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Comment Officials survey damage of yesterday's fire
of the
day
FIRE INQUIRY
NEEDED
TONGKONG has seen some
Haper tardlar fires
In ITA
lifetime History bunks ve Card the blaze that 11 cinerated
170 Chinese
houses U the Bondian- strund are in 1851. Then 15pm S The fire which destroyed the Roman Ca Thole Chanah in Wellington sired eight years later And there
the gu powder ship which blew up 2 Stomer atters Island kill. ang 40 coolies in 1867
WHM
In 1918. there was the Happy Valley holocaust in which hundreds died in the blazing infernu of matshed grand- stand during a Derby Day meeting. And Fight years ago many recull that
race
Christmas night harter Kowloon when 11 squatter area was reduci to ashes anti 50,000 made homeless.
THE EXHIBITION WILL GO ON
Investigation
into cause of the blaze
The Chinese Manufacturers
Association
will resume the 19th Exhibition of Hong- kong Products "as soon as possible" after repairing the damage caused by yesterday's fire.
Mr Charles Chu. Secretary of the Association, said this morning that a party of CMA offi- rials were accompanying officers of the Fire Services Department and a representative of the Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd on a survey of the site this morning.
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JESTERDAY'S Blaze at the exhibition ground. may compare with none of these Tu mungnitude or Buffering. But let no one delude him. self. Had the fire nccurred Saturday night with
The milling crowds ing the maze of
Jazin
afleys that wind Between the stalls, today's headlines
Clay
Million tasks
Bond un Prakas
Right now I am
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mart
HPREH
SP 2
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Electric
teld ('o Ltd.
the China Mail this morning: "I don't believe the Fr With caused by an electric short Circull
The woong condoring for the lagi tatilaush
Elec Brents
Part 1 The Supply Cod Pratince
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As an example of the glea derped lade his corupany had taken an the cloetzivity 400 Eshtatten perpet
laced grumis. wo bi se poup area are said to Exhibita
some illumination arch 1 t Te the book t
nte which
not supplied +11
site o
with eleeneity “because it had of the tire
The Tapas tel this morbing were Mr B G Cox Dakorol
Service
People The Pite
Trabarte very dire to electrical Shots, he sund
would have read differently curve the dem, ge and possitats
and! Hongkong would have had a terrible tragedy to tament. Indred that unne perished and that the hou dreds inside the exhibition
tel escaped unscathed WAR nothing short of a mirarte.
The speed with which the Fire Brigade and the Navy reached the scene of the Haze and tackled the buru- ag stalls deserves highest credit. Any delay could have been catastrophie. But the matter cannot end there. The cause OFF the fire
to reported electrical Facult
is
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wall
be recalled that
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fit tower caught fire a few years ago when the exhibi Lion site was in Kowlnut. and the ground bad to be temporarily closed.
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THE CAUSE?
After a survey thi mara- ing. it is believed that Be fire was caused by
electric fault, said the Dirre- tor of the Fire Services Dr- partment. Mr K. G.
ON Mr t'ox inspected the febris
The Exhibition grounds this morning in the company of ather officials of his Department and Mr H. Colllus. Distribution Engineer of the Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd.
set.
"It was either a ennden- transformer. Or something else that went off like a bomb before the start of the blaze." he said.
There is indeed always this
danger of faulty electrical Degur mene. wiring
where neon
Mi
J. Miller. Dejan Direclor of the Depart that Mr A E. I. Wood, Senior
aly
prone
Kadro Hongkong “had a quite useful exercise" at the Exhain- tom ground whon, 149 2
irake after the fire Terapie on Framid rushed
kit.
al!
down
Hi Hear
avear by Merruzy Fipped out conurebon, and r
TRAVINY all instruments. from ther stall withn 20 minutes
Statement
The
Ala 11 Brooks, thu alation's Broadcasting Dirvetor, Sub Clana Mail this
ning that te some the equipment wit SX00
Ch -Tud wa
the Wan- k4』 +1- exhibition Runs, about 30 yards from
the central section which was
n fire." as continued,
W bad to rip off, by brute larger mstruments St id down by bolts and nuts"
Rho Hongkong and its instruments Acung or resumes added.
ather lighting is extensive Divisons Officer of the FSD, ly used and where the stalls Mr
F
Jackson,
are rapidly assembled. And Dont Officer of the Depart- the fire danger becomes mont drejwesentative [ obvious when it is realised the Hongkong Electric Co. 124.
that the materials osed in
these temporary structures consist largely of painted wooden panels and paper bard, and the display items of inflammable fibres and plastics.
