1957-08-27 — Page 10

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1957.

Police Make Good Progress

In Drive Against Snatchers

$100,000

BAIL DEMANDED

by a China Mail Reporter

The Police are pleased with results in their recently inaugurated campaign against snatchers and pickpockets throughout the Colony.

"The results are good. There have been more arrests made

during the last few days than

usual," Mr K. A. Bidmead, De- puly Currinissioner of Police, tok the China Mall this morn ing.

FIVE ARRESTS

Itail of $100,000, half in ensh and half in surety, was! allowed to Tsang Bun, alias' Trang Hon-chia, 29, on charges of manufacture and He said.

five arresta wore

possession of dangerous made last night, of the seven drugs before Miss B. K. Cases reported to the statis.

And he quoted "Police Searle at Central this morn-spokesman who bact

made Ing.

known that during last weck- cases were end ten of A "-solved."

The large sum was suggested by Chlef Del, Insp. James lid- den, who also asked for a seven) Mr Bidmead said that in their days remand.

concentrated action against pick. Defendant was alleged to pockets and snatchers the Poller have manufactured and possess-had sent out more plainclothes. ed 7.5 ounces of inorphine, 16.5mon-- and assigned more on ounces of morphine hydrochlo-j "gwelal duty,“ ride and 51.03 ounces off Uniformed dincetylmorphine hydrochloride Instructed to keep a sharp look- without a permit al 22 Staley cut Brach Road on or about July 4,;

He was remanded for seven days for further enquirfes,

SAMPAN MEN

FINED

men

weve

Diso

NOT OUT OF HAND

"Waxed

Police Record In Last 7 Months

1057.

· Total No. cases snatching

January February March April

130

52

pickpocket arrests

78

57.

100

34

51

100.

108

Muy

131

June

131

64

July

130

80

He Didn't See Them

Until Too Late

Fined $300

For Wounding

With

Man

Chopper

car

ANKEE'S youthful

crew learn about. seamanship, geography, history, an- thropology, sewing and shark fishing.

There are 17 boys, four girls, including Put Riley and Judy Huggins who are still at college.

One of the ether girls is 28- year-old doctor Allée Strahan and another is schoolteacher, Elaine Forgie, 23,

"Cruw" is a rather mislead- ing term. There is a signing- on fee of $5,000—but it would be fqually misleading to call then "tare paying passengers,

They go on watch (four hours on and elight off) climb | the rigging, set the sutls, scrub the decks, scrape and paint and de 101 odd jobs to keep the Yankee shipshape.

The Mistakes

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN

LIFE ON BOARD

THE YANKEE

Put Riley Continues Her Story

by Francis Boey

The Police were watching him. Sut Kwong Man-wai Commentlag on the campaign, didn't see them... he was

After a dispute over the Deputy Director of Criminal loo busy watching passing Investigation, Mr R. H. Wood-pockets outside the Roxy damaged blcycle, a 1 head, sold that this concentrated Theatre on Saturday.

driver struck the bicycle

The boys and girls are given : celion did not mean that this

owner with a chopper, in-practical lessons in seamanship tem of crime was getting out of When at last he caught i tard.

eight of the two Police Conjuring his left shoulder, it in the carly part of the voyage. None has salled under canvey Fines of $100 and $40 were He explained that certain stables, it was too late,

was stated in court today, before. Put Kilcy recalls the imposed on No To, 20. and Fung types of crimes

They picked him up and took Ng Hon-chun, and

28, of

she 73 mistakes

made al the Sheung-pan, 23, respectively by waned" at times and that them back to the Station, and Jervois Street, ground floor, beginning and the skipper's Mr D. L. P. Edwards

was fined $300 by Mr Hin-shing sin admonition whenever she at the police noticed recently that the before Miss B. K. Searle at Marine Court this morning for number of carts

of snatching Central this mering, Kwong Lot Central Magistracy this did something wrong. possession of pleasure sampans,

had risen

Now, after nine months: at with eight previous convictions, crning for wounding. at Tungwan Beach in Cheung d picking pockets

vo for. a similar

He was also bourd offener

over in sea, she's a veteran. Chau Island without

valid sily.

$300 for two years. guilty to being a

There

15 Also a carefully Since January this year, there pleaded Bletuers,

· THE YANKEE UNDER FULL SAIL Det. Sub-inspector R. G. had been slightly more than 800 suspected person found loller-

ing and Police.

three Ibbltson cases reported to

told 20 impars, and Furg See More than 360 arrests

diven

the Court that and recication' en beard. Kwong Sing was the owner of

and places the Yankee is about to Ayari from seamanship

Space to store the crew' pan, who had four semprns,

were months.

