WHITEHEAD & CO., LTD.
WOODWORKING MACHINERY.
ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD. HK. & Shangħal Wank Bldg. Tel, 27789
JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK
A Long Way From Home
METHING, some | factory hand at £6 4%, 60, Murred, unaccustomed week..
pro-
sound, awoke the prietress of the amall hotel. Sleepily, who consulted a clock ut her bedside. was 4.46 a.m. There
It
Was
look at
ปี
"Please, sir,
this," Jessie sobbed, and thrust for- Ward a note which the usher handed
to the magistrate, who began to read.
The note was from Jessie's
still time for a little sleep daughter. The 11-year-old had before the long working written to plead lerdency for her day began. The proprietress mother. yawned and prepared to try to sleep again.
Suddenly. from somewhere W
there
downstairs in the hotel,
banging A muffled bumping.
wea
HURRY, HUBBY
WHAT the child had written
the magistrate did not dis close. What the little girl's feel- Andings had been, putting pen t The proprietress nip paper on her mother's behalf in this strange place so many thou- dressing gown,
hurried
sonds of mile from home. downstairs.
jone but she could know.
ped
out
of bed.
11 and
ort
Just coming into the house was one of the quests-Jessie.
LEAVING
ESSIE, the tall, pule young woman who had appeared on the doorstes a fortnight before,
no
And for the child, the week that followed must have been frightening. For Jessie was re- manded in eustody, and spent week in Holloway, while inore inquiries were made about her.
end of that long-
At the
with her 11-year-old daughter at her side, pleading to be taken seeming week, the child got her mother back again. "Try to
in on trust, saying "We've just think of the probation offleer as arrived from New Zealand, my your friend," the magistrate en- money's all been stolen
The kindly proprietress had joined her
taken Jessie and her doughter
"Oh
in; had dae murr, had found hurried, her a job.
yes," Jessie
cited, and half-running from court She looked no though, it Now here was Jessie on the
have done 10, she could doorstep ustade, surrounded by would have
whe suitcases, with more
run all the way to her daughter in a taxicab at the the south coast to her daughter. kerb.
"Don't K
cases and
in niy way"
Jessie screerhed, "don't get in ny way." She threw the rest
of the castors aries the taxi, and wns driven off.
DISCOVERY
THE proprietress hurried
THE
Lo
Jessie's room She found the bed stripped, all the bed- clothes gone, the 18-in-the-slot Kas meter broken ореть and emptied. Shu
the police.
rang up
Strong Earthquake
Home, Feb. 1. A strong curth tremor caused punte lo 10.000-square-mile arer of Southern Italy tonight. First reports sald there were no casualties and no damage.
CHINA MAIL
Just As Well He Didn't Know
New York, Feb,.1. brokerage messenger, travel- An unsuspecting Customs Aing by crowded under- ground train, delivered a 126.carat diamond, reputed the most magnificent gem on the world market, to s new owner today.
The 109senger', Samuel almost Skegol, was
speechless parcel when the brown paper containing the flawless Jee-blue South African jewel was opened ju bla presence in the offices of the "diamond king." Harry Winston,
The diamond may be worth as much as $2,000,000 when it Is cut and polished.
"I'm glad it's all over," grud Siegel after the Arst shock was į past. "I'm glad I didn't know what I was currying when I took the Seventh Avenue sub- www Boy!"
boxes, all
1849
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1956.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
Y. I
-12-29
Pet Of
"Your room certainly looko spick-and-span now, Marge -I don't see how you over managed to put all that junk away!"
Dual Loyalty Of
Chinese Raises Fears
Manila, Feb. 2.
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
$53,890 Claim Meets With $766,700 Counter-Claim
To a claim for $53,890.41 heard before Mr Justice J. Reynolds in the Supreme Court this morning was a counter-claim for $766,700.
