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Accused Man's Crass Stupidity
UTTERED LETTERS WITH MENACES
Describing accused's act stupidity.
as one of crass
Mr A. J. Clifford (in- structed by Mr I. W. Gun- ter) pleaded for leniency on behalf of Li Chi-man, 20, indicted on two counts of uttering letters demanding money with menaces, before the Senior Puisne Judge, Mr Justice Gould, in the Criminal Sessions this morning.
Li was accused of uttering a letter demanding HK$500 from Chung Kom-sim, with menaces, on March 2, 1951, and of utter- ing another letter demanding US$5,000, also from Chung, on March
Li pleaded 13, 1051. gulity to the indictments,
in
Mr D. E. Greenfield, acting Crown Counsel, said that fact there
letters, were three
but the third letter was mere
or less a second,
reminder
The letters
of the
directed the money to be put into a waste
paper basket afd left at a 'cer- lain locality indicated.
Complainant took the letters to the Police and on their instruc- tion enclosed the money domanded and loft
IL at the
desired place. Complainant stood beside the paper basitet, but no
Ached him.”
one
appointment
Was
made and this time accused came
alang and picked up the basket.
He was arrested in the act of doing so, Counsel sald. At the palice station, accused admitted writing the letters. He said he . Was
in adverse circumstances and had to work.
LENIENCY PLEA
Before pleading for leniency on behalf of the accused, Mr Clifford called accused's youn- ger sister, Li Choy-hing, mar iled wqman, to testify to his character.
coming
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Ll said they lived together in Amoy before Hongkong. Accused was nor- mally good and quite intelligent. He had never been in trouble before.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1951.
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Banishees Claim They Were Forced By
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Court Argument On What Constitutes A Public Dance Hall
APPEAL REJECTED BY THE
CHIEF JUSTICE
What constitutes a public dancehall was argued before the Chief Justice, Sir Gerard Howe, in the Appeal Court this morning, when Yau Ping- cheung, manager of the Fung Wong Chi Dancing Academy, 118 Jaffe Road, Wanchal, appealed against his conviction on a summons for operating the premises as a public dance hall without a licence from the Commissioner of Police.
$250 by Mr submitted You was fined
that' had Buch Latimer at Central on May 22. evidence been called it would The grounds of the appeal not have fitted Into the Police were that the conviction was case. against the weight of evidence, and that there was no evidence or not sufficient evidence to sup-
Sir Christopher Chan-port, the conviction, cellor, General Manager, of Reuters, speaking,at the Reuters Centenary banquet in London last week. On his right is Mrs Attlee, wife of the Bri- tish Prime Minister, and Mr Kent Cooper, Execu- tive Director of the Asso- clated Press of America. On his left is Mr Anthony Eden, and in right fore-
Mr A. J. Clifford, instructed Co., by Messrs Hastings and appeared for appellant, and Mr A. Hooton (Crown Counsel) appeared for the Crown, the respondents.
On Situation ground is Mr Herbert
The increasing number of stories told at the Criminal Sessions by returned banishees alleging
that they were forced by Communists across the
border to return to the Colony was commented on
by Mr Justice Gould at the Supreme Court this
morning.
His Lordship, addressing Mr D. E. Greenfield, acting Crown Counsel, requested that enquiries be made. He added that there was the possibility the stories were not true and that they were put up by accused persons cause there was no means of checking them.
Crown Counsel said
Morrison.
Peter Due
Star Today
Mr Cuffore Bald that in his submission tiere was no evi- dence on the record by which the appellant could have been convicted. Daheing academies, which was the rather unfor tunate name in Hongkong for dancing schools, were allow-
licences ed and no issued. Therefore, before an offence is committed, it must be shown it was not a dancing school and was a public dance hall
a
WAB
were
to
The Chief Justice enquired of Crown Counsel If, assuming the evidence to be correct, one such Instance was sufficient to make the place a public dance ball.
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Living Language Notices
Why wo say The Davil to Pay.
The full expression` used to be "the devil to pay and no pitch hot." It was an
seafaring old
phrase --
being
"pay" and "devi?" Reamen alang-words.
To. "pay" a boat means to mako lt watertight with hot pitch. The "devil" {s the scam most awkward to
the "pay"-that in,
か
water- sallor
running along the line, Bo when found his mate had let the pitch grow Gold when water-proofing a boat, he had every tight to fly in a rage. For his mate. In fact, there was "the „devil to pay."
