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CASEBOOK

Reginald's Career

HOSE who work behind

THOSE

the counters in toy- shops must IRINACAN tho

secret of remaining

young

In heart, for if they did not they would surely soon lose either their jobs or

their

utier

pressing

thu that

reason or both.

demands

children make when they

are bargain-hunting.

It is dimeult, therefore, to ple- ire Reginald hend toyshop Founter

Be is at 30, 0 <x- Ki oks like

tremely sen

one of these who through buy- hood and youth have gone about with,

a grave demeanition and a

trown fur maythoug renately

frivolous

Yet a few weeks ago, Reginald Jeft his lodgings one intrning to beg bis first day's work as a IL sules unsistant in oystug

was the dubond sterge in a strate

carver.

THE CHURCH

ont of the Navy

H

with

24

Lovel

and a strong

enter the church.

mck t

drsize to

He was accepted at a tanining college, but presently it

CHINA * MAIL

Established 1845

TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1954.

Evangelist At Wembley Stadium

The picture shows the hage crowd of 120,000 that went to the Wembley Stadium, to hear Billy Graham, the American evangelist, during the final meeting of his three months' Greater London Crusade.-London Express,

(ALLEGED

ATTACK

Was

Ior

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DESCRIBED

deekted that bus vocrtion wor not strong enough priestfood

Reginald joined է ի. Naty

but this time with less success than before. He was discharged His explanation as unsukable.

of that was that he deliberately! muffed an examination.

THE SPREE

HE tanke od

Jers

He got the toy hp job then His pay was £0 12% Bd a week, and out of that 43 10% went on his lodgings.

Plan story of a mother und a

woman, were

CRIMINAL COURT APPEALS FAIL

Sheaffers "SNORKEL"

Police

The Sloss Trial:

Constable's Evidence Of Car Chase

of

TO

LETTER THE EDITOR

Position Of NTS Explained

to

Sir, In the interests of securney, please permit me to use a few lines of your valuable Evidence of a chase through the streets of Wanchai in the early space.

With reference the first- hours of February 25 last in pursuit of a car driven by the accused, was

page headline in the China Mall given by a Police Constable when hearing of the manslaughter ́trial

May

20 - "Anti-Russian against Geoffrey Duncas Sloss, 30, of 375A The Peak, continued before the

Organisation In Britain Brings that the Protest"-please note

Russian Puisne Judge, Mr Justice J. R. Gregg and

National Alliance of an all-male Jury in the

Solidarists (commonly known as Criminal Sessions this morning.

"NTS") are very much "PRO- Russian". though resolutely and violently general particular.

The chase which was made by the Police witness, Ma Tsun, PC4213, and another Police Constable, in a public vehicle, ended after the public vehicle had cut in in front of the accused's car, which came to a stop near the Victoria Barracks.

The witness said that with his colleague he tried to stop accused's car in Hennessy Road after they had heard the sound of a collision. Accused's car did not stop but proceeded westward on its way. A public vehicle came by and the two Police Constables boarded it,

Shas is alleged to have un- Inwfully kilot Ng Chow, # ricksha pulier, un February 27, 1954.

The Prosecution A conducted by Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr, Senior Crown Counsel, and Mr J. W. D.

Crown Counsel. Hobley, assisted by Chief Insperior W. Eggleston

Sloss is defended by the Hon. QC, and Mr Patrick Yu, both on the instruc- tkans of Messrs Johnson, Stokes and Master. Earlier

Lou

d'Almada,

was the Breused. Accused was in Arny uniform.

About This time another man Joined him and this man said he spake

Witness English.

then asked the man, whose name was Wong So, to

ask

accused if hod been an neeldent. Wong So told him that accused replied in the negative.

the

the

DAMAGED MUDGUARD Witness then pointed to left front mudguard of the we

used's cor

car, which was

ས་བ

Red. He then made a re-i

by telephone and when

in this morning's proceedings, Dr Woo Tse-wun, he returned he saw accused in

to

was

be

House Surgeon,

Queen Hospital, sakl that about 4.15 a.m. on February 25, decoased was admitted to the hospital in He died two a slate of coma. days afterwards said

Mary

the and

The prevalence of larceny from the person, described as a "very mean type of crime",

to

twa

one

of extended to the back

There was scalp.

vertical Itmeal fracture extending from of the skull downwards the top

of

company of his colleague several Army personnel Victoria Bar- out of

+

worst it was slightly higher than average have no comment.

In answer to another question, witness said that accused was looking for a light to light his cigarette when he fell.

Henring is continuing.

Lady Grantham

Visits Schools

lo

anti-Communist

and anti-Soviet

The reason

ה!

