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SHE
HE was to have been a nursing-homes,
spring bridle, A quiet school, to have "Thore
wedding it Was
been, one appropriate to a listed
of Marion's age,
woman
are
public
at a' private houses. FOLIT previous
be convictions,"
said, and those, They word for
Then theft.
the officer told of Marion's forth which is 46, and her dignity, coming marriage and, trembling, which is considerable.
handed the chief magistrate a letter from her fiance.
Marion looks older than her
There is a frailty about · yours, her appeatuner, a pullent gentle-
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CHINA MAIL
REFUGEES MARCH ON LEGATION
Washington, Apr. 4.
A group of refugees from the Hungarian revolt tried to crash Into the Hungarian Legation here tonight to protest against its annual celebration of Hungary's "liberation" day,
In the quici courtroom, Sir ness in her features rarely found Laurence read the letter, then
The refugees, who brandished Her
pathelle in the mid-40:1.
manuer he said: "This is
Hungarian freedom fing, reminds you of those elderly deter, but I can't slow that to the
lives to influence me, This was des. were restrained by police, who ladies who devote their
on charges of meon, trading on arrested them doing good by stenith for the pleable, obscurest causes, half-starving people's charliable instinels. Go violating a local ordinance for- within bidding demonstration themselves in the gallant proto prison for six months."
500 feet of Embassies and Lega That manner played its CERS. part in her undoing.
THE TRUTH OUT
WHEN Marion announced. im a public house, that she was colleling for a fanious and deserving charity, money was hended to her promptly and Kenerously. So it was in other Bars, and in each Marice gave receipt-signing her Own for the gifts, she
hame to
WAS handed Then one day, was challenged, and the
she
"Oh, 10 ab, no." Marion tons. erled, and she was led away, blitely, as if she felt crying how little pity there was in the eyes of those who watched her are generous go, who usually with pity.
'Spare No Efforts'
Union
Plea By
Singapore, Apr. 5.
of Britain's
truth come out. Marion had no retinection with the charity. Union leaders of the 40,000 The shillings and half-growns civilian employees
ight
that she had collected were all armed forces on Singapore last spent on herself.
Mr urgect AL Bow
alt-party Steel, Marion, Hack'i spring-bonnoted
sobbing, London "to And
Lim mission
$11
Yew spare no efforts" ploaded guilty to obtaining to reach an agreement with the money by false pretences Uzk four occasions.
HER
DESPICABLE
to Sir
*This
fold story was Laurence Dunne. woman has been a nurse for of her life," a detetive nkat rald, and he told of some of the
Marion had Jobs
held in Reuter.
40
Defence
JUST UNWRAPPED
our exciting,
inviting
new group of
the
In a ten youths were ar- rested. Four tried to crush the The other six were Legation, standing near the driveway to
refused the building and move when pollee asked them Some 40 policemen to leave, were in the area.
to
Most of the girls at the cele- bration исто unaware of the demonstration. The Party com- memorated the 12th anniversary of the Russions" "liberation" of Hungary from German troops in World War II.
group
BOYCOTTED
the
1
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1957.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
2-8
• Bag, UK, Pal ON,
"All I did in kindergarten all day was make this snow scene-pretty stupid kind of education I'm getting!"
Envoy Comes CLASH IN
To HK On
Leave
of absence from
COURT OF INQUIRY
the
NEW! SHEAFFERS
Alleged Rioters: More Evidence For The Defence
Further evidence for the defence was given this morning at the trial of 15 men charged with rioting at Tsun Wan last October before Mr Justice J. R. Gregg and a Special Jury at the Criminal Sessions.
