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JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
The Pipe Smoker
I
was, perhaps, the lady
first, and pointed out the many. simple but splendid virtues possessed by men who smoke pipes.
Pipe smakers in books by lady noyclist, have rugged Read
looks nud conceal, beneath their preid dispositions and ⚫honicspun
tweeds.
their
enormous
ncar.
For strength and bravery. ly i won England rugby foot- bull caps at one time or another, Ind most played in the middle of the front row of the Forum, until, perhaps, stuin-pipe-smok- ing took away their wind.
old
Kind to children and Indies, pipe smokers are kind to animals, and especially kind to beautiful.
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"Established 1945
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1953.
15-Ft Man Eating Shark Caught
Van Fleet helpless girls who
have got themselves into sort of jam.
some
Alf these are virtues, but the best is still to come. It is the Im- pregnably unruffled calm a pipe
kinüker my be counted upon to display when confronted with calamity-any kind of columnity, from a premature call of Time, gentlemen," to being tied to the rails before an oncoming ex- press, his pipe gone out, and no hand free to get at his matches.
THIS
•
kind of calm, the man the
tle
dock al
the
at a
Thames court displayed
moment of crisis when his pipe
was
being very
thoroughly
examined by the magistrale, Mi
Harold Sturge.
a foot
on
The pipe was about long and. looked as though it) might have been home-mude
after
one attendance at evening class in pipe-making. The bowl was the size of a coffee cup and most of it looked to be made of wood, though it had a kind of of a rather pretty, porcelain,
rum
puttered,
Hands Over
His Command
Seoul, Feb. 11.
General James A. Van Fleet, Commander-in-Chief of the Eighth Army in Korca for nearly 23 months, turned over his command to Lt-Gen. Maxwell Taylor in a simple ceremony at an airport near Seoul today.
The 60-year-old general left the airport in a shiny Constellation for Tokyo and the first leg of his journey to the United States and retirement without achieving the final victory in Korea that he believed in.
British Flood
Disaster
Fund
Thousands of Koreans lined the streets of Secul as he drova to the airport after paying his final visit to President Syngnian Thee.
Earlier, he had taken his final solute in his Eighth Army com- pound from a chromium helmet- ed honour guard and paid a final visit to Li-Gen. Glenn O Barcus at bis Fifth Air Force Head- quarters.
Thousands of persons, military and civilian, lined the field near Seoul to see Gen. Van Fleet step Total as at 4 p.m. yesterday aboard the plane and end his
KK$10,240
career in Korea.
ever
This 15-foot long tiger shark, one of the biggest caught off Bondi Bench, Sydney, was land- ed after a terrific struggle in which three boats took more than an hour to haul it in. Threshing the water with its huge tail, It threatened to overturn the boats and throw the occupants into the water, before it was finally sub- dued. The struggle was watched from the beach by hundreds of people.-- London Express.
GIFTS
FOR
THE POOR
And Sterling £48, 15. Od., US$40.00.ed Press Staff correspon- the Welfare Association of St
Mrs & Sinclair
there were two brass.cup affairs and went with the pipe, apare Mr that bowls made from, brass door- knobs.
It was an opium pipe, and the little man in the dock, who so stoically endured its Inspec- tion, was a Chinese whose name sounded like Ah-Mec,
A
POLICE inspector told the court how, acting on infor- ration received from
D. D
Mr M. W. Turner
Messrs. Gilman & Co.,
Ltd.
Mr B. G. W. Weldon Mr & Mrs W. N. N.
Andrews
Mr George-Pollock-.. Mr & Mrs J, K, Wilson Margaret H. Brown .. Mr James B. Baxter..
a source "M.W.R.'"
he did not disclose, he had gone Mr & Mrs R.
to the East End flat where Ah- Johannessen
& Mrs Wallace
Mee lived with his English wife, Mr &
carried out a.search.
and car
Aha
៥
Harper
Mrs A. K. Murray C. W. & D. L. Haynes Me F. J. Knightly.. Mr & Mrs Wm. Pater-
Mce, a man ct 32, once a scaman Mr in Britain's Merchant Navy, sunk, pensionably wounded, and made prisoner during the war, was not in the flat. He was working in his £10 a week job as cook In a Chinese restaurant.
At Ah-Mee's home the inspec- tor found the pipe hidden in a cupboard, some prepared opiuni capsules in a shoe, six ounces of raw opium in a clock. He went to the restaurant where Ah-Mee worked, and arrested him. "Me smoke for my pain," Ah-Mee sald, and added with simple gallantry Wife no smoke."
TOW, through
NOW
2
son
"Diana", "Babsle"
"Bootaic" Mr & Mrs R. W. H.
