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100 Years
A
Ago
murder, accomponled circumstances of singular brutal ferocity, is reported
by
and
la
have been committed at Cum- singmoon, by four of the
of the American receiving ships, upon the person of a Chinese tallor, the father of a family of four children, and who has been
the plaer brem
CHINA MAIL
Quie Brings Action Against
3 Hongkong Doctors
Joseph Leslie Quie, mèrchant, today brought an action claiming $250,000 damages for alleged injury to himself from the defendants' negligence in connection with his detention in a mental home for observation, or for the certification of the settled on the Istant ever luce plaintiff as being of unsound' mind.
LOL Oplum Station. We retrain from saying: è The case in before the Acting At the end of the war, Mr more on the subject until we Chief Justice, Mr Justice T. J. Quic
to Hongkong learn what steps are taken la Gould in the Supreme Court this and rejoined Humphreys,
maller The
by
United morning. the
Counsel said. That firm was States' authorities,
whose
turned into a limited Jiability hands the matter reste,
in 1947 with a paid- up capital of $600,000. Mr Quie, he said, was one of four share- holders and put up his share of $150,000,
following Notifications relating to protection have
cently been
from
the
kened Canton Consulate. The first is,
།
Defendants mained
the
action are Dr P. M. Ymp of the Mental Hospital, Dr S. H. Moore of the Medical Department and Professor A. J. 5. McFadzean of Queen Mary Hospital. .
we suppose, intended as an in- | Appearing for the plaintif s timation of the provadon
in sertion 40 01
40 of
Mr Jethn McNeill, QC. Mr W. Lawrence Leong and Mr R
Us/s16 {
The
Order
In Council
of 13th June.
1853,
S. Winter.
to which the Notification
ought to have de reference:
there
Anothing re about 1, beyond its
e while bril was up-
appearance prehendied. It does not, anty more than
Onker the
in Council.
either
เก
guarantee protection of person or property in registered British subjects, but only war those who do not register
that They are neither
"destre -- not nor expect protection," even such as might be afforderi by an emelent naval squadron: but which in Its present deplor- able inefficiency the civil power connal control. The second Notineation may have grown out of the first, or at all event out of the perilous condition which Canton is supposed to be
Whether or not there
paell,
would have been any great dan ger, had it not been fostered by naval perversity, the Notifica-
is on
Hon
Mr W. A. Blatr-Kerr, Senior Crown Counsel, and Mr J C. McRobert. Crown Counsel, wen representing defendants
are
JURY EMPANELLED
claimed The damages $130,831.80 for damages and $119,108,12 for special damages.
A Jury of three ines and four wonen has been empanelled, Opening the case for plaintiff, Mr McNeill
his said ellent was fully conscious of the gravity of the allegations which he was making. He had
ભાષા uid thus the defendants wer each of them megigent in of the duties the performance of their profession,
returned
MAN OF SUBSTANCE
Counsel said that the Jury would appreciate that in 1947 Mr Qule was a man of sub- stance, und added that the -pres
were How worth vory much more.
His client had several sonte who were educated in univer- alties in England. Ho himself establishment in kept itp Hongkong and he behaved like any normal well-to-do person, Counsel said.
Jail
Mr McNeill added that his theellent had his faults like every. body else and one of them might be that he was free with his He might have other money. faults, but however wrong any- me thought he was, that did not constitute insanity. Counsel de- cinred,
in
His client understood that that wus & give allegation to make against my pi deselval mon but when Counsel told the atury to the Jury they
would at once appreciate the frightening-he|
021
of
$1
won J
that "prudenCG and which the Plenipotentiary recom- inends to the Queen's subjects. It afford them
is calculated to little satisfaction however; and we understand they But
weled to the Propol
have
fore
This
1210
tiary for an explanation. His Excellency can hardly make his muning plainer than in the Notification
And itself. British community must there provickr. for their
rither
quitting by adopting measures of the spot. The Americans too have had what they
eall Medling. to denounce the un- concert. of thek noval Com- mander: --
or ado
ion on
Indignation
by
171
TAKEN TO MENTAL HOME
Mr McNelli sald his client's claim was that the
defendants,
MONDAY, JANUARY 10,* 1955.
