1950-10-19 — Page 3

Jury unable to reach a verdict in piracy case

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Today

Concert by choir of St. Paul's

College, Lee lysan Hall, 33, Macdonnell Roj 8 pm, JAAFI Club, Kowloon, cooker.

7 p.m.

nion Jack Club, tombolá, 7,30

p.nl.

Tine Dragons Services club, darts

and table tennis tournaments, :7 p.m.

K Women's International Club, informal daner for Service personnel, 7.30 p.tn. hater Collection of mainting

engravings at Uritish Council library, U n.m. to 4.30

uropeu YMCA Debating

Three of the seven accused in the Kwong Hoi Loo piracy trial wore discharged by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. E. H. Williams, yesterday when the jury failed to reach a verdict, The jury retired at 12.30 p.m. and sat in delibera-

tion throughout the luncheon recess.

Youth gaoled

At 2.15 p.m. they came ou! and told Mr. Justice Williams been able to arrive

gaoled they had

on menaces

charge

Described as a simpleton who attempted to put inta practice what he read in the

Ho newspapers,

Kam, 19. pleaded guilty to uttering a letter demanding $3,000 from Yue Chung-kwan, manager of the Yue Ying Can Company, when he was arraigned before the Acting Chief Justice, Mi 's Men's Club of UK, lunch. H. Williams, at the Criminal

Но meeting. Root Garden, 'HK Sessions yesterday. Hotel, 12.45 plan.

sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment with

Subject: Society neeling, "Party Politics", 8.30-12.01. owloon Rotary Club hackean, Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 pm.

Inc

Coming events

.TOMORROW

.

Dragons Services Clab, tombeta, 7.30 p.m. cero Servlees Club. Amateur

night. 7.30 pm.

lon Jack Club, dance, 8 pan.

hard labour.

was

According to the Crown, Ho. an apprentice printer, reat in the newspapers about a leading business establishment having re- Lelved a threatening letter and bucanie convinced that this might

ter Collection exhibition, Bribe a good way of raising money.

tish Council library,

to 8.30 pan.

Breach of deportation order

a.m.

They

were

It was

at unanimous verdict. They were unable to agree whether there was a piracy or not.

The Acthy Chief Justice told there the assuming they were not unaniinous on whether there was piracy or not then obviously

not convict. they could pecessary for them to be unnum

inat point before they DUS on could convlet.

further directed that if they were unanimous that anyone in the case had the to do with it, then it was duty to return a verdict of nos person llly with regard to sub or persons, and to, report back with regard to those upin whom they could not agree on a verdict. The jury then fled out again, and delucrated for a further 75 minutes, returning to the Court at 3.45

9p.n.

Asked for their verdict the Chairman sold they were un animous that the second. firth and seventh accused Had noth- ing to do with the case, while In regard to the others they were unable to arrive at a ver dict.

Discharged

The second, Afth and seventh accused were thereupon discharg- ed.

THE CHINA MAIL;, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1050.

Now water restrictions

Restrictiona on water sup~ ply will be ra-imposed be. It WEB ginning tomorrow, officially announced yester. day.

The hours of supply will be from 6.30 .m. to 1.30 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Court Brevities

French baffled by shadowy Vietminh

With French Commandos in Indo-China,

October 18. Five hundred men who waded into the jungle at down to wipe out a regiment of Vietminh guorillas are boarding their ships again. The operation is over. The little flotilla is drawn

up in midstream under a hot sun. and pork chops sizzle over wood fires on deck.

their Sun-blackened men,

notes aver a

Five Ching I Islanders, who muddy fatigues stripped off, fought over night soil dumped swim in the lazy current of into the sea by Sanitary Basit in shadows cleaning guns, partment barges on Monday off the small island, were fined $5 ench and bound over in $25 for 12 months by Mr. d'Almada at Kowloon yesterday.

Defendants, who were charged with disorderly conduct and who at the two sampans were on

falling to time, fought after settle a dispute as to who was to pick up a certain pile of night neu by soll emptied into the sanitary barges. Poles were used in the fight,

•

Chickens

Robber sentenced

at Sessions

a

On the bridge of the flagship- an old American LCI-the naval offcers who chmmanded the op- cration compared bottle of red wine.

