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MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1951.
Mayor Had A Gaff |Dapper_Communist Delegate
To Catch Salmon
London, Dec. 23.
Mayor, magistrate, and grocer, 42-year-old Alderman John Hywell Owen was caught on the bank of the Ystryd salmon river, in North Wales, "with a light and a gaff," and afterwards he asked that proceedings be taken against him.
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endus cepted for me p Trafi Natur derkanter was Caught by the baits" od Mr
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the over back wen 10 11 female sabem contat Spawn worth £15 to 4:20.”
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Hamed in hospital by their 10- yem-uld sister Evelyn Rosemary Wotward
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She was admitted for olaser va-
Now the waly elud remaining. at home with the mother, M... Evelyn Woodward, 40), of Sydnes. street. Weymouth, is Noelta. She sadis suspected of having ap
The
five children in the Way- math and District Hospital are in ane row af beds
They were all making progress"
First of the bruthers esters be undergo the operation. was six-year-old Peggy
She falowed by her Twin sister. !
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and
Seven a then
the
Robert. 12:
Brethren Plymouth George-street Hall, Weymouth, prayed for the family
evidener His solicitor brother pleveled
legislation harrtened 1
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Owen "How we are dealing with an adventurine escapade ní a jako * who has never eaten or sold single river salmon in his life. Fourteen er 15
band yenry work has been tarnished "
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had been
culminating ሆነ 171 anonymous letter amplying that He matter was to be bushed up. mayor wishes to lake petushimer of
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Court Like
An Eisteddfod
layo
London, Dec. 23.
A bucking trumpeter in the market plac of Tarot, Clan diterrupted the business Morris's of Judge O Temple County
Cour! The name trumpeter had de- judgment only a month so the judge said: "It is ago, beccaming like an Eisteddfod." And he told a bailiff: "Ask him to go away. Wish him a Merry Christmas from me, and tell him to enthe back in the New Year."
Mrs Woodward said The doctors told me they hact decidesi ret lo perute on Host – mary but to keep her in hospital for the time
being All ny chakirem arı comfortable CHEV prayers have been answered."
Doctors regard the cuses as code abracunal
Crew "Listened’
To Herring
London, Dec. 23 Gouge Forman. skipper of
the steam drifter Star of Bethle- hen, from Peterhead, Scotland, was a Gre Yarmouth when
ie ¥*3a $upf°y££*}}cv} with the Prunier Trophy for making the biggest single catch of herring this
SCASOIL.
Dapperly clad from toe to top, flamboyant holder julting from his lips, North Korean chief delegate, General Nam H fastidiously slaps glove against hand as he leaves with a staff officer after a recent truce meeting at Pan Mun Jom.-Reuterphoto.
Wife
Slashed In Convict
Court By
London, Dec. 23.
Robert Blackshaw was listening to his wife giving evidence supporting her petition for divorce when he leaped from his seat and slashed at her with a razor blade embedded in a piece of wood. Locks of her hair fell on the was told that her case would reporters' table.
proceed when her barband bad purged his contempt.
She
was taken to hospital, where he; sculp was sulched.
Twenty-year-old May Black- shaw, mother of two children, run screaming from the witness
box
George and is erew recently caught 360.000 herring in one trip off Great Yarmouth They used echo-sounding apparatus to evate the lish and in recog- nition of their feat the raptain ar::l crew are to be given one to attack Mrs Blackshaw, say- of The
echo-sounders) made by the same factory at ng "You are to blame for al!
was
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Barkingside. The runner up
S Catchpole, Skipper the drifter Thrifty of Lowestoft,
£25 prize. He received a
The Prunier Trophy, which as in the form of a herring. meide of marble from the Iste of Purbeck, Dorset, was given by Madame Simone Prumer to encourage the British industry.
