Alleged Larceny And False Protences
Magistrate
Rules Man Has Case
To Answer
Ruling on submissions of no case to answer made by the defence in the case against Hsu Chih- chweng, alias Chu Kai-chong, 44-year-old ex-Director General of the Postal Remittances und Savings Bank of Shanghai, was delivered by Mr d'Almada at Cen- tral this morning.
of
Mr d'Almnda ruled that defendant had a case to answer on three of the six charges, namely, larceny, of
the
value US$50,000 and Victory Bonds to
face US$260,000, obtaining CN$50,000,000, from the Postal Remittances and Savings Bank by false pretences December 25, 1946, procuring by false pretences the de- livery of cashier orders by the Postal Remittances and Savings Bank to the face value of CN$2,850,000,000 for the use of the Ba Chuen Bank on February 22, 1947.
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Mr A. Lonsdale (Crown Counsel) the part of the banker contrary te prosecuted. The Han, Lea d'Almada, ¡his instructions cannot apply to the KC, hustructed by Mr M. A. da Silva, present care, but if it in added that nppere for. defendant, Mr. Peter Buch benker is elso Interested in the 11. Sto represented the Chinese firms obtaining such long and sup Clavertament,
porter by evidence of the natur Mrdured in the present case, the ple
ture would be one of entirely
d'Almada sald:
In delivering his ruling.
The fugitive defendant stands different hue, before
this Court on extradiction proceedings In respect
charges preferred against him. At the close of the evidence for the prosecution it was mabsmitter that the fugitive defendant had no case to answer.
of
"I need not ret out the changes in detail as they are ton well known fo prosecuting Al defruding crinsel.
"The first point I will deal with is with regard
there is a case to be answered or In Arriving at a decision whether
otherwise I will not here deal with each and singular of the submis signs made by the defence.
The evidence must be taken as a whole and dealt with accordingly and I am of the opinion that to bring home the charges other than the charge of larceny, I must infer
from the circumstances
ces supported by
to the non-cross-the exhibits, and I am in agreement
A
exumination of one of the witnesses with counsel for the prosecution that #13l I! is subunit thunt the on the evidence adduced that evklence cannot be admitted due to prima faefe case has been made out his absence and non-cross-examina-al that credits or loans had been obtained by false pretences as ret tion.
out.
Defendant was remanderi for week in gaol custody.
"One Hung Po-fark enlled us A witness for the prosecution and at "Upon the larceny charge in spite
In of his evalence of all that had been said of Won Ka- the conclusion cblef defence counsel
for sin's evidence, this evidence starils applied reservation of cross-tamination, ushalten and as disclosed by thot Counsel
tendered evidence a prima facie case upon this for prosecution this witness for cross-examination charge has been established, al the next hearing and counsel for defence again reserved the same aud applied to the court for such leave. Leave was granted and it was also made known to the defence that this witness was here on his own voll- tlon and the prosecution had no con- trol of his presence and non-croES examination would be at the risk of the defence.
one.
DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES "In support of the contention that the evidence of this witness must be excluded defence has cited Donne v English. Thal case can be differen- The flated from the present witness in the present case gave his evidence in court in the presence and hearing of the defendant fugitive and was his counsel. lie, the witness, still present the following day and was tendered for cross examination. Knowing that this witness wanted urgently to retum to Shanghai and by the prosecution of the warned fact, there was no cross examination
"The circumstances in
Dunne v English and the present case being different I am of the opinion that evidence of Hung Po-fat is admissible, there being ample op portunity to cross examine., it must be noted that In Dunne v English the witness left England before the case came up for bearing.
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Soviet Troop.
Movements
Continue On German
Zonal Border
In the neighbourhood of Azondsee, concentrationa troop and material have been strengthened, the reports said, and lookout, towers have been erected along the demarcation line, the French-llcensed In Berlin, newspaper, Kurler, reported the State administration in Soviet Zone had been instructed to and Russian supply
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1948.
They're Beauty Contestants, Naturally
SHOWING
TO-DAY
Queen's
Sovereignty Rights Issue Is Worry To Plan Experts
London, Aug. 16. The reluctance of the · Western European nations, especially Great Britain, to give up any sovereignty over economic matters, is worrying some of the Marshall Plan experts today.
