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CHINA

No. 37619

Established 1845 MONDAY, MARCH | 21, 1960.

LATE FINAL

MAIL

Price 20 Cents.

FLY PAN AM

JETS

TO THE U.S.A. `4 Bights weekly via Takye

Bir reservations, "Phona JuJt'..A

Man seriously injured chases after car

Of The HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER JAILED

Day

GLOBAL

POLICE

GLOBAL police force,

the dream of statesmen and the stumbling block of many a grand disarmament scheme is, to the average man, the most likely way to preserve world pence. The effect of such a partial or

ganisation proved itself during the Korean War when the United Nations committed itself to raise n force before a Russian veto could be entered.

Few, however, believe that Russia or China will ever agree

to the establishment of veto-free machinery for keeping pence in

world stripped of national armies. Without this machinery, the Western allies are firm that there can be no full-scule diaarmament, otherwise they believe Mr. Khrushchev's total disarmament plan could be a fatal trap for nations on the borders of the Com- munist dominated areas.

Figures

PICTURES

A menace to HE TOOK society Magistrate says

OF BABY

ان کره

The son of a well-known local merchant

was jailed for two months today and fined $500 or another month's jail for failing to stop his car after an accident.

Ceylon election results

Colombo, Mar. 20. The United National Party amassed Afty seats in the 157-member Lower House

The sentence was imposed by Central Magistrale, Mr I. T. Morris on Cheung Ton, 22 of 34 Bonhom Strand West. He was also disqualified from holding a driving licence for six months.

He admitted he did noļ siop his car after knocking down a man

Terrace In Lyndhurst shortly after inidnight on March 18

Sub-Inspector M. Atkinson,

sald the prosecuting.

injured

of the man noted the number defendant's car after having been knocked down. He took a "short cut" and ran to the Junction of Hollywood Road and Cochran Street where he saw

again. car

the same

He

of Parliament in its elec-shouted to the defendant to tion victory, final results stop but he did not do so. A showed yesterday.

report was made to the police. Traced The caretaker government of Mr Wijayanande Dahannyake

T7HY is there any security carller submitted its resignation.

W trist in the disarmed

in the old Parliament, the Sri Lanka Freedom party held most The final state of the parties

was:

United National Party .... Sri Lanka Freedom Party Tamil Federal Party Malinjana Ekoat];

Peramuna

and internationally inspected world Mr Khrushchev pro-rents, posed? The answer lies in population figures which "do" far have been given little publicity in the debate. Internal security forces - local, national police and constabulary would have to be permitted each nation under

disarmament plan while a nation's size and would have to be population the measure of how big an international security force It would be allowed. Because of the massive

any

A basis

Lanks Sama Samaj Democratic Party Communist Party

D

ly

that

The vehicle was subsequent- and the owner traced Cheung Yik-ling, stated the car had been driven by hie on the defendant.

Sub-inspector Atkinson sold

the complainant suffered from 40 compound fractures of the right

16 chinbone and lacerations of the

10

right side of his head,

Mr Arthur Lui, of Messrs Lo 10 and Lo, representing the

3

13

de-

PRINCE

PLANS PLANS FOR A BIG Pipeline HOTEL HOTEL ANNOUNCED to China:

The Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co Ltd has revealed plans to join another company to build a 500-room hotel on the Murray Parade Ground site if it is the successful bidder at the auction on May 30.

TIDAL WAVES

SWEEP

JAPAN COAST

This was revealed today by Mr H. D. M. Barton, Chairman of the Hongkong Land Invest- ment and Agency Co Ltd at to- day's annual meeting.

Mr Barton said that in his annual report he had referred to the growing need for more hotel accommodation in Victoria and said the company was ex- ploring the possibilities of in- cluding first-class hotel accom. modation in the proposed development of the Queen's Building slie,

directors

to the

Tokyo, Mar, 21. The Central Meteorological "Since then, the

this have made proposals Observatory sald

waves as Colonial Hotel Development Co morning tidal

with a view to participating high as five feet swept with them in the building of a the northern Pacific coast first-class 300-bedroom hotel on of Japan as a result of an the Murray Farade Ground site. earthquake which shook if that company should be the central successful bidder for this site northern and

when it 2003 uu to public auction on May 36."

