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CHINA MAIL
LETTERS FROM YOU TO THE EDITOR
A dastardly crime
Two liems of news in your yesterday's mue call for attention and comments, First, the shocking news of the cowardly murder of the small boy Graeme Thorne by a gang of heartless crt. ninals in New South Wales demands immediate appre- hension of the culprits and #wift Justice be meted out to them.
The let that should be done to these seuns of society is to hang them and make an example of them to those who might follow in their footsteps,
Crimes against children
Are
el
the
dear sir
I a
not only from the African people immediately concern- ed, but from all other people of coloured ekin who might feel that British Justice is not as far it is unver sally proclaimei,
should While muruerer be reprieved for killing a coloured person, then 1 coloured
must nerer 9.milarly be reprieved it le killed
white 2 There should be only one faw fur all in the land, Irrespective o, colour, race or creed, Deplorable as it is that a young man of 100d family should pay the full penally for a crime possibly committer on the spur of the
man.
moment,
too rampant in the world to- day, but to kidnap an in- nocent young and defence- less b.y for the greed ranam and then failing im- me late response from the parents, to murder v.cum in such a cruel man- ner shows to the world that criminals of this kind should be dealt with drastically
Brish Justice should be up- and without undue delay, It is hoped that people in all held that is fair name might never be sullfed, and whist walks of life in Australia, In every part of the Con- every sympathy goes to the #rict-stricken parents of the tinent, wil jola forces with
condemned man, this is one the Police in tracking down
of the unfortunate and
cases this gang el rascals
show of where a
mercy bring
justice. them to
might be misconstrued as a Lynching would be to good
miscarriage of Justice by for them. They sliculd be trawn
those win will not hesitate to make capital of the case and fan the flame of dis- content across the land at a time when the smallest spark of the
can ignite a little faggot into an uncontrol. able flame.
and
quartered and their carcases ted to the sharks as they had threatened to feed the boy of the murdered boy
ihese denizens Lu
STAL
WA
deeps when demanding the vanom from his parents. The other item of the news concerning the denial of re- Erleve to a while settler in Kenya for the marter of his though African houseboy, regrettable, is understand- able in the prevalling con dition obtaining in Africa.
The condemned nian tried according to the law of the land and adjudged by an all-white jury for the kill- ing of a caloured person. During his trial doubtless all the evidence must have been adduced to support the case for the prosecution, and the subsequent appeal lodged with
The Gaynor must have shown good cause why the sentence should be com- muted to one of imprison- ment instead of having the death penalty carried out. The Governor's rejection of the appeal and its later re- jection by the Privy Council must have convinced these people that no interference with the should be made order of the trial judge. The final appeal to the Queen's prerogative and its rejection by the Colonial Secretary in the United Kingdom, whe has though undesirable to intervene, only confirms the undesirability of pro- voking adverse comments,
We can only offer aur heart. felt sympathy to the parents COIT- of the unfortunate demned, and pray that they the have und he may strength to bear their cross.
A READER
dear sir
The press and
culture
Mr N. T. Chow
what 85ks contribution the local press has
3
per.
only recently, the indigna- young tion with which a
University student of the complained that your con- temporary had not reviewed Leiously enough 10.mance by The Masquers, Perhaps my greatest admira- tien is for the music crities who seem to me to be no
very only
intelligently ve.sed in their subject but write with an authority and knowledge that would do 'credit to a critic in a Lendan cr New York newspaper. Indeed, with due respect. 10 the local newspapers, I feel most people would agree with me that their coverage
· of the Colony's cultural activities is higher than it la of general news, Perhaps the two arts
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1960.
Thefts at
hospital
court told
A police Inspector told o court today that there had been a number of thefts in Queen Mary Hospital recently.
Detective Sub-inspector Cham Sik-kwong.
the testifying at trial of an operating theatre coolie charged with stealing $490 watch from a theatre nurse, aic Ince cares were very dim- cult for the police to detect.
He asked Central Magistrate, Mr. Corbally to take a serious view of the present case.
FALSE ADDRESS
The coolle, Mok Chek-man was sent to fail for eight month He was also fined $100 cr an- other month's jail for giving ad- false Information- false which
dress-lo a pawnbroker to whom he pawned the watch for $120.
Mok pleaded guilty.
suffer most are painting and iterature, though 1 *m aware that both the English language and Chinese language
Press sponsor Berary and poetry com- peditions for the Arla Festival.
I feel that with a competent and regular correspondent to cover local art the local Fress would be giving as wide and as thorough a Coverage and, therefort,
as full an encouragement of cultural activilles as anyone even Mr Chow-could expect.
