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GAS WORKS STRIKE
its first The Colony had major post-war labour strike yesterday when employees of the Cas Works did not return to work following refusal of the management to meet their of demand for a rostoration HO WING-{LEo Shai Wong Sunday pay. The strike af- Aged 62 years. Gorteer Wfected only the Hong Kong PRA 4he Monument at 6:39
Works. On the main- Friday 8th Mar 25 1946 and will then
proceed
nd the men were still to the Crematorium, Soskum work, but they, too, may pe. wher 1 Tast ndex (Three bow.) will tools.
p.m. on
Jerved. My flowers by er por
FRENCH REVERSAL
against
the
at down
A Liar"
A STRONG PROTEST BY MR. R.S. SMITH AGAINST AC- CUSED CALLING A CROWN WITNESS "THE BIG- GEST LIAR HE HAD MET IN HIS LIFE” WAS LODGED DURING THE CONTINUED HEARING BEFORE MR. C. Y. KWAN OF THE CASE IN WHICH J. J. RICHARDS IS CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON. EVIDENCE WAS ALSO GIVEN BY MR. 'A. 'H. CARROLL, STATED THAT HIS ASSISTANCE WAS WHO SOUGHT IN SOLVING THE BRIDGE NOTES CODE AND BY MR. F. R: ZIMMERN, WHO SAID THAT HE MET ACCUSED BY APPOINTMENT AND WAS IN- FORMED BY ACCUSED THAT HE WAS WORKING FOR THE GENDARMERIE AND WAS MAKING IN- QUIRIES WHY 'HE WITNESS, WAS REQUESTING A TRAVEL PERMIT TO MACAO.
Also
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Toky”, May 8. General Dougies Mao- Arthur, Allied 'Supreme Commander in Japan, today ordered the Japanese Goveni- ment to notify the Eire Government that Setsu Bepp Japanaza Commul-General in Dublin, "no
official positionnger holda hin Beppu continue to occup his position in spite of repsut cd orders from his govern. ment to turn over all the faci lities of his office to reprezen- tatives of the Allied Powers in Dublin Reuter,
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prevented her. She aeen her husband sinec.,
Asked by Mr. Kwan if he had any questions to put to Mr. R. S. Smith, assisted by Accused anid there was no witness, accused said she was Cónsumers will be advised
due course by individual CHINA LIGHT AND POWER Mr. O'Donovan, is for the pro-reason why they should not go the biggest liar he had met in in sectition. Accused is not legally to Macao but he wanted an his life.
notice of the amount required, Service
not was
affected.
Mr. Smith protested strongly GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. undertaking that witness would represented.
COMPANY LIMITED However, as Service personnel Captain Yatagal Suken, in evi-not go to the interior from against the Accused's insult to
Witness promptly stepped in to keep the dence, said that he was on the Maca).
agreed to the Crown witness. orks running.
Accused then Informed staff of the Hong Kong Gendar-that Yesterday representatives of
fle remembered BC-witness that, in all probability, | questions. merie.
had worked aa mployers and employed called
the application would be grant- cused, who The vote of the French gepon the Assistant Labour Officer civilian adviser to the Gendar-ed.
"Bridge Problems" Witness and accused chat-
The lust witness yesterday draft condit utine!! must here as a profound an endeavour to arrive at Americ, but was in fact an in-ted for a time on general topica was Mr. A. H. Carroll, share- former. He identified accused's and during the conversation a broker, who said that in Nov. alock to the Communist Serialist ettlement, but no progress was Tel: It is understood the
Identification card as issued by cused said that he was cut 1943, he was approche y THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC are hereby notified that the majority in the Constituent As only concession made by the sembly. Expectations were that as Works was to pay a fort. the Gendarmerie under his sea! | help people' in prison. Accused man, who introduced accused to
referred to Ho Wing and said hint. Accused and responsibility.
requested him they would carry it only the night's wages tu the two dia-
Witness
identified a that if his relatives would ap to solve some bridge problema votes which they obtained seven misfitors whose reinstate-badge" which, he said, was is-proach him, accused, he would and handed him some problems. months ago, but abo those of ment the strikers had demand-sued to all Japanese employees use tia influence to get him
Accused told him that he held ed caclier,
similar to a sergeant many Frenchmen of every party)
Representatives of the strik- of the Gendarmeric and to all out of prison. Witness did not ca
advisers, foreign
including convqy this invitation to Mr. major In the Gendarmerie. or pone who held that a Con
ets said yesterday
Ho Wing's relatives..