SOLDIERS
PLEAD NOT GUILTY
1
Arraigned before, the Seulor Pulsne Judge, Mr Justica Gould, at the Criminal Sessions this morning, L/Cpl
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Mr Hooton referred to the dednition in the Ordinance, and said he thought the case turned on the word "open," although he agreed it appeared to mean an | offence run over a period. In
Ashkettle, 21, and Pie Hubert pm. B.0.A.C. bis submission it would be an offence to open place just for
Prior, 20, both of the RASC, Malaya. indonesia, Ceylon, & p.m., one night as a public danco Shamshulpo Camp, indicted on 8.0.A.C.
of robbery with hall, without doing it two or
*70 counts three times. Obviously there violence, two of causing bodily could not be an opening which harm and one of indecent as- went on for any length of pleaded not guilty to the
Actments, ime.
D'Alton, on the Mr V.LJ. instructions of Major A. N.
Mr Clifford mid that even if a place was opened for one night it still did not turn the place into a public dance hall,
Glving his decision, the Chief Justice said he would be with Mr Clifford were it not for the tickets
(referred to In the Magistrate'e Andinga). "I con-
nor
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Another soldier, Ernest Su- ellite,
20, a sapper attached to the New Territories Supervisory Agricans Mail.
CRE at Cafetería Camp, Tal Lam Chung, also pleaded not gulity to unlawful possession of arms and ammunition and to an Fattempt to use drearms with intent to prevent his lawful detention.
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If he himself held a cinema The evidence in the case performance in his house for dated back to March 23 when
one night, that did not turn his the appellant, In a letter to
place into a cinema: He sub- the Pollee, wrote that he in-mitted that at the highest there tended to carry on a dancing was merely suspicion against business in which he was go-
the appellant. ing to give dancing lessons. On April 8, the date on which the alleged The as. Peter Star was due to
offence was committed, police officer was sent around enter port under her own
Mr D'Alton, also instructed by steam at 2 p.m. today accom on what appeared to be a mis-
Major Hicks, has been retained collect evidence
not conceive of a dancing as Counsel for the Defence. be-panted by the salvage tug Allo- sion to
dancing glance,
whether
academy which recruits 24 new Earlier this morning, the 8 school or a dance hall.
Counsel's submis tickets, were
pupils who, according to the
AND 7 Vim and ss Hydralock returned that he years and six months. He told
to discharge the some
2,000 hat, in
was the
action Wrong
March 20. That extends be- that, after he had
to would obtain a report so that he the Court
tons of cargo, off-loaded, from take. If it was an offence
the bounds of human the the British freighter when she keep could inform his Lordship exact-been banished he joined
it was a dance hall,
ullty," ly what the position was,
Nationalist Police service in
was aground on the Pratas equally an offence to instigate
Sentence of soven years and The conclusion he came
K.K.T. the Reefs. Earlier in the proceedings, Mr Chinese territory but on
contended. the offence, he
his Lordship continued, was 12 strokes of the cane was
Programme Gumenary: Justice Gould remarked it seem-; place being occupied by the
Bchools the Salver, another
e officer police
was sent
was evidenco on passed by the Sentor Pulse Exodcast for
From World History, which
in the around to become an ordinary that there
Donn
(BEKTS); Magistrate could Judge, Mr Justice Gould, his life.
of the public he was find as a fact that, with these the Assisting the Allegiance, Is Uve member
0.30, R Valderrama At Criminal Sessions this
Plano. (Studio): in this evening:
committing An affence and tickets, there was sufficiant morning, on Lo Sin-chung, 34, fons From Vis Parnell"""" "Eta** On arrival here, the 7,131-ton
should have been so charged.
Roof: evidence of conduct to amount who pleaded guilty on arraignm WOULD BE IMPOLITE
Variety Requests. Presented By British ship will berth along.
to keeping. Normally, he would ment to unlawful possession of Pauline Spence, ((Studio); side the North Point Wharf to discharge the remainder of her
it was shown the offence had ammunition on May 3 last.
Mr. D. E. Greenfield, acting been carried over a period of 9,820 tons of soya beans, which she was carrying to the UK
time. In the circumstances, he
Crown Counsel, said accused must refuse the appeal.
who was arrested on suspicion took the Police to a bed space in air raid tunnel in Kowloon, Underneath a mattress in a hole
The Prince
She would have helped led that the Communists were Communists he had to run for Moller tug which has been
him had he appealed to her for Assistance.
able to thrust people across the border at us at their will. "I don't know if we can throw them he added. "Is there any
Mr back."on-for-117!!....
