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THE. WEATHER

Moderate

weet-winds

Noon Temp: 89,1) Humid: 68 per

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Established 1845 MONDAY, JULY 25, 1960,

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MAIL

Price 20 Cents

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Presided at trial of secret police chief Beria

Of The TOP RUSSIAN C-IN-C QUITS

Day

Marshal Koniev

CURSE OF THE asks to be

BEACHES HONGKONG'S

beaches pleasant spots (typhoon damage except- ed). Golden sands running into sheltered bays, pebbled strands leading to clear waters, veritable para. dises, especially on these hot days when the after- noon's work is only accomplished with the promise of an evening's laze upon the beach.

And the weekend with its piling into the car or crowding into the bus with a costume, a towel, and a bottle of sun-tan lotion, is part of the joy which anticipates a lovely week- end.

But Hongkong's beaches aro fast becoming plague

apote, so much so that the phrase, "it would have been better to have stayed at home" is quite common. place.

Expect peace

Four bathe, and

IRST of all, having had

now

stretched out on the waITA sand, you have a right to expect a bit of peace. But do you get it? Not on your

relieved of post

Moscow, July 24..

Marshal Ivan Koniev has been relieved of his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Warsaw Pact countries, Tass announced tonight.

Heat wave

boom in

ice-cream, soft drinks

to

Hongkong continues

swelter in the heat wave this morning when at 10.30 the temperature was already three degrees higher than at the same time yesterday.

Hfo. The Sunday after 2s compared with noon's quiet is broken by

the B4 yesterday morning. the ubiquitous transistor set. At least, if it is one set, you are lucky, for twins and triplets, all squalling in several different sharps and flate are generally the

order.

None begrudges another

little music on the beach. so long as it is toned down to the requirements of the user, but your transistor fiend is determined to be ungelfish,

He doesn't listen to the

music himself; as a matter i of fact, he wanders about, carrying his pestilentia! music box, with him, dering veritable

insomnia

ren- the afternoon A

cacaphony

At noon It was 80:1 as against 88.7 yesterday.

And it is expected to be holler in the afternoon.

With the heat wave on, the Sale of ice cream in the Colony has increased tremendously.

Mr F. J. M. Goldberg, Milk and Ice Cream Sales Supervisor of Dairy Farm told the China Mall, This is the best July we have had in 25 years. The sale of our lee cream has hit a re- cord.

cream manu-

Other ice facturers experienced similar increase in sales.

And the volume of ice blocks of sold also went up.

4

Lld,

Kader Industrial Co. one of the ice suppliers in the

Lock them up colons, sold

MUCH h situation

SU

calls

for punishment, as the

"Mikado" would have it, to

production and still lomers wanted more.

The announcement sald that Marshal Kontev had been re- lieved at his own request on the grounds of all health,

the

Marshal of the Soviet Union Grechko has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of combined armed forces of the Warmw Treaty member states. Koniev's post as Commander- in-Chief of East Europe's unified-

was com military comtmand parable to that of the West's Supreme Commander of Nato

The 63-year-old Marshal was one of the few of the Soviet army's top raniding wartime commanders still in high office.

The son of a peasant who first fought with the Red Army during the revolution, he first became known in the West when ho commanded. Kalinin front in 1941.

DOCTOR'S PLOT

the

He was made a marshal in 1044 after the Shpola trap, Ger- many's greatest disaster since Stalhigrad when 110,000 of the enemy were killed or captured

Troope under his command. liberated war the commanded the Soviet Prague and the

after force in Austria. Then little was heard of him, unth-1953 when his mar featured in the famous doctors lot as one of the army lenders they have tried to murder.

were alleged to

At the end of 1953, in the cra after Stalin's death, be emerged

a significant poltther figure when he was appointed to pre- side at the trial of Lavrenti secret police F. Beria, Stalin's

was condemned to

chief who death and shot-Router.

HIS BEARD COST HIM

HIS JOB

London, July 24, out their entire A British water company inspector has lost his job because he refused to shave off his black navy- style beard.

the cus-

SALES UP

Mr Errol Shen of the com-

suit the crime. Why not pany said they regretted their give our

police authority production

capacity

of 120

“Though sales have gone up, we have maintained the same price (about $4 per 300 lbs.)," he added.

to take these disturbers of blocks a day was far from suffi- the pence, and lock them clent. up for a few hours to- gether with their sets?.. Let them be turned on to full strength, and let them blast each other's ears, and the cure should be short and effective.

Next in order of misery 13 the ball game fiend. He and his kind, in spite of

Ken Lowes, 30, was told by his chief at Therald Wessex Water Company to shave it off or quit.

He refused.

At his home in Winnersch, Berkshire, he said "I feel very bitter about this. In the three years I have been visiting peo- ple during work, I have hever my

won Mystery man CONGO-LIKE

The smile that

that won London's heart

BURN

King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand reversed their_roles last week, vis-a-vis the Queen and Prince Philip. who have been their hosts at Buckingham Palace for the beginning of their State visit to Britain. This time it was the Siamese royal (couple's, turn to play-host, 'will a mag- liceni reception at the Siamese Embassy. Picture shows King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit waiting to welcome their questa at the Siamese Embassy.. Queen Sirikit / la.in full court, dreng a long, skiet of Siamese bróczde zilk, a long- sleeved silk jacket, and a silk shawl heavily embroidered with gold thread-Express photo.

