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OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
FIRST
THRILL
OF LATE
One Day's
Grace CLOSING
HEIR leave was all but
THEIR
two
over, and the young soldiers were con- soling each other over their misfortune in being obliged to exchange London's uncer- tain winter for Egypt's re liable sun.
"This
time tomorrow
བ་
OVER
FROM H. KING WOOD
Sydney, Feb. 9.
First thrill of our new 10 o'clock closing of hotels has now died away and generally speaking there has been little that anyone could complain about.
It is doubtful if there have been any drunks
the elder of the Lwu said more because of 10 o'clock, but the closing hour
gloomily. His name was Alfred To think that this time to- morrow, we'll be back there.
"Join the Army,“ sald George, "und See
World.' the
He swigged the lust inouthful frum his pint pot of beer.
THROBBING LONDON
THE publle-bouse where the
two were drinking was in the heart of Theatreland. Out-
from 6.30 to 7.30 has only extended the 6 o'clock swill a half an hour later.
Publicana in the industrial areas claim that the new hours are costing them money because their bars are almost empty at night.
City licensees shrug and say Several times John Biggins, thuy are making ao fortune, of Melbourne suburb, pointed but the boys At the holliaga revolver loaded in only one retorts admit that the cash chamber at a cushion and pulled registers run hot turing the the trigger without it firing.
He said: "It's all rot. how confident I am."
side the swingdoors of the night. saloon bar London throbbed und hummed excitingly.
But Mr P H. Weon, Secre-
of
Store- the General To the two young soldiers al tary the world, it seemed, belonged keepers and Delicatessen Own- to and was part of London..aters' Association, strikes a dis- the world rxrepl themselves, mal note. He claims that right whom the imminence of depart throughout the trade a heavy ure made into aliens.
falling off in business hins fol- They envied no one in part-lowed 10 o'clock riosing. cular, yet envied anyone who
"Many storekeepers could say with responnbile cer-i Liny
Tomonow I'll be back last week as one of their worl
wer," he said.
here."
reported
This is
He held the barrel against his forehead and pulled the trigger.
The story
fold was
to the Coroner who inquire into the cause of his death,
Mr G. Hubden, a former head- master of a suburban public wchool told a committee making ar survey of secondary educa- tion in public schools that a few years ago in a test only 34 of 810 boys were
successful writing the Lord's Prayer per. foctly.
"Our conclusion ty that great deal of money now spent stores 492 week went into the hotels.'
George and Alfred had long since taken
of their leave formilies and there seemed to them only e way to occupy the last hours of their leave.
All things considered, how Drinking was the only enter-
ever, the first week of the new tainment they could think of
They moved from one public-hours have been very successful.
house to another and, with each pint they drank, self-pity grew
in them, as if in compensation for their faculties, which began ber to desert.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1955.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
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T. M. Reg. 25. & Pat CM. Cor. 1983 by NEA Servies, the,
"We shall nów have an honest and unbiased discussion and prove that women are more intelligent than mon!"
A Memorable Evening
Cassons With The
Merchant
Alleged Conspiracy: Ship In Naval
Defence Opens
Its Case
The Defence in the case of alleged conspiracy in connection with resettlement schemes opened this morning in the Victoria District Court after Judge A. D. Scholes held that all six accused had a case to answer.
Judge Scholes found that the Crown had made out ita case in all four charges of conspiracy and corruption and ruled that it was not necessary for the prosecution to prove guilty knowledge.
alics
Wong
The accused, Choung Kou- | customETA, Cheung sald that wah, Chow Chung-ying. Au that extra money applied to Shi-sung. Ng Hau, So Ping-those who did not possess According to his kwong, and Mary Daisy Wong, white cards.
Mon-tang.
from were instructions
Kan Kwok-
to defray charged with conspiracy to effect hung, the money
Costs of stationery and a pubile mischief in 1983 and the
travelling EXPENSES, CPC.. in- 1934.
curred by the Company's up plications 00 bchaif of the
A second conspiracy charge against the first, fourth and fifth customers. He did not know in
accused was withdrawn by the Prosecution on Monday,
the Arst
what way these applications were made,
to
Mr Arthur Lul, of Messrs Lo Mr Lai: Did you agree with and Lo, representer Gittins, somers without white cards
any person to bring these cus- three accused, Mr instructed by Messrs P. H. Sin Jardine's Lookout to be screen- and Co., the fourth and fired? nocused and Mr Vincent D'Alton, instructed by Messrs P. L. Lam and Co., the sixth accused.
Mr Desmond Mayne, Crown Counsel, assisted by Det. Insp. Harris, prosecuted.
