SHANKS & CO., LTD. Sanitary Equipment.
ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CONSETD. II.K. & Shanghal Bank Bldg. Tel. 27709
JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
THE EXPERT
HILOSOPHERS
PHILOSOP
say.
with Home truth, no doubt, that no job exista in the world that is so hope- lessly hard and dull as to be unrewarding if a man puts his heart and all his talent into doing it.
The panting pullers of rick- shaws in the East might quibble at the notion; and so might sume nearer home whose work. ing life is #overned by
a
remorselessly moving assembly line.
But it is true that the dullest, humblest job acquire a special dignity when those who do them put their hearts into their work and take pride in doing it well.
Such a one
Is Charles, who has a job that not many wontel envy. He is a porter who works in
that the twilight world exists behind the swing-doors of a great West End restaurant. | THE KITCHEN WORLD
A complicated protocol kitchen-world
guverns
where Charles works. Chefs are the lords of creation, and porters come low in the list; but Charles takes such In interest in the work he does, and in the three years he has been doing it has reduced it to such a fine art, that
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works in the everyone who kitchens
respects him, and most
have grown to like him, as well. He is a likable man, small, rather serious in demeanour, but with
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ad, frayed, charm, le came from Poland to England In 1939, and fought all through the war to liberate his country. when the war ended he could not go home, though his wife and daughter жете still there,
while The other morning. Charles was busy at his job, a man who had come to work at the restaurant that day said to Charles, who was about to dis- pose of a trayload of crockery that had to be walied: "Scuse me, mate, you don't put teapots
1'11 in with the rest. you....
show
The new man lifted a teapot from Charles's tray to show him what he thought should be done
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who Charles,
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Blueprint For Malaya Independence
Proposal By Locat Labour Party
Singapore, July 6. The Pan-Malayan Labour Party laid down a blueprint today calling on Britain to grant independence to Malaya within 11 years with the transfer of power to start next year,
the
The Party proposed that British High Commissioner should remain in charge of external affairs and defence, at east during the early stages of the programme. Toward the end of the 11-year period, the blue- orlut said, Malaya should be constitution and A granted a Malayan "Federal Assembly" of representatives elected by the Malayans themselves should take over.
The head of the state would then be nominated by a Cabinet syslom
and Kovernment
ap- proved by the Assembly for a ave-year term, uccording to the three blueprint which outlined
stages for the uchievement of Malayan Independence from 1954 through 1957, 1958 through 1960 and 1960 through 1901.
AN
ASSEMBLY
The blueprint envisaged that the negotiations with the British for the transfer of power would begin next year and at the same of 01 elected
time the assem members
and 14
would be formed.
Ex-official members, the Pan- Malayan Party said, should in-
clude the Chief Secretary, Financial Secretary, Attorney- General and one member for each of the ning states and two form
settlements which now the Malayan Federation.
The elected members of the Assembly would
the choose спор Speaker with 10 elected mem- bers forming the Cabinet of the winning party and a pro- vision for the possibility of a coalition government.
The blueprint also called for Consultative Council Federal
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consisting of Cabinet members, statc settlement "Mentris Basar" (prime ministers) and representatives of indjor raciul groups plus six representatives of the Malayan Trade Union
Council. United Press.
America's Mobilisation
Policy
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TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1953.
Those Comet Engines Were Noisy
Others To Follow Hungary's Example
Vienna, July 6.
Reshuffle of the govern- ment and Communist Party
in Hungary will soon be followed by similar changes in Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and other satellite countries, according to re- ports received here today from well informed sources in Budapest.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh went to London Airport to bid farewell 10 the Queen Mother and Princess Mar.
who goret
went to Rhodesia
to open the Rhodes Centenary Exhibi- tion. Here the Queen puls her fingers in her cars as the Comet engines warm-up prior to de-
parture from the airport.
London Express.
