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WIDESPREAD ARRESTS ATTEMPT

ARRESTS: ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW GOVT

TOKYO ANKARA

SAF

PAN AMERICAN

HK Girl

Of The NEW RUMBLES IN CUBA May Be

Day

TOEHOLD FOR THE NAVY

news that the Itoyal!

NAVY

is to retain a

portion of the dockyard urva!

Bid To Kill Brother Of Fidel Castro

Havana, Cuba, August 10.

after all will enme as a sor Abortive attempts to overthrow the Cuban Govern-

prise to many. Chief von-

cera

will of

course be the /

éffeet of this decision on

the new alternative main

ment of Fidel Castro, and to assassinate the Premier's brother Raul, are the latest reports from Cuba's intrigue-ridden capital.

road linking either Chater The Government foiled a conspiracy to overthrow

or Commught. Road with Wanthai. 7- harassed! maturist will be pleased to learn that this will not bel Affected. Indeed the Navy has tried to help as much

1:ssibi

by asking Government to indiente the alignment of this road first before deciding the area it would retain.

FLA

Under these rirenmstanceS Government, which is gel- ting far the largest

Dy portion of the Dockyard area, may feel that it would! unreasonable to have insen

complain about the Navy's toeholl. Hongkong of course knows that today's changed i conditions necessitate only

fre | an anchorage for a patrol Vesela for local duties.

A Sore Point

TONGKUNG

Hender

doek

the regime with a wave of arrests throughout the country, and the assassination attempt on the younger Castro was made while he was attending the wedding of a revolutionary Army

friend.

CHINA'S BOSSES MEET IN SECRET

As Cuban forees tonight con- finued to ferret out alleged con- spirators, It was reported that between 200 and 1,000 prisoners, mainly supporters of deposed dictator Fulgencio Baptista, were already under arrest.

Officinis here believe that the corefully conspiracy had been Ilmed to coincide with the Western Foreign Ministers' con- ference opening in Santiago on Wednesday, to Justify the view the tension in

that there Caribbean.

is

DENIED Dominican Radio had inter- ruplod its programmes to sny: "Our news services report the death London, Aug. 10.

of General Fidel Do The London Doily Express Castro, and the city of Santiago,

in Cuba, Is In the hands that today reported

Long revolutionaries. China's top loaders

ware Cuba. Long live free Cubans." conferring in a secret This was denied emphatically by the Presidential Palace here. hide-out........ not

The assassinellon attempt was

the Navy a site for its base. The con- tinuation of a nuval presence here perpetukling

that

of

live

The newspaper's diplomatic made by an unidentified indi- correspondent said the leaders.vidual who entered the church

of whom no word has been as the wedding was beginning

R link heard since June," were pro and took a position in front of hax existed from longing their talks to determine Raul.

the first days of the Colony.rbin's position "in the face of As soon as he reached his post-

is welcome to all, even if it Nikita Khrushchev's new, position, the individund took out

is more syllogical than tion of amity with the West."

real. But whether it WI

i

necessary to slow the Navy,

Harder

to

stay on its present site

11 ile: "Any easing of whether it would have

makes better to offer international tension been

to goad harder for the leaders suitable quarters elsewhere the people.

"Lasi year,

when will be widely debated.

Khrushchev began warming leward the West, Moo The-

by respanded

bom- Jung barding the off-shore Quemoy inlandı.

"Now the chance of a

new

Old hands in the Colony will! that the recall

Navy's domination of such a valu-

able site in this part

gan an aimed it at Rauf.

Army men immediately jump-

ed the assassin, disarmed him and hustled him outside,

The wedding ceremony continued normally,

a

then

The Havana newspaper Revo- '

|lution, which often reflects gov- |

ernment opinion and views. 10-

spoke diy

of * "counter- revolutionary conspiracy."

It said that possibly more than 1,000 people among several large landownery been detained, but gave

them

bad

no

town has been a sore point side show to bedevil Moscow's mus. Many landowners have

for a number of years. The aproach to the West has arisen looked with disfavour on

the

London To Moscow By Double Decker

BLACK&WHITE

Two Oxford students have set out on a 2,000-mlie trip to Moscow in a 20-year-old double-decker bus.

