Van Heutsz Piracy
Trial: Defence Concludes Evidence
FOURTH ACCUSED IN BOX
Evidence in the trial of four men alleged to have been concerned in the piracy of the Dutch steamer Van Heutsz on the high scas near Hongkong on December 14 last year was concluded before the Chief Justice, Sir Leslie Gibson, at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
The accused are Ling Cheuk,wah,
40, unemployed: Keung King-chung,
NO OPTION
ailas Lul Fui, 45, travelling trader; NO
Ling Chan-kat, allas Wing Cheung, 28, travelling trader; and Chan
« Chung-man, allas Chan Chik, 30.
They are
charged with Piracy FOR DIVAN
jure gentium in that on December
14, 1947, upon the high sens they
nssaulted, and put in fear of their KEEPERS
ценз
Ilves, Capt. Klans Albertus Vleks, maşter of the Van Heutsz, other officers, the crew
and
certain pas No option of fines was given sengers (names unknown) and stale 10 oplum and heroin
Fi
divan
were also in-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
from the master the ship's motor-keepers by Mr d'Almada at Cen-7 boat, seven revolvers, nix pistols, tral when five of them appeared five rifles. two sub-machine guns, before him this morning. The 3,100 rounda of ammunition, $875, Stralis $175, Dutch guilders 300 and lines of smokers
raincont; from Capt. Vileks an creased. Omega wrist watch, one pair bino-
For keeping a heroin divan and culars, fountain pen: and from possession of 118 heroin pills on the Cheng Tim-wee a European style second floor of 13 Chung Shu Street, Kult.
Leung Cheng, 32, was sentenced to Mr A. Lonsdale (Acting Solicitor-20 months. On an additional charge General) in prosecuting, assisted by of breach of an expulsion order, Mr LR, Whani, DCI. The accused defendant was given a consecutive are represented by Mr C. E. Loseby, sentence of six weeks. Defendant, instructed by Mr C. A. S. Rusa
who had a previous conviction, was also recommended for banishment. Four smokers were fined $100 each. 4TH ACCUSED IN BOX When the trial resumed, Mr
With two previous convictions. was sentenced to that the Loseby intimated
third Cheung Muk, 30. accused would not be giving evi-nine months and recommended for an oplum dance on his own behalf, but that banishment for keeping the fourth accused elected to go to diven in a hut on the roof of 54 Des fine of $00 the witness box.
Voeux Road West A Chan Chung-man, fourth accused, was imposed on each of six smokers, Next door, on the roof of house in an un-numbered said he lived
No. 60, was another divan kept by hut in Lalchee Yuen, Kowloon City: Lu Wong, 38. Two amokers arrested About 6 a.m. on April 22 the hut were fined 360 each while Lul was was visited by a party of Police.
sentenced to four months and re- He was lying in bed at the time in commended for banishment. his own cubicle. At the time the
E divon For keeping tell him Police
they did
Nullah Lane, bim of
in complicity **suspecteil
the Stone
floor, Tang Kau, 16, wns, sentenced Van Heuss piracy. They
carried
to six months and recommended tor of the cubicle out a scorch
and found a rattan baskel which accused declared belonged to a man named Chan Chik.
not
at 23 second
banishment. Seven smokers were each fined $60.
"If you can afford to smoke, you can afford to pay your fincs," sold
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1948.
Five Killed, 14 Hurt In Bus Accident
A New Question For The Kuomintang
Nanking, Aug. 13. Newly-introduced de- mocracy has posed a new question for the Kuomin tang: Is it disrespectful and treasonable for a Kuomintang member to criticise publicly the party leader, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and the party?
This question came to the fore when party members, exercising their new democratic rights In the Legislative Yuan, flung Personal epithets at President, Chiang and criticisms at the party.
The answer in other countries is simple,
but not in China, which uli Maren was ruled by autocracy
1948 20,
It's still haunting the party "bosses" and heated argument is going on behind the scenes,
The critics have been told that they are "disrespectful" and "trea-
Mr d'Almada to seven smokers arsonous charges which were taken
rested at the divan kept by L
for granted during
the
days of
Accused denied that his own alias was Chan Chik, and said that Chan Chik used to do business with him Kap, 35, at 23 Graham Street, first political tutelage. They were asked when they were travelling tenders floor, when he fined thein $80 each. together, and at th time of the Police visit was staying temporarily Lt was sentenced to six months and with him. He declared that an over-recommended for banishment.
cont found by the Police also bo- longed to Chan Chik, but he was not aware of certain letters it con→ „tained. He himself did not place} ady fetiara in the pockets of the coat, cor did the letters belong to him. --The other three accused were not
known to film.
