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The Frightened Man
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T case of the frightto the dock at Great Marl- borough. Street a tall, stooping, scholarly figure, whose broad forehead and horn-rimmed spectacles gave him the look of a don. One of these rumple-suited, cloud-dwelling dons who if they look always could do with a really good dusting. A don whose nerves he oc- for were gone,
und trembled casionally darted apprehensive glances over his shoulder,
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His name was Clement. He had been caught stealing 1s. id. in a puper from a news- vendor's stund in the West
End.
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IRAN BUYS
EQUIPMENT FOR OIL
INDUSTRY
Teheran Oct. 7.
American equipment to run Persia's nationalisod oil industry har arrived quests, from the National Iranian Oil Company.
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in
This was disclosed here today by a Persian oil oficial as re- spread that American ports tankers were en route to Persia to load oil for American pur. chasers.
The official said the equip- ment was sent by the American all magnate, Mr. William Alten Jones, Chairman of the Cities. Service Corporation, who cently visited the Persian oil- delas and conferred with high Ferdan omelets.
re-
Meanwhile, British and United States officials in Washington said they knew nothing to con- ma report that some inde
United State: com- pendent panles had sent tankers to buy ull from Persia.
"OPEN SECRET":
The New York Times had sald mind it was "an open secret" that Academic absence of could have explained the paltry American tankers were "well on theft except that the
their way to Persia, and other had
before, tankers were believed to be hoppened thing
Abadan, 01 the carlier this year, Another Lon-making for
court don
had discharged Persian Gulf. Clement after finding him guil- Oll circles in Washington and In New York also said they knew ty of a similar crime.
nothing to confirm this.
And this time, when he was arrested, he salu to the police- man who caught him: "Oh yes, I admit it, you're perfectly right."
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American official circles did not deny that while large United oil companies were States anxious not to embarras: Britain in her dispute with Parsia, some companies would not be averse to buying Persian oil cheaply.
independent
But there was nothing to sug- gest that such moves had been made by these smaller companies.
HE. was taken to the police- when they station, and quosiloned in there, he said: -I'm afraid I can't tell you memory's about myself, my gone.
And he ran his long fingers-Reuter. through the unkempt grey hair that flowed about his temples, though the crown of his hood was bold.
the of Next morning, one policemen described the scene and to Mr Paul Bennett, VC, added: "The divisional surgeon was sent for and said this man acuto showed no signs of un- condition that was not related to present circumstances."
PERSIA'S REPLY
Teheron, Del. 7. Persia's reply to the British and
on the American noles oil dispute handed over hero on Sunday was given today to the British and American envoys here.
committee today A five-man drafted the reply. The Prime Minister, Dr Mohammed Mossa degh, had an interview with the Shah this morning, at which be was reported to have shown him the text of the reply.
Mr Loy Henderson, United Ambassador, and Mr Middleton, British sketelt for the magistrate what Charge d'Affaires, called on Dr
Mossadegh separately this after
cách given reply.-Reuter.
Now it was Mr Bennet who looked baffled-by the jargon. "a polite "Is that," he asked, way of saying that the doctor didn't believe him?"
"Yes, sir," the policeman sald on 10 bluntly, and he went
he knew of Clement's life.
-
past
at
HE taw has a fine, retentive, THE
card-index-aided memory, and as the policeman reeled off facts learnt about Clement the time of his last court ap- pearance, and stored ever since, the prisoner sat back 1stening with an air of the greatest in- terest.
said
"He is 64 years old," the policeman.
("Oh, I am, am 19" Clem-at seemed to be saying to himself, "Feel
more like 8 this morn-. ing").
"He had
distinguished Army record in the first world war, winning
Military the Medal and rising to the rank of lieutenant.'
States George
noon, and were *
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The Argylls Arrive Home From Korea
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were welcomed back home at Greenock a few days ago after Photo completing service in Korea and Hongkong. shows some of the Argylls on board the Troopship Empire Halladale when she berthed at Greenock.
Peace Talks May
End 32-Year-Old Burma Rebellion
Rangoon, Oct. 7. :
it's
WATSON'S
first for thirst
Appeal Against Tenancy Tribunal Decision Fails
Holding that there was sufficient evidence to support a finding of a plea of waiver, Mr Justice C. W. Reece, Puisne Judge, in the Appeal Court. this morning, dismissed with costs an appeal brought against the decision of Mr C. Q. Lim, Tenancy Tribunal President, who dismissed an application for ejectment of Cheung Yuk-lun and all occupiers under him, Chao Quer-tse and Liu Tin-tao from the ground floor of No. 115, Boundary Street, Kowloon.
