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Proprietors of HK weaving factories in court

of the ARSON CHARGES AGAINST FIVE

day

TITLES

TAIRST let us congratulate Princess Margaret and

Mr

Antony · Armstrong- Jones upon the happy event expected later this year, before joining in the speen- the lation about titles Royal baby will receive. Most people reckon it un- thinkable that a commoner to the should ascend

throne of Britain, but it would take an unthinkable disaator to place Princess Margaret's child there, for the expected baby will be fifth in line of auccession. Nevertheless, tradition must

It

have its place, and a child In direct line to the Royal throne must have a title.

has been explained by Hankinson, Cyril

Peer-

Mr.

Editor of Debrett's age, Britain's record of blue blood, that the Queen could bestow a title on the child when it is born.

A

Own right

NOTHER suggestion is: that Princess Margaret a title in her own receive right, one which the child

inherit

could

Alleged bid to CANING FOR

collect

insurance

Five proprietors of weaving factories in

Nga Tsin Wai Village, Kowloon, wore arraigned before Judge T. Creedon at Kowloon District Court this morning on charges of conspiracy to commit arson. The Court was told that Fire Brigade officers and the Police called to the scene of several fires on February 23, found tins and jars of kero- sene, bundles of kerosene-soaked cotton waste in some of the factories concerned.

have told Mr Chan that "this is the time for them to make some money by setting fire to their factories and then to col. lect insurance money."

These discoveries, according to Mr D, E. D Remedios, Crown Counsel prosecuting, “give cause to a Fire Brigade Division Off- eer to believe that the fires were not accidental, but were de- liberate attempts to set the build-Chan disagreed with the fifth ac- Ings alire."

cused's suggestion, and told the accused not to bother him with any more.

The Ave secured who come lure the Court were Cheung Kun-sun, proprietor of the Koon Sun Weaving Factory, of 14 Nam Ping-street; Tsang Chun- and carry kwan, proprietor of the Chun through life with the pre- Wah Weaving Factory, of 15 Chan Wai- direct heir to Nam Ping-street; stige that JL

hung, proprietor of the Kwok the throne assumes,

arises Sun Weaving Factory, of 15E The.

problem really

the Lai Cht Yuen; Hung WooT- from the fact that father, Mr Armstrong-Jones chung, proprietor of the Chung Kel Weaving Factory, of 18 is plain mister, a commoner, Stan Pla-street, and Chan Mau- kam, proprietor of the Kana and English law being what

It is, the child will be born | Kel Venying Factory, of

Was

Nam Ping-street.

Vacated

19

All these faclories were

Tsin situated in Nga

Wol had since been Village but vacated to make room for re- settlement buildings,

a commoner. Both the Press and radio dis- Britain of Great cussed this predicament last Friday, when the news

the happy event of made known to the world, and both radio und Press agreed that the renson Mr hug 10 Armstrong-Junes title is because he feels he

done has

nothing deserve one.

Difficult

The five secused denied the allegations. They were all re- presented by Mr Hu Hung-ilck, tinstructed by Mr Victor Lam of

Mesere Stewart and Co.

is difficult to disagree with

Mr Remedios, Crown Cour- sel, alleged that these factories were "heavily insured" ond Intended that the prosecution to eall

I am on that point. After 10 en textile tecnologie of

all, in the long history of Britain, titles originated in some outstanding service to the the monarch or country. To give a title for no better

the machineries in the works.

The proprietors of these fac- tories, added Mr Remedies, were served with

by the notice Government to vacate their pre- mises by March 13 this year to resettlement make way for a

Alarms

reason than it is felt Home-buliding project. one should have one is to make the ceremony mean- ingless and tradition worthless. Antony Armstrong-Jones has already proved himself to be a public spirited person, and one the country badly needs, for again referring to tradition, the country" hlatory rings with honours

However, shortly after 5 am on February 23 several fren"

broke out almost simultaneous in the two factorles occupying sites Ping- at No 14 and 19 Nam street, the factories owned by the first accused Cheung Kuni-suITS, and the Afth accused Chan Mau-

kam.

