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JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK
Chance For Willie
MILLIE, at the age of
Ws
"You menn he's a mixture of
han committed good and bad?"
almost every minor crime that a man can commnit, and
RESOLUTE
the file in which the police "YES, sir. set down his record buiges
like one of those bumper unce?"
በነኛ can
He snys work, and would work." Does he drow public assist-
Willie "No,"
chipped! In prompt as an actor on a cue. 30ve no Axed The public assistance."*
American of 414 magazines that come in handy as doorstops. number
address, so 50
Wel A probation officer rose convictions of
confirmed Fiyat WBS Willie's against him is currently in
plight. The mad-70'x.
That for all that Wilise
CHINA MAIL
Eden Will Seek
Anglo-US
Declaration
On Colonial
Policy
London, Jan. 26. The need for an important Anglo-American declaration on colonial policy is to be of the major topics raised by the British side the Washington talks, Derek Marks from aboard the Queen Elizabeth.
one
writes has
been on the losing side so often
with skirmishes
TA
there favour
The
gistrate
turned to Willie again. " ( let you ku
do?" now, what will
you
it
he
go
1 law. asked
to to lap sachet i f
may
fer Which
hestant, set persisten! riis,
the testimodal given to Wilhe
'
J
they say by
at alt bennir.
M
British anxiety for such To the workhouse No Intleyness seeing fo| place," Willie said. "And from
pronouncement is prompted by of Russian have epterest Arilis line, and he there 13 go out and get work." the steady success
Very well, I shall discharge | anti-colonialium muy in both has remained a stranger to self-
you entitionally, which means jalty
the Middle East Bud Far East. That yet
honest the next six Ife fear
months." Sir Anthony Eden stays in his cabin working on this and re- The magistrate said.
"Aye, 131 do that," said Willie, laled matters to be talked over wod Be west wwny. looking with President Eisenhower. almost resolve, and the pollee- man who had spoken for him! Gllowed closely, as if he meant
Wiles bster
resolution with advice, while The going was good
police olleet
IN AND OUT OF COURT WILLIE sicurt in the dock
יי
..t
the Clerkenwell court, fi The second ring in sticces Non On the Rest he had been 2 for a travail offere had owed the thor atul gone off hty lonels way, towards the Euston Red
Smewhere between the court on there. Wilhe took refresh- ment of
Buds Chl the indi greatest faveur with Ban, st
tortsett elr seal purit nbous ats appetising as lighter fisel
Cross
Te reached Fi Station, and there devoted him- self, for a few minutes, to trying the door handles of barked cars whose contents tempated in
INCORRIGIBLE
to
Troops Lay Siege To University
Merida, Mexicu, Jau 2+1
University of Yucatan, crux ing five days ut disturbances and alivet nghting
a two- month-old teachers' strike,
It to elem the Preter now regards a swift answer to Rus- warfare 33 sian psychologiend The Muktie and Far East to be almust as unpertant as economic Laevelopment.
گورکی
A declaration
Western policy cuming from buth the Prester and the President would also have the effect of answering American enlles British pobey -pai tieularly over Cyprus.
of
A WARNING
Meanwhile the United Nations. locity studied ¦ warning
Federal Troops batay d) Bertan that its existence is im-
rating students in the
perilled by the meddling in the domestic and colonial affairs of | member nations. Britain's repre- sentative, Sk Piersan Dixan. speaking before the New York State Bay Association about Bra- tain's position, said.
WITHIN an hour of his leay-
The Yucatan State Governor, ing the Clerkenwell court,
Victor
Metin Palomo, sad a Willie was outer arrest agala.
pleaded milion of the controversy was and next morning he
benk guilty to.
Suspected į "ne persoa, hudtering with intent to -teal.
The officer is chuige of +1-
fur case briefly uthnel
magistrate. Mr Frank
his prisoner's recordi
Powell,
"It has for two centuries been the historie rule of Britain to Hrad (rritories nient
| -1945.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1956.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
12-8
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"Dad, what really helped you most to become a good salesman-this stuff, or golf?"
NATIONALISTS SAY MILITARY SITUATION
IS WORSENING
Taipeh, Jan. 26 Chinese Nationalist sources said today that the military situation was worsening around the offshore island outposts of Quemoy and Matau.
