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FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1957.
1945
JOHN CLARKE'S UN PRESIDENT PASSES THROUGH COLONY»
CASEBOOK
The Long Short Cut
RED is a labourer, and
FRED
his inbours to such good- effect that his earnings are in the neighbourhood of £1,000 a year. He is IL streamlined, modern work- ing man, a bachelor of 26, with a pleasant manner and muddeal tastes.
The lives In Southwark and when he wants a night out he Come to the Ins and taverNA
the West End.
Не вре a recent evening zu, and when closing time was calles at last, he decided to try
short cut home.
LOST
LONG evening propping up has never been
A bars
reckoned Ideal training for
and Journeys of exploration, before very long Fred was well and kruly lost, somewhere around Grays Inn Road.
Instinct told him that with
rach step he took hu wha get-
Ming more lost, so he came to a
waiting for inspiration.
Prince Wan Wal Thaya- kon, Thailand's Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations General Assembly, sald today: "I am extremely hopeful that there will be a successful out- come in the present negotiations
ΟΠ the
Middle East problem." The Prince, Recompanied by his wife, arrived from New
York by PAA early ittis morning on a transit fight home, Ho Jos after a three-hour stopover at the airport,
Meeting him at Kai Tak were Mr Charat Chaloemplafatta, That Consul
General, and Mr R. T. D. Ledward, Poll- fical Adviser to the Hou-- kong Government,
In an
interview with the press at the airport, Prince Wan said the prospect of peace in the near future le
"good according to the He asked for the help of the framework of events,”
In the case of the Middle East, be said there was now ceasefire and a complejo
However withdrawal.
he emphasised that the work was now different and more delicato and the negotia- Honn
would take A long Lime to seitle,
"The negotiations are entrust- ed to our Secretary-General who has shown outstanding ability in dealing with the problem so far,' he said.
press as the "Moral Force of the world will be re- quired to support the moral Authority of the United Nations General Assembly" to make these negotiations successful.
Prince Wan said he did not foreste any change in Thal- land's polley towards Com munist China,
"Even with the new govern- ment being formed in Thai- land the policies of the two parties are the same, that is
to say, we are with, the, free · democracies of the world," he said.
Regarding trade with Comma-
nist China, Prince Wan sald Thailand wae on the saNO basis as Japan. “We do not deal in strategio goods with Communist China”,
About communixm Friaco Wan said that it was still a menace in this part of the world, but now, there was more danger of subversive activities than in aggression,
ELEVEN RIOTERS GAOLED
SENTENCES OF
TWO TO FOUR YEARS
Mr Justice C. W. Reece today'sentenced cleven men to gaol for periods of two to
salt and stood in a quiet street four years. They were found guilty at the Criminal Sessions on March 5 of taking part in the Tsun Wan riots last October.
were curs parked along the street and in $ie shadows,
there
They
two policemen
watched Fred for เย minutes then arrested him as a
T
counsel
"I cannot allow my sentiment to get the better of my judg- ment," His Lordship, added,
The original 19 accused were uspected person loitering with Wong Shek-chun, Leung Yuk, lolent to steal from the cars, Chong Shek-shan, Lau Wal-
WHITE LIE
keung. Yuen Wing-sum, Ko The Judge allowed this parti- the Werkenwell court, Pul-kong. A Fred pleaded not guilty. His Chung Fucu-pak, Lam Pub-tao, from the day of the opening of Chung-fai, cular sentence to be dated as put him into the wit- Mau Mon-cheung, Cheung Yiu-the February Assizes. ners-box to tell his side of the yin, Leung Chee-hung, Yin
Yip In sentencing the first, second, story.
Kum-bung, Chiu Sung-toon, afth, eighth and 11th accused ta
Tung Leung Chung, three years
each, Mr Justice Tsong Yiu-man, Chiu Not and Reece said, that having regard Chan Sal-hung.
to the evidence against them, he Six of them were acquitted. did not think that the punish- were the seventh, 12th,ment for them should be in the They 14th, 18th, 18h and 19th ne
form of a training centre. cusd.
