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THE CASE OF MR. KENNEDY-SKIPTON To the majority t prople in Hong Kong, the information convesed in the article in this page concerning Mr. G. S. Kennedy Skipton. revealing that he is alwut to appear be fore a Government appointed ribunal to face charges alleg ing disloyalty following the surender in December 1911, will cor

a complete with prise. The article is published, without prejudice, although it clearly Mh. Keanedy- Skipton's side of whatever story lies behind the accusations, he vanse primacilst of the rejec tion of the request of his legal advisers that tie beatings should be conducted in public. It can be urged, of course, that this is an administrative mat- charges ter, that a criminal have been laid against Mr. Kennedy-Skipton and that there 1 ne rast, therefate, which

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should properly persuade the Government to bring the issur into the open.

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The Governmem, tom, kan unge that there is to precedem for conducting seich 41 enquiry publicly, and that it is a anal- bur two ter which Concella

ulliver concerned parties, the and the Government. Against that, it may be contend-

there is nothing ed that General Orders which lays it dawn clearly, bryand post bility of doubt, whether such an enquiry should be held in public of in camera. Further, that past precedents mast, al most inevitably, have develop- ed from the consideration that. generally, the person involved must have welcomed the shel- ter of a hearing behind closed

doors,

Don

Iddon's

Diary

Nineteen forty eigh's first once the American way of life crop of kissex is apparently not has been bogged down and be for American cheeks,

Puised for embrace, the U.S. has been distressed or hear that its chosen finnere is saying un. kind things both behind its back and before its face.

During recent days Americans have been told that one out of

British people is every three anti-American, that there 9 growing antagonism toward the

are envious, Pe N. that we sentful, and jealous of Amers. can power and wealth, and that die nur pastimes is sneering argt seibing at Washington, Wall, Stre, and points west

Men who have passed on the wonding information are lead. ing members of the Americas They Press corps in London, sure trained observers and jour

reputation and malas of high

Root be accused of mallejous gossip aimed at breaking up

and romaner happy

alch

W

ANTIVO

perfeet

them

Caumol pane away their findings as blash me baloney. They're on secvrd here, and the record has been and by millions who see no region not to believe, it

1 shuttle it back to you so that know what your you might closest friends and partorts are reading about what you think of them.

There is no better

way of starting a New Year than fae-

up to unpleasantness and lacking it.

The charge is quite simple that Britain is becoming increas. ingly antl-American, it calls for a reply

il

" has been

with al-

Altogether Inutat week. Along

wildered.

PICTURE OF THE AMERICAN SCENE

All companies plan o less sor. did 'output, less murder, torture. if only drinking and violence, because the censors won't stand

for them.

These stars rate mention: British-born Boris Karloffi will star In Privatley's "The Lin. den Tree," to open here nexti month.

Charlie Chaplin now says he doesn't want to leave America and is trying to explain awny that letter to London damning Hollywood,

The comedian is under a new and savage attack by a score of

There was, and is, also Mr. Henry Wallace, who seems even more determined to enuse tron- ¦ columnists, ble than the weather.

Mr.

Olivia de Havilland, also Wallace, after nunoune.

"I've British-born, says:

been Ing his candidacy for President beautified, slenderised, emotion. of the United States, is now it ajised, and vitalised, but if I full ery. serraming that

tomorrow pen- Best Hollywood for peace and properity, which nitess I'd still count myself a

That Harry Truman. Iucky person". implies Thomas

Taft. Dewey, Rohert

The Motion Picture Research and everybody else are for war Society announces that it will and ruin.

award Bing Crosby and Roan- Wallace, of course, hasn't ad Russell special certificates change of being elected Presi- for a happy home life, os nel.

He merely wants to draw ther bas

dent.

Committing political suicide.

divorced.

to win

ever been What you

have to do medals these days!

Incidentally, Bing was named the most

male when operative star by the Women's Press Club of Los Angeles, which is plain silly and untrue.

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By Dick Turner

COPIC MERYKKA BERVICE, INC. 7, M, REG, U, R., PAT.

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"Woll, there's your cast! And I'm giving you a broak...!'il -- only charge my regular fes instead of the union plas

terer's scale!"

Regarding the article appended, we might put in the protective clause, that it does not neces- sarily represent the opinions of this journal. It tells one side of

The film city is worried about Lassie's contract she barked at Louis R. Mayer the other day.

