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American industrialists may build factories here
Of The U.S. PLANS TO INVEST IN HK Negotiations underway Assassin's suicide may spark Father says:
Day
SEVEN
SIX
FOR
THERE must have been n
feeling of general sotis faction when the Director of Education, receiving a six-point enquiry from the Civie Association, im- mediately responded with:
Regenerally.
For in
P.
in. F.
what
terms, Dr Woo asked the Education De partment was doing to provide education for all children in the Colony. The Director of Education met
the attack point for point | the lust being repest for them to define their terms, so that he, and we, rumably, could know what they were talking about.
pre
in London
by HENRY CHANG.
who is editor and publisher of the Chinese- language newspaper New Life Evening Post. He has just returned to the Colony from a tour of the United States. This article is published by special arrangement with the China Mail.
off new
may_spark
election issue
Tokyo, Nov. 3.
The suicide of Otoya Yamaguchi, the, youthful assassin of Socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma, threatened to touch off a new issue in the November 20 general elections in Japan.
The Police Department was expected to become the target of strong attacks for alleged better precau- tions against self-violence,
Mr Koyoshi Ushima, deputy superintendent of the Boys KC- formatory, said Yamaguchi had bchayed well when he arrived at the Insitution, located in the northern cuburb of Tokyo.
Mr. Ueshima said the youth would have been pul unkler costant observation if he had shown any Eigns of despon.
Many internationally known American industrialists have plans falling to take
or are prepared to consider plans to put up factories in Hongkong if negotiations now underway in London can be brought to a successful conclusion for the Colony's full participation in the International Co-operation Adminis- tration's Investment - Guarantee Programme.
as to locally, 39 alio accept expro- There is no restriction Inchider for possible invest-
of Investiment which priation :surance, and 12 have ment und operation in long- the size kong are at least two electrical may be guaranteed. Guarantees agreed to all three types of in-
than two totalling
US$500 surance-convertibility, oppliance pharmaceutical plants, one million are in force at present: priation and wor risk. motor-car assembly, one chemi- these had been issued in the factory and one biological form of a contract between the cal
investor and the Export-Import products works.
I gathered this Informaller. Bank of Washington which acts
Government agent for the International Pendencies from private and sources in the course of my re- Cooperation Administration.
in the United States,
manufacturers,
In point one, dealing with
primary
the education, Director of Education was able to place concrete facts before the airy pro posals of the Association. The Education Department in 1954 get a target of providing places in Prima extra con two-month tour of 20 cities i
182,000
more
expro-
dency.
The United Kingdom'Gover- to the pro- ment is a party
ft: 8 overses de- ramme
and colonics, in- cluding Hongkong.
Negotiations now
by September, 1981, which Although there are at presentment will write no asurance participation in the programme at 8 pm.
aimed at the Colony's
agreement
SUPPER
the makeshift
"He 'look suppor about 3.45 | pm." the afcial said. Ho in- dicated that Yamaguchi had the metal light Axture on the feet from ceiling, about ning ceten most of his last meal.
Guarda
were inspecting his the floor. room at 10 minutes intervals, Mr Ueshima peculated that underway Regulatioap call for a check of Yamaguchi had term his, sheet stood on his The United States Govern- | In London for Hongkong's full all inmates
of the reformatory into strips, then
to fasten Guards looked in at bed Yamaguchi's cell at 7.55 pen, would have meant by that more than 200 American busi-policles in countries which have are
to pledge no dis- Mr Veshima said, then begur time, a total Primary enrolness establishments in operation not spreed to the idea ahead of
Iri diplomalle negotia- crimination Cesinst US. In their routs of the other rooms, ment of 312,000 children, in Hongkong, whose combined me
vestment and sitiminicon to
When they returned at 8.31 arbitration international THE facts are that at this investments are officially esli- tiens,
pm two guards found his body mated at roughly US$15 million,
Since 1940, 43 nations have case of damage
hanging from strips of sheets moment, the Depart the Colony cannot yet attract agreed to converability coverment in Hengkong covered by apparently torn from his bed- ment han already far large-scale long-term industrial age for US arms operating the programme.
