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C

ELIA'S husband was, &} high-ranking officer in

the Service, and junior officers' wives followed her) line in much that they did.

Celia was er oficio «beyond reproach. She had to be as far

out of reach of the smallest

seandal as a bishop's wite. And she always was.

The other day Celia "came to London on a routine visit, to

shop. take elevenses with one

old friend, and have luncheon

with another.

THE

',

A LITTLE EARLY

THE day went exactly accord

ing to plan, as the wives of

junior officers on the station could have told you any day planned by Celia would.

CHINA MAIL

OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER

Breakaway Political Parties Wiped Out

FROM H. KING WOOD

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Sydney, June 1. Victoria's election result again proved beyond |doubt one point-breakaway parties have no hope

of survival.

The "rebel" Labour Party (they called them- selves Anti-Communist Labour) was wiped out. Its leader, Mr W. J. Barry, önce Minister and a Labour big shot, lost his seat and none of the 12 Labour men that followed him gained a seat..

On the other side of the fence we had the Liberal

breakaway movement, led by a former Premier, Mr. Hollway.

Here again this breakway group vanished; Holl- way's long and not undistinguished political service not being good enough to keep him in the House.

All this

a lot of must give for thought for the 13 food The nearest thing to mis-members of the Ant: Communist adventure, that befell was that Labour group sitting on uneasy she arrived early at the station,sculs in the Federal House, It on her way home, And this they are wise men they will small thing proved to be quite art making plans for how they disastrous.

propose spending their lime when they are returned

For, whiling away the spare. | "ivilian life. wasted minutes, Cella happened

to remember that her schoolboy son hand asked her for a book about cricket.

He had named the book, and she, being efficient, remembered its name. She went to the bookstall and asked for "Sorry," they said, "we haven't

got that."

A

it.

Idly, she picked up another cricket book. "Is this as good as the other?" she asked

"No." the frankly answered.

bookstall

ARREST

man

CO Celia picked up her parcels

But as well as

The

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Victorian election has done little, however, to end the deadlock that has plagued pelities in that State for many years. As the moment the

Liberal-Country Party is trying to form a Government in its own right without calling on the aid of the Country Party. but it will have little to spare in Govern- voting strength and a ment formed under such con- ditions is seldom a forceful one.

Come-

Last week they were pleting details to take over the Melbourne store of Mantong for £2,115,000 and paying most of it in cash

PROFITABLE VENTURE Melbourne's 350 parking meters are ticking over to the extent of £600 a week-or more than £100 a week more than the City Council expected.

19 this is maintained the

meters will have paid for them- selves within a year and earned' a profit of more than £10,000.

Sydney, which not unjustly has been described as a parking nightmare, Slate Cabinet agreed to a City Council proposal build a £900,000

paking Station under a city park would

house more than 1,000 cars.

to

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MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1955...

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

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Y.... Pad On 4.28 Capr, 1916 by Sikh Sarrian, Ina-

"If I get married I'll pick a girl from some other office-- that way we'll get two office collections!"

The Carl Weiss

Case

Continues

Hearing of a tax summons against Karel Weiss, sole proprietor of Messrs Karel Weiss, of Room 304, Central House, continued before Mr Poon Yan-hoi at Central this morning..

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL SNORKELPEN

From Our Files

MAN ACCUSED

OF ARSON 100 Years Sequel To Belcher Street Fire

Allegations that the accused deliberately set fire to No. 148 Belcher Street, second floor, were made by the Crown when Cheng Yu-sum, 31, clerk, appeared on trial before Mr Justice A. D. Scholes in the Criminal, Sessions this morning on charges of arson.

Cheng is alleged to have on February 10, 1955, unlawfully and maliciously set fire to 148 Belcher Street, second floor, a dwelling house.

Alternatively be is alleged to have on the same date unlawfully and maliciously set fire to the same building, which was an office of the Hongkong and Kowloon Fresh Fish Merchants Association, with intent to injure or defraud.

"

Ago

THE MYSTERY

OF MAN

BY SIR JOHN BOWRING

The mystery of Maal I dwelt Or the perplexing words, and

felt

That every thought but made

tho theme

Still more perplexing-ul at Alast Sleep or my brows its curtains

And lo! dream! - spother

dream!

cast:

Matter and spirit--death and

life-

In thousand images of strife,

And mists and 'strange

imaginings.

A further count alleged that Cheng unlawfully and Had All'd my mind with wild maliciously set fire to some documents in that building.

