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Evidence In PWD Case Continues At Kowloon
Gift Cases Of Wines For Britain
Gift cases of wines and spirits may now be sent to any part of the United Kingdom through Messrs. Caldbeck, Mag- gregor & Co., Ltd.
cue
10 the This la possible, amalgamation of Macgregor Cald-
Prior to sending a man to instal nine power plugs
at the Cecilia Beauty Parlour, Spory had, on several occasions, given hor advice and assist ance with the installations in hor place, said Mrs. C. Bothal at Kowloon yesterday. The proprietress of the Cecilio Beauty Parlour was giving evidence before Mr. J. Wicks in the ninth-day hearing of committal proceedings against Kwok Kwong, foreman, and Austin Spory and Arthur Frederick May, Grade! electrical engineers, charged on 12 counts of conspiracy, fraudulent conversion of Govern- ment material, and falsification of documents. Mr. A. Hooton, Crown Coun-Wheeler of 228 Nathan Road second floor declared that she electric never paid for the two
beck & Co., Ltd., and Phipson & Co., who have opened new pre- ruises in London under the name isel, assisted by Chief Inspector Calubeck, Phipsun & Co., Ltd. J. Johnston, in conducting the The scheine for the sealgam-case for the prosecution. Mr. lion wow worked out many months3. M. d'Almada Remedios is
till not WOS that difficul:les and delays caused defending Kwok.
go but it
now
Spary is re- instructed by Mr. P. J. Griffiths, presented by Mr. V. L. D'Allon.
and May by Mr. J. C. Stewart.
when the
by the need for suitable premises, storage space and licences for re- habilitation have been overcome.
Mrs. Bethel said that Spary was On the Lord of the company are Sir Keglund Spence, K., J.P. having his hair cut at her place, of Me srs. Phipson & Co., and Mr. some time during the end of June
Messra, or beginning of "July, 01 J, K. R. Macgregor Macgregor, Caldbeck & Co., Ltd., asked him for advice about having the London House of Messrs. some power plugs installed. Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co., Jalil.
The gift cases consist of wines and spirits that may be sent home free of delivery charges at tirlees which are at strictly Government ahel trade-controlled levels.
As little as six bottles or mixed rakes of twelve bottles may scut 1 .time.
be
All brands of gin, rum und brandy
obtained mily be
She showed him the positions where she wanted the plugs fived, and he said that he would send a man to her. Witness said that she was not sure whether hè men- tioned the name of Kwek Kwong in not.
After a few days, she said, a tall Chinese man called at her place at 1 Hankow Road and ale but showed him where she wanted whisky has had to be excluded the plugs installed. He said that from the list since the quola la he would send workmet: to do Wie too small for inclusion in the Gift job. She had nine or 10 of these
plugs Bixed.
Custs.
The gift cases, price it's for which are available at Caldberk Macgregor's office. here, make Ideal Xmas or Birthday presents for those a home
the forthcoming winter,
Juring
CONFISCATION APPLICATION
An application for the conflseu- tion of 00 gold bars valued at HK$120,00 was granted by Mr. Hin-shing La al Central yester- day,
Mr. Humphreys said that me gold bars were womanifested and found on board the motor junk Wing Tak Lee alongsido Tai Hing Wharf during a search
The gold bars were found con- cealed in 14 baskets of sugar.
Wrote Cheque
Some days after the work was completed she found a bill for $301.40 placed on her desk. She wrote σμι a cheque for the amount on July 9, and later hand- ed it to the sume tall Chinese who called for It. She said that she could not say definitely whether that
Kwok Kwong, us the payee was fatter.
man was
was
រា
Spary, said witness, friend of 15 years' standing, and wis a good friend of her hus band's. She and been asking him on previous occasions about the electrical installations in the shop and he had often given her help, like Axing the machines they went wrong. He did not send nay one on those occasions.
