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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

Specialist Work

E climbed from the

wore

1 cratered bomb-site, JL dusty, spectral figure, # slim, shock-hended youth, who

an old RAF which Krentcoat liberally aplished with cream-coloured paint and which bulged awkwardly about the chest.

Was

Two plain-clothes policemen, hidden from his view, watched him tackle the wall, which he did s ponderously and with as

much falared breathing as a dug-out major might negotiate a modern battle assault course.

UNDER. THE COAT

WHEN the youth,

whose name had recovered from Was Joe, his enrounter with the wall he padded to a street of shops and offices 2

near Red Lion Square. The detectives softly fallowed. They watched as Joe here studied n

window intently. there set his shoulder in a half-hearted way against a bolted door.

It was 8.30 in the evening, and Joe and the two policemen had this section of London, W. C. to themselves.

When the officers

consizlered they, had seen enough, they went up to Joc, and asked him what his interest was in the

shop-windows and the locked

ofler door.

candour seems, st

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Complete the moment, to hove over- whelmed Joe.

Diving into his out the greakcoat, he brought brick that had caused the bulge. "I got this from a bamb-site," he said,

meant to use it to

break in somewhere,"

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The policemen took Joe and the brick to the police station. Next morning, at the Clerken well court, Joe was shown into the dock and the brick, now

in brown paper, wripped carried to the witness-box.

Joe pleaded guilty to being o suspected person, loitering with intent to break iate premises. Mr Frank Powell, the magistrate, was told he had made a state- ment.

I WAS HUNGRY" TOE'S words were read. It was prosy statement, sum- marised in its last senience, which read: "I was driven to do this because I was hungry; and rent of my couldn't pay the roum, which the landlady keeps asking for."

One of the policemen fold the magistrate; "He is-21-years old, and a carpenter's improver by trade. Te has had a number of jobs in that capacity, which he has left of his own accord. He did his National Service In the RAF, in which, he says, he was

he left the service, he took a job as a progress chaser, at £5 15s. a week, but he left after six months, lust Oclober, and he has done no work since."

The

magistrate looked in- quiringly towards the dock. "What's the matter with you?" he asked

Jue.

"You get job after job. you're not happy in the RAF, why don't you settle

down to something?"

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THE CHALLENGE

a carpenter's improver." Joe said, and there was an edge to his tone as if he chal- lenged the whole world to deny the fact.

"Yes,"

said the magistrate,

"but you're too fussy. No one can do exactly what they want to do in this world. Most of us have to do what we can get to do, don't you understand?"

"I'm a carpenter's improver," Joe said firmly.

"Yes, but here you have a job £5 159, 1 week, and

worth you....

"A carpenter's improver," Joe put in, lest there should still be claubts about It.

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Mother Superior Arrested

Disappearance Of War Orphans

Grenoble, Mar. 3.

was

The Mother Superior of 'Marseilles convent arrested in Grenoble today in connection with the dis- appearance of two Jowish war orphani.

second Mother

She is the Superlor to be implicated in the case of Robert and Gerald Finaly, ten and 11, who vanish- ed after a court ordered their

Roman

Catholic foster mother

to hand them over to two aunts, The other Mother Superior, the foster mother, four Roman Catholic priests and u business man are all being held in gaol. men are charged with helping to smuggle the orphans out of France Into Spain.

The

Mother Dominique, head of the Notre Dame Convent in Marseilles.

was arrested after admitting

received

the she orphans ut the

convent in

October last year.

She said she looked after them for some time, then had them admitted as boarders lo

tho

College of Notre Dame Des

Vistes,

them She decided to move again after seeing their pictures in a magazine and handed them over to a Murseilles priest.

TAKEN TO COLLEGE The priest looked after them for about a fortnight, up to the end of January. Then they were taken to the College of St Louis de Bonzague in Bayonne, she

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The boys disappeared from this college early last month.

Police lost the trail of the orphans at the Spanish frontier., Enquiries at government level have spread as far as Portugal, without revealing where they are now.

Their foster mother Look charge of the boys in 1944, after the parents were sent to a Nazi concentration camp where they later died.

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CHINA MAIL

Established 1845

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1953.

TRAINING FOR THE CORONATION

$30,000 Claim

Decision

Judgment for $30,000 and costs was entered by Mr Justice E. H. Williams, Senior Puisne Judge, in the Supreme Court this morn- ing for the Li Yung Trading Co., of

Room 24, 22 Ice House Street, who claimed the return of $30,000 from Archie Sydney Wang, mer- chant, of Room 25, 20 Ice House Street.

