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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1948.

In Canton HUNGER MADE

"MY BROTHER WAS A JAP They Met In Canton

The Tigress Was A Steady 16

A 16-year-old girl, known to the palice as this “Lo Fu” (Tigress), WAS arrested about 15 times. Every time she insisted that she was 16 years old, nd was lenten1- ly dealt with as a juvenile by Mr. Thomas Tam.

Yesterday she appeared before Mr. F. X Almada :LL Central Magistracy. charged with obstruction and hawking without n Itcence, Again she insisted

she was 16.

Inspector

Prosecuting Moran said that Dr. Gould was of the ontelon that she wag over 17 and requested a 72-hour remand for defen- dunt to be modically ('X- amined to ascertain exact age.

Move For Traffic Diversion

her

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PUPPET," HE TOLD THE COURT

An allegation that his elder brother was the pup- pet village chief under the Japanese was made by the respondent in an appeal heard before Mr. Justice E. H. Williams (Chief Justice), at the Supreme Court yesterday.

The apptal Was brought by Answering onther question, by Suu-Ulm (appellant), Mr. Justice Williams, respondent who sought an order that the nid that he took no action to re- Judgment of Mr. J. Barrow, Dispudiate the deed eater because CL Uffleer, New Territories, the appellant Was the puppet ven on Aug. 23, 1047, and Oct. vlogé chief under the Japanese. 17, 1947, be reversed and that andment be entered for the ap-

lant.

Appliant was represented by 2. B. A. 1 rnacchi instructed

Itespondent further alleged that if he tork any action which was against the interests of ap pellant t the time, it would have bern dangerous to his life, Mr. C. A. S. Comber of After the British re-occupation, stesse. Hastings & Company, The was not in a paition to take The respondent, Cheung Yol-ction during the Military Ad- un, was not legally represented. | ministration, but had to walt

Elder Brother

Mr B. charchi sakd thank cllant was the eldest brother of

pundent.

Tha father owned fields and ats in the New Territories.

On the father's death, respondent uce eded to the property. Ap pellant claimed that hc should

endled himself to the bulk ..the property.

In 1942, after a meeting of the Village Council, tho brothers agreed upon an equal division of the property, as well as a divi sion of gtrinin property which they expected to inherit on the denth of an unele.

until the return of the Civil Au- thorities.

Respondent said that he would leave the matter

f the Court.

Iteorlog was

nook on Monday.

In the hands

adjourned tit

Personalia

for Shanghai by P.A.A. Clipper C. Cronk and E. Delaney left

"Monacon" yesterday. On th plane for San Francisco

were Mr. and Mrs. A. Osatananda and Mrs. Ying Shee Sing Wong

Hotel arrivala --- that appellant C.M. Mathieson, H.W. Orgood. would call in the Japan.sv.

At a hearing before the Dis. Mr. and Mrs. A.J, Hickmott triet Offleer. New Territories and A.H. Williams.

It was alleged by the respon- dent

thal h: had signed the agreement under duress because he was afraid

'he e atract was vold.

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Peninsula

Peninsula dopartures

E.E.

The Trate Diversion will take effect from ląday and the sttention of drivers of all ile also made cerai orfer! vehicles is directed to Regulas to damages. No evidence Ind Carr. tlon 179 of the Vehicles and been brought forth by the r

Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Road Traffic Ordinance, 1947. pondent to supp rt his content...

Grimm, H.B. Fraser. A.0. Between th. burs of 8 am that he had signed the deWhitehouse, S.B. Talati, H.N.

nder duress.

ippinger. Mr. and Mrs. J.H.

Worming their way from a mass meeting at the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hait, thousands of demonstrators milf- ed through the streets of Canten, totally disrupting traffic in certain parts of the city, carrying and. shouting anti- British slogans. Members of the San. Min Chu I Youth Corps are prominent among the mob.

