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Big Task Ahead Of LASKI'S LIBEL ACTION

St. Stephen's Girls

His Excellency the Governor, Sir Mark Young, congratulated the school on its good work and rapid recovery, when he attended the first post-war speech day of the St. Stephen's Girls' College yesterday.

The Right Rev. Bishop Hall was at the choir, while Lady" Young and Mr. T. R. Rowell, Director of Eduention, were also present.

His Excellency pointed out that this was net the first occasion he had attended this celebration at the school. He still remembered his visit about five years ago, in the same very roca, when Miss E. A. Atkins delivered. the school repert as she had de this year, Miss E. A. Atkins, Principal or the College, said (to part):~~~

It is with feelings of joy and gratitude that 1 greet you all here today, once again gathered for a School Speech Day in this Hall. more happy in and we are the that you, Sir, and Lady Young dave graced this gathering with

your presence.

families returned to Hong Kong! from China and elsewhere, so the increased, numbers of pupils

โป many our own ald students. the Kindergarten, many are the children of old pupils.

Опе the outstanding achieve- ments of the year was a Play pro- duced by the Staff in aid of the Famine-stricken Breas of China. success that This play was such

it produced $12,000 and the sum of mure than four million dollars. in national currency was handed over to the Bishap and used for the farmers of Kwangtung Pro-

vince.

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All who have passed through the school will remember Miss Hazeland, who even after their school days helped them with the! intricacies of English and speech. She will always be remembered too. for the willing both at aid she always gave

retirement school and after her in the preparation of all our transformatorsplays and performances. It was

Since last we had the privilege of welcoming Your Excelleney to this-school. this building has been through many From December 1941 to May 1942 it was an Emergency Hospital: a year later, in May 1943, it was re-opened as a schoal by the Jap- anese from whom we took it back it September of last year.

Into Action

interned Before we who were

Stanley were allowed to trave

fonner teachers some

visit us to ask if w came to meant to reopen the school. When we finally returned to the school they met us with a list of fifty pupils already enrolled. Within five weeks the school was again functioning under the old name but on a co-educational basis. At the end of Octuber when I left for England there were 350 pupils enrolled with Mr. Wong Nai Hon B.A., as Headmaster. Mr. Wong very gallantly at very short no- tice shouldered the burden of ad- inmistration difficult time.

کرده

Staff Losses

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GREEK APPEAL

Athens, Nor. 26.

Greek The leader of the Opposition Liberal Republican Party, Mr. Daphocles Vent- zelos, today appealed to the King of the Hellenes to take the initiative once more in an attempt basis of the Greek Gouern-

ment.

to broaden The

In a memorandum to Ring. George, It is understood, he suggested that the sovereign should use his constitutional powers to make a move that would bring the Opposition Parties into the Cabinet of A previous National Unity. appeal by the King to leaders of the four main parliamen- . Tary opposition Parties led to talks which broke down, wchen they demanded that the Royalist Prime Minister, Con- stantin Tsaldarts, should give up the Premiership.--Reuter!

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EVE OF FIRST TEST

Washbrook And Edrich Find Form

SOUTH AFRICA'S

Professor Harold J. Laski, last year's Labour TEST CAPTAIN

Party chairman and the "bogey man" of the General Election, today brought a libel aetion against a newspaper which reported him as saying the Labour Party would use violence if necessary to achieve its ends.

Professor Laski's counsel in the High Court today!

described the action as "the most serious that has been before the courts for many a long day," since the words complained of meant that Professor Laski intended to commit, "treason, felony, sedition, riot and breach of the peace if the policy of the Labour Party should not be put into operation by constitu- tional means."

The report of Professor Laski's Labour Party

could not obtain alleged words three weeks be what it needed by general con- fore the poll added to the furore sent we shall have to use vio-į in an already heated election at-lence even if it means a revolt mosphere.

tion."

From comparative obscurity he leaped to the front pages of na-j

tional newspapers as the can- "I can

Never Used

Johannesburg. Nov, 26. Alan Melville has been select- ed to captain the South African cricketers who are touring Eng

land. next summer,

Melville declined the invita- lion to tour with the 1929-50 team as it would have interfer at with his education, but went in Oxford University later und captained the Dark Blues 1981 and 1982,

Two years later he captained Sussex County.

in

Melville returned home in 1926 and led the South Afri- cans against Walter Hammond's team in 1938.

to

career,

War, service threatened curtail his cricketing

Free Ports Inpaign developed, being challeng- never used those words or any liant performances.--Reuter.

