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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

KOWLOON FIRE

A Case Of 3 Dead: 9 Suffer

Measles

children take in their stride, cùm be an unpleasant illness for adult.

ant Deborah kopw this. So when word reached her t

home in Ireland, that cit her grown-up daughters the one that lived in Ma chester hard

kow

ade

Stab Wounds

A man who has been de- tained by the Polien is be- loved to have chused the death of a woman and two

children the one

Chinese

of a three-storey tenement building at 81. Castle Peak Road, Sham- sluipo early this morning.

The Fire Brique received a call at .16 .1 and live Bre appliances on two amidonees were despatched in the scene There was under conten) by 450 and completely extinguish- with that disease, instine i ed by a d'etork.

Division

Sey- told Deborah what she is t

assisted by Chinese fire- mit, men, succeeded in rescuing ane woman and two children fium)

floor of the blazing the first

do.

She puckerst

he 11-at-4dd

beay off to Di Donding-school,

201

the

and brisky made assgrinati to go to her daughter's bedsade JU

th See that Itzekien thing that the call term Just Manchester should come Just WTH TE

If we' Lolidays were uver, fo han the ren Платье Debinahi

hardly. have jett or It seemed larky as the time that things fell t thus, but it cammat stwin se Deburah now

la

TIME TO SPARE

EBORAH| crossed from fie-

Danth hurries! to Man-

chestor, and there she was told that she would at the hospital have to wall for some days be- fore she could see her daughter

of waiting To piss the thar nwas. Deborah decided to make She

4 excursion to Lamden. ranet n the other day and made at once for the great stores Regent in Oxford Street and Street thuit wine all wottler fully pay with their spring displays, Arst morn And on that very ing of her visit there, Delh respectable woman of 50. married for 23 years, and with binmeless life behind bey, dis revered in herself a new skill As a shoplifter.

THIRD TIME

Tee shop, she stole three

01:

take them Al auther she took ten handkerchiefs, three pales of Rives,

bolting Nix perfume al a haltbrush, tw

reklaces and comb,

ก

TWC Tracelets. a branch, itpat ut sunglasses Anil she

not Was seen to take any of these

VC

Π

But after the Are had been

the stemt bodies of pur til women and two children were found among the debris.

العة

Nine residents of the tent- ment were taken to Kowloon

anibumaces, in Hospital suffering from stab wounds be- Liewed fr have Izen with a file.

Seven ware later discharged and two detained for further treatment

are

Police ond the Fire Brigad are investigating the cause of the

Ani the wounds sustained by the nine victims.

Police detained a man 1114 morning and he is Appearing In

Court thes

Kowloon the

Afternoon.

Funeral Of

Troopship Engineer

Saturday

after

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Dien Bien Phu Wounded In Hospital Judge's Comment On

Raids Forces

Incessant Air On Rebel

Hanoi, May 23.

Blistering day long French aerial assaults to- day out both the Vietminh's invasion highway to the Red River delta and one of their main supply roads from Red China.

Bombers, fighters and fighter-hombers ranged over the vital delta throughout the day exploding i. a storm of bombs, machinegun shells and daming napalm the Communist bonst that they would take Hanoi "without Important loss or damage" today.

Pelissier left for Paris morning.

Sergi Paratrooper Jac-

Prevost of Оцен

Paris (right) one of the first wounded eight men flown out of Dien Bien Phu, la looked at by Dr Col Ter- rumorsi (left) and Dr Col Landrieux (centre) Lanessan Hospital, Hanol, Associated Press Photo,

Child Killed

in

By Outboard Motor

to

People Who Lose Their Tempers

From the Files

100 Years Ago

We neglected Inst week

ta

forming

"The Court must make some effort to deter people from using these dangerous instruments merely because they lose control of their temper,' said Mr Justice C. W. Reece, Puisne Judge, at the mention a piracy, with abduc- Criminal Sessions when a 24-year-old student, Ngion of 3 men, i woman, 3 boys, and 4 girls, committed in the Chun-chuk, pleaded guilty to a charge of wound- Capsuymoon on the 11th instant, ing.

by three forge boat part of a large piratical, squad- ron. Captain Wainwright, with his usual promptitude, as soon as the news reached him patched the boats of the Win- chester

Friday VA followed next day by the P. & Forbes, having on board a large O. Co.'s steamer

Ng was bound over in $2,000, half in personal bond and half in surety, for three years to be of good behaviour.