The mission has been a wash- The prompt action of

who out-or almost.

passer-by "An outline of Chinese what happened may help to ex-grappled with a man running plain why after four years 150,- right against him upon shouts 000 crack French fighting men of robbery, resulted in the cul- are still so far from extormina prit being triod before the ting the Communist-led Vietminh

Criminal Sessions yesterday. rebels.

Commandos closed in

Sentence of two months Im-

Intelligence reports pin-pointed a. Vietminh regiment encamped prisonment was imposed on a 17- year-old girl, Wong Lal-king, of on an island finger hidden deep 159 Tung Chol Street, second in the Jungle South of Salgon. floor, by Mr. d'Almada at Kow- loon yesterday for the larceny of two

rings Bold

and a gold wrist watch from her grand- mother-in-law on October 10.

Defendant, who committed the theft while on a visit to her relative, was also ordered to be expelled.

Leemun Village.

In moonless darkness a dozen landing craft and small gunboats closed in, and at daybreak the Commandes splashed ashore and worked inward.

The boats, their radios crack- ling and guns trained, scaled off Barrow escape routes on the surrounding waterways. A Dying boat clrcled above.

island is bara

The Yue Hing Can Company

On paper it was a careful, nir- var chosen as the victim, and Ho

A fine of $10,000 or six months tight trap which should have en- demanding sent them a letter

was imposed on Ip Li-ylu, aged closed not only an enemy regt- $3.000 and anishing up with a

In discharging The Jury Mr. 36, by Mr.

Winter at Kowloonment but several hundred civi veiled threat. The police wery

yesterday on three

counts of lians living in swampland com- keeping informed and Ho was arrested Justice Williams exampted them

a heroin divan, posses- alter a packet, made up by the from jury service for seven years.

herpin of 1156 Police, was seen pussed to bine sak they had been engageision of heroin and oplum pipes munities. But not so.

and possession In a very long and difficult trial. by a detective.

The seven mun accused of the pills and nine small pots of In passing servience, Mr. Jus-piracy ate Lam Hau, 34, travel-oplum at an unnumbered hut in tice Williams said he must take a trader: Lau Yuk-min, 38,

Eight smokers were fined $200 serious view, though the way ac unemployed: Yim Kon, 40, travel- cused went shout it showed heling trader: Tang Kai-ming, 38, each or two months. Prison sentences were im-

was A simpleton and nothing travelling trader: Wan Chung-

Kwok Chung osed by the Acting Chiefsc. However, the sentence hayin, 21, greaser:

as a de-kwong, 45, coxswaint and Chung ustice, Mr. E. H. Williams, passed must stand out

Chum 7, crck terrent to such a vile offence.

The charge against them is that Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr, Assistant they, together with others not in or about Muy 20 rustody, on the pirited

trading ink, Kwong Hei Lee, mildway between Hainan Island and Cunton. One man was killed and another wounded.

The accused said they were not pirates but were acting under from the Nationalist au→

the Sessions yesterday on vo men for breach of a

ortation order. Both admit-Crown Solicitor, prosecuted.

ed the offence.

The first offender, Hung Kwan, Tias Hung Sing. alias Ng Kwong

as Chan Shing, alias Kwok ung-kwok, was only aged 17

it had nine previous convictions

for deluding three

returni fom banishment.

He was given two years' hare abour and Mr. Justico William

ld him if he returned again he could be given a heavier son-

ence.

Inquiry into fatal traffic accident

A tramc accident on April

an

kel.

and

The next offender, Lam Yul. trle Company lorry crashed Has Chan Yui, alias Ho Ping into the Dockyard wall

las Lam Chuen, was sentenced resulted in the death of three

.three years and six months'

Army persons, including an Ard labour. He had been banishDespatch Rider had a sequel

three times.

Tin Central yesterday.

SUMMONS WITHDRAWN

A summons

against C. L

*

The offender, Chun Kam, was charged with robbery with #g- gravation, and before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. E. H. Williams, admitted the offence yesterday. According

Blair-Kerr,

ie

W

to the Pr

Kam

abode,

Creier Solicitor, Chan street sleeper of no fixed rat hold of two friends and to- guther planned a robbery.. Hie bought a doguer from a hawker for the purpose.

