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No. 37908
Established 1845 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1961.
American engineers
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents
off
On Pan Am
ON EVERY FLIGHT From Hong Kong
agree to call strike
Phone 37031
of the PLANE FLIGHTS TO RESUME
day
A WELCOME APPOINTMENT
TO with any know-
Nledge of the considerable
Anancial
11ongkong
outlays
which
will have to make in the years aherl will envy the new Financial Secretary, Ms J. J. Cow- perthwaite who takes prer on the retirement of Mr A. G. Clarke in April.
Ilut if there is one consolation
for Government as much as the public over the kes who has been HO of one closely associated with the tremendous changes that have transformed Hongkong in recent years it Is this: Mr Clarke's BULCESSOR brings to the pust not only
a remarkably varied experi- ence and a brilliant record in the field of economic administration, but
ability and understanding of his duties that have won
him wide commendation from the many he has been associated with.
TTIS appointment was wide-
Hy anticipated and for
#
une who has been such n deserving candidate for substantive senior post for so long, Wednesday's am- nouncement will bring gen- erul satisfaction.
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Presidential Britain's Princess Margaret's ca OPERATIONS
intervention
successful
By WILLIAM J. EATON
Washington, Feb. 23. President Kennedy announced the end of the costly six-day-old strike of airline flight engineers late today and the 'airlinos immediately began arranging rosumption of foreign and domestic passenger service.
Mr J, G. O'Donnell, PAA's | Regional Director, said in Hong- kung this morning that his air-
will resume operation im- mediately,
Flights across the Pacific will start tomorrow and fights Europe, on Sunday.
to
The incoming flight from U.S. will arrive in Hongkong at 1.30 En tomorrow and leave ut 5.45 pm, he added.
The
agreed engineers union with the Airline Pilots Associu. tion and six airlines to resunie operations while u special pre-
commission sidential
investi- gates the dispute between the engineers and the carriers. The commission immediately settled down to work.
The
the
agreement, which president announced in a state ment he read personally Widle House reporters, covered World Airways. Fan American American Airlines, Trans-World
Airlines, N Airlines, Easternt tonal Airlines and the cargo- carrying Flying Tiger line.
Though less in the public eye except on Budget day and at Council meetings than his peripatetic some of colleagues whose duties re- quire them to see, as much as to be seen around the Colony, Mr Clarke has had close and frequent contact with bankers, businessmen, brokers, traders and manu- facturers, as any goud and least partial service tomorrow well-informed Government and song, which had not been treasurer should have, and shut down completely by the
has enabled
him to ske,
thin
establish a reputation for giving as much incentive
Partial
All of the Ave blg potsenger carriers planned to re: ume at
started pulting un additional flights immediately.
American and Eastern were scheduled to resume operations and encouragement 18 -tumorrow, TWA way due to possible to
bunic Those features of the economy on which the livelihood of au many depend.
resume tomorrow with its Con- vair 880 superjets and 707 jets, with the first fight having New York at Dam, EST (1400 GMT) for Los Angeles. TWA's first International fight will leave FOT only is Mr Cowperth | New York for Parls and Rome
likewise well-
on Saturday night,
Note
Eastern
10
known to the commercial community as 11 conscien-
scheduled Farlern was tious officer who has dis- charged his several duties resume its east coast jet service admirably but his offcial tomorrow with flights between New York to San Juan, Mexico con- missions overseas in
and Montreal. American was nection with trade pro-
due to get underway with an motion and restrictions have
8.45 am EST (1345 GMT) flight brought him into intimate from New York to Los Angeles contact with the Colony's National which had been "foreign' problems;
operational, 50 partly
scheduled much su, indeed, that his additional Ights immediately
IRA STRIKE AGAIN
Belfast, Feb. 24. Police Det up road- blocks on the Northern
Republic Ireland Irish border yesterday after blaste were reported to have damaged bridges in
Kinawicy County Fermanagh,
Several explosions were reported. A month age, raiders blew up a bridge on a main road two milea from Kinawley,
the
Area
of
Troops and police whe were rushed to the area were treating the incident as the work of extremist members of the outlawed Irish Repubile · Army."
The As pledged to unite the British-governed North with the Republic, by force if necessary.-
Reuter.
W. New Guinea
trusteeship opposition
The Hague, Feb, 23. Spokesmen of all govern
ment parties in the Dutch Second Chamber (lower house) of Parliament to- day opposed any United Nations trusteeship over West New Guinea, which Indonesia claims. They were speaking on New Guinea and relutions with In debate on the 1961 budget of donesia on the third day of the the Foreign Ministry.
new post could more litting after the President's announed-for New Guinea until the terri-
ly have been that of Econo¦ment.-UPI,
mic Director and his reapon- wibilities correspondingly broadened to include every suspect of economic planning and administration. Perhaps in due course his job
will assume this wider con- ! notation. It is a necessary post and the big develop ments which He ahead are bound to omphasise the aced for this vital liaison be
vate enterprise. And there could be no more suitable candidate for such an office.
