1959-08-04 — Page 1

FROM.

PHILISHAVUZOZ GILMANS

IN

Comment Of The

Day

A WARNING REPEATED

1

report to

Govern-

ment almost ten years ngo, the Standing Con- ference of Youth Organisa

·tions issued a grave warn-

on the lack of attention: paid to the problems of welfare and training of young people. It is n wurn- ing that could well be re- peated today when there la 80 much concern Triad Socisty infiltration in the ranks of school children.

over

Up to recently the Colony has

had no serious delinquency problems and nothing like the hoodlumism that hus wracked

many world postwar

cupituls in the

years. But if they are net

to the same degree present | In this Colony now there

are dangerous signs that they will be unless a "fat money and effort is given to the problem in years ahead.

more

BOLICE kesmen have

sexistence

of school children's

xex

· parties in flats which they hire for a night.

This is one ugly manifestation of Jack of parental control, Trind members have been -intimidating children to cheat and ateal and there is reason to belleve that this

the

could ne far more

if violent extreme authorities, the schools and i parents failed to tackle it properly and effectively. Symptoms of this

nature

its

THE WEATHER

Moderate or fresh gusty easterly winds. Cloudy with scattered showers "and "short"fair" paclodi during the afternoon. Noon Temp: -80 dogroes. Noon Humid:91 pc.

CHINA

No. 37426.

Established 1845.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1959.

GOVERNOR LEAVES

The Governor, Sir Robert Black, accompanied by his daughter, Barbaru, left by Bose Comet this morning on three-months leave, He is expected to return to the Colony with Lady Black on 'or about November 4. Lady Black left on leave on March 31,

At the airport'ta see them off this morning were the Colonial Secretary, Mr C. B Burgess and Mrs Burgess. the Governor's 'ADC, Capt. J. F. Bunnell, Lady Bastyan, wife of the Commander British Forces, and Col. and Mrs J. D. Clague.

Later Mr Claude Burress was sworn in as Officer Admtólstering the Government, Mr E. B. Teesdale will not as Colonial Secretary,

In the above photograph. Sir Robert says goodbye to Mr Burgess. In the background is Mrs Burgess-China Mail Photo,

Chinese Arms Reported

Used By Rebels In

Laos

Vientiane, Aug, 8.

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Found Strangled

Woman On Charge Wom

Of Throwing Acid

A dance hostess, without warning, had thrown a bottle of hydrochloric acid in a Chinese herbal- ist's face in a Kowloon teahouse, Mr Simon Li, Crown Counsel, told the Supreme Court today. He said the couple had been "very intimate { friends",

The hostess, Lee Yuk-tal, pleaded not guilty to a charge that on April 8 she unlawfully and maliciously threw at Cheng Li-man hydrochloric neld, with Intent to burn or cause Krievous bodily harm.

She is being tried before a

and jury of Ove

two men women, The hearing is before Mr Justice A. D. Scholes,

WERE FRIENDS

Mr Li told the court Lee and Cheng had been triends for [ew months.

A

He said that on April 8 Cheng had met Lee by appointment at the Loong Hwa tenhouse.

tatning clothing, cigaretter, matches, and bottle fragments.

He found that all the contents of these packets except some women's clothing had traces of hydrochloric acid on them.

The articles most heavily con- laminated were the man's jacket, shirt, tie and trousers.

In reply to a question from Mr Scholes, Mr McGill said that hydrochloric acid Was very strong. Its damage to flesh or clothing depends on the extent and length of contact.

He

sald it is a corrosive liquid and must be washed off Immediately after contact.

Colony's Reservoirs Overflow

In Sampan

A woman was found

strangled in a sampan in ..the

Youmati typhoon shelter early this morning and Police are searching for a man who was said to have hired the sampon - with hor last night. The woman's body was found uf 4 a.m. this morning.

It is reported that the couple hired the boat last night for $2. They remained in the sampan after rowing around. the typhoon shelter and the owner decided not to bother them..

