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CASEBOOK
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Angela Director Comes
To Town
thought: Long years of careful, expensive schooling have made her the kind of girl she is.
The garden-party kind of girl, who look cool when all around her others are bothered by the beat. The kind of girl brought to London for the Season, who is homesick the fine for scruffy pony stablett somewhere in the country, that she has out- grown anyway. The kind of girl who always says the right thing. 310 matter how dull that may be, who has, nor needs to have, talent beyond an aptitude for murrying the right kind of young
man.
So you thought, Jooking at her standing thue, pale, J1||, possessed of an old-fashioned type of beauty and n double- barrelled surname.
ROMANTIC STREAK
TRONG thinking, Angela was
WRONG at whe of those places whose passing out parades are held at debutante parties. She lives in the country, but not in a house that hins rooin for pony to be kept. She came up to London in, but not for the Season,
When her excellent education was done with,.
th, Angela went to
work-not as a model, but as a packer in a laboratory, earning £3 58. a week. Presently, she left that job to be a shop assis iant earning
If a week less. She shop for the stage, join- ing a repertory company that pald her 30s. a week.
quit
were
the
the
a very
So far, in her carver (she is only 17 now) she had succeeded. in cutting her earning power by a half, but # more than
streak romantic strom
Man through her, and she was well satisfied with the way things
Kuing. Perhaps she was not good actress or perhaps she was tep good, bist for one reason or too good, sinother, after two months with rupertory company, she abandoned thei Or they abandoned her. By the greatest of good fortune she got another job that could feed her appetite for romance. She
became -secretary to an-pelor---
The actor lived in the country, and as well as answering letters from his Jans
others. Angela, as his secretary, kept an the actor's child, who came home for weekends from school, and mid-week attended his mother, aged 70. For this, Angela received £2 a week and her keep-a grat improvement, Bnancially, upon repertory.
eye
THE
on
IVORY TOWER
Tto town of the very tower
other day. Angela 'came
and
London, July 8.
Colonel Valentine Bou- cher, who served for many years in India, has been -appointed Director of Mili- tary Intelligence at the War Office, it was announced
here today.
Ho receives the temporary tank of Major-General,
He spent 12 years in India before World War II, during which Hime he passed through Quetta at
the Staff College
(now in Pakistan).
He returned to India after the war, but in 1948 was re- called for work at the Wor Office in London.
Major-General Boucher, aged 48, is at present
Com- mander of the 24th Infantry Brigade.
He succeeds Major-General Arthur Short, who has been appointed chief Inison officer for The British services in Australia.
General Short, who is 54, was posted to Ankara and served with ihe British Military Mission | during the Greek civil war.
He is due in Melbourne on September with Mrs Short, a former
officer
in the Women's Royal Army Corps.
He is a member of the MCC, the governing body of British cricket-Reuter.
Culpable Negligence Alleged
Penang, July 8. Counsel for Mrs Evelyn Par- sons, wife of an RAF pilot who dled in a plane crash on May 14 and who is now on trial the murder of her two children, charged culpable negligence on the part of two doctors who prescribed t sodative for
Mrs Parsons
she when
was emotionally upset and had taken in unknown quantity of alcohol.
Flying Officer R. F. Mac- donald denied that his pre- pcription amounted 10 negli- gence but agreed the sedative had an unusual effect on people who had taken alcohol,
CHINA MAIL
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1953.
First Neptune Plane Arrives In Paris
Athens Too, Stages
Important
3-Power Conference
Athens, July 7.
The Foreign Ministers of Yugoslavia, Turkey and Greece meet here tomorrow to tighten their plan for mutual defence and a common front to present to Russia.
The Chiefs of Staff of the three anti-Soviet nations situated on the Balkan under-belly of Russia, have been meeting recently to map joint plans for defence under the Ankara Pact that binds them together.
