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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

Abdullah Hits Out

THE

are

E cafe was in one of those dockside streets. in East London which all through the summer visited by cruising motor- conches, whose passengers nervously clutch their seats as their guides explain how celebratedly tough the neighbourhood is.

The diaries of 10,000 tourists doubtless tell how their authors

afely

this passed through

notorious thoroughfare, how by the luckiest

they of chances, The just missed being involved in kulte fights, run-duels or (i their guide was especially gifted with imagination) bomb out-

rages.

What the diarists do not say, for the guides omit the fact from their lurk lectures, is that in this street live a fair number of peaceable inoffensive, piensant | Londoners, who happen to have nowhere else to live.

CHINA MAIL

Katablished 1845

MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1953.

Super Train Goes Into Service

Rebellious

Convicts

Quieten Down

AT THE CAFE

THE enfe in this street was just like any other you might find in a part of the town that worked for its living. A plainly furnished room, long and narrow, where plain food was served; about it a kind of haze compounded of the fumes or frying fat and tobacco smoke.

A

warm, friendly place, whose windows, that on to the prison, where rebelljon broke

Kave sircet, were generally steamed out among The convicts

over.

Stillwater, Minn..

12.

The new Breda luxury

train starts on a regular Kai Tak Play Was service linking Milan and Naples in eight hours at an average speed of 100 km per hour. The train has its own kitchens with the up-to-date equip- most ment, modernistic dining car, observation car and lounge, and telephone and facilities, London cable

Express.

Ambitious, But Successful

"Night Must Fall", though Danny, the smiling villain, the paranoic, tried hard to put it off since the hour he

Sheaffer's SNORKEL

Libel Case Judgment:

Case Record To To Attorney-General

Go

Although he found there was libel in an advertisement published in the Chinese Press by one Chinese herbalist against another-both claim- ing to be cancer specialists-Mr Justice Reece at the Supreme Court this morning said he was strongly of the opinion that the public should be protected from the ministrations of both men as far as cancer treatment was concerned, and announced that he would send the case record to the

·Attorney-General for such action as he might deem fit.

Mr Justice Reece said he was taking this step in view of the evi- dence of Dr J. Gray, surgical specialist of the Hongkong Government, that it was impossible to cure cancer with pills and powders.

tural

meaning.

Plaintiff in the libel netlon,, ed in his reputation and actual Chly Fung-chiu, of 36 Jorduri, pecuniary loss as two witnesses. Road. WON awarded $1,000 | testified that they stopped going damages and

costs. He hari | to him for tuition after reading claimed $5,000,

the article. Therefore the or The Judge held that the n- ticle was defamatory in its na- vertisement in the C Yin Dally News put in by the de- Considering whether the fendant, Cheung Chai-tin, of justification plea was established, 50 Kimberley Road Injured the Mr Justice Recce found that the plaintiff in his reputation as plaintiff had used defendant's teacher of Chinese Medicine. pamphlel in writing his own He found that the part of the book but there was no justifica- article complaining that the tion

for other portions of the plaintiff shamelessly pirated"article which stated that plaintif a portion of defendant's pamph-was an unscrupulous practition tet "Simple Talic on Treatment er, had stolen defendant's name of Cancers with Medicine" was to deceive the public, and had Justified.

palmed off fish eye for a pearl by a false pubileity

campaign into considera- without taking

of tion the consequence dangering people's lives.

As regards the amount of dimages, Mr Justice Reece said that he would have awarded He produced 68 papers the view that he publication March was disinterested, but he found from the motives of self-Interest, re- and not in the interests of the

public.

Plaintiff a qualified herbalist, who was represented by Mr F. Wong, claimed that the article meant that he was an Impostor and swindler, unft to practise medicine, Chineze

oblaluing money by false pretences and on

+1-

Conditions in Stillwater ALLOTMENT mitted the murder in wrikble aisl dishonest per- nominal damages had he been of

1052 to from August

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can be a-

MONDAY, APRIL 13 By Air

Philippines, N. Borneo, Formosa, U.S.A. (Scattio western States) Canada. 8 p.m..

C.P.A

the other night, a tall, yesterday, have "consider- €10 SHARES of Emlyn Williams, was pre-1953 in which the article ap that it was malicious and made ILK.A./N.W.AL.

improved,"

Edwin

red, severe-looking wo-jably man named Margaret was it- Swenson, who took over as ting, having her supper. She new warden after the de- had just taken an aperitif in a monstration public house a few deors mWBY and was feeling well-disposed today. towards the world.

nark

"COPPER'S ŃARK" \

witness-box.

in

Two

young barristers

began. said

Of the 1,000 prisoners, 802 re- mained locked in their cells 10- day, and the noise died down considerably, he added.

