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Typhoon incident has

sequel in

court

A typhoon in September, 1957, which approached within 30 miles south of Hongkong, rasulted in an action in the Supreme Court this morning when a thermos flask factory claim- ed damages from a marine company for alleged negligence. The plaintiffs, Freezinhot Bottle Co., Ltd., whose factory and godown are in Tokwawan, are claiming $47,610.38 against the Royal Netherlands Harbour Works Company, Ltd., of 39 Wongneichong Road.

An

Additional charge

against German

Established 1845

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1960.

Woman allegedly struck by soldier

A

British Army Privato

struck the woman mana- gor of a Wanchal bar on

in court today.

Hau-

SAMUEL HSU'S CONCERT

By D. E. GRAY

HE public performances

most difficult to write about, because no two people agree on

writes fashion news

NEW

BAVE THRUR

Lady Sheaffer

BKRIPSENT FOUNTAIN PEN Cala Agenda

UNITED PAPER DO, UTI

Alleged LORD TEDDER Alcoholic

on murder!

charge

A man alleged to be "an si- coholic addict*, stabbed a man with a filo after hav- ing some drinks, a Polica officer sold in court this morning.

The plaintiffa allege that be- | are vicious and defendants ought cause of the negligence on the to prepare for the very worst."

Hearing is continuing. part of the defendants or their

The defendants are agents, one of their steel lighters broke from its mooring in You by Mr S. V. Gittins on the Instrue about 10.45 p.m. On Christmas think he is wonderful anyway! 18 at 3 Maidstone Lane,

Tong Bay on the night of Sep- tember 22, 1957, when Typhoon the Gloria

approaching WnB

drifted and Colony. It then

the pounded the seawall of

Дosk Inciory and thermos godown. As a result, the plain- they ffs suffered damages, allege.

Representing the plaintiffs, Cheung told Mr Mr Oswald

Justice W. A. Blair-Kerr, Acting Puishe Judge, that adequate warnings had been given by the Royal Observatory of the ap- proach of Typhoon Gloria, additional charge of The No. 1 algnal weg holsted resisting, Sub Inspector at 10.20 p.m. on September 21, Sit Yu in the execution of 1957, and was replaced by No. 3 signal in the afternoon. Al his duty at Eastern Police 45m, on the following day, Station Was preferred No. 7 signal was hoisted. From against 30-year-old then on, the gale abated in German before Mi Derek tulenshy and struck the coast Cons at Central Magis- of Macao early next morning. tracy this morning.

Not worst

Counsel said Typhoon Glazie Werner Jennings of 23 Cooper was not the worst typhoon that pleaded not guilty had hit the Colony. In 1937. Road had

assault) there to charges of common

intense u more and Saturday.

damage. malicious

SOM

represented

flors of Mr 1, R. A. McCallumn, of Wilkin and Grist,

Mr Cheung is appearing for the plata together with Mr H. L. Itu, structed by Mr G. E. Hirted, of tests Deacuits.

Aberdeen drug raid described

Two mon and a woman to- day went on trial charged with the manufacture of morphine and possession of about 16 lbs of mor- phine. The trial began before Mr K. R. Macfoo at the Victoria District Court this morning.

Defendants, Foon Lec-cheung, Chan Ping-rin, and Yam Fung-

nileged to on typhoon with gusts up to 184 ping, woman, are

have committed the offences at Hill Rond, Aber- Mr 28 Shouson

DOOR OPEN

knots

In September, 1957, It is alleged thai Jennings Cheung went on, the defendants cun on November 14. unlawfully assaulted

Chan were engaged in dredging opera-

Chun-chấu and Chan Kar-chuonions in the harbour and were Mr Simon F. S. Li, Crown

case

East, under obligations 10 infonia | Counsel,

outlining the state of all party of detectives, led Detective Sub-Inspector by

al 142 Queen's Rond ground floor, on January 20.

He is also alleged to have damaged 10 bottles of wine, seven chairs and two pieces of glass worth $100, the property of Chu Man-kwong.

the themselves of weather,

He said the case for the de- fence would appear that the typhoon was so Intense at the time that it was an inevitable accident,

Mr Cheung submitted that Jeanings plended not guilty to the additional charge

this the lighter was not anchored in morning in addition to the pre-a rufe place and that the moor-

ings were insufficient.

vlcus charges.

Air Coos fixed hearing for February 10 al 10 .m

"It is my submission that when a typhoon approaches you Imust expect the worst, Typhoons

Well Ladies!

