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From Our Files
100 Years
Ans:
Ago
longer
ond
falls of rain than have
betono
the
becn
heavier
ever
experienced by nidest resident in China. CRAF harbour was visited Friday night by a heavy
on
male,
IT
in which, it is reported near- ly 40 Chinese junks and bonis
driven
shore capsized. From one of the latter, the Spartan's bouts
were
011
picked up
all the males of the crew, but
the stamen had to knock
In the bottom
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CHINA MAIL
APPEALS
DISMISSED
Ten appeals, some against conviction and others against sentence, were dismissed by Mr Justice J. Reynolds in the Criminal Appeal Court this morning.
None of the appellants was legally repre- sented, and Mr D. N. E. Rea, Crown Counsel, appeared for the Crown.
P
Wing, Ng
who appealed Yu Duk also lost his appeal against a sentence of six months' against conviction for larceny hard labour for larceny, said he from the perso He had been wanted a reduction in his term sentenced to 12 months hard so that he could take up
said he was on an labour. He entry permit to China which he tramcar when a woman claimed was expecting shortly. He said someone had stolen her money, that he had to serve his fuli A constable seatched him but
he would mins the op-found nothing. sentence,
The constable portunity of entering Chino. then declared that he (appellant)
His Lordship asked whether had of the
and previous convictions was a banishee.
sald be was arresting hlm on he was, but suspicion. At the Police Station added that banishees could not he claimed he was Assaulted, child. A great deal of properly enter China without holding and that the constable induced
but few permit of entry. Each time he the woman to accuse him has been destroyed. lives lost, so for
was rent to the border by the being the thief. Hongkong authorities, the mill- We ascertain
axpect, however, to
of Bad tory "on the other side" forced disasters
to return. He admitted he Foreign him Shipping outside. One vessel, had eight previous-convictions.
The appeal was dismissed.
holo
junk,
through
dragged
O Woman
which
and
they appellant said
her
85 may hear
We Can
nmong
the
the barque Thomas Chadwick,
-
his
of
Mr Justice Reynolds Bold was sufficient evidence there before the magistrate for the latter to convict,
BICYCLE THIEF
12
Wong Kit-song appealed against s sentence of months passed on him on two counts of larceny of a bicycle and one of larceny by balloo of
He said this bleycle.
is a wreck on the Pratas Shoal,
13 CONVICTIONS and
the P. & 0. sicamer
Looking no more than 17 Canton. Captain
McDermott, has been despatched to rescue
years of age, but with a record of 13 previous convictions, her crew and passenger;
while
cluding five for larceny, Chan the Peruvian barque Buenaven Man-chal appealed against tura, American barque Cyane, conviction Dutch
shop-breaking barque Plclades, and and larceny, for which he had his first offence and asked for a British ship Velocidade, have been sentenced to eight months arrived or put back, after hard labour. suffering more or less severely from the storm.
✩
AU
Appellant
for
claimed
be WAS
U
reduction of his term.
WD3
His Lordship pointed out that
forced to commit the offence thefts of bicycles were too pre-
fact
that he
that
Was
ap-
the sentence excessive.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1954.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
4. M. C. 1964
7-6
g. U. §. PEL, DIT.
KLA Burslot, but,
*** brought my two boy friends along, Dad! You know character--which one would make the nicest husband?"
SUEZ AGREEMENT
THIS WEEK?
Cairo, Oct. 18.
Mr Anthony Nutting, British Foreign Under-Secre- tary, resumes talks here today with Egyptian leaders on Binal details of an Anglo-Egyptian agreement on the Suez Canal zone.
He
They confirmed earlier re-
new
in order to raise money to revalent and held turn to the country.
was not manifestly Ho dismissed the appeal. His Lordship, pointing to ap- In the hurt Overland issue we
bad pellent's
record and the
1,000 or aix months' Fined 31 hinted at the intention of the
hard labour for keeping an un- he was also a returned British and American
banishee, sald
licensed massage establishment, under the ice thorities to put down piracy in circumstances ht
against could not be Leung Wing appealed the river with the strong hand; sald the sentence
moni- his sentence. He said the actual
Lieutenant-Colonel i met but as usual, their threats have festly excessive or unfair, and proprietor had escaped when Gamel Abdel Nasser, the Egyp-ports that both sides will sign turned out mere
Police raided the place, and he blusterings, dismissed the without any real intention up-
the appeal. Law
tion - Prime Minister, for three | the agreement for seven years, Ying-cheung, who
He fur- was arrested instead. parently of stirring one step
reviewing the position in the ther alleged that the Police hours yesterday and held pealed against sentences total-
two-hour out of their humdrum
yedr. Dr final ved meeting with routine.
