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CHINA
No. 37561
Some of us
Established 1845.
MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1960.
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents
PAN AMA
CLIPPER CARGO
PHONE 37031
Q
FASTETY DELIVERY to LEADING MARKETS
OF THE WORLD
have asked for it' says textile man
WEAVERS APPEAL FOR UNITY
Crisis over U.S.
YEARS OF stand on
DECISIONS
THESE are years of great
decisions which affect the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister is currently gathering information about
situation
InC
which will help to mould the future of Nyasaland
garment imports
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER ·
I
i} Africa Textile leaders in Hongkong called for unity among the industry to cope with the "unreasonable crisis created by the
at the Rhodesias. No sooner had Mr Macmilla
Jeft on his tour than the negotiating parties to the London and Zurich agree: |
of Tents over the future
Cyprus decided that it was Lime for full-scale dis cussions in London, start- Ing on Saturday, February 19 was set for the i
island's independence, but Jike most conferences augs were encountered. It hap- pened in this case and a major deadlock was reach- ed just before the date act for the general elections,
attitude" of U.S. garment manufac-
turors.
Britain
sending
tanks
Every hope to Aden
Tended
THE London-Zurich accord
the bloody ght ing which lasted for three years; tension eased; the dissenting parties got together over a round table nnit there
was every that the differences would resolved in the allotted time of one year. It has been reported that agreement has been reached on nearly
all points of the new constitution, including such complex problems as
London, Jan. 10.
Commenting on the U.S. gar. ment makers' counter-proposals for drastic cuta in the proposed Hongkong quota, MF N. Chang. Chairman of the Hong- kong Weavers' Association, mid "some of us have asked for it!" "This will affect the whole of Ilongkong's
industry," textile
he went on. "The U.S. manu- facturers' attitude is unreason- able."
He explained that
Japan, Hongkong had
unlike
never
received Amerienn aid "nor had we put up any tariff against the Herculean amount of American Imports which by far surpassed Hongkong exports to America.". "Now that the crisis has been
A War Office spokesman to- pereipitated." he went on,
night confirmed that aihe textile manufacturers in squadron of British Cen-Hongkong had better unite and! Lurlon tanks, minus crews, cope with the situation collec-
tively."
to
comment
on
that
Calling for the local industry
to
THE RIGHT IDEA Head of Jasper Woman
London, Jan. 10.
The Sunday. Graphic colu- mnist Terence Feely noted today that within the space of last week:
• President Eisenhower "announced he could now virtually hit a sixpence at 5,000 miles with his H-mis- silea,"
The Soviet Union "an- nounced it is to fire giant rockets over the Pacific."
PROF. PICCARD
• British aciculista "announced the discovery of a gas which would make the perfect murder possible." Prof. Jacques Piccard in his bathyscaphe "descended 4%1⁄2 viles into the sea.”
Commented Feely: "He has the right iden, that Piccard."-UPI..
Changes long overdue say
Peak dwellers
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
group on fraud charges
Arrested in London
London, Jan. 10.
robbed of $80
in lift
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Mr Harry Jasper, head of the Jasper group A Fronch woman was robbed
of companies, and Mr Herbert Murray, Managing Director of the State Building Society, were arrested here tonight and charged with fraud offences.
Both were arrested by the City of London company fraud department and taken to a police station.
There Mir Jasper was charged
| with offencer under the Pre- vention of Frauds Investment Act in connection with Lintang
·Investments and Ely Brewery.
Mr Murray was charged with biding and abetting Frederick Grunwald in the fraudulent conversion of £3.255,500 longing to the State Building
to close their ranks. Mr Chang Inhabitants of the Peak fully support the proposed | Society.
change of house numbering, a China Mail sur- vey showed today.
will be shipped to Aden hope
early this spring. Asked
aso implored Government
newspaper
they help deal with the difficult situa- report
there as ation in support of Hongkong's were being sent precaution "against possible al industry and trade is ʼn whole.
Brillsh to distupl tempta
the olfelds of supplies from Kuwait," Bu spokesman mid:
That is only speculation. don't know."
Questioned about
Secret meeting
On the other hand, the Hong- kong Garment Manufacturer a report (for U.S.A.) Association,
I
sup
the Vice- that the tanks would be avail-porters of the voluntary quota the for Hongkong, held a closed- door meeting this morning.
