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Alleged To Have Robbed Former School Mate
Newsmen Summoned At Central
The editor, publisher and
proprietors of the Sun Sang
Man Po were all summoned before Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Central yesterday with pub- Ishing an article in their paper- of an indecent nature.
Mr. Marcus da Silva, repre-. senting all defendants, plend- ed not guilty.
of the
Inspector C.T. Byron
The allegation that he enticed his former school- mate to Ngau Chi Wan and there, with the assistance of a 16-year-old youth, robbed him of $120 was made against Cheung San-song, aged 17, when he was brought before Mr. W. A. Bibir Kerr on committal proceedings on the charge of robbery by two or more. Stockily Built Cheung, who, was stated to be from Mauritius, spoke In Hakka during the pro- ceedings. By his side was a rosy-cheeked baby-faced boy who gave his age as 13 but which Dr. B. S. Khoo testified to be about 16. At the conclusion of the he got down to Clear Water Bay police case, conducted by De-Road, witness.said, he stopped and When tective-Inspector D. L. Davies, boarded a passing bus.
asked for hia fare he told the both accused _were_committed
conductor that he had-go-money had just Been fobb * as. he Tsing Gon, a fokt of the Nam was advised to report to the pu Kok Bookstore of 670 Nathunice, which he did when the bus
•BUA-prixtontedin – for trial.
The defendants are Ko editor, Lai Kwok-yim, publisher and Chin Pak-than, Lai Yin-wah and Sze-fo Bat, proprietors.
At the previous hearing, Mr. Assistant Chung King-pul, an SCA SOON cross-examined at length by defence counsel re- fative to indecency and obscènity and yesterday Mr. Chung further cross-examined on that point by Mr. Silva.
Fatal T
raffic Accidents
Twelve fatul traffic accl- dents occurred in the Colony during December. In ad- dition. 60 pedestrians wara ériously Injured and 163 alightly Injured.
• An, official statement yel- terday lated 26 black spots on, the Teland where traffic kccidenta totalling 215 acour. 'red' during 'December.
The biggest
Individual number of accidents occurred on King's Road between the
Lo Junction of Tung;
Wan Road and the Talkgo, Dook- yares, West Gats. Along this road, 24 acoldents, ona fatal, accurred In December.
CORRESPONDENCE
The Editor! takes no responsibliltý "for" vietos expressed `letters by' correspondants, and by no means necessarily ugreks
with them,
Titans And Giants
Gratified
| Sir,~There must be 'many Sir-We are extremely gratified living in Hond Kong (and | to note that no less a person thôn throughout the world) whose Captain, David Gummans, M.P., minds are filled, with apprehen- has, in his meeting with men sion as they visualise the pos- bera of the Reform Club, support- albility of orthodox, selence com- at our contention that the ell- Ing into its own as they con- mination of subveralve, elements template-round about 1953-chaos and potential fifth columnists is resembling the classic effort of the Tlians and the Giants when they decided to thvade heaven.
matter for a civil, rather then militory, organisation and it is to be hoped that even at this, late date Government may see fit to
Those statesment who, speaking make the formation of the Volun- with appropriate gestures of teer Defence Force In its projected emphasis, would solve our pro- form the subject of further con- blems by hwor in which atómle sideration. bombs, were thrown on either proper sense ot
Captain Gammans has said, and we assume that he spoke with
Accused In direction serve a purpose only in authority, that we can depend for
Extortion
Haed, kuid that he knew the first reached the Kowloon City Police Case Gaoled
At 9 p.m. on December 10, went
making" clear-the-poes - which
10 we have been brought by our own inst, external ngeres
"Upon LNG "Homë Gaverimfent mental feebleness and folly.
but that the suppression of In- in terrial disorders must be our taske, The atomic bomb care as the and he has pointed to the dim result of the observations .of accused when they were students Station.
culties encountered by military Orthodox in the same school in the villige.
