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THE WEATHER
Light southeasterly winds. Cloudy, with isolated showers and fair periods. At 1.00 p.m. the temperature was 87 degrees Fahrenheit and the relative humidity 81 per cent,
CHINA
No. 37733
Established 1845
TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1960.
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents
PAN AM JET to
AROME
and all Europe
Smuggled into Pl through post TYPHOON TOLL
Of The HK DIAMONDS SEIZED
Day
Korea election
aftermath
HERE are two hopes for
THE
South Korea- truly incredible dedication to de mocratie practices on the part of students and the peasants. The cities are sinks of vice, corruption, squalor, unemployment and misery. The Democratic Party which as expected
Hidden in pages of magazine
Manila, Aug. 2. Diamonds from Hong- kong worth US$20,000
U.S. DRIVER
KILLED
IN LAND
and neatly concealed SPEED BID
between the pages of three magazines were seized by agents of the
Bonneville Salt Flats,
Aug. 1.
Philippines Bureau of Driver Athol Graham was
Posts and Customs, it was revealed today,
had an easy win on Friday, is discredited by faction- alista. The Army is threatened by internal dis Bensions. The economy is
The gems, contained in paralysed and bankrupt.
three separate magazines But in the countryside where declared as second class mail
about two-thirds of the
matter, were made up of 111 22 million inhabitants live,
loose stones concealed neat- the students and peasants combined just week to joinly between the magazines' wa pages and wrapped up in in an election which not only as truly democratic cellophane. as any seen in Asia but which
based Was
од
a thorough understanding of the issues and person. alities.
AN
Three shipments
three They came in separate shipments. The ND for Korea, that bodes first 49 pieces arrived on well for the future. July 22 but the Postal and Since the April revolution, Customs authorities did not students have undertaken divulge the smuggling at- two major tasks: to demand tempt because of confidential a return to Governmental information received about and commercial austerity the forthcoming two other and to enlighten the shipments.
Korean people about events that led to President Rhee's
fall and their responsibili
The next shipment of 60 atones came on July 26. The
ties in the July 29 election, last pieces were received at Their approach, method and the Postal Bureau on July
intention
bear no
blance to the militant
resem- 30. Zengukuren in Japan. When The stones were all con- they protested in March signed to a certain Ng Kai- and April it was against kwa of 423 Salazar, Manila, tyranny and the negation
The diamonds were turn- of democracy. Ever since they have asked only for a ed over to the Customs return to genuine demecra- Bureau for disposition, ac- tic practices.
cording to Philippine cus- toms and tariff laws, UPI.
In the month before the election, student enlighten- ment teams visited every village in South Korea not to canvass votes for parti- cular candidates but to im- press on the peasants the need for an honest election. They succeeded so well that one United Nations ob- server who toured the more remote areas found only one old man who did not know what the election. was about or why Rhee was no longer President.
ANOTHER
DEATH IN
+
BEACH MASSACRE
Algiers, Aug. 1.
A twelfth want died today as
killed today when his 3,000-horsepower home- made racer flipped over at 300 miles an hour in an attempt to set a new world record.
Graham, 36, a
Salt Lake
City motor mechanic, died in a hospital about two hours after his "City of Salt Lake" car crashed, "pinning him in
cockpit.
the
Graham was trying to set a new world land speed record of 400 miles per hour. Mechanics who looked over the wreckage sold the left front wheel ap- parently broke off at the hub as the car approached mph.
-SKIDDED "
300
Graham had delayed his at- tempt at the record this morn-
ing to work on the wheel.
The ear met trouble on the
first run, just before it reached
the measured mile for timing. It suddenly skidded sharply sideways and the hinged tail assembly flipped into the air. racer flipped over.
Spectators graped,
Then the
The car went ́ints an eccentric "end-for-end roll, throwing ploces off one side of the track then the other, It then leaped high
in the ale. As it landed, it start- ed to spin around and two of the wheels flew off.
It took final flip and came down on its top.
It look
and 25 spectators crew members to lift the car yo Graham could be removed. He died two hours later in a hospital.
