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Still a long
way to go
was Amundsen who reached
the South Pole first in 1911; Scott followed a few months later. Yet today one le na weil i known as the other. It was no discredit that Scott came second. Bo, in years to come, the world will remember Gagarin and Shepard together
the first twe ploneero of space. True the Husalan rocket orbited the earth whereas the American capsule was straight up and down job. But the morit of the two nahleve- ments lies in the fact that man
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Mas caroorad briefly through space twice and returned to tell the tale.
It is the achievement of two
brave
men which mu hr halfad. Their epic journey marks the beginning of a neve quest: mankind in search of knowledge in the universe in which he exists. Whether such costly undertaking can be justified when
much poverty, sickness and starva- tion exista in the world 怕 another question. If the achievement were Consider- man's con-
да
terms of
tribution to the wall beleg of hle follow men the spacemen would not be in the running. Men ilke Dr Salk. who, de. veloped the pollo vaccino, and Bir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penten, would be the more logical conten. dera.
B
QUT the space race has been started. The leaders of two rival world blocs are involved. Countian sums of money are being spant and wasted in an endeavour to bo first. Prestige
Involved Ind Rusata is even suggesting that Its undoubted lead in this race
In indicative of the superiority
not afford to avold the chat-
of its system. America can.
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International scene far from gloomy LORD HOME
HOME NOT
NOT PESSIMISTIC West has many Kiss in Car Case Shepard tells
good cards
to play
Oslo, May 8.
Lord Home, the Foreign Secretary, gave a "fairly optimistic“ review of the inter- national scene at this afternoon's session of the Nato Ministerial Council, a Noto spokesman said tonight.
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strength, particularly pence in Europe depended on it.
Be was quoted as saying that is The West hit a good many cards 1 play.
The British statesinan said Nato was deltrmined to keep up
A
Charges
against trainer
dismissed
magistrate
!
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The Soviet position was not as strong as might be thought, he declared.
Lard Home said the Soviet exploitation of local conflicts was not good tactics and he
Russians thought the
might eventually come to realise this. Russian effort
The Soviet Union was try- ing to Imperii International organisations, but would not succeed.
Turning to Lags. Lord Home said his Government believed that the country should be a sovereign, united, independent and neutral state.
On Africa he said that all in- dependent states there owed their independence to the West. He contrasted the Coeunis spent in ald in Afrien by the today dis West and the Soviet Union. missed charges of being drunk and behaving in on insulting manner againsr Pitelmon Leskoff, 62-1 year-old trainer of the Royal Hongkong Jockey
Club.
lenge. For the nation that Grter under Section 35
leads in this field must be con-
Al
this
100 million while the total of He gave the Soviet figure as the West was £2,000 million- 20 times as much.
About the Congo he said that
in the slogan Britain belleved "Cungo for the Congolese."
Mr Maurice Couve de Mur- ville, French Foreign Minister, Mr K. A. S. Phillips made the told the session inembers of the of the alliance directly concerned with Laos were agreed that the Magistrate's
Asian Southeast
kingdom should be united, independent, sovereign and neutral,
He said that they should be able to achieve this in negut in-
tons.
sidered advanced irrespective Causeway
morning.
of how it laga in ather branches of industry, science and development,
Moreover this is not as Bob
Ordinance Bay Court
Leskoff. who pleaded guilty through Mr P. C. Woo, of P. C. Woo and C, was said to have committed the offences outside
Hope and the Duke of Edin. 87 Hennessy-road or Sunday. burgh quipped,
case
"their Germans being better than ours." if anything America got the beat German rocket "brains" from Peenemunde, Russia has had the undoubted advantage of devating un- imited funds to this project without being anawerable to
ita public on how they are apent moreover its Kecrecy has enabled it to work in a way which allows it to an nounce only Its successes, addition Rucola cracko สาย
among
political whipo
scientiate with
In
Its i
Deliberately
um on
De: Insp A. A. Gusten, pro- suting told the court that at about 2.20
Sunday, he saw Laskoff "deliberately bump- frur into a young Chinese lady in
sexually suggestive manner."
The young Calnese lady, he said, was then accompanied by a little girl.
The young lady ran around a
corner in Luard road.
The inspector said he then
far greater heard defendant use abusive
effect than America.
E reason for the American
THE
120, however, is not that
ita scientists
are Inferior
or technologlats
or
that
: words. He went across to take
hold of him and told him he was
i being
station.
taken
10 the
police
At this juncture, Insp Gosden
defendant again Ita said,
budget is inadequate. Partly abusive words.
the
politicians and the Government are to blame for
not making their seas of urgency
Dufficiently pound
convincing.
Partly
service palopay
was to blame in
Face was red
used
Defendant was taken back to
Inter. the police station, where he de- į and rivalrymanded to see a doctor. He was
early the
taken to the hospital.
yours for equandering funds
and personnel though this hea
The inspector said defendant had been drinking and his face
to some extent been rectifed. I was red.
