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HALP A
PEANUT
H.K.'S FOUR-YEAR PLAN
Drove A Hearse In A Hurry
FOR ROADS
In addition to a Five-Year Plon for rehabilitating and building new houses, the Goverment has embarked on Four-Year Programme of rópairing all damaged roads in the Colony.
The Hon. Mr. V. Keniff, In a plea of matigalion, Mr. Hi Shing Lo, representing Joseph Director of Public Works, told Ler, 32, Charged with driving the "Far Eastern Economic Re- hearse without hence, mld the view" during the week that Court at Central Magistracy, yes: $2,000,000 have been earmark- terday that his ellent hist
Hong Konged for the first stage of the engagement
Tegent work,
at the
Senatorium and w
harry.
driver list
nt
milles
The Colony had 203
hefore the of roacis in service
Of this, 132 miles Pacific Wur. were in Hong Kong and 161 miles a Kowloon and the New Terri
The part-time Curr Ops is heilujet, og renda druve un ti refill the femise at n pumping statuti, He was arrested while driving back. Mi Lo asked | turles,
for a jem U VIEWS
For y
week.
When he first appeared Mr. P.X. l'A defendant pleaded guilly.
The Magistrate ententented that aletenlant war driving without Heense, which, he (Mad Almada) had helt onneelk
could
nut take has than a retem, VIPW an defendant lund driven knewing that he had no ience.
Lee was fined $450,
OPIUM PEDDLER Cho Ching (28), reallof in an unnumb red but at Tard Street, "Hong went on bord the f Slang" D April 15 to pelle
apitim "sinokej.".
J
Damaged Roads
Personalia
Dividend
The General Agents and Con- Bulting Committee of The Can- ton Insurance OMee, Ltd. will make the following recommendo- tions at the forthcoming Ordinary, Yearly Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 14:-
1946 Account: To pay a dividend A of $12.00 per share Absorbiţig $600,000 ant to transfer $962,204 to the credit of Underwriting Sus- penac Account:
1947 Account: To carry forward the balance of $3,922:128 in res- pect of the year 1947,
The previous practice of de- cloring an Interim Dividend In nbollshed owing, to the proposed introduction next year of Annual Accounts in pince of Twenty four months working.
COLONY'S NEW
MAGISTRATE
Mr. Hin-siving Lo, Justice of the Pears and well-known barrister at-law, will sit as a Magistrate at Central Mugistrney today.
Mr. Lo, who had been in
con-
HSU EXTRADITION Chief Auditor's
Evidence
UNUSUAL CASE
CASE
"How do you know it is not [tryn? | I-mw. It myself!". Wu re-
plied. Leung Mul (25), married Wo
Three Entrios. 1 hah, and Cheung Ying (41), ship- Regarding the bonda,,Wii stat- wright, foster parents of Cheunged it was the first occasion dur Tai-tal, 8-year-old girl, appeared ing his time that the Bank had with. Chout Shing (24) and accepted such valuable things. Wong Choi (26), shipwright, e lotted it down in a rougn note Before Mr. WyH, Latimers book, Wu sald, antl produced a Kowloon yesterday on the charge tettered looking exercise book, in
which three entries were failing to report the death of on one page. The first two con- Cheung Tal-tal on April 18.
Sub-Inspector Gillies, applying US$50,000. The other was irra earned the US$260,000 bonds and for a rehand of three days, sale levant to the case. Witness told tre n'osecution was not opposing the Court that he used that book
For
made
All accused resided at Sal Kubig. He examined By Crown coun- zel, Wu said that normally Chin- +6+238 Currency and other afmilar things were kept in the strong-
hai District Court concerning American bonds and that he had given evidence about one or two
འ་ months ago.