Findings
on al
Then survey warted before X m and was still going the time of goingo Pless,
Preliminary findings indicated that the
12 + 1 Sige had electric one. 15ut Was
HE
nel
wi rein- when the xoration. he
11 £10.000 modern eigarette machinery put on display by Iritish-American Tobacco
Ca (HK) Lud at the Hongkong Products Exhibition. Klound was
tinteduhed by the fize.
M: P
G. Purdon, Sales Assistant
HAT soal this morning that we are at the fat and of the display section away from the fire,
He said the Company would the machine when the fair resumed "because were the electrical fittings or some other installation.
W Stoker,
we have put in a lot of money checked?
Manager of thr Hongkong preparing for the display." seems to be not thoroughly
If there is to be enough. another exhibition the
MHE question that must be certam whether it was caused He said the C
The
swer
pubile will need to be as-
Mr
General
sured that every stall has FRONT PAGE BRIEFS
been carefully examined.
An added insurance would |
be the installation of an automatic sprinkler system. Clearly the presence of H small fire appliance and a few extinguishers Was completely inadequate.
LUTULI LANDS
Oslo, Dec. 7.
Ex-chief Albert Latuli ar-
Double murder
Belton, Texas, Dec. 7. Ajilled suitor shot to death a 20-year-old student today, killed
Finally, we urge that a public rived here by air tonight wher mother, and then took his
his wife from South Africa to
inquiry be held to pin down receive the Nobel Peace Prize. own life.-AP.
the exact cause and respon- Despite the bitter weather more sibility, to survey the than 100 Norwegians gathered precautions taken and to at the airport to greet Mr recommend essential safe. Lutuli-Reater. guards for the future, in- cluding the need for ዝ more spacious ares, a less congested lay-out for the stalls and many more exits. This is one occasion when
MORE SURPRISED
Tokyo, Dec. 8. The newspaper Asahi Shim- bun said today that Japan's
boy 7, 1943, whe greater sur- prise to Japan than to American and British people.--AP.
Willing mediators Pour Harbour attack on Decem
the public escaped lightly. tonight they would be willing to Attlee improved
Earl
London, Dec. 7. British omela! quarters sald
mediate in the Indian-portuguese But unless steps are taken dispute over Gos "If both parties
Amersham, Dec. 7. defects
78-year-old remedy
Attlee, former Labour Prime Minister, shortcomings, this may But it was reliably understood was stated to be "slightly im happen again. And with
that the British Government has proved this afternoon--about far
disastrous no intention of taking the initia 12 hours after he had a heart
Hye-UPI.
Dell attack-Reuter.
to
мого
ponsequences,
and
so requested."
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INGRID'S DAUGHTER STES FOR DIVORCE
JENNY
L.
San Francisco, Dec. 7. Jenny Lindstrom Callaway, daughter of film star lugrid Bergman, today Ried suit for divorce against Fuller E. Callaway , wealthy heir to Georglu textile fortune. She charged extreme cruelty. Mrs Callaway. 22, and her hgs-
band. 28. einped to Nevada on February 21, 1960, while she was a student at Mills Col- lege.~UPI.
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'No nationalisation'
MP brings up
question of HK's power
companies again
London, Dec. 7.
British woman
on charge of wounding
A European woman, Norma Sullivan, 33, de- scribed as a commercial artist and residing at room 620, Mabuhay Hotel, appeared before Mr A. Garcia at South Kowloon Magistracy this morning on a charge of wounding.
Sullivan, a British subject Cassandra Hill, al Kowicon who has been in Hongkong for yesterday eight years, pleaded not guilty through her solicitor, Mr A. S.
UNLAWFULLY
Mr Hugh Fraser, Colonial Under-Secretary, to- C Comber, of flashings and Co.
day refused to order the Government of Hongkong to take the Colony's two electricity supply companies into public ownership.
Mr Ernest Thurston, a Labour thr tallowing Member, question to him in the House of Commxxis
"WHO you THO W direct the of Hongkong to Governmen ingalement the main revomition- dalion of the Electricity Supply Commission's report, dated December 1969, to take anto Lubile ownership the two elec- tricity supply companies th Colony?
Mr Fraser replied: "No, sir."
