GAS COMPANY STARTS EXPANSION SCHEME
Breaks are important
to newsmen
fold
Dr. Harry B. Wright, FRGS, physician, explorer, anthrapo- logist, photographer and re- porter.
Hong Kong Rotarins cat their weekly lunch yesterday of the happy breaks in life he has had over the last quarter century.
The speaker writes for "True" Magazine, New York, and is at prezent on a work assignment with his partner, Mr. George B. Jones.
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company has launched its first major post-war expansion programme to copp with current increasing domand, Mr. F. Tyndall, Acting Manager, told the "China Mail” yesterday. With the laying and replacement of larger moins, now under way on the Island and expected to be completed within this year, the volume of gas supply and pressure will be consider- ably increased.
"The consumption of gas in the. Colony is Increasing year by year. The Island" itself was supplied with as much as 213 million cuble feet in 1940, compared with the 1940 figure of 93 million," Mr. Tyndall declared.
Hearing of
Sun Fo case
THE CHINA MAIL, WED NESDAY, JULY 12, 1950.
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Noted author talks Korea situation
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The Korean war was the main topic discussed at an informal conference at the Jacobeon Room, Hong Kong Hotel, yesterday when Mr. John Gunther met membors of the local Prass. well-known American author, famous for his series of "Inside" books on world affairs, was Dragons Servicos Club rlancing class, 6-7 pm; box-
introduced by Mr. H. S. Hudson, Director of ing. ju-jitsu, 7 to 8.15 p.m.; Dim show "Days of Glory", the United States Information Service. 0.30 p.m. Buronenu YMCA Inaugural Ganerally non-committal in body knows. As a matter of amateur boxing tournament, answering queries on the fact your guess is as good as 0 p.m.
mine." Korean issue, Mr. Gunther re- Women's Section, European
Mr. Gunthor stated that Geu- YMCA Whit Morning 10 led to a query whether a
third world war would resuitoral MacArthur is a ano military from the current strife, "No-leader and an expect in amphi-
blous warfare. He believed th general will carry out the Unite Nations' instructions well.
However
A.m.
Sino-British Orchestra rehearsal St. John's Cathedral hall, 6.10 p.m. Legislative Council znecting, 2.30
p.in,
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Coming events
p.m.
TOMORROW
Hearing in paint theft case
would
the author said, it take time to send over nemour and consolidate UN mill- fary ncsitions in Kares.
The general consensus In Japan, Mr. Qunther declared, ir that the war will carry
on for several months. The Japanese people, ho added, America's decision to stop hos- support
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The consumption by some 3,500 The hearing of the Sun Fo coumors on the Island is ex-maintenance case resumed be He has
Just been to Mucao.pected to pass the 300 million tore Mr. Hin-shing Lo ut Cen-
Y's Men's Lunch, Roof Garden, which he described as a very inne's this year, he added. tral yesterday when, after Mr.
HK Hotol, 12.45 p.m. fing place, and about which, ha Work now underway covers M. A. da Silva had closed the NAAFI Club, Whist Drive.
Hearing of the case against sal, he is going in write a story, the following areas:
7.30 p.m. He will also be writing about, Inbinson Road - froin Puak case for the prosecution, Sir
Man-kara Lo started on his European YMCA, social swimm- Melville Walter Lloyd, storesties in Koret. Hong Kong.
Ford to the junction of Kotewall
ing classer
for members, assistant of HMS Tamar, and The places that have still to be Road, where the full-length lay-lengthy submission that his
Wang 8.30 p.m. to? p.m.
Kwoon-hing, naval covered in his present, Itinerary init of a new ske-inch cast-iron client had no case to answer. Union Jack Club, tombola 730 lorry driver, charged with the
Mr. Gunther said that it wor are Munlin, Indonesia (where he mala In place of the existing Str Man-kam will continuo
Sole Agents: of eight drums of opportune for America to check jarceny dy going to slay one month). three-inch main is in progress with his submission on Thurs-Nine Dragon Services Club,
the North Koreans. The UN oc- Government Slum, India, Buglided and Dama-and will be completed by the end day at 2.30 p.m.
paint, continued
LTD. tion to intervane would put DODWELL & COMPANY, of the year.
before Mr. James Wicks at halt to the spread of Communi Dr. Wright suld happy break
CHUNG TIN BUILDING, ICE HOUSE ST. Peak Rond-frem Garden Rond
The current war in Korea wili Kowloon yesterday. are very important to a man out to Douglas Apartments, where
Defendants worn alleged to be decided more by alr
TELEPHONE 20038 nctior locking for news and materini for | new six-inch cast-iron main is to
have stolen the paint, valued at than by the infantry, he said, a writis, and it is when this replace the existing throu-inch
$320, from the Kowloon Naval That the third world war has good fortune. or good luck, or muin und is expected to be com-1
Dockyard on July 4, that mysterious influence that pleted in about a month.
