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Seen shooting a scene during "Our Man In Hongkong" aboard a julk in the har- laur are Mr David Brinkley (left background), Mr Marmin Farkas (forrground) and Mr Tom Priestley (right).

On TV tonight

HONGKONG AS

AS SEEN

BY A WELL-KNOWN U.S. COMMENTATOR

By DAVID LAN

An NBC TV programme, “Our Man in Hongkong," will go on

the air over the Rediffusion, network at 8.10 tonight. Telling the story of Hongkong as the well-known American news com- mentator, Mr David M. Brinkley, saw it, the film was made by the Farkas Film Co. of Hongkong.

"It took me seven weeks of, It all started when the NBC shooting from The

of team arrived in the Colony on end November lo complete the ene- November 2. The party com-

Alm, Faid Mr Marvin brised Mr D. Brinkley, Farkas, owner of the film com- Reuven Frank.. producer, Wolter Kravelz, directer,

hour

pany,

Our 200-year tradition forbids irl

We cannot stoop to mass production.

Bach Vacheron & Constantin timepiece must be hand-finished...

so that you may west a-truly exclusive creation, in company

with a small international élite.

VACHERON

CONSTANTIN

in Geneva since 1755

Mr

Tom Priestley, dircetor of photo- graphy, and Mr William Lynch, unlt manager.

In colour and sound, the TV Mr feature shows the typically

Elgin-street

Mr

Chinese

near

Hollywood-rend; Government House; Hongkong industries such as textiles and plastle flowers und dolls; shots taken over the border; walled forming village ila Fanling; boat people; harbour

from a juckt view

mahjong school and Wanchai at night.

ACROSS BORDER

"We used a powerful 400 mm lens for shots across the border and we took In the Communist guards on duty," sald Marvin.

"For Wanchal at night, we tet un 5,000-walt lighting

juipment white

our cumera

drove through the street under cover on board n lorry,

We hired 50 extras to alt at a came in a mahjong school which we rented for a whole day."

Said Mr Jack Gould in New York Times, "This programmo ....is a graphic and fascinal- ing study of the area....The telecast's opening and closing moments were devoled to the sights and

noises of Hong-

kang.... "The sounds of a city streat in the early morning were parti- cularly well captured."

Mr Brinkley is of the famed "Huntley and Brinkley

nows team in America.

TV

Each of the two is making, US$100,000 a year for their na tionwide telecast from New York and Washington,

Loans for agricultural projects

A total sum of $160,886,60 was issued on loan for 1,152 projects out of the Kadoorio Agricultural Aid Loan Fund during the first three months of this year. This figure exceeded the total of $151,650 Issued on loan for 138 projects In the previous quarter, reports the Director Agriculture And Forestry,

Established 1845·

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1961.

dear sİK

EXTRADITION CASE

"write's fashion news" RITS VOGUE

NEW

Lady Sheaffer

"AKNIPBERT' POUNTAIN PEN

UNITED PAPER OCTO

From the Files

Coop the magnificent He had no knowledge 25

son left Colony, witness tells court

So Gary 'Coop' Cooper has ruade his exit from the stage of life and is gathered to his fore- fathers, leaving behind him a mournful world to regret the paming of a truly magnificent personality whose conjugal fidelity has been a model for his comperes in the City of Make-Bellove where divorces and marital infidelity aro DS common na pebbles on the bench.

During a lifetime as an actor, with a record 35 years as a star who had thrilled millions of old, and young with his ex- citing life of a Western cow- boy, 'Coop' had lived a quiet and sober life, and whilst most of his pictures depleted him as man of courage, the world

The father of a 40-year-old Chinese company director and business proprietor, charged with conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent conversion, falsification of a receipt and larceny by trick, told a Magistrato this morning that ho had had no knowledge of his son's leaving the Colony until he received a letter from him,

Mae King-hon

giving, Cheng added

that he could evidence before Mr Derek Cohs identify defendant If he saw han at Central Court in extradition | again. proceedings against his BON, "Cheng Kam-tim, brother of last Dennis Mno Chien-han, of 13D witness, lestifled that at about Waterloo-rond, second whose nume

4 pm on January 4, he issued two cheques, $5,000 each, to

respect of 45 tons of Iron bars at $250 per ton, he added.

The case for the Crown is being conducted by Mr W.S.W. Davidson, Crown Counsel, as

TN

years AGO.

