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Summons Against Anniversary

Hotel Concludes

The summons against the Hong Kong Hotal, its Managing Director, Mr. F. C. Barry and the Hotel Manager, Mr. J. H. Ehrlich, with 'fur- nishing a falsa ́ return to the Quartering Au- thority in respect of hotel rates was concluded bofore Mr. Hin-shing Lo at Central yesterday. After submission by Mr. H. G, Sheldon, KC, coun

sel for defendants and Mr. A. Hooton, Mr. Lo reserved judgment.

Mr. H. G. Sheldon, KC, in- structed by Mr. R. A. Wadeson, represented all the defendants, and Mr. A. Hooton, Crown Counsel, assisted by Inspector 3. Moore prosecuted.

Submitting that the Hong Kong Botel, Mr. Barry and Mr. Ehrlich hould be direhurgod, Mr. Sheldon said the question of law is of great importice in regard to the term "

"pennent and transient" wunsts quests

His second submission, which was the same as that concerning Mr. Barry's furnishing a false statement, was that it was never challenged by the prosecution.

Regarding the summons against, the Hotel, there had not been a whole of the proceedings connect- word mentioned throughout the me the hotel.

A limited Company could not be summoned for alleged offences by its management, and therefore the prosecution again must fit. The question, he had to answer Furthermore there was nothing to } his clients, said Ms. Sheldon, show that the Information furnish- was whelter Loon was occu-ed was in any way false; pled by a transient gues. If that 435 50, Heti seculium arust fall,

Transicht Guests

His firit submission would be Dr. and Mrs. Davla were transient pests and the question

Private Arrangements

Stamp Sales

More than HK$90,000 worth of Royal Silver Wedding Stamps have been sold at the Colony's post offices during the past two day, it was officially learned yesterday."

On Wednesday, when the special stamps were first on ale, HK$28,002 in HK$10- stampe and HK$60,000 là 10. cent stamps were sold at post offical.

Yesterday's sales were con siderably reduced. Vary Tow HK$10 Glamps were sold,, and 10-cent stamps bought by the pustle amounted to HK$4,200.

Goodwill Message

118

For Blind

A message of goodwill from the blind of America to the blind of the Orient was brought by Dr. Millon T. Stauffer, Gen- Room 309 was given to Dr, and cral Secretary Mrs. Davis by private arrangement Milton Society

for the John between

of the Blind, parties concerned, and was

Bp. Dimond and the who is passing through Hong

HOL

whether the Loam had been oeru-done through the Quartering Au. Kong on his tour.

pled by permanent guest hud Bot been priVIRË.

Converted Tanker To Leave

The wiv-converted United States Navy tanker Y-21 is due to leave. Hong Kong today for her malder voyage 10 the i Philippines, where słu

Join Ure intra-island coastal service.

The reconversion of the Y 21 550-ton freighter began last April an she anchored off the Cusmopolitans

thority.

Mr. Sheldon

In a conference with the Press Hurn referred to yesterday. Dr. Stauffer at the the incident when two police in-object of his mission

was Ave- spectors

accompanied Mr. Lewis fold. to the hotel.

The inspectors, he said, began reading out a document relating to hotel regulations.

That step adopted by the

authorities was most unnecessary.

The Emmons · against the managing director of a company with

a capital of nine million dollars, and against the manager of. alearing hotel, was in his opinion most shucking.

110

110

ile submitted that there is will, such thing as a motiveless fraud upl complete silence on the part of the prosecution in respect of the alleged motives of the defen- donis clearly prosecution

indicated that the motive or reason.

suggeri ་

Shamshaipo Ferry Wharf.

He died that the proceeding, Fig-had not been brought by the pro- Ing the Pangaian dag today. secution the y

in good faith, 21

and H actively in the Mr. Eardley had not been blased, operated Pacle War

Theoire and sur when the mistake bad en spot- vivre several bombardments by ted he should have called for un enemy aheraft imseathed.

explanation,

Duck near the

She ኒቲ”,15 Iwrought to the Colony Just March by Captain Rocco with a skeleten al-Fili-

plo creav from Manila, Fol-

זין

Ex-Gratia

Grant

For Volunteers

An ex-gratia grant equivalent to the allowance for Overseas Service Benefit Leave to those mom- bors of the Hong Kong Voluntoor Defence Corps who qualify for service, were not re- patriated and were domobilised in the Colony has been authorised.

This was announced in the latest orders by Colone!

L. T. Ride, Corps Commandant. The orders also made reference to the memory of the Volunteers who died in the defence of the Colony, and as prisoners-of-war, and those who died on service on other fronts. Colonel Ride wished all ranks, friends from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. an of the Corps and their families Happy Christmas and the best of luck in the New Year.

