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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

Darby And Joan

THERE

was

something

Tuching about the old

couple who

answered

the

watched

names that the gaoler callal at the Clerkenwell enurt.

The public gallery approvingly as the old woman helpfully prodded her husband who was a few years her senior -up the two steps into the dock Here and there an eye inoked to be about to moisten at the thought of bwo old ones who huch Rose Brough life side by side and stood thus now, in the dock. in their hour of Buble

For the couple did not look as

life contid

Fave though

ever treated them very liberally with Javours; yet their marriage, sold their presence, straia.

trand

DISORDER?

gi! the

HE husband was a massively - framed man, slow of muve-

THE

ment and speech, wearing fray-

ed, dusty clothes

namexi

nemed

Charles.

Whs

wife, Is

minute Mary, lookeri beside him, but the dark eyes in

panched grey luce Fer lively as a giris.

was

***

"You are both charged with being drunk and disorderly." They both plende guilty.

"What was the disorder?" asked the magistrate, Mr T. P Davis,

They'd been elected from a hotel," a policeman explained, and they teled to go back in again."

"When you say 'hotel,' I mujar public-house?" pose you THEREL the magistrate Inquired.

IN THE STREET... No sir," the officer said. He

"Named a

hotel of autne

standing. You could imagine that the arrival of Charles and Mary in the lobby at the busy evening time might cause some guests to raise their eyebrows.

You wondered

could what have taken the old couple there. Some sudden remembrance of an anniversary that demanded cele- bration? An impulse to see how the other half lived, the luckier half of the world"

"In the street, sir, they bot threw themselves to the ground and became so violent that we had to send for the van."

"What do you want to say"" Charles. asked the magistrate "Nothing to say." Mary answered Jor him. Charles nodded agree- ment.

"And you?" Mr Davis asked Mary. "Nothing," she said.

FISH AND NEWS

you

"Dasked

turning to

do uny

work?"

the magistrate, Charles again.

"He does casual, sir, ensual

at the Ash market,'

Mury sold.

"And I'm a newavondor."

"Have they a fixed address?" the magistrate asked the police-

man.

have," Mary snapped, as though she resented the intro- duction of a thiru party into the conversation between her-

self and the magistrate.

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The magistrate nuddert wards Charles. "Hasn't he an address?" he asked, seeming to accept Mary in the role she had cast crself ag spokesman.

TWO ADDRESSES

"OH, Yes, she

address,"

official

he's got

replied, We different one.

drunk

"but it's a don't live together."

"You

brightly.

. Just get

right," said Mary

shillings each of you, or seven days," the magistrate sald.

Ten

"Yes, sir," Mary said, on behalf of them both. She helped her husband out and, when their business in the gadler's office was avca, the 014 couple nodded courtesies to each other and went their separate ways.

FUEL PIPE

EXPLODES

Seoul, Feb. 16.; Three Koreans were killed and two American soldiers and six Koreans were injured. In a fire caused by an exploding fuel pipe near the United States 8th Army Headquarters here yester day

the 8th Army

Announced today.p

An Army spokesman sald one American private was seriously burned but the other, a sergeant, returned to duty after receiving Aret 24. Their names WEDD withbeld Reuter,

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SIDE GLANCES

Peaceful Settlement Predicted By Nehru

New York, Feb, 15. The Prime Minister of India, Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, tonight predicted a peaceful settlement of the Formosa problem because “all the parties do

not want war."

Comparing the Indo-Chinese settlement with the current crisis over the Chinese Nationalist Island stronghold, Mr Nehru said, "There's no reason why we shouldn't exercise patience and understanding in order to get over this hurdle also."

E

Charge: Conspiracy

Judge Reserves Decision

on

Judge A, D. Scholes at the Victoria District Court this morning reserved his decision whether the six accused charged with conspiracy, in connection with resettlement area houses, have a case to answer or not.

The six accused are Cheung Kau-wah, Chow Chung- ying. Au Shiu-sang, Ng Hau, So Ping-kwong and Mary Daisy Wong allas Wong Man-tang.

