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HELPING WITH

HOUSING

Magistrate's Pledge

To Help Police

Wipe Out Gangsters

QUALLY employed - Five young Triad Society men were given

ple will chat enviutal

glances at the Hongkong!

and

Shanghai Hank's em-i ployees who are to benefit

by the building of 188 flats For there nt Smithfield. nats

ure to accommodate people like shroffs,! engineers, office boys mal colles, peuple who

Would

otherwise be forced to live

in

xumé

of the Caluoy'a¦ .

musi squalid und over-i

crowded tenements -- and

pay

maximum sentences of two years' gaol cach this morning for forcing Wanchai dance hostessas to work in Kowloon Walled City brothels.

And Central Magistrate, Mr I. T. Morris said in sentencing them that that Courts would give the Police all the support they could in their efforts to wipe out Triad gangsterism in Hong- kong.

Mr Morris mid I was clear

through the now for that these men, all of whom had shocking rourds, had made a The hippost grundle of the sumptuous form of Uving frum sufferbus of women who middle to lower level wage the

trapped, not just that! have probably been

Proup

is

salaries are deplorably low: seduced to a form of slavery. and unfairly tied to a loenli

Suffering

of this "Men

rent. right and

type cause nd it is only that they, too,

luxury standard of Hving, but that often up tej great affering half

taken

in

Government's luently, when brought before the court employed people seem to dark also suffer," have found an attractive]

Mr Morts sath that if there

way out through the idea were any depths lower to which

of the building co-operative and wonce could sint it

- which there are now

123 in existence.

what

Win they were

The Prosecution

difficult

to know

revealed

In addition many big firmsį story of beastliness and degrada

have Kone in for

Brom- tion which was a shume to any ferr local em- civile community, he rald, modation

"These men and others like ployees. The big utilities. who are also the biggest them think only of how to en- themselves as quickly as labour, rich

Lele pessible at the expense of thear

employers

Jike the

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fram

unfortimate women over whom

Boy Gives Frogmen A 'Test'

Southampton, Aug. 17.

A search by frogmen of the

bed of the River Itchen here for Lady Docker's £150,000 stolen jewels produced one gold- coloured cheap ring.

As it was being handed over to detectives for "expert exam- Inution", a small boy owner ap that he had thrown the ring in "to see if they could and "

Royal

Nayal Lieutenant search, commented: "It's very their to a pitiable state of terror. satisfactory that such

They are real-life hoodlums object should be found."

undoubtedly at the Hours of detailed search also rout of most of the evil that now produced one plece at corruded Com an idea affects the Colony," Mr Morris Jewellery described by experts

small

phone,, electrie, ferry and they agereign a cruel and bruto) Michael Whatley, leading the bus companies have set af authority often reducing them good example with various projects, Hongkong neede more employers like who me this.

I'

in not of

that contemplate.

firms can Expense Is an important consideration, excess of Lou money in

sald.

Support

Mir Morris concluded that the our would give the police all

it could ins the support

their

were un-1

$70 millions has been pant endeavours to kill the activities out by Government to org ters who

Be "junk"

The

to jewels, belonging wealthy British Industrialist Str Bernard Docker and his wife, were stolen from their Holls- Boyce motor cur in Senthamples earlier this year.

A £15,000 rward រំ

finance its comperatives doubtedly levying forge and been offered for information

rent

continuous sums of money from women of a certain class.

the ideal arrangement for local employees who pay

Alr Morris then sentenced the luck Ueir expital nud in:

form of earthed to two years in terest in Lite

prisonment each and placed monthly

and then them under polles supervision ultimately become owners for two years following their of the fints they reside in. sentence, Some of the bigger Hongkong The five accused, arrested on firms running superannua- Wednesday and Thursday lust, schemes were ing Yiu-wing, 21, Chun tion and pensiun

ter Pion 22, Chiu Yay-lung, 22, however, employees, could use these funds for To Kam-chen, 21, and Lam housing. Additionally bank Ming-shan.

for

34. They hud

los may be possible. And pleaded guilty to being e- thu

bers of various triad societies

unlimited almost capabilities of the proposed Development

might also be

at a previous hearing,

Defective Sub-Inspector R, Corporation G. Laurel prosecuted, stretched tu

include this kind of venture, TTERE are ways in which

H

Dalai Lama Invited To Pl

Manila, Aug. 17. The Dalai Lama has licen invited to come to Marsin thum

employera enn help ease!

housing the Colony's problem in addition to re- worst one of the moving inequities under which the majority of their employeen tis home in exile in Mussoorie, live. The Colony, has had india, on August 31 to receive much experience in recent the 1959

building

years

hot the theft. Police recently

received an "underworld” tip

sif that two man had been heard planning to recover the jewels from the river. China Ma[ Special.

