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Tong Fight In
Henry v. Singapore
Henry
TENRY
served
H sergeant-pilot in
was
as A the
war, and fought in the air above the Middle East and Italy. In several respects he fortunate. He
came through all in one piece.
On demobilisation, he did not have to pick up the threads of and career, or to cast around secking a new one. His father had a flourishing' business into which he was eager to welcome bis you
SOIL.
Use Bottles, Daggers And Sticks
Singapore, Apr. 20,
An estimated 30 members of two Chinese tongs fought with broken bottles, daggers and pointed sticks in the streets of Singapore Inst night in a battle lasting 15 minutes.
Four Chinese bystanders and one Indian were injured and several secret moelety members Drrested. No deaths were re-
But lying
ported. was by now in Henry's blood. He turned down. his father's offer, and rejoined the RAF, in which he served happily until three years ago. Then what for him was the worst thing that could happen, did. A medieul board decided he was no longer fit to fly.
FATHER DIED
The alrect battle broke out jote In the evening between members of the "16" and "24" gangs, police said, when secrot roclety members contested their underworld authority, to operate in the red light district near the New World Amusement Pork.
The police said secret society gangsters
fighting ovET, to collect protection money from prostitutes in the
His father, by now, had died, the right
willing his business in Scot-
SORX Iand Jointly to his two Henry's broller took over the running of it and suggested Henry should
hits.
join Henry thanked hin and said "No." For now, with his flying career over he had lost interest
In himself as completely as any-
one can.
Je case 10 London and
mooched about the streets, doing
odd Jobs in restaurant kitchens or ninding barrows, when he needed troney.
He refused to claim the useful sum his father had left him, which
Jay in
bank in Scotland.
He grew to look like a tramp, ragged, unkempt, unwashed, and it was his appearance that first got him into trouble.
Customers at
cate where he had gone for a cup of tea, com- plained
to the management against the presence among them of one so dirty. The manage- ment made to move him, and Henry refused to go.
RECAME SHIFTY
NEXT morning at Great Murid insulting be-
guilty of using haviour, and put on probation.
Work was found for him, but
prca.
were
Hundreds of spectators watch- ed as the gangs charged each other, brandishing broken boities. home-made daggers and pointed sile sileks, along Syed Alwi Road near New World. Fighting con- tinued until several squads of potlee arrived and waded into the melee.
strewn with broken glass, torn clothing and blood following the light.
The street was
Meanwhile, in Kuala Lumpur. Malayan Federation capital, 15 members of a secret society were sentenced to two years in smol yesterday for participating in what the judge called “murder and extortion corporations".
Justice J. G. Adrms fold de- fendants in all probability they would be "banished to China after serving your sentences".
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1958.
The C.I.G.S. Inspects Ghurkas
General Sir John Har- ding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, talks to a Ghurka piper during an inspection of the Ghurka Regiment ni Pirbright Camp. The Regiment is in England to take part in the Coronation Procession.
London Express.
DULLES
MESSAGE
TO JAPAN
Washington, Apr. 28.
And
The Orchestra Performed Very Creditably
SOLDIERS' MURDER TRIAL
Sheaffer's SNORKEL
POLICE OFFICER'S BICYCLE TEST. DESCRIBED
Evidence that he carried out a test riding on a bicycle from Camp 61 to the top of the first gradient along Route 2 was given by Det, Sub- Insp. R. F. Smith, at the continued hearing of the murder trial of two British soldiers before Mr Justice T. J. Gould, Puiste Judge, at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
The witness said that he was accompanied by Liu To-leung, (a taxi-cyclist who gave evidence yesterday that he took the deceased woman as a pillion passenger), and that they covered the dis- tance in 32 minutes. (The spot where they arrived at was said by the Crown to be the scene of an alleged interception of Liu and his passenger by the two. accused).
On trial are L/Cp George Robert Douthwaite, 24, of Swainton, Scarborough, and Trooper Douglas Derrick Dalton, 19, of Southampton, both at- tached to Headquarters,
Torrl- Infantry Brigade, New torles,
35
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They are charged with the murder of a woman, Ho 6ze- placed orders for a substantial mul, 33. a NAAFI employee, number of a secret type of jet whose body was found in a twin-ngined fighters with the dlich off the motor road leading firm of Vlekers Armstrong, it T. Burma, India, 10 am, via from the Fanling Cross Road to was announced here tonight. December 23, 1052.
Sek. Kong 'on the afternoon of
The Crown alleges that
The only dMall revealed about this new type of plane the was that it was built on the of the "Supermarine 508" A twin-engined intercep
Indo-China, France, French North & West Africa, 11 am., Aly France, Japan, 1.5.A.. Canada. 11.30 a.m., C.P.A...