Accused: No.
to
to
them Or did you teach falsely represent themselves be residents of Jardine's Look- out?-No.
Did
you know that after December 7, 1053 clearance
The sixth accused was addl- tionally charged with corrup-nolives must be produced tion.
the purchase of resettlement
that
for
Drydock
The 6,300-ton Danish merchant man Chastino Maersk
present
ni tho Koyal Naval drydock. getting A now ovat of paint, according lo the ship's local agents,
This arrangement WEB necessitated by the fack both Kowloon and Taikoo docks ATO fully Docupied.
that
On a previous occasion, immediately after the last war, they also had a ship at the Royal Naval Dockyard for a similar purpose, the agenta added.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 By Air Philippanos,_N. Borneo,
By Burface Macny, a p.m. Canada, 2 p.m.
FRIDAY, FENRUARY 18
By Air Philippines, 9 am,
p.m.
Thailand, Durma, India, Pakistais,
Egypt, Switzerland,
Britain. 9 mm,
Formoso, he
Kono, 10a.m.
ACCUSED'S EVIDENCE
houses?—I did not know. The first accused, Cheung,
RECEIVED MONEY Cheung admitted testified that in February, 1962 he joined the Tung Hing Tal received
$550 "procedure Company whose money", from the witness, Mak Sometime towards midnight yesterday, an
was Kan Chak-man. Lit. He explained Kan Kwok- audience, inspired and enthused by the supreme
Kab's
Kan brother,
Kwok-hung's lustructions to Mak and art of two supreme artists, reluctantly released hung was in solo charge of the pointed out Kan to Mok. The
then purchase and sale of "common witness
went over to Even then it was as if by them from the stage.
whlle people's houseS"
their speak to Kan Kan Tak-cheung, was first of the mutual consent, as if stage and auditorium appre-cousin,
that later Cheung denied the Company cas
when Mak pressed him for a Mountains Hydrociated that each had given their best.
The accused said that he was house, he went by appointment I cannot tell of just that shade of emotion Dame Sybil in charge of fling and of with him to King's Park where Thorndike and Sir Lewis Casson produced in each in- Chinese correspondence and he gave him a house,
do with the
Cheung also admitted that he dividual; after all, every single member of the audience had nothing to do
and selling of these received $300 "procedure money" must contribute something himself towards the wonder- buying
houses But soufetimes when from the Prosecution witness, ful atmosphere we call "theatre All I was aware of the Kan Kwok-hung and Kan Tak-Kwong Sing-nam, but added audience was, breathless wonder,
choung
out, he were
would that Kwong Saw the money receive money on their behalf being paid over to Kan Tak- as they instructed him to đó,
cheung.
Hearing is proceeding.
The Guthega-Munyang hydro- electric project, tho
Electric works,
And while on the subject of
we must surrowfully re-Snowy count the harrowing experience
is producing ot Mr John Munro, one of this power. town's big-shot executives who The work, which is 5,000-ft
Sunday morning adopted up Fast
on Mount Kosciusko, has WHEN they reached ones inn,]***
the landlord declined to a growing Australian custom of been designed and carried out by and com- serve them, deciding in his ex-aking a few friends to drop in Norwegian engineers
prizes u dam for a drink.
na Guthegs, perienced
1
mind that the two Bright beach umbrellas dotted | ihree-mile Lunnci through to young soldiers had drunk the lawns of his seaside home; Munyang, where the water from enough. They argued and were the men were in white shirts, the Snowy River drops 800-ft 10 ejected.
the women In sun frocks and turn the turbines at the Mun- George and Alfred took tre-
yang power house before drop- mendous unsbrage, seeing them-the nine-galion nestled under n
free enveloped in ice.
ping back into the river. selves
by กกพ
# shining knights whost reward for acting
is defenders of the whole way
of life of Londoners was to be treated worse than those
they were defending.
They tried to fight back into
human
aware
cashier.
And further
to that, I was so ordinary, of the Brush Na- mado to realise that in these tonal Anthem, one was
Chung agreed, as some whi- days of distorting lenses, wider of a quality, more moving than
nesses testified, that he negotiat screens, richer colours and massed choirs, or blaring bands.
