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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15,-1947.-

GENDARME CHIEF WAS Oldster "MISUNDERSTOOD" MAN Rival Of

Officer Sentenced For Bigamy

Noma was misunderstood by some of his sub- ordinates and therefore considered to be a

Young

cold-hearted person," said Captain Yatag in Soldier

the course of his cross-examination by Major MacGregor before No. 7 War Crimes Court yesterday.

Replying to Major MaeGregor, Ghilote was a personal detective Ghilote Yathgal said that all docoments attached to Moriyama.

was held as a prisoner en us. concerning interrogations con-

picion of espionage activities. ducted by the Gendarmes were turned over to the Judicial -Department.

A number of small

never came to Hayashi said that Inouye.

and

Had threatened him. Hayashi de..

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Employee Sues For LAMMERT BROS.

Wages

Back

Sun-

Passengers Abandoned Ship

which

Before Mr. Justice, T. J. Gould at the Supreme Gourt yesterday, Lo Chiu, printer, of No. 49, Connaught Road, Central, instituted legal proceedings against his former employer, Manchester, Feb. 14. Chan Shiu-man, manager and partner of the "Love at first sight"| Kinson Printing Press, No. 7, Si Hong Lane, for back wages and allowances amounting to Over a bun and a cup of

$399.50, plus cost of the action. Neither party tea in a NAAFI canteen

was legally represented. Sergt. Major Hayashi said that at a Manchester station

Lo claimed payment from Chan Inouye Kanao was working as an

described at of one month's wages, $140, in lieu interpreter at the Special Branch Was There was only one Alsatian of Gendarmerie Headquarters: He Manchester magistrates of notice: of seven days' wages, due him; of one London, Feb. 14. Although letters were hound at Gendarmerie Head could not read Japanese court when a seventy month's boarding allowance, Sin:

for he was

duty five-year-old man and a and of overtime pay for 36' read seeking leniency quarters.

who

$108. The total was $399.50. dainti dogs from outside

stated that on Jan. 7, for him from the two play with this Alsatian. One kept a girl, was scolded by him twenty seven-year-old

declared Chan dismissed him without rea- women involved. a Lan-for the female clerks employed because he stars money and art soldier both

for the printing press for al- director at the Gendarmerie had, as a cles. While at Stanley. Inouye their love for a woman on and notice, after he had work- don company

most a year. and former R.A.F. officeret, a small, long-haired gentle nied that he had ever spoken to of twenty-seven,

Although there was no written The woman, Nellie Elizabeth

Seattle, Feb. 11. was, at Cambridge As-dog which she brought to the Inouye regarding Goh.

from time to Gendarmerie

"Informers

of Toxteth-street, agreement, Lo added, his employ- Marsland,

The . North Sea, by Chan was a regular one ment sizes, sentenced to nine time. The female clerk was not

Major Hirao said that Noma Higher Openshaw, Manchester, at $140 per month, plus lodging ran aground' off British Colum. The accused of bigamously marry-and boarding. In October, last bia, radioed early today that months' imprisonment employed in the kitchen.

carried out inspections of The rutions received by Kewloon Gendarmerie.

ing the soldier on Christmas year, Chan wanted to reduce his 36 passengers are leaving the for bigamy.

prisoners detained at the During his period of duty, the Eve. was sent for trial at the wages to $120, but the plaintiff ship by lifeboats.

did not agree. more than Gendarmes had been attacked ou He is Wilson Boyd Rowat, aged Gendarmerie were

Lo Ave of

Com next Assizes, and allowed bail. or six occasions by

alleged that according to the 32. of Natal-ried, Streatham, he was now getting at Stanley.

munist guerillas" and suffered Leaving the court with both firm's regulations, he was allow SIW.. He pleaded guilty to There was a shortage of

casualties.

men, the woman Anally wented Sundays off and would be paid bigankuusly marrying Miss Edith medical supplies in Hong Kong. On Dec. 8, 1944, be was engaged off with the soldier. It was for overtime work on three Sun- Eleanor Melroy, at SL Nels, Among the 2,000 policemen in the construction of fortifica- his last day of leave before re- days every month if he worked Hints, on Septi. 4.

on Sundays. The regular work employed in Hong Kong, many tiens at Tainoshan. There was

das Lo said that days:

when he was anniversary of the outbreak berland.

Mrs. Marsland, a brunette, dismissed on was prevalent. Much difficulty of war, with the result that he

Jan. 7, Chan still was experienced in obtaining was not able to return to his office in an alleged statement to the owed him seven days wages.

until late in the evening.

Police, said she had married

cutter of Wong Choi, paper medical supplies.

He knew Josephi Venpin, who her husband in October, 1939. Chan's printing press, said that was employed as an informer. She had continued to live with the shop's regulations were that Hiracald he had given instruc. tions that infoncers should not him right up to Christmas Eve. fokis were not to work on Sun be allowed to

to walk about freely in when she "married" the soldier.

Circular Her husband, was seventy- the Gendarmerie offices.

Sometime last year when fakis Lieut.

