HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
GENERAL
YOUNGER SISTER GIVES FUNERAL OF ROUND THE
EVIDENCE IN CLAIM
Property Dispute: Alleged Erasures On Document
THE YOUNGER OF TWO SISTERS, BOTH OF WHOM CLAIM TO BE LEUNG MEI-HA, and who are the opposing parties in the property dispute which Arst came up for hearing on Monday in the Supreme Court, was called to give evidence yesterday afternoon after * number of expert witnesses had given testimony regard'ng... Chl- nese handwriting" and alleged erasures on a document.
GAVE $5,000
MR. A. J. J. MARTIN
LARGE NUMBER
OF WREATHS
The funeral took place at the Colonial Cemetery yesterday of Mr. Alfred John James Martin, of the Standard Vacuum Oll Com- pany, who died at his residence on Monday at the age 46. Very Rev. J. L. Wilson oficiated at the graveside.
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COURTS
A pair of binoculars is awaiting a claimant at the Central Police Statioh. The instrument Was found in the possession of an 10- employed man. Lo Cheung, who pleaded guilty before Mr. R. Ed- wards at the Central Court yester- day of having stolen it on Sunday morning. The police. have so far failed to trace the owner of the article.
Lo was sentenced to six weeks' The hard labour.
The case which was heard by in Canton or Hongkong and wrote the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac- to Chau Shi about the matter. Gregor, was brought by the elder
Ball of $700 was allowed by Mr. slater, who called herself Leung Chau Shi went to Cholon in A resident of the Colony for Himsworth, at Kowloon Court Mel-ha and who asked the court 1935, and when she left for Hong- many years, the late Mr. Martin yesterday, in the case against for a declaration that she is the kong defendant gave her $5,000 in was formerly connected with Tung Chung-yin. 25. Insurance owner of New Kowloon Inland Lot Hongkong banknotes for the pur-Messrs. Lowe. Bingham and Mat-broker, who appeared on a charge No. 2351 (No. 13 Nga Tsin Long pose of buying a house. Subsethews. His is survived by a widow, of fraudulent conversion of $3 Road) and an order for her young-quently, she received a letter from a son and 1. daughter, two from Tong Wing, master of the er sister. the. defendant Leung | Chau „Shi notifying her that the brothers and a sister.
Wing Hop Compradore Shop In Shiü-fan, allas Leung Mel-ha, to house had been purchased,
Austin Road. A remand of one return the Crown lease and other
week was granted. documents in connection with the property.
'The defendant counter-claims for a declaration that she is the rightful owner of the property.
Plaintif was represented by Mr.dant said she Fercy Chen, instructed by Mr. C. A Sutherton Russ, whilst Mr. Elden Potter, K.C., Instructed by Mr. H K. Woo, was for the defence.
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The chief mourners were Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Martin. Mr. T. A. Martin, Mr. I. Jewell and Mrs. Penizzi, sister. Others present in- Charged with being a member cluded Messrs. B. C. Randall, J.
of the Triad Society, which is an Ona. Meyer, T. O. Stokes, D. Fillegal society. a Water Policeman, Lopes, 3. Fraser. L. J. Jack. O. A Lam Muk, 35, No. 161, appeared Smith, W. Orchard, J. W. May before Mr. E. Himsworth at Kow- hew, S, F. Williamson, T. Ram-
loon. Court yesterday. He Was sey. J. Paterson, J. Michel, V. C.
formally remanded for a week in Labram, G. B. Labram. J. Fleming, custody. A Ritchie C. L. Farmer, D. Waterton, F. A. Peters, F. R. Pea- Pieter Poulous Dobbe, “43. "a cock, G. F. Osmund. Captain Kir-Dutch subject. appeared before by, and members of the Chinese Mr. R. Edwards at the Central stan of the Standard Vacuum Ol Court yesterday charged with fail- Company.
ing to report a change of address on April 4. He pleaded guilty and was fined $10.