Now Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson are argu ing about hiling and the size of type thele names should be in. Robinson says he should share

As the surrender in 1941, Mr. G.S. "educational or social or any other Einal publicity with Bogart, but Humphrey wants bis wife, Kennedy-Skipton, at the time one of constructive work."

No objection has ever been raisel in Lauren Bacall. that place. the Colonys senior local rader of

action he 13 not interned because

of Mr. Kennedy- tirers was Better leave 11 to the inter

was Irish. He was then living at his Skipton's American colleague in hine un the Peak with a number of doing. refugee families, inst

la is to be stated that there was n families, mostly American. The Japanese urials who shruled question of Me, Kennedy-Skipton be

ing guided by outside advice as his up the Peak population appeared t

Peak,

The Strange Case Of Mr. Kennedy-Skipton

Nations,

Marriage Bond

Peter Lawford has a new con tract under which he ogress not

De impressed by the number of wo party was maronne un the to marry for three years, which sen and children, including two in being forbidden to go on the roads, will make bobbysoxers hearts valid, in the party-several of the amt he himself, like mast civil ser ,ache. The young Englishmun refugees have testified to this-and vants, had received no prior orders to do in the event of from the has a fan Billowing almost as fold them they could stay where they as to what

arseniter. many votes away Democrats as he can, thus split. large ns Sinatra's'

were if members of the party would

Just before the war, Mr. Keunedy- tu volumeer for civie work. It respon ting the party and, he hopes, Personal congratulations

Marshall Plan} good friend and

knight to this offer, he and another man, Skipton was afheially engage in en- MAY Wallace's Campaign shattering the

Fur American missionary from Candeavouring to increase the local food Thanks Balcon. and programme for containing | Michat:]

tan, stated they were willing to do supply by organising the use of the the Russia,

city's nightmit for fertiliser in your cable.

New Territories, and these prepara- Daily Mail's Noel Monks has In my view, although he has

tims were already for advanerd legal squalls and squawks from be crampnigning only one just written a new children's

when the war came, Britain ha: come some of the week, he is doomed and damuett. book which Digney should füm. In this case, however, the ollicer worst weather in the cratury,

Even the extreme Left is de

They say in Hollywood that

For that reason, according to his has concerned

requested making bre for millions miser serting him in droves, and all nothing helps a girl there like

he has now are Communists and being easy on the ayes.

own story, when illering to do civic through his legal advisers, afable,

He is com Frank Kingdom says the dif

work, he strew the attention of the CAPETOWN, JAN, 19. public hearing.

Tempests have raged. We tools of the Soviet.

cain,mitting political sateide in full ference between relief and

IT HAD BEEN DECIDED.Japanese to the food shortage aut was willing and able to Bearing in mind all the circum- have hath sleet, freezing

Oh, Henry! winds. Cons

and public view.

covery is the difference between “AFTER VERY CAREFUL CON-state he stances, his immediate suspen-howling

breadline and the lifeline. SIDERATION", TO REFUND carry on his fertiliser work. They Me

IN DEATH approved and gave his facilities and sion by the Sonary of State Pales

We have also had fires, frozen

What we need this year in 10.232 LEVIED on la escape from Hong Kong

fewer resolutions and more re DUTIES AGAINST THE ESTATE an office for working on his plans

OF THE LATE SHAH REZA and putting them up to the authori ile China, and the failure of Pipes, amapjd electric and tele.

Other men have caused a stir | soluţiem,

PAHLEVI WHO DIED phone wires, jausmed manholes. die Government to make pro impassable

quote Mr. Kennedy-Skipton: FORCES. paralysed too. vision for an investigation (by | Pallways. swamped under

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Mr. Priestley Calls

Mr. J. B. Priestley's recent broadcast, just puldished here, AB of

top of bas jarred locals by describingl thus cante on week's

record-breaking, New Yorkers as bewildered and heart breaking snowfalt.

Broadway as " For frustrated.

angry carbuncle" and "a hell,"

in

100 Years Ago

(From the files of the "China Mail")

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MARINES RENDEZVOUS

AT MALTA

Valetto, Jan. 20

12.

Windfall For Shah

SOUTH AFRICA IN 1944, MR. F.

Food Shortage

C. STURBROCK, MINISTER OF "Afer FINANCE, ANNOUNCED ΤΟ costed aud DAY.

agriculture nightscil were

The Treasury had assed his assets at £125,000 but the prese

Shah Mohummed

Reza Pahless The United States attack trans-claimed that they belonged and generally debanking the purts "Bexar naci Montague" him and not to the late Shah, The Into Sbuk abdicated skyscraper elty.

Furrying 1,000 Murines with Luft

1 tlmire his Huntries. How.battle equipment rendezvoused September, 1941, when Savict and ever, despite all his apparent de- in Maltese waters with the air- British forces entered his coun

craft carrier Midway testation of New York I am raisers Providence sure he has been happy to have

Rock. his play "An inspector Calls" make American money.

Many rick people have ai ready left town, but not because of Mr. Wallace or what Mr. Priestley thinks of the place. They've gone in search of sun shine, blue skies, golden ben. ches, pretty girls, gambling, and tropical night clubs in Florida.

Inflation Front

It is the eve of the

tiem a

aleir

interes

Lize

costrui uf

3/12- handed over

hale

of

14 in- in.

concessissaires, who were agt tearsed in runernctive schemes olving capital outlay."

Mr. Kennedy-Skipton then organis.

ed his escape, in January 1943. A year later, the Парацеле

chang-

and arranged for the transport

of

Df

eight nightsoil and the construction

and the try, and went to live in Southed their attitude about agriculture and Little Africa.

were Among his effects The transfer of men and Persian carpets valued at £16,000, tarage tanks at Castle. Peak exactly goid cuins and as Mr. Kennedy-Skipton had propos equipment to the warships was ancient Persian

and :༨༥༧༨) sufinachine ed. These ranks supplied manure for expected to begin today-United; Jewelry

vegetable growing through the wort Press,

year of the occupaiti and today they are still in usg.

guns-Reuter.

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

Mr. Kennedy-Skiptat Is now being accused by the Government of dis

loyalty. The hearing of his

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a Committee of the Executive grounds, and burst boilers, Council) until now, five years The event--those :fter things, coupled with allega tions of prejudice and the in evitable building up of a sensor of grievance over the lapse ot il seem to justify Mr. Kennedy-Skipton's quest that the hearing be con- ducted under those conditions which, in his opinion, are in his own best interests. The bittemesses of war, of ur

render. of collaborationist charges, support hit. Least of all the charges which should

STATE DO Thursday next, and Mr. be held over a man in secret

Kennedy Skipton has requested that inquiry is one of disloyalty. If

The whole policy of both

Tie hearing shall se public. His re it is his own expressed wish to Henry Pottinger and Sir John Davis

↑ quest has been refused. The delay in. have the issue fought out in a far as relates to Hong Kong has

bringing this case seems inexplicable, blunders succession of

baving public, it is a concessina tif bren

throughout, and as government absolute right) an

Season DEDUCE HIS REASON lead of the club K was overtaken by na other previous charge fault they should be at the

East's A and the diamond A enabed, been brought sgait Mr. Kennedy

Skipton. which, we think, he should be pense of applying the remedy-why there, but the millionaires' play- Your partner must be presumed to

then the club 5 returned to the J, have a brain, hence to have some

Curious Feature cntitled.

Should the Colony not be relieved ground reports a quiet start

whereupon West led a third club, his from Land Rents for two years and Hotel Owners, after anking kind of reason for what he does. If Q. Thisse tables showed a distressing A curious feature of the case in the meantime have them equitably, 415 a day for hotel rooms, are you base your own planning ape lack of thought by West about why that the cleseges are based, even to assessed so that it may be known willing to settle for 25, restau- that premise, you can often figure in East overlook the opener and then the extent of quoting his own letter,

down his at the end of the first year what they

A.

on Mr. Kennedy-Skipton's action lu rants are selling steaks for only why he made a particular move and

of Stater therefore how you can help him to

of tables West was shall actually be when the jubilee 25s., racing crowds have shrunk gain fullest value from it. Failure to wide awake. After East overlook the under the noses of the Japanere,

reporting to the Secretary conis? Washington, Jan, 20

This is less unreasonable than as and night-club operators are do that has the same effect as if you club lead and sid down the dialocal

scandal which involved the The House at Representatives'

