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711EN her mother died, then in
W Katherine,
her middde-teens, took over the running of the home
she shared with her father and brother, and with their help it was run as well as a home can be that has suffered such a loss. .
do
When her brother went off to
1 anilona) service
Kathering and her father fended
for themselves.
Each went out
to work each day in factors in
where they lived, and together they coped with the household chores when they came home. it was not an lúeal way of life, but they got by.
the Scottish city
Then, last autumn, Katherine's He had brother came home. finished up his military service in the Far East, and seen actions there, and filled out so to speak, mentally He had
of soldering a buy, he returned as a man with a proper pride in himself.
CHIVVFING
KATHERINE'S
Bet
brother
not entirely pleased
Was
the home he came back to. It
Contract
FROM H. KING WOOD
One of the biggest contracts ever let in Australia- for £25 million was approved by Federal Cabinet last week. It was for engineering contracts connected with the Snowy Mountain hydro-electric scheme and goes to the American Kaiser group of construction companies.
Cabinet also approved of contracts worth more than £1 million with a British and a Swedish Company for turbine and generating equipment.
is one of the things
done
The American contractors | gramme will bore a 14-mile 21-foot That we have
very well diameter tunnei through the and which will go on paying
mountain of the Great off for many years to come, main Dividing Kange, linking 21
PEDAL RADIO DEBATE coustal and an inland river.
Cattlemen sitting many hun- Plan is, that by 1059-00 the dreds of miles npart in the first part of the Snowy scheme Northern Territory took part will be in
operation and pro-
meeting of the Reneral ducing more power than is now Central Australian Pastoralists' needed to supply all of Sydney. Association last week.
Опе wouldn't think there was much future in beating a drun but the ability to do this got a passage to Australia for a Scottish family of eight.
Mrs Norman Anderson, who arrived with her husband and six children this
week, said
with
they saw an advertisement for a drummer in a pipe band at Cairne.
Job,"
was a good deal less ship-shape than the surroundings he bad Meals to. accustomed grown tended to be late and sometimes rather sketchy; beds to remain unmade in the morning, dust to be tucked unobtrusively under carpets instead of being perly disposed of.
For a time, Katherine gave back as good as she got, but sha grow sick of the nagging at last, and declared she was leaving
homo.
تراجع
"My husband got the she said. "He was a drummer in the Seaforth Highlanders." Mr Anderson will work at sugar mill in Cairns.
year.
bo
in
They took part in debates sitting in front of their pedal radios.
of
The Flying Doctor base A Alice Springs was the hub the novel meeting and the not- work
some pastoralists saved long journeys.
About 20 stations joined in the discussions.
Established 1845
MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1954.
Elephant As Nursemaid
"Child's play" is what Dumbo, the Zoo Elephant, says as he pushes three-year-old Susan Lipton in her push-chair to see the other animals, when she visited the London Zoo. Susan
Boston, from Massachusetts, USA-London Express.
Dresses
NY
comes
Slashed At Easter Parade
New York, Apr. 18.
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The Sloss Case: PC's Evidence Of Car Chase
The events leading up to the arrest of Geoffrey Duncan Sloss, 30, of 375A The Peak, charged with manslaughter and four traffic offences were retold by a Police constable in the committal proceedings before Mr Lawrence Leong at Central this morning.
then went
to
Mr J. W. D. Hobley, Crown of his car and at this point the Counsel, appeared for the Pro-accused attempted to get back secution, assisted by Sub-Insp. Into his car but was stopped, P. T. Moor.
Mr Patrick Yu. instructed by Mr W. C. R. Carr, appeared for Yu entered the defence. Mr pleas of not guilty to all five charges.
The charges against the de fendant are that on February 25 he unlawfully killed Ng Chow; that while driving his car, HK3927, along Hennessy Road at 9.30 am, on the some day, he falled to stop after colliding with public vehicle No. 4282; driving dangerously at 3.30 am outside the St Francis Hotel;
driving dangerously at 3.40 a.m. at Hennessy Road outside the China International Motors; and driving while under the in- fluence of drink,
were
HEARD CRASH PC 4218, Ma Tsun, said that on February 26 he was on duty with PC 1002 at 3.30 a.m. In
They Hennessy Road. walking on the south pavement of Hennessy Road.
