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CHINA

EQUIPMENT

FERRANTI GILMAN'S

No. 37766

Comment

Established 1845

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1960.

LATE FINAL

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

Only on Pan Am.......!

JETS

ON

EVERY FLIGHT

PAN AM

From Hong Kong • Phone 37031

Interest received from loans on mortgages.

Of The SOLICITOR'S TRIAL CONTINUES

Day

VALUES

is typical of this cynica

age that 'our

HORO of

values becomes sumewhat

distorted, as

that we t

tach a price tag to every- think

Witness tells

Man from Mars?

of luncheons

with accused

that painted A Chinese businessman, testifying in the

-built, sculpt, or in ausy

other way created.

And for what it is worth.

which Hongkong,

in-

creasingly goes along with the rest of the world, is no exception.

Directly any new milding

to be erected, the Brst thing said about it is how much

it will cost.

Or if local artist has an exhibition, the opening paragraph of the news re- port will generally state the most the price of

highly priced piece. Elsewhere, when a book hits recordi the market with a

sale, the first thing we are fold is that Mr X's so and

reached

A has now $100,000 bracket.

the

in professions

which at one time dis- dained to discuss nithy luere are now written up by the gossip columnist a the

who have persons obtained a "record fee." Of course, it is unreasonable to expect people who ard making good incomes obtaining record prices or fees for their art or their anything services, to be but pleased.

or

trial of 31-year-old solicitor, Robert Eli Low, for alleged fraudulent conversion, corruption and conspiracy, told Judge P. R. Springall in the Victoria District Court this morning that he had had luncheons with Low on three or four occasions.

U.S. denies

Nato plans Black Sea exercise

On one occasion, the business- man, Mr Ma Shiu-poon, said, he was invited to have lunch at Low's house. "I don't know if it was his birthday or thing," he added. "

somo-

On another occasion, he, Mr Ma, invited Low to lunch

his

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house in Magnolia-road, Yau Yat Chuen, "It was my birthday," he said,

ot

At one of the lunches, Lam Chun-kit, a former clerk Messrs Wilkinson and Grist, and another man, Chan Hung- gee, were present.

First meeting

he

Washington, Sept. 8. The U.S. State Department

Mr Man who is a director of said today neither the United States nor the the Hongkong Preserved Gm-

ger Distributors Ltd,' said North Atlantic Treaty | rat came to know Low in 1959 Organisation have plans to when he began his morigage. send aircraft over the transactions at Messrs Wilkinson and Grist. He was introduced Black Sea.

to Low by Lam Chun-kit when he had business dealings with a The Department's Press

Mr Loke Kwan-hing, morigiger Omcer, Mr Lincoln White, gave at certain properties in Shing tils reply when asked about Wo-road, Happy Valley. Soviet Premier Nikita S. society were spiritually

Khrushchev's allegation to the added he knew Lam through a sick, when the dollar da the U.S. Ambassador, Mr Llewellyn yard-stlek of all ability. Thompson, in Moscow yesterday, i While we do not subscribe to

Mr Khrushchev was quoted as the fallacy that the old daya were necessarily betting the North Atlantic powers were planning a now provocă- ter than the present, we on this month by sending a cannot escape the fact that plane over the sea bordering mun plices a more eom- iussia, mercial or material, if you like.

value upon his work

This somehow seems as

in this age.

It

broker.

He

Since then, he said, he went to the solicitors arm about four or live times a week, inquiring a number

about interests from or property mortgages,

With regard to the property Jin Shing Wo-road, Mr Ma sald he issued a cheque for $100,000 Mr in favour of Messrs Wilkinson and Grist as a loan to Loke. The cheque was dated November 27, 1956,

Mr White also said that Mr

In Thompson,

telling Khrushchev that the Soviets had sent planes over the Alaskan islands and ships along the

Fcientifically or profes. Plus was repeating fucks pre-

what we are now. coast. sionally, до matter how States in the United Nations,

' ᎪᏛ, much we

ourselves preen

iN

at our achievements, due to the pioneers of our nrta and crafts who did not measure success by pecuniary standards. While some of these pioneers:

did receive a measure award in their own day, it is equally true that many of them did not,

of

Success or not, by material standards, they kept n conditions down- under

right discouraging in most

casos.

But

ut when say, an artist of

Convicted

Document

M-

ค

Wiincts was

also shown document with certain Chinese characters which read: "Loke Kwan-hing, Nos 49 to 51A Shing Wo-road Wilkinson and man Grist, Lam Chun-kit, handle"

threatens to

shoot judge

London, Sept. 8.

He said

he received the

money back together with some interest in February. A ebeque for $109,000 was given lo hum,

Hearing is continuing.

