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Judge's remarks on honesty of civil servants
'FASTEST'
DELIVERY
TO LEADING
MARKETS
OF
THE-
WORLD
Of The CORRUPTION: BROKER JAILED
Day
SHOCKS FOR
HONGKONG
THE
THE members of the Hongkong trade mission to West
Africa aro to be compil.
mented on the
extremely
interesting report they have
Three years for Back to the waxworks
money offer to
District Officer
submitted to Government and Abdul Aziz Rumjahn, 56, a broker, was sen-
it in to be hoped that for the
benefit of businessmen seeking
to expand prea
{n trade
this report In the fulf Chinese and English is made widely available. Because on the adoption of the mission's recommendations depends the future of our trade with these territories.
The mission
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ran into many restrictions and frus- trations that but for the opportunities offered by Nigeria and Ghana, local businessmen could have been torgiven for taking little in- terest in thle part of Africa. The one redeeming feature is that many of the territories visited are in a state of flux. Conditions and portcles could change rapidly and a follow- up mission, which
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commended In the report, might open considerably brighter vista to Hongkong traders in two years time.
detalled study of the raport shows that the difficulties
are not all of West Africa's making. The point stressed time and again is that Japan this In making headway area where Hongkong seems to be showing little or no pro. gress, and that much of the trade between this Colony and West Africa is handled by commercial shysters out to cut each other down to the last possible cent
From this aspect, the report's findings are not only alarming but cry out for remedies. Clearly Government and to
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extent local banke
financing this trade can help. The trade mission also advo cates 4 promation office in Nigeria which is an obvious requirement But much more depende on the individual Hongkong exporter and manu. facturer who can learn a use. ful lesson on how to conduct businees In Africa from the Japanese,
on
THE trade mission stresses first of all tha need to do business on a Letter of Credit basle rather than the tudi. crously unreliable terms which so much of our trade has been conducted in the past Repeatedly local 'exporters have been shabbily treated; African Importers have been quick to exploit our willing. ness to bargain, and as a result the prices we quote are cilessly sliced.
mer. Our men re- laliate by cheating on quality. And the thing that suffers is Hongkong's reputation as manufacturing centre. This we cannot afford.
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that
Other criticisms deal with' poor and inadequate packing which resuita often In annoying damage to goods ordered. And the trade mission hammer home another point that is all 100 frequently heard, wrapping and presentation of Hongkong products often leaves much to be desired. The entire report is an Indictment of the way many of our *** porters conduct trade with this aroa. And it poses a serious challenge.
THER Hongkong takes Im- mediate steps ta correct these abuses or we can expert
■ steady"dwindling of trade in
tenced to three years by Judge W. F. Pickering at the Victoria District Court this morning when he was convicted on three charges of offering money to Mr H. D. Miller, District Officer, Tsun Wan, in connection with conversion of cer- tain lands in the New Territories.
UK bank rate
HK STOCKS
NOT
AFFECTED
Britain's
increased
bank rate had little affect on the local stock market. Prices eased slightly at the opening.. this morning but soon steadied...
There is no indica. Lion
Local that the bank rates would be Increased as "they are high enough already" sald one broker.
Mr Amory explains
London, Juna 23.
Derick Heathcoat Mr Amory, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of Commons today he was arranging for government expenditure for 1961-62 to be held at the level of the present financial year,
The steps he had taken by increasing the bank rate were to maintain the economy in balance and keep off inflation, he said, adding: "The economy to- day in general is in a very healthy state.”
Wilson,
on
Mr Harold Labour's spokesman finance, sald raising the bank rale
Arge
appalling decision." It penalised people building houses with the help of mortgages And inimica! to private and public investment-Beuler.
Wal
HK police
as deputies
of 'Mounties'
Ottawa, June 24.
this area. Oddly enough, one Some Hongkong police have
of the potentially rewarding exports Ties in the field of In- vestment, skilled labour and machinery, particularly for the African enamelware Industry. A number of local firma haya already started up and there is
Earlier, Rumjahn had been described by his counsel, Mr Patrick Yu, as a well-known Hongkong resident, especially as a cricketer. He also said that during the occupation, Rumjahn was an agent for the British Forces and was captured and tortured by the Japanese.
Passing sentence, Judge Pic- kering id this was not an unpremeditated offence but a calculated course of conduct over a period of months aimed at corrupting a Government official, who proved to be in- corruptible.
Judge Pickering said he was not going to congratulate Mr Miller for his probity, "because I think that probity is only Typical of thousands of honest civil servants."
