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Unlawful Transfer Of Child
A woman was sentenced to four months' imprisonment at the Kowloon Magistracy unlawfully yesterday for
child. Íransferring helping in the transfer,
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The collision between the ss. Eumaeus of the Ching Mutual Steam Navigation Company and the USSR vessel Poltava on the afternoon of November 1 near the Lyemun Pays had its soquel before a Board of Inquiry at the Marine Court yesterday.
The court comprised Mr. J. Jolly, Director of Marine, President, Lieutenant Commander J. B. P. Stirling, RN. Assistant King's Harbour Master and Captain B. E. Bidwell, Assistant Marine Superintendent of Indo-China Stegm Navigation Company, 'members.
Mr. F. G. Nigel held a man and his wife were each watching brief for the owh¬ ers of the ss. Eumacus and Aned HK$100.
11 was alleged that Tsung Ho Mr. H. Capstick was for the approached a woman, Chan Kameowners of the ss. Poltava. hi to Inquire if anyone wanted adopt her, one-year-old son. Chan introduced her
10 m Tsang told a sad story of how she lest her husband last year and could not support the child.
gave her HK$130 and HK$200 an two occasions to en- able her to get medien! treatinent. He gave her to understand that she did not have to present him with the child and was under no
TRUNK
The President read a statement made by Captain Lestle Scott then Evans, an extract from the ship's log. and the Captain was questioned regarding his know- ledge of the collision.
At the time of the accident the phlet of his ship had just left the vesel, he said.
ss. Surat To Call At Colony
Ferry Issue
The Editor takes no respon zibility for views expressed th letters by correspòhilent),"quë bù romaans :rocessarily::'agreea · with them..
Appeal
ready-made
For the
Romblone of the
"but
-refer 10. two of these
and
Autised
the in-
ned thing, there is only one alter- native to my mind, and it, is an Sir-Much has appeared in the ingenious alternative, and an ex- The Cheung Chau Repress lately about the "heartless-tremely practical alternativg.
The work has been given to ness" of Hong Kong; but we, sidents' Association has not whose organisations try to do understand that America possesses
liko yet received from the District something to succour the needy, something Officer, Now Territories, a know well that this "heartless piores of the latest super-ntom reply to its petition of Octo-mess is far from universal. Our bombs.
experience is that when people alternative ber 1, Mr. Chu Pak-sang, really know of the needs of their abque, spare chairman of the Association, fellow men there are always bombs irrespective of their cost to'd the "China Mail" yestet some generous souls ready to come in terms of dollars
to the rescue.
As the Kremlin has day.
ractice within the airlift The Family Welfare Committee battle practice In is petition; the Auroclation
of the mediation the of the Social Welfare Council is corrider of relief io Fought
so let an DONT in its disputo with the making a special appeal during habitants of
Bloc battle Hong Kong and Youmall Ferry the next twp or three weeks and armada of Western Company regarding the runing Sir Man-kam Lo is broadcasting planes carry out reconnaisance of a direct service between the on November 7, on behalf of in- exercises over the curtain during island and Hong Kong, at
and the dividuals
families who the coming winter months, choos. present fares of 80 cents and 60 through war, illness or athering a dangerously stormy night or cents for Orst and third class, causes have fallen on evil ddys, day, for preferance as near to the
but who, with
festival of Christmass as respectively.
"We do not see why the ferry assistance can get on to their feet people could not do this but in again and continue to support course, let loose just one super- I am atomizer over Morcow. sist on boosting the fares to $1.20 themselves.
