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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1960.
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HOME 25
SIX PEOPLE CALL THIS 'HOME
The bedspace that looks like a dog's kennel
by DAVID LAN
From a distance, it seems to be an outsized dog kennel. Nearer, it looks like a pigsty. Close-up, it becomes clear.
It is a bedspace-home for a family of six!
Ironically, it takes its place in the Ideal Homes Exhibition at the Star.
Ferry,
Thrown
by SL James' It is not shown wholher the 1 Settlement, It is a brantabell family eats congee or soild rice warning to the Hongkong public. but on the container for rice, "While you see the better side the size of a kerosene tir of life in the Colony, don't for-that's it half hidden in the left- gel how the majority are welth-hand corner of the pleture Ing in a grinding poverty."
there Ja
A
label
This is their lot despite the fact that they are honest people doing honest work,
The husband is a watchman. Hie wife is a charwoman. The man works by day while the red with
works by night. The two of them earn a total of $100 per month in salaries,
Never has human dignity sunk Always Full what they al to such misery.
ways wish for, but do
not A home for six is Just a straw always get. mat spread aver wooden plankes i tenssed up on a pair of wooden benches,
The elements
The answer
On the cupboard resis 3 brotten besket in which lie a few ten-cent colns and a hilar
Bole in answer to the sponsor's It makes one think: "What is | the difference between those half built in plywed and hall who donate and those living in
the corrugated iron form only protection against the efe- the bed space?"
A ulo.tie sheet on the tell.#call Please durute!" tia plate on the right, a tar-i paul at the back and a reefi
a
The answer is right
there. men all the year reunil.
The eash in the basket repre- Underneath the bet are chicken cage and space for rents the cne while a red label wood. Da ne cerner is a rice on a pillar opposite the bed-
a. On another stands a cup space represents the other.
The red label is Inscribed bard.
with four Chineas characters tach fok" meaning
In the centre of the bes is "Yin chun
laid out a wooden tray with a "Welcome Spring to receive the
single dish of turnip shreds | blessing". and ent-fish purrounded by live bowls alongside and five pairs of chopsticks.
Such is the amount of food la the dish that a dog could finish it in three biton while a Dig would grunt and turn Its
back..
J
They fre honest in that they have not yet committed themselves to theft. robbery, swindle, and double-crossing.
in Hongkong although St Jam Settlement has cut their eldest sen in primary school and their two younger children in a nur sery, leaving the youngest baby only to the couple.
They are still very much alive
The bed on show was their real "home sweet home" before came 10 St James Settlement their rescue.
It stands as a testimony
of protest for the thousands upcn thousands pt petple living hi bedspaces, alung, street corners. back alleys, roofieps, verandahs,
This reveals the mentality of crowded tenements and squatter
the bedspace family ignorance, arces all over the Colony. stiperstition. and fatalism. They do not know what has made them suffer.
The label has been there for years without lifting them out of the living hell.
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Macao, Nov. 21. LAH. M. L. Ribeiro, the newly appointed deputy com- mander of the Macao Follec Force, and Mrs Ribeiro, arrived tonight,
The couple were met at the pier by Major S. Reves, the Commander of the local Poilee and other Police officers, Capt J. A. de Carvalho, the ADC in the Governor.AFP.
•SET VIRINDAJ PEOPLE
THE FAR-FROM-IDEAL HOME
This picture shows the bed space on exhibition at the Ideal Homes display this morning. It is attracting big crowds. China Mall photo.
MAN SHOT BY POLICE, BREAKS DOWN IN COURT
A man with a "shocking criminal record" broke down and sobbed at Kowloon District Court' this morning as he begged Judge A, A. Hug- gins for leniency.
and the chase, Tang denied A
"I have to support a family and now I am a cripple," sad 37-year-old Tang Ming before he was sentenced to three years on several charges of simple
larceny,
Lat he adopted a threatening attitude as the constable ap- prozshad kim while he was on the ground.
Pickpocket jailed for
two years-
45-year-old hawker was caught by a detective trying to pick the pocket of a man boarding a tram in Central on Saturday.
He aald the constable had Tang Ming, according to Chlef blinded him by shining a torch in Inspector T. W. Wheeler, Fed his face and he could not sce
Ip Kan, living in the base- been shot by a ecostable when that it was a police officer who ment of 147 Third-street,, was
was standing over him. hd was trying to escape arrest for stealing from a car parked had not called on him to stop money but only several pieces He added that the constable later told that the pocket he
to pick tried
contained no Cheong Lok-street on the night of October 20,
In
He was wounded in the butlocks and had been in hos- pital since,
Chief Inspector Wheeler said Tang refused to stop when called on by a constable.
When
down,
he
running
Tang said he had stolen the of toilet paper. goods because his cousin had
Central Magistrate Mr Derek promised to assist him to get
Cons this morning sent Ip to jail zateman in a bus com for two years when he pleaded
required to
guilty. petly and he was pay $060 03 "introduction money".
Job
Ip had eight previous convie-
offences.
eventually ho fell
He had pawned clothes and tons Ave of which were theft confronted the borrowed but failed to raiso consiable with a brick in one the necessary amount. 'So he hand and a marewdriver in resorted to clealing to make up the other.
the balance.
