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BILL providing for sex holidays a year with Fuli pay to workers 31: THATS Trial undertakings, as well as sickness aliowances As! half pay up to twelve days a year was introduced on the Legislative Comel by Mr C

B. Burgers on Wednesday

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Scheme involved $500,000 in gold contraband

PLOT TO SMUGGLE A FORTUNE

Jordanian and

Syrian get

jail terms

This is a modest but a goid An amazing plot to smuggle about half a

start, but before we become

ton self-congratulatory, it might be well to remind ourselves that the proposed Bill is only the first step Towards meeting the pro visions of an international Labour Convention on holi- days with pay, which is not at present appled in Hong kong.

On the other hared [14 Mr

Burgess pointed out, man firms in Hongkong an already providing these benefits and more th their employees, but the fact re- mains that There ployers in the Colony whe

totally indifferent

welfare of

There

are the workers.

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million dollars worth of gold into the Colony was revealed today in Central Magistracy when a Jordanian university student and a Syrian shirt salesman were charged with illegally importing more than 77 lbs of gold each in special waist- coats.

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The Magistrate, Mr Derek Cons, after hearing evidence by the Crown of a letter found in the room of “a popular Kowloon hotel" about an international smuggling ring, sentenced the two men to jail for six months.

The Cowa had also told the Count beat the sun h whom the delivered "left the lay Bangkok at this gold was seized at Kat Tek

their suddenly on little

Tokyo

told that

These arrangements had been endorsed un The tickels at Beirut.

They Thury were

have

to a to submit would search, and were asked again If they had anything tu dreiare, partularty gold.

The defendants then admitted currying 36, the

gold, and on being searched were both found to be weurnis special waistcoats uce their shirts. Each walst- coal contamed 35 one-kilo bars of gold.

doubt that the proposed The two men who were jailed legislation will receive the

Wedd Najja Melena Shart altention of the world's Ausin, 22, the Jordanian; studen press. It must be expected. and Mohd ikazaz, therefore. that verseas Syrian They were represented critics will compare Hong- lạ MiD A L.. Wright, Kong's нік paid public holidays

a year with the generous provision of holi- days in western countries, which amount in sume cases to much JAM 140 days a year.

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Lenience

He asked the Court to real

Insp Kerswili said Najjan, who

mently with the men as this spoke "reasonably good English"

said that they were only "car- !

were to riers" and that they the

to Ikazaz's good deliver

Kazzzz. Clasia, & Mi

in his room in

Kowloon "pupular hotri."

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was their first offence.

Mi Weight also told the court that the

ame from good families and asked for a fine ja UT criticism from over- dent of imprisonment.

Prosperestige Fint

Revenue Insp be dis- musi Hea8

G Broswift, sold

Like the two "uninformed" !pers arrived on a PAA aircraft missed as simply because we do not

wh: h l coine from: Europe, this room agree with it. Nor can the Middle Retail Bangkok, Hongkong contem itself on Nov crabe: 18 at $20 pm, with the thought that it has its hands full with problems such as education, housing, the provision of essential

When

they were asked to by services, and refugees for enter the search room so that a that can never be accepted body search could

The Pengage of the two men a searched and they later told

yulitats

nothing to declure.

had

be carried

as an excuse for delaying out, the two men protested. the proposed legislation.

Whether we like it or not,

Hongkong

The forum point of democracy in the East, and any attempt 10 delay or thwart long need- ed legislation will bring considerable repercussions on Government.

As we see it, the biggest task before Government will be to ensure that all those en- titled to benefits once the Bill becomes Law, actually get them, and are not vic- timised hy unscrupulous employers-It-might be asked..

if it is suficient to open

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They said they were in transit Lo Tokyo and produced

their tickets and passports.

When Customs officers check- Po those documents they found that the men were funi Damas eus and were permitted to stay in Hongkong for two days and to as a later fight to

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Searched

Customs officers then searched While searching. Mr Kazzaz returned "bul_wing this apparently poor English

was not possible to question: him as closely as desired."

He was then taken to Kai Tak airport where he was confronted

Two' defendants. denied knowing either of then or anything about the gold

Ілкр Kerswili Sald later inquiries revealed that Kazzaz cheeked into the olel on Oct- virer 24 and "eft suddenly for Bangkok on November 19, less than 24 hours after the seizure of the gold.

This story continues on P.5 under this symbol *

Three trucks needed to

carry away loot of burglar, age 12

Marion, Ind, Nov. 30.

section of the Labour De The 12-year-old burglar hauled most of his loot home in his little red cart, but it took three big trucks to carry it away.

partment to receive com- plaints, or whether Govern-

ment will have to set up

far bigger network of

-We even found the cart was

regional reporting offices, stien," police said, which can investigate to

is being observed.

see that the new ordinancei Police Chief Marvin Martin said yesterday that authorities hed only scratched the surface

of crime, launched when he was of the 12-year-old boy's career

nine.

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is noted with satisfaction that Government has al rendy closed the door

what might have been

A DOZEN

tendered 49 exeuses for Mr Martin said the boy com- those seeking to escape the mitted * dozen burglaries in provisions of the proposed the past month and at least six legislation. For, reads the earlier this year.

