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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1955.

JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

Nothing The Same

HE

to

went

day every

an office

from his lown.

home in a provincia! His wife saw him off from their front-door step each morning at the same time, and patiently watched, realy to wave, until he turned the corner that would take him to the bus stop.

Somettries, when spring was making challenging. or winter

her

doorstep vigil especially uncomfortable, the wife would sigh: "Oh, Lord, must it be like ilus for ever, this sumeneas?”

She kept her sighs to herself. herself als kej her and lo

change 112

longing for

some

vuline, however small.

SHILLING AND PENCE

SHE fold herself

"I hav

geel man for a husband. I um lucky. Lackier than many

And her

husband, whose

รร เร

was rdon, was a gorend in an unspectacular way. One day he cursed to be se

Gordon began to steal business, he

el

213

J

been M accountant, endomed to deat-

and thinking

many ing

other of perinds of thousands people's money. When he turned Uief, he interested himself in stekings and coppers

The Best time he was caught, Gordon, who by then was get- ting to be 58 years old up 19, was put on probation

12.30

Cope, 1984 by MEA Borsten, MA,

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"I'm so disappointed! We had one of the most expensive decorators in town-but somehow the rooms look just the same?"

IMPROVED Returns To

HK After Ten Years

TRAFFIC CONTROL

IS URGED

vost him his

THREE TIMES CAUGHT

THE conviction

job, and it broke the heart

became ม

would

Admiral Sir Ernest Archer KCB, CBE, who was in Hongkong in 1945 as The question of the Hong-Rear Admiral (Destroyers) of his wife, who wiatrully had kong Traffic Office control-Pacific Fleet, returned yes thought how pleasant a changeling traffic at the junction terday for a short visit with

the old sameness

of Queen's Road East and Lady Archer. Hennessy Road at the en- trance to Victoria Barracks again cropped up this morn- Mr ing at Central when Thomas Tam discharged Wong Ming of the RASC for driving without reason thatable consideration for other

road users.

from be, but not a change like this.

labourer Gordon and in that capacity drifted 10 London, getting jobs as best he

but night, advantage where There

for then, since he competition had been truled for count uney, not labouring

Now

h being at

s-

was

it seemed, tex, stealing was something he could Three times within not resist.

months he stole the odd 18 change that newsyendors, knowing most people are honest, leave with

when their papers they go away from their stands. Three times Gordon was caught The last time was the at this other day.

NOT FOR LONDON

HE pleaded not guilty, but the

found wp3

proved against him. and then the magistrate was told of his other convictions, and of what was known of his life story. The niugisrate, Mr K.J.P. Baru- remanded Gordon for t

the

magistrate read

Gordon was next into the dock, and

officer went into the

The report when shown probation witness-box.

home

Д

This mant

went back to his town at Christmastime. He says he would like to go back to his wife, but she is not willing for him to do so now." sold the probation officer. "He Is obviously unfilted for ute in Landon,"

on

-

A

added.

had advised the military au-Naval Barracks. Portsmouth in promotion thorities to post MPs at the gate 1941 and following his of Victoria Barracks to direct to Rear-Admiral in 1943 went to the senior British military traffic there, but he had Moscow ne gathered that the Police were naval offer and was head of most reluctant to let MPs direct the Joint Military Mission to the

USSR In 1944, any traffic in the Colony.

LIAISON OFFICER "There I acted as

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HALLPOINT

Now

PEN

Availablo

With Extra Fine and Motium

Polat

SHEAFFER'S

ALSTARTS INSTANTLY AND NEVER SKIPS

Counsel For Quie Continues

His

Address To

SAYS DOCTOR'S & WIFE'S EVIDENCE INCONSISTENT

Mr John McNeill, QC, Senior Counsel for Plaintiff, continued with his closing address to the Jury in the final stages of the Quic Case before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice T. J. Gould, at the Supreme Court this morning.

Jury Mail

Therefore, Counsel went on,

the factor the Jury had to con- sider was such a derangement of mind as made it necessary or expedient or in the public in- terest that he bo put under control.

"There is nothing in the docu-" ments before you to show there la any public interest involved In the detention of Mr Quie.

The only danger that has been gested danger to Mrs Quie.

suggested to others was a sug-

"Can you possibly, conceivably Bay I was either necessary or expedient, or in the public in-

In the course of his address, Mr McNeill said that Dr Desmond Curran, "who had been rushed out here" after Dr Stungo had given histerest, that Mr Qule should be evidence, gave his own evidence without having seen Mr Quie at all in his life.

"You are asked to accept that evidence in preference to a Harley Street specialist who personally examined Mr Quie in July 1952," Counsel declared.