The Foreign Ministers will
chlefs. There hint as
rations'
consider a report on the military situation prepared by these mill- to the contents of the report bu there has been talk in the three capitals about the of concluding advisability specifle military agreement to | supplement the broad tripartite
paot friendsh
of operation signed last February at Ankara.
41
Drugs Case Adjourned
A case against two Chinese and comen charged with possession of dangerous drugs without a per- mt, was adjourned until Tues- day, July 14 by Judge W. A. Blair-Kerr at Victoria District Court this morning,
defence, cultural
The pact provided for meetings of the Foreign Ministers such as tomorrow's at least once a year to insure close co-operation in A letter allegedly written by the political, Mrs Parsons was read in Court and economic spheres. by-the-presiding-Judge:----The letter stated: do hope you can tell
anyone concerned that what I've done has not been out of cowardice: rather, that, my husband has made me and our children what we
and without him we are nothing.
"I am trusting by my net we may be fogether."
were
was
The US Ambassador to France shakes hands with the French Naval Secre- tary at a ceremony at Orly Field airport when the first of 26 US Navy patrol bombers, piloted by French aviators train. ed in the United States, arrived at Orly recently. The planes represent de- liveries under the Mutual Security Assistance pro- gramme. — London Ex- press.
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Japan, 0 p.m., 9.0.A.C.
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· Lee
Sheaffers SNORKEL
Counsel Alleges Malicious, Ulterior Motive Behind Prosecution Of King
"What should have been a civil claim in a Civil Court has been twisted into a criminal case in a Criminal Court, with the malicious, últerior motive that Jimmy King should be gaoled and ruined for the: commercial, civil benefit of one John Baptist Ipekdjian," said Mr M. A. da Silva at this morning's hearing of the case against James Joseph Osbourne King, merchant, of 20 Braga Circuit, before Mr Poon Yan-hoi- at Central Magistracy.
King, defended by Mr Silva, le alleged to have fraudulently taken for the use of his wife, à sum of $8,305.04 from G. Fal- coner and Company Ltd., November 1850 while being in the position of a director of the company,
In
The Hon. Leo d'Almada, QC.
and Mr. A. J. Clifford, both In-
4 Appeals Against Sentences Fail
structed by Mr A, S. C. Com-dumped overboard by the crew of a junk taking them to
ber, are appearing for the Pro- secution.
The hearing this morning be- gan with an outline of the case for the defence by Mr Slive, in order that the relevancy of his further cross-examination of Mr W. M. H. Seymour might be comprehensible to the Court.
A tale of deportees being bound hand and foot ant
Chinese territory, was told to Mr Justice Scholes in the Appeal Court this morning by 20-year-old Fung Tak-lum.
claimed he was saved from the months for breach of a deporin- Fung, himself # deportee. also received a further nine same fate because he happened tion order. to be related to one of the funk people.
The junk
people
overboard.
"But you pleaded guilty," Mir Justice Scholes pointed out. Appealing against the 12- Explaining how this came to In recalling some of the points month sentence imposed on him be, Loung said that in answer which appeared in Mr by a Magistrate in May for to the charge, he began with d'Almada's opening of the case turning from life banishment, for the
the word "Bécause-" and before Prosecution, Mr. Silva Fung sold 200 departees were on be would go any further, the said that for three years, in- beard the junk on December 16 Magistrate took it to be a plen éluding the material year of last year on their way out of of gulity. 1050, Falconers had bought the Colony. badges from Holdens in Austra- threw 108 of them
In actual fact, Leung main- Counsel emphasised that IIe returned
to Hongkong and talned, the charge of attempted Falconer and Company
dealt reported the matter to Inspector Larceny was a frame-up. with Haldens, and not King. Dowman and Det, St. Lu last year he found work in After his banishment in June The next material, fact, said Fook and they told him he Mr Silva,
However he had to re- Macao, that Falconer would be required as a witness. and Company sold these badges "They promised I would not be
turn to Hongkong because of sick aunt. It was after his to the Hongkong Jockey Club. re-deported and even promised
The third fact was that to get me a hawker's licence," Informer
visit to this aunt that a Police end him and recognised Holdens always consigned the added Fung. badges to Falconers, and
The Judge remarked that took him to the Police Station, to King, said Counsel.
