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JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

It Was Mail Call

For

wasu Tuesday morning!

I and, for Janet, as for

most of the girls and young women in the office, there was nothing much more to it be said for it than that was a shade better than Monday.

A

Janet

CHINA MAIL

New Algeria Bloodbath

Algiers, Feb. 22.

A new bloodbath in rebel- lious Algeria has left at | least 48 dend in the last 24 hours. unofficial reporta reaching Oran tonight said.

Tho reports said a violent battle was raging for the second time this week of Sobdena, 10 niles southeast of Port Say on thus coast

the border of Morocco,

It was several months before the police called at Janet's omce. The staff were questioned. Janet confessed. Al Great Marlborough Street she was summoned for obtaining £3 with intention to de fraud, She pleaded guilty, before Mr Paul Bennett, VC.

**Tuls

womali," £1 young! policeman said, "was being paid Janet went to her desk About

LO 10%.

weck, as typist- her, neighbours prattled, ielephonist. {huL of that, she swapping the latest instalment pays £3 for a fat in Notting are of their ale histories: “Sube 10, and 10s, a week towards

i sad

the mahilerance of her 11-year- Jarsel did m contribute much (olet daughter, who 15

: niet

A

On

troopy

near

Algerian

Monday 62 matinied in the

same

and joined rebels in an attack on Frends forces.

The battle tonight was begun rebels who attacker! ย French

being

by

In the Bene of Talk, Perlupsy cared for by the county roaneu It's because these old," her in the West of Eighunt, where

magh bee hope whɛ. neighbour, suggested utlier. "Got MontiesUhring na ha mustaf, perhaps

WRONG ADDRESS

JANET

33, wwe

abcicat

sara ANKAR 18305500

around her. Ant she had, as the guessed, exomething CHL her mind." Many things she had on her mind; many won us that could not be shared

military convoy which was guarded by large numbers uľ sceurity forces. Early umnofficial reports said that rebel DIFFICULTIES, . „DEPRESSION | losses would be high.

The 48 deaths, officials said. KOBE hoa bath very Trauthles come from attacky on convoys, ubeat family affairs, as i¦ muiltary posts and urban rural she says it erus ber depression | ventres. All 48 dead were that muce her do this Therebels, they said. The figure dues is one previous conivinetion, Jor not cover tonight's lighting. Graudulent

MAYOR WOUNDED 1953

"S"

conversion,

"Oh dear," and the mags- trate, fouling hard at Janet, who On this Tuesday motni looked so much like an eficient husniness-woman, so little like rantnað. "What do you want

a kel

Janet's Best tak was to sort out

the

mail. Dexterously whe arranged in piles letters to the to say?" the muget cle managing

of diretor, hepda

departments, office boy who

"Things have been very dif- Junet said Hier volte was soft, uncomplatoing.

used their business addresss Tar | Besalt," private correspondence.

She came to an envelope that - haut reached the offre la arto?

THE

THE F. O

NOOK

make had happened; Ex {kiur. Janet knw what She had t la rend tress envelope-bit fastened of data 141 She slipped into her hardbag and later,

when

1, ''

"It's very difficult to know what 11 dr with

Mr Bennett said You Otaghf la 10 punnshvel

"I appareate that

S

ne

Day the other hand, this canly nut a case for prison, and I don't see how I can you, for you've no money stre

why alone, opened it fusile WAS a ne v Post Office savings Book for an account which had been upened with a deposit of

13,

That evening a her are roo fat in Notting Hill, where to often The sat alone, with company but her worri

Janet

i

practised forging the signature i

In the Post Offer bok

THE POLICE CALL

[EXT day she drew £3 from

NEXT

275

a prest flive by torging the

Just arrived!!!

For

#

more

bewitching

you!

Janet nodded, is er might who was trying to share the aagistrate's protein.

"I shall remand you on bail until a Saturday öfternoon, 50 that won' affect your work," said the magistrate I want to think about this

"Thank you" sud Janet, aldi he went away, back to the nier "Where've juu been?" the girls

would ask her "Dark horse," they would mufter, tor

re-

In the Tizi Ouzou region, 70 kilometres

miles) (53

from Algiers, the Mayor of Hausson- vlilers, Auguste Boosel, 35, was wounded by terrorist fire.

