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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1960.
Man to stand trial
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Allegedly caused explosion on bed
A 47-year-old boilerman who allegedly caused a bomb to explode on woman's bed, was com- mitted to stand trial at the next Criminal Sessions by Mr Derek Cons at Cen- tral Court this morning.
Yip Hon is accused of causing injury to Chan Lal-ho, a con. fessed prostitute, in her home at 05 Old Street, New Village. Aberdeen, on May 20.
Chan had testifled at a pre- vious hearing that she was with the accused at the time of the explosion. The blast blew her out of bed and knocked her un- conscious.
Detained
She said she was taken to hospital and detained there for
eight days.
The man
injured
was also seriously
Detective Sub-Inspector Chan Sik-kwong told the court this. morning that when he arrived outside the hut on the evening of May 20, he saw the accused being carried out of the hut on a streicher by ambulance staff,
He went to Queen Mary! Hospital, on May 23 and charge i the accused for causing injury to Chan Lal-ho by explosives.
Mr W. R. J. Boxall, Divisional Detective inspector,
Western, assisted by Detective Sub- Inspector Chan Sik-kwong, pro- secuted.
Dumb animal appeal week
Tu mark the HKSPCA's Dumb Animal Appeal Week, Radic Hongkong will be broadcasting a short story by James Stephens called The Story of a Good Dog' at 7.45 tonight,
The story will be read by Ted Thomas.
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KAIFONG MEN SEE CIVIC REGALIA
VISIT TO LAMBETH
A party of five Kailang
from offteisis
Hongkong. who are spending a month in the United Kingdom last week visited the Borough of Lambeth and were re- ceived by the Mayor, Coun- cillor Charles F. Hart, in the Town Hall
The Mayor and MayorESS are seen in this picture in- side the Council Chamber showing the civle regalis to the visitors. (Left to right)
Cheung Mr
Kam-tim President of the Shaukiwan Kalfang Association; Mr Lee Wan-yuen, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Wanchai Kalifong Association; Mr Salomon Rafeck, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Happy Valley and Canal Road Kaifong Association; the Mayor, Councillor Char- lea F. Hart: the Mayoress; and Mr Chau Yan, member of the Executive Committee of the Centra! 'District. Kalfong Association.-C.0,1. photo.
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HK Police Auxiliaries passing out parade
The passing out parade of 197 men of the Hong-
BOYS ON ILLEGAL ENTRY CHARGES
Two boys, one 11 years old and· the other 12 years old, up- peared before Mr D. Benson at Central Juvenile Court this morning en charges of lifegai entry into the Colony,
Sub-Inspector P. B. Dicken- son, prosecuting, said a police launch Intercepted a junk last Saturday and another on Mon- day of Lentar Island.
The junks were loaded with illegal immigrants and the boys were found among them.
Both boys told the police that their
paron.ts were living in Hongkong added Sub-Insp
Dickenson.
Mr Benson remanded the boys for two days pending investiga- tions by the Probation Officer into their family background.
Carried 10 immigrants
Two men were fined by Mr E. Corbally at Central Couri this morning for procuring the entry
10 illegal
Iramigrails into the Colony. Chan Yau, 33, a crew member of the jurk F21 Ha, was fined $1,500 and Leang Sing, 20, a crew member of the some junk, was fined $1,000.
Eight of the 10 immigrants who were adults, were simul- taneously charged with illegal entry. They were each sentenced to five days jail, pending de- portation.
The other two, who were
being children, were
tried separately.
The twelve were arrested on
kong Police Auxiliary took place at Aberdeen August I by police off Sha Chau. Police Training School this morning.
Mr Y. K. Kan look the sakile and aspected the parade, 86- companied by Staff Officer Mr A. J. Schouten, Senior Officer Mr Mck Hing-wing and Camp Commandant Mr Ching Hing- chow.
The Camp Adjutant of this year's Arst group cf Auxiliaries
take intensive training for 11 days at the school, was Mr Lo Ka-hing.
Those passing out included two inspectors, five sub-inspec- tors, 20 NCO's and 189 consia- bles.
They were addressed by Mr Kan, who said he regarded their Auxiliaries of participation as
the Hongkong Police as the best example of the co-operation which the Police needed and rightly expected, and which all the men, as responsible citizens, freely and willingly gave.
Attending the ceremony were the Commandant of the Police Auxiliaries, Mr M. W. Turner, and the Deputy Commandant, Mr M. Gottfried,
The Commandant of the school Mr R. H. Woodhead, was also present.
New chaplain for DBS
The Assistant Chaplain of St
John's Cathedral,
Ernest Fisher,
the Rev.
has been
appointed Chaplain 01 the Diocesan Boys School.
He starts work at the school
in September..
Mr Fisher, who was ordained priost last year, came to the Colony in 1958 from St John's College, Durham, following his crdination as deacon,
During his antistry at the Cathedral, Mr Fistier has established a reputation as а forceful preacher and a zealous worker among young people, particularly In the Cathedral scouting organisation,
Mr Fisher's successor to the post of Assistant Chaplain has. Ect yet been announced.
