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Stolen Banker's Draft
Receiving Charge Against Ex-Clerk
A former temporary clerk of the General Post Office was fined $250 and bound over in the sum of $500 for two years by Mr Lawrence Leong at Cen-
for re- tral this morning ceiving a stolen banker's draft drawn on the First National Bank of Green- ville of the United States.
ty
Hongkong-born Chung Kin-
sang, 25, pleaded guilty to the charge of receiving the draft, No 1-31802, on February 1 at the General Post Office.
Det. Sub-Insp. D.R. Harris, prosecuting, said
the last bank
He
that during month a numbr drafts had been stolen
of
from the General Post Office. said, that Chung received draft in question from
the postman
Yly Tong who had since died after jumping from the Fire Brigade Bullding.
Insp. Harris said that the draft was for US$25, and that it was cashed by Chung's father
of business. He In the course
the defendant had added that been of great assistance to the Police in the subsequent investi- that no loss was gations, and sustained as the draft was re- covered.
Mr Leong, on pressing sentence,
would take into he said that
.the fact that consideration
sisted the Police
in their investigations, and
that
no loss had been sustained.
"hung had
Failed To Renew Licence
Д
CHINA MAIL
Established 1845
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1953.
The New Pakistani Government
1
KENTNER, THE ENTRANCER
So thunderous was the applause at the end of Louis Kentner's piano recitals last Friday night
the
of
This photo shows the new Takinlari Cabinet which was April 17, with sworn in on
Governor General Paklatan, Ghulam Moham- med. Left to right: MA. Gurmani. Sardar Bahadur Khal
A.K. Brohi, Moham- new Premier), mad Ali (the the Governor-General, Chou- dhry Mohammad Zafrullah Malik, A.M. Dr Khall, Mohammad All (there are two Mohammad Alls in the Cabinet) and Dr Ishtiaq
that even the tawny Mexican maid, eavesdropping fissain qureshi,-AP Photo. from the grey mural of the Empire Theatre ceiling, seemed to shake. No other concert pianist has received à greater reception in Hongkong,
treble.
ALLEGED MURDER: TRIAL
TWO
OPENS OF
BRITISH SOLDIERS
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
From The Files.
100 Years Agoni
The trial of two British soldiers accused of killing a NAAFI woman employee in the New Territories on December 22 last opened before the Puisne Judge, Mr Justice T. J. Gould in the Criminal Sessions this morning. The two accused soldiers are L/Cpl George Robert Douthwaite, 24, of Swainton, Scarborough, and Trooper Douglas Derrick Dalton, 19, of in the streets, though hundreds Southampton, both attached to Headquarters, 35 Infantry Brigade, New Territories,
They murder
It has been a subject of uni- versal complaint on the part of Europeans in the colony, and one of Jong standing, that In cases of assault and robbery
of Chinese might be looking on, the offenders were per- mitted to escape without an ar belar strelched out to person struck courage and he turned around and ore charged with the course)
went back in the direction where he blow or a
had come, that was, in the direction of a woman, Ho Sze-another person a
apprehend them; but in one mul, a NAAFI employee, whose number of blows with intent to of Camp 01. The taxi-cyclist would
instance lately-that of Captain này thật họ lonked back and now body was found in a ditch off do that person serious hurt or
the Pestonjer men on the sido the road Montgomery of he motor and leading from the injury, or with the knowledige standing beelde die woman who was
Homanice-a bystander reckon. Fanling Cross Road to Sek that the blows must cause quatung down. The smaller man was
ed without likely teen holding deceased's arm, trying
his host, having Kong, New Territories, on the serious hurt or injury or likely lift her up and that she resisted. been taken in custody, examin afternoon of December 23 lost. to cause serious hurt or injury, After the tax)-cyclist went away
ed, and committed for trial; on the that in law would be murder, no one saw exactly what happened. The Crown alleges that
altackers, whoever thes charge of misprision of felony. accused who were on bicycles, It was not necessary to prove only the
knew what
This proceeding Beems 10 after intercepting deceased who either intention deliberately to might be
Matter
have alarined his country- was a pillion passenger on a kill nor was it necessary to Hootan said, but modica!
rubrikaton would give the i, several of whom petillon- bicycle on a road to Sek Kong prove premeditation, said the in his
Jury a fairly clear iden.
ed the Chief Magistrate for his Comp attacked her with a pair Prosecutor.
