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CASEBOOK
Abdullah Hits Out
THE
are
E cafe was in one of those dockside streets. in East London which all through the summer visited by cruising motor- conches, whose passengers nervously clutch their seats as their guides explain how celebratedly tough the neighbourhood is.
The diaries of 10,000 tourists doubtless tell how their authors
afely
this passed through
notorious thoroughfare, how by the luckiest
they of chances, The just missed being involved in kulte fights, run-duels or (i their guide was especially gifted with imagination) bomb out-
rages.
What the diarists do not say, for the guides omit the fact from their lurk lectures, is that in this street live a fair number of peaceable inoffensive, piensant | Londoners, who happen to have nowhere else to live.
CHINA MAIL
Katablished 1845
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1953.
Super Train Goes Into Service
Rebellious
Convicts
Quieten Down
AT THE CAFE
THE enfe in this street was just like any other you might find in a part of the town that worked for its living. A plainly furnished room, long and narrow, where plain food was served; about it a kind of haze compounded of the fumes or frying fat and tobacco smoke.
A
warm, friendly place, whose windows, that on to the prison, where rebelljon broke
Kave sircet, were generally steamed out among The convicts
over.
Stillwater, Minn..
12.
The new Breda luxury
train starts on a regular Kai Tak Play Was service linking Milan and Naples in eight hours at an average speed of 100 km per hour. The train has its own kitchens with the up-to-date equip- most ment, modernistic dining car, observation car and lounge, and telephone and facilities, London cable
Express.
Ambitious, But Successful
"Night Must Fall", though Danny, the smiling villain, the paranoic, tried hard to put it off since the hour he
Sheaffer's SNORKEL
Libel Case Judgment:
Case Record To To Attorney-General
Go
Although he found there was libel in an advertisement published in the Chinese Press by one Chinese herbalist against another-both claim- ing to be cancer specialists-Mr Justice Reece at the Supreme Court this morning said he was strongly of the opinion that the public should be protected from the ministrations of both men as far as cancer treatment was concerned, and announced that he would send the case record to the
·Attorney-General for such action as he might deem fit.
Mr Justice Reece said he was taking this step in view of the evi- dence of Dr J. Gray, surgical specialist of the Hongkong Government, that it was impossible to cure cancer with pills and powders.
tural
meaning.
Plaintiff in the libel netlon,, ed in his reputation and actual Chly Fung-chiu, of 36 Jorduri, pecuniary loss as two witnesses. Road. WON awarded $1,000 | testified that they stopped going damages and
costs. He hari | to him for tuition after reading claimed $5,000,
the article. Therefore the or The Judge held that the n- ticle was defamatory in its na- vertisement in the C Yin Dally News put in by the de- Considering whether the fendant, Cheung Chai-tin, of justification plea was established, 50 Kimberley Road Injured the Mr Justice Recce found that the plaintiff in his reputation as plaintiff had used defendant's teacher of Chinese Medicine. pamphlel in writing his own He found that the part of the book but there was no justifica- article complaining that the tion
for other portions of the plaintiff shamelessly pirated"article which stated that plaintif a portion of defendant's pamph-was an unscrupulous practition tet "Simple Talic on Treatment er, had stolen defendant's name of Cancers with Medicine" was to deceive the public, and had Justified.
palmed off fish eye for a pearl by a false pubileity
campaign into considera- without taking
of tion the consequence dangering people's lives.
As regards the amount of dimages, Mr Justice Reece said that he would have awarded He produced 68 papers the view that he publication March was disinterested, but he found from the motives of self-Interest, re- and not in the interests of the
public.
Plaintiff a qualified herbalist, who was represented by Mr F. Wong, claimed that the article meant that he was an Impostor and swindler, unft to practise medicine, Chineze
oblaluing money by false pretences and on
+1-
Conditions in Stillwater ALLOTMENT mitted the murder in wrikble aisl dishonest per- nominal damages had he been of
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Philippines, N. Borneo, Formosa, U.S.A. (Scattio western States) Canada. 8 p.m..
