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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1959.
ASSISTANT GOVERNMENT PRINTER, GIVES EVIDENCE
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NEW
Lady Sheaffer
AKRIPSERT COUNTAIN PEN Elo Rigante
UNITHO MAPEN DO. LTDA
Man Who
ENTRY PERMITS DESCRIBED Claimed
AS FORGERIES St George's Day
A total of 578 documents purporting to be Hongkong Police entry permits were described as forgeries this morning in the Victoria District Court.
Evidence to this effect was given by Mr J. R. Lee, acting Assistant Gov- erament Printer, in the case against four men and a woman on trial before Judge B. J. Jennings.
JUDGE
ADMITS
POLICEMAN'S
STATEMENT
The ve are charged with conspiring together between March 1, 1958, and January 16, 1950, to help members of the publie obtain driving licences fraudulently by producing doen- ments purporting to be Heences Issued in Singapore, Brunei and North Bunico.
They are Tsɔt Wun, alius Tsol Chi-rang, Weng Sik-kim, Mak Keung. Chan Chun, alias Chen Kwai-hum (the worgan), múd O Shlu-ming.
Another man, Chan Kan-
was given six nnths yesterday when he
Yao Chi-sien, a 30-year-old Police con- kau, who had been named an
stable, was alleged to have said
answer to a robbery charge, "I did because I am going to get married."
The statement was rend" out || by Mr Wong Chut-po, a Police interpreter, at You's trial be- fore Air Justice C. W. Reece, Senjar Pulsnes Judge, at the Criminal Sessions this morning. Yao is alleged to have robbed the ruanager of the Kwong Tuk Loong grocery at 13 Irving Street of $16,000 on the night of February 1. He pleads not | guilty.
Interpreter
Mr Wung tested this morn- ing that he acted as an inter-
ter between Det. Insp. D. Furniss and the accused at the i
Barter Police station on Fibro. ury 2 when a charge of robbery with a weapon was rend to the RUTUSTA.
ile said he read the caution to the accused whereupon the accused raised his head and elected to make a statement.
The secured then wrote the slatement in his own handwrit- mg, Me Wong said.
The interpreter said at the time of taking the statement, no forée, threat or promise hod jaren -uyed an the neered.
ter ad-
The statement was witted is evidence and was read
Coat by Mr Wong.
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Shakespeare's Birthday
in the accused, thisicaded guilty to possession of and uttering a forged driving licence.
Sit-In yatar issue of Satur.
nixu
The first accused charged with possession of 370 forged entry permits, und the sixth necused with forging them,
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two face un addi- tional count of conspiring to- gether to forge them.
Official Copy
Today, Mr Lee told the Court that the Government Printer was the sole authority for the print- ing of Police entry permits. He produced an official of that forin.
py
Hlinded a document by the prosecutor, Chiel Inspecter C. L. South, the witness said that although it purported to be an entry form it was a forgery,
There were at least four spel-
The background tint was poorly matched, as compared with the genuine specimen.
The type spacing irregular, whereas that in the real form was not.
day, April 18, an page 18, underling mistakes in it, he went on.
the heading "Your Radio Listen ing for Next Week in Detail", column 3, the following an- maut appevesi-
Thur, day, SOUS the 350th KEINOTRITy < the birth of Celebration Shakespeare. 15
of the occasion Radio Hong- kong is broadcasting * pro- graume in tribute to Eng- knd's prezlesi pro!."
Earlier. My Justice Rerce told the Jury that after they had re- thred yesterday afternoon, he, that
Now, it is generally agreed {{{Lun Shakes et
The Judge, had decided to admit was Lorn on April 23, 1564, #cutmed statement allegedly | 50 |
would seem that Radio marle by the accused to Det., Hongkong is forty-five years Stuff Sergeant Lai Man-you,
lite Li is velpratian!
The 350h, was in fast celc-
Statement Road brated in Apni 1914. However,
Mr Justier Brvee then ordered If Radio Hongkong can wolt Le statement be read it, in another five years, it can then which the acensed allegedly adme real pinsh Ice the mitted having commited the | 400ch muniversity of the birth robbery.
the Bard. Incidentally, if will also be the 348th anniver- saty of his 2-th.
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Mr Leo was shown the re- maining $77 forms mentioned in the charge.
He Identified oll
of them as forgeries.
Hearing Is proceeding.
Dame Margot Arrives
In New York
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(Continued from Pace 1) must speak with my mother. will see you in 10 minutes."
The ballerina's telephone call did not go through Immediately Land reportern gut annvers to
LTCrafquestions before she- Interrupte her press ference lo take a call from London.
"1_do not know where ma
This
con-
to another question. She also cold she would not answer any question about
Panama "because once I start answer- Ing one you will go on asking questions,"
impressed
were
Reporters with the good-natured way in which Dame Margot faced the lurrage of questions hurled at her
Dark Circles
Dame Margol, looked it and tumed though there were dark 'circles under her eyes.
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She said she hoped to retura to Pangma-ofler, uli, it's any husband's country,"
Asked if she would be let in, shrugged her she laughed, shoulders and said;. "I cannot Drawer that."-Reuter,
Condition
Satisfactory
-Wreath-laying-
Mr W. Stoker, President of the Royal Society of St George, lays R wreath at the Cenotaph this mornings China Mali Photo.
Heroin For
POLICE LOOK $800 Gets
From the Files
25
years
AGO
FOR HIT-RUN Year's Gaol THE latest safety device
VEHICLE
The Police are trying to locato the delver of a commercial vehicle which knocked down and fatally injured a middle- azed Chinese woman in Caslin Peak Road near Tong Yan New Village, Ping Shan. In the New Territories at about B o'clock In the morning of Sunday, April 19.
For
pedestrians,
03-
A man who gave himself uppecially designed to protect to the Police as the owner | persons nlighting from of a quantity of heroin tramears, has made its ap which the Palico had ear- † pearance at the junction of Fler scized, was guoled for, Des Voeux Road Central a your today when it was and Queen Victoria Street found that he had agreed opposite the Central Fire to "take the rap" for the Brigade station. The device true owner for $800. Is two low wooden platforms The man was A 24-year-old about 15 feet in length. barber, Chan Che-wer who ap-They are a few inches abovo peared before Mr. T. L. Yang the level of the road and
Central Magistracy
on Д charge
this
The vehlele, believed to be a light-coloured
the head-at van,
of passengers as they leave the Lights of which may have been morning extensively damaged in the conspiracy to pervert publle trams, will walk directly on accident, was last seen travelling justice, to which he pleaded to them and remain there towards Castle Peak.
Lulity,
until the road is clear for The Police are appealing to Inspector H. C. Chiu sald inst
crossing.. any person who might have Saturday Chan reported to the Police Station and wlinessed the aceldent to help Marine the Tsun Wan Police in their claimed responsibility for 20.3 by enquiries.
grammes of heroin seized the police in a hut at Rennies Mill Camp on April 10,
As a result of the raid. the Char police arrested a woman, So-yuk, and charged her with the possession of the drugs.
Triad Society Man Gooled
Enquiries revealed that Chan was not the actual person fes- ponsible for the heroin and that he claimed he was because of $800 paid to him by the woman's husband.
A "White Paper Fan" (415) office bearer of the Tung Sun Wo Triad Society who had been involved in a triad fight before, was sentenced to 18 months' Imprisonment by Mr T. L. Yang at Central Magistracy this money,"
Chan admitted he had been approached by the woman's husband who offered, him the
A remarkable article will appear in the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Mr Williant Harland Hale will reveal that Kaiser Wilheim II in the now famos "lost interview which was given to Hale's father, William B. Hale in 1903, and urged the alliance of Germany and the U.S. fight the growth of Japanese power in Asia.
The Kaiser ueply deplored Japan's defeat of Russia and declared: "I wish my bat- taliona could have had a chance at them.
We would
morning for being a triad mem- The woman, Chon So-guk, ber.
43, living in hul at Rennies Kam Kwong, 32-year-old un-Mill Camp, was later sentences licenced hawker, of 252 Wan- to nine months in prison by Mr have made short work of it. We must not allow China and chat Road, ground floor, pleaded Yung for possessing the heroin.
The guilty.
The police ralded the woman's Japan to get together,
found particular duty the white man Detective Sub-Inspector R. G. hut last Saturday and Laurel
himself said Kam was arrested the drugs hidden in a secret inees to
at this on Information In the Wenchai compartment in a four-drawer moment is to prevent Japan District on Tuesday night.
desk in her bedroom.
from swallowing China, England is a traitor to the White Man's caueo." The in- terview
which the Kaiser
WAR DEAD REMEMBERED Around Hongkong Flight
IN CEREMONY
..
AT THE CENOTAPH
The strains of "The Last Post" sounded across the
central réclamation area today as members of the Royal Society of St George remembered the dead of two world wars.
The president of the Society, Mr W, Sicker, loid a shield shoped wreath The fool of tho cenotaph.
Earlier, four white-uniformest members of the First Battalion, the Green Howards had been stationed at each corner of the base of the cenotaph.. They presented arms, then slowly re-
versed them,
Members of the Society then marchedlu palea from the door way of the Hongkong Club to the monument.
As Mr Stoker ald wreath two trumpeters on the scunded the "Last Post."
the
Scholarships Offered To Hongkong
The Italian Government is
World Tour
Manager
Construction
of Cheony
Company
former Chairman of
Miss_C_Cheng, CPA Biowardess serving savourler to Major and Mfa 37 8. Greene, in this mornings Bebt- around Hongkong on board the new Electra-China Mati photo.
Electra Flights Around Colony
Cathay Pacifle Airways' jel. prop Electra took a large num- ber of local residents around Hongkong this morning on the: courtesy fights, each lasting on Lee hour,
and CPA recently received the the Electra from the makers, Lock- Board of Directors of the heed Aircraft, and it is the first Tung Wah group of hospitals, of two which the local airline left for
round-the-world have ordered. tour this morning with la wife, on PAA.
offering two study scholar- Mr Cheung Chan-hon, General ships for undergraduate and postgraduate Uni- versity students and Uni- versity graduates (includ- ing junior University teaching #taff} from Hongkong or Taiwan for the forthcoming academic year (1959-60).
Tho
scholarships will be awarded to University students aged 10 to 25 years, алб graduates aged 22 to years, Intending to pursue study and esearch in disciplines related to the Exact, Experimental and
En-
On the Aights, champagne and small chow was served, Above the clouds, passengers were They were seen off at the air-aisle to bask in the strong sun- *port by Mr Ernest C. Wong, light, while flying along of over
Chairman of
Wah 100 m.p.b. in complete com-
fort.
hospitals.
Tung
Boy Killed In Tram Accident
a pri-
ELI STEIN
gave was regarded as 한성
tremely indiscreet, The Ger. man Foreign Office intervened before publication, first sub- jecting it to a severe censor- ship, and later withdrew it.
THE Gazette contains a that the Officer Administering the Government has approved the promotion of Major H. B. L. Dowbiggin to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and his appointment as Commandant of the Volun- teer Corps, vice Col. L. G. Bird,
Tnotification
Romance entered the nanal- chromusty precincts-of the Re- gistrar Office yesterday when the Registrar united Miss Alice Gallagher, a charming visitor from Zamboanga, in matrimonyto-Mr-Charlano Fl. Amen. Gambell of the local Dollar
Line office.
This Funny World
The condition of the 11 Bremen Technical Sciences (preferably: An eight-year-old boy was Lae Stu-man, of 2, Lion Rock
and one polloreman, who were Mathematics, Chemistry, Civil burned. when an electrio Engineering, Industrial
seriously injured at about Road, second floor, was hit and
injured yesterday by generator exploded yesterday gineering. Blology, Medicine,
6 o'clock yesterday oven- vate car dri Junction Road, In the Police Post on Route Pharmacy, etc.).
ing when he was knocked near its Junction with Nga Tsin Twink, near Trun. Wan Was However,
particularly dic down by a tram In Hen- Wal Road. He was admited to reported as satisfactory this serving applications from per-
messy Road, near its junc- Kowloon Hoplist for treatment. morning.
sons wishing to study in other
tion with Bowrington Road, A 61-year-old woman, Ho A spokesman of the Fire felds (Aris, Fine Arts, Music,
Sal-mul, 3, Jardine Bazaar, Brigadé said that the investiga- | etc.) will also be considered. The boy, Bo Hon-kin, living second floor, was admitted to Lion into the cause of the ex- The Italian Consul; - Mr G. al No: 10, Bowrington Road; Queen Mary Hospital yesterday: plosion was now being queried | Bertuccioli, said this morning second floor, died before ad- afternoon after being knocked out by the Labour Department | that he will be pleased to supply | mission to Queen Mary Hos- down and injured' · by a motori Printed and published by Terence Gordon Newlands PRANCE
a Government Electrical | further information 10 ap-pital.. and Mechanical Inspector. plicants.
and
"Boy, what a day-stock market prices down, super markði,
prices up.
scooter in Hennessy Road, near for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited of 1-2 Another boy, nine-year-old its Junction with Warcivel street, | Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong.
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