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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1957.
RAPE CHARGE,
BANK RATE INQUIRY Defendant
Mr
HK EUROPEAN
REFUGEES
British Govt Considering
Contribution
'London, Dec. 4. Ian Harvey,
Joint
Foreign Under-Secretary,
Was
stil
Jobbers Questioned About After
Hours Dealings
London, Dec. 4.
The tribunal investigating an alleged leak of information about Britain's decision to raise the bank rate from five to seven per cent continued its hearing this afternoon.
told the House of Com- Mr Wilfred Barron, partner in the big mons today that the Government considering the contribu- 10. tion it would make wards the resettlement of European refugees in Hongkong.
He was answering à question trom n
Labour member, Mr Denis Healey, a Labour mem- ber.
jobbing firm of Francis and Praed, said that on the evening before the bank rate change his firm had the "most unusual" experience of having only sellers of Government stocks and no buyers.
Mr Barron, who has been Lord Justice Parker com- Mir Healey asked whether the quoted by some journalisis as a mented: "It was the combina-
decided source for Governameni hud yet
ptories about the lion of their being the oly contribution It would leged leakage, sald that on the sales and their being alter what make to the work of the United hearing of one ar two news-nours which struck me.”
High Nations
Commissioner papermen he made a remark to He caked the witness to gel Joy re ugcea concerning burcpcuts, the effect that "somebody reems
am-lt of curlings on betalt o know more than I do."
of Mathesons from January up Hongkong TU.LKELS
to Ecienter 18 "o that we fee kow it compares,"
He told the tribunal: "I don't Aur Harvey replied that the; Foreign Secrey (Mr Selwyn think anybody knew about the I think they ex- Ly was aware of the situa-baskote. tion to which he referred and pucted a statement the following
ay about credit restrictions." W considering with the
That could possibly have been Chanellor of the Exchequer Gir Peter Thorneycroft) the suficient to cause the overnight
of the contribution selling of stocks. question which: the British Govenment would make towards resettle- tuent of these refugees.
MORE EXPECTED
Rumours
Mr William Juln Mullens, the Government bruker, was ques- Jened about rumours in the and City-London's business-
dealing fluancial and
area-about by firms in advance of the bank rele announcement,
Mr Healey asked him to bear in mind that there were already 2,000 awaiting movement another 20,000 were expected.
He pointed out that the World Council of Churches, which had made itself responsible for this mutter, was running out of funds, and urged the Govern ment to take quick action.
Mr Harvey answered: "We do the nature of this appreciate problem. The question is once ugain that of the resources Gvailable."—Reuter.
SENATOR TO STAY IN MOVIES
Manila, Dec. 5. Movie idol Rogelio dé la Rosa, who was elected Senator in the last na- tional polls, last night on he would continue acting in the movies when he was not occupied in the Senate.
nounced that
Witness said he had heard
The tribunal adjourned until tomorrow-Reuter.
ROUND ONE TO ISRAEL
OVER OIL CONTRACT
Moscow, Dec. 4.
the Royal Exchange Assurance Israel today won the first Compary mentioned and also Lazard Brothers and Company, a leading finance house.
Asked if there was any reason why these firms should have been considered to be "la the know." Mr Mullons said:
"Lord Kindersley is
of both companies."
director
Mr Mullens said it was the connection with the Bank which gove rise to the talk about the Livo companies he had mention ed,
(Lord Kindersey, 56, is a Director of the Bank of Eng- jand. He
Chairman of Lazards, Rolls-Royce, the Bri- tish Match Corporation and Governor of the Royal Exc- change Assurance Company.)
Three Deals
skirmish in its claim for some US$3,000,000 da. mages for breach of con tract arising out of the can. collation of oil delivarios by the Soviet Government during the Sinai campaign in 1956.