C.P.A
the other night, a tall, yesterday, have "consider- €10 SHARES of Emlyn Williams, was pre-1953 in which the article ap that it was malicious and made ILK.A./N.W.AL.
improved,"
Edwin
red, severe-looking wo-jably man named Margaret was it- Swenson, who took over as ting, having her supper. She new warden after the de- had just taken an aperitif in a monstration public house a few deors mWBY and was feeling well-disposed today. towards the world.
nark
"COPPER'S ŃARK" \
witness-box.
in
Two
young barristers
began. said
Of the 1,000 prisoners, 802 re- mained locked in their cells 10- day, and the noise died down considerably, he added.
Request Granted
An order extending the time to two weeks for the fling of a allotment of chares return of
unct
mude
re- were
who
wns
this sinister three-act play son.
sented by Kal Tak Dramatic | peared.
Defendant, Society during the week-end
by Mr R.W.F. and produced by Fl-Lt T. A. presented
Lodge, relied on Justification, Roberts ав the Astra
pleading that the allegations in Cinema.
the article were true in sub- stance and in fact. He denied that the worÈS were published
and maliciously but falsely averred that his prime motive | in publishing them was to warn the public against being deceived by the plaintiff,
REAL MOTIVE
the
the
Was
many-sided
11
of
cancer
or not
Old Hongkong Newsman
Returns
In
Split-personally Danny of the Nan Sing Dyeing Works portrayed by Cpl. Lloyd who, In convincingly Ltd of National Bank Building, the difficult role,
by the Senior presented was Pulsne Judge, Mr Justice E. H. villain; at times, lively, suave, obliging. In and AS she waited a man came up
Williams, in the Supreme Court charming to her a coloured man,
The convicts spent the night | this morning.
moments of remorse, he was a whom she knew by name.
a temperature It was stated that the failure pitiable, hysterical human being
In this morning's judgment "Hey, you copper's hark," without heat in
Mr Justice Reece said he was was due to end in his mad moment, com- whose of 30 degrees. said the coloured mon,
asphyxiated the old posedly
Eatlsflert
Mr that the real motive
Harold Guard, original Swenson said he is awaltingle the return name was Abdullah.
lady with cushion.
behind the publication was manages of the Hongkong Bureau applicants "He said what to you?" asked the "psychological moment be inadvertence.
The
in the Important Mrs Britt
professional jealousy as the de-of the United Press and now the learned clerk in the Thames fore moving in to restore com-
presented by Mr Patrick Yu,
fendant felt that plaintif attached to the London office,
the court. for that
loud enough is where this plete order.
had encroached The violence. In Stillwater instructed by Mr A.M.L. Soares. role of Olivia Grayre had
arrived in Hongkong yesterday on his special the course of a flying tour conversation finished up next
Mr Tu told the Court that clear, level and pelson flared up, after five days
treatme of the hall. It
through the Middle East, South- was the who neld-that" 1949,
"Whether or not the sid, Hey, you copper's of unrest, when the prisoners the Company was incorporated voice to be heard at the back until October, 1951, the spoke all the key phrases and
tered them with unassuming dant or the plaintiff is qualified caust Asia and the Far East. Margaret sald, drawing were told there would be no in Hongkong in August,
to treat people suffering from
This is Mr Guard's first sight Perself up with dignity, in the further negotiations on a serles enpital
was $800,000 divided
fat eloquence. It was by staring of "grievances they had pre into 6,000 shares. At-a-mect abstractedly
the disease of cancer 1 do not of Hongkong since 1940 when he at the window,
conceive to be any part of my left the Colony to Inaugurate the were tented.
a book with a sigh.
kle duty to enquire into, or upon UP Bureau In Singapore. Although they were told that ing held on October 22 it was silting behind me in the court,
mask-live
He will be remembered by ¦ decided to increase these shares picking up
expressionless, been had worden and now one said to the other; a new
face she sometimes put on, her which I am called to express
Whether
pre-war readers of the Hong- crease the capital to $1,200,000. look of boredom with life, with an opinion. "You find an extreme candour appointed, and that a prison chief by another 6,000 and to in-
kong Telegraph for his amusing this court mit you don't against whose meula they the This was duly done, sald Coun- Laurie, her admirer, that Mrs either or both of these men are
Erbert daily contribution the vublic or causing find elsewhere,” The other protested had been removed,
to unfortun-
un-1ggs." harm screaming convicts smashed win-sel, but through inadvertence Britt showed her acting talent. dimcult rote of
"Mr Guard was a 'notable war agreed.
small fires in the cell-return of allotment was filed. Not Here was the dows.
the ate beings is not within 110
covering the correspondent, NATURALLY ....
blocks, and threw kitchen uten-until February 11 of this year, negative Inaction.