VCROSS-EXAMINED
Marine Court Hearing
to quit the party.
TORIES FURIOUS
conservativa
"Do-Nothing" Congress
President Truman's Caustic Comment
He took exception Robert Tatts prediction that raising prices would soon halt.
Deputy Sheriff removes baseball gear from rear end of burned out bus of Duluth, Minn., baseball team after bus and truck collided near St Paul, Minn., killing five and injuring B. The gear had to be removed to reach bodies of four players.-AP Picture.
ECA Willing To Finance
Purchases
Washington,
Aug.
12. The
Economic Co-operation Administra.
tion has decided
chases
nations
from
to finance pur«. Argentina by the participating in the European recovery programme when a suitable opportunity offers. ECA cald here today..
the
The ECA Administrator, Mr Paul United G. Hoffman, informed the
war
DS
ates Ambassador to the Argentine, Mr James Bruce, of this now policy at a conference here on. August 10.
The announcement said that President Chiang himself has so
turing the conference, Mr Bruce far maintained a remarkable poise
Washington Aug. 12,-President confirmed reports that he had sent and grace in accepting the "sour Truman today branded the 80th to the ECA that Argentina grapes" on the debit side of
the Congress a do-nothing Congress and willing to sell cereals and other constitutional rule which he worked told the press the Republican anti-- products at world market prices, for 20 years to set up. But many inflation bil: would not stop rising and to make available for export
members are furious, prices.
whatever surpluses it had.
Am- They have even gone to the extent
Mr Holman informed the to Senator the of "warning"
"Tebels"
and
bassador that the ECA was studying the possibility
from cf obtaining threatening penal measures.
such Argentina Commodities This was the kind of reception
The President probably will sign
com, of which Argentina bad a the bill tomorrow (Friday) and surplus. However, he sold cprn agoin denounce Congress for no purchases
and any in Argentina for wage other country acting on his proposals
would have to be controls and rationing at the special considered in the light of the session.
prospects of a record crop in the. Mr Truman charged that in many | United States and Europe. Reuter. instances the Committee
chairman had refused even to consider his special session. boat during
the interval.
He said the record crops in prospect Similarly charged were the mis-
would help bring relief to consumers, tress and master of two sampans. Ho explained that the party but that would take a long time.
boatmistress was cautioned, As leader externally represents the President Truman again denounc-
met with
other
Asserting he was telling the Court the truth,nccused alleged he had For falling to take out a licence been falsely accused and denied he the acting master of a cargo bont had committed the crime charged was fined $30 or six days by Mr which Prof. Liu Fi-tung, who was rugainst him.
Cairns at the Marine Court this the first to critic...
Nippard Legislative Yuan Sub-Inspector morning. reported that defendant produced a party members, who followed Liu's Cross-examined, accused denied receipt for the licence, which had lead, were similarly assalled. ever having vialled No: 0 Fuk Lo been deposited at the Marine Office Liu Pi-tung has written a reply Chuen Road, as alleged by a Crown for renewal last April, but had to the conservative complainants, witness. He declared that the wit-made no attempt to retrieve the published in this week's issue of the tiròbable that she had been paid toicence. Ho had been operating the "University Review," non-partisan | suggestions at the Toss was telling a lie, and it was also
give wvidence against him. Between December 14-10 last year, he was "staying in his native village in China,
Uberal intellectual perfodient.
SEEMS LOGICAL
but he could not say if that place she produced a receipt this morning party and internally is the party's ed the spy hearings as a red herring Tewas on the edge of Blas Bay as he certifying that she had purchased the public servant charged with the duty to divert attention from Congress
· Idid not know.
boat on August 4. SI Nippard of implementing the party's policies. fallure to act on prices. He de Referring to the identification pol parade held shortly after the ac- Pointed out that changes of owner-He is not inviolable or sacred like clined to comment on the Moscow
chip should be notified immediately, the Japanese Mikado before-talks.--United-Press. cused's arrest, Mr Lonsdale asked but this had not been donc. The VJ-Day. Also he is a human being him why, he did not deny he was concerned in the piracy when wit- nesses pointed him out to the Police. days.
