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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 19:3946.

SENTENCED TO DEATH Wong Found Guilty Of High Treason

"The Return Of

Justice"

THE COLONY'S FIRST TRIAL FOR HIGH TREASON CON- CLUDED LATE LAST EVENING WHEN SENTENCE OF DEATH WAS PASSED BY A CENERAL MILITARY COURT ON George Wong, former MOTOR-GAR- ACE EMPLOYEE, WHO WAS found GUILTY AFTER A TRIAL LASTING 13 DAYS. WONG APPEARED TO BE MORE IN COMMAND OF HIM- SELF THAN AT ANY STAGE OF THE TRIAL AS HE HEARD SENTENCE OF DEATH PASSED ON HIM AND STOOD ERECT, SQUARING HIS SHOULDERS. HE IM- MEDIATELY TURNED AND DESCENDED THE STAIRS LEADING TO THE CELLS BELOW.

No Paper Tomorrow

Today being Good Friday, there will be no issue of the "China Mai!" tomorrow. The "Sunday Herald" will publish as usual and publication of the "China Mall" will be resumed on Monday morning.

The Geurt was jammed with Court, counsel was signed by COURT MARTIAL

spectatora, most of them Chi- mura, to hear the verdict, while Wont was guarded in the dock by three Commandos instead of the solitary

guard previous days,

on

the Crown for you: defence. Your counsel. lave spared net- byr ting nor labour in your des | & nut. They have tione their utmost for you, but with- out vail because in the eyes of Reintives of the accused were purent in Court and his wife you is conclusive. - burst into loud and unrestrained Bebe As sentence

was passed.

On returning to the Court room following the adjournment when the verliet was being con- sidered, Mr. d'Almada addressel

Singapore Chinese Expelled

London, April 18.

Ten Chinese have been ex- pelled from Singapore udnor the civil law of the colony on the ground that their 'expul-

sion was necessary to public good order. This reply was givon by Mr. George Hall, Colonial Secretary, in the

OF"OSWALD C.O. House of Commons today to a

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mand.rient man".

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White Rajah

this Court the evidence against Alexander Fraser, 39, former Singapore Labour Union had Denies Bribe

Fair Trial

In the Mediterranean

were

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RICE STOCKS HELD IN SIAM

LONDON, APRIL 18. CONSIDERABLE STOCKS OF RICE ARE KNOWN TO BE HELD IN SIAM, PROVIDING A KEY SOLUTION TO THE PRESSING FOOD PROBLEM IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA, ACCORDING TO A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE SINGAPORE FOOD CONFERENCE: THE CONFERENCE, WHICH RESOLVED TO DO ALL IN

ITS POWER TO PREVENT ANY CUTS OF FOOD IN. ITS AREA, WAS ATTENDED BY THE GOVERNORS OF BURMA, CEYLON, THE MALAYA UNION, HONG KONG, THE SINGAPORE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE, INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS, THE BRITISH MINISTER TO SIAM AND THE BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL IN SAIGON,

The communique's reference

to Siam's rice stock is of parti- cular interest here in view of

the unconcealed opinion of the M.K. LO RESIGNING

Siament Government that the peace treaty with Britain of January, 1946 (which stipulated that Siam provides 1,600,000 tons of river reparations) Is too harsh and should be re- vised

The "Ching Hail under stands that Mr. M. K. Lo, who has so successfully carried out the duties of Rics Controller, Intenta, to

to resign the end of the month

ath and return, to practico era solicitor.

Mr. Lo

has occupied a difficult position in a ficult period and the thanks of the community go to him for him untiring and selfless efforts on their behalf.

question by Mr. Piratin, Com- London, Apr. 18. munist Member, who had ask Licut, Commander David ed how many feaders of the

It is presumed here that the commander of the British sub-boen. deported, on what

large blocks of rice known to be held by Sinene dealors could marine "Oswald", pleaded not grounds, to what country and

be mude They remained in the enuriga za "You have had fair treatment guilty before a Portsmouth under what authority.

available quickly. Kuching, Apr. 18, Long after the Court was fearnt the fair trial for which Bri-court martial yesterday to five

Meanwhile, the nutritional con- Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, el od were escorted home in a tiah justice is renowned.

Mr. Hall added: "These per- white Rajah of Sarawak, today forence, which in May will fol relice van.

