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JUMBLE SALE
IN
N her life Mary has hat more than her share of pain and misery. She has spent
months in many nursing homes and hospitals and could hold her OWR with the best of those-- women mostly-whose small talk is all of the relative merits of surgeons.
A Lallant lost. These, wim, suf- forlag much, put pain in it, place
by reducing to subiect fo a gossip pert graph
When
$1.00
finished
surgeons
hed at last with Mary, sho devated herself to Two interests Her husband who was an inwall too, and good works of a thous public kind.
In the town where the Hyed, people came to rely 14 Mar. chantable argonisers t
The
functions had always the cut- fort of her to lean on. Al sales
of work and jumble soles, gardens parties and bazaars, Mary was always around, as permanent a feature in the estat shy the white elephant stall
ANOTHER GOOD CAUSE
HER
latest
assignment
has
he; to organize a stali in
a jumble sale to be held in one!
of animal welfare.
Mary Have herself
heartedly to the cause.
Rat - Killing
Virus
Prize
Manila, Jan. 13. President Magsaysay ap proved the granting of # $60,000 prix by, the gov-. ernment yesterday to any Filipino or foreigner who can discover a virus that will exterminate rats and witi kili
them outright without harming
Jan other animals and plants.
Announcement of the prise award was made in an effort to solve the cur rent rat problem plaguing several regions in large and fortio Mindanao Is. land. As many an 500 rala were reported to Infeat every 25 square metres in the affected France-Presse,
regions.
Still After
A Fourth Victim
Coxburg. Mies., Jan. 12.
CHINA MAIL
Indo-China War
French Stronghold Surrounded
Rushing Supplies To Defenders
Hanoi, Jan. 12. The strongly fortified Franco-Vietnam stronghold of Dien Bien Phu, some 200 miles west of Hanoi, is now believed to have been sur- rounded by Vietminh forces entrenched in the dense jungle country at the foot- hills of the mountains over- looking the fortress,
Patrol +31* fatigue parties leaving the area are now fired upon within five minutes of entering the foothills from all sides and the estimation in Dien Bien Phu ts
Vietminti Is that between have divisions laying
One
the
and three siege to this highly strategic centre, the cap- 1ture of which would ipen up Communist communications from China to the Thai country and ¦ Laos,
A backwoods Negro trick- shot artist's vow
to tuke The general feeling in French "four white men to hell" High Command clictes le that with him lacked one victim Chi-nih hus diverted about today and Sheriff Richard 40.000 men to the Dien Bien Phu Byrd said, "Unless we are Jucky the Negro will get another man before we get: Dien him."
Bector
Meanwhile, C. 47 transport) prcroft are continuously lund-1
on the cu}} Ing
al strip ot Bien Phu, bringing in reinforcements, supplies and am-
Realents nf this tiny Central | munition. whole-Mississippi farm commskifly kept ||
11 Was indoors or travelled in ned
her it
ights
nexi of
in the forefront of her Tisc Kivups, wondering when she came up to London would appear in the the other day to shop.
20-yeo -ol Eddie Nee's 22 Shopping, she bought
auicemate Jumper calli e
rifle with from a West End store. She which he used to theat matches
held between his wife's teeth. paid for it
for it and waiting for her change.
During the weekend he turned lucked
pursuing the rite on a grocer, a deputy and u posse ineniber Posse members
todiny rondblocks.
an aeroplane and Noel's
Bennie brother
ይሆን attempt to track decay in
Yesterday his down the killer,
hree-room shuck was destroyed! after a gas bomb set fire to it
The hurdy Negro
about mbou enviously, thinking how nier
be if her jumble sale would stalls had as much to offer a The store's counters had.
"I wonder if they wou'd notice. she said to herself, "is there's so much here, they
can't ever sell it all, surely
FOR MY STALL
SHE helped herself to another
Jumper and a
couple
knited hate-not for herself to wear, but to put en her jumble- sale stall. She left the shop.
followed
A stare-deterlive
Mary out. stopped her in the
street rad said: "1 think you have a jumper you haven't paid. for." She had not seen the knitted hats being stelen.
