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Committal proceedings in forged U.S.$ notes case

Navy man writes play about HK

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An original play about. Hong Kong, written by Commander W. Si Donald, RN (retired), wos toged, for the first time at Bridlington recently. war, very favourably received.

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Committal proceedings against two brothers and

their cousin charged with the possession of U.S.$638,950 in counterfeit U.S.$100 and U.S.$50, notes bogan before Mr. Jamos Wicks at Kowloon yesterday.

The forged banknotes, purporting to be those of

the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were seized by the police last November. The forged notes, 6,404 in all, were in $100 de- nomination with the exception of 29 which were of $50.

The men, who share four the charges, are Tum Kuen, allas

Commander Donald younger son of the late Liculen-Tam Sheung, aged 45, describ ant-Colonel W. N. Donald, fed as a gold and silver broker,

Carlisle. He served in the Colony of 722 Nathan Road, first floor

this place. He wrote his play be. Tam Chol-wo, aged 45, haber- cause he thinks that Hong Kong dashery broker; and Tam Chi- has been shabbily overlooked In ping. aged 35, of 223 Jaffe piry, and story.

Road,' second floor. First and third défendants are brothers

are

The play, called "Hong Kong and the second defendant is Cocktali, was produced by tho Viking Players at

their cousin. the Grand Pavilion Theatre. According to All defendants

charged one critic, it was admirably pre-with the possession of 105 forged sented. It was produced by Mr. U.S.100 banknotes 1 Kal Tak Bilan Rix. The Viking Players Airport on November 22. First have done repertory Bridlington for a number of years more charges

werkend second defendants face two of possession of 3,600 U.S.$100 forged notes at 722 Nathan Road, second floor, and 2,770 in $100's and 20 in 50% at 223 Jaffe Rand, second

A critic sold although the Commander Donald's first play

hac shown

hc

tairnt In creating tention

oor.

and in the easy flow of the dialogue. The interest is su An nditional charge of posses- tained right up to the final slon of three brass platen bear- curtain, and there is abundance fing devlees peculiar to and used humour and considerable in the banknotes of the Bank of England is preferred against the drst defendant,

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wit.

The play deals with sono mein- bers of the Royal Navy in Hong Two other men, Chan Yat Kong. The author line drawn ex-sangk unemployed, and Worig tensively from his knowledge of Kwong-ghlu, nilus Wong Kim Hong Kong conditions when hu kwong, partner of the Lee Tht was stationed here in 1948.

Garage, 140 Lockhart Road, charged with the defendants, There are several interesting were dismissed when the pro- characters, including Sir George secution withdrew a charge of and Lady Tyepanne (the sur-possession of counterfeit noles Tame is significant from Eastern against them." standards).

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·· THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1050.

Reminders

4.15 pim.

Today

The Buddhist temple

Lantao Island

on

Urban Council meeting GPO Dids, Hong Kong harbours within its borders two famous temples dedicated to the cults of Taoism and Buddhism.

Nine Dragons Services Club,

Dancing Class: 2.39 pm, What

* Drive" (Cash Prizes) 8 p.m. European YMCA, Bridge Drive,

West Loutige, 8' p.m.

HK Rotary Club luncheon; Roof ~Garden, HK Hotel, 12.30 p.m. Sino-British Music Group Concert for Schools at St. Stephen's Girls College, 3.30 p.m.

K-Singers Concert at St John's

Cathedral ball, 8.45 p.m. HK Football Referees Monthly

meeting, 8.30 p.m.

These two temples continue to flourish under Bri

tish protection while many of their counter- parts in China have been reduced by the Chin- ese civil wor.

has a way

Of the two, the Buddhisi Tho' Chief: Abbot is a hand- temple on Lantao Island is the some man in his middle ritics. more remarkable. The Taoist Distinguished and charming, he of putting, all. hid temple at Castle Peak is algo

visitors AL case few hours after significant historically, but their aurival. A few deft words, approach to it is not as lovely mild Inquiry, about the plea as the approach to the Lantauantness of their trip down, and Island worshipping place. they are dismissed to thefr

Situated on a plateau everlook-reparate dormitories. ing the entrance to Hong Kong inhabited

on at mealtimer will

Kowloon Union Church Women's harbour, the Lantao temple jubeter om again, and the con-

Guild' meeting, 10 a.m.

