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Comment Of The Day

CHILDREN ON

THE ROAD

NY mitorist

who

Anubitually uses the back

streets of Hongkong and Kowloon will agree that ano of the biggest traile hazards is children. Re- cause for every child who has received some basic rand safety education there appear to be ten times the number who have had little- or none. This is bad enough

but there are some

who

play St four-wheeled ver-

sian of Russian with motorists

makes them

menace.

Roulette which positive

This is what they do; from a position in the centre of the rond they charge at an oncoming car. dodging away at the last moment brukes squeal. Or, waiting at the roadside

a.

THE WEATHER

Light variable winds, Temp: 81 degrees,

Fair and haxy. Noon Humid: 62 p.c.

Noon

LATE FINAL

CHINA MAIL

No. 37500

Ferry To

The first local screening of "Ferry to Hongkong" took

place at the Lee Theatre, this morning. Among the small company who saw it were the locai people who acted in the film, including John Wallace and Nick Kendall. John Wallace with the slightly larger part gave a most finlahed and accomplished performance.

The happiest man in Hongkong today must be Nick Demuth. They have retained his composition, "The Happy Polka," in the film, and very bright and breezy it sounds.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1959.

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Film Is Here

But Won't Be Shown Before The New Year

By ANTHONY FULLER

The picture has immense local appeal, apart from seeing

so many people we know on the screen. The children who represent a school class under teacher Sylvia Syms are particularly good, and little Miss

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Mario Cheng who plays "teacher's pot," comes out very well.

Local colour, both night and day has been exploited as no other previous film has exploited local colour. Mr George Rearden, Ranks local representative said he is immensely pleased with the film and the way it has played up Hongkong atmosphere and the general appeal of the film for the public..

The Lee and Astor theatres rate it so high that it is being held over until December 31 to usher in the New Year Holiday..

PETITION SENT TO SECRETARY OF STATE FOR COLONIES

CHINA LIGHT QUESTIONED

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PRICES

LOWER

After several weeks of booming

priors, profit-taking occurred on the Hongkong Stock Ex- change this morning but only selected images were affected. Turnover this morning Was

$2,696.000.

More than 11,000 China Lights

changed handa but the net lows was only 10 cesta, Yeumails, however, fell from 3129 to $120, Cementa fell 76 cents, Watson's 20 cents, Nan- yang 40 venis, Lands 50 cents, Docks $1.50 and Banks $5. A full report of this morning's dealings appears on page 9.

Husband

OrganisationsTM Another Ice Block RARE HONOUR Left

Complaint Of Surcharges

they deliberately step "Mr C. F. Wood, Manager of China Light and

close #213 possible to a passing car. They should

But caned.

011 their best behaviour when the Police are near.

that for #freeta

of course be

they are usually

Apologista argue

many children the

are their playground and is due to ignorance that they pick such lethal toys as passing cars. But

everyone

Power Company said at the Electricity Inquity Commission this morning, that he was not aware that a group of 40 organisations had sent a cable of pro- test on the surcharge to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in July 1957. Mr Wood said he was on leave at that time and he Mr Wood was had just become aware of it.

Mr W. E. Edwards replying to questions

who referred to an announcement by the two power companies of the reduction of surcharge| by three per cent as from August that year.

this xe? Surely who lives in the town must realise the consequences of being hit by upwards of a ton of steel moving along the road at speeds of 20 to 30 miles an hour. If there iA any doubt the daily casualty toll tells its

Was ich in sultation. own story.

would be wrong tu Mir Lawrence Kadoorie, of the China Light, far Chairman offenders, better to punish them, het-when-asked if he was aware of the cable replied, "Not to my knowledge."

I excuse

ter still to take advantage

1

Con- Longer in

Mr Edwards said the cable telephone calls complimenting was sent while the Governor the company.

Mr Edwards said there had

from been a large outcry public when the surcharge was Best introduced.

of the Government's j Mr Edwards: 1 it happened universal primary educa-

you would be delighted to

tion programme to insist informed of its

be

on all schools adopting a Kadoorie: "Nobody informed

course in road safety is a

part of their curriculum,

me."

