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CASEBOOK
Man With A Million
THE young man who THE
slept beneath Marshal Fuch's statue at Victoria, had, until a couple of days before, been earning up wards of a million a year. Now, all the money he had was 1d.
STUDENT WITH A BAYONET
Sent To Prison
For A Year
Before Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central this morning Suen Hing, a 20-year-old student, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for illegally having bayonet in his possession on March 15,
A
He had been searched outside 149 Johnston Road, by the Police, It Wils
1.25 m. when the and the bayonet was found in policeman roused him from the his hip pocket. DI Szelo Chi- hench where he lay. You can'tyan, for the Crown, said that the sleep there," the policeman said. Police had received information "No?" answered the young to the effect that the defendent
whose name was Victor, had had an argument with
man in a dance hall and had ob- tained the bayonet to even acures with him. This was not, the Prosecutor caid, direct evidence, but he wished to make It clear that the Police did not belleve defendant had obtained the bayonet for the purposes of theft or armed robbery.
101221, "Then where can I sleep?"
The policeman mentioned what ix officially termed “a reasonably accessible place of shelter"-un institution three miles from the Foch statue.
"I'm not going to any institu- tion,"
said Victor, thinking the word must mean a workhouse of
kind.
Be hud been brought up to believe such pluces spelt the absolute of degradation, utler failure; and Victor did not feel in any way a failure.
INJURED PRIDE
AS he would not Loke the A
constabic's advice, he was arrested. He spent the re-
muinder of the night in a cell at the police station, and in the muming was brought to Great Marlborough Street court, where a charge of wandering abroad and
lodging
in the open air was set down against him.
Victor, a sallow-skinned, dark- haired man,
with
amall sal in the dock and mustache, listened, as the story was told to Bir Rowland Thomas, QC, the
magistrate.
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could see he resented being where he was. Instead of
the self-pity
most men
display.
who appear on much charge,
A Victor
exhibited D hurt, pride.
affronted.
He pulled from his pocket a business card. It bore his
Own
The defendant first said that he had picked up the bayonet in the road, and then later that he had found it in the dance Hall.
Mr Hin-shing Lo made these points: the defendant had changed his story and must therefore have been lying; that a bayonet, by its nature, could not be used for any other pur- pose than us a weapon of as sault; that defendant had had a quarrel in the dance-holl. The defendant pleaded lenlency, as a long sentence, he said, would interrupt his studies. The Magistrate on passing sentence said that it was a light one conaldering the gravity of the offence.
Britain's Challenge
To Russia
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Doods
for
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THURSDAY, MARCH, 26, 1953.
RUSSIANS APPLY ROAD BLOCK
Another hold-up of traffic bound for Western Germany was recently applied by the Soviet controlled police in the Eastern Sector. About 160 trucks-lined nose to tail—are seen here awaiting_clearance at the Soviet Control point at Babelsberg, London, Express.
Cobbler
His Repeats His Crime
A cobbler who had not been out of gaol very long, gambled away some money he had earned. To make up for the loss, he turned once more to burglary.
Wong Pul, allas Wong Shu-pul, nome and his qualifications as a
34, ended up before Judge A. D. Scholes at the Victoria District motor mechanic, and now he
Court this morning, studied it as it to comfort him
where he was sent self with this reminder that until
to prison for three and half years for burglary and a short time before, he had been in business on his own accoun!,
breach of a deportation order,
Chief Inspector W. Eggleston varning 25,000 a week and more.
told the Court that the defen- True, the 25,000 were Italian United Nations, Mar. 25. -
dant
orrested wes
while lire, und they did not seem Britain today called emerging from the staircase of to buy much more in Rome,
and upon Russia
her 173
Road West, Queen's where Victor had set
up his
Cominform partners to the night of March 8. He was business, than a £5 note would In his hometown in the English
"make it clear by deeds een carrying an umbrella and Midlands. But it was good for that the climate is chang. come bundles of clothing by Occupant, who called Police officer. Enquiries showed the defendant had burgled
from the third floor
his morale to
think back nowing" in the cold war...... upon his recent astronomical in- However, the British delc- gate, Sir Gladwyn Jebb, cau- tloned the United Nations against over-optimism,
come.
