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Coincidence's Long Arm
USINESS took thet
Biveramith down to
When next Robin came into the dock the picbation offizer, Mr Charles Morgan, went into
Kentish town-or a town of the witness-box. Kent, perhaps it should be.
There was an open market
£3 2o. 48, A WEEK
in the town, 11 bustling, JE'S a morried man, rlr," jolly, once-n-week affair, I said Mr Morgan, "and has that infected everyone who four children, entered it with optimism three and two years. and faith that he would find something to interest him there.
When his work was done, the Klivormith luck a stroll round The maskot, and J quickly ound something of the greatest interest for imm.
On a stall full of oddments, his was caught by two aliver ups that looked exact replicas to ones, in a set of 12, he had tol jong suke designed and had manches for him in his own work- ! shop.
TWO MISSING
of
aged Ave, four, He was
and he has the five-year-old and the petitiener in a divorce action,
the three-year-old
children living with him. His wife has
the other two.
"During his working day, sir,” Mr Morgan went on. "this man pays a woman to look after the children. When he has paid her and certain other coin- initments, Fuch os train fares and hire-purchase, he tells me he has £3. 2s. Bd. n week left with which to house, feed and clothe himself and the two children."
FOUR FREEDOMS
MR BENNETT sighed, as if
the thrught of the peril Robin had mit his two children in by sleating "What do you
"Nustomers the silversmith to say he asked.
wondered, "has been so quick to l
"Sorry for the trouble," Rebin
sell the cups they bought from; said, as though he had learned **** He let his intod
run the words somewhere. "Like to through the flat f those who get out and see the kiddles. had bought the five rugs of the Well. It's only those two 12 he had sold
children that keep you from a “Rum," he thought. Nune of prison sentence,
#a.d the those likely to sell again so soon. magistrate. "I don't know if I'in The stall-hokler could not help doing right or
You've not. by identifying whoever had sold brought this tragedy on yourself. the cups. Brid The silversmith shall condition: y discharge took the problem buck London you."
Robin was set free. Free to Next morning, his office, he job-hunting, Free to go home ordered that the unsold cups of to the chores with which young the special design
should be children chain up their elders. brought fo him. "There are Free to face the money-worries. seven unsold," he said.
and the strain again. He left cups исте produced. the court and hearted uff to "The other two must have gone," Keut again, bewning, the allversmith was told. silverstruth seat for orders and
with
Five
him.
Invoices. Only the
The
cups had
been sold; only five out of the dozen were left.
ΤΗΣ
ROBIN CONFERBES
silversmith chewed the mystery over, and suddenly recalled that one of the crufts- men who worked for him was a Kentish man or a man of Kent. fellow named Robur. A sunk The silversmith sent for him. ITE Robin knocked on the offe deor.
He was a
sturdily built ht man, bul
pale
and trembling raw "About those hose the silversmith begam. cups Robin confessed at once that he had taken two and sold them in e's own acevant down in Kent, Next morning, at Great Marl- borough Street,
guilty to the
Joke Lasted A Long Time
Adelaide, Jan. 21. A 39-year-old Lithuanian migrant, arrested here for drun- kenness, when his laughter nt- tructed the attention of a can- stable, was still Inughing six hours later.
The Lithuanian
WCA
rowing
with laughter when the police locked him in a cell. After his laughter continued non-stop for Ive hours, police becamo con- cemed and transferred him 10 the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
There, he laughed for another
Hcbia pleaded, then suddenly wa
thefts, and when
A
sald doctor
the man's
the facts of the care had been | alccholle condition had released briefly told Mr Pintl Bennett, inhibitions and, Us 11 result, VC. the magistrate, remanded everything appeared screaming- him in custody for a week, ly funny-China Mail Special.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1954.
Democracies' Greatest Danger
Poughkeepsie, NY, Jan. 21.
Sir Hartley Shawcross, former British At- torney-General, said tonight that the greatest danger facing the Western democracies was that they "should lose heart in themselves."
Addressing the Council on World Affairs of Dutchess County, New York, Sir Hartley said: "There is the greatest of our dangers - that the democracies should lose heart in themselves, And with the exception of Britain and, as I believe, America it is a danger more real than war.
