THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1949.
Kwok Continues Own Defence PWD Larceny Trial
DENIES FALSIFICATION
OF LABOUR ACCOUNTS
Kwok Kwong, 47, foreman, on trial at the Criminal Sessions in the PWD larceny case, continuing his evidence in his own defence before Mr Justice Williams and a jury this morning, denied that there had been any falsification of accounts because workmen were sent out to jobs before there was a job number for the particular undertaking, Also on trial with Kwok is Arthur Frederick May, 41, electrical inspector, grade I, charged on three counts of larceny by public ser- vant and falsification of documents with intent to defraud the Government.
Kwok is not legally represented, but May is being defended by Mr A. J. Clifford, instructed by Mr J. C. Stewart, while Mr A. Hooton,' assisted by Mr J. Johnston, ASP, and Mr D. G. MacPherson, ASP, is conducting
case for. the Crown.
Resuming his stand in the witness-box, which he entered yesterday afternoon at the close of the case for the prosecution, Kwok said that when the Police came to the Hunghom workshop the workmen were detained out
was taken luta alde while he The premises.
Later a policeman, Mak, asked him if he knew anything about the job at Pokfulam and he replied that he did and that ዘር was instructed by May As do the work.
Then Mr Johnston came for ward
esked lu and
Mul whether or not he had asked questions, and lu reulled that he had.
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The sturen ardir juntes always showed the Jobs numbers for which the materials were quired.
Bese materials sometimes went fo other Jobs nol yet approved, Kwok ron- cluded.
Accuseds' "Excellent"
Records
In Navy
Evidence that the accused had! excellent, records in the Royal Ma Clifford then proceeded Navy mud had given entire to erosex mine first accel, sailsfaction In their work 011 Mr Citford: As I understand board HMS Eneare, a Fleet lug, your story, you say you were | was given by Lirut. W. J u to make a penny profit Hanns, RN. Oficer Commanding
of kny
these trans-HMS Encore, before the Chlef Justice, Sir Leslie Gibson, when the trial of three Brilish naval
nctions?
Kwok: I was never toh that they were money-malting jobs.
You just did them
of nut In there your
sense of duty OF 2 evidence of this that is relevant foreman?Yes, certainly, since
May had taken the To the charges.
res ponsibility of doing these jobs and instructed me to do so.
IIKA Lordship:
Kwok: We were talking about The Fokfulam job in connection
with May.
Hi Lordship: Did you tell Ju Muk what you have de- tailed to the Court at length?~ Yes.
You have given evidence - of larceny garding the counts of wiring and lampa. De you wish to say anything about the falsifications and
daily Inbour distribution Jobs? What lo Ju Muk had nothing to do with falsification of documents. His Lordship: Do you wish ta say anything to the Jury now?
Buld
had to do them.
bren
Inve you recently convicted on three counts of Istealing Government property?
Yes, but in the case of May I say
no shortage in that there was the materials.
ratings on six charges including rape and robbery with violence was continued at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower (right), recalled to temporary duty as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has Pre- sident Truman as an at- tentive listener as they converse at an air show al Andrews Field, Washington, D.C.—AP
Lieut Hanns niso mentioned Austrian
that the second accused, Judge, had recently been given «
Picture.
Treaty:
special mention for bravery aunt į Russia Backs
efficiency.
The accused are Joseph Mc- Guinness, 24. Vincent Judge, 25, and Wham James McConway, 21, all Able-Seamen attached to
MS Encore, a Fleet tug.
They are charged on threo His Lordship: That's not very counts of rape and being alders clear. What do you mean "pound abettors to the same offence, shortage in the material?"
robbery with violence of $20 from Leading Telegraphist Leslie George Cubitt, 27, of HMS Tumur, assault occasioning bodi- ly horm to Cubitt, and larceny of $50, a cigarette lighter and a propelling pencil from Cubitt.
Yugoslavia's Claim For Reparations
Kwok: What I mean is talk:
London, Mar. 8.-- Russia to- in May's time in Hunghons
day supported Yugoslavia's de there was no shortage of any
for "substantial re- inands in the materials
Hunghom
parations from Austria. stores, because every job when
The United States, Britain NO FALSIFICATION
completed had to be checked hy
and France, however, all re- a clerk and an inventory was All three accused pleaded not newed their opposition to cr-⠀ Kwok: My defence on the then mole and
submitted to
'guilty to all counts. They are tracting reparations from Aus- counta is this.
There has been May for further checking be-
"V. J. Le fria. represented by Mr no falsification of documents fore being sent to the occupant D'Alton, instructed by Messrs The Russian Ambassador, Mr because it was usual for work-of the premises.
