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Established 1845
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1960.
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Transports plunge into Rio bay after mid-air collision
105 DIE IN
Comment Of The
Day
WATER FROM CHINA?
HE biggest talking point of the Governor's annunt roview in the Legistative Council on Wednesday wits the interest he expressed in reservoir now being con- structed on the Shumchun River by the Chinese Government. He was right
to do
aru
large
S
even
there
water Critics
סז
FAIREST DELIVERY
LEADING MARKETS
THE
WORLD
OF
TWO AIR DISASTERS
Three wheels Israel
Third plane crashes at Shannon killing 44
Shannon, Feb. 26.
Hours after 61 people died in a mid-air collision over Rio de Janeiro, a big four-engined Italian airliner crashed on take- off here early this morning and 44 were reported killed and 15 injured.
Million dollar diamond robbery
The Italian airliner which belonged to Alitalia, was said to be on its way from Rome to the
United States.
were
Firat reports said all aboard the big DC-7 airliner were killed, but inter figures reported that 15 critically hurt but still alive.
The only known eye-witness, a priest, said the plane struck the wall of a cemetery near the airport and "its" wheels were shorn off.
Ten million pieces
The airliner, which had taken on a full load of 7,000 gallons of petrol, blew into "10 million pieces," said Fr. Charles Comerford,
New York, Feb. 25.
men robbed shop in Phoenix, Arizona.
estimated HKS4 Bodies were scattered across a 300-yard area in the of un million to HKS8 million Irish coastal marshland. in diamonds today.
risks in depending Two young
supplies of from this source, seem to forget that Hong- kong has been buying big quities of food from the
stolen from
one car
Throo complete whools, to a total value of $240, were removed and stolon from a car porked on the Contral Reclamation carly yes- At terday morning. about the same time, thiovos removed and stole the whoot of an- other car parked in the some locality.
Playing fields of
Eton desecrated
accuses UAR
of warlike threats
United Nations, Feb. 25.
Israel tonight accused President Nasser's United Arab Republic of building up a campaign of "open incitement to war” against her, and said that warlike threats, coupled with big military preparations in Egypt and Syria, had reached “dan- gerous dimensions."
In a
letter to Sir Pierson Dixon of Britain, President of the Security Council, Israel sold that if the area was to be enim- ed the VAR "musl abandon its palley of active hostility against Israel."
a
The warning-which asked for no other immediate action by the council except circulation of the Jetter_wor made Dgainst background of reports of a big Egyptian military build-up in northern Siri and a further warning fron President Nasser about Western "interference."
Mrs Golda Meir, Israeli Foreign Minister, was meeting
Sir Patrick Hancock, tonight one of four urgent meetings she has requested with the
tonight and to
British, French, US. and Soviet Ambassadors
Firemen fought more than an hour to douse the 50 by two coalmen Britain's Ambassador to Israel, In the postwar They entered the shop, tled) years.
Surely there are up the clerk, Mrs Lorraine foot high flames that roared up from the aircraft's tail The tail section was the only large portion dangers in relying on Breeding, and disappeared with assembly. China for these for the jewellery.
left of the airliner. Mrs Breeding Peking could cut off exports
Bald she A farmer, Michael Casey, said, "The whole hillside thought the whenever it wanted to.
All around came frightening, frighten- seemed aflame. customers.
They pulled out guns anding moans. The dead were flung all about." ordered her to the rest of the The weather was said to be clear when the accident. store, where they bound her occurred. — UPI.
But
it is premature to Government for
criticise
investigating every possi-
心
She way
of augmenting
supplies considering tint
consumption is rising as
fast as the Colony's
to build new
hands to a door,
men
were
They apparently tell through
a back door and tan
alley Ability
reservoirs.
down an after scooping up the
diamonds. It
is not yet known how much water the Chinese can sup- uly, or the price the
they are likely to nak, and it doubtful if Government is looking for anything but
able Mrs Breeding was
Lo loosen her bonds and ran out to sound the alarm,
Mr David Kipnis, owner of the store, estimated the value of the stolen jewellery, but said he would be unable to determine
Rio death
toll
stands at 61
Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 26.
temporary relief until Shek the exact amoum vull an in-A US. Navy transport bringing a band to play for
Pik and Plover Cove are completed. Until several im- pertant questions
are
answered therefore, it will
than
be
nu
more
interesting proposal.
