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WHO

Of The DEATH AFTER FIGHT ON TUG KILLED

Day

A QUICKER

CROSSING

THE news of a supplement-

Try our ferry will be welcomed by all motorista and truck drivers, for it means that in the 18 months

or so before the #ecomi

SIR

Man Detained WHERE GUNMAN

GUNMAN WAS LAST

WAS LAST SEEN HARRY

By Police

For Inquiries

stresanliped service begins. A European crew member of the tug

some definite relief is as-

sured and that waiting time

concern

over

at the Hongkong and Kow-, loon terminals will to some extent be reduced. Growing

the ferry hold-up was felt particularly following the recent threat of motori transport companies

raise cartage rates, a muve which would have forced up food

caused prices and

this

widespread hardship. One suggestion to avert

possibility, made by Kow- loon grocers and provision stores, was the institution of a temporary vehicular start service pending the

of the second. Mr Burgess's disclosure on Wednesday therefore disposes of the transport companies thrent, though I was not entirely unjust in view of the long delays which experienced.

their trucks ;)

Welshman, has died following a fight with another man on board the vessel in Hunghom Bay early this morning.

A European member of the crew has been detained

for inquiries.

The Police announced this early this afternoon.

HK Needs

More Hotels

Hongkong needed more first

class hotels near the beaches to attract tour- ists, a leading English travel agent said today. He is Mr Rodney Mullalley, Air India today, seven-man

Tupplementary service He is Mr

after leading

benefit of these vehicles English tourist mission of the and this will, in turn, make, Far East. valuable space available for Mr Mullalley who has bien Cars In the main

runin Hongkong for the past three alreased that it more Attractive hotels were created in the Colony "curlst potential would be tremendous."

"From observation of this

ferries. And if it is unlike days ly that this temporary mea- aure will entirely eliminate the cross-harbour bottle neck, at least everyone, even lorry drivers using the slower service, should make A much quicker crussing. Critics may

well ask why

wordiul city I feel that the

a should be built the beaches." he said.

MORE TOURISTS

around

Auch A service WAN hot "I don't think full advantage started months ago, because has been taken of some of the long queues are nothing beach sites except

new. Hitle

first

No other details were avail- able.

The tug Welshman, arrived in

Ner Hongkong yesterday. marathon 78-day tow.

It brought the former Ameri- can aircraft carrier Shamrock Bay into port to be scrappků by

local iron works.

Master of the tug is Captain

Ernest Bond, veteran salvage tax master of the United Towage Company.

Our photographer yesterday visited the area where the gunman was last soon and brought back the above picture showing the fisherman's hut where the fugitive had obtained two bowls of rice and then disappeared. The In the foreground is the beach feading into a small bay in Chung The tug was due

picture gives some idea of the wooded area. to leave Hongkong for the United King- Hom Kok. dom next week.

Contempt Of Court Warning

District Victoria

Court Judge T. Creedon today warned a witness in the Walsh conspiracy case that

· Mail. Van

Bandits

Escape With £10,000

London, Nov. 18,

Police, throughout Britain were alerted today to watch for car bandia who stole a Royal Mail' van 'last night and ́ ́escaped with about" £10,000 ii registered letters.

The Kang rabbed a periman, George laigh, aged 64, while he was taking mall from a post office outside Doncaster, bundled him into the back of the van with the sacks and drove off.

lanc.

Three miles out of town they dumped him in a lonely

His empty van was found later abandoned seven miles

away. an answer he gave bordered on contempt of court.

In a few instances. But if there seems

kwong were more "If there in point

pursu-

a big increase of ing this particular question class hotels

at least all drivers tourist trade could be expected must ask that the temporat least from England," he

now,

ary service

be maintained

gald

that it Mr Mullalley said

restrictions increase the Hongkong.

would in Englend

tourist trade In

The witness Chow Chun- Was under CT0623- examination by Mr Patrick Yu, who is defending Francis Adrian Walsh, 30, and his wife, Irene Shelle, 20,

The couple with Lily Lec,

from Chow and Chan Ping-

kwan as 2 reward for Walah forbearing In take action against the Tat Kee Company Club on the 12th door of Empire Apartment, North

until the new North Point- would take some time before 40, had pleaded not guilty to Kowloon City service Is the abolition in the currency conspiring to solicit payments working smoothly. In fact it may be useful to maintain it at rush hours permanently provided land- ing piers on both sides of the harbour can be obtain- ed. Hongkong's traffic has already grown out of its ferries once. It could easily do it again.

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Ke

"No doubt the dripping of the restrictions will improve the flow from England but it will be very gradual," he said.

"Hongkong's best hopes for improved tourist traple is air fare reduction which has been discussed for a long time."

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Point.

Chow is No. 2 boy Club.

of the

On

for

Lee has denied o further charge of receiving $2,000 August 16, as a reward Walsh forbearing to carry out his duty in respect of the Club. Questioned by Mr Yu, Chow at the end of the agreed that "onversation between himsel and the three accused at Win ner House on August 1 was no deanfte arrangement to

neet again

there

Chow later said he had take Chan to meet the

accused on August 3,

Scotland Yard today circulated a description of a car seen leaving the spot where the van was abandoned-China Mall Special.

Greatest Art

Discovery

Of The Century

Beverly Hills, Calif., Nov. 19:

The greatest artistic discovery of the century came to light today when a television repairman found he possessed a Michaelangelo painting, and others by Italian masters, worth several million dollars.

Plainclothes Men Take Over

Hunt For Gunman

Uniformed police have been withdrawn and plainclothes men have taken over the active.search for the gunman who shot a constable in Wanchai on Tuesday and who has been at large for the last 70 hours.

