MORE EVIDENCE IN BRIBERY INQUIRY
Amusement Arcades Proprietor Denies He Is Confidence Trickster
London, Nov. 17.- The Judicial Tribunal appointed by Parliament to investigate accusations of corruption of Ministers and Government officials heard today the testimony of Mr Jacobs Harris, the proprictor of a number of amusement arcades in London.
Mr Harris, a stout grey-haired man, had desired to obtain licences to import automatic amusement machines from the United States. His negotiations brought him into contact with the agent, Solomon
Wulkan, alias Sidney Stanley. Harris agreed that
Replying to questions, Mr
Stanloy mentioned the name of Mr John Belcher, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. Mr mentioned everybody's Harris added: "Mr Stanley name from Mr Attlee downwards."
Mr Horris discussed the deal with Mr Francis Ceell Price, a London bualness man. Price told him that Stanley was the biggest villain unhung." Horrin said it was under stood that Stanley was to get £10,- for surrendering his own unused Import quota so that the equipment the United could be brought from Slates
is being run by thirty country shillings a week rallway clerks."
Any doubts he might have had about Stanley were dispelled by Mr who Alfred Bieber, the polleltor Introduced them and who drew up documents In connection with the fun fair equipment.
Sir Harticy Shawcross, acting for the Crown, put ! to Harris that He denied that there had been the statement he had mudo to the nay suggestion of bribery in the pay-police had been dictated by Bieber.
Price had asked Winess denied this.
1orrio ment of this sum.
questioned at the Sir Hartley him if he thought anyone
about two brothers named Davis Board of Trade was going to get a
to put up connection shure of the money. He had replied who were appronelled £10,000 to be paid in that he did not think so.
with the fun fair equipment pro- position.
Witness said he had.
thai
put up brothers
he would
which £606 of a
sum of £2,000 Stanley was to receive at the very start of the negotiations.
Asked for more details about his
with Conversation
Price, Harris *This 10 quoted Price as saying: the sort of thing you get when a
BANISHEES
COME BACK
FOR
MORE
told the
Sir Hartley: "I put it to you that this was in fact a confidence trick to induce the Davis brothers to put £2,000 and from the beginning up to end you did not intend to put a penny Into It.?"
Harris: "That is too ridiculous to confidence suggest. I am not b trickster."
£10,000 COMMISSION Henry Selff, an amusement caterer, asked to come said he had been into a proposition to import fun fair He gathered that £10,- 000 was to be paid to Staatley as
Witness said he
Vorious excuses were tendered by several life banishees before Mr Justice Gould at the Criminal Ses- sions this morning when they were charged with breaches of the De-equipment. portation Ordinance..
decided go
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1948..
Two Soviet fllers who fled from the Ukraine in a twin-engined bomber and landed near Linz, Austria, in the American zone, talk with two U.S. officers during a press interview at American airfield near Linz. The Russians said they hoped to be allowed to enter the United States.-AP Picture,
Arab Spokesman Asks UN To Abolish Concept Of A Jewish State
Paris, Nov. 17.-The leading Arab figure of the United Nations, Faris El Khoury Bey, in a two-hour speech today, made a passionate appeal in the Poli- tical Committee of the United Nations for abolition of the concept of a Jewish State. He denied that the General Assembly had any right to create such a State and said that, in any case, those delegates who had voted for partition represented only 500 million of the world's population, while those who had avoided voting for the plan represented:1,000 million.
"There is no provision in international practice in law, to allow foreigners, invaders, intruders, outsiders to swarm into a country, settle there and impose themselves upon the majority native population," Faris Bey said.
He reproached the General'. As- He was a further into the matter because he
was curious to know
In one case, Leung Kwok-man commission for obtaining fachilles. said that he returned to nt end, the! funeral of his mother. farmer in the country.
Mr Justice Gould directed that his statement be verified by the Police and remanded the accused until to morrow morning for sentence.
Mir
10
names
The British and the
Americans
East how such asembly and the Security Council for hind accepted partition in the first
In the place to perpetuate Court of Justice to the Balkanization which, for them, rejecting his many efforts to ask the International
law
declared. pronounce upon whether the parti- is a muarantee of equilibrium," he tion plan was based on eqully.
was
huge amount of machinery could he country so easily brought into the when it had taken him a long time to get B small amount.
