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In Pedder Street
Now this was an obstinato obstruction: a lump of rock lying under the surface of Pedder Stroot proved 10 difficult to remove that 16 men standing on two lovers could not move it. The workmen, happily posed for a China Mail photographer yesterday afternoon.
BOY AND TWO MEN INJURED
A boy and two men were in- jurod in separate traffic accidents in Hongkong and Kowloon yesterday. They are receiving treat- ment in hospital.
The bus, nine-year-old Lat Sha-wing of 5 På Tuck Ind. 2nd floor, was knocked down by a lorry in Commuunght Roal West, near the junction of itill Road.
Chan Yu-chusen, aged 29, of 458 Shek Kip Mei Resettlement Estate, X Block, 4th floor, was knocked down by private car In Shuh Ning Road, near is Junction with Cat Street, whle 40-year-old Chan Hung of B Baker Street, 10th Roor,
Coolie Turned
Man Fined Cat Burglar,
Court Told
For Cruelty To Puppy
Li Man-tin, 35, pleading guilty to cruelty to an animal, was fined $250 or zix weeks' imprisonmont by Mr A. L. Leathleen at Central Magistrocy this marning.
Sub-Inspector R. Ma. pro- eeuting, told the Court that at 1.10 am on Monday Inspector T. T. Kee, of the Hongkong Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals, saw a Chow pavement puppy lying on the outside 288 Lockhart Road.
The anomal was in a very pour
was knocked down by anther physical condition. private car in Chattan Road, near the junction of Wa Fung Street.
He reported to the Police who Inter located the defendant,
AGATUKÖRÖMONUNUNUAUA KURURUWAUAWA SA KASAMA BUAWEI VAATIVE
An odd job coolie slipped into a flat in Wanchai in the early hours of August 27 and stole a num- ber of articles including $280 cash, the Police alleged this morning.
Actress To Pay $21,000 Tax Bill
At the Kowloon District Court this morning Judge
R. H. Milla-Owens entered Judgment against a movie star and Chinose opera actress, Tang Pick-wan, in a claim brought by the Commissioner for Inland Revenue for the recovery of $21,115.75 in business profits tax for the your 1957-58.
of
Representing Miss Tang, ZBA Grampian Road, ground floor, Mr Edmund Cheung, of Peter Mo and Co., said that her had been Instructed to consent to Judgment and that arrange- | inents had been made for the actress to pay the sum by in- stalments.
The first instalment, $5,000 would be paid on or before October 13, and $5,000 would be paid on or before the 15th of the following month,
Mr E. F. Gee is representing thu Commissioner of inland Revenue.
Outbreak Of Snatchings
Six cases of potty thefts-
four in Kowloon and two in Hongkong-were ro ported to the Police you. terday.
The cookie then climbed over stabiles from Eastern Police the verandah of the flat, gol Station met another, constable hold of some Iron brackets and at the junction of Thompson
A pair of gold earrings, valued made use of a nearby street Road and Johnston Rond at
sautched from a famp to haul himself up, Chief about 4.30 ..
on August 27. at $25 was Cpurt Inspector C. L. Smith said. While they were having a con-woman in Tong Mel Road. A
coulie was The
caught red-versation, one of them noticed fountain pen was stolen from u nunded as he descended to the man standing on a verandah Chinese at a bus stop in Nathan Road, near Nelson Street while nearby acting suspiciously. ground.
handbag was snatched from a woman in Wun Sha Street. Suspects have been detalaed in all three cases.
On trial is Poon Cheung, 20, of 553 Fuk Wah Street.
He has pleaded not guilty to the theft of a pair of trousers
As the man climbert down fron the verandah onto the street lamp, the police went up and arrested him.
containing $280, three Identity In his trouser pockets was cards, me bank Lock, one plas- found a bundle of bank notes (le wallet and quantity of amounting to $200, Chief In- personal papers, from the front spector Smith went on cubicle of Mr Cheung Chun- wuh at 3 Thompson Road, Arst Boor,
The trial is before Judge R. J. Jennings at the Victoris Dis- trict Court.