"Suddenly at the junction of Tonnochy Road and Hennessy Road,
I heard a crash, which sounded like a car collision and then the screeching of tyres.
"I immediately ran out onto the road and I saw a car com- ing from the direction of North Point
towards me at 1 fast speed."
The witness
his
raised said he left hand and shone his torch at the car
and shouted the driver of the car for
to stop. He was then about four feet from the curb.
The
car swerved when it approached
The witness make в telephone call and when he came back ho saw the accused talking to BOMO soldiers at the Victoria Bar- racks. As he watched the nc- cused ho saw him light cigarette.
Suddenly the
over
without witness.
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The art of ingeniously tor- menting, which the foreign antite, official, and even clerical, community at Shanghai, mer- have during the last six months the endurance practised beyond
the
verge of ot any people but Chinese, would at length seem to be producing some of the fruits which ought to have been long ago looked for.
The Imperial forces have had a fracas with the foreign
sidents, and it having been followed up by a combined as- sault of the forces of the British and American men-of-war on
imperial
cncampments,
the
but
fectively alight, for
there have been loss of and serious wounds on both sides: accused fell but the damage sustained by but he got to his
must have been com-, assistance," declared
it 13 not in either specified
of the Later a petrol car came along and took away the accused. The
Notifications of Mr Alcock, which, as usual with his pro- accused's car, HK3827, driven Into Victoria
ductions, are enveloped in a cloud of words, that obscuro and locked up.
the narrative, and leave an im- Hearing is continuing.
pression that it is not desired the whole truth should bo known.
was
Barracks
Notices
The Intest tires of posting shown below are those for t resutered correspondence posted at QPO, langkong. The latest porting times elsewhere which. In general, are entiler than the G.P.O. times can be ascertained by enquiry at the local vidos.
The Intest posting times for registered articles are' generally one hour earlier than the times shown below. Partieniars regard- ing parcel malls can be ascertain- ed by anquiry at any part ofics.
MONDAY, APRIL 19 By Air Japan, 6 pm, Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia, Aus- trails, New Zealand, 6 pm.
By Surfaci a little
Macao, apm.
TUESDAY, APRIL, 20 mo ankl
By Air India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Middle drove up at East, Africa, Great Britain fast
speed after the car. The Europe. 8 4.m.?
Philippines, a.m. witrass
stopped the taxi and boarded it with PC1502. They then proceeded in pursuit of
then passed me."
A tax then
The cattlemen heard a report by the Association president, Mr Woody Pearce, Resolutions were made on subjects ranging from taxation to cattle trucking, the motor vehicle ordinance and aboriginal drivers, who must be able to read and write to quality Three big American film com- for licences. This provision rules
many to ay panics are bidding for the US out begin The brother
competent drivers. distributing rights of CharlesThe cattlemen want this altered. chivvy down the law, and to
full-length Katherine rather as a fastidious Chauvel's
The meeting was so muccessful colour the outback-Jedda”. that the Association now plans corporal might chase a récalci= | film of
Chauvel Onished shooting last to go on the air regularly, trant recult.
week and the film should
CUTS WOOL BUYING released later in the year
Japan, whose adverse trade One American company has balance in Australia in causing already deposited something concern, has cut her wool buy- more than £10,000 In an ing by nearly one-third. Australian bank to try to woo Once Australia's second-best Chauvel-who will no doubt be customer, she has now dropped enjoying the wooing, DS the to fourth place. in
the first film cost more that
A record-breaking Easter Parade was dis- £100,000 seven months
of the
current to produce.
trade year, Japan spent £24-rupted today when a man armed with a razor blade MIGRATION
million on all classes of woul
pushed through jammed Fifth Avenue, slashing the car, years ago Australia compared with £35-milion began a migration programme the same period last year. women's new Spring dresses.
But the Director of the Aus atten-
Chamber of Manu- absorb tralian people from abroad faster than facturers, Mr Latham Withall, any other nation had done be said Australian Industry was fore.
strongly opposed to any signi-
Increase years we Acant
in Japanese have brought more than 800,000 imports.
people to this
He said Australian industry country, of them
from belleved that any such increase Europe. We
virtually must have
to detrimental provo doubled our rate of growth.
domestic industry and to trade Only
a few
weeks ago the between Australia and Britain Minister
for Immigration,
Mr and foreign
customer good HOR, announced that one in countries. every 12 Australians had been brought here since the war.