Three offences”
. He sild he regarded the three charges of corruption in an ascending order of gravity, because the amounts offered had increased on each occasion and also because each sub- sequent occasion was a further attempt to corrupt Mr Miller.
sentenced Rumjahn
He
to
Recently the elligy of Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones, husband of Princess Margaret, disappeared from Mme Tussaud's, An observant constable discovered it in a telephone call- box with a placard_saying "Welcome Home” hanging round is neck. Triumphantly it was carried off to Bow Blreet police station from whence it, was taken back to Mme Tussaud's, Picture shows "Tony" being iransported back to the waxworks, --- Express Photo,
UN. APPROVES ARGENTINE
CLAIM IN EICHMANN CASE
United Nations, June 23.
two years on the first charge The Security Council by a 8-0 vote with two abstentions,
of offering $50,000 to Mr Miller; two and a half years an the second charge of offering $80,000; and three years on a third charge of offering 50 cents per square foot in respect of 250,000 square feet of land. The sentences were to run con- Currently,
late today approved an Argentine resolution declaring Israel's abduction of Adolf Eichmann violated Argentina's national sovereignty and requesting “adequate reparation"
for the act.
Russia and Poland abstained. Povernment's demand for the Argentina, as in interested party explicit return to Argentina of to the dispute with Israel, did Elehmann, former Nazi Colonel not participate in the vote. accused of ordering death for Just before. the Council six million Jews in World War voted, "Argentine Ambassador 11..
withdrew his
Rumjahn was discharged on a fourth charge of offering $80,- 000 to Mr Miller on November 23. Judge Pickering held that there
evidence Mario was no direct about the offer other than an extract which Mr Miller read dlary was from a diary. The not admitted as evidence,
Corrupt offers
the
With regard to the ther three charges, Judge Pickering said he was satisfied that Inevitable conclusion
was that these offers Rumjahn had made were corrupt offers within the meaning of the ordinance.
well-
A
In mitigation, Mr Patrick Yu, counsel for Rumjahn, said the accused had been in Hong-
He had korig all his life. wife and six children.
"Rumjahn himself is known in the Colony, especially in the cricket world. He was one of the best captains in the Hongkong team. Of course this has nothing to do with the case, Mr Yu wald.
on.
"Rumjahn has seen much bet- ter days," Mr Yu went "He was at one stage at Hong- kong University, but his father's business failed, and partly be cause of this, he never finished the University course.
Amadeo
BRITAIN
HIT BY
VIOLENT
STORMS
Negotiations
Mr Amadeo told the Counell it was up to
Argentina and Israel to work out for them- selves the "adequate repara- tlon" requested in the Security Council resolution.
to
returo, Israeli
GETS WHAT
HE WANTS
Sydney, June 23.
Previously, Argentina had A bandit grabbed £A200 in specified such reparation
notes in a city second Eichmann's Include
floor office today. .the of
He leaned across a counter, punishment "volunteers who apprehended presented what appeared to be hira In Argentina last, morth, a gun and seized a bundle of and apologies already, tendered notes before any of the em
from the Israeli Govern ployees nearby realised what
happened.
ment.
Mr Amadeo's changed poși-
a
Cashier Mrs Betty Charles-
Hunt
continues for murderer of young girl
Police interrogated seven people yesterday in an effort to find the murderer of the 11-year-old girl, Wong Yuk-sau, who was found strangled with a 10-foot-long rope inside a nullah on Wednesday.
A shadow boxer discovered · The other six interrogated by her body head down in the nul- the police yesterday were the lah near the police firing range deceased's parents, her sister- in Kennedy Road In the quiet in-law, an, uncle, the son of a vicinity of Monmouth Terrace furnishing shop proprietar, and
assistant an
taflor at dawn on Wednesday,
to ber father,
When asked by the China Mail this morning whether Shanghal-born detectives were brought over from Kowloon to help investigation in Hongkong, the police said "naturally in a case like this there was neces- sary movement and deployment of various" officers."
Among the seven
people questioned by the police yester day was a woman, Cha Kim mul, who was alleged to have seen the deceased walk off with a young man on Duesday about 7.30 pm
Chu, who lives opposite the deceased's home at 38 Lockhart Road, Arst floor, said she was
POLICE APPEAL having supper on her verandah that evening when she looked The police made the follow- down into the street and sawing appeal to the public the deceased come down the
"Any person who has seen or staircase into the road.
spoken to the girl between 8 Chu said there was then a pm, on Tuesday, June 21, and round-faced young man in
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS GIRL?
