1957-05-20 — Page 10

JOHN HASTIE & CO., LTD. SHIPS STEERING GEAR,

ENGINEERING' EQUIPMENT CO.: LTIE ILK. & Shanghai Bank Bldg. Tel. 277BD

CHINA MAIL

tablished 1945

MONDAY, MAY 20, 1957.

GOLD SEIZED ON STEAMER

CHARGED WITH TRYING TO ELECTROCUTE HIS

HIS BOSS

BOSS 4 WATCHES IN HARBOUR

Man Reports I Felt Shock On My Cheek'

A Chinese wine shop assistant, Lit Kwan, faced trial

at the Criminal Sessions this morning for trying to elec- HK Student trocute his employer in bed with a home-made device.

The device which the accused was alleged to have used was a four- foot long bamboo stick round part of which was coiled naked wire, This wire was attached at one end to 24 feet of flex ending in a plug.

Lit, aged 30, was charged before Mr Justice A. D. Scholes and a Jury of two women and six men with attempted murder and alternatively with assault occasioning bodily harm.

However, Crown Counsel, Mr G. R. Sneath, asked the Jury to concentrate on the lesser charge, and if they thought fit, at the end of the trial, to return a verdict of not guilty on the first charge.

Burning Sensation

Mr Sneath said that the accused had been working for the complainant, So Yau-hei since last July. Sometime before March 2. he bought the flex- and plug. In the early morning on March 2, So woke up in bed feeling a sharp burn- ing sensation on his face. He leapt out of bed, thinking there were burglars and he found the flex and wire along the floor. There were no burglars in the house, only his employees and his family.

So's wife who woke up when her husband yelled, also received an electric shock when she picked up the bamboo stick on the floor.

Mr Sreath said that a pair of father tokis resided in his shop ground floor of 131 elogs belonging to the accused on the was found at the bottom of the Thomson Road while he and his

wife slept in the cockloft. tairs leading to So's bedroom,

He told the Jury that it might

He said he was awakened by them, during the appear to course of the trial, that when an electric shock on his cheek the accused was doing what he and jumped out of bed to chase did, he was not in a balanced what he thought was a burglar If they were Just as he got to the door he state of mind.

He found wire plugged satisfied that the newused dikt the fell. act, the law was that they had into a socket outside the bed- to consider whether the accused room door, leading into his bed knew what he was doing was room

10 bamboo stick, wrong.

Giving evidence, the employer, So, said that the cented and

altached

F

Hearing is proceeding.

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LETTERS TO

THE EDITOR

very

Modical Bill. Sir-The longkong Counelt of Social Service is concerned with the welfare of the large number of unfortunate poople in the Colony who are icl urgent

of medical need treatment but who are too poor The needs of such people cannot be met

and Government

to pay doctors' fees,

private

medical practitioners alone, and voluntary organisations 11 ve opencil a number of clinics

free Hongkong which provide

**** medical treatment. In most of

practitioners,

in

To Study A-Energy

In Britain?

London, May 19.

Three young engineers

from Hongkong and Malaya may be among the first oversens students in Britain to study the industrial use of atomic energy.

Messrs

SNATCHED

Several snatching cars

were reported to Polico over the week-end. Four of them concerned snatch. ing of wrist watches in

Hongkong and Kowloot.

A Chinese woman had a pair of ear rings snatched while walking in Main Street, Shek Kip Mei Village yesterday, and another had some money and an identity card stolen in Comp Street near Castle Peak Road.

An alarm clock and clothing material were reported stol from a private car parked in the Status Square Car Park on Saturday night,

Acting on Informa- tion, Preventive Ser- vice officers seized about 800 taels of gold on board the steamer, San Carlos, in the harbour on Saturday night.

The gold, which is reported to have been · Llegally imported. was valued at $200,000.

It is understood a Chinese Tran was arrested and will appear ini court shortly.

11 MEN ON RIOTING

CHARGES APPEAL

AGAINST CONVICTION

Eleven men found guilty of taking part in the Tsun Wan riots last October appealed against their convictions before the Full Court this morning.

