every problem

Separated

Hollywood, July 10, Academy Award winning actor David Niven said today that he and his wife, Hjordis, have separated, but did not im- mediately plan a divorce.

"We have been living apart for several weeks," the couple raid in a joint statement. "We are trying to work out problems

quietly personally as possible.

"There is no divorce templated at this time."-UPI,

THE REAL REASON FOR IMAM'S U.S. Brothers

RETURN TO ROME?-

IMAM OF YEMEN

Road Junction

To Be Redesigned

The junction of Tai Hang Road, Wongnoichong · Gap Road and Stubbs Road is to be redesigned and re- constructed to improve the flow of traffic.

-The overall --- width-of-the junction will be increased to about 88 feet and the rondway will be resurfaced in macadam. Five traille Islands will be constructed to improve the flow of vehicular trame and 100% paths of varying widths will be provided for the use of pedest- Plans.

Bus Bay

The reconstruction work aisy involves the provision of a bus bay la Stubbs Road,

On the construction side the

will be some heavy cuting into the hill

Stubbs Rood, where retaining wall will be

alerge built.

Tenders for the work. <x- pected to begin towards the end of August and take nine months to finish, are called for in day's Government Gazette.

The King's Meet In

Favourite

Concubine Peking Prison

Ran Away

Rome, July 16. The bearded Imam of Yemen today was re- ported to have hired

T private detective agency

to find his favourite

Shanghai, July 16.

American Bill Downey told Reuter tonight he found his brother John "quite well and cheer-. ful" when he visited him today in Peking prison where he is serving a life sentence on spy charges.

concubine Italian Govt freedom" in a Roman To Investigate

who allegedly "chose

Catholic

convent

rather than return to

her master's Arabion desert kingdom, Saud Bint, described

as

one of the world's most and beautiful women

favourite concubine of the Imam's barem,

was re-

'Grey Market'

In Children

In

Romo, July 16.- investigation into on ol- leged "grey market" Italian children who are boing flown to the United States for adoption.

ported to have taken The government promised an refuge in a Rome convent. The Yemon Legation here denied the story. The Arabian king was en route home by air on Tuesday night after a three-month health cure in Rome when he sud-

A spokesman for the Foreign Office Entgration Section made

症 seven

denly ordered-his-piano to the-alatement~ak Romo's Niam-

pino Airport when return.

HE NOTICED

newspapers today sald that after his aircraft fook of the Imam noticed the absence

Rome

1

year-old Italian girl refused to

ker

board a New York-bound plane despite the pleading of father and mother

The parents of Bille Glusep- pina Gentile said they

poor

of Saud Bint and came back desperately to find her.

Downey, speaking bý tele phone from Peking, said he had seen his brother twice since his arrival in the Chinese capital last Monday,

The first visit was on Tues- day, and on both occasions they spent a "pleasant two hours. together chalting in the prison visiting room in the presenco of an English-speaking Chinese guard.

Not Much Change

William Downey, 'who now works in the Singapore branch of a New York bank, is on his second trip to China.

Downey said: "My brother Beams qidle well. I did not- nollen much change in him since my last visit in January. 1038.

In general, he seems about the same as he did then.

"He was pretty cheerful and

a litle less surprised to see me than on my previous visit,

"He knew a Hitle in advance that I was coming.

His Release

Wre

hnd and

"We talked

mainly about

my doings in the last year or

GO"

decided to send her for adap- personal malters the family, The Iman himself in a telegraation and "a better life" in the his friends, sports at home and

to Italian President Giovanni United States. Gronchi said he turned back because of a heart Indspool- tion and would leave inter by bout for Yemen,

Received Money

Д

The couple, from Naples, In- dicated they had received News of the concubine's disap-sum of money from the poten-

pearance sent correspondents al foster parents.

and photographers on tour of Last Sunday another Neapo- nl convents in the Nomulitan mother it the last minute nrca, She had not yet been refused to allow her two child- located.

ren to fly to New York with three others for adoption by Italo-American farmilies.

Widow Filomena Boccia

Lo-

The

MACAO POLICE

SEIZE MEN

ON STEAMER

DETECTIVE

Asked whether he thought #kely that his brother might bo released Boob, Downey said: "I haven't heard anythor that, or anything that would fadicate a change in the present altuation," Asked whether he would be making an appeal for the release other of his brother and two | Americans, Richard Feelenu und Hugh Redmond also guoled OR

afternoon newspaper Guastafierro was reported to spy charges, Downey said:

Hire received 200,000

I talked with a Red Cross Momento-Sera sald the imumbave

conocial the other day. Had hired a private detective (HK$1,920) to allow her

"I had asked to see someone Paolo, two, and daughter Mad- agency to find the womanz Yemen legallon said the King dalena, five, to go to the US. The in the government on that, but would probably leave for other three Italian children left as yet, I haven't heard anything home "later this week" but for New York, accompanied by further and don't laow whether

I shall see anyone." could not supply details. The Imam and 1:is suite were staying in a heavily- guarded villa south of Rome. Yemen guards armed

sidearms and the

scimitars patrolled villo,

Macao, July 16. and Three men were removed by the police from the ss Tak Shing a few First

the minutes before

con-

Cause Of Fire

Still Unknown

The cause of the blaze in the House Alexandra-

basement

early-yesterday has not yet et established, a Government spokesman said this morning.

boat sailed to Hong-

kong today.

