Courageous PC Laid
To Rest
The remains of Police Con- Biable 1924 Chiu Ho-ching, who was killed. In a
gun battle between the police and five bandits at Salkung, New Territories, on Saturday morning, were laid to rest at his native village of Chik Hang today.
PC Chlu Haching joined the Hongkong Police Force in July last year and graduated from
MONDAY, MAY 31, 1948.
Charry the mond-in-makes up as the dead side and mouths 'her lines.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
PAULA
BY DENNIS WHEATLEY
OR
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WATCH HER
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IT'S A HUISANCE.
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LIP MOVEMENTS
YEKH CAREFULLY,
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the training school in October. OBJECTION TO 6
He was about 20.
+
The funeral was well attended, those present including the Com- missioner of Police, Mr D. W. Macintosh, the Deputy Commis sloner Mr W. La B. Sparrow. Mr K. A. Bidmead, Mr N. B. Fraser, Mr G. Leys, Mr J. T. Mackenzie and Chief Inspector S. G. Smith,
Tho funeral procession started from the Kowloon Mortuary, and passed Nathan Road, Public Square Stroet, Shanghol Street, Argyle Street and Boundary Street, where the coffin was transferred to police Van and taken to Talpo where t was again transported under Poller escort by launch to Saltung. A this station, officers lined the roule along which the coffin was taken to Chilk
Kang.
Detachments from varlous police stations in Hongkong and Kowloon were in attendance.
GUN BATTLE
Constable Chlu and another col- league, PC1807, were detailed last Friday night to make special Investi- gations into the activities of a gang in Salkung. He received informa tion early on Saturday morning, and the two officers went to make arrests at a house a short distance from the Salkung Police Statlan. On their way they managed to summon assistance of one village gaarel.
the
On arrival at the bandits' hideout, the two constables challenged the suspects and were greeted with shots. PC 1824 received a fatal wound in the chest and died Instantaneously.
FC 1907 and the village guard carried on. During the exchange of
fire he empiled his revolver and
spare ammunition and also the am- munition left by his dead collengue. Faced with a desperate situation, PC 1907 carried out a bluff and
threatened the bandits that he was going to throw in a hand-grenade, which he actually did not possess.
then Three of the bandits
threw away their arms and surrendered. of the vilinge With the assistance guard he took, them into custody. two being wounded in the arm. The remaining two bandit escaped,
He Assaulted
A Constable
Yuk Bor, who gave himself up at the police station after assaulting a plainclothes constable for interierging
WOMEN
ON A JURY -
Man's Name Drawn Out At The
Third
Attempt
Objection to six women serving on a jury with one man was raised by Mr A. Lonsdale, Crown Counsel, at the Criminal Sessions this morning when two men were charged with offences connected with demanding arms and money with menaces.
The name of a male juror was first called and then followed six women in succession, whereupon Mr Lonsdale asked that the inst one be allowed to stand down. Ile did not give any reason, but the request was granted
Mr
by the Acting Chie! Justice, Justice Williams. The Clerk of the
Court then pleked oul another
out
name but I turned
to be woman also, and it was not until the third attempt that he succeeded in drawing a card bearing a man's name from the box.
The foreman of the Jury was a
mag,
BROTHEL
KEEPERS
IN COURT
The area around Swatow Street, Wanchai, was the scene of several raids by police during the week- end, and resulted in n number of brothel keepers being brought before Mr d'Almada at Central this mor-
ning.
Major Barbara, what is this new look that people keep walking about Fl
INSULTED
POLICE INSPECTOR
EUROPEAN FINED
The necused were Li Ngau and Lo Yan. Li was charged with uttering
C. E. Stone, of 41, Bay View Raids were carried out on the a letter demanding, with menaces,
floors of Nos. 13 and 17 Hotel, was charged before Mr six Sten guns, one dozen automatic ground pistols and $50,000 from Ll Cheung- Swatow Street on Saturday night, d'Almada at Central this mor-
demanding
and the respective keepers, Channing with evading payment of $10,000 from the same person and, Ying, 37, spinster, and Chan Chol, public vehicle fare and with together with Lo Yan, with conspir-36, widow, were arrested.
disorderly conduct. ing to obtain money with menaces. They were not legally represented.
wan.
with
CROWN'S CASE
menaces
Mr Lonsdale said the complainant was a building contractor and the first accused ps a relative of his.
