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LATE FINAL

CHINA MAIL

No. 37536

:

Established 1845

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1959.

Price 20 Cents

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PAN AM

JET CLIPPER CARGO

PHONE 37037

DELIVERY

LEADING MARKATS

OF

THE WORLD

TUG MASTER TELLS HOW HE FOUND VESSEL AFTER IT HAD DRIFTED 600 MILES

Of The SUCCESSFUL SEARCH FOR SHIP

Day

Abandoned

ROCKETS OR By Crew

W

BUTTER

from E cannot refrain

complimenting the Unitent Kingdom on thel forthright statement issued

After Typhoon

search for a typhoon - battered Japanese freighter abandoned and drifting in the South China Sea since November 17, was like "looking for

ber 26, the tug had to cast off the tow as the cake was gaining fores and returned to Hongkong again.

by the British Advisory The Connell of Scientific Policy.j This sys Britain could

lomch a space programmej only at the expense of its {n} economic health and a needle in a haystack." aid Britain wishes to extend]

Captain William to its Colonies and unders

Worrall, developed arcus.

master of the Hongkong salvage ing Taikoo said this when he That is fair enough. As a successfully towel in the ship

statement

Yoneyama has ambiguous twist. It leaves nu uncertainty in the mind It ments in effect that if Britain should enter the space raer on competitive terms, her people woul have to go without butter on their brend.

it.

Curtailed

THAT

ne

vast Govern- welfare policies!

Maru carly this

Captain Worrall said he slip- tong after 28 days' Arugged the tow for the simple rea- on that the ship was in a very it youth wan

He picked her up in the vast dangerous position. He explained mess of the gea on an estimated that with a land of iron ore, the exition the ship was last re-ship could go down in about two Capt. minutes and take the lug with ported drifting. Bul

cit

Wort did a credit the convey of the estimation. the folded the ship on chment of luck."

The Yoneyama

the

On November 29, the tug left Hongkong on the third mission. The ship was picked up again Mar had by the tug's radar on December

the Paracels,

been drifting more than 400 150 miles north-east of

miles across the South China

Sev

Met Typhoon

of the the

Tire buiter Yoneyama Mari and

gine reum were now flooded aleng the pro-

A party of the buarded the

ship

The rea-drama started when from leakage would have to be cut down; the Japanese ship

:hat. was on her puller Britain offers way from Gou to Japad with ing's crow and the aid

9.900 tons of iron ore aboard, find began pumping water out an Island the shi to make her sale between Taiwan and Luzon, on for towing. November 12, she encountered

The Bruno.

heavy Typhoon seas damaged her steering gear,

to her neighbours and de- pendencies would have to Le curtailed.

A

So the decision is made. A wise

and humane decision. decision that

Contrast

Spe

nobly with so many of thu arrogant statements issued from time to time by those

refuse to who

that politics

*re power anachronisms, survivals of the nineteenth century,

By making this decision, it!

does not mean that Britain!

is unaware of the enormous) prestige that will pany

accom-

the launching of the Arst man into space, alway providing he returns safely.

Not Unaware

No that

TOR is Britain

unaware

this event must soon be accomplished, either by the Soviet Union or by the United States,

Whole of Basco,

CAPT. W. WORRAL

After drifting for a few days another storm, Typhoon Freda headed for the ship. 11 was abandon ship and decided to

vrew WLS taken

But, the statement goes on,

Britain must be contení| with a modest study pro- gramme in co-operation the with other international Japanese Coast Guard this back to Japan. This occurred on the bodies for space research. afterion of November 17.

Now let

examine this statement more clearly.

It

لونا

Three days earlier, The lug

of Taikoo Taikoo:

Dockyard

sent to the ship's aid.

does not say that Britain and Engineering Co. Ltd., was

cannot join in the

race. It does not say tuin cannot afford to

Hri- join

in,

The tug returned to Hong- kong on Nov. 10 as she was forced back by the severity of But later the Tyloon Freda. same day she was ordered out

It des, however, say that, again.

Britain can join in only by lowering the standard of. living of its people and

Returned

At point 100 miles north-

dependents, and by divert- west of Luzon on November 21

she picked up the ill-fated ship

ing aid rendered to less by radar 14 miles away.

fortunate space chequer. Britain says she will not

that.

countries to the

A north easterly gale was ex-blowing and the tug could not programme

get close to the ship until two days later.