All of them were charged with His Honour said he expected

to effect conspiracy

a public to give his docision at 9.30 am, mischief in 1953 and 1954. A tomorrow, If by that time he second charge of conspiracy had not yet finished examining against the first, fourth and the evidence and the arguments Afth accured was withdrawn by by Counsel, he added, he would the Prosecution on Monday, adjourn the case until 2.30 p.m.

Mr Arthur Lul, of Messrs Lo And

Lo, repr

represented the Arm three

accused, Mr V. Gitting,

Mr 5. Instructed by Messrs P. H. Sin and Co., represented the fourth and Afth, while Mr V. L. J. D'Alton instructed by Mcars

and Lom Co., appeared for

P. L. the sixth accused.

Mr D. F. O. Mayne, Crown Counsel, prosecuted, assisted by Det. Inspector D. R. Harris,

The sixth accused by herself was charged with two counts of corruption.

from

sell-

Story Of Armed Robbery

On High Seas

the

seas on

no

At Central this morning, be- for Mr J. E. Durling, three men were charged with armed

the high robbery on Christmas Eve last year.

were dismissed as Four others

Prosecution offered evidence against them.

Defendants were Hut Chan- wah. 30, broker, Chan Yu, 43, coxswain, and Lam Shun, allos Chau Chun, 39, sullor. Lan was additionally charged with pos-

arms without Hence, Crown Counsel said It was

DDI Indge- Prosecuting, known also that in relation to Buckingham, Marine Police, told

Resuming bis submissiona yesterday that the Crown had

made out a case against the accused,

Mr Mayne weld the evidence against the fourth ac cused showed that he was ing houses in the resettlement area to persons whom he knew did not possess white cards, and that ho asked and received from such persons substantial sums of

money.

houses purchased by two of the witnesses, the fourth Decused was working with the Afth in the sole of these houses.

cords.

session of

a

the Court that at about 4 pm. on December 24, a sailing junk was proceeding south of Hong- from Shan Mun kong bound NOT PERMITS

Kwan to Canton. It was stopped junk when about The evidence was that there by a motor

Kun Tau. was no fee payable which could two miles off Fuk reasonably be understood to be Four men went aboard the junk, an innocent and lawful fee. It two of them were armed with would be remembered, he con- pistola. tinued, that the white

The crow of the sailing Junk were then forced into a hold of were not permits, but simply

showed a person the motor junk. carde which

At about midnight they were by social had been screened по

had been called up deck and at the welfare officers and

forced to found to be residing in a speci-point of pistols were

jump into the sen. Seven of fc aren.

but the the crow could swim,

could not However eighth they managed to get ashore.

They stayed

island until January 20 the ordinary found some bamboo poles

В

Mr Mayne said there was no way in which a white card could a person residing be got for outside such an area, except by fraud

from

on an

when

they

out

"Some kind of co-exlatence la Ideology, but you'll And that the modern world is the only it is all translated in terms of way to live on," he said in an Chinese life, not of any other interview

on the Columbia Broadcasting System "See country, and because they are

the Chinese great realists, Now" television show. "The

doubt will continue as friends. alternative is co-destruction... I

The Soviets to am sure that all the parties do

while leading

lic as their independent not want war and that is tho

nation." most hopeful thing."

Mr Nehru Asked by

said the the commentator,

recent Edward Murrow, whether Com-

top-level shake-up in the munist China was threat to Kremlin probably was

coneemed with India, Mr Nehru said, "Not al

internat do

Any policy than with foreign polley not all....

