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JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK
Father's Day
I
His wife died nine months
ago, leaving him in sole charge of three children, aged then 11 years, nine years and seven. And he loved his children.
Life would have been greatly simplilled had he felt some emotion less than love for these children, two boys and a girl. If it had just been affection that he felt, or the mid interest many fathers show. But he loved them. So when their mother died, he put his own heartbreak
about and set aside, enormous job of trying to be to both his children
and father nother.
Various
charitable
have taken
The
the
authorities and organisations would
over the children. them for
father thanked
their offers, and sail he would himself. manage somehow by
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He worked all day for a wh rale firm that distributed choco- late to shops in South London. week. His pay was 28 15s. When he came back from his work in the evening to his pre- fab in Peckham, he put his children to bed, then started un his housewifery. The week-ends he spent mostly in dealing with the family wash.
IN THE PLOT
IS name was, and is, Albert,
lie is a sandy-haired man of 38, and his recard is not quite
clern; 14 years ago, before his
marriage, he went to prison for I days, in part-payment of a £3 fine for embezzlement which he could not raise. But he fought nil through the war and came out with an exemplary character, behaved binnselt and he has since.
Once you have been eenvicted of crime perhaps your scruples begin to rot a bit, and for ever the after you are susceptible to complaint; just as, if you have suffered some uspleat disease. you may for ever be susceptible to allled complaints that can be caught outside the tropics.
of just existing. you know, seeing to the children."
NO RETURN...
"It is not only silly, this," said Misd Campbell, it is wrong.“ She glanced at her notes.
further inquiries should like made," she said. She adjourned the case for a week.
The boy the remanded on bail, so that ho night attend for his National Service medical examination. The driver and Albert custody.
remandest were
ה!
Thai night, his chlidren would wonder why he had not conIE home. Oficials would soon ex- plain to them how things were.
Chinese
Launch Sharp Attacks
Tokyo, Apr. 17.
slammed
·Page 10
The Chinese sharp attacks against six Allied outposts on the west Korean front last night,
aiming their heaviest ones
at positions near Old Baldy
at the mouth of the Seoul
invasion corridor.
The Eighth Army reported company-sized attucks by some 200 men each against Porkshop and Artenal His next 10 ol Baldy. Intense Artillery Are preceded the attacks.
year.
The fighting was reported to be tapering off early today.
The US Seventh Division lost Old Baldy last month in some of the bloodiest fighting of the The strategle Knob is west of Chorwon and 30 miles northeast of Panmunjom.
only. Early reports identifled
target of the Chinese one other attacks Alligator Jaw, also in The contagion of crime bent the Old Baldy sector.
to get Albert over backwards
of the Allied The closeness lorry-driver, who again.
positions siner w and Communit drove loads of chocolate around the loss of Baldy had been
of London, and a boy
17. Wh
who
point of constant friction. was one of Albert's werkinutes,
meanwhile, In the air, California jet ace who was shot down last Sunday and rescued, Look to the sky again und downed a MIG on Thursday. United Press.
included him in a tawdry plot which,
Had everything gone well, could not have rewarded any of them
with much more than 10 apiece.
miscarried, The plot
!! Albert," with the other two. plooded miilty a day later, at Tower Bridge Court, to being
concerned with them in stealing Peron Orders
25 boxes of chocolate, worth
£31.
FOR THE CHILDREN'
The police told the story, and *Miss Sybil Campbell, from
drew
Clean-Up
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1953.
More Troops Arrive In Kenya
Royal Air Force Trans- port Command aircraft recently landed at East- leighe airport, Nairobi, with men of the 38th Brigade Headquarters Staff. Picture shows the first detachment on arrival at the airport. The party was greeted with a gift of 1,400 bottles of beer from
a local brewery.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Soldiers Remanded For Trial
Sheaffer's SNORKEL
Senna Seeds Dispute:
Judgment Awarded
Plaintiffs
To
Judgment for $17,710, damages for conversion of 322 bags (about 556 piculs) of senna seeds was awarded by Mr Justice Gould at the Supreme Court this morning to the Zung Fu Co., of 6 Queen's Road Cen- tral, plaintiffs in an action against Wo Loong Hing godown keepers of 43 Des Voeux Road West.
