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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1955.

Commonwealth

Expected To Adopt

F.N. 300 Rifle

London, Apr. 21.

The Belgian FN 300 self-loading rifle, expected to be adopted by all the British Commonwealth armies by the end of this year, is having its "baptism of fire" in Malaya and Kenya.

British troops in both colonial trouble spots are using the rifle as part of extensive troop trials" to which the simple, light Belgian weapon is being subjected.

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In both centres, its issue has) so that it can be produced here y meant the parting, for the first and in Australia, as well as in time in 50 years, of the British North America if necessary. soldier and his "best friend"- the Short Magazine Lee Er- Deld 303.

OTHER TESTS

Own

The FN 300 was selected by the present British Government in preference to Britain's new E.M.2 automatic rifle, after exhaustive tests. Impartial ob- Servers found little difference between the weapons, although they felt that the Belgian rife was easier and quicker to make and maintain. Instruction iD. handling was also considered easier and speedlier.

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4 Years For

'Colossal Fraud'

Queen Elizabeth chats to police dog trainers during her visit to County Police Head- quarters while on her tour of Lancashire, the centre of Britain's cotton Industries, - Express Photo.

US Cruiser Mail

The

Here

|074 feet and a width of 71 fect. carries nine 8-inch and 12 5-inch guns and 52 40-mm anti-aircraft guns and a heli- copier.

While these active service texts are taking pler, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa are staging their own tests 'of the weapon.

Yiu Lim-kwong, 52, mana- Military

.circles here expect

ger of the Hin Wah Trading

13,600-ton American that by the end of the year, The political controversy

cruiser Baltimore (Capt. C. G. all these Commonwealth coun- which followed its choice has all Company, pleaded guilty at

Christie) entered port this tries will be using, or prepar- but died now,

some the Victoria District Court morning on a recreational vişít. although ing to use, the rifle as their Labour Members of Parliament this morning to what was The Baltimore is the name- standard infantry weapon. still maintain that the FN 300 described by Judge A. D. ship of her class of 14 ships,

To date, three

ree countries have is longer and heavier than Its Scholes as "a colossal fraud" She has an overall length of Apply serary, adopted the FN 300-Belgium, British rival

totalling She Britain and Australia. But it

Jums But the British Army appears involving is conadently predicted here to have few regrets now, if any. more than $800,000. that Canada, New Zealand and about the adoption of Belgian South Africa will follow

suit weapon.

"Accused" was sentenced to four years hard labour. He admitted when their own trials are com.

Major-General F. R.

Her complement comprises 731 Matthews. Director pleted.

of Infantry one charge of conspiracy to

tight banks and 13 officers and 990 enlisted men. Britain

and Australia have at the War Office, appeared to defraud

Leaving post; after a recrea – hen charges of obtaining valuable announced their intention of be voicing a general view when securities and monies from the tional visit here this morning manufacturig the rifle and he said of the FN .300; "It has Canada would undoubtedy do

for British use banks in June and July last were the destroyers Gregory; been modified

Marshall, Porterfield and Halsey the same. New Zealand is able and takes the standard

North year.

Mr J. W.D. Hobley, Crown Powell, and the destroyer tender to produce the ammunition, if Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Counsel, prosecuted, Accused. Hamul. not the rifle itself.

round. Its fire'

and who power

was not represented by accuracy are better and its use Counsel, reversed a previous the false invoices had been in weapon drill can be just as id smart and efficient as the 303. Fica of not guilty this morning shipped to 'Singapore.

when the hearing was about to other start.

CONSPIRACY CHARGE The conspiracy charge alleged that Yiu conspired with Jao Seng-ho, who is not in custody, to defraud eight banks in Hong- kong and Singapore of their money by falsely pretending that certain documents, in par- ticular certain false invoices and bills of lading, showed that goods to the value specified in

HOME OFFICE STATIONERY Address and note books, enfuzen's books, chem sets. Very wide selec? donde vailable at South China Morning Post. Limited, Huck Kony and Sakshi Road, Kowloon. Trade enquiries invited,

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STAMPS

ALBUMS

Builder" perles,_New

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stock

now BYRLADIA, SI From Sex China Morning Pent, Ltd., Wyndham Street, Hongkong and Salisbury Rasd, Hawloon.-

SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE, Collec

Deckers of assorted rampa, From: 20 orats per picked upwarda, AD entirely new nevelen. South China,, Morning Post 13d., Wyndham Street

liongkong and Salisbury Road, Kezlone.

NOTICE

HONGKONG ENGINEERING " & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

Notice to Shareholders

Notice is hereby given that the Twenty-ninth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Share- holders of the Hongkong Engineering & Construction Co Ltd. will be held at St. George's Building, Chaler Road, 2nd floor, Hong Kme, on Tuesday, the 26th day of April, 1955, at 12 Noon, to receive the Directors' Report and the Statement of Accounts, to declare dividend and to transact the ordinary business of the Company...

