Opening of Assizes:
CALL FOR BARRISTERS MADE BY CHIEF JUSTICE
Reminders
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The wish that more of the Colony's young men would become barristers of the Court here, was ex- pressed by the Chief Justico, Sir Lestic Gibson, at the Supreme Court in the year's opening of the Assixos yesterday.
Sir Leslie, addressing guests and members of the Bar and legal profession of the Colony, said there were few ways in which young men could better qualify themselves to take an important part in the future of the Colony.
been The Chief Justice, speaking partment, Legislation bas on the
in enacted to free the Registrar from Criminal Sessions
never have work which should been his and to bring his position
the past year, said there have been fewer cases and this, he
much more into line with that of remarked, may be taken to in the Masters of the High Court in dicate mome falling off in st1)~ | England. Until this legislation was Cousine.
enacted, many quite formal mat- forinters came before the Judges which "Robbery in its variou
demanding clearly could and should have ach the offence of money with menaces continue to been dealt with by the Registrar be the primes presenting the most und the process of transferring to the Registru powers which are " be added! serious problem,"
The eyestionstes
yesterday be properly his is continuing.
The last
adininistrative mat- service at St. John's gan with B Ballestrul, where The Very Heter is the Law Reports. To law- yers, It is of great importance
Ston
colours by Mr. Yer Hon. Hotel vernd AP Ruse, Deats of Hong but judgments given on points of
Kour delivered the sermon.
Dron Hose declared that one of se Hong Kong's most serious troubles today
from the failure to แ
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If the universe The procession from the Chure falt inte the Cathedral was headre by the Chor This was followed by Mr Justice Gould. Puise Judge,
Mr Justice Wil Hams, Senar
Senior Puise Judge, Mi C. d'Almata e Caster, Supreine Court Registrar, Mr. 11 JM Vant- hail, tend Bailiff, Sir Leslie Gith
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1950.
Taking orders
from Peking
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Eight organisations of the Nationalist Government of China have accepted Instruc- tiena from Mr. Chou En-ini, Premier and Foreign Miniator of the new Communist Poo. ple's Central Government.
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The pre-Communiat Kung Pao" said the organlua - tions are the Bank of China, the Bank of Communications, the Farmers' Bank, the Con. trat Trust, the Chinese Postal Remittances and Bavings Bonk, the {wo Kwangtung and Kwangst provinolat banka, and the Ministry of Com munications Bureau.
Mr. Chou
in- En al had structed them to remain al their posts and to safeguard the property and other assets pending further orders and the omolal take over.
Reliable banking BOUTCCS atated yesterday that certain foreign
banks HAVO
frozen
Na accounts of certain tionalit Government or. ganisations ponding clasifica. tion of their status as a re
the
Cult of B-ton's "ecognition of the new Chinese regime.
PICKPOCKET GETS TWO YEARS
Races A pickpocket at the
sentenced la Was
two years
Fire-prevention campaign starts
The Hong Kong Fire Brigade Department launched
a fire-prevention campaign yesterday. Squatter encampments-most vulnerable spots for disastrous fires-were visited by anti-fire squads.
by
The first squatter camps Preventive measures he added visited yesterday were those at should be taken. Drums of water, North Point.
earth, should be pre- A Medical De-sand or partment radio van was used in tho tour.
pared to deal with outbreaks by, smothering the fores Al the start Large axes should also bo on hand to make fire breaks by demolishing hufs in the path of the fire.
Station Officer S. H. Chu, ne- companied by a number of assis- tanis, advised the squatters on fire prevention measures over A portable amlifying system. Loud He also stressed, co-operation in speakers were set up on the rools | dealing with fire outbreaks. of the huts,
He explained fire hazards, the causes of fire, what,nicabures to adopt to mkulmise an outbreak and what steps to take to sale- guard property.
To Impress the squatters the danger of fire, he told them of the disastrous outbreaks at Po Hung Fong. Hollywood Rond, South Lane, Costie Peak and the recent Kowloon City fire.
На warned them against placing open chattien near hutz and against allowing firewood and chattlew to burn at night, A sparks blown by the wind to wood shavings or dry twige may set off a big fire.
Cigarette onds
He also warned them against į leaving kerosene lamps or cand-
burning during jes
the night when not needed as the lampa
should be available with minimum of delay. When the year opened, no reports of any cases
since the re-occupatio decided were available and it has imposed heavy task on the Editor of the Rong Kong Law Reports to re- store the situation. Arrears have been eight up and the 1940 Re-hard labour by Mr. Blu-shing and candles may be overturned ports should be available within La at Central vesterday.
by dog or rat. Discarding of The prevalence of the offence, lighted cigarette ends and allow the next few months.
