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Gaol And Fine For Man

Air

Who Asked

Girl

To Carry Gold

Yan Mok-chi, alias Chiu Ma-chi, of 345 Tai Hang Road, manager of the Ken Seng Trading Co., room 901 Yu To Sang Building, who incited a Boac air hostess to export 81.1 taels of gold into India without a per- mit, was sentenced to a total of six months' gaol and fined $10,000 by Central Magistrate Mr I. T. Morris this morning.

I

Yau

default of the fine. Har to serve another six months in purkama.

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Before passing sentence. Morris highly commended the air hostess, Miss Sophin Wong. who reported Yau's offer to the police.

Nearly Successful

to smugle Colchy

Mr Morry said the attempt Rold out of the was very TICHTIN sner fol ut would, perhaps, have an entirety successful, had it not been for Mis: Wong's

act

Mr Morris id gold smugging W CLA

haview

Din Celny and wats Lostly maklag as much money for its

The Caroli

raziget.

"Unhappily, there are at the present time, in this Colany. who choose to mus peorie

Cotemit vrime because they are aware that under prezent con- aitien i ny bring great gain. "They hope to escape detec-

and they tion

lake the risk from molives

difikuafely

#reet Such offenders

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little claim for leniency merely because they have hitherto bewa

of poo charceler,"

Not Sudden

Mi Moiris sudd that the do- fendant did not all into sudden temptation but elected to take art in an illegal venture fter calculating the risk and profts.

lateri} {{lal of ever there a case in which a person lead clearly and deliberately set out to theut the law that was 1.

Hut I convinced that al- Urough the defendant willingly played by part in the matter

Isu-pret that he was led on by others of greater influence and villamy.

"He has probably been dreg- ged into this sort of crime

others and eonsequently should not be given the panishment of a clever and expirienced crimi- nai"

Tap defmlaat wee

arrested

on Grobel" 17 by t polic paris, a by Detective Sub- In or Yu Tat-ming at Mus Wang's home.

Mi

Big Rock Cod Caught

This photo shows the 180-16 rock råd caught off Little Sister Island on Sunday by Me A, Chang who is standing on the left of the fish, With him are Mr K. C. Chen and Mr S. C. Wong who were out fishing with him when the cod took the bait and fought for hair an hour before being landed.-China Mail photo.

Man Tells Of Chopper Attack

Wong hard earlier A labourer, suffering a slight disability on his

reported to the polee that he trad 12 persuade her

en le abcat 321,000 worth of gold into India.

Confiscated

Mr Morris ordered the geld bars, weighing 84.4 tarla, to be confiscated.

right hand as a result of a chopper attack, testified this morning how a man had chopped him in a teabouse without any reason.

Facing trial before Judge 1. A policeman halted the party J. Jennings at Victoria District by firing a shot and as witness Court on a charge of weunde stopped. he felt another blow to a 23-year-old workman, Ng on his back. As he looked Yiu.

down, he saw the chopper a Tout away from him, he said.

The accused was then

between them, witness

Yan, who was convleted On charges of inciting to export gold The injured man, Tai Kau, without a permit, attempting to told the Judge that he was

Was

false

near

export Kald with th permut, rading * newspaper while the teahouse and the policeman and possesion of a travel decu-, having supper in a tenhouse in was ment which

ia Castle Peak late on July 9. said. material particular, wes repre I heard the crash of glass sented by Mr Peter Mo of Peter and saw the accused leaving a Mo and Co.

and making for the kitchen.

MAN ATTACKED

PURSUED

The accused returned shortly with a chipper in his hand and dashed for another customer of A man was

wounded shortly the teahouse. As the pursued o'clock this morning man jumped from table to table after when he was stabbed by another to avoid being attacked he passed; man. armed with a pen-knife at by the witness who lifted up a the junction of Luard Road and table in to effect to stop the

Henessy Rond.

The injured person was ad- mitted to Queen Mary Hospital

searching for

for treatment.

Police are 5

the attacker.

1.

mcused.

