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The above ploture from a scale model gives an idea of the spacious building, which will shortly be erected in the Shamshulpo arca, one of the most congested in the Colony, for the Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children.
The valuable site has been
made available by the Government with the sana- tion of the Secretary of state for the Colonies on a lease of 75 years, with the option of renewal for a further 75 years at nominal reutal The adoption of the scheme has been made possible by a
Hongkong War Fund
estimated the
cost
grant of $220,000- from the Memorial being approximately $400,000. The balance required is belog raised by public subscription.
Te work of the Society
has grown to auch an extent since the war that in order to cope with it, adequate space and facilities #rg urgently needed. Provision has been made to set aside a limited amount of space for other or- canizations. and thi. allow the Boys' & Girls' Clubs Association among others to make use of part of the building at night. It is also Intended to basket ball court and other recreational facilities.
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Two Charged With Murder
There was minor sensation at the Criminal Sessions this morning when one of two men who appeared for their trial before Mr Justice Gould, Senior Puisne Judge, on a charge of murder pleaded guilty to the offence. The man was Cheung Ho, 33, who, together with Chan Ning, 38, was accused of the murder of PC Tong Kei, 25, at Chuk Yuen Village in the Castle Peak district, New Territories, on September 17.
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and
Mr Justice Gould remarked he thought there might have the first accused, and the other
been a misunderstanding.
Alleges
European Charged
J. I. Bottomley, 30, of *6, Causeway IIU, wan charged before Mr Hin- shiny Lo at Central this mornior with driving under the Influence of drink on November 25 at Hennessy Road near Tin
Lok Lane.
It was alleged that de- fendant was driving pri- 1570 along vate car No Hennessy Road near Tin Lok Lane at 9.50 p.m. OD Saturday and was involved in a traffic accident.
At the request of Sub- Insp. 8. H. Yuen, the case was adjourned for a week. Defendant is on ball of
500.
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information
Crown Dramatic Story Told To Court
Wong Wah-kit, a 38-year-old hawker, who is said to have armed himself with a bomb with the intention of wiping out an Aberdeen family and to commit suicide at the same time appeared before Mr Justice Scholes in the Supreme Court this morning charged with the murder of a 15-year-old boy.
Joseph
Read
Did Secret Service Work In POW Cămi
Nowa has been recolve in the Colony of the dent) at Long Grove Hospital Epsom, Surrey, of M Joseph Read, step-son o Mr A. E. Manwaring of th Naval Dockyard, at the ag of 27.
Prior to the war Mr Read w an apprentice at Kowloon Doc and during the fighting Hongkong served with No.
Machine Gun Company of old Hongicong Volunteer Defer
He was wounded dur
It is alleged that the accused went to the home of For Wongnelchong Battle
Wong Chi-keung, an Aberdeen cafe proprietor who had the refused to lend him $200, entered the living room where was later interned in Shamsh the inmates were having a meal and placed parcel wrapped in newspaper on the table.
a smokingpo and Japan.
After the war he went Australia, and while in Syd was presented with a gold wr by his fellow POWs in reco
to
rend
At about 11.30 a.m. the ac As the accused placed the parcel on the table it is alleged cused camo into the room. Hetion of the services he that he said to Wong: "May you was carrying a parcel wrapped them in camp as a membe all die together." A minute in newspaper which was smok- the Secret Service Press
Returning Hongkong later the parcel exploded killing. He turned to Wong and ing the boy, Wong Keng-chuen cursed him and his family and the war, Mr Read and a three year-old girl, Ho placed the parcel on the table his Tsal-yec
near the two children, immediately Wong Case for the prosecution is being conducted by Mr Blair-what the parcel was and over-
complete apprenticeship and joined Mollers as a ship's engineer guessed He was taken ill in June, 1949 Mr Read's mother few tron
to Hongkong
Crown Counsel. turned cused is being defended by Mr shop toki made for the door. At BOAC to see him on Novembe Percy Chen.
the entrance the accused barred 17. facts
of the foll's way and fought with Blair Kerr him. said that Wong Chi-keung was
Presenting the the case Mr
there was an explosion.
As nothing had happened to the proprietor of a cafe at 61 the parcel Wong and his nephew Island Road, Aberdeen. He lived approached it. As they did so with his family at 87 Island Road.
