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WHO
Of The DEATH AFTER FIGHT ON TUG KILLED
Day
A QUICKER
CROSSING
THE news of a supplement-
Try our ferry will be welcomed by all motorista and truck drivers, for it means that in the 18 months
or so before the #ecomi
SIR
Man Detained WHERE GUNMAN
GUNMAN WAS LAST
WAS LAST SEEN HARRY
By Police
For Inquiries
stresanliped service begins. A European crew member of the tug
some definite relief is as-
sured and that waiting time
concern
over
at the Hongkong and Kow-, loon terminals will to some extent be reduced. Growing
the ferry hold-up was felt particularly following the recent threat of motori transport companies
raise cartage rates, a muve which would have forced up food
caused prices and
this
widespread hardship. One suggestion to avert
possibility, made by Kow- loon grocers and provision stores, was the institution of a temporary vehicular start service pending the
of the second. Mr Burgess's disclosure on Wednesday therefore disposes of the transport companies thrent, though I was not entirely unjust in view of the long delays which experienced.
their trucks ;)
Welshman, has died following a fight with another man on board the vessel in Hunghom Bay early this morning.
A European member of the crew has been detained
for inquiries.
The Police announced this early this afternoon.
HK Needs
More Hotels
Hongkong needed more first
class hotels near the beaches to attract tour- ists, a leading English travel agent said today. He is Mr Rodney Mullalley, Air India today, seven-man
Tupplementary service He is Mr
after leading
benefit of these vehicles English tourist mission of the and this will, in turn, make, Far East. valuable space available for Mr Mullalley who has bien Cars In the main
runin Hongkong for the past three alreased that it more Attractive hotels were created in the Colony "curlst potential would be tremendous."
"From observation of this
ferries. And if it is unlike days ly that this temporary mea- aure will entirely eliminate the cross-harbour bottle neck, at least everyone, even lorry drivers using the slower service, should make A much quicker crussing. Critics may
well ask why
wordiul city I feel that the
a should be built the beaches." he said.
MORE TOURISTS
around
Auch A service WAN hot "I don't think full advantage started months ago, because has been taken of some of the long queues are nothing beach sites except
new. Hitle
first
No other details were avail- able.
The tug Welshman, arrived in
Ner Hongkong yesterday. marathon 78-day tow.
It brought the former Ameri- can aircraft carrier Shamrock Bay into port to be scrappků by
local iron works.
Master of the tug is Captain
Ernest Bond, veteran salvage tax master of the United Towage Company.
Our photographer yesterday visited the area where the gunman was last soon and brought back the above picture showing the fisherman's hut where the fugitive had obtained two bowls of rice and then disappeared. The In the foreground is the beach feading into a small bay in Chung The tug was due
picture gives some idea of the wooded area. to leave Hongkong for the United King- Hom Kok. dom next week.
Contempt Of Court Warning
District Victoria
Court Judge T. Creedon today warned a witness in the Walsh conspiracy case that
· Mail. Van
Bandits
Escape With £10,000
London, Nov. 18,
Police, throughout Britain were alerted today to watch for car bandia who stole a Royal Mail' van 'last night and ́ ́escaped with about" £10,000 ii registered letters.
The Kang rabbed a periman, George laigh, aged 64, while he was taking mall from a post office outside Doncaster, bundled him into the back of the van with the sacks and drove off.
lanc.
Three miles out of town they dumped him in a lonely
His empty van was found later abandoned seven miles
away. an answer he gave bordered on contempt of court.
In a few instances. But if there seems
kwong were more "If there in point
pursu-
a big increase of ing this particular question class hotels
at least all drivers tourist trade could be expected must ask that the temporat least from England," he
now,
ary service
be maintained
gald
that it Mr Mullalley said
restrictions increase the Hongkong.
would in Englend
tourist trade In
The witness Chow Chun- Was under CT0623- examination by Mr Patrick Yu, who is defending Francis Adrian Walsh, 30, and his wife, Irene Shelle, 20,
The couple with Lily Lec,
from Chow and Chan Ping-
kwan as 2 reward for Walah forbearing In take action against the Tat Kee Company Club on the 12th door of Empire Apartment, North
until the new North Point- would take some time before 40, had pleaded not guilty to Kowloon City service Is the abolition in the currency conspiring to solicit payments working smoothly. In fact it may be useful to maintain it at rush hours permanently provided land- ing piers on both sides of the harbour can be obtain- ed. Hongkong's traffic has already grown out of its ferries once. It could easily do it again.
buncu
Ke
"No doubt the dripping of the restrictions will improve the flow from England but it will be very gradual," he said.
"Hongkong's best hopes for improved tourist traple is air fare reduction which has been discussed for a long time."
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Chow is No. 2 boy Club.
of the
On
for
Lee has denied o further charge of receiving $2,000 August 16, as a reward Walsh forbearing to carry out his duty in respect of the Club. Questioned by Mr Yu, Chow at the end of the agreed that "onversation between himsel and the three accused at Win ner House on August 1 was no deanfte arrangement to
neet again
there
Chow later said he had take Chan to meet the
accused on August 3,
Scotland Yard today circulated a description of a car seen leaving the spot where the van was abandoned-China Mall Special.
Greatest Art
Discovery
Of The Century
Beverly Hills, Calif., Nov. 19:
The greatest artistic discovery of the century came to light today when a television repairman found he possessed a Michaelangelo painting, and others by Italian masters, worth several million dollars.
Plainclothes Men Take Over
Hunt For Gunman
Uniformed police have been withdrawn and plainclothes men have taken over the active.search for the gunman who shot a constable in Wanchai on Tuesday and who has been at large for the last 70 hours.