America?

Vancouver, B.C.. Nov. 27. Plans to establish free ports

Hed-by-Conservatives-on-his-at-words to that effert," Prof. Laski's...

"I believe I 1tude to foreign policy and of counsel declared.

his whole.relations with the Lu-shall be able to show you how bour Ministers and Members of these passenges came into this re- Parliament. On the

of foreign trade at Pacific ports Prime Minister.

The defence denied the mean-

port."

the

Lewis In Secret

Brisbane, Nov. 26, The MCC tourists have completed their prelimin

aries to the first Test and now await that game starting on Friday. The draw with Queens- land, which concluded these preliminaries, had its disappointments and ill-luck, for had Len Hutton been able to bat the visitors might have forced a win,

Like G. O. Allen's side of ten present one does years ago, the

Hammond in-

the necessary

Chess Tournament

not possess an impressive record, but perhaps Walter can produce spiration by bold leadership to

Henry Knight moved into the wield them into a match-winning lend with a praiseworthy, if

combination, though many mem-

seen.

a queen's pawn opening, bpne of all Hong Kong's chess en- thusiasts, all of them confirmed King's-side players,

but he trained hard last Southers will have to show better an overwhelming, win over of the Kowloon Chess Club's African winter, and during the fighting qualities than have been Ballerand in the fifth round Reserve Tournament "A", play- past season has come back to

It has been suggested that a tell you Pref. Laski the front rank with some bril-good plan might be for Hammond/ed off at the Peninsula Hotel

to increase his selectors-Yard-cn Tuesday night.

It was a particularly credit: Hey, Edrich-and-himself-for-Hut--

"able win ay Knight had the ton with his record and experi- black pieces and had to mest

with advantage be ence could

is well enough consulted if he All the English party are hoping the chill which kept him in bed today will not develop seriously

Knight played a nice Slay and keep him from the Test

In his absence, Washbrook and Defence after declining the Queen's Gambit and emerged Edrich today

the oppor-winner in less than 30 moves. tunity to jump right into form Ballarand had a draw at the and neither were worried by the

stage but overplayed it. early dismissal of Paul Gibb.

Ballerand's defeat has placed. Gibb's wild abandon in the last him on a level with Knight, over before lunch was astonish R.C. Gardner and F.X. Sequeira,

Queensland did not set an im all of whom are exactly

point down. Gardner had a bye

a result of which the Danen- berg Sequeira games have been tentatively postponed to Thursday,

same

issue of the paper. This report quoted the Conservative as saying that, Prof. Laski had publicly ad- vocated revolution by violence after this war,"

Among their documents, said

Palavers?

seized

one

Mies Williamson returns to Pacific Coast Longshoremen and an accurate report of a pub.ed no reference to the revolution an strike, has opened secret nego-possible task when declaring, but while, Sequeira reported i, na

also

Bright Idea-

London Nov. 27.

benefit and without malice to-

at the annual general meeting mest political selentists in Bri- fain, if not the world, read the Every country, including Rus-alleged fibel which appeared in a

of the Free Trade Union. ปาก

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Campaign Against T.B.

of court.

made disas

We have a big task ahead of sia. should be invited to adhere weekly newspaper with a large Preliminary plans for broken

British-American free circulation. Reporting a meeting the building of a head-taking the same firm stand against when six. It was wide of the of most vital part to play. May trading area which thus would in the market place at Newark,

In the reconstruction of our world, education has

to a

1

God strengthen as here at st.dtimately develop into a uni- the historic Nottinghamshire quarters in Happy Val- Stephen's Girls' College that we versal customs union, de Hevesy town, the paper said Prof. Laski ley, to house the mass may work worthily for the benefit! said.-Associated Press. replied to a questioner: "If the radiography unit among

Lewis-Associated Press.

Shanghai

ly.

