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FORGED US BANKNOTES TWO MEN CHARGED
A general broker.and a mer- chant were remanded for three days in Police' cus tady for further enquiries by Mr Hin-shing Lo ot Central Magistracy this morning on charges of forged banknotes.
The defellitants are Ng Yam- man, 44, of 398 Des Voeux Road Weal, second four; and Yu Wunschak, 48, of 92 Robincon Road, second hoor.
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His alleged that on October Road West, at Connaught without lawful authority or excuse, the defendants had in Their possession 240 forged US$20 Lanknotes, knowing them. to be forged.
Detrelive Sub-Inspector H. N. Whitey of the Commercial Crime Ólee, is in charge of the
crise,
No plea was taken.
Thefts From Cars
A wheel was stolen from a private car parked in King's Road t about 1 o'clock th morning. In Kowloon, a rain- reat valued at $20 was stolen from a car parked outside the Liberty Hutel, in Battery Street.
THREE HURT IN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1958..
SHEAFFER'S
NEW TALARIN
KILLING VERDICT
NOT GUILTY OF
ROAD ACCIDENTS MURDER, GAOLED FOR
A MAN and two chlidren
were injured in road accidents during the week- end, They were admitted to hospital for treatment.
A тал knocked down Chan Siu-kam, aged 57, of 6. District West, Wong Tai Bin, in Nairn Road near Dunbar Road.
The children were A nine-year-old boy, Wai Po- shek. of 308, Ki Lunk Nireel, third flour. who
was knocked down by a private car in Taipo Road, near Castle Peak Floud. and
six-year-old girl, Wong Mal-king, of 30, Mong Kok Road, first floor, who was struck by a prin vate car in Prince Edward Road, bear Sal Yee Sireel
Traffic Case Against DBS Headmaster
Withdrawn
The traffic case against the Rev George She, Headmaster of Diocesan Boys' Schipel, was this morning withdrawn by the Police when a prosecution wit- ness falled to turn up in Court.
The Rev She was charged with driving “la such a manner as to cause damage to a private car. AA4139."
His plea was one 01 not gulity.
Thieves Active
Eight cases of shatching "and peckel-pleking were reported to the Police during the week-end, Suspects were detained in five of the cases,
MANSLAUGHTER
Chan Yuen, 31, unemployed, pleading guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to three years and six months by Mr Justice A. D. Scholes in the Criminal Session this morning.
Chan pleaded not guilty to murder, and his plea of guilty to manslaughter was accepted by the Court and the Crown. He was charged with the unlawful killing of Leung Ha in an opium divan in Kowloon on June 18 last.
Mr Richard Winter, appearing for Chan, on the instructions of Mr W Turnbull of Messrs Deacons told the Court that Chun would plead guilty to
unslaughter.
the Art of which was the one that caused death,
The evidence also suggested that the wound could have bran caused by the deceased himself, in other words, he might have fallen on the blade
of the scissors.
Mr Mayne said that deceased was not in his view a man of
Crown Counsel Mr Desmond Mayne sald he had given care- ful consideration to the evid- ence in the case and had formed the view that acceptance of a good character. At the time of plea of manslaughter would be in the best interest Justice.
The indictment chorging Chan with murder was then read to the accused who pleaded nöt Builty.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and His Lordship said that after careful con- sideration of the ease he thought It proper to accept the plea.
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the offence. deceased Was smoking in the divan, He said that apart from the long list of previous convictions aceused was dishonest and was known to be a bully.
To Fly
Detener Counsel said that this case was the result of, an un- provoked attack on one of the Mr Mayne said that accused prosecution witnesses, following had no previous conviction, and which deceased attacked the handed up to Court n small uccused by striking him with a pair of scissors which he said stool and rendering him un- was the weapon used in the conscious. The fight commenced after accused regained con-
case.
that He added
deceased's frocord showed that between
1950 and 1958 he had been con~ victed of 18 criminal offences..
His Lordship observed thatciousness one would not normally nezept it as a dangerous weapon.
Crown Counsel agreed and went on to
say that medical evidence Bs set forth in the deposition indicated that there were altogether four wounds
$3,500 Fine For Opium Divan Man
It was clear, Mr Winter said, that although the man was dead,
hot
Man Who Threatened To
Cut Woman Into
STERLING SILVER TIP
From the Filos
25
years
AGO
Little Pieces' Loses Appeal A PAGE and
Describing a 27-year-old unemployed, Wu Yan, as apparently a "somewhat troublesome person", Mr Justice J. R., Gregg in the Appeals Court this morning dismissed Wu's appeal against conviction for criminal intimidation.