PEKING OBSERVERS
AT BIG 4
TALKS
"Nothing is more important than that the democracies should have faith in themselves und in each other. It is a fixed and primary precept of the Communist policy lo try and divide
and demorullae their opponents..."
Sir Hartley stressed the im- portance of the continued pre- sence of American and British | trops oversens.
"We must maintain our mili tary preparednesä rot oriy tu celer aggression but to nuintalu Berlin, Jan. 21. the confidence of the democra- A 12-man Red Chinese cles in their collective
power uttack delegation has
The fact is reached to resist East Berlin, it was reliably an
that the presence of American
British tro
troops in various reported today, and a bit-parts of the world is and re- ter East-West duel ap. moins a potent factor, not only peared inevitable at next gainst local aggressions but for week's Big Four confer- conndence which is essential to maintaining that morale and ence over Soviet demands prevent Communist Infiltration, that Red China be invited to a world peace parley,
OF LITTLE COMFORT Sources close to the Soviet "That factor can never be Zonc Communist Government wholly replaced by the bellet sald that the Poking delegation that in the event of local ag- had come to Berlin "as observers gression an atom bomb might, to the Big Four talks.
sometime, be dropped by the The Russians had disclosed Allies elsewhere. that they would demand A Big
Five world peace purity with to the people of South
Red Chineæ participation. They also were believed committed to press for Red China's admission to the United Nations.
10
But the West had declared it was coming to Beriln only to discuss Germany and on Aus trian peace treaty and that it would not spend weeks haggling over Big Five conference with Red China,
PESSIMISTIC
with the Russians
now deadlock.
Washington
about
"It would give little sense of or Indo-China, or Hong- kong
— or, I would add, of France to tell them that al- though their countries might be invaded we might drop an atom bomb on their invaders
On the EDC; he said "We must face the crated by the cherterać silution fuots ard dimetics
Franz. Of all ages, core of the most sedibus in that the French should lose heart in their
to rely on foreign trade to such a degice as the Uried
"We cannot
te
1 the Soviets press this de- ability to stund firm and should mand-as they seemed deter- beog victims of Oxenaunist mined to do-Western diplo-saduction We
must support mats were pessimistic that the means. we have pledged out- Big Four meeting-the first be-dives up to the hit to support (ween Western and Soviet the French
the proposed Foreign Ministers since 1949 European Army." quickly would bog down in a
On the subject frode with the Communists, Sir Hartley
that dispatches safd explained
the United that the United States Seere States never had been compelled
of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, was in no mood to bar- gain with the Russians Red Chino and was expected to self-sufficient...and so cur pri- seek British and French backing my preoccupation must always for such a stond in preliminary be not simply a negative one of folks scheduled here this week-defence, against attack, but the end.
positive alm of seeking and The unconcealed pessimism maintaining a modus vivendi with which the West is going with the rest of the world. This in.io this conference was does not mean that there is any further increased by renewed difference between your basle indications
Sovietime and ours but simply that Foreign Minister. Mr V. M. sometimes our approach is a Molotov,
is coming to Berlin little different."
On the coming Berlin confer- with a take-it-or-leave-I! Strics unacceptable demands.-- United Press.
of
that the
Adder Leaves
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
12-1
T, M., PUL QIL
"You'd think so attractive a baby doctor would 'sertie down and raise a family of his own- guess the responsibility frightens him!"
Custodial
Troops
Ready To Leave
Panmunjom, Jan. 22.
Sheaffer's "SNORKEL"
MURDER TRIAL
Evidence By Knife Sharpener
A knife sharpener who had testifled that he saw a man, wanted in connection with the murder of two Chinese Catholic priests, off for Canton at the Tsimsha- tsui railway terminus, was cross-examined this morn- ing by Counsel defending another man charged with the murder of the priests at the Criminal Sessions.
The accused before Mr Justice T. J. Gould, is Lo Shui-chung, 32, earth coolle, who is alleged to have taken part in a brutal attack on Fr. Peter Ngai and Fr. John Baptist Cheng on Septem- ber 7 in their quarters at Holy Souls Church, Wanchai.