Plaintiffs were represented by the plaintiffs was to be requisite Mr Orwold Cheung (instructed before any cargo was released. by Mr P. A. L. Vine) and de- tendants by Mr. Brock A. Bernacchi (instructed by M. A. entry was made in the books of da Silva and Co).
Notices
The latest ther of posting. shown below are those for un- registered correspondance partad at G.F.O. Hongkong. The latest which, posting times elsawbare in general, are unfiler than the OP.O. uimas, can be ascertained by enquiry at the local offer,
The latest posting times for registered articles are generally one hour earlier than the times shown below, Particulars regard. Ing parcel mails can certained by enquiry at any post oin.co.
As there was sufficient attorn- ment, the fact that ng new the defendants was not material In the circumstances, sald the The senna seeds were original-
Judge.
The same result would ly stored in defendants' godowns follow if the case be considered in July, 1980 by the Victor
from the point of estoppel- Company. At the end of that the defendants were ertopped
plaintiffs month the
loaned
from denying that they continued Victor Co. $20,000 and received to hold the goods for the plain- as security the godown warrants. endorsed in blank by the
The Judge said that he found Victor Co.
the better opinion would be Plaintiffs claimed that the that the attornment related to godown sold the bags on behalf the whole of the remaining of Victor Co., without reference cargo covered by the
and not to just sufficient goods to cover the sum ($20,000) due Defendants' explanation was to the plaintiffs. 1 that at the request of Victor Co., they had obtained a release Cothe goods from the Bank of ed, certain submissions made by West Africa, 4:30 pm. Air Virt China by guaranteeing payment Counsel as to the legal nature of the Bank's bill of $16,500 in and effect of the godown war- respect of this and when the rant became irrelevant and it Bank pressed for the money was unnecessary for him to ex-
press any opinion on them the bags were sold.
Two British soldiers, L/Cpl George Robert Douthwaite, 24, of Swainton, Scarborough, and Trooper Douglas Derrick Dalton, 19, of Southampto them. ton, both attached to Headquarters, 34 Infantry Brigade, New Territories, appeared on an indict- ment for murder before Mr Justice C. W. Reece, Puisne Judge, in the Criminal Sessions this morning.
Both are accused of the mur-. der of a woman, Ho Sze-mui, a Rent Decontrol NAAFI employee. whose body to was found in a ditch off the Sir, It is disheartening learn in today's newspapers that molar road leading from the In this Colony Fanling Cross Road to Sek Kong rent decontrol
of December on the afternoon i would soon be realised.
To release rent control at this 23 last. hardest
time will affect the
Inclusive
Mr of
Charles E. Loseby, QC (not citizens,
by Mr A.M.L. "landlord")
more than the drop-instructed ping of an atomic bomb will do. Soares, appeared for watch The
Rent Control Committee waite, while Mr D.A.L. Wright, must be held responsible for instructed by Mr W.CR. Carr,
represented Dalton. any consequence,
We must protest against this
Both accused were remanded irritating step in the strongest
for trial.
tonc.
Trevor
It ANTI-ADD-COAL-TO-THE-FINE,
was Inter
that learned Douthwaite and Dalton will ap- Seek Pen Friends
a Judge of the pear before Steiner, GPO Box Supreme Court at 10 am. next 3686, Christchurch, New Zc- Monday.
