1959-10-21 — Page 1

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CHINA

No. 37493

Comment

MYSTERY

Established 1845 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1959.

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LATE FINAL

MAIL

SUBMARINE CUDDLE

Of The SEEN OFF ARGENTINA

Day

Escapes

The Bomb Is Disposed Of

Water Worries Attack

ON Bunday

the Director of |

Mr Public Works,

Inglis. appealed to Hongkong to use

Cecause less water.

we aft currently consuming, in what hoped to be standaru winter supply hours, about 10 million gallons 2 day mort than we should be. If this rate were maintained,

wik

Hongkong

By Navy

Units

would begin the carly summer Buenos Aires, Oct. 20.

months

critically short of

water. This is what Mr Ing. Units of the Argentine

hopes to avoid. Two ways are to reduce open: for people consumption voluntarily or for Government to restrict supply And they have hours again. already been cut once from 13 This is the hours to eight. Immediate problem, It may be argued that since the

Colony has experienced a hot,. dry spell in October current consumption may be higher than the figure we shall settle down in later, in the winter. After all, it was a very sudden cut and the weather has not cooled sufficiently to reduce demand. That is why we

the month urged earlier phaned reduction over five weeke so that by

November

restrle. when the eight-hour tion

into came

force, the weather would be cool enough to enable people to use fero. DUT Bunday's warning reflecte

A

concern not only for the winter supply this year but for the next few years before Shek Pik reservoir boosts our capacity by half, or another 5,000 million gallons. For the winter consumption during the eight-hour period does not drop

below GO million gallons

day

It now, will

24 that mean

has simest doubled In three years. And

1961 by

consumption In winter may rise to 80 milion gallons or more, and in this event very drastic restrictions will be necessary to make the Colony h20 sure that enough water to survive-ha dry spell. Why has consump tion risen 50 much In the last three years and why is it Ilkely to continue? The grow ing number of factorles which require water in their various manufacturing processes, part of the reason. Also the vast resettlement and housing schemes which have Coma into existence have meant blg Increase In the number of tupu ked each day, and there is is the natural Increase of people and Immigration from China which In adding about i 200,000 to our population every Усаг.

Tow let's look farther ahead. TOW

The Water Authority's ulti mate aim must be not just toi -maintain a four or eight-hour:

supply

winter but to each

enough water to do

provide

away with restrictions entire-

|

was

fleet pursued and tacked a mystery sub- marine when it detected just as the fleet was assembling for exercises eight miles from shore.

at-

88 BR 39

The mystery submarine was chased and attacked by a frigate and two destroyers with depth charges but apparently escaped.

VETU

United States Navy sources said Suviel submarines believed to be operating of the South American Coast.

The submarine was earlier reen to surface but submerged again as the frigate Heraing closed in for a surface atlack,

Operations in the area of the Gulf of San Jorge off southeast

Argentina, where the submarine was first spotted last night, were proceeding with the support of Neptune and Martin Mariner naval airerail.

The aircraft carrier Indepen- Gondia

and

destroyers from Madryn and Mar Del Plata alas wore ordered to join in the hunt. The announcement said there was no indication that the sub- marine had been hit.

UNKNOWN

The announcement, made by the navy ministry, said the sub- marine was of unknown nation- ality

The incident recurred as al- must the entire Argentine feet! was assembling off Patagonis} for exercises, The feet included ft:e Independencia, acquired from Great Britain only this year,

A similar incident occurred on

May 21, 1955. The Argentine navy later told President Arturo Frondizi the mystery submarine it had altacked In Argentine waters had been usually rellable sources mid-UPI and Reuter.

Russian,

These two pictures show the bomb (above) firmly, tied, and cushioned by sandbags in the back of an Army Land- rover, and below, the bomb being

driven through

the

streets of Kowlaim at 4 a.m. today. It was later dumped

at sca. China Mall Photos.

'NO TRUTH' IN NEW

MARGARET

Suspected ENGAGEMENT REPORT

Submarine Sabotage

ly. To be able to do this į Portsmouth, N.H., Oct. 20. immediately,

the Water Au-The acting Commander of thority would need at least i twice the amount of reservelr capacity it has now, or more!

palions. than 20,000 million

At best, Shek Pik will only restricted halp maintain

winter supply and it will not 1969 When Plover be unti

Cove is completed that Hong- kong will be able to use

晶体

that

the

base Naval

said today

U.S. that the atomic submarine Nau- tilus, being overhauled here, had suffered "ap- parently intentional" damage to a number of electrical cables.

