The proposed establishment of the new service was approved by council members, and the Secretary of State approved the appointment of the first director-designate.

The Public Services Commission was examining applications from other government departments for transfer to the new service.

Acting Colonial Secretary E.B. Teesdale, who moved the first reading of the bill, noted that in most territories, immigration controls were administered by a separate service or department.

However, the police had often included immigration among their duties, as Hong Kong's police force was doing.

Under the new bill, members of the service who dealt directly with the public would wear uniforms and be constituted as a disciplined body.

Their powers of arrest were the same as those held by members of the police force.

There were 61 suicides in Hong Kong during May, according to statistics from the United Nations of Hong Kong Prevention of Suicide group.

Of these, 35 were women and 26 were men; 22 women and 15 men ended their lives by taking poison, seven women drowned and six men jumped from a height.

Unemployment or poverty was listed as the reason for nine of the men killing themselves, while family troubles were blamed for 11 of the female suicides.

Kite flying near Kai Tak Airport was becoming a serious concern because of the danger to aircraft using the runway.

A government spokesman issued a reminder that any kite flying was prohibited within a three-mile radius of the airport.

'Kites flown in these localities constitute a hazard to air navigation,' he said.

'The sudden appearance of a kite could have a disconcerting effect on the pilot of a plane coming in to land.'

Adolf Eichman swore under oath that he never realised what the Nazi party intended to do to the Jews when he joined in 1932.

By the time the extermination plot unfolded, he said, he was powerless to influence it.

The former Gestapo officer, accused of a key role in the Nazi extermination of six million Jews during the second world war, took the stand in his own defence in Jerusalem after hearing 10 weeks of prosecution evidence against him.

His defence counsel said the whole Nazi government machinery created and administered the plot against the Jews.

'They issued the orders and directives. They created the preliminary conditions. Otherwise the accused would not have taken one step. And he did not take one step without those orders. He was not included in the political leadership. He was among those receiving the orders on the lowest rung.'

An inscription bearing the name Pontius Pilate, the first archaeological proof of the existence of the Roman governor of Judea during whose term of office Jesus was crucified, was discovered by an Italian expedition at Caesarea.

Until then, Pilate's part in the crucifixion of Jesus was based only on the Gospels and on works of the Jewish historian Josephis.

The stone was found on the site of the Roman amphitheatre at Caesarea, the Roman capital of Judea.

It was inscribed in Latin with the words Tiberius (contemporary Roman Emperor) and Pontius Pilate, who was governor of Judea between AD26 and AD36.

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