There are when the
THE OTHER ROLES scope of my duty. Company received sils into the yard.
others who must consider these battles of Malaya and Singapore, from the Registrar of letter
Mrs Carpenter 25
and Inter the US Air Force must MARGARET
Swenton, dormer worden at
grave matters, while I
the Southwest heard them and have been Maryland State Prison, called all Companies, were they uware Bramson, the neurotic old lady,
confine myself to the considera-activities in at ilmes did not sound as old as trying to live up to the reputa- off-duty guards de duty and that no return had been filed.
made to look. Her
of whether the article Pacific. tion. "So naturally 1 swore at blocked all roads in the prison
that applicants she was Bald
was make-up was somehow unsatis published is defamatory and If it is, whether the defendant has Abdullah," she said, "Then he area as soon as he took over. Bommented the fact that
an offence under the Companies factory. But on the whole she (Mra
justified it by establishing It Ordinance not to have filed was good, Mra Terence
and in was true in substance return, but they pleaded that it Wales) could not have been
fact," said the Judge was only through inadvertence more natural as the cook and that they had neglected to do Mrs Warnes, as Dora the victim placed themselves in of Danny's seduction, was fully 220, and
actuate, Capt E. E. his Lordship's hands.
Mr. Yu agreed that the mat- Kennington, as Hebert Laurie, out of Ume for provided occasional humour to ter had been
the otherwise grim play. In the well over a year.
cort also were Cpl. Balkin as the Lord Chief Justice and Sgt. JUDGE'S REMARKS
Wales as Inspector Belsize, of Indo-China andt
His Lordship said that it was
Credit must go to the producer successfully Ambitious the business of people who took for a Chinese Communists
the management of effort. In part kept sumciently
ascertain public companies
before de- April 10, 17 and 18 at the einwhere, he said what the law was
likely send more ciding to Issue new shares. It Missions to Seamen-I, La Vietminh rebels in was not a
might
Have
hit me in the face, and 1 went Associated Press.
through the
hand.'
window with me
true,"
"Nol
true, sir, not Abdullah cried from the dock. Ho was there charged with
causing grievous bodily harm to Margaret, who had a bruised lip, and cuts on her hand con- sistent with having pusheti it through a
glass window.
"Look, sir, this woman come
What Dulles
Said
(Continued from Page 1)
In and insult, ma mother," sald Abdullah, when his turn smo position
It the
ΠΟΙ
to give evidence. "Sho', I hit Korce. her, but I don' cut her, I don' do tha sort of thing. Tha' were woman just core in dead drunk pinned down
they would do you think heald to the
Indo-China. asked Mr
He Не
and insui ma mother."
Why
should pick on you?"
Leo Gradwell, the magistrate,
"She always take it to pick United
He called as a witness, a cheer.. of
pointed. ates
cose
to
of a company out that the just starting; the applicants were
1940.
They hud 'farporated in
on business as a public
30
on, me. sub," said Abdullah supplied amly about 30 per cent company and in 1951, two years
the arms and equipment
issued new shares but did not. small-built promised to the Nationalists for after they started business, they
the
procedure laid curry out down by the law,
ful, bouncing, coloured friend, who supported the past year.
Ab'ullah's story, but the case was found proved against him.
THE PRICE
NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST:
A
Mrs
The piny will be repeated on
tion
.
PUBLIC RIDICULE Ho found that the article as held a whole, unquestionably tho plaintif up to publie ridiculo and that he had suffer-
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in (Violin) and the Philhar
cond. by
Balay] (ecorded London
Razor Attack In Church
Paris, Apr. 12. An English woman, Mrs Edith Mir Dulles thought the United Is Lordship said he felt he Ball, 69, was slashed across the States might have to try to de-
and would be going a long way if he face with a razor blade by an velop some fresh policies
more granted the application, but in Italian woman in the famous ale perhaps spend
this case he was prepared to do Church of the Madeleine, in «TT. zeems quite clear," said money in these areas,
Go although with considerable the centre of Paris, today. He said the situation waz hesitation, He issued o warning
The Italian woman was held and that it quite precarious and the drift to people who took part in the by the police lives in FortisBind: Fores Show
unfavourable tó was not done in self-defence." is dangerously
management of public companies
Mrs Ball, Abdullah, it turned out, had us."