WONG YUK-SAU
MILAN
tlon lent support to reports that worth was sitting at her table
a counter Dear the pair of grey trousers and a fece-saving solution under behind London, June 23.
which Eichman would be, sur-witchboard when the man ap-white Hawaiian shirt, under the
verandah of deceased's home. peared Argentine
Chu said the young Britain's mid-summer spell rendered..to... the
walked off with the girl along of heat and sunshine end- Embassy in Tel Aviv and then
Lockhart Road and they were ed in a crush of thunder extradited by Argentine for war trial in Ismeall courts
last seen crossing Fenwick today as violent storms crimes
Street near completion in rolled in from the west European diaplomatic circles/ and deluged southern UPI. England.
But weather experts
The storms to go preted quickly as they come.
ex
"After the Hongkong Univer-
The heavy rain caused floode sity, he entered the business world but was far from being ing in parts of Surrey, Buck- been KWDEX In as special successful. He met with various inghamshire, Sussex, Wiltshire, deputies to assist Canadian setbacks in the business world, Oxfordshire, Kent, Hampshire authorities In Investigation and was concerned with cement, and Berkshire,
Some trains "Chinese Immigration timber and other transactiona.
on southern of a
wás
Baby gets into difficulties
Sydney, June 21,
racket, Justice Minister Fulton British agent ..⠀ England lines were delayed A baby girl was trapped for
told the Commons today.
in
work after a
half an hour foday, with her bead jammed through the steering wheel of her father's. parked..or..
and thousands of people "Then in 1952, he was struck Surrey left for He said these Hongkong down by an attack of ulcer and cold breakfast caused by power scope for many more, using policemen have been instructed hos been suffering from that | fallures, thair own technical know-how | in Canadian law and police illness ever since. This, also and trained labour...
methods.
prevents him from doing any Because of the importance of
heavy work." developing thle eroa, wa Replying to opposition leader
During the War, Mr Yu went intend to devote further Pearson, Mr.Fulton said one ofon, Rumjahn was, acting es an/lightning striking houses and While the mother calmed the articles to this illuminating two complaints had been re- agent for the British Forces darnaging
what
that come Chinese
for
#Two detectives, working carefully removed the wheel,
30-month-old child
Parts of the Isle of Wight were also blacked out.
There were some reports of
roofs chimneys,
A minute later, sucking the and Inclalve report because ceived
orange she had been seeking In and breaking" windows, West Canadians had been held incom and was captured and tortured rooms and television aerials applies to
by: the Japantee. "He had a
Lightning also hit a train the car, the child was laughing Africa specifically applica municado by the RCMP in a more general way to questioning by Hongkong belles particularly hard time." Mr Yo 1 de verstol Street happily and unharmed:
Her mother Mrs Joan- -which we trade. And wa can- been investigated and found to Yu submitted that in makalation, London, but no one was: Papworth said that Robyr, her
He said these complaints hau added
foundation, not close without again com-
The storms, varying up to only child was playing about be withou
also the garden when she climbed plimenting its authors who ao RCMP Investigation was geing favour efther for his prine eight hours in length, compilehed so much that is of carried out by reliable and ex- cipals or for himself."I would felled cables and telephone into the car and become raal value in a period of #perienced members of the force, submit there is plenty of room lines and fooded roads and jammed in the wheel China
for leniency,"
houses,Beuter,
Mail Special, little more than a month.
many parts of the world with
ing the offers to Mr Miller, hurt. The Humnjahn was not secking any
"I want that," he said and grabbed the money.
"He was gone before I could de amorthing", she said.-China Mall Special.
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When found on Wednesday morning, the
the body of deceased was dressed, in a pat- terned while blouse and skirt
and pair of Japanese rubber slippers.
*
She was the daughter of Shanghai tailor, Wong Ping- tal, 45, and lived with her parents, an older brother and younger sister,
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Deceased who came to Heng- kong three years ago from China had two more elder si9- ters and one elder brother in China,
The father runs a tailoring shop near the Lido Theatre, Wanchal, and his main business has been the export of ready- made clothing to Japan.
Deceased was an intelligent and diligent schoolgirl.
It was said that after medical examination at the morgue, the girl had not been interfered with.
On the day she left home, she did not wear jewellery or a watch and had no cash on her.
U.S. to retain Pacific bases
Washington, June 23.
U.S. Senators and a Defence Department spokesman agreed today that Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands must serve AB the centre of US defences in the Paclio if the govern- ment of Japan. becomes. TEZL= friendly-AP.
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