Bir Lewis recitedod for customers of the Company roaring microphones, that the And when
for the
This sale of the house. Until the three other Snowy The guests arrived, everyone
has voicu
E quality. Carcassone, a pathetic little bal- and moods
was because he was usually in was happy and guy. Executive River projects are built to turn poorless, when used as it was tad, whole scenes
the office while Kan Kwok-bung J. Munro
turned the gas onto
were conjured from the air. power,
Guthego-ast night.
was usually out and Kan had the
What Londoner was not aware it keg... and promptly Munyong unit will operate us à
instructed him to sell houses to bust beautifully,
of that smothering "Tun-of-the-river" station with
gallant epic of 1940; became that everybody like a tropical down-
its output varying with the run
when Dame Sybil pour.
of the Snowy.
simple north country woman in a Kensington Church, typifying the whole people,
out
the public-house and when the Inndlord bolted the door against them, George
said in a city spring. detective smashed the
Alfred court this week thut a man who door's glass panel and
about treatment reached through and pulled back complained
from the police claimed that a the bolt,
police police constable who had taken betting slips from him had put them in the bottom pocket of his tunic,
the
NEVER TIRING
Okinawa.
France, Orest
Hewall, U.S.A, 11 8.m.
Japan
indo-China, 13 min. Japan, U.S.A. ĉe Canada, 0 p.m. Malys, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, 0 p.m.
"
By BuffacO China, People's Repubile, 8.30 am. Mação, a.m:
Philippines Noon.
Melays, Ceylon,
Aden. Middle East. Great Britain & Europe, 5 p.172.
Mreno. 6 p.m.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19
By Air
Thailand, Banna, Bidła, Pakistans Middle Sail, Africk, Great Britain & Europe, a.m.
Philippines, 2 a.m.
Formosa, Canada, V.p.mn. Okinawa, Korea. 6 p.m. Japan, U.S.A., 8.5.m.
By Bariken
China, Peoples Repubila, 8.30 0. Permon, Sa.m.
WILL APPEAL
Not Guilty TO CHURCHILL
Of
Kidnapping
any customer who came to buy. There were two types of cis- tamers he could sell to, ing to Kan, said the first accus- ed. One were the people with So on through an evening. white cards and the other were those who wished to buy the ever tiring, always interesting,
dia
not possess white one moment a peasant, the next houses a queen or pastor then cardinal
cands so that his Company had whole the holding
Tonge of to
PPy for them. per characters in fee.
thought that all those who Daniel J. Marsin not guilty of Dame
So
lived in the English many,
wooden huts were on-a charge of kidnapping Anne language gained a new meaning,titled to while cards," declared Smith, wife of a Phoenix in- Its riches were displayed as Cheung
dustrialisty for $76,000 ransom.
Imagine, no props, no make- motion, or a up, yet by a gesture, we moved from charac- ter to charactor. Who could In the late winter and early have imagined that those simple when the melting verses we fikk over idly could such rich Snows swell the river, the havo contained. turbines
24 cadences of exquisite beauty; or will operate for hours
a day, turning at full those Unes so long associated capacity.
with a school text book could In the summer months, when stir us to such moving pathos? the river Low
the From the moment the
began, when formance output will fall correspondingly.
Guthega Dam, The fellow seemed disagree-
although Sybil recited the worda, T Bow Street next morning ably surprised to learn that several hundred feet high,
(wo the
young soldiers, police don't have bottom pockets small compared with the large uniforms crumpled after In their tunic. It's all show-regulating reservoir to be built
as pyjamas in Just a flap and a silver bullon,
AL that point arrived.
AT
the
WILFUL DAMAGE
night's service
the cells, pleaded guilty to doing
£3 worth of wilful damage to way.
the public-house door.
officer wenl
An
Into the witness-box and sakl 10 the
when
s
at Spencer's Creek, 0,000- up Which scerns hardly fair, any-on Mount Kosciusko and only a short way from the headwaters of the Showy River. The pur- poso the Spencer's Check project is to hold the winter floods and release the stored water as the Snowy falls during
MECHANICAL AGE
An much as we hate to admit
magistrate, Mr E. G. Robey: it the mechanical age is driving "These men should have flown all romance out of the West. buck to Exopt this morning." Two brothers with a property
"And now?"
a few miles out of wild west They will fly back tomorrow Bourke use motor cycles for morning."
wild pig bunting; many station Alfred and
and George pulled | hands
boundary rlders long faces at each other-faces exchanged
for horses which lengthened further still trucks and motor cycles,
thic Ingaistruic ordered They muster their each to pay a fine of 20s., with mechanically, much to the con- 30%. for the damage they had steination of old-time drovers, who claim that motors maké the sheep wild and unruly.
Some drovers, however, are themselves becoming mechanised, bring cquipped with Three- trucks on which they load their hores.
"The
done.
"THIS
to
WITHDRAWAL
THIS way," the gaoler sald
them, They shown out, and as they moved off, there was a kind of military withdrawal from
were ton
two-tiered semi-trailer
ΟΙ
the summer months.
be
When this is done an even output of
will power generaled throughout the year.