SIDE GLANCES · By Galbraith
11:15
Cor. 1944 by KEA burden, Ma,
"Mom thinks everybody who whizzes past our house 35 miles an hour says, 'My goodness! What dirty windows!" "
JULIUS KATCHEN'S
LAST CONCERT
It was with the feeling of revisiting an old friend that we went to the third and last of Julius Katchen's piano recitals last night at the Empire Theatre, and it was with real regret that we parted from him after another brilliant and entirely satisfying concert.
After
hearing
his
the opening nimeæ, terrifying
the
the
unch of them, had been negligent in the performance of their result of what duty, and as a they said his client was taken character of that story,
mental home and kept there. McNeill Bald that
That was
basis of the The basis of charges may be grave, but what plaintiff's claim.
the Defence, Counsel sald, was could be more frightening, more
the to be taken out that terrifying than
dofendants were not (rom one's
and put into negligent and moreover if they Ilic what
was
effect a lunatle were which they claimed they to have branded were not-they were covered in asylum, "and
cach case by tu endorsement by ut the stigma at being a
a Justice of the Peace. After giving the positions Mr McNeill
tha! said which the defendants are hold-March 12, 1952, the third de 10g, Counsel went of
(Prof. to say fundant
McFadzean) that his client was a self-made examined the plaintin Two ma. His father was a seaman days later his client went but he had
brain and a senst the Queen Mary Hospital under of financial acumen; and made the supposition, Counsel sald, quite substantial sums of money, that he was going to be ex
BROUGHT UP IN U.K. amined and treated for a com~ Counsel said his client was plaint of the liver. brought up in the United King-
11:20*1
ic.
NOTIFICATION.
British Consulate.
dom and care to Hongkong at the age of 18 years. He had a Canton, 19th December, 1854.
visi The undersigned has to notify period of service in a Gov-
that all British Subjects, who desire or Expect protection, and who have
their names, must appear at this offer and enter them on the Register, on or before the 31st instant.
D. B. ROBERTSON,
Consul.
NOTIFICATION,
British Consulate.
to
people, they and sellers In S
retiremunt
h
much
on
10
Counsel added that his client
had not drunk any liquor since September of the previous year.
he
two or
said.
Bartok,
Mozart citals, 3 pieces by encore the first evening, it was brilliant and somewhat experi- no surprise that Katchen play-mental, an "Ostinato” ed
work of the arciso on a repeated figure, and concert, Mozart's A major two Bulgarian dances, flery and Sonata K.331, with simple de vigorous. ared without the leacy exaggerated bravado sometimes used
last the Turkish"
The final group was of Chopin, This was how the the third Scherzo, the Berceuse Sonata
shouldd
be play, end and the Polonniso in A flat 음악 has been the keynote it followed by three encores also Kalchen's performances that his of
Chopin. I much enjoyed renderings
in
arc
Just
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Britain Plans To Avoid Jet Plane Production Delays
From Our Own Correspondent
London, Jan. 9.
JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
CLEANING WINDOWS
morning the
Ewindow cleaners get
The war-time Ministry of Aircraft Production off for work, armed by the may be revived to meet the grave delays in delivery firm that employed them of jet aircraft to the R.A.F. and the Royal Navy, with the tools of their trade Service chiefs and the Ministers of Defence and a list of the jobs that
had to be done
to and Supply are in close contact during the present They were a cheerful gang Parliamentary recess, considering the suggestion Each was possessed of many made by Sir Winston Churchill in the Com-gifts-in hond for heights which
mons.