The plaintiffs, T. O. Wong and Co., 208-210 Prince's Building, claimed the first sum as money lent to the defendant, Tai Wai-ming, trading as Popular Rubber Works of 28 Belchers Street under an agreement dated June 3, 1954, with interest at 8 per cent up to May 28, 1955..
The defendant claimed the larger sum as installation of machinery, loss of profits and renumeration for three years.
Dhe
Mr Oswald Cheung, Instructed secured by a bill of sale of the by Mr J. C. D. Black repre-machinery. The running of the sented
the plaintiffs and Mr factory would be entirely Terence Shurlock, instructed by responsibility of the defendant. Mr W. 1. Cheung, appeared for In the event of the defendant the defendant.
The
the
failling to carry out the agreD- ment the plaintifs could defence admitted
determine it and all his loan agreement, but denied liability.plus interest would be im- Defendant claimed that as the mediately returnable.
of plaintiffs' godowns was not avaliable to him becquse the plaintiffs refused to remove some
Mr Cheung sald that at the
inflammable material, the agreedate of the agreement the defen ment could not be performed worth of machinery which cor dant had installed only $30,000 and was therefore discharged.
tainly, could not produce 10,000
He counter-claimed that he pairs of shoes daily. He did not had suffered domages consisting stall the full amount of machi- $50,000 worth ot manery nor did he execute the bill chinery installed, renumera. of sale in favour of the plain- tion for three years at $800 uffs. # month and pronts on an output of 10,000 pairs of rubber shoes daily for three y cars.
$50,000 LOAN
Opening the plaintiffs' case, Mr Cheung said that the claim was for $50,000 jent under the agreement plus Interest agreed between the partics at 8 por
4
IN PAPER BBG
Siegel picked up the card- board box containing the dia- monel und two other similar boxes at the diamond brokerage Orm of Meadows, Wye and Company this morning when he started his regular
Fears concerning dual loyalty of some 200,000 cent per annum. delivery rounds. The three
Chinese and other aliens in the Philippines were ex- containing diamonds,
were pressed in the Lower House last night by Representa- placed in
brown paper bag | tive_Joaquin Roces, chairman of the Committee on that probably looked like a Un-Filipino Activities. lunch bag to subway strap- bangers. Siegel does not wear a uniform and looked like santy other passenger,
Winston
ta
Two separate shocka were felt at 1625 all over the too of the Italian book, from Vibo Three weeks later the police
Valentia Io Taranto, The ran Jessie to earth She and
Turinio Observatory said the her daughter were staying in a
shocks were centred In the furnished room in a south coast vicinity of Crotone. It
On the bed they shared they were of the fourth degree diamond from a London firm to- Town.
on the Mercalli with the
Scale-United gether with
50,000 other wicut hotel
Press in
$8,400,000. The
smpt!
wha a sheet marked name of the London.
Jessie's daughter was put late the care of neighbours, unkier police supervision. Jessie was brought to London. At the Clerkenwell court she was
found guilty of stealing bed- clothes valued at £4 and 30s,
from the gas meter.
man told what be
Jessie's story.
THE LETTER
A police- could
STEEL GIRDER MYSTERY
said
(Continued from Pare 1)
He believes it should be re-
ng | nxcel.
a koond
c
purchased the
smaller stones also offices today, by
diamonds fur back of the urrived at bis registered airmail,
Mr Roces stressed that Chinese residents here "may transfer allegiance to another government whose inten tions towards the Philippines may be doubtful or con- cealed.
andings of his committee showed He revealed that preliminary
certain political, económie and Indonesia
educational alien activities were
detrimental is Philippine security
and welfare.
He deplored the tallure of President Magsaysay to meet The total value of the stones aquarely the dangers poised by was roughly three times the Chinese and other allen residents value of the plane that Sew here. them across the Atlantic,
SHIMMERING BLUE
The situation
The big diamond is the size tion
of mainland
Wus
being
Wants Talks
Resumed
on
The Hague, Feb. 1.
