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SHEAFFER'S
"SNORKEL PEN
ADMIRAL
HE'S PUTTING AN AMERICAN FAMILY ALLEGED MURDER
SETTING A CHING DYNASTY
INTO
Young Artist At Work
In A City Lane
by George Chee
THE same big names Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera and
Henry Moore, that stood out a generation and more. ago still rule the artistic roost.
JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
A Timely Reminder
hour hotels and other institution that
casual receive the
Kuesi ure strangely sensitive.
In hotel rooms a cardboat notice swings from the clo.hu hook on the door. "Guests are reminded,"
Warris, "aut unless this room is vacated by 12 middny further nights stay will be charged . . ."
IDDAY is
Mabout which
The younger generation of painters has tried to distinguish itself from its elders but, with a few exceptions, has not succeeded,
But a young
painter called
Tsui is doing something out of the ordinary and appears to be on his way to fume even though his work may never achieve the immortality of the masterD.
Painting an American family in Chinese style clothing la EL pr:4tabl busines: fcr Tsui Kwong-man.
com an
to
He has just received an order
American family paint them in Chines style clothing for HK$750.
Taul hopes this first nesign ment will lead to more business fran American and other foreign tourists.
i
Bogan At 13
The thirty-six-year-old pairies Malayan-born Chinese. He
At reception centres, where go's simple, quiet and medest.
those who lack the price of a At the age of 13. Teul had bed chewhere, overnight questa not allowed to leave un 11 midday, and this can complicate life, as George found.
10
clready s'arted learning how to draw. He was not from a doo well-to-do family and could not lafford to take painting lessons frem famous tenchers. But he was elder to have an fortunate dark-haired brother-very keen on drawing perts with penell charcoal- man of 26. A policemano tuck him. carne upon him at 11.30
THE 'SPIKE'
EORGE in 1
GEORG
the 1
other evening lying on a bench
From that day on Tsui h
When I brought up the ques- }
this young tion of marriage, bachelor artist said: "Picase don't talk of marriage. It is I don't sce my own business, whit
connection there is be- Iween my work and wonen."
The lane next to Podder Building off Pedder Street is His Im- where Tsui works.
παι has technique maculate attracted
Kongkong artists but should do. Neverthe- less, he is happy with his trade. "have found much content- and happiness in paint- ment Ing." Teul told me,
many
So it is that he who has found the best occupation is h
found the who has likey to do best.
thing he
JEWELLERY
THEFT IN BOWEN RD
Pleading guilty to steal-
to never stopped pairing. His love ing a jewellery box contain-
in Trafalgar Square, trying sleep. "You can't do that, the fer painting is apparent to ray-ing valuables worth approxi- That's lodging one who watches his enthusiastic mately $1,600 from a house policeman sach. in the upen air, and it's against app ach to his work.
the
hostel
Now
there's
л
in Bowen Road, a 26-year-
Now he is doing what he hold unemployed man, Tong self cuils
power.
this?
masterpiece-{
to plece of work which requires Yam-yiu, was sentenced to imagination as well as creative eight months' imprisonment And what kind of pleture is by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Cen-
tral Magistracy this morn Tsui, with a stern and aristic Ing. manare, would tell you that is a pleture la which he has thought out everything himself.
"Can't afford bostel
3 aught," George said.
"Well, then, there's the in- stitution
Peckham, that's at free,"
"I'm not going to the spike,"
zaiki. George
Bu fic ross. sauntered off, and by doing that become law-abiding again,
AN HOUR GAINED EORGE did not saunter far. Half-an-hour later the same policeman found him asleep on another bench and arrested him. "Good," xald George, any thing's better than the spike."
At Bow
The
On on additional charge of a similar nature which alleged that he had stolen a plastle $67 from an wallet containing
40-Day Assignment le a Peak house on July
ab
11, he was given two months. The sentences are to run con- He is supplied only with
Americansecutively,
belong- Tas jewellery box, photograph of family. He has to think of the deign of clothing to paint on ing to Mrs Doreen Taylor, con- every individual in the photo. talned nve rings, four bracelets, With the photograph ight necklaces, a wrist watch,
pairs of car-rings,
two bangics, brooches, Tsui can only copy the faces of ex the famly and the rest is updat one ediction, tour to him.
