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Comment Of The Day

REPORT ON SALARIES

perhaps presumptusus to

congratulate the Salaries

Commleaton Dn a voluminous

report which will take oven

Government's financial

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LATE FINAL

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CHINA MAIL

No. 37428

Established 1845

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959.

NEW RANSOM NOTE:

Price 20 Centa

SUIL MOIL

U.S. Suggestion On Laos Fighting

TUR.

WED

THUR

DAILY

TOKYO'

DENIAL BY FATHER Attacks Followed

HK Oil MR K MEETS IKE'S BROTHER

DURING MOSCOW VISIT

Merchant

Still Missing

wizards months to digest, but A report in the lead-

A

for raducing salarion from messy hotchpolch of basice with a variety of allowances which hava Caused much grumbling Into ona tldy monthly figure they deserve much credit.

The wisest suggestion of all f the abolition of that major anachronism, the expatriate allowance. This has been the DRUSD of conalderauto grievance. Government employees here and in Slagspore are inclined to speak in terms of expatriates and "non-expatriates." тно of this term

dleappearance

which has tended to separate officere Into two classce

will put loca!

staff above

and overgene salary certain

ing Chinese papers that a letter had been received de- manding $100,000 to be paid in inter- national waters as

Mr for ransom

Wong Ying- kau, missing oil mer- chant, was denied

Wong's

Mr by family today.

leval on a more squal tooling Interviewed by the China

and should do much to stifle discontent In the ranks of government servica. Women will undoubtedly be dis

appointed at the Commission' recommendations on the ques- ilon of equal pay. For though It is proposed that they should now be paid 76 par cent of men's salaries, against 63 or 70 per cent previously, they are a long way from the This deaarvo. equality they

the commission is prepared to in the case of medical admit. officers men and women wil But the receive

same pay. this will only reinforce their conviction that there is a good for equality' In other Caro falds of work.

OR women intending to make

Mail, Mr Wong's father added that he had not received a photograph of his son without an ear as al- leged in reports. "You can take my word for it. The reports are groundless," he said. Asked if he had any hope for the safe return of his son, Mr Wong said, "I hope su, as we have no enemics; in the Colony. I have been in business here for many years and We have not

Feir career in Government antagonised anybody."

the Commission recognises the mond to improve opportunities. But it would help if the pros. 1 poot of equal pay were offered;

them as an added inducement.

Higher

administrative

sional

to

No Clue

Blut so far. he has had no salaries are to bee to the whereabouts of his offered in the lower acales of n. 11 is my ligh hope that he

and profen i will back. I leave the classes primarily matter e diely in the bands of help recruitment. Government the pulley who are doing

good job in Anding my son."

also

has had difficulty fing a number of important posts in recent years and the proposals should ease this problem.

The total cost of the increases, if approved, would amount to about $34 million a year.

It

is not clear whether allowance has been made in this year's Government salartes estimates almost set at -tentatively

$245 million, or about a third total pro. of Government's

And the posed expanditure. tax-payer may well gasp at such an addition to the wages WEL

A Government

Pald

spokesman

this morning that

A smiling Mr Nixon introduces an

equally cheerful Mr Khrushchev to

President Eisenhower's brother, Millon, in Moscow recently.-Express Photo.

Chessman's Appeal Refused

SEVENTH ATTEMPT TO AVOID DEATH SENTENCE FAILS

San Francisco, Aug. 5.

nothing had been heard of about The California Supreme Court today refused to

the letter and photograph,

Several

Ivading vernacular papers told of the story this morning that Wong's father has received another letter.

The letter was said to have demanded payment of $100,000 on board a motorised junk in international waters flying an

1 signal.

Fire On Board Tak Shing

Ho Chi Minh’s Visit To Russia

Washington, Aug. 5. The State Department today suggested that the new Communist attacks in Laos might have been planned in Moscow during a recent visit there by North Vietnam President Ho Chi Minh.