Accused replied he was unaware of
the procedure and did not know
what was going on during
the
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in housewife, Madame New Orleans, Aug. 12.-A Nor- Astri Sund whose home is in Bergen, hua
ved here as the only woman in A crew of 33 on board the now motor ship Peter Jebsen. Her husband in chief steward on the TO-DAY
Madame Sund said that she had DON'T MISS IT always wanted to see foreign porta and people in other lands and a postwar shortage of Norwegian sea- Peter Jebsen Will Bail between New inen gavo her the chance. The fork and South American poris for the next year-Reuter.
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boatmaster was fined $15 or three like all the others, liable to make
mistakes. to the party for members to restrain the leader when he erra The same to the relation between the applies THE ve Yuan and the Chief
parade. He denied that five persons REOPENING
dentified him.
Evidence evidence was then called by the
Shanghai, Aug. 13.-Major A. E. Crown. Chief Inspector W. Gowans related how he had instructed wit- Kyte, British war crimes investiga- nesses before they went to identify tor, is expected to arrive in Shanghal August 20 to re- from Hongkong persons on parade, and the manner investigate evidence concerning war of pointing these people out to his crimes charges
against Maj-Gen. own satisfaction as a positive Iden- Kinoshita and Sgi-Maj. Yoshida, of the Japanese gendarmerie in Shang. hai during the occupation,
in rebuttal of Chon's KINOSHITA CASE
tineation.
that
of State, Liu added.
Lu's answer appears logical-but In tradition-soaked China, the question is still very wine open-
United Press.
COMMUNISTS SENTENCED
Shanghai, Aug. 13.-The, Execu- tive Yuan is considering a plan for the restoration of trade between China and Germany, according Chinese reports today.
B
factory
furnit
to
The plan is said to centre around
Princess Juliana barter system batween the two countries, with China supplying soya
In London beans and textile goods, and Ger many
machinery and The Hague, Aug. 12-Princess and precision Regent Juliana of The Netherlands CLAIMED BASKET
has joined her husband, Prince 100 and aclentine apparatus. Paris, Aug. 12-Verdicts on Detective Chan Lap sald
Maj. Kyle will remain here for a Portuguese Теп and A woman It is understood that the Occupa Bernhard, in London, it was learned when ho discovered the rattan week. The trials of the two Japon charged with Communist and anti-tion authorilles in Germans al- here today.
the charged with
ready have given their consent te The Princess is staying in basket, fourth accused claimed 11.06 treatment and torture of Allied government activities were announ- the proposed barter.
British capital incognito and is re- his properly and also said that the internees In Shanghai's notorious/ced this afternoon at Lisbon's law the
It is also reported that the turning to Holland next Monday- clothes it contained belonged to his
Chinese · Government. Senhor
planning Reuter. wife. He agreed, however, that a Bridge House, were dismissed for courts. shop bearing the characters "Chan lack of evidence some months ago Francisco Duarte, who admitted that barter trading with Western Europe
crimes investigator in Chik which he also found was dis- Hongkong, but were recently ordered he was the leader of the Portuguese and South
reopened by the Foreign Secretary. Communist Party, was sentenced to Router. In the course of his closing address, Mr Ernest Bevin, following protesis four years' imprisonment. hir Lonsdale quoted
several of Shangahl Britons-Reuter.
claimed by the accused.
foted from
authorities, including an during the year 1838 in Act passed the reign of
·Henry VIII, dealing with the law on piracy. There appeared to be con- siderable difficulty in laying down a
C90,
who
were
Europeans
And
definition of what constituted piracy. Chinese Charged
so, but piracy, said the Prosecutor,
quoting from another authority, was
only a sea term for robbery, Theft
Admiralty Jurisdiction was
by violence on board 裁 ahip within
(Continued from Pagu 1)
Continuing, Mr Griflihs mid it
piracy, was the normal polley of s ́esurt
By section 7 of the Supreme Court) not to detain a man in custody un- Ordinance, the Court Was vested less there was a strong prima facie with power to try the offence
The trial is proceeding.