May 1936

the Colony of Hong- 1 kong including the in- land, Kowloon and the New Territories, during the week ending at 8 a.m. on Satur day, May 28, there were al- together 66 traffic accidents, as the result of which 13

s sted by: Detective Inspector persons were injured. appeared on the

passenger manifest of a Airways plane which left Bangkok on January 15.

floor,

Thai

for

had to wait till he had played the last role of his life before his final exit во he manda realise the true conrage of a brave soul who could face cer- tain death with a calmness Altogether nine charges Dro that matched the greatness of preferred against Dennis Mao the man. In face of death he which included one count

future, conspiracy

|

of

foki of Lee Hing Company on Instruction of his brother, The cheques, signed by him, were in i

Of the persons injured,

'who were either walking or running across the road and wore struck by vehicles.

H.N. Whiteley of the Commer- etal Crime Office,

Further hearing resumes this 11 were pedestrians afternoon,

feared Pointe, having lived counts of fraudulent conversion, A NEW HOME IN THE COUNTRY One bicycle rider and one

an exemplary life without vain regrets, belog at peace with the world and his own soul.

ffere, then, is an example for us ali to emulate, a life for us to follow at every stage; from the initial appearance of the actor upon the stage to his faal bow before the audience ere the fall of the curtain that put finis to his existence.

Actors como and actors go, there bave been good actors and bad actors, but none, no, not one, has endeared himself to his audience Ал 'Coop' has enthroned himself upon the hearts

of of millions

of falsification of à one count receipt, one count of larceny by trick with an alternative charge of fraudulent conversion.

Evidence given by Moo King- hon this morning was. that he was previously living with his wife, son (defendant), daughter- In-law and their four children at 73D Waterloo-road, second floor. Mao King-hon cald he did not know what kind of business his son was doing trut lie understood that his son had flms by the name of wo Oriental Steel and Rolling Mille Lid and Lee Hing Company.

LAST SEEN

Naval men

bring

a poor

joy to Wanchai family

injured as the result of col- lisions between vehicles.

**

Of the 56 accidents, 32 were collisions between vehicles; 14 were collisions between vehicles and pedes- trians; and 10 accidents were due to other causes.

*

Hector

Thomson, the for- mer champion of Scotland and Wider Cup player, won the British Open Amateur Gelf Championship at St Andrew's

Witness said he inst saw his admirers throughout the world. | son on or about January B

but adding that he had no idea of A new life for a Wanchai family is the aim today, when he beat Tim

GOT

defendant leaving the Colony until January 10 when he re- ceived a letter from him,

Witness nald he was very

when he angry

knew that

defendant had gone leaving

behind his wife and chlidren.

曼妙

a

of men of HMS Belfast who have Ferrier, the Australian cham

pion and former. Shanghai 'adopted a family of 10 living in a lad, by two up after

encounter double-bunk space on the second floor ring

played tinder favourable conditions. of No. 22 Kwong Ming-street.

Ferrier waS

one up at the added that he did not This morning at St James' Settlement nine repreend of the first nine halen. sentatives of all welfare committees on board but was all square after the the cruiser, met the wife and children of Mr morning round. Both took 37 strokes for the first nine Ng Sek-cheung, 46-year-old caretaker who is which is this scratch suffering from tuberculosis, and just manages for the course Thomson teas to earn $160 a month.

Gary

Cooper is not dead sleepeth, for his memory will

lively In remain ever minds, and his courage as he mounted his Heavenly Chariot to start his last journey is the courage of a noble caut who could look back upon life and be able to say to himself:.I have played the game of life as it should be played, and

Cheng Kam-kwong, manager none can accuse me of a lack of Lee Shing Company, of 170 of sportsmanship. Well done, Wing Lok-street West, second 'Coop',

bave played floor, testlfled that he had magnificently! Long may you, known defendant for six or rest in peace!

seven years and used to have 'COOP' FAN.

dealings with him.

dear NIE

Plastic peril

know where defendant bad келе,

Referring to a particular trán- saction on January 2 this year, Cheng said he received a tele: phone call from defendant who told him that he had come business for him. As a result, Cheng said he went to the Kow- loon Godown on January, to Inspect the goods - rolis of iron bars.

Cheng sald defendant

to be printed on plastic bags "Talkoo" which have caused the deaths of five children.

the

acora

around in 74 in the morning. but Ferrier returned a card

The Joy on the face of the It is proposed to buy the type ¦ of 40 for the second ning to mother, 41-year-cld Choung of bungalow, built two to n pive him an aggregate of 77 Yiu-sin, when she heard of the block, provided by the Lutheran for the morning.

