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CINEMA MYSTERY
VER the weekend, and.
continuing (they hope)
the Hongkong first
run
cinemas played four big
Moderate pusty easterly winda. Fait apart from isolated showers. Noon Temp: 86 degrees.
·Humid: 73 per-centr
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More severe than La Coubre blast: many injured EXPLOSION ROCKS HAVANA Munitions dump Tony takes over the wheel Frenchman
up in
blows
Cuban capital
Havana, June 27.
productions. In saying A shattering explosion which authorities
"big productions" we
do
not necessarily mean they are achievements in the artistic or film festival
winning sense, but all four films have proved crowd pleasers, and have scored heavily at the box-office. Only one cinema group has had to fall back on a re- issue. Now in the ordinary
of
events, this
course
would scarcely be worth a comment, but under the prevailing circumstances in the film industry, it calls for a great real of discus sion.
IN
A dearth
the first place, as first
of the China Mail some there is д weeks ago, serious shortage of filma and a veritable dearth of films: For really good
weeks now, every cinema in turn has had to cast about' to see how to feed. Its projectors with films that would entertain Hong-.
hard to rather kong's please picture fans.
said was from a munitions dump shook. the Cuban capital last night. Authorities immediately sealed off the explosion site. Cars loaded with apparently injured people still streamed from the area an hour after the blast.
Two ships
sunk by typhoon Olive
Manila, June 27. Two vessels sank last night
as typhoon Olive con- tinued to move along the eastern coast. of the Philippines largest island of Luzon with maximum centre winds of 80 miles per hour.
Nineteen people were report- A result, Japanese Alma, ed missing and believed drown
and very good ones at thated when a motor boat sank off the eastern Luzon coast, and have had 60. exclusive
the ss Lagos Huron, a ship showing at two einemas," one of which has prac- tically
gone over entirely to showing Japanese films. Italian spectacular films, in which the indefatigable Mr Reeves has become as closely associated with classical legends as Homer. have helped out the box- office.
Insufficient
THIS might all be to the good, but the point is, this situation has arisent because the American and not British studios are turning sufficient quantity Katisfy the Hongkong publie.
out films in
to
So there has been a famine, quite a serious one, and now this weekend, all the good films came along to- gether.
We cannot think this is a wise policy. By putting out all the box-office win- ners together, the cinema merely succeed in cutting each other's throats.
lavish Even in the more.
domestic budgets, only a be
· certain amount can
⚫ spent upon entertainment in any one month. So it one or two cinemas are favoured, then the re- maining ones are neglect-
ed.
Remain unseen
LATEST HK REPORT
now
Typhoon Olive is moving slowly west north- west, Dr L E. M. Walis, Director of the Royal Ob- servatory said this morn- Ing.
A rough estimate would place Typhoon Olive some- where about 500 miles southeast of Hongkong.
There were showers daring Sunday and this morning.
today the
storage
The rainfall from mid- night to 18 am, today was .04 of an inch and the rainfall total since Jam- ary 1 was 26.59 inches
with the aver compared age of 35.80 inches,
A 8. Colony's water
million stood at 8,697 gallons compared with the full
of 10,500 capacity million gallons,
The
storage present position represented a gain' of 18 million gallons over the position at 8 am off Saturday when 8,009 mil- lion gallons were recorded. Although this made the Colony's reservoirs 80 per.
Jubilee cent full only Reservoir was, overflowing this morning.
Windows were shattered over
a large area of Havana and
were many persons
cut by Dying glass.
The blast appeared to be more severe than that which shattered the French munitions ship La Coubre and a part of last the Havana port area March
about 100 killing people.
One
person was reported doad and fifty persons listed as injured in the first reports from police last night. Of these 21 were at a first aid station at Regla, a small town at the end of Havana Bay,
Prime Minister Fidel Castro, President Osvaldo Dorticas, and numerous officials of the govern- ment went immediately to the scene.
!
Sealed off
Officials at the Presidential. palace said the explosion originated in a powder magazine in the Cayo Cruz region of East Havana,
Military authorities sealed off a section of Havana harbour near the major oil refineries- Esso, Standard and Shell-with the warning that additional ex- plosions were possible.
The blast was felt throughout Havana.
Thousands of persons stream-A
ed toward the explosion area by ear and on foot.
They were herded back by military guards and hurriedly summoned units of the people's militia.
The explosion sent a
huge column of dense black smoke into the evening sky.