Police Disperse Demonstration By Africans

Submarine

Service Starts September-215 For Reservationg, Phone 37031 PAN AMERICAN

Sunspots

Cause

Radio

Grantham Tours London Threat Exposed Black-Out

'Squatter Settlement'

Sir Alexander Grantham, former governor of Hongkong is seen touring the miniature "squatter settlement" at St Martins in the Fields Church fore- court with the Rev. Kenneth Slack. The settlement was constructed as a World Refugee Year exhibit.— (The Times Photograph).

Laotian Troops Reoccupying

Border Outposts

Vientiane, Aug. 17.

Laotian Government troops are reoccupying de

London, Aug. 18. atmospheric

storm caused by sunspot radia- tion is interfering with world radio communica tions, especially across the Atlantic, it was dis closed today.

An Washington, Aug. 17. Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of the United States Naval Operations, declared to- day that the Soviet Union probably possessed submarinos capable of launch- ing ballistic missiles.

Asked at a press conference whether Russian

Tho British Broadcasting Corporation said early today

that a period of disturbed co- submarines were able to fire only the slow, air ception conditions began at mid. breathing missiles or the swift high pro-day on Sunday. Reception from jectory ballistic ones, he replied: "I think was particularly affected

they probably have both."

He said the Russian had been doing a great deal of work In the submarine and missile fields. He would not, however, By how many ballistie minile launching submarines he be- iloved

the Sovlet Unlon possessed

Until now, offeinls have said that Soviet submarines were probably only capable of firing alr breathing mislites.

ter

Counter Weapon

URANIUM FOUND IN SCOTLAND

rest

but

KRAL

the west across the Atlantic

reception from the also affected to a lesser degree. Reception from the west wELS almost completely blacked out for a period during late Sonday evening and night, and inter- ference had continued yestër- day, but since yesterday even- Ing had "Improved a little."

A spokesman said he could not forecast how long the storm. might last.

Cable and Wireless sald there had been secious interference with communications on Sunday night and Monday morning, but There is no known U.5. coun-

conditions had now improved. weapon capable of inter-

Kirkcudbright, Scotland,

Transmission of messages wero Aug. 17. cepting ballistic missiles, though

delayed becauso the cable system A geologist of the Atomic was used for a heavy volume of the United States is working on the problem.

Energy division of the raffle which would normally Admiral Burke suid air Geological Survey confirmed to-haye been radlord-Reuter, breathing missiles could be fired night that uranium had been only from the surface, while discovered on the Scottish consi ballistic missiles

Firin near be of the Solway

could

launched from submerged sub-Sandyhills, Kirkcudbrightshire. Bouncing Radio

marines

The United States is stiti in

"We have found sumclent in-

the process of building the first dication of uranium to warrant Waves Off Venus

of its submarines capable of further search," he suld. Copper and lead have been mined in the past.

launching the Polaris ballistic missile.

the

The Admiral said he believed Russians were building some atomle-propelled marines,

U.S. ́Building"

su

Dublin, Aug. 17, An attempt to bounce, raulo waves off the planet Vedus, near- The pranium has been found by 50,000,000 miles away, will be on land belonging to Mr Oliver inde som by British scientists, tonight Professor A.Ç.B, Loveli, Direc- Haolam, 60, who said "It is very exciting, bul-ai tikai to ap tim, gând esłodrail Bank singe -do not know what the Telescopo near Manchester, wald Government intend to do about here today, 1.

Admiral Burke' was asket why, if the Soviet Union was progressing so fast in submarine design, the Navy was putting. Sandyhills is Д popular more emphasis in its new bad bathing resort-Reuter, get in the need for a new als.

than craft carrier rather anti-submarinê cruft.

He replied that there was al- ways the possibility of local, Ilmilled aggression, and carrier. based planes should be needed to counteract this.-Reuter.

serted outposts in the region of recent fighting Boeing 707s

near the frontier of North Vietnam, where the lull continues, according to military sources. Omcialy returning from. It back to Lany move which norin-eastern provinces say the Laotian Government strong- there have been sporadic

inly opposer,

U.S. MAY HELP cidents but no major vicounter in the past fortnight,

Meanwhile In Washington The Committe for the Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chlef of U.S. Nuval operations, solu Interests, Defente of National

the U.S. Kampala, Aug. 17, formed of young

government today It was possible milliary

Is Navy might be drawn into the leaders, Police carrying shields and ond batons broke up

dearganising 4

anti Communist Leotian conflict, monstration by 1,000 Africans rellies throughout the country.

boycotting the city's bus The latest was at Sayaburi, in Navy would play, however.

services here today.

