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SILENTBLOC LTD.

FLEXIBLE BEARINGS, FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS, ENGINE MOUNTINGS

ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD. 208 Chartered Bank Building. Tel. 27789

CHINA

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Established 1845

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1960.

MAIL

Labour shortage in Kun Tong

REPORT BY TEXTILE MILL

CHIEF

The Chairman of a Hongkong textile mill reported today that there was a serious shortage of labour in Kun Tong last year because of a lack of inducements such as public transport, shops, recrea- tion areas and other amenities.

HK nappies defended to the end

London, May 16. Hongkong's Government Officer, Mr E. G. A. Grim- wood, defended Hongkong made nappies in a letter to # British Sunday news- paper yesterday.

Observer last The week published an article by Gerda Cohen called "Budget for First Baby."

In it the writer claimed that Hongkong made nap- ples selling at 27/60, a dozen in Britain did not

wear well.

"As they resemble shred- ded cabbage in no time I would

not

recommend them," Mrs Cohen wrote.

denied Grimwood Mr

nappies

that the inferior.

were

"Reputable manufactur- ers and exporters and im- porters in the United King- dom are supplying first- class products of this kind which stand up very well to the ends to which they

put,"

ho wrote, - London Express Service.

are

Airlines official passes through

Mr B. K. N. Rao, Air India Divisional Operational Manager arrived in Hongkong by Air India this morning en roule to India.

Boeing

Mr Rao has been to Seattle, conferring with the Company.

Air India has just taken de

of several Boeing 707 livery planes which will be used short- ly on regular services. ...

Mr D. Benson, Chairman of Nanyang Cotton Mill Ltd told today's annual meeting that "this shortage was further accentuat- ed by the adoption of the three- shift system of working which calls for the employment of a greater number of operatives a hours than was day of 24 hitherto the case."

Mr Benson said the Volun tary Quota Agreement operated against the Company's exports

to the United Kingdom during

Soldiers leap into sea

to seize fleeing thieves

A party of British soldiers jumped into the sea to arrest two men suspected of stealing Iron bars and scrap metal from Stanley Fort last Saturday night. This was revealed in court two this morning when men were brought before Central Magistrate, Mr Derek Cons and charged with simple, larceny and being, found in Stanley Fort, a closed area, with- out a permit. They both pleaded guilty.

Chu Sze, 55, of Aplichau,

who had five previous

convictions,

was sen-

tenced to six weeks' im- prisonment.

the year, so that the greater Chu Tau, 62, living or proportion of

the Company's

cloth production was necessarily diverted for distribution 20 exceedingly, competitive American market,

the

New building

"The Directors have approved

of the erection of a new factory building on a piece of land ad- Joining the main mill building, and they had under considera- tion plans to provide new equip- ment which will make it pos sible to

a wider range to produce of finished products."

Mr Benson said he was pleased to report that the Company had booked contracts which would

keep its plant and machinery A fully occupied well towards the end

of the current year.

The Directors recommended payment of a final dividend of 70 cents a share which, together with the interim dividend of 40 cents totalled $1.10 for the year, Mr Benson said.

Mr Benson also reported that the net profit for the year was $1,470,482.

Mr Y. C. Wang and Mr H. C. Yung were re-elected directors.

Messrs Lowe, Bingham

and Matthew's

re-appointed auditors.

were

Challenge

Bangor, Wales, May 18. Bangor College, which holds the championship, has challenged London University to 鹞 custard-ple throwing contest with hits being scored in the "classic manner in the face. -UPI.

UNREGISTERED SCHOOL COST WOMAN $1,000

A woman supervisor of an unregistered school at Central Court this morning said she opened the Fung Wah School in Kowloon because she noticed that there was a shortage of schools in Hongkong.

The woman, Yung Fung-wah of 387A Castle Peak Road, 1st pleaded guilty to two floor, summonses for acting as a super- visor and managing an un- registered school and was fined a total of $1,000 by Mr T. L Yang.

Fung Chi-pang pleaded guilty

¿

A letter warning, the school ta close down for the above reason was sent on February 5,-Ten- days later, the school wrole to the Education Department re- questing permission to remain open until the end of the term.