It is charges arising out of the loss sons were already detained by denied allegations by R3-year-old low the present Singapore food for this reason that the Court of the "Oswald".

the Military. The Court, comprising Mr. holds that a verdict passed upon

Administration Datu Pattinggi, a Malay member discussions, underlines the Len 'Almada e Castro (Presi- | yoù i

his case

after having attempted, in de- of the on

conditions throughout be a surplus available for ex- means much dent, Major J. B. Kite and more. It signifies the return of August 1, 1940, the vessel was finnce of police instructions, to that arewak Supreme Council, diverse

offered to the Southeast Asia area, which port, providing that transport" to this Colony and to rammed by arr Italian destroyer February 15, which would have to sign a statement

organise à demonstration Magor, C. P: Miles, deliberated Justice

on Malay chieftains to induce the contains an immense population, was available. for slightly under an hour be- this room.

and tank when the main vents

agreeing to most of whom are not meat The Netherlands News fore rotuthing with a verdict of Death in the penalty of the very opened. Three ratings of been prejudicial to law and or the proposed cession of the terri caters and some of whom do not Agency in Batavia reported that

|tory to Britain. Fully.

crime of which you have been the crew of 56

were drowned der.

Datu Pattinggi had announced

the island of Lombok, east of cat wheat. found guilty by this Court, but the rest were captured.

"A warning had been given intention of bringing, the once ans

While the Singapore confer Java, had 1,000 tons of rico. his You

these individuals are sentenced to death. The charges against Fraser to

before alleged offer of "bribes"

been in nessin the available for 'export. to tire The sentence is subject to the were that he did not do his ut-action was taken. I am advised British Parliamentary

Mission.

world wide food crisis has confirmation of the Senior Olmost to bring the "Oswald" into that these men were in no sense which is due to arrive in Kuching brought developments in other ver la command of His Majesty's action on sight of an enemy

labour fenders and their activi- shortly.

parts of the globe. Forecs in this Colony. By him ship, did not take evasive action ties were making impossible the

Declaring that he and four

Good Harvost directions will be given for the by diving on eighting an undevelopment of trade unions o

other

Malay members of the Su- Lord Killearn's reported manner, place and time of the known vessel, failed to engage democratic lines, which is now preme Council were privately ap statement that Indonesia had no excention of this sentence.” the enemy ship when the being undertaken by experient-pronched and asked to sign an surplus, has been followed by When the Court adjourned "Oswald" was able to dive, thated trade union officials from agreement, he added: "It was in dispatches from Batavia, capital for the lunch interval yesterday, his orders to the officer this country."

directly conveyed to me that a of days, quoting an fcial of gift would be given to me later. the President, Mr. d'Almada, watch were inadequate and that "They had no real popular owing to bad eyesight, I was un- the indonesian Ministry of remarked on the incident of the he did not take steps to ensure support and their associates had able to read the statement, which Agriculture 48 saying that evening before, when accused's that the "Oswald" was ready for used the wholesale intimidation I believed was a Betition asking Java's rice harvest this year is wife was mobbed by a crowd action when on the surface in of labour to hamper the work of the Rajah to remain. I, there expected to be greater than for shortly after she left the Court. enemy watera. Associated the Government and jeopardise fore, signed it."--Router.

many years past. There would Pret

the speedy -rehabilitation of Singapore. The present ad- ministration of Singapore has only been in existence since April 1 and I see no reason for a public inquiry as suggested." --Reuter.

fle recused,

Mr. d'Alniacin: "George Won: the nanimous verdict of test Court is that you are guilty Have you anything to say why sentence should not be passed 01. yun

Wong: "Nothing."

Gravest Crime

Mr. d'Almada: “George Wong, you have been found guilty of the gravest crime in the Eng list: calendar. You have been found guilty of being a traitor to the Crown which was, inci-

WAR DEAD

Washington, Apr. 18. The Senate Military Com- mineion has recommended that we unknown American sol- diera drod, one from Europe the other from Pacific Theatre

toar,

the

aclected for return to he United States und burial in the Arlington National Ceme- tery-Anunciated Press.

the Court.

.

"When they occupied the building they banished justic from it, yet they left the statue

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on

Vital Divorce Point May Go To Lords

London, April 18.

Following the dismissal of a divorce petition appeal at the Law Courts yesterday, the House of Lords may be called upon to determine a new and vital point in the low relating to the matrimonial clause of affection.

