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Reparations Demand Out Of The Question
Tokyo, Jan. 30.
Fresh orders to "carry on the negotiations according to the instructions you took with you" are probably in the hands of the Japanese mission in reparations Manila niready, a Foreign Office source said today.
The source declared that the instructions were sent yester day evening and "should have reached Mr Juichi Tsushima's hands at 6:30 or 7 p.m"
The
Indicated Source
ane night,
Japanese
senior
Ta bima would
for
fant delegate
probably ask
explanation 71
Philippine three-point
tons demand, but
of the
герда-
Sald that
there would be no basle change
in the Japanese position
Authe
He said some points in the
are not clear,
were that mission will CRITY onli negotiations according to the instructions it look with 1 10 Manila.
were }
These instructions That the tolal reparations tigure to any one country shail not be set until total claum
received been have
analysed.
2 Thal
AS SERVICES
Buch reparations
payments must be in the form
ان
5
services
stipulated
jti
Article 14.
3. That they must not inter- fere with Japan's ability contribute to the tree nations in Asia.
to
Japanese officials here were in complete agreement that the surt of $8,000,000,000 demanded "com. by the Philippines was
question. pletely out there
of the appeared
lo the some
basis for negotiations on other two points however
the
Reliable sources here said the government had expected a de- mand for payment over 18 or 15 угога. And they Indicated that Japan might be prepared to
of payment
a limited prgin amount before the Qual repara- tions figure was negotiated. They speculated that $8,000,000,000 demand might be
the
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1952.
French Minister Visits Indo-China
*N
M Jean Letourneau, | who has retained his posi- tion in the new French Cabinet Minister in charge of the Associated States of Indo-China, is seen here chatting with French officers during his curreni
visit to Saigon,
M. Letourneau is to see the northern battlefields and will report to Paris after his investigation
tour has ended. AFP picture.
BUTLER'S
AUSTERITY
MEASURES
missures
far as had
Butler's fully us pected.
In some respects they went further
}
Toy Gun Allegedly Used In Robbery
Three men arrested on
a Macao-Hongkong steamer stood trial at the Criminal Sessions this morning charged with robbery with aggravation.
The accused. Tung Chi-kuen, alias Tang Kuen, 23- year-old farmer; Chan Ming, 30, marine hawker, and Cheung Yim, 40, earth coolie, were alleged to have held up a woman in a hut in Ping Shan with a toy gun and dagger.
The trial judge is Mr Jusuce Scholes while the jury com- Thite women and four prises men
Mr Patrick Yu, Crown Coun- sel. Bssisted by Det Sub- Insp. P. T. Moor is prosecuting. the Crown is The case for that at 7.30 p.m. last December 3 the woman, Yeung Ho and (Continued from Page 1)
her naidservant, Keung Yau- mu. living in an unnumbered
Wai Ha today went but in San
Chuen, been ex- Ping Shan, heard Deople out-
side the hul
Was The door clused, but not locked and very soon the three accused entered. He disclosed for the first time The first Bocused held what the larges assigned by the recent looked like a small firearm. Commonwealth Finance Minis. This proved to be a toy gun ters' conference.
when it was recovered from a Britain airns to reduce her stream after the arrest of the deficit
non-Sterling pecused. with the
The second accused from £525,000,000 in the held a dagger. second half of 1950 to only The woman, Yeung, Was United next year.
£100,000,000 in the second half pushed into a cubicle, bound For this year.
and gagged while the servant The other
Sterling countries was likewise treated in another aim to have a surplus of £100,- part of the hut, The accused 000,000.
ransacked the place. After
the Bad gone, they
woman LIGAL and free herself
an attempt to exert pressure on Japan into setting some gor* reparations approximate figure
of
at the current "explora- tory" talks and obtain the initial instalment on the debt as early as possible-without waiting for a final agreement which might
be
Press
late
Police Arrest
Gamblers
If the aims are achieved, the Sterling Area's deficit with the managed to world as a whole will be com- discovered that the men had pletely wiped out.
taken some cash, a coat, eight
the total
Mr Butler tonight drew first pieces of jade, and a piece of
speculators, mother-of-pearl to Promptly after his speech for- value of $773.
bloud from
Eleven persons found gambling outside the Sun Toi Shan Hotel,
ward Central, on Connaught Road Monday were each fined $10 by Mr Poon Yan-hoi at Central this morning.