He visited Stanley's flat and got Now serving two years at Stanley. Chan Ylu, with four aliases, was the impression that Stanley
in impress him. "He given an additional four years.
of entioned (Assistant Crown Sall-
people he Blair-Kerr citor) sak that the cecused had them Mr Attlee, Sir
Stafford Cripps, Mr Belcher and bad recard with ien enniallous.
Gibson, and names of lot of RETURN FOR FAMILIES
important industrial people." Accused, plended that he had .n
Hartley arked witness if newly born baby and he wanted
Mr Belcher to take his wife and family back Harris had said that
and Mr Glenvil Hall were to get to the country.
deal-"were something out of the
Similar sentence was passed on
Sir
So Sin, thrice banished from Hong-making fortunes out of it." kong. lle
returned
mother home. He vious convictions.
tu taite
six pre-
Itis Witness:
"I don't know." Self
Mr Belcher said he and were personal friends. He had dis- cussed the Importation of ment machinery with him and Mr Belcher had put him on to an official who could help him.
Ting Chau Yin allas Chou alias Chau Tang, stated that his reason for coming-here was to get. a boat to go lo Swabue to see his He was given four years mother.
also.
dia
amuse-
Witness agreed he had asked Mr Belcher if he could get amusement machinery imported under the Mar- Mr Belcher had laughed shall Plan and said: "The Marshall Plan? Im- possible. Dismissed."
Let Chal, with three alfases, and a Police record at Ave offences and
Fung, allas Chol Cheung Chan were sent to prison for four years.
NO IMPORT LICENCE Taking into consideration the ac- cused's age and the fact that he
the A senior Board of Trade executive not have as bad a record es others, Mr Justice Gould passed sen said he had searched the register tence of two years on Lo Mun, alins and falled to find any licence for Chan Sing, alias Chan Chi-hing. He the import of goods up to £180,000 had a conviction for larceny and had in any of the five nomes by which
Stanley was known.. been coned.
When told his sentence, the ac cused said, "I thank you, my lord,"
Death of Mr S.M. Bander
and
the
MINISTER
INSULTED IN
Why do not the displaced Jews to back to the countries from which Zionism, had not Count Bernadotte ASSEMBLY
There used to they were driven? be three and a half million Jews in Poland, he said.
"We are told that only half
Why survived. million of these
Polish Government does not the
the share among these survivors homes, the property, the wealth of the original numbers?"
That
Polish
would
mean cach Jew would now be some six times richer than he was before the war, sald Faris Bey. "He would be able to live in peace and happiness in his own country,"
CAN NOW LIVE SAFELY. The Jews who were persecuted in Germany can now safely live there, and Fascism huve since Nazism been stamped out and democracy established.
Faris Bey contended that it was ridiculous to claim the existence of "Most of the Jews now in Pales- a Jewish race or nation. line, or those who intend to come there are not children of Israel," he said.argued that they were of all that most of the and added races
of Eastern Europe, the the immigrants, were Jews majority of (Mr
tribe, which
Nor could he trace the import of 10 from the United States cars anyone of those names or to Mr Bieber, the London solicitor. Alfred Bieber said In
After the British withdrawal Arabs could almost have liquidated come along to ask for four weeks*
Paris. Nov. 17-The French "We accep'ed it out of loyalty
was SUS+ truce, in which to study the problem.
But the National Assembly 10 the United Nations. Jews did so in order to group their pended today after the Socialist Minister of the Interior, M. forces and get more arms,
Governments had Jules Moch, had been called "The Arab hoped that Count Bernadotte would "Liar" by the Communist De-
solution, but produce a peaceful when they saw that it was grounded puly and miners' trade union on the idea of partition, they could leader, M. Auguste Lecoeur.
The President of the National As-
M. sembly.
Edouard Herriot, suspended the sitting shortly after the Assembly had resumed its debate on the Communist-led French strikes and the declaration by M. Moch-that- they were inspired by the Comin- form.
not entertain it."
the The Iraq delegate warned
Arabs Committee that 40 million in seven States surrounded Pales- Hine. Linked with these there were intillons of North African Arabs and 400 million other Moslems.
for beyond
M. Lecoeur in a heated condem- nation of governmental intervention in the strikes, accused the police of a "barbarism. He alleged "miners police." were bludgeoned by the
"The question goes little Palestine," he said.
become "A Jewish State con terrible ulcer, a permanent threat of
which particularly vulnerable to such dis- disturbance in a region turbances."--Reuter
Prison
And
descendants of the Mongolian Kasar Cane For Arms
кам
converted
tu
evidence yesterday that in an alleged phone daism in the 13th century when conversation with the Board of
toit was spread around the northern Trade. Stanley was purported have been told that two cars were shores of the Caspian Sea."
from the their way Slates.)
