THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1960.·
The journal of David Apartheid Yard search
Rubinovitch
Warsaw, Feb. 8.
Polish newspapers today published excerpts from the journal of a little Jewish boy, David Rubinovitch, whose diary started in 1942 and continued for two years and two months until the day when young David and his family were exterminated by the Nazis.
The boy's diarles, written in notebooks, were live school found by chance in the attic of a neighbour's house. They are sal to rival the pathelle and tlaries of another revealing Jewish child, Anne Frank, which have now became famous. David was 12 years old when the diary was begun. Along with all the horrors of the Nazi per- which the Jews. secution of David recorded without holred or self-pity, there were chlkiish Joy Interest-learning to
a bicycle, ride fotow fall,
watching the
NOTICE
The diary began with David's on the report abolit # notice
wall of the city hall, forbidding Jews to travel in carts
تركي شرفة
David's Journal ended with the Route joyful description which was soon to turn to horror
a despnir.
For the father of the family came honte. For some weeks he had been in a foreca labour ep Then he was released.
The family greeted him with tears of joy and began to hope again. But this was just the prelude to a terrible trip to Nazi exterraination camp for the whole family.
ALWAYS SOBER
ing for the extermination camps, he was only 16 years old, and in the five notebooks
that tell his tragio story today, į there is not a single word of hatc,--AFP.
QUEEN HOLDS
PRIVY COUNCIL
London, Feb. 8, Queon Elizabeth 1 who is third child expocting a
within a few days, hold o Privy Council at Bucking ham Palace today.
Four new Privy Counsellors were sworn Lord Brecon, Minister of State for Welsh Affairs,
Profumu. Mr John Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and two Larti Justices of Appeal, Sir Gerald Upjohn and Sir Patrick Devlin,
Sir Patrick was the Chairman of the Devlin Commission which reported In the Nyasaland disturbances early Jast year! Reuter.
VISITS IPOH
Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 8. The tone of the diaries is
Countess Mountbatten cort- always sober, the vocabulary tinted her tour of British mall- simple, the planes wed uretary hospitals in the Federation short, and moving in their very of Malaya today with a visit to starkness: "Yesterday they kill- Ipoh.—ÚPI.
ed a few. Today they killed
five," he notes without commeat,
He puts down the price of bread on the black market, and wonders how many
people
Miner killed
Scranton, Penn., Feb. 8.
A rock fall 150 feet under- ground trapped three evai taken, minera teday. Two were rescued,
have already died of hunger.......... hundreds, thousands....".
When David
Thrown like millions of other lone unharmed. The other was Jews into cattle wagons leav-killed,-AP.
Bid
of
for shrine
Cadillac
Detroit, Feb. 8. A Detroli group is negotiating with the French Govern- ment to bring the remains of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac here for enshrinement,
Cadillac founded this big midwestern enr-producing cliy an a fur trading posi in 1701. The was later Governor of Louisiana. Mr James Fraser, a Detroit attorney and mem- ber of a committee seeking to honour Cadillac with a per- manent shrine here, said talks, so far, have been favourably received by French authorities.
However, no final decision has been made.
Plans call for transporting Cadillac's remains aboard a French battleship through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
The shrine would be erected in Detroit's old city hal}, --
Ar.
A British Crossword Puzzle
24
ACROSS
1 Do-it-yourself recruit lack-
ing a useful aid? (0)
7 The Ilind, for example, ps
in some pictures. (4)
Fine (but does the offender egree?) (5)
10 Now in Sussex,
Cumberland, (5)
11 Quite superficial
ment. (4)
White in
measure
13 Try out new techniques, (10)
15 Strangler, (4)
16 Maid to Cleopatra. (4)
19 The sort of substitute father
to put his fool down? (18)
22 Fish in Shakespeare. (4)
24 Bird from the Ithane. (B)
35 Confuse learned divine
drink. (0)
in
23 Between roll and plich,
muybe. (4)
27 Getting up a rebellion. (8),
£4
DOWN
2 Main cowslip? (5)
3 Dispose of the deceased-
(5)
4 and bring him back againi
201
5 One who runs away in the
Eastern Mediterranean?
