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Seaman To Be Expelled

John Thomas, of the S.S. "Far Eastern Carricr". was charged before Mr. C. Y. Kwan at the Cen- tral Magistracy yester- day, with failing to com- ply with an order for him to leave the Colony by the first available ship for repatriation to Van- couver on June 11.

Accused pleaded not guilty and that he did not know that he had to leave on June 11.

Was

Sub-Inspector Hollinshond, pro- Recuting, Baid. that accumi amont

four seamon of the ..

"Far Eastern Garrior" paid off Jere on endition that they would the repatriate to Vancouver by first available ship.

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1943.

'SAVE FOOD: GROW IT"

Window-Box Not To

MARINE COURT

Ng Wai, on a charge in the Marine Court yesterday of un- Inwfully boarding the "Marine Runner" on June 10, pleaded

that he was a stevedoring coolie engaged for work on another

vessel and the boarding was a mistake. S. I. Wheeler, prose- cuting, sald the police asked for n lenlent view to be taken of the case, and Ng was fined $5, with a warning from the Cmdr. Ryder that unlawful A.S.D. boarding of vessels was a ser- icus matter and would be severe- Notice was delivered to the Starly punished in future. Hotel where necused was staying, Botifying him to leave on June 11, by the a. "Marguerite Le Hand." Accnsol was found inside the hotel room under the influence of drink when the Police visited him Accused and he would like to re main in the Colony.

at

Captain A. S. Dko, of the "Par Eastern Carrier, uid that about 2.30 pm, on June 10, accus ed visited him at the Gloucester Hotel. Accused came to ask for

anoney and drinks.

He was DC-

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Mo Kwan, muster of trading junk T11H, charged in Marine Court yesterday. with carrying 100 excess pussengers from Taiping on June 10 pleaded

Humble

Broadcast Talk

Ryan

By Fr.

"Save food by growing it" was the plea made by the Rev. Fr. T. Ryan, Superintendent of the Agricultural and Forestry Department, in a broadcast yesterday.

He

said it was not only those who had plots of lands, gardens or very large flat roofs crying out. for gardens who could help but the ordin- ary average flat-dweller, who with a window ledge, balcony or corner of the verandah could place a few flower pots or boxes and start a . miniature garden..

The following is the text ofsible. I am not speaking mere- ly to people in the suburbs who have gardens which it is their

the broadcast:-

Last week H.E, the Governor opened a campaign to save food This evening and avoid waste. I am speaking in connection am asking you to save food by with the same campaign, and I

duly as citizens to use for food production, nor am I speaking just to those who have razuvered war used to win for them prizes the gardeners that before the

CORPSE IN "RESERVOIR"

The body of an uilknown Chinene with fished out of the

Roud Bowen

filter beds on Tuenday morning.. The corpse has not yet been iden- tified, but was that of a well- nourished man of about 35 years of ano.

DFM FOR LOCAL RAF FLT.-SGT.

[How To Cook

Blue Peas

Following Government's sug- gestion that other foods should the be tried out to relievo aheringe of rice, un official of the Rice Control experimented in the use of the blue peas ra- tion, in his own household with highly successful reults.

By using a proportion of blue peas for their meals, his family has been able to economize on one-third of their rico rations during the past week. The pens are cooked in the same pot as the rice, and the mixture is bu reported by the official to tasty and well-liked by every Flight Sergt. T.W. Gal-member of his household.

According to his directions, liford, of 209 Squadron the peas should be soaked over- now stationed in Hong night and then boiled until soft. Kong, has been awarded They are then mixed with rico the Distinguished Flying peas and two-thirds rice, and in the proportion of ane-third Medal.

cooked in the usual way with addition of water.

The citation states that F/Sgt. Galliford gains his award for his part in a shipping attack carried out in the closing days of the war on August 9, 1945.

