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FAMILY OF MISSING MAN ANNOUNCE DECISION HK's Young Triad

Of The Reward Offer Withdrawn

Day

A Pie In The Sky

TONGKONG will cheer Mr

HHarold Watkinson's

de-

termined, fighting statement to the House on international air fares. The only hope in that Britain has the courage

of its convictions to quit the

But Search Imam Of

For Wong Will Go On

International Air Transport The family of the missing_Hongkong`oil

Association if its demands

are not met. World airlines;

will be horrified at the idea, and it is a fair bet that rather than lose their control

of one of the biggest inter-} national carriers, the Asso clation will agree to some smail fare reduction.

merchant, Mr Wong Ying-kau have

Yemen

Menace Caused By

Bunche's Son Singapore Thugs?

To Return

Now Declines

On Italian

Liner

Rome, July 17.

decided to withdraw their $50,000 The Imam of Yemen to- reward offer, the Police announced today.

The offer was first made on June 27 and was ex-

tended for one week last Saturday.

The Government spokesman | Several theories_have_bern But it seems ominous that in announced this morning that the explored thoroughly, Muczo the meantime two decisional Poller reward of $5,000 for in- Police have asalsted Hongkong pending on now interna- formation about the missing Police in their inquiries. Hong- tional air services are being man was still valid.

kong Pollee have visited Macoa Although the big manhunt | as well delayed. One by America:

launched for. Mr. Wong when Boae's trans-Pacific leg of:

he was first reported missing Its round-the-world all-jet

-believed kidnapped on service. Another by Britain:

Jons 19, was called off some Eagle Airways' licence to fly ilme are Police inquiries are fortnightly economy ¡Ber= { continuing. vices to Hongkong, which the Colony has already up- proved.

Tug-of-war

HERE may be no connec

Ttion between these various

moves, but clearly if Bone gets the fare cuts it hopes| for on the Far East route, there may be much less demand and Indeed, по neod-for an economy classi service. On the other hand, the protestant voices in circles American aviation disputing Boac's right

to

fly the Pacife the way it wants to, may be even more aggressively opposed if fare cute are forced upon then through an IATA decision.

But beyond a letter with ransom demand which also co- closed o keychain and part of a kuman car received soon after Mr Wong was, reported missing. the Police have had very little le work on.

day secured passage for himself and his 40, member suite on an Italian liner which will make a special stop at the Yemen Red Sea port of Hodeida to take him home.

cure

The 07-year-old King decided But Wong's whereabouts re- to return by zhip following

three-month health

In main a complete mystery.

Rome and after turning bask in his chartered plane on Tues- day only a half hour after take- off

Chinese newspapers have speculated on the possibility that he is in Canton since it was reported that he was last seen alive with a Commmunist:: newspaper reporter,

the

The Imam complained of heart disturbance and ordered

But this is just another of the plane pilot to fly back to

Rome. many guessČS that have a feature of this case,

Len

Bid

Gaitskell's

To Close Party Ranks

London, July 17.

The publie, the hapless Mr Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party leader,

victim in this international tug-of-war, asks unly that in this modern jet age, afr travel ls made available to more people. Who, after all, would not like to breakfast in Hongkong and take supper in London, or be projected through the ether like a cannonball, or even fly to London and back for

Yemeni sources sald the King of the Arabian peninsula statu would now teave, from Noples on August 2 aboard the Italian trans-Atlantic liner Sydney.

He will take over the multe of millionaire. shipowner Achille Lauro.

Italian newspapers mean- while continued their search for one of the Imam's concubinen who allegedly decided to remain in Italy: and enter a convent. The Royal household and the Yemen figation denied that any

To Join

Exclusive Club

New York, July 17.

Ralph Bunche, the 15-year-old son of Dr Ralph Bunche, a UN Under-Secretary, has declined an invitation to

Singapore, July 18. The Singapore Standard suggested today that Singapore gangsters, might be responsible for a recent-reported upsurge of secret society activity in Hongkong schools.

Medical Association Ban Their Own

join the exclusive West Side Tennis Club at Forest Best-Seller

Hills, New York.

lead, he has taken a 500-dollar fe membership in

the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured. People,” the Association's convention was toid last night.

A storm of controversy and protest arose last week when Dr Bunche disclosed he had been refused member-

ship of the club because of his colour. He is

Negro.

But earlier this week, he was told that both he and his son were welcome to join the club. The invitation followed the resignation of the club's President, Mr Wilfred -Burgland-Reuter.

Suspected Detective Killer Too Sick

Questioned

To Be

London, July 17.

women of the King's party was Guenter Podola, the scarfaced ox Hitler Youth

missing-UPL

declared in a BBC radio interview tonight that if a conference of his party carried a resolution that there should be unilateral nuclear disarma-to ment he would accept it as binding on a future labour government.

the He was referring to the who had said conference

re

WANT TO CURE

K's BALDNESS

Stockholm, July 17. American scalp

specialist Lynn R. Akers today proposed

Premier,

Nikita Soviet

treatment Khrushchev, a scrip that would restore his halt, it

was learned here.

The proposal was forwarded to the Soviet leader through the Soviet Embassy here. Akera

of

Cup Final weekend, like recent demand for unilateral solutions should be a matter of said he had previously applied

polloy, MacTavish? It is the air-nuclear disarmament by the lines themselves who make

powerful Transport and these tantalising proposals: but for the majority who General Workers Union. pay their own fares, they

Mr Galtskell said he did not are no more than a pie, in diragree with Lord Attlee the sky.

