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Pirates Net Million Dollar Haul In Raid
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| Equipped with modern armaments, including light 'artillery guns, machino guns and tommy guns; Pearl River Delta pirates made another successful haul, estimated to be worth about HK$1,000,000, on Monday, morning.
The victim was the motor vessel. Shiu Ying which was Swatow-bound from Canton with 50 tons of kerosene, cotton yarn and sundry goods. She was held up near Bocca Tigris for nearly 24 hours during which period the pirates loot- ed the craft's equipment, personal belongings of the crew and passengers and the corgo. No one was injured.
ders were heard telling the monster to halt.
The master of the motor vessel, Mr. Lu Siu-on, report-
at Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 pm.ed to the Canton authorities Y's Men's Club of Hong Kong that he was turning into an
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large craft steamed towards his vessel without making uny normal routing signals.
Froin his vessel, the master de- clared that he could make out light artillery guns. Some of the men aboard the approaching craft were seen to be carrying tommy
guna.
The craft drew neure and or
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SATURDAY
Possession
Of Arms
Mr. Lu stated that he at tempted to speed away but A shower of bullets forced him stop. He stopped his motor vessel and 15 pirates, armed with tommygung
light and machineguns, boarded the Shiu Ying.
The
Manned By Pirates
Shiu
then Ying was manned by the pirates while the crow and passengers were berded into a-hold.
were on
When they had sailed the vessel to a certain isolated spot, the crew and passengers were ordered to help transfer the cargo into the pirate craft, where severni men belongings were stripped. Many of the men were only left with their underwear. The craft's equipment was also looted.
the Shiu
"All persona
The pirates released For the possession of two puto-Ying on the following morning. matic pistols and 270 rounds of She returned to Canton on Jun ammunition without a primit un 26 afternoon and reported to the der the Arma and Ammunition Conton authorities. Ordinance. Sam Gwon, aged 31, Passengers were said to have шая yesterday
given a fine of described the pirates a flerce $4,500 or
Mr. looking brigands, three months by
They were F. X. d'Almuda at Central.
harsh to the crew and passengers, Sub-Inspector Howlett
but did nol, however, molest pino C., HKCC, HKFC, Tol-that at 0.45 p.m. on Tuesday de- them. Jino RC, KDC, HIKERC.
fendant was stopped by a
Ser- keant attached to the Waterfront Unit
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REVENUE MAN'S CASE
ADJOURNED
Further evidence was given in the case in which, a revenue off- ter Ko Chi-ming, aged 28. chart- ed with demanding money with and alternatively with before Mr. Blair-
It
nt Kowloon yesterday.
leged that Ko demand was nileged ed $5 from ♫ traveling trader, Ho Man, on May 25 at Yaumall Railway Station, as consideration not to stop four bales of barbed wire from being exported.
said
Defendunt was carrying a shav- ing bag and on being searched an automatic pistol and ammunition were found in it.
Defendant was taken to the Waterfront Unit Searching Office and there he was asked by In- spector Sullivan whether he had any more arms to declare. De- rendant said that he had none. A further
searchi
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villagon. by three affected by the new airport plan for Deep Day.
The villagera are opposed to the plan as they will bp uprooted and moyed, clop where to give way to the pro. posed now airfield.
Their petitions hava airgady been apnt to Mr. T. W. Kwok, Spacial Commissioner (For eign Affairs) for Kwangtung. GM. Kwangel, to the three nese representatives on the Legislative Council, and to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
Romance Has Sequel
In Court
Yang Chung-man, aged 20, was bound over the sum of $500 for one year on good be- haviour by Mr. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday
for har bouring DEL unmarried girl Wong Ping, under the age of
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TB SUFFERERS AS RATIONS CUT TO
PAY FOR DEFENCE
More than 400 sufferers from tuberculosis, who
have been drawing daily rations of vitamin food from Government, will be affected by the official decision to withdraw the ration as from tomorrow, July 1. S Withdrawal of the ration followed the decision of the Medical Department, taken a fortnight ago, to slice by one half the annual budget- ary allocation of HK$200,000 for the relief and feeding of tuberculosis patients.
Dr. 1. Newton, the Director
of Medical Services, told the
"China Mall" that the cut had NEW CASES
been necessitated by Govern- ment's economy plan to save money for the Colony's de- fence.
