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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

ROSIE

CHE stood in the dock at

the lerkenwell court,

a pretty girl with nul-brown hair and eyes of a deeper brown. The look from those brown eyes flitted about the 'courtroom as unpredictably

KI

It's Bight,

CHINA MAIL

CUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER

Awaiting

Petrov Commission Fireworks

From H. KING WOOD

Sydney, May 7.

Terms of the Petrov Royal Commission, an- Dever nounced this week, are generally accepted to be lighting for a second on any { wide enough to give the Royal Commissioners all une place.

Now

N Wash the coat arms above the bench; now

abent to tievtཎྞaxt

the power they require. of

It

Above all, the dragnet terms leave no doubt real on the that Australians or Australian organisationa

which have spied for the Red will be named.

butterfly collar trate, Mr T P

Dave

the anti-

A mom later it WIN away Bewhere obe All round the smile played

courirovn the-

201

tilt-sy

bonitas ligas.

THE

Wan

Shu

u looked --

14 MILES TO GO

gila ham4+ wan Raste

Some attempt is bring made to make political capital out of the terms of the Commission, but the labour boys Meem to be overlooking the fact that the Lender of the Opposition, Dr Evalt, was consulted about them by the Prime Minister and, according to reports, fully approved.

The Royal Commission is ex-

But lobsters by mndart Rather

was 19 years old and i pevied to ant in Melbourne next like hunting boxes in a jeep.

in the dock charges with a breach of probation A court in a coat-ing Midlumat town Bad ordered her: as a condition of being put on probation for offum v. 14 Taxe 171 21 hostel for gitis in London, and

week, but I is experted to De

me little time before the re-frous works really begin.

limesinan

Best story of the week comes Hobart where, after Н full inquiry. the Postmaster- Sure the retreat to Moscow | General's Department has been the Soviet Embassy at the convinced that a bite by a ball I heard ant on the posterior of one of weekend little hus

Affair

i saldity linesmen was seeidental. of the Petrus

The

has Petrov and his wife ar

been talking plenty, and are busy grunter two days' sick leave.

The helping with the translation of

littesman had been asked three years. In after a couplements

hunted by the department whether the which of months in the hostel, Rusie

WUTIA accidental back had crouch She sailed off over but other than an old story injury

eye-witnesses lity inte

the huge, ocean that muza prestierable mark as London." Bad Krow

I stay there.

The predeption order

ANTES

hummick

presently

home town.

her friends.

G.Ht

Was for

for her for her family and

AIAIC

She got a bearing on

and itched lifts trum they lay, furries going north-west.

for two turked away

ere.

WB

ཋཱནདྷུ'

and

work had to

pole at the af ants

of which was aust Petrol was poured on the after proceeded. One bull wit however, had bitten hum whole up the pole!

stated One witness

that he disagreed with the theory that the bite was accidental.

Fruit

nlight, and set

work which routine

here and whether they are no longer blg ports were available.

He

replied that All that

of be curried out on will be altered, the musment the Royalse course. Commission gets busy,

Final Note on the Departing nest

The Ambassador » dog- a Beds finter Abatian, which has been being. has huren place the sare of the RSPCA

End of

The Incident: an British freighter Radnor, which has been loading arms and

pickers at The land apmuntinus for Endu-China, bus

of Bourke are working Bually Crared Sydney Harbour town

under overhead fly covers la The departme of the ship

of worry and protect them from wasps.

The pickers got fairly used to trouble for die officials responsi war stings, but they say that ble for the Radnor.

This senson is the worst ever- so After

of uma bad that a special dust is being the loading Starter! was

at Double Bay, toaled through the trees before wharf-labourers walked off the the pickers get on their high ship They objected to loading | ladders, acns for the Indo-China war.

She had hitch-hiked to within 14 miles of her home when she was arrested--for ber departure from the hostel had been noted wwwf the palier had been told.

THE REPORT

DOSIE

To

was brought back London, to the dock at the Clerkenwelt roart. She readily ngreed she had broken the terms. of her probation, anch she remanded for a week, so that the doctors might see her.

At the end of the week, he came back into the clock. She was no longer on her own in London; her mother not father, quiet, worried people, had enne down from the Midlakis to be iy her side.

A WOIDEL probatasan oneer went erste> The witness-box and Mich

waa gentle voice to the magistrate "You will remem- ber this gil, si There is this. report

ended a menth

had

The Commonwealth Govern-

A WARNING

A warning against the Santa

ment then directed servleemen Claus State"i Wis Issued Bis to linksh

Esh loading the ship.

work by the Federal President

Communists then tried to de- j of the Taxpayers' Association. toy sailing by encouraging | Mr F. F. Knight. He

clai

declared that too many

services could drive a re-

tu government the verge of bankruptcy.