ing 15 months' hard labour usually raided the place two or
Unless Here are the Notification
éircumstances and for simple larceny, and post three times a month and he Mahmoud Fawzy, the Egyptian Proclamation issued by the
prevail, the agreement will end sion of a house-breaking instru-
I never been arrested before. Foreign Minister, hod
British civilians may spective
the ment, claimed plenipotentiaries,
Police, ho
The claimed,
ment on the evacua- as stated ho lost all his
agritish Troops
evacuate only difference
remaining being the
who have to do-
possessions in a Kowloon squat threatened to assault him if he tion of
British installations. theso claration of entire neutrality be-
to be signed carly did not
the pro- reveal who
expected was induced to tween the Imperialista
and commit the
this weekend. But Being afraid, he to prielor was. theft
observers sources said. in order to admitted being the keeper. Triads, contained in that of the raise
said after the talks yesterday A1 Gombourla, influential U.S. Commissioner; and If our raise money to return
the that it was not likely to Appollant agreed with
De Egyptian newspaper, said yes- Ho asked for a country. readers can discover anything in
the terday that Egypt will receive elther beyond the usual official duction of sentence and sald if Court that he had two previous signed now until late in
week convicilons.
Royal Ai Force, port and phraseology, we acknowledge
His
heid Lordship
the M: Nutting and the Egyptian milliary installations worth more they surpass us in penetration.
sentence was not manifestly ex-leaders mainly discussed accom-than £23 million cessive and dismissed the modation to be occupied by 800] agrement,—Router, The copy of the first,
YOU CAN GO LATER
British technicians who will appeal. furnished to ue, is without} Mr Justice Reynalds; You can
operate Installations in the Canal signature, but bore, we believe, do that after you come out of
zono after the military with- drawal.
that of Mr D. B. Robertson.
ter
fire and
to the
re-
this was granted he would go to China and never return to Hongkong.
gool
An
Your appeal in dismissed appeal by So Chi-shan, sentence of three
Our weekly lists of piracies will explain the state of the against
Burrounding waters, and the years hard labour passed on
more
for necessity measures than either seems inclined to adopt:
activehim on three charges of house- breaking and larceny was also party dismissed.
He said le Had relallyes dependent upon him for support and he was also suffering from an injury,
NOTIFICATION
The
Sequel To Shooting In Benghazi
Reliable British sources difig. closed yesterday that the 80,000 froops in the zone will be
evacuated in five stages spread ovæ 20 mentiis from the date of the agreement being signed.
These sources said 22 per cent of troops would be withdrawn SEVEN YEAR PACT
35 per cent cent months, within four Benghazi, Libyn, Oct, 17. King Idriss of Libya today after eight months, 54 per
of seven by the end of a year and 75 per persons, including a son of the cent after 10 months. The re communicated to HB.M.# Pleipo- His Lordship observed that Libyan Crown Prince, on maining 25 per cent will pull annetuce, Mast if any bout, funk, or appliant had five previous con- charge of plotting against the months. ship, should interfere with or molestvictions and said the in
Whereas Mundry interruptions to the tree and fo transit of foreign
Mr Rea Informed the Court that, appallenst had been treated
Vessels andİ boats on the Canton in hospital and had recovered ordered the arrest river havo lately taken place, sid social notice of the same has been from the injury.
tentiary, E. hai directed me Lo
view regime. any vesels or beat bearing and of the seriousness of the
The arrests were ordered by criminal record he did not think Royal Decree against "authors the sentence
entitled to bear the Britor property offences and the appellant's long in which British persons or shall be lawfully conveyednich boat, funk, or ship, shall be treated on a pirate and K.M. ships of war wil be Instructed to give full effect to this Notification,
Canton, September 22nd, 1654.
PROCLAMATION
excessive or unfair.
ed the sentence July 8.
manifestly and instigators of a plot against Radio
He order the regime."
The son of the Libyan Crown to date from!
