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UNITED KAMENÍ BO, LİTES,

ACCUSED GIVES EVIDENCE dear sir

Two other men

The

blamed for Ping Chau killing the

Lam Man-hung, a shop keeper accused of

murdering his mother-in-law, claimed at the Criminal Session this morning that two men had chopped her.

fre denied killing the

Wong Ti-mul, Ecused, having taken any part in klilog.

1

de-j

Asked by his Counsel, Mr orf Charles Ching, if he know de- the censed was then alive, pocused

ropiled, "I was not clear, bul the body seemed to be motion- less."

He said he saw the two men attacking Wong near the side door of his house in Ping Chau and the body appeared to be m.ollorless. He Annmed two men, Chan Tlu nid Lo Kit.

is alleged to have murdered Wong in Ping Chau early On the morning of The November mulllated body of the deceased was found under a stove in the accused's house two days later, the Prosecution sald.

O last year.

Made statement

Earlier in the morning. Det. Divisional Inspector-G, J, Balis said, before the accused Was charged he had made a state- ment that "two other people" had killed Wong,

The two men, Chan Thu and

Lo Kil, were originally charged

with murder with the accused,

"I then crled out: 'Save life, got scured,

Grabbed chest

Chan Tiu. thon came to me, pushed me inside, grabbed my Don't make and said, chest aty notɛe,

He then went to the side door and picked up a knife near the staircase."

Hearing is continutix.

VISITING

MACAO

Macao, Feb. 28.

and at the committal procced- Monsieur J. S. Soulic, the

ings no evidence was offered French Consul-General in Hong- against them." Inspector Ballskong, arrived here lodny by the sak.

In his testimony, Lam sald heishan, on a courtesy call to the

was the proprietor of Wing Kee cooked food shop at 14 Wing On Street.

About 2 m. on November 6, areused said he card

wiram's try of "Save life."

"I was feeding my child then with nith and I went to Wing On Street to see what had hap- pened," he said,

He said as he looked at the side door in Chi Yan Lane, be saw two slhouettes in the lanc, SDW another person He also walking behind the house.

Looked out

" returned to my shop with my child," accused went on, "stord at the back door and looked out I suspected them fenylbody had been chopped Ixvause someone. had shouted 'Save life.'

"E NAM Chon Th and Lo K and the

Govistior.

in

M. Soulie who is concurrent- ly French Consul-General Macan, will be received by Lt. Colonel Jaime Silverre Marques, the Governer of Macao, to- morrow at noon.—AFP,

Macao, Feb. 28. The newly appointed harbour master, Captain A. Dos Santos viera, arrived today to take up his new post. He succeeds Capt. J. Coutinho Garrido who is due for retirement.

Capt. Vieira was accompanied by his wife,

Among other arrivals was Dr J. Palva Martine, of the Health Department, who returned from Lisbon after long leave.

Dr Martins was accompanied

deceased. The two by Mrs Paiva Marlins and their

were chopping the deceased two sons.-AFF.

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man who takes all

By STEVE DUNLEAVY

knocks I was a thugo dream

true"

master.

and stuntmen

alike to

too good to be "When things get heclic and There he was heated it's very often that you collect a big cowboy's fist on in front of me, the whole the jaw. 6 ft 4 ins of him, asking

"That's why I have practised the last 10 years how to me to hit him at any time take the real thing., from any angle.

"Now as soon as you started your swing to hit me I was relling my head backwards.

Well, he's supposed to know what he's doing.

Crack! 180 lbs of me smark- ed 41 Wyatt, America's leading stuntman right on the balton

Affable A straightened his tle and remarked, "I wish they were all ns soft, as you."

I hooked him Some compliment,

"But EcTiously if George Montgomery alipa or Randolph Stolt gris to close and corrects in a fight secas you're really in trouble," he said,

for

Corruption and cagoyness

your

With reference to recent outspalten · · articles in Comment of the Day, kindly permit me to add my humble expression of praise, to those of many correspondents.

From the Filer

25

years AGO

February, 1935

THE Duchess of Kent's

Irene

Teldest sister, Princess

of

Greece bad, a

From my experience, the re ticcnce you refer to, the defen alve attitude, the stern silence, usually attaches to people who are unsure of themselves, who have something to hide, or at least nothing to boast about.

This suppression of Informa- tion is also most noticeable with narrow escape from death rules and regulations of a public yesterday whan a motorcar and I have had some in which she was travelling nature, personal experience of it.

and collided with another. Colonial Regulations General Orders of the Hongkong Government are each in two ofcere, parts-Part 1 Public

The Fanling Huat Ball, Part II Public Business. My en- quiries from Government reveal which is to be held on March are no coples of 2 is annually an outstanding From now. I thought, that there

Colonial Regulations available never tangio with a two-year-

also an for public inspection with the social event. It ia old.

extrémely good party with But important as the lights suggestion that I could order a

H.M. Stationery none of that regrettable spirit may be that's not half the life copy from

which is apt to of a stuntman.

