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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1960.

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Emergency powers should not be accepted as part of HK life

OF UNDESIRABLES

Of The DETENTION

Day

Eliminating a bad influence

ENTRAL Magistrate, MS

1. T. Morris justifiably hits out at the tripe which passes for entertainment in this Colony. Not that Hongkong in any worke than other

party world.

of the But elsewhere some is made to keep children and young peuple

attempt

out of Dims which

clearly

"י

unsuitables

are

Britain motion pictures are divided in three categories for horror, "A" for adults, and "U" for general consumption.

The China Mail has fre- quently urged Government to adopt these ratings in Hongkong In such a way that a theatre management could be prosecuted for defaulting. This 13 not not anking much of our censors,

many cases they

In

adopt the ratings

could

given

in the United Kingdom. In

Chief Justice's

remarks at

Supreme Court

The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Hogan, said at the opening of the Assizes at the Supreme Court this morning that it would be unfortunate if the emergency powers imposed to detain undesirable aliens were to be accepted as a part of the legal system and pattern of life in Hongkong.

700-YEAR

TRADITION

special cases this designa IN ASSIZES

tion could be changed to

nuit local conditions.

This

in the only way to keep children out.

course, gangster films. sexy sloppy finx and horror films are corrupting. Coming from the world of unreality that the cinema crentes, the average

youngster promptly

about recrenting. it

less romantic surroundings

Nets

In his

be

there

outside. Rad books can

just as harmful and

OPENING

"I hope that it will not happen," he said when he referred to the increase in the numbers of undesirable aliens who were unwilling or unable to leave the Colony, and were detained without trial. There were 125 de- tained last year compared to 91 in the previous year.

"But it is not

BO much this slight rise as the continued use of these

powers which causes

anxiety," he added,

Six Midiisel referred to the

grent problens and respo}} ~

ary Paris,

if the problem

In a colourful ceremony dat-billies brought about by the ing back to the signing of introduction of the moler car, the Magna Caria in 1215, and onderd the Colony's annual Court | wuk/Biomlying, enajsacation of Assizee opened this 620 right places, 55%

The red stream that fell on morning with all the pomp the cobblestones of revolution- and heraldry which has

·the heavy blade graced the traditions of of the guillotine rose and fell British law for hundreds on the necks of aristocrats and others, was but a mere trickla of years.

with the compared

rivers of Throughout the ocial care-

blood poured out every year on the monics the red robes of

world by the highways of the Justices slood oul

the modern motor car," he said. brilliantly against the sober blacks, greys and blues of the legal profession and guests.

The proceedings began with John's is that Church services at St

SI and

Juseph's educated Cathedral

easily Church at which prayers were 118 children, offered for the guidance of the deliberations Judges in their

designate bewigged

are many teachers in Hong- kong who would wish that censors could reading matter in the same way ay films. The one mujor weakness of

classifying films

JЯrly are

many

adults currupted

19

These aro the potentially during the Assizes.

dangerous

people. But

while the authorities are

powerless

to act in this

DISPUTES

they

Price for progress Despite its many advantages, be an so frequently could instrument of death, and al- though he felt that the full im- pact of the probion had not as

Hongkong. yet reached had to face up to 1

"Some price must be paid for casunities but the Under Articles 22 and 23 of progres

be inflicted by cars seem to the Magistrate's com- the Magna Carta the case,

annual be ments

casily

precedent; must they could

Assizes were to be held on both without IRCH translated into some form of England and Wales to settle dis-be accepted?" he asked.

He felt that the trac safeguard for young people. putes about land. Experience

has shown that in

humble beginning offender was not a criminal In the accepted sense. "But is it the the powers of children

of the judges of

wise to relieve n driver 60 evil attractions offered by the Assize Courts have been ex-

from the financial triad societies can be com tended to the stage where they completely

were made fully qualified to deat consequences of his errors," he batted in many

He thought drivers with all questions of law sad asked. The home and the good fort on an equal fooling with the might use greater care if they influences that pervade ith Court,

were obliged to repay to in- Their powers are now derived surance companies a substantial as well as the exercise of

disci- from four authorities, The part of the damage caused. parental and school

Commissions of Peace, Oyer pline stand out as the most

Jail Delivery important. All these

the case

various

it

measures must be Reen as attempts to contain the problem and to prevent

from growing to controllable proportions.

