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HOLDING Adenauer gets
Of The BACK ON BIG CONTRACT tough with
Day
AFRICAN
JOURNEY
THE Prime Minister, Mr
T
Macmillan, hus set out on
la tour of Africa. He is the Arst British Premier 10 undertake such 0 journey into the Dark Con- tinent.
His trip
comes at 12 time when there is a grave necessity to understand the political turmoil which Dear the surface both in Central and South Africa.
It is a fact-finding mission which will undoubtedly assist the recently-appointed Advisory Commission, the function of which should be to go to Central Africa and probe, inquire and examine for the preparation review vf the Federal Constitution due this year.
Shed light
UCH a review would shed
Strer the work placed
upon
and produce data
Home which the
Govern- ment will be the better able to base a proper judgment about the future of Nyusa land and the two Rhodesius.
well
The Commission is a
balanced body, Irrespective of the fact that the oficial Labour Party has rejected
offera of membership. At least
some of its former members
taking are now part and their suggestions will ลท. and criticisms doubtedly play an important Commission's part in the recommendations.
1
Worth $32m but prices
said too
too low
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Hongkong factories are reported to be
holding back in their bids for a giant contract to supply Indonesia with 50 million yards of medium priced tex- tiles.
Top Polish
official
flees to
Yugoslavia
Belgrade, Jan. 6.
A lop Polish official has re- portedly fled to Yugosla- via, it was learned today. But a London newspaper re- port that it was the Chief of the Polish Air Force, General roy-Bielecki, улак officially denied.
The reason, infant, was
given by one that the con- tract prices were 100 low fur local factorles which are ported to be well booked up 24 June this year,
If
bought in the current
Jo
Hongkong at
total prices, the contract vardage will amount lu somewhere between HK$32- 34 million, he said.
Divisible
Indonesian
con-
However, the Consul in Hongkong. Mr Snegiardo Hud said the tract is divisible among
where tenders countries Invited,
the
Bre
country
the
эт
share cach The may have depends bidding prior the lower the better chance, he said.
Mr Hud also disclosed that the contract was offered by the big eight state companies In
They had Indonesia, agencies representing them Hongkong.
However
defection has the caused a strata between the two countries, first noticed when two Yugoslav military attaches were explanation expelled
last month.
without
It is suggested that they were in some way involved in the defection of the Polish official.
FLIES TO MOSCOW Today a top-ranking Yugoslav Communist leader flow to Mos
surprise visit. cow on Mr
Svetozar Vukmanovic Tempo, one of the 14-member executive or politburo of the rul ing league of Communists, lett; The fear that the "white with his wife and two sons on element would what he railed a private holiday settler" swamp the Commission has visil.
Observers said the maih been met by the allocation of half the seats to United purpose of Mr Kingdom and Common-Tempo's wealth members.
THE
Adequate
other half go to the
Vukmanovic.
י
Civilian use
three in
which
Hongkong at present can pro- duce good quality drili, jean,
and irting sheeting were probably what Indonesia wanted.
he sald informant The thought the contracted goods would be for civilisn UAE, He regretted the Indonesian Government had no intention of Increasing its contract price yet.
Yugoslav Soviet Ike to visit S. America
trip appeari to be improve 10 relations, but the reported troubles with Poland may have
added urgency given
10 The visit.
Mr Vulnanovic-Tempo, * burly 48-year-old Montenegrin; Is the Yugoslav Trade Union
Federation and thus leader, He is in the second
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meet Sir Roy Welensky's rank of the Communist hierarchy
that they will not but has Kears
3 reputation have adequate representa"troubleshooter."-Reuter, tion.
There has been some dissen-
thirteen Bing that of the African members only five will be natives, but as a Senegaleso has pointed out 28 million that of the
population in French Africa 1,000 there are only some who are politically mature,
It is this point that
Bro
often unnoticed or is not passes understood with the result outcries that there
lack of against alleged
These representation. Agures being correct, then it can be seen that repre- Bentation is not only falr 'but also adequate.
r
A
Important
is of the highest im- portance that
should representative
cans
the Afri-
truly that
be and they have the confidence of their fellow countrymen.
tho
the
During the next few days Mr
Macmillan will meet African members of Commission on their home ground and hear for him- first-hand their bolf at views and aspirations.
