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Comment Two deaths, 38 injuries in accidents over weekend of the HK'S GRIM CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

day

Body of a Cat saved 223 from

SEASONAL Briton

LIMBO found in

TELL, here we are again.

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ton

poised, as it were, be- tween two festivals: late to say a "Merry Christ- mas," and too early to say a "Happy New Year." This then is a kind of seasonal limbo where we muse upon all that has passed during the year and look forward wondering at what iA

shrubbery

The Christmas weekend was a grim one for Hongkong. Two men met their deaths, 55 in- traffic accidents jured 30 people-seven seriously can be sure. Taking

six child-

ahead.

Yet looking at it like that. there is one thing of which

we

the years as they come and go, things average out.

In

a strictly personal sense, some years are better than others. In some into misfortune

we

Fun

quite un deserved, in others we get, lucky breaks, equally un- deserved, but as has been said, over the years we strike an average.

of What kind

year has 1961 been? In a general

has been It sense. restless year for all of us. In the main, prosperity has continued, but there

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are

still too many people not sharing in it. Then there have been uprisings and disturbances which have filled us with alarm and taken almost to the! brink of calamity, yet some- how we have avoided the worst.

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10 this season of limbo, this pause between the festival of the old year and the new is not a bad time for spiritual stocktaking. Some looking back will re- call a wonderful year, a year in which their dearest

ren were hurt in a Kowloon explosion, a circus performer suffered injuries in a fall from a tightrope, and a man broke his leg in another mishap. The body of a British soldier was found in a ravine below his Tail Hang-road apartment by children playing there yesterday morn- ing.

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Waterworks employee was drowned in the Shing Mun Reservoir, the New Terri- tories, on Christmas Eve.

Opl The soldier.

W of 252 Signal Mackenzie. 23,

Royal Signals, Squadron, Victoria Barracks, WAS found dead in sme shrubbery near at about 154 Tai Hang-road 9.20 am yesterday.

A Government spokesman said police do not suspect foul play.

his The corporal lived with wife and eight-month-old baby i son at Apartment C-12, 154 Tai Hang-road, 11th floor.

A yellow

dreams came true. A year found beside the body,

in which all the frustra- tions of former years were forgotten, a year in which the planning and strug- gling of the lean years were rewarded. For others it

balloon was also which was clad in a white shirt and dark grey trousers.

100 feet

The body was located in bush in a ravine more than 100 feet i below the corporal's own flat.

might have been a happy A post-mortem was being per-

year, a year in which all formed this morning

the delightful things hap- pened, a year to look back upon and say, "I was very happy then."

If that is so in your case, we congratulate you, and hasten to add that it be treasured as such, stored against a time when life tries to get tough with you. For some, it will be a year best forgotten. A year in which nothing seemed to go right. A year of sheer: frustration, when all your efforts seemed without avail. If so, all that can be said are words which might seem trite at the moment, yet they are very true. Some years seem like that, yet the year ahead can be when occasion just the things will turn out all right.

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the Vic- toria Public Mortuary to find

nature

and injuries the possible cause of death.

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A local report said that child- ren playing in the neighbourhood arst discovered the body lying in the shrubbery,

The corporal who has been in Hongkong for a little more than a year was married just about that long.

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death in this

Firemen and curious spectators inspect the rubble after the house collapse in Aber- deen-street on Christmas Day.-China Mail photographer.

cat walking across the tiled roof of a 40-year-old Central district tene-

ment building on Christmas Day saved the lives of 223 people.

UAR, YEMEN TO BABY GIRL

END UNION

Moscow, Dec. 25. Premier Nikita Kruschev has admitted that netther he nor the Communist Party Is infallible on all matters, and has demand- UT for most of us, it willed he be told personally when ed in have been just another he is wrong. Pravda reported

year, a few pages torn off

the calendar during which we plodded along. What can we do about it? Is it true that our fate lies not so much in the passage of time, but rather in the courage we bring to life and our determination to press on regardless.

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Death toll: 70

Rome, Dec. 26. The death toll as a result of a rail disaster near here last Saturday rose to 70 today when another victim died in hospital from injuries.

Cairo, Dec. 26.

An offlelal statement ending the Federation of Arab States which links the United Arab Republic with the Kingdom of the Yemen is expected to be published here shortly, the authoritative Cairo newspaper,

today. Al Ahram, reported The Federation was establish- March 1958, Ave weeks the after

the UAR. Its 32- article charter provided for unified forsign policy and union of the armed forces.

Syria broke away from the UAR last September-Reuter.

Syria to form of Egypt and

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REAL

FOUND OUTSIDE CHURCH

A 20-day-old baby girl found outside BL Theresa's Church shortly after midnight on Christ- mas

ve.

The child; found by 2 priest whose attention was attracted by her crying, was taken to Kwong Wah Hospital while the authorl- ties try to locate her par- ents.