In Imposing the penalty, Me Justice Reece remarked that in his court every month, there was a majority of enses of this type of wounding for no explicable reasons whatsoever.

said that on January 31, in the cubicle in 27, Berwick Street, they lose cont.ol of their tem-

ព

his

des-

evening.

evening, Sir Charles

number of blue-jackets marines.

The bonts had

and

contre

and

had

remainder.

Ng was represented by Mr "It is also a fact that in this V.L.J. D'Alon, instructed by Court every month, we g: a

up with one of the pirates Mr P.L. Lam. ut P.1. Lam malo.ity of easts of this type, just

sunk her, and the steamer

the sighted that is, wounding ant Company.

for no ex Mr O.R. Sneath, Crown plicable reasons. The

the weather became so Court when Counsel, (assisted by Mr D. must make som: effort to deter heavy that she was compelled Roberts, A.D.C.I Kowloon), people from using these drig taken on board the crews of the return to Hongkong, having mis instruments merly because boats, who

were completely drenched and exhausted, having ground floor, where accused and | per.

been

throughout the exposed If the accused had a criminal clansman

residing wore together. the

was record and was known to have previous night. accused drinking beer while two of the Court would definitely send him the associated with criminals, the clansmen. Including

the com plainant,

Chong Ng

prison for a long time. "However, we are not here to writing at the desk. At about

make criminala of young men of 2.30 p.m complainant sudden-

you: type," said Mr Justice ly felt a blow on the back his head and turning, saw ac- Reece, and bound accused over for good behaviour for three He years. cused holding a chopper. pushed the accused to the bed and dashed out. Accused fol- lowed blow,

2230

were

of

and delivered another

Later, when Police arrived with the wounded cumpluinent, they found the accused lying in bed and in tears. There was wound in his stomach, also a believed to have been self- inflicted.

When

examined at the

hospital, he was found to be in

a state of drunkenness.

At the time of his arrest, a

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to

LETTER ΤΟ THE EDITOR

Comment Of The Day

Captain Browning of the Klazina, which arrived yesterdiny from Hartlepool, reports having, In lat. 32.16 S. long, 94.30 E, fallen in with the briz Sham- rock, for Melbourne, completely diamasted in a gale on the 12th February; and which, as Captain White acknowledges, he sup- plied with the only spare spar In his possession, at the samo time kindly placing at his dis- posal anything also he had on board which might prove useful.

SUSPICIOUS WRECK

The Sea King, which serived in this harbour on Monday, brought with her from one of the Ravon Island, Lat, 5.52 N., Long. 157.30 E, eighteen passen.

the the

ber to

pre-

Sir-Your Comment of the A 40-year-old fsltenitan, | piece of paper was found on Day during the month, one on gers and the carpenter of the General Vo Nguyen

and Glup arrives in Paris tomorrow. After Cheng Yau-fook tragically lost which was written, "I wish Sino-British relation

the American barque Sarah Moore, by st broadest

1. his five days of steady consultation his grandson on Sału day after- could kill all Communists.

other

Anglo-American on

on which,

voyage from throughout in Saigon and Hanol, General | noon. when deployed

Sen Francisco, The funeral of Mr H. J. guerillas

The accused, Mr Sneath sald, relation, suggest that there is no Sydney the two-year-old della. French officers Ely, Generai itavul Safün, former | child' fell overboard and whs had been on good terms with fixed moral standard in the bad

wrecked been

on the Lawton, MBE. Chief En-the

Supreme Com struck by the propeller of the complainant and the clansinen. China Mail.

4:h changed that he was trying to Indo-China

September. The Captain gineer Officer of the troop put note psychological pressure mander, and Air General Pierre motor and was killer,

(Jool Woodberry) had presume that you are a

gone ship Dunera who died here | ou already fittery Hanol.

this Yesterday afternoon the Police

NO CRIMINAL RECORD

Britisher, who loves his country

there with the ostensible inten- D'Alton Br Mr Inst

wint

In mitigation. Aberdren hurbour

of and

having favours Anglo-American ton

tradid, forcibly land- French planes chopped High- hat, and was not seen a month's illness, took place way 41 in several places, cutting

an- asked for the utmost lentency Although General Ely en- where Cheng's junk was

for the accused. The accused Friendship, hence I quite under-vously, it is stand your forced a news blackout un his chored, to investigate the maiter. at the Roman Catholic the cute abend of troops the

bitterness against cd one of his passengers on an- criminal previous

island; but so suspicious Valley, Communists are

own staff, eircles close to the As a result, an outboard engine had shifting from

had no

Senator McCarthy, who is over other and half a gallon of petrol were record and Cemetery, Happy

criminal

eircumstances of the The Rev

Phu. The French military here pointed out that Dien Bien

there ready and always prepared to were the found

associations. Further, This morning.

on board.

wreck considered to be, that High Command said the planes the commission probably would

Cheng was brought before Mr was no molive in this in- distort truth and fabricate Lies Father P. J. Howatson, SJ,

recommend a tightening in the Culing at the Marine Court eldent at all. It could only have attack and hurdilato also cut the highway which runs Chaplain Apostleship of the from Lal Chau, near the Chinese della. They point out

French defence lines in the

morning charged with been the result of his state of! UK.

