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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1947.
Wax Head Correspondence WORLD FOOD
Produced In Court
H.K.V.D.C. Association And Members' Problems
(To the Editor, ILK. Telegraph) Sir, We of the association cannot thank the Press too much for
the editorials which have been current in local papers,
Bristol, Jan. 10. There
was a gasp from the crowded magistrate's
court hore to-day when a realistic wax head was produced show- This point of clothing allowance ing, according to
is one that has assumed such Impor- a doctor-tance-when it could be so witness, the location of the in-sottied. it in obvious to any person cally juries on the head of 34-year-old who lives in Hongkong that the Cecil Cornock, whose widow is amount as a payment in lieu of issue charged with murdering her is totally inadequate. Local condi- husband,
Lions must be taken into considera- tion and what is possible in England is not possible here.
The prosecution say that Cornock was drowned after his wife had hit him with a child's toy bont while he was tied up with a rope in a bath.
When the doctor wild that the injuries shown as black marita on the model tem could have been catured by a toy wooden boat, Mrs Cornock leaned forward and and qulolly: "It in untrue".
COUNCIL AGREEMENT
Washington, Jan. 10.. Full agreement has been reached on the creation of an 18-nation World Food Council within the framework of tho United Food and Agricultural | Organisation.
The full draft of the agreement is now being completed and studied by member governments, and details are expected to be announced on ori around January 20,
The total number of men involved stood, represents.
The final agreement, it is under- a considerable in this matter of clothing is around departure from the original pro- 300. With the amounts that are posals for an "over normal" world being spent here in the colony at granaty and sweeping powers for a the present 'moment by various world food board to buy and store government departments the colourpluses against the days of scar- necessary to pay an increased city as originally envisaged. by Sir allowance is negligible.
John Boyd Orr, UNFAQ Director- General.
Icaves The agreement, similarly discrellonary powers to each mem- ber government. The chief
func, tion of the Council will be to co- ordinate the work of the Food and, Agriculture Organisation with the
International proption.
Trade Or-
Homo millions of men have Another witness, #police con-
been demobbed and millions of out- atable, told the court that the 34-ta sued. It would be no grent year-old widow told him without dimeulty to send measurements and relicency of her husband's ubnor-orders Home from patterns. It is mality.
admitted that it might be a little troublesome.
There are other matters which still await consideration by the local government.
Mr Cornock, the witness sold, had stated that they had not lived a normal life during their whole 13 years of marriage.
A locked suitcase hold articles of women's clothing and Mrs Cornock roid: "My husband keupa u room in London where he tises these things."Reuter.
Gissimo Not
Catholic
Boston, Jan. 10, The National Catholic Welfare Conference refuted in a state- ment to-day the report published the United States that Goneralissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife are taking instruc- tion in the Roman Catholic reli- gion,
in
The Conference statement sold that a cable received from Nanking on January 3 dented this report.
The statement added: The Generalissimo has always expressed interest in the work of the Catholic Church in China and its affairs, but stories telling of his proposed trance Into the Catholic Church are without foundation and have basis in fact".-Reuter.
After being offelally demobilised since January 30, 1940, final
cash settlements have not been made.
Volunteers
whose wives were in Hongkong during the occupation are not entitled to marriage allowance. They are very kindly granted п separation allowance which is much less than, official raten.
army
In this connection "sample" com- modity agreements for all major agricultural commodities have been worked out plementation by the International Trade Organization--Reuter,
for
eventual im-
marriage FIVE BURNED TO
DEATH
larger
Singapore, Jan. 10.
Members of the Volunteers ro- turning after their internment have found their homes entirely gone and unless they are connected with Government departments or Hongs and it impossible to carry on and Ave were critically injured
Five persona were burned to death paying hotel rates.
Some
nt Indeed have
Sitiawan, near Ipoh, last night. No given up trying and after details
of the
to be with Chinese political
The police have spread wide net for five men who are alleged to have been implicated in the attack. from activities of gangsters
The district has recently suffered and kidnappers-Reuter,
Bomo
part
are. very
WAR CRIMES COURT PICTURES.
Internment Reflections
THINK NOT OF THESE
Think not of the present's sense
less days,
Monotony of hours that crawl. The organised futility Of life within a prison's wall. Think not of weakness, pain and
death,' Starvation and the will to die; The wasted limbs, the laboured unseeing
breath The fevered brow, th
+ Cyo..
Think not of treachery, graft, de-
celt,
The subterfuges of the cowed; The ache of loneliness that comes From feeling always in a crowd. Think, not of hope so long de-
ferred
That hearts grow
delay,
sickened with And hastened death is e'en pro-
ferred To the slow torture of decay. Think not of scores of
lives, Victims of national greed
pride, The friends that we shall see no
more. Though love of them has
died,
Think not of these; but let
mind The joys of hoppler days renew, Dwell on the past's unbounded
space,
Search For Oil
In N. Guinea
New York, Jan. 10.
