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HEN Alison first ap peared at Bow Street it was hard to believe that the police had not made a mia. take in arresting her. She looked pretty and fresh and The kind young and guy. of girl you might hope to see ut a country rector's tennis party (though your hopes might not be very kind often fulfilled). The whose interest in liquor would be confined to sips of home-made fruit-cup.
She pleaded guilty on that morning atx years ago, to being found drunk in the street.
THE
NO HARM DONE?
E lapse could just about be explained. Alison was new to London. No doubt she had Inadvertently got out of her depth. As long as her family never found out, no great ham was done.
But since that distant mom- ing, Allson's visits to Bow Street, Marlborough Street und to the Clerkenwell court, have been made with terrible regu- Jurity. She cannot keep away
CHINA MAIL
OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1957.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
GOVT FIRMLY
THE
IN
SADDLE
From H. KING WOOD
Sydney, Feb. 27.
Probably at no period since Federation has a Federal Government moved so serenely, with so little intrigue and with so little danger of being pushed out of Treasury benches as the present Menzies Government.
Sometimes people wonder if sure of himself, or is planning politles are the politics they used | aut to lead the Party at to know. Go through the ranks
of the swollen Federal House to- day and nowhere is there a sus- piclon of the
oratury or the spiritedness of the Bartons, the Deakins, the Wentworths or, in our own time, the Billy Hughes,
Prime Minister 8. G. Menzies has his teum so well under con- trol that seldom is he called upon to use the command of language which he undoubtedly has or to bring into play his vasi knowledge of political know- |
how.
On the Labour side there is an Decasional spark of life from Sydney's E. J. Ward, but he has been sparking so ineffectively for so many year, that it has become only on occasional glow,
SOLID BRAKE
xt election.
the
Sydney and Melbourne will probably have installed 180,000 television receivers by the end of this year according to
by the Australia survey made and New Zealand Bank.
A yet TV has not made
impact on Australian Breat family hfc, although quite a number of menfolk in fumilice who already have them issuo the
warning:-"Don' private get_one".
a
Owning a TV set can become a Father costly business,
A 45 Nechce, cost of installa- tion and a reasonable set leaves a buyer with no change out of
£300.
is guaranteed
not
A TV tube costa £40 and valves £1, Valves have the normal life of radio valve......... On the Liberal side there ikely to go tomorrow or in five an occasional outburst and al-
years time, but the tube at £40 ways sound common sense from
for six months Bill Wentworth, but the foct
and has on average Life of that he is a member of the
between two and three years. Government puts a fairly solid
Contrary to general opinion, bruke on any rebellion which
increased production he may harbour in his mind.
ilkely to bring down the price At the moment there are very of TV sets and the trend at the faint mutterings of discontent,
***** } moment in Australia is that the from back benchers, it only
Since the in- but also from top brass of the price will rise.
of
TV sets five the necessity froduction liberal party on
months ago
the price of one for bank reform, but it is Australia-made IV set has much in the realms of higher
nunce that the man in the tram fallen slightly, but the prices of finds these goings-un very dull three others have risen. reading. Stroci Alison pleaded guilty all."
from the courts, bocause she cannot keep away from the bottle,
Her looks have quite gone, and there is about her a faded, middle-aged blowziness, though she still dresses well,
FLASHBACK
her latest visit to Bow
for the second time tri a fort- night to being found drunk.
won
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1995) DE NEAR M
"Oh, darling! All our bills finally paid
in time for the spring sales!"
Good Playing At
and just
Orchestral Concert
The Sino-British Orchestra, under its conductor Professor Arrigo Fos, presented a popular and well balanced
at its second concert programme
of the season, last Friday at Queen's College. In spite of shortages in some sections of the Orchestra, it achieved a good general standard, with some passages of out- standingly good playing.
