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ARCHITECTURAL
FITTINGS
by
GIBBONS
GILMANS!
Comment of the
day
VIOLENCE
NCE again violence, which
ONG
Ja blazoned across the headlinen of the world's Press, is the order of the day.
Once again it is racial din- erimitation, that primitive tribul remainder, which has set violence in motion, At the moment it is Alabamu which has the unsavoury distinction of being the ven- tre of mob fury; tomorrow it could be anywhere, for the primitive furies which cause men to hate each other on account of colour. race, or creed, are not the prerogative of Any une
untion.
While it does seem terrible
that only a decade or so; after so many fine young American men laid down
their lives in the entwe uf) freedom that mob should besiege a church in Montgo-] mery, Alabama, the public should keep a clear head i meal naprejudiced mind i
upon what is really happen- In Nearly two centuries ago, a group of American culonials met together, und stated the following us an article of belief, and as a charter for every future citizen of the United Staten.
hold these truths to
"W be self evident, that
all men are created equal.! that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. that umung
are Life.
these
Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,"
It would be as well for thore
who seize upon this acal, Incident to point the finger of scorn at the United States of America, that the colonists who wrote those words, sealed that compact with their blood. and succeeding generations of Americans have died upon the battlefields of the world to endorse the truths their forefathers held dear. What is happening in Mont- gomery is no more true of the average American than the hoodluma of Notting Hill in London are represen- tative of England.
10 necept a report of what
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Moderate to fresh 'easterly winds, overcast with occasional outbreaks of light rain. At 1 pm at the Observatory the tomperaturo was 75 degrees Fahrenhoit and the relative humidity 83 per cent.
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Daring raid by young officers in Portsmouth 'SABOTAGE' AT NAVAL BASE
PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS
OF KENT
London, May 24,
an-
RN submarine
boarded
and 'bombed'
London, May 23.
Several "bombs" were smuggled botwcon Saturday night and Sunday morning aboard the British submarine Tally-Ho, anchored at the naval base of Ports- mouth, the Admiralty announced to- day.
But the only result of this "sabotage" was to put naval security services once more in a vulner- able position, it was learned here.
The operation was carried out
by eight young officer-cadets |
who, with the blessing of their That's one way.....
an
superiors, had elected to pass their Whitsun leave in original way.
The Duchess of Kont
The eight "aboteurs" salles! nounced last night that their dinghy into Gosport Hat- she has decided to take bour, where the Tally-Ho rode at anchor, and reached the the title of Princess interior of the vessel vin ofeers Marina, Duchess of Kent, quaters and quay without being when her ton marrios disturbeci, Katherine Worsley at York Minstar on June 8, was as Princess Marina that she married the late Duke of Kent in 1034.
Princess was the litte to which the 54-year-old Duchess, was bord in Athens as the third daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Grand Duchess Helen of Russia.--UPI.
'QUAKES
ROCK
TURKEY
Ankara, May 23.
A fairly strong earthquake rocked Turkey's Aegean coast on Tuesday causing extensivo property damage but no deaths. Scientist: placed the epicentre of the shocks at about 300 miles due south of Istanbul In the
Nearby
Creck Aegean.
south- Islands as well as the
the west tip of Turkey felt effects.
Walls cracked and some small homes collapsed in the coastal owns of Fethiye, Ula, Goktepe and Milan. No damage was re-
is happening in Alabama ported in Izmir, headquarters
A report on America i would not only be unfair but decidedly untrue.
Unfortunately, violence is news, peace and goodwill is not. Yet there is infinitely more goodwill in the world than there is hatred.
city for Natu's south-east Europe command,
The Turkish island vi Mamaris, just of the south- cast tip of Turkey, experienced heavy shocks. Ninety per cent cf bullings there either were damaged. seriously or slightly
No deaths were reported from
Why then, it ruight be asked, the island, however.-AP.
does violence and hatred predominate?
Why is it that in the end cruelly seems to win the day, and forces of darkness triumph7 The truth is, the evil forcen are not triumphant. While they appear to do so is ba- enuse we hear so much more about them.
DARING £6,500
HOLD UP
London, May 23. Six bandits ambushed a Post Office van in London today, and escaped with registered mall and an estimated £6,000 in cash.
NE has only to look down the arches of the years to see how many reforms have been instituted since the
The bandits' truck shot from a beginning of this century-side-street in Brixton to block How most nations have out the mall van's path. The raiders lawed violence.
How piled in
and overpowered the negotiation has ousted 1 driver, who was alone. martial settlement, and dis- They drove the mall van two cussion has Won over miles 10 n quiet Thames-side yard, and transferred 10 mall- Alter bags to a walling van. they drove off, the driver, not seriously hurt, stopped a police- man-Chins Mall Special.
weapons of war.
It would be sheer folly to stato there is no cause for alarm; but this cause for alarm is not because the world Is getting worao, but that some sectione of every com- munity are unable to slough their primitive remainders. Alabama in a warning
to
everyone. There can be no letting up in the good fight. People of goodwill munt tako AT uncompromising stand for what is right, for this in their 'victory, even their faith.
'Bill Holden
and Fuller'
See back page for the Holden Anthony Fuller controversy.
Afterwards they entered with the same east- naval search eentre.
¦
Philadelphia, May 23. Two boys who didn't like their school were sentenced to inde
Lerms in the Youth finite Rehabilitation Centre yesterday for trying to wreck it.
George Jolinson, 12, and Major Tillery, 10, were charged with smashing clocks and ripping out re-electrical wiring in a rampage Comegys Elementary
Red letters Packets containing the "high explosive," which they left be (hind them in the submarine, bore the word "bomb" in red letters.