"Most people would be in- sulted if we declared that they believed in Father Christmas,"

of the ship's crew W DEVIS) leave hut six of the Jen turned to the Radnor next day. Ane the return of the men serviceinen Anished the loading and put to sea without further trouble.

THE YANKS RETURN Much business then of fools-

The Vanks have been back in can sheets being passed fron

force this week 3,000 of them and read, while from the carrier Tarawa and taste's eyes were diverted arst the destroyer O'BannoL, here

han to hand

by one thing then by another. for the Coral Sea Victory cele-

"Oh yes, see,"

trate said, he begun

the mugis-brations. "Mr inspector.

A bike old time Lu Beo

around town, them rolling

packet of elgarettes stuck out of their top pockeL

Those who were here in war- Ume must have thought it was

NOT FOR EVERT

THE chuet

When

ruse.

Inspector

read a report is

those who

know

about

come here," she said. *'t think

comb anch

Д

Пе

The

the

Established 1945

THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1954.

Flood Waters In Essex

Gale-lashed

agalust Britain's

scan kwept

coastal de-

fences ten days ago and broke through at

some places. At

Westcliffe-un-Sea,

flooded Over the

promenade and into the town. The nea sircet a WentcllN= swept up and flooded shops and base- Here Mrs Doris Vin- menia. elguerra (left) and Miss Joan Buckley push sandbags into place at the four of their cafe, and hope that the water will not rise any more London Express photo.

Italian Prison Warder

Arrested

Play Needed More Rehearsing

think

Garrison of

the performance Your

Players' "C'unt

Blessinga" last night could have done with more rehearsals.

This is the only reason I can think of for the lack of case most of the cast showed. They were all quite competent amateur actors but ossibly if they'd been more sure of their parts there woukin't have been that reaching for words and waiting for cues that was so apparent.

Rome. May 13. "Count Your Blessings" is a

comedy

should Police, hunting members of a

and us such Fascist revolutionary

a fast organisa have whipped along at

Only in parts tion, after seizing a motor-car spanking pace. loaded with arms and explosives did this happen and

most of sear

Minister's the time I was conscious of the Prime residence yesterday, last night wanting to hurry the whole

Rome's thing along. a warder of

he said. "But how many have arrested Implicit faith in the Santa Claus ( "Queen of Heaven" prison. state?

Seven Italians, said to be organisation of the members FAR, were already under de- tention.

1-nd

"The pluma which they hand out have been

commandeered from the taxpayers' orchard and there is considerable Loss waste in the process."

Mr Knight also declared that much of the taxpayers' money was being spent on ad- ministration.

too

to

Mrs Barbara Jeffries, widow, Newcastle, wha and those words follow, it means the saune No Parking signs, died

bit like old times to be back of Hamilton

bequeathed recently, Gul

Newcastle Cathedral the Victoria Eastern such thing. have dieetded that ill cobwebs on

Cross awarded to her son, Can- rallway, Suburbs

sti!! no bolilea ihe subject of Their report is

Jeffries. in the same old taxi toin Clarence cerallably Insane..

The probation oficer

spoke erivers literally and figuratively first world wor.

Captain Jeffries was killed in again. This girl's parents have taking them for a ride.

Also back for the celebrations the battle of Passchendaele and awarded the honour an the Commonwealth's guest of was

posthumously. honour is Fleet Admiral Halsey.

The Victoria Cross plump man in who commanded the Coral Sea housed in the Warriors' Chapel

Allied Fleet.

rising 72. the

Admiral today is white of the Cathedral, headed, the black bushy eye £83,000, brews have gone, so has much of the spring from the step and his hearing isn't what it used to be. A shadow of the former

the father would like to speak." Rosie's father went bits the witless-box.

AL

wore a mac-

Now

spectacles, who

intosh and

overload of misery. "We're

quite

agreed, the wife and 1," he said, "with what the doctors say. But (now his words came with a rush) it isn't definite they'll take the girl away for the whole of her life, famous "Buil," but the memories

Is it?"

The mugistente said: "Nothing

definit to. le, is

of wartime linger around him and he is being fated right and 1t?lert.

Nothing,"

"No

nothing." Rosie's father said. He went back to comfort his wife as best he could. Rosie awung gaily out of the New dock, No one could have seemed more gay.