The defendant was absent and did not defend the action. His solicitor, Mr Y. H. Chan, was given leave by

the Court to

received no

Among the preparations for Coronation Day is the

training of forty House British

hold Cavalry horses for the part they will play during the

procession.

They are being ridden through lines of troops who wave flags and bash tin cans to get the horses accustomed to the noise and excitement of the great day.-London Ex-

press.

Society

Girls To Be

Royal

Train Bearers

Flood

Disaster

Fund

The Fund will close at NOON, March 14, 1963.

Previously acknowledged:-- Sterling £332. 2. Od. Australian £5.

US$40.

and

.IIK$203,985.85

Mrs

M. dos

Remedios

20.00

Mr & Mrs Lee Iu

Cheung

Mr &L

Mrs 1. Agaturoff

100.00

25,00

Officers & Other

- Ranks, 1st Batt

The Royal Ulster Rines

Mr & Mrs Eric B.

B. Cumine

London, Mar. 3. withdraw when he announced Six of London's most through Counsel for the plain- beautiful society girls will uffs that he had further

Elizabeth's Total at Queen instructions from his beur client,

train at her Coronation in today

Abbey next Remitted to London Mr O. V. Cheung, Instruct- Westminster

March 2nd

£12,000

While a legal battle for their custody was going on she is alleged to have baptised them as Catholics and moved them from one religious school to another,

A Socialist Deputy for Isere Department

- which of

ed for plaintiffs. He said the Eart Marshal, announced Grenoble is the chief tow claim was for the return protested

visit to $30,000 which against the Premier Rene Moyer of Basque loaned to the defendant.

deputies urging loan arose as ministers and

Ho

ed by Mr P. C. Woo, appear- June, the Duke of Norfolk,

of

today. plaintiffs had

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The Queen herself chose the all young and result of an girls. They are

-the-release-of-the-four-priests. order placed_by. the plaintifs close friends of Princess Mar- with defendant for 30 sels of garet, the Queen's sister. They

are: Lady Chinese typewriters to be de

Rosemary Spencer- livered to Tientsin, but because Churchill, 23, youngest daughter and Duchess of of Japanese export restrictions of the Duke the typewriters could not be Marlborough. delivered..

Leon

On

Mar-

suggested the government was trying to put pressure the judicial authorities.

Justice Minister tinaud- -Deplat declared

that Justice had followed and would continue to follow its

course. It would be applied equally all in full independence. was not up to the government to intervene and it had not done so, though it was "as a general rulo in favour of provisional than preventive liberty rather detention-Reuter.

to It

More Trouble

At POW Camp

Kojedo Island, Mar. 4. The United Nations Prisoner of War Command announced today that tan Communist prisoners of war were found in- jured in their barracks on Kojodo Island on Monday even- ing

The Command sald two pri- were pronounced dead upon arrival at Kojo Hospital. Five were hospitalised and three others were slightly injured.

The Command said the pri- soners had "been injured some

soners

time during the night by their

fellow Inmates.

"Well, look here, you go and to the probation have a talk officer salt the magistrate, and "Investigation is being con they led Joc away, to have his dusted by Army authorities to problems sorted out those determine the prisoners problems that confront 靄 sponsible for the crime."-Reu-

ter.

specialist when there is no, de- mand for his speciality and he cannot pay the rent.

Budget Talks From Radio HK

At ten minutes past seven this evening Radio Hongkong will broadcast a recording of His Excellency the Governor's speech delivered this afternoon in the Council Chamber prior to the presentation of tho Budget by the Financial Secre tary. This is expected to last about 40 minutos, and I will be followed immediately by a studio talk by the Financial Secretary, the Hon A.G. Clarke, who will summarise his Budget proposals.

M. Reynaud's Cold Better

re-

RECEIVES LOAN

11 0.m.

Counsel Refutes Ancient Lights Arguments

Sheaffers M SNORKEL

Hearing of the "ancient lights" appeal before the Full Court resumed this morning when Coun- sel for the respondents, replying to arguments by Counsel for the appellants, submitted there was nothing in those arguments and asked the Court to dismiss the appeal.