KENYATTA
APPEAL
CONTINUES
Suicide
Pact Alleged
Woman Pleads Not Guilty To Murder
Senna Seeds Appeal Case: Judgment Reserved
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
Judgment was reserved by the Full Court of Appeal this morning in, the appeal brought by the Wo Loong Hing Godown Keepers, of 43 Des Voeux Road West, against the decision of Mr Justice T. J. Gould in delivering judgment in the sum of $17,710 to the Zung Fu Company, of 6 Queen's Road Cen- tral, in an action for damages for alleged con- version of 322 bags of senna seeds.
Chief
Sir Gerard Howe, Justice, and Mr Justice C. W. Reece, Pulsne Judge, comprised the Full Court.
Mr Brook A. Bernacchi repre- aented
the
appellants - the defendants in the original action
- Instructed by Mr P. D. d'Almada Remedios. The respon- dents were represented by Mr John McNeill, QC, and Mr Oswald Cheung, both instructed · by Mr A. S. Ross.
The senna seeds were originally stored in the defendants' godown in July, 1950, by another firem. the Victor Company. At the end of that month, the plaintiffs loant the Victory Company | $20,000 and received as security the godown warrent endorsed in
10
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TRUMPET
Fire Destroys. Three-Storey Building
three-storey Uinber bullding, at 23 Mul Fong Street. Balyingpun, completely gulted by an hour-long blaze which broke out at about six o'clock this morning.
The Ure was extingulah- - by six fire-appliances.
There were no casualties, all the residents having managed to „éscape . from at the out- the building at break
of the fire,
The ground foor of the ienement had been used as
godown in which were stored bamboo and rattan- ware goods.
The cause of the fire bas not been ascertained.
STOLEN BY Mail
SOLDIER
For stealing a trumpet from his barracks, Pte. John Schofield, of Gun Club HI!! Barracks, Was cautioned and bound over in $250 for one year by Mr T. Creedon at Kowloon this morning.
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TUESDAY, JULY 7 By Alr Japan, p.m., T.A.C. Burma, India, Pakistan, Each Africa, Great Britain Europe, & pin. 0.0.A.C.
By Surface Macao, am. 0 p.m. Lee Hong/ Tak Shing
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1
By Air Indo-China (Tonkin only), a, am.
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Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, USA.. Caneda, 8.m., P.A.
Indo-China, Malaya. Indonesia.
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and
blank by the Vietor Company.
Defendant,
pleaded The plaintiffs claimed that the gulity, was also ordered pay godown cold the bags on behalf $30 compensation to a music
Victor
Company without store to which he had sold the reference to them.
trumpet, The instrument was valued at $220, The defendants maintained that at the request of Victor Det. Sub-Insp, Currie told Company, they had obtained the Court that the trumpet be- release of the goods from the longed to Pte. John Barcroft, Penang, July 7. Bank of China by guaranteeing who had discovered the Instru- Twenty-eight year old payment of the Bank's bill of ment missing from his locker on $10,500 in respect of this, and June 20. He had reported the Mrs Elizabeth Parsons when the Bank pressed for the theft to the Military Authorities. pleaded not guilty to two money, the seed bags were sold.
On July 4, the complainant charges of murdering her
·COUNSEL REPLIES
chanced to see his trumpet dis-Australia, New Zealand, A.III.,
C.P.A two sons last May 14 in
played in a music store in
Formors, Japan, à p.m. C.A.T. Mr court
Bernacchi's Nathan Road. Penang Aasize
Replying to on
Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, India. Pakistan submissions, given yesterday, Mr Monday, as the prosecution McNeill told the Court that he Police enquiries followed and Middle East, Great Britain
Europe, 4 pm., 8,0.A.C. defendant was arrested. followed her plea by telling agreed the godown warrant was
Japan, 6 pm. B.O.A.C.
"By Burtaco In mitigation defendant sald the special seven-man jury not a negotiable instrument and
Bacao. V_a0. 0 pm and
Tak Shing. of an alleged suicide pact could not be regarded in law as that he had a debt of $30
had stolen the trumpet in order between her and her late a document of Ulle.
But the point at issue was to raise money to repay it. that the defendants In the cir- RAF pilot husband.