The Admiralty today merely confirmed that the operation took place. But London news- papers did not fafi to point out -good-humouredly that the cadots' exploit closely followed the revelation of the existence of a spy network at the Ports- mouth base and the British Government's decision to open an inquiry into the whole coun- ter-espionage
the system in United Kingdom.AFP.
Steer on a
rampage
London, May 23.
A steer nearly wrecked £4,000 worth of spirits at a hole in Barnstaple.
The
local down
sleer, escaping from the cattle market, cantered the main street, went through the open door of the King's Arms Hotel and headed for the wines and spirits at the end of the hall.
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The manager saved the situn- tion however by slamming door. The steer was quickly captured in an adjoining office.
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STOP PRESS
CHANG FOR U.S.
Seoul, May 24.
The leader of the milit ary junta that soized power in the Republic of Korca fast week, Lt-Gen Chang Do Yung, announ- ced today that he would leave "immediatoly” the United States to meet President John F. Kennedy to explain the purpose and intent of the military tako- over.-UPI.
for
at the
School.-UPI.
CARS, CARS-AND MORE CARS FOR HK
BARBED-WIRE CUT AT GENEVA TALKS SITE
Swiss troops open fire
on mystery marauders
Goneva, May 23.
Swiss troops opened fire twice early today when mystery marauders cut the six-foot-high barbed-wire barriers erect- ed round the headquarters of the Algorian peace delegation
in Geneva.
COMPANION FOR TYPHOON BETTY
At noon a tropico! depression had formed noar 17.5 degrees
N, 112.5 degrees E, that is about 300 miles
SSW of Hongkong
It is almost station- ary.
Typhoon Botty pick- cd up speed this mom- ing and was moving west north-west at Hor about 12. knots. latest estimated ' posi- tion at noon today 870 miles Routh-west of Hong- kong.
Was some
Cha-cha Cha
London, May 23. Road signs warning motorists to slow down in Countersthorpe were changed by pranisters on Sunday night to "quick, quick, slow," UTI.
TANKER BURSTS INTO FLAMES
Anzio, May 23.
miles off Anzio.
The little 498-ton Italian motor-tanker Varigott! burst
into flames tonight three
Motorboats from this port, 30 miles south of Rome, and from Ocila recued 14 of the 15-man crow. One fallor reportedly feil
or jumped into the gen.
Fireboats brought the flames: under control after three hours, and tugs were towing the little tonker into Anzio.
A figure was seen disappear- ing in the dark, and a plank was that someone found indicating had been trying to get over the entanglements.
each incident -- separated by about an hour the auto- malle alarm system sounded.
Shortly after midnight the automatic alert system was set off, indicating that someone had cut the wire of the outer perl- meter of the defences of the Villa Bols D'Avault,
sepity
One of the sentries shouted There Dut "I7aft or I fire." was no reply. The opened fire immediately wiiis his sub-machinegun. A Bgara was seen disappearing in the dark
Aboul an hour later centries opened fire once again when the alarm system indicated that for the second time an unknown intruder was tampering with the barbed wire. Later በ planic was found with which it Was someone had presumed that been trying to get over the six- foot-high wire entanglements.
On alort
Guards remained on the alert throughout the night.
Military and police authorities declined to give any delalis.
At Evian, in the French Alps, armoured vehicles with heavy A. machineguns guarded against any possible air attack on the conference meeting place as low cloud hung over the
scene.
with
Armoured halftrack vehicles heavy anti-aircraft machineguns pointing skywards 100k up positions near the holet and on the steep hillside above Evian where the French delega- lon headquarters are situated. The six halftracks were 011 withdrawn up the hill when the conference session ended,
GIRL, AGE 11 DAYS, SMOTHERS TO DEATH ON CROWDED BED
An 11-day-old baby girl was -literally crowded out of this world yesterday morn- ing when she was smothered to death in a bed on which slopt o whole family of five.
The infant, Lo Lai- wah, was found to be cold to the touch and unconscious when the, father, Lo Yuk-tong, inspected his children in bed before going to work at dawn,
Lo lifted the boby girl from under one of his two older sons and rushed her to hospital, Sho .died despite offorts to revive hor with oxygen.
the No.
The family lives in a bed space on sacond floor of
156 Wellington-stroct. The father is a shop foki earning $100 a month out of which ho pays $40 for rent.
All are from a French artillery THE SOBER FACTS
regiment bared at Volence southern France, First Information received
Treo helicopters took here sald the tanker was empty, Algerian delegates
back having unloaded earlier today GRV at Civitavecchia.
11
Fort Dodge, May 23. the Police fles today delos
to the record of 60-year-old Fort Dodge man, not identified. who has been arrested 310 times on charges of intoxication during the past 18 years, and has spent
local juil 2,503 days in the UPI.
A French Foreign Ministry The crow reportedly was at-spokesman said in Paris today positions taken over tempting to beach the burning that the tanker near San Lorenzo, a few Algeria by the Freneli govern
alles north of here~AP.
(Contd. on Pago 3, Col. 4)
Hongkong, with motor vehicles
some 50,000
of all shapes and sizes running on 500-odd maintained miles of officially roads, has one of the highest truffle denalties in the world.
fac- But cars.from all major
tories la Europe and the Unlied States continue pour in weekly.
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Dusty and with chromed
ders packed in grease, latest models from the sembly lines of Detroit, Coventry, Milan and Cologne,
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freighters' decks onto. Colony
wharves to await collection
by their
tory.
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