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Comment Of The Day
THE TRAFFIC EXHIBITION
\XHIBITIONS always
EXH
du
well in Hongkong. The Chinese Manufacturers Association have just' com- pleted a highly successful season. More than a million people saw their month long diaplay And this week in Hongkong the Police began their annual traffic exhibition and the crowds are flocking there in good numbers already.
It is true that most ure
children. It is a
Idea!
that children should be given classroom instruction on such an important sub- ject, but if there is one fault of the
EX current
hibition it is that it is intended for adults as well as children. Another weak- Desa is that instead of con- centrating on traffle it has displays arranged by other branches
of the Police Force as well.
THE exhibition has a fair
THE
ground atmosphere. Children shove and push They way around.
handouts of
their fight.
fur
free literature. 'They monopolise the electronic test-your-skill devices which are meant more for adult motorists. The exhibition is also top heavy with child- ren's posters. Many are excellent compositions but il would be a far better iden to have one show for the children which could do the rounds of the schools
places as Lo
such resettlement areas, and an-
go
other for adults.
The average
adult visitor is dis- away
likely to come appointed. The scale models
are
for
of what Hongkong is going to be like in the future are admittedly interesting. Su
the plans
the of redevelopment
certain main roads. The motorist also test the speed of to certain reaction
can
his
emergencies and his know
signs and ledge of road signals.
He can also sce
the plan for the new dock-
yard rond and the Queen's Road East flyovers.
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The Lennox-Boyds off to find Uncle Ben
London, Jan. 7,
Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd is off to the south seas to And aut if he can, whether cannibals ate his uncle or just adopted him.
The question has long troubled the family of Lennox- Boyd, who until last October
Britain's Colonial
Secretary.
Was
Mr Lennox-Boyd and his wife, Lady Patricia, were seen off at London airport on Wednesday by Mr Julian Amery, the Colonial Under-Secretary. Mr Amery patted
Mr Lennox-Boyd on the shoulder and said:
"Have you heard about the Maori chief who claimed he was Scottish by absorption: who knows, you may find some of your relatives out there."
The great uncle who is the centre of the mystery was red-haired Mr Benjamin Boyd, born in New South Wales, Australia.
Mr Boyd came to London and amassed a fortune na a stockbroker and shipbuilding.
He bought a the south
In the late 1840s, he got the wanderlust. yacht called the Wanderer and set sail for
sea3.
PICTURED RIGHT: Mr Alan and Lady Patricia
Lennox-Boyd.
PEAK
On October 15, 1851, the yacht was lying off the shore of one of the Solomon Islands. Benjamin Boyd armed himself with a shotgun, announced he was going to shoot pigeons and had a boat crew row him nahore. That was the last time Benjamin Boyd was seen. He never came back to the yacht.
"One report said he was popped into Aqooking pot by cannibals on the island-a aonewhat sticky end," remarked Mr Lennox-Boyd. "At any rate, the yacht finally sailed without him."
But there is another story which indicates a some- what happler ending. Some 20 years after Boyd vanished, the crew of an Australian ship saw a red- haired white man running along the shore with a party of natives.
"Could this have been great uncle Ben?" mused Mr Lennox-Boyd.
In their attempt to unravel the mystery, the Lennox-Boyds will spend nine weeks touring Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the New Hebrides, Samoa, Tahiti and the Solomons.--AP.
Jaz Deservations Phoni 3:031
England's big Test
-score-
Centuries by Ken Barrington and Ted Dexter enabled the England to put up formidable total of 430 runs for seven wickets at the end of the second day of their six-day first Test match against the West Indies yesterday. Barrington was out
after
scoring 128 runs, but Dex- tor was unbeaten with 103 runs and is continuing his innings with Freddie True- man who still has to open his scoring.
DWELLERS TO SWASTIKA IN KOWLOON
GET NEW ADDRESSES
Roads renamed
He suggests...