Revenue Omeer Lam Kan-hung already begun could be seen le the prevalling conflicts in Tnda- guards drunits fools and
giving evidence yesterday, hold china, Indonesia and Malaya. porters' meets that events Hong
that at about 10.10 am. on July where the local one
conflicts are to the are made and stories written.
his way on
Australion tertain
authorities
SCING.
social who's who.
Four years later he
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Wong Net Chong Hood-from
The summons against Dr. Sun Fo by Nancy Nve was for the maintenance of Lily Sun who, sha said, is the daughter of the former Premier of China.
Mr. M. A. da Silva is for Nancy Nye and Sir Man-cam Lo for Dr. Sun Fo.
Конк Football Club along Sun King-sum aling Tily Sur, Leighton Hill Road, Caroline Hill said in evidence that she is 14 Road, to the Junction of Tung Lo years of age and that she went Wan Road, where a new: 10-inch to Talwan from Shanghai betors cast-iron main will replace the coming to Hong Kong. existing six-inch main. Work in} expected to be completed by the end of 1950,
Post-war peak
She carried an identity card trom Taiwan.
Band Call broadcast, HK Women's International Club, whist drive for Servicemen, 7.30 p.01 Kowloon Rotary Club luncheon,
Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Women's Section, European YMCA, whist morning, 10
fum,
Urdon Jack Club, dance, & più. Nine Dragons Services Club,
tombola, 7.30 p.m.
4 he was
British and American Tobacco first cousing in nature. Quotin Company in Gloucester Road hom he did not identify by when he say a commercial lorry name,
Gunther and the issue has only turned the
******* {und a novel lorry parked in East-West cold war hot.
He started
celebrating
too early
road. He saw second defendant transferring drums at paint from
the naval lorry to the commercial
The author. who arrived here
lorry. He went up to the driver early this month from Japan, sale who said that he got the paint at the work of American oc- from the Kowloon Naval Deck-Buation in Japan in yard.
Witness went on that he then known, revealed his identity and asked
unwritten story"
he has
"the bast ever
incidentally the
worst
But the
Last year, he said, he was bs signed to the South Pacific to write up on the Polynesians, and a happy break he had at Suva, F13) caused him to be sent as representative, la aludy proposed
Lily Sun said that to her know- • Marthall Plan spending of £300,- King's Road-from Tung Lo ledge Sun Fo was her father. 406 on the French controlled s-Wan Road to North View Street. Shown a photographs of Sun Fo lands of Tulall. There he met where a new six-inch cast-iron Lily said she recognised the photo the native kint, and went about main is being laid and is expects that of her father Bun Fo. in the royal yacht for fire weeks, ed to be completed in about two Sho said that she (remembered to help him gather all the new months.
aceing the photo of her father he wanted about the Polynesians. Condult Hand-from the junc-when she was child. The photo Dr. Wright said he was dry tion of Robinson Itoad to thd was places on the dressing table
the driver whether he hid any report story. Not a word has been Shanghai in 1926 on a news hun junction of Po Shan Rand, wherd in her mother's bedroom.
Pleading that he had start-papers regarding the paint. aid about the good work of the for a magazine which publisheri
1 six-inch cast-Iron main will stories of Billet love among the replace the existing three-inch sacing Sun
She said that she remembereded to celebrate the Fourth of Wong the referred witness to American Government in Japan,"
Fo about 10 years July too early, S. W. Arnott, first defendant who said that he he added.
