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Archie, The Anarchist
RCHIE describes him-
Acer in the frankest
possible way, as an anarch- ist; and it is a measure of how far we have progressed in violence in the last 50 years that nowadays such a
seem calling should homely and comfortable as that of, say, a muffin man or an Old English Sheepdog.
8
ho
In black slouch hat and cloak, the old-line anarchist divided his days between skulking in 11-it Linchouso alleyways (
Limehouse was. always Inhabited, never such areas as Tulse Hill, or Twickenham) and commuting to und from the Balkans in a blind-drawn coupe un the Orient Express. He was a mysterious, cadaverous figure, whose clothes were threadbare, whore
English accent was
and appulling.
who worr 8
beard.
that he wears a neatly beard, Archie, the 1952 unarchiat, does not tally in any respect with the old sort.
Не
wears good clothes in a way that must bring joy to his tailor; In place of a cloak, he wears a neally filling gaberdine mackin- htt He Is cloquent and
tosh.
is called well-spoken, he is 30 years old and (the £25 travel allowance
I suppose, might, have put the old kind of unarchist
out
business) of Instead of spending his free time in the Orient Express, he de- votes it to public speaking from a portable platform he set up in the alde-streets of Soho..
HE
•
TE was brought into the dock at Great Marlborough Street the other morning to be charged with obstructing a side street by causing a crowd tu gather and with obstructing the pollee in their duty of clearing up the obstruction.
Archie pleaded not guilty and
Д
that
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1952.
BARRICADES GO UP IN NAIROBI
Barricades under armed supervision have been erected in the streets of Nairobi, after the State of Emergency had been proclaimed, and hundreds of Africans were arrested by pollco during a round-up of Mau Mau suspects. Al- though the Kenya Government believed that the principal members of the terrorist organisation were in custody, more arrests have since been made, -- London Express.
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Russian Manoeuvres
Zagreb, Nov. 4. M. Edward Kardell, Yugoslav Foreign Minister, warned today that the Soviet Union, pursuing Its insatiable imperialist appetito
spli was trying to Europe away from the United Slates,
Western
Addressing the All-Party Con- sald that Marshal gress, he Stalin's recent article in the Sovict Communist periodical
"Dolshevik" had
shown
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there were two phases in Soviet or Canada, 4.30 p.m., H.KA post-war policy.
made much of the fact until the policeman arrived to clear them off, he and his friends, whom he called The Group, had succeeded in teresting only handful of With the people in anarchy. policeman's arrival, he said, the crowd quickly swelled to 50.
"We usually," he said from the witness-box, "co-operate proaching
Mucco, 9....., City/Tak Shing.
The first was allempts to reach agreement with the United States on the basis of spheres of influence, in order to isolate the big European coun- tries like France and Britain.
The later phase Western
European & West particularly Britain, United securing Russian
countries,
with the police inquired Me in order to isolate the
"But surely." Paul Bennett, VC, the magis-States, thus Trate,-
you're an unarchist you're against law and order?"
order.
nose,
governments, which we consider oppressive...
2)
wast
-10
Winding-Up Hearing Adjourned
was
WATCH FOR
SNORKEL
MURDER TRIAL: GALLAGHER GIVES EVIDENCE & IS CROSS-EXAMINED
Replies To Judge's Queries About Regulations
means nothing to you?
Gallagher agreed.
Rifleman William Eugene Gallagher, aged 19, of the Royal Ulster you are sick and tired of it, then Rifles, charged with the murder by shooting of Tsoi Kwai, an ice-creamy get to the stage where it vendor, in the New Territories on July 29 last, this morning went into the witness-box at his Criminal Session trial before Mr Justice Williams and a jury, and testified in his own defence. He was also cross-examined by Crown Counsel.
