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NEW

SLAVA MONA

Lady Sheaffer

'GRUPBENT' FOUNTAIN PEN, toto Прива

UNITED PAPRE CO-STIN

Water to be pumped from fire-damaged hold

From the Filos

Bellboy ends FREIGHTER TO FINISH 25

Career

of

lunch-hour

office thief

A bollboy's phone call to the Police brought to an and the lucrative career of a man who specialised in robbing big city offices during the lunch-hour.

Among the luut he collected over veral months were Irun- | tal paz ballpoint pas, four! portabi andits and a camera.

The fices he raided were in main eval district buildings: such as Central Building, Chou-:

Alexandra Building, cester House, Union Base, the GPO and the Chartered Bank build- ink.

What bellboy saw

Changed with the lunch-henar thefts today WBS Wong Chu He pleaded guilty betore Mr Derek Cons, Central Mantrate, for two sent to Jall and was yours

Det-Inspector 3. A. Nechutas, told the court that Wong met his duwnfall when a bell.boy

in the Gloucester Hotel phoned the Poller and reported seeing the man bitering on the fourth

Boor.

A party of delectives rushed questioned sevne and

10 the

him.

Then the police searched him, They found on him a foun- tain pen and three ball-point

bens.

NEPAL'S TWO QUEEN

MOTHERS

ARRIVE TOMORROW

Mother

Nepal's two queen mothers, Sonior Queen Mother Kanti

Rajya Lakshmidevi and Junior Queen Ishwari Rajya Lakshmidevi, are scheduled to arrive in Hongkong from Katmandu by Air-Indio Inter- national tomorrow.

ALL-OUT

ATTACK

ON TB

are the

of

The queen mothers

step-mother and mother King Mahendra-the widowed Queen of his father, the late married King Tribluvan, who

the sisters according to the customs

Himalayan

of the

Hindu kingdom.

The poller also found a $200 ball receipt in his possession.

the Eastern Poilee. The Medical and Health palace sourcen said that the two

issued by

station.

The day before

Inquiries revealed that Wong hot been arrested the previous day for having in his pussession four portable radies suspected of be stolen.

stening later admite them from a company in Central Building during the lunch-hour of May 2.

1

Department's

drive against

According to earlier press re- ports from Katmandu, Nepalese their on- all-out! queen mathers and

of consisting

live tuber-tourage

princeses and members of the culosis continues. More Toyal family, were on a private

vac- tour of the Far East. than 21,000 BCG cinations were carried out! The reports sald during the first quarter, party would visit Hongkong and Of this number, 19,087 Tokyo, In Tokyo, the reports were given to new-born, added, the Nepalese party might meet members of the Japanese infants.

royal family.

Insp. Necholas told the court In the same quarter of 1860, that pollet lund recovered 3

20,062 BCC vaccinations were umber of stolen articles from carried, BCG vaccine of strength (or Infant defendant's home which were special

To by continued i vaccinationa ided by their owners.

to all Delvadani had six previous supplied free of charge convictions including larceny is private medical practitioners adwelling attampied larceny and private aidwives. and being found on an encluseit premi.ca.

Schoolgirls attend

Ascension service

The Rev Frank today was n day

Girl of the Diocesan Girls' School attended a special Ascension Day service at St John's Cathedral this morning.

Row alti of joy and i

10 they should try themselves share the joy they felt with others.

The Director of Medica} and Health Services states: "It is en- couraging to note that the mum- bees vaccinated during the quar- ter represented 71.2 per cent of all infants whong birth wers registered in the same period."

Govt plans building more flats

Government

is preparing plans for the initial con- struction of 1,000 flats for some 6,000 people on land that will be re- claimed in the rapidly developing Tsun

Won

area in the Now Terri- "The world is full of misery, į

torics. happiness," he i needs true

sald.

Another Inter students

The at

An area of about if teres 15 service

was held

for the reserved morning for provisionally St Paul's Co. Housing Authority, and educational School, at which one-third of this can be reclaim

the Rey Stephen Ko, Vicar ofed within a year.

St Paul's, was the preacher,

ish As Tsun Wun

This evening ut 7.30 there growing centre

about

that the

The Nepalese royal party is scheduled to remain in Hong- kong until May 23.

DAIRY

LANE'S

LOSS

The Dairy Lone Ltd made a loss in its first six months of operations, it was re-

the vealed

annual at mccting of the Dairy Form,

Cold Ico and

Co. Ltd this Storago morning. The loss was not disclosed. The initial trading period of the Dairy Lane was described as period and it a "running-in" was hoped that a more favour- ablu result would be achieved for the financial year ending in September this year.

The net profit of the Dairy Form, ice and Cold Storage Co Ltd for the year ended Decem- ber 31, 1980 was $5,677,341. increase of $205,- This was an 380 compared ayith 1959.