Partly the Amarican trade! "In the hospital he refused a unione аго to blame for medical examinallon,
the strikes, stoppages and dis-
puter, which have been a fea. ture of construction work at Cape Canaveral and Vanden - burg. For similar delays Rus alan workers would have been ahst.
Thero has beon д tendency throughout the United States to regard Shepard's flight with tremendous relief and pics. understand.
gure.
Thle abla becauso 10
а Brot DucceDy after a long run of setbacks. But it aleo Bm- phasises how far the Ameri- cons lay behind. We see no algna of shock or diamay on the American acone, And patting oneself on the back is not the way to go about catching up.
we
brought him back to the station.
the
Mir
Useful Evangelos
Averoff, Greek Foreign Minister, sald le thought that a Nais "sum- mit" meeting would be useful, but did not suggest any speci- fe time or place for such a mceling.
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Lord Homo
former
defendants
get damages
London. May 8.
An engaged couple, found not guilty two years ago of Indecency in a parked car, today won a tulal of £5,200 damages against the two policemen who arrested them.
A Jury of alue men and three women took 00 The case minutes to reach their verdict. was being re-teled because a previous - Jary had been unable to agree.
They awarded Milsa Anne Rosa Firman, 25, Jamages of £3.000 for malletque prosecu- tion and £100 for false Imprisonment. Her flance. Mr Gerald Selby. 31, a company secretary, was awarded £2,000 for malf- claus prosecution and £190 for false impri- sonment,
The couple. snid in court to have spent all their savings on the case, were also awarded costa for both
for hearings of their action
. damages.
These are estimated at £8.000 for the 10-day hearing and the provious six-day hearing. During the case, Mr Selby admitted that he quiet and his Baricee had parked in a street for "a klas and a auddie." "He denied that he had done anything more than hug Miss Firm,
Two policemen arrested them and they were later tried and acquilted on a charge of committing a “lewd, obscene and disgusting act" in public-Reuter.
King Hussein of Jordan seen with his fianceo, 20-your-old Miss Antoin- ette (Toni) Avril Gardiner, in the Royal Palaco at Amman. Miss Gardiner, who was born at Cholmondiston, near Ipswich, is the daughter of a British Army officer serving in Jordan. Although their engagement was only officially an nounced this week it is understood that they had been engaged for some-
King Hussein's first marriage was dissolved.--Central Press Photo,
time.
LONDON CENTRAL JAVA
AIRPORT
THEFTS
London, May 8. Magistrates in London court today remanded a British Overseas Airways Corporation loader Philip John Ilbury, 30, in cus-
al tody for one week on charge of stealing a mail- bag containing live packets of diamonds valued at £60,000 at Lon- don airport.
Ilbury was one of nine men appearing before the court on charges connected with the theft
of mallbags and property from the airport.
SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKES
Djakarta, May 8.
Central Java shook under earthquakes yesterday as the 9,000 foot Mount Merapi blasted rocks, lava and ash from a glowing crater.
and
The cities of Jogjakarta and ton of the entire Merapi area Magelang both rocked under a should it become necessary, short series of tremors which i The sick, old, children
been cracked walls in Jogjakarta. expectant mothers have
No casuallles have been re asked to leave now and those
to stay who elect
have been ported.
told to keep three days' supply of food
other" essentials and with them.
Mr Paul Henri-Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and Seeretary-General of Nato, said he thought Mr Rusk had, painted Loo black picture in his
mountain J Lud charged him with
analysts of the world situation. offence."
He said that the Nato alliance Insp Gosden added that as a ¦ should adapt itself to new con- result of Inquiries, "we have ditions. The old military con- found something on his (decept of 1949-when the alliance fendant's) behoif.
| began—was no longer valid, and the structure of the alilance should be revised.
The ministers continue Was not accustomed discussion of the
Tile
Not good
Meanwhile, the Indonesian Government was clearing vil Two of the others were also lagers from around the flaming which burst Juto remanded in custody or a week, one of them charged with re- activity one month ago.
Twenty thousand people have ceiving 6,000 Indian rupees — about £450 — knowing them toj been evacuated and one be stolen, and the other with abandoned hamlet was destroy- receiving industrial diamonds, ed by the flowing lava.
More than 79 families have accepted a Government alter of newly- them were their Three of
charged opened land
Sumatra. international with receiving 170,000 rupees
about £13,000 China Mail The Provincial Government Special.
I was preparing for the evacua-
to drinks and on the night lusituation tomorrow morning. - question, defendant had been Heuter.
Elven some alcohol by his friends in a birthday party. He was drunk."
Lexkoff's
According to defence counsel, Mr Woo, defendant came to Hongkong in
1931.