Victor, it seemed, had been one of those who rode into Rome in a tank in the war. He fell in love with the city and with a dark-haired Roman girl. He was very young then, for he had, Hed about his age to get into the Arny while still a boy.
TO ROME AGAIN
We cannot, we dare not be very optimistic," he told the General Assembly's Political Committee.
"If hate, and fear continue to dominate the counsels of the Communist bloc the future, even
we avoid the final absurdity of World War II, re- mains austere, dark and doubt- Victor returned to Rome, ful
"So married the dark-haired girl, and set about laying the founda-
world tions of his business.
only
WHEN the war
was
aver,
по
"He seems to have done well,” said Mr Morgan, the probation oficer, "but a short time ago he decked
there was
real security for him or his wife and two children in Italy, so, leaving them with enough money to live on, he came back here this week on £10 advanced him by the British Consul.
"He meant to get work here and save enough money to bring his family over. He got a job,
for as we in the free
are concerned, не сап remain strong, resolute and calm. It is not for us to say when the cold war now raging in this great Assembly will diminish in Intensity. is for the other side to make It clear by their deeds that the climate la changing."
ILLOGICAL
It
The British diplomat spoke the Political Committee's dis- cussion of Czech charges that the United States is using its sive active and subver
but could not start it, until he Mutual Security fundi to
had somewhere to live. As ae- commodation is so difficult in London, sir, I think he would do better to go back to the Midlands, where his family live and his friends are."
"W
JINGLING SILVER
6 JOULD he do that?" tho
magistrate asked.
"He's enger. to, sir, and we can help him with the fare, as he hus only 1d."
"Very well." said Mr Thomas, and turned to Victor. "I'm not satisfied there's a case against he said. "You go, now, you," he said. with Mr Morgan."
showed Victor out, and'
Abance
Curtain.
woman
goods
premises.
on
the
He was wearing a suite of clothing taken from one of the occupants.
The prosecuting officer dis- closed that Wong had one pre- vlous conviction for a similar offence in June 1951, for which he was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and ordered to be banished for life after his release.
In asking the Court for a light sentence,
the prisoner said he had gambled money which he had saved up to buy leather for his business. As
he had to support a family, he was forced to commit the bur glary.
He was told by Judge Scholes that if one needed money, one must carn It through honest work, otherwise there would be no law and order at all.
Lady Reading
behind the Iron On Way Here
London, March 28,
Broadcast
Bench Of
Of Tribute To Judges Pay
Queen Mary
the
Tonight at 9 o'clock, Radio Hongkong is broad- casting atributo to the memory of the late Queen Mary by
Prime Minister. Mr Winston Churchill.
This replaces "Sports Review" which normally comes at this time,
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By Burfaen Macao. a.m.; p.m. as Le Hong/Tak Sing
Tribute
was
A solemn ceremony observed in the Supreme Court this morning when the Bench of Judges met to pay tribute to the memory of the late Queen Mary, who died in London Tuesday night.
on
There was a full assembly of the District Court Judges, the Legal Department, members of both branches of the legal pro- fession and Court staff.
Sheaffers TM SNORKEL
OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
A Visitor Thinks The
Country Is
A Paradise For All
FROM H. KING WOOD
Sydney, Mar. 20.
Australia is a paradise for both working and wealthy classes, ac- cording to Dr Gilbert Perez.
Dr Perez is training adviser to the Philippines Government and is in Australia with an International Labour Office delegation from 11 Asion countries studying Australian industries.
In the eyes of the gallant doctor it is possible for any Australian "whether he lives in a mansion or a small, white painted cottage, to live very well."