Dramatic
and houses to SUICIDE ON rescue of
be renumbered
Government
the
abolish proposes to presont system of house numbering on the Peak and to renumber the houses according to the roads on which they' are situated.
The proposal entalis the re- naming of:
★
As
"Peak Road,"
is
STEPS OF NO. 10
London, Jan. 8. Philosopher Lord Ber. trand Russell suggested last night that pacifists might mako their an Il-bomb feelings known by at safolde committing "There are many gaps in the
Minister Ilaroid Prime present numbering to enable
Macmillan's front door. Stubby Road from Wan-numbers to be fitted in as buld
"In traditional China it chal Gap to the Upper ing progresses and whilst there
had 12 A man grouping,
grudge Peak Tran Station 3 some pattern or
ma he against another the position is often en odd one,
and
commit would ga House No. 53 19 thefor example,
suicide on his doorstep, Ramell said on the inde- pendent television pro- Framune "This Week"
that if the "I think people who object to I- bombs wert to cominik suicide on the
steps of Downing Street the Prime Minister would find it very unpleasant.
Peak Road
from
Upper Peak Train Station almost next door to House No.
"The renaming of the roads on since is proposed the Peak
runa Sul Rond at present from Queen's Rowl East to the Upper Peak Tram Station while Peak Road runs from Robinson Road to the top of the Peak.
Lo Victoria Peak as 450.
Mount Austin Road," Peak Road from Robinson Road to Victoria Gap as "Old Peak Road," Aberdeen Road entire length Else," Tanderagee Road for its entire length as "Pollock's Path."
SLE
for its "Peel
ol
Obviously, any system numbering houses over the en Ure length of Stubbe Road would give rise to differulice, and there is confusion at present between
soon as the renaming of ronds en the Peak has been the widely reparated built-up agreed upon.. changes in house sections of upper and lower Peak more than (numbers will be notified to pro-Road not connected by a motor
UT there could have been
very much
Commis- road. stoner of Rating and Valuation. Residents will also be advised of their new address.
perty owners by the
this. For example, a model of the Kowloon foothills road. And this year the big tulking
"The Postmaster-General and the point WIS
apart from other Government Departments bridge. But
have for some time been con- sketch plans and 烧 model
cerned with the somewhat of a proposed bridge at
haphazard numbering of houses Lyemun which has not
on the Peak and many property been very widely discussed owners in the Peak District are there was no sign of the agreeable to a revision of the harbour bridge or of the prerent system," said a Govern- Western
Approaches ment statement today.
Bc home,
Our suggestion is that next
year the Police Department
Confusing
"House numbering
120
the
provides two exhibitions, Peak began in 1904, and the alloited were fairly Delwein 1904 and
and twice,
for adulte, another for numbers children. The one for adults continuous.
1941 house numbers ilms should include traffic
changed at least made
Hongkong and have always run from the top other parts of the world.
terminating with downwards, includo
de the highest number at the end some of the of Middle Gap Road, analyses of worst or the most common accidents. It should also attempt
show what departments
It
also should
traiße
to
doing elsewhere.
This brings us to our
point,
are
final The international Inter- police organisation,
is well-known but it pol,
that in strange scoms 1980 with traffic and road subject of inter- problems a national concern there is no existence organisation in which
and dis- collects seminates Information on this subject.
+
Original name
"The change of name of Aber- deen Road to Peel Rise will ob- viate any confusion, with other roads containing the word "Aber- deen" in the name.
"The new name for Tander- agee Road is suggested because the original name was derived from that of a house which no longer exists.
Hin, was replying to question Baking whether he thought the arrest of sa
anti-nuclear
group
4
earlier this wock st British rocket sile had ex- hausted all legal means of protestUPI.