This put witness on his guard stituting with Haws now would bej
principal demand was
Behind the badge was a num-
Carried Pistol
The Company regrets that butter than it alternative restoration of Sunday Payber which was registered as is-
Mrsday Yung-fong said been arrested about that time.from this date until further ¿second Constitüent Assembly and which they had been receiving sued to accused,
that, on June. 16, 1943, at about
Witncan said that it seemed notice, no Neon Signs may be the whole task to be re-dose, To since the -re-occupation. They Witness said he first heard 10 p.m., George Wong, accused to him that the "bridge pro- connected to the the result, therefore, mast he seen said that they had been paid for of accused in 1943 but met him and
Company a Japanese came to her blems" were a cade and told supply. an even more emphatic election Sunday even when no work was only in February. 1945 at the house asking for her son, Jackie accused ao. Accused then ask- whereabouts of ed him for his help and wit proposal dute ind when there was work Headquarters, Supreme Court Inu, and the of the single-chamber
They were paid double rates.
lle was approached by accused William Lec. She told them néas suggested that the code be than is actually indicated toy Statements that they had de regarding his salary, He had that her son had gone to the left behind. This was done. figure
mallel treble pay for Sunday
Ther searched the but accused warned him that enough. It will also be seen a wark, and double when there been previously paid by or country.
Shiozawa, chief of the C.1... house unsuccessfully for her if the code were lost he would | THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC a noteworthy triumph for the was no work, were not correct.
who was transferred to the son and later took her husband, lose his head. A week later,
CO., LTD. Populas Republica Movement; they said.
on the re-in custody. Accused was arm-witness returned the code say- The men added that follow. Police department led by M. Bidault, the Foreiga
the Gandared with a revolver and pointeding that he could not solve it. Minister, and generally assoriating the arceptance by the Gas organisation
Accused did not know it into the back of her husband In fact, said witness, he made merie.
being led down 'no attempt to do so and had ed with General de Gaulle, and Works of their
made enquiries from witness the staircase. She tried to had no intention of trying. the new elections to be held in for improved working condi-by whom he was to be paid and while he was
Hearing, will be continued Juns will create a must primarks and increased pay their and also about his future posi-follow them down the staircase
Sunday pay was cancelled, so
but accused intercepted and this morning.
which
ir conclusive
that their Chinese.
for the
recent request
able situation if they do not enthat in effect they were getting dorse the referendum by sending less than they had been receiv- M. Bidnt back with a
ing. Ma jority. The issue in the referen.. A further meeting with the
Labour Officer dum was plain enough and the Assistant, issue in the election will mainly "cheduled for today. tw. Lift single-Chaither
be the same.
parties. want a
The
: parliament with unlimited pow-
ers, unchecked by the President |
of the Republic (whom it is it
is
tion.
of
"An Informer" Witness told accused that he would be dismissed
as from February 1945 and would not be entitled to any pay from the Gendarmerie."
In reply to Mr. Smith, as to
Film Review the work accused was doing for
"State Fair"
Century
.
as several of his friends had
Readers' Letters
plunge and expose the people of Hongkong to all forms of exploita tion rather than defer the ques of Belf-government auch time as Hongkongites have proved their fitness?
SIMPLE SIMON.
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GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. Agents.
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Hong Kong. 8th May, 1946.
One year's hard-labour was im- posed os Wong Fun by Mr. George She at the Central Magis tracy yesterday morning for keep ing an opium divan at No. 13 d'Agular Street, third floor. C.S.I. Hut said that three pipes, four lampa and two mace of prepared opium was found on the aremises.
unt Queen's
"Poor Saps".
last Sir-Adverting to the paragraph of the letter by your correspondent "J.A.K.”
may Ition the Gendarmerie, witness said
point out that I have first hand that he thought accused was an knowledge regarding all that took
place
in
during the yearn Масай Informer. self to elect), michecked by any) "State Fair" is another one of The next witness was Inouye of the Pacific War. If "LA.K." body equivalent to the American those large, expensive, glossy mu Kahao, who
An Example was temporarily has been through the experiences which I have been through while in Supreme Court, which might dis-sicals which Twentieth
SirMy daughter aged 3 years, 1 intrepreter the Japanese
August 1944. in Macau, he will certainly find it having a temperature of 103, I Gendarmerie in allow its laws, and equally free Fox can turn out so well. It ins
more advantageous in the intereais
great took her on Monday to the No. 1 He said that he used to see of Hongkongites a definate charm, however, which fen any frustration by a second mostly due to a now
to keep silent Medica! Post at Gloucester Build- House of legislators. The Popy:) Jeanne Crain, who has actress.