SATISFIED
dear sir
The mint
Your 25 Years Ago item yes- terday on Lawrence's The
Mint deserves clarification.
said made to culture in Hongkong. Insofar as giving encouragement by reviews
and criticism of the various. Arts I think they give pro portionately.
more..
space
any Dewi.
than perhaps paper in the world, Where else a major capital olty- we can call Hong- kong that does a news. paper devote over column to a performance, however meritorious, by a amateur drama society?
standard Indeed the
criticism la comanendably high and I seem to recall
local
of
It was not the great expore that people thought it would be-merely a series of pen sketches on his life in the RAF. Asperity was absent. The hardest thing Lawrence about an Air Force officer was: "When five hundred airmen on
their parade sce
officer march up to the Squadron Leader; see him halt with a click at the regulation dia- tance, draw swellingly up, and salute like a pistol shot
then five hundred airmen titter gently. It is theatri- cai, and theatre in England spells drcus,
and circus spells clown.'
As The Mint was not publish- ed until five years ago, your report has had to wait 25 years to be put right.
DESERT RAT.
Information Judge's ruling
The
'not releasable"
USS
Bexat, AR attack An transport of the U.S. Navy, left Hongkong in 趨 hurry last night after a radio broad cast recalling all its personnel ashore,
on barbitone
argument that Government had no right to call barbitone a dangerous drug was rejected in the Victoria District Court today by judge K. R. Macfee. Mr Gordon Hampton, defend- ing two men and a woman on charged of having drugs, had asked the judge to quash the charges as bad,
Asked by the China Mail about the cause, a spokesman for the U.S. Naval Liaison
Judge Macfee ruled that he Office in Hongkong said, "The information is not releasable.” had to assume that the 1958
addition of barbitone to the The USS Bexar had been in dangerous drugs list was not port for two and a half weeks ultra vires, during which it was the U.S. slation ship.
Airline officials
in Hongkong
Two airline telecommunick tions experts arrived here to day in the course of business", trips through the Far East
CROWN CHARGE Chief Inspector TW Wheeler, acting for the Crown, said a police raid on June 28 at '324A
Advertising agent leaves HK
The court was told the watch belonged to Mary Regis Young, staff nurse at the hospital. The coolie had been in the has- perating theatre of the pital for more than a year,
About 4 pin on August, Nurs: Young went off duty and put her watch in the pocket of her working gown in the cuD JOBNI of the operating theatre.
She later returned and found the watch missing.
A report was made to the police and inquiries began.
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Jade carver to demonstrate at Pacific Festival
Two days Later, detectives found the missing watch in an It had Aberdeen pawnshop. been pawned by a Chinese man. Chan Tim, of 101 Pokfulam One
Village...
But police could not locale £ person named Chan Tim at that address.
Mok was eventually located in amahjong school in Pokfulam Village and admitted the offences under caution.
Inspector Chan said the de- fendant had spent the money in gambling and paying off debts.
of Hongkong's few jade sculptors, Yusuf T. C. Chang left for San Francisco by the President Wilson on Monday on a mission sponsored by the Tourist Anociation to give live demonstrations of the art of jade carving at the coming Pacific Festival which will be held in the Golden Gate city from Sept. 9-18. The demonstrations which
give Chang will believed to be the First: ever held abroad of local craftsmanship.
are
SIR EDWARD fade carving is a difficult BEETHAM OFF TOMORROW
Sir Edward Beatham, retiring Governor of Trinidad will leave the Colony for Singapore tomorrow, not today.
He and Lady Beetham have been staying with friends in the Colony, including the Governor Sir Robert Black and Lady House, Black Goverment and the Chief Justice Sle Michael Hogan
;
They will leave by CPA dr- | liner tomorrow and will be seen off at Kai Tok by the Governor's ADC, Inspector G. D. Carter of the Hongkong Police.
Off to collect sales award
won
world-
A local businessman left the Colony this morning for Ger- many to collect a sales award which his company ahead of 142 other wide representatives, He is Mr C. C. Wu, manager of Scientifle Service Co., Ltd. who left by Swissair for Europe where he will attend an inter- national sales meeting at Mr Vidor Bennett, President Wilhelmshaven, West Germany, of Victor A. Bennett Inc., ad- A keen member of the Hong- vertising agenda for Boar in kong Motor Boat and Ski Club, Comet for Tokyo.. America, left yesterday by Boac [Mr Wu will stopover in Rome to see part of the Olymple James before returning to the
Chau-street, Shamshulp, world journey accompanied by
He is making a round-the-Colony,
He was seen off at the
art which must be learn- ed over a period of many years. Prior to the Com- munit revolution in Chino, the art was non- existent in
·Almost all of the ex- quisite jade articles and jewellery came from the maisland.
Hongkong.
up
A few of the highly skilled jade sculptors of North Chine came to Hongkong os refugees and set shop here in recent years. Among these is Chang, who has a jade store on Granville Road to which is attached a small fac. tory where several train- ed artisans produce jade bowk, statuettes of Kwan Yin, and other art objects under his supervision. Chang is taking with him a complete set of jade carving tools and his
FIGHT OVER
6 MELONS
A taxi driver and a fruit stall holder were injured in a fight oVE" six water melons cut open for tesla in Hunghom yesterday.