This request was refused and

to two summonses for being an a further warning was given.

unregistered teacher and teach-

ing in an unregistered school and was 'fined a total of $300,

Inspectors

Detective. Inspector R. P. Style, prosecuting, said the school was found to be un- registered when it was visited

On March 11, the school was still operating.

There were four classrooms in all, each divided into two parts, housing 171: students and four teachers

Shortage

by two inspectors of the Educa- The woman said that she came tion Department on January 20. to Hongkong In 1954 and noticed Insp. Style said that the school the shortage of schools. She was warned to either register added that she ran the school or alone down within seven days at a loss and that she was suffer- He added that on January 26, ing from anliness, ayappiloution for registration Her bequest to pay the $1,000 was sent to the Education De-in, 24 months was refused. The partment and the school per- | magistrate" gave her three mises were inspected by the months to pay. Buildng Authority and found. The other defendant also ask to be unsuitable to be used as ed for eight months to pay but a school.m

was given two months,

board

on

unnumbered

Junk at Aberdeen, was bound over in $500 for two years in view of his clear record.

.

U.S

DESIGNER

TO STUDY

CHINESE

ARCHITECTURE

American Women

A leading

technical designer has arrived iti Hongkong to study Chinese

architecture.

She is Gertrude Keig, who flew into Kal Tak this morning

Sheaffer's

Newest

BALL POINT PEN

AVAILABLE AT ALL GOOD STOREY:

From the Fil

Stole watch

from boy 25

in King's Park

An apprentice, Wong Kam-

chuen pleaded guilty to stealing a watch from a 12-year-old boy by pre tending that he was a govemment employee and

that the watch belonged M

to his younger brother.

years

AGO

May, 1935 [ARSHAL Joseph Pil- alidski, Poland's

venerated 68-year-old dicta-

He was remanded for seven tor and saviour is dead. The days pending admission to Marshal was conscious right training centre by Mr P.EX. Leonard at Kowloon Court this up to the end." morning...

However, the other man turned back to help his friend and attacked Lt. Edmunde with a stick,

then escaped Defendents

and jumped into the sea followed by the soldiers

daughters for of

who eventually caught them in the water,

Sub-Inspector Yip Tel-yau said at 1.30 am. last Saturday, party soldiers at Stanley Fort, on information, made search on a-hill opposite to the Main Guard Room of the Fort. They saw two figures run-

ning down some steps leading to the bottom of the hill.

The soldiers gave chase and on nearing the bottom of the hill, Second Lt. Ed- of munds cought one them when he stumbled and fell.

Ship's officer tells

of promise

to search for drugs

37-year-old Norwegian, Bjorn Hoyen Arsvik, Chief Officer of the ss Prosper, facing two charges of possession of opium, stated this morning that he had promised a certain Hong- kong Revenue Officer named Ng Wing to look for drugs on board the ship.

They admitted to the police they had stolen the iron bari by cutting them from the reinforced con- crete in the fortification with a sledgehammer and a hacksaw.

They also admitted the theft of iron rods from the same place on May 9. They sold them to hawker, they said.

with her husband by Air India.

Mrs Kelg has just attended a two-week conference of leading designers in Tokyo.

Mrs Keig was among the 250 delegates who combined in the first World Designers Can ference.

Mrs Kelg will stay in Hong- kong for three days and hopes to spend all her me studying Chinese architecture,

"I have heard so much about the wanderful Chinese art design and I am going to study it as thoroughly as possible.

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am sure that the study will help me

in my work on technical design"

dear sir

Plain speaking needed

Your

Washington? If America per- sists in making an ass of her- self, soon or late sooner than later she would involve us all

Sub-Inspector I. W. Elias said at 10.20 am on May 15 the boy, Ho Shu-ka was playing in King's Park,

ASKED TIME

The defendant asked the boy for the time.

Defendant told the boy that he was a government employee end that the watch belonged to his younger brother.

Defendant took the watch, saying he would give it to his brother for examination.

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He bade farewell to his Min. isters and then tenderly em- braced. his wife and two whom this passionate love was well known, Immediately after his death. the Cabinet met, and announced. that General Rydszmidly, hlá closest collaborator, would suc- |ceed the Marshal “as "Inspector

General of the Army with ence of Poland in 1919 and, staged his coup d'etat eight

which he secured the Independ -

years ago.

*

Lawrence of Arabia, who The boy bogged the defendant has been for the last few to return it as he was afraid he years "Aircraftsman Shaw would be punished by his has been taken to hospital, it parents.

is believed with a fractured skull, received when his motor cycle collided with a child cyclist near Bovington Camp, Doract.

The defendant then ran away but he was caught by a police

man.

Charged with corruption

THis

THE untiring efforts of Excellency the Governor Sir William Feel, In the interests of the Colony during his five years' regime in Hongkong, were eulogistically referred to in the

course of the

war that will surely A 23-year-old resettlement illuminated addresses which

exceptionally finc in the third and possibly "1051 leader under the title "Save Us world From Our Friends" in Com-destroy civilisation.

once again you have the courage to speak on your courage in speaking up for parents of possible canon- up where others would just fodders who will be called up

democracy condemn in silence. It is quite to defend

again-Democracy with in Washington were called to

phasis on CRAZY!

AMAZED,

ment of the "Day' in yesterday's You are to be congratulated issue shows that

time that the powers that be

He said that the Revenue the following day without see of the serious consequences to officer had told him if he coulding Ng Wing. find drugs, he would get a pro- motion and a reward.

Arsvik

order, for they seem intent 95 spadling for a fght regardless their ailles, Whilst the whole world has been eagerly await He said he could not go ashore ing the outcome of the long- said he would get a part of it. that morning as the third officer, heralded Summit Conference

Bunecheute Prichmataja He said when he found some other accused in the case), had expected, some people in

(an out of which great things were oplum in the chartroom of the ship on March 11, before the been arrested and he was the Pentagon have taken it into

only officer on board.

their thick skulls to choost On the morning of March 17, such an inappropriate time Arsvik sald he realised that send a bungling spr

ship arrived in Hongkong, he did not tell his captain, "because I had promised the Revenue Off.

anybody else but him."

10 parcels Testifying

i

his

Own

the

Documentary

once

We all read some time ago that Rediffusion had engaged a competent expert to take charge of all television programmes.

However,

last night's to screening of a grisly documen

S. L. LAU.

screener, Chung Fook-ho,

were read and presented to of 12 Mongkok Road, 2nd His Excellency yesterday on floor, appeared before Mr behalf of the European an D. Cons at Central Court Chinese communities at the this morning on two Great Hall of the Univer charges of corruption:

BC-

his

Isity.

It is alleged that on or about The European address, ex- October 17 last year, being a

quisitely designed and executed screener of the Resettlement which was contained in a black- Department, Chung solicited $400 wood case bearing the Colony from Wong Wal-wal, as a re-

Arms, was read by the Hon Bir ward for or otherwise on

Henry Pollock, Senior Unpecial count of his, carrying out

member of the Legislative. duties in respect of screening the Council, while that from family of Tsoi Ngan-yum. Chinese community which was Chung is further alleged to contained on an elaborately have corruptly received from carved blackwood screen at alk Wong Wal-wal a sum of $250 panels in Chinese characters was for the same purpose on Octo-translated and read to the

Chung pleaded

Kotewall.

He was allowed ball of $500.

Detective Sub-Inspector Chan Slu-shun of Anti-Corruption Bureau is in charge of the case.

His Excellency replied thank- ing the community for its ex~ pression of appreciation, of his work during his. five years as Governor of the Colony and also for the tributes which had been paid to Lady Peel.

into the lary on trachoma. control ber 20 last years not guilty and gathering by the Hon Mr E. H cer in Hongkong not to tell already too much time hadUSSR on the eve of the Con- Taiwan during my dinner har hearing was fixed for June 2.

the is an example of the new order passed," and he told, Revenue ference, possibly with Officer Leung Hok-being of the patent hope of forcing Russta say, give me back the old existence of the oplum in the to withdraw from the Con- one! chartroom.

ference, since the USA. must have feared terribly that their President was no match for the- Soviet Premier,' and they could think of no feasible excuse to back out at the last moment, and so some stupid presidential advisers have thought of this senseless spying stunt that was sure to do the trick.

