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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1957.
WOMAN SUES FOR RETURN
OF LOAN "THE MOST ROMANTIC SPOT IN THE WORLD"
Recovery
Sought In Action
Of $10,000
An action claiming recovery of $10,000 lent
on the alleged guarantee of the defen- dant was brought before the Senior Puisne Judge, Mr Justice T. J. Could in the Supreme Court this morning.
It was stated that a post-dated cheque given by the person to whom the money was allegedly lent was dishonoured by the Bank upon pre- sentation.
TRIAL
END NEARS
Flaimi 19 Low Mow-ling, a housewife, of 5-A Caine Rond. She is represented by Mr Patrick Yo, Instructed by Lau, Chan and Kǝ.
Li Shing-tai, merchant, of 76 Des Voeux Rond, Central, is the defendan; la the action, for whom Mr V. L. J. D'Alton, is appearing on the instructions of Hostings and Co.
A Visit
Plaintiff in evidence said she know the defendant and In
Man Charged With Bogust; 1954, he paid her a
Housebreaking
The trial against a 23-year. old unemployed man, Law Chi-lau, on charges of housebreaking and receiv- ing stolen
property, reached
its concluding stages before Mr Justice A. D. Scholes at the Criminal Sessions this morning when the Judge “gave his summing-up.
Tla July of six men and one zeman retired to consider their verdiet at 11.20 p.m.
alleged
Law
seas
broken
11110 No. 505,
Gno Road.
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eight at her burae, decompanied 'a ( Yuh-hang (econd def dant named in the record, Orat defendant being the Ning Kee Tinding Co., of which Go was stated to be the sole pro- : rrietor),
d
Go was introduced to her by i the defendant Li who her to lend a sum of money to
for business, suit witness. Plaintiff said she then let a i sum of $10,000 to Go who gave her a post-dated cheque. De fendant told her that he would be solely responsible for repay- ment of the loan, she added,
The cheque became lue in October, 1954, but a day pre-i viously defendant asked her not have to present it for payment. She Middle complied with the request.
Wunchal Gay, on
stolen a large quantity of articles. An alter-
balive charge
alleged that he
Responsible
Repulse Ray-"Alf the apartment buildings can't may the beauty of the world's most romantic spot,"
Here On His Second Honeymoon
W
An American Visitor Reveals
A Soft Spot For Repulse Bay
by
Andrew Sloan
THAT'S the most romantic spot in the world?
question Repulse Bay of course.
*
"
Aid that's the answer I received during an interview with Mr Earl M. Thacker. an American real-estate and shipping mugante, who now makes home in & place synonymous with romance -- Hawail.
"I've
since whole been travelling
29-Year Wait
area
hej
Mr Thacker does not claim t Recalling the sights an to be an authority on romance, knew them way back, he ran hul he has seen most of the through the places-Kai Tak- romantle spots in the world, it was only starting then and if was very small, but now the tas changed; 1928, and can't really remen-Taikoo Docks - "we put in ber how many lines I've been there just after the big earth- round this world", he sail.
quake in Japan, there has been very little change there at all; Kowloon Wharfs "I dock- ed there in the USS Chester on the way 10 the Philippines i with the American Secretary of Mr D. E. Greenfield, Crown Go was his fellow-vitinger. convinced that Repulse Bay is
State for War, Mr Dum, again Plaintif said that defendant the "prettiest and most reinau-
very Jille had further said that he would the place in the world," that he there has been
the loan by spring of and his wife have wailed 29 change" The Kowloon Canton station has hardly Raliway years since their wedding, to changed at all-only the sur- roundings-ond of course the After their wedding he pro-Star Ferry Pler is new."
had recived some of the articles
skoden from the house,
Counsel prosecuted.
assured her that he would be fully responsible for the loan, að
Defeiulant had then again
In his summing-up this morn-repay ing, Mr Justice Scholes told the next year. Jury of the delinitions in law of 1 receiving stul property and possession.
Sometime Lowards the end of December Just year, plaintif !
In fact, Mr Thacker is so
visit it.
sald she orked defendant for a mised Ms Thacker they would spend their second honeymoon here, so they new in last wer to full that 29-year-old pro-
Reviewing the Prosecution's written undertaking end on a save, Al Justice Scholes went result he gave her a document,
brough Th evidence of the signed by him. owner of the articles, Mr Jack Rady, and the evidence of the rout in the house who discover
il the thell.
Hu also went through the evidence of the two palleen
who found the accused and ma- other man on the hillside in Wanchal Gap and the caution-
mke.
So
to
Early in February this year. she prevented Go's cheque for
Mr Thacker Best visited the In 1920 ane! retumed payment in it was dishonoured. Colony
inter 15 the eight years plaintif said. On the same day
executive ofeer on she instructed her solicitors to youngest write to both Go and the the President Wilson. (not the focul ship
familiar Gefendant,
residents today, but a predeces- Plaintiff denied an allegation or owned by the Pacific Mail ed statement made by the osin defendant's fidavit that his Steamship Company). He was ewed int be, the accused, had signature ca the document was then 24 years old. gone up the hill to buy the obtained by
lverware from the other man. that defendant read the docu-
When the ship called in on ment over carefully before ap- i her frequent trips to the Far pending his signature.
