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From Our Files

100 Years Ago

A

this

Charlie Hurt

brutal assault Was made

CHINA MAIL

China Makes Big Grant

For Flood Relief

London, Sept. 26.

The Chinese Minister, of the Interior, Mr

forenoon, in olic of the Hsieh Chuch-tsoh, said today the Government had boarding-houses, by William set aside about £11 million for relief against floods, Smith, an Irish seaman, upon a noffensive Jann quun

drought and other natural calamities in the last knocked Wus

five years, the New China news agency reported.

Charlie, who

namca down, and so kicked about the almost bead, that bls ilfe in despaired of The jaw la irne- fured in two places, the tongue face nearly severed, and the mangled in a frightful manner, evidently by the heel of a buði, Smith is custody

Billy B's Complaint

anonymous communication.

His statement was part of П report by ministers of Princ Manator Chou Enfa Gover ment which today was unani- mously approved by the Na- tional People's Congress, The report covered the Ave

yourn since the Communists took over

the Chuucre mainland.

Mr sich sold the relief fundi

Corruption Case Adjourned

For once we depart from our nile, by inserting the following had cubled the people in areas Hearing of charges of

We.

affected by calamities " Lide corruption againat two Chinese Revenue Officers, know what those over dimouities."

weli us "Billy D" have CH

curiosity to

of

"fees" are, which rob pour men The Chinese foods this year, which was to have com- their property, and compel said it have been the worst in a menced before Judge A. D. them

tem to forfeit their only means

locutury, Blooded more than Scholes in the Victoria Dis-

2,500,000 ITES

of support in favour nf the

Court harples:

Mall."

To the Editor of the "Chinu

Hongkong,

1804.

of land.

• Agriculture Minister, Mr Shu-cheng. reported the 12th September.despite

the floods, output of grain, cofion and oil bearing Sir-I'm one of them marines crops weld exceed those of last as you knows on as dit duty year. the Tarier after pirates-und thof

wa brot

in a junk, have our trouble.

Bot Dofin

Yet for

If we did nur itin, surely neither

TARGETS IN SIGHT

trict Court this morning, was adjourned when the Prosecution Intimated that it was unable to proceed be. cause an essential witness was missing.

The accused were Lam Wan, 32, and Lo Keng-por, 32, both He said the planned torget for Revenue OMeers of the Depart- did the Register, nor the stout, beg raising would te cver-ment of Commerce and Indus- ecut as

calls hisself Marshal, fullled and prechretion tengels of | try. the little

rther livestock feilor as

and marine sharp has summat else to do with the products would be reached.

I aint got pekeks it all edges as how

7105

in and

Admiralty d

malin and

Now, Sir, I

I Wices Jute

1 Luces Jute wonde

WOL

The

They were charged with (having (1) on July 13 together Mr L Shu-ching cttributed corruptly solicited from L.co the growth of China's agricul- Chun-kwan for themselves on tural potential to the completion unspecified sum of money to be of land reform and development | paid per month as an induce- buttons, excus me sir, but of mutual aid and co-operative ment to them to forbear from abominates them loafers wol

taking any action which might does notin

grabs all the dba movements," Jet that better mer

be appropriate in connection works for 1

Reneral manager of the with the importation of goods hopes as how you will tickle up Yungli chemical works Into the Colony by the motor old "Ver-ry Well," and get him Tentsin, Mr Hou Toh-pang. vessel Kai Tal; to ax what them Feas of Court his report "stressed the need to means do swallers

every thing. lean from the Soviet Union (2) on July 14 together cor- junks, slinkpots, guns or cl, and pledged himself to work ruptly solicited from Lee Chun- and the samahoo tomah sir it harder for the People's China," kwan for themselves $150 per was a cruis shame to waist the the news agency said.

month as an inducement` to good lek:-Yours to cumand.

forbear from taking action; BILLY 1. Mr Kuo Mc-jo, Minister of

(3) on July 15 together cor- Activities, presume, is Cultural

said the ruptly received $150 from Lee state-owned Film Studio pro-Chun-kwan. duced 232 Alms in the past few years and dubbed Chinese voices Mr R. W. S. Winter, Instructed from the Soviet by Mr J. C. Stowart, of Stewart We learn

the home into 320 Alma from

Union and other Communist ond Co., represented both accus- papers that,~~

od, who are on bail of $2,000 "Juries are getting into the countries.

each. habit of nwording heavy damages for accidents oc-

• Registrar, we the officer meant.-Ed., C. M.

