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MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1959.

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MAKING THE FIFTH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

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Lunik III

Of The ANOTHER SQUATTER FIRE Signals

Day

LITTLE TIME

LEFT

The British elector

NIME la running out for

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or.

whether it will ebb Jow for the Conservatives or the Socialists remains to be seen for opinion polls certainly can't ket 0:1 answer from that doubtful- "don't know" person avho now holds the key to the out- i come of the election.

Heat generated In the campaign over the last week by charges and counter- charges

Seventy-Six Homeless, 12 Huts Destroyed

Seventy-six people were made homeless

this morning when about 12 huts were razed to the ground in a squatter fire that broke out near Chun Fai Terrace, half way up the slope in Tai Hang. This makes the fifth squatter fire within 24 hours.

bus been almost ELEPHANT

Bavage and the promises of 110 mud-slinging matic carlier on appear to have gone by the board as elec- tion day approaches.

Both parties lay claim

tn having the best chance of breasting the summit; Suez, Central Afrien, Hola and other bait have been drawn across the path to Westminster and

now

Labour is trying its best to make the most of the Jasper affair.

A

Confusion

LL this has caused con- fusion. In the minda of the "don't knows." But there is no denying the fact that Britain's prosperity is rising and her output and stabilty internationally and at home has nover been better. This ровев two questions?

or

Will the Tories maintain

even increase this position 7 There is no reason to doubt it. On the other hand, If Labour should win will the present prosperity continue The Tories claim that if Labour tries to carry out all their election promises they will upset this stabil-

ity.

L

Inducements

ABOUR has offered two monetary inducements in their efforta to sway the voter. The first in the offer to remove purchase tax off clothes, furniture and many household goods which will cost about £100 million The other is an a year. offer of 10s to each old-age for his vote pensioner which in the end would cost another £200 million.

states Industry

it

BREAKS

İNTO CHURCH

Milan, Oct. 5. Women screamed and faint- ed across the pews when a five-ton female clephant broke into a city church during mass here yester- dny.

Mary, the elreus

wis

elephant,

the

being led through streets to an animal-blessing ceremony marking the Feast or Saint Francis, Patron Saint of animals, when the noise of car brakes frightened her.

She snappet her shackles, 4 bolted into the courtyard of

then crashed nearby church,

her head and shoulders through the central door behind the congregation kneeling in prayer, As panic gripped the 200 worshippers-including a group from a neighbouring old ladies hero-the

D.m

No casualties wore reported. The fire storied at about 10

Most of the inheblunts, Dig breeders, were out at work at the time.

Hundreds of neighbours, met and women fought the blaze with buckelo # water taken From the eight wells and serves in the vicinity.

re-

When fire engines arrived, wther had to be relayed from the top of a hill downwards as

Aromen continued the struggle in a mest difficult position, play hoses on the fire..

다

Meanwhile walkie talkir

patrols kept contact with the rest of the Fire Brigade squad on top of the hil

The fire was brought under control at 10.45 n., Remnants of stoves and burnt out debris were silli smouldering st 11 am be registered with the Sociati Welfare Department later this morning.

The victims are expected to

Junk On Fire

A large junk, laden with fire- wood, caught fire in the harbour eff Connaught Road West, near Eastern Street, at about 10.40 a.m. today.

The fire,

which lasted about ten minutes, destroyed a large

the firewood

and - animal's trainer, quantity of

damaged the junk. No one was hurt.

Lugl Zoppe, jabbed a spike in- to

Mary's hind fool which brought her backing out again, 'STATE OF NERVES'

Then Mary took refuge in the corner of the churchyard and re- fused to budge all afternoon, ignoring seductive offers of bananaa, carrols and

apples from her trainer.

While tundreds of people and poilce cathered outside diverted frame from the area, a veterinary surgeon was called and diagnosed an "acule state of

Nerves,

"It's useless trying to force

her," Zoppe, near tears, told the Impatient poilee. "You must wali until she calms down."

UK Has

Long, Dry Summer

London, Oct. 4.

A scene from the fire which broke out in a squatter arca near Chun

Fai Terrace, Tai Hang, this morning. Firemen are seen joining up hoses in order to reach the burning huts, thirty of which were destroyed.-China Mafl Photo..