When he returns to London the Prime Minister will be able to reflect on his tour and take a new look at Africa, in the light of his experiences. It in a timely and worthwhile journey,
Promotion for Commodore Gregory
Commodore G. D. A. Gregory has been promoted to Kear Admiral, a spokesman for the Royal Navy announced
today.
He has been Commodore-la- Charge, Hongkong. and Superintendent of the Dockyard for the last three years.
The Navy also announced that Commodore Gregory would leave the Colony in February. III next post was unknown. Ills place will be taken by Commodore A. B. L. Bat- ler who arrives on
Carthage on February 8, He was formerly with the
Navy Royal
School at Woolwich,
the
Thelleni
Formerly he wis comman- der of the Antarotio Guard ship, HMS Protector.
Commodore
Gregory, submarine spec). former allat, Was commander of the submarine Blurgeon hia 1.1.0. whơn be WON
for making an and
bax enemy U-boat, a trazzipars and later supply ships,
Gregory, Commodore
who
is 51 years stal, served in
hand
at the reaction-tester
The Governor. Sir Robert Black. tries his during his visit this morning to the Traffic Exhibition at the Hongkong Jockey Club. China Mail photo.
GOVERNOR JAMMED
ON BRAKES IN
LESS THAN A
SECOND
The Governor, Sir Robert Black tried the driver reaction-tester under the supervision of the Motor Sports Club-of-Hongkong officials at the Traffic Exhibition in Happy Valley this morning.
Judge replies with
four years
At the first attempt he ap- plied the brakes in nine-tenths of a second as the child sud- denly appeared before him on the screen ahead,
Told that this was a good Kvitage reaction, the Governor trull and said he had not driven for a number of years.
This and similar reaction tests were tried out in turn as the Governor loured the ex- hibition, accompanied by the Comenisioner of Police, Mr W. H. E. Heath; the Senior Superintendent of Traffic,
Mr
Mansell and Mr P. A. English, ADC.
A man, who admitted steal. Morrison, Inspector J. G.
ing $12 from a tram pas- senger, at the Victoria Court this morning wish- ed Judge K. R. Macfee "a happy new year."
The Judge replied, "Under the
circumstances, 1
present
can
MODEL CROSSINGS
SEQUEL TO
£155,000
JEWEL THEFT
London, Jan. 6. Two men appeared in court
here today on charges of stealing jewellery and
swastika men
Bonn, Jan. 5. The West German Cabinet decided at a special meating today to urge the quickest possible enactment of a ten- month-old bill directed against the incitement of national, racial .or religious hatred.
A statement issued ́after the meeting said the Cabinet studied the background and effects of recent ewastika mmearings, and unanimously recommended. that rulprits should be given sèn- Tonoos "tting the gravity of the deeds."
Meanwhile, as further anth Semitic and neo-Nazi incidents were reported from routed the world. steps were taken in West Berlin today lo bring charges of Nazi activites against 16 men now under arrest in con- Inretion with a midnight torch-
light demonstration.
Allied controls
West Berlin Justice officials said the Allied Military Com- for Įmandants had been asked
pewnission to apply Allied con- Fire! council's laws to the man, which would enable charges of Nrai netivities to be brought against them..
Hospital
fire:
11 missing
Eleven
Yokosuka, Jan. 7:
people including seven newly-born babies were reported missing to- day following a fire that destroyed an old two- storey missionary hospital here last night.
Firemen had tound two bodies
Mr Alexander Easterman of
but were unable to Identify London, political director of the them because they were badly
European section of the Jewish World Congress, arrived here 20-
burned.
door for talks with West German The fire broke out in the Government officials about
re-maternity ward of the Kinugasa
cent anti-Semitic incidenta.