Embassy and the Under the patronage of the Frensh Coralie Frano-Sterilng, the French hosiery and knitwear ki
latest of their
styles at dustry held a special showing
Restaurant recently. Picture Quaglino's
shows "Helena Victoria"lights and top in Helanes stretch nylon, designed by Garnier Lanean
and patterned and coloured
tortoiseshell cal-Express Photo,
Heiress's
after a
lover finds consolation
New York, Feb. 8.
Andre Porumbeanu still swore undying love for New York heiress Gamble Benedict early today -but he sat arm in arm with an unidentified blonde in a leading nightclub as he spokė.
"This in not my new love." the Rumonian-born ex-chauffeur told a Journel-American re- porter as he sipped champagne with the blomiy and another couple. "I still intend to marry Bambi Chis pet Gome for Gamble). There is woman in my life."
נקו!
other
Farmers riot
in India
Bombay, Feb. 8. Police opened fire today after leargas and baton charges had failed to break up a mob of 3,000 rioting farmers near Bel gaum, Mysore.
The rlots were against seizure of property by revenue ciflcers.
Oficial reports zaid Alve farmers were wounded by gunarwo DI them critically. Fifty-six pullee and revenue officials were injured, mostly by stones flung by the mob.-- AP.
The blonde sipped her drink and smiled sweetly. Porumbeanu declined to identity his cam- punlon, other than to say she was "Shella from Long Island," a college student, 21 years old: and that he met her "during the Gamble period" at Long
Island.
PARTING WORD Porumbeing, 35, whose wife is suing him for legal separa- tion, recently made headlines the world over with his much- publicist mance and trip to Paris with this 19-year-old beiress to the Remington type- writer millions, Gemble's grandmother andi guardian
M series through
court manoeuvres, returned the girl 10 New York and obtained a court
order
forbidding
20
Porumbeanu from seeing Gamble ns long 1X he L
married,
Andre had this parting word for the Journal-American re- porter:
"Love can never be destroy- cd by money
The blonde fingered a strand of marble-size paarla Around her neck, sipped her cham- pagne and smiled gaily-AP.
Makarios criticism of
Britain: Claimed bases not envisaged
Nicosia, Feb. 8.
Archbishop Makarios today accused Britain of claiming areas for military bases "beyond those envisaged in the London declaration."
He said this after Britain do- stalement tonight that ́iko' Bri, cided to postpone independence | tish Government "arted too
# Splendid, it isn't raining! (4) | for Cyprus indefinitely. Earlier hastily In Issuing this after-
8 Fair Maid city. (5)
12 Anything a bit naughty! (5)
13 She starts to do newspaper
work, (5)
14 Towarth the Orient. (8)
17 Awry like certain London
gardens. (3)
10 No 1 batsman found in many
a Idlichen. (8)
20 A service to hoard (8)
21 Where in Germany even the
doctor is in, (B)
23 Hell a vessol.. (4) *
Britain and Cypriot representa- | noon's statement.” }ilver had falled to agree 211
the area for military bases.
Makeries Archbishop
He revealed that at today's
ho said: meeting
submitted fresh
"We express our disapproval of proposals "which could form a any further postponement of basis for further constructive Cyprus independence,
discussions,"
"Any postponement is In- Today's news of the postpone consistent with the Zurich and ment of Independence was re- London agreement.
ceived by Cypriots on the whole We shall continue to work for with diamaye and politieni qua full Implementation, of the ters described it as a "major agreements," he said.
reverse" for all parties concern-
APPEAL
ed.
One gloomy factor was
4 The Archbishop appealed to
the
YESTERDAY's mosswoND—Acrom: 1 Nuance, Mound, 7 Eldest, 8 Dorth, 10 Late, 12-Steamer, 10 Inapt, 18 To-go, 17 Slot, 19 Oates, 20 Senator, 21 Dene, 23 Verge, 24 Ame Ella, 20 Edged, 26 T-rusty. Down: Needles-, 2 Addition, 3 Cast, Operated, Nutmeg, D Altar, 11 Entangle, 12 Bpbor, Dr Kutchuk, Turkish-Cypriot the period of postponement, 19 Mos-)-02, 14 Roso-Mary, 18 Leg-end, 22-O-mar.