The case was taken to the Court of Appeal by Frederick Raymond Weatherby whose original petition for divorce had been dismissed by Mr. Justice (now Lord Justice) Bucknill last October. "

DRIVER "T" MAY NOT WED GERMAN GIRL

London, April 18.

Spain Last Nest Of Fascism

LONDON, APRIL 18,

AS THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL PREPAR- ÉD TO DISCUSS THE POLISH ALLEGATIONS THAT SPAIN IS HARBOURING NAZIS WITH THE INTENT OF INSTIGATING ANOTHER WAR, MOSCOW RADIO YESTERDAY DECLARED THAT IN THE YEARS OF FRANCO'S RULE SPAIN'S "FINEST SONS

Crop prospects were favour able and supplies from Lombok. and the Caleben, an island be tireen Java and the Philippines, should make the Far East self- supporting, the report added.

Indian troops in Java and Sumatra have offered one month's rations-50 tong of rice to the people of India, a Bri- tish Army spokesman said in Batavia today.

A Bombay Government state- ment said that through Arch- bishop Thomas D. Roberts, of Bombay, the Catholica of Ameri- ca hnd offered to send, to Bom- bay a million pounds (weight) of flour"this offer has been accepted-with- gratitude."--

Whether India sball approach the Soviet Union for food sup- plies depends on a reply from the British Government; Mr. B. K. Sen. Food Secretary, told the Central Assembly in New Delhi today.-Reuter.

PENSIONS

AND DAUGHTERS HAVE BEEN DONE TO DEATH IN STATEMENT

THE FALANGE GAME".

after their acte RAMC Private's

Success

The War Minister was ask-COMMENTATOR Belsa BALSKAYA SAID IN A BROAD-

London, April 18. – dentally, allied to your own Grounds for the petition was ticeBuckner and Mr Justice [ed in the House of Commons CAST HEARD HERE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In future a pensioner of country.

that his wife, Mrs. Susanno | Evershed:

to allow Drivor "T" of the

"FOR SEVEN YEARS THE PEOPLE OF SPAIN HAVE..elther, World War may re- T some it may seem fitting Weatherby, had deserted him Dissenting judgment

BEEN SUFFERING UNDER THE FASCIST YOKE colve an allowance. In respect that retribution should-overtake and the contention wag that given by Lord Justice, Scott who British Army of the Rhine to

DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR FASCIST you in this very building where after living normal married herd that Ly her conduct the marry a German girl to pro-

of his family, provided the your Japanese life from the beginning of the wife had dziiberately broken up you assisted

vent their child being born

SPAIN RENDERED HITLER SERVICES WITHOUT marriage took place within ten mastera in the perpetration of partnership she had announced the matrimonini home. Ha out of wedlock. Mr. Lawson

NUMBER." cruvities not only upon their he had "finished with" maritai pointed cut at the marriage replied: "So long as it is nec-oficially, of course, but that was be sonsidered by the Security be further extension.

| years" of war, service. In cer- They stayed out of the war question of Franco Spain should tain circumstances there may victima but upon their dear ones intercourse and although she service in the prayer book stat-cessary to continue the gener-only to serve Hitler better, Bel-Council received a hearty' wel- who are not here.

ve in the same flat with hired that causes for which matri- af ban on marriage with Cer-skaya continued. "in furtherance of your trai-she refused to resume normal niony was ordained were, first,

Lord Nathan, Parliamentary come everywhere from people Under-Sceretary torous conduct you have lent married relations.

procreation of children, second-mans I regret I cannot, consi- "Strategic raw materials were who really want to see fascism Office, announcing this import- for the war sistance to the Japanese in these Eveitanlly they separated. ly, remedy against sin, and der making an exception in smuggled into Germany through eradicated." Associated Press. atrocities. It is characteristic. On his behalf, both in the thirdly, for mutual society that this partiular caso."