Japan shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday. There was no immediate re- port of casualties or damage. The observatory Bald the epi- centre was off the Sauriku area about 20 miles underground.

Seismographs recorded The intensity of tour in a one to seven scale or six to seven in

Lead' to

:

society killing

New York, Mar. 21. Police said tonight they are

working on a "good fead"] in their search for the killer or killers of three Chicago socialites.

Tho "lead" is a description of OFFICE SPACE a young man reportedly scòn "The decision on whether or talking to the three ill-fated not to include hotel

women in. accom-Chicago

Starved modation in the Queen's Bud-Rock State Park. Their battered ing project must therefore await bodies were found last Wednes- the outcome of these nego.in-day, in, a canyon, tians."

The report, furnished by an

car dealer, unidentified chealed under lie detector questioning, Blate Police said.

"It is a good lead," ho com- mented.

Mr Barton also told the meets the Mercall scale, in Amori, ing about the big demand for

office-space in the Colony,. "Hachinohe "and Morioka "cities,

northern Japan.

He sold that in the new Unton |House, phase 1, which would be Hardest hit was Morioka, where hundreds of people there ready by the end..of May this fed from their homes into the ed and we have on the waiting driving past the women about year, all space had been'niloent-

llet further applicants for 'ai Reports sald electric power cast as much office accommoda-

water supply stopped-tlon again." Reuter and UPI

open,

so

and

fondant, said his client did not

the man was realise that

injured after being badly knocked down.

Mr Morris said 'In his Judg- ment that there could be no doubt that offenders of this type were a real menace to the community and exemplary follow the punishment must

Independents and others. Apart from Mr. Dahanayake, four ministerS of the caretaker cents. government lost their They

were Sir Rozik Forced, former Minister of Commerce in-and Trade, Mr Stanley De ternal security forces re- Zuys, Home Affairs and

conviction. Mr R. E. Jayatilaka, quired in the authoritarian Health,

"Countless people nowadays Power nations to maintain their Transport,

and Works

Mustapha, have experienced the grief and regimes these Agures would and Mr M. M.

anxiety thal the irresponsible be disproportionate to other Finance and Planning

drivers of motor vehicles can Mr Dudley Senanayake, countries.

former Prime Minister, heads Cause. More and more motor-

to know the the victorious United National its have come Party, But as matters and sudden lurking perils that may now, none of the major parties lead to disaster. has enough representation to the allowable quola for I

majority internal security forces alone,

The question of who were based on one, two or would form the next ministry three men per 1,000 head was still undecided at this point, of China's population, for There was some talk that the Freedom Parly head, Mr Charles example, it would permissible force of €50,000 De Silva, might try to form a

government.Reuter and UPI.ɛald. to 1,300,000 or more or" ganised, trained potential troops equipped with what ever arms the disarma. ment agreement allowed. Even assuming the best in- spection enforcement agency was available there would be nothing to stop a Communist

mean a

♫

releasing government percentage of these forces to restore order" or go to the aid of "oppressed persecuted minorities" in neighbouring countries.

Similar

and

TEIGHBOURS of other

or otherwise, would live in

secure

E

workable

"All this is bringing home to everyone the stark fact that the danger on the roads is not only cornething to be read about fr statistics; not just something that affects "the other fellow. It is a matter of grave personal concern to each one of us," Mr Morris

Insurance

to

paid bank to

cover robbery

By CHINA MAIL REPORTER

big countrics, Communist An insurance company paid the Kwong On Bank Ltd., $200,000 on Saturday as a sequel to the robbery of $405,000 at the door of the bank last Wednesday.

the shadow of similar, though much less awesome threats.

The threat alone would bo

powerful political tool in with

Mr T. 9. To, Local Manager The $405,000 of Kwong On of the South British Insurence Bank in transit comprised $200,-

and $203,000 Co., Ltd., handed over a choque 000 in cash

for $200,000 to Mr P. Y. Tong, crossed elfeques, Assistant General Manager of

in

the big nations' relations emall ones in the iden- Haed world without the atom

Mr Thao Báid Kwan Oa Hình bomb or military alliances. Here the dream comes to tho Kwong On Hank Ltd, at I had supplied his company with an auditor's' certificatë prior to grim reality not much, I p.m. on Saturday.