CAR HAD DIFFICULTY

REVERSING

U.S. Pilot On Driving Charge

The trial of Captain G. Fly, 49, a Pan American Airways pilot, who is charged with driving under the influence of

NO Agreement Yet On Summit Talks

White House Reply To Macmillan's Remarks

Palm Springs, Oct. 4.

drink or drugs, began be- President Eisenhower's holiday headquarters here fore Mr E. Corbally at announced today that there had been no Central Magistracy this agreement yet to hold a summit conference. morning.

Chief Inspector N. Reynolds festined that at about 5 p.m. on British clocks went back to September 20, he was coming winter time today but the cut from Big Wave Bay when weather continued unseason- he saw that definitant's car was ably warm and sunny,

[ having, difficulty in reversing Motorists flocked to coast re-from a parking space.

advantage of the

At 7 p.m. Mary suddenly de-sorta to take cided she was bored, left her late summer. comer and crashed back into

A Royal Automobile Club "Its just like midsummuner. Everything on wheels gems to be out for a last fight to the seaside."

How will it finance this the church through the main

outlay The Labour Party door which had been temporarily patrolman said:

will expand patched up.

She walked down the centrul and the yield from industry would pay aisle, paused for a moment be- fore the altar, then wandered for everything so there into the sacristy and out into fore there is no necessity le cloister of an adjoining con- to increase taxation.

It is asking the electorate a

vent.

Circus

hauds finally

cor- £9

lot to accept this and the nered her in a side street

will Labour Party

un- she left the convent garden doubtedly find itself under after nightfall-Keuter.

increasing pressure for a

fuller explanation.

Home Stretch

HE two parties enter the

Thonte stretch today with

all the indications pointing

Warm, Dry Weather

to a close finish. If La- To Continue

bour's pledges have apeared to lack realism, the Tories' campaign has been defen- sive and lacked punch.... -And Mr Hagerty's announce

ment yesterday

The present warm dry weather is expected to last at least another two days, a spoktav man for the.Royal Observa- tory said this morning., Yesterday's range of tempera. ture was 11.2 degrees, Early

At 2 pm. in London the tem-

Defendant then drove off up Big Wave Bay Road.

Inspector Reynolds followed in his car.

SWERVE

Inspector Reynolds said he

PEKING TALKS

Mao And K May Differ

On Views

- BY A SPECIAL

CORRESPONDENT

Go Dead

London, Oct. 5. Scientista of bolh Jodrell Bank manning Britain's glant radio telescope, and of Bochum, the West Ger man observatory, report ed that after tracking and monitoring Russia's latest lunar. rocket for. 20 minutes the signals be came intermittent and then suddenly ceased.

A Jodrell Bank spokesman [said the sigrmia which were coming in strong, suddenly dis- Tokyo, Oct. 5.

as if they had been uppeared Western observers specu-switched off. The signals were Inted today that Soviet picked up only minutes after a Premier Nikita Khrush-telegram had reached Jodrell chey and Chinese Chair-Bank from Moscow giving detalls

of the rocket's position. man Mao Tse-tung drew a

DIFFERED tight cloak of secrecy

around their conferences The spokesman, Dr J.G. Davies, in Peking to conceal and the signals from the pre- wide gulf in their views sent rocket differed from pre- vious ones. They were two-tone on world peace,

with half second intervals.

Secrecy is by no meaze un- usual

when Communist chlet talna meet, but such talks are normally followed almost im- mediately by a communiquc giving at least what was discussed.

Dr Davies wald the present probe was apparently closer to the American paddlewheel type then earlier Soviet attempts.

an inkling of "It is ther amazing that they have succeeded in Bend- another so soon after

This has not been the case ing up with the recent Mao-Khrush- | their, last rocket to the moon. chev talks, although the two on September 12," he added.

four Communist leaders met

Umes between September 30

and October 3.

They spent almost the entire

THREE POSSIBILITIES

Soviet scientists said the fafo

day on Friday October 2 in of the latest rocket depended on what appeared to be down-to three possibilites:

earth tough, working sessions.

COMMUNIQUE

-} ● Mf all goas - as planned, it will Bwing around the lunar surface liko car carcording

enter an

.