The first of the two main
BIG WINNER A Sydney curlo dealer, numed On the other hand, Premjer
while
Brulsuz, hau undoubtedly Harry vf all
works in another 1500 in the NSW State master
he surveys
has his Lottery, which brings his lottery State labour pulitles,
unions and winnings
last few over the "I'm most frightfully sorry," own worries with
the State Executive. she sult, resignedly, to the
years to marly £100,000, This week the Labour Party's
Already he has won six first magistrate, Mr Geraint Reen.
them £6,000 curious boss, the State Executive, cen-prizes-four of she used a Then
the Premier over State and two £12,000; two seconds, **I had
of sured a morsel yesterday
and....
Government appointments, each £1,000; nve thirds, each She sighed
into something that has not happen- £500, and countless minor
ed for many years indeed, Alsa ris
phrase:
distrosa
wall.... silence.
What use to explain that the only cure she mew for distress was a drink; the only way to celebrate things going well another. The only way to keep through a day or a week to keep within arm's reach of another Hitic too.
She was fineti and went away, with a shy, half-ashamed smile, and for a moment you could see, under the thick powder and
slash of scarlet paint, the pretty girl who had made her debut at Bow Street six years Dgo.
something that has not happen-Prizes, all in NSW.
He has also collected many
not
the
he haa been from n week
STAŁ
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
Counsel's Defence Final Address In
Riots Trial
BRUNEL TO SEEK SELF-GOVT
Brunel,
Singapore, Mar. 3,
the tbuy. Brijjah colony in North Borneo, will kiriye for Internal moll-
The Special Jury trying 19 young men charged government within the British with rioting at Tsun Wan visited the Chatham Commonwealth, the leader of the colony's only political party Road detention camp this morning on the applica- | said here today. tion of Mr V. L. J. D'Alton, Defence Counsel,
Following their return to the Supreme Court, Mr D'Alton started his closing address to the Jury before Mr Justice C. W. Reece.
His Lordship and Counsel on both sides accompanied the Jury across to Kowloon.
The accused are Wong Shek- chun, Loung Yuk, Chong Sheit shen, Lau Wat-keung, Yuen Wing-sum, Ko Pul-kong, Ylu Chung-fal, Chung
Yuen-pak, Lam Puistao, May Man-keurig, Cheung Yu-yin, Leung Chee- Kam-hung, Chiu hung, Yip Sung-foon, Chan, Chlu Tung, Leung Chung Trung
Mr A. M. Azahari,. President
of the Partai Raayat (People's Party) arrived here to attend a
called to protest the Singapore
to
rally sponsored by Singapore's Partal Raavat. The rally was
Government's refusal to convene an all-party conference before the departure of a.
a. Singapore He said the 'procedure
for Biso delegation
London followed in the present
self-government care, negotiate the according to the evidence, was with the British authorilles. that a number of witnesses were Azahari told the United Press nasemblea in a dining hall for that although Brunei æcks in- different periods of time.
ternal self-government, its ulti- Inspector Ross had said that į matc object is full he had no means of controlling dependence. these waiting what went on regarding what witnesses were doing.
THE GLASS PANEL Counsel went on to say that there was the evidence of the glass panel, through which the accused alleged Police witnesseN had looked at them before the
Not and Chen Sai-hung.
Mr W. S.
and Mr Coliler D. N. E. Ren, Crown Counsel, are prosecuting, assisted by Mr O'Brien, Assistant D. E. W. Superintendent of Police.
Mr D'Alton is defending 10th accused Instructions of H. Identification parades were held.
оп K. Woo and Co., and the re- maining accused on instructions of P. L. Lam and Co.
NOT PARTICIPANTS In his speech, Mr D'Alton Fald the Jury had heard the evidence at considerable length. A lot had been said, particular
what
tho
11-
of
Brunel with a population
in 00,000, is the richest state Borneo, it not In the entire a Sultan, the Brunel Government Malay Archipelago. Headed by
collects rich oil royalties.
