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Illegal Wireless Syndicate Uncovered: Six Heavily Fined

CHINA MAIL

Two Years Younger But $850

· Poorer

Six men received heavy fines from Central Magis- trate, Mr T. L. Yang this morning, when they admitted being connected with an illegal wire. A less syndicate, operating in Hongkong and) Macao.

The promenating officer DSI R. D Bayless said that the centre of The command syndicate was in Hongkong

He rand there wire two maller stations in the Colony which passed their messages to the command centre. These in turn were passed on to trans- mitting station in Macno which transmitted other countries.

The

Fined $3,000

bet this charge was withdrawn! when he pleaded not guity.

The sixth defendant, Chu Yu- i kei, was fined $600 or 10 weeks for aiding and abetting the first 'defendant in the use of a radio communication station without a licence.

Withdrawn

to

woman who altered her birth certificate comply with her age in her identity card for the renewal of her passport, was fined $850 by Mr T. L. Yang at Contral Magistracy this morning. She was Nancy Ko, 33, un- employed, of 5 Lan Hing Street, third floor, who pleaded guilty to producing a document false in material particular lo procure a travel document and forgery of a document.

The birth certificate was also ordered to be returned to the police for disposal by the Magin |

Two oers, Li Ngok and Leung Hung, also charged with kimit and abetting the first defendunt, bad the ebcages

Trate. Arst defendent, Tsang tahest them withdrawn when Hung alias Tsang King-hol, | the prosecution accepted their was fined a total of $3,000 or 12 plen of not guilty. months

three counts of

illegal establishing on communication station.

on

nedio

offences

He committed The between September 15 and October 29 this year at Three different addresses-43 Hoi Pong Street, Arst floor. Lyemun Village, Hung Shing Street, second Boor, Aplichou, and Castle Road, seond floor.

Tsang wa

represented lar!

Misa Helen Lo of D'Almada and Mason.

Second defen lant Cheung Fung olibs Cheun Cheuk. kwan, was fined $800 or three months for working rad'o communication station without

a

a linone at 4 Hỏi 1ng Street,

first floor. Lovmun Villige,

He was cutioned for being

in possession of the apparatus at

the store address.

All defendants were arrested

DATE ALTERED

In various parts of the Colony | Sik-kwong, on October 29.

$9,000 Of

Heroin

Found In A

Carrier Bag

Third defendant, Kwan Chi-Police witnesses in the Vic-

wing, was ned $2,500 or eight months for aiding and abetting i the Orst defendant in the use of

a radio communication station,

Fined $800

Lam

The fourth defendant, Fung, was fined $800 or

three months for working a radio communication station without u licence at Castle Road, second floor and cautioned for being in possession paratus.

1

of the op

Yon Ho, alias Wu Kwok-yam, allas Wu Tal-ho, the Afth de fendant, was fined a total of $1,500 or four months for iablishing a radio

the hig

communica-

•

toria District Court this morning_told how they found $9,000 worth of heroin in housewife's small paper carrier bag.

The woman, Lau Mei, 43, was charged before Judge B. J. Jen- nings with possession DJ the drug- 10s 194 025.

According to Chief Insp. T.W.) Wheeler. who prosecuted, * Follce party on patrol in Kow- Joon City on the morning of October 14 arrested Lau.

She was carrying the paper bag along Prince Edward Road, Inside were five blocks uf

lon station and being, in posses. | herwin and two small plastic sion of the imparatus of 9 Pen- bags of loose heroin grains,

nington Street, third floor.

The defendant

Lok heroin wus

Det. Staf Sgt I WIS further estimated that the working the worth about $9,000. Pennington Street," The case is continuing.

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Letters To The Editor

Reply To Critic

OLI

Sir: While Wiseman has sald thing, And good

doubt

a

From the Files

25

years

-AGO.

cases were those of overtaking in Hennessy Road at the most

Watch Drreckicse

speeda

Any crossing, the pedestrian never popular

trusts the motorist to give him administered "*

a reasonable chance to cross. I natures rebuke" to local

saw n 1uxi inusic critica for complaining middle of pedestrians crossing go through the about the programme given by

at Ice House Street. He saw the Vienna Philharmonic Orches about ten feet of space to he kira, he is not taking local dashed through, conditions into consideration.

Why a}} Lăn Master Every- There is, of course, no reason boy in cash taxes in 10 whatever why the Vienna Phil-be crazy to save a few seconds. harmonic should not play

The best drivers in Hongkong, whole series of Strauss waltzes; ore our bus drivers. Ninety Sportsman and Interport there is no reason why, should per cent of all the other drivers cricketer and polo player, the occasion arise. a British in the Colony are definitely in-pleaded guilty to Orchestra should not visit different or bad drivers, and give a programme of Ketel- bey:

а

November 1934

CAPTAIN P. V. WilliamA,

RA,

prominent local

seven

The writer of one letter signs charges of making false himself as "Taken for a ride' entries in the balance sheet But the visit of the Vienna Here's one who refuses to be and cush books of the Philharmonie, was the first paid, taken for a ride. I never, never Battery Funds of the 4th by that crchestra. Its vhit was¦ will take a taxi again.

an historical event.

I wish a copy of this letter HKS Heavy Battery, here very little worthwhile "live could appear in the Chinese HKSRA and the Garrison programmes," and therefore ex- press.

Hunt and Polo Club at a pected the best music, not "NO MORE TAXIS FOR ME.". District Court Martial at

We

Net

vocational music, however beau-

iful 19, and rendered master- ly by the orchestra under critle- ism. If we could hear good or- el:estrus at any time, then a bit of fun and games would be all right. But when we hear them

tackling something good, real music, not vocational

Detective Sub-Inspector Chan Dr O. Brautigam, Consul General for Germany, so rarely, we want to hear them

(left) presented a cheque for 1,000 German extended, marks ($1,356) to Miss E. Morgenstern,trines. (right) Principal of the Ebenezer Home for the Blind at Pokfulam this morning.

Inspector Chan said she went to the Immigration Once on Tuesday for the renewal of her passport

She produced Вет Identity tard and her birth certificate, and led the application form for the renewal of her pasport,

The Immigration officer then noticed that the date on the birth certificate had been altered. She was then interviewed and mitted that she had altered 1025 to 1920. She did this to comply with the age in her identity card.

Actor Held

ad-

The donation, which is a gift from the German Government as a token acknowledgment of the fine charity activities the Hildesheim carried on by

in missionary workers Colony, was gratefully received by Miss Morgenstern.

the

Dr Brautigam spoke of hts pleasure in being able to make the contribution and regretted that it was not more "but the Government has a great deal of work to do afnong the refugzes of our own nationality" be plained.

x-

DON'T FORGET This is to show that we don't forget these children and those who work among them", he con- clude

West Los Angeles,

Nov. 3. Actor John Agar, former Expressing appreciation on husband of scroon star behalf of the blind children and

Morgenstern then invited Dr

Dr

Shriners' Cheque

For Sandy Bay Children's Home

The four Shriners from the Nile Templo, Seattle, who are here for a short stay, visited | the Sandy DRY Children's Convalescent Home this morning and presented * cheque for US$200 to Dr A. R. Hodgron, the Resident Surgeon of the Home,

The leader of the

This

group,

G

must I have seen

The old idea of the "colonial" has gone for ever. Our businera here is to show that there is o | heritage not founded on pnst and circumstance, but rather a cultural heritage.

we ask for good music is what is asked for the "rubbish" from the west that is broadcast ten out of every twelve hours. and what so many young local people think is the last word in culture.

sway.

The Vienna Philharmonic was a wonderful opportunity. I hold It was an opportunity thrown

W. B. ★ ★ Taxi Driving

Sir: May I make a few re- marks on taxi drivers?

If I could be on traffic duty for one evening in Wanchai, there would be fifty taxi drivers

Attempt To Smuggle Explosives

Scandal Point Hall yester- day.

His defence counsel raid the Use the money was put to was very human and simple story. "It was used for the Fanling funt, of which accused W3 Master It is common know- ledge that all Masters of Hunts have considerable difficulty meeting their expenses.

"Expenses Сот and scribers are slow to pay. It is

ה!

sub-

nd exaggeration to say that all !masters ane out of pocket and Belfast, Nov. 3,

Cupt Williams was no excep- Police here have uncovered too. The fact that the Hunt was an attempt to smuggle <xeredingly weli run and the well kept, shows explosives into the coun-hounds very

thet the money was definitely try by sea.

expended on thern,

"He is probably, one of the

вл mat

energetic

The explosives, parcels of gelignite, believed by Security heonest Chiefs to have been designed masters the Fanting Hunt has for delivery to the outlawed ever had, and he found his Irish Republican Army, were means unable to meet the ex- found on the crossS channel penses and borrowed

from his

| terryship plying between Stran- Battery fural,

raer in Scotland and Lame, "Every cent of that money County Antrim.

had been paid back,

Was made

"Capt Williams had, rightly The discovery

or wrongly been encouraged to when the Fessel docked participate a great deal in the Larne. One of the parcels had sports in which he was so pro- burst open revealing several niicks of gelignite.

Shirley Temple, was nab.older inmates of the Home, Missi Potentate Lloyd Coder, sold in court the next morning. bed in a police chase lastad Mrs Braullgom and night and booked on xus- (A. W. Thonnes, German Consul, to renew Thonnes picion of drunk driving,

Erquaintance with When the officers caught the 38-year-old actor after a weay- ing course through traffic lanes from West

Angrieg to

A number of men were imme-

after the visit:

If I could also be the magis-diately taken into custody for wonder hospital. IV's much trate would deprive them of questioning and the roundup is

their licences and livelihood, for still going on.-Reuter. larger than and it's doing a wonderful job, twelve months at least the teach them a lesson. children they so often visit at Your staff and all those who are I know the police have plenty

connected with the Home are to do in this area

with Mrs their

the Home.

the

to nice."

Beverly hills they quoted Jewellery Stolen he

us saying:

Shriners' LATS. Eart tellowship among Shriners, are child welfare and A camera and a quantity of medical care for children. "Please don't arrest me, It jewellery, to a

total value of! will ruin me. I leave my $590, were stolen from the first car here and take a taxfcor at of No. 993, Robinson home."-Urx.

Rand yesterday afternoon.

About Eisenhower, Alanbrooke Wrong Gen. Spaatz Says

New York, Nov. 3. One of President Eisenhower's world war military aides said today Britain's Viscount Alanbrooke erred in accusing Eisenhower of playing golf rather than tending to business during the Germans' final counter-offensive.

exposed by Montgomery and Alanbrooke?"

Spaatz referred to а book written by Field Marshal Montgomery in which he criti-

Gen. Carl Spaatz, wartime chief of U.S. Strategle Bomber Fleets, writing in Newswerk magazine, of which he is con- tributing editor on military affairs, said it was difficult to cised Eisenhower's leadership understand the "gralultous" | sharply. accusation made by Alanbrooke

ሃኪ

his recently published SET HISTORY STRAIGHT

memoirs.

Alanbrooke Spautz said that "Even if this were true, and 1

unce congratulated Eisenhower know It isn't, the accusation would come with ill grace from for sticking by his own strategie events the tormer

concept, declaring that British Chiel

"correct" had proven Staf Spaatz suit. "The mere mention of golf would indicate

of

only way

to prevent other crimes, but it is scanda- lous the way the taxi drivers behave.

NBC FIRES

VAN DOREN

Aclent.

"He was

a sportsman and a lender of men, but he was no accountant.”

Germany has made the Treaty of Versailles look ez- tremely foolish. That is the gata, writer the naval correspondent of the Morning Post, on seeing the

impression one

German "pocket battleship"

To quote just one or two in-

Deutschland come into anchor- eldents of last Saturday:---

At Wanchat-Jordan Rd Ferry

age at Leith in the teeth of a pier, I saw two

New York, Nov. 3. taxis stopped,

gale. Just cast

the of

pedestrian The National Broadcasting Limited to 10,000 tons by

Company today fired the Treaty of Versailles, Ger Charles van Doron from many has set heracif to pro- his $50,000-a-year job as duce the best possible result a commentator and can- within this limit. sultant for the network.

Application For crossing abreast of each

Exemption

Three 30-year-old houses, 258, 200 and 282, Yu Chau Street.

Kowlool, were the subject of an application for exemption

at the Tenancy Tribunal this morning.

to erect a

other, i

This is a taxi trick. Close be- hind them were ilve pairs of taxis, the front pole had their bumpers just over the crossing. pick up fores from the ferry. They were of course waiting to While they were standing there, over ten minutes, there wasn't a policeman in sight.

Her success has been phen➤ mional.

THE Chinese town of

Shumchun just across

The NBC, which suspended Van Doren several weeks ago, said It decided to fire the ersi- To show how cunning the while quiz winner "on the basis. trick is, the first two taxis of disclosures the Company re- Mr A. S. C. Comber, of Hast-

would make Betaway it a ceived for the first time yester- the New Territories border day through his testimony be- was the scene of an armed ings and Co., appearing for the policeman hove in sight, and applicant, Mr Lo Lam, of 243,

thus release their friends before the House Sub-Committee raid late on Monday night.

on Legislative Oversight,"

Full particulars are lacking Lalchikok Road said that his hind them. client wanted

but preliminary reports reaching In the meantime, a third line six-

AT VARIANCE storry tenement building

the Hongkong Police reveal that with of cast-bound traffle is passing shops on the ground floor on the the Illegally porked taxk. "Mr Van Doren's admissions were fired, and that two site of the existing three-storey People

a considerable number of shots crossing, crossed In in his testimony are completely

рет buildings, at a cost of $100,000. peril being run down.

at variance with his repeated ដ The building would be con

I have watched this happen denials of complicity in picted in ten months time, on two occasions so no doubt it knowledge of any rigging on ransom.

is a common practice.

"Twenty-One-denials made Walking about Wanchat that the Press, to the New York robbers escaped in a direction night I saw cara and taxia County District Attorney, to the away from the British side of Grand Jury, to the viewing the frontier, the necessary. pre- where people had to step out public and to his employers at cautions against a possible in- into the road to get around NBC," the network sold In a cursion aro not being them. One cor Was parked, statement-UPI

looked. outside the parking line, right

Diplomat's Wife blocking up the point at corners

In Colony

It has been suggested to Pre-can Girls School at 4.30 today.

a diary amended long after thesident Eisenhower, Newsweek

in front of the crossing. Again

Mrs Michael Stewart, wife of no police in sight to call their the new Charge d'Affaires in attention. Peking, errived in the Colony Two taxis were stopped on Yesterday,

one corner near a bar waiting to She staying with Lady pick up American sailors, again Hogan, wife of the Chief Just causing pedestrians to of tice and will amompany Ledy their right direction and the Hapa to the Hongkong Debu- laxis obscured their vision for tarke fashion show at the Dio-oncoming traffic.

At the corner of Fenwick street and Hennessy Road there is a police pagoda.

It is marked "Keup, Left." Two taxis. abreast, CDO up together to "set World War 1 Kowloon Crash

Fenwick street, the one on the off-side, just carried on to the "The fact is that. the Germans The Generals — Eisenhower,

A head-on collision between right of the pagoda, causing mounted, their offence during a | Carl Spaatz, Omar Bradley, period of weather so bad that Clay, Mark Clark, etc-hould Kowloon, this morning sliced a nearly fall while evading him. on her back, to two cars in Gascoigne Road, woman, baby alr reconnaissance wos impos get together a at the White House traffic pagoda in half at thre I called out, the taxi driver

and tape-record discussions of junction of Wylie Rond controversial aspects of the war Nobody was injured. for use later by historiana.

war.

SHARP WORDS

sible."

Spatz had sharp words for military leadort who have been attacking Elsenhower's military leadership.

"How the milios managed to win the second world war, broflcapped as they were by American gañerala, is a-my- story," he wrote,

reported, that the surviving U.S.

Generals of high rank get

history straight."

The

thinking

wanted a taxi, pagoda was unmanned at the topped with a shrieking brake, and backed full speed for 40 The plan was suggested by me.

foot, to pick me up, but what "fatraer member of the

ne got, was a few. Chinese, ex- Joint chiefs of staff, Newsweek

prosions of contempt. But I anid, after British Field Mar

received what I could only ox- shal Monizmurory's book was

poet from those road hogi, a .publlahoda

grin and off he raced,

蟲

"It is no secret," the magazing

"Is possible that the war was added, "that" lke, other U.S.

won by a succession of strategie Generals

and some British

Pickpocket Arrested

A man

Later that evening,, on

tram going week. I walchisi a was arrested by the taxi and a private our waving or tactical blunders by Churchill, Generals regard the: Mout-Police shortly before midday in and out of the traffic lanes Printed and published by TERENCE GORDON NEWLANDS PEARCE Marshall, and Elsenhower and somery version of history as an yesterday following the theft of near the Dockyard mates, for and on bakit of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 could have been lost by the outrageous distortionUPI, $455 from European in Nathan These are but a few instances Wyndonça Sikwa City of Victoris in the Colony of Hoogkong, I'more brilliant plane now being (SEE ALSO P3);

Road.

of what I saw but the worst

DI

to

were taken from their homes and are being held for

Although it is known that the

This Funny World

SKEETER FALLS

"Clara drove down with me to pick you

over-

I