Hastings and Co., while the pro- George Zarubin. nsked the men to be sent out to work be- *fore there was a job numner Mr Clifford: Am I right in sccution is being conducted
for the particular job, Hence, saying that you knew you could Mr M. liceman, Crown Couns, Big Four representatives work-
the Austrian ing by Det. Sub-Inspector it assisted material labour was take no
treaty to appoint of that,
a sub-com- In-W. II. Summers. chargest to other jobs and nd-being discovered in that
mittee to consider the Yugoslav justed when authority had been ventory?
The Jury comprises six men reparations en and one woman.
Lieut Hann
because
without
obtained I have nothing else Kwok: That's correct.
His to say
Without Lordship: His Lordship: Have you any-being discovered by whom? thing to say as regards any of the evklence heard here? »
way, your
by
said that since attached
on
peace
In
Returns To Duty
Defence Against Submarines
BRITAIN
DEVELOPING
NEW WEAPON
London, Mar. 8.-Britain is making pro- greas with a new submarine weapon, Mr John Dugdale, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, told the House of Commons today. It hoped to get a prototype for trials in a destroyer this year, he added.
WAN
"In a future war,” Mr Dugdale declared, "it may be that the Atlantic will become like the Mediterranean in the past, with England taking the place of Malta,"
Mr Dordale was speaking on Dealing with Commonwealth the Navy Eastimates for 1945. Į co-operation. Mr Dugdale said 50, amounting to £180.230.000 that since the war, six cruisers and Supplementary Estimates of and 32 destroyers and been £ 15,500,000 fot the current transferred to the Dominion Navics. They all formed a vital part of the nnval defence of the Commonwealth as,a whole... Router.
year,
Mr Dugdale described as "no dream" a recent statement by Mr John L. Sullivan, Sceretary of the United States Navy, that;
future war there may be as many battles under the sun as on the surface.
Est
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Admodern--submarine--editorial-of-yesterday's-date.----
was enemy
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the
Modern submarines might re- main submerged for five weeks and travel at 20 knots.
"We are ourselves working on The West tentatively rejected the sub-committee idea.
results are this problem. Our
Future Of China Mr quite spectacular and most satis- The American delegate, Mr Clifford: May I put it in they were
factory,
but there is no reason to to HMS Samuel Reber, apparently feared that you have another
Lordship?
Sir,Rarely, if ever, has the the creation Encore in December last year, that
of a sub-suppose that other nations are! Did you know that an inventary both McGuinness and Me committee would
menn accept not doing the same and having local press presented a truer and Kwok replied that he wished would be made of all the stores, Conway had proved satisfactory nnce of the principle that re-equal results." he said,
more fueld Insight of the pre- did not con- sent polities, in China, than your to say that in cases whem there not Including cables, of the
and the men's parations should be paid.
Mr Reber told the negotiating -sider- was no job number the workinen number of power potat and there work
records showed they were of
Its greatest only wrale
Your enlightenment anent Dr him
for plugs after a job? " chit
meeting that the Yugoslav claim invulnerable," good character.
had no legni basis or economie which Britain drew Kwok: Yes,
frigate, different materials, they
of Sun Fo's resignation, is without nbtt stores from his
In cases Du you know that those As for
had about 150. dubility or contradiction what- Judge, his character, Justification. If Yugoslavia where there was a job number Inventories were supposed to be was very good and had been needed help in rebuilding its materials drawn would be en- checked in head office agner good continuously
from Austela was not the Mr. Dugdale added that the It would be a truism to slate
was also don't know. All I cared war, 1943. He
Admiralty and cost sheet by Ho Sung
had been
making that whatever maybe the oul- May having checked the inven- Encore for 20 months, and bad He added, however, that the prototypes of two fast frigates come of the coming
from
existing tory against what was in the given entire satisfaction in his United States was willing to converted
de parley, China will be divided bulldog I would take it that work. Recently he
stroyers wayk
would have between two powers from the of Improving i
which CORRIDOT had been everything was all right.
given special
relations mention for economic
between greatly increased speed. If this North and South.
successful, o much bigger bravery and efficiency, and the Austria and Yugoslavia for the
would programme benerit award had been noted with
of both,
Arfect, This, in
was holding cume later. satisfaction by the ship's com-
out to Yugoslavia the prospecti "In short, we hope we shall of better relations with the be able to make the life of the Submarine both West it Belgrade eased its de- most modern mands
Austria.-United hazardous and uncomfortable,"
he said.
tered at the back of the estimate stores issued from head office”... joined the Navy in November.my, Mr Reber said, repara-servered part of her re-j soever.
