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THE
WEATHER
Moderata gusty, south-west winds. Cloudy with showers and occasional thunderstorms. Noon Temp: 82.6 degrees. Noon Humid: 88 p.c.
CHINA
No. 37431
Established 1845 MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1959.
LATE FINAL
SQUATTER HUTS BURIED IN 7.15a.m.
7.15a.m.
Price 20. Cents
FLIGHTS WEEKLY to the U.S.A.
14
9 froia TOKYO
5 from MANILA PAN AMERICAN
EARTH EARTH FALL
Of The KENNEDY TOWN LANDSLIDE
Day Four-Year-Old
FREEDOM OF Boy Killed,
MOVEMENT Brother Injured
freedom can be
ECONOMIC are thing A four-year-old boy died and his elder
Britain is now proving that
even a modicum of freedom
is the best tonic she has had for years.
The
National
Institute uf
Economic and Social Re scurch reports that Britain is speeding rapidly along the road to prosperity and that the bace is faster than expected.
brother was seriously injured when tons of rock and earth smashed into their squatter hut behind 580 Queen's Road West oarly this morning. Rescue workers pulled four other members of their family out of the wreckage. They were slightly injured.
Sunday's continual rain loosened a large section of hillside under Belcher's Gardens near the junc- tion of Belcher Street and Queen's Road West, causing the collapse.
and widespread flooding and house collapses.
Unemployment is down; wagen are up and prices, normally
at this time of the} rising year, are relatively stendy. There is also the prospect, Thirty-two squatter huts that they will remain in which 221 people were
A number of landslides have more stable than they have living were affected by the
occurred on roads in various done for over a decade, landslide which occurred at parts of the Colony but the most There is a rise in output par 7.15
LICEN It is believed serious have
partially man and industrial produc- tion is nearly five per cent that 18 of the huts were buried under nearly 800 above, the previous year.
tons of earth.
High Rate
THE
am.
Accounted For
cleared.
Taipo Road at the 3% mile stone was blocked Just before midnight and was reopened to single lane trafic early this morning.
lane
lane trame has also been enforced on Island Road, Deepwater Bay, where a land- slide occurred.
have Many small landslides occurred on Colony roads and the Police asi motorists to drive.. with extra caution.
But just after noon a Police
Castle Peak Rond was parital- officer announced that all of the ly blocked by a fallen tree near 221 persons had been accounted Laichikok Hospital but has since
opened to single THE country's exports are for. Earlier it was feared that been
traffic. running at a high rate man more had been trapped
Single After 40 minutes feverish and the balance of payment digging at the fringes of the is well in Britain's favour. collapse, the rescue workers of There is no mystery about the Fire Brigade pulled out prosperity or what seven people, including the
dead four-year-old boy. call prefer to
A At .um, sertaily Injured miracle. It is merely abcy, aged 9, was dragged from consumer boom, caused the wreckage of his home. He mainly by people spending had a breken arm and leg and
The money.
for other minor injuries. He has thin is because for the Arst been detained in Queen Mary time in years there has been Hospital. The six others have
been discharged. freedom of action to do so.
this
Bunic
reason
At 10.15 pm, a gang of 15-20 arrived at The financial control left ever contractor's coolies
after the luat
and the scene to speed up the rescue War
It was belleved at Socialism brought in at the, perallons.
time of the credit squeezej have been ateadily and syя- tematically tuken apart, Taxation has been lifted and it is the best thing that has happened since the end of the rationing.
Ambitious
HE Government has been doing its share of spend- ing as well. It has embark- ed on 'aunbitious programmes in the mines, road projects and power stations.
But some people claimed that the result of all this would only lead to a further in-! crease in prices. They have been proved wrong. In fact there is room for prlees to fail.
Others said that the domand
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RESERVOIRS AT
PEAK CAPACITY
The Colony's reser- volra have benefitted considerably from the heavy rains and all reservoirs are GVET- flowing.
At 8
water a.m., storage was at the peak capacity.
10,469 of
The million gallons, Water Authority Is making available maxi. mum "bonus" supplies, wherever possible, to all districts.
for. commodities would 'Zalter,
but this has not that time that more people may But when have been hurled. proved the case. There is the werd came through that all accounted for, the still a long way to go before had been
all needs are нatisfied.. work eased off.
Exports
Fortunate
Skin-Diving
Detectives
Recover Stolen Shek Pik Cables
Kam-chuen,
Two detectivos had to skin dive in the Skek Pik Bay to recover $4,166 worth of stofon copper cables.
