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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1047.
Rainfall Draws SCHOOL FUNDS
ARE VERY
New Record For Colony
Hong Kong's toful rainfall since the beginning of the Bear is 19.00 inches short of the Colony's record of 117.20 bichra established in 1891.
Un to
to neaterday, the Royal Observatory recorded a total of 98.14 inches of rainfall. Chservetary officials said that it was unlikely that the record would be eclipsed by the end
the gear since the rainy reason was ginnoil over.
The year's wetlest month sens Judy during, which 22.82 inclure of rain fell—7.09 inches above the monthly average.
New Move To Absorb Unemployed
A scheme to absorb unemployed skilled workers has been put in-
BADLY TANGLED
The accounts of the Yeung Tak Middle School are so complicated that. It would be some time be- fore they could be unravelled,. declared Mr. Marcus da Silva when he applied to Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday for a new date to be fixed for the hearing of two charges of larceny against the headmaster, Leung Ngai-chi.
Mrflvä,"for the defence. Detective Sub-Inspector H.T. stated that due to the murder Matches agreed with Mr. Silva trial of last week hả wna uh- that the case was a most com. able to unravel the position in pilented one and that addition. time for yesterday's hearing, charges would be brought elthough he had spent many against deféndant. The cost hours during the Week-end on would, however, be taken aum, the Job.
marily
Defendant wat formally re-
Evidence would be adduced,
he sald, to prove that defen-| manded for a week on bail off dant had pctually put more $5,000 cash and`$5,000 in two money into the account of the sureties. The afternoon of Oci. school than those shown by the
the
and
',
He had advised, hin client. he said, to obtain the services,
Kwangtung Sweep Is Booming
$
Up to 6 più, vesterday, 334,000 awcopstake tickets had been sold on the Kwang- tung Handicap, scheduled for Oct. 11 at Happy Valley.
This make, the Arai prize: worth $152,074.
With a full month to go the prize money to ozpected to break all previous records.
Battle Of
Britain
Remembered
A large crowd of civil-
a.m. yesterday. Obituary
to effect by the Kowloon of Chartered Accountant to LT. COL. BRUTTON and Army, respectively, at the
Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
boller
Men affected include: maker tera, engineers, turners, pattern rankers, moulders, plum bris, draughtsmen, engine drivers,
Deez HANDBERG | «lectricians, blacksmiths, welders.
{roppersmiths and experts
dyeing processes.
11
was
Com.
WISHED DEATH RATHER THAN IMPRISONMENT
Sentence of death, rather than that of imprison- ment, was the wish of Lam Slu-wan, who pleaded guilty at the Criminal Sessions yes- terday to charges of attempted armed robbery, assault with intent to rob, possession of arms and robbery by two or more and who was sen- ' tenced to seven years' imprisonment will hard- labour by Mr. Justice E." H. Williams (Pulsne Judge).
the
Lam, who hobbled into Court on a pair of crutches and had to be carried from the dock to cells below by Prison Warder said, when asking for a death sentence, that there was no further use in his liv. ing because he
พร not even able to obey a call of na- ture without assistance.
Mr. Justice Williams told
In The Courts
ARMED ROBBERY
Pleading gulity to charge of armed robbery and, posses- sion of arms and ammunition, was yesterday sentenced by Mr. Li Chi-fat alins So Tit-ming.
about that point in Justice E. H. Williams (Pulsne the first place.
Judge), to eight years' impri- | Mr. E.H. Sainsbury, in out-sonment with hard labour. lining the facts of the case
Mr. Justice Willoms com- for the Crown against Lam, mended Police Constable Man said that he was the remolning | Ping-tai and a shop assistant three of whom were dealt with and effected his arrest. member of a gang of robbers, who gave chase to the accused
at the May Sessions on similar charges, except that they were not charged with possession of the dagger.
Wounded
3 was fixed for the hearing of ians joined with mem- accused that he should have entries in the books.
the two charges of larceny of Whatever wrong
entries $6,000 between March 28 and bers of the three Ser-elected there might be in the books, April 3, the property of devices commemorating declared Mr. Silva, were due to fendant and his partner, Mau the Battle of Britain,
"sheer
unadulterated | Mak Op. stupidity of my ellent,”
held at Kai Tak at 8.30 not to any intention to steal.
Get Accountant
Detachments from ILM.S. Fly. calcher and 25 Field Regiment,
According to Mr. E. H. R.A., represented the Royal Navy
Sainsbury, who prosecuted, ceremonial parade which
cused, accompanied by another go into the very kernel of the
taken by the Air Omeer
man who did not take such an The death securred in-England atcounia.
