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Death Of Supreme Court Is Told:
CHINA MAIL
Architect's 'Man Chopped To
Wife
The death of Mrs Eleanor
Kwok occurred this morn- Ing after a short illness,
Mr Kwok, who was 28, wan the wife of Mr Stanley Kwok, well-known Hongkong architect who
with works
Mr Cumine.
They Inve
Erte
เพ children,
Ching-bang ged threa, and Juanne, aged one.
three day
Mra Kwok was taken ill about ago and divil klin Queen Mary mowing at the Hospital.
Mrs Kwok was the former Miss Eleanor Wong. She wan of Mr and Mrs the doughter Wing Sik-rhung.
funeral service will be Ma Rek
nm. at Christ 11 UL Church, Kowloon, tomorrow.
Snatcher Gaoled
on
¦
Death After
Money Argument'
A man had chopped a Sanitary Department coolie to death after an argument about money, Supreme Court was told today.
Lam Kwong has pleaded not gully to murdering the coolie, Ng Mung, alias Ng Ylu-hung, un December 1B last year, at Fukien Street Hit Village.
The case is being heard before Me Jusilee J. R. Gregg and a jury of six men and one woman, Mr D. Ren, Crown Counsel,
is prosecuting; assisted by Mr D. G. Willis.
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and Lam was saying words to the effect that Ng owed hin money which he had not re- paid.
Soon after she looked out of ker hut and Kaw Ng moving away from the hut holding he neck, with Lam chasing hini, brandishing a vegetable chopper. Mr Rea said another woman had shouted "Don't figh
Mr I. Winter is appearing for! Don't fight," and Lain.
ABUSIVE WORDS
Lam had Aturned back with the chopper
in his hand.
COLLAPSED
Mr Ren told the court that
Ny had staggered some dis- Ng's job, as a Sanitary Departtanee and had then collapsed. ment coolle was to sweep the village,
Mr Ben Fald that a woman, Wai-ving. would tell the Slu court that Ng often left clothing
in her hut.
A 30-year-old man, Ng Kan, described by the Police as a coward'y person, picking women as victunt of his ex- ploits," was rentenced to three years and nine months by Huggins at the Judge A. A.
On the afternoon of December Court Kowloon District
this, toon after 3.45, the wom
taw Ng and Lam standing on morning.
placed He was also
under opposite ends of the path,
Me Rea said: "She heard Lam Police Supervision for two years.
words to Ng pleaded guilty to thr speaking in abusive charges theft.
Chief Insp. T. W. Wheeler said in all the cases the anused bad approached his victim from behind and snatched a purse, a gold bracelet and a pair of ear- rings.
One of the things he sald was I can chop you to death'." Before returning to her hut she saw Ng walking in the dirretion of Lam.
Mr Ren said another woman raw the two quarrelling later,
TRIAD ARRESTS INCREASING. FIGURES SHOW
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
The big Police sweep against Triad Society men is now running at a slightly faster pace than last year, according to official figures just released.
The police had arrived at 4.7 p.m., but there was no sign of Lam or the chopper,
Next day he was arrested in Shanghai Street,
Mr Ren Enid
the blow front the chopper had cat Ng's jugular vein, and had inflicted a wound 12 inches long. 4 an inch wide,
and of an inch deep.
The hearing is unfinished. "
FEDERATION: CMA
IS ADAMANT
The Chinese Manufacturers' Association remained firm in their refusal to have anything to do with the proposed Federation of Hongkong industries, Me Chu Shek-lun, the Pro- sident of the Association said this morning.
The CMA war of the opinion that the Federation of Hong- kong Industries should be gr- of indus-
raised on the basis trial bodies,
The Board
of the
CMA
thought that since the proposed
Federation would be organised with individual factories as its basic units, this. WOR tanta- mount to competing with the CMA for members,
Mr Chu reiterated that the would not appoint
the
have been In the Up to May 1, the Police this years and year had arrested 1,454 Trial Culony from the earliest days, embra, and all but 17 have In 1845, conviction for Tria heen convictid,
activities meant three years ¡m- | CMA During the whole of last year,prisonment and branding on the a total of 2015 Trind members check. were arrested, and all but 20 were convicted.