C.A.T. Indo-China.
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& West Africa, 420 p.m., Air Viet
am.
Hongkong music lovers went to Queen's College last night to hear two things. The first was to listen and to enjoy the immaculate artistry of Louis Kentner, the pianist; the other to find out two accused, after Intercepting basta whether a local orchestra.could in any way mea-deceased who was a pontion fighter, plans intended for tand, 6 pm Q.E.A.
passenger of a taxi-cyclist
road to Sek Kong Camp. carrier-based aviation.
a pair of her with attacked
The Supermarine-508 han causing wounds on just completed with SUCCESS the head from which she died landing trials and is considered three days afterwards.
sure up the exacting demands of assisting the celebrated pianist through a Beethoven Concerto. handcuffs
Though the Sino-British Orchestra did not perhaps fully meet requirements, it played remarkably well and gave a creditable performance under the conductorship of Prof. Arrigo Fon.
The United States Secretary State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, in a measüge to the Japanese people on the on- niversary of the Japanese Co-ordination, neal entries prace treaty, hoped Japan of the various sections of the could become a full member of orchestra (though faulty in the the United Nations.
last movement) good tone of He added that the sriniver- the woodwind and strings, fine sary was "an occasion for the expression in climactic passages Japanese and American people when the full orchestra was in to reaffirm their determination force, marked
memorable work together with other performance by
the Sino- friendly peoples for peace and British Orchestra. security."
the orchestra, Kentner and Mr Dulles said in the mess-
out the in- together brought Age: "While the restoration
trinsie beauty and magnificence were convicted of Japan's independence under
of Beethoven. of attending a society meeting the peace treaty is indispen-
Mr Adams sald that the de- fence that Chinese secret socle- ties
were anti-Communist did not excuse their illicit activities, He said the socletics were "anti everything
thete that is unt! society."
The Fifteen
found
was
mcm
Instead of going. Henry set upon the officer who had stopped he was strangled." him, punching him in the chest and face. He was arrested and charged next morning at Bow Street with assaulting the officer.
SECOND APPEARANCE
ΜΠΕΣ case was remanded, and when Henry made his second appearance, Mr Charles Morgan, the Mariborough Street proba-forget the tion officer, playing, so to speak, who
away from home, went into the witness-box, to tell Sir Laurence Dunne what he knew of Henry, who had been put on probation under him.
"He has responded to preba- 1100,
Mr Morgan sir,"
saith, "but he won't have any advice about treatment for his mental condition, and he refuses to have any communication with fits family."
men.
or
Upper
to
interest and
our
partielpa-
to
for
Big Strike Threat In France
Communist
and
men's
Mr Charles E. Loseby, QC, Instructed by Mr A. M. L Soares, is appearing for the Grat accused, while Mr D. A. L. Wright, instructed by Mr W. C. R. Carr, represents the second accused.
Mr
Appearing for the Crown are A. Hooton, Sollellar- General, and Mr G. R. Sneath, D. G. Counsel, Mr Crown Macpherson and Det. Insp. R. F. Smith were present for the Police.
corn-
The Jury empanelled prises six mea and a woman.
Smith, Det. Sub-Insp. R.F oflcer in charge of investiga
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Singapore, Apr. 20.
to be taken against
the
the
The board was sut Up to regis. ter and license the rubber trade first time in Malaya's com- after repeated
rubber by Overseas
He described Route 2 from for the Kam Tin to Fanling as fairly history steep, although the road from plaints against the quality of Kam Tin to the first intersection Malayan was fairly level. The ground buyers-United Press,
munists, were prompted by a mun two peop a wish to lorebotira asserted itself again, tomorrow to back pay claims top first ingredient along Route.
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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
120
Paris, Apr. 29.
a local rubber export arm which French Merchant Navy
allegedly has continued to pack This C minor Piano Concerto officers and workers on the
rubber without registering In which ancient Initiation sable for Japan's future, Japan's he kept no job for long. And
was was well chown, for it offered rites were allegedly planned. netive
of the railways, in city transport, tion the good opportunity a working, he when he was not
cast said this with the authorities. It
learned today. in a growing number of still
show
its banks, hotels and around the West The Judge told the defendants: tion
auto- morning that he was
Camillor Traipsed
-shifty, alt
were International organisations is an orchestra "This society that you
with the area of Kam Tin and End, by now become a sh
and-Reliable sources -- said is a very going to join
evil Impressive fülalment of ene of capabilities.
