Breach Of Contract
Successful Claim
For.$9,600
A claim for $9,600 for breach of contract was brought by the International Import and Ex- port Company, of 204 National Bank Building, against Shor- man and Company, of 210 St * Francia Hotel, before Mr Justice Williams at the Supreme Court this morning.
The claim was in respect of contract signed between the parties on Juno 25, 1947, for the sale and delivery by defendants to the plain- tiffs of 100 dozen pairs of Nylon stocitings at the price of US$17.75 per dozen pairs. Delivery was to be made in three weeks or by Arst available air freight. Upon signing the contract, plaintiffs paid to de fendants # deposit of US$140,
of
According to the statement claim, defendants failed to deliver the stockings and did not return the deposit, although demands had been made.
Plaintiffs chalmed that the loss of profit suffered on the 100 dozen pairs of stockings amounted to HK$0,000, They claimed for thint sum und for cosis of the action.
UNCONTESTED
The action was not contested by defendants, who did not enter an appearance,
An application by Mr Brook A. | Bernacchi, instructed by Mr F. D. Hammond, who appeared for the plaintiffs, te ument the claim by the inclusion of an order for turn of
was refused
the deposit or its equivalent in Hongkong dollars the Court.
hy
Mr Bernunchi sald that in s- ressing the amount of damages, the pintiffs had enleutated that the
20h al rate of exchange préviating at the time was R$5.93 to USSI and reckoned by the plaintiffs, for convenience. ni HKSB per pair. The selling price was fixed at the con- trolled price of $14 per pair for Euge i and over. Thic stockings contractivt for wer
were of gauge
54.
Following evidence by Mr A. O,
Manager of the plainl regarding the contract and de- posit receipt, which were produced in Court, his Lordship gave judg- ment for plaintiffs for the amount claimed and costs of the netion.
STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING
One
casualty of yesterday's thunder storm lins been reported to the police.
Cheung Cher, a member of the KCR working gang, was struck by while lightning about 8.45 a.m. working near a brige at Talpo.
He was knocked unconscious and was taken immediately to the Taipo Dispensary for emergency treat- ment. Later he was sent to Kow- loon Hospital where he was found to be suffering injuries to his face, arms and legs.
His condition today is reported to
be not serious,,
PRISON FOR
EX-PC
Ho Nol-tim, 20, ex-police
con-
stable, was sentenced to six months hard labour and fined $300 or three months by Mr d'Almada at Central
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
PAULA BY DENNIS
ARE YOU TAKING THE PATENT TOME MISS VANE? WHERE DOES SHE LIVE?
WHEATLEY
WITH ME,DOCTOR YOU SEE, SHE IS A SECRETARY TO ME AS WELL AS A STAND-IN."
WIFE TREATED
AS
HOSTILE WITNESS
New Turn In Attempted Murder Charge
WAS
A wife's apparent reluctance to testify against her husband on an attempted murder charge led to her being treated as hostile witness at the Criminal Sessions this morning. The woman was Chung Tsui. I conscious yee and it was the case for the Crown that she was the victim of a murderous assault by her husband, Wong Hung, 20, Sanitary Department coolie, ai No. 7 Cemetery, Customs Pass Road, on the evening of January
22.
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1948.
rio, mais unexplainĉo accidents,, joo manɔ – narróu escapes during the shooting of 'Fair and Warn' fiev, made the et littery-st: looks like a fab for the police.
PAULA, HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS? THEY'VE CALLED IN SCOTLAND YARD!
ISHT IT EXCITING?
YES-BUT DON'T FAINT
PRESIDENT TRUMAN SIGNS THE FOREIGN AID BILL-AL a While House ceremony, Presi- dent Truman signs the history-
bu making foreign
Into
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Wirephoto.
WEDDING IN KOWLOON
Miss Da Silva And Mr Rodrigues
STUDENT CAR DRIVER
:
FINED
Jimmy K. Ng. 15, student, of No.
3 Dragon Terrace, first floor, was fined $300 by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central this morning for failing to falling to, niter an accident, show an "L" plate on his car and failing to sign his learner
licence.
sald ot
£
Sub-Insp. Si Wai-ming
am. on April 21, defendant who was a learner driver collided with a Chinese in Connaught Rand West near the China Maritime Steamship Navigation Company, and instead of stopping the car, went straight on to the Pulice Station.
am-
The Injured person was taken to Queen Mary Hospital when a pedestrian telephoned for on
wha suffering from bulance. He fractured thigh and would be de- fained in Hospital for ut least six
months.
Yip Tal-ling,
of 200 Jaffe Road,
who
sald he was with defendant wils driving ear No. 7272 in Con- Weat naught Road
in a westerly direction. When near the Yuen On
Chinesa suddenly He warned
the
whart across the rond. defendant to sound the horn and at the same time, he applied the hand- brake. But the car could not be stepped and collided with the man Defendant continued on and went to Central Police Station to make report.