The Police Surgeon who examined discharge, of course ineffectual- of handcuffs causing wound on Mr Hooton said that evidence the body on the spot and sub-ly. The arguments they used the head from which no died would be called to show that the equently made a inore detailed
Inferred from may be three days afterwards.
two accused launched attacks examination at the mortuary would Hillier's reply, copies of which Charles E. Losoby,
say that the deceased had a number QC, with a pair of handcuffs upon the of cutting wounds on the forehead were posted up in the markets Mr instructed by Mr A. M. L
doceased woman.
principal thoroughfares, Soares, is appearing for the
OF SCENE PLAN
a translation of which we first accused, while Mr D. A. L. Wright,
Giving an indication of the thage to set in, and is the doctor's
opinion the haemorrhage caused by annex. It severely animadverts Instructed by Mr. scene and the layout of the -the injuries had eventually resulted on the apathy displayed by the W. C. R. Carr, represents the rounding country Mr Hooton said in de opinie also the Chinese in every case in which second recused.
that (on a plan handed to the wounds were so eccolour their own persons and property Appearing for the Crown are Jury at the commencement of the mess but that she would have lived are not at stake-especially in- Mr A. Hooton. Solicitor opening) there was a road run- fier those injuries for same two stancing fires, when, with few General, and Mr G. R. Sneath,ning along to Kam Tin village to to three days. The time of death Crown
the right of another road
Mr D.
happy
that to the deceased,
cvidence
and three deep cuts or the top of the head which had caused haemor.
would cause iminediate, unconscious
GOVERNOR Macpherson and Det. Insp. R. F. ran downwards and a few bun- December 2
VISITS HOSPITAL
Smilli
down.
H.E. the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham GCMG went round the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital at Sookun-85 poo this morning on annual inspection tour.
the
1.5
on
CASE FOR Crown
The
The
D
wounds
were
Win-
and the
and
And
merc
Mr
Reply to the petition of Shop- keepers about Lo-achol.. The regulations made by the shopkeepers are very good, but
zust them the shopkeepers selves enforce compliance with them and manage their own affairs. The English law will not be affected by such: TỪ, gulations, and will be, enforced against my, persons
who, wil- fully disobey it.
What is said about Lo-achal, is very foolish. Another person sat with him at his money- changer's table, so that this cash would have been fully protected had he done his duty and assisted the person who was rotbed. Moreover, at one time he said, that bo neither say rigr hosrd anything of the robbery, of any disturbance at åll; but at anoitier, that he saw a souffle, but did not know what it was about, Truly, dew the affair occurring only: feet from him, he must have been bilnd or deaf, not to bave seen or heard it."
slightest on the morning of exceptions, not the
assistance is rendered by the crowda who flock to the spot, from the
CURVED WOUNDS In dealing with composers of
were present for the dred yards along it
The doctor would explain that the with intent to pillage, or for Through Kentner's consummate
main road near Kam Tin was a Pellee. the
wounds were curved in shape and the School,
gratification the Ilungarian Bach Busoni's technique,
The Jury Though
com-military camp called Sele Kong: that the woux had been rulleted curiosity: empanelled "Choral Prelude: Now Comes planist was supreme.
The two accused were stationed by something with a mail surface prises six men and a woman.
by The Bartok number. "Sonatina"
the ALITHO weeport. became the Gentiles Saviour"
Earlier, a woman Juror whose at Sek Kong Camp at the time of d
{Tenta which he inter made, aflame, not with a red glow of was not particularly appealing
of the name was called to serve on the the alleged offence, he said. on Asri hearing because of its brilliance, but with the fire at
It was also by coincidence afer example with the base
similar marked | handcuffs made in sublimity.