General MacArthur, he said main full length. Work is due to ago. When she saw her father, hoof Room 630 Peninsula Hotel, did not know anything about it. way in commence next month and is ex-carried her and embraced
While he was talking to urst de-was eager to pull out. Moscow where through a Shang-pected to be completed by the She said that she could remem-charged on three counts will fendant he saw that the painh Korean war has frustrated plans hai girl who used to work for end of the year. bim when he was in Shanghal he
her this very clearly as it was disorderly conduct and mail-end
raval lorry by two Chinese. Japanese. became acquainted with one of
the Arst time they were together. clous damage, was bound over was being novel back to tho for a separate treaty with the On the question of Talwan, he Witness said that he called for time she saw her in $150 for six months by Mr. The next the top 14 Communist leaders of
un father was at Repulse Bay, A W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon asalstance from Inspector ald that if the Communists at- Soviet Russin, The girl was the
whereupon With the completion of thin that the thore was a quarrel in yesterday.
second
defendant scired the island, they would be mat's mistresa. Only last year
him a asked hini, to:
conflict with Give
open large-scale
Americ a chanco, expansion pro- the house and she saw her father A letter he received
From thi
Arnott, who pleaded not guilty at the same time offering him cause the Seventh Fleet is now. inan telling Dr. Wright ba had
the Company will standing half way down the gromme.
under Presi- on July 3, was alleged to have $200 as tea money. Another in-cerning vigilance have reached its peak oporation staircase. read his latest story which he
since the Liberation. This will She aid that she wrote to her behaved in a disorderly maimer spector soon arrived who had de-ent Truman's ander gued con- ixed.
be maintained until circumst-father after the war in 1945. She at the Miramar Hotal and at the fendants taken to the station.
After further corroborative övid-currently with the Korean in-
tervention deels
decision. ances necessitate further expansent the letter together with her Tsimshatsui Police Station in the
examination certificate.
early morning of July 4 and ence by several witnesses hearing sion. "More mains are now en route Lily continued by saying that caused $30 dainage to a window was adjourned until this alter-n attack on Taiwan rather wa- from the United Kingdom. Our she had a reply from her father of a police van. plants are being touched up her but that she had lost the letter. and there to increase
Sir Mu-kam Lo then submitted Inspector J. Orem said that af 4 defendant on July Mr. Tyndall said.
at length that his client had no 2.30 am. Lack of pressure in certain case to answer. Sir Man-kam went to the Miramar Hotel and areas has alrendy been attended dealt with M. Silva's opening asked to use the telephone. He Yip Kwai-yau, 26-year-old to and service is now normal. of the gape and the zeroarks he was told that the hotel had a switchboard with connections to former employee of the Euslern The Island pipes sustained made.
the guest rooms only, whereupon Bonie Amusement Park, who had his damage during the war. conviction
defondant became abusive. for the
Par were cracked by bomba. Numer- Haw Mausions murder quashed onus street lamp posts, fed by the appeal was sentenced yesterday Company-with-gas-were-wrench-. to 12 years hard labour and 18ed off for Japanese use. strokes of the cane, on the al-were turned into iron by-products; ternative chargo of robbery with by the Japanese), violence.
The speaker was thanked by Professor A. R. Brown on behalf of the Club.
Sentenced on
other charge
In sentencing Yip the Senior Puisne Judge, Mr. T. J. Could caid this was a very grave crime, nol so much because of the na- ture of the robbery, but because occused was prepared to go to such depth of violence as to causa the death of one mau.
The luy comprised five men and two women.
Yip, in the witness box, denied
after
output,"
(They
PAVEMENT SLEEPERS
Sunday
noon.
Court Brevities
UA-
When the police were taking
Mr. W.A. Brought before him to the station Arnott broke Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday a window of the van and when
28-year-old A raid carried out by Detective he was at the station he was still a charge of murder, Kong Yin,
alias Kong Sung, abusive. The holes and cracks were loft: Sub-Inspector James Martin and
Arnott, who changed his former blacksmith residing at an unrepaired. As a result, mud and
bub in San Shop, his
numbered Squad-on Flying rain.
City
WILS remandoc dirt gol In
Many morning led to the appearance of not guilty plea to one lof guilty. pines were sillad.
127 men before Mr. J. Reynolds said: "I am very sorry. I started Kowloon
my celebration of July for three days This hus been one of the main at Central yesterday.
blud- Kong was accused of onely. I know I must have caused Mculties of the Company. Since Defendants all pleaded guilty some trouble and I know I am reming his partner, Chau Pul- the Liberation, the pipes have
Its a ca
a charge of obstruction by qulity but the trouble was not long, to death in a hut in Ma Tau been cleaned regularly.
and sleeping on the paviment Intentional and I was not fout Kok on Sunday morning. were fined $10 or four days im-that morning to do any
planned prisonment each.
destruction.” DSI Martin told the court that Arnott who was also ordered The unprecedented increase in owing to a lot of housebreaking to pay. $30 damages to the police disturbing publia tranquillity, the
around the big buildings in the
Mains ovartaxed
he took part in the robbery and population Ins Increased the
•
Summoned for making a arise
said the tulements he made were number of consumers. There are central Arca, the Flying Squad/added that he had been in the principal of the Yuet · Kuar |
made on the instruction of the approximately 6,500 In the Colony police.