Defendanta

medical

and

(71

of

ilability nesses,

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was vital

Jong "

Dr he

must

who

In my

sald

done.

put in the Mental Hospital? The answer must be No."

As to the question whether Mr Qule was so deranged in mind

had

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to render his admission.m.

wes no

bad

dignified attack on Dr Stungo's honesty. I say that you should disregard an attack of that kind and stick to the plain evidence In the case," Counsel stated.

is continuing. Hearing

Macao, 02.m.

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Dulles For SEATO Conference

Washington, Feb. 9.

Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, ex- pects to leave Washington on February 18 for the SEATO conference in Bang- kok on Southeast Asian de-

announced today.

Specials The Churchill fence, the State Department

Birthday Fund

The State Department spokes- man, Mr Henry Suydam, sald that Mr Dulles would fly direct- ly to Bangkok from Washington

route. London, Feb. 9. across the Pacifie

with a Mr Suydam Str Winston Churchill The

replied up to no comment" again today when presentation fund, set

the asked him if commemorate the Prime Minis-reporters

had received an tera B0th birthday last Novem- United States

Geneva-type ber, will close on February 28, invitation to it was thnounced here today. conference on Formosa. Neither

cheque An interim

for would Mr Suydam say whether had in fact handed to Sir the Soviet Union £160,000 was

such Winston on his birthday on made

a proposal, as re- an-ported in Paris.-

November

80, when he

in the Mental Hospital "for his sako," Mr MeNelil said it was Continuing, Mr McNell!

not enough for a brace of dos- In other [ tre Dr P. M. paychiatrical details. Yup, Government psychiatrist words, not enough details upon Dr Yap had stated on oath that tors to think that Mr Quie was

Korea, 10a.m. come to a con- the document of Mrs Quie's did using money in such a way as officer-in-charge, which he could

not ountain enough psychon-

to make them think they had a of tha Mental Hospital, Dr clusion that Mr Quio was of un-

reason for putting him in the S. H. Moore of the Medical | sound mind. He said it was for trical details to satisfy him. But

when one looked at the docu-Mental Hospital, Department and Prof. A. J. S that reason that he asked Mrt

ment which Dr Yap cent to Dr No effort was made by Prof. McFadzean of the Queen Mary Quie como questiona.

Turning to a passage in Mrs Tennant, one would find that it McFadzean to ascertain whether Hospital.

Plaintiff is Mr Joseph Leslie Quie's letter to the effect that contained a great deal of what Mr Qule would like to go any

YAP

else. There rogarded as "Insufficient

where stopped drinking D: Quie.

He is suing defendants Mr Quio had

psychiatrical details" obtained evidence that Prof. McFadzean for $250,000 damages for alleged In August of the previous year.

ascertained whether he Injury to himself from defend Counsel said he had asked Dr from Mrs Quie's statements.

"No wonder," he went on, wanted to go to nursing home. ants

it Yap why he had put down in "Dr Tennant looked at it nsk- alleged negligence

"It la for that reason that is connection with his detention in his own notes that Mre Quis

have he must

that de is unpossible to say

een obliged to been a mental home for observation, had told him her husband had a 35

of looking at the case fendants had Instead in February

into a bla certification as being stopped drinking

Quie

Mental histor sent by Dr answered:

Dr Yop, Dr put Me vinecură mind whe

1952. Con

Dr Yap had

Terinant 100

looked at Mr Quie and Hospital rather than a nursing sequential confinement in "Oh, I made a mistake". Ques- mental home,

tioned again, he had said: "It observed him and his reactions. home," Mr McNelll declared.

"Dr Curran who

not He went on to say that there won a slip of the pen." Mr Quie is represented by Mr

mentioned

learned were many parts of Dr Stungo's McNeill, Mr Lawrence Leong My McNe!! went on

"Men friend's opening and whose pre-evidence against which no fact and Mr R. W. S. Winter, all in- bors of the Jury, if that evidence sence here, it was quite clear, had been directod ot all, and structed by Mr M. A. da Sliva,

is no other is accepted, there

have been actured after about which no mention Defendants are represented conclusion at all, but that Dr Dr Siungo had given evidence been made, by Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr, Senior Yap was guilty of negligence, he mu have rushed out here "Dr Curran has made an un- Crown Counsel, and Mr J. C.

