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Comment S. AFRICA TALKS BREAKDOWN
Of The Day
Standing room
TOURISTS are being turn-
ed away from Hongkong because of the shortage of
C'wealth
leaders
agree to public
hotel accommodation. For censure
years travel experts have
been issuing warnings that the Colony would lose out because of its lack of first class hotels. And now that tourist promotion and jet air
travel are attracting more people the accommo- dation problem is becoming steadily worse.
It seems silly sinking money-
-taxpayers' money into publicising Hongkong over- Beas if some tourists have nowhere to stay when they come
here. The Tourist Association has obviously succeeded in its job; but what has happened to local enterprise that it should be so slow to recognise an ap- parently good investment?
A
new
in
S'many LE six
hotels
either are the planning or building stage three in Kow- loon and possibly three in Hongkong, that is, Assuming that the Murray Barracks site is sold to hotel interests. But barring political trouble in the Far East there are very good
reasons
for believing that even if all these hotels are built, the accommodation problem in the five busiest months of the year will be the same as it is today
London, May 11.
Ten out of eleven British Commonwealth lead-
Mr John D. Rockefeller Junior and sons David, Nelson, Winthrop, Lawrence and John.
Death of
ers agreed today to make public a declara-Mr tion disowning South Africa's strict racial policies.
This major development bas followed a virtual breakdown in the informal talks oftangid with the South African Foreign Minister Mr Eric Louw, in bid to modify South Africa's controversial policy of apartheid.
In
another unprecedented move, the Conference of Com- manwealth Premiers reinforced political isolation of the Union government
Withhold
They did so by withholding pledge sought by Mr Louw that South Africa would on allowed
to stay within the Cmmonwealth if and when it decides to becenic republic like India, Pakistan or Għanu,
These delicate but deter- mined actions were taken to stave off one of the most. serious issties that has con- -fronted the Commonwealth.
The British Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillar trying. to play a concilator's role, bad been confronted with 1 full-
tourism is increasing so scale revolt by countries like rapidly. At present hotels
Ghana, Malaya, India, Pakistan,
of every grade and quality Ceylon and some white ruled are packed, and
Bome Commonwealth countries, 100, -tourists are even being unless a firm stand was taken privately accommodated. on the tangled South African
There are also indications that
issue.
hotel booking service is not being used to the best advantage when it could be. made to play a useful role finding alternative accom- of
Three choices
The refusal by anti-apartheid Premiers to provide a guarantee continued Commonwealth
modation for visitors unable membership faces South Africa
to secure places in the hotel to which they have been recommended. This ia service which should be brought prominently to the notice of intending visitors.
INFORTUNATELY
for
Hongkong there is no assurance of a speedy solu- tion to these shortages. Hotels are expensive to build and maintain and con- struction. takes about three years. As more go up, Investors will become in-
with the choice of three critical courses:
Postpone indefinitely its plan for referendum on whether to assume re- -pabllo statuLS.
• Liberalise its race policies in order to insure a Com- monwealth link.
Pursue its apartheid pro- gramme and risk exclu- sion from the Common- wealth which provides a handsome trade and tariff protection worth many millions of pounds a year to its exporters,
The agreement by the Com- monwealth leaders to disavow creasingly cautious and the sort of discriminatory racial even the optimistic predic- policies
practised by South
tion by international tourist | Africa was reported by senior experts of 400,000 visitors Commonwealth officials. & year by 1968 will not be enough to dispel the lurking fear many undoubtedly have of becoming deeply com- mitted in a business which might at any time reach saturation point.
They said only the form of the disavowal has to be decided and present plans are to issue it on Friday when the conference ends.--AP.
Bremen, May 11.
A Royal Air Force plane crashed last night, killing the crew of three, the West German news agency DPA reported today.
It is a pity for Hongkong that tourists should be put off when so much free, good publicity is now coming The crash was near Cloppen- our way. But it is obvious-burg, about 40 miles southwest
ly Impossible to blame of Bremen-Reuter
investors for passing up opportunities when it in- volves tying down sub- stantial capital in an un- predictable area for a long time.
