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4 Years &

12 Strokes

Convicted of ausault with

Intent to rob, Lam Yuk-on was I'

dered to receive

morning

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upon itself in the Intervening

outsize. week, was now

Sho bristled with anger, and could hardly hold herself in check as the probation officer, addressing the magistrate, declared that though Margaret had at Arst proved rather difcult to

deal with, she yet night prove

TT was the time of day jaway and quite beyond recap- suitable subject for probation.

This seemed too much for "I'd nentenced to four years and or- when the big hospital ure.

The police were quickly told Margaret who burst out:

something." She 12 strokes of in the East End was open] of what had

and like to say happened, the cane by Judge Scholes at to visitors. About the pre-later in the day they called at rounded on the magistrate and they sati: "Last week you called ing the Hongkong District Court this fcincts of the barrack-like Margaret's home, where

a thief and a liar...." found the pram equipment she

"I still call

the you that," building

women men and

"I never took it," Margaret magistrate said equably." came and went or waited in had been seen to run off with. "Just hap-

"I want to know why that sald indignantly.

man come to our house with a the

and On the faces of the crowd, pened to meet a lody in

warrunt." Margaret said, about Etreet, bought these things from nuch yuu ruald read

thot a look of fury at the de- the condition of the

patients her to oblige." •

tective who had arrested her. they had been to see or were

"I want to know what right he to visit. Some ubout

Mr Simon Li, Crown Counsel,

prosecuted.

Defendant, with another man not in custody, assaulted Lou Kwai-yin, Manager of the West- ora Theatre, in Water Street on

groups.

wore

December 24, 1952, at 10. bleak musks of melancholy and UE said the same at greater had to come and..."

by rubbing pepper into his eyes. Following the assault, they at tempted to rob him of his brief-

·C190,

Into them. Complainant strig": gled and shouted for help.

length. Yant with even

•

in the eyes of some there was greater indignation, next morn despair. The faces of othersing, when she was charged be- were it with the wonder of fore Colonel W. E. Batt, at the M not going to argue with you," said the magistrate, newly

and Titames Court, with stealing £2 hupe

restored;

le prison.' though most were silent, there worth of pram or cat equip-you can go on probation or go "Po on probation." Mar- was a noisy nucleus of the alment.

sht garet snapped, as though were doing. the

the court greatest possible favour."But I never stole nothing, sec?" "And you can put that in

Your pipe and smoke 11," said her tone. "This way," the gaoler sald. Margaret turned to leave. On her way she tried to buttonho.e the detective: "Hey," she said. "I want a word with you."

D

Prosecution evidence was that while complainant was waiting

most professional sick-visitors, The story was told in full, for a bus near the Junction, of who chatted and conducted and at the end of it Colonel Margaret guilty, French Street and Queen's Rond; West, on the morning of Decem- with great relish metaphorical Batt found

post-morterns on the patients and expressed his opinion that

and ber 20, he felt someone's hands

a Har she was both thief. over his eyes, rubbing pepperley had seen,

S one group of visitors WOR

ller life story was sketched, about to leave, one among She had once before been in for robbing her them saw a small, dark-haired trouble, His two assailants rtn away

quickly from a mother's gas-meter. She herself when he fell to the ground. A woman alip

hospital pro-was, at 28, now the mother of passer-by witnessed the assault pram-shelter the and was instrumental in effecting (vided, and dart into the road, three young children and the

like

of a lorry-driver #wife carrying what looked the arrest of the defendant,

UT the detective shook his bundle of perambulator furnish carned £6 a week.

on When this much had

head, and bestowed Traces of pepper had beenings-rugs

that told, the magistrate remanded her a faint smile

anust found on complainant's clothing blankets, or shawls.

"Hey, stup her," cried the Margaret on bail. so that the have been like salt rubbed in- and hair, according to evidence

the probation officer might make to her wounded pride. Riven by Mr Edwards Collins, woman, who had spotted

Presently, Margaret left Government Chemist.

other. "She's taken some things further inquiries about her.

Into court and went off from my pram. She ran for

grey streets, and she was still the the gate, but by the time she and reached it the other

furious, and the whole world seemed hardly large enough to con-whom she had recognised

contain ker anger,

denled Accused had charge at the first hearing alleged he had signed fession under duress.

#

or

blankels,

or

woman.

who

been

B

due course, Margaret wat shown back into the lock; as and it was clear at once that having fed Indignation,

one called Margaret, was well her

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"Ancient

Lights"

Argument Continues

Numerous legal authori lies and law reports were aunted from at the Full Court of Appeal this morn. ing by Mr Brook A. Ber- the nacchi, Counsel for -appellants in the appeal case Involving the legal theory of "ancient lights".

to

Mr Bernacchi reterred the Court to eases where the parties concerned had been granted in- junctions restraining others from erecting structures which, he Anit, interfered with the rights

light and air of others. The

appeal, heard by Sir Gerard Howe, Chief Justice, and Mr Justice C. W. Reece, Pulme Judge, was brought against the judgment of Mr Justice E. H. Williams, who in August last year dismissed the plaintiffs (appellants) motion for an in- Junction to prevent the erection of a new bullding in Duddell Street,

The appellants are Foo Kami- shing, Foo Ko-shl and Lee Pak-hung, executors and execu- trix and trustees of the estate of the late Foo Sik.

In their original motion, they' naked for an order for a perpetual injunction to restrain Ltd., the Loen Printing Press, the respondents, from building six-storey building south of and adjoining the former Bank of China Building in Duddell Street.

