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No. 37883
Comment of the
day
The 707 era
NOTHER 111 airliner way into Kai
A wings its
Tak this afternoon this time wearing the colours of Germany's Lufthansa air- lipen. Laat week it was Air-India's turn and in December Boac launched its trans-Pacific 707 flight. Later this year, Qanlis will introduce the same airliner between here and Sydney, To the local citizen the pre-
cession of new airemft re cently Aut been a Bittle bewildering. Some have been superseded antl Jeguled to less important duties in less than a year
the high and
erat constant modernisation fras been apparent to nd who have at any time bought an air ticket.
of
TODAY, the biggest inter-
national airlines will probably consider them selves satisfied with their current orders for the next Lew
youts, though, of course,
Jiew und exciting aircraft are always on the drawing board. And since an airline is highly
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Former Salazar opponent reported ringleader PORTUGUESE LINER PIRATED
British frigate Firemen in
trailing
Santa Maria
in Caribbean
New York, Jan. 23. United States destroyars were tonight ordered to intercept the Portuguese liner Santa Maria reported taken over at gunpoint in the Caribbean earlier today.
1
to
Reports in Ottawa said a gADE) The cause of the coup was of 60 men took over the liner not clear. But it was såld to do with with 800 men, women and child have something
to 10 Galvao's determination not ren aboard, and threatened Scuttle it ir approached by a be returned to Portugal. Last reported living in Argentina, warship,
saith to have boarded
A British frigate was reported to be trailing the seized ship.
The U.S. Navy said tonight it Was sending an undisclosed number of destroyers to Inter- petitive and always anxious sent the vessel under the terms
COM-
to maintain and improve
upon its share of the world
its
travelling public it canuot affort to lug behind rivals in the quality of the fleet it employs.
But the modern traveller will have noticed two distinct features about present-day air travel. One is that the sew airliners by appre- ciably faster than those they are replacing, and the other is that the air particularly over busy air- parts is becoming more and more congested.
NUMBER of recent
seems th
A accidents
of
NO COMMENT
Portuguese Government Lisbon refused sources in
ta comment early today on the seizure of the Santa Maria.
for
the the
A spokesman owners of the ship. Companhia Colonial da Nevegacao, said that they had been informed by the Government that 3 croup of passengers had "assault- ed" the ship shortly after
It had left Curacao.
The erew was not volved in the seizure, added.-Router.
in-
he
he was Maria in the Far
the Santa
East.
The Canadian reports said
the ship Innded the woundest at Santa Lucia In the Blush West Trates and then headed out to
ze again.
The vessel was bound from the East Indies via Lisbon to Miami. It was suggested that the rebris might head the ship with its hundreds of American, Dutch, Portuguese and Venezuoi) Jun passengers towards Brazli,
London, the In
Admiralty
slated at ser un Tuesday that the frigate Rothesay had soiled in search of the Santa Maria.
The Rothermy was visiting Santa Lagia.
A U.S. Navy spokesman sald that the Navy bad picked up a broadcast giving details of the incident.
He said that a British Trigale was apparently the list to inter- cept the mesage,
On watch
A Coast Guard spokesman told Reuter by telephone that the
plane wreckage
Firemen among wreckage of Mexican Airlines DC-8 jet pláné áfter it crashed on Thursday--nçar - Idlewild Air- pott, New York, with: 106 aboard.—AP photo.
Record Duchess of Windsor
share dealings
Rothesay had sent a message to There was a record morning
Barbados, which had relayed it to the Coast Guard al Mini International Law govera-
insurrection that all ships in the area were and aboard ships. It was also send being told to watch out fur the ing two aircraft to search and Santa Maria-Reuter. drop. flares,
emphasise these hazards, though the airlines claimi that their ageident rate is not excessive. For example, the major international carrie recorded only 10 nccidents in the 84,920 ing piracy million passenger kilo- metres down in 1959 and 20 accidents in 75,321 million passenger-kilometres in the previous year. The fatality rate fell from 4.77 per million passengers in 1958 to 1.39 in 1959.
As statistics these are real-
The Canadian Pries news
quoted a reliable in- agency
Otlawn as saying formant in one of the cruise ship's officers nother wounded was shot an by hand grenade when the gang arrested them at gunpoint
suring but the passenger and took control at about 9 am
nevertheless entitled Lo (10 pm HKT) today.
know that there are con-
tinuing efforts to ensure
his safety and that the mul
of new planes is not out- stripping the development
of safety or navigational
Well armed
The agency said the phrates
reported to be were
excep ionally well armed,
There was no word of any
10 passengers not in-
aids or increasing the risk harm
of human or mechanical volved in the takeover,
error.
