SHANKS & CO., LTD.
SANITARY EQUIPMENT,
| ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
208 Chartered Bank Building. Tel. 27789
CHINA
Established 1845
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1959.
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WALLED CITY MURDER TRIAL CLERKS ACCUSE EACH
Foki Identified Man
At Parade
The foki of a heroin divan in Kowloon Walled City told the Criminal Sessions this morning how he heard an exclama- tion of "Wah" in the early hours of the morning.
Magistrate Questions Police
Action
A Central Magistrate dis- approved of police proce- dure in dealing with the case of a man arrested for riding a bicycle in a one- traffic street this way
morning.
Pleading guilty to the charge, Kwan Kueng said that he was detained from noon to 6 pm. even though his company offer-, ed bail money a few minutes after his arrest,
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Mr T. . Vang said that he could
the understand difference in time in the slate- rucut made by the police and
Tre
Bald police defendant. defendan! we arrested at 12.40 defendant salt be 3. While was arrested at 12 p.m.
BAILED OUT
The police said he was bied out 4 pm, while defendant sand he was build out of 6 p.m. There was afre a discrepancy in
and Chinese both the English translations in the bail receipt. The English version indicated the time as 5.40 pin, while the Chinese said 5 p.m.
and
The man, Li Hong-yum, was giving evidence in the Kowloon Walled City, murder trial.
Before the cart are 1.0 Kri 40, Toki, Secto
chul, 20,
unemployed, and Wong
Ho
are. 5:0
54, unemployed. Thes Alleged to have murderta Kwai, keeper of a heroin divin at Lo Yan Street, grout fimot, on July 24.
Witness told the court that as result of the shoul, he went ONE Geer to No. 4 Lo Yan Stre when he saw four or five people
tanding outside.
He looked inside the room of No. 1. and saw a man, bleed. ing at the shoulder, being push-
od against the wall by another 1
be described 13, whom being about 30 years old.
Another Man
av
Witness said there was an- ulher man, with a knife in his " hand, standing outside Questioned by Counsel, Mr D. E. Greenfield, Li said he had later identifled the man outside, at an
Crown
klentines-
tion parade. He recognised this man as the second-weused.
Wilness described how the man inside the room shouted "run" to the man outside, and how they both ran off up the street.
The three preused are represented by Mtr A Zimmern. Mr Benjamin
Sumad. Lu and Mr A. H
re-
AUSTRALIAN
FAMILY
COMMISSIONER'S-
ARRIVE
Mrs G. R. B. Patterson, wife of the Australian Senior Trade Commissioner, and two children, George, 8, and Elizabeth, 14, arrived from Sydney by Qintaa this morning.
George will go to scheal here while Elleabeth will say unti) February when she will return to Sydney to study,
Mr Patterson is to be presented with his OBE by the Governor. Sir Robert Black, at Government House on Thursday morning.
BIG V. PRES. Signing
ON WORLD TOUR
spectively. Mr Greenfield and Mr The Senior Vice-President of
D. G.
Counsel are alls, Centen secting.
The hearing before Mr Justice
D. Schibles continues.
DIDN'T MOVE CAR
A private car owner WHO led to remove his cor from
tho
General Dynamics Corporation, New York pasted through Hongkong this morning by Swissair on the first leg of a whirl-
wind world business tour. He is Mr Frederic de Hoff-
travelling who is เลย
the Indian where his
a parking place in Jaffe Road Bombay to attend after it had broken down was Agricultural Fair, ordered
$25 to
the firm Government is towage fee breactor.
Mr Yang said that the police:
in be more expellent should dealing with minor cases that he strongly disapproved of the police taking down the de- fendant's stateurient four hours after the arrest was made.
Kwam Keung, 24, of 405 Hen- nes.y Road, ground floor, Aned $10 for the offence.
was
10 pay
to
displaying an atomic
Mr K. A. S. Phillips at Centrul From the fair Mr de Hoffmann will fly to London arriving on Magistracy this morning.
Sunday to attend 0 business conference.
renove
Lee Pan, 42 Gloucester Road, ground floor, pleaded guilty to
charge of failing to his car
or to take reasonable the removal of steps to secure his car on October 7, and was fined $10.
Immediately after the Londor. conference Mr de Hoffmann will return to New York to attend a second business conference on Monday,
Mr
Of Contract
Not Conclusive
Counsel Submits
John McNeill, QC, representing the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd, submitted to the Supreme Court this morning that the signing of a contract was not final and conclusive, although it was an important element and was a part of the activities giving rise to pro- fits.
