1946-06-06 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1946.

EXTORTION CHARGES

Story Of Two White Envelopes Dairy Farm Registrations

Persons who are regis- tered

Dairy with the Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd., for flour and sugar are to receive new ration cards.,

They are the name cards as present being distributed to per- Gons holding rice ration cards, but they will not entitle the new holders to draw re rations.

that

money.

Police Officer's Testimony

LORD FRASER

·The departure of Admiral Lord Froner frau Queen'a Pier han bern delayed till 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. He in proceeding Home in "Dako of York."

BABY SOLD FOR $300

Unusual Victor To Hong Kong

In a post-war Hong Kong, a Wren a Waaf or a Fanny is no novelty. They were or are here and excite little curiosity. The American pic- ture-journals and the movies have shown the American counter-part-Wacs, Waves and Spars, and so on.

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In the realm of the unusual, however, would be a United States Marine who would not present the appearance of a hard-bitter he-man type to land on a sulphurous island reeking with Nipponese snipers.

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would not recognise Dr. Char- name

Guests at the Peninaula Hotel towns on the States. His real and identity wero well- lotte Day Gower as a Major in known, but there was no moving He's probably Alitt the United States Marine Corps him out. Reserve. They would probably

there." place her as an American and a In 1838 sho came out to Lingnaa good percentage would not be

University. The Japanese were surprised to hear that it was

moving into Canton and nerves were on edge the Lingnan cani- Dr. Gower rather than Mias

pun. par

anong the Gower. The Major is no longer womenfolk. Miss Gower came to case of its

in uniform and is going back the rescue. She gave an interest- to Canton to resume her ap-ing series of talks. Thu title:

the Mak Sum. pointment in Department "Bootleggers I have known."

of Sociology at Lingnan URI-

In Hong Kong in December, versity.

A Police officer, Norman Stradmoor, gave evidence at Kowloon Court yesterday of a conversation on Cheung Chau Island with Inspector Fernan- dez, who is charged with aiding and abetting in bribery and extortion, in which the latter fold

A mother's change of him, witness claimed, that he saw no reason heart after selling her why he should not expect "red packages" from child for $300 led to the the islanders as it was Chinese New Year.

Mr. Stradmoor raid he understood As he walked out of the build-appearance before

Fernandez meant tea-ing, Stradmoor continued, he W. H. Latimer at Kow- He said let that he re- met Stoppa, who asked him, loon yesterday of two ceived two white envelopes “Have you get it?" He handed women and a man charg- Householder. at present

in which contained money, from one of the envelopes to Stopped with taking part in the pussession of Dairy Farm flour

the Chairman DA the Cheung who said: "Have you got it? My Chau Sea Producta Union, one boys are waiting for it. When sale of a minor. and sugar dockets will exchangs these dockuts for the new Gov- of which he handed to Fernan- | he returned to Commando Head- dez and one to Stuppa, principal | quarters on the Irland, where ernment Ration Card when they obtain their June supplies.

Fernandez was staying, he Accused Distribution for June will take

Charles handed him the other envelope, place from Us specified Stoppn, junk inspector, charged¦ which Fernandez threw branches on June 11, 12 and 18.

on two counts of extortion and the mattress afier saying New registrations will be ac-acceptance of a bribe, and Royal | "Thank you!” cepted only from these versons

Isane Fernandez, inspector of Witness reported the matter❘ with one of the following quali-police, Yeung Wan-chow, clerk, to the Senior Superintendent of fcations:

and Tsang Fan-hung, boatman, the Water Police, Col. Pitten Persona sch have been jointly charged on four counts drigh. Two or three days later, a. drawing and have censed

of aiding and belting in the Fernandez

Cheung draw Service rations,

extortion and britery.

Chau Fernandez told him. witness said, that he had left two tins of paint and asked him to seo Mr. Chan about the rest of the money,

to

1. Persons who have entered the Colony on a authority of a valid passport and visa.

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Jews than seven immediately prior to

accused.

