1959-11-11 — Page 1

Economy Priced

THE WEATHER

Moderate guity north winds. Fine, Noon Temp

KOMURA

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LENS

BOUL AGENTS

GILMANS

Comment Of The Day

Car Ferries Of

The Future

TOW preparations can be vehicu

Inr ferry service and Hongkong can only hope that by the beginning of the year after next the

71 "degrees," "Noon Humid: 54 per cent.

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ELECTRICITY COMMISSION ASKS: WHY NOT ON A COSTING BASIS?

Mr

KADOORIE ON TARIFFS

'HK Problems Temperature Falls Dealt With

In HK Manner'

waiting time for cars and Mr Lawrence Kadoorie, Chairman of the

lorries going to Kowloon and the island is drastically; reduced. If the new ferries are no bigger and faster than those that exist toxiny. and if the docking procedure is no less complicated, there will be four long quenes of grumbling drivers instrad of two. What may make a considerable difference to the second the conditions service are on which the tender has been awarded. These were not disclosed by Govern ment yesterday but they are not difficult to postulate. First the ferries must have have

a far bigger capacity than existing ones. They should carry nu passengers and should he two-storeyed. They should also be faster!

China Light and Power Company, Ltd., said this morning that his company had dealt with the "Hongkong problems in a Hongkong manner.'

Mr Kastorie was replying to Mr Damond by questions

Counsel anti Mayne. Crown legal adviser to the Electricity In the Inquiry Commision Bnal stages of its hearing.

Mr Mayne was taking Mr Kadoorie why the tariffs of the China Light were not based on a corting basis,,

Mr Kadoorie said a conted at would have to be "more

thoxlox to deal with the uni orthodox situation."

Industrial Town Hongkong, he said had risen since the war, to become "quite

small industrial town" costing baris would be strictly

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and able tu dock more logical and good In a logical easily and quickly.

atinosphere. "Here, there has en illogical atmosphere,

TUIS should mean that the been

Tpresent pen-type piers different from England and the

has to

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States,

by

Hong-

be the rest at that time to pro- vide electricity?

Mr Krdourie: I think that is correct.

been It must have worked out together with the Financial Secretary and others dealing with the question of the taking over from the

Administration.

Two Men

On Water

Charges

Two men were summoned at Central Magistrate before

Mr I. T. Morris this morning for wilfully or negligently allowing water to be wasted, for taking water from public sland pipe for trade purposes. and for using a rubber hose to be connected to the pipe. They were Mok Kal-kwong and Chan Hon-wal, employees of 29 Lyttleton a workshop at Houd, round floor.

Mok pleaded not guilty to the first and second summonses, bui to the third, Chan gulity pleaded not guilty to all three.

Waterworks Mr E. I Porte, Inspector, told the Court that inst ot on the Tuesday before 3.20 p.m, he was driving along Lyttleton Road when he saw water flowing on to the pave- ment from a publie stand pipe.

Hose On Ground

Below The Sixties

The temperature fell below 60 degrees this morning for the first Ume this peRMOJI. At $am.. the temperature at the Royal Observatory was 58.4 degrees.

A spokesman said this morning the temperature is likely to remain about the same for another day, possibly two, but he did not think it would get much colder.

During the night the temperature fell nearly 18 degrees Yesterday's maximum thermometer reading was 17.2 degrees at 12.30 p.m. But during the night, the cold surge of air still affecting the Colony brought the temperature right down to 58,8 degrees.

The spokesman added that the weather should remain fine with moderate north to north-north-east winds,

HK May Be Affected

By U.S. Tariff On Cotton Imports

Washington, Nov..10.

President Eisenhower has asked the U.S. Tariff. Commission to determine whether a penalty fee on imported cotton textiles, equal to eight cents per pound is necessary to prevent cotton textile imports from Interfering with do mestic support programmes, the White House announced tonight.

'Bikini Girl'

Fined For

Slapping Policeman

A rubber hose was lying on the ground! One end of it was close to a pipe where Mok

Alicante, Nov. 11. was standing and the other end

has provincial court a large tank which A led into

beauty fined British Military could contain about 30 gallons

Judith Marjorie Roberts £25 for stapping a police-

Reorganisation

of water.

Chun was standing near the tank and was talking to Mok.

and we have can be avoided. A "C" United

arms droll with the Hongkong prob- type wharf with two should be possible (with, lens ha Hongkong manner."

Mr Kadoorie said at present of course.

storeya). Lwo This will do away with the there was no actual government control over the Tariffs and! docking pro- prices the China Light charged, complicated cedure and allow two ferries except a letter in 1846 whereby to load and discharge; the company had agreed not to simultaneously. The com- raise the prices when it took

over the

from the operation four new pany proposes

British Military Administration. ferriea. We

six are

The agreement provided that needed to start with, and the charges should not be more two more later.

Un 3.6 times the 1041 rates.

figure Mr Mayne: Was that When the new ferry piers at

North Point und Kowioon based on the estimate mude City are under construction your company and the Government should begin kong Electric as to what would redesigning the existing ones so that they can pro- vide a quicker turn-round. Eventually the old ferries should be used only na rush-hour supplementaries, Fortunately the company not got far to go

kind ferries Hongkong needs. local shipyard delivered four this eurlier to, Pering

These

Cun 32 cars and more on top in stead of passengers,

Mr Mayne: This figure was

Mr Porte saud Me told hin arrived at on the basis of est- Said Tenku Abdul Rahman on

com-

that the water was for washing the day he opened the new mutes provided by your terminals for them: "There pany and the Hongkong clee-air-conditioning machines. is no pleasure to be had trie on the basis of prewar rates

queue while

the sun beatslation is 3.8 times the pre-war cooking rate. Where did that 3.6 times down on the roof you inside." We--the over- come from.

Mr Kadoorie: From the pre- cooked motorists of Hong-

war rate. I am sorry, but it all kong-could not agree more, and since not only private arose from that costing calcula-

tion based on prowar Tales.

Mir cars are involved but lorries

Mayne: What Is enrrying

food, neither

Calculation of your company? Government nor the com- Mr Kadoorie: 1 think it was

by calculation partly pany should upare expense.

THETHER the motorist is company and partly, as I said

the general set-up fair in laying all the blame at the feet of the Gov- company is arguable. ernment after all bullda the plers and without them the

carry

At that Time there was the complete need for re-organisa- tlon and this no doubt took its part in the general reconstruc-

tion.

not on completely new col-

from sitting in a car in "culations. And the new enleu

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of

the

our

that

(Contd. on Back Pare, Col. 6)

ferries cannot operate. The UN Chief Leaves

the

company may ask whether expense in building eight new ferrics is justi fied. What about the effect

the

of the bridge on

In this case Gov-,

For - Laos

United Nations, Nov. 10.

Nationa Secretary- Mr. Dag Hammarsic-

- United-

wist promise fair General,

compensation, but by the time the bridge is built and that may be 1970--pos Hibly ferries will still be needed,

Laos to investigate the govern- old, led by plane tonight for ment's complaint of a Com munist threat despite the strong objection of the Soviet Union.

Mr Hammarskjold left aboard Was Government right in a British Overseas Airways jet

·UPI. awarding the tender to the plune for London, existing vehicular

being equal, we

ferry company! All things pisc say yes. We are all for more com.

Too Much For

BB's Husband

petition but this is one case

where the monopoly should

Mr Porte caid that when Mok saw him he picked up the hose and connected one end to the pipe.

JTL.

The

the fine court lovied and then freed Miss Roberts, 20-year-old model, after noting her "pledge to repent."

She was arrested last June when a policeman in the nearby resert village of Benidorm tried

parading in bikinis,

Pl Govt Losing Ground In Elections

Manila, Nov. 11.

Partial election returns to-

Former MI5 Man

To Train HK's

Special Branch

By COLIN RICKARDS

London, Nov. 10.

day continued to indicate A tall, lean, softspoken man they call the real-life

Ifo

"James Bond," will land in Hongkong in January to take over a senior post in the Hongkong Police Force.

George

MIS

John Prendergast, Medallist, and former man, ex-Palestine anti-

ДП antl administration trend with only three of the ruling Nacionalista Party candidates among the top eight in the 32. man senatorial race. Two opposition parties were (TTorisi lighter, ex-Chief of the Gold Coast Special Branch, ex-Chief of the Kenya Special Branch and, by the time he arrives in Hongkong, ex-Chief of Cyprus Intelligenʊc,

Jubilant as traditionally opposi- tionist Manlin and urban dis- tricts gave the Liberal Party three candidates and the Grand Alliance two, each in the top elght senatorial positions in yesterday's general elections.

But Nacionalista leaders were walling for vales from southern Philippines crea stem the opposition tife.

LACSON RE-ELECTED

their

to

As of carly this morning only some 200,000 voles had been

Prendergast, 40. is cric of Britain's No. 1 Colonial trouble shooters, But he is hoping for timo in Hongkong. |p querce

His job: training the Colony's Policy in special tyranch work.

Reputation

announced in unofficial talles.

An Irishman, Prendergast was Some 0.5 million Filipinos are once assistant clerk on the estimated to have voted in yes-

election terday's generi

came the war and with it es choose sane 11,000 government

to

Middlesex County Council. Then pienage.

officials.

In the Monila anayoralty race, Prendergast was recruited into the incumbent Mayer Arsenio M15 and rapidly built a repula-

term with tion as a tough spy-catcher.