Wu had been found guilty by
threatening
to kill
Mr B. J. Jennings at Central Court Wu Ching-lon, woman. and "to cut her into Bittle pieces" unless she lent him $180.
Wu was given six months' hard labour. The offence was
alleged to have taken plocs in Holy Cross Path Village, Shau- kiwan, on August 24.
The appellent pleaded this morning that the evidence against him had been fabricat-
that the ed. The fact plainant took three days to noufy the police of the allegedl incident showed this, he said,
com-
Mr Justice Gregg told the orisoner that he had a previous conviction of the some nature, Wu admitted this,"
Continued His fardship: "You appear to be
somewhat troublesome person. You also have a previous conviction for disorderly behaviour."
Disallowing the appeal, Mr Justice Gregg said that from the evidence, it was clear Wu "had been caught red-handed"; Mr D. E. Greenfield, Crown
for Counsel, appeared CONT
Another man Yan Chun, 31. coolle, scavenging
appealed against his conviction for theft,
Yan had been found guilty by Mr P. F. X. Leonard of stealing
was bound to say he was a very undesirable character and that he had brought about his Parker 51 fountain pen from own death. He asked the Court the pocket of Mak Tai-shing in
lo punish accused
too Soy Street on September 8. severely.
Passing sentence, His Lordship The Judge added that there An old man was fined $3,500, had pleaded guilty at a pre- unt's premises on Friday night said that manslaughter was a was ample evidence upon which"; with the alternative of seven vious hearing on Saturday last, and 14 men were found anoking serious offence but there were. the Magistrate could convict months and six werdts' Impri- He was remanded until this uplum, Eight of them were fined he cumsiocred, extenuating ci- Wu, and he saw no reason to sonment by Mr Hin-shing Le at morning pending a certillente of $30 each by Mr Lo on Saturdaycumstances In the case which interfere with the conviction. Central Magistracy this morn- the quantity of oplum seized; und the others, who were absent he look latu consideration. The Ing when he was convleled on
had their ball of $50 each sentence he was going to pas8 charges of assisting in the mini-
estreated
seemed in his opinion to be the agement of an opium divan and possession of opium and opium
of the case. pipes.
Defendant, Mak Hol, 18, of 153A King's Road, sixth
floor,
This morning, the certifiente showed that there were 13.4 taels of opium, six taels of plum dress und 87 of opium' water. Inspector H. C. Chiu said that the Police raided the defend-
Hongkong Dreamers sing the praises of
"Majorca" pajamas with nightcap. Gay as a fiesta, the new cropped jacket ends in a striking fringed border of Castillian red.
Defendant claimed that he correct one in the circumstances TEMPÉRATURE
was a fok of the keeper of the divan, and that the keeper was not present at the time of the Police raid,
His Lordship then sentenced accused to three years and six months' hard inbour.
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FALLS TO
61 DEGREES
The strong wind sigani, the
This Funny World
DAVAN
WILSON
"Just what was it you wanted me to do, sir?".
$700,000 BUILDING
SCHEME FOR
KOWLOON OUTLINED
A $700,000 building scheme, providing for the erection of ten Chinese-type tenement blocks
Bays:
World of Women" "Many men think
is much less graceful than that the Hongkong woman her sisters at home. The East, they say, breeds laxity and women almply cannot be bothered.
Watch the people travelling across the harbour on the Star bulge Ferry. Some of them over the edges, others le back on their spine. Judging from them there is a modicum of truth in their contentions,
The same page informa neZ- "Riding is becoming more and more popular for women in this Colony and it is now quite a common sight to ace proupa of ladin dressed in riding kit on the tifin-time ferries going to Kowloon in order, to catch the trains for Fanling. Many riding schools have now stari- rd and, according to a well- known rider who has been watching this new craze our Hongkong women are now on the way to dethroning men from their leadeṛskip.”
Tonnia
The taht home of the in their Romanoff family capital, the Alexander Palace of Tharkoye Selo, soon will be turned into a model "reRÉ home" for deserving workmen, The
where Nicholas Romanoff, the Empresa Alexan dra Fioderovna, the black monk Rasputin and their friends played out the final scenes of their tragic lives, will hereafter be occupied by workmen the most energetic and women from factories, says a report from Leningrad.
"COLONIAL" writing in
"Old Hongkong" re- calls that the Hongkong
in Tai Nan Street, Kowloon, was outlined in Cricket Club's history goes exemption proceedings this morning.
A Tenancy Tribunal pre- elded over by Mr H. H. B. How, with Mr Douglas Hung and Mr. Lau Chan-look heard black ball, which was an application brought by the holsted
Saturday Shung Yuen Land Investment night was lowered at 10 Co. Ltd. for the exemption of
Nos. 250-270 Tai Nan Street, a.m. this morning.
