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Moderats' north-west- Fair becoming cloudy with occasionall showers, or thunderstoms this afternoon and this evening.” At

THE WEATHER p.m. the temperature was 87 degrees Fahrenheit and the relative.

humidity 80 per

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FCHINA MAIL

FERRANTI GILMAN'S

No. 37738

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Established 1845 MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1960.

Death strikes at cricket match

Price' 20 Cents

SUPREME

COURT

Only an

LIBRAR

JETS

ON EVERY FLIGHT

From Hong Kong Phone 3703!

Uproar over

Of The STORM HAVOC IN UK missing U.S.

Day

ACADEMIC

If the statements issued by the

leading members of our various sports committees are to be belleved, the students of the University of Hongkong wit never win any future triumphs upsn the playing fields of Pokfulum.

They have thrown their cricket bats away; their hockey stická

are piled up in dust strewn ∙corners; their tennis racquets are lairs for spiders; in short, they want nothing to do with games and have decided to become a team of awots. This Was Bald on their behalf however, they have no time to play, they have to work too hard.

2

On the face of it, it деств

'pity, for wo have become used to the dual role of university, its academic pre. stige and its exploits In the world of sport.

Thousands who

have but

Homes

flooded by heavy

rains

London, Aug. 7.

The worst storm of the summer hit southern England today, killing a woman watching a cricket match, flooding thousands of homes and bringing chaos to holiday traffic.

Thunderstorms and torren

tial rain today caused widespread flooding.

Violent storms which bil the hurdest in the London area and

remotest idea of why young southern England were respon- men go up to Oxford or Cam-sible for at least one death and bridge line the banks of the a number of injuries.

re-

Thames every year to cheer Thousands of motorists either of their arbitrarily turning home from holiday chosen favourites, while resorty in the south and west of way to Engind were delayed by floods Twickenham to encourage the of up to two foot on many main Rugby team they fancy,

roads.

athers make

their

To the good

LL this is to the good but

inten. while we have no tion of defending fabby bodles and limp muscles, it is worth while questioning if, in the past,

as our educational 'Institutions are concurried,"wề"have "hot ale vated sport at the expense of academic research,

as far

Polica and automobile club patrols set up emergency diver- flons and warning notices at the worst-hit meas.

a

In London Aremen waged

seven-hour battle

again.st

rising water which forced

hundreds of families from their homes, stopped underground trains on some lines and put an estimated 5,000 telephones out of action."

Houses flooded

The business began at school. At least a couple of school

A spokesman for the London songs and a dozen books we Fire Brigade said that 800 calls could mention placed the for assistance were received and "flannelled Daf" before the firemen were kept busy pump- bright boy. In fact, the chaping out houses flooded to who won a scholarship was depth of three to four feet. Father suspect, а tradition Sixty people were spending

maintained

from "Tom

Brown's Schooldays" to "Tell England." Rarely, if at all, did any author dare to make his first class scholar the hero of his tale, and Newbolt would never have ventured to pen such line as "And It's not for the sake of a first class Exhibi- tion," in place of "And it's not for the sake of a ribboned

coat."

S°

Decent chap

O without unduly stretching

the point, fact after fact!

out that brawn was points preferred to brain; the really decent chap Was the dull scholar but bright sportsman. in more leisurely happier days, this seemed to work all accepted right. The scholar

his lessor rots, and crept Into his corner from whlah he emerged now and

offer

again to

to his country Buch

¿

the night in the basement of Notting Hill police station after being forced out from their homes.

A woman watching a cricket match

at Stanmore, near London, was killed by lightning and another spectator injured by a flash of electricity,

Main towns of

streets in the Kent Rochester and Chatham were flooded to a

New picture of the young Prince

Low trial for

depth of nearly three feet District Court

while tons of mad collapsed

on a road near Dartford, Kent,

-AP and China Mail Special.

BIG TYPHOON HEADS

FOR AMOY

Robert Ell Low, local solicitor, who was brought back from London Last Wednesday to face 23 charges of fraudulent { conversion, corrupijon and conspiracy to defraud, was this morning remanded three days by Mr E. S. Haydon at Kowloon Court,

Low will make his next.ap- pearance before the Victoria District Court Оп Thursday

tokens of his endeavour which At 7 a.m. today typhoon Trix morning.

maintain

enabled her to

a

certain amount of self-res-

the pect in

academic and scientific world. But things have come to auch a

pass that every year of the

- twentieth century becomes A year of increasing specialisa- tion, not only in the world of scholarship but of sport also.

A counter

the

THLETICS is no longer a game but a sort of inter- national, counter. May best man win is the best joke on the flatd. Win at all costs, any way, and, to blaze with the Simen pure and amateur status.

So the only way out of the,

problem is to take a few men

'gifted with fine co-ordination, and if necessary well-deve loped muscles, with an ambi tion to do nothing except) train, he fad, kept and given pocket money' and expenses, and so allowed to retain their amateur status. And when the time comes, enter them

i

The application for the trans

The Queen Mother in her garden at Clarence House with Prince Charles and Princess Anne. On her lap in this birthday picture is Prince Andrew-evidently very happy about his third appearance before the camera. Also in the picture: the Queen Mother's favourite corgi, Billy. The picture was laken when the two Princes and Princess Anne visited their grandmother to congratulate her on her G0th birthday-The Times Photo.

Police

break

up

playboy's guard

Mexico City, Aug. 7.

Brazilian playboy Francisco. "Baby" Pignatari, and 11 men he had hired to guard the apartment of Austrian Princess Ira Von Furstenberg were arrested in a pre-dawn raid today.

was about 450 nautical fer of the case was made by

The Princess and her two sons were not miles east-north-east of Inspector K. H, Lat at Kowlook in a nearby room

molested, but the Brazilian Hongkong and was moy- this morning.

Low was not required to enter millionaire and his men, identi- ing wast at 17 knots.

a plea today and he was re-fied as hired guards, were taken Aircraft report surface winds manded on bail of $15,000 cash. to jail.

of 130 knots near the centre.

At 9 a.m. today Trix was passing over the north coast of Formosa, heading for Amoy on the China coast.

A later report from Tokyo said the storm was moving

in a west-south direction

and was expected to be

The defendant is represented -Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe, the by R. H. Hindmarsh of Messrs estranged husband of the Prin- cess who is battling to regaln Stewart and Company.

custody of his children, said he expected to get his sons back next week and that "I'm the happiest man in the world."

Pignatari was being question- ed today and is expected to have a statement later.]

GOLFER

MEETS

about 173 miles north- CHALLENGE princely couple. Both are seek-

east of the Colony to-

morrow morning.

Markham, Aug. 7.

A spokesman for the Royal An irate golfer has removed

Observatory told the! China Mail that typhoon Trix was not the most in- tense this year. Although It bad centre winds us

was

code experts

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

· London, Aug. 8.

The disappearance of Bernon Mitchell and William Martin, two American code ex- perts now believed to be with the Russians is causing a tremendous uproar throughout American security departments.

There have been coverup re- assurances that the men have no important secrets.

But they can pass on in- formation of crucial importance on two counts;

They can show the Russians how to decipher US and British codes which they have failed to break.

Thus the Soviet's espionage chiefs can learn many Western secrets, believed inviolate.

and

British

Catholics

in Cuba

express

concern

PAST SIGNALS Although Western codes are being immediately changed, the Russians have tape records of thousands of past signals be- | Cuba's tween Western Embassies and military headquarters which they may now decipher,

church

Havana, Aug. 7.

Roman

Catholic assailed

today what it called increasing Communiam in the Government of Fidel Castro,

The Russians may now learn the full extent to which their own codes have been broken by the monitoring system operated by the US National Security A pastoral letter read in the ol agency where the men worked, Roman Catholic churches

The West has been greatly Havana expressed concern over "the increasing advance of dependent on intercepting signals between the Kremlin Communism in our country": and the Soviet erabassies and It sald "this point greatly betwgper Moscow intelligence preoccupies us because Catholic- ism and Communism respond hex-dquarters and OVETSERS explanage networks,

to two- concepts of mán and the

The West has also been rely.world that are totally opposed to each other and that ean ing on interception between ever be reconciled."

Soviet mhlitary, navel and th establishments to give errly warning of any buildup for a surprise attack.

WARNING TO U.S. Meanwhile Premier Fidel Castro followed up his multi-

"This information is more million deflar expropriation of vital than ever since the ending the last major American pro- of the U2 fights.

perty in Cuba today by wärn- SOVIET CODES

ing the United States that it The Russians are likely to be will "mect its Waterloo". If it surprised by the extent to which attempts military interventions. their codes have been broken by carlier today decreed the ex

The alling Premier who US experts.

..

The immediate results will be propriation of $913,000,000 the changing of codes which American owned properties. would deny vital Intelligence to virtually all U.S. Investments in the West unless the new codes Cuba-told 40,000 wildly cheer- are broken,

ing delegates to a Communist- The two American experts backed Latin American youth may be able to tell the Russians congress that Russian rocketry the ways of making their codes made the United States a second more difficult to break by the rate power militarily.--. methods available to the US.

"The United States is mill- The real damage these mentarily inferior to Russia," he could do is infinitely greater said. "If the Yankees want to then that done by Burgess and end the Cuban revolution by Maclean, the runaway British force they will meet their diplomats which was confined Waterloo."—AP. almost entirely to worsening Anglo-US relations.

A fullscale enquiry is in pro- gress to, determine whether the runaway code men have pro- viously been passing informa- tion to Russian agents and it so

to detect their contacts in the service.

United States-London Express

The Irishmen,

the Welshman

--and

Judge Walsh Mr Wong

sees brother

in Shanghai

London, Aug. 7.

A Chinese, two Irishmen and a Welshman figured in a court case yesterday. But it was an Englishman who had the last word,

The Chinese, walter Wong Hang Boun, said that the Irish- Shanghai, Aug. 7. Judge William Walsh said men and the Welshman ate in his Soho, London, restaurant, here tonight that he had then ran away when he pre- seen.Whis imprisoned | sented a bill for 22 ds Bd. brother, Bishop · James The Irishmen, Brion Hamill, Walsh, once since he arof Paddington, and Patrick Kuine, of Shepherd's Bush, said that rived, and hoped to see they went to the restaurant as him again tomorrow. guests of The 70-year-old Judge enter- The Welshman

who,

they

The raid was the dimax to a six-month separation of the ing divorces.The Prifice said no monetary settlement is in- volved.

CORDONED OFF The Princess and ber en-

Prince Alfonso and Princess Ire with their two children.ed China a week ago in the claimed, said when the blit Markham golf course's tourage had the full sixth floor

hope of seeing his 69-year-old came: "It's a laugh. I've got no only live hazard-a 30 of a hotel and Pinatari had After this conversation, the The Princess

not

brother, jatled for 20 years in money I'm running," He ran, pound snapping turtle hired guards to see the Prince Prince then told authorities to bollered although the upmar March by a Shanghal court on They followed. He got away, which grabbed players did not try to over the lake, action, best not to molest and seating must have kep-201 image charge. They were caught.

thi Prince Early this ed her, it was said he wondr

The Englishman, magistratë Judge Walsh said tonight that clubs as they searched for children forcibly.

The Attorrwy General's office, morning 18 men from the The Prince sold be expected his brother was "as well as can Paul Bennett, VC, told the lost balls in a creek, t The golfer took a swipe at the Donding a decision, plazed un-judicial police made a sudden to obtain the rehm of his dos be expected under the air Irishmen in the county aż Marl-

other cordon of gure around | raid, "

ometime next weekend

borough Street: "You did yớtar- turtle's head when it snapped at the hotel to the children Pignator himself, undressed, Victor Velazquez, the Would a horse or dog. And Orleansville, Aug. 7.

He added that he was meet-selves very well, his groping club. It connected

were not taken awry.)

came from his room, also re- Princess's attorney, said the ing Chinese Red Cross officials "I think the three of you were -fatally. If they win, your university Is supreme in state, province Awakened by strange noises. The turtle appeared last Spring The Prince said he had tried portedly carrying a pistol. A action was lied and he planned morrow morning to inallee in on the and "If the Welsh- .or country..

last night, eight-year-old Elisa in the creek, which golfers must for a policeman hit him on the back of a counter weten He claimed plans for a second visit to all man were here he would say

the neck and the Brazilian féll the Prince had been advanced brother. Meanwhile, If the men who are beth Mousset got up and walked cross on eight of the 18 holes aicable settlement, p

merely shaping useful careers toward her parents room to tell and began exercising proprietary sent my cousis to talk to In clence or art, object to all them."

rights along its whole length: this, the reasons for the Moslem terrorista lurking out Jaxistence of a university side the house saw Elisabeth's should be pointed out to shadow and opened fire, killing them.

ber: instantly-UPL

for the event, just as you

strong as typhoon Shirley, central pressure in Shirley was very much lower.

Many players preferred to id urge that abandon balls mocked; in the agreement and creek rather than challenge the resee the sala turtle Chion Mall Special and turned me down"

cumstances,"

- that YOU were the ones who

to the Boor Police said they money by the wealthy Princess Jude Welsh was crantedra had promised to pay? sound regular Arsonal in the top operate mis mote car visa for a two weeks And he fined, the Irishmen 22-

It was salt to have distribution agency in Mexico China through the intervention each for obtaining credit at the nine brand new City the claimed that money was of the Chinese and American restaurant by fraud and orders a rifle, several clubs behind much of the

- Red Cross societies. · He arrived |ed them each to pay half the

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