In the course of the morning's proceedings, Gallagher, in reply to the Judge said that though a regulation may be the most important thing in the world, the more it is read to you the more it becomes a matter to which no importance is attached.
to make a state-
He was asked about his arms drill and said he had it every morning. He told Crown Coun sel that everything was so auto- matic and so quick that
ho reached a stage of performing the operation of cocking a gun without knowing he was putting
a round in the breech,
"What do you regard the Bro- to-kill drill as, playing soldiers?"
Mr Blair-Korr.
asked
"I did not that a thought",
replied G
10
He agreed with the question put to him by Mr Justice Williams that however important a regulation, if it was read to one continually until one be comes sick and tired of hearing it, then one got to the stage whore it meant no. thing.
Counsel then
turned 10 To his knowledge none of the charge and asked him whether
Gallagher's
the answer The Crown case, conducted by road between 8 and 8.30 p.m. Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr, Crown The man jumped off his bicycle sentries at Tau Pass had loaded for a lark" encant "for a bit Counsel, closed at 10.10 o'clock and trotted with it until he revolvers, sald Gallagher,
Asked how he would give the
of fun for yoursck." after Mr P. Lowe, ADCI (Kow-stopped opposite where he (ac-")
A PRETENCE loon) had given evidence of the cused) was standing, about five regulation effect if someona had
The accused said he meant it accused being charged at Sheung yards from the top of the barb-broken into the camp and was
was a pretence just to scare the making off will stolen ammuni- Shul Police
ac- cd wire fencing. Station. The ac-/
"He said in broken English tion if he thought his rife wasian away. He thought the moon cused elected
was loitering and if an officer rote something about' If I wanted to not loaded, Gallagher replied "I ment which witness wrote
did Han buy mineral waters or ice-cream. not bother. No one took happened along there would be down. It read, "I never done I told him to shift on. He did ony bother before so it was trouble. murder. I dune it more or less
nlright by me."
Mr Blair-Kerr: You realise. to stare him for a lark. I did
His Lordship: Did you make He admitted that each of the that a citizen of this Colony has not know the gun was loaded."
Did you The Hon. Leo d'Almada, QC, any movements with your hands sentries was personally issued a right to the road.
or the weapon or anything? with ten rounds the night before think that the orders were such leading
Counsel for the Defence,
Gallagher: 1 waved my left he went on guard. He threw that they completely took away said that he did not think i hand and told him to shift on. I his two clips of ammunition an this
man's eight to stand there was necessary to open his case, 1013 him to
in the shift on several to the table with his gear. He
road? save to call the accused and times. He did not move on. did not know what the others Gallagher-1 thought it did." three witnesses to give evidence, Mr Clifford What did you did with their rounds.
He said that he would not The story was
one which did then da?
Gallagher maintained it never have allowed the man to stand not necessitate an opening, in Gallagher: It came natural. occurred to him that Hunt's gun for any time, but agreed that his submission, and therefore he I took the rifle off my right was loaded. He agreed with he did not. think the man in- did not propose to waste time of the Court.
ACCUSED TESTIFIES
witness-box.
Northern
not," he said.
the shoulder. The ride was coming
reaction?
like?
...
asked
Crown
tended to leave the main road
the
camp. and enter
Crown Counsel put it to him that he must have known and ought to have known that the rifle was loaded.
under guard
"I have been
Crown Counsel that in pointing the gun at the Chinese he never took any action to ascertain whether it was loaded or not,
"Why not?" Counsel.
"If the Corporal had checked it there was no need for me to twice before and the gun was rheck (I would have seen it was not loaded. Why the difference loaded, he explained later). As this
time?" was Gallagher's the Corporal
check reply.
Asked whether it was not a was** unloaded."
part of guard training that when one
did not assumed it
"Did you not realise that
a
a
mounted and dis- mounted sentry duty one should test the gun, Gallagher said it depended on the guard com mander.