Today in the House of Com-
aggravated, Mr Roces pointed Indonesia put further pressure out, by the "Communist domina- on Holland today to TESUITIO mons, b144 sked the Colonial
inprovement in Secretary what assurances
China, the talks of two ice cubes frozen together gradual woning influence of relations, adjourned since Jana 44CHE is 28 years ull," he said, gave Hongkong businessmen on and is a shimmering blue. Ex-the Talpel government over ary 7, by "inviting the Dutch
Pand first married when she the future of trade with China
will go to perts
won't im-overseas
to resume Chinese in Southeast delegation to agree” was 10. Her husband died a your during his visit to Hongkong. mediately to decide whether it Asia and the steadily rising in-
the talks tomorrow or, at the Later. She married
He wis told that the Colonial will remain
latest, on Friday. one tene er befluence of Peking over them," time, but was divorced after two | Secretary "gave an assurance cut lato smaller stones, Winston years. The daughter is the child
THREE PROPOSALS we fully recognised the said, extraordinary difculties which "She arrived in England strategic controls on trade with fortnight before this offence was China placed on Hongkong. and committed. Now she wants to go
that the scope of the controls back to New Zealand but she would be kept constantly under bas no money, On the south, review."London Express Ser-
of her first marriage.
a
that
coast she has been working as a vice.
Special Offer
of
Cotton Lingerie
Shortie Nighties
Full Length Slips
Half Slips
and
t
"Brunch" Coats
at BELOW COST-
To-day at-
Paquerette's
16a. Des Voeux Road
Sale!
The cutting may take more than
nycar and will cost at least $20,000-United Press.
Driven Out Of Business
Bogota, Feb. 1.
Mr Roces recommended: 1.Intended screening
aliens.
7-Assimilation
megs
Continuing, Mr Cheung sald that the defendant engaged two architects, Mr C. T. Shu and Mr S. K. Lau to draw up plans in accordance with the teŋna set by the Labour Department,
the
Between July and September defendant sporadically misde vne or two lots of shoes and between September and
1955 March,
mado only one small manufacture.
*** | Labour
"EXASPERATED"
-September,
1954 defendunt
DESTRUCTIVE
FIRE
An early morning fire today in the Hung Kes shipyard At Ngau Chi Wan, Kowloon, destroyed equip ment and materials which the Hongkong Transporta- tion Company were, neing for the construction of 30 oll barres ordered for Bangoon.
Mr J. Vaughan of the Hongkong Transportation
Co, Ltd, said that the loss of the materials would delay delivery of the oil barges by about two months.
The value of the destroy- ed equipment and materials WAT estimated to bo $300,000,
Three fire engines and a fire boat had the blazo under control in half an hour and the flames were
two extinguished
hours Later.
There were no casualfiè
Dismissal Causes No Excitement
According to Mr Cheung the defendant for some time before January, 1984 carried on a busi- of mumufacturing rubber does i Beichers Street The and May, 1955 the
Between
the lessees of plaintiffs were premises at Nos, 6, 7, 8 and 8 did absolutely nothing to carry Soy Street, Kowloon They had put the terms imposed by the an oil rafong actory and these Cheung, partment, said Mr promises were used as a godon 1955,
seven months after they for the storage of of. paintiff's, at all times had licence informed him of their terms, he arate to Labour Depart- trom the Labour Department to w
Moscow, Feb; 1. carry on that factory and to ment asking them to simplify
dismissal of the Soviet their requirements. On June 30 store oil on the prunises.