Meanwhile, the French Seero- tary of State for National Defence, Max Lejeune, landed al Rabat il neighbour.ng Morocco tonight to investigate

Moroccan that rep ris

troops serving with French forces were showing disquietig BROS pres ble revolt.

of

If arcival here coincided with the

Franco- openak f the Monceau independence talks in ! Parts.

Tenisa was relatively quiet today with officials there re- killed porting only two rebels and two of the security forces wounded in action yesterday Ghurdimavu, 95 miles from Tunis, close lo Algerian border.

the

Extablebed 1941,

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956.

SIDE CLANCES By Galbraith

golismith

7-11

£1,46, Rig, VA. PAL oft,

© 1989 by NEA Barving, Me.

"Say, girls! Could I please peek in the closet and see some of these expensive dresses I've been buying?"

Alleged Forged Document:

Today's Evidence

a

forged A merchant convicted of uttering document last month testified against a

cloth manufacturer at the latter's trial before Judge Onelais in Turls announced K. R. Macfee at the Victoria District Court this Loxay that the electorat cpm-

morning. paign to choose a new Nalfönai Constituent Assembly would

17. open on March

It will close on March 24 and the elec-

The accused is Chan Po-cheung, 44. He is charged with forgery and uttering forged docu- flons will be held on March ments between December 1954 and February last

25.-United Press.

year.

her answer would be vague. A 100 Rescued From be imperial preference certi-

her troubles were hers alone, They could not be shared.

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Snow-Covered

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The motooned

who are employed

good condition

same food and fuel left.

גוני

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER TODAY'S TRAIN FIREMAN POLICE

TESTIFIES

REPORTS

A Chinese wornan was by three men as sho

door.

One of the men snatched from the woman' a wristlet watch,

Leung Wing-kit, a fireman on board the diesel electric train which was involved in a collision with accosted

พลด going up the staircase of an Army combat tank at Bird's Hill Crossing, New No. 220, Sal Yee Street to visit Territories on November 12 last year, testified this relatives living on the third morning at the continued hearing of committal proceedings against Cpl Richard Moore, 22, on a valued at $40, and a parcel of charge of manslaughter before Mr T. Creedon innen that she was carrying.

second man threw pepper in her Kowloon Court.

eyes. The three men then made

mado a report to the Police, who are now making enquiries,

PASSENGER HURT

A

The charge is in respect of the train guard, off, and the victim subsequently Yu Choi-po, who was killed in the collision.

private motor minor injuries

tank was just short of the line;

Mrs Mary Campbell, nt 200 feet it was astride the

passenger In A linc. Mr Comber Somewhere along

put it to

саг, received the front of the Leung that tank was in fact a little on the when the vehicle in which she line when the train was 408 was travelling collided with

jtaxi in Magazine Gap Road, feet away and not just short of near House No. 17, at 6.15 p.m. the line.

yesterday. Leung disagreed,

Both vehicles sustained Mr Comber asked if Leung damage as a result of the colli. was suggesting that in the time sion.

Leung sak that he was on board the train at the time of the accident, the straight stretch of the line, south of the level crossing, he heard a long blast followed by series of short blasts of the train whistle. At once, be looked to the front of the train He w on his side of the end. no obstruction, so he crossed to Through the the driver's side. driver's window he saw a tunic which appeared to be stationary Just short of the railway line. AL that

the train was time

AL

about 400 feet from the level CTDesing

He said that when the driver relecked the whistle cond he took uver the whistling. The driver then applied his hand to the emergency brake..

ACROSS THE LINE

sald that when he Leung looked up again through driver's window, he BLAV

the

the tank

that its

At that

time

the train

200 feet

from

was already half

length across the line.

Was

was

the crossing.

45

113 speed

miles per hour,

Ho

the train teak to cover 200 feet at 45 miles an hour, the tank could have moved half its length ecress the line from its "station ary" position just ekar, of the line.

The case is proceeding.

10 Years'

For Wounding

Constable

became aware of the speed A middle-aged Chinese,

COLLISION

A Police Emergency Unfl patrol van collided with a bus at the Junction of Stewart Road and Lockhart Road at 4.60 p.m. yesterday. Both vehleles sustain- ed damage but no one was in- Jured.