Spain German.

ant change in the House of and Italian of the mentality of your Japan- divorce case and appeal court, it one ought to have of the other. Mrs.

submarines ran to cover in

Lords, said that the Government ess masters that whereas the was unsuccessfully argued that "If these are the essential Member for Flymaith Sutton, of piracy on Middleton, Labour Spanish ports avereignty of the Crown eve the wife's refusal constituted marriage the conduct of his winked the Minister whether he were German war factories on

had decided to meet the 'com. the acas. There

plaint widely stressed.” Ho said: censed. they removed the Roval desertion.

has repudiated all three." Bald was aware that admission fees Spanish

that 175,000 disabled, men would statues from the square outside In the appeal court the ap Lord Justice Scott, in announe were being required for C.R.A. Blue Division fought for Hitler territory. Franco's

henet com the change and peul was dismissed by a ma-ing he would allow an appeal. iority, consisting of Lord Jus-

16,000 awards of family allow entertainments in Austria, that on the Russian front. When the Special Intorost while oflicers and men pay the war ended, thousands of Nazle

nces were already authorised, As his two colleagues took asante admission fees, the best flet to Spain,"

London, Apr. 17. I was hoped to complete the opposite view, Weatherby is still sents wore, reserved for officers

Frivate Otto Fleischer, of the remainder in the next two without his divorce, but leave and the

Fascist Nest -

Royal Army Medical Corps, arriv-months. men could only have

ed at the examination hall of the has been granted to him to what were left after the officers

The commentator spoke of Royal College of Surgeons in his 600,000 disabled med tidbeno- Lord Nathan said that about appeal to the House of Lorde had taken their choice, and that atomic bomb experiment reports

soldier ha fitted by the merease in a'a¬d~ In an there it will not be necessary for charge for occupying a sent re-for submarine-couriera, Healty and in the first examination than 180,000 (widowa ‹had: banc- day of your detention until

Warsaw, Apr. 18him to obtain an attorney-gon served for an officer,.' verdict in this case. It is true Capt. Roman T. Piernick, Unit-eral's flat.

merks in anstorny that you complained of being as-ed States army officer stationed His solicitors stated they elon charges for entertainment a forra of danger to the peace and physiology, and won the cal and some 2,800 parents were saulted some months before your at Berlin, said he was arrested were hoping to take the case to are now made in all major or and security of nations.

now in receipt of increased rates lege' Bisley urize for 1940, trial and the Court has given stetuined and Interrogated for the House of Lords, but 'no" de. } ¬verseas -

Fleischner was admitted to the while 12,000 cases were being commands excopt "One would think that this

examination as an directione that this allegation five days by Russian officers "In ciston had yet been made.. S.E.A.C. For disciplinary and hotbed of fascist aggression of the Vion

Vionna Univerālu punitate reviewed. He promised to alk,... be fully investigated..

Pulian delforms": following :)

and for the Minister of Pensions to The Press Association under-administrative reasons officers were incompatible with the fight him It "It is significant how you devisit to his grandfather and etende the King's Proctor, who and other ranks are allocated so for lasting peace," he declared. of his career in a white one consult the Ford Chancellor

from the nut allege, that the assault had other relatives in a village in was represented at the appeal, parate blocks of seats at ente:The joint Anglo-American-Nasin had driven him. He had about extending the Ums for ap any connection with the case Central Poland.

18, far from being averse tainment in many oversona Frunch declaration on Spain studied at Vienus when the Maxis Deals Renter

• brought against, you by the He declined to name the vil the case being taken to the final commands, but a reasonable pre oarly last month proved a sorry, marched into Austry and be feit Crown, for Instance that it was lage because he said his relatives cuurt of the nation thereby giv- portion of higher priced seats adéquate half measure. It to England and joined the British

THE WEATHER In no way any attempt to ob- informed him they were "tering un opportunity for a definite would normally be allotted to did nothing to help the Spanish army outer

oday'a forecast: Falf to tain an admission, let alone arorista and feared to speak the rullag on a point which has other ranks. L'am not aware of people,

moderate casterly winds. confession from you,

Ho boon since instances which (miloco- you were given the subject colonel in Warsaw instructed portion was made, the cause of tiny, ha estat go to ation ra

show that wit

esterday's temperaturos:--

P488 deg at poin matter of the_charge at the him to "tall the American (an- divotre." committal ® proceedings; ; where | basay that all Americans are be- - Tho cáne has, aroused special guendi 21. "IvDERE

of Justice remaining upon this TERROR SM IN

buskling.

Conclusiva Evidence

"You have been treated with scrupulous fairness. from the

SOV ET ZONE

Land if he wirkos to take the case a coldler had been put on and ports used as meeting placen Hall in English Univer" | ard ratch now being paid.-Mora

hid:

anid Spain was the "remains of for the

bo

Mr. Lawson replied: "Admis-/the nest of. Fascism in Europe," rained.P. and M.R.0.84tted from the

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