The White House spokesman, Leeson won a third Me James Hagerty, said that im- | an almost two to one, smargin. porta afected "core" from "Japan, ↑ över the nearest opponent, Jesur

Hongkong And

Asian | Mareca Roces, Hoces perceded suppliers.

the IDKK to Lacson late lest night.-Reuter.

other

The President took his action on the recommendation of Mr Ezra Taft Denson, the Secretary et Agriculture,

SUBSIDISED

The White House announce- ment said; "Under éxisting legislation, United States ention Is supported at a price con- siderably above the world level, Cetton is required by law to be exported from the United States in order to regain T fair world market. share This is done with the help of a subsidy, which presently is eight cents per pound.

of the

"Some of this subsidised cot- ton is manufactured into tex- les abroad and re-enters the United States in competition with domestically-manufactured

cotton texules which reflect the full support price for cotton.

Second Day

OF Rioting

In

Paarl

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In 1940 he was in Palestino leading Intelligence in no anti- terrorist sweep. From here he went to the Gold Coast (now Chaos) as Chief of the Special Branch.

Then in 1954 he was rushed to Kenya to take over Special Branch operations against the Mau Mau,

At the height of the Kenya terror, Prendergast went alone to into foresta and unarmed

His meet-Mau Mau lenders. masion: to talk them into sur rendering.

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Family Wiped Out By

Explosion

Glens Falls, NY, Nov.. 10.

A 20-year-old mother and her six children died to. day in an explosion and fire that destroyed their rural home near here. The father, Chartes Harris, 27, in odd-job man, died later in a hospital, apparently believing that his wife and children had been saved.

"Call my home and see how everybody ls," Harris mustered to attendants before succumbing to burns over 90 per cent of his body.

His wife, Janot and their

children, Pamela, 6, Charles Jr., 5. Jack, 4, Ponny, 9, George, 2, and Paula, 0 months, had perich- ed in the fire.

TRAPPED

The mother and chlidren were trapped inside the two-storey house when kerosene poured on a wood fire in the kitchen stove

For this he was awarded the touched off an explosion, Flames George Medal,

engulfed the house and levelled

Anti-Terrorist

at in less than 20 minutes.

Harris was blown through the front door or a window by the blast. His clothing, was aflame when neighbours rushed

1 the rescue.

Paarl, Cape Province,

Nov. 10. Several cars were reported stoned and many street-

When the Eoka terror broke in lights smashed

out in Cyprus, Prendergast was set into second day of distur-Blown there secretly

motion an anti-terrorist opera-

in blan- bances here tonight.

escorted tion. It was he who

kets, summoned an ambulance Armoured cars And many Archbishop Makarios into exile and then tried to

enter the police including men in the Seychelles, he who, as Eming home. Fire leaped from

townd from surrounding

and the final curtain came down on windows and doors, cutting off Capetown were on duty' as big the

took the rescue attempts, Grivas drama,

Later, when

armed

"The President has asked the; crowds gathered in the area near Httle Greek terrorist Irader to Tariff Canmission to determine the home of Mrs Elizabeth Mafc- Nicosin Airport and saw him off In evidence, Mok denied this to enforce local laws against whether a fee on imported cot- keng, banished mother of the island, heading for Athens.

and said the rubber hose sud- denly burst and he was trying to turn off the water tap when Mr Porie arrived.

Further hearing was fixed for Friday morning.

Accident

Victim Succumbs

man

whose

were

A

leys brekea when this run over him in Kowloon two daya ngo of injuries in Kowloon died Hospital yesterday.

He was Lui Wing-blu, aged 25, of 022, Reclamation Street, ground floor

His bleycle was involved in a collision with a bus in Cheung Sha Wan Road, near Yen Chow Street.

Nine Hurt

Two old people-a man and a woman-und seven boys werɑ traffic ac- injured in separate eldents in different parts of the Colony yesterday and early this morning. They were all mitted to hospital for treatment,

ad-

They wrapped him

the

fre died firemen recovered the away bodies of four children in one bedroom. Two others were in

ton textiles, equal to the amount! children, where shooting took Then Prendergast turned to of the subsidy, is necessary in place last night and baton the formidable task of bulking second bedrooms. Mrs Harris the order to prevent cotton textile, charges were made earlier today. with Imports from interfering programmes of the Department of Agriculture."

Mies Roberts slapped polleeman and touched off four months of legal proceedings.

At one point Miss Roberts" trial, which began on Thursday, a provincial prosecutor asked for

a three-year gaol sentence.

But that was dropped and the fine substituted. The court said it took into consideration the fact that Miss Roberts "was very upset" when she bit the police- and also that she had "pledged to repent."-UPI.

mart

Blanket Of Snow Over UK

London; Nov. 10. Snow was falling steadily this morning in parts of

northern England. Exposed mada roads in Soot- land were covered with frozen. ad- BROW and motorists wero vised to use chadha,

The work Scottish coast x- perienced sleet and strong winds.

