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Rumbustious

students

ESTERDAY we discussed

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the dangers and dif- ficulties caused by trouble- some generals. Today discuss the students, their. rumbustious henchmen who in many parts of the world.

seem to have taken over leadership of popular action from the main political parties. The two latest ré- volts which have ended in Army coups d'etat were instigated by students in both Turkey and South Korea. And they have a fairly active part in most of the revolts that

taken

have occurred in various parts of the world In the postwar years. They are now threatening serious trouble for Pre sident. Eisenhower in Japan, and the Premier, Mr Kishi is probably. greatly. relieved that Eisenhower has decided to vielt the country in spite of the students' threats. For Eisenhower to havs backed down at this stage would have been the end of Kishi, perhaps the end of the U.S.-Japan Security ~Treaty and possibly also an end to the succession of Јаралеве govern- ments friendly to the Unit- ed States.

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does not mean, however, that because Eisenhower has decided to defy the¦ students that Kishi's poll- tical future is guaranteed. He has

two-thirds majority in the Diet which is sufficient to deal with any parliamentary opposi tion but apart from the

*struggle power

in his party, going on there . 1s 3 growing body of feeling that Mr Kishi would be wise to de- for ratification of the security treaty until after new general elections have been held. If the Japanese Prime Minister has any doubt of his mandate to proceed with this measure he would be well advised to do this.

A vote of confidence would have the dual advantage of assuring him of his people's support and of reassuring Japan's allies of his authority to speak on be- half of the Japanese people. Student troubles in Japan have assumed nothing like the proportions of dis- turbances which rocked South Korea and Turkey. Neither hus there been political oppression on the same wide, blatant scale. And Mr Kishi must remem- ber that he is not the only Premier who has been plagued by noisy extremists and that there are other and equally effective ways of dealing with them than with bullets, tear gas and truncheons,

Mr Kishi fecla absolutely Mr focs would do well to express his determination to resist any violence and to go ahead with plans for Eisenhower's visit. Lack of resolution at this stage could spell immediate political defeat. And a win for the students at this stage, would exaggerate their importance out of all porportion and

lay the country's political parties open to the threat

ONLY ONE EDITION TODAY

LATE FINAL

CHINA MAIL

No. 37687

Established 1845

1960.

THURSDAY, JUNE

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TYPHOON HAVOC

Many lives

lost, huge damage toll

Typhoon Mary passed over the Hongkong

border into China at about 9 a.m. today leaving in its wake an appalling trail of havoc and destruction..

The typhoon, which scored a direct hit on the

Colony as it passed slowly over the New Territories in the early hours of the morning, was the worst the Colony has experienced since the 1937 disaster.

Damage will run into many millions of dollars.

Reports of deaths trickled in to the China Mail before going to press. These included an unknown number drowned in Abee- deen harbour, two children killed in a Shatin house which col- lapsed, and a man killed and three others injured when a boulder rolled down Lin Fa Kan Hilli sad crashed into their hut.

The sharpest gust of wind recorded at the Royal Observatory was 102 miles an hour early this morning. The highest gust re- ported at Waginn was 108 miles an hour.

Six ships broke from their moorings during the night, Four managed to regain their original stations under their own steam. But two ships ran into the seawall near Kai Tak airport and were abandoned by their crews

One of the ships, a 3,000-ton ship of Panamanian, registry had

a crew of 62 and they were taken off in the height of the typhoon. melve men from another ship were taken off near Kai Tak. ne full casualty toll, is not yet known but many are feared

to have lost their lives in the howling, shrieking hurricane-force. winds which swept through the Colony' uprooting, trees, and siapping others like match sticks, bowling over cars, ripping signboards and neons and sending them tumbling, down rain- drenched and often severely-flooded streets.

but all reported skeleton staffs.

A number of big city, offices were open for business as usual

Not only could Kowloon employees not cross, to the island, but all public transport was suspended and only the odd taxi

GARDENS BATTERED

The Botanic Gardens above Government House were utterly devastated.

The gardens, which give pleasure lo so many thousands of Islanders, were pracifcally fističned. · Hardly a tree stood which had not had branches torn off.