It's all up

to you

now

Everything is OUT

So

come and get it

at

Paquerette's

SALE!

No telephone enquiries please.

G. J. Riddell, raided 20 Shouzon Hill Road at 10.20 a.m. on November 14.

J. Newall, 20, of 1st Battalion, Regiment, Stanley Lancashire appeared before Mr E. Corbally at Central Magistracy this mcOLI- ing.

Complainant, Yeung mul, zald Newall came to the Top Hat Bar in Hennessy Road evo she said he ordered a bottle of beer but did not pay for it. When asked for money, he lit a firecracker and put it on an old man who had served him

When told by complainant that he should not have dis- charged the cracker, he struck her in the stomach. Later when she threatened to call the military police, he struck her on the jaw.

I

what is the fairest

Detective Inspector Yin Chi- criterion to adopt.

"Profesional" and "amateur" chiu was outlining the case is a rough-and-ready standard against Chung Yau-hing. 39, for adults, but how does one electro-plating worker, who

Mother charged with the murder of Judge a small child? truther, close friend will all Wong Cheuk-lam on December One thing seams to be quite

Committal proceedings began certain with respect to a critic's

"worthiness before Mr. K. A. S. Phillips at function--that the of the couse" has no bearing on Central this morning.

estimate his ultimate"

of the

Inspector Yip said Chung had artist.

some drinks with his dinner at Samuel Hau, aged 12 years, the Hol Tung electro-pinting sponsored by The Muste Comshop next to the Sun Fat elec- pansion, presented a plano reizie bulb factory where 27-year- cital at Queen Elizabeth School old Wong worked as n bulb

night, He was maker. on Saturday

billed as a "genius in plano."

A programme note, having Ho went to the Sun Fat fac- resited that he had been taking tory afterwards and had a fight M.H.easons for only two years, went with a Chinese

Major J. F. Bowman is op- pearing for the defendant. Detective Sub-Inspector Groome is prosecuting

Hearing is continuing.

WARMER WEATHER FOR HK

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER Hongkong is now experionc- ing a warm spell, a spokes- for the Royal Observatory

this suld morning. This is because of a rise in pressure over the Pacific to the southeast of Japan.

мол

The

temperature has kept rising after the cold and rain during the Chinese New Year holidays.

boy, Cheung

TO VISIT HONGKONG

Lord Tedder, Chairman of tho Standard - Triumph Group, left London airport on Friday on a 30,000-mile round-world tour, which will cover 10 countries and fast for three months.

From the Filos

25

years -AGO.

February, 1935

It will include Hongkong. Lord. Tedder wants to "meet thu men who carry out the polley for our export sales drive. and gain first-hand knowledge Director of our expanding overseas mar-Observatory keta."

·CA

Mr B. D. Evans whose appointment

acting of the Hongkong wax announced yesterday, was invoiced in a Lody Tedder will accompany motor collision on the Taipo her husband on the journey. Road when his car collided Lord Tedder, former Chief of with a private car resulling and Marshal of in some damage being caused the Air Staff the RAF. visited Hongkong in to the bumpers and rear December, 1940. Ile was Air

Omeer Com-wheels on both vehicles, munding Far East from 1936 to 1938.

Soldier pleads

not guilty

to assault He returned to his own shop

on to say: "We are not expect- | Kam-ming. ing any amazing performance of him. We are giving in an ex- perlence as a part of his musical education. We are aware or the risk that the performance of a prodigy will either astonish or disappoint an audience,”

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If one has gone to Samant Hsu's concert really expecting the performanes of a gent and a "prodigy", one would have been very disappointed indeed and I think it is a great plly that İstrong words Bee these aro`ustd

efforts of talented derertbe the to much in Hongkong today to children

This young lad undoubtedly has talent. If, in the next few years he is guided by a good teacher, and he is not told that he is a prodigy, he may become a fine performer.

And I feel very confident that if he becomes a fine performer, it will not be because he is thrust before the pubile too carly,

believe that over 1 cannot boosting a child before the public at an early age can kave detrimental anything but

effect on his progress. One

Mr Lipoid the front door'of the houst was open. The cungo and the dining-room on the ground floor were empty.

On the first Boor, delectives caw a long rubber tube. end

connected to an was electric pump

while the other end led into a bedroom..

They entered the room and found number of articles, several jers with dark

Including

liquid which was later found to

be diacetylmorphine.

this morning The minimum stood at 59.7 at 3 a.m. which degrees higher than was $3.7 yesterday's minimum of 56.