Damages

been

NEW CINEMAS

a

Mr D. F. O. Mayne, Senior casioned by carelessness. Fer He also reported the building Crown Counsel, told the Court a lad wounded in the eye by of new cinemas and growth of he was sorry he was not in gunshot,, £100 has

re-drumatie companies and cultural position to proceed with the covered in the Common pleas. clubs. He said there were now

case because in essential witnesa Mr Walton, a short-hand writer, 148 state-operated dramatic was not present. This person has obtained £200 from

companies and 1,000 private was last seen three days ago and of whose professional ones. over one

the Police had] cnicavoured to had stumbled, he

maite contact with him, but so and Mr Lec. £40, from a con-

far had failed. Crown Counsel tractor to the Paving Commis-

asked for an adjournment of 15 sioner of St Botolph, for an in-

he would be · in a days when jury received by his son tripping

position to tell the Court if the over an ill-tald flagstone."

case could proceed.

We wonder what damages would be awarded in Hongkong for uch

The President of Peking Uni- Versity. M: Ma Yin-chu, said the new had 5,000 University

with 2,000 students compared five years ago.

an accident as a broken limb caused General of the Physical Culture

precipices yawning

by the

Mr Jung Kan-toak, Secretary- BOCommission, said 35 former mumerous in and around Victoria,Chinese

this

track and field and ctcards had been catablish- the

Majerly's good town of

Tiongkong. It ht to be regretted swimming that the question was not tried by brck:n

the Americans in the case of the

since

European

sailor who broke his arm by a fallment of the Communist regime down the hole at the top at Welling five years age-Reuter, ton Street in April last. for then! SeaRites would have been taken to suo alemities in future; prevent whereas we see the pit a still upION and unprotected, and that no wall or paling has been yet erected on Hollywood Road near the Jos house, would advise the Surveyor Wo General to direct fils attention that way, for he may depend upon

though that

our late American Viators did not claim damages in the case above-mentioned, un ac cident to any of the European residente will not be passed over, so early; and, he may then, Icarn to his cost, that the value for a ing or an aim is extimated at a much

Higher rate in China than us

Land.

he potenia the one work entirely, to

engrces his attention, to the neglect

of others

On Charge

Of Forgery

Edward Davies Sykes,

and

did not have a free date until Judge Scholes remarked he

the middio of January,

Mr Winter raised no objeelon to Crown Counsel's application. His Honour adjourned the hearing until 2.30 p.m. on Fri- day, October 15. He granted both accused extension of their boil until that time.

Labour Party Conference

(Continued from Page 1)

The verdict is likely to rest

total vole..

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER → 27,

1954,

Another Glimpse Of "Hongkong's Newest Industry”

On Saturday the China Ma!! published an article by Tony Motin about Hongkong's newest and fast-growing Industry—ahipbreaking. Today the Cuina Mai publishes another picture of the work of shipbreakers in Hongkong harbour. This fine photograph, supplied by John Man- ners & Co Ltd, shows the bulk of the Italian ship 6.8. Elisa, originally

En bull:

Seattle. Washington, and used as a trooper in the Atlantic in the last war. She was eventually sold to the Shun Fung Ironworks Lid at To Kwa Wan. The breaking up has now reached the final stages and her hulk and plate work will probably be used in the near future in new buildings and construction work in the Colony in the form of bars and essting).

