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Police Officer Denies "Wide Powers" Accusation By Merchant

TUESDAY, DECEMBER

1958.

R DANCE

Court this

A Police officer denied at the Victoria District

morning that he had told a suspect that the police had the right to enter judge's chambers and talk with the judge before a hearing.

The officer, Detective Sub-Inspector D. McMahon, also denied saying that this was possible because "the police in Hongkong had wide powers".

Mr McMahon WAN replying the Polleo had found a certaha

Navy Men's Overland Trip To UK Cancelled

By ANDREW SLOAN

to questions in cross-examina Mrs Chagla, tion

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Fatehui

Ladha Ebrahim, 36, textile merchant from Tanganyika, who JA charged with possession of

opium and spiracy to deal in the strug

Another BR Tse Tuk-min. allus Matthew Chey, is jointly avevard charge.

on

the

conspiracy

Voluntarily?

cross-

Ebrahim went on to say that the witness told hum further that if he did not make a state- mat confessing to the charges. Mrs the pollee would arrest Chogla

Mr McMahon replied that he did not tell him anything about Mis Chugla v that she would be arrested if he did not confess.

Further questioned. witness This morning's examination by Ebrahim before denied having told Ebrahim that "to see Mr Judge B J Jennings was in the did connection with the testing

Matthew (the other accused; get ont lightly.** the unlsdbility of a statemeni which U prosecution sity Whenhim had made voluntarily.

The Royal Naval Expedition but which Ebranim opposed.

which had planned

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pen-

Mr MeMadum testified that on travel overland from September 25 he charged the two Singapore to London, has accused and another man, Currim been cancelled because

Rahim (originally named as the Arsi acessed, who hur since authorities pleaded guilty and the Burmesa rotused thom transit, tenced). viso.

On October 18, Mr McMahon went to the Victoria The lender

of the group of said, he

Remand Prison as a result of a four sailors, Petty Offerr Archie Macthichrist, who was in Hong kong with his ship in Septem- ber this year, wrote so me from Singapore telling me this news. The group were on the tri- gate St Bride's Bay while inmediately cautioned the accused.

Hongkong and it was

Juring

their stay here that they flu- alised their plans. The only headache they had when leaving the Colony, was travelling visas for Burma.

P/O MacGilchrist wrote, "We have deliberately willed in Singapore after our shipmales flew home In the hope that permission would be

granted

for the go-ahead, but with no luck I'm afraid.***

They now have

to walt

Singapore for passage to the

message from the Prison's Chiel

Ofer

There he saw Ebrahim, who

indicated to him that he wanted

to make statement. He im-

No Promise

Mr McMahon told the Court thut he did not hold out any promise or threat to Ebrahim in connection wan the making of The statement,

He wrote down what Ebrahim

Accused then read

said

not went

kaöraduusz: You also told me that the police in Hongkong had wide powerS.

my McMahon; No.

And that the police had the right to go into a judge's cham- bers to talk with the judge be- fare hearing,--No, I did not say that at all.

Time To Think Ebruhin; further alleged that

Tald Mr McMahon lo Kive

him time to think the matter

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uver and to cune back in two

three days and that US

quently he asked the Prison's Chief Omeer Lu contact Mr MeMabon

tell bum and

ne

would make 1 statement "but

under pressure" Denied all this,

Wilnese

Re-examined by Chief In- spcctor C. L. Smith, Mr Me- Mahon stated that he had

no

It authority to speak with a judge In the latter's chambers before Rs hc up, as far a case come

over and added something of the end In his own handwriting. and then sigstad.

UK, and in ali probability will visited him in spend Christmas there.

magistracy and

ce in The told him that

knew

The Rocky Feller Combo pose for a photograph. They are from left to right; Albert, kneellog, Junior, Eddie, Tony, and Pauline at the bongUS.