His Lordship sent the third, fourth, sixth, 18th and 15th accused to prison for two years mich. He remarked that the part they had played in tho disorders was small.
"When the police came up." he said, "they told me to move and I said l'a slay where was as long as I wanted. Then they said they were going charge me.
But on the way to
to
the station, one said, 'If you'd sald were waiting for a girl we'd not have
you
or something,
charged you.
the
"So naturally." Fred went on, "I said, "Well, as a matter of fact, waiting for a girl's exactly
hat I was doing." But what white Lio had been told too late. "I'm not convinced beyond all doubt that he intended to steal," said the magistrate, who had been told of Fred's work record and
"This income. dismissed."
Fred
cuse
Is
noe{ded, Curity
Iben to the building. hurrled away site where he worked, keeping Short culs to the main roads. became expensive when you had you to employ counsel to get out of them into the clear.
Liberation Mission
Two Remanded
This morning, Mr Justice Reece remanded the ninth and 10th accused, pending a report from the Commissioner of Pri-added. sons as to their suitability for admission to a training centre, After hearing mitigation pleas by Mr V. L. J. D'Alton Defence Counsel, the Judge sent the 17th accused to prison for four
years.
His Lordship
Mr
"You did most of the work with your mouth," the Judge
Earlier, in mitigation, D'Alton urged the Court either to bind the accused over and free them or to send them to a training centre, They were all very young and it was both in their interests and in the in- the part terests Bald that accused played in the flats should not be sent to prison to of society that they
was more serious than the rest. start their adult life among The evidence against him, he habitual criminals sult, was that not only did he
should destroy property, but he incited others to attack an official of the factory where he worked.
Mr Justice Reece went on to say it was all very well for Defence Counsel
that
was an
The Court, he said, also take into consideration the fact that the riots were com- monly known to have been en- couraged by outsiders and that New York, Mar. 14.
atmosphere of there Anne Rethly, former Minister
absolute hysteria. The accused to Soy of State in the short-lived Hun- Justice had been vindicated by in their youth considered them-
arion Government of
the fact that the accused had selves as patriots.
Perhaps it a tle more
inct today announced The Nagy
hern convicted. But, he said, formation of
Free Hungarian there was another side of the had been used in holsting the
this would not organisation すい #berate the malter: people who committed gall
happened. Hungarian people from
Com-
crimes must be punished ne- dictatorship. --France-cordingly, and in a way which
would deter others.
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Mercy
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As the law had been vin- dicated by the verdicts of the Jury, the Court should temper Justice with mercy in sidering sentence, Mr D'Alon said.
con-
MP's CHARGE IN
HOUSE:
'NO SOUND TRADE ΝΟ
-UNIONISM IN HONGKONG'
London, Mar. 14.
A Labour member, Mr John Rankin, protested in the House of Com- mons yesterday that nothing was really being done to form a sound trade union movement in Hongkong.
The result was that wages we re "far too low and hours of labour far too long."
RAN Frigate In Bid To Help
Drifting Freighter
Singapore, Mar. 15.
A British freighter, Javanese Prince, is drifting in the South China Sea with its engine out of action 100 miles north-west of Kuching, Sarawak, the Royal Navy announced this morning.
The announcement said that the freighter had re-
quested assistance from the Royal Navy au thorities in Singapore and the Australian frigate, HMAS Quickmatch, had been sent to the scene. The frigate was expected to reach the stricken vessel at about 2 p.m. local time today, the announce. ment added.-France-Presse,
He had carlier naked the Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lennoy-Boyd, what help was given to encourage and develop the trade union "movement in Hongkong.
