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COMO SEDITION TRIAL DEFENCE OPENS Collide In

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Sweeping Criticism

T

HE degree to which Europeans in Malaya and Singapore avoid shouldering their clvic responsibilities

Call

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probably best be Assessed by individual heart-searching on the part of those who stand accused. Sir Gerald Templer, the new High Commissioner for Malaya, bas Indulged In Home frank criticism, but in very general-terms-possibly- too general, inasmuch that his observations made in Singapore and Kunia Lum- pur may well leave the im- pression that the European community

whole shows unwillingness to make any spontaneous or volun- tary effort to assist the Authorities in their cam paign to wipe out militant Communism in the country. We should imagine nothing could be further from the fruth. Whatever their short- comings, the Europeans in Singapore und Malaya have played a notable role in the developing of the country, of fostering improvements, social and economic, and of rising to an emergency. To suggest their only interests nutside of business is golf and cocktail parties is, wo believe, somewhat unfair.

IT

is not the first instance

when, in troublesarne timea, the Europeans in Singapore and Malaya have been accused of indifference Similar to the situation.

made allegations were during the 1941-42 hostili ties, yet there

was little basis for them. It la re enlled too, that Hongkong was accused in 1941 by more than one temporary visitor that we had "buried our bend in the sands," and were "behaving like It was an un- Ostriches."

Soldiers Lost.

In Sandstorm

Jamallia, Apr. 27.

Seven British soldiers, one of them an officer, have been missing for 48 hours the Jordan Deseri, where violent sandstorms today blotted out the sun and held

al- up rescue tempts,

But though planes were unable to take off through the driving sarıd to seek the men, the Arab Legion sent out-parties on-foot- and on camela to sweep the desert area, British military headquarters an nounced here.

The missing men here are gunners from the 80th Light Anti-Aircraft Regi- ment and they have a self- propelled Bofors gun with them,

They had been taking part in the British Army exercise over 150 square miles of-barren--~-desert, hemmed in on one side by the mountainous area cast of Akaba and by the Saudi

Arabian border

03

the other. Reuter.

AIRMAN'S

VAIN

SACRIFICE

Jet Plane Tragedy At Broadstairs

Margate, Apr. 27. ---An American fighter pilot sacrificed his life in a vain try to crash his flaming Thunderjet clear of a village near here today.

base.

Then, in a final message, he said: "It looks as though

about it."

winter suggestion. Most there is nothing I can do

of the community hind a firm appreciation of the realities of the situation; it was

more

The jet plunged flaming into a bank building in the high

WALL OF FIRE

parish

Counsel Says He Has Duty To All The Colony's Newspapers

ADDRESS TO THE JURY

Addressing the jury in opening the defence in the trial of the publisher, printer and editor of the Ta Kung Pao, who are charged with sedition, Mr Percy Chen this morning said that it must be the duty of the defence on behalf of all the newspapers in the Colony, to ask what are thè limitations which shall be placed by law upon the publication of newspapers-in Hongkong. He declared this to be a funda- mental problem.

Mr Chen contended that the kind of newspaper the Government wanted in Hongkong was that which would only write things favourable to the Government, that the news- paper will voluntarily censor the material it prints, and that it will not put both sides of the question.

He added that the Government wished the jury to sanction the pro- position that intelligent citizens of Hongkong do not want to read about what other people are saying, but to close their ears like the three mon- keys, and to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.

Temple. "We learn and gather | shoulë be limitations placed fore Mr Justice Williams and a experience as to how to conduct upon the newspapers. You are

The trial is being heard be-

special jury.

our cases in the interests of our going to be asked to give sanc- In his address, Mr Chen said clients and certain advice iston of the law on newspapers that it was his funelion now given by a judge on

In the

του these circumstances. to open the case for the de-examination of witnesses and are going to be asked to and fendants who were charged by on the recording of objections. fucts upon which there is going

have been to be way of criminal information In this, įrial- thote

prohibition placed upon under the

Sedition Ordinance. many Interruptions on my part, newspapers which will stand In the charge there were ce but this was done in strict until it is erased by an act of lain statements or phrases in accordance with the rules," re- Parliament, in this case by the brackets which were alleged by marked Counsel.

Legislative Council of this Colony.”

the Crown to be the true mean-

t

Atlantic

Above the US aircraft carrier Wasp and below, the US destroyer--- minesweeper Hobson, which were involved in a collision in the Atlantic yesterday. The Hobson was sunk and loss of life is feared to be between 170 and 180 men.