Dj that the this

Now, as you have Sea, officiated at the chapel frontier. to Tuan Gino.

drunkenness. botiniton breach of his junk leence con- French have no

ditions and for

The accused

blood running carrying don-

good and at the graveside,

some 64,000 men-scattered in French officials disclosed that

1 have goods gerous

without permis- reputation among

members of veins, The chief

delta against Was the INAUDI

devorled Miey have

a message the

the rebels'

sion.

running through his family and was always you love your UK and favour widow who flew out from Eng-

signed by the Vietminh 100,000 men and that many are

Cheng pleaded that he used known to have been a quiet land to be with her husband commander-in-chief and broad- cut off and isolated in

the engine only in case of In- young man. He had been Anglo-American Friendship,

in during his illness.

cast to delta guerlas on Friday parachute - supported "ittle

clement weather and to

favour rush custody for about four months

love my China and The Inte Mr Lawton, 53, hud

"We will occupy Hanej Sun- Dien Bien Phus". Some of the

during which he had caused no Sino-British Friendship. been with the P&O Companyday, May 23, without important outposts are manned entirely

he trouble at all.

As a a Chinese, reading your "Excuse me, madura,” a store

Jusses Dr dumage." said the by Vietnamese regional units Deborah for 30 years and was fourth in detective

The comments on Chinn, especially Spid

biondenst. It was signed "Giap" with little military training. but that senhority of the engineer N.

was a the one on the 6th inst., I can- reached the steret,

AMORK

those present were Mr. and Mrs B. T. Flanagan, Bid Mrs F

E. W. S. McGregor, Mr

Wellstead, and Mrs F.

Lieut- Commander T W Harford,

Deborach went to a third shop, and there she stole a bug priced nt Os de That was her undoing, for us time she was seen to

teal

Jang

יו;

UNLUCKY

O you mean to say." asked "Dal Bennett, VC, the

Marlborough Street magistrate, next morning, "that if she had

the bag she woukh nut taken not have been caught?"

***Thul I so, sir." ufflerr

police

Deborah's case.

said the charge of

She, from the dock, had pleaded guilty to stealing the hag and asked for thefts to be Laken into con- sideration. Now, as the story big was told Deborah stord, a WOT, hatless, with grey-

and streaked hair

☐ country- woman's complexion, trembling and half sobbing.

old Commodore A. H

OBE, DSO, and the Sea

W. J. Transport, the Rev.

Haigh- Brown, Mr D. W. Leighton, Mr A. V. Cook, Mr Δ. F. Sinclair, Mr TE Carr, Mr W P. Cameron, Mr H. Williamson

Wreaths sent were from fls wife: All the family at Home: Alvent. Fred and Geoffrey Welistead; Commodore A. H. her other Thorold. OBE. DSO; Mr and Mrs B. T. Flanagan, Mr and Mrs E. W. S. McGregor; Munag- P&O S.N. Co., ing Directors. Landon: Atission ไถ Stamen; Hongleng Sea Transport; Cap-

Ship's ani

Omerrs HMT Duners; Managing Agents B.I.3.N. Co.. Ltd., Calcuttu: Tulkoo

Mackinnon, Dockyard; Mackenzie & Co., Hongkong.

"What do you want to say?" the magistrate

her, asked sternly.

'MY FIRST OFFENCE'

THE

zooler, acting as amplifier to her whispers, repeated: "She says she's very sorry.... she doesn't know why she did It....it's her first offence."

of

"Well, I don't understand this type of ease, in aplle of 32 years' experience of the law," said Mr Bennett. He sighed as if in despair

discovering ever what it was that in an instant could turn a good woman into o Thiel. "One thing is clear" he said. "Our courts have a duty. You must go to prison fer one month."

trin

Radio Hongkong

K.K.T.

