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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1958.
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ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
Anti-Triad Officer Gives Evidence They Make From the Files
Trial Of Two Chinese Men On Charge Cooks Take
Two Fleet
Of Conspiracy Prizes
The police officer in charge of the anti-
Lady Gladstone presented triad section at Police headquarters tho Float Broadmaking said in court this morning that no one had ever reported to him that Cheung Kwok-hung, a dance hostesses manager of a ballroom, was a member of a triad society.
The witness, Sergeant Chan Kam-pui was testify- ing in the Criminal Session at the trial of Cheung Chan, 24, former police constable, and Kwan Man-on, 26, police sergeant, on charges of conspiracy to solicit money corruptly and of demanding money with menaces from Cheung Kwok-hung.
It is alleged by the Crown Witnes We have bden
conspire 2 | callengtes, not friends.
ti" together
that the
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West
euny
alleged offences.
Has # every layan reported to The trial is before M Juster ym ofeindly or unofficially by C. W. Herve and a Jury of four men and three womELOR.
Sergeant Chan ald that on the evening f September 21 Cheung Kwok-hun called Join offer and gave tun message which he passed on lily superior
Transferred
Lo
He knew the second accused
uny
member of the police force that the complainant Wis menler of a triad society?
ม
No
The next witness. Ma A.F Cochrane, Divisional Super- intendent of Kowloon City police stathan gave evidence of con- ducting an identification parade on September 27.
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both
ballroom in Kowloon.
Complainant identifled the first and the second accused as the two persons who had demanded money from him.
said the parade was held who was transferrixt from the in connection with an alleged Police Training School to head-demand with menaces at quarters in May.
Kwan's Sergeant
duties included the screening of ap- pleants to the police force.
Witness
that Sergeant suld Kwan had worked in the anti- trigd section on two occasions, on July 17 and 28 of this year. On September 28 the Sergeant was attached to the eommercial crime section.
Crown Counsel Mr A Sungulnetti: Are you a friend vi the second accused, or have you ever been a friend of his
Christmas
M Cochrane said that when the accused were identifled they said that they did not know the rumplainant.
The st aceted Wus als identitled by two other witnesses had seca
s the perron they
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Silver Cup to Potty Officer Cook Chau Tan of HMS Tomor this morning, and in turn later received bouquet of gladioli from P/O Cook Chau Tan who is in charge of HMS Tamar main galley.
The Fleri Breakmaking and Cookery
Competition
and is
held
annual unfair wherever there is a concentra- tion of HM ships.
The last event was held u
Singapore in February.
This year's was hard in HMS Tamar.
There were four sections in Iced the
The competition. Christmas calte competition was wair by CPO Cook Crago of HMS Terror with Leading Cook Gill of HMS Newfoundland as runner-up. Weight was restrict- ed from four to five pounds,
The Decorated Cold Sweets of ngredients costing not more than $ included coffee mousse, rice and honeycomb jelly woulds. HMS Newfoundland, Cook Chan Kwong Pui Kained rat award and the second was carried off by HMS Chevolt, P/O | Cook Kwan-iem.
The
Cooking small Ships' Competition for Minco Pies was won by Ldg Cook Fensome of St Bridos' Bay, with Log Cook Wallace of Rotoiui, second.
The runner-up the Galley Breadmaking Competition was P/O Cook Buungham of HMS Newfoundland
The judges were Major W.11. Pearman of the Army Catering
| speaking to the complainant at Corps, Mr Hans Thoerig of the
the ballroom.
Hearing is continuing.
Peninsula Hotel and Commnan - der F.J.H. Rathbone RN, Base Supply Officer.
Cakes Win Prizes
Left to right CPQ Conk H. Crage of HMS Terror, Leading Cools R. Bill of HMS Newfoundland and PO Chou Ton of HMS Tamar with their teed Christmas cakes after to-
day's competition.-China Mall Photo.
New Kennedy Road Tram Bridge
Returns
After 4 Years In London
Mr Jack L, a former student of
Royden House, returned this j morning in the my Victoria Biter completing 怵 for- year Tele Ceinmunication Engineering courses at London Universi
Mr L, son of Mr and Mrs Peter 1. was the winner of the Bible Reading Competition in the Hongkong Arts Festival in 1951.
in London, Mr Lt worked 415
storetary fr the Chinese Church for two years.
Mr Li was a member of the
with Ila
camera- belug
Kennedy Road Peak Tram bridge is to be widened and
bridge This means the present made higher. zranile supports will have to come down.
China Mall The above photograph taken by
Es bridge which man today shows the temporary erected alongside which will keep the Peak tram running until the new bridge is bufit. The service will not be held up. One day the team will run across the old bridge, the next it will be using the one alongside.