The bus driven by Joăn Cochrane, 24, son of Bir Ralph Cochrane, head of the Nuclear Research Division of Rolls- Royce, and co-driver Carey Parkez, 24, of Philadelphia, will travel vis, Dover, Bertin and Warsaw,

At Hanover the two students will pick up 38 other Oxford students. The party will 'May in Moscow at the invitation of students from a fussian University. Photo shows Cochrane entering the 'bus while Parker looks onExpress Photo,

Cashier Held On

Million Dollar

WATER CONSUMPTION

AT ALL-TIME HIGH

By A STAFF REPORTER Hongkong's water consumption it an during the first seven months of this year, which included one of the wettest months on record.

all-time high

From January 1 to July 31, this year, Hongkong con- sumed a total of 12,278 million gallons (more than the total capacity of the Colɔny's reservoirs).

During the comparative period last year the consumption The total storage figure, of Agure was 10,313 million gullons. the Colony's reservoirs is 10,489 million gallons,

Weather Expected

Textile Quota:

To Improve No Grounds

ed

The rain and gusty winds)

which knocked down trees; caused landslides and sub- sidences in various parts of the Colony are expect

im- to give way to proved weather tomorrow. The three day spell gave the Colony more than seven inches. of rains and topped up the servoirs to overlowing.

Workers continued repairs on roads while families who lost homes in the West Point land- slicie early yesterday morning rummaged among the debris to salvage what they could of their possessions.

re-

A spokesman for the Royal Observatory who told the China Mall yesterday that the Colony's weather was part of the same disturbance which, has claimed more than a thousand Ilves on Formosa, said today the weather was expected to Improve lo- morrow afternoon,

But for today the weather will with Isolated

continue cloudy ight showers.

For HK To

Renew Pact

There will be no ground for renewal of the pact for

Released

Manila, Aug. 11. A former airlines stewardesa convicted of attempting to gmuggle dollars out of the Phillppines may be re- leased from guol to. morrow if she can pay a US$1,000 fine that ac- companied her two-month sentence.

The Solleitor-General's office said Miss Catherine Chouk of Hongkong should have served her full two-month Term by August 23 but that considering the good conduct credit in her favour of 11 days she may be released tomorrow.

Miss Cheuk pleaded guilty to ilie charge of trying to amuzgic out US$55,000 seized in a suit ense she was carrying early this year aboard a Hongkong-bound Cathay Pacific Airways alrerati, PETITIONED.

Miss Cheuk's attorney had petitioned for the release of the British subject on a writ of habear corpus. The allorney contended that prior to her con- viction Miss Cheuk was Investi- gatod and held under custody for 27 days by the National Bureau of Investigation authorities.

This 72-day period, the lawyer the voluntary ceiling on claimed, should be deductible to Jane hall of Miss Cheuk's sen- Hongkong textile exports teace and that since she had to U.K. by the end of served more than one month in January, 1962, when the gaol she was being held illegal- agreement between Hong-ly. kong and Lancashire ex- The Sollciler-General's office turned down the petition and pires.

Instead Inslated that Miss Cheuk This is the general consensus besides fully serving out her of the Hongkong textile indus- sentence-reducible by 11 days

said try,

apokesman for a because of good conduct--should group who took part in the also pay Uie. US$1,000 fine re-

'quired of her. negotiations, for the, poct.

The

spokesman explained that originally Hongkong agreed on a voluntary celling for three years so as to give Lancashire anough time for reorganisation of her industry.

(Contd. on Back Pare, Col, 5)

If not, it said, Mina Cheuk would not only have to stay in gaol und August 23 but would also be confined for 20 more days for fallure to pay the fine.

UPI.

Embezzling Count Augat SALE

Paris, Aug. 10.

Navy itself has given in Lans. Observers believe that, Government's agrarian reform An American travel agency chief cashier is Government the grounds to as a result of the current meet-plans-Reuter and UPI. remove entirely thing, the situation in Laos

It

Dockyard is being wound become worse,"

up and 4,000 employees are

| said.