Chief Inspector Smith, out- lining the case, sald two con-
In the Shamshulpo district, a woman had a wrist watch valued at $60 snatched from her whilst wolking In Un Chau Street. A handbag and a finger ring were stolen from another woman in Taipo Road, near Boundary
The police then brought accused to the house where Mr Street. Cheung was living and re- covered the palr of trousers and other items оп the verandah.
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The UN Thinks Hongkong Is In Japan!
by a China Mail Reporter
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This Funny World
Stay THE
TRAVELLER
HAD LUCKY
A
ESCAPE IN
RIOTS
by Andrew Sloan
China Mail Reporter
From the Files
25
years AGO.
exhortation 10 under- graduates never to lose
touch with the University or their
fellow students and to show the world that the Uni- versity
of Hongkong meant noro to them then an institp- tion where they amused them- selves and passed examinations if and when they could, was made by Sir William Hornell, Vice-Chancellor of the Univer sity in a speech at the Coming- of-age culebrations of the Union,
Scouts of the first Kowloon (St Andrew's) Troop celebrated their thirteenth birthday in the Church Grounds ù› Saturday.
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AMONG the live recipients
of Birthday Honour awards at Government House was Miss Hannalt Florenco Skinner (MBE) Mr Li Yik-mul and Mr Tam Wun-tong (Certifi- cates of Honour) and Mr Alfred Morris, Insignia of an officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
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Readers of the column will recall that the Police announced stringent measures to - "con- tok" local cabarets earlier in 1033. One order was that bands should $10p playing at mid- night. Here, a wit who signs himself E.H.M, puts his feel- ings Into verse:
Hongkong is now quite up to date, the population say,
Because in every street and lane, there stands a cabaret,
Yes! Hongkong folks, that is the name they plve to these abodes,
vies of old Montmartre's roads.
But mem'ries of Montmartre's halls, are probably more dear.
Than those that we will ever
YOUNG Scottish traveller who has hitch- A name that brings hack memo-
hiked his way from London through Europe and the Middle East, as far as Hongkong, nearly ended his trip in Ceylon when he arrived there at the time of the communal rioting.
have, for cabarets out here
Must be controlled, "to make
quite clear, the Council's point
of view,
That no one shall imbibe therein, the weakest brand or
Duncan Crighton, 25, from; of transport using the roads. "I brew. Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, wilked for three soild days,” he had reached Ceylon after walk- gold. Ing, hitch-hiking and riding uni trains from London, France, Uut of all the subarquent Yugoslavia, Greece,
Turkey, countries vislied, Crichton B Porsia and India.
ilkes Yugoslavia most, "The He recalls that his arrival in secaery is varied, and really He Ceylon "was where I nearly romething remarkable. ended my trip. That was where sic he had talked with a lot of the fun and games started," the poor people in Yugoslavia, Crighton had met a contact and although Communism was Ceylon who was showing him not in great evidence, the people around in his car.
profested dislike of Tito's rule. Who likes dictatorship," |they told Crighton...
'Get Back'
They were driving along street, when people rushed by shouting "get back, get back." It appeared there was some trouble ahead. They Just managed to get away in time.
Next day he read In the piper,
United Match
Another ruling that's been given, by excellent police,
Is that a cab'ret can't employ, one's great grandfather's niece,
Unless they have her dossier, which may to some seem farcy, But offer all, police knowi best, so requiescat în pace.
Perhaps it's not just quite the thing have too much to say..
Regarding the restrictions of the present cabaret,
Or else the prudish may think that we think Hongkong's not modern,
Unless we got unlimited beer and make our bodies sodden.