The Inland Revenue Depart ment have appealed against a decision by the Board of Reviews that ruled the deck company did not have to pay pro tax
from $402,813.30 derived
PICTORIAL PARADE
in
ABOVE: Mr Mok Hing-wing, Superintendent the Auxiliary Police, receives the Colonial · Police Modal from the Governor, Sir Robert Black, during the annual Police parade on Sunday.
ABOVE: Mr.A. MacDonald (left) and Mr. Smith at the St. Andrew's Night Ball held
Peninsula Hotel recently.
the
ABOVE: Mr P. H. Lam prosenting a souvenir to Mr L. B. Trevor "(right), during a, farewell party for Mr Trevor recently.
ABOVE: Brigadier General H. R. Whittaker"), M:S, Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics, Pacific "Aroa" (left);,saan on arrival from Bangkok
Capf. G. K. Nicodemus, Ú.S. Naval attaché the airport to meet him."
on
successful salvage operation off the Paracel Islande In 1956.
The Board of Review had allowed an cartier appeal by the company, on the grounds that the profits on the company's operation had not arisen in or
from hark been derived
the Calony.
Mr McNelll said this morning the conclusion had been reached that the mere fact that profia arost from a corporate company on business In the Colony was not enough.
Impossible
He submitted it was impos- sible for the court to say there was no evidence in the case slated upon which the Board could cothe to the conclusion it did.
Mr M Heenan. Acting Solicitor- General, appears for the Inland Revenue Department.
The hearing before Bir Justice G. R. Grz. Senior Puiane Judge, continues.
Governor To
Open New
Factory
The Governor, Sir Robert Black, will open the new Jardine Dyeing and Fin- ishing Company's factory at Shatin this afternoon. The factory, which will even- tually employ toout 220 plople, has obserted 21 ex-Naval Dock- vard fitters who have elected to be retrained as textile .opera- tive".
Ninety-five milly units will be housed at nominal · rentals, and 88 unmarried men will have free siccommodation.
Medical attention will be free for all workers and their de pendents, and four meata ở day will be supplied free of charge. The Initial output of the mill about 2,800,000 yards a month. [This will be increased to around 4,000,000 yards in the near future,
MONEY STOLEN,
OTHER OF PLANNING EMBEZZLEMENT SCHEME
Two former clerks of a company, who had pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement, this morn- ing accused each other of being the instigator in the scheme.
47.
for
From the Files
25
years AGOTM
December, 1934
HE SCM Post referred
THE
to the annual report
The two secusad were Frank accounts with the bank, but Shirazec, 47, Iranian, and Shirazee, who was in charge of Cheng Jo-ke, aline Cheng Walk the beaks, misified the entries in Shirakce was in charge of the books,.Mr Collier raid. the Pharmaceutical Department i Cheng had a previous convie- of the Society for the Pro- of the Henningsen and Co. Ltd, tion in 1833 for embezzlement tection of Children and and Cheng was his desistant.
And larceny by servant
said conditions in which Shirazce, who admitted
which he was given 13 months the poor lived in Hongkong counts of embezzlemail and seven Cí falification of the seedunts, claimed company's through Mr G. E. S. Stevenson that Cheng
him 1x loanth money on many occasione as be was in Ananela difculties.
four
He said he discovered that some of the money collected for the company had not been accounted for and realised later that second defendant had used. part of he
make money lo ians to him. He then tried to alter the accounts to cover up for Cheng. He said he had no idea of the sum involved.
Mr Collier said.
In
mligation, Mr Stevenson were a "pitiful state called Mr. A. Henningsen, affairs." managing director of the firm to testify on Shirazee's character.
had Mr Henningsen said he known Shtrazee for niore than 20 years, and had always known him as trustworthy, honest, and responsible. At the time of the offance, Shirazee was earning; are no $1,000 a month, and Cheng $550.
Not Insufficient
of
The Society's figures, said the leading article, how no fewer than 30 persons (22 adults and
п floor- eight children) to "dreadful overcrowding,"
It is noted again that "there, sanitary arrangements building whatever" In the though there surprisingly Jittle offensiveness,
The shuple pen-pleture of a which ta many
home, is self suf-
Asked by Mr Shurlock. Mr bed-space. Henningen said he did not think families is that a salary of $550 was insufficient to awaken gympathy with dient to maintain a white collar the poor and anger at tolerance
of such a state of affairs, werker's family.
The mmily or individual the renting tht bedepace has use of that amount of space for all purposes. In the day time It becomes the table, Household chattels are pushed out of the the bed when not way under
Mr Stevenson told the Court that during the war, Shirazee because he Iranian national and
Two Charges Cheng, who.pleaded guilty to two charges of embezzlement, claimed through Mr Terence Shurlock, that it was Shirazee who had lent him money and when he discovered irregulari-had managed to hold the com- ties in the collections Shirazee pony's property in Shanghal.