mobile factories-threatened "Foaling. He pointed on a map Malayah Rubber Export Regis Small (Baritone), with Plano Accom--- suspicious-looking character,
Like Beethoven's No 1 and No strike action or were already the location of the Kam Tin tration Board would take action thing" He clted a case history the objectives underlying the The other day, two plain- thi
members of the treaty
2 concertce, this began with an out today in a brewing wave Restaurant, a bicycle shop in against the firm, in the first pro- which in clothes policemen thought Henry soclets tried one of their group
"I hope that Japan can be "Allegro con brio" looked like a man for whom a
undertaken by The orchestra announced the of labour unrest the first that village, the Sek Kong offence come committing
A full member of the for
Camp, the phrase in a striking for more than a year.
Pat Heung Police sccution
Board since the rubber shipping search was being made. He was
against the society.
United Nations, as such a large opening
Station, taken to the station and ques-
the Dodwell's Ridge and packing control ordinance tried
Mr Kentner's piono and majority of its members have manner. "He
non- Camp
61 and or Camp duly tloned. When he had established
then entered and took up the Communist
unions jointly Church A slip rope was already favoured.
came into force on January 1 in guilty,
of England Soldiers' his identity, he was told he could
"During the past year our theme, and from then on, the backed the working
Singapore. Institute (in Fanling). passed round his neck and pull- Ro.
ed light by two members until two peoples have faced many orchestra did the accompanying claims for better pay and condl-
complex and difficult problems The first violins, led by Mrs tiens.
We each have to Moya Rea, gave the together.
lovely hushed Mr Adams added that
Officers of the French Trans- The orchestra then society disposed of the body by come to a greater understanding
atlantic lines in Le Havre have of the other's problems.
red a second theme,been joined by officers of all removing a large slab in the floor of the society's temple, "I am sure that this under melody
the from sea, and standing will continue to in-first, flowed where the other the North Coast, port in refusing giving access to the
leapt, and was calm where the crease as time goes by. dropping it in the ocean.
known
"I know The judge said it was
that the Japanese | other was restlessly energetle to take ships out unless their began to rise and became more
demands are met. proud of their in and forceful. that the society was supported people are
The 700 officers concerned, steep on reaching the top of the by largely
pro-Kuomintang dependence and sovereignty and GIVEN MORE SCOPE
supported by the seamen, want ingredient. The road from the not will guard them carefully."- "But let the people
The second movement gave
to Fanling, how last cross-roads nino day
days leave per month in- Kuomintang
Beuter. guerillas
more scope for Mr Kontner to
ever, was fairly level. in behaved
BIRTHDAY MESSAGE
display his artistry in the florid stead of the six .now given,
The other road from Kam Tin Among Perak
Tokyo, Apr. 20.
shipping affected is the (Malaya) in 1040 and
scale passages, President Eisenhower, in a embellishments.
arpeggios and
liner Ile de France due out for to Fanling via Lok Ma Chau The 1947 even as they are now be
plano New York
today. with 120 Road was generally speaking birthday message today to wandered off but was brought having in Burma," he added.
the passengers, and said the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, said to reality when a conversation scheduled to sail for the West witness said.
Antiles straighter and level all the way, The Judge also cociety's activities, which fro- mutual problems could best be was struck up between
Tasp, Smith said that he made and flutes against Indies tomorrow, quently clashed with the Com-solved through continuation of bassoons,
Railwaymen throughout France a bicycle test relating to time trust and friendship be-background of Bistant violins, twee
In the lively
one hour strike travelling from Camp 01 to the Rondo, the will launch a The message
"I assure you
2. He was accompanied by Liu and the Japanese in full force of dramatic sweeps unless settlement is reached, people of my active interest In and climactic crescentos.
SURPRISE STRIKES To-leung who had a
and they plilion There was our mutual problems and of my
Disser.ger more than mere Paris bus and underground
distance, in 82 sincere belief that their solution moonlight In Beethoven's Sonata railwaymen will meet tonight to covered the
During the forteney will best be obtained through a by that, name, when Kentner decide on action to further their minutes. continuation of the mutual trus ged the tranquil "Adaglo pay demands. They have been they had to dismount three times
friendship between our two Sostenuto with the pure splen
staging Suprise
and dun to the steep inclines. peoples"
SECOND TEST dour of flowing triplets. The short
stoppages for general
Witness said he made another The Emperor was celebrating
and weeks past. agitato" needed
bicycle shop in his 52nd birthday in his Tokyo
Unions have called Paris cycle test from virtuoso playing. *** | bankworkers to report one hour | Kam Tin to the some point and Palace.
WAS contrast.
