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Triad Man
Gaoled
A 29-year-old blacksmith. Tam Wu-long, of Ming Yen Lame, ground floor, who ad- mited being a "ghter" of the society, Luen King Jak trind
was senteners
to two years
gas and two years pure super-
WILL OPEN TOMORROW
THE Hongkong Festival of the Arts for 1959
under the auspices of the cultural circles and
vision by Mr T. L. You at the Education Department will open tomorrow at Central Magistracy this morn~
Ing
7. p.m.
:
While
He Stole
They Watched
Yesterday's Fire
A 27-year-old man who stole a suitcase of clothes from a house while the people were anxiously watching
Mr Edmund Blunden, poet and professor of the Hongkong University, will ofclate at the opening ceremony at the Fell- val Centre in the East Wing of the Star Ferry, Hongkong.
The Centre, occupying the ground and first floors will con- tain exhibits of visual arts such culos, as pletines, criligraphy, paintings, scrolls, architectural moasis, carvings in fute, ivory, and wood.
Displays
There will to displays of Chinese, Korean, and Gurkha dancing, Chine. licn dancing, shadow boxing, yoga demonstra-
the fire nearby at Tung Tau Village yesterdaytions, fencing and judo. morning, was sentenced to 12 months' gaol by Mr P. F. X. Leonard at Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
Woman With
3lbs Of Opium Sent To Gaol
A woman, Yue Yuen-tal, 44, was sentenced to nine months. by Judge . J. Jounings at the Victoria District Court this
mornlag for possession of more
three pounds of row
than uplum.
Chief Inspector C. L. Smith told the Court that Pollee found six packets of opium in a con- cealed compartment In a wall Garing a raid at 490 Lockhart Rond, fourth Hour, Septem- ! ber 30.
ut
Yue was the principle tenant the fat and admitted the charge, The epium was worth $2.400. Insp. Smith said,
Yue said she In mitigation,
her bred the oplum to cure tuberculosis. She had Three
one and three daughters.
Fung Chung unemployed and of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to charges of housebreaking and theft.
Detective Inspector Cheng Chin-bun, prosecuting, said the complainant, a women called Leung Lau-ying wes afraid of
the rapidly spreading Are and took the suitcase containing her clothes to her friend in the next village.
The door of her friend's house was kept open,
in case The fire came nearer.
Defendant
entered the house and tock away the suitcase but he was caught by detectives while rounting the pieces of clothes.
Flower Display
Plays, operns and concerts will ¦ be brid outside the Centre,
There will also be prose, poetry and window dressing competi" | tiona
A "Harbour Bar" will be open to visitors.
Mrs Aileen Dekker, Cair- man of the Music Society of fongkong, who is Chairman of the Central Committee of the Festival this year, said there are 23 groups taking part in the 1estival.
Participants include Radio Hongkong. Rediffusion, Ure Hongkong Players, Hongkong Stage Club, Sino-British Club Chinese Drama Group, Bernard Ho Concert of Youth, St John's Cathedral Choir, Sino-British Club Music Group, Garrison Players, Hongkong Chinese Opera Players, Hongkong Phil- harmonie Örchestra, The Photo- graphic Society of Hongkong. the Hongkong Arts Club, Hong- kong Architects' Association. Chinese Art Club, and others.
Arts Ball
An exhibition of Sower ar- rangements was Even by Mrs
· Marion Arnold at St John's Cathedral Hall this morning.
The Cantre will be open Contributions from the ladies until November 14 from 9 a.m. present go to the Flower and to 10 p.m. Although the Feshval Plant Stall which
will Mrs Arnold
continue until Nevern- 1 for the
bor 20 when Cathedral
the annual Arts; is running Michaelmes Fair on Saturday Ball will be held at the Para- next.
mount.
China Accused Of Setting Up Tibet As Military Base
United Nations, Oct. 14. Gyalo Thondup, brother of the Dalai Lama, said today that Red China has established military bases in Tibet aimed at India, Burma, Nepal and the border state of Bhutan.