However, the places were soon in business again as raids conducted last night on the same premises led to arrest of two others, Leung Kam. and Kwok Ping, 45, 38. spinster,
widow.
HOW {FOR IT!]
Drug-Pill "Factory"
CRIMINAL · COURT
TOLD OF RAID
Charged with possession of 5,600 heroin pills and a lump of diacetyl-morphine sufficient to make another 11,000 pills, and with managing or assisting in managing a place in which dangerous drugs were stored, Chan Kwong, 28, appeared on trial before Mr Justice Gould at the Criminal Sessions this) morning.
Mr J. Reynolds (Crown Counsel), assisted by Dei. Insp. J. R. Sykes prosecuted.
оп
Mr Reynolds sold about 10.10 p.m. March 30, Insp. Sykes and a party of detectives went to the second floor of a house in Portland Street. A detective knocked at the door and accused opened a peephole and looked out. The omcer told accused that, they were a police party and were in possession of search warrant. Accused shut the peephole but did not open the door. said that if the door was not opened The detective knocked again and it would be broken down, adding that the party was in charge of a European officer. The door was then opened and accused was asked if
he was in charge of the floor. replied that he stayed there.
the
Ho
of
ΟΙ
person called "Luk Suk"
Defendant allegedly refused to WHAT POLICE FOUND pay the fare of $1.50 to Tin Bun, the motor driver of public vehicle officers became aware of a sweet On entering the premises the No. 4387, he was accused of using smell. They went Into a cubicle profane, Indecent and threatening
towards
where they saw a bed on top of Sub-Inspector which was a tray containing a pink
also saw masa. They All four were fined $250 and one
a pair Inspector Moran said defendant scales and a press for making pills On March 15 the complainant re-month each. Summonses are to be engaged a public car at the Hong as well as a chopper smeared over ceived a letter from the first ac-issued against the landlord of the kong Hotel at 12.30 am. and told with some pink paste and also some cused asking for a loan of $200.
the driver to take him to Central white powder, premises, as the addresses have been About eight days later, the com- raided at least twice before.
On the floor of the Another
letter
Police plainant received
Station, saying he was an cubicle No. 19 Swatow Street, second inspector.
officers found Outside the
Charge porcelain to come from an or-
bowl which was being purorting
floor, was also raided and Li Sam Room, the driver asked defendant Kanisation called the Hoi Fung Corps mul, 30, widow, was charged' with } for the fare, but defendant refused used 63.4 stove and above this was and which contained demand for
ก
a brothel there.
a wooden pieve in which some pink Li denied to pay, and told the driver to take pills were being partly baked. keeping certain arms and for a large sum the charge, saying she was only n
Ahim to Causeway Bay. Defendant, Accused, when asked if he knew of money, Coupled with
prostitute and not the keeper. A however, did not give an address, about these things, said they be threat of using paison Ean woman present in court wns In- and the driver refused to take him longed to bomba if the request was not com-
m-dicated by Ll. She said her name there. Defendant was under the (No. plied with. Subsequently another was Setter was received from the Tot being the keeper of the brothel.
Au Slew-ying and admitted influence of liquor to a certain exe (uscle), who, he added, had
tent and it was some time before Funst.
renewing the demand for
Evidence
Outside the cubicle there was for the prosecution he was persuaded to leave the taxi. hod money. These letters were sent was given by a young man who REFUSED TO GIVE NAME
accused admitted that bed and the
it. On the bed were found from Shum Chun.
sald be prid LJ $20 for a girl.
he used Au was not seen on the premises at
Inspector Simpson, Inspector in 5,600 pills. The pills, the pink mass charge of Central was called, and and the white powder were sent to the time.
he ordered defendant Into the the Government analyst who found
When Charge Roum.
