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CHINA

No. 37715

Established 1845. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1960.

Car hits group

LATE FINAL

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

FLY PAN AM

JETS

TO THE ILSA

· For posaretians, `Phone: 3713),

on pedestrian crossing

Of The 8 CHILDREN KNOCKED DOWN

Day

Traffic accident in

Another hotel Castle Peak Road

for Hongkong A car ploughed into a

THE news that another first-

THE

clasa hotel is to be built in Hangkong should do much to still complaints which have been heard with almost alarm. Ing frequency lately, that the Colony is deficient in this typa of tourist accommodation. It will be recalled that Hongkong

group of school child- ren on a pedestrian crossing મા Castle Peak Road at about 8.15 this morning.

A number of eye- the eur witnesses said Land Investment Co Ltd ear-struck a traffic island and lier deferred an announcement was apparently out of on the project until the out control when it ran into the come of the Murray Parade

Ground auction was known. The land 'was sold to

an

children.

Injured were eight students,

American hotel concern and two boys and sx girls.

the only question left to be de-

One of the boys, Chan Tak-

cided was whother thle ming, 6, suffered would ba sufficient to skull.

meet' accommodation demand,

a fractured

Pinned down

A girl suffered abrasions, The rempiring six

were

The Land Investment company has decided there le room for another. Moreover, in view of the, shortage of office ascom- pinned underneath the chassis of modation in mentioned by the Chairman, the car which had to be lifted Mr H. D. M. Barton in his last by the joint efforts of police and annual report, the fact that pedestrians to set the injured

children free,

Central district

the hotel takes precedence may be taken as an indication of how seriously leading bus -neamen regard this de.

ficiency,

Tthis same meeting a share-

AT

They were all sent to Kow- loon Hospital where they were still detained at the time of go- ing to press.

The impact sent the car veer- ing to the left until it struck the wall near No. 460. Then it hurtled back to the right and eventually ploughed - imo tas students."

The vehicle involved, a pri- vate car, was trovelling east along Castle Peak when near- holder questioned the coming the junction with Un Chau pany's policy on the grounds Street it suddenly collided with that tourists "prefer to spend the traffic island in the centre of their money In other ways the crossing. than paying for lavish accom. modation." As far as tourists in general are concerned it is posible to agree with him, but Kanwalthy. Americans, Europeana and, more recently, Australians have shown a clear. preference for, living in style and gilt-edged comfort. And It le in the interest of the consi dorable trade dependent the tourists nooda. The only question that can be

on

expenditure of these

to cater

for

their

Red flags

The Yok Ying School students about 20 in all were crossing from north to south with two teachers and

student two leaders waving red dags.

Besides the boy' Chan Tak-

#oriously entertained iming, the other injured children

whether the decisions to build the new hotels have come too

were Wu Suet-ying, 7, Wong Chun-yimm, 7, Liu Kam yuk, 8,

late. They will take a good Ling Kam-lan, 6, Ling Kam- two years to build and while wan, 6, and Chu Chun-yu, 9, ali the gap is being bridged to girls, and the six-year-old boy,

some extent

Ling Kam-tirn.

Kowloon, In

Judging by the expected tour-

The

driver was later ques-

ist Influx, authorities believe tioned by the police.

the Colony will be no batter off by 1963. There have been reports already of visitors not staying because of their in- ability to find the right kind of accommodation. Repeated complaints to this effect-and they are heard often enough already could deter many

from Including Hongkong In their Far East. Itinerary, Our alm should be to provide for all who want to come here.

Ship terminal

the

[N another respect the Colony's tourist facilities need 2 apeody brushing up. Wo badly require a modern, pas- senger shipping terminal, one

of those sumptuous two-storey affairs which grace Bauthamp- ton, complete with restaurant, air-conditioned galleries, and centrally situated customs and freight facilities. Anybody who

han had to wait outside existing passenger wharves in Kowloon will realise just how badly this amenity is needed. The Wharf company's attitude is possibly that it could not. countenance such a huge out- jay for a project which offers little or no financial return other than wharfage:fees. One estimata ja that such a ter- minal would cost between $20 and $25 million. But if it Important for the Colony to have such an impressive and costly air terminal at Kai Tak, there'la en oqually good argu. „ment to be made for a Govern-

ment subeldy for a first-clássi shipping terminal

STUE need- la, 14, anything,

greater for a shipping tar minai since so many tourists. are passengers living on board. 'ship who would uno je as their daily gateway to the Colony. „More“ and more. big tourist Milpa "Kra visiting "the"" Colony

dition of tha

do nothing ta

Meet Mister

Clogghead

today!