3,500 of them on the Island.
The existing small mains have
and
raided the Central District arrested defendants.
Twenty-five other men arrest-
Mr. M. Heenan, Crown Counsel, who prosecuted; recalled the been extremely overlaxed in event of the robbery on the some arces, because of the "pulled in the Western District were morning of October 20 on an un- from numerous consuming cen- also fined $10 or four days im- One man who was umbered but in Tal Hang Road, tres. The replacement of these prisonment. near the Haw Par Mansions, in reo-inch mains by larger mains on ball was fined $20, which five men took part.
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PICTORIAL ART EXHIBIT
830 Nathan Dancing School Road, first floor, was fined $30 by Mr. Blair-Kore at Kowloon gas- terday.
Kwan Chi-keung, the prin- cipal, was alleged to have allow- ed 14 persons to dance to muste on the promniÇDE after midnight ex-on May 28.
4
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A Chinese pictorial art hibition will be held by Mr. Cheung Kok-ho, noted painter,
Pleading guilty to a charge of and his artist friend, Mr. Cheung Kwan-sut at the Sun Company, stealing 58 dozens of socks from 6th floor. Des Voeux Road, Cen-his follow-nmate at 4 Cheungsha tral, from July 12 to 19 from 10 Street, Tang Yue-ling, 21-year- was sentenced old unemployed, a.m. to 6 pm, dally.
Since his exhibition la Hong to two months. Imprisonment by Ing made to increase production.tered foreign aircraft, have, not Kong three years ago, Mr. Mr. F.X. d'Almada at Kowloon
Cheung has devoted his time to yesterday.
the Compony resumed to Febru- Hong Kong Airways' plans to
operate ragular services
to
ary, 1946.
Certain Improvements are, be- Manila, temporarily using char,
The Company's Installation
on the Mainland at Jordan materialised because of objec Road has been ranging smooth-tions by the Philippine the study ly mera - or loss on pre-war thorities.
of ancient pictorial
D
styles batween the period of Sui Eighteen months' hard labou baule. The Plpes hava noi This was mentioned in the 1880-813. A.D.) and Northern was 169 senteste mistet out to suffered damage and were able June report of the Department of Aung (1187-1280 AD) including Chu Muk, aged 32, by Mr. Blair- North- Kerr at Kavipon yesterday on to carry, on the fasting service Civil Aviation. The nature of the wall paintings
Western provinces.
house Immediately after the Company objections was not disclosed. resumedį work
The report showed that during A number of his exhibits re-charges of Irceny nad June, 202: aircraft and 3,280 pas-
this sch
Seasonal tranda
king w: Jones' prosecuting
That when defendant was | Bengers, loft: Kaj: Taki incomings, pengol of style and
Another type of his work, in-caught at Hu Tuan Ling, he ad- cludes landscapes of weichow,mitted that he had. Broken, inte Bachten, and Kwangal
a house in Wong Tai Sin Street and 'stolu various articles includ- Ing two.liva davis. -
aircraft and ale passengeta tolal” No major job has been done led 201 and 2290, respectively?
Thirteen tons of mall, and 142 hitherto on the, Mainland, Small
tons of freight were carried. improvements have however, been carried out from time to Locally, there were 804 fights
mainly for training and test púr time.
Consumption varies during the poses. sentons. In the summer months the consumption in Kowloon, re- quiries a minimum of 800 tons of coal a month and on the faland 1,000 tons.
In winter, the Irland's) con- sumption requires al much, an
3,000 tons of col
Probable total consumption this year will be as high as 600 mile lion cuble Ipet-the puple #laco 1846.
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300 mill
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ARPEAL REJECTED
The Full Court of Abpeal, yes- Pài Đau disk: $.Ch 96t: [farday rejected the application for (85,7%, Bláap' $96 Jfr 4. Brw leave to apponl; by No:Shan-sum #Mru|21|2|liboond Chau Hung-sang, kitas Chan seura. 98, 13h M. Hung-wong painst conviction for monday of Chess blanchun, detective, on July 9 last year Tharjun Koine Ciropstandi Mr.
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"The war in Korea has made
likely now," Mr. Gunther addet
Mr. Gunther has been gather- ing material for book on Javan. He will write an article on Hone Kong for Look Magazine, which bas assigned him to do a series ef articles on the Far East,
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