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JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

CHRISTMAS IN THE COURTS

holly IN

Nabout the iron bare of overacus, must seem almost a entwined of an embassy to those who live

be

the dock at Bow Street, and part of the hometand.

By 5 um. Ronald hand ceased Mariborough Street is inno- cent of mistletoe. But werete care what the party had been about, I main WOITY WHs Lu analant - gnojers

about the reception he would gei rigged out as Santa Clauses, when be went home, and this him that he auid curt matrons as fairy so pre-occupied

turdly noticed his own action queens, the Christmas Men-

when, fluding a parcel at his son could hardly make itselffect, he stooped, picked it up more strongly felt than it and bore it from the station. does in the London courts.

The Whiten

DISCARDED

CHINA

MAIL

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1956.

HANDLES DEADLY RADIOACTIVE COBALT

BY ACCIDENT

Milford, Connecticut, Jan, 11.

A capsule of deadly radioactive cobalt, which the authorities had sought frantically since it dis- appeared from a construction project yesterday, was found today in the car of a worker. He did not realise that the little cylinder was lethal.

"I only wanted the piece of string attached to it,” said Benjamin Zawacki, 81. "Now that I know what it is, I feel pretty nervous, but not sick.”

He will undergo an examina- tion to determine If he has zustered radioactive polzoning.

The capsule was discovered as Zuwacki drove to the Kale of the construction site, where he works as an electrician. A Gelger counter which had been to examine Incoming begin clacking insistently.

k ahoplifters, even in high Summer mayr quite dries up (for when

purcel, curious as to what it Lemus experis skilf to the

contained. He tore open the light-lagered matrons

brown pKT. The parcel was taxat the provinces love in

full vi zip-fasteners, Ronald try then thin swells in Chrial-pitched & over some rulings that His work, impressively.

were handy.

IN the street, he was sung a curs beau cla

to And himself carrying u

SACK SWITCH

[MIOSE S-1 Decal

T

lu

viduals

who get to arcupy the best lives drawing

Jufs poker alteration

to themselves

At that inument A policeman, who had followed Ronald from the station, came up.

"When they stopped my car at the gate 1 realised I probably isted something they were looking for," said Zawochi.

didn't know until then exactly what the thing was."

"Shocking" Results From

Dry Weather

St Louis, Miss., Jan. 11.

This city's

record. IN EXTREME DANGER shattering dry period

nuthumilies,

had reached its 40th day today who The warned that the capsule was and the results were shock- A few hours later, from the deadly and that the person who | ing. lock k Clerkenwell court, unk it was "in extreme dun-

Stale electricity, a fairly in- the plant ger, had gone over

frequent phenomenon under by toting around other people's Ronald pleaded guilty to stealing

Geiger counter and had ordinary and the Mary wa

humidity conditions, 1 sucks pauperty

Will To obvious the parcel.

told to Mr K Rose.

checked 60 incoming cars,

rampage.

House- that they might will be labelled

Zawuck, had found the cap-holders with heavy-napped car- have switched

lead,

sule yesterday afternoon. I was pets, particularly new ones, re- dangling from string which

ported hair-raising experiences. was bed to a pipe. The radione-

furt walked

to see ve cubalt Live

was being used to if the radiator was warm,

said X-ray pictures of welds

woman, "and I got a jolt that in piping being installed at the

me back on my heels." HOW Clamnecticut Light and Others report their pets

In one shvelitų: scoop Bayang poultry.

to

But, of course, it is the drink- Hg 1 who contribute most to the courta special favour et thus time of year. Stad senior left stranded virk, som dow

alter efter parties gasp dry- mouthed in the cock; and men mostly among the Who HOVA EXPELISA-41ccount set, grupe piu- fully for the doch-re and for worda of explicaution.

Now and again une appears whom evlebrations trave led to a graver idiocy.

It was so with Honald, Ronald is a pleasant young man, Glas- LOW

but by kopling an bust

is married, exprels soon to become a father, is in work, and ives with his mother-in-law.

The other night, Honald enme weat from the East End to gele- Grathe > ጂ * * ¥ . Itis - minent new status, or perhaps both The cebrations went with a swing. and were pro- tracted.

serita to have a cut on

his chin," the magistrate ob- served, looking hard al Itunaju, when he had heard the tale,

1 dinh that shavalli

said.

