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☆The

sweaters and'

skirts of 1952 have given way to gowns by Gorgeous Gussio's own designer. Now, too, thara is on "occasional drink" even * boy friend and gigglos bro definitely OUT.

LITTLE MO GROWS UP

By

LOUISE REID

YEAR age we were call-

Ang her Little Mo. She

went to Wimbledon as the 'woman tennis champion of the United States. Sho went away woman tennis She champion of Britain.

was only 17: small, tawny- haired, not long out of high school, and given to giggles,

Since then the bits grown up formidably. The other day 1 the watched her playing in Kest Championships at Becken- hum. She was very much the young lady. Little Mo hus be- cone Miss Maureen Connolly. She is

inch a quarter of an taller, two pounds heavier. She no longer giggles, smiles quietly instead. To her U.S. and 'Bri- tish championships sho 12

dded the French an Aus- tralian. In the first time in' tennial history that nn 18-year- old has put up

such a chan-

plowship record.

What else has happened to

Miss Connolly during

growing-up year?

Off-the-shoulder

her

She had her frot glass of This happened at champagne.

didn't club celebration. "f mind it. I rather Wked it. in no harm in an fact. There's occasknul drink. But tot during a tournament. It's hard enough seeing the ball as it is." She has picked up new dress Scent Last year fashion did 3101 interest

was her. She usually seen about in sweater, skirt and little check waistcoat, But now, "I just love pretty

adore clothes.

B brought a whole lot of Italian silks over. Teddy Tinling the mai who designed Gorgeous Gussie's frillies) is making me wonderful off-the-shoulder gown for the after-Wimbledon bali. It will be my first off- the-shoulder dress. He's mak ing me a lot of special tennis Everything costumes as well.

motifs will have Coronation

that crown inside circle and sort of thing."

I don't worry

She has mastered the art of 011 a living In luxury hotels

account. handsome expenses When in London she stays in a Park Lane hotel.

All bis are pald by her American and the sponsors,

lawn tennis South Californian associations. Her pocket money allowance is about £2 a day: and cmple for buying lipstick "the, sort of incidentals a girl might want."

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1958.

SEE THE SU

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London Express Servica

BIG MONEY RACKET

THERE'S BIG IN THIS

T

HE Chinese youth

looked somewhat bewildered as he

stood

in

the

By GORDON HUNG

There

number were a

to the magistrate fine him an ottichi, he answered like a reasons why they did this.. $500 for making a false

n.

of

places of birth were unknown to the U.S. authorities and, could not be located on available maps. There was also a ratio of nine to one male births.

Statistics recently collected by crowded court and listened where to questions put to him by

Finding nothing wrong with the State Department from ap- It the facts supplied by young Wu,

for plications

certificates Consulate identity filed in Hongkong The purvok,

uffelal was not might have been for the purpone, the United States

to showed that a preponderance of When he

oppifcants claimed birth on the statutory declaration in his convinced, however, ond made of bringing a brother's children issued him with documents

at San Francisco, Wu day of the month corresponding attempt to secure documenther Investigations into the case. to the States, or to get a bonded travel to America.

to travel to th The matter was referred to the servant in, or strictly for gain- arrives e on hand to meet hts to the number of the month, for

senior was tation

local Police, who arrested the to sell the slots.

..sun.

The immigration officiais example, the second day of the United States as the son of

and brought him young man

Take for example the everything apparently in second month of the Chinese before a magistrate. And thus

All these things, the an American citizen.

the boy entry, calendar. bud one of case of Mr Wu, who want to the order end gave was nipped in the innumerable attempts to obtain United States in the late 1800 Wu senlor then quietly handed U.S. Government contents, In- U.S. nationality by fraudulent at the age of 17. He stayed the boy over to his real father diente fraud,

thero until 1900 and then, Yra, but throughout his helime The United States Consulate in means,

turned to China and married. In the United States, the boy had Hongkong is up against great

to

in

TWO IDENTITIES

an

for

false

His story started about a year ago in a little village in South China, A letter from his father living In the United States instructed him to pack his br At the present time the US. When he returned to the U.S., to go under his false name of odds in trying to crack down on this racket, but they have the longings and Comic to Hongkong Consulate in Hongkong has a he told immigration officials that Wu.

