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CASEBOOK
Darby And Joan
THERE
was
something
Tuching about the old
couple who
answered
the
watched
names that the gaoler callal at the Clerkenwell enurt.
The public gallery approvingly as the old woman helpfully prodded her husband who was a few years her senior -up the two steps into the dock Here and there an eye inoked to be about to moisten at the thought of bwo old ones who huch Rose Brough life side by side and stood thus now, in the dock. in their hour of Buble
For the couple did not look as
life contid
Fave though
ever treated them very liberally with Javours; yet their marriage, sold their presence, straia.
trand
DISORDER?
gi! the
HE husband was a massively - framed man, slow of muve-
THE
ment and speech, wearing fray-
ed, dusty clothes
namexi
nemed
Charles.
Whs
wife, Is
minute Mary, lookeri beside him, but the dark eyes in
panched grey luce Fer lively as a giris.
was
***
"You are both charged with being drunk and disorderly." They both plende guilty.
"What was the disorder?" asked the magistrate, Mr T. P Davis,
They'd been elected from a hotel," a policeman explained, and they teled to go back in again."
"When you say 'hotel,' I mujar public-house?" pose you THEREL the magistrate Inquired.
IN THE STREET... No sir," the officer said. He
"Named a
hotel of autne
standing. You could imagine that the arrival of Charles and Mary in the lobby at the busy evening time might cause some guests to raise their eyebrows.
You wondered
could what have taken the old couple there. Some sudden remembrance of an anniversary that demanded cele- bration? An impulse to see how the other half lived, the luckier half of the world"
"In the street, sir, they bot threw themselves to the ground and became so violent that we had to send for the van."
"What do you want to say"" Charles. asked the magistrate "Nothing to say." Mary answered Jor him. Charles nodded agree- ment.
"And you?" Mr Davis asked Mary. "Nothing," she said.
FISH AND NEWS
you
"Dasked
turning to
do uny
work?"
the magistrate, Charles again.
"He does casual, sir, ensual
at the Ash market,'
Mury sold.
"And I'm a newavondor."
"Have they a fixed address?" the magistrate asked the police-
man.
have," Mary snapped, as though she resented the intro- duction of a thiru party into the conversation between her-
self and the magistrate.
10-
The magistrate nuddert wards Charles. "Hasn't he an address?" he asked, seeming to accept Mary in the role she had cast crself ag spokesman.
TWO ADDRESSES
"OH, Yes, she
address,"
official
he's got
replied, We different one.
drunk
"but it's a don't live together."
"You
brightly.
. Just get
right," said Mary
shillings each of you, or seven days," the magistrate sald.
Ten
"Yes, sir," Mary said, on behalf of them both. She helped her husband out and, when their business in the gadler's office was avca, the 014 couple nodded courtesies to each other and went their separate ways.
FUEL PIPE
EXPLODES
Seoul, Feb. 16.; Three Koreans were killed and two American soldiers and six Koreans were injured. In a fire caused by an exploding fuel pipe near the United States 8th Army Headquarters here yester day
the 8th Army
Announced today.p
An Army spokesman sald one American private was seriously burned but the other, a sergeant, returned to duty after receiving Aret 24. Their names WEDD withbeld Reuter,
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Peaceful Settlement Predicted By Nehru
New York, Feb, 15. The Prime Minister of India, Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, tonight predicted a peaceful settlement of the Formosa problem because “all the parties do
not want war."
Comparing the Indo-Chinese settlement with the current crisis over the Chinese Nationalist Island stronghold, Mr Nehru said, "There's no reason why we shouldn't exercise patience and understanding in order to get over this hurdle also."
E
Charge: Conspiracy
Judge Reserves Decision
on
Judge A, D. Scholes at the Victoria District Court this morning reserved his decision whether the six accused charged with conspiracy, in connection with resettlement area houses, have a case to answer or not.
The six accused are Cheung Kau-wah, Chow Chung- ying. Au Shiu-sang, Ng Hau, So Ping-kwong and Mary Daisy Wong allas Wong Man-tang.
