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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1958.

DEFENDANT ACCUSES POLICE

ON PLANE Signed Document SIDE GLANCES

Vancouver, Feb. 10.

Mr Soon Pion, President of the Chinese Benevolent Association here, said today young Chinese girl who ited her tovor and planned To My homa to Hongkong

on Sunday never caught the piano.

Me Fion, told a reporter that 19-year-old Yu Teul. A mail order bride men, who discovered she did not get on with the prospective beldegroom, had to leave on Sunday. He

Bald ha understood she would seek entry to the United States.

Miss Yu arrived from Hongkong two weeks ago. Har marriage was arranged by her parents and thats of 21-year-old walter Mah Buby-eing, through a long courtship by letter-Router.

Stars Of The Silent Screen Return

'To Preserve'

Himself

Lau Pang, 30, denied a charge of robbing a

village elder of $1,100, when he gavo evidence on his own behalf at his trial at the Criminal Sessions this morning,

Lau is alleged to have partici- pated in robbing Mr Lee Yuen- kwong, elder of Tal Tan Village, Sal Kung, New Territories, of money which had been collected from some overseas Chinese to [build a school.

further

The accused alleged to have robbed Mr Lee of a gold ring and his daughter- in-law, Wong Sun-tal, of $140 and a torch on October 24 last year.

The case is being heard by Mr Justice A. D. Scholes and a Jury of five men and two women.

Was Asleep

by

Mr D.E. Greenfield, and Mr D.G. Willis, Crown Counsel, are

assisted prosecuting.

E.R. Sub-Inspector Detective Moss.

Lau tested today that en the day of his arrest. November 6, he was asleep In Sai Kung Market when there was a knock at the door.

New York, Feb. 10. Jackie (The Kid) Coogan and Lila Lao, two stars of the silent scroon, returned to the bright lights of show business on Sunday

He asked who was there, night as contestants on a There was no answer, but the tolovision quix show.

door was forced open. It did Matched in the category not occur to him then that the of silent films, they tied group of men who subsequently came in were polleemon. They of US$1,000. Coogan, 43, and Miss Lee, j'ordered him to get up, and he Who said "51 you think I'm did so. guing to tell my age, you're crazy," answered questions on the CBS-TV programme, The $04,000 Challenge."

Coogan identified screen silent atar "Bronco Billy," and Miss Lee identified cowboy star Tom Mix. They will continue their match next, until one wins or they lie at $04,000.

she

Lau said he was taken to the Police Station and told that he had committed a robbery at Tai

Village, in

the same dis- trict. He was asked if he know anything about it, and he re- plied he did not,

Accused claimed he was na- the police, who saulted by ordered him to put his signature on a piece of paper. When he refused, he was again beaten.

Before answering questions, Miss Lee watched an old fim,

He was asked it he knew three "Blood And Sand," in which

opposite Rudolf names: Lab Yuk-chuen, Xal starred

Pang-shing and Lau Leung, cad She Valentino..

appeared

com- he replied that they were the Valentino's bride and

names of fellow villagers of his. mented: "My, I'm shy."

She He was asked if he knew of one there," **Turn around coached herself when her back Cheung Yeung-fnt, and he sald

the he did not.

camera for

to the Was flashback.

Coogan, whose most famous plcture was "The Kid," watch. a take from his film, "Peck's ed a

His only comment Bad Boy."

about to complain

WELS

"scene-stealing dog." was Blx

years old

film was made.

Because of the assault, Lau said, he had no alternative but to sign the document "to pre- serve" himself.

In Custody

Coogan

"I have been in custody all when the this time and don't even know what wrong I have done," he told the Court. "I did not take part in the robbery, and know nothing about it."

Miss Lee, who looked attrac- tive despite the years sho would not admit, said she had beon in Hollywood from 1919 to 1938. She said she was doing "nothing now but this," referring to her quiz show ap pearance-United Press.

Cross-examined by Mr Green- feld, Lau said he signed a note book belonging to a detective at

Police the

Station. Asked whether it was possible that he

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signed the notebook at the time he was arrested in Salkung Market, accused said he was 60 frightened at the time that he did not remember whether he signed it there or not.

Shown the hotebook in ques- tion, the accused identified two signatures as being his.

Crown Counsel naked Lau f he would agree that one of those signatures was at the end of a statement he had made to the detective, and the other signature was affixed at the end of the formal caution which had been administered to him

Lau replied that he did not remember.

Further questioned, he sald he was also asked by the polies to sign his name on a larger Ho did not piece of paper. know the contents of this docu- ment, he added.