KNOCKED DOWN

A Chinese woman, Yu Lai- yung, aged 38 of 62, Tung Lo Wan Road, first floor, received leg injuries when she Was Imocked down by a bug in Queen's Road Central at 8 pm. yesterday.

wha

The injured woman was taken. to hospital, where she treated but was not detained.

STREET THEFTS Four cases of larceny from the person two in Hongkong Kowloon were and two in reported to the, Police yester day.

Hongkong Island, sentenced to ten years by bracelet was snatched from

Chinese woman walking along ing Chief Justice, at the district. Two men stole each from Mr Justice J. R. Gregg, Act O'Brien Road, in the Wanchal

when he looked at the speetto-who seized a constable's re volver and fired six shots, Seconds later the crash took severely wounding him, was 115

meler above the driver.

place, Leung said.

Cross-examined by Mr A.S.C. Ceung said that at 400 feet the Comber, representing Moore,

HE AIDED

ILLEGAL ENTRY

"

Criminal Sessions this morna Chinese female pedestrian in ing, for wounding with in- Wellington Street. Two suspects have been detained by the tent to murder.

Police in cenncellon with this The accused, Luk Kwai, had offence,

conviction a year Two men snatched a wristlet one previous

watch from another Chinese for ago

watch assault occasioning

harm, actual bodily

victim was his own case the brother, according to Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr, Senio: Crown A 33-year-old coxswain and Counsel. Luk ales had several found tho original master of a motor transport other previous convictions of a In a matching case at 8:36 pm. material was not properly ironed junk, Wong Toi, was fed a minor nature. or starched, or that there were total of $3,250 for atding and

'The documents purported to, quirements [ the samples

sent by the consignee. ficates issued by the Depart- For instance, if the Wah ment ot Commerce

and In- Shing

of

dustry, relating to the shipment

goods for Mauritius.

In which male in Pou Chong Street, In the Kowicon City district. A

in woman walking Chineee Shanghai Street, in the Yaumati district, lost a pair of car-rings

Mr Oswald Cheung, instruct-stains on it, they were supposed abetting illegal entry, carrying Possing sentence, Mr Justice

ed by Mr Peter Mo, is re- presenting Chan. Mr J. Bodilly, Crown Counsel, is prosecuting.

M. J. Patel, managing partner of the International Sports Co. gave evidence that he was con- victed of uttering a forged docu- ment connected with the present

to remove the stains and then Serv without a permit and Gregg remarked

starch and from out the material.

Hearing is proceeding,

Office Boy

Forged Cheque

was

that in his

yesterday.

secret compartments on opinion, having regard to the Radio Hongkong

women,

SECRETED AWAY

on

4

H.K.T.

anture a junk by Me Gin-shing Lo at sovere

of the wounds Central this

inflicted on morning.

the constable, the who were found jaccused was lucky not to appear

0. Time Signat', and Programme hiding in the secret compartment before him

charge of

Summary: 0.03, Stock Market Re of the junk, were each fined murder.

part: 8.00, or the Children" "The House at Pooh Corner" by... kaki $230 or six weeks for entering

"Having considered the cir- Mine (DBCTS},

No.

--Eeyore Americans, case on January 14. He said

Hongkong without a licence,

Finds the Wolery: 8.30, Portuguese They were all crdered to be cumstances of the case and hav- | Half Hour (Studia); £59, Weather the he obtained material in Hong- construction

ing regard to the prevalence of Report; 7, Time Signal end" "The of inilitary buses kong and passed them on to the

expelled.

at the mo- | News" (London Relay); 7.09, Com- which Spain is easing to the Wal Shing Factory the

The four women were Chol crimes of violence

ment and the nature of the mentary (London Hely) or Special United States, were found in accused's factory-for processing.

18, unemployed;

Announcements; 7.15, Boulevard accordance They had in

with samples A 29-year-old office boy, who Yuk-chun,

sampan wounds, the least sentence I con 31.

Cafe: 7.30, "What do you know" (Patel) given to him

for $68,700 Fung Wal-chun; by the forged a cheque

woman;

Hui Lai-lin, 30, un impose upon you is ten years The Hongkong Jaycees Inter- drawn on

Bank the Belgian

school Quiz No. 5 (Concert Halll; & The Americans were foraging consignees overseas.

employed; and Lam Pak ngor, hard labour."