Although no confirmation could be obtained it is believed that the, men were connected with the brutal beating of a Chinese here yesterday.

Ng Kwan, 26, said to be a banshee from Hongkong wa brutally assaulted by an un- determined number of men last

body.

his

Jan American attorney.--UPI.

with SUSPECTED

Visiting Time

Downey said he would see his brother again on Saturday bofore leaving by air on Sun-

high-walled DETECTIVE day for Hongkong on his way

RARE BEAUTY

0

word of Saud Bint's alleged defection came in

cable dispatch from ALWS Aden. I sald the Syrian- barn royal concubine bad re- fused to return to the Imam's harem. She was described as a rare beauty originally, Idd- napped by, bandits in Syrin and thers sold into slavery" in Sho passed Saudi Arabia, into the ownership of King Saud who gave her to the Imam

Yemen of

0.3

"present,"

King

KILLER

ARRESTED

London, July 16,

Scotland Yard detectivos to-

who

licme.

Downey Bald Chinese off- cials were prepared for his visit and had arranged for hlin to see his brother the day after his arrival, and to spend a longer time with bina than the normal prison visit- ing time.

und

John Downey a civilian work- day arrested a man sus-ing for the army, was captured pected of killing an un- during the Korean war armod

sentenced to life imprisonment policeman

in 1952. caught him trying to Fecteau is held in the same blackmail-a-beautiful-Now- prison. Redmond, a business

man, is in geol in Shanghai York model.

In January last year, the The suspect, identified ne Chinese autorities allowed the

An officer of the Fire Brigado | night,, who used, choppers and sald that the number of couses Iron rods on him and inflicted The Imam brought the woman Frile Podola, 30, was captured mothers of the three men to is being narrowed down through six deep wounds all over elimination.

"We can rule out foul play and dangerous goods.. It usually takes a long time to find out about the cause of a fire," he Raise Standards

The cutlery conference decided stunt

interested that representation should be apeunagrapliers as a means of mode to the Board of Trade, and the US. and to the United measuring the speed direction of Atlantic Ocean Notions with a view to steps

poured into the sea off Manil yesterday to travel with the Gulf Stream.

The

added.

at

Lo Rome, along with some 20

and concubines in a hotel only a short distance visit their song. other wive

of Monday's The mothers and Bill Downey three months agu. The 67-from the sceno One of the blows cut his right

underwent cold-blooded slaying of Det.. were in China for three weeks. year-old the bone, almost leg through

intensive medical treatment Sgt Raymond Purdy, 43, the Router. ravering it from the body.

here for arthritia and other father of three. Ng is in serious conditon

shot through the Purdy was ailments- UPI. the government hospital-AFP..

heart after arresting the suspect in a caso involving telephoned threats to Mrs Verne Schiffman, 30, who works as a model in London under the name of

It's Plastic Surgery For The

BUSINESSMAN'S PAUNCH-

currents. They have estimat» being taken to raise standard............

ed the perfume should reach of living in England by Christmas. China Mall Special.

Himalaya Delayed

underdeveloped

would assist countries, which them in their exchange pro- price of blems and raise the

their exports,"

It was

not considered that tariff barriers were the answer, Mr Viner sald determined efforts would be made by Euro- manufacturers to The Facile erulso of the P & Opean cutlery that it faces, the Tourist finer, Himalaya, has been delay protect their industry against

should have Association

ed for 14 days owing to damage the pirating of patterns, patents recourse to the adrico and to the port propeller of the ship, and designs and imports of

fram. cutlery co-operation

own while transiting the Suez Canal cheap members.

on July 11 it was learned today, Eastern countries-Reuter.

of ita

zoma

London, July 16.

NEGADESUY

Joan O'Hara.

Britannia Collides With Signboard

Istanbul, July 10.

The slaying touched off one in of the biggest manhunts

A Britannia airliner of Hunt- recent British history. Scotland Ing Clan Air Transport Limited Yard sald the suspect was damaged one deported from Canada

Ing stomachs" took advantage, I was a technique that made a

propellor and woman look 19 to 15 years of the technique.

three part of the fuselago when it An American doctor claimed

younger and lasted five years: Bere today that the "busineno- | "We_only, got a few cases," he

collided with a signboard, after be

or more, Flim slarz osme to months ago.

Police raided the hotel on a landing at Yesilkey Airport said. "We can kemeve most of Paunch" OAN men's

him for fsc0-LLERS. climinated by plastic surgery. the fat by surgery although

Dr Morton

co-operated Sixty-year-old

the operation takes rather "In the technique I do a ben. Up. The London underworld was here early today.

The Britannia, on its way to aldorabia #mount of skin reported to have Berson, of Now York, one of

police in the man- London from Hongkong, wan ta

the with the undermining tho the doctors attending

hunt, since the gunman violated carrying 115 Royal Air Forco musalo -structures," be said. Con-Dr Beron also talked about a London International

unwritten codo ogolnst personnel and their families terms, just take an #revolutionary" face-lifting|«i» nimpig gress of plaatio surgery, said

London's unarmed and 11 crew. No duo was hurt,; away the ugly logna tinues," shooting technique ho started 10 years that, surprisingly enough, only

fiouler. police- UPI. -Chins Malt Special men with "extreme" overhang-

Tong Ume."

250,