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Across the court two of her friends were scuffling with a third woman who tried
women
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Mail Notices
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Judge Harold Rhodes, presid- ing at Manchester Divorce Court. told two warders who Latest times of porting at had brought
G.P.0 Blackshaw from
And HI Kowloon Post O Mee: registered articles дай Strangeways Gact "Arrest
parcel malls close
hour that man.
earlier than the ordinary mall times shown below:
Christmas Arrangements. On Sunday, December 23 and Tues- day, December 25, there will be one general delivery commen- eing 10 m. There will be no delivery on Wednesday, 26.
The warders and a court usher grabbed him and held krim while the judge ordered him de be committed to gaol for contempt.
And to the
women,
Judge
Rhodes said "If there is any more noise from you, I will commit you all to prison for contempt.
CONTEMPT
Mr N. B. Birrell, Mrs Black- shaw's counsel, told the judge that her husband was already serving a bentence of three years, Judge Rhodes: "Then he wili serve indefinitely until it is considered he has purged his contempt."
Blackshaw would be brought to court in close custody
next time. And a charge might be preferred against him "on an- other matter."
On December 25 and 20 au public offices will be closed
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of
Mrs Blackshaw, who petitioning on the grounds her husband's alleged cruelty,
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Principal Tenants
Sir.Your leading article of
the 200 instant.
under the
Caption "Proposed Rent 35
and nost
appears very unbiased musenable Tr kation you inflet
pal tenants falls but Title
short
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Ghost Raider Hid Jewels After Killing Policeman
London, Dec. 23.
A cracksman who was never caught as a thief was sentenced to death for killing a police officer. He admitted being a "ghost raider,” but feel confident that your par denied to the end being a murderer.
1a.com of this would somehow
Delp *ome principal tenant,
who are also labouring under
- nants and land:erds.
Belly in so much
Gver ment forge's
ANT
the tat
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at meditely after the many principal ienanls we're given dilapidated war damaged Pauses for which they were told Flint of
They wished
10 have they had to pay for the seonstruction themselves. Many houses or flats have cost prin- lehants amounts of over
pern
HK$10,000
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Detective Inspector Duncan Alexander Fraser was killed by a revolver-shot as he kept watch at night on Alfred Moore's farm at Kirkheaton, Huddersfield.
was
on
Police Constable Arthur Jag-
who
with ger,
hin watch, was niso shot and died late-but not before, the Jury identified Moore
lave
wus
for reconstruction,
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and many
of these principe. Icants had to raise money from this purpose by borrowing at a tukit monthly rate of interest. It only stands to reason
ason that uch cases the principal tensat #143#!
subiet his room unless at a higher rate in ord.
buse hunsch en recon- expenses. Take for stance in the cusp of a
sub. terant, in order 10 obtain
om. was literary or his knees I begging for a temporary
struction
takes tat
short M tenancy later on te
the advantage
Tribunals if
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brooked
fact fully are abrad for over eight months, and because of that he carries on in the premises say ing he is unable to find alterna- LIVE accommodation and must
on with his
temporary sub-tenancy. Some principal tenants are reluctant to go to court or to awall eight to ten months for case to be settled. clrcumstances and under the allow the temporary sub-tenant to linger on1. An instance f this case is when such a tem-
sub-tenant
premises
porary
leave
心
aboui
of
he raises different excuses hav.ng over-paid and insista compensation for quitting, cise demands that he substitutes someone else in his place who
ог
would pay him compensation money for guitting
the
case where he was told that his tenancy Wis
and temporary that he had to pay
over and above the actual value of the room because of reconstruction reimbursement. It is a
is a reflection
on his character when he has the brazen cheek of making such preposterous demand.
Here is another case where 3 principal tenant had to leave the Colony for ten months and had made contracts with tem- porary sub-tenants for len months and no further. Despite the fact that their contracts stipulate, the
temporary sub- Lrnante waive all rights Landlord Tenants and
Sub- tenants
that the Ordinances, rooms would have to be return• exi immediately after the expiration of the contract.