North Laos, altended by. 2,000,

He did not say what part the

Admiral Burke discussed the

The demonstration was people, according to press re¦ Latlan situation briefly with sparked when trafe police ports. swept on illegal taxis using the

bus park.

DELEGATION

Officials of the Ministry of In- formation would not comment un reports circulating here that the delegation may discuss the Los border troubles.

Prospective toxi travellers

Anancial A

and Laotion the police and surrounded started throwing stones.

economic delegation headed by A riot sound was

called in the Minister of Finance, Mr No Thao Leuam, left Vientiane for Karma Magsaysay and dispersed the crowd.

Cambodia today for talks on a mass award for community icaderone was injured. One African

transitional ecor.omic and housing. The

was arrested for assaulting the Housing ship. But it is not known yel

Arianelal agreement. will accept.--Reu- | police.—AFT. and whether he Authority's estates thonu of the

Housing Society provide the better examples of the kind of accommodation needed for lower-wage level groups. Senior staff require decent- alzed Western type flats of the kind going up all over Government the Colony. coul be specially helpful to employers proposing to em bark on schemes of thla kind -by making Inud Available on .favourable

terms.

The good work begun by Government and the big

a fushion which is growing,)

German General On Trial For Soldier's Death

Dusseldorf, Aug. 17.

Former German Panza commander General Hasso Von Manteuffel, went on trial here today charged with manslaughter in ordering a soldier exécuted for cowardice.

firms of Hongkong has set The soldier and another ware

Gen. Manteuffel recognized the acquittal of the first soldier. but unfortunately not fast tried for cowardice on January

12, 1944, by a Wehrmacht couri The prosecution charged that

sequitted the

Director,

court martial

According to press reports the Cambodian Premier, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, belleved the best way to tackle the situation would be

the to reassemble three-member commission set up under the Indo-China censo- Are agreement of 1954, and send

Was

newsmen just before he sworn for a third term as the top U.S. Naval Officer.

Laotian He described the situation as "very serious," and made it clear he thought the Chinese Communists were stir- ring up the trouble by "pushing pretty hard."

Held Up By Breakdowns

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New York, Aug. 17. Two London flights of Boe- ing 707 jets have been delayed at New York in the last 24 hours by minor electrical trouble, a Pan-American Airways spokesman said here to day.

for return

A third plane bound Buenos Aires had to because of hydraulle trouble.

Menntime a team of 32 special investigators of the Civil AcrO- nauties Board at Calverton, Long island, was seeking the cause of an. American airlines Boeing 707 crash on Saturday in which the crew of five were killed.

A Boeing 707 which took off Asked if the Navy might be from Sydney, Australia, for the called into action in the Laotian United States yesterday had to arca, Burke said, "It might's land at Brisbane on three ch- possible."

gines with 73 possetigers and 15 When reporters asked him crew aboard when one, engine what the Navy could do to help failed.

which is land-locked, The Boeing 707 is the biggest Lacs, Admiral Burke replied, "what purely jet passenger plane in Ever is necessary presumably, if use. It was first put into opern- after tion Jost October but

Ctyll the United States thought the

American minor incidents the U.S. situation required

Navy. Aviation Board recently ordered mlitary support, the would send a task force to the an Inspection of all planes In

service.Reuter. area. Reuter and UPI.

$2,000 Bail For Alleged

Theft Of Toilet Paper

·

A man charged with stealing 15 pieces]

Mr Smart asked the magistrate why

onough. Salary increases for martial. The court local stuff on the lines of one soldier but the second was Rudolf Albrecht, warned these proposed by the Gov-sentenced to two years impri- Montcuffel that he had no right orament Salaries Commis-sonment,

to replace the court's decision sion aro needed. But The next day. General Man- with a death sentence.

Mantouffe did not heed the um-touffel, who was at that time or these would benefit

the eastern front with his 7th warning and had the sofdler of tollet paper from another man's pocket, it was necessary to fix auch a high ball. ployees lass than to have! tank division, heard of the shot to make the execution an was today put on $2,000 bail by Kowloon!! Mr Rhodes replied that they might the assurance of n

court's Judgment and overruled example to the rest of the Magistrate, Mr B. V. Ithodes. over their heads, at it, allegedly ordering the im- division, it was, alleged, rental whisli

The man Au Young-kwok of 966 Can-have been $100 banknotes. would at prisoned soldier shot by a Bring Tesfying today. Manteuffel leave them enough to live squad. The order was carried said he acted "out of military ton Road was represented by Mr 3. N.

Smart of Wilkinson and Grist. a decent and, happy, life,

necerally."-UPL

runf

out.

Au was remanded seven days. No plea was taken,

Professor Lovell, arriving for a holiday, said the attempt would probably be modo next month- Reuter,

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