Hospital, which is operated by
Mr Eastermin said tonight | an organisation called the Japan that recent "Nazi-type outrages" Medical Missionary" were apparently "inspired, directed and concerted in and from Germany, which after all was the home and birthplace of Naziam."
But a West German Interior
sald Ministry
in spokesman answer to questions at a press conference - here
Also among those nifasing were four ́ ́arod, „paralysed Wotsen and hospital nurses,
Firemen' believed the blaze if
started arum en cdl burner
the maternity ward.
It
today that quickly spread to the tubercu→ material to hand so far did not Joals ward mod raged for mare indicate an organised action be than two hours-UPL hind recent anti-Jewish acts in West Germany.
Widespread
Swastikas and antl-Sanit slogana agali appeared in wide- ly spread points of the globe to- day, and Italian police said they had detained 20 youths in Milan (who belonged to an extreme
organisation rightwing
homo
of
1
called
Romo-
Banished
to the dog-house
"New European Order."
The police seized Nazi fngs, other articles worth more uniforms and armbands, lezdes, than £155,000 from four arms, ammunition and London branches of the Berlin-Tokyo axis banners.
Some of the arms and am- After a Cantonese greeting by
Goldsmiths and Silver- munition-were found at the Billy Beacon, the Bellsha Boy,
smiths Association.
London, Jan. 6. 28-year-old Sir Robert Black saw models
They were committed in cus- | philosophy teacher, while pro-Princess Margaret's favourite Washington, Jan. 6.
illustrating the metal-studded
feld material and a areas as recommended on cross-tody for trial at Lonckm's Old pagakia
Sealyham "was in the dog- Presiden Eisenhower is to
house on Wednesday. the visit Brazil,
Argentine, hardly say 'The same to you." with no right of way: types Balley. Both had pleaded not telephone were discovered at
reserved their de- the home of a of parking meters; propaganda guilty and
20-year-old Chile and Uruguay on a triple sentenced the man, Worg
on the elimination of dangerous fence.
Hungarian refugee student, lasting from February 23 to Cheung, 32, to four years.
decorations eg. cushions etc in
police said.-Router. March 3, the White House
Wong had a very bad record cars, and posters painted by nounced today.---AFP.
indised, Judge Macfee remarked. Į school children, He had committed lx similar He saw that studento offences in addition to a num- ber of other offences, and was out of jail for only a few weeks when he was back to his tricks again, the Judge said.
REAR-ADMIRAL GREGORY
an-
in
the
East of М Cornwall in 1928-20 and
mukenariysen later in 1933 and 1935. He ogam visited the Colony in com- mand of HMB ConsÉANCE between 1945 and 1947. 1947. Commodore Gregory will hê remembered by old hands in the Colony as a keen kocker.
He sa
one of the main- miayn of The Hongkong Beriloes Racing Club and in four months during the first ball of the race BEEN Dot. In 1947 he rode two wimmers.
King's College the prizes.
gained two
The accused were James Whelan, a 32-year-old furniture dealer, end Timothy McGuire, from 34, Florist,
of
The anties
white of lay mice scumpering over, zebra
crossing to their Cosy little house after visits to the rice
Wong was also ordered to be placed under police supervision I trays amused the official party,
for two years."
The Governor was told that
Chief Insp, C. L. Smith said, the Mouse Town was set up Wong picked the pocket of a give
Pui,
Bom passenger. Fung under the watchful eyes three delectives a few days before last Christmas.
The thief was arrested mediately when the
*topped right outside Supreme Court building,
Im-
children the right idea about using the crossings.
"They may give children ideas about climbing up walls loo", he commented."
The suggested plan for a Lye- ram mun Bridge over the harbour the was pointed out in the regional communications section. This
The alleged thefts were said
to have taken October 10 and 12,
00
place between
The two men had been ad- ditionally accused of receiving or about December 11. jewellery worth £33,242, know- ing it to have been stolen and the Goldsmiths belonging to
Silversmiths Association. and
-China Mall Special.
