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Foreign Court Of Appeal Upholds
Sentence
Policy Debate
An apneal against severity of sentence brought by Chung Ping was dismissed by the Full Court, comprising the Chief Justice, Sir Gerard Howe, and the Senior Puisne Judge, Mr Justice than last October (when the Gould, this morning.
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general elections were held), Mr Freeman said.
He contended that a dale should be axed for Britain to get out of the Suez Canal Zone. The United Nations should be asked to decide how to protect it, "It is the end of the colonial ern," he said. "We have to ad- vocate a new
on the indepen "Honship based
Appellant was found guilty of robbery with violence and larceny from the person and sentenced by Mr Justice Scholes to five years and six strokes of the cane December 5,
2 Years For Possession
Of Revolver
at thoso hitherto subject countries."
Mr Robert Boothby (Con- servative)
sold that without British and American participa- tion in a continental army ther might find in two or three years that it was being directed by a
Kwok Fat, alias Shiu San, revived German General Staff,
It would be very difficult to a hawker, was sentenced to persuade the French Deople two years imprisonment by the Germans
to accept even Mr Horace Lo at Kowloon the possibility of the ercation
Court this morning for the Wehrmacht of another
whose
on
Appellant asked the Court to take into consideration that he
children at home, He asked that his sentence should start from the date of his arrest.
in
fatablished 1845
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
6,
1952.
SOLDIER SUCCESSFULLY APPEALS AGAINST Telephone
CONVICTION Service For New Facts Presented
To Full
Court
Kenneth Albert Leonard, 28-year-old Private in_the_1st Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment, who was sentenced to four years on December 13 last for robbery was set free by the Full Court of Appeal this morning,
Leonard, accused of robbing a married woman, Chan Pui- chun, 27, of her handbag in Mody Road on the night of September 29, was originally unanimously found guilty by a Jury and sentenced by Mr Justice Scholes.
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Why wo say Exchequer.
The Exchequer "Is the State Treasury and the
Cheung Chau word, surprisingly has
About 18 months ago it was first decided to put the island of Cheung Chau on the 'phone, and now arrange- monta are almost completed. In the Operations room of Telephone House, two new red wires are proving them- selves; it is expected, that by next Monday the testing will be over, and the two radio telephone links to Cheung Chau open.
Chung Chau has a 'manual switchboard, the operatora be- residents who will keep the service open 24 hours a day. The charge of having tele- phone there will be the same as Quashing the conviction and setting aside the sen-authorities Mr D'Alton submit in Hongkong-$250 for the first tence, the Chief Justice, Sir Gerard Howe, with whom ted that it was quite impossible year and an annual subscription sat the Senior Puisne Judge, Mr Justice Gould, reinevitably have been in doubt will be free and unlimited; calla to say that the Jury would not of $300 thereafter. Local calls marked at the conclusion of submissions made by both had those facts been known. to Hongkong and Kowloon a Crown and Defence Counsel, that the Court had reach Mr D'Alion said It whis pn dollar for three minutes or "part unfortunate case which hop- thercot" as the regulations are ed the conclusion that the trial had been unsatisfactory and was convinced that had the fresh facts been added that the trial was not
poned through mischance and | worded. available to the Judge and Jury, the latter would fair or sailsfactory.
So far there are 34 sub- inevitably have come to a different conclusion. It Counsel then asked that the cribers, but the, Telephone could not have been otherwise because neither the conviction be quashed or a new Company anticipate more when
Trial ordered,
people have had a chance to see Prosecution nor the Defence were in possession of
Replying, Mr Blair-Kerr how well the system opera.es. dealt with the points set out They expect up to 100 sub- those facts at the trial,
by Mr D'Alton and said that his scribers.
