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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK:

The Missing Wallet

MEN days before we saw

The Queen To Have A Ten-Day Holiday

London, May 5. Queen Elizabeth, faced with formidable pro-

A

of state affairs two months,

Street, Eddie's young wife gramme died. He, at 24, was left for the next alone with a daughter aged is to take ten days holiday

six.

There were relatives, fortun- ately, who rulled sound and sensed the double burden of his reline and the task of caring for the chuld. and after the

Eri

black sewed a funeral, Datel on his sleeve, put on black tie, art went back to his as a painter for a building Work firm

ג'

Its mother-in-law looked after the child while he was at work; and his mates there, with tact and rough Kindness, did what they could to cheer him up.

HARD LOSS

QUT he took his land hard and BUT

seemed to enclose himself in a kind of shell of misery that ne kind word or gesture was able to penetrale.

Dae morning, shortly after returned to his job, Eddie stole a wallet containing £3 he found in an empty room in the house where he and his mates were working.

A moment later, the wallet's workmate, missed . asked my wallet?" he

HWher a **Seen Eddie

wallet's

Eddie said . The owner checked his pockets; he hunted through the empty room. then he cited the foreman, we called all the workmen together and asked them to go through their pockets,

at Balmoral Castle before her Coronation.

The Queen will fly from Loni- don airport on Saturday after- noon to Dyce aerodrome, near the Abordeen,

continue Journey to her Scottish home by

cor.

arsit

The Duke of Edinburgh will her ut Balmoral Inter, and the young couple will enjoy u few days of informal life way from official engagements.

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she

Tromping the moorland coun- kilt, being wearing the waked by the sound of Senttish bagpipes, and

smelling sweet scented summer flowers will provide the Queen with the for the tranquillity she needs programme awaiting her return.

The Queen will start her rt und of duties at the Common- wealth Parliamentary Associa Hall on May 27. tion luncheon at Westminster

Next garden party will hold Buckingham Palace, and the following evening dance at the Coronation Ball held by the Household Cavalry at historic

Court, Hampton

THE BIG DAY On June 1, he will hold n Commonwealth reception at Juch. The next day is the sig mythe Coronation. She will biondcast to the Commonwealth offer the ceremony and pro- ression.

A look at the rest of her engagements shows how busy a Queen cun be.

Juna 3 brings her slate drive through 'nothensl London-she wi covor the West ride next day-a State banquel and a presentation of medals.

Every day brings an official

- THE SEARCH

proper WE'D better have a

scarch,"

ald the fore man, when this had been done, and no wallet had been found.

For a terrible moment Eddie thought the foreman was about Job for the Queen. On June 7

to run through all the work-she will present new colours to

men's pockets.

But that was

the Grenadier Guards. Next day not his idea. she will attend a gala opera per-

formance and drive

"Get that light bulb down southeast London. someone," he said, "we'll x ;

in the inspection unp and have

a good look round."

To reach the bulb, a ladder

needed,

Was

through

On June 9 she will be at a retta vice at 5: Putt's Cathedral and will drive through southwerl London.

in the doy's Eddie hastily The next four

Hic Queen's volunteered to fetch . He was newly-crowned

will include visit to the a long time away; and when ho came back with the steps, he no borough of Windsor and Elon.- longer curried the wallet in his 'he Coronation naval review at pocket,

Spithead, Eton College fireworks display and then three days of racing at Ascot.

Queen' 'will

The foreman and the loser found it some time later, under a pile of rubbish, in the corner of the building where the ladder had been.

22 On June The start a three-day State visit to States Scotland followed by visits to Ireland and Wales, and HE police were called, and on the 30th she will hold an

arrested. "I investiture

Buckingham

THE Eddie

ARTEST

Was

⚫nt

never tourhed no wallet," he Palace-Neuter.

hitn

cried.

But when they asked again at the police station, he id: "I picked it up by mis- take with my two diaries. Then when the foreman suld search through your pockets and I felt it there. I was too frightened to give it back in front of every-

OP NIKE Moming, before

Sir

Reds Must

Talk Business

Tokyo, May 5.. Lt.-Gen. William K. Harrison, United Nations truce

talles

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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1953.

Hongkong-made Dolls Admired

Sheaffers SNORKEL

CZECH AMNESTY MAY

APPLY

TO Wm OATIS✩✩

London, May 5. A

The amnesty announced in Czechoslovakia yesterday focuses attén- tion on the case of William N. Oatis, American press agency corres pondent, who was gaoled by a Communist court in Prague in July 1951; on the charge that he was a spy.