Join In

HEN comes, in

do

plair

Tanguage, what seems to

us one of the most respon- sible statements issued by a Great Power. It says, in effect, if any other country working on a modest bud- xet would like to join Britain in a space research Britain would programme, welcome such a partnership.

consider We have only to

what might have been ac

even at this complished moment if the nations of the world had gone forward kad pooled together and their, resources, instead of going on in foolish childish) rivalry.

Then it could have been sald with truth, "The sky's the limit,

A tow line was then Axed and the tow began. On Novem-

Destroyer's

15 Years FE Service

Pirmouth, Dec. 9.

The Royal Navy des troyer Cossack returned to Devonport, today after

15 years in the Far East including the Korean War und nuclear bomb tesia ni Christma Island in the Pacific.

The pumping operation lock two days in the middle of the and us occun before the tug low beaded for

Lincoln the islard, near the Paraceli,

The abandoned ship Yoneyama Maru being towed into Hongkong by the tug Taikoo this morning.-China Mail Photo.

Duty-Free

Liquor

For U.K.

Tourists

London, Dec. 9. Overseas travellers leaving airport today London were able to buy duty- free liquor for the first time, under a new scheme. and busi- American touriste nessmen queued to take home bottle of whicky with them and it at around £ a bott, though the first customer was a cx- an Queen's Messenger,

Only Luck Captain Worra!! said that it was only luck that the radar the plexed up the ship. It

hip was just a fraction of n mile away beyond the range of Guards oflicer, who declined to

have give his name.

could he

the radar. missed the ship and searched a

"Sorry

old boy, the, foreign

100 miles in the wrong direc-office won't like it," he said as he bought whirky to take with

im to Heakor ( "0% Christmas trent."

ilon

!

exper!

:July

Asked what he thought of the veteran salvage operation, the

said it was extremely with a to play around drifting ship.

American visitors

D

can order up to five battles each without

He praised the 10-inch thick paying tax. British and other nylon tow line the tug had used nationals are only allowed one for the job. It had an elastielty bottle.

of about 25 per cent, he said.

The operation might not have To prevent customs dodging been successful, he added, if a they get the liquor they have wire cable was used as there already paid for only after they was a possibility of snopping in have boarded rough seas.

The tug took, 1wo sampans with her for trànsportation" „be- Iween the tue and the ship. They tad un excellent job. Capt Worrall said.

The Yoneyama Maru is now berthed at Kowloon Bay where she will undergo preliminary re- pairs. She will then be towed

back to Japan.

Reuter,

their airliner.——

Birthday Honours Presentation

(See Back Pago)

No Sign Of Big Hunt For Armed

Life Near

Wreckage

Bogota, Dec. 2. The wreckage of Colombian airliner, report- ed missing with 46 people un board, was found today on an island, off Panama completely destroyed, re- porta reaching here sald.

Convicts

Four convicts who helped stage a

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The reports, which could not be officially confirmed, said there was no sign of life.

The plane + twin- engined Curtiss CommenRIJO San flying Andres Lind In the Caribbean to Carlagena, North Colombla,

The plane carried

and 13 wen, women airline raid.

The line, Sociedad Acres De Medellin, has an affiliation with KLM, the Dutch airline.—Reptor and

AP.

33 the

American

Escapes

From Gaol

In Cuba

Havana, Dec. 9. Military headquarters announced that Ameri- Austin Frank Young, sentenced yes-

can

LABOUR MPS OBJECT terday by a military

TO BALLET'S TOUR

TO SOUTH AFRICA

Question Of Colour Bar

London, Dec. 9,

tribunal to 30 years imprisonment, escaped from military prison early this morning. Commander Jose Argibay, chief of the 8th military district, made the announcement that Young had escaped with another prisoner, Sergio

who was Reyes,

to be tried for counter- Friday revolutionary charges,

ONL

Hernandez

Young was tried for counter-

Lamblon of Nassau,

John

Mr Hugh Gaitskell and other Labour MP's today revolutionary activities with 37 objected to the Royal Ballet Company's forth-others, including Peter coming visit to South Africa because, they Young was said to have es- said, one of its members had been prevented caped through a hole in the wall of the military prison. of Pina from taking part on account of the colour bar. Del Rio.

inter-

RETURNED The dancer concerned Is Mrsion without any official Jchaar Monsaval, a South Afri-vention at all. In these circum-

had de- stances, he did not see why the The prosecution can of Malay descent,

manded the death sentence for Mr Gaitskell said: "The in- Government should intervene. troduction of racial discrimina-

NOT ASKED.