However, he said, he wis chipped on the right hand, and throwing down the table, he ranj from the teahouse, closely followed by the pecused.

SECOND

SHOT

The accused tried to dash for the policeman, witness went on, but the policeman fired another shot and the accused stopped.

Witness mid he had seen the accused before but did not know He said he could not say him, why Becused should attack him,

He sold as a result of the fingers of his right hand freely attack,

he could not move the

and he would not lift up heavy articles..

Hearing is continuing. Chief Inspector T.W, Wheeler is prosecuting.

WORLD REFUGEE YEAR

THE HONG KONG COMMITTEE under the auspices of the HONG KONG COUNCIL of SOCIAL SERVICE operating from 47 DAVID HOUSE, HONG KONG. Telephone ‘21706

Did you know that over $6,000 children are unable to go to school in this Colony,

2. That thousands still go to bed hungry every night.

3. Many of these cannot even go to BED, they share a small space in a cube, or by the

roadside.

1 .

Chlidren are hungry, homeless and without enough care to their health.

5. For $1 a week or $200 a year, you can FEED 'one of these children properly in a home,

clinic or settlement.

7.

. For about $120 you can see that a young person may learn a trade.

For less thun $200 you can buy a machine for a Mother to enable her to work and to be trained to work.

3. For $1,200. you can help build a concrete house for a family.

9. For ANY sum however small you can share in the new Community Centres we

we hope. to build in all the Resettlement arcos.

DO IT NOW Tomorrow may be too late...

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ABOVE: Mr Claude Burgess, Officer Administering the Government, seen admiring a painting during a recent visit to the Hongkong Festival of the Arm Centre with his wife last week.

ABOVE: Dr Alberta Pacheco Jorge soon laying a wreath on behalf of the Governor of Macao during Remembrance Sunday services at the Club Recreio.

LEFT: Dr F. I. Treung ad- dressing the gathering during a dinner.party celebrating the St. John Ambulance Brigade Central Nursing Division's winning of the "Arculli Shield" for inter- divisional competitions.

•

RIGHT: Lord Morton of Henryton (left), former Lord of Appeal in England, is greeted by Mr J. W. Čham. bers on his arrival hore by the ship Orcades. In centre

is Lady Morton. They are on a world cruise.

Secretary In A Sari Can Hongkong Beat

"This has been

A holiday in Hongkong was enjoyed by Mrs G. Pinto who left by Swissair today to return to Bombay and her position as Secretary to the Manager, Swissair.

wonderful week for me," said Mrs Pinto, "es this has been my first visit to the Colony. The experience will be invaluable for me both in my Job and versonally."

The photo shows Mrs Pinto just prior to her departure from Kai Tak-Intplar photo.

Around The

World In

14 Months

Mias Josephine

Wagner and Miss Stella Leviston, two retired mathematics" professors from

San Jose, California, left today

by Swissair for Bangkok. They are taking 24 months to gto around the world and have just completed a fortnight's clay l the Colony,

"We think Hongkong in every bil as interesting as we thought

Oceanarium

For HK?

Mr Fung Ping-fan, Legisla- tive Councillor, this afternoon told a Rotory luncheon that he hoped that one day Hongkong. would have dn ocean- arium, timifar fo the famous Marineland of Southern California.

England's

Building Record?

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

From the Filos

25

years -AGO-

November 1934

TAVAL vessels stationed

NA Hongkong, including

HIMS

Hermes and the destroyers of the first Destroyer Flotilla, now en route to the Colony, may participate in a unique war against the hundreds of thousands of sharks which infest the Timor Sea.

The aim is to drive away the countless sharks that thrive in this breeding ground pet- manently.

Marine torpedoes, and depth bumbs will be used in the war against the sharks,

Plans

"WRT" Were for the formulated following the re- ports made by several of The to competitors in the London Melbourne air race, who sold that Dying low over the Timor Sen was

nothing but a night- mare. "We looked down 03 hamdreds of sharks with huge, Zaping jaws, ready to snap us lip if we were forced down," said one,

new

recommenda-

THE

tions on long leave made by the Earl of Ply. mouth made a senior post in the Hongkong Civil Service one of the world's most desirable jobs, said a SCM Post leader.