Interested in laud. Aged 18,
postcards exchanging postage stamps.
la.
and
Williamstown, Victoria, Austra- Len Smith, 3 Lenore Crescent,
Aged 21. Keen on sports. Works with small country news- would like to ex- paper and
body Interested In newspapers.
change correspondence with any-
Official Appointments
Soldier
Tells False
Story
Leslie Morrison, a 19-year-old Buenos Aires, Apr. 10.
of 58 Field Squadron, President Juan Feron today were listed
The following appointments Sapper
fell into the nullah at in this morning's RE instructed provincial governors Gazette: Mr Robert Arthur Nullahi Road on Good Friday, to start a big clean-up within tundle to be an for a 17-year-old,
Auditor, Mr A passer-by saw the incident the party and administration "to Ian MacDonald Lightbody to and called the Fire Brigade protect decent men against bc a Deputy Clerk of Councils who pulled him out. calumny and slander."
the Bench, eyed the three in the dock. The police said of the boy, whe
a handsome moustache: "He
Is due to have his medical examination for National Servies
vice Mr. Terence Dare Sorby, next week." They outlined the He was speaking at the close Mr Li Yun-sun to be an As-
one of a three-day conference of sistant Secretary to the Urban head and robbed him of $40 and te stories of each of the trie.
When the police had done, provincial governors held Council vice Mr Lai Chi-kong. Misa Campbell invited the three annually at Government House. Mr Geoffrey Shervill Coxhead wrist-watch. He was taken to
Each had a story to "There is no doubt there is to to speak.
act аст as Senior Education the 33 General Hospital, where could find spin "I was
no signs of injuries.
boy.
tion,"
"Accumbed the an organised movement to dis-Meer.
Morrison alleged that some- had knocked him on the
the Medical Officer
The following have been ap- to templa credit the Government," he said. said the driver.
"In face of stiff and violent pointed to be Members of the
This morning Morrison ap-
Defendant Questioned
On Contracts
In his judgment Mr Justice Gould held that the plaintiffs did loan money to Victor Co.,
that there was such and guarantee in respect of the Bank's bill.
a
He found that on August 16 when the plaintiffs took delivery of 30 bags of the seeds after the Further cross-examination loan was due and unpaid, they did not request the defendants to of the second defendant took acknowledge them as the person's place before Mr Justice T. J. whose disposal the goods were
held. Gould in the Supreme Court this morning in the action for alleged breach of con- tract involving Indian raw cotton.
The Recond defendant. Piroslin Kavasli Pavri, proprietor of K. S. Pavel and Sons, of 33 Wyndham Street [named as the first defend Dnis), was questioned by Senior Counsel for the plaintiff on various transactions and contracta relating to the case.
Plaintiff is Kekl Edulji Mogra, merchant,
Untori formerly Buliding. He was represented by the Hon. Lep d'Almeda, QC, and Mr D. A. L Wright, boui inuucted by Mr M. A. da Bliva,
Mr Brook A. Bernacchi, instructed by Mr F. D. Hammond, appeared for the defendants,
warrant
In view of the facts, he add-
ADJOURNED TO NEXT
SESSIONS
1
Wong Yuet-han 39, of This they would have Lee Yuen Street West, first floo, been antilles to do, but they was arraigned before Mr Justice relied on an order from the C. W. Reece, Puime Judge, at the Vistor Company. After reviewing Criminal Sessions this morning part of the evidence, the Judge on a charge of using an instru-
manager ment to procure a miscarriage.
remarked that
the
of the Victor Co. Wu, had em- barked upon a course of con- duct, obviously fraudulent.
The Hon. Leo d'Almada, QC, Instructed by d'Almada ead Mason, appeared for the accused. He said that Mr O. V. Cheung was with him in the defence pí the accused.
Counsel sald that dates which
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HEAVILY IN FAVOUR He found that the balance of were heavily in probabilities favour.
plaintiffs and sald of the he accepted their evidence in previously... nopeared to bo
available to him were not now | C.P.A. that to preference
of the
so available and he applied for defendants. After September 8the case to be adjourned to the States) Canada, defendants were well aware that Sessions.
