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Judge's comments on evidence of NT official
Of The HO, RUMJAHN NOT GUILTY
Day
LIFTS FOR NEW
A
in
BUILDINGS
LANDLORD putting up
32
nine-storey building
Kowloon has
told น
Tenancy Tribunal that Chinese people do not like
using lifts. If he means by
this that they prefer to
nonsense.
stairs he is talking He should visit Alexandra House, Central Union Building, the new
Judgment in Lifers give Colony Canada backs HK Pratt to face
alleged conspiracy case
climb up nine flights of Two land brokers, Abdul Aziz Rumjahn,| 56, and Ho Hit-po, were found not guilty of conspiracy by Judge W. F. Pickering in the Victoria District Court this morning.
House in fact, any big office block in town. He will see Chinese people for waiting everywhere lifts. In fact rush hour lifts are like sardine tins, 13 everyone knows. No one in Hongkong or where else in the world walks up even two storeys unless he has to, unless there are no lifts.
1111-
Admittedly many people in Hongkong are not familiar with lifts and like all new gadgets and contrivances they may inspire a certain amount of apprehension in people using them for the But first time.
once Lhe con- lift-user has gained fidence, he would no more think of not using one than of walking five miles in-. stead of taking a bus.
ONLY
AMERICAN
AIRSHIP
CRASHES
Barnegat, July 6.
Ho
on three was acquitted other charges, and a further change against Rumjahn was also dismissed.
Judge Pickering said he was urable to say, on the evidence that it was beyond reasonable doubt that the two had con- spired.
Duplicity
He said he had also consider- ed the duplicity of the con- spiracy charge, as submitted to him by counsels for the defence, but had decided that the charge as it stood was not a bad one.
The prosecution alleged the two men conspired, by torgery or corrupt means, between Sep- tember 24 and November 24 last,
to obtain a letter from Mr
Cinderella new hope
By DAVID LAN
Seven-year - old
Cin- Pui-
derella, Chan chun, found her Fairy Godmother in the un- likeliest place. Behind the grim walls of a prison in faraway Mas- sachusetts.
She badly needed the wave of a magic wand to transform her pathetic little life when her father went back to main- land China two years ago to visit relatives, and was never heard of again.
Now 15 men serving life terms at Massachusetts Correc- tional Institution have helped little Pri-chum anile again.
EQUAL FOOTING She still lives in a little horra in dingy dirty box of
Chan Pui-chun
lending. Primary One at the Swalow Christian Church School about a mile away from her home on a hillside.
She can scarcely recall her father, Chan Chor-sing, 42..
Born of a well-to-do family in China, the father came to Hongkong In 1948 and worked as a clerk in an import and ex- port firm.
Her mother had to do sewing and knitting to support the family after the father was gone.
One day she heard of the Foster Parents Plan Inc, open- ing an office in Hongkong. She went there on March 1.
Mr George Ross, Director of the Hongkong office, dispatched
Hilary D. Maler, the District in but she is assured of the case to the New York head-
Officer, Tsun Wan, in connection
an education, good food and a chance to start out in life on
fortunate.contemporaries..
Pot-chim does not know, al présent that her benefactors
A. U.S. Navy blimp, the largest in the world,
And quarters in May.
back crashed into the At with the conversion of farm land
came the cable,reply on June lantic off New Jersey at Tsum Wan owned by Messra equal footing with her more
LIKES DRAWING------ today during a vast Wong and Company Lady
Pul-chun is to industrial uses.
now learning search for a missing" Humjahn, who is at present
English, Chinese, handwriting, three-year prison behind bars are saving which elvics, hygiene, and handicraft serving yacht.
other court little they can through prison She likes, drawing and handi- Kllowing announced later proceedings, was also acquitted labour to help keep her life chattest that one man was dead, three on a charge of corruptly offer- bright.
ing money to Mr Miller in con- the injured and 17 were missing inction with the land conver
the crash,
NLY when the landlord' erecting utility buildings with no intention of making profits can there
for be an
excuse
not
The navy
Fishing vessels rescued seven men, according to the U.S. Coast Guard in New York.
