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JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
Galahad
At Eros
young
Twas passing
American
through
London on his way to Paris and Rome, and on the night of his arrival here, he asked a native: "Tell me, where
Americans do most
go,
when they've a spare night
in town?"
"Plecadilly Circus," the native dourly replied.
"Fine," said the young Ameri- can, "we'll go see that,”
It was late in the evening, but
andeterred, the young American, whose name was George, and who by profession was a painter, set off to see the sights of the Circus. Along with him went
shipboard acquaintance. an Italian returning to his country after studying TV in America, who was staying In the same who hotel
Neither of the pair had been to London before, though George had spent a year in Continentul Europe, and what they expected to find at Piccadilly that time of know.
Circus at night, we do not
CHINA MAIL
OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
Everybody Upset By New Basic Wage Climb
FROM H. KING WOOD
~Sydney, Apr. 28.
Australians, basking in the warmth of an Indian Summer and feeling fat and comfortable about life in general, were jolted back into reality this week when our basic wage did' another quar- terly climb.
The increase ranged from 2/- to 7/-. Sydney gets 3/-, making the basic wage the silly sum of £12.1. Australians have just about reached the screaming stage over these periodic rises.
The boss is screaming because this latest rise is going to add another couple of millions to the wages bill; the Government is yelling because it is going to cast another £3 million to run the country — and the worker, who is going to pay for all these millions — is adding his voice to the din.
The basic wage is something|slum room and a half-starved
inflation life a man who used to have an existence is what occasional drink, but gradually done for them. became an out-anti-out drunk-
has
Men on fixed incomes feel it-- ard. The story ul how It and so do those who get the In- strayed from the straight and creases each quarter. The experts narrow path goes something like say that from now on it is going to cost them an additional 3/- a week to live, but as soon as this is put into the pay envelope the a shilling F
this:
tax-man frites
1ws before he starts.
BRIGHT LIGHTS
WHAT they did find was the
Way back before World War 1 Wat before
the-the lowest wage to be paid to a morning-after midnight scene. married man with wife and There were gaggles of teen-age child was fixed by the courts,ore-to the worker is behin girls in pursuit of the inter- wast'l fancy sum. allow- All in all, the worker doesn't national servicemen set; strayed for no particular luxuries want these rises, and the first elderly civilians feeling their way just three meals a day, retail in the basle wage will be home after tremendousli essential clothing. with a few cheered on all sides. celebrating this and that; police pen
pence thrown in for fuel and vans discreetly parked In side-so forth. This was to be the
in
IL
HARD BLOW
ready for mopping-up wage on which all wages would This last rhe was a particular- host of elegantly be based, the amount beingly hard blow for one mon-the young women distributed | "loaded" for skill.
R. G. Prime Minister, Mr fixed pairs in the doorways of closed
That basic wage was
Menzies, The Prime Minister is shops,
at £2.10.
barnstorming the country Over the whole, the neon signs
court the Having fixed t flashed their messages and the then decided thot it should wooing voters to send to the
Scnale on May 0 of fortunes his friend observed the interest-the country, so a strange device/Country Party
didates,
bright lights shone. George and fluctuate with the
Ing scene for a few
1
moments,
now
the Liberal-
group
of can-
"C Series Index' called the
So finely balanced now is the then went to a cafe and had each was thought up. This index is
Senate
■ black coffee, to take the taste a list of all those items on which voting procedure of the
from that at best the Government the wage is based, and away.
the can hope only for a majority of "Where now?" they sald to its mysteries each quarter each other. "Home."
they court registrar announces what two; at the worst it could have But which way did the wage will be. decided. home lie? They neither of them knew.
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
O they went up to one of the elegant young ladies, who had temporarily left her door- way. and was taking the air on
She
BEHAVED WELL
Like that moderate drinker, the wage behaved very well for
Sometimes muny
years,
a minority of one, but is far nore likely to break 50-50 with Labour.
This would mean that al- though the Government would keep the government benches in went down sixpence, then up the Senate, it just wouldn't
Under anything. menn shilling until, 1939
it
at the
and 5f
our
nd reached £4.1 a Constitution the Senate president week-quite-reasonable in the has only one vole, and motions a street corner. They asked the light of the growth of the with a 50-50 result are con way back to their hotel,
sidered lost which means that hnd hardly begun
her country.