Chaos
Briving back to London (for
a quick look at their not-quite- ready new home in Eensing- ton Palace) from Windsor recently, Princess Margaret's husband, Tony Armstrong- Jones takes the wheel of their Rolls Royce a wedding gift from the motor industry. Princess Margaret, looking than casually elegant ever, joined him in the front prat, And relegated to the back was the chauffeur.- Express photo.
more
SHOT
WIFE'S
FORMER SUITOR
Chicago, June 26. husband today shot and. killed one of his wife's former suitors when the victim drove up and called out a friendly greeting from his car, police said. The
China willing to live
in_peace
with world
London, June 27.
Peking newspapers today carried an authoritative article de- claring China's willingness to co-exist peacefully with any
jailed on drug charge
·
Pierre Louls Vergnole, a French dentist, this morning pleaded guilty at Kowloon District Court to two charges of posses- slon and importation of 'heroin and morphine and was sentenced to "four years jall by Judge A. A. Huggins
A resident of Bongkok, Verg- nole was arrested at Kal Tak airport on arrival on May 18 when he was found in postkasion. of 23 is 15,75 ounces "of heroin and 13.6 orces of morphine,
Mr D, N, E. Rea, Crown Counsel, prosecuting, said yeşler. day in tertin of money, the drug was worth a total of between $40,000 to $50,000 in the Colony,
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The quantities found Vergnole could be, made into quarter of a milion 50-cent packets that were normally-Bold to the addicts in the Colony.
Imposing the senterice, Judge Huggkis "You stand con-
vid of what we in Hongkong
one "even imperialism," and restating her policy of friend-regend as two very serious ship with the Soviet Union.
The article was written by The New China news agency; Madame Soong Ching Ling, also reported from the Fuklen vice-chairman of the Republic front, opposite the Nationalist- and widow of the late Dr Sun held offshore islands, that Com- Yat Sen, founder of the pre-munist soldiers, sallors, and Communist republic, the New airmen held a rally in Amoy China news agency reported.
the today in protest against It did not refer directly to tenth year of the United States recent reports of Soviet-Chinese
"occupation" of Formosa. - differences
whether а
Reuter,
Communist-capitalist war was inevitable, but dismissed as simply a He" the efforts of the "trained seals" of perialist press to deplet China
the im-
as unwilling to cocxist peace fully.
Willing
we
even
AS
to
'Dictatorial tactics' allegation
Singapore, June 28.
The suspended minister for na- tional development, Ong Eng GURIL today accused the Premier Lee Kuan Yew of adopting "dictatorial tactics". in making major government policy decisions.
husband, Paul Ruther- ford, 34, then fed with his 16- month-old daughter, Kim, leaving his wife to tell police
"China is willing to coexist how Rutherford fired at the victim point-blank from his own peacefully with anyone,
imperialisin
In fact, we have It attracted thousands upon car as she watched.
The dead man thousands of 'Havana' residents
was Morris to coexist with it. Imperialism who had dated exists as an objective reality.
Socialist states also exist and the city area was soon in Spurlin 27,
crowds attempted to Rutherford's wife, Jean, a year objective reakties.... choos as
ago when she and her husband Iech the Cayo Cruz region.
"But while
want The scene of the explosion is were separated, Mrs Rutherford
coexist peacefully with im of told police. sparsely settled ย
ca
Police sought Rutherford, a perialism this does not mean Havana in which a number of
that we will be submissive to installations government
are Chicago asphalt engineer..
Speaking at a press confer- allow US. Mrs Rutherford told police it. We will not It is a little more than
La that she and her husband re-imperialism to rob us of our ence, Ong also accused. the mile from
ruling "clique of preaching turned home early today and own territory.... Coubre blew up.
and *History
experience democracy without-practicing as long is The blast interrupted electric were parking their car in front
imit. He was suspended from the last of their apartment, building tell us that
and party power in some sections of the
sald when Spurlin drove up and perialism has a breath in it, it government first reports capital but
"Hello, Paul, Hello, will breathe. that with the weekend for "disrupting unity" there was no damage to the two said,
thought of exploiting others, of within the ruling People's Jean." large oil refineries and storage
Rutherford pulled a pistol using force and violence to Action Party! facilities.
from his glove compartment accomplish its end of dominat- and fired three times at Spurlin, ing others. Mrs Rutherford said.-UPL
located.
#
where the
A number of warehouses the area were damaged by force of the explosion,
En the
Radio programmes were Inter- rupled to send out calls for doctors, nurses and drugs.
windows Display smashed in many city stores and restaurants-AP.
were
London, June 26. believed to be of Panamanian
Forty-three-year-old Mrs Ivy sank of Buculod, Lloyd, mother of seven children 8 a consequence, good registry,
nged up to 20, has brought the films which had they Albay, also in Luzon waters.
Sixteen of the missing are total up to ten by giving, birth heen shown at a time when crew members of the motor to triplets.