The Prosecution allege that Low,

East Germans

impose ban

on free travel

Berlin, Sept. 8.

while being a servast is the East Germany tonight barred the free movement

And

ploy of Messen

Wilkinsrist Grist, had fraudulently converted to lits own use and beartit, chequer totalling 3000,000, between December 1050 and August 1053, lle is also alleged to have received sums of naney from Laun Chun-kit for wi- nessing executing of teots of mori-

and promisory nole.

of West Germans to East Berlin and threaten-

ed to keep them from travelling through the. zone to West Berlin.

The ban on free travel in the

long as painted a muster. A man who had just been gake pleads not guilty to all charger city was denounced immediately held responsible for the East

piece for the price of

good meal, and today

gees to someone

with

minimum ration

art, but a account,

of

bank it seems wrong. Especially when we are told that X piece was sold money than Wan

for

master

He sold the Sovicis would be

German act. The Western allies would consult on what action to take at the earliest posible moment he auid,-UPI,

Looking like the traditional "extra-terrestrial invader, is this 1960-type US. Marine, armed with a light flame thrower, and wearing special clothing design- ed for protection against atomic, biological and chemical warfare, which he is helping to test at the Marine Corps Landing Force Development Quantico, Virginia. — Express photo.

LANCASHIRE REJECTS

HK PROTEST

London, Sept. 8.

A Lancashire Cotton Board spokesman to-,

the day brushed aside

Hongkong Federation of Cotton Weavers' protest on Wednesday that industry was "suf- fering grievously" under a three year voluntary agreement with Britain.

But it is learned that the Lancashire Cotton Board Chairman, Lord Rochdale and Overseas Director Tois Powell were told immediately about Mr N. C. Chang's' statement in Hongkong that next year's shipment of grey cloth-about 36 million square yards would be less than one third of Colony's exports to Britain in 1959. - A Lancashire Cotton Board spokesman said today: "Hongkong exports 164 million square-yards of- finished---- and made up goods and grey cloth to Britain a year.

"There is a clause in the agreement that says any increase of imports of made up goods above 46_million square yards shall be deducted from the piece gooda quota of 115 million square yards.

"Hongkong is still exporting 164 million square yards bat the quota component is changing. There's higher conversion value on made up goods."London Express Service.

LUMUMBA DEMANDS

UN WITHDRAWAL Produces alleged spy

Leopoldville, Sept. 8. Premier Patrice Lumumba declared today that his,

government had decided to demand the imme- diate withdrawal of United Nations troops from the Congo unless they immediately re- turned control of Congolese airfields and the National Radio Station to his government.

In a Memorandum to the UN of its relations with Rusala Secretary General, Mr Dag continued, Hammanskjold, Mr Lumumba "I am not a Communist or an sald he would "envisage" the Amerlean or a Frenchman," he withdrawal of UN forces unless declared. "I am a Congolese and

Mr will never be anything else." Centre.they met his conditions.

Lumumbe, tonight read out a Ministers, deputies and sup- cable to the Security Council porters of Mr Lumumba crowd- calling for a couneli meeting, ed the conference.

HK civics satisfied with talks

in London

to be held in Leopoldville to When they shouted "down glve members a chatice to make with Kasavubu" Mr Lumumba an on-the-spot assessment of sold: "I do not want to hear crisis.

that. I gave him the job ur At

he would not be where he Is. I just want him to put the interests of the country first.”--- UPI. and Reuter.

& press

an

conference, the Premier

also produced alleged Belgian a

The

man, aged about 30,

small and moustached, was led pale and shaking into a crowd- ed rocan in Mr Lumumba's residence, he wore slacks and a grey shirt.

UNIFORM

and

Mr Lumumba held up Paratrooper's uniform erled: "Here is the uniform of paratrooper. They

are hidden everywhere,

sentenced to eight years Str. Budilly and Mr H. F. G.

allies as a by the Western imprisonment at Old Hoban, Crown Counsel, appear for

fagrant violation of four-Dower Bailey yesterday, told the the resecution. Me 1. 11. 8. How

It was to go into

a Belgian and Mr N. P. Grieve are defending agreements,

midnight tonight, -- judge: "You will regret Low, on the instruction of Mr G effect

A cabinet order batida West that. I'll shoot you next." 8. Stevenson Mr A, ZAmbern is holding a watching brief un kohalf

entering the Germans from A witness, at Mr Ma Shlu-poon, an the Instruction of Mr P. H. Sin Sovict sector of the city from West Berlin without special permission,

The

mam,

n

28-year-old painter, had pleaded guilty to irmed robbery at sub-post office at Highbury, London, on dreamed July 21.

of in the artist's time.

H

mure

TOW much did Canter- bury, Cathedral cost? A thousand years of loving service and devotion to a craft.

The judge listed previous convictions and then said: "You rubbed a sub-post office during which you fred a shot, missing the fortunate sub-pustmaster by sume nine Inches.

"The public and government sorvants have to be protected from this sort of thing."--China their wisdom knew there Mall Special.

For in those days, men in

could be no price lug to

that life could not be

real eraftsmanship, and

Vientiane

paratroops desert

and crossed

PROVOCATIONS

The East Germon

news service ADN suld the measures, reminiscent of those imposed tor five days 1052 week, were West necessary because the German Government announced Its intention to continue their provocations."

The ban did not apply to Weat Berliners.

An

'NUCLEAR' LORRY MIX-UP

driver

even

London, Sept. 9. Members of Hongkong's two political groups said today that recent talks

Mr Lumumba's aides dumped London have been ex-¦ a wooden box containing A

formative,

In

in the United Nations,"

UP GOES

PRICE

OF OIL

London, Sept. 9.

tremely useful and in- sporting gun and ammunition Shell International Petro- on the floor of the contenence leum has just raised its root One

posted prices for Middle East crudo oil by amounts ranging from two to four cents a

Mr Hilton Cheong-leen, Vice

Chairman of the Civic Associa- on commended the Colonial Omce for its "fair and open mind throughout slona."

reporters.

"Wo

the

Only a month ago Shell, rono

of the world's biggest of com- panics, reduced Its posted prices

aldo asked the Weren't You ar 24th Spy": ministrator at Coquiibatvl!le?"

"Yes" replied the man. Other Congolese then shout- ed: "You

barrel. are a paratrooper." discus- The man shook his head.

As two armed soldiers fed London, Sept. 8.

the 'spy' away Mr Lumumba erring lorry

"I feel that these informal declared: "You have no right caused a "nuclear" panle talks have been very helpful to to be brutal with anybody even by between four and 14 cents. at the English Atomic all parties concerned," he told it they are guilty. Take him

Ita latest increase, almost on Bangkok, Bept 0.

the eve of a Bagdad mooling of off and give him a

a meal." Energy Centre today. Twenty paratroopers of Vien- The cabinet order us published

Hane's coup d'etat trader Cap. by the East German newg ser- Late last night every avali

During the conference Mr representatives of all producing" taln Kong Lee have deserted | vize ADN applied only to Berlin, able poliecmers

feel that Hongkong's Lumumba sald his government countries, brings Shell paters into was alerted tu for over Into Thai- | Unilke last week's, temporary searchi

lorry carrying case has been properly present- would consider throwing out all time with those of British Petro- United Nations troops if bleyteum, the Middle East's largest lani, a ranking Thal official travel restrictions, there was no "fashionable, material" which ed." reported today.

continued blocking the work of producer. meation of barring any West had been reported missing.

The Importance of the posted Dr C. Y. Lee sold that de- The Congolese Government". Germang from travelling "Tho alert said that the lorry talla in the memorandum from Vice-Premier, General Thanom through the Soviet zone

We read out a letter to UN prices in that in the Middle hud disappeared between the the Colonint Office will be made headquarters demarking the im-Fant they provide the basis for Rittikachorn, told local news Berlin,

mediate return of the National the 60-50 profit sharing ar the paratroopers entered But it was feared here that contre at Capenhurst, Cheshire public jater.

and Harwell, National Research

Radio Station and the inmediato rangeraunts between companies Thailand at the border point In might be the next slep..

Headquarters, Nongkhat province. They were

"Apart from seeking wider reopening of all Congo airports, and governments. Any redite

lion mensis smaller "ruvenkes VIOLATION disarmed by Thal border police trac, hospitals or mom northwest at four

An embarrassed epokesman. representation of local counelis

for the governmenty concerned. British Embassy spokesman at Harwell Inter, called off, the und the Legiblative Councit the prize fights or the Olympic Winds within the storm are being detained, he said.

of our coming lo Mr Lumumba niso threatened - The first company to cut its in Bonn sald the East German search when he Fevelled, that purpose stadium, there is the price were 45 miles per hour

General Tinom, who is also ing on everything.

The centre of the storm Was Defence Minister, wald

Mtempt to restalet free elreula the parde was "just a mix-up" London has been to seek better to break off relations with "ho posted, prices in the Middle True, the generation knows expected to be 150 miles south- deserters claimed they defected 11on in Berlin who a flagrant "It all started when the lorry opportunities and advancement United Nations, Bellain, or eng-East was Beo. Similar reduc the prico of everything east of Iwo Jima tomorrow because of foot shortages in the violation of quadripartito agree was driven in the wrong gaid for the people of Hongkong, body else if a propaganda cam-tions were announced a few

flouter,

i palin against the Congo Licentno days later by ShellAP, and the value of nothing, "Inight-Reuter,

Vientiane area,-AP,

measured by a baking STORM HESTER

account.

Open your

newspaper any-

where, or your magazino,

and whether it be fim, or

old paintings, nop

or

- Tokyo, Sept. 8. The United States Air Force tropical weather office said

Hester was 288 enlles singers atorm

enst southeast of Iwo Jima to right and was moving

philharmonic orchen-

west miles por

men

7

the

mehta"

he told

THREAT