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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1950,
British Motor Strike Called Off
One Killed In Bridge
Collapse...
Los Angeles. Aug. 12. An old vehicular bridge over callroad tracks which was being rebulli collapsed at moon today, killing ene workman sad injuring six others.
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The Charlalta Avenue Overpası, 100-foot long span, collapsed and buckled Іп
20-foot A
cepire section, sending six 27 feet 10 the Freund. Three were pinned under the debris of wet concrete, wood and siest tubing. The other three fell clear of the debris.
Police identified the dead man as Israr! (iarela. Ile died when steel tubing frei heaffolding pierced him chest:
the
The collapse Deetreed when camerele was belar bridge poured onto from a long-necked crane. -CIPE.
UNIONS REACH
A
AGREEMENT WITH BMC
London, Aug, 12.
SERIOUS dislocation of the British mater car industry was avoided this evening when a settlement was announced in the strike at Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford, over the dismissal of a chief shop steward.
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After six hours of lalk day between the chief industrial commisioner, Mr Peter St John Wilson.
istlet and unfen ployers representatives i was announced Uut agreement bad been reached and work would restone forthwith.
Nearly half the labour force
citil had a mu
on strike ot Cowley on Monday
over
the
Employees alleged Mr Korsman had been victimised and demandeð hla' reinstate- ment.
As effects of the strike spread members of the British Motor Corporation group-test car makers outside the United
| States-1,000 workers had to be
laid off in Birmingham.
Plans had been drawn up in sucking of Mr Frank Hursman, Birmingham by union officials 44, for alleged
"obstruction, for a one day teken strike in 'insubordination and iuxtence," | support in the Cowley worker. This would have brought out a *******5#*#*#CHOTENSTÜRM903zzas further 12,000 workers,
THE
Hongkong Land Investment
& Agency Co., Ltd.
announce the establishment of their new
KOWLOON ESTATE OFFICE
•
at.
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(Junction Prince Edward & Waterloo Road)
TEL. 51315
OFFERING
TO PROPERTY OWNERS
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OR PROPERTY MANAGERS
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After the talks today Mr Frank Foulkea, President of! the Electrical Trutes Union ) side Mr Forsman had been transferred 10 Pressed Steel Works, Oxford, on sunilar terms and positions to those held te- fore with Morris Motorn,
Tribute Paid
Issuing an agreement state. ment he said the union had retained the right to take the question of Mr Horanian's dismissal to arblicxilon.
Mr Foulkea said everybody paid tribute to the efforts of the Ministry in the matter,
Mr Frank Cousins, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, ub) - oler body affected by the strike, commented briedy. "L am not unhappy
about the results."--Reuter.
Polygamy Abused
In Singapore
Singapore, Aug. 12.
The President of the Singa-
pore Muslim
Religious
Court, In che Toha Suhaimi, today said that while polygamy was low- ful according
to
the
Britain's Big Motorway
The first drivers—a squad of Press motoring correspondents—last Thursday tackled 58 miles of Britain's first major motorway, the London-Elmingham Motorway, due to be opened to the púbile on October 31. General verdict included the opinion that the motor- way is safer than Continental equivalents because the monotony of long straights is more broken up by shallow, and sometimes gently banked purges. All of them are designed to be taken at 75 mph, but the safety margin allows them to be taken at up to 100 mph with Case, The £10,000,000 motorway has 132 bridges (all built except one), some 40 of them al a cont £15-20,000 each just to provide footpath acpers to farma and factories. twin carriageways are 73 feet wide, with six traffio lanca.
The
PICTURE SHOWS: Helleopter view of the new motorway, looking toward London. 25 miles of the road silli have to be given their final asphalt covering-Express Photo.
Criminal Folly To Start Nuclear Tests-Gaitskell
London, Aug, 12.
Koran, it was frequently I would be criminal felly for any nation to start holding nuclear tests again at a time when there was a "truce" between the three major Powers regarding tests, Mr Hugh Gaitskell, leader
abused.
Jie told reporters he was wor ried about the high divorce rule
in Singapore, and proposed that of the Labour Opposition said today.
prspective bridegrooms should
in future be obliged to state in
He was speaking at Welling-
a questionnaire their financial i ton on the fist day of a co÷Cen= elrcumstances, home life, and į trated three-day tour of eight
the number of wives they had constituencies in Kent.
hall.
WAN
The systein, which, he said. introduced by President Nosser in Egypt, would put the Kathi (priest) in a bolter posi tion to dectie whether he should perform the marriage ceremony.
Mr Gaitskell said: "1 belleve the British people, as a whole, would deeply regret it if the United States were to start up tests again.