having him of Fung woa arrested in May for talsely accusing
tried to pick his pocket. larceny from the person and NOT REVEALED
-then also charged with breach of # deportation, order. He pleaded guilty to both charges, previous convictions, said Mr There were also. a number of Justice Scholes, dismissing appeal as being of no merit.
was
not
the
Mi Silva then said that text factor revealed by Mr 'Almada in his opening was that
the difference between two sums of A£700 and A£1,100, olieged to have been paid to Holden and Company for badges, was actually taken by King and put into his wke's bank account through some complicated series of bank- ing transactions.
the
TIMEE OTHER CASES Three other appeals. were Justice
also dismissed by Mr Scholes for the some reason.
CAUGHT IN ACT The Judge reminded the ac- cused that he was caught in the tried to run act and arrested after he had away.
A 32-year-old farmer, Chan
of Hung, sentenced to a total six months in May on "two of possession of 1,280 charges sticks of gelignite and 1,000 'de- tonators and 10 coils of safety fuse, appealed against his con- viction
He said that he was arrested
and
later
At this stage of Mr ̧ d'Almada's Lal Hang, 20, sentenced in opening, said Counsel, ha ex-May to six months for return- at a friend's house rected to hear what inferences Ing from banishment, said that pecused of possession of the were to be drawn from this cir- | ho
The Pollee was re-arrested within 24 dangerous goods. cumstantial evidence, mounting hours after banishment. Instead found nothing at his own house | in daw, to a case of fraudulent of taking him into
Mr Justice Scholes held there conversion. These Inferences Territory,
the Police
was ample evidence to
support revented by the sent
him somewhere still in the conviction. The Police gave
were never
Prosecution.
the
the same advantage had been given by Mr d'Almada to
not
13. As
Lee
Court ani
and to the defence.
his
Chines
merely
he
was
to a junk.
Murder Suspected
The accused, Lee Pak-hang, alas Li Hang, 46, and Lee Tong, alias Li Tong, 35, were alleged.
Mr Silva said that he had British territory and while on evidence that the accused ad- Although there is no pre- to have been in possursion of
p.my
possession and in way to report to a Polico milted gained the Impression that the
statement accused arranged agenda for the Foreign 22.5 tacks of raw oplum on Junt
AY, JULY 9
defence was being left in the Station, he was arrested. He cautioned Dccused Ministers' meeting, the Russian 6. The second
By Air
dark, and even now he had to maintained in the circumstances said he had asked his two co- Formosa, 1 pm. vis C.A.T.
should not have that hus been additionally charged with deal- peace offensive
been accused to take the explosives depend on guess-work as to the he almed at them will be consider- | ingin dangerous drugs,
Philpplies Guam Hawaii USA. actual case for the Prosecution. punished so heavily. (San Francisco), 1.30 p.m., P.A.A. ed with an eye to developing a
Philippines, North Borneo, e p.m.,
The Judge noted that Lat, who Counsel pointed out that Mr D. common attitude toward Russia.
F. O'Reilly-Mayne, | C.P.A
although he was now obliged to had a number of previous con- Crown Counsel, Wits for the
Sim, Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, The problem of dealing with
New Zealand, India,
reveal part of his defence to victions, was re-arrested some prosecution, und Mr Oswald Middle East, Africa, Great Britain the Court and to the Prosecution, three months after their Communist neighbour, Cheung represented both accused and Europe. G p.m.. C.P.A./D.O.A.C. Albania, and relations with Itals on the instructions of Mr F. X.
deported: Formoed, Okinawa, 0 p.m., H.K.A/
Also appealing against his are expected to
be explore D'Almada.