Affairs the Labour Department
Minister, "gave Colonel-General Sergei Kruglov, to their exaspera- who succeeded executed
the
May
The Internat
Some time les January, 1954 expression the plaintiffs, through the tion" ond refused his applica- Lovrentia Beria in the post, managing-director, TO. Weng, egreed to let a portion of the godown to the defendant so that
on
tion for a licence
Mr Cheng said that the pre-
created scarcely a ripple in Ru sia today,
he could carry on his business cent proceedings were brought The brief government com- of making rubber shoes. They to a head some time in May, 1955 muniquo announcing Kruglov'a
discovered removal referred retched an agreement in writing when the plaintiffs
to him as January 14, 1954 whereby the defendant WOB about to "Comredo" Kruglov The pintis allowed the defendant execute a bill of sale in respect chances were he has been given
machinery to another job. to use a portion of the premises of certain of his for manufacturing rubber stices another person, Plaintiffs then and agreed to advance the de-issued a writ fendant $50,000 on certain terina, Plaintiffs loaned him $20,000 on January 15, 1954, and various fence sums after totaling $41,000 by March 12, 1954.
never
The appointment of Nikolai Dudorov to succeed Kruglov is
ap Mr Cheung said that the de- another Indication of the
parent minor significance of tho and
the counter-cintm were "remarkable." Defendant shift, Kruglov le prominent, in is well- The Indonesian
affairs and Charge
such Russian could not avail himself of Affaires in The Hague, Kwee
a defence. The factory pro known in the West. Dudorov is Djle Hoo, called at the Dutch About the middle of
little March mises, as far as the plaintiff's
known outride Communist Office
today 61 Foreign
and the defendant started to put in were concerned, were always Party circles. He handed the Dutch government electric wiring and to install available to him for use on Central Committee on which all membership on the and quired Commissioner for Indonesian machinery and during May he the defendant was solely respon- Affairs, Mr N. 8. Blom, an aide carried on a limited manufacible for carrying on the manu- previous Ministers of Internal memoire from the chairman of ture of rubber shoes,
facturing in the factory. It was not a condition of the agrte- ment that if he falled to obtain a licence the agreement would be discharged, Mr Cheung said.
Hearing is continuing.
of alien
minorities by propagating and protecting Phlippine culture and discouraging those who resist the current drive,
3,-Re-examination of tho policy on allen naturalisation to protect the country against those who seek Philippino citizenship for convenience,
Regarding Chinese
the Indonesian delegation, now waiting in Geneva,
LICENCE REQUEST
Mr Cheung said that as soon no the defendant went into the premises the plaintiffs told him to get a lienee for his factory. At the defendant's request the
The publishers of El Es- least 50 per cent of the teaching can be concluded towards the Department of March 18 appRadio Hongkong
on
The alde memotre said: "The chairman of the Dutch delega
on is invited to agro to fix as the date for_the_resumption of talks, Thursday, February 2, schools, or, at the latest, Friday, Febru- Mr Roces recommended that at ary 3, 1950, so that the talks pectador, Colombia's leading force be Fillpinos,
that all end of this week."
ing for a bicctice. ALFT long cor- Opposition newspaper, today subjects be taught in English The Geneva talks were broken respondence between the Labour
except the teaching of the
and the plaintiff's
eventually
and allowed the pro- mises to be used as a latex 20-
H.K.TA
announced that they had de Chinese language itself and the oft on January 7, to enable both Dep defendant, the Labour port: 8.00, Programme for Children.. cided to liquidate the firm admission of Filipino as well as delegations to consult their and 100
because the government had Chinese made it impossible for them to publish the paper.
students
into these governments.-Reuter.
Defeated
:
-Ottawa, Feb. 1.
Department
the
Sep17, 1954, reconsidered
on
All
correspondence wis shown to the defendant, added Mr. Cheung
He said that in the meantime
Affairs have eat...
Moscow newspapers dismissed
today
the removal of Kruglov with a 28-word govern- ment communique.
Any comparison between the Send Kruglov
removal of previous, dismissals of his pre- decessors is misleading and disregards major changes made on the high administrative and political levels since: 1953, diplomatic • observers United Press.