Request Granted

An order extending the time to two weeks for the fling of a allotment of chares return of

unct

mude

re- were

who

wns

this sinister three-act play son.

sented by Kal Tak Dramatic | peared.

Defendant, Society during the week-end

by Mr R.W.F. and produced by Fl-Lt T. A. presented

Lodge, relied on Justification, Roberts ав the Astra

pleading that the allegations in Cinema.

the article were true in sub- stance and in fact. He denied that the worÈS were published

and maliciously but falsely averred that his prime motive | in publishing them was to warn the public against being deceived by the plaintiff,

REAL MOTIVE

the

the

Was

many-sided

11

of

cancer

or not

Old Hongkong Newsman

Returns

In

Split-personally Danny of the Nan Sing Dyeing Works portrayed by Cpl. Lloyd who, In convincingly Ltd of National Bank Building, the difficult role,

by the Senior presented was Pulsne Judge, Mr Justice E. H. villain; at times, lively, suave, obliging. In and AS she waited a man came up

Williams, in the Supreme Court charming to her a coloured man,

The convicts spent the night | this morning.

moments of remorse, he was a whom she knew by name.

a temperature It was stated that the failure pitiable, hysterical human being

In this morning's judgment "Hey, you copper's hark," without heat in

Mr Justice Reece said he was was due to end in his mad moment, com- whose of 30 degrees. said the coloured mon,

asphyxiated the old posedly

Eatlsflert

Mr that the real motive

Harold Guard, original Swenson said he is awaltingle the return name was Abdullah.

lady with cushion.

behind the publication was manages of the Hongkong Bureau applicants "He said what to you?" asked the "psychological moment be inadvertence.

The

in the Important Mrs Britt

professional jealousy as the de-of the United Press and now the learned clerk in the Thames fore moving in to restore com-

presented by Mr Patrick Yu,

fendant felt that plaintif attached to the London office,

the court. for that

loud enough is where this plete order.

had encroached The violence. In Stillwater instructed by Mr A.M.L. Soares. role of Olivia Grayre had

arrived in Hongkong yesterday on his special the course of a flying tour conversation finished up next

Mr Tu told the Court that clear, level and pelson flared up, after five days

treatme of the hall. It

through the Middle East, South- was the who neld-that" 1949,

"Whether or not the sid, Hey, you copper's of unrest, when the prisoners the Company was incorporated voice to be heard at the back until October, 1951, the spoke all the key phrases and

tered them with unassuming dant or the plaintiff is qualified caust Asia and the Far East. Margaret sald, drawing were told there would be no in Hongkong in August,

to treat people suffering from

This is Mr Guard's first sight Perself up with dignity, in the further negotiations on a serles enpital

was $800,000 divided

fat eloquence. It was by staring of "grievances they had pre into 6,000 shares. At-a-mect abstractedly

the disease of cancer 1 do not of Hongkong since 1940 when he at the window,

conceive to be any part of my left the Colony to Inaugurate the were tented.

a book with a sigh.

kle duty to enquire into, or upon UP Bureau In Singapore. Although they were told that ing held on October 22 it was silting behind me in the court,

mask-live

He will be remembered by ¦ decided to increase these shares picking up

expressionless, been had worden and now one said to the other; a new

face she sometimes put on, her which I am called to express

Whether

pre-war readers of the Hong- crease the capital to $1,200,000. look of boredom with life, with an opinion. "You find an extreme candour appointed, and that a prison chief by another 6,000 and to in-

kong Telegraph for his amusing this court mit you don't against whose meula they the This was duly done, sald Coun- Laurie, her admirer, that Mrs either or both of these men are

Erbert daily contribution the vublic or causing find elsewhere,” The other protested had been removed,

to unfortun-

un-1ggs." harm screaming convicts smashed win-sel, but through inadvertence Britt showed her acting talent. dimcult rote of

"Mr Guard was a 'notable war agreed.

small fires in the cell-return of allotment was filed. Not Here was the dows.

the ate beings is not within 110

covering the correspondent, NATURALLY ....

blocks, and threw kitchen uten-until February 11 of this year, negative Inaction.