Mr

Compliments

Would not sambore

and making it a compul-

Edwards: "There were sory subject in the Joint Primary Six examination. headlines in the newspapers. your Some

already schools teach road safety but it Heems that while children behave impeccably in groups under

monitor

|

the

Mr Woods: "I have been quite) honest. My memory is not good.

I believe there was Sure out- cry."

Public Relations

Mr Edwards: "Being a public utility company, public relations should be an important thing to your company, would it not?"

Mr Wood: "Yes."

Mr Edwards: "You have such relations public

Company see it and draw your thing

attention to it?"

Mr Kucovrie; "I am not sure." Mr Wood, cross-examined, correspon- was referred to the

with red and green flag8, dence of compliments which he uncertainty begins when had tabled at a previous hearing. to make de-He added he had also received have cisions for themselves,

they

is impossible to have Police-

It is

men all over the Colony to supervise road safely. Thus it must be accomplished through mass education of all road users. The older residents who are oblivious to traffic are almost beyond redemption, and it would Beem

profitable to more

children. concentrato We urge Police to plau

thoroughly.

on

WELL-ILLUSTRATED

A textbook in Chinese and

obvious

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offvers?"

Mr Wood: "No." Mr

TCS-

Edwards: "Whose ponsibility would that be to deal with this sort of thing?"

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Landslide Traps 400 As Gales

Strike

of A

English seems an first need. A course instruction in road safety could then be introduced at teachers' colleges. The Teac Traffic Department should have enough

for every

Europe

Zumbana, Oct. 29.

mammoth landslide today trapped 400 people in their homes and threatened to engulf this Alpine village.

The slide, which

had hung/Southern Germany for the first

High winds were reported in and a number of European roun-

tries and floods struck

photographs

ps over Zombana for years, was put time this year.

the in motion again by a wave school in

killed four to illustrate the storms which

Colony, to

meaning of road safety and left hundreds homeless all over

F

the penalties of disregard- Italy.

there

towns in Northern Italy.

Gales which caused

several

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ing it. If, in addition to this, Rescue workers ald

no Immediate deaths yesterday swept parts of a police team of two men seemed to be were able to visit every danger for the lives of the 400 the Achool with a projector and persons isoisted in the screen to show a locally-part of the village.,

Some 1,000 rescuers

British istes again this lower morning after the coldest night

since last year.

worked

made him on the subject, fanically to reach the trapped Hongkong might in ten villagers. years time have a :leav Bonably

road-

conscious

and responsible public.

Outside the Italian port of Leghorn Beven tugs battled ngainst strong winds to refloat a |6,000-ton freighter, the Exiria, which ran aground during rough sens last night.

Falls From Sky

New York, Oct. 28.

A block of lee weighing 40 pounds was reported to have fallen in Georgia today, less than 48 hours after a similar Ga-round loe block dropped from the skies in Italy.

Authorities Investigating both occurrences reported that no planes were seen in the areas at the time.

The Gearrin incident was reported by an NIC news correspondent at Atlanta. The report muld the loe block made a two-foct-rouare crater. A farmer saw the falling cube and located the crater.

The lee was analysed and found to be extremely hard fee frozen from soft, unchlorinated water.

A G6-pound block of fee fell on the village of Acala, Italy, on Monday, making a big crater on the ground. In- vexilection falled to explain the phenomenon,

No one was injured by either fall-UPL

Russian Envoy's

Wife Gives Up

British Asylum

Returns To Moscow

London, Oct. 28.

Mrs Nina Dmitrieva, a Russian diplomat's wife who was granted permission to stay in Britain last June after her husband had gone back to Russia, returned to Moscow by air today, a Home Office spokesman said.

British The spokesman said she left London Airport for Moscow that it with her young daughter and that her decision to go home was entirely personal.

After being granted permis- sion to stay in this country last June she was entirely a free agent.

REQUEST

FOR COLONY'S Holding

POLICE BAND The Baby'

Von Karajan Conducted Them

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

The band of the Hongkong Police were accorded a rare honour on Tuesday morning, when the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orches- tra took the baton and guided them through

by the famous Radetzky March

Johann Strauss.

