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CHINA
No. 37617
Comment PLANE
Of The Sixty-three
Day
Take off the
restrictions
MOLONEL J. D. Cingue's
of
call to legalise illegal taxis "is_n_straightforward request to Government to recognise the deplorable state public transport in Kowloon and the New Territories. There are not nearly enough buses or taxis and if pansion of the bus services
ባዜ
for
ex-
im-
to wait for the im- provement of the New Ter ritories roads this state of affairs is going to continge years. Many people who make regular visits to the Territories
frankly appalled both at the inade quncy of the service and the crowded, uncomfortable con- dition of tho vehicles.
are
Mr Brook Bernacchi reported recently that illegal buses in the New Territories are doing a roaring trade. The state of the roads makes no difference to them. Besides even if the narrowness of the country roads stop the KMB from putting on wider, bigger couches what is to stop them from in- creasing the services? More
or on order says buses are General Manager, Mr W. S. T. Louey, but old buses have to be replaced and new routes have to be equipped. If there were a good tram servico in Kow- loon as there is in Hong kong there would be less cause for concern.
Second service
die in
U.S. disaster
New York, Mar. 17.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1960.
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Price 20 Cents
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PHONE 3703
FASTEST DELIVERY
O
ro LEADING
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OF
THE
WORLD
EXPLODES IN MID-AIR
A Northwest Airlines Lockheed Electra prop-jet airliner exploded in mid air over Tell City, Indiana, today and 63 people died.
Burst dam
threatens thousands
of homes
area
New York, Mar. 17. A dam burst
near Plant City, Florida, today, and about 25,000 people in the were warned that be their housce might flooded. Bulldozers were rushed to the check. seene in an attempt to the Bow of water from
the
Lake Magdalcho dam). The
Police said no survivors had badies been found among the Acattered over a wide area along the inaccessible Ohio River this little bank 13 miles from townh
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The airliner was carrying six rrew and 57 passengers flight from Minneapolis Miami, the airlines said,
So
Explosion?
to
rained
WEN
much wreckage over a wide area that i Arst believed twe planes had collided,
However, the Federal Avia- tlan Agency and the Indiana state police sold all the pieces they could find were from one plane.
A wing and two engines were found about Ave miles from the main wreckage.
Officials Raid the widely scattered wreckage showed that the plane had exploded It flight.
Pellco headquarters in
threatened homes are about two Chicago received an anonymous
mifes south of the dam.
telephone call warning that a The break in the dam
bomb was aboard an aircraft followed torrential rain which
ut the Midway sirport earlier caused one death by
received But the
call was drowning and drove about 500 people from their homes in more than 90 minutes after the Plant City, sirawberry-news was widely publicised on radio and in newspapers about growing community.
the Northwest crash,
Evacuated
were The evacuated families
and national taken by boots guard lorries tu emergency shelter.
their Police guarded empty homes against possible looting.
at
The caller was identified by the operator
the as having volee of a young boy. He did not say what fight the bomb was supposed to be on.
Police searched planes Midway and fourt no bomb.
Mr Charles Lucas, a police said police at the spokesman scene reported "just a big hole struck before the rain-which in the ground" where the big We believe this to be the continued intermittently today airliner plummeted down
It was the third day of violent
THE China Mail has in the 1 past called for a second
bus service on the mainland, weather for Florida. A tornado
best solution.
This should and
be given the franchise for (about
were
Dog beaten to death with bar
Pilot fined $500
The bodies of a dog and four pupples were displayed in court when an American airline pilot, James Weslax Evans, 44. of Flat 22A, 16 Garden Road, Bret floor, was charged before Mr Derek Cons at Central Magistracy this morning with cruelty.
Evans, who pleaded guilty was fined $500,
Inspector Yip Tai-yu, prosecuting, sald that ni about 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Mr T. T. Kee, of the Hongkong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, went to the garage of Esterial Court, Garden Road, as a result of infarination received.
He saw a bitch lying in the garage. She was bleeding from the mouth. Four puppies, two of them already dead, were lying by her alde.
The stomach of one of them was split open, Inspector Yip sald,
Inspector Yip sald Inquiries revealed that the defendani had beaten the dog with an tron ber, about two feet and nine inches long.