SIGNIFICANT
Brunei's struggle for self- From the evidence and from government and eventual fri- they had seen this morn-dependence is significant because ing, Mr D'Alton said, he thought of the colony's proximity to the Jury should come to the Island of Labuan, which hit conclusion that the evidence of the headlines in the past year the accused was to be accepted or so as a possible new British. and that the evidene of the caval base, policemen-that they were un
ly on the question of identifica-able, and did not, look through
the panel-was incorrect. tion.
Hearing is continuing.
The question of the circum- stances surrounding the allega- tions against the accused, ho went off, War matter Lase which it was not necessary to go for instance, why the riots occurred, and so forth.
Macmillan's "High Hopes"
Mr
Mr Azahar said there is a possibility that Malaya, Singu- pore and the states of Borneo would merge eventually into a federaton. Ho ruled out, single
по
ut the possibility or any other Borneo state merging with Indonesia "because Indonesia is not in the British Commonwealth."
Azahari
claimed his party has 18,000 members,
of whom
・
70
per cent are Malays. The mainder includes Chinese, In- Bald dians and Dyaks.
Mr D'Alton said the defence was not mying that riots did not decur on October 11 and 12,
London, Mar. 4. but that if such things took unison phrases of the strings place the contention of the today he had "high hopes" that
Harold Macmillan Was Mozart's 30th with sweetness and serenity, her fence, was that the accused did
He sald Chiptoe businessmen. Symphony, the "Linz." This is playing
sensitive and not tálce part in them.
with President in Brunel are trying to form bis meeting the first of the series of six expressive.
Regarding t
the charge of riot-Eisenhower in Bermuda would another political party to be great symphonies which were
the Miss Tang kept her eye weli ing outside
Tsun Wan clear up any differences exist called the People's Progressive his last, and one la which the on the conductor and blended police statior, Counsel said the ing
and the Party, influence of Hayin is marked.
Azahari well with the orchestra. On the evidence was feeble in the ex- United States, The performance was
party's neat whole she managed the technical tremo. The evidence related and fresh, though more vigour part with skill, except for a few to the bringing of so-called pri- hoped that the Bermuda talks Constitution calls for equal pri- and sparkle would have sülted
vileges and rights for all com "Minuet" and the
passages; and goners from a factory and the opening on March
munities and preservation of the Sultanate-United Press, "Presto." The slow movement
Pollec.
the
hus
which
The
In The
Performance was delivery of those people to the "ar
Scrambled
commendable. It is doubtful whether
concert
MASTER OF
THE PIPA
There was no question of any
between Britain
Prime Minister
also
Д
21 would firm foundations for common policy in the future."
In a message to Mr Robert candidate Cooke, Conservative for the Bristol West election next Thursday, Mr Macmillan declared: "The of securing peace
oll
lives."... |
violence offered at the pelice station in respect of any of the accused, he said.
As to what constituted riot in law, Mr D'Alton
quoted from problem legal authority and submitted overshadows that mere presence at the scene Router. of a
riot did
G
not ipso facto make a person guilty of riot, even though he had the power
our
to Interfere and stop the riot JAY WALKER
Ing and failed to do so,
FINED
sald
his
Radio Hongkong
X.X.T.
4.30, Talking About Teaching. Listeners' Magatine: 945, St. Paul's Sulte (lost). The Jacques String Orchestra; Time Signal, Pro- gramme Bummary: 6.02, Highlights in Variety; 6,30, Ciamical Requests presented by Aileen Dekker; 0.60, Weather Report; 7, Time 6ignat. The News; 7.00, Election: Talk by Candidates from the Urban Council. Mr Woo Pak-chuan (Reform Club): 7.15. "Cocktail Time". Dave Brubeck Quartet: 7.48, Talking about Book. Pilgrimage to the Shroud," DJ.
a lovely lyrical theme, od within memory is the fact big wins in interstate lotteries,
Miss Premier
was warmly that tho
obviously
and once won three first prizes
given out Tang will be a brillant planist, feels himself so firmly entrench-
strings, by the upper the Symphony but she has some
The ending of
excellent ed that he could comment "Then a year.