MAJOR MISHAPS
It was one of the few major accidents in the history of the famed Salt Flats of high-speed racing 130 miles west of Salt Lake City,
Sir John Cobb of England set the world land speed record of 394.196 miles per hour here in 1947, Graham reached 344 mlies per hour on the Flats on Decem- ber 20, 1959.
wife, Graham's 29-year-old Zeldine, was supremely con- fident before the record attempt. She appeared shocked, but still! in control herself, as she
course, it is not sug- gested that a student-
bons Soft Lase City-bound peasant alliance is now like-
result of an Algerian plane with the dying Graham.-- ly to shape the course of
rebel attack on a crowded AP. Korea's
republic. second Nothing could be more im-
beach of Sunday bathers. probable. There is still real Hospital sources said two of were in the about 20 wounded and deep poverty in countryside but what the critical condition.
Three rebel commandos swooped down on Sunday
peasant used to call the
on
"Spring starvation" period Caroubler beach. French Army when his stocks of grain units numbering several thou-
exhausted, became
immediately closed no sand men longer occurs. He is often the whole area.
The Air Force started search- underemployed but he gets
hills. enough to eat and is not ing the rugged inland plagued by landlords. And where the rebels were belleved
1o have fled. next to the students who want to give democracy a
real chance, that is about the most encouraging sign that observers have scen. The Koren problem will take to resolve and cer- tainly the advent of the first truly democratic
years
election promises little by heartening, Itselt. Most however, is
fact the that student action this year has done more for the republic than the UN. and America in the last 7 years. No amount of economic aid could ever inspire the Koreans to work their
own regeneration.
Army sources sald two rebels had been captured,--AP.
Burmese army clash with insurgents
Rangoon, Aug. 1.
Burmese troops stationed in the northern Shan State adjoining Wa State are battling against a com- force of about 500 Communist, Chinese mutineers and Shan in- surgents.
Outbreak of bined
cholera
in Pakistan
Karachi, Aug. 1.
Where have you seen
this face before?
Add, say, 50 years to this erect little figure In Scots Guards uniform, and who could it be? The correct military bearing, the hand on clue. the sword hilt give a But the answer is really in the face and the naIDŲ, FilzAlan-Howard.
Tills three-year-old, 21, 10in. replica of a Guardsman is Edward FlizAlan-Howateja a kinsman of the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of Eng- Iand, whom he so much re- sembles.
Edward is pletured leading his battalion of 12 bridesmaids out Into the drizzle at the wedding of his aunt, Miss Carolyn Constable Maxwell to the Count Charles 'de Salis at St Peter's Church, Win- Express chester, recently. Photo.
T
THE DUKE OF
NORFOLK
Hunt for
missing security
men turns
to Cuba
MOUNTS IN FORMOSA
Taipei, Aug. 1.
Violent downpours in the wake of typhoon Shirley flooded Formosa today and confronted this island with the danger of a disaster of major proportions.
were
At least 24 persons killed and 120 injured in the typhoon that struck on Sunday.
Downpours produced foods in different parts of the island, marooned many communities,
Boac to start
and disrupted rall and highway new low-fare
communications,
Reports from outside Taipei described the downpours as frightening. They reported that Washington, Aug. 1, 23 inches of rain fell in the district of central Two missing employees of Yunlin
the super-secret. U.S. Na- Formosa in three hours.. tional Security Agency The Than River,
emplies Into the may have gone to Cuba, Military intelligence agents Straight, overflowed
turned
Formosa ils banks
up information. that and marooned 30,000 inhabitants Bernon, F. Mitchell and William of the town of Wanli.
H. Martin booked plane passage
for Mexico City on June 24.
This disclosure came after the
DISRUPTED
HK-London service
which British Overseas Airways Corporation will start new low-fare 'Skycoach ser vices to London with Jet prop Britannias in mid- October, Mr M. D.. Llewellyn, Sales Manager for North-East Asia, an-, nounced today.
