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Comment of the

day

Two questions

HAVING criticiced Unofficials

on a number of Lecantona recently for not playing their part on the people's represon- latives with the cpenness and alertnece that the community has a right to expect, we feel it only fpir to compliment the two MLCs who asked ques tions in the Council on Wed- Kerday. One was extremely Important - what dis Lord Perth mean when he said nu radical er major constitutional changes would be permitted? For although we concluded this

hic

meant no elected MLCs, the Reform Club and Civle Asco. ciation exploited Lord Perth's ambiguity by welcoming remarks, Yesterday's clart. Healion pute an end to need. less speculation and the Re- form-Civic group murt accept this as the final, Terkevocable Antwer to their London

proposals,

Meet our rouehe MRR. C. Lee's question touched

ald

plan for

colonial civil

services in territories which Are becoming relf-governing and he properly asked why Hongkong had been excluded. The scheme was devised main- ly with Africa in mind and "what-it-mengis-that-penty-

or nearly independent govern. ments will be able to employ falned overseas officers at hot; much more than the cost of local men. The main object of the plan is also to percuade British offi etals to stick at their posts by paying inducement allowances, additional penalona based on them, children's allowances. half the cost of passager and

-for tons of career.

THE WEATHER

Moderate East winds. Cloudy with periods of rain. Temperature at 1 pm 69 degrees Fahrenheit, relativo humidity 99 per cont.

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These paddy-fields will become a high-class residential suburb

A TUNNEL UNDER MT CAMERON

Govt. plan to open up new

industrial area

BY A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

Government is considering building a tunnel under Mount Cameron to open up the area between Deepwater Bay and Aberdeen to large-scale develop- ment.

half the cost of compensation This tunnel under the mountain would bring Deep- water Bay to within three miles of the city centre, or half the distance it now takes vehicles to travel via Wongneichung Gap. Government believes the tunnel is the only way to open up this area and to ensure that Aber-

The aid scheme is obviously not one that applies to Hongkong yet. But it is a mearure which will enable Government grad- ualty, and with the financial help of the Britien Govern- ment,

Increase the tent element in the genlor civil service without causing an up- zetting and damaging exodus of valuable men at the top worried about the imminence of the axe.

ic to be hoped therefore that

Government

duc will in course seek to be apocksted with, the new scheme. For It offers a meane of reducing the high coat of the expatriate civil service 1. well as a way of

deen becomes a big industrial and residential

area.

STOP PRESS

substantially Increasing the THE VOTE COUNT

numbers of senior local men in the administration in accord. ance with our professed ident of partnership.

Hongkong should not be Inell- alble for any plums that the Colonial Office la, throwing pround simply because it is a colery and is going to remain one. Indeed, the fact that we make such medent demands on the British Government dea pite our every commitments, should entitle us to considera. tion when we have a special claim for assistanca,

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The funnel, it is estimated. would be just over a mile long. Its approach rond 0/1 the Aberdeen side would be from the Grantham Tuberculosis hospital and I would emerge #1 Stubbs-roud aboul three- quarters of mile above Queen's-road East.

Cost of the tunnel would vary according ไป how elaborately it is built, but it is believed this could be done Jor between $6 million and 58 million.

This would be much moru than the cost of building an ordinary, road. The cost of | bullding the two-mile Kowloon fouthis road is only about $3 million,

'NO COMMENT'

The China Mail naked Government soon after 9 am this morning to confirm this news but up to the ilmne of going to press at 2 pm the PWD had made no comment through the Information Service Department despite a number of reminders.

brea

But the advantage of the Lunnet Is that it would be an incentive to development of

which Govertiment Be lleves has big possibilities.

Part of

the area, between Aberdeen and Deepwater Bay now occupied by paddy neias and

vegetable gardens (SCC

picture above) would become

DAWN ATTACK ON PALACE

COURT BANS

PARATROOPERS' COUP MEMOIRS

BID IN SAIGON

Saigon, Nov. 11.

Four paratroop battalions today began a pre-dawn coup in an attempt to overthrow President Ngo Dinh Diem's South Vietnam Government.

The paratroopers were identified as in charge of security in Saigon. The coup attempt began at 3

∙am.

All traffic was cut off from outside

the city.

The President's office was placed under guard. The coup was led by Colonel Nguyen Van Thy.

ST LAURENT

'UNFIT'

FOR ARMY

BY

EX-FOOTMAN

London, Nov. 10.1

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother obtained an injunction here today against a former foot- man at Clarence House, her London home, according to a statement issued by a London firm of solicitors.

The Injunction, granted by Mr Justice Thasiger sitting in

An estimated 15 paratroopers were

killed in, an attack on the Presi-chambers, restrained the defen-..

dant, David John Payne, from publishing any article or book about his period in the Queen Mother's service.

dential Palace

The fate of President Diem was not

yet known.

