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New Colonial Service Medal
The Queen-hus created a new medal, designated the Colonial Prison, Service Medal, today's Goyerimcht Gazette reveals,
Bow Street, anonymous voice was honeyed and-rusky nasis bearing on the obverse
An agreeable mixture.
the ΔΙΑΠΤΟΥΝ that! crash-dived OIL to the "I wish yourd "top coming leavings of the morning's here," Sir Laurence said, "ifow work at Covent Garden many times is it now?"
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morsels of vegetables and "Eight times lost year," the fruit. She was tail, good-gaoler mid. Alison smiled, and
in fluttered her eyebrows looking in her middle- kind of modest disbeller. thirties, at a guess.
was 38, and had come, to this She was med £1, and went quite gally way.
She wore grey-speckled tweed top-coat, a block fashionable hat
indeter- minate contours, and, on her broad, intelligent forehead,
of
puckered frown.
Thero was a kind
of aloof
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about her, and surprising to see her turn
hurry up the steps Into
was and Bow
Street court.
GUILTY
came as
Creater surpilse
to see the tall woman, a few
minutes later, shown
duck in the court.
Into The
But her name was called out She
-il was
Allson--and
came from the curridor outside, where those with charges nguinst them lean on the walls and pull at cigarettes and make awkward small talk with their police
captors.
"You are charged with being drunk," said the learned her lo Allson. It seemed wholly unlikely that anyone like her ever could have been drunk. But she pleaded guilty.
GRATEFUL
QIR LAURENCE asked Alison SIR
what she wanted to say.
"Only that I'm grateful-grate- ful to the policeman who took-
Return Land Demand
Singapore, Feb. 7.
Was
lier place in the dock taken by a woman of 50, who been found drunk three had times in 10 days. The two had except the nothing in common, charge against them-and, per- haps, some abiding unhappiness, some private pain for which drink seemed the only remedy.
Terrorised
Women
Admission
•
the crowned effigy of the Sover- sign and on the reverse an emblematical design depicting a phoenix and the words Colonial Prison Service, For Long Service
and Good Con- dust"
The
name -- and ranke· of the recipient and the territory. In which he completed his quality- ing service will be inscribed on the rim of the metal, The medal will be worn on the left side attached by means of a bar LO a ribbon, the central part green, with two borders, dark blue, each three-eighths of
an and Inch wide,
centrul silver strip cne-eighth of an Inch wide, superimposed on the green central part.
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18 YEARS' SERVICE
The medal will be awarded to all stuff in the Prison Service below the rank of Assistant Superintendent or a comparabie rank, who have completed not less than 18 years' wholetine and continuous service in the Prison Service.
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A clasp to the medal to be attached to the ribbon may be awarded on the completion of a total of 25 years' qualifying SET- vice, and a further clasp on com- pletion of 30 years' service, small silver rose emblem de- noting the award of each clasp of shall be worn
an the ribbon when the ribbon only is worn, to make Delegated powers C
awards shall be vested in a Goventor-General, Governor, or Officer Administering the Gov. ernment of the Colony or Ter
Brookhaven, Miss., Feb. 7. A negro, trapped by a routine fingerprint check, admited to- day that he was the phantom "Mumbler" who terrorfard Brookhaven with A Berles attacks on white women,
The arrested.
J. 113, Cameron, 21, admitted that he had raped two while women and had attempted to rape another
ained last December,
The series of attacks had caused women to stay indoors at night and men of the town armed themselves. The situa- tion here has been tense for days.
Cameron, who works for " service station, was rushed to Jackson, the State capital, for further questioning
A group of Chinese declated | Police Headquarters. today they will urge a confer-
ence
here to
State
ask the
Peking!
VICTIM STABBED government to return to over- scas Chinese the land and pro-
Cameron made his confession irty confiscated
during thein front of authorities, including Cominous land reform period. the State Public Safely Commls-
Their request ir
sioner, Mr Tom Scarbrough. It contained motion to be tabled by the Singapore Khenchew Hui Kaan (Hainanese Association) ata Pau-Malayan Hainanese con ference in Singapore on Feb. 23.
About 40 delegates repre- senting Malaya 200,000 Hain- anese are expeled to attend,— Beuter,
Cameron said he stabbed one of his latest victims, Mrs Exkly Johnson, in the throat on Sun- day night because he was "nfrald she could" identify him.
Mrs Johnson, 20, suffered a serious wound.
He denied two other altempt. ed attacks. One woman was con- fronted by a negro as she drove her car into a negro apartment house area and anether woman
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ritory which the period of service requisite to qualify for the medal has been completed,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1957.
SIDE GLANCES ! By Galbraith
1219
TH A NA PAL OR
ID 1904 99 PA KOVA, ING.