When charged, he said, Evans said the dog had attackeḍ his child and scratched the child's face.
LABOUR SUFFERS TWO
BY-ELECTION SETBACKS
London, Mar. 18.
Labour suffered two by-election setbacks today.
A seat which the Conservatives narrowly lost in the last general election
in October was won back by the Government for the first time.
The seat was Brighouse and Spendborough, Yorkshire.
In the West Harrow by
fell from election. Labour second to third place.
WDO
In the last election, Mr L J. Edwards
the Brighouse seat by 47 votes from Mr M. N. Shaw, the Liberal and Con- servative candidate.
Today, Mr Shaw scat by 068 · votes
won the from Mr
CATHOLIC BISHOP
JAILED FOR LIFE
London, Mar. 17.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Shanghai, Kung Ping-mei, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Shanghai court today for "serious crimes of high treason," the New China news agency reported. Thirteen other Chinese were Director of the Catholic sentenced to prison terms Tang- Ing from five to 20 years on similar charges.
Centre, Hongkong, on hearing the news this morning.
Fr Vath dismissed them all as "trumped-up, charges" and "If The accused were said to be they want to accuse you, they members
"counter can say whatever they like. བ་་་་
clique hiding
"There were a few instru- revolutionary under the cloak of religion" ments put on exhibition and and organised under a scheme supposed to have been found in of the US, imperialists and the the Church," he said. Vatican" to subvert the Chi-funny. Why should the Catholica
have them?" nese Communist regime.
Fr George
"That's
Mary Anthony who came
ol out Shanghai several years ago,
The agency Bald the cilque was personally directed by German, Bishop James E. Walsh, whom it described as a veteran U.S. imperialist spy."
in
(The United States claimed
December,
not
Wins quiz, fails easy
exam
St Louis, Mar. 17.
Jackson, the
Colin candidate.
Labour
Mr Show polled 22,472 while Mr Jamieson polled 21,808.
of
The victorious Mr Shaw said: "The result will be fell for bc- yond: the boundaries Brighouse and Spenborough. It is a vote of confidence in what the Government are doing end a vote
to of encouragemont them in their futuro talks both at home and internationally,"
Mr Colin Jackson, the La- bour candidate, said: "Brighouse and Spenborough have a Tory MP for the first time in its his- tory. Не will have the dis- linction of being its only Tory MP for we shall fight back and win again next time."
HARROW SEAT
In the Harrow contest, the Government retained the seat of Harrow.
But Labour dropped from second to third place when a Liberal candidate intervened.
The election was held to full a parliamental vacancy caused by the death of Sir Albert Beath- walte,
The Conservative candidate
·Me AcJeRare;: wolled--18:520 7,100 voics, compared with for the Liberal candidate,
0,030 for the Labour candidate
Mr Jo Grimond, the Liberal leader, said: "It is remarkable, considering that we have not fought this seat for many years, that we have come second,
Off
came
his slipper
A man took off his slip- per and threw it at Mr Justice C. W. Reece in the Appeals Court this morn- ing, after Mia Lordship had refused to reduce the man's six-month
stealing.
sentence for
The man, Li Ban, shout- ed out in Chinese:" "I beg Your Lordship to add six months more," as three prison officers hustled him out of court.
Auction of Murray parade ground set for May
and 1.500 for an Independent (One of the most valuable candidate.
land to bc pieces of auctioned in Hongkong will be sold on May 30. This is the 'northern' section of the Murray parade ground at the junction of Queen's Rond Central and Garden Road which has been surrendered to the Government.
5, "Bishop Kung refused to Terry Nadler, a former clark be separated from the Pope,
who once won $264,000
"It certainly greatly streng that's why they Imprisoned
(about £94,000) on a tele-thens our claim that what the him."
vision quiz show, today mation wants is a Liberal alter- Για land, about 39,000 1958, that He also denied all the charges against the Shanghal
square feet in area, is for non- Bishop Walsh, an American tald
failed to pass the exem-utive."