A State Department spokesman said in a prepared statement "we have... noted that these attacks on the Laotian army posts were preceded by a visit to Moscow by Ho Chi Minh."

Asked by a reporter whether this meant the United States was accusing the Soviet Union of directing foreign supported ogression against the neutral Indo-China nation, the State Department pres officer, Mr Joseph W. Reap, eplled, "no comment."

'Outside' Help

However, he said the In- surgents were evidently being supplied and supported by "out- side" Carminist powers.

Stoles He said the United

Govern- welcomed the Laolian ment's decision, announced to- United Na- day, to advise the

tions through Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjold, of

the facts of the situation.

Laas formully charged North Vicinam

PLANS FOR

HOVERCRAFT

TO BE USED

AS FERRY

London, Aug. 6. The News Chronicle reports today plans to build the hover- first big British craft next spring and to have it working on the

today with inciting,Isle of Wight. ferry. by arming and aiding with man-

sower a rebellion in the north-

1962.

The hovercraft, or

SERVICE

| TO

PAN AMSTERICIAN

BARBARA HUTTON

Barbara's

£71,000

Spree On Dresses

Paris, Aug. 5. Seamstresses of the Paris fashion house of Lanvin- Castillo are busy altering about

dresses 60

and sults and 30 furs to the measurements of Barbara Woolworth Hutton, the millionairess.

She bought the clothes in a two-hour spending spree last Thursday. The house put on private showing of its collection for her immediately after a public showing.

ACCEPTED ESTIMATE The house will not say how much she spent, but the ac- cepted estimate here is "well million francs (about £71,000). The house does not contest the estimate. At the private showing, Miss Hutton was shown no less than 171 models and is re- ported to have bought all but n dozen of them.

Over" 100 *Flying

ern reaches of Indo-China. The Saucer," skims across land or Laotian government addressed sea, riding on a cushion of air

a message to Secretary-General | created by Its fets. Dog Hammarskjold with

0

A prototype version, bullt by request that it be circulated to Saunders Roe with the aid of all members of the United Na-the Government's National Re- lions. The message did not search Development Corpora- ask for UN action.

Lion; has alread/ Akimmed across the English Channel from Calais to Dover.

The United States was in constont communication with the Laotian Government about the Communist attacks in its border region, but

The

correspondent

TO COST £500,000

Chronicle's air News Three men were injured when northern

says nboul a fire broke out in the first- Luca had not asked for help class linen room of the from the Southeast Asla Treaty £500.000 will be needed from

(Seato)

to build the or the the Corporation llcngkong-Macao ferry boat Organisation

first commercial machine. m.v. Tak Shing at about 10.30 United Nations, he said.

According 10 UC am, today,

"The situation in Laos con-pondent, this will be a 40-ton

A large quantity of linen and tinues to be of serious canemn

blankets was damaged by Rre and water during the fighting operation,

grant a rehearing to author-convict Caryl Chessman, who has avoided the San Quentin The Fire Brigade sent a death chamber for 11 years.

The High Court will retum the case on Friday to the Trial Court in Los Angeles which is lime next week expected some

item of women's clothing to fix a new execution date.

The letter was also said to

The question Inevitably arises, have enclosed

superscales have the

Under

normal procedures

a photo of Mr Cheraman's new date with the been Wong Ying-kau without an ear. i gas chamber would be set some excessively rewarded in com his eyes being covered up with time in the middle October. parison with the white collara sirip of adhesive tape.

workar, for

commended

salaried staff

whereas the To

Increases to

about absorb

$10 million a year, the handful

of "supers" take a

million dollars.

mission's belter

whole Com The is that by ather standards in this Colony the answer tu no. MOVERNMENT'S overseas off-

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In total than those in business. As for top level officers, total pay "appear to run centrally between the focal and ex patrisla ERICO

In bualnos house" and the report con tinues "we... have still kopt the level of salaries well with In bounds. Our proposals aro completely. defensibis In rata- tion to the levels of positions In Hongkong outside the Govarn- ment service. They are rea- sonable, even modest, and will stand up to any comparison."