The worriers were not in the American camp alone. They exist among experts of every nation looking ahead to next year when United States Congress will dissect Mar- shall Plan to date and decide how much additional money to appropriate.
- Progress has been extremely slow. it has been more than 14 months sluce Mr Marshall first tossed out the European recovery plan idea at Harvard.
The new American Congress 1: going to demand results before up- proprinting more billions to the pro- ject. Worriers fear enough results will not be ready.
the new deal.
to
sovereignty und
act
the
THYSSEN:
ON TRIAL
Four candidates for the title of "Miss American Legion, 1948" get hints in modelling form from Miss Elaine Buchler in Philadel- phia. Left to right: Mari- lyn Stonehouse, Janet Slowik, Irene Max, Jean Ferguson and Miss Buchler.
AP Picture.
THIS WEEK'S KCC EVENTS
The Kowloon Cricket Club hon this two functions of importance week.
many
On Friday afternoon the ladica committee will conduct their usual
mah bridge and monthly
Jong delve. It is hoped that as members and friends DS possible will make up tables and endeavour to notify the No. 1 Bey by Friday morning.
There are prizes to be won and ien will be provided.
Financed The Nazi
On Saturday the entertainments committee will hold another of the Party, Charge
A new out- club's popular dances.
-the Embassy Band-will be pre- Frankfurt. Aug. 16.-Fritz sent to provide the music, and Thyssen, 74-year-old German members are urged to, book their industrialist and author of the tables immediately. Reservations one-time best seller "I Paid can be made at the clubhouse. Hitler," буда charged today The dance starts at 9 p.m., and with financing the rise of the wit continue until 2 a.m. Light re- Nazi Party, when he appeared freshments
will be served during before the Hessian de-Nazif the evening. cation Court at Bad Koenigstein near here.
COMPLICATED DILEMMA
The Dilemma is complicated, United States in effect, is asking the Frankfurt, Aug. 19. Reports from westem Europeans to do something the Lueneburg oren of the British-the United States itself would not Soviet zonal boundary todny Indi-consider doing, namely:
set up planned ented Russian troop movements are
the castern side et econoniles" term derided continuing on
by opponents in America Throughout the borderline.
Secondly, to abandon eld concept of economic
the benefit of Western only for Europe as a whole.
Some of the experts fear Americans generally and especially Congressmen. will be unappreciative of the radical departures from past Nuzis 100,000 gold marks to finance the 1923 riots in Munich, will face practices the programme calls for.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, "major offender" charges accusing Meanwhile Will-Kochler, Ger occasion set forth the British ap-of filler and his followers-by-im-.
detective of the proach to the Marshall Plan philo. mense sums prior to 1933. man plainclothes ས་ mittance and Savings Bank, a Chin- Soviet Zone Police was kidnapped soply which in effect, is that Britain ese Government bank, and as Direc-by his Russian zone colleagues when alone decides what it will and what tor General he is the head of the the visited his home at Eschwege in it will not do in the field of economic
Te-co-operation. the United Stales Zone, Dena orgonication.
"There are rules and regulations ported." governing the management of the Kochler was lured back into Soviet bank and the granting of loans,
by the opening of accounts, foreign ex- Russian territory
Zone German policemen but when
the
German
the
110
Thyssen, said to have paid the
"The defendant fùuitive was the guage maps of the border area. Sir Stafford Cripps, has on several him of having supported the cause.