Mr John McNeill, QC, who is appearing with Mr D. A. L. Wright (both instructed by Mr P. A. L. Vine), for the respondents, said that there was nothing in the first and third points raised by Mr Brook A. Bernacchi, Counsel for the appellants, and that he would not take long to convince their Lordships that there was nothing also whatever in Mr Bernacchi's second point,

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The appeal, heard by the Chief to show there was any build- Justice, Sir Gerard Have, end the ing facing south erected accord- Buisne Judge, Mr Justice C. W.ing to the covenant in the lease. Retce, was brought against the In not one of the authorities Judgment of Mr Justice E. H. cited

by Mr Bemacchi was Williams, who in August last there the faintest suggestion that grant of easement 'over vacant land could be implied, į Counsel said.

dimissed the plaintiffs' (appel- fants') motion for an injunction to provent the erection of a new building Duddell Street.

Appellants are Foo Kam-shing, Foo Ko-shi and Lee Fak-hung and exccutrix executors and trustees of the estate of the late Foo Sik.

their original motion. Iri appellants asked for an

perpetual injunction to for a

the Local Printing restrain

the respondents, Press, Ltd., from erecting a six-storey build- ing south of and adjoining the former Bank of China Building in Duddell Street,

Following further submis- sions, Mr McNeill asked the Court to dismiss the appeal.

Hearing is continuing

Order False Report

Appearing with Mr Bernacch! for the appellants is Mr Oswald V. Cheung, and they are both instructed by Mr R. F. Dennts.

To Police

Living Language

Why we say Ance- dote.

The meaning of this word directly contra- dicts what was in- tended, for the Greck a means no!, and ekdotos to be publish. ed. Thus an “unecdote" was a confidential bit of information but it hog taken

on the meaning of a short story or amusing in. cident to be among friends.

told

Mail Notices

The Intect times of porting shown below are those für sun- tagustered correspondence posted at O.P.O, Hongkong. The latest posting itmes elsewhere which, in geñeral, are earlier than the .G.P,O, umes, can be ascertained

by enquiry at the local office,

The latest posting times for registered articles are generally one hour susiler than the times shown below. Particulars regard ing parcel maile can be macera tained by enquiry at any post amice.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 By Air

Slam, Malaya, Indonesia, Austraila,

Formosa, Okinawa, USA (New

New Zealand, 4.30 p.m.. CPA. York), Canada, 6 p... IUCA/NWAL.

Japan, p... ÚDAC.

By Surfac Macso, 1.30 pm; 0 pm as Lee

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 By Air Formona, aim., via CAT.

Pakistan, Slam. Bunina, India. Middle East, Africa, Great Britain,

was a right of casement acquired hut in Lo Fu Ngan Village, Europe, Noon, BOAC Kawall,' USA

Philippines, · Guam, (San Francisco), Noon, PAA,

Philippines, N. Borneo. 4.30 pm... CPA:

A 22-year-old married woman who reported 10 the Police yesterday that she had been the victim of an armed robbery to give her husband the in G.pression that she had been rob

bed of two gold rings, which THREE POINTS

she had traded for a bogus gold In his reply to Mr Bernacchi bracelet, was fined $10 by Mron, Tak Balne

K. Y. Yung at Kowloon this who concluded his arguments

morning. on Friday, Mr McNeill this

Div. Dot. morning said that Mr Bernacchi said that the defendant, Wong Insp. A. Askow started off with

three

points.

unnumbered The first point he had relled on Sau-ying, of an

Kowloon City, reported to tho by prescription in respect of a Kow

ted in Mongkok Police Station yester building with lights erected in Mong 1922;

armed men had he had claimed day that two secondly,

robbed her of two gold rings. express or implied rob casement by 1,000.00

his third point had Investigation was made, and the Brant; and 25.00 rested on some "novel" expost- Police found that she had ac

tually been the victim of larceny of equity,

trick. Mr MeNelit submitted there by tri

nothing in the first and WOB

A man had stopped her in

Malaya, Ceylan, Aden, Middle East. and he would not Nathan Road yesterday. third points

and | 11. aum.. as Gilehartnay. take long to convince their offered her a gold bracelet for Japan, USA, Central and South Lordship that there was nothing $80. Haylag no money on her, America, Noon, as Benares.

Philippines, 1 pm. Oregon Mall. second the exchanged the bracelet for

Canada,

100 p.m.; Elisabeth also whatever In the

two gold rings of hers, but later

Stam, 1.00 pm; a Prosper. point.

Counsel said he agreed in found from a goldsmith that the

FRIDAY, MARCH every respect with the judgment bracelet was not made of gold. Justice Williams. The Afraid of what her husband of Mr

|would say, she reported that the question now for the Court to had been robbed.

submitted, decide, whether there was an express or of implied grant of ensement

express grant

HK$205,155,85

194,481.43 HK$ 10,074.42

Sterling £332, 2, ou. Australian £5.