The victory come when attorneys arbitrators uricred for the Soviet export organsa- tion, to submit detailed written replies to the Ismell claims,
After a three-and-a-half hour procedurat wrangle the Court adjourned until December 11, when it will hear the Soviet organisation's replies,
PRINCIPLES
HK TEXTILES
PRAISED
London, Dec. 4. Hongkong textiles, far from being confined to shoddy sometimes out- rival British · goods on quality and price, says one of Britain's leading "glossy" fashion gazines today.
were
A range of Hongkong- mado gloves bought recently by a British wholesaler of the highest repute, not be cause the price made them such a good pro position but because the
styling and the service
could not be equalled in Britain, the magazine Fabrics Fashions and goca om
"Let us accept that Hongkong merchandise is here to stay and that it is more than worth looking at," it says. "If]
out-do colonial friends on style and price let us give them a fair fight. This may not be encouraging thinking for the home
WO
can
our
manufacturer who is
feeling the Hongkong
pinch, but it is a cruel,
hard fact."
(Fashions and Fabrics in the leading magazine circulating among storo buyers, manufacturers and wholesalers).' — London Express Service.
Foot Tours
Cyprus Without
Escort
Testifies In Own Defence
An allegation that the
act
was done with thò consent of, the complainant was made by Tong Shui-ming, 27, unemployed, when he testified in his own do. fonce at his triat before Mr Justice C. W. Reece in the Criminal Sessions this morning, on a charge of
харе,
SHEAFFER'S
Skrip
OBJECTION TO POLICEMAN ADMISSIBILITY
OF EVIDENCE
An objection to the admissibility of cer- tain evidence which Defence Counsel, Mr Oswald Cheung, indicated, might prejudice the Court was raised during the resumed hearing of an action for specific performance of an agreement in a land transaction, before Mr Justice T. J. Gould, Senior Puisne Judge, in the Supreme Court this morning.
To
by
SUMMONED
FOR
ASSAULT
Police Dot. Sub.-Insp. Hung
Hung-choang, summoned for assault, this morning denied that complainant was not aware that he was a married man. He jald that complainant, a night club singer, Lau Sing, had visited his house on several occasions and that photo- graphs of wife and him were displayed in the living room.
turn
:
Tung further alleged that he paid a sum of $10 to the con- The first plaintif, Chan U, When witness was asked plainant, Au Chuen-tal, 30-year- testified to siguing the ogreo-his Counsel, Mr Wright, as to Hung was testifying before old grass cutter, with whom he meat at the ofices of his Soll- is understanding of the level- Mr G. R. Butath at Ceptral 103 accused of having had cltors on October 10, 1955. ling of the site, Mr Bernacchi Magistracy in a summons taken carnal knowledge, without her The plaintiffs are Chan U objected the question. This out against him by Lau, who in consent, on a hillside in Shatin Tsang Cheung, Chau Kwok was supported by Mr Cheung,
was summoned by the leung, Chan Tung end on September 20 lest.
the of the Defence Counsels, Inspector on a similar charge They are repro- who said that the Court could Mr D. E. Greenfield, Crown, Kam-hung
Lau is represented by Mr Counsel, is prosecuting, assisted sented by Mr John McNell, only admit what the parties W. C. R.
QC. and Mr Leslie Wright, both sold and did and not what they Stokes and Master, and Hung is Carr of Johnson, by Det, Insp, M. J. Donnelly.
Tong in evidence said this lastructed by Mr R. E. Lowe, thought or intended or under-represented by Mr Patrick Yu,
stood. morning that he was working of Wilkinson and Grist,
instructed by Mr D. Cheung, di Hla In the New Terri-
Lordship orderett a short F. Zimmern and Co. adjournment to allow Defence torles and left it carlier this
Counsels to look up oppropriate refurn to China. year to
to Hongkong
authorities in support of their came buckt September 17 and stayed at
argument, hotel in Yaumati,
in a mine
CUTTING GRASS
He
The defendants are Wong Hing LI Kwai-ming, Li Weng Un Hon.