Be and 80 cents. The increases could Through the two Social Welfare certain the results not possibly be justified by the Centres in Hong Kong and Kow thrilling: just too, top thrilling.
leave to your imagination, . During the first week of excuse that, at present, the loss loon some 600 cases are helped of the ish transport business
and
Imagination January. Hong Kong will have make such a service une every manth, the very poor with Sin
expectant millions food or clothing, the temporarily countless profitable" Mỹ Chu sold
Prior to the lost war, he went unfortunate with small loans or throughout the world, the results
help in finding a job, of such a Mesien of Rullef op, the ferry company pred
Wistance with children's educa- I commend the forgoing netlon Fun direct services Cheung
to
tion and in many other
ways. In all seriousness, and I offer my Chay, with a supplementary SCI-
is investigated na 47-year-old and healthy body for vice to Ping Chau and Mul We thoroughly as possible by a staff the experimnet. Should you re- and linek.. Due to the presence
careful records are kept.
interested quarters please to-for- of mines in the channel, the director sympathette caseworkers, and ceive offers of acceptance from
was cancelled, and service
To carry on this work requires ward them to me. Enclosing my launchies had to detour to Ping
am, Sir, annual income of not less then card, 13 Chau and Muj Wa.
$150,000 and we appeal with con- Your still seeking Churchill's ildence to your
phantom Freedoms, far-from-"heart- less" readers to send A contribu-
MACUMAZAHN tion, large or small, to the
Treasurer
the
After clearing Buoy No. 11 and her first glimpse of the second when nearing Lyemun Pass, his of four 8,000-ton cargo linges ship was ahead of the ss. Atlantic specially constructed for
Express arid 0.
Cargo ligation to him.
Wave. Ho slowed down his ship P. the Chinese
to Europe-Far East service. On September 17,
to allow the American ship Mai-Autum
Festival,
newly-completed She is the pass, and it was his intention to visited Chan, and told her that follow the track of that vessel. steamer Burat, which has recent- le child was it and that it would
When the Atlantic Wave had ly finished successfully bor trial be better to let Lam take care of cleared the Channel he observed runs and is due to anive here on
the Poltava entering the Charmel January 3, 1948. him.
Restaurant, to her starboard side. the Fel Ho
The first to be completed for this run is the and O. on He gave one blast and the Ru- P. Tsting produced p
paper purport- a to be a deed of presentation sign vessel repiled with two puffs motorship Souda, which is ex- nade In her husband's name of steam, at the same time swing-pected to reach the Coliny, from She said her husband had agreeing to starboard. Almost imme-London and the Continent via the o give the child nway before his diately she gave another blast. desthi ant that the paper prepared at the time.
Wus
She asked for a further HK$300. The child changed hands.
༦༣།
to
No Monopoly "But now the channels are free of mines, I do not see why they traits on November 25. The ms could not run the direct service "When they again." be added Soudan has been in servicu slace originally fixed their toros" at "35 the summer.
During the next three months, cents and 20 cents, the ferry con- the last two ships, & Shillong Sern could not possibly have taken Inte considerdilon cargd earnings, and ms. Somall, are dub to be as it did not, and does not hayo completed to join the service. Chief Povey,
is propelled by the monopoly for cargo service. The ss. Surat geared turbines developing 13,000 h.p. She can be distinguished
Tunnel,
Order For Full Astor
A minute It was about half since the order for full astern war given when the accident occurred.
George Wynn He
On October 24, & man came to Lam's house and claimed int he As the father of the child. lemonded HK$2,000 or the return of the boy.
Officer of ss. Eumacus said he tlic saw the Poltava entering
Commenting further on the cargo-carrying, business, Mr. Chut said that formerly the shipping Merchants in Hong Kong send goods to
Miss Constance Ho of the Secre- [Lyunun Pass and noticed nothing from the herd of her class peans were very co-ensa
tariat of Chinese Affairs arrived The scene and advised them to settle the matter at the SCA.
Mr. Latimer the magistrate, said that the parents were not satis factory people to look after the bild. He entrusted the child to the care of the Pe Leung Kuk.
CHARGED WITH
and
His ship blew one blast shortly afterwards he presumed that the Russian ship replied with
puffs
blasts as he saw
ot
INFRINGEMENTS struck the Pollava on her port Japon colling at Genoa en route
Every case
Hon.
i measura of timely Russlegend, by "afuldent of
Family Welfare Appeal, 1
403 Ghing Building. Hong Kong Social Welfare Council (Signed:) LAI KI TSEUNG Chairman, Family Welfare Committees C. H. SCOTT MONCRIEFF
Secretary+
Social Welfare Council.