Magistrate

Defers

Judgment

Catis, the major foreign pri- soner held by the Czecha, was sentenced to ten years, but the court ruled that half this son- tence would be remitted in the event of "good behaviour,"

The amnesty decreed by Pre- sident Antonin Zapolocky frees immediately all persons serving gaol sentences of less than 12 months and youths and preg nant women sentenced to no

reduces sentences in

Decision was reserved until more than two years.

It also the scene of the trafic accident

careless

has been visited when the case certain specified cases, but it of alleged

driving does not apply automatically to "sabolcurs. sples" and some against Mrs Irene Penn of 105 The Peak concluded before Mr other categories of prisoners.

does The decree, however, Thomas Tam at Central this

provide that the cares of those morning.

sentenced for espionage, and certain olher sabotage offences may be reviewed and reduction may be recommend.

Mrs Penn was alleged to have driven her car carelessly on the afternoon of February 6 on Mount Kellet Road. She was represented by Mr H. Caine, Sub-Insp. J. Boxall prosecuted,

Chu Yiu-chong, chauffeur, United

red l,

Thin clause will enable the States Government to fresh approach to the

make

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TUESDAY, MAY 1 By Al Indo-Cluna, France. French North & West Africa, 4.30 p.m., Air Vielam

Japan. 6 p.m., T.A.C.

said that while driving along | 200 Mount Kellett Road at about Czech Government, asking for of the sentence Of p.m. on February 6, Mrs Penn's Otis and pressing for his re- p. 1.0.A.C

review"

car, emerging from a side road, callided with his vehicle, lease. He has been held in gaol

on

the

chusing

damage to

the left

Among the most ad- mired exhibits Hongkong stand at the BIF this year are Miss Ada Lum's colourful Chin- ese dolls. Top picture shows a visitor from India admiring the dolls on dis play. Opposite are Mr P. C. M. Sedgwick, Direct- or of Commerce and In- dustry and Chairman of the Hongkong BIF Com. mittee, and Mr H. J. Collar,

leader of the

Colony's official delegation to the Fair. They were caught by the camera on the Hongkong stand at Earls Court.-London Ex- press Photographs.

Important Eisenhower

Conference

Washington, May 4.

For the first time in the history of the United States the President held a foreign affairs conference today with Governors,

44 State and territorial Taking Up University

At the end of the first day of a two-day conference held be- hind closed doors in the utmost secrecy, it was announced that they had discussed "the over-

of the riding question and security" of Amerlen.

Post In September.

FRAME-UP VICTIM

his left for almost two years.

The Oatis case has been the front mudguard, He added that i

of headlamp the de- biggest bone of contention be

tween Washington and Prague fendant's car was smashed.

since 1051, the Under cross-examination, witness admitted that he did not know that there was a croisroad, and that he did not slow down in Time to avoid the accident. He also said that he was not familiar with the locality, never having been there previously. He stated that he had the right of way, being on the snain road.

Judgment was deferred until Friday morning and the scene of the incident is to be visited by the Magistrate, the Prosecution and the Defence. However, the Andings at the conclusion of the hearing this morning was that Mrs Penn emerged from a side road, and that the accident oc- curred on the main road.

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In Washington und London, Ontis was considered the victim of framed charges, and his so- called "confezion" In court was held as worthless as similar confessions in other Iron Cur- tain trials,

Washington argued that the Communists have a technique which will make any prisoner "confess" to anything. The State Department called the trial

conviction of Oatis “a | ludicrous

travesty of justice.” Whether the Czechs

and

now

"peace

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WHI agres to free Datls may provide a lest of Communist sincerity in the current Kremlin

Blam, Malaya, Indonesia, Australļa, drive," observers here bellove. New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Middle

The Czech amnesty follows ofic Europe, 6 pm, CPA/BOAC

one Emil, Astion. Great Britain and Farmosa, Okinawa, USA, 0 pm.

announced by the new Malenkov Administration in Russia on KKA/NWAL, March 28. But the Russlan amnesty was far more sweeping. It freed all prisoners serving sentences of up to five years and halved sentences of

over five years imposed for non-political offences providing they were not murder or "banditry.