asked his that the pills and pink mass name, defendant replied that he had tained heroin and the white powder no name, and it was not until 3.33 | consisted of was
cane and 'milk
sugar. a.m. that particulars of him were The pink mass, Mr Reynolds added, obtained from documents, found on contained sufficient substance his person.
make 11,000 more pilla, On several occasions, continued
The trial is proceeding. Inspector Moran, defendant. at- tempted to assault Inspector Stewart and told him would
Arst timo ho was get him the out of uniform. Then defendant used Insulting remarks about the ribbons which Inspector Stewart
The complainant handed
the
In a quarrel with his landlady, was letters to the Police, and at the same Aned $250 this morning by Mr Blair-me Instructed a relative named Ip
Hearing was adjourned till Fri- Kerr at Kowloon Court.
Kap to make contact with the first day when Li will call evidence for
As accused.
the result of an
20 the defence. Meanwhile, Au Sub-Inspector Howarth said PC arrangement made by p, the com- ordered by Mr d'Almada to be Tsang Iu-hung, on his way home plainant met Arst accused at a charged with keeping a brothel, the after duty, came across the accused restaurant. During the meeting, the charge being laid on her own ad- and his landlady quarrelling over a first accused associated himself with mission. question of rent in Main Street, the Hol Fung, referred to the con- Kowloon City, last Friday. When tenis of the letlers and held himself
Other brothels raided were huts the constable attempted to atop the out as the go-between for the Corps on the roof of Nos. 57 and 75 Hen- quarrel, York struck him, saying
nessy Road, The keepers. Chan were Knowing that the Police that I was none of his business. Even after the constable had re- making inquiries, the complainant Si-toi, 60, widow, and Chan Ngai, vealed his identity, Yuk continued stalled for me by asking the first, widow, were each fined $250 and
to assault him for a while, after which he ran away. When the
constable went to the station to re-
port, he found the accused already
thore.
́RECEIVER GETS
HARD LABOUR
accused for a reduction of the de- mand. As a result, another meeting was arranged the next day and this time the Pollee were there in con- cealment. Further arguments de- of the veloped
question of on the amount, and a third meeting arranged.
MARKED MONEY
Was
The complainant attended this meeting with $3,500 in $500 notes which
had been marked by the Police.
The money was handed to the first accused who honded in re- turn a receipt for $3,000 and in which the payment was described as fee for protection.
Sentence of two years' hard labour
of Police and two years supervision was passed on Slu Po by Mr Blair-Kerr at Kowloon this
Having given the money, the com- morning for receiving goods stolen from 150, Aplir Street last Friday. plainant asked what would happen According to Sub-Inspector further trouble developed and the Howarth, the complainant, Cheung first accused then wrote on a piece of the second Chui, lost $400 worth of clothing of paper the name money and other properly when accused. someone entered his place, probably
by duplicate key, during his
Two
The first accused was then
ar-
absence on the afternoon of May 28. rested, and on him were found the
days later, on information, marked notes. Detective Lee Chau-sing and other police arrested the accused at 277 Cheung Sha Wan Road, where they found two jerseys and a blanket belonging to Cheung.
one month.
Inspector Moran prosecuted in all cases,
Death Of Unity Mitford
(Continued from Page 1)
Unity was quoted in Germany at the time as saying she was **A woman Fascist" and she praised the Third Refel's Chancellor.
She first saw Hitler at a Nazi Party rally and was quoted after the occasion as saying:
"At the Arst moment I saw him I knew there was no one in the world I'd rather meet."
m that he (defendant)
was wearing, saying that the In- spector did not fight for them and so had no right to wear them,
Pleading guilty to the charges, defendant told he was under the influence of liquor and he had al- ready apologised to the gentleman in question.
Saying that from the facts before him, defendant might have tended paying the drivor, when he got to Bay View, Mr d'Atmade dis- charged defendant on the first charge and ned him $60 or ten days on the second.
con-
Greek Communists' Accusation
to
Belgrade, May 30-The "Free Government" of General Markos, the Greek guerilla leader, alleged today that Mr George Polk, the American radio reporter, was mur- dered "on a blut from the Ameri can Secret Police in Greece."
