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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1080.

HK's refugee problem BLACK STOCKINGS | Harwell workers

worst in

conference is

in the world,

told

Geneva, Jan. 13.

The plight of more than one million refugees In Hongkong was described here today as one of the worst refugee situations in the world by the Rev. Ludwig Stumpf, representative of the Lutheran world federation in the colony.

Speaking at today's meeling of governmental and voluntary ogenetes called by the Internas tiunal Committee for World Re- tugce Year, De Stumpf said that Hongkong stood in the centre of the nucleus of the global re-

problem which Ingre shifted from Europe to Asia,

He waid that Hongkong: 500,000 Rsons were living aquatter huts" on rooftops, the pavements or in hallways.

TB INFECTION

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in on

An estimated 95 per cent of this population over the age of

cent

Hospital space was 100 per below normal and two or three patients had to share the same bed, he sak, Employ- ment opportunities were scarce, wages were low anų educational facilities were lacking.

HUMAN ATTITUDES

Dr Stumpf said the Hungkong Government had built Blocks

of six-storey apartment houses in which 300,000 refugees were living.

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"But the solution of the prob-

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Fang Mr

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General Secretary of the Formosa World Year Ceminilteo, sald Refugee

in addition to those that

hundreds Hongkong

of refugees were thousands living in southeast Asia, the Muddle East and Macao,

Mr Fang gave the following Area: Burma 175,770, Vietnam 4.000, Laos 9,812, Thailand 3,064, 1,085, India 17,340, Pakistan

14,211. Turkey Saudi-Arabia

Cambodia 1,842 3,970, Macao 75,181.-Reuter.

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14 were infected with tuberculum is not a question of money. HIGH NEGRO

lasts and 89,000 persons were nuf- akill ur space,

Stump!

fering from active TB. There "To help Hongkong we nunt was TB death every seven change human attitudes. Money hours and one third of the deaths is being invested dally in

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children under Ave were dreds of projects but not enough caused by tubercular meningius, i is being inverted in alleviating Dr Stumpf said,

human suffering."

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OFFICIAL CHARGED

New York, Jan. 13. Holan Jack, who as Mon- hotton borough president has the highest municipal office held by a Nogro in the United States, was in- dicted today for spiracy to obstruct justice. Ho also was charged with York violation of Now City's charter.

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New York city is divided into five boroughs. Manhattan is. the most important. Each borough has a president in charge of the local Gorough administration.

The indictments were reburn- ed by a grand jury. They sten med from $5,500 remodeling Jack's apartment lu the pre- dominately Negro district of Harlem in Manhattan. The re- modelling was paid for by n real estate promoter, Sidney J. Ungar, Both Jack and Ungari

i have claimed the payment was a ¦ 1 долл.

Jack, a Democrat, has claimed he received the loan from Ungar early in 1958 at a time the Intter was seeking approval of sponsorship'of E $28-million slum elearance programme. Jack subsequently voted against such approval

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The indictment consisted of four conints, сле charging conspiracy to obstruct Justice and three charging violation of the city charler,-AP.

Tribal warfare renewed

Lulunbourg, Jan. 13. Ten Baluba tribesmen were,

killed today in an attack by the rival Lulua tribe as new violence flared in the Kasai region of the Belgian Congo,

This was drepite the pact of peace signed two days ago by the chiefs of the twe tribes.

Today's attack wILS on DI Balubu village near Demba and besides those killed cleven people were wounded and 24 huls fired. In retaliation the Balubos cttacked Lulua village and burned 100 huts, AFF.

Princem Alexandra, namnod one of the world's 12 best. dressed women last week falls from ETROO BE she ploda across the muddy yard of Marchmont House, Berwick- shire, to watch

a hand-in leopard headscarf, sheepskin jacket, plaiå skirt, hoots and black

stockings. With ber is Mr Romans McEwen, daughter-in-law old her hosts Sir John and Lady McEwen-Express Photo.

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'Dandy-Kim' held for extradition

Mayfair-man

London, Jan, 13.

Cabo

"Dandy Kim" Michael Caborn - Waterfielā. arrested in Landon Jesterday on an extradition warrant, was released on £10,000 ball today by a London cour Ball

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rich paid by his friend heireso

Misa Sara Skinner, with whom Wavcrfield last summer set up a nautical ski school at Tangiers. "Dandy Kun" must appear before the court on February 17. He is wanted by the French police, who applied for the extradition warrant, as he wb$ "e ?!freietxÎ in his

absence by a court in Grasse, southern France, in 1050, to four years In prison for his part in a jewel robby at the Riviera home of Hollywood film magnate Jack Warner.--AFP,

Shock treatment

Ragu, Stelly, Jan. 13. Rosa Salnitro, 30, sat up on her bed in the operating theatre today and said she did not need that operation after all.

The Ligeon took her word. He had ixen about to operate on her throat to cure a foes of voice which had resisted all other treatment. The shock of the impending operation brought Miss Salinitro's voice back.- UPI.

to stage 5-hour strike

Harwell, Jan. 13.

One thousand skilled employees at Britain's major atomic research station here plan to stage a five-hour unofficial strike on Friday to coincide with the vlait of four Russian scientists.