Saw
room.
he
Supervispry, Committee of the Directorate- General in Nanking met in August, 1947, to discuss the matter of dopling, with, the irre- guler loans, But, not, charges against the Fugitive, Mr. Fang Chien-piao, chỉof auditor of the Postal Remittances & Savings Bank of Shanghai, told the Court at Control Magit ball. Bill was fixed at $100 wech omdially also, i tracy yesterday under, oross-examination, by the Hon. Mr. Leo,d'Almada, K.C., whân gx- tradition proceedings against Hsu Chi-chweng, alias Chu Kai-chong, former director-general
When his ovidence was rend back to him by Mr. F. X. d'Alma- of the Bank, continued.
da,' withess remarked that he Fang. who
БСП! was
to the next hearing when its admis
would add that when he took the Shanghai to investigate into sibility as an exhibit will be de-
He also knew that Mr. Fang bundle of bonds from the
room certain irregular transactions elded.
Under cross-examination by the Chien-plao, last witness, was in-as directed by the manager in 1947, said he was not Hon. Mr. d'Almada, who Instructed to make investigations was asked biso to select the qualified to be a member of the structed by Mr. Marcus da Silva, Into the Shanghai Branch traris-matured loans and replace them Committee, but he was in-witness said he did not know actions and that Fang interview with famatured ones, so as to structed specially to attend the about the resignation of the fugled hint once regarding the case make the number similar..
Live.
for about half an hour. That was Next to enter the Vox, was Lau It was a general rule that the about 10 months ago.
Tak-cho, room boy of the Mel- tinuous practice in the colony for meeting, when he submitted his
report.
Director-General should attend Witress said however, he did bourne Hotel Apartments, Kim- the past 22 years, is Chairman
Witness produced documents in of the Tenancy, Supreme Court Chinese, which he identified as
meatings of the Directorate, and not know wh.had made the barley Road, Kowloon. Laure Dr. T.V. Soong, Governor Mr, Lo, who was first chairman the decision of the Committee ar-Post Ofen officials, Fang stated, the charges against the 13 per cognized the fugitive and, a lady Kwangiang Province, la expecle of the Hong Kong University rived at after the conference.
but he did not know anything sons alleged to have defrauded in court as those who stayed In Colony today Union, was called to the Bar by to arrive in the
Mr. A. Lonsdale (Crown Coun- about the fugluve's activities. He the Government-controlled Bank, the hotel in January. The man
gave his nante as Chian Tallin. could not say that it we also of whom he kriéw night to be Peter from Canton. The object of his the Inner Temple in 1922. After set) prosecuting, with Mr.
part of the duty of the Director: members of the. Shanghai Branch room had been booked by a Govern- Soong's a sojourn of about nine years in H, Bin for the Chinese visit is not known, Dr.
man named Chan Kam-kat. General to attend meetings with for the Directorate Genèfal. last visit here was during the the United Kingdon, he returned ment and Chief Det.-Inspector W.
the Communications Ministry of He did not know on what basis first, the fugitive was given Room to Hong Kong in 1920, where he W. Willamson for the Police as-
have the ficials, explaining that he was the charges wore mode, as he had 202, but after an hour heire was admitted to the local Dur insisting. undertook to
hót rend the charts, not in a position to tell.
a room on the third Easter holidays.
Mareli,
documents translated officially for
Fang de. As far as he knew.
Wu told defence counsel that floor on the ground that up there clered, each branch pal its own he made, a similar statement to it would be more alry and brigh-
office Fong, the District Court and this | tor. post any
The son, Lau said, atayad in a and postal bank wanted monty it court.
He knew that the eight persons room on the ground floor had to apply to the Directorate- General, which if short of money included the manager, Bam King. the entrance. Would direct the
The fugitive seldom went out Shanghal the assistant manager, the heads Branch to appropriate the funds. of the Accounts and Business De- in the daytime: He took his meals During the time of the fugitive,partments, the fugitive himself, in the room and not in the dining usually went out : at Fang stated, all salaries and and a compiler. He was sent for hall. Ho bonuses were promptly paid, by the District Court to give evi- | night.
