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Verdict--Chinese Woman Kills Self
Li Pun, alias Karen Li, aged 28, of 25 Lock Street, ground floor, committed suicide while the balance of her mind was disturbed, by jump- ing from the second floor of the Peninsula Hotel on April, 18,
A verdict to this effect was returned by Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr, sitting as Coroner, at an in-. quest in Kowloon yesterday. The Coroner added that there was no evidence that any- body was in any way responsible for her death. Dr. R. E. Alvares, in evi-1 dence, said flint deceased was not a virgin, and there was no evidence of pregnancy. Her, urine contained a certain Cause percentage of alcohol,
of death was internal haemorr- hage and shock resulting from; multiple fractures and injuries
to the lung and liver. De- ceased's appearance was con- sistent, with a jump from a height.
Sub-Inspector P.C. Cheal said hat on the night of April 18, he was walking along the West side if Hankow Rond when, about 10 yurcs from the junction of Middle Read he saw a black muss fall- ing from the Persula Hotel, He saw that it was a woman who was seriously injured. An ambulance wa summoned but on arrival at the hospital, the woman was dead. Ar. L.B. Wood of Ream 402, YMCA, sak that as he was cl ing the bathroom window. lant. something strike the Resund. He had the feeling that I was a body. This suspicion
contrined osa Was inter
the ar- rival of the ambulance.
Ng Tai-chi, night offendant on the secund floor the Punins lictel, sald that he had seen de ensed previously. On the night in ancation, he did not had any disturbance noise from Room
in
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THE CHINA
British Wounded Here Tomorrow
A number of personnel of
HMB Amethyst, Consert. Black WAN and London,
during the wounded
Com. munist military attack on the four ships on the Yangise fiver, are expected to arriva In Hong Kong tomorrow...
The wounded brought to Shanghai were transferred to United States hospital the ship, Report, The Repose, is duo here from Shanghai tomorrow.
HANDWRITING EXPERT GIVES EVIDENCE
Signatures on four burial notifications presented at Central yesterday were testified to by Sub- Inspector A. Morrison, Police handwriting ex- port, as being a similar name but coming from two different hands.
Mr. Morrison was a prosecution witness in the case being heard before Mr. Hin-shing Lo in which Clementino Mario Almario is charged with forging a burial notification for Yeung Yung, the signature purporting to come from the authorised hand of Sister Ambroise of St. Poul's Hospital.
Defendant is additionally charged
with obtaining $200 from Lau Leung under false pretences, by pretending that a non-Catholte could be buried
In the Roman Catholic Ceme- tery.
Detective Sub-Inspector M.J.G. Soul is prosecuting.
Further cross-examination was reserved by counsel apoi pèr- mission being
TURDAY
GOLD BAN SAID
ILL-ADVISED
A most incongruous position Has brišen dé à result
· of the ill-advised order issued, in-Hong Kong prohibiting dealing in and possession of gold. So states the current Issue of the "For Eastern
Economic Review" in a fresh comment 'dn
the subject,
Thato ars mány governments who engage droely in polů válec both of ne production and of surplus monetary bullion. USSR-mined gold has only In small quantities been offered in World murkels and part of this
como to Ilong
If Moscow
Nothing concrete, it added. can be achieved here by the. gold ban. The British Trea- sury and the importing Inter- national Monetary Fund should have properly appraised the situation here and taken a long gold has also look at the map showing Hong Kong in the past. Kong in its geographic rela-deems the moment opportune and tion to the neighbouring coun- the price attractively lgh the tries before requesting the Soviet Slate Dank will probably
Government Hot Kong
to sell large lots, suid the "Iteview". Institute the 'ban.
The "Review" slated that repe- tion here has been to unfavour- able that the best course now appears to be to repeal the butt on gold pogression while main taluing the prohibition on gold dealings.
At the same time the prohibi- tion on printing and publishing of information. on goki trap actions must be rescinded as such an order is, to all newspapers in democratie countries, very repug- nant, added the "Review".
Correspondence
The Editor takea по тепрот tetters by correspondents, and h sibility for views expressed in no medria necessarily agrees with them).
