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CHINA

No. 37504

Established 1845

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1959.

LATE FINAL

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

Comment 5 SEAMEN AWARDED Solicitor's Plea

Of The Day

Bank Move On Interest Rates

Y raising Interest rates in

Be cone of few or sta

$16,000 BACK PAY For A Man

Ship Delayed

In Bangkok

For Two Years

Five seamen

today won market

clients, the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank hus given

toenl the

share warning that it will not tolerate heavy speculative buying # trend which Fas been developing in recent weeks. There has heen some immediate effect, judging by yesterday's business

Turnover fell sharply in the morning but picked up in the afternoon and it may not be possible. to assess the fall effect of the Bank's action until the end of the week,

What it has done is to advise a few of its clients meat- ly share brokers, it seems that it will now enst them more

borrow

an Admiralty

Court claim for a total of $16,000 against the motor vessel Sonia, which remained in Bangkok two years after Thai authorities alloged it transported 87 illegal immigrants to Thailand in 1956.

Mr Justice A. D. ruled that the seamen were en

titled

to back

wages

Scholes red them in Ashing boats about 100 miles off Dangkok. When the from ship returned to Hongkong, the

August 1, 1950, until the dates of Their return to Hongkong at various times in 1957 and 1958. Four should also be reimbursed

|

crew received a small bonus.

The Sonla sailed again for Bangkok around August 20, 1958, and again picked up illegal

for their ᎰᎪᎢ . Doranges fron immigrants-37 this time-off Bangkok to Hongkong.

Mr Justice Scholes said in his judgment he believed that the money. In a city like Hong. five

Chan where economic re- kong strictions

fre rare

plaintiffs-Chan Kucal, Wing-yuen. Wu Bing- chong. Man Tim and Hartland carrying illegal immigrants but *** | Fung-all knew their vessel was

he added he was not satisded that they

were involved smuggling themselves.

where there is no tieven ment central bank to make orders in the name of a supreme economie authority, such a move is bound to be resented and unpopular by those who feel the effect indirectly, But as the Bank's money is partly involved in this speculation, the Bank, has the right to say how its money will be employed

and protected.

AND

ND what it is saying that since more genuine forms of invest

Ruch ment.

as industry. are unable to get all the money they need, it is not prepared fo allow its money to be poured in ever in- creasing amounts Into the Stock Exchange for the benefit of a few speculators. Ая the bank also points out there are the dangers of a collapse and to deflate the bubble prematurely may

Rave

Order

in

Mr Justice Scholes dismissed counter-clalm by Mr Henn- que Leitao, the Sonia's owner,

the

Macao. Agala, the Immigrants were transferred to fishing boats before the ship arrived in Bang- kot.

When the Sonla did arrive in Bangkak early in September, 1946, she was boarded by cus- toms officers. The captain, clijei officer, clic engineer were

arrested and detained about $4 doys. Also arrested was the charterer's agent.

Members of the crew

cana fered to Thai authorities they were involved in smuggling.

The Sonia finally wan pe- leased and sailed for Hongkong in August of 1958. Only one crew, original anember of the

erew members were not led to back wages because they attempted to smuggle ille. gal Immigrants Into Thailand. | yuen,

]}L also asked

Third Engineer Chan- Wind-

who remained with the the court to ship during the whole of her award him $82,000. He claim- stay was obeard when she re-

that amount he lost

of turned home.

ed

while the Vessel was money held in Bangkok.

A the request

of Mr S. V.

Gitting, counsel for the plain-

Insufficient Pay

During their stoy in Bang-

not

The money

tis, Mr Justice Schules also kok, crew members were nude an order that the Sonia paid sumcient money and sold be appraised for sale 14 days oil and ship's Bitings to main- from today if Judgment and Itain Eubsistence. custs were not pald before they were pald in Bangkok and then.

the allowances paid their rela- tives were deducted from their elaimes against the ship.

According to evidence pro- duced during the two-week trial, the crew members signed on the Sonia at the end of June, 1936.

The Sonia sailed, under char- several speculatorster to the Yick Yuen Shipping getting badly hurt.

Company, early In July for Bangkok. She stopped in Macao In this light, the Bank's move waters and took aboard about 50 must be seen as a move in illegal immigrants but transfer- the general interests of the Colony. This is not the first time it has taken auch action. Five years ago 1 similar thing occurred. Not only were interest rates accounts,

IT

raised on certain

but a ceiling was placed on overdrafts when the first restriction failed to achieve the desired results.

is of course premature to aqueul, but if the market

MARGARET'S

SECRET

WEEKEND

London, Nov. 2.