,

It was possible that a com- around a curve and munique would be issuins orbit skirting the earth as well soon as Mr Khrushchev return is the moon, ed to Moscow. He left Peking on Sunday morning, stepped off in Vladivostok

art

WELF scheduled to fly directly on to space. Moscow in

TU-114 a special plane.

It was

apparent that

● It could shoot on out of control part the moon into outen

It could stall, fall to make the curve around the moon and Mri plunge back-to-burn like a carth's atmos-

Khrushchev, fresh from his 13-matcor in the day tour of the United Sintes,phere.

spent most of his time les Peking

trying to persuade Mno to back

NEVER SEEN

his publicly proclaimed "peace- But the scientists said if thole ful" approach to world prob-calculations were correct, the loms.

Tunik 'should pass the far side of the moon, never seen by man,

.

Ιπ three public sporches at the relatively close distancs during his five-day stay in the of 6,000 miles, then go into a

cigar-shaped orbit

that Chinese capital he hammered Euge away persistently at the themes would bring 1 tb ; within 1,242 of peaceful coexistence and miles of earth. competition and the sheer folly

A spokesman said it would be of war.

48 hours before they knew' **» Mr James Hagerty, the White As for a general agreement by

There was Hitle doubt at factly what would happen to the House pren souretary, arkled to Russia and the West on the reporters at a press conference location of a summit, Mr Hagerty whom Mr Khrushchev was almrocket.

ing his remarks. His Chines here: "And there will not be said, "I don't think it has reached

The planned orbit should taice until we hear from our Allies." that point." Mr Khrushchev said hools are currently embroiled in

strile pubifoly after his conferences border

with India, slightly more than three days, officials Mr Hogerty had been asked with Mr Eisenhower that another mopping-up operations in Tibet Moscowy planeturium by a reporter about remarks meeting in Geneva might be and probably some.

Jogistical sold. yesterday by the British Prime prefixable, but Mr Hagerty to support in the rebellion in Laos. Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan, day took that to have been an UPI. who had been reported as say "offhand remark.". ing he thought all was dear for summit meeling, and adding: "It seems to be mot except for the time and place--and whe will represent Britain."

sow Fly's car swerve along the Mr Hagerty comphasised in bi road, and on various occasions reply that he was speaking only the car was seen to pass over

for the United States Govern,

for Britala, the centre white Ene.

ment, and not France or, the Soviet Union.".

́ ́NO AGREEMENT

REPORTS

Following the Camp David talles last weekend/- Mr Elsen- hower sent a series of reports diegussions with Mr on his Khrushchev, to Mr Macmilla General Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor, German West Konrad Adenauer. »

Meantime, the White House viewed witli closed interest re- ports from Russia on the Soviet be The US. position, said, natipuhtement of the successful was that at present there was launching of a space station into no agreement to hold a summit orbit dear, the moon. conference, pending agreemant Western the principal

perature was 72 degrees Fahren het compared with an average afternoon maximum for October of €1.

Ja, northwest England, tem-

Captain Fly, of 5 Stanley peratures of 75 and 6 were re-. Beach Rend, is alleged to have ported..

driven car No. XX0033 while Gruse Ares flared in the con- under the influence of drink or Uning dry weather Yester-drugs to such an extent as to be day in the county of Essex, near inerpable of having proper con- London, firemen answered 300 trol of the vehicle on Island calls 230 of them to grass Road near the Junction of Shek fires.---Chino Mail Special. O Road.

Fly, who is on $500 ball, Alfiles. pleaded not guilty.

Over £1 Million

Damage In

A.V. Roe Fire

London, Oct. 4.

Mr Brock Bernacchi, in Htructed by Mr Carlos Remedios, is defending Fly.

Sub-Inspector M. R. Atkin son is prosecuting.

Hearing is continuing....

Lawn Mowers

with

time.

CLOSE TOUCH

Asked for the President's He did not deny that there reaction, Mr Hogerty mid, "Ele and his people might be a summit meeting at knows about

in the will be keeping in close touch an unspecified

with him on it." A reporter future.

Asked whether diplomats of wondered whether Mr Khrush the big powers had begun dis- chov at Camp David might have cussions with a view to an discussed Russian rocket or eventual summit meeting, the missile plans with the President,

New Flood Threat In

Oklahoma

Oklahoma, Det. 4.