Bureau announced to-day that the The Australiou Information
will undertake an ex austive search Australian Petroleum Company 3000 for oil deposits in tubulously rich New Guinea.
The survey will start of Akarlava, 70 miles inland from the southern coast.
L. J. Hunter, formerly with the in charge of the survey, which will Anglo-Iranian Oll Company, will be cost $2,000,000 and which will be financed by threa major all con- panies-United Press.
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Macao, Tuination, Shekki. 4 p.m.
Kongmoon, 4 pm.
the
Canton, 4 pm.
Sunday, January 12
Airmail:
And Freedom's unrestricted view. Nay, think of happy days to be The fellowship of sight and hund Renewed with those we love, re-
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of
shares of our
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whys.
this
Such be the weapons of our fight i Against the mind's anxiety, Til ends the dark dream of
Jong night In the breaking dawn of Victory.
G. B. May, 1944.
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Teamkong. 3 pm.
Kongmoon, 4 pm,
Train:
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Sydney,
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sending years in the colony have available, but it is believed
outrage arc yel mouths. Surely left it with a bitter taste.in their connected derequinttioned property might
of unrest. be allocated to these needy cases.
The Singapore
association, Al- though its difficulties much the same as ours, hna had the pleasure of discussing these dif- ficulties with representatives of the Government, The secretary of this association wrote to the Colonial Secretary on December 20 last. A couple of days ago he received reply acknowledging receipt of his en-letter and stating that Information
regarding the matters mentioned, The Hongkong Telegraph is in- which were similar to those men-debted to Mrs Hedda M. Morrison tloned above, would be forwarded in for the pictures of Hongkong war due course. This is after months of crimes courts published on Monday trying to get decisions and answers and in to-day's Issue.
It seems A keen photographer, Mrs. Mor-
Cleveland, Jan. 10. that we are up against the brick wall rison has taken
Former Foreign large number
Minister of of offeinldom. This wall does not pictures of Hongkong scenes
of Mexico and delegate to the UN not let much light out, and it doesn't happenings since her arrival
and Security Council, Exequiel Padilla, seem to let much light in.
last speaking before the Other year.
Instituto of wise even the blindest of must see that there is growing dis- 4. C. Morrison, adjutant of the power to create hatred In Latin Acated or qualided navigating or diesel
Mrs Morrison is the wife of Capt omelala
Affairs, to-day charged the sts were using all in their America against the United States. engineer officer
no
Foreign Planes Over though oficial charinels.
Greece
content.
Let me assure Government that it hus in the Association members, and i
HKVDC.
London, Jan. 10, Britain
Allied among the Governments to whom Greece has sent a report of further alleged #violation of Greek torcitory by foreign planes, seeking to help even those ranks of the H.K.V.D.C. fair wage or recompense. That querillas,” it was learned on good who are not members, who are loyal all we ask. authority in London to-day servants. Loyal servants are always Router.
hard to find and are always worth a
ROBERT LEISH, Hon Sec H.K.V.D,C, Association.
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"Conscience"
BY KEMP STARRETT
"WATCH 'EA
JUMP!
A MAN'S WIFE IS OFTEN MIS ONLY CONSCIENCE...LEFT TO HIMSELF-HED STAY IN BED UNTIL NOON AND CONVINCE HURSELF HE'D DO MORE AND BETTER WORK IF HE GOT AORE SLEEP.
VIEN SOME. MEN BRING FLOWERS HOME, THEY SAY, YOU CAN'T BE SURE WHETHER ITS SENTIMENT OR A GUILTY CONSCIENCE. OFTED THEY'RE NOT TOO CERTAIN THEMSELVES.
SO YOU DON'T DRINK, CAOKE, STAY OST YET YOU HAVE A TIGHTNESS AROUND AT NIGHT, GAMBLE OR OVER EAT AND THE HEAD....WELL, THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH YOU K....... YOUR HALO IS
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SOME FOLKS-HAVE NO MORE CONSCIENCE THAN A MONKEY,
Ladger Syndicate
WE OFTEN WONDER HOW THE POLITICAL CANDIDATES RECONCILE
THEIR CONSCIENCE WITH THEIR STATISTICS.
THEN TIERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE SO POWERFUL A CONSCIENCE THAT THEY'RE A FIRST CLASS NUISANCE.
CONSCIENCE DOES FUNNY THINGS TO / PEOPLE
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY OWE MONEY.