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Vivien wins Miss Hongkong title All's well that ends well
Mr H. D. M. Barton, MLC, (right) places the winning sash around the shoulders of Vivien Cheung, Miss Hongkong 1960, in the early hours of yesterday morning, Assisting Mr Barton is Mr John Wallace.— China Mail photo.
78 CHICKENS
IN TWO
SMALL CRATES
by
Iwo men were fined $50 each
Central Magistrate
Mr
K. A S. Phillips at Central
Court this morning for being
cruel to chickens.
Way is clear for her
to go to America
Cheung Mau, 48, and Cheung A Chinese newspaper today raised doubts whether Miss Hongkong would
Chung, 51, both employed in
Now
Territories
geen carrying
farms
WCTC 78 chickens in
two small crates outside the
Central Markel yesterday.
Simply
be able to go to America to take part in the Miss Universe Contest at Miami Beach, Florida, but inquiries made by the China Mail indicate that her way is clear.
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The Chinese newspapers said studio on which that the flix Vivien Cheung's father, Cheung Ying was a director, had been American "designated" by the Consulate. This
means
that
It is owned, managed or co- trolled by Chinese mainland Interests.
But the Consulate this morn- ing denied this.
A spokesman told the Chine Mail that Vivien's application for a visa to America would be decided on its merits.
"So far the Consulate has not application yet received any
When it for Miss Cheung
through all does, she will go the regular procedure like all
for visas other applicants America,'
REAL FATHER
JAILED FOR
EMBEZZLING
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to
a
Mr. Harry Odell, Managing Director of International Films Lid, one of the sponsors of the said: Miss Hongkong contest, "As I understand it. Cheung Ying is not Vivien's real father but only her godfather.
"I understand that her real father lives in Formosa."
"Besides the Miss Universe contest says thal race, colour, creed and hationality do not enter into the reckoning."
Unregistered -teachers
$50,000
Was
A 23-year-old clerk sentenced to two
years' jail by Central Magistrate Mr. K. A. S. Phillips this morning for embezzling total of $53,798.21 from his employer, Mr Ronald
Fook-shiu, LI Secretary of the Hing Wai Investment pony.
Com-
Ki Wan of Towning Man- son, Patterson Street, "soventa em- floor, faced charges of bezzlement and forgery of document.
a
Twelve charges of embezzle- ment were taken into considera- tion.
Ki pleaded guilty.
Detective Sub-Inspector Ko Po-kwan told the court that Ki was employed by Mr Ronald Li Fook-shiu as a clerk of the Hing Wai Investment Company at a monthly salary of $270,
Ki was in charge of collecting monthly rents and quarterly rates from tenants of a storeyed building.
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Ki also forged certain rental receipts purporting to have been signed by the secretary of the company.
Three unregistered teachers- a man and two women-were fined $300 each by Mr. I. T. Morris at Central Court this
He embezzled a total of $53,- morning when they admitted
798.21 between May last year teaching in a Kowloon
and June this year. registered school on March 11.
The offence. was discovered Leung Cheung-ling, who also
last month pleaded guilty to a second sum- by Ki's employer mons for a similar offence which and a report was made to the
un-
he committed on January 20, police.
was fined an additional $300.
The two women were Wong Slu-fong and Ng. Fung-chol."-
•
London, June 12, Thieves stole a van contain- ing £10,000 worth of whisky after kidnapping the guard and
Typhoon holiday driving him to a nearby forest
There they dumped the man MF Donald Brooks, Controller shaken but unhurt and within of Broadcasting, returned to lil' minutes he was in a police car office today after spending, a looking for them.; ad
bungalow on #
The whisky was being taken export-China Mall Special.
Printed and published by TERENCE GORDON NEWLANDS PEARCE holiday in for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Lantao in which he weathered to the Royal Albert Dock for a Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, typhoon Mary.
Probably like so many other people, Britons, Americans and other nationals, I have followed the 'Proud Britan' controversy with a feeling of resi sadness on behalf of the men and women of both Briisin and America who have done so much to make their country great; and in pursuit of this, gave their lives and are no longer with n
Perhaps the printing of these two small verses by 'Rud- yard Kipling' may help to stem the tide of
COD. troversy, bridge the gulf and take out time to study past harsh words,
In any case, Mr Editor, there is no harm in trying, ta there!