"The accused have been certain phenomena.
th suppress Commimist mspired went to his shop, told him that Sub Inspector Chak-Ho-kn and is an improvement of what triumphant. A couple of dozen have been prevented it effective. At 7 pm. October 18, Cheung on witness, he was with Detective found guilty of a crime which scientists worked at them with fotce in Malaya in their attempts enthusiasm. The resulla were hets of terrorism, acts which could be (Cheung) was working at the Detective-constable Wong, Ming at Red Lion Inn and invited witness Hankow Rond when he saw both happened in the Middle Ages of them working together (or Police action had been taken in to dance there, free of charge: aecused coming out of the Star in England," remarked Mr. ngainst one another) could now time. Witness told the accused that he Theatre. He pointed them out to Justice Wicks when he passed wreck the world material. Note
of hard labour on the lost adjective,
Such action la unquestionably In reply to a question by Mr. was busy that night, and suggest the detectives and they were ar- sentences
four prisut warders yesterday,
the Special Branch of the Polles Sliven to the number or staffed that Cheung should call for rested.
Tang Dick, another foki of the after a jury
comprising five
At about the same time other Force but this branch of the Hong he had in carrying out the read him at 8 p.m. on October 20. ing over of Chinese newspapers, shuipo at 7.30 pm, on that date, pm on October 20, a
When he returned from Shamsane bookstore, /stated that at 7 men and two women found scientists (Infinitely more gifted) Kong Police Force in its present
mán "who
observed phenomena indicating slate is unfit to undertake the them guilty as charged. Mr. Chung replied that before
a Portuguese the war when there was censor-continued witness, he saw Cheung looked like
Timothy Din, Gussy Maria dos forces which, judged either from tasks and the enlargement and outside the shop. After taking identified na first accused) called
Dias material, mental or spiritual, improvement thereof is a matter ship, he had a staff of 12, but both, he accompanied first ac- at the shop and asked another Santos and Jose Maria angle, had possibilities incom- which should receive top priority.
Kiven two cach Azedo, were now he has only one man.
cused to the Num Funz Cafe aj fakt, Li Kau, for "Tsang." Shown truniated article!
As he was of that surname he years', while Supto Alimed was parably greater than the atomic. We think that we are correct Nathan Road and there met the
of counter-when we say that few of tho capable of the Sing Tas Jill Poo of
second accused,
went up to the caller but was given eighteen months in
acting it. In order that I may Chinese and none of the Euro- told "Not you. It's Tsang Gon 11sideration of his age. pm
The four were found guilty of be understood Tet me name two peon members of the staff of this looking for." Tsang, Gon, and, later, saw him 11 counts of demanding money, or three out of many. name Branch speak any Chinese, dialect leaving the shop with the Brat with menaces, corruption in office Lodge, Crooks, Myers, Hodgkin, other than Cantonese, yet one of Barrett and Wallace. They proved the strongest groups of potential of Afth columnists in the Colony, la accused.
August 15 Issue, in which an They sat at the same table, but
identient article appeared, Mr. Silva wanted to know if that Identical article had been over- looked, Mr. Chung said it must have been.
Mr. Chung was then question- ed at length in regard to various phroses ond Alustrations from an English encyclopedle of sexual practice and was asked to give kis personal opinion whether he re- gorded them as Indecent or ob-
scene.
Further hearing of the case was then adjourned to February 22, ut 2.30 p.m.
Bus Drivers Must Wear Their Badges
company.
་
Jio was not introduced to the youth.
After the first accured had con-
pork chop and a bottle; Gumed of beer, and the second, had left the cafe and boarded a busi for Ngau Chi Wah, as Cheung, who paid for the meal and the bus fares, said he wanted to look. for a friend.
They got off at Customs Pass! Road and Clear Water Bay Road function, said witness, and walked along Customs Pass Road. After a short while he suggested that they should return, as they did not meet any one along the road.