East, he reeniled with delight, wims and nonlight plentes in She further deviured that she Repulse Bay on the ship's My Justice' Schades
had never been a mueylender | Inunches. other man. Iwe Sing, a prison and had never lent money to
Evidence
snit the
er from Stanley Prison, also Have evidence of how he com- initled the housebreaking alɔne
the house.
Lee Sing's evidence was that he had asked the necused to carry the articles for him and that the accused did not know how the articles came to be there. He also sald that the neeuse; had not bought any of the articles.
Leg, when asked by the Pro- secuting officer, said he had sald that the accused had bought the articles" In his statement, in answer to a charge against him, but in the statement was tot true, Mr Jualice Scholes sald.
Mr Justice Scholes then re-
suspicious when he saw the arli- eles on the, hill and out curiosity” he watched Lee break- ing up the articles.
of
froud. She said
any of the five persons named in the statement of defence.
Hearing is continuing,
To Play Hongkong
Asians In
Singapore Rugby XV
Singapore, Oct. 15.
Beautiful As Ever
none of the
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
Chinese Arrested In New
Y
Police Probe
Into Million Dollar Racket
"
Tokyo, Oct. 15. A Chinese and two Koreans were. among seven arrested yesterday
in a new extension of the police probe into a-million-dollar illegal car and black market dollar racket..
A Chinese dentist, Dr Yen Yu-hsiao, was booked on suspicion of lending his name to fellow countryman Lo Tsai-wen whom the police alleged to be one of the leading figures in the illegal import of foreign car and then bribing an employee of the Trade Ministry to destroy, re- cords of the transaction.
The Korean, Kim Dong Yun, who is President of the Foreign Trade Company, andi Min Dyong Soo, bank clerk, were accused of selling $3,000 In US currency at blackmarket rates to a Chinese, Chang Ching-chung in connection with the import of foreign automobiles.
Min was being questioned also
on suspicion of helping a Roman
Catholle priest sell dollars
on
10
the black market to finance an Oversea trip. according police.
All Japanese
The others who were arrested were all Japanesc. They in- eluded a. University student who was working as a part tire employee of the Trade
Transfer of Child Case
Woman Changes
Plea To Guilty
Widow Who Paid $600 Made Legal Guardian
Ministry. Police claimed ke A 58-year-old widow who claimed to be
had received money from a Chinese to destroy records of previous illegal auto Imports.
To date 50 people have been arrested in the Illeni car import probe.
Labelled by police as the King of the black market dollar dealers is Nogi Ishiyama, Pre- sident of the Oriental Trading Company.
that
the natural mother of a six-year-old boy was this morning bound over in the sum of $250 for two years, when she reversed her plea from one of not guilty to guilty in a case of illegal transfer of a person for a valuable consideration.
Inspector Cameron said that SCA believed that the natural mother of the boy was not a fit and proper person to look after him.
The case was henrd by Mr estimated Police Well that's an easy
Ishiyama bad handled a million H. H. D. low, at Central Mogisthe dollars worth of black market tracy, desk in the few years.
Yesterday the defendant ap Two Chinese Chang Ching-peared in court with three other: who had allegedly taken part in chung and Lo Tsal-wen
the transaction, described as the big men in the who worked car import racket through Ishlyama at ilmes to get the black market dollars needed for the transactions,
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Zebra Crossings
Sir, Your Comment of the Day dated 14th Instant is highly commendable and fully deserves prompt netion by the Traille De- partment.
afe
Lo, according to one report, fied to Formosa in June and died in an Inn in Hsinkno last month under mysterious cumstances.-Unlied Press.
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I
Lee Cheuk, who paid $800 for the child was cautioned and discharged, and the other two defendants, Leung Siu, 59, and
Injured By Tramcar
00-year-old man, Chan Loi-
A 35-year-old woman, Cheung man, were each bound over in the sum of $250 for one year, Hou-ying, residing at No. 35, their parts in the trans-Lee Garden Street, third floor. for
was knocked down and injured action,"
by a tramcar in Hennessy Road, near Lee Garden Street, at about |2.45 pm yesterday. She Is ro- ceiving treatement at the Queen Mary Hospital.
Not Fit
US Scientists When the charge was read
Called In By Ike
W.