The Colony's biggest rosar- voir, Tol Lam Chung, is six and a half inches ovat This morning he decided to full and water is cascad-wake them, but when he parted ing over the top of the the curtain at a.m. he found dam.

Yesterday, a spokesman of the Water Authority eald, was the first time that all the reset.

voirs in the Colony wero over- dowing at the same time.

said that there was 100 per cent storage-30,489 million gallons.

FIRST DEGREE BURNS "Out of the blue, Ice un-

A medical officer attached to wrapped д parcel she was the Kowloon Hospital, Dr Wi- carrying, and took out a bottle tiom Cecil Charles Macrae sald The spokesman sald that of hydrochloric acid," said Mrthal on April 8 a patient identi- wherever possible maximum

flod LI.

as Cheng Il-man was supply will be given, and will She threw it on Cheng's brought to the casually word be continued for as long as the Ince, and then hurled the bottle suffering from first degree burns reservoiry overflow. In a num- at him, cuting his forehead. an the face, neck and upper | ber of places it is impossible to

and chest.

supply more than 17 hours a "He was in great patr ran for help,"

Mr L said Cheng was later faken to the Kowloon Hospital and treated for two days.

ARRESTED

Loe remained at the scene of the incident and was arrested there.

Detective Sub-inspector Chan Ping-wong told the court that on April 8 he went with a party of detectives lo the teahouse

after the incident,

He.caw Cheng, sitting near

He said Cheng also had two day. small incerated wounds on the right side of his forehead which could have been caused by any sharp edgod instrument or sub-

stance.

He said the burns could have been caused by close proximity of heat or train some corrosive fluid,

Dr Maerne described first de gree burns as reddening of the skin without blistering or struction.

Dr Chan Bing-fun,

de-

another

SEVEN INCHES

Between midnight and 10 a.m. today a further .99 inches the recorded at of rain was Royal Observatory. This brings the total slice midnight cor Saturday to almost seven inches. The heavy showers during the night, accompanied by rusly winds of up to 30 knots, were caused by a low pressure of Tongking, eastwards to just Laugh extending from the Cult

only

the lifeless body at the woman in her underwear. Her black dress was lying besido her.

$400 Fine For

Diamond Smuggling Bid

Дроб An airline - co-pilot was

$400 when he pleaded guilty to attempting to smugsto 100 diamonds out of the Colony, without an export licence. Augusto M, Cui, a co-pilot of Philppine Air Lines, reversed a former pica · of not guilty through his lawyer, Mr Edward Cheung, before Mr E Corbally at Central Court this moaning.

Revenus. Officer F: Carroll, Fol

medical officer at Kowloon Hos was B-pilo afpital, said he was' on duly when south of the South China Coast Suary 11, at 4 p.m., four mem

the counter,

Beside himm European-style clothes, all wet the patient, identified as Chen

An Observatory spokesman. and smelling sour. Smoko was Li-man, was admitted.

Ho examined

and sald more showers are expected Cheng and coming from them.

found be Wh suffering from but they wil not be as heavy floor Oa the

of. one of the booths were fragments of glass first degree burns to the face, or as frequent as those of the

neek and upper chest and had past few days. and sour-smelling fluid

two small wounds on his fore-

He added that the outlook is Inspector Chan Bald. he

Lead:

an expected improvement, with arrested Lee, and she said: "I

scattered showers. am prepared to go to prison." The hearing is unfinished. Lee is not represented by

The Laotian Government today accused North Vietnam of being respon. sible for the present troubled situation in Laos and gave several in- stances on North Vietnamese interference in fighting in different parts counsel. of Laos.

Reports reaching Saigon indicate that grenades and ummunition made in China had been found on prisoners taken by the Royal Laotian Army in battles with the rebelis.

