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Correspondence Amnesia And Alcohol;

The

Editur takes no respon

sibility for views expressed in letters by correspondents, and by

no means necessarily agrees with them,

Reds' Activities

Sir, Lending Communist daily General Just papers

Ignored Pesting's Press Interview on the invincibility of Hong Kares

defence.

New China News Agencỳ re- ports on the sloop Ainethyst, were local published in one of the Bulshevik periodicals after the Hong Kong authorities warned M Agency of the seditious

the character of

propaganda gainst the British. Hong Kong Lovernment did not interfere wi the Red publication.

On the other hand, anti-Anglo- American propaganda works are #lowing in Hong Kong like mushrooms, whereas in Shanghai the British-owned and mannged North China Daily News was first punished and now forced to

chore.

Bevin, Attlee. Eden and Chur- chull have been insulted and ridiculed along the lines laid own by Stalin. Yet the local Heds papers condemned Anglo- American notions cralle. Russle and

'opposition lenders.

undemo-

critics

It General Festing wishes Hong Kung sate for his forces and de- civil au- Ince, Hong Kong's turtles should at least help him!

Defendant Claims

It Was All A Blank

That a

person under the influence of alcohol con suffor from amnesia was stated in evidence

KAI TAK TOPICS

The Philippine Air Lines, In keeping with the latest technique in the civil air trade, hava nd- opled the hovle camera to at-

tract air passengers.

For this reason, PAL is send-

by Captain Kroisi of the Royal Army Mëdi-ing Hid Linker, production direc cal Corps yesterday.

Captain Kreisi was testifying at the continued hearing of the case against Corporal Frank Laverick before Mr. J. Wicks at Kowloon.

Two charges of housebreak- ing and one count of larceny from a dwelling were with- drawn. They were substitut- ed with a count of unlawful | The possession.

Laverick was also charged with seapin from police custody and with being found in a dwelling.

In his opinion, continued Cap

under tal Kreis, a person

the influence of alcohol соп auffer from amnesia.

Personalia

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most comprehensive round the world air routes.

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Waldorf Hotel Wins Appeal In Dispute Over Room Space

The question of the definition of "an area of a room" was raised yesterday at the Full Court of Appeal, when the Waldorf Hotel of Caute- way Bay made a 'successful appeal against a decision of Mr. Justice Scholas. The Full Court, in awarding judgment with costs against the respondent, John J. Holland, a resident of the hotel, ruled that even the floor space of a cupboard was included in the floor space of a room.

per day.

Linker arrived in the Colony jon Thursday to do a picture here.

clearly that it is a part of the has completed a story of

Mr. Scholes in the original

room and Ist on a part of the Manila and Tokyo.

action-brought by the Wal-

room. If, instead of hulit.in. of these films, dorf against Holland for ar The showyings-

there had been a cupboard, in respect of

wardrobe, clearly that space on Departures from the Peninsula explained the International Films rears of rent

which the wardrobe stood lote on Thursday included Mr.man, pre primarily for prospec-Room 401-ruled against the But shots plaintiff over the definition of

would have been part of the and Mrs. K.S. ve PAL customers.

will also be taken of famous spots the area of the room in ques- O. Rubblas, Mr.

floor space of the room., Trivedi, Messrs. A Crue in the world where PAL do not tion, and held that the room Carlon, W.C. Douaison. 1. de wander into. "All for the benellt

"Alternatively, if

there int Inspector J. Hidden prosecuted 1.M. Kelley, T. Taylor, H. Hop of air

travel, in general," said in dispute did not come with-

in category "C" as alleged by heen a curtain instead of a dorir, while the defendant was repre-kinson, P.C. Britter and G. Vall-

Linker.

plaintiffs but within category it would have been part of the sented by Mr. A.9.C. Combor.

At Kai Tak, be was filming "D".

our space. Alternatively, again, if departure, loading On that basis he held the rent there had been no curtain but Among the new arrival at the the arrival, Captain Kreini, RAMC, told the

Hotel her satellites court that he had had an average Peninsula

Thursday and unloading of passengers and of the room in question was $7lcove for hanging clothes, te flour space would have beça unat are praised as most democratic amount of experience dealing with were Mr. and Mrs. T.R.G. Flet-cargo of PAL

He held that the area of the of the floor space of the rom. uder one man's absolute dicta-cases of peopin under the influence cher, Mrs. Levy, General and Mrs. Scener of the airport and its

the spuce torship and ruled by secret police, of drink.