J. D. the lo
Two Suspects Detained
The Police
und explained to the defendant. she said, "I admit the churge, 1 did take part in the transac Lion,"
After relating the facts of the case,
Inspector
have arrested o Cameron, attached Secretaria! of Chinese Affairs, an auspected of having stolen
money from a Chinese' in Wei-, Then Mr Thacker hurried
enta that it was the intention of Ington Street at about 4.15 pm with his wife fowards the
Washington, Oct. 14.
the SCA to make an application yesterday. President Eisenhower has to the Juvenile Court to make
Another Chinese has been Customs Waiting Room at Kal Talk to board In modern DC6
called 15 ranking American the boy a ward of the SCA, nxt detained by the Police following Clipper of Pan American World However, may I suggest that
make the second the theft the White also
silver bangle Airways, a very diffent form your photographers go a little scientists
who from defendant, Lee Cheuk,
a child in Canton Road, he was further East in Queen's Rond House tomorrow to discuss paid the $600 after saving for near of travel to the one
Argyle Street, yesterday and Des Voeux Rd Central on missiles and satellites, it for years, his legal guardian. accustomed to in the 1920's..
afternoon. both sides of lite Bank of China was announced today. where no doubt some interest-
STANLEY
CENTRE
ESCAPEE
| Ing shots could be obtained_of
pedestrians
10
Press Secretary James C. endeavouring to Hagerty sull the meeting was eross a race track.
arranged before Soviet Russia
launched her recently
carth Pedestrians coming from Gor-satelite. den Read and wishing to go to any of the main bánks have to But he added that it wat turn West and walk to Duddell fair to say tomorrow's meeting Sirect, Cross the Pedestrian would dent with satellies and Crossing and then practically missiles, "umong other things." walk back to Garden Road to The scientists are members get to their destination. Should of the Science Advisory Com
GOES BACK hey have occasion to go to the mitter Mobilisation.
Supreme Court they have to go Eastwards of Garden Road, crass and then walk to Chater Road
lau.
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SECURITY COUNCIL
for about an hour earlier today! with his new Dotence Secretary, Nell. II. McElroy.
Mr Eldenhower,, who previous-, "Then of course, there were A 17-year-old youth who before the Arst available cross-
ly discussed the satel{o and escaped from the Stanley large apartment blocks, But it hesn't changed all Training Centro and then This most unnecessary waste mlastic programmes with the
National of shoe leather could be pre- top-level
Security that much-It's silli as bezutiful turned back to his life of vented by two crossings as fol- Council and the Cabinet, met es ever." he added with a smile
crime was this morning laws... of recollection.
sent back to the training|
(1) In Queen's. Road Central contro for three months
on the South Side of the Bank when he pleaded guilty to of China. three counts of theft and. (2) In Des Voeux Rd Central one of loitering before on the North Side of the Bank Min B. K. Searle at of China.-ZEBRA, Central,
In
Mr Thacker began life as on ordinary seaman in the United States Navy, Joining shortly before the end of World War 1. After gaining valuable experience in the Nivy he Joined the Pacifte Mail Steamship Company and worked his way up until he was the master of his own ship.
In 1034, he turned to
addition the Magistrate Honolulu where he ruled that he was to serve the ness in had made his home and went | six months which remained of for real-estate and shipping. his previous sentence of thres fortune and soon he held high
The Sights
busi-
Was
Wrist Watch Snatched
An unidentified' Chinese snatched a wrist watch from a woman pedestrian in Ma Shan Road, near the Tol Hang Tung Resettlement Area, p.m. yesterday..
McElroy, questioned by
| reporters" afterward, sald only that they Breused "various Defence Department questions." He refused to say whether they discussed possible speed-up in missiles as demanded by some Congressional Democrats. -Valted Press.
Visiting HK
Mr S E Svanberg, Vict ct about ä
President of personnel. in SAS, and
his assistant. Mr 1.
days'
ferred to the statement made by Six Asian rugger players are Gradually 10 built up his years in Stanley. the accused in Court in which included in the first Singapore the accused said he was asked by civilians state trial match today executive positions, many of Sub. Inspector N. Reynolds, Lee Sing to help carry certain in preparation for forthcoming which he still holds.
prosecuting, told Miss Searle articles. Accused said he became visit of the Hongkong XV,
that on October 13, defendant suspected loitering with intent to commit felony near Percival,Street. He was brought back by the police to Eastern
Hub Caps Stolen C.I.D.
After being questioned, de-.
Mr Svanberg is making an fendant admitted on three other
Four hub caps were stolen extensive tour of the Far East, occasions he stolo a total of from a private car parked In and will during his stay here, $47.00 from
different Pennington Street,
Causeway have · negotiations with Bay, last Saturday night,
local SAS organization,
A strong Hongkong Rugby team which are due to arrive Now ke is n
well-known here on October 24 wil playpersonality in Hewall, two matches before leaving for
He came to Hongkong, in- When Lee was, wounded by the Malaya Federation.
citlertally,
with a unique hat- They open their tour the Policemen, accused sald, the
with a band. Pallee took accused's jacket and
against match
Singapore The bat-band consists of the 20 and neck-feathers of a lorgo`num- covered Læc. Accused"ruid he did civilians on October
Bervices on her of pheasants, not know how the articles came play Combined
October 20.---Rouler.
to be found in his pockeli.
¿
It is insured for US$250,
women.
three
| Pedersen, will arrive for a 3
stay In
Colony
tomorrow.
the
the
Lo
SIDE GLANCES
of a
By Galbraith
"Mother and Daddy are glad you stayed for dinner, they said they hated to be under any obligations to
you!!!
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