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Alleged

Rice Arrives From Siam

The Kowloon U.N.R R.A. Port 100ice has received on behalf of C.N.HR.A.. In the port of Hong Kong. 10,800 tons of rice from Siam, part of the allocation of 14,500 tons for the last quar- ter of last year, according to figures at the U.N.R.R.A. office.

This figure includes the 2,000 tons of rice which arrived here yesterday afternoon on board the "Hermelin" from Siam. Of the first shipment of 8,300 tons of rice aboard the "Frank B. here Kellogg," which arrived

st month, 4,000 tons were a Chinese in gift from overseas Siam, while the remaining 4,300 Currency speculators, of course, tons were part of the 11,500 ton

allocation. stand to reap a very substantial, harvest as a result of the decision

Duress Notes

Ahip- Outside of these two

Slam, U.N.R.R.Á.

to recognise, as legal tender. the rent from so-called duress

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1948.

Admission

Defendant

By CHINA DECORATES

THE TRIAL OF GEORGE WONG ON A CHARGE OF HICH TREASON WAS- CONTINUED IN THE SUPREME COURT YESTERDAY WHEN EVIDENCE WAS GIVEN BY WILLIAM CHANG AND WILLIAM LEE, AGENTS OF THE B.A.A.G. IN HONG KONG DURING THE OCCUPATION, BOTH OF WHOM TESTIFIED THAT THEY HAD TO FLEE THE COLONY ON LEARNING| THAT WONG WAS ON THEIR TRAIL.

HARCOURT

The President of the Na- tional Government of China, with the consent, ¿f His Ma- jesty the King, här conferred

the

Hia Excellency Vice- Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, K.C.D., C.B.E., Commander- in-Chief, Hong Kong, Order v_the_lal #ખતે Banner in recognition of kis anaistence to "China, teas" effort.

A SUGGESTION MADE TO WILLIAM LEE IN CROSS- EXAMINATION BY THE DEFENDING COUNSEL THAT WONG WAS ENGAGED IN SELLING GUNS TO THE GUERILLAS IN THE VICINITY OF HONG KONG! WAS REPUDIATED BY WITNESS WHO SAID THAT HE HAD NOT GATHERED THIS IMPRESSION FROM HIS CONVERSATION WITH THE ACCUSED IN APRIL, 1943..

BY EXECUTION

Asked if he knew that Man 18 no arm-bands were issued by

AT STANLEY

The first execution at Stan-

fey Prison since the reoccupa tion of Hong Kong, was carri-

ed out on April 1, when Lam the Koa Ki-kan?

Tim-choung, 27-year-old vill- ager of the Kam Tin village, Witness: I don't know if this in so or not.

Mr. Kwan: About Dec. 11 or Taipo, was hanged.

was found guilty

on 12 when the Japanese entered Lam

confusion In March 2 by a General Military there was great

Court of the murder of his Kowloon?

|

Witness Asks If He May "Beat" Accused

ONE OF THE WITNESSES AT THE RESUMED HEARING YESTERDAY OF THE TRIAL OF 15 JAPANESE ACCUSED OF VARIOUS ATROCITIES ON LANTAU ISLAND REQUESTED PERMISSION TO BEAT UP ONE OF THE JAPANESE ACCUSED "FOR ONE OR TWO 'MINUTES" WHILE IDENTIFYING HIM.... " THE WITNESS, HO YICK, ÅSKED BY THE PROSECUTING OFFICER TO IDENTIFY ACCUSED, SAID "MAY, I BE PERMITTED TO BEAT UP THE ACCUSED FOR ÖNÉ OR TWO MINUTES?" THE REQUEST WAS REFUSED- AND THE COURT ORDERED WITNESS TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A GUARD "TO SEE THAT THERE IS NO NONSENSE." -

Officer, against witnean manner he is at all justified in showing

Tho witness then went up to the | Identifies an acensed. The Court accused, Kishi Yasuo, laid his must bear in mind that there in an hand heavily on is shoulder and amount of feeling and the Court returned to the witnces box. will judge whether this is con- A protest by the Defending tempt of Court or not: whether

witness his feelings towards this man The Identification led being cd are Llout. Kishi Yasue,

of course, cautioned by the President. Prosecution, of

Ahm по Accused

repibility. Leat.