The agency raid the takeover
E feellugs of the travel-avas led by a Portuguese ex-
sidered in another respect:
prominent opponent of Dr what is preferable, increas-Antonio Salazar's Portuguese re- ing speed or added comfort?ime who escaped two years go wille serving a 10-year term for Many who remember the incitement to revolt. old lying bants and the
A month later he took refuge night stops which were a the Argentine Embassy in feature of their lights look Lisbon, He appealed for asylum back nostalgically to the and was later allowed to leave days when they could arrive for Buenos Aires, refreshed, instead of tired and jaded as does the present-day traveller.
for a tourist-class fare but
In
Administrator
Kennedy
will use diplomacy
on
turnover
the Stock Exchange this
morning when $7.7 million worth of business was recorded. Banks were in heavy demand
unit after rising $25 in the morn- ing Anished at $1,500 up $5.
Providents, Lancs, Lights. Electries, Telephones, Cements and Amalgamated Rubber were also active but there were only occasional gains. Most Anished steady on lower.
STARS ACTIVE
"But those
ends 24 years
of
silence
New York, Jan. 23: The Duchess of Windsor ended her silence about "twenty-four years of persecution" today, .with the disclosure that her husband was hurt deeply by the. treatment received from his family and former subjects since he abdicated as King Edward VIII to marry her.
British
Morrison case
INSPECTOR
TELLS OF
APPARENT BLOODSTAIN
Traffic Inspector John R.
Johnson told the Cause- way Bay Magistracy this morning that at the scono of an accident in Wonchai last October ho saw what appeared to be a blood-
FROM ADEN TO HK- TO SEE FIANCE
Journey of love had an abrupt end for Druscilla
Singapore, Jan. 22, Lovo prompted aubum-haired Druscilla Yorbury, 18, to throw up her secretariat job in Aden and take a trip to Hongkong-to pay a surprise call fiance.
on hor
But today Druscilla sat in the Johore Bahru home of a friend and aid: "I am in a mess now, I don't know how
to to get Hongkong in time to meet my flance. You see I have only gat about $100 with me."
NO FREE SEATS Her flance, Licut John Scolt. a pilot with the aircraft-carrier HMS Hermes, arrived in Hong- kong with his ship on Monday.
The trip from Adon fo Singapore was no trouble for Druscilla,
Her father, an RAF ofleer in.. Aden, had got her a seat in a troop carrier to Singapore. She arrived here last week.,
But Jn Singapore sho found that there were no
DRUSCILLA,
.
Even Star Ferries were active
"... For 24 years, my husband might have been made easler stain and a mark in chalk free seats in any of the RAF with more than 1,000 shares
Goverment which roughly assumed planes bound for Hongkong, changing honds at between $216 has been punished, like a smail had the
And she found that $100 boy who gets a spanking every-assigned a public-relations dir-} and $222.
the figure of a human would not get her ticket to She also A broker said the speculation day at his life for a single trans- ector to their staff.
being."
By there in u civil air-liner. Washington, Jan. 23.
on Banks was possibly connect-gression," the Duchess wrote in complained that instead of being
Inspector Johnson was festi- important to
The RAF authorities, how- President Kennedy todayed with the dividend which is n column of memoirs entitled, given something
a witness. for "All Things Considered".
the ever, agrood to help her in an- in do during World War II, the fying 23 made a deliberate move to be decided today.
against Alexander other way get her a place in Duke was put "out of harm's prosecution who are anticl- McCall's magazine.
way" with an appointment of Morrison, Senior Superintendent on Aden-bound troopship. towards reviving diploma-pating a bonus or new issue are
ona summons for tic channels as the malu out of luck," he added.
with her
"Well there is, always sharp comments | 1tle consequence," the gover-of Police,
careless driving, after an alleg, other day-something may yet about the British, the Baltimore- norship of the Bahamas. method of international
ed collision on October 14 Just crop up and get me to Hong- born Duchess began what is negotiation and at the
a monthly
"Nonetheless," she said, "he year in Queen's-road East near kong sald Druseilla Express scheduled to be same time practically
She served this small British colony Wanchal Market, column In the magazine.
well, with not one voiced mis- ruled out any early sum-
confessed, "The money to use-
giving even to me. Iul." mit meeting.
Omeiats placed this interpre- tation on a statement Issued by | Mr Dean Rusk, Secretary of
State, after a full-scale
£30.000 robbery
London, Jan. 23,
zeview Gwen, Lady Melchett, report- of relations with Russla by President, Kennedy pre his diplomatie and defence chiefs.
Mr Rusi sald no informa→ tion would be given out at pre- sent about the report, discussed
WORTHWHILE
Before his 1958 trint he had then after completing a three careful been held in preventive deten-eady said year prison sentence imposed in 1952- on charges of having or Ranised a plot to overthrow the Government.
flat In
the door was forced.
exclusive
Ridiculous
when she
"In fact, in all these years, he has never mid one ward to me about any of this. Only now, in with him as 10 consulting
to
It was alleged that Morrison's motorcycle collided with a 58- year-old woman.
On duty Inspector Johnson
cald that on that day he was on duly at the Traffic Accident Enquiry Office and shortly, afternoon he received information of
an ac cident.