All of them were charged with His Honour said he expected
to effect conspiracy
a public to give his docision at 9.30 am, mischief in 1953 and 1954. A tomorrow, If by that time he second charge of conspiracy had not yet finished examining against the first, fourth and the evidence and the arguments Afth accured was withdrawn by by Counsel, he added, he would the Prosecution on Monday, adjourn the case until 2.30 p.m.
Mr Arthur Lul, of Messrs Lo And
Lo, repr
represented the Arm three
accused, Mr V. Gitting,
Mr 5. Instructed by Messrs P. H. Sin and Co., represented the fourth and Afth, while Mr V. L. J. D'Alton instructed by Mcars
and Lom Co., appeared for
P. L. the sixth accused.
Mr D. F. O. Mayne, Crown Counsel, prosecuted, assisted by Det. Inspector D. R. Harris,
The sixth accused by herself was charged with two counts of corruption.
from
sell-
Story Of Armed Robbery
On High Seas
the
seas on
no
At Central this morning, be- for Mr J. E. Durling, three men were charged with armed
the high robbery on Christmas Eve last year.
were dismissed as Four others
Prosecution offered evidence against them.
Defendants were Hut Chan- wah. 30, broker, Chan Yu, 43, coxswain, and Lam Shun, allos Chau Chun, 39, sullor. Lan was additionally charged with pos-
arms without Hence, Crown Counsel said It was
DDI Indge- Prosecuting, known also that in relation to Buckingham, Marine Police, told
Resuming bis submissiona yesterday that the Crown had
made out a case against the accused,
Mr Mayne weld the evidence against the fourth ac cused showed that he was ing houses in the resettlement area to persons whom he knew did not possess white cards, and that ho asked and received from such persons substantial sums of
money.
houses purchased by two of the witnesses, the fourth Decused was working with the Afth in the sole of these houses.
cords.
session of
a
the Court that at about 4 pm. on December 24, a sailing junk was proceeding south of Hong- from Shan Mun kong bound NOT PERMITS
Kwan to Canton. It was stopped junk when about The evidence was that there by a motor
Kun Tau. was no fee payable which could two miles off Fuk reasonably be understood to be Four men went aboard the junk, an innocent and lawful fee. It two of them were armed with would be remembered, he con- pistola. tinued, that the white
The crow of the sailing Junk were then forced into a hold of were not permits, but simply
showed a person the motor junk. carde which
At about midnight they were by social had been screened по
had been called up deck and at the welfare officers and
forced to found to be residing in a speci-point of pistols were
jump into the sen. Seven of fc aren.
but the the crow could swim,
could not However eighth they managed to get ashore.
They stayed
island until January 20 the ordinary found some bamboo poles
В
Mr Mayne said there was no way in which a white card could a person residing be got for outside such an area, except by fraud
from
on an
when
they
out
"Some kind of co-exlatence la Ideology, but you'll And that the modern world is the only it is all translated in terms of way to live on," he said in an Chinese life, not of any other interview
on the Columbia Broadcasting System "See country, and because they are
the Chinese great realists, Now" television show. "The
doubt will continue as friends. alternative is co-destruction... I
The Soviets to am sure that all the parties do
while leading
lic as their independent not want war and that is tho
nation." most hopeful thing."
Mr Nehru Asked by
said the the commentator,
recent Edward Murrow, whether Com-
top-level shake-up in the munist China was threat to Kremlin probably was
coneemed with India, Mr Nehru said, "Not al
internat do
Any policy than with foreign polley not all....