"As usual, when more money is required for defence, the cla! services auffer," Bald Dr. Newton, who added it was in- deed
to a great pity to have withdraw the ralion, but therm wap
A daily average of 30 new cases of tuberculosis was re- corded in Hong Kong during the week ended June 18, ac- cording to the latest Health Returo.
The total was 253 CRECE with 40 deaths.
In
The week's number orpated the total since the bo ginning of the yone to 3,359 Cases and 1,222 deaths.
'Dézkhs from all causes dur. ing the period under review was 364, 30 ageinat a fatal of 883 birth
The g also he could do..
of TB patients has been a great boon to sufferers. The plan has been going on fur more than a year, and actually there are more than 400 people on the list for the ration.
hot lo call any of them were afruid for it, due to the fact that many stat It was stated by the prosecu-sufferers of the disease, did not five that on May 22, the 10-year- want their landlords or principal and it is really most pathetic." old girl left her home after tenants to know ainut their plight sald Dr. Newton. quarrel with her mother. A te for fear of being driven from port was then made to the police their homes. by the mother after her daughter had left home.
21, years.
On June 20, the girl returned, and was then taken to the police station by her mother, Enquiries revealed that during the girl's absence from home, she had been living with defendant as 116 "ylfe" at 4 Shek Tang Street, Kowloon.
Due to the reason for discon- tinuing tho ration it is not possible The prejudice against To say when, if ever, it is going
among some people, to be restored. very great
KAI TAK TOPICS
Willem
,
Mr.
A cuto passenger attracting pines and also to pay calls on
at Kal Tak few friends," he added.j wide attention Defendant told the police that yesterday was 4-year-old Lily
Mr. Harold Bixby and be WOR an old friend of the Gee Quon, who boarded
L Bond, Vice President girl's family, and that he had PAL plane and is travelling of PAA and CNAC respectively, proposed to marry the girl some all the way to San Francisco boarded a PAA plang for "Tokyo time last year. This was unsuc
yesterday. Their trip was in côn cessful, as the girl's mother had by herself.
Daughter of a Chinese couple vection with their respective busi- asked for $1,000 plus dowry, which defendant could not afford. who runs a restaurant business in ness offices in Japan, It was Defendant was an prentico in San Francisco, Lily was born in stated.
掣 Hung Hun Factory, earning 93 the United States.
plane to two however, Beturning by PAL When she was A day
was "Mr. E. her parents took her to China, Manila yesterday after the war, to visit grandma Milton Mitchell Joint-Managing Director of the international in Canton,
Lily took so affectionately to Tractor and Equipment Company grandma that she refused to re- in the Philippines. Mr. Mitchell her parents to the had spent one week in the Colony, with United States.
With the China situation not too pleasant, Lily's guardan told, ui at the airport, the Quon's wired to have their daughter return to the States English
He had two previous convie, tions of larcery and alsorderly conduct respectively.
Had To Agroo In Court yesterday, the girl's
Mr. U Tat-chee and Mr. Ip mother told the magistrate, did not agree to my daughter's marriage, but I had to now.""
Ping-chow, two members of the from their PAA She was asked by the Court as
Hong Kong delegation to the BIF to whether she was willing
disembarked plane at Tokyo yesterday, let her daughter marry defendant,
Mr. U travelled by' way of She replied. "The matter is not Llly does not speak a word of
But het Canada-for the Canadian Indus- at present, up to me: they are in love with bright, happy face will win her try Falk-and the United States each other, that is. If my daughrough all the strangeness of her on his way back to Hong Kong. ter agrees, I will not mind."
When the American Presi- dent Line's luxury liner Pre- sident Cleveland arrives here on July 10 from San Fran- cisco, she will bring to the was made and Colony several prominent pas- some ammunition found. De-sengers, including the Chief he of the Far East Mission of the fendant was again asked if had any more and replied that International Refugee. Orgoni-
not. A further searchsation he had
and n was made and in a tin of powder American columnist for the another automatic pistol and San Francisco News." some
more ammunition were
The "VIP" list has: Mr. V. J. D'Alton instructed by found.
arrived
Mr. Jennings Wong, Chief of Mr.
Defendant M. A. da Silva, was for the
in on the IRO Far East Mission, dis defence, while DSI A, Leslie was Kong from America in January embarking here. cunducting the case for the pro- After staying in the Colony for
Mr. Arthur Caylor, "San Fran- secution.
four days defendant went back
cisco News" columnist who is to the country. He left the arms
making a round-The-World-trip Fowler, and and ammunition with a friend.
to observe conditions In the Defendant said that he brought
Orient, the pistols from Germany that
After evidence was given by Revenue Inspector
PC 420, the case was adjourned unul today.
