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JUNK ROBBERS GET FOUR YEARS' GAOL
Three men who robbed the öccupants of a fishing junk in
Tsun Wan last September were sentenced to four years”- hard labour each by Judge H. H. B. How at Kowloon District Court this morning.
Girl Was
Drunk Outside Church
The trio, Chan Hung, 20; Leung Tung-you, 38; And Cheung Yee-ling, 38, had been found guilty last Thursday of two charges af robbery with aggravation and three of nasoult occasioning bodily harm,
They were remanded until
sentence ponding today for medical
whether report they could be given corporal punishment.
on
The second accused, Leung Tung-you, WIS additionally ordered to receive six strokes ut the cinc
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Justice Without Mercy
Judge How told the accused that the prison terms would date from the day of their "Seventeen years old and arrest,
drunk! Why?" Mr T. L. Away Fishing 19 when, under the headline Yang asked a girl who appeared before him at that the accused rowed a sampon Central Magistracy this to a shiny junk moored in a bay in Truun Wan on the night morning.
of September 5-8 and two of them boarded the junk to rob the occupants.
She was on a charge of behave Ing in a disorderly manner while
drunk.
Wal-ying, The girl, Cheung
when declined to reply, but questioned further, she said she had had a quarrel with her friend.
She was then asked about her parents, and
she Again declined to teply. A little
gold Jater, however, she
her father was dead and her mother
was still in the Colony,
Mr Yang remanded her for two days for the Probation Offcer to investigate her family background,
She was found drunk out side St. John's Cathedral on Saturday night.
SJr.-Never have I read an lem of news with sadder, heart than on Saturday June
"Widowed Mother of Four Gots One Month" you reported the sad case of a widowed mother of four young children being sentenced to guol for one month for trying to eke out her meagre Income by taking in some sew- ing work to earn a little more
At the time of the robbery, the junk owner was away fists-money to obtain some extra ing.
comfort for her alling children.
There
Jornething Aboard were his 70-year-old
must be
with our law father, his wife and his enseriously wrong
and the much boasted British cubine and several children,
of Justico that the ndi chec
cannot ministrator of the law temper Justice with mercy but, like
insist on Shylock, must exacting the pound of flesh that the law may be satisfied. Surely this is a case where mercy is well merited, and justice could have been served by a severe,
The accused bound und pagged the three adults and took away $500 in money and other valuables,
Arrested
Tie three accused were arrested six months later in various parts of, the Colony. The second accusod was found to have pawn tickets referring to articles stolen during the robbery.
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primary or a warning to the unfortunate mother instead of dragging her off to gaol. As usual, in such case one does
not blame the judge who only administered the law with im- partiality, but surely It would be more human to use some diacre- tion in awarding sentence In such a distressing cose. As iv- is, this poor widow is now separated from her children, all because of mother love. I have never felt BO distressed or ashamed in my life that Brilish justice can be so cruel,
Turning nearer home. In D report of. a court case, your morning contemporary the | "South"Chino Morning Posi"
under the caption "Father's Day" in its issue of Friday, June 12, mentioned the case of a man having been cauiloned by the magistrate for possession of two bottles of Portuguese wine_pre- sented to the accused by o friend in celebration of the birth of his first son, and whlist the magis- trate congratulated the happy father, at the same time he made him a sadder man by ordering. the confiscation of the bottles of wine. Again, one la unwilling, to blame the magistrate who only observed the law which he had to administer, but he has discretionary power, and could have let the unlucky man pay the duty and retain the wine it he so desired. From what should have been a happy occasion this man was made terribly sad, be- cause the law must be upheld. Who was it who described the law as "a haos"? Let's hope our administrators of the law do not feel themselves bound to be "a
in hass" themselves but have kuf- ***ficient courage and humanity to
temper justice with mercy.