Dynamite was used to widen Department had ordered the the banks. After the waters sub- FBI and divilian police organi-sided, most of the inhabitants sations to be on the look out for were moved to higher ground them.
..for safety.
The Defence Department re-
fused to say any more about the Rail and highway case except that there were in-in central Formosa dications Mitchell and Martin thoroughly disrupted. reached Mexico City.
But in Mexico City it was reported that the men may have gone on to Cuba.
Vacation
They Lek the Agency, which operates at Fort Meade, Mary- Land, for scheduled vacations and were due back on July 11 and 18 respectively.
true
SHANGHAI
Speaking at Kal Tak before leaving for London by Comet on holiday, he said: "The new was services will offer the lowest More ever fares between Hongkong and the UK and will All a need long felt by the travelling public."
AREA THREATENED
Tokyą- Aug. Bern Traboon Shirley began dying down" in the China
· seaTM today after ravaging Talwan and a section of the Ryukyug with 100-mile- an-hour windi.
Toe Defence Department said that the, men told friends, that. they planned to travel to gether and visit refiativés in Eureica, California, and Ellénsburg, Washington. Later agency officials found out that Mitchell and Martin had not appeared at either of their announced "'destinations on the
west coast, a spokesman said.
The men served in the Navy at the same time from 1953 to 1956, They joined the Security Agency, in 1957.
The Security Agency Is In- volved in highly secret com- munications intelligence all maintains around - the-clock monitoring of all signals and than 24 villages were marooned messages on the air waves. by flood waters. So were three
Spoke Russian
One of the two missing men took a Russian language course whale getting his masters degree in mathematics, it was learned today.-AP and UPI.
Explosion
in Havana
Hayana, Aug. 1.
A gas main exploded today at Havana's centrai railroad station a few blocks from the Presidential palace.
First reports sald about 20 people were injured in the blast.
Dorticos President Osvaldo immediately went to the scene to view the extent of damage. The cause of the explosion
was not immediately known.-
UPI.
What happened when
took oath without a
Press reports reaching here today said that: about 300. .Com- munist Chinese troops stationed in the border town of Mengtung in Yunnan Province mutluded on June 26 and crossed the China- Burma border into the souther part of Wa, State and that two Shan insurgent leaders had join An Indian Sergeant Major of Cholera which has brokened forces with them
the Hongkong Police collapsed out in six districts of west on July 24 the reports said a and died after taking a false,
union
constabulary patrol clash-
onth on the Koran at the Pakistan has claimed 205 for
Supreme Court some thirty lives, according to official ed with a Chinese Shan force near the northern Shan state
years ago, one of the Colony's In fact it probably did figures avaliable Monday. area of Lomaw. A pergeant was
oldest Indian residents recall- more to encourage com- A total of 1,416 persons were killed and two afflensen wounded. placency and corruption reported to have cholera. The mutineers and insurgents ed this morning, A
Earlier
was then occupied villages Gear Allah Ditas. 12. A watchman at than anything else. The guarantee for Korea's diagnosed as gastroenteritis but Lolmaw, but Lomaw fiselt re- Henry House said he could
Bill recall this mysterious in in the hands of the future lies in the strength Health Minister Lieut. General mained and integrity of those like Wajid Al Burki, a prominent Burmese constabulary,cident even though it hap-
The Sixth Brigade of the pened 32 years ago! the students wit reale-Physician, announced in Lahore
Burmese Arify the moved up mar said that it happened in a that political and economic that the disease was cholera,
Authorites mid the epidemic to Tangyanin the northeast of recovery can only comes now woning and only six Shan State to check further from inward resolution deaths were reported today, progress into the state by the determination and per akhough 166, now cases were multeers and insurgents, the
j'registered, inj
reports mid-Reuter severance.
the
diarage
court at the Supreme Court in which Sergeant Major: Mir- nkah was summoned before a -judge by a money lender be- cause of a'écht.