The government, reporting on a battle yesterday, said the Matsu garrison captured a motorised Communist junk. It was one of eight Red vessels spotted and fired upon by Nationalist guns on the island.
the situation as tense,
The
The official Central News, then opened up with another
a dispatch from Its Agency in to self-guvern-Matsu correspondent described
113-round barrage ni night. Soldiers desleged The ancien i
It was not made clear whether this process is con-
from Taiversity buildings
the shells
short In down intre a very short three
caine en Merid... where some
positions or from the eight Com- 70 the Gold Coast wht have as-
dispatch quoted
Na-munist vessels. students weat sal holding out
the 5dzmt9}
states of arli- agulist Metal demands in the goverment.
Sonalist intelligence reports as A government But 1 progress saying the number of Commun- and light
sad the captured junk towards self-government is to
ist troops, including amphibious loadest with wood.-United be orderly it must be leg and heavy artillery units,
has Press. bars of responsible
been increased ut mainland authoritie London Express points
opposite both Quoу
"He has twee been sentenged is ader by a higher court as an incor- 17A Ce sigble rogue.”
Thes
polivering
Wole:
In the UnivDNA
were
ud, "ater he emme vit of prison Otre students stage! protest in December from it end of 1, emonstă aliomis 12 the elly those sentences Since then, this has been legging.
week in
prison for
HE MIGHT MAKE A GO OF IT
"CAN you duri anything to say
tay his faveur du mugis-
trevta
were
The besanged students the maller of two opposing ***
undergraduates on i different sales of the controversy jover teachers' demands for a 10
per cent pay increase.
Students supporting Guvernor i "Welt. sir" The policeman
Pulao Mena said, "I thuik Faja Brownfall has been drink nad loss of self-rechers have been roaming the respect."
trate uske
The magistrate roodkind. Willie. wispish little mum looked on without obvis interest in what was being sakl.
against
the
TON
I
Service
Legionnaires
Dive Overboard
and Matsu.
11 said aditional Red Air Force units had been, statigued ut Helds in Fukjen Province
Formosa opposite
und its offshore island chains.
NEW GUN POSITIONS
Durban, Jan. 26.
The
Reds
have
dug more heavy Kun poeltions fucing Ma's, the Northern anchor of the
A
At least five French foreign freets since Sunday, stoning legionnaires, alt Germans, dived vehicles and clashing with lab- Fully clothed into the sea frum
ur unionists who me suppor!- the Frenet Troopship Pasteur
the teachers And who threaten to call a general strike.
United Press,
wou dit
ever *, *r." pollevman wr
011. "That This chup's the sort You'd LaL once take a liking for when you Contenis jord Boatswain R. E. met him. But be seems to have Junes, formerly of the HKRNVR. something in him, so that
been posted you ans
15 the Royal feel that it իլ:-
to be Hongkong Delence Force Reserve were straightened out, he might make of Officers I was antuneed in
No of it
the Government Gazette today.
Fabulous Shoe Sale
Commencing Monday
RECORD VALUES
Clearance
SALE
About 1,000 pairs flexible genuine imported shoes, assorted & varied styles, sizes 4-9 $15 ⚫ $20 • $35
About 200 pairs Joyce, Brevitt and Rhythm Step, and many others from well known, houses
$40-$50
Slippers for children and ladies from $5-$7.50
MODE ELITE
Kayamally Bldg,"
22 Queen's Road C
Tel, 24052
today after she left barbour
They tried to swim more than two miles to shore.
defence system. Formosa
Quemay, the Southern anchor, the dispatch said,
Nationalist
sentries Increuser Commundat reported naval activity along the coast.
The government
sold the Three other legionnaires are
Reds fred 22 high explosive missing and two gave themselves shells at Matsu carly yesterday, up to police tonight after the ship suiled.
The South African naval vessel i
Geide, land, which kept astern Radio Hongkong
of the Pasteur as the sailed out
ان
hn:bour, received
from
D
STARTS INSTANTLY
NEVER
SHEAFFER'S
CLICKER
MEDIUM & FINE BALLPOINTS AVAILABLE'
Smart Work Overcharged
By
Fire Brigade
School
Fees
Remarking that the offences were serious, Mr I. T. Morris at Kowloon this morning imposed a fine of LI Toan-wal, manager of the Kim Sin Primary School, 856, Canton furnishing false information Road, ground
floor, for
But for smart work by the Fire Brigade a $500 tenement house in Queen's Road West would have been destroyed by a fire that started in a back room on the ground floor of the three-storeyed building shortly after 11 a.m. today.
Six appliances were rushed to the scene, No. 163 Queen's Road West, within minutes of the alarm which was put in at 11.02 a.m. Two am- bulances arrived shortly afterwards.
