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Tobias In
In Port
and
old man
dis-
and
drunk n fruglie having been TOBIAS IS
looking, white-haired | orderly, man, who looks as though he sighed to Mr Bertram Reece "I didn't mean to get drunk," he would rather do muy the magistrate. "It was just thing than draw attention this man coming up and saying to himself. He is the kind had a drink. of my towards whom wo- men of all ages at once feel motherly, whom men re- speel as if they were his sons. The kind about whom
children quite small protective.
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L
set the doork
feel
Jiri Then, through Tre
dong an gren hammu, ne brevemen
washbuckling
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then anober, and then.
WILL-POWER
poUIAS henved a deeper sigh. don't really drink, you
"I don't know," he went on,
will-power, seem to have any th's what's wrong I'd better get some will-power or I enn se
be getting the late sermus Trouble
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the
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after
Here you any money?" No.
but
Cust Ret 3214 Ma for the Tiş I don't want to go to prisut it doesn't do the
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A BIT OF CASUAL no
tries to take the towie by
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befor
hot,
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"Well W TIME Day S. ad the ngistrale.
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CHINA MAIL
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1956.
TEENAGERS' TRIAL
CONTINUES
Evidence of the arrival of the Police and the finding of various articles belonging to the com- plainant at the scene of an alleged snatching in trial of two teenagers on charges of robbery with Hennessy Road was given this morning in the
aggravation and larceny from the person before Judge J. Reynolds at the Victoria District Court.
Et The neusel, Ng Tat-wing, 19, informed of suntching cASE. 18. were He went up the stairs of 248 Wu Ron-lit, and
Hood. ile found lieged, with others not in cus fennessy tody, to have robbed two couples various articles on the staircase TL watch strap, # in a parked car on the beach at ucluding
diary, hand- Deep Water Day on November leather thong. a 5 and eth were alleged to have kerchiefs and 30 cents in coins. snatches Enndbags from two Keng Sun-yau, principal tenant
!of
Road. Hennessy
said The Orst accused wensen
charged with he wont to the address at 2p.m. another count of robbery with, He searched the staircase and aggravation connection with found $40 in 310 bills, a mirror Ho look and a lady's watch. one of the stinteling euses,
to the Eastern these articles They are requcllygly repre-
Jav Me Patrick Yu. Police Station. enteri Instructed Peter Mo & Co.. W. S Winker. und by Mr R
૩. M- G Instructed by Stevenson, of Stewart & Co.
Crown M DE Greenfield, Confer, skledi
by Sub-Insp. eng Shui-chudig, is in charge of the prosecution's ruse,
fice Constable Tung Ng-wai Police
F{
S.
May
I have time to pay?”
su evidence said that he and i asked Tobins
Kwok- Psathy want fellow cunstable, " don't la prison, SUP
clon't Hike con-
chung, were on patrol duty ou nuement, it makes me motri ; the early morning of Novem and miserable
re it, and repeat the landly
often they
header stuff than his orditury tipple I wa. No the other evening Well-meratung. anonymous
aren ett; ficer.
Mlled Tolaus up with win They called port wine. fatal bre
hat
I DIDN'T MEAN TO
110 1
cut the strength 41 wall to tk benefactor-
sa
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43
fast and round
1
West End with cours Bying tu it the gentler umbabuver
that dew along the tree! With blood-curdling sheeks, Tobias staggered about the insy Funilway, h though the buxats Fuss had been lanks and he, a lone. u warmed Hefender of something.
A poflerman rescuend him, and brought him safely to dock në Pow Street Dext morning, and there Toblax, for the eleventh time this year plewded guilty In
Seven days to pay," said Str Herre Tollas thanked him with a pale smile, and shuffled An to (verdum, u Bittle, inoffensive From who did not look as though he wonchit dare to speak to stranger, *t drunk from ORR
2. kept
3 Die In Fires
Manila, Dec. 12 Three people were burned to death whi seven others, In- cluding Bee children, suffered serious burns yesterday in twerk separate dres in Cebu Provines,
Content Philippines,
Five children were trapped In a house by a fire but herme neighbours
work
Teseur
eved them.
|
weapo They were walking along Hennessy Toud when they her d a commotion and on reaching a crowd in front of hiòus No. 249. the seotud meersed, who was in the custory of a man, WW3. hamled over to them.
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Hearing continues.
Prison For 3 Robbers
Three men. Szeto Wah-chung (29), Lai flum (24), and Chung Yang (28) all unemployed,
were sent la prison for two years B Kowloon Court due morning when they pleaded gulity before Mr T. L. Yang to charges of lar- cory and membership of all illegal society
The first & fexidant wen fur- ther ordered to pay $300 serve two months in gaol for a breach of bed.
As a restal of what he
WHA told he went up the stars and found The Arst acensed who was "nesitating" whether to go up or down the stairs. He brought, the three defendants boonie
hmm down to the pavement and the complainant pointed him out
**these By the
men who snatched."