Mr D. E. Greenfeld, Crown ; Crown Counsel sald that ac- Counsel, is prosecuting, assisted cused made certain statements by DSI A. Anderson. Accused is on which the Prosecution placed

seme reliance.

not represented by Counsel.

sus-

On

debate

questions

and intricate, Twixt real and unrent things-

vex'd

3,"

stem'd

And day grew brighter, and a

саг

A Jury of five men and two It was quite true that no one | So. “I slept wearied-and it women has been empanelled. had seen accused set fire to the

Outlining the case for the building, but it was not expect

That earth receded, as I dream'd Crown, Mr Greenfield said thated that he would do this in full And dawn rull'd back the arson was an offence which had view of eye-witnesses, Mr Green-

clouds of night, been known to the law for a nekd said, Much of the very long time. It was an old evidence against the accused offence which was roughly the was circumstantial, Le. criminal burning of another per-picious circumstances pointing son's house or building.

in a certain direction, That did The building in question was

not mean that a man should be primarily used as an office but convicted on suspicion, In our people lived and slept law a person was deemed inno there, so that in some respects cent until he was proved guilty, it was also a dwelling house, and the burden of doing that said Crown

was on the Prosecution, He pro-

Counsel, There

posed to do that boyced all rea-

ic. deliberately setting fire to asonable doubt,

as one particular type of arson, dwelling house with a person inside it at the time. This, he added, was the subject of the

Defendant who is represented for duplicate formis for year of

is assessment, 1950-1951 and 1951-drst by Mr Marcus da Silva, alleged to have defaulted in 195% should be completed and

this date

The proposal has been paper for a long time but no OIL FLOWS AGAIN

on: seems game 10 buck the people guarding parks Oil flowed again in

charge, Western and playgrounds. The Govern Australia last week, and in spite ment has given an assurance of a warning that it was only a and her coat, and walked test bore close to the first strike at far from taking park space payment of business profit tax returned within seven days' from

or spoiling the area, not one amounting to $4,801.28, In re- the speculators · rushed parcels away.

in and inch will be taken from the spect of the year of assessment,

beautification | 1951-1952. up. The people and a and coat, she now had in her the shares bounded

inevitable

at hand the book about cricket.

reaction set in next scheme will be carried out day and they dropped almost as the same time.

30 someone must have The "antis have not yet hadis prosecuting, much,

time to get steam up, but they got their fingers burned.

will and it is pounds to peanuts that no parking statice will be built under that time.

park in our

A policeman in plain clothes followed her and caught up.

arresting

"he said

תיניי

you..

and told her why

"Oh, please,

The

she said, that this bore.

company pointed cut was merely to "I've got two children, can't I confirm that oil-bearing sands existed in the area and to trying to and ways of securing more of it..

pay for the book now?"

"No," said the officer. He took

her to the police station

In

Bow

taxi. Celia paid the fare, She was brought to Street next morning, and plead

3

"Nowhere does it say that the audited accounts were demanded Mr D. N. Rac, Crown Counsel, |within seven days,

Continuing his objection to an allegation made by the defence Counsel against assessor, Mr R. J. Hardy. Mr Rae said:

"I

would like

to cite the cviderice, This is the sole evidence before the court to

Some

"I said before that it was "a most serious matter for Counsel to make allegations of bad faith er misbehaviour against a witness or even worse, against person who cannot defend him self, and that it was one of the high traditions of our profession that such allegations should not be made except for good and valid reasons which can be sup- ported by real evidence,

support the allegation of bad faith made against Mr Hardy.

"At a meeting between M- Hardy and Defendant, some- time in September or October, 1952, it is alleged by Mr Weiss "The reason is obvious. Any- that Mr Hardy turned to a Mr one can make allegations, but King and used abusive language! Is another thing to prove in respect of Mr Weiss.

The them. I understand that in other only other evidence to support parts of the world, such tactics the allegation arises from the are known as McCarthyism.” answers given by Mr Weiss to Mr Silva in

Hearing is continuing. examination: in chief.

PARKING NIGHTMARE But something will have to be done, because parking in this Kensington recently

At the Sydney suburb of clly now is more than a night- Most motorists who use. citizenmare, ย ed not guilty to the theft. "

saw two men alight from a car the city frequently are nowin dore lot of shopping," she and climb the fence the the £1 fine bracket for parking,

into said, "and I just picked that backyard of a shop. He told which has forced them to go to book up with my other parcels. the focal police..

he little dictators who have set themselves up in basements and "TRIED TO GET OUT

Within minutes a squad ar- on vacant lots as parking'atten- AS we were going to the rived and captured the two mendants "As we were boni, said who turned out to be members out at about 1/ at. har 8/9

Here the charge works

10. 5 pm.