Defendants, LI Ming. 21, Ng Han, 30, Ng Fong, 60, Choi Wah, 32, Wong Chiu, 48, Poon Man, 51. Wong Yuk-way. 29, Wong Tan, 33, Chan Tak, 21, Wong Chun, 40, and Chan Sin, 37, were arrested by Police at 9.05 while having a game of "Pal Kau".
P.I
$53 table money seized was ordered to be confiscated to the Police Welfare Fund, and the gambling gear destroyed.
TWO CONSTABLES CHARGED
PC 3791, Lou King-wah, 22, and PC 3098, Chung Kwong-yick, 20, were charged before Mr B. W. S. Winter at Kowloon this morning with robbery, by two or more. At the request OL DSI Gurney they were remand- ed for one week in gaol custody. The defendants were alleged to have rubbed Seven Chinese
of $64 at a pathway at Boun- dary Street, Shumshuipo, January 28.
оп
COTTON ON FIRE
2
Karachi, Jan. 20. Fire destroyed 3,000 bales of cotton - here today valued at about 1,300,000 ruppen.
Eight fire engines, sided by
and men 300 special police. the Pakistan Navy, fought the Vire for
[hour. They managed to save 7,000 baies in "the same yardan
Tour
of
The police, we investigating the cause of the fire and have arrested a watchman from the warehouse-Reuter,
the
in New Sterling
York jumped by a major fraction to its best level for a fortnight,
ADVANTAGES
ar-
2 Europeans Missing
Two European youths, aged about 20, are reported to be missing in a small
Bailing craft between Middle Hongkong and Island.
The Police received a report after midnight that Jeft the young
men had Middle Island to return to the Colony, but failed to arrive.
Navy and Pollee patrols are searelting the area.
The
been divulged,
have
not
Patrols In Clashes
Eighth Army HQ., Jan. 30. Brief bul flerce patrol fights 145-mile flared up along the Korean battlefront on Tuesday, as the Alles kept the Com- munists off balance with sharp small-unit punches.
Thity-nine patrol fights were reported along the line. It was the first time in several days that every divisional sector
Street. The coat was had at least one contact with
when the second accused the Police to the shop. second accused were found the jade and the mother-of-pearl
On December 17 at an identi- Bication parade the second ag- cused was recognised by both the woman and her servant all while the third accusedď was
Identified by the servant.
ARRESTED ON SHIP The three accused were rested by the Police on the 14 on afternoon of December board the ss Tak Shing at the wharf. A Hongkong-Macao His early budget dale bas pawn ticket was found in the several advantages, It is in pocket of the first accused re- good time before the next lating to a coat which had been quarterly disclosure of the pawned at a shop in gold reserves on March 31,
the Reds. recovered Certain measures, such
took
Temperatures were compara- the excess profis tax and the
On the lively mild and ranged from a future of the utility goods
low of 32 degrees above zero scheme, can only be tackled in
to a high of 44. a budget. It also
shortens the period of uncertainty.
As one senior official put tonight: "The sooner it is over the sooner to bed."
European, American and Mr Yu told the jury that the British tourist agencies in Lon-first accused, being a
fellow-tainous don were stunned by the new villager of Yeung and her ser- Salaer valley
the in travelling allowancesvant, cuts
was known to
both of central front fought the bitterest for Britons.
The French Tourist Associa- and third accused directed the
them. He added that the first sellon of the day. tion in London said, "We are Police to a stream where the toy about 40 Communist
The patrol first collided with soldiers quite fabbergasted,"
bunkers wee entrenched in
and Office gun was found. The knife Swiss Travel
trenches. The battle began at expected the cut to affect book never recovered.
the Italien State Ings and
The
It
Tourist Department said, "We
shall have to find some way
The case is proceeding.
of persuading people go to Remanded On- Italy with only £25."
Menaces Charge
Alebding British travel
A police constable and a un employed man who sip alleged to have demanded $1,000 from.
Keep Your Eye on the Ball But on Refreshment, Too
DRINK
Coca-Cola
ALLEGED MURDER OF AMAH
Two Men On Trial At Criminal Sessions
The death of a young amah, allegedly stabbed in the course of an armed robbery in Kowloon last August was recalled when two men ap peared before the Senior Puisne Judge, Mr Justice Gould, in the Criminal Sessions this morning, charged with murder.
The accused are Li Ming, 24, unemployed, and Ko Kam-wah, 21, unlicensed hawker, and they are alleged to have murdered Kan For, 25, at No. 527, Canton Road, top floor, on August 24, 1951.
Conducting the Prosecution is place where they
retovered а W.A. Мг
Blair-Ken, Crown clock, which had been fõentißed |
other Counsel, assisted by Det. Sub- as the property of the Insp T. Kavanagh.
Mr AJ. Cufford, melructed by Mr A. S C. Comber, a ma fending the first accused. Mr
Chen Percy
and Mss S.C. Chang, both instructed by 1. J. d'Almada Remedios, appearing for the second DC- cused.
Mr
are
A Jury of three men and four women has been empanelled,
The
that Prosecutor Baid No. 527 Canton Road, third floor, the
was scene of the crime,
occupied by woman, Lu Chuk-feng and her husband,
who were the principal tenants B sub-tenant Ng Yau-wai, who Lau occupied the first cubicle employed two amabs, Kan For
and her younger sister, Kan Chung.
About 2 p.m. on August 24. Lau was resting in her cubicle (the rear
one) when a knock came on the door and the de- then ceased opened it. Lau heard the servant cry out "Save
ber bed Life" She left
and went into the passage where she
to
tenant.
The Prosecutor said that the offence was both a robbery and e murder. but the ordy indictment before the Jury was murder.
Given Benefit Of Doubt
The Crown alleged that the Given the benefi of the doub', two men conspired together to Nicolas Metrevelli, 39, horse rob the premises, and in pur-trainer of the Hongkong Jockey suance of that common inten Club, accused of obstructing a The Pro- Police officer in the execution tion killed some one. secutor said that he would not of his duty at Queen's
Road tell the Jury which of the two Fast on September 27, last year, inen the Crown alleged struck was discharged by Mr Poun the fatal blows, but it did not Yan-hoi at Central this morning. mailer who actually struck the blows. If the Jury came to the conclusion that the two accused went there together to rob there was then common inten- tion between them the man who did not strike the fatal blows would be liable for the act of the other man.
MEN'S
PRETENCE
Living Language
Why we say Digs.
"Digs" meaning lodgings or apartments is short for "diggings"
and finds its origin in Canada where gold and lead-miners lived during the winter- months in dug-outs or "diggings" they had made for themselves, literally with pick and shovel
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Defendant was fined $20 for an improper act in Gloucester Boad near the Wanchui Police Station, to which charge, he Slam. BUITME Pakistan, Great pleaded guilty through his De-Britain, fence Counsel, Mr M. A. du Silva, at one of the previous Philippines. N. Borneo, 3 p.m. hearings.
C.P.A.
By Surface: On В third charge of causing Macao, 12.30 p.m.; 0 P.4. malicious damage to a Police / Tak Šaing/Totshan,
China, People's Republic, a.m. train via CarsADIR.
Japan, Hawail. U.S.A.
$6.25
on the
same
cau-
B.20
Lau Chuk-fan, now residing van windscreen
defendant was evening at No. 201, Saiyeungchol Street, tioned. He was ordered to pay 5/8 Pres. giving corroborative evidence, added that the men were ad- mitted into the premises on the found the deceased sitting on pretence that they had a present the floor, crouching as I
to deliver, paln
And in the passage way Lau saw two strange men. One of held a three-cornered them dagger which he brandished at her and to d her lu remain quiet,
1 p.m. Wileon. as compensation for the Malaya. 9 p.m. s/s Kwetying. damage caused.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 By Air: The Magistrate in passing
Irudia Pakistan, judgment regarding the
Middle first
East, Africa, Great Britain, Barope, charge sald the incident was 8 am Via 9.0.A.C.
a Japan, Canada, U.B.A. C.P.A.L.
Formosa, Japan, 1 p.m. C.A.T. Formosa, Okinawa. G D.za. B.K.A./N.W.A.L.
HANSACK CUBICLE
The two men then shepherded Lau and the two amahs into the rear cubicle which thes ransacked. At the point of the dagger they forced Lau to hand over her wristwatch which she was wearing at the time, said the Prosecutor. They also took a ring from the deceased, who
on a bed was lying
in the cubicle, suffering, the Prosecu- for said, from fatal wounds in the stomach.
Lau and the other servan! (who unfortunately had since left the Colony) were taken to the front cubicle which the robbers ransacked. The spent was not in at the ti
The robbers then mises after fastening the first cubicle.
of
In answer to Mr Clifford, wit-due to a misunderstanding be- ness agreed that she did not tween all the parties concerned. identify any person at an iden tification parade, who was 200- nected with the alleged robbery.