The
to
principal lenant notices that from the improvements made to the rooms and high expenses incurred, it would appear thal
these temporary sub-tenants, who although walving all rights to the privileges of the Ordin- ances appear that they also intend to dishonour their con- tracts and to linger as long as possible,
They
are fully aware of the fact that tribunal cases lake from eight to ten months to come to effect,
Idet
the
Government white taking into consideration the Landlord's plight as well as that of sub-tenants
must
not be 50 wholly oblivious of the crass humbug the principal tenants suffer from their temporary sub-tenants, and for this mat- ter special judges should sit at night
the better the larger number |
in order to climinate the
procrastination of the de- cision and to justify the case; and whether a temporary sub- tenant comes to any
hoodlum
ideas to victimise his princi- pal tenants by entering under false presences, is a well a matter for the attention of the Criminal Investigallon De- purtment of the Hongkong
Police.
case
It the
where a tem← porary sub-tenant takes a room for a specified period and waly- ing all privileges extended by inferable any Ordinances, It that while it is time for them to be evicted, no
court casey will be necessary!",
· Your sludy “and comments of
this correspondence will, or hope, be appreciated by 'quite ⚫ number of principak tenants, "QUAD ERAT DEMONSTRATUM"
INTELLIGENCE TEST BULUTION
told, be as the man with the gus
After he shouting police sur- rounded Moore's house.
where
he lived with his wife and four children.
ages two to ten. STAMPS BURNED
In a wall cavity they found the ghost raider's lol-mostly stolen jewellery There were also 157 kevs--skeleton and Yale.
And, hidden
other Dway in pinces, WAS more loot-stil
nly Jewellery, Moore
admitted burning tolen stamps, dollars and Scol- before the voller tish pounds arrived.
He said he did that when he was awakened from sleep by the sound of police whistles.
But he denied having been out that night, except once when, he said he went 10 check his poultry.
And he denied having the sort of gun that killed the policeman weapon has never been
-the
found
NAME QUERY During two hours and 25 minutes in The witness-box Moore
answered many ques tions by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. K. Hinchcliffe, like this:
According to you, it was some other man who shot Pollee Con- stable Jagger, and then tired four shots at Inspector Fraser? It must have been some other
This other man must have been walking In the direction of your farm-I could not say.
man
This other man answered to the name of Moore? I could not say.
Do you know anyone living in the district whose Moore?--No, sir.
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name
time
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Living Language
Why we say Canopy.
The Greek word for mosquito was "konops”, and a "konopeon" wus a bed with curtains to pro- tect it from mosquitoes. Our own word "canopy" kas come gradually to describe something more formal than a mosquito- curtain, and means covering of stale over a throne or couch.
When Jet Pilots Are
Downstairs
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London, Dec. 23. The trouble with jet pilots, according to Air-Marshal Mc- who said that he Neece Foster,
has probably flown more miles with these intrepid young men than any other senior officer in the R.A.F., is this:-
When they fly eight miles high at 400-or-more
an hour miles through colder-than-freezing air, they have their fellows' lives
in their handu and have to be Lar beyond their responsible
land there is a and often they
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From The Files
100 Years
We
Ago
In ommitted,
Our inst issue, to acknowledge a com- munteniion from "S": but ате
quite at a loss to know who is the writer, and so decline its publication "It is reported" ១ អន Our
correspondent, who writes is Editor-that the
coast
during the
U.S.S. Marion" is about to sail on a cruise to survey the cast
of Formosa.