The infant was bundled up in a cotton jacket and placed on the pavement. There was no note for

New York, Dec. 28. A Christmas Day fire destroy-

Identification. ed a complete business block of The accident occurred when buildings in Whitehorse, Yukon the last car in a crowded local yesterday forcing some

ravine into the weather.

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So, within this short period trala jumped the rafls and plung people out into 45 below zero

of limbo, poised between ed down a

the old and the new years, Fiumarelia River in the Calam- Damage is estimated close to

it might be worthwhile re-bria mountains.—AFF.

calling the words used by

the late King George VI as

a worried world and Britain

in particular, faced an un-

known 1940. "And I said

to the man who stood at

the gate of the gear, "Give.

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The police, on“ Informa- tton from the priest, took custody of the baby and later sent her be the hospi tal.

BOMB AT CHRISTMAS PARTY KILLS 53

Bogota, Dec. 26.

me a light that I may tread A bomb exploding at a Christmas Eve party in a Colombia army, barracks at Bugo, 300 miles from Bogota, killed 53 people and Injured 123, an official com-

safely into the unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand in the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a know? WAY.-

munique announced today!

Several children were among

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the dead." The blast occurred

na: troops and their guests were leaving the parly.

communique from the

President's press Printed that might have. for the Themar

planted the bomb, à divil, employee of the battalion "was among those killed, police dostigations indicated.ne Router

The cat's walk sent down a shower of bricks and dust from the top of the old structure No. The .00- 44 Aberdeen-street, cupants, alarmed by this, hur- riedly evacuated the building.

At 4 pm the whole of the front of the house gayo way and collapsed with a roar. A woman hawker, Leung Siu, 64, who stayed by her stall even after other street sellers had moved their wares further down the street, was slightly injured by a falling beam. She was taken to Queen Mary Hospital.

Digging

Registration of the homeless- 47 families totalling 223 people -started immediately and they were given hat meals by the Social Welfare Department: The CARE also issued chopsticks, rice bowls and dishes to the home- less:

After the collapse, adjoining houses were also evacuated

Firemen started excavating the debris following a report that a resident might have been buried: The work was abandoned when all occupants had been accounted

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Cold kills 200

New Delhi, Dec, 26,

An estimated 200' persons have died as a result of a cold ware in north India which entered Its 10th day today without roller in sight.***

The lowest temperature re- corded was 34.0 Fahrenheit on Sunday. Lows all beross the densely populated Upper Ganges Plain have been only a few degrees higher-APSARAY

Christmas weather story: Sae Erge 3.

BRITISH Air-sea search

TROOPS futile, but

ON THE tug returns to

ALERT

London, Dec. 26. The Defence Ministry on- nounced tonight that it

has put 300 servicemen, mostly crews of transport

ол aircraft, a standby alert in view of increased tension in the East.

Hongkong

A distress signal from the 400-ton Panamanian tug, Inglis, adrift 200 miles south of Hong- kong with useless engine, launched a massive air-sea search for her on Christmas Day.

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search area from Singapore.

The search was called off in the afternoon,

The ships and aircraft failed to the Middle

to find any trace of the tug, but she suddenly returned to the Colony under her own steam last night.

A Wniory statement said:

"During the ga 24 hours

our reast that the Christma.

period might be used to in-. The tug sent out B radio crease tension has been partial-message at 10 am on Monday, ly confined as kar

the three days after she had left Middle East is concerned.

Hongkong for Sorong, West “Aufkugn operations are not New Guinea, saying that her thought to be imminent, <- engine had broken down and lain small-scale paccautionary that she was adrift. measures have again had to be

iakon,"

Specific

The statement did not say in what specific area the tension

risen.

authoritative But stuces said Britain is worried by Iraqi Premier Abdel Kariın Kassem's renewed threats to annex Kuwait.

Raced

in-

Five merchant ships, cluding the Italian liner, my Victoria, picked up the message, and turned off their courses raced

to the rescue. They found no trace of her. The my Victoria was four hours late in entering harbour because of the search.

There were reports recently that Iraqi troops were preparing In addition to the Ave ships, to move against Kuwait while the Royal Navy here also sent the British forces are eating out the frigate, RMS Chichester. their Christmas pudding." An RAF Shackleton bomber few

Three hours later, the Inglis radioed Hongkong that she was returning with all 23 members of her crew safely on board.

She arrived last night and anchored at Junk Bay. She entered harbour this morning after immigration formalities.

Another ship the Hong- kong-licensed trading Junk, Haital, is believed to have been sunk after she sprung a leak about 180 miles northeast of Hongkong.

The 13 members of her crew have abandoned the vessel and were picked up by the Swedish vessel, Milos, which is expected to arrive this morning

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the Hongkong Marine Department has sent out a warning to all shipping in the area that the abandoned vessel is a danger to navigation...

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