Mr Shurlock, in mitigation, told him to mind his own buel said Cheng had a family of 10
ness.
He also claimed that the re- ceipts issued for those collections were the old ones of which Shirazee only had knowledge.
Mr W. S. Collier, Crown Counsel, told Judge K. R. Macfee in the Victoria District Court that Shiraroc had been employed in the firm for more than 20
He tvas YMIS. originally employed by a similar company in Shanghai, anxi in 1952 he came to Hongkong as an assistant in the Pharmaceu- tical Department of the com- pany. In 1956, he was pro- moted to be in charge of the department.
Later that year, Cheng was
assis employed as Shirazco's tant, Mr Collier sold.
Their duties and respon
receive pay- siblities were to
not interned WAS was an
to support,
Judge Mocfee adjourned the case until 10 am. tomorrow for sentence.
4. Injured In Traffic Accidents
required or hung on the walla.
сап "At night, as many as
the bed board crowd on to sleep there, but children may be accommodatedi on shelves above the bed-space along with be
family property which can so disposed of.
"It will be readily imagined that there is not much through
under
these clrctim- draught stances, and the fact that at the гел of an old 13ape houd of this kind there is practically no open space, all further reduces the likelihood of a through cur- rent of air. During the cooking of meals a considerable amount Four persons, including a 10- jof smoke finds its way into the room, which odds to dinginess.” Comments the SCM Post: year-old boy, were injured in separate träfle accidents
Such an environment cannot but terday.
produce diseased bodies and
YGS-
the
The fad, Yip Kam of 4 Wa discased minds. It is egala re- fundamental that On Lane, Bret floor, was knock-corded ments for the company and payed down by a bus in Queen's reason for Hongkong's poverty ing these monies into the com-fload East near Wanchal Road is poverty, a baske the transactions of these collec-Just before
pary's accounts
Lions later.
and recording
Deficits Found
7 p.m. A 33-year-old man, Tsc
of 396 Ching-shun
Queen's Road West. ground floor, the sustained Injuries when motor-ele in which he wag riding was involved in a collision with
a bicycle in Road at about
a.m.
In June this year, the com- pany's auditors discovered cer- questioned they tain defcits end when the two accused were
the
Causeway offences. They admittoi were given time to repay the money, but falled to do so. Ten days later, they were handed to the police.
Mr Collier cald towards the the company end of 1955, printed new receipts. It was found that the accused had Issued the old receipts for the eash collected from customers.
As regards cheques, these were entered into the company's
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man
Another unidentified was knocked down by a car in Kam Tin Main Road Hear Hung Ter- Kut Village in the New ritories last night,
A 40-year-old woman, Chan Kwel-tong, living in the L Cheng UK Resettlement Estate, was struck by a blcycle in Yen Chow Street near Tonkin Street at about 10 p.m.
ARMY AWARD
The Director of Army Medical Services. Brig. L. E. H. Koa- dinge...OBE, prensníck Chinese, clerk with a test- monist for long and hensur- abin service with the Army, at Murray Barracks (his morning. Hof Me Yu Ping, 29, who has been, a olork, with the army in Hongkong for? øver ICANN
A man had his pocket picked and money amounting, to 313 , stolení autaide the : National
Theatro Lockhart Road at | Brig. Kontiac, Mold Mr In ring
barracks, that the testimonials were only given to persons with the very highest' dogros of service. -
"These are not lightly given out
$2.43 a month.
wage of
It is notified that Mr Philip Jacka resumed duty as Land Oficer. His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith to act as an Assistant Land Officer and a deputy Registrar of Mar. riages.
His Excellency the
has Governor
appointed Lieutenant M. J. Muspratt- Williams, Iet Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, to be one of his Honorary ADCs.
The Government has ap- pointed Mr Henrique Alberto de Barros Batelho as second lieutenant in the Согра от
the Infantry of
Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corpe.
His Excellency the Governor has nominated the following
KZJ members of the Court of the University of Hongkong for a further period of three years Mr H. B. L. Dowbig- pin and Mr M. P. Talati
2 YEARS AND $10,000 FINE
Li Hung, 39, unemployed, who hid 18 grammes of heroin In a vest hung on a bamboo, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a fine of $10,000 or an adkiitional six months by Mr T. L. Yang at Central Court this mening.
Dettent pleaded guilty to a charge of possession i
Inspector T. Y. Yip told the Court that on December 5, n party of police officers raided No. 5, Wing Fung Street, first": floor
The defendant was alone. Eighteen grimenes ́of heroin" were found in a west hung on i bamboo in the passage way..
Be had two shilar previous comictiobe.
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