Commonwealth Agreomant
Sir, The London devistos. The weekly publication add great and historie, by the Prime ed that while it is now, sudden-| Ministers of eight countries, in-¦ ly, prohibited to buy and selfcluding Indin, that they will re- gold freely and to own gold in main united as free and equni Hong free and official gold markets liberty and progress, will be wel- In China, Macao. Philippines, comes by all peace-loying poopan Slam, Burma, Kore, while un-
Kong there oxfat leoaily members, in the pursuit of peace.
of the World. Granted from the
A caretaker of the
in the
othelal marketa
operate frotly
in Indo-china and Indonesia.
The eight premiers in general and Premier Attico of Britain. and Premier Nehru of India, particular. deserve to be e- atulated for producing an agre
enabling clo 10 continue to be linked with Kreat Britain and her partners of the Commonwealth. Îndla, to be de- in the very near Jultay.
ed solution
bench, for May 4, cemetary, You Tuk-yun, stated that he rad Black. Market been employed for some seven
Only in Malays there exista a years in the cemetery.
which, Non-Catholes A recum defridant in the ease
ware not per-so-called black market
devertheless, is very active and ไบ 10 Is Margarete Tse, wife of Aimaria, mitted
Dariel!
dues not suffer from persecution Catholic cemetery, he stated, sexion of the Homur
She la charged with
clared However, he contraued, during by the uhorities who realise that Cemetery.
the
they have to deal with Mainy by the will of her own people, alding und abetting in the for-the Japanese vectipation.
Chinese and Indians and that Japanese forced open the ceme-
their ideas cannot be changed by presentatives under its new con- by expressed through its chosen re- tery for those of other faiths.
Even la occupied siltution, now beleg framed £1 He further stated that he had using force.
Japan there operate gold 'markais
India, US the "Sovereign In- stated son to suspect that even after Alfred Feroldi Father
which have not bota suppressed dependent Republic," true to her Decupation non-Catholes that upon information received he the
by the Japanese Government as high ideal Peace for the whole approached Sister Ambroise with were being burled in the cetnie-
SCAP "suggestions" do not con-world, an deal, bequeathed to One of the notificatiom exhibitstery,
cern themselves with this busit by the Father of the Nation, and asked if the signature was
late Mahatma Gandhi now finds Within the Commonwealth it poserble to continue to be n There are a number of free gold "full and equal" member of the markets operating: Indian gold) Commonwealth.
The
war-weary Wor and in Pakistan there are also now hope that the labo oféial gold markets. The posses- Premiers of the eight untries sion 1)f gold in these two in London will bear fruit and will Dominions is, of course, legally help to Ossure peace and pro- protected but the import of gold, sperity to all the peoples of the ugainst US$, 14 restricted.
Worki,
H. M. PARWANI.
314.
zory. Joseph Hedaya, aged 20, direc- tur uf the Cathay Mercantile Limiled, said that he had beer
Colony for about "the munile. Deceased was introduced to him by a girl friend at a party in Roum 314 on April 10, Do- censed visited him several limes. On the night of April 18, decensed came to his room. and they had dinner together. They had two ot three drinks of whisky. She took
took plure.
hers,
Sister Ambroise, the priest con-
on graves.
ness.
Hla suspicion arose from the athos of paper and joss' sticks tinued, replied that it was not. "When 1 brought this to the at- a bath and after that, Intimacy Whereupon he asked her for atention of Almario." Witness went exchanges are legal institutions
specimen signature, which
wen, "I was scolded and told that contained in one of the exhibits it was his (Almario's business displayed in court.
and that he was the boss and had Her Mother
Sub-Inspector Morrison stated
power
to disbus9
me," that the signatures in the exhibit-
Cross-examined by M.. Arculli, "Deceased said that she wanted ed notification were of different witness said that he bore no 11
live with
continued characteristics, one being an at- feelings towards Abuurio, and 12:0," Hedaya, "but I told her it could tempt to simulate the other.
denice! that what he bad said not be done. She then said that Comparing the handwriting of about being sentieri by Almario. the would not see me again; she the details written in the notifica- was false.
sald Mr. Morrison told me about her mother whom on forms,
that they were in the same hand she had not seen for 17 years in Shanghai."
as that
in which the Register was Deceased made a phone call writter, and he went on to give and while she was phoning, whethe age and name of the deceased cried but not violently.
which After written in the register, the phone call, deceased got up hand in his oplulon, compared and walked to the window. with that of the writing in the, 4. Both her legs were in to room burial notification. when
ho
rushed to her bul
he was too late and aho tumblod He reported to the Re- ception choak.
aver.