Mir
Crown D. N. E. Ren, Counsel, sasisted by Mr W. B. Scragg, ADCI, Kowloon, prosecuting.
15
Accused is defended by Miss
B. K. Searle, instructed by Mr S. Ng Quinn
A Jury of six men and one WOMEN WES Kmpantiled.
knife-sharpener, The
Kwan-kit gave evidence
Lo that
some days before the murder he gathered from the accused that a mutual friend, Ng You- chi, (nicknamed Wu Yau)
was contemplating a robbery at the church.
Then
Wu INLET
Yau
had asked for his help in carry- ing some luggage to board 1 rain for Canton. The same evening.
after Wu's departure he learned of the murder When about
Indian custodial troops in this frozen ghost town of tattered tents and barbed wire fences to-be taxed
through day prepared to retire, leaving behind about 327 South Koreans, 21 Americans and a lone Briton who have chosen Communism,
The North Korean and Chinese Commands had refused to accept their prisoners back, claim- ing the Indian neutral custodians had further responsibilities.
had
return
to the
a newspaper. the accused
this the accused claimed that that he had had no alterative,
Wu Yau had insisted on it and
alleged the witness.
CROSS-EXAMINED
•
too
to
Cross-examined
MISS by Searle the knife-sharpener sald that Wu You was his friend so he was not paid for helping him with his Juggage. Wu You told "3. India's
him
he was going to Canton and United Nations of the 22,000uggested that he go Chinese and North Korean
look for a living. prisoners who refused repatria-
Witness said
that when Wu tion,"
You mentioned the "affair" at Holy Souls Church he did not connect it with his going away because he did not know of the munder
Bain is delaying her reply to
Meanwhile 14.000 Chinese, who
rejected repatriation, are aboard ending ships bound for the Chinese Nationalist island stronghold of Formosa.
At 7,000 North Koreans, who reteted repatriation, are in the hands of the South Koreano Indian request for her views Bhorities, who will give them on the Assembly'e recall unti dfber Saturday who the un- the choice of Joining the army repatriated prisoners are due to or becoming civilians.
become the responsibility of their Th: Chinese and North Koreans
respective sides, do not become civious officially
Mr
Anthong Eden, the Foreign untfi after midnight, local time, tonight. At that time American Secretary, told the Har Marine guards aboard the land- Commons yesterday the British ng Ships wal draw" and would be intered by
the events of the next few days. continue to Formosa
Negotiations
between the passengers,
United Nations and the Cam- It it goes as planned, the mundsia for a Korean political Indian guards around 327 South confererse bolog down lond Koreans, 21 Americans and the math and lison meetings sixe one Briton still
in the "north borween the two sides have so camp" will retire at midnight, fer Halled. leaving the compound gates apen.
What will happen then is a The matter for speculation.
G3 fallow
Hawkers Barred From Warships
The United Statem navád authorities have · banned- hawkers of any descrip tion: from boarding "Ub warships while they are in Hongkong harbour, ik' was disclosed this morning.,
This order has been ›
· Issued (because “... oorfain hawkers have been abusing privilege aboard · Ameri- Danı mayal vemols.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21 - By Air Malaya, Indonesia, 6 p,m, Japan, U.S.A. & Canada, & p.m. Indo-China, p.m.
By Surfaco
Indo-China. 3 p.m.
Thailand, pm.
Macao, p.51
་
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2
By Air
Philippines, Guam, Hawall, U.S.A..
Canada, B`a.m.
Burma, India, Ceylon, a.m. Thailand, Malaya, Pakinian, Mid- dle East, Africa, Great Britain & Europe, 9 am
Harapan.
Formos, Okinawa,
་
p.
N. Borneo, Australia, New land, d p.m.
By Surface
Zea-
China, People's Republic, 8.30 am. Malay Ceylon, Aden
Philippines, pim.
East, Moon.
Formosa, 1 p.m.
Maco. 130 p.m.
Maurita
P.E.
Japan. 3. p.m.
Afrio. 2 p.m.