Matsumoto Chozaburo

Ho Yick, you President: The

warned there W/O Yanagizawa Sadao, S/M were carefully Kodavia Migutostr

hida | wee to be na scene when the iden

of

Jess, basurd ?cia slao received in the port of) was what Wong had told him of entered there was great corfu on Jan. 21 by shooting her with

the place, that rice

from the Hong Kong and Shang. Hong Kong, 18,000 bugs, weigh hai Bank during the Japanese oc-ing 100 pounds each, of from the States, aboard

which cupation and

"Nairabank,” finance

the arrived

Ping Shan, where Wong offered him a job na his "adviser," was not occupied by the Japanese and was a part of Free China where a Communist guerilla unit had its headquarters, the same witness, William Lee, said that all he knew of Man Ping Shan it was near Macao, When Wong offered him the job, he had specified, that it used by them to

would require the wearing of a operations, here on February 12, the first War Ching-wei uniform. important

The Court comprises Mr. Leo these notes have been at a heavy ship to bring American rice into discount, at all times more than the Colony since the war ended. d'Almada e Castro (President). 50 per cent. since the original pro

The second and last shipment Major J. B. Kite and Major C. American rice was F. Miles. Mr. M. A. da Silva. clamation which ordered them to to date of

in suspense until such aboard the "Dr. Lykes" which assisted by Mr. R. S. Smith, ia be held

while Mr. Hin- tinte as the Government and the also arrived here in February, proserng, Bank were able to make up their with 47.666 bags of rice, weighshing La inntructed by Mr. H. b.

Kwan, is for the defiance.. minds how to deal with them.ing 100 pounds to the bag.

The rice is received in Hong The proceedings opened yes- Now

agreciment 113 reached, and the notes :ank equal-Kong by U.N.R.R.A. and turned terday morning with the

over to C.N.R.R.A. for distri- turn of William Chang to the ly with all other notes issued by button in China. The remain witness-box. Questioned by the the Bank, those who were pre-ing 4,200 tona of rice from the President of the Court, witness pared to take a gamble have earn- Siam allocation for China, is replied that George Wong had here in the not told him when he had been el a rich dividend. The decision, expected to arrive

China. The sear driving in

lch Wong had showed him one. It was was not a fresh completely healed. He

has been

of course, could hardly have been near future.-Assocfated Press.. otherwise. The knowledge that

these likely principally to gain

would be speculators and

說

crst-

while collaborators might have distinct tinge of the ironic. but could make little dif- ference in principle. The sim- plest analogy, possibly, would be that of a man forced to sign sheque with a pistol at-his head,

of

WOOD DEALER FINED

Wing.

The

I

re-

could

M. Kwan: Was there a kind of arm-band half red and half while?

last Monday.

Money Mart

ro

Riichi, tification took place. Witness: When the Japanese adopted mother, Li Tze-kiu, iroshi, Sergt.

Sato

Ho Yick: I did not strike him. Yoshio, Sergi, Yoshi

The President: Interpreter, tell Gunichi

On. Kamishira

Takenaica the witness that I have consulted ston. There was a lot of peo la gun.

L/Cpl. Ando Takachi, the honourable members of this Lam was executed at 7am-1st Cinas Pte. Takahashi Haru- Court and they have come ink he ple with red arm-bands and; white arm-bande going about.

hiko. Pte. Nishizawa Kenro, Pte. decision that they do not think he Uemura Gisaku and Pte. Okamoto quite struck the nocused the identi

fied. If he had done so he would trial is

being heard before have been dealt with for contempt Witness: I don't remember.

The Hong Kong Dollar

Court Military Tribunal comprising: of Mr. Kwan: In fact, at that covered in value yesterday after President, Lieut. Col. J. C. Sto- Ho Yick began saying some- time, nobody was allowed on the its temporary setback the pre-wart (Department of the J.A.G. thing and was told by the Presi

Witness: No, that's not true.vious day caused by the duress in India: Major M. I. Ormsby, dent street without an arse-band?