Bill, "The six paid holidays

around Cuched

the

boy's

are additional to the week- home hore and hidden along

ly rest days to which

the banks of the nearby Missle-

River,

police found

women and young persons simewa

are. entitled

Factories and

Undertakings

1955."

under the seven bicycles, a large motor Industrial snow plough, car accessories, Ordinance, wagons, tyres, a go-kurt, a toy furn tractor, small motors and dozens of other items - three

It remains only to congratu-truck-lords.

Jate Government for making One of the bicycles was stolen

Was

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a start in the right diree- three years ago. tion. But wo repeat, thei success of the proposed new Sunday night as he wheeled a

The boy

arrested measure lies not merely in stolen go-kart across a bridge. the introduction of legis- it was his second arrest. this lation, but in ensuring that month and police decided to the conditions laid down | chook his home. Discovery of in the ordinance are ob- the loot followed. served. To which might be Mr Martin sálu the boy would added that there must be a authorities.

be turned over to Juvenile Meanwhile, the -----vigorous and determined police chlet sold, authorities prosecution of defaulters. were trying to determing whe-

ther the boy's parents were in- volved.

They couldn't help but know what was going on," Mr Martin said. UPI.

The accident victim waits for an ambulance.

The blind

ɑN is Gloria No.

{arrowed)

at left. China Mail photographer.

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Two men charged and convicted

Photo Police crack soccer

News

She tried

to help a

blind man

across...

A blind man tapped

hesitantly

gambling ring

The police broke up a football betting syndicate on Wednesday morning and arrested two persons, it was revealed at Central Magistracy later that day.

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Mr K.A.S. Phillips, magistrate, The Prosecution's case was Ained 23-year-old Chow Nai- that shortly before kwong $200. and Hui Chun-li, Wednesday a police parly, led 20, $20 when they pleaded guilty by Detective Inspector Ko Po- to keeping a common gaming kwan, raided the Arst four of house and playing in a comunOD

311 Queen's-rusd Central under gaming house respectively.

a gambling warrant. suocer

This was the second gambling organisation to be raided by the pollee since November 2.

Information

The policemen were acting on information that betting on the soccer game between the visiting Swedish Norrkoping

and

at the edge of the pavement ALL THE SAME Gothenberg team and the local

Bonham-road al

early this morning. A Chinese woman, aged 34, took his arm in an attempt to guide

him Across

the busy road. Then R happened. There was a thud as a private car hit the woman.

Combined Chinese to be played United Nations, Nov. 30 that night, was being transacled The news that Dutch New there. Guinea changed its nanie to The defendants were searched West Papua got a shrug of in- and in their possession were difference from Indonesia today. found several carbon copies of Indonesia, which claims betting slips and fixed-score bet-

West sovereignty over

Papua, ting forms. will still call the territory Irian Barat (West Irian), a spokes- for its U.N. delegation

The blind man escaped ил-

scathed. Pedestrians thronged around the man

woman as she lay

the said AP. pavement, a small pool of blood slowly spreading around ber.

near

She was rushed to Queen Mary Hospital with serious head injuries shortly afterwards.

London, Nov. 30. Eleven of the 15 Pakistanis who were alleged 40 have forged passports when they arrived al London airport yesterday from India, were Blown back today aboard Boeing 707 for Bombay. Thiey had spent the night in detention cells.-AFP.

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At the time when the police

were

the prembes, 2 number of telephone calls were

QUEEN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

London, Nov. 30.

Buckingham Palace said today that the Queen would again this year record her traditional Commonwealth Christmas mes- sage in mid-December to enable her to have a free day with her family on Christmas Day.

The Queen is expected to record the message at Buckingham Palace soon after her return from her African tour nexi Wednesday.

The message will probably be flown out to Commonwealth capi- tals for simultaneous release, probably at 1300 GMT on Christmas Day, Reuter.

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-and you kvİningGeally

received by Insp Ko from out- siders who laid wagers on the game.

Chow admitted under caution, to being the operator of the gambling

Airliner took off

towards

death

Sydney, Dec. 1. A Viscount airliner screamed off the rain—lashed run- way at Sydney airport into a thunderstorm last night and carried 15 people to their deaths in Botany Bay o few minutes later.

The Viscount, on a scheduled flight to Canberra, was routed over Botany Bay to avoid in- coming airliners,

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But, about ten minutes after takeoff, residents in the nearby suburb of Maroubra heard loud explosion in the direction of the sea.

This

morning, hunt ended when an oil

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12-hour slick across the mouth of the Bay led searchers to floating wreckage and the mangled bodies of the 15 people aboard-Router.

SETTLEMENT WITH GERMANY URGED

London, Nov. 30. Fifty-two Labour Members

Parliament have

of

put forward Mr Harold a motion urging Macmillan to make construc-

for a Euro-

tive suggestions pean

settlement and a peace treaty agreed on by the World War II ailles and Germany. This settlement, should be based on acceptance of the re- organisation.* Hui sults of the war, and should admitted that he went there to have regard to the terrible suf- lay a bet on the football match. tering caused by the two world Detective Insp Ko Po-kwan wars and the need to prevent a prosecuted

third, it said.--Reuter.

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