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TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1960.
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From the Files
SEES MACAO FOR FIRST U.S. PROPOSALS FOR HK 25
TIME IN 24 YEARS
Mrs Celeste Solano D'Almeida left today by Swissair for Lisbon
spending after
five weeks visiting Macao, the city of her birth, and Hongkong. It was her first sight of Macao
in 24 years.
Mrs D'Almeida said she had
spent four
weeks in the little Portuguese city, visit- ing friends and rela- tives and sightseeing.
**Both
Macao and
Hongkong
have ex-
panded and grown, but they are dirty compared with what I remember," she said.
After
week in
Hongkong she said, "It
over
has been fun looking Hongkong Macao where f born."
and
was
She left the Far East in 1936 after her father's death. In Lis-
bon she met and mar- ried Mr Austin Good- man Solane D'Almeida, who is now on airline director in Portuguese India.
Mrs D'Almeida will return to Lisbon and later join her husband in Africa, where he is being transferred.-- Intpiar Photo.
EXPERT ON HIRE-PURCHASE
Mr Allyn M. Schiffer, one of the world's foremost experts on credit and debt collection in the growing business of easy payment planı, arrives in the Colony by Boac from Tokyo today.
President director
and
of his QWT: Corporation, he
executive Schiffer
has spent 30
years in the business of making hire purchase a sound financial venture for the entreprENGUT,
He is the author of a standard text-book Оп the subject. Know- "Credit and Collection
how. and his monograph. "Let's Train Citizens in the Promise to Pay," was read into the Congressional Reeced.
travelled. Widely
he has lectured in London-to the Fedoration of British Industries --in Paris and Amsterdam.
In Hongkong he hopes to address, groups of businessmen in his three-day stay.
Mystery death solved
Ndola, June 26.
A pathologist today solved the "mystery death" of 40-year- old Patrick Donohue, who was found with his throat cut after a car crash near here on Saturday, by stating that he was killed accidentally. Police said Mr Donchue was thrown out in the crash and then hit by his own car,
"It is definitely not a knife wound as first thought," a police spokesman said.--Reuter.
Prof Chao's hold song
By D.E.
Gray
pupils recital
Professor Chao Mei-pa presented a song recital by his pupils, at St Stephen's Girls College on Saturday evening. :
ORDINANCE
SHOULD BE
AMENDED
To clear ground
for high-level
conference
-Magistrate Two officials of the American Apparel
Mr. T. Morris, Central
Magistracy, said there was
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A
Importers' Association will arrive at the end of this month with proposals on the export of Hongkong garments to America, for local manufacturers. spokesman for the Hongkong Cotton Garment "Manufacturers (for U.S.A.) Association told
this to the China Mail this morning.
years
Bus driver pleads LAGO
A
not guilty to
carnal
knowledge
June, 1935
TUGE flames on Stone-
Hcutters Island yester
day which caused consider- able excitement among ferry passengers and people passing along the Praya, proved on investigation to be caused by the Military authorities destroying cor-
The dames which were clearly visible from Hongkong, shot 20
to 30 feet in the air, lasted for
29-year-old bus driver, Chan Kam-hung appeared dite. urgent task for the
before Mr Justice W. A. Blair-Kerr at the Criminal Sessions this morning, charged with
about half a minute and re- the carnal knowledge of a 12-year-old girl.
curred
10 to 15 minutes. every | About 600 six-inch shells were He pleaded not guilty, and work for the
destroyed and from these' almost was represented by Mr H. H. B.amah. The offence, had been 15,000 lbs of cordite was ex. brought to the notice of the tracted and destroyed. Cordile police by the girl's mother, who deteriorates from the ume of its reported the matter when the
manufacture and shells which girl failed to return home on are more than a certain age are the night of April 28.
said
a
legislature to reconsider the provisions of the or dinance regarding street loitering when he sen- tenced two men to three months" jail this morning.
He said the President anding production. Many workers How,
Prosecuting, Mr W. S. Collier, Mr Morris' said he considered Vice President of the American have gone jobless,
told the jury Crown Counsel, the two men had committed a Apparel Importers' Association
offence and the with talk with the HKCGMA “to One manufacturer very serious
of five men and tvb women maximum sentence of three clear the ground for Govern voluntary quota was needed to they would hear evidence to months was "out of dale and ment-ic-Government talks later. avoid blind production, over the effect that the girl had con- quite unsuitable, but i can do
supply to the American market, sented to the offence, and that ណាថ
had had cut-throat
intoncourse on nothing about it."
competition she
other occasions. among local factories,
Initiative action on our part
AN AMAH The jury were not to be in fluenced by these facts, how- ever, as the girl was only 12 years old.