Express Views
**While President Eisen- He said most of the divorces
hower is here, I very much In Singapore were due to poly-
hope the British Government gamous tharriages, and ignorance of corlain conditions set down in
will express the same viewe these, be the Koran. Among
to him personally," he said. sold, was the ability of the man He was discussing reports that to "enre
and
provide equal the United States would bogin treatment for all the wives."- a new series of tests in Octo Reuter.
Costly IRA Campaign
Belfast, Aug. 12.
ber.
Or the proposed interchange of visits by the Russian and American leaders, Mr Gaitskeli taid: "I belleve these visits may diminish the mutual feurs and suspicions which so tro- quently obstruct the path to @greement."Reuter,
Northern Ireland Prison Beards
Lord Brookesborough, Prime the Minister of
suld today that the frish Repub- lean Army campaign, which started three years ago had cost about £3,000,000. In "security measures and damage."
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YESTERDAY's crosswORP—Across: 1 Pleats, 4 Lyric, 7. Tee-thing, 8 All-ow, 9 Teacup, 11 Emerged, 19 M-n-ser-o, 35 Joster, 18 Murol, 19 Assemble, 20 Sedge, 31 Yearly, Down: 1 Petit, 2 Aitle, 3 Slipper, 4 Log-ate, 5 Réd light, & Crowed, 10 Au-sorted, 12 Majesty, 13 Ma-M.B.-as, 14 Ablaze, 18 Sam-ba, 17 Teedy.
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HUGH GAITSKELL
Bull's Ear
Hollywood, Aug. 12. The following is a press release from Allied Artists: London, Aug. 12. Inmates of Dartmoor prison
"Elaine Edwards resumed a look like are beginning to
round of promotional activities beatniks.
in
the San Diego today for There had been neurly $00
They are growing beards to
premiere of Baltio Mane' and nets of aggression, he added in protest a ruling by prison
Surrender Helll' after a crowd a speech at Lisnaskea. County
authorities that until the cur- of 10,000 in Tijuana yesterday Fermanagh,
rent drought ends there will saw Heriberto Garcia, Mexivo's The aim of the IRA is to mud be no more showers and two youngest "matador, présent her bath with an ear of the till he had the partition of Ireland, China | men mus use the Fame Mall Special.
Just killed."-UPI.
water-UPI..
THREE ELEPHANTS TO TRY
HANNIBAL THEORY
Pariva, Italy, Aug.'12. ̧ Another three elephants are to walk over the Italian Alps next week in an attempt le prove that the Cartholinin General Hannibal invailed | Italy thenuals the Clopier Past and not as tradition has it' through the Bi Doriand Pass
Jumbo, Italian 200 elephant, failed to prove the point iri a herqle Alpine" expedition sponsored by British historian John. Hoyto a fortnight ago, Now three other elephants from .the Togal otheus-tenta, Tony and Cory-are to set off from Bergamo for Him in the
opposite direction from that taken by Jumba,
Refugee Year
Promises
TENSION MOUNTS
IN HAVANA Many Arrests Reported
Havana, Aug. 12.
INTERNAL political tension mounted today with unconfirmed reports of fighting in Las Villas Province and increasing signs that the anti- Government conspiracy has not been completely wiped out.
Events pointing up the
tense
these:
situation
of
Include
New Move
Las
Suspension
telephone communications with Villas Province by CoveLTI- ment order,
• Continued
arrests of per-
sons suspected of participation in the plot, with some es timates running as high as 3,000, including many in Tho
Interior of the Istund,
No Address
Premier
Fidol
Custro's
failure to appear last night
for a scheduled
nationwida
To Check
Singapore Gangsters
Singapore, Aug. 12.
radio-television address to A criminal procedura amond-
report on the Government's success in putting down the conspiracy.
Information from reliable sources that the conspiracy's masterminds escaped arrest, leaving the Government only the movement's figureheads andfor money men,
mont bill boing introduced In the Singapore Logisia- tivo Assembly tomorrow to increase judicial powers is regarded hora as 黼 move to check the wave of violence now sweeping the island,
today
Castro's apparent indeci Mr K. M. Byrne, the labour sion about his personal parand law minister, sald ticipation In the Foreign the Bill, apart from introducing Ministers' conference in San- longer periods of imprisonment tingo where friends say he is for offenders, would empower district judges and magistrates extremely anxious to appear. Furthermore, the
to order canlogs. uncon- Armed reports from Las Villas indicate the possibility of some lype of open clash between Castro's Government forces and unidentified rebels.
The number of participants in this clash is unknown, but JL in believed that there
are of
least several dead and wounded
as a result of it.