Witness told Mr Chen that when her seryant called out "Save Life"
she became very frightened, but nevertholes, the went out futo the passage way to see what was the matter. She disagreed she took several min- utes to do so.
The trial is proceeding.
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Lau and the servant, however, managed to escape by another door leading to the verandahı. On arriving at the passage way the mistress of the house found the deceased lying on her own
The new probe, it was learned, will range over the whole ad- bed there groaning in pain,
ministration of the Justice De- The Police were summoned
partment. Committee and they found a three-comered said the resolution for the
sources it- hasp fixed through the, hasp of sald
was carried with "no the door fastener of the first y
audible dissent." cubicle.
They also disclosed that The wounded Servant
was committee
refused rushed to hospital, and the McGrath before ordering the Doctor who attended her would: McGrath
the to hear
say that the wounds could have investigation. The Cabinet offi- been caused by the degger. He cer waited in vain outside the would also say, the Prosecutor Committee room for a chance
to make that the injuries
ú statement. in the went on,
A UN patroi in the moun- operation.
the
Tanks also were in operation on two sectors of the front. Three of the Allied tanks were
tended to a considerable depth, closed-door session. damaged in a tank-infantry punching the internal organs McGrath announced that he patrol east-southeast of Kum- which nec
necessitated an immediate will "gladly co-operate" in the song, but they were recovered.
The deceased died inquiry.
The Committee decided to next day and the Doctor performed a post-mortem ex-have chairman Emanuel Celler four Democrats and amination. He would say that appoint the cause of death was shock three Republicans to make a and haemorrhage and poisoning "non-political" study of Me- resulting from those abdominal Grath's office and the adminis- wounds.
tration of the Justice Depart- ment generally,
prea east of
on the Cast
PAWNED WATCH
10 am, and a short time later The accused were arrested in the 40 Reds were reinforced by Queen's Road, Central, early on 50 more enemy attacking from the morning of November 29.
the northeast.
They took the Police to a pawn-
The Committee has the au-
thority and the funds to pro- ceed at once.
Some Republican members of United Nations tanks joined shop and arst accused identified Congress have called for Mc- the fight in support of the a watch which he had pawned Grath's resignation, principally Infantrymen and the patrol some time ago. According to the because of the way the tax fraud agency said that British tourists
fought on. Twenty minutes after pawnbroker's record, it was prosecutions were handled under would have to limit their stay
contact
Truman abroad to only seven days.
confnet, was made, however, the pledged lute on August 24, the his former alde, T. Lamar Caudle.
were ordered to withdraw. day of the robbery and murder, President
bypassed Countries nearest to Britain,
The fight was costly to the
*** the Prosecutor said.
McGrath last November to oust such as France and Switzerland, Cheung Pok-shlug with menace Communists. Out of an estimated A little Inter, first, accused Caudlo da Assistant Attorney would be the least affected. at No. 8 Tak Hing Street, Brst 90 Red in
tha Police to another General. British holiday resorts would floor; on January 26 were re-were sorted the action, 18pwwn-broker who at the
manded for two days by Mr wounded United Press, bament
W. 8. Winter at Kowloon this morning.
probably
The Institute of Tourist Agen- cles Immediately sent a tele
to Mr. Buller asking hbm gram to receive a deputation, on the they said war viewed with
tourist cut wiles concerti."!.
The Institute was meeting at
*
But this month the President
"fornier's request produced gave McGrath the, job of driving ring which frat accused idents all wrong-doers out of Federal fed as one he had pawned also office,
The defendants are PC 2050, HECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Cheung Pau-chlu, 21, and Slu Chiu-tim, 23,
the same day.
McGrath has announced that ANSWERS
recovered The watch
from he will go outside the Justice the first pawn-broker was iden. Department for assistants to help Oliver Cromwell in 1668, led by Lau who would further him in the house-cleaning after his. quarrel with Parila- way that the ring was one which i campaign. They will be selected INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION James Hon. The thyroid in
ment. g. Edward Jenner. 4.sho often saw deceased wear without partisan consideration, conference when the news came The kidden nature hope of
he promised, and will be given of the cut announced by Mr
gland. 5, Marseillés. B. Tho This watne day, second artised unfettered authority to dean BaterReuter.
toare the Police to his mother” house ---Associated Press.
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