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Comment SCOTTISH COAL MINE DISASTER

Of The

Day

DECLINE IN SOCCER

A

T

of

the onset of another

football season, the state

noccer in Hongkong la

large number of people.

They are tho fans who have

Rescue Work Podola

For 47 Men

Abandoned

Glasgow, Sept. 18.

causing grave concern to a Rescue workers admitted, defeat tonight and retreated from the "pure hell" of flames and fumes a mile down where 47 minors were doad or doomed. The burning "mine will be flooded.

seen the Colony drop from the leading ranks of Asian

soccer to place near the

bottom. Yet the clubs appear

to be oblivious to the de-

being done to put Hongkong:

time and vertainly little is Rescue work was abandoned late tonight when fire damp, the dread coal gas which asphyxiates quickly and explodes easily, was encountered by rescue teams,

back among the foremost ranka.

The recent

showing of the

local team in the Merdeka.

Cup, particularly the Sep- tember & match against

Malaya waa, according to}

agency reports, 14 discreditable

press

particularly encounter. One report said, the match "appeared to be clearly a alago managed game," People Overseas) cannot be expected to watch: football like this. Nor can Hongkong expect touring teams to consider it worth: their while to play against) the kind of players

chosen

to

represent

now the

Colony.

EASONS for the decline?!

are probably

R There

Football Association would! do well to conduct a search- Ing, impartial Inquiry into

ACCUSED OF

HACKING

SONS TO

DEATH

In

The 47 men were trapped a thousand feet down Auchengeich Mine.

Accused

Of Being

A Faker

London, Sept. 18.

today ac- psychiatrist cused Gunther Podola charged with the murder of a policeman, of faking amnesia.

that ho mas amnesia he might avoid being tried for the murder

Det. Sergeant Raymond

11 Podola succeeds in proving

gr

Purdy.

Dr Denis Lagh said he had examined Podola ten times.

He sik Podoln was faking it, so well amnesia and faking

four other Seven men were brought to that he had fooled the nurface in 16 hours of herole | psychiatrists, Dr Leigh teall- rereve attempts. One of themed he, Icund Podola extremely was'dend.

Attempts were made earlier to bring the men up from the gallery 000 foot down by pit- trucks but the official who be gan working the hout quickly lost consciousness, suffocaled by smoke.

The Are was under control at the spot where it broke out and hre fighting efforts continued in other gollerfer, na oficial com- mmuniqué sula tonight.,

Sydney, Sept. 18.

communique many but the Hongkong Reginald Johnson, 37, a farm. The

added: hand, caused his two sons to "About 47 men are stil unne- chaft bars before counted for and it is feared that stand in chopping them to death with a heavy loss of life

The Minister of a fomahawk, palles alleged in expected."

Gunnedah court today. Puble Works has

the decline of. Honkong soccer and to make recom-[ mendations aimed at ru- establishing the

must be

* DANTELANDES of the

I was further alleged that he that a public inquiry then set fire to the bag shrouded causes of the fire will be opened. lost supremacy. This inquiry, boules in a. five toot grave after-UPI and AFP.

Colony

covering them with clothing

should begin immediately and pieces of wood. because the longer the Johnson was remanded Volil decline is allowed to con- October 14 on charges of having tinue the worse the game feloniously and maliciously slath and sons Glen, 11, will get and the lower our his two

Garry, V, at Hangarl Station, 22 prestige will sink.

Gunnedah on Sep- The thoroughness with which miles from

tember 12-China Mail Special. an Investigation is con- ducted will determine how effective the reforms will be.i

One of the most important 100 Years Gaol

requirements scems to be a first-class coach, Uniens

The

Franciscans

Lose Jobs

Singapore, Sept. 18. Singapore Government

has terminated the services of eight Franciscan alsters`at Government leper settlement. The Health Sydney, Sept. 18.

Ministry sald. this David Joseph Scanlon, 20, was was in line with the Govern the bold action we urge is today sentenced to a total of ment's economy programme.-** taken, not only will our more than 100 years imprison Reuter.. reputation suffer oversessment on 18 charges but the local game will cease offences

Involving

ogolnst women ancl

3

57 Bodies Recovered Mr K Tells UN

From House Collapse

}

Barletta, Sept. IB.

Fifly seven bodies have up to now been recovered from

the debris of an apartment bulding which collapsed' on

Wednesday morning.