VON KARAJAN

sources said tonight U.S. Tests

was clear last Spring thai when Mrs Dmitrieva asked for permission to remain in England she did so for entirely) personal reasons.

The sources said the dimcul- ties of settling down in England without friends relations and

Inflatable Satellite

Washington, Oct. 28.

Herbert von Karajan saw and heard the Police brand which was drawn up at the air-

ort to see him off.

Von Karajan cocked an car, professed he's astonishment at how good they were and said, "I want to conduct this band." Two Austrian marches later

he said, "I Just cannot believe that they have only been learn- five years. Many ing about bands in Europe could learn a lot trom them This band should come to Austria."

And on the sidelines, the other 103 members of the or- chestra cheered and clapped.

UNNOTICED

But all this went by practi- cally unnoticed because it took place at the old terminal build- ing which is now closed,

The orchestra and their con- ductor, at the time, were pre- paring to board their chartered aircraft for Japan.

For half an hour the all- Chinese band played, under the direction of their band-master and director of music, Mr W. B. Foster, during which time photographers and camera-men spent reels and yarris of Alm.

Mrs Alleen Dekker, who was of at the airport, as Chairman the Music Society of Hongkong said. "It was one of those en- tirely unexpected things. The orchestra were amazed to see

without knowledge of English A huge sphere, inflated at the Police band there at Kat

were then pointed out to her but at the time she wished to stay.

Mrs Dmitrieva, 35-year-old wife of the former Assistant

At the end of May, while her Russian Naval Attache at the

for political application for political asylum Embassy, asked

for herself was being considered, Mrs asylum in Britain and her five-year-old daughter, Dmitrieva was guarded by Scot- land Yard Special Branch Lena on May 28.

Her husband, Captain Alex- agod 38 had ander Dmitriev jast flown back to Muscow at

the time Mrs Dmitrieva made her request for asylum to the Home Once after an interview with Russian-speaking officials at the British Foreign Office,

A few days previously, lic her with had tizappeared daughter alter leaving their London Ла to stay at the Soviet Embassy's country house ut Hawkhurst, Kent.

officers,

DILEMMA

She said in a press interview at that line hor dilemma was that her husband was threaten- divorce her and take in to away her two children.

At the time of the incident, o Foreign Office spokesman sald he had no reason to think that Captain Dmitriev did not leave Britain of his own free will Reuter,

an altitude of 250 miles Tak. They had already met be-

to a balloon the size of a fore on Sunday night, because was most of the Police bandsmen 10-storey building

launched tonight.

It could be seen clearly by people from New York to Char- leston, South Carolina, shining as brightly as Venus.

The

phere was launched from Wallops Island, Virginia, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration i test of inflatable satellies.

The sphere weighed only, 130 pounds, desplie its inflated 'size of 100 feet in diameter.

It was visible in the sky for

minules. Then

about.

10

it

sank below the horizon and fell Into the Atlantic Ocean.-Rou ter.

'Whacking Good Business'

Lowestoft, Oct, 28. David Wilkin, 13-year-old locsi school bay, announced hero of his the ending "Punishment-with-Profit" in Burance scheme.

SNOW FALLS Meanwhile, gales continued to

Hardest hit area was Scotland It is even worthwhile fol- lash much of Europe today as

where five fishermen were ad and In the "econd day" of winter. lowing Britain's lead

tonight people drowned yesterday off the coast More than a dozen teaching road sense from 1

found dead in the sea, within sight of their homes. A driver's point of view and were

women civilst was killed whitn the theory

of driving in The storm which disrupted ship-

property demage Winds snapped off a tree branch secondary

schools for ping, caused orrow's drivers, and blew vehicles off Scottish which struck her here are tomorrow' And meanwhile couldn't roads.

Heavy snowfalls throughout accident; a

In

another Scottish

truck driver

road died

rallings be introduced in Switzerland blocked alpine when his van was blown off the Home of the most densely passes to traffic as temperatures road. populated back streets of slumped below freezing point

the Colony as a measure of its several areas. protection for children

and motorists?