It is expected that by June 30 population will exceed ane million and we should have one in Glasgow that 12 million by 1960.
Population she thought sulted her better.in all States has increased
the last year,
Seven
which attracted world
on-an attempt
ALIAS
CHE arrived in London and began to look around for # job. One week went by and then another. By the time she had been there a month, she still had not found work. In- steed she had become involved with that unpleasant West End set of young people who, not caring for work themselves, are delighted to teach others the art of living without working.
to these, Katherine, the other day, was arrested and nearly at Bow
Street charged with stealing a suitcase full clothes from A casual FC quaintanco
Thanks
of
new
She pleaded guilty, but in stead of giving her own name to the police, invented one that sounded more like a dim' stars, | Our and gave
as her address elegant
It took Miss Hamilton, the Northern Bow Street probation
those seven
لله
to
TE
in
More than 1,500,000 persons were packed shoulder to shoulder on an eight-block stretch of the Avenue during the peak hours of the Parade, and at one point police had to form a human chain to keep the crowd from mobbing St Patrick's Cathedral.
The authorities were just be ginning to congratulate them- pelves for preventing the stunts of publicity seekers that have marred previous Parades, Then the police said 15 women had reported in tears that their new Easter dresses were ruined.
All said they had been at tacked from the rear and most were not aware of the slashing until they started to go home.
1
A man was taken into custody but denied slashing_any dresace. The police found
but razor blade in his pocket
he carried it for. he claimed shaving only.
"Japan has been a big pu chaser of wool from Australia, but wool is a basic material as well as a commodity that Japan has used very large- ly for burter purposes in bullding up her hard currency and even the credits. Territory has had o
"Australian wool has been officer, rise of 1,000 and now stands at great blessing to Japan her colleagues in Scotland, and 16,048. the police, some time to
her strengthening
financial remarkable thing about position both in respect to the ad-this cover that the name and
programme is that it has sterling and the dollar arces," dress were fletitious, and during had the full support of all that time
Katherine sat in political parties-probably unc Holloway Prison on remand, of the few times in our history
A new source of contraband sticking firmly to her alius.
was when we have had political! Customs
cigarettes
discovered by officers when they agreement.
No one was injured in HOME AGAIN
searched the Australian motor-slashings, which ship Malalta recently.
/SHE
dia-
A
THE DEBIT SIDE
They found hidden under
"I didn't do it," he said, "I hato women. You can't trust them. They cheat and lle,"
the occurred just
All the gain hasn't been on truth.came out at last, and Katherine was brought the credit side, of course, While canvas lockers and colis of into the dock again, from which we cannot blame sho winked with the greatest wholly for our inflation troubles -- one of the biggest houls on a merriment at Miss HamUton, there is not the sightest doubt ship in Sydney for
that they helped. They needed siderable time. The Malaita
migrants rope 11,000 American cigarettes H.E. Inspects
from the witness-box she told Mr Bartram Reece the story of the great deception.
"I could put her on the 2.15 train for Scotland today," said Miss Hamilton.
What do you say to that?" Mr. Reoco asked Katherine.
"I'd like to go home," said
"Ayo," said Katherine.
80 many of the things that we
T con-
came from the needed ourselves. Our housing Solomons and a Customs theory that the cigarettes came shortage would have been bad is
any case, but the increased from Hongkong. whore Ameri- demand, caused by the migrants, con brands are plentiful. made it far worse. There seems
than
of
the
Bomb Concealed In Basket
Scouts
At a ceremony at Government House this morning, His Excel- lency the Governor, Sir Alexan- der Grantham, GCMG, Inspected the Hongkong Scout contingent to the first National Boy Scouts Jamboree in the Philippines and presented, the leader of the contingent, Mr W. J. Silvey, with letter from the Chief Scout, Lord- Rowallan,
Roman
St Patrick's outside Catholic Cathedral during Eas- ter Mass.