The statement said the injunc tion restrained Payne from

General Le Van Ty, Commander-in-wrking or permitting his name

Chief of the Armed Forces was placed under arrest.—AP:

TERRORISM ̄ ̄ ̄IN PARIS

Seven Algerians

die in SERVICE burst

Paris, Nov. 10.

savage

of gunfire

Paris, Nov. 10.

Three terrorists burst into an Algerian cafe in north Paris tonight and let loose a vicious 30- second fusillade of sub-machine gun fire.

Soveti

Police Bild

of the Five Algerians died instantly. patrons, all Algeria Moslems, Two others succumbed to head

the wore killed and another serious wounds in

Saint-Denis ly injured.

hospital shortly afterwards.

The bar, nestled between

The attackers, who police be- Keve belonged to the under factories, was frequented by the sympathizers of ground Algerian National Move-Algerian

have ment (MNA), fled immediately. PLN, whose members

frequently clashed with the rivat MNA.

VIOLENCE

It was the most savage armed violence in Paris for many

a high-class residential area, Yves Methio Saint Laurent, months..

Factories would be confined

arco

car in

24-year-old top designer Eye-witnesses sold the three for the Fashion House. ofanen jumped out of a Dior was today discharged front of the "Accordion Bar" in as unfit by a French Army the Epinay Factory district. medical "commilssion, ac- One throw open the door of cording to Dior spokes- the red-curtained cafe

mant.

and COM-

Squade of polles immediately converged on the area.-UPI.

Moscow's 'summit'

to Aberdeen where two big re- clamations are being Under- taken end agant typhoon shelter. All this is part of a ten-year development plan now being discussed at high level.

MOEDON, Nov. 10. stood On the Deepwater Bay Alde

The Communist bloc's "stm- aside awhile; his there Is already a high-class

pardons opened fire on the 10 mi" meeting, attended by the decision was reported to residential

Little The

leaders of 12 states opened in patron23. have been taken yesterday Hongkong. Luxury homes are

A tow erics of terror were the Kitmin today, acecrding to being built on Brick Hill and

Mr Saint Laurent left

drowned in the roar of the usually well-informed cources, the Paris military, hospital of sub-machine the International Country Club

Lir. Thirty The pourra sold the "sum- hag a pile on the fat. It is Val-de-Graco for a private

seconds later the little cafe was init" has

druft before It u underslood Government Also clinic this morning. plans a public recreation area Defence Ministry. officials ruid in the same neighbourhood.

they had no immediate con- firmallon of the report, but nald I WAA Vanost jikely corrtai",

EARTHQUAKE

Florence, Nov. 10.

An earthquake shook the Tuscan hills north of Florence today, sending residents' of several villages into the troete in panic.

No serious damage or casua)- ties were reported, however, "UPI.

and

a shambles, with pools of blood agreement for dimensions which around the vicfans' bodies. may last up to a week-Reuler,

ROBOT STATIONS ON MOON'

The young designer who has been in hospital sluse he was called up for milliary service early in Septimber is ex- A pected to spend somb timo konvaleselig i Bwilzerianið before making a dĉoltian on kis Professional futare.- noutor,

Moscow, Nov. 10. - top-ranking Soviet volential predicted today that "robot space alations will soon be established on the moon" as the first of a series of exploratory steps leading up to s moen landing by spacensen, the Boylet news sgonoy Taas reported.

The predicilon was made by Nikolai. Barbastov, member of the Soviel Academy of Belenora, writing in ihe Ausdemy's official

· pabiloniion · "The Monitor."AFF,

to be used in connection with any book, article or publication in the press or otherwise con- cerning any incident or conver- zation which may be within his knowledge by reason of his plaintiff's having been in the service,"

THE QUEEN MOTHER The injunction also restrained

Mr Cronin

to was butler Payne from publishing any in- Princess

And Mr Margaret

but Antony Armstrong-Jones,

formation about The Quezzi Mother, or any member of the

Royal family, or on any matter left their services about three which might concern them, weeks atter they had moved into which might be communicated their Kensington Palace home. to the Press.

Mr Payne wus footinan to

The order made by the Judge Princess Margaret for about a allowed Payne to apply for the year before her wedding to Mr He left discharge of the Injunction, the Armstrong-Jones, statement concluded,

Clarence Houte shortly before the wedding.

In Scptember 28-year-old Mr Payne said he was considering an offer to join another former Royal servant, Mr Cronin, in America.

Thomas

. The arst of eight instalments of Payne's memoirs appeared in a Paris newspaper last week- end.--Reuter,

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