Decimal
V
£ s d
London, Feb, 23.
tween Government and pri- The Government agreed to- day that it is casier to do arithmetic with dollars and cents than with pounds, shillings and pence,
IT is a matter of regret that
IT
first
legal casino
By ROBERT MUSEL
London, Feb. 23, Britain's first legal gambling casino was open for busi- ness today and nightclub owners hoped it would blossom into a challengo to the gambling supro- macy of Monte Carlo and the French Riviera,
"Anything these foreign casinos can do we can do just as well," said John Mills, who runs the elegant Les Ambassa- deurs Club in mansion that once was the home of the bank- ing Rothschlids.
The first of the British casinos
to actually
EO into operation under the new bet-
is in ing law
a smail salon behind the Mayfair Club Berkeley-square.
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But Mr Mills is importing equipment and experienced French croupiers for a large- scale gambling operation rehe- duled to open" In April.
SPRING INFLUX
+
to
Several other clubs plan open gaming rooms about the same time to catch the spring flux of tourists from the United States and Europe.
The new British betling law permits games of chance in
homes private
(membership clubs technically, are classed as
homes) private
operate "bank" to collect a share of the betting as is done in Monte Carlo and other casinos,
The Mayfair Club is keeping stakes comparatively low bye.. cause legal experts still ary studying this aspect of the new law.
stolen in LondonR
London, Feb. 23. Four youths snatched Car belonging to Princess Margaret and her husband Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones tonight and drove wildly through Thie streets of London with police In hot pursuit.
The car, a little Nash Metropo-
Htan, was stolen from out- side a house in the fashion- able Kensington district.
chase. Two of the youths panicked. leaped from the tolen car and disappeared up an alley,
Then the police car cornered
the runaway
car and headed it into the curb. Two other youngsters jumped out and tried to escape, but one of them was grabbed by the Cops and held for question Ing.
A police squad car spotted it | The Princess's car-No. 498
speeding through a nearby } square and hurtled into
the i
AXN--was stolen in Upper Philimore Gardens, about A
half mile from Kensington Palace where the Royal 14 couple have their home, could not be immediately established whether they wore visiting friends at the time of the theft. Scotland Yard was alcried and told all squad care to look out for the Princess's missing vehicle.
was the first time on recoră that a car owned by Royalty has been stolen by one of car-thieving
London's many gangs,—AP.
Bombay police clash with demonstrators who
tried
to follow the Queen
Bombay, Feb. 23.
Police wielding long wooden staves tonight clashed with hundreds of shouting demonstrators who tried to march on the Governor's resi. dence where the Queen is staying.
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IN KATANGA
Elisabethvillo, Feb. 23. The Katungo Government admitted today its troops are continuing an offen- sivo in central Katanga. Meanwhile, the United Nations complained that Katanga forcon were fighting at two other Interior of the points in the country!
This
Came Д
President Tahombo
day
after annoubend
an agreement between the UN jaról Kutunga to atop all move
ments of troops likely to cause friction.
A Kalanga pokesman clulmed the agreement really covered only "rources of frie- tion between UN troops and that the Kainga troops and
did not cover any agreement operations against Baluba rebels.
The spokesman said, “In any event our troops are only nd- vancing in the Bukama area und as they are not meeting any opposition they can't really be said to be lighting."
Denial
But officials cald Police said 85 were arrested as meeting. But the party decided |
tonight's He denied UN reports that the demonstrators, organised by
insignificant whra Katinga företa were fighting in to carry on with the demon- clash whe a leftwing splinter party, sturm-
the warmth Djubo and Kachlala-two points stration despite the loss of their measured against ed up from Chowpatty beach leaders.
and cheerfulness of Bombay's on roads leading to Madono, a and attempted to follow the Nearly 2,000 people were at welcome to the Queen, as she big tin mining centro occupied
the Queen's-core-the end of her
meeting just before the drove through the cityph
by Congolese troops from 20-mile drive from Bombay air- Queen drove by, but
Tonight the Queen wearing a | Stanleyville, many were only curious spectators." port.
of white broderie
claimed, They were protesting agalarst
The Between 300 ard 500 were Anglaise and diamond tiara
spokesman "unnecessary extravagance" in reported to hawo attempted went to dinner at the Gov-African refugees from Manono spending publle money to wel- after the meeting to march un
area have arrived in Kishiala ernor's residence. come the Queen to India.
tho Kaj Bhavan--the Mate Later she
by Katanga watched a show to see protection The marchers we called out Governor's residence-beside the of Indiary fashions and attended troops from marauding Stanley
Villo by the Socialist Party of Tadia, Arablan Sea, where the Queena reception
troops foraging for food He added. a small breakaway group from is staying.
south of Manono, the Praja Socialist Party, which
that Katanga troops had medo welfare facilities available for campaigns mostly against the
the refugeen there-AP, ure of English India.
No further
The demonstration began on Chowpatty beach, just below the But a representative of the Quain's procession route, which famous "Greek Syndicate of was at one time a ineeling place the French Riviera checked In for Indlat natio.alists protest for a look since the idea of ing against Britain's rule, legal gambling in' this vetting- Among those arrested in to mad nation "sounds like big night's clash was n Socialist money in the future,
member of the Indian Partia- ment, Prabhu Narain Singh, BIG AS ELSEWHERE
who was bundled into a police "When we really open up. van as he came up onto the road after addressing several hundred bet and the amounts Jost will be as big as these
peop! the beach, anywhere," Mr Mills" saidì. "The biggest gamblers abroad are the
and I am
sure many of than would like to play th to London instead of having journey overseas."