Since first Rumania and then

Alleged

Intimidation

At the annual meeting of the

Insurance Co. Hongkong Fire Ltd., this morning, shareholders of '$11 approved the payment per share dividend free of tax. Czechoslovakia have followed the Four teenagers, two of them They also approved the carrying Russian example and announced juveniles, charged with crimtrial forward to the next account of

amnesties, other satellites may Intimidation, were remanded for of the possibly follow suit.

three days by Mr Thomas flare at $107,395, and payment

of 15 percent staff bonus

of In the event of a Hungarian Central his morning. basic salaries.

amnesty, the British Government The Hon. John Keswick was would presumably press

They were alleged to have for criminally intimidated by threat-

in the chair and proposed the review of the sentence imposed ening to assault on two deca-

the report adoption of

and on Edgar Sanders, British bus-sions, To Shu-wing amit Leung statement of accounts. This was nerman, sentenced in Budapest Yam-king to cause them to do in February 1950 to serve 13 an act which they were not seconded by Mr H. R. Cieland.

Proposed by Mr M. H. Le years for "rabotage and espion- legally bound to do

Мг J. seconded by

age."--Reuter. and

were the tollowing

the Consulting Sir Hon.

Bennett, to

D.

D. J. and W

H. Mr Edmund Charles Blunden, CBE, MC, MA, Committee: the peice (Oxon), FRSL, Honorary Member of the Japan Academy, has accepted an appointment at Hongkong Observers sald it appeared University and will be taking the Chair of English at that President Eisenhower gave the University in September this year.

his senior officials not only an

uncensored view of the state of Mr Blunden, who was Pro- the world but also, in part at festar of English Literature at least, what the United States Tokyo

University from 1924 planned to do about it,

Listening to the Arst-hand

to 1927 has recently relinquish- his post on the Editorial

ed

Laurence

Chief Dunne, the Magistrate, Eddie pleaded not chief Ruilty to stealing the wallet, negotiator, met with the Com- which had been recovered with munists at 11 am. today amid its contents infact,

speculation that he might récess The story was told, and Eddie the Panmunjom truce himself went into the witness-If the Reds continue to "evade" box and said: "They was alla selection of the neutral custo- report were the Governors of all of the Times Literary Sup- { going on about what a dirty dien for war prisoners unwilling trick it was so I got confused, to go home. "I did mean to give it back Gen. Harrison has issued three afterwards,"

warnings that the renewed Eddie's father went into the armistice negotiations con con- box, and said: "He's always brentinue only if the Communists a good boy, and he's had a most fall business. Monday's warn grievous loss,

ing was the sharpest.

all the 48 States, except those

plement.

He was awarded the Hawth- from Florida, North Carolina, orden Prize in 1922 and was Alabama and Oklahoma-mable Fellow and Tulor at Merton to attend because of liness or College, Oxford, 1931-1943. state business-and the Gover- ors of Hawaii, Alasko, Puerto Eco, Guam and the Virgin Islands,

POEM TO PRINCE

Prince

DECIDE

TO

STRIKE

nl

Paris, May 5.

• Merchant navy officers Marseilles decided to come out on strike at midnight tonight to buck their claim for a 44-hour

week.

London, May 4 The decision, which will mean I'm sorry," said St: Laurence, The UN chief negotiator was

Akihito of Japan tying up the great Mediterranean looking at Eddle, "but I don't | obviously disappointed yester Mr James Hagerly, the Pro-received welcome in verse port in the same way as officers believe you picked up the wallet day when North Korean Gen.sident's Press Secretary, admitted tonight when he was guest of & Le Havre have already dis by mistake, I think you suc- Nain I ignored the nomination | undes questioning that the honour at a dinner given by the located Atlantic trame, was the cumbed to the temptation to take of Fakistan by the United, Na-Governors were not. lavited to

tlons. United Press.

it.

OFFER OF HELP

"I AGREE with the view we

pressed, that was a dirty trick, I am taking into accousit your lers, nad emotional uprei, but this must never happen again.

Volcano Shows

Washington "for junt a routine briefing."

Japan Society In London.

It was specially composed by Edmund Blunde, the 56- The President's opening date- Mr

year-old English poet who was ment, released to repotlers, re- ferred to the Federal Government to Japan by the British ment's responsibility for foreign Government in 1040 to interpret affairs, but added: "In times like British culture to the Japanese.

An honorary member of the our, the danger to the country Involves the civilian populations Japan Academy Mr Blunden The Philippines Government in the cities and towns and on greetedt Prince Akiliito with this

announced last the farms in our states."-Router.

Restlessness

Manin, May 4.

"I'm going to put you on probation. The probation officer will be able to help you get Another job. He can help you volcanologist with your iroubles. He may be night that the Hlbok Hibok able to straighten you out.” - : | volcano on Gamiguin Island in Eddie, a dir-haired man, who the Southern Philippines had despite a small moustache looks been showing signs of activity not much more than a boy, crept marked by weak earthquakes, from the courtroom. Sir Laurence's tone had been klad, surface rumblings, two land-

had slides, and increased emission understanding and that brought Eddie's tears very near.