Mr Thondup said the Chinese Commurtists had
steadily brought military supplies into Tibet since they carried out the'r bloodbath there earlier this year.
The Chinese Communists, he sald, now have five or six air- felds and some 500,000 men under arma in the mountainous country of the Buddhist God- King,
DIFFICULTIES
Ho indicated that the high- 1,000 fost-altitudes of Lhasa and the country surrounding the
that introduced by Ireland and Malaya calling for restoration of kuman and religious rights in the country.---UPI,
10-Storey Building For Valley
A ten-dkorey building contain-
capital was providing operating ing seven shops and 27 flats and
difficulties for the
ture.
Chinese,
out the
Kam-
Tickets to the Exhibition Centre are avalible et 30 cents i and the Display Auditorium al
50 cents.
Children on conducted tours of the exhibition will be ad- mitted for 20 cents each.
Season tickets at $5 per head will be available.
casting $512,300, is to be put up thousands of whom had been the site of existing four- storey houses of 10 and 12 Sing brought from sea-level com~ munities to help, through inter-Woo Road, Happy Valley.
The building will be com- breeding, in stamping Tibetan people and their cut-pleted in 22 months.
The tenancy tribunal recom- He sidul even turncoat Tibetans meded exemption for the exist- were prohibited from approaching buildings this vening and ing afrfields and other military ordered the joint applicants, Mr Installations and that the Dalat Chow Tin-ping and Ip Lama, now in exile in Muscou-lcung, of 73, Blue Pool Road, to rie, India, had no way of know- Pay a total of $53,434, as agreed A he whother the Chinese were out of court, to the seven oppo
rocket
Mnents of the application. bascu installing Thondup akid he was cerisin, Appearing for the applicants however, that they were carry was Mr KY. Yung, of Messrs ing on "scientific observations," F. Zimmern and Company andh Speaking informally at Mr A. Zimmern instructed by luncheon, Thandup, representing Meses Peter C. Wong and Co. his brother here during the dis neted for the opponents,
The tribunal consisted of Mr cussion of the General Assembly Tibetan situation, indicated that J. E Dargar (president). Mr the Dalai Lama would have E. M. E. Stirling and Mr Alada
led a resolution stronger than Vago.
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RIGHT:
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Scen at the Double 10th cocktail party given at the Ying King Restaurant by the H.K. and Kowloon Workers' Union (1-7) Mr T. W. Ainsworth (of the U.S. Consulate), Mr H. C. Fung, Mr Ho Hong and Miss Lily Padua.
ABOVE: Rev. Fr. C. M. Orlando (centre) greeting the Rt Rev. Lawronco Bianchi, Roman Catholic Bishop of Hongkong, when the bishop arrived on the site of the new Maryknoll Convent School in Kowloon Tong this weok to lay the foundation stone.
ABOVE: Mr S. F. Mascarenhas, Star Ferry inspector (right), seen receiving a gold watch from Mr H. M. G. Forsgato, general manager, when he retired last week after 36 years' service with the company.
LEFT: Mr P. K. Shao (right) showing members of the Ghana trade mis- sion, which passed through Hongkong this week, one stage in the manufacture of thermos Hacks during the mix- sion's tour of Hongkong Indústries,
ABOVE: A giant Booing 707 jetliner landed at Kai Tak this week on an inaugural round-the-world pure jot flight by Fan American World Airways. Seen is Mr T, M. Taylor (of the Hongkong PAA office) and the jet's crew members (1-r) Miss Barbara Earle, Capt. J. Hamilton, Capt. D. Pearson and Miss Marone Dolderer.
Mr Claude Burgess is seen at the controls of a diesel locomotive as li pulls out of Tsimshaleul station this morning. He drove It to Ma Liu Shul, the next station after Shatin.
China Mall Photo.