On July 25 the men entered a nearby hut which they knew. was acoupled by two women and a child. Thore they threa toned the inmates and took away a gold ring, a gold chain and $15 in cash.

As the men ran out after the robbers the inmates raised the alarm and one of the robbers the accuser, ran right into a Chi- nese passer-by, Mr Yau Yat- hung, who grappled with him and One Commando platoon ro. had him handed over to the po- ports it surprised Оле small lice.

of 10 After passing sentence of guerillas. Four group querillas died in the exchange (years' hard labour and 12 strokes of fire and 18 were brought on accused, Mr. Justice Williams commended Mr. You on his brave back to the LC) as prisoners. On two counts of creating a pubite mischief and embezzla- Otherwise the island was bare and public-spirited action. Air.

Yau was not in Court. Au Chuen, 20-year-old of people. Cooking fires burned inent. factory worker, was sentenced in huts and barnyard to three months hard labour, by browsed in villages. There were Mr. R. W. 5. Winter at Kowloon freshly dug gun empincements and new thatched barracks. But yesterday.

no humans.

How did so many disappear?

Paul Captain

Huci, a young naval offioer who has been on many similar operations, shrugg ed and walled.

animals

Robber gets 13 years at hard labour

Inspector J. Hill told the Court that defendant, knitting factory lost and employce, gambled

which he collected for $051.40 his employers. He then reported to the police that he had been

Adinitting his part in five "Maybe they hide in trees, robbed of the money,

maybe under robberies within three months, After several hours of investi- maybe tunnels,

sald. Ting with tubes," he

alles Kwong,

Wong gation, defendant admitted to water

the report was "They are very expert at this Tseng, alias Wong Choi, was

sort of thing. They will come sentenced to the police that

a total of 13 false.

out as soon as we go. It is very

hard labour and 2# hard to fight among such people." years'

strokes of the cane by the

Mr. E Acting Chief Justice, Hit and hida

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orders theritless

The trial began on October 2, was the 11th yesterday's hearing.

The prosecution was conducted 28, when a Hong Kong Elec-by Mr. A Hooton, Crown Coun- Detective Sub- assisted by Inspector W. H. Summers.

Four men on charges of armed The first four accused were de- robbery, possession of arms and fended by Mr. Charles Luseby ainmunition and attempting to KC, instructed by Mr. P. H. Lam. shoot with intent, were committed The other three were detended by Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Ko by Mr. S. V. Gittins, instructed four yesterday to stand trial at the by Mr. Peter Mo.

next Criminal Sessions.

The nien, who were alleged to have been involved in the rob- hers of a noodle shop at 192-taking Chengshawan Road on Septem- ber 17, wore Teang Chung, gged 26. Teung Sun aged 28, ¡Pang Wing, aged 23, and Chan Wah, alius Llu Kwok-fai, aged 22.

Before Mr. J. Reynolds an in- quest was held-into the death of. William Joseph Sergeant

Chen Lam Stephens aged 25, aged 20 and Lam Ka-sing, aged

30.

ng. of 384 Fuk Chuen They were killed in a motor ung Street, Taikoktsui, fornecident in Murray Road fault of payment of salary Queen's Road,

annuity tax,

ncor

Men gaoled for possessing arms

•

The clusiveness of the guerilles H. Williams, at the Criminal has been their strength in the Sessions yesterday, jungle war against the French All five crimes were committed which began

In 1946. Given In outlying villages in the New numerical superiority, they at- Territories with the exception of Outnumbered, they hide one in Nathan Road. In all the fack.

with them civilian robberies the victims were robbed groups useful to the French.

not of money and jewellery, and, ae

W. The present operation was not cording to the prosecutor, Mr. a complete fallure for the French, A. Blair-Kerr, Assistant Crown. In addition to the four killed Solfeltor, the total lot from the and 16 captured, the Commandos five robberies added up to a con-

they destroyed some siderable amount. report

and captured enemy

Charged with Ting Kwong wast Several men were arraigned

counts of Ip Puk, but the two The hearing of the case against some documents, was with- Sub-Inspector Howarth of the