I put the same kind of ques to give his replies-gave his own McRobert Crown Counsel. tion to Mrs Quie. I asked her evidenco without having seen

Mr McNeill told the Jury this 'Do you think you might have Mr Qule at all. morning that he mode some led Dr Yap to believe that Mr "He may have seen him sitting

on the re- Quike

datinking comments to them

stopped

injin Court. But he did not SLO of the various wit- February

19527 She said: him giving evidence. He never including defendants

Ahink may have.' So on the saw him before in his life at They arrived on board a R.N. themselves. It had been sug-

And you are asked to nc- one hand, you have Dr Yep say all, corgo ship the Fort Constantine.

gested by Mr Blair-Kerr that

Ing: It was a mistake', and oncept that evidence in proference "One of the reasons why I

people could really not be ex-

Harley Street took this trip was to get eway pected to remember what hap- the other, you have Mrs Que of a

saw Mr Qule in July 1952. saying: 1 may have'. the from

wretched English pened three years ago.

"Whichever way you look at winter." said Admiral Archer. What Mr Blair-Kerr did not

COUNSEL'S SUGGESTION

it, it is apparent that Mrs Quie "And now I dad myself in

point out to the Jury, for rather

hard. "How can that possibly be re-

considerable interest in Hongkong's we drizzle.' he obvious reasons, he went on

conciled to the statement that her own mind in putting any was this: when Dr Yap sent Mr

he (Dr Yap) had the letter facts about Mr Quie in the has had a Admiral Archer

Mr Quie's case history to Dr Ten-

worst possible light." front of him saying that In the Royal colourful career

nant in England, he had men-

Quie Educated

stopped drinking on had Osborne 1 that this area Navy.

lioned in his communication such-and-such date?

DOCTOR'S EVIDENCE Our Mr Tam said

he entered the

Dr Tennant the words "threat suggestion is that this letter of could be controlled better if the und Dartmouth

Mr McNeill turned to the Navy in 1904, and served in

Dr evidenca ens litigation." Traffic Once investigated it.

Mra Quio was not before

of Dr Dawson-Grove. traffle constable on the triangle World War I in destroyers. Early

"It is apparent that Dr Yap Yap at the time, but was pre- | He

he sald

agreed that Dr at this area could not control in World War II he commanded

was well aware of the possibi- pared later.

Dawson-Grove could not be ex- traffic there properly, he added, the battleship HMS Revenge.

Yap's pooted to remember things three you accept He was the Commodore Royality of litigation. He was well Mr Tum said that at times he

aware on April, when the Hon.

statement Qual

mode a years ago, But when he enter- Mr d'Almada and Mr Silva

mistake, that is a confession of od the witness box, he described visited him at the Mental Hosp negligence. This is a point I in incident in which two ribs, nounced his decision to set up a Mr Suydam also declined to tal, that there was such a pos- would like to draw your most of Bruce Qule had been broken trust to endow his country comment

the change. in sibility It was inconceivable

careful attention to. If you during some boxing activity, and home, Chartwell, in Kent as ¤ jeadwship In Moscow spying. that he did not caminunicate care

accept Dr Yap's version, he is in which Mr Quie had sald, Churchill museum,

"The President discussed this to that possibility.

"We Quis the other negligent because he says

in a The are tough,"

fund total

now matter at some length today and

the defendants in this case.

Everyone agrees that this point londly fashion, indicating that believed to have reached It seems there is nothing to be NO 8-YEAR LAPSE

his son was tough.

£300,000 mark.

odded.”—Router, "This action was int fact started

Counsel said that "If you accept the evidence

A register of contributors wil in January 1953. The evidence that the document Exhibit JJ cross-examined Dr Dawson- be published as soon as possible about which you have heard had not enough psychiatrical Grove, he put it to him that it after the closing date-Router. Occurred in March nod April

P❘ details Telating to Mr Quie's was not Bruce Qule whose ribs 1962. So there is no question of mental conditions to culisty Dr had been endangered. He had

it to Dr Dawson a three-year lapse Mr Quit Yap, it is clear that there was further put could not start his action before

even in the past Grove that if it turned out that Trouble Likely nothing-bot January 1953 for a very simple case

histories or the history

not Bruce it was

Qule ot all, is-properties and assets given by Mrs Qule-to satisfy then witness's reason; his

statement that were in the hands of a receiver, hire that Mr Qule was of un-

Mr Quie's had remarked, "We "He made an application to sound mind."