For years views of little
successful, Pro-qualities of musicianship, and a Was men do
particularly (averaging £50
for the music fessor Foa
all his sincere respect marshalling worry me."
she plays. forces for this brilliant, almost that the Executive lottery prizes--and all of it tax The fact
This very pleasing free,
This Anale. dashing.
sympho should go so far as to publlely
will be repeated tonight in £18,000 FIND
is leas grand in conception than Kowloon,-XX. ensure the Premier of its own
Which party and for
is quite that Premier
a different the later Haffner or Jupiter, but
has an
depth elegant polish, later to thumb his nose at those story to what is likely to happen it
33-year-old Dalby who are virtually his boss in-to
of feeling and of times a quiet (Queensland) man who found humour. These quallies were dirates Orstly, the dissention
the up-
all evident in the performance. which has crept into the Labour £18,000 hidden in
CROWN'S ONUS Party in NSW and secondly,
holstery of a "bomb" he bought TASTEFUL MUSICIAN
Counsel told the Jury ho that Mr Cahill must feel very for £25.
The soloist in the final work
A jay walker, Leung Huen, Group Captain G. L. Cheifury The money WOS in two
was Miss Donna Tong, planist.
An extremely interesting con- thought they were justified In
of 115 Shek canvas bank bags and consisted She and the orchestra gave en
all the accused 32,
Kip Mei. D.8.0 DEC Seven Little Sisterry cert of classical Chinese musiénferring that
Village
by Reviawed- A Block, third floor, Julian Newman; 8. Movie Magazine, of Australian and American extremely
persons lived and worked in creditable per- was given on Saturday night at the district where the detur- was this morning fined $25 or Edited and Produced by Timothy currency iri £100, £50, £10 formance of Beethoven's 4th
Morse Hall, Kowloon, by bance took place. He said the Mr Simon F. S. Lal at Central from Britain: 6.16, Three Land- orven daya' imprisonment by Birch 1.30, BBC Jazz Club; 9. Time Signal. The News and Home News and £5 notes and 20, 10 and Plano Concerto in G.
accomplished young musician, onus was on the Prosecution to five dollar bills.
This is perhaps the loveliest Lee, assisted by Mr. Lul Pui- show that the accused were not Magistracy.
scapes". A Talk by Jack Armfield He took the money first to a
and Miss Mary Lou- merely present at the scene of
It was states in Court that Bindon (No. 1); 6.30, Recital by solicitor and then to the police-Beethoven. It is not the strongest
of all the five piano concertos of Yuen
iluang.
Robert Witcher the offence Accompaniment by Moya ftes. Das (Tenor) Plano alleged rioting, but that Leung committed and so started off an argument and most grandiose, but it has a Mr Lee is a master of the they committed the acts alleged on March 2 at Belcher Street WonderWanderer). (Schubart); near the Fire Brigade Station Der Wegweiser, (Bignpost), (Schu- quallly a pipa, the Chinese four-stringed against them, gentle yet positive It.
brilliance which is flowing rather gulter, perhaps the most satisty- Throughout tho Cross
when he was using the carriage bert); Sonntag (Sunday) (nhm)
Vorgebliches Standchan (The Vain Some authorities say that the than hard in each of the three ing and full-toned of the clas-examination of Prosecution wit-way, of the road without due suit) (Brahms Wurst, ich doch
will have to be car
traced
In doing den Weg Zuruck (I would I knew movements, there
said, the care and attention. are superb sical Instruments. His handlingnesses Mr D'Alton ensure that
through registry offices in an
(Brahms); 9.40, "convervation" passages, not only of the Instrument was impres Jury had heard constant queso, he caused a police van pro- the way back) attempt to find the owner and
Strings, Op. 2orth (Boccherini): 10, brake between plano and orchestra, but sive and in spite of the lack timing on the matter of iden-oceding along the street to Quintet in Major for Plano and
violently in order to unsuccessful,
Something you look your best if this i
a very im- the among the various instruments of harmony and the insistence ilation. It was
Continental, Romantic Music from Home: 10.30, Hancock's money will go to the finder, It is one of the most difficult on the melodic line
partant matter for them to de-avold knocking him down,
fall Hour. Repeat of last Satur BAIL ESTREATED cide.