Mary was icd back to the manager's cle ord presently Nexi the police were called. moming, at Bow Street, Mary, a foll woman, with traces still af the pe
good looks her lnesses had drained away, pleaded guilty to straling
valued goutts £4 09. 48.
she said.
quite true,"
* "It's when the police had told thei story to Mr Bertram Reece, the magistrate. "I thought these things would do for my stall."
QUITE ABSURD
"BU
DUT suppose everyone who is interested in Jumble sales
as many people very properly are--were to say to themselves a shop and take what
'I'll go
I
I want?" said the magistrate.
"Oh, I do so agree with you," said Mary. "I do so agree, was
perfectly absurd of me, quite absurd."
"This is shoplifting," said the magistrate.
+
Bea
in
used
was last shirtless the woods, despite the freezing weather,- United Pres.
Sent Out
By Mother
To Hawk
"Dul you hawk?"—"Yes,"
Then why did you plead not guilty?" Mr Hin-shing Lo usked # Chinese boy, charged with hawking.
at Central this morning.
"Because I am a juvenile, I'm only 15 years old." replied the
youth.
Laughter rippled through the Courtroom.
The magistrate asked tho who sent him to hawk and who gave him the goods to sell. "My mother." Wis prompt reply.
boy
the
the
must
At this, Mr Lu warned Court
spectators, "You not corrupt your youngsters. They should be sent to school." The boy was cautioned and discharged, but his $3 worth of goods were confiscated.
Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1954.
Knighthood For Sculptor
Camera-shy sculptor Jacob Epstein arriving one night last week at a West End restaurant. This was the first picture taken of him since he was knighted in the New Year Honours list.-Daily Express photo.
New US Military
Policies
AIR-DROPS Advanced positions around the town are being supplied by air-drops from "Flying Boxears" and some 12,000 tons of barbed wire has already been part- chuted down this way.
With
the despatch of sup- plies now reaching tremendous proportions, the feeling is that Dien Bien Phu can now sland several days against any deter mined
Onslaught of the Viet minh forces.
Stift
Oghting was reported today from southern
three
positions where overrun by the Vietminh re-coptured after bitter 10-hand combat.
This would be reinforced by One x it was at Chomat, about policy, instead of having to try
off to be rearty to meet the enemy's the striking power of a strategle 90 miles
to the south-west Salgon, The second was in the many choices. That permits of air force based on icternational-
selection Soetrang area, some 200 miles to Instead of R
nt military means y agreed positions," he said.
multiplication D{ the west of Saigon and the third
As a result, it is now at Taynih, 65 miles to the north, means,
On the main fronts, the lull possible to get and share more
basic security at less cost." continued,
especially central Laos sector.
Mr Dulles said the Eisenhower Seno, French Union Administration bad appiled bing
Vietnam,
were and hond-
In
the
(Continued from Page 1)
shape
Staff
our military es- tablishment to it what is out
11
strength at
rate which would preserve, and not exhaust, the economic strength of the United States and the Allies.
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Fineline
500"
"RETRACTABLE BALLPOINT PEN
LANDLORD & TENANT DECISION DISPUTED
An appeal against the decision of Judge Blair-Kerr who found in favour of the defendant in a dispute over possession of the Dun How Wah Laundry, of 157B Wing Lok Street, was brought before the Full Court comprising Mr Justice T. J. Gould and Mr Justice C. W. Reece this morning.
Judge Blair-Kerr held that the true relationship between the appellant (plaintiff) L{ Cheong of 1761 Queen's Road Central, and the defendant (respondent) Wong Kar-tong, of 84 Chung Yeung Street was that of landlord and tenant,
to run
The plaintif had claimed On the other hand, continued that he employed the defendant | Mr. McNeill in the Fakin! case
premises his Inundry business, the
included a but al the expiration of the dweiling-house and there was a agreement defendant refused to covenant that Bryson would not Jeave the premises. The de- sub-let or part with posscarlon another fendant had contended that the of the premises, and premises were rented to him chuse that he would give up by the plaintiff,
premises ol the end of the tenancy,
The appellant is asking for a reversal of Judge Blair-Kerr's
ruling, mesne profits and all costa from the respondent.
The appeal is continuing.