Shanghai Man To Testify

Washington, Sept. 20: The Senate: Internal Security sub Committee sald today it had called John Powell, until recently publicher of migraine In Shanghai, for testimony

public

10.1#

・

nows

́on bla

hearing tomorrow experiences in Red China. The sub-Committee said Mr Powell would be naked about treatment of Ameri- can pelsoners of war, his experience with Commun. ist officials and his contacts with other Americans China

In

Mr Powell 35, is the son of the late publisher, John

B. Powell, who published the

magazine "China Review" in Shanghai - be-- fore World War II Mr Powell Senior died in 1947 of disabilities suffered as a prisoner of the Japaness during the war,

The younger Mr Powell revived the magazine after the war and operated it unilt about a year ago, when be returned to this country with his wife and two children. - United Fress.

Montesi Scandal

Five More To Be Questioned

Montest. two

Mr Black Visits

Three HK Schools

And Grants A Holiday

Sheaffer's “SNORKEL"

Judge's Ruling In Case King

Counsel Given Right

Of Audience

to

Right of audience oppose the rule nist being made absolute was granted to Counsel for Mr J. J. 0. King by Mr Justice Reynolds In the Supreme Court this morning.

His Lordship on September 17. made, on the application of Mr AP J. Clifford, Counsel for Air M. W. H. Seymour, Director of Geo, Falconer and Co. (HK) Lid. a rule riisi returnable last Thuraday, to usk the Magistrate, Mr. Foon Yan-hoi to show cause why he should not make amend- menia to his case stated concern- ing a charge of fraudulent con- version against Me King.

Mr

Mr

•

no

савс

Poon hid found

had King to answer on tho chargo and an appeal, by way of a case stated, is now pending.

En

:

In gronting Mr King right of rudience, Mr Justice Reynolds this morning ruled that although this was not in his opinion an application for order for mandamus, which would there- fore

the Introduce

English practice, nevertheless his Lord- ship should have regard to the English principle that on any order in the nature of a man- domus a person who was vitally interested by his decision should be heard untere Section 110 of the Magistrates Ordinance was clearly to the contrary.

· His

USE OF WORD

Lordship. held that the use of the word "respondent in Section 110 indicated ......4 intention that the other parly should be heard and he Was

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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

Venture's

End

LNG ago, at the font. his parents gave him names of grandeur that suggested they expected great things of him. Or perhaps they called the infant after godparents and expected great things of them.

Whichever it was, the parents got very little for their pains and long thought. They called their son Christopher Stuart Augustus but might as well have settled for Tom or Dick or Harry, for all the good the fine names ever did him or them.

Christopher Stuart Augustus, whom I will call Chris hence- forward, grew from Infancy to boyhood and became in timo a likable man but simple,

TO LONDON

HERE was a brush with the police when he was 14, but on the whole he kept out of trouble, unul, the middle 1930's, when he was gaoled in his home town in the Midlands for an assault.

wo or three times after that came off second best In encounters with the law, but on balance his Bio was law-abiding. rather than otherwise in the town, where he lived, worked and comforted his ageing moth mother.

A few days ago Chris, now 80, decided his home town could offer him no more. He on- nounced to his mother that ho

was

going to London. She bravely but sadly gave his ven- ture her blessing":

`LIVING BOUGH

CHRIS arrived thero full of

hope, a pear-shaped, rosy...... faced man in a mackintosh.-

London proved churlish in its

and within

this right was one to address the Court on any relevant point | reception of and not limited to the points day or two raised on behalf of the rough. Magistrate as had been argued by Mr Clifforti.