day'* broadcast); 10.09, Weather Donna
It had been necessary
The ball of $25 put up by Report: 11 Time Signal. to put
Newercel: 11.15, Goodnight Music: after Mathew Hennball, 30, tactory 11.30 Close Down. the same question the each witness, he said. assistant, was estreated by Mr
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as to what is likely to happen to
Colin Evans.
TITLE DOUBTS Other authorities
Say
concertos
the
of the Mr to begin, and Mies traditional Chinese musle,
proved
roved Leo drew from his pipa a depth, musician of taste
timo and sonority and variety of tone that that her ang immediately under an old lawsult of 1722 feeling by hor playing of the
the were truly amazing, he has uile to the money now, opening solo passage. She is a One is automatically inclined It was, no doubt, tedious, but Hinahing Lo at Central Magis- REDIFFUSION
while there are quite a numberfluent and accurate player; not of Incredible people
whe strong and certainly not flashy. seriously say the money should In the second movement, where be passed over on a plate to the plano answers the 'angry the Taxation Department,
They have put forward this view because they say, and na
doubt very correctly, that the WHAT FRANCE IS money is the result of black during the market dratings
war.
PREPARED TO DO
When Colin Evans hot-footed Il to the police with his two mildewed canvas bags it is
Ottawa, Mar. 3. doubtful if he believed that
France's Premier, M. it
Guy" But Mollet, said here today the would make him famous. already It has been mentioned in French Government is willing Judicial circles that legal cor- to meet with Algerian rebel respondents are having a great leaders to discuss ceasefire con- old argument and the Taxation dillong but would refuse to dis- Commissioner is taking for more cusa politleal condillons............ than a pollbe interest in the case.
Mollet, who in on an officiat visit to Canada, sald Franco, sult
Five Killed In Plane Crash
་
to compare the
End there are not Ict any identification It was alleged that Honmball
7 P.M. Western Sultan Pipa with the that had to be done; he could tracy this morning. certain almilarities, but where witness pass by without cross- Jay-walked in Queen's Road Tune; bs the guitar player usually examining him closely on His Central near the Pedder Street Claude plucks the strings of his in-memory.
lasi Saturday.. strument. Mr Lee did not only Turning to the identification pluck them, but strucks them, parades at Chatham Road camp.
stroked them and attacked them Mr D'Alton said the Jury had now with strength and now been told that the procedure tu with subtlety. He made the all the cases were "exactly
pipa convey a great range. of" same,
expression,
MUFFLED SOUNDS
1
the
Big Seizure Of
Raw Opium
The value of the opium
Hedio
Variety Cain the Musical "Blasiowy; -- 3.30, Thorhall and bis Or on entra featuring the Snow- Anker: 4. The Story of Batils Castles 4.15, Tea for Two 4.00, Strictly Instrumental; §. Children's Cornerie Blories of the Kingdom; $.30, Monday Requests Presented by Betty: 5.58, Birthday. Mailbag: 0, 14 Murique Francaleo-Presented by Jeannette Ptry; 6.30, Tups in Ropus. |lor" Music: 4,45, The House of Pater
McGovern, 7, Time Signal and the News: 7,09,... Elections Talk by
mentą: 7.17,
seeks a three-phase sellement Mr Lee are his playing of the Jufy hại: ho. 'continued, the believed to be in the region of and Home News from Britain; 19.10..
tion.