"Australia, with New Zealand, has been ahead in all social securi- ty and progressive legislation connected with social happiness in the world today," he said. "I have eliminated the word poverty when I think of Australia."
Ey
very
Don't you believe it, doc! We It must be admitted, however, | Sunday. Which have poverty and in places and that there are pointers that we unreasonable way of loolding at with people where we shouldn't, are beginning
Some of the slums of Mel-
socks, bourne and Sydney are rivalled
the
to pull up our things, particularly wiaca ft is remembered that Australian $12 white city only by those of output of primary industules for
The brightest report on the pearlers themselves requested the New York; we have old people some
to allow who
have
given a life-time of from Canberra, Secretary of the considerable negotiation with the
has been released Jan
in and that it looks service to
to moking this country Commerce Department, Mr what it is trying to exist on Crawford,
J. Japanese Government before tho what is known as the old age the target figures laid down to Australia.
has announced that divers were permitted to come pension, which is only a fraction under the live of the basic wage, which itself production expansion programme Workers' Union, one of the most doesn't keep body and soul together very heartily in these in- flated times,
With all our resources, all our great space, plus a very generous Nature those slums shouldn't be there,
nor should
old people want,
STRAW IN THE WIND
lost
at
years primary was certain to be achieved.
This week
the Australian
Under this plan the Govem-powerful in the country, said it ment aims to boost output of all would protest against the in-
industries primary
by about troduction of the divers.. £30,000,000 a year,
The
Acting
Government Statistician at Canberra has also announced that Australia had favourable trade balance of
£203.1-million for the
eight
The secretary, Mr Dougherty, said he thought the Queensland Government, which was spending money to "tenin Torres Strait islanders, would also protest.
Mr
Dougherty, added that
EXCLUSIVE
A report from Australia's com-months ended February the although it was stated that the merelal counsellor
the second best balance ever record- Embassy in Japan, Menzies, is, perhaps, one straw
Mr H. C. ed at that stage of the trade year. Japanese were being brought in
So perhaps we are on the up
under certain conditions, the in the wind as to why things and up....perhaps we are head-soon, become lugger-owners, as union was afraid that they would aren't a little better.
ing for that paradise of which
in the past. Dr Perez spoke-but According to Mr Menzies we here yet.
it la not £50,000,000 in Japanese: markets last year primary producers
because While on the question of trade. and manu- there is nothing facturers could not
in the wool supply the figures to make us gloomy.
In seven months to the end of necessary goods.
Reviewing trade between the January Australia exported two
countries he said Australian G24,114,000lb The Bench of Judges, com-
wool worth exports totalled £48,070,000 and
£220,328,000-the
Volume ΟΣ prising the Chief Justice (Sir imports from Gerard Howe), the Senior Puisne £13,505,000
Japan came to exports being almost a third representing greater than the corresponding Judge (Mr Justice E. H. overoil trade increase Williams).
period the previous year. The Puisne £15.000 and
Britain was again the biggest Judges (Mr Justice T. J. Gould 15,000,000 over the previous
Year
buyer of and Mr Justice C. W. Recce)
greasy won!, "But our exports would. have clad in red ceremonial been doubled had we been in a to fifth. were gowns-with-weepers attached to position to supply the goods," he
sleeves as 1 Bign of said.
As the
An
of
Jupan
America fell from second place
Miss Gowan Mardonald, of the Sydney suburb of Ingleburn, claims to be the only person In New South Wales who runs a goat dairy as a full time business. She has just on 100 goats- purebreds,
Sannans pedigree worth anything from £30 to £75. each.
At present she is milking 30 goals which
are producing 15 but galions
day, Macdonald bottles and carts, 20 which Miss
milies-to-a-Sydney-store-in-her- own utility truck. Sho gola 1/3 a pint for the milk, which retalls at 1/9-the price decided on by the Goat Breeders Society.
Mothers of young children are buying all the gouls' milk available.
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their
CAUBING WORRY mourning.