In

IN

simply this: NTS Is a Russion

organisation and which (by the way) for the past twenty-five years, has given more headacho to Soviet

"MVD" "OGPU",

than any

Government and the (formerly, "GPU", "NKVD other political anti-Communist group outside and/or inside the USSR, ur is satelites.

to

በ።

It would, perhaps, be appro- here the mention priate deplorable fact that many as well leading statesimin, some segments of the Press of the nations of the Free World are st making the unfortunate and dangerous mistake ferring munistic"

10

consequently,

everything

as "Russian"*

of

"Com-

and.

10 which is "anti-Communistic" as

everythink

"anti-Russian."

There

AS

like

Com-

Com-

is no such thing "Russlan Communism" There in no "Polish", "Ctechu- Highlight of Lady Grantham's slovakinn", or "Chinese" visit

selinots - three

und Henriette, St Clare's Stephen's--this morning, was a variety concert

the given by "student body" of St Stephen's Kindergarten.

Stephen's

munism. Unfortunately, St munism is International (Karl

was

Marx

end, @ German) therefore, is for more dimcult

than to combat

Nazlem

Fascism, German Japanese

was

were

Itollari and and

Militarism. Russla

Communism's first vidim (Baltic States, Poland.

Central

European countries, China and North Korea follow-

against

coming racks.

Accused took out a cigarette and witness and began to light it, but felt

a post- to the ground. He arose performed

and |So allegedly attacktag a fellow commented upon by Mr Justice J. Reynolds,

rant w

related

was taken to Police Station in mortem examination. by Insp. Puisue Judge, at the Appeal Court this morning Ravaneght beh o Judge A. D. |

deceased

had a Police van Externally,

which had then

A percussion band, replate with Scholes at Victoria District Court when he dismissed an appeal against a sentence

three injuries on his face and arrived, witness concluded.

* duwnitive conductor and a drum to the thigh. this morning when Kwan To-luk of 24 months and 12 strokes brought by appellant

Internally,

In answer to Mr d'Almuda,

mer whờ thumped nonebulantty at a witness

said that

jungle drinn bigger than himself, be found witness said that when he first gave a sterling if rowdy performance. on grounds of severity of sentence.

bleeding inside the tissue in

saw the par it was about

Diber, less tented little tots, nung seven the region of the brain which to eight shops lengths from and danged.

Lagy Grantharu, on arving at Sted), but it does not (for should the him. He Indicated the length

with Me 1. G. Morgan,

that to be nol) mean a shop front which Counsel Acting Director of Faluation was

to be Communism estimated at about

feet.

conducted round by the Rev. Cheung

is, also, 15

Wing-ngal Witness sald

against its victims. he was unable

After visit Jug all the primary and estimate the speed of uc-winterten classer, Lady Ormiliam

When Hitler invaded Russin cused's car.

prevented At the suggestion w

with á hantel of in 1941

that hin he declared haemorrhage below the lining of Counsel, witness counted up

roses by seven year old Lain RH-

was a "crusade" against Com- of the brain and damage to

munism and the Kremlin the brain substance.

usurpers and within the first six months of the over four million POW% and clvilians went over to their would-be "ilberator" from Communist yake. How- ever, encouraged by his

initial successes Hitler promptly dis-

was

His Lordship. in dismissing the appeal, sald Se appeared in beernisul with long re-

Land Poon Ngor, a Eter come rherges with wounding. kinil of

The aretised Were represented religious fe, and

instrument R for an un- Mir All by

Francis

and' Wong now he joined a lay order

The appellant, Ho Fuk-pang, an

and two of Inwful pleadert

Rudity

purpose. well for a time, pleaded not guilty to the charge, had seemed to go

from breach of a deportuliam order of A ral1 hl

Kareeny Joop Kavanagh said the com- Then things began to go

Mr Meltoberi rejoined that the person. lnvolving the steuf. well, and those in charge of the plant, Tung Shing-ahved, and

I deporter, from the appellant, of wrist watches order

lived at No. 143 Ing were somewhat relieved the accused

before Mr had returned to the Colony very whers Reginald

wonen pedestrians, announced be Hollywood Road, second floor.

Kowloon, He shoutly after he had beển de- had hud enougħ.

On the afternoon of April 14, T Crecion

given 12 months and six ported complainant's son was allegedly

and strokes on each count. scolded by second necused complaunant reprimanded her, He was one of six appellants

who An igument started and a fight

unsuccessfully appealed Shortly later, Kwan, follmerd

this morning Five of the p-curs! in the job. Reginald drew

peals Ponn's son, rume out of his rein

were against sentene», money, went home and paid his id attacked complainant with i and one against conviction.

wife Complainant's

McRobert, week's retut.