industrial
pur- development as "completely Un- Roman Catholic missionary, Catholics
ination for a $13-a-day
The results were extremely poses only. The upset price of Frank Whitehead, a farmer,
saldsfying for the Prime Minis the land is $10,725,000. job as a consus taker, was being held as a pollen) | true." caused about $100,000
sald, "clothes
hanging
"They were propaganda," he
ter Mr Harold Macmilian and prisoner by the Chinese Coin- tu damore £35,700)
The annual remfal la $2,086. truca. Pieces of
said. munists). the from the
Mr Nadler, who took a welt-
his party. The loss of pogrularity | There is a building covenant of Fund scatiered around
did The agency
A churchman who refused to ten best on map-reading Eny
generally “noted, for the vic- $25 million to be fulfilled in Plant City alsport.
torious party a few months after 48 months. The Icase will be whether Bishop Walsh had been be identified sald, "There were vocabulary with about 50 other Hallstones the size of golf everywhere."
Another former told of hear- tried or sentenced for his part len Bishops detained, hundreds applicants, and under the eyes the General Elections did not for 75 years with the option of
and thousands of of a crowd. of priests.
and balls fell and 22 inches of rain
three popping
of reporters sounds, in the alleged treason.
materialise,
renewal for ons further, term were reported in some areas.-g
touder
hotgun reports, than
complained
of 75 years at a re-aastased Reuter.
just before ho saw wreckige
14 OTHERS
later: "I was nervous... there
sunt. falling on a neighbouring farin.
were so many people there."
He added disconsolately: "I flunked it and it makes me look like a nitwit. I shouldn't have taken it,"
the New Territories, leaving buildings and planes at bodles were the Kowloon Motor Bus Company to concentrate its fleet on meeting demand in Kowloon. At the same time the ceiling on the number of tax licences should be lifted both in Hongkong and Kowloon. This newspaper yesterday asked the Police why those were Department restricted. Beyond saying that from time to time the number issued is reviewed, the Police refused to com- ment.
that
is
HIT-RUN
IN CITY
STREET
The
at
Why can't a sensible, straight-
A hit-and-run car knocked forward policy be adopted? The Police realise better down a pedestrian and escaped by turning off the tali Ughts in than anyone the extent of Central District Carly this the illegal taxi business, morning, And they will probably
accident excurred agroo with Colonel Clarue Lyndhurst Terrace near Gage
the greater part of it Street at 12.10 a.m. in the hands of the Triads and their fellow travellers. And
it needs no member of to tell the Police Force
are meeting a definite demand for transport. More the taxis flourish despite their illegality and the Police and the insurance companies are hard put to
the
abone that these Triad-run
over
; prove they are flouting the
law.
of
Chan Yee-wal, 55, of BO Wing Wo Street, roof top, who auf- fered a fractured leg, is now in Queen Mary Hospital
Hit farm
I said the 14 accused, "con- fronted with the mass of con- clusive
evidence
their of crimes," had been "unable to Albert Harpe, a farmer who deny the charges." was one of the firat on the scene told reporters: "It just looked awful. I saw an awful big plane coming down. It fell on John Wagner's farm, which is adjacent to mine."
Mr Harpe added, "I didn't see
approval of the. Velican," (Monsignor Riberi,
Christians imprisoned This photographers,
could only mean one thing persecution."
Cambridge degrees
1
According to the agency Bishop Kung became Bishop of Shanghai in 1950 under a plan
Cambridge, Mar. 17. Yesterday Mr Nedler dende worked out by Bishop
The Prime Minister of Malaya, he was rocking the census-tak Walsh Tunku Abdul Rahmon, the Greek Ing job because of financia} and Antonio Riberl with the ambassador to Britain, Mr difficulties. "I'm not broke and George St Seferiades, and Pro- I'm not wealthy," he said. "My former fessor Roman Jacobson of Har-Anars are nobody's business anyone parachute out. I don't Papal Nuncio to China, was ex- vard University are among abut nine.” think there were any survivora.pelled from the country by the group
receive It's no mesed up It looks Communists in 1951).
of people to
He was one of the biggest honorary degree of law at Cam- terrible."-Itouter and AP.
-After the clique was exposed bridge University on June 9, it money winners in the history
television qulz games by the Shanghai public security was announced today.
China of organisation in 1955, arms, a Mall Special. munition, radio equipment and
Duke better Nationalist Chinese dogs were
London, Mar. 17. The Duke of Edinburgh has now fully recovered from a [bout of influenza and will carry The car aped away so quickly but publie engagements to- Qust no one could identify Its morrow as arranged, It was on- colour and shape.