Apert regard
made a ruft country as A
and threat to India.”
the foreign policy will price of the houses, he went on, of which they AGREEMENTS
continue more or less as it has
there wors no incidental legai Two of the crew took the raft sea and after three hours "We have come to certain in the recent past."
costs, like stamp duty costs and to
picked up by a As for the permits they were Mr Nehru was interviewed in
so forth.
junk. Issued under the London home of his sister,
Regulation 4 of fishing Mrs Vijaya Lakshmi Pondit, the Emergency (Resettlement attracted a Police patrol launch the other men on Indian High
fees and rescued Arcas) Commissioner in
Regulations, the
the island. Britain, several days ago.
payable were $60 and $120 per
Hearing is continuing. CAN'T BE SATELLITE year, depending "You can't have a
These permits had to be applied ve a country like China a satellite to any country,"
and paid for personally by ao sold Mr Nehru on the subject.of | applicant. Russo-Chlaese relations, "If there is any conflict between relation-Chinese nationalism and some
external
influence I have 120 doubt that nationalism would be
agreements about common prob- lems and we have clearly stated In those agreements the basis of (with Red our relationship
ald Mr Nehru. "Nou
isbn-
CRM), Bad, what
portant, Sich
other."
الان
non-interference other's affairs-internal or
Mr Nehru sald the relation- ship between Russia and Red China is a friendly ship, friendly in many And Moscow has helped Peking in regard to technical personnel und other matters."
ways.
"Their internal policy may be partly guided by Communist
By Galbraith
"I voted against buying those boxing gloves--but I must
"say you've succeeded in teaching him the manly art of
If-defence:
the stronger force.
Mr Nehru rejected the idea of military assistance to India, whether it be from the United States or Russia.
"We try not to think in mill tary
terms... do not want any thing to be done which reduces the feeling
of self-reliance." However, he stressed India's need, for technical and economic ald
"in over zo many depart- mente." He said, however, that the only way to carry this through was to train experts in India
"We cannot send a hundred thousand people abroad, so we are putting up institutes of training. Now we start sát the lowest level the village worker. What we require in India is equipment for our institutes United PreKS. ****
Town Razed
By Fire
Miri www Manila, Feb. 16.
on the
area.
Mayne submitted that persons who had no white when cards were charged exhorbitant dees under the name of "proce- dure money", there could be no innocent explanation.
It would be remembered, he
ald, that the fourth accused was concerned in this business on a fairly large basis, it would be umreasonable to say that fourth
They
then
Withdraws Objection
.
New York, Feb, 16. Minot "Mickey" Jelke agreed today to have Judgo Francis Valente preside at his second "call girl" trial on the charges of compulsory prostitution. accused, In demanding the Jelke had sought to have the "procedure money" from cus-judge disqualify himself or have tomers, did not know what it the trini shifted to another was for.
court
""SPECIAL "FEES"
Sheaffers "SNORKEL
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Lord Brabazon Sir,--Roading your recent article about the achievements of the Rt. Hon. Lord Brabazon that no Tarn, I noticed mention was made of his great pioneer work in securing re-
of
cognition for the Alsatian breed
with the Kennel Club in Great Britain.
Ho is well known as a great
35
lover of the Abatian breed and been connected for has years with the Alsation League of Great Britain of which he is the Honorary President.
H. J. P.
To its end a hook was, attaclied. After some tentative angling, ine hook was guided into an eye fixed to an enormous bronze plate. And wo by touch hearing and lugging. the plug was pulled, from the l tom of the harbour and wany wint the water.
Thus it was, thet, standing on the jetty. I was able to make my famous remerk
"Harbour with plug out, soon be
no harbour," So they
can scrop all their plans for bridges and tunnels. and concentrate their energy on
this re-discovering
Dug which has been lying dormant for the past one thousand years,
Can we
weird Imagine the and wonderful sights which will be exposed to us as the watera Tunnels, Bridges,
slowly cbb nway? Ancient in the silt of junks shrouded And Confucius
centuries, their sails furled, long Sir-On returning to civilisa-since useless; the odd car de- tion after three days in the wildeposited to its resting place from I happened to pick up Insta 20th century junk; discarded Friday's edition of the China enamel bowls; ammunition, fos-
the even,
edd Mall and my amazed eyes gazed sils; maybe, onto the front page. What did coelcanth and hydrogen bamb. 1 road?