Tiwith
IE decision to
possibly
I
13
press on
Plover Cove, and
similar: but
Amaller
project at liebe Haven, signifies that the imaginative but also high- ly expensive proposal distil water using a nuclear plant
has heen
it
Bea
to
pigeonholed. And whether will ever be revived de- pends
much on the the ability to design plant capable of assunging Hongkong's voracious thirst as upon the Colony's ability to afford it. At the moment it is estimated to cost $900 million as against
$360
million
about Plover
Cove. Clearly expenditure on this scale is out of the
question as long as
the
Colony is budgeting for
•
such heavy deficits.
In the fatcat annual report,
however, Government
be.
lleves it is keeping abreast of the Colony's water needs, the report: "Forward does not lag be
Increases expected
the
population
the
how
al.
.remain a problem in the
will undoubtedle of water
dificult years ahead." Thus while Hongkong has no grounds for complacency, the water Aituation la no worse than it has ever been.
71TH careful rationing
W of Hupply
rainfall, no serious technical
ventory was completed-UPI.
UPROAR OVER BRITISH ARMY TESTS
London, Feb, 25.
The British Army Is reinforce a ban on "laltia. five tests" which have call- ed for soldiers kissing show girls, reiting into nudist camps and obisining auto- graphed intimate articles of women's clothing.
A Labour MP, Mr Nor- man Dodds asked in the House of Commons yu:ter-
day whether such tests in- proved the efficiency of a noldier baille.
He wondered what sort of instructions had been given to commanding officers about the nature and scope of initiative tests,
"What sort of enemy do these commanding officeTS visualise?" he asked to a roar of laughter.
He suggested the offloers should be "Thoroughly examlued by psychiatrists." Mr Hugh Fraser, Under- Secretary for War, sald An Army Council instruction In 1956 forbade escapades of this kind. A reminder letler
was sent to Com- mands Inet October. China Mall Special,
Tyre puncture
kills man
average mishaps, and possibly some help from the now Chinese A man reservoir, Hongkong should be able to get n sufficient minimum supply unit its two now reservoirs
London, Feb. 25. The playing fields of Eton have been desecrated by two coulmen.
Those playing fields. are the central legend of Elor Public School, near Windsor Castle.
The Duke of Wellington said
the Battle of Waterloo was won on them. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan onco drove cricket balls over their green sward.
The boys of Elon are for- bidden to even walk there without permission and aro canet or fined if they trespass un the spot.
Morrow.
'She has asked for the meet- the Sinal nnd ings to discuss Syro-zelf border bulk-up of Egyptian troops, Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Tel Aviz..
Build-up
Nasser's get out ultimatum
Cairo. Feb, 25.
The United Arab Republic warned Israel through the United Nations to evacuale the demilitarized border” zones during the coming weekend.
Usually well-informed sources said this tonight. The new warning was belloved to have been made, at the UN yesterday, the sources said.
An earlier warning issued through the UN Security Couneli by the UAR representative, Mr Ralk Asha, last week. did not set a time limit for Israeli ovacuation of the Komes.
Ileuter.
Royalty at wedding
US. TEXTILE CAMPAIGN
in mourning LAUNCHED
This build-up was reported In Israeli newspapers today to involve the movement of two divisions into Stral from the The military move since the Suez Canal aren-the biggest 1950 Sucz crisis. SACRED GROUND
One of the divisions was armoured, the other Infantry, But the Daily Mail
both Loday and
had Sovlet-made describes how two coatmen equipment, the reports sald. Frank Faridin, 36, and his mate, Usually reliable Israeli sparces added that Egyptian infantry
President Eisenhower and his guests collided with a Brazilian airliner a mile over Rio's bay today, plunging both planes into the water and Peter Francis drove their lorry had moved Into the Gaza Strip
killing 61 people.
