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RACE COURSE TO GET CAMERAS Man

CAMERAS Man Who Tried To Downpour,

EVENTS TO BE FILMED

START TO FINISH RECORDS NOW

by a China Mail Reporter The Hongkong Jockey Club has ordered from the United States automatically operated cameras to film race ovents. A number of metal towers are being installed in Happy

Valley adjacent to the race course.

These are being placed. in connection with the installation of a "film putrol" covering the running of each race from starting gate to the finishing post.

This service is in operation on most race courses in the

United States and in many other countries as well.

NOT YET ARRIVED

The automatically operated cameras, which were ordered sometime ago, have not yet arrived and will not be in use till the end of the year.

Each of the cameras installed at chosen point will "take in" the race along the section of the track it is in- tended to command.

NO MOONCAKES FOR NG “I Was Hungry” He Said

Ng Ping-wai, a 27-year-old unemployed, will not be Joining his many friends in celebrating the mooncake festival on September. 9.

Ng was sentenced to 10 days by Miss B, K. Searle'

at Central this morning for stealing four moon- cakes from the Man Yau tea house yesterday: Ng was chased by a tea house foki who witnessed

the theft.

Ng was caught on the roof on No. 271, Lockhart

Road.

Ng who pleaded gulity said in mitigation: "I was

hungry."

MAN ACCUSED OF PICKING POCKET

ON TRAMCAR

Why Look Who's Here!

Mr and Mrs De Le Roche and "The Beast".

Impersonate Yielded

||PC

PC Goes To Gaol One Inch

Of Rain!

MEET KING KONG He's Here In Hongkong

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

Scotty the Gorilla Man is here. He called in on us last Friday by air to say Hello!

his wife, Diane

and his

Remarking that the defendant had tried to dis- credit the good name of the Police Force, Mr T. L. Yang this morning sentenced Pang Tak ming, 35, to four months when he came before the Court at Kowloon for impersonating a police officer.

sober.

Pleading guilty, Pang said he stead of taking her to the had been under the Influence station, drove her to a hotel in of drink when be committed the Yaunati.

The girl offence.

ran away, closely The Police, however, main- followed by the defendant who tained that Pang knew that he was uning abusive language,

A was doing as medical examinn- |

then Police Constable tion showed he was deanhely appeared on the scene and the defendant told, the oficer that he (Pang) was on experienced man of the Police Force and that the PC was but a

PC. Dewildered, the

enable asked Pang for his identity. He then threatened to take Fang did not reply but started the hostess to a police station to walk away, pretending to for fingerprining. This time, make a telephone call.

The Police said the defendant took a dance hosters out from a dance hall on Sunday night, suggesting that they go for a ride. The girl refused,

however, the girl agreed to go with him but the defendant, in-

Reuters Chief Leaving

Mr D. Corley Smith, chief correspondent of Reuters Bureau In Hongkong, is leaving the Colony for. Tokyo at the end of next manth on transfer.

His position in The Colony will be taken over by Mr Ian McCrone who will arrive here

in the latter part of this month. Mr Corley Smith was sent to Korea during the war there and he covered the Korean Tront and Japon from 1952 un 1953 when he was transferred to an- other danger spot-Indo-China. He reported the bitter struggle of the French at Dien Bien Phu during the finat phase of the war. He stayed in this theatre 1 1955 when he was transter- red to Hongkong, arriving here on December 31, 1953.

Mr Ian McCrone, who is on

and ac- His

a

Slang

Taken to the Station, de- fendant continued to mos- querade. While in the charge room, he telephoned, saying that he wanted to coil an in- speeler. He used slang and terms normally used by, Chinese policemen,

Finally he admitted he was not in the Police Force and he was taken Into custody and charged.

CAUGHT HOLDING

A PIPE

Teang Kwong, 37. of 78 Morrison Hill Road, first floor, was fined $1,500) and three months' im- prisonment by Miss B. K. Searle at Central Magis tracy this morning for possession of dangerous drugs.

toid that

o

That dawn downpour this

morning produced more than an inch of rain. Weathermen say that today will be cloudy with occasional showLTH.

In the 12 hours ending midday,

2.3 inches of rain fell,

The wettest period was bëlween 7 and 8 a.m. when 1,1 inches of rain were recorded. At o'clock this morning, the Royal Observatory determin- ed that typhoon Bess wan centred $20 miles SE of Kagoshima (about 28.2 de- greta N, 135.1 degrees E) moving WNW at five knots.

Big Expansion Of Schools

(Continued from Page 1)

"In addition, the training of the practising teachers plus. number coming from University should meet our demands with every mallsfaction.

"At the University, the De- partment of Education provides bursaries to intending teachers wishing to take degrees and diplomas. This has been in operation since 1954 and it is turning out teachers already.

"There are opproximately 102 bursary holders at present."