Pleading in mitigation, Clifford "sak that this was not type of demanding the usual
with money
menaces nuch as it was a case of youth- ful stupidity. Accused got into and insteatl financial troubles
inas.
at
of going to his sister for help he thought ho
could gel out of them by attempting to get money from the rich father of a person
he knew. This, Counsel described, was ernes the stupidity on
the part
of
accused. and stupid was accused was ap- parent in his attitude. First he wrote the letters himself, secondly he did everything him- self, that was collecting the money, etc. and when he was eaught he was honest enough to admli everything. He made it as easy for the Police as possible to clear up the mutter, Counsel said that the letters Tevealed schoolboy nonsenst.
How unprofessional
་
Chung Chou was given similar sentence.
Mr Greenfield disclosed record-of-disorderly conductin 1948, loitering and breaches of the deportation order..
prison Abo given Д
Mr Greenfield replied that moat of the bridges were guarded
this end.
Yuk-long charged with retum was ing from life banishment,
to.
Stories
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Outside-the-acade which read not agree that"R ̈waa ̈so"unleasa revolver and five` rounds-of-i World" News "And News: Analysis:
-was----- signboard in Chinese "Danding Academy." If a per- son entered a dance school and with, Counsel
Before his Lordship was Leung | term of three-and-a-half years from Dairen when she ran into sald he wanted a girl to dona
Ping Chow
who
His admitted larceny in 1937 and trouble on the night of July 3. record showed pwo.darceny con- banishment in 1938. This was viellons and this was his third | his fifth- return from deporta- breach of deportation order.
tion.
MAN'S STORY
leniency Possession
Accused asked for on account of his age.
Reading from accused's criminal record, his
Lordship told him that for his last return from banishment he received
Asked
he had anything to say, accused replied that after he was sent to Chinese territory the Reds placed him in custody for ten days after which they sent him buck to Hongkong. 34 years and must have been.
His Lordship: In what way well aware that he would be did they put you
across the
dealt with severely this time. border?
Accused: The Communists had
Au Fu-kul, who pleaded he had a family to support and
me working for ten days after naked for denlency, also It which, combined with a group (ceived three-and-a-half years. of others, they walked us to a stone bridge. There, at ride point, we were ordered to walk across.
His Lordship: Any British police officers or soldiers at that end of the bridge?-None
STUFID MENACÉS The threats were never of
it was obvious whatsoever. violence and
Of
Arms Charge
bo
be given a girl, Inappropriate and Impolite of the proprietor in such cumstances to enquire of person what he wanted to learn.
hotted. It would
the
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The police officer (in civilian COMES
which blo
BACK
dreas) was charged $7 an
hour, Counsel Bald, WOR Ü Cheung Kuen, 30, unlicensed charge. He sat at hawker, was sentenced to nine a table and was served by a
months by Mr Latimer ́st Cen- Charged with possession
woman of a
with refreshments, but trak this morning for breach of a mauser automatic pistol and from beginning to and he never deportation order. eight rounds of ammunition danced once. He was there for without a lleence, Ho Chung seven minutes. san, 31, unemployed, faced committal proceedings befoer Mr Winter at Kowloon this morn-
General Seeste
Advance
the
can
500,
is
he WON ค returned
Defendant was banished in February this year when he was convicted on a charge of at- tempting larceny.
Deforkant was discharged on a count of possession of an oplum "You would have thought ploe which was seized by Police rald" at 506 that if he was to prove it was who carried out A dance hall, he would have Belcher Street, third floor, on
July 17. asked a girl to dance with him,
At Central this morning, de- shek Tak-lec, a villager' of but the girl he was supplied fendant denied he was the Kau Lau Wan, New Territory, with just sat at the table and
pipe but he ad- owner of the with at 9.30 a.m. on conversed that
said mitted him," June 20 he saw defendant, Mr Clifford, "That, as farbanishee. who had something bulging as
where from his back, stepping ashore
The other from from.u sampan.
witness, Suspecting polence ends.
Dully, who Insp. His Lordslrip: Why did you
was going he had no intention of carrying
that defendant
to entered later, sald he saw no cause trouble Korea, July 17.
he reported to instruction being given,
You them out. It seemed to Counsel not, report to the Polices that
The Commander - in » Chief, that they were Billy, stupid you were sent back by force?
village elder, Shek Yu-kan, cannot say it was a public dance that wereThat is due to my ignorance. British Commonwealth Troops who together types of menaces,
with two others hall just because no instruction All T
defendant overpowered
and to put anyone
wanted to do was to get in Korea, Lieut-General Sir
going not likely
to Macao. ter. Wong Ah-
Horace Robertson, today stood disarmed him. fear answer to his Lordship, Mr
Defendant was expect that to take place K, as on a dusty ridge and watched then tied up and sent to Taipo the Inspector said, he thought
Nations troops sweep Police Station.