OTHER SECTIONS
Trin) by jury will be auto- matic only in the case of cap!- tol offences, Otherwise
all offenders will be tried only by 4 Judge, except when the Chief fore the High Court. Justice directs a jury trial be-
Other sections of the Bill
Figures Rise authorize, with certain safe-
guards, the admission of police
Reports piling Into Havana | evidence. indicate an almost unbelievable In the past thre weeks gang- number of arresta throughout the Island Informed sources in- dicate that early reports of more thegi. 1,000 arrested were
| far below Rojuality, The 1.000 gure probably applied to the Brot day roundup on Saturday in Flavana alone. In succeeding Cnys, the Havana figure prob ably has risen another 1,000 while reports from interior cities pleato at least another 1,000 dinitely plcfred up there and the total 15 stül rising rapidly. UPI.
New Oars
Christchurch, Aug. 12...
Geneva, Aug. 13, and Afghanistan
South
The Waltotura County Coun Korea today announced
cl gives its taxpayers fringe shoir active participation beneẞts.
in the United Nations- One of its taxpayers has to sponsored World Ro- row across a river to reach his The Council recently fugee Your plong with form.
gave him a brand new pair of have pro- öar, because his old ones had
countrica who
mired the scheme their worn out-UPI.
support.
Rubbish
Port Huron, Mich., Aug. 12. The city
of Port Huron is trying to find buyers for some of its property.
The announcement was made by letler the UN Secretary General, Mr Dag Hammarskjold. Of the one Asian countles Re- now partielpating in the fugee Year, at least three have already announced specific plans or have mode special contribu- tions in connection with it.
It stocked up with equipment VIETNAM PROMISE when it considered going into The Vietnam Government has the garbage collection business promised a contribution of $5,000 in 1951. But the project proved to UN refugee agencies, Malaya | too expensive and was dropped, has ven $1,000 to the office of und The city now wants to sell the UN High Commissioner for 9,000 garbage cans.--UPI, Refugees and $1,300 to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and the Ceylon Government has contri- buted $1,000 to the office of the UN High Commissioner.
Other steps taken by Asian countries on behalf of the Re fugee Year Include appeals for suprart broadcast by the Shah of Persia and President Chiang Kal-shek-Reuter.
Scooter Safari
sters have kaffed two men to death and put seven in hospital with stab wounds or beatings,
There have been several clashes between gongsters and palice in which two thugs have be shot dend and three woundedBeuter.
RARE BIRDS TORTURED
TO DEATH
Chicago, Aug. 13. Nino rare birds were found
tortured, stabbed and beaten to death in their noats today at Lincoln Park Zoo.
Zoo Director Marlin Perkins blamed "wanton, vicious killers ...with very sick minds."
Police began search for a 10-year-old boy and his friends who were arrested in September for sneaking into the zoo and
killing seven birds.
Perkins said the latest victims were stabbed with sharp Instru- ments and clubbed to death. Their wings, had been broken and their feathers plucked whlie they still were alive. ---UPI,
Ship's Mercy Dash To Brisbane
Brisbane, Aug, 13.
The 223-ton-Japanose- fishorios cruiser Shinyo Maru_roached Brisbane yester- day aftor a 600-milo morcy dash with two student fishermen suffering from apparent appendicitis.
London, Aug. 12.
Captain Justo Murnis said the Robin Bradshaw took a large cruiser was one of 10 ships black umbrella when he left hareshing about 300 miles west of on a 30,000-mile motor scooter New Caledonia journey to 34 African countries, when Yashuner: Kodama, aged on August D "It looks ridiculous but it
1D, wan irleken with appen- useful in will be tolly
dicitis, monsoon," Mr. Bradshaw, 12- year-old Oxford graduate, Bald
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near to Brisbane on the night of As The Shinyo Maru drew August 11 Kiyos! Sagara, aged 18, complained of appendicitis. too.
Nepal Protests To China
at a press conference.
During his "cooter safari"
Katmankiu, Aug. 12. ho plans to make A ecrica of
Nepal hos drawn Chino's at- decumentary films including one
Captain Murata said he had tention to alleged recent viola on apartheld in Capetown.
come to Brisbane rather than to tions of her northern border to be back Noumen He hopes
In Now Opledorsia with Tibet by. Chinese troops, London by Christmas 1000
bocque he had been in Brig the pewapapur Motherland re Africa and returning via West
bune before la 1957 and had c-porled today. Spain.
Jayed the city's "very kind" "I am especially intercalod hospitality.
This was the area in which
of
in the emergence of African A hospital spekteman said last some Tibetana, were reported to The manager of the circus con-
siders that the elephant being nationalian," said Mr Bradshaw might that the studcage codebe conducting a signature con-
gregarious animal, a throes who Hyed for five years in Lion was not serious and surgery palen omong Neppleng
They are Tibetan stock in the area claim- some more likely to tring South Africa where he went to was not necesary,
under, obarryalion, — ing that they ween Tibetans and off the long morch than on school in Plotermaritzburg both
Reuter.
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