They crg Sheung Lim-lam! from Hongkong and Mok Ant and M. Chew both from Malaya, who are trainees from overseas now studying with Ruston and

The Hornsby. diesel engines and gas turbines of this Lincoln firm are in use In many countries ranging from the Arelic regions to the tropics. nounced that it is preparing to Ruston and Hornsby has an-

enter the field of industrial plontic energy. The company's

engineering director, Mr G..B. B. Feilden said that Ruston and Hornsby envisage widening the Ecope of its activities to include development of nuclear reactors for powering turbines. Most Advanced

the

ensc-

that

For a while. during the hear Following the pointing out of ing the Hon. Leslie Blackwell. a suspect, a statement was made a former Supreme Court Justice by the witness,

That was the of South the Supreme Court bulding, sat

Africa, who visited foundation of the Prosecution's

the Bench with the two on

Mr D'Alton contended Judges.

before the witness began his The appellants were Wong identification, he was told there Shek-chun, Leung Yuk, Chong were only suspects in the room A new Integrated research Shek-shan, Lau Wai-keung, and development centre which Yuen Wing-gum, Ko Pul-kung picking out any person, the wil He said it followed that in

advanced of its kind in Europe vin,

most Chung Yune-pak, Cheung Yiu-

Vip Kam-hung, Chong cases could not fail to pick a s now been

suspect. The witness did not completed and Tung and Tsang Ylu-man, brought Into operation by Insufficient Particulars

make any statement at all as to Rustons at a cost of £300,000,

what he alleged that person did, until after he had picked him

The

importance

this,

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SHEAFFER'S

Skrip AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER "Lottery Madness" Sweeps NSW

OUR

FROM H. KING WOOD

Sydney, (By Airmail).

The plan of the Premier, Mr Cahill, to raise finances for the building of the National Opera House in Sydney by the means of State lotteries Is in keeping with a "lottery madness" which is at present sweeping the State.

One of those mathematical genii who spends his time working out such things has announced that it would be necessary to lay out £74.9.0 to buy a ticket in every lottery and art union at present running in NSW.

art

At the moment there are 75 and the only way this could be unkns running. Of these done is to buy out one of its four cost 1/- 32 2/-; 14 5/-; own tenants who conducted a six 10/- nine £1; nine 25 and restaurant in the basement. one at £10,

Negotiations for this space One day last week when have been going on for more these figures were obtained two than 10 years when the club, State lotteries were to be drawn then unsuccessfully, tried to with tickets costing 6/0 and each evict this tenant from its own having 100,000 subscribers.

premises,

would cost an investor

NEW BUILDINGS

more than £300 to take a ticket in every lottery and art union

It is estimated that at the being conducted in NSW over a

moment there are 27 buildings full year. In the last 12 months 395 lotteries have been decided in the course of erection or ro- The Court comprised the Chief Justice, Mr204 at 6/8 cach; 85 specinis modelling in the city of Sydney a cost of more than 250 Mr Justice T. J. Gould. Justice M. J. Hogan, and the Senior Puisne Judge, at 10/- and 15 jacicpots at £1, at

and if you want this broken million and which will be ready

at down

occupation to the weekly cost it is for

varying next perlods In the 12 months. £3.14.0

Each of these lotteries close At the moment Qantas Em- with 100,000 subscribers and in pine Airways are in the process an average week there are six of moving out of seven city ordinary lotteries and two bulldings and occupying their opecials with a jackpot everyown L-million office buliding in

the heart of Bydney. third work,

glass Modern skyscrapers of A lottery ometal said this week that there were thousands and steel are nearing completon. of people and syndicates that for a big oil company: for Im take tickets in. every lottery, perial Chemical Industries and There were quite a number of for allever. investors who laid out £5 a

A shipping company, has an- week and many well-known other building which will be businessmen who take £100 occupied within the next few worth of tickets in each lottery. weeks, while two more sky- office scrapers-one the biggest building in Australia are near- the ing completion just over Bridge on the north shore,

There are people who bellevo that when these buildings are finished lacit of office space in and Incidental expenses and being charged will disappear,

but authorities say that the trip will cover a vast area

starved has Sydney been and extend over eight days.