Princess Margaret spent

Giving judgment for the plain. Uffs, Mr Justice Scholes ruled that Chan Kwal, Wu Bing- chang, Man Tim and Hartland Fung all were entitled to back wages from August 1, 1958, un- il their return to Hongkong in 1957. He also said they should be reimbursed for their alr passages home, which they financed themselves. The third engineer, Chan Wing-yuen, should be paid wages for the whole of his two years in Bang- kak.

Satisfied

"I am satisfied on the evi- dence that each of the plain- tiffs did not cease to be of ser- vice to the chip until he re- turned to Hongkong and that each was ready to do what was required for the ship during that period,..." the judge said, He said he was also satisfied had received no wages

quiet three-day weekend they

OBE Recipients With Troubles

No Record

Mr E. G. A. Grimwood (f), Hongkong Govern- ment officer in London, and Express carloonist, Giles, pictured above with

were his wife,

recent recipients of the insignia of the OBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Mr Grimwood was honoured for services to the Hongkong Govern- ment over the past 14

years.

Overparked Because Of Defective Meter

BOOK NOW ON PAN AM

JETS

TOKYO

Konolulu-San Francisco/Los Angeles For Reservations, Phone 37031

PAN AMERICAN

A solicitor, Mr W. 1. Choung, made a special plea for compassionate treatment for a man in a case before the Tenancy Tribunal this morning.

The Queen To Forgo Christmas Shopping

London, Nov. 3.

The man, Lee Kam, 41, op- posing the application for ex- emption of 80-82 First Street.

Mr Cheung said;

Lee had been unemployed for

Secretly Coached TV Quiz Entrants

Washington, Nov. 3. House investigators were told today that Misa Shirley Bernstein secretly coached contestants on the now-defunct TV Quiz Show *The

$64,000 Challenge.

Two former contestants sald that Miss Bernstein, who helps ļed produce the show, suppiled "warm-up" them in pre-show

six years because of a decline in sessions with answers to one or more questions which they the Jota paper industry.

the pro-

He sometimes managed to ret later were asked on an odd day's work at $5.

Bla wife had tuberculogia, and

| he was also a supeoled case,

His eldest son

back, and he

children.

six

graronne,

The charges were levelled by the Rev. Charles E. (Stoney) Tennessee preacher,

was a hunch-Jackson, had

other and in a signed statement from Wilton J. Springer, of New York City, which was read into the bunk Congressional hearing record.

All occupied only space at 82 First Street, some sleeplig under the bunk and | some on top.

The man attributed his son' deformity to illness due to mal- nutrition.

on

Jackson also testified that he was strongly tempted during an Appearance on "Challenge” December 29, 1957, to blurt put that it was rigged.

BULLET-RIDDLED BODY

Queon

In his evidense Lee Kam had Elizabeth's physi

he said He didn't,

Amid clans have ordered her to aid: "I get relief of five cat-hughter, because "I could, Doe

iles of rice per week from the|my" bullet-riddled body forgo one of her greatest Happy Valley Welfare Assocla- passed an alley somewhere." Ho delights

Christmas tion: I owe money to every inter conceded his statement shopping because of tenant in the house where I probably was an exaggeration. her pregnancy, it disclosed on Monday.

was live."

Poverty

na I

Both Jackson and Springer said Miss Bernstein never told them they would be asked the It is he once-a-year custom

same questions on the show for Christmas to go shopping

The extreme poverty of the that were put to them in the

was stressed presents in the

by "warm-up sessions." They said big Knights-sub-tenants 3lores, brides

their legal representatives; the this came as a surprise to them. other EVITY woman in her realm can shop yesterday and had seen cond-to the composer was not men. Tribunal had inspected the site Miss Bernstein's relationship mytime she desires. But store tions for themselves.

the Queen never buys for ber- self court etiquette confines her to a Christmas time gift shop- ping spree.

This

tioned.

Jackson won $4,000 on Mr Hon, of Hon and Co., for the applicant, said his client Mr programing on December 1957, after winning $18,000 Ba Kwok-cheng, who is The $64.000 Question." overscas Chinese, was not

ם

the

29,

on

Springer won $6,000 in two her physicians (apeculator. He only wanted to year,

10 have recommended that she stay develop the site.

appearances March

and March 23, 1959-on “Challenge." away from the stores since she is expecting her third baby in Mr. Hon, were on the verge of

The existing buildings, sald --UPI.

been

January OF February the

xact time has not

collapse. being between 80 and an- nounced. All crowded places

В 70 years old, with wooden were banned lest she run the staircase from ground to first)

represented risk of infection. Both measles floor which

the

and influenza are prevalent insame type of fire hazard as that London at present."-

of last night's fre in Queen's Road,

It was believed she "would have to turn over her Christ-

"If the application for exemp-

Mr I. T. Morris at Central mas shopping list to ladies-in-tion is refused, the likelihood is,

watting ahrt "let them buy the said Mr Hen, "that the Gover- Magistracy this morning gifts for her. exercised his power under Section 36

END TO TOURS Magistrate's Ordinance Meanwhile the Daliy

of

the

Mail

and dismissed a summons today forecasta an end .10 Lours for Queen for overparking against strenuous Mra H. M. Szczepanik, Elizabeth, such eg last sum

mer's six weeks in Canada and wife of the senior her visit to Australia in 1954. lecturer in economics and political science, Univer- the Canadian tour her doctors,

Of Mature's sity of Hongkong.