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ABOVE: Two teenage girl athletes who have been close friends for nearly a year have discovered that in fact they are sisters, adopted into different homes during the war. They are Margaret Morris (left), 19, and Joon Fryer, 17; they grew up five miles opast, Margaret in Wolverhampton and Joan in Darlaston. And they met for the first time three years ago on opposing sidor in a girls' football match. Ten months ago Margaret changed to Joan's club, and since then they have been close friends. The fact that they were sistors was discovered by the team manager Frank Edwards, when Joan camo to him to ask if he could help her. find the sister sho knew she had somewhore, Frank's investigations proved that the missing sister was Margaret who was unaware that she had any living relatives.-Exprais Photo,
ABOVE: Flying into London recently to play alongsida Sir Alec Guinness in the film.of "Our Man in Havana' come burly Burl Ives, folk-singor turned actor who can now command £60,000 a film. Major Itam in his luggage a giant Ponnsylvania Dutch safami, present for Sir Alec.--Express Photo.
BELOW: At Liverpool, 93-year-old Tomor Partoon, a entired schoolmistress, had two dreams.coma tric_by, courtesy of the Dolfy Express. She flow in a plang from nearby Spako Airport: pnd she saw the sea for the first time in 20 yours. · For eight yeara she saw nothing at all; from the time she was 83 until two years ago, she was blind. Then, at a servico in St Andrew's Church, Weltall, her sight suddenly returned us the prayed. Express Photo.
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LEFT: Maron, probably the world's most prolific}" hippopotamus in captivity, in her pool at the Copon- hogon Zoo with her wook- old calf her fifteenth, Moren is 36 years 'old---- the father of the now colf, Rasmus, is only øight,~-~. Express Photo.
BELOW: It must be a world record--two, mamE- bers of one family, both with mended holos in their hearts. Oddly enough it Wat daughter Margaret Saunders' condition that was discovered first when she was a baby-but she had to wait till a few days ago (sho is now .12) for har operation. The hole in her father's heart was spotted on a mass X-ray three years ago when he was 42--but his had to be operated on at once. Now they're both botter and both thanke to the same surgeon, Sir Russoll Brock, and the sama hospital, the Brompton-Express Photo.
ABOVE: The technically-skilled modern soldior con still find a use for brawn-as is shown by these men of the Royal Artillery. They are seen huuling on a rope to steady o British-mado Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile as it moves a launcher loader onto tho launcher itself during a demonstration of the School of Anti-Aircraft Artilfary, In Wales: During and since the war the School has trained thousands of Instructors in heavy and light anti-aircraft "BURRUTY UK rudur: Now" trg, -courses have been extended to include the training of Instructors and batteries in the now surface-to-air guid- ed weapon systems. -*** Routerphoto.
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Se great was the demand for the new Hongkong Government three and a half per cent loans, that tho application for the five million offered to the public closed at 8 p.m. yesterday. afternoon. At that time, a total of $16,605,000 had been subscribed.
The loan opened at 10 a.m., and within a few minutes had been oversubscribed, After one hour, applications. totalling $15,000,000 had, been received.
A late cable in the same copy of the SCM Post from Weihaiwol said: -- An' „ in- oficial report states that Mr Grahame D. Nicholl, Shanghai insurance man, and possibly four others of the. Shuntien pirates captives, have been fraad.
The
Nicholl
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report states.
a
that
and a Chinese have
been released and that one of ille aircraft from HMS Eagle fying a
spotted 'a sampan white
flag, and containing three foreignore.
The aircraft was unable to land on the acė, so it, returned to the aircraft carrier to change its wheels for floats and tp return and investigate the sampan.
A
TORRENTIAL down- pour of rain which converted the Shing Mun Gorge into a raging torrent within
minutes
fow
of the burst ing of the storm is believed to have cost the lives of six men working on, the Gorge Dam site on Wednesday afternoon.
Que man was gallantly rescued by a British engineer, Mr H. M. Findlay, but four men wure swept through the imnot and later two bodies feared to...bis additional victims, “ were found in the bottom of the gorge.
Miss M. Abbas who lives dt 32. Percival Street, caught a suspected thief whom sha found meddling with the pad- lack on the door of the next door house.
When she first, saw him, she quiostioned \"the" man. Chan Wai-san, unemployed, who was picking the padlock with two nails. He replied that ho was looking for a friend. Then he turned and
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Miss Abban net off in hot pursuit, caught the man and handed him over to à police- He dropped the lock and the two nails in his bid- to escape. Mr Hamilton gaya kim six months" - gogl..
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