During the war years the the Labour Party could hold up answer, when up swept a black
going money bills police van, front which leapt a basic wage first took seriously all but number of police
One, to drink. In 10 years to the end through the Chamber, officers. a sergeant, came up to the girl of 1949 it had increased £2.11
quite
reasonable on the corner, took her arm, und to
back, but at that time we were told that the country The girl made no demur, but could never stand it.
next 12 By the end of the George was appalled. It seemed
sak: "Come on you," or words / Jon 28.12.
to
tha! effect,
to him that he was the cause of months-1950-the wage
the
girl being arrested.
The
was
£8.5: the Lour quarters of 1951 saw adjustments of 8/-, 7/-, 13/- Galahad in him was aroused. "What you taking her for he and 14/-, so that at the end of
caid. "I was just asking her....
"You with her?" the sergeant a base rate of £10.7,
never
All the experts agree that an evenly divided Senate will face the Prime Minister after May 9,
Menzies has but. Bob backed away from a fight and is.batting hard in all States,
His war cry up to last week Government's that the
taxation policy had beaten inflation-that the medi savage
Was
1952. added another 30/-,
but because you 11.17
nsked. "Yes," George replied, making
and next moment he, as well as
the girl was in the van, while the last quarterly rise had been announcement estimated
dawned
his Italian friend looked on with only 2/-,, the thought wonderment, not having under- stood much that had been sald. GEORGE PROTESTS
thank
Established 1845
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1953.
POPULAR GAME IN HOLLAND
No name has yet been given to this new game, which is now proving all the rage in Amsterdam, Holland. The gume is played by two teams of five a side with a ball in the form of a “blown" egg. The players puff and puff and blow the egg around in an effort to get it into the tiny goals at the ends of the table. - London
Boy Falls
Off Train
A 12-year-old school boy, David Anderson, son
in
BES
of
An army officer, residing the New Territories, injured critically when he fell off an in- bc- coming train shortly fore 9 a.m. today.
The boy was coming in his schoolmates to with attend school when the accident
occurred Holl's Wharf.
near
It was learned that the boy was resting com- fortably and that be will be transferred to an army hospital.
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סכוגבי
to
C.P.A.
the year the boss was paying cine was nasty but the patient
was-doing quite nicely,
Then came the basic wage
the Government's that inflation might at last behave cost 100,080 voter. At no
This was strengthened stage did
Senate chances look rosy, but benten.
only 1/- a rise of
in this by
wago rise in the basic February this year, and a fall seems to have given them on had been tipped for this week.added kick in the ribs. American citizen,"
But it went up 3/- to £12.1 George protested. But the-an £8 rise in 14 years.
No one can
mad stop this von drove off. Before it had gone more than a few yards, however, merry-go-round of wages chas-
another thought. ing prices and vice versa. someone had George was told to get out and in the hands of the courts and go away. "No, sir," he said "I'm can be stopped only by a court
I'M
an
going to see this thing throus t
Next morning, at Bow
ire pleaded not guilty to
decision.
ing the police sergeant in the scam
It is
Dairy Farm
Meeting
"PLAIN HELL" obstruct- A basic wage of £12.1 might
to be Utopla to some The 53rd ordinary yearly
Dairy Mir people but to a vast number of meeting of the
Farm, execution of his duty, Frank Milton, the magistrate, Australians today It is plain Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd. hell. They are the people who was held in their registered was told the whole story.
retired on a handsome pension George is a hefty, dark-haired 10 a week in, say 1038. morning, when the Report and
Windsor House, office. young man, from whose. face a Today, down-at-heel old men, statement of Accounts for the wry pleasant smile seems never they are taking jobs as messen-year ended December 31, 1952,
or distant; he told his story
to build up that was adopted unanimously. becoming diffidence, and ger "boys"
now-near useless £10 to a sum The
Company's report.
with
I insisted."
""
question
that
this
ended it: "I'm only here because that will help them aco out their published last week, revealed
days.
the net profit for the year The sergeant was invited to
him. "Why?"