Marriage

Naples, Nov. 2

The newspaper says "after

who had already wanted to eut Sub-Inspector M. Atkinson, tours to three weeks, were

said prosecuting,

Mrs Szeze determined that she should panik's private

XX4384, never do anything like it again. was found parked in a space in Connaught Road Cen- "Now, in the new look for

car,

meter

tral at 5.43 p.m. on August 8. Royal tours, Palace officials are The meter did not exhibit a considering restrleting Common-

wealth trips to three weeks,”

payment

The authorities in Naples and sign indicating that

Capri today expressed 'had been made for the use of astonishment at reports that the parking space. film star Victor Mature mar- ried secretly in Capri in Sep- tember.

Mature was quoted

In U.S.

as the guest of the tall during the periods for which newspapers as saying that he Alan Godsal at they hadi claimed, other than married 25-year-old Joy, Ur-

Mr

his

in

is severely depressed by the Bank's action, it will be hard on local shareholders, if only for the reason that the market takes so long to

recover. The local stock ex- change experiences nothing! like the fluctuations of the London or New York mar- keta. The last goud boom in Hongkong was five years ago. The most recent one

a London ball a few days uns caused a breach of terms of up the island of Capri, all began prior to the British

ngo. election and even though |

service contained in the ship's denied today having celebrated Unlike many Royal weekends, attempted to smuggle legal im

articles, that any of the plaintifts any such marriage. shares including Banks rose by bout ten this one was kept secret. So migrants into Thalland, that the to thirty per cent, there was much so,

until today in were determined prior to their a genuine, healthy stimulus did not leak

the the London Evening News. buying, namely

return to Hongkong." Conservative victory.

NO COMMENT

wick, daughter of a well-known estate food allowance and remittances London doctor, in a secret cere 2,500-acre Berkshire 30 miles to their relatives.

mony in Capri. from London

dome

to

the Dismissing Mr_Leitao's_coun-

The mayors, priests and the man who retrieved Printer-claims. Mr Justice Scholes cess Margaret's slipper at said he was not satisfied on the Pastor of Capri and Anacapri, make evidence that any of the plain- the two villages which

There was no record

PLEADS GUILTY

The Daily Mali ulao forecasts new rules for etiquetio and pro- 20col, including an end to long Iines of handshridng - "one of Mr FX D'Almada, ofthe most exhausting of tasks imposed on the Queen" --- and Mason, pleaded D'Almada and

a culting of "whistle stops" to a minimum-UPI and Reuter. guilty on behalf of the defen- dant. He said his client had in fact put two 50-cent coins into could leave her cor there the meter and expected that sho

four hours.

for

"But after putting the second coin into the machine she noticed that she was still only allowed to park her car there for two She realised that there hours. was a mechanical defect in the machine. As

in she was hurry for an appointment she United left the car there," Mr D'Almada

Buld

On Euch grounds I would ask Your Worship to dismiss the summons under Section 35 of the Magistrate's Ordinance.'"

of the

in fact, that word of services of any of the plaintiffs States or British Consulates

ceremony" with tho

Not Accepted

Last month's boom resulted in Tha Princess's official T

Mr Justice Scholes sald the $60 million worth of busi- sidence, Clarence House, refused Ress. This is three or four immediate comment on the cele- did not accept the contention of times more than normal. brated weekend. Evon tocols Mr Leitao that under Pana- During this period almost in the town of Twyford, near manian law the ship's crew was

the entire market benefited. Mr. Godsal's house, Haines Hill, not entitled to claim against the A fall now would do the card only by accident that the ship because of its detention for

|illegal activities. Princess was weekending with

market no harm and would the high Sheriff of Berkshire, put share prices back on to

the

Was

Naples

The marriage was to be Miss Urwick's first. Mature has been married twice-AFP.

Check On HK Books

mant will condemns these buid- ings in this very congested area. The cecupants would then re- calve no compensation."