ding. They had been fixed to exceeded ita
original investment because many figure, and, the Septefnber! Lusinessmen still feel the poll- returns show that 414,800 tical uncertainty in Hongkong. children are studying in Government surces that
the lengkung might have lost dur- PRESIDENT'S BID TO SAVE THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN Primary Schools in
two years up to ing the last
T
US
Colony. Furthermore, pro- US$M million Investment by ceeding at this rate, the Americart businessmen who had figure will probably exceed eventually shelved their plans! 500,000 by the end of 1961. once they heard from the Inter- Now looking at the bare national Co-operation Adminis- bonca of this achievement.tration that their investment
not be fully it would be thought that Hongkong could
Investment as this
the
growth had taken covered by place under the most dif- Guarantee Programme.
ficult circumstances - of
haying to play host to HO
In any
people
seeking
Enormous
American industrialists believe
naylum In this Colony, there is an enormous opportunity for them to produce things In it would have been the Hongkong for marketing in Far subject of congratulations Eastern countries and in the all round from any civic United States as well. minded body of people, They altributed Hongkong's For the facts are these. We attractions chiefly to its moder. are, as far as it is possible ate taxailon, its sources of cheap but skilled labour, its stable and convertible
and currency
to discover, (for no one
its
knows how many refugees excellent banking and shipping nre in the Colony) already facilities. within sight of providing | But one thing they do worry
schooling for every child about is Hongkong's political
in Hongkong. Surely then, uncertainty as far as long-term even if the census reveals projects are concerned.
we are a few thousand one-
For this reason. many prefer
way, or the other, it is a shelve plans until they can the have their investment in
covered by the Guarantee Pro-
matter for congratulation.
Colony fully
Sintes
more especially when the Investment Director himself has Jaid gramme, there will be no relaxing According to Mr Charles B. of effort.
Warden head of the ICA Invest- DUT the Civic Asroelation ment Guarantees Division, the
United
Government Dwould go further. It
Aaya that education should would be most pleased to extend the programme to Hongkong as be mude compulsory, and
soon as negotiations now under- that it should be "univer way in London between the Bal"
Government, Assuming, no doubt united Kingdom correctly, that what the acting on behalf of Hongkong, Civic Associatlen means is and the United States Govern-
be ment can reach that legislation should
provided to compel parents agreement.
of children of school, age
to force their children. to
to
siisfactory
Coverage
Authorised by Congress
UD
10
nek, reluctantly, if such u guarantees, the US Government
attend school, we have
responsible body
what it is about.
issuc to US$1 billion known has offered American business- making now investment
men
.convert inability to currency receipts into
For compulsion ns such, abroad guarantees against the
must be accompanied by risk of penalties for defaulters, foreign Would the Civic Anuocin- doilors, of loss through expro. blon
care to state what priation or confiscation, and of physical methods of compulsion it logs from damage to *orsets caused by war,
The programme in the form
would use? For this must
stand out a mile. Whatever of Insurance coverage la ad- offacts or defects the Civle ministered by the International
has seen
in Cooperation Administration and kuvestment in friendly underdeveloped countries.
atlon methods of is designed to encourage private
awakening civic respon-US sibility, compulsion of harah kind has not been
a
la
to US invest-
hangman's nose to the metal fixture.
His body was still warm when guards found him. but efforts to revive, the youth falled.
The cell was about six by nine feet and contained only a toilet, Į and bed-UPI,
11 CHILDREN DIE
'I'M VERY SORRY'
Tokyo. Nov. 3. Shumpei Yamaguchi, father of assassin Otoya Yamaguchi who hanged himself last night, said today he was sorry his family had "caused trouble again,"
Yamaguchi, who resign- ed his colonel's commla- alon in the Japan Ground Self-defence Force because of his 17-year-old son's violence, arrived at the Tokyo Boys' Reformatory about 4 am today. ·
Police bad
died
him
ย
Johannesburg, Nov. 2. Eleven Basuto children
lightning struck when crowded lusion school near Leribe in Basutoland and sol the building #flame,
the
The South African Broad- casting Corporation reported that 200 African children took shelter in
Makokohane school building at Khabos, in the Protectorale, during a heavy thunderstorm. When lightning struck the building Immediately burst into flames.-AP,"
2
summoned
afier finding the youth's body in his colt at the Baformatory,
"I am very satry wa caused trouble again to sooloty." -Yamaguchi, paid. "shouldn't be sorrowful for the
of my son considering the death of Mr Asanuma, but I must apologise for causing trou- blo azul."-UFL
CONTROVERSIAL WORK NOT OBSCENE JURY
'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
New York's big welcome goes to the bookshops
for
Ike and Nixon
New York, Nov. 2. Ticker-tape and confetti virtually blotted out the sun today as President Eisenhower drove into New York with Mr Richard Nixon in a bid to transfer some of his own massive popularity to the Republican Pre- sidential candidate.