Maynard
Mr K. Yipp The Staff, Ying Wa
Girls School East Coast Visitor". Patricin Penn Donald & Rosemary
Brookes
Chinese New Year gifts la the form of parcels containing rice. sausages, clothing and other daily necessities will be distributed to poor people, ir respective of creed and race, by dent Al Kaff said, "Colonels Margaret Mary's Church at 100 cried openly and the geral Broadwood Road, Happy Valley 250 himself was close to tears," at 11.30 a.m. tomorrow.
Kaff said the change in com- 2,000 mand took place at the Eighth
25
Some 350 tickets which entilje Army Headquarters at mid- the holders to receive these
but that night,
Gen Taylor parcels have been distributed 25 actually took over when Gen. through members of the 300 Van Fleet's plane left the Church Association. There will
25
20 ground for Tokyo,
50
FINAL MESSAGE
10
1,000
Sheaffer's
Counsels' Final Submissions In Claim For Alleged
Of Contract Breach
THE WORLD'S BEST!
Judgment was reserved when hearing of a claim for the return
of deposit and damages for alleged breach of contract arising out of a transaction for German carbon black, concluded before the Puisne Judge, Mr Justice Reece, in the Supreme Court this morning.
Plaintiffs were the Wing Yip Hong, merchants, of 83 Connaught Road Central and they were represented by Mr Patrick Yu, instructed by Messrs. Hastings and Company.
Defendants were the United Trade Developments Ltd, merchants, of 1 Duddell Street. Appearing for them was Mr Oswald V. Cheung, instructed by Mr P. L. Lam,
He submitted that defendants tentiered the actual goods bar gained for.
Its quality and were unchallenged,
origin
sald.
PRICE FELL
bo
Plaintiffs clokned for the return of $30,765 deposit paid by them to the defendants, fer loss of profit or difference between the contract and market prices of five metric tons of "Meteor"
Mr Cheung further submitted carbon black at 10 cents per lb, that defendants' tonder WDB amounting to $1,102.30, and for good tender, that it was the damages for breach of contract. plaintiffs who had failed to The last witness this morn-perform their contract and that ing was Lai Chu-sek, Secretary defendants were entitled to ro-
defendant Company who tain the deposit. said that in November, 1051, he received involdis and will of lading concerning the goods and had a letter sent to the plaintif on November 27. daya
later
Man Po-hon came to see
him.
He showed Man the documente, told Titm that the
goods were as the sample and sent by the same manufacturers and asked ,him for payment. Man told him that he would have to consult other people as the capital put up for the goods was not his alone.
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Mechanised Junks
Living Language
Why we say akimbo.
Arma
The word "akimbo"- is interesting if only because it is nowadays only used to describe. the position of the arms when tho ́ ́ hands are rested on the hips. The word is used in no other context. Its origin is doubtful for It may have come either from the Italian sghembo, crooked,-- or from two Icelandic words, kengr and boginn, which to- gether means a' crook- ed stick.
Exhibition Mail
Fish to the value of $40,000,-
Referring to the price of carbon black in December, 1 by planned Mr Cheung said that there was undisputed evidence that the price fell during that month. submitted that the price for epot goods at the time that the the same spot bould
de-
have been fivery was about $5, that it fell to about
$4 or even less and that there were no buyers at all.
Counsel rald that there was Do substance whatsoever in the Let cald that in August, 1951,
plaintiffs* claim that they had the wholesale price of spot suffered damage by reason of carbon black "Meteor" was defendants' alleged failure to about $17.50 a pound. At that deliver the goods. time that was tho
Ho asked the Court to reject price for
in any German carbon black be toto all and any evidence that "Meteor" brond was the price was $6.30 at the end of old that little known in the market. The December, 1961. Ho price remained about the same
reason why the goods were rejected was because for over two months, this sharp drop in price and that this of the December, 1951, it fell heavily,
000 was landed in Hongkong during 1952 and it is possible development to double or even treble this quan- tily, Bald Mr William Sprague, Acting Director of Marine. when he declared open the 1953 Fishing Junk Mechanisation Exhibition at tho Aberdeen Fishing Market this morning.
Mr Sprague said that unco the wor the process DI mechanisation had been greatly the motorised accelerated and
longer an Junke familiar spectacle.
wall no
un-
Ho said: "In no field has the
change-over been so marked as it has been among the vessels of the Hongkong fishing fleet, the operation of which is cap- de- able of very considerable velopment,"
ACTIVE POLICY At the beginning of December alleged failure on the part of
defendants to perform their con- Mr Sprague further raid it was about $8 a pound
and
the Active on December 22 after the ship tract was an excuse for plaintiffs that it had bean had arrived it fell to $5 because
because to get out of their lawful policy of Government to encourage the adoption of more there were.no buyers. By the chilgation
methods Counsel asked the Court, for efficient end of December It had fallen
claim.