Cho-tuon and Li Pak-kat. The Mr Oswald Cheung are repro- Leo d'Almi da, QC, and senting the
first, third fourth defendants, on Instruc tlons of Mr D. Q. Cheung, of F. Zimmern and Co
On the morning of September 20 he was on his way la the mine when he came upon the complainant cutting grass on u billside.
Accused alleged that he had known the complainant before. to the She used to sell grass mine, and they also went to the same chapel.
Tops alleged that they flirted with each other and after he handed her. $10 she consented.
Hearing Is continuing.
LEOPARD CAUGHT ACROSS
BORDER
and
Mr Brook Bernacchi is re- presenting the second defendant
He (wife of the first).
is In- structed by Mr P. Chan, of Lau, Chan and Ko.
A Clause
The controversy in the acllon centres on the changing of the word "rchaser" to "vendors" In a clause of the agreement, in connection with the responsi- bility for levelling the site in question.
The plaintiffs' claim the word “purchaser” had been a clerical error and that "vendors" sub- sequently been inserted in Ite place with the consent of all the parties. This consent is denied by the defence.
CONCOURSE CAR PARK TESTED
Tesutying, Hung said that ho knew complainant sometime in 1954 and that she had a child by him. He said she know that he | was married "right from the start" and that he did not at any
time promise to marry ber or told her that he would obtain a divorce from his wife,
The Hon. D. R. Holmes, in
Members
the of
a
MOVED
be
to
located
Describing the alleged assault and the events leading up to the "terrific struggle" with plainant in her fat on the sceond floor on 222 Nathan Road on the evening of May 18, Hung said that previously he Fhad moved to live with' friends Chatham Road address Director of Urban Ser- because he wanted to avoid
"disturbances" likely vices, with Urban Coun-
caused by the complainant. cil officials and PWD Eventually he was architects watched park- and on the evening of May 18, ing procedure at the newshe came to the Chatham Road- Star Ferry concourse car address and persuaded him to.
go with her to her house, mahā park this morning.
Hung. Hung said he was most Traffic luctant to go" but went be- Branch of the Police under the cause complainant told him that direction of Superintendent Ae might not see his child again Morrison, assisted the car park for the next two years.
On arrival at attendants with the trafic flow
the house. defendant said, complainant and positioning of the cars.
told the amah to take the baby The Public Vehicle Owners to the back of the house, and Associations made a number of began to close the taxis avaliable
door, and for the de-
windows and pull the curtain. monstration, and parking was tried out on the three levels of She then began to assault him
"terring struggle" the multi-storey park, which and Counsel suggested that the will be opened for public use ensued, he said, vendors would do the levelling on Sunday, December 8, from and that the purchasers in Zact midday. were
The attendants are sold to be bya had to pay half the costs for
the levelling of the site. That bl-lingual and, one official quip has been denied by the first ped, they will increase their vocabulary within the next few plaintif
weeks."
The agreement relates: to Lat No. 1922 in Bemarcation Dis- trict No. 449, Taun Wan.
Earlier, the first plaintiff sald, In bis cross-examination by Mr A leopard was caught in a Bernacchi, that he saw the clause of the steel trap at Wong Kong wording of a
agreement of sale running thus: in Chineso Territory
The sellers had agreed to level about 8 miles from Sha the site." Tau Kok at 11 sim. you torday.
Wu
"Poon about
Nicosia, Dec. 4. Sir Hugh Foot, newly-
The head arid tull | eppointed Governor of Cyprus,
started a tour of the strife-tom produced at Lo The case · attracted many island today by car and hell-travelling trader named Western correspondents nud copter.