Louis hopes
Negroes
won't vote for Kennedy
Los Angeles, Nov. 2.
Former heavyweight boxing champlon Joe Louis today threw his to Vice- support President Richard M. Nixon.
саг
Also in the
were Mr, the President or at Mr Nixon- Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican or both. Vice-Presidential candidate and Mr Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York.
Turboats sounded their whistles as the four men drove down Broadway to shouts and cheers from throngs of midday shoppers and others seeking a gilmpse of the outgoing Presid- ent and is possible successor.
Kisses
Women blow kisses from bo- hind police barriers, but at un- other
point lang the route there were boos. Occasional "Wo Want Kennedy" banners, hung from windows-support for. De mocratic candidate Senator John Kennedy, now leoding in the President race,
According many polls, MY
Louls told a news con- ference:
feelings
are
that Nixon and Lodge will win the election they Восливе
better are trained for the job, like two
prize fighters."
Louis
war
critical of De-
can-
•
.
10
Mr Nixon told a zolly f Herald Square that it was" "the greatest meeting of the com. paign,"
He
Republican leaders said they were encouraged and delighted by the tumout, which they claimed was heavier and more enthusiastic than that Senator Kennedy got here on October 10.
In his sprectis, Mr Eisenhower appeared to have gone much further than previously in throwing his nationwide prestige and popularity behind
Mr
Nixon's candiducy,
Mr Nixon himself moved into the final week of campaigning by adopting the "Give 'em hell" Democratic style of former President Harry 'Truman,' and appeared much more confiden! of victory than before, political observers sald,
Intensive
"There have been no further gains of territory or population criticised Senator by Communist imperialian Kennedy for having said, as any area where American Mr Nixon put it, that America fluence and arms were involved, was ranging behind in spage
And
science, and declares: "There is no need for a ccoond-rate psychology on the part of any American,
There is O
renson for the captain of the opposition team
Slogan
Mr Elsenhower told
"Moreover, the number"
defect
In
in-
"We have duccessively with; tood intensive' campaign by the Soviet Union to absorb all of Berlin
of who
from Commimist-controlled etniks is measured annually In the hundreds of thousands, And I point out that when people by the the
countless thousanda will
London, Nov. 2...
Some 200,000 copies of the unexpurgated version of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," the controversial book by D. H. Lawrence, will be released to British shops as the result of a verdict by a jury here today.
PENGUIN BOOKS
LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
D. H. LAWRENCE
*** K
3/6
LADY
This was stated by a spokes-ta 32-year-old ban on the un- man for the publishers, Penguin expurgated book lifted, pleaded Books, after the jury of nine not guilty. mon and three women-in The defence called a string London's Old Bailey court had of expert witnesses including taken almost exactly three writers, broadcasters, critics, hoim to decide that the Pen- done, teachers and two clergy guin Company wore not guilty
of publishing an obscene article men, including a blahop to up- their contention that the -the unexpurgated version of books was not obscene and that,
the novel.
port.
Loud applause greeted the as a work of high literary merit jury's verdict, and a crowd at by a lending author, it should the back of the court had to be
be published hushet
by court officials.
No order
The jury retired this morning after the Judge had summed up In the case over the evidence
the book which tells the story
of a passionate affair between
The prosecutions who called no witnesses, objected to the many detailed descriptions of the sexual set in the book and contended that it was cherene and might corrupt and deprave ury reader.