Another witness, Mrs. Muriel
when
Capture Of Armed
Gang Told
Court
light shades installed in her flat
Shortly after she mayed in, al the end of February, Spary volun- leered to put the two shader in. They were installed on a Salur- day afternoon carly in March. She was present, as was Spary, when the Arst shade was put up. bul war not in when the second was was that The reason installed. one of the shoules broke and could not be fitted at that time.
Wiring Of House
Mak Man-1, senior dispenser at the Kowloon Hospital, said thal he asked Kwok Kwong to intro- duced an electrical contractor to do some wiring at his house at 19 Hau Wong Rond, first floor.
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When, a few days later, Kwok quoted the sum of $100 for the job he asked why it was so expen- sive and Kwok replied that nearly 100 feet of wire would be needed. The work
100k
three days, said witness, and was done some time in July this year.
Winess Identifled Lam Hung as one of the three workmen en-. gaged on the wiring, and as the man
to whom his wife paid, the was com- $100 when the work Pleted.
In the course of his evidence,. Lam Hung, electrician 113, said that he was Instructed by Kwok Kwong to do some work at th Fu Sung Goldsmith Shop.. 053 Shanghai Street, sumo time in December last. He was there for a day, and helped to install five fluorescent lamps.
On the following day, he was again told by Kwok to go to the shop and dix an additional clip to one of the lamps, The day, after that, Kwok told him to call at the Fu Sang to collect a bull,
Refused To Do So
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1048.
Rentals To Be Bridge House Treatment
Killed William Hutton,
Announced
and
wit
Rentals for the premises which Government requial- tlowed last Bunday are under consideration announced shortly through' the PublisTM Relations Office, the "China Mali" Ibarnad læst night.
The rentals, it la under- stood, will be based on rents charged before the war. The Statutory increases of 30 per cent for demostia dwellings and 45 per cent for business premises will be added.
Hundreds of applicationa for the requisitioned premises have been received during the past few days By Mr. D. Benson, Chairman of the Al- location Committee. The pre- miaca are expected to be al located by the end of the month.
Applications for premises cent to the Quartering Au thority during the past 10 months will have to be renew. ed and went to the Allocation Committee.
A survey made by the
Mail" "China
cont on the charged before the wwe for the premises requisitioned by Government Imat Sunday shows that they ranged from
HK$10 to HK$320 a month
for various types of flats.
The "China Mail" durvay follows:
No. 12. Soares
Avenue, Hamurtin:
HK$90; No. 6. Liberty Avenue; HK$75; No. 10, Stafford Road, Kowloon Tong: HK$110; No. 157 to 167, Pretan Streek; HK$30 (ground floor), HK$18 (firat floor) and HK$16 (socond floor); No. 6 Shul Fai Ter- race, Stubbs, Road: HK$320; Mo. 21, King Kwong Sleeet, Happy Valley: HK180; No. 14, Caroline Road (ground Roor): HK$60; No. 19, Morque Junc tion: HK$35: No. 87 to 93 (top Doors) Lockhart Road, Wan- 'chal between HK$40
HK545 a month for each flat).
די
Witness Tells Court
William Hutton's death was a direct result of tho treatment he received during his 10-day con- finement at Bridge House. But for such treatment he might be alive today, This statement was made by Dr. S. D. Sturton, OBE, medical officer of the Haiphong Road. Comp. Shanghai, at the resumed sitting of the Wor Crimes Court at Lyemun Barracks yesterday. Dr. Sturton was continuing his thal; William Slade Hunger.
of the evidence from Tuesday in war director
Yen Trung crimes charges against Lieutenant Tobacco Co., Shanghai; Reginni General Kinoshita Eilchl, officer John Broadley, a radio engineer; commanding the Shanghat Dis. Boris S. Frank, shipping agunt, of trict Gendarmerie hetween 1942 Soviet eltizenship, Shanghai; Boris and 1944, and Sergeant Yoshida Topas, a retired merchant; Evans of Chinese Bunzo, who was attached to the Daw, shipping agent, of foreign
section of the Shanghai eltizenship
Dr. A
A. V Tarle, Kempeitai.
director of the Country
to which Hutton wAN Many of the men brought back lorium from Bridge House and other admitted just before his death; detention, centres were suffering Dr. Thomas B. Dunne, medical from some mental condition, but officer the Haiphong Road only William Hulton could be Camp. William Brand, formerly sold to be medically Insone, said of
Shanghai Municipal witness.