Defendant is on bail of $5,000, $2,000 in
surely and cash,
Case
$3,000 in
wor.
and
Against Tramway Inspectors Adjourned
The Court then asked both the pew surroundings just as quickly girl and defendant whether they as she had won all at Kai Tait, would like to marry each other, who saw her off They both replied "yes" without hesitation.
Making Room For Troops
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Gunny Bag Rumour Denied
the
The Department announced that the only certificate issued by the Department is one certifying that no export licence in South Africa WIL be granted, Similarly import licences Issued in respect of gunnies are claused "For local consumption."
One passenger with a ticket on a PAL Manila bound plane had at least one sporter puzzled.
The Department of Com- he had served with the fand led by his wife
She bore a striking reamblance Mr. Frank A. Howard, Second United States Army during the vice-President of Chase National
to Mrs. Vickle Draves the Amer merce and Industry yesterday can double-title diving champ that the Department issues denied rumours in Calcutta Bank of New York, returning to
ut the Wembley Olympics his post in Hong Kong and ac-
When interviewed however, she certificates relating to gunny. companied by his wife and two
patiently declared that she was daughters.
Reconstruction work at a sco-fiss Edna Stevens of Howall and bags guaranteeing that Mr. J. T. Dannher, Assistant tion of the Ma Tau Chung East, int she was returning home afer bags will not be re-exported to the Vice-President, Passenger ern Camp, Kowloon City, was week's holidaying in the Colony from Hong Kong. Trame, APL, visiting Far East storted same time ago," pending ports to promote
of troop tourist travel the arrival
PAL yesterday reinforce Coming in on business, accompanied by Mrs.ments for Hong Kong from the was Tony Bayot formerly n VBC Danaher.
United Kingdom,
swimmer and water polo player. PAL Mr. W. K. Varcoe, Vice-Prest- Workmen are busily levelling He is now employed as
portions of bare burner and lives in Manila. dent, Freight Traffic, APL, also certain raised visiting the Far East to promote concrete which previously formed
"All I have to kay is that I'm trade with the Orient, accompani- the floors of huts that were talen ed by
by Mrs. Varcoe and two child-down during the Japanese ac- certainly glad I am backs in Hong Kong after being under fie The terrain has in general been Manila "sun for five days" said by the Department, and it, as is of the rumoured, dny such certificates made at so much so that it is MF. T. B. Wilson, boss believed the place
might be local office of American President bave been presented in Calcutta turned into a transport gehele tunes who returned to the Colony these are obviously irregular. The depot.
hy FAA yesterday.
Department is in touch with the airting the area has been, ters sonti- business trip to the philip.ject. down in the course of the work, which is going on in tull swing, and a new fence erected.
That Cheng Sang, prosecution chief witness, was "a big liar" and that Anthony Chan, another witness, was "a bigger fior" was the accusa- tion made by Mr. M. A. da Silva at Central yesterday when he made a submission to Mr. F. X. d'Almada that his clients had no case to answer.
Mr. Silva was defending 111onee of prosecution witnesses of the Tramway Inspectors in after which the case was ad-
inurned it the dase in which 14 Inspec- Silva will continue with his sub- today when Mr tors and д conductor are inJesion. churged with conspiracy to defraud the Tramway Coin- pany by allowing the re-sale
pf old and used tickets. Mr.
P. C. Woo is representing. three, of the defendants while Mr. McNeill instructed by Mr. P. A. 'L. Vine is for the
rosecution.
In making his submission Mr. Silva sold that he would not call defendants to give evidence but thai do would subenit dat hi clients had no case to answer.
It had been a case where the prosecution had flung a whole lot of mud.
Mr. Silva said that in his :16 years of practice in the Colony be had never come across such an atrocious chad where the evid- ence of the prosecution witriesser had been to contradictory.
Mr. Suva submitted that the prosecution linerses hud' given' evidence of 'several distinct con- spiracies in an attempt to prove one charge.
Mr. Silva sald that the evid- ence lind not been corroborated in the proper legal sense of the
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Mr. Silva thén attackná Cheting Bang's evidence at length,
Mr. Silva reminded the magis rate that Athony Chon/after plending guilty when the cANG WAS flat bined, offered to be a pro- Pocution wiints but the after was refusell by dr., Clifford, who was Then the prosecutor. plasma
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