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CHINA

No. 37876

Established 1945

MONDAY, JANUARY' '16, '1961.

LATE FINAL

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

LIBRARY, SUPREME COURT

6-JETS

A WEEK TO

EUROPE

DAILY ! EXCEPT THURSDAYS

PHONE

.37031

8,000 lose homes: 1,000 huts destroyed at Hunghom

of the DISASTROUS SQUATTER

day

SERVICE WITH

A SNARL

Particle which

F, say, you buy a ulity

you

into good money, we hold

it to be fundamental so the deal that you have a rikut to. good service and an on-

the epol replacement spire parts when become necessary.

shey

And we are becoming in-

creasingly aware from per- Loant experience, and from manny reports from various directions that too many Arms are too muxious to close the original sale with- out any thought to the aur- vice which should follow. Stated baldly, that means too many concerns 72545 2971 the quick make, without any thought beyond today's sale, and allowing tomorrow to take care of itself. Let us name a few of the items which have been the anarce of complainis.

small

cheap

spring

Two children

among known dead

One of the biggest squatter fires since the-

disastrous Christmas Night fire at Shek Kip Mei eight years ago broke out in the large squatter area at Valley-road, in the Hunghom district of Kowloon, just before dawn this morning.

Estimates

تا رہے

the casualties range from four to six people !--two ef them children - killed. Ten people were lajurnal. Two of the injured have beca detamed in hospital for treat- mosit.

to have

The fire is believed st: rted in a small hut used for making rubber shoes. The Baines, fed by strong winds. valley, spread over the whole

A wick for an oil burner; a completely gutting all the esti- formated 1,000 huts with the gxeep- ation of about ten isolated struc- tures standing on the top of the Jill

ati expensive lighter:

for part spare

2 47 machine; and of all things, spare bulbs for a particular set of Christmas tree lights, We could continue with a long list of items, but are nure that many readers have experienced this irritation which places a high priced

article out of use for watc of a spare costing a few dollars.

is

firmas

pify that many expanding ta L respectable size do not seem able to appreciate that to- morrow's goodwill is in- finitely more important than today's quick dollar. Too many firms have the tourist complex, existing ander the delusion that to

The number of homeless estimated to be over 8,000. When the squatter are was screened three years ago, a total of 7.000 people living in about 700 huts was registered by the Resettle- ment

but Department people are known to have moved in since then.

Low hills

mere

The recne of the fre is a range of low hills shaped like n horse-ahoe with the opening Chatham-road. 'flue facing northern brin is called

68 RESCUED

BY FIRE

BRIGADE

Sixty-eight terrified people, trapped on a 89- foot high ledge on a hill- side overlooking Chatham- road, were rescued by the Fire Brigade at the height of the big squatter fire at Valley-rond early this morning.

The Fire Brigade used turniable ladders to reach the trapped men, women and children, who Were huddled together on the small ledge after they had been forced to seek refure there by the raging flames.

The

rescue operation уда carried out quickly despite the Intense heat and dense smoke swirling about the area,

matsheds

and

Valley Meanwhile, Hill, the southern, Tai Hing Hill. į temporary canoples are being erected in the Talwan Swim- ming Pavilion adjoining Kow- loon Docks, to give temporary the thousands of

T:c Bre started about 4,30 this morning while the inhabi-

shelter tarts were still in their beds.

gusty wind that was victims.

The

morrow the tourist is out wing at The time, strong The fee was beginning to de- of sight and out of mind. theuth to a thick branches velop into what Bremnes call a They seem unable to appre- „from full trees, farmed the en- |"fire storm" when the winds ciate also that the arm flagration and sent sparks subsided, thus enabling the Fire which gains local confidence hundreds of fert away to start Brigade to bring the blaze un-

der control. by honesty and good service, new tires,

is the firm which will reap Before firemen had the change the rewards when the quick to complete laying the hoses, the dollars are unavailable.

whole range of hills was engulf-

Apart from the practicated in flames.

aspect

The

Tons of water

Brigade

Kowloon mustered eight fire engines and pumps and called on five more engines and pumps from the 1s

and The wind swept dames of the situation.

burning embers across the whole there is an ethical obliga-10-11 width of Chatham-road to tion to the customer. How ignite the wooden roof 13 well land to help. much advertising, good or as rooftop huts of a four-sICTEY Fire Flout No 2 came along- bad, is obtained when peo- building at The junction otside Hunghom ferry wharf and ple" meet?

A raw deal is Chatham-road and Cooke-street. pumped tons of water from the bound to be broadcast when friends meet, just as honest dealing and good service is recommended merely people who wish to share their good fortune.

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address these

those

Arms

by

Registration

At the foot of Tai Hing Hill which there is a peirel station

to

could have added disastrous tuel o the fire. To prevent this sta- IXE would seriously tion from becoming involved, points two fire engines were stationed which on each end of the station arc defaulting this pump water on to the hill slope

in good business service, and behind it.

Both motor and pedestri put it to them that you trafe were slowed down in cnnnot do down the public Chatham-road because of all the time. Now from entangturment of hoses,

Bam.

the

Condi-

too little service to tootions improved slightly at about¦ much of the wrong kind. We know that some con- cerna Tun

sea to feed the thousands of feet of hoses.

Members of the Fire Brigade who were off-duty were recalled for fre Dghting operatiens. Members of the Auxillary Fire Service and the Civil Ald Ser- vices were also called out assist.

Monsoon signal lowered

10

A strong north-east monsoon from North China struck Hong- kong in the early hours of this morning.

This graphic picture taken by a China Mait photographer at 5.45 am today shows huge flames" engulfing, squatter, linte in

the Valley-road fire.

A valley of death and destruction. This picture taken after dawn shows burnt-out huts-all that remains of. 1,000 squatter homes which were destroyed by fire carly this morning at Hunghom.

Landslide win

for Chiang

Talpel, Jan. 10. Unofficial returns gave the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek's ruling party,

landslide 80.3 per cent victory in yesterday's local elections in Formoso,

The ruling party was credited with winning 746 out of 929 Betts involved..

followers

20

an

LIQUID OXYGEN LEAK AT MISSILE BASE

Munro-Smith on 3 charges BOY'S DEATH IN VANGHAI MISHAP

A police doctor told Mr I. T. Morris at Causeway Bay Court this morning how an 11-year-old boy was killed in a Wanchai' traffic accident last

year.

out a valid Heence and driving a The cyclo was making a eer with defective brakes.

Loud clatter as it was being Another cummons for driv- dragged along louder than the trom car, he noise made by ing'a car with a defective stcor-

continued,

FIRE

The Queen

concerned over: Royal train breakdown

London, Jan, 15. The Queen today jokingly referred to a recont Royal troin brookdown as "an unfortunato incident," and said she was sorry for theo mokors of the diesel locomotive,

She discussed the maller when 18-year-old Marlin Lee visited Sandringham House the Queen's Norfolk home-lo receive a gold medal she awards annually to the leading scholar at the grammar school at King's Lynn,

Martin, now

at Cambridge, was accompanied by his heads master, who said the Queen spoke of the 50-minute holdup- on the way lo Sandringham last Wednesday and sald she ap preciated a great many people were inconvenienced by it.

Apparently she was "com- pletely unworried" herself, but was far mere, concerned about the delay's effect on other passengers.

The

Queen alco expressca sympathy for British Railways

the trouble they

In

encountering

With

programme.

modelTHDRAWN

were

their

Last month some trains were withdrawn

the from electrided Eastern

newly- Region line from London-after about 100 train failures in less than three weeks.

Nine

doya later, newly- Introduced electric trains from

Glasgow were withdrawn from service after a series of elec- trical faults, including an CX- plosion.

Ne chanets were taken yes- terday, when Princess Margaret and her husband, Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones, camto 10 Sandringham,

The Royal train's new diesel locomotive was replaced by an eight-year-old

steam engine. It arrived only two minutes behind schedule, China Mail Special

Big gold haul

Buenos Aires, Jan. 16. Federal pollice said gold worth about 60 million pesos ($750,000) and weighing 1,500 lbs was reported stolen from the airport on Sunday. The gold was being held in a locked room after arriving

enroute to Buenos Aires banis The pollee said the report they

received from four customs men guarding the gold was:

Four other men wearing avia- tion mechanic's overalls entered the hangur early yesterday with guns. They held up the guards, loaded the gold bars into a jeep hour. He sold, he had put out his marked with the name of an air- left hand to stop the car.

line, and drove off. Mr Charles Waterhouse, Gov-

The customa men were ques ernment Mechanical Inspector,ttoned.AP

exermined defendant's said he car on September & and his first Impression was that the car was badly nedected. The car was a. Jeguar of 1817 vintage.

The Social Welfare Depar service department staff and Hunghum Ku ments, and that these ser.

long Wellare Association storied

The monsoon signal WAS

Dr Federick Ong, a police Ife sald he turned and saw the European help to lift the vice departments are there, registration of victims soon after raised ut 6.05 am and was

This was substantially more forensic pathologist, was testify- a car, under which Was A car, not only to offer service but dawn. The registration of vic- lowered tour hours later. than the two-third expected and ng against Bruce Munro-Smith bicycle and a boy. Both were Tam said the car was travell

the to make profts.

tims is tiring place in

Strong winds snapped was hailed by Chlang Kai-shek's of 801 Loke Yew Building, who being dragged along by the car Ing nt about 20 to 20 miles per We also know that sometimes playing, field at the corner of branches of trees in parts of

impressive is facing three summonses for which was driven by a middle- triumph.-AP.

dangerous driving, driving with- ages European. there are sales drives when Chatham-road and Wuhu-street, the Colony. one territory is played off againat another. There is nothing wrong about that.

is But there something radically wrong when sales enthualasm outstrips Honcaty. The best manufactured article is bound to develop a fault after long usage. It in within the terms of the The contract that the user then becomea responsible for the coats of any replacementų of worn parts. That is part

of the necessary give and take of commerce. And

But to than faults more there really are, and to

-SENIOR RAF OFFICERS POSTED

Loadon, Jan. 15. Air Ministry sald today that two Belor offer at a Thor missile base on the epat count

were being posted la other appointments.

This follows a leak of highly inflammable liquid oxygen al the bane.

emphasise them by using The Ministry had

#

technical jargon

for of beyond the ken 11:0 average housewife or lay- And In tiahonest. inan. with no apologies, we state that too many are indulging in this dishonesty,

been asked to 'comment on a newspaper report that there had been “a hushed-up sccident in which 1,000. gallons of highly

innammabio rocket fact escaping from a storage lank threatened to turn the base inte an infernO.”

| A NUnistry spokesman replied:

"Yes, there was this feak of liquid oxygen. It happened on Deormber 7, during routine training.

"There were no coastaliles und

00

Anything more.

ing wheel was dismissed.

Dr Ong testifled that he per- formed a post mortem on

the

Dragging boy

to

the

Tha

The under side of the car WEB

Stopped

boy. 11-year-old Slu Shing- He also said he shouted to chok who, he said, was identi- the driver to stop. Pedestrians very dirty and not correctly led by defendant as. the boy along both sides of the road lubricated, he added,

accident in an If connected with the oc- | involved

When he put hià foot on the shouting or were iso

car brake, ho said he had to push it currence, but we cannot say August 17 at Johnston-road. driver, he added.

to the floor which Dr Ong said that bruises on stopped finally at the Junellon right down

also caused his foot to depress "The squadron commander is the leh side of the face of the of Fleming-road."

moving too. This is also in | boy were caused by a tyre. Yuca Wan-chun, a cashier, the accelerator. relation to this DOCETTENDE. Abrasions on the body were corroborated Ling's evidence. This le mêl I have been told,” fire, although the locat

consistent with the body being

Lo Chol, who was walking fire brigade was called out sa

On the suggestion that the Air ¦ dragged along the ground. along, testifled that he ran afler

VYRE Mulatay a precutor. To believ

the car together with five or incideni โด BOCIETY, there was no danger si al),”

seven other people wher | The newspaper had said a spark

spokesman said:

saw the car dragging the boy car had the did fashioned be could have destroyed most of

caused by and the bleycle. His object was mechanism and not hydraulic the bear, with fia 15 misslies

the boy, was brukes, he said. - lino in this matter is that we fracture of the skull which Dr to see whether and mostly 1.000 mest.

think a bit of fun is belox Ong eald way caused by com- either a relative or a friend, Asked if it were trgo that the made there was no úznger pression.

Tam Kee, another pedestrian,| station Group Captain Robert |

Ling Song, a broker, testified said he also saw the car drag- Radiny, was being posted, the The Thor rocket launching base that on the afternon of August ging the boy and the bicycle. spokesman replied:

Via "ône" of, four in Bellada 17, at about 5 pm, he was out- 12 add that he helped to ont.

Zequipped with theso American aids 175 Johnston-reas when lift the car in order to get the -missiles.----China Mail' Spedal, da heard a loud bang. boy out. He said he did not see ❘ noon.

"Ho la moving to another ap

pointment. I think we can say.

cloaking

the the

Fractured skull

"We" admit. It happened. Our Death WAS

The car finally stopped after hé it accelerated; he continued. The

Mr S. Coller, Crown Coun #di, prosecuted,

Suez Canal deepened

Port Sald, Jan. 16. foot draught will be allowed to Beginning today ships of 3534- transit the Suez Canal. the authorities 'sanounced. Until now the maximum wna a 35-foot draught By February 2 it will be increased to,90 feet, by the and of March to 30% and by the end of April to 37 feet.-AP.

Plane crash

ì

Pembroke, Ky, Jan 15,

Mr J. C. B. Slack, of Meara At least five people were Descons, represented defend killed when an Air Force C-110 crashed near Pembroke, 12 miles Hearing-continues this after-northeast of Port Campbell, to-

} night—UPL