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MONDAY, MAY 25, 1959.
Men Who Robbed Blind Girl
Get Two Years' Gaol
Two men who stole cash and jewellery valued at $1,736 from a blind singer, were each sentenced to two years' gaol by Mr T. L. Yang at Central Magistracy -this morning.
They were Lam Kwok-leung, 20, and Chan Kwong,
23, of no fixed abode.
Passing sentence, bir Yung seld that they bad committed u well serious uffence and they
woman
understand at the time that the whose room they
Hol Luk burgled at
Tung Boarding House, 150 Con- naught Road Central, was blind.
Divisional Detective Inspector Doxull, prosecuting, suld the blind girl singer, Lam Slu-ying, had been lying in the boarding house since February this year. She lived with another girl who was also blind.
Her Savings
by
They earned their living singing In restaurants and Lam
had saved up $1,120.
She also had one gold colu, two gold inger rings, at gold
necklace and a gold bracelet.
Governor Inspects
Two Police
Stations
Tho Governor, Sir Robert
Black visited two Polico stations of the Now Terri tarics and Marina Com- mand of the Hongkong Police this morning. Sir Robert was Recompanied on his inspection tour by the Police, Mr
On May 17 at about pn.: Commissioner she left her room and locked it. W. E. Heath. with a padlock. When she res
The Governor travelled in a
turned early the next morning fast Marine Police launch from
discovered that all her
she
Queen's Pier to Cheung Chau
jewellery and eagh were misa-Island, where he inspected the ing.
Police Station,
Two men, who at the time, lived next door in the same boarding house, disappeared Immediately after.
Spent All
were
They
arrested Saturday in Nathan Rand.
Jost
After being cautioned, they admitted that they broke into Ian's room and stole the cash and jewels.
They fold the Pollee that they had
al! spent
the Honey dancing and gambling. They alsu bought new clothes recent- ly. They had $15 left.
secure
Inspector Boxni! said that the padlock which was used 10 the door to the blind girl's room, could be opened without #1 key and without doing any damage to R.
Later, he proceeded to Sliver- mine Bay, on Lantao Island, to visit the Mul Wo Police Station. which is situated on a hill over- looking bench.
the popular bathing
Talk On Oceanarium
Temarrow
at 8 pm, Mr Derek Bromhall will loc turo mambors of Round Table, Hongkong, on the proposed Oceanarium,
The talk will be given in the Royal Hongkong Defence Force Headquarters.
Mr Bromhall will also show coloured slides of underwater photography taken in the Medi- terranean Sea.
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Govt Departments Begin Move Into New Offices This Week
CHINA MAIL REPORTER Within the next few weeks,
sight Government depart- ments will be moving into tho new Wost Wing of tho Central Government offices. This represants the final stage of the Government's schomo to contralise their various departments.
The first to move is the Trou- They sury Department. will vocate their prosent offices in Princo's Build- ing on May 30 and 31. Early in June the Public Rolations Office movos in, followed by the Inland Rovenue Department, tho Audit Deportment,
the Urban Services Do- partment, the Registror General's Deportment, the Government Printer's De- partment, the Post Office staff, and the Dental Clinic staff.
Built at a cost of $11,500,- 000, the now West Wing is situated at the junction of Battery Path and Ico House Street. At this corner the building, which will bo entirely air. conditioned, is 13 storeys or 153 foot high,
The first eight floors of the
building at this
corner have had to be terraced, owing to the steep hill on which they were built. The first complete floor, the ninth, stratches 343 foot from Ico House Street towards the Colonial Secretariat, and 148 foot along Ice House Street, There will be parking space
for nearly 100 cars.
This morning's plcture of the new offices-China Mall Photo.
Britain To Build Training Area In N.
By JAMES FLANNERY
Battle Borneo
Kuala Lumpur, May 25.