Mr Teno said this sort of risk the payment. prottier than today's

atmosphere. The was covered by "cash in transit reality demands an inter-policy which nearly every bank takes out by paying an annual national armed force

nea | premium of less than stronger, than any nation or eent of the amount covered. combination of nations could mount against it and be able to act when the threat arises.

tense

If the world is ever to reach

one per

He looks like a successful stockbroker

home siridleg

a killing in having made Imps; or a barrister with a day of ourtroom cut and thrust behind him; or a Minla- ter after a brilliant day in Parliament fobbing off awk- ward questions with wiity answers. The last person he looks like is the man you would send for if you wanted a nice picture of your new baby. Nor would you. Cecil Heaton, Top Photographer, photographs plenty of Top People, but only the very Tip Top Babies, And recently be went to Buckingham Palace to spend nearly two hours taking plotures of the baby Prince. Plotore shows Mir Beaton leaving the Palsco with flowers-Express Photo.

Telephone

call sparks

Seventeen

survive

air crash

Bogota, Mar, 20. Seventeen survivors all been women have rescued from the crash of a twin-engined Colombian airliner, authorities re- ported on Sunday.

The plane, with 40 persons aboard, crashed during a rein- storm on Saturday on a fight from the Colombian vacation resort island of San Andres to Modellin,

First reports indicated there were only seven survivors,

The C-40

the sirliner of Sociedad Aeronautica De | Modellin (SAM), was carrying

vacationers,

33 including wanen, haGTEO from a holiday on the Island, off the cistern coast of Nicaragua,

At 4.23 p.m., on Saturday' the pilot, Captain Mario Bolero, radioed that he was having trouble with one engine. Five minutes later he reported that both enginer had falled and that he was trying to reach the alr-

of Cordoba.-AP.

reported

work

starts Government today con-

frmed that

survey work and "some pre liminary engineering works" have started in connection with a pipeline which could bring water from the Chinese Shumchun re- servoir to the Colony's reservoir system.

Earler a leading Chinese newspaper had reported the start of this, work which Jt sald would cost a total of $3 million, and take two years to complete. The Chinese newspaper sald of piping would be 20 miles involved...

A Government statement re- leased just after noon today said:

In the New -- Territories, Kirvoy work azid neossary ~preliminary

Some

gineering works "aro in DLO- press on the route for a pipelina, which could bring water from the new reservoir at Shumchun "fo Tal· Laza this water become

The CLE denter

should 2 pm last Monday on State Routa 178, and that he saw

man

available.

נ'

This work will not, in any event, he wasted, as. It could be Incorporated into piker Ideal schemes that planned.

Aro

Mr Barton told the meeting Late model car back up to that the company proposed to where they stood. Frem the go ahead with the redevelop-dealer sald emerged a young ment of phase two of the new

who walked over and Union House immediately after spoke to them. Ho, said he be- phase 1 had been finished. This Ueved there, was a eccond mon was expected to be completed who remained in the car.

It is understood, however, by the Autumn of 1962.

that the cost of the project will The incident was witnessed be much more than $3 million about half an hour before thei

A reliable estimate of the cost time of death subsequently is $20 million. investigators—

MANY APPLICANTS *It La cleur, however, that even with the completion of estimated by Union House there will still be

AP. many applicants to whom we shall be unable to offer any ac commodation.

"In view of the continuing demand for office premises in our buildings, the directors are now. studying plans for the carliest possible redevelopment of the Queen's buildings."

Mr Barton cald many tenants of Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Company property con- tinued to enjoy the benefit of the unrealistic controlled rents and preferential treatment to which they were entilied under the Landlord svid Tenant Ordinance.

BIG CAMPAIGN AGAINST

BANK ROBBERS

*

But officials say they have no idea how long the project will

take.

SURPLUS

The new Chinese reservoir on the Shumchun River is said to have a surplus capacity to supply a city of three million people with water for seven months.

The Peking People's Daily has clearly indicated that when cumpleted the reservoir equld supply Hongkong, south of

ileservoir.

