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CHINA
Established 1045
on P. 5
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1961.
Two men charged with murder in grocer's store
NEW YEAR'S EVE SHOOTING
Sir Orear and Lady Morland.
British ambassador
to Japan
through HK
passing
Sir Oscar Morland, British Ambassador to Japan, and Lady Morland, arrived this morning in the P&O Orient Lines luxury passenger liner Orcades en route to the United Kingdom on leave.
Sir Oscar sald the Japanew will play their full part in world atfairs in due course, and on the
ide of the free world.
Japan is extremely prospetuus and the economy is booming be- cause the people are energetic and hand-working, he said.
"I will take time for Jopan; to Mand fully on her own feel, but the time is sure to come," Jie said.
Referring to last year's riots before the proposed visit of President Eisenhower, Sir Oscar said: "Last year's demonstra flons were not anti-American or anti-Eisenhower they anti-Government - it first class internal row and it was unfortunate it was Inter- preted as anti-American, which it was not."
Wit
were
Testimony on injury by pathologist
A Government
forensic pathologist told the Criminal Sessions this morning that the shot which killed a 60-year-old man on New Year's eve was fired about 18 inches from the man's back.
Dr George Tong was giving Evidence at the trial of lut! ! nien, Tsu Cheung-kan, a 22- year-old carpinter, and Kong Ping-tam, 19, before Mr Jupiler RH. Mus-Owens,
They pleaded not gudly murdering Hu Yun-lam December 31. Taani is re- presented by Mr A. H. Sumad and Kong by Mr Charles Ching.
Dr Tong said that when he examined the decanood }} : found a bullet wound on his back and a bullet embedded just under the skin on his che-1.
Blood stains
There on his
said.
were also bined stains mouth and nose, he
The shot was fired from about 1 feet from the man's back. The bullet then went and lodged through his body just underneath his skin on the chest, he addeti,
The cause of death was shock And haemorrhage from a Hun- shot wound in the heart and chest, Dr Tang said.
Police Constable Wong Shui- chi sald that on December 31, he was on duty at Shatin,
cer-
When he saw car No. HK7528. But it be signalled it to stop. did not stop, he said.
After receiving a telephone message he wailed at the func The people of Japan, Sirtion of First-street, Shatin and Ostar said, have a very high Taipo-road to watch for a opinion of Cheral Douglas lain ear. Sir Oscar said it was an "owful¦ MagArthur for all
he did for! pity" that the Japanese people | Jupan,
"most and they are cannot obtain money for foreign | enthusiastic" about President travel, but the situation is im- Kennedy proving and in tune will be en- tirely overcome,
GREAT PRAISE
He had great praise for the United States,
because of the way it had bandited Japan since
the war.
1927,
MARRIED
its
Sir Oscar first went to Japan 23-year-old guage sudest in the British Embassy in Tokyo. He served under the late British Am- bassador, Sir Francis
Lindley, whose daughter he married to
"The Japanese peoply owe a fremendous amount of their eco-| Tokyo in 1932. nomic recovery to American help," he salci.
į
war the British After the Government sent him back to "They're deânitely not anti-Japan in 1946, and two years
British
Japanese
mostngo he was appointed arc
in the help Ambassador
cuptial.
American and they grateful for American
during the occupation."
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Saw two men
When the car passed him, he He saw two men sitting in it. then reported the matter to the puler station.
Tse Tung- Police Sergeant
that he was on shnn testified! mobile patrol on December 31.
After receiving instructions, his van set up rond block near the Carlton Hotel.
A private-car, No HK7523, was stopped. There were two DRC was the men in the car, Second Regused Kong, and the ether was the driver, Sin Hung-
blu, the sergeant said.
then asked the driver whether he had been to Castle Peak, and the driver replied that he had.
Outing
The second accused then sald that he was a student of a rural schael and that it was a holiday. He also said that he was having an utlog the sergeant con- tinued.
Injured
passenger taken to hospital
A woman passenger of the PGO Orient Lines ship
· Orcades
Was sent by ambulance to Canossa Hospital soon after the ship arrived at Kowloon Wharf this morning.