that in future cases they must Green Avenue, East Flachiey said peaco Mr Dulles been to prison once before-for
be procces according to the pro- London, was not seriously hurt tho Arab unlawfully wounding. His career tween Zarvel and
Ledure laid down. otherwise had been varied, states was an
had her cut dressed In essential ele Counsel and he was grateful and refurned to her hotel after He suggested the United to his Lordship and added that having tier. ranging from docis labourier to ment being a ballet dancer. Now he States could help the people to- he would convey his Lordship's was sent to prison for three wards
and remarks to the applicants.
"I come quic, Good
hit this woman,
· months.
better economic physical health.
told the
Com- He throw up his hands In Mr. Dulles
his milteo he planned to attend the gesture of defeat, and
of the North friend went back to the dock- Paris meeting sido street, the
On Treaty Counell tough and Atlantic tourist-frightening street, to tell April 23 and later visit Var Middle and them there what today's price Near, was of even a little violence. ** India and Pakistan.-Reuter,
the
Exhibition Closos. This Evening
10.00,
Werther Report: 11, Radio News feel London Relay): 115. Good night Music: God Bave The Queen¦
Close down.
Boy Mountaincor Killed
Two US Warships
Interiakoon, Apr. 12. Arrivo In Port
A sixteen-year-old London Two American naval vessels, schoolbay, D. Palmer was killed. The first pubile exhibition of the destroyer Buck and the this afternoon while climbing the Law and Sayer collection of transport Lenawee, arrived in the Harder Mountain mer Here.
7. Palmer fell 200 yarda: down pictures of old Hongkong and port this morning from northem China closes at 7p.m. today. It waters on a recreational visit the mountainside onto rocks at
2,200-ton (dis. the bottom and was killed. in being held at St John's The Buck is a
and the Ho is belloved to have tried to Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GRINHAM for Cathedral Hall. Up to Saturday placement) vessel
Eebawea is 6,700 tons (dis- make a short cut and flippedem,
| Reuter. placement), and on behalf of South China Mominy Post Limited at 1-3 over 4,600 people had been to Wyndham Street, City of Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong view, the collection.
Mr Guard expects to remain in Hongkong for a week, after which he will fly to Tokyo and Korea,
pm.
and
Blam, Malaya, Indonesia, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, India. PIEL tan, Middle East. Africa, Great Britain & Europe, & p.m. CPA/ B.O.A.C.
By Surface 9 ami ◊ pmm. ##
Macao,
Hòn his
TUESDAY, APRIL 14
L
By Air Indo-China, (Tonkin only) 8 am.... Via C.P.A.
Indo-China, France, French North West Africa, 430 pm. Air Viet-
LLESZI.
Japan, 8 pm. T.AC.
Dy Kurface
Macap. 9. am; 6 pm
Le
Hore Tak Shing.
China, People's Republic, 930 m., train via Canton.
North Borneo, 9 km., m Hew song. Philippines, Ceylon, Aden, Midde
East, Great Britain Europe, 11 am.
Autolycus.
Indo-China, i pan.. sa Helikon, Malaya. I pm. sa Hel Wong.
WEDNESDAY, APEI. 15 By Air
Philippines, Quam, Hawaii, USA.
·Canada.: 8-ming-vin-P.A.D.----
Indo-China. Malaya. Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, a C.P.A.
Formosa, Japan. 1 p.m., C.A.T. Butma. India, Pakistan, Middle East. Africa, Great Britain & Europe,
pm. B.O.A.C.
Formosa, Okinawa, U.S.A, (Now York). Canada. U D. BRA N.W.A.L.
Japan, p.m. 3.0.A.C.