Most Peak dweliers described Victoria Peak as "Mount Austin the plan as "long overdue but Rd."
Peak. Rd., from Rosinton very bound,"
★
as Rd., to Victoria Gay "Old Prak Rd."
Aberdeen Rd., for its en- tire length as "Peel Rise." Rd., for its Tanderages entire length as "Pollock's
The Government announced last Friday a proposal to change the systun of house numbering on the Pealt,
The proposal also entails the renaming of
Stubbs Rd., from Wen-Path," chal Gap to the Upper
municipal separation, executive
powers of the President and President and others which oble for possible USC on have been holding up pro-Yemen border, the spokesman
Mr Y. L. Yang, Chairman of gress for several months. said: "Of course, 11 is not far
the Association told the Chine This is no email nehievement from Aden to the Yemen border.
Mail this morning that as there Peak Tram as all parties had held They would be available. If they is no official communication yet R widely divergent views on were needed there."
from America, the Association The spokesman agreed that
would make no comment. many of the toples which
The Crews would must necessarily be resolved commanders and
the constitution be own out from Britain to before
over the tanks If can be accepted by the two fake
andreessary.Reuter. entities
Cypriot Britain.
B
Major snag
UT there at remains one outstanding problem which now appears to he the major snag causing the deadlock. And that is the question of the two British bases on the island. The Greek Cypriots have objected to the size of the bases which Britain wishes The revised to maintain. British proposals to reduce the 150-square mile arca by cent has been by tho Cypriot group as it invalves
20
per
cted
Soviet arms
U.S. counter-proposals made by the garment makers after a meeting in New York on
Station as "Peak
House Numbers
the
House numbering on Peak Rd., from the Upper Peak started in 1904 and opart Peak Tram Station
minor changes has to from two
remained the same ever since. Although the first few months of the system will be confusin'z Inhabitants told the China Mall today it will be an eventual ad- vantage-"especially for new-
Thursday also requested Hong MISSING U.S.
keng to include more categorles under the quota system.
The items were underwear, zweaters, gloves, negligees, and
azerie,
HEIRESS
Hongkong IN BELGIUM
Teherin, Jan. 10. Official reports said a Soviet ship
loaded with jeepe, trucks and The American manufacturers anti-aircraft guns passed further suggested Abadan this morning, sailing should publish nonthly statis- toward Basra, The reports Mcal data on experts in cach said the ship would unload at category "for the enhancement Bagra milliary suppiles for of mutual understanding." Iraq from Russia,
This ty the fourth Soviet freighter with military supplies sailing to Basra within the last 48 hours.-AP.
Elephants
the question of British battle
civil as well as a milltary administration in Cyprus, amounting, it is claimed, to
a partition of the island.
A
Sovereignty
S far as Britain is con-
cerned
necessary
with tiger
New Delhi, Jan. 10.
a liger
Three elephants killed
before a single hunter could
it will be maintain to
They also pressed for a date Police carlier than July 1, 1900 to start the Hongkong quota programme,
Dangerous
sports not for Catholics
Rome, Jan. 10.
New York, Jan. 10.
said
Loday they learned that Miss Gamble Benedict, missing 18-year- old American heiress, has sailed to Belgium on a freighter. She arrived there on Saturday.
u
comers."
One of the people imterviewed was Mrs K. R. MacFce who lives in Peck Pavilion
Mrs MacFee said that the present system was "completely hopeless."
To give anyone your ad- niketch of drass also meant the locntien showing how
to
get there.
"At Jost the correct syslem
she upon," has been arrived edded,
Hongkong journalist Mrs Tar- cock supported Mrs MacFee.
Confusing
Jointly charged
be-
Both men will appear in court tomorrow along with Mr Grun- wald, a financier and director of
some of the Jasper companies. who appears on zemand on the fraudulent conversion charge.
Grunwald's case had until now been the first time in modern legal history here that one-per- son had been accused of fraud Involving such a large sun.
Armed robber
escapes
from jail
A
an
Wakefield, Jan. 10. man who staged a daring armed raid last year on exclusive jeweller's
in shop
Piccadilly, London, today escaped from the jail here. Raymond Matthews, 20, was
Mr Jesper was arrested tonight discovered missing after warders at his home in Barrow, outside had found a short ladder and a London. while
the 20-foot prison Murray was plank near arrested on his arrival at London walls.