Deputy publle prosecutor D: cumstances were obliged to
K. M Grant told the court: hand over the goods to the
It would appear that she had plaintiffs. Thus, the displaced Prime against
arrived at `a` pact before the own words, ha went on, the go- death of Minister, Mr Matys Rakosl, re-sentence of seven
her husband that down warrant wEB In effect o -charges moined the most powerful person labour each on
should he dic, it would be use- kind of delivery ortler. Hungarian Communist managing the Mau Mau.
less for her to live continuous- Mr Pritt dealt today with the alone" and Budapest sources
she would kill evidence of a police officer on herself accordingly. the significance of certain
Continuing Grant sald: articles in Mau Mau Initiation This common murder
is no ceremonies.
but a most exceptional There is no malive here. How- ever you look at this case, "it"
There could be little doubl that the changes in Hungary were ordered from Moscow, the Budapest sources said.
But, though they appeared to be drastic
changes, few of the displaced persons had been de- finitely eliminated from power,
in the
the Party, declared.
He still combined the Offices of chief of the Secretariat and head of the Politburo, and in as elsewhere,' It was Hungary,
Nairobi, July 6. Masonic signs were men- tioned today by Mr D. N. Pritt, QC, defence counsel for Jomo Kenyatta and five other Africans, at Kitale.
The six Africans are appealing years' hard
their convictiun and
of
wiss," said knew exactly what he was do- ing. He made a grab at the
He contended that i had scuffle, Pot. There
*new**' man”-slipped - and
the party rather than the govern-created a major..difficulty for dropped the tray he had been
ment which held real power, the prosecution. Nearly every carrying. He slapped Charles
Also, Juset Reval, Chief party time the officer had been asked In the face and, somehow
theoretician and Minister for if an article had any significance, other, Charles brought the tea-
popular culture In Rakorl's he had replied that it might or pot down upon the other man's
government, Although had might not be symbolic of Mau head, breaking the pot into
been appolated Vice-Chairman Mau practices Mr Pritt sald small pieces and causing the
of the Presidential Council Mr other to need, Inter, ten stitches
Washington, July 6. Rakoc's former colleague and In his wound.
The Eisenhower Administra- rival, Eenne Geroe,
remained At Bow Street,
flo announced Charles,
as its Senior today,
Deputy Premier, and through an interpreter, pleaded long-awaited mobilisation polley, had also become Interior Minis- not guilty to a charge against a programme of industrial deve ter." him of causing grievous bodily lopment
LESS SWEEPING to
milltary :support harm to the new hand at the operations on full wartime scale. These are indications that the restaurant, whose name was Ted The goal, as summarised by government changes or less and who had been dismissed on Mr Arthur S, Flemming, Director weeping than they appeared at the same day as he had been of the Office of Defence Mo-Arst, the sources said. hired-the day of the teapot tsation, Le an Industrial pool-
He believed that most of the affair.
Lion, or plans for it, from which
DID YOU SAY THIST "Did you
not say asked Charles's solicitor of Ted, "that you'd break this man's co-and- so head if he argued about the
teapot and did you not then slap him hard on the face?"
do
venom.
Were
we could move rapidly to maximum rates of balanced out put of war and war supporting STOUPз."
programme. generally reaffirmed the broad mobilis tion base" "policy of the Truman Administration.
Tho
CX-
"No." answered Ted who, to him Justice, spoke without
The statement had been peated for weeks, during which dismissed industry's interest grew because you not because you were generally of the disclosure that the Secre cantankerous?"
tary of Defence, Mr Charles Hearing such long words, Ted Wilson, preferred "a narrower looked rather enviously towards industrial base for military pro- Charles, who had the benefit duction than the Truman plans
Polish Interpreter. He of a
envisaged. answered the question
with silence.