Plainclothes mas are combing
the areas of Stanley and Chrung Hon Kok for the fugitive,
who A China Mail reporter returned from the Aberdeen- Stanley arca sald that ne uniformed police were seen in the vicinity,
Police in Stanley and Chung Hom Kok distributed lange
of printed notices quantities with front and profte portraits of the wanted manʼand a bilin- Eual statement saying;
*$5,000 reward. This man is wanted. by the police and 85,000 reward will be paid to any person giving information
leading to his strest.” The photo was similar to the
one published in the China Mail for the last two days.
The police have scorched tho old fort ai Chung Hon Kok
A Chicago art expert. Tintoretto, an "Annunciation" and the Cheung Fo Chai cave Alexander Zlato-Misky
arby Gentilschl, a "Saint Jerome" sald to be an old pirates hide- nounced. the discovery today, by Lorenzo Lotto, "Lot and His cut
The cave is very narrow, at The discovery was made by Daughters" by Claude Lorrain. Charles di Renzo, who saw the and "Madonna with Saints the entrance barely large
enough for a man to get in.. to pakitings in the bedroom of a by Raphael. third television repairer, Alfonso
No Arrangement
Mr Yu pointed out that Chow
had said there was no arrange- ment to meet.
It was said that the bave has All- the paintings were a tunnel leading from Follo, a recent immigrant from deposited in the vaults of
Hom Kok, Stanley, to Mu Shan, Bank-AFP and in Causeway Bay near Tin Hau
Temple,
Italy.
LOST MASTERPIECE
One of the paintings, knows
to historiaD6 as "The Lost
Chow replied "What I have Masterpiece" and valued at sold this morning I have for- | $1,500,000 (£630,000) was identi-. gotten,"
Mr Yu: Therefore, what you told us just now about having to take Chan to see, Lee mus be all nonsense."
Chow:"The last answer was wrong."
flens the Madaliena by Michaelangelo Di Caravaggio.
A provisional lot of the other canvasta included a painting by Titian, which is believed to be # portrait of his daughter Lavinia,
painting of SI
A
Cecilia by Cavallino, the "Rape Deianira" by Giordano,
Mr Yu: "You mean when you of
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Burst Water Mains Result In Big
Traffic Jam
London
London, Nov. 19.
with me there was "Moves on Mount Stand" by A traffic jam which stretched into miles of stalled,
no definite arrangement to meet }
agam, that was incorrect."
Chow replied: "I cannot re- member that answer,"
Judpe Creedion
horend 400 Vans Ordered
hoek Chowa answer to him.
Mr Yu than told Chow be
hed repented the same shewer
just two aninutes ago."
20
honking vehicles clogged London streets today after two huge water mains burst in the city. Officials said that it would darat excess of Christmas sho
shop take three weeks at night and pers were flooding into the dy already, water mains and the other five clogged with traffic.
day work to repair one of the | jamming the streets By Hongkong
Chow, "It is up to you if you longong has endered 100 can point it-out"
Judge Creedon told Chow: 30-cwt vang from a big British "That is bordering on contempt motor maufacturi arm, of court. From now on plass London bla, middī today, refrain from being, imperiment Some of the vans have been to Counsel.”
ordared, by Covernment. It www not "diclownd who the other
Chow apologised.
The herring is continuingg
“Some” busės' were running 40 minutes, lato, The biggest tle- In the meantime the streets, ups were on The Strand, Oxford. choked with trame Street and in Trafalgar Square,- normally anyway, wero - strangled
One mali va took an hour buer, trucks and cans on almost to travel a route which normally takes 15 minities, in one part | dik, the main arterios
the regular of town, trame stood still 3* Apart from tramą, police reported that the half an hour
by
UPT.
Governor Returning
On Dec. 1
The Governor, Sir Robert Birck, and Lady Black are expected to return to Hongkong on Tuesday, December 1, after their leave in the afted King- dom.
Sir Robert and Lady Black are due to land at
Kal Tak Airport in Boad aircraft at 4.35 p.m.
OAKES?
WHAT is the most in-
WH
triguing unsolved murder mystery of this century? Beyond doubt. It was a crime committed on a stormy night in July 1943.
The place: Nassau, in the rich men's playground ok the Bahamas.
The victim; Millionaire. Sic Harry Oakes, the most fantastic figure among all those who won I fortunes in the gold stampedes
at the turn of the century.
The suspect: His son-in-law, Count de Marigny, champion
yachtnum and society (E), But not a murderer. He tried and sequitied.
SOLAS
The real kilier: Probably still alive today.
One thing in certain. Never has a murder investigation been so and badly bungled:
never has a killing had such repercussions yours afterwards.
Today
the crime is a major political issue in the Bahamas.
But despite ofcial retusal to reopen the inquiry, a new casebook on the murder of Sir | Harry Oakes is now ready.
It has been prepared by GEOFFREY BOCCA, who has tsiked-to-every-principal in the
C#50.
investigation, Bocca says
Recalling the months of
"I talked about the case with Sir Harry's widow, Lady Oakes. "I spent weeks with de Marigny,
who unburdened
elf for the first time,
"I talked to old Louis Oakes. brother, now Harry's elder nearly ninety....Nancy Cakes closely- sent me a thirty-page typed summary of facts and comments on her father's life and death....”
Little was published-in Bellain at the time of the murder and trial. The small wartime news- papers were packed with news from the battlefronts,
Now comes Bocca's casebook. It is ne-focus documentation; and a character study pi acule perception.
Who killed
Sir Härry Oakes?
begin in the China Mall tomorrow,
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