Alarms were raised, but the

Mr Hemedios added that Mr

Crown Counsel said also that at this discussion, the ath ac- cused was alleged to have asked Mr Chan later to take away his dog, "as the animal was barking had the previous night and scared away the person(s) who came set the fire."

The Ave accused were

not

arrested until February 29, four days after the fire, and they made, voluntary statements to the arresting officers.

Crown Counsel sald:

"The case for the Crown stands or falls on the strength of there statements."

Mr Remedios then made sub- mission on law on conspiracy,

Hearing is continuing.

ANOTHER

Trans-continental communications disrupted

YOUNG SABOTEURS BLOW UP

RIOTER

A 15-year-old student was ordered caned this morning for throwing stones following the soccer match between the Com- bined Chinese and English 1'A teams last Tuesday.

In passing sentence on the youth at the Causewny Bay Juvenile Court, Mr D. Benson. also ordered that the youth be placed on $200 bond to be of good behaviour for two years.

It has been stated at a previous hearing that the youth was seen among the crowd demonstrating at the junction of Colton- Caroline 33]|- path and

throwing Was road. Ho stones and behaving in disorderly manner.

A

Five dead in clash over girl

Lahore.. Day 28. Five persons were reported shot dead by pollee in the Jhang district of west Pakistan on Sunday when police clashed with a village moli

The shooting occurred when villagers attacked police who were trying to restore a young Mosiem girl to her parents.

The girl had allegedly been kidnapped and held by one of the villagers,

Following Sunday's clash with the villagers, police restored the girl to her family.-AP.

Identity of top

U.S. RADIO TOWERS

Salt Lake City, May 28.

National Guards and the FBI were called out after saboteurs blew up three relay towers in the far West today, disrupt- ing trans-continental communications.

Sheriff J. C. Harris of Elko! County, Nevada, said TNT had apparently been used to blow up one of the stations, ut Wend- over, Utah.

The explosions shattered walls 10 inches thick and the station's microwave relay equipment was completely wrecked.

All the stallons work auto- ullendants matically without

and as far as was known, по one was hurt.

A cable relay station at Knolls, Utah, was blown

up about the same time and an- other microwave relay station at Cedar Mountain, Nevada, The three shortly afterwards. stations He within 100 miles of each other.

Repairs

Badio and other communica- lons were also disrupted in the western United States.

The national defence, circuit was momentarily affected by the

explosions.

But Mr Howard Blood, Public

Icature of this Federal Relations Executive for the communication hookup is that 'Mountain' States Telephone is automatically switched to if one breuis and Telegraph Company, later another circuit

Sherif agreed with

Harris dowII, that it was definitely a case of don't know sabotage, "Wo wholher it's what," he said.

a crackpot or

THE ORIENT

As telephone company crews were rushed to the stations to Try to make..repairs, Federal

Bureau of Investigation agents :-. began probing the explosions.

EXPRESS MAKES ITS LAST RUN

Utah and Nevada National Guordsmen were called up to guard the 22 other relay stations The

in the two states.

News agency teleprinters and radio cireults were out of action for several hours.

Polish

spy who fled to West

London, May 29.

Possible

An official of the Nevada said it Telephone Company was possible. the same person or persons caused all three c plosions, but added: "It op- pears to be an isoldted situation and does not appear to be any national plan."

LORD HOME

ESCAPES BOMB

EXPLOSION

Lisbon, May 20.

A plastlo bomb exploded In a telephone booth in 4 railway station bero to- night, Injuring four, people.

Two more unexploded bombs were found in ether parts of the olty, one of them in the gardien of the President's residence.

It was presumed that tho bombs were placed by op ponents of the Salazar regime.

The bombs were tils- -covered about the

time as

the Lord Home, British Foreign Secretary, Lisbon by was leaving train for Madrid after his official vit here, but no- body considered that there BL By connection be- tweep the explosion and Lord Home's visit.—Renter.