This is
The Ministry of Alrecaft Pro--has called' 'for' eoarching duction turned out 125,000 war-examination of all the factors. planes from' 1940, when it was created, until April 1948, when it was abplished by the Socialist Government.
proving one of the most remarkable "inquests" ever undertaken by Tory MPs.
scaffolder might envy; tact and discretion; and remarkable dex-
bicycles. terity in navigating through London's rush-hour trafic, with one hand on the bucket-burdened handlebars and
were
i
The window-cleaners the other controlling a ladder.
- Some wont industrious too. STILL CONCERNED
about their work
bric with such a In addition to Lord De L'Isle, will, and so quickly, that they Now, fewer than 40 swept-
have already questioned found time in a day to under- fightors are in wing
actual they service with the B.AF, after an Mr Selwyn Lloyd-who was take some window-citanington hundreds of pain prevent at the Cabinet their own account as well as expenditure of millions of pounds although and a leading offelal of Vickers, working on the firm's behalf.
A PARTNER approximately 140 have been makers of the Swift,
A high executive of Hawkers QUCH a one was Jack, a dark- delivered.
long-faced "man of Minister, wher, has now been invited to discuse haired,
carned himself House lest
24, who sat, replying the Hunter with them.
Whitehall In
It la thought present subsidiary incorne over Mr Woodrow Wyatt (Soc..
The life of an unlikely that any definite move and above the 210 awock his Aston) salds aircraft in the process of con- will be made, by the Govern-in paid him, by free-lance
works on windows. struction far exceeds the life of ment to restore the Ministry of af Aircraft Production before the Service Estimates in March.
Meanwhile concern about the Hunters and Swifts now in ser
The Primo
the
to
an
The
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In a cafe, one recent evening, Jeck encountered stranger whom he evidently se enchanted with his descriptions of window-cleaner's life that by the end of the evening the pair bad decided to go into partner- ship:
Tell you what," said Jack "I'm doing a place Monday; It' a bouse I do regular for my selt, of course, You come along
Individual Minister Supply, far exceeds it, maybe twice or thrice as long, with all the preparations.
"It raises In my mind the vice with the R.A.F. continues broad
*general question of The models in operation are be
the whether A special Ministry loved to be well behind ahould not be re-created to American Sabres and Russian deal with the prolonged process MIGs in service.
that the of production."
possibility time the Prime R.A.F. will scrap the Swift is
still a serious one, Minister gave the House
In the Parliamentary recens and we'll see how it goes,”. **"*+:
also IRON BARS DO NOT, W assurance that the problems of
There the Defence chiefs are delay would be settled. would
be a
"satisfactory Bow" discussing the position of the THE pair mes at the house. where they planned to put of planes before "the period of V-bombers-Valiant, Victor, and
yet in their partnership, to trial. The comparative safety in which wo Vulcan none of which
squadron, service, and, of naval house sorbed to be empty of are İlving has elapsed."
aircraft.
people.
Well, well," said Jack. Ho
At the same
RED TAPE
an
Mr Selwyn Lloyd,
the Minister of Supply, has ordered an all-out: attack on red tape, which in holleved to be hamper-
the production of fighters.
after Tory
inals emerged
M.P.s had closely questioned the Air Minister, Lord De L'Tale and Dudley, and his Under- Secretary, Mr George Ward, at a private meeting.
The Alr Minister frankly with the problem answered many critictims,
over the house's facade with his expert eye. "They've
there."
LETTER TO gone and lett a window open up
THE EDITOR
Bir was indeed interested at the "Ponice" sign in Wyndham dealt Strert which you reproduced in
and your
further paper. of mused at the other errors you
was
Yes, but there's bars across out his ladder Jack put
"Mmmm,"
to the wall, close to the window, Ho, and his friend climbed up. They found it simple to slip through the bars into the house, SELF-HELP
His playing which the chief. is that there are drow our attention to on the the house toy, helped
playing as they Katchen's
of the and of should be, and that ff the les tempestuous Scherzo, gifted of us were able to play
the Polonaise, of which I thought literally knew every note, but sure
is how we crbly, that
I heard
several notes should to it.