The viciins
35 includext American navy men, including known bandsmen personally
to
They
DIES FROM ACCIDENT AT 104
the Président and Mrs Eisenhower, and 20 Brazilians. There were three. known survivors, ali navy men. were in good condition,
Overcast
The Navy DC-6 transport on
a one-hour fight from Sac
Dorking, Feb, 25,
Paulo and tho Brazilian Real Mrs Agnes Roper, who would
twin-engint
Airlines DC-3 transport on a trip from Santos, 200 mics southwest of here, collided while circling through overcast and drizzle to land at Santos Dumont airport in Ric proper. Within moments the planes had fallen into the sen,
President Eisenhower cancell- ed social functions tonight In shock and sorrow over the colli
Bion.
have been 104 next month, died yesterday after being involved in a minor motorleg Lccident,
on to the stored ground.
The discovery of the lorry between Egypt and Israel for tracks on the hallowed turt the Arst time since
Israeli withdrawal. Elon's seems to have horrified
London, Feb. 25. Queen Mother and Princess Margaret yes- terday observed family mourning when they at tended the wedding of Miss Diana Bowes-Lyon and Mr Peter Somervell at Westminster Abbey.
Washington, Feb. 25. The U.S. textile industry and
its congressional sup- porters have launched tho biggest campaign in ro- cent years to curb textilo Imports..
The campaign is timed to coin- The 36-year-old bride, given cide with the opening on. March
her the 1957 way by
brother-in-law of US. Tariff Commission Prince George of Denmark, is hearings on a proposed import a niece of the Queen Mother fee on cotton textiles.
Nasser's speech and a cousin of the Queen.
U.S. under the
guarantee of
Queen
| housemastery and groundsmen - Coalmen Parkin and Francis
President Nasser, in a speech
Hongkong apparently will not drove their lorry en the feld
at Der'a, Syria, said any "inter-The
Mother and be heard nt the hearing. į because they could not man-
ference" by Britain, France or Princess Margaret, dressed in oeuvre it out of an Eton yard the
1950 black, were mourning the deaths Conviction and Burling, of which The Washington Jaw Arm, of after delivering 30 bags of
tripartite coke,
t the of Countess Mountbatten Contman Parkin ia quoted as Middle East status would be Burma, and the Marquess of fermer Secretary of State Dean
crusted....
Carisbroodce, the last surviving engaged by Hongkong exporters Acheson is a partner, has been saying: "I thought there would be a fuss. Silil, reckon our favouring Israel and said,
He attacked the guarantee as grandson of Queen Victoria. but it has not sought time to wheel marks won't do any harm.
Only a few guests attended state Hongkong's case. The field is very muddy.
are building our homeland with The marks will help to Irrigate it."
one hand and carrying
the ceremony in the Henry VII arms with the other to
Chapel because the couple had defend our homeland, nationalism
requested that there should be and Arabisin."-Reuler.
"no publicity,"
'BLOOMING FUSS'
Coalman Francis: "I've seen better ground than that in back gardens. What a blooming fuss. We've only been coulmen for a fortnight."
"twe
HK factories
The proposed import fee of eight cents per pound of cotton content would offset one of the US. Industry's disadvantages →→
There were no bridesmaids the difference between the high, and press representatives were not admitted, to the Abbey.
government supported prico U.S. mills must pay for U.S. She was sister of the inte Lord Lugard, former Governor
cotton and the low world market. Miss Bowes-Lyon is the of Hongkong in the early years
daughter of the Late Mr John price at which U.S. cotton is Factories Mr C. E. D. Chamfer, house-
and of this century,
Industrial Bowes Lyon, a brother of the bald abroad to foreign competi-. uf Wootton House, undertakings registered by the Queen Mother.
[tors. Although deat and bund, Mrs master
the boarders the where
include Labour Department at the end The bridegroom's father, the Roper enjoyed drives into
friend
Richard of Gloucester of January numbered 3,000, ar-late countryside.
drove Prince
Sir Arnold Somervell, published was chairman of a shoe manu- her yesterday and on the way and Prince Michael of Kent, is cording to statistics
quoted home the car was involved in a
as saying: "We shall in the Government Gazette to facturing company, China state senators are demanding light collision.
forgive them....Obviously theyday. did not know the secret of Mit Raper, who appeared to getting the lorry into the yard." and hastened bo shocked by the jolt, was
Meanwhile the two coalmen
The President and his host, President Juscelino Kubitschek of Brazil, formally expressed "deepest regret"
to the hospital in Rio to comfor: taken to hospital and found to have decided to quit their trade.
the three known survivors.