the people there knew he was a Clifford agreed that It was a kam, uppeared in Court and heUnited
nerosa a. shallow 'river In a menace, but it was not a parti- sald, that he had not seen her
police officer,
Tha point. I am making is "reconnaissance in force" ac- cularly bad one, at least not for several years.
tion that terminated at dusk.
that one of violence. In other words
a police officer was sent around to try to find out an extraordinarily mild one.
was a public dance hall, and be In pussing sentence,
in
Lordship said that this type of
Accused's
His Lordship.! (tó
accused):
There is no means of checking The troops crossed the river. your story. If what you say ison tanks and in ferrica soon
deeply crime had been dealt with station and Inform them. You are from the river's bank! severely in the past. At one are sentenced to three years.
volsed a screen of dust in front time it was extremely prevalent
Chan Ming, also accused off of the troops, sweltering under pic, returning from life banishment, the warm sun.
true. then it was your duty to after down and strucks report to the nearest police Inland, Almost incessant · gün-
in the Colony. Ho accepted, retu
it was a piece of gross stupidity and he would take into
fact that there
sideration his youth and the was obviously no intention of carrying out the threats.
frimself able to devise his.
the
Hause
the
The case is proceeding.
Ignored Police Signal
him when he failed to pro-was met Mustang Aighters Lailing to stop, when
was
on.
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a revolver, loaded with five rounds
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SIDE GLANCES
For possession of unlicensed Bol beach, Shum Xan, 47-year-old the Laichikok wemon, and Ip Yuen, 27, were fined sio each by Mr T. B. Low u. The Marine Court
thin
| did not try to do so at all Hei morningombans were recently
nover darked, Perhaps he was frightened to do so in case he
The
was taught something, and bang seined by the Pollge at the would have gone the Police beach and yesterday detendents caso
were taken into custody when
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*London Express Bervlon,
In the case of the accused, that told the Court that he was
Fok Chl, 61, master of the It did not matter whether the they put in a claim for them taken to Saikong and then walked to Communists were known to in- $30 by Mr. T. B. Low at the the policeman was an amah or
Although many groups of motor launch Mary, was fined person who had first approachia at the Police Station: Shunchun. When he got, ovet fest the area, little contact was Marine Court this morning for a person who was to entertain the border
Reds arrested mode, Whenever opposition
called pulls while they were waiting. INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION
solt Counsel, duce a
upon by the Police, a identity card. He was strafed and napalmed the Com- According to Sub-Inspector NOTHING RASIES" detained for. 20 days and thea, munistir hide-out.
Kong, while the Marine Palles In
view of the sign, ond sent back agai Troops, tanks. and other were searching vessels outside appellant letter to the Police. Nevertheless accused showed Replying to his Lordship, ac vehicles returned to hase, before the Lalchikok Defence Boom that he intended to carry on- erininal scheme, and carried it used said it did not occur to dusk. Reuter
entrance yesterday afternoon, such a business, there was no out to the point where he was him to report to the nearest
defendant was Been leaving evidence to tum the place into the harbour in the direction of a pubile dance hall, Mr Clifford CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Trun Wan. The "X" for was submitted. If it were a dance flying on the Police Launch and tall," nothing could have been
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1009 51 fendant to stop a signal was bounded for doessler than for Insp. Dully to
have gone up, to persone on the ears before other women in Defendant, who said that he floor, asked them what they the United States won equal 3. The did not see the flag, nor did he were doing there, and bring rights 2. Lout-blade. hear the signal, inally esme to them to Court as witnesses To Grande. 4. On the moon. a halt when aix mintaqa were atoms of those persons, niam prad (kanco néctaris.) Di fred over his craft
duced before the Court. Comet Pyrenees, O. Louis XVI.
to receive lie benet, Hi
Pelion station. Lordship said that one met was imposed,
Three years' mprisonment pressions ago' on the recommen- dation of the Jury, sentences ot
Accused' record showed a a year and six months were conviction for loltering in 1948 passed on dccused persons con- victed of this type of offence, and he proposed. now to pass the same sentence on the ac cused.
"Y" Entertaining
200 Servicemen of the Some: 200 and three breaches of banish Middlesex Regiment will be entertained at dinner tonight at ment orders
Lau Kun, with convictions the Europoun Y.M.CLA:
for theft and breach of deporta-.
Alvarfety:
concert will be i zlozi (orders, was given threy igiven after dinner.
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