The Anal dividend was $1.40 A share which, added to the Interim dividend declared on rapally detober 24, 1960, made a total

of industry. of $2 a share compared with

will be a Diocesan Youth Cor-Government feels that there $1.85 a share in 1959. porate Communion and Ordina- will be no dificulty in finding

tien Service.. The Dean, the tenants able to pay the renis Mr G. M. Goldsack and Mr Very Rev Barry Till will be the for the lists for ve preacher.

persons.

S. D. Basanquet were re-elected

directors.

$30,000 in prizes for beauty contest

Ot

STOTC

Prizes valucit

than receive prizes valued at more $30,000 will be shared be- tra $15,000.

entrants! tween all approved

in the "Mis laternational They include Beauty

penses-free

G

white-

UNLOADING

LATER TODAY

Firemen are pumping out water from the holds of the Nor- wegian freighter, ss Hero, which arrived with a cargo of burning charcoal yesterday.

By 4 pm today, the ship

is expected to berth at B11 buoy to complete unloading, sak Mr T. Vinde of Thore-i Ren & Co Ltd, the agents.

The 2,456-ton cargo ship will be put into dry-dock at Taikoo Dockyard tomorrow, he added.

One hold

Of her 2,000 tons of char- coal only 500 tons in No. 1 hold caught fire.

The blaze

the

was brought under control before ship arrived in Hongkong.

It was put out at 11 pm yesterday after the ship beached in Gin was Drinkers" Bay 2171 hour earlier.

SIC

SENSE OF DECENCY

A

I agree with "Movie Fan" that |

"I Am At The Stars" did not necessarily fall for the reason suggested by Mr Anthony Fuller, but, speaking as local filnigoer, I do not be- lleve I am more "sceptical" about the complaints of war crimes and against WAT criminals than the British film public when the central issue is clear-cut enough.

I

war

suppose anyone who parti- cipates in the destruction of can be described as a "war criminal," bat War crimes can vary in degree as well as in kind. When physi- cal war is the last resort in the battle against a universal | evil ilke militarism one is compoiled to choose between

ANTON CAUSES BIG

STIR AT KAL-TAK

Anton Gerig and his alphom

SA

"war criminality" and slavery. A 10-foot long Swiss alphorn caused a stir at the

Airport this morning when its owner played

a few bars of a mountain melody.

The owner was Mr Anton Gerig, a foreman in a Lucerne nylon factory who has been in Japan for three weeks playing to Japanese audiences, at the Industries Fair in Tokyo.

One may observe that the Allies, for all their moral ambiguities and divided interests, had in the last world war fought for a good cause; and if the West have not been very Indignant about the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, that is understandable enough. It can at least be said that the atomic bomb was first drop- ped to hasten the end of militarist aggression, whereas the V-2a had been used for milliarist aggression; and von Braun, if not "irreprievable"

Shortly before returning to as a "war criminal" was less Switzerland this morning by

the bomb- Swissair, Mr Gerig, excusable than droppers. But what we really deal with

He had been invited there by Sulzer Brothers as a giminick' attraction at their stall exhibi- tion in the Fair.

years

now 37

INFANT DIES,

►

MAN DETAINED

of

Hongkong

fishermen

go to school

ot

1years AGO

May 1936

THANKS

to

Monday

Tight's big rainfall day lowed by yesterday's down- pour, Hongkong's drought has been relieved.

For the 24 hours between

Elaven fishermen, all from 10 am on Monday to 10 am mechanised doop aca yesterday a total of 3.68 junks based

either inches of rain was recorded Aberdeen 0: Shaukiwan at the Observatory. aro ottending the first

As a result of the rain,.

• now sories of

classos navigation

the storage of water in for

in- fishermen organised by Hongkong's reservoirs

creased by 240 million gal- the Co-operative Dovo-

lons and a spokesman for and lopment

Fisheries the Waterworks said that Department.

"If we have another six or

The aim of the course, which seven inches of rain before lasts six months, is to acquaint the saturated catchment the shermen with the prin-

ciples of navigation by "dead areas dry up again, all reckoning", using charts to as water restrictions will be sist them in undertaking longer ended."

fishing trips in more distant

waters.

The classes are being held

at the Aberdeen Fisheries Of- Ace.

}

REPORT

Mr M. W. Lo and his family were among the passengers who arrived aboard the Gnelsnau yesterday. Mr Lo and his family

In his latest report, the Com- | have been on a holiday tour of missioner for Co-operative | Japan.

Development and Fisheries, Mr

J. Cater, slates that 40 fisher- men, trained by the Fisheries Division, obtained the "modined Coxswains certificates from the Marine Department. These valid for bonu certificates are

de fishing vessels only.

The final examinations for the first class of junk builders, who attended a course of Instruction in reading plans and on the of the lines of "laying-off" boats, were held some months

пло.

Ten of the students were successful la their examination and were presented with gra- duation certicates Issued by the Co-operative Development and Fisheries Department,

A second boat-building class,

attended by 10 students, is now

in progress.