Eb Moy. My R.K.

and Mrs. J.

were also recorded, room did not include working,

No Difference in the S.E. Mr. Demuan,

MEK. creen tabour and merelless per-

and

in Later

the afternoon, the enclosed by a cupboard. seration of government's

Penver. Mrs. E.M. Muntogomery,

corner of the 100m. camera man was taken on a tour

't streng to us to make po The Full Court yesterday was Mesra, K.C. Chen, D. Levy, W.

round the New Territories, the

whether Gibson, difference in this case and Reid, J. Plank, T. Edwards, and

entertainment resorts,

he-composed of Bir Lesllo

which war a Chic? R. Bigazzi

This will be, of, great uches.

Justice, and Mr. Juslee there was a deor

fxto as opprsed to a curtains op value to tourist air passengers, Wilans, senior Puisne Judge

The Waldorf Hotel was repre- nothing, or the door of a wardrobe The forthcoming wedding has he mid. been announced of Lamis Cashmiro Hal Linker will be leaving to-sented by Mr. Loo d'Almada, KC, which is not a fixture. The Ingle Baleron, receptionist, of Peninsula any for Bangkok, his next bush-Instructed by Mr. C.Y. Kwrn of this conclusion appears us

pls to At in with the scop Holland conducted lila own cas

told the Court the Ordinance. The reason for the Mr. d'Almada

different rinssineations 11 fe that this wis an appeal arising

Second Schedule is in enable the from a Judgment delivered on

of room to be-fixed, antl claim for arrears of rent hotel room at $14 a day.

the number of persons who can uccupy the room to be xcl.

"Looking at it from the point vlew of either of thew uur- puses, the Boor space of the cup. board is appropriately Included of the room. in the floor space That boing so, we must allow the

the judg He pointed out that Mr. Scholes appeal and not aside

decided that bocauro the neni of Mr. Justice Scholes and bl

Gom in question contained in it onto Judgment for the amount a built-in cupboard, the area oo- claimed in the writ with costs On the subject of the press re port that Lard Mountbatten willcupied by it was not to be con- below and in this Court." be replacing him as Commission-sidered as a part of the floor area. er-General, Mr. MacDonald re- It was common ground that if plied that ho knew of the matter the cupboard was included in the only from the papers.

continuod It is true.

half

Captain

ufter the

lat

to get rid of the propaganda Kreisi, that the maxiinum effect outile and destructive to of alcohol occurs approximately

which leology and institutions

hour 021 General Festing and this forces drink is taken and that mixing of are commissioned to defend,

drink, would produce a rapid NO OSTRICH

alcoholic state.

A man undar emotional struin would react more to alcohol than a man in a normal state. Wife Trouble

Nudist Pictures

Sir,-A Central Court case re- ported in the "China Mall" wherein a publisher was sum- moned to court for printing inde- Defendant raid that he was cent pictures showing nudists of

Jong The

Kong

Sunbathing married. After the war when he went to the United Kingdom Society strikes me as being very where he found his wife a diffe very strange indeed,

rent person. She used to go nut He stayed different men. with

Evidently someone is attempting ( wish the party concerned all surress) 15 be virtues. suddenly (The pubilsher referred to, inel-solve the trouble hail failed.

then rejoined the Army unit caine dentally, was dismissed).

at home for 10 months trying to He

From what I gathered the mudest East again.

Court Apartments, and Henriett

Norberta Theresa D'Azevedo, operator, of the same address.

-were

*

Among the passengers who lef: Messra, by CPA for Hangkok and Shiga pore. yesterday John V. Gray, Miss Araceli Ruiz, Ng Chin-peng and Chongyow Sne Phan.

U.S. Consul General Leaving HK

The American Consul-General in the magazine printed were not

On the night of July 27. dein Hong Kong, Mr. George Hopper, unlike these exhibited in so many fendant said, he had a row drinks will leave Hong Kong in the s foreign magazines when women and, later mnde his way to the Prasident. Wison for the United anl inen appear together an Miramar Hotel. There har States at the end of September. naturel with the intimate parts

Ile has been the American Con- more drinks, did not know how blanked, of course.

past four years, and has served 17 of his 2 years in the Consul service in British Commonwealth territory

Now why suddenly this "virhe mads his way back to come. suisticneral in lug kong for the

suppose,

they are

That night he drank excessively tuousness?

and was mixing his drinks. Why-after se many months of Indecent

of exposure

nuches He could not remember any fernales of all sizes in open show thing after that. The next morn windows, book stalls, magazinusing he reached to his pocket for and toys?

a cigarette bat instead found a (I

"art

purse. pictures").

At that time his companion was Coming to our point, the sleeping on the next bed. Defen- Sunbathing Society was organised dant said that he told his com by a prominent public gure in panion about the purse and that the local community and legally

remember how it recognised, the latter I presume he could not.

came into his possession.

openci

the Much publicity has already been later, when he given to it-in words and pictures purse he saw a picture of Mrs. told. hh com in the vernacular press, (1 can Costello. ife thon not recollect which paper, how-panion that he would give the

purse back to the owner. ever).