Old age pensioners, the people who battled to make this couture amounted to $5,180,089.23
record one, demanded, "did you ask the way such as is da, are trying to exist Mr J. D. Alexandler (Chair-
this girl, when there were on a pittance that is only a frne- police about?", His lone sution of the basic wage. A tiny man of the Board of Directors) gested a closed shop system governed, the giving of street directions.
from
MY INTENTIONS...,
Mr Millon saki: "There's conflict of evidence here that I
proposed the adoption of the ond this report and accounts
seconded by Mr 0.
Col
THURSDAY, APRIL, 30
By Air
Express.
ANOTHER KENTNER
TRIUMPH
Temperamental Chopin, with all his moods: melancholic, sardonic, whimsical, stormy, passion- ate, ironic, still proves to be the favourite com- poser among Hongkong concert-goers.
Chopin-lovers, after a two-hour programme, refused to leave their seats after the fourth encore, which also was a Chopin number, when Louis Kentner, celebrated pianist, gave his fourth recital in Hongkong, at the Empire Theatre Just night.
Neter has this composar bcen better understood than by Kentner, who, with his finished
in- artistry, brought out the trinsic beauty and poetry of Chopin's music.
Failed To
Perhaps it was the extreme Rejoin Ship
lightness of touch, the art of making a planissimo note heard
Sheaffer's SNORKEL
| Soldiers' Murder Trial, Continués
Court Hears Alleged Statements By
The Accusede
Evidence of enquiries made into the case and the taking of statements from the two accused regarding their whereabouts at the time of the alleged crime was given at the Criminal Sessions this morning by Det. Sub-Inspector R. F. Smith in the murder trial of two British soldiers.
Mr Justice T. J. Gould, Puisne Judge, was told by Counsel for the Defence that Counsel for both sides had reached an agreement whereby certain passages in the statements of the accused were to be left out of the evidence.
At yesterday's hearing, His walle and asked him to sign it. Lordship had ruled that the which he did. statements were admissible as In his statement, which 'In- Evidence on the whole, after spector Smith read out in Court, hearing legal submissions by Douthwaite said he joined the both sides in the absence of the Regular Army on December 12. Jury.
1049, On April 22, 1951, ho,was Regarding certain portions of berland Fusillers, which
drafted to the Royal Northum
unit the statements which the De-BASE fence had submitted were pre-
was then servicing in Korea. Judicial to their case, His Lord-After he had served in Korea ship had suggested that both for seven months his battalion sides got together and see if they was shipped to Hongkong. * could agree whether these por- During May 1952, the state- tions should be used in evidencement went on, the battalion re- turned to England, but he him- Accused are L/Cpl self was posted to HQ 35 George Robert Douthwaite, 24, Brigade, and had remained there of Swainton, Scarborough, and ever since.
or not.
Th
Trooper Douglas Derrick Dol- ton, 19, of Southampton, both attached to Headquarters, 35 Infantry
Brigade, New ritories.
HIRED BICYCLEŻ
Теге On Friday, December 19; ho left his camp about 18.30 hours
They are charged with the and booked out with Dalton and
murder of a NAAFI woman cmployco. Ho Eze-mui, 33, whose body was found in a ditch of the motor road lead ing from the Fanling Cross Road to Sek Kong on the afternoon of December 23, 1952.
CROWN'S ALLEGATIONS
Honeyman (a wilness for the Defence). All three hired out bicycles from a cycle shop near the Kam Tin Restaurant, and they cycled to Fanling, arriving there about 10.30 hours,
The other two men and him- self then went to the Paramoun! Dance Hall at Fanling and stayed there until about five minutes It was alleged that the two before midnight, when they accused Intercepted the deceased cycled back to camp by way of who was a pillon passenger of routo No. 2, which was a short on the road to cut. He did not see anything a taxi-cyclist Sek Kong Camp, and that they during the return journey. attacked her with a pair of
The statement went on to say handcuffs, causing head wounds that he, as well as the other from which she died about three two were in uniform. He was days afterwards,
never drunk, that night. As a rule he never drank.