The
accused
dre Wong
Chung-yuen, 33, carpenter; Woo
Pong-you, 28, mechanic; Yuen Government
Chuen, 39,
Carth coolie;
Law
Ching, 42, tallyman; Tong Tao- tak, 28, wenver; Mak Ping- cháu lái Weaver, Heung Chung 31, enamel worker; Young Kwel, 41, farmer; Chiu Kai- yuen, 26, mechanic, Ho Yuen, 34, earth coolie; Liu Yick-chel. 38, cook; Wong Chou-foo, 27, mechanic; Fung Chi-wing, 24, rubber worker; Nam Kel-ting,
Appointments
Gazetted
42, weaver, and Wu Dit-koung, The following appointments, 20, spinner,
transfers, promotions and past-
Feathertouch
BALLPOINT
STEEL BAR PRICES CRASH
Prices of steel bars used for reinforcing · con- crote in Hongkong building projects have come down with a thump in the last few weeks,
the
of the Hongkong Metal Mer- Mr Tsang Shu-ping, Chairman chants Association told China Mali yesterday that, cur- rent prices were between $48 and $45 a pical with new ship-
the lower rato. menta
ot
Early in November, soon after the Suez Canal was blocked, the price rose from $38 to $53 apicul, and then, later; to a high of about $08.
This
full of more |than $20, or about
out 33 per cent.
means
A lot of speculators have been
hit by the price fall.
Many Importers ordered large the stocks at the outbreak of Suez crisis because of anticipat- ed
Fac high demand from Eastern custorners
during a perlod when an acute shortage was expected.
'י
But the orders have not come
at least, not in the quantities
bars are lying
Mr M. Morley-John and Mrings have been approved, the W. S. Colller, Crown Courel, Gazette announced this moming: expected. And as a result heavy
Bedsted by Mias E. W. Rose, Nursing stocks of steel are, prosecuting,
Sister, J. Clancy.
to be Senior Nursing unsold in Colony godowns.
AT HEAVY COST
Det, Inspector P.
structed
second,
sixth, eighths, fifth, ninth, 10th and 12th and 13th accusedi,
Lee-liang,
Structural
Mr V. L. J. D'Alton, In-Sister,
Dr by Mr P. D. A. Remedios, 18 defending the Engineer, to be Acting Senior
Structural
Pubile Engineer,
the Works Department, during absence of Mr A, E, Clanssen.
Mr D. B. L. Grew, Wireless Operator, to bo Acting Senior Wireless Inspector, during the
Mr J.
MCNCH Hewitt, Senior
INSTALLED MACHINERY
together.
|
And the importers have had to pay dearly for them. Freights are 18 per cent higher than the pre-Suez crisis rates and there is a 15 per cent surcharge as well
+
Most of the steel bars are re- ported to be from the United Kingdom,
To make matters
Worke locally-made steel bars are re- ported to be offering stiff coin- petition.
Late last month there was a rumour in the Colony that Government might restrict im- ports of round bars because of heavy stocks, but this Wis denied.
CADET OFFICERS ⠀ Education Officer, to be Cadet
· Mr SE. Alleyno, Assistant
Importers have reduced ordors Officer, Class II; Mr Ip Che, to considerably in recent weeks and be Cadet Officer, Class II, and according one authority Labour Officer. p.tk
speculators are selling round Mr Tong Shiu-cheong, Execu- bars at very low prices_for, ex- live Officer, Class I, to be Acting port to China. Senior Accountant, Waterworks Office, PWD.
American and other Western diplomats boycotted the affair in protest against Soviet suppres sion of the Hungarian revolt last autumn and the subsequent actions of the Soviet-imposed Brush Government on
puppet regime of Janos Kadar.
Chu Yin-chmi, a mechanie of mt Jovees future,
The State Department said
the South Sea Textiles factory, | absence of the Kador Speakers said they could not only yesterday that
testified that on October 10, Mr J. P. London accept
reports that government had reverted to the
last year, he met Sit Kok-leung, Surveyor of Ships, resumed duty machine foreman at the Kun on return from leave; Mr H. (Continued from Page 1) their position had been "saus "worm practices of the Stalinist the Com It sajd factorily settled"
following terror".
Vick Washington, Apr. 4.
weaving factory, at the | Torrance, Surveyor of Ships, American officials said to-
Tsun Wan Teahouse, tulks between the Chief Minis munists had "vengefully sought
ceased to act as Senior Surveyor ter and sender officials of the the puricipants in the ill-fated day that the sudden trip to mained "shockingly
identify, seize and punish"
Wages, In comparison, re-
Sit invited him to help him of Ships. jow"- British
install some new machinery at Mindstry, the
Mr P. V. Dodge, censed to be revolution.
Hongkong of the US Am- £8-10-6 for a skilled man on
the
Kun Yick
He Assistant factory.