Let them not tarry. Let them A proposition to build either a no: keep these wonderful de- Let them pro- a tunnel to connect the lights from us. bridge Island to the mainland, and aeced Immediately to the centre ques.ion to the public request of the harbour with a 'mighty
their pre barge and pull up the plug. them to state Ing
I have discovered tale erences. Then followed a long
for and extremely erudite explana-iems for them to solve.
them; I Leave
but two prob- The first le
Is the location of the new
10
tion of why a funnel is more desirable in every bridge.
way
much
to harbour, and the second is the method they employ to prevent
Reference was also made to
of on
MTP RIDDLE LT.
Wrong Locality
reference
to the
an article last month in which the waters of the China Sea from the advocates of the pridge had pouring in and spoiling the whole their fling even to the extent of show. enlisting the talents imaginative artist to do his stuff with their brain child.
Now I am not deploring their admirable
Sir,-With efforts in any way, but I do feel that both sides caption under the photograph could have been more attentive shewn on page 3 of the China during their history periods at Mall, Feb. 15th edition, Skinner school; especially the Chinese Park is not in Port of Spain. vintage of the 12th century, It is in San Fernando, Trinidad.
W. S. SHARP, But never mind, it is not loo
turn late. Let them but
1347
that famoLIS pagu
of
entitled Chinese anthology "Confucius he Say and they will find the following extract, this is the latest translation, of course.
to
"And on the 8th day after the first half moon before the 236th riving of the sun, all pre- parations had been made for Ling Ching Bing (1 came, I saw, I con- quered) to cross to the little falana known as Hi Poek (currently known as Hong Kong). The wild Inhabitants had been subdued and prepared for his coming; the vic- torious train had been put.ks order; the harbour had been drained and the road, thus exposed, cleared
of various rubbish deposited on it
by the loyal chizens of Leen Cow (currently known as Kowloon). I need only add the footnote.
"Some inquisitive beings may
tho harbour wonder how
Wa drained. The method was as fat- lows: a barge of mighty propor- tlony was floated to the centre of tho harbour, and, amid much
cable wa ceremony, m
lowered.
New Job For
Film Unit Besieged In
City Street
Hundreds of pedestrians in Central this Queen's Road morning waited for glimpse of Jechifer Jones, the visiting Hollywood actress, while the camera crew of 20th Century Fox were shooting a scene for thor production of "A Many Splen- Soured Thing."
The te
two
scene, taken just outside the Canadian Cafe, lasting in Etself not
than longer minutes, took over an hour to alm. The crowds, almovi für- rounding the camera, reluctant- ly moved away when ordered by the Police, only to drift back a fow minutes laber
Admiral Chen noted another
Chen
Shao-kuan,
Then, one of the spectators camera about yards away. A small group rushed to the spot, followed by
180
the rest,
* Admiral former Commander-in-Chief of
While they hopefully stood the Nationalist Navy and a mem- ber of Generalissimo Chiang around that camera, Miss Jones Kal-shek's Military Strategy Ad come out of the Cafe, stopped by two blind beggars and took some visory Committee in 1947, was coing out of her rattan pureo.
Deputy Governor of elected
The decoy worked, and the scene Fulden Province: at the First was taken without unwanted ex- Provincial
last
People's Assembly tras. Saturday, states a Foochow report report
the city.
Her dress was a fawn.coloured
Admiral Chen was living in Chinese cheungsam, which hod a slik applique below. the high semi-retirement in Foochow
A when the Communists entered collar, and moderate slits.
matching short-sleeved, jackot and shoes of the same material The Acting Governor Yeh Fal completed her costume, was elected Governor, the re- Miss Jones, then got into a port sald.
i waiting car, and drove off. The Commissioner of Financo, entire crow followed to the next Young Wen-wal, presenting his location, the Foreign Correspon- budget, said that 39,80 per cent dents' Club. of total expenditures for 1955 would be used for educational development in the Province, 29.70 per cent for economic con- dis-struction, and 30.70 per cent for administrative, expansion.