"Didn't you strike your head- on an ashbln or a wash-bowl in
STARTING POINT
The starting point of the present policy is a plan adopted the passage where this in- by the Truman Administratibo cident took place?" Charles's last autumn. It calls for
solicitor asked him.
the Into
D calculation of how much of "No."
said Ted. Charles
States Industry would be went witness-box,
following mobilisation, ed by a representative of the lon
"rock restaurant's management, who allowing civilians only a
bottom" economy,
he was followUnited for munitions produc-
former leaders of the Communist
hierarchy had been dropped to Mr Imre Nagy, always known the new Prime Minister, #nable
as an agricultural expert, to pre- zent his new policy with a set of new faces to support It
in
The sources added that Mr Nagy's policy meant a complete reversal of agricultural policy order to end the shortages which had led to unrest,
uz It was a popular appeal to the dissatisfied
peasantry and promised
revision of the
the
"If the Mau Mau had adopted say, masonic signs, would every- one who used masonic signs be held to be practising Mau Mau?” he asked
The defence, he continued, had called nearly all the wit nesses mentioned by one of the prosecution's main witnesses in his defence, but all these wit- nesses had been condemned by the Magistrate who convicted
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case.
no
a tragedy and your reactions must be one of pity."
Grant said that the Parsons lived at Butterworth RAF station and that "there is suggestion that this was any- thing but a happy family."
The children John, four, and Daryl,
two-were found ap. parently strangled to death in their bed at home a few hours atter their father,
Filght Lieutenant D. R." killed in an ale crush on May
R. Parsons
Was
14°C during a routine air strike against a
Communist terrorist hideout in Perak State.
Mry Parsons was found in the
In the defendants Charged
The plaintiffs therefore had a
right to possession of the goods.
With Receiving Stolen Goods
because the defendants had fall- ed to deliver the goods upon
Charged with receiving sloten that delivery order in question, goods and with unlawful posses-
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As to the Victor Company,
Slam, Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Counsel said the action before Son of Her Majesty's stores,
a-23-year-old Middle East, Africa, Great Britain the Court
"was one in which Sou-ky, that company was not con Tod & Co., was ordered by Mr N.W.AL
Tahitian proprietor of the Sieng and Europe, & p.m.. C.P.A./B.O.A.C
Formosa, Okinawa, 8 pim, H.K.AZ- tha cerned.
The Arm was not Hmshing Lo at Central this party to the matter. It was for morning to be remanded for this reason,
ho went on, that three clear days for further en- the Appeal Court had to con-quiries. Defendant was allowed sider the matter only between $1,500 batz
plaintiffs and defendants
Police allege that defendant received one stolen CV23 radio | Following further legal sub-tranamiting valve, the property missions, Counsel in conclusion of the Royal Naval Dockyard submitted that the appeal must between August 20, 1952, and be dismissed on every ground June 8 of this year. The prosecu brought up by the appellants, | tion, also alleged that on June 8, and that the judgment of Mrjeeven radio transmitting valves Justice Gould be confirmed, were found under Yung's control.
the
alone.
the six accused (Mr Justice bathroom with her wrists slash- NO LICENCE
Ransley Thacker).
Rudd
pointed out that Judge Thacker
When Mr Justice
had very considerable ex- perience, Mr Priit countered: "I agree. I cannot understand how a gentleman of that perience could behave as he did."
Ex-
The hearing will continue on Tuesday-Reuter.
Leave HK For
England
ed.---United Pres
EMPLOYEE'S
THEFT
FOR DRIVING
Marine. Police Constable Kwan Yick-hon was Aned $1,000 by Mr KY. Yung this morning for driving a private car without n valid licence on the morning of Juno 19.
Kwan refused to reveal his Identity to the Magistrate in Court and claimed that he was jobless.
Sub-Insp, K. K. Chan said that defendant was stopped while driving along Castle Peak Road near Ton Kin Street. on the morning of June 19. Ho was driving without showing front lights.