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The Share Transfer Books of the Company will be closed, from the 4th April 26th April, 1955, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board,

ERNEST SAHMET.

Secretary Hongkong, 17th Mar.. 1955,

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

Consignees per

CLE DES MESSAGERIES MARÍTIMES 5.5, "PEI-O"

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dre hereby notified that their cargo will be discharged into the Hong Kong & Kowloon Whar? & Godew CO, LUL'S godown where it will be at consigneer risk and wbject to the wharf's terms and conditions of storage and where dellvery may be abmined,

Damaged packages are to be lett da che godown for examination by comigues' and the company'e sur- veyors Mears Goddard & Douglas at Tám on Thuriday, 28th April 1992. No claims will, be adunitted after the goods have left the godown and All gooda remaining undelivered after the 29th April, 1855, will be subject to rent,

All clips ngabis the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 21st. May, 1955, or they may do be recognised.

No. Fiat, Insurance will be effected.

CIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES Hong Kong 23rd. Aprü, 1805

TO ADVERTISERS:

SUNDAY POST-HERALD Space 'for commercial advertising should be then booked "not inter noon on Wednesdays,"

The British Army expects to have the results of its own troop trials by the end of the summer, when the "green light" should be. given for British production of the rific.

BRITISH ORDER

Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of Supply, an nounced on February 28 Britain had ordered 14,400 rifles from the Belgian

makers, of which 1,600 had been delivered, There are also high hopes that the FN 300 will be .adopted" by the United- States and other countries in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisa- tion, following the decision of the Atlantic Council, In Decem- ber, 1953, that the calibre for standard rifle ammunition for member countries

would be 300 inches.

Mr Antony Head. Britsih Minister of War, has said in the House of Commons that there is a very good chance of the United! States Army adopting the rise.

It is acknowledged here,

however, that there is still a strong preference in sections of the US Army for the T-41, another 300 calibre gun. It is

both

weapons.

and

testing circles here do riot ex-

the

a definite decision for some time.

These circles state that United States is already well stocked with the Garand M-T semi-automatic, and does not need to make a speedy decision.

Britain, on the other hand, has been in urgent need since World War II of a really. modern rifle.

and

The FN 300 is self-loading. can' be used as an automatic, or for single shots.

As an automatic, it is capable of firing between 650 and 700 rounds a minute, Adjusted for sniping, a trained soldier using single rounds from 20-round magazines, can fire '60

almed shaks a minute.

FIVE-ROUND CLIPS Re-loading from five- round clips, he should be able to fire between 35 and 40 aimed shots a minute, or more than double the rate

of repla fire expected of the average soldier with Present! bolt-action

the

303.

Tests have shown that the .300 is accurate up to a

range of 1,093 yards.

From the point of view of safety, the rifle is claimed to be almost foolproof It: cannot be fired until the breech-block is locked, and the breech-block cannot unlock until after the bullet has left the barrel.

In its present form the FN

without 300,

the magazine, weighs nine pounds three ounces. Its overall

length is 411⁄2 inches, and the barrel 21 inches.

EASY TO HANDLE,

It is well balanced and easy to handle, which is not surprising since its makers,

· Fabrique "Nationale d'Armes de Guerre, produce šoine "of the world's best-known KILO sporting rifles and shot

The FN's magazizie holds 20 rounds and weighs eight and a ounces when empty, ant pound nine-and-a-quar CHINA-MAIL, 48 hours ter ounces wherr full before date or publication. Special Announcements and Classified Advertise

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When mass produced in Beitain it is expected to cost about £30 sterling The Belgian. metric racasuriments have al ready been converted into inches

FINAL SEAL

And the final seal of approval has probably been set on the Belgian rifle by adoption by the British army for ceremonial pur~ · poses.

The drill-proud British Army, has devised a new arms drill for it-proof that it has really "arrived." China Mail Special

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The 13 charges, related to the obtaining

securities

and! monies from the banks as a.! result of the above-mentioned transactions.

Notices

The latest times at posting shown below are those fat, 1171- registered rorrespondence posted at G.P.O, Hongkong. The latest pasting times elsewhere which. in general, are earlier than the G.P,0. times can be ascertained by enquiry at the local offer..

The latest posting times for registered articles are reserally one hour earlier than the times shown below. Particulars regard- ing parcel malls can be ascertain- ed by enquiry at any post aflee.

MONDAY, APRIL 25 By Air

·Phillippines, 3 'p.m._ Formosa. Okinawa, U.S.A.. 6 p.m. Thailand. India. Middle Past Africa, Great Britain & Europe, 40 D.M.

By Surface pim."

TUESDAY, APRIL 26 By Air

Macao

Japan. 8" a.mL.

Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, France. Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia,

0a.m.

Indo-China. 11 a.m.

Philippines, il a.m.

