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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1960.
Police officer tells of visit to Correspondents Club
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I GOT MY GUN IN THE CONGO 25
American authoress is discharged by court
An American woman author Dianne Shah, claimed today in Cen- tral Court she had acquired a 9mm automatic pistol and 12 rounds of ammunition while in the Belgian Congo. She was charged with possession of arms and ammunition but Mr K. A. S. Phillips exercised his discretion under Section 35 of the Magistrate's Ordinance and discharged her.
Counsel's
claim in
drug case
Mr G. Hampton said in the Victoria District Court today had added that Government
dangerous barbitone to the drugs schedule in 1953 with out any authority to do so. He said this when he defended two men and a woman on dangerous drugs charges,
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The accused. Ng Shing-man, Ng Kem-cheung and Cheng al- Mei-yu,
woman, were leged to have dealt with and possessed heroin and barbitone. They pleaded not guilty.
Mr Hampton submitted that barbitone was purported to be schedule of added to the first Dangerous Drugs. Ordinance by a Gazette notification in 1958.
No cure
He found the case proved. He also ordered the cordisco- tion of the pistol and 12 rounds of ammunition..
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Defendant, of Room 2, Foreign Correspondence Club, Conduit-road, said she was the wife of a prince of Nepal.
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Collect material
She said she went to the Cun
lo collect material for a new book. She said she wrote under the pen name Lynn Waldron,
Man falls
off ferry
A 41-year-old man felt aves- board from a Star ferry in the harbour this morning.
The Northern Star, on its way from Hongkong to Tsimshatsui, stopped immediately.
It of Diane
about 8.25 am.
Was
through Pleading not guilty
Crow members rescued the her counsel, Mr H. H. B. How: man and later helped him ashore, He was sent to Kowloon Hos- she said she had a Congo licence
in her
passport i pital where his condition was endorsed French.
Supt. R. J. Brotherton, at said to be "all right."
Police Headquarters tacked to testified that on August 11 at noon, he went Correspondents Club, accom- panied by Inspector Taylor.
to the Foreign
He said he saw Miss Shah, and
conversation; asked her ¡ after
"pld you have a fire-arm when you were in the Congo?" She replied "Yes, I have it upstairs." He said he told her that before they went any further, he would like to see the fire-arm, and showed her the warrant.
Cloth bundle
Supt Bretherton said on en- tering the room in the Foreign Ordinance No. Correspondero Club, the de- at her 10 of 1960 gave the Governor-fendant went to one
He said that
in-Council power
amerd
the schedule.
did not cure the
ment.
He Presccution
prove
a drawer by order to wardrobes, 'opened
but that and produced a cloth bundle.
"It contained a holster with a 1958 amend-
with revolver
two clips Elx in each rounds of ammunition
was in the clio and one clip gun, Supt. Bretherton added.
te that submitted
would have to that the Govemor-in- Council, in adding barbitone tu the schedule, had been satified that the drug was analogous to morphine or cocaine,
Judge K. K. Macfee adjourned the hearing to 2 p.m. for Chief Inspector T. W. Wheeler to re- ceive instructions on the point.
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She said she did not have a licence issued by the Hongkong Commissioner of Police, but had a Belgian permit in her passport, which she thought sufficient.
Principal Crown Counsel Mr D. N. E. Rea prosecuted.
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Bundle of
9 months'
jail for
$1 theft
For stealing a note-book
worth $1 a man was sen- tenced to nine months' jail today.
unem-
He was 39-year-old ployed man Hung Wan-cher at Central Court this morning.
Sub-Inspector Yip Tal-you told the Magistrate, Mr E. Corbally, that Hung stole the note-book from a jacket pocket of a passen- ger on board a tram travelling along Des Voeux-road on Monday afternoon,
Central
was
there Hung thought money in it but he was dis- appointed.
Inspector Yip said the con- ductor on the upper deck of the tram saw the theft and Kung was handed over to the police. Hung had eight previous con- for a victions including two similar offence and one for at- tempted theft.
Businessmen see
wonder machine
To give talks on go through paces
Nerves' leaves refugee problems
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Miss Hiroko Sawadaishi, a Japanese night club artiste lett here by Swissair on her return afler successful to Japan
of local night five-week tour clubs.
