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SHANGHAI MOBS HOOTED AT EUROPEAN WOMEN
Reminders
Today
Bridge Drive (for civilians and
Services), European YMCA,
$ p.m.
HK Rotary Club luncheon, Root
(Exclusive to "Ching Mail")"
Since the occupation of Shanghai by the Chinesa Communists, European women have not dar ed to walk in the streets alone, Mrs. Sydney Smith said yesterday.`
Mrs. Smith, wife of the London "Daily Express" Correspondent in Shanghai, is the first Euro- pean woman to leave Shanghai since the oc- cupation.
Garden, HK Hotel, 12:30 pm. She said that beggars and pedicab boys howled
Chinese art exhibition by Miss
Tseng Yu-ho Fung Ping Shan, Library, HK Univer
sity, 10.30 am.
Local Printing Press, Limited,
annual meeting 13 Duddelt SL 12 noon.
uild meeting 10 a.m.-
and hooted at unescorted European women, followed them for blocks spitting at them, and shouting insults.
Mrs. Smith added: "It was Kowloon Union Church, women's not unusual for a pedicab boy to follow a European woman for several blocks on ran into a Communist police- man, and then claim that he had carried the woman in his pedicab and the woman had refused to pay him."
Urban Come meeting GPO
building. 4.15 p.m. HK Light
Orchestra rehearsal, HK & Shanghai Bank publie hall, 6.45 p.m.
Coming Events
TOMORROW.
Toe H meeting, 50, MacDonnell
Road, 8.20 p.m. Mahjong Lessons, European
YMCA, 5 pm. HK Amateur Radio Transmitting Society. China Fleet Club, 5.30 p.m
HX Art Club, monthly exhibition, St. John's Cathedral Hali, 10 am to 6 p.m.
THURSDAY
Kowloon Rotary Club luncheon,
Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 p.m. Y's Men's Club of Hong Kong,
luncheon at the Roof Garden, HK Hotel, 12.45 p.m. HK Art Club, monthly exhibition,
SL
John's Cathedral hall,
10 am to 6 pm; lecture by Mr. Luis Chan, 5.30 p.m.
Youth Gaoled
For Larceny And Assault
A 20-year-old youth who
She said that it was mandatory that all Europeans carried a Chin- esc vaccination certificate for cholera and smallpox because
vaccination countless
stations, were set up on Shanghai's streets, end the attendants would pull Europeans off the streets and give
em shots.
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1949.
Woman Fined
For Gold Smuggling
For importing a bar of gokil j valued at $1,850 at the black! market rate, a Chinese woman was fined $350 by Mr. FX. d'Almada at Kowloon yester day.
Prosecuting. Revenue Inspector Fowler told the court that defen- cant was arrested by Reveque Officers at the Kowloon Railway Station on September 2
Professor Garcia's Book On Citizenship In The Philippines
Professor Leon T. Garcia, Philippine Vice-Consul. in Hong Kong and Macao, is the author of a 400-page book just published entitled "Pro- blems of Citizenship in the Philippines.”
The book embodies the cit-
She was asked by a jsearcherzenship laws of various coun- whether she had any gold to trics, including the Law of declare and replied "no".
Nations as agreed in the Con- The gold was ordered to berention on the conflict of as- returted to her.
tionality laws signed at the Haque by 31 states.
Another gold case before Mr. In heavy seas, the Nationalis: { d'Akvada yesterday involved came alongside the three woman and a girl. warship Leong Bee, and ordered the Cap- lain to follow him into Tinghai.
Written in treatise, form, the book is of great stility not only Ma Sau-chin, aged 38 Mato Filipinos themselves and for Browarst sacral miles Mong-fa, aged 74, Ma Fat-to, eigners who have intermarried as wired the Nationalis: shiped 41, and a 14-year-old girl well as their childran where pro asking what ship they were de were arrested at Kai Tak Ak blems of their nationalities are the British Captain that the Leons, taining, and the Nationalist viresort on Sunday.