"Why can't you show some will power and make me
stick to my diet?"
No Misdirection
Submissions
Mr W. S. Collier, Crown Counsel, submitted at the Full Court this morning that there had been no misdirection by the Trial Judge to the Jury in a case of possession of dangerous drugs and con spiracy.
Crown Counsel was replying to arguments by
Feathertouch BALLPOINT
BUILDING
Family Dispute
REGULATIONS SOLICITOR
VIOLATED
Young Wing-tak, of the Yee Woo Loong Rice Trading Co., of 58 Connaught Road Central, was fined $1,000 or three months by Mr I. T. Morris at Kowloon this morning when he pleaded guilty to a charge brought under the new regulations of the Building Ordinance,
The regulations stipulate that no person shall start, or carry out, building works without the prior consent of the Building Authority.
Young
WAS
charged
with
falling to comply with notices
certain
requiring him to move Government
building works carried out in the garage and yard of 28 June- tion Road, Kowloon.
The Prosecution sald & building inspector on May 21, last year,
a brick found
wall without windows or door built
Across
the
Appointments
entrance. garage
The following Government op-
TESTIFIES
bhe lengthy legal dispute before Mr Justice J. R. Gregg in the Supreme Court between members of a Wong family over the estates of some deceased members drew near to a close after the evidence of the solicitor, Mr P. C. Woo this morning. Proceedings were adjourned for an hour before Counsel's
closing addresses.
Plaintiff, Mr Wong Ying-kun, ticket collector of 8 Bedford Road, is the grandson of the
Inte Mr Wong Chol-ho and son of the late Mr Wong Yuk-shu. He is represented by Mr Victor Gitting, structed by 'Messre Deacons.
Defendants are Mrs Wong Yu- shi, Mrs Weng Yan-ah! (tin fong wife of Mr Wong Yuk-shu) and four children, Wong Chouk- teng
Wong Shu-kuen, Wang Pik-
Mr V. J. L. D'Alton, in-
kuen.
Other brick walls were built pointments, transfers, promotions Shuk-ping and Wong from the garage to the adjoin- and postings have been made or ing yard.
approved, the Gazette notified! structed by Mr G. S. Ford, of this moving:
Mr Timothy Denis Brinton to be Senior Programme Assistant,
Ford, Kwan & Co., appears for
first defendant, Mr Terenca
In the enclosed space in the yard, a kitchen, a shower and a lavatory had been erected,
on secondment from the British Shurlock, instructed by M. K IGNORANCE PLEA
Brondensing Corporation.
Lam & Co., is representing Noilees were sent to defcn-
Mr Szeto Che-yon, Sub-cod, fourth, fifth and sixth dant, but they were not com- Inspector of Police, to be Acting defendants. plied with Defendant wrote 10 Assistant Superintendent of Plaintiff is suing for accountà the Building Authority saying Police during the absence of Mr and enquiries in respect of the he was
Ignorant of the miles
J. J Morrin.
estates of the deceased, for the and that the brick walls were Mr A. D. Scholes, District Cours direction as to the share being demolished,
of benefits to be received from pre- On November 27, the
them by members of the family mises Were agrin inspected.
and for the appointment of the The brick walls in front of the
Judicial trustee as aministrator garage had been removed, and mictal sliding doors were found
of both estates. in the plac
A store-room had been built under the staircase and sleeping compartments were found inside the garage, which was also used
work-
as a musical Instrument shop
Further notlees were sent to
complied with.
Teen-agers the Hon. Leo d'Almada, QC, who is representing defendant, but they were
ake
Riot
Tokyo, Feb, 7. Thousands of screaming teen- fans of popular Japanese singer Miss Hibari Misora rush- the stage at Wakayama city, Western Japan, today as finished her recital.
A police spokesman said two of Miss Hibury's fans were knocked down and trampled on by some 4,000 persons trying to collect the singer's autograph.
The two injured persons, both girls. had Licen takeri to hospital suffering
from concussion. Miss Hibari, suffered superficial injuries to her neck and shoulders when a jealous fan thiev hydrochloric acid at her on
joanuary 13,
who
Refuses To Give aid she routed a negro from her caused a similar riot in Osaka
Up Passport
Budapest, Feb. 7.
An American newsman,
WII-
kitchen with screams.--United Press.
liam Worthy, who entered ted Pier For Village
China In defiance of State De- partment orders, refused to- night to give up his passport 10 the US Consul here.
The negro correspondent for the Afro-American, a Baltimore newspaper, said, "I intend to make a stand on it," as he re- fused to hand over his passport to the US Consul in Budapest, Richard Selby, who said ከነ had been directed by the State Department to validate it only for return to the United States.