HONGKONG's roads teem with thousands of cam, and despite the hard- pressed Traffic Branch officers efforts to cope with the situation, driving is becoming more difficult

dally,

To underline some of the points which make motor- ing the unnecessarily complicated thing. It is today, the China Mail bar enlisted the aid of the famous cartoonist Barry Appleby, creator of "The Gambols, the activities well-known

Schoolmaster Hugh Wolters drove around for nearly a quarter of an hour looking for a parking space in London's crowded Soho area recently before he spotted a clear place in ⚫ Lisle Street. He parked his old saloon, then went off to keep a hospital appoint- ment. 15 minutes later he' returned-to find fire en- gines, an ambulance and crowds of people milling around the wreckage of

car, totally destroyed

CAR CRUSHED RB-47 FLIGHT: IKE IN BUILDING

COLLAPSE

Kennedy is

assured of

nomination

Los Angeles, July 11.

hise the wall of a four-Senator John Kennedy looked to be a certain will ner of the Democratic presidential nomination

today. }

storey building under de molition had collapsed and showered 50 tons of

brickwork into the road- way. No one was hurt. Picture shows Wolters in- specting the wreck of his car after it had been pull- ed clear. Times Photo grapher.

STOP PRESS

U.S: PLANE MISSING

Quito, July 11.

A U.8. Air Forcs G-47. was reported missing to-2 nighignons, a flight....... from Columbia, Unconfirmed rBS poris said the plane carried 27 persons, promumably, ail Americans.

The plane, of the US. Air Mbulous Colombia, wAN Rons/flight/From: Bogóta" to Ecuador.The reports, and passengers' Inpladed udiciala: of the US. State Department

CALLS FOR A

DETAILED REPORT

Newport, July 11.

The White House announced, today that President Eisenhower has asked the State and Defence Departments for a full re- port on the reported shooting down by Soviet airmen of U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane over the Barents Sea.

No comment will be made until this report is received.

The White House news secret- ary, Mr James C. Hagerty, said a complete text of the Sovtet note alleging that the plane was downed over Soviet territory has not been..received yet, and therefore the report asked by the President is not available from Washington.

Mr Hagerty said today's So- viet announcement was the first word that the US. Govern- ment had received that the Rus- sians were involved in the fate

of the RB-47, which was report- ed by American authorities in Europe to be missing on July 1. on à map-making survey be- tween Britain and Norway.

TWO RESCUED

Downed plane on

secret

mission

say the Russians

London, July 11.

The Soviet note said the Russia today claimed that the two

Russians rescued two of the six crew members from a rubber dinghy. It reported the body of one crewman had been recover- ed and that three others still The note sald the pane

@gross viola- Hon" of Bovick testitony,

Mr Hagerty read the following

statement on the incident

on

surviving American airmen of the shot-down RB-47 bomber had stated that their plane "fulfilled special military reconnaissance missions.

This was revealed in the Soviet protest note publish-

.

ed today.

The note also stated that the aircraft carried special

・photo and radio electronic equipment.

Neither I nor members of the govemment will have any com- 'ment at this time

the latest Russian charges that they.

The two surviving airmen shot down an American plane were Navigator, First Lieutenant which was violating Soviet air John Richard MacCone of Mis- territory. The reason we will sourl' aged 27 and co-pilot, First have no comment is that we are Lieutenant Freeman Bruce awaiting at the State Depart-Almsted of New York aged 24. ment the compléte text of the Russian, note so that can be carefully studied. The note has not come in yet from our Em- bassy in Moscow, and until it does, until it can be studied, I have no further comment."

note

Soviet Referring to the plane's mis- slons, the Soviet note, said:

"As MacCone and Almsted testified during the Interroga- In response to questions, Mr tion, the plane in which they Hagerty said Mr Eisenhower was had flown-a six engined RB-47 playing "golf when he received reconnaissance "bomber-be-, word of the Soviet charges. The longed to an air unit of the President's first reaction, Mr American military strategic Hagerty said, was to ask for a reconnaissance group included full report from the State and In the 55th Wing and fulfilled Defence Departments as soon as special military reconnaissance they have the full text of the missions." Soylet note.

say:

to

on a

Katanga secedes

from Congo

Elisabethville, July 11,

Premier Moise Tabombe announced tonight that the Katanga Province was seceding from the Congo Republic.

