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FIREMAN'S FALL TO DEATH
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MISADVENTURE
VERDICT
The circuinstances attending the death of Chong Yee, a fireman in the Hong Kong Fire Brigade, was the subject of an inquest 'yester- day at the Central Magistracy with Mr. J. A. Fraser sitting as Coroner.
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Sgt. MacDonald was present in Court for the Police, sund the Superintendent of the Fire Bri- gade, Mr. HT. Brooks also at tended
The jury comprised the follow- ing: Measts. C. S. Stark (fore- man), A. Abbas
and
J. M. M. Alves.
At the annual display of the Fire Brigade at Wanchal од November 13, team 54 and team 56. both from Mongkok, were competing in £ practise rescue Irum the tower by mcans on scaling ladders.
Chong Yee, leader in team 54, in his hurry to descend from the ladder after a rescue. tried to book a rung, but slipped. ...
He fell to the ground and was rushed to the Government Civil Hospital, where he died three days
later.
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Dr. K. H. Uttley deposed that he made an external examination of the deceased which only show- ed abrasions. The internal eximi- nation showed an extensive · Irac- ture at the base of the skull and train lacerations. The injuries were consistent with a fall from a height.
After Mr. Brooks had given evidence. the jury asked:
Was the hook examined?—Not particularly, as we knew the cause of the aeddent
Would the deceased have fallen in to the sheet if a hut had not been nearby?—No. He fell too close to the tower.
Mr. Fraser told the jury that the evidence Was simple, and quoted a passage from law about criminal negligence,
The jury brought in an unari- mous verdict of, "We And that death was due to misadventure; that every reasonable precaution i was taken and that no blame at- taches to anyone."
FORGED BANKNOTE
Chak Hing, 34, unemployed, was brought before Mr. Q. A. A, Màc- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, charged with possession
A
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Interesting Address
An interesting address delivered by Dr. Chaim Weizmann to the Society for International Affairs is contained in the current isque of the "Monitor” and states com
When Palestine emerged out of the Great War it had a Jewish population of approximately aftly thousand. To-day that population is approaching something like four "hundred thousand. It is, there- fore, correct to say, that about three hundred and fifty thousand Jewish people have entered the Country on the strength of the political framework established as a result of the war a mandate ac- cepted by Great Britain under the League of Nations, based on the famous document known as the Balfour Declaration.
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ten thousand square miles. It was at a time of very severe crisis in Jewish life; progroms swept over those parts of the world where great Jewish masses were living. When this offer was brought be fore the Zionist Assembly (an offer of a territory which was then empty there were no difficulties there), the Jews refused it, saying only that it was not Palestine, and that a day might come when his same great Government might find it possible to help the Jews lò go back to Palestine itself. This pro- phecy of feeling and sentiment was fùlailed in 1917,
ARGENTINE COLONIZATION We have carried on a great deal of colonization in, for instance, the Argentine Republic. In fact, Let us consider for a moment
Jewish colonisation in the Argen- the two essentials which induced
tine Republic began most simul- British statemen to recognise the į taneously with the first tentative claim of the Jewish people to the Jewish efforts in Palestine. A establishment of a National Home great Jewish philanthropist left a in Palestine. I think that what | fund of ten million pounds about played the greatest part in the framing of this policy was the re- cognition that the Jews have al- ways hoped-it was an article of faith for religious and ever for non-religious Jews-that day might come when they would be allowed to return to the land of their ancestors. They have never given up this claim. They prayed for it. They fasted for it. events have proved that it was not merely a romantic attachment on the part of a dispossessed people to a country of which they were deprived two thousand years ago. As soon as the slightest chance was given, 10 the people to come back and begin work there, these hopes and these sentiments re- leased an enormous energy, which has been transformed into actual performance. People who town-dwellers began to till an un- grateful soll A language which has been derelict to all intents and purposes has been revived, and has "produced a modern literature, and a newspaper press, equal to those of any small country. Towns hove
universities. sprung up. schools, shops, a whole life, sim- ply as a result of these "sentiments which, stored up for thousands of years, had found a possibility of expression.
UGANDA SCHEME
were
The Jews have had opportun- ities of settling in other countries. British As far back as 1904, the Government, under the aegis of the late Joseph Chamberlain; of-
sixty years ago for the colonisa- tion of Jews on the land in various countries. and the Argentine, Republic was chosen as the prin- cipal country for settlement, Now let us, for argument's sake, com- pare Palestine and the Ar- sentine Republic. Fifty years ago the Argentine Republic was, to all Intents and purposes an empty country. There was no population which could resist or object to the entry of Jewish immigrants. There was a vast sum of money available for the work of colonisation and the building up of a community. The people who were entrusted with this work of colonisation in the Argentine were good people. who knew 'and understood, their business, and worked hard. After fifty years, what is the result? There are a few Jewish villages in the Argentine to-day. and the agricultural population amounts, I think, to between six and sever thousand families; and the worst of It is that the children of these peasants go to Buenos Aires or to other great towns in the vicinity. There is no incentive to keep them on the land, to build up a coun- try. The spirit which prevalls in Palestine to-day, and which has made. possible the work which has been carried on,"is entirely absent in the Argentine colonisation.
