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STAG HOTEL MANAGER FOOD FIGURES

WINS APPEAL

1

Holding that there was no proof that the appellant was aware of the fact that his hotel was being conducted as a bawdy house, Sir Henry Black- all, Chief Justice, delivering written judgment in allowing the appeal at the Supreme Court yesterday quashed the conviction and fine of $150 imposed by Mr. George She, Magistrate, on Lu Kat-yun, manager of the Luk Kok Hotel, better known as the "Stag Hotel," of No. 148, Queen's Road, Central, for knowingly. permitting the premises to be used as a brothel on Sept. 17, last.

No Proof.

It is officially announced that the Food and Funt Costs for the week ended March 1, were:-

cattles

Rice & Flour

7.2

Vegatable... a.

1.0

|Salt Cablinge

2

Oil

Salt Fish

Firewood

Tea

Fish

Pork

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH-6,–1947,

ALLEGED THREATS IN LETTER TO HOTEL

$8,4100A, delay in. payment will then be recognised as hostile and in such an event you are advised to report to the Police for protection at an early moment. In the eyes of this Organisation the Police are no better than ants; Folice sta-

0310 3200' 1.5750

0800 .5105. .0620

10.0

.9240 1,000V .7000

$18.0010

Bean Curd, 14 pieces

Total

No Authority

tlons have been bombed on several occasions,

and we shall, without fall, give a demonstra-

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Ambassador

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SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

RDINARY YEAKLY GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly General Meeting of the Share- holders of the Corporation will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, 1 Queen's Rond Central, Hongkong, on Friday the 28th day of March, 1947,

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time after* p.m. local

the

mployment as Coast Staff Oflcers Skymaster in, which he and his the Anditora and the Profit and on the ships of the Chinese Mari. family were travelling narrow- Loss Account and Balance Sheet time Customs Service. Applicants

for the Hong

year ending 31st will be interviewed at the Omee ly averted crashing in.

„December, 1946, and for the laf the Chinese Maritime Customs, Kong.

olection of Directors and the 14th Floor, Marina House, Queen's Kong The landing in Hong

Rond, Central, was cancelled and the plane or appointment of Auditora. dered to proceed, to Manila.

| DIOCESAN Girls' Schasi, Kowlane: when it lost radar contact The Register of Shares of Wanted unedintely elther a while approuching Kai Tak and the Corporation will be closed Kindergarten or Junior School just missed crashing into the from Monday, the 10th March Teacher. kille surrounding, the airport.to Friday the 28th March, 1947 Tel: 86886.

Only the pilot's alortness in both days Inclusive) during pulling the plane into a steep which perlod no transfer of climb managed to avoid disaa. | shares can be registered. ter when the Skymaster lost altitude after circling nunter- By Order of the Board.

A. MORSE, ous times trying to pierce the lowlying clouds and make

Chief Manager. landing.

Hongkong, 20th Feb, 1947.

Major R. F. Johnson, U.S. Army, piloted the craft.

Kai Tak, describing visibili-.j. ty as "appalling," finally order. of the Skymaster to, abandon

· to Majilla.—

tion of our skilled bombing with the time- bomb in the event of non-payment. Do not act in contravention of this order." The foregoing alleged extracts that the organisation stationed any "mens rea". Such offences from a translation of letter the Hong Kong area is aiming at Mr. Le d'Alina e Castro, soldiers and sailors should have are commonly known as quasi-sent by the Overseas Youth Ace the upsetting of the order of the

usually Instructed by Me. P.C. Lnts, ended thele several ways to criminal, and are

Blun Association, and signed by British Government und the ter re- one Chan Chuen, to the Sunmination of foreign rule in Hong. appeared for the appellant. Mr. the Stag total for the same stricted in their applleation to Sun Hatel were read by DCI Kong. The maintenance fee wifi A. Lonsdale, Crugd Counze). | purpose on the Hame evening special categories of persons Charles Motiron to Mr. Blair be subscribed by large business Committal proceed- firms and in, tiils connection you presented the Crown, 2 and still more remarkable that such as haktera of liquor and Kerr when Delivering written judgment, the hotel staff should have had other licences and the like, and were commenced yesterday are required to raise $2,000 for

against Yeung Yam-hong.

the organisation once and for all Sir Henry said:

at selection of courtesans awalt, Jure, generally punishable with a

Yeung. dressed in

grey "A delay in payment will then "The appellant in this ease is "ing theip delertation.