A NEW RECORD
year is down by a mere few
A
headmaster and seven
grown
Five-Power Talks
Next Week
at
Mr Jakob Malik Russian
kong.
to
but
A
London, Feb 10. British textile leaders sald to- day they are considering asking Sir Winston Churchill for per- sonal attention on pleas for restrictions on foreign cloth imports.
They claim Indian, Japannee and Hongkong goods are hitting
New York, Feb. 16. Superior Court jury at order
Phoenix, Arizona, today found empla and threatening
a verdet
and Union leaders who yesterday decided to pro- test directly to the Prime Minis ter about the flood of India cotton grey cloth reaching. Britain, sald in Manchester today: "It is 98% certain we shall usic for an inter- v low with the Fremler."---
perhaps never before in Hong- He did not know then whether The jury deliberated for two his company could apply for hours 18 minutes before re-. It seems a plly I cannot add, the white cards under the re-{2′′ Barn, a slight, balding, 41- "go and see for yourself" for settlement schemes, "but I did this is but a brief encounter; and not need to
know, because my year-old welder, sald after United Press. if I am now asked what is the
Instructions were to sell houses heuring. the
ho English Language and what is
payment," Cheung "wasn't surprised." and receive the British Drama, I shall point
added.
"I was worried, but not sur- back to yesterday evening.
Explaining the "procedure prised," he added.
Martin's wife he asked from
fainted upon money" which
hearing her husband acquitted,
And the wonder of it all, for such as I, who has crept up the gallery stairs of, every theatre in London, is the agelessness of
Radio Hongkong
HK.T.
Bonus Issue
Verdict
that
had been
STOP PRESS
99 Women
Marsin had been accusca, of kidnapping Mrs Smith outside local beauty shop inst June 2. Mrs Smith officers she was forced to ac- company her adductor into the Superstition Mountains, where, she said, she was held until her husband turned over $75,000 the
fold investigating 99
By China Provident Co. following day.
The China Provident Loom Mortgage Co., Ltd. today te ported a net profit of $1,800,170, subject to audit, for the year to Dec 31, 1954.
MOUNTAIN ARREST Marsin was arrested in the rugged mountain country on the evening of June 10 by two Phoenix police officers.
Ho was identified by Mrs Salih pa her abductor the following day, In closing arguments today, The directors will recom-
Maricopa mend at the forthcoming and Willam Mahoney, Jr., had ask
County Attorney
Die In Fire
Yokohama, Feb. 17. Fire swept through a Catholic Mission Home for old women here at dawn today killing 99 in Japan's worst postwar fire.
Most of the old and feeble Japanese women were burned to death near their beda` as the- fre rogred through the old
buildings wooden
of the mision
Mission compound
officials gold. survived the blaze and 100 nuns and students in an adjacent convent dlso reached
London, Feb. 16. Five-power talks, aimed it all.
breaking the post-war I turn up a programme of East-West deadlock on dis- May 17, 1910, and see there "Chains" at the Duke of York's: Maybe our wool income this armament, are planned to and Mr Lewis Casson playing million but we can still to open in the last week of Fenwick: and later Dame Sybil,
sources who was St. Joan.
They are February, official a now record into the ring.
the stage, the theatre, and all At the opening
at said here today. sales
it is, and can be. Thank you. Launceston this week a world
in conference, which And thank you, Harry Odell, record price of 420 lb was Britain,
the France, paid for a merino fleece.
United and the British Council--JOHN States, Canada and Russia will LUFF, Japan and US were the main take part, was originally due to bickicks.
open on February 23, but has been postponed a
few diya exet date has now been No the public sheep truck is also coming into teachers who were sent to join
flood, the
sold. sources gallery, A sergeant-major left,
Its own out west but its main a new school to open after the and one or two NCOs.
Ambasador here
who was the Comradeship
0.00, Time Bignal and Programme had
brought uso is to get sheep to market. Christmas vacation this week
The trucks
general meeting that a dividend are handicapped by found only a vacané block of Soviet representative at a dis- Bummary: 0.03% Jazz 21alf Hour pro them there, perhape-Or per.
Armament conferencs which ented by Robert Acheson (Studio); of $1.00 per share, and a bonused the jury to convict Marsin land. haps, though no one had over their limited load of about 200
broke down in failure hero. a 20. Portuguese Half Hour (Studio) heard the
of 20 cents per share, both free for the kidnapping, bolding that word "escort,"
0.59, Westher. Report: 1.00, Time shoop but they make speedier the
Subsequent inquiries, ac-
year ago, has not yet
(London of tax, be declared for the year the panel "may conclude that Army wanted to make certain trips thin the ordinary drover.