Coming Events

TOMORROW Tec H meeting. 60 Macdonnell

Road, 8.30 p.m. European YMCA Debating and

Discussion Group, 8.45, p.m. British Council sponsored lecture on "Parliament and Executive Government" by Mr. Robert Bruce, Council Library, 6.30

steamer Dingwall left their ship Three seamen of the Canndinn inst Saturday morning on alore Bight-seding for a brief tour of Hon later they

Kong, Some 10.

10 hours turned to Kowloon Wharf, but, there was no ship. That shock was the beginning of a series of events-30 hours in police cus- tody, charged and cautioned by Marine Court magistrate and now Seamen's Institute awaiting re- European YMCA. Wonien's See- patriation,

The men--Albert Levalice,

and the Sailors · Home

p.m.

das

and! praycra

100 monks.

It is beautifully versation will touch on condi- designed, with a central building tions in Hong Kong, the situation and

a series of minor structures

regin China, and the interest thự The monks do rural work dur- vhltors may or may not have, in ing the such as planting Buddhian. fanning, and engage in

Перисав, с Guatama Buddha and indoor work in the evening abound, and inscriptions carved before retiring. Their area range on the walls and columns. pro from 24 to 60. Maity of them are claim the venerable antiquity of refugee monks from North China, the site. The Impression is con- and the Feking dialect is very eyed of uninterrupted.centurien of Buddhism, which will go on evident.

Attired in their

flowing black and on.

Before the first tints of dawn. habits, they tend serenely ealm lives. Their horizons are limited, appear in the Eastern sky, the but they give no indication of monks will be: and about. being constrained, They are most- Their soft, soothing chants will ly affable, despite an inclination, dwindle to murmur in the As night silence will envelop the of most Buddhists.

They sleep in dormitories which plateau, and will remain un- have been stripped of nimost, brokert unillį tomorrow brings u every attribute of comfort, but repetition' of the eternal story. are Impeccably clean. They do not

Quietly..unobtrusively the monks even have spring beds, but must on Lantao carry on, They seek do with planks.

ne plaudits for their work. All continuity, because that is the they seen to desire is unbroken nature of Buddhism.

Raymond Hamelin and Lawrents/Welsh bi-lingual service, com-to philosophise, after the fashion scene twilight".

Giberson—were charged

before,

tion, Whist Drive, 10 am.

memorating St. David's Day, St Andrew's Church, 11 àm.

THURSDAY.

Kowloon Rotary Club luncheon

Peninsula Hotel. 12.30 p.m.

Men's Club luncheon, Roof Garden, HK Hotel. 12.45 m. Women's International Club, dance for Services, 7.30 p.m.

Mr. D. G. Culrns at the Marine Col Court yesterday for wilfully negilgently remaining in tip Colony after the departure their ship on February 25.

The story of their misadven ture was told to the Court when

hen's defendiants gave evidence after pleading not guilty to the chargK But all three changed their plea after it was explained that they, were negligent in not making British Council weekly film show, enquiries about the exact

time

Helena May Institute, 6.30 of sailing.

„DM. Sub-Inspector Mackenzie Mr. Percy Chen, Instructed by that the defendants gave them- The Incidents, despite their

Mr. J. C. Stewart, is represent solves up at 8 p.m. at the Marine humour, are true to life. The au-MF. V. J. L. D'Alton, also in- informing that they had missed

Orst defendant, white Police ing the

ther has painted un authentic pleture of Hong Kong pecullari-structed by Mr. Stewart, is re-

their 'ship. It was found latur presenting the second and, third

that the Dingwall left port at | defendants.

4.30 p.m. that day. The men left the ship on normal shore leave.

L

Sailor fined for assault

self-defence. He said

Mr. T.