British army units from Malaya are to build a battle training area in the wilds of North Borneo. This will be Britain's site for troop exercises in the Far East Engineers with dynamite will blast a way through primeval territory in the shadowofforbidding Mount Kinabali, which time to a height of 13,455 feet, to make a training area to hold about 2,250 men at a time -two battalions and a minor unit,
in
Those who move into the site will face hazards of shorks In constal boys, crocodiles Jungle streams, malarla xwamps, and cliff-edge roads,
This ploneer assault, begin- ning in May and June this year, will take British units inland to gently rolling grass country un- Expectedly like the downs of England.
Horse-Riding
Tesc
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Studying Maps
south. parts
from
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SHEAFFERS
Skrip
FLAG DAY MAY From the Files
NET $35,000 25 FOR ST JAMES'
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
The St James' Settlement Flag Day-appeal is expected to bring in about $35,000, it was learned this morning.
Street sales of dess on Saturday netted almost
In
years
-AGO-
THERE is a flood
Toved $10 notes at the
$20,000. This was "described as very good Chartered Bank of India, seeing this is the Settlement's first flag day." Australia and China, in the Colony, according to the workshop and trade training Police. Detective Sergeant centre for youths and a per- T. J. Hemstoy told the manent settlement *puso magistrate that he saw the next door.
for addition, appeals donations sent out by mali hive brought in about $18,000. Dona- tions are still coming in.
Money collected in the St James Flog Day appeal this
Among St James' present no-manager of the Chartered tivities are a day nursery; a Bank. The notes were now year will go towards the $400,- | girls handleroft class, printing being withdrawn and new 000 welfare centre for the class, free milk bar, mother Issues will be out shortly. Settlement in Kennedy noudclub, boys' handicraft class, overlooking Wanchal,
English class, dental clinic,
Its Activities general clinic and an 'auto and
St James' Betllement - up to now it has been quartered In ■ Nlasen hut which, serves as workshop, training centre, communaA! centre and church
- alma at providing a new
OFF TO
A POOR
START
By ERNST GOTTSCHALK
electrical mechanic's class.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Thank You! Sir-Through your
Borres-
It said this in the course of
a case in which Chu Tak-leung was charged with possession of three forged $10 notes of the Chartered Bank. He was sen- ter.ced to six months hord Izbour.
Hongkong Cricket Club | beat Chinese Recreation Club in the Lawn tennis league by seven acte to two. Sullivan and Sowell, Wild and ArmI- strong, and T. A. Pearce and Bathurst played for HKCC while F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang, H. Y. He and L. Li, and K. Au and T. F. Lo play-
pondence columns I would like, on behalf of St. James' Settle ment Fing Day Committee, loed for CRC,
Kowloon make pubile acknowledgment of
The
of
Cricket Club, con- E. C. Fincher; Fincher; W. Nyde
J. Rodgers, F. Grose
the magnificent response on the aisting c part of the people of Hongkong E. to St James Bettlement's first and Flog Day on Saturday last and A. & P. Quest, beat a sum approximately Chinese Recreation Club team THE Music Society $20,000 was realised from col- consisting of Nz Sze-kwong and Chiu Chun-chiu, lu Tak-lum lecting tina and we have re- started on Saturday ceived several thousand dollara and Tam Yock-fong, and night a new, very com- in addition to this la donations. Kam-chues and Isu
Chun As soon as our Agurts are yan by alx sets to three. mendable venture in the cumpleted the Flog Day Com
in- intend to make dining room
of the mitted
In dividual acknowledgments. Gloucester Hotel, which the meantime, however, I would
can accommodate
Ng
UNE 13 marks the everyone who helped an Uke
coming of age of one whether by selling or buying audience of about 350. nags, by donating money or of Hongkong's best-known The venture--a summer refreshments, by helping at and most enterprising Mackin- Beries of piano recitals-depots, by lending usins and establishments
truya or by counting our intends to offer in plea- takings, to knew at once how tosh's Ltd, the men's wear their specialists whose reputation sant surroundings music whole-hearted
very grateful I am for
and generous is known not only in Hong-" of an intimate character support.
kong but throughout the New. Settlement buildings Far East. at an easily accessible, partly financed by the goodness
of Hongkong people will benefit frm opened a doors Flaunting supersilio,
central location.
the
100
The Arst of these recitals in many Four most deserving and June 13, 2013 with Mr F. A.
the series was, I regret to state,
not à success and that despite the fact that the hall ap-
peared to be accoustically agree.
needy families.