He has cheson the kind of keys, ce bottle of rent and cash 4s 6d. The articles were all clothing worn by a high Chinese
recovered, civil oficial family during the Ching Dynanty
picture la
Street he pleaded graph. guilty to the charge, and said to Mr Bertram Reces reason 7 didn't go to the spike was that they'd have kept me Will midday, and that's too late to go for a job."
"Yes,
but this won' do. hanging about 1ke this,"
said
This waler-colour
now eighteen days have parsexi "Last week," Grorge said, "at and 1; is nearly a third done. a West Eng club. He named af To those who know seme- very stately Institution St thing about painting, they can
the magistrale, "When did you to be finished in forty days-- last work, and where?"
James's.
iri
already see that this picure
Well, this time I'it make it going to distinguish itself from
ordinary drawings s or one day, and you can gather now," the magistrate said,
There is just something in it thanks that will make it last. Georgs smiled
wan
aud glanced at the courtroom clock. The binar was barely 11 am. He hurried away to mike the most of the precious hour's in the wvantage his night
who had kept within
and been kept in by
stitution till midday.
the law
Came in 1950
waler- old
Tsul pilots not only cells had given him over these colour portraits but also
the in-Chinese scenery and oil paint- Ings. He is also skilful in using sc.1 and waxın 'pens.
The painter told me that he came to Hongkong in 1030 from
mainlund, the
Не found business here 'good'
What does this unmarried ar.ist
from his lead apart
brush, paints, drawing-paper, charcoal-pencil etc.?
For For exercise be swims,
to Chin se relaxation he goes restaurants for ten,
Imported. Gold Bars
AT PAWNSHOP
11
one
Outlining the facts, DSI Io Hel said that about 5 pan. on August 1, detectives on pawn- the Wanchal hop duly in
district, saw defendant offer
-Old Dane Celebrating-
-75th Birthday-
two lady's guld raigs for pawn. Mr V. Nerlind who is celebrat- ing.
When questioned, the de- fendant failed to give
factory account of his DSI Ho added
satis- action,
The defern was arrested.
revealed Further enquiries that the two rings were carlier stalen from a house on the Peak,
DSI Ho sold.
The defendant then took the detectives to No. 9 Bowen Road wis con- where Mrs Taylor
the rings tacted. She identified es her property but stated that a had also been Jowellery box
lolen from her bedroom, Inspector saki.
the
A search of defendant's home discovered all the other missing articles, DSI Ho continued.
STOLE WALLET
DSI
Ho
For importing 12 bars of gold weighing 62 tacls into the Colony without a licence,
He doesn't moko. He doesn't
deferadant, Tac tirink. Chong Wong, 36, of 72 Obd
He likts going to
cinemas, added, further admitted stealing Street, first floor. Aberdeen, was fined $750 by Mr Hin-reading good books and visit the wallet and cald that he had
He is extremly already spent the $07. shing Lo at Central Magising friends.
fand of domestic animals and
Defendant, who had a clear tracy this morning.
hopes someday he will be asked record, asked the Magistralo if to point pletures of them
he could be bound over as this Tui said that he works only
was bis first offence. He added four to five bours every day and that he used to be rests on Sundays.
On August 3 at the Hongkong- Macro Wharf, when starched by the Revenue officers, defendant was found to conceal the gold Inside the base of a basket.
Defendant was then taken to
เ
the Department of Commerce and Painting Is Tiring
ing his 75th Birthang on
Artist Tsui Kwong-man (above) works painting an American family in old Chinese style clothing at his pitch in a lane running off Pedder Street,
The second picture shows the family portrait from which Artist Tsui painted the lower picture an American family in Ching Dynasty clothing. -China Mail Photos.