A government spokesman told cipate in the Singapore Trade Mr MeNeill turned to a state- Quies are tough," would mean wet his property back in Novem

received.

next April. armed reports made in December 1952. He two years ago

one night her to agree to that.

to

A trade source in Singapore the removal of The Defence had to call the opposition the action starbed

1053.

husband had told her he saw g "So these

witness Russell gentlemen knew man outside

and the window,

Wany to say some 60,000 natives from their disclosed that Hongkong goods "were expected to arrive in the there was a chance of proceed-that three years ago, he spied that his ribs were the ones that homes in the white areas.

had been broken, and that he ings in April 1952. Proceedings on her once. actually started eight months*

police senior

officials had in- probably the biggest exhibition statements, Counsel was the one Dr Dawson-Grove Justice Minister said that Colony from March to put up

machine-

of their products in this coun later. They could have made

dicated that hidden "You can

well take It that

and explosives might bo

The Hongkong merchants to oppose the mass trans- Various psychiatrist. A psychiatrist was Mr. Qute never said that sort of

**thing at

at all, that 'We Quies are fer of natives from their old will also participate in trade

Australia, supposed to be looking

Canada, He homes in certain areas allotted fairs in patient to find out if he was of tough," Counsel went on.

the Europe and Japan after their the time of added that this was all attri- to white persons under on to say unsound mind at Mr McNeil went

buted to prejudice on the part apartheidt policy.

Singapore exhibition Franc defendants appeared to his examination..

Presso! of the Defence.

The evacuation is scheduled LIST OF 40 INCIDENTS

the remember something, as could

IMPORTANT ANSWER to begin on. Saturday, arki: a statements of Mrs Quie, Mr

The whole thing started with review was carried out earlier "Members of the

without Jury," McNeill said he would tell the

incident. One the idea that Mr Quie was in today Counsel continued,

any mane. "that is an

It that was the real, hundred and fifty familles were Jury that if they made Important point which wish careful comparison

ren genuine opinion of Dr Dawson moved in government trucks

Time Big and PrograONTÍ E direct your attention. You re-

Grove at the time, why did he along a route guarded by 2,000 Summary 0.04 Jace, half flour pets What she mid in the member

sented by Robert Acheson (8tudio}}, has agreed box and what she said in her not do something about it him policeUnited Press, every cho

6.30, Portuguese Malt Hour (Studio); the time in which Mr Quie statements to Dr Yap, they that

059, Westiver Report: 7. Tiny Signal wag very would have a list of 40 incidenta stopped drinking

EDEN'S REPLY and. Commentary. (London Biday)For o until

Special Announcernentur '2.15. "L41 in his case which she never mentioned Dr Dawson Grove this question, Important Vice- Lan, the

Dinner!

7:30 Chang

· (CME) EXTERIOR) ; London, Fob, 6. There was histor

letter

and his argwer was an im-

Songe from

Shows Sir Anthony Eden, the Foreign Coward with Doris' Hare, Barbar President of the Standing Com-

"He said it was Mrs Quio had said in evidenco Quie

portant one.

said today Arkain Leigh, Jimmy Young, Billy Turnert that one of these incidents took no afficult to get anyone into Secretary, mittee of the Perte's Assembly, with which we are all familiar tered the witneem box,

now, written by Mrs. died in Peking yesterday after you will remember I pointed place a few weeks before her the Mental Hospital," he stated was studying in close consulta-C CASALUSICAL

John Watt (BBCTB); noon, states a Peking report.

camilando out to Dr Yap that the ink on husband's

to the

Mr Blair-Kers here sald, that tion with the Commonwealth Notebook Presented by the Ho was 84.

this was not what Dr Dawson- and other friendly government" Talheres Mr Mao Tze-tung, the Chair- the signature and the date was Mental Hospital.

not be an in-Grove had anid. What he had the consequences of Countert folre Wabblers that the different. The suggestion was Would man, Mr Liu Shao-chi,

timt

Crown Counsel went on, China's refusal to discuss' to | Edward" President of the Standing Com- 1 the document was not inj ¿tent which she would imve galery know how. difficult it is consefro foi tho Formosa: area | Robbery" (BBCTSE

Dr Yop's)

hands on told Dr Yap?" Counsel raked. wir The condition of the Policomittee, and many senior officials his

24th March. Ronald Que has

that It Constable who was stabbed in of the Peking Government a5-

of kong

He sold this in a written Opi Wanchal yesterday afternoon tended the cricoffining service said that Dr Yap told him the hond decide was possible to get anyone certified in Hong- at the United Nations

original of the document was this alleged i incident after she wwolf, the effect is the same,”.

dary W91 to was reported

with Mr Ford.

had heard Dr Stangas evidence, commented Mr McNeil.

Mr Jacob and member Borious" at noon today.