TWO GAOLED FOR
ATTACK
ON DETECTIVE
Headlines Overseas
Two local boys have just
made headlines overseas. They are Jack and David
Odell, song
of Harry Odell, the Hongkong m presario.
25
years AGO
St John's Cathedral was' the arene of a pretty wedding yea- David Odell, the younger, had | terday when Miss Rose Loo the delight of seeing his horse became the bride of Bir come romping in to win the William A. Shea, The Rev. N. Pablo Casula trophy, run off at V. Halward officiated white Mr F. Mazon played appro
Puerto Rico.
The Puerto Rico press hend-priate music at the organ. Tho lined this win for the former bride was given away by Mr Hongkong bay, and featured u Jackınan Doo, manager of the photograph of David receiving | Wing On Co. Lid, her uncle. the Pablo Casals Trophy from the hands of the celebrated Ceilisi.
Jack Odelt
y producing trade against Kround of Rico.
made headlines two films, both the local back- Caribbean Puerta
The Als "Machete," nod "Counterplot," starring Forrest Tucker are both to be distribu- ed by United Arlista.
In attendon on the bride were the Misses May Lee, Nellie Les (sister of the bride), Violet Shea (slater of the greon) and Margaret Grpse. Ar James R. Kotewall was best 107.
THE history of this writes Colony, "Colonial" in "Old Hong-
Davkt and Jack Odell attend-kong" is associated with a to the Contral British School large number of men of (King George V) when they were in Hongkong.
CANE
FOR
YOUTHS
CAUGHT
FIGHTING
Two Chinese youths, Yip Yu- eun, 20 and Lu Tong-kin, 14, appeared before Mr E, M, 8. Donnell al Kowloon laris- tracy Em morning, charged with disorderis conduct by fighting.
various nationalities and faiths, in a manner at once striking and significant of the cosmopolitan nature of Hongkong and the good re- lations which happily exist among its numerous .com- munities.
Among the more famous names associated with local develop- ment, indeed, we have Sir Paul Chater An Armenian, whose loyalty and faith in inc place have never been surpassed by anybody associated with the Colony's affairs.
Some of the early pioneers working hand in hand with the first Britons to establish them- selves here, were members ot the Portuguese, community, and there were also many Indian and Jewish merchants in the Colony in the earliest years, as a glance at the old directories denotes.
The first comers of the unders were from india were the Parsees,
Yip was sent to prison for 14 days and ordered alx strokes of Lite cane. Liu was ordered six strokes of the cane.
defendants
The two found Aghing outside the Man who had been long established Su La Tea House in Bute in Canton, and must have arrived Street at about 12.30 p.m. Inst here simultaneously with the Sunday, The Court was told British in 1841. It is recorded that the fight arose out of an that Persec merchants arrived in to who had the Ching from Bombay about the right to sell newspapers in that middle of the 10th century anu were practically the pioneers of First defendant had two pre-British trade with the empire of vlous convictions. Second de-Cathay. fendant had three.
argument as
area.
Depression
Moscow, Nov. 24. Suvict
have glaciologista found an 80-mile wide depres-
Sixteen years' hard labour and six strokes of the cane was the penalty meted out at the Criminal Sessions this morning to Yeung Chung-wui, 30-year-old carpen-level, under a 12,400-foot leccap
son slatking to between 2,000
Their establishments at Can- ton were in a flourishing state more than a hundred years ago, and the early merchant princes, such as the founders of Jardines, had o large trade with India through their Pareco con- nexions there.
The community, who serve De a link with the ancient Persian sect driven out of their home and by persecution, have alwaya below sen fest and 3,280 feet
seen in the forefront of loca Eastern Antarctic, the and charity, and the name of commerce. social enderyour
re- nows agency Tass
Sir Hormuajee Mod will al- ways be dissociated with the founding and establishment of
ter, for robbery with violence and three in the counts of burglary and larceny.
Royal Photographic Society Yeung's co-accused, Kong Ngau, 31, tailor,
Its photon were selected for The Society's exhibition 1950.
Mr N. W. Craig
Mr
Noci
Art
Soviet
ported.
was
given a total of nine years and six strokes by Mr Justice J. R. Gregg for taking part in the same robbery and one of the burglaries.
A Jury of ve men and two imanimously
found women Yeung and Kong guilty of rob- Craig, Assistant Ding a detective, Chiu Shing, of Editor of the China Mail, re-his revolver at Shatin on the turner in the my Victoria this night of August 28-20. morning trove.
after six months'
The evidence was that the de-
Mr Cralg was necompanied by tective had stopped the two men his wife and two children. at a section of the railway track and was taking them to the police station for enquiries. when they overpowered him and took his revolver.