Assistant Cashman, Director of Criminal Intelli genee, Kowloon, is conducting the prosecution's case,"

sald

take 10 meat, a variety of taste Their food is plain, and they provided by a svies of sauces, in which a large proportion of sugar is used."

Many visitors

The monke are anxious to receive guests, and have re- sirveda separate section of their, establishment for the en tertainment of visitors, Guests are given identical, food, but

Station on February, 28 Tug Ocean Pride their deeping quarters are not

..

No notice posted Lawrence Giberson, 30-year- Kai Tak seizure old Able Seamen' of the Ding- wall, told the Court that he left Opening the prosecution's case, the ship at 9 am, that day on. Mr. Cushman_sold that

on the shore leave.

There was no no- 11 last.lice posted to "potify the morning of November

.crew.

with a party

tain time.

runs aground at Subic Bay

noon.

Counsel says witness is kept away

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before Mr. F., X. d'Almado ht The Chief Abbot speaks a litile Kowloon yesterday, Mf. M. A English and is a pleasant minn da Silva, defence counsel for not too Worldly perhaps, but Ho Wai-lam, alias William Ho. Manila, February 27. quiet, retentive, kind,

4. İcharged, with, the theft of 130 The ocean.going electric tug,

The temple is approached best Ocean Pride of Hong Kong, ran

from Talho a port on Lantao bags of Government rice, chal- faland. It can only be reached by lenged the credibility of the Edward Coomber, aged 20,

aground on a reef off_the_en-

a four-hour tramp up the 3,000 evidence given by prosecution of HMS Comus, was charged

trance of Subic Bay this after-fect hill. Standing on a plateau witnesses. before Mir, Thomas Tam yes-

surrounded by wooded scenery. Mr. da Silva, accused the pro-

commands

.lovely panoramile terday with assaulting Tang

She was pulled off by United view of the whole „Hong Kosecution of keeping, away, a wit-] Stu-kau, aged 34, at No. acting on information, he went about the departure time of the States. Navy ships from Olongapo landscape, the inland sea, and 10 call to testify on the movement af ness whom defence intended to Luard Road on Saturday even- Tak Airport where he saw first

of police to Ka ship nor the expiration of leave naval base which answered a dis small lelands.

Giberson asserted that the

o on the afternoon of September ingi

and second defendants who were chief officer saw "several of ugress call from the tug."

A visit to it can be arranged 23 last, when the rice was alleged about to take a plane for Saigon. He declared that he was not told Commber pleaded guilty but He asked them to claim

First reports of the SOS signs by letter, as accommodation must to have been taken out of godown addled that he struck

their

be resen its Tang in baggage and brought them back about having to return by a cer- asking for "Immediate assistance"

walls, soft Incenso 100 Within that on to the

caused rescue organisations 15 and low Buddhist murmups tako in Jordan Road.

100m Wharf and Godown Company Kowloon Police Station

Defendant added that he knew shift into high gear as the tug was one completely away from the

world of that day before he disembarked. sumed

"Hong that the ship in distress

Kong. they were walking along Luard were found 105 counterfelt notes. evidence.

His colleagues collaborated his was either a passenger or curge Chinese,

of foreigners and and his friend fell down and, as

Hamelin said that he

Hvessel. he went to help him, someone

On the

day in a flat | left the ship 'at '19 ́a.m. and did same threw stones, several of which occupied by third defendant in not see any notice put up to state Second Rescue Squadron planer counterfeit that the personnel on shore leave from the 13th Afr. Force at Clark Rond struck him on the head.

Jaffe

2,770 notes in $100's and 20 in 850's must be uboard by a certain Field flew to the scene and, ra- were-found:

time.

ported that Navy ships already on Mr. Cairns pointed out that, the scene had, pulled the fur away defendants were negligent In not from the reef. making enquiries properly

be.

Mr. A.S. Trippe, of Henderson- fore leaving the ship. He cau-Trippe Inc., agents, sald the Ocean tioned them on the charge. official of Loxley

Pride was en route to Manila to Company, agents for the Ding.ow the S.S. Falvern to Hong wall, declared the agents would Kong. Trippe said the Ocean Pride

their is Chinese-owned in Hong Kong look after the men untli repatriation. - Accommodation, The extent of damage caused by would be found for them, in the the grounding was unknown, Mr.

