1961-05-31 — Page 1

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CHINA

GIENAS GLOUCESTER ARCADE

No. 37989

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Established 1845 WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1961.

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MAIL

Price 20 Cents

AERGANT, SUPREME COUPY

DAILY

JEIS

TO

Phone:

TOKYO 37031

South Africa's final break with Commonwealth

of the BIRTH OF A

day

A WARNING

TTIS Excellency the Gov-

H

erior, Sir Robert Black, addressed the members 34- Bembled to celebrate the centenary of the Hongkong General Chamber of Com- dimmer Tast merce, at

£

Tuesday evening.

Undoubtedly a fine statesman-

like speech. Sir

Robert

used the congenial re-

sion to deliver a

Warning arining

Molemma

fromn

Hongkong's entry into the j

wider field of industry. Advising the members that

tolerance u

restraint

should characterise thir dealings, and that to arous antagonisin Would Field future unpleasant Conse Robert ek quences. Sir panded his theme. First it AVAN pointed out that Hongkong does need

extra markets for its exi panding textile-industry. Upon this, there is complete agreement. The position is that Hongkong in producing textiles quicker than - fize kets can be found. term "dumping" was not used: but it acon will be if any country's ecomany in nifected by flongkong's cheaper priced products.

term

WDA

I exprean Japan's methods

before World War II. when in a world prostrate in an economic depression, Japan fonded the markets with ent priced goods.

Uur

In a finely phrased speech, Str Rubert posed the prob- Join in this manner. "We must keep

thoughts and actions 01) an inter- national level." The China Mait would cer

This tainly acquiesce in statement. The Very com mercial life of Hongkong depends upon international markets.

I

To set aside the immediate pleas from the older imlus- trial countries, and to show Any intolerance now another country's economic problems will reap terrible retribution in the future.

Swart-President-elect

UNDERTAKERS

TAKE

UMBRAGE

Scarborough, May 30.

Britain's undertakers appealed on Tuesday for a more serious view of their profession.

Mr. H. Stringer. president of the National Association of Funeral Directors, fold the Association's an- nual conference: "What we do is not funny and should not be the sub- ject of cheap sarcasm and sly humour.

"The difference be tween the funeral direc- tor and practically oll other businessmen is that we apparently can- not speak on a matter of public concern with- out there being a series of stale jibes or threadbare jokes poked at us."AP.

For it must be understood; STOP PRESS

is necessary that it be im- mediately understood, that any country's economic at the East problems are.

analysis. its own affairs.

plen for under- made i

Fany.

I standing is

and we turn a deaf car, then that unheeded plea i will beget action. And that action will be

market

closed to the Colony. This in no crystal ball obser

vation. It is based upon the hard facts of eco- mics. And it will assuredly happen to us if the Goy- ernor's advice is ignored. What Hongkong needs is goodwill over and above the need of the quick re-

KENNEDY LEAVES

New York, May 31. President Kennedy jeft New York in a jet plane for Parls at 0230 GMT 10. day on his way to his- torio meetings with French President Charles de Gaulle, Soviet Premier Nikita 8. Khrushchev sard Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

AP.

turn. And to establish that JAILED FOR

goodwill, it is necessary to

A

take

into Becount reasonable domanda

other countries,

the

TOR the Colony's economic

F

future is not based upon textiles alone. Other in- in- dustries exist, other dustries will develop, but the name Hongkong is at. tached to them all. With goodwill and the right products, "Made in Hong- kong" will be selling

trade mark on its own; just us Made in Hongkong will be a term of reproach if

ante the immediate

in

allowed to jeopardise future prosperity.

Another important point was atressed by Sir Robert. It must be barne in mind that Commonwealth Preference privileges

are only pri-

\ vileges.

They

re

But

rights which the Colony can demand.

It is certain that Sir Robert

was expressing the beliefs

of all who hold the

real

Interests of the Colony at heart.

TWO YEARS

AL

A general court marital Shamshulpo Barracks this morning sentenced Gur 32 Peter Robin Whitham, Medium Regiment. BA Lo two years' Jall when the Auldier admitted charges of desertion, escaping from custody, iwo counts of fraudulent misapplication of proverty and tight other charges of larceny.