HK$320,000.
MUST BE SURE Ho warned them that they
Over the weekend, Govern- Candidates for 16 Urban Council! He also played two solce on must be sure that everything ment revenue officers during the meter Report and Announce
MAM Movernent for the chin, sald to be the most had been done to make each
Eddie Fisher with Stordali Orchestra: 745, ancient plucked stringed in particular identification inde course of a search on board the Melody gordal
59 Kirsten Maersk, discovered Concert Miniature: A Personality strument in China. Though his pendent and fair.
Carte Selectlona · Me D'Alton elted from another approximately 320 lbs. of raw Parade-Noel Coward 8.15, w
Troms playing of this too was master-
oplum.
LOONEY' Stumcal Show The the instrument itself is less legal authority to show that the satisfying and its strange, mul- Police should be most scrupulous day from Middle East ports.
The vessel arrived on Satu-Most Hisppy, reling starring Robert Waede with Jo Bullivan, Art Land, fed sounds fall-oddly on-the
In this regard.
Susan Johnson, '- Shorty, Long and La car.
From
what had been said in
Mona Paulegt 0. Time Signal, Noww. Further accomplishments of evidence,
Salon Serenade; P303 Montay a right to come to the
Concert Norwegian Dance Nos. 2 á. in Algeria, based on a ceasefire, "san-yin or, three-stringed conclusion that, in the present
3. Opus 25 Bymphonie Dance free ciccilons and then negotia guitar, which he did in a duct case, all the people lined up in
Opus 04 "Nocturne In C Sharp Minor Opus 54. No. 4" 10. A 128 with Mr Lut playing the pipa: the identification parades were
of Bilem: 10.30, One Night Bland: Seattle, Mar, 3. Mollet fald African territories and his very fino command of
. Dale with Dreamland; 11-30, suspects,
Prelude to Midnight: 12. Midnight party today found must attain economic and social || the
popular two-stringat the bodies of live persons in the Independence before political "erhwu" or two-stringed violin declared, "I think that from tho "If that is the case" Counsel
"God Save the Queen," Close Down. wreckage of an airliner from independence, otherwise political which is the most familiar
The well-known, French, sing- Fairbanks, Alaska, which missed independence might prove a Chinese musical instrument lo vory outect you must regarder, Yvette Giraud, strived this
enfe landing here last night effectual-France-Presse,
Hongkong dwellers."
the question of identification at morning from Tokyo by PAA by only 18 minutes and one
Mr Lal Joined, Mr Lon also in Chatham Road comp with very in the courts of her Far East niountain peak.
aduct for pipa and "haino” grave doubts."
The Cuben goodwill mision A Coast
ast Guard helicopter
New Magistrate bjamboo, flute, Pa
sand wolt- Mr D'Alton weld the proper she will stay here for five on economic affair: lert this found the wreckage of the
toestel Kinstrument.
procedure, In such paredes Was days before going to Viettinin in morning by Northwest Airline Alaska
Airlines DC-4 Carly Mr Bimon FB. Li, former Jalan Mary, Lou-Huang song to place, the suspect in a line of a two months trip, broadcasting for Taipale to continue ** their today, about 50 airlind miles Crown Counsel, aat 'na" Mogis- neveral classical songs, in people who were not suspected and giving, concerts.
Far East four NEA In well-known | The Mission" in led by IV. northeast of here in the moun trate this morning at Central volcs of clarity and sweetness, in the same case and who had Mile Giraud tainous Olympic peninsula Meistrdey replacing Mr W. Faccompanied by one or more of a connection with the charge for her rendition of "La Vie En Santiago Claret, Cuban Ambas United Press.
Pickering, who is on leave,
against the suspect,
"Rose" and "Le Pont Mirabosár,“ | ander-at-large, to the Tar, Inst,
A
earch
"
the Instrumente...
Notable Singer Arrives Here
Mission Leaves
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