-United Press.
an
two women appealing against their conviction.
The Full Court comprises die the section in law and left the Chief Justice, Mr Justice M. J. facts to them. Hogan, and the Senior Puisse Judge, Mr Justice T. J. Gould
The women are Wang Ching- chu,
37, and Ting Suet-ching, 33, who were given five years by Jurice C. W. Reece In December last year for possession. of quantity of heroin and conspiracy to deal in dangerous drugs.
Mr
The Full Court was not con- cerned, he said, with whether the Judge should have used this phrase or that. It was concerned with whether the direction had been proper or not,
"LOOSE REMARKS"
Mr Collier said that there might have been some loose re- A third appellant is Wong marks used, but he said these Fu-yan, who had been given did not amount to a misdirec→ Beven years when he pleaded tion.
women are
not
Judge, caused to act as Pulse Judge on the resumption of duty by Mr Justice C. W. Recce,
S. D. Whitley, Senior Mr T S. Executive Omeer, Class 1, to be Commissioner of Registration, vico Mr R. A. Bates who is proceeding on leave.
a
Mr Kwong Sik-kwong to be Sub-Inspector of Schools.
ALLEGED FALSE
PRETENCES
Mr J. Pipping of the Public Department asked the Works Court to take a serious view.
In passing sentence, the A contractor who allegedly it was clear obtained $1,000 by; falsely pre- Magistrate sald
Mr P. T. Yu, istructed by Mng Lo
RIVAL CLAIMS
he
Mr Woo testified that acted for the late Wong Yuk- aba during the Japanese occupa→ tion in 1944 in connection with his father's estate, There was Wong and
a dispute between
his step-mother, the first de fendant, and both claimed to bo the successors of this estate. They eventually agreed to partition the estate and
signed
an agreement in his office.
Mr WOO sald that part of the estate money for the sale of a
at the imposition of a nominal tending to be in a position to house was paid to Wong Yuk- be insufficient in rent a dat, was this morning shu in three instalments total- fine would this case.
remanded until tomorrow byling MY34,763. Wong instruct- Defendant was represented by Mr
at Centraled him to hand over all the shares referred to in the agres - Zimmern and Co.
charge, ment and he handed 230 shares in the Yauma Ferry Co, to ether the first defendant or her lawyer in March 1945 and ob- tained a receipt.
PAY
FAILED TO
DUTY ON RUM
of
to the
Ming, 38, is alleged to have stated that he was the owner of a block of flats at a16 Sai Yee Street, and could rent one of them to a Mr Tyang Kwong-chl.
No plea was taken,
Lieut-Colonel,
T.
F.
Hamilton has consed to act
of tho
Hong Fat, 32, proprietor
C:
us the Hop Shing Store, 57 Con- naught Rood Central, ground Commandant
Royal 5200 by Mr Hin-shing Lo
this morning fined Hongkong Defence Force upon
the at
relum to the
Colony of Brigadlor L. T. Ride, the
sion of dutiable commodities. had The Court was told the de-***
guilty to possession and was As to the contention that the found guilty of conspiracy. He Judge falled to distinguish ade- is appealim! ugainst sentence.
quately between the two charges, Another woman, Kun Wal- Mr Collior said the Judge had ching, who was the first accused been very careful to say to the at the trial, had been found not
that when they came unsider the conspiracy count, guilty of both charges,
The two sented by Mr d'Almada and Mr been sold regarding the posses Central Magistracy for possum | Gazetta notified this morning.
repre- they should forget what had on Jan 15 last year,
Police sald more than 15,000 Brook Bernacchi, both instructed sion charge. persons entered the theatre to- by Mr
D. d'Almado The Judge, he said, Hes. Third appellant is day to see the 10-year-old singer, by Mr Lawrence be satisfied beyond all
Remedios. whose name
instructed by means "Singing Lark"-Reuter, Leong,
K.. F.able doubt before they Wong and Co.
Ute convict
accused SURY Mr Colller contended that the court, Trial Judge's direction in effect Mr Collier submitted the was that if the Jury were sali- Judge was right in allowing Bled that second appellant was the ease to go before the Jury in possession of a cabinet He sald there Was certainly (where some of the exhibits something on tho facts that were found) then section 15 of needed an explanation from the Radio Hongkong
when translated
Exequaturs Signed
A reinforced pier with approach catwalk and a cause- way will be constructed nt Tung village, Kat O Island in the New Territories. The con-
The Gazette notified this struction has been given author-morning that the Queen's isation by the Governor in Exequaturs empowering Signor Council, the Gazette stated this Adalberto Figarolo di Gropello morning.
to ust as Consul-General for The pier will be 42 feet wide Italy, and Mr Edwin J. Garrity and 150 feet long and wil and Mr Peter M. F. Sichel to approximately
2,550 act as cover
Consula for the United square feet of Crown foreshore Stater in Iongkong have re-
ceived Her Majesty's signature,
and seabed.