The warm spell would con- tinue for a day

the or two, spokesman said.

could this

Then colder weather be expected.

It would be warmer afternoon, he predicted.

Encouragement, yes; and it.is sufficient to say that any child who chows the technical skill which he exhibited after two years of study, should conticue to work hard at his instrument since he shows every sign of promise,

efter but then went back to the Sun Fat factory with a file and stoked Worg, the first person he met in the factory, said In spector Yip.

When he went to the Sun Fat Factory he saw Wong lying in a pool of blood, apparently dead, he added.

Horing, continues

Nyasaland hits

group

at 'liars'

TATISTICS of road nc- 1934 cidents during compiled and issued by the Traffic Department, revealed a startling increase in the number of persons who were injured on the highways of Hongkong.

[WD WITO held during the year, the num- ber of persons injured has leapt

Despite the fact that Safety First campaigns

Private Roy Edwin Todd, 1st from 915 in 1933 to 1,830 an

Sek Kong,

increase of exacly one hundred Tank Regiment, pleaded not gulity to charges per cent, of common assault and evading

The accident Agures for 1834 payment of a taxi fare before constituto a record for the Mr P. F. X. Leonard at Kow-Colony, loon Court this morning.

Todd was alleged ca damu ary, 20 in Ashley "Road, Kow loon, to have unlawfully essÏI- td. Cheng Fun-wing.

Ho

was further alleged to have evaded paying a taxi fare of $3:80 in Ashley Road on the same day,..

$100.

31.

Todd was allowed baði of Hearing was Axed for March

the previous highest figure being reported in 1030 when 1,244 people were injured.

E

Five notorious__murderers have Communistio who

who affiliations and

werd arrested in November 1935 by Shanghai Chiness and foreign. police forces, searching for the men responsible for the attempted murder of Mr T. V. Soong, former Minister of at Finance, 10ora executed

Will's validity Shanghai last week by the

upheld

Glen Falls, NY, Jan. 31.

slow process of strangulation

in the Tsaohochin Prison in Terokadu.

LANGLAND was beaten in

EN

Blantyre, Jan. 31. The Settlers and Residents of

The execution order, was Nyasaland Association has urged the Nyasaland Gov- A judge here has uphold the jointly carried out by the Branch Kiangau crnment to bar from the validity of the will of the late Second

lett Higher Court and Nanao territory any person who Mrs Helen Foulds, who can be proved responsible most of her $4,500,000 estate to District Court.

the Metropolitan Museum of for "blatant lies“ about Art. disturboacos · during | Mr The

muslim in New York and Harold Macmillan's visit will get all but $100,000

two small trust funds, Three here.

of Mrs Foulds' relatives In a letter to Sir Malcolm tested the will--China Regarding the detalls of his Barrow,

Minister

of Home Special, playing. I am sure his teacher Affairs, the Association said is aware that his Lempi

press end radio statements cont- More than 12 inches of rainy ragged, and in allegro cerning an incident in Blantyre movements he tends to get during Prime Minister MIRC- has fallen in Darwin this week, faster and faster as he goes

millan's visit On January 25 The including eight inches in 48 along. Further, hls phrasing

hours. The sun has not *p-

does not at the mement show alleged that polleernen provoked a riot and "peaceful demon- peared since last Sunday.

any sign of "genius.".

strators were brutally beaten." The forecast-more coin.

The Association sald these China Mall Special.

statements were untrue and had catised a great deal of harm to

Other chemicals and boilles were found in other rooms, Mr Li said.

ARRESTED

Crown Counsel sald the first

third defondants and

were cought outside the house. second was arrested inside.

Foon and Chan

represented

by Mr Carlos terrein, of Messrs Chip Remedios and Cu., and Yam

not legally represented. Hearing is continuing.

Woman dead

in Lantao

Police are questioning a man following the death of a 53- year-old

yesterday

morning.

womazi

The woman, Leung Yeo-nus,

who was found uneenselous ju a house in Lantao, with facial wounds, was rushed to a cilnie at Tai O but after the two-hour trip the woman was found to be dond

The weanan's home was in Ma Wan Chung Village. She. Eved there with the wife of her son who went to Loncion four years ngo to join the staff of a restau- zant.

Lost his tooth

Van Nuys, Jan. 31. A 12-year-old boy came home yesterday and told his father his missing tooth had been knocked out by two other youths who attacked him. The father, went locking for a policeman and found several around a car smashed into a power pole. He told his son's story.

One of the officers pulled a Tooth out of the wreckage.