The appeal was brought by application would have Leen the owner of the premises, Chul pointless,
Suot-ein, of No. 27 Wing Fung In the result, the geðunds of Street, first floor. He was re-appeal have not been establish- presented by Mr A. J. Clifford, ed and the appeal falls and is instructed by Mr P. L. Lam. dismissed with costs.
the
Mr Y. HL Chan appeared for
respondents.
In the original application for
ojectment it was alleged that Danish Seaman's
first respondent's
rent
was in
Offence
seaman, Impersonated
Government
Servant
Birger Erikson, 11 Danish appeared before Mr Poon Yan-hol at Central today charged with legal entry into the Colony. He was ordered to be detained in gaol custody until It will October 18 when he will rejoin I de-his ship.
Living Language
Why we say Whist. When we tell a noisy child to "whist!" wo mean that he must keep the quiet. Similarly game of cards was call- "whist" because silence was necessary if it was to be played attentively and correct- ly.
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arrears for more than 30 days, and that he had sub-let, as- signed, transferred or parted with possession after March 1, 1940, to a firm consisting of and bimself and the second third respondents.
In his judgment this morning, Mr Justice Reece Fald: be recalled that when livered apartial judgment in SI W. H. Jackson, prosecuting, this case
diamissing the appeal revealed that defendant arrived on the ground
that alleged
in the Colony on October 3 on
indo-China, (Tonki only), 4.50 I re the ss Nicoline Maersk and was the rent was in arreare
board when the p.m., C.P.A turned the case to the Tribunal concealed on An ex-employee of the Hong-
Blam india, Pakistan, Mickie to East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe, Endings of the Presi- immigration Officer come kong Traffic Department, Lau for the Hoa-cheung, 42, of 225, Fa Yuen dent on the ground of waiver. inspect the ship. He later went 6 pm. 3.0.A.0.
Japan, 4 pm.. 3.0.A.C.
By SurfacE Stroet, was fined $300 by Mr Those findings have been sub- ashore without oMelal permission. Arrangements have been made
Macno. 2 p.m.; 8 p.m., Lee, Horace Lo et Kowloon this mitted and the learned Pres!-
aldent
that the for the defendant to rejoin his Hong/Tak, Shing, has found for impersonating aalde
after ho
agreement was plain enough to ship on her next call in port. show that there was an Assign- had left his employment.
Sub-Insp. Rumbelow's evidence ment and he went on to say was that on the night of Septem- that there was clearly a breach ber 11 he stopped defendant under Section 20 of the Ordin-
car alang Castle driving his
ance.
TANE At servant
his driving licence was at home
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POSES QUESTION Peace talks now going on between the
After discussing the effect of Burmese Government and the underground Karen rebels may end the 32-year-old Karen rebellion
the transfer the learned Presi- for a separate state, it was reported here tonight.
dent posed the question whether the applicant was aware of the Government representatives at the talks, said
transfor and it so when? And in
7. "Lucky" Dip" Variety Hequests to be somewhere in Tensasarim, over 300 miles
"I am
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159, Weather Report; 8, Time Signal, to write Ex. southeast of Rangoon, included the Minister for could not give the names of some went to Instruct Hon and
In Sep- World News and News Tulk (London pany defendant, in evidence,
1040, and to give the Favourites sung by James Melian tember,
Relay); 8.15, Bleghen Foster Karen Affairs, Mrs Ba Muang Chain, and two of the senior dan 3 at contrace
denied that he claimed to be afrai
opponent trading
Makassar (Tenor) with Chorus and Orchestrai clerk at Central. He maintain-
8.30, Orchestra of the Week-The ministers of the provisional Karen state.
Master Mail. These reports come as official; the white-flag Stalinist Com-ed that he told the Inspector Wah Store the notice to quit on sources said the Burmese army munists, led by Thakin Than that he had been working in the ground of sub-letting orale Orchestra; The Beloved aware of the 30, Farewell Ganiy-—A Tribute to a wir faunch an all-out offensive Tun, now number about 2,000 the Trafie Ofice but had left. parting with possession, he was Dr Johana Sebastian Bach's by famous Theatre in words and Music the partnership Introduced who He explained that the Inspector already fully Communists,
existence of
by Lexile saw his police identity card be at the end of this month agalast confirmed
Henson and saw
formed between the three op (BBCTS): 10.30, Dancing Time; 13, other rebels the white-lag "ght to the last man"
ponents and that it with Radio News Reel (London Relay); Stalinist Communists, the red-about 5,000 sympathisers. They cause it was lying between the
the covers of his Hongkong identity this knowledge that he carried 11:18, Weather Report: 11.16. Good Q.E.A entrenched in Bag Trotskylles, and the pro- are well
night Music; "God" Save The Queant on negotiations with the second 11.30, Close Down. Stalinist People's Volunteer Or- thick jungles in the Kyauksa card, which he showed the In- The spector because he had left his area of central Burma. ganisation.