Before sentenco passed on him, Gnr Whit-

the ham asked

Court to take into consideration 10 more counts of larceny in respect of property and cash he had stolen from his comrades.

was

NEW REPUBLIC

Bells ring out US. PAYS GHASTLY PRICE DIRECT HITS from frigate

as street crowds gather

Pretoria, May 31. Pealing church bells carly today signalled to South African crowds numbering tens of thousands the birth of a new Republic no longer subject to the Queen.

This set the stage for a proclamation later today of the new South African Republic of more than 15 million and the inauguration of its first State President, Mr Charles Swart. The crowds gathered in this administrative capital naw diplomats jostle with Afrikaner farmers for rooming space,

the

South Africa will now be come the 22nd independent re- publie to be created un African continent and the only Fone silf wholly ruled by whites, Even though four-fifths of the population are non-whites.

There was

a sharp division in last October's referendum on the Republie,

Afrikaners promoted this re- ferendum by a narrow margin over an opposition led by the English-speaking element, but once the Republic was voted in it ended a 51-year link with the Crow12.

Mass violence

Johannesburg, Moy 31. South African police stormed into Negro town- slips around Port Elizabeth on Tuesday with six Saracen armoured cars to try and alamp out an anti-govern- by demonstration ment thousands of Negroes who accused of burning South African flags.

Associated Prens cor- Steven- respondent Robert

were

son

reported that Police refused reporters permission to enter the Negro settle- ments viere the reported revoll occurred,—AP.

for what is Early arrival, expected tu be the biggest throng ever Gathered In one place in South Africa's history, ran into police checks all the way.

Police

Verwoerd-Prime Minister

The Johannesburg Star, South Africa's biggest daily news- paper, sald in a top front-page headline: "Unprecedented police check in Pretoria. Many people questioned. Business houses to he searched."

The Star's report said security checks were being made at all hotels and boarding houses and aif other buildings along the route which the President-elect will follow to std from his in- tłuction.

Isolation

IN HOLIDAY DEATHS

New York, May 30.

U.S. motorists were paying a ghastly price in traffic deaths on streets and highways on Tuesday as the long four-day Memorial Day holiday entered its final hours.

The death toll rose beyond all predictions making the 1961 Memorial Day weekend the dead- llest in history.

The National Safety Council, traffic experts and police pleaded for extreme caution by motorists. Nevertheless, traffic deaths continued to avorago about one every 14 minutes -- more than four an hour.

Deaths swept past the previous Memorial Day record of 371 early today, scared above the pre- dicted toll of 415 late in the day, and climbed on towards a possible new summertime holiday mark as holidaying Americans crowded roads home.

A survey showed 417 persons dead on high- ways. There were 163 other violent deaths sinco the holiday began at 6 pm on Friday, for an overall total of 580.-UPI,

Trawler finds

safety after

N. Atlantic

escape bid

Copenhagen, May 30.

A British trawler, hit by several shots from a Danish naval frigate, won a race across the North Atlantic today to protection by two Royal Navy warships.

The 174-ton trawler, Red Crusader, was allegedly caught fishing legally oft the Danish- owned Faroe Islands last night

Bodies washed ashore

after air

disaster

Lisbon, May 30.

by the Danish Ashery 'protection frigate, Niels Ebbesen,

The truwler agreed to head Faroes port of Thor- for the shavn escorted by the Niels Ebbesen.

But at midnight slie made a break and steamed for the open sea carrying a boarding' party of one Danish officer and six crewmen,

Warning

The Niels

Ebbesen fired several warning shots across the bows of the Red Crusader, but It refused to stop. The Danish frigate then opened up in earnest and secred three direct hits on the British vessel, holing her in the port bow.

Two

British warships, the frigate Troubridge and the mine-

A fisherman found the mutilated body of a small boy, but investigators said later they still had no positive identifications of the remains of 61 persons believed killed in what apparently was a mid-air explosion sweeper Weation, were sent by of a DC-8 airliner near here early on Tuesday.