It is chiefly to serve the pro-
the
the same root as “chess," both coming from the Latin word for chess "scacci". In the middle' ages the court booking after the national revenue. was called the Exchequer and took its name from the "chequered cloth (that is, the cloth' dèsign- ed like a chess-board) on which counters were moved indicating the various cslimates and expenses,
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Mr VL.J. D'Alton, Instructed from December 16 until the end Instructions were that
Major AN. Hicks, Daputy of the year,
Chan had not at the duce merchants and the dishing Tak shing/Fatahan. Assistant Director of Army Their Lordships would note waterial time and
never had community who populate the Legal Service, appeared for from the depositions that room ived at 28, Junction Road, island that these lines are being Kerr, Crown Counsel, assisted day and the complainant had living in a hut in Shamshuipo, by Det. Sub-Insp. C. G. March, represented' the Crown,
the appellant. Mr. W., A. Blair changes in the hotel were $18 a second, four. She was actually opened
1 more
the
dated that her total income was and $100 a month and that charity
Chau's new
Tai-O village on Lantau and have probably just heart kland
Cheung about to keep soqusition, for they now want a telephone service! Whether or not they get it will depend on how well the Cheung Chau service works, but it will be more difficult taking lines to Lantau because of the high
hills.
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only objective must be to re- possession of a .88 revolver W.E. Thomas, said that owing misrepresentation of facts, count that complainant attended now that she had been a heroin (y); 8.30, Interlude; 8.10, The Royal by the manager of the Arm De-
capture
Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr, Crown Counsel, appearing for the Crown assistex by Det. Insp. to pressure of worls at the Ma- the lost eastern pro- | and four rounds of ammuni- gistracy, the Magistrate was un- vinces.
tion without a licence.
able to give an earlier date for He thought that Germany should have boch brought into charge was
Mr Lo remarked that the the committal proceedings. the North Atlantic Treaty Or- and the maximum penalty was A very serious one
Counsel said that appellant ganisation and a comprehensive Imprisonment for life.
seemed to be telling a different defence organisation for NATO
story now to the Court. He had Insp. Dewer said that the a whole devised. Jennie Leo, wife
defendant was challenged at Tai previously told the Police that Po Lau village on the afternoon his parents had died in 1943 and Aneurin Bevan, contended that a world
nearer be of January 20 when the revolver, relatives in the Colnoy. war was cause of Mr Churchill's visit to loaded with four rounds, was
2.5
Americe.
of
Mr
tound on him,
"It
is to read the was acting in conjunction with American
and the Press
of the world without knowing that whatever his intention he has given the impression that he is ready to taico part in a great campaign agalusi Com- munism," she declared.
́MP'S SUGGESTION Mr Walter Fletcher (Con- servative) urged that some British troops in Korea should go to Indo-China,
The outcome of Communism In the Far East would be settled in Indo-China, he said.
There was no natural barrier against Communism between Indo-China and the Middle
East.
"Can we afford not to defend Indo-China?," he asked.
"Can' we afford to see Malaya threatened in a way, which would lead very shortly to', a much worse nifuntion?”.
The defendant said that he
onother mua and they were
going to bury the revolver.
Made False
Declaration
when she was arrested by there she gave a wrong address
because she wanted In the course of his submis-
LIVED WITH WITNESS. sion. Mr D'Alton made it clear
from the Police and her rela- that he was making no
Further inquiries revealed that tives no insinua-
tives the
the fact that she was
vus a tions against the Prosecution or the woman had never sayed at heroin addict. If called to give the Police in the conduct of the 28 Junction Road, second floor. evidence, the would say that in all his A marine hawker living on the her husband did not go to Far case, and he added, had a mother, a wife and two experience he had never heard ground floor denied that she had mosa three months prior to the
ever resided there. Etwas next robbery but that be fair summing-up In
actually favour of the accused than that found that the complainant was died there three years ago. She given by Mr Justice Scholes actually living with Poon Sik had met Foon for the first time the Trial Judge..
wal, a prosecution witness at an after the oleged crime. Mr Justice Gould observed
address The main
in D'Aguilar Street. SEVERAL UNTRUTHS that appellant was arrested
ground of appeal Poon had stated in evidence that Crown Counsel conceded that July and remanded a great num-edged by Leonard was that he he had not seen the woman bs: the
had
complainant ber of times before he was
been falsely accused and fore
had told the night of the alleged several untruths. brought to trial. This fact prób- Wrongly convicted.
Additional crime.