apponent for the payment of a driving licence at home.
certain tonight ap government recently rejected
The Magistrate convicted Lau, Rangoon Radio
oum of money to him Karens to make peace offer, because it will only
saying that he did not believe partly as compensation for the pealed to the
accept total surrender.
changed flooring and partly as peace,
his evidence.
consideration for changing the name in the rent receipt to the Garrison
The last performance of the Players production name
of the firm."
*The Dover Road" will be held And the President found as this evening at the Missions to a fact there was unqualified Seamen.,
the
About 500 red-Bag Troskyites, It told the rebels that
"emphatically and under Thakin Soc. active in the
S undertook "full Pyapon arca,-80 miles southwest
Manila, Oct. 8. Presklent Elpidio Quirino has approved a proposal from the Foreign Ofce to exempt tour- lats from visa fees, Malacanan Palace announced.
The move is designed to pro- dependence.
the tourist trade
gained her in-
MITIGATING PLEA
In mitigation, Mr W. C. R. for the granting of Rangoon, disrupt river com Carr, of Mesars Johnson, Stokes said that it was gross stupidity of an amnesty 10 all right munications by constant attacks and Master, for the defendant, thinking Karen rebels, who re- on passenger boats.
The pro-Stalinist People's on defendant's part, because he spond to this call for peace."
esti- could not
what possible sco The Karens, D national Volunteer Organisation,
obtained number
benefit about 1,500,
he mated to
could have minority numbering
about
Government controls the Monywa area of by posing as a 1,500,000, have been fighting
Jower
Chindwin in northern servant. Mr Carr said that the fur a separate state since 1946. Burma. They have been attack-Section under which he was when Burma
Recent charged was merely to prevent ing government posts. mote
servants for the purpose of ex- The broadcast appealed to the efforts by the Stalinists to form people posing as Government which,
and travel agencies
a joint anti-government front ("Splendid, splendid," you tourists report, has been negli-rebels to "reorientate their out-have falled, oficial sources said. tracting money from the public.
by renouncing their fruitless-Reuter. owing to strict visa re destructionist tactics and policies Clement could see
thinking, gible though whether battlefield quirements and high fees.
a scene came back to him or not,
The President has instructed and come out into the light now to play their significant part as Foreign Secretary Joaquin
good citizens in the rehabilitation Elizalde and Commerce Secre of the Karen state." «TTE was in "Hoffice Job
a. £14 a weektary Cornello Balmaceda to draw
but left it up plans to put the measure in
to effect, Palace sources said. early this year," the policema went on. "He next became a service dispenser in a cato harding out meals. His pay there was £6 a week, and ho left that job last June. Sinco then, us far as I know, he has done no work, Ho does seem to have deteriorated consider- ably this year. I'm afraid
you could not tell).
Clement
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to
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They were urged to lay down their arms so that peaceful con- ditions could be restored and rehabilitation and reconstruction work undertaken.
Armistice Offer
(Continued from Page 1)
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Government He said that the put temptation in the way of ex-employees by allowing them to retain their identity cards.
The Magistrate remarked that he did not know in what manner the defendant managed to retain his card but it was improper of han to possess it anyway. negligence of a department in not seeing that the card was returned was nothing in defend
ant's favour.
The
acceptance of rent by the ap plicant with full knowledge of the breach and held that there was waiver.
was
ing and it is clear from the
a
MUST FAIL The question for me to deter-
there mine is whether evidence to support such find-j
record that there was sufficient evidence to
Buch support Anding.
so the
appeal That being
the ground the must fall on decision was wrong in law in that the Tribunal did not hold that there was no evidence or evidence to sup- no sufficient port a plea of waiver.