DOG SHOCK

Manitowoc, May 28. Officials released the дри

A collle dog bil, o man in the parent time sequence of

the leg here and was taken to an explosions, saying the first, at animal hospital with several Wendover, occurred at about broken teeth. He blt an 'artifi- Standard clai leg which Mr Lloyd Allen Time (1135 GMT), the second, had acquired in military ser- at Knolls about 5.50 am and vice-China Moi! Special. the third, at Cedar Mountala

4.55 am Mountain

al about 0.45 am..

Police said this would be

about the length of time SNOW IN SUMMER

would take to go by car from station to station. The time Paris, May 28. sequence strengthened a belief party was Orient Express is no that one person or

After 78 years of responsible for all three ex mora,

| plosions-Reuter, "- existence the train that

was the rotting for count-

Ioss mystery thrillere is

Brussels, May 20. Snow fell over centrul Bel- giuni. including Brussels, to- alght. Reuter.

today on its lost journay SCOT'S JOKE IN HAVANA

from the Gora de L'Est

Station hare-to Bucharest, Rumania,

Ore official at the Gare de

L'Ens sild sadly today:

allways is gone,"

"Some

BAR BACKFIRES

Glasgow, May 28..

of the fun of working for the Scaman Clarence. Barney called back into his Scottish home port on Sunday, still shaken by the nerve- shattering response to that little joke in a Havana bar,.

Express

The lost Orient. steamed cut of Parls last night en ils G0-hour Journey to Bucharest by way of Basle, Zurich, Innsbruck, Salzburg,

A high Polish security official reported to have fled to the West was iden- Vienna and Budapest.

tified on Monday as Colonel Antoni Alster, 54-year-old, Jewish-born

Vice-Minister of the Interior.

via

VICTIM

In its heyday the train went beyond Bucharest

to Istanbul is now

en American spy.

He meant it strictly in fun, interrogations which he sald when, shortly ́after his ship went like this: called at Cuba. last month, he "You are strolled into the saloon and pm yes? Say you are a toy and you posed to the company at large will

not be harmed? Admit, about buying a drink English swine,, you are a Byy for an. American spy?"

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guards with

Eventually the British Consul appeared and persunded Cuban authornies.to him off to jal. He tres Barney and send him back stayed there 38 days undergoing to his ship-AP.

The Daily Mail, which last Alster is now

reported 10 Polish administration the

The Mail under way. disep be in Washington.

in a journey taking Rule, more Barney said hardly were the for the Americans!" week reported

of

"Me top-ranking said he led to the West

Khrushchev's pearance

attitude than 67 hours. But in recent words out when security chlet from Warsaw, Berlin and turned up in Lon- towards Jews in government is years the train has been slowed tommy guns said he had been identified don before going to the United well known," the emigre was by lengthy

border, stops and marched quoted, now by Polish emigres in Lon- States,

pazenger checks. don.

"He regards them as suspect

A Experts say the train is because they tend to have victim of rival air services and close ties with the West and dimeulties caused by the "Iron have a tendency towards re- (Curtain." visiani-attempts to moderate

Colourful storics of "din- the Party line.”**

appearing" passengers are legion

traveller According to the Daily Mall, and, one experienced Alster fled to the West 10 werk said today, "Some of them are ago-AP.

probably true."---Router.

BRITAIN'S TOLL OF

and martial events, but Mr workmen and neighbours fought THE ROAD

Armstrong-Jones representa | the fire and extinguished al another of the antion's before the arrival of the Fire!

qualities.

a

For he is n artist, and

considerable one at that. He has sent himself off to work, not at all content to spond his day on a mono- tonous round of meaning- lena duties.

Young

E is young yet, and it lies

H well within the scope of

Brigade. When the Fire Brigade

London, May 28.

deaths in Britain in

March rose to 581-80

arrived, 翡 Divisional Officer Road inspected the scene and found evidence of deliberate alternpts to set the bulldings on fire, Mr Remedios auid.

"If these fires had not been stopped in me," submitted Crown Counsel" the results

A British Foreign Offics - cial early on Monday declined to make any comment on the reports.

The Mall said Alster is being questioned in Washington as "the most important Communist to change allegiance since the war."