NEIGHBOURS
(Beauty Spots) by Rudyard Kipling.
The than that is open of heart to his neighbour, And stops to consider his - tikes and disitkes,
His blood shall be whole- whatever HES BONIE
labour,
His tuck shall be with
him whatever
The splendour.
he
strikes.
of
Morning shall possess him,
duly
That he may not be sad
at the falling of eve And, when he has done with were living--Ged bless him!-
A many shall sigh, and опс Woman shall grieve!
But he that is costive of soul towards his fel- low, Through the ways, and the works, and the woes of this life, Him jood shall not fatten, him drink shall not mellow;
And his innards. shall brew him perpetual strije.
His eyes shall be blind to God's Glory above him; His eat shall be deaf to to Earth's Laughter around;
His Friends and his Club and his Dog shall not love him;
And his Widow shall skip when he goes underground!
This is given in the hopes, Mr Editor, and with to reasons best known your good self. I must sign,
A FRIEND OF ALL
NATIONS,
dear
DEAR AH SSU
You wilte vely good English, hai mai-aaa? Ploud Blitain massa teach you or his missi? You belong house boy, or cook boy? You no cook Ilish Stew plopelly suffer your ploud massa
May be you indigestion. no good cook at all so your plotid massa cook up your letter for you, hai mai- aaa? My lcgards to ploud massa and his missi
CHA TẠI CHI.
dear sir
THANKS
My thanks to Tigger azıd others for their fine ex- the true of pressions Brilon's sense of fair play, I was inspired to enter into this verbal fray not be- саше of any lack of respect for Proad Briton' right to express an opinion on the relative ability or integrity of Macmillan versus Eisenhour but be- cause of the emotionalism which tempered the oor- respondent's reasoning and influenced, him to confuss- abuse with criticism. Now Proud Belton has ro- himself and verned emerged as a champion be the freedom of the press which he initially con- demned. In the case of am American newspaper which printed monelhing that displeased him, how- ever, had the correspon dence
with originated
Briton pocond letter. It is doubted that. dan lactis would have arisen because here, at least, he has stuck to the" faola xe ho sees them and there is not so mich evidence of the animosity that tempered kis judgement and pen in his earlier effort.
Proud
dear sir
My own lapse into the Vernacular resulted in the poor
choice of a word when I rested that Monty should have been "gagged" on his recent visit to these parts--Mao. millia expressed it much better when he said the olher day ""Lord. Mont- gomery should be more careful of what he says in Public" Britain and America both have much in which to take pride but there
in also skeletons respective closets which If aired can awaken suspicion and hostility to split our front to the de- common light of enemy,
our
our
common
In spite of the defeatist who would have the world be- lieve that Britain's great- withered with the shrinkage of her frontiers nationalism In an era of
that
дез
has outmeded Colonialism, her hour of Freatest glory must surely lie ahead when in partner- ship with Ameries and the rest of her allies security from fear and want will be won for all time for all теп
11.
And if Britain has the better man for the job, let him lead to this Utopia while we little men on the
of outermost fringes greatness bury our petty jealousies and remain united in purpose and spirit, ever mindful of a
destiny Common
which erinnot be achieved by one without the other,
E. W. HAZZARD.
dear sir
NOT CHINESE
Your readers should be in- formed that (1) Wong Bak Tan means something very bad, and (2) that Chang San Lee Seu means Tor Dick or Harry.
I have also come to the con- clusion that these two coT- respondents are not Chinese but old China hands who ZETFsual always display patriotism etc. whenever they fear their status quo is being threatened,
CHINAMAN IRRELEVANCE "Allen's" letter, I think. takes the cake for pure irrelevance, and inao- curacy, for the following FEASON:
was (a) "Proud Brilon"
.about not "proud. America or Americans” -he was proud of being a Briton,
"Prond Briton" is proud why - must he stress it. Why
not? After all Fresi deni Eisenhower, speaking on June 5 stressed that "No nation in the world dares attack the Unit- ed States and they know it." If it is so, why stress 167 (o) Since he W26,
parently, unable
(b) He asks f
POP
AS SOON AS I SAID
to
I LOOKED ON HIM ONLY AS A BROTHER HE SAID, 'LEND ME 'A QUID'
reply to the factual. matier in my letter ho chooses to find fault with the way it is signed, and offers the princely sum of ten dollars le some needy charity to back up his opinion.