VOA. Hit Parado; 8.30, What's the received 21. and Wilnes said he was not con-

Hongkong,

who for water when they were cut

Form

Relay); (Recorded Landon, PLEADS CUILTY with the

$16,000 of the proceeds after methods of: off by the snow in this normally cerned

8.45, Plano Miniatures; By Timə Signal. More Musto with... Matisson.. mild and sunny Island.-France-processing done by

the Wah the cheque had been cashed,

violinist, The accused pleaded guilty to Narbert Zdatlason (Jatz Shing Presse

sentenced to 12 months' He agreed with Factory.

Det. Sub-Insp Kwong Kam-

which was com-nger and planist) with Vis Cris question by Mr Cheung in imprisonment by Mr Hin-shing nin told the Court that at 6.30 the offence

tobal

Вогту (plano),

Yanezza Causeway Bay, оп cross-examination that he was

Lo at Central this morning. a.m. on Monday a motor trading mitted in

(bak), Angel" Gan (drums)" (Re- October 18, last year. He had corded): 90. At the Opera. "Una Intercepted by junk was with the pattern to

Wu Yin-wai, who resides at 34 Police launch on the cast of nothing to say in miilgation. Education Manques** (Chabrier). Principals with Orchestre sous · la Kennedy Road, ground floor, Green Island.

Mr Blair-Ker prosecuting. Direction de Charise Bruck; 10.10, was represented by Mr M. Y.

(assisted by Det. When questioned first defen-

Insp. J. Holiday in Italy, Ricardo Santos rong of Peter Mo and Company. dant said that he was not carry Howarth), said the Crown had

One and his Orchestra; 10.30,

and Famous hia Det-Sub-Insp J. Collins prong passengers, but a search of regarded the case as a particu- Night Stand. Duke Ellington

Orchestra: 10.59, the verse! revealed two very larly serious one. was the object of an IntensivePatel went on, he was satisfled secuting said that defendant, who small of the junk with the feat accused had seized a six- Radio News Reel

secret compartments office boy of Rostro M

the stern

chambered_revolver from the Alexand House, forged the cheque on January 27, four women in one of the com-constable, PC Ng Ping-kwon

partments.

and discharged

all six rounds at Inspector Kwong said that him, wounding his chest and leg. the junk was only licensed to After the shooting, several wit-Romantic carry cargo. The women had nesses heard the accused clicking paid $50 to $90 to be brought the revolver while the constable

was lying on tho from Macao,

ground jseverely wounded.

"No doubt this was a dell- berato attempt at murder," Counsel remarked.

Pilot Rescued be printed on the material. as

who

per the sample.

Fort Nelson, BC, Feb. 22. So long as the factory dyed according to the Flying Officer Ernie Howlett, the material

in the sample, specifications 27-year-old Australian

with their work. The specifica- was an search after he radioed on Sun-tions included the colours to be Company, day that he was bailing out of used on the material.

his RCAF R-33 jet trainer, was rescued today.

He was found safe beside his plone, which had crash-landed

12,000 YARDS

He said he supplied the Wah

on a lake some 80 miles north Shing with altogether 12,000

of Fort Nelson. A Vancouver- based

Dakota circled the aren until a smaller plane rescued

him:

Howlett was

The cheque was uttered by on- other man the following day, and defendant received $15,000 of the money.

yards of material for pro-

10, defendant Although he supplied On February cessing. them with the goods, he did was arrested at Alexandra House of and he took the Police to his not actually see the bolts

home and handed over to them material in the packing cases

flown to Fort when he sent them to the fac-$13,500 which he took from a Remanded For

Nelson and admitted to hospital

for examination. He appeared

tory.

Mr Cheung referred witness

too.h-paste luba.

Defendant said that he had

to be in good condition afle his to 3,000 yards of the material remitted the rest of the money

two days and two nights in 30 as covered by one of the pur- out of the Colony. The Prose- below zoro weather.

ported imperial preference cercuilon said that defendant had Today was the first clear day cates, and asked what he helped them a lot in their en- since the plane disappeared on meant when he said the goods quiries. Sunday on a flight frem St. Annette, Alasita, lo Fort Nelson. Coloumbla. United British Press.