4
Phantom Freedoms
hu
would
Vote Of Thanks-
Sit.-The
successful Bazaar George V School on Saturday, October 30 was made possible by the whole- beurled support received by the Parent's Association Committee from all quarters. It is difficult,
held at the Kin
these coses, to think ad- concerned, Equately all those and In the circumstances I crave your Indulgence in order that the assistance received may be strange until she started swing by slightly
This was re- There have been two other
publicly acknowledged. Ing to starboard. ported to the bridge.
Surats in the P. and O. history the ferry and Chau By:
be Sir For the past twelve
In particulur, I would! thank the first dating from 1568. 15h looked after durifie LE
months columns and columns the Principal, Mr. Ferguson, for wa3 a vessel of 2,578 Lons and
On arrival at Cheung Chat, the have appeared in the world's all the facilities he granted at when lengthened in 1874 increased consignees would be gouded and; press recording in detail the the School, and for the manner two
hor tonnige to 8.042 tons. if requested by the consignors, diplomatic wrangle
between
the in which he smoothed away ob- steam.
The second Surat, car could pax to an authorised agent representatives of the Western stacles; to the Royal Navy per His ship was then swinging to vessel of 6,500 tons, was completed of the ferry company on the Bloc and the Kremlin.
sonnel who worked so untiringly: storboard when the oncoming
she was torpedoed taunch. Slice In 1038, but
whose this co-operation It
and dis- and to Mr. Gensburger vessel blew a single blast and off Freetown in May, 1841.
become oubiless the magical moments mystified both started to swing again.
The present Surat will load was bollshed, he said, merchants tressing rending.
are sending their goods by The
It will young and old alike, alon Witness sald that his ship Lemin for Malays, Ohina and Cheung Chau kai fong's funk.
ated it so. jate a tragedy If Messrs. Great praise is also due to the side just about the engine room for additional cargo
not prepared to run such a direct much longer.
"If the Youmali Ferry, Co. spilly, and Bally waste verblago ladies who hiped to make the Bazaar redunding success. Cargo
will have added pro- service at the present fares, why. At the Marine Court yester-ton angle of about 45 degrees.
Williato Ross Naylor, Midship- tection of the Cargocalfe, system nu let us do it?
The Kremlin's mind should be and to all those who, by gift or We are pre-sufficiently well-known by now noon possible.
deed, made this pleasent after- day two
Coxswa.ns were man, said he was in the Wheel of ventilation in this new ship.
E. W. CLEMO (Mrų). Somali, are Cairns for harbour Infringe- His duty was to write up the and ms.
equipped service," movements of the ship. ments.
with the Drihold system.
Between The Lines When he saw the Poltava, she Charged with not having suf-
Sir presB flclent life-saving and fire-fight-wan in the Southern half of the ing equipment aboard his 83-1on champpl motor junk, 42-year-old Lai Fu was fined $200 and warned by the magistrate that such ap- paratus should be in order The Eumacus blew one
and he noticed two puffs of steam from the Poltava, but saw alteration in her course,
As the Poltava approached scomed to him that a collision was inevitable.
brought before Mr. D. G. House at the time of the collision. Her sister ships, the 12. Souden Pared to run this service, as we to realige the fact that if they
have bron running the cargo
01
the en
aboard any vessel.
Su-Inspector Nippard told the Court that defendant arrived from Tonkun
November 3 with vegetables which he had sold in focal markets. His vessel was stopped trance of the Northern fairway of he Yaumati Typhoon Shelter at 6.15 p.m. fast Wednesday and police found that he was short of five ilfe jackets and two fire extinguishers.
Si Nipparti declared that de- fendant left Hong Kong on October 27 and reported his ar rival here on November 1.