"In the middle of the financial At Counsel's table were the year-January, 1952
The reappearance of Japanese Attorney-General (the Hon. A. indicated that she could buy causing a little
pearl divers in the north are Ridchalgh, QC), Mr A. Hooton
worry at the huge quantities of (Solicitor-General), Mr John
Australian moment. Thirty-three, divers are commodities. McNeill, QC. Mr Charles E
"But
most of the goods sho expected in Darwin from Tokyo Loveby QC, and Mr WA.
in the next few
few days, bound for required were unavailable, and Broome where they will work on Blair-Kerr (Sentor Crown of the export income wool ac- Australian luggers.
And to wind up....A. Sydney Counsel).
tyre firm has paid an employee counted for £40,000,000, leaving Judges filed into
Darwin
holel Court, the assembly rose
keepers, an- | £500 for an idea which has in- less than £8,000,000 for all other and
nounced today that they would creased output of rubber tubes supplies. remained standing as the Chief
not accommodate an advance from 700 to "Australia sent Japan no wheat party of two
1500 a day. This Justice said: "Mr Attorney, we
due to arrive on at all when she was prepared to
bonus is an, Australia' record. are met in profound sorrow at the death of
buy at least £9,000,000 worth." Her
Majesty Queen Mary. In respect
Courta
But this is the same old story, will now adjourn."
from particularly
Eastern The Full Court then adjourn-dustry can goar its production to countries. When Australian in- Sm, Burna. India,
ed, and all cases set for hearing take advantage T.A.C.
in the Supreme Court were put Indo-China, France, French Northback an hour.
West Airion, 1230 p.m., Alf *Indo-Chins, Trends, Trench North West Atrion, 4.30 p.m., Air Vinte Philippines, Guam, Hawait U.S.A.. 6. Dm.. P.A.L.
Forman, Okinawa, U.S.A. (Best- tle & Western States, Canada, 6 2. H.K.A./N.W.A.L.
FRIDAY, MARCH 27 By Alr Formosa, am, via C.A... Japan, U.S.A.. Conado, 9 C.P.A.L.
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In-
N. Borneo. Australia, New Zoo
land, 6 pm, Q.E.A.
Balaya, Indoreda, Ceylon," "Mikilə Bant, Dipan, D.O.A.C.
Japan, 6 m., B.O.A.C.
By Surface Maceo, 9.m. 6 p.m.. Hong TW Eh
People's Republic,
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8.30
The Dowager Lady Reading,.., trein via Canton.
Noth Borneo, am. Face
this sang
stage of a Far Eastern tour, had little time to make preparations for her trip.
Sir Gladwyn said Czecho- slovakia's condemnation of the United States Mutual Security who left Britain by air Act of 1981 was illogical to
week. for Singapore on the first begin with" and undoubtedly was put on the United Nations agenda "mainly in order to keep alive the wave of anti-foreign hysteria
by provoked
the Slansky trials," in which 14 Czech Leaders were tried for treason in Prague last year.
He said it was aimed not only
A been areas
tireless worker, she has flood touring Britain's and organising the dia
of of clothing gits. Sho
posal would have visited the Far East
bul for the 'floods.
havelling to Korea,
Indo-China. Da.m. as Helkon. Korea, 2 p.m., es Phiit Q
Radio Hongkong
HET.
his
6. Programme Summary, 6.00, - It's Swingtime with Ear! Hines and Orch, and Artie Shaw and his Orch.t
1
Valley Forge Leaves
of these wide open markets and create others, then we will be getting some- where.
•
TOO MUCH COALI
Yet in one industry the wheel has made its full turn and from a time of famine we now have plenty. This is the coal industry and here
The American aircraft carrier developed Valley Forge (Capt R. E. Dixon) humorous left port this morning dying the
Д
situation has that 15 almost
fag of Rea:-Admiral A. Soucek.dustry Tribunal this week that A witness told the Coal In- Commander of the Carrier Divi- coal production had reached the slon II of the United States stage where it has become a | Seventh Fleet.