GIRL FOUND

DEAD: 3

PREVIOUS

SUICIDE BIDS

The accusation of interference from the frontier between China was contained in a communique and Laos in the Huel region.

published here by the Laotian In the Sam Nous region, two information Ministry. The state- ment said that the attack on the rebel buttallons were reported to Laotian outpost

on Pong Sat-be encircling the outpost of Muong Hạt one coming from bong, on the night of July 25,

other the south-east and the was launched by a, company of

These the south-west. -frain regular North Vietnamese Fol-

are equipped rebel elements diera,

with mortars and 87 m.m. guns.

in

The ministry's statement said:

Republie North Vietnam launching its units against our small frontier posts is putting inade long into effect threats

Withdrawal

ȧmong the children of parents who are apparently better of is bud enough, But the really neglected children are those of poor| parents and while much has been done for youth welfare and training since the Conference of Youth) Organisations issued first stern warning in 1950. the growth of the popul- tion since has meant that few children feel the beaeft. T is not in any way intended as criticism when we point out, for example, that the Boys and Girls Clubs Association has 188 clubs with a membership of 9,000 and the Slivermine Bay Holiday Camp provides a week at the sea for about 3,500 children a year, Maich these with the number of school children in Hongkong

The State Department in Washington exceeding 400,000 at least

sald the United Staics did not dispute the Lao- two-thirds of whom might

Jan Government's claim that the be eligible for projects of

West of Sam Neus, the rebels this kind and it will be found by a room boy in a semi-to attacks directed by North

At L am, cn Sunday she was current fighting in Laos was due have stepped up their drive acen how far the Colony has conscious conditions and in great Vietnam.

south-castward towards Hua Muong with the apparent pur to go.

pain and she died shortly after- Nevertheless the Colony's youth) wards.

pose of joining up with the force A Government spokesman this

at Pong Sathong. By this pin organisations today bear an

southward cer movement, one WAN Impressivo record in such morning said no foul play

arul from Phong Saly province felda as Scouting and Guid-suspected.

The girl's mother had died Meanwhile it was reported the other southward from San ing,

were the provision

thint rebel forces had Neus province, the rebels children's libraries, hostels three months ago it was report

increased their

pressure dur-apparently trying to cut these ing the past 48 hours in the two provinces off. Fling Saly and Som Neua pro-

The Royal Leotian command vinces,

headquarters stated that the city After the fall of the outpost of Sam Neua would be defend of Soppao in the Phong Salyed, as well as the post of Hun region on Friday, rebel troops Muong. In the latter area a estimated at two battalions new company of. paratroopera continued their advance in a would be taken in today.")

direction south-easterly occupied

of

for young workers and im-

proved playground ameni-

Eles, to mention a few.

NE pleasing development the way in which

ON

A Chinese girl aged 20 who was found dead' in a Kowloon hotel on Sunday was reported Lo have tried to take her Hire, ago. on three previous secasions in

the last three moniky,

She registered at the holel in Tape Rond in a false name.

ed.

رما

Typhoon Ellen!

Manila, Aug. 3.

, organisations like Rotary, Typhoon Ellen with winds of the Lions Club and the 80 miles an hour was located Jaycees have helped with 530 miles east of Basco Islands some very imaginative and off the northern tip of Luzon at enterprising youth projects. 2 p.m. tudoy.

•

Increased Pressure

hero

and

The Laotian army has only one company in this area and it is understood it would try to make a strategle withdrawal on Sam Neua town.

their

own

A Government chemist, Mr Arthur William McGUI, told the court that on April 8 he re- ceived ten sealed packages con-

Evidence, is continuing.

prosecuting, said that on bras of the crew of a PAL plans leaving the Colony were search- ed,

Defendant, was found caITY- ing an envelope which was found to contain 150 diamonds.

- The jewels were valued at bew"- tween $24,000 and $20,000.

