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A Night In London
HE leaf on the tree in
THE
yellowing, and into the weather reports have crept the words "ground frost"; and now, on winding coun-
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1952.,
YOUR DEST
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WATSON'S
TRU-FRUIT CORDIALS
BEING AN New Second-In-Command Alleged Threat To
ACCESSORY BEFORE THE FACT
The abortive attempt to force open a safe in the Ho Cheng Bank of 10 Queen's Road Central with electric drills throughout the night of March 16-17 last became a closed episode, at least so far as the Police are concerned, when Lee Pui, 26, un- employed, reversed his plea and pleaded guilty to try roads, the wandering being an accessory before the fact before Mr men-there are Bome Wo Justice Wicks in the Criminal Sessions this morn- men, too--are turning their
ting. Lee was sent to prison for three years with| weather-beaten
hard labour.
wards London.
faces
These, through the summer,
Four other accused who had
have made their homes in the pleaded guilty last Friday to d
country and slept in hedgerows charge of breaking into the Bank BOUND FOR
and
haystacks.. maintaining with Intent to commit a felany sentenced to terms ct
themselves in food and drink by were
their own secret methods, work-imprisonment varying from spree ing odd days on the land when to four years
misfortune drove them to
Dl this season
аз
Lee was charged with having
10
Now that there is an "R" In counselled, procured and com- the month again and a nip in manded the other four accused air, London draws persons (Yip Ting, lo Hel-wing. the night
Lee Ha-yul and Lee Kuen) wanderers surely as the migrating swallows are drawn commit the offence.
Mr G. R. Sneath. Crown Cottn- to the sunshine of the Mediterranean seaboard.se, prosecuted. Chief Inspector F. Roberts was in charge of the investigations.
Mr Sneath said that the con- piracy was put on foot by n man not now before the Court, to whom accused introduced one
truth;
und
to
of the four accused, Lee Ka-yul, who was employed as an office boy at the bank,
It was then decided that this provided a golden opportunity to
a satc.
HOME
KSLI Reach HK From Korea
Omeers and men of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry were given a
warm welcome
whent
HMT Empire Trooper docked this morning at Kowloon. The KSLI are homeward-bound after sixteen months of frontline duty in Korea.
The band of the 1st Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Bor- dérers was in attendance.
bomb-damaged get into the bank and break into the Colony since
Addres
provido
excellent
•
20-
Accused WDS
arrested
were
The KSLI are not strangers to
they stationed here for more that year before their departure for Korea in May 1981 in Korea they were attached to the 28th infantry Brigade of the Com- took monwealth Division, and
The part In the crossing of Imjin River,
when
A staff photographer caught this study of rear- Admiral Clifford, new Second-in-Command, Far East Station, aboard the RMS Canton this morning.
Rear-Admiral Clifford
Arrives In
In Hongkong
Make Woman Swallow Bullets
From The Filos
100 Years Ago
The authorities were placed in
an unpleasant position on the afternoon of Saturday last, in the prospect of a Chinese riot. It appears that the Acting-Chief Magistrate of Folice gave the
A threat to make her swallow some ammuni tion if she did not meet his demands, was alleged to have been uttered by one of two robbers who entered her flat in the Shamshulpo district, Kow. loon, on the afternoon of May 16 last, said one of the victims before Mr Justice E. H. Williams.sial permit to the Chinese shopkeepers to hold their Au- Senior Pulsne Judge, at the Criminal Sessions this tumnal festal theatre in the Central Market, and Q Lorge mat morning when she gave evidence at the trial of Yuen Hang, 28, charged with robbery with aggravation,
and
e duly
were
The Avon residents.
In the vicinity of
of the Market, however, fearing danger to their
His
Yuen was accused of having, together with property should the matting another man, Yuen To-yip, 25 (not on trial today), cellency the Acting Governor to robbed a woman, Yam Lai-chan, of a wrist watch, have the erections pulled down
Superintendent of 11 gold finger rings, two gold bracelets and $480, Poilee was instructed to see and a man, Chan. Chun-tsai, of a ring and $20.