The two Presidents learned of
the tragedy as they were ending
a six-hour visit to Sao Paulo,
Search ordered
Mr Elsenhower personally ordered an Intensive search for more possible survivors.
He cancelled a reception for U.S. Embossy staff members and their families this after- noon and also a big reception for 700 people at the Embassy.
be dead.-ilma Mail Special,
•
"Never
again," said Parkin. Sir Frederick Lugard wa"We were never, cut out to be Governor from July 1907 to good coolmen."-China July 1912.
Enforced 'holiday'
Nice, Fab, 25,
Special.
Mell
16 sentenced
to hang
Mall Special.
HOARDING OF
CIGARETTES -REPORTED
By A China Mail Reporter
About 1,009 East European in Kassem plot Many Colony residents have bitterly complained that
The Navy band was to have political refugees in France will played at the reception.
be given an enforced "holiday"
London, Feb. 25. was killed by a "wave blant of als" from a bursting an inquest was larry tyre, told here. A verdier, of accidente death private. was passed on 18-year-old John
who
'well-
The President decided to go in Corsica as a security measure The Iraql People's Court tonight ahead with a dinner he was during the visit of Mr Nikita scheduled to give for
Khrushchey, the Soviet Frime Kubitschick and other officials. Minister, from March 15 to 29, It was ordered kept small and according to usually
informed sources here.. The White Houso press Hotel-keepers' in Corsica vere was watching Recretary, Mr James C. Hagerty, reported to be "not displeased"
rald Mr Etsenhower "feeli another man inflate the tyre terrible about this tegic Dr David Bowen, pathologist, accident, parilcularly since he knew tho, band members source of supply, even at mid the Dovero internal inpersonally,"
Into
como
operation at the end of this decade. Government Barfoot,
1F therefore to be compll-when it burat. mented for exploring
every
Airport fees
Bardad, Feb, 25.
sentenced 10 people to ba -banged for allegedly
parit- olpaßior in the plot to ssERIK – nate Premier Abdel Harini Kawem on October 7.
Six of those sentenced to death appeared, in court. The other 10 were among
10 who were tried in absentia.
Twelvo others were sentenced terms ranging · from
retailers were "boarding" cigarette and tobacco supplies until the price increase came into effect. A China Mall survey showed last night that many bars and and general stores, especially in Kowloon, told curlomers that their stores of olgareisen were exhausted.
The General Manager of the British-American Tobacco Cor- paration, Mr Johnson Hill said this morning that he officially received two complainis from people who reported 'shopkeepers withholding supplies of cigaretten, i
He said that his corporation was not in any posilloŋi to take ́official. nation,
However, be added that the shopkeepers spoken of will be approached by the British-American Tobacco Corporatioti,
A Kowloon bar owner last night mid that there were even cases in other bars where they were charging the new prices for olgarettes.
This racket was aimed at American mallors the bar-owner The new prices' officially operato froin this mörolog.
the rlok of incurring critic-juries which cnused death ap But, Mr Hagerty said, the Regulations increasing land- to prison Ism from anti-Communist | peored to have loen caused by disaster would not affect the ing fees at the Kai Tak Airport | six monilis to 10 "and a half | neations of the population, a wave blast of a tres rest of the tour. Mr Eisenhower were published in to-day's Gov-years and eight were acquitted.
Internal organe. will go to Buenos Aires on ernment Gazette. They come into and many hope its initiative mitted to the
Altogether, 70 persons were reported. China Mall Special,
Friday-UPI.
operation on April 1.
accused in the plot-UFI Days off,
MUCH MORE
The US. Industry and textile-
much more protection, than this.
In a series of speeches, prez conferences, newspaper adver- tisements and conferences with government officials, they are ogitating for quotas and higher tariffs.
They lost the first round of the
fight yesterday. The Elsenhower administration re- fected South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond's request that the Tariff Cominlision hearings be broadened to include con- sideration of relief moro, dras- tic than tho eight-cont 100,-
UPI.
Jailed for defaming Jews
Durandort, Feb. 25, Kad-Ifeinz Schmaltz, a shop asaltant, was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment by a court today for saying one milion Jews too low had been gamed.
He had been charged with uttering insilla and pubile ap proval of murder-Reuter.
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