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CASE

More ovidence by Crown witnesses at the fifth hearing of the PWD larceny trial was heard of the Criminal Sessions yesterday.

The witnesses, giving evidence included Kwok Hing- chu, Kwok Kwong's brother, D. Julebin, former clerk and interpreter at the Cathay Pacific Airways field office at Kai Tok, and four others.

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The Chi Kung Tong, one of the minor political parties in Hong Kong opposed to the

the dock In

Kwok | fellows at ali, excepi only once Kuomintang Government of Ching, has issued a statement

Kwong, foreman. and Austin in a while, when the position of demanding the unconditional Späry, Grade I electrical in- certain materials had to be deter- surrender of the Chiang Kai-speclor, who are facing 12 mined. counts shek government.

of larceny by public obtaining money by servant, false pretences, and conspiracy to defraud the Government.

described the The sinteinent current civil strife in China as war between the democratic and the anti-democratic powers.

it added that the struggle bas reacher a stage where the ro- volution must continue to the end to exterminate the powers of the reactionaries, "There is no mid-

tle way," said the statement.

It reviewed the history of the the Chinese Revoluthun İran the period when the Kuomintang split with the Communist Party in

1927.

The Chi Kung Tong's state- ment concluded that the armed forces of the reactionary Kuomin- tang Government must be com- pletely dissolved; that the Nan- king Government must surrender really united democracy musi be vehieved that the American in- tervention in China's internal affairs must be opposed; and that the China problem must be left to the new Political Consultative Conference for solution,

uncondlumally; that

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Fined For Keeping Gaming House

TFIZI

A game of cards, in which participated, at 58 Shanghai Strect, second floor, was interrupted on Saturday by the arrival of Detective Sub-Inspector W. G. Morrison and a party of police.

Tong Kuen and the others were taken into custody, and $20.00 found in the "kitty" was seized.

Charged before Mr. W.H. Lat ner at Kowloon yesterday with keeping a common gaming house, To was fined $150, or a "month" mprisonment, and the 10 game

wi's were fined the maximum of $25 each.

The $20.80 was donat- ed to the Poor Box.

Inspector J. Grein, who pro- socuted, said that around the Chinese New Year there is usual-

ly quite a lot of gambling going

The Chinese seein to feel that they are entitled to a futter, he said, but when they lose, pro- ple of defendant's type would re- enup themselves by robberies and burglaries.

Drives Car Without Care

Law Nei-kwey, aged 38, of 80 Macdonnell Road, first floor, Was driving his car along Castic Peak Road towards Castle Peak about 4 p.m. on Sunday when the car swerved to the right and ran off the road into a gully.

After dropping 10 feet, the vehicle landed right side up, al- though it turned a somersault be fore the fall. The driver's daugh ter, who was the only other on- cupant, sustained

slight VITY scratches,

The above was told by Inspec- lor F. Roberts when Law was charged before Mr. W.H. Latimer

at Kowloon yesterday with driv ing without due care and atten- tion.

In reply to the bench, defen- dant said that he could not say why the car should have swerved to the right. He was fined $150, and his licence to be endorsed.

Extradition Proceedings

Extradition proceedings against

Hsu Chi-chwang alias Tsul Kal- cheong continued before

Mr F. X. d'Almada at Central yos- terday.

Huis being defended by Mr. Eldon Potter, KC, and the How Leo d'Almada KC instructed by

Mr. A. Lonsdale prosecuting und Mr. Peter Sin is representing the Chinese Goverment.

Mr. Marcus da Silva.

Yesterday's hearing saw Hau in the witness box, cross-examined by the prosecutor as well as bus

counsel.

Final hearing will be given or Wednesday at 10.30a.m. batere the defending counsel's Legni submission.

Yesterday's hearing commenced with Kwok Hing-chu going into the witness

box for cros"- examination by Mr. V. J. L. D'Alton, counsel for Spary, who had reserved his cross-examina- tion from Friday.

In reply to a question, witness revealed that he was one of three chargemen at Hung Hom,

Mr. Chen: Where was the last job you did before coming to this Court?

Witness: At the Kowloon flor-

pital.

On that job do you know who made the estimate of the materiais used?--The one who made the es- limate conte from the Wanghai

Lo, under cross-examination by Mr. D'Alton, stated that he did not rethember when he received payment for the work done at the barber shop at 1 Hankow Road.