Trippe'said: "Associated Press. Saliers and Seamen's Institute.

Saturday evening he had met a where a sultense belonging to the the ship was due to leave port Junknown here and I was pre-det, it, yearly it in the King's Theatre Building]

friend from England and they second defendant was opened. In had a few drinks together. Whlic a raise long the suitcase

"The defendant continued, that he saw Tang approaching with a First defendant then took the large brick in his hand and go police to the root of 76 Keelung he struck Tong

a number of steel on tlie mouth, Street where who then fell to the ground. engraving plates were found. On November 25 three brass plates Coomber was fined $25 and or were found in a trunk in first alered to pay $25 compensation to defendant's home. the complainant.

On December 14 a foreign curt Inspector Wheeler said the con-reney expert from the National

City Bank of New York was call ed by

to examine the police the banknotes which ho found to be counterfeit.

Mr. Max Chau-lun, of the National City Bank of Now York, an export in 'foreign our! rencies, sald the notes were good: Imitations of those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 'add that it... raquired, a magnifying glass;'good eyesight

plainant was not in Court bo cause his injuries had caused him to take to his bed.

in connection with the cas Thomas Donold Brown, aged :20, also of HMS Comus, Was charged with breaking a window pune at No. 3.Luard Road.

Ho pleaded not guilty, saying that he was walking with Coom- ber and two others when they were attacked....

As no one actually saw him breaking the pane of glass, ho was given the benefit of the doubt: and discharged by Mr. Tam

An

and

Further drop in

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efence counsel confonded, that at the time of the alloged. theft defendant was shopping in a store a Mecca for devout Buddhists, and did not reach the Kowloon Many people go there to huntido until shortly after 4 p.m. A temple encourages quiet thinking, clerk who attended Ha at the shap

fish, or to ineditate. and

subpoena was taken out for the and the island of Jantan itself. is celebrated for its deer, wild To give evidence- boar and-big-fishing-possi

Along

Out of Eilities.

Silver Ming Bay, where the ferry from Yaumati berths, there lo stretch of magnificent beach....

The

Colony

Accusing prosecution of day liberately keeping the clerk out of, the Colony, Mr. de âliva usid that unless he could be producedi and, calfedīta gīvélavideñce, the Court

huptballove the alibi In favour of his 'ellent. defendants

ints in the case Other

The monks in the temple are very devout and their conversa tion seems to be voluntarily limited to expounding Buddhism. oath of They do not take

the chastity, but there is no indica tion that they are anxious to lead are in tally deck af anything but celibate lives. the Rice

lam, when and son of H simple. They geed guilty t

to charge of stealing the the morning and pray, rice; Cheung Lum, cook at the Hin After prayers they eat a very Yick Bice Depot; and Cheung plsiniteal," and "sepárate to do

Toki, at the Depot: their various chores.^An admir;

Wal-lam was former cargo cable spiri. ɔ brotherhood pre- vatis, and they always help ond another in the things they do.

value of Jenminpiao

and an expert knowledge to be Chinese Press reports from Canton yesterday stated лbla to tell them from the genuine notes,

The fibres

Mr. Tam told both Coomber aric One of the main differences in Brown that they must keep away the forged notes, he apio,' werd frdin law-abiding citizens. He the blue and rod fibres, which in added that he sympathised (with the counterfeit were painted” on them as they were cooped up on whereas in the genuine ones they their ship and could only come were manufactured into the pa nshore occasionally for a drink. per. Other differences in the coun

colour He advised them to keep to their torfeits wore the green clubs,

which was 'n shade too dark, and

Mr. Tam then spoke to the two tho

the portrait appeared dull, Lakin of No- 5 Luard Road whe Sub-Turpeelde Koh Ab-chong were in Court, saying that they finder print expert of the Iden-

that the Jenminpiao has value' in 'Conton.'

again dropped in

On February 25 it was quoted unofficially at

JM$12,000 to one Hong Kong dollar.