West Yorks Regiment; and Cap-; decision. This was notes saw a lot of Chinese moving flected in the sharp drop in both tain B. N. Kaul, Frontier Farca The Court understand your feel. about Kowlon carrying furniture C.N. and gold.

Regiment, and all sorts of things

Accused's Scar Mr. Kwan: I put it to you that you did not see George Wong at att on Dec. 14?

Witness: I saw him and spoke to him,

Mr. Kwan: You said that ac cused show you a scar in Aug ust. 1942. How big was it?

Witness: (After drawing on

not hazard a guess now it could a piece of paper the approxim-

ate size of the scar); About have been caused.

croas-ex- 11⁄2 inches in diameter. then Witness was amined by Mr. H. L. Kwan for

Currency

The Prosecuting Officer i Cap- tain J. F. Reilly, Staff Captain (Legal), H.Q. A.L.FS.E.A., and the Defending Officer Lieutenant M. Croft, R.A.S.C., assisted by Captain Moti Singh, Jodhpur Re- ginient.

"No Nonsenso”

to keep allent. Continuing the President said:

ings but you must behave your telf while you are a witness in an

onourabin Court.

Water Torture

In evidence, Ho Yick said he was 27 years of age, and was a business man from Chung Hau village. On August 1 while he was attending to business he

Chinese National opened at H.K.$2.55 to C.N. $1,000 for futures and $2.60 for pot, and dropped to $2.39 anti $2.48 respectively at the close.

The drop in Gold was nearly its spurt. as spectacular s Opening at $430 a tael, five During his evidence, Ho Yick heard rifle sounds. He then closed points lower than the previous paid be recognised the Japanese the door. Not long afterwards. day's close, it followed a one- he had geen execute Tsang Saue

Sau the sounds ceased some

me Lo Pak and Lam Fook, two of his clans-Tau (Japanese) came and a bullet Capt. Reilly then asked Ho instruck him on the back. He, his wife and dla two-year-old son come down and point out to the were arrested, together with other Court the Japanese o executed villagers. They were taken in the those

swimming shed where he saw Lam hose men, touching him on shoulder.

Fook and Tsang Sau executed by Kishi

ny, and chent throughout the day, and closed at $298.

English Sterling made a sud- den spurt to $16.90 buyers and Mr. Kwan: On which leg was $17 sellers, due to a sudden de the defence. Asked if the car the scar?

seen first he had

Witness: On which leg I don't mand for these notes. which

U.S. dollars had buyers at But it was on the 64.45 for big notes and $1.40 George Wong after the Japan- remember.

Australian pounds, for small. were unchanged at $12.50. dsc ccupation of Kowloon was Labin. an open or a closed one, witness

in

UNION HOUSE CAFE SUMMONED

A well-dressed Chinese woman, Cheung Ngoi-chun, of the

your

"FISH DYNAMITE""

men,

the

The President See that there no repetition of what we had yes terday.

It was at this point, when asked ́ by Capt. Rollly to identify the Japanese, that Ho requested per- mission of the Court to beat him

After Ho had left the witness stand and was about to identify the Japanese, he said: Mr., Pre- sident could vos eive me one or

He said that his wife was re- two minutes to beat him?

The President: I want a guard leaned that night but he was de tained and question, During inter- to ge round with this man to see rogation, he was beaten with the handle of a hummer. about 1wo that there is no nonsense.

He then went up to Kishi. laidindses thick. He was then riven

witart :

Before Ho left the Witness stand to identify the dcoused, the President said: Before you go back to the Dock on this occasion. you are warned that if you do anything that approaches striking else who believes in the wisdom one of the accused, you won't be

Readers' Letters

The Chosen People

Union House Cafo, known to the Chinese as Tai Chung movements; were they restrict- countrymen I did not thrfil with the fortunate fav who have re-it is impossible for him to strike

Wah Cafe, No. 237 and 239, Des Voeux-Road. Central, was summoned before Mr. George She at the Summary Military Court yesterday on a charge of selling intoxi. cating liquors without a licence on March 23, and with possession of 39 tins of butter of a type issued to H.M. Forces.

edt.

-(Continued on Page 5).

inhony.

A wood dealer, Pun was fined $100 by Mr. W. H. Latimer yesterday for poses ing 1,700 cattics of timber rea- sonably suspected of being un- lawfully obtained.

Al this point acensed was Inspector Collins stated that April 1. the cashing of the cheque by a on the afternoon of small shopkeeper, with the quesCaptain Roland of the 907 Port replied that it was a closed carbrought out of the dock and left shin as the one that ac-

a Pleading not guilty to tion arising. Should the, shop- Operation Coy, and a party of It was proceeding at about 20 witness identified a scar on his No. 34 Bedford miles per hour.

Mr. Kwan: You said yester-cused had shown to him.

unlawful possession keeper be the individual to suffer? pollee went to

Mr. Kwan: With regard to charge of was a white arm-band day it

recured in of two hand grenades and say It has been the time lag in an-Street, premises of necused, and

meeting, the podncing the decision that has found the wood.

court that Accured was wearing. You are your

the allegeding that he thought they were Accused told the

Sept. 1942, and sure it was not red"--No. provided the bounty for the specute bought the timber from a

the Chung'sing radio fish dynamite, a Chinese. Lee Mr. Kwan: Could you see the raid on

station, I put it to you that Ka, was sentenced to two weeks his hand heavily on his shoulder the water torture three times with latura. The original conditions European serviceman who came

Witness: They were black you did not see accused at all hard labour by Mr. W. H. Lati- and returned to the witness stand. three buckets of salt water after

mer yesterday, Sub-Inspector

he had denied that he was the were to a large extent on all fours to his shop by a military lorry characters on the arm-band?

Defence Pratost

of the Japanese, enemy

Three with those suggested by the He paid $800 for the lot.

D. G. Cutler told the court that Not Restricted

Lieut. Oroft, the Defending the accused was searched and ar-

Japanese gave him the water analury. The point of chief in-timber was identified by Cap-characters on a white urm-band on that day.

Witness: Yes I did see him.

lent way in which Ho identified he did not know their names he terest, in the circumstances, is tain Roland as part of the cargo but I could not read them. Kowloon Confusion

Mr. Kwan: Nor that he told rested on the morning of Apriri Dificar, then protested at the vin- treatment, he said. and although what effect the acceptance of the of the S.S. Empire Mortimer. It

Mr. Kwan: As a spy for the you he was on his way to raid, at Ta Ku Ling Road, Kow- the accused.

loon City. The grenades were Capt. Reilly: The Prosecution, could identify them in Court.

. President's Warning notes as legal tender will have was to be transferred to the

of a Japanene type, and not used or course, has no responsibility upon economic conditions in this . E. Dump, and would be used

for the rehabilitation of the Co-BA.A.G. did you not discover a Chungking radio station.

Witness: He did tell me.

for fishing.

for the way in which a afterwards that from Dee. 12 to part of the world. The amount

to Mr. Silva: With regard lony. involved is a considerable one,

what was said about people not and it will come virtually as new

heing allowed no the streets at the perlod mentioned without money into what is already, re-

Rn arm-band, did you wear an latively, a glutted market. On

arm-band? the other hand, circulation

Witness: I did not wear an

of weighing evidence before form-free man, Court Orderly, will money is comparatively slow, and

arm-band.

SirTo my overlasting shamsing an opinion; but in all ages go with the witness and see that And Mr. d'Almada: the expectation, therefore, is that

I confàs that alone among my

ceived communiqués direct from the accused. absorption of the funds' now, re-

Ho then identified Takenaka, patriotic pride on reading Michael the Divine Press Agency Lave leased will be accomplished with-

Fry's article on the Chosen been able to di pense with auch Yoshikawa and Kishi.