In 1930, witness stated, he foln-workshop, a the main store was cd John D. Hutchinson and Com- in Wanelias. pany as a clerk, and was station- ed at the Canton branch of th company. He went into business. witness disclosed, with one Tsu Sik-chung in Canton, in 1995. In a Chinese Bank. After the war he returned to the Colony rejoined John D. Hutchi son and Company's Import and Export Do- partment.

Asked whether

Mail From

Burnt Plane.

Nine of the 11 bags of air mail sont from Bhanghal to Hong Kong by the CNAC Skymaster which crashed on Bait laland on December 21 have been recovered from the wreckage.

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The "China, Mall" fearned officially

yesterday that conaldorable amount of the recovered, mall has had, to be -patched up at the General

Post Office.

Many, lettora were burned,

Lettors on which the ad- dresses tould not be read as a result of the damage were sent back to Bhanghai: The others werd delivered during the past few days,

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Total weight of the original bage of als mall was 103 kilos, The recovered nino bage weighed 111 kilos.

Ghost Ships

Enter Hong Kong

Unlike other ships entering Hong Kong with flags flutter- ing, their crew and passengers crowding the deck for # glimpse of the Colony, and

two

the company

had any import in electrical materials, witness replied in the

mater negative.

Kwok denied having any con- nection in the business of Cheong Hing, although he said he knew somebody in the firm,

quastion of

Mr. D'Alton then asked witness

how he could be sure he was paid at all, to which Lo replied that on that day he was paid an extra six dollars, beside his payment, for overtime work.

vessels salled into local waters

yesterday in pathetic "mute silence,

Mt. D'Allon then told witness

were They

the 10,000-ton that,

wore he an honest man and | disused former American Navy soine one paid him money for that transport, IX 157. and the work, he should have given the Panamanian steamer, Panamanian,

whoever money back to

paid both towed by ocean-going tuge aim. Witness stated that he did from Shanghal and Clover Cove, not receive & cent from the bar-Taipo will be inken to the

respectively. Both

ber shop.

Dealing with tha the cheques, Mr. D'Alton put to Mr. D'Allon: But you knew that witness that witness' name on one

ond the work done at the barber shop of the cheques indicated he re- was not a Government job. ceived the money and signed for Witness: 1 do not know whether it in spite of the chaque being [it was a Government job or not. made out to Cheong Hing. Witness agreed to this point,

Witness, however, atated that Kwok Kwong told him to write the name of Cheong Hing on the back of the cheque, and further added that, without that name. the cheque could not pass into the current account.

Mr. D'Alton: I put it to you that, if I write my name on the cheque it means that I received on their authority. Is the money that right?

Witness: I was only acting at the request of Kwak Kwong

You are not answering my question. It that right? Yes, that

is 59.

Mr. D'Alton then asked witness if he had ever seen Spary before. indicating sccund accused in the dock. Witness replied that he had never seen him before.

Not Done By Firm

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The next witness was tho mas-

ter of the Cheong Hing electrical shop, Lam Yang, who testified that in 1947 and 1948 his company was not engaged in any electrical work at the CPA at Kui Tak, at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club, the Cecilia Beauty Salon, or at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club He further testified that the work as enumerated in the bills shown to him in Court was not done by the firm.

As to how these bills came to be, Lam explained that Kwok Kwong one day telephoned him and asked him to meet him at a Ran

There. Kwok Kwong house. it is alleged. asked witness to make out a bill for a friend who had to bunking account.

Witness suld he finally agreed to do this, end a draft for the bill way given him, containing raterials used for

for the work Prices were also included in the bill, witness sald. This happened

in all the cases concerning the bills for the many jobs he said.

Leung Pun-ching, clerk in the Cheong Hing firm, testified that

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he had made out the bills which was part of his job, also kept records of such büla.

The cashier John D. Hutchla Bon and Company, Miss Yung Lam-suk, gave evidence to the two cheques given to her by Kwok Hing-chu, one of which was dated May 22, 1948.

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To Take Orders Witness further stated that his idea was that he had to take orders from his foremon, what- ever work he was folt to do..

The last witness at yesterday's hearing, D. Julebin, formerly of the CPA omce at Kai Tak, stated in evidence that he was present

that time, Au Pul.

been" anchorage oft Laichikok, where they will await repairing or scrupping.

former paesonter-cargo stearner, Panamanian, which was taken to Clover Cove for refuge when a typhoon airuck the Colony

The

Inte last year, we brought back by the Frosty Moller and HMS Incore.

