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LATE FINAL
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1959.
NOT GOOD ENOUGH
FOR X'MAS CARDS
Day
Two Gaoled For
Of
AN EGYPTIAN Possession
MUSEUM
MOST of the great cities,
of the world have some!
kind of museum. And
Banknote Plates
that mm. there is. Sentencing two men to prison for six
always a section sot apart,
to display the
tohitks f
ATL which tell of the
ancient achievements
carlier civilisations.
the greatest
And!
and
of these
most interesting are those galleries whieb, fell of the grandeur which | onee belonged to Egypt.
One has but to walk around the British Museum in London or the huge depart ments set aside in museums
He
months this morning, for making and possessing banknote plates, Judge B. J. Jennings told the Victoria District Court there was little or no likelihood of HK$100 and Philippine 10-Pesos plates in the defendants' possession ever being used successfully to make banknotes that could be passed off as real ones.
even
whatever purpose — to
doubled if they for
suitel xly poval backgroame notes on their own initiative. Under the currency relations they were liable to term of cumprisonment of up to seven
in New York and Chicago, weld be good enough to make make impressions of currency
#BB something of wha!
Christruse
This early rivilisation, or theiz sebene for a "new and established in the delta of strong design" the Nik, heritage ist world.
mala
ACT 34
Judy Jennings found Western
the years. Wong Shum, 10. om SING THE 11,
No Doubt
P this there is no doubt.
And in
Egypt. there stand remote and alof the colossal edifices which
still establish the 20 markable achievements of a former civilisation,
But now, we are told, a new is to be set up in museum Port Said. This is to mark, no glory that wan, but
For lær, su glory that is.
fold, is to be We are
the
Moorhouse Maeum.
21
With
It has particularly
Egyptian Hounding name. That in itself is no surprise, for Moorhouse is a
York- shire name. Nevertheless, it murks the renaissstier of Egyptian culture, for here it was,
young British lad
taken prisoner was cruelly done to death in the best traditions of these re- surgences of nationalism.
Great Victory
▶UT, we are toll, this was
B
great victory, or
event in a
an
series of vie
tories. An event, according
© lecitnisiyner, and Latig in- sham,
30-veurecid guilty
Tout 711
making
33
implements
charges
{
f
0-
Bod
1th earlier
apentances
{1)
court, the second accused, Lam, i Bad id he had been asked to tip $2,000 by a Mr Chu HK$100 arct Philippine
Yau-siu, for a scheme to print banknotes. Pers
denlyn on Christmas; it for Juw
ite went to a North carts. suvion of plates. He sen-
Point fat Cu Aujaist 11 to see feed them buth to six months?
ramment on each of the the designs but while examin- four charges, the sentences to ing them the police had raided ton concurrently,
Certain Doubt
|
the fat and later arrested him.
Wong said he had been ein- ployed by Mr Chu at $200 inamth to take photographs of the banknotes,
this that
He said, however, that here was a certain doubt in his mind as to whether they had actually Judge Jennings said
bank morning he was convinced conspired to forge the holes, or if, as they alleged, the both the accused had known of plates were to be used in the the new Christmas card design design of Chritmas card. For for some time, and strongly sus- that rew: on he was sequitting peried that lam had a financial them on two other charges of interest in the scheme.
con pinep to forge the bank- pote
He pointed out, however, that it was highly illegal for onyene
Mr W. B. Coffer. Crown Counsel pore muted, and Fun was represente
Str 'rock Becnacel, inuetest BY MG 5. S. Stevenssa. Wens; seat met represented
Captain Refuses
To Leave His Wrecked Ship
Aberdeen, Der. 9.
to the Cairo radio, which ad A Finnish sea captain has refused to leave his
the world applauded and
condoned.
It is
natural that stich 1920 establishing th
wrecked ship as waves battered her on the rugged northeast coast of Scotland.
