Counsels' Closing Addresses
In The Guild Case
NO RECOLLECTION THROUGH DRUNKENNESS PLEA
Closing addresses were made by Counsel in the case against Peter Oliver Guild, Inspector of the Hongkong Police, and two others, when their trial continued before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice Williams, at the Criminal Sessions this mor- ning.
Tam So, Guild, with a woman, and a Police Constable, Chan Pul- lam. is charged with demanding $500 from Lo Wun-yung and $300 from are Pun Tal-so. Guild and Tam jointly charged with demanding $25 from Lo Wun-yung and $100 from Clian Nul, while Tarn alone in charged on two further counts of demanding $100 from Wong Sing and $40 from Lok Slu-hung.
the allegations against her, declared that several of the witnesses were telling lies.
Third accused denied visiting Pun Tal-so's divan and said his beat entled 250 yards away, so that if he had been found in the divan, he would have been placed on report. He further pointed out that Pun was the only person who had declared he was in the divan. He also re- minded the jury that the witnesses who had spoken of his presence at various
him Mr Brook A. Berriacchi, instructed in places had made no charges
as might have by Mr D. L. Sirellett, is representing Guild, who is on bail of $2.000. The expected if he had made any de- mands with mensees. It was also other
not possible for him to have acted in collusion with Guild, as he was only a junior officer.
Mr A. Lonsdale, Crown Counsel, is prosecuting, assisted by Det. In
spector W. N. Darkin,
two accused are not repre- sented by Counsel.
Mr Bernnechi, In his address, sald there was evidence that on the occasions when Gulld was alleged to have visited the premises of the divan keepers he was drunk, There was also evidence that he had been
The trial is proceeding.
drinking too much at times, and in FIRE
re-
those circumstances it was quite possible that Guild did not member, as he said, what had nc- curred, Counsel declared,
on,
It was significant. Counsel went that Guild had stated in evidenco that he thought he was off duty on the
night
of February 15-16, when he went to the Kam Kong Restaurant lo company with the other two ac- cused and Lo Wun-yung, but when his attention was drawn to the fact that he was on duty that night, he readily agreed and withdrew his former statement.
Her
money
been
MAKES
300 PEOPLE
HOMELESS
Squatters' Huts In Kowloon Destroyed
Over 300 persons wero firo rendered homeless by a
covered
C.
вселе.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1948.
FATHER WEEPS AS BABY DIES BENEATH TRUCK WHEELS
A distraught father, Carlton L. Andrews is com- forted by Tustin, Calif., Police Chief Thomas Me Mullen fl few moments after hin 2-year-old daughter, Barbara Jean, ran out onto a busy high- way and into the path of a heavy truck-trailer and was killed. At right an ambulance attendant gently covers the little body as it lies beneath the massive wheels of the trailer-AP. Picture.
200,000 MEN LOCKED
IN BATTLE
Freed Hukbalahap Leader Gives Address On Radio
Manila, July 1.-Congressman Luis Taruc, whose Huk- balahap organisation was given an official pardon Inst week, said today, that peace and order can be maintained in the Philippines, only through "quick and radical adop- tion of social and economic reforms which will remove the basic causes for poverty and bondage of the masses of the people and thus remove the reason for resorting to arms."
T'uruc, commenting in a radio] apeech on the agreement with
President Elpidio Quirino which GUNS BLAZE
led to the amnesty proclama- tion, said he had no doubt of the President's sincerity, but
added:
"We entertain misgivings as to his ability to push
this through democratic programme against con- centrated pressures and obstacics !hnt will surely be placed in his way by those who stand to lose special
IN AERIAL
PIRACY
privileges and power when
become persons out of Bulgaria, a
He listed the following
GUEST OF QUIRINO
on
and ita
reforms pilot mortally wounded
mechanie shot through the arm.
No official source could disclose
information but one person who talked with the mechanic reported it as a frantle plot of six or seven
Istanbul, July 1-Blazing
IF DRUNK, LIKE PUTTY
guns and stark terror ruled a the transport plane that brought 21 Mr Bernacchi naked the jury to which destroyed about 30 East Honan Fighting consider whether Guild would squatters' huts in the Taikok- jeopardise his chances of enjoying tsui area at midday today.