› ropresentative," said in a prósa 'Neuter,
the people of Cyprus to face the absence of any mention of fur- | edtuation with restraint and |ther talks to bridge the gap bes
cain,
[tween the two idiles and ̈ ̈linit
no bar to millionaires
Birmingham, Feb: 8. South Africa's High Com- inlasioner in Britain, Dr
A. J. Van-Rhijn, today de- fended his country's racial policles and declared:
"We саль stand comparison with other countries in the way we have treated our natives."
Dr Van-Rhlin told a London audience' that' Bouth Andén has spent more on the education and Health of Africans than any of the British African pro fectorates.
their
He said 100,000. cars were owned by Africaps. They had
own automobile associa- tion, business co-operative so eleties and restaurants,
He added: "Three of them are millionaires which I shaji never be."AP,
urmese
elections
Rangoon, Feb. t. While the results of last Saturday's Burmese
general election are still incomplete, out of 125 counted so far, the "clean" faction of the anti- Fascist People's Freedom Longue headed by U Nu has won 101.
U Ba Swes "stable" faction of the AFPEL. Is trailing badly with only 13 seats, and smaller parties won the other eleven,
The election covered 224 ́can- } stituencies, in 09 of which count- ing continues—AFP.
for three scar-faces
London, Feb. 8.
Scotland Yard detectives and police scouring Lon-
with the
Doctor like a man in a dream'
Los Angeles, Feb. 8. Dr R. Barnard Finch said, to-
day he wandered, away like a man in a dream from the place where his wife lay-daad, a bullet in her buck.
Then, he said, he Red-run- ning in 'panic.
He and his pretty mistress, Carole Tregoff, are charged with murdering Barbara Jean Finch the Finch estate in suburban West Covina the night of lost July 10.
don for the killera of a night club owner today fear a vicious new outbreak in gang warfare,
They believe that three scare for several months faced men who battered with only visiblé signs wounded **It was like a dream or a an axe and then shot 34-your- | men In hospitals.
nightmare," the wealthy sur- old Selwyn Cooney yesterday At least three club battles in geon testined at his murder are membera of a gang who which guns were used have trial. have been making strong-arm been reported to Scotland Yard attempts to take control of clubs in recent weeks and there have in both London's East and West been other reports of gangs End.
bursting Into clube, anasing Cooney, also known as "Leeds furniture and bottles and at Jimmy" al Jimmy Nell, lacking customers. staggered down
rickety wooden steps of a Stepney, Bast London club after the shooting and collapsed and died in the guller before police arrived.
A one-time professional boxer, William Ambrose, who patlee believe went to the assistance of Cooney, was shot in the stomach and drove himself to un East London hospital where he des today in a serious condition.
"VENGEANCE' WAR
Polico believe the "vengeance" war storted when an East End club man W05
beaten up for muscling-in" on territory garded by West End factions as their property.
re
FIGHT FOR GUN
the witnes Dr Finch, on stand for the fourth day, re- sumed where he left off Friday his narrative of how his
on
wife met death. He said then On Friday night "Sonny the he shot her accidentally during Yank," a former righthand man a fight for a gun and knelt be- of the self-confessed gang chief side her as she said, dying: Jack Spot, was seriously in "Take care of the kids." NIGHT RAIDS
jured in an East End gång fight During the night Scotland less than 300 yards from the "I stayed there (by her body Yard flying squad men and de-
club where Cooney was killed, Ir the yard of the home next tectives made a series of swoops
door) for a few minutes," he on night clubs, drinking dens The club, in a squalid strest said. "I sobbed. I was all up. and known underworld haunts, | where Jack the Ripper murdered | set. I don't remember things But they were meeting a wall one of his victims In 1988, is too clearly. It was like a dream of silence because of the fear of near Spitalfeld Market and Pet-
or a nightmare," reprisals,
ticont Lane, one of London's big
A "war" between clubmen Sunday tourist attractions.— Eventually he ended up at Las and hoodlums has been going on Reuter.
Vegas, Nevada,—AP.
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