Minister Explains
Mr Lennox-Boyd said two officers of the Labour Depart- ment were wholly occupied in trade union matters, Guldanco
on day to day problems of or- ganisation and management was always available,
the
Education courses for trade union officials were arranged bợ Labour Department from time to time and trade unionism was included in the syllabus of elvles courses run by the Eduen- tion Departament,
Wis
It was here that Mr Rankin asserted nothing
really being done.
Ho asked "Why leave the field to two trade unions which
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Government
Getting Warmer Appointments
Announced
"The weather will be- obaro warmer this
even-
ing," a weather spokesman raid today.
But easterly winds, fresh in exposed places, ats predicted this after- noon. It may rata evening.
this
The lowest temperature wils at midnight--50,2 degrees F.
2 Boys Hurt
In Street Accidents
are dominated by political Two young boys were injured parties of opposing
concepts, in reparate street accidents which were the cause of yesterday, trouble last October and will be the cause of trouble in the future."
A boy, So You-shing, 5, of 3, Water Street, ground floor, was
HONGKONG BANK Enormous Problems knocked down by a motor yan
REPORT
(Continued from Page D)
New York offce has naturally benefied from the increasing use of United States dollars in world trade since the war and has greatly extended its opera- Lions in recent years.
wns
Our office in Franco transferred from Lyons to Paris in 1053 at the time when the economy of Indo-China relied
to a
France extent on trade with
This i no longer the
He went through the cases of each of the convicted accused,
Mr D'Alton said that the first case and with the dwindling of accused was aged 20, but ae- the traditional business, which cording to a medical report he had been previously handled, it was 21; the fourth accused aged was necessary to explore other 10 and his birth certificate averies. In this I am glad to this, but the medical sy we have been quite success- proved certificate said The
20: ful and I hope that this office was 10 or 20 the eighth accused was 19, but will continue 10 bulld up according to the medical certiutisfactory connections on its ficato he was 24 and the ninth own. accused was 18 according to the
Germany's Increasing trade medical certificate; both the has been reflected in the turn- 15th and 17th accttsed
were
mically certified to be 23, but
were really 19 and 22 respectively.
mild.
Four Killed
Counsel submitted that the
Manila, Mar. 16. rioting outside the Pao Hsing
Four people, including a child, factory was the word and that outside the South Textiles was tribermen in Cotabato Province. were aflied by their fellow
Mr D'Allon called the rela-southern Philippines, yesterday tives of three
and all because of a tribal cus accused to give were good and industrious, boys who work
evidence that these
tom prohibiting them from holding in public the hands of
native woman.
Investigation disclosed that the assailant, a married man of the Bilaan tribe, and two of tils relatives run amok after he
ed to support them.
He also called Mr To Ching- shi, assistant manager of the South Texiller,
who told the Court he was prepared employ the first, fourth, 13th was fined for holding the hands and 16th accused. He said they of another girl-Franco-Presse. had behaved very well in the
factory..
The head
of
to re-
the General Suspects Detained
Affairs Department of the Pao The Polleo have detained two Hsing factory, Mr Cheng Yeung- Chinese in connection with, re- man, said that the eighth accent thefts... cured behaved well and ho In one case, a a women pedes- woukt
him if there trian hund pairs stolen from über in Yu Chai Sumet, Kow-
is any Ren, Crown Boon, yesterday /morting.
Mr D. Council, disclosed that the 17th The other case involved, thơ | sccused had a previous convictheft of a belet case from a pri= tion for theft in 1951 and wasvate car in Hennessy. Rond in the antenged, to expulsion.
evening.
over
of
our Hamburg office I which continues to prove n most valuable link for our offices in the cast.