The leader said the Earl's re- commendations for Hongkong seemed to be based on conditiona in Africa-or the fever swamps of Nigeria.

What the recommendations meant was that a senior officer was offered six monthe leave on full pay after, two years and could thus be absent from the Colony for one ifth of his life

Hongkong constructors may be proud of the speed of service.

at which they are raising new buildings all over the Colony.

"He also receives, in effect, a bonus of two months salary, since his passage is paid and that

and lodging in addition to salary. "This generous treatment, added to munificent pay on n sterling baals (plus rent, travelling and other allowances) and freedom to retire on pen- sion at the age of 50, makes a senior post In the Hongkong Civil Service one of the world's In an effort to see how Hơng- | Stāles, France and other parts most desirable jobs--hence the kong builders

to of measure up

the U.K. had falled to occasional statements that it sa this, the China Mail contacted a bring to light evidence of any

difficult to recruit for the number of architects and con- other similar

Colonial Service the type of buildings bring struction people.

man required, are received with constructed in less Ume.

incredulity. "Under the Earl's

But an English company is claiming a world record means two months free board

for the speed at which they raised a six-storey block for a department store.

The store, with total flod- space of 85,000 aquare feet was built in 184 days after excava- tions had started on the site,

But few would commit them- selves because of the lack of de- tails on the position of the site, how many men took part and how the construction was cor- ited on.

19 Days Before

*

and building had to be carried out almost simultaneously." spokesman for the owners said.

Inquiries in 130 United

are

Aci official of the Royal proposals the Junior members of to have six Instituto of British Architects the service sold that in London a building months holiday on full poy at of this natura

three year intervals. sizc gchirally took 300 days 10 cemplate.

#rad

"With every desire to be fair to the service, the taxpayer has Times grounds for complaint.

luxurious Civil

standard for privato

One local architect, was scepti- färe hard and the future obscure., cal about the claim saying It "The high cost is not the only From a Government source it

"must have been a stunt. Work-objection 10 was learned that the seven- ing round-the-clock," he said, Service conditions: these tend 'storey re-settlement blocks for "Is uneconomical. More speed, to set the

LoLai squatters, with a

floor more cest," he added. space of 91,500 square feet, ex- clating balconies, are compiet- ert in 18-20 weeks (120-140 days.}

This includes all the neces- sary piling work for founda- ons, plumbing, painting and other additions.

News of The world record claim came from Ilford, Essex, in a Reuter cable. "The archi- tecks were only appointed 19 days before site excavation be- gan, and the designing, planning

TEXTILE FACTORY FIRE

A small firo:Broke out in the

Mr Fung showed a colour blowing room of the Central film of the oceanarium which he Textile Mill at mine milestone, took this summer when he Teun Wan, at about 7 am 10

day vialted America

The cause of the fire Mr Fung cald he hoped. Hang-

it would be, but it saddens uskong would have on oceanarium attributes

WES

to sparks coming

to see the poverty in the city, to bow to our residents, young from the transmission bell of a

and old, the mysterious world motor in the factory. "We realise that the autho- of undersea life. 1 He said an The workers Immediately rities are making commendable oceanarium could attract tour fought the bieze with fire efferts with an. almost insur-ists from abroad.;

finguisher. The Fire Brigade mountable problem but we have Marineland was 25 `miles ¦ was; collod and half an hour "never seen "buch" poverty," said south of Los Angeles Free Inter the fire was brought under- Miss Wugner....

parking space clone covered an control. area of Meveral axes Mind: tere Damage was slight," recording "But we have to admit that were motmis ant, restauraries | to a factory official. The mili we did enjoy the shopping." İncilities nearby:

is now back in operation again.

CONCETRS."

This Funny World

TREE SURGEON

"My doctor told me not to travel. You'll have to bring your trees to me."

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