Constable Accused Of Taking Money
OF FACTORY GIRL
Man On Trial
THE story of the alleged stabbing of a
factory girl by her erstwhile lover in broad daylight was told when Cheng Siu- ching, 29, unemployed appeared on trial for murder before Mr Justice C. W. Reece in the Criminal Sessions this morning.
Ho
Cheng is alleged to have A watchman on duty at the stabbed Yiu Sau-chun as she factory, on hearing the cry for was returning to the dactory in help saw the accused running Toun Wan where she worked away through some grass. after her mid-day meal on April and another men gave chase and 5 lest. It was stated that she
after overtaking the accused was with two other factory girls they overpowered him, when the alleged offence took pince, and that it was witnessed by her two companions.
A statement made to the Police by the accused said that he had been deceived by the girl
ALL-MALE_JURY
Accused wan alleged to have told the watchman and the other man, "It is not necessary for you to arrest me. It is I who murdered the person."
Crown
that sald Counsel
who would not marry him. "I accused was later charged and do not want to be deceived, in answer made a statement in therefore sacrifice Bie," the which he stated that in March the deceased accused was alleged to have sold of 1955 he and In the statement.
became nequainted in Swatow. Shortly afterwards the girl naked him to marry her but because he was ill at the time ho asked her to wait until he Kot well, the statement said. Crown Counsel, siried by Mr She also asked him to take her
Hongkong. G. Fergus, DD! Trun W.. Chang is deftuded by Mr Gerald alleged in the statement that he de Basto, instructed by Mr A. Y spent a lot of money on her and also that her family borrowed
Mr W. A. Prosecuting are Btal:-Kerr, Senior Crown Counsel, and Mr G. R. Sheath,
Hen
An all-male Jury has been empraclied.
botkin of which
10
money.
The
SACRIFICE LIFE
Recused
Mr Blair-Kerr told the Jury
"Now she will not marry me," that the alleged killing teck
the state- place in Tsw Wan. At the the accused said in
that she had n hill was a factory ment, and added
"I do not want manufactured an-nets deceived him. and nearby were huts occupied dec life, the statement
to be deceived, therefore sacri- by employees of the factory.
cluded. The deceased slayed with her mother and brother and another factory girl in one of the huts, say that on This girl would
April 6 this year she and the deceased und another factory girl were retuming to work alter
when mid-day meal incident which causeth the death
of the deceased occurrid.
this
The witness would say that as the three of them were walk-.. ing along a path leading down to the factory she heard the se- cused call from behind them.
MOT-
Witnesses for the Crown werd then called.
Hearing is proceeding.
3 YEARS
FOR ASSAULT
A sentence of three years'
"Ah Sau." The deceased stepped imprisonment was imposed and asited accused what heon a 42-year-old unemployed wonted because she was in a Fa Tau, of 142 C Block of hurry. The deceased them re-Tai Wan Shan Resettlement joined her two companions and Area by Judge R. H. Milb proceeded on.
TURNED ROUND
Owens at Kowloon District Court this morning when Shortly afterwards the wit- the accused pleaded guilty ness heard accused call out, "I have something
Th10
The constable, aged 22, faced four counts of larceny from the person He was alleged have
to stolen sums of money from four men whom he had caught play ing cards early in the morning towards the factory shouting for subsequently arrested by two.
Two men came before Mr The deceased furned round and Intent to rob.
to tell you." to a charge of assault with Derek Cons at Kowloon went towards the accused.
accused, who had two Court this morning and laid Mr Blair-Kerr said that the previous convictions for larceny charges that PC Li Tok-witness would say that after o was also placed under the police
short conversation between the supervision for two years, kwong had taken money
sho accused and the deceased,
The Police said that on the from their pockets when heard the deceased shout, and morning of June 23, Ho May, they were searched on July tooking around saw the accused a 77-year-old complainant, was 16.
holding the
Road deceased by the walking along Junction
came from head and stabbing her on the when the accused
behind and with intent to side of it with a knife,
complainant's wrist The two giris approached the snatch accused who, the witness would watch, further say threatened them The complainant put up with the knife. They then ran struggle
of July 16 at the entrance of Ghelp. block, Tai Hang Tung Resettle. ment Area.