Counsel sald' there was some question of the girl going to
Oversupply
(for
· maasures
may forestail any thas, the U. S. Congress is
About two weeks ago, Mr "If we tolerate laws of this
Director of nature which are out of line Herbert Jacobs, with public opinion and con- the AAIA, visited Hongkong for nive at the fact that they are re-a talk with the Hongkong Cotton
Manufacturers gularly broken we shall weaken Garment
likely to take under the strong the general respect in which the U.S.A.) Association.
two organisations met pressure of protesting American whole body of the law should be held," he said in his judg-previously on June 3 and ex-manufacturers and business-
changed views on the "over-men," he added. suppy
ment.
The defendants, Ngan Lun- chi, 42, and Ng Chung, 57, had both pleaded not guilty.
Ngan was arrested on June 16 when he was found loitering along Lockhart Road and Ng
The
of Hongkong garments on US markets, and had made
a report on the discussion the 11ongkong Government, the spokesman said.
Mr Jacobs had taken back to
was arrested on June 8 at John-America his findings during his
ston Road, were seen sailors,
Both defendants accosting American
IMPLIED
HE WAS
A DOCTOR
stay in Hongkong.
The officials of the AAIA will bring here proposals troi American side, the spokesman, said.
local
After the talks, the association will make a report to the Hongkong Governmicht,
Memorandum
In addition, he said, the asso- ciation is going to submit a memorandum to Government.
The memorandum will urge the Government to bring about:
• A ceiling on Hongkong garments for
export America, and
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Mr E. Corbally at Central
* The organisation of a Court this morning die- quality control committee, charged a man who was The talks on Hongkong gar- for America, are being alleged to have used the ments
resumed, he said, in view of the Chinese characters for
present depression experienced "doctor" and "clinic"
by the local industry. outside his office and thereby implied that he was qualified to practice medicine.
46,
The man, Yip Sik-ving, of 25, Chatoam Road, 7th floor, denied the allegation through Mr John Swaine, instructed by Peter C. Wong and Co.
Discharging defendant,
Mr
prove that Yip acted wilfully when be used the characters "doctor" and
"The American importers to day are having difficulty dis- posing of the imported Hong- tong garments on the American market, which is oversupplled with Hongkong products," the spokesman sald.
There may be a tendency to fast deterioration is the future, he said.
Manager denies offer of
land to broker
Mr Sze Chau-tung, sub-manager of Mayar Silk Mills (HK) Ltd, told Judge W. F. Pickering
+
in the Victoria District Court this morning that neither he nor anyone in his company had promised a broker 10,000 square feet of land in Tsun Wan.
Mr Sze was testifying at the from negotiating with the Dis- trial of Abdul Aziz Rumjahn 56, triet Officer about the conver- who is facing four charges of slon of land. corruptly offering money to Mr Witness added prior to the H.K. Miller, District Officer, final offer by the District Officer Tsun Wan, in connection with in September, his company had conversion of certain agricul- promised to pay Rumjahn only three per cent of the value of tural land into industrial land.
The Prosecution alleged that industrial land approved by the
Rumjahn had first offered Mr.
District Officer.
Miller $50,000, the proceeds of No promise
the sale of 10,000 square feet of land in Tsun Wan. The amount
accused as an
Dr C. Cheung, a doctor at normally destroyed in this way. Queen Mary Hospital, testified
the that he examined
girl. Cross-examined by Mr How, witness agreed that lacerations
bad {lmes.
It is understood that Mr.
on the girl's body indicated she S. D. lgglesden of Mesars had intercourse at other Leigh and Orange is leaving shortly for good after a Dr George Cheong, a police residence of some years. He pathologist, said he examined has been a consistent con- the girl on April 28 and found tributor to local Art Club she had bad,intercourse at some
time during the past three days, exhibitions, his sketches of. Witness agreed when ques-cenze in the Colony being tioned by Mr How, that the girl remarkably true to life. was well developed.