-US$40.

of A relative 4 Years For

Winston- Churchill, nounced

her yesterday

10 a

an-

she engagement stockbroker.

She is ve feet 10 inches.

In September, 1851, however, Lady Mary Balllle-Hamilton, the defendant offered to deliver 10, only daughter of Lord Had- 30 sets of Chinese typewriters dington She is a talented

in Paris: MAKES POTTERY Lady Anne Coke, 20, blonde blue-eyed daughter of the Eart

to the plaintifs in Hongkong, pianist who studied but added he could only do so if he obtained a loan of $30,000. He was given the loan and the 30 sets of typewriters delivered. At the same time the defendant left 40 sets of with the

similar typewriters

Lady

has

House-Breaker

On

he

was

ending gully to charges of plaintiffs (appellants) land.

INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION:

Dolores Dizzy wua agent for Mr. Pussyfoot; and Pussyfoos was not the Bocialist candidate, DOT WEN Mies Dizzy, the Communist agunt. It follows that Pussyfoor and dias DILLY were respectively,

theral candidate and agent.

Next, we know that the Socialist candidate was Dirty, and that the Communiat agent was Mies Fabian since the Communist candidate's daughter was the Socjaŭst agent, these can only have been Mr. sud Min Gladstone. And now le obvious that the Tory candidate was Mr Marx, and. Kis daughter the Tola Abetainer's agent, and that the Total Abstainer was pir. Fabian

Condon Express Service.

SIDE GLANCES

By Surface

Macao, 1.30, p.m.; 6 pm. as Zee Hong/Tak Bhing.

China, People Iepublic, 8.30 am.

train via Canton,

Bakke.

Fonno

By Air

9am., via C.A.T. Japan, U.8.A., Canada, C.P.A.L.

4.

Siam, Burma, India, 9 a.m. TA.C Indo-China, France, French North de West Africa, 11 am., Air Trance. indo-China, France, French North & West Africa, 4.30 p.m., Air Viol-

nam.

Philippines Guam, Hawaii, USA., 18 jum. ÉTAI

Formosa, Okinawa, USA. (Seattle & Western States), Canada, 6 p.m.. H.K.AJN.W.AL

N. Bomeo, Australia, New Zealand, 14 pm., QEA.

alaya, Indonesia, Ceylon, Middie Lart, o pan, B.O.A.C.'

By Barfaco

· Macao, 1.30 pm. 4 p.m. H 100

China, People's Republic, S30 #41. troin vis Canton.

By Galbraith

light.

Concerning Counsel referred to the findings of Mr Justice Williams, which stated that his Lordship held no evidence of that there was

of light and air ia exprese grant of

over de housebreaking and larceny, fendants

grant was Leung Mon, allas Heung Shan- As far as express

WES no ambigu- man, allas Leung Chin-ying was concerned there sentenced to four years by Judge ity in the deed at all. It granted R.W.S. Winter at the Kowloon the casement appertaining to of Leicester, Lady Anne makes

these premises, so that what was pottery and sells it to, America District Court this morning. for dollars.

granted was the existing caso- She has sold fruit,

another count of breachment, if any, he said. Bowers

vers and vegetables to help

COMMON LAW plaintifs aa security

the run her ancestral home. for

Wear of a deportation order, the ac- loan, and these

cused was given an additional 40 sets were

In common law there was no ing jeans, she still in the plaintiffs possession. American officers boating on a

taken sentence of nine months.

right of light except such light Counsel sald these typewriters Norfolk

were The prison sentences

as descended from above, ho creek where Nelson were of a rather old-fashioned

Icyled used to sail,

by Itle Honour after submitted. value did not type and their

Counse

said he agreed with taking into consideration seven Jane Lady reach $30,000 in any

Vane-Tempest- way.

other offences of housebreaking Mr Bernacchi's proposition when Their exuct value was not Stewart.

20, daughter of the by the defendant during last he stated that when a building known.

Marquess

Londonderry,

Was erected easement arose. Princess Margaret was a guest year.