Installing a lift: The big gest landlord in
comes into this Colony category Government - no lifts in for there are resettlement buildings. We sympathise with the people who live
Poilce at Barnegat Light said the top floors but feel that since three crewmen had been brought they are lucky to have a dock there, one of them dead. The other two men were such solid roof
1 their heads, they can hard-nured and rushed to a hospital In a Navy ambulance, police
on
over
ly complain about the luck suid of all "mod. cons."
But
as an
There were other reports that it is very different 20 nien had been rescued and in a building put up by one had been killed, but these a landlord
invest had not been confirmed ment, a first-class invest- ment in which he can make back his entire outlay in a
of matter
tetin
slon
Imprecise
The Judge said he found Mr Miller's evidence was imprecise He thought Mr Miller had been much more precise
in
They pledged to send her the assistance in dind and in cash
until she is 18.
That totals US$180 a year, coming in the form of food and clothes, emergency medical care and US$8 (HK$45) a month in cash.
Now she wears a bow in her
Sald one of the neighbours at the interview yesterday, "You. never can tell about a girl! Who knows. She may be 'a Miss Hongkong somukday!**
By then, her benefactors be- hind the bars may have grown grey and been forgotten by the world.
But judging by the starry
policemen: brutality denied
Ottawa, July 6.
The Justice Minister, E. Davie Fulton, today said criminal charges would be laid against guilty persons involved in "an extensive, organised racket in Chinese immigration" into Canada.
Agreement
signed
Nicosia, July 6. British and Cyprus representatives today initialled the agreement clearing the obstacles that have held up in- dependence for 16 months and opening the way for proclama- tion of a Cyprus Re- public, expected next month-Reuter.
Commons
debate
on U-2 refused
London, July G.
Mr Fulton rejected opposition critic of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police probe into the illegal entry of Chinese inta Canada and said charges against the RCMP and Hongkong Police were "entirely founded."
Un-
"This racket of illegal entry,” the Justiço Minister told the Commons, "does exist: We have cvidence that it exists and we have evidence on the basis of which....guilty persons will be changed and prosecuted."
Takes time
Mr Fulton admitted that the laying of charges might take considerable time. He said that In the various RCMP reida "a vast quantity of documents hat! been seized, the majority in Chinese which required trans- lation and careful evaluation.
This is a tremendous job," be told the House. "It will take a great deal of time. I am not, therefore, in a position to state categorically how long it will be before charges will be laid and that the evidence, in our view, substantiates completely the statement that there was an extensive, organised racket in Chinese Immigration."
preliminary
hearing.
Johannesburg, July 6, " David Pratt, wealthy white planter, will face a pre- liminary hearing at Pre- toria late this month on a charge of attempted as- sassination against_Prime Minister Hendrik F. Ver- woerd.
The government in
01-
nouncing this today gave no exact time for the hearing Or the exact charges against the 53- year-old Pratt,
Mr Verwoerd was wounded.
at a trade agricultural ex- position here on April 9 when two pistol bullets fired at close range struck him in the face.---AP.
Habeas corpus
for man
who escaped, withdrawn
An Intended. deportee who had escaped from custody was to have been the sub. ject of a habeas corpus ac- tion, it was revealed at the Full Court this morn- ing.
The Full Court granted an order for the withdrawal of proceedings of a writ of habeas Mr Fulton assured the Chinese corpus to bring the intended community "we want to get these deportee, Yung Wang, before racketeers off their backs so that the Court. i
the jet black hair, and she wants eyes and happy smiles, of Labour members failed to they (the Chinese) can go about
evidence he gave in an earlier case,
The witness had also been unsure about the date concern- ed, and he had to find Rumjahn not guilty.
Judge Pickering said he found Ho not guilty on two charges of chtaining a total of $50,000 from Messrs T. O. Wong and Com- after the testimony of Mr F. 0. pany Ltd., by a forged letter,
Wong himself,
The gondola of the blimp was reported to have sunk be- low the occan's surface, but the nellum-Alled bag remained in- No fated and above the surface. years, altruistic mctive, no cun- The crushed blimp is one of cern .for
homeless four Reianne the
class airships compels him to build. He rated us the largest in the world. He also dianissed a further is in it for what he can All were based at the Lake charge of uttering the forged get out of it. On the wholehurst, New Jersey Naval base, letter, because of insufficient private landlords, are doing-UPI.
a good job by building the
houses that Hongkong
needs. But simply because
MISSING YACHT
New York, July 8.
there is such a shortage, A missing yacht from the landlords can get away Newport-Bermuda race turned
evidence.
