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49 Found On
Board Fishing Junk
A Revenue launch patrolling off Wong Chu Kok, Lamma Island, early on Saturday morning stopped a fishing junk with 49 illegal immi- grants and 558 pounds of dutiable Chinese tobacco. on board.
The master of the vessel, Ng Kan-you, 22, appeared before Mr in-hing Lo ht Central Magistracy this morning on charges of importing dulable without a licence, commoditlos
com-
possession of dutinble modities and conveying legal immigrants.
months'
He was fined $4,000 with the alternative of nine Imprisonment,
Mak Shek, 32, a sailor of the junk, was fined $1,500 or three months and alx weeks in prison. for importing dulable commodi- ties without a hernce, possessing dutable commodities and alding nd abetting in conveying of the legal immigrants.
Another sailor, Muk Ming. 22. was fined $2,000 or four months and afx weeks in gaol on charges identical to those against the second defendant.
The defendunts, who all hod clear records, pleaded guilty to the respective charges.
WATCHMAN
ON WOUNDING
CHARGE
An Indian watchman, Gurvatn Singh, 44, residing at the Indian Temple at Queen's Road, East, appeared at Central Magistracy this morning charged with wounding another Indian, Durwaul Singh.
offence which was alleged to He pleaded not guilty to the bave taken place at the Temple on October 31.
The magistrate Mr A.L. Lenthlean, ixed November 0.
hearing for
HE LEADS IN
Outlining the facts in respect CUBA'S POLLS
of the Arst and second charges against the defendants, Senior Revenue Inspector WL Stone sald that Revenue Launch No. 5 was on routine patrol off Wong Chu Kok, Lamma Istand, at about 5.15 B. on Novem- ber 1 and saw a shing junk sailing without lights "very close to shure.
Pretending
Ashing vessel,
CHINA
Page 10,
Havana, Nov. 3. Dr Andres Rivero Aguero, supported by a four-party Gov-) ernment coalition, wus piling)
two-to-one lead against
up
kis enmbined opposition tonight] tri early returns from Cuba's
Army-kuorded Presidential vice-
tion,
Opposing him were Ramon Grau Son Martin, former Pro-
As the launch approached the sldent, cundidate of the Cuban
Inspector Stono] Revolutionary (Authentic)!
offers Party: Carlos Marquez Sterling, aroused when, Free People's Party:
stated, the Revenue
Auspletons were
they notleed some people on Alberto Salos Amaro,
pretending to Union Party.--U.P.I.
board the Junk
fst.
The officers then
carried out
un Investigation of the junk and two Chinese men {first and third defendants) were seen to Jump overboard and start lo swim to shore.
They were chased and picked up by the launch. The officers founil on board
un:l
Cuban
Christ Church Fair
As part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of Christ the vessel x Kowloon Tong.
• Patr will be
Church
backs containing 358 pounds of held on the Sports Ground, Gun Chinese tobacco. The Club Hill Barrucks, Gascoigne immigrants numbered 49, th-Road entrance,
en Saturday, spector Stone added,
November 15, from 2.30 to 6.30 Inspector Stone also pointed Pm, by kind permission of L
O.BE.. com- out that the duty on the to- Col. D. Burnett, bacco was well over $1,500.
manding the Lagcashire Regi- ment.
The prosecuting officer, In- apector Chiu Hon-chun told the Court that the Police took over the arrests of the defendants at Custodian
Wharf on day concerned.
Burglary
Clothing and
tho
cash to a tot
value of $261 were stolen from
a stone hut in Holy Cross Palt
the
The Beaumont said
Vicur.
the Rev. T. w.
this This Church is the youngest of morning:
three English-speaking Anglican Churches, and is not endowed, so is trying to raise a considerable sum of money for upkeep and expansion."
Watch Stolen
A wrist watch was snatched
Village, Shoukiwan, between from a woman pedestrian whilst
midnight last
this morning.
night and carly she was walking in Un Chau
Street yesterday afternoon.
This Funny World
Bet Schut
"He forgot the milk.'"
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1958.
Sai Wan Ceremony
HE Hon. Donald M. Fleming, Canadian Minister
section of the Sai Wan Military Cemetery, this morning, in honour of Canadian soldiers who fell in the defence of Hongkong'in 1941.
·
Short Cut Asks Pope
In Gas Supply
To Intercede
.