When the plintiä visited Cho- lon in 1937, she told defendant that the title deeds had to be left in Hongkong as the Government might require to inspect them. a later visit in August 1938, defen
asked her sister again about the deeds, and wrote to plaintiff's husband for them.
The deeds, proceeded defendant, were not forthcoming. Plaintiff later mentioned that should she Defendant yesterday said that die, there would be some difficulty her name was originally Mel-ha, in assigning the property to her As the characters could be inter-sister as she had signed the deeds, preted In speaking as "tail is Defendant became suspicious and good," her schoolmates were fond asked plaintiff to sign a promis- of giving her the nickname of sory for $8.000, which "she then "Totten stomach saltfish." This considered to be the value of the Annoyed her so much that she on property. tained her foster mother's consent to change her name to Mel-
"TAIL IS GOOD"
Defendant sald plaintiff's name was originally Yuet-ho, but she" later also changed her name to Yuet-ha.
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THE WREATHS Wreaths were sent by the fol-
It was untrue thatlowing:- forced was used to persuade plain. tim to sign the now.
Aunties and Uncles at Home; Gertrude, Tony and Peter; John; EXPERT TESTIMONY
Gwen, George, Jack and Jill; John Bariler during the hearing, ex- Peter, Marge and Dick; Tom, Mill pert evidence was given by Prof. Tony and Tim; Wyn, Bili ard Ma Kiam and Mr. D. F. Davis, Derrick, Leslie, Dorothy and Clar- lecturer in physics of the Hongrie, Jean and Jimmy Lyon, Eve her foster kong University, and by Prof. Au and Frank. Donald. Edith and
Tal-yuen. Hanlin scholar of the Imperial Chinese regime. "Mr.
Their surname was Chan, said plaintif. but when
mother, Char Shi, remarried after her husband's death, she adopted the surname Leung, which was the name of her foster mother's hus band
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Appearing on a similar charge, Miss Hendriena Van Laer, who is also a Dutch subject, was fined
$10.
He Won't Be Late, Ever
Paul. Zena. Sonny and Reginald, Len and Ena and the children, Davis said it appeared to him that John and Terry. Dat. Jae and MAN WHO BOUGHT there had been an erasure on one Odd: May. Alyena and Helen,
ALL THE CLOCKS® of the documents produced, and Andy and Susie, May and WI, Defendant further stated that Prof. Au said the words which ap-Fred Ells. Exild. June and Keith; she frequently remitted money peared to have been erased bore, May L. Gooey: from Cholon, where she had gone in his opinion, the characteristics at the age of 16 and where she was of the characters Mei-ha married, to Chau Shi At one time, Hearing will be resumed she considered purchasing a house morrow morning.
SERIES OF When Digging BLACKOUT Does Not Pay
EXERCISES
· TOMORROW
The public are reminded that a series of blackout exercises will be held tomorrow night.
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Clocks, clocks, and more clocks, -140 of them-all of German ori- gin, were sold by public auction at the office of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports yesterday morning and realised a total of $246.
These clocks were part of the confiscated enemy property and became the property of the Crown.
Sir Atholl and Lady MacGregor. Captain and Mrs. A. Laihovetský, to-Dr. and Mrs. Lanchester, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. H. Priestley, Mr, and Mrs. B. C. Randall, Mr. and Mrs. Wm Paterson, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. | Mugford, Mr. and Mrs. Cheung Man-kuen. Mr. and Mrs. U Yak- kwal. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Hollo- There were three large wall way and Dorothy, Mr. and Mrs. C. clocks, 83 medium-size table clocks Bord, Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Hill, Mr. and 55 small clocks. One of the and Mrs, J. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs.¡ médium-size clocks was found to John Hargreaves, Mr. and Mrs. be "dead" and was not put up for W. J. Stokes, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. auction. The others were all in Waterton, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. good order and condition, and Ford, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Clemo, were, readily purchased at well Mr. and Mrs. J. Moodle, Mr. and above the upset price. Mrs, G. E. F. Thompson, Mr. and
Mrs. W. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. J.