Japan, Hawaii, Nocn

In his outline of the case, Mrja.m. Hobley said the goods accused shipped to Singapore consisted mainly of toothpicks, whereas the invoices described the goods variously shirts,

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socks, harmonicas, mahjong sets and to forth,

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N. Borneo, Australia, New Z:1- färd. 3 p.m.

Philippines, &'p.m.

Korea, GP. Japan, U.S.A.. Formosa, Okinawa,

Canada, C`p.m. p.m.

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---I'LL GIVE YOU FIFTY DOLLARS

RAM LOOKS LIKE OUR PARAKEET FANCIER HAS TURNED INTO A JAILBIRD

MAR. 3

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By Frank Robbins

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BABYLONE ALAMA

Thief Caught

Red-Handed

Bailey's Appeal Continues

Further submissions were made by Albert-Francis Bailey, 34, merchant, before 'the Full Court this morning.. “

when hearing of his appeal against his conviction on. three charges of criminal Sibel was continued. He com menced his appeal last Fri- day, * 1:27:

The alleged libels were con- lained in letters written by Bailey, and addressed to MeaS Peter H. Sin and Y. H. Chan (solicitors) and Mr S. K. Tee (banker) in April last year.

The Full Court comprises. Mr Justice T

Gould (acting Chiat Justice) and Mr Justice J. R. Gregg (Puiste Judge).

The appeal was filed on 27 grounds alleging mistakes in law en the part of the Trial Judge, misdirection of the Jury on numerous points, and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence.

Continuing with his submis- sions, Bailey referred to the Trial Judge's summing up

A well dressed Shanghai- where it dealt with his transac- Lander appeared before Mr Hin-tions with S.K. Yee and the shing Le at Central this morn-United Chinese Bank in certain ing on a charge of attempted civil actions before the

Court, pickpocketting.

and said the Judge had told the Defendant was Poo Yuk-Jury that his case either stood ching, 29,

fell depending on whether a stoker, who pleaded or was sentenced to four they believed him and Miss guilty months imprisonment.

Shiu (an epicyce of Bailey's who had given évidence on his behalf).

It was alleged that the de- fendant on Saturday at the Hongkong Jockey Club members' enclosure, attempted to rob Lo Man-hin.

He was seen to put his right hand into complainant's pocket and extract a piece of paper but was caught red-handed by a de

tective who was on duty..

Defendant was a banishes and had one previous conviction.

MISSTATED" EVIDENCE

Bailey submitted the Trial Judge had entirely raisstated the evidence adduced in regard to these transactions, and this re sulted in the Jury not being able to judge whether or not

Bailey and his witness had been telling the truth.

Appellant went on

on to deal further with the summ

summing-up Menzies' Welcomesferring to S. F... Yee's action

a

against him in connection with Canberra, Apr. 24.

certain accounts in the United The Australian Prime Minis- Chinese Bank, relating to ter. Mr Robert Menzies, said to transaction, in carbon black, and day: "We are delighted at the submitted that the Trial Judge forthcoming had failed. prospect" at the

to bring the facts visit of the Earl of Home Bri- before the Jury and had done no tain's new Commonwealth Rela- more than put a hypothetical tiona Minister. It was officially cas

announced earlier today that sc which Bailey claimed had nothing to do with the true Lord Home would leave on an

facts. extended Commonwealth tour in.August.Reuter.

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Bailey said he had written to Mr Chan after losing his appeal in the civil action for a docu- ment listed in Mr Yee's list of exhibits. Mr Chan, Aurnished 2 document which Bailey alleged was a fake, and said it was a carbon copy of a document sub sequently

found in files produced by the Solicitor-General at the

rial These fles had been duced by Mr Chin in proceed- ings at the Magistracy. Balley submitted that the production of this

document proved Mr Chan's close association with the United Chinese Bank, for where else could

he have obtained a cisbon he asked. copy,

The Trial Judge had in his summing-up fold the Jury that he (Balley) had sent the letter. to Mr Chan, but Balley said he had never done so. He sub mitted that the entire issue-bad been confused by the Trial Judge.

COURTS QUERY- The Court "mnquired why Chan should have given, Bailes a letter which. Bailey claimed was a fake...

Mr

Bailey replied that the original was not in bis keeping. He hed sent the document together with others to a lawyer in Shanghai for an opinion, but with the change of government there, the had been detained and lawyer did not return the documents to Bailey until after the appeal had beer. Lost" Furthermore,

that document had never been pro duced at the bearing of the civil action or in, the appeal, and his case in these proceedings, Balle alleged, had never been properly, put before the Courts.

Mr Justice Gould remarked it Was the most extraordinary assertion. hb had ever heard that a fake document should have been furnished which, had nothing to do with the base.

Bailey claimed that the matter was put to the Jury in such a way as to have led them to believe ho had given the inter to either Mr Sin or Mr Chan, The appeal is proceeding,

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