"She never had threatened in my presence to take her life, but I believe that she must have had years of unhappiness to cause her
Cross-examined by Mr. A. el Arculli, defending Almario and his
Morrison wife, Inspector
stated that years
he had had nine
Ing experience
In handwrit. work and was
An undertaker then gave evi- dence that since the occupation he had done business with Al- mario four times, once concerning
In the Union of South Africa free goid markets do business al-
.
may
of the
though in deference to the IMF Restricted Freedom one talks there of semi-processed
Sir,-As It is quite clear that and 22 carat gold.
ITF the Union, the world's you are bent on giving the full- the lies, and greatest producer (monthly cat publicity to
malicious anti-Chinese Average almost 1,000,000 ounces
pro- genuine Catholic. He paid de-nine), there is very strong feeling Paganda of Mr. H. G. W. Wood- fendant $200.
head, while suppressing the views about the fact that the country and opinions of those who seek is compelled, by rules laid down to state the truth, by the IMF single export item at a sacrifice the Press,
of US$35 an ounce price Buyers being always the United States.
The case was adjourned to May
Two Children Injured
A traffic misliap occurred Just
accepted no ам expert both in outside the Wanchal Market at the courts of Scotland as well 11.30 a.m. yesterday, when a lorry to end like this," said Hedaya.
In the Colony.
accidently backed into two children. Li Wan-ho, aged 50, father of
Futher questioned, Mr. Morri-injuring one of them sorkesly and
that he had studied the other alightly. deceased, said that deceased lived son stated with him, and obtained her and was still studying by him- According to reports, Lorry No. living by teaching English and self. "I do not know of any col-6110 stopped at the curb, after Chinese to pupils at their home. leges devoted to the study of which the driver revend gear. She was married
iden Ufication,” to a Chinese handwriting
he He however lid not notice
woman and two children who were some distance behind the Mr. Arculli: "You have given forry, having their meal Just off expert evidence in the Supreme the sidewalk, with the result that Court?--
he innulvertently backed his lorry into them.
The woman managed to jump You will agree that handwritto safety, but the children, aged Publicing experts are not infallible?- live and one respectively, were hit.
Air Force officer who was killed |added. In action. She had two daughters. who were under the care of her mother-in-law.
Some months ago, deceased was In financial dificulties, and her father gave her money several Lintes. On April 10, the family went. to the Kowloon
Expert Evidence
Mr. Morrison: "I have."
In criminal cases?—Yes.
A
Mortuary, and identified the hedy. Handwriting experts are not in-They were immediately taken to
When asked by the Coroner fallible.
why deceased committed suicide,
the father said that he could not
give an explanation.
Li Wal-ling, younger brother of decensed, said that deceased was kinapped When she was nine
yeurs
old. He met her again in Hong Kong about two years ago. Evidence was then given by deceased's friends, Michael Chan, Miss Lulu Chi and Miss Susic Chan.
Detective Sub-Inspector J. Hild- den conducted 'the inquiry.
3 FUNERAL OF MRS. LUZ
The funeral of. Mrs. Josefina (Finia), Gutterres da Luz, aged 04, took place in Macao on Wednesday.
Formerly of Shanghai, `she died following a prolonged ill- ness at. San Rafael Hospital.
She is survived by her son Mr. Jose Gutterres' da Luz, employed in Dodwell and Company Limit- ed, two daughters, Misses, Teresa and Margarida Culterres da Luz, daughter-in-law, Mrs. Patriclá Castro da Luz, and a sister at present in Shanghal, Mrs. Maria Jose. (Mafia) Güttertes Lilbeck,
Relatives and friends attended the funeral
Wreaths were sent by Pat and Joo, Teres, Ida, Mosats, P. Yip, T. Costa,and others.
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General
on Freedom of extracted from the IB, Chater Road. latest Issue of "The Mirror h
publication of the Central Office
of Information, London, might be
interest:
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"Freedom only for the followers of the Government, only for the members of one party-however numerous, they may be-is not freedom. Freedom is always the The Honourable Makolm Muc-erently. Without general elec-
freedom of those who think dir Donald, Commissioner
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