When defendant could not
was arrested,
Radio Hongkong US Naval Chief
Cheung Chun-hol, 35, of 303 Victory House, pleaded guilty before Mr Hushing Lo at Cen- policy of
of the ruthless punish-
tral this morning, to a charge of larceny by of ment
servant. He was the "class encry”........
ordered by MrL Lo to the former rich landowners.
beremanded for three days in Police custody The policy had also dropped
for further enquiries. emphasis on heavy Industry
Defendant is alleged to have which had been the main planke
stoica $19,000 from the Johnston In the Communist platform, and
any himself cfalmed that
A small group of civilan and Trading Co., at the Ho Cheng Mr Nagy
service friends gathered at the Bank, on May 15. At the time, meant "icep and far reaching Flagstaff Steps in the Dockyard Cheung was employed as oftee
by which it is hoped to this morning, to bid farewell to assistant by the Johrunton Trad-produce bis driving licence he minule the past."
Commodore and Mrs H.
G. ing Co. The
Budapest
sources maldit Dickinson, and their daughter. would obviously ⚫ have been
Among those present were dimcult for Mr Rakosi and his Group-Captain J. F. Newman, nearest colleagues who had been DSO,
RAF, representing responsible for the recent post, aur Commodor R.C. Field, to make the changes themselves cut-Commander J.WH. Miller,
RN, Assistant Captain of Reuter.
Dockyard
Major J Murray, Summary: Gia, Melody with the Time Signal and Programme "gap"
In the mobilisation
RA, DFC, and Mrs Murray, Star 6.20, Twilight Harmony 1
Rear-Admiral R. H. CruzCTI, The Once of Defence
Commander Rigge, Naval Secre-rat Hearing a presented by | Commander of the US, Naval Mobilisation satd this would
Lary to the Commodore, and Mrs Donald Brooka (Studio); 7.30, La
Forces in the Philippines, arrived Mr n. H.
Demi-Heure Francaise (Studio); TEP, the show whether to fill in gaps In
TULEC. and Captains Faber, Weather Report: 8, Time Blanat, in Hongkong, this morning from magistrate, turned to Charles. the national plant or modify Pleading not guilty to the Lewis and Howson and their World News and News Talk (London Sangley Point. He is on a per- "You Qu
ought to be grateful," he the military plan, or both.
of charge
impersonating a wives.
Bib, Plano Playtime-sonal visit as the guest of the Kenneth naley your solicitor for the
The government hoped to re- Police officer, Ko Man-shun, 30, Many of them brought fures Forces Favourites
(Cantert US Consul-General,
(London
Mr Jullan way in which he has conducted ply mainly on the normal ex- unemployed, was ordered by Mr well gifts for the Commo Relay): & Musical Notebook pro-Harrington, and travelled in a
The chargo is
He was happened.the nation's war potential. "This morning to be remanded for two a short time saying goodbye beyan - (Btudio): 0.20. Portrait of Edward Coke Teature_Pro- means that gaps in the way of days, and was allowed ball of which is to take them home to Produced by IL D. Smith (BBC present were Conde R. Craig, fore they left for the Pelous Tamme written by HAL- Craig.airport by Barrington. Others Charles bowed deeply, twice specialised resources will have $500, once to the magistrate, onco to be filled in before we can The Police alleged that de England, The Commodore left
1650,--At the Hallet-Checkmate US Naval Liaison Officer, Cinder (Sir Arthur Bilas) Royal Opera to his solicitor. Then he hurried swing large parts of our great fendant pretended to be a mem- by car for Tamar to my more tous Orch Covent Garden, cond. N. E. Stewart, commanding USB off to get on with the humblo peacetime capacity into the ber of the Hongkong Police on farewells there, while Mins and work that no one could do quite actual production of war goods." June 20 at an unnumbered hut. Miss Dickinson left by Inunch EO well as he
-Router.
at Belchers Fort,
from the Dockyard,
gave him an excellent character. His solicitor indicated that he
The proposed step is to mea sure the capacity of individual
had Available several others Industries which would Identify
who would speak in the same the terms, and that he would not ease. bother to call them.
said,
Blundell,
IMPERSONATION CHARGE
the
HK.T.
Relay);
Arrives In HK
this case, I am in some doubt pansion of Industry to increase in-shing Lo at Central... this doro and his family, who spent pented by the Rev. Father T. r. US navalected -at- Kal Tak|
what is to
na to
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