She was Mrs Jack Swann, from Tracy, Californio, who fall and broke her thigh while taking photo- graphs on mountain side during a tour of Kobo.
stores
Two Swiss studenta. Ernest Achi (left) and Richard Cut might) arrived in Hongkong on April 29 by BOAC from Tokyo in the course of" a round-the-world trip. They are leaving for China today.
Swiss youths leave today for China
By DAVID LAN
Two Swiss students who have hitch-hiked 8,000 miles in the course of a world tour, leave for China today to continue their travels.
They are Ernest Aebi, elec- | in Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto and tronics student, and Richard Kobe for four weeks.
Gut, commercial artist.
Then they came to Hongkong. After China, the two men will return to Japan by way
أما
The two teamed up in Jupun last week, after Ernest had been Her husbond, retired mano- on the road for more than a Koren, From Japan they will four travel 10 the United States, ger of a large chain of year, and Richard, for
months,
South
Africa and America, in department
Ernest act oft with $20 in his analy Europe. Tracy, said they would pocket-enough to take him to return to tho United Greece via Yugoslavia. States by air as soon as she was able to travel again.
He expected that his wife would take somo weeks ta recover from her injury.
Didn't get what he
asked for!
restaurants In Athens.
to make enough for the
They hope
money
next stage of
To make enough for the next their travels by selling articles, on China to age of his trip be redecorated | pictures and tiims
Japanese TV networks.
The main purpose of their trip: "We want to prove to our parents that we
can live on Our own and travel by selves."
He reached Turkey during the revolution and then made his way to Beirut via Syria.
POOLED MONEY
Again short of money, he be came a pavement artist. People stopped to admire his work while others were so impressed with his talent that they gave him decorating jobs.
He did so well n! the Damascus International Fair that he was invited to work at the exhibition town of Izmir In
Turkey.
Then he began his travels ngnin and at the Turkish
A man caught with drugs asked Iranian border he and two
Dry
dock
our-
Jacksonville, Fla., May 2. A navy dry dock left here yesterday for the US nuclear submarine bare at Holy Loch, Scotland.
Tugs are towing the dock in taur sections and the trip is ex- pected to last 32 days. When
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SHEAFFERS
IMPERIAL U
Sheaffer quality features at moderate prices
Cheque bounced salesman claims
A witness for the prosecu-
From the Filos
25
years AGO
May 1936
MR_Hu
the
Han-min veteran Kuomintang
tion told a magistrate's leader and former colleague court this morning that of Dr Sun Yat-sen died at
who bought
Canton last night from cere- |bral haemorrhage which de- radios from him gove
a man
12
him G cheque which veloped from high blood
bounced.
The witness. Tse Ting-sang, a
pressure.
Not since the death of the
salesman of Fusing Trading Co late Dr Sun in March, 1925, al 214-216 Man Yee building, has such widespread mourn- was_plying evidence before Mr ing been expressed by all E. Curbally at Central Court KMT leaders over the death against 24-year-old Chan Lee of Mr Hu, Chairman of the Lang, charged with obtaining the radios by false pretentes.
Standing Committee of the Chan, of Flat 2, Bedford Man- Nanking Central Executive ston, Belchers-street, fourth Committee and Central Poll-
ibor, dented the charge.
tical Council.
Cash sought
Canton has requested that Mr Hu be buried at Nank- ing in the Sun Yat-sen mau-
Mr Hu in a final testa- ment, urges the National Government to persist in resistance to Japan and sup- pression of the Communists.
Tse said defendant came to his office un April 14 to buy 12 soleum. radios. Tse said as this Was their first transaction, he asked Chun to pay in cash.
Chan gave witness a card and asked him to deliver the radios his office at 801 Donhan Building, Bonham-strand East later in the day, where payment would be made.
to
Tse
went and handed the radios to Chan, He received a cheque for $3,180 to be drawn on the Nanyang Commercial Bank
L18.
Tse immediately went to the Lank to secure payment, but the cheque was rejected.
Not enough
He returned to Chan's offee for the radios, but Chan could not produce them. He therefore reported to the police.
i
50 YEARS AGO ROM the Morning Post 25 Years Ago column: "So frequently has Hongkong's contribution been military discussed of late that we are not without hope of sonic modification of the conditiona under which it is levied.