The constable denied the charges through his solicitor, Mr Eximund Y. F. Cheung of Messrs Peter Mo and Co. Sub- Inspector T. E. Monnington
advice is never to everdo Eny-prosecuted. thing, such as working, eating, drinking etc,, ele., and also he:
PLAYING CARDS od Chiu. Ho-kan, one
the
has gathered no riches ("you alleged gamblers, testined that can't take 1 with you"), he was playing cards with three
"You
August 12 is an oid "China Hond", who came to China in 1902. He has been connected) with various shipping com- At present he is working in the others when the constablo came panies and transportation capacity of Steward for the up and accused them: companies, mainly in Shang- Shick-O Country. Club, hal. He. was h Volunteer with the Iussian Army in 1904 when the war against, Japtin was on and decorated with a medal for bravery, Mr Norlind was also in the Scandinavian Unit of the Volunteers for Shanghai
several
years,
WHO
American
Reservists
Win Cruise
To Pacific
At one time he was the owner of a popular Scandinavian restaurant the "Grand Danoia" on Bubling Welt Road in Shanghai. He was also, well- known as Dining Room Man- ager of the Palace and "Astor House Hotels in Shanghal and as the Manager for Tkachenko
14,700-ion United Restaurant and the Cock and States cruiser Worchester Pullet Restaurants bere In [arrived here this morning Hongkang.
The
Ist 1934 he was engaged by under the command of Cap- Mollers Limited of Shanghai taln R. C. Williams in the to take over the supervision
part of taller but
famine-siriken.
are:gambling and. I am
going to arrest you." Chiu added that the d-fendant sourchol the players and took money from their poc kota. He complained that the defendant took $14 from him,
Making a similar complaint, Lau
Ying. the second of the this four players who testified morning, sald the constable took $18 away from him.
When erogs-examined, gald he was the Inst to searched.
however, also Lau. made the some claim.
The case is continuing.
MURDER CHARGE
Chlu
be
A 31-year-old teahouse foki was
ing..
remanded for of discharging over 40 ships course of a Pacifc crutes,
throo days in Police cus- loaded with rice for a carinin Worchester Is sporting a large
China which was rod letter E cu her furgelatody on a charge of mur- reward for "excellence" der, by Miss B.K. Searle at he was out of work. "I was
The rice cane from Bangkok seamanship on a notional basis Central Court, this morn. forced to steal," he claimed.
and Salgen ind was unloaded won by 50 officers and men of Set Lu! Kwok, DPCS Lat
at Ningpo and Shanghai. Mr the Naval Reserve. weine Hon-wah and Lom Chiu
The reward. Erie Moller, Sr, wrote Mr
in the present highly
by commended
Nerlind
letter cruise to the Far East. execiient
personal "Don't think that I'ma lazy Magistrate for their
thanking him for the excellent
In addition to the Reservists, Worchester carries a complemant Defendant who was on $2,000 bostuse I do nothing else except work in the case,
work he had performed. Mr Lo ordered the stolen pro- ball, plowded guilty through tấc point? Painting Im't so very
returned to the When asked how to live a long of 970 men end 54 officers. She J. C. Blewart of Stewart and simply, It tires you out a party to be
Hfe, Mr Norlind said that his is staying here until Friday. Dely and quickly?" he ackled. owner. Co.
later
Industry where a complaint was Jaid against him and charged.
the
A
The defendant, Lai Hon-mjura, Miss Lai Yan is alleged to have murdered a man named S Cheuk alla Sim Cheuk-dan, on 104 Pokfulams August 1, Village.
SIDE GLANCES
policemen.
and the accused was
By Galbraith
4.26
"I've learned plenty working here—If a man's going to
just for
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