RE-EXAMINATION
up when I pushed forward the safety catch, pulled back the bolt
and pressed it forward The possibility that some Gallagher then entered the again. I pointed the gun at him He said that he and pulled the trigger. The arrangement might be ar rived at which might bring was 18 and before being called click never went off but a round
up for national service was a instead went off. the proceedings to an end bulkiers' labourer. He was call-
LIKE DREAMING mentioned by Counseled up about April, 1951, and Mr Clifford: What was your What did you feel when an application to ad- then served in England and in Ireland. He first join- journ hearing for 24 hours ed the Inniskilling Fusiliers and
st Gallagher: It was like as if of the petition for the then transferred to the Royal. I was dreaming. I just grab- winding-up of the Ching Ulster Rifles for service abroad, bed hold of my rifle and auto-was a lethal weapon and if Siong Land Investment Co., all of which had been served in matically put it to the ground. bullet came out of it and hit
Hongkong.
I knew that I had damaged man it would kill him?-I did Ltd., which is associated
someone and I thought the gun not expect to hit any one. with Luna Park, was made
might go off again,
Did you point it straight at 4.30 before Mr Justice Reece,
him?--I think so,
In re-examination by Mr Pulsne Judge, in the Bank
I just held it out.
Shoulder high?--I don't know, d'Almada the accused explained. that if he had been at Head- Golden rupley Court this morning. The application was granted
REGULATIONS QUERIES quarters at Dodwell's Ridge and hearing was adjourned to
ho would not have behaved Hika When Gallagher was ques- 10 nm. tomorrow.
that because there the Cor- the regulations re-
Forporal always checked the gun so What was the state of your toned on
garding the circumstances that time? I was firing and a sentry's gun having ways loaded. The gun to uip
that he knew the gun was al- very puzzled. I had a funny five rounds in the magazine and
here feeling and did not know what I notte in the breech, he mid that was always loaded because off- was doing. I could have ejected
He said that he had in mind the empty cartridge case, the continuous routine made the cera were "hanging around." Bon't know.
randing of regulations purely
the regulation concerning the Accused admitted
formal, and he did not take any that ho
prevention of persons inftring the camp when he He added "If you get things around
The Judge asked Gallagher He had not to his knowledge pumped into you every day it pointed the gun at the man.
just means nothing."
Would you, ever seen the vendor before.
the Asked about his statement to
ine
After putting the rifle down know whether I ran or walked what did you do then?--I don't up the path. There were all the other guards standing out- side the hut.
On July 29, the day of the incident, he had only a few more months to carry out before had had three bours of sentry release, he said. He added he duty at Tau Pass ammunition dump, and two weeks before the third tour he had done duty at
Chatham Road camp. The petition was brought by On his first
ot two tours Kwik Slang-kle, merchant, of duty at Tau Pass he had carried 229 Gloucester Road, first floor. his own rifle and did a the and Chan Hing-wan, widow, of gun passed to him from 31 Lung Kai Terrace. They preceding sentry. No rounds McNeill, QC, and Mr S. V. were represented by Mr John were in the magazine on those two occasions. His first sentry duly at Tau Paes was in Novem- India, Pakistan. -- Middle | Giitins, Instructed by Mr M. Aber last year just after the Recried and also prayed with Row notice of the reading......
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4 By Air Phillippines, Guam, Hawaii, USA.. (San Francisco), Noon, via PAA
Formosa, 1 pm., C.A.T. Indo-China, France, French North
Africa,
Als 4.30 pan Vietnam.
Phlippines, N. Berneo, 1.30 pm. C.P.A.
QEA
Slam East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe, Noon, B.O.A.C.
Japan, Canada, USA. 5
Australia, New Zealand, 4.30 p.
mind
Whelan.
Asked Judge:
"Do you
in the
the most important thing
you the more it becomes a
for a lark, paint
accused replied "I don't
"Have you not been taught in the Army the Importance of not using a rifle for the purpose of a larka toy that you can play with?" asked the Judge,
"Yes," replied Gollagher, The case is proceeding.
hegemony,
da Silva, Declaring the cold war was a Archie, who has an engaging-
The Ching Stong Land Invest-giment arrived here. The sea- for Soviet foreign ly tip-tilted
smiled necessity
pament Co., Ltd. wore represented tries then carried empty rifles. through his beard and corrected. Policy. M. Kardelj maintained C.P.AS.
