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CHINA
No. 37969
Comment Congo
of the day
A raw deal
for some
NOVERNMENT has beet
forced to increase hos
pital charges,
the
reasons for so doing, along with $1
seule of revised
charges, were published in the China Mail on April 28, As this is the first increase since 1952, the announc ment
was not altogether surprising, for as anyone who has lived in the Colony any length of time will have experienced, the cost of living has risen steadily. over the past few years.
In fact there is every reason - for praising Governmen for leaving charges just where they
were in
ference to the Dearest section of the community who receive medical atten- tion, investigation. opera- tions and altending treat- ments, free of charge.
DUT having said that, it
BU
remains to be said that Government has once again ignored that section of the community tport which
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Congo Government will liberate Katanga TSHOMBE ON MURDER CHARGE
Accused of killing Lumumba
Coquilhatville, May 7. Congolese Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko said today thot Katanga President Moise Tshombe would be charged with the murder of former Congolese He also Premier Patrice Lumumba. indicated that force would be used if necessary to "liberate" Katanga from Tshombe's supporters.
ALLEGED
CONSPIRACY
it dependa ass stabilising TO DEFRAUD
factor within the Colony: we refer to the middle lo lower income groupe, roughly clasified as the "white colter workers."
It seems kinder to say that
there is a lack of imagin tion in Government cireles
luck rather than
of for concern
thin
gratis, sick. For consider what 169 mela to Anyone within this class. They can possibly qualify for Bird class accommoda- tion but would undoubtedly prefer use their limited means to afford something better in a class where can fort and consideration niso have a higher vaine.
admit it. TET 11
human democracy, the element is of some account, and dignity is of some worth. None Wish to stand before
test in which every nerve of their personality is shred while They necount for the ex- penditure of their modest exchequer,
means
In a
cases,
On the other hand, necessity might drive a white collar worker into an out-patients'
in most quene, but such
14 persun would willingly sell t he has rather thm submit to such
humiliating
procedure. There is
which this to must be considered. If the white collar group state that Government is being unfair, it is not without TORGOB. For the Gavern-, ment servants and the staff of Hongkong University have their medical services at reduced fees.
HK BANK
A 18-year-old merchant and proprietor of Nelson and Company appeared before
M. Bomboko made the com- ments here during the same press conference at which he announced that Mr Tshombe, currently detained by Leo- poldville authorities here, would be tried on charges of high
treason.
Referring to Mr Lumumba' death, Mr Bomboito said the ex-Premier should have been tried "fur his crimes" be- fore a court in Katanga. Be said Mr Thombe would be ac- assassination 01 eused of the political prisoners, and Mr Lumumba in particular.
Leopoldville authorities trans- ferred Mr Lumumba to Katanga frem detention in Leopoldville Province, and the ex-Premier's death W35 announced several
Mr Derek Cons al Cen-weeks later, on February 13, by tral Court this morning Katanga Interior Minister Gode-
frold Munongo. on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of $93,000.
The
defendant.
Widely accused
Mr Munengo said Mr Laimum- ba and his two companions had Buang-te. of 4 Electric-street, after they had escaped
Hwang been killed by hostile villagers froin round flour, was represented their Kalangan prísun. Me by Miss Helen Lo.
Tshombe himself Was never involved in the 1 was alleged that during lost publicly
circumstances sur- December,
1001 und "January Hwang conspired together with rounding the deaths, but he was Tennis Mad Chlen Han nifas widely accused of being respons Mao Chien-han defraud the sible for Mr Lumumba's Hongkong and Shanghai Bank der. to open a letter of credit to the value of $93,000 on the strength of fulse representations that 300
Lysterious
mur-
Mr Bombuko made the com- ta ment about using, force "liberate" Katanga after spealt
long tons of mixed steel scrap ing of the need to end foreign were to be delivered by Nelson influence in the Congo, particu- and Company to Lee Hing Cularly in Kutanga. (HK) and by inducing the bank General Joseph Mobutu, com- to make payments on the letter mander of the Congolese army, on the strength of false re- presentations that the steel serap was received by Lee Hing
Co
No plea was taken.
Mr D. Remedios. Crown Coun- sel, objected to ball being pant- ed to Hwang mying tha. The money involved was very sub- stantial and that the other per- son was already out of jurisdic-
Extradition tion.
proceedings. however, had cammenced tu bring him back to the Colony, he said.
NO EXTRADITION
was
was ut Mr. Bomboito's side dur ing today's press conference~ AFP.