British
won or
Mr Mills has retained Chan Canosta, a TV mathematics and They sald Holland should card wizard, to modify such continue to
baccarat bear responsibility card Rames as
ond chemin de fer so that players tory should determine its own will have the equal chance the future, and urged the Govern- new law demands.UPI. ment to do everything to bring West Now Guinea
determination
pasible,
SODI
to self-
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Spokermen of the Labour STOP PRESS:
Party however said. Holland should tennster the sovereignty
Jover West New
Guinea to the
United Nations or to a group
of countries around the terri- FORGED NOTES
tury. They felt that Holland
wita gratullously placing sel CASE VERDICT
of the
in danger in a part
it had nothing to world where gain.-Router.
Bombay, Feb. 23, Eleven person, including six policemen, were injured in G Hindu-Moslem religious clash
this year should witness Sir David Eccles. Minister of near a mosque at Manathala, 25 the departure of two senior Education, told the House of Government. officials
who Common, The available evi-milen from Trichur, in Kerala,
have played a lending part |dence Suggests thent dreimal Buins might well be In the almost explosively money
teach than rums expansive years of the last quicker to decade. But in the loss of using our present currency."
The Goverrununi has an-
cfletule said today,—AP,
A young. Pakistant Malm .Mohamad, accused of utter- Ing forged USSZO siotes, was found guilty by Mr Juilee Scholes in the Criminal Bessions this after- noon and sentenced to a total of 28 months jail. (See P5, final submissions).
Tanker explosion
Earlier today police bad arrested 15 other Socialist Party leaders in the Bombay district after they threatened to call the
MERGERS, TAKE-OVERS
PROTEST
London, Fob, 23.
A mass meeting of 30,000 trado unionists hero last night passed a resolution condemning the Govern. ment for failing to pro- vent mergers and take- overs in the nowspaper industry.
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on the lawns of the house to the sound of waves They got no further than the of the Arabian Sea beating on road, where police armed with the shore a few yards away Inthis heavy wooden staves — barred their way.
After a brief clash the ring-
leaders were swept into walting pollee vans.
and
Sunburned Thousands of Indiana British residents greeted the
as she arrived at Sant Late tonight, poilce were still Queen
Bangalore on the road with their lathir, Cruz aliport from
Her arms were deeply today. and the police vants were also there, But both Indlan and unburned after her rest at a British officials any there is nehill report yesterday,
From the airport the Queen significance in the incident.
The Socialist Party said it had and Duke drove nine miles 10 called the neeling to protest Asia's biggest milk colony at
£3,300,000 project. against
wastage Aang,
Reuter. involved in the Queen's visit,
"enormous
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Evansville, Ind., Feb. 25. "Free TV" suld the sign al Mary's Motel, and someone took it literally.
St
The molel owner sald a guent
drove away with a $225 porta- ble television set.—AP.
alesale
sale
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"The meeting's resolution aimed chiefly at the rival bids by the Daily Mirror group and Mr Roy Thomson, the Canadian
ta
gain press millionaire, foothold in the £40 million Odham's group, one of the and largest single newspaper magazine groups in the world.
The meeting was called by the joint action committee uf. the Federated Chapels of Odhamu, the Doly Mirror, Thomson's, the Times and the Daily Express. La Plata, Feb. 23. tanker at the time of the explo-
The resolution declared: "Be- At least four, crew members! rlon,
lieving as we do that press A Conservative Farty Mem were killed nble foundation, has been
and several were The 10,370-ton Florenting take-overs are as dangerous to laid in both tholk depart ber of Parliament, Mr Wilfred injured today when an explo Ameghino was built in England democracy and
Proudfoot, had questioned Blou ripped
to the public read ne Argentine, in 1925. 'It was owned by the choice of what they monta. Hongkong owes David on the effect of a decimal Florentino Ameghino, much to them both, and the system
the Argentine State Oil Monopoly. well as to jobs of those in the on teaching mathe-Argentine
Const Guard re- Officials said the explosion Industry we urge the Govern- debt will be Cucktiowledge |matles.
to probably was caused by sparks ment
parties ask the who In the as much by those
Government spokesman salti The binst split the tanker in from a welding device during a concerned to halt all negotiations inhorit what · It' has 'beon chambers of commerce, local two and both portions were repair. Job, Accumulated gos until it has considered the repari their predecessors" enter--| government officials, and other set afire.
was believed responsible since of the Royal Commission prise, and their distinction digs were "heavily in favour Some 20 of the crew were the ship had been unloaded be- the Press Just set up."-China
of the change."-UPI. to create.
fore undergoing overhaul,AP. Mali Spetul,
Mr Clarko and the Directornounced it now la deciding of Education, Mr Crozier, whether to replace Britain's there is the reassuring pounds system with a decimal knowledge that an, invalu- morey system.
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