EDEN AS CONCILIATOR

(Continued from Page 1)

Mr Molotov relorted "we don't need it"

RADAR FISHING

Eden fishermen Exten is a little town on the south coast South Waics - Ore using radar to locate lobsters.

The local Asheries chief in- that the spector has reported Ashermen have located a sunken reef off the Victorian созя thick with giant jobstern.

Four boats are now working the reef and in a few days four Long of magnificent lobsters were sent to Sydney and about the same number to Melbourne.

The Sydney consignment was, sold for just on £2,000,

Communist delegates laughed The lobsters are southern at ibla and M. Bidault asserted crayfish specio-ype usually "the death of any man is not a found in

subject for laughter.”

Mr Molotov

repiled

Tasmanian

waters.

"It is Only once or twice a year-at Intervals of seven years-aro

will be

Mrs Jeffries left an estate of

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THURSDAY,

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right to value human life. It is not a subject for irony, But we southern crayfish found so for i Pakistan, Middle East, Atden, Great

confidence no

In

the

The

Fre- warder, Paschino goll, was stationed at the prison Benith Lucidi when bandita and Luigi Dejana escaped down a blanket ladder three months ago, the police said.

receptive

Sheaffer's “SNORKEL"

Return Of

Deposit: Appeal Against Judgment

An appeal against the decision of Mr Justice J. R. Gregg who gave judgment for respondents in their claim for the return of deposit of $10,050 in connection with an alleged breach of contract for the sale of 50 bales of Italian cotton yarn, was brought before the Full Court, comprising the Puisne Judge, Mr Justice C. W. Reece, and the Acting Puisne Judge, Mr Justice J. Reynolds, this morning.

Appellants were the Metro- In a position to tender the right politan Trading Co.,

501 guoris on or before October 10. Bank of China Buliding who Hearing is continuing.

of

GOT LEFT ON LINER

WOMAN'S

CHOPPER

ATTACK

Pleading guilly to A charge of wounding, Ho 01-chu, a woman, was een- tenced to nine months by Judge A. D. Scholes at the Victoria District Court this

morning.

the

Insp. T. Kavanagh said that the com- accused, and

A youth,

plainant, Leung Tat-young,

resided 10-year-old with their families in No. 180. Diva Voeux Road West, timi

the Boor. On

morning March 31, as complainant was having breakfast in the veran-

back

of

ot

dah, he felt a sharp blow on

the

turned

S18

his round, he

neck and as he

aw the

and

รถพ

cused holding a chopper

na

A

DC-

alming further blows at him, His right or was also wounded

he tried to ward off the followed compiamant broke away. The accused was later disurmed by other fellow tenants.

blows.

and

struggle

were represented by Mr Brook A. Bertech), instructed by Mr. S. Ng Quinn

and of Brutton Company

Respondents were the Tong Sink Co., of 336 Wang Hing Building for whom Mr S. V. Gitting, Instructed by Messis Hastings and Company appeared.

Wanan, Les

Insp. Kavanagh said that the went on board pecused and Mr Bernaren Fid the appeal

complainant's 1 Dutch finer

her with was conflued to one point and

mother had been on bad terms

that

point

In

17-month-led rotsed

her for a long time. A few days paragraph 7 of the Defence, friend off to Singapore, but did before this incident, they had a Counsel asked the Court to not get off the ship before it was night in the kitchen and as a re-

under which was

way. returned

from sult were fined and bound over Dutch to be of good behaviour. accused In mitigation,

Wan

A 23-year-old Yuel-ping, who

ן

soft

to Boo

another

Sub-Insp. K. T. Wong. pro-

sald

Visits Red Cross Godown

look at the claim for $10,050 being deposit paid Singapore

to the ap- steamer this morning and was by the respondents pellants under a certain con-Immediately brought before Mr that she was a sub-tenant of the at the Marine Courthouse and the principal tenant tract whereby the appellants C. Cairns

on a charge of unlawful board-had been creating trouble to agreed to sell to the respond- ents 50 bales of Italian cottoning.

eviel her because she paid very low rent, yarn upon condition, that the goods were to be shipped from дл Italian por! on or before accuting, told the court that de October 15, 1952, Appellants fendant went with her baby on failed to effect shipment before board the my Titulengka on She did not notice when the ship sailed and was left on board.

Chinn,

CMG, adviser to the Sub-Insp. Wong pointed out Social Welfare

of

for State

the Secretary 7 of the Defence, that it was only due to her own

this morning visited negligence that she

was icft Colonies.

the British Red Cross godown at stranded on the ship. She had,

Ltd. at Gloucester Road where he also saw a num- volumleer workers at sorting out clothes and

this date and respondents in

consequence cancelled the sald contract and requested the re- Turn of the deposit.