Heavy mow with fog cutling | boiding up road and rail traffic visibility to 50 yards was today Huddarfeld, York- between shire and Lancashire,

On one madurood-two vehicles werS "in a head-on collaton; a lorry overturned. A camera, a radio and a type- nine cars had gone off the road writer, to a total value of $2,100, out of control und five bad bem were stolen from 111, Mountain standoned.

Penk yesterday Traffe formed a quaesae two

not be split. Given the right Brigitte Bardot's husband was vassels

and Intelligently sent

to hospital with a bad designed plera the Hong case of nerves today less then a kong and Yaumati Ferry week after de was called up can do the job, and assigned to a barracks All- Company

It

ed with pin-up pictures of his efficiently.

has the vessels, the crews, the shore wife.

Jacques Charnier, a movie stoff and the valuable startimself, was reported it know-how 'on which a fering from over-excitement.

service. He was 23 years old last Friday. (View.

-UPL

greatly expanded can be built.

Peak Theft

morning,

The

miles: Kong

REACTION

LORRY SMASHED

A municipal electricity lorry which went to replace smashed streetlights was turned back of stones was

windscreens

One Japanese source estimated | when i volley that a penalty fee of eight cents thrown at it Its

a pound would be the equivalent and side windows were smash-

of a tariff increase of about ten ed. The two occupants were

per cent.

Hengkong

Both Japan and

under have been

on the quCS- pressure recently Hon of cotton textlle exports to the United States.

The domestic

uninjured.

Brec

William Meanwhile, considerable an African, died in hospital

from solel today

wound received when police opened fire on rioters the evening be fore-Heuter and AFP.

Industry here feels that the voluntary quota yim under which Japan has agreed to limit the exports to in 247 mlition

square yards 1950 did not go for enough.

has resisted calls Hongkortz by U.S. government officials for the establishment of a similar voluntary quota system: Reuter.

Tommy Shot Accidentally

Nicosia, Nov. 10.

A British soldier was accidently shot dead in Famagusta tonight while he was on guard duty, an official communique said.

The communique said "the soldier, was futully wounded, when another member of the guard accidentally discharged « firearm.--UPI:

Shah's Sister To Marry

Teheran, Nov. 10. Princes Fatimu, the sister of

wer found near one of the rooms.

up and training the island's Police force to ensure that Cyprus remains pracetuj (it has

Neighbours said the fasully no army yet) after indeperated planned to move from the ence in February, 1960,

house tomorTOW-UPI. Since his early days in M15, Prendergast life has been

of trouble-shooting, ad- series venturcs. If a novelist wrote of his life the plot would be con- sidered improbable.

To stay

1

allve, Prendergast

evolved a simple formula:

he

Creator of Lambeth

or irregular Walk' Dies

became a man habits, for terrorists prefer tar- gets whose daily life is govern- ed by routine.

Time To Marry

But despite his activities be found time to marry.. His

beautiful wife. Dolly

London, Nov. 10.

Lupino Lane, British actor and theatrical manager, died at his London home tonight, nged 67.

He had been gravely ill for two days following a heart at-

thick.

His wife Violet and son Lauri were at his bedside. Lupino Lane was

wherever he goes. She is his confidental secretary but the also knows what it is like to live with danger.

She was in the King David

a leading the Shah of Iran, will be Hotel shortly before the ter-member of a British theatrical married on December 13 to rorists blow it up.

|family which has been

repre- General Mohammed Khaterni, With

bibank, Dolly sented on the stage for 16 the Commander-in-Chief of the Prendergast will soon be on the generations. Irual Air Force, it was learn- nove noirs, This time after One of his proudest posees- There today.

This will be the Princess' second marriage.-AFP.

a request for the services of long was a Charter for theatri- this real-life "James Bond"cal performances gruted by from the Hongkong Govern-King, Charles II to an ancestor ment, it is to the Far East. London Express Service.

Band An Fleming's

Typhoon Emma Actional deloctive hero.

Tokyo, Nov. 10. The United States Air Force weather office here said torlu Typhoon Emma was located 675 miles east-northeast of Manila this morning.

It was moving west at nine miles per hour. Winds within the typhoon were 98 miles per

hour-Reuteri

Slight Quake

Tokyo, Nov. 11.

A slight earthquake rocked Tokyo early this morning. There were no Immediate reports of damage

the reventeenth century.

To Londoners,' Lupino Lano Will always be remembered as "Mr. Lambeth Walk."

He

created the Lambeth Walk" dance in 1937 for. hls production, "Me and. My Girl," which rau for 1,646 per- formances

atthe Victoria Palace. He appeared in -it-on

1,580. consecutive, occasions. ***

Since then, the show has been several revived in London times, most recently in 1940. when he again appeared... Reuter.