Huge trees were mapped off like matchsticks,, leaving only the stumps all In the ground to mark their graveL

Plants and bushes lay flat on the earth, and rivers of red. brown muddy water swirled down into Upper Albert Road:

Battered red blossome from Flame of the Forest trees lay along the pathways.

Some of the few trees which survived the typhoon were the small palm trees Lining Garden Road.

Undoubtedly it will take months to tidy up the gardens, and it will be years before It takes on its old appearance again.

Residents in Haven Court, Leighton Road, Hongkong, were marooned by six feet of water. More than 100 cars were im- mobilized in that area alone.

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The worst damage reported in Western District was the col lapse of Pokfulam, Road near the pumping station,

blocked in

Bowen Road and Garden Road were partially several places, and trees in the grounds of Government House blocked Lower Albert Road in several places.

braved the driving rain and the tree-littered and debris-strewn streets to pick up the few office workers' who attempted to reach the city.

Above the fury of the storm the wall of sirens could be EU vans rushed to answer emergency calls. heard throughout the morning as fire engines, ambulance and

To complicate matters, telephone lines were down in many areas and reports of the death and destruction left by typhoon Mary were slow in filtering in.

Reports from all over Hongkong and Kowloon however re- ported houses unrooted, cars "stranded, roads flooded, aquatter huts smashed, and funks sunk.

damage caused to the radio antennae at the control tower

Kal Tak Airport was closed since this morning owing to

An Air Laos plane was damaged at Kal Tak as the typhoon whipped across the airport.

Kal Tak airport was under one to four feet of water. So was the road approaching the airport.

In Kennedy Town, behind the Kam Ling restaurant the high wind flattened ten squatter huts and made 50 people homeless.

Two theatres in Kowloon were flooded.

blow.

Kowloon Post Office lost part of its roof at the height of the

A car parked near the Peninsula Hotel was overturned and a small British car was found overturned In Link Road Hongkong this morning.

Other parked cars were damaged by falling trees in Hong- kong and Kowloon,

In central district, scaffolding of two new buildings in Des Voeux Road collapsed over the tram island near the Post Office.. Part of the pavement outside Edinburgh House was forced up by water.

Hundreds of signs and awnings were tossed by the winds among stalled cars.

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TWO SHIPS DRIVEN

ASHORE AT KAI TAK

Typhoon Mary drove two ships aground at Kai Tak this morning. The

crews of both vessels have abandoned ship.

These roads are blocked

to

praffice

(Top) Bamboo scaffolding sprawls over a tram shelter in Des Voeux Road Central and (below) children wade through" a flooded street in Connaught: Road-West this morning.China Mail Photo.

Cancelled

The Hongkong Football As

Cannounces that its

They are the Malaya Fir,[The first two vessels should 8,760 gross tons, of Panamanian have arrived at the scene at registry, owned by the Fir Line; 9 o'clock this morning, but nosociation and a small craft named Wan reports have been received up to Council meeting, scheduled for 16. pm today, "has been can-

celled.

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The Malayan Fir, with a crew of 62, went ashore at the south-west end of the Kal Tak runway, while the Wan Fu, with a crew of 12, went aahore near the RAF end of the air.

A number of roads in Hong-port

kong and Kowloon ore

now."

Many junks were reported to have sunk in Aberdeen. It is feared that, a number of people have drowned as a result, but no confirmation could be obtained.

DISASTROUS

blocked while many hove ships broke away from their

Earlier, four other sea-going In Yaumati, many small craft been cleared for traffic. Hongkong harbour moorings were blown towards the sea wall Services report the following reanchored or were steaming &vernment craft in the area.

The Government Information However, they were later and have posed a threat to road conditions:

under their own control,

The typhoon will have a Roads cleared: From 'the Penk

Most of the trees in Statue Square were uprooted and those the Cricket Club torn apart. The Cricket Club sight-boards and the score-board folded at the height of the blow.