He did not lenow anythlon dence for the prosecution, Wu Defence counsel did not erosa-
Bank. He Roid, and it was not according to examine this witness, about the Ba Chuen
Hearing was then adjourned to He was not long enough in Non-his wish, king to any whether it was sub. He agreed with the defence 11.30 am. on April 22, stantial or not before its bank-counsel that he was "only some- one Innocent of the transaction ruptcy.
chosen to take care of tho US$200.000 worth of bonds and US$50,000.
of
Among the passengers who infl the Colony for Saigon yesterday The Air France were Messrs. Ker
As a result of the hostilities and ridge, M. Chadeland, Ming Sbun»
the Japanere occupation, 70.5 per-sung, and Mr. and Mrs. Rangars rent of the mileage were directly and eldid.
#2
Honds
Mr. and Mrs, 11, A. de Kantzow.
indirectly darnaged. damaged
50 directly totalled niles 00 in Hong Kong, and 25 on the mainland, while those My F. II, Steward and Mr. W.
dreetly dur
tintage: muintentner during the Japan
Since
"Bad Characters'
Sentenced
dite to inck of Plewood were among passenger gang of potential robbers", who were “definite-
liberation the
All 1
Thursday's CPA
REMANDED
Lan Hung (50), itinerant mor- ine hawker, and Li San (42), un- were remanded for three days in custody when they appeared before Mr. W. A. Bilt- Kurr 赶紧 Kowloun yesterding charged with the possession of a con- niortar shell at Kowloon. road and
ly bad characters who the Colony could vary well do without," according to Det. Sub- Inspector J. R. Sykes, appeared before Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday charged with conspiracy to commit an armed robbery at an unnumbered hut at Suiter Street on March 22,
cupation amounted to 170 mile al plane -80 on the slant and 110 in Kowloon and the New Territories, The total length of ronds damaged
was 225 or indirectly directly miles.
Public Works Department has restored to pre-war condition 40 miles-25 in Hong Kong and 15 ins Kowloon and the New Territories of the domager roads, and has
new structed a four-mile
Lau, according to DSI Syktes, Clear Water Bay to Sai was arrested on the roof of 81 bom Kung, The Public Works De-Nun Chung Street on April 13,
has already partment
spent and Li on the roof of 18 Kllung to the additional count of pos
of arms at Hak Po of session $1,500,000 since re-occupation an Street, early in the morning
Street on March 23, were sen- April 14. repairing roads.
He was seen by n
employed, witchingu possession and arrested, In was a pot of eplum (two inner), hidden his pocket, and
under his oplum pipe turke girdle
Before Mr, W. H. Latimer when 'Chol appeared at Kowloon yester
day, defendant was tied $25
ON
the flex charge ond ecutioned on the scound,
Kwok Kwan-hoi (29), un employed, and Yeung Om (43), firewood cutter, who pleaded guilty to the charge as well as
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tenced to three years' labour and recommended banishment.
hard for
were.
Li Hung (34), earth coolie, Yuen Kau (38), unemployed, and Yip On (40), unemployed, sentenced to two years hard la bour and recommended to be re-
ported
staf.
If
Witness
autsted
ROTTEN FORM
OF FRAUD.
At
nter
Cashier's Story Defence Counsel said that in
"I am the only person in the November. 1046, n government Bank authorised to keep any "I think It is a rotten form of order was issued in connection valuable things in the Trèokury,
"sald Mr. fraud on the public," with food bands.
told Wu said, adding that he would Clifford at the Central Magistracy him that he knew, about it, but not even give the key to the man-yesterday when two black market fald not know that as a result ofager if requested without reason. fleket sellers appeared before him There was a anfe in the mahon a charge of selling tickets December ager's office and one in the sub-above the correct price. They.
manager's room.
the circular the value, of the bonds appreciated in that year.