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*

HE death of Mr Edward! 10. Drake, Departmental Manager of the Hongkong and District branch of the British American Tobacco Company, occurred at 7.30 at pm yesterday evening the War Memorial Hospital !from severe influenza and

heart failure.

The news will come as a great shock to a wide circle of Mr Drake's friends all over China and a particular- ly sad eircumstance is that Mrs Drake, accompanied by their son and daughter, left only last Friday, when Mr

by the General Pershing for the United States.

THREW GLASS Drake was in good health.

AT MIRROR

A British sailor, G. W. Hubble, 24, was fined $30 by Mr K. S. Phillips at Causeway Bay Court this morning for maliciously breaking a mirror. He was also ordered to pay $20 compensation.

✰

Disagreement with the policy of the directors in reducing the dividend by 25 per cent was cz preased by Mr C. A. da Roza at the annual general meeting of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Ltd, held at the Heaú Defendant was drinking beer: Óflee, Union Building yesterday at the Mermaid Bar, 55 with Mr M. T. Johnson in the

chair.

A man has been detained and Lockhart-rond, late last night charged by the police in con- when he suddenly threw his glass at a mirror which shat- neelion with the death of an

tered. 18-month-old boy.

have

Death was believed to alphorn playing is

old. said, "Normally been caused by a fall from the n fomlly second floor of No. 78, C Block, down from Shek Kip Mel Rosettlement. tradition handed

But The boy was found dead generation to generation.

about 9.20 pm yesterday.

I had been playing the trombone In our factory band for almost 20 years before I took it up."

NINE YEARS

here is not von Braun's mor- ailty, but that of the film. The British film public might be "prejudiced" against the von Braun story, but even an unprejudiced filmgoer who finds Ton Braun forgivable may feel outraged at the film's mealy-mouthed hypo- "SO the nine short year I crisy.

have been playing the alphorn The Hongkongite's sense of de- I have not found it difficult and cency is, despite differences in have become quite proficient," nationality and personal ex-

the trull. perience, not so very different from that of the Londoner; "I had to give up a lot of my

even and

Londoner canother hobbies, trembone playing view the filmm with Impar- and membership of the factory tiality, but impartiallly is not | band, so that I could play more. to be confused with moral I like to play it and it makes neutrality or moral indiffer-me feel good," he said.

ence.

N. T. CHOW.

Were YOU

there?

The police are seeking wit. nesses to a traffic accideni in

"You know, Lucerne is great tourist city, and I sup- pose I could make a lot of money playing for tourlats, but the money just does not interest me."

a

The alphorn, which has musical range of three keys, can be broken down to two five- foot long sections and carried in a case for convenience,

which a motor-cyclist was kill- "I would very much have cd following collision with a liker to play my alphorn to nn air conditioner, a

private car at Route II, near Hongkong audience,

but un- gold watch, a camera and 4 | Yim Pun Village, New Terri- fortunately I have only been franslator radio,

4.30 terles, at about

pm on here on a one-day stopover' to CX-| Prizes for the second, third and | Monday, May 8.

your beautiful Colony. One, day Long

fourth runners-up, valued at Any person who may have I hope I can return for a longer wrist

over $2,750 will include witnored the accident or who stay," he said. transistor rudlos, gold watches, can give any relative informs- In years gone by, the alphar

£1 ten-day

in slay of Hongkong 1002" Contest in June,

Bench, it was an-

white-gold watch, actrera, a wardrobe and a wardrobe allowance, a translator radio and expense Imoney.

nouneed today.

Proceeds of the contest will be

devoted to the Jaycen Day Nursery at Chaiwan.

The winner-who will fly to the The first rutiner-up's prizes, United States in July will) valued at over $2,250, include

cr celebration.

Photo

POP by Coc

at

Mr da Roza contended that the cut

necessary or was. not warranted bu the Society's working results, and the Chair- Hubble was arrested and sent

man in reply gave an assurance to shareholders that as soon as to Queen Mary Hospital for a medical examination. The doctor the directors see any justifler= found him under the influence tion for a dividend increase, of alcohol but not in a state of ❘ they would be happy to recom. drunkenness.

ruend t

I ALWAYS ENJOY VISITING YOU - NO WORRY ABOUT DRUNKEN DRIVING AFTERWARDS,

FOR. THE INNER MAN IN OUTER SPACE

Carlsberg

SAS

a camera, a brocade silk coal | tion is requested to contact the was played from the higli peaks and a string of pearls.

District Inspector, Traffic, Now of the Swiss alps in Umea of All the remaining seven finalista | Territories, tel. 34522, NT ex- danger

Printed and published by Tenzace Gordon NEWLANDS Pearch for and on behalf of South will receive a gold watch and tension 8, or to make a report shows Mr. Anton Gerig display- a transistor radio,

to any polico station,

ing his alpha-Intplar photo. | China Morning Port Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong,

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