Beè was a "Chinese oil tanker.”
What A Life! Mrs. Smith said: "The Brilish Captain took his word for it, and eur chances of being freed fell through."
After several days in Tunghai. Mr. and Mrs. Smith boarded the Edith Moller.
involved, but also to lawyers, of law, law jurists, professors students, universities, law schools and the different consulates which have to solve questions on citizen.
First defendant had in her possession 12 bars of about $7.5 tnels. Four of the bars were Concealed in her shoulder pads, five in her garments and three ship. (were wrapped in a girdle
-The author, who is a well-known The 14-year-old woman had scholar, and outstanding authority. two bars of about 10 tds. They for Immigration and citizenship were both strapped around her jaw, and who as Vice-Consul is The third woman had 30 gold actually handling obestions on the. coins weighing about 24 els matter, is well qualified to under- take the preparation of such an important jock.
in
shoes.
The girl bad eight bars of She said: "A day out of Ting- hai, alist ship stopped us, 1
after a distressed Nation-approximately 12 tacks. Ther
was were all concealed in a girdle. sprawled out on the deck and As one of the defendants were frightened
Mrs. Smith added: "One woman friend of mine had three cholera shots in one week. It would not have been quite so bad if the Communists had been properly
to death when the present in court their ball of 520 equipped, but they continually Faith Moller captain made his fach. was. estreated. The gold used an old, bluat needle, and dash in the darkness, but we were was also confiscated. wiped one's arm with a dirty successful in leaving." piece of gauze.”
Shanghai prices of cosmetics were "fantastic," she said. A good
stick of lipstick co HK$40.00, and decent face pow der HK$32.00.
quality
Only Recreation
arc
All Imported clothes from four to five hundred per cent higher than in Hong Kong. and a simple ment dish, "with ice cream and coffee cos:
HK$15.00.
monta's
Mr. and Mrs. Smith said that they were going to a quiet hotel near Singapore for a holiday.
like
Mrs. Smith added: "What
Court Brevities
Holds Degrees
Professor Garcia is a bolder of the tills of Associate in Acts and the degrees of Bachelor of Laws and Master of Lays in dii
different
Trip To Canada universities in the Philippines.
Sponsored
By UNESCO
"Hong Kong seems much too unanimously de- crowded,"
clared a journalist and а
He is a
a prominent member of the Philippine Bar and former Legal Betesreter and Chairman of the Board of Special Inquiry of Phil- Immigration Commission:
seramen
Chief Prosecutor PTTK Lecturer in
inst alleg subversive elements: Lan in Manila; author of law 1943. National ia
PROFESSOR GARCIA
Ninghsia Surrenders To The Reds
(Continued, from Page 11
From the military standpoint there is not much left of the
ence strong Nationalist mila!
tary
com-
Genera machine there. Ma Pu-feng, whe still has the
of North West title mander-önce held by General) Chang Chih-chung who is new in Peiping, is in Hong Kong, arranging for a pilgrimage to Mecca for himself
his and family.
bad three previous convictions the women was to play bridge or Bank note at 105 Nam Chang the auspices of UNESCO (United in Coghts of Filipino nationals, | North West, is useless.
for larceny was sentenced by liar dice, and take their children Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Kow-to the private clubs where they loon yesterday to a year and could swim and sunbathe. four
months' imprisonment
of
teacher from Singapore who books; winner arrived in the Colony by Biography Contesta conducted by the Flic of the Philippines, BOAC on Sunday on their way
Resistance Useless Life and
and Works for his work, The to Canada via Japan.
