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YOUTH
ACCUSED OF BOY'S
MURDER
Accused of the murder boy 10-3Tar-old
whose body was found in A roul of water yesterday In Tun Wan, a 19-year- old youth, Ko Tak-wing, unemployed, was remand- rd fur four days to fall rustody by Mr J, E. Dargan at North Kowloon Court the morning.
Detective Inspector Lal Kim-UE. appeared Car
the Pollee.
No pira was taken,
BIG CITY HOLD-UP LATEST
Police are continuing their in- quiries into Tuesday morning's ilaring city hold-up in which two employees of the Chiyu Bank of Ice House-street were robbed of $50,000 in each.
Inquiries yesterday spread to Macao, a Police spokesman con- firmed today,
Det-Insp R. G. Laurel of the Anti-Triad Sqund is reported to have visited Macao.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1961.
FIRST SECTION
OF
TRADE FAIR HERE
American-manufactured motor car spare' paris
and accessories for the Mobile Exhibition were discharged in seven containers from the Flying Hawk in mid-stream this morning,
This is the first of 10 sections of the US$1
million Mobile Trade Fair sponsored by the Isbrandtsen Steamship Company to be held in Hongkong.
A further aloe sections of the Fule featuring:
other American producle will be exhibited
in the Colony later in the year. They are also being exhibited in other parts of the world.
FIRST RESPONSE
A company representative sald this morning that by staging the Fair, the Isbrandtsen Line was the irst private concern respond to President Kennedy's request for an all-out effort to boost overseas trade,
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The exhibits will be on display on No. 5 Pier
of the Kawloon Wharf,
A cocktail party for 600 guests will be held on Monday to mark the opening of the Fair which will be open to the public the next day for four days,
The exhibits will then be shipped by the
rs Flying Endeavour to Keelung where they will next be displayed.
Rescue of a dog
road nulloh this
the
A black and tan mimgret bitch But there are no fresh de-
the case and bearing ear tatino No 360, was velopments in Police are continuing their in-rescued from quiries and search in Hong- kong for the two men who held up the bank employees with reviver in a crowded city strees, grabbed a leather bag contain- ing the nancy and then sprint-a ed into a side jane mit Dual- ly disappeared
Waterloo- morning by Chief Inspector J. P. Balers ot the longtong Society for the Protection of Cruelty le Animais, i
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the
mid
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This is the second pecasion
clot Was found trapped
in the Kowloon pudlah this year.
#rs! The
occasion was
turning crowds on Des Voeux-eller this year when on Alsa-
road.
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tlan was rescued.
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LETTERS FROM YOU TO THE EDITOR
Unfair to secretaries
More often than not your "Com- ment of the Day" presents both sides of a question and suggeris that one of them is reasonably right. In this way you fulfil a duly, that of guld- ing pubila opinion, anil you do it eminently well. But your "Comment" of April 3 seemed, at least to me, to border on the unfair. Could not the secretary's "Borry, I do not know" be precisely the right answer when her bo15 in in fact sitting about in bls or at Fanling on club
any other day than Wednesday!
Is she not displaying loyalty of the highest order by feigning Ignorance when the truth might precipitate a crisis? Again, you complain that sub- ordinate alaff lead one to be- lieve that simple answer to A simple question is as for- bidden as the sailing date of
vessel in time of war. Surely the blame for much
ideology real squarely on the narrow shoulders of her in- competent boss. who may be an exteulive but so often 11 no administrator?
for hir
A good executive (horrid word) délegates authority right down to the office boy, and by force of personality and example he recelves, in return faith, efficiency and loyalty. And if this premiso be correct. 1 venture to suggest that ail the courses in "beiter manage- ment for brainless managers“ the can never substitute for mark
a good executive- leadership, a flair rather than an acquirement.
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A 20-year-old man, who indecently assaulted a 16-year-old girl aboard a sampan in Youmati Typhoon Shelter, was jailed for six months by Mr Derek Cons at Central Court this morning. I do indeed believe
The youth, Li Chun-ming, Instructed by Ld, the girl
I whose occupation was given us rowed the campan elsewhere
colic, residing
310 and led it to a inotor boat. L Portland-street, ground flour, then commlited the Indecent
$1
at
pleaded guilty and begged the assault on the girl, who put up Magistrate nut to send him to a straale but was overpowered. Jall because he had to support L also threatened the girl and his parents, He added that it ordered her not to yell, was his first offence,
REPORTED
Mr Cons Paid Li should have
thought of the consequences Later, I asked the girl before committing the offence. take hin
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alongside a lighter
He could see no alternative but which he boarded. to send Li to prison for six months, Mr Cons added,
Sir. I cannot Agree with the suggestion that the aver age secretary is a nincompoop. Instead, could she not be the Rad reflection of an In- competent senlor, who may be at seeking (if he is trying all) to acquire the Impossible? your col- league's story, for almost cer- tainly had both Lieutenant X and Captain Bo-and-Sn been in, your colleague would have heard "Just a minute, old boy, I ask the Major."