Dismissed
Mr G. R. Sneath, Crown Counsel, prosecuted, assisted 17 Superintendent F. G. Jenkins of
the Anti-Corruption Branch.
Mr Patrick Yu, representing Rumjahm, was instructed by Mr Zimmern and Co.
to
have a permanent wave" child yesterday, they can which her mother, 36-year-old | find. at least one solace-their Yao Sim-yok stiffly refuses. kind deed will ever live in the,
Active, stubby, and clear of heart of a Hongkong girl for the speech, Pul-chun
ai rest of her life,
is now
Bomb planted
in Rome
Soviet
Embassy
Rome, July 6.
The withdrawal was applied their lives without fear or tor by Mr Brook Bernacchi, force an emergency de- WOITY."
the
QC, representing Tung: He said he would like to apply
bate in the House of Com. The Justice Minister om- mons today after the Gov-pletely exonerated both ernment refused to RCMP and the Hongkong Police, for withdrawal of these pro- confirm or deny a recent whose supplementary ald had ceedings without prejudice to been used. of all charges of im- any future proceedings that statement that American propriety or trutality bi their might be lastituted:
Mr D. N. E. Rea, Principal U-2 flights had taken investigations.
The issue was raised by Mr Crown Counsel, said he was place from Britain.
Frank Howard (CCF-Skcena) prepared to consent to Mr Ber- who objected that terrorism was nachts application. He sug being spread throughout the gested that the proceedings in should be struck out and if “the entire Chinese community
Then the proceedings escaped prisoner" was recap- should be taken anew.
A Labour MP said the lives of every man and child in Britain might be lost if there another U-2 incident.
Was
He urged the Government to
to
Cenada by the arbitrary and
Unfounded
ask the United States not to al- excessive tactics of the RCMP. low the National Aeronautics and Space Administration repeat the U-2 fights which have taken place from Laken- heath."
Lakenheath Suffolk is an American air base:
and Navy intensified its search Mr de Basto and Mr Litton, A large bomb with a live fuse was found early to- fecer
day in a courtyard of the Soviet Embassy in Rome, police said."
were on the
with building multi-storeyup today 200 miles southeast of D. Q. Cheung, of Messrs F. apartments without provid-New York, and the Coast Guard ing lifts.
for the sloop Vat 69, the only representing Ho, TE say there should be race entry still unaccounted for. Instructions of Messrs P. L. WEL
The Coast Guard received a | Lan arid Co. low
against it. Private landlords erecting radio message from the 35-foot anything more than a four-ketch Carastee saying that the yacht and its crew were all storey building should be right and that it was running compelled to install one lift, inte on its return trip to New with at least two lifts for a York. UPI. ten storey building; and specifled minimum numbers
of lifts for anything in excess of ten storeys. Even in some new city, buildings, lifts are inclined to be over- congested becausa not enough have been installed. We urge Government to give Tenary Tribunals the power to make lift installa- tion mandatory whenever the heed dictates it.
The Full Court comprised the Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice "Charges that people have R. Gregg, the Acting Senior Puise Judge, Mr Justice C. W. been hauled out of their beds Beece, and the Acting Pulsne and homes in the small hours Judge, Mr Justice W. A. Blair- of the morning and practically Kerr. dragged to headquarters for
Mr Bernacchi is instructed by questioning are entirely un- Mr D. Q. Choung. founded," Mr Fulton said.
were un-
instructed by Mr F. G. Nigel of its type at the Embassy in fascist antagonism exploded into the statement by Dr Hugh the motive in the charges
owners.
BRITAIN TO HAVE OWN
SPACE SATELLITE?