Continuing. Mr. Silva stated on Sunday of Lt. Col. G. K. Webster, CBE, AFC.
manding. Air Commodore
active part in the affair, enter- S.N.
ed a watch dealer's shop fa that he had seen Mr. Clifford Brutton, senior partner of the
Shanghai Street on Jul (Crown Counsel) and had been Brution and Co.
225. Addressing the well-known firm, of solicitors,
pornde, Alr told
Accused whe wounded in the and was shown a watch which Commodore Webster reminded his that additional charges | would be
course of a gun battle with a he tried on bla wrist and about preferred
C:1. Brutton, who died at his listeners of the spirit and deter accused.
againat home at Yeovil, Somerset, is sumination which won the Battle party of Zulice, under Inspec- which be bargained. He then vived by a daughter. England. of Britain against tremendously for Suular, at No. 4 Third produced a revolver from his
Coming to Hong Kong over 30 overwhelming odds.
Street, in the early
hours of girdle, told the proprietor. not Jears agh, the late Col. Brutton
Under present conditions,
Apr. 13 He sustained two gun to move and ran out of the was one of the Colony's best-stressed the speaker, it was im.
shot wounds, one at, the back shop. There had been a num- known lawyers and was Chairman perative to maintain these con of the Incorporated Law Society.ditions for, although it was the
of the right alde of the chest ber of similar cases where the not been traced. He was a Steward of the Jockey
with Injury to the spinal cord culprit had The following arrived from the Club and for
Reneral hope and prayer that and another to the left thigh. but in this case, an assistant many years the Rasglons.
United Kingdom and intermediata, Official Starter.
there would be no necessity to He was at first not able to in the shop chased him and According to Mr. Robert Der.poris on Sunday by BOAC Spied. Col. Brutton Chairman of the Kowloon Chin. bird flying-boat:-Messrs. P. in W War served in France fight again, we must not be found move his lower extremeties and they passed FC Man Ping-tal, I with the Chines Jess capable or less confident than could not only move his left who off duty In plain the Chamber of Commerce, the Atklus, C. Grange, F. Schulthess, Labour Corps.
those who won that Battle. Icg. He had totally lost the use clothes. The latter joined in cheme is the outcome of ar- Gwatkin-Williams, Blackmore.
the During the Japanese occupation After a short service, rrhd by of his right leg,
chase. He BBW accused concluded
Two with C.W. Balman, the Misses E.Mat Hong Kong he was interned in the Rev. AR. Precce James, the concernents
drop accused's
watch, which was picked Chambers of Commerce in
the Cauwood, G. Mergin, JA, Walters, after the Liberation to reorganise March Past.
St. Paul's Hospital and stayed ceremony concluded with aplices, who were found guilty. As PC Man Ping Tal Schulthess, ares mentioned.
Tan Hlo-kunn, his firm. He left the Colony only
hy a jury on May 30, were each caught accused, the latter drop- Mesdames F. Schulthess, Gubbay a month ag by air for England were the G.O.C., Major-Generat prisonment with hard
Present at the Saluting Base sentenced to ten years' Imped the revolver, which Mayer, Tan Surong, Tin Aun-an holiday.
labour found to be in good working toon, Lee Giak.lan, Tun Kwan.
G.W.E.J. Erskine, CB. DSO; Comm. and ten atrokes of the cane by order and Wan fonded with teng and M. Benton.
modore CL. Robertson RN; the Mr. Justice T.J. Gould. A four rounds. Brigade Commander (Kowloon) third màn, who was found Brigadier C.LV. Jones, CHE: gulity only on the charge of Commander (A) WHN. Martin, attempted armed robbery, was R.N: Lieut.Col., M.C.D.L, Reynolds, sentenced to three years' im- OBE, G.S.0.1: and Lieut. Col. | prisonment with hard labour. JH. Beattie, CHE, DSO, R.A.
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Personalia
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the
SOLICITOR'S FIRST APPEARANCE
of
accom-
WAS
DAMAGED CASE
WOS
Mr. H. Sullivan, new Assistant Secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce, has arrived in Hong
Charged with causing mali- Kong and is living
Mr. P. J. Griffiths of Messrs.
cious damage to a glass show- Peninsula Hotel.
Wilkinson
case on the ground floor of No. & Grist made his
1 Lundale Street; Lance-Cof first appearance in the Supreme Arrivals at the Peninsula Hote! Court yesterday, when he at- Mr. Lig: Tam Yung, who gave.
poral MacAuley was cautioned evidence in the Kowloon milk include A. Hazan, A, Heduye, Mr. neared before Mr. Justice T.J. Fong, represented
BRITISH MEDICALtral yesterday but was ordered
by Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Cen." eace, is the matinger of On Lee and Mrs. J.L. Gressitt, Beb Gould (Additional Judge), in Grinths,
by Mr. Dairy Farm and not the Hung Plerce, David Morken, H. Bel.
The Hung Lee had no con- shaw, L.B. Woolley, Gen. A of a Tenancy Tribunal in restent, was represented by Mr. La
an appeal against the decision
AID FOR CHINA to pay $3 compensation to com- Wong Pit-hing, the respot-
plainant, Chen Kai Nam. Eviction with this case.
Jensen, Mayer Gubbay, Mrs. peel of 8 Hanoi
Inspector Brownrigg stated A large shipment of pharmaceu Marguerite Benton, Mr. and Mrs. Icon. The appeal was allowed
Road Kow-H. L. Kwan.
ticals, donated to the people of that defendant went into the Harold Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. J.
The appeal was based on the China by the British Red Cross shop and spoke in Norgaard. F.D. Fleming, E.S.S.cl. Costs in the sum of $176 the Tenancy
and the eviction order rescind grounds that the decision of Society, has arrived in Shanghal. which was not understood by English,
Adkins, J.B. Nelson, Mr. and
Tribunal
This WGA were also awarded the appel against the weight of
shipment Mrs. W. Hoffman, IL.C.
includes tep Chan. Defendant, then pushed the million tablets of funt.
"Paiudrine," over all uf complainant's and W. Parsonage.
The appellant
évidence and alno that It was the revolutionary new drug pro. cigarettes. Was Shum wrong in law.
duced by British Scientists to Defendant told his Worship combat the dread scourge of that he was drunk. malaria throughout the world. •
The drugs were purchased by the British Red Cross Society with money subscribed by the people of Britain to help in the recon struction of China's war ravaged medical services.
The men who manned the Tea Clippers and. raced them home through the stormy China Sea, knew, the value of a drink which was cooling in the tropic seas and warming when they were drenched with cold spray.
Beer was their
stand by, giving them strength and courage, stimulating and nourishing at the same time.
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THE HONGKONG BREWERY & DISTILLERY, LIMITED.
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Departures from the Peninsula include T.E. Carr, Mr. and Mrs. EJ. Silver, Mr. and Mrs. V. Woodward, Mrs. R.J. Melanphy, Miss B.B. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. JJ. Hackins, Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Boatwright. A.R. Knipp. Mrs. R.M. Smecton, V.K. White, Mr.
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St. Patrick's Society Honours Inniskillings
and Mrs. N. Nicholson, Miss P. Hong Kong's Saint Patrick's Society welcomed
Long, Mrs. B. Beaumont, L.M. Buratt, Mrs. R. McKenzie, E.D. Galloway, H. Belshaw, N.I. Ramsay, Mr. and Mrs, S. Leland, J.F. Savill, R. Cunningham, L.B. Wooley, G.K, Wallington and M.R, Molr.
The forthcoming weddings have been announced:
Eugong Alexia Trenin, mechani. cal engineer, of 21 Cameron Road, 1st floor, to Marina Vladimirovna
their newly arrived countrymen, the Royal Inniskilling Fussillers, at a cocktail party for over 100 Irishmen held at 6.30 p.m. yesterday at the Hong Kong Club.
:.
BREACHED
Mak Ming 'altis Kweng Ming-tak aliae Kwong Man wah, Li Lung alias Wong Sau- tung, Ho Shing allas Loung Yin Distribution to hospitals, clinics, alias Chan Ylu and Wong and medical missions all over Shek-ming alias Wong Ming, China, including remate parts of who pleaded guilty to charges the Interior, will be carried out of breach of deportation: or-
der by the International Relief Com-
were each sentenced to mitice of China.
two years' imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. Justice E. H. Williams (Puinne Judge), at the Criminal Sessions yes- terday.
HAWKERS' BY-LAWS
With a lively Irish tune, two Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Morahan; Mr. Royal Inniskilling pipers greeted G.P. Murphy: Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Sir Alexander and Lady O'Connor; Mr. and Mrs. J. Grantham on their arrival at O'Donovan; Mr.
R. and Mrs. 7 p.m.
Purcell; Mr. Claude Rankin; Mr. Dr. J.P. Febily, President of and Mra, I. Ring: Mr. and Mrs. welcomed the Irish Battalion, say. Mr. W, La B. Sparrow; Mr. and the Saint Patrick's Society. Reynolds; Mr. D'G. Sheriff; A long list of amendments to ing that the Society was proud Mrs. S. Stevenson; Mr. and Mrs.
the Hawkers By-laws 'contained
DISORDERLY
For belhg, drunk and dis
in the schedule to the Hawkere orderly on a ferry launch at
Fedoroft.
Thomas Leonard Knight, mer.
|to create a bond between Irish C.E. Terry; and Miss Terry: Mr. Ordinance 1985 will be brought 10.10 p.m. on Sept. 14 and chant, 19 Beltram Road, Kowghting men und civillons, loon Tong, to Nábla Grimths, 17 Thanking the society, Lt. Cui Mrs. WJ. Waghom; Dr. and Mrs. ly meeting of the Urban Coun Wah Fong, 20, Royal Artillery, and Mrs. M.B. Tighe; Mr. and up at this afternoon's fortnight-creating a dieburbance, Young J.B. Filmer Bennett, MC, Com. Watson; Mr. and Mrs. Beltram Road, Kowloon Tong
CJ. fell
and Corporal Henry Tong, 27, manding Officer of the Inniskill. Waddell; Surg..Cmdr. Dermot Mr. Emmet O'Neal, new Unitedings, said that he wished to ex. Walsh, RN., Mr. Justice and Mrs. commendation to Government, bound over in the sum of $10 Also on the agenda is a re- of the same regiment, were States Ambassador to the Philippress gratitude for the good hos. Williams; Dr. J.P. Wilson; Mr. to be moved by the Chairman, for 12 months by Mr. F. X. pines, arrived in Hong Kong pality shown the buitallon since and Mrs. Woulfe Flanagan; Mr. that section 2 of the Adulterat d'Almada yesterday when they.. yesterday accompanied by Mrs. arrival In Hong Kong.
"There are not as many Irish.!
and Mrs. A.D. 'Wyllie.', O'Neal and their two daughters.
Inspector The American official, on his men hero na we would like to sez way to Manila, is scheduled to but more and more are coming-- leave today.
they are piling up" he said,
To add an Irish air to the TE. Carr, M.E. Smeeton and party, Pipe Major L. Rickards H.A. Gaspard were among pas. (and L/Cpl. J. Sutherland played kengors leaving for Manlia by a varied selection of 12 Irlah PAL
.`plane."
tunes.
•
St. Patrick Society members Air Commodore S.N. Webster. present at the party were: Mr. CBL AFC Air Omeer ConA. Fenton, retired President of manding, leaves Hong Kong by the Shanghat
als "today for a shirt Visit to Society, Mr, ara Patrick's
Mr. J.C. Singapore. The AO.C. is
ex Grenham, Secretary of the Hong pected to anive back in the Kong Saint Patrick's Society; Colony on Sept. 24.
Mr. F. Shanks, Tressureg; Sir Hery and Lady Blackall: Mr. John Ablers has relinquished and Mrs. J.P. Donovan, Mr. and the business manggership of the Mrs Allwright; Mr. and Mrs. Shanghal Evening Post, the only F.C. Barry: Mr. and Mrs. CC. American, newspaper in Shang-Blake: Mis M. Carew: Mr., and hat. He will be succeeded by Mrs. F.C. Clemo; Mr. Ps. Coolo; Fred T. Douglas of Boston.. Mr. Klas ME. Crowley; Mr. and Mrs. Anters and his wife, will" lenye]C.W.M. Croder?" Me, and s soon for New York City.
DJB. Crozier; Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Curric Surg Copl. and Mrs. T.N. DUTY
and Mrs. RE
Hon. J.B. and Mrs.
HONG KONG WAR DE P. Emonde, Mr Dempsey: MEMORIAL FUND GEMENG GY 209 kekal ha ka koju letales, a crimin; Dr. and Mrs. E.W.IL. "Arnhem" $20. Total 20; Hong Hackett; Rev. Patrick Joy, B.J.; Kong Government Contribution Mr. and Mrs. J. Joyed) Me, MJP 12071 to Tsept 13 88,840 81789) EARN Mrland MWm. Mc Grand Total $2,049,237,62,691 407 MAJ 2009, (7153 Merlotal);
ed Food and Drugs Drainianco, pleaded · guilty.
1935, be amended.
Brownrigg prosecuted."
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