Mr John, McNeill QC, and Counsel
Miss B. K. Searle, instructed by Mr F. H. Loseby, appear
for
the appellant
and Mr R. W.
S. Winter, instructed by Mr
P. H. Sin and Co., is for the
respondent
Mr McNeill said that when the care began, according to the Judge's notes, Mies Searle had acid that the defendian had alleged
year,
whs a
#
Criticises
Arrest
"The Police misused their very that the agreement, made on May 12. 1952 for extensive powers of arrest when sald shum, but
that they arrested my ellent," argument had appeared to be Mr Y. C. Kwan before Mr Hin- Lo at Central this morning. abandoned, and the only pole manner in which defen-
a!
the end of the case was
upon the construction of that dant was arrested, without ngreement.
any
the
Stabbed PC Recovering
Oban Ylu, PC 4115, who was stabbed in the chest on Sunday night, and fa now in Queen Mary Hos- pital.
expected. to recover, it was learned this morning.
He was stabbed on Sun- day in Blue Pool. Road, Happy Valley, by s
221AX
whom ho and PO 4099 had arrested for stealing wire, Four suspects have been detained for enquiries,
Extensive searching has been carried at the
out
soene of the crime, but the weapon whloh was used, a triangular file, has so far not been found.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 By Air Thailand, Burma, India,
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N. Borneo, Austrailo, Ne
Eca-
commonsense or sense of pro- Where there was an agreement
porilon, fingerprinted and put on bail of $300, is bound to have the Court had to lock at the the effect of shaking the con- agreement and
construe. Baldndence of the public," continued Counsel, If there Was any Mr Kwan. blatant ambiguity in the agree "Furthermore, I submit, that ment then the Court might look this is not a criminal case and nt the surrounding circum- my client should have been stances in order to ascertain the served a summons," Intention of the parties, but it
WASTED WATER CHARGE was not permitted to ask the
Mr Kwan's client, Tang Shao- parties their intention or what they meant er understand by ming, 48, of 37 Tin Heu Temple Middle East, Great Britain & Maropa, Road, third floor, was charged certain words in the agreement.
with having negligently allowed GAVE NO REASONS Mr McNelli sald that
water to be wasted at the Judge came to the conclusion premises he occupled at 7 a.m. that the true construction of the this mar agreement was one between
W.E.B. Howel, Court landlord and tenant
outlined the and that
case. Wie defendant was not
Ile said that at 7 o'clock this licensee.
But he appeared morning a complaint was re- have given no reasons
Bay and
Police celved at one
View Calling for quick ratification of not know whether he took Station that water was dripping the six-nation European Detence
inte consideration the mass of from 37 Tin Hau Temple Road, community treaty, which would evidence before him, a large part third
ward floor. West German military of which, Counsel, submitted, was
was sent to investigate, saw conlingents Into the
was inadmissible for the purpose wate defence
dripping down the stair- of the decision which the Judge case from the premlees in ques- reached.
tion, and the second floor of the Mr McNeill sa'd that
was flooded.
Cheng Sik-hung, 30-year-old Mrulries led to the arrest of manager of Winter, in the lower Court, in
the Kwong Song arguing the point of whether the defendant, who admitted being Tong Medicine Firm, was fined $800 by Mr, T. Creedon at Kow- true construction of the agree the occupier of the fat.
Mr Kwan then asked for dis-foon this morning for unsu ment was that the parties in- tended to cre
pensation of ball, since there thorised possession of penicillin create a tenancy or whether it was a service agree-
was no case to answer, and he substance and dangerous drugs. maintained that ment, reiled on a modern case, should not have been charged in January 12, the Police
defendant Insp. W. Gulles said that on raided Fakini v. Bryson.
the first place.
the
and Arm,
discovered the Fakini, an ice-cream manu-
This application was made an agreement with copted by the Court, but ball and five ampoules of pethidine not wc-penicillin, somo Part 1 poison Lassistant Bryson permitting
hydrochloride,
IN JEOPARDY
AL troops have been ordered back this concept to foreign policy in Into the town for regrouping the For East by effecting the system of Western Europe, Mr by Genem Andre Franchi. "major transformation" of
theDulles declare:: SUPPLIES CAPTURED
Korean armistice, Vietminh forces there have "That was shown
possible because "Western Europe cannot be no Inclination to come the aggressor, already thrown successfully defended without a out into the open for battle back to and behind his place of defeaer of West Germany. West
Bghting command sen
was faced
and the
arca
with the Germany connot be defended
waiting to see what the rebels pos:4bility that the fighting without help from the Germans,
might to intend to do.