Copy Names

Lau alleged that he was given a piece of paper with the pardes of three persons, and ordered to copy down these three names onto the notebook.

a

few

He maintained that he could

only read and write characters himself.

Hearing is continuing.

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CHILD WELFARE EXPERT

GIVES ADVICE

Like Lauren Bacall, Says John Wayne

By China Mall Roporter Hollywood film stor

John

Wayne left Hongkong by PAA this morning to fly to Bangkok to continue his business-cum-pleasure trip.

As he was hurrying through in the airport the passageway terminal building to the tarmac, he came face to face with Ah Fan, the pretty attendant of the Indies tollet at the airport,

The actor looked and ex- claimed: "This girl looks like nna of our movie stars-Lauren Bacall,"

John Wayne then continued on to catch his plane, leaving the girl pondering

the star had said.

what

TRANSLATED

SHEAFFERS

Skrip

MEN WITH LONG RECORDS FAIL

IN APPEALS

Three appeals against severity of sentence and one appeal against conviction were dismissed by the Full Court com- prising the Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice T. J. Gould and the Puisne Judge, Mr Justice J. R. Gregg this morning.

J

Kwong Wing-sang, 23,

Dismissing the application, Mr hawker, with six previous con- Justice Gould sală that appeal-

Court he

Rejected

pen in

victions, who was sentenced to lant was virtually caught red- three years and ordered to be handed with the stolen placed under police supervision his pocket, for two years for larceny trom the person told the. was forced to commit the crime.

Kwong said that as a result of his arrest as a hawker, his

confiscated. goods were was without money for fresh capital, Seeing a man walking along the street with "a pen al- dropping out of his $1031 pockel," he picked it, he said.

Long Record

Ho

His Lordship sald that the Trial Judge had heard the evide once of Crown wlineases and appeallant's own evidence and had believed that given by the witnesses for the Trosecution

and rejected appellant's,

Me W. A. Blair-Kerr, Sentor Crown Counsel, appeared for the Crown.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

When the remarks were translated to her by a Chinese Refusing the application, the reporter, Ah Fan was neither Acting Chief Justice said that very happy or excited. She just appellant's long recard consisted halt smiled and said: "I don't mostly of the same type of know John Wayne." She added offence-larceny from the per- that she was not a John Wayne son-and the Court saw no ren-

to fan. "I haven't been to see his son

interfere

the with films but if I have, I can't re-sentence imposed member it," she said

Asking for. Asked whether she would punishment passed on him to be Hice to become a cinema star.remitted, Leung Wing. 27, who To The Editor, China Mall. Ah Fan modestly said: "I don't was sentenced to five years and of the cane for However, eight strokes know how to ach" when reporters tried to ask possession of arms and ammuni- her more questions, she shyly tlon, said that fils health could withdrew and sought sanctuary not stand the caning. In "the room"

The need to awaken public interest in voluntary welfare efforts for the protection and pre- servation of the rights of a child, was stressed by Shri V. M. Kulkarni, Field Consultant in Asia of the International Union for Child A London, Feb. 11.

Welfare, at a press conference this morning. Times The

claimed, fo-

Mr Kulkarni, speaking in the| Mr Kulkarni offers this advice federation 籍 day that comprising Malaya, Singa-ce of the Hongkong Council to parents, "Give your time to accom-your children now, or they may of Social Service, was pore, and British Borneo panied by Mrs M. I. Paper give you a terrible time later." may be

a desirable ob- Secretary of the Countii.

can be had just flown la from Tokyo jective if a way

and will leave for China tomor found to resolve certain rew for two weeks to continue to investigate the latest deve- "In Southeast Asla Brilh❘lopments in the field of child rule is now limited to Singapore | welfate, --where Internal self-govern- this year and to mont is due the northern parts of Borneo," this independent London daily pointed out.

conflicts.

the

corporal

Leung was also placed under police supervision for two years Hla record showed he had four

INSPECTOR previous convictions,

GRANTED BAIL

at

"In

that bo

Zota's Power?'

Sir, It was with interest, and must say considerable sur- prise, that I read Dr J. Gordon Cook's article "Zeta

Could Change, Our Climate" which appears in today's China Mall, for ho goes to some length to resuscitate a myth that was as- sumed to be dend In the nine- teenth century,

The Chief Justice sald the strokes. would

He assures his readers that administered under medical were it not for the Gulf Stream attention and I appellant, was "bringing heat absorbed from found unfit for the caning if the tropical sunshine of the would not be given.