(ond
He called
Junk Case Defendant Discharged
discharged
con-
[andi, cónesómmencement of yes- their case beyond the polar of serreposed of Northern collabora-
passing After
senience
Damaged Footpath
Ag
Every Briton hopes to see Hong
to, meet, the physical demands: of are for reasons of uge, unntted modern warfare, are, nevertheless,
At the terday's hearing, Azedo went into controversy. It hold out poy- the witness stand und gave abilities, for humanity of benefits tors who sought refuge here after statement on its own defence, almost unimaginable ranging into the war and who move in their
every
department of human life. bin circles, from which Cantonese after which he was crass-examin
Their efforts were bidetracked are excluded. It is as well, to ed by Mr. M. Heerian, who prose- cuted!,
by orthodox selence-consciously remember that these men became The first three accused pleaded sidetracked by orthodox science for their own per-
Boričil, gain and not for any mo to do! Cusy for leniency. Azedo,. asked by-which did nothing
doxy, for so again if given the opportunity All Trefore At the close of the case for Mr. Wicks what he had to say and exploit the efforts of its own tives of principle. They will do
sentence was passed upon great,
orthodoxy, men.
of an unnatural and they should be weeded out the prosecution, Mr. A D. him, told the Court and the the purpose
before, that opportunity arises. their rushed Scholes found that, as prosecu- members of the Jury: "If you alliance, tion witnesses contradicted have found me guilty,
Kong remain a British Colony and punish pharisees, sadducees, inquisitors. Dodges And Escapos
themselves and one another, nó] me.
and scribes, dullness,
is preodred to do his best to en- .:K. Jhility, and off They sure that it does remain-Jso and
mugwumpery.. together and did not are
out there are many who whilst they "Suddenly the first accused put case was made out against both his arms around my neele," Kong Kwok-chibi, charged with Justice Wicks remarked that joined
Ages, money was Smokescreen which I Tsang suld. "The second accused larceny of a junk, and with the Middle came up from behind and took out calling upon the defence taken from the prisoner himself, stifle would conceal. The com but that in the case it was taken bined effort has never been sur $120 from my hip pocket. After to state its case,
exhibition from the relatives of the prisoner. passed.
fumciently fit to offer a valuable the money had been taken, and the accused at Kowloon yea- Mr. Wicks concluded by telling stupidity however, it has been contribution to the forces of law All bus conductors are, com- before the first accused released terday.
and order by lending their support the accused that he hoped, they paralleled. pelled by the Traffic Regula-me, the first accused wanted to
mind, and brain to a Special Police Force, Many As stated by the prosecution, would lead useful lives when the human. tions to wear the numbered take away the wrist watch I was
have throughout history, reacted of those available are, moreover, badges issued to them by the wearing. On seeing this, I dodged conducted by Detective Sub-Insper they came out of prison.
curiously in the face of great by reason of previous experience from him. I rantor C. J. Askew, defendant was said Traffic Sub- and escaped
the Sze
and language qualifications, cap- events. M one of the partners of Inspector Richard Brown when down Cusiems Pass Road. The Hong Shipping Company, which
The crucifion of Christ, the able of rendering assistance in the second accused picked up some had purchased the funk Tung
poisoning of
of Socrates, Chan Cheong, conductor em-
the burning elimination of political undesir stones and threw them at me. 1.
3. When the junk was laft
of Joan of Arc, the persecution of ables. Let us not leave this, as ployed by the Kowloon Motor
was struck on the left ear."
Galilco were not eslculated did those in command in Malaya, Bus Co., was summoned be-
Witness went on to my that at Cheung Chau Island for re- pairs, defendent sailed the versel
crueling
events lintil it is too inte. fore Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at the second accused also chased
In the Arst case of its kind
onuments to serve Kowloon yesterday for falling him for a short distance. When Away without the knowledge
Could not our contribution to the consent of the other three men to be heard in Kowloon, Chana
for all time of the as reminders. to wear his badge.
who held part interest in the junk, Chung, aged 32, of 288 Port-imitations of the human brain defence of the Empire be better
made by the provision of inten According to Tang Fat, one of
Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kow? The Dirty at the
tary subjects and modern weapons patriotism HAN thè
by qualified Instructors from standard of fitness rather thun by They had their te the formation, of a Force the
never be called into action.? of Joan, big enough Miss Mary Fisher, Assistant coxswain, that defendant painted on the count of making a noise spirit of Principal Matron of the Lathe life bueys, thus obliterating at night by hammering.