A cordon was thrown round airport from Europe.---Reuter.
the district. Because of the freezing weather, police in- cluded malt kilns and brick- yards in their search.
PEKING CONFIRMS
MONTY'S
VISIT
Peking, Jan. 10.
Matthews and another were each sentenced to ten years' imprisonment after stag- ing on armed daylight hold-up on a jeweller's shop in Bur- lington arcade last February.
A beadle tried to shut them in the shop and Matthews, armed with a revolver, fred in the direction of the door. A |second shot embedded Itself In
the counter.
The men drove off in a car and jumped out when it was held up in the Plecadilly traffe,
scattered Rings were
in te
A Foreign Ministry spokes-street.
his!
man
Polics think Matthews
may
Beld Loday government had invited make a bid to reach London.
Router.
Viscount Montgomery to visit China, and that he would probably arrive here in May.
The spokesman gave no fur- the details.
It was also learned that
"Other than giving your visit- stuffeur, Andre Torimbaui,ing friends a sketch they would Government was on the same ship, the bave to secure a Edga. It left here on Decern-map to find their way to any one's place," Mrs Tancork said. ber 31. Miss
Benedict, socially pro-
"It may be a little confusing at first but I don't think it will The spokesman, naked whe minent heiress to a Remington take long for things to work ther Lord Montgomery would
fortune. wor typewriter
last
oul."
Fee Moɑ Tee-tung, the Chinese seen at her New York home on
Leading Colony business Communist party leader,
OT December 27.
executive Mr G. T. Tugg said whether he had been invited for was the May Day celebrations, and He grandmother. Mrs that the proposed change
he had no information about fire his gun, according to re- A call to Roman Catholles Katherine, Geddes Banedlet, in "an extremely good idea.
"It's about time that the sys-
this. to keep away from notifying police seven days after
Earlier
ង· today Foreign information "dangerous sports" will the disappearance, suggested the was changed. I'm in com-
plete agreement and I have Ministry
depart- girl might have left the country already written to authorities be discussed at the Synod the company of an older man voicing my approval," he said, official word about Lord Mont- ment official said he had no of the Roman Diocese, she had been dating since Other residents interviewed gomery visiting which opens on January August 24, organisers Bald to- night. Its agenda will include an ap- peal to the faithful not to follow, to practise. and especially, not sports "which rashly expose life, and the sanity of oneself and others, to serious dangers."
ports from Nainital The hunters were astride the confronted by
Bovereignty over the en-elephants when claves to ensure the the tiger. As the tiger clawed security of the buses the trunks of two elephants the outalde interference. third ephant broke the man-
cater's back by stepping on it Any backing down on this point will tend to nullify their usefulness in the the Western defence of Mediterranean.
Archbishop Makarięs
I remains adamant there is
overy
of
The tiger had dlled three persons in two weeks in the Lalkuwan area, 35 miles from Nahital-UPI.
Train crossing tragedy
likelihood further deadlock. And if the day set for in- dependence dawns without a settlement
not bounds that
Tomah, Wis., Jan. 10. beyond the there will be a resumption Five men and a child were hostilities which killed today in a collision be- of the plagued the island for so tween a car and a train at a
crossing near here.—AP. long.
On the other hand if the
Archbishop intends
that
Cyprus is to remain within
Commonwealth
Breaks Leg
The Synod, the first in 400 years, will last o werk
Though the sporta were not have ccine named, szveral under heavy fire recently from Roman Catholle Church writers
of $80 inside a lift at the point of a dogger last night.
At about 31 p.m., the woman, aged about 30, entered the lift at No. 39 Mody Road, Kowloon, on her way to visit a friend on the fourth floor of the building.
A Chinese in white shirt and blark European-style trou- sers followed her in. The women prossed the button for the fourth floor while the Chinese, man pressed for the tenth floor. When the lift arrived at the fourth floor, the man sud- denly produced a dagger and demanded her purse, He took everything out and kept $80. He then left the lift and escaped by the staircase.
The Fraich woman told her
called friend who
the
police immediately.
