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The Bright Lights Draw Me, Says Blonde Informer
London, Dec. 30.
Facts so often masked by that policeman's phrase "Acting on information received" were brought into the open at London Sessions, Two men were gaoled on information Scotland Yard got from their No. 1 informer, a five-foot blonde of 26. And, despite police protest, her name was given in court Miss Margery Smith.
For the first time she sat to hear the court consequences of her underworld tips to the Yard.
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Be arranged to meet and White had not insisted on
them with Miss Smuth maar onside the Dorchester.
Debective Moneypenny has
Theu legal night to pall Miss Sinth as a delegee witness
First she wild the jury that the Yard sergeant's had used her
been kept on undercover work to "plant" the cheques on one of
cause of his flair for pass.ng unnoticed
under- among the world's characters. his photo-
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London, Dec. 30 Justruments
which deterli buddien and invisible flows tural are helping to keep Ba 11-3 trains,
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said *The pink scarf two gorgeunts are annetary'
nd beenizen I was afraid I am not afraid by mag "Fire" chairman, Mr Anthony Hawke, urged the jury to disregard her
sidence enturely
REAL RISK To the jury
Mr. Buzzard. Pinsecurg. explained that Yard men are protected from having rum cheir informers. He said "Infernors whose names are revealeti FUT Very real
from rooks
CHINA MAIL
Established 1845
MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1951.
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Decorated with 7.500 red, white and blue incandescent stars and light bulbs
82 ft. Christmas tree, and its -his
surrounding plastic fountains, make a colourful setting on the Promenade at the famous Rockefeller Centre, New York. and gave onlookers that Christmas feeling.-London Express.
Oxford University
Loses To Prison
New York, Dec. 30.
Oxford University's touring debaters have been beaten for the first time in their 11 weeks in America by two inmates of Massachusetts State Prison.
Helicopter
Will Lay
Power Line
Birmingham, Der 30
For the first firme at Bitum a helicopter as to The wand for Jaging a prewer cal
The Malvern Hilis. By is use d
Tur math jet
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Why we say Ceno- taph.
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When
say "the Cenotaph" we almost always mean the monu ment to the illustrious dead of the Four Years War which stands in Whitehall, London. Why "Cenotaph"? Be- it is a tomb which is empty, the name being composed Greek of two
words, "Kenos" empty. und "aphos a tomb.
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Mail Notices
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Police asked that photo- graphers should not add to that risk by raking Miss Smith's lighting an picture. But she.
The normal method is for the Ani Rees-Mogg and Taverne to Amerean cigarete, said:
"Why i cable
tu be laid along the ad sume good things to say not? I am not afraid." Once
ground and then drawn tout about the prison (just like and the was runner-up for a beauty
from the top of one pole to an-
small American univer- following queen rifle.
other. To do this in the Maiversities") and the prison dinner She said afterwards: "1 can
valley would entail the felling of of chicken, en, and rich cake take care of myself, and I have
hundreds of trees and the op freertantly Leite than work on Micky, my Alsatian, at my flat.
Oxford") nciple
London? as Leave
The
police ...ratus used have been trying a talk me into
a holiday in the country. I came to Town because I like Pulse af et g
are trans- the brigle lights. fiere mitted through the metal and nd here I stay! reflected buck as echoes. If
But she was taken from the the pulse encounters a flaw the court in a police car. echo is immediately reflected And Detective Moneypenny back, arriving at the surface of disappeared o the metal quicker than if there again an explanation of that was no law.-London Express phrase Acting on information Service.
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For An American, No Council House
London, Dec. 30.
An American has been told by Torquay Coun cil that he cannot have a council house - because he is an American.
Briton.
He ነፍ 37-1-ar-old Grant "The council decided that no Corbett, marr for eight alien shall get a house before s years to a Torq y girl,
This
man is an alien. Ho They have three children and nine relatives live with them at Wants to stay American and yet
get a British council house. their three-bedroomed Alpha Cottage in Torquay's Madre- he likes to get naturalised
and
pore-road.
"Become
a Brilish
subject you may gel counell
B house," the
housing comitter told
In
he
will get a council house."
Grant Corbett is now helping to build caravans-at £7 week.
Would he change his on- Mr Corbett, formerk of tonality? "No,"
He the US. Navy.
be sold. proud “ust to stay an American,"
And Mys Corbett, who har ved in the U.S. Deep South, and pined
Devon? She says?
would not think of my Commander H. 31 John Clay. husband changing his nation-
· chairman · of «30, uay's housing | niity. I would just hate having committee, oxplot passin
to sacriUce mine."