Partgraph which Counsel next rend, stated

that

Aprit 23 to see her friend

Mr W.

H.

the contract at a time in fact, no intention of stowing Co. (HK)

the British-American Tobacco

Oven

or

pudiate hens wrongfully re- they to that prior

on which could expect delivery of the goods

If shipped on before October 15, 1952, and by the

repudiation wrongful waived and relieved the appel- lants from their obligation to tender goods in accordance with the contract terms.

TIME THE ESSENCE

awny,

" caution and discharge you (ber of this time," said Mr Cairns, but work next time you

on board a ship make sure about the time the ship sails."

biankets.

Mr Chinn, accompanied by Mas R. B. Black, Colony Direc- tor of the British Red Cross Society, was welcomed at the godown entrance by Mrs H. C. of the British feat. Organiser

Counsel said that he was going Was To Be Paid Red Cross Society, Hongkong

to

Trial Judge' accept the Anding of fact that time was of the essence of the contract,

09

The contract was for delivery រក Hongkong of goods described therein and such goods were goods which had to be shipped on or before OctoTM ber 15, 1952, from an Italian Counsel's case was that when one got a clause in contract like that for delivery of goods in Hengkong relating to shipment, that was for most purposes a clause descriptive of the goods. Nine times out of

port.

the

$7 For

Branch.

Gold Smuggling Radio Hongkong

"For $7 you would affect the

equilibrium of economic

the asked Colony?"

Mr Hin-shing Lo at Centrul this morning. when Chan Fuk, a ship-runner, namitted smuggling 60 lucis of gold into the Colony,

Chan was arrested yesterday, when a party of Police, acting

HK.T.

6. Time Signal Dod Pro-

Summary:

Jazz gramming Half Hour presented by Robin Day | (@tudio) 0.29, Portuguese Hall Hour

(Studio);

"Parade"-the Wock's Ten Top Tunes presented by Bernard Hicks (Budio); 7.39, "Dowis Memory Lane presented by Alleen

Woods

(Studio) 730, Weather Học port: Time Signal and World News London Relay); 8.10, News Talk London Relay) or Special An- --George Foyer (Piano) with ithythris nouncemer: 8.15 Echoes of Italy" accomp.. B:30, Take it from here with Joy Nicholl, Dick Bentley and Time Junny Edwards (ABCTS);

by Signal-Sports Review Wallace (Studio); 9,10, At the Opera

John

The action of the play takes place in the first floor drawing Foom of the Butterworth's

10 the vendor was not the ship-on information, lay in ambush house in Kensington. Gay and

at Connaught Road West near per he might himself be a and

the Yuen On Whoef and stop Pethum

Butterworth buyer so that it did not mean

bed him as he care off the as (Shella and Michael

Morley-

that the vendor himself would

Fat Shan. John) are the usuni type of have to ship, Counsel argued.

In Court, defendant said that Trovata" Act 3 (Vard). modern

whose

that young couple

What it did mean was income

he was given the gold in Macas Soloists with N.B.C. Bymphony Orch.

and Chorus

Arturo cond, by can't keep pace with he must tender the goods which

a man called Ah Wong. His Toscanini; 9.45, A Symphonte Por- by_a their expenses.

had been shipped from Italian port on or before Octo-orders were to smuggle the gold trait of Jimmy Marugh; 10.10. The

port on the Royal Tour (Recorded into the Colony where he was ber 15, 1952.

THE SOLUTION

an

magistrate.

Aned $1,000 the by

(Lord Berners)-The

Nickleby"

cham conducting the London Phi- harmonic Orch.; 10.20, Weather_Re- part; 11, Time Blana-Radio News Heel (London Relay); 11.15, Good- night Music: God Save The Queen; 11.30. Close down.

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

to hand it to Wong at the Tung twentieth and 10.30, Muse of the The solution appears to be

After clling a case, Counsel

Fong Boarding House. On de-from 10 nur dental Music Lucidi

recaptured last to take in was

al lodgers. This,

said that his reason for doing so week after a gun battle in the

was colely to illustrate the point livery of the gold, which de-Orch, cond, he Philharmonis fendant concealed in his per- Triumph of “Neptime--Ballet Bülte course, allows several "chorac- city's main cemetery. He wusters" to be introduced into the that his clients' sole liability son, he would have been paid Lord Berners-Sir Thomas Bee- carrying " sultcase full of plot.