During a low-level attack on

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Blue peas, according to medi- cal opinion, contain definite food values because they supply a certain amount of protein an

that as his was the only large growing some for yourselves, at flower shows, or to those who two arnied enemy vessels, he man. well as "B" complex vitamins,

his on

am suggesting to you, the or-

Krowing some and

used $20 U.S. in advance, aid he would be paid off as soon as he boarded ship for Vancouver. His passage was booked for June: 12. He advised necus to ber up and be ready to leave the fol-

Accused said Jowing day. would like to remain dero and we

other with employment

eure vessels.

trading junk on the Taiping- Hong Kong run the Chinese

insisted authorities carrying the people, most of whom were cargo owners. Cmdr. A.S.D. Ryder said that if the accused had any difficulty should take it up with the Har- !bour Master. This was the sec- und offence within a fortnight, and he was fined $200, 8. I. Muld prosecuted.

he

Au Fai and Kong Ki-hing, of two trading junks from Fukien.

and aircraft with considerable effect. The aircraft was bit by AA fire and the aileron control was lost. Discovering breaky in the control cables, F/Sgt. Gulliford crawled inside the wing and work ing in the cramped space behind the fire wall effected the temporary repairs. Ind the aircraft crushed as was possible, he would have had no chance of survival. Des

have large flat roofs erying out ned the beam gun of his Sunder- dinary city dwellers of Hong for gardens.. I am not speaking leisured who have ong, that you should help to just to the improve the food situation by space and time to spare, I am vegetables for speaking above all to the vast yourselves. This is, I know, a bulk of the people, the ordinary, novel suggestion and you will average flatdwellers, to those, if want to know

the "why" and I may be permitted an "Irish the "Icw" of it. That is what bull,” who have no radios 10 i want to tell you, why you listen to me, but whom I hope should go

to the trouble of to reach by other means, 1 am growing vegetables for your-speaking to anyone who has a pite this he worked for nearly un

to window ledge, or a balcony, or hour and enabled the

he Throughout his tour

selves, and how you are trouble of

The present ration of blue

peas is half a catly every 6 days.

Discussing the above experi- ment yesterday, the Government spokesman urged all those who ure in receipt of the blue pena ration to give the rice official's He also suggest- recipe a trial. ed the use of blue peas in con- ec, such as is prepared in paris of China. Many war refugees. who have now returned to the

port that they often had a satis- fying breakfast with rice and terior.

growing vegetables the corner of n verandah, any-return safely to base aircraft to Colony, said the spokesman, re- Mr Kann asked accused if he and Wong Ying-lai, of a nuk i for yourselves, and how you are where that you can place a few shown a high standard of techni- blue pea congee while in the In-

Lad aarthing to say in his de- fence, and he replied in the unga- Live.

He was ordered to be expelled from the Colony and to remain in Police custody, until a ship sails

for Vancouver.

King's Birthday Parade Today

Over 1000 Servicemen will take part in this morning's Combined 1:3 being Services Parade which held to mark the anniversary of His Majesty the King's birthday and which will start in the Race Course, Happy Valley at 9 o'clock (not 10 o'clock).

from Tungkonn, were charged in the Marine Court yesterday with obstruction on June 11 by anchoring their vessels in the sundhern fairway off the Cheung Chau Ferry Wharf. S. I. Whee ter, prosecuting, said that de- fendants had been previously warned. ench,

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to do it.

flower-pots or boxes, and there

has

I want you to start your minia-cal ability, a capacity for hard work and consistent devotion to ture vegetable garden,

duty.

· Past Experience First let me explain to you

in every atreet in Hong Kong the reason for this suggestion. There are a number of people today one can son on balconies in every country who think that and on verandahs and, if one never do goes high enough to look down. a government should anything until the lust possible one can nee on almost every flat

ing empty

UNLICENCED EATING HOUSE

Young Tan, of No. 1A, Heung

They were fined $25 moment. That is why, for in- roof numbers of flower pots lying Lane, ground floor

ALTERED WATER SERVICE

The committee and members of the Chung Shing Bathing Pavilion, Victoria Road, were Bummoned before

summonses.

imposed.

Was

Lawful Holder Of Documents

Miss Phyllis Harrop, Chief or showing n few

of The withered stems, pathetic sha- fined yesterday for keeping an Distributing Officer

Relief & Re- down of dead flowers. I want eating house without a licence. China National

Before Mr. F. X. d'Almada habilitation Administratica, to ask you to put these flower pots to use again. Set them to at the Central Magistracy yes- gave evidence in a case at the yesterday. Tsol Ying-ming work growing vegetables, and terday, it was stated that ac. Central Magstracy so help to relieve the food short-cused applied for a licence about when

several occasions.