Chilinging Ho said that after out any great disturbance of mar

People of God."""4_

d." consider that cumbersome methods

in them- the water torture, he was beaten These points ket conditions, and that the

are,trivial the majority of whose

consciousnes3. HAD A PISTOL

lost. all do not belong to the selves, and the ather wide scope and thought of inflation need not cause undue concern. Price levels

Anglo-Saxon race, its publication taken in by the descendants of When he recovered he was tied up For the unlawful possession being where they, are, the Co

of an unserviceable..32 auto was to say the lens: tactices and the tribes is perhaps admissable with wire and suspended on tony can handle à fiduciary note

matic pistol, two Chinese, Lal the propagation of the idea of so far: but when for the sake pole in the swimming shed for Wah and Lai Pan, war with Russia being inevitable of a political alliance the dent-three days, His toes, he said, bare- issue substantially higher than

hardly

seems the most officacious tion is extended to the motiry by died the ground.

Here, fio showed the marks on Mr. Y K Kan pleaded- not, retrieved a receipt from a file Chun pre-war without creating, infla

way of maintaining world peace. ssociation of races who live

United States. one his hands and feet to the Court tionary conditions. The trouble, if guilty on both nummons. Ind- of receipts. The receipt was were sentenced to

quibble.

an apparent bullet wound ip only rise pector 11. Seil appeared for the given to him by a Chinese who hard labour by Mr. W. H. Lati-ome of the arguments of the within the

But at the counter he presumed mer yesterday. Inspector An- British Israel Society were, se feels entitled to out of the two and middle or left shoulder blade.

In view of the any appears,

to their

Asked by

the Frosecuting Officer through the inability of trade and prosecution.

Inspector D. R. Fyffe, Oficer he was the shroff. The receipt drews, stated that on April 1 confusing to this humblo layman

detectives searched the that I would be grateful to any tribes who did return industry in the Colony to employ in Charge of Central Police was written In Chinese and was two

accused in Canton Road. The reader who would clarify the homeland we might feel justified when he received the bullet wound, in disclaiming the honour the so-He said that he was wounded on

night

ht of August 10, The foi- new money usefully.. at the pre- Station, said that together with for liquor worth $8.

Witness then assisted in a pistol was found on first accused. altuation.

Overlooking the remote possibi-ciety so generously offers. At all the

he said, his wife re- sent time. Were world can- another European Police Officer

not be un events. Divino care

up to its old standards in England ditions to put us in a position to he went to No. 237 Des Voeux general search of the premises. Second accused told the court

any one branch of the human race lately: I remember huite cinbark on expansion progranimes, Road Central about 7 p.m. on the large number of liquors in that first accused owed him $7.00 lity that Adam may

co suffering the influx would do much good evening of March 23. The pre- bottles were found. A list of and gave him the piatel. They authentic historical personage, can

In the last seven horribly misen in question were being the wines was signed in the pre- found a buyer and he handed it claim prior detinetion as direct of the chosen and little, conceivable harm,

used as a European styla rez. pence-of the accused who was back to the Brst accuset. First descendants of the common an and a little heaven sent maom their bodies were buried in the

accused however pleaded guilty. restor? There is a possibility and a

be that some of the Jews who disto oke out the rations would sand by six Japanese. As to tho homes. Porather villagers who were arrested. welcome in many turant. Witness and the other then standing at the counter.

When witness was in the res- The pistol was ordered to

appeared around 500 BC. may officer were in plain clothes.

have found their way to Britain, haps what the society, has in Ha said that some were beaten. They went to the mezzanine turant he did not order any food confiscated to the Arms Office. News of Hong Kong residents floor and sat down at a table. A nor was any offered by the wai;

GAMING HOUSE but if they did their religious mind is to colestial gift of anime were given the water torture

Wife Killed in England:

For kerplae a common gaming integrity was apparently not all atomic weapon which enables us and others led the

one would desire, as any werain to destroy loss favoured

I feel that "oft spoken,

dap Miss Phyllis Woolley is en-menu was given to them by ter.

During the afternoon session, a walter. Witness naked for two In cross-examination, witness gared to be married.