Missing girl

turns up

Melbourne, July 25,

Missing 18-year-old gwedish stewardess Maria Markun Gudrun Hellsten, was located in Sydney today, mun ná She was reported to have ap

"We heard there was black has a complaint about peared at the Commonwealth im market in ice, evidently due to beard."

supply."

the big demand and short At the company's headquar-migration office in Sydney, week-

The beaches were packed all the notices displayed for over the Colony,

ters in Primley Green, Surrey, Distribution Manager, Charles Growther, said "we got the im- pression from some of our con bearded Inspectora calling on the them." China Mal Special,

bidding his practice, form A spokesman for the Repulse Burners that they do not like

a circle a yard or so from Bay Hotel groped for a suitable

the spot where you

baaking.

to describe are expression

crowded condition on the beach and finally gasped, "jam-packed like sardines even on week-

Smack in facedays.

"And our hotel is booked up

to the porch by local people as

OU are just beginning well as tourists. The same la true You are when mack for Lido and Seaview

Bathers also crowded Silver-

the ball catches you in, the face, while using you as mine Bay, Lalchikos ami the

benches along

a hurdle, the player leens Road..

Castle Peak

to trap, recover, kid re And soft drinks turn the ball dry climbed simultaneously Then the playful stone the thermometer,

Bales with

throwing imps, the water "It might be acord male, splashing mermaids and. And definitely better than lost all the other ruisances who year," said Bir could make fust as much. Sales Manager

molse at home, and

as much dama

of the race

tracks

OUTBREAK

THREATENS

killed

RHODESIA

Salerno, July 24,

wealthy mystery-man of European race tracks was killed and 19 spectators were injured to- day when his Cooper smashed off-course and caught fire during a race here.

To thousands of motor racing fene the driver was simply Jean Blane (John White) of Belgium

But to a few close friends he was Jean Saveniers, 27, who hid behind a false naime because his weakly parents dimpprovesi of the car racing he loved.

Saveniers, died on the Salerno track today when his Cooper zig-zagged off the track, Emashed into a lamppost and careered into the crowd *barriers.

Eye-witnesses w Saveniers, a mass of fames, struggle out of his overturned, cur. They saw him rim from the blazing

wreckage until he collapsed inio, & emouldering heap on the ground. He dad in hospital Lew minuës”. Later, t

a

Some 10 people were injured when Saveniers' Cooper hit the barrier. Only five were hurt badly enough to be kept in homital. Fourteen"; were

| home after first-aid treatment."

Saventers married: "with" on -month-old cont the "business" ", chief of a phinlar

snackbara

Lumumba

talks

with UN

Secretary

United Nations, July 24.

· London, July 24, An exiled African leader warned › tonight « that a Congo-like outbreak of "chaos and bloodshed"

is threatening Southern Rhodesia,

"The Congo should be a warn |ing to the British government,” said Joshua: Nkomo," a diretos of the colony's National: Democratic Party....... "The supG thing can happen in Southern Rhodesia. NUPAMA S

Nkomo left the territory 18 months ago after his African National Congress had been benned on the orders of Sir Edgar Whitehead Premier of Southern Rhodesia.

VIOLENCE

Nearly 200 Africans were Errested there last weet during outbursts of anti-EurogluE · ·

Mr Patrice Lumumba, Con-violence,

Nkomo told a news conference; golese Premier, called on he has asked for a meeting with The Secretary-General Mr British Prime Minister, Mr Dag Hammarskjold, this Harold Macmallian: "I will sug-. afternoon for talks about gest that the constitution be the slastion In the Con-spended and that Sir Edgar

Whitehead withould..¦ restau. Nkomo, declaredi

New York arter

"in

expected to eat, for extensive

Antwerp owned by his parents from the United Nation

Miracle operation

Melbourne, July 24. Melbourria doctor, saved - a hairy's life by outling and in werking part of his stethoscope tubing into the choking throat to amat becalling.

He carried out the emergency operation on the kitchen table of the baby's home after the child had been found with 8 half-inch screw stuck in its throat

sluge onypte The data

was given oxygen in the ambulance on the way to hospital. Later the authorities said the baby's condition was "satisfactory and improving" China Mail Special

Assassination bid

ing a permit to stay in Australia.

Maria Markaa, of Malmo, An whose father is said to be a prominent Swedish pediatrician, disappeared from the 14,000 ton freighter "Northern Clipper on- Friday—AFP.

on Ceylon MP

Colombo, July 24. unidentified gunman today fired shots at Ceylon's Trotskyite leader, Dr N. M. Perera, but missed him and killed one of his supporters and wounded another.

Family's dramatic

bid for freedom

funtied Into

The shots were fired as Dr Lowas leadingť a“ péoversfort

tuedoy, 50 miler depen One of his supporters the spot, and the other

Incident

of

the

Hites in the Ceylon for nine year

Extraordinary security pre- cautions were telken for Me Laarsumba'a, nirival.

Colonel Frank. Begley, Chler of Security Services, personally superintended. arrangements. Photographers and reporters were cordoned off, while some. ten guards kept a close watch on the Premier and his party. of a dozen or more, who arrived in two large, black cars.

Many of the Africans arrested |-11-Southern übodesik are man- [hefs at the National: Deriocratie: PartyIt was formed at the this: death and has

*SEE/P-3)

1,000 escape church collapse

New York, July 24,

A two-storey free church building collapsed during ser vices, today.

Before coming to the United Nations, Mr Lumumba lunched at New Rochelle, some miles from New York at the home of An estimated 1,000-parishion Ghana's realdent representative, ers were inside. St Simon's Afri- Mr Alex Quaison-Sackey. can Orthodox Church, shortly

They took the opportunity to before the rident K win over the curren, Congolese There were fio sermediate re- funtion, and" Mr Quaison-pers of injuries, but police be- Sackey was understood to have Lieved all the parishionery had offered Mr Lamumba some ad- been alerted and evacuated, be- Vice on the best way to raise fore the building collapsed his country's needs in the United What caused the collapse was Nations-Reuter.

{not Immediately known AP.

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