Chicf
Fire
found
Firemen, under Officer W.J Gorman, flames enveloping a room at the Ngau Mel Clothes
rear of the
Shop. Thick smoke wAR pour- ing out of
the shop's entrance. The ire
cating was already away at the celling of the room, and would have spread to the first floor had the fremen not stopped its progress,
Under difficult hud cramped conditions they fought the blaze, bringing it under control 10 minutes later. The fire waz put out shortly before Noon,
TEARFUL REUNION
It was later established that the rem belonged to a Chinese woinary Wong Yuct-ming, who lived There with her two children. She was at work when the fire started, but returned to And that her son and daugher were missing.
There was a furry of excite- ment as tronen plunged into the sill-smoking rear room and Police officers started question ing
ng neighbours.
Finally there was a tearful rounion when the children,
girl seven-year-old boy and a of five, were discovered safe und sound
neighbour's shop several blocks away.
The
cause of the fire has not yet been estabilshei.
at n
↓
Prison For Causing
Mischief
Woo Hin-kan, 44, book seller, of an unnumbered hut in Tsing Man Village, Sookunpoo, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and bound over in $500 for three years by Mr J. E. this Durling al Central morning on а charge of causing a public mischief.
and
DSI E. P. M. Hunt lold the Court that on December 21, 1955, the Police were informed that there was a dead body on the roof top of 334 Hennessy Road, They visited the scene. and the body was taken away To the Public Mortuary was later identified Chinese, Kwok Chi-nam, allas Hak Teai. A post mortem on the dead body revealed that the man died of pneumonia,
On Decanber mous letter" the
дз
communique CONFIRMEDging that
that three men, Cheng
was
Horses Die
In Stable
Blaze
area
IN RANKS
The following appointments in the Hongkong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve have been approved by Hls Excellency the Governor, it was announced in the Government
Gazette pub- lshed this morning:
in
20, on anony- by was received
of Commissioner
Police
Cheung-lun, The On-eang, and Lip
Yiu-wah, were possibly responsible for the death of the deceased and it was suggested that the three men be arrested and detained for enquiries connection with the death, MANY ENQUIRIES
Folice
As a result of this letter, the made exhaustive on- quiries, and the three men named Mr R. A. Dodd and Mr R. W.
In the letter were subsequently Primrost, Preibstionary Lieuten brought to the Police Station. anly confirmed in the runk of when shown the letter they im- Lieutenant; Mr A. C. McDonald mediately identifled
"V." And Mr
A. Toozon, Pro writing of the defendant. bationary Sub-Lieutenants, con-
A detective constable then firmed in the rank of
Sub- THE
visited the address of the defen- Lieutenant; Mr R.
Fairbiim,
dant but failed to find him. For
the hand-
Miami, Florida, Jan. 26. Fire raged through the
at Tropical Probationary Lieutenant Com-weeks the detective mode dili stable have Park today and sent terri-mander (Sp), confirmed in the gent enquiries and as a result of rank of Lleutenant Commander his work, the defendant went to filed horses
on a stampede
(Sp.); Mr Demond Prover
In a cautioned slatement, the through four square miles Inglis and Mr Richard Frederick the Police Station yesterday. of densely populated south George Deants, Petty Officers, defendant said that he had writ
appointed Probationary Acting ten the letter because Tse and west Miami.
Mr William Sub-Lieutenants;
Lip had assaulted him on four At least eight thoroughbreds Richard Norman and Mr James occasions and he never were killed. Six died in the fire
Alexander Anderson,
Defendant also said Acting taliated. and two had to be destroyed,
the letter Petty Officers, appointed Pro-that he had written Many others were burned or
Acting
Sub- when he was drunk, confused batloniry trampled in the rush away from
and out of mind, Lieutenants; Mr Walter Stewart H.K.T. tropship the mising
6. Time Signal and Programme the flames. Twu Summary; 0.03, Stock Market Re- mun.
Collier, M(E)2, appointed Pro- hours Three
fire the after plict boats und two pelice part; 6.08, Programme for Children broke out, police, stable boys Leunche:
and Mr Wallace Gerard the presented by Valerio studio: .. and volunteers hud round re. Gregory, Probationary which
escorted
Popularity Poll presented by Jean. Pasteur toward the
Writer, and the Inst stray horses opta sen | Predict the Three Top Tunes of the
appointed Probationary Acting were similarly informed and the Week to win $30 (studio): 0.69, turned them to the barns, vezzel, joined in the search,
Weather Report: 7, Tune Bignal and
(Sp.); Mr One barn, which stable at Sub-Lieutenant The News (London Belay); 7.99. Leter it was
William Nermen cnnounced thai
Comnientary (London Belay) tendants sald was about hati full 10 legionnaires in
Writer, appointed Probationary ull jumped Special Announcements: 7.15. Jazz with some 25 horses, was re- from the ship. Three were miss- Half Hour presented by Robert duced to ashes. Tropical Park Acting Sub-Lieutenant.