ODD SPOTS IN THE NEWS

A Village Council was a semi-Helck, T.T. Pedersen, Mr. and "MURDER MILL” trial body and it was highly irs. improbable that they whuld David Simon.

zor any pressure.

and 8 p.m. all trad proceeding EAST from Garden Rond will turn left into a en's Road and procved NORTH down Jack Road and EAST along Chate: Didn't Know Law Read, SOUTH along Marcus

spondent, asked by Mr. Jus Road and Alter left into Queen' + ee Willams if he had anything Road.

say. Fuist That he did at Jaw Jow.

allians to uphold the decision He appealed to Mr. Justice

f the Diriet Offeer and to dis

ss the appeal.

Between the hours of 8, a.m

and Rp.m. all traille proceeding EAST along Des Voeux Read will turn NORTH down Jackson Road, CAST along Chater Rund SOUTH along Murray Road.

Traffle wishing to EAST will Glter left. Queen's Road, Traffic wishing tof proceed SOUTH! up Garden

proceed France And

in

Road er WEST along Queen' Road will proveed on directlen from the policeman on point}

Germany

Paris, Jan. 15. The Premier, M. Robert duty at the junction of Murray | General Joseph Pierre Koenig. Schuman, tonight received Rong and Queen's Road.

Queen's Read Central bewerni

Governor of the French occupa Podder Street and Des Voeux tion Zone of Germany at

E.S. Willoughby and

n nursery.

Tokyo, Jan. 16

Arreste.!

DIDN'T REMEMBER

A Minor

Miracle In Nathan Rd

HAINAN

POW ENJOY EATING SNAKES

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"I was so hungry. I could have eaten anything then," Cpl. A. Pledger, medical NCO in charge of Hainan Camp hospital, replied to a Prosecu→ tion query whether he enjoyed eating snails, snakes, lizards and rats, at the No. 1 Australian War Crimes Court yesterday.

Cpl. Plediter, whe, entered the sreutton Offer Majer Grant, 300- x yesterday after Lt. C. Intyre. Witness described the McCutchen Anished his evi- names and nationalities of the lener, said that when he entered POWs in the pictures, giving des the camp, where 81 Aussies and talis of the diseases from which 70 Dutchmen died from treat they were suffering. ment and atrocities between 1043 and 1943, it was Inifested: with cals. There wan not a single rodent left when they left the camp in 1945, witness said in his evidence against 17 former Jap- es Importaj Navy members on tell for war crimes,

I. McCutcheon in response to n Prosecution query said he could n't tell the taste of a rat or cot as he had no chance to get one. Coolle Hut

Cpl Pledger, who 'IB giving texpert evidence, gave a detalled description of the camp hospital and is environmenia. It was a enalle hut and was filthy and dirty: Glee, bugs and rats in- fested the but and bandages and splints had to be renewed fra. quently

to

Witness said that at the begin- ning of their confinement, one dector and 14 medical orderlies were assigned

the hospital. This was gradually reduced and when they were rescued in Aug.. 1645, there were only one doctor, aix orderiira and 100 bed-patients, Photographs Laken by the American rescuers showing the

state of the prisoners when rea- cued were produced by the Pro-

Junction Letters From . Readers

"Misleading"

"A miracle" at the

Nathan Road and Prince Ed- ward Road on Jan. 15 was re ferred to by Traftig Sub-Inspec tor R. Bell when He prosecuted Lew Bow (26) before Mr. W. A. Bintr-Kerr Ол the charge of'

Sir. Two rather mis-leading speeding and falling to exercise notes on the visit of Mr. Donald caution to ensure the safety of McCallergh to the Colony 'nex motorists in the vicinity.

week. have recently appeared in

Defendant was fined $250. TSI Bell informed the Courtress and I should be grate. that white lines are being paint- if you would allow me space

to give the true facts, ed at the junction of Nathan

The Central Advisory Council Road and Prince Edward Road.

for Adult Education in H.M.

Others when the police, suspicious of his dant said that he rememberei A raffle policeman is on duly Forces provide lectures to visit

more

unearthe dend infant-tiny atuffed into arango crates.