Secretary, Colonial Among
the diplomats obbassador to Thailand, Mr the minimum rate and £7-2-0
agreed. On the morning of Secretariat. served at the Legation Party were the Soviet
Max Waldo Bishop, was not for unskilled workers Ambassador,
Mr HID was confident British October 11, witness said, he and the 12th accused and four others Mr Georgi Zarubin, the Syrian connected in any way with shipbuilders could still continue set off for the Kus Yick factory Ambassador, Mr Farid Zelned his involvement in a poli- to
meet Bucotesfully
Witness sald he arrived there dine, and the Jordanian Ambastical controversy in Bang-
challenge of both price and
at 8
8 sm. He teamed up with saor, Mr Abdul Monem Rifat,
quality of
to foreign competitors, the 12th accused in installing kok. Throughout the party, a large
Including Japan and Germany pieces of machinery. At 7 Hungarian of
anu-
Mr Bishop some They said
Mr Sloan, for the employers, they had a break for meals. He Communists picketed the Area time ago requested a short leave
said that since November, 1954,
and the 12th accused ste around the Legation.
his post and average earnings had increased Led by the blonde, the State Department hod ap-by 20 per cent and the cost of After that, Chu continued, he Hungarian-born actress, Ilona proved it, to take place "during living index by approximately and a group left to return to
Mr J.M. Riddell-Swan to be, Massey, they carried signs the carly part of April,"
eight per cent.
of the Committee Mr Bishop
the South Sea Textfies factory. a Member. party-goers:
left Bangkok which told
They
were stopped by the for the administration of the for Hongkong and "Don't drink champagne with yesterday
Police outside the Taun Wan Kadoorie Agricultural Ald Loan murderers." "Don't drink cham was reported to be intending to
Fund Ordinance. Unless shipbuilding companies station and taken into it. pagne mixed with blood. They remain in Hongkong until
made substantial profits, they On October 12, he was taken Mr L. S. Smith to be Secre- also carried a red sign proclaim- April 12. Omelats here said he
wou'd be unable to provide the
Road detentiatury of the Urban Council, vice Ing: This is the colour we would return to Bangkok then.
capital needed to moderniso camp. He was released on Mr R. W. Primrose, Mr Bishop's name became in- want out of Hungary."
Mr G1 L November 15. When questioned
Herdman to be an their yards, he said. volved in a local Bangkok con REVOLUTIONARY
The return to work by 1,700,- by the Police, witness said, he Assistant Registrar. youths
a Thai who troversy when
editor; 000 strikers in the shipyards and told them that his group had Mr H. 3. Lapsley to be Secre- Kukrit Pramof, was arrested on storm the Lega-
been returning from the Kuntory of the Board of Licensing tion were led by a young man Tuesday afternoon for allegedly engineering factories of Britain
today WOR
hey Jurtles for the New Territories Yick weaving punctuated by con- American envoy as insulting the
factory when they who identified himself
article in
except New Kowloon during the were stopped Gabor Babler. He said he parin an
which he tinuing disputes, lack of work,
and rumblings of discontent Mr Morley-John put it to Chu absence of E. A. Hutchinson. ticipated in
last described him as a "ruffian". the revolt
Mr P. V. Dodge ceased to be ENVOY'S DENIAL autumn
among many workers angered that he and the others had
at the Kun Yick Deputy Clerk of Councils, Pramoj later charged that the by what they consider the fall- worked
Mr J. T. Wakefield ceased to factory only from Legalion stops before they were Prime Minister, Marshal, Pibul maintain strike
ure of their union leaders to weaving
action
antil 7 pm to 10.30 p.m., on Octobe apprehended by the police. As Songgram, was using Mr | 300
their pay demands were met in ber 11 and that they were not they were being led away, Bishop's name for political put- Fati
screamed
in the factory the rest of the Bables
that his poses and "as a tool to attack has denied
day, Mr Bishop brother, and sister had ali dled me",
the revolution.
any "involvement on my part" in
in the matter and expressed re- Hungarian freedom flag which,gret that "my name has been
used pubilely in this affair." he said, he had raised Over
State Department officials said Budapest's Parliament building during the first successful days Mr Bishop's request for leave Was made before the February of the revolt. He said he re- 26 elections iri Thailand, trieved the Dag after the Hus- skans shot it down in November. -United Press.
