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CHINA
No. 37686
Established 1845 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1960.
LATE FINAL
Comment RED FLAG STARTS
Of The Ferry piers choked by
Day
BELLIGERENT GENERALS
LL over the world, it
seems, the beat creden tial for budding rulers is background. an Army
Some of the countries which have adopted Gener- als or have been adopted by them in recent years are Argentina, France, Iraq, Egypt, Burma, Thailand, Pakistan, America, Turkey and Russia. Some are downright military dicta- tors. Some are retired
home-going passengers: Mary' to pass by tonight
Thousands of people choked the entrances of the Star Ferry piers on both sides of the harbour just before noon today as offices released workers to cross over to their homes before the ferries closed down.
As the China Mail goes to press the ferries Air passengers shuttled back and forth
are still operating but the red flag
has been raised which means that both the passenger and vehicular ferries may stop operating at any
time.
in the departure hall as delays were announced over the loudspeakers.
A
Boac Comet took off for Singapore at
10.45 am. in spite of strong cross. winds and driving rain.
generals who have gradu- Earlier this morning the No. 8 local storm A PAL plane from Manila circled over-
ated to politics by normai electoral processes while other influential army mea are content to stay in the background and pull the s'rings. The last kind is particularly dangerous. Into this category falls 61- year-old Marshal Rodion Malinovsky who has been the Soviet a power in Army for the last 20 years or more. Now he is taking his place alongside Khrushchev
almost every public occasion. This is alarming because it sug gests that the Red Army has put Khrushchev firmly on the leash.
on
THIS speculation seems to confirmed by later
THIS
reports of a struggle for power in the Kremlin and by events in Russia since
the summit failure Jast month. Not only has Mar- warned shal Malinovsky that allied bases Ber- vicing apy planes will be fired upon by Soviet rockets, but Mr Khrush- chev himself has scornful- ly abused and criticised Mr Eisenhower in terms re- miniscent of Stalin at his sourest and aurliest. It is not hard to guess what
this means! Z prolonged cold war. And be another summit can ruled out for at least an- other year, possibly twe if i nothing worse happens in the meantime.
The dangers of this must be apparent to all. America's top military and naval commanders have never made any secret of their authority and influence on the Government, The U-2 apy fight was clearly the idea of the military men and the extent to which the administration supported Buch 1 risky venture illustrates how deeply they are influenced by military thinking. Now the Russians have a general in power, a general who has no hesita
signal was raised,
The severe tropical storm Mary is expect- ed to cross the coast about 60 miles west of the Colony before midnight tonight.
It is still moving slowly northwards in the general direction of the Colony. Just before noon it was positioned at 75 miles south-west of Hongkong Crowds fought their way in driving rain
to the Star Ferry piers and many had to wait an hour before managing to
board a ferry.
CHOPPY SEAS
head for half an hour before touch- ing down at 12 noon.
Proof of the wind force could be found
It
in the dozen broken umbrellas dis- carded on, the floor of the observation gallery,
also could be found in the case of a -10-year-old boy who was sent career- ing across the gallery by the strong. wind until he was caught by a spectator.
Again there is no school today. The General Certificate of Education Oral French Examination which was to have taken place at King George V School today was post- poned.
was the School Certificate Examina- tion scheduled to take place today. Dates are yet to be fixed.
Passenger and vehicular ferries beat their
way through choppy seas while walla So walla boats and small launches nosed deep into wave troughs or were hidden by sudden blankets of spray as they inched their way across the harbour.
Meanwhile rising seas were battering the The
praya and sending clouds of spray on to the road and pavement. The gales and rain are expected to con:
tinue today but the weather should become more squally and showery towards tomorrow morning, the Royal Observatory said.
A maximum gust of 65 knots was record.
ed.
AIR SCHEDULES
No casualties or serious damage has so far been reported but trees and branches have been blown down in many parts of the Colony.
Air schedules at Kal Tak were disrupted
this morning.
TOTAL RAINFALL
total rainfall associated with the
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BIG EXODUS
Eisenhower will
go ahead with
trip to Japan
Washington, June 7.
With the red flag warning that ferries might be stopped at any minute, there was a big rush for cross- harbour traffic. People are seen hurrying towards the pedestrian subway leading to the Star Ferry In Hongkong-China Mail photo...