Inspector Brownrigg said that)

defendant with two others not in custody boarded a tram and were so unruly that the motorman stopped the car and called a police

away but

The other two ran Caing was caught.

Caines commanding officer said that he had a very good service record.

J.,D. Crine, signalman, appear The police began investigating ed at Central Magistracy yator The fellowing arrived on a possible "murder mill" in which day before Mr. J. G. Conklin on bird" flying-boat from the Unit. slain after they had arrested a man maliciously damazing a window of Thuraday by BOAC "Speed- some 40 infants might have been charges of disorderly conduct and ed Kingdom: Messrs. A.W. Hay, undertaker and a man and hithe Hong Kong Tramway Con A.P. Hamway, Mrs. Wadsley Dile, K.W. Clements, E. Lunt. wife who operate a maternity and pany.

and

Tho Miss Wadsley.

undertaker was

In answer to the charge, defen aboard the same aircraft were actions, hauled him off his bicycle nothing. the Rev. Father J.A. Guerra for questioning. The basket, at from Karachl) Capt. R.T. tached to the rear fender of hr Brown, (from Rangoon) and bleycle, contained a dead infant Measra. Ileng Kía-joo, Loew A search of his home

four Tszu-suo,

L.P.

Stack, Lal

bodies Kwong-chun, Lee Chen-yef and

BIAN, Further probing disclosed that May Nanada Wong (from the undertaker worked with a man Bangkok).

and his wife who operate a mater "The polic: nity and

nursery, The forthcoming wedding cf quoted neighbours of the nurser Mr. Melvin L. Ogden, of 37 operators as saying that a worn hi Kimberley Road, Kowloon, would cart for Infants. The neigh-

advertised in newspapers that h reallence.

Miss Sau Yet-chang has been bourn said the woman, after being caution was registered.

In view of defendant's record a Well-informed metropolitan announced.

given infants and receiving severa observers assumed the interview

thousand ven for their care, dis WILS i

Air Commodore A. Hesketh.not feed or bathe them-Associat sequel to yesterday's in Parliament at which C. CHE, DFC, British Air And Press. the Foreign Minister, M. George tache in Nanking, arrived in Bidault, reviewed the French Hong Kong, by air, yesterday OBITUARY Foreign policy with special em Phasis on the German situation. IL was officially stated that General Koenig had been given "preetse instructions" on The body of an unidentified Franec's altitude to the present the gutst of Chinese girl, about 23 years of evolution of Allied policy in nge, was found by the Police on Germany. Tang Island yesterday.

It is learned that the Cabinet An attempt will be made by meeting, arranged for tomorrow, the Police Authorities today to had been postponed. No reason have the girl identified.

was given-Reuter,

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the

Rond Central

Old City Hall is closed to EAST BOUND trafic, which will pre- eced vin Des Voeux Rond or Chatar Road, or

Connaught Rond.

UNKNOWN GIRL'S BODY FOUND

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During his stay in the Colony,. Air Contardore Iceketh will be the Air Omeer Commanding, Air Commodora S.N. Webetor, CBE, AFC, and Mrs. Weleter at Air House

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"KAREN"

Honolulu, Jan. 16. Winds of 100 m.p.h. Inshed the Liny land of Yap today as the fth typhoon in two months struck the strategie Pacific naval base. say United Press.

London, Jan. 16. A United Press dispatch fron Cairo said the death of King Iman Yehia Mohammed, 82, king and high priest of Yemen, was un-

Navy Announced that officially reported today.

dainage amounting to $75,000 was The Foreign Offico had no concated but no casualties were re- firmation of the report that the portalet expedition carrying food King died at Shaan, capital of his A talk on air conditioning country-United Prota.

and medicine was flown to the de was given by Mr. S. E. Faber:

vastated island from Guam, 450' miles to th

to the south-west.

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to the Hong Kong Engineering GAS BLAST Society at the Jacobean Room

of Hong Kong Hotel yesterday evening.