Young
while their junk was for Hongkong.
making
LIVESTOCK FOR WIDOWS
Livestock gifts to members of¦
the farming community in the New Territories were distri- buted today at Pak Kong and Taipo. Presentations were made by Mr T. E. Woo on behalf of the Kadoorie Agricultural Ald Association Today's gifts included the pre- sentation of '2,320 head of poultry to 116 widows of 17 villages of the South - East, Circle, Bal Kting, and 2,760
globe-trotter
lead of poultry to 138 widows of 60 villages of the Tolo Harbour Circle.
As a result of today's presenta- tion the KA.A‚Ä‚ wil почу have distributed, over the last three years, 44,500 head of poultry to 2,265 widows as part of the Livestock Im- provement Scheme carried out in conjunction with the Agri- culture & Forestry Depart- ment,
moves
on
Youthful American university student, George Corfino, 19, left Hongkong yesterday
on the last lop of a world tour during which he has lived on an average of HK$5.70 a day,
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national for Taipei, had has formed his own opinions of economics and political science.
Córfino, who felt Thai After ten days here, Cortino, Cortino, who majored in
been in the Colony for ten days, the Colony,TV's an Ameri- at Stanford University, was He left Stuttgart, Germany, six can-type city with all its sent to Stuttgart 14 months ago and a half mxmths ago for italy skyscrapers, and I think I spent to attend an extension course
a brief / visắt and it was more time moving vertically there.
for
then he decided to continue than horizontally." round the world.
"I think it is a very pretty During holidays he was able place, especially the harbour to visit dher European coun During the following months at night. But it's too hot, he tries and it was then the idea. he passed through Greece; added.
of travelling round the world Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, "I had been saving as much was bornaka
saving as much Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, moncy sa I could en route, and He hitch-hiked, travelled third Pakistan, India, Manya, also at home, in preparation class in railway carriages, or Singapore, and Thailand before for a buying spree hase he paid for a deck passage on-a teaching Ker
sad. I have found that I ship. In fact, he has ridden or "My purpose he said, "is can buy really top-quality enlis travelled in just about every not so much just to see the in Hongkong for the same price vehicle imaginable-even to the tourist attractions, but to live in it costs for a poor-quailty" saft extent of a Police prisoner's the countries which I visit, in America.”
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25
years
AGO. August, 1935
Tthe thing new N.D.L. HE Potsdam, second of
liners for the Far East Ber- vice, arrives in Hongkong this morning on her maiden voyage from Europe. She in almost identical appearance to the Scharn- horst, the first of the three new ships which has already visited the Colony.
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She is 18,000 tons and has
a speed of 21 knots.
A number of European mo- forista were concerned in tra- fie summonses called before | Mr Wynne Jones at the Kow- loon Magistracy yesterday. Mrs B. Hyde Lay of Argyle [Street was fined $5 for caus- ling obstruction by parking in non-permitted ared. Mr
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G. W. Arnold of Waterloo Road and Mrs Rose E. Souza ware Aned a similar amount for a similar offence.
For driving a motor_cycle without a licence, E. Toman was fined $6. A. C. Jeffreys. of the Telephone Company and A. V. Young of 7 Fa Yuen Street were fined $3 each for driving their cars without lights.
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FTER three years of worry and anxiety in construction" of the gigantic Shing Mun Dam, future water supplier to the Colony, only one more im- portant decision remains to. be taken said Mr G. B. Gif- ford Hull in a broadcast address to the Hongkong Rotary Club yesterday.
Mr Gifford Hull who is in at charge of operations
Shing Mun, said the big
in the Colony, is expected to be problem before him now was completed next month.
The wall is the "Granite Curtain" surrounding the Royal Navy's dockyard. The yard was reduced in size last year when the Admiralty sold back to Hongkong surplus Naval land for $112 million.
Part of the agreement was that the local Government would build the Navy a new wall for the Dockyard,
Started in February, the wall is now nearing completion. Its total cost is estimated to be $188,000.
More durable
to calculate the end of the typhoon season,
If, after the diversion The wall was designed by the
there Architectural Office of the Pub-tunnel was closed
lic Works Department. It was should be a typhoon flood, approved by the Admiralty and the waters would rise construction is being undertaken against the face of the dam by the Roads Office,
Hongkong already has wall like it-the one in front the Police Headquarters Arseñal Street,
New road
and might spill over on to one the supporting rock, causing of immense damage to it in its
present unsettled state.
in
The risk would have to be taken if Hongkong was to get water stored up in pre-
The finished wall will contain paration for the coming dry about 2,400 tons of granite and it season.
will run 2,300 feet from Murray
Road in the East almost to
The material being used is Gloucester Road in the West.
locally quarried granite,
:
Asked whether this material
The wall is ten feet high.
A telegram has been giản ceived by His Excellency, the Officer Administering the
The wall will mark the line of Government that Sir William was cheaper than bricks or con- crete or some other kind of local the new East-West road linking Peel who recently underwent stone, a Government spokesman Road,
Gloucester Road with Connaught an operation at Home for ap- pendicitis has now been '; able
leave The above photograph was to
the nuraing and presents a good appear taken yesterday by a China Mali home and is making satis- ance,"
\factory progress...
replied: "No, but granite is more durable than bricks, or concrete!
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