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Manslaughter case against European continues
Of The A 'BANG-THEN TWO BODIES Day Constable Manam Island erupts Bagdad shooting
DISREGARDING
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ADVICE
DUSE and advice Are
& mong Hongkong's
greatest unsolicited, Invisi-
tells of hearing
collision
ble imports. Hardly week Two bodies were found
goes by without one or the other, or both being handed [. out.
It hne become quite com- monplace and even fashion- able to abuse Hongkong irrespective of the facts, Industry, of course, haa taken the brunt of the at- tacks.
ever,
Some of the brickbats have been nimed with the sole
bringing object of
the Colony and ita industries into disrepute. It is, how- undeniable that in Home cases there has been cause for the allega- Jitet tions although, in the main, thability to grasp the essential differences be tween East and West have led to a great many understandings.
lying on Queen's Road Central after a police constable on duty in- side the Government Offices heard a "bang" like two cars .colliding at 12.30 February 4.
B.m. ON
Mr Derek Cons al Cenimi Court was told this today ut the committal proceedings akhinet
Andre Marcel Noel Fleming, a business executive, arged with the manslaughter of Inspector Si Wai-mhg. Fleming also faces four charges,
trac
Police alleged that on February 4, defendant's chr struck the inspector and his wife, killing the inspector and mis-injuring Mrs Sl. The police also alleged that defendant was in- accidents volved in two other Road and the other in Pokfulam on the same day, one in Garden Road..
On the other hand, Hongkong manufacturers and our ex porters are not prone to taking advice however well United meant. The former
States Assistant Secretary for Commerce, Mr Henry Kearns, for example, urged diversification of Hong- kong's garment exports,
L
Little done
ITTLE has been done in this rogard and local ex- porters are standing fast pending the outcome of the Investigations into the United States industry.
Do
The opinion generally hold at
the momunt Is that action will be taken against Hongkong but it would be unwise to think that the status quo will be malu- tained forever,
This is the Presidential year and domestic politics will take precedence for the time being. This allows at least temporary reprieve and the coming months could well be applied to re adjustment.
П
The head of the Department
On duty
Constable Lam Ying-chung this morning testified that while he was on duty in the Govern ment Offices on the morning of February 4 he heard the "bang" and went out to Investigate.
"I did not see any cars, but near to Duddell Street, I w two bodies Jying on tho ground. A lady' handbar fying about live feet from where I was. There were Biso glass fragments strewn over the ground," ho continued.
Wild
He said that a phone call was made and while waiting. he directed the traffic.
the
#1
Corporal Pak Kar-shing,
Emergency Unit, testified that he arrived at the scene at 12.35 am, with four police con- stables in a patrol car.
Felt for pulse
"I went over to the two bodies and felt for the pulse of the aan. Then I went over to the woman and saw that she was breathing and that her were moving" he said.
eyta
"I asked her if she had any. thing to soy but she did not reply," he added,
He said that he marked
oft
of Economic and Political the positions of the handbag, Science,
the bodies, the glass fragments Dr Szczepanik, forecasts that Hongkong's with chaik and after that an
Industry is about to undergo an organisational revolu- tion."
He is of the opinion that the
ambulance arrived and took the two people away.
оп
Follce constable Cheng Fung- chul sold that on instructions, he went to Queen Mary Hos pital and iried to obtain in- proposed Federation of formation from Mrs Si Hongkong Industries is not February 4. She only shook broad enough in its con- her head to his questions. stitution to cope with tho expansion and suggests that
int economic council bo formed to deal with long- range development.
Elimination
R SZCZEPANIK Dvistilises the gradual cilmination of small and ineficient industries. These have already done a great deal of harm and constitute a gravo menace to reiinile manufacturers.
The pressing need to control the standard of exports has been clearly brought home by Mr Hilton Cheong- leen who reports that Unit- ed Staten buyers are turn- be- ing to other markets causo of Hongkong's sub- standard quality goods and inability to meet delivery dates.
Saw car
ANOTHER
VOLCANIC
off the northern The first picture of the Manam volcano which erupted 10 days ago 'coast of New Guinea. Fears were at first felt for the 8,000 island natives but later reporta revealed no loss of Ives. However, preparations were made for the evacuation of the na- tives should the volcano show signs of a major eruption-Sydney Bun-Herald Photo.
ISLAND Big fine
APPEARS
Port Moresby, Mar. 27.
two-mile-long voiconic island, "burnt, blackened and sizzling," has rison out of the Bismark Sea 25 miles west of the Now Guinea Island of Manus, according to 0 report reaching here today,
Late that moming, he ac-The island was sighted by
companied Inspector B. Webster
to 14 Repulse Bay Road where he saw a private car,
The car's windscreen was shattered, the reflector was
bonnet was
Captain Bill Tyrell, Qantas Airlines pilot, on a flight from Madang on the north coast of Now Guinea to Manus.
for captain overloaded...
of
of youth sparks
series of clashes
Beirut, Mar. 27,
A series of clashes between Nationalists and ́Communists erupted in widely separate areas in Iraq last week, it was learned today.
At least five persons were known dead.
Observers were hard put to foresce the outcome but they has claim the young republic
I's most tense period since last October's assassination attempt against Premier Abdel Karlm Kassem.
Reprisals
bc-
The outbreaks, observers lleved, represented Nationalist inspired reprisals against the Communists who were responsi- ble for the death of hundreds of Nationalists in clashes last
year,
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The fatal shooting of youth in a Bagdad barber shop last Monday touched off violent anti-Communist de- rashed monstrations. Police
to quell the outbursta: “end- Were polted with stonen : pliched from rooftops, ``
Another youth was killed when muthorities used gunfire to bring the rioters under control.
Three and possibly more per- sons were killed elsewhere in Bagdad during the week and funeral demonstrations for one of the youthful victims forced police to halt traffic for two hours across, one of the city's bridges across the Tigris.
Other clashes were reported Mosul, including elsewhere, where residents described the situation as extremely tense.
Many arrested
The incidents have been fol- lowed by large scale arrvals but it appeared that most of those apprehended were Communista rather than Nationalists.
Other incidents added to mounting, tension.
Cries of "ge want; bread" and other anti-regime slogans were shouted against Premier Kassem by the crowds last, Monday
outside. Bagdad.—UPI.
THREE YOUTHS during a tree-planting ceremony
Panamanian ship GET 5 YEARS
A Chinese master of a Panamanian ship was fined
$12,800 by Mr C. Cairns at Marine Court this morning for overloading his ship.
Captain Chen Kuang-ming of On the return voyage from the Hai Jye pleaded guilty. Brunel he had cabled the com- Edwards, puny asking to resign, but the
request was refused,
Mr
D. P.
on
Senior Marine Officer, prosecut Ing, said the Hoi Jye arrived from Brunel on March 20 and discharged all her cargo.
She then loaded a plated total of 1,000 tons of gêneral cargo at Yaumati and
Thursday moved to Kun Tong oil depot to island has been reported take on fuel. Mr W. S. W. Davidson, Crown is 180 miles from Manam J. N. Lewis,
At 10.25 am, on Friday, Mr Marine Officer, Island valcano which or-
made a preliminary inspection upted violently ton days of the vessel and considered ago.-Router.
the was overloaded.
broken and the slightly denied, Ho added that the right fender was also dentext.
counsel, is appearing for the police.
Mr Harold Caine, of Johnson, Stokes and Master, is appearing
Hearing continues this after-
for Fleming. noon
Swastikas reappear
The spot where the now
Miners clash:
110 injured
Tokyo, Mar. 28. Two rival tabour unione fought with clubs and atones. In a wild, bloody stray at a strike- bound colliery today.
His finding
Four hours later Mr H, Tor- rance, Senior Ship's Surveyor, checked the loadline and found Yousel was overloaded to the an extent of 01⁄2 inches,
The master of the ship was not on board on the Arst inspection, the prosecution
At noon on Friday he had not yet decided to sail with the ship. he said. Eventually, he had to go on board as maater at 2 p.m. on Friday.
FOR ROBBERY
Three youths who were ar- rested a day after they had been chased by a girl they had bound and gagged in the course of a robbery, were jailed for five years today.
The youths. Ho Sal-yuen. 10, Ko Hon-hung and Lam Hon. "I was
absolutely ignoront both 18, pleaded guilty 10 about the loading of cargo and robbery before Judao T. Cree- bunker before 2 pm" he said. don at Kowloon District Court.
Soviet envoy's wife killed
•
In
road mishap
Sydney, Mar. 27.
A car driven by Vassili D. went on, and the loading was Frolov, second secretary of tho and left to the second officer who Soviet Embossy, kiddod was uncertificated.
overturned: near Canberra loj
killing day,
Frolov' wilo. Galino, and causing Injuries to Frolov and his young son. ·
Berlin, Mar, 27. Eight brown swastikas were painted on house walls in Berlin today, police said. There were abo slogans Police reported more than 110 overloaded. However, more deck
lag "We will carry on the were injured. Agit" and "Germany, awake."
This is not the first time that charges of this nature have boon lovelled against the Colony, but the nature of Mr. Choong-leon's complaint
This was the first incident of The miners, many wearing. emphasines the fact that
the work helmete,ped · bamboo swastika daking since the tendency to disregard jaall-Semitic outbreak lost staves, Wooden club", and "deud' advice 14 becoming part of December and January, Police pipes and even throw pepper.
[AP, the Hongkong mentality, old-Router,
The second offer was told that the ship was considered cargo was apparently taken on Froloy was treated at Cant between the two inspections.. borra hospital for minor injuries In miligation, Captain Üben and allowed to go home, but his #xld the shipping company and 10-year-old son Alexander wni asked film lo be insiter al-isted as being in serious con though he was kick and un- tion ork being kept in
hospital.---AFP.
·willing to do naj
On
The accused entered 24 Ying Yeung Street, 3rd Boor. March 10. The only occupants of the dat ware a 15-year-old girl and her grandmother who had a broken leg.
The robbers led the girl's arms behind her back and made gagged her. They, then off with a radio, a wrist-watch and some cash
The girl chased after them but they managed to escape,
They were arrested the fol lowing day on information.
All the accused had previous convictions
Five killed
Oklahoma City, Mar. 27.
A VB. Army hallcopter crashed and burned early to- five men day killing the aboard,AP.
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