The speaker illustrated his points with Jantern alides thrown on the screen.

am:na

Lady Chan Chak was the passengers who left Hong Kong yesterday for. Canton. by Hong Kong Airways, Others to travel up by Hong Kong Air- ways planes included Mr. E.W. Nixon, and Mr. CN. Zimmerman Mr. HJD. Lowe arrived yester day, from Canton by. Hong Kong: Airways" aircraft.

RESTRICTIONS

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IN BURMA

Rangoon, Jan. 16,

limiting

Chicago. Jan. 16.

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Bome, 2,800 natives and a naval

and such

here to direct traffic. constable was, holding up the ours may be made under the

Abeut noon on Thursday, the Overseas Communds traffic along Nathan Road to auspices of the Admiral y, the allow free passage to a radin War Office or the Air Ministry, patrol car coming out of Prince Mr. McCullough has been sent Edward Road.

out by the Air Ministry o 1-1 ture Defendant Ignored the con <tablo's oustretched hands ant drove right in front of

adle patrol car which, luckily, arrangements during the tour. was going at 12 m.ph. Accused At the same time, his services also nearly

a atare made available to both the tionary bus which had stopped Beya Navy and the Army in on seeing the signal.

each area in which he lectures,

ran into

tlie

"It was a miracle," said TSI Bell, "that an accident did not happen."

He Proved

Rats Are No Good

Command, Far East and the

to .A.F. unite in Alri R.A.F. ure.responsible for

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vet as a lecturer sent out by the Admiralty or War Office is used by all three Services wherever possible.

-Cpl. Pledger, who le to com- tinue his evidence today, alo said that the allowance of rice. was 300 grammos per hrad por day, perhaps. Lt. McCutche:n hed told the Court at the rice contained straw, cigarette butte, rope and rat dropplugs.

U.S. Has 2 Choices To Face

Washington, Jan. 163. Artby Secretary Kenneth Royall warned Congress to- day that the United States has a choice between the Marshall Plan and an in-- mediate peacetime draft to vices. rebuild the fighting set-

He told the Senate For- eign Relations Committpe that he would be "lacking in candour" if he failed to put the alternatives square- ly before Congress in its consideration of the West- ern European recovery pro- gramme,

Mr. Royall said voluntary enlistments and the present $21,000,000,000 annual rate of United States military spending would be made- quate to meet the situation if this country lets the European nations collapse In Communism.

Defence Secretary James Forrestal told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that. If the Marshall Plan IA rejected, the United States may have to spend $17,000,000 000 # year for arms the sunt originally asked by the Administration for the full 61-month aid programme.

Usually soft-spoken For-. restal declared loudly that the purpose of the aid is to prevent war, not to restrain or dominate any group of nations.-United Press.

Reminders

Today

Flag Day in

Group of Hospitals.

Annual Race Meeting, Happy

Valley, First Day, 12 noon. H.K. Police Dance, Roof Garden,

Mr. Donald McCullough, who

-nid- vf Tung-Wah besides being famous as Ques- Exhihition Chinese Paintings, Hen-Master to the B.B.C. Brains St. Francis Hotel, 10 am to Trust, is a member of the staff

7 p.m. of the Ministry of Agriculture; has already made a tour of units in Ceylon and is, at present, in Malaya. Ho is due to arrive in Hong Kong, by air, on Monday and will stay in the Colony for about a week before moving on to Japan. hiring his stay here, he will lecture to Naval, Army and R.A.F. units on various

H.K. Hitol, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Kowinon Cricket Club dance, s

Coming Events

TOMORROW Concert of Recorded Music, Toe H Club, Talbot House, 50, MacDonnell Road, 8.80 pat Cocktail Party, on board

Pres. Cleveland, 0.30-8 p.m.

Lau To 19-year-old hawker of administrative fore of 56 officers 201 Prince Edward Road, re-subjecte and it is hoped, in some and men live on Yap Island.

ceived ample proof during the | cases, to arrange Brains Trusts. A. gas explcalon today ripped.