Ka Por this morning, observers from Western
The leopard weighed cm- Mr Michael Richardson, of bassies in view of the important the retiring Sir John Harding, the stockbroking firm of Pan-legal and political principles is making history as the first
Sir Hugh, who took over from 70 cattles, mure Gordon and Company, was involved whether
Soviet questioned about three deals for trade organisation
can escape £460,000, £200,000 and £167,- contractual llability by claiming 384 with which he dealt.
the Government refused export The client, he said, wos
Leences. and Company,
the
D
De la Rosa, one of two oppost-Matheson tion Liberals elected to the initial telephone call about the
The Israelis are also arguing Upper Chamber, declared that he deals was made at 3.50 p.m. on
their case on the ground that say nothing wrong in continuing September 18 and the deals were
no state of war existed between his movle eareer, and pointed cumpleted about 4.30 p.m.
Israel and the Soviet Union Congressmenį.
Witness said "no" when the when the contract who practise their law pro- Attorney General
cviled. United Press. tsked if he was given any Indication why he
to cases of many
Icssion.
Wos can-
Governor in more than two years to dispense with a bullet-proof limousine and an Army escort of three armoured cars.
SUSPECTED PICKPOCKET
Chau Kwok-leung, Managing Director of the United Property Investment Co., Ltd, testifying, said that he learned about the sale of the land in Tsun Wan in a conversation he had with the
Bome first plaintif
ime in He will visit dive district capi- tals and return here on Sunday.
September. Witness stated that A man has been arrested | affor he knew the terms of the Leaflets issued by the Peka following the theft of come purchase, he was willing to buy organisation, the policy-making money from a Chinese pedes-a portion of the land. The arst branch of the Cyprus Eoka
trian in Nan
Chang Street plaintiff then offered him 15 per A terrorist organisation, circulated shortly after 9 o'clock last night. cent of the share, witness said. in Limassol tonight. They urged Cypriots to go on a 24-hour strike on the day when the up for discussion at the United Nations General Assembly.
Peka ordered schoolboys to stay away from classes, shops to shut and everyone to stay at home. The leaflets sald all Greelc organisations should send telegrams to the United Nations Umt day, calling for selt- determinationUnited Press & France-Presse,
He sold that the pay of a was being instructed to sell BID FOR ARAB Cyprus question came
Congressman was mengre end these substantial quantities after that he had to supplement this Stock Exchange closing time.
He discovered a fortüight later
by acting.
De la Rosa, formerly a con- that the principals in the deal fidante of the lato President were Jardine Matheson and, he Magsaysay, stressed that he thought, the Indo-China Steam Would dols utmost to his Navigation Company.
efforts to work for the welfare
Vessel Aground
The Attorney General asked
SOLIDARITY
Riad, Saudi Arubin, Déc. 4. Iraqi offelal sources said to- day the current state visit of King Faisal of Iraq to Saudi of the Filipino inasses.-France- it the firm had ever dealt be- Arabia represents a new At- Presse,
fore with Matheson and Com-tempt to achieve. Arab solidarity pany on sums of such magni- in the face of the Israeli threat
and Communist infltration. tude after hours.
Witness said: "I am afraid I The sources said King Falsol have no recollection of that, and his host King Saud, and Certainly we have not dealt in their two governments Marila, Dec. 4. these sums after hours in the agreed that the present clouds
must | Arab The
atmosphero registered last year. Hongkong
be He said the suns involved cleared "and complete under- vesel is Inchpura today broad- cast the sighting of an un- were not unusual for his arm standing reached between Arub idesulfed small vessel with a to handle in after-hours trana states and lenders,
Since the six-day visit began grey bull apparently, agroung actions, on West Swallow Reef,
on Monday, the two kings have lost no time in exchanging views on the best ways to achieve this object-China Mail' Special,
were
Bicycle Theft
ן
The Police have arrested Chinese on suspicion of having stolen a bleycle from the rear lune, of No. 39, Tung Lo Wan
shortly after, B o'clock; yesterday afternoon,
Mr Richardson agreed he had "No sign of life on board," | made sales of glit-edged
Hood no the broadcast said.-United securities on September 18 ex-
cept the three mentioned.