His Excellency the Officer Administering the fore of the opinion that Government Mr R. B. Black visited three schools at Stanley, this morning.. .He visited St Stephen's College, and the Preparatory School, St Theresa's School, and the Stanley Village C. M. S. School Accompanied by Mr L G.1 ST THERESA'S "SCHOOL Morgan, Acting Director

The next school. Mr Black Education, Mr Black arrived at visited was the St Theresa's

of

He

Mr Brook A- Bernacchi and Mr Patrick Yu, both instructed by Mr M. A da Silva, are

St Stephen's College at 0.35, School. He was met by the Rev. appearing for Mr. King. and was met by the Warden, W. J, Downs, the manager of the Rev. F. R. Myhill and two the school and the Rev: John by Mr Clliford on the Instruc- Mr Seymour is represented members of the College Coun- cil, the Hon. T. N. Chau and Liu, superintendent and tions of Mr F. D. Hammond of

principal. Mr Chau fu-nin

Mosers Johnson, Stokes and Senior members of the staff classes of the small school and

went through all the Master. were presented to Mr Black, and asked several questions of the

Mr J. W. D. Hobley, Crown he was shown photographs and small children,

Counsel, appears for the Magis sketches of the college at various stages,

As Mr Black was leaving thetrate, Mr Poon. Two sketches

school,

Mr Hobley this morning con- 'young girl approached were of the first college built at him and asked if the school cluded arguments on the rule the turn of the century and

could have a holiday in honour nisl after reference to both, the photographs of

in the college

of his

visit. The shy request Clifford's application for amend- more recent years,

was immediately granted; Mr Black was then taken o

Continuing on his tour of the Asembly Hall, boarders schools, Mr Black went on to

roams

and several

class, where he spoke to the pupils and teachers. From there, the party crossed a mail field and wont into the school Chapel,

Magistrate's case stated and Mr`

mont.

Hearing is proceeding.

Hindu Lecture

The

fccturó

living

New Bond Street in the f early hours of one morning. when two policemen came upon him They watched him try the door- handles of parked care and® ar- rested him for. loitering with in- tent: to sten].':

Rowandering dis

TOO STRONG

thats morning at ATER

Marlborough Street, Chris pleaded guilty to the charge, and listened with a wry, smilo and folded arms, as the story of his arrest was fold to Mr Paul, Bennett, VC

tell

that

all

right, that they mo?" the magistrate asked. Everything in order, Chris "Them car doors WETO

all too strong,"

"Have you no family?".

Got an old mother, 73, sald

Chris

the Stanley Village: C.M.S. School, which was built in com

"Wouldn't you like to go back to her, be a comfort to her?" coration of the Jubilee of St Stephen's Collage, fast year,

the magistrato naked," "eyet Не Mr Black was later taken to muster, Mr Wong Ngal-hon was met by the head-

"Hindu Bike London," Chris: sald to the Selence Laboratory build and Mr H. de V. Booten, mem- Philosophy by Head Priest firmly. "Wish I'd come here, as

watched the boys ber of the School Council.

Glani Nandsingh at the Hindu a young man”. during their physics lesson, AL this school, Mr Black Temple this evening is Inspected the chemistry room made a tour of the classes, and and then was shown some of the talked to the teachers equipment recently acquired pupils.

ing: He

for use in teaching Physics and Chemistry

Advanced Lovel.

at the

TOOK PART When he came to the upper sixth class, at a science lesson Mr. Black sat down at the in- vitation of the master and took part in the lecture.

Just before he left the build-

the

Rome, Sept. 26. with Britain's Iccal Labour par- The Investigating" Mägistrate, "Nothing appears to have, been unemployed, of 48, Hennessy ice who muster the remaining Raffaele Sepe, sued five more ing. Mr Black was presented done, either towards draining the Road, top Roor, was charged bene million of the conference's warrants today demanding the with a photograph of the en-;; wwpomp at the Parade Ground, the fore Mr Hin-shing Lo at Cen- whole energies of the Surveypr

Immediate questioning of persons tire College grounds by General seeming to be bent on the tral, this morning with one completion of the Cubernatorial count of uttering a forged docti predominantly left-wing, and, as vestigation of the death of Wilma Chung-pak