Roy Ferres, 33-year-old Singa- of Andres Bonifacio", under the
General Ma Hung-kwei, the Doveglion": Shanghai's Den name Ng King-chun, alias Ng Fat-pore Times reporter, and Cyri During the several months that chuen, aged 41, was charged at Jansen, Government school tea Honorary member and Legal Ad North West commander's brother reported to Mrs. Smith was in Shanghai, sie Kowloon yesterday with possess cher, aged 34, will proceed to viser of Filipino Community Ass deputy commander, is in lawyer ever permitted to. appear have informed Chiang Kai-shes said that the uply recreation for forged $100 Mercantile, Canada by air on Thursday under ciation in Shanghai: first Filipina Chungking and is
of Shanghai in defence that further resistance in the Nations Educational Scientific and in Street, ground floor.
Defendant was remanded 2 Cultural Organisation), day in police custody.
The pair, who told the "China the first Filipine scholar ever ap-
It is being left to General Ma law in the pointed professor this Mail yesterday that
was Soochow
University Law School Chi-yun, son of Ma Pu-feng, tc their first visit here, have been Soc selected from manerous applin Shanghai Member, Philippine by to uphold the Ma family's fight to Prill Courcil and Researcher, Institute traditional pledge of a cierklecte KAY To-fan, aged 32.
icants in Singapore and spend six months in
Canada of Pacife Bdations: Member of the death against Comm acquire a Wong Coun, aged 36, a where they will
and the Royal Asiatic Society, North Chi-yun, the also
China Branch, Shanghai, and en Chungking with Chiang Kai- balore Mr. Hin-shing Lo ain their respective vocations,
Jansen is going to Montreal; ed souvenir and loyalty pin, the to Chinghai province to rejcin his Central yesterday with possession.
will go to Ottawa, where second award ever conferred in Moslem troops who are in Tulor. eight pipes on August 19.
sity Law School, for services ren- dered for the promotion of endtural friendship, and understanding beting publicly that Sinkiang may
She added: "During the rather
with hard labour for larceny frequent air raids, all the wohes of a cotton jacket valued athad a tacit agreement not to show $6, assaulting a police officer alarm or concern while the chil-residing at Reduascia Terrace, and breach of a deportationären were present, but the chil-arki order.
dren seemed to take the air raide | travelling trader, were charged absorb more general knowledg1 December 16, 1948, he was award:shek, is reported having retirardi
Tsoi
casier than the adults."
During one particularly intense of 2:0 taels of raw opium and will be under the care of Mr 30 years by the Soochow Univer- North West of Sinng
Ping-kan, unemployed, - was additionally charged with
being a member of the Luen air raid, Mrs. Smith was at the Ying Triad Society.
Swimming Club with friends, and a little eight years old girl heard
Se
First defendant, who was re- T. C. Daly, Head of the Canadian presented by Mr. M. A. da Silva, National Film Barcos of the was allowed bail of $15,000, Wilk Eggleston, Director
Official sources are not admit-
He was arrested by Detective te bombs and casually got while second defendant, who was Department of Journalism, Car- tween the Philippines and Ching follow the example et Suiyuan,
1107 in an alley behind the Im-of the pool. perial Ballrown on the night of September 21 for being a püç-
posted returned banisheë.
not legally represented, was or- leica College, Ottawa Ferrea will Mrs. Smith said the young girldered remanded in goal custody, stay three months in that Cabar came over to the group of women Hearing was fixed for October dian capital, whence he will do aj Defendant attempted
and said: "Bombing planes again. 8 at 9.30 am. How boring! I think I'll go back also struggled with away, He the detective who was scratched in swimming.”
J
to run
by defendant on the arms, knees Most of the women talked and hands. The detective's shirt about ways and means of leaving was abo torn.
hanghai after about the first
Later, when a friend of the month of the occupation, but the by. defendant Permanent residents seemed quite
content.
detective passed
was arrested with the friend's assistance.
Regarded With Contempt,
Enquiries at the police station. revealed that defendant was a Mrs. Smith said: "One thing returned banisher and a member that did aggravate most of the of on illegal society, and had women was the manner, in which stolen the jacket, which he was Communist officials and soldiers wearing, from the ground door regarded ther with contempt and of 174 Portland Street that morning
totally ignored thega..