The waiter sald that he had already paid for house aside the Central Market of Jehovah which they may have T. Vanthall has extended his drinks of gin.

short the drinks he ordered, and re- about 8.30 p.m. on Tusaday, Hul introduced had perished at the port Harold E. Stough and the leave. for his marriage to Mins went downstairs for a Nancy Grady, who was also at while and returned with a colved two dollars change. He Cheung was fined $50 or two time of the Roman conquest. Row. Lamk would be better ad 20-year-old woman, Li Taun, Hike only went to the counter and weeks' imprisonment by Mr. O. Even if we admit the immigration vised to devote their intellects, wiss identified Kishi Yasuo as the bottle of gin and two glasses, Stanley..

yesterder. The waiter poured out the asked for the receipt. There an at the Summary. Metary of part of of the ton tribes, and you, sir, to devote your valu man who executed her husband,

Eleron Others who failed to apo in Britain talay is able to able space, to developlos: foolings Lam Fook, and "Thang Say. drink and witness gave him were three Chines downstairs!

of few villagers in Wales and some stead of spreading these porni- Kishi Yasuo, while she was detain ten dollar bill. The waiter wrote having drinks of beer Two of pear in Court en had to prove his descent therefrom? A of International brotherhood, Kin-rald that she saw the execution by

had their bail of $5 dach Cornishmen might claim the dis- clous Herrenvolk. doctrines, which ed together with other

tinction, and also men of Brittany will tead to a war Awar in by Jaunere in the

which out a receipt and went away then were Chinese, ́ ́detectivead gam

I am auro, God will show shed, Chinese Bub-Inspector Lau said, and Ireland, but I believe they

Next witness called was with the money. Later, he came them were Chinese detective back with two dollars change from the Central Police Statio

He asked a Chinese man at that accused were soon playing a are excluded from the selost and his customary: impartiality by and without any receipt,

Marked the counter for the licence for game of "Pau Kan" on a table The rest of ur sarea mongrel destroying chosen

and Norman, with A sum of $16.00 picked up dur sprinkling of Flemish blood for selling liquor. The man told hours here after-class product of Roman Saxon, Dane, other rac him that they had permission

* Imagine the anal "poor box.

can

HONG KONG FOLKS

'AT HOME

4

The marriage of Pamela Prit- chard has been annulled.

OPIUM DIVAN ·

A fine of $2,500 or nine months' hard labour was imposed by C. Y. Kwan on Yan Sang at the Summary Military Court yrator-

-

The officer and witness took their, drinks and sat there for

day for keeping an opium has at 27 Burd Street, first floor while About 7.46 pm, a party on April-2

No.

the

raco

a

lowing moved th

balist with a pair of

Dincers

small

Ho enld that alter Tsang Sau years, and Lam Fook had been executad

peoples.

INFIDEL ROYAL SIGNALS,

She

villagers

swimming

RB well as Fook. 47, farmer. He said that st2 p.m. on August 19 he heard Rifle

fire while

his, sick serving wife at home. One hour later, he romo Japanese came to conAH

He managed to ran but his sick wife was

of Pofca entered the premises. fromff the S.C.A, to carry on, and in the raid was placed in the measurasyteMPAWportion or who lias Jost arrivedžin the Colony, in the house 1On re-

C.S.I.Iau sald that premises A European officer came up

R_WET-

stairs and noted what witness were putered by virtue of

and rant nine lamps; AvoTM pipes and a coñaldorable amount of pre- was drinking. As pared oplum were found on the Premises Searched.

floor. The opium, pipes atxi lamps were ardered. fiscatod.

con-

Inspector Fyffe than wont down to the counter, where he

in the meantime, a licence had

Two vessels, carrying been applied for through the

Service Police The accused failed to produce any signed document men and civilian repatriates left Hong Kong yesterday, the "Strath either by the Police or the 8.0.A. more falling for Houthampton After hearing further avid and the Bonsventure far Aus once, the onse was adipurbed, outralla.

The now BC. Chaplain, RAF Fay the dimcult obstacle to kg, and who has spent over 25 years left oneandlous to convince skeptics In South India, will given los turaleg to his bome two hours ture at the Catholic Centre on latory ho found bis wife had been

killed by Japanese, of theɗs, srest truth. The Har Eatement "the Kebrows were the South Indian not Semitic ce convinico a historia

not pa today," Adges

22he case was "adjourned"

the:fecture la opem t