Offee, London. I have also been of restraint "Lot me show you."

informed that General Orders cloud so many social func-

documents and tions. are restricted are not available to the public for inspection.

"When you thought you hit me hard, in fact you just clipped me with your knuckle, a mere tap that a two-year-old could take."

The jump

Al climbed onto his bed, mea- But after half an hour with sure a distance with his eyes,

himself high the limitless then throw the, man, with number of lives' it was hard to the air and then. breve anything was trouble to him.

Within minutes of me ̈ enter- Ing. the door I had hooked him with a full blooded blow and te was anxious for me to know "How things are really done in the movies

..

A

OH NO! crashed face onto the hard hotel floor.

"Don't get worried son that no more than your burt me right hook.

"It takes

I

higher

might add The committee, which in- that on more than one occasion cludes Miss Yvonne Shenton, Government has found it ex-fr Aleo Potte and Com- Into pedlent to draw my attention to mander T. Hussey, havo taken breaches of procedure in com- + great deal of trouble to

with first❘municating

authority. and

the perfect arrangements and the it seems

menu itself will have a dis- height of absurdity to have re-

and orders affecting tinctly equine flavour: minced gulations the publie unless the public can horse with stewed hay was, inspect and buy them, and do however, rejected by the com- so readily.

mittee as indigestible. Similar dificulty is encoun- tered even with such public *Os Government documents Gazettes. There is no official

at

a

practice and Drst it's not easy but after while it's second nature,

*Sometimes the hardest

Throwing myself; off speeding. trein.in Western tricks seem to be the easiest." movie, or throwing myself out Such as?

"Jumping from the top of a .of.a window, 40 feet from the

ground is nothing, but a good train 18 feet from the ground fight, scene, is, really a master while it's going at 35 mph.

"A lot of people think that piece,"

those flying angels who take off from a speeding train are dura- mies but I have 10 years of bruises and cuts to say there

Not my idea of a way to make a living but go ahead,

"In actual fact, a blow. can misa person by 12 or more inches and sill look authentic.

"It's a craft of acting that is 'one of the

most difficult for

Stuntman At Wyatt demonstrates getting hurt the painless way. Swinging the punch in picture below la reporter Dunleavy.-China Mall photos by Joseph No.

Controlled rent tenants 'status of immovability'

Mr Leo d'Almada, in his final submission to the Tenancy Tribunal this morning on behalf of the Ming Man Land Investment Co., Ltd, said that tenants of buildings with controlled rents seemed to consider that they had achieved “a status of immovability."

not dummies.”

Padding? Mais to land for prolection?.

Nover

"No just very loose

dug up a few times

from any obstacles

cause any injury.

and

place where they can be freelyHE silver situation was inspected without undergoing on reviewed at consider- Inquisition or being under an able length by the Hon Mr

gate Back issues are onen C. Gordon Mackie, presiding impossible to buy the excuse being that they are out of stock. at the annual meeting of There is even difficulty with the Hongkong and Shang- ordinances many of which are hal Banking Corporation on perpetually at of stock, and Saturday, whilst Mr A. L. the alternative is to purchase the Shields in the course of a on complete Laws of Hongkong at

5800. Again, there is no official speech, also touched on the place for public inspection, question when he remarked- although I am aware inspection that so Jong as silver in

can

be obtained

at

feveral

earth places on Rutterance and by the subject to political mani- free use of influence it one is in the pulation and is not allowed that could know, though I have had the ce to find its real level as d perience of being elected from commodity, settled and pro-

and fold that it was only for

And the amazing thing about the Attorney General's library(table trade conditions can Al Wyatt is that since te has the use of government servants not be expected in the For been an see stuntman starting from 1046 he has never suffered anything more serious than cuts and bruises,

"Touch wood," A1 said as he automatically tapped the table.

"I have been lucky even for sluniman. I've been really Jucky.

the "For instance there was time when I was doubling for that wild, lovable Australian, Errol Flynn, in a pirate scene.

"I was 90 feet up in a crow's nest and with piano wires at- tached to me I jumped at a sall with out-thrust sword to pierce the salt and slide down while ripping the canvas sword.

The plane wires hadn't been checket and ono of them had a kink. I jumped one wire mapped and so did the other.

with

my

and inwyers 1 can only guess Baat. how Chinese farmers, shermen and coolles would fare in such sanctums of the holy.

I was unable to obtain a copy

Mr Mackie said he hesitated to make any forecast as to the

tion in China, and stressed the

To quote one incident, when future of the currency. posi- of the Commissioners Powers accessity for the greatest cau- Ordinance (Cap. 38) from the tion. No steps should be taken in consultation with General Post Offee, I referred Except to the Assistant Government those mast qualified to advise.