Police: Ernest Philip Higgs of This concluded the evidence of Oxford, England: and the Rev. W. Dr. Sturten, and the Prosecutor H. Hudspeth, head of the Ameri then read the affidavits,
Bible Society and of the
can
at
the
Taric, Send-
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The affidavit of Earnest Solomon British & Foreign Bible Society in of Shanghai, who occupied a cell Chins.
Further bearing was adjommeð opposite to Hutton's at Bridge House, stated that he was on eye-to 10 am, this morning
when witness on the occasion Yoshida, the second accused, and
two other gendarmes knocked Hutton to the ground with their riile butt and stamped on hih with their heavy boots.
Requiem Mass
A Patient Requiem Mass will Accused Identified be said by His Lordship Bishop Hans Joachim Rechlin, also of H. Valtorta at the Roman Catholic Shanghai, in his affidavit identified Cathedral 18 Caine Road, ou Mon- second secused Yoshida as one of day, at 9 u.m., for the benefit of the gendarmes who struck Hulten the faithful, departed. with a rifle butt and otherwise
All Catholics are invited to aí- -treated him
Alms collections during other prisoners, this Mass the and
Bishop desires to Including witness.
towards the
Wanchai Kenneth and
William Johnstone, Church Building Fund, the Holy commercial manager of Souls" Church. Plans for
Orders For
St. John's
Orders by Mr. A. f Arculi, Conimis loner of it. John Ambulance Unloade, Hong Kong District, Fallow:
Lend.
allocate
generat the Shanghai Telephone Company, Church have now been approved in his affidavit, sold he was taken by the Building Authority
this
and
to Bridge House en October 1942 Building operations are to com- and confined there for 10 days messo forthwith.
without trial on any charge.
ife was accused of spying for the British, his name being on the British Ambassador's Publicity Committee, and when he refused to confess be was subjected to torture every few nights for five
Parades Eastern Divion Ambulanzweeks,
and Numelog Divlalom, Home Nuralig
P.M.
CHINESE SHOT
·AT SUMCHUM
A 30-year-old Chinese was sitat unidentified in the back by an person in a street at Sumchum yesterday.
The wounded man was admitt.
condition was reported fair
Lecture, Wednesday, November 10, Beig- Treatment given him included ade II.Q. 2.10 p.m.; KY.M.C.A. D- the water torture, electric shocked to Kowloon Hospital where sional Parade, Friday, November 5, 7.30 burning with cigars and
M.KY.M.C.A. Ambulance and Nurrettes, beatings with Ing Divisions, lime Nursing class, Thurs fists and
straps, hanging day, November 11, 7.80 p.m.
Ambulance Dating long Mang: Note the ground and being thrashed in beam by the hands with feet off
"I refused to do so as I did not know
shop. the master of the Kwok then said that he was going to send Ho Cheung to telephones
to inform Yu Sang's master that
I was going to collect the money.
Division:
cigar-his bamboos,inst night.
ber 7 to 18. Wanchai "A" November 14 in 20, Shakwan Division. that position and metal spikes
Ambulance Duties Keuleet November being pushed under his to 14, Tsimshatsui Division; November malis.
fingor
is to 21, Kowloon Y.M.C.A. Division.
Bench Duties Kowloon: Saturday and
Division.
All the skin of his penis and
LECTURE GIVEN ON CHESTERTON
Building. Japanese The subject
any G. K. Chesterton.
The November lecture of the series of monthly lectures, being I went in the end to collect," said Bunday, November 6 and 7. Kongkek testicles was burnt off with cigars given under the auspices of the
and elgarreftes, said witness.