90,

If the authorities insist on being prudish, by all means do so and keep the city clean in the strictest

sense of t

was

Defendant said that he ashamed of himself, did not re- member that he had taken it. In all his life he had never com-

crime.

Take away those voluptuous so-mitted a called art pletures-pictures which have often embarrassed the women themselves when in the company of man

friends

edition ing poses.

ness stop,

ger i

A distinguished transit pussen- Kai Tak yesterday was Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Com- South Eas missioner-General,

was Aying by Pan As, who American to Tokyo fór à visit with General MacArthur.

"My visit to Japan is routine and purely informal. Mr. Mac- Donald said adding that he had previously nude, similar calls at Slam A Burma."

the

and

The Issue

of n

A

Thus, he continued, the sole issue of the appost was the inter- pretation of the phrase "area of the room."

area, then the room was a class "C" one, otherwise it was a "D" type.

Mr. d'Almada then asked the Court how it was to be decided

room that a portion of the

from the should be excluded

because whole BTON

with equipped

$4 furnishing Ho submitted the the

oupboard was part and par. est of the room.

Wat

kind

Live goes a long way indesa, if round the world twice is long? students of Californin met on enough. Two Stanford University romance bloomed compus,

Mundin last i claraxed in week when a business graduate He said yesterday that he would student Walter H. Lewis and his

Washington 16 return

co- sweetheart Margaret lore

he area of a room means the re-assignment.

became Mr. and Mrs. that after another He added

Stanford superficial extent of the floor of After graduation at

separatet: the com." he declared. year's service he experts to re however, the couple tire,

Seek Land For Technical School In HK

for

when Miss Moore returned to

Part Of Room Manila where her family lives.

Lewis, late last month, Bow

Comsel went on to state that round the world to, the Philip- pines to marry her. Now Mr. and the Court should also take into that the cupboard Mrs. Walter Lewis is on a round consideration the world alr honeymoon, travel in uvation was used by the res- ling back to the United States to pendent, which male it part of Seattle where they will selle the room, down.

Mr. d'Almada zubmitted further the interpretation of the The couple spent several days that In the Colony.

word "are" as set out in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary to which he referred, was more consistent with the ordinary rules of interpretan tion then that set out by the trial Judge.

APL CARGO

- LINERS

Lines

brico

of

Rumanian And Wife Expelled

A

Alexander

Rumanian-born Karolich, alias Mohamed, aged Chinese 50, residing at boarding house in Kowloon. and his Russian wife, Nina Izotova, aged 42, were yester- day ordered to be expelled from the Colony by Mr. A. D. Scholes at Central for breach of the immigration regulation. Defendants were charged with entoring the Colony without a permit, entering the Colony with- out a travel document, and failing to register.

First defendant was also Aned $200 or six weeks' in default by the magistrate.

Inspector Wilson,

prosecuting,

sold that defendant came to Hong from Canton by train on Kong

Asserting that the respondent's ease had no merits, counsel said August 3, and lodged at a Chinese boarding house in .Kowloon. American Président have coined

that when Holland entered the Defendants had no passport, he a new shipping hotel room he knew it was of a sald. term cargo liner-to design-" type which cost $14 a day.

They said that because the ate their new passenger-carry-Holland was however trying to Communists were near lankow, ing freighters which accom-show that the room was a "they were compelled to leave for modate up to 12 passengers in tyre one, he added.

a style approaching that of a luxury liner.

The Company's President Mr. Killion, suggested the George

Holland's Case

Canton. Later, they came to the Colony. First defendant had $500. The Police did not press the Coso, but asked for ane and Putting forward his case, Hol- an expulsion order against de

fendants.

The scheme for setting up a technical school in the Colony, under the sponsorship of the Hong Kong Chinese Manufac-

Union, to turn of turers'

out After excessive drinking

Lechnicians for the alcohol, he usually had a "black skilled

local factorles, has made little out" and after that he could not when remember anything he had done. headway since it was mooted the "China they come across the "models," The case was adjourned to 9.30 six months ago,

Check the publication of those.m. today.

Mail" was Informed. "strip tease" pictures in some

The chief amar helding up the vernaculars which reveal women

Sheme, it was reported, has brazenly stripping themselves day

Bui- (There was no such been the inability to find final by day until the

table site for the school. sign as "For Adults Only." when they appear entirely nude.

