'If, because of pressures, the US servicemen who come here are forced out, they will go to Sydney, Manila or Tokyo. Thus the Chinese people of Hong Kong would be the only ones to get hurt in that hundreds of millions of dollars would be spent elsewhere,' he said.

Three days later, rest-and-recreation visits to Hong Kong by American troops stationed in South Vietnam were suspended.

A Hong Kong government spokesman said the government did not request the discontinuance, but added that the matter had been under discussion for some weeks.

A US spokesman in Saigon said the R-and-R visits had been stopped for the time being because a review of allocations for such visits was under way.

Other sources said the restrictions were the result of pressure from Peking.

There was no immediate indication how long the ban would last.

China warned the British government a week earlier that it 'must' halt the movement through Hong Kong of US military planes and ships for the Vietnam war zone.

Neither embassy nor military spokesmen in Saigon would say where the suspension originated, nor why it had taken place so abruptly. The suspension became effective immediately.

An urgent appeal for private donations amounting to HK$4.5 million was made to everyone in the colony interested in supporting plans for the establishment of an English secondary school and a junior school.

The request for funds followed two-year-long discussions about the need for the schools, to be run along the line of schools in England.

The government had provisionally reserved a site at Wong Nai Chung Gap for the co-educational secondary school and approved in principle a capital grant and loan.

It declared support for a junior school in Kowloon and would also provide a recurrent subsidy.

The appeal was launched when it was discovered that an additional HK$4.5 million in capital would be needed in excess of the grants available from the government.

The department of anatomy at the University of Hong Kong was in dire need of more bodies.

Only 15 to 20 bodies were received by the department each year. They were all unclaimed bodies - people who died in hospital with no relatives.

'These are not sufficient for the 240 medical students,' a department spokesman said.

He had been teaching anatomy for 35 years and in that time only five people had bequeathed their bodies to the department, he said.

Crown counsel Max Lucas took it upon himself to suggest that a lighter sentence should be given to a 35-year-old man who had pleaded guilty to possession of dangerous drugs.

He told the magistrate in Causeway Bay Court that the accused was clearly not intelligent and obviously must have been paid to carry the drugs from one place to another.

He then asked magistrate Lo Hin-shing to reduce the man's 24-month sentence by half.

The magistrate agreed that he could not punish a 'simpleton' too severely and remanded him in custody for a probation officer's report.

From Pretoria: Two Africans were given 10-year jail sentences after they admitted being trained as saboteurs in China.

They left South Africa at the end of 1963 and admitted to being trained at Nanking Military Hospital.

They were arrested shortly after returning to South Africa.