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Rioting Finally Under Control
Santiago, Chile, Apr. 4. The armed forces today wiped out the last remnants of
MODERNISING
Most Industrial obspryers to-
to
Chatham
an Honorary Game Warden.
UC Resignation
Lyndhurst Terrace Fire
Fire broke out at No. 2 Lynd- Inst Terrace shortly after
7 o'clock this morning. The fire, the cause of which is still under investigation, severely damaged the top floor of a three-storey tenement building.
casualties.
There
шете no.
although it was at first reported that
& woman was missing... Flames and thick smoke were shooting out the windows and verandah when Fire Brigade units arrived under the Chief Ofoer, Mr W. J. Gorman. They
minutes
Witness maintained that lie Official notice of the resigna-had the dre under control within and the others went there to tlen of Mr B. A. Bernacchi, 15 now
elected member, from the Urbani Six engines and two am- Install machines at 8 a.m.
Council as of April 1, was given bulances answered the call and in the Government Gazette this six deliveries from salt water morning.
hydrants were used.
night agreed that although the majority of strikers were back to work, they had retum ed with a "wait and see at- SLEPT WHOLE DAY titude, until the result of the Wong Chau-tung, an employee Goverment inquiry into both of the Nam Fung factory, safet the shipbuilding and engineer- in evidence that he worked on the night shift at his own fic-
Ling
disputes was know eatened tory on the evening of October!
Some unions have
Pramoj'a March 12 column asserted that Mr Bishop had
to resume the stoppages if the 11 until the following morning. said the Thal elections, described inquiry does not result in their Beforo work started at 7 pm. by some as "regular", were members getting more than the on the 11th, witness said, he not as
bad as those in Chicago five per cent pay rise offered by slept the whole day in a room where ballot boxes were stolen.hait per cent by the engineering accused.
the shipbuilders and three and which he shared with the ninth There were no indications here today that the US govern ment had any intention of trans. ferring Mr Bishop because of his difficulties
Bangkok, Officials said that so far as they knew he would remain there.---- United Press.
in
bloody Hoting in which the Polio Victim
two-day toll stood at 18 known
dead and more than US$1,500,- Flying To HK
000 property
erty damage.
Troops and police fired their
The
employers-Reuter,
Emergency Regulations Rescinded
Wong sald he got up about 0 pm. The ninth accused was sull asleep, so he woke him up. They had their meals together at the factory messroom before going on duty-
Cross-examined, witness sald he slept soundly that day, and did not hese any noise outside. the factory. He slept on on upper floor and the machines were situated on the floor below, Wong said he could remember what had happenes that par- ticular day and that the int evening, even though all with him Rocused was had happened months
Hearing is proceeding.
AKO,
this that
The Emergency (Detention) Regulations proclaimed on The CPA mercy plane, carry-October 14 last year following last shole against looters, ani ing pollo-afflicted Peter Noble, the riots in Kowloon and Trun prowlers who Ignored the British Vice-Consul in Vietnam, curfew, both in the downtown fert Hanol for Hongkong this Wan were rescinded by order and
districts, during morning outlying
of the Governor in Council, the the early morning hours,
The death toll was announced Kal Tak at 325 this afternoon.he Emergency Regulations
plane is due to arrive at Gazette announced this mom by public health olleials, who An iron lung was flown by prescribed that persons arrested snid at least 300 other persons the CFA ainraft to Hand and might be detained for 14 days TOWN PLANNING were injured, 40 of
them arrived there yesterday. Dr for the purpose of inquiry at the seriously.
It was reported that sonse 800 ment phyalelan also few down Governor could authorise
They also stipulated that persons were under arrest in and is returning with Mr Noble, detention of such persons for a
The further periód or periods of 14 connection with the riots.
Merchants whose stones and Seeks Pen Friends days if he was, sausfleck that abops were sacked at the height of the rioting on Tuesday put John Taylor, 25, P.O. Box 12, further inquiries were needed. preliminary estimated losses at Alberton,
Australia: upwards of $1,500,000. This did "Would like to exchange any. not include dozens of burned thing that makes someone, Dire vehicles and scores of smashed | happw) magazines, anaps street lighting fixtures--United stampe, coins, views Press.
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