I had The
Beethoven 32 Variations never heard before owing to the on a kieme in C minor, which beautiful precision and clarity of followed.
the same Katchen's playing. is not of greatness as the two Sonatas of the final encores, two Waltzes, was admirable and at last already played, but though each variation is very short, the work banished the pale shades of "Les has consistency and contmulty of the corner of the mind's eye Wiiv | Sylphides” which always linger Katchen ig a fine Beethoven
when one hears these pieces, player; after these three under. Katchen's hands they be concerts, the opinion
can be der
W came once more real piano safety expressed that he is at pieces.
beat in Beethoven and It has been a memorable ex- Brahms. It would be interest-perience for all music lovers in ing to hear him play more Hongkong to be treated to three of such excellence, we are Bach; next us have more of this
greatest master of all.
and enter
hig
ས
time be
or
comes, let recitals to Mr. Harry Odell for
Katchble fer
all
Seaman Who Missed
themselves to as much as "too many departments standing front page of the China Mail of ney could conveniently carry
January 8. 1 feel, A pair of binocular, a siver botween the manufacturers-and
that I cannot let this clock, Jewellery, two wrist the R.A.F.. about the altuation, and through column four of your paper of or not they gave the windows a
But the party is disturbed series close without drawing watches.
Then they left. And whether your attention, to: pagoTM: one, ita Air Commitice-a subsidiare the same date, where in my courtesy-clean on their way out of the main Defenco Committee
noticed that; the has not you been made public, copy,
in "POLIRE" were active
It did not take the police long Casablanca.
to catch (with... Jack, though his friend disappeared: 20 në • (boroughly and 'absolutely;jur a mirage does when the sun goes down.
No Big Army For SEATO
London, Jan. 9.
Yours, Faithfully,
H. 1. G. RYLANDS.
All the Clerkenwell court, Jack
Mail Notices pleaded guilty to stealing goods
The latest· times., of posting -
worth something like. £ 100 from
shown below are those for sa-empty house,... registered, correspondesos, posted at O.P.O. Hongkong. The Intert posting times elsewhere which, in general, azt aurlier than the G.P.0, times can be ascertained”, by anquiry at the local office.
The latest posting limes for
one hour earlier than the Lines. shown below, Particulars „regard-- tog párćet mugs can be ascertain- ed by enquiry at any post ombe.
MONDAY, JANUARY 10 My Alt Kone, 0, bm.
sources
India, Middle East, Afrion,
|-
Britain. & Európe, 6 pa..
Japan., § pah.
Tostood, Malaya, Indonada.
« Pakličan... Praons,. 0° pin.
He scked the magistrato to into consideration" "other take things he had stolen wille working on his firm's behalf, at another address, some months before.
A
"IS
there
MENACE
anything known?" asked Mr T. F. Davis, the magistrate.
There was. Jack had firat been
-when he Caught atealing was 14. Other convictions had
Then an approved schoo had seemed to put an end This criminal career.
TAKEN BY AMBULANCE ernment department here
Mr Quie went to Queen Mary and shortly afterwards he joined the Hospital in the morning and in Wis told by firm of John D. Humphreys and the evening not yet registered
Company. Humphreys were land Prof. McFadzean, a specialist in
diseases of
the liver, Counsel lanet and built houses, said, wanted to look over him Counsel explained.
his for sightednes again and suggested that his
in making prise in He went on 10 Sily
llent go to Matilda Hospital. that cllent
us to hear Me
and Mr Quie was taken by ambul- Humphreys was a partnership
The
last work in the first half the other great artists he has firm. They were general man once and found himself in the
of the concert was Schumand's brought. Julius Katchen's place Mental Hospital, Counsel agers of AS. Watson and Co.,
Fantasy in C: op.17. Mr Katchen among the great planists of the av, Prof. McFadzean On that Canton, 29th December, 1854. Humphreys Estate and Finance,
day,
adopted the same method as at world is assured, and so is his The
the Peak signed a document saying that his first concert and gave an ex- warm welcome whenever he re- undersigned has been
Co., Lid, and of directed by His Excellency Sir Tramways
bellevel plaintiff to be of
The United States and planation of the three move turns to Hongkong-XX, John Bowring, Her Majesty's In 1920 Mr Quie became unsound mind. Upon that ap
Britain have agreed. in ments of the Fantasy which, as Plenipotentiary. &c. &c..