Every important transaction,:
or bno He could not say whether it were each fined $200 like the granting of loans. Witness was by chance that the fugitive, nonth's hard labour
Inde. Brownrigg said that' de- stated, must be approved by the entered the manager's office Director-General. He was not in the time when they were check- tendants, Au Ping, 19, had nine Shanghai or Nanking tong en ing the bonds.
Hekets
in his possession and was Asked what they had to kay.
"I put to you that what you belling them at $1.50 when the were the sole supporters of their dure of obtaining approval. His have said about Hè fugitive bes/correct price is $1-20 each.Tum all defendants pleaded that they ough to know exactly the proce
knowledge was wives and respective mothers,
procured during ing present in the office and be- Keung, 20, had three tickets and the course of his 35-day probeing given the parcel of bonds by was selling them at 1 each in- children, and pleaded for elemen-
Into the Shanghal Branch in the manager was unfrue, Mr. stead of 70 cents. Both were or d'Almada suggested to the wil-rested outside the Oriental Thea
tre.
CV
June, 1947.
First accused said that he had been in the Colony for only eight months; second, for two months: third and fourth, a year cach: lar loan to Powell & Sons, he had
Re-examined by Mr. Lonsdale,ness. witness said that as an auditor of: the Bank, neglecting the particu-
elgn exchange being pledred against loans, and that he had not seen any other document ing dicating that the Central Bank had approved a, loan of foreign exchange to Powell & Son.
4.
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Readers Letters
Hir
and the Afth that he come to not seen any other case of for- Hong Kong two months ago with the intention of obtaining work of an earth coolle but was unable to make enough to keep his wife
is afraid to face facts and to ad- and two young children.
mit that he is wrong. According to DSI Sykes, a Po
Sir--Your correspondent Mr. For the Information of Mr. Ilce party, led by himself, went to
The prosecution then put Into Marsh does ill device to Mr. Marsh, I do not regard, myself as a house at Hak Po Street nt 4
box Mr. Wa Chiu-san, chief of Woodhead by his letter. Simple an, isolated Instance in the late Im, on March 23 where they saw
the Cashier. Department. Shane Simon may well and fairly, claim clash of armed forces. I was not the Ave accused.
accuched, revolver lial Branch, who is assistant man- to have scored a hit when he sees attempting to be egotistical when When
pger concurrently.
the feathers fly. Comments, on I referred to my past services Inoded with four rounds WBI Wu, who had previously (call the similarity of his hom-de- for the Colony.
Mr. found, wrapped in n grey, hand-fied in the Shanghof District plume to his mental processes will re-read the correspondence
ii
Marsh kerchief, in first defendant's por Court against eight fellow-off- ket. The second accused had in dugger in his pocket, and the fifth clals charged with defrauding the lack conviction by comparison, of which has appeared, he will ob-
the respective letters exchanged Government controlled. Postal
serve that Mr. Woodhead claimed defendant had a grey handker: Bank, identified Exhibit. Ce ae in this interesting controversy, i justification for his reskience, in chief. The third man, sald DSI the receipt issued by him for the venture to
think that out of (Chi
of China, by reason of his, having Sykes, had a coll of wire of the US$200,000 worth of Victory your readers would
readily
published 20, lesurs of the China Rind that is usually used by rob bonds and US$50,000 from Powell that the conclusion of Simple Year Book. Having been told bers to tie their victims.
Simon are by no means to be din of Shanghal, I, on my part, set Mr. Woodhead to go to Cantón missed .ar puerlic Mogical př. vapourings, but on the contrary forth the reasons why I consider- are deserving of serious and sym-ed my stay in Hong Kong as be- pathetic considerationing fustified.
Mr. Woodhead's opinions píšo
in the Mong Kok. Police Sta-& tion, continued DSI Sykes, all de fendants admitted that they con- spired, on the previous night, to rob an adjoining hut at Sulter Street, Talkoktšul.
Sons, on March 25, 1946.