Almost Daily
Almost dolly, suspected Triad met re being brought before the Magisteneke, tried and sen- ti need.
The Tollee are making on all- put bid to break the power of These gungs which have ruled the Colorry's underworld
jor
After Riots
The big Polles sweep atunc Trind Societies began after the Kowloon lots of 1958 in which une they were blamed for trouble.
nominees 10' general committee.
proposed
Tomb Found
Paris, June
From January 1, 1957 to Oc- tober 10 of that year, 3,000 An ancient témb dating back were detained by the Police and 1,000 years has been excavated
of this number the Police took in Pinglu County in southern 1.200 in prunts. The majority Shansi Province, Radio Peking were gaoled,
reported.-AFP.
and NOW!
besides the Capri Sets
ties
MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1959.
PICTORIAL
COLOURED
ABOVE: Members of the Coloured People's Progressive Association parading in Whitehall to draw attention to the conditions which prevail at the moment in North Kensington, scene of the murder at Whitsun of the West Indian carposter, Kelso Cochrane. Central Press.
ABOVE: The Dalai Lama `on his now throno-at Mussoorie, in the Himalayan foothills. From the throno, built of Birla House by the India government, the Dalai Lama glyas audience' to a steady strogm of visitors from all over India.—Express Photo.
SHEAFFERS
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
PARADE
"LEFT":"People's Action Party supporters chair leader Lee Kuan-yaw in-
a triumphant procession..
-The Times Photo.
·BELOW: 'A ̈ ̈red-coated
From the Files
25
years -AGO-
FOLLOWING
the
ex.
plosion of the Hong.
santry comes to a stiff-kong Gas Company - meter with largo loss of life present as the Queen
(reported recently in this and the Duke pozo
column) an inquiry Was instituted at which Mr with a corgi against
Hamilton, the coroner and the towering bulk
a jury of three presided. of Windsor Castle.
Mr. W. A. Butterfield, who plates for the examined the Note: the Queen's corgi
Government said that the plates of the gasometer were in dogs have an enviable
very bad condition and in sama record for biting
cases were so corroded that daylight could be seen through Guardsman. Express them.
Photo.
ABOVE: "The Lady in White”—no serviceman who
- solled in and out of Durban duilng the wor can fall to
have heard of her or seen her arriving at Southamp
ton aboard the. Stirling Costle. She is Mrs Perlo Siodło Gibson now 71. As the troopships salled past long"
a'breakwater at Durban sho stood...on the end and sang through the megaphone she holds here. Express
Photo
+
Mr Butterfield said that the plates ho examined were badly wasted away by corrosion and that in some places, the, plates were only the thickness of paper.
Mc Butterfleid was then superintendent engineer of the Asiatic Petroleum Company (now, Shell Company of Hong- kong).
Mr Butterfield said the cor- rosion had become so bad that the plates of the container from their original thickness of 1/10th of an 'inch were 'reduced to 1/40th.
1
'He was of the opinion, that they should have been renew- ed some while ago,
With regard to the origin of the disaster, wines belleved that gan, which had found its way Into the watchman's quarters Igalled there, the resulting throw-back causing the major tank explosion,
The possibility of a Lido scheme for Kowloon, a ques tion much in the public mind last summer, has now deve loped into a definite project, which is receiving the com sideration of the Government. This fact emerged at this week's meeting of the com- mitter of the Kowloon Re aidente Association. The Gov ernment has disclosed that the project is sponsored by pric vate interests and the KRA while supporting the scheme in principle is seeking further details.
MRL W. Amps, of Logan and
MMears
Amps, escaped with painful- bruises and a nasty cut over the eye, when he fought his fractious horse on a cliff's edge yesterday. He was riding along Black's Link late in the day, mounted on a recently purchased Aus- trálian horse.
Dr Ip Ching-yuj ..Dr. Chan Fotkaht Dr Lit Phe- afew have been added to the Hat of medical practitionera;
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