Mental patient
tropical storm is 1.88 inches. From The White House announced tonight that on murder
midnight last night until 10 a.m. the rainfall was 95 of an inch.
The Commandant of the Royal Hongkong Defence Force announced that all training
of for members
the: RHKDF today is cancelled. the same time the Commissioner of
At
the Civil Aid Services and the Con- troller of the Auxiliary Medical Ser- vice announced that the joint Civil Aid Services-Auxiliary Medical Ser- vice Regional Exercise No. 4 which was due to be held this evening has been cancelled.
Typhoon shelters all over the Colony par-
ticularly Yaumati and Aberdeen, are crowded with sampans and junks.
Atomic-armed missile
explodes in
air defence
a launching site.
U.S. base
Washington, June 7,
UPI.
tion about making the An atomic-armed Bomare anti-aircraft missile burned and exploded at its direst threats. At any time
launching pad near U.S. McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey today. between now and the next summit a trigger-happy U.S. Air Force authorities plosive warheads blew up'in The blast occurred while American or Russian com- caid there was no danger to
modification work was in pro- mander could start a world the public from radiation.
Six soldiers and four civiliansgress on the missiles, - AP and The Air Force in Washington | were killed. War. T could all start quite in-sald a small amount of radio- error on the part of the near the housing of the missile but added "there no signifi- Americans similar to the cant health hazard or
caused one, which
Btamination problem." American plane to land recently in East Germany,
sufficient might be
to stampede a jittery Russian
Inocently. Artvigational active materia
scattered
con.
However, highways Into the area were closed off as was the eastern end of this, base..
The explosion occurred at the
Into firing the first rocket site of the US 46th Air De
thinly
settled vineland area about 35 miles northeast
Philadelphia.
Of
and set in train events offence Missile Squadron base. In incalculable disaster... nearby Jackson township, a Marshal Malinovsky is to. be taken at his word, the fate of mankind hangs in the balance and few seem
In previous accidents in- to appreciate the dangers.
nuclear weapons, the Sometime, somehow, moderate volving
statesmen on both sides of Air Force has said that while an
the iron curtain have
SMALL ÁREA
Macmillan tells
Norwegian hosts
of summit fiasco
Oslo, June 7.
President Eisenhower plans to go ahead with his visit to Japan.
Prisoner's
disclosure
on Sophia's
jewellery
London, June 7.
"No change is contemplated in the President's visit to Japan," the White House statement said.
"The purpose of the visit was A and remains the payment of a courtesy call on a sister demo- the furtherance of cracy and United States-Japanese friend- ship in connection with the United States-Japanese centen- nial celebration this year."
A spokesman said the state- ment was issued in answer to press questions.
THREATS
charge
Birmingham, June 7. 26-year-old Jamaican, Aldrick Rockhead, "was alleged to have murdered a boy of seven in a Bir- mingham street shortly after disappearing from a local mental hospital,
Prosecuting counsel' told a Birmingham court. Rockhead had been a patient at the hos pital for four months. but was
:
CLIMBED GATES
Last Saturday he climbed the hospital gates and a short time later people in the adjoining road saw him grab young Brian Cross and beat him on the head with iron tubing, the Prosecu- tlon alleged.
Ex-Nazi leader
said killed
Tel-Aviv, June 7,
An Israeli weekly publica
tion said today that the former Nazi leader Mar tin Bormann had been killed in April in Buenos Aires by a Jewish doctor who recognised him through his disguise and gave
him a series of lethal injections, The weekly, Haolam Hazch, quoting Jewish sources Buenos Aires, said Botmann's body had been burled under an assumed name, which could not be revealed.
No confirmation or denial of the story was available in Tel Aviv-Reuter..
doctor
dies
Moscow, June. 8.- Miron Semenovich Vovsi, eminent Soviet, physician who was arrested in the *1952 "doctor's "plot", has died sud- "denly in Moscow aged 82, the newspaper Izvestia announced today.
It did not mention the reason not certified and could have Eminent Soviet A prisoner in Pentonville jail for the questions-threats of left at any time.
today is reported to have violent leftist demonstrations said that the jewels stolen against Mr Eisenhower in Tokyo from Italian film star and the internal Japanese poli- tical crisis touched off by par- Sophia Loren ten days ago liamentary action on the new are now in Rotterdam.