St. Thomas More Association, Lam
More than once he lost con-by-the Rev. Fr. T. Sheridan, S.J., was delivered yesterday evening Witness went on to say that he
Race Courer Duties: Esturday, Novem handed Kwok the $175 he re-
ber. §. Easters Division, two stretchersclousness and had to be revived. *quada,
at the, Catholic Club, King's Further when
torture
diacon- celved from the Yu Song,
was Football Hatch Dalles Saturday tinued only when the to. the Hung Hom November As Boundary Buset, 4.20 p.. the returned
Workshop. Lam identified Lo Kongkok Division:
of his talk was gendarmerie
said doctor Caroline 101, 4,80 Pak-ching as the man who gave p.m., 8.0.A.A. Dirislon: H.K. Football more application would be fatal. him the money at the Yu.Sang. Club, 4.30 pts, Watebal. "D" Divlelob. Wife Questioned
The electrician went ол to Bunday, November 71 Soukupno, 4.50 describe the various work he did. Wanchal A Divialen: Caroline William Hutton, in her affidavit,
Mrs. Anna Hutton, widow at 19 Hau Wong Road, first floor, the P BCAA Division stated that after her husband's and 20 Cross Street, and the in- sialling of n ceiling fan at Des Voeux Road Central and at Kwong Yuen Street, East. All work, he said, was done on the instructions of Kwok and with material provided by the first ac- cused.
The story of the capture of five members, of an
armed gang and the avants leading up to was told by Inspector A. Askow before Mr. W. H. Latimer at Kowloon yesterday. "An ex-captain of the Chinese National Army ́nam- ed Chan King was commissioned by a man Mok Hop, alleged to be a notorious. charac- ter in control of the islands south-east of Hong Kong in Chinese territorial waters, to go to Tung Kun district to recruit for the local De- fence Corps.
Chan got into contact with cover, he was surrounded and he a former subordinate of his surrendered.
After corroborative evidence
azy Street, 4.30 p.m.,
ot
the
Dress Offers: All officers are notified removal to Haiphong Road Cami,, ihat from November 16 the wearing st | sho was questioned by Summer White Mess Kit and White Cap Gendarmerio as to where her Covers will cease, and that Water Mix husband's gold bars were hidden. Kk will gone into force.
Premolens: Division Superintendent Heey accused him of belonging to Kang F, H.K.Y...A. Disisten, Bromthe secret service and as such, he ed Corp Offeer, wet. November 1.
must be a very rich man.
Further affidavits read to the Court were those by Dr. Louis P. Calene, A Swiss doctor, who
- Leave: Dist., Burgson A. Woo resumed-
A short distance had been given by other workmen du from leave w.e.f. October 20
by the name of He Fong, who from where he felt was a Mauser Bubsequently contacted Ave Distol.
The prisoner was taken to the other men, all former officers village and bound, The elder then of the Chinese Army, police of went to the Tal O Police Station peace preservation corps.
10 report.
The party eventually came to While he was making his re- Hong Kong, three by train, three port, a messenger came from, the by Junk, the leader Chan King village and said that Ave mou had travelling alone. They met after appeared on the hillside above the their arrivöl in the Colony and village. A party.of police was at sperit two nights at a board once sent out. Upon arrival, they ing house in Central district. found that the men had already left, after the villagers fired some shots of them.
.
On the morning of September 28, the party of seven took the Cheung Chau ferry and disem- barked at Mui Wo, Silver Mine Searched Island Bay on Lantau Island. Then they
That night parties of police started an eight-mile walk across searched the baland but without
LIDT | success.
the island towards Tai O. Aflør the party had passed through
tributed three Klauser pistol,
engaged on the different jobs, and by the masters of the Fu Sang and Yuen Street, East, heuring the Shiu Wing shop. dt Kwong adjourned to 9 a.m. on November
0.
Notices: 1. The Annosi Brigade Pinnet
will be held at Brigade Radquarters Sasunder, November 20, at 7.30 pm.
2. The ILK.Y.M.G.A. Division are hold WES ing an outing to Shatin on Monday
November‹ I. Dress Fall uniform.
Reminders
Today
H.K. Council of Women, general meeting, at YWCA, Duddell Street, 5.16, p.m.