"Charged with possession of a quantity of live cartridges and
empty cartridge cases, two men.
There were about 25 bidders present at the sale and most of the purchases were made by a Mr. H Tang. Mr. and Mrs. Yew Ah-Kwok. In fact, Mr. Kwok, bought kow, Mr. and Mrs. Mah Chin-slu, more than half the supply. Who Mr. and Mrs. Lau Wan-kwai, Mr. | would not, when clocks are going
at less than $2 per piece? and Mrs. Hon Yan-lam:
Iu K1, 45, and Tsang Wong. 33, the foriner of whom said the car- tridges had been dug out from a hillside in Shataukok, Chinese ter- Generally speaking, recent black-ritory, and brought into the Mrs. W. L. Handyside, Mr. and outs have shown that although Colony for sale, were each fined many creditable efforts have been $25 by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at made to screen premises, in some Kowloon Court yesterday. cases residents have failed to en-
The two defendants were ar- sure that the blinds were either rested following an incident in long enough or wide enough to Talpo Road on April 6, when cover the window, and the material LSA. 167. a police officer, stopped was of insufficient thicknesa,
larry 'No. 2090 in Taipo" Road. In this connexion it should be Sacks full of broken cartridges noted that it is advisable to have were found on the lorry, at least 4 inches overlap on efther
Mr. and Mrs. L Lammert, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Langston, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Kinross, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Williamson. Mr. and Mra. Chan Wal-kuen. Mr. and Mrs. Tan Kim-pong, Mr. and Mrs.
In Ki, master of the Man Sung. W. Robbes, Mr. and Mrs. ED. side. If this is not possible then "it is preferable to cover up the Lung Shop in Argyle Street was
da Roza, Mr and Mrs. B. Banger,
and Mrs H. W. Mills, Mr. and Mrs.
aides, tops and bottoms of the win charged with possession of the two | Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lammert, Mr.
dow with strips of brown paper.
In several instances, the lights facing the main streets were either extinguished or obscured, but more attention must be paid, to the back premises.
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sacks of cartridges, a shell case, a
bayonet and nine percussion cups. Acting on information given by Iu Ki, a raid was carried out by the police on April 8 on a marine stare at No. 175 Reclamation It was also reported that a Street, ground floor owned by large number of residents seemed Tsang Wong. A total of 325 car- .content to sit in the darkness tridges and 799 empty cartridge rather than take the trouble to cases were, found in the shop and obscure their lights, I cannot urge Tsang was charged with posses- too strongly, the fallacy of such ston of this ammunition. procedure.
ROAD VEHICLES
John Fleming. Mr. and Mrs. A. Ritchie. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Par- sons and family, Mr. and Mrs, G. R. Ross. Mr. and Mrs. J. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ellott, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs, G.. F. Steed and Peggy, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Cairns and family, Mr. and Mrs R. Grainger;
THREATENING A WAITRESS
That cases of waitresses being threatened with assault if they did not lend money to certain men were becoming frequent in the Shanghai Street district, and that such cases were seldom "reported to the poifce, was the staberrient made by Det.-Sergt. Pope, pro- Secuting Ng Choi, 20. at Kowloon Court before Mr. Q. A. A. Mäcfad- yen yesterday.
Ng, who was charged with hay-
ing demanded $3 with menaces
from LA “Shiu-hing, 20, tea shop waitress, of No. 173, Shanghai Mrs. W. W. Cole and family. Street. was sentenced to three Mra. C. C. Nelson, and 'Bons. Mra.
months hard labour: Complain-.