MASTERLY INACTIVITY:
The ir told her sister-in-Car pavements?
law the following day and the incident was reported to the
A SAMPAN Detective Inspector Kong pollee Fung-cbuk carlier told the Court that the victim was a 10-year- ok! girl who operated a sampan!
Yesterday morning the girl) took the police to the gliter where the last saw Li and Ll
in Yaumali Typhoon Shelter. was arrested.
At about 11 pm
on Monday,
14 uni another man hired the girl's span to ro out to
Inquiries revealed that the girl had not consented
П
act,
cargo junk in the shelter. After the man had bas let the junk, 34 was left alone on the sam pan with the girl,
FIVE HURT IN CRASH: BIG TRAFFIC HOLD-UP
to the Magistracy.
to Li's
The preoccupation with multi-
car
storey money needed ta support
parks and the
them--and taxpayers' money at that pears 10 be a waste valuable land and
a policy which appears to be barking up the wrong tree.
Superb cello
concert
By D. E. GRAY
HE Music Society in association with the Sino-German Cultural Association of Hongkong presented Professor Ludwig Hochscher, the famous German cellist in a recital at Loke Yow Hall last evening.
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Five people were slightly in
jured when a car overturned on the Talpo-road late yester- day afternoon.
The concert was an outstand-hearing the 6 Beethoven and 2 * Une
that The accident held up
masterpieces ing success from beginning to Brahms of about 250 cars stretching end, but the highlight of the breath of freshness is welcome, from the scene of the accident evening undoubtedly was the though no one could say that near the six-mile stone down unaccompanied Sarabande and the Strauss Sonata is profound
new North
Kowloon Prelude by Bach, the Toccata music.
Frescobald and the beautiful Full marks to the Hongkong ;
Orchestra cun- The ear, according to the Police, Adagio movement in the D major i Phithatmonic
was negotiating a bend when Haydn Cello Concerto.
ducted by Arrigo Foa, and led by skidded and bl a retaining
The cello is an Instrument Dr S. M. Bard, for their accom- wall and then crashed onto
particularly suited for legato paniment of the Concerto. The its side.
playing, and Ludwig Hoelscher first movement was very The five injured were not de- brings an incredibly deep rich played indeed--they set the tone
lained in hospital.
flowly! tone from his fine by £3 good steady opening Ruggieri instrument, Most intuitti and supported the soloist struments
tastefully in
and the faithfully Rood middle register, but Professor throughout. Hoelscher's tone seemed to be In the second movement they equally rich in all registern. rightly kept well in the back- The Bach Sarabande was ground to give the soloist full Surely after opportunity display that superbly played. hearing this performance no one magaiñcent rich tone of which could ever say Bach was dull! the arust is capable of pro-
Jucing.
WATCHMAN DRUNK
arc
ما
well
The Hongkong Philharmonie Ifshan Vassanmal Ramchandant, The Beethoven Variationg on
give of their best when the 33-year-old Indian watchman, Mozart theme were delightful woodwind is reduced to small Hving at 371 Queen's-road for their grace and delicacy.
proportions as is necessary for East. ground floor, pleaded A very interesting work was
this cello concorto (horns and guilty to being drunk in a the opening F-major Sonata by
obora). The horns were a very is ob- publie place, and was cau-Richard Straurs. This
real or in the first movement: loned by Mr T, Yane at viously an early work acered Professor. Hoelscher was ac- Central Court this morning. rather heavily for the piano,companied at the piano by Otto Inspector Y. C. Lam sold that particularly in the first move Soclener. And what a magni- at about 10.35 pm asp night,|ment, and I found the bannes fcent combluation was produced Ramchandani was seen by nespecially t tho beginning by these two fine artists, whose policeman on the footpath In weighted n le too much in respective instruments blended Queen's-road Essi near Stubbs- favour of the plane. In the no well in everything they. road. The Policeman then todis} wecomi movement it
settled played.. the man to Queen Mary Hos- down,
Ludwig Hoelscher's exquialte pital where he was certified to It is good that Professor topta in cholec of works was be drunk
11oelscher should break new also shown in his encores Inspector Lam added that ground. the defendant hud a cicar re-repertoire cord.
une becomes
Tho
IL.
dear sir
Town Planning Board should bave insisted if they have пов already recom. mended it that bullders of houses, estates or hotels must provide parking
Pavements
their sites, of the basement level parks; and
this requirement should have been confirmed by legislation long ago.
known
has become a menace to road
users.