J Ukka Captain
Vuorio. : Dutchman who died at Brixham aped CD, has been in comunand Devon, from injuries received board 2 barge bring and could not lowed by the Dutch
action museum to commemorate; of the 1.845-ten freighter Anna while such an epic feat of arms for 24 years should have sparked off bring himself to leave the ship Cyclonps.-Reuter. indignation in Britain. It he loves.
is just us obvious too, that The Anna, carrying a
the British and their
cargo
of timber, was driven ashore
French comrades in.arms te en
Monday night on the
would, to adopt a metaphor. treacherous Aberdeenshire const
have
out
wished to have come at St Combs, for the final round.. The other members of the which would have been the crew had been rescued by
the breeches buny.
first few seconda
second round.
of
The last to come ashore Was the mate. Esko Kivimaki, 23
It was not to be, A kindly whu
said: "The captain was
referee stepped in between.actually erving when I left him.
the opponents, and stopped He loves his ship,
the fight. How he award- with her so long."
he has been
ed the verdict, we do not The We-saving apparziua
know.
;enmpany were still standing by their gene inte lest night in the hope that Captali Vuorio would elange his mind CNG come ashore.
Worry? The
Why Worry?
BU
UT
why
statue
DEATH TOLL
from
of the French engineer de Lesseps has Meanwhile the death tolt in been blown to amithereens, British coast ress, to 20 today shipping disasters around the hut his waterway is an within a 24-hour period. everlusting memorial to his! The Mona, a lifeboat skill and courage, and none Broughty Forry, was wrecked on. outside of Egypt would a rocky const hear Dundee, presume to be so foolish as while standing by a lightship to pretend he did not build which had lost her moorings. the Suez Canal,
The bodies of seven members of her crew were discovered and an eighth is missing.
And young Moorhouse was
the
done to death in Port Said. Another British vesel, None dispute that, and if 300-ton Servus, tank today neur the new pharaoh claims! Wick, north-east of Scotland that as a victory worthy of while being towed to safety. Her commemorating with the crew of eight had already left
stablishing of a museum. then so let it be.
In the long run, truth prevails over expediency, whether It be the crediency of friend or foe. So Britons, leave It there.
the ship.
Today's toll followed yester- day's storms in which 12 ke- men were lost off the Scottish ceust in the Aberdeen trawler Georgo Robb.
Another vielim yesterday wer 1Jbpp Visser, Д 30-year-old
The 'Q.E.'
.
Slightly
Damaged
London, Dec. 8.
'Moorhouse Museum'
The house in Port Said reported to be the site of a museum and in which Lt. Anthony Moorhouse was killed during the Suez crisis of 1956. The British Government has since considered the 'Moorehouse' incident closed when UAR authorities stated they were not responsible for the setting up of a museum.-Express Photo.
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Crisis In Ceylon
Mounts Ministers Sacked
Ceylon's
As
Colombo, Dec. 9.
Sir Oliver
Governor-General
Goonetilleke, tonight removed from office five ministers of the Sri Lanka
FASTEST
DELIVERY ro LEADING
MARKETS
OF THE
WORLD
Plane Missing
Bogota, Dec. 8. An airliner with 143 people on board was "lo- aight reported missing over the Caribbean,
The airliner, on a flight between the Colombian San Andres Island (off the coast of "Nicaragua) and Cartagena, should bave landed AL Cartagena at 1800 GMT on Tuesday, The inlands Are three hours Right from Cartagena (North Colombia)-AFP.
Freedom Party Cabinet and reinstated Stranded
Mr Stanley de Zoysa, who had resigned as Finance Minister some time ago.
we
Tas Ministers removed from i "From the day we started nice were T. I. Hangaraine, | campaigning for n fall and Home Affairs, A. P. Jayasuriya, į exhaustive inquiry into the Health: Maltripala Senanayake, nesassination of the late Prime Transport and Power; M. P. de Minister Mr Bandaranaike, Zoysa, Lebour: and P. B. G. knew we were incurring the dis Kalugolle, Cultural Affairs.
pleasure of Dahanayake and also ethers.