TIENTSIN CABLES
No Altoration
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possessed the atom bomb Generally speaking, the new devastating as America declarca
she
announcement Humidity Control time of 4 pan for the last ferry has made it since Hiroshima Krémiln would and Nagasaki-the
reads:-"Coin- The purpose of these systems is will not make much difference to to provide complete control of the the Cheung Chau merchants, but have found an excuse to use it, published today
used it would have sensibly mencftig from Tuesday, Novem- to provide come fir in use cargo it will inconvenience Chore who per the conference table, thus the United Kingdom by BOAC Ber 2. the inward air mall from spaces, and thus avoid any dan work in Hong Kong and five on wiping out in is few brief minutes gelane will arrive at Hong Kong blast to cargo rough sweating and the island. It will be more con- Key-brains deadly opposed to the lane w Tuesday and Thursday
condensation,"
BD
siderate of the franchise holders
if they have a direct ferry at Soyist'smos tion World The Surat Is $25 feet long.15 p.m., so as to give the office Revolution. Probably and siment (Instead of' Wednězdays, and Sun-
onclerks a chance to get home, Mr. Jonequsly umbs would be ta-
Chu concluded,
with d 67-foot beam and it carry 10,750 tons dondweight on a draught of 29 feet and six incher. There is space fox-90,310-cuble James Currey, Chlef Engineer, feat, of refrigerated cargo, She is said he was in the engine mom of a shelter-deck type with two and certified that the engines complete lower decits and sub- were running properly from the divided into five cargo holds.
4 derrick on the foremost will time the Eumagus left her moor ings until the time of the accident lift up to 50 tons. She has ac- He agreed with the President commodation for 12 passengers on
titat after dropping the pliot, the boat deck in four two-berth receiving an order for full astern and four single-berth cabins.
was most unusual,
These are well furnished in mo- He said it was slightly aver dern style and have hot and cold half a minute between the order running." water in bath and a given for full astern and the col-ample provision of bathrooms and Jision.
showers has been made There is Labour trouble at Tientsio has The impact was disunclly felt a comfortable tounge the walls of been sellkd and all telegrams in the engine room, he said.
which
are panciled in empire Hong Kong to the North Hearing was
adjourned until woods, and a dining room which China port will no longer be sub-| 10a.m.
this morning when will soat 30 persons. The passen- ject to delay, it was amcially un-evidence from the crew of the gers have an unusually generous nounced yesterday.
Poltava will be heard.
Jallotment of deck spucë,
from
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ALSO SOLD IN PACKETS OF 10 120
HEARING IN TRAMWAY CASE
days)."
"Surely this should have read:- leased over a number of the The inward air mall from the opposition's nerve centres to com- United Kingdom, formerly sche- pete Operation Paralysis precced- duled to arrive on Wednesdays ng large scale and mass military and Sundays but which very rare- operations.
ly did, fin future scheduled to The Kremlin does not possess arrive on Tuesdays and Thurs- that particular type, and it is ex-days and will probably be equally The hearing of the tramwaytremely doubtful indeed if the unreliable." case at Central yesterday was
"B. MINDED." scientists now in the Естрадь ruled by Mr. M. A. da Silva employ of the Kremlin have ever cross-caamining Cheung Sanbeen prepared to divulgo to their on evidence he gave at pre-patriarchal arch-enemy, the in- vious hearings.
permart secrets Cheung was giving evidence Russians strateglais and never
been, or have against 16 Tranway Company
ard likely to be- inspectors and one conductor who come, technielans.
Departures from the Reninsula are charged with conspiring to-
During the months of diplomatic Hotel on Wednesday, Included Mr. gather to defraud the Tramway rhetorical exhibition the Krendly and Mrs." C. L... Frederick, Mr. Company of passer: gera fores. đồng nothing, but unashamed. and Mrs. A. Peters, Mr. and MY. A. J. Cliffore instructed by y undermine the interests of its Mrs. H. V. Tung, Mrs. M. Rovira, Mr. P. A: L. Vine prosecuted oate partners, both within their Mr. and Mrs. WE Walson, Atra behalf of the Tramway Company households and abroad. Barticular 5. It. Complen, Messen H. Beer, and defondants were represented ly tals been noticeable where G. E. Shingledecker, J. M. Ragano, by Mr. Marcus A. du Silva and British Commonwealth
The case was adjourned until nobody November 25.
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