"What's Har Line?" Solution

POLICEWOMAN

·LARENT, RAMAti geresn

of

A NEW SPIRIT

verze:

"May all occasions

greet

and

Glers, Your sojourn here to res our

young Queen crowned.”

Arst indication that the concilia- tion commission moeting here

evening had falled. The commission, including re- and presentatives of officers shipowners, was under the chair- manship of M. Jules Ramarony, the Minister for the Merchant Navy.

Le Havre is already led up. Nantes are partially affected,

and Rouen and

DEBUTANTES PRESENTED

Man-kam Lo, Messrs

D Black, Benham, Clague, W. Paterson A. Stewart,

Messrs D. S. Rubb and S. S. reappointed Cordon auditors on the proposal of Mr by Mr G. D. Hung, reconded M. Mills.

Averc

HAD EXPIRED

LICENCE

Summoned for failing to re- new his licence, Chan Kau, 53- year-old master of a motor boat was fined $20 by Mr T. B. Low at Marine Court this morning.

The Prosecution told the Court that on April 18, defendant was off the Yaumati Intercepted Typhoon Shelter when carrying a passenger from Jordan Road wharf to steamer. The Police discovered that the lleence for cfendant's boat had expired on April 0.

Radio Hongkong

H.K.T.

Programiha

d. Time Signal and Summary: 0, Melody with the BLATE: 0.30, Twilight Harmony-

"Prince, pilgrim, envoy dwell

The French merchant navy Ainong us happily av in your own Japen; you find those fiere who offers truck last week at Le Melachrino, and the Orch! First

tell

Hovre for 40-hour week-ooring prosented by Donald Brooks.

(Betty)

Demi-Heure Fran- Their low with few words, but

7.30, 1 their love is known."

Reuter,

calse (Studio): 75, Weather Report; 4. Time Glenal, World News and OF HOPE

The six-verso welcome ended

News Talk (London Relay, 4,15. with this couplet:

"Plano Playtime"-Kenneth Dinley (Concert j): 0.30, Fordes Favour- Washington, May 4.

ites (Londen Beley)10, Busical Note- amoke

President Eisenhower - sold to-

book presented by the Rev. Father The volcanologist sald "Inten-day the Egyptian Government of

London, May 4.

T. J. Ryan, B. (Studio); 9.30, sification of the volcano's activity General Mohammed Nagulh had

Queen held her first "eturn to India"MA" Tature; DIO- is due to the fact that Hibok brought about a new spirit of the "great honour of attending presentation party of Corona-ramme written arid Introduced Hibok is still very much alive hope throughout the Middle East, na proxy to my father the forth- tion year in the white and gold 10 collywood Studio Orobrstre: 10,15,

.of. your state ballroom at Buckingham | At the Bailet-Orduation a

Johann Strauss jenž kliss Symphony and going through a cycle of The Preslicht was replying to cumlag coronation activity."-Reuter, t

Palace today.

cond, by Anal Doru; 1950, Orch More

debutantes riston Orpheus males: 10.50 Ho added:

than 450 "I am eagerly looking for curtaled before her as she sat Weather Report: 11, Radio Nomes (London Halay); 11.10, Goodnight ward to that glorious. event."-on a dala with the Duke of

Mtume: God.dave.The Queens vaika Reuter,

Edinburgh at bar. sale,Router,

Close downs,

Printed, and published by WILLÍALA ALICK GRINHAM for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-8 Wyndham Street, City of Victoring in the Colony of Hongkong.

The Crown Prince spoke of Tho

the arks of the newly ap gracious Queen."

remarka pointed Ambassador of Egypt, Dr. Aluned Hussein, who pre-

Router sented his credentials today

by

Wynford Vaughan Thomas (UBCTS);

Coronation Party The Coronation Party to be held at Shek-O Country Club on Saturday, May 30, has now been fully booked and no further reservations can be made.

were

Two of the defendants Chan Ho-fat, 10, unemployed, and Watt Yu-young, altas Chart Hal-chal, 17, shoe shino boy. The two juveniles are students.

Chan was allowed, ball of $3,000, Watt allowed ball of $2,000 and the two students bhit of $1,000 each.

Det. Sub-Insp, K. s.Van prosecuted..

SIDE GLANCES By

Galbraith

"I'm glad you like your army job as bugler,

chance of you're re-enlisting when your tim