Jury objected to capital punish- harsh harmonies, Lucid
it neverthe- Intense
woman wound as were on the head of the the
ment and was allowed to stand camp where the dead
was employed as an amah in women. texture and slow in tempo, the less showed to advantage meditative mood of the piece pianist's rhythmic precision. His
the canteen, but there was no doubtedly caused by a pair of hand-
cuffs, the Prosecutor alleged. vorc by stacentos
wonderfully conveyed
significance in that and it was The woman was wearing a pair of was convincingly
clear. rendering erk
und
Kodaly the pianist's artistic of an even bass, whose sombre
In his opening which occupied not alleged that the accused had trousers fastened by a card or girdle of Maresszek" "Dance's
display-
the Police back and
Витков chance that the was employed normally at the front but at the lone acted as a foil to the love ed his sparkling versatility in
December 23 lost in the there as an amah.
would also testity that be found ly melodic progression of the making use of key-board effects.
minutes, Mr Hooton said that ever met her there. It was by when found. The cord wax Bed not an afternoon a farmer in. the New The sense of distance A touch of gossamer lightness,
About a mile and a half away certain superficial injuries which Territories walking along a roud cast of Sele Kong was a fork in might well indicate, the Prosecutor ald, that there had been some inter- and dim unreality was created contrasting with vibrant chords:
found the body of the deceased the road called Sam Loong Wal, ference of a sexual nature with the by the
pleasing melody made continuous plenissimo and
ditch. He arrived at the hospital at this a much applauded number.
Mr Hoolon went on to explain. woman. bass,
Turning to the movements of the The
case for the Crown is
said that the Beethoven's Sonata in E Typically Liszt, with dimeult D.30, and was met by Dr the
Hon. K. C. Yeo, Director of this: That these two men did on that corner was Pak Heung secured. Mr Hooton
BOW a first accused had been in a restau- fant camp about 6 p.m. where ha major Op.109, with its rugged | syncopaled rhythms the Mezeppa | Medical and Health Services, Mri murder this woman and the age where there was
thenew Police
road grandeur
ran north-appeared to have taken some re could not have been was most impressive. And the
Li" } freshments, Evidence would be with Es- cuse
which the planistung Hon-chu, Chairman of the allegation is that between 7 and from Pak Heung more poignantly played,
Board of Directors of
Tung 8 p.m. on
д December 19," the castwarts for 41⁄2 miles to given by Trooper Honeyman that pecially lovely was the Third handled the intricate-fingered Wah group of Hospitals, and the Solicitor-General went on, "the cross-roat, l.e. a new milltary he and both the left Bek Chan Pui, 28, master of
Movement where the "Andante measures showed his supreme rest of the Board well as two accused pulled Fo Sze-mul road which would be referred Kong camp about 0 or 6.10 p.m. on December 19. They went along to wooden cargo junk was fined aniollo cantabile" and variations mastery over the pianoforte,
she was ons Route 2, he said. off permanent Advisers to the A
That the camp at Kam Tin where they total of $50 by Mr T. B. Low at
Board,
as a passenger rond was slightly billy in parts. hired cycles from a shop. The was riding pillion acting Matrons, Miss cycle on which Crystalline curity, Marine Court this morning for occurred.
par S20-to Pls and Miss Lau Chi-journeying along a military road Near Pak Houng was a hill about 6.30 or 1.05 p.m. failing to renew the lcence and
Mr Kentner's reading el the mount quality in his technique
to another camp and near the top of it by the three men then set off on the
cycles for Fanling. Honeyman had a having Inid his junk, alongside four Chopin Scherzi was parti- was especially evident in the lin, the Medical Superintendent from a camp
in Kong-
Sek
aide of the road, just off the broken right arm that day and he a liner at inore than the Afth cularly touching. The B minor encore "La Campanella" where of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, ade Dr C. K. Wong and the Secre
her "Having pulled off the main road, on the bottom side had difficulty in riding the bicycle position abreast.
