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PWD inspector, factory foreman face charge of criminal intimidation
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1961.
ACCEPTED
BETS
ON RACES
-FINED
A Chinese man who admitted accepting bets on horses in the Royal Hongkong Jockey Club, was fined $20 by Mr T. L. Yang at Causeway Bay Magistracy
A Public Works Department inspector and a foreman of a plastics factory this morning.
pleaded not guilty before Mr J. T. Williams at Central Magistracy this morning to a charge of criminal intimidation. -
Six years
years jail for chopper attack on man
A 31-year-old unemployed man, Yung Yung, was sentenced to six years by Mr Justice A. D. Scholes in the Criminal Sessions this morning for chopping another man eight times in a quarrel over money.
The
Court
that, was told acling on information, Staff Sergeant Chung Wing and The defendants are Mor Chi- constable went to the ETB33 man alles Thomas Mok 34, anfield behind the Jockey Club Inspector of Works, PWD, and totalisator at 3.25 pm last Satur- Chan Ping, alias Chan Ping- day. There they saw the de
fendant kuen 32, a factory foreman.
squatting on the It is alleged that the defen- ground and receiving money dants threathened
man. He to injure a from another woman, Wong Siu-ping on turn. issued receipts. October 24 at Lung Cheung- road, Kowloon, with Intent to cause her to omit to give in- formation to the Anti-Corrup- Hon Bureau,
The complainant, Wong Siu- ping, testified that Mok was her divorced husband, and that she
had left him in May last year when she discovered that he had committed adultery. She said she was married to him in 1949
and had three children.
Wong said that at about 12.30 pm on October 22, she visited her sister at So Uk village, Shamshuipo. She said she later told the accused to stop the at-left and went to the market, and
met her old friend, Mr fack, but he paid no heed and threatened to chop the police- Chi-hung.
Yung. who was himself shot i A police officer appeared and and wounded while attempting to escape from a policeman, had a long record of previous con- vietions, including one for dis- orderly conduct.
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When the policeman drew his Mr P. F. X. Leonard, Crown revolver, the accused ran. Three Counsel, told the Court that on shots were fired during the August 27, the victim; Chanchase, and one of the bullets hit Kam-sing, went to a mahjong the accused in the buttocks. school in Shaukiwan to try to borrow money from the accused. ! The accused refused this.
Followed
That same evening, Chan re¬ turned to the mahjong sehool and a quarrel developed bc- tween the two. They were separated and the accused was persuaded to leave the place.
On September 7, the two met again and got into another quarrel. Chan then left the mahjong school. The accused followed and chopped him eight times on the head, body
irms.
and
Catholic medal for Kennedy
Washinglen, Nov. 26. President Kennedy has PC- ceived the Loetare Medal from Notre Dame University ny the outstanding American Roman Catholic Layman of 1981.
. The citation accompanying the
Gold Medal, awarded yearly
suffered The chopper victim eight wounds on the forehead. shoulder, chest and arms,
Both the accused and Chan were detained in the hospital for several days.
Caught with
heroin
stopped Police
48-year-old Fan Chun in Shantung-street on Kovember 9 and found 40.5' ozs
Followed
Lam
She said she told Mr Lam that she was going to Wong Tai Sin and Mr Lam told her that he would take ber to Wong Tai Sin in his ear.
She said when the car was Lung Cheung-road, she saw a private car driven by Mok. She said that Mok then followed her car and Jaler stopped about 5 to 6 feet from their car.
in
The Staff Sergeant arrested him, but the other man escaped.
Mr Yang ordered that money and a book of vouchers found on defendant be confiscated.
Labour
officer retiring
Mr. E. C. Drown, Labour Officer (industrial undertakings) is retiring after 28 years' service with the Government.
recent
as
A farewell gift will be pre- sented to Mr Drown by Mr P. C. M. Sedgwick, who Was Commissioner of Labour until his
appointment Secretary for
Chinese Affairs, on behalf of all members of the Labour Department at a cere- mony to be held in the depart- mental conference room on
Wednesday afternoon, 40-
Wong said Mck and Chan got out from their car and proached her. She sald Mok told her that she had reported him to the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Witness said Mok then said
Mr Drown first joined Goy- ernment in 1933 as a sanitary inspector in the Urban Services Department where he served for seven years until his appoint- "I make $10,000 or $20,000 eachment as a labour inspector. monta what could the Anti-: Corruption Bureau do to me." Wong said Mok continued,
of heroin in the parcel heYou must be careful, if you go carried.
to the Anti-Corruption Bureau again I will beat you to death."
At Kowloon District Court this morning, Fan who is unem- ployed, admitted possessing the herein and was sentenced fo three years and fined $2,500 or another six months by Judge A. A. Huggins.
KING'S COLLEGE SPEECH DAY
will
since 1883. commenced the Professor S. G. Davis President for the charity, the address the King's College at its
the annual speech day on Thurs
day, Mrs Davis will present your
the certificates and prizes and Mr G. S. Coxhead, the Principal, will present the annual report
calm determination and imaginative courage of statesmanship in this age of prolonged and ever-increasing danger". Chim Mail Sperial.
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Conversation
She said at that moment, Mr
While serving with the Hong- korg Volunteer Defence Corps, during the war, Mr Drown was captured by the Japanese and was taken as a prisoner of war to Japan. He returned to duty in 1945.