Bevan shows
some
improvement
The
London, Jan. 10. state of health of
the deputy Labour leader, Me Aneurin Bevan, show- ed
a slight kaprovement today, a labour party coinA → munique said,
Bevan had passed a "less sailefactory"
day yester- day, at the Royal Free Hospital of Landon where he bas been recuperating after undergolog a serious abdominal operation December 29.---AFT.
After 38 years
she still
used L plates
London, Jan 10,
China next The woman L driver had been at the wheel of a succession of cars for 38 years when she had her first crash-in Wimbledon.
the
pointed out that the knowledge May.
He was commenting on Poilce here were expected to of local pastmen would cut to a step out of the case for the pre-minimum the expected confusion Field Marshal's statement in
Londan yesterday that he was pent since definitely establishing with mail. Gamble arrived in that Mins
coming to Peking and would - see Mr Mao-Reuter. Antwerp on Saturday-AP.
They praised the system "progressive and sensible."
Tunnel for English
London, Jan. 10.
here, for exposing participants Great Britain and France wi
be linked by a tunnel under to mortal peril.
the English Channel,' within "Bunday Len years, the Pictorial" reported today.
Writrea, th the Meresti "Ecclesiastical Dictionary," Dominican father, Reginaldo Francisco, said Roman Catholles should not Indulge in sporte The newspaper
which bring them yolimtarily. close to death like serobatics, Alpino Galway, · Jan;' 10; car racing and certain
thore which self without much diffenity Mr Job Horton, American contorte, and
impatiment cauty and that would be the finest fim director, has been admitted neonly
foring af modersi solution for the Greek and to a houplink after breaking like dertain
and his right jog in a riding so wrestling, and, Turkish Cypriots,
tánu, boxing."-Reuter, oldent on Badieday. our Family of Nations..
the
position should resolve
the
it-
said ita reperi ww.z based on statements made LY SYSTOUD"af"technisiens And eng itinern maelszed to study Sad Dredere “reports for the Meillah, said. • Wrench governs | monia on the technical and financial aspects of the tunnel.
218
Official British services con- cerned with, the technical and Onancial phases of the tunnel revealed that all objectiona raised in the past' nasirat. the wroject have now been waved "aside, "the newspaper kuSS; Tunnelling work, the weekly added, "will - probably bakin before the end of the your und will regulen =seven, to :sight years berute, being, completos. Erimated post of 1⁄2 the project will be chunk & les millen three times more than neŽLES- sies previously: made.
Channel
The
“Sunday · Pictorial"
[that a direct railway
And there she was the other way, because she is been. day--69-year-okt Mrs. Dorothy driving for so long-replied that Field of Marien-before the the motor-cyclist was going too magistrates.
fast. Sho was rald the police, "Not guilty," said the magis driving without due care and irate.
tention.
Afterwards- Mrs Fisid salā 'confidantly; “Of course I know. I'd bet off. 》 -did 'nothing wrobe, deser/But I am÷aD= noyed at the naughty police. “enose naughty drivers who dash around the road give you
"But," said her counsel, “she
is the incarnation · ot
when driving."
Caution
said Mrs Field, whose car nahed
line with a young motor-cyclist, would link London's Victoris ; said: "I always display L plates station to the Gare du Nord because I don't like driving more consideration if you hayo of Parks A trip between both | fast,
ellies woulä: like-five hostre.
Lplates. CRAWLING I've now taken off my L » sad would cost Brunch · Las
"Other
motorists don't seem plates because the police:don't than current rallway, fares; il to mind you going slow and
ike them. It's a shamn, X-X added,
careful whao khay; see your think. If everybody bad The newspaper, 1 kino, olütmed" "pinter," hay
American, Aasnojai strcles. In
The molar-cyclist complainedi Ministry of Transport addition, ip those in Britain She was crawling af pow a polcaimsen onid: "I Í NOT and Frakes, were supporting bean going faster : VẬT have bitetsná 18 AUDI,LATUT the study aroun, and that re- avoided her MA | yozdim në qualand drivice Bat Bouron Costs šili now amonated To which Mrs Yield-whờ, hưu: 14 szály, be inconvenient; I 2pullos to shutout £280,441,
i no need to put up Lʻplates-mayki #top you."
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