KATHLEEN MCDOUALL Chairman, St. James' Settle- ment Flag Day Committee
Mackintosh and a staff of one-
cooltel
able for such an enterprise, that China Mail Headline the founder of the firms applied
the seating arrangeusent
Was
( most sensible and that minor
How well the foundation's were lald and how assiduously
himself to its development may be gathered from the fact that sto consists of six
disturbances ha for instance, Sir, I object to the way today the
Queen Juliane, employees.
the strong bum of the air your paper usca' the name of Europeans and over forty other conditioning, can be eliminated, our beloved
be the future na was already done during the Could you in zecond part of Saturday's recitál. more respectful to the Heads of In other words, the stage was foreign countries and use the well set but the protagonist, title, they bear instead of just
Mrs J. II. Taggart, one of pianist Misa Dorothy Simpson stating "Juliana" in the head-
Hongkong's the front-
must popular Smith, did not live up to even line, as you did on
the page of China Mail on Satur-hostesses in leaving by. day.
President Hoover early on "ANNOYED" Saturday morning for San
→→ Francisco where she will:WUZZ
moderate expectations.
Miss Simpson Smith
posers,
second
with Handel,
"Smith"started
and
REPLIES:
CJ's Trade Warning
(Continued from Page 1)
Tog Severe
betrayal of trust by a civli ser- vant, he added.
name
of with Haydn's "Andante and MEOW-Above our heads. Ed. her daughter, Patsy. Variations, following up with +31&itals Chacofime in Früher rattled through these compost- tions with no regard to their particular style, making them The rafts will be floated to a sound indifferent and dull. She "I watched the polo there
joilled Beethoven's C major A preliminary valt. I base cump faland.
will then thrust konata ep 2, No. 3 stong, as if she Engineers they bare ten horse, it is
had no pallence with it, which five a side, 14 horses makes
rebullding dangerous
In reply, Mr D. N. E. Roa, of a precipitous road resulted in gress inaccuracles and a larger profit .. we do not it seven a side, and so on.
said the Kota unclean playing. and Hnking Jesselton
pre- think we should be justified in Crown Councel, Informal. but they haVO
Inevitably, every artist does interfering with the sentenco.
sont offence was o most serious Belud, The road, which real game of polo, and it is
matler. some things better than others, chaums
slicing
The skiria deep
Court ordered that the good, too."
Therefore I had hoped that the sentence be dated from the day
He started that if Hongkong through mountain Major Allen, who comes from
romantic and modern сега
Issued certificates of conviction Instead of today
of origin will be converted for two- Park, Dundeta
Sandycove,
which made up the tax would be the normal pro-
which could not be trusted by Dublin, will head a Gurkha
way traffic. Another push will be made Smith's programme, would fare missed),
part of
other countries this would cer Miss Simpson cedure if an appeal wOS dis- squadron of Engineers starting
tainly affect the Colony's good. the base camp in the better than the classics.. work in late May or June.
as far as International opposite direction to build a
Admittedly Here, soldiers from tropical
trade was concerned, Simpson at the training Smith was less out of touch canvas town Jungle territory can undonzo
area itself.
with Schubert,
Regarding the sentence on the Chopin Direction of the work is in the manoeuvres in terrain
An airstrip will be laid out Debussy than the had been Mr Justice J. A. Gregg and Mr
Bitting with Sir Michael, was Superintendent of Mines; Crown bling temperate lands, 23 hands of Lieutenant-Colonel for supply aircraft.