By Surfaco
Mr Cliffort: Why carry empty by Mr Brook A. Bemacchi, "We're not against that the Korean war had teen
Macao, 9 am: 0 pm, ss Golden instructed by Mr P. L. Lam, rifles?
Foldier?" against all forms started partly to test the forces cly/Tak Shing
while Mr Percy People's
Gallagher: The Battalion had the Police when charged that ho mean that a regulation may be your rifle at any other fellow and China,
Chen, also countries
Republic, 8.30
The of force-the army, the police, of the Western
instructed by Mr Lam, appeared
come from Korea and the did it to scare the man, accused party to be able to hold China,, train via Canton.
Malaya, India, Pakistan 10 a.m., for Kwik Siang-go. managing soldiers were easier and did not said that what he did with the world but the more it is read to think so." in the Soviet Union's claws
ss Shunkel Maru
rife was bother director of the Company, Philippines, Noon, Prem. Filmoto
a pretence to scare mattor to which you attach no to put rounds in the Indonesia, lk a.m, Tokyo Maru.
This morning Mr McNell said rifles; so I just adopted the same him.
importance?" Indo-China, 10a.m... North that his instructing solicitor and attitude and never bothered. Mr Clifford: Why did you want:
Gallagher replied" "Yes." him Mr Lam, the instructing solici- That was true on both occasions to scare ilm? To make
Judge: Do you agree that a tur to Counsel for the Company before July 20.
regulation, however important, it Did you think the gun was and Kwik Slang-go had
Speaking of Chatham Road agreed that there should be an adjourn camp, Gallagher said that empty loaded or unloaded?-Unloaded. It is read to you continually until
were carried
Have you ever ment for 24 hours with a view rifles
on sentry
in Hongkong
SIDE GLANCES to some
duty both during day and night. been on sentry duty where, to possibly coming arrangement which might bring The rounds brought by scntic loaded, not talking about Tau your knowledge, the rific was the proceedings to an end. going on duty were left in the Pass or Chatham Road Yes,
Both Mr Bernacchi and Mr sentry box both during day and Chen said they were in agree-
at night time. ment with what Mr McNeill had said:
"BUT
(DUT I thought anarchista hat bombs," Mr Bennett pursued. "Wasn't one sent once the Greenwich to blow up Observatory?"
"Long, long, ago," Archle said indulgently. There was a story, I believe, by a Mr Joseph Conrad. It is in aur Interest
that law and order should be preserved, so that we can keep
our meetings going."
'You are a very peaceful
anarchist," said Mr Bennett.
M. Kardelj described the So- viet policy towards Germany as hypocritical. They were always speaking of unifying the coun- try, but doing everything to prevent it, he said.-Reuter,
Quake Strikes Japan
Manila. Nov. 5.
"Very," Archie agreed, not An earthquake in Japan was quite preening himself. "This recorded here at 11.07 hours police officer didn't behave quite { (local time) today,
in the way we have come to expect," he added.
*
HE tidied up his notes and
returned froin the witne box to the dock. and said ho
would like to call four with -three members of The Group and one independent witness, who turned out to be the brother of a girl bellover,
and
The Intensity was from seven one-fourth to eight and one-half in the Richter scale,
to
Weather the according
а
Bureau.
Meanwhile, there was caused a tidal wave too strong Siberian earthquake, which
for the seismograph here.
The Weather Bureau's chief Reophysicist, Arturo Alcaraz,
"What about the independent said that it was possible that witness?" Mr Bennett asked, the tidal wave might hit the
after the
first
Archie's Philippines-France-Presse. of
friends had testified to the
maliness of the crowd,
y was saving him
end" Archie saldi.