Inay

deal

the newspaper Heweyer, Chinese leaders hadi in the last stages of being otter urgent problems to discharged.

with. There is un neute food shortage in most of the country," the newspaper sald-AFT,

The Plans DRESENT-DAY economics

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changed

politient conditions permit | unty a token permanent force le remain. For the

Girl Found Wounded

A 21-year-oltt Chinese girl, sake of present and future with stab wounds, was found in development of

of the Tung Fong-

an aren

a room

which will become an exten-Boarding House. Connaught

W.H.O. Taboos Leper Colonies

Geneva, Aar, 10. An experia cenrmities of the World Health Organl- sation today recommended ablishing all leper colonies and urged treating the world's 12 million teprosy sufferers at home-UPL

$110 Million

being held by the police on charges of embezzling more than a million dollars to finance a friend's gambling spree, Officials of the American Express Company office here said the cashier, 33-year-old Martin Allen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had a spotless seven-year record with the firm before he was arrested together with an alleged Italian ac- complice, Renato Grassi, 36.

Grassi is well known in Monte Carlo circles as a big-money gambler.

Down The Drain embezzlement, had

Court sources said that Alien, ir an alleged confession to, the Indicated

Keven slon of the city's Central Road Central, at about

the money was used by Grossl morning.

Washington, Aug. 10. The in-

for an "infallible" methodi District, it would have been o'clock this

admitted to WHS

The Air Force today cancelled winning at gambling-but better for the Navy to have Jured

pregrumme to develop "exotic"

large a:nounts put down its anchor else Queen Mary Hospital,

The Police are looking for a high-energy fuels to give added quiring capital. where...

Chinese man who may be able zip to future bombers. The pros.

has

already lo assist them in their investigu-gramme

$110,000,000.-UPI. tons.

Wo urged Government a little more than a month ago to consider utilising the dry- dock as an underground car park. Dr Charlesworth' sug- gested a multi-storey garage, in the Murray Farnde ground. Planning has been going on for many montha now and it should be possi

ble to give the public some

girl

of

ያ

of

cost Friends-of-Allen-sald-today.

that the Italian gambler

was

Himmler's Secret Documents

Found In Austria

Bonn, Aug. 10.

during investigations by

of this entire ures including A diver working for the magazinu

iden of the future lay-out

the Barracks and the Parado Ground.

Hamburg illustrated forgery operations,

magazine Dor Stern has found what oro ballared

the "bad angel" of the young American cashier.

cources, According to court Grassi introduced ilmselt as an American Express client who wanted. a large loan to cover his financial operations. Allen, the court sources said, allegedly decided on his own authority to lend Grassi large sums of the company's money.

sold, Lalar, they'

Grassi allegedly told Allen that he had discovered a "sure system" of winning at the gaming table. Friends of Allen said dey be Loved the young cashier was almost "hypnotised" by Grassi.

Confessad

Poilce, who sald that Allen had confessed to the charges, said that more than 500,000,000 franes of the company's honey the felling scheme. Into Nazi money

They were in, cases discover- had been legally transferred to et with the aid of a television Swiss banks and allegedly wound camera at a depth of about 250 up in the hands of Grassi.

and George Shiry, Vice-President MORE BANK NOTES

feet. The forged money

In charge of the Amerlean. Ex- A statement Issued by Derother. paperz wero

Bunk Stern tonight said that personal! Lake Topliz in the last days press Company's Paris branch, asked whether a cashier to be personal documents documents, diaries, passes and of the war in an attempt to WRS of Gestapo Chiat Hainrich identity papors once belonging cover up all traces of "Opera could misappropriate so much Himmler at the bottom of to Himmler, as well as more on Bernard" the code name money.

forged money."I don't know," he replied forged.Deitish banit nulas were given to the

"All that is in the hands of the Toplite Lake in Austria, a member of the editorial irioved from the lake today,

I have only two statements staff said today.

Hongkong has heard either by way of rumour or suggestion до much about how this: area might or should be! developel that it will be a change to learn how things are going to take shape. And before they are finally Kurt Wolber, said in reply to Bettied the public may have telephoned questions that the a few worthwhile counter-documents were found in the suggestions to make.

lake near Salzburg yesterday,

The Stern Journalist, Herr

operation.

in.

It was further reported that Der Blera's statement said police." a letter from Adolf Hitler to the hide-out was su eficient

of to make," Mr Shiry cald. ""One, Heinrich Himmler had also been that the Secret Services

the amount Britain and the United States I don't know found among the documenta/

Hiller's letter was said to ap- | had tried it, vain for yours to volved. Two, whatever it is, prove of "Operation Bernhard," solve the mystery of the forged we are covered by Insurance,“

UFI. the code namo for the counter-money-Reuter and ATP.

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