Injured boy's
condition
still unchanged
Tanderagee Road is not easily Fronounced and has been sup planted in usage by the pro- posed name of 'Pollock's Path":"
People who object can write The condition to the Secretary of the Urban
ice-bound
scientists
Washington, Jan. 7. Planes have been sent to rescue 28 United States military and civilian an ice scientists from Island in the Arctic that is reported to be breaking up, the U.S. Air Force announced today.
The ice island is about 450 miles off Point Barrow, Alaska, and E known as "Ice Floe
Charley."
The scientists had been on the island since May last, collecting meteorological and technical in- formation about the Arctle, Air Feroe spokesman said. DISINTEGRATING
an
The apedoesman said the Alaska Air Catrenand reported that the island was disintegrat- ing.
Small transport planes with auxiliary jet engines had been dispatched, and two ski-equipped C-130 transport planes were their way to Alaska.
on
When they arrived, the Alaska nir command would decitic who- ther the loc floo was large and thick enough for them to land on it.
The Air Force spokesman re- ported that the leo island had bruken up to only one-quarter of
DEADTH
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
''A Blood÷red wwastika' appeared on the wall of a block of Dals in Hunghom yesterday.
Below it were the words "Deadth Jews".
The alga appeared on the wall of 20, B block, ground floor, of the Hunghom Housing Society estate on Ma Tau Wet Koad,
It was written in broad strokes on a newly white-washed surfact.
Police said they were investigating. "This is the first time we have heard of such a thing in the history of Hongkong,"
The sign is believed to be the work of à Juvenile. Bimilar signs have been appearing in many parts of Europe and Britain recently and have been given prominence in the Hongkong prem.
Russia ready
to undertake
planet flights
Moscow, Jan. 7.
tests in the
its original size in 10 hours. Its Russia plans to carry out
next few weeks with a powerful new
Lee runway was now about 3,700 feet long.Reater,
Gen Cassels takes
over Nato group
Pinpoint
accuracy of Atlas
Washington, Jan. 7. President Eisenhower told Congress today that the United State's Atlas Inter. continental ballistic mis- Bile could hit a target the size of an airfield at ranges of over 5,000 miles.
"In 14 recent text launchings, al ranges of over 5,000 miles, Atlas has been striking on an average within two mlica of the target," he said. This is less than the length of a jet runway -well within the circle of total destruction.”
The President said that the
long-range striking power of the
United States, immatched in manned bombers, had taken on
entered the operational inven-
rocket designed to undertake space new strength as the Atlas had flights to planots of the solar system,tory. it was announced here tonight..
A statement issued by Tass said the tests would be 'made between January 15 and February 15.
Success
In discussing the effectiveness of the Allas, The President departed from the preparod text of his State of the Union
It called on ships and planes announcement unless they knew message to call attention to of other countries to stay out their new rocket would work," Just night's
successful dring of
of six-year-old
Bonn, Jan. 7. Keith Clarke victim of a train
British Gen Sir James Cassels, of the designated area, which said an official of the National such A missile from Cape Council by February 8. A plan mishap is still unchanged,
and Space Canaveral Young Clarke who is fighting veteran of Korea, takes command les between the Hawaiian and Aerimauties of the Poak area may be in-
of Nato's 1ve-nation Fijian Island groups.
Administration.
The Air Force had announced spected in the office of the Secre- a desperate battle for his life today
was northern army group, Council,
Kowloon Hospital Central in
Tass said the rocket was alto
that the "There is no way of knowing a few hours before tory, Urbans
He succeeds Gen Sir Dudley designed to launch "heavy earth
what launching cite they will firing had been successful 'and Government Offices, West Wing, knocked down by a train on a
Prince Edward Word, who has completed his satellites.” bridge
use, but obviously the rocket that the missile sped 6.325 top floor.
Road last Wednesday,
two-year term commanding the
will cover 9.0 awfully long miles down the Atlantic range He was critically injured and British, Belgian, Dutch, Canadien
distance to the lafended impact to strike in the intended target admitted to Kowloom Hospital and German forces in the Lower
area."— Reuter.
some bey and Ascension Falood. immediately.