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the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance would apply to her.
Crown Counsel sadd there was no misdirection in law for the Judge to refer the Jury to that
section. It was for the Jury to dreide on the facts. The Judge merely explained to them
'with the
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of all!!!
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Etuto
KING'S PRINCESS
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GRAND OPENING TO-DAY
KINGIS ROS
at 2.30, 5:15, 1.20′ 0900 PM.
PRINCESS at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
After the war he applied for letters of administration of the estate of Wong Yuk-shu on be half of the widow, the second defendant, Mr Woo sald
The case for the first defen- dant closed after Mr Woo's evidence,
Mr Shurlock said he did not propose to adduce any evidence on behalf of second, fourth and Afth defendants.
stressed also that the Jury must foulant had in his possession 28 ask for the cup size you'd like to be!
accused,
Hearing is proceeding.
reason
could
this on
Charged With Corruption
bottles of Negresco Rum on February 6, cn which duty had not been paid.
Revenue Inspector L. Dun- ning, asked the Magistrale take a serious view of the case as such offences were dally in- creasing.
H.K.T.
to
8.30. Time for Children, Stories from the Grocks. "More Stories of Alexander," (A BBC Broadcast for Schools) (BBCTS); 5.43, Greek Folk Bones; 0. Timo Bigital. Programme Summary: 0.02, Popularity Poll presented by Ted Thomas; 6.30, Asion Club; 4.59, Weather Report: 7. Timo Signal. The News; 7.00, Commentary or Stop Press Item: 7.15, Band "Call. Artie Shaw and Charged with conspiring to
his Orchestra: 7.45. Going to the Pictures, The critics discuss the obtain $2,000 from hawkers, plotures they have seen this week. Delective Pollze. Constable 1. | Chairman: Timothy Birch; 8, A Lifa Written by Nom, 32, police interpreter Ng of Bits (BECTS).
Gedtrey Harrison, Produced by Sia-man, 38, and à hawker,
Leslie Bridgmont; 8.30, Opera and Kwan Fal, 38, were remanded Ballet; 9. Time Signal, News and for seven days et Kowloon Home News from Britain; 10.18, Court this morning.
The Amer Brothers (Vocal) With Hugo Winterhalter and his Or Kwan Fat was refused ball, chestra; 10.30. Ferey Faith Plays LA Nom was granted ball of Favouriten; 10.59, Weather Report: $3,000 and Ng Slu-man ball of 11. Time Signal. Radlo News Heeli $1,300.
11.16, Goodnight Music; 11.30, Close Down.
J.
The three defendants are në-
W
cused of conspiring between
REDIFFUSION January 2 and 23 to obtain 2 p.m... Variety Calla tho Tunc $2.000 from fixed-plich hawkers 3, Musical Matinee: 330, Strike Tip in Yu Chau Street, Shamshuipo. Castle; 415, Ten
the Band;, The Blory of Bottle for Two 4.30. Kowloon, by falsely pretending Musical A.B.C.; 6, Children's Car- that the money
Adventures of Mr norThe 3. W. Browett, Follce Superin. Chuff: The Affair of the Superior tendent, Shamsinaipo Division,
Suitcase: 6.30, Friday Requests- Presented by Betty: 628, Birthday: Mr Sydney Ng Quinn, of Mailbag: 0.56, 7-Up Show; 8.45. The Moss Brutton and Company,
Ilouse of Peter MeCiovern: 7, Time represented L1 Nam. The other Announcements and Interlude: 2.15, Bignal. Newaj 7.09, Weather Itaport, two accused were represented Track Talk; 130, Eddie Tither with by Mr Peter Mo.
AXDI Bordahl'Orchestra: TAJ, Concert
Per* Miniature: sortality · Parado-Lew· · Compagnons de 12 Chacon; 0.15, Florta Time: 000, Pasons to the Con- dueled by Prof Wimple with a including Paul panel
Drew, Stephanie Tylon, Jerry Lewle and Daphne Nowman; 9. Time: Bignal, News and Home Now from Bri fain: 9.30, Musle Tino-Premated) by Charles Harvey; "10, Redimision Spollaborylew' sedih Dr. Helen heart specialist;" 19.10.
Given Recognition
Tho Gazette notified this morning that His Excellency, the Governor, under · Instruc-
Tausug from the Secretary of
tions
Stole for the Colonies, has been picusca to accord formal re-
cognition to Mr Adrien Harplis
Jard as Vice-Consul for Franco at Hongkong..
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