There are when the

THE OTHER ROLES scope of my duty. Company received sils into the yard.

others who must consider these battles of Malaya and Singapore, from the Registrar of letter

Mrs Carpenter 25

and Inter the US Air Force must MARGARET

Swenton, dormer worden at

grave matters, while I

the Southwest heard them and have been Maryland State Prison, called all Companies, were they uware Bramson, the neurotic old lady,

confine myself to the considera-activities in at ilmes did not sound as old as trying to live up to the reputa- off-duty guards de duty and that no return had been filed.

made to look. Her

of whether the article Pacific. tion. "So naturally 1 swore at blocked all roads in the prison

that applicants she was Bald

was make-up was somehow unsatis published is defamatory and If it is, whether the defendant has Abdullah," she said, "Then he area as soon as he took over. Bommented the fact that

an offence under the Companies factory. But on the whole she (Mra

justified it by establishing It Ordinance not to have filed was good, Mra Terence

and in was true in substance return, but they pleaded that it Wales) could not have been

fact," said the Judge was only through inadvertence more natural as the cook and that they had neglected to do Mrs Warnes, as Dora the victim placed themselves in of Danny's seduction, was fully 220, and

actuate, Capt E. E. his Lordship's hands.

Mr. Yu agreed that the mat- Kennington, as Hebert Laurie, out of Ume for provided occasional humour to ter had been

the otherwise grim play. In the well over a year.

cort also were Cpl. Balkin as the Lord Chief Justice and Sgt. JUDGE'S REMARKS

Wales as Inspector Belsize, of Indo-China andt

His Lordship said that it was

Credit must go to the producer successfully Ambitious the business of people who took for a Chinese Communists

the management of effort. In part kept sumciently

ascertain public companies

before de- April 10, 17 and 18 at the einwhere, he said what the law was

likely send more ciding to Issue new shares. It Missions to Seamen-I, La Vietminh rebels in was not a

might

Have

hit me in the face, and 1 went Associated Press.

through the

hand.'

window with me

true,"

"Nol

true, sir, not Abdullah cried from the dock. Ho was there charged with

causing grievous bodily harm to Margaret, who had a bruised lip, and cuts on her hand con- sistent with having pusheti it through a

glass window.

"Look, sir, this woman come

What Dulles

Said

(Continued from Page 1)

In and insult, ma mother," sald Abdullah, when his turn smo position

It the

ΠΟΙ

to give evidence. "Sho', I hit Korce. her, but I don' cut her, I don' do tha sort of thing. Tha' were woman just core in dead drunk pinned down

they would do you think heald to the

Indo-China. asked Mr

He Не

and insui ma mother."

Why

should pick on you?"

Leo Gradwell, the magistrate,

"She always take it to pick United

He called as a witness, a cheer.. of

pointed. ates

cose

to

of a company out that the just starting; the applicants were

1940.

They hud 'farporated in

on business as a public

30

on, me. sub," said Abdullah supplied amly about 30 per cent company and in 1951, two years

the arms and equipment

issued new shares but did not. small-built promised to the Nationalists for after they started business, they

the

procedure laid curry out down by the law,

ful, bouncing, coloured friend, who supported the past year.

Ab'ullah's story, but the case was found proved against him.

THE PRICE

NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST:

A

Mrs

The piny will be repeated on

tion

.

PUBLIC RIDICULE Ho found that the article as held a whole, unquestionably tho plaintif up to publie ridiculo and that he had suffer-

Radio Hongkong

IX.T.

6. Time Signel and Programme Sun- mary: 6.02, Children's Half Hour presented by Belly Ann (Studio); The Magia Shop-A Story by H. 6, Wells (BECTS): 6,30, The songs of Rudolf Friml;" 7, South American Cuban Merry-Go-Round -- Lecuona Doys (with vocali: 7.30, Varisty Fanfare from the North of England Weather Report; (HBCTS): 7.50 8, Time. Bignal World News and News Talk Londoneek-Alexander Artist

of the Uninsky (Piano); 1.30, Guess What? A Quit Programme compered by Rosemary filchards (Studio); 2. Á Day in the Life of....The Kovernor of a Colony-A Talk by Loyd Mliver- Iơn, QCMO, (BBOTS}); 2.15, Cos- certon-Concarlo for Maree Hary- sichords and Orch, în C 17. 9, Bach)-- Vienna Chamber Orch. cond. by Anton Heiller, Concerto No. 4, în ♬ Minor, 05, #1 (Vieuxtempe)-Kohadi

in (Violin) and the Philhar

cond. by

Balay] (ecorded London

Razor Attack In Church

Paris, Apr. 12. An English woman, Mrs Edith Mir Dulles thought the United Is Lordship said he felt he Ball, 69, was slashed across the States might have to try to de-

and would be going a long way if he face with a razor blade by an velop some fresh policies

more granted the application, but in Italian woman in the famous ale perhaps spend

this case he was prepared to do Church of the Madeleine, in «TT. zeems quite clear," said money in these areas,