Appearing with Mr Bernacchi for the appellants are Mr Oswald V. Cheung, both of

whom are instructed by Mr f. F. G. Dennis of Brution and Company.

The Local Printing Press, Latel. are represented by Mr John McNehl, QC, and Mr D.A. L. Wright, both instructed by Mr P.A.L.. Vine of Deacons.

QUOTES PRINCIPLE Continuing his submisalons from the day before, Mr Ber- ncechi told the Court

that, lease is granted where a

for a specific purpose, the non-deroga

of principle operates to prevent that purpose from being injuriously

affected by some- thing subsequently done on the adjoining land.

tion

Quoting from a legal authority, contention,

in support of his

Counsel sald was quite clear

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Cor. 1943 by NEA Sarten, kaa,

SHEAFFERS

Strip

Skrip

By Galbraith A Year Of

{ka:

"They dumped a lot of work on top of my lotions and creams while I was out! How can anybody koop an

British Flood

Disaster

Fund

orderly desk?"

Beveral requests have boon received that the Fund should not be closed on February 28 ewing to the fact that several being events on ita behalf are organised early in March.

In response to these requests it has been decided to keep it open after the advertised closing date. The total donations received up to noon on Fearuary 28 will be remitted to the Lord Mayor's Fund on Monday, March 2.

A final remittance will be made

as soon as the new closing date has been decided,

Previously acknowledged: Sterling £325, 0. od.

that this principle not only ap- Australian £5. plied to the actual lessor but | US$40. also to anybody whose title is derived through that lessor.

"If you give a man the right to build on a piece of land," he went on, "you must not only give him access to that land, but also the right to air on the land,"

Asked by the

his as to whether opinion

or not the other party secking to

Court

and

Mr & Mrs S. Grove Mi * Mrs Henry Howel & Nicholas John.. Mr C. J. B. Leader Mr N. A. Belanov-

sky

The

Continental Rubber Manu- factory Ltd.

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build a structure on land next The Bank of East to the first man is entitled to do

so, Mr Bernacchi FG. W. J.

that, as soon

Mr & Mrs W. as the

Phillips the first party per- granted mission to

Mrs M. erect a house, that Mr &

Gotfried particular spot for the time being came under Crown lease Mr & Mrs N. B. M.

Whiticy and became entitled to all the

Miss N. W. W. rights of the Crown.

Kwok

SUBJECT TO RIGHTS

In this particular case, he continued, the land next door

Mr & Mrs E. J. G.

having been purchased after the Launtlett

date of the original lease of the plaintiffs' property, it must be subject to the rights of the plaintiffs' in respect of the first building.

Mr Bernacchi said that was the reason why one found in this city 50 many tiny Залез separating many buildings from one another.

After putting forward further Iegal submissions, in respect of which he quoted from autho- rilles, Counsel said the poaltion Was that, on the completion of the respondents structure en the iend next to the appellants, the whole of the south side of the ba completely building would

untenable.

Hearing is continuing.

Staff of the Superintents' Offfee, Indo- China Stran Navigation

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Nowsman Discusses Far East Situation

This is a year of big de- cisions and major changes in current world affairs, said Mr Larry Allen, Asso- ciated Presa correspondent in Indo-China, on his ar- rival here this morning from San Francisco In the

as President Cleveland.

The famous "Pulitzer Prize" correspondent, who was recently decorated by the French Any with the Croix de Guerro for his objective reporting of the Indo-China war, is returning to Hanol after spending four weekor the United States on furlough, "An invasion of either Hong- kong or Indo-China by the Chinese Communists would touch off World War III," Mr Allen pointed, out But he added: "The recent do-neutrali- sation of Formosa will deter the Reds from making such plans on Indo-China”

HE'S POSITION Mr Allen thought that it was not likely the Chinese Com- munists would attack Hongkung should Nationalist forces froz Formosa invade the Mainland,

"Hongkong Is in an interest- ing and critical position today, People in America are anxious over this city," he added.

Mr Allen believes that the United States will take dome kind of action the line of

is pre

Why we Say Ver blockading, the China Cozat

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word's The

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"The United

pared to take Sintes. Fisk of

an open wor with the Reds" he replied to a query whether ari American blockade wordd endanger the world.

In the United States, the correspondent disclosed, people consider the Korean War as the world's No. 1 trouble spot. "Indo-China is second," he add-

Government Appointments

The following Government appointments were gazette<! today:

M: Lawrence Leong, Barrister- at-law, to be permanent magistrato; Mr Kenneth Strath- more Kinghorn, to be a Labour Oficer; Mr Geoffrey

Dezonis Binstead, to be an Assistant Director of

Commerco Industry: Mr Northam Lawrence act as Assistant Director, Royal Observatory during the absence of Mr Leonard Star buck.

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Boy Indecently Total at 11 sm

Assaulted

Hul Ng alles Hui Man-wah,, 35, was sentenced to two years hard labour by Judge R. W. S. Winter at the Kowloon District Court this morning for indecent assault on a male.

Chief Insp. W. Apps said that the accused knew the com- plainant, avho was a boy, as accused used to work in com plainant's school. On the night of January 27, he took the boy to a movie show and later he took him up a hill behind the Yaumati Railway Station, where he committed the offence. He was arrested by two Police corporals who saw the accused seling in a suspicious monner at he was going up the hill

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A traffic accident occurreri outside the Detention Barracks In Garden Hord at about 7.20 this morning when n private car smashed head-on into a fire- hydrant to avoid a young boy, student crossing the road,

The driver of the car, a Hum-. preber Hawk, was not injured, but

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