About 7 pm, the laxi driver pulled up near the Junction of Chatham- road and Valley-road in search of a water melon la quench his thirst..
One after another, the fruli stall holder cut open six water melons none of which W25 "attractive" enough to induce the cab- man to buy,
A quarrel ensoed, followed by a fight in which the fruitman wield- ed a knife and the cab. man, a spanner.
From the Files
25
years AGO
August, 1935 TH
THE Hongkong Ladies
Interport Tennis Team for Shanghai has been. weakened by the inability of Mrs Litton (formerly Miss Enid Lo) to make the trip.
Mrs Litton was one of four ladies chosen by the Hongkong
Tennis' Lawn Association for Shanghai. The others, were Miss R. Hancock, Mrs Wilson and Mrs Griffiths.
Sir Malcolm Campbell has arrived at Salt Lake City and said he would make his men on Monday if Bluebird was in good condition,
Sir
Malcolm hopes to top the 300 mph mark on the famous Utah Salt Beds,
His present record standi
at 272 mph at Daytona Beach,
A
GOURT circular an
nounces the engagement of HRH the Duke of Glou- cester to Lady Alice Mon- tagu Douglas-Scott, daugh ter of the Duke of Buc cleuch.
Child's cry Fears Ago column: "A
was Lee's downfall
the SCM Post's 25
theft out of which the bur glar will make very little occurred on Tuesday morn- ing at the Roman Catholic
Cathedral.
"On Tuesday
the door open
morning
A child's cry was the down-when the priest went to of the fall of a 34-year-old man who has been in and out of Cathedral he found one of joil during the last 13 the doors ajar and on examination found the door of the tabernacle had been prised open and the ciborium containing the consecrated host stolen and the wafers placed on the table.
years.
Lee Yec, 34 and unemployed, had 18 previous convictions for thefts, housebreaking and drugs possession.
Today he went back to jail for three years.
been were
"A crucifix had
as both Judge P. R. Springail passed taken, but sentence in the Victoria District made of brass and gilt, the Court this morning for house-thief will find little of value breaking.
to reward him for his sacri
Chief Inspector C. L. Smith legious act. told the Court that Lee entered
No, 2 Shepherd-street, Wanchal, "An attempt had also been through the front door on made to break open the aims August 1.
box.
From there he went to the
"It is believed the thief first floor, and as he began ransacking the flat, a small was either a boy or a weak girl was awakened by the noise man, this hypothesis being based on the fact that very
and called out, "
Lee rushed downstairs but little force was used. was arrested by occupants on the ground floor, Inspector Smith said.
demonstrations will high- POP By Gog
light the many beautiful creations now produced
in the Colony. - HK Tourist Association photo.
INDIAN
GIVEN
resulted in charges against Ng his son, lat, who is studying at by Mr Henty, Teng, managing A CHANCE Shing-man, Ng Kam-cheung and Trinity College, Connecticut, director of Scientific Service,
the woman Cheng Mei-yu,
He said 21.5 grams of heroin and is visiting Boac offices and and many staff members of the
and 5 ounces of barbitone were seized after a door was broken down.
He said the woman was stopped from throwing drugs out a window,
The case continues,
They were Mr Kurt W. Griesch, manager of the telecommunications division ef -Lufthansa German Airlines, and
Mr Koenraa S. Molenaar, Dubrovnik, Yugoslav Aug. 17,
Mr Hugh Gaitskell, leader of operations manager of
the British Labour Party who is International Society of Aeronautical Telecommunice- tions, Paris.
the
advertising agents enroute, office,
DONATION FOR UK FAMILY
1
The Karanjia Iamily has sent donation of $100 to the China Mall to be forwarded the family of the late Frank Neal,
Derby:
to
Mr Neal was killed in a quarry accident on the eve of a hullday he had promised bis four children, three of whom are dumb and deaf.
A 21-year-old Indian who - admitted, stealing $1,997.90 from his employer was bound over in $500 for three years by Mr E. Bardon at Kowloon Court his morning
ī Devdas Tahilrum Daswani was a cashier of the Inter- national Money Changer at !! Cameron-road ground floor. He admitted stealing the money, police said. Me
Mir Haydon said in his judg. 1145
оп a three-week holiday here,
He had woriæd” overtime to England lunched today with President
raise the extra money for # | ment that since Daswani's ezn- Vladimir Bakaric of Croatia, #j They arrived here by Swizzair member of the
The story of Mr Neal's tragle trip to Skegness. It was to ployer was willing to take him Yugoslav from Tokyo for a two-day Politburo, aboard Mr Bakarie's death was published in the here been, the first ever sea back, he decided to give him
de holiday for his children, a chante, 2 stopover.
yacht.-Reuter,
Chinia Mall last weeks,
China
AS YOUR NEW NEIGHBOUR, I'M THRILLED THAT WE SEEM TO HAVE THE SAME COMMON
INTERESTS
"The Police have the mat- ter in hand."
WHATEVER THE SITUATION.
Carlsberg
KEEPS YOU SMILING
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