Plainclothes mas are combing

the areas of Stanley and Chrung Hon Kok for the fugitive,

who A China Mail reporter returned from the Aberdeen- Stanley arca sald that ne uniformed police were seen in the vicinity,

Police in Stanley and Chung Hom Kok distributed lange

of printed notices quantities with front and profte portraits of the wanted manʼand a bilin- Eual statement saying;

*$5,000 reward. This man is wanted. by the police and 85,000 reward will be paid to any person giving information

leading to his strest.” The photo was similar to the

one published in the China Mail for the last two days.

The police have scorched tho old fort ai Chung Hon Kok

A Chicago art expert. Tintoretto, an "Annunciation" and the Cheung Fo Chai cave Alexander Zlato-Misky

arby Gentilschl, a "Saint Jerome" sald to be an old pirates hide- nounced. the discovery today, by Lorenzo Lotto, "Lot and His cut

The cave is very narrow, at The discovery was made by Daughters" by Claude Lorrain. Charles di Renzo, who saw the and "Madonna with Saints the entrance barely large

enough for a man to get in.. to pakitings in the bedroom of a by Raphael. third television repairer, Alfonso

No Arrangement

Mr Yu pointed out that Chow

had said there was no arrange- ment to meet.

It was said that the bave has All- the paintings were a tunnel leading from Follo, a recent immigrant from deposited in the vaults of

Hom Kok, Stanley, to Mu Shan, Bank-AFP and in Causeway Bay near Tin Hau

Temple,

Italy.

LOST MASTERPIECE

One of the paintings, knows

to historiaD6 as "The Lost

Chow replied "What I have Masterpiece" and valued at sold this morning I have for- | $1,500,000 (£630,000) was identi-. gotten,"

Mr Yu: Therefore, what you told us just now about having to take Chan to see, Lee mus be all nonsense."

Chow:"The last answer was wrong."

flens the Madaliena by Michaelangelo Di Caravaggio.

A provisional lot of the other canvasta included a painting by Titian, which is believed to be # portrait of his daughter Lavinia,

painting of SI

A

Cecilia by Cavallino, the "Rape Deianira" by Giordano,

Mr Yu: "You mean when you of

Pasadena Reutta.

Burst Water Mains Result In Big

Traffic Jam

London

London, Nov. 19.

with me there was "Moves on Mount Stand" by A traffic jam which stretched into miles of stalled,

no definite arrangement to meet }

agam, that was incorrect."

Chow replied: "I cannot re- member that answer,"

Judpe Creedion

horend 400 Vans Ordered

hoek Chowa answer to him.

Mr Yu than told Chow be

hed repented the same shewer

just two aninutes ago."

20

honking vehicles clogged London streets today after two huge water mains burst in the city. Officials said that it would darat excess of Christmas sho

shop take three weeks at night and pers were flooding into the dy already, water mains and the other five clogged with traffic.

day work to repair one of the | jamming the streets By Hongkong

Chow, "It is up to you if you longong has endered 100 can point it-out"

Judge Creedon told Chow: 30-cwt vang from a big British "That is bordering on contempt motor maufacturi arm, of court. From now on plass London bla, middī today, refrain from being, imperiment Some of the vans have been to Counsel.”

ordared, by Covernment. It www not "diclownd who the other

Chow apologised.

The herring is continuingg

“Some” busės' were running 40 minutes, lato, The biggest tle- In the meantime the streets, ups were on The Strand, Oxford. choked with trame Street and in Trafalgar Square,- normally anyway, wero - strangled

One mali va took an hour buer, trucks and cans on almost to travel a route which normally takes 15 minities, in one part | dik, the main arterios

the regular of town, trame stood still 3* Apart from tramą, police reported that the half an hour

by

UPT.

Governor Returning

On Dec. 1

The Governor, Sir Robert Birck, and Lady Black are expected to return to Hongkong on Tuesday, December 1, after their leave in the afted King- dom.

Sir Robert and Lady Black are due to land at

Kal Tak Airport in Boad aircraft at 4.35 p.m.

OAKES?

WHAT is the most in-

WH

triguing unsolved murder mystery of this century? Beyond doubt. It was a crime committed on a stormy night in July 1943.

The place: Nassau, in the rich men's playground ok the Bahamas.

The victim; Millionaire. Sic Harry Oakes, the most fantastic figure among all those who won I fortunes in the gold stampedes

at the turn of the century.

The suspect: His son-in-law, Count de Marigny, champion

yachtnum and society (E), But not a murderer. He tried and sequitied.

SOLAS

The real kilier: Probably still alive today.

One thing in certain. Never has a murder investigation been so and badly bungled:

never has a killing had such repercussions yours afterwards.

Today

the crime is a major political issue in the Bahamas.

But despite ofcial retusal to reopen the inquiry, a new casebook on the murder of Sir | Harry Oakes is now ready.

It has been prepared by GEOFFREY BOCCA, who has tsiked-to-every-principal in the

C#50.

investigation, Bocca says

Recalling the months of

"I talked about the case with Sir Harry's widow, Lady Oakes. "I spent weeks with de Marigny,

who unburdened

elf for the first time,

"I talked to old Louis Oakes. brother, now Harry's elder nearly ninety....Nancy Cakes closely- sent me a thirty-page typed summary of facts and comments on her father's life and death....”

Little was published-in Bellain at the time of the murder and trial. The small wartime news- papers were packed with news from the battlefronts,

Now comes Bocca's casebook. It is ne-focus documentation; and a character study pi acule perception.

Who killed

Sir Härry Oakes?

begin in the China Mall tomorrow,

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