The Valley Forge has been
"national embarrassment."
The Government is now doing in Hongkong for a few days on a everything possible to win back recreational call.
Rear-Admirai
some
of
Soucek visited lost in the days when we could the old coal customers the Colony on hollday and was entertained by the local Ameri- not dig enough coal for our own can community and naval circles during his stay here.
INTELLIGENCE TEST
SOLUTION:
This test in developed from an Idea taktilio about shree months ago
Kino staring paint should be, ga receipts in the Bits mojih, if in that monia be welle m biggles as ED ach be gets Emon. Bimilarly, in the
month he gets £ (m. 16) (n + ·
the second so on to the ninth months, when file
month, 12-11-11 and·
the North Atlantic Treaty Or- at the Unlied States but at all Reading, who is due in 30, Journey Into Melody with Sidney
Rick ganisation powers.
Hongkong on April 8 is to visit Torch and Orchestra with vacel sexy by left the court. He always go hand in hand,
Hemarking that "hate and fear WVS units there. From April me Sim World News and Nowe Twik (London Relay); *7.10. presently
Sir 13 had money in his pocket again.
She Munro and his Orchestra: 7.30, Not, this time, a fat wallet full Gladwyn referred to a "horrible later buvet will be in Japan, Ballet Memories played a tonnit "Down Memory Lane" presented by new phenomenon behind the will return to the UK from ASUR Wood Studio); 220, Weather of folding money, but enough for
Iron Curtain, He continued: "I Japan by Comet on April 22.
A London Studio Melodies--| his fare home and for food, in
Melachtino ·Orch, cond. by refer
now undeniable This is her first visit to the Far deurge cheo with the Petar to the Ringling English eliver that
Knight Binger: E50, A Plans Recital seemed to him like a solid oppression of Jews...as we see East.
are now being
Too WYS was
founded by by Elizabeli Zuppinger (Studiajoints are a symbol of the security heth the Jews
mode the scapegoats for the Lady Reading in 1938. Now, Bio); Exib, At the Operson Dla mm 40 = 8153
Sports Review by Brig Young Adding, we find + 10) in → 4).. fright conditions In the nearly eight years after the watersinger Van Nu
Lemn is 577, of which the only Communist states, along with war, there are still a quarter of Chorus of the Vienna State Open
factors are 19. And, 15 1, 00 in that mamb sold as bleyale Ki 215 the 'diabolical Importalists' of a million women working for and the Mimas. Philharmonia Orch. each. The remaining calculations ace Very simpler it will be found the West. It is an old, old story, the organisation. Their activi- cond, by Han scrappertsbusch: 10.45
that 's trobis in succhesive month When you once start suppress-ties include old people's wel-Ahort Concert by Alfredo Campoil
were + £130 | 150 ; 109 1 175 | 174 1 (Violtelat); 10.50 Weather Reporti ing liberty, the worst excesses fare, foster homes for children, 11, ftadlo News Roel (London Hessy
11651100 made him faram) proti follow in due time,” United and Civil Defence,Our Own acordad); 41.15 Goodnight Music:
Catro), in the fourth manta. God Save The Queen; · 11.30. Press.
Correspondent,
Landon Ksyrene Service down:
Bought.
Two
16-year-old Chinese students appeared before Mr D. Benson in the Juvenile Court at Central the morning charged with possession of catapults. They were fined $5 each.
Wagner Act I-with
needs.
to
go
A long memory isn't needed back to the days when the shortage of coal was blamed_for everything from lack of produc- tion to inflation, but most of all for the lack of value In the
Thousands of tons of coal are now laying af pit tops, electricity, dearer than at anytime fr history, is about to take another jumpi eggs, milk and butter are at top prices and Government transport losses read like the national debt.
The pound, of course, is still sadly lacking in value.
But reverting to coal....efforts
SIDE GLANCES
D
By Galbraith
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