100 local staff, total

Bro

the

May Land

Instruments

On The Moon

Dr

on

TO APPEAL AGAIN

Chessman, 36, has suld that t denled

he would Archearing appeal to the US. Supreme Court and seek a slay of any execu- tion date. It would be the

eighth time that he has carried his cause to the highest tribunal.

The "red-light robber" was seeking a rehearing

the California Court's decision July that the transcript Chessman's 1048 tripl adequate for purposes of review on appeal, The California High Los Angeles, Aug 5.

Court's decision. was a review Wernher Yon Braun, of special proceedings last year army space export, said In which a Los Angeles court yesterday

United bad reconsidered the accuracy the

of the transcrip^-UPI, Statos should be ablo to "soft" land ment package

By 1963

an

instru- on the moon in four years.

yehrs.

motumante in Government Von Braun also speculated it whole higher would be possible to place two than in business. The men in orbit about the moon Commission believer that and return them in another Ave no buminous firm has made a caraful investigation into what la nocas kry to maintain. decent standard of living ter legal staff and if so, nonë ap- proaches the Commission's in thoroughnesL

Addressing (be opening of tho Western national meeting of the American Astronautical Society, Von Braun sald landing men an the moon should be possible i

10 years,

general If therefore there to

Von Braun described the Na- levalling of lower wage group tional Aeronauties and Sysco safaries throughout the com

Administration's study in tear- munity to correspond with bility of using the project those which Government might Saturn space vehicle for the now be expected. to pay, the soft lunar landing. Commleston's report will be a

He added the first captive teat very widely welcomed docu- ment. It is certainly a raport Brings of engines for the 193- vehicles are that als employers would defoot high. Salura

year or well to study and act on at scheduled late this 'the earliest opportunity. carly in 1000,-UPI.

Fined The

On

Waz

Newport Beach; Aug. 5, TWO women were fined $25

apless today for wearing only the boilom halves of their Bikini swan sults whils san balhing, but intimated such a thlug would never happen to them in their native Francs.

NO EGGS FOR MR K

Chicago, Aug. 6. Anti-Communist organi- sations here have promised to turn out in force if the Rusian Premier, Mr Nikita Kurashchev, vrakes Chlengo A stop on his visit to the United States.

of Buch Bul leaders gps as the federation, of Hungarian freedom Bghters promised there would be no CEK-throwing incidents if they could help 1.

The visit last winter by the Russian First Deputy Premier, Mr Anastas Miko- yan, was marked by bar- rages of eggs in Chicago and snowballs in Detroit UPL

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fire-

fire

Said a spokesman: "Miss Hution is our best customer, and her purchases were about nonnal lust week:"-China Special.

CHARLES

Corses THIRD

vehicle ten times as big as the

to The State Department," the experimental model, I would HOLIDAY

pokemon said.

"It occubles the attention of float. No. 1 Tanao, to where tep officers here and the Secre the ship was berthed at the tary (Mr Christian A. Herter) Central Reclamation, The ship has been kept advised continuz- was under repair at the time, ally at Geneva," The cause of the

thought to be a cigarette end but this has yet

firmed.

fro

GRA

carry 10 passengers or eight

cars and 30 passengers. OUTING

Skimming across the solent of would

the "gut 70 knots,

Journey Southampton - Cover from na hour to about ten

ninutes."

to be con- Talks With Gromyko craft

When the fire float arrived three Дже appitances were fighting the Are from shore.

the

Mr T. J. Hutchina and Mr Chan Chu-wal, both Station OM- cers were present.

European Injured

Flying Oficer W. G. Sinclair, cf HA Kai Tak, aged 25, re- ceived slight injuries when he was involved in an accident with a bus in Kun Tong Road, near Clearwater Bay Road, shortly after midnight last night.

Mr Reap said he did not know whether Mr Herter had inken

Lagtian up, the

situation with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Gromyko, at Geneva.