The police said all the women were young and attractive, One her new US$35 reported that dress had been cut seven times. Another showed' officers where a huge chunk of cloth had been slashed from her dress.
On the basis of descriptions given by the women, the police arrested a man who identified himself as Joaquin Gonzales, 27 a dark-hatred," shabbily-dressed man.
He was charged with vagrancy United Press,
DREW REVOLVER
As they caught up with the car at the Junction of Hennessy Road and Queen's Road East, the witness drew his revolver and shouted to the driver of the car to stop.
The
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Formosa, Japan, Okinawa, USA.
Canada, 8 pm.
Indo-China. France, 6 pm.
Dy Surface
China, People's Republic, 8.30 am. Mecho, 9 am, Thailand, noon. Philippines, noon. Malaya, 1 pm. Масло, pm.
other car then slowed Prevented From
down and eventually we over-
took it and cut in front of it to, stop it the junction."
at
the police box ot
The witness
alighted from
Fighting Fire
The documents extracted from the North-China Herald extra of the 5th April, will be found in another column, and Our surmise regarding them is strengthened
by an editorial remark of that journal that "these
transactions wil ba probably viewed In various ways at a distance," But, as the only
re
F
narrative of the "transac ton" given by the Herald is embodied in Mr Alcock's Nou- fications and the Herald's own remarks, if these contain simple and entire truth, it is not possible to view the "transac tions" in
any way buit D atrocious and unprovoked out- rages of the part of the In perialist
which soldiers, ceived prompt and deserved retribution. Then why doubt the affair will be so viewed at a distance, unless there was a misgiving as to the BecurBey of such portions of, the, facia as are told, or na to the 'actual origin of the affray?. It strikes as curious that it should have occurred just before the proposed recapture of the city. dulcially Intimated by the Taoutae to the foreign Consulate event now Indefinitely postponed by the destruction of the imperialist encampments.
DO-NOTHING POLICY
i
Had Sir George Bonham net- ed as he felt, and has latterly, written, such # catastrophe would never have occurred. But tizat would not have been in accordance with his do-nothing
for fir denaria took a pretty correct
Vienna, Apr. 18. Thirty houses burned down the taxi and with his drawn just inside Communist Hungary revolver he approached the last night because Hungarian policy at all times and especial- in the near prospect of his driver of the car. When the border guards would not open driver of the
That he, latterly at car raised his the Iron Curtain the witness put his re- brigades from hands the
neighbouring volver away
and opened
view of the position of the for the Austrian villages, gendarmes
at Shanghat eign community door of the car.
Bald today.
tho towards
rabblement The accused, who the witness Volunteers from the Austrian possession of the city, is shown then identified In Court, stepped district of Jenegsdorf sped to out of his car, and through an the border with water and interpreter the witness asked pumps when flames lit the sky. necused whether he had been They anld Hungarian involved Accused negative.
Thai
his recent by a passage in
with the correspondence
Chamber of Commerce. guards
rebuke was Very much In a tramc accident. held them off with guns while called for, but because Sir
answered
the the 80 houses one-third of George Bonham has never acted Windischdort Village burned upon it, the truth it conveys Witness then asked accused down before their eyes. United remains a lasting libel on bla about the damage to the front] Press.
administration
affairs in of
!n
Radio Hongkong SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
Programitie
H.K.T. B. Time Signal and Summary: 103, Children's Half Hour presented by Bally Ann (Studio); Highwayman's Hill A Tele of the Deep Wood Landers by Elleston Trevor Eplo 3; "The Secret of the MU" (BBCTS): 6.30, Cantonese by Radio Lesson 22. Prepared by BX La Assisted by Don's Brky and Wai-Lan (Recorded); #45," "Boọc 200
Bert Gillett at the Organ 108): Hongkong Dance Band of the
On the Beat.
Special Constabulary Directed by Andy Hidalgo (Record- Magazine Programine ed): 190, "Viewpoint"" A Wooky to be some agreement among
dovated to Ellerature, Drame and the Cinema. Judges that, with certain nation-
Edited and introduced by Donald Katherine, as if butter would violent crimes are higher among
alities at least, the number
Brooks Boska: Reviewed by Janet Tokir "Malenictw** by artis not melt in her mouth,
migrants then Australlons. Ол
Ebon A Decade of Decision by What you want to do," the
Rabat, Apr. 18.