Bo what is the sense of restricting licences to a figure like 6937 in the last eight years, the number of legal taxin has been allow- od to increase only by 64, about 10 per cont. That's why illegal ones exist in such profusion today. How much should they have in- A creased by? There are 75. por cent more buses on the road compared with eight years ago yet they have nothing like caught up
with demand. So there is only one thing to do take off the restrictiona on Hoences and lot the laws of supply and demand fix the figure the public requires.
Boy, 4,
nounced today.-Reuter.
found hidden in churches and schools under their control, the agency sutt
Bishop Kung was sentenced "because he was faithful to the Church and wanted no part of their indoctrination,
This was the comment by
the Rev Fr Charles H. Vath,
dies after being
thrown in boiling water
New York, Mar. 17.
man and his wife
000043
to death the woman' your-old son by throwing · him into a tub of boiling water as
punishment.
he died five minutes
-
Reuter,
Three on $37,000
robbery charge plead not guilty
DISSENSIONS
The Conservative Party alco
The sale will be hold at the
profited from the disconalons Crown Lands, and Surveys Govern- within the Labour Party brought Office in the Central
Offers (East Wing), on by Labour leader Mr Hught Gaitskell
who last Lower Albert Road, at 3pm himself November called for the A notification of the coming revision of the Labour Party's auction was published in to-
day's Government Gazetio. charter.
Since warly this week these made head- dissensions have lines in all British newspapers.
Nevertheless Thursday's vic- STOP PRESS
tory presented
thr
a problem for Conservatives as well as
Labour 4.9 u
result of the Liberal revival which was par- ticularly marked
West Harrow where tho Liberal candidate stole more votes away from the Conservatives than from Labour-Router and AFP,
Rhee's election 'illegal'
Three men pleaded not guilty to two charges of robbery with aggravation involving gold orna- ments worth $87,110 at Criminal Sessions Oppositon party members walk- this morning.
at
ed out
Seoul, Mar. 18.
of the Nailons) Azi
·sembly en masse today and de- clared this week's presidential ofcctions "illerat and Invalid,”
The opposition Democratic Party demaded new elections.
Walkout by the 60 opposition members dame just before the Nedonal Astenbly formally de- ofclared the section of Prouident
They were Cheng Chin-paru, į Robbing Hui Wing-shu of
ornaments valued 30, Lau Wing, 32, and Lau gold
$19,900, the property of Wong After the parents spent 24 hours, Police gave this account of the Tung. 32.
trying to treat the boy with boy's death;
Cheng and Lau Wing also Hoi-ylu, on January 8, 1959. charged today, with scalding olatments, 11 woa satd, they
ADDITIONAL CHARGES four-
rushed him to a hospital and Mr and Mrs Welch berated him plodded not guilty to two fur- ther robbery charges, involving
Cheng and Lau Wing were cash worth for walking, instead of, run- arter
jewellery...and.
additionally charged with: ning after being told to get $00,034.00000
Robbing Lau Slu-lok The trial was fixed for March 20. bofore Mr Justice K. R. $12,834 in jewellery and cash, Syngman Ithes ar Vice- Only Jahd Young Hel-kwan of $2,000's | President Los Ki Pooniz. Mactco.
All three man are charged worth of jewellery on October Present Rheo's Liberal Party
2, 1980; and
merben wero prósent when with:
the declarations wis made. Rebbing Cheng Wah-kin of a Robbing Chan Kwok-mel of
The walkout was orderly, - gold ornaments worth $17,310, leather bag containing $53,000
UPI, in cash on April 0, 1959. um Abril 28, -1050; · nesci
Authorities sald the child, Michael Moore, was quickly pulled from the tub Ferenča
kevern
in agony but by time Ind realrett
burns over most of
his body.
- narien), ́ ́ Charged with homlelde were mordo exerolnoj **.
Herbert Welch, 27, a handy- - Afterward, the mother washed man, and his wife, Bidirley, B1, out his month with song and Tho boy WAL one of M
the step-father boki him with Welch's inven, children by A an electrio cord, Then they previous marriage, She is
threw him into the boiling currently expecting an eigháb water "to relax, his muscles,”
child.
- AP.
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