Mr J. C. then went off in Shepper

Crown Counsel.

for the appeared spree during teine to his assistance but was some kind

Crown. which he spent every penny that pushed away by Kwan.

The Police were summoned remained to him

When He appeared before His and complaini was taken

Lordship, he stated that he did Queen Mary Hospital where he

fret steal the wrist was found to have three wounds

watches and that he had been to the head and right arm

compelled to plead guilty. Hearing is continuing.

At the rad of his sath week

THE

NEXT day

CRIME

Ing

at work he pocketed twn Sums, one of Bs. 10d. and

one of 12s that should have gone into the til.

The crime was quickly itis-| covered. bryst Reginald was i brought to Marlborough Street | and pleaded guily embezzlement. He was remand- ed for inquiries to be made into

his history.

"Oh, 37.

case.

there to

I remember

tha

Mr Paul Bennett,

when Re-:

career.

into

and

Reds Propose

Commission

(Continurd from Page 1)

the sume

the and

TK

MAN'S RECORD

Hr was told by Mr Justice Reynolds that the Appeal Court way concerned only with the ap- pellant's

appeal against the sentence, and not the cause of nis plea one way or the other The prisoner then said he did not think he could stand the 13 strokes meted out to him, and

Lordship asked if His

could

Lordship.

Why

JUDGE'S QUERY

and backwards to the base of the skull, There was extensive

Death was caused by damage of the brain substance, subdural haemorrhage and fracture of the skull. The injuries, the witness

were compatible testified

to

was heavy force being applied to the Wong Bing-ching, whos given 15 months by Me Creedon bend, or the head coming into

o hard blunt sur for housebreaking and larceny, contact with

appeni face such as the surface of a told the Court in his

had rond that he against sentence

Witness agreed with the Pro already appliett

entry the mainland, and secution's penult to

suggestion that the that the Jong sentence. would injuries might have been caused as a result of a motor accident. thus prevent him from making

PC's EVIDENCE use of that permit.

Ma

Constablo Tsun, Police

2017

wonder if the authorities on the mainland would be

1

anxious to

Hi

receive you." Lordship commented. He add ed that the appellent had a number of previous convictions of larceny, housebreaking and burglary.

words

When

shown the protary forms' music romu, Lady Grantham com- tented's nice to give them seine murde, alter it, ia n' means pression they all enjoy."

!f un-

10 seven as the time It took tha

car to pass him from the time he first saw it on the road.

Counsel Informed the Court The

schoot that Lady that It took four seconds to Grantham vistied was the Henrietts count up to seven at the rate of School, Rubinson Rand, where she counting suggested by witness,

Mr d'Almada (to

I was welcomed by the bendin.streKJ, Mr Su long. Mes Lain Chik-yuen,

Chairman of the Board of witness).

Watson, We may take it from you that Directors, and Miles Lla

The American Southern member of It took this car four seconds to Baptit Convention. cover 120 feet (which is eight shops lengths)?

́UNIQUE ARRANGEMENT

in the first clamroom vished. Mr Mortan painted out to her Leayship [that ine" boys at with the gris di "desks for two. a rainer uniqu

Grantham.

who wero

Mг H. K. Yuen,

ONLY AN ESTIMATE Witness: Now when it comes to this question of accuracy arrangement. don't want to pin myself down.

Mr Morgan added that perhaps the Lady Grantham thought to the contrary, 4213 said he was on duly with As I said, it was only an estris heised the buys but

mate.

At St Clare's Girls School, Bonham PC1502 In Hennessy Road about

Your estimate shows that this Road, Leity Grantharn was greeted 3.30 a.m. on February 25 last.

car was travelling a little more with a welcome song by a guard of They were on the south side than 20 mph? Do you

I honom už over 100 girls who Immed agree the depy to the school. of Hennessy Road opposite with that speed? (Counsel in With the headmistress, Rey, Blater Tonnochy Road walking cast- formed the Court that that Elsabeth,

welconied Lady towards Tin Lok Lane.

would be about the speed of the Senior Education wou

Officer, and Mr About this time his attention car if it took four seconds to C. K. Tang. Inspector of Schools. The next appellant, Yu Tok, appeal-

was attracted to a sound of a

Lady Grantham, visited four of ed against his conviction for arceny

cover 120 feet). in front of him,!122 car collision

the seven classes, in which the girls Witness: First of all I am not were occupied with geography, said witness, three months by Mr Lawrence Event Kowloon. Yu, who was

Ho ran out to the roadway good at arithmello (Laughter). She was told when

geometry, Chinese, and noedjewder, she enquired found uilly of victimising a woman

from the pavement and saw but I have to say this: From bout the ambitions of the girls Lis panenger on a tramcar pleaded

Certificate common sense I judge that the school

class that they that he had been compelled to make a private car coming towards

the private

was mostly hoped to be nurses. car a confession to a detective.