Miss Sawadaishi, who toured four local night clubs, was billed as "Japan's Bundle of Nerves," and C Bems from Japan"
Delicious
"The
Mr David Taylor, founder and resident director of the Rennie's Mill Student Aid Project, left by Boac this morning to begin his six months holiday in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.
Chau
Sir
Tsun-nin
from right)
(third
watches as a demonstra-
tor (extreme left)
years AGO
August, 1935
ESSRS Doubleday
M Doran and Company
today revealed in New York that Lawrence of Arabia left a manuscript entitled "The Mint" which the publishers will issue at $500,000 a copy.
This is the highest price for any contemporary volume of history: It is purposely made prohibitive and its issuance is solely for the purpose of protecting the copyright.
The publishers state that the contents are so sensa. tional that they may never be published in England at least until all the persons mentioned in the manuscript are dead.
A motor collision involving
operates the new IBM Miss M Gubbay niece of Mr punched card accounting C. S. Gubbay of 9 MacDonnell system.
machine Road
The
could work out your monthly grocery bill, with a fully-itemised invoice, in a few seconds.--China
The electronics age has arrived in Hong- Mail Photo.
kong.
The morning a large group four inches by two-and-a- one machine of Hongkong businessmen half-all on watched a typist busy col- the size of a typewriter.
Each card has room for 80 several During his travels, he will give lating
hundred talks on Hongkong refugee prob-grocery bills and translating lems, laying special stress on his them into a series of punch project in an effort to raise
holes on cards measuring funds.
Art in Hongkong
In
yyur account of local cultural activities (Com- ment of the Day, Monday); I am surprised that you have overlooked a young and vigorous art in which there la tremendous thusiasm and in which the local artists lead the world.
en-
I refer to the art of pictorial photography. Hongkong has many large and very selive photographic societies, which hold weekly and monthly meetings, exhibit thousands of prints and colour slides locally, and compele suc- cessfully in hundreds of overseas exhibitions.
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To describe these lusty and
proliferating clubs "small struggling cultural ⚫ groups which hang to the frayed threads of, an ex- istence" could hardly bo more inapt.
In
international exhibitions abroad, the Hongkong en tries are usually quisland- inr, and a large proportion of the gold medals and. other awards are won an-
nually by local artists,
If proof of their pre-eminence is needed, It may be seen in the annual records of acceptances in these ex- hibitions, compiled by the Photographic Socitly of America. These show that
in each of the Inst seven
Or eight years, the most successful photographer has always been one of our Bocal artista.
On Reveral
Occasions they have occupied the top three places, and it is not un- unal for six out of the top ten places to be taken by Hongkong photographers,
In view of this it is difficult understand your sug-
to
gestion that nothing cultural significance being produced here,
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In ignoring an activity which engagés many of Hong- -kong's most creative minds, you give a woefully lop- sided view of culture in this Colony.
EA WATSON.
dear sir
Congo danger
Rene MacColl's interview with
Sir Roy Welensky the Rhodesian leader, published in yesterday's 'China Mail' on the Congo problem and its possible effects on other African countries is most interesting, having regard to the insistent demand for 'Independence' by countries still too immature for this grand experiment. Left to itself,
doubtless the problem in the Congo wil ressive to the satisfaction of its people, but it has today reached such a stage that Intervention by outside countries to prevent the con- flagration spreading to ad- Jacent countries has be- come a.necesalty. The despatch of a token UN 'protection corps' signifies the interest shown by the outside world to the poten- tial danger caused by the uncertainty in the Congo which has become a powder- keg that might easily be sparked off to a third world war.
Countries round about the Congo are watching anxious- ly the development in that country. If the leaders in the Congo show themselves to be real statesmen worthy to take on the responsibility of self-government they will make a success of their task, and other countries silii un- der a colonial form of gov-- ernment will also want to clamour for independence in due time.
On the other hand, should the Congo make a mess of its newly won'independence" and bring discredit on its leaders and distrust among its own people, its neighbours will naturally hesitate to demand 'Independence" until they are more certain of
their ability to accept this much, desired gift.