Czech

under the contract and accept $7 by Wong. Two of them-- explosives,

political refugeo and a dancing ing the finding of fact of the

Defendant was time was of jor four Trial Judge that

months Ferras and Police sald the explosives instructress (Mario

Leta

of the contract found yesterday near the Prime vided most of the humour.

Page respectively)

the essence pro-

was to provide 60 bales of Italian Minister's home had been re-

The set

was. realistic, moved from the house of an-

the cotton. yarns which had been port on other prison guard

dresses were effective and the shipped from an Italian Armando

or before October 15, 1932. Mignarri. They Fregoli diction clear. When the curtain

said:

fell at the end, however, it was

CANCELLED CONTRACT was wing with Mignarri until

Counsel said that before his apparent from, the faces of the recently.

clients had tendered

anything Parlia. actors that they felt they could Folice added that

at all let alone the goods as mentary immunity prevented have done beiter. them

from questioning a de-

More movement on the stage, required by the contract, and at a time before that on which puty of the Movimento Socials quicker entrances and a cut in

on October 16, italiano (nco-Fascist) Party.

the long silence at the bginning goods shipped

port last scene

from an Italian They alleged It was he who of the

while the -1932, charwoman makes the took the explosives 10 Mignarti's would go a long way towards expected

could reasonably have been bed, could

to bo available in house in the first place. Police making "Count Your Blessings" Hongkong for

the delivery sad the deputy Casare Pozzon,

and respondents "completely was eontenced to a year's im-

irretrievably cancelled the con- prisonment in 1951 for belong- Besides those I've mentioned,

tract ing to the illegal FAR organica- the cast included Betty Spong tion.

Dolore that there was corres- Olivia Nichol, Gordonį Shakes- Among the seven

Novello

pondence, said Counsel, and in delained peare,

Henchley and

wrote to effect O'Neil Shaw

respondents carlier was a 28-year-old man Tent Potter. Erle

when appellants (at a time who left gool last December produced.-JANE RODENTS.

diero W09 e falling market, under an amnesty after serving

Counsel alleged) saying, "What goods are you proposing tender us," no question of Lime for tender having arisen,

Appellants wrote in reply: "We are proposing to tender you goods ex certain ships" which at that time they apparently under stood had been shipped before October 15,

1

term for planting bơmbs ef

the Foreign Office, the Ameri-

tha

a suertas.

Can Embassy, Yugosiny Gen. Sixsmith's

Legation and several offices of leflat wartime partisan organi". Ballons-Reuter.

Coolie's Fatal Accident

Appointment

The British Army News Ser- vice reports that Major-General E. K. G. Sixemith, who was Chief of Staff in Hongkong in 1982 before taking over a similar appointment at Headquarters,

A Chinese coolle was killed Far East Land Forces, is to suc Formosa, Japan, Korea, 1 p.m..

about 9 o'clock this morning Cord Major-General C. K. Fair- have

A South Conal trawlor owner Indo-China, 1. D.M.

when he was run over by a bus bank as GOC, Southwestern authencity of the telegram." sold the radar being used was, BERRIZ ZAN,

Thailand India Ceylon, Pakistan, In Talpo Road, outside Tape District and 45 (Wessex) Infan- Mr Edon said "I think delo-

Africa Great Britain Village. The man was taken to try Division (TA) from Septem gates should read the telegram o sensitive the fishermen could and Durople

difference between a Malaya, Indonesia, 8p.m

hospital, but upon arrival was ber, 27, before passing Judgment on it. tell the

N; Borneo. Australia, New Zas found to be dead..

Commissioned In the That is what I shall do any school of fish or a lobster cluster land. p.m.

Cameronlace: 30 years ago, the at 100 fathoms, .........

General 'served in the BZF,

self-diculer, ・・・

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China, People's Republic, 8.30 am- Japan, Noon,

•Zodia, Pakatan.. 1 p.

Korea. 3. p.m.

*What's His Line 7" Solution MAJOR-GENERAL

Respondents then proceeded to make fairly extensive enquiries about the sailing dates they dis- ships and as a resull they dia- covered that the ships had not sailed on or before October 15, said Counsel.

Respondents then wrote to appellants saying In effect, Those, goods do not conform with the contract which is now cancelled. North Africa and Italy during- Counsel submitted that the World War II," and "commanded. onur, was on respondents", to. 13 British Independent Brigade show. If they cancelled 'the' con- Group In India In 1940,

tract, that appellants were' dist

“I hope you know what you are do

just bidding five oluba on that rálás your husband rot