Shanghai, July 2.At least masses of the population
dazed survivor reported really free and prosperous."
Taruc continued: "The problem of Thursday. a few months time, through a sys-planks and his pension, which was due him in
The huts, constructed of wooden 200,000 Government troops and
Innded The plane
crazily at tarred Communists entered into the peace and order is definitely not a with tematic course of demanding money
The key to the Istanbul airport on Wednesday night a third day of the sanguinary polico problem.
lis with meances. There was evidence paper, slood in a valley below
Sparks from a cooking battle of East Honan on Thurs-solution is not surrender of arms with its radio operator dead, that the life led by Gulid and his quarry. wife was one
which
off the blaze which, day and pro-Government dis- c did not demand stove touched
breeze, soon en- It was, in fanned by a fresh bre more than his income.
veloped the whole squatters colony. patches claimed today that air-as a solution of the Philippines fact, to the contrary,
Guild, while drunk, was indeed Three engines from Kowloon fire supported Nationalists have al- agrarian problem:
1. A guarantee of full enjoyment putty in Tam So's hands, he would stations, under Div. Officer V. C. ready destroyed five Communist
and Stallon useful instrument to Seymour have
Officer been a ust
columns", each estimated at by rich and poor alike of the de-
mocratic
theoretically liberties If she
she were he
herself
were called to the extorting Caynes,
guaranteed by the Constitution. from
the
As there were no hydrants In the 10,000 men. divan keepers. If
had to lead Fighting was reported to be es- illicit there was an
partnership locality, the firemen
of Chenllu, between the two, would
than 300 yards pecially heavy south. it not be hoses from more
However, after
said batting for which is barely 15 miles south of the significant, If there was a refusal to away.
reports ter half Sa enter
an hour, they managed to get Kalfeng. The pay money, for Tum
Government forces were also advan- the divan, and if not to carry out the fames under control. her threat, to suggest it would be Fart of the firemen's efforts wereeing in other sectors within the 9,000 carried out, asked Counsel. If, directed to preventing the flames square-mile triangular area bordered however, Guild merely stood at the from spreading to the plant of the by the Langhai railway in the north, entrance when he Was urged to enler
did not do so, there away, .and
where
"This is not a case where you have to decide that he was so drunk us to amount to insanity," declared Mr
is purely Bernacchi. "It Bernacch question of this: If you consider that he may have been, an these two ar possibly three occasions, sufficiently drunk as not to be able to appreciate and therefore to intent any one of the factors which go to make up these charges against him-that is, demanding money with threats, that the owners should be deprived of and their money unwillingly,
intention to that there was An
of that permanently deprive them money-then your verdict is not Cuilty
ported
is re-
China Point Company, only 60 yards the Peiping-Hankow railway in the dependent on foreign markets, whila | lace to have said that most of the "could-not-be-such-n-pariners Puld used in the manufacture of Pro-Government reports claimed that our local capital, wa Passengers on what was intended
THE CROWN REPLIES
were from munists
to
to escape their homeland at any cost. All the passengers wero imme- diately taken into custody by the polico after arriving, and divided Communist and anti-Com- 2 Embarking on a programme of into
based munist groups. Both factions were democratic industrialisation essentially on the home market of fighting violently inside the plane as The mechanic, who is so far prosperous peasants and workers in it taxied to rest.
Identified only as Panayot, order to make the Philippines less ning "we
welcome foreign capital ere gallons.
was stored 30,000 west and a diagonal line running
be a routine commercial flight Inflammable from south of Kaifeng to Hsuchang. to low-flash
not allow it to dominate our within Bulgaria,were holiday economy."
They boarded the plane paint. Other firemen were occu-Chen Yi's and Liu Po-chen's Com
cut into several
"How long the people will enjoy makers, pled in preventing the fre
the plot at Varma and flew to Burgas granted will
depend Spreading past the low arms of the pockets in that area and each is be- relative peace after the amnesty is along with the men involved in the.
ing subjected to heavy attacks. hill to other wooden huts.
strength of the People's Democratic to pick up two more passengers. No lives were lost and no one was REDS SAID ALARMED
FATAL INTERVENTION Shortly after The reports also said the Com- Movement and their willingness to squatters
taking off from injured. However,
huts munista in south Hopet and south defend their liberties," Taruc said. properly. The
Burgas for Sofla a young man sud- lost all their
This was Taruc's first radlo ad-denly rose from his passenger seat, themselves each cost $300 to build. Shansi were alarmed over the pre-
carious position of the surrounded dress since he returned to Manila according to this source. He pulled Reds and were trying to send re-
to receive the amnesty. He lo still out a revolver, then approached Inforceements to rescue them. The
the guest of the President, living the control cabin and demanded government troops are keeping
at Quirino's home on Dewey Boule- that the pilot turn over the close watch to block their progress,
vard.
trols to another passenger. the
reports added.
Although the amnesty granted by
The radio operator intervened Im- Indications
that the
was confirmed by medintely and five other passengers Government intends to deliver one the President
produced guns
and began surrounded Congress, Taruc still moves about crushing blow at the
with a bodyguard of reven
Hulose,
everal bullets in with several revolvers.United Press.
the
Death Of Mr
J.W. Franks
were seen
оп
con-
of squadron cummunders who 'carry 45 The mdio operator drog
News has been received in the Communists in order to regain its
"face"
lost in the occupation Mr Lonsdale, in reply, submitted Colony of the death in Bedford, that if a person aided and abetted England, on June 15. of Mr John Kaifeng by the Communists, which Indirectly sent government currency OBE, as William Franks,
former an offence, that person
Commander General Liu Shih, equally guilty, as the person who Superintendent of Prisons, Hong- into a nose dive last week.
was
actually committed the offence. It kong. He retired in 1937 just priorfast China, again personally Search For An
few
over
dny.--United Press.
Ex-Premier
and the pilot crumbled over, mortally wounded, Another bullet struck the mechante in the arm and, so he related, he fainted and upon being revived was ordered to assist the new plot who had taken over the controls.
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was the presence of a Police Inspec- to the erection of the new prison
the battlefronts, directing tor that added weight to enforcing building in Stanley.
The plane was then headed to- demands for money for protection Born in 1879, the late Mr Franks operations from his command plane, against action being taken against served with the Prison Commission, by radio.
ward Turkey and other passengers them, and Counsel suggested that Home Office, in June 1800, and in
Meanwhile, pro-Government re-
whe professed themselves as Com- Bangkok, July 1-The Siamese munists were controlled by guns Guild was present at the visits to the November 1913 was appointed As-ports said the Reds braved a heavy downpour and launched a furious divans for a common purposes thesistant Superintendents of World attack on Yenchow on the Tientsin- Foreign Offee today instructed its until the plane approached Lanbul to influence the keepers to pay the Grol. During the years,
was hol aums demanded. Counsel further War I, he was Assistant Superinten- Fukow railway. The reports said consuls at Singapore and Ilongkong The source nsked the jury to consider why dent of the Police Reserve.
the Reds again reached the suburbs to try to find Pridi Panomyong, the but the men refused to fire when hir secretary, they were set upon finally by the Police Inspector, when off duty, On December 31, 1020, the lute after 10-hour heavy fighting which ex-Premier, and should have associated with a woman fr Franks was appointed Superin- was still going on at noon yester- | Lleuenent Vajarachai, for whom on other passengers and bitter Bghting
arrest warrant
has been issued in continued until aliport police broke of Tam So's character.
tendent of Prisons.
connection with the assassination of it up. The plane landed hazardous- Referring to Guild's evidence that
King Anandn two years ago.
Copies of photographs taken attempts to ly after making six he did not remember what had
Unconfirmed press reports here come in.
by the South China Morning occurred, Mr Lonsdale said It was G
visited
Newpapers reported that the pilot, simple matter for any person who
Slamese naval station on the Gulf who died us. Thursday, was named Post and Hong Kong Telograph had committed an offence to appear
Stam earlier this week.