The car speed "at high speed. him

After portaking of refreshment, Yu said further that he was only suspected by the woman of com-

Lady Grantham was presented with about 17 to 18 shops travelling was higher then the

a bouquet of roses by Mim Linda mitting the offence.

lengths away from China Inter- average speed,

Woo, and Chinese painting by In reply to a question from lin

When you say it was travelling Miss Paddy national Motors, sald witness. Mctobert zald

Tong, author tho Lordship. Mr evidence was that the complainant'

higher than average, I suggest at i gift. pocket was all. and that watch and some money was removed from it. After the appellant had bum ga Into the complainant. site fell the wolelt and money drop to the floor from her pocket.

VC. the magistente, ginald was brought back to the members of the Commission it strike off the strokes from the from person, for which he had been dock

way as Mr Bedell sentence. Mr Charles Morgan, the pro- Smith had criticised the Polish Replying to " question by bition

ofleer. went

Crown Czechoslovak representa- HIS

Coun- witness-box, and briety recalled Uves, the sources suid

sej saki that the Penson Reginald's

the

Mr Chou concluded by putting

The strokes

itry- were spending spree that had brought his three-point proposal,

posed in this case was pechipps Mr Dong after supporting Mr the fact that the prisoner hud a

Mr Chow. 40- Gromyko and

record of 10 previous convictions. nounced the names of his Highdise, the Magistrate might have Command's military experts who taken into account this type of "I'VE spoken to the bend of are to bein talks with the

becoming crime was the my order," Mr Morgan French Union Forces High Com- now days. reported, "and he says this man mind on ezaseßit and regroup- was a source of grent anxiety to inga

#full-stop

THE FUTURE?

them. I think they were rather The conference next agreed to the

si

Ils eyes expressiomless behind peated

rimless glasses,

on

that

| nowadays.

common

In dismissing the appeal, Mr

Ice Reynolds Justice

told the ap- pellant: "It is a very mean type Pear

when the the of crime-especially victim is n woman. I think the sentence

was fully justified, and

glad to see him go..

held preliminary military con- "From what you tell me." the sultations

ari tomorrow magistrate said. "his

restricted session story next hardly seems to fit in with a Wednesday. religicus vocation, does it?" Conference sources said they was not excessive in any way." His Lordship added that this "Hardly.

sald Mr also decided that the full rst particular sort of offence was Morgan.

Mr Bennett asked Reginald should take place

meeting of the miliary experts

This week, quite hard to detect after the what he wanted to say.

felen had run away from the "Nothing I can

probably on Thursday. say, except

The Cambodian Foreign cene of his crime. that I'm sorry," said Reginald,

Mi Minister.

Tep Phan, re- NO SPECIFIC REASON his reservation Cambodia should be treated The next appellant, Fan Chi- "You say it very easily." com- separately from Vietnam.

kong, appealed against the mented the magistrate,

The West maintains that all sentence of five months passed

him by Mr Creedon a necessary concerning on

Loos and

three charges of ส the Kowloon on The magistrate sighed. "Well, withdrawal of the Vietminh larceny from vehicles, you've been in

in custody eight forces from these two smaller

When asked what his ground he said. "I shall cils-

Associated States.

of

Appeal was, fan, siated: charge you conditionally."

M. Bidault

supported Mr "I do not have any specific Reginald nodded, us if he had

Bedell Smith's

I only want a redue- views and reason. expected no less. He went out,

France's insistenco " He

told by fl calm, unruffled, and I wondered renewed

that this type of from offence was also becoming pre- valent, and that the sentence was not excessive in the dir cumstances.

"Oh no." Reginald conceded, that

"I say it with a little disgrace."

days,"

Cambodia

what the future held for him, that Cambodia and Laos should Lordship

Though: 11 held, be treated differently conviction Vietnam.-Reuter.

*

against him, he should seem so

and what he

that with Buch

ttle distressed.

RAINFALL

Carthage In Dock

was

The 14,283-on P & liner, who was given a

of 11 months

When he was apprehended, Crown Counsel went on, he admitted to a detective that he had picked the woman's pocket,

A WEAK CASE After pernaing the record, 2119 Lordship dismissed the appeal, said that though it was a rather weak case, he considered there was BUČI ficient evidence upon which the

properly sppeltic could be victed.

con-

Wus

The car when he first saw

It was about 10-odd foot away from the south kerb and about seven or eight shops' lengths kway

from him, the witness continued.