Fred Horie, Drama: Timothy Birch A quick-witted Police officer
on "The King of Sorrowe" (Norfolk magistrate said to her, "is to go the other hand, a Government
Players). Filius: Diana Talbot: 7.30, home and
today discovered and dismantled make friends with committee claims that on Now Australians
Weatser Report: B. Tune Bignal and are a bomb left in a shopping basket
World News London Relay); 8.10. your brother. That's the best whole
law-abiding moro
old near the Catholic Church where
pecked Announcements 316, eroms Newa Talic (London Relay) Australians, hing you can do." ***
that subject crowds were celebrating mass on debatable,
Kem Songs Fred Waring OG FLE Easter Sunday in
Ponukylvaniane Glee Club, the Agola
and Holost 8.30. Orson Welles is are other points on the quarter of Rabat. There are other and later that day put on a croditakie as well as rise in traku..
The shopping basket was left
the Black Mitmetin No. He the man who dod later in a car
Records of the CFD, Scotland Yard
Programines on the wondered what her brother population, however. Immigrants by
The Chief Scout also sent of her. For she, in koy Industries such as iron driven by an accomplice. would make
Explode 13: "The Fatnevet": 0, "time signal, "out of the Kayecto seg like him had adventures behind and steel have broken most of Franco-Prosse.
By Mayer and bythen emble her now. She had filled out our production battle-necks and
in C asador, Kasih (Casti (PAA 3321-945. Concerto: Cerscarto mentally, too. She and not he thus have helped our economy.
Flothwell (bow), and... the Linke will run the house in future, They,
OretuTMoond.. by Blr John Barbirolid should think.
Bir Alexander Inspected the part 3 THE MANE DELTA00 and Orefastenke (Jorm, fenland patie Government House, The Gover. cords brikenleg fandi BEG bontingent in, the, forecourt of een dierce (Poo) and they Edge who is Chief Scout In Fake it, som "horse with Joy Fuckus,
She was put on probation,
"What's Hi Line?" Solution
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is not
have also brought with | View Not Shared them a new way of living which
London, Apr. 18. yet quite appreciated but
Radio Moscow which in time to come must that Communist Chine will at
said today play
a valuable part in our tend the Geneva conference " culture
the capacity All in all, then, it can be said that this migration proud of
States
WILLIAM: VALTOR GIRÍTÁSEș,for| countries there : are influential, China, Morning. Post Zimitalian. 16G
in the Colons:[nf> Hongkong.
a strong and is officially, re- The Hongkong contingent is prosenting the United Kingdom and, the whole of the Colonial Empire at the Jamboree on the authorisation of Lord Rowallan. meerage to the Jamboree in the form of a letter which was handed to Mr Silvey by His Ex- celláncy today, yo
his warrant
Colóny. Commission
Or
Ortti.
China, let flatterers say what they may-
"His Excellency, regreis «x« ceeding the present unfortunate state of the Import Trade at this.' port, but he hopes that the recapture of the city is not far distant, and that on the expul sion of the Rebels, business will In some measure improve. Hi Excellency concurs in your opinion that the British Com- munity owe the protection of their
рогволя And property principally to the presence of the National Ships-of-war of England, France, and America; but he thinks it right to remark, that in his opinion the Imperial- ists have been hampered in their endeavours to retake the city by the near vicinity of so Largo a body of foreigners, and but for the position of this. settlement, (Shanghai) · the ilega woulƐ in all probability have |been 'nlready brought to ɗ BUCĂ
cessful issue?)
⠀ TEMPTING PREMIUM LAU
Bir Coorge Bonlinm so, expressed himself 'Ave maniha after Mr Consul 'Akock, had publicly notified. Uski, until the city of Shanghai -wij graa taken by the Tacutae, he would not
• recogning · The right of that dicht "to, "exací, dulles, from; British y mars chante, at the port (Outside... tha ^atty);
1-was: not; only: Kot repudiated be. Sir. George. Bond but received:inia, publish
-ston; ·arsó mundir: koja zapi
his, letter of the laid
which the above:
that he did not.
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