Prince, Emir Ridda Et. Genousal A claim that he had been is among the alx persons arrest- most of falsely accused of stealing byed under the decree,
of the two people was put forward by them young members
family Royal' Chan Ming in his appeal against
The seventh accused, Ahmed of the Mohleddine, a nephow
of Libyn, brother of Queen and propertly exposed in going to
FOUND LOITERING
young Emir Mohleddine, the hora ato
His Lordship alsmissed the murderer of Palace Minister and from this elty: and whereas the
that Sayed Ibrahim Chalbi, is under- Authorities of the United States appeal. He pointed out
no less than 19 stood to be at the Libya Em- have found it necessary to place appellant hed yomoly of war in the Canton river, provious convictions.
bassy in London, His immediate for the
Wong protection of American
appealed return to Libya has been order- citizens, residing at Canton, and conducting their commercial brains against his conviction for being ed. His brother Mustapaho was
Whereas, in the present disturbed state of the city of Canton, the liver of American ellizens
a sentence of six months' hard labour for larceny.
Wai-ng
-
at tila elty, and thence to the a suspected person found lotter-among the six accused taken in- anchorage of the ships of commerce Ing and assault cecasioning to custody-France-Presse,
He had
this action on the part of the
At Whampoa Reach and where actual bodily harm. authorities of the United States had been sentenced to a total of not been properly understood or seven months' hard labour on Appreciated, and while Innumerable there two counts. falsehoods are circulated concerning |
the “purposes and object of Appellant claimed he was
authorities of
the
the Valled looking for a friend when the
Baptist Official Coming Here
One of the outstanding Bap
States in dimposing of the naval Folles arrested him. He denied - Furos,... of that country. frequent
OCCERÍODE OCCUS whọn, disorders are he had assaulted the 'complain": permitted to involve the metety, and ant, saying that the latter had security, and commercial rishka ng rum into a wall and had hurt tist personalities of the world, Amertown citizens/Wherefore
| Dr Joel Borenson, Youth Secre➡ Frommations la feued, to notlar el himself,
His Lordship remarked that lary of the Baptist World Al-
thle
concerned that the ships of war of
the United States of America now from the record the appellant lance, is expected to arrive stationed to the Centon rives, are had made the same caso there for the sole protect
under the
Mail Notices
the following four
.
Hongkong
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Nationalists Have A Right
China
To Invade China'
New York, Oct. 17.;
The Chinese Nationalists have a "right" to invade the Communist-held Chinese mainland any time they please, regardless of what any other country advises, the Nationalist Foreign Minister Dr Yeh said today.
"From our point, It still be- Nationalists Chinese regard the longs to us," he said. "We have situation as "our job. It's our the right to go back any time.we problem,"
If there was want."
any threat to Dr Yeh mid the situation was peace in the Far East, It camo from the Communista. like that of a man going back solely into his own house after it had The very existence
tho of been taken
over by hugs or Communists in China attested to bandita. "When a man wants to their aggression on the main- go back into his house, no ong | land, he said,-United Press. can stop him," he said;
He discussed the possibility of Nationalist invasion of the mainland under questioning during an appearance on NBC's "The American Forum" televis elon show.
Ho mid that United
military aid to China
States would
stop If the Nationalists wore to
use any American weapons for but an Invasion of aggression, the mainland would not com stitute aggression on our part." RUSSIANS WILL NOT ENTER'
3,000 Flee From U.S. Floods
Wheeling, W. Va.,
Oct. 17.
Flood waters washed wave of death and destruc- "We have the right to mount tion from Western Pennsyl-
an invasion any time we choose to,"
Wheeling
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rline "500"
ABLE BALLPOINT:
JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
BRISTOL FASHION... Madon
TARK came up to Lon- from Bristol; where the sturdy spirit of the Merchant Venturers lives on in many men, and they hold no very great opinion of anyone who comes from further east than Adlestrop, say, or Eastleach Turville.
He
casch, came by
and planned to stay here for ang night. -
The business that brought Mark to London was soon dono and his ume was all his own. All the wonders of the greatest clly in the world awaited his Mark took a pleasure then. cursory look at them and began to fret for Bristol,
HOMESICK
THE was homerlek. Homesick
for Bristol's steep hills and the fingers of still, black, water, that bring the world's ships almost to the door-steps of Bristol's nearest thing to Lelco ster Square. Hyde Park seemed allen
as the steppe when hp thought of the Downs at Clifton, and Waterloo Bridge a cumber somo affair compared to the poetry of the suspension bridge over the Avon Gorge..