He pleaded not guilty and a Jury of five men and two wo- men was empanelled.
The Prosecution was conduc ted by Mr Patrick Yu, Crown Counsel. Det. Sub-Insp. J. M. Gurney was officer-in-charge of
the case.
Mr. Yu said the robbery took place about 0 p.m. on May 10 at
Old HK
Resident
No:41 Kilung Street, third floor, Retiring
Yam Lal-chan
one
of the
tenants, was returning home at
officer-in-charge of
the time and had knocked at Mr. F. S. Elliott, old Hongkong
hen resident, when her door for admlaslon two
men, one of whom was the Police Department at Tai- alleged to be the accused, rush-koo Dockyard and fire master, will leave the Colony on the down the stairs from an Changsha for Australia tomor upper floor, and entered the flat row after 28 years in Hong-
ed
They pointed a gun at the
Wic|kong. woman and ordered her to keep After 13 years service with quiet.
the Talkoo
Dockyard, Mr Inside the
flat the robbers Elliott is going to Melbourne to
themselves proceeded to help
retire with his wife and daughter, to various articles and the ac-Mary, who is at present work- cused allegedly threatened Yam ing as Lal-chan that he would make her
also hold upinmates
wego
personal secretary
to
and the
must
this done. This, every person who: knows the Chinese character admit, was very In- judicious; and produced the re- suit which might have been ex- pected; the Market people. closing the gates and threaten- ing to starve us out and out the matting were not allowed to remain. The Acting Chief Magistrato quickly hastened to the spot, and by meeting them half way, allowing the celling nat but not the roofing to re- rnati
main, managed to bring round pense for the time, and the Wo town is now quiet again. shall have a little more to say on this subject by and bye.
CONSECRATION SERVICE.
Re-
con-
On Sunday last, according to announcement, the Right verend D: Smith, Bishop of Victoria, proceeded to the con- secration of St. John's Cathe- dral, One or more tracts of sixteen pages had been left in each
pew, containing the form of prayer and ceremony for use on the occasion;
and, the being
scated, the Etcgation
and Registrar standing near the communion table, which the vessels for holy communion were placed, the Colonial Chapleth proceeded to read a
the purport of a paper, which it was difficult, in the distance, to obtain,
That con cluded. His Lordship followed
the Reverend Mesars
swallow some ammunition the Director of Education.
Mr Billett first came to Hong- if she cried out and failed to kong in 1924 from the United give what he demanded,
course of the Kingdom and joined the Hong- During the
kong Police force. Later he rubbery, some other inmates of joined the Asiatic Petroleum the flat returned and
and robbed
were Company Since 1939, he has of been with the Talkoo Dockyard. property. The
During his youth he played heried into a cubicle and tied football and cricket for up before robbers left.
the
Police Recreation
and IDENTIFIED
Craigengower, but during the 2. as a result of in- On June 7, as
past few years has turned to formation. received, the two lawn bowls and billards. men were arrested and at an
During the Japanese occupa Steedman, Carroll, Harrison, Identification parade nve of the ton he was interned in Stanley Brown and Odell walked from victims of the robbery picked for over three and a half years, the cast to the west end of the out the accused as having taken and at the end of the War he church and back again, part in the affair.
Club
LONDON has many winter offer the advantages wanderer. Compared to the cautious countryman, the Lon doner is open-handed with his loose change perhaps because he always has to carry some for charily bus fures. In London
sollder dispenses hot soup and foods, buildings
Tools were procured and ac- lodgings of
cused provided money needed to There must be few wanderers, buy electric drills. At this time
say with
an- accused was staying with Indeed, who could not say
stoying at " was
at the other man (since convicted in So-and-so's place the this affair), whom he (accused Duke of
always provided encouraged to take part. other night," the Duke's place was derelict.