fine. Applying these and other Chinese-style suit under a khak! be recognised us hostile and in the

"ennons' of construction to the overcoat, reaching manager of the Lak Rokj

down to his such an event you are advised to Hotel,' otherwise-known as the

present ense, can it be said that ankles, brown leather shoes with report to the Pulice for pretection. Stag Hotel. He lives next dieng

the offence of brothel kreping crepe rubber soles, and a three- In the eyes of this organisation, month's growth of hair, was the Police are no belter tann onts; to it and visits the hotel, daily, "11 Chen the learned a quaskerimini¡ one?

charged with possession of a de. Pelice stations have, heen bombed On the evening of 17th Septem- mundstrate had concluded that

tonutor, keeping an explosive on séveral occasions, anti shail, ber, 116, two members of the this conentenation of events

with intent erulanger life and without all, give a demonstration "Mr. Consdale, in support of property, possession of Military Poller, in the guise of ¦ was not a mere coineldence, and

ex-of our skilled bombing with the vaturies of Vers. sisted the found as a fact the appellant his contention that it is, cited plosive substance, and conspiring time-bomb in the event of non- prinses and frame females were must have been perfectly well number of cases mustly under to after a letter demanding with payment. Du not act in contra- |menaces the sum of $2,000 from ||vention of this order. Signed: Produced by ons of the hotel Faware of the goingen in his es. the Licensing Acts, but he was

the Sun Sun Hotel, un, Feb. 1. Chan Chuen, Unit Comnlunder, staff, from whom they muzle? Lablishment, this Court would unable to refer this Court to

Outlining the Crown's case, Mr. The recipients, added DCF Mot- their rheden

that Mottram suld, that on arrival of tram, were invariably requested struck anot. have been dispused to die any quthority showing bargain for the girls' services turb the conviction. But he did cases like the present have been the afternoon train from Canton to book a room in a hotel in Shum-

NO regarded by the Courts. on Feb. 1. a About the same time, the civil, not do this, for it is conceded

Chinese Revenug chun, using one of the four set Police rated the hotel where by the frown that the judgment Nor does an examination of the Offer in the course of a routine of characters forth in the note

in section under which the charge earth of defendant found in two book when doing so. discovered several nen of the Court he low With

different parts of the overcoat was last entry him any further, carried by accused two sticks of! De Evans, .. 3 Commando isnding attempts and to pro- hers of the Alld

testified to having ex- Ärmel effçet, a finding that there was Forren in bedrons with Chinese ne prof that the appellant was the first place, section 12 of explosives. Leung was brought amined twg., detonators, one of is of very the Revenue Offeers' room which, was known as Britlah No. girls in circumstance which aware of the fact that his hotel Ordinance 5/1938

applies to await the arrival of the Senior: 27 dutonniar with a delay tinie dought that thee was being conducted as a bawdy wide application for it

Refer- fromles were there fir the pur- fuse. Notwithstanding thin not merely to persons engaged | Revgate Offers. Whilst In the action of eight seconds.

Leung said. "I might as ring to the two sticks of explosive in certain avocations but to rea pose of plying their trade. the earned magistrate con-

weil die" and threw a detonator handed to him by DI White, wit-

1 to the "The appellant was not pies visted the appellant on the every householder, and, in the

desk, said Mr. Mol-¡ness; said that he experimented | with one, and found that the ex- sent at the time having, accord. ground that he was criminally second place, a conviction may tram.

enta

imprisonment, withoul Alleged Statement plosive used was of Japanese orl- "hotel about 1 pm to vist his van. The point which this the option of a fine. Further, On arrival of the Senior Ite-in and was, in fact, the standard

to the venue must be had

was Bitric acid and TNT bore-twole Officer, He denied all Bow Cart then has to determine isregard

charge. used by Japanese engin- word "knowingly". in letbe of the hated being used whetlier that decision was good

ton-brought to the as a brothel and states that helin law.