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which Radio Hongkong Radifusion Join forces to talen funds Needy Families, Vote for your
The
schools,
While several congresamen were disturbed by: Mr. Roces's Arms Ban Motion tory on certain conditions. EL Espectador suspended disclosures, a number of them publication on January 6 after
rgitated for the establishment the censorship office ordered the of trade and diplomatic relations entire paper submitted to
with 'Communist, China, Soviet examination prior to publica-Russia and other Communist tion at the Censor's main office bloc countries, in the national capital. The
The Commons voted 200 to 19 the January agreement was publishers said it would be
Representative Ramon Pur- today to reject a Socialist cancelled by both parties such a physically impossible to do that and, chairman of the Commerce resolution demanding a ban on new agreement was entered be for the Chinese New Year Drive Tor Secretary, Mr T. T. Soon, fold Its organiser and General- and get the material back in and Industry Committee, said arma export to the Middle Eat Up to this time the defendant your anos, painat your vet the inaugural meeting it was
tween them on June 3, 1954. for publication at the he strongly favoured trade with (and calling on Britnin, France had been carrying on a limited hatet; Each vote means a piedi Anion, not as a rival to the
United Russirilike the United States and the
States to and Britain are doing."
guarantee peace in the
arca.
manufacture of rubber shoes The Commons also voted 153 and the plaintiffs had loaned him Two other representatives to 6s today to reject a Conserva a total of $41,000. Tạo brianice The government also ordered declared that the Philippines tive motion demanding a per- cf $9,000 was paid on the day El Espectador to pay more than should immediately. establish manent halt to arms, exports to the agreement was signed $120,000 additional income tax diplomatie and trade relations the Middle East United Press. and fines on', the grounds that with Communist .Chinn- the newspaper's : 1954 income | France-Fregre;
time required hour.
TAX AND FINES
tax return was inaccurate...
A government communique
Soviet Minister
Visits Britain
Lordon rob
Releasing Ships
Tokyo, Feb. 1.
of necessary $1 to the Fund, Numbar intimited. Phone your votes to | auto 722113: 18 midnight, Close Down,
existing
REDIFFUSION
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NEW AGREEMENT
Under the new agreement the plaintify were to have the Ex«, clusive agency for all goods The Japanese, Coastguard to manufactured" on the premises, med
nducted by Ashisso Valt day said....... It had received in- - Defendant was to use a“ portion Tropica formation that, * Commumjet of the premises for manufacture China was releasing two ing at 22 cents a square foot a expense machinery required sto manufacture not
on the stumtion sald: "In the face of varying versions which have circulated · regarding tho case of El Espectador," the In- terior Ministry considers "it. necessary
to state that this Tal:: 21-157 newspaper has not appeared ture Mr Nikolas Mikhailov, and a total crow of 22, seized at
***** owners, who have been able from Mószow....
and are able to order it re- Mr Mikhailov: Is to spend a
with a marker Value not least: A publication whenever they wish week in Britain and will meet The two boats were reported Quan $100,000 including Limital Printed and published by : WILLIAM, ALIEK GrowaM for In the same legal conditions in members of the government, and ly taken to Tachén island for Milon Nooks and to sumter him to and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-8 which other howarjapers eir visit cullutal establishments and violating "military
Wyndham Street, City of Victor
• that machinery) in the Colony of Hongkong | culste,' -Urzited ·Progy.
Institutes onli
Fowler
piaidiing would loan him $80,000
recently by the will of its drrived in London this, evening ↑ last Sunday. In the East: Chita, fos: thank 0.000 nak - of shoes (Quliy
The Soviet Miniator of Cul- | Japanese chips of 74 tons
Cachiant was to install Seattler:
Sea.
לז.
to form
thenew
national union of 'plantation workers, but to
with Chintso Worlotrs" #ipeculiar - difficulties."!:
"There must be unity among Chinese workers" he slated Reuter
Guns, Confiscated
"Thred, autoniatle pistols found in the Colóný "bn"Bunday „wöre ordered to be, confiscated by lie D'Almada at Centre, this
man Mauser found on the
and Road