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
HK To Be Centre For Fukienese Films Too?
By DAVID T. K. WONG
Singapore. Hongkong, which is nlready an important centre in the production of films in Cantonese and Mandarin, is likely to be made into a centre · for.. films in the Fuklenese dialect' also. A Singapore company of distributors, exporters and producers of films, the Kong Ngée Com- pany. Ltd., has placed advertisements in the local papers
In แก Rttempt
recruit to talent .for Fukienese films to be inado in Hongkong next year.
The company is at pre- sent producing 12
Cantonese und-80 Man- darin films in Hongkong a year. It is now' plan- ning to produce 12 Fuklenese films there a year, beginning next year.
"This is the first time we are going to produce Fukienese films and wo are giving local talent a chance to prove they can make.good also. Hitherto we have been using Hongkong stars for our films," Mr Ho -Thye Ngiap, the mana-
of the company ger aald.
He said the company was making films in Hong- kong because produc-
Alhambra Theatre
Inquest Result
(Continued from Page 1).
been appointed to exccute building works to give continu-
problems in demolition created oqs supervision during the by the peculiar nature of the execution of such building
cof structure.
works to ensure that the build "To my mind, therefore, Mring works are being executed in Lee and Mr Ma falled in their accordance with the regulation.” duty
supervise demolition. They may have been under no
Licence
Kre
duty under the building_regula- "Mr Tauf Tung staled that-he lams to supervise and under no held a building contractor's legal duty apart from the regula-licence and that he was the sole tions to Enrone, except the proprietor of Tsui Tung building owner.
Construction Company.
"He stated that his elder supervise when he had sub-brother Taul Wan had originally mitted For 4, and the block owned the firm, but then he
"MY Lee, hnd undertaken to
tion costs are lower there.
Since the advertisements appeared the company has been awamped with. applicants, the youngest being 12-year-old
girl and the oldest a 42- year-old man,..
"Successful candidates
will be sent to our studio in Hongkong for training in, drama and all aspects of the movie industry," Mr Ho said. They will spend about a year training in Hong- kong. During that time they will be given board and lodging and some allowance.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Quiet Change
Sir--Your editorial comunitat
the Files
25
years
AGO
AS expected for
aomo
months, a recognition agreement has now been | reached betéen the United States and Soviet Russin. While the resumption of relations is causing jubila tion among the manufac turers and producers, in America, Manchukuo con siders it may drag the United States into war,
Mr F. Bronson Rea Man- chukuo Counsellor for Foreign Affairo altualed in Washington, Has issued a warning of the possibility of the US being in- volved in war in the Pacific an result of its economie. and financial ties with Russia, Ir loans and credits granted to the Soviet are used for furthec preparations in Central Asia and Siberia,
M. W. Lo and Mre Litton bed an unerpectedly easy passage into the final of the Open Mized Doubles. Cham- pionship of the Colony when they met and defeated E. C. Fincher and Miss O. Dalziel at the Chinese RC yesterday
on the teenagers who are "lords afternoon. The score was 6-1, of the economy" in Britain to | -2. day omits one of the most alarming 'uspects of this prob- lem. This, is centive for young men to enter the reduced in- apprenticeshly. Many young-
plan to P.W.D. and he was took it over in 1954 and her find it difficult to live on THE Chinese in Hongkong- clearly under a moral or public ployed his brother as foreman. duty to 20, as was Mr Ma. He said he left everything con
as his assistant. That is to saycerning this contract to his they were bound to give such brother, that Teul. Ming, a daily periodical supervision 19 was pakt worker was pennanently in reasonable. This, in my opinion, charge on the site while it was they failed to do."
inspected from time to time by Tout Wan.
The manner In which the workmen proceeded on May 14, 15, 13 and 17 to demolish the roof was first they demolistred the concrete slabs on top of the | main arch which' carried most of -the deadweight of the roof.
"With those slabs they de-
-very
to
25 a week learning a craft for have a habit of dump- four or Ave. years the years ing bodies in the street at when most teenagers are trying dead of night, says a assert their independence Colonial Office report. Last from home and impress their girls friends when they can year 1,427 bodies were re- earn up to 210 a week doing ported by the police as unskilled Inbour.
However, dumped, compared with your readers should not regard 1,295 in this is yet another nail in Bri-
the preceding tain'
The Algerian Rebel Premier, molished the beams which held police that he and his brother our market in the UK.
