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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, · 1959.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Mr Chia Yeo-soh

Millionaire Freed

After Lecturing

His Kidnappers

From Our Own Correspondent

19

Intellectual With The

Malayan Newsletter From Gordon Hung

Triads Get A 16-Day

Amnesty Offer

Common Man Touch Before The Crackdown

THE

NEW CS MADE

HIS CLIMB WITH AMAZING SPEED

By RICHARD BERRY

Iain Norman Macleod is a balding, bright-eyed Highlander with an astonishing capacity for making things look easier than they seem. He nearly always finishes an advanced crossword

Iain Macleod

Conservative Centrai Omce,

puzzle on his 35-minute journey to work. He joined the research staff at the speaks Gaelic, plays the bagpipes and com- London, as one of the backroom

B popular boys under R. A. Butler. poses poetry. He has written

For four years he worked as manual called "Bridge, an Easy Game."

on research expert n

home He has made politics seem the As Health Minister, Macleod affairs, writing briefs for other and soaking casiest game of all-by advanc- thowed clearly that he had the people's speeches ing in seven years from back- ability for higher office. In 1850. himself in facts and figures, "new boy." Re- bencher to Minister of Health he wes

he was an obvious choice for With another and now from Minister of Labour Minister of Labour, a post held for four reluctant years by Sir Walter Munckton-22 years his senior.

to Colonial Secretary,

Ai 42, Macleod moved into the "hot seat" at St James's Square. At that time the job of Labour Minster was regarded as the

No politician in the post-war years has climbed the promotion indder with such incredible speed as Macleod He did not enter Parliament until 1950 and he did trouble to touch the not even rung of junior minister on his toughest assignment within the way up.

Like all successful politicians

Government.

Will Macleod

make this job Only Ume will

he has forged ahead by seizing look easy, 100? Singapore (By Airmail).

so far he has given inus epportunities and exploiting tell, for

them to the full. The greal op- little hint of his feelings about Colonial and portunity of his carcer come ons Commonwealth

problems. But certainly he has evening in 1952.

The place: the personal attributes to make The time was 6.35.

The a success of the job. occasion: a debate on the Health

FRIENDLY Service

estimates.

op- portunity when

The Chinese millionaire "Spare Parts King”

Singapore, who was released on October after being kidnapped by five men 3 week carlier, said today that he "took every oppor- tunity to brainwash them."

the House of Commons.

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Mr Speaker

to keep happened to single out Macleod able, an intellectual but also a

He is frizadly and imperturb

Gome money

"But I told them the were doing things the wrong way. ↑ even wrote on

of a plece paper, in English. the way to lead a proper litc.

He lectured The three men, moke NOTICE IS. HEREBY who guarded him, at every themselves alive.

opportunity and just before his GIVEN that

Interim release one of the

men, Ah Dividend of 2s, Od, per share Seng, swore that he "would not bud again." 70- has been declared on account do anything

|year-old Mr Chia Yee-soh said, of the year 1959.

Now Mr Chia wants to get in touch with his kidnappers negotiate for the return of

This Dividend is payable

to

his

November on or after 21st 1959 to Shareholders regia fered in the Society's books on 3rd November 1959,

At his first press conference SHARE TRANSFER | after his release, Me Chia said: The ROOKS of the Society will "Please let the gang know that be closed from 3rd Novem- I sincerely hope they will re-

turn the satchel to me. ber to 14th November 1959 both days inclusive.

dark brown attnete euse.

The reason; "It contains all the records of my golf achieve menis and notes on how to be a magician."

By Order of the Board,

J. DICKSON LEACH,

General Manager.

Hongkong, Sept. 24, 1950,

To ADVERTISERS

"It is of no use to anyone except myself, Nearly all the records of my golf achievements and some personal affects are inside.

was

not

to bollow Mr Aneurin Bevon.

Bevan, who had just delivered humanitarian. Moreover, he has

the "common

touch- than" speech,

• powerful

was the enlisting in the war as a private, father of the National Health

London living in an ordinary Service, Macleod was then an bulb, and

reaching the top unknown back-bencher. Yet this without any special advantages.

of the

was the chance

A

for which he

He is one

few

BE HONEST "The few points I put across had walled nearly three years. lending Tories who did not go in

that

He began: they should

"I want to deal Elon. But he is a public school but gamble or smoke work closely and with relish with the man (Fetles) and he read his- hard, be honest and be funt," vulgar, crude and intemperate tory at Cambridge.

the House has gold Mr Chia, chairman of speech to which

Just listened...." United Motor Works Ltd.

Then he proceeded to carve up Bevan with forceful and speech which they devastating still talk about in the House of

More today. Commons portant his attack on the Cery Welshman impressed Sir Wins- each. ton Churchill who happened to They can still have it if they be among the few Members in

added as

Smiling, Mr Chip said he had promised to give each of the men HK$3,000 to help them out of their difficultles.

"But now I have been told that my son has given them HK$7,200, so I shall have to reduce it to JIK$1,800

want it," he afterthought,

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He turned to one of his sons- in-law and asked: "Have you ny i got the

address of me chaps? Send the money now."

i NO HARD FEELINGS

"There is also sonte materiai for magic shows which

in America sent friend recently."