Wps

Captain Cart Johnson fold reporters the U.S. Navy conducting an investigation, and the FBI had been notified.

The 'commander's comment ame after the local newspaper, the Portsmouth Herald, said t had learned of a series of in-

London, Oct. 20.

A member of the Queen Mother's staff at Clarence House said today there was "not a word of truth" in a French magazine report that Princess Margaret would marry Canadian lawyer, Mr John Turner.

"We are not issuing an off- cial cenial of the extraordinary story, but I can tell you that the Princess Is, not going to marry Mr Turner," the Queen Mother's assistant press SECTO- tary sald.

in her tur

"We know today, from the most certain Sources, and we are able to announce that the Princess will soon be engaged

PROTOCOL "It is obvious that the court will not announce Margaret's

in the weeks Im скупустеть! mediately following that of French Illustrated Townsend. Tact and protocol weekly, Jours De France, sakd are against this. But the deci-

"We don't know how the story started but there is not a word of truth in it."

The

The 500-tb unexploded bomb found in the site of the old Chungking Arcade off Nathan Road

an Monday evening was quietly dumped at sea before dawn,

The bomb was removed by a group of Chinese soldiers under a British subaltern and a senior NCO.

The Chinese soldiers, known as Locally Enlisted Personnel, were from the Bomb Disposal Group of $06' Engineer Stores ........Dapotą Boyni - Engineers, ---

"

An Army spokesman told the China Mall the bomb was removed at about & a,103, It went to rea· In 'a' landing craft of 19 Company RABO and was dumped at about 0.30 0.2%

The bomb was believed to have been dropped by American - plane in 1944 ́or 1945 during the Japanese De- cupation of the Colony. It is one of a number of unexplod- ed shells and bombs that have been found in recent years.

TWO RUSSIAN

SOLDIERS SEEK ASYLUM

Two

Berlin, Oct. 20. Busslan Boldiers

were Franted political Asylum in West Berlin to- day after crossing the zonal border.

for

An American spokermans Fald today the two Ruus faca Boldiers were enlisted men who fled to West Berlin this morning and naked political asylum.

The spokesman said U.S. authorities.· granted this asylum. The two soldiers were flown to West Ger- many,

There were no other de- tally available regarding the ranks, natues or units of the two Rumian soldiers. - UPI.

today that Queen Elizabeth and sion has been taken. The Queen Shah Of Persia

the Queen Mother had agreed has given hor consent, The

to the engagement of Princess Queen mother, too."

Margaret and the young Cana- In his article Victor Franco dian lawyer, Mr John Turner, said that on October 14, a few

300,000 cidents involving **sabotage- whom the Princess met in days after the announcement of

by

much, water as it wants to. For Plover Covo, with its 29,000 million gallons will triple existing capacity. Unfortunately our worries may not Oven be over by then. We hope the Industrial boom will continua. We hope

remaining all the squatters will be resettled then, We поре that many mort housing achomes for white collar workers-like the vast Java Road ostalo.w!! in existence, that sato!. lite towna

are by then a reality, that a start will have book made clearing the on alume of Wanchal and Bhom- Population will have shulpo. rlaun by a million or more. And the Increased water con

bl

sumption

that

type" damage to the submarine,

Vancouver last year,

Group Captain Townsend's en- The Nautilus was the first Jours De France made the gagement to Mile Jamagne, submarine to travel across the statement introducing an Princess Margaret

in

and the

North Pole beneath the lee cop. article by Violor Franco head- Queen had a long lalk ut Bal- The Navy Department inet: "Manganel face of love moral. The following day Washington sakl that the for the second time."

damage was to the electrical cables only and did not extend- to the nuclear reactor plant. It was discovered on October 18 and 16.

The Nouillus went to Paris-.

mouth last July for an overhaul all this will and also to have o new reactor involve may strain even Plover core, a Navy spokesman said- Covs's considerable supply. A Reuter,

plant la

nuclear distillation

olearly

what Hongkong

have to reckon on.

(en cast

amount

will And 11 the we shall have to

DRAMA

Expected To Marry Again

Teheran, Oct. 29. Princess Margaret returned An official announcement of the suddenly to London to seu Queen Elizabeth the Queen

The magazine sald: "Her Mother at Clarence House."

