Nightclub Search For Malaysian Diplomat

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31087, 16 June 1966, Page 15

Nightclub Search For Malaysian Diplomat

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, June 15. Investigators have questioned Sydney nightclub entertainers in an effort to solve the disappearance of Malaysian High Commissioner, Tun Lim Yew Hock.

Inquiries in the King’s Cross area followed reports that the missing diplomat liked nightclub atmosphere and was a patron of the clubs. Detectives learned he was known to a number of entertainers, including a baretop dancer. This girl and several others were questioned but none could throw light on the envoy’s whereabouts. Concern is increasing hourly for the safety of the 51-year-old High Commissioner.

Police admitted today that the scant trail provided from airport and taxicab sources had petered out in Sydney. In the past 24 hours barely a scrap of new information had been received. Trail Lost

Tun Lim's movements have been traced from Canberra to Sydney airport last Friday, and thence by taxi to Bondi, an eastern suburb of Sydney. The trail vanishes at a retaining wall in Wellington street, where he left the cab. He was apparently last seen by the taxi driver standing motionless on the pavement. A poignant, emotional

appeal by Tun Lim's wife and daughter on two television networks last night has so far produced no response. Investigators of the Australian security intelligence organisations. Commonwealth police and Sydney special criminal investigation bureau squad will confer today to consolidate and intensify the search. Close Co-operation This is the first time since World War 11 that the three organisations have co-operated so closely on a case. Inquiries, in top secrecy, and on the highest level, have been made among the diplomatic corps in Canberra and Sydney. These have served to support the belief that Tun Lim’s disappearance has no diplomatic or political basis. The longer the search, the stronger is the theory that the missing High Commissioner is suffering from loss of memory. Plea’s Result It is believed that many reports today were inspired by the plea by Tun Lim’s wife and daughter on television last night

A man seen to cash a traveller’s cheque in a hotel in Leichardt, a Sydney suburb, on Monday evening, proved to be a 6ft Fiji Islander. Detectives spent more than an hour at a Kingsford motel after two Asians had been reported dining there at 9.15 p.m. on Sunday. The Asians bad ordered oysters and fish. The Malaysian High Commission staff said today that Tun Lim liked fish and had a preference for oysters at functions.

Australian Flag.—One of the designers of the Australian flag, Mr Leslie Hawkins, has died at the age of 83. In 1901 he shared a prize for the flag design with five others in a competition which drew 30.000 entries.—Melbourne, June 15.