WALACK FRIDAY"
European
The leading accused,
Four men were sentenced to terms ot from two years'to two years and four months, two men received 30! months, 57 men 18 months and three men two months.
The woman and 39 of the were acquitted-Reuter,
is
American countries.
Mauritius Votes
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The final results announced today of
Port Louis, Mauritius, Aug. 12-Bhanghai Nanking Hankow Tsingtao, Pelping Awstow, Amoy, Foochow and Tainan. 130 p.m. Mauritius”... first general election Closing Times By Ron & Trainin men showed political, successes for the Amoy and Barstow (as)3 pm:
Indians in this sugar growing laland, Macro and Trinshan (ses) 4 pm.
Etralia, Ceylan, at Atrice, keypt and Out of 10 elective members returned Europe via Liverpool (sen) D. p.m. a 38-member. Legislature), 11 Kongmoon (via Canton) (64)-8 pm. Indians were
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Closing Times my Aft latio
Blesterol Shanghai, Aug. 13-Mr Roger D."
districts of Grand Canton, Kowloon CPO) 750
a.m., 1930 pa, à p.m.; (GPO) 7 s... Moxa-Flaco and of case. Dall only served to guarantee Lapham, Chief of the ECA China Portsavanna,
9.30 # Noun, 150 pan, piracy jure gentium which occurred the appearance, of a defendant in Mission, announced yesterday that Pamplemousses-Riviere Du Rempart, Shanghelm (red): 5.30 am. fond),
Manila, PJ, Honolulu, USA and Canada, within Admiralty jurisdiction. court, and in this case, as his client his organisation has started relieving are represented, exclusively by three 10 m
there was very the food situation in Mukden with Indian members each: Port Louis Shantal Winking tankow Taingia, Palpin, Chungking, Swalow, Amey shipment of flour into that Manchu by three members from the general Hittle chance of his exo IPE.
and Foochaw, 3.30 p.m. m Insp. Johnston said some 30 men rien city.
and one from the Indian Bangwok, Hangoon Calcutta, Karachi. had been taken into custody, and
the Plaines Bahrein. Calro (Nairobi, Johannesburg, the polles could hardly be expected measures
leaf Wilhelms-Black River constituenty and Marselites via Cairo) Rome and to go into the case fully in a matter sucking pests threatening kaollang has five members from the general Balzon, and Park, 8 pm.
Tondon. B p.m. Shanghat, Aug. 13—Mayor H. C. of 48 hours. He said the reason trop ftrens by. a shipment of in population and one Indian.
Closing Times by Ben & Train Wu, Mr Pan Kung-chan, Chairman why he opposed bail was because secticide.
The Indian electors voted mostly Macao and Tainahan (Ben)-5 am,
Amoy (SA)_1083, -of the City, Council, and other clvio' defendants" présenco was required The dour will be shipped from on communal lines-Reuter.
lenders will attend a reception this during the investigatious, With, de- stores currently held in Tientsin. evening at the Youth Club to come fendanta on ball, the investigations Arrangements are being made to
the 11th memorate
move it by rall or sea to Chinchow, ACKNOWLEDGMENT Canton (and a mail only) (Train) anniversary michi be prejudiced, he said,
Nangkok (884), 3.DM.. "Black Friday”—--August 15,
did not oppose a rail'junction near
Adonatim of $40 has been Manila Batavia, Bourabaya and Mathiar the port of Lasp. Johnston 1937, when Japanese troops struck ball in the cast of May, who was Hulutao, from where planes furnish received from Mr 8. M. Bard for
ed by General' Wel Li-huang, Man- the Bimpson family. The 'money Macao and Tainahan (806) .4 pm, at. Shanghai and bomba began flying socordingly granted bail of $1000,
Kongmoon (ren) Bipan. re- churlan Commander-in-Chler, 'will will be forwarded to the Social Canton (Parosis and 2nd Class Mail), (Bes) Angerously, over, foreign-controlled |--All other defendants were
manded in custody for three daya: sirlift it to Mukden-Neuter, Welfare Council. krem of the city-Reuter,,
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