Cairo, Nov. 4.
Ferhat Abbas, yesterday cabled world religieus and secular leaders to intercede in favour of Ave hunger-striking Algerian ministers held prisoner by the French.
The gas supply to the Cen- trul District was cut off for about 15 minutes at mid-day today. Investigations by Hongkong!
and China Gas Co. en- la telegram to Pope John Dag Hammarskjold, gineers showed the break. XXII.
United Nations Secretary-Gen- down was caused by the cral, and Charles Mallchair- stoppage of a machine in man of the U.N. General AB- the company's slation at sembly, Abbas sold the five men
received "brutal" treatment. Kennedy Town.
A failure in the electric cur-į
He added that the French Gov- rent running the machinement was responsible for
their, lives. was found to be respon- sible for its stoppage: The matter is being investi-Premier gated by the Hongkong U.P.I. Electric Co.
As soon as the breakdown
was discovered, alterna
The ministers, including Vice- Benbella, began the hunker strike on Saturday
tive equipment was put to TWO HURT, IN
work in the station and
the gas supply went back ROAD MISHAPS
to normal soon after,
Private Car Stolen
-
**
This
temporary of this unexpected accompaniment of full employ
ent
DICK WILSON
In an endeavour to stop this deposit of corpses have been practice, chambers for the established at all the Chinese pubile dispensaries,
table is so arranged, that, the weight of a body on.it closcà un electric circuit, which rings a bell in the caretakers' room, :So far the chambers have not been a real success.
In some cases the top of the
This witness clearly had no knowledge of the building re-
coln, America has year.. gulation which he is obliged to
known this phenomenon tob observe. “
and the "school-leaving bulgoi Tsui Wau's evidence was also of children born just after the far from satisfactory,he war is about to swamp the lab had originally informed the!
should ensure o were in partriotshly and I be alleviation the two main girders_apart and gave them some later support. lieve this to have been the case "They then demolished the "He stated that he was omtire- beams which also gave later ly in charge of this job, and a support to the main girders. that ho had not received any The loss of lateral support] general warning not to tourin and perhaps come interference] beams, girders, or columns. This with the girders caused the again contradicted the statement girders to buckle and this buck- which he (Tsul Wan) made to
ing coused the roof to crash the police. He did some
The plan of demolition whien little supervision of the work should have been followed ac- on the roof and never referred cording to Mr Cushion was first either to Mr Lee of Mr Me as the slabs on the flat part of the to the manner in which demoll- roof rather than on the arch tion should take place. should have been demolished, then the slabs on the arch be tween the two main girders.
"By these means the dead- weight on the girders would have been greatly reduced and the other beams could then have been attacked and the controlled collapse arranged.
Safe Course
"That this or some similar safe
Experience
but
"He is a man who has had considerable experience de- molition and his fallure to take any precaution whatsoever by consultation with the architect, or otherwise for the safety of the workmen, I can only regard as carelessness almost amount- ing to callousness.""
*,
Boy Killed
By Lorry
1
In a match between the A three-year-old boy, Lau Shanghai interport team and Chuck-wah, of No: 41, Tal Nom the Kowloon cricket club, Street, ground floor, was knock Shanghai won by 250 runs to ed down, and fatally injured by 193. For Kowloon, E.C.. Fin- a lorry near his home yesterday. cher scored 44, F.A. Munn, 38 The lod died shortly after and S.V. Gilting, 27. D.W. admission to Kowloon Hospital. Leach scored 60 for the visi- lora as well as taking four for. 31.
ATOM EXPERT
FOR HK
Tsui Tung Kee Construction course was not adopted I blame Company had at the time of this in part on the fallure of Mr Lection at the Chartered Bank in tragedy big job on the démoli- or Mr Ma to supervise during Hongkong, two jobs in Mongiect
SCHEDULED for opening the days on which the workers Road, one in Yuen Chow Street Two persons were injured in
on or about December Mr John Graham, one of the trafe accidents In Kowloon were on the root.
the and the Alhambra Theatre. Taul Ove commissioners
Alhambra 15, the now "The main blame
of for
the yesterday, They were admitted
tragody must however rest on ung spent all his time on the United States Atomic Energy Theatre in Nathan Road to hospital for treatment.
the Teul Tung Kee Construc- Wan attended to all the sites in Hongkong for a one-day visit modern cinema houses, not Chartered Bank slts while Tal Commission, is due to arrive in will be ono of the most The victims are a ten-year- tion Company, old boy, Chan Hung-lit, Ilving "That Arm
Kowloon. employed the BD, Balley Street, sixth workomen and owed a duty to for them adequately to supervise this morning,
pa November 28, states a ficu- "It was therefore impossible ter dispatch from Washington only on the mainland but A private car, llcence No. 7512, floor, who was struck by athens in law
and in social the Alhambra Theatre..
In the whole colony. was stolen on Sunday morning private car in Wylie Road, near Justice, to provide a safe system
The contractors endeavoured : Mr Graham, who will be on a what it was parked in Con- Waterloo Road, and a 19-year- | of work for them,
to suggest that Teul Ming, who tour of Japan and the Philip- naught Road Central, near old girl, Yip To-chl, of No. 67,
"Regulation 13 (4) of the was really a daily paid worker, pines to study the atomic re- Pedder Street.
Tai Nam Street, first floor, who
Building (Administration) Re-was the person responsible for search projects of those coun- The stolen "ear is a 1951 H- was knocked down by a private gulation 1030, requires every re-this demolition. This is something iries, in to atop
car near Chi Man Village.
over in the gistered contractor, who nas which I cannot accept and I Colony on his way to Tokyo
completely exonerate Taui Ming from Manila, from blame,"
man.
A HOME FROM HOME
CHINESE SEAMEN
FOR
IN LONDON'S DOCKLAND
London, Nov. 3. The Nev Peter Kao lias arrived here with his wife and three sons from Hongkong to take over a new centre in London's dockland for Chinese'seamen,
are John, 10, and James, 1. The Star said that Mrs Kao} , apoke no English, "Sa her husland will do all the shop- ..ping for them, buying risostly
Chineep food,” It eckled."
The centre la to be opened next | “They have brought Chinese
furniture for their home sieur) the mission so that Mr Kao
Thursday.
Today, the London evening
newspaper, The Star, puts {| can provide a homelike almos- linked a picture of Mrs Kno and her five-mànth-old baby Phillp. The other children
phers for this Chinese nailors. "Virs Kao and the boys have never worn Western dress
Mr Leonard sald the Alham-
bra Investment Company should, felt, engaged a wholes
lencheria of overlain co
|attendance on the site..
Final Mattor
"There is one Лnal matter to.
which I feel I should allude, It
Adjoining the new promises of the National Commercial and Saving Bank at the corner' of Ico House Stroot and Des Voeux Road the new Hongkong Stock exchange building will,
Visiting Musicians in anteipated, be ready for
Play Tonight.
Enrico Mainardi, oelio, and
ocentpancy on March 1, 1934. When completed the new stock erchange will be able to lay claim to the title of aky
was suggested to me by Marie Zecchi, plano, will give a scraper for it will be one of Low in the course Inquirica tital in Hongkong, ono must not recitat tonight at 9.40, paa. from the highest buildings in the expect adequate safeguard for hong.
the Concert Hall of Hadio Hong-colony. It le pleasing to note that local cement, the product
before but today "John and | the safely of workmon as one
and wolf cub - hats, Mrs Kas | London.
James tried on grey Bulle would find for example, in These two are celebrated, both the Green Toland Cement as a duo lepm and so koloists, company is being sised in the was' for 10 years à teacher. while I agree that workers while Carlo Zeccht has a con- Buliding, in Hongkong. Despite Che In Hongkong are more prone to sidorable reputallon as a con strangeness sie liker London | lake-rlňkя and are less well ductor, having conducted both anki Londoners very much", protected by social legislatie the Orchestra of La Scala Milan
Printed, and *** published by The Star sald, Mr Kno was) and "rada Uniona
then their the Vienna Symphony and the NCE GONDON NEWLANDS happy to bring his family,to | fnglish counterparti, that in my London Philharmonic,
PIANCE for and on behalf of London's Jookland. Il quoted | mind incresses rather than de-
Bouth China Morning-Post jhim as saying: "They are credade, the responsibilities
Tonight Malinandi and Zecctal Limited at 1-8 Windham 'Sirect, all so wonderfully friendly those, who are in authority aver will play Schumann's Pigees In City of Victoria in the Colony hera-Reuter,
them,"
the Elyle of Folk Music,"
of Hongkong, 15
of
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