Boot-Black Gaoled For

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN

Doctor Tells From the Filos

Of Boy

Trafficking Who Wanted

In Women

Chan Tak-chol, 19-year-

old boot-black found guilty trampking In women

of

by Mr A. L. Leathlean at 4 previous hearing at the Central Magistrany, WRE sentenced to a total of 18 month imprisonment, by the Magistrate when bo to be unsaft - was found able for the training centro.

women,

Defendant was sentenced to 12 months' un thr charge of trafficking In

four months an the charge of falling to report while he was under polico supervision and two months for failure to report change of address,

The Jant Benience wah to be served concur

rently.

Boys Band Gets SHANGHAI

Its Big Chance

by Andrew Sloan

China Mail Reporter

A GROUP of five Filipino boys, four of them not yet in their teens, who got their first big chance in a Hongkong nightclub, leave the Colony today to begin an engagement in Ceylon,

They are the Rocky Feller Combo. The two youngest and the two eldest boys, all brothers, in the group arrived in Hongkong four months ago to join their father, a Colony musician. Their talent was soon spotted by Bing Rod- rigues, bandleader at one of Hongkong's leading nightclubs, when the boys put on an impromptu show during a party.

Invited by Mr Rodrigues to audition at his nightclub during a tea dance one Senday, the ne diminutive entertainers were a smosh hi with a large and de- rudience. Impressed, the nightclub's manager signed

first profes them up for their sional engagement,

Cross-examining the witness, Witness added that he WDS Elraht suggested to him that not very surprised when somas days before the statement | learned that Ebrahim wanted to

had was make, Mr McMahon

to see him at the Victoria Reghted mand Prison, because on pro- vious occasions the accused had tried to bargain with him and had offered to give evidence for

Crown in the

return for guarantee of a light sentence.

On each occasion, said wit-week ness, he told Ebrahim that he had no right to bargain or make any promise to the accused.

Hearing is proceeding

Simone's

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TEL. 22731 27608.

THE SHOWROOM

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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

TILL 6.00 P.M.

December 23rd and 24th

JORDAN BANS GEOGRAPHY TEXT BOOK

London, Dec. 22.

Word of their gay and lively A shows aprend quickly in night- clubbing circles, and within

they were packing them

in.

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The Many Among many to approach the group was an American pro- moter. Bul their father, who plays the bass-Addic Becom paniment for the boys, decided They were not ready yel.

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DOCKYARDS:

NO CHANGE

The annual meeting of the Shanghai Dockyards, Ltd was held this morning in Jardine House.

In a statement the Chairman

Mr 3. T. Fisnagan sald that the changed since his report a year

position of the company had not

ago.

"The Company's properties lo China are still under requisition

the US Dollar investments and

said.

Affection

A 19-your-old student, Chan Kin-hung, who was found guilty of indecently os-

25

years

-AGO

THE recent exposure saulting 0 ning-year-old of conditions pre- girl at a previous hearing, vailing in Hongkong's ane House of Detention, has wook by Mr 1. M. S. Don-led to the institution of noll at Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning.

was

remanded for

He naked for a report by the

Commissioner of Prisons on his suitability for admission to die

Buys Training Centre.

Mr Donnell remanded Chan after nearing evidence by Dr K. D. Scriven on the boy's mental condition.

Dr

Testifled

Cat

reforms under an order made by the Governor- in-Council, contained in the current issue of the Government Gazette.

ot

The order providea for rescis- alous of previous requirements regarding the employment vagrants, under which power was allowed to order the pick- ing of not more than one-and- a-half pounds of oskum a day,

Driven Chan was a boy of normal in- telligence and there was 10- thing to suggest that be was or crink labour not exceeding dehnitely einquent. Dr Ser-7,000 revolutions a day.

ven said he found lot boy sny and did and enther enten i

The bay bad no

The new regulations, under paren- the heading 'Industrial Trade', guidance Dr contru), In the provides "that a vagrant in the he stayed with his House of Detention evening

may be father who Was Indiferent Ki employed at such work as in- him and his step-mother who dustrial trade, preferably the actively disliked him.

vagrants asual trade, as the In the environment like this, Superintendent of the House of Dr Scriven continued, one would Detention where he is detained, frequently be tempted to gain shall prescribe, or at any other affection and the boy had a work of a hard bodily nature iceling for a need for affection. which the Governor shall, from This feeding, however, ins- time to time, approve, provided factor that vagrant shall not be so directed, might

the right | employed in the company with

which overweighed

and wrong in a person's mind. ordinary prisoners."