TESTING BORDER
...PIPELINE
TOMORROW
She said that ed today gams and furs decided to write the column, she whether or not I could write thought: "At just 1 had a chained these things, have we discussed worth £30,000 wore stolen o tell the world what I think it at all. His hurt has been from har flat while the about the treatment of my hur deep, and although I would not was absent for the week-band by his family, the British have our life together one whit (Com,inued on Back Page, Col. 2) and.
Government and many of his different from what it is now, I Naturally he does not ex- Captain Galvao, who is 04, is today, on Mr Nikita Khrush-
South African-born Lady countrymen.
cannot but know that the hurt recent 4lk with Mr Melchert pect arat-class privileges a former colonial administrator chev's
Sa org of Britain's In Afrien. He frst incurred Dr | Llewellyn, Thompson.
"It suddenly occurred to me ho feels has been caused, U.S. wealthiest women. The Goere 1047 Ambassader in Moscow, because of the burglory was her five behind Salazar's displeasure in
come extent, by me" how ridiculou it is to go on na long an London or New when, as a member of the No- such diplomatic
exchange roomed
famly designed, # York continues to be a day tional Assembly, be submitted a must be carried out in private. Bolgruve-square. Detectives sald tain of asbestos
Defence government-manufactured cur- or more away the greatest report criticising conditions In
that protects the British Commonwealth from The Duchess defended herself boon would be the provision Portuguese Angoln.
President Kennedy has al-The loot consisted of various us. It also occurred to me that jand the Duko against accusa- of tourist-class senin with
he will go to Jewellery, including
a playful more leg room and which
turmmil meeting only after
a. costly here was a way to dispel sometions of lvleg
and explodo some existence." By some standards, diplomatic preparation ring, and three minie coala a myths enable the passenger to
and indications that worthwhile white ermine coat and a cable carda that have been cle- probably is, cho sald, but her aloep without sedatives.
agreements had been reached, wrap.
culating about us for a quarter husband is not allowed to take welcoming the new
part in pubile affairs and was This was Eisenhower policy Lady Melchelt, daughter of of a century." therefore,
too,
not trained for business. but President Kennedy the lato E. J. Wilson" of Kel- Galvao escaped in 1959 from contended he did not sticic to erksdorp, Transvaal, air traveller will
18 the a private room on the seventh it and went to last year's Paris widow of Baron Melchett, who
"Anyway," she said, "in his wish the 707s an extended, flour of a Lisbon hospital whore mimmit
position, he could hardly be anfe and prosperous tour of
careful pre died in 1949, Ife was a deputy for trest-paration
Most of the unpleasantness of come the manager of duty. Compliments are also ment. The hospital was called success,
and without hope of chairman of Imperial Chemical the 24 years are dim and faded, automobila showroom" due for the airliner Increas- the Santa Maria.
Mr Rusk said it was. intended)
said, but what remains Lady Melchett offered a re-clear is "the attitude. of Great She also denied necusations Hospital officials sald Galvao to use the diplomatie ingly attractive hospitality
that she and the Duke rely on and
for the
varloty of made a dummy in his bed by "freely" for talks with foreign ward of £1,000 for the return Britain toward my “husband.”
the help of others to maintain 'under the governments in future, and the of one of the stolen articles a routes they offer. The three packing clothes
watch belonging. to her She said, “I think the Monar-↑ thee starsdard of living. great aims for the future blankets and rolling us a pull-value of this channel depended gold
over to look like a hemt.
on is privacy. The pubile had sort He was lilled inconchy's look of, dignity toward him
"I would Illon to stato, héro howover must ho: cheaper It was reported last May that a right to Information, but not with the Royal Navy dně 1048, then, and occasionally now, has
ongo and for all Wine: the Duke flights, more comfort and an ¦ four men wet to be tried on a to the disclosure of every ex- "It was the only thing I had been resented."
greater dogres of | charge' of hiding Galvao after change between on envoy and a jeft which was hic,” she told The Duchess indicated their and I pay our blist sho said. nafety.
his escape.
foreign government.-Router. [reporters-AP,
dealings with Press and public UPL
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local
even
the
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Testing the water pipe- iloe across the border will take place tomorrow, reliable
the source sold China Mall this morning,
The line, built in two actions or Chiness and Bettish sides,
Dom- pleted recently.
Fresh water will be: piped from Shumchun rom servole ita finere ferritory. to Hongkong.
The ato for starting the new susply. “nid water, hours for the Colony have nos yet been decided upon;;
Service
Where's that tiger?
Jaipur, Jan. 23. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, took part in a day and night tiger hunt in the Rajasthan Junglo today but had no luck. Some of the 200 beaters sight- ed a tiger in the afternoon and went after it. But the tiger did not go ony where near the machans shooting platforma 25 foot high where the Royal couple were waiting.
At night they find a four- "hour" vigu, mostly in darkness, during which no prey was sight- ed and no shot'fired.
The Boynl'couple, who are on aj 12-day #inta visit to Indio, then returned to the Maharajah of "Jalpise'a, hunting lodgo,
Tha:Royal' party will make a third attempt to bloot, a, Ugur tomorrow before returning to Now Demi · by art overnight train, officials said later. --- Router, ty
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