Counsel mid the acceptance of virtually isolated from the out- W.GF. Jackson, of Farnborough, Colonel Jackson says that
and Justice R. H. Mills-Owens. side world, apart from radiofisks Hants,
the bribe was of personal con- who is with the 60 the work this year will be done viously more affection for their, d'Almada QC, representing the Colony trade as the corruption fcethoven, because she had ob Earlier, the Hon. Leo sideration, and did not affect the and the small towns of North Gurkha Field Engineer Regiment by two Gurkha squadrons, led Borneo, a British colony.
at the Jungle-fringoà
musle, Sunge by British officers, to be fol-
that in in the present case 'did. sppellants, contended But also here her interpreta-view of all circumstances of the Officers leading the expedi- Best camp, near Kuala Lumpur.lowed Inter by д Brifleh
tions suffered from technical untidiness, over-sentimentalising severe.
case, the sentence was too plenty of horse-riding and huts, Colonel Jackson and his palo. Kota Belud, the nearest | cïdes are studying maps and
-Chopin's. "Nocturnes" for in- town to the training area, in landesapo features
'Mr d'Almada said that quite The training area is on lance-and a hankering for one of the f paces la area in Bornen at the northern
ever so often in the District Courts there rising. open countryside, free tonal effects, which Azia where genulas cowboys tip of the Island.
were sentences imposed which of the dark, dense jungle often marred the artistic unlly
were shorter, than the ones in rido.
which blankets most of Asia, and trio, poetry of pieces by น
beneath gaunt Schubert, Chopin, Debussy and the present case for offences, In- Bles
volving dangerous drugs-Ex- Kinabalti, mountain of Granados.
I would have wished that cept, of course, In cases where tragedy, where handfods of allled prisoners-of-war died the Music Society would have the amount of drug involved
The 2,600-ton Ausicalla des- In a forced march by the had a better beginning for its was exceptionally large,
Counsel, also referred to the troyer, HMAS Voyager, WRI be Japanese army during World new, laudable, enterprise and I War - IL
sincerely hope that the failure case of a Superintendent of remaining in port until mild-
· Kinabalu, ・・ granite peak on Saturday does not fishtarten Mines convicted in 1956 of nc-use, undergoing repaire."
A Royplavy spokesman standing alone from any rango, either, the society or the oepting a bribe of me $25,000 is the highest mountain In audience, which was fairly in order that he may commit a refused to disclose the reason Southeast Asia. It is worship numerous and which signif- dereliction of his duly, and was for the repairs, this morning.
"That was a moat the forms by Inland Borneo perfunctory, polite applauso, for i
serious which was built in Sydney, was: tribes--Reuter..
A cuentas dit - involvedite the launched in May;-10525)
tion ate looking forward to In tropical-style military squadron.
The Malays of Kota Belud, centro of a cattle industry, ara export horsemen. At weekends, the settlement holds race meet- with champion ponies entered from thatch-roof villages for miles around.
Major J. F. Allen, who will Tel. 21-157 command the arsi squadron of engineers into the area, says: "It is really a lot of fun all
of tho
The first landings · by en- sincers will be virtual invasions againai rivers, rocks and coral reefs, Landing craft will fake about 200 tons.of equipment, including items like 10-ton excavators, by sea from Blugspere. .Sixty-ton rafts, originally deslamed for crossing the thine, will floot the equipment ashore and up a river.
Dynamite will binst obalruc-
ronds and wharves, ma
Tragedy
Haydn
Mr Patrick Yu appeared with Mr d'Almada for the appellants Both were instructed by Peter Mo & Co.
Repairs For Destroyer
for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited of and ❘ to: FOME': games. Recreation will tions to clear:¤ ̧ way to bulted along with the spirit" of {'cankykpala "the" planist only a f'givin'two'Year And The Dering clearicastrojme
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