The best gama of the, round far was, however the Whitcombe- Carvalho encounter, the Coonel refusing to be put

however, was the

erhaps fitting that, after over forly years service in C.M.S. Schools, most of which were in St. Stephen's Girls' College, she died in this building in 1942 white

the it was a hospital, and was buried

eve of the poll

On the day previous to in the Chinese Christian Cemetery

Mr. Winston meeting, he said, the local Con- in Pokfulam Road. The Alumnse Association have shown their love may be delayed by labour un-Churchill, exchanged words with servative candidate addressed the and appreciation by establishing real, Vice-President J. R. Her-Mr. Clement Attlee questioning the meeting reported in the

Scholarship for the School in bey of the Pacific Northwest constitution of the Labour Party with special reference to Prof. her memory to be known as the Trade Association said. of our

Hazeland Scholarship,

"I do not think we should Laski and raising the issue of the make any attempt in Seattle, dictation by the chairman to the I regret to have to report the Portland and San Francisco to Labour Government.

Defence Pleas

Washington, Nov. 28. oss of most of our 1941 European get the ports for foreign trade |

the counsel. was a shorthand Reliable reports today say that zones until we get rid of Har- Staff. Miss Baxter, on account

her parents' health is unable to ry Bridges," he declared.

ing of the words complained of notebook of a "Newark Adver- John L. Lewis, leader of Ameri-ing. return. Miss Lush is married, and

Fu- (Bridges is head of the and pleaded that they were fair tiser" reporter but this contain-ca's 400,000 soft coal miners now bien Province

run-saving field 321 tiations with the mine-owners on against ' Miss Wise esigned in 1940, so I was very Union of CIO.) -- Associated lie concern published for public by violence part of the libel.

the eve of his trial for contempt runs in the two and three quar- After further corroborative

ters of an hour was a tall order auch. relieved and very thankful | Press.

Arsi The report offered the

It is doubtful whether Ham- when she wrote offering to return.

wards Prof. Laski. They also evidence by the professor's coun- We are glad to have her back and

pleaded that insofar as the words sel, the hearing adjourned until glimmer of hope in the strike. mond in Hutton's absente enter. to welconic new-comers In the

A spokesman.of-the-Departmenttained the idea of forcing a win persons of welcome a

were statements of fact they were tomorrow, Reuter.... Bassadona and

"Secret unless Queensland of the Interior said: and that insofar true

as they Mrs. Tuzove. at an exce/dingly new Chinese members

were expressions of opinion, they

negotiations may be going on, but trous mistakes. we could not say so oftelally. We Without undue risk, Washbrook by a Caro-Kann Defence to A customs union between the were fair comment and published We are all grate-isa Ho Sin Ha. Miss

welcome anything to avoid fur-nnd Edrich gave a skilful dis king'a pawn and picking - his full to him and to all his staff Seene. Miss Cheung Wai Yee, British Empire and the United in good faith and without malice

ther trouble."

play, rarely neglecting to punish pponent to pieces in the middle. for the hard work and willing Co- Miss Wei Ki Tsing and Miss States was proposed by Paul on the matter of public interest.

Pruf. Läski's counsel, who de-

The reported negotiations may, a loose ball, indeed, each shower game. Johnny Carvalho had a operation throughout this year. of Hwang Pek Cie, and I would de Hevesy, former Hungarian | resurgence. Our thanks are due thank the Northcote Training Minister to Spain and Francescribed him as one of the fore-

it is thought, be inspired by the no hesitation in taking alx tough time of it after losing a College for the facilities which

new threat to the conl industry Their placing against a defensiv also to the Rev. George She who

ook for a picco, but losing a the which is raising tears among both field was good to see and Correspoartent to arted us

re being made to give extra

lece gratis a few moves later training to all who need it.

the industry and the management. only blemish in the stand of 18 Government until my return.

ounded the death-knell President Truman is officially was a chance stumping by Edrich

The surprise of the round, We have been fortunate in the

Kolntchoff- fact that our building was left

stump and

sa Tallon could be Tausz game; which the former intact; certain structural aitera-

excused for not gathering clean- won after being down a rook tions were made by the Japanese

to a plece with a bisher-locked From the Test viewpoint the pawn on K6. Kolatchoff played | satisfactory feature was the man steadily through a Ruy Lopez ner in which Washbrook and made adventurous by his op Edrich threw off the dominance ponent's introducing in early previously Shanghal, Nov. 27.

exerted by McCool variation and won a pawnin Two of the defence lawyers Conditions favoured, the bowler, the early, middle game. in the war crimes trial of 21 the strong breeze into which he Nazia withdrew from the case | bowled being ideal for his gully yesterday as a protest against The building is estimated to the arrest of a Japanese witness How an Indian driver of the Royal Signals, who cost about $100,000.

from Tokyo by American mili- had no accident throughout the Burma cam-anatorium at Aberdeen, with testimony.