**struing the operative verb of a where a thorough had ordered the staff not

"rima facie there must be prescribed offener in ese niste ng-the-articles-found. If the two sticks were to be set

his person, said Mr. Mottram, admit prostitutes or to do aus-, mens, rea" before there can be covered by authority, Citrwere two wooden chops, a note area, said Cupi. Evans, windows thier legal Now, if the apa crime, but this is not au in. Will see whether that verb is bunk, and 42 letters, 22 of which would be broken and doors likely controlled by' auch ward as we concealed his left sock to be blown out. Furniture would (pellant Jad reallys geted in” this ; flexible rule, for, there

"knowingly".

be split and damaged, while the land 20 l the right nose, Bluntier, it was certainly a re- | large body of manleipal tow:

These letters

unscaled Crater six inches' in diameter and markable coincidener that framed in such Terins

doctrine of "mens ren" apples and addressed to various hotels, two inches deep would be made number of British and American make att act criminal without opinion leans towards the ex- and bear the name of the Over-

white if it is sot, the better theatres, restaurants and so forth, on a concrete floor.

After further evidence, hearing clusion of that doctrine:.

was reas Youth Action Organĺsation.

adjourned until Now, as I have already 'anid. They contained

for demands the learned Crown Counsel has sunt numed was not paid un and slated that if the been unable to cite nuthority explosion would take place. The support of the Interpretation for chops found on accused, continu- which he contends and It seems

ed the Crown Prosecutor, also To me that thla is a case to bore the name of the same or-

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Lad. in Mahmoud and Inpshani, Shortly Lifter the arrest of 1921 C.A. at '731), might well, Yeung, copnued Mr. Moliram, interviewed by ADCI he was be applied. In that ease the (K) L. R. Whant, during which learned Judge sald:

he was alleged to have stated:" ylow with some trepidation "The letters found in my pos- any tendeticy to, diminish the session, 12 in number, I brought of the rule as to to Hong Kong fut posting. The importance mens rea which has prevailed, dynamite was far the Man Kwok Restaurant." When asked where in respect of criminal charges. the restaurant was, defendant was There are cases no doubt where alleged to have named Welling-

a statute makes it plain that an tun Street us the locality,

Continuing, DC Moitrum sald offence is created without a criminal intention on the part that an explosion had actually of the person who is charged, cecurred in the Man Kwok Res- taurant-at-Wellington Street-a but those cases, where the Court fev days prior to defendant's is dealing with question of arrest. jerime, are to my mind in them. The note-book, Mr. Mottram selves anomalous; and I should emphasised, contained four sets

of Chinese letters which occurred hesitate to increase their num

time and again in the 42 letters ber without being satisfied upon found en, recused. The writing argument that this is one of them.'

on the note-book was different from that of the lettera but, de- glared DCI Mottrand, it was simi- ur to that written by defendant a piece of paper in, the Police Station.

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NOTICE

THE INSTITUTION. OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS OF HONGKONG

The records of the above?! named institution having been lost, Information?ɑh the follow- Ура Jug matters urgently re- A high Government official quired by the intersigned :— said today that Admiral

Paris, March 4.

In-

'Argenleu will be replaced 12

High Commissioner in dochina as the first step toward political settlement with the insurgent nationalists.

The official and, in un inter- view, that Government hayl not decided upon his successor.

Admiral d'Argenlleu wys, re- ecift recalled from Saigon for consultatious in L'aria.-As- sociated Press,

Anyone who knows anything of the death of Wong Tau-hring (Wong Tao-bing), engineer ex 5.5. "Tokyo. Murch, 4.

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Four American airmen were among the prisoners behended without a trial and six French women died as a result of tör ture after being captured,

Three Japanese war crimes nects who had been held at Sugamo have been Hong Kong for trial as war criminals. Associated Press.

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

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Tender for Laundry Service

It is hereby notified that tenders for Laundry Services for all hospitals and institutions under this department are in- vited.

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"As then, this Court le not satisfied that the offence with which the appellant was charged falls with the category of a quasi-criminal offence from which the element of

"mena that everyone of the 42 letters tulation in August 1945. rea" is excluded and since the bore the

chop of the Overseas The Agure 13" proved an un- from the Secretary, Medical Court below has negatived the Youth Action Organisation and fuckly, one for the barglars since Department, Hong Kong & existence of "mens rea" on the signed by one Chan Chuen. The the most valuable thing they Shanghal Bank Buildng, first part of the appellant, the el, inter alan Sun Hotel stat- stole was a new pair of rubber finor.

boots. The damage caused to Notice is hereby given to the the house, however will cost a Management of the Sun Sun Hotel considerable aum to repair,

Mr. E. S. Wilkinson, prominent Shanghai British resident of 193

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