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This Bag HONGKONG TUG BEGINS Two Fined $750:

Contains Opium'

Snr Superintendent T, Cash-

man of tho Narco-

tics Buroau raid ja

Court

LONG OCEAN TOW

Nelson, N.Z., Dec. 11-By Airmail.

evidence in the Victoria The Hongkong ocean-going tug Cabrilla sailed from here fo- day for her home port with two old coastal vessels in

District

this morning that he heard on board a ship

a man

tol!

Police Ofticare on the point of opening

suit; case in his cobin: "1 would like to tell you the truth, this suitcase con- tales opium."

The superintendent said that the man, Curvin Ralum, who was yours' Raol sentenced to three

last Friday by Judge B.J. Jen-

ms for possession 62 33, had then said that Die suiteache

not belong to him.

Ta viziteuse had 1102 Jabers it and when asked if he had

ther gerted

presence AH

Trage tease under his bed for the ships authorities, Currim sald No." Superintendent Cashe Dan said.

A1%

vvidence

Patchachi kumtha

uf

Superintendent Cashnou whe

RAI

agains!! Ebrahim, 35. Textile Mere hand of Tanganyika, changed

possession with: pha and cutispiracy and Te

Cluny Takrat ni Mathew

with runspiracy, sand! That wh told this, Ellim who sanred Carram's endin cented whershup of the

+50

Chief Inspected

↓

Smt.

Smith M -siste by 17:31 The Ce IN 14 ing heard before Judge #1 Jennings

ter.

Sailor Fined

J

A 2-year-old able scamun,

J. Williamson, of HMS Chiches-

was charged with comune

Mr A. L arasul refe Leathieun af Central Magistracy pleaded Alus manding. guity and was fined $75 or 21 dars in prison.

tow.

They are the 950-ton Rata and the 660-ton Murray, both for many years employed on the coastal New Zealand trade for the Anchor Shipping Company of Nelson.

Captain A. Conejero, master of the tug, said before, he sailed he hoped to average three knots with a favourable trade wind for the 5,000-mije

voyage.

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The little Convoy make only one stop en route, at Townsville in Queensland to refuel, and will sail through the Torres Strait north of Australia.

The ships are expected to reach Townsville in about 26; days and Hongkong in just over two months,

Deserted

Court Told Of Smuggling

Gold

From Macao

SHEAFFER'S

NEW BALLPOINT

WITH ENGLUNIST

AYURABIB AT ALL #GÖRETORES

STUDENTS

COMING TO HK

ON

STUDY TOUR

By DAVID T. K. WONG

Singapore Thirty-two Nanyang Univer- sity students, currently on their

sity vacation, will be visiting

A 31-year-old seaman, Wong Ping, of 273 Main three-and-a-half-month univer- Street East, Shaukiwan, first floor, was fined Hongkong next month as part of $750 this morning when he pleaded guilty to ten-week study tour. importing. 20 bars of gold, worth approximate-students ly $27,000, without a permit.

ong Lo at Central.

invide

He appeared before Mr Hin Twenty baru of gold were found mitigation, Wong asked for Senior Revenue Inspector leniency sayli that he had W. L.. Stone, prosecuting, told borrowed the $1,000 for his hail, the Court that early on Friday He added that he was carrying morning, acting on information, the gold for someone else.

Sub-inspector Revenue

Yuen

Chau, went to the Ming Sang Wharf to wall for the arrival of a motor vessel the "Wing Shun Lee" from Macao.

The vessel come alongside at 7.30 am.

北

In another ease of a similar nature, 34-year-old enolie. Kwok Kay, was piso find $730 by Mr Hin-shing La for importing 11 bars of gold.

Kwok was arrested also on Friday by Car sume

Sub- Wong

Yum left the vessel three Inspector

Chou, who hours later. Just outside the waited for the arrival of the

from $5 Tak Shing

Maruc wharf gate, he was stopped by Inspector Yuen and usited if his Kwok denied that he had any. thing to declare when asked by had anything to declare, parti- cularly gold. He said No.

the Inspector However, He was inken, back

Kwok to the

tuler

vessel and in the presence of the

laken to Queen Mary Hospital master of the vessel.

where He was

an X-Ray examination 11 bar of gold revealed the concealed inside his body.