The boy admited ho had crashed the car during a ride- UPI.

9,000th round

And more rain

Darwin, Jan. 31.

SPY RING

Berlin, Jan. 31. West Berlin police have arrested eleven people suspect- ed of belonging to a Soviet zene spy ring within the past few days, it was learned here today.

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He thould not try to run be- fore he can walk, and I would recommend that he gives Bach Conocri Partitas and other

similar works, very wide berth for the time being,

He played 靄 Uttle Hayda Somota, two small works by Chopin, and Debussy's Claire de-Luze quite nicely, but even there I would

say to him: please do not try to "improve" on the composer's templ and phrosing: just iry faithfully to

Several of those arrested re-

ad say what the ecmposer intended portedly held important

to say.. posts in West ministrative Berlin.-AFT.

Played truant

4

Thomasville, Ga, Jan. 31. Mrs Mary Etta Booker was sceustd yesterday of helping five of her children play truant, She was sent to jail on truancy charges.—UPI,

Persistent

Lendon, Jan..31.

The concert included demonstration of Sanwei Hsu's absolute pitch, and he certainly has this faculty, not only in single notes but in dischords,

In two instances, notes were struck on the piano which wero not as per the demonstration cards--but Samuel accurately made the corrootton on both occasions! I any "good luck" to this young child,

WRY consultant

con Mall

the second Test match against the West Indies when after scoring 268 in its first innings in reply to the Indies total of 802, it could knock up only 107 in

Siege of Vienna reply to the Indies second

recalled

Vienna, Jan. 31. Workers excavating a

rozd

Iringa total of 280 for six declared,

Leary Constantinie took three wickets for 11 'off 14.5 overs in- cluding 9 maidens.

This was the first Test match Nyasaland and the Federation. crossing in central Vienna have the West Indies had ever woo

found underground pastages against England. dating back to the Turkish «lëzo of Vienna in 2003.

A

Reuter,

Chopped off head

Trento, Jan. 31.

36-year-old road worker staggered into a police station and admitted chopping off another worker's head with an axe, police said,

They added that the worker; Giovanni Loss, during an argu- ment with a fellow worker, ran into a hut saying: "I`am fetch- Major K. C. Harvey, managing an axe to setile our quar- ing executive of Harvey and

rei," Associates, who returned ...jes... When Loss sow his exit terday by Swissair from Zurich,barred by three other workers, has accepted a request from the he swung the axe and chopped Dr Ludwig Koch, 70, doesn't World Refugee Year UK Com all the head of one of them with know when to quit. After 10 mittos, "to further Hongkong's one blow. He then disappeared years of effort he's still trying cause, is this vital lose, as an into the sub-zero night-China 1o record the mating call of the indeptudent PR consultant."

Mall Speelol. lesser spotted woodpecker.--

The request was made by the UPI.

Committee's PR counsel, Mr. Hersward Phillips,

Trapped

TO VISIT HK

Asked to leave

Warsaw, Jani Bi. Amember of the Farnell Logation, Attachy Israel Sohar, has been asked to loave Poland by

Government, uthofitative source paid feestght, Neither the "Polish: Foreign Dilde nor the Ismael! Legation

the

Honolulu, Jan. 31. Tokyo, Jan. 31A Chicken farmers in Tottori, Admiral Harry D. Telt, Com plagued by troublesome spate mander-in-Chief of US armed Moscow, Jan. 31. Tow; soaked rice in 10-proof forces in the Pacific, left here Tho third Soviet artificial alcohol for a week, sprinkled it for a 10-day command tour of Printed and published by TenENCE GORDON NEWLANDS FRANCE anatollite of the earth will circle around their chicken coops and Japan, Hongkong and Two for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-8 the earth for the 9,000th time at begged 300 groggy sparrow Jima, the Navy said today would comment amelally on the

UPL

AP Wyndham Street, City of Victoris in the Colony of klengkung. 9.27 p.m. tonight,"

CHAT-UPL

Experts were not yet certain whother

team

the passages found

Among those playing in the under the Ringstrasse site of tho

Hongkong hockey ancient city walls were intend- od to be filled with powder and painat. Macao are Dr A. M. exploded under the besiegers, Rodrigues, G. E. R. Divett, or whether they were dug from with F. V. Wong as reservo, outside the city by the Turks At the last minute N. A. E. In attempts to blow a breach in Mackay and G. Sommer were the walls.--China Mall Special. | replaced.

This funny world

"load my licket, but i'm a two-tone" sedan with

slightly used. lipallok in the glove comperiment,"