Inspector Chin Delectiva
Marine of CTD Police, told Mr 1. T. Morris, Central Magistrate this today."
The
delectives, Trul Shing and Chan Chuen, cominended by Mr Morris.
Inspector Chin said the ac cuced men took police to Sbck Tik Bay and pointed out where they had dumped the cables.
LWU
were
The two detectives them doen.
ed skin diving equipment but because of insuficient equipment, only three out of the five stolen
colls were recovered.
The value of the recovered cables was $2,500.
The Calling earth alipped nearly 40 feet onto the 'hule be- low, and one officer said it. was fortunale that most of the THE sellors, too, have had squatters had left for work. In
grant deal to do eluded among the falling debris
Inspector economic health, was a large boulder estimated fo particularly in the export weigh nearly 50 tons.
Early morning operations
with the
Two out of the three culprits who were caught, Ng Yau, 22, and Mok Chung-fal, 21, both from Lantao Island, were set- tenend to 12 months gaol each.- Felice are still searching for another man,
Chin, prosecuting, sold the cables were stolen from a Nisson but on August 1 at markets. The motor manu were hampered by heavy rain the working site of the Shek facturers spent
a number of pik Reservoir. about
which caused $225,000,000 in the lean other minor falls in the same years and now they are area. Other squatter huls
to be evacuated reaping the harvest of their the area had foresight.
for this resGON
This was the most serious. There
aro still
somo grey Incident reported this morning- patches, particularly in morning in which 62 inches the heavy Industries such as of roin feil.
In
steel and shipbuilding and This brings total rainfall to theso basic activities take 7.8 inches since Saturday.
longer to respond.
The Royal Observatory, warn-
First French A-Bomb Test
The ed this moraing that the won-
west winds.
Paris, Aug, 0.
in
VANGER
These pictures, taken by s, China Mali photographer, show. resoud workers digglig earth" foll*pti· "sqtialler frantically this morning for survivors after 350 tons of rock and
The picture below shows a apbaldenos in Smithfield Bond, huta in Kennedy Town, caused by the heavy rains, Smithfield Road was damaged by flooding during the heavy salna in Igné..
Boy Found Chained To Wall
French Euthassy
Compton, Calif., Aug. 9. ahead ther would continue unsettled Montavia has published a state-
A ragged 13-year-old Paeria There are problems
Rican boy was kept tog'a with the changing condi- today and predicted showers ment saying that a "small' test Decarloral thunderstorms bomb will be used in French
Juvenila home today after tona in Europe and tougher and
police arrested fly father for competition in the United later today with quaty, mouth-atomic explosions in the Sahara, and that its radioactive efterla States. There is the nectarà spokesman said there was a will be.negligible, usually rechaining the boy to a wall: In sity, therefore, to watch out good chance of improvement talable sources bald bore tonight their shack to keep him from
They quoted the latement as purupning; away, h for the hazards,
The rain has been caused by saying: The, fist French The Father Anfoblo Martinos, 37, admiiton he kept his son, But there is strong evidence burst of the south-west mon- nuclear tests will take place
Ignania,"pliniped down to, kotp hing at home,ti Martinos MALE that things will be better in soon, aggravated slightly by some 1,720 miles na the bird Bifles from Monrovia, in a dow the future than they have Typhoon lon.
totally uninhabited ho leskall the bayi tip when The same weather disturbances; solato and
ho went out, to look for beonplace the ond of the
have caused deaths in Formosa arpa.AFP.
·WAT.
morrow afternoon..
A
Heavy Damage And Loss Of Lives In Floods
Taipei, Aug. 9. Taipei authorities estimated that more than five hundred people have lost their lives as a result of the surprise rainstorm in Central and South Formosa last Friday. The death toll was mounting hourly as flood waters began to sub- side and more reports of casualties, and damages from affected areas poured in. Latest police statisties showed that 222 perished, 220 injured 200 missing. The number of vic- forty this was raised to over thousand
destroyed Houses exceed eight thousand,
of Thip,
Only the northern part Formosa, including
escaped the pounding rains that began on Friday. The provin» cial capital of Talchung WES drenched by 24 inches of rain in 36 hours.