Comdr. Imamura said five on his last birthday. She demanded overtime pay on Sun happy days from the shops, witness add. ΩΙ the qutbreak of war, the civil. were a childher, On his returnVery strict in carrying out thewal on Dec 1944. anniversary had never been really

first ed, Chan asked the fokis to sign a orders of his superior. the

ak residents ian to England alber uverseis service

Kong don from the time they were Hong General.. Ho with the RAF. he went through Governor

wasated aeroplanes to the Japanese married, but Mr. Marsland had circular. In the circular, there was at for marriage with Miss very keen concerning the main- Navy. During a ceremony which always tried to be kind to her. one cendillon under which fukis She met the soldier, Harry employment would terminate if

they asked for overtime pay- Forces, al

311 air raid took

Because of this condition, wit- subted that me that hari hail subordinates and insisted that heard bombs striking ships at the been done, ilber of the w-orders issued by him be carried wharves. The "All Clear" signal tt to the letter. He was mis- was given at about 11 o'clock. uf his During an air raid, only automo- Rowa's marriage had been un-understood by some happy from the statewire subordinates and therefore cau-biles, engaged in air defence were had let him & live with an-

cold-hearted allowed on the roads. ⚫sidered

Hearing was then adjourned till other man.

started divorce

person.

10 am. today. gmirerlibugs against him in 1944,

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His legal wife wrote that she suffered from malaria, which an air midbat day, which was turning to his unit in Northum was eight hours a day on week ship said he will not be able lo

had reftized In give evidence against him, and sent hun gend

The women he had biga Wishes. masty married, in a letter from ursing hote, revealed she d given Arth to twins only a were before the wial She plead ed mot to be generated from him.

Mr. A. G. G Plantmorency progceuling, said Rowat was mar- rie une 7, 1936 and there

Melony.

From his weekly meetings, Noma knew what was going on among his subordinates.

Very Strict

Major The next witness, Shizawa, said that Noma was

the

that

1,

days.

tenance of peace and order. He was being held at Headqua Denny Rley, at the NAAFI can-" Mr. Paul Tyrie, deferding, was also strict towards his came over in waves and he teen where she was employed fress said, none of the fokis signed

· CD.

in a month before the big

urns wedding eremony.

Nevertheless, she wished him

to be a

The number of "blankets issued to prisoners depended on the state of the weather. In

well, sail Mr. Tyrie, who read a summer, they received

ante

letter she had sent to her bus-biantet ench, but in winter, four.

an address in Tun- bard bidge Wells, Kent. This stated:

"T

P-515

Yugoslavia Stalling?

Prisoners were taken out for

-Athens, Feb. 14. refused to give a sun bath when the weather

member these Mark Ethridge, U.S. sydene against you.

were also of the United Nations commission investigating Greek border war-

was warm I led to

and

on

sign a statement for the police, occasions, blankets

bul

am;

1 only put the ruth regard-given an airing.

T marriage," the time we

ing to the scale laid down by case.

as a waitress.

Woman.

the "circular"

The message said the const; guard of a Canadian coastal station "have the situation wel in hand and on the way with aid."

The radio operator on the

send further messages cause of water in the oil." JE is not known whether he meant there is fire in the hold or taking whether the ship is water in the fuel tanks.

An earlier message said the ship was taking water in No 2' hold.--United Presa.

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NOTICE

KING'S COLLEGE

Witness said that none of the He had come in for a cup of]

Old Boys and former mem- fakis worked on Jan. 5, Sunday, tei and a bun, and it was "wo days before, plaintiff's dis bers of the Staff are invited to

missal. 'case of love at first sight."

send me information which In the witness box, Chan alleg. Harry took her part of the

academic, and! way home for a few nights, anded that he dismissed the plaintiff Would assist me in compiling!

because he did not work on Sur records of the she told him she was a single because he, without his permis-athletic. history of King's Cul-

day.

denied that he had lege from 1928 to 1947. The sion. Chon I linewit was wrong, but, sto

be greatly I was so fond of him I couldn't ever agreed to pay overtime pay following would

to the fokls and that it was the valed help telling lies," she said. shop's regulation to allow fokis

free Sundays..

Chan said he dismissed the

after

the stoppage of plaintiff work on Sunday, Jan. 3, because he thought Lo was the instigator. The care was adjourned to this morning.

evidence Both men said in they wanted to stay with the womail.

Eley said he still loved her Rations were issued accord-fare, charged Yugoslavia with very much and wanted to marry

delaying tactics in presenting its her properly. When- The Yugoslav delegate replied ever there was anything left that certain people” did not over from the meals of the want to hear all his statements.

Ethridge Gendarmerie staff, it was made the Yugosiny delegate Josip avaliable to the prisoners as Djerle in speaking for 45 minutes extra food.

and then waiting several hours before.

speaking

45 another minutes was "bordering on the to frivolous."

lived together, etc. There is no

that we must sort the Governor General. doubt now the thing out so that you can get straight.

"Good wishes to you and a sir- cure hope that all will go well with you in your coming ordeal." Miss Meeny's relationship with Howat was extremely happy, went on Mr. Týris, and she would-un- doubtedly have been present in

court had she not given birth to twins a few days before.

"Cannot Bear Separation"

She also had sent a letter, which stated:

"Be Kind" Order Numa

gave instructions

declared the action of

his subordinates to carry out Djerje paid a throat ailment interrogations as promptly as prevented him from speaking for possible to avoid the possibility longer periods but that he want. of people being detained longer jed also to make sure that the than necessary.". He

commission had sufficient time also in read all documents submitted. structed them to be kind and Associated Press. careful towards prisoners.

HELENA MAY REUNION

Shiozawa said that he never at ! any time received verbal or writ- ten orders from Nema to execute Goh and others who escaped from the Gendarmerie arid were later recaptured. Noma never gave written orders la any member of Institute at the Institute yester the Gendarmerie staff.

A reunion ten party was held

by members of the. Helena May

-Inouye Kanan was an interpresse present were Lady

Woman Influenced By

Novel

1. Copies

School of the

magazines, Prospectus, athletic programmes; School Concert programmes, -r» parts of Speech Days.

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