Eight Feet High Witness said he handled the bonds and money personally and after checking them put them in Defendants brought the Police to a "strong-room." Wu told the
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to the hut which they had intend- Court that he received the bond, at to be Hghtly rogazdak - Mr. Marsh, who would ob-
is too well known and vlously be more at home, behind Tespected in Chim to need any the iron curtain of Soviet Russia, es to rob, and there, the female and money from the manager, bouquets in the public press, but is still apparently living in maga occupant said that she was awak-Sam King."
Has Mr. Milki ened at midnight the previous On one occasion, witress recal-It is surely ungenerous and un-of bigotry.
the Talf to
to suggest. that night (March 22) by her dog lected, he was sent for by
he hates China ready forgotten, or dhe ver barking.
manager and Instructed to select and the Chinese because he is, as hear of, the historic Four Peeping through the holes at the matured loans from the bun becomes a good journalist and donis drawn up by the Hon. Mr.
Winton Churchill and the back of her hut, the woman die in the strong-room. He made commentator, critical of what he
the late saw by the light of her torch, a note ob the receipt on Dee. 28. conelders the unbalanced views President Roosovelit, Do Mr. Ersh not know that in this car
''this' en- two men, masked with handker-1946, cancelling it as directed by of Simple Simonit träded Alghtened "age, chiefs similar to those found on the manager.
The average
the
to-cri the Arst and fifth defendants.
Wu stated that He took the our citizens may generally be so Ucize is the prerogative of overy bpodle to the office of the mart described-would, I think, better lilzen of a democratie state. The ager and asked him to check appreciate further discussion of fact that I see t to criticize and them. The bonds were in the
dissatisfaction these issues it. personalities
with the are 58100 denomination and to avoided, and courtesy Extended altogether about eight feet high
Twenty-one passengers passed through the Colony yesterday
N
h
Proste by Air France from Shang) (as-demonstrated by the withics).equally.to all who deù afficiently acid, administration of...
Kong,
for asking that
hal to Indo-China, France, the Wu declared that after the interested in the well-being of around Continent und Now York, They manager had checked a greater the Colony to express their views to my Utopia. As cliizens ar included Mesars. H. T. Kingabury portion of the bonds, the fugitive with freedom. There is much in British Commonwealth of Na-
B. entered the office.. and. asked:
Voltaire's
observation Ta detest flons, wa: are entitled it to expect T. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. T. Brown, H. Olsen, Mile, J. E. "Have you got the things ready what you say, but will defend to from those administering the of
The manager replied, Wu said: the death your right, Parish, Hov. P. G, Oostermeyer,
Mr. Marsh's the Rev. P. J. J. Fouw, and F. A. "It is nearly rendy.".
ere In England: Mr. Vattalré.
Reminders
Contest Nigh
The manager stopped chocking Simon for not having the courago uut it. He were
suppose
and told the fugitive About to append his signature implies Marah would demand that all edirect - Ho: then wrapped then that
andent's deathly ftritter of the Labour Government, -to a newspaper and handed the more
than his intisamy the Hon: Bird
Winston "parcel to, the': fugitive..
opinions, whereas the contrary is Churchill, aduld leave Vigiand. Under cross-examination, Wu
Mr. Marsh's personal experi said he joined the Postal Bank in usually the cases: resnot only ences: in two :-great-larıds-of-do- November, 1945, as Assistant A-nom-de-plume.
manager and became, casblar in general arts correandence overacy are, interesting: but are December, In the same year, but preferable. I seldom sign irrelevant and have no bearing There were two sub-manager, my letters, to the press but. It has whatsoever on the points at issue, above him, and eight assistant never occurred to me that there in fact, Mary Marsha, whole letter
Le anything furtive about a nom-le beside, the polmuga Kong Okford & Cambridge *žie said he knew about 13ɛper. | de-plume, Society, dedunt difiner, Hons sons being indicted in the Shang- Kong Club 7:45 pm The O Kowloon Tong Club dither dince,
8.30 p.m.
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