N.W.A.L.
sentence-12 months for attempt- along with the possibility of
By Surface
ed larceny from the person---was Mucao, 30. 0
Mr Silva then referred to Yogoslavia's entrance into the
Hongtek Gala
statement made that malice and another banishes, Leung Fal. 23. China, People's Republic, 9.30 am.vlterior motives could be rea- North Atlantic Treaty Organisa-
"Not only is the sentence too train via Canton. tion.
I was wrongly North Borneo, .m., a Hin Bang. sons for bringing charges against severe, but South Africa, 10 am, no se proved.
King
but that it would have to accused," said Leung, who had
What the Prosecullen actually meant, said Counsel, was that it was not permissible for the De- fence to say during this trial, how utterly
how malicious, tross was the abuse of the pro- cesses of this Court.
Greece and Turkey are NATO Missed Their
Mrs Parsons' husband, Flight- Lieutenant Dennis Parsons, was kliled in an air crash in North Malaya on May 14 while on a routine air strike
д against Communist hideout.
That saree night, the Parsons children,
Edmund, four, and incinbers but Yugoslavia is not Darry! John, 2,
found and has indicated that it does
want to be one at present.
Yugoslav newspaper Borba sald in a message today that diplomatic, nelivity by the Soviet Union toward the three Balkan allies "will undoubtedly rank among the questions to be discussed in Atheus.
were
strangled to death in their beds not wa She was caught
Streel,
where she lived in the country. She tried her hand at shop- lifting, stealing a swimsuit other things, and brought to Bow where she pleaded guilty to the charges against her and asked for the theft of a hat from an- other shop on the same day, to be taken into consideration.
Mr R. H. Blundell, the magis- listened to the details, trate,
inquired: "I anything known about her?" ·
then
"There is one finding of guilt, sir," said the officer in charge of the case. "As a Juvenile alit was found qulity of stealing clothes from a shop."
Miss
The magistrate asked Hamilton, the probation officer, to have a talk with Angela, so that he might learn more about the composed 17-year-old who stood before him.
'SOMETHING HAPPENS'
A
1'....
herself as secretary to the actor but I think it is more the general housework she does, than actual secretarial work,
and Mrs Parsons was found with her wrists slashed in her bath-
room,
The triul is continuing today and the defence is expected to open this afternoon. United Press
De Gasperi To Form Govt
(Continued from Page 1)
June 7/8, which returned only a alim parliamentary majority of
of
"It is not difficult to assume that a common atitude will be adopted," Borba cald.
Ship
India, Pakistan, 11 s271, 49 karu.
Indo-China, 11 a.m., KJE Macrak.
Trein
Malaya, Aden, Middle East, Italy, France. Great Britain and Europe, |_ Helan Maru.
Indonesia, Noon, as Tjipondok.
| · Philippines, 2 pan., as bland Mall, FRIDAY, JULY 10 By Air
Pleading guilty to falling to rejoin their ship, Dutch
1wo scamen of the motor tanker Coryda, Johannes Hegendoorn, Star Durma do an, nha ch
Indo-China, France, French North 21, and Francois Van Leeuwen, and West Africa, 18, were sentenced by Mr T. B.France.
11.m.. Air low at the Marine Court this Formosa, Japan, 1 p.m., C.AT.
Indo-China, France. French North not morning to imprisonment
and West Africa, 0 p.m., Air Viet- exceeding one month, or until nom. arrangements for them to rejoin Yugoslavia, In response to their ship or for their repatria- feelers from its all Communist ion had been made. ally, Russia, has recently an-
The Coryda arrived here on nounce that it would welcome left the Colony at
July 3, this year. When she
1a.m. a normalising of relations with the Soviet Union, including an
July
0, the two defendants were not on board. They reported to for the Wanchal Police Station at
three
SOVIFT FEELERS
for
03
2 Bodies Found
In Harbour
He
D
"It does not matter in tho slightest bit, said the Prosecu- Lion in effect, that what should have been a civil claim in
twisted Civil Court has been into a criminal caso in Your
Criminal Court Worship's with
the malicious and ulterior
that King should be and ruined for the com- mercial and civil benefit of one John Baptist Ipekdjian," said
Hearing will continue this afternoon.