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Old woman feared she would die in prison
A tearful old woman who feared she would die in prison had her sen- tence reduced from three years to nine months by Mr Justice W. A. Blair-Kerr in the Appeals Court this morning.
PICTORIAL
PARADE
Lara asked Mole and Chan what Labour Inspector until 1956 and Nehru inaugurates
was the matter. She said the two defendants went to Mr Lam's side of the car and told hirn to get out of the ear, Witness said as Mok and Chan Mok
uttered these words. banged Lam's car.
Wong said she then asked Mr Lam not to say anything more to these people and told him to She said when their drive on. car reversed, both the defen- dants swore at them.
She said during the conversa- tion, nether she nor Mr Lam had alighted from their car. She said she was not sure whether the side windows of the cax were opened.
Wong added that the follow ing day she reported the mat- to the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
ter
to
Hearing is continuing. Mr A. Zimmern instructed by Mr E. Wong is representing Mok and Chan.
Senior Det Insp M.E. Davis,
is prosecuting.
Since 1949, he has headed the Labour. Inspectorate, as Chief
subsequently as Labour Officer (industrial undertakings).
Mrs Drown, is well known locally for her musical interests. The couple are expected to remain in Hongkong for some time.
Fined $20 for being drunk
Reginald Gonzales, 28-year-old Portuguese, was fined $20 by Mr T. L. Yang at Causeway Bay Magistracy this morning for being drunk in a public place.
Gonzales bumped into policeman on duty at Gloucester- road, near Luard-road
Yester- day.
A
He talked a lot of nonsense" and was later certified to be prosecution said, He admusted the offence,
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India's first
Avro aircraft
New Delhi, Nov. 26, Prime Minister Nehru today; inaugurated India's first AVTO 748 transport plane before a large gathering at the Impalam Indian Air Force base.
The plane was built by the Indian Air Force at Kenpur, 275 miles south of Delhi, in collaboration with the Brilish firm of Hawker Siddley. It has a cruising speed of 300 miles and carries 42 passengers.
The plane, powered by two Rolls Royce Dart Six engines, can take off and land with one engine. It is designed for use on short and semi-prepared runways. UPI.
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KEEPS YOU SMILING
Avril Repetto, a cuddly three-day-old baby, blink- ed her eyes and yowned of the New World. For Avril is the first. Tristan da Cunhan to be born out- side the island for 150 years..
Avril's mother, 22-year- old Joan Repetto, a re- fugee from the volcano- tom island, soid in Red- hill County Hospital, Sur- rey: "I'm glad, now that I come into hospital." For at first she wanted to have her baby in the camp near Redhill where the Tristan da Cunhans are living- "instead of a strange place where everyone wears fun- my masks."
Where was her husband, 29-year-old Bernard? He went to a public house (for the first time) for a drink, to conform with the old English custom of "Wetting the baby's
head."
Soliciting in Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Nov. 26. Dutch prostitutes have been "migrating" to the better parts of Amsterdam since the police tightened surveillance in the traditional Ted light districts, according to members of the City Council
Council members have com- plained of increased street soliciting in the well-to-do parts of the citys rod, have subunited aproposal for stiffer measures
The Council announced that [an organisation had been found red to reform pestitutes. that sympathetic considers would be given to an appl tion for a municip subsidy for
Mail Special:
She is Chung Moon-yuk of 30 Lung Shing-road, second floor, Kowloon. She was convicted in North Kowloon Court for the possession of 14 grammes of heroin and 2 ounces of barbi- tone and sentenced to three each charge, the sentences to be served concur
years' jail on
rently.
In her sppeal against sen- tence, the woman told the Judge it was her first offence and she was 70 years old. If my son- tence is not reduced. I will die in prison," she said. --
TEARS
From the Files
25
years
AGO
November 1936
The sudden growth of Hong. kong as an airport was men- tioned by Mr M. H.-Curtis, Traffic Manager of he Hong-. long office of Imperial Air ways, in a radio talk over ZBW last night when he detailed. some of the aspects of the organisation of Empire air services.
Today, said Mr Curtis, there were 14 arrivals and de- partures each week in Hong-
kong of aircraft operating regular commercial schedules, and as this number would un- She said she had been paid $5, doubtedly increase, the future by someone to carry the drugs. of the Colony us one of the The woman then broke down most important air junctions and wept. She was still wiping in the world was assured, yet tears from her cyes when she was escorted from the Court. a short while ago, it seemed
Crown
doubtful whether Hongkong Counsel, Mr M. would achieve this importance. Morley-John said there was no reason to disbelieve the woman's
*
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traffickers used Hold ignorant TR T. L. Knight of the
the sen-
M Hongkong Motor As-
people," and he felt tence on the woman was exces- sessory Company, was the
sive.
the offence
sole passenger arriving here Mr Justice Blair-Kerr said yesterday by the China could not be National Aviation Corpora- ignored, and if there was deterrent, the dangerous drug from Shanghai.
notion's plane, Kwangtung,
industry Would continue to
thrive. The sentence would be The aeroplane arrived at reduced to nine months, to data 8.15 pm a day later owing from the time of conviction.
Through her tears, the old to bad visibility. She flew woman said "I thank you" and on to Canton at 3.30 pm, was escorted away.
with no passengers.
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