Young, 28, an adventurer who Royal Air tion Into art and sport s utterly

Earlier, Mr Butler had said served with the repugnant to all of us."

uny rules or practicesForce Irt World War II. affecting bullet performances in Young returned to Cuba last NO INTERFERING

South Africa were a matter It was not question of

the

for the union. authorities. internal Interfering affairs of South Africa but whe

that

In U.S.

Yanceyville, N.C., Dec. 9.

mass escape from North Carolina's Ivy Bluff prison for incorrigiblos gave up with- out a fight in Ohio today.

The convicts admitted who, sippi. The four men arrested i doors last

W23

night. Husbands

in

they were about two and a half in Ohlo were believed to have stayed awake nursing shotguns,

stolen a hours after capture. They were

were fet loose car near Charleston, while dogs identifed as Glen Hobsley, 38,

gardens. West Virginia, and driven into who

life for Ohio. serving

The convlets escaped from the murder: Drady F. Sione, 23,

with oight rifles, eight Meanwhile bloodhounds, prison Hillard Inman, 24. and Lestie

planes and hundreds of heavily-Pola as well as sub-machine after overpowering six Doudler, 36.

armed police swept over miles

guards and locking them up in „Ong-of-the-captured convicts, of countryside today in one of cells for four hours "The es Grady. Stone, told reporters the nation's biggest manhunts cape went unnoticed. the mass cicope was the result for the armed convicts.

of what he called brutal condi- tion' in the prison.

work.

i

FBI AGENTS

The Federal Bureau of In-

The police were unable to verify the report and investiga- nothing concrete vestigation put agents in Army.on showed

to the to link the escapers helicopters while private spotter

incident terrorising planes went up to maintain J

reported today hit constant air patrol over

by Clarence H. woods, carl,

Wortham, 52, and his wife, 53, swamps and highways.

at their midtown Memphis home. Warnings were broadcast 10

Wortham sald his wife was Assaulted criminally

several times while one of the men nt families slept held a knife at his throat.-

and locked

guarded Reuter and UPI.

He said about 60 convicts had Celiberately malined themselves in reetal months to arcid prison

"uards He alt that severat of us with binckjacks" lor what he called minor in- fractions, or sometimes for no residents of the Carolinas and reason at all.

to be on surrounding states their guard against the convicts.

The search for the Ivy Bluft fugitives extended across south from Virginia to Missis-behind

the

Thousands

What about his

EDUCATION ?

This young fellow is growing up fast-one day he will need a first class

education,

The Manufacturers Life has a special Educational policy, which will guarantee that sufficient funds are available for School and University

fees.

THE

MANUFACTURERS

INSURANCE

LIFE COMPANY

HEAD OFFICE (Established 1887) TORONTO, CANADA 加拿大宏利人壽保險公司

Incorporated in Canada as a Limited Liability Company

Assets exceed £292,000,000

D. A. C. T. HANCOCK, Manager, Hong Kong Branch Office, Windsor House, Hong Kong. Teis: 34156, 34157

ENQUIRY FORM

Without obligation, please let me have particulars of your Educational Policy.

But

September, a few weeks after Later tonight, a Royal Ballet perving a five-month detention

in La Cabana Fortress Company spokesman said: "It ther a company heavily sub- the sidised. by

Govermenent is not true to any Mr Moraavat charges of smuggling Eirhleen members of should undertake a tour under was prevented from taking part government Cubans out of the

In the tour. 1o was not asked

He and Lambton, who was 10 her crew are

these conditions. mary

He urged the Government to to go. He had been a member.

25 years English

they girls when

look into the matter further. of the company for a good many sentenced goon leave.

Mr R A. der, the years. He is a good artist and prisonment, claimed they came Home Secretary, replying on be- is being used bere. It would to Cube to photograph counter- the hills half of the Prime Minister, Mr possibly have been awkward for revolutionaries in Harold Macmillan, aald them if he had been sared to around Pina Del Rio.-AP and

AFP. Ballet Company took the deep go on the tour."--Reuter.

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and-

country.

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Address

Date of Birth of Child

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Thres married Aur- tralians during their str

vice abroad.---Reuter,

Date of Birth of Father