Mr Corbett Aold: "We have been on the housing list for five years. A coutell house would seem like, haven
'AN. ALIEN
for
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who juve
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avoid this
16u Jy landscape, the ica of using the elementary education, and Bil to law school, helicopter came from
cigarette lighter and prison-made waddens and wood-carvings. A Suprême Court judge and a State Gover- nor smiled on the judges' bench.
Mr R. Mallet, manager of the Worees · ter and District sub-area of the Midlands Electricity Board.
as a
CABLE IN ONE SPAN
When My Mallet visited America
member of the British Electricity Authority production team two years ago. he saw helicopters being used un similar work. He said to-night: "I could see no reason why we should not attempt thing.
the sane
Radio Hongkong
H.K.T
Rubinson
enough to draw the cable. by Alan Bowden (Studio); 8. "Calling
"We hope that when the cable is drawn tightly it will be well above the trees. There will be no intermittent supports and the cable will span the 1,250ft. We hope by this method to preserve the amenities of this beautiful valley."
Latest flmes of pasting at GPO and at Kowloon Posi unter Fegistered articles and
malls close one
hour than the ncdinary mail Umes shown below:
Public Holiday, Tutuday, Janu- ary 1, 1832. Thả G.F O. and the Kowloon Post Umce will be upen for the sale of stamps from am. lo noon; other post officer will be closed, There will be one general delivery commencing 10 1.0.
Refreshing
DRINK
Coca-Cola
Mystery Men To Try And Locate A Sunken Ship
London, Dec. 30.
Unknown treasure hunters are planning to recover a shipload of copper from a vessel sunk nearly 100 years ago. It was in 1858 that the Bell sailed from Carrizal, Chile, bound for Hamburg, with a cargo of 600 tons of copper in bars.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Prostitution In HK
Sir-1 refer to "Comment of the Day" In your Issue [ Saturday, 22nd December, 1951. So the old evergreen is being given another siring, we are once again (or still) very con- cerned about the Soctal Evil and the Medical Dept. are get ting down to cases.
One does not pred medical qualifications to know the source of the ev:), neither docs ne need to be a Solomon to know that it cannot be con- trolled by any pusillanimous and half hearted measures.
The question that arises is;, Was the incidence less in the days of licensed houses prior to 1932?
If so, the answer is very oh- Vious
let us be Why not
honest for once and cally face facts?
year
She foundered in the South Paci on October 28 of that 70 miles north of Coquimbo, Chile, and
not for Im the shore,
Soaring metal prices have put the copper cargo of the Bell at near-precious metal levels to- day
WEA!
was once worth about £50,000 is now valued at more than £136,000.
From The Files
100 Years Ago
Hongkong must be a perfeet nuisance to the Chinese Govern- ment; and it is no wonder that
a feeling of hatred and rescour
exists towards us which is now and then exhibited, either in
open opposition or in underhand
connivance at l treatment. By the laws of China, opium is an illegal truffe; here, in our free | must
purt, the retail of it is licensed, and
the free trader's chief com- plaint is that
alt any ice st should be imposed to check_our dealers in their operations. Salt, too, is a monopoly of the Chinese Government; but here, in licens- ing its weighing, we hold out a premium to those who commit breaches of their country's revenue laws. Again, amongst other instances of the prosperity of this Colony, we find Governor Davis, on one occasion, telling of the large Sugar shipments -In other words telling of the facility afforded to smugglers to defraud the Chinese Government of two mace five candereens per picul on every batch of Sugar taken from this port Hongkong is not record only a nuisance to the Chinese about the ship that earned the Government, but valuable cargo,' press Service.
News that an attempt may be made to salve the copper has reached Lloyd's committee in
London,
"We do not know who the people are who may make the attempt."
A Lloyd's spokesman said, "but we are doing our best to irace anybody who may have a claim to the cargo."
"There is little ງາ
in this last London Ex-respect, it is of injury also to the honestly dispused trader. Those themselves up who would set
Chinese matters for lights un have lately spoken of the falling off of sugar exports hence, as a sign of decline in our coloniel much weight is attached, however, because it is also shown that all the beneft we derive from these slagat shipments is the profit to our Ship Chandlers on the sale of certain articles of wear and tear whilst the ships lie here harbour dues free, the said sugar being brought from the mainland in smuggling boats, and pitched in- to the hold of the vessel without ever being landed on our shores. But It would appear that the Mandarins being aware of the course that would be pursued, it they attempted to enforce the have, for a long time past, its unmanifested export from all things, however, and, Canton. There is a medium in во far
FIGHT TO
KEEP LINK
LINK rusperity not WITH UK
Toronto, Dec. 30. Canada's women are protesting against the recently announced and decision to drop the word
"Dominion,"
Hongkong is a Garrison Town in 1 tropical climate, should be catered for as such, dear Old Ladies and politicians notwithstanding.