With respect to ground (b) of the grounds of appeal, that the docision is wrong in law In that the Tribunal did not hold that the partnerably agreement of June 21, 1949, operated as on assignment or transfer of the In dispute to a firm
preting of the first respondeat
I under-
by the first
the tenancy
All a tourist would require on entering the Philippines in the future is a valid passport. PLANS FOR SCHOOLS Visitors, however, will be limited
The government, the radio a stay of 50 days after which
sald, had drawn up plans for be fulfilled by having them: will
subject to the usual the immediate be
construction of brought to an agreed exchange visa requirement.
in the Karenpoint": the prisoners would be pointed out in bis 1,000 schools
siate and offering scholarships identified, checked from each Farouk Denies the Presi know nothing of his home cir- dent that out of 62
for Karen. students for ad-eido's lists and shall thereupon countries vanced studies.
be considered as fully repatriated Divorce Report cumstances, though ho han a
surveyed by the New York The government would also for the purpose of this agree-
and Chao Qua-tee and Liu Tin- Jetter that seems to be
Herald Tribune recently, 30
Capri, Oct. 7. to make the ment," Both sides must agree, promote schemes son living, on the south coast,"
tao, it seems to me that that is countries did not require any
Ex-King Farouk "Well, we may be able
of Egypt the very thing the President did to
Karen state into a welfare state, however, that the prisoner shali
make his choice at the time of sald through a spokesman to do. For he stated, "A help him, if he's deserving of Visas for Americans, 14 did not
the broadcast added. even require passports, while
Recently, it help, and it looks as if he is,"
was announced his identification and shall not night that there was no busisstand it, this sp-called partner- | seven issued
of visis free
reporta. the magistrate said.
doto that the Karen state will com- be detained thereafter,
that ex-Queen ship agreement was in reality Second All prisoners charge.
taking steps to prise the whole of the Salween But the Philippines, he said, district northeast
an outright, sale siring
repatriation shall be ex-Harriman was of Rangoon,
divorce him, changed tas poon as possible "OH please, please help me,'
stood out with the highest visa covering an area of nearly 5,000
Amid Mohamed Fahim, whoonent of the Tal Wab Store after
armistice. Prisoners an fec-20 Pesos (US$12.00) which square miles.
With be quit his opposing repatriation would recently had been increased to
Egyptian Embassy in third opponents, and the rela (US$16)—Associated
serve na Farouk's 30 Pesos
a military administration in and freed of military
control. Rome to
tion of the first opponent as Press
secretary in exile, said that, on
one-sixth eight of 38 strategic frontier
a mutually Reprentatives of
Narriman was partner with only
camouflage Shan states, where it declared
agreed
would the contrary, a state of emergency a fortnight interview the war prisoners and expected back in Capri "within interest was only a
He told noWN-
of the transaction." the divorce
But even if the President had INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION |ogo because of an underground the POWs would be allowed to a week or so."
report was Communist campaign for a pea- go to the side of their choice.
without founda- not held that the partnership absolutely pant rebellion.
Third-All prisoners desiring tion.
agreement operated Omelal
reports said Commu- repatriatlon shall be exchanged
He had said Farouk himself assignment or transfer of nist:
ist guerillas concentrated at as soon as possible Prisoners
a personal sinte premises I am unable to assist Kymukso, 30 miles south of opposing repatriation would be would issue
but when the how that would appropriate groups ment at 1800, Mandalay, had been infiltrating brought in
there could no transfer the adjoining southern Shon to the exchange point and freed me came he said, "There will appellant. For, burely if there
military control. Then be no statement by His Majesty was States, preaching open rebellion, of repudiation of taxes and forcible without questioning, interview because there is nothing to add have been no breach of the or screening, cach prisoner to what I said this afternoon provisions of Section 20 of the occupation of lands,
Inill unfrue. Landlord and Tenant Ordin- According to official sources would be free to go to the hide The report
ance, and the amended ground of the most formidabio rebel group, of his choice-Associated Press, United Press.
cried, "Tm of...of...." very frightened
seconds; and he paused soine "I'm so frightened-of myself like this," he said,
"Why did you leave the 20
a week job?" Mr Bennett ask- eti him.
"It's only
this morning I heard rd had that job," Clo- ment said. "You see, ELT, everything's gone, everything. And now I'm frightened of.my- self, sir."
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Bennett remanded MClement for
a week In custody, so that a doctor might seo him; and so that the court might try to trace his family; and when they led him from
The missina_words ares whitei wrhizinz allein stigar shøret storst Bearer talus stalk.
London Bepräst Servios.
the 'dock, he went, looking, for the first time that morning, re- laxed. As a child goes, return ing to bed, whom a nightmare has roused, and - whose fears have been set at rest, he want out trustingly · and calm.
The government today set up brought to the exchange. point of the post as Third Secretary the promises to the second and
upon
country
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