Com-first appears, Before the Parliamen snowblind from seeing expanses two defenders were merely niping A, then returned the club 5. former Government of Hong Kong. Un-American Activities

in 1947, Lieut. of bare table-cloths,

at the declarer from different dirre- it was clear to West 11 10 facts tary. Committer

what thing his liberty Mr. Kennedy the tins without any cooperation On the inflation front Invitations Colonel Anfeums, in

East was doing. It could only mean Skie

Skipton anys he discovered in March, on Communism, sent

"that the unions are again asking for all-ween you. In brief, you are then char

bat East had singiston diamand A today

lawyers, remark of Lord Sandan

1942, that many of the secret files of to prominent

World Salaries sad Establishment appeared round wage increases, ex-Ser-operating with the declarer instead and wanted to mail the suit, So West the Hung Kong Government, had jurists and authorities on

led campaigning for with your pariser.

the diamond 6 to the fourth trick, heen left affairs to lend a hand in studying ligh." Mated:-

the Intact in strongroom They

were purposely made high

East ruffing with the spade 6. Seek legislative steps.

Seek ui the Colonial Secretariat. maintain additional £6,000,000,000 in sub-committee which starla that the officials should

ing to put West in the lead again.

He

reported this to the Secretary live benefits, there is a Black Market hearings on Feb, hus asked the themselves like gentlemen and

| East switched to his heart 9 and was of State in July 1942 by a signed con- in fuel oil (you cannot fuel all assistance of such persons us respectably as they would be

overjoyed to see his partner come in letter hidden in a tin of powdered 5. 10 7 6 Owen Roberts, former Supreme tamly brought into communication the people all the time), and it 5. 2

with the A. Another diamond lead milk and carried out by sa Ameri 11. 87 5 4 3 Court Justice; Sumner Welles, with the Chinese and Chinese Ahas been suggested that in view. A 19

them enabled East in get a second can friend who was fner Under-Secretary of State thorities, ups all of whour outwar of the weather the mayor nowD996

rud with his aparte 7 and thus sed Kichberg appearance

hos

C. A 10 6 5 the contract a second trick. great effect."

bestows the skis of the city on If this is not like obtaining monry distinguished visitors, Chairman Nixon, California Re on false pretencer, the additional ex-

Movie Televisioni publican, told reporters that prob. ably not all of them will be able pense for the pushore stated should

not fall upon the Colony,

Hollywood, always ready to to icsily in person and some inny

We fear all that can be said on take a chance, hus the sudden send alatements. Associated

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well-paid officials to keep matters ustures years ago. Facing a fin- 2 NI M. Flerlinger, former Prime they are, and, to borrow a passage ancjol blizzard, it is putting Minister of Czechoslovakia, and from our of Hone's paradies, former Chairman of the Social long as Earl Grey upholds the com. Democratic Party, today denied mandant:--

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being repatrine ed. To make the letter more credible,

he statell his oven position, and in- dicated that such trivial services.as he had performed for the Japanese were necessary to gain their consent for his agricultural proposals, assumed, of course, that the Secretary of State would give an officer of his standing the credit of acting, with Jigmetit.

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then Colonial Secretary, now Gover nor

of Singapore, is to be, t is understood, the principal witness

of the

kre. In1..

against Mr. Kennedy-Skipton,

Whatever the rights or wrong he was leaving for Budapest for Thou shalt not say, to rob the

case, it. Ja obvious that talks with Hungarian Social Demo. people is to steal.”.

wrest interest to the pure of cratic Party leaders,

Above 10 p.m.. a seaman of the television

are being planned thus: the dub K and won, the G (Dealer: South. East-West vulner-volved in this enquiry.7 Suchbelige He said he had recolved an in-

the case, the refusal of a public hear vitation to go to Budapest but had "Cornwall," when intoxicated, was and although cynics are snear-was zulfed by South, three spader able).

were If West leads the heart K. Qanding can only be described as sinister replied that "he was not consentired up the hill in rear of Holly-ing it is recalled that everyone were casked and then tricks dering making the journey, at wood Road, and after being beaten was sceptical when Warners lost to the two red aces, li was also A, how should South play for 4 and deserving of the strongest pos present."-Reuter.

first rushed in with talkles. made at another table where West'el Spades?

was robbed of $2.50.

alble public protest.

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