BOOKED HOTEL ROOM
HARD FIGHTING From now until May, charges Accused booked a room in a
and
The KSL remained in posl- wandering holel and arranged that the gang begging abroad and lodging in the open meet there after the crime had tion for about six weeks when
the Battalion
was engaged in air will be commonplace among been
committed.
battles during the crimes set down in the
major Crown Counsel said that al- come gister at Landan magistrates' though the men broke into the which the Chinese tried hard to courts, and the season appeared bank they failed to get into the recapture some high ground, to have opened-rather early-.} strong room.
The KSLI were: In position at Bow Street the other morn-
on until November 23, 1951
Rear-Admiral E. G. A. Clifford, CB, RN, arrived Ing.
April 11 and in a statement in they handed over to the Amer here this morning from the United Kingdom in RMS answer to the charge admitted cans. Since then
they have
up his appointment as Flag Officer, been carrying out normal patrol Canton to take SAY "appeared" to because his part in the crime. the tall man who was shown Mr Sneath said that one of duties occupying various pool- Second-in-Command, Far East Station. into the dock and introduced the three accused carried a tions on the fighting front.
The Rear-Admiral, who was Cecil Harcourt when he accepted Brigadier W. H. Hulton- who pleaded revolver wille the other two Harold, and guilty to lodging in the open air went along to operate the elec Harrop DSO, Chief of Staff of accompanied by his Secretary; the Japanese surrender.
Rear-Admiral Clifford Ex- was different in appearance irle drills. The office boy let the British Forces in Hongkong, Cmdr (S) JR Fenley, RN, and from those generally so charged. them in. Accused had greater was at the plor to welcome the Flag Lieutenant G. C. Lloyd, is pressed regret that he could only
In evidence, Yom Lai-chan went to Australia thecuperate. perting alternately the verses relieving Rear-Admiral A. stay a short while this time,
He has one daughter In Au- of the 24th Harold, instead of a tangled knowledge of the plan and was troops, the KSLI being his old Scott-Moncrieff, CB, DSG and adding that he was leaving for said each of the robbers held a stratia and a son who is staying to the Communion Table the
He Battalion,
After the robbers gained in Hongkong. beard and matted hair powdered nearest to the organiser.
Bar, RN,
will who
become the North soon.
Bishop seated on the north side Speaking of the experiences Admiral Commanding. Reserves, with brick-dust,
clean- was also responsible for
of the KSLI in Korea, Lt-Col next
"He
expressed the wish that entry the accused dropped four
Mr Elliott said that he was there of, received the Deed of eut, distribution of the money.
rounds of with
ammunition on the shaven,
well
Rear-Admiral the Colony's January! cut,
prosperity would
sorry to leave so many friends Conveyance and then addressed floor. He picked them up and -of black hair. Instead
Pleading for leniency, accused V.W. Barlow DSO, OBE, the Scott-Moncrieff entered hospital continue.
the Congregation in set form; wavy
a letter Commanding Oficer," said that on his arrival here from Korea
threatened to make her swallowin Hongkong. The Rear-Admiral left his them if she made a noise. She
after which several prayers were rags, he wore a neat blue suit, said he had received
men were in very good yesterday suffering from and his appearance as a whole from his wife in the country
an wife and 12-year-old daughter,
offered, and the Chaplain Arst also said she voluntarily offered
reading the sentence of con- that of what you might who had informed him that she shape and were very
Valerie, who was born here at home, Since attack of influenza,
robbers her wel War Memorial Hospital to give the label a junior executive.
and her family and his aged be going
socration, the period of service in Korea
Meeting Rear-Admiral Clifford
watch and inger
7
ring. but "It was 3.50 a.m.," a police-parents had been detained by
Frank Milton, the authorities because of her May 13, 1861 to September 18, aboard the Canton were Cmdr (S) (now the Royal Naval Hospl- the elected the man gaid
at home in
ring because 10 Mr
Cuckfield, men. various
of men- him failure to refund rent collected
the R. Peter, and II. R. Keate, lal).