New foods, fed by cloud-

bursts in neighbouring Texas, today sent hun- dreds of people fleeing to higher ground here,

where thousands are still homeless after the worst floods in the State's his- Lory.

press secretary aald: I er Ragerty replied, but the two 0,000

"Not to my knowledge,” Mr you to the State Department."

In his exchange with 're-

the following points:

men were

They anid that if it stays ort course, Lunik III would circle the moon once every 274 days, based on moon phases.-UPI.

!

Manned Space

Rocket Test

Successful

Washington, Oct. 4.

A rocket designed to send up the first American manned space vehicle was ut marccessfully tested. Wallops Island, Virginia, tonight, the National Aeronautica..and Space Administration announced. Red Cross offciais estimated

The Lie Joe rocket; and Oldatom tact be its cast-iron model of a spaco alone for some time driven from their homes by the capsule were deliberately das- porters Mr Hagerty stressed and have no way of knowing last five days of steady down truyed two and a half minutes.

everything they discussed." Your +

after the launchtig, etter" Four road deaths have already reaching an slitude of about 45 the night at the A. F. Bor

been attributed to the weather miles love the Atlantic Ocean. airplane factory si Chadüer-

In the state, where'; flood darhoge totals millions of dõi»,. Neliher the capsule nor an for, Lansaabiro, : canned be tween -£1,000,000 and E, lawn mowers worth £20,000 in was that since the Risalans

|escape,» rõdicet; system: "carried Six hundred people "today, ang instrumentation in the fast. 000,000 worth of damaged, Melbourne this year, to be sold, greed to remove any threat pr Bir Boy Dobion, chaiyman of or; Parsed" through a "fasów""; }

deadline over a milution to the

Kushird, Oct. 6. Bed from their homes la fan. The purposes of the fring w g the company, said today,

́ ́British sallor Brian Platt said Angelo, Trexen," in "lood" "wellery"; to best the launching, propulsion wwwwhom we can find and problem of Woss Berlin, this Sir Royal that work on klantify one of the 432 missing removed many of the Preal-lodess it would take about a ross along the Colorado River and deactions systems, and a supersonic Vulcan bombers and movers we will soon fod either dent's previous objections to a week to repair, his Chinese dunk aflor torrential rate itch | Nanapokum lathe Last confirmernimi inprapori turbio pro | článe Vape Chief men Defettive-

High Tea no he could continue the 18 inclibs in 24 hours in some į wAN" MUUCONDOLEN There had been no decreement his voyage across the Eecide,io parte, negret heus foreshadows a relucta. Ar was stout 350 planes would foot be later inspacios Harry Mendesain

intins vist of the northern tip rupted as the "are bad only guldking me appest, to the public se derasno, anja ime of place the United States,

women were, injured, takes any meal. on the Tallestaw: moving sprend to those parts of the 1'472: Latp.

welcy and there. The junk was diasbled when - Brar, Dallas when storms north-sarth-oast at moons. 11. factory --where i now ? nisteriale nel prestas

Mia would be home tinka pandawo- caught in, fringe, windenden detrond throw house S m.p.h

wern stored.---ATP.

machinavia.cn #PODER METINerement le cwbed with the Alles, typhoon Vera,UPI

that no summit meeting has yet been arranged, is not calcu Iated to help the Conser- vative's chances touching as it does on one of the key party planks.. What all Britain will be look

ing for this week is some more decisive, trend among the "don't knows". The ra- sult now lies in their hands. If their indecisive

-anjce to vote - this could be equally dangerous to the Tory's charpenć

this morning, the tempera-| A fire which brake' out during

turo dropped to 73.1 degrees, nearly two points below YOU" terday's low. The maximum yesterday, was 86 (jogroła.. The Manila Observatory reports thai tropfoal storm Amy, with winds of To willek¬A¤»hour nexɛ tho`oentew, was bondlag“) Deria

the general direction of Japan.

Disappear

Malboume, Oct. 4..

The President's position had Reuter and -UPL not changed mines the end of

- Camp David meetings with

A gang, has sipien 421 motor Me Khrushcher. That position To Continue Voyage