Sunk By

US Minesweeper

Carrier In Collision

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE

Washington, Apr. 27.

The destroyer-minesweeper Hobson sank in the turbulent Atlantic last night after a high-speed col- lision with the aircraft-carrier Wasp and the Navy to day reported the possible loss of 176 lives,... -

Atlantic Fleet Headquarters. announced tonight that 61 survivors were picked up after the sinking of the Hobson in the Atlantic.

The Navy said the survivors were picked up by the aircraft-carrier Wasp and the destroyer Rodman and were being taken to New York.

spokesman

Before I go further I would way I see it and I am fight- | pasition, to give advice to the night. He said a 15-knot wind not ask for outside assistance.

"The plane burst into flames | the. over the sea and dived to earth with flames three times as long as itself trailing behind it,” eyewitness said,

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guardian

POLITICAL CASE

"Up to now I have had to

said Mcular

Chen.

are

of

all

1

of

A

is

survivors were being taken to

dance

Fatal Fall In Bath Tub.

London, Apr. 27. Derek Charles Alford, 18 of Walthamstow, Northcote Road,

today infier doctors had teled throughout

He was

in hospital

the right to save his life,

found lying in a

bathful of water in the scullery his home last night, having

of apparently fallen in while using an electric hair dryer.

- Disturbances In Ecuador

Quito, Ecuador, Apr. 27. One man was killed and 22 were seriously injured in dis-

rival here of Jose Marin Velasco Ibarra, twice President of Ecuador and now campaigning for

presiden elev.ion later this year.

Velasco. Ibarra arrived in the Ecuador

capital yesterday afternoon and there were con- tinual clashes between his sup porters and their political op- ponents, despite State Polico measures. Shots were fred on both sides.-Reuter.

PHILCO FREEZER

"We, the learned Judge and "She is on fire. I am ng of the words which were myself, are brothers in the law actually used and these were and that means that when a

The Governor-In-Council had eireling, trying to get to the known as Innuendos. Evidence case is over and we are in the power to

suspend a newspaper field," he radiced to the of

of the innuendos was given by Mess, all is forgotten. There is as a disciplinary measure. The

Doctors and ambulance man Kwok-ying

A Government, Chan

sald details the Hobson's crew, but pre-applied artificial respiration for and Mr no-humour in the Court be-

the person of Barnett also

were lacking because of the sumably were hampered by the the Attorney General, was in a gave come cause I am fighting, my case

four hours until an evidence on that,

iron lung high seas and the inky black darkness, The Navy said it did

wus tüken to the house. He was the

authorities,

then placed in the Registrar ing it under very difficult cir-

the lung and from the scuthwest this, that the allegation of this fustrictions given to me by my

to call your attention to cun

and Was sur- The Hobson

Rodman taken to hospital, but died four cumstances. um carrying out Newspapers, and the Commis-

were trailing the Wasp at about hours later. Reuter, sioner of Police who was the ring up the rough sen and writing -- I

--I will not

"confused" call it an solicitor

the same speed to pick up any printing which are in turn licensee

the situation. article and will

The Hobson and the. Wasp fllers who might crash into the call it a writing given to him by my clients. If machinery.

use of escorts collided and

high-speed sea. Such anything not

during cise

រ — is I may be insulting to the Court, simply that nothing of a street of the old world village the Governmen: of this Colony whatever to my solicitor. It is information in order to get the part of Norfolk, Virginia, the

The Government were coming manoeuvres in mid-Atlantic last standard operating procedure. seditious publication concerning

responsibility * attaches to the Court by way of criminal night. At the

The warship's home

Navy sald "some spectacular nature could be of St Peters, Broadstairs, killing done about it. Today, infe pitat, Captain Cliffard so that we have the charge of mine alone."

sanction to my what in Navy said an unconfirmed re-

New York aboard the Wasp and Mr Chen referred Singapore and Malaya, Sir Fogerty, 29, of New York City, the Crown conning itself to

the Jury

effect is this: that the kind of port by an amateur the one allegation," said Mr Legal Practitioners' Ordinance

an escort vessel.United Press. radio

opera- Gerald Templer believes

Three villagers were injured Chen.

newspaper we want in Hong- tor said 60 survivors were pick- and turned to the passage that the Europeans could and twa reported missing.