Helay) 7.00, Commentary (London Thea semi-trailers are also a tien official, revealed that
1954, and to carry forward to the defemkins was guilty sincs the With the Soviet Ambassadors 15. "Scenes Pittoresque" that Georgo and Alfred would
Rely) or Special Announcements;
the neither affirmed nor dooled the next account $2,700,351. be on parade at the airfield next boon to rustlers who, grazers school was
still only in the to France and the United States, not) L'Orchestra now operating on in paper stogo.
Concerts
charge against him, Marsin The directors will also rới 7:30, Songs from the
around 4.30 am, and the alarmi Mr Malik was rocalled before Lamoureux
during the trial.
WÜN sounded within 10 PRIEST'S RELICS
Taylor, Helen Clare, John Hanson, that a bious issue be made of which Mr Georgi Malenkov a Johnny Webb, Billy, ferment and hiri
Orchestra,' A Buddhist priest reached nounced his resignation from John Watt (BBC46); 6.00, Laturion
Presented by
one new share for evwy four asked for acquittal on grounds the two-storey: dormitory was old shares.
that the State had failed to link roaring infernie, which” mread Two quiet dogs drive the sheep Sydney from Cavian this week the Soviet premiership Notebook presented by the Reve
Marsin with certain evidence into and destroyed the missions this ramp and into the truck bringing with him rolice for a The forthcoming conference bounty plyn B.J. (Studio); "Guilty Parly" A Panel ut ex-
NORTH POINT W EVES
the cast-United Press.
Chappi and two
bulld": By daylight the truck, loaded proposed Buddhin temple. will examine an Anglo-French peris solve problem sot by Edward
perhaps with
is on
North Point Wharver, Ltd He has three seedlings from plan for a staged disarmament in 392jason Part Sw^Haid to Ransons"
American
Army, and its way to another
ancient tree, a' bust of both
conventional and mamDUCTB): 2.00, Time, Bignal, Sporta report a not profit of $480,583,
pump trucks Joined: Japanese Hirview (Studio); P. At the Opere subject to audit, for the year to H.K. Ono grazier said he was losing Buddha
bone fragmentidestruction weapons
Russia, | #Trovatore Acis LENEREKVISIT
firemen fn", the frid at least 500 sheep a year to from Buddha's body
which has always said the first Principals and soloists of the Robert Dec. 31, 1954, ....
battle against the fre, rustlers while a neighbour, with
The seedling aro srom a tree step in disarmament should be Shaw Chorale con
The directors will recommend Final Dividend. Two bodies, burned beyond a bigger property, put his losses over 2,000 yours Dule This tree a ban on attente, and thermo-Calf 100 DOOR CO
managed to save the conve at the forthounding annual game - The "Director" of The Hong- souling" a corridor-Inking recognition, were removed from at 1,000. Fe has aceding row from appling of anther nuclear weapons, refurt in or Souvenin Zarautman oral meeting this dividend of kong Electric Co., Ltd cannounce the dormitory the building at the height of the offer of £1,000 reward, for in-tros in India Under which Bud-consider the Anglo- French paper folia)
Windowsy, 30..centé per sharey free of tax, that at the forthocenni meeting inthe home. Waar fire-Unlied Press, 19
Zormation about the thieves,
dha meditated.
last year but has now agreed to Marin Mannering, Martin and his
artin and he be dedua te the year 1984, of shareholders to be held on the Trantiecen The priest is in Sydney at the discuss it. Begged f Orchestra::::10:400%Wanther Haport: ando miter placing $1,000,000 to Tuunday, March, they will rond Mary!!" and missa Printed and published by WILLIAM ALIOR GRURAM for Invitation of the the Buddhid Results of the conference will 100% in die Nowy
Loodan et Raları 11:10 - Goodnigh and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Society of NEW, which plans to bin reported back to the United Muster God Save The queen: wance to the melt ancoins $1. PAY
Nations Rester. Wyndhamn, Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, erect a temple
morning.
Two Killed In Apartment Blaze
Montreal, Feb. 18.
A three-alarm fire raged out of control through a five-storey apartment blocke here, tonight, Idilling two persons and in juring five others.
are increasing scale.
They book their trucks along- side a fence at night and drop the tallboard over the fenico
up
200 st.
cording to a Teachern! · Fodera-from comeutiations in Mosed signal and World News
an
nad
.
the
was not called as a
dry was discovered
The
the Supreme St let,'meeting at Shows Leicester Square' with Pat commend - to: the shareholders ! wiine attorney John Flynn Imiņutes... But· by 'that "time,"
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