Mr Ha-shing Lo said, made ting children to play with matches necessary for the Court to take are also are hazardia, the matter seriously
Other hazards, he said, are the Defendant, Cheong Ming, nged į burning of joss sticks, fire eraç-~ 30 was said to have opened the kers, celluloid toys near open fires, purse of a lady at the Races and storage of infiammable Robin, extracted $30
Kerosene, petrol, fire crackers, The offence was committed on methylated
and spirit, paint the curd day of the Races
Falling off in serious
crime
"And now as to the actual lti- At the Ses- gation of the year sions, there have been fewer cauen
Afte the service, the group proceeded to the Supreme Court
Among these present in Court, this may be taken to indicate apart from the legal profession, some falling off in serious crime the General oneer com-Robbery in its various forms and 19. the offence of demanding money nanning-in-4*}urf. General Su
with merces continue to be the Returt Munkevich,
Ferimes presenting the must serious Mis L. N Brown medure wa
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When it comes to civil felt, Al Connexiore and Mrs [problem Davies. Deno and Max Hose, MI JR Galla. KC, the Attanes General and Mrs. Crittin, M.
articl ME Strickland, Lady Gib Son Mrs E H. Willans,
Mis TF Gould, and others,
Sir Leslie in this speech said.
CJ's Speech
"Before the pleas are taken at this Sossion, I wish to make a
WAN Wold by the Senior few remarks on the administra Puisne Judge. Ma Justice Wition of Justice during the year luun, at the Clumiand Sessiona 1949. yesterday.
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"I shall begin by referring to a few of the administrative changes rele
The prisoner, Chai Ngan, Aliun Chel Toskou, pleaded guilty to robbery with aggravation, ex- plaining in tigalion that he had or been asked by
to take part in the robbery,
Mr. A. Horton, Crown Counsel, conducted the prosecution assisted |, WH by Detective Sub-Inspector Hos | M borta.
the The victims of
robbery. which took place on November
two others, who house in 1heung Shui.
They were interrupted by two the profession and the public who men who entered the house have attended that court will no
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work, there has been a consider- able in tune in the volume of Litigation
"In the Oelgitusi Jurisdiclions of this
703 weilons were brought in 1949 against 452 In
Difficult
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decision
for Mr. Truman
Washington, January 17.
1948 These Agures are the justi-A hydrogen super-bomb may blast open the inter- national deadlock over world atomic controls. Whether it will produce an agrooment and thus promote chances of peace remains to be
fleation for the appointment of a third Supreme Court Judge, bul they do not inelicate a problem. Arrears are virtually the irreduct- ble minimum.
"When it comes to less segİ- crimes which ous crime-the come before the magistrates the figures are rather stagger
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by
bombs of the kind made the United States and presum ably by Rusia produan such So do the sun temperatures
and stars.
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The
aquatters were advised to form fire squads, get to know where the nearest telephone is and the number of, the Fire Brigade ala- Lione He also advised them to organise some kind of general alarm to avoid being trappert by an outbreak.
The campaign will continue during the Werk when other
qualter arces will be visited.
SI Bodie leaving HK soon
the
Sub-Inspector Kenneih Farmer Bodie, popular mem- ber of Hong Kong's Police Force, is leaving for United Kingdom on Saturday by the ss. Carthage on seven months leave with his family in Dundee.
Inspector Bodic's wife and three-year-old son preceded him to Scotland last June.
Inspector Bodie, one of the prosecuting officers at the Kow. loon Magistrney, joined the Hong Kong Police Force in 1938.
and
Stationed at Le Wu at the out- break of the Pacific War, Me. Boile withdrew his men Jained in the lighting al Wanchai. He was later intetned at Stanley where he helped to organise en- tertainment activities for the in- ternees,
Banishees get
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One of the most notable cases in which he took charge
in- vestigation was the Yu Lok Lano shooting affair In February, 1948. During the shooting, between a group of bandits and the police, But some officials and others Other officinis, however, be-
Inspector Jack Dempsey and De- Jure hoping that President Tru-lieve that if Rusain knows how
fecitve Sergeant Wong Fook wero Rh man, before he decides whether to make a hydrogen bomb
wounded, while a bandit was kill- will go ahend und to put the United States into Selentists for years have known
make
ed. Another bandit, who was shot, "T 1849 in Hong Kong, 49,570
the super-bomb business, will how to write on paper,
later got seven years. nuclear adults and 30.057 Juveniles ware
tapping The year saw the appointment convicted before the Magistrates, make another attempt to end reactions involved
Another case in which Mr. [American-Russian atom 43.312 adults and the
enerky locked in the
heart of Bodle took
whee he part was third Judge of this Court and in Kownon,
President Truman hydrogen and other light stoms.assisted Mr. A. A. Shaw, Asia- the construction of the new Court 11.336 Juveniles were convicted. bomb ruce.