When you depost the policeman who bad arrested of the police Vice Squad on an

you car (which is subsequently HIRE-PURCHASE

handled by a fellow who doesn't care much, anyway)

you are Nearly half of all the families asked what time you will re- "My husband is here," Cella in Australia are buying items turn, and should you be delayed sald

small voice. Her for household or personal use beyond this time for 10 minutes in a

hire-purchase husband came forward- and, in through

com- or so you are likely to be left the witness-box. began to speak. panies, according to a survey kicking your h:els just to teach

"Answer, 'Yes.'' you 'Mister?" the Chief made by a Government depart-rou to be on time in future. If "Are Magistrale asked, "or

it happens again you are likely

her "she tried to get out.”

"Have you any

witnesses?" the Chief Magistrate, Sir Lau- rence Dunne. asked Ćelia.

11

SP

rakl

merit,

"

Celia's husband mentioned his The survey also showed that to be told that there is no space exalted rank. "My wife and I Australians are spending more have been married 16 years," he then ever before on motor cars said. "She had a serious opera and large electrical appliances tion in 1947, the surgeon

did for the home. ..warn me to expect she would suffer from nervous depressions over a period of years. Despite the evidence I'm quite per- suaded that she was not aware

she had taken that book."..

GOING BACK

at

Car

on

One household in every six is

present buying "a terms, according to the survey.

Australia now has one motor

QUESTIONS QUOTED

“Question by Mr Silva: You also feel aggrieved in that Mr Hardy can cancel your losses carried forward of $136,129.702

*And the

you know

Sahara Desert

Mystery

(Continued from Page 1)

sole

Mr Alan Drey, British Vice- Consul at Dakar, French Senegal, told a British pressman this by telephone that Barnes was in hospital in a reasonable state of health"-but he was

not sure

Hearing is continuing.

Fraud Who Had Dividends Hallucination

TERRIBLE CRIME "Mr Greenfield said it was "s very terrible crime to destroy à man's house or home with all his possessions in it, and at the same time endangering his life and members of his family,"

Accused was employed as clerk and cashier by the Fish Merchants Association. He went

A 31-year-old unemployed, to the building in the night and

who toid burned books and documents of Wong Chek Chuen, the Association, Crown Counsel the police that he owned all the alleged, adding that the Jury ten

banks in Hongkong, was sen- would

to three weeks hard accused had a reason for his act

that and deliberately.

dif- After explaining the ferences of the offence in the

evidence hear

that

tenced

this

st

by Mr T. Creedon

morning for he did obtaining credit by fraud.

After eating a bowl of noodles and drinking

of two glasses wine at the Rose Restaurant, Prince Edward Road, on Satur

two charges, .Mr Greenfield

arson

some

Two Diplomats

Arrive

Convey'd me, wheel'd on sun-

beams, far Towards regions of supernal

Light.

4.

And there, all star-bespangled;

lay

way,

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From heaven to earth, the milky

O'er which a million angels

frew; They dived below-they soared

above,

Bcweet messages of love

Their pinions dropping light

like dew.

5. Then two celestial messengers Descended--and one touch'd my

CATS; When divine music, soft and

sweet

Burst round. The other couched

my eyes,

And then I saw, in mute

surprise,

A world all radiant-at-my

fect

6.

Our world the world in which

we are

But seen as from a neighbouring

star,

By bright eyed seraphs--when

they view

Not seeming things in mortal

Fulse, But heaven's decreed realities-

The past, the future,-through

and through.

י

7.

There was a lazzar-bour;-Disease

And Death and all their Agudes

In thousand leathsame ferina were

seta:

Yet there, a thousand virtues shed Their hatre round each sufferer'I

Bed,

Asid guardian angels milled serene.

A battle-feld, with all is wou And walling, lay outspread below- Those woes, those wails in silence

die:

Flowers grew from that encarmined

ground; And joyous spirits scatter'd round

Love hope, peace, light, and

liberty.

.

watch'd death-dooming arrows

Young, vid, base, beautiful, allike:

"The 1001-the wise.bone, none

were spared: But as the generations pass'd,

Each wiser, better than the last, Upon the

vast world's

stage appes 'd.