Chan was represented by Mr Lawrence Leong. instructed

by M. K. Lam and Co.

Gaoled On Drug Charge

DON

*

ON Bradman, the greatest of Austra- lia's batsmen scored a

sparkling 258 against

Queensland in a Sheffield unemployed Shield match.

320.

By his brillant scoring over the lost few days, Bradman has now aggregated more than 1,000 rung for the sixth SUCCESSIVO season, a feat un- precedented In Australia's cricket history.

by the People's Government and Bank Balances remein blocked under a US. Treasury order," he

Mok Chak. 27, -The

for the residing gross income

at hut

'Tokir. guilty of Wus found year, most of which is blocked Street, amounted to $97,440.

possession of heroin by Mr T. "After deducting it expenses £. Yang at Kowloon Magistracy

directors' Including

Icey of

this morning, and sentenced to $3,000 the net profit amounted | eight months' gaol. to $84,634,

Sub-Inspector A. Low

that a packet, To this must be added the the Magistrate balance of $318,280 brought for wrapped in red paper, contain-

the previous year,

found in the ward from

ing heroin, was making a total credit balance of man's coat pocket.

He had fottr previous convic-Kippax, who made 125 in 172 $100,970, which the Board pro-

minutes. poses to carry forward to next tions of the same nature.

They created a new Australian record for a third wicket partnership, scoring

But when Mr Maligmat playa the first chords of the pop tune,

Dorlin." Eddie Little mediately comes to life. This HIS sung. AL the end of each verse he chips in with one of fils few solos, a short deseant phrase, which throws his ou- year." dience into its of laughter.

The meeting was attended by

told

He was ably assisted in tho Sheffield Shield

by match

Musle is in the family as far Mr B. T. Flanagan, Charan American Writer 383 runs.

as I can see.

Mr Maligmat was

the Hon. H. D., M. Barton, Mr

for many years in Shanghai in J. H. Linddell, directors and Mr the pre-war days, where he ran H. Sidbury, presenting the called the Rhuraban- Secretary, Jardin Matheson &. Co. Ltd., Mr C. A. Adam, Mr

a band didos.

He returned to Shanghai M. A. A. Young-Herries and Mr G. L. Marshall, represen- after the war, and it was dur ing post-war stay that Tony and ting Jardine Matheson & Co. | Edile were born, la 1054 Mr Ltd,

Maligmat came to Hongkong to: work, and his wife and family went to Manlia.

Where?

Instead, "the boss,' Mr D. "Moro" Maligmat, took the group to Bangkok where they

In Manlie, Junior formed his had a very successful contract.

returned to Hong-

own combo at fle alher hos When they

who liked rock 'n roll. They kong they were mude an offer Again by on English promoter

listened to records and pleked Mr Maligai declined, but not up n low songs, and gradually The geographical text book definitely.

pretty "Maybe luter," he became

good. Good "The World," odited by sold.

enough, In fact, to win a num-

of Then a few weeks ago, Mr | ber

amateur competitions. Dudley Stamp and pub.

who recently This was the Herbert Ebert,

Rocky Feller Hished by Longman's of

decided they Seniora. here, arrived London, has bean bannod would

make a big hit with by the Jordan authorities. Ceylonese night-club

A Reuter report from Amman

today stated that the contents

the

thusiasta,

Mr Ebert made a successful

Tho re-election of directors was moved by Mr Barton and

seconded by Mr Sidbury, the re- appointment of the

Auditors

was moved by Mr Marshall and seconded by Mr Adam.

Girl Hurt By Car

A 17-year-old girl, Siu Ling- tal, of No. 35. Fort Street? ground floor, was knocked down and in- At the same time, the other

jured by a private car in King's boys in the family formed their own group, of boys under the Road, neer Ming Yuen Western

Sircel, yesterday. She was nd nge of 12. They called them-mitted to Queen Mary Hospital celves the Rocky Feller Juniors for treatment.

made a name for

of this widely sold referencebid for the group's services. book "contradiet with press and Mr Meligmat wat be leaving They too publication regulations in with his boys for Ceylon today. I themselves,

Jordon."