The Royal Geographic Society space that many

there clinics there are medical either employed upon a salary basis or giving their services free, who do not

medical possuse

qualifications endle them to which would practise in the United Kingdom. The Council of Social Service has carefully considered to Medical Registration Bill which is now before the Legislative Council and it seems clear that if this bill is passed into law it will result in preventing a con- siderable number of practition- ers from continuing with their been set aside for the develop- Al ware convicted by a out work in ntary clinics and ment of nuclear reactors which Special Jury at the

Sersions. Mr Justice C. W. will tha prive very many if they can be successfully ap- poor people in Hongkong of plied will make the turbine in- Recce sentenced them on March much needed medical treatment. dependent of fuel supply at the 15 to hard labour terma ranging

The Counell of Social Service site, has adopted a resolution which is belug communicated to the Government

their well advanced expressing concern in this matter, and the proctical work hope that in any new legislation started. the necessity of maintaining In the five factories operated Crown, free medical attention in exist by Ituston in Lincoln are a The rounds of appeal were ing clinics run by the voluntary score of students from Common- | (1) that the verdict of the organisations will be home in wealth territories.

Jury cannot be supported by mind.

MRS M. 1. PALMER,

Secretary, Hongkong Council of Social Service.

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SECRET OF SUCCESS You'll Hear It

SIDE GLANCES

from two to four years.

Criminal

Mr V. L. J. D'Alton, in-

Counsel said, lay in the fact that the whole of the Prosecution's case depended on identication. Throw it open to doubt, and, In his submission, no Jury could of the charge, Mr D'Alton said.

Hearing is proceeding.

OUT-BACK FLIGHT

At the end of this month 7,000 mile "see the out-back" people will leave Brisbane en a

flight.

They will pay £160 for the

Designs for the reactors are structed by P. L. Lam and Co.. possibly convict the appellanis trip which will include hotel, Sydney and high premiums now ·

has yct

although

no

le representing the appellants beer Mr D. N. E. Rea, Crown Counsel. is representing the

They will spend some time, the evidence and (3) that the in the new research centre-be-Trial Judge was wrong in law fore they continue their studies in allowing the evidence of elsewhere in the United King-identification to go the Jury, dom or return home,

I having been admitted by the witnesses for the Prosecution

To Attend Mosleme denne pardes

Conference

Mr Hall A. V. Careem, repre- senting the Hongkong Moslem Community, will leave

the

which the appellants were picked out by the witnesses, did not comply with the re- gulations governing such parades laid down In General Police, Orders No., 6545.

At the

'Shall I Chop Off His Head' Mr Lo Asked

Four little girls shook

this

Colory for the Philippines by ss Justice called Mr D'Alton's at their heads

ouiset, the Chier

Vietnam on Wednesday to at- tention to the

Conference

tend the Moslem there.

morn-

years

no

for

wili

of Australia's Western Queens elapse before you see those old

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themo signs To Let" glued en

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doctor,

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two women,

DISCOURAGING REPORT

American interest

In Aus

graziers, two company diretors trallan goods has been gathering and a jackaroo and a boundary tempo over the last 12 months rider who has covered thousands and of miles across the "never neve:! on horseback,

The passengers will be enr- tained at Central Australian and Gulf cattle stations, visit Flynn of

finally reacial a singo where it was believed that a United States markt exlited commo- for many Australian dities,

The

of appeal had been furnished to to in jest If they would like and the great. Northern rico-American reinit exports have re.

the same point in all the

Our experts hopes of making the Island's grave and Albert some fast dollars on the Ameal- Namatjira's desert studio, in can market have been dashed, a repot received spoet the uranium mines at however, by fact that in- ing when asked by the Rum Jungle and Mary Kathleen, in Sydney.

that the report says goldfields The secret of the success of

sufficient particulars of grounds Magistrate Mr Hin-Shing Centrai

Australian Richard. Tucker, leading tenor, The Conference, which will the Court, Metropolitan Opern Association take place at Sula between May (of New York), who arrived 20 and May 31, will stress on sent case the evidence turned stole their earrings.

Mr D'Alton said in the pre-him to "behead" a man who growing project at Humpty Doo, jected a big selection of cam-

outside Darwin,

ples on the grounds that whole- just

far too high; last night to give two recitals the movement for the pro- on

The Society is not out to make sale prices are at the Empire Theatre, is re-pagation of the Moslew faith. cases, that of identification.

The girls, 10 years and under, vealed In

a proat from the trip and any workmanship and finish far be special Spotlight Mr Careem will be the guest

listened in rape silence na the

American standards and £100 low money left out of the recorded interview for Rediffu-of the Philippines Moslem Asso-ty, Mr Justice Hogan said sub-Court outlined the facts of how Quoting from a legal authori- Prosecution Officer in Central

will be refunded to the passen- packaging just plain bad, sion listeners tonight at 7.15.

eintion.