But, as Huct says, the guerillas robbery were withdrawn by the wn before Mr. R. W. S. Traffic Offee conducted the In-before the Acting Chief Jus

now not guilty, the prosecution offer- Inter at Kowloon yesterday. quiry and Mr. Hammond held tice, Mr. E. H. Williams, at four defendants who were arrest

United States Treasury pension the damage and making

ing no evidence. Larlier. Ip re- The alleged income tax due the watching brief on behalf of the the Criminal Sessions yester-ed after the seizure of $80,000 In, will be back at night repairing Crown on Ip entering pleas of

Company day on charges of arms po

Multiply this one target by colved a sentence of 10 years vernment was $2,000 plus $300 Hong Kong Electric

Limited.

session and in all cases prison checks was fixed for October 24 plans against the French.

by Mr. James Wicks at Kowloon

thousands of other hideaways in and 12 strakes for legal posses- nalty.

Howarth Sub-Inspector

tol sentences and caning were yesterday. Mr. While of the Inland

imposed.

Defendants, who were arrestert the jungles of Indo-China and slon of arms and ammunition.

idea of the job

Mr. Blair-Kerr told the Court Ovenue Department said that the Coroner, Mr. Reynolds, and

Arrested by the police on at Kai Tak Airport upon arrival you get some

ahead of the French that int all the robberles the samet e Commissioner of Inland Re-jury of two men and a womar

writen usking that that on April 28 this year a gang August 25 on Castle Peak Road from Manila two weeks ago, were still

United Press.

technique was used: a group of nuo had

armed, entered men, somo o summons be withdrawn as he of about 30 coolies of the Hone in the early hours of the morning charged with importing an un-

were with two guns-an automalle manifested cargo.

house, tied their victims hands as satisfied that the defendant Kong Electric Company

pistol and

The defendants were Leung revolver-and· 23

Ng Fiu, aged 32, appeared be with wire behind their back and his At 4.15 p.m. that afternoon

rounds

of ammunition in

pos- Kwai-wing, aged 35, Lee Kam- Chan Keung, allas Ip shi, aged 31. Holen Cheng, aged fore M. Hin-shing Le a: Central ransacked the house. In one ess of the Hong Kon session, 5090 one Fin-kce, e/o Weo Toe, 1141orry

yesterday charged with the lathe hands of the victims were ceny of electric wire and lead, tied so tight that hospital treat llu Street, was issued when he Electric Company went to May Fuk, 30, pleaded guilty to a 34, and Cheng Kal-chong.

possesalon charge and was sen- First defendant was represent- ted to come to court to answer Road to pick up the coolies and fenced to 10 years' hard laboured by Mr. P. C. Woo, while Mr. the property of the Hong Kong [ment, was necessary.

take them home.

The lorry was driven by a man and 12 strokes of the cane. P. A. L. Vine represented the Electric, in Robinson Road on

October 16 Chan was stopped and searched others. Two foremen sat named Suen. beside the driver and the rest of by a police party. The guns were fully loaded and the extra am-

buld

Aw for the

working on May Road.

arrest of

summons for defaulting in the

yment of $100 in business pro- As tax for 1947-1948.

LECTURE AT

EUROPEAN YMCA

Dr. Nell Frazer will address the rrichulr Group. European MCA at the Association head- Jarters. Salisbury Road, Kow- on, on Sunday.

He will speak about his work lepers. The talk will be men

flims,

The

Faddress will be in connce- with the new Leprosarium Ang Kong recently opened a legraph Bay, The Armchair Group will meet

8.40 p.m. in the West Lounge. the Association,

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Aww kalement of verlose hersheld

lorry,

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MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO RAPE CHARGE

a

Ng. denied the chargo,

the Mr. A. J. Clifford told Lieutenant Eurig Jeffrey, aged the coolies sat at the back of the munition was found in his pocket. | 23; RAMC, 23 Floid. Regiment, Court that he would represent Chan admitted to the police that RA, Pingshan, was fined $5 and Ng. Mr. Lo asked Mr. Cifford

the muns from a The lorry laft May Road and he obtained

bound over In $20 for one year who was his instructing solicitor, that they intended while passing MacDonnell Road friend and

by

Liu Yiu-sing pleaded guilty to Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Kow- and Mr. A. K. W. Lag, who was gry that night.

a charge of rape before the Act. something went wrong with the committing a robbery

Yo the second case. Man Ah-on yesterday for using obscene in Court, rose and said that he

Mr. E. IL gears. The driver applied the.

language.