Acheson (Studio); 7,45, “Whom the ng, believed crowned, five were Gods Love Feature to Honour spokesmen said
damage recaptured and two gave them- of the Bi-Centenary of Mozart, would "run into thousands"
and presented by deore dollars. selvč: up to the police.--Reuter, Willen
Luzatio (Recorded); 8.15. Take It
atable APPOINTMENTS Dick Bentley · and From Here,
NL. Haymaker, local Jimmy Edwards with Walins. Exton, owner, Was the biggest Alma Сокал, June Whitfield
The following Collins, Haymaker's Negro BBCTS); 5.45, Letter from America acestam trainer
and foremen,
int skuge about the
Soviets Willing
To Join Talks
Washington, Jon, 28, The Soviet Union hun agreed |to participate in a conterence next month to pave the way for the creation.cf an internallonnt agency for the peaceful use of afomic energy,, à State Depart- ment spokesman announced to- day.
The conference is to open in Washington on February 27,
by Alistair Cooke (London Kalay):.
the
loser.
Bicol Acting Sub-Lieutenant
Stamps Being
on
in regard to school fees charged and overcharging the Government gazetted fee of $10 per pupil monthly.
The defendant was represented by Mr A. Y. Hon.
DeL-Sub-Insp. G. Fergus, prosecuting, said on November 4 the defendant showed
last choot inspectors a set of
to two
Que
receipt bolts purporting to show that each pupil had paid a fee of $16 por month However, on checking with the pupils, inspectors found that the fees charged
$14 and were between 523 per month, and that com- pletely different receipts given for these amounts.
were
from
On October 10, 1955, seven of the pupla were found to have paid school fees ranging $14 to $17 per month.
Insp. Fergus sold the defen- dant had never made plication to the Education Do- partment for raising the fees before the offences occurred.
any ap-
MITIGATING PLEA
Mr Hon, in mitigallon, sald the defendant had appealed to the Government for subsidy since 1947 and unfortunately up to the present, he did not re ceive any
DAY
anances.
The school, Mr Hon said, bad seven teachers and 154 students. a few of whom were unable to their fees, thus throwing an extra burden on the
school's
The school was closed during the Japanese occupation and re- opened after liberation, and with the $10 school fee per month pernities by the: Government, it had been inost difficult for the the school running.
Mr Hon asked for
leniency, stating that this was the Argi case of its kind,
With regard to the amount Mr Hon sald the overcharged, defendant, was not in any way deceiving the pupils or their parents
they were given genuine receipts for the amounts paid.
Withdrawn Rainger,
defendant
as
to keep
Fined $500 For Gross Indecency
Charged with gross indecency, a 28-year-old foki, Wong Ah- mel was fined $500 or two months' imprisonment by Mr F. X. D'Almada at
tracy this morning. Magis-
DSI Wassell sald Prosecuting, that
in the early
hours of January 20, complainant, Ng Wing-chun, defendant and two other Chinese men went to sleep in the cocklott of 2 Ko Shing Street, first floor.
At about 7.30 that morning. Ng awoke and found defendant about to commit an act of gross indecency. Turning around, he struck the defendant, and after an exchange of words, they LL was announced In the again went to sleep. Government Gazette today that While they were working in theo types of Comunemorallye stall in Sutherland. Street that lesu of Hongkong postage afternoon, Ng mentioned the in-
be withdrawn. ss ctdent
but to his epployér, stamps will
legal payment of postage as from defendant denied the allegation
and Ng again struck him, Government and after August 31, 1050.
Defendant, then wont The following are the names appointments were announced in
Western Police Station and Classical Requests presented by four-year-old Dejeddah Star
Mr D. E. Parker to be Educa- Commemorative Issue, 30 cents Allen Tekken Buda): 10,: Colony three-year-old Cable Break and tion Officer: Miss M. C. Hattle and 11; Commemorating the 75th assaulted by Ng. by John_Wallace (CB); 10.30, Coll- tivo two-year-olds, Casba
Following Police Inquiries to be Nursing Sister; Mr D. P. Annvoirsary of the Universal *nental Cabaret presented by Denias Alodyne.