First necused is defended by Mr Charles Losoby, QC. in- structed by Mr A. M. L, Soares, Inspector Smith said that, in while the second is represented reply to his question, Douthwaite by Mr D.A.L. Wright, instructed told him he only travelled along route No. 2 while coming back by Mr W. C. R. Carr.
The Prosecution is conducted from Fanling.
Witness went on to say, that,
by M Mr A. Hooton, Solicitor- For failing to rejoin the ship, Ceneral, and Mr G. R. Sheath, the same day, he interviewed the at the back of the hall which Schmidt Helmer Jessen, 22,
Crown Counsel. Inspector R. F. made him such a
Wha present for the second accused, who also signed successful Danish seaman on board the ms Smith Interpreter. "Berceuse" (Cradie Mathilde Macrsk, was this morn-Folice.
his own statement.-.-. Song) his third encore, was aing sentenced to imprisonment, The Jury is composed of six The statement, read out in Ane example. His highly not exceeding six weeks, or men and a woman, Imaginative execution of the until arrangements has been piece: the lulling effect, the made for his repatriation or re- rocking movement of the cradle, jol
jolning his ship. the striking recurrent pedal The Prosecution note in the bass (Dflat occurring Court that the
A
a.m. on April 28.
Court, said that Dalton solned
Inspector Smith gave evidence the Army on September 20, 1951. that during the course of his as a National Serviceman. Ito Investigations into the case he was o single man. Arriving in
number of people, Hongkong in interviewed a
1952, he number of state-stationed at Sek Kong.
Tas
hours
צטי
told the me Mathilde and took a In every bar of the entire com- Maersk arrived here at 2 a.. ments position) was all too eloquent. on April 20 and moored at buey went to HQ 35 Brigade at Sel on December 19, last year, he
On December 20, last year, he -About 18.30 to 19.00, The pasange of runs in chromatic All. Defendant was silli ол thirds and the sweet grace-notes shore when she left the har-Kong for the purpose of inter-left camp with Dalton and
viewing various in the treble were espodally bour at 5
people there, Honeyman. The three of them appealing.
Defendant gave himself up and among whom were the accused. hired three cycles of the Sports
Witness stated that when he model and rode to Fanling reported to the agents. Jebsen arst questioned Douthwaite he DEEPER FEELING
No. 2 Ho & Company the next day,
10 did did not at the time suspect him way of route Deeper feeling
not pass anybody on the road. of the com-
representative of the of being implicated in the mur- They called at the Church of poser was demonstrated in the agents tuld defendant would der. He took a statement from England Service Canteen at Lwa Sonatas, B-fint minor (Op rejoin the ship when she Philippines, North Borneo, G.-353 and B-minor (Op 58). The turned from Indonesia in June.. which he read it back to Douth-stayed there about half an hour rehim and wrote it down, after Fanling abut 10.30 hours. They Slam Malaya, Indoneels. Australia, famous third movement "Fun- New Zealand, Burma, India, Pakistan, era! March" hall-marked rked Middle East Great Britain and
Kentner's power to create the Europe, 0 p.m., C.P.A.B.O.A.C.
Гоппоза,
shades Okinawa, USA. (New finest
of lone. York! Canada, 4 p.m
plenissima notes were unrivalled. N.W.A.L.
The echo of the last, step of the
Was coin-bearer
completely Macao, aan., p.m., as Leo Xon expressed by the Anol note on Tak Shing.
the piano.
The four ballades
were in lighter mood. In each Kentner Slam, Burma, India, 10 a.m. via fidly expressed the lyric clement; cach was a narrative poem tell- Indo-China, France, Frendt Northing of the joy and redness of & West Africa, 11 am.. Ale France, life. Or the four the G minor as the best. sm. C.PAJA
Formosa, I p.m, C.A.T.
planist
T.A.C.
By Aurface
H.K.A
. FRIDAY, MAY I By Air
Japan, U.S.A., Canada. 11.30 (Op 23) appealed
In this single plece the. Indo-Chma. France. French North brought out melancholic phrases
& West Africa, 430 p.m. Air Viet over and over again in varying
W
N. Borneo, Australia, New Zen-expressions, sometimes in under- tong, sometimes more assertive. Africa. It was an under-statement of 0p.m..intense emotion.
land, a pm. Q.E.A
Siam, India, Pakistan, Great Brati & Europe, B.O.A.C.