TA COCKTAIL
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Mr W. J. Taylor, Under- secretary for Air, replied that he could not add to previous government réplies on this sub- He added that after "the close careful check" into the sugges- tions of brutality and improper NOT GOOD ENOUGH
methods by the Mr Allaun said this was "not questioning good enough" and further ask- Hongkong Police, they
found "to be completely Mr Terence Shurlock, This was the second incident Later Communist and Neo-edi
founded." "Will you confirm or deny Mr Fulton concluded that of Messrs Johnson, Stokes and less than 12 hours.HERATON violence in Rome as police re- Master, held a watching briet Police headquarters here peatedly baton charged Com- Gorden, depuly head of the Naagainst the Hongkong Police was on behalf of Taun Wan land banned public mestings to have mumist demonstrators in Okia tonal Aeronautics and Space to try to force the government, been held by the Neo-Fascisis City square. A tight also broke Administration, testifying by creating prejudice against and the left-wing Resistance out in the Chamber of Deputies, Washington on June 2 that their use, to discontinue their Federation today following the Four Communist members of such flights had taken place services.
base #t "We have no intention," he explosion of a "Molotov Cock- Parlament and about 600 de- from the American
[said, "of discontinuing their. tall" bomb in the gardens of monstrators were arrested and Lakenheath, Suffolk?” the Soviet Embassy last night, several people, including 15
Mr Taylor said he was not services because their services or deny are essential and are proving to pdibe, were injured in the Porta prepared to confirm Paolo, southern Rome, is more snything of the kind.
be extremely valuable in assist- The "cocktail" a bottle full of than 1,000. Communiste defied & He maintained this positioning us to uncover this racket,”
under further close opposition UPI. petrol, was thrown from a car, police ban and held a call. but caused no casualties: There
***INJURED:
questioning led by Mr Hugh was another explosion in a Among the injured taken to Galtskell, but Mr. Taylor would suburban office of the Com-hospital was Communist say nothing further,
Eventually, Mr munist party.
deputy, Waller Audisio, who, as The bomb incidents came at "Colonel. Valerio World Driberg (Labour) and Mr Frank the height of a wave of con- War II, headed the
motions moved Partisan Allaun both
immediate £30 million a year programme of space ex-alet between Neo-Fascista, and group which captured and pressing
a matter of urgent left wingers in Italy over the
Benito debate on executed Dilator ploration.
But the past few days. There has been Mussolini' near Milan in 1945. public importance. demonstrations, clashes, and ar- Audisio 2 ́ said: he was speaker (Chairman), Bir Harry All-British missiles would be that the Blue Streak missile
Hylton-Foster, said he could not abandoned as a projectarea in Genoa, Rajenna and, in truncheoned by police. used:
Rigting broke out again later grant their request-Reuter. Police gold the latest bomb today in the nearby quarter of Informants said a decision on poo-might still be develop southern Italy, at Reggio Emilie.
kem an calh satellite carrier. A established, as we have Britain's entry into space
The London Evening Neend by cherwomen Monte Testaccio, where demon- urged in the past. For they search was taken at a cabinet would ensure that the land-meeting called by the Prime said it was now planned to: use! Tord is fairly compensated Minister, Mr Macmillan, today Blue Streak with another Bri for providing a lift and at All Ministers who have been tish rocket Black Knight-to- the same time afford the directly concerned with the providing the second stage, Black
ject were present. “ tenant the protection, he re quires from an excessive rent he well as a shortage of breath.
It may be argued that this would tend to force up residential rents in new buildings for people in lower income brackets. Not
if fair rent courts are
London, July 6
Britain was reported on the brink of launching a
Knit is already fully opera.
The government has so far tion withheld any official latement
for
Thomas Halo around
noon-day sun
Bombay, July 4. Residents of Bombay wero startled today to see the noon- day sun surrounded by a large steel grey halo fringed with prismatic cokura, dany by mounted police from behind The West London Permanent Observatory sources said this caused by the formation oked with barricades of market barrows Building Society foreclosed on S
and a sprawled across the streets,
Arthur Thongan's Mortgier tiny needles af fee in the atmosphere above 18,000
AAA mortly strators 'best'off'repeated charges |
Thero has been plenty, PA IRI of its intentional Bal spokes- cant gyldence to substantiate the men indicated earlier this year repo
sisted of a tin emme- TNI, with e dei time fuse
An officiat, sul could have ..., mak damere & the charwomen, ha not found the device in time
London, July 8,
A Corominis, senator, Signor and not a moment too soon, cold bassy Ambrogio Doning injured in the Ex-convict Therapen had been best,~ just an, rainbows ~ are Love rioting sak later he was knocks diamantling his house pieces caused by the formation, of
ed down by a police horse and by-piece and rebuilding it in a water droplets at lower alti had lost himayegiam Router.torest UPL
OV jabetudes-AFP.
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