The 15,0cb-ton hulk was re- rently bought by a local manu- factory to be scrapped and turned Into steel rods, ship chandlery and construction accessories, She ar rived here last January, from

U.S. Ship Arrives After Exciting N. Korea Journey

The first American ship to enter North Korean waters since the war has arrived in Hong Kang after undergoing a thorough three-weak screening by the authorities in the Yolu River, six miles from Shingisho.

"The North Koreans were highly suspicious of the crew, especially myself and my American chief engineer, Mr. H. Choller, as it was the first occasion they had seen an American vessel in the river," Captain Albert Arsdale, master and owner of the former sub- marine chaser Blue Bird, told the "China Mail" yesterday.

"They deliberately held up

our

Comm

cargo loading for three weeks to investigate our bona Ades before they were pletely convinced we are or- dinary people carrying on legitimate trade."

The Water Police took their radio sels, ship's papers and cameras ashore on their arrival there, Captain van Arsdale sald. They visited the ship every day to interrogate the crew about their personal

history

experience and The radios and connections. cameras, however, were returned on the day of their departure.

"The North Koreans were armed and

and they were in complete control of the situation,"

Captain

Van

Arsdale declared, He sald that he could do no more than to

helpful towards promoting foreign protest that what they did was against International Law and not

commerce. That fell on deaf ears, however.

Aground On Sand Bar

Owing to faulty pilotage and lack of channel buoys, said the of the newly-converted master American chaser which is now a fast 110-ton freighter, the Blue Bird ran aground on

sand bar lo the Yalu River as she was sailing upstream. When the tide ebbed. the Vessel, was embedded in soft Kand

three feet be-

when Mr. Harris, his superior at Singapore. She was formerly the low he or her out-

handed a cheque to met bad weather when

Julebin, In reply to query, said that Mr. Rowe came to the Colony about the same time as Mr. Harris did, and that both could not speak Cantonese.

Witness further revealed under cross-examination that he was on interpreter at the CPA office. Mr. Chen: You said in your evidenco that Au Put was, in charge of the job ut CPA?

-Witness: Yes, That was the reason that you called him the foreman in your evidence? Yes.

Did you say in the Lower Court tha!

"I did all the Interpreting work and I spoke to Au Pui?"

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Captain. Van Arsdale

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J.G.W. Weston Appointed Policy Director

Air Commodore J. G. W. Weston, who spent last year ot the attending the course. Imperial Defence College, took up an Air. Ministry appoint- ment on January I as Direc- tor of Policy (Air Staff).

Another new director at tha Air Ministry is Air Commodore A. Bankin, who has become Directer of Intelligence Opera- tions) on his return from Japan,

Air Offeer where he was Charge of Administration at Air Group Headquarters, British Com- monwealth Occupation Force,

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shaft strut which board was slightly put out of line, there was no materini damage. coming down from Mira Buy

They had an eight-hour stretch The former American Navy

on the 100 yards by 50 yards transport whs bought, Dinong sandbank before the water rose several hundred others from and the Blue Bird pulled out. It wor surplus, by the took nearly five days to put the Hong Kong Shipping Company, strut back in line.

A signals specialist, Air Com- which has brought into local

During her trip waters eight disused vessels dur- with a cargo of chemicals

up to Korea madore Western was commandant mg the last few months,

and of the RAF Central Signals Es- rubber from Hong Kong the Blue tablishment before he went to the The

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Is the third biggest Bird met strong North East mon- Imperial Defence College and wa ship to be towed here for the

Loons and pitched deeply in raging formerly Director of Signals at company. The first of those a

weeks before the Air Ministry. Early in 1948 peas for nearly 14,000-ten former USN oll tanker

South he was attached to Eastern Air is now

waiting to be scrapped or

where they reflied.

Command, Africa, fob signals repatred

Latchikek, to where

duties in connection with the The Blue Bird took about Л the "has beens" aro towed.

week to reach here from Chemul- North African campaign which he Built in 1920, the vessel has o

in North helped to plan. pho, after staying net tonnage of 10,000 tons and Korean waters for about a month. Llons River, Natal, South Africa, Born In November, 1008, at racnsures 400 feet long by 54 feet She was the last vessel to pull, where his father, a British Army wide. She was towed here by the out of the Yalu River

Christ- on Sea Badger. which recently mas Day before it froze to close officer, lived for n time after he in charge nit the time? Yes, brought some other disused ships navigation until April this year, nghe South African war, Air had gene on the Reserve follow- Witness further admutted, that from Shanghal and Manila.