Mr Polk's body, bound hand and foot, was washed ashore at Saloni- ka on May 10..
A guerila communique, quoted by Tanjug, the Yugo-siny news agency, said the murder had been carried out on guerilla territory in order to charge the partisans with the responsibility for it-Reuter.
China's Foreign Exchange
System Modified
Shanghai, May 31-Minister of Finance and concur rently. Governor of the Central Bank, Mr O. K. Yui, an- nounced last night that present foreign exchange open market rates, fixed by the Foreign Exchange Equailsation Board, will be supplemented by a system of exchange surrender certificates.
The dream came true two years Inter. She learned German, met him at a Munich beer garden and became his friend. She met and apparently Meanwhile, Ip Kap who had been won the approval of other high making Independent Inquiries for ranking Nazis including propaganda the complainant was also arrested Minister Joseph Geobbels and as he had been seen by the
Relch's Marshal Hermann Goering, This, Mr Yui stressed, was an Import license conditional for tho Police in company with the accused,
important modification of the pre-purchase of required exchange. The but was later released when 'his real
French press The accused told the police that mission came to light.
1938 sent foreign exchange system which He added that essential commo- published lurid accounts of what is heartily supported by the entire dities such as rice,
wheat, flour, he assisted a man named Chau Ming
they reported to be her last scene Chinese and foreign business com- cotton and fertiliser, and any other (since absconded) to carry away the When charged; the second accused with Hitler. As war broke, Hitler, munity.
exchance loot. It was found that the accused denied knowledge of the matter, but the French dispatch
requirements specialty wald, abused had three previous convictions for it was significant, said Mr Lonsdale, England
With the Introduction of this riow be excluded from this condition and designated by the Government; will and the English savagely larceny and receiving.
that he was living with the first in her presence. The account added system, the much-criticised Circular will continued to be settled at the accured and actually paid for the that they quarrelled and that she 131-calling for 50 per cent mar hotel room when they were staying. went to her hotel in a fit of de-inal deposit on imports and setlic-pon market or funds rate.
Mr Yui said the exchange sur- The cane is proceeding,
pression. It was reported that she acht of foreign exches only to render certificates may be traded by
arrival .of.the.. cargo-will was found wounded and unconscious matically cease functioning
auto- endorsement between exporters and the next
next day by the hotel staff.
Importers Under the new system, Mr
ters and other qualified buyers Although she recovered quickly asserted, exporters
and sellers. and With reference -- to the article in returning to England she found
importers The priod at which the certificates which appeared in the Hongkong | her movements greatly
and others selling exchange to un circum- Street, 1,000 heroin. pills and a Telegraph concerning a Fat Mon's scribed. Because of her German ex-appointed bank at the open market are traded would give exporters and or funds rate will receive an ex- obtained from selling exchange at others additional return to that now Club, we, understand that a great pertences and relationship to Money.
change surrender certificate deal of embarrassment has been she was not permitted to go to her
cqual [At Kowloon · Court this morning, caused to certain people whose parents' home on Inchkenneth Island Yip Cheung, 40, was charged before | uans were mentioned without any which was a restricted zone. The Mr Blair-Kerr with manufacturing authority and who had no knowledge ban was lifted in 1944 since when and possession of the pills and poa- i'nt all of the facts stated in the sho Hved (hero quibtly. session of the pipe. On the appli article. We much regret that such A friend of the family sold her callon of Sub-Inspector, Howarth, embarrassment should have occur death was belleved to have been due ho was remanded for three days. red.
to meningitis.--Associated Press,
Heroin Offence
In a rald
made yesterday
by
police under Sub-Inspector Roberts,
on a hut on the roof of 247 Yu Chau
heroin pipe were seized.
Yul
to the value of the exchange sold, funds rate, and this cost would be
On the other hand, importers and pald by the Importers. others, entitled to buy
order to prevent undue from an appointed bank at the open fuctuation in the price of the certi market rate will be required to ficates, Mr Yul sald the Central deliver to the appointed hank ex-Bank would intervene in the market change surrender certificates equal by selling and buying certiflentes.— In face value to the amount of their·l Reuter,
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