Major Headache,

I asked about the report that thero-were-In Hongkong-more- than 1,000 unregistered schools and Mr Crozier inld Government was aware of this and that "the whole matter la under con- sideration,"

out

He added: "The major head- ache is to get every child into a The court was

decent, registered school but Was caught defondant

here we are up against a very August. 29 at his home. He was swollen child population and a He brought along with him beauty

found sitting on a sofa with his high birth rate." his way to. Hongkong, is n New right hand holding plpe and

Dealing with secondary school. famous "beast."

| Zealander, aged He was aan oil lamp.

education. Two large and two small We must tackle this concur- Mr Crozier told me: adinited that he correspondent in Keren in 1951 Who made King Kong famous all the Tarzan and other jungle Roche

husband's act was so realistic for the Melbourne Sun: He went packets of heroin were sisa quarter of a century ago? Who series to net as the gorilla,

from Melbourne in found by the pollee. They conrently with primary education, made this massive animal grunt By this time his father was that her first performance with to London

As you we have not got a clear- frightening.

Scotty 1954 and joined the AAP as a nined about 9.5 grams.

defendant In defence

Bald

cut plan for secondary school and snort? Who gave this only not so lively and found it dit-in was

sub-recalled that it was when he sub-editor. cousin of the human race his Beult to climb, so Scotty

Mr McCrone, it is learned, will that he had stomach trouble and expansion but we are working father when- was taking part in a perform-

for a short that he Was stop at Singapore

advised by a

on it. We accept the principle appreciation for usnuly to the stituted for his

ance for charity.

Chinese herbalist to take opium that we must keep step and extent that he captured a beau-ever there was an active part

He was chained to a tree white to get briefed

to cure the trouble.

we will try and maintain 0 tiful giri and climbed the Empire eating for strenuous climbing or

slump and was riding on a slow quointed with the Far East.

Mr Patrick Yu represented the ratio of one in four in State Building-just to be alone,acts:

moving lorry in the streets of wife and child will join him

expansion plans”. with her?

Palm Springs when the act was month or so later in Hongkong.' defendant. And who was it who dc-

performed. lighted and thrilled.

(and And now Father Roche has re- He jumped down from the

the tired and Scotty has inherited vehicle.

I hi after breaking frightened a little, too)

Here is a breakdown of the future primary school exsousion picęmmmte, as revealed The story of an alleged pocket-picking thousands of children the world a monopoly in Hollywood or chain, and made for u girl. by the Department of Education.

the moment a gorilla any other part of the world that Diane who acted as the innocent incident in a crowded lower deck tram- over

appeared on the cinema screen calls for a real imitation of a bystander ht the parade, took car on the evening of August 3 was told in the Tarzan and other jungle gorilla.

to her heels and rau with the Apart from his skill, Scotty

other

spectators, when Mui Tong, 33, unemployed, s

He is none other than Mr requires the natural attire of a

Scotty recully that he had a coat, together with a head mask, in the back on that occasion, appeared on trial before judge K. R. Richard De Le Roche, known to

costs about US$6,400. Macfee in the Victoria District Court 110 Years Ago

who had been And Scolly said

The Police Yesterday

Rcted by

struggling this morning, charged with theft.

that in his many years of act ing, he has worn out many of with the gorilla. But there came These suits. One would lust for

emcer who had been on little over three years, he night duty and had not been

told of the act.

It was alleged by the Prosecution that Mui, who was a standing passenger on board the tram, was caught "red-handed” by another traveller picking the pocket of a third commuter.

Please let

· Chier Inspector C. Smith Hty card proves it. appeared for the Crown.

me pc," the accused pleaded, The victim of the alleged Wong said. pickpocket. Wong Heung-po, Accused also Snid to Lau said that at about 8.40 pm on Shing, "I know Luk Shuk (sixil August he was travelling in uncle). Don't cause so much. the third-class comportment at fuss."

a tram In Wanchai. The tram

was fuR and there were many standing passengers. He himself

was seated at the rear of the vehicle.

Money Missing Suddenly a passenger stand ing near him asked if he had fost anything. He fell in his pocket and discovered that 54 in small notes were missing The man who had spoken to him was then holding the ac cused by the wrist. The money was clasped in nectised's right hand,

Witness said that shortly be- fore, this happened, he had noticed that accused had plated

on a window beside

which he was sitting.

The other ptssengers danand- ed the arrest of the accused. In the meantime the accused handed the noles: back to 'Him, saying, "Don't cause so much Auss

Witness said that he, and the man who had spoken' to him. whose name he now knew is Lau Shing, dreidad to take the nccused to the pollee. They alighted at the next stop with the accused.

Qa the way the-acoused showed him an identity card, “I am a good man." This ident-l

Picked Up Stool

his many friends as "Scotty,"

He Wis born jato

His grandfather started

strange "animal world."

this

the a

animal act 110 years ago in Ger- many.

Grandpa Roche was in the circus and ut that time unkmals were untiBuni.

He used to imitate the grunts and growls of animals to delight the children visiting the circus,

Monopoly

gorilla and this gorilla hair Larrow escape from being shot

briefed,

01

said.