Good tacties,
用户
for the
yes,"
the
Japanese Free Sailors
magistrate acknowledged,
At last tho
case was over, and Mr Bennett said: "It does seem to me that this was a very poorly attended and disappoint ing meeting. It seems it was the officer who drew the crowd. But in point of fact, there must have been rome obstruction. I'm satisfied it wasn't serious; you must pay 5."
Star.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 by Air Formosa, Japan, 1 pm. C.A.T. Formoss, Okinawa, U.S.A., (Seat- tie & Weston States), Canada. 430 p.m. X.X.A.IN.W.AL.
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SATURDAY AI
NOVEMBER 6
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His Lordship adjourned hear ing until 10 a.m. tomorrow.
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King, MA, Lecturer in Econv mics and Political Solence at the University of Hongkong,
Radio Hongkong
H.K.T.
DAY DUTY STICKS
shift on.
sir. At. Dodwell's Ridge head- quarters.
Wen asked by Counsel how Mr Cluford: Later I belleve he knew the magazine Wes for day duty sticks were given loaded then, the accused replied instead of rifles. Yes, air. At that
the guard commander night we still continued with made sure that each sentry placed five rounds in the maga- At Chatham Road camp did zinc. On other occasions the. you know whether it was your magazine was loaded with duty to move off loltereru? It clip in the presence of the car- was my duly.
poral in charge.
rifles.
20th
CROSS-EXAMINED
1
the
And if told to move, and he refused to do so, what did you
Cross-examined by Crown do? I took off the rillo from Counsel, Gallagher said that his my shoulder, knocked off the
birthday would be in safety catch, pulled back the bolt, pulled the trigger, because February. Before doing national service, he had no previous miti- I wanted to scare him.
Gallagher then demonstrated tory service, He had very con- what he did.
aiderable
driling
withi Replying further, the accused Springfield American rifle similar Duke Of Kent Leaves, that west sentries did this to the one in Court
His Royal Highness the Duke to his knowledge. On his first Gallagher admitted that he 6. Programme Summary: $.02,
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The Duke, who was accom
remember.
the breech with a round and siana (Concert Hall) The Pipes and
Jila Drums of the lat Battalion, The panted by
ADC, Lord Gallagher said that July 29 that orice this was done there King's Scottish Borderers Under Althorp, was seen Tips Majer Donald Mckinnon. Tak by HE the Governor and Chatham Road. He took the tile sary to discharge the bullet and off at Kai was his first guard duty after was only one operation neces- Tokyo Nov. 5. Kind Permission of Lt-Col. D. R The two British sailors sen-Tedman, USO, ORE, and the Officers: Air Commodore D.W.F. Bonham from thm Hunt at 1.30pm. that was to pull the trigger.
7. Time Signal. Corter.
Nether he nor Hunt Inspected tenced on August 5 to imprison- 8.50, Interlude;
Replying
further, World News Relay): 7.10, Ал
her, Gallagher the weapon, he added.
said that at Chatham Road ment in Japan for robbery have
His Royal Highness's plano Analysis
tio resulta
Mr Clifford: Did you know Camp his duty was to been freed
American Presidential Elec- was escorted some way out of
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Gallagher mid that the sen- phony Oreliestra cond, by Birge
read out to from Hunt for his second tour try's orders were prison senterrce but ordered It Courvitzky: 7.09, Weather Report: suspended for three years,
sentry duty neither he nor him by Cpl Scully on the morn
the guth The Court found that the two
Hunt inspected the
Ing of July 29 and portions of Peter Stinner and Derek
WHAT HAPPENED
were read again to him in the from Her Majesty's
Counsel then asked the as- evening. The regulation" con
under cruiser Belfast, had no criminal Intent.
The sailors were handed over
the British authorities, - Reuter.
"HOW sweet," a women mur- was silting mured, who behind me, but Archie wre not going to be outdone in generoUS gestures. In the circum stances," he said, "I shall not ask for expenses for my wit- nesses." No, ono. Pecmed to to hear.
the
the
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