Indonesia. 3 p.m.
Middle
Africa,
South
China, Peopia's Republic, 6 p.m.
Macao, 6 ..
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24
By Air
Formoes. Jagats U.S.A.
Caped, Foon.
勘
Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New
Zealand. Op m.
Indo-Cuine p.m.
By Burface
Maceo, 1 p.m.
US Budget Provisions
Welcomed
the
Lo told Miss Searle that when the accused asked him whether ho karew of "the circumstances
Singapore, Jan. 22. up there" a few days before the Malayan commɗotal intérésis murder of
the priests, the ac of cused could not have meant the
this morning welcomaź the pro- visions in President Eisenhower's circumstances
in Canton be- American budget
they cause the previous conversation ray, will help was about Holy Souls' Church. pressed conditions of the tin and
Witness
agreed with Miss rubber industries which are the Searle that while he remem-backbone of Malaya's economy. bered the gist of that conversa These provisions were limita, tion. he could not remember the tion of the production of syn- exact words used by the accused. thetic rubber to 600,000 tons an- Miss Searle pointed out that nually, ending of tin stockpila
witness changed his evidence
nce accumulation and closing down to say that he was chatting on of the Texas Tin Smelting the second floor
of the. Chung Works. Boarding-house
Me Menon will fly to New York next Wesday-Ruder,
prisoners will be free to wander Seven Years'
into the neutral zone.
They will still have a chance to walk south, changing 'their minds about rejecting repatria- tion.
back Or they can walk
Litigation Ends
the
Wat
instead
of listening to Rediffusion as he rabber production here in Inters Limitation of the synthetle had said at the commetal pro preted as giving natural rubber coodings because he had since a better chance on the market, discovered there was no Redif
which should be, reflected in fusion on that floor.
Also the more favourable prices, witness had said the programme was a Chinese opera from
the
Bello Horizonte, Brazil,
Jan 21,
Tin industry sources: here to The ownership of the world's Ko Shing Theatre whereas on said the budget decisions. on ence he said: "...It would be their former captors, reaffirming largest aquamarine, idle to expect dramatic results their allation with Commun-weighs 85 pounds and is valued broadcast from the Ko Shing.
which that night no Chinese opera was their industry would "do much to remove artificiality in the from it; but we must hope that lem.
The Indian
at US$1,000,000, Was settled Command has
The witness explained that the international in market," the Rusinta ali strzęprise stated that officially It will be today by the Supreme Court of 'Redifusion was
third .cn the floor of the boarding house and the disinterested in the fate of the Minas Geraes State after seven
years' liigation. That prisoners after midnight, a great test of their except that their release
The gem is currently on dis- could be heard by him on the
for the to play at
second floor. As
Pro the
- Brazilian Trade gramme, he did not know whe- civilian status would be Bureau violation
In New armistice Court
York. The the
ther it was from the Ko Shing awarded ownership but the announcer said it was a Brent.
jointly to United Nations Command Lopes da Silva,
play about the meeting Chines: Extors and actresses.
The trial is proceeding
necessity for free elections in Germany
determine to future of that country. will be
Child Unharmed sincerity," United Press.
Estcourt S. Africa, Jan. 21.
A full-grown, deadly night edder
and the two-year-old Army Officer's Estcourt, were closeted in the Court Martial.
daughter of Mr J. J. Mostert, of
the
Britaxier
pantry of the Mostert home for two hours,
The child was placed there as
Tokyo, Jan. 22. Bertram Ernest coolest spot in the house Alderson, Victoria Barracks, during the fierce heat,
Financial Brisbane
Advise When her mother opened the to the Commander-in-Chier of pantry door later, she Was Commonweal derees Japon, horrified to see the snake next was the prosecution's Brst wit- to the unharmed child.
rings today at the court-martisi The snake was killed-Ching of an Australian Anny pay Mail Special.
master charged with misapplying
£30,000 sterling funds.
He was testify ez ed the trial of Lieutenant Norman Poole, who pleaded not guilty to 18 charges of misapplying funds and making fraudulent statements..