10. I saw the hauzts of Shame and Sin; But in their deepest depths within. Envoys from heaven were bury

Law. And Order fought with Crime-ard

Crime

..

said that the third count was a less serious one in comparisen to day, defendant refused to pay a

bit of $6.80, the first two. It was alleged Defendant was then arrested that not only did he set fre

by police to whom he said he to a building but that he would pay the bill in three days fire to documents and books in time when he received his the building. He set fire to them dividends from all of the banka In circumstances which the he owned in Hongkong Crown stated endangered the

As a result of his statements building.

defendant was sent to Kowloon. Mr. Greenfeld said that very Hospital but nothing abnormal fortunately the building was not was detected

burned, completely

Someone In court this morning defend- woke up in time, the Fireant, who stood in the dock with Brigade was summoned and the his hands in his hip pockets, "Question, "And particularly in view of the better His immediate aim is to track fire was put out, but the door- smiling to himself; admitted he subsequent years for your car in future.

he himself down the whereabouts of the way frame, the window frame had one previous conviction last

floor boards were 50LB DOCUMENT

survivor, Peter and only assessed you at $30,000?" party's officials

Two Melbourne Olympic

"Answer, "Yes.

When asked Barbes, another Briton, who was charred through. Mr Greenfield month for a similar offence.

by the magis-I left Sydney

"Question,

strike im rescued from "the dry death" by suggested that that constituted trate whether he wanted time at the

to pay the bill defendant last weekend to attend the meeting pression was that you were an Algerian lorry, driver,

The Crown further alleged his smile and said nothing. of the International

Olympic being punished by Mr Hardy

that books and papers were also Committee in Paris this month. for something

burned. In their bag was a document nothing about?"

WHAT POLICE FOUND vehicle for every 4.5 persons a weighing 501b.

"Answer, "Yes,

Councel alleged that accused ratto similar to that in US be-

The officials Mr H. Weir,

"JA Cross-examination

set fire to the to fore the war.

senior Australian representative allegation was disputed and it

intended

1or a good reason. Treasurer, Sirn the OIC and Mr E. Holt, Incidentally, the

was put to him that his story where,

the Police investigated Arthur Fadden, isn't very happy Games, said the 50lb book con-

Technical Director of the was distortion of the truth.

they found a number of swabs. about bus state or ataTY.

invented by him to support his He

Barnes' companions-a 39-1 of cotton wool- soaked" with hire-purchase tained "all the answers to any

claim that he had been singled year-old Chester school teacher kerosene. ful for you. I'm so sorry." He feels that the

"You will say im- turned to Celia. "I'm quite companies ate hogging money criticism likely to be raised

Inland Revenue named Muriel Taylor and Ainn mediately from that that it was but by the

M. Leon Jankelevitch, newly matished," he said. "I can find that would otherwise be going about Melbourne's preparation Department for penalisation. Nerman Cooper le buried in obviously evidence of deliberate appointed French Minister to

for nothing to suggest you didn't into

loans and

the Games in November,

Mr Weiss denied this,

the sand where they died of incendiaris, not merely an South Korea, arrived here this ino Commonwealth know what you were doing. the like. He

regards it so 1956,

"He was further asked why thirst on May 15 Chind Mail accidental fire."

morning in the "my Lace from Pay a fine of 25,"

seriously, in fact, that he intends It contains complete details, he did not complain to the Special.

Mr Greenfield Said that it Marseilles en route to Seoul to She put her hand to her head, to raise the question at the plans, maps, and agreements Commissioner of Inland

would be shown in evidence take his

He appointment, arm Premiers, Conference later this from builders and architects as the gaoler offered his

Revenue. His reply was that

that the fire started in four was accompanied by his wife. month to see if some brake can- to help her from the dock,

It will be presented to the

Mr Hardy had said that he could

separate places simultaneously. M. Jankelevitch was at one There would be no trouble in not be put on these companies. meeting.

not. Can your Worship im-

He said that, number of people time with the French diplomatic finding the money. But what But so many people are in-

All the reps will have to do agine any more fantastic reason

regularly slept in the premises mission in China wives of junior officers | volved in hire-purchase these then is to convince the other to give for not complaining

accused was every night, and

Another diplomat

on board would say when they heard cf days that it is unlikely that the side that we can transfer paper than because the very man he Time Signal and Programmne

not one of them. He went there the Lab was Mr Fouad her conviction, what contem-Premiers will do anything into action In the remaining was complaining against told Summary: 0.03, „Children's - Salz occasionally to sleep porary Service wives would say, drastic.

months.

kim he could not?

Bour presented by Sally, Ang was there for that purpose on Secretary of the Egyptian Em and the old sticks up above!

SOMETHING NEW

(Brudio): 6.30.- Interlude Eye Brustb...

the night in question,

In Tokyo. bassy "Your Worship has heard De- with John Cavall (ancTS);- 643, That did not bear thinking

Sydney Town Hall has seen fendant in the witness box. Accent on Rhythm: 715, "Box 200

About 3 or 4 am wilnesses Mr Chebl, who joined the about.