M. Hughes, Mrs. C. J. Bhand. Missant had reported the threat to the M. J. Stuart, Elleen Bliss, Kathile police and had been told to give and Marie Clarke, Mrs. Angus and defendant three marked one dol- "Mis." Shewask
lar notes. Defendant was later arrested with the marked notes in his possession.
In regard to every description
REFUGEES IN or road transport vehicles, it to
THE COLONY emphasised that the only obscura-
Messrs, E. G, N. Grimble, H. Ja- tion colour which would not con- There was an increase of 488 in son, W. J. Thompson and G. B. travene the Lighting Control Re- the number of refugees and des- Witchell, E. Remedios and sisters, gulations is blue, and any glass titutes in the Colony accommodat-3. Lunny. R. M. Murray. Pong through which light may packed in Government Camps, etc., in Bing-cheung, HJ. Fountain, C. Urban and Rural Arcas for the Johnsing. T. Bamsey, A. Abbas, C. week-ended April 6." Urban Areas (Civillans):
must be completely obscured with blue material or blus paint.
The use of headlights on motor cars is prohibited. When the first alz xald warning signal sounds, traffic may be resumed provided that all lights are obscured.
Hatt. R. R. Pearson. J. E. Ander-
GANG FIGHT AVERTED
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son. Wong Wing-keung. G. Graver. Bentence of six months hard King's Park 1,288 against 1.296 J, W Mayhew, W. L L Barker, T.labour was passed by Mr. E. on Mar, 30:
B Willains. J. F. Richmond, Fung | Himpworth
Court at Kowloon Ma Tan Chung 1,579 against Yiu-shon. E M. Marques, yesterday on Tung Shin-ming, 19, 1.576 on Mar. 30.
Schultz, F. A. Peters. R. C. Dazen- j charger with possession of The blacking out arrangements
North Point 1,393 against 1,425 berg, H. W. Beisley. N. L. H. Rall- dagger in Argyle Street, near undertaken by shipping. In the
ton, F. L. Lam. R. Rocha, F. C. Mongkok Market on April harbour have in former blackouts on Mar. 30.
Allison:
Defendant, it was stated, will be Morrison Hill 635 against 480 on been, very efficient. but the atten-
Staff of T. A. Martin and. Com-recommended for banishment. Mar. 30. tion of owners of sampans and
pany, Lowe. Bingham and Mat- Det-Berg. Morrisons prosecut- fishing vessels is drawn to the fact Urban Areas (Boldiers):
thews, Standard Vacuum Of Co. ing, stated that Mongkor Police S.CP.T. Steno section; Division Station Teceived information that they also must comply with the Lighting Control Regulations.
Office, Standard Vacuum Of Co.: about
7 p.m.
on April 5that Acctg. Dept. Hongkong Omice. there was to be a fight in Argyle Standard Vacuum 011 Co.; South Street. A number of police were China Territory. Standard Ya- sent to the scene and the crowd Of Co.; Chinese Staff, that had gathered there imme- Ngan Tau Kok 128 against 15 Aecté. Department, Standard Va- dlátely dispersed.
Chinese Defendant was arrested and a on Mar: 30.
Oil Compatiy; Staff, Marketing Dept., Standard | dagger was found tucked in his Kain Tin 2,199 against 2,152 on 01 Ca., Douglas Lapraik and girdle Five hammers were picked
from Company-Douglas-Steamship Co., up
the road Defendant is confined with an occlusion of Total: 9,275 against 8,987 on Williamson, and Co. Che San and had a previous comvletion for
Company, and many others, Mar, 30.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR INDISPOSED
On medical advice. His Excel- lepcy the. Governor has, for the
In Hospital 18 against 25 on Mar, 30.
Argyle Street 718 against 687 on Mar. 30. Urban Areas (Tai Hang):
Squatters Camp "1419 against 1,331 on Mar, 30.
immediate future. cancelled all Rural Areas: engagements that would entail
his leaving his room, to which he Mar. 30, 2
a vein of the right leg.
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cuum
larceny.
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