"When my husband and myself He was also ordered to be re-applied for exist vises, the Com deported.
munist official asked my husband to fill out iny "form" for me, and they only required me to sign the form and be fingerprinted.
BLUESTONE JOINS-
REID TRAVEL SERVICE
"However, the Communists, do believe that a woman is a likely
tour of Canada.
Refugees On Hazardous
Underground Worker Ocean Cruise
Sentenced For
Possessing Revolver
An Allied Underground worker during the war, who had done.good. work, was sentenced to a year's hard labour by Mr. A. D. Scholes at Central yesterday on a charge of passes. sion of a revolver and 17 rounds of ammuni- tion
Mr. Jack Reid, Managing smuggler. My, luggage was more Detective Sub-Inspector J: Howlett appeared for Director of Prid Travel Company thoroughly searched than
my
Lid, announced yesterday that husband's when we were going
Mr. Robert M. Bluestone Jr. for merly assistant Manager of Philip pine Airlines, has joined the Ageneves Sales Manager
سره مینه
on board, the. Leong. Ees, and a Communist woman searched my person thoroughly before I was allowed to leave.
the Police, and defendant, Li Si-ken was re- presented by Mr. P. C. Woo. Mr. Woo pleaded guilty on behalf of defendant.
Stockholm, September 26.
but they are known privately to be deeply concerned. Sinkiong is believed one of the major items before the Supreme Council over which Chiang Kai-shek presided in person in its current discus- sions.
The vanguard of Nationalisti troops beiny rent into Yunnan to reinforce regular army units there, has arrived from Kwei- chow, it was learned today.
A report sent here, from Tali, A former British landing craft overloaded with Baltic in West Yunnan, where General refugees, was believed on the Yu Kien-fen now. has his head. high scas today, determined to quarters, said that all districts in that region had been cleared of make the hazardous trans- Communists and Red sympathi- Atlantic cruise to Canada sers excepting Haking, Likiang, after refusing to stop for a Kienchwin and Nitu.
Swedish. coast guard cutter Prior to the recent decision of
which fired warning shots:
Governor Lu Han to actively sup-
The cu
was ordered to in-part the Central Government, tercept the ship Victory when it Communists bed flourished, par- The slipped out of Gothenburg har- ticularly in West Hunan, bour after the port authorities entire region was under the con- bad refused it clearance because trol of local Beds organised as they doubted. it would survive the "Communist Revolutionary
League" autumn gales in the Atlantic.
The Victory was built to carry!
:
This organisation worked opEC.
no more than 50 people but itly. and was mainly responsible nad 300 adults and 100 childr for the presence of typ avowed aboard. Supply of provisions wat Communiste on the Yunnan pro- vincial council-who were among said to be very small.
the dissidents "purged" after. Lai The cutter caught up with the Han and Chiang Kai-shek reach- ship four miles off the Wested their agreement at Chungking.| General Yu Kien-Ich, who had! DSI Howlett told the court defendant was born in Hong Kong Swedish coast, fired a blank shot and ordered the Victory to return
as a considerable experience Mr. Bluestone is well known in She said that she and her hus-that on. September 21, at 338 years ago...
I to port
field general in World War II is business circles. here. Birband had to publish in two-local pn a party of Police led by
Before the war he was a The captain of the refugee described as an expert in elimina- Bluestone was brought up in newspapers their intention of Detective-Inspector Gordan chant of good standing. He joined Shanghai. He joined the HKVDC st learing: Shanghai before their aided defendant's office on the allies Underground forces ship said he was only moving to ting dissident influences in areas the outbreak of war and was ext later interned as a prisoner of she added. If they used tha
Visa was Bnalised.
the 8th floor, East Asia Bank during the war and had done another Swedish port but continuinder his control, and acquaint- ed toward the open sea at high ances here predict he will move. Building
good work.
quickly and effectively against Espeed" war at Shamehaipo.!