Gulf of Mexico our lush green, countryside would revert His Lordship pointed out that

of Police Sub-Inspector, Au appellant was found in passes to a bleak and barren wilder-

ness, etc."--he is referring, Ping-yan, 22, of 218 Lock-slon of a revolver and ammuni- course, to the British Isics and hart Road, ground floor, tion; and if used either Western Europe,

Allow me to quote from an charged with conspiracy appellant or by some one else to

commit a crirac, people might encyclopaedia which, I would, to collect corrupt pay thereby have been killed or

add, is more or less word for ments, was granted ball injured. The record showod

word what the eleventh edition of $1,000 by Mr. Hin- that the revolver and ammuni- of the Encyclopaedia Britannica shing Lo Central tion were probably designed for

(printed in the carly days of auch D purpose.

the

the present century), told me Magistracy this morning circumstances your application

years ago, unless my memory is Accused was alleged to have

dis

"It is a very much at fault: conspired with others not in for leave to appeal is

common error to attribute the custody to collect money from missed," His Lordship said.

warmth of the British Isles and heroin sellers between July last

Western Europe generally to year and January this year.

the Gulf Stream, but this has no The

case was further manded until next Monday. Luk Koung, 27. given Ave influence whatever except in so Defendant is represented by years for housebreaking and for as it feeds the North Allan- asked for a reduction le Drift. Both the Gulf Stream members of the Mr Edmund Cheung, of Peter larceny

Mo and Co. Detective Sub- of sentence on the ground that and the North Atlantic Drift Philippine Government

Insp. R. B. Bayless prosecuted. he had since regretted the owe their movement to the

direction team

prevalling of investigators No plea was taken.

crime, becauso the complain-

winds. and Is the south- sent here to look, into a

ants in the case "are my friends." He added: "I had in westerly airstream coming from barter deal between this

regions and passing fact no intention to commit the warmer Hongkong firm and

aver the surface waters of the crime." Philippine Government

Atlantic Drift that brings tha left here for Bangkok by

warmth inland to influence the PAA this morning.

climate of Western Europe".

The italics are mine, All very bewildering—or is it?

BLAG

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PI RICE TEAM LEAVES

The present tour, which has Виппа, Thalland, included Japan, Hongkong and will cover China, Saigon and Malaya be-

returns to Four "Here, two territories, Sara- fore Mr Kulkarni

Delhi on March 15, is to collect wak and North Boroco, are

material and to make prepara- coloales, and the third.Brunel, is ruled by a Malay sultan un tions for the World Child Wel- be held in It is in fore Congress to der British protection. Borneo that the process of poll-Brussels from July 20-20

evolution has cal

carcely year. begun.

INITIATIVE

The Theme

1

re-

Two Injured In Traffic Accidents

Five Years

Luk's police record showed ho hau 15 prqvious convictions, 11 of which were for breach of deportation order.

of the

The theme for the Congress "Last week saw the initiative is "The Parents' Hole in the The group consists of Messrs Onally taken in the British pro- Child's Development” It is Rumon Lacson, Ramon Enri- posals for the creation of envisaged that child welfare in quer, Pablo Tapia and Pedro central authority responsible for its widest sense must strike a Rodrigo who are going to Bang- defence, external relations, in- balance between the danger of kok to check on the quality of A man and a ten-year-old boy ternal security, and communica- interfering in the integrity and the rice and to make a report tions over all three territories. intimacy of the home and the of their finding to Manila for

Thus for only the proposal danger of interfering too late, Anal approval. has been put forward: nothing when serious damage has

harter deal will be done until public reaç- been caused to the child or to trading 30,000 tons of rice for tion has been expressed. But the relationships within the 10,000 tons of copra from the, Tin, living at No 18, Yia Tung Lau Wing, 21, unemployed, who of Training the Hand Bat Rocks plainly, this can only foreshadow | family.

federation of all three terri tortes. at some future."-Router.

time in the

RUSSIAN AID PACT

The

сопсетия

Refusing the application, the Chief Justice anld that since his

Finishing School appellant had spent most of his To The Editor, China Mali, Arst imprisonment in 1948, word Injured in separate time in and out of gaol, and traffic accidents in Hong- was in fact a habitual criminal. Sic, I read with interest your

Interview with Dr Rene Young, kong Island yesterday.

Appealing against conviction, regarding his proposed project The man, 27-year-old Leung

the Crodio HK Finishing Street, ground floor, was knock was sentenced to three and a Mr Ramon Lacson told news ed down and seriousy injured half years and two years police School for Girls. To me, this is In fact, I have Mr Kulkarni spoke also

men before his departure this by a private car whilst riding supervision for larceny from welcome news. International Study Coo- morning. If the Bangkok rice a bicycle in Connaught Road the person alleged ho was often wondered why a school of the

Two falsely convicted.

wil this kind was not started yours ference to be held in Tokyo on is variable, we will take steps Centralit

hosses at the trial had constetett | ago toʻall an urgent need." November 23-27 on. "The to got 14 from another coun-

evidenca against Inc," ho properly organked and operated. Child in the Family", and sub- | try."

further alleged,

It will be quite a success. I am sure had some of my female friends attended such a school, would not have been placed in such an embarrassment da in the

Philippines.

of

stituto family care in Institu-

tions and foster-homes.