J.P. endorsed Secretary
of Humphreys and plication,
he indicated, is extremely
principle to forgó a big registered articles are generally communicate for the Information
thus from that time until his Counsel added that the J.P, was
work and contains of all British Subjeels who have
Ister a doctor resident in the Queen romantle
much poetry and expression of
NATO-type standing army lochger! in the office of Her
date he had many opportunities Mary Hospital.
inner feeling. The first move-
on the Southeast Asian hot Majesty's Consulate at Canton,
The following day (March 19)
Ship Gets One of seeing how the finances of lists of their properly, goods, &c.,
ment, which reveals his love for ule who
spot covered by SEATO, re Jwas then in the that His Excellency is
the Company were arranged for Mr Quie
Clara Wicck whom he later Month In Prison liable diplomatie quite the purchase of land; he was Mental Asylum volunteered to willing that the Consulate should able to have access to see the stay there. He had said in as
married, is reminiscent of the
Pleading gulity to negligently said today. receive these and
similiar
composer's
great any
sang cycle conduct the Peak Tramways many words, "I agree to stay "Dichterliebo
of
Orcat followed. F The two countries chose in- The Poet's remaining in the Colony after alatements: but he cannot
and big companies 1ike Watson's, here for
the departure of hits ship, a 45-ster three weeks, Love. It is emotional, but not year old Malayan scaman, Taju- mobile striking power
bn American to rely undertake
any
responsibility on the part of Her Majesty's It was quite clear, Counsel said, you need not dotain me."
that his client was a gentleman Counsel went on that an
goog tal in the way that ni
din Bin Arshad, was sentenced ordinated with British, Austra Government to secure this
many of Schumann's com- in March 22 his client gavo of substantial experience should
of extreme sentito a month's imprisonment by-lian and New Zealand forces in positions are property,
Mr C. financial matters and
at the Marine tho ares for the defenco relating to land
who was in charge of the men- sion of inner feeling and was in-
Southeast Asia against further circumstances of this port; or
tal hospital, that he wished to
in this way by Julius defendant' left his ship, the my DID, SOME BUSINESS
The US.
and engage 10
the enforce upon
leave.
Kache characteristic of his Cingaleso Princo, at
to have reache Later that day, his client was existing or any future Chinese
In 1928 Mr Quio did some Authorities indemnity for such business
Dockyard at 10 nm. last Friday firm's persuaded by first defendant to playing that it contains at-ell outside
that political and and when bo Her Majesty's business.
must be be returned at He took a lease of withdraw the notice and to stay times much intensity of expr the ship had sailed. Defendant,
messures loss or damage.
prigrlty equal to military
6. Time Bignal-and- Programme fectly honest man. Co to prison Plenipotentiary has been in-
some 28 flats in Nathan Road on for the full period of thres elon but no muddy emotion" | who surrendered himself to the preparations to counter Com-Bimary; en Children's Half Hour for six, mantha,”
Valarte state, structed to
that
by Joan and AA2" presented every
Jack sighed Turried and lort clarity and courses of Marine Department on Sunday munire subversion to be for composing a prudence and precaution is and then re-let them at a good
profit.