His shop fokl, his 15- year-old nephew and an amah Lived with him.
He had known the accused for about three years and had some times lent him sums of money. At
the
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A Jury of Ave men and two was Yeung On who had fred undergrowth and he was next her in the street and accused her table it had exploded...
the Police
Tong
FIGHT IN PUBLIC
to corroborate
the
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A night took place between Johnston Road detective CHVO
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Fire
Possessed Forged
Bank Notes
Pleading gulity to possessio
First defendant mainta the notes were passed to hi another man.
JUROR FINED
Robert Noel Lindman wh
hi was not in Court, when name was called to serve on Jury in the Supreme Court thi b morning was later fined $25
for bein Mr Justice. absent.
Iman apologised to th
Lindman
FIGHT RESUMED The force of the explosion blew a hole in the tiled floor. As the accused and the foki re- covered from the shock they fell: began fighting again and time of the bomb in- through the hole in the door eldent the accused owed him into the cockloft and then down Prison For Two Mer $200.
a flight of stairs to the ground Sometime in July the defend-floor.
of forged bank notes Li Kwar Police who arrived ant had approached him again
the 27, mason, and Lal Chun-cheons According to the police Chan
Ning (first accused) |tain extent, but had fortunately
the 21, travelling trader, was sen man and a woman connected and asked for the loan of a fur- scene a few minutes after when asked to plead by the left him unharmed.
explosion arrested both the fois tenced to six months by M and with the $40,000 robbery at ther $200 but Wong refused. Clerk will
of the Court, replied Both Mr MacPherson
WIFE'S REMARK
and the accused. Each edwinter at Kowloon this morn that he did not kill the con-Insp. Hidden heard this burst of Shriro's were brought back to
As a result of the refusal the the other of throwing the Ming stable. When the Clerk asked gunfire and immediately after Hongkong yesterday evening.
Det-Sub-Inspector A. B. Ha living Through The Hongkong Pri- accused had visited Wong's
15 year old him whether he pleaded guilty saw three men running out of
Mrvate Detective Agency's investi-home uninvited and demanded the
on November 21, Cheung Ho one of the wooden huts. not guilty
and MacPherson
the other cation three women and two that he be given the $200. He found to have been lliled by team told the Court that at 3 (second accused), a tall und bis Police opened fire on these men men provide a
was told by Wong that he could the explosion, His body was were detained by man, nodded his head and sald and two, who were
second defendant arrested obviously Macao authorities pending the not lend him the money as badly burned and his clothes police, acting on Informatio the junction of Boundary Stree the pleaded gulity,
hung to him in tatters, to the ground. arrival of the Hongkong Police. business was bad. wounded, fell
Other inmates
also and Cumberland Road. He ha Cheung reversed his plea when They had managed to run a dig According to he was advised by the Seniortance of about
out 30 from the
yards
gathered from
other sources abrupt and Wong's wife had burned and had to be sent to in his possession two $100 ban Puisne Judge to do so.
hut. The third of the trio it was sald that most of the rebuked him for it and added Queen Mary Hospital for treat-notes of the Chartered Bank
Later the body of the India Australia and China, an Mr Charles E. Loseby,
the $40,000 worth of watches and "What do you think we are the meni. KC managed to disappear into
found in the one-dollar Hongkong Govern who appeared for both accused, undergrowth. On September costume jewellery stolen from Hongkong and Shanghat Bank?" little girl was
oto: The notes wer ment
noto. The accused appeared to be cockloft. instructed by Mr J. T. Prior 19, the body of this man, bear Shriro (China) Ltd. during the informed the Court that he had ing gunshot wounds, was found early hours of November 11 und angry and said as he went out In a statement to the Folice duly certified as false.
the accused said Wong On the same day, the secon "When I leave I will even later advised the two men to plead and was identifled oa Li Taat.
been recovered. not guilty.