Wah Yan Dramatic Society pre sents "The Lady Warrior" at Wah Yan College Theatre 8.30 pm..
0.30
Upon, inquiry the next day, the Mul Wo Village, Chan King dia police learnt that five men were
revolvers, one
Chaung hand-en to embark on the three
Chau ferry at Mul Wo.. A police Sino-British, Club, annual genera) grenades and ammunition among launch set out to intercept the the mich. The arms were carried
meeting, at Public Relations Volunteer Sergeants Mess Moot- ferry, taking with them the pri-
Ofice, Lecture Room. 5.30 pm,
ing, at HKVDC Headquarters,
p.m. Colony Open, Squish Rockets Emergency Meeting of H.K. Foot-
Championship.
Association,' Prince's Bldg., 4.15 p.m.:
Kwok were to, form the rear guard. He was, armed with a re-
the
by Chan in a wooden box beforener Chan. Aboard the ferry. the distribution,
Ho Fong and another man Chan Chen pointed out Hung Cheu'r and Chan Hon-man as two of the members of the gang. Subre- Volver and Chan a Mauser pistol, arrest of Cheung Yuk and Wong queat investigation resulted in the and they started ten minutes after Fat in a boarding house, in
loader he main party
Cheung Chau. The
Chan *Hilly Tarrain,
King, however, could not be The terrain was hilly and dim-found despite extensive searches cult, "and" before long the rear and inquiries, to trace his where- guard lost sight of the main party wouts. wheld. Somehow or other "they
evening, Choong Yuk look arrived at the Shek Pik Village. the police to Mul. Wo, where in a There they went to * house and ¡cielt of a rock on the hillside two esked an old lady to prepare a grenades and two revolvera were meal for them as they were hun-recovered. gry. That was about two o'clock The five man, Chan Kwok, in the afternoon.
Cheng Yuk, Hung Cheuk, Chan According to custom, the old Hon-man and Wong Tuť. ~lady reported the presence of charged with control or arms be,
to the village elder The fore Mr. Latimer. {; afrangers:
elder went with a village guard to Investigato Both armed them
-y stiven with rifies..
ball
Coming Events --
TOMORROW Ninth Extra Race. Metting, Race
Course, Happy Valley. Wah Yan Dramatic Society pre-
sents "The Lady Warrior"!! at Wah Yan College Theatre, 0.30, p.m.
SUNDAY Remembrance Day Services, at Cenough at 10:00 am, at Chinese War
For Memorial, 11,20. n.m. It was alleged that the party Classical Concert, Toc H Club, was trying to crom. into Chinese Talbot House," 00%-MusDoppl territory, from Tai O. 7
Road,
8.30. p.m. va Wah Yan Dramatie Bociety pre *t, sents "chie" Lady" Warrior” at
Wah Yan College Theatre,
were
The two men were just about There was no suggestion of to leave, when the sider, and the armed robbery, but the magistrate guard came on the scene. They war of the option that a band of Were kod to stop but took heel fully armed man at large in ↑ and ran. When Họ saw that the British territory constitutes potan-
other “mienware in pursuit, he tial danger to the peace. drue" arevolver from his simile, Chad Kwok was sentenced to The older, and the gud, hen both two and a hall years, hard labour
raska Flo, Bell. Ethany Bonililiandlin K The other founi were cach, adie B runa but fripped FRA FLUTE I uncon in two years. Impalaxy paddy nouf Before hé, could re- mentre
3.2. Art Club Sketching Parks
Stanley, members at Queen's Pler
MONI
examined the body of Button
after his death; James Alexander McFarlane, formar Superintendent of the Shanghai
Municipal Police:
C. D. Kamaroff; Patrick Samuel
A sketching party, organised by Gibbons, formerly employed by the Hong Kong Art Club, will be the Great Northem Telegraphi hold on Bunday at Stanley. Co. Shanghuk; Edwin Arthur Transport will leave Queen's Pier Thompson, engineer, of the Yee at 2,30 pm-
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