He argued that there might be bias as an appeals court had thrown out this judge's previous conviction of Jeiko and ordered new trial because the press and public were excluded from ho some parts of the trial,
As records, the fifth accused, Crown Counsel sald the evidence against him was that he negotiated the sale of two houses to two persons whom he knew did not possess white cards. For that reason,
The judge refused to charged
them special fees. Fifth accused, he went on, qualify himself saying he was satisfied that he held no bins, Ping Keo Company, a firm engaged on a Today Jolke's lawyer said Jelko large-scale building and selling to Judge Valente's Integrity. of resettlement houses, It
margarine | Jelke, heir of a would be unreasonable to sup- fortune, is accused of inducing pose that he was not familiar with the laws and regulations girls to take up prostitution.- governing the slo of such
was the owWDET
•houses in
of the
in those areas,
Mr Mayne
said the evidence
In the case clearly
WETO
showed that first five accused the engaged in the conspiracy. said he would not deal with the sixth eccused at this stage, as no A fire believed to be the rubindsalon of no case to answer had been put forward on had behakt:
biggest ever-in: Pampanga Pro vince in Central Luzon last night razed the town of Cusgua causing estimated damage of US$1
14-khoz trendering 1,000,000
persons homeless. Seven were injured, b
3,000
“About 300; büisiness, buildings
WASTE PAPER CATCHES FIRE
now, had theolute confidence" Radio Hongkong
Rouber.
Japan To Make Heavy Water,
Ottawa, Fob. 15.
·Japan is expected to be able to produce heavy water in quantity at a low cost in the next few years and exchange it with other nations for uranium: a-spokesman • for: 14 Japanesa sclerate said at Chalk River, Ontario yesterday.
The Japarted were visiting the Canadian atomic installation
Teenagers' Bodies Found
:
Tel-Aviv, Feb. 18: The bodies of na Israel boy H.K.T.
Time Signal and Programme and girl both aged 17 who dis- Bummary: 6.03. Lucky Dip-Varisty Requeris presented by: Margherit appeared last December while (Studio); 6.60, Weather Iteport; 2. on a holiday have been found Time Signal and World New burled in Jordan terrority, an
Holy): 709, Commentary
sald spokesraon Lelay) or Special An. Israel: nouncements is, a short recorded here yesterday. commentary on the Association Football Match - between, All Hong- the Austrian Team, followed by a mummary of play by Brix
Twenty | Question from The Madons
to Beamon. Question : Master! Patrick' Buter, the Team: Faith Buller Dorothy Scales, John miles Inside Jordan, and found Latus. Pracy Shoshan (Recorded dem buried under a happ 8. Drakestra of the Week-The Halle Cerchestrig 8.30, Bari Darabas (Bop.), stones near Mount Hebron, with. Kalman. Lendvay's ↑ Gypay, Strong Jordanian fire, how- Orch.) 8.45, Plano Recital; by Harrý
Concert HALT: 216, Wednesday ever, was directed at the party, the mystery of the upty the spokesman said, and only Ship Party byzance, savsking the girl's body could be removed prend, onlathe, novel Katha Aureoke and brought back to Izrael, Vege skyy - - Soberg -- Louin & Blevenson) and Lord Osbourne a (B8025)): 100, White a post mortem was Touth Pacing yanasale, denario being held; int military hos- 10,30vi, one parali the furzett, authoritien you
The spokesman said that a party of Israeils went into Jordan to find the bodies of the
Young (Recorded); 17.20 youngster's who had apparently
On
andchoues. In the town's corn- A heap of wasio paper, stack- {Doro. mercial distelets were sufied by ea in a crate, on his fast floor - The, spokesman sold Japan the fire.
bekyard for Arthe back stairway, of, the had no known- major deposits of idionen Late reports from Gusgun | French Bank Building caught ararlian and Japan was hopeful last night!! wald; that the are are, at shout noon today pin she could "obinin, urarium from started from a retail store owned. The watchtaan of uni adjacent counges like Canada and the impor
Cor by, a Chibaas, and quickly
|to the salutounding trend DAMUOSE Bw. Z flambs", spouting United States in michang
Army tycope it immediately
loating.
from the window by, the shit holy water bukMEO
to Canada
been murdered.
The party penetrated
C
tow
Report: quested Jordan, through the Relay United Nations, observars, to Musisi | Kanit over the body tot, the boy, headied.Fradote Prenes