By Surfaco
sweet
The "Bacarolle" (Op 80) con- tained some
flowing Macao, 9 a.m.; o p.m., as Lee melodies suggestive of the lap- long/Tak Bhing.
plog of water, and the gliding China, People's Republic, 0.30 am, trala vía' Canton.
of a gondola, it certainly called for imaginative interpretation and high technique-Irene Loo.
Malaya, 1 p.m.. as Hol Wong. Slam. 1 p.m., is Anne Reed. - Indonesia, & p.m. Tiwangi, Philippines, em, sa Benvorlích.
SATURDAY, MAN Z By Air
Philippines. Guam
G.U.S.A.
a Wood.
J. D. Clague proposed, and And Impossible to resolve,, The Mr G. J, Edmonds seconded, the Y Intentions were wholly case is diamissed."
re-election of Mr G. E. Marden honourable," said George, "Thank you, sir," said George, slightly affronted by the impll- and he left the dock, from which and Dr the Hon. S. N. Chou
Directors, and the confirmation cation he read into the question, may be obtained one of the best of the appointments of the Hon.
Both he and the sergeant were views in the world of justice J. Keswick and Mr J. H.
Hamm unshakable in their two versions being done, to resume his sight- 03 Directors, of what had happened, and now seeing.
Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICE GRINIAM for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.
P.A..
B Canada, 0 S
S'hai Dockyards'
Hawall
L
-via
Hawaii, U.S.A., 5 pm. PA.A. Stam, Durma, Pakistan, Middia East, Great Britain & Europe, p... B...C
Canada,
Heavy Loss
A net loss of liK$2,119,384.80
for the year ended September Formos, Okinawa V.3.A. (Scattle 30, 1952, was announced at the & Western States), pm, H.K.A.N.W.AL By Barines Maono. 1.30 pm; 8 păm..., as Les Ton Cuc Sh
Ciday
People's Republic, 9.30 Together Mesere Pent, Marwick, Mar. 6 pro.. tram via Canton, chell and Co. were re-elected
Siam,11 A.. de Yukikawa at M Auditory on the proposal
Indonesia. Nyon, as Tammari, Major S M Churn, secondled by
Jada, Canada, I p.m... Bartin Bakke. Mr A. D. Wylle.
Annual General Meeting of the Shanghal Dockyards, Lid, held at noon today at the offices of Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
with the debit balance of HR3083,021.10' for 1951, the total dobit balance to be carried forward to the com- |ing year is HK$2,004,005.99.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
· !!That looks like Margle they „pushed: Into the mud,
puddi
· How'd she over got so popular with the boya?
and then went to a dance hall where they slayed up to about midnight.
While at the dance hall, ho saw a trooper whom he knew and two others in the street. The three of them hack a bicyclo esch, and ward it, the statement
About midnight,
went on, Dalton and his com- panions left the dance hall, and rode back to camp 'by way of Lok Ma Chau. They arrived about 00.48 hours at the bleyclo shop, after which they returned to camp.
Hearing is proceeding, moyd...
Radio Hongkong
0, Timo Signal and - Program Bummary: 0.02, 71'a Swingtime: 0.30, (studio): Portuguese Half-Hous
7 Music of the People The BBC Midland Light Orch, cond, by glibert Vinter (BDCTS): 7.30,Down Memory Lane presented by Alleen Woods (Studio): 7.50, Weather Report B. Time Gigusi, World News and News Talk London Rebris, The Queen's Men The diaralds The second of six talks on Coronation Figures (BBCTS): 8.3 Variety, an fare from the North of England BBCTS; 2, Sports Review by irrig Young (Btudio -0,16, As the Operasm Tosca Purgini) Act JWith: Prins cipais, Chorus and Orchestes of the Accede més Dr Hanis Cecnia," Kane, conducted by Alberto Zredu, 10, Music of the Twentieth Century: 10.30, Composer Cavalcadeiajarume Kern: 1050,, Weather. Report: -1L Hadio News for (London Tay): 11.19, Goodnight date; God; “Bavo The Queen; 41530, Close down3Y
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