Cross-cannined, witnesSS agreed that he did not arrest the first arctisöri.
216
The prosecution aliged that sanpin moored in the whart of Shick Lung, Kowloon, The owner of the sumpan awoke and bimm the three men jumped on
disnel snatched his wrist "watch,
and then escapeel.
was on
Fire
Destroys Storeys In
Two
Central District
NEW! SHEAFFERS
Feathertouch
BALLPOINT
APPLICATION MADE TO COURT TO CROSS-EXAMINE
HON E.B. DAVID
An application for the attendance in Court of HE the OAG, Mr E. B. David, to be cross-examined on a number of points in Mr David's affidavit was made by Mr W. S. Edwards at the hearing of a preliminary point of law on the question of a privileged document raised by the defence before Mr Justice Scholes in the Supreme Court this morning.
His Lordship said he would give his ruling on the application at the end of the case for the de- fendant.
Mi
Mr Edwards, a former assessor Mr MrRobert said that he had of the Inland Revenue Depart-before him the principal authori ment, who is appearing in per- tes which dealt with the ques- sco, is the plaintiff in an netian tion of sumanoning by the Court for damages against Mr K. M. of a witness whose evidenes was Aluno, en Assessor of the Inland before the Court on affidavit, The Revenue Department.
only diffeally was that all thes Almao is represented by Mr J. cases were part of the defen C. McRobert, Crown Counsel. dant's case lu the present appil
The preliminary point of law, calion ant the doshas to raised by the defendant in whether or
Colonial ol Tac paragraph 13 of his statement of Secretary be summoned musi claim, was ordered to be set depend jo a very great extent on down for trial by Mr Justice the legal basis for the
applica Reynolds in Chamber on June tion. In other words, 4. 1988, An
by Mr Counsel said that he would ask appent Edwards against Mr Justice his Lordship to postpone con Reynolds order was dismissed sideration of the application to by the Full Court on September enable him to deal with the application at the same time Dr
27.
case.
The
His Lordship Informed Mr he presented the defendant's McRobert this morning that a Die defence raise; the point in their statement of defence that he should begin.
He
Mr MeRobert raid that even if the Court inade the order, Mr David would not be heard until
defendant's un after the
case in Mr Edwards then made
application had for the attendance respect of the application
Postponing of a closed, the material been tenement block, et Me David (nt A tinderwood three-storey
decision by the Court
would time the Colonial Secretary). obviate the necessity of Crown No. 38 Pottinger Street, flared up like a country
Fald that an affidavit had haystack this morning in the densely crowded been filed by Mr David and he Counsel going twice through the
wished at the appropriate time list of authorities. central district.
to cross-examine him. In order
THE PROCEDURE to save judicial time he said he # Lontup Informed Mtr Edwar thought it advisable to notify that it had been suggested by Mr the Court of this before the pro. Meltonens that the Court should first ecedings commenced. hnd matters other, namely, the pre aiready notified Counsel for the Bakary point of law caired in th
and plaintiff' present Defence and the Registrar of once
application. the Court who had advised that
Having done that his Lordship he should apply to his Lordship would then hear what Mr Edward
ned to sky in reply to Mr Metabert for un order.
on the application and then he would give his decision. If 11 was decided that Mr David be called, he would then be called at that stage.
The fire was under control shortly before noon after burning two hours. In that time all but the ground floor had been gutted and the roof hadeed caved in. No one was thought to be trapped or injured.
one
FOUND ARTICLES The sumpan owner then found Constable Leung Yip testifler! that the thieves had stolen his that tal about 1.20 11.7 on clothes. The matter was report November
another, ed to the police. und
'The first of seven fire ap- The cause of the fires was rot constable were passing by Later polies delectives, acthing
when he Hennessy Roati ascertained, ---France-Presse
were engaged information, arrested thepliances which three defendants in Woncha, wached the scene within
of the fire call at 10.25 At the time of his arrest Chungskule Yung was
time red flames stolen wearing the
c.m. By that clothes and admitted that he shot from the roof of the build- ing and a column of smoke rose bad
pawned the wrist watch for ing
hundred feet
into $00.
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All three defendionla mitted to being members of i
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to 18
They were sentenced
Fire appllanes jamined the months for larceny and to six junction of Wellington Street and months for being members of Lyndhurst Strect from which Pottinger Street leads up in the the illegal society.
form of a broad light of steps. They also operated from Holly- wood Road below the Central
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Kuwait Oil.. Centre Sabotage
ondon, Dec. 12.
Sixteen bombe exploded in' the oll centre of Kuwait carly this morning,, sotilng ono oil well on fire and damaging the oil pipe, lines, the London Times reported from Kuwait.
was the first serious break of attacks, sigainst the | Anglo-American Installationgi ka ||Kuwait: since: the beginnin
gested one-way traffic area.
force of an explosion. Charred debris thrown up by the Names poured down on the surrounding area as far away as Queen's Road.