سال

Was

age. It is not difficult, it not six months ago, and had been charged before Mr. C. Y. Kwan, in the warned ongistration certificates expensive. With the minimum refused. Accused continued his with possession of official re- expenditure of time and energy business and was

name of Young Wing-muk, you can produce

to hav and money

A fine of $250 or four weeks' reasonably suspected

been stolen hard labour was imposed.

unlawfully some of your own beans, your own leaf mustard, your own

Lo Sze-nu, of No. 7, Heung obtained. egg plants, and I can assure you

fined $100 or! Sub-Inspector Lam Kam-kong that, however small the supply Hing Lane, was

four weeks' imprisonment for esecuted. a similar offence. and however long you have to wait for it, these vegetables of your own will taste bettor than any that you have ever bought and will amply repay you for whatever trouble you have taken in producing them.

stance, there is so much griti cism of any long-term prepara- tion against- war. Now when the Government suggests that the ordinary citizen should be- come a food producer in even the humblest way there are bound to be some who will ask if this means that Hong Kung is on the verge of famine and Mr. F. X. that we are in immediate dan- d'Almada at the Central Magis-ger of starvation. Fortunately dangor here, tracy yesterday, for altering the there is no such inside service connection to the but in the world at large, and without the apicularly in the area in which waterworks preval of the Water Authority tong Kong is situated, there is on May 6. The assistant real, and very serious, food manager pleaded guilty to both shortage, and it is an clementary fine of $110 was duty of humanity, and the special obligation of overy res- nonsible citizen, to take every There are hundreds and thou- possible means to alleviate it. sands of persons in Hong Kong today to whom "hunger" and starvation" are no mere abstract terms, Where were you at this time last year? Were you coop ed up in the city under enemy occupation? Were you in prisoned to you day or in an internment camp? Were you sharing the light of

of refugees in that water millions

war Were you in ravaged China? India or in Burn? Wherever you were you either experienc- ed hunger yourselves or saw its ravages in othore. You know what it is to seo living skeletons lying by the roadside, to see children peak and die for want of food. You havo soen these things too close ever to bo in- sensible to them again.

A Royal Salute of 21 guns wil be fired at noon by H.M.S. "Tyne." His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young. is timed to arrive at the Raco Course at 9 a.m., when he will take the On his mounting the dais. salute. the Royal Saluto will be given as Royal Standard is braken. After the Governor has distri: buted decorations to officers and Mr. A. I. Cash stated that he ven, mass ymnastic display will be given by some 5.000 school-paid a visit to the Secretary with children from all parts of the the intention of Informing him Colony. The Parade will conclude that the Government muins water connection was approved solely for use in the kitchen. but, on inspez tion, discovered that the Defend Lent Society had already connect

ed Govt. water to the nullah storage tanks and. furthermore, the meter had been moved from its original approved position avar the kitchen to a site in the pa- villion grounds, ཐྭ༧ drawn for domestic purposes was not recorded by the meter in the changed position.

with a "March Past" continued on through the main thoroughfares.

GIRL HIT BY

BEER BOTTLE Coming eat from the Star Ferry (Kowloon) on Tuesday evening with two friends, Allen Campbell, second engineer of the mv. "Hic kory Glen was annoyed by the usual crowd of touting rickshaw coolies who block the entrance.

TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN Tribute was paid to the memory of those who lost their lives in the war in Hong Kong at a memorial

of water.

forms

Not Difficult

Accused said he was given the certificates by a fellow street sleeper to endorse.

to

In the case of others that are Miss Harrop, in the witness a little more difficult to handle box, stated that at about 4.45 it will be made casier still for p.m. on June 11, accused visit- you, for the seeds have beened the C.N.R.R.A. Office and

for repatriation planted in the nurseries of the asked I am not going to attempt to Agricultural Department and Swatow. Accused was asked in explain to you now in detail when the seedlings are large her presence where he obtain- what soll you are to use, what enough to transplant, some time ed the certificates, and said he seeds you should plant and how next month, they will be distri- obtained them from her accre- long you must wait to see the buted free to those who are tury. The facts were not true. result. That will all be explain-ready to become home cultiva- These documents were not dis-

by day in the tora.

tributed from her office. The papers. 1 only want now Lo Therefore I recommend you documents were examined, and urge you to read these short, to read the articles that will it was seen that some of the simple articles and follow the appear in the press, and to re- words had been altered. directions given in them. I member that the advice which promise you that they will not they give is not just intended to be difficult. A fow simple help you to develop a new spare- vegetables suitable for sowing time hobby, it is intended to at this season of the year are

show you how you may do your being chosen. In the case of small part in laying the spectre some you will be told what weeds of hunger that stalks abroad in to get and how to plant them. the world today.