Dourly Mork act himself the task of
living through the drag- ging hours that were left of his visit to London, and he trudged the streets feeling as far away. from home as Cabot's sailors must at times have done.
Shortly after midnight, Mark decided he would like a cup of tea.
THE REQUEST": E was near Victoria Station then and could see no by he did see was a group of sign of cafe or coffee-stall. What
porters talking together, in courtyard of the station.
through he said. "It depends on vanla the military factor. If we are and Into the Upper Ohlo strong enough without United
River Valley today, forcing States ald, we can go on mount- ing one. Otherwise, we can't more than 3,000 persons to
He said that If the Chinese flee from their homes. Communists were attacked, he One man was reported miss- aid
think hot
the Russians ing as the surging Ohio, fed by would enter the fighting. the rain-swollen Allegheny and
"They
do not like to fight Monongahela Rivers, reached a their own wars," he said, "but crest of 44.7 feet, nearly 30 feet
to prefer have someone else do above normal; it for them."
waters inundat-H The swirling the Russians would become in Island and poured into hundreds He said he doubted whether ed about two-thirds Wheeling volved in the fighting even if of homes in low-lying South
and the United States were to enter Wheeling
neighbouring it. But he added that the West Virginia and Ohio towns.
Numerous Hiverside homes and some Wheeling .. business establishments were central
Search For
Escaped Killers
their
نود
...
Mark went up to one porter, Tell we where I can get a #0 and-go. cup of ten, or I'll knock Four so-and-so without
hand off," ho | barked at one.
WDS
rough-rude-islandi
heating becauso Hooded basementa
of
I
by the West Country biter in banguage, and though mellowed Mark's voice, it did not go down well. The porter pushed him to his Rod returned away, gossiping,
and Mark found another man addressed him in the sazna. Way, "Oh, you'll knock ma so-and- so head off, will you?" said the man, and put up his Arts as if he would leave the rest of his reply to them.
FALLEN OVERBOARD The missing man was ident fled. na David Hall of West Ohio, a night watch- Wheeling, man aboard a Buckeye Sund and
Company derrick Supply
Tho boat at Bellaire, Ohio. police feared he may have fallen Jackson, Miss., Oct. 17. Four escaped mental patiente, overboard after reporting for
last night. three of them accused killers, work last
Thirteen deaths in Western eluded a reinforced dragnot to- Pennsylvania
were attributed to day.
The search for the men who flash floods and Friday's driving overpowered two gards failed daylong rains,
As the river rose steadily to to uncover any trace of whereabouts in the vicinity of its crest, householders began moving furniture centres State Mental Hospital, designated by the Red Cross, about six miles from here, Then they left to spend the Three of the fugitives were night with relatives or friends
of the peace. Oor at shelters set up by the Red one of them has
"Dr Cross a
Salvation Army. and Jekyll
Hyde persoll-Ertra police details were assigned and Mr ality," the Hospital said. Anto the deserted arcus. ;\" other was charged with the Many residents sat out the brutal beating and murder of flood in the upper floors of their a man at a lonely fishing camp homes, using rowboats for trans-
of port and communication and the third was accused killing his mother because she necessary-United Press. refused him money to buy narcotics,
the
Od "highly dangerow"" |
BLOODHOUNDS
to
when
Saucer Sighted
...
Paris, Oct. 17. Two Orly Airport, employees:
UNDER ORDERS RUT two policemen had been watching Mark, and now they came up him "We're strasting you, they said, "for" using insulting words and be-- haviour likely to cause a breach.
his
Next day at Bow Street, Mark, a rugged man of 04, who wears dark hair clipped short, growled that he was not guilty of offering: Insults. "I'll tell you what," he said. "These officers arrested me unnecessarily. They
were acting under orders
Were you?! the magistrate. asked the Mr G. Robey, officers.
"Were you under arrest this man?!
orders to they were not
They
the
ald
to have
30
The State Highway Patrol
magistrate suked a proba- chief, Col. T.B. Birdsong, who informed the French Air Pailee
officer to a word within Pallippe Rast. Africa, am.headed the search, said the today that they had seen a di- tion
bloodhounds which
atly cular object over the airport lost Mark, who seemed to have
nothing more to say for himsel fraced the escaped killers Kinor
two men,
wald 46WHEN Extra- Highway tised.
Jackson police, the "dying saucer was crossing
Burma, Pakistan, Great Britain & Europe, 10 sm,
North Borneo, Australia Zealand, 11 am.