United
Faris Bey added, however, "let us accept the Jews already in Palestine,
be either
#13
Mr Samuel M. Bander, an old resident of the Colony and who was for many years connected with the Chinese Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, died
The Tribunal then went on to central, as in France, federal
cantonal at the Kowloon Hospital this the allegations concerning Sherman's in the United States, or morning. He had been in Pools, one of Britain's biggest foot- as in Switzerland. failing health for a long period. ball competition concerns.
Mr Harry Sherman, who also took He was 68 years of age.
the oath in Jewish fashion, stated with Sidney meeting a that Stanley, he had been amazed at his knowledge of the affairs of Sherman's
The late Mr Bander was one of the railway officers taking service with the Canten-Kowloon section of the Kowloon Canton Railway line the British and
Chinese Corporations
on
"And let the minorities have certain amount of local autonomy, LIBERAL OFFER
under the terms Loan Agree- visited his Park Lane flat, had told to accept these invaders and intru- |
ment with the working of the line.
The late Mr Bander, who was de- corated by the Chinese Government
In 1930, was stationed at Shumchun
him
Possession
Surprised by the Police while having tea at the Kwok On Ten- house, No. 198 Queen's Road
is When the Minister for the Interior rose to protest, M. Locoeur turned to him and exclaimed: "You are n Hlar,"
This was greeted by cheers from the Communis, benches and counter- protesis from elsewhere.
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In the hubbub, M. Herriot's calls for order met with no immediate response, to he suspended the sling. When the session was resumed, M. Herriot warned the Deputies action that he would take further if they continued to use insults.
M. Lecoeur
his then continued apecch criticising the Government towards the miners Asked if he bad heard any sug-whether legally or illegally, let us
"All Its operations have that the United States make them bil legitimate citizens of
for its policy
群 us establish and lel
He said:" un Palestine,
four deaths among the insisting Was Government gestion
with ม democratic East, on August 17, Fong Hong, caused
miners, hundred wounded
and Britain importing token amusement single State
20, and Cheung Hon, 25, were
in prison." machinery, Davis said there was no constitution.
"Let this constitution
to be in several thousand arrested and found
After further proposal of this kind.
possession of a revolver loaded munist Deputies but no further in- Assembly adjourned with six rounds of ammunition, cldents, the
until tomorrow when M. Andre and a dagger respectively.
Marie. the Minister of Justice, is The -two men were arraigned expected to speak.-Reuter.
Gould at the before Mr Justice Criminal Scasions this morning, "This is a liberal offer, a very when they pleaded guilty to pos-
(Assistant Mr WA, Bialr-Kerr Mr Raymond Chung, of 15 Kote- generous one-session of arms and ammunition. Pools. Stanley, when witness had tolerant and very
wall Road, was complimented by Crown Solicitor) ausisted by Dets Fong told the Court he had
Mr Justice Gould at the Criminal Insp. A. N. Cochrane, prosecuted with of his friendship
Mrders from all over the world."
to Hongkong
morning for his und said that the crimo. occurred the United Nations brought the revolver He warned Belcher and others.
to enforce. thelo, sell, while the second
courage in going to the assistance of about 10.15 p.m... The accused FULLY INFORMED
that any attempt.
ng the first intended
Young, Accepting the advice of Mr Justice a young Chinese woman who had snatched a basket from Miss "I am also sure he mentioned Mr Bernadotte proposals would make claimed that
the Middle East a permanent storm to sell the revolver, he also asked
him to sell the dagger for him. Gould-at the Criminal Sessions this been robbed at night in Castle, Road then caught her by the throat and
cream near Robinson Road,
pushed her to the ground. Mr Chung, centre. for many years where he was Trame Harold Wilson (President of the
Trade)
were morning, Li Hon-fung, lee and Mr Key
Sentenced to five years and six was passing by in his car. "The Arab States would for over Both further declared they Inspector. He retired from the ser- Board of
of Works), Sherman vice just prior to the outbreak of (Minister
be forced to arm to resist, to fight," not aware of the law of the Colony seller, altered a plea of guilty to
one of not guilty when charged with strokes of the cane was 19-year-old stopped and with his driver went to interned inadded. He was hostilities.