He said that Poon would also ably occurred to the Trial Judge
grounds were. miscarriage of It was alleged that they began confirm when he passed sentence of only
that he offered his justice and false testimony by to cohabit on October 17 which bedspace to the woman while five years, he told appellant.
complainant.
was before the complainant gave he was engaged as night watch- Opening his submissions Mr evidence in the lower Court man D'Alton said that the case pro-
in Kowloon, but would The other fact that had emerged sented certain very unfortunate was also advanced by Poon deny they were living circumstances.
Dealing with who handed to Counsel a photo-as husband and wife.
The complainant would say which established the sel said it would be very unfor- fact
graph tunate if he were to make any the funeral of her husband in addict for 10 years. Insinuation about the Crown
rown Shanghal
Replying to the Chief Justier, sometime previously. Mr D'Alton cald that it was not that they had deliberately held At the lower Court proceedings clear from the evidence as to back
anything, He had had the the woman stated that her
what tuppened to the $30 which opportunity of speaking to Me band was then living in Taiwan. was in the handbag. Blair-Ket and he (Mr D'Alton) In fairness to the complainant's His Lordship remariced that was perfectly satisfied that at sister and her husband MI the time of the trial neither D'Alton
re- went was most material, The to either of complainant's sister attached
must have had the grounds of appeal exist them. The complainant was not remembered that she gave her ed at all.
allowed to visit their house be the money. Refusing the appeal,
Giving the genesis of the case, cause the husband
was dis-
Mr. D'Allon: She confirmed that Justice Gould said
Counsel said that Leonard was pleased with her bad behaviour. that she had helped her sister. Court saw no reason to inter-brought to trial on December 11. EVIDENCE SHAKEN
Crown Counsel contended that fere with the sentence passed. The complainant Tave her
Turning to the effect of the it was clear that the offence id Their Lordships were satisfied
fresh facts upon the that the Trial Judge considered evidence on that day and what- ever might have been the sus-
COURTS DECISION the fact that appellant had been picions in his (Mr D'Alton's) the Prosecution was that this
the decision under arrest for some months. mind as regards hár character woman, quite respectable, was
there was nothing to indicate walking along Mindy Road when that he and
and his brother Judge In the ordinary way, after an
that Mr Blair-Kerr had any she was attacked by Leonard were of the appeal had falled, the sentence reason to doubt her bona fides.
that had opinion |who smatched her
the Jury known bag and run the
of the fresh was to run from the date of the
Her evidence was very facts they would
come to one appeal, but the Court allowed
shaken in
Cross-possible conclusion. It would that it should commence from
On the early morning. of examination on her movements
not be necessary. .for Counsel to the ossizes at which the appel-December 12, Police raided a hut that night. Counsel said that lo call witnesses because the In Fuk Wah Village in Kowloon all his experience he had never Crown had already conceded City. The Police were from heard a more fair, eumming-up sufficient to raise + doubt Shamshulpo and not the Teim-in favour of the accused than whereby the Jury would shotsul district where Insp. March t by Mr Justice Scholes, evitably have come to another of the CID was in charge of
Coming. Counsel said that conclusion, investigations into the alleged when Leonard was arrested he robbery.
refused to say anything at all, It was not until some time later that he made a statement which was referred to in the trial. It trial. must be quite clear to any fair minded person that had the
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after he had no home and no Crown Counsel nor the Police flectid, there was no evidence as to where the money for broadcasting, by Noviti Coghill! One of the Philippine Isles south
For making a false statutory declaration, Wong Tung-ching, allas Willy Tong.ching Hen, lant was convicted. 56-yead-old manager of the Eastern of room 213 Union
a native of Swatow, was fined $400 by Mr Poen Yan-hol at Central this morning.
Det. Insp. P. Lowe of the Commercial Crime Branch paft te declaration was to assist a per- purpose of making the
son named Chan Slu-cheong to
Gambler
an a result of the declaration,
Mr the
Stowaway
A young shoe-maker, who
the Government to take the had been granted to the appli- had in Macao in gambling initiative cutting
hut
Pul-chun.