GAOL FOR Bid To Find Aureomycin
RENNIES MILL MAN
A 41-year-old unemployed man, Wong Cheong-sang. of the Reanies Mil Camp, was neu- tenced to a total of four ahd Italt monilis' gaol_by_Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central Ma- glairacy thl morning. for obtaining money by faluo pro- tences.
Detective Sub-Inspector Kung Mun-tong, prosecuting, told the Court that the defendant was the Organiser of the Kam Cheung Kee Dally and Weekly Money Loan Association.
Between May 25 and Septem-
ber 4 bis year, the defendant
In
Hongkong Soil
An American antibiotice dom is hoping to find aureomycin In Hongtang mith.
He
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Watson and Co., to collect soil And send to their labora- : 1ories.
Samples of Hongkong nail are
now being collected from The soll is placed in small tina, different parts of the Colony. which are then packed into Later they wit be sent to
cylinders and posted by cir America where they will bo mail, chermlenlly analysed.
The company Cyanamle Inter- national have been Laking samples of soll from many parts of the world for the same purpose.
nd obtained from the Associe- Ten years ago, an American
tion on 16 separato occasions a
lolai sum of $2,080.10 by falan-j
ly pretending
last he
WAS of various members, all refugees, at the
applying on betur
Aarointion
research scientist, Dr Ben- discovered Antibiotic
Duggar jamin tracce of the aureomycin in soll.
firm the American fecently,
paked their locol, agents, A.S.
елм
The man who has been
trusted with the responsibl- lity of collecting the samples, is Mr Bruce R. Qule, sales executives of the local agents for the Cynnamid Inter- national.
He tok me this morning, that the most likely areas in which aureomycin would be found aro undisturbed
grasslands
and gods, close by the older rends, in pastures, old invena or emnetering,
The weapon was found wrap- ped up on a hillside
on Sep- tember 9.
Previous Record
Yeung had pleaded guilty to three charges of burglary anel larceny, committed on August 22, 27 and 28, at three houses in the Shalin area.
added that rock or sond amples generally contain such The second accused admulted low intero-organium populu- one of the thefts, but denied his tlong as to be unprofitable for part in another burglary, study. Solin under active
Mr D. E. Greenfield, Clown cultivation are generally Counsel, announced that he was #milarly unprofitable,
aling a nolle prosequi in respect Once the soil has been collect of Kong on regard the count to ed and placed in the small which he had pleaded not guilty. sample cani, this is labelled Both accuand admitted Jum with the location and-date-of|ber of pervious convictions, in- sampling.
cluding breach of a deportation order, tobbery, and larceny, mast Impor-Bath had been
under police supervision.
Aureomycin, tho
innt drug discovered in soil, when combined with other antibioties, is used as a diet- Before sentence was passed,
Mr additive for livestock.
for a asked
Greenfield
The result of feeding livestock, serious view to be taken, may- thela records, Yeung and Kong appeared to be
with this drug in due Ameri- ing that from
Can festing
糖 centro won
hosl|ng
in ment-production professional burglars and rebe
of 20 per cent,
berz,
Crown Counsci also asked for
police
survelilance tor
two
The dopest known depres the Hongkong University. The sion, the shores surrounding the dead sea, 1s 1,286 feet below Community also presented the
ren levels.---fleuter.
the two to be placed under Handbag Snatched years after their sentences heid been served. This application was granted.
Detective Inspector E.R. Moss ussisted in the prosecution,
M.N.
A handbag containing cath and a wrist watch to the total value of $115, wus snatched from a woman pedestrian in Bonham Road late last night.
This Funny World
#2+1-24
"Never phone on Baturday night. I got a terrible burn'. coming down the bannister!”
bandstand [xt the Botanic Gardens, in the sixties.
Shortly after the founding of the Colony there appears to have been a temporary declino in the brisk trade with India, and it is interesting to note that Jewish merchants Avery coming to the fore.
In an old chronicle appears the following, referring to the period about 1844: "There were further in Hongkong half a dozer
Indian firms, chiefly Parsers, but ever since the Treaty of Nanking and the in- troduction of steam navigation, the share of the Parsees. In the China trade bad commenced to dwindle down rapidly, being gradually pushed out by Jowish firms from Bombay, and the Pornces who remained pre- ferred to conduct their business at Canton,"
Later the community revived their trading here, but oven úp 10 now have a very strong re- presentation in Canten's trade, with old-established businesses in Shameen. The Parsecs were granted a cemetery at 11appy Valley; about the time that the Christian and Moslem communi- ties were being similarly ac commodated, in the Fifties and they formed a club many years ORD. It was' only about thres
back that their new Zorastrian chilshemian jürt below Lee Gardens, facing Carolina. Hill; was opened.
years
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