Are

John

The case is before Mr. W. H. Latimer. Mr. R. S. Smith is prosecuting. Stoppa is defenil- F. H. Leseby and

Silva.

Peons who en prove tod by Mr. the satis artion of the Director Fernandez by M. M. A. da of Supplies, Trade and Industry that they were continuously re- Men: il sag Rong for perioa o not years December. 1991.

New applications mast made in person street to the

Cold Farm, Storage (.. 14. Windsor House, or hate t'rawford, Ed. Exchange Building.

Dry

and

be

revisited

under

When he went to see Chau, another white packet was hand- ed to him which he took to the pler. Fernandez anked him to fake a sumpan with him to the police launch and balf-way on the journey asked for the park- age.

in

common

It was the first kind since the liberation.

Defendants wer 38, and Leung Shui-kam, 29, n married couple, nad Lau Hoi,

Major Gower, 34, mother of the child, Mok

with the rest of the feminine Ying-kuen, two years of age.

section of the United States Remarking on the seriousness Marine Corps Reserve success of the urge the Magistrate fully threw the W said that owing to the circum-U.S.M.C.W.R. When it was de- out of stances and the fact that the ense was the first of its nature cited at Washington, D.C., to to come before itim, he would recruit women to the ranks of the United States Marines, Dr. sot impose a prison sentence.

Gwer was one of the first three Defendants were bound over. I»fficers. She rose to the rank

18,000.

officer. in a

A farewell diane party at

to a fine had grown to the Harbour Chg Chan OR party

was recalled by Stradmoor. At this party, wn- news said. Fern dez pointed out Chau Lei-ping, chairman of The Sea Pruducta Union, to him, nd kl him to see him after dinner,

Two Envelopes Shendy after € p.m. yester- He went to see Chau at his day, a Chinese youth who at residence on the second floor of tempted to board an east-bound the Union Office and told him hel trametr opposite the Hong Kong wan sent by Fernandez. Chau here something and Shanghai Banking Corpora- said, "Yes. tion, missed his foeling and into hand over to Ein." He then The Fall, suffered head injuries. The man was taken to hospital. velopes.

witness Kave

two white

Readers' Letters

The Police

on-

who have schemes to carry on their conspiracy business, There- Sir "Chinese Community's" fore repented appeals from the I public must be considered and letter is most diuzainating. suggest he be appointed Superviews of the local Chinese mus. Intendent of Police which will not be neglected. The public ar now engerly hoping that the

have law and order happily ever after.

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BANK HOLIDAY

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The Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of public business on Monday, the

(Whil-Monday). 10th June.

the

be no more

Dr. Gower can claim mem- bership in the ex-Stanley commun- ty. She was fortunate, however, "Gripsholm" voyage in 1942. She in being repatriated on the first joined the Marine Corps Reserve in tebruary, 1943.

Cloak And Dagger

After a spell in administration and tenining, she was transferred on loan to the Office of Strategic and Mr. Latimer said that if other of Major, in charge of training. Services, becoming a Cloak

Dagger Girl. Had she been zuei cases of a similar nature came and at the war's end was with a cloak and dagger, it would

corps that have been a genuine fit. before him, a heavy punishment Senior

There is without the option of a

strength of however, more romance than real- ity to some designations. No vea- would be imposed.

To those who know Dr. dettas in Sicily, no cloak and Sub-Insp. Shepherd, prosecut-Gower, however, her coming dagger as a Cloak and Dagger ing, said the police were called back from service as a Marine tilri. tomato juice for Miss in as a result of an argument tajor would not be adjudged Emily Hahn-these are among the when the mother wanted the unusually surprising.

little

disappointments in the hu- In ap- child returned. An agreement nearance she is tull the type man story.

feminine side, Miss at the Yaumati of tallness auggestive of a de- Gower has achieved a coveted dis- was reached Government Dispensary sire to be taller yet. She takes inction. She auule the pages of in Hong Kong and met Fernan-June 2 for the transfer of the pride in the fact that her hair larper's Bazaar resplendent

The mother was to re- has ataried greying-more in Marine Corps uniform. Most we dez at the Water Police Station. child.