הם.
In a report on the 11 houses The Royal Observatory re Mr Wong Ting-ki, the architect, ported at 9 am, that tropical said that they were over 45 storm Kathy was centred within years old and lacked smitary 10 nautical miles of 13.7 degrees tellities,
north and 111.5 degrees East and was moving slowly west or west- nou-west.
This places the storm about
340 miles north-east of Saigon.
70 Flats
of ten,
The now scheme envisages eight- The minimum temperature the erection recorded at the Observatory storeyed buildings with a total
from midnight last night to noon today was 61 degrees Fahrenheit, the maximum temperature was 08.8 Σ.
Forecast for today; moderaič or fresh east-north-east winds, fair,
Burglary
of 70 domestic fats and ten floors. shops on the ground Floor area will be increased by three times and the scheme wil
INGENIOUS ENTRIES IN
WINDOW COMPETITION
back to 1851 and it is thus very
nearly the oldest established sports club in the Colony,
It was in June, that year, thet local cricketing enthus.asts formed the club which from the outset had played on Ita present ground, originally a wasto pleca of land by the seafront used us a drill ground for troops.
The land, it is worthy of note, is still liable to military “exi- gencies"-- right not exercised for many years.
The first interport match took Rockets to the moon, birds place on this ground against of paradise and half-Shanghai In February 1883, and quaffed mugs of beer are in 1887 a local team journeyed to the northern port to do battle among the ingenious en-
with their rivals. It was not tries in the Festival of the until 1800 that the next en- Arts Window Dressing counter took place, this also in Competition which open Shanghai. ed this morning.
The Cricket Club's gradual This is the second Annual exclusive tenure of its ground take about a year, to complete, Festival Competillon which has not been without adverse
porated in 1940 and had Kabilities to interfere with the -financing of the project.
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Hearing continues this after-
pany.
wns won
A
will be judged by a panel comment. We find the follow- Mr Leslie Wright, Instructed selected by the Central Caming, for instance, in the course by Mr J. C. B. Stack omittee. The first prize is the of a leading article in the Hong Hastings and Co., said that the Lane Crawford Challenge Cup kong Telegraph of May 1, 1889. applicant company was incor which
Jast yea, by "Some eight or nine years ago, the Tsang Fook Plano Com-that small field to the eastward of the City Hall now known as This year the Tsang Fook the Cricket Ground, was the Thieves broke into 183, Des Over 170 tenants are opposing window features surrealist public recreation ground for the By some Vecux Road, West, between the application and
Bo far no pastel drawing of musical In-European community, midnight and
means or other. Sir Aribur
□ o'clock this comperaation agreements have struments and a book, on the
history
Kennody inoming and stole three wrist been reached.
was 'got at” to loana of: music. Among Instruments favoured by vary Crikeet Club at a nominal rent
this ground watches, a fountain pen and a
to the Hongkong quantity of clothing to a total
Ing generations is a trombone and, since that time, Bas been value of approximately $140. noon.
suspended above a chair upon generally regarded which is draped a bandeman's property. Now Sir Arthur as private jacket and a half-finished glass Kennedy had no right to lako of mild sle.
away from the public what was Paqueretta has not only dress undoubtedly their exclusive pri- ed one window but the ground vilege. However, although the door shop as well in background fold in question has been vastly Group Captain Peter Townsend | Mr Townsend together with his colours of red, black and white. Improved by the Club, Ille au
who had planned Lo leave five-member film unit arrived A dramatic black velvet tanga excepting on regards situation, a the Colony today for Tokyo here last Friday.
stress Fand Sapper's cocktail poor specimen of a cricket has been delayed.
gown of pure silk organza are ground and It is also too.'smali The Air France plane on which They were here in connection shown with brilliant rhinestone to answer the purpose for which he war fly out of Hoog-. with a documentary film jewellery and the new black it was intended, namely a place. kong has been delayed for which Group Captain Peter Teather wigs,
of resort for the amusement and 24 hours a spokesmen of the Townsend Is making of his Ingenpals had perched a bird recreation of the public. We do airline sald
round-the-world trip,
of paradise above, the sparklină; nos singest that the Cricket Club display of watches, and the should be deprived of their Tabaqueria Filipina@haa- the ground so long as the members on rocket shooting to the moon to of that institution are content | highlight a wall-known brand to burlesque “the nooit rame
of cigarettes. T
within ith effeümperibed }}mlja,"
TOWNSEND DELAYED
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