Atlas, a one and-a-half stage rocket with a thrust of about 30,000 iba, is the only Inter- continental ballistic missile the United States has in operation at present.
Banda may be freed
Bulawayo, Jan. 7,
The imminent release of Vr Hastings Banda, the Nyasaland African leader, was strongly rumoured here on Thursday after the Nyasaland Chief Secretary, Mr C. W. F Footman, made an un- announced visit to Gwelo Jall.
We have an Interpol, why not an Inter- traff? Its greatest virtue is
would mean that it nennible pooling of ideas. It And there aro many countates like Hongkong pront both which could
the ideas that mor
advance
Scientifically
countries could give, and
understood WDS
the Chief Secretary spoke with Dr Banda on terms of release for himsel and other African de- Laineen,
DR. HASTINGS BANDA
-Macmillan, now-in-Accra, ls anxious to create, the
mother, |hospital after an operation,
urmware of the accident,
Meanwhile his
16 perish in hospital fire
I
Yokosuka, Jan, S. Police sald last night, that at least
persons, half of them new-born infants, perished in a raging fire that destroyed an old wooden welfare kospiisi here-
UPI.
Rhine-AP
Airliner a total loss
Landon, Jan. 7.
Airways A British European Viscount airliner was destroyed by fire at London airport tonight after its nose-wheel collapsed on landing from Dublin in foggy conditions.
The 54 paschgers and tzew of tivo escaped uninjured, although some were reported "shaken.”— Router,
It gave no further detalls of the rocket, but said "special ships of the Soviet fleet would
to
of
be sent to the test area. carry out measurements.
The tests, it said, would be conducted outside "placen intensive shipping, atrlines and Asheries," But as a safety measure other governments were asked to instruct ships and planes "to refrain from entering the area."
U.S. surprised
ap-
Collision rock
not charted
•
1
Bill undergoing tests is an- other ICBM, the Titan, which bax about the same thrust power as the Atlas but is what missile acientiists' coll a pure Bingapore, Jan. 7.
Than Royal Navy sources said, today two-stage rocket.
the Admiralty eliarts of 1059 expected to curry a larger pay- issue did not show the rock on load than the Atlas.
Work, scheduled for 'comple- which the American freighter
wrecked, tion in 1963, is also going ahead. Valley Forge Whe
on a solid fuel long rango socket -the Minuteman.
Last week.
Meanwhile,
the Soviet In Washington Union's announcement that it intenda to launch d now rocket into the central Paclic took officials by surprise tonight, Space experts said it
Indonesian
· President Eisenhower's Indica- parently'
that mornt
the Consulate spokesman anid
ation of the accuracy, obtained in Russians had
succeeded in hydrographic team had been Atlas fringe came when, he told building tremendously power-assigned to investigate the rock Congress that no matter how ful new rocket boosters, even A Lloyde representative in carnest was the United States bigger than
bas the 000,000 to Singapore
informed ha quest for guarantee of pepco, Fukuoka, Jan. 7.-
700,000-pound-thrust-rockels London-wadiquaries that the we must maintain a high degree A coal dust heap at a mine
been enrgó and wreck of the Ameri- 'of military effectiveness at the previously they crambled suddenly
oan Troianter Valley Forge maỡ. same time we are engaged in "We can be pretty sure the be regarded as a total lomu, negotiating the issue of arms Russians would not make this UPI and AP,
‚¦raduction."--Reuter.,›
Coal heap disaster
near bere
Summer time
· had
the expert knowledge which / Political observers also be- |· .healtflest possible clitoday and burled ̈ 16 labourers, on Sunday, March 20. 14 enda thought to passtau.
could be enlisted to help
solve specific problems.
Heve that British Prime Minister,
Mr
Harold
mate for his African talks-AP.
Summer Time this year begins on November This
x women were found dead and
10 others injured.-UPI.
glated in today's Carette.
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