TORNADOES
STRIKE
U.S. TOWNS
Chicago, May 7.
French Mediterranean fleet sails
Paris, May 7.
Powerful warships of the French Méditerranean Fleet sailed from Toulon today amid indications that the settler extremists of Algiers were building up for new demonstrations against President Charles de Gaulle.
"secret The
Teft ships which
the crackdown on settler Included Mediterranean part
army" elements who supported the carrier Lafayette, the the generals' insurrection and cruiser De Grasses and four house-to-house searches for kid- escort vessels.
on weapons.
Naval sources gave no in- dication where the fleet was heading. But there were signs The siluation Algiers that among the sellers was Lense enough to warrant a show of force by the fleet in Algerian waters.
In Algiers today place chle! Nene Jannin and feal mintary commander General Adolphe Vezinet Issued a joint munique colling on the popula- | tion for calm.
com-
The communique warned the European citizens that they would be minning "the most seric denarter" if they went alena with the
of "Keme" sciller extremists in Algiers.
The wave of arrests continues, In the Midja region itrinediate- ly surrounding Algiers 14 Euro- peans have been arrested in the past 48 hours, mostly for illegal possession of arms-UPI.
Original
90-foot
wave
hit ship
Sydney, May 7.. Commander Jaques Gittson, captain of the French frigate, La Capricieuse, which entered Sydney Harbour early yester- day, claimed that during storm which hil the ship 158 Inties north of Sydney, waves ware 00 feet high.
Commander Gittsus said he was forced to reduce speed to United two knots.
Derby, May 7. Gordon Goldsmith, 46-year- old homeless fabourer, told a magistrates'
court here he got drunk celebrating the States astronaut achievement.
Yours to probably original excise
the most "In all my years at sea, I have quite 80 &ex er heard in never
acns
Mounting signs this court," the chainman teid (ghtening." he said.
the
The clyllians did not deinon-him, in fining Goldsmith 1G strate in nines at the tase of shalings-China Mail Special the abortive army Insurrection
Algiers. Bul since generals' revolt collapsed there nave been mounting signs that the settlers, were in a mood for yet another "French Algeria“ uprising.
household utensis.
Fresh tension in Algiers fol- jowed the massive police
crow
"The storm hit us at 6 pm on of the Thursday, and none officers or
liavo slept since."
La Capricieuse will be In
going dry docking at Cockatoo Dock.
Two wounded Sydney for three weeks under-
#M
Ship on fire
Capetown, May 7.
Mr Remedios added that the Crown had every reason to be- lieve that Hwang
ia Tornadoes struck Arkansas, TT seems very unjust then, possession of a Portugues, pass- Kansas, Oklahoma and
Paris, May 7:
She has come from Noumes that while Government port and if Hwang absconded
A Moslem terrorist rushed Missouri early today and
with #3 officers and men.- servants have recently reto Macao, "we cannot extradite
Recent Algiers nights have into a Paris cafe tonight and flash floods hit many sec. ceived considerable ina Portuguese national."
been notay long after the 9 pm shos die proprietor and his wife China Mail Special. tions of the Midlands. eurfew, Settlers have been wounding them seriously. creases in pay, they have Applying for ball on Hwang's At least six deaths were shouting the "Algerie Française" The terrorist then escaped. such medical privileges, behalf, Miss Lo told the court blamed on the storms in Arkan- rally cry at police patrols und Police said they believed it while the white collar class Hwang did not have any travel sag. Missouri
southern bombarding und
them from bal- was
act of
Vengeance, have to pay higher documents of any kind and that nois,
contes with potatoes and stemming from the time when rates. There is no rhetori-Hwang had been attending the
Two more people died today
the cafe owner ran another bar Commercial Crime Office to cal statement there! It is
from injuries received in the
in an Algerion-inhabited suburb asalat police enquiries for some 1owe, Oklahoma,
tornado оп possible for a family to be time. If Hwang wanted to go Friday night,
of northern Paris.-UPI the bringing brought to poverty by ill-out of Jurisdiction, he could, death toll there to 15. Many Ress, in this Colony.
have left the Colony long ago. were injured. If one section of the commu-
In Berlin (Arkansan) a near- To further support her ap-cloudhurst cent nity should pay, then surely pileation, Mise Lo added that rampaging through the
a flash fload Title R section in receipt of
Hwang's wife and children town
today, smashing housea, I higher salaries, and with were in Hongkong,
washing cars through alora considerable perquisites, should pay also, What is $15,000 na well as the appllear fronts and killing at least six needed ig FLT1 insuraneation for a one-week remand, scheme, sponsored by Gov-
Mr Remedios was resisted ernment, to which the lower by Detective Inspector II. N.