Last month, Mr Gershon Stewart, MP, a former Lin- official Member of the Hong kong Legislative Council and
the
Fu King, who is in charge of resident of this Colony for current accounts in the Nanyang many years, raised the ques- Commercial Bunk,
the House testlica tion in
of Com- Chan's account was only worth moTLA- $276.25, April 14.
The cost to Hongkong of Hearing continues.
the Postal Agencies in China, of which happily the Colony has been relieved since beginning of this year, his chief point but one ques- tion led to another and eventually Mr Stewart, to the surprise of the House no doubt, elicited the interesting admission from the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the Imperial Government had An unidentified aleven-year their percentage for military been in the habit of calculating
contribution upon the revenue he of the Post
Office without down by a first deducting the cost of run-
Boy killed in lorry accident
old Chinese boy sustained fatal injuries when was knocked
torry at Ngautaukok-road ning the Department?"
ncar Ngautaukok market
at about 1.10 pm yester- day.
The boy was dead on arrival
at Kowloon Hospital,
A nine-year-old boy sustain-
BOMBER CRASH
Manaus, May“ 2.
ed injuries when he was knock- At least five Brazilian air ed down by a private car out force men were kulled un side 250, Tung Chau-street near Monday when their B-25 crash- Kwei Lim-street at about 10 pined and burned shortly after takeoff from this Amazon river yesterday. a magistrate this morning for German compantons pooled reassembled, the dock will be The Injured boy, Lam Mon- city on a training flight. a two-year sentence so that their money to buy a second- 445 feet long, 240 feet wide and sau of 208, Tung Chol-street, ist he might learn in pelson to hand Chevrolet In which they 72 feet high. China Mall floor, was admitted to Kowloon make and repair shots as his future trade.
Defendant, Li Hon, 28. living al a resettlement oren in Wong
The sergeant Bald he then Tal Sin, was, however, told the two men that he was for six months after admitting taking them to a police station poressing dangerous drugs aut for enquiries into a shooting at a paper pipe for smoking it. Castle Penk.
Hearing continues.
He was arrested in a police rald at his house on May 1,
ORCADES. WENT TO HELP
STRICKEN SHIP
The 28,000-ton luxury P`& O Orient -Lines ship Orcados, steamed 50 miles at full speed to the aid of an 8,000-ton Chinese Nationalist vessel Hal Sui, whose cargo was reported to have shifted.
drove into Iran,
It was while sleeping on the shores of the Caspian Sea that Ernest had his first encounter with byenps. The howls al night, he said, sounded Yc "wild mad dogs".
The two Germans were sleep- Ing outside, while Ernest was lo the car. Jumping out of the ear: he rushed to the side of his companions, but they were awake and armed with stones ready to throw at the circling hyenas If they attacked. But the animals made off.
SOLD CAR
The three men
then drove along a caravan track along the Russian border. They sold their car in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
through Pakistan and India 10 Calcutta where he was stricken with Jaundice and a stomach infection which kept him there two and a half weeks.
Then he flew to Bangkok vin Rangoon, and went Japan by
From there Ernest hitch-hiked
This occurred during the foundered, with the loss of one liner's vayage to Yokohama on te April 20.
Other members of the crew were rescued by a sister ship, sen. The Orcades caught up with which rushed to her assistance, "I stayed there three months, her late at night by which time
The Orcodes arrived thin making enough to live on by the cargo had been righted, and morning from Kobe in the course writing for three Engilsh news. the liner's asalalance was not of a three-and-a-half months papers, working on an extra for needed.
The master of the Chinese
Special.
POP by God
Hospital,
... IT'S THE ONLY DECENT THING I'VE GOT. LEFT TO WEAR!
The air force said it could give no further delalis or the trash.--AP.
FOR THE INNER MAN IN OUTER SPACE
Carlsberg
SAS
voyage around the world.
fil companies,
Riving lessons She brought to Hongkong 845 in German, French and English į vessel sent a message of thanks passengers, of whom 100 diseri- and translating from Italian
to Captain Sydney Ayles of the barkod,
and Scandinavian into English," Oreades.
She will discharge 230 tons said Ernest. However, some beurs Inter o of cargo here, including resin "Then my friend Richard sudden storm sprang
up, in and frozen salmon, eggs from joined me. The two of us made which the Orendes herself was Vancouver, alk, fancy papers įabout HK$400 n day drawing caught, and the Chinese vessel and nylon from Japan.
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