sons, whereas in

100 percent backing of the Hong- at a very large number of applich- he had three

When the person to see a certain

kong Goverment. certain address, who would in- tluns by Chinese claiming US. fact he had only one. He gave, to enter the Immigration and Naturalisa-

Consulate thinks that someone him

his what form

father nationality who want

false statutory has made Investigations by tion Service the names and dates country.

referred required him to do. The father the

Police Into the of birth of his sons, thus croat- stressed in his letter that his the Hongkong

of Hongkong law ing three slota,. two of which TuS young "W" was brought declaration, the case is

the to the Police for investigation. up in the U.S. in son must obey without question violation

American way of life. He served Several people have already been

making whatever this stranger in Hong- dealing with statutory declara- were fictitious.

prosecuted tions have uncovered a number

the war,

married One day Wu met a certain Mr in kong wanted him to do.

of false declarations used Thus the youth came

attempts to secure United States Yee, who had got to the United American-Chinese girl and raised declarations.

States illegally. This Yee wanted a family. There was, however, discovered from citizenship. Hongkong and

10 get his gon in China

the always nt back of his mind the stranger-whom we will call_

to America and he offered. Wu the thought that he was a Yee Mr X-that his father wanted

several thousand dollars for one and not a Wu. But would he him to go to the United States.

of his fictitious slots with the to the authorities and report the But Mr X snid in order to do

understanding that he (Yee) matter? No! He knew that if he this the young men would have

up THERE has grown

would pay for the boy's passage. did, he would implicate his real father and his false to take another name and, fur

Hongkong and the United fees and any olter expenses father,

forty vast racket, which

even as many perhaps all purposes, regard himself as another man's son. This Mr X States a

in returns lucrative

Yee'e сол сите to Hongkong other people. In fact if he did, explained, Was

the inds beenuse had entered the drying to obtain U.S.. papers from Sunwul and sent his new the whole house of cards would youth's father

This explains why a for

illegal father some pictures of himself. collapse. Chinese by United States illegally.

of Chinese are started 3 Millions of dollars He also

regular

number large have changed hands since this correspondence with Wu senior living in the United States under rocket began. It has been a to make appear a "long standing double identities, thor in the sides of the Ameri- relationship between "father" can authorities. TR X then obtained a Hong-

to" Chinese who have genuine kung Identity card

applicant under claims to U.S. citizenship suffer young new. assumed name, the most. Their chances are pre- began

coach

the Judiced or delayed by the many

BOY COACHED

MR

the

and

"I don't have to worry about anything but playing tennis. I his

get up at half after nine, have a

MILLIONS OF $

methods.

1

and "con,"

DUMMY DEALS

Thus

big breakfast-fruit juice und bay up in the family history of false applications, the screening ALL

dence to his new father time he sells one of to his new father. When Mr X of which occupies much wasted

hours'

plenty of eggs. Then over Wimbledon for three practice.

But good art, too

Then a sandwich.

..

a

"After that a light lurich, usually

In the afternoon. I'm match back in the hotel for dinner by olght most nights. I'm in bed by 10 o'clock and sleep 11 hours, No parties during tournaments. Not that I don't like parties. I'm mad about dancing."

made Sho has

the "grand tour" of Europe. "I saw Da Vinci's Last Supper in Rome

or was It Florence?"

Actually

it was Milan. In Paris she went to the Louvre. Also to the Folles and to her first

night club. "I still love tap-dancing, Bing Crosby and light opera, but now I like good art, too."

A honey

She has fallen in love; has a "regular boy friend," 22-year- from her old Norman Baker, home town of San Diego, Call- formin,

"Norman's a honey. No, ho doesn't play tennis, Не rides horses. He's a member of the American Olympic riding team. about After tennis I'm mad riding. I'met Norman through horro Colonel Merry Boy, a- given time by the San Diego Chamber of Commerce.