These local Labour partics are who testified

the in an earller in-headboy

College, Lin Residence--towards which he has ment certainly of late displayed a latidable

of obialning shown by nearly 60 resolutions

Leaving St Stephen's College, muxiety: but it is to be feared that money by false pretences.

submitted for the conference,

Mr. Black proceeded to the St School, Stephen's Preparatory The five persons Sykes was remanded for one are largely hostile to the idea

of a reanned West Germany.

called for where he was met by the head- questioning in Italy "candal master, Mr Lo Ping-leung. He Attlee, the Labour Party leader, being gaoled by the magistrate and also the others, by Rev. Supporters of Mr Clement of the century run the risk of was accompanied to that school belleve that he can do fitile at their previous evidence should Myhill, and the members of the this iste hour to influence the prove without foundation. He was alleged to have uttered been killed, and several people more a certain forged document pur-union

College counell, But voting positions, free of course been hold on the body, porting it to be a letter written the Influence, and authority to sald Signor Sepe Essured the and Library, which, he was

At this school, Mr Black saw Well-informed police circles. they are convinced that he has

soveral classes, the dormitoryN and doublices verdict, recurred by Bishop Hall, at the Wang Kea against the person entrusted whời thự

told pponsibility of lookers Clerk Company, Connaught Road Cen-sway, a considerable proportion warrants after receiving a new was also woed an a geography of the Party's political wing to report on the witnesses drafted and history class as charts and preventing such tral, on September 21. accidétia. Wa are toki the Surveyor

by a special squad of carabiner maps werd kept there. He was Ganers if not, altogether to blame He was also alleged to have uppert of the official polity

or Federal police:

then taken to see the new, play-

of much more public day and was

allowed ball of

PS-Sace the above was written $1,500, half in cash and half in

wo have heard of the -failing in of: surely,

one of those etinous houses neur

the Nullan, by which one child n

de les injured. A Coroner'iv Inquent

makteru,

SEATO OFFOSED

in this altedry and the the ove su obtained $500 from Loung Yow peated warnings to the Police of at Wang Keo Company on the the dengerous state, of those build»

The five, to be questioned ground opposite the school, Ingpark the jurors have not recorded same day by falsely pretending The conference will dabate a personally by Signor sepe, ate which was in procery of com grich in opinion, so will lead to a cui | that Bishop Hall had sent him, composite resolution opposing | Moddalena Caramello,

struction. Povestigating, # must have bem after making A telephone call the new Southeast Asia Treaty authoress Maria, Angelini, an through shope, finorance, of ", their dulyaand te in to be hoped the purported to have come from Organisation:

Beg ·Eriglish Elanguage Acting Attorney, Coneret will never Shop Hall, saking Leung, Yew: The resolution, will be moved Florian Pierotu, a miner permit no clerigen Ken Cedeirato to give him (defendant) the by Mr Harold Davies, a Labour had migrated

прочу

Loo much bedre shown by poes The third charge alleged that lowering leader

Member of Parliament and fol- Tranceso, Tannoia

of

he had obtained $200 from Aneurin Bevan, and Kwok-Men-

at Wing On" pecoridèd by: Milkenny Hol

ranca Company, wiredal„MDB VanN

to be

held at 8:15 pm, and not 6.15 BACK AGAIN and Pim. Us stated in the South 66LL gladly pay your fare

China Morning Post today.

Midlands tho

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

back to the magistrate said.

A gint appeared in Chris's eye, "I could go back today," he wild, with the air of 'ono | having a favoury širi his gift to

bestow.chipa de

"I'm sura, "your mother will welcome you, and Mr. Bennett, and" turried" to "the probation officer. "Let him have the usual pocket maney his fare horne, and give him a for the journay he instructed. Thers added-you'd better, seo him on to the train yourself,

hach, pay

The probation officer, godded, and Chris was led away, towards his departure o from

where has was-

warda his home tow

was still

woman who

named him half

The

the

Chinese Official

Stuals:

Missing