Crease to be Architect; Mr Eric Postal Union, 10 cents, 20 cents, into the matter, the earlier facts Brabant (Studio); 19.09, Weather
to be Quanuity 30 cents and 80 oents;
Com
were revealed. Report: 11. Time. Signal. Radio
Alatyne set a track record at Dudley Moth to
Surveyor: Mr G. II. A. Morris memorating the Silver Wedding 11.15, News Reel (Recorded Lendon Relay) the recept Tropical meeting by
Goodnight Music, God save running two furlonge in 21.3 in to be Acting Assistant Superin-Anniversary of His Late Majesty
King George VI, 10 conta Tha Queen; 11:30, Close. Down, -
Cable Break during the
Services tendent of San his first race.
B.NO. of Mr won the Argt race at Hialeah
Holders of such, stamps Poneford: 'Mr Leonard on Tuesday.
Bradley to be acting Assistant Superin September 1, 1050, or, if pre
advised to use them before herre owned by Babet
tendent of Police; and Mr P. T.
ferred,
to apply to the Post- Moor, to be Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police,
master-General for exchange of postage_ ́atampa of the current
Time Signal. Muslu Lovers Hour reported that the stable. lost the the Government Gazette today: of the issues and values: Peace made a report that he had been
Boxing Championships, Creumentary
REDIFFUSION
and
z bim Variety Calls the Tune: L. G. Torres, was put to death
3. Musical Matinee 3.30, Strike up by 血 vet because of severo the Bandi 145, Bleak Houm-bý Charles Dickens. To for Two burns.-United Press. 4.30, Samuny Kayo Show: 4.40, Dossier on Dumetrius: 5. Children's
The conference's chief aim is Corner-Conducted by Autile Val
Friday
to study a memorandum drawn Betty Birthday Malbart 616. Casam Club As
The
and
Polling Station
Heroin Possession Charge
JABLO
and
aro
Gazetted Appointments
Drs. H. Moore has been appointed a member " of the Pharmacy Board during the absence of Dr G, V. A. Grímth it was announced in the Gov
Other
up last year, calling for the es- Record Parade; d., The Final Year: tablishment of the
On Establishment crament Gazette today agency, 7. Time Bignal and the Neway 7.00,
A 10-year-old unemployed Coples of the memorandum hav Weather Report Announcements
appolaimants were and Interlude: 7.10. Track". TAIK
man, Cheung Chiu-ming, allas) The been conveyed a countries con-
Cheung Chi-wah, was remanded following officers to the perma Education during the abargoe Tips for Tomorrow's Bacon: 7.30,
confirmation of the Professor J. E. Drive to ho
member of and to the
Board of cerned
United Cocktail Hovey, Personality Nations.
Parado-Elen Button; K16, Take It The basketball stadium, ot the for three days in Police custody bent and pensionable: etablish
by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central ment
· WAS " - RADOunced in the. * Pric from fiere; BASg Boxing recom, Southern Playgßound | Is. no
of projected agency was TROUSERTYGWIna: binals of the Colony
this tmorning
charge Df Government Gazette today
Watson to be Collee proposed by President Eisen- Open Championships Direct Brad longer to be used as a polling hower in the United Nations in chat from the Southern Bankettet station for Urban Counell elec-posing-ton pounds of heroin.
Stamp Revenue, Win Miss E O'Connell, Nursing or of December, 1953. It would.com-
Stadium Wanchal: 9.1K Symphony Lions.
Cheung was alleged to have Sister Miss M. Buchanan addition to his other duth A krokamove in honour of A Government Gazette not had in his posesión 10,580 Nursing Sister; Miss R. EK MAimno to be Assistant, prise Australia, Belgium, 'Brazil, thw | Bigantormry, of Mount 20 Canada, Czechoslovakia, India, #inioni 10.19% Kaɛle; and 2toon Casan Club, which is situated
Rediffusion. Spoush Dount cation today states that the heroin pills on January 25.
Balley, Nursing Sister Mr A Collector of Stamp Revenue, in Fletcher, Surveyor of Shipa;· Me addition 10 Bis other duties; and France, Portugal, South Africa, Hantu 0.30. 210" Adventures of the in Statute Square" nèar, the The burglar alarm went off at J. F. Fotter, Fatale Surveyor Captain ni James Woodle, bà in and Scarlet Pimparosii, 11; Date with Supreme Court har, - instead, 10.35 this morning at the Belgien, Mr. A.The Armstrong Wright member of the Shipping Clama United States-France- polandia po Prelude Co 10-been designated as a polling Hank, Edinburgh, House, due to Engineer, PWD and Dra. Tribunal vice Me." Alexander
nights 13, Midnight, "God Save Thu
stations
Cahort-circuit. E
Abdullah, Medical Omber in Whylls Black Ma
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