"Mirshah denied he owed the j money lender money and he was challenged, to take' an oath on the Koran that this was not so," Ditus. continued. “As soon sa Mirshah took up the Koran, he immediately col- lapsed and had to be taken out of court in a stretcher, to a hospital where he died," he added EPISTE
Moslem bath
were uncovered. The Indian Interpreter who was then in court told the judge of the consequence of leking an oath without the usual absoluitoes and the witness was then asked to affirm his evidence. (^. According to several Moslems,
The U.S. Air Force said winds within the storm had weakened to 63 miles an hour at 0001 ́GMT. It' was moving north-north-east, course which would carry the storm Just north of Shanghai tomorrow morn- ing, -AP.
Fares will be HK$2,768 single and HK$4,982.40 return. This compares with the current tourist class fare of HK$3,006 single and HK$8,652,80 return.
"These cut-rate flights will be operated to the same high stan- dards of Boac's worldwide ser- „vices but it will be 'fying with... out frills. Seating will be six abreast at a 30-32-inch pitch," The sald
· FREE BAGGAGE
"A free baggage allowance of 15 kilos will be given and excess bagage will be carried at the rate of $27.60 per kilo. Soft drinks, tea and coffee will be available free on board the al- craft but passengers will have to pay $6 for simple, cold, tray meals served in fight.
"Stopovers will not be per- mitted and Skycoach' fares may not be combined with inter- national fares."
The first 'Skycoach' Britannia arrives from London on Wed- trains with a total of 1,200 pas- | pesday, October 19 and-will sengers aboard.
depart for London by way of Singapore, Calcutta, Karachi, Bahrein, Beirut and Rome on the following day.
were
Thereafter departures will be dis- at 9 a.m. H.K. Standard Time the on every fourth Thursday, that wereis on November 17, December some 15, 1960, January 12, February
D, March 9, 1981,
A railroad bridge over the Taan River, was washed away.
Telephone
and telegraph communications located. Helicopters of Nationalist Air Force used to
to drop rice marconed communities,
News of the floods, coming The journey time to London after reports that the typhoon will be 30 hours including had done relatively little transit stops. The services will damage in its passage over arrive in UK at the con- Formosa, caused a shock m venient local time of 2.10 p.m. || Taipei--AP
The
On Fridays,
Dean backs and
six winners causes an upset
Brisbane, Aug. 1.
The Anglican Dean of Brisbane, the Very Reverend W. P. Baddeley, backed six winners at the races this weekend churchmen.
Dean
and upset some fellow
Baddeley, 44, is a "Every iretitution at times brother of British Actresses has someone who lets it down.”. Hermione and Angela Baddeley, The Rev. B. G. Junid, a mem- Married, with one child, he ber of the New South Wales came to Brisbane trom England branch of the World Council of
Bald
Déari two years ago and has won a Churches reputation as an unorthodox but Baddeley thinks that is the way to get people into the kingdom popular churchman.
Dean Baddeley backed only of God, he is entitled to his
He opinion." one laser in seven races. placed his bete-amall one-op the tote for a place.
A
DISGRACE
Nelber the Anglican primate of Australia," Archbishop Gough, nor the official spokefmari" for the Romɛzi Catholle Circh, Dr L Rumble would comment on
The superintendent of the, the Dean's gambling.
of the celling togellier with they said the lighting fixtures pieces of stones, collapsed at The size meg Central Methodist Mission in The deen himmell, who attend They also said that before they Sydney the Rev Alan Walker ed the meeting with binoculars, ing a court case in the Kow-could take up the Kscan they commented to reporters that a camera, racebook and amoked
This incident came to light dur.
loon District Court when the judge, asked an Inalan swear on the Koran. The witness refused on the grounds that he was unclean, `at the time and that his knees.
bid to bathe and wear clown pen, pakketer with disgrace ad clothem, mask to the church? "The Koran is a holy book thKE
s why we have to observe | advocacy
Iwonderful relaxation={ The horses
of the Dean of:
think perhape. some
there."--Ching Mail, Special,
atziet plesatine before gambling in Australia is a dis.people were surprised to see, me handling it,” they said.
race to the church.
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