The newspaper reported that Alster's detection has caused Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- chev to order a purre of Jews from high posts in the Polish government.

The Mall has all along quoted more than in March last unnamed Pollsh emigre sources year, tho Ministry of for its story. Transport announced.

ATTITUDE

The figure brought the total "No details are available of would have been very serious | death toll for the first three the Colonel's escape route or

as the area was very densely months of the year to 1,548, on when he arrived in the West," populated."

Increase of 90 compared with sald the newspaper. "But reports the same period of 1000.

Approached

In the same period this year road traffic was estimated Inspector Murray. of the have increased by 12 per cent, possibility that his crea- Police, according to Mr Re- the Ministry said tive contributions to Brimedios, took charge of bundles During the month 0,317 people tain's artistic circles will of cotton waste, which Govern- were seriously injured, 594 more well marit, reward on that ment Chemists examined and than In March 1800.-China

found soaked with kerosene. The Mail Special. Recount, It seems reasonable and prú- Police Offleer also found sticks

ferable, on that account to of leave Mr. Armstrong-Jones Kerosene-norked waste. Apart

spent matches near the

Lay he fled 'because he was in fear of his life.

Hooded gunmen attack Apartheid opponent

Durban, May 28,

Five hooded gunmen today attacked the home of Mr Rowley Arenstein, a Durban lawyer known for his sympathies with Africans, but word driven off by bodyguards.

armed

Ode man was slightly wound- Klan" and threatening his life.

Filteen bodyguards "With him he brought a Polished by a bullet.

White coloured (mixed race) with sticks and stones surprised woman, leaving behind in War- saw his wife and two children." and African friends have been the gunmen who ran to a walt-

The Mall quoted a "top acting as bodyguards for Mr ing car. The Polish emigre" as saying a purgo Arenstein since he recently re- several shots injuring a man— of Jews from high places in the ceived a letter signed "Ku Klux | Reuter.

gruntnen fred

from these discoveries, lasper- BEAR RUNS AMOK THOMAS 'THE BUTLER' CRONIN TO WED

P

in

where he is, and if strong tor Murray also took possession tradition domande that of tins and jars of kerosene and the coming child should some empty cans were found

Belgrade, May 23. have

a title, then, pormit inside the buildings.

Peasants ot Gostivar, the

My Remedios added that a Mr Macedonia, southern Yugoslavia, Buggcation already

Chan Muk-wing, proprietor of #j are huntlig a bear which at- mado be adopted. That the child receive a title

the same area, had tacked a herd of cattle being factory

fifth | drivon niong forest road, direct from the Queen, and been approached by the

Mau-kam,

on pouncing on the back of a cow at the same time allow the accused, Chan

February 23. child's father to progress, in Chan Mau-kam was alleged to Into the trees.

That afternoon, and killing it before escaping his now caroor. so that have talked to Mr Chan about Farmors and to consider the when the Queen at last the imminent vacation of their bear tone, but I turned, dan- honours him, he will feel factories,

gerous after giving birth to R his reward. to be well *During this discussion, the litter of cubs Chuis Mall

fifth. Kocused was mileaed to Special, married.

r

London, May 29.

on Princess Margaret, an- Thomas' Cronin, the "Perfect Dutler" who walked out

nounced on Sunday that he's going to get married and take his bride back to the United States with him. "It's time, 1 settled down," sald, Six times Mrs Groom rejected

him. bachelor Cronin after popping the question-for the seventh Cronin, on vacation from his Lime-to 50-year-old widow | ob at the Dania: ¡Jul. 'Alai Mrs May Croom who'

Falket near Miami, made it the Crown Inn in London'a-Bi |: with the seventh try. John's Wood district;

ruma

:

Armstrong-Jones, quit · Just |

compinining ↑ that Me year Armstrong-Jones Interfered with his duties, and went to work in the Unlied Blafes When will, the wedding ber "We've known each other for Cialis, oose buller to Princem "I haven't made up my mind

„Ave yours."!

Margaret and Mr Antony {yat," said Mrs Groom-AP.

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