The

intend to ark And, last but not least, reconsi-

sponsors Keep strict vigilance against the screeting of "frenchies" shown der the screening of the "Story of Government to make a free grant of the land, and they will financo not long ago in a Chinese cinema Birth."

the building and running of the hall (Laichikok) when a woman

school. strutted round a room in disgust.

Sponsors of the scheme have already mapped out am ambitious programme for the school whleh

The new APL Cargoliners are| they have tentatively named the Hong Kong Institute of Tech unique in that they have a lux urious pusschger lounge, and an nology.

Holland also stated that if the Interviewed by the "Chitta attractive, modern dining saloon Mail", Cfficials of the Manufac-n which the passengers and ship's cupboard could be included in the

officers dine together.

room, them the corridor-which turor Union asid there would ba

Each of the four spacious and was adjacent to it should be in- no hitch in proceeding with the comfortably furnished cabins has cluded in the area in that case. scheme once the land was found its private bath.

A sum of HK$600,000 has been earmarked for the building alone,

The amount to be expended on equipment has yet to be deter mined.

ART, again?

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A DAY

between

Aug. 16 and Sept. 15

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VERANDAH COLLAPSES

ita

term after inspecting the lavish land told the Court that though limited quarters for par- bathroom, as previously alleged sengers aboard the ss. President by the appellante, could not be

Included in the room aren, Johnson in San Francisco.

Appeal To

Privy Council

the

cupboard had also no relation to that, though, it was attached

room

Court Brevities

The Chief Officer of the SS

ON the application of Detective Sub-Inspector Summers at Kow- The area of the flow means the loon yesterday. Mr. J. Wicks area not occupied by any sort of granted a remand of one week Curniture at all, he further sub- in the case of two soldiers, Joseph Day- and Reginald Orton, mitted.

Giving its decision, the Court both of the Royal Engineersve

They were charged, together stated

In part:

is an appeal from the with Tam Shing, a Chinese fore- An application for leave to judgment of stice Scholes man, with the theft of corrugat- appeal to the Privy Council in an aution in which the Waldozed fron sheeting from the Sham- was yesterday granted at the Hotel claim arters of rent for a shuipo Barracks on August 27, Supreme Court to Mr. H. G.room in the hotel from Mr. Hol- Sheldon, KC.

land, the occupier of the room; The recent heavy downpour several days ago. was believed, to The nppeal was against the at the rate of $14 per day. have been the cause of the front decision of a Full Court which Floor. Space Of Cupboard Caroufalio, Slimas Katsalis, had That is the rate which should his bail of $30 estreated when he failed to appear in Court to answor part of the first floor verandah of in turn upheld the decision of

Queen's Road West suddenly Sir Atholl MacGregor a late Chilet be appropriate a root comes a charge of common assau collapsing to the pavement below. Justice, given 10 years ago on a within estegory "C" in the Second Defendant was alleged to have

The collapse; which occurred elvi!

the Regulations, assaulted. Abdi Omar, # scaman Schedule of Cusc. about 10.20 last night fortunately Mr. Sheldon, KC, was instruct which are scheduled to the Hotels of the same ship on August 31.

ed by the Hon. M. M. Watson Ordinance, 1948. caused no casualties.

Mr.

did Ficholes held that the Yustice The Hon. La d'Almud, not come within este and, on was for the other party on the camo within category instrpelions of Mr. D. L. Streilett that basis, he held that the rent granted by Mr. J.-Wicks at Kow- of Brutton and Company

of the room was $7 per day and loon yesterday in the case of Kwok Hoj-thing. Defendant was The appeal was on the grounds gave judgment accordingly. that the decision of the Fuil

thereant comp

The question of whether the charged with the alleged uttering qlk-letter, and at the fame time Court

within

category "detudine 33,000 WILL menacen

ques and wrong in an

ition of whether the floor space of trofeul Hel-van of the Jorg Becurity in the sum of 10,000 built-in cupboard is to be in- Hafal between August 03 and 21.

Colt eluded.

within the door spins of was 'njso-ordered by the

the opinion to be put up by the Registrar: the room, 12 We

Shant ile Mode popeo sf-the-mn- with be paid within the board is falsely for the purpose fans revolver, and, and to

of the Second Schedule, to be in

Sa

A few minutes after the In- eldent, two fire engines and two ambulances aped to the scent." JULIAN HUXLEY INDISPOSED

of Johnson Stokes and Master.

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Dr. Julian Huxley, aged 6%, British scientist, and philospher was reported Indisposed at his London home, today, Member of

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Jonal Selentine the Ch

Gibson

weeds that

but

A remand of three days:- was

Four Japanese rilles, one call-

ammunition were ordered

Buats at: Central- yesterday,lon' ation of SoMNIASSECTOR: