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was late evening.
I quiet street near
In a "Guilty," wald Richard, with Vic-howed head.
"And do you admit you were toria station un oklerly man, balled, to appen here #cott impeccably dressed, WAN day? clutching a lamp-post with | great firmness, as though he had caught it in the act of bolting.
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And he was hanging on is a matter of public duty, let break free again.
A policeman turned A corner
and came on the sight.
Richard nodded.
The policeman told his story. "Any questions?" the magis- trate, Mr K. Barraclough, asked Richard
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"Bul "NO, sir," said Richard.
want to say this. I wan waiting in the strevt for some
They didn'l
There is nothing more calculerals, who were coming back lated to spur a policeman into for me I immediato action than the sight of a lamp-port at grize with
The officer hurried over.
T/QZ1,
"Now, now," he said. "Better let go that lamp."
THE
NO REPLY
E elderly man, whose name who Richard, was only too
glad to obey.
He let go the lamp-post for an instant. But only for an instant. 'Then his
were suddenly
Jaw
full of lamp-post again.
An awful truth stuck him lo had grown so used to the lamp- post's support that now he amild
not do without it.
" "I said, 'Let go,
told him.
the officer
Richard tried again and nearly
The policeman arrested
him for being drunk and incapabk. He was taken to the station, and later freed on boil.
Bow Street next morning At Richard's Game
called There was no reply.
Wos
FIRST APPEARANCE
IT WAS nearly fortnight before Richard appeared in the dock--a square-bulit mau with horn-rimmed spectacles of top-executive weight sad CLI air so prosperous that he might have spent the intervening time In buying
bank дра
me
"As to the lump-post, I may
way, sir, that I have aullul
fan attacks of dizziness fre- olently for a number of years."
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1955,
MOLOTOV'S SIDE GLANCES
LATEST PROPOSAL
(Continued from Page 1)
Wes Groman Social Democra the i ler, as having said a few days go that mumerous contacts on the technical tovel should be establisticd
to be the Thin appearod opinion not only of the Soviet delegation but also of one of the biggest West German political parties.
IL wün high time to refer
of the Germut the autution question to the German people theinselves,
The
The four powerB could not imparo a salution on thêm from long as the outside, na Cic.umans of Bart oad West could not agree to submit their own combined
for proposals anilleation.
Mr Molotov
re
"Well, I'm sorry that you're after not capable of looking yourself," said the magistrate. "It's good thing the poller the "Geneva spirit."
denied that the Soviet attitude offended against
kuked after you, lan't 117
"Yes, Ahem. Thank znict Richard, withou! warmth.
"Why duin't you the following day?"
TORN UP?
you,"
much
come here
UNDERSTOOD the charge had been cancelled" said Richard.
"Why did you think that?" "Well, the thing was torn up in front of my cycs."
"Was 117
NOT WISE
It appeared, he said that his Western colleagues considered the "Genova spirit" in action the Soviet delegation only if accepted the Western propommis without reservations,
It was not very wise to play with such words as "confidence" und "lack of confidence."
magistrate Soviet Whe asked the policeman, who shook his head.
"I acnunds
The Soviet spokesman sold the Western allegation that the proposals meant the "Sovietisation of all Germany" in no way corresponded to the though that foots. nother thing you were He
Mr Molotov had ther confused
about that stated
today that one of the evening," said the magistrade. tasks of the proposed all-German Pay Bs. for the officer's trouble, Council would be to bring the please, and 10s, for not coming two
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here the next day."
1. M. Aug. 1. 1. Pat 1% Cred by NKA Bervien, fre
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SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL
By Galbraith DIVORCE COURT ACTION EXTREMISTS
TEMan Seeks Dismissal
Of Petition
ED-
"What do you mean we have to look ahead? I've got all kinds of plans for what we're going to do with your
next raise.
FAURE MAY STAKE GOVT'S LIFE AGAIN ON VOTE
un proportional repre- sentation-to have it changed before the elections nro held.--- China Mail Special.
based Paris, Nov. 10. M. Edgar Faure, the French Prime Minister, may stake the life of his Government for the second time this month on a vote of confidence in his bill for snap elections in December.
Reliable sources said that if closer lo- German states
10- he decides to make it an issue gether "in such a way as not to of confidence the vote would be
inflict any damage on or affect taken during a second reading the social order of either the of the elections bill, which be German Democratic
thegon lost night in the National German Federal Republle." Assembly.
or
"Hmph," said Richard. And he stalked off, looking as though he found it beyond belief that so many people should go to so or two. Ruch trouble to earn a meagre This indicatod, he said, that A vote of confidence would "How do you plead-gulity | few shillings for the nationalised | there could be no question of be his #178Wor or not guilty to
being drunk?" industry that certain aspects of in.posing the social order of one tempts by opponents of the pre- the learned clork asked him. justice virtually are.
stote on the other.-Reuter. sent voting system-which.
OPENING
TOMORROW
to renewed al-
La
Boy Fatally injured
At 12.40 p.m. yesterday a traffic accident occurred in Main
Street, Shaukiwan, in which a Military lorry collided with a boy Chinese seven-year-old pedestrian.
Slu-lun The boy-Leung
He received serious injuries. was taken to Hospital but died before admission.
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An action for the dismissal of a divorce peti-St Germain-en-Laye, Nov. 9. tion, on the ground that he was not domiciled in The powerful - Morocean Hongkong, was brought by the respondent in that tetiqlal nationalist party to- petition before Mr Justice J. R. Gregg at the day renewed its allegiance to Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Supreme Court this morning.