Further projects include a tary police after completing his paign for two and a half years, was alleged to accommodation for approximate- have killed an aged Chinese woman in Nathan 300 patients. This will proL. C. Yang, and French, Paul Road about two months ago when driving at bably be sited #t Aberdeen, Premet. 40 to 45 m.p.h., was related at the Criminal where prepared ground Sessions by Mr., J, Reynolds, Crown Counsel, already available. yesterday when the soldier appeared before Mr. Silva submitted that the

Sir Henry Blackall, Chief Justice, on a charge of manslaughter. conviction against Au could not

The skid marks indicated that be sustained, as there was only Mr. B. Bernacchi, instructed by verbal instruction by the Traffic Mr. A el Arculli, pleaded not the lorry was travelling between Department that a truck could guilty on behalf of the Indian, 40 and 45 m.p.h. when the brakes not be overloaded and it was net Sadhu Singh.

were 'applied. But this is a Report of the past stated in the car licence.

Outlining the case, Mr. Reynolds

When year and would place on record the magnificent work and spirit It stated that defendant had said that at about 2 p.m. on Sept. Major Henry Dirs late that after of-both staff and students. Most six and a half tons waste paper 30, accused was driving a military noon whether he had been, in- of the staff were former teachers on the lorry. The official loading lorry. No. A.3513, along Nathan velved in an accident, he replied the meeting to prepare an esti- Premet supporting Yang and and many were former pupils. As was two and half tons.

Road towards Mongkok. Near in the negative. On the following mate of the cost of staff and that a witness was "something Dundas Street; he overtook"an- day when again asked, he said

at the Harcourt sacred."-Associated Press. other larry at a fast speed.

that he was involved in a slight |

Centr accident,

The Hon. Treasurer (Mr. D. after Kuttanice) disclosed that provision to meet the cost of the radiography" unit, the Associa- tion's credit balance was $44,336 stded

soe of which, though not all have benefited the School. Or the other hand the Science room equipment has been entirely lost

115.

of our fellow citizens and for the f Glory of His Holy Kane,

Conviction Of

Driver Quashed

with the exception of the micro- scope which was used in Tweed Bay Hospital in Stanley Camp and which we brought back with Many of our library books were saved in the University

The conviction against Au Library, though many are now in

of dilapidation. Cheung, motor driver, sentenced a sad state Through the courage and faithful to six months' hard labour with- ness of our school Matron, Miss out the option of a fine by Mr. Goodridge and our Chinese tea. X. d'Almada at the Central chers, much of the house furni- Magistracy on November 2, for tufe and many of our persona1 dangerous lcuding and over. loading of his lorry, was quash- belongings were saved for us.

We have a School now of welled by Mr. d'Almada yesterday, over 800 students, 448 girls and when an application was made! 212 boys. The Council has de- through Mr. M. A. da Silva.

rided to discontinue co-educațiun

after the summer of 1947; there- after admitting boys only up to 8 years of age.

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other things, were brief- Trial Protest ing of the Council of the Anti-Tuberculosis Asso- ciation last evening.

Soldier On Charge Of discussed at a meet-

Manslaughter

!

For same reason, the brakes were applied hard and the rear wheels of the lorry began to skid,

The lawyers were

Chinese

SELLERS TURNS

A lost tempo permitted Taung

a strong attack on QB-file hich he consolidated by taking i rock for a piece. Kolatchoff „efonded à poor position with some imagination and opened a ecunter-threat, on king's side. hat forced Tausz to postpone the attack. The lost tempo, plus an eversight that lost a rook or nothing, proved fatal nod Kolatchoff managed a mate on the 46th move.

Standings to date:-

IL.: Külsht R. G. Gardner Australia H. Ballerand.

CRITIC

London, Nov. 27. Lieutenant-Colonel R. S. Rai is The witness was Kakitaro Kerr, Secretary of the M.C.C Immediate intention is to the instructione

Nakagawa, who was arrested on stated today that he had not ye. of the War seen the article by Mr. A. B. Sel press on with mass radiography Crimes Office and lodged in W.R. Hammond In Australia but lers, criticising the captaincy of scheme in order to ascertain the Ward Road jail.

declared that, in any event, he extent of the T:B. problem in the Yang, announcing his with would not make any comment, Colony.