The Crown alleged that one
are sweep away the last bits of had asked him to get three and defendant offered to lead th
whom The Hongkong Police
fishing police to the man half cattles of of the two men who fell was
Investigation refuse." continuing their
Later that night as Wong's dynamite for him, He had got claimed had given him aro confident of making was Yeung On, said Mr Hechan.
wife was returning home from it and had taken it to Wong's forged notes. This resulted It was more than likely that further arrests.
the cinema the accused passed home. As he placed it on the the arrest of the first defenda at a quarry in Ma Hang Chu | women was empanelled.
is now calling Road. The Crown Mr M.
kclifed the shot which Heenan, Crows
When Wong was told of the witnesses Counsel, prosecuted, assisted by Kel because after he had been seen by Detective Chau Fook, of being a prostitute.
a member of Insp. Warroll's Det.-Sub-Insp. J. Hidden. killed he had in possession of party, coming down a pathway incident by his wife he went facts outlined by Mr
Both
said Accused,
Mra revolver from which a bullet from
the direction of the to a cafe in the village and Kerr. Heenan, were charged together was fired as a test by a ballis-
clearing. Chau challenged sought out the accused. to be second Young with two other men,
Of thes
and found expert
accused who fred and Li Teat, with having mur-similar to the bullet recovered two shots at the
Kel. from Tong Kel's body.
and they had to When pursued them jand made off. Ferdinand de Lesseps. dered Constable Tong
Li were dead, BURRENDER APPEAL Young and
AB Kowloon Collision A cabin on the after part of having been killed in the course
Crown by. Chau Fook, he fired a fur- separated by bystanders. The Police party,
ther two shots at him. Second they were separated the accused About 8.30 this morning, a vessel's quarter-deck surround of the gun battle which ensued Counsel continued,
converged the
"Fire" destroyed furniture and private car collided with
the Aed by
poop. 3.
personal effects of the front bete between the armed gang and on the two men lying on the accused crossed a small dried- is alleged to have said "Let him It iles between bicycle ridden by a boy named Ireland,
ground from different direcUp river bed along the edge of win this time,"
On August 12 the accused was cubicle of 55 Johnston Road, Ko Siu-hung in Nathan Road Kattegat and the Baltic. 5.
tions and a gun battle ensued the village, climbed an embank Detailing the facts, The Covent Garden Theatre. 6. The
5.30 ment and disappeared from seen walking past Wong's home top door, this morning. near Whitfeld Barracks.
Mr which lasted to almost
The Central Fire Station de- with a parcel under his arm. called view on the other side. Mount Hernan said that on the after- boy was sent to the Kowloon road leading from the
p.m. Mr MacPherson Olives to Golgotha, which noon of September 17 a large on frat accused and Young On
two However, the Foller were For holt an hour he was seen spatched
engines urider Hospital by ambulance, suffering of
Chief Police
Fire Officer Mr W, J. Court and said that owing t Both replied by well posted and two uniformed walking round the premises, from slight injuries. His bicycle Jesus traversed on his way
party, numbering beto surrender.
At the time this was taking Gormon which quickly extin the amount of work he had tween 30 and 40 men, under the
do this morning, he had for his crucifixion. was damaged,
his wife, shop quished the blaze. command of Mr D. G. Mac firing at the Police. During the constables who had seen second
battle, a bullet accused pursued by Chau Fook place Wong, Pherson, Divisional Superinten-course of the
A detachment of the Emer- gotten that he had to attend th MacPherson but was, caw him wading across a fish foki, two small children and
Unit was also present Court. dent of Polico
in the New hit Mr
bullet-proof pond on the other side of the his nephew were having their geney Territories, went to the scene
cene stopped by his
embankment. They called on morning meal in the rear room at the spot. No casualties were vest
caused The Police opened con- astiona amall clearing
He about 100 yards long and 50 centrated are on the men and him to surrender, and second on the first floor,
accused gave himself up. yards wide situated on the top Young was eventually killed.
had top
with him a Mille barb, When Mr MacPherson made Peak. With air for ärst accused, who was lying but had no ammunition in his The revolver he was tors between were Inspectors
Potato Pocket.
to have was not found;-)
Moultri, Georgia, Nov. 20. and R. Mackenzie, each drills, and again called on hing but the constables believed ho
A wind-swept aro dance of wh
whom were in charge of to surrender, first accused fired but
the fish
through the Industrial sectio at him, but sub-had dropped it into squads of Police, who were in two shots
of Moultry today, leaving in i haphazard wake an estimate uniform in the majority. The sequently surrendered, He was Pond The fish pond was sub- was a member quite severely wounded, sald tently drugged on Septem-
Hongkong's first Education Week opened with a ber 19 and the revolver, fully of the party and he was dress-Crown Counsel, and was in
in all six chambers, flourish this morning and the public were given their $4,000,000 to $0,000,000, damag Firemen from six South Georgi ed in khaki uniform, with steel possession of a revolver, while loaded
was recovered. Crown Counsel first inside story on the life of a school child.