·Ono idea which might appeal to hotellers is to charter an old liner which has been sold to a Far East
breakers yard-like the
"Ile de France" dismantled
in Japan or the "Carnar-
Tucson, May 11. John D. Rockefeller, Jr, the oil millionaire and father of New
in
richest
Soviet spies
caught red-handed
man Two officials
the world'
York's Governor, Mr Up to 1856 he had spent an Nelson Rockefeller, estimated $400 million financing died here today. He was 86.
Fis
Mr Rockefeller died after an of several munths at illness" Tucson Medical Centre.
condition deteriorated Governor carly this week and Rockefeller flew to his side to- day.
"Mr John D. Rockefeller, İr
variety of philanthropic
projects in America and other KIM NOVAK ANOTHER
countries.
Since then, with a few excep- tians, he has made his dona- tions anonymously,
Mr Rockefeller lavishly en- dowed American universities, especially negro colleges, gather- ed art treasures for public show- ing gave land for parks, restor- and he inherited his father's reputa-ed historical monuments tion as "the richest man in the financed missionary work and
medical research. world" made
chiet it his
Much of the money was towards improving mission in life to give away directed
international relations, and he money.
gave the United Nations the site for its headquarters in York.
He was the only son of John D. Rockefeller, öll king and philanthropist.
He put the name "Junior" on his name because he said there could only be one John D. Rockefeller. He was always known by his close associate as "Mr Junior."
But like his father he regard- ed his wealth as a trust, to be re-distributed for the benefit of mankind.
ULRICA FORBES
ARTIST KILLED
Capetown, May 11,
Mrs Ulrica Forbes, 57 year- old artist commissioned in 1954 by the Queen Mother for a portrait of Prin- cess Anne died here tonight after being at tacked by a 'non-white." Mrs Forbes was stabbed and her assaj lant poured a bottle of benzine over her and set her on fire. The attacker has still not been arrested.-Router.
Divorcee
action
London, May 11.
von Castle" recently broken The action of the Admiralty
up in Hongkong and the
It up for a Bensah or two
in midstream, using it
as a floating hotel, before It is scrapped.
There
are enough, air passengera visiting Hongkong to make the novelty of living for a | week in the middle of one- of the most beautiful har bours in the world a Yascinating and paying
in stopping the allowance of a .wife whose husband is serving
in. Hongkong and was granted
New
He also built the monumental i collection of buildings in the heart of New York known, as the Rockefeller Centre.
Religious
28
"Mr Junior" neither smoked nor drank; "He was a deeply religious baptist but worked for-interdénominationalism and gave money to Catholic and Jewish
well BB Protestant charities. His crowded busy life was dominated by his mission of giving money away, and he ance said, 441 can conceive nothing so unpleasant as a life devoted to pleasure."
Despite a life of achievement, he was a modest man, and once told Mr Raymond Fosdick, who Film sought to write his biography: "What on earth would you. And j to write about?"
VERY ILL
HECTIC EXCHANGE
MORNING
The Hongkong Stock Ex- change experienced another hostic morning today when turnover topped $7.2 mil- lion beating yesterday's re- cord for a morning session by more than half a million dollars.
Berne, May 11. of the Soviet Embassy in Berne have been ordered "to leave Switzerland immediately" for spying, the Swiss Government announced here today.
The announcement said the two Russians were arrested in Zurich last night as they were talking to an agent in the pay of the Soviet espionage service.
received
They were to have from the agent plans of Swiss army radar astablishments and information on the organisation of the Swiss Army, as well as plans on rocket bases in Western Germany.
The names of the two Soviet officials and the nationality of the agent were not given.
Taken to jail
The Zurich police said that the two Soviet Embassy off- cials had been arrested as they left a réstaurant in the clty last night.
They were immediately taken to the Zurich City Jail where they spent the night.
The Federal police in Berne declined to go any further than the text of the official an- nouncement which, they said, was "carefully worded."-Reu- ter.
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The Queen Mother arrives in Rhodesia
Salisbury, May 11. Queen Mother arrived here today to begin her 20-day tour of the Central
· Africà Federation.
The Zurich police said they were instructed by the Federal
to release the two The China Lights which closed police yesterday at $23.50 rose to Russians this morning and to inform them that they had to -524-this--morning and leave the country "within 24 |
Electrics were also better by hours.”
It is understood that the two 50-cent at $29.80.