& New
Japan, Kawall, U.S.A. & Canada, Napa,
Fooey. a p.m. Indo-Chine. 6 p.m.
Fotmond, Jagan. Okinawa, U.S.A., 6° p.m. 7
By Surface Macao. O a.m. "
U.S. Disturbed
About
in
Sorber and Gerald Gallégo W*** Castelle and Charles gmond DON'T GET BÓ CROSS.
units,
he's not hungry or harassed he's perfectly all
Strom several countries the sky at an altitude of about right, mid the probation oicer
and a hellcopter also were used 1.000 feet with the speed of a in an effort to find the men who let plane," when it suddenly standstill above the broke out of the homital wing came to a housing the criminally insane end of the east-west runway It hovered there for 10 seconds, late last night.
Dr A. J. Banane
Sanangele, ata rotating slowly, the two men
salde-France-Presse 2 st physician, said the three secusor He said slayers led the break. a fourth patient, who was not bonsidered dangerous, joined
Lade
American Express
when he brought Mark back. Ho lives on his savings and some money his father left him, and he got a bit worked up night...
up this Got a bit worked morning, too,ald the magis trafe, and he turned to Mark, "Look here," he said, Tm going to discharge you abso-
from here. Dick U-K.-China Relations them in their escape over a fence S'hai. Manager Here utely, but don't go getting so
Londen, Oct. 17.. Sir Hartley Shaworom, Labour Member of Parliament and
1035, Bentley and Jimmy · Edwards with Wallas: Eston, Alma Cogan, Juno put Whiteld; 10.45
International Cabaret: 10.59, Weather (Raport; 11, Time, Signal. Radio: Newa Reel (London Relay), (11.18; Goodnight Music, God Save The Queen: 11:30, Close Down.
after the guards were over- powered United Press.
former Attorney-General, North Staffords arrived here this morning by brily on to the coach
today on his return from
United States: "The -Acces
are disturbed ebous our relations with the They
ing the lives and property of Amr the magistrate, who before here today from Sweden on Nehru Meets Homer China and, and vary
a
to visit
porn terrault convicted him. He dimmed the Baptist upon them, de mer interference with appeal, but ordered that sentence that use Chester be dated from August 19. Treaty, come from whatever quieter, will be summartly) (enamined.
heavy losses in Koby A Haiphong, Oct. 17. look askance ; at anything: that youth organisatione
Swedish-born Youth *Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian seems like appesszment.” BET Secretary is the first man ever Prime Minister arrived at Asked about American, reac The Ma* Hok-lam also appealed to serve the Baptists in a round. Honol this afternoon" "for his
against · hur "\" conviction": for the world
He was visit to Indo-China on his way. tion to the recent Labour Party Capacity,
muthorities of the Unitat šitatem" 225
Chipe have everywhage pancalested their hoppure fidelly to exists larceny from the person, for hated to the City Council of to Peking. He dined with Home to China Bir Harle reserval in which he had been sentenced to Stockholm in 1942, as the age of Chi-minh, the Vietminh pre- Bhaweroes replied;i; winero war serdermine dude domestic write nine months hard labour and 26, In 1944, ho accepted the wident and
other
Vietminh some i misunderstanding off the that now. dielarbe · the ↑ peace wind v
sepopunity of the Chineseja impressix stroke of the canopi
Young People's Union of Sweding), WIE was the first mee
and this neutrality shall be adhered
SNATCHED A BANGLE
to la Abe future, úhlemm an imperiosam His Lordship.
demandi nother
evidence pointed to appe being, the
-person
who
matched ajade" bang child carried by la mothe
post of wearetary of the Baptist leaders tonight.
Bloc years latache asumed his pessoal post and since 1950, his
eroase with people. What I Me William L. Orchard, Jr, should do is to get back to Manager of the American Bristől as soon as you can, Express's Shanghai Office, was erlio dons that go all peright, among the 16 passengers who snapped Mark, and he humpe the sal Pakhol from Tientsin and was waiting to take him back to
de this home in the westsy Shanghai Perhose home is in Pogosta
Orchard, New York, was accompanied by The First Battalion, the North his wife, and two argall sons. Starosashire Regiment, arrived Mr Orchard had been in Shange
HMT Asturias from Korea bat since 194750 Hamid he was
for further overseas | WAVELE
leaving for the United States
IVÁLS
Arrive
went to Korea
service in Trieste,
bling
the
Bat the
Coming