Boac Economy Fares To HK?
arcas
London, Oct. 14. fores by approximately 20 por But the airline, Me Pyle said, wants to "persuade other nit- British Overseas Air-cont over tourist fares on routes
between London, and colonial lines to extend economy fares ways Corporation spokes-
Inter- on routes to colonial not subject to preas man said today the air- salonul Air Techsport Associs. | which are not subject to. Tata Eine may extend the first tion (luta) regulations.
tarif regulations.” - Mr Pyle sald these areas In- economy fare, runs into
At the same time Mr Pyle cluda East Atrien, Singapore the Far East If the Bri- and Hongkong.
denied rumours in London and tish Government gives Its Boac was defented in a bid elsewhere that Boac was plan- approval.
to latroduce economy fares on ning to drop out of Iata, "This
the routon ether than
North is definitely not true...Dose is Tom Antle at the just concluded planning no such move," he
znid, UPI.
The
spokesman, Mr
| Pyle, said · Boac would reduce Tuta meeting,
;
From the Files
25
years -AGO
LLEGED libel, false and
ALLEGED and
cer of the Hongkong Police Force, in that it referred to bribery as having been prac- tised by members of the Force in connection with sly Japanese brothels in the Wanchai district, was the subject of a case with which the October Criminal Scasions was opened before the Chief Justice, Mr A. D. A. MacGregor yester- day.
The accused, on unemployed Japanese photographer named Core Kurta, was indicted on three counts in respect of anody- mous letters sent during the later part of August to the Inspector General of Police, the "Protector of Chinese" and the Colonial Secretary.
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THE Melbourne
Cen-
tenary air race has developed into one of the most thrilling duels in the Ex- history of aviation. citement was intense yes- terday as C.W.A. Scott and T. Campbell Black in their de Havilland Comet roared across the Malay Archi- the pelago and spanned Timor Sea to land at Dur- win, a mere 524 hours out from England!
oro
IL WDEN
of the most hazardous Alights in their carcers, for two-and-a-half hours before dahling the Australian coaut ont of the enginya seized and the plane retched Darwin under the power of only one engine.
First reports from Darwin sugetslod that Scolt was virtually out of the race, but a few hours after landing he was In the air again, flying over the well-established Qantas afr route to Charleville, 1,300 miles
bway.
Still within striking distanco of the daring British pilols are the Flying Dutchmen, Parmentier and Moll.
3
THE Morning Post told
MR BURGESS Returned From Tits readers that C. W.
DRIVES
LOCOMOTIVE
Leave In UK
A. Scott the intrepid plot, now leading in the air race, visited Hongkong
four years ago and while here
Mr William C. Low, Deputy met the girl he subsequently Registrar, District Court, re-married.
tumed on the Peleus this 'momằng: from
He eleven months' home leave in the United King- Australja dom
come to Hongkong from in 1030, Another Australian. Mirg Kathleen O'Neill was also on a visit to the Colony and they became engaged here shortly, after they mot. When they returned to
Mr Cloudo B. Burgess, He was accompanied by his Officer Administering the wife, his two daughters, Government, this morning| Pamela and Catherine, and his drove a diesel locomotive mother-in-law, Mrs M. Banker, Australla they were married. out of the Kowloon-
Canton railway station.
He drove it from Tsimchatyul
le Ma Liu Shul, the stop after Shatin
And for this he was pre- sented with the Electric Diesel Engine Driver's certificate by Mr Lam Po-hon, General Manager of the KCR.
Burgess
Prior to this, Mr visited the various offices of the railway headquarters, panied by Mr Lam and Mr P. A. English, ADC.
Signals
accom-
After driving the train to Mo Lha Shul, Mr Burgess Inspected the double wired signalling mechanism.
On his way back, he watched the repairs being carried out at the No. 1 cutting, Hunghom,. which was damaged during the heavy rain in June.
work After inspecting the shops in Hunghom, he visited The Railway Club school where he wak, met by the Principal,
This Funny World
Mr F. Lau and the chairman of Gee it was a swell-party, Mom, and we both won prizes.” the Rallway Club, Mr Wong Yu-lam
In the school gardens, Mr
Printed and published by TERENCE CORDON NEWLANDS PEARCE Burger planted a small pine for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 at: the request of Mr. Lau.
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