his cwn grent per German participation is excluded Most important event in the soon spread beyond the limi's by the armistice arrangements Seno sector today
methods which the and was
he had still in forec selected," he
said, capture by French Union forces of a considerable amount
ADDED AUTHORITY
"Unl the goals of EDC are
meant that United States forces future peace, uze in jeopardy. were no longer largely com- Distrust between France and mitted to the Asian mainland(Germany Is inflammable and and that this country could be-aircody Communist agents orc which greatly improved its de-national son" gin to create a strategic reserve looking to it as a means for inter
of Vietminh supplies, abandon- The Korean armistice also achieved, NATO, and indeed
ed by the Communists.
A clash was reported in the Moung Khoua
arca, scme 05 miles from the royal capital of Laos, Luang Prabang. A Franco- Vienam wit broke through n Vietminh
attacking force which fensive posture. had tried to bleek its progress.
Meanwhile, all yes are Dien Bien Phu, where the French Unten defensers are digging in in the face of an expected Viet- minh arsault-France-Presse.
Radio Hongkong Red Diplomats
F
did
his
and
land, .m.
Malaya, Indonesia, 6p.m,
China, People's Republic, 8.30 am.
A constable, who Had · Dangerous
him to
to occupy a dwelling-house was reduced to $100 and hear
ing was fixed for 2.39 p.m. on and it was held Februnty 9. premises this was a tenancy in spite of a stipulation that nothing in the agreement should be construed as a tenancy,}
There
were three main points of distinctice between that care tended Mr McNelll. Firally the and the present agreement, con-
in eco-
This
change gives added Mr Dulles expressed the hope authority to the warning of the that at the Berlin conference of members of the United Nations the Big Four Foreign Ministers the which fought in Korea that if this month, the Soviet Union
clauses of the two were quite Communists renewed the would "come with a sincerity different in almost every point, aggression, the United Nations which will equal our own."
the
United Kingdom Recondly response would not necessarily
He added: "These be confined to Korea,
efforts at Reat Restriction Acts "I can't hear what you say. sir," said Mary, "I've been ask-
he added. negotiations are ncimal initia- nection with which the Court of Referring to the decision tives that breathe the spirit of
construed Appeal maintain United States
the Fakini ing everyone for things for the
troops stall for such a long time, now.”
on the former
different from freedom. They involve no plan agreement were Japanese island Shoplifting," Mr Recce re.
a partnership division of the Hongkong Ordinance in one possession of Okinawa, Mr Dulles o peated.
world Mary still seemed nat
said: "This is needed to ensure w
power with those who or two material aspects: thirdly one took the 'circumstances quite to catch the word.
ented by Margherita Studio): 8507 Threo Communist Chinese moderate striking power to
Im-
suppress freedom. "Quite ridiculous," she said,
Em-plement the collective BDcurity Weather Report: 7, Time Signal and diplomats of the Chinese
the dictators persist in existing at the time the present their present course, then it is
agreement was made, the el:- upbraiding herself."
World News (London Relyli 2.10. bassy to Burma, accompanied by concept which I described." "You must
Newn pay £3 fine and.
Talk (London Relay) or
Hmited by Cnstances had no parallol dver their relatives, soven in all, ar-
Turning to Western Europe they who will be
in the Fakini case and clearly two gulnens Coats." Mr Reece
Special Announcements; 7.15, Orch
Week Philharmonic rived here from Rangoon in the Mr Dulics said that readjust superficial successes whic their
pointed to an intention nor to said.
infoundation crumbles under Symphony Orch. of New York 7.45, mv Anglum
were being made morning op
create a tenancy, Letter from America by Alistair route to China.
the collective security effort of tread of their iron boots."-
LAUNDRY ́AGREEMENT Cooke (Recorded London Relay); s. The three diplomats were Mr the
North
Allartic Treaty Reuter,
Mr McNeill submitted, that Echoes of the Shows; 8.30, Violin Recital by Maurice Clare Hoya Realisich 14. Mr Cha
Hsten-ilen Alliance; (Piano) (Concert Hall); 9, Time and Mr Huang Yung-chunn.