Go although with considerable the centre of Paris, today. He said the situation waz hesitation, He issued o warning

The Italian woman was held and that it quite precarious and the drift to people who took part in the by the police lives in FortisBind: Fores Show

unfavourable tó was not done in self-defence." is dangerously

management of public companies

Mrs Ball, Abdullah, it turned out, had us."

that in future cases they must Green Avenue, East Flachiey said peaco Mr Dulles been to prison once before-for

be procces according to the pro- London, was not seriously hurt tho Arab unlawfully wounding. His career tween Zarvel and

Ledure laid down. otherwise had been varied, states was an

had her cut dressed In essential ele Counsel and he was grateful and refurned to her hotel after He suggested the United to his Lordship and added that having tier. ranging from docis labourier to ment being a ballet dancer. Now he States could help the people to- he would convey his Lordship's was sent to prison for three wards

and remarks to the applicants.

"I come quic, Good

hit this woman,

· months.

better economic physical health.

told the

Com- He throw up his hands In Mr. Dulles

his milteo he planned to attend the gesture of defeat, and

of the North friend went back to the dock- Paris meeting sido street, the

On Treaty Counell tough and Atlantic tourist-frightening street, to tell April 23 and later visit Var Middle and them there what today's price Near, was of even a little violence. ** India and Pakistan.-Reuter,

the

Exhibition Closos. This Evening

10.00,

Werther Report: 11, Radio News feel London Relay): 115. Good night Music: God Bave The Queen¦

Close down.

Boy Mountaincor Killed

Two US Warships

Interiakoon, Apr. 12. Arrivo In Port

A sixteen-year-old London Two American naval vessels, schoolbay, D. Palmer was killed. The first pubile exhibition of the destroyer Buck and the this afternoon while climbing the Law and Sayer collection of transport Lenawee, arrived in the Harder Mountain mer Here.

7. Palmer fell 200 yarda: down pictures of old Hongkong and port this morning from northem China closes at 7p.m. today. It waters on a recreational visit the mountainside onto rocks at

2,200-ton (dis. the bottom and was killed. in being held at St John's The Buck is a

and the Ho is belloved to have tried to Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GRINHAM for Cathedral Hall. Up to Saturday placement) vessel

Eebawea is 6,700 tons (dis- make a short cut and flippedem,

| Reuter. placement), and on behalf of South China Mominy Post Limited at 1-3 over 4,600 people had been to Wyndham Street, City of Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong view, the collection.

Mr Guard expects to remain in Hongkong for a week, after which he will fly to Tokyo and Korea,

pm.

and

Blam, Malaya, Indonesia, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, India. PIEL tan, Middle East. Africa, Great Britain & Europe, & p.m. CPA/ B.O.A.C.

By Surface 9 ami ◊ pmm. ##

Macao,

Hòn his

TUESDAY, APRIL 14

L

By Air Indo-China, (Tonkin only) 8 am.... Via C.P.A.

Indo-China, France, French North West Africa, 430 pm. Air Viet-

LLESZI.

Japan, 8 pm. T.AC.

Dy Kurface

Macap. 9. am; 6 pm

Le

Hore Tak Shing.

China, People's Republic, 930 m., train via Canton.

North Borneo, 9 km., m Hew song. Philippines, Ceylon, Aden, Midde

East, Great Britain Europe, 11 am.

Autolycus.

Indo-China, i pan.. sa Helikon, Malaya. I pm. sa Hel Wong.

WEDNESDAY, APEI. 15 By Air

Philippines, Quam, Hawaii, USA.

·Canada.: 8-ming-vin-P.A.D.----

Indo-China. Malaya. Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, a C.P.A.

Formosa, Japan. 1 p.m., C.A.T. Butma. India, Pakistan, Middle East. Africa, Great Britain & Europe,

pm. B.O.A.C.

Formosa, Okinawa, U.S.A, (Now York). Canada. U D. BRA N.W.A.L.

Japan, p.m. 3.0.A.C.