towns' and a number of foes helmet, and wearing a bullet-lying beside him Was
suggested that soconut accused
volunteers battled the flame proof vest
Japanese-type hand grenade must have at some time-ro- Four
Government Schools of using their hands to fashion for many hours before bringtr which was considered dangerous ACCORDING TO PLAN
Belblos Public School, Yaumati useful things, and capable of the blaze under control-Univ
and IDENTIFIED
beauty Government School, Kowloon enjoying
good In the clearing were some and was later destroyed on the loaded his gun." spot by an explosives expert. When second wooden huts and also a First accused also had three taken to the San Hui Dispensary Talpo Government School, are ested in their
accused was Docks Memorial School and health as well as being inter-Press
social environ- stone building, the latter
ammunition in his after his arrest, he was identi- open to parents and friends to- ment. They also foster fellow- Costly Possession situated on the north aids, The Tunda of group of wooden huts were by pocket.
ned as the man who had run day, the first two in the morning ship to adapt the child to its Of Raw Opium all indications, Mr out of the rear door of a wooden
place in the world. the side of a large troe. There From
At Belillos, prefects and Eduction Week has been' was a swoot potato patch in the Herman remarked, the gang ap- But in the clearing by the two and the others all day, cleating, and the surrounding Deared to have been well armod detectives who had been search monitresses guided their guests inaugurated, according to Ella labour and an additional fine
through exhibitions of hand- Excellency the Governor, ATOR, was covered; with denso and well supplied with ammuni- ing to stone building law, work, arb specimens of academle | bring to the notice of the public 11,210,000' or 'in the allerbative undergrowth,
Dealing briedy with the
12 months was imposed Dealing with the second as Crown Counsel told the Jury subiecte, and cooking lessons the methods by which schools Chang Chéo-lan, 33, of The Police approached the
folk-dancing display, of the Colony are endeavouring| Kal and a native of Tiantain, clearing according to a plan used, the Prosecutor said that that the law said that if and
to Visitors had a glimpse of clames to forward the ideal of helping Mr Meynolds, at – Central drawn up in
two detectives scarching the number of people acted Advance. A stone hut looked out when they gather as a party for a com-being conducted and were left human progress throuds” ine morning for group under Insp. Mackensie arst heard sounds of fring and men purpose to affect an un-to
to admire and wont to search tho stone
purpose,
taken by mont building, while
say three men running across lawful the others
offence committed by any one the clearing. They then may
since the days of the want towards the wooden huts
This afternoon there will be by the large tree. Constable a man, dontiled as second of that party would render all Three s
The other
à' Mass Display at Bookunpoo Th
three schools. Tong Kel and another police accused, dants out of the rear of the party gulity of the of
wooden hut. Ho was fence. It WEE the Crown's gave very creditable exhibly at pm with 8,000 children door of a man, Chan
both wear- vests, were in
about 10 yards away from the allegation that all the four inentions of the education recolved taking part. The display to-
for schools' For obstructing a Folios of concerned in the Policy and when he saw the Mr MacPhaypon's party,
cho were by the children of Hongkong day will be
in the execution of bis du mado
detectives LOR
shots, armed, and all had a common Yaumall Government School madlence only. be dred As they
the hute, a
I design together, either to shoot had, in addition, a somatic mom School, Kowloon; the of de Hills Road Grat Go, Tomorrow the Vernacular Tang Thơ, (* 16-your-old wid: burst of gmfire was heard and at
at anyone attempting to inter display. Constable
Sik-wab saw
Various members of
the Senior :: Vemacular. Mildale war faed: $109 by Mary BeYDOL with the Police fore with them on to shoot, at to his knees In Bonon
Department Were School Chuarry, Bay Bobool, and at Central, this morning int Khoir Y BETHEL, A Swkhilisional show, what win bold "Open Day"
the interested visitors. hatunk at the foot of the hilt euect
Kennedy Road Junior School she had blacked turther alleged that the bullet Anap. Warrell:s. Beopod
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