Director General of the Postal Ro-
change
and other
like
mintiers.
before, Press.
granted. A loan of 50,000,000 CNC can be granted and reported Inter
to the joint administration of
four banks.
the
Border Loans over and above
that amount cannot be Kranied without further action, viz, the
op-
proval of the Director General und
Guards
BRITAIN, SOLE JUDGE The Anglo-American Bilateral agreement for example, binds the
Babe Ruth Dies
From Cancer
(Continued from Pare 1)
'His book published in the United
Ruth was sold to New York the States during the war, will be sub-
for the unheard mitted as evidence. The book gives following season
Later events detailed account of
how much of price of $125,000. Thyssen actually spent on the Nazi proved it was the greatest bargain Party.
in all baseball history. IN CONCENTRATION CAMP
Love came to the Babe about the Thyssen fled Germany in 1939, but time that he joined the Red Sox,,
tomers.
wider
These rules and regulations ure' from Koehler crossed the border, ho was British to "use its best endeavours", was arrested by German, troops in when he met a pretty 18-vear-old time to time supplemented and can- knocked down by his former col-to Implement various commilments France in 1941 and brought back to a waitress named Helen Woodford. In · But Sir Stafford has concentration camp in Germany. He Lander's coffe house in Boston. She further into undertaken. celled by orders of the government leagues and dragged
Soviet-occupied Germany, Dena re- promised the House of Commons that was liberated in 1945 when ailled used to give the hungry, husky kid
the British Government-not the troops overran the camp. He has extra portions and niittle MASS OF EVIDENCE
ported. "As such head of the bank all Kochler was reported to have Marshall Plan organisation in Paris lived at the Koenigstein sanatorium wedge of pie than the other cus-
the American supplier of dollars ever since. loans required against documentary refused to continue working for the
United will be the sole judge of how best He said that he did not altempi bills must be referred to the Direclar Soviet Administration. -
to co-operate.
to evade the trial by seeking on exit
MARRIED IN 1914 General for his sanction
Sir Stafford said: "We are com- permit to Belgium. The United plete masters in our own house as States Military Government had al-
17, They were married on Oct: fo How we can best achieve those ready given the green Tight for
1914. They were separated in 1926 ends."
Thyssen's
trip to Belgium last week and in 1929 she was burned to There are some Americans es- when the authorities learned that death in a fire at Watertown, Mass. perially some members of Congress he was
going to be tried soon and She bequeathed Ruth $5 of her who probably wouldn't agree with suddenly withdrew their approval. $50,000 estate and most of the state- Thyssen was reported to have balance went to their nine-year-old ment.
ald that he would leave Germany, daughter, Dorothy Helen Ruth. It Again, the Anglo-Amerlenn bila- for Belgium to emigrate, to Argen- was not known until her death that "I have mentioned these points Vienna, Aug. 16.—The Ministry of teral treaty binds tho
British to tine as soon as the trial is over.
but the child was not their own, because of their relevancy in the pre-the Interior announced tonight at maintain a "valid rate of exchange." ile is confident that he will be ac-had been adopted as a foundling. sent case.
Yugoslav's border guards Invaded
When
naked who decides what is quitted. on Sunday and "The prosecution has produced a Austrian territory
valid. Sir
"We Stafford stated:
The huge Thyssen steel works at When Ruth was getting into jams decide."
Hamborn near Essen of evidence to support the fired upon a hiking party of four
is now for breaking training and was losing charges. A part of that evidence Austrians, critically wounding one.
Even conservative British banking directed by a German trusteeship easle with teammates and fans alike. The announcement sald that two is without doubt and can be classi-
nir circles express concern at British working under the Military Gov-he net Mrs Clair Hodgson, a former fed as hearany, and I have exclud- of the Austrians, including
ernment supervision. Ilia property actress. In 1925. taken into custody by the reluctance to plunge into
of almost 211,000,000 reichmarks ed all such evidence in arriving at were
Yugoslavs and forced into Yugoslav radical plan to emphasise European
rather this decision.
than national had already been held by the been the case for the territory where they are still there. economics
Nazis.-United Press, "It has
that large! The wounded mon, the announce economics: prosecution throughout
from the ment sald, was left lying on Austrian Savings roll where he fell and the fourth
also
the sanction of the joint admi- Fire On Hikers
nistration of the four banks.
20
Amounts Postal
were obtained Remittances and
Banks by fraud and false pretences man Cement
and that
those amounts were so
and com-
the
mercial circles in Shanghai,
"agree with counsel for prosecution that the evidence duced is a mass of circumstantial evidence, but such
The
nd-Musicians'
clrcumstantial Driving Offence
evidence is supported by numerous exhibits,
Sir Stafford's unequivocal
INHIBITIONS
a now
The current issue of the "Eanker"
reflecting London banking circle
11eg
are
GUARDS TO GO
TO MALAYA
02-
She settled him down-an much as anyone could calm the irrepres sible Babe-and it was significant that his best all-around years wero to follow.