Associated Press adds that Navy past two days of the truth of It is possible that Mr. Mc- apart a four-storey furnituro ware. weathermen held out hopes that the Chinese bellef that it is Cullough will also broadcast on house near Chicago's loon district Pacifle before hitting Northern rat.

Karen, might recurve into the nibet anlucky to be bitten by a ZBW and that he will act as Hong Kong Council of Women A General Meeting of the killing at least three mda and

On Thursday he caught a rat Trust at the Y.M.C.A., on Wed-Duddoll Street, on

Question-Master to a injuring two others, one of whom Luzon, as had been expected, over,

Brains will be held in the Y.M.CA In his hound. was trapped beneath tons of debris, tad week ond.

The redent ap

Thursday, The authorities estimated the

parently objected to being nesday evening, but both those Jan. 29 at 6.15 p.m. The Deputy Press. damage at $300,0000-United.

caught

commitments would be outside Director of Health Services "It turned on Lau and took the scope of hie contract with Dr. K.C. Yeo, will speak on good bite at him.

the R.A.F., It was new Lau' turn to get confirmed after his arrival on Health Services of Hong Kong."

and can only be General Survey of the Publie good and mad. He poured kern- Beno over- thè rat und-set fire to

Monday,

and all interested are, wel- Fecme; A dispute between the pr prie-Committee denounced the "New aight, made inquiries and took A Police constable, saw, the, rut tors of two ries shops in Peking Look! skirt today as a menace Lut to the look-up. Road, Kowloon, ever the pur-to highway safety chase of rice from travelling If said the skirt distracted the gartresterday,

Halled before, Mr. W. A. Blair- traders shortly after eight o'clock attention of motorists, reduced Magistrald that "the, cursed rat last night, led to an exchange of the speed of women crossing the Iblows..

road and was liable to catch in One of the men was soverely the back wheel of a bicycl pitat in a serius condition.

THEY SWUNG OUT

OVER RICE

IT'S A MENACE

London, Jan. 16, it. ___The_East_Baraft R÷od Safety.

bit

Lou told the

J. B. Howarth

The Burma, Government has] benten; up- knd' admitted to hoctantly that no usenit purposed, added that defendant was

-United Prezi,

THE WHISKERS CLUB

RAFPRO.

ATTEMPT TO BEACH TUG AT SHUMSHUIPO FAILS

An unsuccessful difampt was made yesterday morning to beach a water-19gged Ow turboat off Shambalpa. The ship i sink while being towed towards shore.

This

praatcution. officer enla that In Hồng Kong recently, the Muglefrute Imposed a fine of $250 for similar case, but, he added. "Meple, wAK: the Foller were not asking for Shamshulpo for the past two to taky in water. that penalty in the present case. fiontha with two

Lau's further, bild luck was in. beard. being parted trom $75."

adopted legislation.

But the Committee, decided re. agreed with accused's atomat dealings by foreigners in Burma His assailants were arrested could be served by making resent to the Rowkon Hospital for real estate.

and have, it is reported; been presentations to dross dosigners. Uchiment Foreigners other than detained by the Police. British subjects domielled in the United Kingdom, Burma, India gr Paklazan, are forbidden to buy or mortgage real estate or to, lease, property, for more than one year, An exception: la, sex- tended to foreign diplomatie missions requiring property, for official and readieniai, pur- poses+Associated Press.

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MORE FATS FOR

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London, Jan. 15. 'ration is to be In dhe ounce to four ounces

the fat' raljudi ja,

Vessel, the 143-tani were immediately mede,

anchored all the vessel 'ar she was vonilin

Watchmen.or When ner short, There was no crew, on board. The Dolbeare

the “Maple" sank. They were dispensed with some the onset Lithe back

Attemplaat": Early yesterday morning. CWT salvage" the tugboat Authorities in Hong Kong were informed that the erigita rĐơm of the "Maple" wdr under four feet of water. Arraigendunta

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