Riori l

"liave you anything to say?”

"Ony that this wouli't have happened ví I hasn't been drinking,"

"You must pay 40s.," said the magistrale.

The young man jeft, and into the dock a woma was shown who he stolen Christmas cards. Hier unease was partly explained, perhaps, by the fact that she bad nat häuf time to rub from their backs the penelfled prices that she had not paid

Street Accidents

Casualties

A two-year-old girl and man were injured in separate

For at live in the morning.traffle acendents in the streets of Ronald found himself at King's the Colony yesterday. Cross Mation, with the begin- nings of an ache in his head, and half a bottle of whisky 11 Bis makinttesh pocket.

THE PARCEL

The httle girl was treated in hospital for slight injuries after being knocked down by a private motor car in

in Wing Fung Street, in the Eastern District. The c- cident occurred as the girl was ruhining across the road. DROBABLY, einer he was

In Kowloon, private King's Cross, the long voided with nan who Waz celebrations had included secing running out from the left side of some Scot of tỷ Scotland for Chatham Rund between two to an exile, a train that, willstationary buses The injured within hours be over the Border

taken to hospi- must have the nostalgle appeal tul but was not detained.

PR

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pedestrian was

Paquerette

16a Dos Voeux Road'

feature by

LTD.

Lanz B

PARTY PARE.....

IN A SILIC FABRIC...GARINSHED WITH LOOP BRAID...

from $165.00

Tol:: 21-157

car

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over

Company plant. The were becoming storage bat-

Power electrician said:

with cals the worst

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

Charth

4. 3. Pg. 1. 3. AT 01 17.27

Capt. 1996 by kta burden, lan

"How do you expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older?”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Snatchers And

Pickpockets Active

SHEAFFERS

Skrip

Objection Raised To Evidence In Libel Action

Counsel for Mr James M. Hood, the 57-year- old Master Mariner who is suing Associated Press for alleged libel, this morning objected to the Defence producing evidence of port clearance obtained for Hood's ship, the Capella.

Yesterday, Mr John McNeill, QC, Counsel for the Associated Press declared that they would call evidence to show that the ship was cleared for Kobe via a Communist port.

The action is being heard

in the Supreme Court before Mr Justice Jumes Wicks and a Special Jury of six men and a

woman

A NEW, BUT ALSO THE allegedly OLD GILES

Plainuif's claim is for

for damages

libel contained in un article headed "Sailors an blockade runner mutiny, take ship to Talwan," and published in the Hongkong Tiger Standard on August 10, 1051. Defendants

Giles:

(A Daily Express Pubil- cation, London, $5 1973 sale only as the offices of the South China Morning Post Ltd, Hongkong and Kowloon), are alleged, in that arucle, to have printed

If the latest issue of Giles and published or used to be cartoons (collected) is re- printed and published,

mattermarkable for one thing defamatory to une plainum.

more than any other it is Plaintiff claims that by reason that a gifted and talented of the publication complained of cartoonist has quite sudden- he had suffered a loss of cart

ly demonstrated a surpris- inga at the rate of $2,000 per month and in addition sub-ingly delicate nesse in the sistence allowance at the rate of composition of a number of string to lie

$500 per month. He also claims remarkable Belles Lettres.

e The tiny thing

loss of damages for special tooked like an

One was blished in yester- which I put in

carnings and subsistence allow-

day's Sir, With

China Mall, ance at the rate of $2,000 per "At my place," said a man," and later in the my

month from November 16, 1951, everybody gets out of the way special glove compartment of my car."

T. H. Mausen,

when that Persian powerhouse comments of last Friday, I wish A wristlet watch, valued at and for general damages. a superin-

Sounds to point out that because of the $30, was stolen from a European tendent of the United Engineers walks across the rug.

being given) stecks

cks boy at Macdonnell Road like a whip cracking when she many (8 and Contractors Company

The Capella, of which he was master It feels quoted down X-All during 1955, snatcher escaped. Philadelphia, said the capsule,

rubs across your legs.

I maintain after calculation that

at the time, was cleared from A pickpocket stole a fountain Hongkong for Kobe and that he about une und three-eighth almost like it, too."

having most stocks were proportionately pen_from] Chinese pedestrian did not receive any instructions Carpet-layers were the worst difficulties since they higher at the close at the year in Cleverley Street

A Chinese

contrary to that, and had no snatched a hand-intention of going to any port picked up an even heavier load than at the beginning.

bag, containing $70, from On the basis of the official European woman walking

I wanked the up some cables atlanted to it atting,

inches kong.

of

could havo" the some effect as fall-out from an atvmile or hydrogen bomb ex- | plosion - United Press,

21 DAYS FOR THIEVING

teries, offenders.

POWERHOUSE CAT

In their work.

"You don't

even

have

a metal surface." com-

Market Report

Three

cases of larceny from the person on Hongkong Island and three in Kowloon and the reference to your New Territories were reported correspondent's market to the Police yesterday.

In

Plaintiff Lestified that the as

in Communist China,

40 Stock Exchange opening and Kennedy Road. The thier made touch

closing rates for the year (and good his escape.

Mr Richard Winter, Instructed plained one of them. "I got not the January high as taken In Kowloon,

by Mr Peter Mo, is representing pickpocket fut spark off my elbow yester-by your correspondent-though stole a waket

plafotir. Defendants are repre- fram a Chinese sented by Mr John McNeill, QC, day just walking close to *this makes little difference), 17

pedestrian woman

Castle metal doorframe."

out of the 28 given stocks were Peak Road. A suspect has been structed by Mr R. F. G. Dennis, and Mr A. J. Clifford, both in- higher. @ were

and 2 celained in connection with this of Brutton and Co. practically unchanged.

Conditions like these set the stage for a rug manufacturer's new product, a spray guaranteed Wife"

lower

offence. nftence

in

A

thus

The reader will have noticed a somewhat distracting style of hand-writing which

hardly deserves favourable_comparison with copperplate. But he is asked to ignore the visual effect and not to allow it,

to prejudice his judgment

of the nobility and grandeur of the

prose. Modestly, the author would have us believe they are work of his youngest son, that his is merely the guiding hand that eliminates a tendency to occasional small vulgarities. INIMITABLE STYLE "Ever since I took over his job

But that inimitable style

...Mr Giles calls me big ed but Law Tsak-min, a 31-year-old

A Chinese women, who was There are no indices ayollable walking along Yuen Long Main

my damuS really George and unemployed maic, મા 291.

Mrs Giles said he musn't call Houstey Road, 2nd floor, was

for comparison on the HK Stock Street at the tume, had her entend to 21 days imprison-

SWEATER TROUBLE Market. To arrive at an index.

The Detence subpoenaed Mr me that in front of me.." be. jocked picked of $30. A man has E. J. Bower, marine officer of the trays a more subtle character, a ment by Mr J. E. Durling at

prices on a certain date have to been detained in connection with Marine Department to give evi- ner, deeper conception of ab Centrul This morning

But some other solution ap-be frozen as a starting un three

point; this case. found for the From then onwards the average

dence this moming.

solute values that only the older charges of sumpic farceny be-parently must

A gold bractiet, valued at $55, wen Nov. 4, and Dec. 31, last department stores, where there's intex price is a comparison with was

stcken from

possesses. £ Chinese

He said that in August 1951 trouble at the sweater counters. how prices stood on that particu-

Regrettably Mr Giles has 3 car.

woman in Nan Chang

чудя Street, he

responsible for the rationed his iterary If "Handling the sweaters, par- lur

day. ticularly those made of combined given, mathematical adjustments escaped.

issues are Shamshuipo.

The sontcher

Issuance of clearances to ships ments to four. He might con- defendant stole ladies' ovLI-

leaving from Hongkong and rider the inclusion of more in fabrics, causes the clerks to pick have to be made accordingly for coal, a jacket and a gold ring,

such clearances always showed his tenth volume. to the total value of $45, from

up electricity which is discharged a proper comparison.

the next port of call. address,

on a metal counter-edge or on and later

the customer," explained a mer- pawned them for $20.

chandise manager. "Not only that they become so adhesive they're had to fit. Even a loose sweater is form-itting when it elings on contact."United Press.

the

Between Nov. 4 and Dec. 31,

same

K3

Three Injured In Fire

one

to take the shock out of home

woman Radio Hongkong

Two men and were injured when a small fire broke out in a store room of the Chiap Hua Shipbreaking Co. at Laichlkok this morning.

Two fire engines and one am. bulance were sent to the scene. The are was put out about ten minutes later.

The injured are Foit Chin, 27, Fong Wing-sun, 30, and a 38- year-old woman, Loe Mul.

Mail Notices

The

times of posting shown below are those for und registered correspondenes ported at G.P.0, Bangkứng. The latest posting times sisewhere which, in general, are entier than the G.P.0. Umes can be ascertained by enquiry at the focal, olies,

The latest posting times for registered articles are generally one hour earlier than the timas showen ünlow. Particulars I garding parcel SALES can be sscertained by enquiry ME AND post slice,

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Mrs Latimer

Dies Suddenly

SUBPOENAED

Mr Bower sald that his office Issued only one clearance for any ship leaving Hongkong.

Giles

achleve-

His artistle

achievements are this journal. In his latest issue

with readers moro famfilar

of

of collected works he skilfully demonstrates his

penetraling what

Whistler

When Mr McNeill was about insight

info

to ask the witness to produce rather defly described as carne- his record of clearances Mrtere anglais, Winter objected to the admis- alon of that evidence on the ground that it was evidence in Justification which was not a defence pleaded.

+

His eye for ludicrous detall improves with the years,

And a host of ordinary decent people-from plump American soldiers and grimacing grand MRS lo dracula schoolmasters and

fiendishly ill-mannered children -- all mercilessly caricatured, contribute to the absence of the | humour of these pages of

gorgeous hilarity-RH.

Mr Justice Wicks then heard arguments of Counsel for and against the admission of this ovidence in the Jury.

Concert At Ricci Hall

The students of Ricel Hall; lish composer of the 17th cen Hongkong University, organised tury who set many of Shake A very pleasant concert of speare's

songs, and "San classical music last night. The Domingo" by Arthuronjamin concert took place at Fleet Halla Lain American type ploco by self, the audience consisting of a composer who already has students and invited members the "Jamaican Rumba" to h of the staff.

credit. The artists were well-known

A string quartet & followed, and... the A wide circle of friends will Hongkong mudclans, be grieved to learn that Mry organisers had wisely provided consisting of four players from Price on Prion on Nona Keele Latimer, widow of good plano for the occasion..

the Sino-British Orchestra (as The concert opened appro- Cheng Chik-pul, J. T. L. Chan, Mr Alves also is): Messrs the former Hongkong magis trate

50.00

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Jan. 3, Deo. 30,

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1955

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and Tenancy Tribunal / Priately. In this Mozart celebra. M. H. Fan and Frank Huang.

President, Mr. Harry Latimer, Ged last night at the Queen Mary Hospital after a brief

Ulness.

3

from

Quartomance

minor, played by Mr Chang sentimental

tion year, with that muster's M. 1

and Violin Sonats in They played a Menuet

Mozart

rather by Chik-pul and Mrs Moy's Res Mas Mildred

Tchaikowsky, and an arrange Sin,

a pupil of ment of a Clavotte by Bach- Miss Caroline Braga, followed

the same work that. Maurice ed some years ago the Chatham with an arrangement of a

Pastoralo

played unaccompanied at English School," and was ita 15%

a Claro by Scarlatt, end Nocture by Rachmaninof," Mias headmistress at the time of hirsin played with careful attention

recent concerts for schools. In the pro death

The late Mrs Latimer found-|

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She was a keen, sportswoman, being an accomplished golfer,

Funeral arrangeenenis will be înnounced tomOTTOW,

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voice," sa ·

Dhe final group"

to detail in this her first puble grainme-was given or Mr who performance Bliss Chan Yuk Alexander Wong, tenor,

Rog, who has a lovely high ang sung by Arne, Dure and

"Viste Griog.""" He was soprano d'arte" from Puccini'a Tosca, pooled by Nancy Chille and a modern Chinese yong The artists were Introduced by which draw much exitumiam

Next Inki" varied and is lots the Taf; "the" Chairman Ricet Hall students teresting programme came two Association, Tals concert was

solos by Mr. A. R. Alves very commendable audivity, miki

Personality Parade-Richard Zauberį. Our Share Market Correon lower is my graph suited Macro, & p.m. Shin, People's Thepublic, 10.30 alacarino Mode: Pre dent replies. Taking into them the January opening levels, accompanied by a Hea one which we hope will enabira,

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