De Gasperi's
Majority
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tions; freedom for trade union or-
tho
ganisations.
"Laws must be based on principle of freedom and order, on of this freedom and the defence order In д civilised community which represents a form of demo- стасу.
WORK FOR ALL for some days but
"This is our programme. In this DIFFERENT STORY
programme there is work for every finally discharged on March 27.
Individual and for all the forces Called to testify, the wife gave a
sincerely are contributing story entirely different to the one
The Rosary Church, Kowloon, which
in she had given at the Lower Court. was the scene of a pretty wed towards the same end-for a co-
practised operation sincerely She said that she had been married ding this morning, when Miss freedom, to refrain from the dicta- four years and that on the Estela Maria Lourdes da Silva, torship by one group and any ten- for evening in question, after the meal,
the common laws of democracy and she asked her husband to go out for daughter of Mr and Mrs Mar- dency towards violence, to submit to n_walk to cool themselves as the ciano A. da Silva, became the to support a foreign policy which weather was rather hot. After they bride of Mr Carlos Henrique tends to economic co-operation with had reached the hill, she took off Rodrigues, of the Chartered peoples which are stronger than we
coat and her husband
then
Australia andre, and leads to the solidarity of
ail free and democratic peoples. The Rev. Fr A. de "This programme will be solved with energy and vigilance so that nobody may misuse that freedom to conspire against the Fatherland.
Wond
is charged with attempted murder and enusing: grievous bodily harn to Chung. The ease is being her
Gould und a Ircard by Mr Justice
Jury which included three women.
asked
her about three gold finger Bank of India, rings. She replied that she had lost. China. Mr J. Reynolds, Crown Counsel, them and her husband then slapped | Angelis officiated. said that accused was employed as her ounce. She ran into the air raid followed by her husband a con carrier at No. 7 Cemetery tunnel, this morning when he pleaded guilty and lived with his wife and mother who Eave her push. She fel to being absent from duty without at No. 1 Tung Fong Street, first down, fainted. And remembered permission In March, 1947, and fail-cor. On January 22, accused re-nothing more.
Ilc was banished.
Ing to return accoutrement.
Also
ordereal
be lo
defendant
Inspector Moran sald
added that he
1.
a
truin.
"This programme will be carried out in the great Italian traditions which are the
They policy encouraged
The ceremony was followed by Nuptial Mass.
The bride is on the staff of the Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd., Head turned from work and drank half a
Office. She was given away in discipline and moral of honour,, Mr Reynolds then appiled to treat marriage by her father, and wore
Signor de Gasperl said the people bottle of wine, the occasion being the slaughter of
a charming chicken. After the wife as a hostile witness, but
Cown of white satin, were expecting a campaign against was refused, His the meal, accused and his wife went the application
featuring a yoke of fine silk net unemployment and a programme of was required as a witness in a case Gut together. They took a bus to Lordship bolling that it was too trimmed with little rosettes, and a agrarian reform. "All this will be heard in Court last year, but he
Kai Tak and then walked up Cus-early to decide. However, the re- absconded. He was later arrested. toms Pass Road. When they came quest was granted after the wife graceful basqua falling into a long carried out but with one absolutely Her bouquet was composed ance of liberty, respect for liberty, necessary condillon-the mainten- The value of the accoutrement was to No. 7 Cemetery they ellmbed up had stated that she did not know of white gardenias. approximately $300.
how she came to be in hospital or
humility and a spirit of Independen-, Inspector Moran
The wife would tell the Court. Mr how she got the wounds in the The bridegroom's sisters, the ce," he said. was Instructed to say that defendant, Reynolds continued, that accused head, adding that they might have Misses Carmers and Alice Rodrigues, The Italian people must be free who joined the Force December, asked her about some gold Bnger been caused by her falling down. were the bridesmaids, and wore to decide their own destiny. 1945, was a most undesirable char-rings and when she told him she had Further questioned. the wife dainty frocks of pink organdle with "Our democracy must carry out a acter, He asked for A gaol sen- lost them he struck her on the head
by economic fence and banishment.
with
instrument. Sho would denied having said at the Magis-printed white floral design.
on carried bouquets of Chinese asters. collaboration with peoples stronger also say that she then ran into antracy that accused struck her
Little Frances Chan, as flower girl, than ourselves and by solidarity air raid tunnel, pursued by accused the head with an instrument or any
was attired in white and carried a with all free and democratic people who again struck her on the head knowledge of having made a state-
of the word."-Neuter. whereupon she collapsed and re-ment to Inspector Matches while in posy of rosca. membered nothing more.
hospital. She added that her hus
Capt. J. S. Rodrigues, MBE, and According to accused's mother band frequently drank wine and
Mr Antonio E. B. de Sousa under- accused returned the same evening.
after that
drinking he became to his home about 9 p.m. and asked "mad" and sometimes bent himself. look the duties of best men. where his wife was. They
Asked by the Court if he had The reception, which was held at searched the streets of Shamshulpo
nny questions
to put to his wife. No. 8 Ashley Road, was attended and Mongkok for the wife and when accused replied in the negative. by a large number of friends.