·Shing Kee Bicycle Shop at 102 their normal sca duties, there visit. The langungo and customs souvenirs Ja a constant head- were succesful tenderers made during the same pericu. He was additionally Aned Jervels Street, ground floor,

and cf the inhabitants, their TË geography, history

ache. Since the Yankee has operate the sampane of the beach

The trend of this pretfeulax: $250 or another two months for a three-year period, but thefe, type of crime is shown In the for breach of a band he had- 24 Kwong saw defendant in his is spare time for reading

At about 12.58 pm on July anthropology lessons--and there ligions and taboos of the local been at sen for more than nine eenees, whira expired on March above table.

Defendants, So To, who had

21. most be rètewed at the Marine Licensing Omee every

year dining the period, it was

List in court.

the

was

gned carlier this year.

Sul-op w. Roid cram Robbery Suspects Detained the en

armed with

A quarie) then started.

and

C. E. Hulse, Senlor Marine

The defendant suggested that Omeer in charge of Marize The Polles have arrested two Chinese, two of them armed it be reported to the Police Licensing Ofilee, gare evidence, suspects following

daggers. robbed a Station. Iwong refused Sub-Insp. Y. P. "Leung prove- robbery th Bigouin Road on pedestrian of a wrist watch and į defendant left.

Saturday night when three some morcy

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at Bangkok, and the ship's new owner, at Singapore Since the Yankee started on its seventh round-the-world tour, she has taken the crow to Bermuda, Haiti, through the Panama Canal, the Polynesian? group istanda of Galapagos, ! Pitcairn, Mango Reva, Mat- quears, Tuamotu Archipelago. Society, Tahiti, Cooke, Tonga and Fiji.

The Pitcairns

Miss Riley said the crew enjoyed Its stay most in these remote and isolated islands, nd that Pitenirn Island will long be remembered.

It was at Pitcaim that the, crow .were guests of the descendants of the Bounty! mutineers for two weeks.

Next port o' call was the New Hebrides and the British Solo- mon Islands. In New. Guinea the crew came upon primitive natives who are sill! lying in stene. age conditions,

Sandakan was the last port, cull that Miss Riley visited, She flow in to the Colony to, catch a plane that would take her to Tokyo where her parents will be helidaying. From Tokyo, she will join the ship at Bang- kok for Singapore, Ball, Cocoa Islands, Zanzibar, Cape Town, St Helena, Ascension Islandis, Barbados, Bermuda and Then Inlly home to Gloucester May 4, 1958.

Asked whether she

thought

that the money the invested in her world tour was worth all

the effort she put into earning it Misa Riley said: "I would do

way. Travelling

14

of

my

Inhabitants are fully explained. months the amount collected is it all over again if the chance ear knock down one of his leafing or fishing-or sleeping-- By and large the job which beginning to look like general me bicycles near the kerb.

as the mood takes you

cccupies most of the crew's cargo which will soon need a around the world the hard way The bicycle was donated at During a lull when the sails time on beard are the seeming- large hold. Wisely some

most educational and 'benefl- sag for lack of wind and when y

endless hours spent in the boys and girls have shipped cial to youths

of their souvenirs home to solve the sea is calm they try their patching the salls. Winds

As to her future, Miss Riley ac the problem,

surd she would like to be a hond at deep sea fishing to re- hurricance force have, on

medical technician when The more enterprising have finishes college. "I have always sho plenish the food in the ship's casions, ripped the Yankee's

sais to shreds. Heavy blows invested part of their savings liked to help people and the in- Sharks and dolphins

are often

expose

crow's buying up curios at various habitants of the Pacine Islands often caught with Improvised amateurish attempts at patching. ports of call for re-sale when could certainly use medical men hooks and lines of sice) cable, On board, the only crew they reach home, hoping. It will

cr women Put Riley tells of the time member who gets pald for his bring them a small profit.

to improve their when her shipmates landed

Iving conditions," she said. 值 work is the coois.