Russians returned immediately $404 to Telephones at
the Soviet Embassy Cements ot 551⁄2, and Berne to make preparations for Yaumati Ferry at $186 were their departure. all a dollar better.
Other stocks to show rises this morning were Hong- kong Tramways, and Lane
New York, May 11. Crawford. Docks which
A crowd of about 800 people of all races waited at the airport to meet her. salute of 21
guns was fred as she stepped smlling from the aircraft and was welcomed by the Governor- General, Lord Dalhousle, and the Countess of Dalhousie.
Governor of southern Rhode- sin Sir Humphrey Gibbs, and Lady Gibbs, also welcomed her.
Both the Federal police in Berne and the Zurich Can tonal Police refused to identi fy the agent or to say whether he had been arrested or not This gave rise to speculation In the centre of the city,
may have been a crowds of men, Novak, touched a new high of $130uble agent, who led the two children of all races thronged Stor Kim described as "a very sick yesterday eased back today Soviet officials into a trap, and the Royal route six deep half girl," is in Dectors Hospi-le $126. Banks were steady whose Identity the police an hour before the processita tal for treatment of a at $1285. possible liver ailment, her studio said today.
Hig father, Mr John D. Rockefeller, was founder of the petroleum empire which in- dudes the Standard Oil Com-Miss pany of New Jersey,
It has been estimated that between the father and son them gave away more than $875 million. Mr Rockfeller, Jr. controlled the family fortune for 20 years before his father's death in 1937.
Benefited
More than 50 countrica
from have benefited
the family's philanthropy through the Rockefeller Foundation. disperses which annually many millions of dollars in grants,
The latest of the grants, totalling nearly $5 million for the first quarter of 1960, were announced only last night.
Rockefeller and Governor other members of his family [ reached his bedside a few hours before his death:
In 1901 he married Abby Alorich, who died in 1948, Three years later he married Mrs Martha Baird Allen, a talented pianist who was the widow of a life-long-friend,
By his first marriage he had five sons, John, Laurance, Nelson, Winthrop and David, and a doughter, Abby.--Reuter.
to challenge of Admiralty
MP, Miss Joan Vickers. She has outlined ihres allégations against - the. Admiralty; fitsily that they stopped the, al? lowance "galost all accepted legal practice", secondly that of his desertion -- is to : bể fẽ “they made a mistake and then "challenged in the House of
Commons.
a decree nisl on the ground,
The
husband is Fetty-Officer James Morgan who left his -wife, Mrs Lydia Morgan, 'after their son was born in 1955. Her case will be taken to the by Conservativė
In March this year Mrs Morgan was granted decree nit. The Admiralty then withdrew her £5/19/- marriage allowance. Mrs Morgan then applied for a court order. The Admiral- ty then asked for the word refused to admit it, thirdlying to be changed.—
Novak, 27, has not bean feeling well for about a month, a spokes- mon said. She entered the hospital on Tuesday. Doctors said they believe she is suffering from some type of jaundice but tests still are being taken. AP.
Delay in building
skyscraper explained
Construction of the multi- million Fu Centre Hotel has been delayed over the decision on the method of piling to be used.
Mr. C. H. Me, Secretary of the Fu Centre Organisation on- nounded this today.
The hotel is to be built on Connaught Road, on the site now occupied by Butterfeld' and Swire Lta.
"At present," he said "Mive want to get underway as quick- ly as possible,
"However, we are now con- sidering several methods, of piling and as soon as a decision Is reached we will start imme- diately."
Mr. Ma said that the height of the hotel was originally planned to be 32 storeys.
"At this stage I don't know whether the actual height has been confirmed,” he said
"I believe the architect whose design has been fully approved will make some announcement
that they asked an official of "Even then, the Admiralty ***= 2000.”
the High Court to alter the wording of a court order. Mrs Morgan, 87-year-old WHEN, said: "The business is fazitue- ¡dically, poznplicated and quila honestly. I don't understand
fused to pay" - htt· ·Lawyer He said that the Fu Centre said, “unless the order is when completed would cost over pengnaily served her HK$10 million.
130.
husband in Hongkong. By Mr Ma said that he thinks the time we conla serve the Butterfeld and Swire will order, the woman and pen vacate the premises towards might have starved
Į the end of June.
wished to keep socret.
was due.-AP.
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