Fress.
NO REBUKE FOR
UNITED NATIONS
Miniin, Dec. 5.
PHILIPPINE
DELEGATE
Carela declared that as far·08 | President Carlos Garcia last he know Pelocz was tree to “ike night desisted from rebuking his own discretion" in the Irian the Philippine delegate to the issue and that he was not aware United Nations, Emmanuel of any other Instructions, to Pelacz, as the Foreign Affairs Pelaez.
Secretary, Felixberto Serrano, Pelaez asked to be rolloved of earlier. di following Pelaez's his duties in the United Natione: akagreement with the Philippine who he was instructed to ab- sland on the Irfan issue in the sent himmelf from the debate on
the Irkut Laut. United Nations.
Poinez had earlier voted for the Arab-Asian bloc resolution urging the General Assembly to debate the Irian question.
Attempted Theft
The Folles kave»» orrested a man in Salisbury Road, outside the site of the Hongkong, Pro ducts Exhibition, following an attempted theft of a fountain en from a passerby `at about 1.80 pan, yesterday.
--Shoes Stolen
Howwer Garcia stressed last night that he would study
A pair of shoes was stolon the circumstances that prompted from an unlocked, private cor Pelaez to as to be relieved of parked in Jackson Road, non his United Nations duties the Supreme Court on Tuesday
ANGHING.
Franco-PrèsDO,
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
HISTORY
MINE
PSY
"Look,' Allco!·A chapter about how to use psychology. on your teacher! If we learn this we can get out of a
lot of studying!" /
Earthquake Recorded In Colony
.
SHIRT TORN
Hung said complainant began to tear his shirt, scratched him, bit his cheek and shoulder. He said that he could have sub dued her he had wanted to because of his 'training 'which'- included judo. He said ho used only the necessary force to "prevent damage." He continued
"that after re
covering from exhaution, she tools out a knife from a basket
and began to chase him. The knife was taken away from her following the arrival of friends,
The Polles, were eventually. Royal Observatory summoned and a report was spokesman said this made..
Cross-examined by Mr. Carr, morning that the violent carthquake which occur aware that
Hung denied that she was not he was matrical, red yesterday morning because she had been to this gave rise to earth waves house several times and had which were recorded at sech photographs of his wife
and him taken together, the Observatory here, "The first tremors reached
NOT TRUE Hongkong shortly after 11.43 a.m. Hongkong Standard Time (93.43 GMT).
The epicentre was altunted to the northwest of the Colony but until further dafs is avail- able, the exact location will not be known.
COBI DESERT
[
Counsel suggested to
Hung that complaisant did not know ho was a married man until much later. He replied that was not true,
When it was suggested to him that a girl would not let herself get pregnant if she knew that the hadrao prospect of getting married, Hung said that that
Hearing continues.
The Coast and Geodetic Sur-was her business. vey reported today that its Washington zeismograph hms recorded a major earthquake on the northern edge of the Gobl Desert in Asia,
The announcement said the |tremors_began at 0237 GMT tọ--
day
The major movement lasted about two hours,' it said |but alight vibrations werò,'stiil
Jardine Head Returns
Mr H. D. ML Barton, Manng- belag recorded at least four ind Director of Mesars Jardine, hours after the initial shock, Matheson end Co, returned; to Officials said the quake was | Hongkong (by PAA which ar- about, as big as the one that rived from Bangkok this shook San Francisco
1000 morning. "one of the burgest earthquakes recorded this year.
and was
Experts pinpointed the quake
Outer: Bongoliaɔ rat 45 degrees 30 minutes :
in
north
PEN PALS
Kiyoshi Negishi) ((10), 220 Jatitude and 100 degrees 30 Shinden Kımnagaya-Stil, Ballage, minutes cost. longlifude, tem Japan Correspondence, atpaza
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