Apert regard

made a ruft country as A

and threat to India.”

the foreign policy will price of the houses, he went on, of which they AGREEMENTS

continue more or less as it has

there wors no incidental legai Two of the crew took the raft sea and after three hours "We have come to certain in the recent past."

costs, like stamp duty costs and to

picked up by a As for the permits they were Mr Nehru was interviewed in

so forth.

junk. Issued under the London home of his sister,

Regulation 4 of fishing Mrs Vijaya Lakshmi Pondit, the Emergency (Resettlement attracted a Police patrol launch the other men on Indian High

fees and rescued Arcas) Commissioner in

Regulations, the

the island. Britain, several days ago.

payable were $60 and $120 per

Hearing is continuing. CAN'T BE SATELLITE year, depending "You can't have a

These permits had to be applied ve a country like China a satellite to any country,"

and paid for personally by ao sold Mr Nehru on the subject.of | applicant. Russo-Chlaese relations, "If there is any conflict between relation-Chinese nationalism and some

external

influence I have 120 doubt that nationalism would be

agreements about common prob- lems and we have clearly stated In those agreements the basis of (with Red our relationship

ald Mr Nehru. "Nou

isbn-

CRM), Bad, what

portant, Sich

other."

الان

non-interference other's affairs-internal or

Mr Nehru sald the relation- ship between Russia and Red China is a friendly ship, friendly in many And Moscow has helped Peking in regard to technical personnel und other matters."

ways.

"Their internal policy may be partly guided by Communist

By Galbraith

"I voted against buying those boxing gloves--but I must

"say you've succeeded in teaching him the manly art of

If-defence:

the stronger force.

Mr Nehru rejected the idea of military assistance to India, whether it be from the United States or Russia.

"We try not to think in mill tary

terms... do not want any thing to be done which reduces the feeling

of self-reliance." However, he stressed India's need, for technical and economic ald

"in over zo many depart- mente." He said, however, that the only way to carry this through was to train experts in India

"We cannot send a hundred thousand people abroad, so we are putting up institutes of training. Now we start sát the lowest level the village worker. What we require in India is equipment for our institutes United PreKS. ****

Town Razed

By Fire

Miri www Manila, Feb. 16.

on the

area.

Mayne submitted that persons who had no white when cards were charged exhorbitant dees under the name of "proce- dure money", there could be no innocent explanation.

It would be remembered, he

ald, that the fourth accused was concerned in this business on a fairly large basis, it would be umreasonable to say that fourth

They

then

Withdraws Objection

.

New York, Feb, 16. Minot "Mickey" Jelke agreed today to have Judgo Francis Valente preside at his second "call girl" trial on the charges of compulsory prostitution. accused, In demanding the Jelke had sought to have the "procedure money" from cus-judge disqualify himself or have tomers, did not know what it the trini shifted to another was for.

court

""SPECIAL "FEES"

Sheaffers "SNORKEL

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Lord Brabazon Sir,--Roading your recent article about the achievements of the Rt. Hon. Lord Brabazon that no Tarn, I noticed mention was made of his great pioneer work in securing re-

of

cognition for the Alsatian breed

with the Kennel Club in Great Britain.

Ho is well known as a great

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lover of the Abatian breed and been connected for has years with the Alsation League of Great Britain of which he is the Honorary President.

H. J. P.

To its end a hook was, attaclied. After some tentative angling, ine hook was guided into an eye fixed to an enormous bronze plate. And wo by touch hearing and lugging. the plug was pulled, from the l tom of the harbour and wany wint the water.

Thus it was, thet, standing on the jetty. I was able to make my famous remerk

"Harbour with plug out, soon be

no harbour," So they

can scrop all their plans for bridges and tunnels. and concentrate their energy on

this re-discovering

Dug which has been lying dormant for the past one thousand years,

Can we

weird Imagine the and wonderful sights which will be exposed to us as the watera Tunnels, Bridges,

slowly cbb nway? Ancient in the silt of junks shrouded And Confucius

centuries, their sails furled, long Sir-On returning to civilisa-since useless; the odd car de- tion after three days in the wildeposited to its resting place from I happened to pick up Insta 20th century junk; discarded Friday's edition of the China enamel bowls; ammunition, fos-

the even,

edd Mall and my amazed eyes gazed sils; maybe, onto the front page. What did coelcanth and hydrogen bamb. 1 road?