After consulting defendant, Mr. Ing. Chief Justice. 1. posses- 28, pleaded guilty to foot

but although

The Lieutenant was alleged to Cultford entered a plea of nob Wiliams, at the Criminal Ses- brake

sion of a Mauser pistol and 10 have used abusive language to a the ferry rounds slowed down a bit,

slons yesterday. inds of ammunition on Sep-

He asked for ball and suggest- went down Garden Road at ember 19. and was sentenced to Star Ferry inspector at the ferry guilty.

of 80

ed that 320 would be sufficient. to 55 miles ofrecven years' hard labour and 12 whart early yesterday morning.

Mr. Lo remanded defendant to strokes the cane. Man told the

9.30 a.m. today. palico

Stephens who was killed in stantaneously. Two other Chinese

received fatal Injuries.

It'

ho was a former gue-

for

epood hour.

starlog danger- Summoned

of cotr The lorry then ran into Queen's Road and smashed right into a filla during the war, and the Gus goods, 32800 pounds

In luis care

byton, in a hut in Pak Tin Village, by a motorcycle driven by Sergeant Mauser was left in.

friend.

Sam Sang at 367. Des Voeux Road Tang Yau, 18, was given fives. Winter at Kowloon yester- ve West, was flued $1,000 by Mr. R years and 10 strokes of the cano possession of a revolver and three rounds of ammunition. Ten Cheng Teing-tal, of $20 Marina Hopson and Chan Chat, of the was arrested by the police, on Wing. Kee firm, 4 Kal Tak Now August 30 on information received

Mr. W. A. Blair-Korr, Aralstanu Village, werg Aned $500 each.

for being in posses Summoned sion of n radio receiving, sob H. without a licence, C. Thevenot, bf 146 Camp Street, Arst floor," was fined $50 -by, Mr.

Hearing of the inquest was od-on pleading guilty to; n charge of summoned for similar offences, |

journed to November 2.

Lau Fook, 30-year-old fish. erman, who on Tuesday los! Crown Solleitor, prosecuted.

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PENICILLIN

FLOWN TO HK

A total of 6,601 pounds, l

nt Kowloon yesterday.

The Hong Kong and Kowloon his right hand and an eye atles Union Council hus set up while fishing with dynamite too cliale at. No. 139, Hennes of Lum Pal Island,

Road, Wanchul. The clinle was officially opened charged before Mr. R. W. S. sterday. The

wus Winter at Kowloon yesterday .occasion arked by a cocktail party. with using dynamite for fisk-

ing.

penicillin tablets backed, in 6AD Three tons of diesel dilwort Inspector Roar, who suggested cartons were air-lifted here from ordered to be confiscated by Mr. that, a caution would meet the San Francisco via Manlia by the F. K d'Almada at Kowloon yea 2050 and defcount had already billeping Air Lines yesterday, Lerday: when Chan Wing, maator Shing heen sufficiently punished, sald The penicillin

wóp ten of tho motor juni hello iri plaation has Just,serived,

of such was of air cargo to be gebra-mány" (Items most awful;1e|when, after Lighting a stick

Orom' glated that dynamite, be, was not:

ot able to regular passenger sleline

addressed to the Chato Bank, when:

bout whe inter- Make me in, pimans and attractive throw it away in time,

Defendant, however, even fur-Hong Kong, for the CM. Trauna copied or the Celeblack noom ther remunded a week in hospital | Company: of

of Hong

the police found on custody.

Simon boked five and a half tons of the Caught smoking-in, court while foll which was three tarla in one fung, aged 10, and a 16-year-old, the court was infs Bosston, Ljabi cess of the amount teeded to go pay on a similar diarky,Werte spoetitors in Mark Wintons Rows to Necro:mad: 1 Alimissed:

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Sentence was deferred unill this morning when Mr. S. V. Git tina, counsel for Liu, may speak Fin mitization for him.

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