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CHINA

No. 37434

Established 1845 THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1959,

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Price 20 Centa

Comment POLICE, CROWD IN CLASH

Of The AT LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL

Day

"We Don't L

CLEANING UP Want To

THE COLONY

W mietake about that, but

XTE have a dirty city-noĮ

In Hongkong as in many

other pinces, Alth buont

Integrate

Kos Little Rock, Aug. 12.

in hand with

poverty. And it will prob Police ahly Bever be entirely

eliminated, not until living standards are substantially raised, the shims swept away and a new idea uff

domestic and vivie pre generated in the com

munity.

This does not mean that the

Urban Commeil is wasting Its time with Miss Ping

On, however. It is doing) the right thing by con- centrating on a few of the! most objectionable practices which are by no means the peculiar offences of the very poxir.

This, the campaign is markel-) ly different from those con= | ducted in Western countries,

There against itterbugs,

news.

it is asumed that there is a degree of civic conscious- Here it is No- existent. Ideally a campaign for a deaner city shil

used trun- cheons and firehoses here today to subdue an angry

crowd shouting "we don't want to integrate," as Little Rock open- ed its white school to Negroes for the second time.

At least 15 people were

arrested. One young man fell und was thrust into a police head his wagon, streaming with blood; and a screaming wo- was bundled in ทางยก too.

Central High School was the involve a Insic retention focus of porest as in 1957 when of the people, but this is Federal trups were sent in by clearly bend the Council President Eisenhower to restore scope, and it minst be satis-order after nine Nestrues were

order ean prick the admitted by

ຍ: Colony's conselence on its Supreme Court. worst habits.

fled If it

Some Excuse

THERE

Two Enter School

the

This me only two went in. both making the lonely trip lato THERE is some excuse for the school for the second time. 16 unt Thomas, poor people being dirty Jefferson

18, walked ito Elizabeth Eckford, and alovly-there is

vast unhurriedly across the Incentive for them towns and into the school while! any better. It is the people notice held back the crowd at a from clean and well-tu-ilm

nearby crossroad with falling! homes

deserve to be truncheons and streaming jets of whe

for prosecuted

dumping water. Pubbish carelessly, allowing amals to uncmrngy ebiklren!

About 200 men, women and

H

LEVING VAH SHINO

DAVEICE STEWIE BO

Two hours before, it over. This picture shows the badly. battered truck an it was being righted by a repair van. Jurned and its cargo crate crashed down on two women killing them, Before the accident the women were sitting on

Photo. top of the crate.-China Mail

Two Killed, Three Hurt

In Repulse Bay Crash

a

crute seven feet square by two feet high conlain. ing truck

spare parts.

Two women were killed and;

two men and another woman injured when at lorry carrying 3-ton crate of motor spare parts Two overturned in Beach Rond, Repulse Bay, short-t ly before 10 o'clock this morning,

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to relieve themselves overlays broke away from the rally The scene of the accident

and defied police chief Gene

gutters and of course, Smith's orders to stay wway spitting.

from the school. "Get Gene

A few solid fines would do the Suit one man yelled as the

was a few yards from the Island Road Bypass over Beach Road.'

world of good, and while iteruwd surged forward. "Cow-The two women were crush- is proper that the Urban ards" they yelled and someone concentrates its taunted the police: "Why don't

Council

campaign in

you draw your guns."

like areas

Shamshulp and Western

district, they should not Demonstration ignore the better class residential districts and the parks.

The crowd houd broken away from a big segregation demon- stration on the lawns of the

told the

One lig contribution to the capitol. The Governor, Kir dirty condition of the Orval Faubus, who has defied Colony's back streets is the President Eisenhower and the refuse which chokes up the Supreme Court for two years to rouds on which vegetable prevent Integration

situated. This rally: "I am with you all the stalls

kek f why." may be due to a market accommodation, but The Governor has kept ali their removal to a building the city's four high schools where they could be pro- closed for a year. perly supervised would

Bre

Then there

.

While the demonstrators at

make a big contribution to the capitol waved confederate cleaning up the back streets, dogs and distributed leaflets are those fre- heated: The Negro's ambition quently heard criticisms of a mongrel American race," people who dump rubbish three young Negro girl students

of bed slipped quietly to from the upper floo tenements. But what has High School without incident.

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to be impressed upon

Full

They were driven there in a

offenders is the danger that private car watched only by

at this lack of consideration about 20 people.

and laziness constitutes lof

public health.

A Follow-Up

A the

Ꭶ for painful deterrents ved the increased number being fined for spitting. 11 will help to make· examples of other kinds of offenders too. It is to be hoped that the campalen becomes an abaual

clever

'I'm With You'

The march towards Central High started alter Governor Faubus appeared at the rally:

applause when he sold he was "with them all the way."

"I see no reason for you to bo beaten over the head or to be toted. That should be faced unly as

a last resort-not to. | day.

and is not just an Let us continue the struggla izolated burst of enthusiasm and never grow weary. But let The Urban Council's pin-up u do this in a way of which

on this occasion-Miss Ping posterlily can be proud."

As the marchers headed for On-is Д

at- and

the the school, the police chief tractive symbol and

ordered them to disperse and resettlement estate competl was net with jeers and cries of

year carlier this tions held

"you cowards." The police fald were a good idea which about them with truncheons, might be worth following then turned a firehose on them. Meanwhile the three Negro up. As with spitting, it is doubtful whether Hongkong girls left Hall High School at "will show any improvement the end of their morning classes after une campaign. But old and asid there was "no trouble handa 40 years on might be worth reporting."

white, students

Some of 'the able to tell their grand- arriving to start their classes children that "Shamshulpo Joined in the eatballs directed was never like this when I at the pollco by the dispersed

leaders-Router. was a boy."

ed to death under the 6,944 by weight of a

men

the including driver sitting in the cabin escaped injury though the left windshield, left! door, the engine hood, near front mudguard, and the engine itself were all smashed.

Motors Ltd. with three women and two men sit- ting on the cráte.

At 11.30 a.m. the huge crate was still left on the scene where the two women around died. Scultered were three women's coolie hats. Two crushed sun helmets and a straw hat were placed on the crate. The dead and the injured The lorry was carrying the were sent to Queen Mary cargo from Wanchai Hospital by ambulance, waterfront to a godown in The damaged lorry South Bay for Hua Nan inspected by the police and

was

London Exhibition To Aid HK

萬生醬花

Hongkong "Village' built in the courtyard of St Martin- In-The-Fields Church in London by Rover Scouts as part of an exhibition to raise funds for the International Refugee Year. The Times Photo,

Refugees

London, Aug, 12.

of Hongkong "Village"

forty typical Chinese re- fugee hovels has been built in the courtyard of the historic St-Martin-In- The Fields Church in Lon-i

don.

The "village" is the basis of an exhibition called "See how They live". It will be opened, on Friday by the former Governor of Hongkong. Sir Alexander Grantham,

the on behalf of Inter-Church Ald and Refugees the Service to raise funds for International Refuger Year.

The "village" has licen bullt in their spare time by 30 senler Rover - scouts who collected rubble for the job from the City of Westminster's salvage dump

Scouts used beaten-out oli drums, cardboard wood and sacktag and constructed hovels from photographs on: drawings supplied by the Inter-Church Aid and Refugee Servico.

A crate of "typical refugee possessions" Wis sent from Hongkong.to furnish ellings.

Leading up to the "village" is the "street" bulit by the Rank Organisation-from-their "props" for liming "Ferry to Hongkong" and "Watham's Way".

A pokesman for the Organisation said today "Lord Rank particularly. wanted to moire gesture like this to help with refugee appeal.”

The Inter-Church Ald end Refuges Service have pledged themselves to rakro a quarter (about £500,000) of the Inter- national Refugee Year's tolal.

Funds for this latest extilb) tion will go towards a vocationai training college for refugees to be built in Hongkeng at, the cost of £50,000, London Express Bervico,

later towed away for re- pair.

The apare parts had recent- ly been shipped here by Dodge Brothers (Britain) Ltd., Kew, Surrey, Eng- land, to Hua Nan Motors Ltd., Hongkong. The lorry belongs to Li Wah allas Leung Wah Shing Transport Co. of GAI Peace Avenue, ground

floor.

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TOKYO

PANAMERICAN

Socialists Are Expecting An October Election

London, Aug. 12.

The British Labour Party began overhauling its election machinery today with a warning to its branches throughout the nation that E-Day probably would be set for October.

The election machinery Arst. went

inla gear last November when the Party issued a cam- palgn guide entitled "Into Action" with its sights of a May election.

The machinery lowed up when it became obvious that the May date was out of focus.

was issuing an eight-page sup-

BRITISH TROOPS SENT

Today the Party announced TO MALDIVES

plement to Into Action which warns the local party branches throughout Britain "Now We A must train our sights on Oğlu- ber,"

The supplement indicated that the party expected the elections to be held early in October.

Although the popular lip for the election date among the political pundits was for October there was still no hint from the ruling Conservative Party it they had decided on that date UPI.

Crew Of British Ship Mutiny

Sydney, Aug. 12.

Forty-two.

members of

the crew of the British ship Cedarbank mulated today at Port Kembla, 30 miles south of Bydney.

The mutiny followed disputea In which, the сгон

officers

'tron

handles.

clatted, the ship's

struck them with roda and Hammer-

The crow is to have the full suppers of the Aus- tralian Seamen's Union in their mutiny, it was learn- ́ed here today.

Crew members 41 nf them

Indian Lascars and the others Chinese-said to- night they had left the ship and world not return. The ship

TVILE due to sail to-- morrow-AFT.

NEW

on

London, Aug. 13. Ministry of Defence spokesman sald today that

a company of the Che- 1st Battalion, the shire Regiment had been flown to the Island of Gan, in the Maldives, The regiment is based Singapore. The company. ot between 100 and 150 men, was carried in Hastings aircraft.

The

#aid, spokesman

"the communication handed to the acting Maldivian

representative at Colombo and published on August 8, made it clear that H.M. Government has Весп concerned at the possible threat to the safely of British installa- tions and personnel established under treaty rights on Gan and Hittdu islands,

"Advantage has been taken of the avollability of a company of the Cheshire Regiment to send them temporarly to Gon on an air mobility exercise."—AFF.

Princess Plane In Mishap

Suvo, Fiji Islands, Aug. 13. Princess Alexandra escaped with a slight shaking today when the Heron aircraft in which she was travelling burst

a tyre us i landed at Suya,

There were no injuries aboard the plane ond the aircraft was not damaged.---UPI.

LOOK

Most progressive organizations ure these days replacing outmoded provident schemes with up to date group insurance and retirement contracts,

The undermentioned are a few of the many firms which have intro- duced such schemes to the mutual advantage of both employer and employee.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

BRITISH GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., LTD. B. VAN ZUIDEN BROS, LTD. CHINA ENTERTAINMENT & LAND

INVESTMENT CO., LTD, CIDA (CHINA) LTD. DAVIE BOAG & CO., LTD. DODWELL. MOTORS LTD

DYECHEM TRADING CO. (H.K.) LTD. ED, A. KELLER & CO., LTD. THE EKMAN FOREIGN AGENCIES

(CHINA) LTD.

GEIGY TRADING COMPANY, LTD.

BASLE (CHINA BRANCH) HK. CILMAN & CO., LTD.

H.K. TOURS & TRAVEL SERVICE LTD. HOECHST CHEMICAL PRODUCTS LTD. JEBSEN & CO.

KIAN GWAN CO., (CHINA) LTD.

THE

LANDIS BROTHERS & CO., LTD.

L. RONDON & CO. (H.K.) LTD, MANDARIN TEXTILES LTD. MARKLIN ADVERTISING LIMITED. THE MARCONI INTERNATIONAL MARINE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.

THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO.

(H.K.) LTD.

NEW ASIA COLLEGE OTIS ELEVATOR CO.

PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD. PHILIPS HONG KONG LTD.

5. H. LANGSTON & CO., LTD. SINGER SEWING MACHINE CO. SHRIRO (CHINA) LTD. WILLIAM JACKS & CO., LTD. WILKINSON & CRIST

WINKLER & CO., (HONGKONG), LTD.

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HEAD OFFICE (Established 1887) TORONTO, CANADA

加拿大宏利人窜保險公司

Incorporated in Canada as a Limited Liability Company

ASSETS EXCEED £292,000,000

D. A. C. T. HANCOCK, Manager, Hong Kong Branch Office.

Windsor House, Hong Kong.

Toli: 34156, 34157,