what, strength of the north-east monsoon, and before the Christmas holidays are over! "We hoaxing surely.) have no doubt but that her
enterprising commander, with the assistance of his able officers, will furnish our coasting vessels with correct churt of So Jittle known at
that coast,
of
a
present. We agree with "g" that
from what we have HEARD of Captain Glendy and his officers, they CAN efficiently execute such a
This service difficult and arduous duty we are quite sure (from what we know
the
and Captain Officers) will be performed by them with that promptness and dispatch for which the Ameri- cans have been so long noted, and we wish all success in their undertaking. So we will wish them
and as "S" per- haps knows the Captain and Offects beiter han we do, he 19 ne doubt, fully certifled of the
and promptness
dispatch which he refers: but as such promptness
and dispatch are none of our business
we must decline
success
to
to
passing ally opinion regarding them. What follows relating the U.S.S. "Ply- mouth" we omit notice of. We shall be glad to receive any other communication from "S" but
only will
fis promise publication
ation on condition that he writes in the style episolary. Our Chinese Correspondents are the only parties to whom we accord the
in out privilege columns of using the expression WE; but the of
use of speech is excusable in a Chinese, whose clumsy language Elves 1-Thou You-We-You- They, and every other personal pronoun, only under of expression,
such mode
one
Ship Abandoned
form
сол-
Captain Low of the N.K. "Palmer" repor's that in Moore's hur-caped wife was
Lak 19. 48 N', Long not in court when sentence was
159. 10 East, he came up with passed, though she sat through years. So
When the evidence.
they
the American ship "Austerlitz" He did not call her to give great reaction
of Boston from San Francisco bound to Calcutta in ballast evidence. Neither did the pro- are not as responsible as other
totally dismusted, bends much secution call on his ten-year-old people.
All this came up at
torn Oxford
and chain plate botta who gave daughter Patricis, evidence before
the magistrate when one of these pilots, Flight- drawn out. Capt. Low hove too
Lieutenant Francis Kenneth in a lower court.
and stayed by the "Austerlitz" It was the first
from 2 p.m. until 4 Mr Mason, stationed at West Mall-
a.m. of the the
Was Justice Pearson had passed the ing. Kent,
fined £40 on
following day, when, on sideration of the great distance death sentence. After placing three motoring summonses. the black cap on his bead, he
Mason is 23. It was alleged from any port (2,500 miles from Manila and the little prospect left the
torgot for that for his Bentley car-which court and
of being able mally to discharge the jury.
ly six years older than he is he
make “forged" a certificate of insur-
anchorage,
I was determined other words
that the Austerlitz" should ance, lu
be note, by rubbing the date off.
abandoned and she was aban- His counsel raised a point that will intrigue all motorists-that of a cover note is not certificate of insurance, This was over. ruled, and he asked the magis- N.. trates to state a case.
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DOŽA, FAN ÁTY NEA BETONÓW, MO. T. II. BEG, UL. 1, PAT: DÀY.
lam a
The boss bhauss me out at the last minute to buy his wifs the ulme old mitte Falwaya ploks them up at the
to
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coned accordingly. Captain and Mrs Daychild, and the whole of the crew of the "Austerlitz", safely reached Shanghae in the N.B. "Palmer" on the 26th ultimo; and thence the former have since arrived here in the "Shooting Star."
It does not appear that the "Austerlitz" was scuttled Оп abandonment, which is much to be regretted; and on board vessels traversing the North Pacific a better than ordinary look out will require to be kept for some time to come or in some dark night the hull may be
Tan foul of
"Chelsea
Navy
Pensioners"
Army
London, Dec. 23. pensioners have their "Chelsea", but sailors had no
such home until an ex-Chief Petty Officer had an idea. Now through the Initiative of M Valentine Smith the naval au- therillos have obtained Pem- broke House in London where more than 30 aged ex-naval men can be accommodated, .... ́ ́.
Mr Smith, supported by the Salisbury and district branch of the White Ensign Association, kept the idea before the Central Committee of the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust for more than two years. Potroke House, which only a few months was used tu children's
home orphans - of men Chatham
for
ago
Division,
Became vacant recently and was offered to the Trust et a moderate rental. The fret batch of ex- naval men will be installed in the New Year. Mir Smith, who lives with His wife und daughter in Balisbury," served in the Royal Navy from 190TL MYRIA 1931,