6. Time Sigma) and Programme Summary: 01.03 Children's Half Hour

presented by 5 By Ann (Studio); 0,30, Cantonese by Radio- Lesson Prepares by . K. Amisted by Donis Bray and Lea Wai-lan (Recorded; 6.45. "Box 200 Bert Gillett at the Organ (00); 7. "On the Best Dance Band al the Rangkong Special Constabulary Directed by Andy tidalgo (Record- esh: 7.00, “Viewpoint“ SA. Weekly Magazine Programme devoted to Literature, Drama and, the CinagNA, Edited and introduced Mary -Dord Brooks Books: Reviewed by Visick The Quaker

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to the market from the fishing ground so that the Ash caught would be fresh.

had

Imposing the penalty, Court remarked that it

British

through Chinese blood mino and as

declarations of several of the parties have been taken by the Harbour Master, and tend to prove great misconduct; but your we understand they are as yet Cop- no moons complete. The Sarah Moore went on board two tain, officers, and crew of the

whalers, promising to return for the others, but did not do só.

PASSENGERS' ACT

I

Cheng was fined $75 or restle dimeult to understand why not but occuse you of being just garding the last Passengers' Act

weeks' hard labour,

Trooper Arrives

to-

American

The following Notification re

NO INDICATIONS

NO OFFICERS

has been issued, warning all accused committed this delibera HK duplicate of

Interested "that the said Act French officers said that, al- French doctors at Luang

ate act upon his friend who had McCarthy.

will be enforced in this Colony, been living quite happily 115 additional though Giap bad an estimated | Prabang, where

While we are on this subject, so far as circumstances will per- 100,000 fighting men In the wounded arrived yesterday,

gether with him for a consider-especially the Sino-Britishmit." That last clause is sup ferille triangle, including one suid none of these last were in The troopship HMT Empire able time.

aspect of it, I venture to ask you gestive of abuse, and it would crack division, they would be critical or even dangerous con-

Orwell arrived from the north It was fortunate that accused a few questions. As a Chinese surely have been better to have unable to mass and gather sup-dition.

decent at noon today with troops who was a perfectly

young can respect a Britisher, who adopted such of the provision of plies for the all-out assault on

bad completed their tour of man in perfectly good cir- has soul to love and the courage the Passengers Act ELS aro Itanol without French military The men brought out yester duty in Korea. Empire Orwell cumstances with respectable to dafend Britain

And ber North Africans, wil af for the United King- parents, day included men knowing it.

in Queen. Can you Sir, respect me Legionnaires and Frenchmen dom tomorrow after picking up Canada. Other associates had for loving and defending China Official military cources here but none over non-commissioned additional time-expired (roops also given him a good reputa- and her Head of state? My Im said there had been no indleu-ofcer's rank.

from Hongkong. on that an immediate mass Of the pitack by the guerillas pinned against Hanol.

The

ports.

on

381 men to reach was freedom from Dien Bien Phu,

the

and

was

not one has been an officer. This seems to bear out reports advance guard of

by some of the wounded that four divisions which toppled the the Communists intend to hold French force at Dien Bien Phu all captured officers because of still is more than 75 miles from the valuable military informa

to latest Hanoi, according

re- tion they and

might give the French High

on Vietminh Incessant French air attacks battle dispositions and tactice.

There

no word on the rexs Jading Cast southeast toward the delts and evacuation on whether an esti

150 additional wounded sporadic heavy rains have slow-mated

schedule avnrusted on ed the pace of the rebel troops from Dien Bien Phu today, Nor toward Hanoi.

had any inte or more definite Information reached Hanoi on Rocket-Bring Corsairs today

whether Nurse Genevieve de again attacked the pivotal town

Galard-Terraube of Tuan Glao, north of Dien those scheduled to be flown out among W38 Phu, where Provincial

13 joins Provincial today-United Press.

Bien Highway Highway 41. Heavy bombers attacker the communications centre of Son La,.35 miles canat of Dien Bien Phu, with 500-1b

and 1,000-lb bombs, :

The enemy potential in the deita has not been reinforced Bien since the fall of Dien Phu, French officials said, and

were

Decree Nisi

Granted

some military quarters believe solute within six months was A decree nisi to be made ab- Vo Nguyen Glup may his big delta

granted to John Robert Thomas September.