Snow also settled on moun

tains in the Black Forest of

| helped behind the scenes

with

the concert, as did Mr Fuster." ASTOUNDED

and and

"They were astounded at how

the band was proficient asked for more, shouting clapping."

A

Camerarnarv

television fravelling with the orchestra recorded the band on film, and it is understood that the film, once it is processed when the orchestra's present tour is over, will be released internationally. was full of Von Karajan

he and Mr Foster put their praise for the Police band and heads together and talked shop

for 10 to 15 minutes.

i

London, Oct. 28.

Mr Frederick Windsor, was literally left holding · the baby when he walked out on his wife and went to the cinema by himself, the London Divorce Couft was told today.

The wife, Mrs Joan Windsor, deciding to teach hán a lessto," found him in the cinema queue, dropped their baby into his arms and left him, the Judge said.

"I have no doubt whatever that for the rest of his life the husband will understand the full force and impact of the phrase 'holding the baby,'” the "Judze added

He rejected petition for divorce by the husband on the grounds of desertion but granted à decree nisl to the wife on the same grounds. Both denied the desertion allegations--Reuter.

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Sinking Ship Escorted

To Port

Weal

Miami, Oct. 28.

A Coast Guard cutler tonight escorted a foundering Britlik ship, the Crystal, with 20 people aboard toward Key.

Extra pumpa dropped to the vessel from Coast Guard helicopters apparently enabled j: to get

underway. Earlier,

the ship had reported its one

pump was unable to kep head of the water pouring in through Kush in the forward hold. The Coast Guard had said the ship was sinking.

The British vessel and the 25-foot cutter were heading for Key West at 14 knots.-UPI.

Crosby's Wife Sued

0

Los Angeles, Oct. 28. Bing Crosby's wife, actress

who

Kathy Grant, today was sued for $50,000 by Herman S. Magad, 80,

retired manufacturer, claimed her car struck his last November. 12.

Magnd's sult niso remed Crosby Enterprises Inc., a dow fendant. He suffered

a neck injury and loss of earnings. Misa

As a parting shot, von Karu- Grant suffered minor injuries

·Jan* ogain complimented the and several stitches were res bend and said that they werequired for a chin Injury-UPI, able to play Austrian marches

in their traditional bes....

So In spite of all the adverse criticism about their visit to Hongkong, the Vienna Philhar- monic Örchestra forening, three ahillings, Ife suid:" "We have now been

and their told that the society was, nak lender, Herbert von Karajan left for détention, one shilling for

lines,

good for the school. Be it is the Colony in a happy frame of and very 100 shilling " night for extra now-dropped.”

work.

one

The premiums had been six.. pence for the first week with threepence a week thereafter; and. two, ponce 'a week for - bors i qualifying for a

claim bonus "

Geoffrey Small, 13, another part

per in the firm. reported, kin had been doing a "whacking good busines" insuring his schoolmates against spankit ga and “other”...... schoolstme · so- | David's) kunouncement tanight followed a rash of prem_hoad- lines this muralag about his enterprion, called the "Middle | School Insursnes Society." --

oldenia. Two crewmen were swept off

a British freighter. in, the Bay

of Biscay and were drowned.

UPI and Heuter,

Under their pelveks 0.

fellow students at the shoot: kad been receiving, four blilings

"The boys found out how easy 16 was to get lines and made

moner.

mind.

Callas: Bomb Scare In U.S.

Kansas City, Oct. 28.

An apparent bomb scare, to-.

Tast, of course, the Transistor Radios night ended the teatre where

Insurance organization didn't

Stolen From Shop

totalling p

Thieves broke into No. 18,

like The society's funds,

two shillings, had been given to a boy who had received Jardine's Crescent, ground floor, nothing In compensation be-shortly after midnight last night ho had never been and stole 18 translator radios to

in tolal: value of $1,978. paniaked.....Bouter and UPI.

GRUPO

soprano Maria Callan, appeared in her first US. concret of the İyone, g

Loew' Midland theatre was ordered cleared for 30 minutes atter she had sung her first number. Offers swarmed into the building but no bomb was found,UPI