Brigaher Aldermors testified he Sir Thomas Lloyd, the Forbecies end cash on August
Bosted at a chreck of Footo's manent Under-Secretary at the 1953, Colonial Office, left London by
* Colonei C. 3. Crane, Australian air tonight on, what he termed | Army's
PROTIMIČE in "an educational tour" of the Far Japan, ind maid earlier in the I tell he conducted a check and In seven weeks, he will tour found a discrepancy of 1450,000. Borneo, Sarawak, "and" «Horig--Router. kong, and will have talics with
SIR THOMAS LLOYD LEAVES
London, Jan. 21.
Sir Gerald Teribler in Malaya.
Sir Thomas Lloyd said at the Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICE GEBAM for London airport that no par- and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-8 | ticular problems would be dis- Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong cussed.France Presec
What's His Line ?* Solution PAPERHANGER Lateks Karren Bergies,
of
a prospector, ¡AIKVO who discovered
har nlready stated It will it in 1945, and a jeweller, ignore the Indian Interpreta- Adegard de Vasconcellos. tion of the agreement and release its prisoners-Reuter,
BACKING REQUEST
London, Jan. 21.
The Court décision is expected
to open the way for international cale of the gem.-United Press,
Radio Hongkong
H.K.T.
Obstructed
The Police
0:
Chul Ylu-fal, 22, who went and up to a Police Constablo demanded an explanation as to why he was arresting hawkers was fined $25 or seven days by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central this morning.
The British Labour Opposition is backing India's request the United Nations General As- sembly should be reconvened on Buy 4.03 Contact. As stacio 5, Time Signal and Programme February 9 to debate Koren, it stumiane tac the Fuking Generati was learned authoritatively to w
Naws, Views, Interviews, Stories "and Burje,, Produced by night.
Rosemary Blokweda" (Btudio); 18.30, Mr K.P.S. Menon, India's Did Teve "Dejnom with Bydney ¦ representative to the United Thompson and ha Örch. (Baces]; Nations, had general talks with 50 Weather Report:17. Time Benel and Works News (Londors “Rawry). Mr Clement Attlee, leader of 1410, Appens for That Cow, for th
Bociety the Labour Party,
Protection ot Mr Menon, who is on his way they are the Court that, on January 21
Juskos, Hows X 9.0 from
Delhi to New York, (studio); 7.35. Poetime Pegades monwealth Relations Secretary. today had 43-nerate circus on
with Lord Swinton, Comet Pawick Built The Zemu
Radio
He also had a talk with Mir Mayor ready" shesha) Borg Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of from the "Shows" (BBCTS;"EX State,
at the Foreign Office.
daoustons are ski to *** The Indian envoy's Londen het dorp have More Hour covered these points:
"Id. The Indah proposal for Earn the Okla the recall"; or the General As- sembly
J. + by which the proposed political conference on Kores can be brought about:
Inspector W. E. B. Howel told
while PC.4137. was
un- [licensed hawkers at Wif✨ Nim
Greit be ON
by the defendant, why the; dã- fendent elapped the Resurfabio on the back and"? sakad" him | why he was making the -Defendant thanźnsked. stable to give th
Tin ore from Thailand and Indonesia, which is now going to Texas for refining, can be pro- cessed here champer, and will be
more economical product bo cause of smaller freight changes.
Full production at the sellers, will mean an increase in em- ployment in the industry to well Ga proving boost for prices.
Boma
The British-owned "morning paper, the Straits Times, comI- ments that Mr Eisenhoweer's budget statement.. left auctions unanswered – part- Icularly what was to happen to the 10,000 tons of tin which was surplus to America's stockpiling requirements.
tion was
However, the general reac was most favourable, The newspaper added that. the two announcements on tin and rubber in, the budget had. served to whet-the appetite for the report of the Randall Com mission en world trade, which is due at the weekend. Reuler.
Illegal Harbour
Charged with dredging in the harbour without permimich, six Chinese were lined 120 of 200, park at the Marine Court this
iconistablé lignoceci, teà, der dants were fendant but, what he told
hawkate not to bring their
to the Police” Stalbes al
who was -nackby), { dry defendchint
poles
and be
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