From The Filos

100 Years

Agor

A daring gang of burglars remo to be going the rounds of the town nightly, and scaréely a morning passes without reports of houses being entered," "Mr Brooks of the City Hotel Mr Almada, Mr Brown, Sergeant Murphy, and Mr Duddell, have all been robbed within a few. days, while the only thief caught was in a China house in the western part of the town, and he received a severo beating from the inmates before being handad over to the police,

PIRATICAL ATTACK

OWINT

and

ΟΙ

On the 27th ultime, a large junk, on her passage from Hainan to Follen, was attacked and captured by six pirate Junks near Масло ono plundered of 70 pleuis Bicho de Mar, 400 piculs of Betelnut, 200 bags Sugar, 50 barrels Snuff, 200 plculs sticlae, besides $100 in allver,

50,000 copper on Monday last the

- BAW some of the pirates engaged in landing their booty at Chin-tsa-laxy, that long straggling village on the opposite side of the har bour, to which the informer Ma-tsow Wong lately threaten- ed to carry off the girl Akew, azad near 'which tho two officers were attacked from the Pekin

months

ago. tion was made 10 the

chler Majestrate, who, however, coull in tho do nothing

further maker, that give the junkmen

laster to

Kantoong the authorities-with what erfect, has not yet been ascertained.

On the 31st, a junk laden

by was taken with charcoal pirates and her crew landed at Fan-ching-chow,

Ashing- On the 4th, two boats were seized of Man-san. On the 7th, a trading junk was captured outside the Ly- yil-moon, and one of her crow burnt with a stinkpot; she was pillaged, and afterwards her proceed

some

a

then allowed | voyage.

to

on

A

A LETTER To the Editor of the "Chins Mail."

Sir, Will you oblige ma by directing some attention, to

ameful practice among would- bo-called sportsmen in Hong- out of kong, of shooting scason. It is true. that be fore and after

the long:sum- mer beats, one is only too, glad of a ramble over the hill on a cool day; but surely that

lover is no excuse for any of sport breaking through the rules absolutely necessary for the protection of Game, especially in a country where # scarce, I have been told that though. the pairing season has long since com | 2005O

have been menced, Pheasants

is Bo

By Burface MACAO, Dm; 6 pm., a Lee. colony who Hon/Tak Shing.

"What's His Line?" Solution TV ANNOUNCER London Mapress Seroke

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

"This special meeting was called for blood donors, girls. it's up to each of us to promiss a pint of our husband's

blood!"

shot within the past fortnight; and that a gentleman in the went to some ex- pense in casting adrift a num ber of Quails on his grounds found a person or personsione morning hard at work papering away at the poor birds, which were scarcely able to ny after their temporary captivity. I hope this hint may

the have effect of shaming the parties into more sportsmanlike be baviour in future; but should It not do so, I shall probably have something more to say, on the I am, subject. Meanwhile. Sir,

servant, GAMEKKEPLA,

your obedient

บ

AND ANOTHER TE

To the Editor of the "Chine-Maù," St.--I hope you sotend to take some, notice of the detention is the Post Office of the Mall letters by. the Achilles til alter the departure of the Erin. It seeme to, mo that adelafenīte the Postmaster and h might have deprived themselves for choe of a night's rest to serve the public and eneblo them to answer the letters. There is prodly o merchant or merchant's_clerk in Chiria but has berasionally to do without slowp for forty-eight hours. end, why should not the "Post Office clerks do so Ilko-tusse, Why? Ure interests of the community are int atake? One would think they might emily make up for it in the corSO of the fortnight- intervening betwee the malle, during which they spint have Hile else to do but count their Angerem,, Bir yours; fruty.

... A SUFFERER.

[22] 'Editor's Commentari

THE Steamer Achsics "" arrived. here on Sunday evening at 3 o'clock. with the English: mail, but the boxes wern not opened before, afternoon of the following day, nor Thorleiters by delivered, untiť

which time, the Erin! miist been well down, the Chiew:non!! We therefore rondly, siva, insertion to The above letter, considorleg 4 the wriderintifled in y his complaint. It would be tod: much, however to. expect such. Iabour from ang-pubile Event whatever; · kad·|-boiichen. Ara the prmount, instunog, the Portmanlar Ja very ·'Idir: excuro,'ikes the SEnet of his chief” sasietsent bothɛ] to/img- land, while a second is khanhé, on: duty in Ointon' and the 'third'da sickbett: ... sbc ;, thosKRVÍGÍT V Dlocoa have been temporárky, tized Sather carmot : Da Lexhead thecnaghy Hing soʻmunis Wot Boeur.ocsad” do, ki