Let them not tarry. Let them A proposition to build either a no: keep these wonderful de- Let them pro- a tunnel to connect the lights from us. bridge Island to the mainland, and aeced Immediately to the centre ques.ion to the public request of the harbour with a 'mighty

their pre barge and pull up the plug. them to state Ing

I have discovered tale erences. Then followed a long

for and extremely erudite explana-iems for them to solve.

them; I Leave

but two prob- The first le

Is the location of the new

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tion of why a funnel is more desirable in every bridge.

way

much

to harbour, and the second is the method they employ to prevent

Reference was also made to

of on

MTP RIDDLE LT.

Wrong Locality

reference

to the

an article last month in which the waters of the China Sea from the advocates of the pridge had pouring in and spoiling the whole their fling even to the extent of show. enlisting the talents imaginative artist to do his stuff with their brain child.

Now I am not deploring their admirable

Sir,-With efforts in any way, but I do feel that both sides caption under the photograph could have been more attentive shewn on page 3 of the China during their history periods at Mall, Feb. 15th edition, Skinner school; especially the Chinese Park is not in Port of Spain. vintage of the 12th century, It is in San Fernando, Trinidad.

W. S. SHARP, But never mind, it is not loo

turn late. Let them but

1347

that famoLIS pagu

of

entitled Chinese anthology "Confucius he Say and they will find the following extract, this is the latest translation, of course.

to

"And on the 8th day after the first half moon before the 236th riving of the sun, all pre- parations had been made for Ling Ching Bing (1 came, I saw, I con- quered) to cross to the little falana known as Hi Poek (currently known as Hong Kong). The wild Inhabitants had been subdued and prepared for his coming; the vic- torious train had been put.ks order; the harbour had been drained and the road, thus exposed, cleared

of various rubbish deposited on it

by the loyal chizens of Leen Cow (currently known as Kowloon). I need only add the footnote.

"Some inquisitive beings may

tho harbour wonder how

Wa drained. The method was as fat- lows: a barge of mighty propor- tlony was floated to the centre of tho harbour, and, amid much

cable wa ceremony, m

lowered.

New Job For

Film Unit Besieged In

City Street

Hundreds of pedestrians in Central this Queen's Road morning waited for glimpse of Jechifer Jones, the visiting Hollywood actress, while the camera crew of 20th Century Fox were shooting a scene for thor production of "A Many Splen- Soured Thing."

The te

two

scene, taken just outside the Canadian Cafe, lasting in Etself not

than longer minutes, took over an hour to alm. The crowds, almovi für- rounding the camera, reluctant- ly moved away when ordered by the Police, only to drift back a fow minutes laber

Admiral Chen noted another

Chen

Shao-kuan,

Then, one of the spectators camera about yards away. A small group rushed to the spot, followed by

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the rest,

* Admiral former Commander-in-Chief of

While they hopefully stood the Nationalist Navy and a mem- ber of Generalissimo Chiang around that camera, Miss Jones Kal-shek's Military Strategy Ad come out of the Cafe, stopped by two blind beggars and took some visory Committee in 1947, was coing out of her rattan pureo.

Deputy Governor of elected

The decoy worked, and the scene Fulden Province: at the First was taken without unwanted ex- Provincial

last

People's Assembly tras. Saturday, states a Foochow report report

the city.

Her dress was a fawn.coloured

Admiral Chen was living in Chinese cheungsam, which hod a slik applique below. the high semi-retirement in Foochow

A when the Communists entered collar, and moderate slits.

matching short-sleeved, jackot and shoes of the same material The Acting Governor Yeh Fal completed her costume, was elected Governor, the re- Miss Jones, then got into a port sald.

i waiting car, and drove off. The Commissioner of Financo, entire crow followed to the next Young Wen-wal, presenting his location, the Foreign Correspon- budget, said that 39,80 per cent dents' Club. of total expenditures for 1955 would be used for educational development in the Province, 29.70 per cent for economic con- dis-struction, and 30.70 per cent for administrative, expansion.