The other day I went along After their hit in Hongtong, A spokesman for the to meet this group of young Moro and his elder bays took publishers said here that theaters who eat, sicep and drinkstock. They hind something in Jordanlan authorities objected rock 'n roll music.

what had started off 09 #1

traction.

Wrist Watch Snatched

to the book's statement that I was Introduced to Mr pleasant past. time..

but "the Israells occupy the Jewish Malignal, who In turn in- there was a lot of work ahead portion of Palestine," their troduced me to the boys, First if they were to lost in a sphere

A wrist watch was snatched claim being that the Israells I met the eldest, Junior, 17, where novelty was the main at- from a woman pedestrian whilst also necupy Arab territory who plays the lead guitar, ther

she was walking in Cheung Sha there.-Neuter.

Road

after- came Tony, 12, ukulelo, Alber!,

yesterday It was hard work, but tho Won 8, ukulele, and last, but ler from boys showed improvement. And noon. least, the tiny tot and star of at the end of their contract they the show, Eddie, a diminutiva emerged polished profes-

who plays 20 slozols. equally diminutive uke,

LTD. House Blown Up three-footer

Montreal, Dec. 22.

An explosion sheared a two- storoy bílek duplex almost in half today, killing at least four persons, three of them children, and injuring four others,

Cause of the explosion had not been determined.----U.P.1.

Tito In Indonesia

Djakaria, Dec. 23. President Tile of Yugoslavie sniled into Djakarta's Darl Tandjong Priole alsonrel his yacht Galeb to begin a 10-ɗnơ Rinto viril to indonesia today. -Router.

Little Darlin' While in Hongkong he has goined the nick-nome of "Little Darlin'" Explanation · later.

And since then they have ronc on from strength to strength. Now that the Rocks Feller have become known abroad,

knows where it will end?

who

40 Taels Of Opium Seized

}

Paulino Babido, nge eight, sat in a corner of a sellee, smiled shyly on he was introduced. Son of anoliter Hongkong musician, he is the only nuleider in the | family combo. Ho nightly ham- mers away ni a pair of hongos.

When the combo is in action, almost everything hingen on Forly tasis of opium in liquid whether Eddie is in good form were seized by the Pollen mood or not. Some night he during a raid on an unnumbered stands under the dance-floor but in Tha Hou Temple Road, lights, and with A dreamy Bay View District, yesterday faraway look in his eyes, morning. A man and two women gently struma his gutter I have been detained far- quod- between songu,

Loning..

Swiss Official Leaves HK

Mr J. J. Bolli, Director at the Swies Chamber of Commerce. left this morning by Swissair for Switzerland after a business trip in the Far East.

Carols For H.E.

Members of BL John's Cathedral chole will sing carols outside Government House this evening. Later they will tour the harbour in a launch enter- taining the crows of ships with carola,

To Call At HK

Dr

Washington, Dec. 22. elma George, American sociologist, writer, teacher and singer will leave on Jan. 2, for

the Far East on a world tour na part of the US cultural exchange programme,

Bird's Eye: Chinese política are like a game of chess. The peace moves all lead up to the crowning of new kings.

Antain Poli, 40, and Jean Dr George will be in Singa- Geromini, 36, manager and pore in mid-January for A commission agent respectively meeting of the pan-Pacifle of Mesere Poli and Co., Ltd., Southeast Asia Women's Asso- Alexandra Buildings, word ciation, From there she will 80 charged before Mr Balfour at to Malaya, Hongkong, Formosa, the Central Polies Court with the Philippines, Thailand, Fin-

land, Italy, France and Ghare.

The State

the possession of an automatic

Department said pistol and 00 rounds of am- she will spend her six-monthe munition, without a licence of tour "consulting with women's from the Commissioner groups, educators, students and Police. They were remanded civic organisations.”—U.FI.

for one week on bail of $200.

This Funny World

"I decided against a homburg?”

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