Mr. Sellers is in drawal to the American M The unit is expected to cost the Association about $68,000, Untitary Commission, said there its arrival, clinical work is to be as much at state for the United States which is "out accused was asked by carried out at the Harcourt Cen here to teach the Chinese peoplef BL.C.CHT tikle in the Yorkshire 3. T. de Carvalho

tre, where facilities are - being provided by Government. A spe- the principles of Demceracy, cial committee was appointed by the principles of fair

...

The woman, Mr. Reynolds' con- cluded, died of multiple injuries,

trial."

SLAP HAPPY IN NEW COURT

Inouye Kanaa, 31, Japanese

purely as a correspondent of E. Taster newspaper and not in any capa-F. X. Sequeira

the representative of the Col. H. M. Whlicumbed city as ther

Bait Kerr stated. V. V. Kolatchoff Colonel

'L; C, ́Danenberir. In his Evening Post", Mr.

Sellers pressed surprise at Hammond's handling of the field and bowling in the Queensland match and slated that he would like to see

a better team. Reuter,

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It continued down the left centre She had six fractured ribs. of the road for some time in a Dr. Alvares, medical officer of The Hon. Dr. S. N. Chau pre-interpreter, who was sentenced the Clab teams on Saturday: straight line. Then the front the Kowloon Public Mortuary, wheels turned inwards, sa "that testified to..the cause of death, when, the lorry came to, a stand- still it had turned through more than a right angle.

To Mr. Bernacchi, witness agreed that the woman tell' first and then was run over by a wheel, Major John Henry Dirs, officer

Illegal Exports

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(LIT.)

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1st team Nary at Sookunpoo1286 0,Daily Programme Sommery, Court, was charged before Mr. at 4.30: Anderson; Leck and 2.32 p.m.-Serenade Le, the Elere y BH. Sainsbury at the Central Hopkinson: Carver, Farrow and detrænge

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2nd team v. C.A.S.C. on Club log on the road eight or nine foet said that at 3.30 p.m. on Sept. 30 A Chinese merchant, Wons O'Denovon A.SP of the ground at 1 pm-Calton: Daz from the footpath. The woman he received a message from the Sum, was charged before Mr. Special Branch, the case was by and Strange; Odell, Skudun was knocked down. She turned Military Police. In consequence, E. X d'Almada at the Central adjourned until Saturday, and Beck: Gardner, Fowler, a forward somerspuit and fell on when accused returned with the Magistracy yesterday, with Accused was not legally re- Feallard, Farmer and Barker. to the ground between the front torry, witness asked him whether carrying illegal exports on board presented at this stage, dis Reserves Fjelstad, Gilchrist, and rear wheels under the lorry, be had been involved in any ac- the 88. Fat Shan on Tuesday.

Hambly and Ballarand.. The lorry continued a few feet cident. He replied no,

Defendant was found with six THRONE OF SYRIA and bumped into a hand truck | Next day, when again asked, pleces of woollen material inside

HUTTON. loaded with furniture and then he said he was involved in afa gunny rack. *Albert Amnian, Transjordan, Nov. 26.

O.K come to landstil,N minor accident but denied mow-The material, valued at over A Beirut report published in Accused, Mr. Reynolda alleged ing that it was a fatal accident. $500, was ordered to be con- all the Egyptian newspapers did not alight to see what dam- To Bernacchi, Major Dirs sold faceted. posi

that King Abdullah of Trans- age, he had done. Instead, that accused appeared dumbstruck" Poon Luen was fined $100 Jordan liad stated in a private. Lon Hutton has made a com turned the lorry by revising at when witness informed him that for having two pieces of Wool- conversation here that he had plete recovery from his chill least half a lorry's length and it was a fatal accident on material when going throne of a Greater Syria, to it for practice tomorrow

an received formal promises of the is resting again, today but will be then, guing forward, turned up. / Asked for an opinion, on ne- board the ship,. Nathan one in the direction from cused's driving experiencs, the Ip: Man, who had two pieces include Palestine, was officially Reuter.

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Bain thus, driving forward, It was driver and was never involved in stated that he bought it for his alleged, one of the rear wheels any accident throughout the mother, to make clothing, and passed over the woman's body, Burma campaign for two and a not for trade. killing her instantly. The lorry half years,”

Sub-Inspector J. Hayward, of disappeared in the direction of After other witnessps for the the waterfront search unit, the Star Ferry at a fast speed Crown, the case was adjourned, air conducted the prosecution, Routes: