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CHINA MAIL

CEMENT CONSUMPTION

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Bankruptcies

Sir, in a very recent issue of your paper, you published Mr. Justice Reece's comment that the action of n certain bankrupt in Hongkong WAS nothing short of systematic rob- bery.

It is well known in Hongkong that tradera go about oblain- ing credits from Import Arms and after a certain time de- clare Inability, to

They pay. inter at go back into trade under the name of someone else.

There had been cases of big Arms closing down with millions owing to the bank and the public. The very owners are again in business but under the

cise. name.

someone

Of before they declare bankruptcy they do sall much money belonging to bank and public and under the wife's azd

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name or brother's name

then get into trade again.

In certain European countries the books of any Arin have to be checked periodically by and stamped. In government Hongkong how many merchant firma operate without books? When they declare bankruptcy, the criminal Investigation or only bankruptcy ofcials are

A RECORD LAST YEAR

The domostic consumption of cement in Hongkong last year was an all time

record,

$5,490 In Cash Jewellery Stolen

Thieves broke into the first floor of No. 63, Lockhart Road between midnight last night and 6 o'clock this morning and stole

of BUM money, jewellery and a wrist watch, totally valued at $5,490.

Police are investiga- gating.

a

Boy Killed

In Lorry Accident

This was stated in The report prezented at the annual general inceting of the Green Island Cement Co., Ltd. held this morning.

Mr D. Benson, Chairman of Directors, said in fils statement that retained imports of cement were substantially higher than In 1987, but the company mag- nged to increase slightly the share of the market, end, as the market itself was also bigger, soles

the

company's actual showed un improvement.

Mr Benson said. 1958 was a year of moderate, world sic, and neighbouring tries which had greatly expand-

TCCCS-

their coment-predoing capacity since the war had been more intent than ever on find- ing on outlet for their surplus

Attractive

Betablished 1949.

MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1959.

SHEAFFERS

Sharp Fall In How Malaya And

Temperature

Yesterday Hongkong basked in a warm sun which pushed the temperature up to 70 degrees.. But this morning the temperature dropped, to 53.4.

And more of the same kind of weather is fore cast for tomorrow,

A spokesman for the Royal Observatory sald this morning it should remain fine and worm this afternoon, with the temperaturo climbing to about 73 degrees, but it will gei,cold again after sunset.

KOWLOON HIT-AND-RUN:

POLICE ASK FOR HELP

motor

Qo- The Police

are tooking in- formation concerning a fatal

accident which occurred in Argyle Street, near its junction with Stirling Road, at 10.35 p.m. on Thursday, March 12.

"Hongkong proved one of the most atirelive markets.com~ petition has thus

been acute, and the average price received hy us per ton of cement Last year was nearly $12 lower than presented with "Statements of Anine-year-old boy, Tee in 1957. The same was broadly sales to markets Chi-yu, of No. 22, Sub-true of our section 1, Section 1, Ho- outside Hongkong.

The report recorded that the mantin Resettlemont Area, company made a net profit of was totally injured when $3,609,005 compared with ho was knocked down by $2,780,015 for 1957,

books, and

Accounts" but no how very often are these

thoroughly flelilous?

For the protection of trade. and to maintain our prestige Government should abroad, establish a special Bankruptcy Inquiry Department with first- class commercial crimes detec tives to check thoroughly into the base of every bankrupt.

INDIGNANT.

Why?

Sir-Why didn't Mr Anthony Fuller, in bla "Home Before Dark" review, mention the shock scene, which Jean Siramons, for all her sensibility, is too ma- ture to carry off?

N. T. CHOW.

In the accident, a 'middle-aged man was knocked down ond fatally injured by a private car which falled to stop after the acclient.

The car, believed to be a new was last seen travelling at u very fast speed in the direction of Clear Water Bay Rond.

model two-tort Opel salon,

Any

The front offside mudguard of the cur may have been extent The Directively damaged as a result of a lorry in Pui Ching Road,tors recommended $3 and a

the accident. |bonus of 20 cents per share and near Waterloo Road, last

10 transfer to the dividend night.

fequalisation reserve of $600,000.

A shareholder's

dividend equalisation reserve had been established to cushion the effect which D lean period might have on the dividend, the

The lad led shortly after arrival at Kowloon Hospital.

Seven other people were in- Jured in traffle accidents yester day. In one case, two men, 37- year-old Cheong Yan-chong and repori added.

Loung 33-year-old

Tat were The annual report and state- knocked down by a private carment of accounts were adopted. whilst riding a tandem bleycle Messrs H. FL Cleland and H. in Boundary Street, near Em- Kadcoric, bankment Rond

I could shoot myself

all she wants from me

is a charge account

at

directora.

were re-elected

Paquerette

Don't give up, boy, just

the price is right

person who witnessed the incident, is asked to get in touch with the Traffic Accident Enquiry Office, Kowloon Police Headquarters.

Triad Man Gets

18 Months

A

Gaol

straw self-confessed sandals"-Triad socioty maisongar -Was · Tori- toncod to 18 months' hard labour by Mr T. Croodon at Kowloon Court this morning.

Singapore Deal With Triads

By DAVID T. K. WÔNG

Special To The China Mail

Singapore.

STERLING SILVER TIP

From the Files

25

years

LAGO

Sir Elly Kadoorie, KBE, and' Mr Lawrence Kadoorie will be passengers by the Ed press of Britain, arriving on Saturday, March 17. They still passing through on their way

BOTH Singapore and the Federation of Malaya back to Shanghai after several

are suffering from the same malady as Hong-months in Europe. kong the galloping cancer of criminal secret

society activities-and in both territories its threat

is as dangerous as that of Communist subversion.

In the Federation of Malaya, ens low after another has had to be passed in the last few

months to combat this noxious growth.

The latest one, Just passed, provides for the drawing up of a list of the names of the 18,000 known gangsters In the Maleyan underworld. Everyone whose name appears on the Hot loses his freedom of movement, is subjected police supervision and. If convicted of a criminal offence, is able to whipping in addition to double tho normal penalty for the offeneo.

Two Years

In Singapore, where hardly

The defendant, Chu Yuk-kl

an unlicensed hawker, of a day goes by without some 150 Yea Kok Street, Arst floor, unfortunate victim being muti- pleaded guilty to being a mom-lated or done to death by hood- ber of a Triad society.

tums, a special Criminal Law Ordinance has been since last August.

He sold that 17 years ago he had been forced to join the Wo Shing Wo Triad by a man colled Tang Shing.

He said he paid $8.00 to join. Five years ago, in 1854, he told the court he was promoted to "432," or "straw sandals" messenger),

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Defendant said he had paid $14 to a man called Yeung Lam, es promotion fee.

Chinese Opera In English

The Fighting Bride'

production.

appear

operating

Sah

THE Immortalised

e Sah, daughter of a

Since the end of 1957, there has been a full-scale blood feud between the two major groups great warrior and Fairy of because of disagreements over Disobedience, has succumb- territories for protection rackets, ed to the lure of American

Gangs under the control of gold.. the two KrOUDS have been fighting and killing each other until the present In 1958 alope, over 300 gangland clashes were reported to the police and: officers had to open fire several times to break up the bloody melces.

In Malaya there are about 100 gangs

also affiliated into major groupings. There are also links between the gangs In Molaya and Singapore.

New Indian Envoy To Japan

The new Indian ambassador

Her beautiful ivory body was transferred yesterday from Messra Komor. and Komor to the possession of Mr George S. Capelle, of the luxury liner, Lurline for a price undisclosed and tomorrow at the apo of 200 years or more the, Fairy of Disobedience begins #world tour.

Mr Capelle who halls from Wilmington,

Delaware, wpl intrigued with the story of this Ivory statue whose model iz ru- puted to have lived In the Chien Tang Dynasty. The figure standing two feet high and is beautifully worked.

Under Its terms a person can to Japan, Mr C. P. N. Singh (be ceresied and opined whhout arrived here by Air India this

trial for up to two years,

morning en route to Tokvo to, On the surface

new part. Mr these laws 655ume hig

The funeral of the late Mr may

drasile. Some Singh, who is accompanied by aspects of them are downright his two daughters, will remain H. L. Pereira, whose death occurred at his home at 25 undesirable for a democratic in Hongkong for two days. society. But there is general

Previous to his new appoint. Yuk Sau Street, Wongnoi- cement that they no muces

ment, Mr Singh was Governor-chong, was held yesterday. kary.

General of Punjab Province for The Rev. Fr. Page officiated.

The reason is that the secret five years, and prior to that, socielles have been successful Indian Ambassador to Nepal. In establishing a widespread

reign of terror, so much that

Low

would venture to testify

C. FINCHER, the KCC

against them in normal criminal Green Howards and Interport opening

proceedings,

Thoir vengeance is swift and certain. It usually takes the form of beatings with bicyclo chains und iron rods, disfigure- ment with acid, attacks with

number of forms of death. T

knives and sickles es one of a

Broad Daylight One of the most outrageous

|petrated by the sterel socletles

THE great thing about the play opened for fis art and adistle crimes over per- Father Sheridan's] It is a bit daring for an In Singapore occurred just o stage productions, is Egilshman to pronounce upon few days ago.

what is best in an Oriental pro- Two cousins were stopped in that he has acquired the auction, but I thought Wong the streets in broad daylight by happy knack of trans-Chin-wah got over his song, "the hoodlums, taken to a back porting all the business of the Chinese stage to a European audience with- out losing anything on the way

soldier's life, is a hard one," in lane and for four hours were

Arrive Home ·

batsman, scored his first league contury of the season

Southampton, March 16, An advance party of the when he carried his bat for

battalion First

The Grfen 107 against the Civil Servico Howards landed here tonight Cricket Club on Saturday..

fran Hongkong in the 40,116- ton troopship Empire Fowey,

KCC scored 200 while Civil ∙140 for The rest of the battalion is to Service replied with travel home in the Empireing 63 and J. E. Richardson and

tires wickets, G. R. Soyer SCOT Fowey on her next voyage. J. Batrow each 31. Reuter.

Armed Youth Steals Money

Marking another milestone

in the progress of the South

a very amusing manner; while beaten with bicycle chains and knife, robbed another Chines the inaugural ceremony, in A Chinese boy, armed with a China Athletic Association, for rood down to earth comedy, tortured with lighted cigarettes. boy of a sum of inoney in June- roles of a general and the were also branded and thrown noon. Hoover Wong put over the dual As If that were not enough they tion Road on Saturday after connexion with its new pavilion at Caroline Hill was performed prince, with a controlled aben- into a ditch with their hands A man assaulted and robbed by His Excellency the Gov-

a Chinese woman of a gold ernor, Whoonthis play moored again. It le not known whether and bracelet, valued at $100, 40 the pretence of a large rather

Sir William Pool, in

for European readers) is, in its their long ordeal, but if somno Street, on Saturday morning.. (remember I am writing the one heard their cries during staircase of No. 660, Ful Wahing. from aiming.

Those who know their theatre will BC& that apart elaborate sets, and such thing

foot and spot lights, the Chinese stage has much in com-

mon with the old English theatre.

STREO

don.

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fled behind their backs.

ong did, he certainly made na fattempt to to "to the TOWE

in

It appears that the gangsters Theft Of Radio

that arca had grown 10 strong that they had imposed their own curfew in the ares. The cousins appear to have done

to

This tap-tap-tap business, These Include the business of and the clash of cymbals,

conventiona thered by not put in just for fun; it re nothing more serious than both players and audience, the gulates a rhythm's passiz oviolate their curfew, greater appeal to imagination action or words. One of the

One of the victims is still in a which more modern productions songs takes on a Gilbertinn dispenso with, and so on.

like metre which is Lapped out critical condition and he may well go down as part of the The Fighting Bride," is no

or a block. The actor is per secret society record of two mur- exception. Here Fr. Sheridan mitted no licence, and out dere a month. has taken a 17th century opera, late the words to ал The root of this mounting relained most of the previous humour, and spiced it up with modern idiom. The result is a couple of hours or so of sheer broad fun.

exacting metronard beat.

secret society activity can be think that ny, foreigner traced to the rising unemploy- who assumes to have an interestment in both territories; Men in the ancient traditions around who can and no means of livoli- him, should see this play. It is hood jolo the secret societies to the perfect vehicle which links get money by kidnapping, extor- the Occident with the Orient, iton, operating protection radicots and with the. few conventions, and even murder.

the play opens, the most recent Johnny Newcome ein spend not only an interesting, but exclling evening in the Chinese theatre,

One has come to expect the Sheridan mentions before elaborate costumes, the sequins and peacock's feathers, which bloom so extravagantly under the brillant lights, but it is my opinion that this production -L exceld because so many of the

.

Funerals Too

the

It they are caught, the secret cocletics have a fund to provide for lawyers' fees and for (The Fighting Brido" will be they are in prison. If they aro support of their families while playera have acquired the presented this weekend at: Wab killed the accret societies pay fee graceful" "movements. of the Yan College, Kowloon,) Poking theatre,

For instaned Molly Woo, the

leader of the Lady Warriors.

By a flex of the hand, a flick SMALLPOX SCARE

or the tassled whip, she con-

veyed the situation Trumediately

to those of the audience in the

know.

I have hald, the humour is

IN JAPAN

Omura, March 10.

funeral exputises and look after their familien (SR4

One of the most disturbing features of the secret societies In Singapore and Malaya_`ls their hold on the young, Just a in Hongkong, the gangsters have' muda groat inroads into schools and most of the mezza börs are under the aps of 21:

In Binmpore,;; there are two

broad. It revolves upon, such situations as a Llar or tyro The six-year-old son of a major camps in the ́ ́ secrat bird, The, mention" of "water Chinese, Mao Kuo-tang, society organisation: the melon," which Invokes a pain-Chinese cook here, was found | (troup, will the 24 Group. Dox "ful: mernory," Bulover," and gartering: « from smallpox, 00tween. [họn they cook-ol moet above' this, the supremacy of Sunday, Ando, Japonesa – health; of the Arty gangs hore,pment womens and that at a time officials © Immediately vaccinated ⠀ Bach gang numbers do or do when ancient China was sOS LOMA1 ́0,900 people living near numbers A and they have customed to a maio: domiñaled his home,

KİROİTDUMU naenda kolike: -the #celety,

All 600,000 citizens of the city Tazzma Gang, the Black" Tiger, In fact, one can leggindas sce. Expected to be inoculated the Robin Hood - Gang,te the many frowns au smiles when I today,

ZLETOBI," and so, onde

A portable radio, worth $130, Wha stolen from a private car parked outside the Goverment Stadium, Scokumpoo yesterday afternoot 4

On arrival the Governor was received by members of

the committee, headed by Mr. M. K. Lo and by the Hon. Kir R. H. Kotewall (Hon. Vies President), Mfr 0, W. Luke (Chairman), Mr J. D. Bush, Mr Peter Sin and others..

This Funny World

"I'm not sure but I thin

it's something called a

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