"We don't plan to marry yot awhile When we do I shall give up tennis Marrloga is, a full- time enreer, and I'wart a family! Perhaps I shall fist do the odd tournament here and there,"

Euch time Wu senior sells one of his fictitious slots, he brings his family history up to date, listing down everything that to the пен has happened additions to his family. the boy's correspon- the coaching material grows cach his

went through

broker fictitious slots. that the youth time.

Others whose wives are dead This Fund Fung. was satisfed could recite his new father's

named

while scil

their wives' sluts to people Mr X is just one of the many looked after the boy family history by heart, he cent him to the U.S. Consulate to people in Hongkong who, acting he was in Hongkong and told wanting to bring women to the

make a profitable him what to do. For his trouble. States. to as brokers, opply for documentation

applicants, when Fung, received a percentage of Some false travel. The Consulate gave the living alding and abetting in youth

The

a statutory dcclaration this illegal business, the octopus the money that passed in the asked for papers of identification form, which he executed before tentacles of which extend across the

the Pacific

and entwine the transaction. Money supplied by by the United States Consulate, during the war or in floods or a local notary public testifying American Continents. Some local Yee was also sent by Wu senior say that their papers were lost.

calamities. This

factor to his now identity.

Later, he was interviewed at import-export firms dealing with to his new son,

American countries aroline is however, was eventually returned out

presents great difficulties to the the United

U.S. Consulate in Hongkong, as it is almost impossible to check the identification of a person who was born in China.

States Consulate.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

"Well, now that. I've got over the, pneumonia 1: caught leaving the Abbey, apart from a nasty burn from a Roman candle at The Naval Review and a bronchial chlil I got at the Fourth of June, I'm fine !!"

transac

to Yee. This "dummy plicated.

tion" was to show the authorities With the discovery of gold in that Wu senior had been sup California in 1851. £ great porting his new son. number of Chiness-the majority

Fung enrolled the boy at a in districts four from the

school under his new surname NO IMPOTENCE Tolshan, Sunwul, Kwangtung: Yanping and

Holping-went to of Wu. Wu senior supplied the the United States, particularly to boy with "coaching material California.

Some returned to about the Wu family's history. China to get married, and after which the boy swotted up a while they returned to the diligently. States to continue working.

. "SLOTS"

NUMBER of Interesting points come to the notice. of a district court Ho After about a year of regular

Judge in Bar Francisco. correspondence and dummy has tried a number of cases in transactions between Wu senior

were claiming which Chinese and the boy, the latter was ready US citizenship. It seemed that for the plunge that was, if Fung in each case that came before

his thought the boy knew THEIR unmolested comings coaching material by heart. The him, the father was an American that the father by derivation; and goings were sudded bay obtained a statutory declara- returned to the ancestral village ly

he executed stopped -in 1802, when tion form, which the Chinese Exclusion Act was before a local notary public. He to marry and a child was born a year; each visit to Chino within passed by the United States. wore to the fact that his name produced another "crop" of sons; Chinese

leaving.

im- turning to the States had to have whole lifetime he had had no

because

visit to papers, and they were questioned other surname.

China resulted in offspring, who male; the officials each by immigration time they left or entered the Armed with his declaration, were preponderuntly country.

correspondence with Wu sentor offspring were all born in an un- ral village; all offspring of the known rural a result false identities and photostatic coples began to be listed in the United dummy transactions, Fung sent survived floods, wars and discare, States

Immigration and the boy up to the US. Consulate and were strong and healthy; and Naturalisation Service. This was to be interviewed by a consular when the children were in their done

by Chinese returning to the officiat. To questions of where midteens, they applied to enter United States and falsely inform he was born, who was his father the United States...

out pointed survey

and

.ro- was. Wu, and, that during his mother was no

-EVOTY

X

ing Immigration Comeals an d and mother, where were they. Another

05 percent of the plaintiffs

the number of children they had born, where were his sisters and

had during their stay in China, brothers and so forth, the boy claimed to have been born in Thus they created what known answered unhesitatingir, having Kwangtung Province, and G2 the Wut family's percent in the Toishnn District. as "slots-identitles in the TNS memorised records.

history, like a school lesson. The villages alleged to be the

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