cused at Headquarters: Accused about the doings of Hongkongites ing. 1st floor, for attention. On
visitor. was a frequent
Hun Macau. I know all
I SAW A Нике jostling lar Republican Movement, on the voice, and is
tal of both sexes before both other hand, though a new party fler presentation of a musical used to call on Major Shiozawa wonderful schemes for rehabilita-rriving,
tion, how one community was try the Doctors' doors, with no order and Hironaka, an interpreter.
| barn of the Resistance, agrees to which makes a sudden burst into Francia Richard
ramong them, each pushing against section of munity and how one this extent with the traditional in
the other to got in first. It leaves one seem n perfectly natural who said he was a sharebroker, manto put it over the other com- Buid that in Hongkongites obtained benefits giving evidence, something more stable than the it really la Haymes plays
Dick
for a permit for tions. I, with other members of of Marry's (Jeanne Crain) brother Authorities
Question completed the detailed
number
capable
has the effortless
star.
case
Zimmern
Radicals and Conservatives, that thing rather than the illogicality 044 he applied to the Military and advantages denied other little doubt that those really an- |
it
to all
sec-
well would be shouldered out. There was not a single person to
single Chamber is required, to Haymes is better knows his wife and himself to proceed the community to which I belong, take charge. balance its enthusiasm. More as a crooner than as a film star, to Macao giving the reason that tire submitted to us, which Ques-
The next day I took my daugh; over, the Constitution
ter to the old Government Civil violates in dio he is third in popularity his wife could not stand the tionaire held out promise of eat Hospital Out-patients Dept. where that sacred division between behind Sinatra and Crosby.
ployment in Hongkong when the I saw a very energetic attendant Executive, Legislature and Juli- The plot of this film is very bombing any longer.
Witness received st reply time came. What, may I ask. in
This person by Issu charge. ciary which Montesquieu saw as slim, in fact the title sums it up
happened
the grandiose ing numbered tags and answering
and and were ald a merit in our own British Con- rather well in two words. However stating that the Chief-of-Staff
that is not the plot
makes had no objection to their leav-schemes which stitution. The critics of the State Fair what it is, but the ing for Macao, but had referred hatched by our brilliant Hongkong innumerable questions controlled
were satisfied they Left schaue foresee
the matter to the Gendarmerie. boys? Who may I ask, are the very large crowd, all of whom were receiving a judiciary embroidery with which subject to political influence-a lavishly covered. The real hero. He later visited the Gendar-people who have actually received fair play. No pushing or fight
told that the all the breaks? Certainly not the hero, you take your turn. The No. danger often present in practice would appear boar merle and was
called
Boy' whic
poor eaps who, by their votes, Medical Post would do well to Abel
placed power into the hands of a take this as an example. bat not as yet in
tery in Frake (Charles Winninger) is ex- application was rejected.
few whom they implicitly believed Telophone Call
(UNWELL). France. In the Assembley the hikiting at the fair. Unfortunate-
Shaukiwan Trams
'Bluc
it is so
like everyone oine in the film Before visiting the Gondar would watch over their interests 'dispute, was marked by compronte Boy is too busy falling in meric, he received a telephone: as a whole. I do not know whe
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mises and concessions, and the
ther about
is the same "J.A.K." "J.A.K." love to worry
winning
Six-I have been staying in a creation of what in French poli-|
call from
giving his who regularly contributed articles prizes. Nevertheless ali turns out
whom he to the English Edition of the crowded apartment in the ey ties are called "white negroes"-well in the end, Abel Frake name as Richards,
WILS
I ask ever since I came back to Hong THEDAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO.,LTD. Macau Press. If so, may contradictions disguised by attı-|
Bain-did not know. (Fay Bala the 1 prize, Mrs. Frake
This man said that he want-him if he read the letter by "That Kong some four months biguity. But the issue is now ter) wins a prize for her mince- clearly defined, and the Popularment, and everyone lives happily ed to see him at the Canadian Old Nightingale" which appearevi have recently succeeded in finding after. "State Fair" ambles Cafe concerning his application in the last Issue of the Renasel better accommodation in Shauki- and my three wan for myself Republicans having gone to the it's way pleasantly along to the for a travel permit. Witness
"That Old
wherein
children, thanks to the hospitality -apers of an Country against a Constitution of music of Rogers and Hammerstein made enquiries about Richards
old friend. But owing to which they disapprove have every and makes an entertaining film and eventually came to the con- to act as they ought in the in-
in- complete lack of transportation It is now showing at the Queen'a.clusion that it was advisable terests of the humbler members of facilities. now have no altor for satisfaction. Their
further en nat
native but to stay right where otives for remaining in the Gov- understandable.