"We leave it to the people of Ceylon to judge our actien and
The Governor-General removed from office the Parlia
mentary Secretary to the Miris
ler of Transport and Power, Mr
Hugh Fernando,
An announcement tonight and the ministerial changes were carried out on the advice of the Prime Minister, Mr Dahanayake,
Resigned
He resigned yesterday from the Ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party and announced his plans to go
next to the polls due march with a party of his own. Mr Stanley de Zoysa, who took his oath of office tonight,
will be Minister of Home Affair and will also hold the health portfolio.
5. A. uf the
the actions of the
Prime
Minister," the statement sald Reuter.
Marikkar, Mr C. Minister
and Ponts Broadcasting, will add the Ministry of Cultural Affairs to bis present-post,
Mr
his
to
Dahanayake took ofice after the assassination of the prime minister, Mr Solomen Batalaranaike, last September.
Within
one month govemment had its partiu-
reduced mentary majority: only one vote with the resigna- tion of one MF and the ex- pulsion from the parts of Mrs Vimala Wijewardene, earlier removed as Minister of local government and housing.
Arrested
Mrs Wijewardene Brrested
in connection
Investigations
assarsication duranarke,
was
into
Mr
War Casualties
Over Four
Million Killed In Germany
W. Berlin, Dec. 8. A history professor said 10- that day it was certain more than four million persons were killed in Germany during World War I, but that the full toll probably will never be known.
Blimp
Lands
Safely
Lakehurst, N.J. Dec. 8.
A U.S. Navy blimp with 19
airmen aboard landed safely today after being forced by high winds to remain aloft for nearly two days.
The bump wat moored to its mast after failing in two carlier attempts when ground escort vehicles failed to catch her trailing cables.
The third and successful try was made despite continued high winds.
Huge bags of aviation gasoline were hoisted to the blimp by cable carlier,-giving it-enough..... fuel to remain aloft.
11
ONE INJURED
One ground crewman received electric shock superficial during
a refuelling operation. but the Navy said the in-ight refuelling was routine and the big, ZPG-2 blimp was in danger.
It had taken
го
ot
off on Sunday Prof. Percey E. Schramun, who morning o routine patrol says he made of with the diary flight over the Atlantic. On its of the German General Sion at return flight, heavy winds later the end of the war, said it lists first prevented it from crossing
shoreline with 2,013,303 soldiers, sallora
and the
seaside heights. The 350-foot airship the airmen dead or missing. Bin-
took on fuel over the shore and then
flow to the Naval alr station at Lakehurst, its home base.
M Stanley de Zoysa rth signed a fortnight
ago follow-
He ustimated that about 500,- 000 civilians in Germany died as a result of enemy action.
The losses among those in
ing arrest of his elder brother, the Jewish extermination camps, Mr F. R. Zoysa, in connection the 10 million refugees in the with the assassination. His forced labour cumps and those brother was later released who were forced to work out from custody.
side the camps are Last Friday Sir Oliver known," he said, Goonetilicke, on the advice of "The fale cf millions of
Un-
Mr Dahanayake, dissolveri people is still cloaked in dark- parliament following a series of hea," defeated censure, motions and e Prof. Schramm said he plans generally strained
political to publish the diary, probably atmosphere,
sometime in 1901.
The Prime Minister sald at He said he kept up the diary the time he had advised the from 1943 to 1945. He did not dissolution so that the people explain how he managed to could choose their own govern- obtain it at the end of the war. ment and fixed elections for UPI.
nexi March 19. In the normal
course of events elections would not have been held
tug Far East textile manufacturers are preparing to until April 1961.
sell larger amounts of cloth to the American market, a leading industry official indicated today.
The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth docked Cher- bourg today afler 100 mile-an-hour Atlantic gales whipped up
which singahed portholes und
flooded cabins,
SCLA
G. for
Huge waves broke over the massive R3,673-ton liver, one of the world's fastest ships, but there was no panie, the crew said.