Fifteen more victims are feared x2l!) mizzing.

Kain has hampered resotto operations.

The authorities today located and placed under arrest the contractor responsible for the structure. The engineer who drew up the piana wis arrested yesterday.

The building was new. It ilterally disintegrated. Not one piece of the structural 'pre-stremed concreto has been recovered.

An official government inquiry is under way and the question of the dienster will be considered by the Italian Beaste-AFF”.

Macmillan

Of

Speaks The Risk Are Running

We Are

London, Sept. 18.

intelligent and perfectly capable The Prime Ministar Mr Harold Macmillan

of concentration.

INTELLIGENT

declared that The doctor under examination Podola was able to subtract seven ac- curately from Agures ranging all the way from hundred down to seven. This the doc- tor tugrested would tend 10 prove that the accused was on intelligent fake,

The close of the hearing was maited by the dramatie inter- ention of Podola's counsel. He said new information worthy of ensideration had been received 110m a witness but refused to

clobocath.

The present sauc is to decide whether, or a Podola is it to plead.

said today the Conservative party is running one risk in the next elections that of being too satisfied with itself.

The Premier was addressing u campaign meeting in Bromley, Kent, which he has represented for 14 years.

The Premier såld “Lei us bei confident but not complacent. If

the British Government In, to le

arined with the authority. It needs in these critical years let

the verdict be clear, utumbleu our,, overwhelming",

Undermine

Javelins For Hongkong?

His Proposals

For Disarmament

United Nations, Sept. 18.

Mr Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Prime Minister, proposed to the United Nations General Assembly today that all countries should disarm themselves completely within four years.

He summed up his proposal:

© All Inndurries, navles and air forces should cease to exist;

⚫ General stalfe and war ministries be abolished;

MUitary educational „täblishments, cloned

a

Foreign milltary

abbitshed:

The Soviet leader referring to the work of the United Nations itself insisted that the principle of velo in the Security Council must be maintained. He wald: "There are those who come out c3-against the veto. But if there is no velo there will be no intere national organisation, It will full apart,"

United

bases

4 Nuclear bombs destroyed and their further production

tonibited.

NO. GUARANTEE Mr Khrushchev, making his cogurly-awaited speech to General Assembly, declared that

the

Britain, France, the States, the Soviet Union and Chi, os the five great power founders of the organisation have the right of voto in tho 11-member Security Council..

NOT NEW

'zo long

as there existed wen- pong and so long as young men Tator Mr- Christian HETICE, were taught to wage war and the United Statca, Socretary of gericial staffs were working out | State, told reporters the dis- military operations, there was armament plan offèred to the To guarantee of peace.

| General Assembly today by Mr All international problems Nikita Khrushchev was not a would then be resolved not by new proposal. peaceful means but by force of arms, he said.

First feeling in diplomatie The.delegules of the 81 mem- quarters in London about the "No notification hps

bero of the United Nations at- dirmament been

speech by Mr here

that Glorter dending the session maintained Khrushchev, was one of disap- received Javelin jet fighters are to be ictal silenec while Mrpointment at the apparent lack

of practical proposals in it. based in Hongkong."

a Royal Khrushchev spoke. Air Force speicamus said his

morning.

He added that although it had been officially stated that Singapore's air defences

- Mir Macmillan attacked the Labour Party which he describ ed as "inoculated with the fatal poison of Marxist socialism." If

to power to be Monday, defence, wit. Labour wore elected ressca will be called to the he said "It will undermine by any means it can the rock of national, unity."

On

stand,-AFP.

LAOS GETS

I

VIETMINH

PRISONERS

Vientiane, Sept. 19, The Royal Laotian Govern- ment plans to turn over seven Vietnamese prisoners next week to the UN " fact-finding team,

Affairs Col. Ouaone Sapanikono said today,

Scanlon had pleaded guilty to The Golden Ram the Secretary of State for Social

to attract the blg following girls.. it has built up in recent years, Hongkong fans de the charges on September 7,

Police had testified that Scan- mand

a far brighter and higher standard of soccer lon admitted he was the "Kinge who had ter- this coming season. The rove Slasher"

rorised women in Kingsgrove Football Association and and other Sydney suburbs for the Individun! clubs must three

Mall years, China Special. ensure it.

SEC

THE NEW......