CHOPPER

SLASHES

OFF CHAO'S

EAR

of

Found along a beach were In Amsterdam parts of human bodles and as- sorted possessions of passengers and crew members who were aboard the 1-fated Venezuelan Viasa airliner.

A

local fisherman,

Jose

flags were at Airport half mast at Schiphol

of the here today as reporta crash it was a KLM plans lent to the Venezuelan Vinsa airline -came in,

small There

were eight

Figueiredo, said he found the children and two infants on the body as he went out to lay his plane, KLM said.

near the The ultra-modern plane was nets along the sands

at Mina one of 13 owned by the Dutch da Albufeira Lugoa (near Fonte da Telha), three airling. miles south of the resort of Caparica.

Debris

KLM said a 12-man Inves- tigating team had been rushed to Lisbon to inquiro into the accident.

passengers Venezuelans, 10

Among the 43

A little straw hat iny beside were

the child

27

Ont

the boy's body. Also there Spaniards, 5 Portuguese, one were twisted bits of metal and Italian,

Chilean, One scraps of materint,

French woman, and a man of unidentified nationality. One Figueiredo covered Security branch police are to search business premises which A slash

sack and hurriedly in name was still missing from a chopper With a ore supposed to be empty bo

the list. The crew included 12 wiolded during a roof-top formed authorities.

KLM employees Along the sandy shore were tween now and tomorrow morn-

brawl in Shamshuipo Ing. A police official said: "You

pieces of charred wood, tornj Venezuelans. sliced off 43-year-old would be surprised if you knew

cushions, safety belts, odd Choo de how many of our men will be

Kwai's left car shoes, beads from necklaces, unobtrusively around.”

fur stole with the lining turn yesterday,

away — and parts of human bodies,

were nervous about threats of anti-Republie monstrations by the country's non-white inajority who are angry about the failure of their three-day general strike.

Scanned

But police ato

Commenting editorially DI

Chuo, a rattan worker, had. the preparations, the Star earlier lost $4 in a mahjong

game and was pressed for pay- ment. A fight developed on the

All pointed to the fact that the jet airliner which had taken off from Lisbon Airport at 1.15

and 2

Meanwhile, in Caracas, acores of relatives and friends of pas sengers went to the airport early on Tuesday to meet the plane, only to receive instead the news of the disaster.-AP and AFP.

said the new Republic will be born "in all the doubtful splendour of its isolation from roof of 185 Nam Chrung-street am on Tuesday for Caracas had JUST FANCY THAT!

tightly

the Commonwealth."

scanned white visitors.

It was pointed out that

it While many blacks hulled the was a white man, David Pratt, the new Republic with a work

Moslems were | wlhe only

fasting 13 months ago shut strike, and wounded Prime Minister and many Indians were waging Hendrik Verwoerd the man passive

closing resistance by shops.

demanded All who hand-picked South Africa's their

in the new political rights Arst State President,

white-ruled Republle. But they President-elect Swari, 00, were not woing to get their was Queen Elizabeth's last Cov- demands, ernor General,

Then There

are

at 4.30 pm.

In the meles Chao's car was chopped off. Apparently un- aware of what had happened, be grabbed a pole and chased

of

tacker down a flight stairs and onto the street be- fore collapsing with blood flowing from his wound.

A

exploded in the air.

Eleven hours after contact had been lost with the plane In the middle of a sentence as

the pilot spoke with Lisbon Airport's control tower Dile thorities were informed of the discoveries on the lonely storm- swept bench near Fonte da Telha. It is a deserted spot, incing the Atlanti, on the op- posite side of the River Tagus from Lisbon.

the Admiralty to help the Red Crusader.

Late this afternoon the four

ships met in open sea in an at- tempt to negotiate the incident.

The Danish crew was trans- ferred from the Red Crusader to the Nicis Ebbesen after the the two vessels captains of conferred by ship's radio, No further attempt was made 10 detain the Brillsh vessel and a Danish naval spokesman said be expected the three British ships to head for a British port "before sunset" after temporally coming to some agreciment.