In the event of a workman becoming ill there was a form, which May signed, man to sea the doctor.
a workinan be came
to
for the
wanted witness
(Kwok) early in the morning
When
leave
and Kwok would instruct the clerk to type out an applica- lights un a stores
tr
"RETURN NOTES"
you drew
20 fluorescent
order note pany. did you think that May would
lion form which, after it was
to
L
the
note."
a
he since
the answer, 'un
pro-
Cross-examined, Licut Hanns
The records signed by May, was sent over expect to see in that inventory agreed that workshop. the whole of those 20 lights that į duced were Wauchak
oficiul ship's re- Where a job required men 10
10 you had drawn if you had not cards of character. He admitted work overtime on Sundays this returned any?--In such a case if knowledge of McGuinness was authorised by May on I drew 20 lights for a job and having a previous conviction in the form was put up only 19, when it was com a civil court in Gibraltar, but Saturdays and sent to Wanchai.
pleted, the remaining one would what offence he had committed May designed the installations then be returned to the stores, and what sentence he had re-
a stores "relurn for various jobs. Witness made together with
ceived, witness did not know, out the estimate sheets and parsed them on to Lee Po- Do you think you could get GIRL "WILLING" shang, who put down the cost away with stores that you put
Called to the witness his less book in price
on the job without May
corroborated thot possession. The sheet was then Binding it out?-Mny would err-McConway passed to Lau Shu-wing, whatainly know exactly how many starins previously given by his
what took ! would check and, after find-lights were in the building he fellow ing it, to be ecrrect, would cause it was his duty to visit pince on the night of January forward to Mny's' office. jobs dally, and If I only put 3-4 last. He said that during
May would then
check it 19 lights in the premises and 20 the time they were in the Red correct any
were in the inventory it would Lion Bar, some Scots Guarda-
Invalved In be discovered. wrong. were
from
the
over again
and estimintes that
inen
necured of
became
box.
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The form would then be gent If you get goods on loan from fight with an American sailor to Wanchai and finally to the The stores he would not dis-Who had a gun with which he
Hend fee.
threatened cover it. is that correct?--lle When authority for carrying would discover that also be Conway out the job was given Mayenure he, would find a shorloge separated would inform witness in writing. of materials in the other job. Witness would' then check the You misunderstand me. estimate of cost and submit it you got something na the "On to tiny for signature to enable him to obtain materials for the Job,
Mc-
salior
soldiers. the saldi
he and Judge the the men, look sailor outside and put him in to u. rickshaw,
Another American Loun Book" from Wonchal, not whose acquaintance they hud from any other job, May would made in the Bar asked them hot know
would that,
ho?- to accompany him to get somu Yes, I have to inform him.
women, MeConway continued. Even in the ease of applying and the accused went with him tot materials from Wanchal on because the American
sald he
loan, I must first inform Atay would pay for them all.
1 because I cannot borrow any Весливе
SIGNING OF SHEETS Further explaining, Kwok said that the estimate cont sheet was not signed by May estimate job order until the had been approved. He him- self signed the estimate cost ⚫ sheet as soon as it was made loan the
materials from Wanchal with Discussing the incidents in the out a stores order note, and in hut where the alleged rape oc- the of applying for stores (curred, McConway declared that words "on loan" the girl, Lee Yeuk-ngo, offered would also appear on the stores no objection to the attentions of up.
order nota.
the three accused. She was very ...... next
The climate cost sheet was
I suggest to you that when willing, he declared. Wanchal sent to the
McConway Cross-examined, you take things on loan you do storekeeper who would apply not have a stores order note?-denied that the story he had for the materials for him, wit-
That could not be done.
given was agreed upon between continued.
the
three Are any fluorescent lights on the
accused following He admitted he stores were delivered to Wan-toon to you in that "On Loan their detention. chat he would instruct Ho Sung Book" that you signed for and was more drunk than his com- Ch clork in Hunghon) to make have not replaced? No, I never panions.
ness
When
out a stores order nots which | alaned for such fluorescent The trial is proceeding with would be submitted to Maylights in the "On Loan Look.". Counsels' closing sddresses 10
the Jury. for signature, before being sent The trial is proceeding.
1.
Press.
on
SIDE GLANCES
His gelhaistom
fleet.
conversion
- By Galbraith
*COPA 1944 BY HER SERVICE, MIG T. M. REQ. 4. I. PAT, OPEJ
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peace
Therefore, whether it will be n coalition government or a con- tinuation of the civil war; It will be between Mao Tre-tung in the North and Li Tsung-yen In the South.
That Li has today the un- slinted support of the people in the South, particularly from Kwangtung and Kwangsi there is the least doubt.
Whether Chiang - and
-Kni-shek
his clique including his brother-in-law T. V. Soong, Sun Fo. H. 11. Kung and company. are welcomed to this Southern regime, is expremely doubtful,
The miere. mention of this Soong
clan at present, is at once obnoxious and repugnant
to the Chinese, even probably
of greater resentment by the Cantonese.
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(Continued from Page 1)~ Two local labour leaders who como to London for talks on sugar pleaded his causo with the Colonial Secretary. liis critics in the islanda said it was croditable that the Governor should champion the "common man" but he need not have the Shanghal,
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