The orders follow:

Overseas

Monday,

ہیں

Correspondence

The Editor takes no respon- sibility for viewi crpressed in letters by correspondents, and by no theani necessarily agrees with them,

Immigration Department

Sir. With the coming of the New Year, when new resolutions are made by most of us, I intere ly hope tht the pattý autocrati in the Incal Immigration Depart- ment will resolve to be moro help- ful and civil to those unfortunates who are forced to come into con- fuct with them.

•

A VICTIM.

That's Right, You're

Wrong

Sir-On the front page of the A Chim Mail of Tuesday, you published reproductions of tickets, of a certain organisation, which you state "are on. the border we of what may or may not constitute a raffle."

Members And Ex-Memuera No. (Scottish) Company, IIKVDC, Annual Memorial Service: Service Benetit tremorini Service will be held at Leave: Authority has now bees the Military Cemetery, Stanley, received to pay an ex-gratio grant Sunday, at 3 p.m. when rquivalent to the allowance for wreaths will be laid on the graver Ovesens Service

members of the Scottish Com- Benefit Leave to those members of the HKVDC Py

Transport will leave Queen'r who quality by service, were not veralriated, and who were deer at 2.15 p.m. Those requiring mabilised in the Colony.

accommodation should advise The rate pak will be on the Carport W.E. MacFarlane, efo basis of one day's full pay and Hong Kong Electric Company, allowances for every completed Limited, as early as possible.

Volunteers who consider them- BAD CHARACTERS

ARRESTED

month of service.

deemed

4.

the

Seventeen men, described by pollee us bad characters, follow. were arrested yesterday ing a dawn raid on some 100 hits between Kennedy Rond and Queen's Road East.

Three

of the men had umbw- ful instruments in their posses-

Why single out this organisation for quite unnecessary publicity?

I assumɑ your worthy paper claims to be kopartial,

If my assumption is correct per- baps you will be good enough to reproduce in your paper tickets, "on th borderline of what may or may at constitute a raffle", sold by a certain club of which your Editor-in-Chief is ឆ respected member,

I purchased some of these tie- krts and I was lucky enough to win a prize.

Again, I possess tickets sold by another local club and which did not win a prize,

helvis eligible for this bendD. are i requested to submit their applica- tions fe payment to the Adjutant, They will be notified individu ly when to call for payment.

Volunteers who were First he wanted to appeal to the generat nogs to cast off the an-

demobilised to have been cient superstition about blindness.

December 25, 1941, and who have The hardest thing for the blind received the ex-gratia erant are to endure was not so much their not entitled to this benefit.

lindness as the general attitude

Hurday: HKVDC Headquarters, which the public taken towards

Lower Albert Road, will be closed sion.

Saturday and Monday, their affliction.

combined plab

clothes Strength-Decrease: 2857 Secondly he wouli vel less-Hall, G. A.V. lators and Government officials gincers: 4473 Ptc. Yup Pitt-van, intendent T. E. Clule. Detective against the official refusal to pers

Set. and uniformed police raid was Field Coy Ex-† carried out by Divisional Super- and try to have enlightened legis- lutions made on behalf of the bind hall, G.L. 1st Battery.

Field Ambulance: 4350 Gar, Mar- Inspector Sykes, Chlet Inspectoriit rates for charitable purposes,"

Cantughan, Inspector Heyward Mess will be "At Home" to their constables,

Sergeants Mess: The Sergeants' and a party of detectives

and the denf,

Thirdly he would appeal to the medical profession and the health authorities to set up cllnles whose chief function would be the pre- ventton of bludness and deafness.

Elaborating on thir point. Dr. Stauffer said that In America and England sliver nitrate was Invariably used on the syna of newly born

bables to enture against possible Infection.

"Now if we could get this done also in the Orient a good deal of bindness would, I am sure, be avoided," said Dr. Stauffer.

.

The

Evidence Against

"I know the people in the Remand Prison boiter than Timothy Din. If you give me some money I will take them to drink tea. They are all my good friends."

tinued

W.A. Blair-Kerr. al

committer at the con-

nerd

1 suggest one of your reporters

present may have been

When some of these latter tickets were sold.

Why not. play "cricket

L, BONES. We have protested sharply

and were certainly not attacking or condemning the St. John Am- bulance Erigd.--Ed-1

Ex-Warders

evening meal nt Fung's shop when the second accused entered the shop and talked to Fung. As the result of the conversation, Fung son after with seme beakontes in went into the kitchen, returning

her hands.

into

men in the Victorin Remand Pri- son are my men.. J: can, speak to them casily."