Fernandez' room ceive $1 immediately and the fine with the genuine major men would prefer that to fea up- He went to for a cup of tea. There Fernan- balance following the drafting rather than the war commission dez gave him a $500 note with of transfer papers. The mother type.

She a bank stamp on it to the effect claimed she had to cell the child that one of the scrial numbers as she had gone without food

fer three days.

A Big Note

A week or 10 days inter, Stradmoor said, he y as on leave

had been altered.

Fernandez asked him to take it back to Chau, This he did. He was given another note in its place. This he kept at Cheung Chau police station until Fern- andez came ugnia twò or three | days, later when he handed it to him.

Following this evidence, the case was adjourned.

wears

On the

pearances in "Life."""

in

Hong

In further support of a theory square-rimmed that things have a way of drifting glasses that accentuate eyes al- from a pattern of credibility may be quoted two incidents involving ways on the verge of a smile or i The following tiny, all three a

A spell of Miss Gower's return to new discovery.

Kong. defendants met at a Chinese three years in Sicily seems to Visiting the American Express, temple in Yaumalı where the have affected her clothes-sense. Miss Gower inquired: "Foolish transfer papers were drafted Here she is ruggedly Mediter-Questions Department Do you and the balance

of $296 paid rancan. over,

Then, later, the mother de- cided she wanted the child back. - An argument ensued and the police were called

A.B. Pushes Ricksha Boy Into Harbour

As

CUB-

Mickey Hahn

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haye a case of furnishings I left in 19417" A clerk looked through 珏 list. He produced the

case.

is Gower's application to rene In pattern may be recounted membership in the American Club. She was presented with her chits for December. 1941.

POINTED GUN

"Old-Fashioned." Kwan at the Central Magistracy

Delezlive Sub-Inspector Mis-

Del

chenko, who prosecuted, said that recounting the story, Dr. Gower on May 28, Accused was seen by admitted to being puzzled as to an Indian guard outside the hos

pital, with a mosquito not in his The Habr hand. As the guard approached, the tomalu Juice. version of the story, she said, accused produced an automatic and omitted mention of the fact that pointed it at the guard. A soldier came in smoking near by overcame and arrested Mickey

After that, nothing was accused.. Tho plstol waa

nat igar.

serviceable and part of it was particularly surprising, taught Dr. Gower that fuilure

Field-work in Sociology has missing.

FIRST PLANE FROM S'HAI

Dr. Gower figures in Emily Hahn's "China to Me" in one af the boult's best anecdotes. According to "Mickey" Haha's version of what happened at the Authorise him to choose his police force should be immediately

American Club in Hong Kong fmurry men." We shall then enlarged to a big extent both it

one day just before lunch, the and live higher and lower ranks. Chinest

surprising Miss Haha had B

AT SENTRY Sub-inspectors have done a lot of

date with a lady described as of

For possession of an automatle R.A.P.

good work in the discharge of

the austere "missionary" type. pistol on the hillside near the In- their duties for they not piy

On guard against giving dian General Hospital, Li Kin- know 2-languages, but- also are

offence, Miss Halin ordered a hing was sentenced to nino Sir-Since the liberation at the

quite acquainted with local con- Able Seaman R. H. Andrews, of H.M.S. Bonaven-mato juice. Di. Gowor or months' hard labour by Mr. C. Y. Colony, the order of the city ant

ture, was before Mr. George She at the Central tered the safety of the community are on An the European inapes. peverely shocked and threatenedors and sub-inspectors are now

Magistracy yesterday, charged with assaulting Miss Hahn was thoroughly mol- yesterday. U establishment and the govt. daily burgiuty by the incessant