Captain van Arsdale said. When Another simber ship is now en they left, the river was already ed nt, Cranbrook he und mentioned rediving some

Commodore Western was educat- School, Kent, alucit feal, equipment from Manila, route to Hong Kong, the company

and at the Royal Air Force Col- und that he had showed Au Pau reported yesterday. She is due to

lege. Cranwell, from which ho reach here by the week-end.

20 degrees Fahrenbeli,

was commissioned in December. Permitted To Land 1020. At Shingisho, Captain von A Canadian, born in October, Arsdale sald, one of the four cargo 1896, he served with a Canadian owner representatives, who Infantry regiment and afterwards At Central yesterday, Mr Hin-travelled with the ship from Hong with the RNAS in the first world shing Lo sentenced So Pak Hau to three months hard labour for tives were permitted to land at

Kong, deserted. The representa war, transferring to the RAF in malicious wounding of a woman, Shingisho, but none of the ship's Kwok Lai-wah, on June 23 last personnel were

allowed. The year.

to be ship's

tuken cargo had ashore by lighters.

Yes.

Dit you say that the work was completed and that Au Put was

some of them.

Julebin said that Au Pai was

shown the position of the plugs to be put in, by Mr. Rowe.

Mr. Chen: Are you surprised that Rowe did not mention any thing about Au Pul at all?

Witness:

He might not have

remembered.

You remember the bill that was

brought to you and you brought to Harris. Was Au Pul the man who brought it? Yes.

Hard Labour for

WOUNDING

Defendant was also ordered to the pay $100 compensation to And he asked you for cash?-complainant. In addition, he was Yes.

Witness further added that he

bound over in the sum of $300 for one your. went and told Harria about it, and Harris said he did not have cash available for that purpose.

Mr. Chen: Would you be sur prised to know if Harris said in his evidence that it was Kwok wong who came for the cheque?

Witness: Yes.

And if Harris said that it was Kwok Kwong who came for the cheque,

Reminders

Today

covered with n thing sheet of ice,

The temperature was then around

ness

between

Batren

1018.

Two men, armed with a re- volver each, gained entrance into a hut at Shek Kong, Kan tin dis-

There is plenty of small busi-trict, about 2 p.m. and, after bind- anding the inmates, decamped with Shingislio, and the Yalu Riverstoney and clothing, the total full of small craft. Port facilities ascertained.

value of which has not yet been The robbers fled in

at Chemulpho, the South Korean the direction of Shek Tau Wal port, he said, will be handed over

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to the Korean Government January 15. Many American troops had been removed from that elty, either for home or Seoul, about 30 miles away.

Meanwhile, the Blue Bird wit go into dry dock batore departing for her next business assigrument.

eral overhaul

Witness was cross-examined był Zand then he was mistaken?-HK Rotary Club luncheon talk Sho will undergo a thorough gen-

is right. Under cross-examination by Mr. Julebi Bald that once

the defence, after which Lo Hang, n PWD chargeman, gave testle D'Alton, mony of the electrical work done

nt Kal Tak and that materials

were taken from Hung Hom for that job. Witness further testidad to the work done at the Beauty Saloon 1.1 Hankow Road, which

took one and a half days to com- ung in power plugs, he and two plete. This work consisted of put-

other men did it..

Paid Extra $6

The work was done, witness stated, on Saturday afternoon and on Sunday.. They were paid an extra. six dollars for working overtime.

Cross-examining,

Mr. Percy counsel for Kwok Kwong, Chen, referred to previous evidence to garding the taking, over of the Hung Hom electrical workshop by a Mr. May, He asked witness how many, times, May Orto Pak, aged 30, was charged the work being done anywhere. Inspect before Mr. F. X d'Almada at Wliness replied that he had Central yesterday with stealing Been May on theny occasiona $50 and a Parker fountain pen when he was working at the from LI Yuet.

Government. Radio omien át, Kal) Tak.

SIX MONTHS FOR STEALING

Inspector. Moran, said that on January 8, complainant was aloop- ing In Room 423 at the Sun Wah Hotel in Connaught Road Central when ho saw tiefendant in his room

Wilness further added that he saw. May inspect the workman on almost every Government job. When aday came to inspect the Government work at Kal Tak A sentence of six months was witness revealed, May did not imposed on ini.

speak to him or to any vot ́† his

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the work stopped because the mes had: not been paid.

He also admitted never having en Spary before, and that he had only heard him through the telephone, when, due to the stop- ping of work of the men witness was instructed to ring up Spary. This He did, he said, telling Spary about it, Witness alleged that

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