reason
ernment
can
arc
They wish on general grounds to maintain its stability: But they
look forward with con fidence to gaining a majority with new allies from the Right, in June.
"Swing"
G. W. ASHTON.
DANGEROUS PRACTICE
for him to meet him. The man the community" become of the am, as it would be just too in was the accused,
quired "what had
At the meeting, accused said Committee which was supposed to convenient for me to go to office.
gave
the
he was conducting an enquiry have neted for the community as a every morning, and quite Im-
No, J.A.K." on behalf of the Gendarmerie whot,"
Heng passible for my children to attend into the reasons why he and kanglies have nothing to be proud summer school In time, it wo
what happened at should remove to Shaukiwan. his wife wanted to leave for f regarding
Macau and if the froth could oniv Shaukiwan, residents
are all Witness A fine of $100, and a recon Macao, mendation that his permit be with same reason as he had in his be made known, it would serve to eager to seg trams running to of stopping prove, conclusively, that Hong- Shaukiwan, instead drawn and the lorry returned to application.
kongites-are not ready for self at Quarry Bay, and
wish to the common pool, were the penal-
them government.
Join 3n their request for and ties imposed by Mr. George She
As regards the letter by Do early resumption of the Shauki
wan Tram Service. I am quité
at the Central Magistracy on
am open
Membora of the Forces are Jackson Kwong who pleaded guilty an article in the Chinese paper mocrat" I believe he has guessed sure that. I am not the only one reminded of the Swing Sen-to breaches of regulations under stating that with the return of wrong when he thinks that I have who is hoping to move to Bhau. no por allowed a narcotic fatalism to kiwan as soon as the trams begin sjon, meeting to be held tomor- the permit by which he was par- the Civil Government
mission was now necessary. The crea open to correction, but will the Hongkong, Tramways
to run. roy cyoning ku the Nasf Club, mitted to operate a lorry,
3.1. Hidden said that at about Civil Government returned on May time, 11.20 on Bay 5.1 Chan I and aineo then he had seen a believe that if anything should go Company please see to the urgent Kowloon, at the JOW 7 pim.
saw lorry MAK 1300 in Connaught nuptior of lorries going to Hong wrong in the event of self-govern needs of the community?
ment being accorded immediately,
MLIU YU, The programmo, incorporat Road Central. He asked for the Kong without any difficulty ing Items from Duffel Bag and permit and found that the lorry Mr. She told accused that it we will, in the typical Hongkongj
fashion, find the guilty partics de Off the Record. will' be present was for Kowloon' only. the VAT follow the misdeeds of him, the kongites were not ready for self«jing Hong Kong soon for Formosa
was a "dahebrous practice Landed with the oxouse that Hong-J'-“A War Graves unit will be losV« · 9.1. Hidden added that. ed by AG. H. L. Norton and Cpl. J. Brinley. It will Include mit stated that the lorry
'to recover the bodies of European government and that the powere the amuning Battle of the not to leave Kowloon and that permit as he was
only passengers, livestock, and responsible person but by his that be should have known better prisoners-of-war who died there growood was to be carried by the action he had shown himself to be than to place such a heavy resin captivity. It is thought that and. lorry. On this occasion, there very irresponsible. Chan Wo, the ponsibility on the shoulders of the graves of 500 British were 80 reams of paper and an driver, who was also charged, as the inexperienced. Does "Demo- Dutch dead will be found and the iron safe on the lorry, and said that he was only carrying erat honestly feel that it would unit will spoed about works
be more advisable to take the thers.. Accused said that he had seen out orders. He was cautioneda.
Voices" the firm bus friendly fu between Bing, Crosby and Frank Sinatra,
The records have been lent by
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wna Government had
The
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