'SUPER SIX REFRIGERATOR

SAC

He declared that after eight years of Conservative Govern- ment the social differences and divisions between rich and poor had almost disappeared in Bri- toin.

were

modernised with the introduction of the Javelin fighters, nothing had been said about. Hongkong.

The Colony's présent air de fonces consist of a squadron of Venom fighter-bombers based at Kai Tak (No. 28 Squadron).

As for as replacements go, the spokerman suld, "One car "There is now full employ-expect that the RAF squadron men, prices have been stable at Kal Tak will be re-equipped for some 10 months and at the as far as the overall modernise- tien policy of the Air Ministry

same time spending on social welfare has increased", Mr Moc- mitilan said,

"These material benefits", he our added, "must not become masters. They must remain our servants."

dictates,"

Little Rock

Man Gaoled

Mr.Khrushchev, cald - If the western powers did not manifcat

Far's Foreign Oftee ofelais said in private conversation they considered the Khrushchev sug gestion as a clever propaganda

move"

in-

their willingness for complete and general disarmament, Soviet Union was prepared to

At the same time they thought. negotiate with states a partial Dreement.

that while it was not intend to be PROPOSALS

taken literally, the Khrushchev In such a case he made these suggestion might be the Soviet proposals:

leader's very personal way Creation of a zone of dicating his general willingness control

and inspections with a to reach understanding and en- reduction of foreign troops insure peaceful coexistence be- Western Europe.

tween East and Wesl The creation of an atom

Moscow radio, in a home cat- free zone in central Europe.

vleo broadcast tonight described Withdrawal of all forelanMr Khrushchev's U.N. speech as troops and liquidation of bases. remarkable and wonderful am tween the Nato states and the

A non-aggresalon past be- Reuter.

Warsaw Pact nations,

✪ An aggreement on ques- Lon of surprise attacks.

The Savici Prime Minister, Four MP3

nking his first-ever appearance

at the United Nations Assembly Made Peers

In a history-making. 0,000-word

speech also called for the seat-

ing of the Peking Government,

Main Duty Speaking of underdeveloped nations, the Prime Minister sald,

London, Sept. 18. Sanantkone, who also is the there are Melbourne, Sept. 18.

hot now two

Little Rock, Sept. 18.

Mr Khrushchev appealed to Mr Hebert Morrian, formor Princess Alexandra was pro-government Halon officer with

nations in Britain there are,

A maximum Ove-year prison the United Nations to ald the Labour Foreign Minister, was sented with a solid gold model the fuel-Anders, said he under-alas, two classes of nations in term was, today, handed down Industrially under developed among four members of Parlio- of a ram when she visited sheopstood all seven prisoners were the world the rich and the; on

truck driver J. D. Sims nailons and he pledged the Se- ment elevated to the рестако exhibits after opening the Mel-deserters and were not captured.

poor, However, he added that he

found gulity of attempting, viet Union's co-operation in this when Queen Elizabeth dissolved bourne Royal Agricultural Show did not know whether they de- strength, Britain through over-School Commission premises of

With her new economic to blow up the 'Little Rock | cconomie assistance,

Parliament today.—UPI. today, Reuter,

serted their upita while in North

ren investment could play her September 7. Vietnam or while on Laos terri-

part in raising standards in the tory--UPI..

underdeveloped countries. Her Judge William Kirby handed main duty, of course, is the out the maximum penalty after Commonwealth''.---AFF.

hearing Sims explain that he

Clash Over Chapel|

Warsaw, Sept: 15. Police using 10ar gas clashed with patients at the sanatorium of Otwock, a small town about 19 miles south east of Warsaw. it was learned today.

1 broke out after workmen arrived to begin removing the sanatorium's Cotholle chapel, to another alte In the hospital grounds—AFP.

Nigeria's Fear

London, Sept. 18. Britain's leading atomic physicist, Sir William Porney, as assured Nigeria that it has nothing to four from French atomic tests in the Sahara, was reliably reported here to dayAFF,

Typhoon's Toll

Seoul, Sept. 19.

35,

did not want his daughter to

go to school with niggeTS.----AFP,

London, Sept. 18.

Terry Gorgon, 14, ron sivay from home, leaving this noth South Korean police tonight to his parents: "Don't call the reported that typhoon Sarahi pollco. I'll be the first man which swept acrosa South Korea on the moon,“ on Thursday had killed 740 people. About 500 people were missing --Reuter,

Police found Terry about 45 miles from home, 238,857 mliet short of his destination.--UPI.

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