Ha declared that instead of

building institutions, children Chickens Stolen

should be allowed to grow in

APPROVED familles and

Cairo, Feb. 10.

best

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The

lad, ten-year-old Chu 259, Bing-ken, living at No Hennessy Road, third floor, Wanchal, was struck by a lorry outside Morrison School in

Stubbs Road

Both victims

are receiving treatment in Queen Mary Hos

Two men entered that 12 1 were impossible for the child to re-numbered but at San Dit Tan. main in its own family, the next Talen Wan, carly this morning pital. The National Assembly to foster-parents.

was a home with and stole $20 crab, some cloth- Ing and 'welve chickens after day unonimously approved Ho added that the role of the first tying up the lone occupant, the 700-million-rouble

a 84-year-old man, and state family community (US$175 million) aid part | services has to be undersund the Police for questioning in with Russia agreed on by and rediscovered by planning

A man has been detained by

the two Governments fatain a realistic way so that the connection with the robbery. family is sirengthened, for the

last year.

cal place for a child to be is The funds were considered inside a famliy group,

the backbone of Egypt's current

five-year Industrial development

plan.

The..., nfd agreement

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Much Interest

· Purse Stolen

Engineer

Nobel Prize following:

Lecture

1. On our way to a dance'my' pretty and beautifully dreared girl friend gives me her band". bag, her stole and umbrella, say... Ing: "Carry' theme. You are not Among the most coveted awards in the literary, world is polite. Do you not know it's the

gentleman's place. 10 CATE the Nobel Prize given by the things for a lady? Royal Academy. of Sweden.

2. Timo 10 p.m. and we are AB

On Murder Mary works-known authors, gelling off a Peaks tram

Charge

Kipling, Rabindraneth Tagore,

everyone knows: the: stepa ·ero Shaw, Pearl Buck and Wether high and narrow. I offered. Fauldener for instance, have bean a helping hand to the lady guest honoured with it. Last year whom I had met at dinner, at a young French writer, Albertusuund friend's home on the Camus received it from the hands Peak. She wored my proffered of King Gustave. Vi la a megd hd way aying in betsjudyan

He mid there was much inter-skud Ning Road market, Sham- this morning accused of the pie in Stockhoun a few months are lovers

Blount Deremony which took s nesd people will think we

actually signed in Moscow lant est abroad In the Children's month by the Egyptian Minister Garden in U Kwal in the New hulpo, yesterday.

Industry, Aux Bidky, and a Territories, Soviet Presidium member, Mrs Palmer said that! It was

Sidky specified in the Nation of the Social Welfare Office

A woman hud her inner An engineer, Wong Kum-chlu, jacket pocket out and her puras: 38, appeared before Mr Elo stolen whilst she was in the thing Lo at Central Magistmey

murder of a woman, Chan Kal- khag, at the Tai Koon Hotal in **9.

HABETom co on elling dozens of Des Voeux Road on or about Whole Commik; 'horn"". In similars canon, but a blue Pantr Algiers 44 years ago?. Which are |tidarta, I know that this kind of 12th is the Last Day of Mikhail G. Parvuhkin, hoped that Miss Jenny Cheung Earrings Snatched by

・Wong, realding at No. 120 Yoo the main sepepta, of his work behaviour" was done innocent al Assembly today y that the would attend the Bludy Cenfor- „Also pair of earrings, was Kuk Street, first door, was re- translated now it all sangungest and only through Igriocance. arcoment had no polliical ence in Japan as delegate: from snatched from a 70-year-old manded three days in Police M. Cariel Will try to narwer all those ladies landed

theo questions, in the decaibo hà, achool feel. peply Brag airings attached." Kgypt is to Hongkong. She said that child woman whilst she was walking custody for further enquiries,

Divisional Detective Inspector will give at the alliance' Frare much infix, pank would, hot, brus repay the money over 13 years welfare born was one of the bags in Tel Hang Ting Road, near

chao, 45,- krenck (Bank | Kuld", lampáned.. at two and one-half per cent gest problems with about 30,000 | Tat Chit Street, Kowloom Teal,] [R__A, Dudman prosecuteil. inforest United Presa

ing at 6,30 pano todays 1:59. Births each rest,

yesterday afternoon,

No pica was taken.

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