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A surprise

defence, Arsvik sald when the ship left Bangkok, he made search of the ship and in the He denied that he told Leung chartroom, he found 10 parcels that there were six packets of underneath a drawer of charts, opium underneath the door of the room. He said it was also When the ship arrived here a surprise to him that opium on March 15, he went ashore should have been found in his

For years during the lifetime to look for Ng Wing. In Kow-cabin. He added that as chief loon, he joined a farewell, party officer of the ship, he would of the late John Foster Dulles have many people visiting his the world had been living in cabin.

fear of an outbreak of a Third

at which he was told of a new bar which opened just recently. He then went to that bar and stayed in a hotel that night. He returned to the ship at 7 am,

Reprieve for London's

.

the

MAN ABUSED POLICEMAN, BOUND OVER

for 15-

Reginald Gonzales, 29, who World War the to the display approached a police constable He said he did not own the opium found in the chartroom of brinkmanship by the Secret in uniform at 11 p.m. last night ary of State who wielded and asked him what he wer and in his cabin. Other than greater power and authority doing in Nathan Road and be- knowing the location of the than his, President, and though gan, to abuse him, was bound oplum on March 11, he had we pretended to mourn his loss over in the sum of $100 for one nothing to do with the oplum at we had hoped that his SC- all.

year by Mr T. C. Chan at Kow- cessor would be д. more loco Coint this morning. Ansvik appears in court wit amenable person, However, it

Detendent, who gave his oc- two other men, Chan Kwong-would appear that in shing, 53, a Hongkong plastics U.S.A. foreign policies are not curpation is a coolle and of no marrafacturer, and a Siamese decided, by Washington by fixed abode, had nine previous Bunecheute Prichmataja, third dictated by the Pentagon, as convictions, including adve

some of the inane utterances similar ones and one of some of their generals, saulting a police officer. admirals and air force brasshats plainly show. This latest adventure in spying on. the Soviet on the eve of a momentous conference is an- other Indication of their desire to keep the pot boiling and pinprick tha Soviet into

New York, May 16. launching a retaliatory attack Russian scientists were on America's allies who have ported here to have the know- permitted her to use their how for training space animals their to send messages about bases for the agreed purpose physical conditions to ground of defence. Now the U.S.A.

stations, has placed not herself, in a

oldest Chinese officer of the Prosper.

restaurant

She

Londan, May 1 The block on the north fringe of Plosadilly. Cirous which Includes Cathay, the oldest Chinese restaurant

London (built 1908), has been re- prieved for 8 YDST OF no from the Sensolition “pick. 'This restaurant was dne to close Exit Saturday: as part of the new building scheine.

Mr. John Koon, whose father founded Cathy mid last night; "Tre bear told that wowa. "your's reprievo permission hea granted yet puilding and

Chan did Prichmataja were Jointly charged with dealing in oplum and conpleting to import the drug. Prichmataja" was Indditionally charged with

possession of opluan,

Chan, In a statement from the dock," explained how the visit ing card of a Chinese merchant in Siam came into his hand..

Deposit

Space animals

He said the merchant. Ng ridiculous position, but has The Bussian know-how was Hock-sang, visited, his factory even Involved her alles described at a meeting

at

inst year and was impressed by Britain and France in this Columbia University | by Dr his plastic-making machines. most undesirable and em Gregory Razren, Chairman of

Ng then deposited $11,000 for brassing situation, offering the Department of Faychology the purchase of 10 machines: Russia a most wonderful at Queen's College. He has been They exchanged visiting carnis Pportunity to back out of any analysing Soviet research under when. Ng returned to Hangkang ible agreement that she a grant from the national In-

stitutes might originally have been ex-

of health. in December to attend the Hong-ted to malco at the Summit kong Products Exhibition.

said the Russians.com com American dition antimals to performer "Hearing was adjourned. ***

Aravic

world today an acts when thelf blood pres- that or rate of breathing like Betain changes. He said a dog in ted to satelite could be conditioned *VIZW (0%. THh a lever or bulton with

tagon paw to signal his physical

Prich

Jeadership In the

really such great

isher mad, mén

and

Europe

On leave

油

Mr J. C. M. Grenham, Agency Supervisor, Manufacturers Life Barbara Rutton today Insurance Co.. left Hongkong secured a Reno divorce from this morning by Swissair for her husband Prince Alerie Mdivania. Judge Thomas Mr Grenham, resident of, the Colony for 36 years, will spend Moran, the hardest worked Ave months of his leave with his divorce judge in the world,

granted the divorce. family in Europe.

This funny world

con

keep!

here, it bel