On

the eve of the Lunar New Year it was $10,000 to HK$1. But after the Commnuist author- ities had taken, strong measures to curb the depreciation, the People's Dollar reverted tem- porarily to $4,500 to HK$1 on the black market.

The rest of

is profous at their existened Wai Jam, who had already plead-

up in

the

"and DIYSartment of

Large number of duties a com

Ried

is-repre

Mr. A. S. C Healthy and virile, because of senting Ho Tin-sing, while Mir the clean ptmosphere and the J. C.. Stewart to representing unpretentiotismanner of thele Cheung Lun and Cheung Kwan existence, the monks perform ari Tho-case' is adjourned to March ustonishingly large number of 13. duties in the course of their daily routine. Still they find me to

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Other

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talks to strangers, and are not EDINBURGH HOUSE monastic atter the fashion of. Renaissance clergy,

Certain particulars in the ar- Often they seek out interesting titig af Edinburgh House in yes- visitors and talk for hours with terday's "China Mall were in- them.

n. They, tre always anxious correctly given. Messrs. Leigh and for information's

"out of China, and Organe were the architects, for Now it has again fallen sharply.

eghen affairs in the the building, and the general con should tolerate these young men mention Bureataining liquids and commodity prices have risen cargo has to

the value of the worth. BARN & OCCUr. In thơ tractors were Messrs. Zung Kee surrendered to no were so far away from their took two homes in England. They were not from first

defendant's

flat on correspondingly.

་ ་ bank, designated by the Govern course of conversation.

Hecause of the years of pro- Other reports state that the ment, after which the“ exporter bad at heart, and it was possibly November 20 and took several People's Government has placed can claim

contractors the equivalent In tertian and freedom under Bri- the

were, Jardine F Because of the language difficulty

an order for 50,000 picula

of Jenminpiao at the official rate of tish rule, these monks have no that so much misunderstanding prints only one of which was

nny value for identification bur- cotton from the „United States the day.

reservation in their attitude to- Ceramic Company, Dodwell and arosa,

poses and let it for future through a Hong Kong trading

It alleged that there are wards foreigners who are wel- Company Ltd., Sino-British En- ference On-Dovember. If he took company, making tru total order seven sands of impart a ship me to come and go as they gineering Corporation and the Arst defendant's finger prints and cd: abroad since December, 200,- ment of live pigs of fowl from please found that the print of his right 000 plculs, mostly from Pakistan, Wuchaw to Hong Kong. hand small finger corresponded which is in the sterling area. The, Vernacular "Sing Tao Jih with the one he had filed away.

Large quantities of fertilisers Pao" reported yesterday that ex- Corroborative "evidence was are said to have been shipped to ports of Chinese products from

by Detective Lau Fuk, in Hong Kong for marketing10, the interior of China to

Hong spector Pope Detective, Tu 000 tons through Russian sources Kong kayo" decreased ", owing to Mok.

and 3,000 tons from the United trade-restrictions "Imposed by the Matorial, svidendo, estimated) States. More shiprocats are ex- to be more than a ton in weight, pected from North Korea.

Communiste. newspaper, pułkished the was displayed in court. There More cargoes

Brooing from following I HI, of; All Chinese pro- wern n'baby's cot, tables, bad" Hong Kong to Burma, Secalue of ducts imparted Hore between side cupboard," "roama" "of plain the increased import quota for February 20 and 253, White "paper cylinder brinting the Colony, the lower hipping presasa, brass, and stedi enpravi: charges; and reduction--of-insur-

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Feathers (Tientsin and Talwen ozikiD):34 480=BA108! + Cow Hider (Canton origin); 10% bales;ärung Tsingtao

Impal plates inice and painti, anca rajaste oil (Tientsin and chemicals, *_ginae" "platda ~ and

BATTERY Rw arst defendant," on

December 29, on charge of postes aldt of gold was findd 40,000 utter several applicationa, rádos

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