Mre Barbara Barr, Lawrence's
an aristceratie woman and her stop-daughter said at her Lon- impotent husband's gamekeeper don home: "I am delighted. I
In an address. lasting two
hours 12 minutes.
The Judge, Mr Justice Byrne. turned down an application by
the defence for the prosecution.
teel as if a window has opened
and fresh air has blown "right through England."
Sir William Emrys Williams,
a "Director of Penguin Books,
to make a sabatantial contribu-sald after the trial: "I am de- tion towards the costs of the lighted. This verdlet indiestes case. He said he would make the reputation of one of the ne order as to costs.
Today was the sixth day of the trial,
Books, Penguin publishers of quality paperbacks, who had deliberately courted procecution in an effort to have
C' HERE
NEXT APRIL
crowd that Mr Nixon and Mr risk everything, including their The first shipment of the unexpurgated edition of "Lady
WELL
mocratio Fro- sidential
people, .didate John F. Kennedy
connection to be downgrading America," with a recent invident. in the South. It was reported that Kennedy consoled the family, of tho Rev. Martin Luther King when the Negro leader wae jah- ed for a traffic violation.
"I think he (Kennedy) Was wrong in doing this," 'Louls I provides protection against
said, "becRUND ho the three most common risks
was merely using this no which might be described as the
campaign stunt. There have has it been a method principal "political risks", which
been
In many. Negroes gentio persuasion, and have prevented or discouraged
trouble of this kind before han quite frankly, we prefer to American investment in foreign
nad failed, but he people
never done anything shout encouraged countries, rather than drivan. But Investors must pay premium
that. But I feel that the at the general annual rate of that is a matter of taste. of 1 per cent of the amount
Negroes will see through this as a campaign' slune Meanwhile, wo congrutu coverage for each of this three
and will, not vote for him "Inte' the Education Départ- | kinds of Insurance, for the pro-
on Tuesday."ARJ ment on a great achieve-tection given by the guarantee ment, and with them well, contract.
used.
Rather of
800
Chatterley's Lover" published by Penguin Books, will arrivo in Hongkong in 'six months' timo,
will
greatest authors of the century," He added "The books-about 200,000 coples-will start going out to retailers from now." ww Reuler.
See how the U.S. votes,
Ike says
Washington, Nov. 2. President Elvenhower today
Iron obrervo American ballotingen Election anywhere in Day, November the United States,
The threcedented invitation to some included an offer embacs131 90 foreign
including
those from. Ourtain bunk tes-tó
Invitedforter diplomats
Lodge would maido Americans lives, for the chance to join us proud of them "because they on freedom's side of the iron question reptment properly the curtain, there is no idcats and aspirations of our in their minds about American
Mr Michael Wymer, Manager, "But I believe they great country,"
"hove spelled out our of Longmans Green and Co. quickly go into reprinting and
in d., agents for Penguin here, is likely that the book, will sell Mr Rockefeller claimed that!
to: the world 1ive intentions (wo million people saw
unmistakable terms for all to said orders have started pour-far more than the World of and legations parade and
adding: Fry,
eve and understand, ag for ing in free booksellers since "never in the history of the example, in: Nato, Korea, the the vorlet of not obscene" Suzle Won elty has such
a welcome been Formosan Straits, and in the war arounged in London yes- | { <with all the world-wide given
Middle East,”
publicity, it might even attract Signs displayed during the
The President said: he alted ficker-tapo parade bearing the these achievements not a "At present, only '200,000 Hollywood's attention,"
This is the last of Mr D.11, logan: "We Like Ika-But We caure for gloating but to make coples are avaliable, wald Mr Want Jack" raled the question clear this disagreement with Wymer, because that was what Lawrence's eight novele pub as to whether the cheering and Democratic charges of declining Penguin Books printed before bed in paperbacks by Penguin, bmotion was directed mainly at prestige-Reuter, 1 {
| the legal notion,?? :
·
terday,
to walve, travel rabtrictlong on Communist diplomats, for such on-the-spot observation,
Btalo
MMF Becretary of Christian A. Herter; felagod the Prezident'. Invitation in formal letter to all foreign em besandors, and, chibis of doin matic missions.APK
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