Whiteley of the Commercial Income group could sub-
Crime Offee. seribe, so that, should alck-
come, the 1085
enormous
expenses encountered are offset by such n scheme. Ая things #land at the moment, thero ik overy Justiflention for feeling
tho that
lower
Income
groups are receiving a very row deal when it comes to medient services.
Mr Cune ronted ball
FISH KILLS MAN
A
at
Dersons.
National Guardsmen and state police were rushed to the town, where many of the 5,342 citizens
were hameless.
A woman was rescued from a perch on an air conditioners an tnp of
flooded business buliding.
а
Five inches of rain fell in only a few hours last night, swelling crooked creek to flom proportions. The flood washed Inway 13 houses in the lowlands near the creek, swirled through
Doctor missing
at
Tilbury. May 7.
A Ministry of Transport in- quiry was held at Tilbury today into the disappearance at den of Dr Upali Perera, who 36-year-old Ceylonese until recently worked
al Ashford Hospital in Middlesex, passenger on the liner Orsova, which he joined at Aden, Dr Percru was last seen at about 1 am at Saturday, at a ship's dance. The liner Was then approaching the
Radio Offer Robert Rogget,
Manila, May 7. killed 30-year-old Alberto Cesareo here when wriggled out of his fist after be the town square and wiped out
English Channel. ing caught and leaped into his 80 per cent of the town's busi- mouth.-China Malí Special. Desics-UPL
sea
The Japanese merchant ship Kottuh Maru was making for Table Bay Harbour off Cape- town tought with Aro blazing in her sisal cargo,
The crew had tried to smother the Anmes with carbon-dio- xide from the ship's fire-fight- |ing apparatus. When this fall- ed, steam was used to fight the said that on Friday Dr Perera fre
The Kutluh Maru was bound booked a telephone call tơ n
from West Atrica to Japan. omah in London, but she Seas off the Cape of Good Hope relatively calm
refused to take it.
le appeared
attle were reported tonight.-AFP.
to ba upset," he addd. When De Perera was
reported missing after breakfast, the chip wan searched but to could not be found.
An entry was made in the log that he was missing, belleved drowned,
The result of the inquiry will be made known tomorrow. AFP.
Tom
Atlanta, Go, May 7 Huckleberry Flo, Sawyer and Willie B, n gorilla at the Atlanta zoo, cach ceived a write-in voto an a pre- sidential elector in last Novem- her's general election, the Georgia Secretary of State's office saidmƑÃI, •
Amnesty
for prisoners
Amman, May 7. The Jordanlan Cabinot to-
day issued general amnesty on all prisoners except those convicted of political offences and certain crimes of violence to mark King Hussein's engagement.
The amnesty was announced
Prime by the
Minister, Mr Bahjat Tachuni, who said it covered prloomers convicted between January 16, 1900 and May 2, 1961.
Не
the Bald
of Council Ministers, at a meeting today,
issued the amnesty law on the wish of the King."
The law had been sent to the King Гол endorsement, Mr Talhuni sald
The King, on the occasion of his engagement, asked the Cobinet to build 0 sports sladium
ON
of the outskirts Amman, he continued,
The Cabinet had approved the construction of the £300,000 stadium.
The Government had allocat- ed £30,000 for the scheme, he added.Reuter,
Pope Mortar
Solemn - faced, John XXIII leads the way as ho escorts the Queen and Princo Philip into the Throne Hall of the Vatican Palace on Fri- day, when he received the Royal couplo in privato audience. The Queen wore a full-length "black gown, a hip-length rail and a huge diadem and bracelet diamonds and a double strand of pearls at her throat. The Duke was in the full dross uni- form of an Admiral of the Fleet.-AP Photo.
bombing
Rabat, May 7, Onc Moroccan miner was believed killed and another wounded last night when French mortar bombs
Ared from Algeria fell near the mining centre of Boubekour in eastern Morocco, the Moroccan Maghreb Arab Press news agency re- ported today.
A Franco-Moroccan tigating committee
inves- inspected
the scene this afternoon, while the Governor of the local re- Elon protested to French re- of prezentatives in the name
Moroccan Government-
the AFP.
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