number of persons Is expected to decide in the They are "thermonuclear" rene-
tant Superintendent
Police, ok which is now the Chief Justice's The total
near future whether to recom- tions requiring temperatures In
now attached to the Anti-Corrup- wart The teed in a thud Judge charged before the magistrates in 1949 in Hong Kong and Kowloon
mend an all out effort to con-
millions of degrees.
tion Branch, in the investigation shown in pre- |!!* had been clearly
>> against
of the Wing On Godown Are reeding years and has been con together was 146,712
133.001 m 1948. I do not today theoretical possibility to practi- vert the hydrogen bomb from
during which 170 people lost their firmest during the year 1949.
to analyse the rensons
ilves. ***
Court is A snall propose
1 He smalmness for these figures but I do desire (cal fact,
The Atomic Energy Commle- 1 Inst, were a man, his wife and court but
There have been eritisirs from įsion and the State and Defence were in their must be set the advantage that to make one point.
is nii sorulationet ned members of
all studying issue. including various quarters of the work of Departments
But hydrogen reaction em- the magistrates and some at least phases of the have been honest criticisms. But the super-bomb's probable offest the pretext that they were from doubl share with the Judge the
world peace.
ployed by them is slow, taking T I do not think the crition the Registration offer, and
that the compromise were | view that
Pesident
Truman shid be millions of years to complete. possibly realise either the enor- taking a runasia. The intruders favouralde
wants world peace more than mous burden of work which is
Commis- were followed by a turd man
The Atomic Energy "There is possibility that the imposed on the magistrates, the anything else end us an official
At the year's first Sessions The three pulled out pistols, Second Court
today,
aton has been doing research in source expressed it Justices of the Peace and their and tak the occupants Het toenaditioned in the distant future-staff or the devotion to the public people want peace more than the reactions of light atoms, and yesterday morning, Mr. Jus-
seleniisto bave suid point has move. Money and jewellery valued partly because of the advantages
tice Williams, Senior Pulsne dilemma
where The President's
I been reached at over $2,000 taken.
hydrogen could start. Judge, sentenced four life Shortly after the incident, police of air-conditioning in itself and service and the efficiency which they want another bomb.
boduse it would partly
enable,
complicated by the fact that the bomb "engineering" extra office accommodation to be "conclude by expressing the theory of the hydrogen bomb is instead of splitting heavy ele-banishees to hard labour.
as well known to Soviet sciencements like uranium
plu- Pleading gulity to breach of a A provided at the expense of the wish that more young men of this
as to American. It la reasoned tonium the new bomb would li-deportation order, Tam Wai-ho. Colony should become barristers
that size of the Court.
since Russla
energy by possesses berate have often wonderi
combining alins Lam Chuen, who was found why of this Court, and in fact I can-
The energy re- here on December 8 last after other Colonies, particularly those not refrain from expressing sur- jatole #ission explosives she also light elements.
possesses means to make a by-lease per atom would be much having been deported, explained in the tropies, have not reallsed prisc that they do not more often
bo a greater than it is in atomic as that he There are drogen bomb.
had returned to advantages of air-take up this career. the obvious the obvious
Ho Kong. could
to ions and might, in the words of bootblack in Hong conditioning in the courts,
That brings officials back As for few ways in which they
give could not find a living in Canton. as I know,
Chlet better qualify themselves to take world controls and the stalemate the official Smyth report, the present
Tam, who had had previous Justice's Court of Hong Kong is an important part in the future between Russia and the West in civilisation the means "to commit
convictions here, was glvon 10 the only Court In the Colonial of this Colony and, if this is not the United Nations. If effective suicide at will,”
achieved, be
The public speculation
that months. Empire which is fully air-condl- enough, the average rewards are controls cannot
hydrogen bomb project Chan Ming, allan Choung Kan- tioned.
higher beyond all comparison observers here have said, Presl the
cost would
05 much 19 theto, another than those of young men who join dent Truman would smmend that $2,000,000,000 it took to make the three years, Yuen Fat, allas Yuen accused, was given no choice but to recommend the profession in England."
the United States go ahead and first atomte fission bamb has Yu-lam, charged with a similar add to its arsenal
most been discounted by officials, Ond offence, was given a similar sen- powerful weapon yet conceived, source called such a speculation tence.