Chang Lan, born in Szechuan

„WITNESS" REPLY time

HE JUDGE INTREJECTS was at one

Hesreferred the Jury to Hudson, who had miggested cou wwwhen

I put them things to Mr Justice

Gold: She Was Section 3 of the Mental Hospital that Mr Eden should summon 10.30. Mary Houplin

provided that "a person may be conference we whide bouts Ching The Constable whe said to President of the Chemeta, Univers

Many

of his former made notes on the 24th March, his evidence were Inter pailtiont I had this letter in front of the Mr McNeil; My Lord, he deemed to be of unsound mind and the United States would bo by an unidentified

might well have read it in the if he la'no far dervinged in mind InvitedHeuber chiatricni detalis for

newspapers by

Di un bowgender it either: phossenTy Chairman of Now If he did have

Pedig either for haruwa ue, or in Printed and publihed by WILLIAM and for Inter in Ava); of him od 12st heard

of the hun eta Gononethe Counsel I beg your pardon, the polle Intermould be and on behalf of south China Morning for Victoria in the Wyndham Streek, iplaced and kept under control. Government. letter did not contain sufficient | my Lord.

Mr Tam.

"The Traffic Department must devise some means of improving

a linison the situation at this point," said offer between General Elser

buwer and Marshal Stalin," he THE EVIDENCE

said. In connection with the surn- "Strangely enough I had to mon against Wong, Tsang Lun, organise the military side of it tramcar motorman, told the and i had to pretend to Stalin

I was un Army Court that on November 10, he that

or a tram was driving

nlong instead of only a naval one," he with smile. Queen's Road, East, towards added

Following his short stay

in 1946 Admiral

North Point,

At the junction of Hennessy Hongkong,

These

such notes of their observations said, could not possibly be relied was referring to

on by anyone, far less by a

when he

Segregation

Tha

Johannesburg, Feb. 9.

of

HK At S'pore Trade Fair

More

Singapore, Feb. 9.

than

200 Hongkong

merchants have already made known their

desire to parti-

Rad,

nat army jeep suddenly Archer was Flag Vilcer, Gibral-ber 1952, and the order was ment by Mrs Qule that about nothing. Dr Dawson Grove had Parliament tonight that he had Fair scheduled to begin here appeared seven feet in front of tar and Flag Officer commanding him after it had come out from Sootland and Northern Ireland.

He retired in 1950 to his home behind a westbound tram. The jeep stopped Beroon his tracks and garden at Winchester, Hants and the tram and the jeep an easy cur-ride_away from the Tars' town of Pompey and collidod.

Both vehicles suffered super-the "white horses" that play in The magistrate glanced at the

the sally breezes of the Solent "He'sficial damages, Gordon. report

"The only connection I have Ming. The defendent, obviously not capable now

Cadet's Com- doing work in his own profes- told the Court that on the day with the sea now is as a man-

the Sea of the incident he came out of ber of sion," he said.

that entails travelling Victoria Barracks gate at the mittee constable on point duty signal-around the country presenting Jed him to cross the road. Hein- colours to the different regional tended to enter the workshops groups among other things he

adried. on the other side of the road.

He drove his jeep across the

A MAN OF INTELLIGENCE

THE magistrate

turned

of

to

Worg

tram tracks, but had to stop on

team trarie the eastbound

经营

Gordon, whose iconing head and spectacles seemed with the variance at oddly grubby mackintosh that hung on

there was still eastbound traffic ham and his sad shoes,

ཟས་ ས་ "You're

a man of intelli-going along the road.

The tram was about 30 feet gence," the magistrate sold, "I

But away and then collided with his Imow you have bee

been ill this is the third time you have The big businesses done this.

Joep

PC's Condition

Still Serious

Cpl C. M. Pritchard, a passen- of the City of London have ger in the jeeb, gave corrobora- been brought up on

trust, andtive evidence,

small there is no reason why businesses like thope of news- vendors, should not be." Gordon nodded, as

though he Agreed with the principle:

You must go to prison six works," the magistrate sið, Gordon nodded and in silence Nothing was the went away.

same any more.

for

Chou's Greetings.........

London, Feb. 9. The Chinese Promier, Mr Chou Bnal, today sent a message of arpetings to Marshal Bulgenin on his appointment as Boviet Premier, the New China Nows. PROMENA-Router.

to bo

DEATH

OF

CHANG LAN

"still later in the evening.

of Mr Quie As would

remember them to detalls."

that

enable

be seen from their answers to Dealing further with interrogatories in 1954.

factor

at a

self?

Mr McNell mld be asked

He is being detained at Queen Prove of Szechuan' and 30165 | ve Yap ba, said:........ "Yes, but I not here when Dr-Stungo gav®|| Ordinance: That section, he said," | nti: „international ;

have

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been stabbed twice on the inte

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a snatcher. Both the snatcher Province,

He was the assailant mado, good their, escape.

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