BACK TO THE LAND Palestine is I small country where land is not so plenti- ful, where
there 15 detinitely population which is not
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of a forged $10 Hong Kong and fered the Jews a strip of territory/exactly ready to receive us with
Shanghai Bank note.
Detective Sergeant Forrest ar- rested the defendant at about 3.30 p.m. in Temple Street, near Sal- kung Street, on information. De- fendant's pocket was searched. and it was found that there was no other money except the note. The information was, that defendant had tried to utter the counterfeit in an opium divan.
Ho Chin Nan, shroff of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank stated that the note was poorly printed. but an ordinary person would be deceived by It. Defendant said that he obtained the note in the coun- try and had no idea that it was a bad one. The case was dismissed through insufficient evidence.
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STRUCK MOTHER
Lam King, 23, street coolle, was brought beforě Mr. Q. A.'A. Mac- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on a charge of assault. His mother, the complainant, told the Court that her son asked her for money to smoke opium. She refused him, whereupon he struck her with a piece of wood.
"Your mother has got to be pro- tected," Mr. Macfadyen told the defendant and bound him over in the sum of $10 for six months.
MANSLAUGHTER CASE ADJOURNED
The remanded hearing of the manslaughter case against Li Sai Ho was continued at the Kowloon Magistracy before Mr. E Hims- worth yesterday, After further evidence was given, the hearing was adjourned until. 11.30 am, to- day when the defendant will give evidence in his own defence.
VASES STOLEN FROM CHURCH
in what was then Uganda, now Kenya, of. I think, about eight thousand square miles in area- not very much less, that is to say, than modem. Palestine, which has
YOUTH STABS WATCHMAN
Disastrous End To Altercation
Yu Kam, 22-year-old unilcensed hawker was selling oranges at the front door of the Kai Fong Com pany on Sunday evening..
open arms and it is here that
three hundred and fifty thousand
people have come in. About ff- teen thousand are established
on (Continued on Page 7)
KEROSENE CASE CONTINUED
Further Evidence Re-Heard
COUNSELS' QUIPS
The re-hearing of a charge of
The private watchman employ-possession of dangerous goods
ed by the company, Ng Lap, 30, asked him to move on, but the hawker" refuséd. *
Ng brought his cane into action, whereupon Yu took out his paring knife and stabbed the watchman on the left side of the nead.
A constable arrived on the scene and 'arrested the hawker while the watchman was taken to the Gor ernment Civil Hospital for medi- cal attention. where he was de- tained for a day.
without a licence, brought against. La Yu, was continued before Mr. E. Himsworth at the "Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon when further evidence were heard. Mr. M. J. Abbott represented the Crown, while Mr. F. H. Loseby ap- peared for the accused.
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answering the questions which was put to him by Mr. Loseby, Mr. Brayfield stated that he could not call the all on the lighter fuel cargo because there Appearing before Mr.. J. A...Fra. difference between cargo and stores The ser at the Central Magistracy yes- for one's own consumption. terday, Yu said that the watch-oll from the lighter was definitely man started the altercation by not kerasene. striking arst.
Sgt. W. L Clark informed his Worship that the wound was not maliciously inflicted.
His Worship: Have you anyone!
Who can you bring tomorrow?" Defendant's wire, who was in
Mr. Brayfield: I would say the oll from the lighter is a poor product- of petroleum. It falls outside the range of kerosene.
Mr. Abbott: Do you "remember
to speak for you? -Yes, but he is j-the fire on board the s.a. 'President not in Court.
McKinley The ofl they used is of lower grade than that found on the lighter. The cause of the fre was the dropping of a red hot rivet Into the oil. The oil in the lighter Mr. Fraser then remanded the would light quicker because it is of hearing until to-day.
Court, replied that a relative could
be brought to Court.
a higher grade. -Addressing His Worship, Mr. Loseby said that in 1933 a man stolen two brass flower vases from was prosecuted on a similar charge the Rosary Church, Kowloon.
In another Court. There were also Inspector Andrew said that the other cases but they were all dis sccused had just come out from ¦ charged. A Wong Chuen, 24, unemployed, pitson after serving a term of Mr. Loseby jokingly said that Mr. was sentenced to itx weeks hard la- three weeks. He was seen by the Abbott is trying to make a convic bour by Mr. QA, A. Macfadyen at
constable coming out from the tion when there has never been one. the Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday | Church at 3 am yesterday morn- for 60 years morning, on a charge of having 1 ing carrying the vases,
The case was then adjourned."
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