Mr Philips also cancelled his Aurely the lesson of Rurala'e erder made yesterday to estreat long run of space firsts is that defendant's $200 bail when he Washington сап no longer falled to appear to answer the doubt the qualities and abiit. charges. tion of such a dynamla adver sary. If it is going to overhaul the big load the fiuesians have
The magistrate made this de- cision following explanations by the prosecution that defendant's
bullt up, it will only do so by knowledge of English was not
omulating their spirit of driv Ing dedloation.
very good and he did not under- stand he had to appear in court.
knowing them to be stolen.
The remaining Nix men were
remanded on bail until May 10, assisted emigration to
in Borneo and
Charity for Devil
London, May 8.
A Church of England archdescon Hally denied here the oxlatenco of the Devil' and quoted his own experience in a thunder- storm as proof.
The Archdeacon of Aston, the Venerable M. T. Dunlop, was reporting to the meeting of the Convocation of Canterbury on a lower house
discussion on whether to bring back the Devil tato the Church of England's proposed now. Catechilam - the child- rch's introduction to the church's teaching.
denied
struck. So if there is a Devli
RECORDED IN
HONGKONG
earthquake
the
moderately stvcro was recorded at the Royal Observatory on Sunday at 7.27 pm, The epicentro was estimated to be 2,000 milles south of Hongkong and magnitudo of the earth- quake was about Con Richter's scale. There WAN small aftershook ro- oorded at 9.10 the came evenlar.
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he is thoroughly ineMolent.” The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Merapi, peak, was clothed Dr Geoffrey Fisher, replied: In thick clouds and emoke by "I cannot follow your conclus¦ day, while the crater spouts alon that tecatiao YOU WEED
flame during the night.
Devil's) his (the existenes Bally," he ARIT, bishops'
"and
chased. bz Wis thunderstorms. But I was not
.
Bot struck it means that he
on
Showern of ash have covered Was Inefficient. Even to the
the riveland near Merapi and Devil one must allow a place have rained down
cities for charity now and agaM.--- | throughout the province-Neu- Chins Mall Special,
tor.
his story of
space flight
Washington, May 8. America's first astronaut, Commandér Alan Shepard said today that his flight could have been made "a lot earlier" than Soviet space- man Yuri Gagarin's orbit of the earth nearly a month ago.
But he told reporters at a press conference here that I had been decided that the Mer- cury space programme should proceed on on orderly basis.
Earlier the man who "rode the Redstone rocket” to become the West's first spaceman was cheered to the etho
on his triumphal drive to the Capitol, where President Kennedy con- gratulated him on his achieve ment.
Earlier, President Kennedy had pinned the highest decura- tion
of the National Space Agency-the DisUnguished Ser- vice Medal-to his breast, and he had been acclaimed by Con- gressmen and schoolchildren alike.
Very pleased
Cmdr Shepard told reporters he did not wish to compare his night with the 100-minute
Gogarin.
Afterwards the astronaut re-round-the-world flight by Major vealed that his most uncom- fortable moment was after his eple flight.
Inside the space
"All in all we are very much plensed with the flight and very capsule fo much encouraged by it," he said. which he hurtled above the "We plan to press ahead with atmosphere down the Atlantic the successful completion of Pro- range he was air-conditioned,ject Mercury," he explained.
The astronaut, who displayed an easy humour, made The
Pretty warm spaceman's lot Bound almost
enviable.
But after the recovery he Wolghtlessness, he said. Was went below decks in the air-a "picasant densation," and craft carrier Lake Champlains while in that state he had had before taking off his space suit.no diflculty in manoeuvring
"I was pretty warm by that and controlling his capsule. time," he said, adding that this The ride was simular of his was the greatest physical stress experience
calm, clinical tones, Crrydr
Speaking in
special Link of the operation and primarily trainer, and there had not been his own fault.
"any bad moments at all" almost But when he met the Pre- Shepard sident, the imperturbable astro- "I thought Inst icon-haut admitted: fortable or embarrassed at any Friday was a thrilling day time in the flight."
but today surpasses it. I got Asked if he fell any exhilara- far less sleep last night than I tion, ha
only replied: The
did the night before the flight." He said he considers there exhilaration I felt was after
saki: "I did not
the recovery
fcel
(of the capsule) are several significant
had been completed."
thing
from
Capt
about the_fight Redstone Conaveral, rocket which hurled hún into "We feel very strongly that
The lift-off by the
space
was
was one
described by the this particular flight astronuut as "very
that was certainly accomplislied pleasant."
He had expected more noise and in the open," he said, "We had vibration,
very few 93crets about our
date Launch The deeply
was sun-tarned, 37 plans.
other year-old commander was speak-classified, but very few ing ul To nallonally-televised things were. This was a little press conference which rounded annoying at mes, but I think off his day of triumph.
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