Boris Ganes and the radio operator Staff Photographers are on view before the Court and say he could
Another ex-Premier, Luang was Morgis Nodelkoff-Associated
In the not recollect anything. The jury, he
Dhamrong Nawasawal (deposed at Press. contended, must look to all the sur-
the coup d'etat of November Just
Morning Post Building. rounding circumstances to ascertain that a person was in such a state of intoxication that he was unable to
ORDERS BOOKED. formulate the intention of doing cer- tain things which the Crown alleged he had done.
Iteviewing the ovidence, Counsel drew attention to Guild's recollection of certain happenings at the restaur- ant, and said it was significant that ho should have remembered them and not others,
ACTING IN CONCERT
that
Not Enough Life Jackets Orlen pridnyan
Fire Extinguishers
The coxswain of a motor junk was fined $50 or 10 days by Mr Cairns at the Marine Court this morning for carrying only two fire extinguishers and three life jackets instead of four extinguishers and 24 life jackets stipulated on his licence.
of Sig
11
year) and other sintesmen, alleged FLOOD DANGER
to have taken refuge at the naval stallon, were found today at their homes in Bangkok.
It was understood that no charges would be made against them, but they are "required in connection with and
the assassination trial" Reuter,
Defendant plended he had only | fendant stated that the extra per-
included ch recently taken over the junk and did sons
that
owners
PASSING
Canton, July 1-The dangers of They
a serious summer flood in the Pearl Answered River Delta are subsiding.
Call
Tho Pearl River Conservancy the Board is quoted by tho Chineso press as stating that little rain har that fallen in the past week and the Pearl River and its tributaries have not risen lately-Reuter,
not know the regulations. Mr Cairns Chinese Maritime Customs oficials. pointed out that it was oil act out in They had embarked at Tal Shan, the licence book, but defendant When Mr Cairns said that he could replied that it was in English only, have
had done so, his Suggesting that Guild was acting and he could not read the language: piled refused to san, defendant re Big Trade Order in concert with Tam So, Mr Lonsdale The licence book was checked in cargo of Hve fish would have died. London. July 1-Poland. has raid a question had been raised as to Court and it was found that the Imposing the fine, Mr Cairns
RIVER BOATS TO why there was no identification held instructions were in English, only pointed out that if the vessel was placed £4,000,000 worth of orders with regard to Guild
It was Mr Cairns suggested that a Chinese licensed to carry 22 persons it meant with British Industrial firms up to of justice,
INCREASE FARES In the interests.
ho translation should be incorporated that there were not sumelent life- the end of June. She expects to the next three argued,.
an Identification in the book in future.
Canton, July 1-The, Chinese saving appliances for any more on complete within parade had not been held bo Mr Cairns told the defendant that board. He had jeopardised the lives months discussions for the delivery
of goods to the value of another river boats plying between Canton causa witnesses who did not know he should have ratiziled himself that of the passengers by his action.
£5,000,000, the Pollsh Embassy an- and Hongkong, as well as Macao who Gulid was would have picked everything was in order when he
and other areas are increasing their him out immediately owing to tho took over the junk. Ho had risked
the southernnounced in London today.
A credit of 20,000,000 has been passenger fares by 90 percent. causing an obstruction, fact that he had nine fingers, and the lives of the people on board by fairway
decision was taken at This the mintress of a trading Junk was granted to facilitate these purchases. was known to most of them as the not having the proper appliances,
under part
of last meeting of the Shipping Merchants "nine
and was known to fingers,
Aned $10 or two days. Sub-Inspec- which come
trade agree- Gulid. tor McCarthy said that defendant year'a Anglo-Polish
wages of seamen The
on these Inspector T
of vessels are to be increased by the that she capital goodes to the_value
£15,000,000 in Britain-Neuter. same percentage. Reuter
.
*
For coring in
most of them as the "nine-Angerci coxswain of a motor fishing had been warned by Polico an hour ment dealing with the purchase of i
Alked it she wished to address junk was fined $50 or 10 days for before. Defendant sald the jury, Tam So, in referring to carrying 11 excess passengers. Do had moved after being warned.
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