SUBMISSIONS
:
of fishing
to almost the $4 level, at the these reasons, to dismiss the generally with a view to pro- about $3 and at the end of
curing larger supplies of sh end of January, 1952, it was
that and a reduction in cost to the In reply, Mr Yu sald February it was some $2 a his learned friend tried to prove consuming public,
to
Fisheries pound.
Ho that the goods tendered
sală: "The plaintiffs were in fact the Division of the Department of some as those contracted for. Agriculture,
and Fisheries
the In his final submissions, Mr Mr Cheung had tried to show Forestry is charged with Cheung
asked the Court to In thip first place by quoting responsibility of implementing look at the surrounding eir surveyors reports and docu- that polley and I do not need cumstances in August, 1951, mentr of title.
to remind you of the en- when the contract was made.
thusiasm and sympathetic At that time the evidence_was
interest which they have shown
NO PROOF AT LAW --Mr-Yu- sald, -that-- his
first
be other parcels of clothing for a "Motor" carbon black had point in answer was that there in so doing."
those without tickels,,
the
At the Eighth Army head-
The parcels are made avail- quarters before his motorcade drove slowly through the wet abie by the generous donations streets, brightened by the flash of
American Catholic 250 of American and Korean flags, Welfare Committee and money Gen. Van Fleet told his troops: collected In Hongkong by "I want to say there is no Catholic Action members. greater honour for an army
150
30
100
man to be saluted by the flags
of the United Nations, the Unit
ed States and the Republic of
200 Korea in the presence of these
fighting men of the Eighth Japanese
250 Army, the honour guatti, this great band of friends and Gen.
50 Taylor. Thank you. I'll be 20 thinking of you always,"
100
Gen. Van Fleet then walked across the street to the Fifth 50 Air Force headquarters where ON he was honoured by the Fifth Air Force band which played the artillery song.
23
Restrictions
Removed
studious Total at 11 a.m. today HK$15,120 | with Gen. Barcus and staff mem- Trade
looking interpreter, Ah-Meo pleaded guilty to all the charges against him. "He says," said the interpreter,
"he is sick man and addict, and every now and then he get attack, Inside him. He says he place whole matter in magistrate's hands,"
The matter was already there. "Tell him," said Mir Sturgy, "that in my view it will be necessary for him to go for a substantial term of imprison-
ment
"Before I decide how long, I -am remanding him for a medical report which will guide me us "to the length of time necessary to part him from this drug so that he will nover touch it again, That may not be possible, but in any case it will be noces. sary for him to
suffer A sen- tence, owing to the gravity of the charges."
TH
HE translator. put it into Al- Moo's language, y· Ah-Meo. gravely nodded, and mado a short reply. "He says," said the Interpreter to the magistrate, "he says he quito agree”
It was the kind of stolo been answer that might have
a pipe smoker. ***unruffled Impregnobly enim, Ah-Mee went off to the 'celiz
expected from With
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Among the guests wero Mr J. was no proof at all at law. Colony and that
Hot They were not concerned with Cater, Director of Marketing and known.
The evidence was that tho shippers did, nor Acting Director of Agriculture, all German carbon black fetch-
ch with the
Fisheries and Forestry; Mr. C. ed the same price in the market.
opinion
were. B. W. Harrison, United Kingdom Counsel asked the Court to
Trade Commissioner in Hong- say that the plaintiffs did not The mere fact that it was Tra
kong,
Mr T.R.G. Fieteber, rely
WAL | The on
description, written on the bill of lading
Trade Commissioner "Meteor
black; that and
and on carbon
the invoices that the Canadian
carbon in Hongkong, Marketing and they did not rely on the brand goods shipped were name because the brand was black "Metcor" did not help in Marine Officials. bardly known
On view were marine engines to them; and the least to make them so if in that what they wanted to buy fact they were something else, and equipment for junk mechaal- was German carbon black ac-he said, cording to the sample attached, Counsel said that plakatif to the contract. Although It ordered carbon black "Meteor" was true that the parties con and on arrival of the goods they fructed to buy that particular were found to be "Double Chain", brand, "Meteor," he submitted From the two markings alone, that the brand was of no con- Counsel submitted, they were pequence whatsoever when the entirely different brands, contract was made, Mr Cheung The anus WIS upon the added.
defendants to prove firstly that He said that the Court should the goods were carbon black and And that the cargo which was secondly that they were carbon. tendered to the plaintiffs was in black "Meteor". Counsel said. fact "Meteor" carbon black. The There was no such evidence, he evidence that defendants ordered sald AD-
on
Gen. Von Fleet shook hands
Tokyo, Feb. 11. - The Ministry of International bers and then returned to the amelal
and Industry In Ils
bulletin today Eighth Army compound where nounced restrictions
It before August 13, 1951, A After, commenting on the sur- he posed with General Taylor for Japanese
textile exports to carbon black Meteor" was un- veyers reports, Mr Yu, naked hundreds of officers and enlisted
challenged, as was also the fact how, in the absence of evidence men who surrounded them with removed.