The
The Subsidiaries
decided to
Anter
open also
continuo
My Profumo replied: "Every- thing possible is being done but the difficulties are enormous,"
Ho made no further reply when Mr John Penton (Conser
said "If this proposal vative) wero to have the result.
of higher wages and better work- ing conditions and, shorter hours in Hongkong, it would be high- ly acceptable to the Home gloves Industry, wblch
would benefit considerably by not being flood- ed with extraordinarily cheap
Resignation
!
in Queen's Road West at 5 pm. yesterday, He is now detained in Queen Mary Hospital,
Within an hour of the first accident, another Chinese boy was injured when he was knock ed down by a taxi in Chatham Road, Kowloon. The boy, L Po-yuk, aged 7, of 16 Gulles Road, Afth floor, la recelying treatment at Hospital.
the
The following appointments, transfers, promotions and post- ings were published · in · today's Government Gazette:
DT
Lao Chung-chou; - As- sistant Engineer, to be Libora- tory Superintendent,
Works Department;
Public
Mr. J. M. Ebbs, Marine Om- cer, to be Acting Senior Marina Officer;
Mr Shuen Po-yuen, Assistant Educalon Officer; to be Eduça- tion Officer; _
R. H. Milla - Owens, mendarate, ceased to be tom-
porary additional District Judao; Mr A, P. Richardson, Codet Officer, Class 11, to be District Officer, South, vico Mr J. "J. Swaine.
Misa M. A.
Grant, Matron Class II, to be Acting Matron, Class 1, vice Misa H. C. Fishor (on leave prior to retirement). Miss E. M. McGibbon, Senior Nursing Sister, to be Acting Matron, Class-11, vice Miss Great;
Dr Yang Liang-slang to be Medical Officer of Schools:
Mr Tang Shiti-kau to- be Health Inspector of Schools;
Dr Kwok Ying-kong ceased to be Chai Liang-po·· una Mr
Medical Officer of Schools and Health Officer of Schools.
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To turn to our subsidiaries, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
of Call-goods."--Reuter, fornia has made a good begin- ning and I hope that it will be able very shortly to co
contribute the proats of the bank as a whole. The passibilities in the Sub-Lieutenant west coast of
are so Kent, of the Royal Hongkong extensive that the directors have Defence Force, has resigned his in Los commission in the Force with Angelts und permission
to do the permission of His Excel- this has recently been obtained lency the Governor. The IC- from the American authorities. algration became effective, on
The three Trusice Companies February, 20, 1957. in Hongkong, London and Sin
spore
to expand. These companies self-supporting but apart from I am sure the service they
Government today called ten- are able to give indirectly in-ders for the construction of
ses the business of the bank. seawall at Tsun Wan Reclama- I hope that these brief com- tion. ments on some of the Bank's activities, which have not usual-length. ly been mentioned in these an- interest to shareholders. While nual statements, will be of
The following residents have Calls the been granted > Centilentes of the main function of the Bank
Tune Dilig
Matinee: Naturalisation under the British 5.50, Strike Up the Band: The Natiority Act, 1048, it was will continue, I trust, to be the
today called Stury of Bottle Carlie: .10, Tea for financing of eastern irade, your tenders for demolition of the arting with lottery & Child Gazette, this morning:
announced in the Government directors will not be slow in "existing two-storeyed buildings taking advantage of promising at Shek Kip Mel Resettlement openings elsewhere,
Estate, Kowloon",
6.30, Time for Teen-Akers pre- Government today called ten- casted by Elizabeth: 6, Time Signal; ders for restaurants and chang- Programme Summary: 0.02, Popul (Sp) F. N. farity Poll presented by Ted Thomas: Ing rooms at 1134-mile beach
30, Asian Club: 0.59, Wantizer Report: 7. Time Signal. The and 15-mille beach, 7.69, Commentary or Special An
The changing, rooms will have nouncements: 7.16, "Study in Green" & concrete base, iron pillars, Philip Grean and h Orchestro:| 7.15, Going to the Pictures the corrugated asbestos roots and Critics discuSE
canvas the pictures thay
'sides. have seen this week, Chairman: The restaurants are to sell Timothy Birch; 8, A Life of Bliss cooked food (BBCTS) Written by Godfrey The successful tenderer vill be. Harrison, Produced by Leslie Bridg
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the Government
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