Counsel was now dealing with Mr Cheung added that the at her birthday ball in 1950- Chief Insp., W. Apps told the the suggestion that ensement matter of the typewriters was one of the most lavish seen in court that at 9.10 p.m. on De- the subject of another action for London since pre-war times. cember 20 last year, an inmate of light was implied,

It was clear in the lease that Jane Heathcote

of 55 Hau Wong Road, first floor,

the common intention of the damages for breach of contract,

was now solely Drummond - Willoughby, 18, that

returned to her home and found and the Court concerned with the loan made to granddaughter

of Lady

Astor, that the locks on the door and parties was that a house was to the defendant.

Britain's Arst woman member iron grille had been picked. A be built, mid Counsel. Before that subsequent check of her pro-house was built an easement was of Parliament, and daughter of the Earl of Ancaster. Her father perty revealed that one gold attached and he was agreeable then owners could will carry the St. Edward's

Start

bar, US$100, HK$270, clothing that the bullt 1 anywhere that piece of land as ho in the Coronation procession at material and many items of have

Abbey, Queen Ingrid of jewellery were missing. Denmark was among the 1,000 Police, who, acting on informa- when he had done

the whole land and guests at her "coming out" ball

to ensement last year.

tion, went to hut number B, Kat

Gext would have attached. So that it the Tak Now Village. morning where they arrested the he had built something upon the daughter, of the Marquess of defendant. Some of the loot was southern boundary and opened that sida Counsel recovered from the Door of the lights on but.

thought it possible that an im- The accused had one previous pled grant would have arisen. convletion in 1918, when he was But there was nothing in the sentenced to three years for two documente before the Court, be their submitted, from which offences of housebreaking. Bince then the defendant had been re- Lordships could ascertain where commended for deportation.

the building was in fact built and he respectfully submitted that it was dangerous to infor that any building with Eights open to the south was erected on the southern boundary.

On the contrary, L If there was] any Inference at all to be drawn tele he suggested, as he did before the Jinge in the Lower Court; the that such building would be

"We can't alope after all—l'vá got too much homework!” crated on the other side. The probability was that the bulld ing faced north, but Counsel

Printed and published by WhLLIAM (ALICE GRINHALE, For said that at any rate he would and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 say that there was no evidence] Wyndham Street, City of Victorie, in the Colony of Hongkong.

His Lordship gave judgment after Mul Pak-kwan, acting manager of the plaintif Arm, had testified to the making of the loan and the fact that it had not yet been repald.

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Radio Hongkong

HK

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the

Lady Mayra Hamilton,

Hamilton-Reuter,

6 Programme Summary: Women Board

for words; 6.30, Orches

Too The WorkThe Halle Orches

tra of the

tra: 7. Time Signal and World News

London Reiny]: 730, The Hongkong

to the

ernor's Annual Address Tokyo, Mar. 3,

The French Embassy sald to- day that ex-Premier Paul Rey- naud of France had almost re- covered from a bad cold on the chest and would be "out and about in a day or two."

M. Reynaud,

who arriveti here on Friday on a visit to Japan and Korca, has had to stay in bed on doctor's orders since Monday.

The Embassy said today that M. Reynaud was still in bed but his temperature was almost back to normal-Reuter.

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22.

Budgillie Excellency the Gov For legally boarding the Legislative Council from the Council Mapledell, two women were fined Chamber, and a Talk by the Financial $50 each und six óthors were Secretary, the Hon. A. G. Clarke, on fined $30 each by Mr T. B. Government Finance and the Cur

Marine Court this rent Budget (locorded OB): 159, Low at the

Weather Report a Lucky Dip morning.

Sowande (BoT); 980,

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A report was made to the coat ft. He could have dis

Final Dividend

Variety Requesta presented by Mars Dotorwdants, , who were arrest-

The Honglong branch of the gherita (Studio); 4, Plan Recital by

rege Yuen (Concert Hall) 9.30, ed yesterday afternoon aboard Mercantlis Bank of India, Etch

that Canadian vessel, were Chan announces today African Melodies Programm the devised and presented by Ya

Chan Ying 30, graphie advice has been received Rogues Tsun, 28, Gallery A Series of Comedies by drew the heavier fines because from the Head Office that John Jowell-si Popok Jos they had a previous conviction Board of Directors bave recom

One Night Bland--

offence; Ip Say Chuy, Bayes and his Orchestra: 1064, for a similar

mendet' payment of a dual Weather Reports 11, Radio News Reel 45, Tam Lan, 20, Chan Teun, dividend of 8 per cent less In-

11.10, Recorded London Relay Goodnight Mure; God BAY 20, Mak Wal-Inn, 30, Ho Sul come.Tax, making 14 per cent

in all for the year 1962, Quem;"11.30, close down.

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