The Soviet. note wäit on MISSING PLANE

"Before the take-off, Mr. Hagerty said the plane the Russians now say they shot route lying along the northern

Mr Tshombe's announcement frontiers of Norway and the territorial waters apparently is plane had been warned by their gunfire was still sounding in fie down on July-1 over their Soviet Union, the crew of the was made in a broadcast while the same missing plane which unit commander at. Brize Nor- streets of the city between they armounced earlier they ton base, that the flight had to Belgian army paratroopers and

He obtained solid support from another key del vessel to perte be kept top secret and the crew rebel Congolese army troops,

approximation at the party's convention here.

Senator

tion

to

the

when allied ships also were were therefore forbidden to conducting a search in the area maintain regular radio com- north of Bussia's Kola Peninsula munication with the base." and Norway.

The two airmen, according to

COMMUNIST LINE-

Kennedy later said its 81 votes for Senator Kennedy he had the 781 convention votes. In the first ballot on Wednesday. Mr. Hagerly, said that the she note, said that after its Government led by Patrice

Senator Kennedy for days bas possibility of Russian Involve mission the plane was to return. needled

give Deuralic presidential nomina had astonishing success in overment in the downing of the to Brize Norton in Britain,

coming the obstacles to obtain plane had not been discussed by depen Mr David Lawrence, the the nomination and become the the President and Secretary of No information Governor of Pennsylvania, and Party's candidate to oppose Vice State, Mr Christian A. Herter, one of the few political leaders President Richard Nixon, the al- during their conference here this client.seld a Major Dibbell was i said "the Katanga Governmerit.

most certain Republican morning, which occurred before nominees in the election next the Soviet announcement: UPL November 8

Standings

in votes

· Los Angeles, July 117: Standings "In the, Demo- cratic presidential race; a4 tabulated?" from indiestede first ballot preferences; an

Sen. John F. Kennedy

Beh, Lyndon B. Johnson.

Favourite mums - 164747

** Ben. Stuart / Symington

Adial E. Stevenson 49, 2. Unsomeniited: 75,000

(Needed to nominate +161)—UTE

To most observers here Send- | tor Kennedy seemed to be in an unbeatable position. It seemed that only a political disaster could keep him away from vic- tory, on Wednesday night, a

He will go into the balloting in a tremendously strony position as a result of hit success. In pró Secting himself to bay-delega Lions as a winner over Senator Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic leader in the Senate and his strongest rival, for the nomina-

Senator Johnson gave no im mediate judication that he would withdraw, his” candidacy, « bat earlier had spoken in Arather gloomy toner' about his chances. of attracting enough nestire his owzi totina

80 Americans

have died

in plane incidents

:

The Soviet account of the in commander of the aircraft's

unit,

The Premier called for an economic union with Belgium and add the central Congolese Lamumbe was following the Communist line which he ad had brought on the murder and pillage in the Congo,

The 40-year-old Premier can never age to the Central Government finhtringing on A Major, Robert Dibbell was the rights of the provinces. located at Brize Norton base by,

"The Katanga": Government is United Press International determined to bene lfself on

Dibbell, when told that his policy of peace and order, TATE WIE Intioned by Tasts,

"In the face of the threats of said: "I'm sorry I can't give the Central Government to any Information about... the

make us submit to the will of. plane.

Communism the Katanga The Assistant Secretary of Government has decided to pre- Defence, Mr Murray Snyder, claim is independence, {exxprossed, his conlation, a thái

“This independence is total”. the bomber had not made a

RATIONĖ deliberate attempt to fly over the Soviet Unions

be Tibombe mi dence would place

very close

Mr Snyder said he was bas ing his opinion; on the official Fonder given by President

Esenkówer to all Americanke aircraft to avola, viddetin gathe" has

space of Commandað

following the

Defence

with: the

britno Colony