The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, speaking in i Britnin's capacity 101- of the and --China chairman armistice body, had raised the issue of outside. Communis! sup- port for the rebels in a meeting with Mr Gromyko last week.

Mr Teap also said he did not know whether the United Staten had er would increase its, cre shipments to Laos to help deal with the current threat.

Also in mind was hover- ferry across the Severn from Bristol to Cardif Reuter,

Judged A

Citizen By

His Mole

Houston, Texas, Aug. 5. Lim - Wing. Lee, 23, was legally a U.S. citizen today thanks to a mole on his

Asked why the United States was seriously concerned, he re- plied, "the United States is abdomen. He was admitted to the British always, concerned when the Lim exhibited the mole In Military Hospital in Kowloon for security of any free nation is Federal Judge Joe Ingraham's

treatment.

For Doing It French Way

undersland, why there was

such an uproar."

1

The ladies, however, broved cor with photographers. They held criminal complaint aboets nver thoir tacos before the irħal and during part of the; brief pro- coeding, with holes paualca out so they could noo,

Aurelle la Mar. 34, and Hensles. La Mar and Miss Rovira

Rovies, #2, insisted, they had But bathed the same WHY many times before in alber parts of the world and couldn't

word. found guilty of. vali ; raging pabilo deseñor, a mala-

demeanour, and fined $25. Winemes Inalüüsd Set) Gerşid

threatened."

court yesterday to prove that he was the son of Houston grocer Because Embassy reports from How Lim, and his wife, Lee Lea. Vientiane described the situation giu, who now lived in Ílongkong, as very confused, Mr Reap sald The Government presented he could not say whether the blood tests to back its claim that United States believed the Lim couldn't be the son of How Laotian Government had' the Lim, but the defence said the Communist threat under control. | results of the test apparently In- dicated a clerical error had been made,

Security Measures

FROM CHINA

Mail

London, Aug. 5. Prince Charles paid a sit- prise

to visit Planetarium

an animated universe.

the London today and saw display of the

This was the Prince's third holiday outing in the past three days and was part of a pro- gamme designed to show the ten-year-old heir to Britain's throne the ordinary. lfo of London,

Mr C. Roche, an Assistant Manager of the Planetarium, suld he was surprised to learn of the Prince's visit, "It he was here, he must have como in very quietly."

Tomorrow night Prince Charles

and Princess

Anne family holiday in Scolland with their parents.— Reuter,

leave for

No Racial

Connection

To Murder

A

London, Aug. 5.

A cofoner ruled today that the murder of a Negro Helso Cochrane, last May appeared to have no "rnelal connection at all."

How, a naturalised citizen. The governors of Thailend

came to the US. from China provinces bordering northern Irwin, who answered a, com-

when Lim was two years old. Mr Laos have been instructed to plaint by : Mr. and

Cochrane, a 32-year-old West Lawrence Kelly, neighbours Hghten border security measures He said moles on Chinese are

carpenter, was stabbed following unemelat reports that are, and had testified in court flion of the two'' woinen,·

city of Sam News at June 2 that even though he by a gang of white youths and hadn't seen his son in 14 years, left to die in a street' in Lon- Kelly told the court ho kept his the Laotian

binoculars on the women as had fallen to the Communists.

Its recognised him by the mole, don'a Notting Hill district on they stin-baiked an' a pubilo Thai officials said Thailand The Immigration and Na- May 17.

today's bench. During that time, he was ready to defend herself if turalisation Service had issued Al

inquest, the

zald Min Hovira onco sitanod Communist troops advanced an exclusion ruting against Limecroner's jury heard two hours the country. The Thai and it was this ruling that he of testimony about Cochrane und her ann glasses with the top into of her bathing muli,

Government was watching de-appealed to the Federal Court, his last hours; and ruled that The poilceman (nivy observed velopments in Laos, "osely and Judge Ingraham Issued an order his death was murder by per

the women were well-tanned with concern," they added recognising Lim as a citizen of soner, perrons unknown."-

the United States,-UPI. —all over-UPL

All Agencies.

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