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He saw the soccer match in which Manchester United played before their tragic crash in CHINA is the principal
Munich. He also saw a hockey match between the Belgrade
victim of the illleit
that a car which had been about partisans, or Government team trafic in opium with its 50 yards ahead of them on that and the local stars. "Every time derivatives, according to the something monthly report of the Anti- street, had been stopped by the partisans did roters, the occupants taken out good, the crowd bosed them, and Opium Bureau published in
when the stars scored, there was Geneva.. and beaten, nearly death.
A day or two Inter, furious wild cheering."
The report suys that the num- Ughting between the Tamil and GREECE: be found the people ber of drug addicts in China is Singhalese sections of the
there very friendly, In spite growing daily "owing to the Colombo community broke out of the fact that there was a Lew quantities of drugs snuggled Crighton sold that from outreak of violence in Cyprus from the foreign concessions room in the local YMCA, he at that time. He said the Greeks and settlement as well as from saw a car which a Tamil was did everything to help him. clandestine factories." driving, stopped and the driver
In Turkey, it was the same. pulled out. The man was al- At roadblocks, the Turkish inost beaten to death.
police had stopped cars going
He also saw another Tamil beaten up, petrol poured all over him, and a match set to it. At
The chief source of the licit supply, the report declares, is Japan and it adds that narcoties
in his direction and told them paved the way for the conquest
to give him a lift. The people of the three Eastern provinces,
in Turkey were also very help- adds a Reuter rable,
the Taj
one stage during the rioting, ful, he said. Crighton aid, a Tamil had staggered into the Y* with a INDIA: he visited knife sticking in his back. The Mahal, and later made friendsT is learned that a big Injured man was rushed on to with a group of Sikha who military drive has been' hospital, and what happened | made him their honoure undertaken by the military guest, for the ume he stayed
after that he has no idea.
But after the fighting had with
them. During the two authorities of Kwangtung died down, Crighton said, "I or three days I was there, against the horde of pirates had an opportunity to see the everything was free, I could who have their stronghold nicer parts of Ceylon. I was in- | drink and eat what 1 liked, in the region of Bins Bay. vited to two tea estates in everything was paid for." Northern Ceylon."
Yugoslavia
A Million Pounds
From all accounts, the com- paign appears to have been on an unprecedented scale, ox- tending from Wal Young, on He hiked to Mysore where a the northernmost limits right Crighton had this to say about friend took him out on a num- down to Chungshan touching various places he visited.
ber of bear-hunting and the British border of the New Talk about ignorance in high places -
Communications Officer. He fulfilled YUGOSLAVIA: "They Are panther-hunting expeditions. Territorios at a number of case beats the lot.
all the requirements they asked for,
rather touchy about what you Then followed hin four points iako Into Yugoslavia", bo sald, months in Ceylon. After that One of the first results of the Above is a letter sent to an Irishman in Since then he has received three letters,
spaced over the last two years the officials. "But I had no type-passage
the rolepse of Hongkong Mr Albert Joseph
French ship the China Merchants vessel sa Inst camo on September 22 asking writer, and only an old box through Singapore, Salgon, and Yunbun which Greene from the United Nations.
It brought pirates
was seized by for more details. He supplied all in camera, which caused them to the Philippines.
short time ago burst out laughing when the first letter he sent with the appli- showed it to them."
Ihim to Hongkong yesterday. · Notice it is addressed to. Hongkong,
Voyage Now, Crighton saya, "ail I
from cation. Japan. But fortunately the New York
Yugoslavia, it turned out,need is a' million pounds, to buy. postal authorities knew better than the Albert Greene's Irish blood is up. He feels proved to be the biggest worship and get back to Beot- UN and it reached hero anfely..
Americans are being favoured with on his shoes, because of the lockland.
Mr Greene has another grudge against
the UN.
Two years ago he applied for a post of
.
Ho thinks the United Nations should not
UN jobs.
be in New York, but in Genova, Stockholm or Dublin,
after visiting the Immigration lengthy stay he got deck: operation was
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