SUPPLIES DROPPED
'PAN AM APPEAL AGAINST
Hadlo reports from Talchung sald floodwaters were six Lect deep in some parts of the elty. An estimated 30,000 perama Pan were sold to have been driven from their homes in Taletung and other flood areas by muddy, swirling floodwaters.
were
The Nationalist Air Force dropped supplies to marooned towns and sent out search planes Lot survivors. Supplies dropped to four isolated villagos in Chiayi County, completely surrounded by flood waters from the Chosui River, which burst over its banks.
Typhoon winda and flooding in Japan knocked out bridgee, broke levoix, and destroyed home3. landalido loosened by heavy rains covered a house and killed six of its seven be- cupants.
MAROONED
S.
FINE
American World
Airway Inc. this morn. ing appealed to the Full Court against a conviction and fine of $15,000 for importing unmanifested cargo which consisted of 'a leather suitense con- taining 74 pounds of opium, four pounds of crude mor- and phine
raw
seven
pounds of morphine hydrochloride.
Kowloon Magistrate, Mr 1. M. Donnell, found the airline guilty on a mummons and fined them on May 12,
The appeal is being heard by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael' Hogan and Pulsno Judge, Mr Justice J. R. Gregg
Rain continued to fall today over flood-stricken Central and Southern Formosa, where the The appellant company gre heaviest downpour in 61 years contending that this doclalon inundated major cities and was, wrong in law, that the marooned scores of towns and conviction was against weight villages
of evidence, and that there was On the Chinese mainland, it no or Insumelent evidence to was reported that Peking was found the conviction drenched with 18 inches of rain in a 12-hour period on August 6. The heavy rains were apparently connected with Typhoon Ellen. Members of the "peoples com- munes" around Peking were reported fighting the effects of the torrential rain in à round- the-clock effort to drain away the water and replant their Mr Dermot Rea, Crown Coun- vegetables and other crepa-sel, assisted by Mr A. A. Bag-- UPI.
of Police, Rott, Superintendent is appearing for the respondent. 'FICTITIOUS'
Now A
Boom In
Towels
By A STAFF REPORTER
Pan American are being re- presented by Mr Leo d'Almada QC and Mr D. A. L. Wright, in- structed by Mr P. J. Griffths of Wilkinson and Grist,
The suitcase was unloaded" from the plane without any identification but Inter its handle, which had come off was found in the hold with label saying that it was being sent from London to Honolulu... The Magistrate held this was fictitious and that the sultenso was loaded at Bangkok.
** Mr d'Almada submitted that there was no evidence that the suitcase
Into was imported
Hongkong.
The Magistrate mado po Anding that it was intended to
be discharged in: Hongkong and Orders for Hongkong towel- if it were to be argued by the ting are booming and ex-Crown that there was some ports this year are expected inferential finding of this sort, he would contend that it was, to reach $47 million, unwarranted on the evidence.
The Export Manager of the
Itis factory had enough ordera
The facts were equally
argued
con-
Overreas, Weaving Factory Ltd alstent with the real'destination Mr Lal Wing-im, told the China Mail this morning that his being Honolulu or Japan of factory had received a million-m other place, Counsel dollar order from America.
Mr d'Almada told the Court to keep the factory busy until that his submission was that the sultensO · WOR brought into | next April.
and was Ho told the China Mail that Hongkong in transil the six factories manufacturing not imported into the Colony. Last night, however, the six- towelling products in Hongkong work.
foot chain was firmly attach were at present capable of pre- Martinez, was booked on
charge of cruel and inhuman ed to the wall with nails. The ducing more than $9 million treatment of a child, -- TA
boy, shoeless, had been obain worth a month.
Britain is expected to isko
Buenos Aires, Aug. 9. Police sald neighbours reporteded for about six hours before $12 million worth of Hongkong
seeing the boy dragging the soficors went to the house on towels this year, he said.
Argentine Industrial, and chain from his left anklo. Witp and froed bl.
Mir Lai maki ail towel manti fabour unions, today called" a previous, openslots,
nation-wide) „general. Ignacle
Two wocka 250, polich said, facturing Brms were "looded 24-hour
Slquholu -- ran away and WAN with order which kopt them strike for Tuesday in, soldarily with sirigors in the AUERS IN- taken in by a-wonian/whobiby es never before, he said
"We never had it so good bedustry and in protest at polige oured for him. But yesterday the father found him and fore the Lancashire, "alamour" reprendon, of the sugar strike-
bReuter,avaÊN brought him-homas UPI,
fold thom he often bake loose and walked around the nejabbourhood in search of fred, returning before he ex- pooted his father pack in the
ho said,
Argentine Strike
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