At the end of World War I some rare old sights in its Beard of his many transactions, Vienna Philharmonis, Orchest. dressed in the storeroom and at years ago, has represented his

Gillett at the

would say, they saw him, fully Egyptian Foreign Service 17. two young brothers applied for time. It has seen Queens and with the IRD, yet it was only Sauer Satrsey: 749, Weather 15-

Dukes, visiting footballers, cric-

hia, desk doing something with country in Greece, Iran and He said not always luminous,

Accused of Russia sebe repatriation... loan of £200. waters, actors and actresses, and i Drough forth for the first time) port; a, Time Signal and The News. They wanted to start a new kind

Do April 20, 1955, in this court London Relay); 8.09, Commentary books and papers. of business.

even Bob Hope but never,

course was the cleric and cashler Mr Chebl was accompanied. by Mr Silva, the alleged state. London: Relay) or Special An

spencements; 6.15, Short Story- and

and he could have been running by his wife and two children They set out for the depart far, has it housed a herd Au Yeung-cheung, allas Langments

ment that Mr Hardy had once | "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde through the accounts at the complete details of the

Bead by Cynthia Nixon (Studio); Cheung 37

But 37, unemployed, was business proposition they had in

cows are to be milked in 1952, used bad language.

and. Athe "1 subunit that the evidence, there during the Milk Board ex- remanded for three days in mind.

Orchestra. A. Programine of Latin much as it is, is valucicsé

American Music (RBCTS); Time police custody by Mr T The application was rejected, hibition in August.

Chairman of the Milk Board,

FM much obliged," said Sir "Laurence is very pain

the

Murder Charge

SUCCESS STORY

cows.

of

THE LEFTER

Radio Hongkong

B.K.T.

850 Edmundo Ros

and he Mohamed Chebl, new First

About half an hour later to be made a pretence to go f sleep and very shortly after Signat.Collector's Cowards fire broke out simultane

where

Bectad, by Robert Scott (Studio); |

Mr

Was chein'd and humanised by time, And God was seen in all I saw, 11.

And then I learnt and understood How Evil might be trained to Good;

Sufferings be Virtue's ministers; Sin, Sorrow, and Adversity By God's rublime machinery

Become Religion's harbingers.

12.

The very bitterest beds may grow To sweetest tridts, the fountain's

Dow

· Though türgid, may be burißtd En fresh and sparkling „streams, the

might

May be the very source of light, "

As fairest gemis is caveras Krow.

Another angel bade me tim Towards the high aun-- that golden

un Was often vel'd in clouds: but sti

was, onward-cowardi

"But onward, moyes the Eternal.

WILL.

14. "No clouds arrest its wayne mark "Tracks all its progress, through the

dark;

"But every weak and wandering That breaks the mists or lights the

"Or waker the flowers or slide the

when the

- Shows' that it marches on its way

RICKSHA, TAXI IN COLLISION Creedon at Kowicon this morn-Some effcial wrote on the papers Mr J. A. Ferguson, said few city.

At 1 am today e ricksha Ing on a change of murder. Not likely do succeed.”

05), izlizabethan Theatre, Written ously in the four places we puller and his passenger were Defendant is alleged to have But the brothers raised their people have the opportunity of "You remember that Weiss by HAY. Craig and B.D. Smith he had been seen working, seriously Injured

gave evidence on path that Mr Not The Courtier and the bay Greenfield allegate woke up tickgha collided with a taxicab Marchen and murdered Lam Lau, alias Wong two hundred and started out, seeing a real live cow in action, gh-chal on May 15 at Cheung Their names G.J. and A. W. to the cow is going to be Hardy wrote a letter demanding sets Tiernational Cabaret

One of the presented by Denise Brabant time and with the help of Sha Wan new village.

audited accounts within seven (Studio): 10.30, Come into the Par

front of King's Theatre, Cole, of Cole's chain stores.

Which all-iends" wch to a days, an

long. Mude and songs from Northernthers who were how awakenes Queen's Rood, Hongkong 201 recent claim by a Government The letter is hew in court") Ireland .: (BBcrg): 10.39.-- Weather

The they, managed to put out, the

lujured puller : official that we are now a nation for you see. It says 1 Heport: 117 Time gual Radio

fire near the desk. The blaze in Yuen, 42, and the passenger shall mergo in boun

· Neer, Back^^ Etancia: BaİST); ALIN/ industrialists rather than Jacknowlepig

of your roodnight - Marler. God Save: Tás

the store-room was too big and Tse. King-yuen, 31, were taken primaty producers.

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the Fire Brigade was called to Queen, Mary Hospital

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