Franco

even know.

wrote.

engagement of the Shah of Persia, Mohammed Rexa Fah levi, to Miss Farali Diba, a 21-year-old Perilazi archites- tural student, is expected here shortly, usually well-informed sources said here today, Court officialy would not com- ment on this,

afler that engagement

of ALREADY KNOW would Townsend

solve the "What happened few at drama which has shaken Eng Buckingham Palace and

In Fleet Street already tand for four years."

It saki

people throughout But Buckingham Palace's orders the world had been struck by bre formal," the resemblance between Cap- "The British press wul not Miss Diba, daughter of the Lain Townsend's flancec, Mlle break the story before the very Tato Captain Sohrab Olba, has Maric-Luce

Ecole studying at the and official gentlemen of the court been Jemagne,

"Thatzive the green light,”

Speciale de L'Architecture' In Margaret. Townsend has sought in the Franco Faid that Queen Eliza Paris, Sho is now in Teheran.

eisters The sources thought ! the face of the second the image of beth knew about her

engagement would ·be an- the first is perhaps the proof of feelings for a long time. bis own conception of fidelity." She is even reported to have nounced either on the Shah's birthday October 27—or after Jours Du France said: "Peter given tur semi-official

his return from a state visit to Jordan early next month,

may be double Illiterate Wins Lottery Princess

spend on the Plavar Cava

Vienna, Oct. 20. fresh water isks schome $700 A Greek, able to read

last weck million, or more than Govern. write, ment spent in the whole of highest prize last year

begin to why Mr Inglim in so anxious about controlling the quantity of Water we let flow, aut of our taps today.

or

won the yet-£17,000 Czechoslovakia's state lot tery, o. Pragua newspaper re- ported to-day.

The newspaper did not give the winner's "name.--UPI.

agree-

la going to marry, thus freeing ment, happy to see her sister at Margaret from the tacit pact last released from her promise: which for four years has coa of faithfulness to, usi impor~ demned them both to soiftude ble love, beginning to live

ugain."--Reuter.

| and respect for memory.

If the report le true, Miss Diba would become the Shah's thirl: bride.--Reuter;;.

COUPLE SUE POLICE

Price 20 Cents

London, Oct. 20.

A couple whose cuddle in a

сат parked

cost tham £500 in court costs have

SAVE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS WITH PAN AM'S NEW "FAMILY FARE” PLAN

TO THE U.S.A.

For full particulars, phone 37031 PAN AMERICAN

Quintuplets

Born To U.S. Couple

Three Survive

San Antonio, Oct. 20.

started on action for dom- A woman today gave birth to five girls but.

ages against two police-

men who arrested them for indecency,

The couple, company, director And hia Gerald Selby, 28, farcee Anne Firman, 23, were acquitted last May on a charge of committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature."

But the judge refused award them the £500 costs their jury trial and they had to postpone their wedding, because their savings had gone.

FALSE ARREST

to

cf

A solicitor acting for the couple sold

today that writs against Polke Constable Donald and Constable J.

bren had

lodged with the Legal Departement Scotland Yard,

McLelland McDonald

at

No dale had yet boon set for the court hearing,

"Wo are alleging false arrest, false imprisonment, assault and conspiracy," the solicitor "We are not asking for fixed am ne ĉamages,"

Bald, Aby

Individual policemen are normally indemnified by the Government against financial -claims arising from the execu

Kan of their duty.-China Mall

Special.

shortly after, two of them died. The woman was the wife of an Air Force officer.

The mother Mrs Charles: Hannan, who already had two bays aged Ave and two, was re- ported "doing well,"

Lt Col Thomas M, Holcomb, Chief of Pediatrics at Lackland Air Force Base, made the an- Noutrement,

The babies were designated by A, B, C, D, and E for means of identification before they could be nained.

Col Holcomb said that the condition of baby "E" was leas than ratisfactory. The condition: of "C" and "y were still satis- factory.

Omelals sald X-Rays of the mother had disclosed recently that she could expect quintu- plets.

Neither Lieutenant Hannon nor his wife has a family re- cord of multiple births.

placed

The bables had been

In separate incubators, each at-

ended by a nurse.

birth children were

A spokesman said the weights of the not "known at the present time, but he understood all the chil- dren weighed between one and two pounds,

Lieutenant Hannan,

who fa

20, has been in the Air Force for the fast seven years. He is

One weighed one pound two | a navigator of the Strategic Air ounces the others were not Command stationed at Randolph They were born at Field near here and operates weighed. three.ndaute intervals,

with 4307 Flying Training alive birth of Squadron-Reuter and UPI. Chances of quins is one in 42 millon and chances of survival after birth very slight.