The Yankte which bas averull length of 00 ft and a

Educational But for those who want to total sali arta of 7,775 za It there is always the job of galley 1956, at 2 pm en is seventh Sunday morning for Tokyo to earn pocket money

board left Gloucester on November 4,

Mirs Ricy left Honaking on hand which pays $100 a month. vove20 nround the world,

Join her parents for u holiday Mias Riley took on this job And this will be her last after which the will rejoin the

the galley hand cought voyage under Comdr Johnson Yankee at Bangkok. picked up a bicycle fram, De-of lecturer in elementary arst pollo and left the ship at Tahill for this graceful, well-kept Footnato: As the tour is fendant then turned to Kwong's aid, besides seeing to the health to be flown back to America.

meant ruiling clip has recently been primarily Her job as galley hand means sold to Mr Ell Whitney foki, Wong Man-sum.

of educational, important countries that she sets the table, serves, Chicago.

and cities along the food

the tourist aud cleans. up. the Their voyage has not been route are bypassed. and the dishes. This without losses. #aloon Another 'member,

Apart from the teacher

school Income

Pacife Islands with names comes in very handy boy who caught pelle at Tahiti which are not familiar to most Miss Elaine Forgle for shopping when we are in the ship's first mate fenches geography and history port

had to boys and girls in The United Besides it Lakes away leave suffering in groups 1 different times,

from tropical States have been chosen for borcdcm and These

puts

to balls. lessons are lustrated sluinberland very

the pay-as-you-learn crew of with the films and slides of the night," she said.

quickly at However, the crew will be the Yankee," strengthened by the skipper's

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About five minutes later de- ferocious tiger shark so full of fendant came back and took outfight that it took the crew more

vegetable chopper from than an hour to haul aboard underneath his Hawilan shirt and in the end they had to use and chopped Kwong on his left pulleys. shoulder, sold SI 1bbitson.

The ship's medical offleer, Dr when To defend himself Kwong Alice Strahan assumes her fole

Kwong ran into the kitchen and avsed his wife to dial 999, Later, Police arrested the de- fendant, He admitted striking Kwong with a chopper,

Three Hurt In Traffic Accidents

A ten-year-old Chinese git), Lai Mul, was seriously' injured by h private car in Custom's Pass Rand yesterday evening.

Kowloon Hospital.

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cf the crow.

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APPEAL AGAINST 4-YEAR Man With 'Shocking Record Fined.

SENTENCE DISMISSED

The Full Court this morning dismissed on appeal 25, unemployed, who was given four years hard labour at: against conviction and sentence brought by Ma Sung-hip, the Victoria District Court for possession of morphine.

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The girl is being treated in Lul Tsui Tak, aged 40, was Injured when he fell off

The Chley Justice, Mr Justice Criminal Procedure Ordinance, moving Army truck in Waterloo Road near Boundary Street yes- M. J. Hogan, and the Acting Chapter 221. terday. He was removed to Pulsno Judge, Mr. Justice A. D. Kowloon Hospital, where he is Scholes, comprised the Full being detained for treatment.

Court.

A private car knocked down Ma was sentenced on July 19 and injured Law Cheuls, aged for persessing 44.4 ounces

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Wrist Watches Snatched

DID NOT OPPOSE

The appellant, Mr D'Altoni said, was

with only charged of possesic, but it may well be that the Trial Judge in passing sentence -considered all the evidence which tended to es- dangerous drug, and not merely tablish a charge of dealing in

NO DISPUTE Mr D'Alien, for the appellant, told the Court. that the appeal against convictice was bised of possession. upon an allegation that there was not aufflelent, evidence to support the conviction.

He said. there, was no dispute

Counsel added that his cilent had no previous conviction.

Dismissing the appeal, the the Court that there was ampic Chief Justice sald it seemed to

A taxi driver, whose record in traffic offenees was 'described es 'shocking, was fined $10 by Mr W. N. Thomas Tam et Central this morning r smoking while driving a passenger on board.

Defendant Cheong Kal, of 23.

Russel Street, first floor, i

.

pleaded not guilty, but was convicted after evidence. A Police witness said he saw de-

fendant holding a Hghted" cigarette in his right handj while his left hand was ong the wheel. Defendant was then halled to stop. Defendant has 34 previous con- victions, with one similar..

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Judge would be fully justified in onding Ma guilty.

us to the ownership of the bag A Chinese anatched a wrist the property of the cppellant watch from a woman at about in which the dng was found, midnight last night in -side but the point at issue was with lune off Frince Edward Road. regard to the xture of the tence, his Lordship aald that in As to the appeal against seti- Another woman had her wrist drug

the circumstances, the

Court Mr D'Alton watch snatched in Centro Street

sald that it the saw no reason to Interfere with peaterday. A Chinese reported Full Court was against him on the sentence imposed.

the Police yesterday that he would ask for leave to ape Mr VAL D'Alton, Instructed by the appeal cgainst conviction, The appellant was represented by Jacket had been, cut and mopez peal against sentence as well" | Mr. Peler, Mo, of Mom Peter Mo

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