Needless wan is to reduce them 50 35 Lu

a ricksha puller, Ko Yin, by pushing him into lifted and likes telling the story robbery, murder cases. to say, this is chiefly due to in-play mare Chinese for repinee-

the sea and with malicious damage to the rick-on herself. On or reporter's adequato

of strength police sent, suggest that Chinese S.1. should be recruited at least once

shaw by pushing it into the harbour. and lower force both in higher

more to cope with the present

and took defendant into Accused pleaded not guilty. ranks and lack of arms, personnal

situation. Furthermore,

The ricksha puller, Ko Yin, tody." on patrol and fixed staff stationed cult

The as

as there 13 at each section of the city,

no certainty whether

Gunner Witness gangsters are all equipped with the pre-war European police on evidence, said that at about cers will wholly come back or not, 1a.m. on Monday, he was hired

Another witness, John Forest various kinds of arms and the why the Govt, still have the vacan- by a British naval rating to go Holmes, Gunner on board are forming

rascal ruilds,

cies unfilled? From govt. to Gloucester Road. As soon as H.M.S. Constance, said that at Inembers of cach mostly consist of

points of view, his fare had alighted, he met about 1 a.m. on June 3, he was budget and efficient and disbanded Chinese soldiers,

it is much cheaper to employ a constable. The waval man ask- near the Aorangi, Gloucester Communist sollers. local umployed and undesirable ruffians GIS than to recruit one Europeened him to get a sampan to take | Read.

he approached, he the expected to realise itself or even a foreign sergeant. him to his boat.

heard a splash and saw

Is just as common to the humani two The post War status of the Colony is entirely different, and ing a sampan for the sailor, being push a ricksna into the son.

When he succeeded in engag-naval ratings. I saw one rat- story as the incredible refusing

to remain in the realms of fic- The first plano from Shanghai there should

to arrive in Hong Kong follow- ractul! discrimination and salary differ was pushed into the sea. The The rating was the accused. At tion.

The Doctor had probed eon-ing the C.N.A.C. strike came in man then pushed the once, he told the other rating enco While the govt. is going to naval

Biderably into the problem of on Tuesday and luter left again more ricksha Into the harbour. He to take accused into custody. the Colony self-overn,

human behaviour. Graduating The last witness was the rating from Smith College in Migssachs with a full list of passengers. high and responsible posts should could not identify the sailor, na

Yesterday, the plane returned it was very dark at the time.

who detained accused. be given to the local Chinese.

He was not sure that the por-

Accused, in the witness box sets in 1922, majoring in Psycho- on a second trip, and is schedul- to post-graduate ed to take more passengers for logy, she went on non who hired his riskaha that said he was attempting to reach work at the Universities of Chi night was the accused.

his ship by the road. As he cage and Texas, delving into the Shanghai this morning. Charles Gardner, Stoker, was walking past the "Aorangi," felds of Anthropology and Socio-service from May 24, had re- "H.MS. Aorangi," said he saw he noticed a commotion on the logy.

of Bulted in a heavy list of passen- a Chinese pulling a naval rat- quayside.

In 1928, an offer came China's Obligations

transport to ing (defendanty to the quay- He stood up against the builders in the backwoods of Sicily, Shanghai.

fellowship that involved three gers awaiting side opposite the "Aorangi.” ing and waited until the funThe problem to be studied: What Sir,-Cannot the American Defendant naked him how he

was finished and walked off. He was it in the Sicilian character STOLE IRON PLATES government which has been so could get to the "Bonaventure" was then approached by the that produced so many recruits feral in financing and support and he naked the ricksha puller sentry in the "Aorangi" telling from a largely rural Island to a

National government Meeting of the Association willing

him he was wanted inside. At very urban

of big-time fac world our faun- to get a sampan. be held in the Peninsula Hotel make a suggestion to

cial authorities that they will 90

"I wan talking to defendant (Green Room, first flour), on wideem their obligations due to all who said that the rickshe puller that time, there was no oficeri keteers controlling the underworld Mak Po, 25, was charged with

outside the "Aorangi." He and

a good bit on top of that in common mon of China, especially could do with a dark. After that thought at first he was wanted annny major American city?