+
Four buried in only because the pooples main- to be warming up for a show-
building collapse
During the past week, both "This means that if coexis- Ong and official party leaders tence with imperialism is to be jhave been engaged in a duel öf peaceful, such will come about words, but events now seement the opposing tain a high degree of vigilence down between
gainst the machinations of the party factions-AFP.
high imperialists, maintain a degree of militancy and strug- gle, and demonstratively show them that we will not allow them to run amok.....
Friendship..
Marseilles, June 26, Four people were buried in debris when a building col- lapsed in Marseilles this evening
Firemen started digging in "We stand shoulder to the ruins and found a woman shoulder with the Soviet Union aged about 50 who was only and the other members of the They said that one other Socialist camp. Our friendship
the competitive cinema boat and three are from the Sbe ar the babies-two slightly injured. groups were quiet would Lagos Huron, have earned much more, Early reports received from in Kingston hospital near here, woman, a man and a child were is sternal. It is our policy lo
remain unseen, and what the Red Cross last night said
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is more, unpatronized.:. 10,000 persons were left home Why the exhibitors follow less in one Luzon province:
this policy is hard to un- alone. derstand. They are neither fair to themselves, nor to Luzon yesterday, typhoon Olive changed course, and is now. the public.
Forecast to cut across central
Some very good films which moving along the east coast to could have been shown the north, parallel to the island.
-UPI
earlier have been kept in cold storage, and brought
Windermere, June 28. out this very weekend
Two people were killed and when one of the biggest many taken to hospital tonight -hits of the your is being when two motor conches carry played by a rival. cinema ing 70 passengers, collided
the foot of the Rocky Kirkstone
girls and a boy-born yesterday.
were reported today to be doing known well-Reuter,
Reuter.
be in the wreckage day; it will always be
policy," she said,
eters for
Drink pubs
Carlisle,
Fearleen public houses owned by the Government are instal- lag drink met to tell car drivers when they go find atgh.
It is not our business to tell pass in Lakeland. St
our exhibitors how to run The fatalities occurred in one their own cinemas, but we of the vehicles, which plunged. are not above giving, a 29, feet down a ravine. piece of good advice, Reuter.
The meters test reaction speeds,
The driver drops a vein in the meter, then tried to stop the coln by pressing, a bizitoni...
hộ cán slop it in less than 12 of a second he gets the colia
i back. It not he loses the coin ➡ and gets warning that his reactions have slowed up. ---
The machines are approved by Britain's Royal Society for evention Abcidents, though not by some police officers.
Our
drivers to drink more to test their capacity. Bome other people doubt the efficiency of the drink melers. A-newspaper today published a letter from young oral Air Force officer, who said bo PayMand", several "other" - YOUNE Con-
bilo tried out the machines and found their reactions in proving as they had more to drinks~AP
Mr Bidney Ballance, Chief
stable of Barrow-in-Furness a called them à micriaço, Es
will wild they
Big theft
of watches
and cash
A total of a quarter million dollars worth of watches and cash were found stolen from the vault of Roue D'or Watch Co., 55 Queen's Road Central, shortly after 8 a.m. on Friday, it was revealed today.
The loss was estimat- ed of $220,000, includ- ing 522 well-known Swiss
watches and. $3,000 in cash.
Meanwhile a man
who has been 'on the staff of the company for more than ten yeari, has been missing since Friday.
Assistants reopening the shop in the morning discovered the theft.
Police are investigat-
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Judge Huzgins added that he was unable to accept the plea that anybody who had lived in the Far East, failed to appreciate that this was a crime, or could not fall to be aware of the terri- ble havce caused by the drugs.
Mr Rea told the Court of the arrest of the French dentist on arrival. He said that Vergnole was asked by Revenue Inspector J. E. Cook at Kai Tak whether he had any morphine, dutiable commodities or arms to declare, Vergnole replied in the negative.
Then Vergnble placed his suitcase on the table and it was searched and nothing was found.. Vergnole was cleared by the Customs and he took up his suitcase to leave.
As
Vergnole was leaving. - Inspector Cook "noticed", that Vernole was carrying a brief- in his hand and it was covered by a raincoat placed across his hand.
case
*PAPERS.
Inspector. Cook asked the. visitor what was the contents of the briefcase and Vergnole replied "papers." He repeated this word when asked for the second time. Inspector Cook insisted on searching the case.
It was heavy and it contained eight blocks of white substances, Vergnole gave
answer which Irispector Cook inter- preted meaning "medicines."
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Vergnole was then taken to the Customs office and was aak- ed if he had anymore blocks: of substances.
He then handed over his over. coat and: "Me- Rea asked the Court- this morning" to note the "great depth of its pockets."
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