Late last night, the Danish government, in a note of pro- test, told the British gover ent that the Red Crusader vk led the Faroes six-mile tating

mit.

A Foreign Ministry spokes- man stressed, however, that the prolest was not an official note. It calls for the Incident to be brought before a Danish court.

UPI.

WOODPECKER

PROTECTION

London, May 30, The Daily Express said that actor Laurence Ölivier plans Introduce central heating to his The Brighton home, set at a constant 75 degrees. This is "the Holly- wood standard," the Express added.—UPI.

Cheese hurts 3

Pittsburgh, May 30. US Steel Corp is developing steel stockings to protect fel- phone poles from wood- peckers.

The Corporation gaid the The police have detained

Intel-Mesh "stockings" would man for questioning, a govern-

be slipped around the utility poles from the top to about 12 English-ment spokesman said this morn-

No official communique has

Gloucester, May 30.

feet above the ground. Pallee were trying to make descended South African whilesing,

weighing received yet been put out in Lisbon, but

A runaway cheese sure that Swart's inauguration in who voted against the creation

seven is in it is belleved that the plane was

pounds crushed into It said the stockings would flying at about 2,000 feet and spectators during a cheese help blunt the attacks of wood- fixat the explosion occurred rolling ceremony near here. peckers which peck utility poles when it was some eight miles Three persons were injured, to pieces within a few years in from land,

heavily forested areas-UPI.

Chan,

who als

a church here is carried out of the Republic, and who literal other multiple wounds, as Verwoerd commanded—"In ly wept in chagrin over "the end hospital,

an amorphere of reverence,"

of an era."AP.

MORE STRIKES IN BRITAIN

London, May 30.

There were mare strikes in Britain last year than in 1959, but they cost fower working days, according to the latest issue of the Ministry of Labour gasetto published today.

Stoppage during 1900 totalled, 122,000 workers.

Wage disputes

2,040 compared wh 2,105 the

accounted for and previous year, but the aggre- nearly half the stoppages, gate mumber of working days nearly another third were due loat was estimated at 3,024,000 | Lo troubles over working compared with 0,270,000 in arrangements,

discipline..

Since 1951,

1050.

rules

industrial

PUB. BET?

London, May 30. Police are looking for the hot- snatcher who stole

a police. woman's hat from

central headquarters and left it in a pub-upl

UPI.

German troops may train in Wales

London, May 30.

Primo Minister Mr Harold Macmillan said on Tuesday no firm decision has yet been

reached on the plan to train German Nato troop in the United Kingdom.

Kugh

pressed to say how Triany

the

He was replying to questions Tydii, Glamorganshire, asked Labour leader Mr from Labourites in the Houso, Mr Macmillan

a150 if the had re- Gaitskotl of Commons On reports that corded the protests of the South Premier German troops are to be given Wales Union of Mineworkers troops would be sent and what training faculties in South and the South Wales Tende their training would be. Wales

Councils against any move to

Me Macmillan said a tank station Gran idlers in the range would be made avaliable principality.

In Wales for the 100 of German troops and pointed out various. the proposals European countries, occupied by and said the Welsh Germany 'during World War II, people were not impressed by which had. offered training Owen arguments that the move would facilities to the Federal Re Merihy ("be" for the good of Nato, - públicAP.

TANK KILLS BOY

New York, May 30, A tank engaging In Memoriat Day exercises ran astray ort and

Tuesday on Staten Island and The reports originated from killed one boy and injured six („diplomatic sources who said the Coal mining with 1,000 stop-

stop- other persoDS.

deal was clinched during the page involving about 171,000 pages have shown a continuing Tho tank struck 1 brich London visit of Bonn Defence workers, accounted for. the upward trend the total of 2,050 (structure

of which Mindster Mr Franz Josef Strauss on top largest individual number, fol- för 1957 being the highest ever several youthe were watching hst week.

the gazette said the ceremonies on the grounds Labourite Stephen lowed by the car Industry, with recorded, 120 stoppages involving about | China Mall Special.

ļut an armoury.—AP.

Dovics, Member for

He described an "evil"