When they failed to find her about mid- Sui Sim, mother of accused, said the happy couple left for the honey- night they made n report to the
that when his son returned about
moon. which is being spent at p.m. she asked him where his Cheung Chow, Mrs Rodrigues wore States, Chile, Brazil and Peru pro- wife was and he replied that he did
a pink going-away dress with white posed today that the Inter-American hat and accessories.
condemn international Conference Some time after 8 am, the next not know. They then went out to
Communism as "an Instrument day, the wife was discovered lying look for her and when they failed
aggression used for Imperialistic PC Leung Ka said that he arrested unconscious in the tunnel. About she dragged him to
purposes.' defendant about 2 p.m. yesterday in two feet from her were a poul of Station and made a report.
The case is proceeding. Theatre
blood and the head of a pick-xe Lane for hawking news- papers without a licence. When he the broad end of which was stained Police were in- proceeded to take him to the Station with blood. The
ASSAULTED POLICEMAN
For resisting and assaulting the police yesterday Wal Chi-pani. 37. unemployed, with a previous convice tion for hawking without a licence, was sentenced to three months by Mr d'Almada at Central this mor- Falice. ning.
Two charges against Wal for ob- struction and hawking without licence were withdrawn.
a
LYING UNCONSCIOUS
then
the Police
defendant resisted and in doing so formed and the woman was taken tore his jacket sleeve.
to Kowloon Hospital. On the way Off To Rescue Defendant further assaulted wit- down the hill, they met accused,
who began to cry and sold that the
ess and bit him on the chest, which necessitated medical attention. Wit woman was his wife and that she ness sald he was again assaulted by
defendant in Des Voeux Rond Cen- tral.
Insp. Meran prosecuted..
had been missing, since the previous
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The resolution would leave to the 21 American Republics the task of dealing with Communism each in its own way.
thus The plan would avold proposals advanced by some of the delegations for a hemisphere Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican He-wide outlawing of Communism. public, Apr. 21.-Several strong At the same time the conference
shook earth tremors
almost the ordered an investigation Into who- night,
entire Island of Hispaniola today. ther Nicaraguan troops have In- Shanghai, Apr. 22.-The steamship
to fa- Dr Pang Teng-cheung, of Kow..
First reports indicated there were veded, Costa Rican territory loon Hospital, anid the woman was Changcheng is scheduled to leave
no casualties or serious propesty tervene in the revolution in that admitted to hospital in a serious Tientsin today in En attempt to damage in the Dominican Itepublic. country where Communist-led mi- condition. auffering from head in- rescue 1,230, passengers of the ill-
shock and haemmerhage. fated Wan Lee who are murooned in Sharp shocks were felt in Hail on litla are. reported threatening to
of Hispaniola. upset
pset peace efforts. There were two wounds on the right Communist held Yungchenghalen in the western end
Meanwhile, Red
Cross There was some panic in Port Au
oficials side of the head, one of which ax- Northeast Shantung province.
casual-reported that 1,600 persona died Pleading guilty to keeping an
posed the bone. The wounds were The Wan Leo recently ran on Friace, the capital, but no oplum divan at 36, Wing Kut Street consistent with having been caused rocks off Shantung promontory. All ties or damage.
throughout Colombia in the uprising The earthquake frightened the that flared on Apr. 9, interrupting on April 21, Wong Ho, 46. married by the broad end of a pick-axo. the passengers, including one
Ciudad
Trujillo, where the work of the Conference. woman was fined $500 or three
Communist people Similar ovidence was given by Dr | American, landed in
of Kowloon territory.
large crowds prayed in the public Ret Cross estimated 2,500 werd In- months by Mr d'Almada at Central S. II. Moore, also this morning.
Hospital, who added there were also Sha Yu-fen, captain of the Wan square. In Santiago, the Dominican jured though the exact number Four, men charged with smoking multiple bruises
right Lee, will command the rescue ship. Republie's second largest elty, all probably will never be known. oplum on the premises were absent shoulder and and that he The Communists hind permitted him business establishments closed and the dead, the Red Cross said 1,200 and their ball of $50 estreated. thought at one time the woman to leave their area to obtain a rescue the centre of the city was evacuated. were in Bogata and 300 elsewhere in
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