Scotty and Diane hove Just He happened to come on the been to Tokyo where they foot scene because of the stren and part in a film called Dr Dada's he called out to his two Love Dope and apart from his colleagues in the grusp of the im engagement, he, in his gorllin to turn the animal's back gorilla sutit, and his wife per- to him so that he could shool it. formed in night clubs in Japan.

They are going back to Japan

He Was Told

branch of art a family show. Mscon.

Then Scotty's father made this

Robert Roche was the first Gorilla Mon and made his ap- pearance many, many years ago on the cinema screen:

Nene a house in Jake Road. At the age of 10, Scotty want

15 Minutes

"I heard this and I was "most determined not to get shot in the back," Scotty, said, "So I Talking about his cinema ex-i kept the bucks of the two pellee periences, Sedly said he only officers towards

this MAN."

Expected to be built

Oct., 37-March 31, 58

New Schools

in next two JEANS

Projected

Ploca

New Schools

Places

NO

Places

Government Subsidized Private Grnot Total

7,500

17,280

30

16,228

80

27,882

7,910

..

C

4,094

16

18,505

3,652

1

800

27,382

53

58,857

15

12,202

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

It's Been

A Lovely

Week For

Miss Manila

Soventeen-year-old Car-

Scolly's acting was so realls- tie that he even scared the reaten Soriano, winner of the Once when he was in Misu Manila title, leaves-

At the end of thin short thing

the accused picked up a stooli ed to follow his father's foot- | appeared before a comera for Eventually the newcomer was and struck Lau on the fuce and steps but because of his size he jabout, 15 minutes at a time be- told of the act, back. Witness said he separat-had to be content to Imitate a cause his costume welghel 103 ed the wo men and took the chimpanzee.

lbs end it, was hot. stool away. A policeman whol It was actually Scotty's father was oft duty came upon the who had the foresight toperiod, ke Would take off his England on a tour, he donned Hongkong this. afternoon. seene and the party was taken specialise in gorilla imitation. leadmark for a big gulp of freat the costume and went in to after a week in the Colony

It was he who seized the air and a rest before the next gorilla cage in the zoo at Re- Lau was injured on the chance offered him some thirty shooting.

geni's Pork and the female-her prize for winning the check, witness added.

years ago to align a contract| Mr Roche met his wife Diane gorilla recoiled at his grunta contest. with Sol Lesser the producer of about 10 years ago and Mra; and snorts.

to Wanchat Police Station.

Hearing is continuing.

Macao Consul's

Daughter

Leaving For England

Mrs Rosemary Carney, daugh- fer of Mr C. E. A. Camey, IL. M: Consul in Macao, ls leav- ing today to commence. her journey to England.

She is to study, physiotherapy,

at St Loves Training College, Exelor, Devoja.

Her twin slater, Miss Elearin

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

kong and will stay at the. Helena May.

At the Pousada (Msexo Inn) on Sunday evening, a farewell dinner-party was given by Mr. Alfred Anfang, well-known Macao businessman, end Mes Anfang, In honour of Miss Rosemary Carney,

Carney, is taking up a secre- Mr and Mrs Carney attended tarial appointment in Hang- with their twin daughters, ]

He paid tribute to the Guards- men doing duty to Buckingham Palace for their discipline. Ho

Palace

Carmen was selected from 26 Manila beauties.

said he had a glimpse of the She came to Hongkong with while under a gorilla her mother Mrs L. C. Soriano, skin on the same occasion.. He Her father is with the Everett was being led by his wife. The Shipping Company.

Palace gardeners ran on seeing

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full-sizo gorilla. But the "I am a part-time model and Guardsmen continued to pace up

cinema actress," Carmen told a

† 1943 by NEA INYOL, INA

and down the Palace gate with China Mall reporter this morn out mixing a step though the

ing. soldiers were looking at this

The limit imposed on tourist massive animal through the and younger son Danny, who corner of their tyes,

spending by the Philippina Gov- will go later to Blundcils

Brauty and the Beast are here ernment-100 pesos--has forcod

Carmen School, near Tiverton, Devon. for a two weeks' stay. They

to spend carefully. Miss D. M. Maclean, Procansul cro enjoying Hongkong end its "But I did go sightseeing in

was among the guests.

people. Whether they could Kowloon and I have-n cousin in Among the gifts presented were | lengthen their nɔjourn here do || Hongkong. Mr E. Barros of the

attractive Portuguese dolls in pends ca discussions that are Luzon. Stevedoring Company guy traditional costumes, going on and, if successful, the and we went danclus.. I liked lengths of silver-grey slik Hongkong public may have an Hongkong very much.

and i

Printed and pubished by. Pater (PLUMBLÝ, for and on. brocade and P flue model opportunity to see the gorilla of want to come back again-In | behalf of South China Morning Post Limited 'of 1-8 Wyndham sailing-junk.

King Kong fame.

fact, I intend to," she said. Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong.

"Mom changed Dad's mind all right! She just looked at the price tags on hla new fishing outfit, and he sald lot's all have m' real vacation and not worry.. about money!'' .