It is very noticeable that where land and road development la are golog on, such as the Naval Dickyard-road any the Kai Tak-road litle provision is medo
to for passengeru
From the Filog
25
years
·AGO-
April 1936
YQMMENTED the Morn- ing Post on the execu- tion of Bruno Hauptmann: alight alongside the road much "Thus ends a distressing lens to park. If we cannal drama, not altogether credit- have wider roads becauss of
lable to its producers. expense at least leave vacant Iola on either side of the Respited twice, he under- roads, and in the centre in a went mental torture pathe. dual lane road, large enough tically hoping to the lust for cars to stop and park,
moment that Romething A TENANT SEEKING A
would occur
him. to save GARAGE development
CAR. MIS
His case became in some de- gree a political issue.
that every wish builder of
private homo Dute in provision for 4 case his wealth garage lo increases to should our road
estate and schemes. If we are crowded for space
wide strect pavement,
covered or covered, with half the space allotted to cats will take ears off our existing narrow roads. It will also permit tenants to park right under their own bulidings.
the
FOR
"Like another Sergeant Grischa, he assumed a fatal Importance. Guilty or not, ho was sacrifleed to the mob.
More English When the Lindbergh kidnap-
please!
well-known
fact that)
ping occurred, and again when the murder was re- vealed, public sympathy and indignation were intense, de-
many working class families manding that the perpetra. be discovered and In Hongkong" are unable to tors afford the luxury of second- adequately punished. ory education for their many The memory of the children. On the other hanit parents' agony is still fresh as it is still impossible to ac and there can be no cavil at commodate all the school-age
This will mean narrowlug the pavenient allotted to pedes- trians but, in cases of large building blocks walking inside it is a
arcades would be better than the outside paye- ments and where no arendes exist
In the shopwindown practically every building could be moved back four, five or six feel to improve the pedestrians lot If necessary. Anyway there is still the bake- ment to consider or even the mezzanine floor. Whatever the case may be, big or small slies, commercial or domestic bulldings provisions must be made for parking car garaging perhaps is a beiter word) and this must be enforced by law.
As a start the law can concern Itself with new ballding per- mila and stage by stage carry out the 'garages for cars" enforcement to every lenament starting with the areas where iraffe and vehicle congestion
children in the schools, will the implementation of jus- the Government consider the tice. Nevertheless, in his advisability of allowing more Inst few weeks Hauptmann English to be taught in those
so-called Chinese medium in turn had become the ob- primary schools to that those joction of sympathy. In chlidren toho are privileged America there seerns to enough to have been admitted have been many who hoped may be better equipped with
a little more knowledge of for his escape." English
and
thus improỤC
their chance in the emiptoy- ment market.
Will the able Director of the Education Department prive consideration to the ROTIC above request?
His Excellency the Gov- ernor has appointed Mr C. B. Burgess to be Administrative Sanitary Depart-
A CROUP OF ANXIOUS Assistant,
PARENTS.
'Old Believers'
almost all
mcat.
THE death of Mr M. A.
Cooper,
lecturer in economics at the Hongkong University, has occurred. He was aged 31. He came to Hongkong first 1930. He
repatriated now he had been in indiferent
health for some time. Dur- ing his residence in the
One of the last groups of the White Russian 'Old Colony the late Mr Cooper Believers' scct left here today by Swissair for Roma took an active interest in en route to South America.
charitable and philanthropic work, and in particular he They consisted of eight! Parana in Brazil over the past will be remembered for his families of 65 people ranging | two years. from babes-in-arms, to an old woman of 80.
According to an ICEM spokes- untiring and devoted ener man, this colony is now com-gies in the interests of the pletely self-sufficient. It is being Society for the Protection The specially-chartered Swiss-administered by the W.C.C. of Children. air niremft will take them to Since January this year 1,000 Rome. They will then travel to White Russian refugees have Genoa. They will board ship been sent from Hongkong to at the Italian port which will various parts of the world by transport them to Santos, air and sca. Brazil.
The ICEM spokesman Also
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His Excellency has nonit- With the help of the World pointed out that with the de-
nated Mr V. M. Grayburn with of Churches and the parture of a further group of Inter-Governmental Committee the Old Bellevers' next Thurs. And Mr P. S. Cassidy as mem- for European Migration, the day, they will practically all bera of the Court of the Uni 'Old Believers' have been re- hove been successfully taken versity of Hongkong for
further period of three years. settled in a special colony at care of.
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The cello Fonain particularly ปเ delightful
is so neagre and Boccherini 'Rondo at the end of
Carlsberg
I POACH
PARTRIDGES AND PHEASANTS, BUT
NEVER
RABBITS
HOW D'YOU COOK THEM: THEN ?
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