He added that the Bank Printer who informed me it

anxious to co-uperate in was out of stock but he might measures which would have any

ferred me to the Director of Information Services,

wag

д

be able to let me see his copy. beneficial effect. The restric- After further discussion he retions imposed on the export of silver from China was a serious mistake and increased lack of I think this is all wrong and confidence while conducing to reflects badly on the adminis smuggling of alver out of the

Thood documents country.

fration. should be readily and freely available to the community for inspection as well as purchase, possibly at all post offfece, and Government should take steps to see that such facilities aro given wide

allied with wiso particularly in

In reference to general conditions la the Far East, Mr Mackie said there was much in flammable material lying about, and caution publicity. There statesmanship,

the capitals enough language and education complexities.

the here rounding

needed. droppat into the billow of the without Government making it virtually Impossible for the stel and I slid downwards as it

"1 though I was a gonner as I hurtled downed's the dock.

"But luck was my way and are when I'd fallen about 80 feet I

and obligations.

I was on a glant alippery dip. People to ascertain their rights

Not a scratch

"The thrill of it was that my momentum sliding down the sull threw me about 30 feet off the best into the rea....I didn't set a scratch."

Al, an ex-football and base ball professional is one of the 30 highly-paid America.

sluntmen in

He's in Hongkong with George Montgomery for a few The Investment Company Replying to crllielam of the, not interfere with the come days after helping George pro wishes to demolish an L-shaped į actual scheme, Mr d'Almada | venience of others.

Mirador that it provided accom~- block at the corner of Nathan said

Mansions and aller duce his latest movie "The Steel Hook" dimed in the. Phillip- Road and Peking Road, where modation for white-collar wor- blocks, he said, provided similarines. there are at present faur-storey kers.carning between $500 'and small units and shops. The ten- "And I think that's what I 28-year-old houses, and to re- $700 monthly, accommodationdency was. for amuller shops want to make my future, pro- place them with a $14 million for which there was enormous and although, in Mirador Man- ducing and directing" Al said.

families of a low-This may apartment block.

demand. Such familles could slons mony.

be my last year. not sometimes afford a servant, income range lived, it had not throwing myrelt, cft hersco, Referring to oprancats" con-

so that

the lack of servants boen found that their presence trains and buildings. tention that they would suffer rooms in the now building was harmed the tourist business done hardship if they had to move, not a drawback; nor could they in the shops-in fact they wore Mr d'Almada

"The afford high rentals, so that the doing a roaring trade. really is that for a period of small size of the units made 10, 13 or 16 ydars, landlords them on economical proposition have been subsidising tenants for members of this income in their prom'ss by virtue of group. charging thom Low rents. These tenants Jurve had O

Not stipulated

..

Hearing of the application. continues

Getting old

"I'm getting a bit old to re- peat a few of the dley ones, like hurling myself exactly - 04 fi into a ship's hold and land- ring on butter boxes.

[·Mr d'Alınadā,' with Mir, N. D.. Well, acting for the appli» canis on the instructions of

H. Chen, of Lau, Chan and Ko.

That was a spectacular trick, The 04 opponents are represented but I'd rather take things easy.

run. cf. exceptionally Food As to the objection. put for by Michard Winter instructed luck which, it exemption ward by counsel for opponents by Hastings and Co, and "Mo"But thng "doem't mean I'm is granted, comes to an end, that there was no scavenging and or Gerald do Barto, In- not going to keep' trim. but in many ways they have no or garbage chute, he said pc Won and Co. and M. K. Lam structed by Peter C Wong: and Co.,

"Those fight scetics are tho been better off than other that gongo chutes had never and Cat Mr. A. Zimmern, Instruct ones that keep you in shape, montbers of the commundly been stipulated as a required by Beulion and Co. Mr Ben you want to try It sometime." who have · bad to pay uncon- | ment for such bulidings, and he Jamin Lau, instructed by Lo and Al positioned me. HAN

and C. Kwan and Co! Mr. M. IL filed rents from the outset, was eure, that the tenants of Young), Mr Peter C. Wang, Mis

"Now, I'll give you a tap and Tanta for years of uncon- such a building could and would len Lo, of d'Almada and MARON; you roll your head like I told

In their own interest, arrange. Me 11: 1 Stu, of Blewart and Co you?!?! trolled promises have been on

And I thought he while my Barzan (President),'. (Kir: Au-Yeung a good wicket for that length for removal of garbage at cone Tritonal consists of Mr. M.

valent times when it would! Tier Tune Ant 249192 700 K. zrauds, frierat. of "dime.".

W. S. EDWARDS.

The spoken word

But tis

Thank you Patrick Knox, the Spoken Werd. Grammatical, moffensive End signed

MAINSAIL HAUL

of countries sur- Pacife, was

Mr A. W. G. H.. Grantham sentenced two men who had felled so trees in a planta- tion to two months hard labour and ten wecka Tea- pectively at Kowloon. They were charged with unlawful possession of pine trees and trespassing.

“You certainly will, not!'.

· Only a ceword carven. In the kitchen?”

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