The Jury, he said, had listen- which the Supreme Court had kong is the kind of newspaper ed up from the Hobson but the Crook Meets Crook turbances arising from the ar-

Buch identify themselves

Nearby houses caught fire and

as the South China Moin-Navy said it could give no de- ed to the case intelligently so powers to deal with a barrister Ing Post, that is, that the news- talls on casualties pending com- the bank was badly damaged, positively and usefully with

far but they still might not who misconducted himself.

Berlin, Apr. 27.' A crowded congregation was quite have followed what the

write paper will only

things plation of the operations, which the official anti-Communist

A thier, posing as a waiter at worshipping in the

which Are favourable to the were continuing.

a crowded West Berlin campaign

Crown was getting at, he said. by voluntary church only 135 yards away from His role in the trial was that

Government, that that news- An official said it would be hall, played his part so well that social work. The High the scene of the crash.

he was the mouthplete for the take the case for the prosecu paper will voluntarily censur "correct to assume" lives were another thief thought he was

material Commissioner very probably

it prints, that it lost aboard the minesweeper. genuine and robbed him. cause of the defence. Aion in an atmosphere, which the has a good point, but the

learned Judge had said

The second crook tripped the that is a political atmosphere I am will not put both sides of the The Navy said the Hobson, appeal might have been

exertions of an advocate not talking of

ton. Also that we, as in- former destroyer, had a normal bogus walter and lifted his the atmosphere question. were for hire.

telligent citizens of Hongkong, crew of 13 officers and 212 en- more persunsive had he

wallet. of the Court-I am talking of do not want to read about what

listed men

but there might bracketed all sections

CONSCIENCE GUARDIAN

Police dabbed them both of

the atmosphere which

are saying but have been more aboard I this

prosecution other people

when Reuter. the non-Communist com-

Mr Chen referred to writings

close our ears lice the three the 1,000-ion vessel was knifed by Mr munity with it. Europeans

Justice Singleton in

"This is a poli-

monkeys, acc no evil hear no by the 27,000-ton Bircraft- he said that lawyers

lical case

here is по The flames, fed by spurts of which

doubt are not the only inhabitants

carrier, veteran of Pacife fight- evil and speak no evil. who like to indulge in sport village strect and divided rescue Lion. "

prirol, lighted the norrow were the custodians of civilisa-about that. My learned friend, would add that the Mr Hooton, attempted to tell

Mr Chen pointed out that heg in World War II.

IIFT ON STARBOARD and cocktail parties.

workers with a rearing wall of advocate, the lawyer, is the you that this is not a political only cited the S.C.M Post as

"The Navy said: "The number Exploding bullets sprayed

of the conselence of case. It Is a

an example; he might say the a political case." Squatter Areas

of casualties on the Hobson is vigorously in all directions. the community in which he Recalling the Wars of the same about the Wah Kiu Yat

The plane,

" said Mr Chen.

Roses, the Hundred Years War, Po or any other newspaper,

not known at present and prob- was one of four lives."

Where there was strong rule Hiller, Fascism and other mat MIT say that THE report and recommends which had just taken off from

my learned ably wEl not be known

finitely for 24 to 48 hours." It tions of the Hongkong Manston American Air Force the law

his always prevailed but

tera pertaining to polities Mr friend is going to fall in

added that the Wasp "pre- where there WES

with all these prosecution", declared Me Chen, weak rule Chen said that Reform Club on the resettle- Stallon.

cf Fogerty's fallen then we to a state similar, there was always a

rise and "not from the point of view of sumably suffered no casualties. ment of squatters in the

The accident occurred at 1.88 pilots described

as to what Europe

Communism, Protestantism ezz Shaukiwan area is an en- follows:

The law and the history of the "We pride ourselves that in any other Lem. But this case is 4.m. GMT Sunday about 1,200 couraging example of the "We have just taken off from law in England was punctuated the laws of England, the fund-political in the bigger sense of miles due cast of Beston while

Mansion when he saw his plane-by-great-jurist judges were day to day, year to year, go-to read."

mental-principles go on from freedom of spooch and freedom the Wasp and Hobson were en- Zayed ́simulated · Dir strikes was on fire,

Lawyers

along with another destroyer put and saved his life but he

"He could have easily baled brothers of ↑ close Eternity. eration to generation, and con-

escort, the USS Rodman, which COUNSEL'S CONTENTION Mr Chen said that he had try to century," said Mr Chen.

was not involved in the coll- tried to clear the village."—} been at the Bar for 30 years