Readers' Letters

Accused said he was given the documents by a friend, who asked him to get a chop at the and added C.N.R.R.A. office, that he would obtain two bowls of rice daily with the document friend repatriated until his from the Colony.

Mr. Kwan held that accused WAB' the lawful holder of the documents, as he was given them to get an endorsement. He dismissed the case.

Shareholder's

not forget the wise old Objection

Mr. Cash stated that he was Allen threw an empty beer hot- most reluctant to prosecute any institu te at the cooliea. The bottle. benevolent or charitable however, hit Miss Jullia Chan. tion but, despite repeated letters, who was walking in front of Allen. personal visits, without satisfac- Allen and his two friends were tory results, it was obvious that taken to the police station, while the Defendants had no intention the injured girl was taken to the of paying attention to the regu- Kowloon Hospital in a jeep for lations and there was no alter

native but to prosecute. It was a

Not Banished treatment.

Pleading guilty to ASSAviting very bad case of flagrant dis

Happily these horrors are not her with bodily harm and saying regard of official correspondence. present in our midst now, but he did not intend to hurt her, The necessary

requirin

"Law Must Be Cruel" to extirpate the menace. Impri Allen

sonments must be harsh. Deport- War fined $100 by Mr. signature guaranteeing payment they are not banished from the There is a pitiful world yet. Latimer in 4ho Kowloon Court | for removal of the meter back to

Sir have been encouraged. menta must be frequent (we must Roman yesterday,

its original position had been sent, shortage of food in the whole

non not acknowledged, and Govern- urea from which our food sup by the numerous ripostes and de-

come. There is barely clamatory letters against lawless saying lupus pilum mutat, ment was losing considerabla replies

pesa which have appeared in your menton'). The criminal must be venue by the unlawful drawing enough for all if everyone takes

columns, to enter the ranka of the made to understand. In his own what is necessary. If some are agitators with a few words, pur-kind, that crime in Hong Kong

There was some argument at does not pay. He must be made The Society's representative was wasteful or greedy others must suing the matter perhaps ...

go short; but if, on the other strongly, but not, I hope, to the fear and respect the law to the yesterday's extraordinary gen- nod $100 on, each charge. The

hand, you add even a small extent of incurring

extent that he will esches all eral meeting of shareholders of odium.

path of the China Entertainment & magistrate added that

the There can be no doubt in our aberrations from reluctant to Impose penalties on service held in the Confucian Hall. | Charitable Institutions but the re- amount to the whole volume of

Land Investment Co., Etd., some in- minds that the leniency and de- right, Extreme methods must bel Caroline Hill, yesterday morning.

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money so frequently evinced by used. To counter ruthlessness we evitably benefit. It is when thousand people were gulations of the Colony must be food produced then

and Theatre Building) when present at the ceremony, including

quantities are small that people the Hong Kong courts towards the must employ ruthlessness, fur, (owners of the King's Theatre And it hard to realise that what criminal classes has been a power fear, nothing else will be under- Mr. Chenk Kwai-song, a share- Chinese Government officials in Hong Kong and representativer of

they do really matters. A man ful factor in attracting criminals stood by men who are congenitat- various public and other organisa.

may say that it cannot possibly from other parts of China, where by criminal, and who have been holder, objected to a resolution. Jaws are far from humanitarian. accustomed to violence all their tions.

is certainty for an increase in Directors' do harm to anyone if he takes Death is a powerful deterrent lives. Such that extra course that is there The criminal has no wish to risk must enjoy many jokes at the ex- abnual fees from $1,200 to Chau Chol, 34, and, Yiu

$2,400, restaurant on the

forhla life in a district where the penso of Hong Kong Justice.