ил-

From this

and Terminor,

and Nisi Prius,

However, in modern

days

Drug traffic

Sir Michael referred to the the work of the judges during dangers presented by the traffic has decreased greatly in dangercus drugs, which with Assizes because the law has gradually the triad societies, remained a

and loopholes filed.

And it surely is #luzical been belter worded and defined very real menace to law

therefore

the to allow clash head on cinema to with all that teachers and parents are trying to do,

After this morning's church services the judiciary and off cial guests drove to the Supreme (Contd. on back page, col. 0)

Case of Prince's fading black pearl

on

New York, Jan. 13.

Cartier

with Firth Avenue,

and

order in Hongkong.

Few governments, he said, had ever escaped entirely from the canker of corruption, and Hongkong was not necessarily Iminune,

to

against the

prosecu

INSPECTION

AND

PROCESSION

The ceremonia parade in connection with the opening of the 1960 Assizes this morning. Top pictur the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Hogan, in- spects a guard of honour of the 1st Btn. Lancashire Regiment. At right: Procession of the Judges led by the mace-bearer, Mr L. Alltree, and the Chief Justice, return- ing to Supreme Court after the parade.

Sixty-three killed

in big earthquake

Lima, Jan. 13.

Sixty-three people were killed and 200 injured today in Arequipa by heavy

earthquakes felt in three countries, radio reports from the scene said.

Village split by

tremors

of

The quake shook areas Peru, Bolivia and Chile.

The reports from Arequipa, in southern Peru, sald the 'suburbs of Tingo, Tiabaya and Miraflores were hardest hit,

Another minor quake was felt later but there was no word of additional casualties or damage. The major quake occurred early this morning. First rc- ports from the area werd fragmentary. Landslides knock- ed out communication Hnes, hampering receipt of detailed Kapoho, Jan, 14. reports of casualties

But the quake was residents of Kapoho damage. village fled on Wednesday after said to have caused widespread

destruction. street earthquakes spilt the and an imminent outburst of fery lava was feared.

by

1

ها

The

Lima govertument seat planes speeding to the Bocne with relief supplies and equipment, including tents for houding the homeless,

Ima wits shaken for 50 seconds but there; weia no ro- ports of damage or casualties generat in the expilai,

Aroha is about 400 miles

A

Damages

for loss of

love life

woman

London, Jan. 13.

was awarded £5,587 today for the loss of her normal love life following a car accident in 1956.

MEXICO FLOODS

Thousands homeless

Top

Soviet

minister

sacked

Moscow, Jan. 13. The Soviet Union abolish- ed its Ministry of In- ternal Affairs tonight and dismissed the man generally regarded as Premier Nikita Khrushchev's right- hand man from his high Communist Party posts.

The surprise

announce

ments came on the eve of the first 1960 Bassion of the

Supreme Soviet

(Parita- ment) which has been de scribed as "unusually im- portant.

First, the Communist Party -Newspaper - Pravda startlett Moscow by disclosing that Mr Aleksei Kirichenko had been elected to a new post, that of Regional Party Secretary in the disant city of Rostov in south- eastern Russia.

With

Released

The

switch, Mr Kirichenko apparently also was released from his membership in the Party's ruling Presidium and from ifis inportant position cs Secretary of the Communist- Party's

Central There are six such

Commifice. secretaries, with Mr Khrushchev as First Secretary.

Later, a brief dispatch by Tats said the responsibilities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow were shifted to the Ministeries of Internal Affairs of the 15 Republics that make up the Soviet Union,

The Tass ANNOUNCEDent said only that the switch was made · by the Proditan of the Suprame Soviet, on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers,

No explanation

Mexico City, Jan. 13. Thousands of persons were reported homeless on Mexico's west coast today as the Fuerte

(The Tass dispatch gave no and Mayo -istrs broke levies and explanation of what dissolution inundated forms, ranches, high-of the Internal Affairs Ministry (méms, but observers noted that ways and villages,

this ministry controls the inter- There was no immediate a security agencies, Including the aceret police, and it could official report of the number of mean a further step in the de- hurneless, but the newspaper centralisation of authority which Ultimat Noticias sold the fois has been followed in the Soviet was around 30,000. The news-Union in recent years, especially paper Diario de la Tards set the in the economic and industrial

fields). figure at 150,000.

nt

No loss of life was reported officially. Demage was estimated In the millions of dollars

ard wester mutes of Sonera Sinaloa-AP.