Scherzo (First) far from being Me Kentner virtually
made
they subsequently hit of it, the body of the de- and as a result he fell behind the and
a realistic tary, Mr Weng Yan-chau, Nippont Was Liszt'a composition a
he started to fall behind and scherzo structurally only being Imitation of bell Soundis The
The H.E. was conductedTM round her on the head a number of creased woman was found. This lounge suited for wing Pak
Then, it is said, that he has three-four beat. The
second encore was "Chopin's'
Those blows rendered her un- Tin and Sck Kong, and 11⁄2 After reaching Fanling he proceeded bars of introduction, a principal "Black Keys" Study. Sponsorer? the operating theatre and most blows with a pair of handcuffs. was about 2% miles from Kami later he lost sight of the two men,
the road from Fair to a dance hall where he was to howly arrived in the Colony, of the wards, including the conscious and they left her for miles up
meel the two men but they were warda, those IOT
Hunt
Polico Station, Mr not there. After walling for about and do not know the customs. subject, a Trio of great beauty, by Mr Harry Odell, who was maternity and a short, development
dend." Mr Hooton said.
the two accused But the customs of all countries 10 or 15 minutes many tuberculosis responsible
general patients, tion, then a return of the open-musical celebrities
The Prosecutor said that the Hooton added.
arrived, benentting wards containing surgical and
In such matters are
sume. the ditch be-
Turning right from there and say this straightaway that it is Ing theme. There was a section Hongkong with their recitals, medical cases,
it permitted the children's deceased lay in
to people to or so the case for the Crown, that the
overlook comparable to the B major Mr Louis
rob, stent, and murder in one Kentner will give wards where he asked about side the road unconscious until going along for a mile
about December 22 when she was Fanling. From Sek Kong reason Honeyman
comrades was because at the time
country and not in another? episode in the B miner le another recital on Chopin music several of the inmates, and the succumbed to her injuries and to Fanling was about 71⁄2 miles no went past the top of the hill for octaves. In the elaborate on Wednesday.
Docs The pianist is busy Receiving Room. Coda, the planist emphatically reputed to be a great exponent
not every one see that died.
by the shortest route.
they were down by the side of the "Evidence, would be called to
road killing this woman." the Pro- such things are wrong in them- WOMAN'S MOVEMENTS summarised what have been so of this composer-Irene Log. The party then proceeded to
secutor said..
selves? The prohibition of them Giving the deceased's move- Nurses Home, show that deceased died on or
HAD HANDCUFFS the new Todd
in written in the hoarte, of: all shook about December 22 and not on ments on the day of the alleged They then went to the dance hall expressively said before.
where
the Governor
men. So is it manifest to every Mr Kontner's sensitive
the in-attack, Mr Hooton
said that and remained there until about handy with cach nurse and the day she received
man that when his fellow.man delicate phrasing was even more
be given that midnight. Evidence would be called sister of the representative juries which eventually caused evidence would
and That Douthwaite had in his possession is robbed and ill-treated. Icft camp evident in the Second Scherzo,
delegation who were
Ho Sze-mul Ined up her death, he said.
potit on that evening a pair of handcuf
he be within reach and able The accused were charged mid-day that day. She was seen with a round base. "He deposited the familiar B flat minor.
then sat greet him. H.E.
tance, looks on to render assistance, Chopin-was not wayward and
for the official plcture with the with murder because according off by the manager of the can them with the office in the dance
allow the crime, and permit hall and collecfed them when they in this, but sunny and: perverse
Pro And
Jaw (subject to any teen there who originally met to the
gave her left, he alleged. The Police took Child party who had 6.02
the offender to escape, he thown said, that the actual owner of unusually cheerful with opening gramine Summary:
himself who bors of gay triplets, The Third ren's Half Hour presented by Sally him, together with nurses and direction which his Lordship small errand to do to collect possession of the only pair of hand-
The Coronation of sisters. the Junk was his uncle
might give to the Jury in due some flowers at Camp 01 which guts in the Sek Kong Camp and Dr name of man. This is written He did Scherzo, also in minor key, bo our Queen, (BBCTS), The Child-
was at the other end of Route 2, the Police Surgeon made tests
with them. animation under the ren's Messages (Part 6.30. The his came an
Evidence would show that Mr Hooton said that he would in every man's heart, and it is skilful fingers of Mr Kentner.
deceased went to Camp 61 be call evidence from the proprietors cowards only who obey it not
ng af bicycle shops in the district of But it is only Lo-achol, who seen there at Un Long that no other Europeans is thus guilty: there have about 1.pm, that day by the
occurred many instances of a similar kind. During the fire that
light
In
the
"Another-charge-of-falling-to notify the change of the owner- ship winst Chan was disraiss- ed by the Magistrate on ground that no sale of the junk had been conducted In change of the ownership.
the
The Prosecution sald that on Sunday morning,
defendant's Junk was found alongside at the
position
Eixth
By
n
abreast
the
Es President Jefferson moored buoy A4. The Police dis- covered that defendant had not renewed the licence which had expired on March 31, and that his name did not correspond to the name of the owner
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Thursday last
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Alleged Assault By Soldior
in
Pte Derek Charles Keeling, 27, of 66 Company, RASC, was remanded for eight days military custody by Mr T. Cree- don at Kowinon this morning.. when he appeared on 'a' charge of common assault.