POLICE RAID
D'Alton sald the eviden Mr take place in Mody Road,
verely
for
Le Chief Justice
the
of the cald
had -renched the conclusion that the trial had been unsatisfac-
In this case it was with satis action that the Court noted It was not until the afternoon
that none of the later facts were of December 13 that the Police,
known by the Police before the by means of Anger-printing, were able to establish the fact
through a set of circumstances
The
case had been brought that the person arrested in the Inspector on Duty, been told of which he thought would rarely Colonel Wigg (Labour) urged obtain a British passport, which, had 'lost all the money he was the complainant, Cthe facts he would have natural- occur again and their Lordships
convicted on November 25,
She was the woman ly instituted inquiries,
1950, It was an unfortunate thing Chan and left, for. England.
on board a vessel in order to wal. Mr D'Alton mid that he ing effect upon the fairness of defendant was later return to Hongkong,
was given this information by the trial. contacted by the Police, he
the Court Inspector of, Kowloon
Prosecution nor the Defence admitted that he had not known would provide the applicant and
Chan Lain-hin, 21, the shoe- Magistracy, who, also informed woman accosted him and it was the conviction is quashed, The accused testified that the were in possession of the fresh an alternative base," he said. declaration was made at the the steerage compartment by a
that
facts. the maker, was found hidden in
him that there had been a pre-known "It would enable us to continue request of another person not in watchman of the my Tai Loy
vious conviction.
that this area was the sentence set aside and the Thereupon frequented by women our position in the Middle East the Colony.
Mr Blair-Kerr supplied Coun virtue.
of easy sppellant is discharged." yesterday morning, and was sel with all particulars regard- handed over. to a Hongkonging that
CLAIM OF RIGHT Counsel in Palice Inspector on arrival of
eald the defence the ship.
tory: It could not have been
conul as a substitute for the Sant, in April last year, since had to stow himself away under the name of Shun Was but it did not alter the devastal otherwise because neither the
́Suez · 'Canal: or, at least, sen
whether
her it
was a practical undertaking.
a canal wo
Such
in the long run at less..cost
then
it would avoid Egyptian United Nations meetings territory, starting, just north of
Paris.
the
Gaka and cutting across the fr Lloyd said that Negev. A whole day would be Government welcomed the new saved on the voyage to India.
disarmament proposals. Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Minister
put of State, criticised two Labour forward. In. Faris, by Russia
"We
promise to examine them this world war war, nehrer is good faith," he said Today, thin three months ago, "Mr Lloyd added that now
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Russia was beginning to realise that the Western Powers would
memberat for suggesting that ap
and
At the time of his arrest, 82 was found in the stowaway's possession,
Brought before Mr Poon Yan- hot at Central this morning, he was fined $75 or three weeks when he pleaded guilty to a charge of being a stowaway.
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The first case on November Tested mainly on a claim of INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION
for smolding heroin right and was for the PIG- powders at an address in his secution to prove beyond doub Road in a rear cubicic. This that he had no claim of right, discovery then led to Inquiries The question of the credibility into the circumstances of the of the prisoner and the com- offence and it now appeared plainant, if his claim of right that the woman Chan gave her was well founded in good faith, address as Room 407 Winner the violence that was used was House, a well-imown and you Immaterial. as far as the charge putable hotel in King's Road. was concerned Counsel sub- An investigation of the remitted that the Jury in walth-
the lodger at the relevant, date and the complainant:: could not was ong Chang Kar-Pay- and he possibly overlook, he submitted, had been there from November the fresh facts had they been 13-lo. - December 12 and again | led at the trial,,, Afler, diting
innammatory remark, he said, not be deterred from building Enquiitos by Police revealed gator in the hotel showed that ing the evidence of the accused
He did not think that it was up their defences he thought
true. Ner did he believe that it negotiations would become that defendant left Hongkong for Macão on February 2 ̧ to was the view of the vast ma- Increasingly possible.. sarily of people from all nations. The debate was adjourned visit a friend and while, there that the aspolated with in the until tomorrow. Reuter, {he-lost: $300; in gambling;
shore bein
Xunta now, farly evident that is WKgrand then the
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