'The Cabrilla carries crew of 20-all Filipinos. searched and found to have u

On board the Rata is Cap-cloth belt tied around his waist,

Lain J. S. Bor of Hong-

kong with five Filipinos but the Murray is a deserted

ship.

The three vessels are in line with the tug leading and the Murray last. They are linked by chain bridies And wire

WSCIN.

Some steam pressure is being kept up on the Rata which carries sufficient cual for four day's steaming In case emergency.

Of

have

The two uld steamers been moored side by side i Nelson for more than a year since they were laid up. They have been purebased by the Lonene Shipping Company of Hongkong for coastal trade in Chinese waters,

Veterans

[MI]; the Cabrilia naster

LIFE IN

WBX

The tour.

STERLING SILVER TIP

From the Files

25

THE

years

AGO.

marathon

round the

organised for Canton

In the Commonce

in the three territories,"

spokesman for Nanyang Univers slty said.

raco

city of

to be held on

Faculty, will also visit Formes February 24, will start at and the Philippines,

noon from the public discussions with business leaders

"Part of the tour will include | athletic filekl оп Taltung

(Great East) Road.

The runners wil complete three elreuits of the athletic Arld before taking off to run along the roads which encircle Canton. Aftur returning to Taitung Road, the winner will be the first runner to complute ene further circuit of the pub- Be athlete held truck,

Another study tour is being organised for 48 students of the History and Geography Depart- nents of the university.

They will go to India to study tween India and China and to the early communications be-

study the social and economic situation in India,

Theft From Cars

Four coves involving the theft of articles from vehicles parked on the streets of the Colony dur ing the weekend have been re- ported to the Police, Articles stolen included cameras and clothing. In one case, a suspect was detained.

A THAMES HOUSEBOAT

Suzette Stone, Former China

Mail Reporter, Tells Of A Novel Venture In London ..

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Bird's Eye: A London col- lector recently bought for US$20,000, eight of Napo- It eccmo, leon's love letters. says the Boston Herald, a large price, until you recall that there are men still living who have paid more than that for their own.

AROM Bucharest came the report that the Prime Minister of Rumania, Dr Duce was shot dead by a student at the Sinala Railway Station. Three bul- Jets from the assassin's revolver struck the Premier in the head, just after hav- ing an audience with King Carol.

A

The student Was arrested. His name is ConstantinesCU, and he is believed to be member of the disbanded anti- Semitic "Iron Guard" organisa- tion.

He had three accomplices, but

Bring the shots at De Duca. One

Dr Duca's ministers who was standing beside

the Premier seriously wounded. M. Angelescu, for Education, now acting Prime Minister.

HOUSEBOAT life on ring, she hopes to have it to buy another ship which I shall before arstly threw a bomb

And

Just AS

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For her

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an ordinary Miss Stone chose an unusual and her just

an exciting and building has its 'ups' and 'downs' but extremely interesting route. are veterans of long

and semi-disasters. so has the Travelling through Continental place Ougin tows, They are employ- fashionable

houseboat. The most recent Europe b ay of Poland, she

sets occurred three days of spent three

days In Moscow lore Miss Slune was to leave before taking tho Trana- for Hongkong.

Siberian railway to Peking.

in

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Recently the Cabrilla towed! string of oi: barges to Kuwait

According to Miss Suzette and the voyage out to New Zealand had behind her three Stone, a former Hongkong burges for the Auckland (New resident who has recently Zealand) Harbour Board and a returned to the Colony for coastal vessut for the Fiji Gov-a six weeka visit, it's inex

cament.

new ton- friends. It's downright economical too!

Anuther tug owned by the pensive and provides the for those seeking

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When the tide went out that day the ship settled down as

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Ascuncion, Paraguay: Tho governments of Paraguay and Bolivia have agreed to prolong the Christmas holiday truce in the Gran Chaco conflict, until January 14.

Indian Rocket

the

usual into the mud, but must her for it was there that the have struck something sharp was born and Unlike many London dwell for it suddenly

spent part of sprung a lenk | her childhood,

New Delhi, Dec. 21, ings that fall to the lot of a and the craft began to flood.