U.S.-Japan Defence Treaty.
Mr Eisenhower is scheduled The prisoner, whose name was not revealed, is understood to leave next Sunday on a Far to have made the disclosures to Eastern goodwill tour of the representatives of the actress's Philippines, Nationalist China, insurance company, after re- Okinawa, Japan and Korea. He questing an interview with the is due in Japan on June 19, the assessors,
day the Japanese ratification of automatically He reportedly told the repre- the treaty will sentatives that he was one of take effect unless the Socialists
After Rockhead had been re- which planned the win their fight to force dissolu-
manded in custody, until June gang robbery of the jewels valued at tion of the Diet (parliament).13 charged with the boy's mur- £185,000 from Miss Loren's The White House statement der, an elderly grey-haired man temporary home in Elstree, where she is staying during the followed a Senate Foreign Re-jumped up in court and shouted | shooting of her. Intest film "Thelations Committee hearing on "you murdered my little grand- Millionairess,"
the treaty, at which Secretary son."
He said he was to have taken of State Christian A. Herter and
pital.
i
Like other arrested doctors, Brian died on his way to hos- he was charged with espionage and sabotaging the health of Soviet leaders but was habilitated after Stalin's desti
AP.
sobbing,China
art in the raid, bait was pre-key senators said Mr Eisenhower. He was led away shouting vented from doing so because he should go ahead with the visit, and was arrested beforehand for another offence.
BY PLANE
The jewels had been taken to Rotterdam by plane, the pri zoner sald. Details of the plas had been worked out last January, he said.
. He added that he was "way sorry for the low which MIss. Loven had sustained, and would do everything possible to help her recover her jewels.
The actress has offered a £20,000 reward for information
leading to the recovery of her properly.--AFP,
Prime Minister Mr Harold Macmillan said here tonight that the days in Paris during the atomic:"explosion cannot "decur, to some radioactive dust and par-}--
summit fiasco were "rather shattering for me". set about repairing the torn fieles may be scattered in the threads in the fabutic of immediate area if a nuclear banquet after arriving here for the present situation.
Speaking at a government pessimistic an interpretation of East-West relations, Clear weapon is broken or damaged. ly this cannot wait for a The Air Force official said the a four-day official new American president. Bomare warhead was severely added. "I tried hard.. At pre must be on our guard but we Who knows, it may even damaged by the burning trigger point Tooked as though the be Mr Nixon who is elected. which contains high explosives, conference might take place, and any radiation was confined but this is no time to speculate "Sooner or inter- someone to a very small area. There on why things went wrong han got to start the ball was no explosion even of the but they went very wrong" rolling again towards an high-explosive triager he saide upd other summit conference, On May 26, 1958, a da Me Macenfilan went on cabinet ministers headed
astrous ... missile explosion aim evinced that it would be Prane oncurred in Leonardo New not only wrong but foolish to Gerhardhem as well Jersey, when dight, Nike-AMN abandon the path of immotia wives
visit he Mr Macmillan added: We Soldiers injured
That someone should be
Mr Macmillan and the sooner, he starts, the zore relieved the world will be.
mist not abandon the path of negotiation and
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Fort Bragg, N.C.. June 7. Fitteen soldiers were injured by an explosion when their stru meant was showing them, how to make a une fine
„The sergeant, who,
worst of the blast, mai, esported in-serious condition; in hoof
-UPI.
Special
2,000-year-old
vase found
A vace dating back more than 2,000 years has been found in the bed of a stream on a small inland in Hongkong
The discovery was made by Mr Ho Yan-ning, Freeldant of the Pigeon Association of Hongkang during a recent visit to the Island, named Chu Lạp Kop, which is of: Lasiko.
Many fragments of pottery have been found; if this stream bed previously, bus the almost complete vase was the most signiscant find in the areas
Professor F. 8. Drake, Director of the Instiinte Oriental Studies of the University of Hongkong identified the valse as belonging to the Six Dynasties period dating from
AD 42# to AD 586AE AND
mit Obamenting on the And Mr S.-Y. Lee, Secretary of the
Welfare and Relief Council, and a colleagu
of Mr Houldin
Wa Wihe, falind - is, largely sheltered by: A
Lantao sad was probably chose for
sea people for this reason,
We hope, father
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