Big prison
England make
good start
in first Test
England were off to good start in their first Test
He was banished to the ken- nels after taking a bite out of For Johnny,
a Royal footman,
a palace pet for close on years, it was a end day,
For when Princess Margaret takes breakfast in bed, the
Uttle curdly
often is dog brought in by a maid with the
ica and toast. He became, such
Leveurite that two years ago the Princess commissioned an artist to paint his pleture.
Johnny, a miniature half the normal size of his breel, is one of half a dozen privileged dogs who spend the Christmas boliday with the Queen and Sandringham, her family at
Royal estate 100 miles from London.
the
Footman Basil
in mitigation, Wong said he cavinged the best riot in U.S. match against West Indies, looks after the dogs, was bendr
very much regretted what he had done. "This is the last time I shall see Your Honour," he assured,
Keith's condition still
critical
linked to a new road at mid- level and would be of modern deign that would not interfere with either the airport or sea transport, the Governor was told. SIGNAL CHARTS Mr Arthur May, who had the electrically-operated mieks models nami signal charts, *x- plained some of the intricacies as policewomen, demonstrated their workings.
The final rection concerned with traffic was the puppet show fted in which the Zebra Man.
| Road-Hog and Nosey Parker
played leading roles.
Sir Robert Black went next to the section dealing with other police activities sexing first the routine work of the policeman
aud
and
Wethersfeld. Conn, Jan. 7.
Subbs, who
which storted yesterday. ing over the lite Sealyham At the close of the first when Johary took a short,
sharp alp.-AP. A full-scale riot broke out on day's play they had scored Wednesday night at the Siele 188 runs for the loss of three Prison here, bat prison wicketı." The dismissed officials srid There was apparent break attempt.
no batsmen were Colin Cowdrey IBM launched
Police rushed to the aid of the (30), Geoff. Pullar (65) and wardens. All available police Peter May (1). Ken Bar- rington, with 73 runs to his officials said the incredit, and Mike Smith (9) "Just breaking up everything are the 'not out batsmen.
[See P. 8)
were sent to the scene.
Prison mates had no weapons, but were
UPI.
Cape Canaveral, Jan. 6. An **Atlas" intercontinental
ballistic missile was savesatully launched from here on, Wednes day on a 5,500-mile tosi trajec- {lory-AFP.
Film star here to buy
antiques
antique business with a friend į very well."
of mine when I return to Los Hunter who is single, said that Angeles.
•:'he'met up with Mls' Muyata
in Los Angeinek
The condition of eight-year-old on the beat; then models of the
Keith Clark who was criti- New Territories made by boys Handseine American Kim star: "I hope to start a full-sonte | → France Nayen "who I know cally injured in an accident of St Paul's College, showing border police on a Kowloon railway bridge frontier
policing of the yesterday, was unchanged this stations morning and doctors were still Colony waters.
The Director of Criminal In- fighting for his life. There is still no clear explana-vestigation, Mr R. V. Turner, presented members, of his des tion of the accident.
kong. Charls showing “thu
Keith, who lives with his par-partment.
ents in Duke Street: Kowloon rise and fall of crime. In the Tong, is in Kowloon hospital Colony were carefully studied
by, the visitors, with severe head injurio,
Tab Hunter arrived in. Hong- kong today on a 'sevent-day #shopping expedition.” Hunter who is at present" an vacation hopes to discover some rare saliques in Hong- “a for my new buzinois, you know. Hunior said shortly after his arrival.
"It's always been my sonret+x== I have a bluon and now,” shunds to ....... Eroski, ka business," he added, 'Mr Hunter said that whila
Hongkongbe, will
20 Hanter said that when ho returns to Aimarim he hapes te play in □ now- matvia onli- ed "Fiew.ure of his Company** visiting with Debbie Raynolds mod Fred Asinden,
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