The defendant was alleged to have assaulted Yip Yuk-ching at the Lung Hwa Hotel on Sunday.
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Couso she was
that sh
about
سلط
any
to be unworthy the
in
hired bicycles on that occasion, so gardener, there who in fact gave that the two accused kind the almost committing her some flowers and a cardbox, unique opportunity of
About this time "it appeared we had speed bantun Honeyman took place some time gigo,
jagged - sho-decided to go back to There was further evidence that although it was Chinese pro- that was burning! and her
camp at Sck-Kong, because Douthwaite porressed that pair of
Honeyman would handeuiffe,
that Chinese live inp outside the camp then were
for that the beginning of the cycle danger, not a number of men with cycles for Journey Douthwaite took them
would stir & Onger to her. Apparently
was pocket and shook them at whom thing else but save his own pro Friday
cyclist and said he would "pus thom in the Army, said the in the moriceyhouse." pay day Solicitor-General, and these taxi The trial o continting. cyclists would
normally rel good business from the soldiers on those days. Evidence would show that the deceased woman hired one of these cycles about 6.80 or 0.45 pm. that day and rode as pillion passenger on her way back to camp Route 2, which was the shortest way back.
along
AB
perty. They refused even to assist in pumping or \'enrrying water, though Englishmen work- ed hard, and two English officers
were
Goes For lost their lives, whilst others severely injured Let people say whether this was acting like men!
Joy Ride
A young English seaman was
The journey was somewhat slowAned $30 or Afteen days by Mr
say · on
Thus people may be robbed
and murdered in the streets, may
be drowned at the landing- places, and no Chinamah will
the tax-cycle would that Hin-ghing Lo at Central this raise his arm or wet his foot to peraions the deceased hai to get of morning when he pleaded guilty save them. How very lament- the cycle and walked because it was to three charges of driving a oblat d
too much dor him to push her uphill
on the machine.
He would say that when they came
motor-cycle without
A valld
without the owner's near the top of an incline after about consent and without third-party three-quarters of mile of the
Journey he saw two Europeans | insurance. approaching on tireles opposite direction. The men J
fa
The defendant, Brian Hough,
dressed in soldiers uniform but haan Able Seaman, 21, of HMS their caps removed. They appeared Toman committed the offences to be in a joyful mood, he witneer when, be took the motor-cycle would say, "they were dinging), but without the knowledge of the when they saw the taxi-cyclst and
the girl they dropped off their owner, Cui Yuen-chung,
Reds' Proposal Unacceptable
Pasmojom, Apr. 27
The United Nations delete, ati Lieutenant-General Willam
blcross came over to his cycle and went for a ride along Connaught Harrison, told the Communists the taller of the two, whom the Road
Crown Allegod was Dadjon, took hold 745 pan
of the handle-bars while the spaller
of the two, whom the Crown allowed!
Central on April 25 at here today that their alapoint proposal to molve the prisoner issue yesterday@luwun The defendant's Commanding of
Ya Douthwaite, proceeded to pull Omeer, in mitigation, told the "neither reasonable -hop--| con- the deceased woman off the bleggja Cours that he had been" In the Atructive?
The Promectator added that tho faxI
cyclist cold not downtity then man Royal Navy for six years, during
General Harbor
which time, his conduct was Communists' rejection of Sw11- The taller man then proceeded to good. The defendant has arrived zerland as the neutral custodiar drive the taxi-cyclist AWAY. MA liooton mid that the taxi-syuist die in the Colony only fast week was a strange. One indeed," betsypens to be mispan of gisai from Cheshire, England, as Itouter, v
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