The activities of Prostitutes, I The Chairman (3r Shöuson Chung, 58, both unemployed, someone to ent, but he is only law is dependent on the decision were charged before Mr. George of many thousands and if others of the mob. Tales come to his am certain, can be limited by the Chow,) aald that the passing of She at the Contral Magistracy reason as he does thure will be car. Over in Hong Kong, as it application of a few simple mea- the resolution did not mean that yesterday, with stealing electric additional hunger in the world. Is said, imprisonment means, deures A number of Pelio men.

to the Directors: Such pay- cable from the Indian Kaicorle In the same way, one may argue tention in a nice comfortable cell in plain clothes can do much in the increased fee would-be-paid School, Sookunpoo.

Accused wore seen by a mam that the amount which one per- and the best of food is to be hail detecting brothela and arresting | ments would have to be 'aanc ·

quite regularly. How

the inmates. The profession can- The wedding in to take place ber of the staff of the Hong Son could add to the food supply thoughtful and attractive. Such vot be suppressed, I realize, but tloned at shareholders' annual

the Colony by growing

The hall was bedecked with o and scrolls large number of wreaths sent by various organisa tions and individuals, including a

scroll from Admiral Sir Chan Chak, and a wreath from Sir Mark

TODAY'S WEDDING

Young

observed.

ho was

STOLE ELECTRIC CABLE

to be takon as

Sentence of three months.

table

very

men It

The resolution gavo authori-

vegetables for himself would be

can ho get his wife in as well dous and perilous by the threats could be made.

Mr. Cheng would not with- ncon of Capt. Alantair Robert was inspecting the installation very small, but if many join in People enquire why so many cri- of heavy imprisonments and vigi-

off Denholm, R.A., only son of Mr. at the School, stripping

the growing and if all produce minals flourish in Hong Kong. lence on the part of the police, draw his objection, but as his and Mrs. D. M. Denholm, of cabica from the wall.

their small share, than the sum This leniency. I say, is the ren- very prostitute once taken into was the only, dissentient voice,

custody must be deported. To the resolution was carried. Cheam, Surrey, and Misa Patri- The Prosecution asked for a total of food in greater and hun-son

asking: Force is the only power which allow them to stay would be the cla, Kathlyn Sholla Pasco, only serious view

tor la leas. So I am daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Boris there is shortage of cables in each of you to take your place can and will effectively exercise very nadir of stupidity: an out- Pasco, of Hong Kong. A re- the Colemy.

as food producers and grow this unwanted element from: Hang tage to humanity and conimon ception is to follow the cere

stones into the water from the Noo the health of the community. peremptory. The Means mohy at the Gloucester Hotel

some vegetables for yourselves, categoriest, und Judgment must be sense; and a dangerous threat Several Chinese boys throwing quarter must be given whera none The law must be cruel in this Kowloon Wharf last Monday night Now as to the means of doing expected, or, I fear, these per- Inatance, I aver, and must re- got into trouble when a Chinese Hentence of six months hard labour was imposed on Au Wal- For keeping an oplum divan it. If I have had any success nicious clements will not only belinquish all clemency for the woman and her chlid, who wars in Also wubstantial pride that it has succeeded in rid- In the Pallco Court yesterday man by Mr. F. X. d'Almada at at No, 16, Bonham Strand East, in convincing you that it is not encouraged by the ineptitude of ponce, until it can proclaim with a boat passing the wharf, were hit. the Contral Magistracy yester first floor, Chan Fat, was fined useless, I may still liave to per- increase. There must be no ding the community, of danger- one of the boys, aged, 14, was day, for theft of a typowriter $600 or six weeks hard labour suade you that it is posalute nuetion of dynmathy, or, altruisous ulcer, an ulcer which might ordered by Mr. Latimer to be given five, atcokos" with a' CAZO, AN from Butterfield and Swire on by Mr. C. Y. Kwan at the Con- This should be less difficult, for the feelings, for the men. Eines well engulf the whole city

punishment. trai Magistracy, yesterday. in reality it is perfectly "pon" and kind treatment will not suffice June 11%

hard labour was imposed on

"each dofondant,

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