went
AL Brst the matter almost unnoticed. Unobtrusively. for two years, the Government have been eradicating the word from official publications,
Matters came to a head in Parliament last munth when the tille of supervision, put a premium on Survey Act was changed to the the Domunion Lands
Let us have our Red Light districts on both sides of the harbour, take them a cul-de- sac type euslly controlled and patrolled, with real medical
promiscuous (sly) prostitution,
with
*gains! the prostitute bul
dutles ontoriously winked at
made them on
have
severe penafiles, not only Canada Lands Survey Art.
as we can learn, the smugglers MPs expressed disapproval, have overdone it, and, instead of agsins! the collaborating anale. but the Prime Minister, Mr St. keeping up some kind of show
This, surely, would be more Laurent, was emphatic. The of payment of duties, sensible, efficacious and decent country. In future, would be than the herding of our unfor- known mertly as Canada, he tunates into Black
Marias said, and not as the Dominion periodically for forcible exami- of Canada. "ation us suggested.
Want
SPIRO-KEET
'DEBT TO BRITAIN' That started something. Chief among the champions of the traditional link with Britain are the influential Imperial Order, Alexander Daughters of the Empire.
Mrs Cecil L. Brown, president or the Ontario Provincial Chapter of the Order, issued a 'tatement saying: "We Canada can never repay to Wł that
To
Stay
Toronto, Dec. 30. debt Branches o! the Canadian Motherland. Legion are being asked to peti- tion the Canadian Government U.S.A..
MONDAY, DECEMBER 31 By Air
Japan, 5 p.m., via B.O.A.C Formosa. Okinawa,
H.K.A.N.W.A.L. Canada, & p.m
Judo-Chino, $p m., C.P.A Philippines. N. Borneo, 5 p.m.
C.P.A
By Surface Macao, Ù.m. p.m., 85 Lea Hong Tak Shing.
Japan. 7 p.m., as Glenartney, Canada, 2 p.m., 3 Java Mall. Philippines. 2 p.m., 6s Mandeville.
GENERAL HOLIDAY TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1957
By Air Indo-Ching. France, French North & West Africa, 10 a.m.. via A France.
Formosa, Japan. 1 a... C.A.T. Siam
Burma, India, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe. 11.30 am. B.O.A.C
Malaya, Ceylon. Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe, .5 p.m.. 6.0.A.C.
Malaya. Indonesia, Australia. New Zealand. 9 a.m., C.P.A.
Lon
8.01
ра
By Surface Macao, a.m.; Noon, 69
China, People's Republic. a.m.; Noon, train via Canton
Indo-China, a.m., as Elsbeth. Mainya, India, Pakistan, Noon, Thai
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 By Atr Philippines.
Guam, Hawait, U.S.A., Canada, 8 a.m., yla P.A.L.
Formosa, 10 a.m., C.A.T. 3lam.
Bur:na,
India Noon, P.O.A.S.
U.S.A., Canada, 2 p.m., P.A.A. Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand. & P., C.P.A.
Japan, Korea, 5 p.m., B.O.A.C. Formons, p.m.. H.K. Always.
By Burface Macne. 8 a.m.; p.m.. ss Leo China People's Republic., 8.30 a.m., train vin Canton,
Formosa, a.m., ss Wing Bang. Malays, a.m., as Benvag Philippines, 10 a... Hydra. Japan, 2 p.m.. Szechuen, Australia, New Zealand, 2 p.m...
0, Programme Summary: 6.02. Children's Hull Hour-presented by Elizabeth Ann Studio): 6.30, The Turhalle Orchestr 7. Time Signal, The plan is for the helicopter World News and News Analysts Hong Tu Loy to carry over a relatively light,ondon Relay: 1.5. London Studio cord of about two to three and his Orchestra with Kay Caven-
Melodies (BBCTS |--Erte ewts across the valley. It is then dist (Piano), 7.45, Artist of the Week intended to pull over balloon-Aksel Schutz Temars: 7.50. wire which will
he strong.30, "I Like What I Lake"-presented Weather Report: 8. Light Orchestral;
al Forces" (BBCTS, with Ted Ray, Petula Clark, and Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra; .30, Favourites from the Shows; 10, Concertos" Organ Concerto No. 4 in F Handel) Dr G. D. Cunningham (Organ) and the City of Birminghain Orchestra conducted by George Weldon, Plano Concerts No. 1 in G Minor Op. 25 Mendelssohn! Elleen Joyce (Plane) with the London Symphony Orches-Hong/Tak Shing. The work is to be done by a tra conducted by Anatole Fistoulari: Cambridge firm who use helt-10.30, "Old Time Dances" played by copters for spraying. An alter Hay Davidson and his Orchestra native plan was the firing of 11.15, Geraldo and his Orchestra 11. Radio Newsreel Recorded Relay); rockets, but this method was "Play for Dancing": 11,30, "Memories" rejected because of its In- played by Debroy Somers and his
Band: 11, "At the Gate of the as Nankin accuracy.