Sub-Inspector J.H. Evans said and bright enough to lumine all The formation of a Follce Force The clowns that i would cost ä négligible sum com- chikok Hospital, has, been in The name of the junk on the side that the Mong Kok police, re- Ume, lives on.
Tailed to torture hier beyond pared with that which it is pro- pored to.spend upon the Volunteer point are dead. the Sai Yes the residents in last, suffering from a fractur by order of defendant. ed right leg, and iš Ukely to Another partner, Chu Ping, in Street district regarding the din be incapacitated for another his evidence before the Court yes created by defendant hammering a beastly thing. It had its use that Force on the lines suggested FIREWORKS
terday, said that defendant was iron sheets on the pavement...
purpose. The coming of attainment of both objectives at two months.
A constable Charged with the possession of The above was revented by Promised 20% of the trading pro 910 lbs of fireworks without a Tráfic Bub-Inspector Hichard
fits by Tang Fat. The junk, he locality at 10,40 pm. on February it however, was not a great event no additional cost.
defendant hard at within the meaning of the phrase
Government permit, Yuen Tein-wan, a shop- Brown when Lo Yee-wo of 40 and, was bought from the Luen found
Hing Company' and the price was work, beating the sheet. This have used above. It was the We hope that keeper, was fined $100 by, Mr. Nullah
Nullah Street, second floor, was
HK$5,000, in addition to which damage to the pavement was only cind of event the significance of will pay heed to the points raised
by Captain Gammons. Hin-shing Lo at Central yester-summoned
before Mr. WAHK$1,000 brokerage was stipulat slight but, according to Inspector which human intelligence-a very The fireworks were ordered Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday ed. After the sum of HK$2,000 Danbrowsky, would have, been limited thing-can grasp.
TSI Brown sald that defen- Innt's bus was stopped by Police constable 1899 at Taipo Road at 2 p.m. on January 6 tor over- crowding, and defendant
asked
to produce his badge as he was not wearing one at the time.--- Defendant stated that he
not having it with him and was fold to bring it to the Trame Office. He failed to do so and was traced three duys afler the
offence.
discharged.
Accident Victim Still Hospitalised
Hing
or
allied to
were
the partners; the junk was priced land Street, was fined $36. by mind and intelli paristes wassive courses of training in milli- at HK$5.000, of which HK$2,000 10on yesterday for damaging fligious zool behind the Home for men of military oge and
Defendant was said to have sail a public footpath by hammer-
on it on burning of Joan of Arc was in He was additionally fined $15 served history well
ward in their day- --and--låter | "greater portion of which would
had
been paid.. ed the junk from Cheung Chau Ing an iron sheet Teland
on December 28 and it was February 1. the testiranny of Ma Yuet, the
the
of the vessel on them. name
disputable.
Defendant was cautioned and hospital since December '18lor thỏ craft was also painted over | ceived numerous complaints trom beyme Atomic Bomb was and is | Defence Force and a reduction in
day.
10.30 p.m. & 12.00 Midnight
Reservations: Tol. 27580.
und
sent to the anese. Everything has its above would render possible the
to be confiscated.
with careless driving. Another shopkeeper, Wong
TSI Brown said that defendant was deposited with the seller, the more extensive if defendant had Kut-mel, of Hing Lee at No.48 was driving brivate car 1180 vessel was turned over to their not been stopped. Bonbon Strapd East who was along Talpo Road and, when custody, HK$100 brokerage was charged with the possession of near the Lalchikok Hospital, ran paid to defendant by Tang Fat in 30,000 lbs of fireworks, had his into, and knocked down, Miss his presence. case adjourned to February 4...Fisher who was walking with two
Mr. P.H. Sin will appear for friends. the defence.
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There is no footpath on the read, said DSI Brown, and Miss Fisher
and her friends walking in single file. There was apparently no excuse for deferi- dant knocking: Miss Fisher down as she was walking on her right side of the road jeg k
Defendant pleaded that the ac- eldent took place just when he was rounding the bend near the hospital The three persons, he Enid, were walking abreast
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The other matter upon the other hand comes within the category. It was a great event capable of handled wisely or unwisely. being Crucifixion, poison, burning as b method of pênishmën Küve gone
out of completely
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