I dispute the fact that I would like to Kive the Impression that I am Chinese, any more than some of his protagonists using Greek classical nom-de-plumes otsim that they are Greeks, eto, I am a Briton by choice and adoption- and may I also add, proud of IL
I also dispute that there la 30 Chinese
пате
spelled "su.“ He surely must know that
the letters used are purely an attempt to allow Westerners with no knowledrs of the Chinese characters an idea of what the sound is like.
ST
KAYE
WBA
The names could be written "Jang San Li! Syb," or "Chang San LJ Bzu," etc., eto, just take your pick, Ask any Chinese about the names, "Allen," they amongst China's most famous. (d) “Finally" ho
"Proud Briton" motivated to write as he did because of 'sour Irapez' So speaks, I think, one who be- lieves that all who do not praise the United States today, must automatically envy 'her. In traik, some do
see her as
"A man, prind man, Drest in d little brief
authority
Most ignorant of what
he's most assur'd, His glassy essence-like
an angry ape, Plays such fantastic
tricks Heaven, As make
weep."
before
high
the angels
Shake- (From Shakspere,
spear, Shakspear, etc, who also, I hear, wrote his name many ways!)
JANG BAN LI BYH.
LAST WORD
As this correspondence is.
already
of getting out hand and as I have no desire, as it has never been my Intention, to in- flame passions' or
dissensions
DELF simong usually peaceful people, I have considered if desir able to discontinue further writing to your paper on this controversial subject which will serve no useful purpose since my object has been achieved, name- ly, to avenge the insult to our popular and, ro- specled Prime Minister cast at him by the yellow press across the Atlantic, To conserve your valuable space, I shall be brief, and shortly recapitulats some of the exchanges made with certain of your cor- respondents.
By Gog
SOLE
."
First, I referred to an fiem
of news called from...a. London Letter · of Peter Burgoyne which mansion Med British resentment
against the attacked on MY Mcmillan for the 'Sumini failure.
1 replied with song rather strongly-worded criticisms of Eisenhower and the U.S. people which I honestly believed to be the truth.
I felt that since Britain's ally could criticise our Premier we were also al liberty to do the same tờ her own Ally, as Britsin. and U.S. are equal and Britain is not a satellite to be bullied and blamed without reasOTIS.
真喜
My letter Immediately
Broused resentmentä expected, but the first sor- respondent, though word- ing his reply in stern term, had my respect for rising to defend his coun- try and I mid”, no' in my own reply the next day. At the same time, two ladies, presumably patriotie US. citizens, made certain un=" complimentary
remarks
about myself, which 1. Jet drop an water on a duck's back, and not wishing to be unchivalrons did noi mross words with them.
I felt rather guilty that you Sir, were hauled over the coal by these Indies for offering me the uke of Your columns thus uphold ing the prestige and tradi tion of the Press to grant freedom of expression to all, and you continued to remain strictly impartial, offering the views of my opponents, in alarming number, and the one or two of my supporters, I ignored some objectionable correspondents for the reason that I considered fl'd be unfair of meto them bandy words with who used thefe names whilst from the start X have been writing' under a nom-de-plume, I did ex- changa wurdy with anony- mons correspondents, as we were on■ løyel, ̧ As the correspondence 'con- Linned, passions becajne farther inflamed, to my regrets, but feeling con- fident that I have sil along been in the right ・ and began my correspondence with an honourable Inten“. tion; saying nothing be- yond the simple titulă; I felt I could not retract anything without" merife- ing my own principle that one should stand Bran' In
Truth, upholding
come what might, and whatever
Nr.
the superior force" of " ́op- ponents,
Possibly my letters were a bit strong, but in the arena punches are not made with kid gloves, and I so- cept with as good a grace as possible the "punches directed at me, albeit often a little below the belt,
Having served my original Purpose, and not desiring further to causa palna ~ or distress to others. I shall. now retire from the Soene of conillet but by no means apologetic repentant, stil remaining very much the same
PROUD BRITON,
Here endeth this controversy
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