From The Filos
100 Years
Agor
A daring gang of burglars remo to be going the rounds of the town nightly, and scaréely a morning passes without reports of houses being entered," "Mr Brooks of the City Hotel Mr Almada, Mr Brown, Sergeant Murphy, and Mr Duddell, have all been robbed within a few. days, while the only thief caught was in a China house in the western part of the town, and he received a severo beating from the inmates before being handad over to the police,
PIRATICAL ATTACK
OWINT
and
ΟΙ
On the 27th ultime, a large junk, on her passage from Hainan to Follen, was attacked and captured by six pirate Junks near Масло ono plundered of 70 pleuis Bicho de Mar, 400 piculs of Betelnut, 200 bags Sugar, 50 barrels Snuff, 200 plculs sticlae, besides $100 in allver,
50,000 copper on Monday last the
- BAW some of the pirates engaged in landing their booty at Chin-tsa-laxy, that long straggling village on the opposite side of the har bour, to which the informer Ma-tsow Wong lately threaten- ed to carry off the girl Akew, azad near 'which tho two officers were attacked from the Pekin
months
ago. tion was made 10 the
chler Majestrate, who, however, coull in tho do nothing
further maker, that give the junkmen
laster to
Kantoong the authorities-with what erfect, has not yet been ascertained.
On the 31st, a junk laden
by was taken with charcoal pirates and her crew landed at Fan-ching-chow,
Ashing- On the 4th, two boats were seized of Man-san. On the 7th, a trading junk was captured outside the Ly- yil-moon, and one of her crow burnt with a stinkpot; she was pillaged, and afterwards her proceed
some
a
then allowed | voyage.
to
on
A
A LETTER To the Editor of the "Chins Mail."
Sir, Will you oblige ma by directing some attention, to
ameful practice among would- bo-called sportsmen in Hong- out of kong, of shooting scason. It is true. that be fore and after
the long:sum- mer beats, one is only too, glad of a ramble over the hill on a cool day; but surely that
lover is no excuse for any of sport breaking through the rules absolutely necessary for the protection of Game, especially in a country where # scarce, I have been told that though. the pairing season has long since com | 2005O
have been menced, Pheasants
is Bo
By Burface MACAO, Dm; 6 pm., a Lee. colony who Hon/Tak Shing.
"What's His Line?" Solution TV ANNOUNCER London Mapress Seroke
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
"This special meeting was called for blood donors, girls. it's up to each of us to promiss a pint of our husband's
blood!"
shot within the past fortnight; and that a gentleman in the went to some ex- pense in casting adrift a num ber of Quails on his grounds found a person or personsione morning hard at work papering away at the poor birds, which were scarcely able to ny after their temporary captivity. I hope this hint may
the have effect of shaming the parties into more sportsmanlike be baviour in future; but should It not do so, I shall probably have something more to say, on the I am, subject. Meanwhile. Sir,
servant, GAMEKKEPLA,
your obedient
บ
AND ANOTHER TE
To the Editor of the "Chine-Maù," St.--I hope you sotend to take some, notice of the detention is the Post Office of the Mall letters by. the Achilles til alter the departure of the Erin. It seeme to, mo that adelafenīte the Postmaster and h might have deprived themselves for choe of a night's rest to serve the public and eneblo them to answer the letters. There is prodly o merchant or merchant's_clerk in Chiria but has berasionally to do without slowp for forty-eight hours. end, why should not the "Post Office clerks do so Ilko-tusse, Why? Ure interests of the community are int atake? One would think they might emily make up for it in the corSO of the fortnight- intervening betwee the malle, during which they spint have Hile else to do but count their Angerem,, Bir yours; fruty.
... A SUFFERER.
[22] 'Editor's Commentari
THE Steamer Achsics "" arrived. here on Sunday evening at 3 o'clock. with the English: mail, but the boxes wern not opened before, afternoon of the following day, nor Thorleiters by delivered, untiť
which time, the Erin! miist been well down, the Chiew:non!! We therefore rondly, siva, insertion to The above letter, considorleg 4 the wriderintifled in y his complaint. It would be tod: much, however to. expect such. Iabour from ang-pubile Event whatever; · kad·|-boiichen. Ara the prmount, instunog, the Portmanlar Ja very ·'Idir: excuro,'ikes the SEnet of his chief” sasietsent bothɛ] to/img- land, while a second is khanhé, on: duty in Ointon' and the 'third'da sickbett: ... sbc ;, thosKRVÍGÍT V Dlocoa have been temporárky, tized Sather carmot : Da Lexhead thecnaghy Hing soʻmunis Wot Boeur.ocsad” do, ki