The plaintiff in the present proceedings is Po-yun Fok, Youssef and demanded that of 82 Robinson Road. He is represented by Mr Brook Ahe negotiate the complate Bernaochl, instructed by Mr P. J. Griffiths, of Wilkinson Independence of Morocco.
The Istiqlal (Independenco)
and Grist,
Named as defendant is the petitioner in the divorce lenders made a public statement case, May-yuk Fok, of 5 Village Terrace, second floor. She is represented by Mr R. W. S. Winter, instructed by Mr A. S. C. Comber, of Hastings and Co.
of policy here as extremist leaders in Morocco tried to ittrow a damper on the return of the Sultan to his cápital in Rabat a week from today.
extremists who for two
Mr Bernacchi told His Lord-, 82 Robinson Road was part of ship that the issue was a simple the property. From 1937 to 1940
The law on this | plaintiff lived there. In 1940, he one, although the question of domicile had been went to the United States, years have called for the retuKTI the subject matter pf many married his first wife in San of the "national martyr" are
Francisco julelal decisions,
and continued his education in California,
It was his case, Mr Bernacchi stated, that the plainti domicile of origin was
Maca?.
In the alternative the domicil of origin was China.
Counsel said it was his con-
CAME TO HK
Plants Brak wife died i San Francisco in 1944, and he tention that his client had married defendant in Nevada In September 1945. In 1946 both never
that lost
domicilo of
of them сап to Hongkong, origin
in Macao or that, if be did at any time lose it, he had Paintiff went to Canton in 1947
and lived there for a year. reacquired it. If the
Court
In 1948, defendant together found his domicile of origin
children, Wag China, It whd hie mission that plaintif bequired a domicile in Macao.
plaintiff's
two chid west
and
subh free
by hla Arst to Macao and marriage, of choice lived in plaintiff's family home.
to
In 1948, when the Communists WAS born WETU About Plaintiff's father
take Canton, In Mucao In 1800, Mr plaintiff rejoined his family in Bernacchi went on. In 1918, he Macao. In 1951, defendant went and obtained with the children to the United
for
applied naturalisation there AS a States,
She returned to Maczo subject. Someuter ofter leaving the children Portugueso months afterwards, the plain-in America.
In 1952, Mr Bernacchi tiff was born in Canton.
tinued, plaintiff led Plaintiff's father had a family
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сот
now charging that Ben Youssef, newly recognised as Sultan by France after two years of exfic, is a "French collaborator.”
ex-
in Rabat, Sulo, Marrakesh, Mokney and Casablanca, tremists ordered Ben Youssef's portrait pulled off rails, and public buildings and the sup- pression of the green-starred red Sheridan dag..
man
The Istiqlal opposes the four- Throne Council, — since approved by the Sultan and to participate In the refuses government which the premler elect, Si Fatmi ben Slimane, tried to form.
INTERPRETATION
of polley
Today's statement trade delegation of Macao merchants followed the visit of fin leaders home In Macao. After spending to Tuipel. Defendant went to the 47-year-old Sultan at the the first three years of his life
him. with
On their return. historie Hotel Pavillon Henri IV. in Canton, plaintiff was taken to
both continued Macao. At the age of eight, he Macao.
to Live In December 1952,
The statement said: was sent to Canton for
plaintiff purchased some land in education.
Macao. He built a house there and started to farm the land.
his
Mr Bernacchi said his client's father had property in Chine and in Hongkong. The house at
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Istiqlal Party talons cognisance of
the declaration the (of November 6, between French Foreign Minister, 'M, Antoine Pinay, and Sid Moham Counsel said that by that med Ben Youssef) and is saida. Lime, differences started to de-fed by the solemn pledge made velop bowen plaintiff and bis by France to lend Morocco to a wife, because apparently de- status of an independent state, fendant vacillated between within the framework of freely whether to go to live
with negotiated and defined Inter- plaintiff in his new house or to dependence (with France)." remain in the old family home La Macao.
She subsequently asked tum to redecorate ber room' in the old family bouse and install a new piano, which he did. Later she lett Macao and took up resi-
dence pl 82 Robinson Road.
Mr Bernacchi silid his client | had a concubine in Maceo, where the spent most of the time. Although he came to Hongkong for short periods, he spent at least nine months of the year in Macao.
The only property with which
Then the Istiqlal put its own Interpretation on that statement and its implications.
"The recognition by Francs of the right of Morocco of lo- dependence supposes the end of the protectorate and thús the revision of the treaty of Fez ot 1912 and its replacement by * new Franco-Moroccan accord. United Press.
plaintiff was connected in Hong: Radio Hongkong
kong was the property at Robin- son Road, and his stains regard- ing
that propery was that of beneficiigy of his father's estate. Mr Bernacchi produced a certificate inued by the Macno government, in relation to some building work carried
out by the pla
He told the Court plaintif. that in this document, reference was made to his client as being domiciled in Mačko,
After referring to some legat suthorities, Mr Bernacchi sub- mitted that nowhere on the facts slated by him was there any in- tention by plaintiff to establish his domicile in Hongkong. Hearing is proceeding.
PILE DRIVER KILLS MAN
A: 34-year-old Chinese 371- gineer, Kwok-Choo-krung... ro- ceived fatal injuries as a result of an accident. at 1.45 p.m yesterday.
Kwok was engaged in oiling the mechanism of a pile driver which is being used on a bulld- ing
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