Dri Imitation Rottalion "I found the magistrate,
been bomb- from the tenants, as decreed by
awarded Secretary and Flag Lieutenant to asleep in a coach on a
Ure order 10
Distinguished Service Rear-Admirai Scott-Moncrieff site. I'd previously told him the authorities. In
them, accused said
Order, the Distinguished Con-respectively. he he must go to an institution, and save
duct Medal, Milltary Crosses, ho'd said 'I don't want to get committed the offence,
Military Medals and Mentions "It gives me a great pleasure verminous.'"!
In Dispatches.
to come back to, Hongkong. I The KSLI will, remain in the have served In the. China Colony until three o'clock 10 Station. three times, 1925 to morrow when they will sail 1827, 1938 to 1939 and in 1948," for home. During their stay said. Admiral Clifford. they will be entertained by
was
wag
4
UA
"Was the coach "parked or abandoned?" the magistrate
asked.
"It was there to be repaired,
I think," the policeman säld,
THE magistrate
turned
to
Harold, examined him for a moment with puzzlement, then invited him to speak.
I've a
good job, but I've not been able to find any decent accommodation," Harold said, in the voice of a junior executive
the
Brazilian Diplomat Here
on
Arriving here from Singapore by the RMS Canton this morn- ing were Count and Countess Diogo de Toledo Laro, of Brazil, who are a pleasure-and- business trip around the world.
The Count, whose ancestors first went to South America more than 300 is in **go,
the Brazil razil Service Foreign
and Of his
explaining other simple detail from Spain
to his chairman,
years
"I went into the coach for the of purpose of resting," he added.
one to
is present duties visit Brazilian embassies and you see," said Mr Milton, legations all over the world. "the law says people aren't He and his French Countess allowed to sleep about the town, have already visited countries
sensible, really. quite
In from South Africa
It's
to Hong-
tho old days, the town was kong. They expect to remain cluttered up with people sleep here for about three weeks ing out
Now, before resuming their journey there are institutions.
those,"
everywhere, about
1. was
told Harold, said. "I refused, bo-
to Japan, Europë, Australia and the United States.
The Count is a large coffee
cause of the verminous condi-planlation and real estate ownET..
tion of those places."
•
MMM," said
"M"
the
magis-
trate. He called Mr Bad-
gor, the probation officer. Then
Woman Beggar Bound Over
ho said to Harold: "Mr Badger A shuffling 62 - year old will be able to find somewhere woman, supporting herself with for you I think that won't have a stick, appeared in the block you before Mr Poon Yan-hoi this
the....
....er...disadvantages mantion. I shall discharge you morning at Central on a mendi-
cancy charge. absolutely."
The Magistrate cautioned the "Thank you, sir," Harold defendant, Ngal Wan-chak, of 4 'said. And he went out, this Kau Yu Fong, ground floor, and
element harbinger of the
bound her over in the sum of lodging-in-the-open pomon, to
$35 for one year, forget his night in the coach which, if it”la lett much longer where it is, will be rated by the wanderers as one of Len don's plebsantest winter smeni-
Ngal, who was arrested in Wing Kut Street, Central Dis trict, yesterday afternoon,' while begging for alma, muttered her thanks to the Court and shuffled Ismilingly out of the dock,
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from
The Admiral was Chief of various regiments in the Colony. Naval Staff with Admiral
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"I'll bet that TV quiz panel souldn't tell me where to look around here for a pajama top with buttons on it!
Sir
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COLONY'S NEW AG
gun.
was
wrigt
diamond ring. She also open. od an office desic and wardrobe at their request. From
she
the wardrobe she took out $180 which she handed
over to the robbers 42
hoped they be satisfied and
property further. However, the men ordered her
Hould wor
not
Mr. Ridehalgh Here to stand aside and took from
Mr Arthur Ridehalgh, newly appointed Attorney. General for Hongkong, ar- rived this morning in the RMS Canton from the United Kingdom.
the wardrobe 11 gold Anger bracelets and rings, two gold another $300.