With no hard feelings wards his abouctor, Mr Chia today talked about his week's)

lo-

SUNDAY POST-HERALD imprisonment" and the lectures Space for commercial he gave the three men guarding advartining should bo him. booked not later than noon on Wednesdays.

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" took every opportunity to brainwash them. As a matter of a tact, we got on very fine," he said.

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the Chamber at the time.

HOT SEAT

In those days, he showed no special interest in politics. His great passion was bridge. At 22 he represented England at the game and then became bridge

correspondent of the Runday Times

war

Within 21 Lew weeks taln

Macleod Senior, on those Macleod was appointed Minister

BIBLE TROUGHT

FOR TODAY

If we speak of strength; 16 he is strong-Job 9:19.

That strength is available to us if we have the faith

Mr Chia was kidnapped by five armed men while driving home after a game of golf. He said: "Those chaps were quite nice, and one of them to appropriate It, told me his Wong."

Wa

'Ah name was

"But the one I liked best was the one I called 'Ah Seng.' He wouldn't give me his name, but and very pallent listered to most of my lectures. "Just before they released me this man owore that he would not do anything bad again."

Ah Seng told Mr Chal that he

"worked with a hoe," earning

about HK$5.40 a day. He was married and had two sons, one | 12 and the other nine,

with "I sympathised chaps, i know they are very poc? and were just trying lo

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grandfather

It was more by accident than chofee that Macleod entered

the politics. After

he joined his father a doctor in Yorkshire on a fishing holiday on the Island of Lewis (Outer Hebrides). During their visit the election was announced,

ardent admirer of Churchill, was horri He was 38.

had The position was a "natural" fed that no Conservative for Macleod.

do battle for His father and come forward

He told his were doctors and the Western Isles. for many years he had made a sun: "It no one will come for- special study of the Health ward, then you'll have to stand." So, rather reluctantly, Major But he never presumed that Mucleod fought for the

As tuency of his ancestors. He test he knew the job well.

Tory Purly Health Minister he set aside one the battle but the

дв outstanding new day a week to visit hospitals gained "not to inspect them, but to recruit.

Macleod discovered that he learn.

Tragically, however, he was enjoyed the cut-and-thrust of that he could brought into close contact with political battle, one of the problems of his owit speak surprisingly well, and that issues of the day really department when his wife, Eve, the

excited him. So, In 1948, he was crippled by pollo.

Service.

consti-

E

sinald Maudling.

of the team which

member helped Mr Butler to draft the Tory Charter.

Bath men were recognized 21 Young progressives with brilliant futures, expecially Mr Mandling who has now become President of the Board of-Trade. But no one could have foreseen Macleod's even swllter success.

LIKELY PREMIER

At the Tory Central Office he was chiefly admired for his ability to work at great speed and for his uncanny memory for facts and figures. More recently he has become recognised as a powerful personality amali, and a biting humour, dry wit pale man with a good sense of

tongue.

Now, as he tackles his third Ministerial job in seven years, he is regarded by many political observers as a likely Tory Pre- mier of the futuro. At his

present rate of progresa ho could be at No.

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Now In an attempt to wipe out recret societies in Singa triolicats, pore, the PAP Clovernment has granted the thugs a 16-day amnesty in which to decide whether to 'reform or be wiped out completely.

Singapore (By Airmail). The Chinese triad societies still hold a deadly grip on the Chinese in the Malayan peninsula and they are most powerful in Singapore where a daily killing or gang fights with acid bombs, bicycle chains and other weapons are nothing new to the inhabitants of this island,

English language newspapers, and magazines comics imported Into the coun- try will be examined,

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A Federation lawyer MP was let down by a hobo the other day. the

He was in court when a hoba new was brought in charged whil

his id:nuity

amnesty

The offer wds mindr 01 October 17, and is valid till November 3, after which police will bunch a relentless catrpaign with their powers under the new "beat the falling to renew

cart gang" law passed recently.

He was let out after the MP Already over a dozen triad

and stood ball of $100 for him, but thugs have come forward

217- the the next day he failed ta interviewed been

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who forfeited $10 of the bail thugs who accept the that they will be

protected money.

* * against reprisals by other thugs.

There is an estimated 19,000 The Federation Minister of active secret soclely gansters in

Education, Inche Mo- Singapore and this opportunity

hamed Khir Johari, has "to start a new life" comes in the wake of mounting gang-

agreed with a suggestion land clashes.

that children who failed Rivol

have gang clashes

because an examination already claimed 20 lives this

they did not get through year and only last week "four youths were knifed to death in

n compulsory subject the bitter feud between the 08

should be given and 24 secret society groups.

the Mr Ong

ficates for the subjects Pang-boon, Minister for Home affairs said:

they passed. *The Government is deter

Various educationalists in the mined to wipe out gangster Federation are also in favour of elernents who have been in the idea. timidating and exploiting honest businessmen, hawkers and taxi-

and corrupting drivers, yourths."

our

Govern-

in announcing the ment's offer he gave this stern warning: "We give you one last chance to lead a new life. Accept it or we crush you."

And if the Singapore Govern“ ment back up their words with action after the amnesty--as the Federation Government d after the amnesty to the Com- munist terrorists the days of

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"A failure in an examination should not be interpreted as a total failure," said Inche Khir. He said that the Government was now considering the idea.

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