"Are Mr Thornlen:
укачі aware that the electricity com- すい bres mader it quite clear the Cummussaa that there was house between halfway
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pul bergeneeship and unfettered private nwnership?
18-
"Does
not the well-known dietrinaire
of dislike tronalisation past the private electricity power companies In a very strong bargaining post- Ede
CONFIDENCE
Mr Fraser replied the he had full confidence in the way the Government was
handling this matter,
He added that the restriction on the distribution of dividends had had good effect in that
the money had been diverted to the
and im- development provement
of
: enviers - - Reuter.
the electricity
(See P.2)
U.N. requests Britain to
supply bombs for Congo
London, Dec. 7.
Britain has received a request from the United Nations for the supply of
bombs to United Nations aircraft in the Congo.
This was revealed tonight by side, the Rhodesian Federation
on the other." Foreign Offee spokesman.
It had been asked about a The newspaper's correspon- report in the Daily Mail that dent added that Britain's deci- Britale is under strong pressure | sion was deliberately delayed to supply the bombs to indiun- while the Government tried to operated Canberra jets for get mrther information.
United Nations action.
He added The reques! under study."
The newspaper
The United Nations require-
15 ment was so urgent that the
Americans were
approached report said help instead. the request, *ke secret af ¦ week. threatens not only to widen the split with the Ameri- Cars over the uction in Kalanga, but to divide the Commonwealth-India
Oil one
Typhoon Ellen off Manila
Tokyo, Dec. 8. The U.S. Air Force weather office here today located Typhoon Ellen, intensified from an 40- seasonal tropical storm. about 449 miles east southeast of Manlia,
The Typhoon was moving west northwest at ten miles per hour.
Typhoon Ellen was ex- pected to be about 276 mties east southeast of Mapila tomorrow morning.
Reuter.
Free hand
The U.S. Government "gave the United Nations a free hund!
taxe whatever explosives
10
they needed."
It was found, U.S. Air Force not fit into
bays.
"S The
however, that bombs would Canberra bomb
request,"
the correspondent,
continues "was swung
Harold Lloyd ill
Beverly Hills, Dec. 7. Harold Lloyd,
famous be- spectacled
th comedian of
silent Alms, is L
nervous
Lloyd, 88, war stricken last month with a painful case of shingles, a disorder of the
Mrs system.
Lloyd said she hoped he would be up and able to resume his regular schedule in three or four weeks. -UPI.
back to Britain. But before he was prepared to answer, Lord Home
wanted these questions answered:
"What an the bombs required for? How extensively will they be used? On whose authority! will they be dropped?
"A reply was received from U Thani on Thursday."-Reuter,
day the
(See also P. 3)
Lest we forget
Exactly 20 years ago to- plants and troops of Imperial Japanese forces attacked Hongkong. At 8 am on December 1941. Japanese fighters and bombers swept aver Kow- loon, strafing and. bombằng Kal Tak Airport, The handful of RAF aircraft
bused there were destroyed on the ground.
At the saic time, Japanese troops crossed the frontier from China sand started their push south- wards across the New Ter- ritories.
After a gallant struggle that lasted unit! Christmas Day, Hongkong surrender- ed.
Alexandra to visit Greece
Princess Alexandra, who arrives home in England on Monday
Far East tour, is to visit Athens with her mother Princess Palace announcement said today.
Princess Alexandra and her mother will be in Athens for * few days as guests of King -Paul and Queen Frederiks-of- Greece, and will join in the King's 60th birthday celebra- tions.
During their visit to Athens the Duchets and the Princem will
attend the engagement party for Princess Sophia, 22, King Paul and Queen Frederika's daughter, and Don Juan Carlos, 28, pretender to the Spanish Throne.
A London evening paper to- night speculated that this party will be an opportunity
London, Dec. 7. after her 30,000-mile Marina, a Kensington
for the Princess to tell hor mother's relatives of her im- pending engagement. Without suggesting whom she may marry, the Evening News said close friends beileved the i engagement might be officially announced at Christmas, when the Princess
26th haa, her birthdayReuter.
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Mr Comber applied for ball defendant's behalf. It was granted at the sum $500 on con- dition that she surrender her passport to the police.
The defendant will
appear again tomorrow morning for a day to be fixed another
for hearing of the ease.
The prosecution alleged that the defendant unlawfully and maliciously wounded European woman, Miss Ariadne
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