In Sicily, Dr. Gower endured for with regard to savings accounts. I went to the "Aurang!" and owing because he was out after of the Chinese Post Offices and heard a splash. On coming out curfew and was drinking beer three years the failure of

In a Chinese and foreign banks in

expected to realise itself. of the "Aorangi," 1 saw the in the street.

terrain that has supplied many To receive a brief report from China, including all the life in ricksha just going over Into

No charge was made against or

Author of romance with a back- To receivable regarding surance premiums in C.N.C., at the harbour. The only man him until Tuesday.

vendettas Around of

and face- the same rate of foreign CX- change that prevailed on the day who could have pushed the rick-

Mr. She found accused guilty, slashings, time spectacular ever Inspector Bell stated that in.i of the Pacific she and the puller into the sea

nothing of the outbreak

was the accused,” Wart

the past three months many dis happening. There were no ven "There was no-one else thero. turbances had occurred in the dettas

And life went en

en happily. This good mediation by America The Acting Holl. Treasurer

Accused was sentenced to four naval officers who district, and he

the United States. works hard labor on the first Returning asked that a will be in attendance before the or any other friendly Allied Power I saw two

Miss Gower went to

tench at the

on the count, and six months" meeting at 5.16 p.m. to receive on behalf of the billions of help were passing by, who saw this, serious view be taken.

Being Accused was ordered to pay University of Wisconsin.

second. subscriptions due from members Industrious Summon men of China will make China moro and any

compensation of 8125 to the an adopt in the Stelllan tongue. new applications for stable and securo than by

IN MEMORIAM membership.....

students of Sicilian descent on the between If they should thus be duped, and ricksha puller, and was fined $75 she came to know quite a few the 'isques

They brought other It in warnostly requested that the Kuomintang and the Com- lose the full value of their pre- en both charges. Alternatively,

A memorial service for, those all members now in the Colony monists, whose case is of second- war savings. I am afraid that he was ordered to serve six friends.

who lost their lives, during, the and all others interested in the ary importance as compared with some day they may all-turn Com- months' hard labour.

"Wanted For Murder" of billions of hard-munist.

war in Hong Kong will bb, held wolfare of Kowloon will make the cause

It is not wise for Therefore,

Another programme of swing

at the. Confucian Hail, Caroline working men who have the patriot loaders of our Kuo-records will be given in the Kow- an-endeavour, to attend, se

She describos a friend: "He was FG MOW MUNG - Yaze of their precious savings.

Lbhee fictims who are really Alled Powers to more the im- pm. This week the "Duffel Bag" rose to power with Al Capone high Chinste omuinnt in the Com The service is sponsored by To do something benehalal for mintang government and friendly Joon O.. Clubs tomorrow at 7.16 wanted for murder in Sicky. He Hill, on the morning of June 12, ne Onlhalb (m|portance of promoting the wild will be presented by Opl, Brierley was one of the bickert rokainalom) and our MBLIC CARNAL

the industrious colimon, and the end part of the pip

Hong Kong, 6th June, 1946.

KOWLOON

RESIDENTS'

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ASSOCIATION

An Extraordinary General

Friday, 14th, June, 1946, at 6.45.p.m.

BUSINESS

the records of the Association.

To elect the Officers General Committee.

and

Finally, I wish to say that the Chinese after the war want to have more high posts hein by them.

THE COMMUNITY.

our

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meddling in

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to

The strike, which held up the

Wlog

Before Mr. George She at the Central Magistracy yesterday, stealing an iron bar and two fron plates from a godown at Cheung Street, and with breach of Deportation Orders.

Defendant • admitted charges.

hoth

- At about 1.30 pm on Tuesday accused was scen by Yam Fik

outside the godown, mun oftet Iron plates. He was caught a long chase.