Mr
G.
the
Crown
application,
Polling Station Designated
Notice was
been the godown warrant had
R. Sneath, endorsed to and was held by The plaintif claims that by reason
plaintiffs, yet they paid the Counsel, who appeared for the offered no objec- of defendants failure to deliver 700
proceeds of the sale of the bags Proaccution, bales of Jerita quality Indian taw in so far as they exceeded the tion.
given in today's Granting Colon and 500 bales new quailty
amount of their guarantee to the Indian raw cotion, plaintiff aufered
Vietor Co. He could only infer Mr Justice Recce Axed the Government Gazelte that the a loss of $179.30, being the difference
the Kowloon Polling that the defendants were willing trial provisionally for June 1, 4 site of between the contract and market
Station for the Urban Counci Mogra further claims for the return
to advance any story which they and 6.
Accused, who is on bail, was elections, which will be held on of deposit of $25,000 allegedly made thought would serve them, he to the defendants in respect of the
said.
granted an extension of her bail May 20, will be situated at the Railway until the Arst day of the next Kowloon - Canton latter contract.
Station in Tsimshatsui, Criminal Sessions.
prices.
COUNTERCLAIM
goods at heavy iors.
"I was silly," said Albert, opposition which refuses to ac- Council of the University for peared before Mr T., Creedon "But I promise you I did it for cept the normal polluteal toler-periods of three years and one in Kowloon, charged with caus-d'Almada this morning, Pavti ngreed the children. A few extra quld once we must use the same year respectively, the Hon. John ing a public mischief, and waste that counterclaim be WAE would be to useful for their methods they employ," he said. Keswick and Dr Dorasamy fined $15. clothes, and this seemed an eaty | Reuter,
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Det. Sub-Insp. F. Indge- J Buckingham, prosecuting, fold the Court that enquiries had revealed that the defendant and a friend had gone out drinking that day, and when the accused emerged from the bar, he was drunk and without a cent in his pockets, and therefore could not have been robbed.
Consular Appointments
The Government stated
Gazette
this morning. that the
Mr Justice Gould held there was aftorment by defendants to the plaintiffs in respect of the remaining bagy on September 8 and that the defendants acknow- ledged that they were wrong In putting on endorsement upon the warrant relating to the guarantee to the Bank. This acknowledg- mont indiested that the plaintiffs' rights were to be regarded as having priority. The production of "of the warrent and consent
Tho defendants deny plaintiff's allegations, and counterclaim for damages caused through
amounting to $30,625.07 plaintia's alleged failure to complete two contracts for 1,000 and 200 bales of cotton, thereby decessitating defendants to sell the Under cross-examination by Mr
alloging Mogra owed him $50,000 In respect of goods which he sold pursuant to the plaintiff's directions. That was on account of sales which had teen foncluded by the end of September 1065, he added.
. Further questioned, defendant admitted that on October 22, 1948, he received a letter from the plain- Lin's Folicitors concerning the cotton baler. In the letter, it was suggest- ed by the plaintiff that he (defen- dant had acted in breach of a con- tract by selling cotton bales without plaintifs authority, as a consequence
H.K.T.. of which plaintiff had mutered tosa.
and Programme 1. Time Signal Bone time after this, there was a
Chlidren's Summary: 6.02. meeting between the two parties, and ↑ Hour, presented
Radio Hongkong
by
Sally
Falt
Am
Inter the plaintiff's solicitor wrote (Studio): Pioneers of the New World kim, saying that the dispute had been, amicably settled.
PAVT) agreed with Mir d'Almada that his case was that Mogra had Zone back on his word and had started trouble once more in spite of the settlement reached between himself and Pavri at the meeting.
Hearing is continuing.
Queen's Exequatur has received 18 Die In Two Symphony Orenssin 930,
Her Majesty's signature powering Mr Chang-Jun to act as Consul-General
em-
Park
for
Korea in the Colony: Mr Arthur
W. Hummo: to act a Consul,
Mr. Burton Kitain and Mr John
Chicago Fires
Chicago, Apr. 16.
At least. 18 people died in two 9. MacCracken to act as Vleeres today and 20 workers te Consuls for the United States of mained unaccounted for ino
factory in which America at Hongkong.
"Aros started."
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London with jurisdiction. in them children. Hongkong, provisionally and Both fires were fanned by a
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