Queen's Road, Hongong was heavily flooded and cut off via Stubbs Road, Blue Fool A derelict, under demolition, dus effect on shipping an transport between central district and Wanchal; HMS Tamar Road, to town; and Peak Road Bank at Chung Sha Wan at 4.a.agent told the China- Mail: this opened its gates to vehicles trying to get through but heavy flood- via: Robinson Road and the today. ing inside the dockyard made it useless.

lower part of Garden Road to

A statement issued by the Director of the Royal Observe-town. tory at 1 pmA DA

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ON REEF

No. 6

signa up now

Typhoon signal No. 6 was hoisted at 12.40 p.m. to- day in place of tighal No. 10° as winds and rain moderated." No. 6- signal means gales · are expected from the south-west quad- rant with winds exceed 34. knots.

The forecast at`nòon' for the rest of the day was "Gale-force south-westerly winds moderating slowly. Overcast with heavy rain squalls and showers."

V. Public transport is expected to resume operations later today as the weather clears. **

Typhoon Mary has virtually ended the Colony's water short: age.

In the last day and a half, al- most 16 inches of rain haya fallen and Hongkong which was yesterday four. inches:: below: average rainfall is today- five inches above.

It is not yet possible to esti mate, the amount of water in the Colony's reservoirs.

"WORST FOR 30 YEARS

Mrs Betty Church, telephonied

the China Mat) this morning: to say that the damage to her hotas "Salamat”? at No! # Mount · Davis – Hood, ” was "colosal."

She said her house and bun-- galow facing, the southeast got the full force of the typhoons

"Windows were...blown off, trees in the one-acre garden fell right through windows. Carpets, furniture and piano were flooded in three feet of water, the added..

A $9,000 retaining wall bullt Jast year to protect the house from landslides was cracked and showed a sign of loosing.

Mrs Church said that her maid-servant was walking in about 10 inches deep of water in the kitchen and was almost. electrocuted when the wiring of the refrigerator short-circuited:

However, she was dragged· away in time by Mrs Church

"I have been "resident in the Colony for more, than 30 years, but I have, not: soON" -Anything, worke than this typhoon," mala “Men Churoll,

Whitsun road deaths

Londong June 8

· British road accidents claim-. ed a toll of 74 deaths during the Whitsun hallday, weekend, from Friday to Monday inclu- sive, the Ministry of Transport announced tonight.

period this year, 97-people died During the Easter holiday

from road accidents in five days, ----Reuter. “Pa

GAITSKELL

MAY QUIT

London, June 9,

The Dally Mail today forecasts that the resignation

A frontpage, report in this Conservative newspaper says:His adviseru have warned him that unleir thir

dramatic

morning

He said there were no more of Mr Hugh Gaitskell from: leadership of the Labour. buoys available and he has had Party is "probal "after the party's annual comference in / to warn his line's ships to, by October. pass the Colony A Hongicong-registered ship, The following roads are block the 8,370-ton Shun Lee went when vessels can be loaded or Lighterace la another problem.

Road, Glenealy, Condult Road 160 miles soinbeast of Honzzone will be in use for some consider defa ed: Kennedy Road Macdonnell aground on Pratas Reel, about unloaded Wall available lighters Wongrelching Roading at 12:30 am, today.

able time, the agent said? Road and Queen's Road West.

"Queen's "Road East Is Hooded: Built hi 1920, the

rein consequence, new shipping Meghine Ges Road and Stubbe ported that he was Road from the Peak can be and needed help.

Kowloon Latchik negotiated with diffculty. Road is blocked.

"At midday, Typhoon Mary was centred about 50 miles proceed to Queen Mary Hospital North of Hongkong and was moving inland at about seven knots, along Pokfulam Road.

"Local Storm Signal No. 10 was replaced by No. 8 at 12.40 "Gale force southwest winds are expected to moderate slow but occasional squalls of gale force can be expected throughout

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Waglen reported mean winds up to 68 knots with gusts to 105 knots and the Royal Observatory experienced gusts up to

Island between 2,80 and 8 am, and on a north-north-east course, The typhoon passed close to the west of Cheung Chau to all and a minimum pressure of 665 millibars (28,50 inches) war

do-recorded there at this time.

of intimidation, violence. and coercion. This would: be a major disaster serious.

ly imperilling democracy and exposing Ja those evils minktedit between world wars,

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A Total rainfall recorded at the Royal Observatory in the last In the New 24 hours was 14.12 ·inth

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