Yene": Big Ben Chines; Auld Lang In the Chancery Division on Syne: God Save The King: 13 mld
Monday, an action by the Na- | sight, Close down. tional Trust in restrafn the Midlands Electricity from erecting J
Board
500-yard CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Answers
overhead cable on the Malvern
Hills was dismissed.
THURSDAY, JANUARY
By Air S'am. Burma India, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe, I a.m., vta B.O.A.C.
Indo-China, Op.m.. Ade France.
-Bither P or Mrs. P. soared three two The only total that can be bully up in seven wars, 39 s to conform to the data, IN AL
Mr. Justice Vaisey said; "Every- 1. It is used in prospecting for INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION
body regrets the necessity of uranium ores. 2. Three, (Genesis, Invading the peace of the. 10), 3. In the sky: It is the countryside by ugly algns of constellation better known as the Industrialism. But it to neces Plough. 4. Christ Church, Oxford. sary to preserve some sense of 5. A letter of thanks sent by proportion in the matter and departed guest to hostess. From things often turn out
the Mr Collins of Jane Austen's happily than they seem at first Pride and Prejudice." 0; Venice, *to promise."
(Wordsworth)
more
priban must ba ta); to Mm. P's Atrak Pupham, shot, tiras zebra and and hides.
"London"Hapeuss-Bervies."
Lo
owe
eliminate every
Only
about ten piculs
out of a hundred. Having also, to use the words of correspondent "neglected 10 make proportionate TIP to the Mandarins" the Shops of some
a
five
of the principal brokers have been closed; and the parties of implicated in the defrauding revenue are said to be under- going an examination regarding the matter. We have long had our doubts about the advantage, in the long run, of in to any one the Hongkong
being retained FREE PORT; and would mend these hastily penned re- and the attendant circumstances, to the considera- tion of those disposed to favour Parliament with "further Statements and sug→ Bestions regarding the Colony."
Land Sales
the
The attempt
vestige of marks, and nomen-
antagonising thousands
to persuade Viscount Alexander, British symbolism the Governor-General, to stay in
the British clature Canada "for the period of his of loyal Canadian women" lifetime as the King
Women's institutes, too, are Indignant. And other protests sentative.
The initial resolution was have been made by members of
of Women, passed by the Legion's branch the Council
the
repre-
at Flin Flon, Manitoba, in a Silver Cross Women of Canada, move to strengthen the ties and the English-speaking Union,
-London Express Service,
between Canada and Britain.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith Musjheed,
orthodo
OGPL 190) BY MEA DENÝCH, KIO. 7. M. NEO N. ». PAT, OFF.
"Now don't ask your father for party monay undil I 1
out his score and how the match came out!""
comTM
At the Land Sale yesterday four lots were delineated on the saie plan; but we do not know of the sale of more than three of them; the other being situated the rocks, near the up among
where a certain cemetery was once advertised, the principal condition on which a party could be burled there being that earth was brought with the body to cover
The lot, if it was disposed of at all, will have added some thirty
annum to per Colonial Rent Roll The three
shillinge
Lots
it.
the
we know of being sold were
as follows-A plot knocked down
to Messrs. Murrow, Stephenson
&
Co. containing 108,150 square
feet at an annual rental of £50,
and a bomS of Five
down.
of
and
Dollar
This lot is between the Parser Cemetery, an
Messrs Bowrs & Co.'s Water Depot Navy Bay. (When Government shift the position of their Naval Stores it, will take. double tho rental to pay a sufficient guard for it, of course Government are bound to accord protection wherever land is sold). The lot was a plot in the rear of Circular Buildings, knocked down to Mr Duddell at an annual
· ́of¬£4. 0. 0 ́and à bonus!
Another piece, No. 200, was bought by Ayum for £4. 17 per manum, and although three houses to
stood on the ground, no bonus whatever: bystanders be fairly ashamed at the act of Government in exposing the lot to competition at all. We are promised shortly a communion tion on this subject of Land Sales!
Hongkong. From the circumstatices that induce the communition (os known to y we only hope the writer will not bear too hard on the HONOUR and GOOD FAITH, of Hongkong?
in