Death To August SALE

•

Toll

In Kirkuk

'Massacre'

Bagdad, Aug. 3. Forty people were buried alive and 79 others killed in the Kirkuk "massacro" last month, according to a statement by the Prime Minister, Major-General Abdul Karin Kassem, quoted by Bagdád Radio (onight.

The radio sald the Prime Minister told labour and trade union representatives yesterday that three of those buried alive had boon dug up and were now receiving treatment.

General Kassem sald ABAT- chists who had Jnfiltrated the political parties and trade unions were responsible for the blood- bath at Kirkuk.

"I will crush the hand of every anarchist responsible for this massnero," he promised.

DISTURBANCES Disturbances occurred during the anniversary of the revolu- the post of Khya Army headquarters said that tion which brought about the Miong. which had been has decided to fight thọ re-Trugi Republic.

using saldevacuated by the Laotian army, bels by The Weather Bureau

General Kasoem.

announced The dependence of the the typlicon is moving toward

methode, and are building up a "that" thône responsible for the various welfare organisatie general direction of Japan

Chinese querrilla force to meet the disturbances would be tried." tions upon Government's at 14 miles per hour.—UPI,'"

reported rebels.-All Agencies..

Te ndio said the Prime liberality, however, means

Minister showed the union ropresentatives 700 photographo taken during he Kirkuk massacro, which he described as a "black spot In Iraq's and the revolution's history re

that their good intentions are restricted to the size of the grant. Ensuring a decent life for all

must

scom a pretty tough assignment for a Govern- ment with... nn Income equivalent to about $200 per head of population-in Britain it je moro than $2,000 per head but the plight of our young people must be of foremost con- corn. They are Hongkong's future citizend. And оп the depends thú futuro of Hongkong

Infiltrations of clements Were also

Palace Guard Gets Ten Days CB

London, Aug. off under them the young for it. She really provoked The 20-year-old imperturbablo soldier allegedly banged into him, I understand she not only

guardsman who got perturbed the woman tourist, a enough to ktok, trip or Dump

siggorest at him but pared his The tourist allegedly was in- bonrskin and called him 'a show-

an American tourist last night | dulging in the sport or guarda- of

rot 10 days confinement to man gooding, a form of sport The woman complained to an barracks for it today.

often practised by visitor who officer.

A member of the Coldstream Guards who legendarily won't bat an eyelash it a bomb la aut

- IRAQI ARMY Ho alto sald that, it was the Ling! Army which seed the 1941 pro-Nati revolution and not Rashid All Gaylani.

Rabid All; generally described

as loader of the abortivo revolt- tion, was sentenced to death Inst December for plotting, BENICHT

GIVE AWAY: PRICE TO MARK OUR

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The death sentence walls con- Tuxonian by Prime Minis».

Mon: Yan Bid;

want to make the test of" "the The Coldstream Guards General Karsom's: government, dotto Sacoria to noodid not legend themselves.

One of his fellow guardeményeal the note of either the fold: newsmen tint” “sho^nskeg i soldier or the tourists—UPI:--

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Plain and Printed English and German Cotton Denims-Cambrics and many adds and ends. usus! $4.80 to $7.80 a yd.

Swiss and Italian novelty prints usual $6.80 to $10.80 a yd.

Swiss Puro Silks

"

SALE $2.95 a. yd.

SALE $3.95 a yd..

usual over $20 a yd. NOW $9.80 a yd.

Exclusive Screen Prints usual over $125 yd. NOW $6.80 a yd.

Moygoshal, Pure Linona 36” usual $9.80 a yd.

..

M50 Basket Woave Cottons ·46′′ usual $8.80 a yd.

SALE $4.95 a yd. '

SALE: $4.95.a.yd.,

TERRIFIC VALUES

$10.00 for 3, prs.

Berkshire and Cameo Nyléns

Qualitex- and Woventax woollen & orion knitwear

Childron. Viyella „Socks

Gentlemen's Viyella Soci

pricos marked down to' clear.

at give away prices

Hankies, etc.

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