he said. Stanley, knew all about a case
The com- he had a gun in his pocket but this Mr W. A. Blair-Kere (Assistant maliciously wounding Mong Kau at Leung Tak-ping who pleaded gully her aid. The accused feigned that The Egyption Foreign Minister Stanley and on liberation went to
Sherman's was, being
the Committee that
who proseculed, the Wo Sum, teahouse in Canton to robbery with violence. Count Crown Solicitor), told
October He Australia where he was in hospital in whi
did not deter Mr Chung, Mesura, breach of the paper Bernadotte's
pleaded plainant was Miss Yeung Fing-wah, did not Road on Palestine
Roza and prosecuted for
proposals assisted by Det. Sub-Inspector "R
28, of 15 Gage Street.
Botelho came on the sens while.
the Mackenzie, said the weapons were guilty to possession of a dagger. The deceased is survived by his control and implied that he got his
When asked to plead to the major Arab Stater against the constant concealed beneath the men's cloth
a coll
said, "I want to wife, daughter Stella, son Charles Inform-ion through his friendship made no provision to protect
Jewish encirclement, which they Ing. In addition,
charge, accused. Bald, (who is in England), and sister Mrs with Mr Belcher.
"I thought it feared, since there was Sherman added:
be no to
was found on them. The revolver plead guilty but I want you to hear
Airlines Losses order Amelia Laudau.
was most extraordinary and I did limit on Jewish immigration.
was in excellent working not know where else he could have
(Continued from Paze 1) Accused alleged that he had been On this point of security, Egypt Counsel also drew the Court's at my grievances."
in the to the time of the nich's abused by several fokis except from Bonnets For Nov.got the information
proposals, he declared. tention rejected the Mr Belcher." .Stanley lold
"Five Constellations have been him
teahouse who spat on his face. He He said that this lack of security arrest, 9.15 p.m. that his competitors in the football
this bought for the Australian service, would cause the Arab States
ac did not know why they did ench of the Sentencing pool business were continually divert a large part of their revenues
to four years hard because he had money to pay for 22 Canadairs have been ordered,
ASSASSINATION RISKS Belcher 17-Babying Mr
and agitating Nov,
from much-needed social and econo- cused
12 strokes of the his meal, He sold that the com- and the Hermes IV should be in
·Bayonne, NJ.
Empira, routes in
London Nov. 17-The "deanite, bonnets numbering 100 have been against him.
1949." the report sald. He said they would give Me mid reform to defence expenditure, labour and sent la London for babies born on
The delegate of Iraq also rejected cane, his. Lordship remarked that plainant threatened him with a operation on the
Mr Justice Gould told the accused "The re-equipment of the feet risks of assassination" was given by the same day as Princess Elizabeth's Belcher £50,000 or £10,000 to put
were found ranke it more probablo 201.11
me out of business," Sherman added, the plan formally in the name of the circumstances in which the arms chopper and he stabbed him.
that the accused intended to use them that if he stabbed the complainant with these aircraft will entirely the Under Secretary for Foreign when he wase change the Corporation's financial Affairs, Mr Christopher Mayhew, The shipment was made on Tues-Stanley had suggested to him that his Government...
for some unlawful purpose, and In. self-defence
and the Corporation: In Parliament today as a "* FEQMon, day by a -rational young people, he would see Mr Belcher and try
negatived their plea that they did threatened then he would advise prospects,
should to arrange that Sherman's
be self-nipporting on 10 why Britain was not putting moro group called the Teen Age Council..
rightful allocation of
not know the law of Hongkong him to plead not guilty, befed
for commercial routes within three or consular officials in the Jewish areas. romanded
four years."---Reuler,
lot Palestine at the moment-Reutes. trial. The weapons were ordered to be The sccused was confiscated
for
the
14 Babies
The bonants' will be distributed by: get their
British
Women's voluntary paper. pargido #2In London Associated
.would
PARTITION FAILURE
The trial, was, adjourned tintll: to- week morrow-fleuter.
Ho said that it was based partition, the failure of which had already been amply dorzónstrated.
on
of wire
Ho
and the accused was then takes to the Police Station in a tax Me Botelho found a gold ring in ac cused's hand. The ring had been snatched from the woman. The ac- cused had no previous convictions,
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