A court awarded the judg- Burnt rat

ment to Mra Ellen Booker, 40, who testified that after the ac- cident she could not endure ber husband's kisses, or tolerate any approach. She ro- physical covered, from a skull fracture, but an incidental effect of the injury was a change of charac- ter in important respects.

alive: boy

For example, observers be- love there is a possiblity the Ministry of the Interior, which controls. uniformed police, voluntary civilian police, pri sons and "corrective labour colooles," may be abolished and its dulles extended under organisation with a new name.

Tight control

en

"Yot prosecutions for CCT ruption ore comparatively rare In these courts and it may be that just as the terrorised or reluctant whiness can seriously roduce our ability to deal with The 300 the triads and naredes, so our rules for corroboration, having regard their origin and reason, may Uit the balance unfairly entirely independent evidence Officials declared Kapoho The case of Prince Sadruddin Khan's fading black on in corruption trials where

It Hes in the pearl necklace was the talk of the town today. can so rarely be available," he disaster area.

said:

Puna district, in which ve On Tuesday Van Cleef & The Acting Attorney Genual, rome 6,700 people who could be A society columnist reported i

Inc., Mc Arthur Hooton, QC, stressed endangered "an that

Arpels and December 23

stores the need that all men should be eruption. American Jeweller of excellent jewellery firms

rao propared to come to courts. pnil reputation had refunded about on

The area on the slopes of, southeast of here.—AP. $500,000 to a client because a identical ads in the Times give straightforward evidence in black pearl necklace and its that set, tongues wagging from all cases where their evidence Kilauea Mountain, a live volcone, turned the diamond marts of the would be material in doing was the scene of a damaging

Lova canary diamond clasp

flow "that" began" on Bowery to the purlleus of Park Justice.

February 28, 1955, and con-

11-year-old

The move would tie in with tinued sporadically for 89 days.

student who burnt live rat in a plece, of the decree issued on Sunday Quakes jolted Kapoho at the

The High Court, which deter-

paper was sentenced to two by the Central Committee of In the past year, there was n rate of 'five a minule today and

mined the question of damages,

strokes of the base by Mir D. the Communist Party. The further reducilon of some 200 seismologists maid & repetition of Another swiatlica wigs appear- awarded the husband Eils for

Benson at Central Juvenile called for increased propaganda serious crimes," generally attri- the 1955 flow could – occur. 0: ed on a wall in Kowloon Fowler- expenses and loss of his wife's Court this morning,

rlin every segment; "of" Soviet butable to decreaser in crimes any moment.

dky.

Ginty a means of positive society, of violence, he

"It was written above-a-sloga A friend of the couple, Alfred | The rat died of the burna. permansion in favour, of) Com- were, however, instances of g Crucis 10 to 12 inches, wido "Rise up artis Nazis," on 'a lakar | Jotford, in whose car Mrs

'munist Meals, \?) laotance of unembers of the oporbed fur village strepta and piece of Isflor paper pasted on Booker was a passenger when it The boy onthiitted the offence. public to play their part in the 18-inch crack extended the white-washed garden wall of collided with another car, ada at the function of Quonn's "This" was seen as a step in enforcement of the law;

kerom, the centre of the village. a peteste residenon in Bla. Chunki milded - Įrengociability for 1 the

Sirges: and Ko.. Sing. Strert replacing the negative function (Contd. on back page, vol. 7)''UFI'

Yu, Hawloom: City.

[ of security: poliow--UPI, accident.-AP.

yesterday,

found it

out to be artificially coloured. The jeweller was not identified. Avenue,

The Arms said they The cleat has since been identified as Prince Sadruddin | "nOGSSILLY П internationally Khan, uncle of the young Aga known, jewellers to assure their Khan. Prince Badruddin bought patrons and friends that we the necklace for his wife, the are not the jeweller concerned

in qucation," former Nina Byer Thyssen.

A spokesman for the Bellwether.of.

Black, Tiftony's,

and Gothan, another American jewellers, ran an ad- Starr vertisement in the New York loading Fifth Avenue frm, shld Times on January 1 saying it it wite considering, runnings, a was not the Jeweller. mentioned | similar dential' Ir the Times by the columizi.

UPL

Public reluctance.

mid. There

.....

....

Another swastika

+

Before the crash, the 'usid. she had lived in happy, normal relationship with her husband, Stahley,

All

gets cane

Such a move would follow the official trend of tightening coxi- trol by the Communist Party.

The People's Voluntary Polica unite-leven with red bands around their arms-work under the control of party committees, and local Soviets,