The Tribunal, which consists of Mr J. E. Dargan (President). Mr A. O. Barretto and Mr James

T. Choy, adjourned until 9.30 a.m. on Friday, November 8.

10,000 Houses

Flooded As

River Bursts

Its Banks

Nagoya, Nov. 8. More than 10,000 houses were Blooded when heavy rains which fell on Mon-

University

Professor Resigns

New York, Nov. 2. Columbia University today accepted the resignation, effective immediately, of Mr Charles Van Doren, the young assistant Eng- lish professor who reveal- ed today he had been given the answers before- hand when he won $129,-. 000 on a television quiz show.

Mr Van Doren had told Con- gressional investigators in Washington earlier that he had offered his resignation, but did not know whether the University had decided to accept it.

The

announcement that it had been accepted was made without comment by Dr Gray- son Kirk, the University Pre- sident. He did disclose, bow- ever that the University Trustees had studied Mr Van Doren's testimony in Washing- ton today.Heuler.

day caused the swollen Two Hurt In

waters of the Shinkawa

River

to breach Its recently patched embankments.

up

The flood came as the city

Bangkok, Nov. 2. The English-language news- paper Bangkok World reported today that Lt-General Prasert Rushtrawong Deputy Chief of was emerging from the ravages Police, has ordered a check on of the worst storm disaster in and periodicals from the nation's history brought on books

hidden Com- by typhcon Vera less than two Hongkong for murist propaganda-Reuter.

months ago. The typhoon left a toll of more than 4,000 dead and more than 1,500,000 home-i Jess,

THE HUNT IS ON FOR FERDINAND

Oxford, Nov. 2.

midlands today, for the kid- bullock Ferdinand napped whose good looks have so far been kis, downfall. They

He agreed it was possible the. One spokesman close to the ship was arrested but he said Follo searched through the more realistic busds. But Royal Family said it should he was not satisfied on what most dread is the surprise. no one that the Prin- evidence that it actually prospect of a long period of oess, an unwed 29, should want arrested or detained by Thai

from her social authorities. This is what'] to get aWBY stagnation.

once in awhile and un-surroundings happened last time,

Originally, 10 crew members less the Bank is prepared to "with a man of her age."

The Princess arrived on Fri- | of the Sonia claimed against the apply stimulant

a

day afternoon. She and her ship. But two withdrew their healthy buying when the attractive

whosɑ"; actions and Mr Justice'. Scholes Dscort Exchange is in the dal favourite sports are hunting and dismissed claims of three other drums, by lowering Interest yachting, attended the opening who failed to appear in court. rates here and there, it may of the Garth, Hunt today, Mr Lellao was represented by

UPI,A hippen again.

MR. W.-B. Winter,-

to

stopped and searched lorries on the roads' visited farm hoping to spot the bullock with the "pretty", pra» file seen in the: past week" by thousands in the newuPADRES and on lelovkina, SK Ferdinand, pedigree bull, con- » Gemmad to death in his prizna

COLLAPSE -

Worst hit agadra was Kuwana, when more than 70 feet, of the temporary repaired, embankment

tribution to the British Em- in the Fakul district collapsed, pire Cancer Campaign,

nothing about the stunt,

The Daily Mirror today received

and the raging :walers In-

Firecracker

Factory Explosion

Two men were seriously burnt when a powder- mixing room, of a fire- cracker factory in Macao, blow up shortly after a.m. yesterday.

The two workers, Chen Chau,

because his gentlo fado made him unsuitable for breed-

when | The campaign organisers know | dated some 3,500 houses to the $4, and LJ Fok-heung, 39, dush- Ing. was reprieved the

depth of more than four feet, [ed out" of the inferno. liko Some 1,000 residents of Ku-human.forches and · rolled on second riZABOTTE pole for wans and 250 of the people the ground in pain. Ferdinand.

living in other low lying GREGA

A hume ball of firm blew, the The note, signed "The Kespon- |of the city were again evacuated

[rooftop off the mud-shed #hla Ones" contained three to satur places),

and

agricultural authorities -allowed' him to be bought by the Dally Mirror, on condi- tion that he was castrated."-

But his new life" of casa Wan rudely; abak da on Saturday when kidnappers whiked him away from a farin at Walling- /ford · near · Oxford ·· Farinar babindianola" demanding

- Thälem in the form of # 000-

.

' photographs ...which purported

to be of the Bullock,

Their posts were charred.

A force of 200 mambers of the walls collapsed. the Self Defence Force, called A third worker, So Pool, 47,

Elightly

The Mots, envelope and photo- up for emergency duty were who left the room shortly, bes

Arman Kave all been sent to repairing the broken mbarik-fore the blast, was Soulmad Tardy.. Ching Mail Trenta- miong the Shinkawa hurt when he tripped in his

River ----UPL

hurry, to escap#,