The report comes from the stantial particulars ought to

gets. Wan Kwok-wal, 20; of No. 1

chairman of the huge Marthall have been filed by Counsel for Tung Street, second floor, took

TOURISM CAMPAIGN

Fields departmental store in appellants, and that they should away the earrings of three of specify the central objections to them by trick and stole the

Meanwhile, the Matson Line Chiengo, Mr Hughston M. Mc- Bain, who was in Sydney on a the convictions,

Shipping Company's hus earrings of the fourth.

nounced that it will spend fact-finding tour early this year. Defendant, the court was told,

While here ho selected more £178,000 this year to advertise the tourist attractions of Aus-than 100 items which he con- tralia, New Zealand and the sidered would interest American South Pacific throughout the buyers and had them shipped to America in 13 crates for United States,

examinallon by his retail ox- The company's new general manager for the South Pacific.

In a letter to Sir Charles area, Mr T. E. Rowe, said it was hoped that this publicity Lloyd Jones, head of the huge Jones departmental delve would more than double David. the number of American tourists, atores in NSW, Mr McBain said Mr Rowe sald the new Matson that they had come to the con- liners, Mariposa and Monterey, clusion that Austraila was not

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A Brien,

notes,

Identification Asked why the particulars approached 10-year old Yeung Ming-kum on May 13 in Ladder had not been filed before last Strect. He persuaded Yeung to Saturday, Mr D'Alton said he give him her gold earrings had not been in possession of worth $15, promising, he would the transcripts and the Judge's in return give her a pair of pearl earrings. Having taken the gold The Chief Justice, after con-earrings, defendant was never ferring with Mr Justice Gould, seen again, the court was told! told Counsel that in future, the Court would have

And The Pearls to consider whether to hear such an appeal CT not in the circumstances

last year, out- West, Opening his appeal, My side 30, Queen's Rond D'Alton sald the grounds relled he got the earrings of J Hop- on the question of identification iu,, 8, and Chan Sau-king, 10, of the appellants. The matter in the was fought on that issue,

The submission

he made in

that before the

On March 23

Defendant same way. having taken possession of the earrings led the girls on a walk general in the lower Court, he to the Ko Sing Theatre,

There the girls asked for the wald, wha Identification, porades, held be-handed them a parcel in brown pearl earringa and defendant tween October 22 and 20, at the

paper, Chatham Road camp, thère hed been no evidence at all of the the parcel to find four match After he left, the girls "open- appellants having been charged sticks in it. --with anything.

werd

-

CRITICISMS

of

now making 16 round market with a great potential trips a year between Austraila for them maldy because and the United States, A third price and workmanship. ship, the luxury liner Lurline, has also been put on, the Aus tralian run and a fourth vessel, the Malsania, will be added this year.

Footnote: Mr Rowe arrived in Sydney to take up his duties by Qantas airlines,

Some of the criticisms made were: Small leather goods were mado of excellent quality cro- codilo and kangaroo skin but because of bad packaging were warped in transit; stitching, in- side finish, and metalwork on

NICE COMPENSATION Australian leather handbags Some Idea of the high values were below American standards, These offences came to light The appellants had been taken following defendant's arrest on seen in the fact that City Tat shots, as well as being too high- of space in, crowded Sydney Is and so were Australian-mada to the camp, where they May 13 for talding Young's car- mained for some seven or eight

rings,

tercails Club has paid £35,000 13 prived; Australian

travo

The other offence occurred to one of its tenants to move geods were far too heavy and on May 10 this year when defen out of a small section of the again too expensive, dont snatched, the earrings of club premises." Man Po-king outside No. 8

for

days before these parades topic place.

The parades, Mr D'Alton was on, took place unter circum

woollen Qualers, The club needs the extra powever orders have stances which negatived the Water Street. After defendant's space to provide amenities, for sheep-skin rugs, sono katting value of such tests of identifica arrest the little girl Identified its

staff.

wools, toy konise arki kangaroos, tion,

the evidence him at an idchtlication parade,

The club chairman, Mr W. R. Some books, jams and clothes. showed there had been no Mr Lo. sentenced defendant Buxton, said the unions had re- All things considered, maybe segregation of witnesses from the to a total of six months and six quosled the club to provide we have dóne, as well so could #uspects.

butter ammsities - for the staff I be expected,

Ho nid

wooks imprisonment,