Officers who led the Are Aght- ing were Chat Oferr Mr W.J Gorman, and Deputy Chief Om- cer Mr V. C. Seymour.
EARLY AM BLAZE Residents in a block of flats in Percival Street were given a
shortly after when
sente
He
Dear Crown Count on the two
Mr Edwards kald be was agreeable
Decortance with the order and to read his pleadings,
His Lordship weld that it would he quite right to read the pleadings at the trial of the setlan, but not åt the present lage where only the
preliminary point of law raised by the defendant was being heard. A Huk; the defendant had raised the point
it was for him to support is,
Fatre
A SUGGESTION Mr McRobert said that he was but if it were decided would not going to make a suggestion that be called then that was the end of consideration of the application could address the Court on the pre- the inatter. After that Mr Edwards be deferred until the defendant Junioary point of law. had presented his case because
l the procedure outlined. Ife then the majority of the law relating drew attention to Order 13 Rule 10 to the application was also very reading the reading of pleadings. intimately tied in with the ques-e said he claimed the right to begin tion of personal attendance.
Mr Edwards referred the Court to Order 11, Rule 22 of o'clock this moming they be
aware of a fire binging the Code of Civil Procedure came away outside their windows.
support of his application and A number of wooden elneina submitted that it was essential picture frames. left in a long to his case that he be given the Behind the Lee Theatre caught opportunity to cross-examlo Mr fe and in a few moments be- David over a
number "of im- Firemen Arst on the scene al- sme a roaring inferno lighting portant things in his affidavit"
up the Immediate neighbour
It was most important to him tacked the blazing buliding from
bold relief against a hood In
that that be done, he added, balconies of houses across Pot-background of inky blackness,
Asked if he had acry anthority tinger Street and from neigh-
Long tongues of flame
shot
to support his application that bouring roof tops to contain the
high up to
the windows in
person of the status vi
The statement of elskin was filed fire inside No. 38.
upper storeys scorching
the Minister
of State should be on January 27 and was a public walls and sending sparks over
called to be cross-examined. Mr document available for inspection is the Supreme Court Registrý by any - wido area.
Edwards said he hud Ir body en payment of the prescribed
for that, and Employees of the Les Thea-thority
he had | Tee. Privilege was not upon the
not in his claim. Privilege had
been tre and residents fought the fire no: come acress any with poles and water. The researches. Privilege was only
was finally extinguished claimed in connection blaze by the
Fire Brigade with document, and nos in connec- powerful jets of water froin a tion with the appearance of hose. A Police emergency van Government official for cross- stood by to keep the crowd, exam.ration. He doubted very which had gathered despite the much that privilege extended early hours of the
that under control.
The
BARRICADED OFF Police with wooden barricades crowds from ap- prevented proaching the fire area, lower part of Pottinger Street down as far as Quech's Road was packed solid with spectators of the spectacular blaze.
At times a whole cloud of
smoke brown
which poured from the burning building burst into flame and belched out across Pottinger Street with the
SIDE GLANCES
"Sorry but I've
morning,
By Galbraith
*
Lor,
with
a
Asked what his grounds were. that it was essential to his caso that he should exemnine Mr David, Mr Edwards sald that it was a nun document on which. the Defence was relying. There were several things in it which In his opinion were false siale- ments.
Mr Edwards
continued: "Furthermore I don't think that the deponent is vested with suf- Aclent authority to, be the criterion of what may be in jurious to publie interest. I think personally that he is un- reitable and, incompetent,"
́ COUNSEL PROTESTS Mr McRobert protested that the Court was bebug used by. the plaintift in this manner, They were there to dent with a point of low tand not to give the plaintiff an opportunity to abuse, the Court, in this manner, be said.
ME
Edwards said that ho did not wish to Bay anything further if the Court would grant his request. The test was in the cross-examination.
Ho did not wish to foreslawed |
He
anything The Court had hlas for an explanation, could go on and on but,ho did not
wish to
to do as at the present a request
stage. He had made a
Mr Edwards raid that bir opinion of the order of procedure of the
the trial. The order for the trial then was exactly the cferred, 10 TậSaRIDDH 3 ĐI to đọn fence which In
turned referred to his claim which was the very basis of the petion.
PUBLIC DOCUMENT
claimed in respect of the statement of claim and he failed to see how reading it out could be injurious to had anyone except himsel. "Je quoted an extract from an advers Teport concerning timwait which i true would be very embarrassing to statement of claim hoo him. The been tried and confirmed. When the defendant applied under order 5 ibula 09, to finve · it struck out in Chambers, the Judge dismissed fize application. Talk was RTV oper Court, he mid, and he could hod ser how he could conduct his case wilhe out rending out the pleadings,
Hi Lardship ruled that in hit epinion as a defendant had raised the point it was for 'm to begi
Edwarda sal ho objecter “with the utmost emphasis, at my ecminana" nud asked "bla objection to be recorded.
Mr Mctobert, then opened thự gaan for the defence,
flearing is continuing,
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