..KEPT 'DATE
The girl testified that she had known the accused for nearly a year. She said she arranged to meet him outside the New York Theatre in Causeway Bay the evening of April 26.
on
M
TR Charles F. Gambell, Agent in Shameen and Canton of the Dollar Steam- ship Line and formerly of She said she kept the appoint- the Hongkong office died ment, and went with Chan after diving off the shallow Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter end of the Shameen Swim- where they hired a sampan.
She alleged intercourse took ming Club pool.
place on the sampan with her consent.
Later she went with the re- in the
used to two teahouses Causeway Bay area, and The hearing continues.
went to Chan's house,
Indecent
film show
then
Lee Hing, 45, and Chan Hin-
His many friends in Hong- kong and North China will regret to learn of the death of Mr Paul W. Derby, local manager of the RCA Victor Company of China from pneumonia, after a brief - ness at the early age of 43. He died at his residence at. 291 Prince Edward Road, Kowloon early on Sunday morning.
ear
eam, 20, both of 23 Ngan Mok predicting that war will Street, 1st floor, were fined $500 break out between Italy and or two months' imprisonment by Abyssinia in the autumn. Apart from this commission, Central Magistrate Mr K. & S. The crisis concerns not only was later increased to $80,000 there was no other consideration Phillips this morning for show- the peace of the Mediter on two subsequent occasions. for Rumjalin. Neither witnessing an indecent fim
respect of about 250,000 square Sze went on. In the past six months, Ameri-feet of land in another land can orders were only 40 per cent matter. of what they were in the same period last year.
Rumjahn was also alleged to nor anyone in his company had Mr J. W. Browett, Police (ranean but the whole future "As a result, Americans are have corruptly offered Mr Mil-promised to give 10,000 square Superintendent, told the court of the League of Nations.
Italian action, it is pointed placing less and less orders with ler 50 cents per square foot in feet of land to Rumjahn, Mr that the police raided defen- cerbally said that the prosecu- us," he added.
dants' premises last night and out, will place the League in a tion did not
Hearing is continuing. Rumjahn is represented by My found the defendants showing position paralleled by that of Patrick Yu, instructed by Mr D. an indecent fim. Twenty-one 1931 when Japan occupied Man- Cheung, of Messrs F. Zimmern and men admitted they had paid $3 churia and defled the League. Co
admission.
Italy refuses British mediatlari, A third defendant, To Laf-Premier Mussolini is demanding ming, 20, of 218 Des Voeuxa protectorate over Abyssinia Road Central, 4th floor, pleaded and the installation of Tiafian
in not guilty and hearing was fixed officials for July 14.
He added that Yip had used those characters for 20 years.
Periodically he holds a con- as the group progressed she "clinic". cert of this kind, which is improved correspondingly, and really a student festival and in the Mountain Song, it was has to be judged as such. Pro- obvious that she has a fine rich fessor Chao is very fine voice which can be developed teacher of singing, both choral with practice. and otherwise, and his concerts always arouse interest,
2
use
FOUND SIGN
Hard hit
Smaller garment factories have been hit the hardest. He told the defendant not to
Some of them have closed down, Singers are so often a target
the
words "doctor" while bigger plants are curtall of criticism because of their
"physician" or "surgeon" again, inability to develop properly Evidence was given in A and to control their vibrato. previous bearing that the police Migs Chan Ng-kiee sings very raided defendant's office. and I do not refer to Miss Barbara casily and naturally but her outside they found a sign with Fei, who closed the concert. She vibrato requires careful watch the Chinese characters which has been before the public foring: This also applies to Miss meant "Swiss Naturopathic some years and she is an ac- Winnie Wei. Regarding the | Cline, Dr Yip Sik-ying."
On this occasion, I did not notice any outstanding, talent, but in this statement, of course,
Man caught
in University
Silk factory
Super-
Mr Sze said this morning that
Mr G. R. Sneath, Crown Counsel, his company owned a silk fac-is prosecuting, assisted by tory in Tsun Wan and also a intendent F. G. Jenkins. fair amount of agricultural land Mr S. V. Guns. Is holding In Tsun Wan, totalling 400,000 watching brief on behalf of Mayor Mills on the instruction of Messrs square feet,
Since 1958, he said, there had been negotiations between the Mayar Mills and the District Officer, Tsun Wan, concerning conversion of the company's land Into industrial land.
Mr Sze said his company hoped to get about 200,000 square feet of industrial land. That figure was also contained in the District final offer by the Officer in September, last year.