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HONGKONG
WAR MEMORIAL. FUND
sold that the views sald that "there is too little
Ruth's motherless daughter was obtained, counselled and procured Austrians stopped at a spring for a relish" in Britain to tackle such a
re-adopted when he married Mrs by the fugitive through one Pang drink some 150 yards north of the problem which stems from a thou
Hodgson in April of 1929, only a few Ping-ching who was the chairman frontler when they were challenged sand years of history based on na
London, Aug. 16.-Imformed months after the death of his first the Yugoslav guards-United tionalism and accustomed to social Whitehall sources said
also had and director of the Bah Chuen Bank by
today the wife. Mr Hodgson --a financler and a merchant well Press.
fabrics.
British General Staff has decided to daughter, Julio, and the four lived known in the banking
"But let there be no mistake that move troops of the famed Guards a happy life, thereafter. unless these inhibitions can be at belende to troubled Malaya, least partially overcome and unless
Awar
A
Office statement the seemingly insuperable dieul-nound
nouncing the decision is expected In some measure solved, later today. Europe will find itself in April 1040 There
was no immediate Indica- without another Marshall dollar. on whether Grenadier, Coldstream. | H.K.T. Two musicians, Francis Quah and "The immediate results of that Irish or Scots Guards battaliona are "By circumstantial evidence it is ment that other fucts are proved Chan King-um, were aned $200 and deprivation would be a good deal to go to Malaya or whether a while story: Matilda Mouse by Born Broame of the $300 respectively by Mr d'Almada mare unpaludable than those of the brigade group composed of a baila (DICTA) "Matilda and Hillard Pixy-
led": 0.15, Orchestre Mascotte: given facts may be logically Inferred. at Central this morning on respec measures of integration from which lon of each is to be
Uve charges of driving a car which Europe today is shrinking. Perhaps Associated Press,
Zonden Philharmonic Orch. 7, INFERENCE
Talks by Nano Richarda (šłudio); 7.10, a At condition, and Europe still needs greater adversity
Foto Valderrama at the Plano (studio); being the owner, allowing a vehicle before being prepared to muster I-
7.30, Stago and Bereen Favourites pre- which was not in a fit condition to self for a conscious and voluntary
Ponted by Alleen Woods (Studio); B, effort of selfhelp which will qualify TRAINS COLLIDE World and Home News (London Relay be on the road.
8.15 "Grand Hotel" Albert Bandler" Inspector Senior said on August it for continued assistance from the
Bucyrus, Ohio, Aug 10 Pennsyl-Palm Court Orchestra with Freda Town- 18, Mr Binstead, Superintendent of United States."
Railway
train son (Contralto) (BUCTS); 548, · Orches- passenger When Mr Marshall Arst offered vania
TUITION "GIVEN .... Orst defendant Traffic, noticed
sented by Clare Stanfald (Studio) 10.|..... having difficulty in driving his car his Iden, major emphasis was on collided head on with a gools train tral Concert of British Compose
Central European selfhelp, removal of bar- today near here, injuring 13 people, World and Home News London Halay) BALLROOM DANCING-Mudu' up the slope leading to
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Also Rumba), Samba, Teigo, The west-bound passenger train Dancing 1045. A Short Story "Blue that the steering was defective, and the polling of resources and efforts
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Radia News Red - (London ketay); 21.15,) Rudson, BIR China Buliding. the braces were hopeless.
Reuter.
Weather Report and Close Down, national beneßt-United Press.
from which, the existance
He, the fugitive, was connected with Pang Ping-ching and through this chain of evidence it is shown that large credits or loans were ob tained in the manner demonstrated and supported by the exhibits, and It must be inferred from the est dence being so connected that it was beneficial to the fugitive that such Ioans or advances were made,
"An example given by counsel for the defence're the irregularities on
was not in
Both defendants pleaded guilty,
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