World Service scheme, of re- chance of a new life in country with a stone-bulit bun- settlement, in a suitable rural

In the afternoon Thomson and a pig or area. A garden and pigsty was too strokes below scratch Calow, chickens two was a pleture of incredu- provided and families resettled for the first nine while Fer- ious wonder.

in this way are taught to be rier required 37. Both players self-supporting,

returned cards of 36 for the will go to final nine holes. the mother wil learn cottage handicrafts BO that she will be able to sup- plement the family Income, Bungalows of this typo casi

380 in British currency. Later this morning St James'

The children

*

San Francisco. Franklin Wakefield,

Mrs Barry Till, wife of the Settlement was visited by Lacy Mformer Hongkong and

Dean of St John's Cathedral,

Mr Raymond Li, Warden of the Settlement, explained that

school and told the naval seamen would spon In the Daily Telegraph recently him there. were altogether 45 sor the family, provide for the Mt Buller was reported to tons of iron bars, stored in the education of the children and have said that he ha no Kowloon Godown and in a place visit tbcm whenever the power yet to require, warnings | which Cheng described as the

cruiser, anchors in Hongkong godown.

Defendant harbour. suggested to sell the bars at $255 per ton and asked Cheng to pay for 45 tons.

TWO CHEQUES

accompanied the sponsors who lull, wife of the Commander- San Francisco businessman, Cheng told

inclusied Commander MT, How-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces. has bequeathed a third of the court he

was accompanied by her agreed to pay defendant $10,000 and, RN Commander W.R.H. She

Lapper RN and Chaplain WA daughter, Mics Mary Hull Lady his fortune, estimated at be- and asked defendant to gold send a foki to his company for Nunnerley RN. After a tour of McLeod, wife of the Comman-tween $1,000,000 and to his wife, the Settlement, the men went der British Forces in Hongkong: $2,000,000, with the family to see the bed and Mrs Till.

Alecia. His executor and Young girls doing beautiful which they share with seven

states that 'his fortune in- other families. The visitors palace lamps withi hand- On January 11, Cheng con- found everything neot and paintings on parchment, and cludes interests in Philip-

On the same day I received a parcel. from my sơn serving in the Far East containing 4

plastic bag with the following

printed on it in clear lettering:

first

from his younger two cheques brother. He then received two

Sho

"WARNING~To avoid danger delivery orders from defendant, Space home in a tenement fat hundwork; boys,making Chinese attorney, Mr Albert Picard,

of suffocation keep away from bables and children. Do not use in cribs, beds, carriages or play pens. This bag is not a toy. Made in the Crown Colony of Hongkong,"

It would. Appear that tongkoor |

manufacturers are more allve to the danger than those hero,

Yours faithfully, (Mrs) DOROTHY V. COOK.

Broughtop, Hants,

Cheng added.

wero

Inter

he taal possession of clean despite the overcrowding others working printing presies pine mining properties and

of more than 40 people living and learning motor-mediantes, | Interests in Tahiti In such close proximity.

tinued, the goods which transported to Japan as kerap.

Cheng and he later found the Foods he had

were collected short and as a result he had a telephone conversation with de- fondani on the following day.

However, Cheng said, he never got his money back and never saw defendant since then.

TRIED TO SEND

HEROIN INTO STANLEY PRISON

Of the loans issued, $14,230 | A 48-year-old ex-convict who tried to send heroin

was granted for the purchase

of livestock and housing, $44,530

was issued for the purchase of animal feeds, $1,500 for building materials, $1,286 for feeds and fertilisers, 32,150 for plant, pest control and Carm equipment, $700 for Bundry projects and 09,410.50 for the livestock im- provement plon.

by post to his friend and his younger brother

in Stanley Prison was sentenced to two years' jail by Mr K. A. S. Philipps at Causeway Bay Magistracy this morning,

Defendant was Wong Kau, Police later traced the letters aged 48. of No. 1.Fuk Chuen- to the defendent. street, first floor. He had a record i Insp Reca said the lotters and

Loan repayments during the of four previous convictions. the drugs were meant for a

quarter amounted to $220,408.00

Insp 7. G. Itena, prosecuting, | friend and the younger brother ns against $343,470,10 repaid to sald "the-mail" centre of Stanicy) of defendant, serving sentences" the Loan Fund in the preceding prison. Intercopied two Intiora | In, Stanley Prison, quarler. At. tan and of the

occompanied by two booklets on Asked by the magistrule, why quarter, a total sum of $1,186-

April 20,

·ho...committed. quet, a serio128. 050.90 was on loana fall of Inside the coticaaled comparte"] offense, defondant said that he $59,521.40 £8 compared with the ment of the bookhute warfr0,4 had an obligation to him.. friend

gramme of heroin,

Inalds the prioru

Aguro at the end of 1900,

POP by Goo

380

were watched by the visitors,

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