In Chicago today, Methodist a great exaggeration. No octal A fourth man, Cheung. Hing, aight looks unimportant but is AUTOMATIC PISTOL Bishop G. Bromley Oxnar and would talk on record about the allas Ng Ko, who is at prezent In fact of great importance le the
Russia and the United States hydrogen bomb,
serving a two-year term, was The source said the subject is given a consecutive 18-month Can a can cool quickly uan of a wire-recorder to record
Fan Kim-ping, aged 32, of should talk It over" before com- verbatim the summing-up of
course not yet ripe but may become so sentence,
Ho Judges at the
at the Acelone and their the Tung Wah Hospital Refugee mitting themselves to a
All the prisoners had a recpra Now that Barclay's comes in cans, it takes less time for committal pro- which might mean the "suicide" scon for public discussion. Camp, faced oral judgments.
of civilization, He was echoing added, "We are under an in-of previous convictions. "The importance of this innova ceedings at Central yesterday the hope of some oficinis in the junction to say nothing now." Mr. A. Houton, Crown Counsel, cooling. The instant you plunge the can in ice, the
* United Press. tion is this, that unless summings- on a charge of possessing an
Truman Administration. up arid oral judgments are re-automatic pistol and 20 rounda
beer inside begins to chill. A minute or so later, and conted verbatim, there may be of ammunition without a denial of Justice to persona who licence.
you've a drink as cool as a mountain stream. What a
nighted several men at a railway bridge, and told them in stop this, the new ren WHY
the police
After
B search of the area, found two loaded revolvers,
The accused was arrested on
December 28, He was in posses słon of a letter which showed he had just come to Rong Kong.
The revolvers wore ordered to be consented.
KOREAN FINED
AT CENTRAL
A'fine of $50 was imposed at Contral yesterday on a Korean charged with breach of the Immigration regulations.
Defendant, Park Sang-hi, allas Fedor Ivanovich Pat, alios Pooh Shang-shi, could only speak Rus- sian and a Police Inspector inter- preted.
"
Tenancy Tribunals
"Another Improvement made during the year which at firati
enables them to deal with it at all.
POSSESSION OF
It was stated by the prosecution that defendant had not valid per- mission, being an alien, to enter the Colony. Nor did he give the
desire to appeal because they The prosecution, stated that a necessary particulars required by must base their appeal on what police party, on information, went the Immigration Department of the Judge said and, in the cams off to the hospital and saw defendant aliens entering the Colony, Defen dant pleaded guilty, adding that a summing-up particularly, it may sitting on a mat. After a search, bo vital to know the precise a briefcase was found between he was not familiar with the re- gulations of the Colony. This ples words. A shorthand note la an al- the mate. In the briefcase, the was accepted by the prosecuting ternative, but it is an expensive gun 'and bullets were found.
accurate one,
and the Mr. Forrest, for the Police, told officer who told the magistrate and less accurate
number
that defendent that the Police were not 'pressing
of shorthand writers
asked if he had the key to the which defendant Are would suffice:
summing-up or judgment deliver- briefcase to
“for un expulsion order and that a can toko down rollably a to the court
VEHICULAR D FERRY CHARGED
WDS
ed at ordinary speed is very small, said "no". A search of his person When I opened the January (revealed a bundle of keys one of tho briefcase 10 Sessions last year, I voiced my which fitted concern at the heavy arrears of which the gun was found. Hear the Tonancy Tribunals. It is im- ing is continuing. perative, if these Tribunals are to The Hong Kong-Youmoti Ferry succeed in their purpose, that they
should give speedy
-Justice and
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Mr. FH. Lowby le appearing one time two were necessary firm, pleaded not gulity to all the for the defence; Mr. B. H. and under this Hystem excellent chargen and the eneo was ad Brooks of the Fire Department work has been done and spoody journed till this moming to fix I conducting the prosecution: justice in now available à a date,
M The "care was adjourned until The next change is the re-br. The summonses are in connec= February 10,
gablestion of the Registrar'e de tion with alleged gvasion of tax.
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