Picture Missing

London, Feb. 22. Stalin's portrait was' missing from Its customary pince of

ware to

be

processed.

starching and ironing. Asked if Patel sold by that he meant

he had a written contract with Malaya Wage

the

Wah Shing for this par- Claims Dispute

ticular batch of the material,

he said he could not remember,

London, Feb. 22.

Medical Report

Au Yeung lau moi 3

at

Weather Report: 11, Time Bighal. Recorded 10B- don Relay); 21.15, Goodnight Muster 11.30, Close Down,

REDIFFUSION-

2 pm Variety Calls The Tune: 3.

Cycles-Selestiona · grow Cole Portere 911k Blocking: 3.30, Novatima; 4.45, Bleak House-Final plode: 4* Tea Time Rendezvous; 3.20, Vocally Youre: -4.45, Donder On Dumetrius; B, Children's Corner -Conducted by Aunile Patricia; 3.30 Teen Time-Presented by Betly: 6, Tropicana; 013, Birthday Mallbag: 0.15, Music Blasetto. Pre- The constable was admitted 10 rented by Jerry Lewis: #45, The Final Year: 7, Time Blynal" and hospital. One of the two bulicis The News (London Talay); 7.09, had entered the chest and was Weather Iteport, Annota. É Inter. extracted from the back. The lude; 716, "Value For Money"; 7.80, "What Do You Know-The Jaycees other bullet shattered the legiter-School Quik; B.Personality bone and was extracted from Parede-Lite Jack | Little;* #16, Special Spoшght — Interview, with HOAC. Buwandongs: ......... 8.30, Melody Magle: D, Where No Wounds Were An Hour-Long Radio Play adopted and produced by Loule KacNeico froth the Novel by Coronary Bees; 10, Cafe Continentsi;^;19,50, " Old- Time Bedroom:

WIEK Dreamland 1120, Prelude night; 43 midnight; God Savs. The Queen, Close Down

woman, was remanded for the knee.. another week by Mr. Justice

It was most fortunate that the

J. R. Öregg, "the · Acting Chief | constable did not die from, the Justice, at the Criminal Sessions, wounds, he added. this morning. for the medical

officer of Stanley

Prison to

testify as to her montal condi

tion.

Au Young had pleaded guilty Survives Unique

as the transaction took placti Mr Sign Awbery (Labour) to a charge of attempted suicido over a year ago.

not

Operation

Paris, Feb. 23,

CHIEF JUSTICE RETURNS

asked in the Commons today at No. 721A, Nathan Road, 13 CENTS A YARD

what the government of Malaya third floor, on June 18, last year. was doing to settle the wage Another charge of arson, to Questioned further, witness claims of the railway and which she had pleaded

The Hon. the Chief Justića, honour in the Central Army sold he paid the Wah Shing 13 government employees of fully was dismissed when Mr

A four-year-old girl has left Mr Justlar M. J. Hogan, re- Theatre, in Moscow when tue cents per yard for processing Malaya.

W. A. Blair-Kerr, Senior heapital after being the first turned to Hongkong by BOẠC 38th anniversary celebrations of that particular lot. He meraly

Crown Counsel, offerti no pallont to undergo an operation this morning aller. gitanding the Red Army were held there asked the factory to process 11, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, the evidence on the charge, today, Morrow Nodio reported, but did not sperity any.

Colonial Secretary, replied: "I Mr Blair-Kery ald, it was a heart kept her alive, French London Conference In Stalin's ploture usually hangs methods.

om informed that the Chief sad cùso and the Crown had medical authorities announced The Chief Justice was root at: alongside that of Lenin, behind Ho agreed with Mr Cheung Minister is likely to see repre- reason to believe that the ac last night. the speakers on the platform, that the contract called for the sentatives of the workers con- cused had been upset over the

The operation on the git, the Algort by Mrs Hoge M

Christopher d'A‡niada“«"Czitro, Printed and published by WILLIAM ÁLÍCK GRINHAM for But only Lenin's picture was Wah Shing to do whatever work cerned in the near future to dis- lots of some $2,000 shortly bo- who was not named, took place Registrant of floo Buprene and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 there today, the broadcast sald. they thought fit to the material, cum those wago clalme and the fore the commission of the in a Paris hospital kant Jaskiary Coure, and emany... Bubrems Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong. |--United Press.

to make it conform to the re- government's offer."—Nautey, offence.

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