Hongkong and Singapore were
that the goods were described in to show that the ingredients of their cameras.
Feb. 10. The four-star general wore
fact the same, could his learned his famous ivory handled pistol The announcement pointed It was also undisputed that the friend possibly say that they with his olive drab uniform but out all other restrictions on goods, were made by the manu-
were fact the same. of had changed his usual cotton exports to the sterling area facturers
carbon black field hat for on officer's peaked were removed in- October Inst "Meteor and of exactly the same quality and klod as carbon black "Meteor".
cap.
Gen. Van Fleet lost wore his peaked cap when he received a surprise visit from his son on his 60th birthday. His son, a B-20 plot, was reported missing in action a few weeks later United Press.
Radio Hongkong
FIKT
year.
on
as from yesterday the shipping documents and the two, commodities were in
Japan placed steel and "textlla' exports to the 'sterling quota | system · In March last year. to curb the then growing accumulation of sterling balance,"
shipped as carbon black "Metear"
Ho further asked why, if it was not intended that "Meteor was not to be purchased, was the name Inserted in the con- tract at all.;
J
It was plainting case that
failed to per defendants had form their contract.
submis- Following further sions, Mr Yu asked the Court
give judgment
to
"THE LOOPHOLE" The loophole through which the plaintifs sought to escape from their obligatione was the Importers' label "Double Chain," which was pasted on the bags, However Japan's sterling said Mr Cheung. But the tietend plaintiffs. balance declined heavily during ants never contracted that they the latter half of last year due would not have their own
Ingel to lower exports to the sterling on the goods. There was no term area, attributed to Import cuts In the contract that the label made by merling nailons, so "Mateor" woukl be stencilled on
to the
Dagger Found
6. Programme Summery: 1.00 Journey Into Melody: 0.30, BBC -Bandstand · (BECTS), Band 'ut the
Scots Guardie conductor: Major 8. press are now stressing the fendants would
that Japanese Government and the bogs In Germany and de-In Man's House
be perfectly within their rights to have that
Rhodes, MUX; 7 Time Signal, need for expanding, trade with k stengitted-on the goods iDR. S. Winter, at Central today,a
World News and News Talk on the sterling area. don Relay); 7.13. Vocal dema "from "Carousel" (Rodgers — Hammer-
stein): 190, Orchesis of the Week Restrictions on textile exports -City of Birmingham Orchestra; to Hongkong and Singapore alana, 7.80, Weather Report: 0 Lucky were naiutained after Orte Dip--Variety Requesis presented Margherita (Studio); P. Recital by 1st year on the ground --that Jan-Itu (Tenor) with Plano Ao Japanese textile goods could be companiment by Moys Res (con transhipped to non-sterling areas cert Hall); 0.15 Follow my leader in these
(Pt. 2) (Packs), Dased_on_tha| book of the same name by Louis Hagen Produced by Marjorie Banki! Press reports sald, however, 6. Straus Bolt 1048, Victor ayerall exports to Hongkong and Bilvesleri Birings · for dandogi Singapore since the start of the 10.00. Weather Report: 11 Radio quoin ayatern in March last your ww Bus Records Mido dos have boss below the quotat
31.15 Goodnight Save The Queen; 11:30. Close Down. Reuter.
Pleating guilty before Mr
Hongkong with the full
auto charges of possessing a dan- thority of the manufacturers. If aerous weapon without having defendants were ready and will icence, Lam, Yiu, Cho, 37-
zło what they and able to
year-old broker of: No. 82 were required to do to have the Morrison Hill load was aned the bags, $40 and the weapon, a dagger, ink "Meteor on thon to subunitted that in law it was confiscated f would be a good tender and According to the prosecution, good performonald Mr a police offeer had to go to the Cheung Counsel said that search warrants to investigate
porokkal defendant's residence" (with" Coolinuing
at the time, the contract was another matter, not concerning made the name of the brand defendant. During the search was not important at all, - vip, the dagger was found,
The exhibition, chiefly put on for the benefit of the Colony's continue untit fisherfolk, will next Monday.
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