the four West Hunan districts Op entering, the police prɔ:
The revolver, was hended to
It was said the navy boat was where there is same - requirement for the 1,400 duced warrant and faid that s
still some Red At the end of the war, he was passengers on the General search would be made of sun aser, the war he was so busy way without the risk of being dent and United Press.
of the him by the Japanese gendarme too small to block the Victory's influence. Our Own Correspon- with the Custodian of Extemy Pro- Gordon, then the local news office. Defendant, when perty, second-in-comstand to Cap-
rammed United Press. tain Firkin, Ister to Captain will make more than bandot the key of the safe to the that he forgot all about the arras In the safe 17 rounds of When defendant was question
dan: readily admitted that the
the baring
any revolver but all x a sudden the revolver came to his mind and be openly admitted it to the police and produced the revolver.
Edwards. After his" work in the £18,000 on these advertisements uition, were found -Defen- }ed by the police at first, he denied
offer of the Cotodian of Energy Property, he joined the staff of Kwonz Hip Lung Ship Yards, as manager.
He is a member of the Hong. Kang Jockey Club, Equine Sports Club, and Kowloon Football Club.
FISH PRICES
alone
Pilotless Ship
Rmmunition was his.
Asked if there was any other The British ship, & Leong kind of arms in the office, defect
which was to take fly, and.) dant. replied that he had none. Mrs. Smith to Hong Kong was Defendant was asked a second. descrted by Its pilot, at mid- time and said that he had none.
Bet
VALUATION OF TENEMENTS
WITNESSES TO ACCIDENT SOUGHT
A traffic accident occured: in
A search of defendant's office
A valuation of the tenements in Shantung Street in September 13 at about 12.10 pm. near Canton was made as a result of the mur the island of Hong Kong Apli Road in which Chinese woma
chau Keilet and Middle islands night the day it left Shithout search of the office would be made
When told that a thorough, sier of General Yang Chiel
"The police are quite satisfied and in Kowloon and New how was knocked down and received and the following day, without
Any persons who o witnessed piles, the ship ran into the mud afferent ad reduced it to the whatsoever, with the murder of April 1, 1959, shall be made bes the accident or who can give any
admitted that he had a that defendant had no connection form for the year commencing fatal injuries,
General Yang
Chich concluded tore January 31, 1950, or as our information should communicate The Leong Bee's Captain sight-eyes
police Following › kry the fresh fab. xversze
thereafter us may be, it was out- with the Traffic Office, Kowloon. pricci resided at the Hong Kong Fahla Nationalist warship the next When questioned by the Mr. Woo.
The revolver and the remunicially announced yesterday.
or with any other Folice Stations. Whale Karke Kersedr. Jawa, at the day, and ordered the ship's police, defendant said that at Morning sales yesterday:
pines full speed for more than
at
the end of the war, the revolver tion were ordered to be confis war banded to him by a Japan-cated. ese gendarme.. The gendarme told him to hand it to General Dal
First Quality Averner, an hour, and after freeing the
Price Frie
Cutty Catty:
Yellow Croaker
2.93
1.69 T
Sole (Small)
HAI TAH
ship from the mud, headed back to Shanghal
Two days later, the ship, tried
to make it again, but the Nation- War Record
137 135 alist warship was still waiting for,
1.2%
the Leong Bee, and fired warning 1204 chols, for the ship), to stop
Mulkew Daries Lloyd, of 25th KOWLOON SCOUTS REQUISITIONING
Regiment, RA; was charged before
Mr.
The Government Quartering The Life Seving examination of FX d'Almada at Kowloon
Kowloon Sebuts will be held, an Authority has requisitioned two yesterday with common jassault, in asking the court for mercy he pleaded guilty and was Thursday, September 29 at 6 pm. lots of vacant land at La Salle and to impose a fine, hir. Woo on ordered to be bound over lo at the Lai Chi Kok Swimming, Road, Kowloon,INKIL 2740)
and 2707) for the Military, | behalf of the defendant said that sum of $25; 19: 124 month Park,
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