Witness also said that the accused demanded that she give but she replied bim. $1,000, she did not have that much money.
Mr: Ridehaighị, who, was ic- companied by Mrs Ridehaigh and doughter Anne, is suc- coeding Mr J. B. Grim who has been appointed Chief Jus tice, Uganda,
Aboard the Canton to wei-seen the sccused before come, the new Attorney-Gea- | maintained she made no eral Were His Honour the Chief take in her identification. Justice, Sir Gerard Howe, His Honour Mr Justice
Accused denied the allega ions against him and said she was falsely accusing him, He clalined he had visited
the premises before, and that was why she recognised him.
Witness denied having
C
W.
Recce and Mrs Reece, the Act- Ing Attorney-General the Hon.. 0. E. · Strickland QC, and Mr
P. H. Jennings, Director
of
Audit, and Mrs Jennings.
Our first impressions of Hongkong. arc good, and have every hope that we shall said "Mr. Ride- balzh
The trial is 'proceeding.
ever
and mis-
Cruelty To
Chickens
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TUESDAY,
JÄDEPTEMBER, 2
By Air Indo-Chine, France, Freich North & West Africa; 10a.m., via Al
Formos, ap.m. CANTA**
Kłownym, Malaya Cérion, Li Yum, 28-year-old shop Bahrein's Great Britain, Europa,
D.M B.O.A.C. foki, of 10 Jubilee' Street, was
By Eurface” Macao, 1.30 pm; 16 pm-1 Len Ridehaigh
has c
come from arrested yesterday outside the Nigeria, where he has
been
Vehicular Ferry Wharf in Con- long/Tak Bhag
Chino, People Repubile, '920 .m.. Solicitor-General since 1946. naught Road Central while rid-rain via Canton,
N, Bernso, ℗ aim to How Song) Educated at Sedbergh School and ing a bicycle with 10 chickens
Slam, 10.¡m....sa Ölut Maerek. Wadham College, Oxford, his on the front part of it crowded
Australia, New Zealand, 10 am. Brst appointment in the Caloniai long, 15 ins wide and
Inside an iron basket 19
**? | sí Changsha," 18 inches Legal Service was as
which The chickens,
weighed about two and a half pounds dach were packed so tightly. they could not move,
be hapes REN
Attorney
and Magistrale, Kitts, Leeward. Blanda in 1935. He was transferred to the Gold Coast as Crown Counsel in 1989,
high.
This morning, Li pleaded guilty
House Collapse before Mr Poon Yan-holat
Central to falling to have full The rear portion of a three-control, over his bicycle and storey flat situated at d. Man, cruelty to animals Hing Lane, near Peel Street, He was fined $50 on the first (collapsod at:1.49 this morning, charge and $200 on the second. Part of back: of 8 Man Hing: Thờ chỉokens were returned ito Lano,also collapand." Parker him by the Magistrate with the BLA Joki, who was working in warning "that: defendant'should' „š printing house opposite num--| think of a better way of trans-
bor & dat was slightly injured porting livestock in nature.
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On returnI
usual mom henced
service
the
of the
day. This, with the reading and
singing of
Psalms and
Lessons, concluded the
HIS ceremony. preached, from the 2nd Book of Chronicles 7th chapter and
12th
the
the at the
verse, sermon applicable
occasion and conclusion, exhorted his hearers
to
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to take the opportunity to make offering of suitable value; but as it was not shown that there was any great want of funds, the appeal.
was not responded to, we apprehend, with general liberality.
The hale men of the 58th Regiment were in attendance and, being provided with hymay books for the occasion, assisted in making, better harmony than church goers in Victoria are aften in the habit of hearing; & defect which, now, that, the church is out of debt, will wê trust, soon. be remedied. “
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MY WA. Grinham, Secretary of the South China Morning Port Ltd, returned to the Colony front fome leave aboard RMB Canton this morning..