He said the NATO emergency
MARY left.
USED TO IT
Out of the £7 that was the weekly Incone aho and her husband had, she would find the money somehow. Everything about her told you It would not
be her husband that would suffer for her folly, and not the good cause,
It would be Mory who would things. Suffering To without was no new thing to her.
Men, The Better Sleepers
H.K.T.
0,
Signal Time gramme Summary;
of the
And Pro- Lucky 4.03, tequesis
Arrive
this
ments
Signal. Wednesday Theatre, "Jana The diplomats refused to be build up is the first years of Meets Family
Glong" A Play by, St. Jolin Ervine.
Produced by John Gibson (nera: interviewed. saying they were itn existence had served the
10. Time for Musle-The London | very busy and had no time,
Light Concert Orchestra cond, by
Michael
Krein (BBCT8); 19.36.
One Night Stand. Victor Young and his Singing Strings; 10.50, Werther Report! 11, Time" Signal, Radio News Reel (Recorded London Re- Jay): 11.18, Goodnight Muslej God Save The Queen; 11,30, Close Down,
What's Her Line?' Solution
GAG WRITER
LONEON Express Service
Cause of peace, but the pace
criginally set could nct After 36 Years maintained Indefinitely.
the
the laundry agreement meant that the appellant was to employ the respondent and in consideration of this the rospondent was to serve the appellent. This was quite clear without any ambiguity and the described the United States concept of NATO's role
only question the Court had to Genoa, Jan. 12.
the agree Carlo Ofein, cut off from his decido
was what as the "long baul"a steady family during the Italian retreat mont meant,
not whether it Cluvelopment
of deletelve from Caporetto in World War I, was a shem or not. There was met up with them again here no suggestion of any tenancy today after 30 years, several of in. the agreement, them spent In 蟲 prisoner-of-war camp.
Really Something Out Of The
Berlin, Jan. 12.
Į Helmstedt.
Bag
of
the only
Russian Contable".
WAN the Word
in the clause
Offcia was three. At the time atipulating that the respondent
A muffed squeal ties found, she did not have the trian soldier took him home state of "tenantable, repair." In
ngetssary, travel papers.
the retreat of 1917. An Aus- was to keep the promises in
with him after the battle,
An Army barracks bag is came from the bag. noted for what a GI can cram
SIDE GLANCES
Drugs:
4
Defendant pleaded guilty to the charges..
By Galbraith
Allensbach, W. D. Jan. 12. Mon sleep botter than women
facta clause clearly
#tated in West Germany and West
Sat. Salazar Investigated and] The girl said Goodman folt ** In 1840, he was called up in that the appellant was not to Berlin, according to a public into it. A military policeman poll taken by the Institute for opend one today and found out crawled a pretty brunette, sorry for her and allowed her to the German navy, and fell into part will possession of the
pellte German girl.
Maria Pawilk.
ram, her five, feet, and 90 pounds on hand on getting back promise. The laundry business
the respondent was to into the olive trat bag along to Germany, "he act up, a shop
"Haré, contén daddy with the new, baby, sitter, Miss Pawlik had been smug with his clothes and other por Through the efforts of one of appellant, MP.Sgt. E. Salazar kkkeď the Twenty-maven per cent of the
|aso a la hairdrossor in Linz. run was that belonging to the
member,thres of you hide until after we've left made a people questioned said they bag as he
routine in-gled aboard the train by Pri-essions,
to the according spection aboard the Berlin- vais Charles Goodman. She hack › druge. There were
his sisters, now living hore, his agreement, and the " premissm neeched
Printed ind twice na miery komen as "men 'bound US military train at the been taken off a bus for Berlin She was put of the train, family traced ** him--France. concerned wore businese and on" berak, of South Ch kinăng Unam Reuters, East-west crossing point of when the Boviet Zone authori- United Preis.
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