APPLIED FOR ORDER „
Catalogue. The Monikaly, Haviaw of Now he is in a place where: 11. quired from the Merchants,
he left feally exposed SEATO' sector. and
technique, auto In 1937 Mr Qule became Counsel said that on March of the secrets of his that the
Plang for the early creation Austrian Indiawer: 1640, Caribbean of the windows are barred, to shopping the action of Her Majesty's
defendant signed a
excellence. Mr Hatchen referred in his explan that defendant be held in the military Government in the event of in- interested in another projeer 28 frat
further ordered In Asta of an elaborate SEATO mirall world that, no one can enter that way Report 7 ruma
and Rots 7.10. Com and no one can leave that he had
tion to the loose-knit structuro
organisation... Now reason to believe, that his client.
mentary (London Relays or Special Europo depend
of the work;' and this is typicas/House of Delantion: pending counterpart, lo-NATO a News (Zondan
Announcements AEMENTBOR 200 Territories. He formed a com- was a person of unsound mind It may take of any parti-pany called QB Pisseries and in and appiled for an order to put of Schumane, many of whose arrangements, to be made by the have been quietly abandoned for Bar ofert A Gran (0)
of a Plano" told by D. Guford- him in
the hospital God de piano works are similarly is for his repatriation after the time being, the sources sald.ie or no r D. R. ROBERTSON, that company he was associate
The two countries having cardion (Recorded) quenting a number
for observation stringing-together of impressions serving his term..
smoothed over their each Archie Andram (320 or important fained there
earlier ArghtWin PH Mr Counsel observed that his client and emotions. As an encore to including
frst half, Katchen gave the
aferences DA was already in the
Anlar -kadoodle - whom ha
mental the first
•Favourites Majodias- maa, Ka
Gminot
hearing agreement on honestra) Time Princess Margaret policy are hospital at that time. had known for many years. /
was signed Zoned work; we' The application
wixucture of SEATO, which | Cube Boole and Authon ane Brahms ole
ploco
Attends Christening will be formally, hammered out are Best
Belay);
half opened" with
Englou and lov
seller
it be exposed to damage or
loss under the present critical
the
a
matters į written notice to first defendant, mentality; it is a yirlic exprel Court th
weeks,
Jury suffered by the Queen's breeding of vigs in the
which was the rearing, and document saying
Subjects will
the on
culor
cake.
To the British Community, at Carton...
Д Consul Officiating. with
British Staff
Mr McNell raid that in 1941 by aral, deferxiant and the glad to Mr Qule who was in, the Hong-second deferant, who signed in the The Justice of the Penco.
kong Voluntoere, was taken next day (March 31), a nabav
Resigns In Sudant and nemcord
Jin
Ahomshulpo, Camp, but sub-certificate wes rigned that plain- tle Khartoum, Jan. 94 sequently couped by way of tiff we a person of unsound Most of the British slant of the china 40 India where he was mind, that was to my Counsel cathed Sudan's public « works ministry,
cubmitted their roolgaations to
· light, it was reported,
attached to the Ist Gloucester
Regiment, the worked his way sald a rifled fundile on the great
of first and;
This brige to 600 the tott! to the rank of sergeant and
Mubeequently applied for and fonda
des
ja
pedalling..one
of an old
Interpreters of are cftin Excelent Debumy, and "Kalchen" tuving" the for this nine-grairie and delic Thakw$1,300 modern, works in all
I number of resignation notices by obtained at commission, He On April Armed by MA: Hin-3 needed,
to the shig L, BANKIN
Insanity We Britons whose posts are being later became Captain and taken over by Sudanost.
British Tomalal numbered Imali ende Dement of Uns 1 Me: MANGIE IN Duritating with Pure this openient wildirom) to the Jury,
morning,
revealed that i Communist as «Britain's, ware
the Talkoo/inde
agreement
the
"Federatan"-Margaron was as tha|in chratening today godmother of
| tise | two-month-old 17. son 'of-the.
aral Lady Rowenary Mule, baby was ridersed - Alexan-
consideratio
conference
boen "done"; iti depart negotiati in Washington in recent week
prinje.
cine for SEATO
By Surface. Austraia, New Zealand.; B`p.in.”
[ flacno,- 6. p.m.
Radio Hongkong
Pride
Brough and
“âni and
What do you want to say me?" the magistrate asked.
"Only I'm very sorry," said
a menace," said the only one person entitled to do a window.". fleaner's job, and that's a per-
Chinese Naval Rating Dies
After Accident
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