The car had its offsido Night but the nearside light was

"1 raised

01 11.

not

my left hand and thene my torch at the vehicle in order to stop it," witness said.

BWERVED OUT He said that when the cat came near him it swerved out a little from him towards the centre of the road and continued un its course.

Luk-Bu-on, who appented, against the sentence of 20 months imposed. by Mr. Creedon for housebreaking

claimed this and simple larceny, momplex that he had not entered the house, but that he merely took

After the car had driven past a pair of trousers as he peased by a window.

him, a public vehicle which was Crown

Counsel told the Court going in the same direction cama that the evidence was that appellant alongside and stopped in front was seen holding a bamboo pole,

and his colleague sylls which he had broken the door of him. He of the rouse He said he was also got in

life deportee,

Witness said he did not see In dimissing the appeal, Kr Witne

vehicle when they Justice Reynolds sold that in view accused's the appellant had, he did not can sider the mentoried excessiva,

of the long criminal record which boarded the car but eventually he saw it as they passed the Junction of Fleming Rond...

POLICY SPEECH (Continued from Page 1)

on three from the temple of freedom all

ing."

SIDE GLANCES

"af lic

By Galbraith

carded

н

war, Russian

Als "anti-Communist crusade" and continued to

fight

Russiz and the Russians. And we all know what hap- pened. This mistake should

not be repeated by the Free World.

If some 200 million Russians, over 450 million Chinese and

(I don't know how many) millions of

European countries' population

satellite should learn that the Free Nations' of the World are not only "anti-

but are

"anti-Chin

"awi-Hungarian".

дя

etc., these peoples would have no choice, but to rise

rise up and fight as we would then

appear to be THEIR enemies and not

the only enemies of their slave driving Communist governments.

If this World is to be spared the destruction, of Mankind and its civilisation, we should member

what Eugene Lyons (for marly усата American correspondent in USSR) eays in his

latest book "Our Secret Allies: The Peoples of Russia":- The truth is that we are not

We

AGAINST the Russians, are W

WITH them against their

autocracy."

And. William C. Bullitt (former US Ambasador to Moscow) said in his book "The Great. Globe self", these words should be inscribed en the banners of Free Nations: "For your liberty and ours!"

V. K.

Murder Of Soldier Protest

Cairo, May 31. Britain ometally protested to Egypt today over the murder of a young British National Str- viceman at Ismailia in the Suez Canal zone, -

A British spokesman said there was still no clue to the killers. of the paratrooper, Private J. Vaux, who was battered to desfă In a side "stroot yesterday while a NAAFI truck he was guarding was burned by the crowd, Pa

Sir Ralph Stevenson, British Ambassador in Cairo, called on the Egyptian Fortin Minister, Mr Mahmoud Fawzy and mada Britain's formal.

another,

He said: "At a high spéed wa chased after it and caught up with it near Rediffusion Bulld

As a result of what the taxi driver told him witnem said he drew his revolver. The taxi WAS now abreast of the socused's car

car which then slowed down and through the window In be agents of foreign state or pointed the pistol at the other Near the trame" post" at the would "Truth can make men tråd Junction of tonnessy Road and LOTve his whole sentence. their lives, to govern them-stop after the faxl had over-

Mr Justleo Reynolds pointed selver, to know the truth and to taken it and cut, in in front. Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GRINHA for out to the prisoner that he had understanding thei: fellow man, ... Witness" said be. left the cir and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-8 | admitted having six previous we believe that there aleg is the red pointed the revolver, at the Bay Mom, are you ever going to quit Introducing me ang ret dire to Brian Gov

to all your friends as the baby of the family other car, who Wyndham Street, City of Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong.! convictions for possession of will to live at peaceReuter, driver of the

Carthage which arrived here counts of larceny of Bxtures who seek to establish over us A spokestab for the Royal terday, left her Kowloon Wharf Creedon, pleaded that he had demagogues thirsty for personal from the United Kingdom yes- from various premises by Mr thought control--whether they Observatory..said today that be- | berth for Talkoo· Dock this a wife and three children 10 power and publie notice, tween 1 a.m. and i am. Hong morning for brief docking be up

kong Standard Time there had fore she resumes her homeward support, and that they

Гасп starvation If he had to and where men are free to plan | Queen's Road, the car came to a

boen 1.1 inches of rain.

voyage on Friday,

4:27

British outbreak, suhani, an artis

ment stores and casted estimated at £600,000.