The liner's commander,
G. Commodore Morris, sippped about six hours for repairs to be made and the aver- age speed for the Atlantie crossing was reduced from the usual 29 kaois le 25.28 knots.
The wind reached 100 to 120 miles an hour but the crew said that thanks to her special stabiilæers, the Queen Elizabeth weathered the storm perfectly And had seen worm weather.
Walled The Southampton Isle morning-Router,
for
This
Hongkong is swarming with | American buyers, some of them representing American milla, ce- collag to Mr Willam Singer. |vice-president of Turner Hulsey Company textile cematis:ion merchants.
Mr Singer, in charge of The ham's foreign division, had just |returned from a six weeks lour | which took himn L Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, the Phillp- pines. Hongkong urid Japan.
He estimated between 30 and 150 pte cent of the production out of Hongkong mills is being purchased by Americans. The jeclony had about 500,000 spin- dies operating and was busily |plarming expansions, he said.
EXPANDING
Mr Shiger sald Chinese mill owners were against United States textile import quotas. But he thought quetas would
come cause the United States had brea "put on the spol" and must devise zome quota system, there wlil be 2 reaction nem the Japanese.
American Texile exporters could write off the Singapore norkel, Mr Singer said, because Chia had taken considerable portion of tha: market. Ife also loresaw a decline In 1960 texille buying for Vietnam.
He suit there were plans afool in the Philippines to bulid many new mills and that the Where, narrow locons formerly country should be 70 per cent were used to supply the Engilsh | reit-suflelent in the next few market, Mr Singer sold, these years.
cre being replaced by wider equipment in order to sell to the United States.
Remark Results
In Gaol Term
Germany, Dec. 8.
A 47-year-old business man, Theodor Schmolke, wus sen- ferred to four months In gaul in Kassel today for anying in front of employees at his farm that far too tow Jewish "swine" had been diled off.
Schmolke denied making the remark-Router.
However, casing of. Hence restrictions in Australia and New Zealand may develop bucl- ness there for typically Ameri- can fabrics, People there, Mr Singer guld, were tired of the Lame British patterns,
Hard Core
the
го-
The five ministers and parliamentary secretary moved from office tonight re- presented the hard core of a rebel group within the Cabinet which was known to have chal- lenged on eariler occasions the decisions and leadership of Mr Dahanayaire.
The
Was group
largely responsible for pressure which resulted in the resignation of Me Stanley de Zoysa from the cabinet.
With Today's changes the strength of Ceylon's care-taker cabinet of Mr Dahanayake now reduced to eight,
1
In a statement made
on be- half of the five ministers, Mr Maitripala Senanayake said: | "Our removal from office has not come as a surprise to any one of US.
Chusan To Be Air-Conditioned
London, Dec. 8.
There will be "cresling business there for mills in the
The Chusna, 24,215-ton United States," he added, "pro-
passenger Ilner on the; Pevin- vided Japan does not step, insular and Orient Company's Far and copy everything and then Eastern rum left Tilbury tonight underrail"
for Belfast, where she is to be Mr Slager sald he throghted with air-conditioning. the nikt budget of the Inter- national Co-operation Adminia- tration would contain a clense reling up a minimum quantity of textile that must be bought in the United States--UPI,
The P. and O. Company said today that the Chusan was the third of their Ines to be fully air-conditioned. The Chun's usual run ip between Hongkong, Japan and Singapore-Reuler.
near
But oficials refused to let it land for fear the winds would push it into buildings near the landing aren.
Throughout The cold, starlit night the buoyant alrship cruis- ed above the Lakehurst base,
With lights blinking on its nose, tall, top and underside.--UPI.
Jeannette, Penn., Dec. I. Bishop Hugh Lamb, head of the Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Roman Catholic diocese, died on Tuesday in a hospital of a heart attack. He was 09.-AP.
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