Mr Silva,
Radio Hongkong
11.K.T.
16 for the four allied centre exchange of ambassadors partice, which had backed him Russia is sincere in a desire for 5.30 p.m., on the same day, but in
Two dead bodles were found The harbour carly this for the past eight years,
an end to friction. But Yugo- The Christian Democrats hold! slav officials have made it cle failure to rejoin the ship. They man of about 25 was found near Have no explanation of their morning. The body of a young, 262 seats instead of their pre- that they will not trust Rusaid they thought the ship sall- the South China Swimming As- FTER
vious 305, Allled parties, the until there is proof of the an hour or so Miss
ed on the 5th
6ociation bathing pavilion. Hamilton brought
Socialists, Republicans and the Soviets sincerity. Angela
from A representative
the was believed to have drowned back into the court, and herself Liberals, won 41 to give the official newspaper seld, Nothing ship's agents, Asiatic Petroleum while swimming.
In today's Borba dispatch, the went into the witness-box. "This centre a total of 303, a decline:
The body of a T-year-old girl Summary: dus, Echoes of the 6. Time Signal and Programme describes girl, sir," she said,
can hinder the strengthening of Company, said that defendants acceptance of the President's
the Would be sent to Slugrpore was found near the inner sea Theatre: 630, The International Signor de Casperl's conditional the defensive efforts of (Balkan), countries
in the near future.
wall of the Yaumat Typhoon Musical Eisteddfod A Musical Docu- mentary of the International Chorn) Shelter,
and Folk Dance Festival hald 41 charge was slated to mean that they are thus contributing most
Llangollen, North Wales in July to the insurance of peace." he will only formally agree, to
1983; 7, Lucky Dip-Variety Requests form the new government when
Any decision on inviting Italy
presented by Margherita (Studio): he has in fact
Into the Balkon Pact probably
759, Weather Report; 6, Time Signal, already got it will hinge on a settlement
World News and News Talk (Lon- lined ine, and she said, "Some-
up.
don Hely): 8.15, An American looke Signor de Gasperi told
the dispute between Haly and thing seems to happen to me
Joseph at Extrope by
Harach when I come to London, Her porters he will begin his govern- status of this matter is expected wordan,
re-Yugoslavia over Trieste. The A thirty-four – year - old
(ecorded London Belay}; 4.30, Orchestra of the Week-Thế Cincin- parents are abroad, touring the ment building efforts tomorrow to be discussed,
Lai Wan, early this
nali Symphony Orch; 9, Mozart Continent,
They morning. holiday.
morning jumped off the ferry Thoop listeners to Radio Hong-Sonata in Asiador 26331 played by won't be back for a fortnight.
Dr Ales Babler, Under-Man Fal into the harbour. kong who made a note of the win Chorus and Orchestra sings Wilhelm Backhaus; 9.15, Füse Slavens I shall remind you for the ment devoted to social progress Secretary, of Foreign Affairs, is She was crossing the harbour plano recital to be given by Irene Victor Herbert Favourfics doctors to see you" said the and political firmness," he said representing Yugoslavia at the at about seven o'clock, with a Yuen tonight at 9 o'clock will Wednesday Theatre The most pica-
meeting here because magistrate to Angela. "A fort-Heuler.
"She tells me that she's really concerned about these things she his
dane,
on
night today," he did. By then, her parents would be back. For the, Brat time Angela looked dis- comated. Her romantic period seemed to be drawing to its closti.
"I want to form
¤ govern
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