Counsel sald

ald that no matter

Mr Chen contended that all ston Reuter,

und was called to the Middie whether a man was a Greek,

The Wasp was turning into Swiss,

Chinese American,

or that was fit to print should be Eskimo, once he. lives in the printed unless it was complete the wind to retrieve her planes occurred. Queen's domain he owed tem- lies or obscene. The people should when the accident

that beth porary allegiance to Her Ma-read all that was fit to be printed The Navy matett Jesty. He had cartain duties to from all parts of the world, as the Wasp and the Hobson were perform and certain rights and was done, in the New York malding from 20 to 26 kpots, The Times, and thus there would be minesweeper was struck on the a passport and

Intelligent community, aboard skle and it was protce.ion wher-more

Put the news before the public own how long she remained This was a political case, said and let them judge for. them-

ofloat

The carrier was slashed along Mr Chen, in that the Crown selves" he said.

In his opening Mr Hooton in the waterline, about 75 feet from creation of fire lanes and the A quarter of a million cattle were feared today to were seeking to crush the ex- provision of sewerage, faci- have died during the past few weeks in a drought which pressions of opinion in writings addition to telling the Jury that the bow, and was proceeding to

in the newspaper

in these this was not a political case, said New York at the greatly reduced lities. These two proposals has gripped large areas of south and northwest India. particular-circumstances.-

Mr. Chen, M; Hooton did not give speed of about 10 knots. them any law at all except for a The Wasp, which was being FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM at lenat merit consideration, Thousands more will die from dying for want of folder and for, as it has been officially lack of water and fodder in the water in the

The circumstances are such fow: general statements. "He escorted to port by the Rodman; drought-stricken that it must be the duty of the failed to give you what is the is commanded by Captain B. C acknowledged, the squatters next six weeks before the mon-areas of Rajasthan, North-West defence, on behalf of the Ta meat of the law," he said,

McCaffree. The Hobson was resettlement scheme muatroon rains break in mid-June. India,

Kung Pao and on behalf of all The Jury's verdict would under the command of Lt-Cmdr take some time to full in The worst affected areas are in The Rajasthan Reller Com- the newspapers in the Calory, have to be on special questions W. J. Tierney.

Rayalaseema district. Its entirety. Meanwhile It the

The Hobgon and Wasp were of mittee reported that an eight the Wen Wel Pro, Kung Shoung which would assist the Court In Northen Madras, where drought year-old girl in Jodhpur starved Po, Wal Kiu Yal Po, South coming to a conclusion, he add- | part of a 25-ship tack group en is important that fre

has dried up wella and tanks to death to save her calf, which China Morning Post, China Mail od. He said that where libel route to Europe to relieve units hazards in the temporary over an area of 10,000 square the fed for four days with her and Hongkong Standard, to and slander wore involved of the United States Sixth Fleet' squatter, arons should be re- miles after the follure of the out her parents'. knowledgo. The which shall be placed try Lawy both for the prosecution...)

abare of bread and water with ask what are the Limilatkes there were great difficulties, in the Mediterranean. Sixteen duced as far as possible and montgon der the Afth suscersive

and of the chips loft Nerfolk whils Dact was known health safeguards provided. year.

only after her up the publication of aws--the defence, as well sa for the ring others were from Moore- In the Hissar crea of the denih.

North Carolina, The public wil, nwalt with

paper's in Hongkong. It is in was consulcated questions, where Clay Peasants from both Rajasthan most Punjab, 100,000 cattle huve died

were

picked up Marine Interest Government's res

already.

Mr Chen said that Mr Hooton contingents, and Hissar are migrating with gentieition of the ponse to the Reform Club's i

and their starving cattle insureYou are going to be asked (Cand sa bata pase, Col. 6)mediately, aped to the rescue of

did not guidance, to the

Nowy vessela in the area ima demonsmendations.

buffaloes are reported to be lof fodder-Reuter.

to say in Hongkong that thera

recom-

penetical activities of the Club. The public general- ly will endorse the prin ciples behind the mendations and will CX- pect Government to apply the polley; as far as is. practically possible, of `com- pleting resettlement siten before clearing existing squatter areas. Another useful suggestion is thint present squatter villages

should be made safer for the inhabitants by the

"One

the crash

suffered from,

fall,

Quarter Of A Million

Cattle Die In

Thousatios

COWB

Drought

New Delhi, Apr. 27.

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