Rumjahn, a land broker, was authorised to act for the com- side the University Vice-pany in May, 1953, Mr Sze said. Chancellor's office for an was unlawful purpose sentenced to three months' Imprisonment by Central
complished singer. She sang latter, I think Je Suis Titania' Yip testified that he had been Schubert's In Frühling, and from "Mignon' was a bit too practising in the Colony for Vol lo Sapete from Cavalleria much for her. She sang many years. During this time Rusticana by Mascagni very Schubert's Das Wandern quite be called himself "doctor" and A man who was found in- -tastefully, and ended the con- well. This song has a dull | used the name "clinic" for his cer with a Chinese folk song.
accompaniment (with respect office. Miss Evelyn Lee was obvious-¦ ly an experienced accompanist who accompanied, in all, three of the soloists of the evening.
FINE VOICE
to Schubert), but it is worth Mr J. W. Browett, Superinten- while for budding accompanists dent of Police, prosecuted.
to listen to what Gerald Moore
does with this one on his record
"The Unashamed Accompanist A tired Ike
I liked Misg Armaido Mills' Thirteen vocalists each sang a
GROUP VITY much. Sho does group of three songs, and it is not have a big voice, but very simply Impossible to deal with pleasant indeed to listen to. them all. As one world expect, Her phrasing and broath con- the quality of voice and per- trol are good, and she makes formance varied widely. But the music. flow.
one thing was noticeable of
Mr
Hauch Wei-shlang is
arrives in Hawaii
・・ Hónalulu, June 20.
herp by plane from Wake
of his Far East tour.
In that month, he, witness took Rumfahn to see Mr Miller.
Rumjahn was to get a com mission of five per cent of the value of industrial land offered by the District Office. At that Magistrale Mr K. A. 5. time, the value of the In- Phillips this morning. dustrial land was estimated to be $10 per square foot, witness sed.
Wong Chun,, 34, of 2 Second Lane, Diamond Hill, Kowloon City, pleaded guilty. He had eight previous convictions in cluding four for a simdar offence.
Final offer
After the final offer by the. District Oncer in September, last year, Mayars paid $30,000. to Rumjahn, on October 3, the Chinese pupils, even those obviouslys very musicianly President Eisenhower - arrived Detective Sub-Inspector JA 135,000 on December 10, in who were not really up to con- person, with a soft voice traine:f cert standard in the Western as far es it will,co, but it. 13 Island ·today on the last ler Necholas. said that about addition to various small pay- am, on June 18, the Vicements amounting to $5,000, Mr songs, all sang the Chinese folk not one suited to operatic arios. song (which invariably conclud He sang the Braband's "Wie Vist President Elsenhower, looking Chansellora privale secretary. See said his company still owed Rumjahn another $30,000 as ed the group of three songs) Du. Meine Korigin" match bet tired after his week-long tour, heard the office door open. !!.. much better, and the audience ter than the "Mazinge of received a warm welcome from She saw the defendant and part of the commission.
quick to recognise this Figaro Relative and Alt. several tens of thousands of asked him what he was doing in Croes-examined Mir Sde sald
When he sang a Hungarian folk, persons who gathered at the air the fog. of the singers,' in the fretsong, in Contotone named port and along the streets, that he was loendant replied he was satisfied with Run shin's
WAS
fact,
för ä
Lau, Chan and Ko,
POP
WILL SOUL KINDLY: ADVISE ME? THEY'RE FOR
KAY WIFE OF COURSE
By Gog
CERTAINLY, SIR – IF YOUŁA TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT YOU'VE BEEN UP TO
capital.
Drink
the Abyssinian
Carlsberg
THE GLORIOUS BEER OF COPENHAGEN
SOLE-AGENTS THE EAST ASIATIC CO.LTD
Pro-Loch during the negotiation. half of the concert, Mias Khor "Belect Your Bride?" by almost It was the first time a US. fessor Liu" but he bud gone in on behalf of his company. Guan-cheng seemed to premat | brought the, horais, downT President had visited Hawall to the wrong room. When Rajahn first acted for the best performance. She w This was certainly an evening since the former territory be Defendant then rushed out of his company. he was also to
19. Printed and published by TERENCE Glomon NewLands Pearce for and on behalf of South ilitle hesilent to begin with FULL of vocal music, thirty came the both state of the the office but was stopped by a nell some of the Bed China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndam Brest, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hanging afraid to open her path; but i nine „šteme i
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messenger.