Having only $10 in her possen- After ston, Tong gave it to. Din. they had gone out into the street ogain, Din left the party saying. "You two can carry on. conversu- tion."

The fourth accused then told him, Teng said, "I know the pro- ple in the Remand Prison better than that, man, If you give me some money I will take them to drink tea.

They are all my good friends."

The above was. according to Shobby Prosecution

After

she had handed the Tong Yat, a foki of the Ah Tung money to Santos, second accused It was shubby prosecution

Electric Shop of 181 Cheungsha- took a piece of paper from his which should never have been

His fourth object, sald Dr.

wan Roud, spoken by Jose Maria pocket, wrote something on it, and lowing her arrival bere. two brought concluded Mr. Sheldon. Stauffer, was to appeal to Indus-

dos 'Azedo, ex-warder of Victoria handed it to the shop mistress. other oil tankres were brought Me. Hooton drew the court's at-trialists to give recognition to the Remand Prison, for similar reconversion.

after they had Detectives then came out from an Both tention to the attack nude on the right handicapped people tea with

tea with Din nt the Sing Chaunner room and from behind the undergoing alterations off prosecution by defence counsel. to be employed

Cafe on the night of August 11. The Cosmopolitan Dock now, and

The whole question rested with

counter and took Santos He instanced the co-operation, Tong was giving evidence be- the Y 8 is expected to be com.the magistrate to decide whether of the Ford factories in the United fore Mr.'

custody. pleted early in January. The or not the information furnished States in this connection, where- Kowloon

Tong Yat, an employee of Ho Luk, testifled to having been ask Y 4 is wating work to begin was false. It was also for the by they had on their payroll the

proceedings el by his master's wife to hard on her.

magistrate to decide whether Mr. same proportion of handicapped against Din (warder 341), Gussay over $50 to Bin u the morning The Y 21, with Mr. F. Villeneva Ehrlich was guilty, but if Afr people as there were in the partl-

Maria dos Santos (warder 130), dr August and to giving 520 to in comment of 14 Fillpinos, car-Barry was not guilty. then the cular community ries 200 tons of iron for Manila. case against the hotel must fail.

in which they Sapto Ahmed alius. Hak Chat Santos shortly, before noon n had a. fnetoly.

(Dark Boy) (warder 342) une August 11." Grimble and Company is her He said he was astonished to

Azedo, on 15 counts of extortion focal agent.

About 8 p.m. on the same night learn that the prosecution had not

and malfeasance of office between continued witness, first and fourth been brought in good faith.

August B and August 18.

acctised went to the shop. The Afth object of his mission

According to the prosecution, entered the shop, was to stress the importance of conducted by DSI D.S. Roberts stood outside. He was invited to

while Azedo X’MAS APPOINTMENT school for blind children and ex- defendants collected a total of go with them to the Sing Chau tension of the Braille system. He $200 from Fung Yuk, the wife of Cafe to "drink tea."

Have you booked your was studying what text books) Ho Yuk, during the time Ha was would be required in this conneen remand at the Remand Frisch),

yot? tlun.

be

Each capable of holding 990 tons of oil, the vessel will

He drew the magistrate's atten- able in carry 1.000 tons of dry tlon to his decision some time ago

argo after the reconversion.

that defendants had a case to The

owners, Madrigal

and answer and if the defence can- Company of Manila, a repre- sidered that the proceedings were sented in the Colony by Dr. not in good faith then there was Juse Paterno.

always a remedy.

Hong Kong was sadly lacking in vocational training for the blind, snid Mr. Stauffer.

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Chan Sal, an electrician and a vory good friend of Ho Yuk, testified yesterday that he went to Ho's shop at 181 Cheungshaway load on the afternoon of August 13 and there saw a small 10th who

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Witness nuld that he knew the visitor us they had previously met when he witness, was posted for Special Constable duty

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Fung told him, sald witness; that Ahmed and others often went to the shop and asked for money. He told Ahmed, that that could not be done, to which, witness alleged, Ahmede replied, "You know very well that the money is not for me but also for some others."

On the Chinese Devil Festival (August 15) he was having the

Badly Assaulted

Din

the shop told his employer's wife Tong said that he went back to about it. He obtained $15 from her which he handed to Aredo who, pocketing. it, said: “I will speak to those people-tomorrow." Further evidence will be inken on December 30.

While in the enfe, alleged wit- ness, Din-fold him that Ho Luk had been very badly assaulted on

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