As the constable hesitated! for a bioment, Tang got up to
Tang broke down and sobbed, lamenting that he was now a
continue his escape. The con cripplo, stable aimed a shot at the fee ing man and wounded him. The
Sobbed
Policeman
commended
Injured man: continued to run He said: "And I have a A policeman was commended
for a short distance before he forally to support elfed: "But
was captured, s
Judge. Huggins replied
by a Contral-Mogstrate this moming for hit alert- ness in arresting a pick- pocket when he was off dutyjasw
Tong, who was charged with you are not going to be allowed four counts of simple larceny, to support them in this way." admitted that he had stolen The police, had Indicated jacks, spannors and screw that the cozziedź vras (walng.
three keys to open the luggage The 30-year-old pickpocket, drivers, from cars parked in various parts of Kowloch. Tang boots of motor care to steal Ng Chi-lo, unemployed, of 10 || ayked": the Court to take into the spare parts and other Ko Shing-atrest, accorul floor,
congidiralica two other bells of
marjailed for two years for similar nature that ho had Judge fugging chrerved that stealing Parker ballpoint pen committed on the same night. only at criminal would be in worth $35 from a European, Mr At the end of the case, Tana | corsemion – of much koys and GalClaydon, Hoploaded: pleaded guilly to another charge that teng had himself to bismo sully STARA of breach of a police super for his present olivical state, Ng had a lotal of 21 previatil Visión order by failing to report was revealed, kiat Turbonvictions since 1948. For and was given an additional, had criminki: record... 62. 18 | Aret" offendacho was placed, kind term of six months, se convictions including minor a bondy For his soconal, nar * While, admi{ting the tholi tramo offences mince 19513/? | oncybazdá strokode of the bage
POP
COURT TOLD:
Girl
saw mother
years
AGO
November 1935
An. ominent London coroner's pathologist told a inquiry that tall. people-at legat, those with long lega-
aro
more likely to commit suicide than short people.
The coroner, also a doctor,
stabbed commenting on this views, anid
that pathologists had astonishing number of cases
Two young girls saw their where the leg length a mother stabbed to death greater than body length.
by one of her relatives, it Such people were apt to be was alleged at the depressed, act on impulse and Criminal Sessions today. I in many cases, attempted to Kwong-kwong, aged 33 and take their lives, unemployed, pleaded not guilty
before Mr Justice W. A. Blair-
Kerr to
A verdiet of suicide
murdering 41-year-old recorded.
Chan Suet-fong, # married
weman of 25, Graham-strect ou
July 21.
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1008
Mr D. E d'Almada Remedioa, AN eloquent plea for the prosecuting, sold that Chun, aprend of peaceminded- who worked as a bookbladerness and a graphic picture died as the result of 32 stab of the ugly side of war were wounds.
Heard cry
given by Lady Southorn when presenting prizes at the Cathedral Hall yester- daughters saw her carry a pile day to winners of the Peace of books from her cubicle and Poster
On July 31 onc of
Into
her
Competition or- heard her ery out. She ran out ranised by the local branch
the courtyard and col- lapsed. Kwong, who was pur-of the League of Nations
lo slab Society. sung her, continued her as she lay on the ground,
The Hon, Sh William Later police found Kwong ying unconscious in the dead Shenton presided and spoke woman's cubicle. He was on the League's activities, wounded and knife lay while Sir Robert Ho Tung şide him.
thanked Lady Southern for
Four people, said Mr Remedios, had seen the stab the interest she displayed. bing. They were Tal-cheuk, father-in-
the
dead woman's
law, her two daughters and store fokl.
Dr
Wounds
·
Among those present were Lady Ho Tung, the Hon. Sir Henry and Ladv Pollock, the Hon. Dr R. H.. Kotewall and Mrs Kotewail,
Chung Man-tal of St Mary's Hospital, who examine the Hon. Dr S. W. and Mrs ed the dead woman, said that Too. the Hon. Mr M. K. and the wounds had been caused Mrs Lo, Mr and Mrs A, N. by a charp cutting instru- Macfadyen, Mr and Mrs R. ment, possibly by the blood. A. D. Forrest, Mr Tang stained knife exhibited by Shin-kin, Mr Ng Wah, Mr
the prosecution,
Cross-examined by Mr Hu M. F. Talati, Mr S. Y. Boxer Hung-lick, defending, he said (Hon. Sec.), Miss M., N. that he could not say definitely Baxter (Hon. Organising that it was this knife that had Sec.) and Dr Y. S. Wan
(Hon. Treasurer).
been used.
Dr Wong Kam-lee, of the St Mary's Hospital surgical unit said that he examined Kwong and had formed the opinibei that his wounds were peli- Hope for the safety of Sir inflicted.
Charles Kingsford-Smith, the Earlier it was stated that Australian aviator, who dia- Kwong had spent two weeks appeared over the Bay of under observation in a mental Bengal while attempting a hospital but had been declared record flight from England to fit for trial.
Australia, has now been practically abandoned.
Mr Hu is instructed by Mr
John Gregory of Johnson, Stokes
and MartzT.
Hearing continues.
Indian charged
Aerial and surface searches are being continued, however.
DEATH PLUNGE
Guayaquil, Nov, 20. Thirty-two persons were
killed on Saturday when a bus
A 22-year-old Indian, Chan Dru Belani, appeared before Mr. A. Garcia at Kowloon Court this morning on a charge of malicious damage to property. carrying 52 persons plunged The prosecution applied for rearly 400 feet into a gorge three day remand. No plea near Pasaje, about 140 miles "was taken.“
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