Sir Robert

London, Mar. 20. Public rewards have been Shuchun, Whatever

offered by British banks the

The Governor, arguments may be for and against

and road the

haulage or- Black, told Legislative Council Ordinance in its wider aspects, ganisations, in a nation-in his annual review on February Mr Barton said "surely with

wide campaign against 24 that Hongkong hoped to get the greatly increased office ma- commodatien

bank robbers and lorry hl-upply of water from the now available there can be ne possible ital-

jackers. Acation

Shumchun-Hoservoir has a for continuing. rent control in any form in

Any member of the publie | total espacity of about 9,000 Central area of Vistoria."

who helps to foll a bank raid million gallons, or as bly 'as Mr Barton revealed that

will get up to £1,000 reward in Shek Pk and Tat Lam Chang Agency Department had

future, it was announced here. reservoirs combined, grown during the year and was how Notices offoring the reward collecting more than 39 million have been displayed at 10,000 year in rent and other charges branches of 11 leading banka in from properties placed under its England and Wales.

bomb scare port at Planetarica. In the state management.

London, Mar. 20.

A London-bound Viscount airliner which left Paris

47 .with

passengers aboard landed here safely tonight despite an anony- mous telephone call that

WRECKAGE OF MISSING PLANE

Tho

the

the

The report also revealed that the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company had alio- cated $50,000 to the World. He fugee Year fund.

Recent Inquiries Into bank raids have shown that people have heard explosions or sten something suspicious but have not. repeat have not done any- thing about it.

Not so dumb

Belgrade, Mar. 20.

A 80-year-old peasant from a remote Bornian village belloved The report and accounts were

to bo dumb for over 45 years adopted,

normally Mr H. R. M. Cleland and Mr have announced a similar move vold military service during

The Road Haulage Association has started talking

and claims he only stopped to B. C. Fleid were re-elected offering rewards for information directors.

leading to convictions for thefts World War I." No reason has Feat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co Involving borries operated by been given for his decision to were reappointed auditors.

Degociation members, ---- China | abandon

silenceChina At an extraordinary general Mail Special,

Mail Speciál rosolution authorising

Aviano, Mar. 20. wrockage of a U.S. Air a time bomb had been Force plane which disappeared placed in the plane.

last Wednesday with four men; Fire engines lined the runway aboard was found on Sunday on meeting hold immediately after "But after the robbery, if the as the aircraft touched down, a mountainside in central Italy, wards, has to go to cotton covered. The baggage of the 47 passengers American parachutiste dropped the lue of 200,000 bonus chares it has to pay additional premium was searched.

to the crash site and reported in the proportion, of two for in proportion from the date of Othor pollee searched the air-thoro were no survivorsAR. every 27 held, was passed. I the incident up to the expiry of liner from nose to tafl and the policy," he said. "Kwong On freight and mall were examined did that."

In other buildings. Mr P. Y. Tang, of the bank,

$200,000 LIMIT "Usually we limit the mybunt of each transit for cachecriding. said he had received no further Router.pus

from the Polico Kwong On Bank was lenited to information

$200,000 for each siding." lie about progress mado u the

the stage when arms Bald

*The bank in covered, so long A Government

Nothing was found.-AFP and

The answer

Warsaw, Mar. 20.

Ice House St open again

Ice House Street, botwoor

مار

ANOTHER TONY AND

MARGARET WEDDING

London, Mar. 20.

Another Tony and Margaret from Buckingham Painoo

New York, Mor. 20. * Myellfed by unusually briak Wyndham Brost and. Queen's "announced wedding plura tudy, In some offices the signs on sales of a certain type of elec- | Road, Conxul, was re-opened to It will be no Woulineter Abbay affair -- Margarei Hamilton to be beaten into plough-

spokesman the walls say "think." Signs op- trio washing machine to pen- one-way down traffle at 8 azn, ia, a housemaid on Quson! Bitenbetic's slutt, and Anthony Gerard Aharos, there will have to as it stick to the limit on onch Buld this morning Uut no pearing in all New York police, sants, salcamen made an in- today,

one of "Prince Philip's foodman. ending,, no matter how many arrest has been made so for offices, today are a little more vestigation and found villagora At the same time, Wyndham My Tho souple, will marry in August - three months after iha seedings it makes during the end- there has been no fresh speciile. They say:" "Bribery is using the machines to malte¦ Street" na "a through road 10" Msg":"Paredding at Veineen Margiel and Antony "Armstrong-- covered period.”

development yet.

a crime."-UPL

buller-Ching Mall Spacial, Queen's Road), was closed.

ho a foolproof assurance

that an International police man wields the big slick,