Deborah seemed to frocze where she stood in the dock. The gaoler put an arm about

delay London Relay); 8.10. News Talk her and took her away, at London Rely) or Special An

offensive until Nunn by the Pulsne Judge, Mr stiff, erect, expressionless, like #

nouncement; $.35. Songs of Oscar

Justice

J. B. Gregg in the Straus; 8.30. Orson Welles in "ana broken down automaton or

Black Museum No. 10 in the Series

Other French planes flew 30 Divorce Court this morning. lay figure from

shop's of programmes based on Live records some

Nunn petitioned for the dis missions 12 miles southeast of window display.

sha | of the CID, Scolland Yard. Epizoda Later,

of his 9. Time: Bignal. the anchor town of Phuly, scat-solution

marriage to would comprehend what, hud 10:The Pho

Ifands across the Keys Winifred tering enemy forces on the road Emily Constance Numm on the happened to her. Later, in a Atwell: 3.18 Record fleview pro- between Phuly and Nam Dinh. grounds of alleged qdultery. cell at Holloway,.

yented, by Curtis "Hindson: (Studio); Mai 10. Take it from here-with Joy

the French Southern delta Co-respondent named in the Nichols, Dick Bentley, and Jimmy | headquarters command; --

aust was Edward Wharlen Shell: Falwards Rapest-of- fast "hursday a

Oficials in Indo-China đó̟-'; Mr R. WAS.. Winter, instructed All ships of the Royal Navy national

Arondosat 3BORS): 10.30 Inter-clined to comment on recom- by Messrs Deacons, appeared for

Cabaret: 10:46,- (Freddy and visiting foreign warships Meriin and fils Orches fumendations, the mission beaded petitioner. The sulb was juri". in port were dressed overnil weathers Reperti, 31mine igre by the Chief of Staff, General contested.

Hadio News Rand CLondon.

Costs were. French Government when: 14 [co-respondent,

order

today on the occasion of Empire, 11.10, Godardgie. Muster, dodelave Paul Ely, will make to the

In de Astoru M The Queen; 11,80, Cles. Down

Day.

tion.

who

now are

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

30

") mulled the boss'a lot of, vacation folder

it asay for a couple of days!''

pression of British attitude in Hongkong is that a Chinese 13 not expected to love China or to defend China and her chair- man. Am I wrong? I belleva there can never be any true Friendship

either between

applicable to the Colony, mod!- fed others so as to render them applicable, and added whatever peculiarities the circumstances of the Colony require-embody- ing the whole In an intelligible Ordinance:-

Government Neilßéktion **

The attention of Merchants, nations of individuals without Ship-masters, and others inter- mutual respect and reciprocity.ested or engaged in Emigrations, is specially directed to the fol- Do you agree?

lowing prominent conditions re- A CHINESE.

think either quired by the Passengers' Act defence of, or apology for, the 1852; and it is hereby notuited rothat the said Act will be en- inforced in this Colony, so far as circumstances will permit:-

[We

not do

China Mall editorials is Their quired.

fundamental standards are moderation and objectiveness -- both morally

China

from

1---No Pasenger Ship shall clear sound, and we belleve, accept= out and, proceed to Ses, without a - the Emigration able to the vast majority of our Certificate readers, Ed.

Mail Omoer that the requirements of the Agt have been, suficiently compiled. Special).

with. By Infringement of this in- Junction the Ship Is aubjected to forfeiture, iri whatever Bestimi. Port she may be found within two years after the commission of the offen. 2-Every much ship must be pro- nounced seaworthy by a Government Burveyor,

16 Unlicensed

Sampans

Lau Chol,

3-The space, allotted for the so- For possessing 18 unlicensed commodation of Fassengers, hatt be aampons.

45, won not low than Twelve Superficial ROST aned $300 or two months hard for each Personnage

„Auths Provisions med-Water mort labour by Mr C. Cairns at the be surveyed and found of good Marino Court this morning.

quality

and

mufficient

for

the

The Prosecution- said that, 10 VOYEES. unlicensed sampans of the A List of Passengers must be, pleasure type were seized by the prepared is tupilesie" for migranture Police en a raid in Leichlkok by the Enigmation Officer.

MAihe Government Gazette of ftag. on May 19. Last Saturday December, 1863, contains the required defendant appeared

in the scale of Provision and Medicines. Marine Police Station and copy of fals Gazette" "and" of the PARCAROTH" ACEt may be seen at Dis claimed that he was the owner onset of the chlet Maghtests

of 16 of the sampons. He stated | Pollos. that the craft wgro, for hire te swimmers at fifty cents an hour Defendant mid fa, mitigation that he had applied to the UrDEN Council on April 1: for 1cancer:

By Order,

Printed and published brat and on behalf of Bouthi: CHÍNK, Wyndham “Streety: City in Vistoriay in the Colony or Honm