In the meantime, It is up to the existing regimes in coun-
· tries still under coloniai ad®- ministration
encourage
to
the leaders among the people to take a more active Interest In their government, and to grant them a larger measure of 'guided self-government' so that in time they will be to take over In a position without seriously upsetting the economic life of the people. Whatever may be said of the
British colonialism', coun- tries hitherto under British administration have all been living in comparative peace, and when transition from 'administered' to 'indepen- dent' government, so upset. is caused, for the people have been trained to take over long before the time due for the grant of independence'. One has only to look back on conditions prevailing in the vast Indian sub-continent, now divided Into India and Pakistan Ceylon, Malaya, Singapore and other former colonies and countries that formed the much maligned British Empire to see the present tranquillity of the people, and the friendship 1 entertained towards Britain. Britain does not throw up her responsibilities easily or in a panis, however hard press- ed by those benighted people. who are impatient to take over the administration. She has first to· satisfy herself that she can safely transfer power without seriously up- setting the economie life of the people for whom she still holds herself responsible. The raler owes a duty to the ruled, and it is a cowardly country that throws up the sponge, at the first sign of danger and panics towards the hills, leaving an EX- guided, people to their fate, 'Independence" is a lovely
thing, but it can also become a real danger, depending how-il is treated or handled, Let those who desire this prize of great vain ponder to see if they are able to re- tužn its valun, if not further to eakanNG IL before clamouring for its glit.
COLONIST.
columns of letters or figures.
cards through a desk-top-size sorter, which arranged the cards in alphabetic order, according to the name or serial number of the customer,
The demonstrator then fed the
One operation
A further machine added the totals and printed the results — or the whole itemised bill if desired in one operation. The machine will also subtract, divide or multiply.
In addition the machine will punch holes in the cards show- ing the totals, so that they can be used as permanent recorda.
The demonstration, showing the new IBM Series 2000 punched card accounting system, took place at the open- ing of the IBM World Trade Corporation's new offices Sholl House.
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Sir Tsun Nin-chau, who per-
formed the brief inauguration
ceremony, later watched with interest as the machine did its
work.
occurred in Garden Road yesterday afternoon as a result of which Miss Gubbay suffered from shock and other slight injuries.
$700 fine T
for charge of
adulterated liquor
THE Queen of Belgium, formerly Princess As trid of Sweden, was killed in a motor accident on the lake- side road, Lake Lucerne, nine miles from the town of Lucerne.
King Leopold was driving at the time when the car suddenly got out of control and crashed into a tree.
The Queen, who was sit-- ting beside the King was thrown against the tree and killed instantly.
King Leopold was cut on
A 31-year-old shop proprietress was fined $700 or three months' jail by Mr E. Corbally at Cea- tral Court this morning for dealing in adulterated liquors the head. and falling to keep a stock book to the satisfaction of the Department of Commerce and Industry,
The chauffeur, who was in the back of the car, was not hurt.
the
Choi Kam, of 1102 Canlon-
of The sympathy read, ground floor, who pleaded guilty, cried in the dock and whole world will go out to begged the Magistrate to in-the King of the Belgiana pose a lighter fine,
and his young children in Revenue Inspector K. x. this terrible tragedy, which Leung told the court that at has followed so quickly upon on August 2, a routine the death in a mountaineer- p inspection was carried out by ing accident on Feb. 17, 1934, Revenue officers at defendant's
of the War Hero, his father King Albert.
It is designed specifically for painises. companies with an average
The defendant produced a volume of paper work. Larger stock book and it was found machines are available for more that the record of goods was King Leopold had visited
complex businesses,
Such equipment will also be used during the Hongkong Census, compute and tabulate the statistics and results.
Although the small machine systern costs almost $100,000 to buy the equipment can be rented for less than $2,000 a month.
POP
A SUIT? -DONT YOU GET MY BILL LAST MONTH ?
\
YES-
AND IT'S ALREADY HAD ITS BAST
READING!
Queen Astrid, who with
p up only to July 26,
Hongkong in 1982, was al- The officers examined 34 ways considered one of the bottles of brandy and whisky most beautiful and accom- and found them to be adulter- plished women in Europe.
ated.
Thirty-four bottles of wines which were produced in court
as exhibits were confiscated.
By Gogl
She was beloved by the and people of Belgium, popular wherever she went.
WHATEVER THE SITUATION.
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