It took him 18 minutes. Howe He was entertaining the
Here was Kentner Interpreting late for work on Thursday to
by another polica Diplomatic Corps and Japanese the
emotions of back pay claims.
accompanied leaders for tes and dinner, and
agitated chords, Hotel workers In the capital officer.
The taxi-cyclist, Liu, did not opening the gates of the outer obilque run in "Allegro Assal," are content allowance and make any identification, wit
their pressire for patace gardens for the publle to soothing calm in the "Andante a cost of
ness Bald. Another taxi-cyclist, stroll through to sign the con moto" and animation in the peem likely to decide on further Liu Sing, however made a false Visitors Books-Reuter.
strike action "Allegro ma non troppo."
Workers in the nationalised Two encores, Beethoven's "Fur
Two bottles were found near Eliso" and Schubert's "Moment Hot doctory in Paris, employ the spot where the, body of the Musical" completed an enjoyable ing 40,000 men are considering
found, witness tion Party and the German and
evening of good music.-Irene strike action after about 10,000 copnsed was
of them have been partially or Liberal Democrat Parties
completely laid off following_a
wald he took formal Bro (ET'S no good apologising," said understood alm to favour elec
of a record book Tokyo, Apr. 29.
shoppage by 250 men in the possession Sir Laurence. He floed
tions In June. During the
Lt. Gen. Willian K. Harrison,
GUERILLAS -
from a bicycle shop in Fanling uphoriery department. Henry 203. and ordered him to Christian Democrat Congroom in
Communist attempts to provoke and a pair of handcuffs from pay 258. casts to the doctor who Hamburg earlier this month is color United Nations negotiator, RANSACK TOWN
entered the conference tent at
widepeead Industrial unrest. In HQ 25 Brigade, Sek Kong. the past year have met wat informed his Lordship that he had seen the assaulted officer. was rumoured that the elections, Farmundom promptly at 11 am,
PAU this point, Me Hooton "Probation will continue," he which would normally tall due hopeal that the Reds hod over
Rangoon, Apr. 28. Airmont, completa" failure, But said "and you will pay this in September, might be advanced come their strange reluctance to today: ransacked, and burned the supported by all three groups of evidence, statements made by Chinese Nationalist guerillas shame now strike movements, War now seeking to tender in rimmo a neutral nation to uver-
"I'd better tell the prof hé's going to class in his bath money at the rate of 10s. a week, by two or three months,
It ww.a understood that
see ovar prisoners while the two all outpost town of Nam Trade Unions, are meeting with the accused.. under supervision"
robelibut if he's so absent-minded, how come he nev near Lashio, in North success. who the Christian 7: Hency,
Democrate the "ca, air," said
Jury that arguments. on the
- forgets; a homework assignment?" times over at opoo had he cared Adenauer-wished to exploit to
*Two querilias were killed in eliminated all purely political Gen. Harrison has warned the to claim all that was his, instead the full the prestige acquired Communist negotiators either to the fighting and two policemen alguns trom their labour, asitas ments would proceed and that
Printed and published WHAKAMALIEN: GRINIAMI ĮZDI: civilians als Eto, do maintain a United Front the need not be present.". Ha | ho went off to resume the by the Chancellor during and get down to business or place and two focal
anhoundo" withs, the offer, trade unions, then discharged them until and on behalf of South Chin Mominer Post Limited wh173 struggle against the enemy that after his visit to the United now brend Is the truce falk lost their lives, the
States
ment added.Associated Press, Terrier
Wyndham Street City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong. 5:0) 2.80 pan. today, was mostly himself;
of
He outlined the story Henry's career. "OOK here, if you'll take my advice," said Str Laurence
to Henry, "you'll go voluntarily into a hospital, and let the doctors run the rule over you. I bolleve there is plenty of capacity
in you.",
"Doctors could
do no good," cald Henry. "There's nothing wrong with me."
"But there may be some kink. You've had a decent career, then you go to the dogs like this..
"I can only apologise," Henry sald.
10%. A WEEK
W. GERMAN
ELECTIONS
Bonn, Apr. 28.
West German Parliamentary sources tonight indicated that the general elections in Western Germany may be held in June. The Christian Democrat Parlian- mentary group, which mat to- day, is understood to have favour of tho pronounced in cloctions as soon as possible.
The Social Democrat Oppo Another Truce
Talks Meeting
onata"
Bewed ·
200.
strikes
Identification.
woman
* His Lordship informed the
could have paid the money many party, of Chancellor Konna siden decide what to do, with sheen, it was, announced here. Pritom Cornerumiste · have now nesibility of "thêno -state- |
thom.
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