He argued that there might be bias as an appeals court had thrown out this judge's previous conviction of Jeiko and ordered new trial because the press and public were excluded from ho some parts of the trial,

As records, the fifth accused, Crown Counsel sald the evidence against him was that he negotiated the sale of two houses to two persons whom he knew did not possess white cards. For that reason,

The judge refused to charged

them special fees. Fifth accused, he went on, qualify himself saying he was satisfied that he held no bins, Ping Keo Company, a firm engaged on a Today Jolke's lawyer said Jelko large-scale building and selling to Judge Valente's Integrity. of resettlement houses, It

margarine | Jelke, heir of a would be unreasonable to sup- fortune, is accused of inducing pose that he was not familiar with the laws and regulations girls to take up prostitution.- governing the slo of such

was the owWDET

•houses in

of the

in those areas,

Mr Mayne

said the evidence

In the case clearly

WETO

showed that first five accused the engaged in the conspiracy. said he would not deal with the sixth eccused at this stage, as no A fire believed to be the rubindsalon of no case to answer had been put forward on had behakt:

biggest ever-in: Pampanga Pro vince in Central Luzon last night razed the town of Cusgua causing estimated damage of US$1

14-khoz trendering 1,000,000

persons homeless. Seven were injured, b

3,000

“About 300; büisiness, buildings

WASTE PAPER CATCHES FIRE

now, had theolute confidence" Radio Hongkong

Rouber.

Japan To Make Heavy Water,

Ottawa, Fob. 15.

·Japan is expected to be able to produce heavy water in quantity at a low cost in the next few years and exchange it with other nations for uranium: a-spokesman • for: 14 Japanesa sclerate said at Chalk River, Ontario yesterday.

The Japarted were visiting the Canadian atomic installation

Teenagers' Bodies Found

:

Tel-Aviv, Feb. 18: The bodies of na Israel boy H.K.T.

Time Signal and Programme and girl both aged 17 who dis- Bummary: 6.03. Lucky Dip-Varisty Requeris presented by: Margherit appeared last December while (Studio); 6.60, Weather Iteport; 2. on a holiday have been found Time Signal and World New burled in Jordan terrority, an

Holy): 709, Commentary

sald spokesraon Lelay) or Special An. Israel: nouncements is, a short recorded here yesterday. commentary on the Association Football Match - between, All Hong- the Austrian Team, followed by a mummary of play by Brix

Twenty | Question from The Madons

to Beamon. Question : Master! Patrick' Buter, the Team: Faith Buller Dorothy Scales, John miles Inside Jordan, and found Latus. Pracy Shoshan (Recorded dem buried under a happ 8. Drakestra of the Week-The Halle Cerchestrig 8.30, Bari Darabas (Bop.), stones near Mount Hebron, with. Kalman. Lendvay's ↑ Gypay, Strong Jordanian fire, how- Orch.) 8.45, Plano Recital; by Harrý

Concert HALT: 216, Wednesday ever, was directed at the party, the mystery of the upty the spokesman said, and only Ship Party byzance, savsking the girl's body could be removed prend, onlathe, novel Katha Aureoke and brought back to Izrael, Vege skyy - - Soberg -- Louin & Blevenson) and Lord Osbourne a (B8025)): 100, White a post mortem was Touth Pacing yanasale, denario being held; int military hos- 10,30vi, one parali the furzett, authoritien you

The spokesman said that a party of Israeils went into Jordan to find the bodies of the

Young (Recorded); 17.20 youngster's who had apparently

On

andchoues. In the town's corn- A heap of wasio paper, stack- {Doro. mercial distelets were sufied by ea in a crate, on his fast floor - The, spokesman sold Japan the fire.

bekyard for Arthe back stairway, of, the had no known- major deposits of idionen Late reports from Gusgun | French Bank Building caught ararlian and Japan was hopeful last night!! wald; that the are are, at shout noon today pin she could "obinin, urarium from started from a retail store owned. The watchtaan of uni adjacent counges like Canada and the impor

Cor by, a Chibaas, and quickly

|to the salutounding trend DAMUOSE Bw. Z flambs", spouting United States in michang

Army tycope it immediately

loating.

from the window by, the shit holy water bukMEO

to Canada

been murdered.

The party penetrated

C

tow

Report: quested Jordan, through the Relay United Nations, observars, to Musisi | Kanit over the body tot, the boy, headied.Fradote Prenes