Mies

Indhi's Stone, a one-time re- rocket will be

biggest single-stage working girl, the houseboat has

porter on the China Mall, went Christmas Day from Bangalore Launched on adequate plumbing, cooking "All hands were piped on and even a deck," recalls Miss Stone with

to England in 1933 and since by Iacilities, ilghung

then has worked

Indian Astronomical telephone.

a chuckle, "and action stations Standard.

the Evening Society, it was announced today. Sunday Express and It's cosy and comfortable, has assumed.”

the Evening News. She has also feet long with a diameter of four The 108-pound rocket is 13 open res and a central heat-

had considerable experience inches.U.P.1.- arrangement

Fortunately, however, the mat- ing

whereby rudiators operate

theter was settled by telephone and broadcasting for the BBC, boller.

before long they were towed Lato in January of over to a beach. Then, for 2year, Miss days, while workmen made the to England

Stone will return necessary repairs, the inhabitants

with her parents. They comped outdoors by candlelight. & Mrs L. B. Stone,

"Wet or dry though," she says, Naples and then complete their Hongkong to love every minute of 1. So Journey

through much, in fact, that I am hoping France by road.

Italy und

High Rents

And where else, for the same pries, could you get an uninter- rupted view of the river fruns your bedroom window?

It all began in 1950 when, up with high rents and Five people three of them fed

furnished children-vero injured

rooms, Miss Stong young in traffic

the bought an accidents 'over

ald sailing ship at All wooiend.

the

Court. injured Hampton

From there have been admitted to hospital she had it towed through the |for treatment.

locks and down the river to n sile on the Chelsea embani- Kwanment,

A five-year-old boy,

Wah of 280, "K" Block, recond Its generous dimensions of floor, Tai Hang Tung Resettle- 85 feet in length and 22 feet ment Area, Shamshulpo, was in width offered immense knocked down by a private carpetbilities for conversion and in Boundary Street near its before long, workmen, had it junction with Tai Hang Tung turned Into

variety of Road at 4.46 pm, yesterday. fatlete with all the comforts

Earlier in the afternoon,

normally restricted six-year-old girl, Kwok Slu- fair residence.

Frogmen

Diving For Diamonds

Copetown.

HE search for diamonds, May-which has long gone on

ying of Ching Sun Terrace, Deecrating it throughout with underground in South Africa, Shek Kip Mel was hit by a JA eye for both colour und is now going" on under the commercial Marry in Nên Chang | comfort Miss Stone ined. Street, Shamshulpo.

corporated one or

foreign

wheel con-

A woman, Wong Ol-wah, aged and mautical louches nich as 20, of No, bo Hau Pul Loong gay Hongkong lanterns and a Road, Arst floor, was knocked įruvolving obip's down by a private car Inverted into a coffee table. Sheung Heung Road near its

Junelion with Раи Chung Seven Tonants

Sireet, Hung Hom.

On Saturday afternoon,

5

of a

Five froginen frum Capetown have begun. diving of the const of diamond-rich South West Africa in search of the precious stoneJ..

to

vill soil from

next

Suspect Arrested

A man was arrested following the theft of cash and a jackot valued at $90.16 from. No. 01A, Connaught Road Central, ground floor yesterday morning.

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Their search results from a Supreme Court decision in Recently she added another South Africa ruling that only a three-year-old girl, Lau Kwei-erbin on deck and now has seven certain mining company

hnd heung of No. 12, Second Cennats. fler own opariments, the right to mino minerals | Streri, Fu Mel Village, was hit situated in the stern, boast the belween high and low water by a private car near the Kál additional enchantment

mories along the coast-Up Tak Rine Range,

largo, window, which permits a now a favourite place' for free- male pedestrian, Cheong full view of the river activity. lance prospectors. Ship-king, aged 46, of No. 11A) "Jhat awans and ducks end me Two of the prospectors, Jablo Jardine Hill was knocked down at that end," she says, "making | Ehlers and John Viviers, by a tram car in Chuaoway Bay it n'ideal setting for my work." decided to explore further auf for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at-1-a Road near Moreton Terraza' on At present Miss Stone is to sou and in the Band they Saturday afternoon.

writing a novel. Begun last found 88 diamonds.

Wyndham Street, City of, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong,

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