(former Labour Prime Minister)

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the Fabulous

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the treatment he suggested for Binding

Khrushchev on the Duko But he thought future Labour Edinburgh.-~-AFP. Governments should not bo bound as to details.

Asked:

Leboar Party resolution of unilateral dis- armament

Link would

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suspected of blackmail and murder, is too ill in

· a London hospital' to be questioned further

Edinburgh, July 17.

The paper said: "Both in the Federation (of Malaya) and Singapore, police action has been harassing gang- sters and rounding up large numbers of them,

"In these dragnets, the police have discovered a large porcent- age of teenage youths who have been recruited into secret society groups.

Spread Word

"There may be loopholes in the polico net through which triad members have been able to escape, and and their way to Hongkong,

"Once they secure refuge in

The British Medical Asso- Hongkong's secret societies, they elation has decided once can well have shown them how spread and for all to ban publien- their influence can be

among studerits there. tion of its best-selling

"The Hongkong police will be booklet entitled "Getting well advised to keep contact with Noarly 200,000 copies of the police in view of the new threat

Married."

The Singapore and Federation booklet were sold within in the island."-Router. four days, but its frank headlines end articles on Box and intimate marriage problems raised a storm of propter was headed "Is One

Out.

chastity outmoded? dated! Out?" Association officera ordered the publien- tion off the newatands, Yesterday the Association

membership at its annual meeting voted 175 to 144 to ban the pamphlet,

A spokesman said the 50,000 remaining copies probably would be pornit,—–ÚPI...)

SHEREE NORTH HAS

about the murder of an unarmed detective. ANOTHER GIRL

police said today.

Gote.

They sold may be several mont House Hotel in Queen's days before the 30-year-old German-born' Canadian is able The big manbunt started

for Д mental

conference passed a Order Of Lenin abhorrent in Britain

Hollywood, July 17. Actress Shorea North gave

The actresa

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General Elections On October 22

London, July 17.- British politica! Diraler were pradiating today that General Elections would be hold about October 22 or 39.

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan WAL now re- ""portedly in favour of new

·àfactions, thanks to a swing „of public opinion in favour of the Conservativés. Tha

· Torius had lost much ground İşk winter, but” have ap* parently gained more "jup- port

racent in

montha, according to various publis polla.

It was expicted here that Macmillan would announco about September 25 him ing tention to dissolve. Parlia ment-AFP.

The First Time

And A Record

Penzance, July 17. W. E. Melhuish, a newspaper vetidor, went fishing. for the first time in his re-and landed

In the newspapers.

Melhush, pulled in a 10-foot," 372-pound shark. It was, not than only a record but more double the previous record for shark caught in English waters--UPL

to talk. He was taken to St when a man telephones black- birth today to a 6-pound, to Mrs Malvinu 11-ounce giri, born pre- Stephen's Hospital early today nail threats

and physical | Schiffman, ɔ stɔluerque British- maturely at. Cedars of

of born model check-up after eight hours

married

to an Lebanon Hospital. telephoned questioning about what Britain American. She

The blonde mother and her considers on "unpardonable police and they arranged to

daughter were both reported in grime"--the murder of a police- trace further calls.

good condition, although the man

SHOT IN HEART

baby was placed in an incubator, UNDERWORLD HELPED The next blackmail call came Miss North is the wife of Dr

Los Angeles. Podola, 30, was not charged from a nearby subway station Gerhart Sommer,

Detective-Sergeant Peter cityohiatriak The cuple and formally but Scotland Yard Sandford and Purdy closed in ried in December, 1938. questioned him about the mir-

on the man for the arrest. When

also der of Detective-Sargeant Ray- Sandford left to call for a car daughter, Dawn, 8, - by a pre- mond Purdy, father of three the man shot Purdy in the heurt vious marriage to Fred Bessire.a

crime is BO children. Such

at point-blank range.

|--UPL that even

'A photograph was rushed from the underworld helped, search Canada by the Royal Canadian for the killer.

Mounted Police to help es- of the Sablish the identity Podola was arrested yes- terday ∙afternoon wich Scot-wanted man-UPI. He said he was "not Sir- prised" that a poll had shown:

Moscow, July 17. land Yard men-armed for the in months charged that 60 per

Mr Andrel Gromyko, "Soviet first time cant of British

way today into room 15 of a small people werd ngainst Britain Foreign Minister, giving up the bomb unless awarded the Order of Lenin for skdential hotel and found him Bussia and America did 10D, his "great services to the Soviet cowering there, weak from

"That does not worry me or state and in connection with his hunger. surprise me," Mr Gallskell 50th added,

"This is not a very easy Idea to get across; of course it will take time to make people realisa what la at stale."-- Reuter.

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104 Flood Deaths

Jammu, July 17.

the cmcisi birthday,"

Podola had been hiding for

At least 10 persons dled in Soviet news agency reported. three days without food while the recent floods, and rains in Jammu and Kashmir "state, It The Foreign Minister is at a hostile underworld nided

that was offelally announced here present in Geneva heading Rus- massive polico perch

to the East-ended when the detectives, one today. The floods sla's delegation West talks on Germany and with a powerful dog on a leash, worst in the history of the area. Berlin-Reuter,

entered roca 15 at the Clare AFP,

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