The girls, three months pre- mature, were born

at three- minute Intervals.

Coincidence

Two of the leading obstetri- clans in the United States, whin were at Lackland by coincidence, delivered the quintuplets. The doctors, in the military service, at the air bssc for 2 were medical conferenée.

Car Production

Stopped By

Bride's Request

DISPUTE SETTLED

London, Oct. 20.

A strike which came to be called the "honeymoon dispute" ended tonight after paralysing a London car factory since last Thursday.

Men at the Rootes Group pressed steel plant went on unofficial strike after Tom Stevenson, 25, just back from his honeymoon, was shifted from night to day work at his bride's request.

The strikers maintained this advice to

a reduc-morrow. transfer would, mean tion in the bonus rates paid to certain day workers.

work to-

TUG DUE TO REACH DISABLED SHIP TODAY

Although no word has yar been received, the Hong- kong tug, Kowloon Docks, is believed to have reach- ed the disabled Italian freighter, Luigi,

samo-

time this morning. The Luigi is drifting south of Communist-controlled Hainan,

without a propeller.

This morning the local agent for the Luigi cald he expected the lug to reach the frighter sometime this morning but no position-x from the tug will reach the Colony until afternoon.

us

The Kowloos Docks, ones she makes contact, will tow the Italian ship brek to Hongkong for repairs, The Luigi won headed for Halphong from the Philippines when the accident

occurred

All-Women Expedition Abandoned

return to

Their strike, over who should

the welding dutematic ΕΙΣ Irian

1,188 other men

A mass meeting tonight de-machine, put cided on a return to work after out of work. a shop steward announced that the management had agreed to review the work done by men in various parts of the factory.

Wage Increase

The strike has involved more than 1,500 men.

Another big strike ended this eventing in Glasgow, where 830 welders at Ave Clydeside chip-

agreed yards also

on union

was an

14 Meanwhile, counced tonight that the 3,000 workers concerned in the re- cent British Oxygen Company strike are to get a wage in- erense. Detalls will be dis- closed later.

This strike seriously hit the car industry as oxygen suppiles man out, Motor manufacturers án central England said it col them 25 million.-Reuler.

Behan Stops

London, Oct 20, Whisker-loving Irish playwright Brendan Behan. shouting, In the SON singing, rolling and sweating at the audience, for 20 "stopped the show" minutes Inant night at a per- formance of his play here. No one prosent at last night's presentation of ""The Hostage" ¦was able to think of any Way

to make the frolicsome Titab-i man, shut up, until at last he subsided into stumber af tila

1

own soverd.

#10

"Why don't yen, tuwa, hilps

but7

frate theatregoer naked the manager during Boban's exhibition. "How an 27***

sapped auther."

•

the managET book, y'a the

han ta

New Delhi, Oct. 20, The all-women expedition

abandoned ita attempt climb the 26,887-foot Tur- quoise Goddess" mountain in Kimalagua, Nepalese sources said today.

Oyu The expedition to Cho mountain, never before climbed by women, met disaster when two of its members, Mrs Claudo Kogan, 39, of France and Miss Claudine Van Der Straiten, 26, of Belgium, were killed in 100-mile-an-hour blizzard. Their bodles have not been found,

The remaining members of the expedition consist of iva

and European women

three Sherpa,-UPL.

The Show'

It was the second time thał Bo-¡ In between Umez, he swore af

han had interrupted

the audience and zë ene point a per- Darkmance of ""Ibe Howtage" for no apparent reason, Jay since it opened here, 'The Best down and rolled in the aisle,

time,

WILK hauled Unlo Presently, he 'dropped, aff to

sloop. When he awoke ROMAN. court on charges of drunken-

tline later. ka managed to new, but last night

out of the make his wKY theaire with the help of' the doorman and zet lito's cab. BXembers of the essi szid today. they had been appréhenstèn ever alson they heard, a low days ago that. Bchan was in town.

ed to avoid the police.

He went into, setion "about half-

way through the 'Girst sot'with |

bollow ip the onai: "Why don't you do the play

property?"**:

"Why don't you shut up?"! 'other members of the enat shouted at Bakan

He retaliated by shouting out.

several', linos, just before ther were spoken by the aciers, und theit" bogan to drone out"= mournful ballad.

"How long on we keep this one mater Zanked. "EVERY

performancn.' while Brendan Is In town is nerve- wracking,

You Bover know when how going to pop in,” -UPL